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First Aired : | 1 Jan 1998 | Stardate : | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Director : | Jonathan Frakes | Year : | 2375 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writers : | Michael Piller, Rick Berman | Season : | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plotline : | The film opens with views of life in an idyllic mountain village - children play, happy looking farmers tend the fields, women chat as they make the bread, etc. However, as the titles end things become more sinister. Shadowy figures are watching the village from within a nearby facility, and we become aware that suited figures are wandering the village, invisible to those living there. Things go from sinister to outright dangerous as we hear phaser fire approaching the village. A suited figure is on the rampage, knocking its fellows aside as it advances on the facility. The marauder turns out to be Data, who is injured and apparently out of control. As the shocked natives, who we will learn are called the Baku, look on he fights off several attacks by the other suited figures before firing his phaser on a nearby rock formation, revealing it to be a hologram hiding the control facility. Meanwhile, on the Enterprise Picard is preparing for a meeting with some local diplomats. As his officers fuss over him he complains about how they never get to do any exploration any more, but cheers when Worf appears, on a visit from Deep Space Nine. The meeting goes well, but is interrupted when Picard is called by Admiral Dougherty. The Admiral tells him that Data has gone crazy and is holding a Federation / Son'a research team hostage on a planet in the Briar Patch. The Enterprise speeds to join Dougherty, despite not being equipped to operate within the Patch. As the Enterprise is on its way we are introduced to the Son'a. They are Federation allies, but it is an alliance borne out of need rather than friendship. The Son'a are not Nice People - they have enslaved other species, and are said to use banned subspace weapons on their ships. The Son'a themselves are rather hideous, apparently afflicted with some form of disfiguring disease - or possibly advanced age, it's never made clear - which requires regular sessions of face stretching. As Dougherty talks to their leader, Ru'afo, their ship comes under attack. It is Data again, using a scoutship assigned to the project to study the Baku. He inflicts minor damage on the Son'a ship before heading off again. As Picard arrives, Dougherty demands that Data be destroyed. Picard prefers to capture the android, but agrees to destroy him if necessary. He sets out with Worf on a shuttle, and they are soon under attack. Picard manages to distract Data by singing a song from HMS Pinafore, allowing him to dock with Data's scout ship so that Worf can immobilize him. Back on the ship Geordi determines that Data's malfunction was caused by a phaser hit, and that in his damaged state his ethical subroutines would have taken over - so his actions were what he considered to be right. Data can shed little light on the mystery - he has no memory beyond exploring the hills near the village. Picard beams down to the Baku village with an away team and is surprised to find that they are not in fact holding the project members hostage. The Baku prove to be a peaceful people who are knowledgeable of technology but deliberately shun it. He apologizes and beams back to the ship with the 'captives'. Once on board the Son'a refuse to undergo routine medical exams, so Picard isolates them from the ships crew. Dougherty insists that they be returned to Ru'afos ship, and orders Picard to leave the area. Instead Picard takes Data down to the surface and, along with a couple of the Baku, heads out into the hills to find out what happened to Data. They discover a cloaked spacecraft sitting at the bottom of a large lake, which turns out to have a holographic recreation of the Baku village inside. Picard realizes that Dougherty and the Son'a are planning to remove the entire Baku population and put them on another planet without their knowledge. Meanwhile, Son'a reinforcements arrive in the form of two battleships and a much larger vessel. At first the motive is unclear, but Picard realizes that The Enterprise crew are being rejuvenated by something in the area. The Baku woman Anji confirms that the locals are centuries old but metaphasic radiation in the planets rings prevent them from ageing. Picard meets Geordi on the surface and is amazed to discover that the engineers eyes have regrown under the influence of the rings. Returning to the ship, Picard confronts Dougherty and the Admiral admits that the Son'a have developed a method of harvesting metaphasic particles from the rings, but that the process will destroy all life on the planet. He claims that the Federation Council is in on the scheme, even though it violates the fundamental principles of the Federation. That night Picard loads the Captains yacht with weapons and supplies, planning to take them down to the surface. Worf, Crusher, Troi and Data insist on going with him, but Picard orders Geordi and Riker to leave the disruptive effect of the Briar Patch and make the conspiracy known to the general public. Ru'afo convinces Dougherty to send the two Son'a battleships after the Enterprise while they proceed to evacuate the Baku by force, since Picard has erected transporter inhibitors around the village. Dougherty agrees to the pursuit of the Enterprise, but they decide to use drones firing isolinear tags to let them transport the Baku up through Picards interference. Picard evacuates the village as the drones begin to pick the Baku off one by one, heading for the hills where mineral deposits will prevent any more beam-ups. Meanwhile the Enterprise is caught by the Son'a ships and a battle ensues in which the Starship suffers considerable damage. When the Son'a use subspace weapons, Geordi is forced to eject the ships warp core and detonate it to seal a 'tear' in space. Riker turns to fight, scooping up a huge cloud of metreon gas and dumping it in front of the enemy ships. When they fire the cloud detonates, destroying one ship and badly damaging the other. On the surface the Baku head through some caves to hide from the drones. Although Picard and Anji are trapped by a rockfall, they are quickly dug out and the band reach the other side of the caves and the last leg of their trip into the mountains. Some Son'a attempt to stop them, but Worf uses a shoulder mounted weapon to defeat them. When scanning the bodies, Crusher learns a startling fact... unfortunately, the drones quickly catch them and both Picard and Anji are captured by the Son'a. On the Son'a ship, Picard informs Dougherty of what Crusher learned on the surface - the Baku and the Son'a are the same race. The Federation has let itself become involved in a blood feud. Shaken by the news, Picard tells Ru'afo that their plan is coming apart and they will have to come clean. Ru'afo refuses, and a fight ensues in which Dougherty is killed. Picard manages to convince one of Ru'afos henchmen to give up the vendetta, and they come up with a plan. Data uses the Captains yacht to attack Ru'afos ship, but he shrugs it off and initiates the metaphasic collector. The device works perfectly, but Ru'afo soon suspects that something is wrong - and realizes that during Data's attack Picard beamed him and his senior officers to a recreation of his bridge on board the holoship. Picard attempts to disable the collector, but it is impossible to do from the ship. He beams over to the collector to destroy it, leaving Worf in command. Ru'afo manages to beam himself over to the collector from the holoship, and fights with Picard. As the remaining Son'a crew on his own ship break onto the bridge and overpower Worf, Picard triggers the self destruct and the collector begins to explode. The Enterprise swoops in at the very last second and beams Picard aboard, leaving Ru'afo to die in the blast. Riker then blasts Ru'afos ship, knocking out the life support systems and forcing them to surrender. With the conspiracy shattered, Picard returns the Baku to the surface and says his goodbyes before heading off into space once more. |
Analysis : | The basic plot paints a fairly simple picture of ethnic cleansing - you could substitute anybody from the American Indians to the Bosnians to the East Timorese for the Baku, which at least makes it eternally topical! But there are a few elements of the morality that don't make a lot of sense - Dougherty claims that the Federation controls the planet but the Baku don't even seem aware of the Federation, let alone being a member world. Surely this would make the whole thing illegal, so how can the Federation Council have authorized it? Unless there is an arms-for-hostages style conspiracy going on amongst at least part of the Council, with Dougherty as an Ollie North figure. But there is limited exploration of this one way or the other. The films attempts to portray the Baku as "noble savages" is also a little heavy-handed. The locals claim that "when you design a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man". All the Baku are shown as simple village people living their simple village life, while the Son'a are the opposite - ever more dependant on technology while their bodies and spirits rot away. This is all, of course, blatant nonsense. The Baku claim to shun technology, but the village fields are irrigated, with the local lake apparently an artificial one complete with a dam. Doesn't this "take away" from the people who would otherwise presumably have to walk great distances to bring back water? For that matter, doesn't the very idea of farming take something away from the hunter-gatherers who have been replaced by this technology? However, such nits don't really make all that much of an impact on the film because ultimately this is more a comedy than anything else. Most of the humour centres around the effects of the crews rejuvenation - Worf regresses to puberty, getting a huge pimple on his face and raging hormones. Riker shaves his beard and he and Troi start acting like a couple of teenagers, while Picard gets his youthful hearing back and starts dancing in his quarters. On this level the film is fairly successful - Data is the straight guy for most of it, and his reactions to Rikers clean shaven appearance and Beverly and Troi's discussion of their rejuvenating breasts is hilarious. On the first run-through I did begin to get a sense that this was all not quite right, that these people really don't act this way. But once you know that the planets rings are causing these kinds of effects it gets a lot easier to accept - as a result I enjoyed this film a lot more on the second viewing, and overall I liked it enough that I saw it at the cinema six times, more than any other Trek film. The actions scenes are both better and worse than those in First Contact. On the one hand First Contact was an action film, so the relative brevity of the battle sequences was a bit of a let down. In Insurrection the space battle scenes are also fairly brief, but it's not such a big deal since this just isn't that kind of film. So much for quantity then, what about quality? Once again the E-E doesn't really get to strut her stuff - we see the ship fire only two photons and a couple of phaser shots throughout the entire film, which makes some sense given that the Enterprise wasn't supposed to be destroying the ships, but rather escaping from them. The effects are quite impressive, what with the subspace weapon, the warp core detonation, and the Metreon cloud explosion. The self destruct of the Collector is also very nicely done. The surface fighting consists mostly of the crew taking pot-shots at drones while the Baku get picked off - no orbital bombardment or anything, which is again fairly reasonable since both sides are trying to do this operation with zero casualties. Overall then, there's nothing really seriously wrong with this film and there are quite a few moments which are well done or better. It's not a classic, but I don't think it's the total stinker that some claim either. |
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YATI : | In the TNG episode "Alleigance", one of the indicators that Picard is acting unusually comes when he asks Beverly if she would like to dance, and she responds "I thought you didn't dance?" But in this film, when Picard is expected to dance at a formal dinner Beverly states that "The Captain used to cut quite a rug!" So which is it? When Data walks into the lake the kid asks if he can breathe in there. Picard replies "Data doesn't breathe." Yet in Birthright, Part 1, Data says "Yes. I do have a functional respiration system. However, its purpose is to maintain the thermal control of my internal systems. I am, in fact, capable of functioning for extended periods in a vacuum." So whilst it's true that Data doesn't use breath for the same thing as you and I, he does in fact breathe. And while we're on the subject, Data's "I have been designed as a flotation device" contradicts Descent, Part 2, when Geordi reminds Data about the time "You decided to go swimming... and when you jumped out of the boat you went straight to the bottom." Data replies "I did not have enough buoyancy to get back to the surface." Troi declares on kissing Riker that "I never kissed you with a beard before." Actually she has, many times during TNG. For instance in "Menage a Troi". When Anij is injured, Picard urges her to "live in this moment" until rescue comes. How exactly is this supposed to help her? Surely it just prolongs her suffering? |
Great Moment : | Riker's last minute heroics to save Worf and Picard are my favourites. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Body Count : | Just two people are actually seen to die - Admiral Dougherty and Ru'afo. The crew of one of Ru'afo's battleships would have been killed, and probably a lot of the crew of the other. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Factoid : | The original story had Ru'afo growing rapidly younger while he was on the collector battling Picard. Although the scene was cut, "Young Ru'afo" is still in the film's credits. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quote : | Dougherty : "Jean-Luc, we're only moving six hundred people!" Picard : "How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? Hmm? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many does it take, Admiral?" "We're through running from these bastards!" - Riker on the Sona. "You Klingons never do anything small, do you?" - Riker to Worf on his pimple "Definitely feeling aggressive tendancies sir!" - Worf to Picard after smashing a Son'a drone with his rifle |
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In his essay "Less Is Less: The Dwindling American Short Story," Madison Smartt Bell classifies himself as a traditional writer, one who believes that only by observing the most minute details can one arrive at universal truths. Although Bell's methods are traditional, his characters are the products of contemporary society. Whether they live in the rural South or in the urban Northeast, they are lonely, alienated figures without a clear sense of purpose. Their world is marked by cruelty, violence, and death, all of which Bell describes in harrowing detail. In "Triptych I," from Zero db, and Other Stories, gruesome descriptions of hog butchering frame the central incident, a human death in which the victim's arm is charred on a hot stove burner. Here and elsewhere, Bell uses structure to remind his readers that they are animals, too, not much different from the hogs, rats, and cockroaches that they kill.
However, human beings can rise above their animal nature. Some of Bell's characters act on principle. The dog trainer in "Black and Tan," from Barking Man, and Other Stories, stops working with boys because he has doubts about his methods; the waitress in "Monkey Park," from Zero db, and Other Stories, will not leave her husband even though she loves another man. Other characters are compassionate. In "Move on Up," from Barking Man, and Other Stories, homeless people display a touching generosity toward one another. One also has to admire the semiliterate narrator of one of Bell's funniest stories, "The Naked Lady," from Zero db, and Other Stories. Although he enjoys shooting rats and watching barroom brawls, this character is essentially a kindly soul, who worries about his roommate's career as a sculptor and even lets their rat-eating snake warm itself in his bed. Even if we have lost our faith in the myths that once sustained us, Bell believes that we can still find meaning in our willingness to connect with one another.
In "Irene," from Zero db, and Other Stories, a young girl becomes the central reality in the narrator's life. After experiencing some personal disappointments, the narrator moves into a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, hoping that in isolation he will turn into a creative genius. In fact, however, he sinks into apathy. One night his neighbors invite him to join them on their steps, and he is so struck by the beauty of a twelve-year-old girl named Irene that he cannot get her out of his mind. He even fantasizes about marrying her. On one occasion, when he sees her crying, he takes her into his apartment until she calms down. The narrator finally pulls himself together, gets a job, and moves away, but he can never forget Irene. He only hopes that she has some recollection of him....
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Bell, Madison Smartt
Madison Smartt Bell 1957–
American novelist and short story writer.
The following entry presents an overview of Bell's career. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volume 41.
In his novels and short stories Bell has depicted sordid, urban underworlds of drugs, violence, and weird pathologies. His fiction is usually set in New York City and peopled by uprooted Southerners, although the milieus of his later work have ranged from his native, rural American South to London and Haiti. Bell is sometimes connected to the Southern literary tradition because of his heritage and his concern with the sociological motivations of misfits and outcasts. While he has been faulted for using contrived literary devices, trendy subject matter, and occasionally flat characterizations, Bell possesses an imaginative depth, considerable narrative skills, and an evocative style uniquely his own. Andy Solomon has called Bell "one of our most prolific and precocious talents," adding that his "unique wedding of intelligence and craft to a signature angle of vision … marks him as one of our more courageous and large-souled talents as well."
Biographical Information
Born August 1, 1957, in Nashville, Tennessee, Bell was raised on his family's farm in Williamson County. He attended Princeton University, where he won several literary prizes for fiction writing and received a summa cum laude B.A. degree in English literature in 1979; he earned a master's degree from Hollins College in 1981. Employed by film and publishing enterprises during his college days, Bell read manuscript and wrote copy for Berkley Publishing Corporation in New York upon graduation from Hollins until 1983, when he published his first novel, The Washington Square Ensemble. In 1984 he accepted an assistant professorship in English at Goucher College, where he wrote two novels, Waiting for the Ending of the World (1985) and Straight Cut (1986). During the academic year 1987–88, Bell participated in the Iowa Writers' Workshop and finished writing the short story collection Zero db and Other Stories (1987) and the novel The Year of Silence (1987). After returning to his position at Goucher, Bell attended the 1989 Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, which yielded the novel Soldier's Joy (1989). During the 1990s Bell expanded his oeuvre with the publication of another short story collection, Barking Man and Other Stories (1990), and three novels, Doctor Sleep (1991), Save Me, Joe Louis (1993), and All Souls' Rising (1995), which was nominated for the National Book Award.
Major Works
The Washington Square Ensemble is a fast-paced and occasionally violent portrait of the New York City heroin trade. Resembling a jazz composition in its stream-of-consciousness narration by five alternating voices, the novel chronicles one day in the lives of drug dealer Johnny B. Goode and his associates. Waiting for the End of the World concerns a group of social misfits who plot to destroy Times Square with a homemade nuclear device, while Straight Cut, a highbrow thriller, focuses on a pair of degenerate New York film-makers, Tracy Bateman and Kevin Carter, caught up in a financially lucrative international drug deal, which involves Carter's duped, estranged wife, Lauren, and a double-crossed Bateman. The Year of Silence centers on the suicide of a young Manhattan illustrator, Marian, whose tale is recounted by those who knew her at different times in her life. Soldier's Joy, Bell's first novel set entirely in the South, relates the story of Thomas Laidlaw, who is white, and his childhood friend Rodney Redmon, who is black. Both men are freshly turned-out Vietnam War veterans trying to sort out their lives in their native Tennessee, but they instead find themselves embroiled in a conflict with the Ku Klux Klan. Doctor Sleep, billed as a thinking-man's thriller and set in London, concerns a practicing American hypnotherapist and recovered heroin addict whose insomnia leads him into some freakish encounters while employed by Scotland Yard. Save Me, Joe Louis is an episodic novel about two grifting and doomed drifters: Macrea, a young petty thief, and Charlie, an older psychopath. The novel recounts their violent, criminal escapades from New York through Baltimore to Tennessee and South Carolina. All Souls' Rising, an historical novel, tells of the brutal and grisly Haitian slave revolt of 1791 as seen through the eyes of several characters. Bell's short story collections display his virtuosity in the form, most notably in "Holding Together" from Barking Dog, in which a wise laboratory mouse tries to find solace from the indignities of science in the I Ching.
Critical Reception
Bell's novels and short stories generally have received enthusiastic critical acclaim, although some reviewers have wondered why, as did Sven Birkerts who emphatically pronounced, "Bell's every sentence is not a joy." Most critics have commented on "his conspicuous sympathy for the alienated and the bruised," as Solomon has stated, but Roberta Silman has noted that Bell displays "an uncanny understanding of the way many people must struggle to live." While David Montrose and others have suggested that some of Bell's characters were "cardboard-flat and forgettable," Alan Davis has remarked that Bell's "sense of character and place is always sure-handed." Some critics, like Davis, have preferred "the compressed dazzle" of Bell's short fiction; Paul D. McCarthy has called his short stories "a splendid testament to Bell's superb narrative, stylistic gifts and passionate humanity." Although Bell has earned the reputation of "one of the South's most promising young writers," as Greg Johnson observed, others have questioned the regional character of Bell's work. Dwight Garner has indicated the significance of All Souls' Rising to Bell's literary development: "In earlier novels … Bell demonstrated that he was a young American novelist of the first rank. All Souls' Rising, however, puts him on another level as an artist."
The Washington Square Ensemble (novel) 1983
History of the Owen Graduate School of Management (nonfiction) 1985
Waiting for the End of the World (novel) 1985
Straight Cut (novel) 1986
The Year of Silence (novel) 1987
Zero db and Other Stories (short stories) 1987
Soldier's Joy (novel) 1989
Barking Man and Other Stories (short stories) 1990
Doctor Sleep (novel) 1991
Save Me, Joe Louis (novel) 1993
All Souls' Rising (novel) 1995
SOURCE: "'Silence' Is Golden," in Chicago Tribune Books, November 22, 1987, p. 9.
[In the positive review below, Fuller focuses on the structure of The Year of Silence.]
A promising but elusive young woman, admired for all the usual reasons, dies of an overdose in Manhattan. Whether the story of this sadly ordinary event comes to anything depends on how the writer decides to tell it.
He can make it a melodrama or a cocaine thriller. He can find in it a tragedy of innocence or the embodiment of the emptiness of existence. He can lapse into cynical black humor or succumb to the sentimentality of despair. Or if he is good enough, he can make something...
(The entire section is 604 words.)
SOURCE: "Other Voices, Other Runes," in Sewanee Review, Vol. XCII, No. 2, Spring, 1989, pp. xliii-xliv.
[In the following excerpt, Winchell focuses on Bell's role as author of The Washington Square Ensemble.]
The novelist starts out as God, creating a world that he knows and controls. In deciding how to use his powers, he makes a metaphysical choice. With the rise of modernism and the more recent emergence of that hybrid known as postmodernism, we have seen the demise of the author-as-God. All notable exceptions conceded, the dominant point of view in twentieth-century fiction has been limited and unreliable. In Ron Loewinsohn's Magnetic Field(s) and Madison...
(The entire section is 585 words.)
SOURCE: "Two Numbed Vietnam Vets Turn to the Soil," in Chicago Tribune Books, June 4, 1989, sec. 14, p. 5.
[In the following review, Johnson faults the "moribund" characterization and "somnolent" pacing of Soldier's Joy, but concludes that "the determination and risk-taking evident in Soldier's Joy are likely to bear fruit in [Bell's] future work."]
Madison Smartt Bell has earned a reputation as one of the South's most promising young writers. In four previous novels and one story collection, he has written skillfully about the Northeast—especially New York City and urban New Jersey—as well as his native South.
His first novel,...
(The entire section is 681 words.)
SOURCE: "The Hero Is a Mouse," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 95, April 8, 1990, p. 11.
[In the following review, DeMarinis analyzes the themes of pain and search-and-rescue in Barking Man.]
A collection of short stories that work well together has the effect of standing the reader in a world he recognizes but is no longer on comfortably familiar terms with. Barking Man, Madison Smartt Bell's second collection of stories and seventh book, satisfies the standard with unwavering compassion. The world these 10 stories conjure is a shifty, dangerous place, requiring of its inhabitants small acts of daily heroism. That these heroic deeds sometimes resemble...
(The entire section is 1012 words.)
SOURCE: "Misfits and Outcasts," in Washington Post Book World, April 15, 1990, pp. 7-8.
[In the mixed review below, McGrath ponders the themes of abuse and vulnerability in Barking Man, suggesting that "the events that befall Bell's misfits and outcasts lack significant power in either existential or literary terms."]
Madison Smartt Bell has been publishing fiction at a very smart clip since 1983—five novels and two collections in a mere seven years. In much of that work he has depicted characters both urban and rural whose lives are marked by poverty, failure, madness and futility.
Most of the stories in Barking Man work the same...
(The entire section is 1296 words.)
SOURCE: "Pounding Out the Dents," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 30, 1990, p. 12.
[Below, McCarthy considers the moral progression of the stories in Barking Man, calling the collection "a splendid testament to Bell's superb narrative, stylistic gifts and passionate humanity."]
Light, shadows and light. That is the moral progression that novelist Madison Smartt Bell develops in the 10 tales of Barking Man and Other Stories, his haunting, protean, compassionate second collection.
Through the five stories that comprise Part I, the characters, human and nonhuman—the narrator of the opening story, "Holding Together," is a...
(The entire section is 588 words.)
SOURCE: "Hypnotist, Heal Thyself," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 96, January 6, 1991, p. 11.
[In the review below, Tallent discusses the interplay of the ordinary with the extraordinary in Doctor Sleep.]
A harrowing wakefulness sets the tone for Madison Smartt Bell's sixth novel. Adrian Strother is an American living in London, a recovered heroin addict and practicing hypnotherapist who is expertly gentle with his clientele of insomniacs and phobics; on eight hours a night, he'd make quite a trustworthy narrator. He has the tolerant cool that is characteristic of Mr. Bell's protagonists, an observant detachment backed, in his case, by his prowess in the...
(The entire section is 820 words.)
SOURCE: "In the Wake of Dr. Strother," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 20, 1991, p. 8.
[In the following review, Donnelly admires the unreal, dreamlike narrative and atmosphere of Doctor Sleep.]
To say that an air of unreality hangs over a book is not usually a compliment. To say it about Doctor Sleep, the new novel by Madison Smartt Bell, is to describe one of its greatest strengths.
Let's start with the title. Adrian Strother is not a doctor—although people persist in addressing him as one—but a hypnotherapist: as for the sleep, he spends most of the long weekend of the book trying to break a bout of insomnia which has for...
(The entire section is 899 words.)
SOURCE: An interview with Madison Smartt Bell, in Southern Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, January, 1994, pp. 1-12.
[In the following interview, which originally took place in August, 1992, Weaks questioned Bell about the southernness of his fiction, the influence of the Fugitives/Agrarians on his work, and the future of southern literature.]
[Mary Louise Weaks:] You've told me several times that you consider yourself a southern writer, yet so many places and people that you create are alien to southerners.
[Madison Smartt Bell:] Well, maybe not so much as you think. I didn't write in southern settings for a long time because I've read so much work by...
(The entire section is 5433 words.)
SOURCE: "Madison Smartt Bell/Debra Spark," in his American Energies: Essays on Fiction, Morrow & Co., 1992, pp. 380-85.
[In the excerpt below, Birkerts detects a "moviemaking" quality about Straight Cut, remarking: "I have no problem with that. Entertainment is entertainment. What bothers me is that the idea of literature got mixed in."]
On the desk in front of me are two books, 20 Under 30: Best Stories by America's New Young Writers, edited by Debra Spark and Straight Cut, a novel by Madison Smartt Bell. The dust jacket of the latter features a cut-in color photograph of a handsome and brooding young man, and the author's biography begins:...
(The entire section is 1209 words.)
SOURCE: "Poised between hell and purgatory: The fiction of Madison Smartt Bell," in Chicago Tribune Books, May 30, 1993, p. 6.
[In the review below, Solomon focuses on the detailed descriptions and realistic characters of Save Me, Joe Louis, especially "Bell's sharp insights into, and extraordinary compassion for, his outcast protagonists."]
The seven novels and two story collections that comprise the oeuvre of Madison Smartt Bell at age 35 make him one of our most prolific and precocious talents. What grows clearer with each book is Bell's unique wedding of intelligence and craft to a signature angle of vision that marks him as one of our more courageous and...
(The entire section is 995 words.)
SOURCE: "A Couple of Predators," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 98, June 20, 1993, p. 9.
[In the positive review below, Crews commends the true-to-life narrative and characterization in Save Me, Joe Louis, observing that Bell is "an exceptional novelist … [capable] of occasionally turning a miracle."]
Madison Smartt Bell has written an episodic novel of two grifters and drifters, Charlie and Macrae, whose only thought seems to be to drink and dope a bit today and tomorrow. After tomorrow, they'll turn their attention toward relieving an unsuspecting citizen of enough money so they can drink and dope a bit one more time. Always one more time. Charlie,...
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SOURCE: "Bad, Bad Buddies," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 11, 1993, p. 7.
[In the following review, Abrams offers a favorable assessment of Save Me, Joe Louis.]
When two guys with criminal tendencies go skidding across the country like a souped-up car with bad brakes and a bald set of tires, bad things are bound to happen. Talk about that American pastime, random violence—Save Me, Joe Louis has got it: shotgun killings, baseball-bat mayhem and what may be the only armed robbery ever committed to save a captured fox. It is the perfect vehicle for a sociopathic buddy movie—Thelma and Louise without the extenuating circumstances.
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SOURCE: "The Black Face of Freedom," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 100, October 29, 1995, p. 12.
[In the review below, Vernon appraises All Souls' Rising, concluding that there "are flaws, but flaws dwarfed by a powerful and intelligent novel."]
Haiti's 18th-century slave rebellion—an object lesson for slave owners in the United States—played itself out against the unfolding revolution in the colony's mother country, France. The result was a complex struggle among Haitian groups trying to align themselves with a shifting template 5,000 miles away with each arriving wave of rumor and news, loyalties switched, authority changed hands, the last became...
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SOURCE: "Nothing to Lose But Their Chains," in Washington Post Book World, Vol. XXV, No. 45, November 5, 1995, p. 4.
[Below, Garner marvels at the erudition and literary skill of All Souls' Rising, finding that Bell's "gifts have never been more fully on display."]
Madison Smartt Bell's sprawling and masterful new novel, about political and racial turmoil in French colonial Haiti during the late 18th century, is not for the squeamish. The book's first scene is an exacting depiction of the crucifixion of a black female slave by a wealthy French landowner. That's merely a primer. In the ensuing 200 pages or so, up until about the novel's midway point, we learn...
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SOURCE: "Stature of Bell Is Uplifted in Gothic 'All Souls' Rising,'" in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 26, 1995, p. K11.
[In the following review, Roberts compares All Soul's Rising to William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, noting that Bell's novel "suffers only a little in comparison."]
Madison Smartt Bell is a Southerner, a Tennessean, but he's not what you'd call a Southern writer. Since 1987, he has produced nine books, novels and short story collections, occasionally set in the South, occasionally peopled with deracinated Southerners in the big cities of the North, often more about the weird pathologies of late 20th-century American life...
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Davis, Alan. A review of Save Me, Joe Louis. The Hudson Review 47, No. 1 (Spring 1994); 145-46.
Claims that "this baggy novel often reads more like a true-crime study than like fiction."
Johnson, George. A review of Straight Cut. The New York Times Book Review 92 (27 December 1987): 24.
Brief, positive notice.
Mesic, Penelope. "The Fire That Time." Chicago Tribune (22 October 1995): sec. 14, pp. 1, 11.
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So High - Part 1
In the last twelve years or so RCA/BMG began to realise that Elvis fans weren?t interested in hearing the same old songs any more, we wanted more. But how could they give us what we wanted? Elvis had been dead for 14 years and wasn?t going to record any new songs, and it was getting less and less likely that any new or lost songs would be found. The answer was sitting right under their noses, in the reels and reels of recording sessions they had. Up until ?Collectors Gold? in 1991 we had the odd alternate take released, and were thrilled to hear them, but nothing on the scale of ?Collectors Gold?, and it must have been then BMG realised that they could release these ?New? alternate takes, and keep the fans happy at the same time. Since 1999 when BMG founded their very own Collectors Label, to try and counteract the bootleggers, we have had an influx of new material spread over 25 regular releases now, ranging from Home Recordings, Rehearsals, Soundboards and of course Studio Sessions. In fact 11 of FTD?s regular releases have had studio sessions with alternate takes on them, and we?ve had quite a few gems amongst them, and those don?t include the new Soundtracks from FTD which also include some new alternate takes. I don?t know how long BMG can quench our thirst for new material, as it seems to be getting to the point now where we are expecting new releases every few months or so, and not just hoping for them. I myself am guilty of this, and I know most of you will be too. I know I?m not alone when I say here?s to the next 25 Follow That Dream releases, and long may they continue.
?So High? is the twenty fifth release from the Follow That Dream collectors label, set for release on January 1st 2004, and the label continues to treat us fans with what we want to hear, unreleased alternate takes. Of the 25 tracks we get here, only 8 are totally unreleased, as most of us will have heard them before on bootleg releases, as well as the semi official Time Life series, but that doesn?t spoil this release one bit. Where bootlegs have used x-generation tapes, we are getting everything here in top-notch sound, which we should get as BMG do have the original tapes.
First up we have Run On - take 6 which has been released a few times now on bootleg (Stand By Me Vol 1, Unsurpassed Masters Box 3 and more recently on the How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 1) but only ever in mono. Here we get a perfect stereo take, which is complete. We got the only other complete alternate take of this song on FTD?s ?Easter Special? but I don?t think we?ll get the incomplete takes released officially. It?s very close to the master (take 7) and the only significant difference I can hear is where Elvis sings ?that?s all brother you?ll knock no more, well run on ?? after the last verse.
Stand By Me - take 2 is next, and to make things even more confusing, we have take 2 listed on FTD?s ?Easter Special? where in fact we got takes 6 & 7!!! Confused? I certainly was. We?ve had the odd takes of this song in mono before on Stand By Me and Unsurpassed Masters bootleg sets, but more recently we got the complete session on the How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 1. Although the sound could have been better, it helped tie up a few loose ends of what takes have been released before. The only other complete take apart from the master (take 11), take 10 was released on the ?Close Up? box set from BMG.
Down In The Alley - take 6 we?ve had before in stereo on There?s Always Me Vol 4 and in near perfect sound quality on the How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 2, and no matter how many times I listen to it I just can?t distinguish it from the master (take 9). BMG released take 1 on the ?60?s box?.
Tomorrow Is A Long Time is one of those songs that I could play over and over again and not get tired of it, so to get take 2 in this quality is a real thrill to hear. This is the only complete take of the song apart from the master (take 4) and we?ve had it before along with take 1 (false start) on There?s Always Me Vol 4.
Love Letters - take 8 we?ve had before in mono on There?s Always Me Vol 4 and the How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 2 and it?s very close to the master (take 9). We?ve also had takes 3, 4 and 7 from BMG on ?Collectors Gold?, and take 2 on ?Today Tomorrow & Forever?
So High - take 1 has been released before on There?s Always Me Vol 4 and the How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 2 in mono, but it?s great to finally get it in this sound quality. We had takes 2 and 3 on FTD?s ?Easter Special? (listed as take 2) so we now have the complete session officially released, apart from the count in before the master (take 4). At the beginning of the take it sounds like Felton says ?okay this is So High take one, swing on?? and from then on Elvis certainly does, and for a first take of the song Elvis is very together with it.
We got take 4 of By And By on FTD?s ?Long Lonely Highway? and the complete session has just been released in mono on the How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 2. We get take 9 here in perfect sound quality and it?s very close to the master (take 10) apart from Elvis? little laugh just before he sings ??well children, by and by ?? on the last verse.
Somebody Bigger Than You And I is one of my favourite religious songs and we finally got the complete session including the work parts on the How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 1 but in pretty bad sound quality, and we?ve had bits and pieces from this session on Stand By Me Vol 2 and Unsurpassed Masters Box 3 but always in mono. Here we get take 11 in stereo and the only real difference I can hear is Elvis not quite hitting the high note on ?will never die ?? at the end of the song. BMG has released other complete takes on ?Easter Special? (take 12) and ?Close Up? (take 15), but we are still to get the uncut take 16 which was used for the spliced master along with work part - take 6, maybe one day.
Without Him (take 1) is another beautiful song and if it wasn?t for the squeak at the beginning and in the middle of the song, it sounds great. We?ve had it before on Stand By Me Vol 2 and Unsurpassed Masters Box 4 and more recently we got the complete session on the How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 2 but again only in mono. We?ve had take 8 released by BMG on ?Close Up? and take 12 is the master. This is one of those songs where Elvis tried to do a better take after the master, so we still have a complete take 14 to look forward to from BMG in the future.
Next up we get take 6 of If The Lord Wasn?t Walking By My Side, and it?s unusual, as I said earlier, to get a take of a song after the master (take 5) but I guess they tried to do a better take to be considered the master, but then stuck with take 5. We had this with I?m Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs, where takes 2 and 3 were released on FTD?s ?Easter Special? and then take 5 was released on FTD?s ?Fame And Fortune?. How many of us expected those takes? Especially when the master is take 1. Anyway, we?ve had take 6 before on Stand By Me Vol 2, Unsurpassed Masters Box 4 and the complete session on the How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 2 but only in mono.
We finally got the stereo master (take 8) of Come What May on FTD?s ?Long Lonely Highway?, before then it had only been released in mono (Rare Elvis) so perhaps BMG have only recently located the stereo master in the last few years. Maybe that?s why they used take 7 on the ?60?s box? and ?Tomorrow Is A Long Time? instead of the master. We?ve had take 2 before on the bootleg Come What May, but again only in mono. From BMG we?ve also had takes 3 and 4 on ?Today Tomorrow And Forever? and take 6 on ?Collectors Gold?.
I?ll Remember You (overdub take 2) is another truly beautiful song that has only been released previously in mono on There?s Always Me, The Complete Spinout Sessions and Unsurpassed Master Box 4. It?s welcome to finally get in stereo and in great sound quality, and the ending has a haunting feeling to it the way Elvis? voice fades back in the mix, truly wonderful.
Guitar Man - take 9 is totally new to us, as only takes 1 to 6 have been released on bootleg, as well as take 5 (?Platinum?) and take 10 (?Long Lonely Highway?) by BMG. This take seems to be sung more laid back than the master (take 12).


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Ellen L. Harding died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011.
Mrs. Harding was born Aug. 31, 1919, to Joseph and Edna Morse.
She spent her childhood in Grand Junction and graduated from Colorado State University, formerly Colorado A&M, in 1941. She was the recipient of a life teaching certificate for education.
She began her teaching career in Holyoke. During World War II she taught home economics and chemistry at Paonia High School. She taught at East Elementary School in Littleton for over 20 years.
Mrs. Harding married Arthur Harding on Aug. 12, 1946, in Paonia. He preceded her in death.
After retiring, she traveled extensively with her husband and her sister, Mary. She also taught preschool at Englewood United Methodist Church.
Mrs. Harding is survived by a sister, Betty Dart of Orange, Calif.; two sons and their wives, Alan and Judy Harding of Simla, and Bill and Byrd Harding of Silt; a daughter and her husband, Beverlee and Doug Edson of Littleton; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and many in-laws, nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur Harding; and a sister, Mary Dameron.
A celebration of life will be held at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to the non-profit, Friends of Man, P.O. Box 937, Littleton, CO 80160-0937.
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These were a tight fit. Rims are Eagle 197 18"X9" with -11 backspacing. Tires are 285-65-18 and lift is 2.5" Readylift. Of course, I had to trim the bumper. I rough trimmed it and will go back and make the radius more smooth. The driver side rubs on the back of the inner fender when the wheel is turned to the left.
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07-19-2009, 02:58 PM #2Nice lookin truck!
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Thanks dude! I'd like to go with a bigger lift, but then I would have parking issues and then it starts getting really expensive.
I went and looked at your truck-that is sweet!! I love those rims, but the red wouldn't match my truck. I like those and there are some with red around the holes that look pretty sweet.Last edited by greenstreetbob; 07-19-2009 at 03:04 PM.
07-19-2009, 03:00 PM #4They look good!!......By chance did you paint the Chrome Door Trim Molding Black?
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07-19-2009, 03:36 PM #7Wow now that is a tight fit! Looks real good though, I wouldn't think you would need a lift kit unless you want go off road in it. I'm with Mike about the black handles, and also the trim is normally chrome instead of black. Keep up the great work!
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07-19-2009, 03:37 PM #8Looks really good, but you wouldn't have to trim if you went with a positive offset rim.
07-19-2009, 04:08 PM #9Nice truck!, Looks great
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07-19-2009, 04:28 PM #10nice set of wheels!
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Code: [B]Level-Up Moves:[/B] - Ancientpower - Peck - Odor Sleuth - Mud Sport - Powder Snow Lv4: Mud Sport Lv8: Powder Snow Lv13: Mud Slap Lv16: Endure Lv20: Mud Bomb Lv25: Hail Lv28: Ice Fang Lv32: Take Down Lv33: Double Hit Lv40: Earthquake Lv48: Mist Lv56: Blizzard Lv65: Scary Face [B]TM & HM Attacks[/B]: TM05 Roar TM06 Toxic TM07 Hail TM10 Hidden Power TM13 Ice Beam TM14 Blizzard TM15 Hyper Beam TM16 Light Screen TM17 Protect TM18 Rain Dance TM21 Frustration TM26 Earthquake TM27 Return TM28 Dig TM32 Double Team TM33 Reflect TM37 Sandstorm TM39 Rock Tomb TM42 Facade TM44 Rest TM45 Attract TM48 Round TM68 Giga Impact TM71 Stone Edge TM78 Bulldoze TM80 Rock Slide TM87 Swagger TM90 Substitute TM94 Rock Smash HM04 Strength [B]Egg Moves:[/B] Take Down Bite Body Slam AncientPower Mud Shot Icicle Spear Double-Edge Fissure Curse Mud Shot Avalanche Stealth Rock Icicle Crash [B]Pre-Evolution Only Moves:[/B] Icy Wind Fury Attack Amnesia Tackle Ice Shard [SIZE=2][B][COLOR=Black]Gen III & IV Only Moves[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][B]:[/B] [SIZE=2]Secret Power Captivate Sleep Talk Natural Gift Fury Cutter Icy Wind Knock Off Snore Earth Power Endeavor Superpower Block Headbutt[/SIZE] Let's take a look at some of Mamoswine's pros. Ability to check Dragons Thanks to its STAB Ice Shard, Icicle Spear and Icicle Crash, Mamoswine can effectively revenge-kill several Dragons in BW OU, such as Salamence, Haxorus and Dragonite. Icicle Crash is even a OHKO on Dragonite, even when taking Multiscale into account (this is true for Dragonites running the standard 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe). Ice Shard can take out Dragons wielding a couple of Dragon Dances under their belts. Strong Attack Stat Mamoswine's 130 Base Attack Stat is impressive, and it has the moves to effectively make good use of it: Superpower, STAB Earthquake, Icicle Crash, Ice Shard, Stone Edge. Mamoswine has a higher attack stat than the powerful Terrakion. Mamoswine can act as a hard-hitter, and can Access to Stealth Rock While Mamoswine can often act as a physical sweeper, it can also help teams through Stealth Rock support. It can use Stealth Rock while maintaining powerful moves. Since it usually forces switches, it can easily set-up Stealth Rock by coming in on an opponent who cannot rivalize with the mammoth. Here are some of Mamoswine's flaws. Bad Defensive Typing While Ice is a great offensive typing that grabs good coverage, it is unfortunately awful defensively. Mamoswine can be revenge-killed by common Pokemon, such as Scizor's Bullet Punch, Conkeldurr's Mach Punch and Rotom-W's Hydro Pump. The multitude of fast and powerful Fighting-types in BW OU doesn't help its cause either. Pokemon like Terrakion and Infernape can use Close Combat to annihilate Mamoswine. Under-achieving Speed stat Unfortunately for Mamoswine, its 80 base Speed Stat isn't good enough to outspeed a big portion of OU. It will be outsped by numerous Pokemon who can take it out, such as Terrakion and Infernape. It is often revenge-killed due to its "not good enough" speed. However, max speed Jolly Mamoswine does let it outspeed the likes of Adamant Toxicroak and Lucario and then KO them with Earthquake, who would otherwise threaten a KO with their Fighting-type moves.
Yeah, I think Mamoswine won't change much in the new metagame. The best thing about the move tutors is that it can now run Thick Fat and not lose out on Super Power or Ice Shard. Its got a few more things it can revenge now, such as the new Sacred Beast or w/e formes, and it can revenge the more powerful Moxie Outrage DD Mence but I still think its just going to be a typical anti metagame force, rather like it was in the last metagame.
^Nice! So I assume this will be the standard set? Mamoswine (F) @ Life Orb Trait: Thick Fat EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Stealth Rock / Stone Edge /Superpower - Earthquake - Ice Shard - Icicle Spear
Yeah, Superpower is a more useful move, as it lets Mamoswine get past Ferrothorn, a Pokemon who Mamoswine would have trouble with otherwise. Also, Icicle Crash is now legal with Superpower on the same set, so it should be placed instead of Icicle Spear, in my opinion.
R_N, is this real? Sand Rush Sandslash. Shit just got REAL. edit: Too bad Moody is banned, Glalie woulda been great. Yeah, I know Moody was broken as hell, I was there. But still.....
I think Mamoswine is going to be far more of a force in this metagame now than in D/P and normal B/W. Being a physical attacker that can get past Amoongoss is great, but that Ice Shard that hits all the new Kami's and upgraded Dragons is even better.
Mamoswine will be great when bw2 come out, being able to hit the new forms of tornadus, Landorus and thundurus for stab priority Ice Shard. Resisting BoltBeam will also be handy since thundurus might make a re-appearance in OU (it can perform pseudo BoltBeam using HP ice). One flaw is that it is weak to fighting and the new kyurem forms resist ice moves. Great check to salamence as well since it might rise in power due to the move tutors.
mamo's role will most likely be the same as a revenge killer 2 those scary dragon sweepers, and also a hard hitter.
Actually I think it depends a lot on whether one of the Kyurem formes (e.g. Black) gets a trial in OU. If it does, that's one extremely popular Dragon which outspeeds Mamoswine and isn't weak to Ice Shard. The new legendary beast forms might see a fair bit of use with those scary attack stats though (well, Thundurus and Landorus anyway).
Adamant LO earthquake is a solid 2hko with one layer of hazards down so superpower definitely isn't needed for ferrothorn of all things. Maybe for the likes of balloon heatran and friends.
Still really scary. Start carrying a skarm if you have problems. Ice Shard is amazing priority as always
Skarm is 3hko'd by LO Icicle Crash. This isn't a huge problem but you should keep this in mind whenever Icicle Crash flinches you.
Thick Fat (and therefore lack of a fire weakness) means that Mamoswine is going to have a much easier time switching in against dragons. It should have enough bulk to survive most un-stabbed fire attacks.
Is Swinub only released for B/W2 in DW like Drilbur is? There's no mention of it anywhere in B/W, that's why I ask.
Ice-type STAB is amazing in the current metagame, and Mamoswine's secondary Ground-typing and Thick Fat almost makes up for it being a horrible defensive typing. Mamowine easily checks just about every new threat out there in BW2, including all the Kamis, Gliscor, not to mention the dragons everywhere. A solid pokemon indeed.
Yeah, as nice as Thick Fat is, the metagame changing is what's really made Mamoswine better. He's very much an anti-meta mon.
I'm predicting mamo to be top 10 or top 20, it's the ultimate antimeta pokemon. Being able to revenge the new beast forms and having access to a very useable ability and an excellent move pool helps it very much in being successful. Mamo being on of the few pokes that can revenge moxiemence and the beast forms allows it to find a good spot on sand teams. If only mamo revived a hail/sand equivalent to swift swim....
He also revenges the Techniloom, being able to attack with Ice Shard before Breloom can Mach Punch because of Mamoswine's higher speed. His DW ability is a nice perk, but like Amoonguss, the newly introduced threats will contribute a lot to his increased usage.
So truthy. Mamo makes a great addition to so many teams. I've been using a Sub set, and it fills lots of gaps: Mamoswine @ Leftovers Ability: Thick Fat EVs: 4 Def / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Ice Shard - Icicle Spear - Substitute - Earthquake It can come in on Breloom or Gliscor as they sub, and KO them through it with a bit of luck. Against Breloom's Focus Punch, two hits is all you need to block its attack anyway. It forces lots of switches, and that's where Sub comes in: it can deal with so much more once it has a Sub up. Terrakion, full health Latios/Hydreigon - not to mention Scizor. EQ is an easy 2HKO on Scizor, so Sub as it comes in and and clobber it. If it comes in on Mamo again, it's gone. As for weather teams, with a Sub it beats Ninetales and TTar, and can sometimes 2HKO Politoed as well. Less effective against opposing Abomasnow, but at least it can't use Leech Seed. Sand teams, with Gliscor, Landorus and TTar, live in fear of this thing: once Skarm is gone, it's basically a Mamosweep. Generally, it just revenges Outraging dragons, and it can KO Multiscale Dragonite reliably. It generally does 70-80% to Volcarona with EQ from what I've seen. I find that both Ice attacks are necessary, and EQ of course. This means it gets walled solid by Skarm and Bronzong (no surprise), and can't really do anything to Rotom-W. That said, it actually makes a good switch into R-W if you're sure it's gonna use an Electric attack. Mamo absorbs the TBolt/Volt Switch, then you Sub. Choiced Rotom, which is most of them these days, will be forced out - and then you're facing something else, from behind a Sub. Other kinds very rarely run full speed, so you'll get to Sub before Hydro Pump and you now know what can outspeed it. If it tries Pain Split or WoW, then you get to chip at it with Icicle Spear for free.
i use the same thing groombridge uses except with an adamant nature and life orb. mamo sweeps so many teams by the endgame with proper team building, i think that this mon is going to be a staple (it always had the potential).


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Hbune t/i/tx jL>vi>ftijj>afle SERVING BETHPAGE, ISLAND TREES, OLD BETH PAGE, PLAINVIEW, SEAFORD AND PLAINEDGE VOL. 41 NO. 14 . ! April 4-10, 2003 Charlie Razenson Photo GOD BLESS AMERICA GOD BLESS OUR MILITARY The Town of Oyster Bay and The Bethpage Chamber of Commerce Invite you to A Rally In SUPPORT OF OUR TROOPS April 6, 2003 4:15 p.m. Bethpage Train Station Parking Lot Adjacent to Rotary Circle on Stewart Avenue Featuring Words of encouragement by local officials, veterans organizations and clergy. Join us for a coming together of our community in support of the brave men and women of our Armed Forces. Sponsored by Supervisor John Venditto, The Town of Oyster Bay and the Bethpage Chamber of Commerce Open to All Town of Oyster Bay Residents


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Staff writer/photographer
Eminence Middle and High School principal Steve Frommeyer last week told the Eminence Board of Education both of his schools have improved.
He said that both schools have made great strides academically, in delivering his annual report to the board. "We are becoming viewed as an academic school system by the outside world," Frommeyer said.
General Manager
For Donna Williams, making brooms isn't a hobby or a craft, it's a way of carrying on a family tradition.
A sixth-generation broom maker, Williams has taken the family craft to new heights, while maintaining a generations old focus on quality.
Williams' participation in the craft began 20 years ago.
As visitors wander through the Harvest Showcase this weekend, they'll no doubt venture through the Farmers Market area, where a bounty of fresh produce will make the senses tingle.
For one vendor, the venture into selling at a Farmers Market began quite simply — she wanted to make a little extra money and connect with and help people.
Barbara Gregory has grown her own produce for much of her life, building upon knowledge she's picked up from aunts and uncles, books and workshops.
Eminence Independent Schools
First day: August 1
July 28-30 - Professional Development Day
July 31 - Professional Opening (Staff Only)
August 1 - First Day of School for Students
August 20 - Early Release for Students
September 1 - Labor Day Holiday, School Closed
October 6-16- Fall Break
Nov. 4 - Election Day, no school
Nov. 26-28 - Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 22-Jan. 2 - Winter Break
Jan.. 19 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day, School Closed
By John Logan Brent
Henry County Judge/Executive and Showcase Committee Member
Henry County High School students may pick up schedules through Thursday, July 24. Students will need to go to Henry County Middle School to pick up the schedule. Students will need to pay school fees of $55 before picking up schedules. If a student receives free or reduced lunch, this fee does not have to be paid. The times for schedule pick ups at the middle school are:
Wednesday, July 23, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursday, July 24, noon to 7 p.m.
Sweet Home Spun is a 150-acre family owned and operated sheep farm, wool, knitting and retail enterprise on U.S. 421 just 1.2 miles south of Pleasureville. It is the life's work of JoAnn Adams, her husband Sam and son, Samuel.
Sports editor
After playing basketball at Eminence High School for four years in the 1990s, and spending a six-year coaching span between Berea and Gallatin County, Chris Nethery will return to his roots in Eminence to start his first head coaching position at the varsity level.
When the Henry County High School junior varsity soccer team took to the field last fall, it marked the first time a soccer team was represented at HCHS. Now, with a varsity team already practicing and games right around the corner, Henry has taken a monumental step and is leaving behind a trail of history along the way.
Thanks to a speedy and accurate right arm, Samantha Barmore got the opportunity to showcase her pitching skills in Australia this month — playing for Team USA in a 23-and-under tournament that included more than a dozen teams from Australia, New Zealand and the United States.