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On Wednesday morning, Capcom addressed questions concerning PS Vita's omission from the re-release of "Resident Evil Revelations". The reasons may surprise you.
So... They just didn't want to do it basically... Oh Crapcom, you fail all the time this generation.
I'll make sure to get this used for my 3DS. Don't want money going to them. So weird saying that when I hate buying used because of that exact reason. This is the one company that deserves it.
Funny had it been the other way round and you would've more than likely been slamming the 3ds for being 'old tech' and completely pointless and that the Vita was far superior and the sorts and that they made the right decision and I'm sure then you would've been happy to give your money to them. Ah some people.
Funny that you would make a baseless judgment about another user... There are no lifers who devote their lives to loving any of the three companies, so don't act like it's all one sided. There's no reason to try to start an argument with someone who's being reasonable.
I have a 3DS...... So, no. I would not have slammed it for that.
snookies no but most on here would. Saying they wouldnt, wood be likeing saying n4g is a site with no fanboys. Sony fanboys would smell blood in the water and be all over it. I love my ps3 but my vita......its a train wreck and it needs some great games.RE would of been nice. Btw people do not write out a list of games saying these are great vita games. Ive seen it and still only own two that were even worth getting.
"Sony fanboys would smell blood in the water and be all over it."
ROFL..I just spit out my water.
dodgy bs reason, just say there are way to little Vita's out there to make it worthwile
***Sony fanboys would smell blood in the water and be all over it. ***
You mean like how a 'non-Sony-fanboy' started the whole debate by calling someone else a fanboy indirectly and saying how they would have said something if it was different?
Pot, kettle, and all that.
Basically. There's no excuse as to why this game isn't being ported to the Vita. Most people don't have surround sound in their homes, and there's no way to determine what size or even what kind of TV they have to say,
"…. when we were developing Revelations for new platforms we really wanted to hone in on the experience you get with a large format screen, surround sound, etc. This type of setup really helps players get sucked into the horror vibe and enjoy the game to its fullest extent."
People are still gaming on SD TV's. That response was utter BS. I don't know what's going on over there, but Capcom are starting to lose touch with reality. If it's because the Vita hasn't sold well, then say it. Don't lie about it.
Ugh. I'm so done with Capcom, they're on my Bethesda list.
Even if vita sales are low at the moment, Capcom could have released it only on the psn store instead of retail. I mean, it's not fair that they put it on Wii U but not Vita, when both systems are about neck-and-neck in sales.
Don do you even think before you speak? wii u is 2 months old and vita is a year old. Why would they be looking at vita over wiiu?
Anyway l'll wait for the HD one. I was planning on getting 3dsxl but maybe not yet. project x zone and maybe layton(never played any) are the only games for the handheld
Sony needs to get some more uncharteds, ac3l, gravity rush, like games stat
O.O Did you change the word 's***' to Bethesda?
It's not being ported because the Vita is selling incredibly poorly, and Sony doesn't seem to care about fixing the situation. Why should third parties risk it when Sony themselves aren't even bothering with their own handheld?
@ servbot
there's only so much that Sony can do. This sounds more like a Capcom issue than a Sony one.
@ Snookies12 I know what you mean I as well don't buy used or trade in my games. oh don't forget craptivision. I'll skip on this one till the price go down i'm not paying more for a year old handheld remade for home consoles with a higher price than the original. good job at milking out the fans dry crapcom
Belting out cracking games for 25 years, a couple of shit decisions of recent years and they don't deserve anything. Nice.
No one's buying the Vita. Business decision.
The four million people out there are no one now?
Well they did good with Revelations, so buy it new. They did an amazing job...can't say much for the other new RE titles though.
Actually, the quote completely makes sense if you think about it. The architecture's too different between the 3DS and the PS Vita... to make a port - even a lazy port that didn't require too much staff time, just enough to get the technical crap down.
Staff time equals money. They're being really dainty about it with that quote, but they are saying they don't want to invest money on that port.
They didn't want to invest money in porting Revelations to the Vita because they didn't think they'd get a fair return on that investment. The Vita doesn't have a broad enough user base yet... unless they bought a Vita for the game. Would you buy a Vita for Revelations alone? Do they have their killer app yet (and not Sound Shapes, that's also for the PS3, amazing, and for a niche audience of people who actually like well-made games)? Revelations won't appeal to every single owner of the system, too, so don't throw a weak user base number out there and assume four million unit sales.
Nope. So they didn't invest any money. It's the one thing Scamcom's said in the past year or so that made any sense to me (don't even get me started on Megaman).
TongkatAli, below, has the best idea: Make a Vita-exclusive Resident Evil game, one made for it. One so good that people *will* buy the system for the game.
...good luck with that, though, since Capcom has kinda been not so great with Resident Evil as of late.
R u one of the people that complained about re6 because if so you really got the concept of vote with ur wallet ass backwards
Then why the heck do we keep getting lego 3ds version games for our vita when they are "EXTREMELY" different beast.
Hey....you guys still have a Sony hand-held Resident Evil game to do...it was revealed for the PSP but I'm guessing you should do it on the PSV now.
I never heard about that one. Can someone post a link? :)
yeah its Resident Evil portable
i wonder what happened to that thing
cashcom hates Sony, thats why we didnt got DMC PSP too.
I think its not that Capcom hates Sony PlayStation.
Many Capcom huge mega hits are born on PlayStation platform like Resident Evil, Monster Hunter etc.
I think it's Nintendo's deal with Capcom to keep PlayStation from total domination of the games industry. Remember Capcom 5 games like RE4, Viewtiful Joe, exclusivity? And now its Mon Hun. We will see if this works this time.
I don't even think they try to come up with excuses anymore. Seems like they just spit out the first words that pop into their heads. I wouldn't be surprised if their next excuse sounds something like "we're not porting X game to Y system because we wanted to start our vacation early"
Make a exclusive Vita RE game with Rebecca. I'm tired of Jill, Chris and Leon never ending adventures.
Edit: Come on the girl went through hell in RE 0 and babysat Chris in RE 1. She deserves a second epic game and throw in Billy too, they make a good team : )
I can't put my faith in the RE games without Mikami. Its a waste liking this franchise in this day and age.
Oh hell I'm tired of residents evil stupid story lines now.
Birry was rearry coor, they should bring him into the new city during the zombie outbreak and show how he is doing.
They ported street fighter x tekken to the Vita, I'm sure they could do this game.Nintendo must of told them not to do any games on Vita but the fighting games.
lol, same BS reason Platinum gave for no Metal Gear: Rising on Wii U.
The real reason: We don't think we will make enough money to make the effort worth it.
People would call bull no matter what they say but they should at least have the face to tell the truth.
Unfortunately that has proven true. Looking at the sale of Wii-U games not named Nintendo Land and Super Mario Bros. U, the best selling game "ZombiU" hasn't even broke the 500,000 mark.
Not saying that the Vita has done any better, but the simple fact that they're taking a chance to port it to Wii-U and not Vita is complete BS.
Thing about Zombie U it got a broken nose in the form a review score of 3 even before it got out of the starting gates. Turns out it really didn't deserve a 3.
RE is dead to me, and has been dead to me for years. It sucks Vita misses out on a game, but it probably would have been crappy anyway. Because of Capcom of course, not the Vita.
As much as I loathe Capcom, they actually did right on Revelations. It's an actual Resident Evil from what I've played on the 3DS version, it's what RE5 and RE6 should have been.
I suppose they just wanted to focus on consoles which is the whole point of this update. I would like to see a resident evil for vita though, whatever happened to the psp one, did it become revelations?
I've got an idea, how about make Resident Evil Outbreak for the Vita instead. That game is long overdue...........
A compilation of both games with updated graphics. But Capcom, if you ever do this, please cut down the load times.
Resident Evil Outbreak 1 and 2 are my two favorite games in the series. Mikami and Capcom made Resident Evil 4 a shooter, but later released Outbreak 1 and 2, the true evolution to the series.
Just think if Outbreak sales were good, where would we be now with Resident Evil? You've really got to think because Outbreak had many revolutionary features to the franchise. In J's Bar, zombies from outside would continue to either walk in the bar or crawl over the barrels into the bar. Zombies would knock open doors, so even though you might be in a room where there isn't a zombie, there's a possibility you're not in a room where there can't be a zombie. The one facility had zombies that would go from room to room since there are automatic doors, Hunters would chase you down from room to room, etc. The hospital had zombies and the leech man.
So in Resident Evil your only melee weapons were usually knives. Not in the Outbreak series. Crutches, brooms, etc. Anything you could find was usable. You could pick up a nail gun and either nail boards to the wall to stop zombies from progressing or you could use the nail gun to shoot zombies.
While Resident Evil 4 went the direction of shooter. Resident Evil Outbreak was more survival horror.
Well said, i think that Outbreak was a game ahead of its time since it released when online in consoles was starting to be standard.
Releasing now RE O with current online capabilities is a no brainer really, even today RE O is a beloved game, almost every time i mentioned how Otbreak was great here i rarelly had any disagrees, to boot RE O 2 introduced shoot while walking but it still didnt made the game any easier.
Hopefully they reboot the series, i mean its now or never.
On topic
Thats BS Cashcom.
i know for one thing someone at capcom doesn't know how to spell revelations. i hope they get it right this time
"Because we hate Sony"
"because our game wouldn't sell on the vita"
lol, I'm Vita's starved userbase would lap up RE:revelations. Especially in japan
It might if they spell Revelations right this time.
The Vita user base is not starved though. We have plenty of games to play. We get new games every week. O_o
And it's going to sell on Wii-U?
ZombiU aka the 3rd best selling, and Non-Nintendo game has yet to break 500k, but it's getting it.
The Wii U has 10 games that sold 100,000 or more. Zombie U is the third highest selling Wii U game with 320,000.
The Vita has 34 games that sold 100,000 or more. Who knows how many more since Sony doesn't share digital sales. These are games that have been out around Wii U's release date and numbers they've sold. Playstation All Stars with 120,000, Need For Speed Most Wanted with 240,000, Ragnarok Odyssey with 200,000, Persona 4 Golden with 340,000, Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation with 560,000, and Black Ops Declassified with 590,000.
Assassin's Creed 3 on the Wii U was only released 20 days later than the other consoles. Why did it only sell 100,000 when both the PS360 sold four million each? Oh. That's right. Rarely does anything third party sell huge numbers on Nintendo consoles.
Most Nintendo fans buy nothing but first party games and the only reasosn third parties get the sales that they do is because there are people out there that are into games and not because "it's Nintendo, it's Sony, it's Microsoft." There are some great Wii games that sold horribly because it didn't have Mario, Wii something or other, etc, on the title.
No offense to all Nintendo fans. Just pandaboy and rabid fanboys like him.
Also. This may or may not be the reason it's not coming to the Vita, but didn't Nintendo pay Capcom to develop Revelations as an exclusive portable? Maybe Capcom is unable to port it over to the Vita even if they wanted to because of the wording on a contract agreement?
As a Vita owner myself, there are a lot of good games on there, but if games like Asphalt Injection and Dungeon Hunter Alliance sold 100,000 then I'm sure Resident Evil Revelations would as well.
"When asked why there is no PS Vita version, he replied:"
" when we were developing Revelations for new platforms we really wanted to hone in on the experience you get with a large format screen, surround sound, etc. This type of setup really helps players get sucked into the horror vibe and enjoy the game to its fullest extent."
okay? so you're saying that you have no reason not to
get it for Ps Vita?
dafuq capcom?
Why not just come out and say they didn't wanna port it to PSV?instead of some bull crap excuse like this....
Because Capcom already destroy Resident Evil franchise!! that's why!!
I don't know what's going on in Capcom, but I hope they don't screw up Street Fighter
Sucks but at least its coming to the PS3 which will have proper controls unlike the 3DS version (even with the clunky CPP accessory)
I don't understand why so many people are crying over this.
If you own a VITA, chances are you own a PS3. So.... you're STILL getting to play the game! Who cares if it's not coming out on the fancy $300 handheld you just had-to-have at launch? You still will get to play it. Get over it.
I'd rather Capcom release a completely new/original RE title for the VITA (you know, like the announced "Resident Evil Portable" for PSP some years back?)
Vita has been out for a little while now, and not EVERYONE as you put it who owns a Vita also owns a PS3.. i sold mine ages ago because my consoles mostly gather dust as i'm a PC gamer, but i do like using handhelds. so there.
I didn't say everyone who owns a Vita owns a PS3. I said "Chances are."
Most people I've been seeing complain are mentioning the "cross buy" feature, which would imply that.. They own a PS3.
Sorry you don't own one. Your complaint is then justified. Now go buy a 3DS.
But everybody owns at least a laptop nowadays so Vita-only owners will most probably be fine too as long as they have a semi-decent PC that can run this game at 720p. This game is an HD remake of a 3DS title, so the system requirements can't be too high unless the game is getting a serious visual overhaul which I doubt would be the case. Seems like the lack of a Vita version will not prevent anyone from playing the game, though it'd be great to have it in Vita's library and I'd gladly buy a copy myself.
Revelations on PS3 with crossplay support
Capcom (troll face)
That would be funny.
I could see Capcom doing this just so you have to buy the retail version. so they dont have to sell it for 39.99 on the vita.
knowing Capcom... this makes a lot of sense. lol
Smh... Sheesh woulda been nice. I've tried to ignor the whole " Capcom is fuckin up" comments and stuff, but this.... Yeah, it starting to look true. They are making some really bad choices... Along with really bad excuses.
BS excuse!
Its probably because of a Capcom-Nintendo deal --- of course they wouldn't allow a Vita port, that would directly compete with the 3ds original and make it look graphically inferior.
Wasted opportunity there Capcom....
You still owe us PSP/Vita owners for RE Portable!
if the cApcom nintendo deal wa legit then wish they bring REmake over since it was two consoles ago..wow. two ago/
Well it could've looked a fair bit better on Vita to be honest.
I have a 3DS and this game, it does look very good for a 3DS game i will admit.. but what annoys me is the comfort level of the 3DS its self, square sides = not comfy to hold for a while, and the slidepad really has so little grip that my thumb begins to slide off if i hold a direction for 10 seconds or more.
seriously nintendo, why make the slidepad have no grip at all?. On that note, i find Vita is much more comfortable to hold due to its rounded sides, and i don't have that trouble with the control sticks slipping on Vita.
.... so they can make it for the ps3; something every other dev pretty much has said is very like the vita in terms of how easy it is to port games between the two- yet they can't make a vita version..... wtf?


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When Ben Rupert was called in to be a division supervisor on the Rim fire — which was one of the worst in California history, burning about 400 square miles of forest in and around Yosemite National Park — he did what he always does.
"I talk to the trees, and I talk to the fire," he said. "I ask for direction on how to suppress it. I pray for the land to talk to me. I'm asking for Mother Earth to guide us. I pray for safety. I tell the earth I don't mean any harm."
It's an unconventional approach, but it's part of the tradition handed down to him through his Washoe and Paiute elders.
"It's just the way I was taught," he said.
Rupert, a Reno firefighter who lives in Carson City, arrived at the fire Sept. 3, just more than two weeks after it was ignited Aug. 17. He was assigned to oversee Division Zulu, trying to get a line around a 6-square-mile section at the head of the fire.
"Even though it was the smallest division, at the time I was there, it was the most complex because it had no containment lines," Rupert said. "If the fire got past our lines, there was a very high risk the fire would have continued its devastation into the wilderness to the north."
Rupert, 48, began each day with a meeting at 5:30 a.m. followed by a briefing at 6. By 9 a.m., he and his crew of about 200 firefighters from across the country had made the 90-minute drive from their incident command center in Tuolumne, Calif., to their division on the north zone of the fire. They typically left the fire line about 9 p.m., eating dinner at 10:30.
As a supervisor, Rupert then had administrative paperwork to fill out and wouldn't get to bed until about midnight, when he'd sleep in the back of his car. He didn't shower those 14 days.
"I went through two boxes of baby wipes," he said. "I'll just leave that to your imagination."
But the long, dirty days, he said, are worth it.
"I look at it as a gift to be a firefighter and a gift to be lead in fire-suppression efforts," he said. "I look at it as using a gift that's been given to me."
He spoke with members of the fire crews, many of whom also were Native American, about the importance of their job there.
"I met with my crews, and I explained to the value of the area we were protecting," he said. "I explained to them about the Miwok Indians, and how they lived off the land."
He identified resources the indigenous people used that still are a part of the landscape — choke cherry bushes, acorns, pine nuts, cedar trees.
While fighting the fire, a crew found an area with about 25 grinding rocks, traditionally used by the Miwok Indians to grind the shells off acorns to be made into a flour used to make acorn mush and acorn biscuits, common winter food staples.
"We were led to that site," Rupert said. "I don't know if the tribe even knows about that culture site. It's not only about fire suppression, it's about protecting the plants and protecting the land. All the plants, they all have a purpose. Everything out here has a purpose, I try to identify those kinds of things."
While fire suppression is the goal, he said, his first priority is always the safety of the troops battling the blaze.
"These fires are so dangerous," he said. "You just can't predict what's going to happen. That's why I always ask for spiritual guidance."
Decisions must be swift and direct, he said, like on Sept. 7 when he pulled everyone in his division off of the fire.
With temperatures at the highest they'd been since he took over and humidity at its lowest, an inversion lift moved in.
"An inversion lift is like a blow dryer," he explained. "It's got that warm wind. It kicks in and it pulls that smoke out all at once, and it brings the fire with it. It's very quick. Everything aligned perfectly to have a perfect blow-up of a fire."
When crews returned the following day, they found 50 spot fires that had jumped the line.
"Now we're behind the fire," Rupert said. "That's when we have to re-evaluate and assess what's happened. We have to re-secure our lines."
By Sept. 14, they had their line contained. Complete containment of the fire is expected by Oct. 1.
"We were able to save a tremendous amount of forested land," he said. "We were also able to protect the sacred land of the Miwoks."
As he did in the beginning, Rupert also gathered his troops at the end of the end of their two weeks to thank them, shaking each firefighter's hand.
"You're only as good at the people you're working with," he said. "It's the boots on the ground; that's who's getting it done. A huge success to Division Zulu was the assistance and supervision from several assistants. Two from the Fort Apache Tribe, one from the Alaska Fire Service and one from the U.S. Forest Service Modoc District. We all worked together to complete our mission."
In his 27th year of firefighting, Rupert knows there are more fires to come.
"Fire is a natural part of the ecology," he said. "You can use all these things to control fire, but you can never permanently extinguish fire."
And he always gets something in return, such as the hollowed-out logs he found at a recent fire that he will use to make traditional drums, or cedar branches to fashion into rabbit sticks and the lifelong friendships he has formed.
"As long as your heart's in the right place and you're asking direction on how to take care of the land, you are given certain gifts out there."


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Healthy delivery: New bike biz arrives
Charlottesville now has one more bona fide reason to call itself a city and not a small town: We have our own bike courier service.
On Monday, June 21, 21-year-old bike enthusiast Kyle Rodland launched Fleetline Courier, bringing to fruition a dream he's had since last summer.
"It's like a run-of-the-mill courier service," says Rodland, "like in the big cities."
Rodland, who's studying music at PVCC and hopes to study American Sign Language beginning next year, says he believes there is a need for his services.
"It'll save people a lot of time and money between traffic and parking," he explains. "Everybody knows that parking in Charlottesville is not the easiest thing to do."
And, he says, the service he offers– not just deliveries, but running errands, shopping, and other chores– is politically correct.
"It will help promote local business because I'll use local shops instead of national chains," he says, citing copy shops in particular. As an added bonus for earth-lovin' clients, Rodland points out that bike deliveries are "environmentally friendly."
From the sound of it, the service will be wallet friendly as well. A one-way trip anywhere within city limits will cost $5; a round-trip is $8, and additional stops tack on $3 each.
Rodland says he'll work Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm, and will make before- or after-hours deliveries for an additional fee.
And no matter what the job, Rodland says he can handle it.
"If I can carry it in my bag or on my back," he says, "it's going where it needs to go."
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Cook County sheriff's deputies and officials from the state comptroller's office descended on Harvey's City Hall on Friday to begin auditing financial records in an effort to enforce a watchdog law long ignored by the scandal-plagued south suburb.
The action came on the same day the Tribune reported on questionable insider deals in Harvey occurring while the city's appointed comptroller is warning that the suburb is heading toward financial ruin. The deals included $88,000 to a firm tied to the mayor's son for social media work — the quality of which experts questioned.
That story followed a series of Tribune articles in February that documented how Harvey has become arguably the most lawless community in the region, reeling from the effects of high violent crime rates, subpar policing and shaky finances amid ineffectual or nonexistent oversight from state and federal authorities. That included the suburb failing for years to follow a law — overseen by the state comptroller — that requires cities and villages to perform yearly audits.
Under Illinois law, if a town does not complete its audit, the state comptroller is allowed to hire auditors to do it and bill the town for the work.
On Friday, four sheriff's vehicles arrived at the south suburb's aging City Hall, joined by an SUV and a minivan with state plates. About a dozen people from those vehicles entered City Hall and walked into the office of the city clerk, an elected official whose job includes keeping and tracking the city's records.
One of Sheriff Tom Dart's top aides, Cara Smith, told the Tribune that the deputies were there to assist the comptroller's office in beginning the process of auditing Harvey's books.
Brad Hahn, spokesman for state Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, said representatives from their office went "to assist the city with its financial reporting." He would not say whether the office would review any of the insider deals highlighted in the newspaper.
He said the agency was limited in what additional details it could give, repeating what it had told the Tribune earlier — that there was an ongoing investigation by an agency he wouldn't name to which the comptroller has already forwarded some records.
The comptroller's office declined to elaborate on the investigation, or say if it is related to an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on a failed insider development deal previously exposed by the Tribune that cost taxpayers $10 million.
Mayor Eric Kellogg was seen going into City Hall about 15 minutes after deputies and auditors arrived. He later issued a statement through a spokeswoman that said the group had a "very productive meeting."
"We appreciate the assistance of the comptroller's office in assisting us as it relates to becoming current with our financial reporting requirements," the mayor said.
The move by Dart and Topinka comes seven years after another high-profile unannounced visit by outside authorities, that time armed with subpoenas. Then, deputies were joined by county prosecutors and state police seeking evidence that had long been ignored by Harvey police in murder and rape cases.
But while authorities have looked inside Harvey's Police Department, none had publicly examined its finances. Dart, long critical of Harvey's policing, has been looking for a way to get a peek at the books. After the Tribune series in February, he pushed County Board members to adopt an ordinance that would allow him to act as the inspector general for suburbs that failed to file audits. But that legislation has run into opposition from suburban mayors and politicians, including County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who say it's the state's responsibility to force audits.
It's unclear what level of access his office will be given to the records gathered by auditors. When the state comptroller's spokesman was asked if the sheriff's people would also be reviewing the records, the spokesman responded that the comptroller's office would be using its own accountants.
"Our auditors will be reviewing city financial records and working to bring Harvey into compliance with state reporting laws. If the auditors find financial impropriety, that information will be turned over to the appropriate law enforcement agency," Hahn said in an email.
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Harvey is four years behind on the audits, making it difficult — if not impossible — for outsiders and residents to get a clear grasp of the city's financial health.
Records the Tribune obtained suggest that the city is nearly insolvent — borrowing big in recent years yet still spending millions more than it took in, while starving its pension funds and stiffing Chicago on water that the suburb bought and resold. Chicago has sued Harvey. Records show Chicago is owed $18 million for unpaid water bills, about the same amount Harvey takes in from taxes and fees in an entire year.
Kellogg has bristled at the idea of outside intervention. Last year Dart offered to act as the city's inspector general — an offer eventually made to other suburbs. The Harvey mayor declined the request, calling it "political posturing."
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Years and years ago my Compobosso-Guardielfiera Italy-born grandfather immigrated to NY State via Ellis Island to repair and eventually sell shoes. I remember him well: a large, silent, gently commanding and charismatic presence who visited our home a block away from his in Saugerties NY. Every Sunday he came and I performed the ritual of getting his approval as he sat in the side room with me while I stumbled through that week's piano lesson. It ritualistically ended when I would turn around, face him and try to gauge how much he liked my "concert." Getting Grandpa Montano's blessing was a good thing and his response was never over effusive, patronizing or boundary breaking….just kind attention with the promise of a continuation of his weekly listening and caring presence. The 50 cents he always gave me and his mantra that he always said, " Could do better," something he said a lot about a lot, were incidental to his being there and his support but admittedly important components to the whole experience which was a fine introduction to my learning the art of performing, a genre and vocation that I continue even now, 50 years later. Everything was there: good attention/focus/audience/continuity/challenge/support/culture/feelings and the irony of the same response repeated every time. And MONEY! put them all together and you've got excellent training for a performance art career. Thanks Grandpa.
But back to the shoe store. Grandpa was nine when his mother died and he and his father lived with his aunt. He was the only surviving child of five siblings, had three years schooling and started shoemaking when he was 9, a practice that he continued for 10 years in Guardielfiera-Compobosso. School was in the morning and work in the afternoon. The pay was food.
When he came to America at 19 ( the Italians came after the Irish, just something sociological to think about) he lived with distant relatives in Hudson NY and worked there to repay his fare which they had shipped to him so that he could come here. He stayed in Hudson three years repairing and selling shoes, paid off his debt, then tried to find a place in Coxsackie and couldn't so he moved to Saugerties NY ( it says Friendly/Historic Saugerties on the sign as you enter the village) which is on the west side of the Hudson River. There he opened Montano's Shoe Store, made enough money for Maria Chioco's fare and sent for his wife to be who also came via Ellis Island and was as spiritual, silently dignified, stalwart and devoted as her husband to be. Grandma and Grandpa raised their family here, not in Glasco, the village 15 minutes south where all of the other Italians lived, but here, in Saugerties, where the "business" is/was. Another sociological fine point.
Montano's Shoe Store continues, some 94 years later, changing only locations( moving one store north) but never the "look" or intention to serve or the outstanding quality of their products. Oh, yes, there is one change: absent from the store is the wood-paneled five foot high machine which we visited daily as kids when we went to see my Dad. We would stick our feet inside the two slots so that we could see our foot bones, never realizing the foolishness of frequent x-rays (nobody did in the 50's). It disappeared from the store in the 60's. Question: what are we inadvertently doing today that will be verboten tomorrow?
My dad and uncle ran Montano's with their father along with my other uncle who worked in the bank and would come and help out at emergency full-force times. These days had designated code names , for example: back to school; Christmas; rush; no tax week; new spring line. We all knew this secret language and were alert to what it meant: Montanos rushed through lunch or didn't eat at all; Montanos focused fiercely and their eyes went from feet to shoe box exclusively; and everyone was on call, children included, especially my mother who actually seemed happy to be summoned from housewifery to another kind of interaction, one more adultly public. Even though Mom was an accomplished painter and volunteered for several committees in town, she was absolutely loyal to Montano's Shoe Store. Her dyed shoes for weddings were legendary and demanded accuracy and an artists sensibility, one she had in overabundance.
My fascination has never waivered for the actions which the Shoe Store people perform. It's the place where everyone who enters is bowed to, in a way. Customers sit and their feet are touched, felt…toes are gauged as to their position in the shoe about to be sold (the very famous Montano trademark) and the art of shoe fitting is a reliable and professional rite of passage performed on everyone who comes through the door. Since visiting India and witnessing the foot touching rituals of respect performed there, I am again left with comparisons that I would like to peruse, but this is not the place for this anthropological dialogue.
The shoe store is the place where a whole lot of kneeling and a whole lot of healing happens. For isn't the foot one of the most important places in the body? If the foot isn't comfortable and well-soled, the body cant maneuver through life smoothly. We need support to defy the pull of gravity and walk well in this mysterious and ever-moving-turning planet earth with its daily challenges and calls for discriminating sure-footed compassion.
Montanos Shoe Store is in a village which is gentrifying as we speak and filling to the brim with antique stores, a biscotti bakery, a many "starred" NY Times best restaurant and a few Soho-like gourmet coffee/lunch spots. It's here in Saugerties, a somewhat best kept secret village, where Grandpa Montanos Shoe Store sells womens, childrens and mens: boots, sneakers, clogs, slippers, shoes, shoelaces, shoepolish and laces. Just like it did in 1906. Orthodics is new and a 90's addition as Grandpa's initial vision continues.
For 94 years, all of the Montanos who have worked there and do work there( too many to list) and an incredibly supportive staff have been kneeling down at their customer's feet and fitting/healing:
the lame
the pronated
the drop footed
the metatarsalgiaed
the foot splayed/slew footed/out toed
the dystoniaed
the bunioned
the arthritically reconfigured
the hammertoed
the ingrown toenailed
the mallet toed
the warted
the post stroked
the tibial torsioned
the new hip/new kneed
the blistered
the flatfooted
the gouted
the swollen footed
the high arched
the heel spured
the claw toed
the fat pad dimished
the corned
the calloused
the plantar fasiatused
the parkinsoniaed
the ligament bruised
the one leg length compromised
the polioed
the club footed
the metatarsal-compromised
the toeless
the diabetic foot infected
the Raynauds-cold footed
the one foot bigger discrepancied
the broken toed
….as well as the tri-athletes, the dancers, the walkers, the first graders, the carpenters needing steel toe shoes, and as Joan Reinmuth reminded me…… "the sandals, shoes and boots for the children….and the nurses shoes, hunters shoes, firemens shoes, electricians shoes and party goers shoes." And I most happily add: the cowgirl/cowboy boots! Now you see why people walk out of the store after a shoe treatment from a Montano, dancing and crying with gratitude and no-pain joy!
In conclusion:
For 94 years Montano's Shoe Store has seasonally and tastefully decorated their front windows to reflect the seasons and the new styles in stock.
For 94 years three generations of Montanos, their families and staff have been supported financially; food, clothing, schooling, cars, from Montanos Shoe Store.
For 94 years sons and daughters and sons of sons have worked there. Now third and fourth generation sons are owners.
For 94 years the reputation for providing a good fit, good service, and the respect of a family atmosphere continues the tradition.
Recently three of the staff were not at the store and with only three others there during "back to school" rush, they needed someone to answer the ever ringing phone. I "performed " that duty, watched from the back room and observed an incredible , living performance:
Their performance of focusing on the task at hand with daily, supreme patience-9-5
Their performance of service to all people all day long, 9-5
Their performance of ordering/shelving/stocking/sending/adjusting/building up/putting supports in shoes, 9-5
Their performance of accommodating squirming children, tremoring elders, undecided/picky boomers, returnees, 9-5
Their performance of seeing every kind of unmentionable foot, sock, foot condition imaginable, 9-5
Their performance of maintaining a traditional look so long that its back in style again and has become retro, 9-5
Their performance of family business being well done with dignity and caring service, 9-5
Their performance of healing disguised as business, 9-5
The performance artist in me is in awe! The ENDURANCE ARTIST in me applauds!
Thanks Grandpa and Grandma Montano. Grandpa, I know you would say, "Could do better," but I am looking at the picture of you in the front window and hearing you say, "I BLESS YOU ALL."
Linda Mary Montano, 2000


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OSAKA, Japan - Canada is off to a hot start at the Four Continents figure skating competition.
Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir posted a personal best score for the short dance on Friday while Meagan Duhamel of Lively, Ont., and Eric Radford of Balmertown, Ont., led after the pairs short program, just ahead of teammates Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto.
Virtue and Moir recorded 75.12 points, which is also the best international score this season. They were ahead of arch rivals Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the U.S., who had 74.68 points. Madison Chock and Evan Bates, also of the U.S., were third at 65.44.
"It felt like it was the season's best skate, no matter what the score was," said Moir, from Ilderton, Ont. "That's always the best feeling, especially at a big event like this which we are using to build for the world championships in Canada."
The Olympic champions will be looking to score big at next month's worlds before a home crowd in London, Ont.
"We've really focused on the technical aspects over the last few weeks," said London native Virtue. "Just hammering out that polka has been a challenge for everyone this year but a fun one to train. We made a minor adjustment to our side-by-side footwork after nationals and to get a level four for that here was great."
Piper Gilles of Toronto and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont., were fifth at 60.20 and Nicole Orford Burnaby, B.C., and Thomas Williams of Okotoks, Alta., finished seventh of 13 entries at 53.70.
In pairs, Duhamel and Radford scored a personal best 70.44 while Moore-Towers and Moscovitch earned 66.33 points.
"Not too many teams have broken that 70-point barrier," said Radford. "It feels incredible. I can't believe it all just happened."
"Sometimes we'd do these programs in practice and say to each other this could be 70 internationally," added Duhamel. "But that was dreaming it. To do it today in competition puts us at a whole new level."
Moore-Towers and Moscovitch were hoping to score better.
"We were happy with our skate but there are a couple of things we are upset about," said Moore-Towers. "But we are looking to improve for worlds and we left a couple of levels on the table."
Paige Lawrence of Kennedy, Sask., and Rudi Swiegers of Kipling, Sask., were seventh at 48.76.
In the men's short program, Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan held the lead with Han Yan of China second and Richard Dornbush of the U.S., third.
Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, B.C., was sixth, Andrei Rogozine of Richmond Hill, Ont., 11th and Elladj Balde of Pierrefonds, Que., 20th.
Reynolds skated a clean program but under-rotated both his quad jump attempts. "I did a really good performance," said Reynolds, competing at his fourth Four Continents meet. "I had a lot of energy right from the start."
Rogozine, the 2011 world junior champion, was making his Four Continents debut. "It was probably the best short program of my career," said Rogozine, 20 who set a personal best 70.58 score. "It was a bit of disadvantage going early (second skater), but for me this is a competition against myself."
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KonstantinL wrote:robertpool wrote:Cyclo2000 wrote:In case any HGers have a few they wanna sell...here's wot their worth today...as far as i can find out anyway
1 Orange Juice - Falling And Laughing (7") Picture Cover with Flexi, Mint, one sold in 2006 for £352.00 and earlier this year for over £400
2 Orange Juice - Blue Boy (7") Sept. 1980 (First 2083 with hand-coloured sleeve). Brown Cover, £40-£50. The hand tinted one hasn't been found yet, should be as much as falling and Laughing though,
7 Aztec Camera - Just Like Gold (7") Mar 1981 Mint with the postcard inside the black cover, one sold this year for £76 and again for over £90. Postcard is a photo.
9 Aztec Camera - A Mattress Of Wire (7") Jul 1981 With picture ciover, mint, £50-£75
10 Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul (7") 1981 with the postcard in the black cover, postcard is of cats with the lyrics in the back. £30-£60
I have all the Postcard vinyl except Falling And Laughing. Doubt I ever will at those prices!
I've no contents insurance. At least partly because a lot of the books and records I have are not replaceable. And even if they were, I wouldn't buy them again now. They're of the moment.
But if that's the kind of money we're talking about, maybe I should just sell the contents of my shelves and buy a palace in the West End.
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They are railway station announcements in English. The time always refers to the departure of the train.
They are neither dialect or slang. To be employed as an announcer it would be necessary for the person to speak clear English. Dialect is a regional or localised way of speaking a language... Cockney is a dialect of London, but of course the announcer may be from another part of the UK or indeed another country. Slang is never used in formal situations such as this. It is a method of communicating between people who understand the usage and can make sense only to people who are familiar with the expressions. A Cockney accent uses common english but the accent makes it sometimes difficult for others to understand. Cockney rhyming slang on the other hand uses the same accent but possibly incomprehensible use of figures of speech, which are perfectly clear to those who know the slang. It is common in different areas of work or the army for example. Rhyming slang is particularly colourful. I suggest you try searching for 'slang' and 'accent'.
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Valdes wins duel, Duda homers
Making his second start for the Herd this season, Raul Valdez pitched five scoreless innings in a 2-0 Bisons win against the Rochester Red Wings at Coca-Cola Field tonight.
The left hander gave the Herd his best stuff as he only allowed three hits in his five inning outing while striking out six Red Wings. Valdes picked up his first win of the season by giving up only one extra-base hit and not allowing a runner past second base in his 73 pitch start.
The offense for the Herd came in little amounts, but it was enough for their third straight win. Left fielder Lucas Duda hit another home run in the third inning. The solo shot gave the Herd their first run of the game and it proved to be enough as the pitching staff was able to shutout the Red Wings.
Duda took a 1-1 offering from Red Wings starting pitcher Ryan Mullins deep to right to give him his fourth consecutive game with a home run as well as his fifth homer of the season. Duda is the first Bison to hit a home run in four straight games since Andy Marte hit a homer in five straight games from June 15-19 in 2006. The Bisons have only had four players hit a home run in five straight games in the team's history.
Mullins gave the Red Wings a quality start, going six and two thirds innings while giving up six hits and only two earned runs, including Duda's homer. Mullins was outpitched by Valdes however and was credited with the loss, he now drops to 4-6 on the season.
After Valdes' exit, the Bisons bullpen came in to secure the victory. Following Valdes was Bobby Livingston who pitched two and two thirds innings of relief. Livingston only allowed three hits and kept the shut out going in his appearance. Acosta relieved Livinston and did not allow a hit while picking up the save. He now has four on the season.
The win brings the Herd to 42-39 and it is the fifth time the Bisons have shut out an opponent this season. The loss for Rochester drops the Red Wings to 30-52 for the year.
BISONS NOTES: Shortstop Luis Hernandez went 3-4 on the day with three doubles in his third game with the Herd. He is the first Bison to hit for three doubles this season and those were his also his first three hits as a member of the Herd. The Bisons will continue their three game series with the Red Wings tomorrow when All-Star Pat Misch (7-3, 3.46 ERA) takes on Anthony Swarzak (1-4, 4.60 ERA) at 7:35 p.m.


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Daredevils of Nitro Circus to thrill Lismore
NITRO Circus is an "action sport collective" of daredevils riding dirtbikes, base jumping, and performing stunts, and they are coming to Lismore.
The troupe has spawned a tour, a second television series based on the tour, and a 3D feature film.
Led by Travis Pastrana, Nitro Circus, Nitro Circus' daredevils will perform choreographed riding routines in freestyle motocross (FMX), BMX, skate and more for a theatrical spectacular area fans have never experienced before.
Highlights include the explosive "Nitro Bomb" featuring all riders simultaneously flipping through the air.
The (in)famous 55-foot high Nitro Giganta ramp is the centrepiece of the action and launches brave Nitro Circus riders high above the crowds while attempting another flurry of jaw-dropping tricks on ridiculous contraptions like trikes, a recliner, a bathtub and more.
The Show:
A total of 12 semi-trailers will travel around Australia for the tour, clocking 9600km.
Fifty crew members will be traveling with the tour, with another 50 locals expected to work with the Nitro crew at each stop.
Two ambulances will be on standby in each show.
200 World Firsts have already been performed on the tour, with 60 of those accomplished at the Nitro World Games in 2016 alone, and most of them will be performed in Australia.
Ten brand new stunts are expected to debut on this tour.
The total count of daredevils includes 25 athletes in an international line-up that also boasts Australian talent.
- At Oakes Oval, Lismore, on April 25. For details visit nitrocircus.com.


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Olympus Mons Climber's Log
Vitaliy M. - Nov 10, 2011 5:31 pm Date Climbed: Apr 1, 2011Hardcore
Onsight First Free Ascent of Chief Direct 5.16b A5+, WI7 No supplemental oxygen or diamox use.
RockOn - Nov 17, 2010 7:19 pm Date Climbed: Nov 10, 2008First Family Ascent of Olympus Mons
Just got back from an amazing journey to be the first family to summit Olympus Mons together. Pretty easy all in all. Had some issues on the way, getting rocket jacked by aliens, luckily they turned out to be old hippies and were pretty absent minded so they didn't notice when we ditched them at the 7 eleven on Phobos. Supplies were pretty scarce and carrying a couple years of water on the way up was really painful. The 88,000 foot glissade on the way down was pretty cool though, as long as you don't mind the friction burns on your butt cheeks. I highly reccomend it. The views of earth are astonishing. AWESOME CLIMB!!!!
Big Benn - Apr 9, 2010 12:22 pmBig Mistake
Turned back when I was only part way up, after being told that dirndl wearing serving wenches were banned on Mars.
Wasn't going to climb all that height and not get an ice cold wheat beer served by a well rounded Munich girl at the summit.
Baarb - Aug 19, 2009 6:20 am Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2009Parched
There's no running water here, Wikipedia article apparently wrong. Decent ice-climbing in the summit caldera however. Mosquitoes pretty bad, flew off with Barry and one of our rovers later when we stopped for booze. Inter-Planetary Search and Rescue turned up after we didn't return to base on time and stuck us with a bill of 30 billion dollars. Typical. If you see Barry let us know.
Smith93 - Jan 4, 2006 1:22 amRoute Climbed: Straight up the side... Date Climbed: March 20, 2038
What more can I say about summiting the highest volcano in the solar system than, WOOO HOOO! I decided to go climb it for my 50th birthday and the trip was awesome! Spectacular views of the surface of Mars and the bottom of the summit crater. Climbing up the sides of the volcano was very slow going but the reduced gravity helped a bit. The damned spacesuit kept chaffing and on the decent I got the worst blisters on my feet from those uncomfortable space boots. But those were silly minor things compared to the sandstorm that we got slammed with on the ascent. We were at about 67,345 feet up on the side of Olympus Mons and this 5 mile wide sandstorm swept in and forced us to bivouac for 3 months until the sandstorm subsided. Overall the trip was amazing even though it took 4 years to complete. My next trip will take me to Venus to climb Maxwell Montes, which is 39,370 feet high.
rockhead99 - Aug 15, 2005 12:48 pmRoute Climbed: Millenium Falcon south side across the Darth Vader Glacier Date Climbed: July 31, 2005
Over 88,000 feet, but not that difficult really. Just a big slog to the top. The main problem was that I forgot my sunscreen back on earth so all of my skin burned off from a massive solar flare that came raging down on us about 62,000 feet up. Was pretty intense! Other than that, no big deal! Lots of little green life forms begging for money at the base area, though. Kind of sad. Poverty on Mars is pretty bad I guess. Watch out crossing the Darth Vader Glacier--lots of huge crevasses! I fell into one that was estimated to be 5 miles deep! Luckily I was roped in, though. Base area was like a scene out of Star Wars or something! Pretty wild! Definitely on my top 10 climbs list!
Sorry I don't have any pics! They were stolen out of my hotel room after we were finished! Gosh darned aliens!
Mgross - Jan 19, 2004 4:10 pmRoute Climbed: Zeus Direct Route Date Climbed: 18 January 2004
Summitted via the Zeus direct route (5.12) without oxygen. Solar winds were a real pain in the butt. My first 88'er. Thank God for diamox, I would have never made it. Couldn't understand a single word the porters were saying but they were quite friendly. Great views from the summit; make sure you bring your sunglasses.


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A series of setbacks for the PlayStation 3, which was to originally launch in the spring of this year, have culminated in a tenuous launch and a slight risk for the company. The initial launch announcement was marred by complaints over Sony's pricing, but Sony's real embarrassment came when the company admitted that it was having manufacturing problems. Now Sony is looking at a potentially hot holiday 2006 shopping season, but they're armed with less goods to sell; they will only ship 2 million units by the end of the calendar year, down from 4 million promised earlier. The company also had to push its European launch back to March of 2007.
The Wall Street Journal is profiling the situation (subscription required), rehashing most of what we already know about Sony and the PlayStation 3. The report does briefly address Sony's ability to recoup its loss on the PlayStation 3; it's not a question so much of can they do it, but when will they do it? The article refrains from answering that question, but it provides plenty to talk about. As I see it, the challenges facing the PS3 are three. First, there's Sony's own pricing. Second, there's the competition. Third, there's Sony's partners.
John Yang, a Tokyo-based analyst with Standard & Poor's, told the Journal that "By reducing the price, it appears that Sony may have prolonged its recouping period of initial investments on the PS3 by a few years." Is Yang right? The price cuts in question only relate to the Japanese market, and even then, only to the low-end PS3. Sony has previously said that this low-end PS3 will constitute only 20 percent of all PS3s made, leaving the lion's share to the higher-end unit. Unless Yang expects similar price-cuts to be announced in other regions, it's difficult to see how this single price cut could add "years" to Sony's cost recuperation.
A bigger challenge will be the competition, which is how it should be. Microsoft's Xbox 360 has a year's lead on the PS3, and Microsoft is hopeful that 10 million units will have been shipped by the close of the year. Nintendo's Wii will join the fun this November 19, and the company has already promised 1 million launch units for North America (more than twice that allocated for the PS3 launch in the region). It seems as though the PS3 is destined to be outsold by Nintendo this holiday season, but Sony knows that this is a long-haul game: they didn't sell 100 million PlayStation 2s in a year's time. They have relied on the PlayStation to keep the company healthy, however. The Journal says that Sony's gaming unit "has accounted for as much as two-thirds of Sony's annual operating profit in past years."
Jack Tretton, executive VP and co-COO of Sony's U.S. games division, told the Journal that "I don't think there's a tremendous sense of urgency that we're falling behind a competitor." That sense of urgency may come if Sony cannot ship 6 million units by the close of March 2007. Sony's two big challenges are its manufacturing problems (which they currently say are tied to blue laser supply issues), and its pricing. There's also a third challenge, which I mentioned above: its partners.
Consider the comments of Michihiro Sasaki, senior VP of Square Enix. Sasaki's company has been a longtime supporter of the PlayStation, particularly with its Final Fantasy series of games. Sasaki told the Journal that "We don't want the PlayStation 3 to be the overwhelming loser, so we want to support them," he said. "But we don't want them to be the overwhelming winner either, so we can't support them too much."
Whether it's on the virtue of the appeal of the Wii or the success of the Xbox 360, game developers are understandably cautious about putting their eggs in one basket. Once all three systems are on shelves, we'll have the opportunity to consider what effect this has on gaming. Looking into our crystal ball, we've predicted that this generation of consoles will spur even more cross-platform game development, and that this will have a leveling effect on games themselves, at least in terms of visual quality and complexity. Each console will retain its own in house specialty development efforts, of course, but the virtual playing field could be leveling out. On the one hand, this could be a big problem for the powerful PS3. Or maybe, just maybe, the PS3's big sales generator at the end of the day will be its Blu-ray drive. Time will tell if Ken Kutaragi is crazy like a fox, or just plain crazy.


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- Politics - Local - a continuing series of low level indictments. We've been hoping for more years than we've been running this blog that something big will break, but we are always disappointed. This year, we'll aim low.
- Politics - State - Someone big indicted. Blago or Mrs. Blago. And if the media did it's job, it will have a big impact on Obama's future as well.
- Politics - National and International - Hillary has already gone negative and it's cost her. Obama is running pretty well, but has too many skeletons if the media would just look for them. Edwards? Let's face it - the presidential race on BOTH sides is looking truly grim. Everything else? Same as 2007 - the more it changes, the more it stays the same.
- Sports - continuing mediocrity everywhere with the notable exception of the Blackhawks. With Bill Wirtz out of the picture and and the Hawks on free TV, we've seen our first consecutive sellouts in a few years or more. A few right moves and the Hawks are playoff bound like the old days and competing for the Cup in 3 years.
- Department - The Chinese proverb states "May you live in interesting times." Let's just say we're hoping for really really interesting this year from the new Supe and not so interesting changes as the SOS and other scandals wind down finally. Manpower continues to suffer.
- General - global warming continues to not impact anything except Al Gore's bottom line; the economy continues to chug along, never spectacular but not a massive downturn either; illegal immigration continues to drain resources; and no one really cares.
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BAD weather decimated the weekend's programme – but Jericho managed to make hay in their Hedley Toms Group A clash against Northway, writes DARYL RIDGLEY.
The Premier League side triumphed 4-1, with two goals from Carly Pullen and one apiece for Sam Caruthers and Almo Pullen seeing them home.
Barry Gray replied for visiting Northway.
In the same group, Elliott O'Brien bagged a hat-trick as Railway Wheatley won 7-4 at Zubry, Oxford.
Tom Wilson also got two with singles for Shaun Liptrot and Ashley Buttress.
In Division 2, Green Tree overcame Forest Hill 1-0 to take all three points thanks to a strike from Sam Elkins.
Abingdon White Horse defeated Abingdon Exiles 2-0 in their derby clash.
Michael Allen-Bloomfield and Carl Archer got the goals.
North Oxford Conservative Club overcame Checkendon 4-0 with strikes from Michael O'Shea, Andy Potter, Luke Beachamp and Steven Doyle giving them a home success.
In Division 3, New Club's defence did a sterling job and goals from Steven Skirt, Kevin Hughes, Jay Hill and a brace from Chris Kent were enough for them to overcome Watlington 5-0 and keep them top of the league.


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Michael Bolton
"Michael Bolton can make anything suck..."
"...except me."
"Easy for me to live without you!"
Michael Bolton is an American singer and no talent ass-clown who specialises in bland, insipid and throaty putty-soft rock ballads for middle-aged housewives and the mentally-ill. Despite his name, he has never been to Bolton and if presented with a black pudding would probably sing some dreadful fucking dirge about it whilst looking all earnest in the video.
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It is not widely known (due to a cover up in the White House) but Michael was in his time the most dangerous man in the world. It was his plan to bore the entire world into accepting him as supreme leader and he nearly succeeded. He was thwarted by the hairdresser shaving off all his hair which, like Samson, contained all his strength. He now lives in abject poverty in the worst city in the world (Detroit) and it serves him right too. People are still having nightmares.
Only after a significant investigation by the only bloke who thought JFK wasn't a sleazebag, Mr Kevin Costner Stone, was it established that he wasn't working alone and that amongst his evil empire was also, The Cars, Foreigner, Chris Cross and those annoying shitbags who sung "The Final Countdown". They were all executed for crimes against humanity.
Michael Bolton has had an unjustly long career in the music business. He began recording music in the 1970s, sucking all the interest out of songs with his abnormally large, vacuous urethra and then ejaculating a slimy coating of blandness on them that would diminish any human sex drive as soon as the songs started to play.
Michael Bolton missed most of the 1980s due to the unfathomable size of his mullet. That's a shame, he'd have fitted right in. He emerged from behind the hair at the end of the decade to have undeserved success with the astonishing waste of recording studio time that is "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You?" Bolton has since admitted that the song was about his yearning for crack. He followed this dog-egg up with "How Can We Be Lovers (If We can't Be Friends)?" which he dedicated in the sleeve notes to "the shy girl in my local laundromat". It was revealed later that the girl in question had had a police restraining order put on Bolton after he "constantly" followed her home and sang the song outside her window until her father chased him off with a shotgun. "All I did was help him put his underwear and tight jeans into the washing machine one time" said the girl, who understandably wishes to remain anonymous, "next thing I knew he was following me around with his stupid leather jacket and mullet. You might think that song name is kinda cute but it's a very different story when it's been painted all over your car". Bolton has refused to comment on the issue.
In the 1990s, Bolton released a huge faecal wave of terrible turds of albums which somehow sold in high numbers. These included Tied, Drugged and Ten-bob Sex (1991) - best known for the unsubtle hit single "When a Man Fucks a Woman" - and Timeless: The Classics (1992) his album of cover versions which lead one critic to point out "I suppose it is timeless, in the same way the Rwandan genocide is".
In spite of howls of protest from music lovers and demands that he stop for the love of all currently-worshiped Gods from the United Nations, Bolton continued to foist his syrupy crap on us all. In late 1996 he shat out Coming Down Your Chimney: The Christmas Album which took cheeky, often innuendo-laden Christmas favourites about Santa Claus "giving the wife one" and delivered them in his usual earnest, lozenge-begging style. A bill was put before the British Parliament demanding Christmas be cancelled that year in an effort to stop Bolton but the bill was blocked by menopausal women in the House of Lords.
Most astonishing was Bolton's 1998 album My Passion Wagon which featured the songs Bolton claimed he used "to seduce beautiful ladies into letting me breach their peach" sung by Bolton himself whilst he received oral sex. Rolling Stone's reviewer claimed he had been "physically ill for several days" after having heard "a particularly teppid version of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" only with the occasional grunt of pleasure from Bolton and a constant slurping sound low in the mix".
Although Bolton's success in this field earned him an honorary position in every mafia there is (and free bukkake), Bolton left the music industry when he discovered that his own musical handiwork had rendered him impotent. This has not diminished his relationship with a Desperate Housewife, whose attraction to his sterling personality remains unabated.
It is a common myth that Michael Bolton posses anything that can be remotely considered talent. A common misconception is that his music is something resembling good, when in fact he is "no talent ass clown". The person who has stated this quote would like to remain anonymous for fear that Bolton will see this article, and force him to listen to his music while having a monkey wearing a tu-tu rape him, as the 'musican' has been known to do in the past. One such incident resulted in the recording of the 1994 album "Bongo and the Beet Red Buttocks."
- My Hunger (1987)
- Sole Provider (1989) - a concept album in which Bolton cast himself as a singing shoe shop owner
- Tied, Drugged and Ten-bob Sex (1991)
- Timeless: The Classics (1992) - banned in several countries
- Coming Down Your Chimney: The Christmas Album (1996) - illegal under the Geneva Convention
- My Passion Wagon (1998)
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- [1] She still sucks, but she's a hell of a lot better than Michael Bolton.


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WAITING FOR GODOT to Open Catastrophic Theatre's 5th Anniversary Season, 3/22
The Catastrophic Theatre has announced the first play of its 5th Anniversary Season: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
Last year Catastrophic artistic director Jason Nodler directed Greg Dean and Troy Schulze in an award-winning production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, which led the Houston Chronicle to ask, "Does Beckett Get Any Better?" and the Houston Press to declare "The magnificent Endgame gets magnificent treatment from Catastrophic.
This year, Beckett is again the lead off hitter in Catastrophic's landmark 5th anniversary season. Nodler directs Dean and Schulze, along with Charlie Scott and Kyle Sturdivant, in the most enduring play from the unwitting inventor of the Theatre of the Absurd: Waiting for Godot.
There is a common misunderstanding of Beckett's work that goes something like this: his plays are heady and serious, and his message is dreary. In truth there were three things that Beckett loved above all else: his wife Suzanne, a good Irish Whisky, and the comedy styling's of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. So much more than a messenger of gloom, Beckett also belonged to the music hall tradition. He loved to laugh at a proper pratfall. As he has Nell say in Endgame, "nothing is funnier than unhappiness."
That a woman laughs on one side of the audience while a man cries on the other, at the selfsame line, is unique to a Beckett play.
It would be virtually impossible to overstate the importance of Waiting for Godot as it relates to the history of world theatre, art, and philosophy. But let's leave that aside for a moment because it would be entirely impossible to overstate the new ways in which Godot taught us to laugh, and also to cry.
In fact Beckett's early plays are perhaps the only tragicomedies truly deserving of the title. For Beckett melted together those famously outmoded theatre masks as if to say that life is not happy or sad; life is short and we are dying so let's have a laugh on our way out. Yes, death is nearing always, our prospects are bleak, and our prognoses are bleaker, but we are here. And we must find our amusements along the way, if only to pass the time. Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, and Lucky do a fine job of entertaining themselves and us, in spite of (or perhaps owing to) the tedium of their local situation.
Nodler says, "I was only 27 years old the first time I took a crack at the seminal work of the artist that most profoundly affected the course of my life. I've been waiting 44 years now for my own Godot to arrive. He hasn't of course--it's not his nature--but I felt it might be time to wander around in that particular dark again... to stand unknowing on a country road with barely a rock and a tree and a sky to guide us."
In this special year, an anniversary for The Catastrophic Theatre and an anniversary of the first collaboration between Nodler and Catastrophic associate director Tamarie Cooper the company looks forward and back.
We begin with Beckett because we dearly love to work on his plays and because, if not for his work, we wouldn't be producing plays at all.
We bring back audience favorite, 2010's There Is A Happiness That Morning Is by Mickle Maher, in a very limited run with its original cast.
We present back-to-back original plays, never before seen in Houston or elsewhere: Cooper's Tamarie Cooper is Old as Hell rules the summer. And on its heels is the long awaited premiere of The Pine, also by Maher. We've been talking about this one ever since we received the commission from The MAP Fund.
And we round out the year by reuniting Nodler and Cooper in their original roles of director and actor: Marie and Bruce, perhaps Wallace Shawn's most devastating play and possibly his funniest to boot.
Whether developing new work for the theatre, introducing contemporary playwrights to Houston audiences, or producing the classics of the avant-garde theatre movement that continues today, The Catastrophic Theatre is guided always by Beckett's creed, by this creed:
"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
We cannot think of any better play with which to inaugurate our new theatre.
Samuel Beckett's masterwork stars Greg Dean, Charlie Scott, Kyle Sturdivant, Troy Schulze, and Ty Doran. It opens Friday, March 22, and runs Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through April 13. All performances are at 8 p.m. at The Catastrophic Theatre. All tickets are Pay-What-You-Can.
The Catastrophic Theatre is located at 1119 East Fwy, Houston, TX. Call 713-522-2723 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.


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Requests for International Assistance
47. The Bureau recommended that the Committee approve a request for technical assistance submitted by Yugoslavia for the purchase of computer and photographic equipment and equipment for the restoration of the mural paintings of the Monastery of Studenica, at a total cost of US$51,000.
Concerning that same site, the Bureau asked the Yugoslav authorities to give it their formal assurance that the project to build a dam near the monastery had been abandoned.
Decision Code: CONF 003 V.47
Themes: International Assistance
States Parties (1): Serbia
Properties (1): Studenica Monastery
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Does it make sense for me to buy a Toyota Highlander Hybrid
I need some help with making a choice about a new vehicle. I am a stay at home mom who drives very short distances- about 1,2000 miles every 6 months. I am in need of a new vehicle. I would like to buy the Highlander Hybrid simply because I need the larger vehicle, but want to be green. I can't justify the price difference to my husband, since I use so little gas to begin with. We also looked at some used highlanders, but I'm not sure the mpg on a used 2008, or 2009 would be all that better than a brand new (non-hybrid) highlander.
So here are the options we are looking at- all limiteds with 4wd and discounted through our bank:
Brand new hybrid (if we can even find one this time of year) $47,000
Brand new non-hybrid $36,000
2008 Used hybrid 37,000 miles $36,000
2009 Used hybrid 43,0000 miles $31,000 (doesn't have nav and dvd player which aren't big deals to me) is a certified vehicle with a better warrenty than the 2008.
It looks like the new highlanders get about 17/22 mpg. I know the mpg of the other hybrids when they are new, but I am wondering if that drops some as the vehicles age? Please let me know which vehicle YOU think would be best in this situation and why. I would REALLY appreciate your feedback!


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Cousins, Salmons help Blazers beat Kings 99-80
DeMarcus Cousins had 19 points and 12 rebounds, John Salmons added 19 points and 11 assists, and the Sacramento Kings snapped a six-game road losing streak with a 99-80 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday night.
Aaron Brooks had 14 points for the Kings, who have won three in a row for the first time this season. Francisco Garcia and Jason Thompson added 12 each. All five starters finished in double figures as the Kings overcame a dismal second quarter and steadily pulled away, outscoring Portland by 19 points in the second half.
LaMarcus Aldridge had 17 points and 10 rebounds and J. J. Hickson added 14 points and 15 rebounds for the Trail Blazers. Wesley Matthews scored 14 points, but suffered a left hip contusion and did not finish the game.
Nicolas Batum played for Portland despite dealing with a back strain, but he appeared to be in pain while scoring five points in 17 largely ineffective minutes.
Those injuries may leave the Blazers short-handed as they play the remainder of a five-game homestand. Portland may be forced to recall guard Will Barton and forward Victor Claver from the D-League's Idaho Stampede, where they had been sent on Friday.
Portland was back after a seven-game road trip against Eastern Conference teams. The Blazers went 2-5 on the trip, winning at Charlotte and Cleveland, both in overtime. They lost 99-92 at Indiana on Wednesday.
The Kings were playing on a back-to-back after a 91-82 win Friday over the Orlando and were kicking off a four-game road trip. The 0-6 start to the season was Sacramento's worst road start since going 0-9 on the road to begin the 2007-08 season.
Sacramento dominated despite missing Tyreke Evans, its second-leading scorer and leader in assists, for the fourth time in five games with a sore knee. Salmons was 3 for 4 on 3-pointers and helped catalyze Sacramento's run by making two of the Kings' four 3s to start the second half. Four minutes into the third quarter the Kings were up 10 and Portland never challenged as Batum and Mathews left the game for good.
The Kings led by 12 in the first quarter as Portland committed nine turnovers. The tables turned in the second quarter. Kings scored just 13 points and went through a stretch where they missed 14 of 15 field-goal attempts, allowing the Blazers to pull to 39-38. Thompson's layup broke the dry spell for Sacramento, which went into the break up 43-41.
NOTES: Portland PG Damian Lillard was named Western Conference Rookie of the month for November. Lillard tied an NBA record Saturday by becoming the second player to make a 3-pointer in each of his first 20 games. He tied former Blazer Rudy Fernandez, who did it in 2008. . The Blazers won the first meeting between the teams this season 103-86 at Sacramento. . Former Blazer Travis Outlaw had 11 points off the bench for Sacramento, all in the second half.


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TORONTO - A growing number of Canadian children with chronic illnesses are being treated with complementary medicine, researchers say, but parents don't always tell doctors they are using the alternative therapies.
Yet informing health-care providers about vitamins, herbal and homeopathic remedies is important because in some cases they can adversely interact with traditional medications, the researchers say.
In a survey of parents having their children treated at two Canadian pediatric hospitals, researchers found that alternative medicines and such therapies as massage and chiropractic were commonly used.
At Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, 71 per cent of parents surveyed said they treated their kids with complementary medicine, while 42 per cent of parents attending the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa reported their use.
"Our study found that many, many children use complementary therapies, and unfortunately oftentimes parents do not necessarily disclose this use when they're talking to their child's health-care team," said pediatrician Dr. Sunita Vohra, co-principal author of the study.
The research, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found almost 20 per cent of families surveyed said they had not told their physician or pharmacist about using both prescription and alternative medicines together.
"The reasons for this are probably many and varied," Vohra said from Edmonton. "Sometimes, parents don't feel comfortable bringing it up. Sometimes, they're not sure how that information is going to be received by the health-care team."
And in other cases, parents may not think the information is relevant because they may not consider a herbal remedy, for instance, as being a medicine, she said.
The study involved a total of 926 families at 10 different clinics in Edmonton and Ottawa, with parents asked to fill out an anonymous questionnaire in the waiting room prior to their child's appointment.
The young patients were being seen at clinics in the two hospitals that deal with pediatric cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, oncology and respiratory health conditions.
The most common complementary medicines used were multivitamins or minerals, herbal products and homeopathic remedies, while the most often-used alternative therapies were massage, chiropractic, relaxation and aromatherapy.
Almost half reported using forms of complementary remedies at the same time as being treated by conventional medicine, while about five per cent said they used such alternative therapies instead of standard medicine.
Parents were two to three times more likely to use complementary medicine if their child's health was fair or poor and if the parent used that form of treatment themselves.
The study also found that about 56 per cent of respondents were treating their youngsters with alternative forms of medication at the same time as they were taking prescription drugs.
But such concurrent treatment can be risky: the study found 80 cases of interactions between complementary remedies and traditional drugs, including 19 considered moderately adverse and six that were deemed severe.
Fish oil, for instance, can cause the blood to thin. Combining it with a pharmaceutical blood thinner can result in bleeding, Vohra said.
Echinacea, a herb taken by many people to boost the immune system, can counter the effectiveness of chemotherapy used to treat cancer, she said.
"There's all kinds of medications that can interact and you have to (assess) it on a case-by-case basis," noted CHEO pediatrician Dr. James King, who led the study with Vohra.
"The big thing is if you don't ask about it, you don't know to check, right?" King said from Ottawa.
"And if it's possible that 20 per cent of your patients are coming in and they are on medications and they're not disclosing this (alternative) treatment ... on our side as a profession we need to make sure that we're asking."
Vohra also cautioned that "more is not necessarily better."
"We have seen patients that have gotten into trouble if they expose themselves ... to polypharmacy —the idea of taking many things at the same time," she said. "Even though the things they're taking are natural health products, if you're on a long list of them, I would be careful.
"People make an assumption that natural means safe."
The study also found that more than 60 per cent of parents reported getting information about complementary medicine from "family." Others cited the Internet, health food stores, pharmacies, and books and magazines.
"They get their information from a variety of sources, and when you have a commercial interest, when someone is trying to sell you something, you may not actually be getting an unbiased source of advice," Vohra said.
"So we think it's useful to try to create an opportunity for dialogue where there isn't a sales pitch attached to it," she said, encouraging parents to raise the issue of complementary medicine use with their child's care providers.
King said the study suggests that families want doctors and other health providers to ask about the use of complementary medicine, and they want a reliable source of information about their potential benefits and harms.
"A lot of people are using it," he said. "I think we need to recognize that and we just need to build it into our care plan."