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Topeka (WIBW) - A Topeka man is behind bars, accused of fleeing authorities.
The Shawnee County Sheriff's Office says it was called around 7 pm Wednesday to check the welfare of a person driving to the Topeka area from Fort Riley.
About a half-hour later, an officer found a vehicle matching the description driving erratically near SE Croco and Seward. The officer tried to stop the vehicle, but the driver fled.
Authorities say the pursuit ended about six minutes later, when the driver pulled into a relative's driveway in the 800 block of SE Tecumseh.
The driver, 22-year old Brenton Bacon of Topeka was taken into custody and booked on charges of felony fleeing and eluding, reckless driving, transporting an open container, and other related traffic offenses.


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I just finished watching this movie and I loved it. This is the full movie. Just start watching it.
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the 40 year old virgin
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Jeff who lives at home (with his mom). Jeff also like to smoke weed, and thinks everything in the universe is connected. Jeff would would fit right in with the DT Family. Not only did this movie make me laugh, it also tugged on the heartstrings.
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All of Bud Sagendorfâs covers are brilliant genius, but this sports his greatest of allâone of the classic covers of comics history! And you can judge this comic by its cover⦠Popeye, Wimpy and Sweeâ Pea are the hilarious cast in the rollicking fun comic âOn the House.â The backup feature with Sappo and Watasnozzle has to be seen to be believed for itâs astonishing surrealness! Plus two Popeyeâand one Sweeâ Peaâmini-features. All beautifully reproduced on high-quality paper. Youâll love it! Collect them all!Â
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Of Course Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Hit Mile End While He Was in NYC
It's a French-Canadian bromance.
It's a French-Canadian bromance.
From the Bronx down to Brooklyn, these are the places all pastrami lovers must visit.
Truffle hummus at Claudette, burnt-jalapeño hummus at Empéllon Cocina, and more.
Why do so many chefs refuse to sell burgers during prime-time hours?
With wood-fired baked eggs and Mile End bacon.
Mario Batali is also a presenter.
Did someone say General Tso's poutine?
A roving squad of grandmothers is set to address all your gefilte fish questions.
Hand-rolled, alkalized-water-dipped, wood-fire-baked. It's all coming back.
Plus: Steve Cuozzo likes Contra, and more, in this week's roundup.
Mission Chinese Food, Parm, and Mimi's Hummus at your door.
Plus: City Winery's guitar benefit, and more, in today's Leftovers.
Plus: Bedford + Bowery's Bazaar, and more, in today's Leftovers.
Shalom Japan's "New Year's-style" duck, Mile End's kugel, and more.
Basically the coolest dinner ever is up for auction here.
"When you get punched in the face, there's something that happens inside of your body where nothing else matters."
LA is definitely ready for a Mile End pastrami.
The future of the Jewish deli is at stake. Pass the mustard.
Thanks to the confluence of the New and Improved Jewish Deli Movement and the enduring Barbecue Boom, it's experienced a spike in popularity of almost pork-belly proportions.


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Anthony Quinn Dies at 86; Played Earthy Tough Guys
Published: June 4, 2001
Anthony Quinn, whose six-decade acting career established the enduring image of a joyful primitive with a fierce passion for life, died yesterday at a Boston hospital. He was 86 and lived in Bristol, R.I., near Providence.
The cause was respiratory failure, said a hospital spokeswoman.
Although he appeared in perhaps 130 movies, Mr. Quinn was probably best known for the title role in Michael Cacoyannis's 1964 film, ''Zorba the Greek.'' Mr. Quinn's Zorba is an earthy peasant of indeterminate age and occupation whose philosophy is that ''a man needs a little madness'' or else ''he never dares cut the rope and be free.'' Zorba charms an elderly former prostitute, giving her the tenderness she craves before her death. He defends a young widow attacked by her neighbors for having an affair. And he shows an overly intellectual Englishman (Alan Bates) how to dance and to live.
If some critics accused Mr. Quinn of playing the same character under different names for decades, even of coming to believe that he was Zorba, the life force personified, he did it convincingly. When a musical version of ''Zorba'' opened on Broadway in 1968 with Herschel Bernardi in the title role, it quickly closed. In 1982, at age 67, Mr. Quinn revived the musical and took it on a triumphant national tour for four years, with a stop on Broadway in 1983.
Benedict Nightingale, reviewing Mr. Quinn's performance for The New York Times, noted that he really could neither sing nor dance, but ''he has his moments, plenty of them,'' and ''that lordly, grizzled charisma is undiminished throughout.''
In the decade before ''Zorba,'' Mr. Quinn, who had been acting in films since the 1930's, twice won the Academy Award as best supporting actor. He was given the 1952 Oscar for Elia Kazan's ''Viva Zapata!,'' in which he played the dissolute brother of the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, played by Marlon Brando. Four years later he received the award again for his performance as an intense Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's ''Lust for Life,'' opposite Kirk Douglas's wan Vincent van Gogh. Mr. Quinn was nominated for the best-actor Oscar for ''Zorba,'' but lost that year to Rex Harrison in ''My Fair Lady.''
Mr. Quinn achieved another memorable success in 1954 when he agreed to appear in a young Italian director's third film. The director was Federico Fellini, and the film was ''La Strada,'' in which Mr. Quinn played a sideshow strongman. Mr. Quinn received an acting award at the Venice Film Festival, and when ''La Strada'' was released in the United States, it won the Academy Award for best foreign film.
Anthony Rudolph Oaxaca Quinn was born on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico. His mother, Manuela, took him across the border to El Paso, Tex., when he was an infant. His father, Francisco, who had fought with Pancho Villa's forces, joined them, and the family soon moved to California. After some years as migrant farm workers, the Quinns settled in Los Angeles, where Francisco found work as a grip, camera operator and animal handler in the movie industry. He died in a car accident when Anthony was a boy.
Anthony Quinn tried a number of colorful careers. He has recalled working for the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson as a musician and street preacher. He was a boxer. He studied for the priesthood. He was an aspiring architect, advised by Frank Lloyd Wright to improve his speech because of the importance of communication in that profession.
With that goal in mind, Mr. Quinn took acting lessons. He joined a small theater troupe and was cast, at the age of 21, in Mae West's play ''Clean Beds.'' His character was based on the actor John Barrymore, and when Barrymore saw the play, he was so impressed that the two men became close friends, and Mr. Quinn was introduced to a whole new circle of actors, artists and writers.
''I think I'm lucky,'' Mr. Quinn once said. ''I was born with very little talent but great drive.''
Drive won him his first movie role, a nonspeaking part in 1936 as a convict in ''Parole,'' and his first speaking part, as a Cheyenne warrior in Cecil B. DeMille's ''Plainsman'' later that year. During the 1930's and 40's, he appeared in dozens of films, usually in bit parts as an ethnic lout or outlaw. The film historian David Thomson said that Mr. Quinn was cast in parts in which he ''dutifully let every Paramount white man slug him.''
Mr. Quinn, whose parents were Mexican-Indian and Mexican-Irish, was sometimes cast as a Mexican, but Hollywood seemed to consider his looks ideal to represent almost every ethnicity. He played a Filipino soldier (''Back to Bataan''), a Libyan guerrilla (''Lion of the Desert''), a Spanish matador (''Blood and Sand''), various American Indians, pirates (''The Black Swan,'' among others), a Chinese warrior (''China Sky''), an Algerian peasant (''Lost Command''), a Basque guide (''The Passage''), a Colombian bandit (''High Risk'') and a long list of Italians and Italian-Americans.
Even after his success in ''Zapata'' and ''Zorba,'' he continued to be cast in exotic or ethnic roles, only then the characters were more likely to be noble, like the Eskimo in ''The Savage Innocents'' and the Russian pope in ''The Shoes of the Fisherman.''


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Nursing PhilosophyPhilosophy is the "search for reality and truth" (GoNursingSchools.com, 2009). Nursing philosophy "examines the relationship between truth and principles in nursing" (GoNursingSchools.com, 2009). By examining these truths and ideals helps form the framework for nursing practice. This framework guides nurses by providing them with guidelines on how to provide care. Nursing philosophies can be personal or universal. Personal philosophies belong "specifically to the nurse and reflect the nurse's values, logic, morals, and ethics" (GoNursingSchools.com, 2009). Universal philosophies "usually belong to groups, organizations, universities, hospitals, or nursing organizations" (GoNursingSchools.com, 2009). Nursing philosophy is "dynamic, therefore it changes over time" (GoNursingSchools.com, 2009). It is influenced by what is occurring at the time. Different nursing philosophies have been created over time.
"Philosophy is not science, and nursing philosophy is not nursing science" (Silva, 2006). Silva (2006) explains that philosophy is the foundation of science, and nursing philosophy is the foundation of both nursing science and nursing research. It is a concept derived from a nurse's personal experience in collaboration with a nurse knowledge gained from scholarly research. Nursing research includes the assumptions about human beings, variables of the discipline, and the research method (Silva, 2006). All research must be ethical, regardless of quantitative or qualitative the analysis.
Further directions nurses should take are:
(a) Nurses need greater knowledge about and appreciation for the discipline of philosophy (Silva, 2006);
(b) Nurse researchers must interact regularly with nurse philosophers to grasp more fully that a philosophy of nursing provides a foundation for nursing science and other nursing knowledge (Silva, 2006);
(c) Nurses must commit themselves in greater numbers to philosophical inquiry as a legitimate method of obtaining nursing knowledge (Silva, 2006); and
(d) Nurses must prepare themselves for the blurring of distinct disciplinary boundaries as more interdisciplinary fields emerge (Silva, 2006).
Florence Nightingale
There are many people that have contributed to the growth of the nursing philosophy over the years. One of these well-known individuals is Florence Nightingale, a woman who greatly influenced nursing in the 1800's and early nineteenth century.
Nightingale was considered the founder of modern nursing, and spear headed the movement to improve the standards of nursing care in her time (Potter & Perry, 2009). Nightingale was a well educated young woman and moved to Germany against her family's wishes in order to gain knowledge and practice nursing (Potter & Perry, 2009). From there she went to work in France with the nuns in the French nursing order, and then to Harley Street Hospital in London where she became the superintendent and developed nursing services there (Potter & Perry, 2009). In 1854 Nightingale was asked to lead a group of nurses to Crimea to help the British soldiers (Potter & Perry, 2009). Nightingale visited many hospitals and gained a lot of knowledge about the current care provided by nurses. In the early 1800's, hospitals were dirty and health care was not provided in the comforting and caring manor that it is today. Nurses were not admired and were often considered unclean and disrespected individuals but Nightingale was determined to change that. In her nursing practice she applied principles of cleanliness, comfort and care, ultimately changing the way nurses all over the world practiced (Pottery & Perry, 2009). Florence Nightingale is an admired woman and has had a major influence of the philosophy of nurses throughout history.
Jean Watson
Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing was first published in 1979 as "The philosophy and science of caring." (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009) Like the title suggests, her philosophy of nursing is based on the science of caring. Watson's philosophy of nursing is based on her seven assumptions about the science of caring, which are:
- Caring can be effectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonally. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
- Caring consists of carative factors that result in the satisfaction of certain human needs. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
- Effective caring promotes health and individual or family growth. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
- Caring responses accept person not only as he or she is now but as what he or she may become. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
- A caring environment is one that offers the development of potential while allowing the person to choose the best action for himself or herself at a given point in time. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
- Caring is more " healthogenic" than is curing. A science of caring is complementary to the science of curing. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
- The practice of caring is central to nursing. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
Watson's philosophy of caring is her ten carative factors. These factors can be seen as guidelines for nurses who are dealing with patients because they form a structure for caring and assisting the patient in the most caring way possible. Watson's 10 carative factors are:
1. The formation of a humanistic- altruistic system of values. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
2. The installation of faith-hope. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
3. The cultivation of sensitivity to one's self and to others. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
4. The development of a helping-trust relationship. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
5. The promotion and acceptance of the expression of positive and negative feelings. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
6. The systematic use of the scientific problem-solving method for decision making. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
7. The promotion of interpersonal teaching-learning. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
8. The provision for a supportive, protective and /or corrective mental, physical, socio-cultural and spiritual environment. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
9. Assistance with the gratification of human needs. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
10. The allowance for existential-phenomenological forces. (Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing, 2009)
GoNursingSchools.com. (2009). Nursing Philosophy. Retrieved December 7, 2009, from http://www.gonursingschools.com/Nursing_Philosophy.htm
Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing. (2009). Current Nursing. Retrieved December 10, 2009, from http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Watson.htm
Nursing Philosophy [Online Image]. (2009). Retrieved December 7, 2009, from GoNursingSchools.com. http://www.gonursingschools.com/Nursing_Philosophy.htm
Potter, P., & Perry, A. (2009). Canadian fundamentals of nursing (J. C. Ross-Kerr & M.J. Wood, Eds.) (3rd ed.). Toronto: Mosby Inc.
Silva, M., (2006) Ethics of Research: Philosophy of Nursing. Amherst, MA: Springer Publishing Company 2006


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More than 150 fishermen and indigenous people have ended their occupation of one of four construction sites for Brazil's controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon, the lawyer for a group opposing the project said Friday.
"After a meeting between indigenous leaders, fishermen's representatives and the management of the Norte Energia consortium in the charge of the construction, the occupation of the Pimental site ended late Thursday," said Maira Irigaray, an attorney for the US non-governmental organization Amazon Watch.
"There will be a bargaining round on April 3 between Norte Energia and the indigenous people followed the next day by one with the fishermen and area residents in Altamira," the town closest to the dam in the northern Amazon state of Para, she said.
Irigaray, who works with the "Xingu Vivo" movement that is spearheading opposition to the dam's construction, said the occupation, which began Thursday, was the sixth such protest at the site since last June.
Protesters accuse Norte Energia of backtracking on accords signed in June after 150 indigenous people occupied the Pimental area for three weeks.
They complain that fishing in the area is no longer possible and there is no drinking water.
Belo Monte, which is being built at a cost of $13 billion, is expected to flood an area of 500 square kilometers (200 square miles) along the Xingu River, displacing 16,000 people, according to the government.
Some NGOs have estimated that some 40,000 people would be displaced by the massive project.
The dam, expected to produce 11,000 megawatts of electricity, would be the third-biggest in the world, after China's Three Gorges facility and Brazil's Itaipu dam in the south.
Indigenous groups say the dam will harm their way of life while environmentalists warn of deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions and irreparable damage to the ecosystem.
Norte Energia said in June that some 17 socio-economic and environmental projects worth $117 million had already been launched in the region.
The federal government plans to invest a total of $1.2 billion to assist the displaced by the time the dam is completed in 2019.
The native peoples want their lands demarcated and non-indigenous people removed from them. They also are demanding better health care and access to drinking water.


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Unchained Blades hitting eShop and PSN this spring
Xseed has announced Unchained Blades will be released digitally on PSP and 3DS this spring through PSN and Nintendo's eShop. The firm announced last month the game would be fully localized and contain English voice overs. That's something else to look forward to, then. Thanks, Siliconera.
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A chance conversation at an ancient shrine in East Java helped me understand Indonesia's tradition of religious pluralism—and the Islamic puritanism that now threatens it. I had traveled with a friend to the ruined fourteenth-century temple complex of Panataran, at the foot of the still-active volcano known as Gunung Kelud. Panataran is a remnant of Indonesia's pre-Islamic past—on its carved walls appear writhing monkey-gods in combat with demons from the Hindu Ramayana epic—but most Javanese Muslims today regard this place as part of their own heritage. Panataran was part of Majapahit, an empire based on the island of Java that extended from Sumatra to New Guinea. Majapahit combined the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism with local animistic faiths. Although eventually overwhelmed by Muslim conquerors in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Majapahit is still remembered with pride by the people of Java, who consider it a precursor to modern Indonesia.
On the stone floor of one of the shrines at Panataran, a young woman sat alone, apparently absorbed in prayer or meditation. I wondered to whom she was praying. Two hours after we arrived, a sudden storm forced me and my friend to take shelter under a makeshift plastic awning; soon others joined us. "Do you recognize her?" my friend asked me, as he nodded at one of the newcomers: it was the young woman we'd seen in the shrine.
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As college football prepares to crown another national champion amid pleas that it finally adopt a playoff system, the PGA Tour did just that and still hasn't gotten much love. Too complicated. Too many postseason qualifiers. Not enough reward for those who excel during the regular season. Imagine the reaction if the tour had come up with a system everyone liked. Would Sgt. Pernice and the Soapbox Police work up a lather in times of such hypothetical harmony?
Let us also consider the possibility that the tour did get it right, critics be scammed. At the very least, we should accept the FedEx Cup and its four-tournament playoff series as a substantial upgrade from the previous competitive format. Instead of using a money list as the primary measure of performance, players will accumulate points on a weekly basis, with the top 144 advancing to what serves as the game's first authentic attempt to identify a season-long champ.
If the field seems oversized, the tour's motives have been prioritized. "You almost have to look at our playoff as one giant tournament," said Davis Love III.
Remember the Fall Finish? Didn't think so. One could see professional golf sliding toward the same unsavory scenario as pro tennis with its old scheduling structure: Four major championships, three of them held during the warm-weather months, followed by a string of meaningless events to cap a season far too long and devoid of a crescendo. Every autumn story line involved money, a tacky hook best left for game shows and people who work for a living.
"If the NFL played 40 weeks a year, people would get sick of that, too," reasons U.S. Open champ Geoff Ogilvy, a transplanted Australian whose view of American football might be affected by the fact he lives in Arizona.
Speaking of cardinal sins, let's not get carried away in comparing the '07 tour to its ancestors -- anyone from Bart to Anita Bryant can see that it's apples and lemons. "If you're not going forward, you're going backward," said commissioner Tim Finchem, whose aversion to neutrality, with all due respect to his favorite courier, didn't exactly arrive overnight. On the eve of 2007, the tour's goal is clearly defined: to reclaim the momentum it took into this century, when rising TV ratings made it easy to do business with the networks, which generated huge increases in prize money without scaring off title sponsors, whose commitments come with fiscal obligations at every corner of the cash-flow triangle.
The tour isn't about to admit it anytime soon, but the TV deal it completed last winter was full of compromise and concession. Three valuable partners (ABC, ESPN, USA) didn't return, which cleared a wide path for the Golf Channel, whose interest necessitated a long-term agreement and, in effect, hid some of the tour's financial scarring. This concludes our history lesson. It also goes a long way toward explaining the birth of a revamped, condensed, bottom-heavy schedule.
Basically, the FedEx Cup was the bait on Finchem's hook when he went casting for a new television contract in late 2005. Tiger Woods and a bag full of minnows weren't going to catch many fish. The commissioner needed to revise the competitive program to entice the networks and keep the tour's business from heading south. Despite the obvious commercial connotations, however, the FedEx Cup isn't a concept that requires an enormous amount of ideological justification.
If the old season had become outdated, this was an idea whose time had come, although you probably could have said that a decade ago. "We've talked about it since the second year I was here," said vice president Ken Lovell, who joined the PGA Tour in January 2000. "There was a lot of post-5-o'clock conversation regarding that actual theme. If you could do anything to produce the most exciting golf product, what would it be?"
We've got an answer. The New Tour is a three-year collaboration of ideas from Finchem and his vast roster of VPs. Under the direction of chief marketing officer Tom Wade, Lovell was responsible for creating a mathematical formula that would reward but not discriminate -- numerical values reflective of the difference between balance and fairness. A ton of guys will enter the playoffs with a chance to win the whole shooting match, but 80 to 90 percent of them will be armed with butter knives.
"There isn't going to be a high incidence of the 74th seed becoming the overall champion," said tour senior VP Bob Combs. "It might happen once in a lifetime, and it will be a great story if it does."
"There is an edge [similar to] a home-field advantage in team sports. If the New York Yankees win 115 games, 20 more than any other team, they will start over. That's what playoffs are all about."
-- PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem
Still, it's golf, a game with a higher random variable than any sport. Home of the bad hop, unforeseen flop and Ben Curtis. "The unknown is a scary thing," admitted Lovell. "This is the best we can do without actually playing it. I guarantee you something crazy will happen the first year. There will always be flukes, but the system needs to be credible and it has to be exciting for the fans. It can be hard to accomplish those two things at the same time."
Changes as sweeping as those applied by the FedEx Cup were sure to be met with dissent, especially in a game so cognizant of its roots. When the majority of your middle class straddles $1 million in annual earnings, a man doesn't put on a different color of socks without thinking long and hard about it. In general, player reaction has been cautiously upbeat. Never has the wait-and-see viewpoint gotten more airtime.
For every Tom Pernice Jr. -- who blithely assailed Finchem and ranted about a lack of player input on FedEx details at last month's Tour Championship -- there are dozens of tour pros with questions of all shapes and sizes. Most have nothing to do with the playoff, per se; they instead concern the points-distribution process in the 7½ months leading into the postseason or the heavy stretch of can't-miss tournaments from the British Open (mid-July) to the Tour Championship (mid-September).
Without further adieu, let the hand-wringing begin. "Nine tournaments in 11 weeks is a lot of golf," said Ernie Els, whose stretch of six consecutive weeks of tournament golf in 2004 ended with a final-round 80 at the U.S. Open -- he had begun the day two strokes off the lead. "I'm committed to this, but until you get into a stretch like that, it's difficult to know how you'll feel."
Jim Furyk might be the tour's biggest advocate among top-tier players, but he isn't bashful about voicing his thoughts on what he considers FedEx faults. "The devaluing of the major championships is a real sore spot with me," Furyk said of a formula that awards 25,000 points to regular tour events, 26,250 for WGC tournaments, and 27,500 at majors and the Players. "Why wouldn't a major be worth 37,500? They should come with a lot more than a 10-percent increase."
You may not like the tour's response, but it has one: Golf's four biggest tournaments already carry immense cachet and value. In determining its annual winner, the tour felt that inflating point totals at the majors would have too much impact on the standings and thus, undermine its own purpose. "You can easily argue that winning a major comes with enough perks already," Ogilvy said. "Should I have gotten even more than I've gotten for winning the U.S. Open?"
This is probably an excellent time to address one of the media's saucier gripes -- that the FedEx Cup is nothing more than a jealous attempt to divert attention from the majors. The tour can't stand the fact it holds no jurisdiction over the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open or PGA, or so the thinking goes. However true that theory may be, it doesn't discredit the need for a season-long points race and playoff series. The '07 format makes more sense than the '06 format. One needn't go any deeper than that.
Still, we owe somebody from Ponte Vedra Beach the microphone. "We've been clear from the beginning that this isn't about out-majoring the majors," Combs said. "They are unique and special and historic within the culture of our game. Nothing can or is intended to alter that fact." In a perfect world, the FedEx Cup would be thought of as one colossal tournament -- Love's early assessment fully expanded -- that builds to a heated, sensible climax in the final month. "This is a 37-week competition," said George Burger, who joined the tour 14 months ago after a 25-year career in Washington as a political corporate campaign manager and consultant. "We want this to become a significant measure of the best players of all time."
As Finchem's VP of special projects, one of Burger's tasks is to resolve marketing and branding issues between FedEx -- which invested a hefty percentage of its advertising budget to spray its logo all over every tour event -- and the tour's existing title sponsors. Unlike a lot of folks with a history on Capitol Hill, Burger is unpretentious and ultrareasonable. His presence, along with that of former LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw, personifies the growing notion that a man doesn't need to keep a framed portrait of Deane Beman on his nightstand to work for Camp Ponte Vedra.
This is a less arrogant, more responsive PGA Tour. It has accepted the responsibility of knowing there will be criticism of its new format -- some of it scattershot, some of it valid. It has taken a proactive role in educating the media on the FedEx Cup, and while there's an obvious promotional value in those relations, it's still positive communication. Most significantly, the tour has gone out of its way to stress a willingness to make changes to the FedEx format, be they on the fly or after 19 gatherings of a subcommittee.
What's more, the players are being heard. Less than two weeks after Pernice sounded off on the silliness of having 144 guys compete in three postseason events, the tour policy board voted to cut the field to 120 after the New York event, 70 after Boston and 30 after Chicago. Such a reduction legitimizes the "playoff" theme and makes it easier for the public to understand what's going on. It also means Pernice is likely to remain quiet through the holidays.
Once the 30 finalists convene at East Lake, there are format-related issues that could create an awkward scene Sunday afternoon. The Tour Championship is the highest-valued tournament of the season in terms of points per man, but it's very possible the annual FedEx Cup champion won't be the same guy who wins the event. Won't that seem a little weird? Is NBC, which will televise the last three playoff gatherings, capable of providing the competitive context necessary to tell its audience that Woods, who finished his round 90 minutes ago, just clinched the FedEx Cup because Trevor Immelman missed a four-footer at the 15th, meaning Tiger can finish no worse than a tie for seventh at East Lake? We're talking about a network that lost Phil Mickelson in the trees on the 72nd hole of the U.S. Open.
The unknown is a scary thing, especially when it's five or six million viewers who are clueless. "The commissioner has said on several occasions that we may have to revisit some things," Burger said. "I look at this as various constituencies trying to make it as good as we can before we get started."
Finchem is by nature a rigid man, but at a FedEx briefing in November, he addressed concerns about the format in language that didn't require six trips to the dictionary. He even whipped out a nifty analogy to explain the thinking behind the postseason "reshuffle" -- every player is given a fixed point total based on regular-season performance heading into the playoffs. At first glance, the difference between the No. 1 seed (100,000 points) and No. 30 (93,250) seems incredulously small. Even if No. 1 finishes 10th in New York, No. 30 jumps ahead of him with a victory.
The commissioner can feel your bewilderment. "If a player performs at an exceedingly high level during the regular season and basically has to start over, is that fair?" Finchem said. "Actually, they're not starting over -- there is an edge [similar to] a home-field advantage in team sports. If the New York Yankees win 115 games, 20 more than any other team, they will start over. That's what playoffs are all about."
Lovell admitted the FedEx formula doesn't make a terrific first impression. "On the surface, it looks like it has problems," he said. "The more you look at it, the more you realize there is no math issue." Dozens of single-season projection models prove that anyone outside the top 30 heading into the playoffs has an infinitesimal chance of winning the grand prize. The odds that a FedEx champ will come from outside the top 15 are extremely slim, and as long as Tiger Woods is around, those odds aren't going to gain much weight.
This format will showcase the game's best players, and the regular season definitely matters. "We didn't want someone who finishes 20th in 20 tournaments to win this thing," Lovell adds. "People say, 'You mean to tell me a guy who finishes 69th during the regular season can win it all?' The answer is yes, but everyone ahead of him has to miss a bunch of [postseason] cuts."
One of the final pieces to the FedEx puzzle was the method of postseason payment. Players obviously will continue to collect checks for every cut made during the regular season and in the playoffs. It took the better part of a year, however, for the tour to decide how to distribute the $35 million in annual FedEx Cup prize money, which basically amounts to a bonus pool. Cash? Retirement credit? A combination of the two?
The matter snowballed into a conflict at a players' meeting in October when Brett Quigley, unhappy with the direction of the discussion, left the room. "I don't want to say you don't have a choice, but you don't have a choice," said Quigley, who prefers not to wait 30 years for compensation. "What about if you wake up one day and decide to walk away from the game? What about if you're building a house? If you want to give some money to your church?"
After months of FedEx-related rulings that almost pandered to the tour's middle class, the rank and file were defeated. Payments will be fully deferred. "Every financial analyst in the country would tell you we'd be crazy not to do it that way," Furyk said. "This is only in our best interests."
What couldn't wait was a renovation to the competitive situation. Player input was solicited and a lot of interesting suggestions were heard. At the 84 Lumber Classic in 2005, Phil Mickelson proposed that 18 existing events be designated as "mandatory," with points awarded Grand Prix-style. By then, however, Finchem and his fleet of VPs had committed to moving three major-market events to the end of the summer (Boston's Deutsche Bank Championship already resides on Labor Day weekend).
For 33 weeks from January to mid-August, players will continue to make a splendid living while positioning themselves for a showdown that would turn November's question mark into September's exclamation point. It's not an original concept, and it may not succeed in achieving its most crucial purposes, but it is a new beginning with a very different end.
So sit back and enjoy the ride, even if no one knows where we're going. As Carl Spackler said in "Caddyshack," the heavy stuff won't be coming down for a while. "We've got a lot of people we need to make happy with this," Lovell said. "We want to give the media something to write about. The players obviously have to be happy. Our sponsors, people who go to our tournaments and the ones who watch on TV Everyone has an opinion. It doesn't take long to realize you can't make everyone happy."
You can try, however. On the eve of the 2007 season, that qualifies as news.
John Hawkins is a senior writer for Golf World magazine


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Donald Trump's convention isn't giving business leaders any confidence in his presidency. The itinerary of extravagant receptions and swag-filled hospitality tents that normally make conventions a boozy junket for delegates and DC inhabitants alike have a different feel this time around. (Quartz)
Hillary, Me and the Digital Divide. On Dec. 23, 2009, Hillary Clinton, who was then secretary of state, sent an email on her private server to her aide Huma Abedin asking how to switch her home phone to fax mode. In the long chain that followed, Ms. Abedin explained, more than once: "Just pick up phone and hang it up. And leave it hung up." (New York Times)
Many in tech squarely behind Clinton on eve of DNC. When the Democratic National Convention convenes in Philadelphia on Monday, it can count on one constituency: Silicon Valley. (USA Today)
Hillary Clinton is launching a game-style mobile app for campaign volunteers. A team of technology veterans has built an app for the Hillary Clinton campaign that lets volunteers get most of the benefits of being in a campaign field office straight from their smartphone. (Recode)
If it doesn't already, Silicon Valley will probably learn to really like Tim Kaine. Hillary Clinton went with a pretty vanilla choice for her running mate: Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia. (Recode)
Tech giants silent on new Russian surveillance law. U.S.-based tech giants appear set to silently ignore new Russian laws requiring them to hand over encryption keys for internet communications to state security agencies, those tracking the issue tell FedScoop. (FedScoop)
Global Trade
New VP pick Kaine getting in line in opposition to Pacific trade deal. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine and Hillary Clinton once held very similar views on international trade deals — President Obama's signature Trans-Pacific Partnership proposal in particular. They liked the idea. (Washington Post)
Tim Kaine changes course on TPP after VP nod. The Democrats' vice presidential candidate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, is reversing course on his support for the controversial Trans Pacific. Partnership (TPP) a day after Hillary Clinton announced him as her running mate. (CBS News)
Progressive group changes tone on Kaine. A group that criticized Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as not being progressive enough is quickly warming up to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's new running mate after he opposed a controversial trade deal and publicly backed debt-free college. (The Hill)
Clinton-Kaine ticket rattles TPP opponents. Tim Kaine jokes he's the "boring" pick for vice president, but Hillary Clinton's choice of the first-term Virginia senator as her running mate has liberal opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership excited — and not in a good way. (Politico)
Donald Trump's Trade Policy Will Put These Companies Out to Sea. Donald Trump's acceptance speech last night at the Republican National Convention saw him doubling down on his primary messages of fear, division, and populism, likely further alienating him from large swaths of the electorate, including business leaders on Main Street and Wall Street. (Forbes)
Trump vows to overhaul 'horrible' trade deals. Donald Trump will vow to overhaul the nation's trade policy and pull the United States out of unacceptable global trade agreements during remarks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Thursday night. (The Hill)
FCC chief pushes phone companies to offer free robocall blocking. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Friday told phone companies that they should start providing free technology for their customers to block robocalls and spam texts. (The Hill)
U.S. asks phone companies to provide 'robocall' blocking technology. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Friday pressed major U.S. phone companies to take immediate steps to make technology that blocks unwanted automated calls available to consumers at no charge. (Reuters)
Snowden designs phone case to spot hack attacks. A smartphone case that tells its owner when their phone has been hacked is being designed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. (BBC News)
iOS flaw lets hackers access iPhones using an iMessage. A flaw in the way Apple software handles images allows hackers to take over an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac or Apple TV with a simple iMessage or email. (The Guardian)
Microsoft's president explains the company's quiet legal war for user privacy. Apple's legal battle over encryption dominated headlines earlier this year, but another tech giant is fighting a quieter legal war over user privacy: Microsoft. (Washington Post)
Edward Snowden designs phone case to show when data is being monitored. Edward Snowden has helped design a mobile phone case called the "introspection engine" that, he claims, will show when a smartphone is transmitting information that could be monitored. (The Guardian)
Apple's Touch ID blocks feds—armed with warrant—from unlocking iPhone. A Dallas, Texas man accused of prostituting underage girls was secretly ordered by a federal judge to unlock his iPhone using his fingerprint, according to federal court documents that are now unsealed. (Ars Technica)
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US copyright law faces legal challenge. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is attempting to overturn parts of US copyright law which, it says, are unconstitutional. (BBC News)
House Republicans' surprising new proposal to tax corporations. House Republicans have quietly, and radically, revised their approach to international tax reform. (Politico Pro)
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Testing Sites for Self-Driving Cars Become a Priority. Spurred by the fatal crash of a driver operating his Tesla Motors car in Autopilot mode, lawmakers and car executives are urging the Transportation Department to intensify the testing of self-driving vehicles. (New York Times)
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Digital Counties Survey 2016: Winners Make Collaboration, Innovation, Civic Engagement Top Priorities. The results of the 14th Annual Digital Counties Survey are in and that means two things: a new batch of winners after which other counties can model their own digital projects, and new data on the latest trends and forecasts in the gov tech sector. (GovTech)
University of Pittsburgh's Innovation Institute Helps Launch 13 Startups. The University of Pittsburgh's startup company engine kicked into overdrive with record licensing revenue and number of patents awarded during the past year. (GovTech)
A $5.8B argument for better IT management. For more than a year, agency CIOs, Office of Management and Budget staffers and other federal IT experts have been working with top corporate tech executives to hash out a taxonomy and metrics for managing IT spend. (FCW)
IT COST report is 'decision engine' for federal CIOs. The Commission on IT Cost, Opportunity, Strategy and Transparency (COST) unveiled what could be a "decision engine" for agency chief information officers. (Federal News Radio)
Democratic VP contender has a BRAC plan. One of the top candidates to join Hilary Clinton's ticket for the vice president spot is advocating for the Defense Department to take a bolder approach to base realignment and closure. (Federal News Radio)
A Makeover for Stodgy Federal Agencies. Every now and then, the Dow Jones Industrial Average replaces a company in its listings because the business no longer reflects the nature of the economy. (Wall Street Journal)
DHS wants your research on mobile threats. The Department of Homeland Security is looking to the private sector to help improve federal mobile security, according to a new solicitation. (FedScoop)
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EPA planning $200M agile contract. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning a $200 million contracting vehicle dedicated to agile services. (FedScoop)
Heads up, developers: U.S. DOT wants an address crowdsourcing app. The Transportation Department plans to launch a challenge soon asking developers to create a crowdsourcing application for American citizens to report addresses with geolocations, an official told FedScoop Friday. (StateScoop)
Texas telehealth advocates push draft bill to lift tech restrictions. A group of doctors and telehealth companies are now pressing for a legislative solution to a legal battle in Texas over rules governing how physicians can use technology to treat patients. (StateScoop)
How cities can strike smarter deals with private broadband network providers. As localities increasingly look to partner with the private sector to build municipal broadband networks, leaders need ensure they maintain some semblance of control over the infrastructure in order to stave off unwelcome changes, a new report urges. (StateScoop)
Making The Cloud Green: Tech Firms Push For Renewable Energy Sources. At Green House Data in Cheyenne, Wyo., energy efficiency is an obsession. (NPR)
Experimental Plane Sets Off On Final Leg Of Its Round-The-World Journey. Solar Impulse 2 is about to complete the first round-the-world flight by a plane powered only by the sun. It took off from Cairo on Sunday and is now en route to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where the journey began. (NPR)
Water Out of the Tailpipe: A New Class of Electric Car Gains Traction. Steve Manning, a financial consultant in Southern California, liked the idea of driving a car that would go easy on the environment. (New York Times)
Facebook says it's not negating 'great talent'. Under fire for remarks that insinuated it could not hire more women and minorities because of a dearth of qualified candidates, Facebook says it's not negating "the great talent that exists in the software engineering space." (USA Today)
Tech Business
Verizon to Pay $4.8 Billion for Yahoo's Core Business. Yahoo was the front door to the web for an early generation of internet users, and its services still attract a billion visitors a month. (New York Times)
Verizon Is Said to Be Near a Deal to Acquire Yahoo. The end of Yahoo as an independent company may be near, and Verizon — long considered the leading contender to buy the aging web pioneer — is the most likely acquirer. (New York Times)
Verizon 'agrees $5bn Yahoo deal'. US telecoms giant Verizon Communications is to buy Yahoo's search and advertising operations for $5bn (£3.8bn), according to media reports. (BBC News)
Tech Giants Boast an Edge in Music Streaming. How many companies can survive in the high-cost music-streaming business? Plenty, it appears—as long as music isn't their main source of revenue. (Wall Street Journal)
They Promised Us Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit. Project Foghorn is one of those straight-from-science-fiction concepts we've come to expect from Alphabet, the sprawling conglomerate formerly known as Google. (New York Times)
Despite Roadblocks for Tesla, Elon Musk Is Moving Full Speed Ahead. Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors, sat in a glass-walled conference room here last week in the company's auto factory. Around him, workers and robots were building the $70,000 luxury vehicles that have redefined how people think about electric cars. (New York Times)
7-Eleven just made the first commercial delivery by drone. You may soon be able to order a Slurpee without having to leave your home. Drone startup Flirtey recently partnered with convenience store chain 7-Eleven to make the first commercial delivery to a private residence in Reno, Nevada earlier this month. (The Verge)
China seeks top-10 automation ranking by 2020: robot industry group. China is aiming for a top-10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) said. (Reuters)
Most Wanted: San Francisco flyers name and shame Airbnb hosts. San Francisco's gentrification wars have long fostered a certain element willing to make the debate over affordable housing extremely personal. (The Guardian)
In China, a Robot's Place Is in the Kitchen. Wang Peixin has seen the future, and he's sure it features robots serving up fried dumplings. (Wall Street Journal)
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Published: Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:13 a.m.
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San Diego State, La-Lafayette meet in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — San Diego State will face Louisiana-Lafayette in the New Orleans Bowl on Dec. 17 at the Superdome.
Louisiana-Lafayette will be making just its third bowl appearance in program history and first in 41 years. The Ragin' Cajuns have an 8-4 overall and finished third in the Sun Belt with a 6-2 record under first-year coach Mark Hudspeth.
Louisiana-Lafayette averaged more than 32 points per game this season, led by quarterback Blake Gautier, who threw for 2,488 yards, 20 touchdowns and five interceptions. The Ragin' Cajuns started with a 6-1 record, but lost three of their past five games, including the past two to Arkansas State and Arizona.
Louisiana-Lafayette has known about its bowl destination for nearly two weeks, but didn't know its opponent until Sunday night.
San Diego State finished with an 8-4 regular season, including a 4-3 record in the Mountain West Conference. Aztecs' running back Ronnie Hillman led the Mountain West with 1,656 rushing yards, averaging 138 yards per game.
It's the first time San Diego State has played in back-to-back bowl games and will be the first-ever meeting between the two programs. San Diego State beat Navy last season in the Poinsettia Bowl for its first bowl victory since 1969. The Aztecs have a 7-1 record all-time against teams from the Sun Belt.
No BCS for TCU; Horned Frogs to Poinsettia Bowl to play La. Tech
SAN DIEGO — TCU had been hoping for a berth in the Sugar Bowl, which would have been the Horned Frogs' third straight trip to a BCS game.
Instead, they'll have to settle for the consolation prize of another trip to San Diego.
"We're obviously disappointed after we had the opportunity to be in BCS games the last couple of years," coach Gary Patterson said after the No. 16 Horned Frogs accepted an invitation to play Louisiana Tech in the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 21.
The Mountain West Conference champion Horned Frogs (10-2) needed to move into the top 16 in the final BCS standings on Sunday to earn an automatic bid.
TCU remained No. 18 in the BCS standings.
"In the three polls we're 15, 15 and 17, but in the BCS we were 18. Figure that out," Patterson said. "But I've got a lot more important things to do than to worry about that with the polls. All I know is this: They gave us an opportunity the last two years; we earned our part. We went to the Fiesta Bowl and Rose Bowl and we were 1-1, and there's a whole bunch of schools that have never been to any of those.
"Are we disappointed we didn't get where we wanted to? Well, it's our own fault. There's nobody to blame but TCU because we had two losses. If we had one loss, we probably wouldn't be in this situation," he said.
TCU beat Wisconsin 21-19 in the Rose Bowl last season. The season before that, TCU lost 17-10 to Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl.
"We've been to two, but you've got a No. 6 Arkansas team that's not going to a BCS bowl game either," Patterson said. "Only 'X' amount of teams get a chance to go. We were fortunate a year ago. Boise got beat. The key to it is you've got to be a little lucky. I believe the football gods always make sure things happen the way they're supposed to happen. If we were supposed to be there, there's a good chance we would have been there.
"It's really quite a compliment to the program and where we've been just in three years for us to even be considered or to be an outside shot with two losses," he added. "It used to be common knowledge that if you didn't go undefeated and you weren't an automatic qualifier, you weren't going to get a chance to be a part of it. For us, I'm excited we were a part of the conversation. It means we've come a long way as far as the voters were concerned. Now we need to go win a ballgame against Louisiana Tech. They're a good football team and they will be fired up since it's been a while since they've been to a bowl game."
TCU has won seven straight games since an overtime loss at home against SMU on Oct. 1, including a victory at Boise State that ended the Broncos' 35-game winning streak. The other TCU loss was 50-48 to Robert Griffin and Baylor in the season opener.
This is TCU's third trip to the Poinsettia Bowl. It beat Boise State 17-16 in 2008 and beat Northern Illinois 37-7 in 2006.
Louisiana Tech (8-4) clinched a berth in the game when it won its first Western Athletic Conference championship since 2001 with a 44-0 victory against New Mexico State on Nov. 26.
The bowl bid is the fifth in school history and Louisiana Tech's first since an Independence Bowl victory against Northern Illinois in 2008.
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Thanks for this, Wendy.
You say in your response, "but where I still get hung up is when I get a thought to move my hands somewhere else." That is exactly the problem "I get a thought" and because we have had a thought we think we have to pay it a lot of attention. We wrestle with "is it a thought" or " is it an intuition?" "Shall I move my hands or is it just because nothing is happening right here and I note that there is some sort of stuckness in the right hip, it seems to be a bit contracted. Maybe I ought to mosey on over there. But, oh dear, I am supposed to be doing nothing and here I am thinking about doing something!! "
"Now I want to sneeze, there is a terrible draft coming in under the door. I asked Jack to do something about that weeks ago and, by the way, I bet he has forgotten the cat food. Never thinks about any one else, I bet he hasn't forgotten his DVD."
"What patient? Oh! THAT patient. Shit, I can't stay focussed for more than 5 minutes!!"
A trickle of lack of self-esteem gradually expands into a torrent of self -denigration until it culminates in a Niagara of self hatred. The Dalai Lama wept when he heard, for the first time, from a panel of western psychotherapists of the western lack of self esteem.
I like a bit of hyperbole, as you may note and none of this has anything to do with you personally, I know your work too well for that, it is just meant to illustrate from my personal experience the way the brain needs to know, even about not knowing! You may note that I have an intimate, personal, knowledge of these mind games!
Answer; just note what is, including the what you wish wasn't and stop getting hooked on it. It just is, right?
The other thing Wendy, is, thanks for putting this into the pot. I wish more people would join in; it would expand the meaningfulness of this site, for us all and help me to know if we are on track for offering something useful?? Mostly, I don't know that.
Comment by Mike — February 5, 2010 @ 1:13 pm
Dear Wendy. just to round out this particular conversation and respond to your question
"how have you moved to a new spot without getting caught in the mind games?" Its not that easy to answer in a "how to" kind of way. I think it is something like the idea arises of being somewhere else, and I am somewhere else, without any obvious intention and execution and I don't know which is the chicken and which is the egg. Other times, the thought arises, "oh, I am here, I thought I was there!" The client has been known to express that she thought I was at the feet and at the head with one hand on the heart. That is quite difficult to do, literally. Who is to say that the sensation is wrong, though?
Thank you for your continuing encouragement.
Comment by Mike — February 8, 2010 @ 7:48 pm
My mind is still blown by the practice of "doing nothing" – because it is such a paradox – like an attachment to non-attachment… even in the doing nothing, there still seems to be a doing…
The sticky catch in my mind as I practice work is the desire to please… the desire to have people like me… and all of the mind games that come along with that – since I have no way of knowing the experience of any of my clients, nor do I have any control over the outcome.
I appreciate the space that you hold for all of us in drawing us back, bit by bit, to this way of being… and I continue to work with my observer… give the observer a bigger voice than the nag!
Lots of love, Mary
Comment by Mary — February 25, 2010 @ 4:04 pm
Dear Mary,
Thank you and I very much resonate with your input. There is always a Doing – I suppose we can say that Being is a doing and there is no way out of this. I suppose what we try to do is to get more and more present to what we are doing and, thereby, open the possibility to being more proactive.
Attachment to attachment must always be there I think: somehow, the expansion of awareness that allows us to see that that is so, brings us immediately, for that moment, into the present from where we can be less reactive.
I would say we cannot get rid of attachment, even the words 'we' and 'I' are attachments, but we can expand awareness.
Many of us have the desire to please and be liked – I do – and there again, that is neither good nor bad, it is certainly human, we just notice it.
Thank you.
Comment by Mike — March 1, 2010 @ 12:14 pm
I thought the following poem from Jon Cassell woud nicely close out this "Doing Nothing" conversation. It is, I think, self explanatory and results from sessions with a frail, elderly lady spread over a substantial period of time.
"All in a day's work".
She is old and frail,
Made older by pain and illness.
She lies, her head cradled in my hands.
I sit, eyes closed, mind in silence,
Floating on the Tide.
Slowly, gently, head and hands both slip away,
And there is just a globe of light,
The Grail? A talisman?
No her. No me.
Just a ball of light,
Jon Cassell
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Who thinks Hot Topic is Expensive??
okay, I know that some people might say "NO" because they have ooodles of money floating around in their pockets but for those of us who aren't regular shoppers or can't buy like crazy and yet love to when we can. anyways, When I go out shopping, I always stop by Hot Topic to see what's new and see if I can buy a few things.
Well, problem is that I don't have $50 or more dollars on me most of the time. meaning that I can barely buy one t-shirt without going poor over at good old Hot Topic. I LOVE their stuff but why the hell do I need to pay $35 for a freaking shirt that will probably last me at most a year or two??? The material isn't even worth that much. Also, there are lots of these stores around so you can't tell me that they couldn't let up a bit on the prices at times. yes, they have sales once in a great while but they are more like small reductions and not big decreases.
I mean, I could easily wonder over to Macy's or Jcpenny's and but several shirts for the same price as one shirt over at Hot topic. I once saw this jacket there for $75 and I just about choaked on the price tag. I see that that the jacket was sorta original and cool but jeeeezus, not worth THAT much. :roll:
so tell me, do you think that they could reduce the prices a bit? or are you happy paying the money that will perhaps buy you a shirt and a pair of pants that could pay for a trip to the hospital?? :lol:
and ALL opinions are gladly accepted...I don't discriminate here. :?
Have you tried looking on eBay?
EDIT: I have a co-worked who paid $75 for a belt made of cheap stretchy plastic with riveted fake bottle caps at The Buckle. That made my jaw drop. I don't think it was worth it because she's only wore it a couple of times and the stretchy plastic is ripping.
um, well....I didn't know that hot topic items were on ebay. Or are you suggesting it as an alternative to hot topic?? anyways, its a good idea. Thanks
I admit I used to buy there until I realized I was yet again wasting my money on fashion. Sometimes I'll buy clearance stuff there :lol:
Clearance ROCKS!!
It is too expensive. I bought pants there for 50 bucks my sophmore year...never doing that again...but hey i still have the pants!
Yes, it is too expensive. I see a lot of their shirts on jinx and the maddox shirt that of course is on www.maddox.xmission.com
I'm too cheap for any of their things. O.o I see a lot of people at school with their earrings, but they are like 6$, and I always buy expensive jewelery because I'm allergic to everything. lol
I see it as, if you buy from Hot Topic, then a ton of people are going to have the same clothes as you somewhere. It's hard to get away from things like that... err yeah....
Hot Topic is my favorite store. Their prices are expensive, but at times you can get really good deals. I know I got my Evanescence shirt for $8.00. I don't have loads of money to buy there either, I don't own pants from there or anything, I just like their band shirts.
I have yet to go there myself... Can't wait till I go to the mall with my friends for once!
I go in there to buy clearance clothing every once in a while. I don't really buy any clothes there enless it has faeries on it V.V I just can't resist faery clothing. I did buy some nice Blackberry lip gloss there. It smells wonderful.
Although Hot Topic is an awesome store (SWK, I agree with you on the fairy stuff! Last shirt I got there had a sparkly fairy on the front! :D ), I think their prices are too expensive. $20+ for each shirt...which is why I only occasionally buy there. The stuff I do buy there is either something that I absolutely love, or stuff that's on clearance for 50% off or more! I got a great deal on this Evanescence shirt: Originally $20, bought it for $4! :wink:
I don't tell people they are straight out "wrong". I tell them my opinion and they tell me theirs but there's nothing "wrong" with your side of the story. If I were money rich, I'd be freaking shopping my head off at hot topic. lol. But for those of us who don't have free flowing money, I believe that its exspensive for the type of garments one is buying. a t-shirt should not cost you $20 -40 dollars.
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