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I hear a lot of good things and bad things
about Adobe Premiere. It's a great program,
but I've been using Ulead VideoStudio 4 EVER.
It's a great program and I'm doing a little
shameless promotion for all those sick of
Premiere. I can still take these files through
VirtualDub and AE, so it's really no difference.
The biggest difference here is that when you
zoom or crop any frame or scene, there is a
lot less blur which makes removing logos and
subtitles a lot prettier and less hassle.
The biggest difference is some times you don't
get a full picture. So does anyone know how
I could clean the opening credits of a show without
having to do image editing, which is very time
And also our software reviews aren't very
helpful to me. So could someone else give me a list of
what they consider the best editing programs.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Supervillian,
Ulead VideoStudio
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Clean Opening and Closing credits can sometimes be found on the DVDs (moreso for the newer anime that aren't ThinPak collections from ADV). But for many older series, the only source might be the odd laserdisc collection (rare and expensive). And for everything else (including very new, just aired in Japan and not yet available on DVD anime), the only solution is to edit every frame by hand.
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But, the american intro for Naruto is totally different from the japenesse one. Ack. What's a boy to do but frame by frame editing.
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They do.
They do, but unfortunately, it's not clean. Meaning there's text in the way everywhere.
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Just was checking out Figures.com, and saw that NECA has acquired the long impossible to get Hellraiser license. Originally McFarlane was after it, but Disney the company that owns Dimension Films didn't want toys of the Centobites out there. It seems that some progress has finally been made, and a plethora of merchandise is in the works. Action Figures, Busts, Prop Replicas,Lunchboxes, Shooters, Shirts, Stickers, Jackets, Hats and much more. A dream come true, here's the two articles and links as well.
NECA Acquires HELLRAISER License (9/25/2002)
Action figures, busts, props and more!
Many have tried, all have failed! Until now... NECA has opened the box to an entirely new dimension of terror. For the first time ever NECA will deliver an entire line of licensed "Hellraiser" collectibles. NECA's master license will include all categories such as Action Figures, Busts, Prop Replicas,Lunchboxes, Shooters, Shirts, Stickers, Jackets, Hats and much more. Watch for further details in weeks to come.
"Hellraiser" was released to shocked audiences in 1987 by renown writer of the macabre Clive Barker. Directed and written by Barker, the film spun the tale of solving a puzzle cube- the Lamont Configuration - a doorway to hell. It also introduced the world to the Cenobites, angels to some, demons to others, whose greatest pleasure is the greatest pain.
HELLRAISER Update (10/03/2002)
New info on upcoming action figures and collectibles.
As we announced last week, NECA had been awarded the master license to produce collectibles based on Hellraiser.
New details have now surfaced.
*Rights include all SIX Hellraiser movies. For those doing the math and are baffled, a sixth movie is currently in the works. Entitled "Hellraiser: Hellseeker" and scheduled for direct video in the next couple months, this movie will reunite fans with Pinhead, as well as introducing horror hounds to several new Cenobites including "The Surgeon".
*Figures will be 7" in scale - in other words they will blend in nicely with your McFarlane Tortured Souls collection. The original Cenobite gang are certainly on the platter: Pinhead, Butterball, the Chatterer, and female. With all 6 flicks under their belt, NECA has over 20 Cenobite characters to choose from...
*A high end Lament Configuration (the cube) Prop Replica is being worked on.
*Resin Busts are being worked on.
Stay glued for further news...
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Kopp to speak in forum on educational inequities, Dec. 2
Posted November 30, 2004; 10:43 p.m.
Teach for America president Wendy Kopp will be among the participants in a panel discussion on "Educational Inequities: Strategies to Close the Achievement Gap" at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Kopp, a member of Princeton's class of 1989, founded Teach for America, a program in which recent college graduates teach in public schools. She will be joined on the panel by Dallas Dixon, a member of Princeton's class of 1974 and headmaster of the Emily Fisher Charter School in Trenton, and Jason Klugman, program administrator for the University's Program in Teacher Preparation .
The discussion is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Pace Center for Community Service.
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Bungie Reveals "Destiny" and Its Vision for the Next 10 Years of MMO Gaming
It's a large-scale MMO set in a post-apocalyptic world, but the gameplay and social interaction is supposed to be far more natural and fluid than other MMOs. There will apparently not be any subscription model, so gamers won't have monthly fees to deal with, either.
If nothing else, the concept sounds like a fun setup for a game. Some alien force nearly wiped out humanity, but a mysterious orb called the Traveler saved what's left of our species. The Traveler appears dead, but the giant ball hangs over the city that humanity's remnants cobbled together. But apparently weren't not alone, and the creatures on the outside of the city are trying to finish us off. Players start out as guardians of the city and are armed with some of the Traveler's (very cool) weapons.
By dint of being a MMO world, the city you're protected is sort of populated by real people joining the game from all over. And of course, you can create your own character, earn gear, and fight enemies, and there will be options for solo activities as well as collaborative ones.
What's more, Bungie plans to develop a certain storyline with Destiny over the course of the next decade. There will be 10 "books", complete with a story arc, so it follows that the world will evolve in a manner of speaking even as people participate in activities to change things within it.
This is a seriously bold venture for Bungie, but it sounds deeply intriguing. Here's hoping they can pull it off.


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Information about small-scale fisheries here and around the world!
Off the Hook Community Supported Fishery would not have been possible without the help and support of many individuals, organizations and local businesses.
Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Nova Scotia Co-operative Council
Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network (ACORN)
Skipper Otto's Community Supported Fishery
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Thom Knowles Graphic Design
Becky Cliche Photography
We are also pretty excited about other things happening in the area!
Brier Island Whale and Seabird Cruises
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Kevin Anderson | Director of Lacrosse/Head Coach
Alma Mater: Pfeiffer, 2009
E-mail: email@example.com
Office Phone: (828) 884-8347
Anderson comes to Brevard from Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia, where he has served as the men's assistant lacrosse coach since October of 2010. At Piedmont, Anderson was an integral part of the cultivation of the men's lacrosse program for their first year of NCAA Division III competition in the spring of 2012.
"We are extremely excited to have Kevin on board to begin the foundation of the lacrosse program at Brevard College," said Mascaro. "Kevin has demonstrated the ability to recruit high quality student-athletes, and his experience with the establishment of lacrosse as a new sport on a college campus will prove invaluable."
Anderson was responsible for on-field coaching, recruiting, opponent scouting, and academic support while at Piedmont. Anderson helped coach the Lions to a 5-7 record in their inaugural season, and led an offense that finished 21st in the country in goals scored average.
"I am looking forward to introducing the Brevard community to the sport of lacrosse, and starting a tradition of lacrosse excellence at Brevard College," Anderson said.
Anderson concluded his tenure at Piedmont as an Admissions Advisor, where his duties included implementing recruitment strategies and managing a recruitment territory to assist in achieving enrollment goals for the college.
Prior to his time at Piedmont, Anderson served as a coach for the Chadstone Lacrosse Club of Melbourne, Australia in the summer of 2009.
Anderson was a four-year starter and two-year team captain on the Pfeiffer University lacrosse team from 2005-2009. He was named Team MVP and finished eighth in the nation in assists per game as a senior.
Brevard College's first lacrosse season is slated for the spring of 2014. Men's and women's lacrosse are two of four new South Atlantic Conference sports on the league's 2013-14 schedule.


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The Graphic Arts blog highlights a variety of images and items from its collection, and invites comments from visitors to the website or to the Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts in Firestone Library. A series of handpainted tintype portraits by unknown artists of African Americans from the late 1800s have been posted in the hopes that some could be recognized and identified. Blog: African American Portraits, 1860s-1880s
The collection has more than 60 casts of faces of famous men and women from the 18th and 19th centuries, including Benjamin Franklin (above, possibly made by Jean Antoine Houdon), Napolean Bonaparte, Queen Elizabeth I, George Washington and Isaac Newton. Blog: Life and Death Masks
Images courtesy of The Graphic Arts Collection of the Princeton University Library
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Featured blog: The Graphic Arts Collection
Posted October 3, 2011; 12:00 p.m.
The Graphic Arts Collection of the Princeton University Library includes more than 22,000 examples from the history of graphic design, printing and binding. In addition to regularly featuring selections in the Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts in Firestone Library, the collection highlights its exhibitions and new additions on its Graphic Arts blog.
Hop'o my Thumb presents the Seven League Boots to the king in this plate from George Cruikshank's 1853 printing. Blog: Cruikshank's fairy tales
Scribner's Magazine's pioneering color illustrations took nine passes to print, as shown in this set of proofs for an 1897 edition. Blog: Cover of Scribner's Magazine
The collection contains a copy of the first printed copy of "The Tale of Genji," published with woodcut illustrations by an unknown artist in 1654. The novel was originally released on handwritten scrolls in the early 11th century. Blog: Summer reading: The Tale of Genji
A photo from an unknown artist taken on April 25, 1865, shows President Abraham Lincoln's hearse being pulled past mourners in New York City as part of a 180-city route on the road to his burial in Springfield, Ill. Blog: Lincoln's Funeral
Manfred von Richthofen, also know as the Red Baron, is shown receiving a medal from the German military leader Paul von Hindenburg in this 1917 photo by an unknown artist. Behind him is his trademark red Fokker Dr.1 triplane. Blog: Red Baron receiving medal
This 19th-century stick was hand-carved and colored by a member of the Potawatomi tribe as an identification guide for a medicinal herb garden. Blog: Native American Taxonomy
George Woodward and Thomas Rowlandson partnered to produce this series of etchings of Lilliputians in the early 1800s. The cartoons were published as sheets of strips that could be cut and hung in homes as whimsical borders. Blog: Woodward's grotesques


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Wes Anderson should always make movies featuring characters who are pubescent or younger — like Rushmore, which until this film was his best. That limits his range, perhaps, but who else can capture with such chilling accuracy that fragile period between childhood and disillusionment, the time when the novelty of true love overwhelms the heart with its immensity and futility?
The stricken youth here is Sam (Jared Gilman), a somber 12-year-old orphan enduring a stint of summer camp with the "Khaki Scouts" on a quaint island off the New England coast in 1965. Unlike Max in Rushmore, here the object of Sam's ardor, Suzy (Kara Hayward), is not too old for him, but the same age. It doesn't make any difference. In both cases, their love is socially unacceptable.
Nonetheless, the underaged pair are determined to fulfill their destiny and arrange to run away from the disapproving real world to a place where they are free to live happily ever after. This plan liberates Anderson's imagination as well. Unlike The Royal Tennenbaums, the grown-ups here seem merely extraneous rather than existentially unhinged. Anderson shoots both the regimented scout camp and Suzy's equally regimented home with clever tracking shots but not much originality. You can tell his heart is elsewhere. Usually he can find a sympathetic adult persona in Bill Murray, but not so this time. It says a lot that Bruce Willis as Captain Sharp, the island's "sad" police chief, makes a deeper impression than an uncharacteristically inert Murray as Suzy's father, Mr. Bishop.
And so the pair trek across the island, pursued for the most part by Sam's fellow scouts, and in their time together, equipped with various artifacts of the age like Suzy's portable turntable (Anderson's soundtrack, as usual, is esoteric and impeccable) and Sam's (perhaps anachronistic) coonskin cap, they innocently tap into the spirit of an age on the cusp of the counter-culture and political anarchy. The tone is enchanted but not nostalgic, an effect enhanced by the low-affect acting, the whimsically designed mise-en-scene, and the deadpan editing where scenes end just before, or after, you think they should. The film's oneiric look, even more evocative than the painstaking animation of Fantastic Mr. Fox, enhances the mood, with images combining the overripe colors of 50-year-old snapshots, the simplicity and magic of children's book illustrations, and the nostalgic intimacy of old dollhouses and toy chests.
Beneath the whimsy, absurdity, and nascent paganism, though, lingers a premonition of loss and corruption. Violence breaks out, arrows fly, drawing real blood, a reminder that when kids are left to their own devices they can just as easily turn out like the castaways in Lord of the Flies as the Lost Boys in Peter Pan. And then a hurricane heads their way, a pathetic fallacy that should be trite but which is goofy enough to arouse a nagging sense of dread.
Having so exquisitely created the lost paradise of Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson hesitates to puncture the illusion. Hayward, with her lopsided face and stern, defiant eyes, and Gilman, with his not quite fully formed but already deeply melancholic features, seem ready for the transition. Tragically, but triumphantly, Anderson is not.
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MOTHER did not get back to her writing all that day, for the red-jerseyed hound whom the children had brought to Three Chimneys had to be put to bed. And then the Doctor came, and hurt him most horribly. Mother was with him all through it, and that made it a little better than it would have been, but "bad was the best," as Mrs. Viney said.
The children sat in the parlour downstairs and heard the sound of the Doctor's boots going backwards and forwards over the bedroom floor. And once or twice there was a groan.
"It's horrible," said Bobbie. "Oh, I wish Dr. Forrest would make haste. Oh, poor Jim!"
"It is horrible," said Peter, "but it's very exciting. I wish Doctors weren't so stuck-up about who they'll have in the room when they're doing things. I should most awfully like to see a leg set. I believe the bones crunch like anything."
"Don't!" said the two girls at once.page: 269
"Rubbish!" said Peter. "How are you going to be Red Cross Nurses, like you were talking of coming home, if you can't even stand hearing me say about bones crunching? You'd have to hear them crunch on the field of battle—and be steeped in gore up to the elbows as likely as not, and—"
"Stop it!" cried Bobbie, with a white face; "you don't know how funny you're making me feel."
"Me, too," said Phyllis, whose face was pink.
"Cowards!" said Peter.
"I'm not," said Bobbie. "I helped Mother with your rake-wounded foot, and so did Phil—you know we did."
"Well, then!" said Peter. "Now look here. It would be a jolly good thing for you if I were to talk to you every day for half an hour about broken bones and people's insides, so as to get you used to it."
A chair was moved above.
"Listen," said Peter, "that's the bone crunching."
"I do wish you wouldn't," said Phyllis. "Bobbie doesn't like it."
"I'll tell you what they do," said Peter. I can't think what made him so horrid. Perhaps page: 270 it was because he had been so very nice and kind all the earlier part of the day, and now he had to have a change. This is called reaction. One notices it now and then in one's self. Sometimes when one has been extra good for a longer time than usual, one is suddenly attacked by a violent fit of not being good at all. "I'll tell you what they do," said Peter; "they strap the broken man down so that he can't resist or interfere with their doctorish designs, and then some one holds his head, and some one holds his leg-the broken one, and pulls it till the bones fit in—with a crunch, mind you! Then they strap it up and—let's play at bone-setting!"
"Oh, no!" said Phyllis.
But Bobbie said suddenly: "All right—let's! I'll be the doctor, and Phil can be the nurse. You can be the broken boner; we can get at your legs more easily, because you don't wear petticoats."
"I'll get the splints and bandages," said Peter; "you get the couch of suffering ready."
The ropes that had tied up the boxes that had come from home were all in a wooden packing-case in the cellar. When Peter brought in a trailing tangle of them, and two boards for splints, Phyllis was excitedly giggling.page: 271
"Now, then," he said, and lay down on the settle, groaning most grievously.
"Not so loud!" said Bobbie, beginning to wind the ropes round him and the settle. "You pull, Phil."
"Not so tight," moaned Peter. "You'll break my other leg."
Bobbie worked on in silence, winding more and more rope round him.
"That's enough," said Peter. "I can't move at all. Oh, my poor leg!" He groaned again.
"Sure you can't move?" asked Bobbie, in a rather strange tone.
"Quite sure," replied Peter. "Shall we play it's bleeding freely or not?" he asked cheerfully.
"You can play what you like," said Bobbie, sternly, folding her arms and looking down at him where he lay all wound round and round with cord. "Phil and I are going away. And we shan't untie you till you promise never never to talk to us about blood and wounds unless we say you may. Come, Phil!"
"You beast!" said Peter, writhing. "I'll never promise, never. I'll yell, and Mother will come."
"Do," said Bobbie, "and tell her why we tied you up! Come on, Phil. No, I'm not a beast, page: 272 Peter. But you wouldn't stop when we asked you and—"
"Yah," said Peter, "it wasn't even your own idea. You got it out of Stalky!"
Bobbie and Phil, retiring in silent dignity, were met at the door by the Doctor. He came in rubbing his hands and looking pleased with himself.
"Well," he said, "that job's done. It's a nice clean fracture, and it'll go on all right, I've no doubt. Plucky young chap, too—hullo! what's all this?"
His eye had fallen on Peter who lay mousy-still in his bonds on the settle.
"Playing at prisoners, eh?" he said; but his eyebrows had gone up a little. Somehow he had not thought that Bobbie would be playing while in the room above some one was having a broken bone set.
"Oh, no!" said Bobbie, "not at prisoners. We were playing at setting bones. Peter's the broken boner, and I was the doctor."
"I was the nurse," put in Phyllis, cheerfully.
The Doctor frowned.
"Then I must say," he said, and he said it rather sternly, "that it's a very heartless game. page: 273 Haven't you enough imagination even to faintly picture what's been going on upstairs? That poor chap, with the drops of sweat on his forehead, and biting his lips so as not to cry out, and every touch on his leg agony and—"
"You ought to be tied up," said Phyllis; "you're as bad as—"
"Hush," said Bobbie; "I'm sorry, but we weren't heartless, really."
"I was, I suppose," said Peter, crossly. "All right, Bobbie, don't you go on being noble and screening me, because I jolly well won't have it. It was only that I kept on talking about blood and wounds. I wanted to train them for Red Cross Nurses. And I wouldn't stop when they asked me."
"Well," said Dr. Forrest, sitting down.
"Well—then I said, 'Let's play at setting bones.' It was all rot. I knew Bobbie wouldn't. I only said it to tease her. And then when she said 'yes,' of course I had to go through with it. And they tied me up. They got it out of Stalky. And I think it's a beastly shame."
He managed to writhe over and hide his face against the wooden back of the settle.
"I didn't think that any one would know but page: 274 us," said Bobbie, indignantly answering Peter's unspoken reproach. "I never thought of your coming in. And hearing about blood and wounds does really make me feel most awfully funny. It was only a joke our tying him up. Let me untie you, Pete."
"I don't care if you never untie me," said Peter; "and if that's your idea of a joke—"
"If I were you," said the Doctor, though really he did not quite know what to say, "I should be untied before your Mother comes down. You don't want to worry her, just now, do you?"
"I don't promise anything about not saying about wounds, mind," said Peter, in very surly tones, as Bobbie and Phyllis began to untie the knots.
"I'm very sorry, Pete," Bobbie whispered, leaning close to him as she fumbled with the big knot under the settle; "but if you only knew how sick you made me feel."
"You've made me feel pretty sick, I can tell you," Peter rejoined. Then he shook off the loose cords, and stood up.
"I looked in," said Dr. Forrest, "to see if one of you would come along to the surgery. There are some things that your Mother will want at once, page: 275 and I've given my man a day off to go and see the circus; will you come, Peter?"
Peter went without a word or a look to his sisters.
The two walked in silence up to the gate that led from the Three Chimneys field to the road. Then Peter said:—
"Let me carry your bag. I say, it is heavy—what's in it?"
"Oh, knives and lancets and different instruments for hurting people. And the ether bottle. I had to give him ether, you know—the agony was so intense."
Peter was silent.
"Tell me all about how you found that chap," said Dr. Forrest.
Peter told. And then Dr. Forrest told him stories of brave rescues; he was a most interesting man to talk to, as Peter had often remarked.
Then in the surgery Peter had a better chance than he had ever had of examining the Doctor's balance, and his microscope, and his scales and measuring glasses. When all the things were ready that Peter was to take back, the Doctor said suddenly:—
"You'll excuse my shoving my oar in, won't you? But I should like to say something to you."page: 276
"Now for a rowing," thought Peter, who had been wondering how it was that he had escaped one.
"Something scientific," added the Doctor.
"Yes," said Peter, fiddling with the fossil ammonite that the Doctor used for a paper-weight.
"Well," said the Doctor, "you know men have to do the work of the world and not be afraid of anything—so they have to be hardy and brave. But women have to take care of their babies and cuddle them and nurse them and be very patient and gentle."
"Yes," said Peter, wondering what was coming next.
"Well, then, you see. Boys and girls are only little men and women. And we are much harder and hardier than they are—" (Peter liked the 'we.' Perhaps the Doctor had known he would.)—"and much stronger, and things that hurt them don't hurt us. You know you mustn't hit a girl—"
"I should think not, indeed," muttered Peter, indignantly.
"Not even if she's your own sister. That's because girls are so much softer and weaker than we are; they have to be, you know," he added, "because if they weren't, it wouldn't be nice for page: 277 the babies. And that's why all the animals are so good to the mother animals. They never fight them, you know."
"I know," said Peter, interested; "two buck rabbits will fight all day if you let them, but they won't hurt a doe."
"No; and quite wild beasts—lions and elephants—they're immensely gentle with the female beasts. And we've got to be, too."
"I see," said Peter.
"And their hearts are soft, too," the Doctor went on, "and things that we shouldn't think anything of hurt them dreadfully. So that a man has to be very careful, not only of his fists, but of his words. They're awfully brave, you know," he went on. "Think of Bobbie waiting alone in the tunnel with that poor chap. It's an odd thing—the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done. I've seen some brave women—Your Mother's one," he ended abruptly.
"Yes," said Peter.
"Well, that's all. Excuse my mentioning it. But nobody knows everything without being told. And you see what I mean, don't you?"
"Yes," said Peter. "I'm sorry. There!"page: 278
"Of course you are! People always are—directly they understand. Every one ought to be taught these scientific facts. So long!"
They shook hands heartily. When Peter came home, his sisters looked at him doubtfully.
"It's Pax," said Peter, dumping down the basket on the table. "Dr. Forrest has been talking scientific to me. No, it's no use my telling you what he said; you wouldn't understand. But it all comes to you girls being poor, soft, weakly, frightened things like rabbits, so us men have just got to put up with them. He said you were female beasts. Shall I take this up to Mother, or will you?"
"I know what boys are," said Phyllis, with flaming cheeks; "they're just the nastiest, rudest—"
"They're very brave," said Bobbie, "sometimes."
"Ah, you mean the chap upstairs? I see. Go ahead, Phil—I shall put up with you whatever you say because you're a poor, weak, frightened, soft—"
"Not if I pull your hair you won't," said Phyllis, springing at him.
"He said 'Pax,'" said Bobbie, pulling her away. "Don't you see," she whispered as Peter picked up the basket and stalked out with it, "he's sorry, page: 279 really, only he won't say so? Let's say we're sorry."
"It's so goody goody," said Phyllis, doubtfully; "he said we were female beasts, and soft and frightened—"
"Then let's show him we're not frightened of him thinking us goody goody," said Bobbie; "and we're not any more beasts than he is."
And when Peter came back, still with his chin in the air, Bobbie said:—
"We're sorry we tied you up, Pete."
"I thought you would be," said Peter, very stiff and superior.
This was hard to bear. But—
"Well, so we are," said Bobbie. "Now let honour be satisfied on both sides."
"I did call it Pax," said Peter, in an injured tone.
"Then let it be Pax," said Bobbie. "Come on, Phil, let's get the tea. Pete, you might lay the cloth."
"I say," said Phyllis, when peace was really restored, which was not till they were washing up the cups after tea, "Dr. Forrest didn't really say we were female beasts, did he?"
"Yes," said Peter, firmly, "but I think he meant we men were wild beasts, too."page: 280
"How funny of him!" said Phyllis, breaking a cup.
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"May I come in, Mother?" Peter was at the door of Mother's writing room, where Mother sat at her table with two candles in front of her. Their flames looked orange and violet against the clear gray blue of the sky where already a few stars were twinkling.
"Yes, dear," said Mother, absently, "anything wrong?" She wrote a few more words and then laid down her pen and began to fold up what she had written. "I was just writing to Jim's grandfather. He lives near here, you know."
"Yes, you said so at tea. That's what I want to say. Must you write to him, Mother? Couldn't we keep Jim, and not say anything to his people till he's well? It would be such a surprise for them."
"Well, yes," said Mother, laughing, "I think it would."
"You see," Peter went on, "of course the girls are all right and all that—I'm not saying anything against them. But I should like it if I had another chap to talk to sometimes."
"Yes," said Mother, "I know it's dull for you, page: 281 dear. But I can't help it. Next year perhaps I can send you to school—you'd like that, wouldn't you?"
"I do miss the other chaps, rather," Peter confessed; "but if Jim could stay after his leg was well, we could have awful larks."
"I've no doubt of it," said Mother. "Well perhaps he could, but you know, dear, we're not rich. I can't afford to get him everything he'll want. And he must have a nurse."
"Can't you nurse him, Mother? You do nurse people so beautifully."
"That's a pretty compliment, Pete—but I can't do nursing and my writing as well. That's the worst of it."
"Then you must send the letter to his grandfather?"
"Of course—and to his schoolmaster, too. We telegraphed to them both, but I must write as well. They'll be most dreadfully anxious."
"I say, Mother, why can't his grandfather pay for a nurse?" Peter suggested. "That would be ripping. I expect the old boy's rolling in money. Grandfathers in books always are."
"Well, this one isn't in a book," said Mother, "so we mustn't expect him to roll much."page: 282
"I say," said Peter, musingly, "wouldn't it be jolly if we all were in a book, and you were writing it? Then you could make all sorts of jolly things happen, and make Jim's legs get well at once and be all right to-morrow, and Father come home soon and—"
"Do you miss your Father very much?" Mother asked, rather coldly, Peter thought.
"Awfully," said Peter, briefly.
Mother was enveloping and addressing the second letter.
"You see," Peter went on slowly, "you see it's not only him being Father, but now he's away there's no other man in the house but me—that's why I want Jim to stay so frightfully much. Wouldn't you like to be writing that book with us all in it, Mother, and make Daddy come home soon?"
Peter's Mother put her arm round him suddenly, and hugged him in silence for a minute. Then she said:—
"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing the book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right—in the way that's best for us."page: 283
"Do you really believe that, Mother?" Peter asked quietly.
"Yes," she said, "I do believe it—almost always—except when I'm so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I can't believe it, I know it's true—and I try to believe it. You don't know how I try, Peter. Now take the letters to the post, and don't let's be sad any more. Courage, courage! That's the finest of all the virtues! I dare say Jim will be here for two or three weeks yet."
For what was left of the evening Peter was so angelic that Bobbie feared he was going to be ill. She was quite relieved in the morning to find him plaiting Phyllis's hair on to the back of her chair in quite his old manner.
It was soon after breakfast that a knock came at the door. The children were hard at work cleaning the brass candlesticks in honour of Jim's visit.
"That'll be the Doctor," said Mother; "I'll go. Shut the kitchen door—you're not fit to be seen."
But it wasn't the Doctor. They knew that by the voice and by the sound of the boots that went upstairs. They did not recognise the sound of the page: 284 boots, but every one was certain that it had heard the voice before.
There was a longish interval. The boots and the voice did not come down again.
"Who can it possibly be?" they kept on asking themselves and each other.
"Perhaps," said Peter at last, "Dr. Forrest has been attacked by highwaymen and left for dead, and this is the man he's telegraphed for to take his place. Mrs. Viney said he had a local tenant to do his work when he went for a holiday, didn't you, Mrs. Viney?"
"I did so, my dear," said Mrs. Viney from the back kitchen.
"He's fallen down in a fit, more likely," said Phyllis, "all human aid despaired of. And this is his man come to break the news to Mother."
"Nonsense!" said Peter, briskly; "Mother wouldn't have taken the man up into Jim's bedroom. Why should she? Listen—the door's opening. Now they'll come down. I'll open the door a crack."
He did.
"It's not listening," he replied indignantly to Bobbie's scandalised remarks; "nobody in their senses would talk secrets on the stairs. And page: 285 Mother can't have secrets to talk with Dr. Forrest's stable-man—and you said it was him."
"Bobbie," called Mother's voice.
They opened the kitchen door, and Mother leaned over the stair railing.
"Jim's grandfather has come," she said; "wash your hands and faces and then you can see him. He wants to see you!" The bedroom door shut again.
"There now!" said Peter; "fancy us not even thinking of that! Let's have some hot water, Mrs. Viney. I'm as black as your hat."
The three were indeed dirty, for the stuff you clean brass candlesticks with is very far from cleaning to the cleaner.
They were still busy with soap and flannel when they heard the boots and the voice come down the stairs and go into the dining room. And when they were clean, though still damp,—because it takes such a long time to dry your hands properly, and they were very impatient to see the grandfather,—they filed into the dining room. Mother was sitting in the window-seat, and in the leather-covered arm-chair that Father always used to sit in at the other house sat—
THEIR OWN OLD GENTLEMAN!page: 286
"Well, I never did," said Peter, even before he said, "How do you do?" He was, as he explained afterwards, too surprised even to remember that there was such a thing as politeness—much less to practise it.
"It's our own old gentleman!" said Phyllis.
"Oh, it's you!" said Bobbie. And then they remembered themselves and their manners and said, "How do you do?" very nicely.
"This is Jim's grandfather, Mr.—" said Mother, naming the old gentleman's name.
"How splendid!" said Peter; "that's just exactly like a book, isn't it, Mother?"
"It is, rather," said Mother, smiling; "things do happen in real life that are rather like books, sometimes."
"I am so awfully glad it is you," said Phyllis; "when you think of the tons of old gentlemen there are in the world—it might have been almost any one."
"I say, though," said Peter, "you're not going to take Jim away, though, are you?"
"Not at present," said the old gentleman. "Your Mother has most kindly consented to let him stay here. I thought of sending a nurse, but your Mother is good enough to say that she will nurse him herself."page: 287
"But what about her writing?" said Peter, before any one could stop him. "There won't be anything for him to eat if Mother doesn't write."
"That's all right," said Mother, hastily.
The old gentleman looked very kindly at Mother.
"I see," he said, "you trust your children, and confide in them."
"Of course," said Mother.
"Then I may tell them of our little arrangement," he said. "Your Mother, my dears, has consented to give up writing for a little while and to become Matron of my Hospital."
"Oh!" said Phyllis, blankly; "and shall we have to go away from Three Chimneys and the Railway and everything?"
"No, no, darling," said Mother, hurriedly.
"The Hospital is called Three Chimneys Hospital," said the old gentleman, "and my unlucky Jim's the only patient, and I hope he'll continue to be so. Your Mother will be Matron, and there'll be a hospital staff of a housemaid and a cook—till Jim's well."
"And then will Mother go on writing again?" asked Peter.page: 288
"We shall see," said the old gentleman, with a slight swift glance at Bobbie; "perhaps something nice may happen and she won't have to."
"I love my writing," said Mother, very quickly.
"I know," said the old gentleman; "don't be afraid that I'm going to try to interfere. But one never knows. Very wonderful and beautiful things do happen, don't they? And we live most of our lives in the hope of them. I may come again to see the boy?"
"Surely," said Mother, "and I don't know how to thank you for making it possible for me to nurse him. Dear boy!"
"He kept calling Mother, Mother, in the night," said Phyllis. "I woke up twice and heard him."
"He didn't mean me," said Mother, in a low voice to the old gentleman; "that's why I wanted so much to keep him."
The old gentleman rose.
"I'm so glad," said Peter, "that you're going to keep him, Mother."
"Take care of your Mother, my dears," said the old gentleman. "She's a woman in a million."
"Yes, isn't she?" whispered Bobbie.
"God bless her," said the old gentleman, taking page: 289 both Mother's hands, "God bless her! Ay, and she shall be blessed. Dear me, where's my hat? Will Bobble come with me to the gate?"
At the gate he stopped and said:—
"You're a good child, my dear—I got your letter. But it wasn't needed. When I read about your Father's case in the papers at the time, I had my doubts. And ever since I've known who you were, I've been trying to find out things. I haven't done very much yet. But I have hopes, my dear—I have hopes."
"Oh!" said Bobbie, choking a little.
"Yes—I may say great hopes. But keep your secret a little longer. Wouldn't do to upset your Mother with a false hope, would it?"
"Oh, but it isn't false!" said Bobbie; "I know you can do it. I knew you could when I wrote. It isn't a false hope, is it?"
"No," he said, "I don't think it's a false hope, or I wouldn't have told you. And I think you deserve to be told that there is a hope."
"And you don't think Father did it, do you? Oh, say you don't think he did."
"My dear," he said, "I'm perfectly certain he didn't."
If it was a false hope, it was none the less a page: 290 very radiant one that lay warm at Bobbie's heart, and through the days that followed lighted her little face as a Japanese lantern is lighted by the candle within.


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I've just finished watching this fantastic ten minute film about traffic in Copenhagen. You should watch it too:
Here are some notes I jotted down while watching it, to give you a flavor:
* Commuting traffic: 1/3 bike, 1/3 public transport, 1/3 private car
* Very few helmets
* Normal clothes, including skirts
* Baskets
* Some fantastic bikes!
* 4 lane road, with heavy traffic, reconfigured to take space from cars to give to bikes - same capacity as before, but slower and safer
* About five minutes in, pedestrianised shopping area - with bikes!
* Removed car parking, to create a "people street"
* Pedestrian-priority street - open to pedestrians, bikes and cars - two way for bikes and people, one way for cars - a mix of users, cars go really slow. Less rigid on pedestrians or car streets, now mixing them safely
* Bike investment is small money compared to cars investment
* Do it a bit at a time; never have a big plan to switch from cars to people, because you'll lose the election - people will think it's impossible, but it isn't.
[Found on the cycleliciousness blog.]
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Contested Streets - Copenhagen
3 comments:
- Brian & Irene said...
Now that is the way forward, we in the UK are miles behind.
- 3:25 pm, September 24, 2007
- An Inconvenient Truth said...
Finally found time (and bandwidth) to watch. Wonderful and inspirational. "It's great to wake up each morning knowing that your city is just that little bit better than yesterday". I'd be happy to live with that kind of aspiration.
- 9:38 pm, September 28, 2007
- wuppidoc said...
I remember Copenhagen in the 60s. It was so noisy that you could not sleep during the night without earprotection. This development is amazing, and it shows me that Darlington could achieve that easily.
How about inviting the traffic engineer Sören Elle to Darlo to have a quiet discussion with the traffic engineers in Darlo??
- 1:29 pm, October 18, 2007
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It's the dawn of a new year. From our perch on the frontier of electronic civil liberties, EFF has collected a list of a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we think will play a significant role in shaping online rights in 2010.
In December, we'll revisit this post and see how it all worked out.
1. Attacks on Cryptography: New Avenues for Intercepting Communications
In 2010, several problems with cryptography implementations should come to the fore, showing that even encrypted communications aren't as safe as users expect. Two of the most significant problems we expect concern cellphone security and web browser security.
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A few weeks ago, EFF published its first draft of a Buyer's Guide to E-Book Privacy, which summarized and commented on the privacy-related policies and behaviors of several e-readers. In that first draft we incorporated the actual language of the privacy policies as much as possible, which unfortunately created some confusion since companies generally use different language to address similar issues. We also did a few other things clumsily.
Cory Doctorow, my former EFF colleague, now novelist and all-around-inspiration, gave a stirring speech entitled "How to Destroy the Book" in November at a Canadian conference dedicated to literacy. Fittingly, it was spontaneously transcribed and posted online at The Varsity.ca. The whole thing is terrific, but the first portion, an elegy to books and what they mean to us, is stirring and highly recommended to anyone who loves books:
As we count down to end of 2009, the emerging star of this year's holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the electronic book reader (or e-reader). From Amazon's Kindle to Barnes and Noble's forthcoming Nook, e-readers are starting to transform how we buy and read books in the same way mp3s changed how we buy and listen to music.
This is the fifth in a series of posts about the proposed Google Book Search settlement.
As we've explained in earlier posts, when it comes to evaluating the proposed Google Books settlement, the principal potential benefit to the public (increased access to books online) must be weighed against the potential drawbacks (impediments to competition, inadequate protection for privacy). Another potential downside for the public in the proposed settlement is the risk of censorship.
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Actual 10-year cost of Pelosi Plan: $1.8 trillion
posted at 1:25 pm on November 5, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Nancy Pelosi tried selling the notion that her version of ObamaCare would only cost $900 billion in the first ten years, later bumped to over $1 trillion when looking at gross costs. Harry Reid's Senate version promises to come in at around the same level. However, both versions rely on three years of delay in implementing their spending plans, which allows for accrual of revenues from new taxes as well as a false sense of the real ten-year costs in the bills. The New York Post reads the CBO report and discovers that the actual ten-year cost is twice what Pelosi claimed:
Don't buy the claim that the Sen ate health-care bill is substantially more moderate than the House measure. While Speaker Nancy Pelosi's legislation is even more onerous than the package created by Sen. Max Baucus and now championed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the larger story is how similar the two Democratic bills are.
First, we need to get past the misleading accounting games. Each bill is routinely "scored" for its 10-year costs from 2010-19. Yet this includes several years when the spending wouldn't yet have kicked in. According to the Congressional Budget Office, fully 99.9 percent of the Pelosi bill's costs would hit from 2013 onward. Similarly, 98.3 percent of Reid's spending would come after 2014.
If you start the tally when the bills' spending would actually start (in 2013 for the House bill and 2014 for the Senate bill), then the bills' real 10-year costs become clear — and are remarkably similar.
The CBO reports that, in their true first 10 years, the House bill would cost $1.8 trillion, and the Senate bill would cost $1.7 trillion. Pelosi would raise Americans' taxes by $1.1 trillion over that period, while Reid would hike them by $1 trillion.
And the House bill would siphon about $800 billion from Medicare to spend it elsewhere, while the Senate bill would suck out about $900 billion.
What does that do to the deficit? According to the CBO, the first ten years of the Pelosi plan would add $650 billion to the deficit, while the Reid plan in the Senate would hike it by $740 billion. And that assumes that one can count the money coming from Medicare cuts as true deficit reduction, which is arguable, since the Medicare system is already deeply in the red.
In other words, both Democrats have relied on accounting gimmicks to lie about the true costs of the bills. This may not come as much of a shock to Hot Air readers, but the scope of the lie is simply breathtaking. If this bill was truly cost-beneficial to the country, its advocates would not be spending this much effort to cover up its costs.
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We headed off to a little Polish restaurant for breakfast, since the really cool vintage coffee shop at the hotel a couple doors down from us seems to refuse to open, EVER. *snort* (can you tell we were disgruntled? We felt cheated, it looked so cool from outside, and it had tons of plate glass windows, so it was a real tease!) At any rate, we were lured into the Polish restaurant by the promise of crepes. I can tell you that if Tristan and I went to Paris together, we would never stop eating, because there are creperies on practically every corner there, it seems.
Breakfast was great. The restaurant is open-ended, so as you dine the fresh lake air comes in and you can gaze at the lake in a stupor as you wait for the coffee to kick in. Tristan had strawberry blintzes, and I had Polish-style eggs with yellow Polish cheese and tomatoes, garnished with pickles. Pickles with breakfast make me giggle! The eggs were terrific, and so were the blintzes. We were stuffed! When we got back to our cabin, we found Chris eating her breakfast of Corn Pops, toast and jam, and a molasses cookie. Cookies for breakfast make me giggle too.
The important business of breakfast done, we found some Scooby Doo cartoons on TV and sat on our butts for a while. Then eventually we ambled up the street to the post office, which still has some really cool old decorative fixtures from its early days, like the little counter where you can address your mail, etc. Beautiful!
Then we wandered off to the local Price Chopper grocery via the back lanes behind the main drag, despite the friendly warnings of Ann, our motel manager, who told us how they overcharge for everything there because of the tourists. It wasn't too bad, since we weren't really buying anything.
We picked up some fabulous Koffee Kup glazed doughnuts and the latest issue of the Weekly World News. We were hoping for some cool postcards or something in the way of souvenirs tucked into a dusty corner, but in this we were, as usual, disappointed. We wandered back to the cabin, finding an occasional Budweiser can beneath a bush left over from the Americade antics from the week before. Back at the cabin we continued lollygagging and sat around and read. Lunch, of course, was made up of Koffee Kup doughnuts and tea.
Eventually we headed off in the afternoon to catch up with my friend Bob Walp, up in Chestertown. On the way we passed some grafitti on Route 9 between Warrensburg and Chestertown that had the names "Spunky" and "Pudgie" linked by an infinity sign. Cool!
We managed to find Bob's small woodshop where he sells prints, handmade books, and beautiful handmade cutting boards without too much trouble. I went upstairs to see his art studio in the attic, which is quite beautiful, with lots of new woodwork and white paint, well-lit and equipped for doing what he does best. Looking out the back window I saw a youth in a tricorn hat and a man striding off into the wood with old rifles propped over their shoulders, as if out of some kind of time warp. Shortly after, a number of shots rang out in the quiet countryside, through the trees.
These turned out to be Bob's brother and niece, Mark and Eliza. Eliza was off to perform target practice on an art project that had turned out not to her liking, a red mannequin head of some sort. Kapow! That tells you just how cool Eliza is. Or, if you haven't figured it out, let me tell you -- Eliza is COOL.
Her father, Mark, is also an artist. We all visited with them for a little while before heading off to Bob's house for dinner. Mark paints fantastic paintings. When I think of what they put me in mind of, I'll tell you... sort of a mix of N.C. Wyeth's palette and bolder versions of his figures, all mixed up in narrative symbolic canvases... does that make any sense? Anyways, I wish I had extra $$$ so I could buy one of them, because they haunt me now in my memories. Beautiful. At any rate, we had a good sitdown around their table and felt very at home.
While we were there, we found out that a couple of houses down from Bob's shop (which is next door to Mark's house), is the house that the creator of Captain Marvel (you know, SHAZAM!) owned and spent summers in. The folks that bought it later told Bob that the upstairs bathroom had been covered in doodles and they had covered it over when renovating. Tristan had a heart attack. Talk about lost art!!! SHee whillikers.
From there we followed Bob over to his house, where we met Trudy, his lovely wife. :) Trudy is terrific. We also met their cats. So between the three of us and the two of them, it was a house full of cat people, always a good thing. Bob built the house himself (with help from additional labor, of course) and it is gorgeous. A wonder of huge windows and well-planned spacing. A lot of the wood furnishings in the house are also his.
Dinner was delicious -- the first time Tristan and I (and Chris, I'm guessing) had ever had taupenaude. It was part of the red sauce over pasta that Trudy served us. This was accompanied by a terrific salad and a delicious strawberry rhubarb pie. Let me say that Trudy knows how to cook!!! :) Once again, we were stuffed. Coffee made the rounds, and the guys got to talking about wireless Mac networks and all that good stuff. The rest of us rambled about conversationally.
By the time we left, there were fireflies winking around the driveway, and there was a certain amount of rustling in the undergrowth that made us wonder what was out there in the woods (oh, please let it be an improbable Sasquatch!). A cat popped its head out at one point, but I don't think it was alone! All in all it was a terrific day.


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Anthony Alford, a two-sport star at Petal High School before signing with Southern Miss a year ago, has enrolled at Ole Miss, according to reports.
As a quarterback, Alford was a U.S. Army All-American and in baseball became a third-round draft pick of Toronto.
He passed on pro baseball and played as a true freshman on an unsuccessful Southern Miss team that finished 0-12 in 2012.
Alford's enrollment or status with the football team has not been confirmed by Ole Miss. He would have to sit out the 2013 season under NCAA transfer rules.
The Rebels return their starting quarterback – Bo Wallace, The Conerly Trophy winner as Mississippi's top college football player – who will be a junior in 2013 and currently list two quarterbacks in their recruiting class of verbal commits.
Alford encountered legal problems in Hattiesburg. Late in November he was arrested for his role in an on-campus fight and was charged with aggravated assault. It is alleged that Alford threatened someone with a weapon.
Alford appeared in nine games, starting five, and also struggled with injuries. He was 57 for 127 passing for 664 yards, two touchdowns and four interceptions. He also rushed for 329 yards and six scores.


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Just married!
As the title suggests, I've just got married. This site is going to be updated soon with photos from the wedding, and with general news from both of us. Tonight we're off to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban at the Imax, having failed to get tickets to tonights Prom concert.


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MuayThai Premier League 3rd Round Results
- Written by Rian Scalia
The MuayThai Premier League continued today with their third event, this time in The Hague, Holland. The event, like both of the MPL's previous two events featured some well known and top talent. Among the fighters featured on the event were the world's top fighter at 77-82kg, Artem Levin, Mohammed Khamal, It's Showtime 73MAX World Champion Yohan Lidon and Nieky Holzken.
As per usual so far, there was no available way to watch the event live. It's likely we'll have to wait a bit for the event to be broadcast on The Score in Canada. Other than that, maybe someone got some cell phone videos. Full results below. Thanks to AFAV and Muay Thai Authority.


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I wonder how long it will take the so-called "independants" to realize the direction America is going?
There is no reason to ever believe the sycophants of the Obama doctrine will understand what they are doing to ruin a once great nation. So that 35% aside, will the rest of us rise up in time to stop what's happening before it is too late to salvage our liberty???, our freedoms???, our constitution?
It's hard to remain even remotely optomistic that we can turn back the destruction we are about to witness. I suspect Atlas has already shrugged, and Humpty Dumpty is teetering precariously.
Saddly, I'm not alone in this belief. As feared, the corrupt have used the class envy to gain power over the have-nots, and the oligarchy will soon be in total control. I wish you "independants" well. As quickly as this "change" is occurring, the time to explain it all to your grandkids will be just around the corner. I "hope" they understand.
The Entitlement Generation
"The American" makes Endangered Species List!
By JB Williams
This column is the subject of a book I am working to finish, as justice
to this topic cannot be done in a single column, or even a short series
of columns.
But it is such a pressing matter at this moment in American history that
I didn't want to wait for book publication to address the very real
threat to freedom inherent with the death of uniquely American
principles and values.
"The American" is officially on the list of endangered species today,
and unless we do something to save this vital species quickly, freedom
will exist nowhere on earth. Doubt this statement for even a second, at
your own peril!
After 232 years of unparalleled freedom, liberty and prosperity, the
United States of America is on the brink of collapse. Yes, in part due
to evil political forces who long ago sold their souls for an ounce of
wealth and power, pushing the nation into a corner to further their
quest for even more power-but to a larger degree, due to the decline of
the American spirit from sea to shining sea.
The land of the free and home of the brave is now controlled by the
entitlement generation. That magical generation that comes along in
every free society, once the people at large have forgotten the price
and value of individual freedom.
Once the people have been trained to despise that which we all once held
in common, the love of freedom and liberty, and focus all attention upon
that which divides, our racial, religious, sexual and economic
"diversity," placing that which divides us above that which once united
us, the nation cannot stand!
Class envy becomes the driving force in all political decisions. Deep
seated division and dissention rule the day and people look to take that
which they feel entitled to, from those who used their freedom to
To be sure, we currently have the most corrupt anti-American government
in the history of the United States. But what bothers me more is how we
got here, and how the decline of "Americanism" is likely to make matters
much worse, before things can get any better.
At the end of the day, the American people get the government they vote
for, and today too many Americans are voting for a government that
promises "free stuff" in place of "freedom." There is no running from
this reality.
As is the purpose of a good vacation, I had the opportunity to leave the
phone, email and news behind and spend a few days in the sun and surf
with my family. It gave me an opportunity to clear the cobwebs. It also
provided an unexpected but interesting lesson which I want to share with
Years ago, you couldn't get a half a mile off shore in the Gulf of
Mexico without having a family of dolphin swim up beside the boat and
almost leap into the boat and pop a top with ya. This time, the dolphin
wouldn't come within twenty feet of the boat, and I couldn't help but
wonder what had changed.
In talking with a local area boat captain later that evening, I learned
that the local government had outlawed feeding dolphin some years
earlier, instituting a $10,000 fine if you are caught feeding dolphin
even once.
We have never fed the dolphin in the first place, but apparently, many
others had and over time, the dolphin had become too friendly with
boaters, too dependent upon meals from vacationers and eventually, an
endangered species in the Gulf as the dolphin either died from a boat
prop, or had lost the ability to feed themselves after snow birds
returned home up north.
The only way to save the dolphin was to outlaw the feeding of dolphin,
so that these beautiful mammals could regain their ability to survive in
the wild.
And then it hit me, how odd that we were able to figure out the damage
done to dolphins by making them dependent upon "free food" - but could
not make the same judgment in light of the life long damage done to
entire generations of human beings, by the same mistakes that had cost
dolphins and many other species their very lives, to the point of
extinction in some cases.
I began to wonder why we were intelligent enough to recognize the
dangers involved in free-feeding dolphins, but not see the same dangers
involved in free-feeding human beings, creating the same kind of
dependencies that put many other species on the endangered list.
Then I realized - if dolphins could vote, it would still be legal to
feed them...
Welfare is not an act of personal generosity. It is a political strategy
for gaining and holding power.
Charity requires the consent of the giver, without which, it's tyranny,
not charity.
Today's "left" (the current cabal running Washington DC) is only
generous with the earnings and assets of others. How many times do we
have to see the embarrassing charitable donations, or lack thereof, in
people who preach about welfare the most?
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have the worst history of personal charitable
giving of any two men to ever enter the White House, yet they are the
most "welfare" minded individuals in US history. Though they have a
dismal record of giving personally, they demand that all others make
sacrifices for the "needy," which they have never made individually.
As I have said before, welfare is not an act of charity or generosity.
It is an act of tyranny against America's most productive, and a
political strategy aimed at empowering people like Obama and Biden, not
average citizens.
If dolphins could vote, we would be encouraged to feed them in order to
gain their political support, and in the end, their political dependency
upon those who promise to feed them forever.
But since dolphins can't vote, we can't free-feed them.
Since government dependents make perfect Democrat voters, we must
continue to feed them even though the result is an entire generation of
entitled dependents increasingly unable to feed themselves in the wild.
The end result is a dying breed in the land of the free and home of the
brave. "The American" is officially on the endangered species list as a
species no longer as interested in personal freedom as socio-economic
equality - A growing number of Americans who have been trained by their
feeders to feel entitled to the spoils of others who have toiled and
sacrificed for the natural fruits of their labor.
So long as American citizens continue to choose the life of a parasite,
free-feeding upon the benefits earned by others, they will continue to
vote their feeders into power. For a time, this will seem a fantastic
victory for the "have-nots" until the atrophy of individual survival
skills sets in, and the "haves" opt out, leaving the feeding trough
What happens next will shock many Americans. When those who have been
trained not to feed themselves are no longer being fed by others, they
will first turn to violence, and then, begin to die completely
ill-prepared to survive on their own.
What has been done to this generation of American citizens, all in an
evil political strategy aimed at empowering the political elite while
enslaving both "haves" and "have-nots," is nothing short of criminal.
If there is a $10,000 fine for free-feeding dolphin, there should be
mandatory life imprisonment for those who insist upon free-feeding human
beings. Destroying the life of a dolphin is bad enough, but doing even
worse to human beings is unforgivable.
In the end, nobody will react more violently than those who were so
easily fooled by the promise of free-stuff. None will be more aggressive
in their demands for access to the earnings of others. - None will pay a
greater price for the disaster they created either!


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by Andofanatic, Mar 18, 2013.
What a ridiculous poll.
:shelves my "K. Chen, Sotskova, Sakhanovich, who had best and poorest career" poll in embarrassed disgust:
Sotskova, K.Chen.......
I do believe Ms falling_dance is not being quite truthful.
Sotskova, K. Chen
Anyway, the correct answer is too obvious for me to bother polling the Trash Can dwellers.
I voted -Lysacek best career, Joubert worst
I voted like lala looking at it as best career, not who is necessarily the best skater. And sorry, but Chan's record, especially with the controversy over this year's World gold, just doesn't hold up as well as Lysacek's (or Lambiel's for that matter).
I am the furthest thing from a Chan fan, and I even adore Evan Lysacek compared to Chan, LOL! However all the controversy does not take away medals, they will still forever be recorded in history, they will never be taken away (barring something out of the blue like a doping scandal) and Chan has the most medals, gold medals, and impressive collection of medals of this list by a long ways. I fail to see how controversy has any impact on your "record", maybe your reputation which would come into play how great a skater or champion you are, but not your record. To think Lysacek's Olympic Gold or Lambiel's Olympic silver elevate their careers above Chan or make up for their other massive deficits by comparision, is to exagerrated the value of Olympic medals to a height they dont deserve (eg- Olympic Gold would have to be worth atleast 3 World titles to elevate Evan's career above Chan's, and an Olympic silver worth atleast 2 World titles to elevate Lambiel's career above Chan's). Given that you also seem to think Kim with 2 Olympic Golds would still have a lesser career to Kwan and even Vinson Owen it seems you have flucuating standards on the value of those Olympic medals depending on the skater as well.
I second this. It's ridiculous to refer to any of these as having the "poorest" career when they all are so accomplished (and some are still competing!!).
Besides, as usual it will just devolve into "who I like best" poll.
I think David is the most logical. LOL. This poll has made me weary of high minded proclamations. I am happy for a dose of unbiased analysis. LOL. It is true that Chan had a chance for an Olympic medal on home territory, and he did not make it happen. Perhaps, though, he will follow in Evan's pattern and do better at his second Olympics. Any medal in Sochi could elevate his career above the lot.
1. Chan- 3 World titles above all others.
2. Lambiel- 2 World titles + Olympic silver above all remaining others
3. Takahashi- I was going to say Lysacek 3rd since Olympic Gold + World Gold > 1 World gold + Olympic bronze, but Takahashi has so many other great results while Lysacek is kind of empty outside his top couple results so I say Takahashi.
4. Lysacek- Olympic Gold + World gold atleast has to put him over Joubert.
5. Joubert- longevity, smongevity, the big wins just arent there. Same with Takahashi, but atleast he has an Olympic medal of some color to go with his World title.
Obviously Eva Lysacek had the best career of the bunch.
*Olympic Gold Medal winner 2010
*World Champion 2009
-GPF Champion
-National Champion
-tons of other GP,national, and World championship medals.
Someone told me Evan only went to worlds four times? Is this correct? meaning he medal in 3/4 appearances. I went to Wikipedia and it says the same thing!!!!!
His track record is:
Olympics: 1st. , 4th.
Worlds: 1st., 3rd., 3rd., 5th., (for some reason I remember him finishing 7th one time)
GPF: 1st., 3rd.
4cc: 1st.,1st.,2nd.,3rd.,3rd., 10th.
GPs: 1st 2x., 2nd. 6x, 3rd. 2x, 5th. 2x.
US Nats: 1st 2x., 2nd 2x, 3rd. 2x.
Ps: to put Chan in this category is unfair. He's still winning gold medals and is our future Olympic gold medalist. Unless something completely changes and the judges have a change of heart.
The poll results are funny. About the same # of people think Lambiel, Takahashi, and Lysacek had the best career, all less than Chan, and more than Joubert. Yet worst career Lysacek is by far the highest, with Joubert a distant 2nd. It seems there are some widely varied opinions on Evan's career and its value. The other funny thing is Chan isnt overwhelmingly winning the poll. Based purely on achievements, Chan has achieved way more than the others and his medal count is far above all the others, and should have 95% of the votes are more. So many people must be docking his career worth due to all his controversial wins and medals, and giving him less value for some of those.
It has definitely becoming funny. Is this a popularity contest?
Lambiel vs Lysacek- 2 Worlds + Olympic silver > Olympic Gold + World Gold, since 3 huge achievements is over 2, even if one of the 2 is the biggest. 2 Grand Prix final wins > 1 Grand Prix final win, and 3 European silvers competing against Plushenko, Joubert, Lindemann, Verner, and Brezina > only 2 U.S titles competing against only Weir and Abbott, less than Weir and Abbott have.
Lambiel vs Takahashi- 2 Worlds + Olympic silver > 1 Worlds + Olympic bronze
Lambiel vs Joubert- 2 Worlds + Olympic silver > 1 Worlds + no Olympic medal
Lambiel vs Chan- 2 uncontroversial Worlds + Olympic silver > only 1 legit Worlds
So I would say Lambiel for the best. Now comparing the rest:
Takahashi vs Chan- 1 legit Worlds + 1 robbed of Worlds + Olympic medal > only 1 legit Worlds
Takahashi vs Lysacek- Evan's only edge is a higher Olympic medal but Takahashi still has one, and Takahashi with his better Worlds resume, and better resume at every other event there is gets the edge.
Takahashi vs Joubert- I go with Takahashi since Joubert doesnt even have an Olympic medal and they are similar otherwise.
So Takahashi 2nd best career
Chan vs Lysacek- 3 World titles, even if 2 are diminished as they were blatant gifts, and all the other stats he has over Evan, is enough to overcome Evans Olympic Gold and only 1 World title.
Chan vs Joubert- Chan clearly the winner here too.
Chan 3rd best.
Lysacek vs Joubert- Lysacek's Olympic Gold vs Joubert's way better career everywhere else. Would go with Joubert I guess.
Joubert 4th best.
Lysacek worst.
So best career: 1. Lambiel, 2. Takahashi, 3. Chen, 4. Joubert, 5. Lysacek
Best skater I would say though: 1. Takahashi, 2. Lambiel, 3. Joubert, 4. Chan, 5. Lysacek (just way behind 4th place here rather than only a bit behind like best career)
Best legacy in the sport: 1. Lambiel, 2. Takahashi, 3. Joubert, 4. Lysacek, 5. Chan (due to all the controversy being his biggest legacy)
Am I seeing the poll results. How can anyone note vote for Chan amongst this group. Is that some joke, only 30% think he had best career. The other guys careers are a joke compared to his. It doesnt matter if you hate Chan the most, you think he is the most overrated skater, if you even think he is the worst skater (although you have to be stupid given his amazing basics), but thinking he had a less great CAREER than anyone on this list!?!?
Lysacek- Unless an Olympic Gold is worth atleast 3 World titles he doesnt come close.
Lambiel- Less World titles than Chan, no Olympic Gold, and couldnt even win Europeans, or barely win any events his career outside his 2 Worlds.
Takahashi- Only 1 Worlds and no Olympic Gold.
Joubert- Same as Takahashi.
Chan is the best career even his biggest hater should admit by alot.
How is Lysacek's career better than Chan's. Only 2 Worlds or Olympic Golds vs 3 for Chan, two World bronze vs two World silver, grand prix wins is something like 10 to 2 at this point, grand final wins is more for Chan too . Evan's career is nothing on Chan's, regardless who you think is the better skater, you must be an Evan fan.
Joubert never had a memorable performance. All he has is medals. His skating has no artistry at all and fugly crouchy jumps and weak spins. He had charisma and big jumps and was a good competitor, the only reasons he had success, along with French federation politics with Gaigerhuet at the helm during his success. Gaigerhuet is not there anymore and looks his results are now bad even when he skates good.
Joubert has amazing charisma and that translates very well on the ice. He is a 6.0 skater caught in a COP world. His artistry is different from Chans. Now I am a big chan fan but I got to give Joubert his due. Joubert really drew me into his program when I saw him live at worlds.
OK maybe Joubert is better than I said. However how is anyone picking Chan as not the best career. I dont see what case there is for anyone else. Even Evan with his Olympic Gold is so far behind in every other way he has no case.
I know this is a typo but thank you for making me smile on a bad day!
After Sochi I would say:
1. Lambiel- 2 uncontroversial World titles, Olympic silver, 2 uncontroversial grand prix final titles
2. Chan- 3 World titles but 2 of them huge controversies so diminished in value, 1 Olympic silver
3. Takahashi- 1 World title but 3 total top 2 medals at worlds, 1 wuzrobbed of a 2nd gold, Olympic bronze. 1 gold and 4 top 2 medals at Grand Prix final
4. Joubert- 1 World title but 4 top 2 medals at worlds, no Olympic medal. Large mix of European titles and medals.
5. Lysacek- 1 World title, 1 slightly controversial Olympic Gold, and 1 Grand Prix final title. However no other top 2 medals at any of the events, so last place overall.
This poor is poorly set up.
Ah, battle of the middle achievers.
1. Lambiel
2. Chan
3. Takahashi
4. Lysacek
5. Joubert
I don't think Lysacek is behind BJou, even if I don't like his skating at all. Though he does have to be known as the quad less olympic champ forever, and it's not like he makes up for it with memorable or special artistry (a la Buttle's world title).
Objectively if you just count medals, I think Chan would come out ahead but there's just too many fishy wins in his career and A LOT of poor performances at high level comps.
I am split on Joubert vs Lysacek. You have to give Joubert some success for his great Europeans success. Heck look at his record at Europeans vs Lambiel for instance, way superior. Lysacek achieved less at his own Nationals than Joubert at Europeans, and the field is about 10 times weaker than Europeans where Joubert competed against Plushenko, Lambiel, Verner, and Lindemann annually. Lysacek competed against a group of men who amassed a combined 1 world medal at his Nationals and still cant match Joubert's European record so safe to say if he was European his Europeans record would pale compared to Joubert and even Lambiel. Plus Joubert has 3 world silvers in addition to his World gold. Evan outside his Olympic gold and World gold has nothing better than a bronze medal.
That's true but I think the stakes are exponentially bigger with worlds and Olympics that regional wins are hard to compare. I do give Joubert credit for having the toughest competition. He's one of the few who managed to beat Plushenko in his prime (and not on technicality) but he is overall still a pretty inconsistent competitor.
Lysacek is just an extremely lucky person. He managed to peak when the tech in the sport was at its lowest point in over a decade and he took advantage of the weakened field. But in terms of accomplishment, holding it together at the Olympics and winning over a legend is a big career achievement.
Fair point. I still think the Europeans is a pretty big event though and you still have to give Joubert some credit for his amazing record though. While the others besides Lambiel didnt get to compete there we can guarantee 110% someone like Lysacek wouldnt have even close to the same Europeans record when he couldnt even do as well at his own Nationals as Brian at Europeans. Meanwhile we do know Lambiel's European record and it is way below Joubert's as well. I almost think I should bump Lambiel down closer to Brian just because of that in fact.
As for Worlds and Olympics, even there Joubert has 4 times finished with gold or silver vs only 2 or Evan, and stepped to the podium 6 times vs 4 for Evan. Much better record at the grand prix final and grand prixs too. Basically the only thing Evan has over Brian is the Olympic Gold but that one thing is a huge thing, the biggest thing in the sport. So it comes down to how much value you give to the Olympic Gold.
Joubert definitely had longevity on his side but honestly, I'm not sure if Euros was really THAT much tougher than 4C which Lysacek has done well in. Certainly up until 2007-ish, FS was pretty European dominant (and yes, winning over Plushenko was almost impossible) but after that a lot of the momentum shifted to Japan and North America.
Please, the only 4CC competition Evan succeeded in vs any competition was 2007 when he beat Buttle. 2005 it was a scab field (yes Tak was there but he was a nothing in international skating at that point), and 2008 he came 3rd behind Takahashi and Buttle. Remember this was not an event like Europeans all the best non European skaters went to, if they did you would have a point, but this isnt an event that can be compared with Europeans given its history. Not even the ladies which in theory should have a tougher field (but never has, apart from 2009) can be compared. Even in 2008 the Europeans had Verner, Lambiel, and Joubert. Anyway I compare Nationals since Evan didnt even skate at 4CCs annually, as didnt anyone else, so Nationals is a fairer competition and Europeans over the years had far tougher competition than U.S Nationals.
Come to think of it Takahashi doesnt have anything over Joubert outside the Olympic bronze either, and that is less valuable than the Olympic Gold Evan has so is an even weaker case for him to be ahead based only upon. While Tak's Worlds and Grand Prix final, and grand prix record are all better than Evan's, they are all inferior to Joubert's. So I would probably rank Joubert 3rd, Takahsahi 4th, and Lysacek 5th come to think of it.
Again, it comes down to longevity though. Joubert competed for such a long period that of course he has more medals than most people. However he really didn't maintain a high level throughout his career and really teetered off by the end, while never doing well at the biggest event (Olympics).
What is Takahashi doing now? Not mantaining a high level, that is for sure. He didnt even qualify for a final Olympics, and needed a gift from his federation to compete. Atleast Joubert made the Olympics on his own merits (although yeah probably wouldnt have either if he were Japanese). Lambiel just quit before he got to that stage. Lysacek also, and Chan is probably doing that now.
Joubert didnt win any important medals (even hardly any of his European medals) after 2010 when he was 25. So I dont think it is fair to say he won more medals by staying longer or punish him for a decline in results at an advanced age. The rest, except Takahashi, all quit around 25, so had just as many oportunities as a sense considering Joubert didnt do much past that stage either; and also didnt put themselves on the line and give themselves the chance to see declining results at that stage.
Joubert won a medal at every Worlds from 2004-2010 except one, then came 4th at the 2011 and 2012 Worlds a very old skater. Didnt do well at Olympics, but that is the only knock against him.


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