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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Dylan's Buried Treasure: "I'm Not There (1956)"
It belongs to that mysterious group of 1967 recordings known as "The Basement Tapes," and it was not included among the songs found in Columbia's legitimate release of the alleged cream of the crop. The trailer includes only a 1:58 snippet of the entire piece, which runs 5:08; it's been rerecorded by Sonic Youth for the movie but, as the trailer seems to insist, the original version must be heard.
It's been awhile since a song got its hooks so deeply into me. I heard "I'm Not There (1956)" for the first time in its entirety yesterday -- I was able to find an mp3 here (scroll down 13 short paragraphs) -- and must have listened to it at least twenty times throughout the day, amazed that a song could communicate its emotion so palpably even though the lyrics (mostly improvised on the spot) hovered between incompletion and incoherence, even taking the time to learn the comparatively simple piece on my bass to try to come to terms with it musically. Here is some of what I found written in various sources about this amazing piece...
From THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA by Greil Marcus:
"There is nothing like 'I'm Not There' -- called 'I'm Not There, I'm Gone' when Garth Hudson wrote down basement titles, later retitled 'I'm Not There (1956)' -- in the basement recordings, or anywhere else in Bob Dylan's career. It was only recorded once; unlike others of the new basement songs, which Dylan rerecorded or continued to feature on stage thirty years later, it was never sung again.
She fell into conversation with the first fat man she saw.
"What do you do?," he said, fitting two potato chips into his mouth.
I go to parties and only talk to the fat guys, she thought.
Owen was home writing. She thought of it as an act of fidelity to talk only to the unattractive guys.
She started to tell him about her jobs. She was talking on automatic pilot, hardly listening to what she was saying -- instead, she was listening to Dylan. Going through the host's record collection, she'd found a bootleg album that included "I'm Not There," a legendary, never-released, never-completed song from the Basement Tapes sessions -- a song that she'd heard just once, the summer after high school, and that she'd been searching for ever since. It came on while she was talking; it was even more haunting than she remembered.
She touched the fat guy's wrist. "This," she said, "may be the greatest song ever written."
"The woman speaking is the heroine of a 1991 novel by Brian Morton called THE DYLANIST, and it's a wonderful thing she says -- because so many people have responded the same way, at the same time realizing that 'I'm Not There' is barely written at all.... The song is a trance, a waking dream, a whirlpool... Words are floated together in a dyslexia that is music itself -- a dyslexia that seems meant to prove the claims of music over words, to see just how little words can do... In the last lines of the song, the most plainly sung, the most painful, so bereft that after the song's five minutes, five minutes that seem like no measurable time, you no longer believe that anything so strong can be said in words."
From composer Michael Pisaro:
"It's almost as though he has discovered a language or, better, has heard of a language: heard about some of its vocabulary, its grammar and its sounds, and before he can comprehend it, starts using this set of unformed tools to narrate the most important event of his life... [Rick] Danko plays [bass] as if he knows that all his life this song has been waiting for him to complete it, and that he will be given only one chance."
From BOB DYLAN: PERFORMING ARTIST 1960-1973 by Paul Williams:
"What's astonishing here is that we can feel with great intensity and specificity what the singer is talking about, even though 80% of the lyrics have not been written yet!... It's as though when Dylan writes, the finished song is not constructed piece by piece as we might imagine, but tuned in; there is an entirety from the first but still out of focus, like the photograph of a fetus, a blur whose identifying characteristics are implicit but not yet visible -- not because they're obscured but because they haven't yet taken shape. 'I'm Not There' is a performance complete in feeling -- 'Dylan's saddest song,' says [THE TELEGRAPH editor John] Bauldie -- achieved without benefit of context or detail. It's like listening to the inspiration before the song is wrapped around it."
With this kind of press, I'm surprised that this forty year old piece isn't better known to the public at large. People talk about the Basement Tapes at length, but this particular song is surely, on its own, to Bob Dylan what SMILE was, for decades, to Brian Wilson. As much as I love what Wilson did when he resurrected SMILE as a solo recording, its availability has taken away from the almost sacred mystery that enveloped the original Beach Boys recordings so painstakingly produced by Wilson, which fans loved to collect, share, and arrange into their own personal visions of what the unfinished album might have been. "I'm Not There (1956)" -- whose attached date is only one of many unexplained mysteries about it -- is of such similar appeal that I'm surprised that Dylan fans aren't out there writing and sharing their own lyrics to complete the jigsaw... but, who knows, maybe they do.
One of the many uncanny things about this piece is that Dylan must have known what he had, but he had the awareness of his own craft to know, despite the incompletion of the piece, that this singular recording had somehow miraculously achieved everything that any completed version possibly could and was wise enough to leave it alone. Its rough-hewn quality also invests it with something that no finished song ever has. In its own way, "I'm Not There" is perfect and there's no need for Dylan to touch it again. It might tempt him to finish it.
It's interesting that Todd Haynes chose this obscure song as the title piece for his film, but it does represent in some ways Dylan's own mercurial, artfully dodging persona, which I take to be one of the film's primary concerns, as it supposedly casts seven different actors as Bob Dylan at different phases of his career. My feeling about Haynes' previous work is that it's always very enticing but somehow always falls short of satisfying me completely. The idea to cast different actors as Dylan is an inspired one, one that qualifies this film as fantastic cinema sight unseen, but I'm looking forward to I'M NOT THERE with equal parts eagerness and trepidation. There is a preview scene from the film on YouTube featuring Cate Blanchett as Dylan, who strikes me in this snippet as playing Patti Smith in Dylan drag. Even so, the casting is inspired and it looks like a film that has winks to offer as well as wisdom. If it only brings this song within reach of more appreciative ears, the effort will have been worth it.
I'm hoping it turns out to be the superhero film of the year.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Guess the Secret Moiderer and Win $1000
Shout Factory's YOU BET YOUR LIFE - THE BEST EPISODES came out three years ago, almost to the day, but it was only recently that I obtained it. Thirty or so years have passed since I last saw Groucho Marx's classic game show, and it was wonderful to see it again: every single episode made me laugh myself sick. In answer to everyone's first question: No, the Tor Johnson episode isn't included, but you do get appearances by Harpo Marx, Chico Marx (not onstage, but visible applauding in the audience), Johnny Weissmuller, Phyllis Diller, Joe Louis, Edgar & Candice Bergen, Harry Ruby and VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS' own Joy Harmon. Not a bad bang for the buck.
Panelists Richard Halley, Stanley Ralph Ross, Jan Sterling, and the one, the only... Groucho.
The panel are shown a 10m mystery film ("Mystery in the Crystal Ball," featuring Joe Maross as a detective named Penfield) that involves a murder and four possible suspects, then those "suspects" are assembled in four empty seats onstage, where the celebrity detectives "grill" them before a live audience. Each of the suspects must tell the truth... except for the murderer, who is given permission to lie to conceal their identity. Any celebrity who correctly guesses the identity of the murderer wins $500... and if the real detective fails where the celebrity detectives succeed, their prize amount is doubled to $1000.
Two scenes from "Murder in the Crystal Ball," featuring James Callahan, Arthur Batanides, and Linda Bennett.
I grant that it's very odd to see celebrities vying for money they intend to win for themselves, but maybe there wasn't much of a salary involved. Then again -- and this is probably the real explanation, given the show's patrimony -- maybe it's all show business. The mystery film is practically indistinguishable from the first reel of a PERRY MASON episode, and directed by a veteran of 21 episodes of that series, William D. Russell. I personally found the mystery fairly easy to solve, but the pilot was a delight anyway for Groucho's interjections of humor, his flirtatiousness with the bailiff and suspect Linda Bennett (whose IMDb page credits her with this pilot, a movie called NAKED FLAME which I do believe features her, and a couple of Sixties grindhouse pictures in which another woman of her name appeared), and the "grilling" sequences, which required four actors to act in character but without a script -- a rarely witnessed dramatic exercise with actors of this vintage.
Suspects Jay Adler, Linda Bennett, James Callahan and Kathryn Giveney have a laugh when the real killer is unmasked.YOU BET YOUR LIFE - THE BEST EPISODES would be well worth having even without this pilot, but knowing that THE PLOT THICKENS was included, and its specifics, would have made the set absolutely irresistable to me -- and perhaps to you, too, which is why I thought I'd share the news. There remain two more pilots in this set that I haven't watched: WHAT DO YOU WANT? and TELL IT TO GROUCHO. For all I know, they might guest star Delphine Seyrig and Wild Man Fischer and be directed by Sergei Parajanov.
Apparently, with Groucho, anything is possible.
Monday, July 16, 2007
In Defense of Frank Dietz
"Unfortunately," he writes, "the selling of my work is apparently illegal, which I did not realize after 12 years of doing so, so I will no longer sell my monster art... Is this an overreaction? Perhaps, but the answer is simple. I have two beautiful daughters. I will not endanger my children's financial future by testing the wrath of studio lawyers, who could 'send a message' by wiping out my life savings. It's that simple."
Frank's announcement does not confirm that he has been approached by a studio legal representative and served with threatening "cease and desist" paperwork, but it would seem a strong possibility. Frank's portraits and caricatures do indeed feature copyrighted characters, trademarked faces or studio makeups, and he sells this work to private collectors.
As someone who owns a couple of Dietz originals (a painting and a charcoal portrait), I find the possibility of such bullying both galling and reprehensible. I say this as someone with intellectual property of my own, toward which I feel a sense of vigilance and responsibility. Certainly, I would object if someone announced their intention to film my novel THROAT SPROCKETS without my permission or involvement; on the other hand, I believe that my rights as creator begin to lose some of their grip, or should, when it comes to my work inspiring other forms of art. The link no longer works, but I once found online a painting by an artist named Léandre Borgia that was labelled as an hommage to THROAT SPROCKETS and, a couple of years ago, a writer approached me seeking my permission to write a novel in which my novel would play an active part in the narrative. I found both of these responses to my novel immensely flattering; it wasn't the same thing as finding my original TABOO story (illustrated by Mike Hoffman) bootlegged in a foreign comic book with the TS movie's title changed to DEEP THROAT. To that, I did object.
When any artist lets their work out into the world, either by printing a book or selling a movie ticket, it is absurd (to use one of the kinder characterizations) for them to presume that their creative rights extend to cover anything and everything that work might inspire. It has to do with the free exchange of ideas. It used to be the same way with movies -- would there be a Batman without Roland West's THE BAT, or a Joker without Paul Leni's THE MAN WHO LAUGHS? -- but no more. Why? Because Hollywood has no new ideas, only new technologies and new video formats. This places a terrible burden on the precious reserves of ideas these studios already have: a burden to make these old ideas continually profitable. If studios had an ounce of faith in a future based on new commercial ideas, they wouldn't need to worry so much about the past.
What if Frank Dietz creates an original portrait of the Frankenstein Monster, or Vincent Price, or E. E. Clive, and sells it at a convention? How does this differ from, say, Basil Gogos doing a painting of the same, selling it to Warren Publications as a cover of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, which is then sold coast-to-coast on newsstands? Is the latter more acceptable, even though it involves a much larger exchange of money all around (especially for Warren), because it is promotional in nature? But who is to say that the art of Frank Dietz isn't promotional? It's fan art like his that kept the appetite for classic monster movies alive all those years when Universal, Warners, Columbia and other studios couldn't be bothered to release those films on home video -- at conventions, in fanzines. But in today's paranoid and possessive climate, such loving action becomes litigable.
Who we must ultimately thank for ugly turns of event like this are, of course, the Studio Attorneys, who must account for their lavish annual salary and expense accounts by doing something/anything. And so Goliath turns viciously on David, bringing down his colossal foot on the banner David is carrying, which just happens to say "YAY, GOLIATH!"
While the expense would surely be dreadful, I would love to see a case like this honestly explored in a court of law. Frank's caricatures are certainly humorous and satire and parody are protected by the First Amendment. There is also the matter of precedent to be considered here. Universal's monster characters, to take a handy example, have not appeared exclusively in Universal films since their inception. You can also find them in shorts and cartoons made by other studios, in MAD magazine, in editorial cartoons, you name it. It comes with being part of the cultural landscape, and none of the artists who perpetuated these characters in these secondary media did so for free, nor were they required to tithe a portion of their salaries back to Universal. And, truth be told, Universal lost nothing by sharing these characters thusly with the world, while they gained a fabulous fortune in terms of fame and public goodwill. But in today's legal view, something like Bobby Pickett's "The Monster Mash" might be characterized as having siphoned unforgivable millions from the Universal till, even though everyone who bought that record loved Universal's horror movies all the more as a result of hearing it and hearing it again.
Sure, Frank profits from his drawings and paintings -- or did. But, as I said over at the CHFB, it's not really the subjects of Frank's work that sell it; it's what his eye and hand bring to those subjects. I have seen a dozen people crowded around his table at Wonderfest, looking at the artwork on display, and everyone zeroes in on something different, something that speaks to their own unique experience of that character, that actor, that scene. In fact, I would go so far as to contend that nothing tangibly existed of, say, Vincent Price and THE TINGLER that can be seen in Frank's caricature of same prior to his drawing it. Through his work, Frank was able to make some elusive quality of Price's performance in the film tangible, in a way that it isn't evident in stills or even necessarily in the movie itself (film viewing being such a subjective matter in itself) -- and that's what makes his art so special and so beloved by fans.
If a studio should want to harness such talent and put it to work for them, that's one thing. But to reach over and unceremoniously pull the plug on an artist's entire future of self-expression, because they are under the psychotic impression that they somehow own it, is something else entirely. Yet this is "studio thinking," wholly consistent with a system dedicated to making us pay over and over for the same movie-going experience, whether it's remakes or double- and triple-dipping DVDs, and obtaining ultimate control over all that we see and hear regarding its output. If such corporate characteristics were applied to an individual, they would qualify him or her as mentally ill.
If Frank Dietz's right to interpret the monsters we know and love in art can be intimidated out of existence, how long will it be before the interpretations of the written word -- film criticism, for example -- suffer the same fate? We must have freedom of the press, which is predicated on what I referenced earlier, the free exchange of ideas.
Mr. Studio Attorney might counter by asking, "What's so free about Frank Dietz charging for his artwork?" Actually, Frank's artwork is freely displayed -- he puts it in galleries and on convention tables to attract and amuse people. It's free to look all you want. When money does change hands, it's mostly to reimburse him for the time and materials that brought those works to life. The people that buy his art then display it on the walls of their homes, where it becomes a vehicle through which these actors, characters and scenes can be venerated and enjoyed on a daily basis -- because the original product, the film itself, has already been consumed. To create art for such a purpose is, in my view, a more honest and respectable living than making your product's biggest boosters feel like crooks.
Hang in there, Frank. Whatever the situation is, I hope it can be resolved.


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Police arrested Daricus Lemark Smith on Wednesday and charged him with first-degree arson. They say Smith lived in the room in a rear building at the Gentle Touch Car Wash at 2907 Wake Forest Road when firefighters were called there about 4 a.m. on Feb. 25.
A fire department report said the fire was set in a corner of a room and that four people lived in the building, though a worker at the car wash said later that day that there were no residents.
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"The Mediterranean as it once was."
As tourism slogans go, this one has always held a special allure for me. Launched by the Croatian tourist board to invigorate its ailing vacation industry after the breakup of Yugoslavia, it's a motto that has graced billboards and glossy magazine ads for a decade. And this morning, I've stepped off the ferry onto an island that embodies the claim better than any other.
Lying 30 miles off the Croatian mainland, Vis is the remotest of the populated Dalmatians, the archipelago of 1,185 islands that pepper the eastern Adriatic like seeds scattered by the sirocco wind. Like many of its neighbors, it has always boasted the raw materials necessary to become a quintessential Mediterranean bolt-hole: miles of pebbled beaches, grape-and-olive agriculture and seafood by the netful. But it was a unique quirk of history that set it on course to fulfill the slogan's halcyon promise. On the Mediterranean authenticity scale, Vis strikes an exquisite old-school note, the perfect balance between amenity and low-key local charm.
"Now being discovered by intrepid travelers," one guidebook declares of the island, although "intrepid" seems a rather generous epithet when you consider that, having spent two hours sunbathing on the deck of the Hektorovic, the daily car ferry that connects mainland Split with Vis Town, the island's main harbor, my girlfriend and I haven't exactly hacked through virgin rain forest to get here.
On our first afternoon, we do what any intrepid travelers worth their salt would do when embarking on an expedition to Vis: We grab an ice cream and stroll to the beach. Hidden among the pine stands on the bay's eastern rim, Grandovac beach is an archetypal stretch of the Vis seashore — a crescent of polished white pebbles overhung by pine trees thrumming with cicada song. On an overlooking embankment, a discreet bar purveys cold beer and soporific tunes. The water, this far from the mainland, is cool and clean.
But more, this beach provides a clue as to why we're not battling for a space for our towels. Behind it is a military cemetery, the soldiers entombed beneath its baked earth hailing from another island, far away. During World War II, when Vis was the only island in the Dalmatians unoccupied by Axis powers, the arrival of the British forces remembered in this poignant graveyard ushered in a period of militarization that was to last for 50 years.
By 1944, the British had been joined by 2,000 partisans fighting for independence under the leadership of Marshal Tito, the "benign dictator" who would go on to dominate three decades of politics in communist Yugoslavia. Under Tito, the island was annexed as a naval outpost because of its strategic position. Military tunnels and installations were dug into the hillsides. Locals lived under a veil of secrecy. Visitors, foreign or domestic, were forbidden.
That era ended in 1989, and since then tourism has alighted on Vis's rocky shore. The battleships have been replaced by pleasure yachts, while in St. George's Bay, the more dauntless visitors now dare to dive into the sea from the concrete lintel of what used to be a submarine depot.
But it's this delayed start — which helped the island sidestep the era of unwieldy concrete development that has indelibly scarred other places in the Med — that cultivated its slower tempo and a remoter feel than that of such nearby holiday hot spots as Hvar and Bol.
We first came here during a Croatian island-hop in 2005, but little seems to have changed since that accidental discovery. Vis Town's old facades — all white stone quarried on the distant island of Brac — still grace the waterfront. Elderly olive-skinned locals ornament the benches that line the promenade. In the cool of evening, families come out to swim from the wood-slat pontoons that protrude into the bay.
The apartment we return to after our hours by the sea is typical of this contented stasis. We stay in Kut, on the east edge of town in a room that verges right onto the sea, the wall beneath its shuttered windows lapped by the tide. Accommodation on Vis consists almost exclusively of sobes — self-contained apartments like this one, locally owned and rarely more than $100 a night. The one large hotel, Hotel Issa, a whitewashed carbuncle on the harbor's western peninsula, is incongruous and unloved. With the island's 1,000 rooms widely dispersed over an area similar in size to that of Manhattan, and with camping prohibited, there's no overcrowding even in peak season.
"No one on Vis went out looking for tourism; the tourists found us," explains Drazen Gazija, the owner of our sobe and a former president of the Vis tourist office. "Vis is the place to come if you want pomalo." '"Pomalo" — the Dalmatian philosophy of doing things slowly, little by little — is a spirit that has seeped into the island's very soil.
A couple of days after our arrival, having recalibrated all systems to Vis speed, we drag ourselves out to do something resembling exploration. From the square by the ferry dock, a regular bus trundles along the seven-mile road that bisects the island from east to west, winding between verdant hillsides and citrus orchards, crisscrossed by a timeworn geometry of stone walls.
Sitting at the neck of a pretty anchorage bobbing with fishing boats is Komiza, the island's second-largest town. Though it's smaller than Vis Town, Komiza is where most tourists stay. Outdoor cafes line the quayside, while small, unassuming tour agencies offer day trips to the Blue Cave, an aquamarine grotto punched into the outlying islet of Bisevo, visible from here as a whale-backed rock on the horizon.
Walk away from the town, however, and you start to appreciate why Vis is often named one of the 10 best-preserved islands in the Mediterranean. Turning our backs on the gentle hubbub of the harbor, we circumvent the nearly 2,000-foot hulk of Mount Hum — from whose caves Tito deployed his threadbare bands to make mischief along the German lines — then head south to wander the coast.
Beyond the charming beach of Kamenice, dusty trails weave along cliffs that tumble with lavender and swordlike cactuses. Farther still, arc after arc of pebble bays nibble into a coastal landscape that, but for the unavoidable sight of a few faraway nudists, has probably changed little in 20 million years, since seismic tremors sent the Dalmatian islands bubbling out of the surrounding sea.
The more you explore the island, the more this timeless atmosphere makes the past feel palpable and immediate. For an isolated outpost, Vis has a surprising roll call of past visitors. Starting with the foundation of Issa, the island's first significant settlement, by Dionysius of Syracuse in 397 B.C., all the Med's major players — Illyrians, Romans, Byzantines — have passed through this crossroads of empire. The elegant church spires that stand sentinel over Vis bay conjure the era when Venice ruled the Mediterranean, while the island's Archeological Collection, a jumble of clay amphoras dredged up from shipwrecks and red-figure pottery unearthed from ancient necropolises, now sits in a fortress bequeathed by the Austro-Hungarians.
An especially unexpected vestige of the island's strategic role in the Napoleonic Wars perseveres in the form of the Sir William Hoste Cricket Club, founded in memory of the matches that British mariners played here in 1811. "A wretched place," was how the naval captain who initiated those early matches described Vis in a letter home. Nowadays, outsiders tend to be far more effusive.
"I suppose you could say we've found our personal paradise on Vis," says today's club secretary, Craig Wear, a Yorkshireman who, after many years of itinerant living, finally settled here with his wife, Xania, in 2006. The pair now run active holidays from a four-room guesthouse in Rukavac, on the island's southeast corner. "The cricket teams that visit us usually tour a new location each year, but they always come back to Vis. It's impossible to leave this island without wanting to return," Craig says.
Throughout the island's history, one common thread has been its reputation as a center of gastronomy. As long ago as the second century B.C., the Alexandrian scholar Athenaeus was extolling the region's wine: "At Issa . . . wine is made which is superior to every other wine whatever."


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Exactly a week after a 20 vote difference in the general election, Doug Hashman, who farms near Berea, has been officially named Box Butte County Commissioner.
In a recount that took place Tuesday morning, Box Butte County Clerk Judy Messersmith reports that the final numbers did not change from last Thursday.
The canvassing board met at that time and found Hashman to have received 20 more votes than Marvin Toedtli. Following Tuesday's recount, the numbers remain the same at 2,330 for Hashman and 2,310 for Toedtli.
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- The statistical coalescence model for the production of open and hidden charm is considered within the canonical ensemble formulation. The data for the J/psi multiplicity in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A·GeV are used for the model prediction of the open charm yield. We find a strong enhancement of the open charm production, by a factor of about 2 4, over the standard hard-collision model extrapolation from nucleon-nucleon to nucleus-nucleus collisions. A possible mechanism of the open charm enhancement in A+A collisions at the SPS energies is proposed.
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- We consider the production of the J/psi mesons in heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies in the statistical coalescence model with an exact (canonical ensemble) charm conservation. The cc quark pairs are assumed to be created in the primary hard parton collisions, but the formation of the open and hidden charm particles takes place at the hadronization stage and follows the prescription of statistical mechanics. The dependence of the J/psi production on both the number of nucleon participants and the collision energy is studied. The model predicts the J/psi suppression for low energies, whereas at the highest RHIC energy the model reveals the J/psi enhancement.
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- Statistical coalescence model analysis of J / psi production in Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV (2001)
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This looks like it might be the only interesting game of week 7. Undefeated no more, Detroit head coach Jim Schwartz looks to move beyond "the handshake" and cement his team's status as one of the league's best. Getting Calvin Johnson back into the end zone will be key, especially since Detroit is without running back Jahvid Best this week and maybe longer.
Atlanta has yet to score more than 15 points against opponents with a .500 or better record. Needless to say, that isn't how they envisioned the season starting. A win in Detroit would put them back on track.
Pete Prisco at CBS takes the Falcons in a narrow win, summing it up thusly:
The Lions lost last week for the first time, so they will be focused here against a good team. The Falcons seemed to right things last week against Carolina, but now they have stop the Detroit passing game, which has been a problem. The Lions can't stop the run, which means Michael Turner will have a big day. Upset special.
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Christmas time is finally here, my favorite time of year to craft! Grab a cub of hot chocolate, snack on some candy CANE GRAHAM CRACKER BARK and get out the craft supplies!
Just a few supplies are needed to make a beautiful paper ornament garland. I bet you already have most of the supplies in your crafting stash. This craft is perfect for a beginner crafter and the end result is well worth the handmade effort.
You can trim your tree with this garland or hang it on a fireplace mantel. Switch up the cardstock colors and you could use this garland for a birthday party or other holidays. It would look amazing strung across a room or over an entryway. I plan on using it for an upcoming holiday party over the snack table. Check out my Christmas bunting tutorial for another garland project idea.
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A Candid Look at Kirstie Alley
A chattering chinchilla. An 8-foot-tall castle dollhouse. A bright-red lobster lamp. No, this is not Dr. Dolittle 3. This is real life inside Kirstie Alley's Italianate mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The mansion may ooze Old World charm, but just under the ornate frescoes and cathedral ceilings are healthy dollops of whimsy -- everything from dancing cat sculptures to hallways with decreasingly miniature doors that one has to eventually crouch down to pass through. In this mix of the classic and absurd live Alley, 55, her son, William True, 13, and her daughter, Lillie Price, 11.
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---- — I recently took a trip to California and it was the perfect time to make use of my e-reader. While I'm still devoted to actual books, I must admit that traveling with a thin, lightweight computerized device beats dragging along one or two bulky hard copy titles. The only issue is finding the right e-books to take on the airplane.
I made use of the Four County website called the "Download Zone." I knew not to even attempt to find a best-seller because the one drawback to the system is that new titles are rarely available. There's usually a long waiting list. It's best to find titles that are over a year old so there's no problem obtaining them. If you're that set on reading a best-selling e-book you might as well buy it online.
I decided to limit my choices to biographies because I tend to read a lot of them and am likely to find them stimulating (I hate to use the word "interesting" because that usually means you don't like something but don't want to criticize it). The system also limits you to three titles so it's not like you can check out 15 and just assume you'll like two or three.
The books I ended up choosing turned out to be good ones. I like both Johnny Carson and Larry King and there were biographies of each available. I would have picked a third but made the mistake of choosing an autobiography of Ralph Branca (the infamous Brooklyn Dodgers' pitcher who gave up the pennant-winning home run to the Giants' Bobby Thomson in 1951) on downloadable audio (which I don't have). Please be forewarned that if you make that mistake you're stuck with it. You can't return an e-checkout early.
The Johnny Carson biography is by his long-time announcer and sidekick, Ed McMahon. Called "Here's Johnny!," it's a wonderful and nostalgic tribute to the man who hosted of The Tonight Show for 30 years. Any fan of Carson will absolutely love it. I started to read it before my trip and had to put it down so I wouldn't finish it before I left. I was laughing that hard.
There are so many great memories, especially of "Carnac the Magnificent," everyone's favorite Carson character. Carnac was the famous "Visitor from the East" who would answer "hermetically sealed" questions without having seen them before. McMahon keeps tossing out some of the classic responses in his book.
Anyone who expects any dirt or criticism will be disappointed. McMahon was a dear friend as well as colleague, and his admiration for Carson is deep. He waited until after Carson died to write the book because he knew "The Tonight Show" host was too private of a person to want to see it published while he was alive. Carson was the rare celebrity who when he retired he really retired. He disappeared from public life.
McMahon himself died in 2009 but further candid discussions of The Tonight Show can be found in McMahon's autobiography, "For Laughing Out Loud," and the PBS documentary, "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night." The three titles together provide a comprehensive look at an American icon who was part of this nation's fabric for a generation.
Larry King is still alive and kicking (although not on CNN anymore) and he doesn't hide form the limelight. He is constantly grinding out books and appearing in public. His latest memoir, "Truth Be Told: Off the Record About Favorite Guests, Memorable Moments, Funniest Jokes, and a Half Century of Asking Questions," is a look back at his career highlights including 25 years on Larry King Live! Although the book is a bit dated (it talks about the "upcoming" 2012 election) it has enough classic stories and juicy tidbits to keep it lively.
King has interviewed just about everybody under the sun so he has a lot of material to choose from. He's certainly candid and not a brownnoser (he said he never found Bob Hope funny). He has a chapter on each category of celebrity and writes a critique, short comment, or anecdote, about each one. Sometimes he includes a great line or joke (the ones from John Stewart and Colin Powell are classic!). And for the umpteenth time (and who can blame him) he tells the story of how he landed an interview with Frank Sinatra.
King makes the point that he is not like Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity where their guests are really just props for them to pontificate. His mantra has always been that if he's talking he's not learning anything. He has been accused of asking softball questions, but his guests have opened up a lot more than if they were put on the defensive. His style has been popular enough to have kept him going for 50 years.
Carson and King are television immortals that make fascinating subjects and easy reading. When you're stuck on a six hour flight they make the time pass quickly. It's something to keep in mind when you have a long trip ahead of you.
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- Jennifer Rocha
Assistant Coach – Ninth Season
- Oklahoma '99
Jennifer Rocha has made a name for herself as one of the top pitching instructors in the country. In her eight seasons at Florida, Rocha has tutored four All-American hurlers in Stephanie Brombacher, Stacey Nelson, Hannah Rogers and Lauren Haeger. In two of the last six years, the Gators have turned in the top team ERA in the country and the 2013 season kept the bar high as Florida turned in the top ERA in the SEC (1.83), the 11th-best ERA in the nation.
After tutoring both Nelson and Brombacher to successful careers donning the Orange and Blue, Rocha led Rogers to second-team All-America honors as just a freshman in 2011 after she shattered freshman records for wins, starts, complete games, shutouts, strikeouts, appearances and innings pitched. Rogers became UF's second-ever freshman All-American and the first Florida pitcher to garner the honor.
Rocha will next go to work in 2014 with incoming freshman lefty Delanie Gourley, the San Diego CIF high school career strikeout record-holder (1,352) and one of the most highly touted pitchers in the class of 2013.
Under Rocha's tutelage, Rogers has kept her foot on the gas, picking up All-America honors her sophomore and junior seasons in 2012 and 2013. The righty is now one of just three student-athletes in the Florida softball history to be a three-time All-American and with a season to go, has the chance to be Florida's first four-time All-American. Rogers checked in fourth in the nation in victories (33), 10th in shutouts (11) and 21st in saves (5) as a junior in 2013. She led the SEC in wins (33), strikeouts (243), saves (5), appearances (49), starts (39) and ranked second in ERA (1.71).
Rogers owns a 97-23 career record, three wins shy of becoming just the second Florida pitcher to 100 career victories. The Gator ace owns a 33-17 record against top-25 opponents in her three-year career thus far, has two no-hitters, five career solo one-hitters (one her freshman year, two each her sophomore and junior years), owns three combined one-hitters (one each year of her Gator career) and a combined perfect game her junior season against Presbyterian with sophomore pitchers Haeger and Alyssa Bache.
After just her second season on campus, Haeger, a 2012 NFCA All-Southeast Region First Team selection and 2013 NFCA All-America pick, boasts a 31-7 record in the circle, including an 8-6 record against top-25. Haeger has a combined perfect game with Rogers and Bache and a career-high 11 strikeouts on three different occasions.
Bache, a 2012 SEC All-Freshman Team selection, was an undefeated 5-0 her first year on campus under Rocha's leadership and picked up two top-25 wins her sophomore year in 2013 against Kentucky and FSU to remain an undefeated 14-0 entering her junior campaign in 2013. Bache and Rogers collaborated for a combined one-hitter against USC Upstate last season and the righty was a part of the first combined perfect game in program history with Haeger and Rogers against Presbyterian. She owns a career-high 12 strikeouts and picked up her first NCAA Tournament start and win in 2013 against Hampton – a two-hit shutout to open 2013 NCAA Regional play for the Gators.
In 2008 under Rocha's watch, Florida set a then-program-best 0.92 ERA for the second-lowest ERA in the nation and in 2009, UF's 0.69 ERA was the lowest in the nation, the Southeastern Conference and the Florida record book.
The 2008 and 2009 seasons were record-breaking years for the pitching staff. In 2008, 34 UF pitching records were broken, including 15 team records. Rocha's pitchers earned the top spot in the record books for wins (70) and tied for innings pitched (512.1). In 2009, the pitching staff broke 24 records, including 12 team records, such as ERA (0.69), strikeouts (547), shutouts (39) and hits allowed (250).
In 2010, Rocha coached a young pitching staff to the second-best ERA (2.20) in the SEC. UF allowed the second-fewest runs and earned runs in the league, Brombacher led the SEC in wins (35). Under Rocha, Brombacher tossed the fourth perfect game in UF history in 2010 and returned with her second perfect contest to kick off her senior season in 2011.
Pitchers under Rocha's tutelage grace many pages of the Florida record books. Nelson, the first pitcher in UF history to earn multiple All-American accolades (2007, 2008, 2009), holds 15 career pitching records and is on 12 other top-10 career lists. A four-year student under Rocha, Nelson left Florida with the lowest career ERA (0.99) and most strikeouts (1,116). She also tallied the most wins (136) in Florida history, among other records.
In 2008, Nelson garnered ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-America honors, becoming the first player in school history to earn both All-American and Academic All-America honors in the same season. She then repeated the feat one year later. Nelson was also named SEC Pitcher of the Year and NFCA All-Southeast Region first team in 2008 and 2009.
Brombacher ranks third all-time for fewest walks allowed (1.78 per 7 innings) and second in strikeouts per seven innings (7.05) after her four years of suiting up in the Orange and Blue. She holds the highest winning percentage in UF history as she went 42-0 record in her first two seasons, 35-8 her junior year and 20-3 her senior year in 2011 for a 97-11 (.898) overall record. Brombacher was a two-time All-SEC selection, and garnered NFCA All-Southeast and All-American honors in 2009 and 2010. She was also the only sophomore on the ESPN The Magazine /Capital One Academic All-District III first team and the first Gator sophomore to be an Academic All-American. She earned repeat honors as a junior and senior with Academic All-American and District III honors.
In 2007, then-senior Stacey Stevens, with two season pitching under Rocha, finished her career as the program leader in nine categories including wins (74), strikeouts (624) and strikeouts looking (186), now ranking third in all three categories.
Rocha came to Florida and took a veteran junior pitcher and two freshmen and worked them into a confident and experienced staff able to help the Gators to wins over some of the nation's top ranked teams. With Rocha's guidance, Nelson set several Florida freshman records, while earning SEC All-Freshman team honors. She also led the Gators to their first-ever win over a No. 1 team, as she recorded the win over defending national champion Michigan. Stevens led the pitching staff in several categories and put herself in the position to break many school records in her final season.
Rocha made the trip to Gainesville with current head coach Tim Walton, as the two have worked together for nine years. Under Rocha, the Shockers pitching staff set several school records and posted an earned run average of under 2.00 for two consecutive seasons. Their 1.46 ERA in 2004 was the lowest in program history. The pitching staff struck out over 400 batters in each Rocha's final two seasons, with one individual recording over 200. In 2005, the Shockers' top pitchers registered records of 20-8 and 22-8 and each had a 1.52 ERA in 202.1 and 180.0 innings pitched.
"Jennifer is a great pitching coach," Walton said. "She has a calm, collected presence about her. She is a good teacher, as well as a good game-day coach."
Rocha was an assistant coach at Oregon for a year before going to WSU. She began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma in 1999.
Rocha is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and played for the Sooners from 1996 to 1998. During her time as both a player and a coach, Rocha was a part of six consecutive NCAA Regional appearances, three Big 12 Conference titles, two Big 12 Tournament titles, two WCWS appearances and one national championship. She finished her playing career with a .721 winning percentage (43-17) and posted a 1.46 ERA.
Prior to arriving at Oklahoma, Rocha played for Long Beach City College (LBCC) softball team for one season. She earned California Junior College Athletic Association (CJCAA) All-American honors in 1995 after leading LBCC to the California State Championship. She posted a 24-0 record and a 0.42 ERA while at LBCC.
Rocha earned a degree in sociology from Oklahoma in 1999 and her master's in human relations in 2001.
The former Jennifer Jaime married Paul Rocha in November 2006. The couple resides in Gainesville.
Ninth Season
2006-present - University of Florida, Assistant Coach
2003-05 - Wichita State University, Assistant Coach
2002 - University of Oregon, Assistant Coach
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1998 - Virginia Roadsters, Women's Professional Softball League
1996-98 - University of Oklahoma, three-year letterwinner
1995 - Long Beach City College, California Junior College Athletic Association All-American
University of Oklahoma, Bachelor of Arts in sociology, 1999
University of Oklahoma, Master's in Human Relations, 2001
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PLATTSBURGH — Bold polka dots, geometrics and color blocking can rescue any fashionista weary of dirty snow and blah skies.
These spring trends can be had at Maurices and dressbarn at Champlain Centre in Plattsburgh.
"We have a lot of denim shirts and boyfriend jeans," said Carly Gagne, a Maurices sales associate. "They are longer than capris and fit looser. It's like wearing guy's jeans but with more of a feminine fit."
Jeans and shorts are electric in primary colors and unexpected pink, coral and orange with white polka dots.
White is blazing hot, as are patterns — plaids, stripes and sailboats.
"We have a lot of tank tops with striped patterns," Gagne said. "They have a collar on them. We have a lot of denim vests and jackets. They are a light wash. Both jackets and vests are cropped. The jackets are plain and have pockets on the fronts."
Skirts are rocking dots and stripes while dresses are rippling with butterflies and florals.
"We've been selling a lot of infinity scarves," Gagne said. "It's a big circle. They don't have an end, and you wrap it around twice."
Sunglasses are big with frames of black, brown or gold. Jewelry accessories are in shades of aqua and peach.
Wedgies are still framing tootsies.
"They are all cork bottoms," Gagne said. "We have black, brown and taupe."
Sea glass, the various aqua hues that wash up on a beach, reigns supreme at dressbarn.
Coral is also smoking in tops and dresses.
"A lot of dresses are knee-length, sleeveless and some with sleeves," said Tarran LeClair, dressbarn assistant manager. "Polka dots are in. Our color trends are coral and creamsicle. Color trends are sea glass, coral and creamsicle."
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The new owners of Keller's IGA in Clifton are releasing their plans for the store's reopening.
Keller's is scheduled to reopen in the fall.
The Goessling family plans to address the media on Wednesday and unveil plans for a $1.5 million renovation.
The store closed earlier this year because it owed back taxes.
The new and improved IGA will offer a variety of meats, seafood, fresh produce, plus an extensive beer, wine and cheese selection.
The Goessling family currently operates IGA stores in Reading, Georgetown, and Warsaw.
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How did the Arizona Cardinals spend their bye week?
While the Redbirds certainly limped into their Week 10 hiatus on the heels of a five-game losing streak, not all of their time off was spent on the practice field.
The Cardinals got back to the fundamentals this week, but after Thursday's practice the team was given the weekend off to regroup.
Since the hectic 17-week season keeps players away from their families during the holiday season, any time an extended reprieve from the field is granted, everyone jumps at the opportunity.
Here's a taste of what members of the Cardinals were doing with their respective weekends:
Defensive tackle Darnell Dockett kept tabs on some of the top-ranked teams in college football.
Boston college was not trying to beat Notre Dame!! But oh we'll!— DARNELL DOCKETT (@ddockett) November 11, 2012
Kicker Jay Feely happily played the role of cheerleader on the sidelines of his daughters' soccer games.
My girls rocked their soccer games this weekend! Awesome to be there. Abby-3 goals, Olivia-8 goalsLexi- amazing game at goalie#Proud Dad— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) November 11, 2012
Punter Dave Zastudil returned to his hometown of Cleveland to spend some quality time with family.
This is why I came home #nephews #brother twitter.com/zasty9/status/�— David Zastudil (@zasty9) November 9, 2012
Starting quarterback John Skelton returned to his alma mater Fordham University. And while the Rams defeated Lafayette 36-27, Skelton admittedly missed the Arizona sun.
Back in NY... But nothing beats AZ weather this time of year. Cold and snow on the ground at JFK.— John Skelton (@johnskelton19) November 8, 2012
But leave it to Larry Fitzgerald to have the most fun-filled weekend. He spent his time off with strength coach John Lott at the happiest place on earth, Disneyland.
Spent some time today with Coach Lott and his family at Disneyland! bit.ly/SDL4Sr— Larry Fitzgerald (@LarryFitzgerald) November 10, 2012
Arizona returns to the practice field on Monday. They will travel to Atlanta next Sunday to take on an 8-1 Falcons squad.
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Downtown Two bedroom Historic Home in Charleston
- bedrooms 2
- baths 1
- sleeps 5
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
- type House
- community Harleston Green
- rates (USD) $ 1,800 - $ 2,500 / month
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Spoleto Festival May-June
You're Invited to be my Guest at a circa 1837 Kitchen House.
As a guest of 6 Ambrose Alley you will have an entire cottage for
your use as you explore the history and romance of Charleston.
Originally built as a brick kitchen house, the cottage has been
renovated into a lovely English Country Guest House.
The cottage is decorated with antiques, enhanced by oriental carpets
and beautiful chandeliers. The guest house has a small
equipped kitchen, living room with cable tv and working fireplace,
two bedrooms upstairs with bath between, three full size (double)
beds. NO phone. Private garden/patio and parking. NO
housekeeping provided, washer and dryer available, linens provided. Pretty much fully stocked but not gourmet.
Pets with approval and fee (NO cats or heavy shedding dogs). Thanks for your interest.
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house rental amenities
Equipped kitchen, cable tv, working fireplace, private
garden/patio and parking. Wifi or wire internet, pack-n-play. Yes, A/C.
activities and attractions in Charleston South Carolina
Charleston offers many activites including Fort Sumter, Spoleto
Festival, Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, College of Charleston,
Cooper River Bridge Run, Revolutionary and Civil War history tours,
Grand Mansions to tour, Beautiful Historic homes and gardens,
Aquarium and IMAX theater, Historic Churches of 'The Holy City',
great restaurants and shopping experiences.
vacation rental rates
Rates vary by season and number of occupants starting at $600.00 up to $2,500.00.
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BU Opens the 2013-2014 Season with a 5-3 Win at Home against UMass Amherst – 9/29/13
By Sean McCarthy
Coming off of a losing season in 2012-13, the Terriers opened up their 3rd official season as a University-affiliated team with a 5-3 victory over the University of Massachusetts Amherst. BU lost twice to UMass in the 2012-13 season (2-5 and 1-5), and were determined to open up the new year with a win at home. The Terriers put forth an aggressive offensive effort that generated five goals, including one Power Play goal and one empty-net goal. Despite a relentless offensive effort and a whopping 16 Power Play attempts from UMass, the Terriers were able to hold the Minutemen to three goals, due in large part to an impressive performance by Senior goaltender Justin Lundy, who stopped 45 of the 48 shots he faced throughout the game. Several first-year players stepped up for BU in their Club Hockey debuts, including freshman Center Riley Marotta (1G), and freshman defensemen Jack Faso (1A), Noah Friedman and Ben Messick. The rest of BU's offense came from the sophomore class, with Matt Weintrob, Taylor Parkinson, Dillon Schuyler and Mike Gates (PP) all scoring goals. Although there were no serious injuries in the season opener, the Terriers lost a valuable player and teammate in sophomore Erich Schwabe after he suffered a broken ankle in practice last week. His recovery time has been estimated at 6-12 months. The Terriers will face off against NECHA Patriot East division rival Northeastern University next Saturday, 10/5/13, at 8pm at Walter Brown Arena. The Huskies will be returning many players from last year's squad, which made an appearance at the ACHA Division II National Championships. BU went 0-1-1 against the Huskies last season, and will be striving for a critical win within their division.


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The event will set up along Trelany Road and will also include live music, seating, and a beer and wine bar. The event will operate every Wednesday evening from May 21, 2014 to May 20, 2015 from 5:00pm to 9:00pm.
During the winter the hours of operation will be shortened. Trelany Road will be closed on Wednesday evenings from 3:30pm to 10:00pm between the driveway entrance to Michael's and the driveway entrance nearest Ross Dress for Less. More information on Off the Grid can be found on their website.


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Sponsored by Saskatoon Archaeological Society
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Rm. 132 Archaeology Building, University of Saskatchewan
55 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B1
Join us for our monthly lecture and meeting and to celebrate International Archaeology Day! Dr. Margaret Kennedy of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan will be speaking on current research that she is undertaking with Dr. Barney Reeves (Lifeways of Canada).
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