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James Niedzinski
---- — Essex does not have a leash law, but when it comes to Chebacco Woods, some Hamilton rules still apply.
Gravelly Pond and Round Pond in the Chebacco Woods serves as part of the water supply for the town of Manchester. Dogs and horses are, therefore, not allowed in or around these ponds.
They are, however, welcome on the other trails on the property. The Hamilton leash law applies to these areas.
While trails around the ponds are off limits, other trails are newly renovated.
Work has just been completed at the main entrance to make it more accessible to everyone. The red trail next to Round Pond has been repaired again in several areas where trail users have been pushed or thrown rocks into the pond.
Manchester church goes H.O.M.E.
First Parish Church gathered 20 youth and families together last week for an orientation about the upcoming H.O.M.E. mission project in Maine.
H.O.M.E. is a nonprofit organization founded in 1970 dedicated to keeping and enhancing the quality of life for low-income and homeless families. Through services, stewardship of resources, and shared responsibility, they aim to bring forth new possibilities for food, jobs, shelter, low-income housing,education, and self-sufficiency.
The mission project in July will be in cooperation with youth visiting from Hemer, Germany hosted by First Parish families.
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Update at 4 p.m.
One of the two pets rescued from Wednesday's house fire on Jane Court has died.
Daisy, the family dog, was unable to be revived by firefighters at the scene as well as animal hosptial staff after suffering significant smoke inhalation during the fire, Assistant Animal Control Officer Anthony Purificato told East Haven Patch.
"They tried at the hospital — they had six people working on it — but it was very contested (with smoke)," Purificato said of the New Haven Central Hospital for Veterinary Medicine staff efforts to save the animal.
Fortunately the family's cat, which was successfully revived via CPR at the scene by East Haven firefighters, appears to have turned the corner for the better.
"He looks like he'll be fine," Purificato said.
Update at 1:50 p.m.
New Haven Central Hospital for Veterinary Medicine officials declined to comment on the curent status of both family pets, which were taken to the facility follwing their rescue from today's house fire on Jane Court.
A hospital staff member instead referred East Haven Patch to the East Haven Animal Shelter.
A voice mail left with the shelter a short time ago was not immediately returned.
East Haven Patch will provde an update on the health and welfare of both animals as soon as more information becomes available.
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East Haven Firefighters were called to battle the second house fire in less than 24 hours, after a home along Jane Court caught fire late this morning.
The report of a structure fire at 6 Jane Court first came in to the East Haven Fire Department dispatch about 11:15 a.m.
Upon arrival, East Haven Fire Chief Douglas Jackson said firefighters found heavy smoke and flame, particularly on the right side of the home.
Jackson said department members were able to knock the fire down and bring it under control in about 15 minutes.
Although no people were home at the time of the blaze, two pets were trapped inside. Firefighters were able to pull both animals from the home, and attempt to revive them.
Firefighters were able to revive the cat, according to Assistant Fire Chief Chuck Licata. But efforts to revive the pet dog at the scene were not as successful. Both were then taken to the New Haven Central Hospital for Veterinary Medicine.
The home itself sustained serious smoke, fire and water damage.
Fire officials say it appears that a wood burning stove located on the right side of the home's basement may have been the source of today's fire — just as a wood burning stove is thought to be the source of Tuesday's blaze along Catherine Street.
Both house fires are still under investigation.

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What's New?
Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Fr. John Hainsworth has begun a fascinating series on the Resurrection. In part one of this new Paradosis broadcast, he explores the arguments for and against the Resurrection.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Byzantine Chant Institute Workshop
Bobby Maddex interviews Protopsaltis John Michael Boyer, the director of the Byzantine Chant Workshop – St. John Koukouzelis Institute for Liturgical Arts, which will be held June 14th through June 20th in Dunlap, California.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Dr. Chrissi Hart Reads Prince Caspian!
Beginning May 17, Dr. Chrissi Hart will read C. S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, book two in the Chronicles of Narnia. Listen to a brief preview here.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Theology of Marriage and Sexuality—Part 1
Fr. George Morelli shows how the Church is a hospital for the healing of broken marriages and the strengthening of good ones—on a brand new Healing.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
The "Wonderful and Confessedly Striking" Christian Manner of Life
Examining a passage from the anonymous second-century Epistle to Diognetus, Fr Matthew explores the witness borne by the early Christian community and asks: does it reflect our Christian testimony today?


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Among , Trenton Police Chief Jim Nardone told residents rumored sales of within the city limits are being addressed.
Nardone addressed residents at the regularly scheduled meeting Monday night.
"I wanted the public to know that we are addressing it," Nardone said at the meeting.
Nardone said he received a complaint that a business in Trenton was selling Spice, but, after investigation, he assured residents the accusation was not true.
"This specific business was not selling any K2 or any synthetic narcotics," Nardone said.
However, Nardone said he received a second complaint on Monday about a local business selling K2, but he had not had a chance to verify the complaint at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday.
"I was not able to meet with them yet, and I will probably be meeting with them before the end of the business day today," Nardone said Tuesday.
Nardone added his officers have been going around to local businesses to see if synthetic narcotics are being sold.
"We haven't gotten to all of the businesses, and I will not say that it is not being sold in Trenton, right now," Nardone said. "We do not know whether it's being sold or if any of these substances are being sold."
He encouraged residents to call the with any questions regarding the issue 734-676-3737.
Trenton Patch editor Nate Stemen called each gas station and convenience store in the Patch directory and was unable to find any Trenton business to admit to selling K2 and/or Spice.
*This article was updated at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday.


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A 32-year-old man was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly tried to escape from Los Gatos-Monte Sereno police who had him in custody following his arrest for an outstanding no-bail warrant.
James Michael Schneider was detained at around noon Oct. 3 in the area of Shannon Road and was transported to the LGMSPD Operations Building on Los Gatos Boulevard for misdemeanor driving on a suspended license and the outstanding warrant.
However, after being taken to the police facility, prior to being booked at the Santa Clara County Jail, he allegedly escaped from officers while in the parking lot adjacent to the custody area of the building at about 12:37 p.m., said Los Gatos-Monte Sereno police Sgt. spokesman Kerry Harris.
Schneider is said to have run away from the officer who was with him, climbed over the facility's perimeter fence and fled into the Blossom Manor neighborhood, according to Harris.
Pursuing officers caught up with the suspect, and took him into custody in the back yard of a residence on Cherrystone Drive, just east of Camelia Terrace, Harris said.
The suspect was booked into county jail with the additional charge of resisting, delaying, or obstructing a police officer, which can be punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
"As much as was possible, police personnel contacted residents whose homes were near the site of the arrest, to let them know what had occurred," Harris said.


text: Stint 3 7 p.m. Wednesday to 1 a.m. Thursday Zack Courts Well, what could be more American than riding off into a California sunset on a Harley-Davidson? Glowing with patriotism, I pointed the Ultra toward the sinking sun and thundered west. The ergonomics work pretty well for someone 6-foot-2, though the saddle is certainly wider than I need it. No surprise there, I guess. I dived headlong into the infotainment system, but I didn't find it as intuitive as Aaron Frank had raved about in his First Ride (MC, Nov. 2013). Although, as the sun plunged below the mountains and out of sight, I was pleased to see the screen automatically change to a night setting before becoming blindingly bright—a nice touch. The face of a frustrated rider. Auxiliary lamps look cool and provide more light, but you can't tilt them up! The chasing Multistrada had to light the way. The face of a frustrated rider. Auxiliary lamps look cool and provide more light, but you True darkness highlighted another problem: a lack of lighting on the handlebar-mounted controls. (Lighted Hand Control Switches are a $249.95 option, available in H-D's 1,000-page P&A catalog.) I was consistently bailed out by Ari over our intercom: "It's the one on the other side of the rocker from the right blinker" came the melancholy voice, jaded from the same frustrations. Once at the edge of the Central Valley, California Route 58 snakes into the hills, and with each passing turn I came to realize the highly praised Daymaker headlights weren't cutting it. A quick stop confirmed that they were aimed too low, but unfortunately the adjustment required more tools than we had. It didn't help that the auxiliary lights are mounted so that they can be swiveled side to side but not tilted up or down. By the return leg of my loop, temperatures had fallen drastically and I was glad for the good wind protection. Buffeting around my helmet at freeway speeds was the only real annoyance. As I blasted back to home base under a nearly full moon, I reflected on what a truly effortless bike the Ultra is to ride. Nearly 1,000 pounds of Milwaukee iron grumbling in a parking lot becomes a modern luxury liner at speed. No vibration, a light touch on the bars even on twisty roads, and a lovely all-American sound whenever you want it. « | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | » | View Full Article By Motorcyclist Staff Enjoyed this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed, or use your favorite social media to recommend us to friends and colleagues!


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By Dan Linehan
The Free Press
MANKATO — A new transportation planning body — and its accompanying $300,000 per year in federal money — took one of its final steps toward life Tuesday, as the Mankato City Council approved a joint-powers agreement.
The Mankato-area Metropolitan Planning Organization, a requirement after the area hit the 50,000-population threshold in March, still requires the approval of the governor's office.
But Mankato's approval marks the last major governing body to sign on to the plan. The townships of Belgrade and South Bend haven't yet signed, though the joint-powers agreement can take effect without them.
Mankato will host the planning body, and its executive director will be an existing employee, perhaps City Manager Pat Hentges or Community Development Director Paul Vogel.
It is likely to hire a transportation planner and maybe another position, Hentges told the council.
Though the planning body will have a budget of about $375,000, including the local share, Hentges said most of the money will likely be spent on consultants. Limiting the number of permanent staff limits the city's liability if the federal government reduces its contribution.
The body will be organized around two committees — a six- or seven-member policy board comprised of elected officials and a larger board comprised of staff. The leadership on the policy board will come from Mankato, North Mankato, Eagle Lake, Blue Earth County, Nicollet County and a rotating chair for townships. A seventh member from a transit agency could come on board if such an entity is ever formed.
As with most local governments, the staff will do most of the work and the elected officials will review and approve it.
The planning body's biggest task is the creation of a 20-year plan; it will also make a four-year list of regional projects.
Importantly, a Metropolitan Planning Organization cannot spend money on construction projects. It can only plan, though many of those plans are expected to replace, not add onto, onto current efforts.
The Mankato and North Mankato planning organization will be the first such body created in the state in 25 years, Hentges said.
The first federal money is expected to arrive in early 2013, perhaps in March.
Incidentally, Tuesday's City Council meeting will likely be the last to occur in the current council chambers. Upcoming renovations will move the council meeting room into what is now the atrium of the Mankato Place Mall. The council will meet in the Verizon Wireless Center in the interim.


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I Love You, Man
by Molly Lambert
I Love You, Man
Wr/Dir: John Hamburg
Critics were split on I Love You, Man and so was the crowd I went with. Half thought it was funny (if not memorable) and inoffensive and the other half thought it was bland and misogynistic. I remember a similar argument after Knocked Up where a female friend defended Leslie Mann's character's actions against a guy arguing that Paul Rudd's husband character had done nothing wrong. Bromantic passions run high.
run, run, run from adult responsibilities
What's bland is not Paul Rudd's character, who's actually quite well sketched out, but Jason Segel's. Which is strange because Segel's brand of creepy-funny seems like an ideal match for Rudd's muddled adorableness. I was expecting something more along the lines of The Zoo Story or The Cable Guy.
oh no, not another big set piece!!!
Instead what happens is that Segel's character seems to shift from scene to scene to suit the needs of the questions posed to Rudd's character. Which could also be funny, but it's just kind of confusing. Lots of ideas are set up and never returned to again. There are some really funny bits in the movie and the chemistry between Segel and Rudd is charged with a first date giddiness, but the film never quite makes the leap from good to great.
Andy Samberg and Paul Rudd demonstrate two different delicious flavors of handsome Jewish guyness
Comedies have focused on male immaturity for more or less all of time. What is so weird about these movies to real life slacker girls like me is the way they all portray women as inherently responsible. I must have slept through that memo. Women are always shown being driven endlessly towards goals of marriage, responsibility, financial security, with the men bucking against it.
Jon Favreau as Alex Carnevale in the future
Besides Charlyne Yi, girls in these comedies tend to all get cast in this light. The single friend in I Love You, Man (the charming Sarah Burns, memorably from a FOTC episode) is typed as desperate for a man, any man. Most of her laughs come from this, and she's really funny. But in a movie where a single male character who doesn't have his shit together is portrayed as having a life worthy of emulation, it feels a little bit sexist.
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Rashida Jones is as winning as she can possibly be, but she is meant to be the Ralph Bellamy of this love triangle and has no chance against a Rush covers montage. By the time the movie gets to the couple questioning their decision to get engaged I was pretty sure they ought to break up. Like in Apatow movies, a lot of timely and sensitive real life issues about gender and relationships are touched upon and then buried under jokes.
Segel and Rudd display two brands of feminine masculinity
The only trailer that ran before the movie was for Inglorious Basterds, which was strange. Despite the fact that I finally just saw (and loved) Death Proof, I can't feel myself getting that stoked for a war movie, even a Quentin Tarantino war movie. I'm just not sure I care yet about B.J. Novak and Samm Levine murdering Nazis. Can I give you a maybe? If it were a World War One movie I'd be so down.
even though Mahnola Dargis really hated ILYM, she agrees with all of humankind that Paul Rudd is the fucking cutest ever
War movies are the ultimate bromances. They have the same message as most of these comedies; that nothing in the world is better, more fun, or more awesome than the not-gay but gayish close friendships between straight men. Most movies violate Bechdel's rule so flagrantly that it's depressing to talk about.
What we need are more girlmances. I guess Sex and The City is a girlmance. Big Love is definitely a girlmance. Gossip Girl is a gossip girlmance. Little Darlings is a great classic girlmance. I have high hopes for the long-rumored Amy Poehler and Isla Fisher collaboration Groupies if it comes to fruition.
One thing I Love You, Man got completely right: Sunday night programming on HBO really IS amazing. Or at least it was until ten last night, when Big Love and Eastbound & Down wrapped up their seasons. I was already subjected to one Entourage promo tonight and had to wash my eyeballs out with Axe bodyspray. When does Curb start again?
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Top Ten Battlestar Galactica Moments
by Jessica Gold Haralson
And so it frakking ends.
Seven years after Ronald Moore and David Eick transmogrified a cheesy late '70s space opera into a naturalistic speculative-fiction masterpiece, Battlestar Galactica ends with a bang — literally — on tonight's series finale, "Daybreak Part Two."
We're crying into our octagonal beer steins and wringing our replica Starbuck dog tags in despair, but we're happy that a show that wrestled international terrorism, torture, identity, and every-ism under the sun existed in our lifetime. With that in mind, here's a tribute to the best moments of this four-season opus.
The show is so complex (a robot-caused nuclear war, followed by deep space chase, followed by a corrupt election and a robot-human hybrid-God-baby, followed by an Iraq-like invasion followed by finding Earth a post-apocalyptic wasteland) that it's hard to lay out its genius in a listicle. But frak it, we'll try, in a way comprehensible to fanboys and the sci-fi shy alike. So say we all.
10. Secret Agent Boomer: Number Eight Shoots Adama The twelve (or maybe thirteen?) models of humanoid Cylons look like humans, act like humans, talk like humans — are genetically identical to humans. And some are programmed to think they're human so they can shoot the military leader of the remaining humans at a critical moment. Our jaw was on the floor at this whammy of a season one finale. (Little did we know that compared to Season Two's, Boomer's Cylon-icity would look like a game of pattycakes.)
9. Chief Becomes The Man He Wants to Be"We're Cylons," Galen Tyrol – a.k.a. the Chief – says at season three's end, to three members of the Final Five revealed as Cylons. "And we have been from the start."
But does Galen turn to robot-mode, abandoning humanity forever? Frak no. And that's why we love him. "We have to be the people we want to be," he says. And as Season Four progresses, what were once moral quandaries become ethical convictions etched in stone, principles for a better way. He knows he's a Cylon. But he's going to keep being Galen Frakkin' Tyrol.
Galen's name is identical to that of a famous Renaissance physician who clearly mapped out human anatomy in a rational manner. I believe this to be no coincidence.
As Galactica's chief repairman — and a literal machine himself — Galen's journey has a special meaning. After figuratively dissecting himself, he doesn't let biology determine his destiny. He's a Cylon, but he's also an ex-husband, a father, a Chief. He is finally the man he always wanted to be.
8. Cylon-Invaded New Caprica: Flipping the 9/11 ScriptThe creators of Battlestar Galactica were recently part of a United Nations panel (yes, you read that right) about the show's grappling with "real-world" issues. One year after the newly elected President Gaius Baltar takes his people to their "New Caprica," a group of Cylons show up to imprison the humans: in order to "win" their love. "This is the only way," say the invaders. "We want peace and harmony — on our terms."
Sound familiar? It should. When the Cylons nuked the human's world, Caprica, the echoes of Al-Qaeda and 9/11 were obvious. Yet by acting as invaders and captors and turning the humans into insurgents doing anything to escape invasion, the show asks us to identify the Cylons — the enemy! — as Americans. "New Caprica" may as well be New Iraq.
BSG's ethical shades of gray are remarkable. The Cylons really, truly believe that imprisoning the humans will "free" them — that they can somehow create freedom from the top-down. And they sound reasonable when they say so. But once you hear from the horrified humans, it's clear that occupation is no answer, making you question the viability of America's real world colonies.
7. Earth Was a Lie: What the Frak Now?Guided by a vision from their holy Book of Pythia, the thirty-thousand odd remaining survivors Roslin to a vague promise of their original home: Earth. The final episode of Season Four's first part — "Sometimes A Great Notion" — showed the ecstatic crew waiting to meet their new old homeworld.
Ron Moore has said the show provides the characters with "everything they want," but in the worst possible way. This moment was no exception. The survivors found Earth — as a post-apocalyptic, nuked-out wasteland. Just like Caprica. "Earth," Roslin says, with the same grit as if she were cursing their Cylon attackers.
Everything you want. In the worst possible way.
6. Starbuck's ReturnGandalf the Grey becomes Gandalf the White, BSG-style.
After we witnessed the death of Kara Thrace via explosion in the latter part of season three, she shows up for the season finale in a newly minted Raptor, to the strains of "All Along the Watchtower," saying she found Earth and would take everyone there.
Mind. Blown.
(Oh, and later? She finds her own dead body on the nuked out planet Earth. Frakkin' Hell.)
5. The Ghost Pirate Saul Tigh: "We're the Devil's Men"
We're the devil's men, spreading death and destruction wherever we go.
– Saul Tigh
If "Cylon-occupied New Caprica" is a direct Iraq parallel, Saul Tigh is the leader of the band of insurgents. He commands his faithful to commit suicide bombings against Cylons — an act considered horrendous in our world. Here in New Caprica Tigh's reasoning makes perfect sense.
If you were imprisoned by unjust rulers with no options, no freedom, no escape, what would you do? Are there moral justifications for terrorism? What is "right" when it comes to fighting for freedom? Instead of drawing old lines in the sand, Battlestar nukes them, redraws them, turns them into circles, and changes the sand's color entirely. What other program has shown the ambiguities so clearly?
4. Adama Rescues Everyone Off Frakkin' New Caprica
Before his ship FTL-jumps in a blaze of fire into the atmosphere to save the New Capricans, then-Admiral Adama says this to his pilots:
This is the Admiral. You've heard the news, you know the mission. You should also know there is only one way that this mission ends: and that's with the successful rescue of our people, off of New Caprica. Look around you. Take a good look at the men and women that stand next to you. Remember their faces, for one day you will tell your children and your grandchildren that you served with such men and women as the universe has never seen. And together, you'll accomplish the feat that will be told and retold down through the ages, and find immortality as only the gods once knew. I'm proud to serve with you. Good hunting.
3. Ellen Tigh is the 5th Cylon
Who'd expect that Saul Tigh's drunkard floozy of a wife — affectionately titled "Lady MacTigh" by fans — would turn out to be the fifth Final Fiver and the original architect of eight Cylon models? We sure didn't.
We're not surprised that the Tighs have been married for two thousand years. Despite their drunken caterwauling and Ellen's cheating and Tigh's rampant alcoholism, those two have the best love story on the whole damn show. Scratch the surface and BSG is a typical episode of Jerry Springer. With robots.
2. Lee Adama Breaks It Down: "We're a Gang on the Run"
This case, this case is built on emotion, on anger, bitterness, but most of all it's built on shame. It's about the shame of what we did to ourselves back on that planet. It's about the guilt of those of us who ran away, who ran away. And we are trying to dump all of that guilt and all that shame onto one man, and then flush him out the airlock, and just hope that that gets rid of it all. So that we can live with ourselves. But that won't work. That won't work. That's not justice, not to me. Not to me.
After Gaius Baltar signed a death warrant on New Caprica — at gunpoint — the civilians wanted his head once they had escaped occupation. And heck, they've got a point. But despite hating Gaius' guts, Lee points out that the vestiges of their civilization are gone — and if Gaius gets the axe, so should everyone else.
"We're not the human race, we're a gang on the run," argues Lee in a surprisingly passionate defense of a Saddam-esque Baltar. The younger Adama points out that Laura Roslin rigged an election, that Boomer's twin Athena is forgiven despite, you know, attempting to murder Bill Adama, that everyone's doing what they need to do to get by. To survive. And that sometimes results in terrible acts that would land any person a death sentence in easy times. But these aren't easy times — this is survival.
Gaius walks free, then turns into metaphorical Jesus, then writes a Hitler-like manifesto titled My Triumphs, My Mistakes. Oh, show.
1. Adama's Final Call to Arms: Taking a Stand, Choosing to Fight
After Helo's daughter Hera is kidnapped by Boomer for dissection by the evil Cylons (as opposed to the good Cylons – Season Four has those), Commander Adama appears to have lost the will to fight in last week's "Daybreak, Part One." He orders the decommissioning of a crumbled Galactica, which seems unrelated.
In this show, however, everything is related. And packing up his boxes, Adama realizes that he's giving up. That his years of survival, of leading his flock, of looking for a home — will crumble away like Galactica's hull if he doesn't take a stand.
And so he draws a line in the ship's bay and calls a volunteer mission to rescue Hera. To take back a child. To stand up to the Cylons once and for all. This wouldn't seem special on such a drama-filled show: but it is, because the fleet is no longer running, escaping, and avoiding – they're going to take the Cylons on, mano a mano.
In Season Two, a defiant Boomer is asked why the Cylons nuked Caprica. She answers to the effect of, "Why should humanity survive?" No one ever offered a convincing answer.
But this? This is convincing. This is the evidence of humanity's crowning triumph: the urge to do what's right, to rescue a child, even if it means losing the fleet, even if there is no personal gain, even if nothing comes of it. To have the courage to speak truth to power and refuse to accept victimization. To stand up and fight. To refuse cowardice and seek the face of the enemy. I have never been prouder of this show's characters.
We'll find out if the fleet survives on tonight's finale. I hope they do. But if not, I will have no doubt that humanity ended with a triumphant bang — not a whimper. That rallying cry is more than I could ever ask for from series television.
Jessica Gold Haralson is a contributor to This Recording. She is a writer living in New York. She tumbles here.
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Crank Dat Lost
by Dick Cheney
Winston Churchill tried to spend most of each day in bed. He took his meals there, read the newspaper there. He was a man like any other. Getting name-checked on last night's Lost was the finest moment of his life after death.
Never trust a man who thinks reading is a waste of time: Jack Shepard clearly isn't aware of how common illiteracy is among island populations when he chastises LaFleur for reading appears to be a biography of Merce Cunningham. Come on, Jack. You're against reading?
For example: I have heard Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is functionally illiterate. What other reason would he have for not knowing that he gave AIG a blank check to compensate the executives that destroyed their company? Meanwhile, things are better in Iraq than ever. Vindication baby, one time.
Our leaders can be called a strange bunch. When I first met George W. Bush, he was a snotty undergraduate at Yale. He called all his male friends 'cowboys' and he called all the girls "puppies." There was little evidence of the man he would become. Who knew that someday he would ask Vladimir Putin to kill a thirty rack of Milwaukee's Best with him? The world is a strange place; I shot and killed a guy and nothing came of it, for example.
Cool and calculating, James LaFleur is more Winston Churchill than George W. Bush. He's made the strongest move in the book: he forced one chick to watch him get with another. Although this did not work in the seminal Ryan Reynolds film Just Friends, it did indeed work in the seminal Ryan Reynolds film Definitely Maybe. In either case, we have so much to learn from Mr. Reynolds.
Doug Feith dropped by the other day, and he asked me why it was that women responded so much better to him when he was getting regular action. Did they subconsciously know they had to go out of their way to take him from another? Soon enough, he was able to demonstrate this principle. (We were in a Cracker Barrel and the waitress was practically gargling his testes at the table.)
Since my name recognition among loose waitresses at chain restaurants is better than Doug Feith's, getting ass outside of my marriage is difficult. LaFleur has a similar conundrum.
If he starts fucking around on Juliet with Kate, he's going to start a shitstorm with a former doctor doing janitorial work, and sporting a kewt little flash of gray. Is it really Sawyer's fault that women are drawn to his khaki Head of Security jumpsuit?
never trust an asian billionaire
Making yourself the center of the action ensures complications. Ben got an oar to his head after he found Sun a way back to her husband.
the tasty little treat behind sun needs a bigger role
Women want to be around exciting men, but once things get too exciting, they bail and take up with Seth Rogen's character from every single one of his movies.
Note: I am waiting for someone to do a YouTube remix of Sun cracking Benry over the head with "Crank Dat" as the soundtrack. Don't let me down internet.
Ben and Sun made tromping through the woods reminded me of the two dogs in Homeward Bound. But back to our hard talk about LaFleur the leader and the two women that cherish his long con.
hold meeeee
Here's my advice, guy: raw, sweat-laden charisma can only take you so far. The second you start showing a woman you're actually a person, you'll be watching her cozy up to some d-bag named Kurt who's super-into moe. and dumped his girlfriend to take yours. Whoa, sorry. I had a bad experience and now everytime I meet someone named Kurt I want to scratch his eyes out. Meow. You know.
bitch you don't want to fuck with me
LaFleur has to decide between two very different pieces of tangy woman. Kate provides the thrill of ex-convict baby-abandoning intercourse – she wants a new fetus in her stomach so bad you're likely to catch her poking holes in your Dharma-brand Magnum condoms.
girl you ain't nothing but a slut to me
With Kate, the foreplay is awkward. She's used to having guys never say a bad word to her in the sack, and as a result, she's strange and salty-tasting. Her skin is worse than you can imagine up close; on the other hand, her vagina is shaped like a perfect circle. She still loves to run.
Juliet provides the thrill of ex-doctor baby-delivering intercourse. She's openly admitted to wanting a child as well, but she's already told you she's on the pill, so no worries until you wake up in a cold sweat one night and realize that the pill might not have been invented yet.
She's like all doctor types in bed – quiet, thorough, devoted and onstage. Scientists never quite let go: you can always see the analytical part of their brain turning and turning as they guzzle your swizzle stick. Juliet's vagina is shaped like a question mark, lending credence to the theory she may indeed be Mysterion.
How to decide? I think it's way too soon to dismiss Horace Goodspeed's betch from the equation. With her lazy attitude and proven fertility, she could make this a three way race. Her post-pregnancy hormones are still going high, and she's clearly the kind of woman who is invested in her own pleasure, the mere fact of which is a turn-on to the male of the species.
She's a dark horse in this competition, kind of like American Idol's Megan Corkrey. Fortunately when you bang Amy, you don't have to look at a godawful tattoo descending down her right arm. Due to natural childbirth, Amy's vagina is now shaped like a capital O. I guess what I'm saying here is I like Oklahoma to win it all.
Dick Cheney, the former vice president, is the senior contributor to This Recording. He previously discussed Jason Mesnick-Sawyer LaFleur concordance here.
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from his second collection of short stories, I Would Have Saved Them If I Could
In the Fifties
by Leonard Michaels
In the fifties I learned to drive a car. I was frequently in love. I had more friends than now.
When Khrushchev denounced Stalin my roommate shit blood, turned yellow, and lost most of his hair.
I attended the lectures of the excellent E.B. Burgum until Senator McCarthy ended his tenure. I imagined N.Y.U. would burn. Miserable students, drifting in the halls, looked at one another.
In less than a month, working day and night, I wrote a bad novel.
I went to school—N.Y.U., Michigan, Berkeley—much of the time.
I had witty, giddy conversation, four or five nights a week, in a homosexual bar in Ann Arbor.
I read literary reviews the way people suck candy.
Personal relationships were more important to me than anything else.
I had a fight with a powerful fat man who fell on my face and was immovable.
I had personal relationships with football players, Jazz musicians, ass-bandits, nymphomaniacs, non-specialized degenerates, and numerous Jewish premedical students.
I had personal relationships with thirty-five rhesus monkeys in an experiment on monkey addiction to morphine. Thy knew me as one who shot reeking crap out of cages with a hose.
With four other students I lived in the home of chiropractor named Leo.
I met a man in Detroit who owned a submachine gun; he claimed to have hit Dutch Schultz. I saw a gangster movie that disproved his claim.
I knew two girls who had brains, talent, health, good looks, plenty to eat, and hanged themselves.
I heard of parties in Ann Arbor where everyone made it with everyone else, including the cat.
I knew card sharks and con men. I liked marginal types because they seemed original and aristocratic, living for an ideal or obliged to live in it. Ordinary types seem fundamentally unserious. These distinctions belong to the romantic fop. I didn't think that way too much.
I worked for an evil vanity publisher in Manhattan.
I worked in a fish packing plant in Massachusetts, on the line with a sincere Jewish poet from Harvard and three lesbians; one was beautiful, one grim; both loved the other, who was intelligent. I loved her, too. I dreamed of violating her purity. They taked among themselves, in creepy whispers, always about Jung. In a dark corner, away from our line, old Portuguese men slit fish into open flaps, flicking out the bones. I could only see their eyes and knives. I'd arrive early every morning to dash in and out until the stench became bearable. After work I'd go to bed and pluck fish scales out of my skin.
I was a teaching assistant in two English departments. I graded thousands of freshman themes. One began like, "Karl Marx, for that was his name…" Another began like this: "In Jonathan Swift's famous letter to the Pope…" I wrote edifying comments in the margins. Later I began to scribble "Awkward" beside everything, even spelling errors.
I got A's and F's as a graduate student. A professor of English said my attitude wasn't professional. He said that he always read a "good book" after dinner.
A girl from Indiana said this of me on a teacher-evaluation form: "It is bad enough to go to English class at eight in the morning, but to be instructed by a shabby man is horrible."
I made enemies on the East Coast, the West Coast, and in the Middle West. All now dead, sick, or out of luck.
I was arrested, photographed, and fingerprinted. In a soundproof room two detectives lectured me on the American way of life, and I was charged with the crime of nothing. A New York cop told me that detectives were called "defectives."
I had an automobile accident. I did the mambo. I had urethritis and mononucleosis.
In Ann Arbor, a few years before the advent of Malcolm X, a lot of my friends were black. After Malcolm X, almost all my friends were white. They admired John F. Kennedy.
In the fifties, I smoked marijuana, hash, and opium. Once I drank absinthe. Once I swallowed twenty glycerine caps of peyote. The social effects of "drugs," unless sexual, always seemed tedious. But I liked people who inclined the drug way. Especially if they didn't proselytize. I listened to long conversations about the phenomenological weirdness of familiar reality and the great spiritual questions this entailed—for example, "Do you think Wallace Stevens is a head?"
I witnessed an abortion.
I was godless, but I thought the fashion of intellectual religiosity more despicable. I wished that I could live in a culture rather than study life among the cultured.
I drove a Chevy Bel Air eighty-five miles per hour on a two-lane blacktop. It was nighttime. Intermittent thick white fog made the headlights feeble and diffuse. Four others in the car sat with the strict silent rectitude of catatonics. If one of them didn't admit to being frightened, we were dead. A Cadillac, doing a hundred miles per hour, passed us and was obliterated in the fog. I slowed down.
I drank Old Fashioneds in the apartment of my friend Julian. We talked about Worringer and Spengler. We gossiped about friends. Then we left to meet our dates. There was more drinking. We all climbed trees, crawled in the street, and went to a church. Julian walked into an elm, smashed his glasses, vomited on a lawn, and returned home to memorize Anglo-Saxon grammatical forms. I ended on my knees, vomiting into a toilet bowl, repeatedly flushing the water to hide my noises. Later I phoned New York so that I could listen to the voices of my parents, their Yiddish, their English, their logics.
I knew a professor of English who wrote impassioned sonnets in honor of Henry Ford.
I played freshman varsity basketball at N.Y.U. and received a dollar an hour for practice sessions and double that for games. It was called "meal money." I played badly, too psychological, too worried about not studying, too short. If pushed or elbowed during a practice game, I was ready to kill. The coach liked my attitude. In his day, he said, practice ended when there was blood on the boards. I ran back and forth, in urgent sneakers, through my freshman year. Near the end I came down with pleurisy, quit basketball, started smoking more.
I took classes in comparative anatomy and chemistry. I took classes in old English, Middle English, and modern literature. I took classes and classes.
I fired a twelve-gauge shotgun down the hallway of a railroad flat into a couch pillow.
My roommate bought the shotgun because of his gambling debts. He expected murderous thugs to come for him. I'd wake in the middle of the night listening for a knock, a cough, a footstep, wondering how to identify myself as not him when they broke through out door.
My roommate was an expensively dressed kid from a Chicago suburb. Though very intelligent, he suffered in school. He suffered with girls though he was handsome and witty. He suffered with boys though he was heterosexual. He slept on three mattresses and used a sun lamp all winter. He bathed, oiled and perfumed his body daily. He wanted soft, sweet joys in every part, but when some whore asked if he'd like to be beaten with a garrison belt, he said yes. He suffered with food, eating from morning to night, loading his pockets with fried pumpkin seeds when he left for class, smearing caviar paste on his filet mignons, eating himself into a monumental face of eating because he was eating. Then he killed himself.
A lot of young, gifted people I knew in the fifties killed themselves. Only a few of them continue walking around.
I wrote literary essays in the turgid, tumescent manner of darkest Blackmur.
NYC from Jersey, 1950.
I used to think that someday I would write a fictional version of my stupid life in the fifties.
I was a waiter at a Catskill hotel. The captain of the waiters ordered us to dance with the female guests who appeared in the casino without escorts and, as much as possible, fuck them. A professional tummler walked the ground. Whenever he saw a group of people merely chatting, he thrust in quickly and created a tumult.
I heard the Budapest String quartet, Dylan Thomas, Lester Young, and Billie Holiday together, and I saw Pearl Primus dance, in a Village nightclub, in a space two yards square, accompanied by an African drummer about seventy years old. His hands moved in spasms of mathematical complexity at invisible speed. People left their tables to press close to Primus and see the expression in her face, the sweat, the muscles, the way her naked feet seized and released the floor.
Ann Arbor
Eventually I had friends in New York, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Berkeley & Los Angeles.
jack kerouac
I did the cha-cha, wearing a tux, at a New Year's party in Hollywood, and sat at a table with Steve McQueen. He'd become famous in a TV series about a cowboy with a rifle. He said he didn't know which he liked best, acting or driving a racing car. I thought he was a silly person and then realized he thought I was. I met a few other famous people who said something. One night, in a yellow Porsche, I circle Manhattan with Jack Kerouac. He recited passages, perfectly remembered from his book reviews, to the sky. His manner was ironical, sweet, and depressing.
I had a friend named Chicky who drove his chopped, blocked, stripped, dual-exhaust Ford convertible, while vomiting out the fly window, into a telephone pole. He survived, lit a match to see if the engine was all right, and it blew up in his face. I saw him in the hospital. Through his bandages he said that ever since high school he'd been trying to kill himself. Because his girlfriend wasn't good-looking enough. He was crying and laughing while he pleaded with me to believe that he had really been trying to kill himself because his girlfriend wasn't good-looking enough. I told him that I was going out with a certain girl and he told me that had fucked her once but it didn't matter because I could take her away and live somewhere else. He was a Sicilian kid with a face like Caravaggio's angels of debauch. He'd been educated by priests and nuns. When his hair grew back and his face healed, his mind healed. He broke up with his girlfriend. he wasn't nearly as narcissistic as other men I knew in the fifties.
I knew one who, before picking up his dates, ironed his dollar bills and powdered his testicles. And another who referred to women as "cockless wonders" and used only their family names—for example, "I'm going to meet Goldberg, the cockless wonder." Many women thought he was extremely attractive and became his sexual slaves. Men didn't like him.
I had a friend who was dragged down a courthouse stairway, in San Francisco, by her hair. She'd wanted to attend the House Un-American hearings. The next morning I crossed the Bay Bridge to join my first protest demonstration. I felt frightened and embarrassed. I was bitter about what had happened to her and the others she'd been with. I expected to see thirty or forty people lke me, carrying hysterical placards around the courthouse until the cops bludgeoned us into the pavement. About two thousand people were there. I marched beside a little kid who had a bag of marbles to throw under the hoofs of the horse cops. His mother kept saying, "Not yet, not yet." We marched all day. That was the end of the fifties.
Leonard Michaels died in 2003. He was one of the most talented writers of the short story in the form's history. He also wrote novels, including The Men's Club, a brilliant satire, and Sylvia, about his first wife, Sylvia Bloch.
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Stop In the Name of Love
by Meredith Hight
The assault caused Robyn F 's mouth to fill with blood and blood to splatter all over her clothing and the interior of the vehicle. Brown looked at Robyn F and stated "I am going to beat the s–t out of you when we get home! You wait and see!"
– the police report on the night of Chris Brown's alleged assault on Rihanna
You want to say, this is unbelievable. How could he do that?
A few weeks later, and they are back together. How could she stay with him? You want to be surprised, but the truth is, you find this not altogether surprising. How it hurts to watch it all unfold, though — because you know what she is feeling. You know why she stays. She loves him, despite it all. And he loves her. They are young, they are confused, and they think they have found themselves in what feels like love.
I waited for Gloria Steinem, Anna Quindlen, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Naomi Wolf, someone, to write the seminal essay on the Chris Brown and Rihanna incident, about what it means. I wanted to hear a clear voice, to parse through the media's breathless reaction to every report about Diddy's beach house or the supposed duet, a primer on domestic violence, someone who will adamantly but not righteously condemn abusers. I haven't seen it.
Oprah came close with her special on domestic violence with the sometimes obnoxious and occasionally insightful Tyra Banks. But I wasn't entirely satisfied by the show, in part because the phrase "domestic violence" makes me cringe a little. Violence is violence is violence. Deeming it "domestic" seems to suggest that it's a personal, private matter, of the home and to be dealt with by those in relationships.
To start, Oprah was clear about a couple of things. Love doesn't hurt, and a man who hits you once is going to hit you again. But she also did not condemn Brown directly or specifically, which I actually appreciated. Tyra explained how she became involved in an emotionally abusive relationship, even at a time when she was at the height of her career as a supermodel.
Tyra's self-esteem was low, because a man had recently rejected her. She felt if she did not "win" this other man in particular, then, she was a failure —even though he was abusive and controlling.
The cultural expectation that you are not complete unless you are coupled, combined with applying a Type A personality to your personal life, is what can drive this feeling of failure, especially for women. I have held on to men, just for the sake of wanting to make something work. "Making it work" works for Tim Gunn on Bravo. This does not work in relationships. Especially when you realize you have been accidentally dating gay men.
Regardless, the real point of Tyra's example is that there is a reason women enter into these relationships. Lifetime movies would lead you to believe that this could happen to any woman, at any time. That entering into a relationship with an abuser can happen as easily as meeting the man of your dreams at your neighborhood grocery store.
I disagree, and though I have no psychological training, no personal experience in having been a part of an emotionally or physically abusive relationship, I want to explain why.
As Oprah said, when you stay with a man who abuses you, it's "because you don't think you're worthy of being with a man who won't." Most women (and some men), get involved in these relationships because they lack a sense of self, of worth.
But again, there's a broader point. We have come to believe that most abusive relationships involve an abuser and a victim. But the fact of the matter is, an abusive relationship involves two victims.
Chris Brown talked about how scared he was as, from the impressionable ages of 7 to 13, he witnessed his mom being hit by a boyfriend. Asked what he learned from that experience, Brown said: "When a woman in love, she do anything."
What Brown took away, is that if a woman is in love, she is willing to be hit. She is willing to endure abuse. For some women, this is sadly true. They believe that love validates them, makes them worthy and renders them whole, and the idea of losing that love, is terrifying. So, they stay.
I sympathize with these women, but I also find this infuriating. I have had enough of "love" being cited as a reason by women for accepting and enduring abuse and neglect.
Those feelings are just feelings: they are not a reason, especially if the way a man has actually treated a woman is not taken into account.
As Brittany, who also appeared on Oprah, said of her abuser, "He was the first guy I felt like, really understood me. And that really, I connected with." The same guy is in prison now because of the abuse he inflicted on her, which included throwing her out of his apartment, naked in the night and shoving a shirt down her throat to suffocate her. She is pregnant with his child.
Men in these relationships seem to know the power of these "feelings." But these men want and need love, too. Often they have not had a model for a normal, functioning and healthy relationship, but that doesn't take away the very basic human need to be loved — and it is in this sense that they are a kind of victim, too. Not knowing the appropriate way to love, they seem to seek an all-consuming love. At the slightest threat to that love, to their control, they can become physically violent.
Let me be very clear. Abuse is absolutely, never acceptable. But when I consider how or why it happens, it seems to come down to a power struggle for love, between the two involved in the relationship. Which neither of them can really give to the other, because neither of them even knows or understands what real love means.
It does not help that we are as a culture swept up in a hopeless romanticism that seems to supersede the reality of relationships. Which is to say, they can be hard, and it is a lot of work, to bring two lives together – and that feeling, the romance, is the easy part. Life is far more complicated than any of those feelings.
We can judge Rihanna, or Chris Brown, or their publicists, the media, and righteously condemn violence. We can say, she should leave, he should be ashamed of himself, and he could have killed her. And we're not wrong to say that. But what we should talk about is real love. How we need examples of that, in our culture, in the media, in our lives. Especially for those who grew up in an abusive environment.
Love means never needing to wipe the blood from your mouth after he's hit you.
Meredith Hight is the senior contributor to This Recording. She tumbls here.
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"One More Thing"
by Andrew Zornoza
Last weekend, Zack Kushner climbed the mountain of life and stood at the top. His crossword puzzle, "One More Thing," appeared in the NYT: the Sunday edition. How did he get there? What follows is an interview with Mr. Kushner. . . .
Really a fun puzzle Zack. Are you a cruciverbalist, constructor or other?
Thanks. I'm going to go with cruciverbalist, but they're really the same thing. Cruciverbalist just sounds better at parties. According to the definition, anyone who "enjoys crosswords" is a cruciverbalist, but in its normal usage (as if anyone uses the word normally) it means a constructor of crossword puzzles, or more literally, a "crosser of words."
How does it feel knowing that thousands of people all across the globe are poring over your work?
Odd. To be honest, it hasn't really sunk in yet. It was such a long journey to get this puzzle published that having it actually sitting in front of me in the Sunday Magazine is just, well, odd. Also, being in Australia, most of the reactions are coming from far away. I don't have much chance of seeing someone at the next table working on it. I started constructing with the goal of publishing a Sunday Times crossword, and now I've done it. I suppose I'll have to find a new goal, now. . . .
Many writers feel the pull of their profession at a young age. Of course, we all start as readers. How did the transformation from solver to creator happen to you?
With love, of course! I'd been solving puzzles for a long time, but the first puzzle I ever constructed was for my then-girlfriend, now-wife. It was an interesting experience sitting on the other side of the desk, but not one I immediately found addictive. My favorite clue/answer was: "The worst kind of souvenir? / EBOLA". It wasn't until Wordplay came out in '06 that I got it into my head to create a puzzle I could sell. It took me a year of hacking around until I really got the basics of cruciverbalism and another year until I put together a puzzle that met the NY Times standards.
Can you give us some idea of your journey to the New York Times?
Outside of the puzzle I just mentioned, my next attempt was pretty ghastly. I tried to do a rebus puzzle using Greek letters. I wasn't quite clear on all the rules of puzzle making and ended up with something that was unprofessional at best. Too many black squares, bad "fill" (the words in the puzzle that aren't theme answers), etc. It was only after I finished it that I saw how unacceptable it was and so I shelved it and started again. My next attempt wasn't as shoddy, a puzzle that included the names of the Rat Pack in the theme answers (i.e. SITS IN A TRANCE). This one I actually sent in, waited a few months, then got the rejection email. In retrospect, my theme answers weren't quality; while SITS IN A TRANCE makes sense, it's not really "in the language." If it's not a recognizable phrase, it won't please editors. FALLS IN A TRANCE, for example, would be better, but still not as good as FALLS INTO A TRANCE. Try doing a Google search of all three terms in quotes and you'll see what I mean. The more hits returned, the more common the phrase, the more "in the language."
Sometime around this point, I realized I was an idiot for not using the specialized software available to cruciverbalists. Software that helps you create a grid, keep symmetry, clue, and most importantly, fill. I use Crossword Compiler but there are others. I also joined the cruciverb.com mailing list and started to soak up the knowledge.
Two years after first having a real go, I met with success. I've sold three puzzles so far: one to the LA Times, one to Simon & Schuster for Mega Crosswords 8, and this one to the NY Times. I'm securely in the novice-professional category. All are Sunday puzzles, which means they're 21×21 instead of the weekday normal 15×15.
You've mentioned your Grandfather as an early influence. He would certainly be proud.
I used to watch him do the Times puzzles in ink, and that always impressed me. It's hard to imagine how he would have reacted to seeing my puzzle in the Sunday Times. He was a quiet man, not overly affectionate. He probably would have made a few jokes about it, hugged me, and told everyone he met on the street.
How much of a personal expression is a single puzzle? Can you bend the clues to express more than a simple theme? Or does the puzzle have a mind of its own?
The way that a puzzle shows its personality is in the theme answers/clues and in the words you choose for the fill. For example, I liked the word CARJACK and worked to keep that in the fill. Someone else might have liked the name of an opera star or a baseball player. While the clues you choose do reflect your personality, it's important to remember that the editor will change a mess of them. In my NY Times puzzle, the editor changed about half my clues including a bunch of theme clues.
Can you take me through some of these? How about 23 Across: Rachael Ray activity eliciting oohs and aahs?
I got some grief in the crossword puzzle blogs for this clue, even though it wasn't one I wrote. My original clue was "Thrilling grilling?" Apparently people aren't too fond of Rachael Ray, but I've no idea who she is. . . .
30 Across: Pantywaist
WUSS just sort of fit the bill in this corner. My original clue was "97-pound weakling."
45 Across: Spacesuit worry
I liked this one too. Finally one of my original clues! TEAR can mean so many things and cluing a word like that is sometimes dull. You end up choosing between one of 100 standard clues (there's a database of clues that have been published which you can pull from). In this case, I had a bit of brainstorm and found an original way to clue a standard word.
38 Down: "I don't get no respect" to Rodney Dangerfield
A fun answer. A nice Yiddish word to get in the puzzle!
above, the novice-professional Cruciverbalist soaking up the knowledge
Will Shortz has said his favorite crossword clue of all-time is "it might turn into a different story." The answer being "SPIRALSTAIRCASE." Your favorite all-time clue?
Well, I certainly haven't seen all of them, but one I recall is "Pole vault units" / ZLOTYS. I like the fun wordplay there. It's the same kind of thing I was trying to do with "Ones concealing their aims" / SNIPERS.
You live in Australia. I was told that Aussie children wear ice-cream containers on their heads to protect themselves from the attacks of magpies. True?
Hah! I haven't seen that, but I'd believe it. My wife says as a child she used to have to carry an umbrella to protect herself from dive-bombing birds.
Any taboos in your puzzle making?
Nope. I try to avoid crappy fill, like all cruciverbalists, but constructing a puzzle is very difficult and I've always been stuck with one or two words I wish I could have avoided (like REGRAB, ugh).
Last question. Scrabble. Are you formidable?
It's all relative, I guess. I play a bunch and I'm good, but I'm not competitive and haven't memorized all those weird words one needs to be a true Scrabble ninja.
I prefer to have fun with it.
Zack Kushner is a transplanted American in Oz. When he is not creating puzzles for the enjoyment of thousands, he pilots the helm of xZackly Copywriting.
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Andrew Zornoza is the senior contributor to This Recording. He is the author of the photo-novel "Where I Stay," (Tarpaulin Sky Press 2009). His stories have been published in Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, Capgun, SleepingFish and elsewhere, with work forthcoming in Gastronomica and H.O.W. His latest story is available here. You can e-mail him at azornoza at gmail.com. He lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
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This Week in Celtic History
Posted By Jessica Camerato On December 16, 2008 @ 10:53 pm In General | 2 Comments
This week the Boston Celtics tied the NBA record for best start through 25 games. The mark was reached during a week rich with Celtics history:
December 17, 1996
Red Auerbach was named one of the Top Ten Coaches in NBA History as part of the league's 50th anniversary season. Auberach was honored with Chuck Daly, Bill Fitch, Red Holzman, Phil Jackson, John Kundla, Don Nelson, Jack Ramsay, Pat Riley and Lenny Wilkens.
December 19, 1956
Bill Russell signed his first contract with the Boston Celtics. It was a one-year deal worth $19,5000.
December 22, 1949
Boston Celtic Tony Lavelli showed off his accordion skills during halftime of the Celtics-Minneapolis Lakers game. The NBA paid Lavelli $125 per performance to entertain crowds at more than 20 games around the league.
December 22, 1956
Bill Russell made his debut as a Celtic in the Boston Garden. He posted six points and 16 rebonds in the Celtics 95-93 victory over the St. Louis Hawks.
December 22, 1962
The 1,000,000th NBA point was scored during one of three games, including the Boston Celtics-New York Knicks match up.
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The Boston Celtics will take on the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday, 12 years to the day after the Hawks set an NBA record for three-point field goals. They hit 19 treys, which has since been topped, in a convincing win over the Dallas Mavericks.
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(2:24 p.m.) According to Norwood Police reports, a client at the Social Security Administration was making threats to the office over the phone. A report was filed.
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(2:49 p.m.) According to police reports, a caller told police that they observed two males run from Shaws with four green hand held baskets stuffed with food and fled the scene. They were later arrested by Mass State Police.
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Seven-time Emmy and Grammy and Screen Actors Guild winner Betty White, who shoots Hot in Cleveland in Studio City, is being presented the "Who-Manitarian of the Year" Award. She is also the star of the blockbuster film, Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax," and is being presented the award by Max the dog to officiate Universal Studios Hollywood's very, merry "Grinchmas" holiday celebration.
Hailed as "Ambassador to the Animals" by the City of Los Angeles for her lifelong work on behalf of animal welfare, White was recently named Chairman of the Greater LA Zoo Association. She also serves as President Emeritus of the Morris Animal Foundation, a world leader in funding groundbreaking veterinary research.
There will also be more than 100 Los Angeles elementary school students from the Inner City Educational Foundation charter school.
"Grinchmas" returns to Universal Studios Hollywood as The Entertainment Capital of L.A. prepares for a lively holiday season with The Grinch, his faithful dog Max, tons of fresh snow, and nightly celebrity readings as part of the vibrant "Whobilation" tree lighting celebrations.
"Grinchmas" begins on the weekend of Dec. 8 and 9, continues daily from Dec. 15 to 31 and is included in the price of theme park admission.
At the heart of the snow-covered winter wonderland towers a whimsical, curving 60 foot tall "Grinchmas" tree surrounded by The Grinch, Max and a colorfully costumed Who-ville choir, caroling and spreading holiday cheer in enchanting "Whobilation" performances.
Prior to select tree-lighting Whobilations, celebrities from the worlds of film, television and music will join the festivities to help Universal Studios Hollywood celebrate "Grinchmas" by reading entertaining interpretations of Dr. Seuss' heart-warming tale.
More than 30 celebrity readers are confirmed to participate in this year's program, including Nia Vardolos ("My Big, Fat Greek Wedding") on Dec. 8; Jillian Michaels ("The Biggest Loser") on Dec. 9; Blair Underwood and star of "Community," Yvette Nicole Brown on Dec. 15; Tia Mowry-Hardict on Dec. 20; Diego Boneta ("Rock of Ages") on Dec, 22; Chris Gorham ("Covert Affairs") on Dec, 25; and Dot Marie Jones ("Glee") on Dec. 31, among others.
Throughout the event, The Grinch, Max and the Who-ville Whos will be on hand and paw to meet fans and take memorable holiday photos, while families gather to enjoy traditional winter fun, romping together in a playground of fresh, real snow.
"Grinchmas" will also provide fans of the blockbuster film a close-up view of the original Who-ville film sets, featured in the Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" movie, aboard the world-famous behind-the-scenes Studio Tour. As the tram rolls to a stop amid the fanciful Who-ville buildings, guests will experience a one-of-a-kind performance by a Who's Who of Who-ville re-enacting favorite scenes and songs from the film.
More information, including updates on the "Grinchmas" celebrity readings, will be available at www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com.
As families prepare for holiday gift giving, Universal Studios Hollywood's popular "Buy A Day, Get 2013 Free" annual pass offers tremendous value and visits throughout 2013 for the price of a single day's admission. Guests who purchase the "Buy A Day, Get 2013 Free" pass will be able to come back to experience Universal Studios Hollywood's award-winning thrill rides, including the new "Transformers: The Ride—3D" and receive savings on tickets purchased for visiting friends and family.
The event will include nightly tree lighting ceremonies at the 60-ft tall whimsical curving "Grinchmas" tree. More information is available at www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com.


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Iron empires, iron fists, iron domesDecember 06,2012TEL AVIV, Israel I went to synagogue Saturday not far from the Syrian border in Antakya, Turkey. Its been on my mind ever since.
Antakya is home to a tiny Jewish community, which still gathers for holidays at the little Sephardic synagogue. It is also famous for its mosaic of mosques and Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian and Protestant churches. How could it be that I could go to synagogue in Turkey on Saturday while on Friday, just across the Orontes River in Syria, I had visited with Sunni Free Syrian Army rebels embroiled in a civil war in which Syrian Alawites and Sunnis are killing each other on the basis of their ID cards, Kurds are creating their own enclave, Christians are hiding and the Jews are long gone?
What is this telling us? For me, it raises the question of whether there are just three governing options in the Middle East today: Iron Empires, Iron Fists or Iron Domes?
The reason that majorities and minorities co-existed relatively harmoniously for some 400 years when the Arab world was ruled by the Turkish Ottomans from Istanbul was because the Sunni Ottomans, with their Iron Empire, monopolized politics. While there were exceptions, generally speaking the Ottomans and their local representatives were in charge in cities like Damascus, Antakya and Baghdad. Minorities, like Alawites, Shiites, Christians and Jews, though second-class citizens, did not have to worry that theyd be harmed if they not did not rule. The Ottomans had a live-and-let-live mentality toward their subjects.
When Britain and France carved up the Ottoman Empire in the Arab East, they forged the various Ottoman provinces into states with names like Iraq, Jordan and Syria that did not correspond to the ethnographic map. So Sunnis, Shiites, Alawites, Christians, Druze, Turkmen, Kurds and Jews found themselves trapped together inside national boundaries that were drawn to suit the interests of the British and French. Those colonial powers kept everyone in check. But once they withdrew, and these countries became independent, the contests for power began, and minorities were exposed. Finally, in the late 1960s and 1970s, we saw the emergence of a class of Arab dictators and monarchs who perfected Iron Fists (and multiple intelligence agencies) to decisively seize power for their sect or tribe and they ruled over all the other communities by force.
In Syria, under the Assad familys iron fist, the Alawite minority came to rule over a Sunni majority, and in Iraq, under Saddams iron fist, a Sunni minority came to rule over a Shiite majority. But these countries never tried to build real citizens who could share and peacefully rotate in power. So what you are seeing today in the Arab awakening countries Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen is what happens when there is no Iron Empire and the people rise up against the iron-fisted dictators. You are seeing ongoing contests for power until and unless someone can forge a social contract for how communities can share power.
Israelis have responded to the collapse of Arab iron fists around them including the rise of militias with missiles in Lebanon and Gaza with a third model. It is the wall Israel built around itself to seal off the West Bank coupled with its Iron Dome anti-missile system. The two have been phenomenally successful but at a price. The wall plus the dome are enabling Israels leaders to abdicate their responsibility for thinking creatively about a resolution of their own majority-minority problem with the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
I am stunned at what I see here politically. On the right, in the Likud Party, the old leadership that was at least connected with the world, spoke English and respected Israels Supreme Court, is being swept aside in the latest primary by a rising group of far-right settler-activists who are convinced thanks, in part, to the wall and dome that Palestinians are no threat anymore and that no one can roll back the 350,000 Jews living in the West Bank. The far-right group running Israel today is so arrogant, and so indifferent to U.S. concerns, that it announced plans to build a huge block of settlements in the heart of the West Bank in retaliation for the U.N. vote giving Palestinians observer status even though the U.S. did everything possible to block that vote and the settlements would sever any possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state.
Meanwhile, with a few exceptions, the dome and wall have so insulated the Israeli left and center from the effects of the Israeli occupation that their main candidates for the Jan. 22 elections including those from Yitzhak Rabins old Labor Party are not even offering peace ideas but simply conceding the rights dominance on that issue and focusing on bringing down housing prices and school class sizes. One settler leader told me the biggest problem in the West Bank today is traffic jams.
I am glad that the wall and the Iron Dome are sheltering Israelis from enemies who wish to do them ill, but I fear the wall and the Iron Dome are also blinding them from truths they still badly need to face.
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The following arrest report is based on reports for Sept 7 through 9. Look for weekday incident reports each Saturday, weekend reports each Monday, and arrest logs each Tuesday on Brookline Patch. Suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
Friday, Sept 7
Possession of a class A drug – Travis Albano, 29, of Brookline. Officers were investigating reports of narcotic activity at 1064 Beacon Street. Police saw a man with a backpack enter the apartment, greeted by the apartment owner who is known to the officers. Through a window, police were able to see two men snorting substances. After a while, the visitor left the apartment and got into his vehicle, Police returned to 1064 Beacon Street to serve a search warrant for the premises at about 1:30 a.m. and spoke with Albano, and report finding items that looked like heroin, pills, a scale and money. The Drug Enforcement Agency sent a clandestine lab team to examine the scene. Albano was arrestd and charged with possession of heroin, manufacturing an illegal substance, and possession with intent to distribute.
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Disorderly person – 21-year-old Matthew McDonald, Mashpee resident. At about 6:45 p.m., police responded to a disturbance in the 25 Washington Street area. A caller reported there was a shoeless man in a vest yelling at passing cars. When police caught up to him, they report he was digging in the dirt with his hands, and picking up clods of earth, then walking toward a group of people and throwing the dirt at them, yelling things like "smoking is dangerous" and "you shouldn't smoke, it could kill you." When officers tried to get his identity from him, he threw his wallet into the street. Officers then placed him in handcuffs, which he struggled against. Witnesses say he had thrown his shirt into the street, and was throwing handfuls of dirt at the nearby bridge, causing traffic to stop, and pulling out signs and other items in the area. He was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, malicious damage of prpoerty and resisting arrest. He was then transported to the hospital for evaluation. Police spoke with his mother, who says he had left Mashpee at 9 a.m., and was heading to Woonsocket, R.I., and she does not know how he got to the Boston-area.
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News 13 is honoring a young lady who made a big difference in the mountains.
18-year-old Kinana McDaniel is our Summer of Service contest winner! Kinana volunteers at Wild for Life in Asheville, a non-profit that rehabilitates wildlife.
She has been doing it for 7 years, ever since she was 11 years old when she came with her mother nearly every Saturday to volunteer.
The center says she definitely had a way with animals.
Among the creatures Kinana helped is Willow, a 12-year-old red tailed hawk.
Susie Wright, Wild for Life, "she's very compassionate, very kind, very aware of her surroundings. And really in tune with the animals. Immediately we could tell that she was really connected to the animals."
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Sooner Retriever Club Spring Hunting Test
Meeker, Okla. - May 17-18, 2008
By Milton S. Holcombe, senior field representative
On May 17-18, the Sooner Retriever Club hosted their Spring Hunting Test for retrievers near Meeker, Okla. The event was held on nice grounds owned and provided by Bill and Brenda Blochowiak, Lou Bruce and Robert and Ruby Bruce.
The Event Committee, composed of Chairman Bill Cummins, Event Secretary Max Uhlenhake, Al Honeycutt, Bill Blochowiak, Chris Richards and Robert McDow, did a good job of organizing and keeping the event running smoothly.
The Master stake, due to having a total of 68 entries, had to be split in A and B divisions with 34 dogs in each. Master A was judged by Tim Buck of Lexington, Tex., and Daniel Elkins of Dripping Springs, Tex. Master B was judged by Larry Kimble of Independence, Kansas and Gloria Mundell of Lakewood, Colo. Both divisions of Master did a nice job of presenting the contestants with challenging, yet fair, tests. They also did a good job of not just meeting the minimum requirements for Master tests, but actually presenting tests that surpassed the minimums. For example, both Masters first series consisted of delayed quadruple-marked retrieves and double-blind retrieves.
The doubleheader Junior and Senior tests were judged by Dorothy Ruehman of Richmond, Tex. and Thomas Traylor of Wichita, Kan. Rich Sinclair of Wichita, Kan., and Don Davis of Sedgwick, Kan., judged the other stake. They swapped out judging the Junior one day and the Senior the other and did a good job.Click on image for larger view.
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CUMBERLAND- Raymond A. Lemire, 86, resident of Cumberland, formerly of Pleasant St. Bellingham, passed away September 14, 2011 at Landmark Medical Center, surrounded by his loving family.
He was the loving husband of 61 years to Claire (Defond) Lemire.
Born July 3, 1925, he was the son of the late Henry and Viola (St. Amant) Lemire.
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CHICAGO, IL- Dr. Edward Wawszkiewicz, dear son of Sophie Wawszkiewicz, of Biddeford, ME, formerly of No. Smithfield and the late Joseph Wawszkiewicz and fond brother of the late Dr. Monica Wawszkiewicz.
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On Tuesday afternoon, Woonsocket played what many high school enthusiasts believe is ŌĆśthe team to beatŌĆÖ in Division II, defending state champ Smithfield, and while the Novans didnŌĆÖt come away with a victory, they picked up the next best thing ŌĆö a draw.
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NATICK, MA- John H. Luttrell Sr., 87, formerly of Natick, died Tuesday September 13, 2011 at Wayland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Cochituate.
He was born in Woonsocket, R.I., on Nov. 6, 1923, son of the late John M. and Eva (Brouillard) Luttrell, and attended local schools before becoming a newspaper copy boy for the Woonsocket Call.
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WOONSOCKET- Simone P. (Mousseau) Ward, 88, of Achille Street, Woonsocket, a lifelong city resident, died peacefully at Landmark Medical Center, Woonsocket, Sept. 13, 2011, surrounded by the family she loved deeply and devoted her life to.
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JEFFERSON, Ore -- With the help of his fellow veterans Robert Hurley has come a long way since we first introduced you to him last week.
"It's unbelievable really," Robert said of he and his wife being on the receiving end of a lot of kindness from complete strangers.
"We're all brothers under the skin and if a brother need help that's what we do," said Al Moretz of the Oregon Veterans Motorcycle Association.
Background: Thieves hit dream home of dying vet
Help is something Robert needs a lot of.
Doctors diagnosed him with terminal prostate cancer back in 2011. Later that same year a fire destroyed his and his wife's home.
Several weeks ago Robert started building a home his wife will have when he is gone, but thieves stole a pile of lumber from right under him.
"All I saw is that he got robbed and that drives me something fierce," said Moretz.
Moretz got together with some buddies, also veterans, and they spent a day helping Robert with some of the construction. Somebody else donated cash. Another veteran donated a trailer.
"I'll have to admit there's been a few nights of tears," said Robert.
"It has definitely restored my faith in people," added his wife, Reita.


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It goes without saying that Bob Dylan is one of the greatest songwriters to ever live. The amount of brilliant work he's produced over the last 50 years is just staggering. People spend their whole lives trying to create one-third as many great songs as he wrote between 1965 and 1967, or pretty much any other era of his career.
100 Greatest Artists: Bob Dylan
That said, there have been some stinkers. Even his earliest albums have songs like "Ballad in Plain D" that don't quite hit the mark, and by the 1980s, he was churning out embarrassing schlock like "Ugliest Girl in the World" and "Trust Yourself." Things hit a low point on 1990's Under the Red Sky with "Wiggle Wiggle," but feel free to vehemently disagree with us. Maybe you hate "Visions of Johanna" or you think "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35" nearly ruins Blonde on Blonde. This is 100 percent subjective.
So we have a question for you: what is Bob Dylan's single worst song? It can be anything he recorded in his entire career, but it has to be an original song. Covers like "Let's Stick Together" and "Sally Sue Brown" don't count. We will count unreleased originals, like the dreadful "Julius and Ethel" from the 1983 Infidels sessions. Vote for whatever you want, but please only vote once and only for a single song.
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Recently hired Assistant Deans Kirk Overstreet and Mark Collins have been brought to the college to make a difference for the part time faculty members.
With Overstreet coming from a background in human resources and Collins coming from management, the college has the best of both worlds.
Although Collins has been with the college since November of 2011, the addition of Overstreet has helped gain initiative for the hiring process of the part time faculty.
Overstreet came from the University of Illinois in Chicago where he was an associate director of human resources and on Sept. 24 last year, the college opened a job position that Overstreet could fit well in.
According to Overstreet, becoming the new assistant dean was almost natural.
"It's like coming home, but it's all changed," Overstreet said.
Before Overstreet came back "home" to the college, Collins had been working with the adjunct faculty for around two years.
Collins used to work as a training manager at McDonald's and an employee/owner of the tutoring company Sylvan Learning Center.
Collins then got his Doctorate in Chicago and later learned about the open position as Assistant Dean at the college.
"I like to study how people teach," Collins said once asked about his position.
Collins and Overstreet have grown close since Overstreet started last year and although they seem like Ying and Yang, they share the same goal.
"We are working on building the best adjunct faculty," Overstreet said.
Collins agreed and said that since they've started observing more than 200 faculty members all together.
Along with observations, Collins has created a database to help track the teacher's progress and said that teachers really appreciate the help and feedback.
"It's hard to find a job that is really useful, where people really appreciate what you're doing," Collins said.
Students and staff can find Overstreet and Collins in the Teaching and Learning Center in SRC room 1105/1107 or their personal offices in the BIC room 3416.