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I was really looking forward to not having to discuss Prince Fielder anymore, but how can I ignore a bombshell like the one Jon Heyman just dropped on us?
Although they managed to stay under the radar all the while, the Los Angeles Dodgers pushed hard for weeks to try to sign Prince Fielder and thought for a while they might have a legitimate shot at their own secret signing. The Dodgers were a surprise entrant in the sweepstakes, making a major push to sign the star slugger with an offer that guaranteed him seven years but provided a sweet four-year opt-out. And for a couple weeks, they looked like a real possibility for Prince.
The Dodgers surely gave a spirited effort to secure Fielder, even flying to meet with him at an undisclosed neutral location a few weeks ago, but somehow managed to keep the entire undertaking under wraps, save for a few internet rumblings from fans speculating that they may have been a mystery team in the mix.
Heyman goes on to state that the Dodger offer was nowhere near the massive nine-year, $214m commitment Fielder just procured from Detroit, figures I wanted no part of. Rather, the supposed Dodger offer would have been "in the low $160m" range, with the first three years coming in at $26m apiece ($78m total), after which Fielder would have been able to opt out, then four years in the low twenties range, totaling about $85-90m and bringing the deal into the $160m range. About a month ago, I heard from a source who claimed that Ned Colletti had offered Fielder a 3/$80m deal, and while I couldn't confirm it enough to run with it, that it pretty close to the first half of this supposed offer.
If that's in any way true, well, I like that idea a lot. Sure, paying Fielder $26m a year is somewhat outrageous, but that's only over his age 28-30 seasons, after which he's either someone else's problem or taking a pay cut. That's also, of course, almost certainly why a deal like this had almost no chance of happening, considering how much more he eventually ended up getting from Detroit; the Dodgers were likely extending themselves just to get that far, hoping that the market would never materialize and Fielder would have no choice but to land with them. (There's a conversation happening on Twitter right now about whether Victor Martinez' injury cost the Dodgers Fielder, since they may not have been in on Prince until they were short a bat; it makes sense, though I'm not sure if I fully buy that simply due to how much they did end up giving to Fielder.)
But that's all behind us now, because Fielder is a Tiger now, and we won't be seeing him in Dodger blue until he's inevitably signed to a back-loaded contract in 2022. If anything, we can be impressed with the Dodger front office for not allowing anything more than unsourced speculation to leak during this process. Of course, the best part of Heyman's story has nothing to do with Fielder, and the emphasis on this is mine:
The Dodgers tendered their longtime first baseman James Loney a contract and expect him to be their first baseman. They are not unhappy with him at all but merely saw Fielder as a rare opportunity to land one of the game's best hitters.


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WELLBORN — The meaning of costly mistakes was a lesson Wellborn learned on Friday night.
No. 3 Fyffe defeated the sixth-ranked Panthers, 33-19, after two Wellborn turnovers and several penalties affected the swing of the fourth quarter.
"We just went out there, did some things, got some penalties and made some mistakes that we normally don't do," Wellborn coach Jeff Smith said. "When you do those things against a good football team, you do what we did tonight, and that's get beat."
Wellborn (4-1) got the ball with 3:10 remaining in the game after a controversial Fyffe touchdown gave the Red Devils (5-0) a 27-19 lead. After a personal foul on Robert Tucker pushed the Panthers back to their own 17-yard line, quarterback Judd Smith made a major mistake.
Rolling out to the left, Smith threw the ball straight to Fyffe defensive back Trent Thrash, who returned the ball 25 yards for the score.
"That was big interception Trent made," said Fyffe coach Paul Benefield. "We were just eight (points) ahead there when he made that and ran it down. That was huge."
On the ensuing drive with almost all hope gone, Tucker fumbled the ball after a 12-yard completion from Smith that put the Red Devils in victory formation.
"Yeah, we made some mistakes," Smith said. "It cost it."
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"We could go in there and pick out 10 plays that made a difference in the game," he said. "Every offensive play that we call is meant to score, and if we don't score, there's a breakdown somewhere. Every defense that we call is meant to stop them at the line of scrimmage, so if they have any positive yards, there's a breakdown somewhere."
In a 13-13 game, Fyffe struck almost immediately in the second half as Thrash danced around to avoid defenders in the backfield before running 50 yards for what ended up being the game-winning score.
"We knew it was going to be a slugfest," Smith said. "My hat's off to Fyffe. I think they came out here and out-hit us and beat us fair and square."
Despite the complexity of Wellborn's 16-play, 66-yard ensuing drive that took nearly eight minutes off the clock, it was what happened after Kevin Mixon scored that mattered the most.
Mixon took the reverse from Chantz Goodman into the end zone from five yards out, but Wellborn was called for a personal foul after the play. The 15-yard penalty made the extra point that would tie the game a 35-yard kick.
"We didn't think we could make it from where we were at," Smith said.
On the two-point conversation attempt, Smith's throw into the end zone was batted down.
"I could have done a better job," Smith said. "We could have gotten them better prepared this week, more prepared this week and more focused this week. What we have to do is think about how we felt last week, think about how we feel this week and go out next week and correct the mistakes."
Fyffe was led on the ground by Randy Blackwell, who rushed for 155 yards and two touchdowns on 19 rushes. Along with his interceptions for a score, Thrash added 12 rushes for 82 yards. Quarterback Cameron Gipson finished the night 2-3 with 41 yards and an interception.
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Last year, one of the few complaints that I had about the game was the decisions that the AI made in defensive situations. For the most part, this played out much better as opposed to last year, looking past the known bugs that I have with this build. I love the feel of the transition game as opposed to last year. Players seem to flow a lot better with the ball itself and don't get caught out of position nearly as much as the AI made them to in last year's version. In the past couple of versions, I have seen the AI on offense only really take into consideration the forthcoming pass, not a play that might happen after that, or even the play beyond. Now, formations move as if the attack is being setup properly and not just having attackers attempt runs for through passes or crosses. It's a more intuitive system that players will latch onto easily.
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Never, Ever Going Back!! – This place is a joke. Last time I went to this doctor's office the "receptionist" was on the phone with a patient. After she hung up, after ignoring me for 10 minutes, she started talking to the other office girl in a negative way about the patient she had just been speaking with. It was very unprofessional. Then, I waited in a hot exam room for 1 hour and 20 minutes trying to keep a 2 year old occupied. Dr. Byram walked up and down the hall complaining about all the patients she had to see. Then, I could hear the conversations she was having with everyone else because she was talking so loud. What happened to doctor / patient confidentiality? BTW, It is impossible to get a hold of the billing person, I have left numerous messages and finally had to give up. This place is terrible. I have spoken to other mothers as well and they have told me it is like that all the time and they too have moved on.
Very informative! – I have been taking my son to Dr Byram since January and so far she is really good. She knows what she is talking about and really informative, the only thing is she just acts like she is talking to my son who is just 12 months old. I wish she would talk to ME like I am an adult and there. LOL but otherwise she is funny and I never wait for my appnt for more than 5 mins. Very friendly and just how I like it.
5 Years must not be enough. – My son started going to Dr. Dianna Thomas, a new doctor to pediactrics r us, but used to have her own practice when I first started seeing her, I would have to say close to 5 years ago.
I have to say, I DO NOT know Dr. Thomas. She comes in, says hello, checks him out and leaves. I would think that 5 years is long enough to be a little more informal by now, but no. I call that bad bedside manor, not to mention that I was there yesterday, for nearly an hour before being seen or talked to, and then she came in with her normal quickness, told me she would be back with a prescription, and then never came back. 1/2 hour went by before I finally went to her rude outgoing patient receptionist, when I was told that the prescription was there. The staff at pediactrics r us are ALL rude, and drab, and they seem to not care about their patients. I guess I should also include that the last two times my son has seen her, she prescribed an antibiotic that costed me $60.00 with insurance. I guess amoxicilian isn't good enough for her. I decided yesterday, that I WILL NOT BE BACK. Anyone know of a good pediatrician?
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• Scanning Blissful Blog, I came across this image they posted of new wallpaper from Fine Little Day. Paired with a bold graphic rug and piece of artwork, I love the contrast of both color and pattern.
• Over at Nordic Design, I rarely find myself uninspired. This peek inside the home of the Berzant family is no exception, as I found myself craving the simple black and white palette of their home. Well, except for the children's room, which is adorable!
• Alright, speaking of Fine Little Day (one of my absolute favorite blogs) and the new wallpaper they've come out with, check out the same pattern on a pillow (and the same rug) in the living room of Elizabeth Dunker, the creator.
• That Cole & Son wallpaper that we all love (or hate by now, who knows!) makes a subtle appearance in the hallway of this great black and white room, seen on Fine Little Day.
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Technical point, but Black & white is "achromatic." In the language of color, dichromatic would refer to two colors from the color wheel. Edit, check, edit....
I'm loving that first photo. Big, bold graphics always make me smile.
I love the first picture so much!!
To be clear, despite how it appears in the photo, the K by Keaton linens are a very strong cream/ivory and black, not black and white. The duvet is a fairly heavy canvas like fabric. That said, it's actually a pretty fabulous collection.
I see the black & white rug on picture #2 over and over on AT posts. Does anyone know where it's from?
Naturally, it is ikea stockholm rand.
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As long as there is no significant organic matter mixed in with the drainage water, I wouldn't think odor would be a problem.
I'm looking to install a drywell to handle some extra runoff from a patio. the patio is below the rest of the yard and a low point. it is graded to all go in one direction and I would like to put a long drain in that covers the 15 foot edge of the patio. i was thinking of a perforated pipe running the entire 15 foot edge and have that pipe covered with some blue river stones to mast the drain. this perforated pipe would attach to a drywell i plan to put in the ground. my question is do you think i would get smells coming back from the drywell up through the perforated pipe? i live in an area that would freeze and would not want to put in a trap if i don't have to. I would also like to use this drywell as a drain for an outdoor shower. there is no easy access to allow the outdoor shower to drain into any other garden beds or areas that need water. my only concern is that this shower would also require some form of trap and may possibly contain soaps (not many, but it is possible) that may linger in the drywell creating a possible smell.
fyi - plan for the shower would be a concrete pan under ground with a drain. above the pan would be the same blue river rocks that were used in the drain for the side of the patio.
please give me any advice or thoughts you may have.
As long as there is no significant organic matter mixed in with the drainage water, I wouldn't think odor would be a problem.
So you think it shouldnt be a prpblem as long as the perforated pipes have socks on them eliminating much of the organic matter? Any other thoughts?


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CARPENTERSVILLE — While this week's strike by Chicago Public Schools teachers is getting the most publicity, CPS isn't the only school district in the Chicago area at the bargaining table.
Community Unit School District 300 also remains in contract negotiations with its teachers union, Local Educators Association of District 300. And many of the issues that Chicago Teachers Union members and school district officials have vocalized as sticking points in their talks also have been expressed by LEAD and District 300
"Chicago Public Schools are unique. I don't know that the two impact each other. But I do know we have similar issues to those being stated," LEAD President Kolleen Hanetho said.
"Class sizes, lengthening the day without teacher input at all — those are both issues we are contending with."
The Carpentersville-based school district and its teachers union were scheduled to meet Friday with a federal mediator. They also had met Tuesday night — the same night Lake Forest High School teachers walked out on contact negotiations with their district and decided to strike — and once before since filing for mediation in late July, Hanetho said.
That filing came weeks after its last one-year collective bargaining agreement, approved in spring 2011, had expired. Negotiations had started in November, and the terms of the last contract roll forward until a new agreement is signed.
Meantime, class size has emerged as the biggest issue for District 300 and LEAD. The teachers union has proposed lowering the number of students in classrooms. Currently, the district limits elementary school classrooms to 33 students in kindergarten, 35 in first and second grades, and 37 in third through fifth grades.
"Class sizes are like saying you're for apple pie and motherhood," school board spokesman Joe Stevens said. "There is no one who isn't in favor of lower class sizes."
The issue is the cost to reduce those numbers when the district's finances are "no secret," Stevens said.
Currently, its budget shows a $1 million surplus for next year with no wage increases, he said. Lowering class sizes by an average one student per class would cost $1 million to $1.4 million a year, the district has said. And that doesn't take into account the cost of teacher pensions, which the state has discussed shifting to school districts, he said.
The teacher evaluations required by Illinois Senate Bill 7 — reportedly a main topic of negotiations in Chicago — also are an issue for "every district," Hanetho said. Ironically, that bill also was supposed to make it harder for teachers to strike, she said.
The LEAD president sounded a note similar to the picket signs that many Chicago teachers have carried, when she said the biggest issue is "our working conditions — because our working conditions are students' learning conditions."
"Not that anyone wants to go on strike," she said. "That's a big piece of this. No one wants to go on strike. We all want to be in the classrooms."
Stevens called the teacher strikes in Chicago and Lake Forest "a sad day" and said the possibility of a strike did not come up during talks this week between District 300 and its union.
"We're still very optimistic and hopeful we can pull this off and resolve all the issues," he said.
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An Australian hero only Americans have honoured
Last night the House of Representatives debated a motion to make a posthumous apology to arguably our greatest ever male sprinter Peter Norman, whose legacy is so much greater than just his feats on the track. This is an edited version of a speech to the parliament by the Member for Bennelong John Alexander.
I rise to recognise the unique contribution made by Australian athlete Peter Norman to the worlds of both sport and politics. In sport Norman's feet did the talking, becoming the highest achieving Australian male sprinter in our nation's history. In politics, Norman's statement was not through the delivery of a speech but simply through the wearing of a badge.
The badge said: 'Olympic Project for Human Rights'. The venue was the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games. The year 1968 is often referred to as the year the world changed - the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy; the raging of the Vietnam War; riots in Paris; industrial strikes across Europe; and uprisings in Czechoslovakia and Pakistan.
In the United States, violence engulfed civil rights protests across the nation. In response, Harry Edwards, famous for his revolutionary musings as Professor in Black Leadership at San Jose State College, formed the Olympic Project for Human Rights.
Blurring the fine line between sport and politics, the OPHR called for the instant dismissal of Avery Brundage as the president of the International Olympic Committee, the banning of competitors from South Africa and Rhodesia, and the reinstatement of Muhammad Ali's title as world boxing champion.
Talk of protests by athletes at the games was met by threats from Brundage, who claimed that the Olympic Games was not the place for political statement and any action would be met with official sanction.
Two of Harry's most famous students were outspoken athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were favourites to win gold and silver in the 200 metres final.
What no-one expected was Australian Peter Norman, who split the two Americans to take out the silver medal. Norman's time of 20.06 seconds would have won gold at the Sydney Olympics and still stands as the Australian record 44 years later.
No Australian male sprinter has since won an Olympic medal of any description and yet it is a stain on our nation that Peter Norman was immediately ostracised by the Australian media and by athletics officials. Despite running five Olympic qualifying times for the 100 metres and 13 for the 200 metres, the Australian Olympic Committee preferred to send no male sprinters to the 1972 Munich games.
Norman's crime was to give a silent expression of solidarity to Smith and Carlos. Walking into the Olympic stadium in their black socks with one hand clad in a black glove and the other carrying their running shoes, Smith and Carlos proudly wore OPHR badges as a statement against racism and segregation in the United States.
On the way out to the medal ceremony, Norman spotted another US athlete wearing an OPHR badge and asked if he could borrow it. The simple gesture to wear this badge on the dais as Smith and Carlos raised their fists in protest condemned Norman to never represent Australia again.
(Ed's note: Since delivering this speech last night Mr Alexander has noted Peter Norman did represent Australia at the 1970 Commonwealth Games and another regional competition, but never at the Olympics.)
The shame for Australia is not limited to the immediate reaction from the media and Australian officials banning Norman from the 1972 games. The further embarrassment is that 32 years after Mexico, as we celebrated with such national pride at the Sydney Olympic Games, Peter Norman received no formal recognition.
Just as Atlanta had done with Muhammad Ali four years earlier, the opening ceremony for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games offered a unique opportunity for national healing, to give our nation a chance to make peace with Peter Norman.
Yet recognition instead came from the US track team with Edward Moses inviting him to join them and Michael Johnson reportedly calling Peter Norman, 'My hero.' It is the greatest irony that the most celebrated moment of the Sydney 2000 games was the victory by Cathy Freeman in the 400-metre final.
In 2006, Norman passed away. His impact was so great that the US track and field federation declared the day of his funeral, 9 October 2006, Peter Norman Day. In the most fitting tribute, Tommie Smith and John Carlos travelled to Australia to deliver eulogies and to serve as pallbearers.
I thank the member for Fraser for raising this motion. To Peter Norman's family, some of whom are present here today, I hope that you can accept our regret at the way Peter was treated and that his recognition did not come during his lifetime. Peter George Norman is truly an Australian legend and deserves to be celebrated by athletes, schoolchildren, historians and politicians across the nation.
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Dolly says:
What more can be said. A legendary sprinter who still holds the Australian 200 metre record. But an even better man.
The story goes that Carlos and Smith were going to wear black gloves at the medal ceremony. Carlos however, left his gloves back in his room. It was Norman who suggested they wear a glove each, hence in the picture Smith wearing a right glove and Carlos a left. And there in front is Peter Norman, silently but symbolically supporting them both, wearing his badge. What a hero. What a human being
Bazza says:
GET OF HIS BANDWAGON. There is not a politician in the current houses worthy to talk about this man.
Reader says:
Not that much of a leap from 1968 to being sentenced to " 7years transportation" for stealing a handful of grain then!? Very underwhelming at times, this country and humans in general!
fairsfair says:
Would have been nice for oh lets say maybe CH9 to focus on this type of person (the spirit of the Olympics and really just a good Australian) while the Olympics were on. Maybe some stories to interject the repeated coverage… such a shame… All I remember about the olympics is that we lost the relay on the second day and that Steph Rice and Kobe Bryant are "friends".
What a fantastic human being. What a shame we don't live in a country where Peter Norman is a bigger household name then media tarts of today and recent decades.
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Ryan Kohls 26/3/12 : "The other person on the stand was Australian runner, Peter Norman. He took a lot of heat for his participation in that moment. How much did his support mean to you and Tommie?"
John Carlos: "Peter Norman was a godsend. We could have went through 10 million white individuals, and 9,999,999 would never have attempted that, let alone do it. Peter was like a piece of clairvoyant paper. There was no color with Peter. It was about his spirit, his heart, and his vision of what could happen in society when people come together to do something creative. I'll always have respect for Peter, more than Tommie, because Peter was genuine from the day we met to the day he died. When you sit back and think about what happened when we left the victory stand and returned to our home countries, there was two individuals in America and one in Australia. If they decided to whip up on John Carlos they would do it until I was tired, then move to Tommie Smith. In Australia – and remember in the late 60s it was parallel to South Africa in terms of its abuse to people of color – Peter Norman stood up and said he believed in justice and equality for all people. When he went back, just because he put a button on his shirt, they beat Peter 24/7. There was no spin-off on Peter. At the same time, the more they beat him the stronger he got to his committment. He never said one negative thing about us, and stayed strong to his death. He had nervous breakdowns, got into alcohol, his marriage broke down, and they didn't even acknowledge him at the 2000 Olympic games in Australia. All of these things were taking place, but Peter never changed his views and values, and I'll always have respect for that long after I leave this world."
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The sad reality is Peter was an Australian proudly standing in solidarity with black people at a time when his own country had a law in place that prevented black people moving to Australia.
The disgraceful Australian establishment treated Peter with contempt because he was a living breathing testimony to Australia's shame.
It's proof of Australia's international irrelevance and isolation that it missed international condemnation for running two parallel systems of apartheid. One for it's own black people and one for the world's black people.
Peter is a hero to me and always will be.
Anjuli says:
When all races think as one we are all human and all religion stop thinking one is better than the other, we will then have a peaceful world or be blown to smithereens .I hate it when some one who ever they are think they are more superior than the next person.
M says:
And yet, a young aboriginal boxer wears his flag to be proud of where he has come from and we condemn him.
Seems like there is still such a thing as white male priviledge.
maus says:
I'm so glad this fine man is finally being recognised. And while we are talking about Peter Norman, can someone please explain to me the intent of the mural in Burnett Lane, Brisbane? It depicts this exact moment and seems to suggest that Norman was a racist, as it's surrounded by other pictures and murals relating to indigneous Australians and past atrocities. Walking past it does me sad for Norman and his family, regardless of it's intent. Has anyone else noticed this and can anyone clarify?
Shane* says:
I don't want to trivialise Peter Norman's legacy by quoting Professor Dumbledore, but for whatever reason this was the quote that popped into my head: "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends."
And it's true.
Wayne Perry says:
It was an absolute disgrace by the Australian government and athletics/sporting bodies that he never again represented his country for standing alongside those who made a statement against racism and prejudice. The apology is long overdue and it is a terrible shame that he didn't live to see it made.
mikespol says:
The only shame in this whole story, is that it has to be a posthumous recognition.
Peter Norman. Great Aussie. Great sportsman. Great human being.
John T says:
And the AOC make a mealy mouthed comment that he wasnt blacklisted but "injured". Given that he repeatedly qualified and was left out, well sorry AOC, ICB -and given the utter hypocrisy re D'Arcy by the AOC I would suggest that the attitude is deeply ingrained. This man was and is an absolute Olympic hero and such a contrast to the cossetted and spoilt drama queens and princes that we currently have allegedly representing this country. I am not generally in favour of the collective wisdom that sporting persons are role models- but this bloke is someone that the family will be discussing at the dinner table tonight.
Arnold Layne says:
Normally my view is that there are appropriate forums for these kind of statements and that when you are at an even representing your country you should honour that. In this case however, Peter Norman did nothing wrong. He represented his nation proudly, he simply wore a badge demonstrating solidarity with and for a noble cause. The cause in this case was pointing out the hypocrisy that it was ok for non-white to represent their country and win medals, just not to have much equality anywhere else.
All that aside, he's one of our greatest Olympic track sprinters, particularly so in terms of male sprinters. Recognition, even posthumously, is long overdue.
Gordon says:
Seems he was treated dreadfully by two generations of sports offialdom. But it also seems we are only happy to have politics dragged into our sport once it's safely too late to do anything about the issue. Let us imagine what would befall some athlete who used the 2012 olympic podium to wave a flag for gay marriage or Julian Assange. I hope the people who are queueing up (now) to disown Peter Norman's shabby treatment have a strategy in mind when some cause they dissaprove of (now) gets trotted out. Otherwise admit that keeping politics out of sport has a moral price tag
Flora says:
It is wonderful that this truly wonderful Australian Olympian has been recognised at last. His mum Thelma Norman will have much joy in her life now. Sadly it is too late for Peter but his memory will live on.
I wish John Alexander and this Editor of Punch, had the grace to mention that this all started with M.P.Andrew Leigh's motion, Labor member for Fraser in the A.C.T. who spent many hours getting this together. Thank you Andrew. I do believe John Alexander did write, an excellent contribution though.
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Hi Errol, I'm wondering if you can share an event with the Toronto Salsa-Bachata group? Please see below: Turn up the heat on cancer at 3030 (Dundas St. W. & High Park) on February 13th with performances by Latin American artists Rosario Arce and Raul Orlando. Tickets $20: http://www.ticketscene.ca/events/9958... All funds go to the Ride to Conquer Cancer. We hope to see you there!
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Will join in for your today's salsa class.
I enjoy your group class, as it is both fun and exercise.
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Welcome to the group - drop in sometime - I can do a bachata, salsa, swing and tango line dance
Errol... we've only played tennis before, i'll challenge u a badminton game. If you win you'll teach me salsa. If i win i'll teach u table tennis... lol
Haha I didn't know that about you Errol! I love tennis too. In fact, it was only when I couldn't play tennis anymore that someone suggested I take up salsa, so help my foot speed and movement for tennis until my back would heal and I could get back into it.
Sadly I haven't been able to play again. Those short balls just kill my back now so I think I've had it. But dancing is a fun substitute. Like you, though, I love tennis.
hi errol. Im a newbie here, just want to know if theres a parking? free? what is the change shoes? what kind of shoes do i have to bring?
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Well, there was also that astronaut that needed bottled boobs to rescue him from himself and then there was Ace Ventura: Witch Husbandry.
Okay is it just me or does Dick York not share an uncanny resemblance to Jim Carrey?
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I also remember the WWF cartoon, and getting excited about the fucking saturday morning commercials.
[This message edited by StillGoing at 12:06 PM, August 19th (Monday)]
I was thinking astronomical...
Doing the best I can with what I have to work with WAL.
If we're not busting somebody's balls on every page, it's not the Menz thread.
As for TV role models? I wouldn't have a clue. If it's not sports, weather, or traffic, I pretty much don't watch TV. Maybe if there is something cool on a science channel about the universe or nature I'll put it on in the background, but I haven't really watched a sitcom or regular TV since DDay. I have to agree with SG, I did watch Glee a bit with my wife a few years ago and enjoyed it.
Later defines "more recent" in geological terms, apparently.
Being a geologist I have to say... T Rex would have eaten every Wally, Beaver, Andy Griffith and Opie but Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie and Samantha Stephens from Bewitched could have saved them if they wanted to...
Being 53 I grew up with all the old sitcoms...
I've got 4 sisters and 4 brothers... I'm number 7 of 9 kids... It was a boys will be boys and girls will be girls world in our family... Now the youngest of the four sisters is 51 and the oldest is 67 they as a group think all us 5 brothers are idiots... I hear the typical media male stereotype in their descriptions in their dismissive attitudes...
Oh and... They're so successful in relationships... 4 sisters, 4 divorces... Of course... None their fault... Relationship advice flows freely... I just consider the sources...
James Taylor
People put way too much stock in getting laid. There are 7 billion of us on the planet and people have a tendency to seek the path of least resistance, so getting someone to lie down with you must not be that challenging. It doesn't make you unique, or special, or unusually "desirable". It just means you are a human being who lives in a world with other human beings.
[This message edited by Sal1995 at 2:19 PM, August 19th (Monday)]
4 sisters, 4 divorces... Of course... None their fault
WW was raised in a strict Catholic home where the girls went to all-girls Catholic schools. The result? One sister has been divorced twice, the other sister is in a long-term M where her husband beats the crap out of her(complete with police cars and death threats). The brother is divorced and remarried. WW divorced her first husband and then of course there's our disaster of a M. WTH happened?
The human mind is a fascinating thing to behold. Over the weekend I really got in touch with how delusional WW's thinking has become. She really and truly believes she is the victim of life's bad breaks and people's mean intentions instead of someone who made stupid and at times evil choices and paid the price.
Everything that pops out of her mouth is an excuse and everyone but her is to blame. Brick by brick her mind has fashioned a world where she is the victim. I'm an ogre, and one day her prince will come to rescue her from the mean people in her life.
After much MC and IC nothing has seeped into her thinking to dislodge that mental fallacy. It is both fascinating and frightening when the woman who is supposed to be your wife and best friend has concocted this fantasy land in order to avoid any and all blame.
Everything that pops out of her mouth is an excuse and everyone but her is to blame. Brick by brick her mind has fashioned a world where she is the victim. I'm an ogre, and one day her prince will come to rescue her from the mean people in her life.
Well fuck. Sorry for killing this.
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StillGoing, you have to stop blaming yourself. Let the thread take some responsibility for it's actions. Sure things were getting quiet, but did the thread ever bring up these concerns instead of just shutting down and shutting you out.
We always talk about people need to own their own shit, now stop being greedy and trying to take someone else's.
Do not back up. Severe tire damage.
People put way too much stock in getting laid
I told my FWW once that there must be a large number of potential sex partners out there for both of us that would be better at sex than I am for her and she is for me. It'd be stupid to think otherwise. (she hates when I say this btw)
However, there are no better life partners out there considering our "package": 18 years, 2 kids, we know, tolerate and love each others' personality.
Sex is cheap, easily achievable and often overrated. I love sex but sex by itself is not enough.
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While adultery & its damaging effects are underrated.
Sex obviously was not overrated by our spouses.
There's no denying, one of the biggest cultural shifts of the last 60-70 years is the influence of media.
McLuhan's "The Medium is the Massage" & other works examine this.
McLuhan describes the "content" of a medium as a juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.
This means that people tend to focus on the obvious, which is the content, to provide us valuable information, but in the process, we largely miss the structural changes in our affairs that are introduced subtly, or over long periods of time.
As society's values, norms and ways of doing things change because of the technology, it is then we realize the social implications of the medium.
These range from cultural or religious issues and historical precedents, through interplay with existing conditions, to the secondary or tertiary effects in a cascade of interactions that we are not aware of.
"Distract", "we miss", "we are not aware of"...
These resonate with me (no wonder, right? ) - because what those changes we missed actually are becomes valuable to know going forward.
Denying media's influence plays a consistent part in Wilson Bryan Key's work @ subliminal advertising.
Going back to Screwtape, it is noted that of all his deceptions, promulgating the belief that he doesn't exist is his greatest.
Sure, it's interesting to discuss how "society's values, norms, and ways of doing things have changed" - but this is where my mind breaks on it:
We're being told what to do and think. By a faceless, uncaring, self-important machine.
I reject that. Fuck the hivemind
AND KFC, Tecate, & Fiat.
Shortly after Dday, I threw that shit out in an absolute fit of rage. I'm not putting this out there like some holier-than-thou ex smoker, it was blinding, sudden rage.
I've settled down... a bit.
So, where do I go to find examples of essential male-ness?
That part of time in which it manifests without media's corrosive influence. The period before media, and the period from @ 1700's - 1950, where the greatest "slope" of cultural & technological change occurs.
(a la Buckminster Fuller's graph: "Profile of the Industrial Revolution")
Also, for what that looks like. I come here.
"The mass public insists on entertainment over art in order to
escape an unnatural way of life in which interior realities are not
compatible with exterior realities. Freedom, says Brown, is fusion.
Life becomes art when there's no difference between what we are
and what we do. Art is a synergetic attempt at closing the gap
between what is and what ought to be. Jacob Bronowski has
suggested that we "ought to act in such a
way that what is true can
be verified to be so."
from Gene Youngblood's "Expanded Cinema"
50 years ago, he predicted we'd be sitting right here.
[This message edited by jjct at 5:35 AM, August 20th (Tuesday)]
StillGoing, you have to stop blaming yourself. Let the thread take some responsibility for it's actions. Sure things were getting quiet, but did the thread ever bring up these concerns instead of just shutting down and shutting you out.
But this threads love tank is dry.
But this threads love tank is dry.
I'm Not Ashamed Of Who I Am...Are You?
I am the kindest, gentlest, purest,
mean brutal pervert.
I am a Patriotic hedonist,
an agnostic spiritualist,
and I am a psychopath
with a conscience.
I love children, animals,
guns, and fighting.
I want to kiss most women,
I want to punch most men,
and I find all non-insectile creatures,
smaller than me, adorable.
I'm for issuing handguns,
and putting a shotgun,
and a lockbox in every home.
I cried during the battle scenes in Braveheart,
and I yawned at the end of Titanic.
I hate clothing,
but I love lingerie.
I love freedom, peace,
humanity, and nature,
but I can't stand hippies.
My number one desire is to live
in a post-apocalyptic patriotic infested America.
Did you write that one?
I mean, my brother is kind of an effeminate guy...he wears skinny jeans, dresses a tad hipster-ish, is vegan, but just because he doesn't fit some classical idea of how we expect men to look and act doesn't mean a damn thing. That dude struggled with a deadly serious opiate addiction for the better part of 5 years, including ODs and jail time.....that sort of experience involves a lot of self-loathing....and it took a lot of work to get past that. His outward appearance and mannerisms have not fundamentally changed, but the way he carries himself has....he's not trying to be mine, or yours, or anyone's else idea of a man. He just is....and you can tell it when you meet him. That's why to me being manly (or even womanly) is much more about being comfortable with who you are, everybody else's expectations be damned, you know?
The bigger problem to me is the mixed messages that get modeled to the youth as far as gender roles, especially in the context of relationships. I mean, someone touched on it before, but girls get fed the line that they're both a princess AND an independent diva....while boys get the line that they're supposed to be paragons of masculinity who rescue you AND sensitive BFF's who cry with you when you have your period. I'm not saying that individuals have to conform to one or the other pole, only saying that "That shit is confusing." I mean, I work with a woman (girl? she's like 23) who is actively trying to become a Police Officer, and she told me the other day that she "doesn't even talk to a dude unless he can at least pay my phone bill." Moving goalposts are confusing. I mean, if a girl wants to be an "independent woman" feel free.....but don't then try to be 'Princess-in-need-of-rescuing' when shit gets too tough and you want someone to bail you out.
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POLL: Smoking Ban Support Polls at 61 PercentFARGO — North Dakota voters appear ready to approve Measure 4, an initiative that would ban smoking in public places across the state.
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FARGO — North Dakota voters appear ready to approve Measure 4, an initiative that would ban smoking in public places across the state.
A poll of 500 likely voters conducted for Forum Communications found 61 percent of respondents plan to support the measure on the Nov. 6 ballot, with 36 percent opposed and 4 percent undecided.
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On behalf of Forum Communications Co., Essman/Research of Des Moines, Iowa, conducted a statewide telephone survey of 500 likely North Dakota voters from Oct. 12-15, contacting randomly dialed respondents with both landline telephones (75 percent) and cell phones (25 percent).
The poll has a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent. The breakdown of respondents was divided among:
• Gender: 51 percent women, 49 percent men.
• Political affiliation: 42 percent identified themselves as independents, 35 percent as Republicans, 19 percent as Democrats. Two percent refused to answer the question and 1 percent identified in another way.
• Age: 22 percent were 18 to 30; 26 percent were 31 to 45; 37 percent were 46 to 65; and 15 percent were older than 65.
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