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Copyright 2001 by Jane Franklin
In November 1989, three weeks before the U.S. invasion, I attended a conference in Panama hosted by Panama's Center for International Studies to inform 118 U.S. delegates about what was taking place. Panamanians were already under constant attack by U.S. troops who staged almost-daily military exercises in Panamanian territory where U.S. forces were obligated by treaty not to operate. The Panamanians at the conference, including Provisional President Francisco Rodríguez and General Manuel Noriega, made it clear that the issue was not Noriega or democracy or the safety of U.S. citizens. The issue was sovereignty--Panama's right to determine its own history. Most people in the United States have little knowledge of Panama's history. This chronology, an enlargement of one that I wrote in 1990, is an attempt to provide an historical context for the invasion.
1501: Spanish exploration of the isthmus begins. The conquistadores introduce slavery and Catholicism.
1519: Old Panama City founded. Sacked by British buccaneer Henry Morgan 1671.
1751: Part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada, including at that time the present republics of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
1821: Independence from Spain during the battles for independence being waged with the leadership of Simón Bolívar. Soon becomes part of Bolívar's Greater Colombia union of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. (Within this union present-day Colombia was known as New Granada and included Panama.) Bolívar is elected president of Greater Colombia.
1823: On December 2, in what becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe stakes out the Western Hemisphere as an exclusive U.S. sphere of influence.
1830: When Bolívar's union dissolves, Panama continues to be part of New Granada (which takes the name Colombia in 1863).
1846: U.S. government concludes treaty with New Granada stating Washington would guarantee "perfect neutrality" of the isthmus.
1855: The Panama Railroad across the isthmus from the Atlantic to the Pacific is finished on January 28.
1856: U.S. troops land in Panama September 19-22 to protect U.S. interests, particularly the railroad.
1865: U.S. troops land March 9-10 to protect lives and property of U.S. citizens and of course the railroad during revolutionary activity.
1873: U.S. troops land at Bay of Panama, Colombia, May 7-22 and September 23-October 9 to protect U.S. interests during hostilities over who should govern Panama.
1885: U.S. troops land at Colón January 18-19 to guard valuables on the Panama Railroad and to protect the safes and vaults of the Panama Railroad Company. In March, April and May U.S. troops are in Panama at both ends of the railroad, Colón and Panama City, to protect the railroad during revolutionary activity.
1898: U.S. victory against Spain in the Spanish-American War yields four territories with major ports for the U.S. Navy: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam.
1901: U.S. troops land in Panama November 20-December 4 to protect U.S. property and to keep the railroad open. Washington decides definitely to build the Panama Canal.
1902: U.S. troops land September 17-November 18 to keep the railroad open.
1903: In November, the Theodore Roosevelt Administration engineers the separation of Panama from Colombia.. The Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty is then negotiated for the building of a canal. U.S. troops become a permanent presence.
1904: Extra U.S. troops to prevent insurrection during elections. Meanwhile, U.S. policy undermines and weakens the national army. No Panamanian can become president without the approval of Washington.
1908: Extra U.S. troops to prevent insurrection during elections.
1912: Extra U.S. troops to prevent insurrection during elections. In May, Washington appoints a commission of high-ranking U.S. Army officers to count the votes in June elections.
1914: Panama Canal opens. U.S. troops control a ten-mile-wide Canal Zone across the middle of the country. In order to cross from one side of their country to the other, Panamanians must identify themselves to U.S. troops. In the Zone, U.S. employees receive more than twice the wage that Panamanians receive. At this time an oligarchy rules with land and money for the few while 90 percent are excluded. Segregation is enforced by a system of laws like the Jim Crow laws in the United States.
1918-20: Extra U.S. troops to provide police duty at Chiriquí (western Panama) during election disturbances and subsequent unrest. In 1918, President Ciro Urriola issues a decree that postpones elections. Washington orders the decree revoked and U.S. troops occupy Panama City and Colón.
1920: Major labor strike directed by William Preston Stoute, who is banished from the country.
1925: Extra U.S. troops on October 12-23 to keep order and protect U.S. interests during rent strikes by tenants.
1930s-40s: Washington is occasionally forced to make deals. For instance, in exchange for more U.S. military sites outside the Canal Zone on the eve of entering World War II, the U.S. Government cancels some debt, gives monetary compensation for the sites, transfers to Panama certain properties of the Panama Railroad Company and control over the water and sewer systems of Panama City and Colón, grants some jurisdictional control to Panama.
1947: On December 10, Panamanian Foreign Minister Francisco A. Filos and U.S. Ambassador Frank Hines sign the Filos-Hines Treaty to extend the presence of the 140 U.S. military bases and defense sites used during World War II. Successful Panamanian resistance leads to the treaty's defeat in the National Assembly two weeks later.
1954: The CIA overthrows Guatemala's government, ousting the elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, and installing the military dictatorship of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas.
1954: U.S. Supreme Court passes school desegregation decision (Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka). Developing U.S. Civil Rights Movement has profound influence in Panama.
1955: Washington agrees to pay more for Canal expenses, to let Panama collect taxes from employees excepting U.S. citizens and some others, and to restore a little property to Panama.
1958: Campaign demanding equal status for the Spanish language and the Panamanian flag in the Canal Zone. The Eisenhower Administration agrees both flags can fly at a specified place.
1959: On January 1, Cuban Revolution triumphs, profoundly influencing the Panamanian people. Disturbances occur in each of the first four months of this year.
1959: On Independence Day Panamanians march into the Canal Zone to raise the Panamanian flag; U.S. troops turn them back. Washington begins to convert police force into full-fledged military. Washington later fears this military because of its potential as a nationalist force.
1964: On January 9, U.S. students raise the U.S. flag by itself at a high school in the Canal Zone. Protesting Panamanians march into the Zone and are turned back by U.S. troops. This leads to two days of demonstrations during which U.S. troops kill more than 20 civilians and wound more than 300. Panama breaks diplomatic relations and demands revision of treaties. Relations resume in April after Washington agrees to discuss treaties.
1968: On October 11, the National Guard, under Col. Omar Torrijos, overthrows the government of the oligarchy and installs a junta from which Torrijos emerges the leader. He heads the armed forces 1968-81. Torrijos moves toward independence from Washington, relying on the nationalist base. Torrijos is not part of the oligarchy; his base comes from the dispossessed. Under his leadership, the Panamanian Defense Forces become part of the movement for national liberation. During the government of Torrijos and the National Guard, public schools increase from fewer than 2,000 to more than 3,000; infant mortality decreases from 40 to 25 per 1,000 live births; social security is extended by more than 1 million; roads and electricity are brought to rural areas; labor unions grow.
1972: Junta is confirmed by election. Torrijos remains as the head of Panamanian Defense Forces.
1974: Panama and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations.
1976: General Omar Torrijos makes a state visit to Cuba. In the joint communiqué issued by the two countries, Cuba supports Panama's struggle for sovereignty in the Canal Zone.
1976: On December 8, CIA Director George H.W. Bush meets with Manuel Noriega for lunch at the home of the Panamanian ambassador to the United States. Noriega, a graduate of the School of the Americas, is on the CIA payroll.
1977: The Carter Administration signs three agreements known as the Carter-Torrijos treaties, arranging for the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama at midnight December 31, 1999.
1979: The Carter-Torrijos treaties take effect October 1 and 65 percent of the Canal Zone is returned to Panama. Areas still under U.S. control are called green zones; those under Panamanian conrol are white zones. Washington has the responsibility of operating and defending the Canal through December 31, 1999, but not after that.
1981: Ronald Reagan becomes president January 20, with his commitment not to "lose" the Canal. Six months later, on July 31, General Omar Torrijos is killed in an airplane crash.
1983: On January 5, in an effort to settle Central American conflicts, the foreign ministers of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela meet on the Panamanian island of Contadora and draft an initial proposal, calling for an end to all foreign intervention in the region, suspension of all military aid, and negotiations to end El Salvador's civil war and the fighting in Nicaragua between government troops and "contras."
1983: General Manuel Noriega takes over in August as commander of Panama's Defense Forces. The National Assembly endows the Defense Forces with vast powers (control over National Guard which is merged into it, other military and police forces, Canal matters, and functions such as immigration control and regulation of civilian aircraft). Noriega has been working with the CIA since at least 1959 (as a contract agent since 1966 or 1967). The U.S. Army put him on its payroll as an intelligence asset in 1955 and keeps him there until 1986. But Noriega too faces a choice if he wants to achieve real power (see 1968): the choice between Washington and his nationalist base.
1983: In December, Vice-President George H.W. Bush meets with General Noriega, this time at the Panama City airport when Bush is seeking support for the "contras" in Nicaragua. Also at the meeting are Panamanian President Ricardo de la Espriella and the Vice President's national security adviser Donald P. Gregg. (During his 1988 presidential campaign, Vice-President Bush denies ever having met Noriega, but a photograph of this meeting restores his memory.)
1984: Presidential election of May 6 is a fraud arranged by Reagan Administration operatives and Noriega. Nicolás Ardito Barletta, former official of the World Bank, wins. Secretary of State George Shultz attends inauguration of his protégé (Ardito Barletta had been an assistant to Shultz when Shultz was a University of Chicago professor) to praise the election as democracy in action.
1985: Hugo Spadaforo, who opposes Noriega, is assassinated.
1985: On November 1, CIA Director William Casey meets with Noriega in Washington and complains about Noriega's part in trade with Cuba that facilitates circumvention of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.
1985: Noriega later tells CBS (interview broadcast on "60 Minutes," February 7, 1988) that during a meeting on December 17, 1985, with the U.S. National Security Adviser, Admiral John Poindexter, he learned of Washington's plan to invade Nicaragua. Noriega says that his failure to cooperate is the reason for his indictment in February 1988.
1986: The Reagan Administration proposes turning the administration of the Canal over to Panama by 1990 if U.S. military bases can remain until 2015.
1986: In February, Washington names Arthur Davis as U.S. ambassador to Panama.
1986: On June 12, Seymour Hersh reports in the New York Times that senior State Department, White House, Pentagon and intelligence officials say that Noriega has been providing intelligence information to both Cuba and the United States for 15 years and that he is "a secret investor in Panamanian export companies that sell restricted American technology to Cuba and Eastern European countries."
1987: On January 23-26, Ovidio Díaz, president of Panama's National Assembly, heads a delegation of Panamanian legislators to Cuba. Their meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcón is primarily concerned with the Contadora peace process. Díaz tells a Granma reporter that a peaceful settlement of the conflicts in Central America is vital to Panama in order to avoid a pretext that could be used by Washington to undermine the Torrijos‑Carter agreements on handing over possession of the Panama Canal to Panama by the year 2000.
1987: On April 3, three men are indicted in Miami for allegedly selling more than $1 million worth of high‑tech computer equipment in 1985 to Siboney International in Panama, identified as a Cuban "front."
1987: On June 6, Col. Roberto Díaz Herrera, 2nd in command of Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF), accuses Noriega of electoral fraud and murder and sets off the first anti-Noriega protests suppressed by police.
1987: On June 10, President Eric Delvalle, installed by Noriega, declares a state of emergency. Opposition announces creation of the Civic Crusade, which Washington aids.
1987: On September 24, the U.S. Senate unanimously approves non-binding resolution urging Panama to establish civilian government or face cutoff of U.S. aid.
1988: On January 17, the New York Times reports that Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard L. Armitage made a secret mission to Panama early in January during which he told Noriega "to get out of politics within three months so that the country could have a cushion of civilian rule before elections next year."
1988: Before he has time to "get out of politics," Noriega is indicted on February 4 by two Federal grand juries in Tampa and Miami on charges of taking $5.4 (Tampa indictment) and $4.6 (Miami) million dollars from Medellín drug cartel to protect cocaine smuggling and money laundering operations in Panama. Such drug-profiteering has not led to indictments unless Washington has decided to target the person involved. The CIA is no stranger to drug-profiteering; see Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1991). From 1978 until 1987, Noriega received numerous letters of appreciation from U.S. officials for his cooperation in combating drug trafficking--for example, from Attorney General William French Smith in 1984 and DEA Administrator John C. Lawn in 1987.
1988: Four days after his indictment, Noriega demands withdrawal of the U.S. Southern Command, which has its headquarters in Panama.
1988: On Febrary 25, President Delvalle announces he has fired Noriega, but the National Assembly blocks this move by ousting Delvalle on the following day. Washington continues to recognize Delvalle as president. The National Assembly names Education Minister Manuel Solís Palma minister in charge of the presidency.
1988: Panama closes banks on March 4 after huge withdrawals by depositors.
1988: On March 11, The Reagan Administration imposes sanctions, including elimination of trade preferences and withholding Canal fees.
1988: On March 16, Noriega puts down coup attempt led by police chief.
1988: In April, the Reagan Administration increases economic sanctions; Reagan prohibits U.S. companies and Government from making payments to Panama and freezes $56 million in Panamanian funds in U.S. banks. More than 2,000 additional U.S. troops begin to arrive in Panama.
1988: On May 8, Panama banks open for limited withdrawals after two-month closure.
1988: On May 13, Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) proposes on ABC-TV that U.S. military forces "go in and get [Noriega] out" of Panama.
1988: On May 25, U.S. Secretary of State Shultz announces that talks about a deal for Noriega's departure have collapsed.
1988: On May 25, the UN Social and Economic Council elects Panama and Cuba to represent Latin America on the UN Human Rights Commission.
1988: In July, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee opposes a covert plan to overthrow Noriega. The plot is known as "Panama 3" because it is the third coup plot hatched by the CIA against Noriega. President Reagan approved the plan, but the Senate committee fears Noriega would be killed during the coup. The existence of this plot is exposed after a failed coup attempt in October 1989. Panama has created Dignity Battalions, popular militias to help train workers and farmers to defend Panama against U.S. invasion.
1989: George H.W. Bush is inaugurated as president on January 20.
1989: On March 18, responding to U.S. denial of visas to the mayors of Havana, Managua and Panama City for a conference on drugs in New York, Bogotá's mayor, Andrés Pastrana Borrero, says that neither he nor New York's mayor, Ed Koch, were in favor of that decision.
1989: The Panamanian presidential election of May 7 pits Carlos Duque against Guillermo Endara. U.S. Government openly gives $10 million to the Endara campaign (it is illegal for a U.S. candidate to accept election funds from foreign sources). Election results are annulled by the Panamanian Government on May 10. The Bush Administration sends 2,000 more troops. From this time on, U.S. Armed Forces stage regular military exercises in Panamanian territory--the "white" zones--in violation of treaties.
1989: On May 11, President Bush recalls the U.S. ambassador and plans to dispatch about 1,700 soldiers and 165 marines in phases to reinforce troops already in Panama.
1989: In June the U.S. Justice Department issues statement that U.S. law- enforcement agents may arrest fugitives in foreign countries even if host governments do not approve, preparing the way for the arrest of Noriega after invasion.
1989: Speaking to reporters in Guatemala on June 12, Vice President Dan Quayle warns that "the axis of Cuba, Nicaragua and Panama" opposes the United States and democracy in the region.
1989: Washington's plans to invade Panama are an open secret. For example, on August 21, an editorial in the Cuban daily newspaper Granma warns of imminent U.S. aggression against Panama.
1989: Provisional President Francisco Rodríguez takes office on September 1 as President Solís Palma's term expires.
1989: On September 12, the Bush Administration expands sanctions, including withdrawal of 1989 sugar quota and lengthening the list of companies and individuals barred from receiving payments from U.S. citizens.
1989: On October 3, Noriega puts down another coup attempt which was aided by the U.S. Government.
1989: Two weeks later, on October 17, the Bush Administration says it supports wider latitude for CIA during coup attempts, complaining that restraints about possible death of targets are too limiting.
1989: On October 27, confirming news that first broke in the Los Angeles Times a week earlier, the U.S. Treasury Department announces that Noriega has been designated an agent of Cuba. Since the U.S. Government outlaws trade with Cuban agents, this means that U.S. citizens are prohibited from doing business with him. Noriega's wife, various associates, and many companies are declared Cuban agents either at the same time or soon afterward.
1989: President Bush attends a "Hemispheric celebration of democracy" hosted by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. He brings two guests, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro of Nicaragua and Guillermo Endara of Panama.
1989: In November, the U.S. Government announces that after January 31, 1990, it will bar vessels registered in Panama from U.S. ports.
1989: On November 16, the Bush Administration confirms a plan for another coup to oust Noriega. Called "Panama 5" (there were 4 previous plans), it has a $3 million budget. The aim is not assassination but if that were to happen, "that's not constrained," a Government official says. The CIA is supposed to be bound by a 1976 executive order banning its involvement in assassination plots.
1989: On November 22, in his Thanksgiving address to the nation, President Bush declares that the "winds of change" are "transforming the Americas" with "some exceptions: Panama, Nicaragua and Cuba."
1989: On November 27-29, a conference on U.S. intervention is held in Panama City by Panama's Center for International Studies to inform 118 U.S. delegates about what has been happening. At the opening session, Provisional President Francisco Rodríguez says, "You will see a variety of ideas that practically cover the spectrum of contemporary political thought, and all these participants are outstanding figures of the government, of the process of transformation which we Panamanians are determined to carry out." He speaks "of defending our right to perfect the independence of Panama." For Panamanians the issue is clearly sovereignty.
1989: On December 15, the Panamanian National Assembly names Noriega head of government and declares that Panama is in "a state of war" with the United States due to the U.S. Government's harsh economic sanctions and almost-daily military maneuvers in Panamanian territory (the white zones), exercises that are prohibited by the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
*At 1:00 a.m., U.S. officials install Guillermo Endara as Panama's new president. The secret ceremony takes place on a military base--Fort Clayton, one of 13 bases in the Canal Zone.
*As the new president's inauguration is taking place, the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy invade Panama, an area smaller than South Carolina, with a massive air attack and ground assault, including almost 28,000 troops and more than 300 aircraft. Helicopter gunships blast Panama City, where the wooden housing of the poor in El Chorillo is set on fire. The New York Times later reports that U.S. troops encounter "fierce resistance" in San Miguelito, a working-class suburb of 200,000 people, but Miguelito is devastated. Large parts of Colón are destroyed. Thousands of citizens are held in detention. Bodies are recovered from ruins and cremated. There is a mass burial on Christmas Day. Nobody knows how many civilians are killed because all of them are not counted; estimates range into the thousands. Hospitals overflow with wounded.
*The Defense Department tries out one of its new superweapons--the Lockheed F-117A stealth ground attack aircraft. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney announces that each of two F-117A "Nighthawks" has delivered a 2,000-pound bomb with "pinpoint accuracy." He is furious when he learns months later, in April, that one of the bombs missed its target by hundreds of yards. General Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is part of a major failure of communication about the mission of the F-117As on their first combat bombing run.
*Just as the Pentagon stifled news during the 1983 invasion of Grenada, the Defense Department flies a select media pool based in Washington (rather than Panama) to Howard Air Force Base and then by helicopter to Fort Clayton, where they are restricted to a holding room until the major fighting is over. They are not allowed to leave the base on their own but must be escorted and prevented from taking photographs of realities like damaged helicopters or caskets of U.S. soldiers. Military officials provide misinformation about military and civilian casualties. In one of Noriega's residences, they show reporters a white substance that General Maxwell Thurman, head of SouthCom, confirms is cocaine. This makes front-page news in the United States, but it's disinformation; the "cocaine" is "farina, corn meal and lard" used to make tamales. CNN broadcasts a telephone number for Panama residents to call; those reports provide stories of civilian neighborhoods under attack.
*At a press conference on the day of the invasion, President Bush tells the world, "The goals of the United States have been to safeguard the lives of Americans, to defend democracy in Panama, to combat drug trafficking, and to protect the integrity of the Panama Canal treaty," adding that he has directed the Armed Forces "to bring General Noriega to justice in the United States."
*U.S. troops in armored personnel carriers surround the Cuban, Nicaraguan and Libyan Embassies in Panama City on he pretext that Manuel Noriega may be inside one of them, although both General Thomas Kelly and Rear Admiral Ted Sheafer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acknowledge on U.S. television that there is no evidence that Noriega has sought asylum in any of them. Until January 18, U.S. troops continue to surround the Cuban Embassy and the home of the Cuban ambassador to Panama, Lázaro Mora Secade, occasionally detaining the ambassador and other Cuban diplomats. It turns out that Noriega is inside the papal nunciature in Panama City. On January 3, he surrenders to U.S. troops and is immediately flown to prison in Florida.
Historian Jane Franklin is the author of Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History.


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mostly blood and bones and pain
diary of a professional antagonist
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300 Miles South of Salt Lake City
Selina was standing outside my front door, pressing a shotgun against my chest. Barb, Barbrilla, was on her knees in front of me, undoing my flies. A camper van full of what looked like rednecks was parked by the curb and, inside it, some old bastard was filming the whole thing. Worst of all, my parole officer was coming to.
Selina's tongue ran across her upper teeth as Barbrilla snapped what looked like a flying saucer-shaped department store security tag through my foreskin. I squealed until my voice gave out and the stars on the ragged flag over my door took flight then burst into a thousand more. Selina whispered in my ear – "miss me, baby?" Next thing I knew I was following the disappearing stars into darkness.
The day before I'd been released from county; broken record, I know. I got a year of hard time after some cop decided my driving wasn't too hot when he found me completely hammered, mercilessly grinding the gears and revving the last living shit out of my Chevy, which was tipped upward and balancing precariously on the window ledge of a grocery store.
A new man, I'd returned to the world with a fresh perspective, a decision made to get a solid nine-to-five and I was gonna do all of this after I'd gotten myself a brew and blowjob. When you're in the joint they do all they can to reform you, try to steer you in the right direction and some of that shit can stick, but what they don't do, and should, is a frontal lobe lobotomy to stop creatures of impulse from taking the first dumb-ass step toward repeat offense.
Hot off the bus, I jogged down to the West Valley Motel and a couple of minutes later I was out back with a working girl trying to convince her I was good for the balance of the cash. Her bigger, burlier buddy – read pimp – wasn't half the conversationalist she was, which is saying something. After taking the few dollars I had, he did the bulk of the talking with his fists. So, fresh from my first broken nose of the month, no biggie, the year in prison had more or less flattened it out anyway, I figured I should get some cash or things weren't exactly going to go so smoothly.
I robbed the 7/11 just around the corner a few minutes later with a bag of dog shit. The CCTV wasn't gonna have a hope of ID'ing me with the amount of lumps and blood on my face, and after taking one look at the little old lady cashier I knew she wasn't gonna want a pile of dog shit in her mouth.
Admittedly it wasn't my proudest moment, or my best robbery. My total haul amounted to $23.20 but I did grab a pack of Trojans on the way out and after jacking my load into one of them in an alley across the street, I figured I'd head home and see if anybody had been squatting in my shit-hole house.
Nobody. Even the rats and woodlice had abandoned it. The swelling had gotten worse on my face and my head was throbbing so I pulled a couple of floorboards and retrieved my hidden alcoholic stash, and so, ten minutes later, with a fifth and a fifth of vodka working its numbing fingers over my aching body, I passed out.
The door was pounding like a jack-hammer bouncing around in an echo chamber when I woke. I crawled to the door and wished I hadn't opened it. My parole officer didn't think the beat-down I'd managed to pick up or my barely intelligible state was quite as funny as I did and decided it was going in her report.
She started to ask me a whole bunch of questions I couldn't answer, or understand, then started to quote the law as if that was gonna help, so when her head suddenly snapped forward and she toppled to the ground beside me I was initially relieved, that is until I looked up to see Selina standing in the doorway, a drop of my parole officer's blood sliding off the butt of the shotgun in her hands.
It was a confusing moment in time for me… my balls were running for shelter and my dick was trying to get hard… then Barb said "heya there, Chuk, uh huh huh hee, I gotta gift for ya". Selina leveled the shotgun with my chest. Barb dropped to her knees and clamped my cock. I blacked out.
I woke in absolute agony. I'd pissed myself, that is, into and onto myself and through my open wound, and experienced a pain so severe that the thought of passing large gall stones was a luxury I couldn't afford myself. Selina, her mind drifting further out onto the reservation by the second, explained that my new junk jewelry was the only way she could protect me from the 'frequency' – which made a ton of sense.
She introduced the rednecks as her family. Most had the mental capacity of a peanut if they were lucky, and I'm pretty sure I'd seen some of them on America's Most Wanted over the years. I still can't piece together how Selina had emerged as a result of two or more of them bumping uglies… Barb kinda made sense, but Selina was a ten, even if she was a few sandwiches short of a picnic. This fact became more obvious the more she spoke about why they had picked me up and what they were planning.
Selina said that three hundred miles south of Salt Lake City some guy had proof of extra-terrestrial life. For only six hundred bucks he would give her the location of a UFO hiding beneath the Earth's crust, which had been transmitting an undetectable frequency that was responsible for global warming, the sole purpose of which was an attempt to slow cook the human race and have them ready to consume when the alien overlords arrive.
Naturally when we met this prophesier of doom he greeted us by pissing on our legs and rolling around in his own feces. I was the only one who found this troubling and wasn't surprised when I was the only one who recognized the location of the UFO. Five hundred miles further south by south-east lay our destination… the city of Roswell, New Mexico.
According to this deluded space cadet, the UFO was in a highly fortified base protected by aliens who dressed in US army uniforms. Selina naively asked him how they should proceed, to which his response was, "with extreme force", as he handed each of them an 'alien ray-gun'. These were rusty gun barrels wrapped in tin foil, sellotaped to plastic statuettes of Jesus Christ which were subbing in for the missing grips.
Back on the road, Selina revealed that she had been following me since I was released from jail and had witnessed my 7/11 gig, after which she decided I was a thief of some skill and would be the perfect candidate to join their gang and steal the weapons they required for the attack from a high security gun shop. Hence my abduction. She then handed me my 'weapon' and I realized just how much I had impressed her, because clearly I was about to try to take down a gun shop armed only with a bag of shit.
I don't know which was worse, the five-mile journey to the gun shop thinking about the hail of lead that was likely about to fly toward me, or being stuck in the back of the camper van having to listen to the old bastard saying, "U-fo", "now we go u-fo?", "I see U-fo!", "when is u-fo?".
I prayed that we would find an angry alien race characterized by a complete lack of sympathy for stupidity as the camper pulled in outside the gun shop, the sight of which quickly returned me to my natural place among the semi-sane of the world. I settled for Gramps's head being blown apart by .44 Magnum fire within the next few minutes as I walked through the doors. The odds were stacked in favor of that outcome and I found it difficult to hold onto my little plastic bag of shit as sweat began to pour out of me.
As I stepped inside the owner handed a jacked up looking overgrown teen lunatic a pump-action shotgun then said, "take him out back to the range there, Jeb, let him give her a whirl." Jeb, a backward, dangerous looking man-beast led the way and they disappeared out back. Then the owner noticed my mashed in face and the doubt about whether he was just encouraging another nut vanished and was replaced by suspicion as I tried to look like a casual gun shopper.
I noticed that the security tags on the hunting jackets were the exact same as the one weighting down my masculine gland and, in my rattled state, I figured it would be a good way to start-up conversation. "Excuse me, sir", I said as I put the bag of shit on the counter. He frowned then his face creased in disgust. "I was hoping you could help me." The second I reached for my crotch he tasered me in the neck.
I fell into a crazed dizzy nightmare and tried to keep up with the room as it spun around my head. The owner tried to drag me toward the door when, suddenly, it slammed into him. He screamed, "JEB!" The rednecks rushed in, all carrying their alien ray guns. Selina and Barb weren't far behind. Then, the door to the back room opened and overgrown teen with the pump-action shotgun raced out, racked his new toy and opened up.
The rednecks, all stunned by the noise, stood still and exploded one by one like retarded piñatas, much to the joy of the deluded solider of fortune. Selina dragged Barb to the ground just outside the door and one look told me that a crumb of sense had found its way into her head. Shotgun Psycho had turned his attention to me when the old guy fired the taser at him.
It wasn't enough to put him down and with the barrel pointing directly at my face, and his finger about to squeeze the trigger, Jeb came to the rescue and wrapped a steel shovel around his head. Selina and Barb were gone in a trail of dust. The hunt for UFOs was officially over.
Once things calmed I cut a deal with the owner and Jeb. They would remove the security tag from my penis and I in exchange would not prosecute them for tasering me and placing my life in danger without just cause, seeing I didn't even have a weapon, was clearly in need of medical care and was carrying a bag of shit which was obviously a cry for help. I'd even back up their story that a bunch of lunatic rednecks carrying guns burst in and they were left with no choice. They thought about it for a second then Jeb set about wiping the security cams.
After I'd done my duty I hit the road, thumb out praying for a lift that'd take me anywhere that resembled civilization. Two hours in my face had proven itself a major deterrent. Night closed in, masking my fucked up features and finally a pick-up tooted its horn and slowed to a stop. Wearily, I thanked the driver as I opened the passenger door. Of course Selina and Barb were the occupants.
Selina said she was sorry, that she'd made a mistake and that they were about to start off, start fresh on the straight and narrow. "Baby, your family are dead", I said, "doesn't that bother you?" She shook her head and smiled that beautiful bat-shit mad smile and said, "you and Barb are all the family I need, Chuk."
I had one last act of stupidity left in me, so I got in, and as she drove us off into the darkness I somehow felt at home.
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Total Eclipse by John Brunner
Jameson listed Total Eclipse as unjustly neglected in a survey by Science Fiction Studies, and in "Shifting Contexts of Science Fiction Theory" he finds "the climactic moments" to be "extraordinary" and says the appeal of such books as Total Eclipse for him is that they "turn on the experience of discovery". He mentions Total Eclipse in his latest book, Archaeologies of the Future, where he calls it a "beautiful and melancholy fable" and notes how it works on multiple levels as an allegory and is distinctive for its focus on linguistic deductions about an alien civilization.
Contrast Jameson's opinion to that of this review, which says Total Eclipse "will fail to satisfy many readers due to its old-hat, excessively talky approach to hard SF, in addition to too many moments of dated, chuckle-inducing melodrama." (The review does praise the conclusion of the book, however.)
My own response was somewhere in between the two. I found it a fascinating book in many ways, but compelling almost in spite of itself, because not only is it full of people telling each other a lot of information, it is, finally, nearly as bleak as Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To.
I was amazed by Brunner's ability to keep dense passages of exposition somehow at least marginally interesting. I continued reading less because of a real passion for the story than because after the recent discussion of exposition hereabouts, I was curious to think about the exposition in Total Eclipse. The book is mostly exposition. It tells the story of a group of people on an alien planet investigating why a remarkable civilization came to an end; meanwhile, Earth is plagued with wars and famines and the one starship that humans have managed to create may never return to the alien planet, and so the thirty scientists there face being stranded for the rest of their lives.
Some of the exposition fills us in on the characters' backgrounds and on the situation back on Earth, but most of it shows us how the scientists, and one linguist in particular, learn more and more about the aliens. Their conversations are closer to those in a dialogue by Plato than those we might expect from real scientists, because the dialogue's primary purpose is, clearly, to advance the reader's knowledge of the mystery while at the same time causing the reader to think about the implications of the ideas. There are mistaken assumptions and bad guesses, yes, but these are usually solved quickly and easily through discussion. The action of the novel lies primarily in what the characters say to each other; the deductions are the actions, and they make little attempt at verisimilitude. The novel does not try to give us a real view of archaeological processes, which are far messier and less efficient than anything in the novel -- instead, it tries to create the illusion in the reader's mind of what it feels like to think in the kind of way such researchers must have to think.
The structure of the novel is particularly interesting if we hold onto this view of Total Eclipse as an instigator of a kind of thought. The first three chapters (of 24) are riddled with characters' thoughts. We move from one character to another quickly, sometimes without any sort of transition. In the subsequent chapters, the thoughts dwindle to nothing, and dialogue becomes the main conveyor of information about who thinks what. By externalizing this thinking and turning it into discussion, we the readers, the observers, get to participate in the process of solving the central mystery: we make guesses ourselves, we see if we can get ahead of the researchers, we test our speculations against each new discovery. It's the same process as with a traditional mystery story, but here the mystery is vast and does not involve chasing anybody or anything -- the materials of the story are mostly static. The mystery is solved in chapter 21, the solution is affirmed in chapter 22, and then the last two chapters move the novel away from dialogue-heavy problem-solving to the fate of the researchers. The novel returns to where it began, with the presentation of internal thoughts, but now it is done differently. Where before the thoughts of the characters were presented as part of the narration (italicized to separate them from the rest), now one of the characters writes a sort of diary, thus mixing the two modes: the internalized thoughts become externalized artifacts within the story, and then, finally, become the story itself.
The effect of this structure is to unify the actions of the researchers with the fate of humanity. It is, indeed, a blatantly allegorical move. Brunner seems to have message, but the novel becomes more than its message through its mix of modes and possible interpretations. The message, we discover, is not so much a prescription as an unanswerable question: Why do intelligent, complex civilizations knowingly commit suicide? The book gives us all the information we need to solve every other mystery within it, but that final question lingers. We begin in our minds, we solve problem after problem together, and then we are alone in our minds again, facing lonely death, with a head full of brilliant ideas while the real problem -- the problem of how to survive -- remains unsolved.


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Domenico "Dominick" Melillo, a 38-year veteran of the Goldens Bridge Fire Department whose actions and dedication exemplified what it means to serve community, died on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at his Goldens Bridge home surrounded by loved ones. He was 83.
Described by his peers as one of the most dedicated firemen in the history of the Goldens Bridge Fire Department, Dominick will be remembered as someone who led by example, and for his passion for faith, family, community and the department. He was genuinely committed to helping others in their greatest time of need.
The Fire Department was planning to bestow special "life member" recognition on Dominick to honor his long and active tenure. The recognition will now be presented posthumously to his family in October.
At the time of his death, Dominick was an active member, serving for the past seven years as Lieutenant of the Department's Fire Police – a specially trained, New York State-certified brigade with police powers that supports efforts at the scenes of all emergencies.
Dominick was a fixture at the scenes of fires, vehicle accidents, and storm-related and other emergencies – among other tasks, providing traffic control and protecting the safety and well-being of the public and Fire Department personnel.
His affection for the Department was second only to his love for family. He combined the two into a family legacy whose pinnacle came in January of 2017, when he experienced his personal dream come true – witnessing his 16-year-old grandson, Brendan, become the third-generation Melillo to be inducted into the Goldens Bridge Fire Department.
His influence on sons Michael, Albert and Robert was profound. Michael is a member and former president of the Department; Albert currently serves as the Department's Fire Chief, and Robert (Brendan's father) is an ex-fire chief and currently serves on the Fire District's Board of Fire Commissioners.
Born on July 17, 1934 in a small town in Italy in the port city of Bari, Dominick, after serving in the Italian military, was assigned to the Polizia Municipale, the municipal police force in Italy, in Venice. It was there that he met and fell in love with an American tourist, Angela Blasetti, his bride of 52 years until her passing in 2013.
After a romantic wedding in Venice, Dominick came to the U.S. for the first time when the couple settled in Angela's hometown of Yonkers in southern Westchester County – where Dominick enjoyed a career as a machine operator for the Yonkers Department of Education. He later became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
In 1974, he and his wife purchased a house in Goldens Bridge, where they raised their three children. In addition to his service with the Fire Department, Dominick was active with other local organizations, for example, serving as a baseball coach with the local Little League.
Pre-deceased by the former Angela Blasetti, Dominick is survived by son Michael, daughter-in-law Deborah, granddaughter Amanda Turney and grandson-in-law Treavor, grandson Raymond Francis, granddaughter-in-law Jennifer and great-granddaughter Makenzie, and granddaughter Tina Rangel, grandson-in-law Manny and great-granddaughter Cortana; son Albert and daughter-in-law Patty; and son Robert, daughter-in-law Melanie, grandson Brendan and granddaughter Lacey. He is also survived by many extended family members, including four siblings, nieces, nephews and great-nieces/nephews.
A wake will be held on Sunday, Oct. 1, at Clark Associates Funeral Home, 4 Woods Bridge Road in Katonah, with viewing hours 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, Oct. 2, at 10 a.m., at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 95 Plum Brook Road in Somers. Interment will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne.
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In: International Journal of Dream Research, 1 (2008), Nr. 1. pp. 7-14
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This paper addresses the correlation of dreamed and actual actions. This issue is related to the theory of neural simulation of action. The simulation theory postulates that, in general, covert actions are actual actions relying on the same brain regions, except for the fact that they are not executed. By reviewing studies conducted in the field of dream and lucid dream research on REM sleep it will be shown that correlations between dreamed and actual actions can be found for central nervous activity, autonomic responses and time aspects. Recent findings from research on lucid dreaming and motor learning further support the notion that actions in dreams are represented on higher cognitive levels - equivalent to actual movements - and therefore share, to some extent, the same central structures. The reviewed findings will be discussed and future directions will be given.
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These days, cloud storage options are pretty plentiful. Dropbox, Box and even Google Drive all offer up pretty reasonable amounts of storage for free but now AT&T is tossing their hat into the mix with the freshly announced AT&T Locker service.
AT&T Locker has been released for both iOS and Android, AT&T is offering 5GB of free storage to customers wherein they can not only store but also share files such as videos and pictures.
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One-Pot Wonders: Turkey and Squash Tacos With Sriracha
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Whether you're hosting a friendsgiving, tired of roast turkey, or happen to be one of those people who love cooking turkey year-round, this is a great dish that comes together quickly and is packed with flavor from an impromptu mole-style sauce.
Traditionally, moles are long-simmering and consist of ingredients like dark chocolate, cinnamon, and spices. But given our goal of quick dinners with minimal effort and major results, we've come up with sloppy joe-type taco, complete with a simplified rendition of mole sauce that's guaranteed to having you going back for seconds.
To cut down on time, I decided to use store-bought ingredients already packed with flavor—namely canned chipotles, peanut butter (in lieu of almonds or sesame), a pre-mixed chili powder (instead of cumin, oregano, and cayenne), and a bit of cocoa. A finishing squeeze of lime juice adds that necessary hit of acidity.
The order of cooking might seem a little off-kilter—we cook the squash first to get some color on it and then add the onions to give the overall dish more flavor and sweetness. We'll continue from there by adding the spices, garlic, peanut butter, and hot peppers, until we get to the ground turkey, which cooks the fastest. Served on toasted tacos, you've got a dinner that cooked in less than 10 minutes.
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Twilight Producers Sue To Stop Fashion Design Firm From Pointing Out That 'Bella' Wore Its Jacket
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'I was planning to use the brown hoodie for that sequence, but the director of photography hated the fact that her hair and the jacket were both brown and felt she got lost in it,'' says Chuck, who then made a last-minute run to outlet store Nordstrom Rack to hunt for a replacement. ''I literally brought that blue one on set just before they rolled cameras. Then Catherine said, 'Wendy saved the day!' That made me a hero.''Sensing an opportunity, B.B. Dakota reissued the jacket with an advertising campaign around the fact that it was worn by Bella in the movie. That's a factual statement. But, of course, Summit doesn't want anyone profiting from what it's done without paying them first, so it's suing. This isn't new for Summit, of course. It's sued to stop a documentary about the town where the Twilight movies take place, as well as shut down a Twilight fanzine. Now, to be fair, B.B. Dakota did rename the jacket the "Twilight Jacket." So, yes, it's clearly trying to capitalize on the association. But, it's a factual association. Why should that be illegal?


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Real Housewives of Medieval County
If there's one thing I like to see during the summer, it's a beautiful queen get really mad, scream a lot, and then turn into a murder of crows so she can go murder her competition in the "fairest" department. My enjoyment of this film is pretty simple. It was easy to toss aside the ageism and what the movie does and doesn't do for feminism because it has a lot of fun action scenes set among amazing set pieces and CG.
Snow White (Kristen Stewart) gets a makeover in this version as the perfect balance of femininity--she can pacify rampaging trolls with her compassion-filled eyes and storm a castle with armor and weaponry, which sounds pretty much like my Monday mornings. She is tormented by the evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron), who uses witchy tricks to better her position in life--including killing Snow's father, the king, and locking Snow in the tower so her creepy brother (Sam Spruell) can stare at her. Eventually Snow becomes hotter than Ravenna and escapes the tower, so Ravenna hires a hit man, the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth). But no one can resist Snow White, especially with her bow-hunting skills.
This facelift to the classic is brutal, magical and chock full of bonkers. Charlize Theron doing crazy is almost as good as Faye Dunaway yelling "No wire hangers!" She murders men, takes their riches, sucks out the souls of young women to remain supple and attractive to her next victim, and then she takes a milk bath. But Theron playing a villain has gotten her an Oscar in the past because she has compassion for how broken someone has to be in order to commit such atrocities. It adds a nice layer underneath all the wide-eyed, beckoning-finger nastiness. I wanted to give her a Valium and then try on all her jewelry. No other characters get anything resembling depth, but their swordplay is on point, so that's all that matters.
Although its 127 minute run time is a little long, there's plenty to drink in visually if you're bored with Chris Hemsworth swinging around an axe instead of a hammer. The mirror on the wall slithers like mercury escaped from a thermometer, and the Queen's evil goons splinter into homicidal coal shards. The vast, lush world of the film recalls The Lord of the Rings. And finally, we get an explanation as to why the Dark Forest is so darn scary. That, combined with a glorious enchanted forest filled with white stags and fairies, pushes away that erstwhile image of the girl singing into a well and waiting for someone to save her.
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Considering what Cam Rewucki did to help get the Dover High School football team into last year's Division II championship game, it's hardly a surprise that the confidence he gained from that one moment spilled over into this year.
Rewucki kicked a 29-yard field goal as time expired to lift Dover to a 24-21 win over Spaulding in the D-II semifinals. Last Friday night against Spaulding, Rewucki was 4 for 4 on extra points. The 33-yard field goal he kicked in the Green Wave's 31-10 win lacked the drama of his kick against Spaulding in last year's playoffs, but it sailed through the uprights in identical fashion — straight and true.
"I've tried to keep the same confidence that I had when I kicked that ball," said Rewucki. "I added a couple yards to my kicks over the winter. I'm definitely kicking it harder. It has more pop in it."
Rewucki, a senior who also punts for the Green Wave, isn't the only high school kicker in Dover having a solid season. Down the road at St. Thomas Aquinas, Hayden Middleton is as reliable as the come. On Saturday in a 47-15 rout of Laconia, Middleton was 5 for 5 on PATs and hit field goals of 35 and 32 yards. He spent a good portion of Thursday's practice wowing teammates with kicks from more than 40 yards out.
"I just try not to let the nerves get to me," Middleton said. "I just block everything out. My teammates and coaches have confidence in me. It nice to hear them cheer for the kicks at practice."
Rare is a high-school team that can count on a consistent kicking game, and even rarer is a high school game decided on a last-minute field goal. Both Rewucki and Middleton have added another dimension to their respective teams' offensive confidence.
"We don't have to worry about the kicking game being sloppy, because we know he's going to be there," St. Thomas coach Eric Cumba said about Middleton. "Every kick, he'll do what he has to do. (You) know you're getting points inside the 30 no matter what."
Dover coach Ken Osbon said Rewucki used his big kick in the playoffs as a springboard for an intensive off-season training regimen, one that has shown results through three games this season.
"The best thing he did was he got into the weight room and got stronger overall," Osbon said. "He's getting much more leg in his kicks. He got some success last year and that was impressive. He just carried that over into the winter and he's gotten a lot stronger."
The St. Thomas players clearly get a kick out of watching Middleton hit field goals from long distance in practice. Cumba said he'll often put Middleton in a situation where the junior kicker can get his teammates out of doing extra conditioning — if he can hit a field goal from a certain distance. Needless to say, his teammates are appreciative when Middleton delivers.
"But at some point, that leg's going to have to win us a football game," Cumba said. "I have all the trust in the world in him to do that."
It remains to be seen if either St. Thomas or Dover will have a game this season decided by a late kick. But if either does, high school football fans in Dover will be better off for it.
Rewucki said he wouldn't mind if he was called upon again to make another big kick to seal a win for the Green Wave.
"If there's another shot at a kick like that, I just have to do the same thing I did," he said. "I just have to make it."
John Doyle is a staff sports writer and Sunday Sports Editor for Foster's Daily Democrat. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @JohnDoyle603.
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Considering what Cam Rewucki did to help get the Dover High School football team into last year's Division II championship game, it's hardly a surprise that the confidence he gained from that one moment spilled over into this year.


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Tigers see Joba as reliable late-inning bullpen option
CHICAGO -- The rain had resumed at U.S. Cellular Field by the time the late innings came around on Wednesday afternoon. It wasn't a downpour, but it wasn't exactly a drizzle, either. The feeling for the Tigers' bullpen was much the same.
Joba Chamberlain handled them both. Like so many pitchers in the 'pen, he simply wanted to work, no matter the conditions. His manager, meanwhile, had a specific task in mind for him.
CHICAGO -- The rain had resumed at U.S. Cellular Field by the time the late innings came around on Wednesday afternoon. It wasn't a downpour, but it wasn't exactly a drizzle, either. The feeling for the Tigers' bullpen was much the same.
Joba Chamberlain handled them both. Like so many pitchers in the 'pen, he simply wanted to work, no matter the conditions. His manager, meanwhile, had a specific task in mind for him.
"It was a four-run lead, so it's not one of those save situations, but it's a very good offense," Brad Ausmus said of the White Sox. "We wanted him to go through the heart of the offense."
Actually, Detroit wanted Chamberlain to go through the heart of Chicago's lineup again. It was the same part of the lineup he encountered Tuesday night, when he escaped by stranding the go-ahead run at second with a strikeout of Dayan Viciedo after a 3-0 count and a groundout from Alexei Ramirez. It was also the same part of the lineup that got Chamberlain for a couple runs last week at Comerica Park.
Now Ausmus wanted three more outs after those hitters had gotten another look at Chamberlain. This time, he made it look easy.
Three batters, eight pitches and three groundouts, including a first-pitch out from rookie slugger and Tigers nemesis-in-training Jose Abreu, and Chamberlain's work was done. He found another 3-0 count, this time to Adam Dunn, but fired back-to-back fastballs at him to get an inning-ending grounder to second.
"I've faced those guys a lot in the last few games," Chamberlain said. "Just being able to face them and just make adjustments, obviously that's the name of the game for us."
Chamberlain signed with Detroit because he wanted a role. The Tigers surprised baseball by signing him last December because they thought he could handle one. One month into the season, Chamberlain has a role that few who saw his ending with the Yankees might have envisioned.
With young flamethrower Bruce Rondon out for the year, Chamberlain is not only Detroit's setup man, he's arguably the keystone holding the bullpen together as the Tigers head into the meat of the schedule.
"It doesn't always work that way, but guys always pitch themselves into roles," pitching coach Jeff Jones said. "And after the first month, they basically define their own roles."
This is where Chamberlain has landed on his feet. Through the maelstrom of lost games, lost leads and revolving doors, he has emerged as arguably the most stable piece of Detroit's bullpen. It's early, but as rebound stories go, his has the potential to be a good one.
"I feel like that's the reason they brought me over here," Chamberlain said. "My goal was to get the ball to Joe [Nathan], and obviously we had to have some guys step up with Bruce going down, and that's obviously a big arm for us. But we have to step up."
Chamberlain talks about the bullpen as a team, about several relievers functioning as a group, and himself playing a role. Others talk about Chamberlain as crucial, not only in the bullpen, but on the team.
"You can't say enough good things about him right now," catcher Bryan Holaday said. "He's been doing a great job solidifying himself as that eighth-inning guy."
Since his introductory hiccup at Comerica Park on the season's first Saturday, when he gave up four hits and two runs before he recorded his second out, Chamberlain has been as consistent as Detroit's bullpen gets these days. He has allowed three runs on eight hits over 9 1/3 innings and 11 appearances, and he has struck out 13 while walking three.
The difference from last year is the slider. As far back as TigerFest in January, Chamberlain talked about making it more effective, more consistent, for more strikes. It was as important or moreso than the velocity on his once-blazing fastball. The more separation that Chamberlain gained from his 2011 Tommy John surgery, the procedure that left the scar on his right elbow that he turned into a smiley face tattoo, the more confidence he had in getting the slider back.
So far, it's working. According to STATS, Chamberlain has thrown nearly 55 percent of his sliders in the strike zone this season -- compared with 44 percent last year -- yet gained a higher rate of swings and misses on it (more than half the swings). Even the sliders in the zone have drawn misses on 35 percent of the swings, compared to about a quarter of them last year.
The downside, not surprisingly, is that even with Wednesday's success, half the sliders put in play have gone for base hits, according to STATS. The fact that two-thirds of them have been ground balls, though, has tempered the damage, leaving Chamberlain with appearances such as Wednesday's.
"It's always going to be a work in progress," Chamberlain said, "but that's the greatest part. Even when it's going good, there's going to be days when it feels [lousy]. There's going to be days when it feels great. And you can't be any different on the day when it feels good than when it feels [lousy]."
It sounds like another success story for Jones, the mechanics expert whose presence was one reason Chamberlain signed with the Tigers. Yet Jones said the slider success has been all on Chamberlain, and his input has been minor.
"Nothing major," Jones said.
Chamberlain has converted his handful of save opportunities into a save and four holds. His scoreless inning Tuesday put him in line for the win when Detroit rallied in the ninth, bridging the gap between starter Justin Verlander and Nathan.
Over the season, that's what the Tigers need. If Chamberlain emerges as that bridge, Ausmus can use others in favorable matchups, such as Ian Krol against left-handed hitters and Al Alburquerque in strikeout situations.
The longer Chamberlain holds down the eighth, the sooner those other roles can settle. In turn, Jones believes, the bullpen as a whole stabilizes.
"I think so," Jones said. "Because coming into the season, we weren't totally sure. Obviously we know Joe was going to close. We knew Alby would pitch late in the game and we expected Joba to do that. I think once guys know where they're going to pitch, I think it helps their confidence."
That group mentality is the one Chamberlain is taking.
"Us in the bullpen, obviously, we take pride in making sure we support Max [Scherzer], or whoever's starting," Chamberlain said Wednesday. "You see your guy before you go out and throw up zeros, and you go do the same thing. It's just building off each other. Guys are getting more of a routine and having a feel of getting out there, so I think that just adds to our demeanor. As much as it's physical, it's mental, to make sure that you're prepared and know the situation before it happens."
Regular work is part of that routine, something they've struggled to find with all the off-days and rainouts. So maybe it sounds funny that Chamberlain spent his latest off-day Thursday looking forward to sitting in the rain and watching some more baseball.
This time, though, Chamberlain planned on watching from the stands, not the 'pen. With the Tigers traveling from Chicago to Kansas City, he returned home to Nebraska, where his 8-year-old son, Karter, had a youth league game scheduled.
It was a rare opportunity for Chamberlain to be a baseball dad and watch his son play for a change. He relishes that role, too. It's one of the perks of life in the American League Central now. Chamberlain will gladly put up with the weather for that.
"Gotta love it," Chamberlain said. "One day, it's 70 degrees. The next day, it's 30 and snowing."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason.


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Off to a Great Start!
Posted by azonadiet on May 23rd, 2013 |Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I'm eight days into this new diet and am down 7.4 pounds. Who rocks? I do!
The thing is, I'm eating like crazy. 3 meals and 4 snacks. I'm eating constantly. Of course, they are portion controlled servings and not big honking slabs of beef or entire bags of potato chips. Everything is healthy. It's basically, a high protein/high fiber, low carb/low fat diet at this point. My options are limited, but my motivation is high so I'm not complaining yet.
Here's a weird thing. It was suggested to me by the weight loss counselor I speak to every day on this program that if I was hungry and it wasn't time to eat, I could drink hot water with lemon juice and cayenne pepper. What?! Turns out, I kind of like it and it does seem to suppress my appetite. I have no scientific proof of this, but I also think it must be a diuretic. My anecdotal evidence STRONGLY suggests this.
Like I said, I talk to a weight loss counselor everyday on this diet. She is very nice and seems knowledgeable about weight loss and nutrition. Still, it's odd. She flat out asked me about my bowel movements one day. That's a topic I'm not used to discussing on the phone. Mostly, she asks me what I've eaten, makes suggestions about other things I can try, coaches me on challenges like eating out. I'm trying to decide if I really believe there is value to this daily contact or not. Jury's still deliberating that one.
I have dinner out tomorrow night. I think I'm going the salad with grilled chicken route. I'm at that high motivation point where other things like pizza and pasta don't even appeal (crazy!). I know the day where that changes is coming so I have to enjoy this ability to eat well while I can.
What's That Two Wheeled Thing in My Garage?
Posted by azonadiet on May 15th, 2013 |Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I have a bike. Up until two days ago, it was buried behind a mountain of Costco buy-in-bulk purchases in the garage. On Monday, I dug it out. My legs wobbled at the thought of mounting it. It's been a long time since I've done anything more physical than walking from the pantry to the refrigerator.
It really is a shame that my bike has been sitting idle because I have an awesome bike! Meet the Electra Gigi 3i:
How cute is she? After dusting Gigi off, reinflating the tires, and digging out my helmet, I set off.
I had downloaded the app MapMyRide to my iPhone and earlier that day, I had come up with a route that was 4.5 miles long. I was not sure I could make it. I really thought I might be giving the boyfriend a call to swing by with his pick-up truck somewhere around the halfway point. I'm pleased to report that I made the whole 4.5 mile ride. I kick butt, suckas! Yesterday, I went out again and repeated my success, though the wind was blowing like a son of gumdrop and I thought I was stationary at one point despite the fact that I was pedaling like a fool.
Today is day three of my fruit detox. I really would like to down a loaf of bread and a jar of Skippy right about now, but I will make it to the end of the day. My will power is strong.
Hello. I'm Fat.
Posted by azonadiet on May 14th, 2013 |Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
I'm Sarah. I'm fat. I don't see the sense in trying to pretty that statement up. I wouldn't be here if it weren't the truth. I don't particularly suffer from low self-esteem. I think that's part of my problem. If I were less confident about my appearance I might be more inclined to do something about it. I'm comfortable and complacent at the weight I'm at. I've grown accustomed to it.
So why am I dieting now? Because I was at work a week ago and walked down one set of stairs, out the building, across a parking lot, into another building, up another set of stairs, to my desk and THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE OF A HEART ATTACK! I couldn't catch my breath. As I sat at my desk wheezing and sweating, I decided it might be time to do something about this extra 75 pounds I'm carrying around.
As if by magic, a Groupon appeared in my inbox for a weight loss program. I'm not sure I'm ready to say which one, but I will say that it doesn't involve shots or pills or anything artificial. I'm not into that. It's a regular diet type of thing. I decided it was a sign and clicked on the "buy" icon.
I started on Monday, May 13th. My butt naked weight that day was 242.6 pounds (I'm 5 feet 7.5 inches). This diet starts you out on a fruit only detox for three days before you start the normal diet. It is day two and I'm eating my fruit. I also took a bike ride for good measure last night. 4.6 miles according to MapMyRide. I don't weigh in until day four.
It's a good start. Now I just have to keep it up for the next year or so. Sigh… it's hard not to be discouraged by that.


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Helpful Tips
Here at Palace Playland we know how important the safety of you and your family is. We've added these easy safety tips and things to know to help make your visit that much more enjoyable.
General Ride Safety Tips
Ride safety rules and regulations are posted at each ride. Please follow all height and weight restrictions as posted. These restrictions are determined by ride manufacturers and are governed by the State of Maine. Make sure all loose clothing; jewelry and long hair have been secured before each ride begins. These items could get stuck in moving parts while the ride is in operation. Keep your head, arms, legs, and feet inside the ride at all times. Don't reach to touch fencing or other inanimate objects while on the ride. If a ride comes to a stop, stay seated and wait for it to start again or for an operator to give you instructions. Do not stand up and attempt to get off the ride on your own. Always use the safety equipment provided; lap bars, belts, shoulder harness, etc. Check to be sure you are latched in properly before the ride begins. Alert the ride attendant immediately if something is wrong with your safety equipment. Never attempt to get free of your restraints or other safety devices while the ride is in operation.
Ride tips for larger patrons
All the rides at Palace Playland have specific safety and ride regulations. Each ride has its own safety restraint system, and each have different guidleines to follow. Most restraint systems accommodate average body types. Sometimes tall and larger framed individuals may not be able to ride. Weight is not typically the specific factor of rider safety; it's more the ability to safely fit within the restraint system of the ride. If you have specific questions about our rides restrain systems, please feel free to call us anytime.
Helpful Tips for Kids: Talk
We can sometimes forget how excited children can get when they finally arrive at this long-awaited destination, and you can get caught off guard when they go racing into the crowd. But before you even leave the car, establish rules about holding hands, how far ahead or behind they can walk, and talk about how to find each other if you somehow get separated. Establishing a base camp is a great way to plant the seed in their mind that if something happens, I should go "HERE". Make it an easy place to remember, their favorite ride, or near their favorite snack shack. That way if you do get separated, they won't think twice about where to go and find you.
Mark 'em
We're sure you've seen the very famous yellow LiveStrong bracelets people wear. Put one on your child, and write your cell phone number on it with a Sharpie. Available online are cute temporary tattoos for your child that say "If Lost, call..." You can also use them to convey medical issues like nut allergies or diabetes. Just be sure that if you put information in writing you don't put your child's name on it, because a stranger calling a child by his/her name may seem less like a stranger.
Point Out Employees
When you first arrive, take this opportunity to point out the name tags and uniforms of park employees. Palace Playland employees wear uniforms of khaki shorts/pants and a green or red polo shirt. Point out that these are the people they should turn to in an emergency, and if they can't find you, go to the nearest park employee for help. Instruct them to stay with that employee until you find them.


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Fred Below, Ph.D., Professor of Crop Physiology, University of Illinois, and AJ Woodyard, Technical Crop Production Specialist, BASF, shared their latest data about how farmers can nearly double their yields with a comprehensive pest management plan, during an educational session titled "Six Secrets of Soybeans Revealed," at Commodity Classic last week.
While both Below and BASF conducted research independent of each other, their results were very similar: growers can maximize yields by using a comprehensive agronomic management program featuring a combination of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides.
"Comprehensive pest-management solutions are delivering exponential yield improvements and dramatically changing the odds in favor of farmers," said Woodyard, who summarized recent BASF research.
Woodyard highlighted studies that consisted of a combination treatment of BASF herbicides and fungicides in corn, and BASF herbicides, fungicides and insecticides in soybeans, and compared their effectiveness to a glyphosate-based control program. Results revealed soybean yields increased by an average of 6.0 bu./acre over the glyphosate-only program.
According to Below, the current average soybean yield in the U.S. is roughly 42 bu./acre, and has been hovering around that figure for the past few years.
"While it may seem daunting, the quest for 85.0 bu./acre isn't a stretch. Yields of this nature are produced each year in state contests, so we know it can be done," Below said. "The trick is figuring out how to consistently produce these yield levels, and our research has identified six strategies to help accomplish this task."
In 2012, Below and his team at the University of Illinois set up multi-location trials in their home state to analyze the value of management factors that contribute to soybean yield. What they discovered were six "secrets" that are critical for achieving high yield goals:
1. Weather: While weather is out of anyone's control, Below's team found that it influences the success of all other management factors. Management practices that promote strong root development, such as fertility, enhanced seed emergence and disease control, may help mitigate its negative effects.
2. Improve soil fertility: Below believes that soil fertility is one of the most important, yet often overlooked components of high yield soybean production. Improved soil fertility can be managed through balanced crop nutrition and fertilizer placement technologies. Below's 2012 research revealed an additional 4.3 bu./acre with this secret.
3. Maximize genetic yield potential: Similar to corn hybrids, Below believes that proper selection of soybean varieties is crucial for success in a management intensive, high yield production system. Below's 2012 research revealed an additional 3.2 bu./acre with this secret.
4. Protect yield potential and maximize seed size: "Disease and insect control is imperative for producing any crop," Below said. "By using a combination of a fungicide and insecticide, critical soybean leaf area is maintained for intercepting sunlight and maximizing seed fill." Below's 2012 research revealed an additional 3.6 bu./acre with this secret.
5. Enhance seed emergence and vigor: Through the use of fungicidal, insecticidal and plant growth regulator seed treatments, early season growth and vigor will be protected from yield robbing stresses such as disease and insects. Below's 2012 research revealed an additional 2.6 bu./acre with this secret.
6. Utilize narrow row spacing: Below believes there are distinct advantages to planting narrow rows, specifically 20 in. rows. This would allow precision fertilizer placement in a corn-soybean rotation. "Planting soybean on these same rows might take advantage of the previous year's corn fertility practices. Furthermore, 20 inch rows improve light interception and ultimately provide a good foundation for maximizing yields," he said. Below's 2012 research revealed an additional 2.1 bu./acre with this secret.
Woodyard suggests that growers interested in high-yield soybean production should put together a season-long road map for their acres. "Early in the season, growers should set aside time to develop a full-season plan on how they're going to get the most out of every acre," said Woodyard.
For more information on Below and his research, visit http://cropphysiology.cropsci.illinois.edu/.
For more information on BASF Crop Protection products, visit http://agproducts.basf.us
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