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The Princess Eldest is happy to present her myth she wrote for her Language Arts Class.
My granddaughter Diana and I are sitting in a meadow filled with beautiful daisies. "Oh these daises are beautiful Grandma, will you tell me how they were made?" Diana said. I said, "Well, it all happened long long ago . . .
Once when the gods ruled the lands, there was a beautiful young maiden named Siadiavyn who had a pale, white, complexion with long beautiful golden wavy locks that shimmered down to her waist. Siadiavyn always wore a satin green dress that dragged behind her as she walked. But her looks are not as nice as the inside of her heart. She was very vain of herself and thought she was better than anyone or anything. She also enjoyed playing hard to get with men, which one day made Siadiavyn have a horrific fate.
One day Siadiavyn was walking in a meadow picking up lovely Narcissus flowers and suddenly, out of the blue, a huge storm with lightning came upon her. Shelter was miles on end away and Siadiavyn could not do anything. All she did was stand and complain and weep about how dirty her lovely dress was getting. Then she saw Zeus flying on a lightning bolt through the sky. He stopped close to Siadiavyn and beckoned her to climb aboard.
"Beautiful young maiden," Zeus said as soon as Siadiavyn was aboard the bolt of lightning, "you are so lovely and when I saw you all alone weeping in the storm I thought you might need help so I stopped my noble lightning steed to help you. Oh maiden, won't you tell me your name?"
Siadiavyn sat primly on the lightning bolt and said promptly, " My name is Siadiavyn. And who are you ?"
Zeus said," I am the great god Zeus. Oh, thy lovely Siadiavyn I know that we have just met ,but will you marry me?" Now we must remember Siadiavyn loved to play hard to get with men and she thought she might play that game for not long because she did not want to upset a great god.
Siadiavyn said, "No I will never marry a god as pathetic as you. Trying to sweep me off my feet hmm? A girl like me is too beautiful for a god. You call yourself great? Why don't you look at yourself in a pond? Well I will never ever marry you EVER!!!!" Zeus screamed," How DARE YOU insult a great god like me!! If I had known how vain you are I wouldn't have asked anyway! In fact, you should be down there with Narcissus because you are so vain!!!!"
In a flash, Siadiavyn was down on the ground and a few seconds later Siadiavyn was a vain beautiful looking flower planted in the ground. This flower is now known as a daisy. . . . . .
"I also like to call it a vain daisy," said I. "Diana, do you have a pencil and paper?"
Diana says, "Here Grandma as she hands a pen and a piece of paper to me." See, if you mix all the letters around in Siadiavyn it can also be vain daisy," said I.
"Wow Grandma, I've never noticed that before," Diana says, "Thank you for answering my question Grandma."
I replied," If you ask someone else the story of the daisy they might tell you differently. Just remember, be more creative than the dull boring way to do things. Also remember to not be vain or play hard do get with men like Siadiavyn or there usually will be a bad result."


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With six teams to go, let's turn our attention to the franchise that produced six Pro Bowlers in 2012. And somehow only two wins.
But the Chiefs have had plenty of proud moments, dating back to participation in the first Super Bowl.
Here's your chance to scour the team's rosters all the way back to the days of the Dallas Texans and vote for the four members of the franchise (player, coach, other) who should be on the Chiefs' Mt. Rushmore.
From Hank Stram to Lamar Hunt to Derrick Thomas to Len Dawson to Willie Lanier to Otis Taylor to Emmitt Thomas to Bobby Bell to Tony Gonzalez, there are plenty of deserving candidates. Name your favorites below.


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State rep. reviews police agencies across U.S.
South Carolina Rep. Eddie Tallon, R-Spartanburg, traveled to Reno, Nev. last week for an international conference to review law enforcement agencies. If you didn't know, he's one of the commissioners for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. CALEA sets the standard for police agencies across the nation and provides accreditation. Tallon is a retired Lt. and special agent with the S.C. Law Enforcement Division as well, so he has a vested interest in the well-being and professionalism of police agencies. The… Read More »


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From Turkey's Anadolu Agency:
Israel has begun partitioning East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex with a view to creating a prayer space for Jewish worshippers, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned Wednesday.Dammit, no pictures! I'll have to go to Jerusalem to see it for myself!
"The placement of a glass room inside the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex is a first step toward the spatial division of the mosque," Ahmad al-Ruwaidhi, the OIC's representative in Palestine, said at a Wednesday press conference.
The move, he asserted, "follows the imposition of a temporal division [by Israel] in the form of daily incursions [into Al-Aqsa] by Jewish settlers".
What's more, the move reveals "Israel's intention to dedicate a place for Talmudic rituals inside the Al-Haram al-Sharif," al-Ruwaidhi said, using the Arabic term for the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
And notice how "Talmudic rituals" sounds a lot more sinister than "prayer."
But wait - there's more!
Yes, Israel is weakening the foundations in order to create an artificial earthquake.
The OIC representative also warned of the dangers posed by Israeli excavations that are reportedly being carried out under the holy site.
In light of these excavations, al-Ruwaidhi said, "we fear the Al-Aqsa Mosque could collapse in the event of a natural -- or artificial -- earthquake".
The question isn't why these people believe this. The question is why the rest of the world takes anything else they say seriously.
It would be so easy for a single Western leader to say, "These guys are nuts for claiming these things." It would embarrass them and shame them and it would do more to stop Arab and Muslim antisemitism than a hundred declarations at the UN.
But the fear of upsetting the Muslim leaders is far greater than the mere worry about direct incitement against Jews - incitement that still causes Arabs to stab, shoot at and run over Jews in Israel today.


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The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights
- Doug Johnstone
- 13 December 2007
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Frontman Tim Kasher is a central figure of the Saddle Creek scene, and this established side project is an outlet for a more mainstream sound, contrasting his day job with the explosive Cursive. Unfortunately, while much of Help Wanted Nights is solid enough indie fare, rather a lot of it treads on labelmates Bright Eyes' toes, tracks like 'Your Share of Men' sounding like Oberst's mundane cast-offs. It's a shame, because when he strikes out on his own, like in the simple pop of 'Heartbroke' or the plaintive sorrow of 'You Don't Feel Like Home to Me', Kasher proves himself to be a talented and moving songwriter.


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Before a tenancy agreement commences, as a tenant, you will be required to pay a security deposit. Deposits vary in amount depending on the price of the property you are renting. You can expect to pay the following:
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A security deposit acts as a safeguard for the landlord, ensuring that any damage to the property or expenses incurred, for example, due to missed rental payments, is covered.
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The Internet is a really weird place, which is probably the main reason I love it so. I'm going to tell you a little story about what happens when an innocent conversation on Facebook (okay, maybe "innocent" isn't the right word, but work with me here) goes completely off the rails.
Part One
My daughters and I live far away from each other, but we use Facebook to stay in touch. We're all strange and twisted — anyone who knows us is aware of this fact. The girls were actually together visiting at my oldest daughter's home, and of course, we were conversing a bit via FB. Out of the blue, my oldest daughter posts an update:
"Bitch please."
The youngest daughter was next.
"Bitches don't know."
Oldest daughter:
"Bitches be trippin'."
And then me, because this was just too good not to jump on:
"Bitches be trollin' for a bitch slap."
To make a long story short, this went on for nineteen comments in all, each more hilarious than the last. It was a riot.
Part Two
I'm sure you've seen various memes around the 'net like, "I made the bitch a cake. Bitches love cake," or "I gave the bitch a cookie. Bitches love cookies." Well, every time me or my girls saw a meme like that we just cracked up. Because it's true — bitches DO love cake and cookies.
Part Three
Then, a good friend of mind posted a meme showing three phases of cookies actually baking on the dashboard of a car. I was all like OMG! I have got to try that someday! Another good friend of mine re-posted the meme and begged me to try this and document the process, as it would be great entertainment for her. My oldest daughter concurred, and said, "Mom, you really have to do this."
Part Four
As you may or may not know, I am located in the Midwest which is currently in the midst of one of the hottest summers ever in the land. As in, triple digits for ten days running so far. It is hotter than the armpits of Beelzebub, to which I attribute the next part of this story. My brains are fried, my friends. Totally fried. But since it was my dear friend who needed the entertainment, and with my daughter's support, I figured — what the hell? Worst case scenario, baking cookies in my car would be a dismal failure and best case scenario, I'll have cookies! AND BITCHES LOVE COOKIES!
I didn't know the Internet would lose their damned minds.
Here is a step-by-step description (with pictures and accompanying commentary) how my experience baking car cookies actually played out.
On this day, July 5th, 2012, the temperature was predicted to hit 107 degrees. That's right. ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN DEGREES. Without the heat index. With that in mind, I left early in the morning to procure supplies for Operation: Car Cookies. I notified my kid and my friend I was about to commence the experiment with a photo album dedicated to the process so they could follow along.
Step One
I then set my phone alarm to go off at 2:15 PM CST so I could check on the cookies and provide further documentation of the process. By now I'm sweating like a gym rat (as if! I'm baking COOKIES) and I have work to do. But I will confess I was itching to go back out there and see what the cookies were doing. If anything. But I restrained myself until the alarm went off.
When I went back out there at 2:15 PM CST, this is what I found:
I confess my heart started to beat a little faster. Could it be true? COULD I REALLY BAKE COOKIES IN MY CAR? Afraid to be too hopeful, I further documented the process.
I set my alarm for 4 PM CST. Hell, I had work to do and this is supposed to be the EASY way to bake cookies. All this trekking back and forth was making me SWEAT. The things I do for the people I love. Remember that when I'm too old to wipe my ass, okay?
At 4 PM CST, the alarm sounded. TIME TO CHECK THE COOKIES. This is what I found:
But I'm just here for the cookies.
Okay, set the alarm once again for 6 PM CST. I realized all this trekking out to the car is starting to wear my ass out. I need a nap, but instead I went back to work, anxiously watching the clock and hoping like hell these damned things would be done so I only had to go out into that blistering heat one more time. FINALLY…
Now, for the cookies.
But then, it hit me!
So, that's the story of baking car cookies. But it doesn't stop there, because of course, it's the Internet.
Next thing I know, people are commenting and laughing their asses off, snarfing beverages through their sinus cavities, and clamoring for this photo album on FB to go public. So I did.
Shares everywhere. My email blew up. My Facebook blew up. And I am giggling so hard at all the comments and shit I had to change my pants three times. I AM CRACKING UP. My daughter calls me and we're both giggling so hard we couldn't even understand a word the other one was saying. HILARIOUS. People are vowing to try this at home. Someone suggested bacon chocolate chip cookies next time. Someone else said their husband was going to try meatloaf in their attic, and I laughed so hard I fell out of my chair and scared the cat.
And then? A smart-assed husband of my daughter's BFF posted this:
I laughed so hard I'm pretty sure I ruptured something serious. For real. TOO. DAMNED. FUNNY.
After things had calmed down, I reflected my life is just so effin' hilarious sometimes. All I am is a bitch who wanted cookies. And to make her friends and kids feel better after a spectacularly shitty couple of weeks on the personal front. I thought about all these people giggling or smiling over some stupid, crazy hair I got up my ass, and it brought me to tears. So I ate another cookie and felt much better. Heh.
Oh, and the cherry on top of the cake? My kid called me the Best Mom In The Universe. In public.
Life just doesn't get any better than that.
<3 Special thanks to Stephanie Haworth, Lisa Henderson Perez, Donna McCoy, Tina Bean, Martha Mineo, E Ryan Carr, and all the kindred spirits out there who love car cookies. You people made my MONTH. Much love to you!!
UPDATE: Due to special requests, there are now magnets and mugs available for purchase at my Zazzle store, which is so brand-new it's probably not even visible yet. However, you can find the magnet here and the mug here. More products as time and hilarity allow. If you have a special request, let me know and I'll do my best to accommodate you. As long as it doesn't involve a goat or other barnyard animal.


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...קָטֹנְתִּי מִכֹּל הַחֲסָדִים, וּמִכָּל-הָאֱמֶת, אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָ, אֶת-עַבְדֶּךָ:
Adapted from Ein AYaH:
The Talmud (Shabbat 32a) counsels the following attitude towards miracles:
"One should never put himself in a dangerous situation and say, 'A miracle will save me.' Perhaps the miracle will not come. And even if a miracle occurs, one's merits are reduced."
The Sages learned that one should not rely on miracles from Jacob. When Jacob returned home after twenty years in Laban's house, he greatly feared meeting his brother Esau. He prayed to God, "I am unworthy of all the kindness and faith that You have shown me" (Gen. 32:11). The Sages explained Jacob's prayer in this way: "I am unworthy due to all the kindness and faith that You have shown me." Your miracles and intervention have detracted from my merits.
We need to examine this concept. What is so wrong with relying on miracles? Does it not show greater faith? And why should miracles come at the expense of one's spiritual accomplishments?
The Function of SkepticismSkepticism is a natural, healthy trait. Miracles can have a positive moral influence, but they also have a downside. Reliance on miracles can lead to a weakened or even warped sense of reality.
At certain times in history, God disrupted natural law in order to increase faith and knowledge. However, this intervention in nature was always limited as much as possible, in order that we should not belittle the importance of personal effort and initiative. This is where skepticism fulfills its purpose. Our natural inclination to doubt the occurrence of miracles helps offset these negative side effects, keeping us within the framework of the naturally-ordered world, which is the greatest good that God continually bestows to us. It is preferable that we do not rely on divine intervention, but rather say, 'Perhaps a miracle will not occur.'
Miracles and NatureUltimately, both miracles and natural events are the work of God. So how do they differ? A miracle occurs when we are unable to succeed through our own efforts. By its very nature, a miracle indicates humanity's limitations, even helplessness. When miracles occur, we are passive, on the receiving end.
Natural events are also the work of God, but they are achieved through our skill, initiative, and effort. When we are active, we spiritually advance ourselves by virtue of our actions. Our zechuyot (merits) are the result of the positive, ethical deeds that we have performed. We should strive for an active life of giving, not a passive one of receiving. Such an engaged, enterprising life better fulfills God's will — the attainment of the highest level of perfection for His creations.
Jacob 'used up' merits when he required God's intervention to protect him from Laban and Esau. He admitted to God, "I am unworthy due to all the kindness and faith that You have shown me." But Jacob later regained spiritual greatness through his active struggle against the mysterious angel. "For you have struggled with angels and men, and have overcome them" (Gen. 32:29).
And here's a rather nice song from Yonatan Razel, inspired by these verses; as you can see, he's taken some liberties with the wording, but it works overall...


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Chris Carusone is a partner with the multistate law firm of Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman, PC. Working out of the firm's Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, office, he concentrates on governmental law and regulatory affairs as well as business law and labor and employment matters. Before accepting his current position, Chris Carusone worked in a series of public and private positions in the City of Harrisburg, including tenures as a partner with Conrad O'Brien, PC; a secretary of legislative affairs with the Office of Governor Tom Corbett; an executive deputy attorney general with the Governor's Office of General Counsel; and a chief deputy attorney general with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General.
In addition to practicing litigation in various Pennsylvania and federal courts, Chris Carusone has represented clients in arbitration proceedings and before various administrative boards. Over the course of his career, Mr. Carusone has received a number of honors and distinctions including an Attorney General's Award for Excellence and a Pennsylvania Bar Association Special Achievement Award.


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Can a Web Developer Also be a Web Designer?
When you are a web-developer, you usually get to a point of creating your own web-projects.. And it seems that you can do it on your own, because you are a smart tech guy, right? But when it comes to design, even the best and the smartest developers suffer. Why is that and can it be changed?
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Welcome to The View, an interior design blog full of inspiring ideas for your home.
Get the look you've always wanted with our window films. Available in frost and clear finishes, block out unsightly views or just add a bit of privacy with this fabulous White Floral Design II from The British Library.
Featured in our most recent photoshoot, this monochrome look is timelessly chic!


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|Narrator: Labor MP Claire Craig is planning to improve employment opportunities for youth in the Keppel region. Unemployment is one of the largest issues the region currently faces with at least 200 jobs predicted to be cut in the next six months.
|Footage of MP Claire Craig speaking at the Brisbane House of Representatives
|Narrator: The new member for Keppel says she plans to create more job opportunities in the area by October 2016. MP Claire Craig said that reducing unemployment rates will lead to other developments for Keppel such as improving the local economy and reducing crime risks.
|Vision of people accessing developments along the Yeppoon esplanade
|Ms Craig: "The growing rate of unemployment is adversely impacting businesses and young adults who are entering the workforce and this has to change immediately!"
|Footage of interview with Ms Craig
|Narrator: Ms Craig says one way of creating greater job opportunities in the region would be through increasing pay roll deductions by 15 per cent. This will mean lower payroll tax on business, allowing employers to recruit young trainees.
|Vision of young apprentices in Yeppoon workshop
|Ms Craig: "There are young adults who are willing to step out and work in these industries and they deserve a fair chance at a job. We want to allow people to stay in the region through work and not have to go elsewhere."
|Footage of interview with Ms Craig
|Narrator: Ms Craig says she has high hopes for the future of Keppel and looks forward to working towards broadening job opportunities within the district.
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Given that I have never written an audio-visual script before, I found this task challenging. However, it is making me think deeply about what angle I am going to take and what information to include in my final assignment for this course. I am looking forward to receiving feedback on this as I am currently not as confident as I would like to be in developing a news release.
Listening to the recording of my script, it is apparent that this is a draft and there is room for improvement. When alternating between the narrator and MP, I changed the tone and pace of my voice to indicate the change of speaker. I also paused shortly between each speaker to signal the transition. However, I could have done so in a way that is more distinguishable to the listener. The recording lasts for just over a minute and could be made longer had I slowed the pace of my voice. Throughout the recording my speaking sounds slightly rushed and this is something I will have to work on improving. The script could also be delivered to sound more natural than it does here. It is evident that I am reading what is being said and this has an adverse effect on the overall delivery, especially when reading quotes that are suppose to sound unscripted. This is the first attempt I have had at a task of this kind. Therefore, I will look forward to using feedback for this task when developing the second assignment.
Activities that were most useful to my learning?
Throughout this course, I have come a very long way in terms of understanding the many areas of speech and script and where it can be applied. The activity that stood out most of all to me was task one in week three – summarising the key points of Aristotle's 'Rhetoric'. I had learnt about Aristotle when studying ancient history in high school, yet, I had never been exposed to rhetoric. Despite of how long ago rhetoric was produced, it is still relevant today. Before learning about this, I had never heard the term 'a politician's rhetoric' or the word used in that way. After familiarising with it in this course, I started noticing it everywhere, especially when researching for the other weekly exercises. Knowing about rhetoric was very helpful to me when trying to find sources providing information about formal speech and writing a maiden speech. Through applying rhetoric and its devices such as anecdotes to my writing, it has heightened my understanding of the different forms of persuasion and how it is effectively by an audience.
How my understanding of speaking and script writing has improved during this course?
At this stage in the course, my understanding of speech and script has definitely improved. Exercises such as recording the news read in weeks one and four made me not only consider, but also practice ways to improve my speech. I did not know about inflection and how it used to change the way a script delivered. This significantly helped me understand how to transition from a conversation voice to a professional voice. Recording the piece to camera in week seven also encouraged me to practice reading news as a professional news reader would. I still have trouble achieving a professional voice and it is going to take plenty of practice before I can achieve a professional news reading voice that sounds natural and does not make me anxious. Even practicing speaking alone can be difficult for me as I am quite self-conscious when carrying out these types of tasks. Controlling my nerves and being comfortable with recording my voice are two issues I hope to improve by the end of this course.
The usefulness of this blogging journey and how it has benefited my learning?
Throughout my degree, I have found blogs to be one of the most effective ways to complete an assessment. Having nine separate blog posts, dividing the assignment into multiple meant that I learnt a wider range of activities than I usually would in an essay or report. Having so many tasks to do over the course of completing this blog made it easy to move forward when I became stuck on a particular task. By dividing the activities it also made the assignment more enjoyable as I was not spending all of my time learning about one topic that could become boring. I also enjoyed the practical activities that this assessment incorporated into my learning such as recording my voice and creating a piece to camera for the first time. The nature of the blog posts made it much easier to tie these activities in with the written task. Overall I have found this assignment enjoyable and it has no doubt been beneficial to my learning in regards to speech and script.
How confident I am in heading into assignment two and what issues I am facing at this point of the course?
At this stage of the course, I am relatively confident in starting my final assessment – the maiden speech. Tying the two assessment pieces together has helped me to prepare and consider the approach I am going to take when writing the speech. Had this not been the case, it is very likely that I would not have given any thought towards the second assignment at this point in the course. Tasks such as developing PAIBOC have moved me forward in my understanding of the task and the information that will be vital to the effectiveness of the speech. Politics has always been a somewhat 'grey' area to me, in that I have had so little involvement in it throughout my life. For this reason, the most difficult part of this assignment and the issues I am yet to overcome include understanding what policies should be addressed. Knowing the current issues in the region and how they should be addressed in a maiden speech will be the most difficult aspect for me. Writing an audio-visual script for a news release is another task I have found challenging which is why feedback to this assignment will significantly help me prepare to tackle assignment two. Aside from these issues, I feel focused and motivated to take on the maiden speech, which is more than I could hope for at this stage in the term.
Ames, K, 2016, COMM12033: Speech & Script, Writing Speech – Script Writing, accessed 10 May 2016, https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/293247/mod_resource/content/3/COMM12033_Week9_Mod.pdf
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Catch up on the weekend's top five stories with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. China Oceanwide and Genworth Financial (GNW) announced that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, has completed its review of their proposed transaction and concluded that there are no unresolved national security concerns with respect to the proposed transaction. This satisfies one of the conditions to the closing of the proposed transaction. The closing of the transaction remains subject to other conditions, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals in the U.S., China and other international jurisdictions. 2. KKR (KKR) is nearing an agreement to acquire U.S. physician services provider Envision Healthcare (EVHC) for $46 a share, or about $5.5B, according to Reuters, citing a person familiar with the matter. 3. Fast growth in grid storage will make wind power even more competitive, which is good news for utilities with plenty room to add wind capacity like American Electric (AEP) and Xcel (XEL) and for wind developers like NextEra (NEE), Jack Hough wrote in this week's edition of Barron's. Nuclear-heavy companies in deregulated markets like Exelon (EXC) and Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), on the other hand, could face rising competitive pressures, he added. 4. The female-fronted "Ocean's 8" opened over the weekend to a $41.5M from 4,145 theaters to place number 1 in North America. Overseas, the Warner Bros. (TWX) and Village Roadshow pic grossed $12.2M for a global start of $53.7M. "Ocean's 8" earned a B+ CinemaScore and sports a 68% Rotten Tomatoes score. 5. AbbVie (ABBV), Pfizer (PFE), Merck (MRK), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Eli Lilly (LLY), Southwest (LUV), BMW (BMWYY), Volkswagen (VLKAY), Altaba (AABA) saw positive mentions in Barron's.


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With the publication of Ball Four in 1970, former Yankee Jim Bouton gave the world an honest look at the inside world of baseball including the womanizing, drinking and pill-popping. The MLB was not pleased.
Interview by John DeSio
Village Voice: What are your first impressions of the Mitchell Report? Are you somewhat surprised that there's a lack of bigger names on the report?
Jim Bouton: Those are the only names they've got for sure. You're talking about one guy [who cooperated with the Mitchell investigation], evidently. This probably represents a fraction of the total, actual people that are doing it, that have been doing it. This is not comprehensive by any means.
VV: Where do you think baseball moves forward from this report? Is this the beginning of the issue or is this the final chapter on steroids in baseball?
JB: I have no idea. I don't know how these guys are going to respond to it, I don't know what they're going to do. They'll probably come up with some halfway measure that doesn't really do the job, or they'll come up and they'll say, "Now you can't take human growth hormones [HGH] and you can't take steroids anymore." But then some chemist will come up with something next month, next year, two years from now, some other performance enhancing procedure or drug.
That's why what baseball needs to do, what all the major sports need to do, is take blood tests of these guys now and tell them they're going to save the blood tests. And if it turns out down the road that there's any performance enhancing drugs that currently exist or are created in the future you're going to be responsible for having taken those drugs, even though we have no rules against them. Otherwise this is just a race against the chemists, who are going to come up with masking devices. But if you've got the blood and you're holding on to it, that's going to serve as the baseline for future tests.
I think that's what they need to do, because now they've got a real problem. They could have done something about it a long time ago, and they wouldn't have had to go through this. But because they've waited so long they're now in a situation where they have to do something like this.
VV: The Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa home run chase of 1998, and the overall increase in home runs between then and now, have played a major role in baseball's increased popularity following the 1994 strike. Do you think baseball knowingly turned a blind eye to steroids at that time because it was good for business?
JB: They knowingly turned a blind eye to almost everything. It's not just baseball. It's in politics, it's in business. You're sitting around the White House, or you're sitting around a Congressional staffing meeting, "we've got this big problem, what are we going to do about it?" We're going to keep it secret and not tell anybody about it and maybe we'll be out of here by the time it gets discovered. It's a failure of leadership, we're really lacking in leadership in this country. Not just baseball executives and union executives but business executives and major politicians, presidents, congressmen, senators. It's a shame. Nobody wants to come out and give people the bad news.
VV:When you wrote Ball Four you we're really blackballed for telling the truth, and not about anything quite as damning as steroid use. A few former players and at least one current player [Jason Giambi] cooperated in creating the Mitchell Report. Do you think they'll ever be able to show their face in the clubhouse again?
JB: They shouldn't. The players are partly responsible too. Why weren't they going to their union and pounding their fist on the table and saying, "Look, I'm not taking steroids and I don't want to be competing for a job here on my ball club with guys who are taking steroids, and as a team we don't want to be competing against guys on other teams who are taking steroids. And as our union, I demand that you protect us." But ballplayers are not like that. They don't demand anything, they don't pound on the table, they don't want to get involved in politics. They turned their back on it also. And when it blows up, they get angry.
VV: So in your mind the clean players should be the ones pushing back here?
JB: I don't know how many clean players are naming the dirty ones. I don't know if clean players even know which guys are taking and which guys are not taking. Usually, if a bunch of guys are taking steroids on a ball club they probably know about it among each other. They probably exchange notes, they probably talk about best ways to do it, how to avoid getting caught, etc. I'm sure there are small clubs on the team and if one of those guys betrays they other guys, it's like the mafia.
VV: Senator Mitchell said it is a minority of players who use steroids. Do you agree with that?
JB: How does he know? He didn't have any subpoena power, he hardly talked to any players at all, how can he say it is a minority of players? All we know is that one guy with a handful of witnesses, none of whom were compelled to testify except one guy, and they got all of these names. What kind of number would you get if every player came forward, or if you had subpoena power? It might be five times this amount. So I don't know how you can come to the conclusion that this is it?
VV: There are ways to cheat in baseball beyond steroids, like throwing a spitball or corking a bat. What makes them different from using steroids? Why is steroids worse?
JB: There are different levels of cheating, but steroids is a totally different magnitude, and so is human growth hormone, because it changes the body's chemistry, and it makes you able to perform at beyond your normal different level. That's how it differs, for example, from pep pills, from "greenies" [a common baseball term for amphetamines], which allowed players to perform maybe up to their ability if they weren't feeling well, if they had a hangover from the night before, or if they were just tired. The pep pill would allow them to play up to their ability, but it didn't change their muscle structure, it didn't make them different people.
How it differs from scuffing a ball, that is cheating but it's a much different magnitude. First of all, there as always been sort of an unwritten rule that if you're clever enough you can get away with it. But you have to do it out there in front of everybody, you have to develop a skill that allows you to do something in public. And if you can get away with it then you can.
You can't lump them all together and say, "Well, it's all cheating and what's the difference?" There is a difference. None of those other levels of cheating have anything to do with allowing a player to perform beyond the level of a normal human being.
JB: Do you think that this is going to keep Roger Clemens out of the Hall of Fame?
VV: He'll have to be rejected on a character level, because he certainly had enough statistics to qualify for the Hall of Fame, and so did Barry Bonds, before steroids even came on the scene. So he'd have to be rejected on a character level. But on the other hand, how do you keep someone out on a character level once Bowie Kuhn is in there? I think the Hall of Fame has lost a little bit of its luster recently already anyway. It's going to have to do something to restore that. Pete Rose is not in the Hall of Fame, but I would wager that more games have been unfairly affected by the use of steroids than any games have been affected by Pete Rose's gambling. Not even close.
VV: What about Andy Pettitte? I think the average Yankee fan probably has a better feeling for him than Clemens and is more likely to consider him a "true Yankee."
JB: If you're a true Yankee then you should be allowed to use steroids and get away with it (laughing). If you're not a true Yankee then you shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.
VV: What I meant was if you thought Andy Pettitte could recover from this with the fans?
JB: As far as the fans are concerned, they'll forgive anything. They will absolutely forgive anything. I don't think they're a barometer of a person's legacy. If Charles Manson could hit .300 he'd be playing third base today for the Yankees. And the fans would love him. And so would the sportswriters, and so would the broadcasters. (Imitating a sportswriter's voice) "Charlie, Chucky, Chucky, come over here. You had a great game today, three doubles, wonderful catch in left field, winning hit in the ninth with runners on base. I know you had some problems in your life before but that's all behind you now Chuck. You're hitting .366 and, you know, it's great to have you back."
The fans would love him. (Imitating a crowd chant) "Chucky!, Chucky!" (Imitating a fan) "Charlie, Charlie, could you sign these photos over here, I've got a couple of shots of you in prison, would you sign those? Put your prison number down there too, thanks Charlie."
VV: If you had your way here, if you're in the commissioner's chair, where do you take baseball from here?
JB: I think that baseball needs to understand, the players' association too, that…they've been treating this as a legal problem. These are lawyers, they think this is a legal problem. "Players have a right to privacy," is the position of the players association. They have far more than a legal problem. They've got a historical problem, they've got a national health problem, they've got a credibility problem. So they're going to have to come up with some really, really tough rules. I think baseball needs to go further than any of the other sports. Statistics matter a lot to [baseball fans], so they're going to have to really clean it up. And one thing they can do is have mandatory blood tests.
They can't just say, "OK, we're going to ban human growth hormone now and we're going to ban steroids." They've got to do more than that. They've got to take blood tests and ban anything new that comes up, so that a player knows if you can't buy it in a grocery store don't put it in your body.
VV: Can baseball recover from this?
JB: The beauty of baseball, the beauty of the game, will bail them out every single time, no matter how they try to kill it. No matter what they do, they can't ruin the game. There can be strikes for two years, it's a beautiful game. They can't take that away from it.


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Released: 1987
It was the fall of 1987, when glam and pop metal ruled the hard rock world. But then one Saturday night in September, everything changed when MTV's Headbanger's Ball show debuted the video for "Welcome to the Jungle." The first single from Appetite for Destruction, the debut album by Guns n' Roses, hit the music scene like an atomic bomb, sending shockwaves that influenced everything in its wake.
Singer W. Axl Rose had the teased hair like other glamsters, but GnR's sound had a raw, hard-hitting attack that stood a mile above anything else heard in recent memory. Lyrics such as "When you're high, you never want to come down" spoke out in a candid way that high school and college kids weren't hearing anywhere else. The band's look was different too – these guys appeared more like rock and roll pirates in the tradition of Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones than like glam contemporaries such as Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi, etc.
Appetite started flying off the record shelves and the album was a revelation to the youth of the world. Questions about whether the rest of the album would hold up to the promise of "Jungle" were quickly dispelled – every song had its own vibe and Rose's lyrics were unlike anything else in modern rock, speaking out about the band's sleazy and brazen attitude toward drugs, women and the Hollywood scene. "Jungle" led off the album and then the second track, "It's So Easy," saw Axl and company going even further over the top. When Rose sang lines such as "I see you standin' there, you think you're so cool / Why don't you just fuck off," it resonated with every disaffected youth who had ever felt disrespected by "the cool kids." When Rose sang, "Ya get nothin' for nothin' if that's what you do, turn around bitch I got a use for you / Besides you ain't got nothin' better to do, and I'm bored," it was clear that Rose was a unique personality unlike any that had come before. And it wasn't just the lyrics, but the way Rose sang them. It was immediately apparent that Rose had one of the most distinctive voices in rock history, and his vocals emanated with a soul and authenticity that stood out from the contrived efforts of many of his peers. This was definitely music that your parents were not going to approve of. But such lyrics would mean little if they weren't backed up by great music. GnR also stood out in this regard.
The incendiary yet bluesy solos from lead guitarist Slash were more reminiscent of classic rock masters like Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page than the flashy guitar wizards of other '80s hard rock bands. Like the '70s rockers, Slash played a Gibson Les Paul, rather than the modern guitars with whammy bars favored by most of his contemporaries. He also seemed to have an ever-present bottle of Jack Daniels and pack of Marlboro Reds at his side, making him the Keith Richards of his generation. The rest of the band fit right in with this vibe as well – rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler all appeared to be in a constant state of toxicity, yet ready to go wild and kick a poser's ass at a moment's notice.
The album's impact on the listener's consciousness grew with each song, a truly rare characteristic. Track three, "Nightrain," sizzled with attitude as Rose sang about getting wasted on cheap street wine. In an early interview, Rose said that the song was about a beverage that was loved by winos – not to mention the band – because it only cost about two dollars and would get you "loaded like a freight train, flyin' like an aeroplane, feelin' like a spacebrain." Needless to say, sales of the wine skyrocketed across the country when fans realized it was an actual product and could indeed get you blitzed on a thrifty budget.
There was no let-up in track four, as "Out Ta Get Me" detailed what would become Rose's characteristically paranoid state of mind toward the world around him. The anti-authoritarian lyrics only made Rose more endearing to anyone in the midst of the teenage rebellion phase of life. What teenager who had ever gotten in trouble for anything couldn't relate to lyrics like, "They're out ta get me, they won't catch me / I'm fucking innocent, they won't break me."
Track five, "Mr. Brownstone," was yet another instant classic. With a funkier and more syncopated riff than most of the more straight-forward rock on the album, "Brownstone" helped show the band's diversity. This was a song you could actually dance to. Like "Nighttrain," the lyrics spoke frankly about the pursuit of altered states – "I used to do a little but a little wouldn't do, so the little got more and more / I just keep tryin' to get a little better, said a little better than before / We've been dancing with Mr. Brownstone, he's been knockin', he won't leave me alone." While ostensibly written about the band's heroin problems, Rose would go on to tell live audiences that the song could be about any addiction, from drugs to watching too much TV and becoming a couch potato. This was part of the genius of Axl Rose at the time – he was a larger than life figure, yet able to pen lyrics with a universal appeal to the disaffected. It wasn't long before stoners across America were giving their bongs names like "Slash" or "Mr. Brownstone."
Track six, "Paradise City" was essential in helping cement the band's persona as more than just sleazy L.A. rockers. With its shimmering guitars, basic backbeat and lyrics that conjured a permanent vacation to a fantasy paradise, GNR had a spring break anthem that made them an All-American group who could appeal to the preppy kids and frat crowd as well as the metal-head and stoner kids. Slash's ridiculous outro solo further established him as one of the premiere blues rock guitarists of his generation.
Six classic tracks that blew the lid off the listener's expectations, and this was only side one of the album! Back in the late '80s, most people were still buying their music on cassette tapes instead of CDs, so "Paradise City" capped off side one with a bang and there was still a whole second side to go.
"My Michelle" returned to detailing the sleazy underbelly of the band's Sunset Strip origins, as Rose sang about a girl whose "daddy works in porno, now that mommy's not around / She used to love her heroin, but now she's underground / So you stay out late at night and do your coke for free / Driving your friends crazy with your life's insanity."
But then the album took a surprising detour with consecutive love songs! "Think about You" was a straight-forward rocker, but with surprisingly romantic lyrics by rhythm guitarist Stradlin. It wasn't a song the band would often feature live though, as opposed to the all time classic that followed it, "Sweet Child of Mine."
Released as a single in the summer of 1988, "Sweet Child" was the song that propelled GnR from buzz band to international megastars. The melodic opening riff remains one of the most distinct and memorable in rock, while Rose's touching lyrics toward his then-girlfriend showed his rarely displayed tender side. The song shot straight up to #1 and boosted Appetite's sales from gold to multi-platinum. It wasn't just headbangers buying the album now. The song's sweet vibe shifted to a minor key for the outro section though, giving Slash a chance to wail an intensely bluesy solo to keep the headbangers interested. This was the hard hitting "gun" to accompany the tender "rose" as it were, which epitomized the band's diverse sonic palette (more of which would be seen on the Use Your Illusion albums in 1991, with epic ballads like "November Rain," "Don't Cry," and "Estranged.")
"Sweet Child" was followed by another manic rave up in the form of "You're Crazy," which showcased Rose at his manic best in a high-octane rocker about love gone wrong – "You don't want my love, you want satisfaction, you don't need my love, you gotta find yourself another piece of the action / 'cause you're crazy, you're fuckin' crazy."
"Anything Goes," the album's penultimate song, saw GnR join their Sunset Strip brethren with a tune wholly dedicated to the pursuit of sexual escapades – "Panties 'round your knees, with your ass in debris / Doing' that grind with a push and squeeze, tied up, tied down, up against the wall / Be my rubbermaid baby, and we can do it all / My way, your way, anything goes tonight." But unlike most of their peers whose albums were filled with such songs, it almost seemed like GnR threw this one on as an afterthought, since it was rarely played live.
Last but most definitely not least on Appetite was "Rocket Queen," one of the album's strongest tunes. An album this great needed a classic closer, and GNR delivered with a vengeance. McKagan's dynamic bass line that opens the tune is one of the band's heaviest and most distinct grooves, swimming in a sea of psychedelic guitar fills. This promised more than just another standard four-on-the-floor rocker to close things out. (The groove would also provide a chance for McKagan and Adler to jam out together live while other band members took a brief break.) Slash and Izzy then traded sharp riffs over the groove as Rose launched into another screed about his adventures with promiscuous women – "I've seen everything imaginable pass before these eyes / I've had everything that's tangible, honey you'd be surprised / I'm a sexual innuendo, in this burned out paradise / If you turn me on to anything, you better turn me on tonight." Slash's bluesy slide riffs, over pants and moans from Rose and a female accomplice, recalled Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," further establishing GNR's classic rock roots. But then the band throws another curveball by shifting into a major-key outro section where Rose confesses his compassionate affections in lyrics that once again struck a more universal appeal.
Appetite remains one of the best selling rock albums of all time, and like the host of classic rock albums that influenced it, continues to sell in strong numbers to each successive generation that grows into the adolescent curiosity about the classic trilogy of sex, drugs and rock and roll. One could argue that no album better encompasses those themes than Appetite for Destruction.
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Like A Closed Fist by E.H. Nolan. The synopsis of this book describes a woman who enters into a whirlwind of falling in love. Pheobe is heading to North Carolina for a wedding but she doesn't expect to meet two new potential love interests while seeing a couple exes. This book sounds fun and a little dangerous, promising entertainment and uncertain waters.