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- Studio: Columbia Pictures
- Release Date: Oct 1, 2010
- Starring: Andrew Garfield, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake
- Summary: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution inOn a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. From director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin comes The Social Network, a film that proves you don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. (Sony Pictures)… Expand
- Director: David Fincher
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Comedy
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Score distribution:
Positive: 41 out of 42
Mixed: 1 out of 42
Negative: 0 out of 42
The film comes down to a mesmerizing portrait of a man who in any other age would perhaps be deemed nuts or useless, but in the Internet age has this mental agility to transform an idea into an empire.
This is a remarkable film for more reasons than its antihero, from the cyberspeed wisdom of Aaron Sorkin's screenplay to Jeff Cronenweth's camera prowling the excesses of youthful genius gone wild.
Most of all, it is the improbably entertaining story of how new media are altering the very nature of courtship and friendship.
When Mr. Eisenberg makes Mark's face go blank, the character seems scarily emptied out: it's a subtly great, at times unsettling, performance.
It's an entertainingly cynical small movie. Aaron Sorkin's dialogue tumbles out so fast it's as if the characters want their brains to keep pace with their processors; they talk like they keyboard, like Fincher directs, with no time for niceties.
Score distribution:
Positive: 286 out of 326
Mixed: 19 out of 326
Negative: 21 out of 326
Oct 1, 2010"The Social Network" was so good I don't even know where to begin. I can't, for the life of me, think of another film in recent years that's"The Social Network" was so good I don't even know where to begin. I can't, for the life of me, think of another film in recent years that's left me so wholeheartedly satisfied by the time the credits started rolling. This is some amazing, amazing stuff we've got here folks: don't miss it for the world.… Expand
Feb 3, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. To start off the new decade of the new millennium with something that really captures the spirit of the time is pure magic, and that's The Social Network in a nutshell. The 2000s were steeped in irony, from its elected leaders to its technological advances, and The Social Network takes that irony and twists it into a parable for how people interact and come apart. People who cry foul against this film for not being historically accurate obviously miss the point. This isn't the story of Facebook. The story of Facebook is subterfuge, a way to get Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's moral point across. By telling the story of Facebook, they muse on the comedy of errors that is life.
Mark Zuckerberg as brilliantly played by Jesse Eisenberg is a socially maladroit genius who connects the entire world through the internet. His best friend and later bitter rival Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) is a businessman who can't grasp the business of the new world. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Armie Hammer and Josh Pence) are nearly stereotypical rich kid jocks who have everything and gain nothing out of their clash with Zuckerberg, and Sean Parker (a surprisingly great Justin Timberlake) is the devil in Prada seducing Mark into a world of money, fame, and women only to be revealed for the inhaler-dependent reprobate that he is. Philosophically, technically, and pretty much in every other way, The Social Network is a near-perfect film. I say nearly perfect because the inability for the characters to realize their own foibles can get cloying at times, but that's a very minor nitpick. The acting, the directing, the cinematography, and especially the writing are all top-notch, and The Social Network instantly became my favorite film of 2010 and one of my favorite films of all time.
A definite 10. If you haven't seen it, see it as soon as you can.… Expand
Nov 29, 2010Interestingly enough, Hollywood had decided to make a movie about a boring subject, the making of Facebook. The story was supposed to be justInterestingly enough, Hollywood had decided to make a movie about a boring subject, the making of Facebook. The story was supposed to be just a mess with lawsuits and betrayal of friends. But writer Aaron Sorkin turned the story into a must-see of the decade. He turned it into a witty, fast-paced, thrilling, and an Oscar-winning script. Luckily, The Social Network got David Fincher (Curious Case of Benjamin Button) as a director, which makes it even better. David Fincher's achievement in this film is going to score him another Oscar nod. (Fincher is directing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, English version, my favorite book). The actual Facebook story is about Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), a Harvard undergraduate (computer genius), who wrote the code for the Facebook website. Teaming up with him was him roomate Eduardo Saverin, whom later sued him for... well lots of **** Mark ran into playboy Sean Parker who convinced Mark to "betray" his partner (Eduardo), that's what lead to the law suit. Though people say Aaron Sorkin's script is an inaccurate potray of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who in real life is down to Earth and not an **** like in the story, I say he was just trying to make the story A LITTLE more interesting than it already is (sarcasm). Aaron Sorkin not only made the story more interesting, he made it smarter and more thrilling. Performance wise? I will have to admit that I think The Social Network will dominate the Oscars in the acting categories. Jesse Eisenberg gave one hell of a performance! Since he had been playing a loser-with-no-girlfriend kind of guy, this is really typical for him. His fast talking and annoying ass attitude really stole every scene that the camera sets on him. Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake also gave fine, dramatic performances which MIGHT earn them an Oscar nod. But in terms of Jesse Eisenberg, he is guaranteed an Oscar nomination (he might even win considering there is no other good movies this time of year). Directing, writing, and acting all great in one movie is rare (to say the least). The Social Network succeeds in every assets that the film was trying to achieve.… Expand
Nov 22, 2010It was a hell of a move, the acting, writing, direction, and cinematography was close to perfect, but at times you do feel the creators areIt was a hell of a move, the acting, writing, direction, and cinematography was close to perfect, but at times you do feel the creators are trying overly hard to achieve perfection, and now allowing imperfection to come naturally. They cannot fully control the overall response to the movie, as hard as they may try.… Expand
Oct 8, 2010"The Social Network" could end up defining this generation. It was witty and over the top where it needed to be while still being able to show"The Social Network" could end up defining this generation. It was witty and over the top where it needed to be while still being able to show the "sensitive" side of a boy who really just wanted to create something "cool". While the movie ends with Zuckerman searching for friendship, he ended up creating the greatest social networking site ever. It is interesting to think about what today's world would be like without Facebook. Also, Sean Parker's role in the creation of facebook was somewhat unknown until now and while the movie did take some creative liberties it is interesting to see the dynamic between Parker and Zuckerman. The best part of the movie was actually the soundtrack (an amazing job down by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails), which ended up making each scene that Mark Zuckerman an intense thrill ride as he took on the system and later on his colleagues. Overall a job well done.… Expand
Nov 17, 2010Click to connect! With assured performances by the the whole cast ensemble but particularly those of Eisenberg (playing the socially immatureClick to connect! With assured performances by the the whole cast ensemble but particularly those of Eisenberg (playing the socially immature geek that reinvented the way people connect socially over the web) and Garfield, mature directing from Fincher (one of the most gifted directors of our time) and a razor sharp script by Sorkin, it is a film that will stand out in the upcoming awards race. Everything clicked into place and I surely connected.… Expand
Mar 8, 2011Worst casting ever! The movie is well done. The plot is extremely poor. The actors are plain. Is a cheap movie that got lucky with someWorst casting ever! The movie is well done. The plot is extremely poor. The actors are plain. Is a cheap movie that got lucky with some advertising and some bought nominations.… Expand
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Nick feels inadequate about making love to Suzanne while the kids are in the house. Suzanne assumes from Nick's behavior that he is cheating on her. Meanwhile, Martin tries to determine the age of his teenage-looking girlfriend.
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This book is such a delight. It's not a story with a plot, but progresses through the letters a boy writes to Santa - wish lists for gifts, reflections on humorous family happenings and siblings, defense for slip-ups in behavior...throughout the series of letters, the true spirit of Christmas comes through - the joy of giving to others. The illustrations are so sweet and full of fun, as we follow along with the efforts of one boy trying his best.
This one is a personal favorite!
Our Day 21 Christmas Book Countdown Activity
Keepsake Handprint Santa
I saw this idea here at The Karpiuks and thought is was so sweet.
You could do this with either salt dough or bakeable clay (which is what I used).
If you're not up for dough or clay, you can still make Santa Handprints with paint and paper!
There is a great tutorial for these Santa Handprints here at Happenings of the Harper Household.
for this activity you will need:
salt dough OR white bakeable clay (like Sculpey)
rolling pin
little hands
baking tray and oven
white and red craft paint
black sharpie marker
sealant (opt)
to make your Santa handprint ornament:
Roll it, pat it & mark it with a B!
Just kidding.
We used golf ball sized amounts of clay and rolled it flat.
Press your Little's hand in to make a print (with clay we really had to push to get an impression).
If it doesn't turn out, just ball up the clay and roll it out again. No biggie.
Trim around the edges with a sharp knife to make it pretty.
Bake @ 275 for 15 minutes (or for whatever your clay says on the package).
We did our snowflakes from day 16 at the same time.
Let cool and paint. I won't lie - I did the paint part on these, because I wanted them to be keepsakes.
I looked at some google images of Handprint Santa Ornaments to see where to paint the red of the hat, the peach of the face, and the white of the beard and hat trim. Not too difficult (for a grown-up).
I let this dry overnight.
This is where the drama started happening...
I came down the next morning and Little Man's Handprint Santa looked...well, like someone tried to bend it, causing it to break, and then attempted to cover up the mishap with scotch tape. *sigh*
I thought I could hot glue it, but I soon found out that hot glue does not stick to polymer clay.
Thankfully I had E6000 on hand to for my second attempt. That stuff rocks.
Then I repainted the scratched parts and it was all good to go again....
I invited my Middle and Little Men to draw on the face and accents with sharpie.
Middle Man did an awesome job and his Santa turned out adorable! As you can see above.
Little Man was doing great, too...I got this sweet pic of him drawing his Santa face on...
...right after I snapped this photo, he decided to "add a beard" to Santa's face.
Nevermind that there already was a huge white beard, it obviously needed another one.
Phallic shaped, and in black sharpie.
This was after three thick coats of white paint trying to cover it up.
It took a few more coats to completely wipe that out. It was very stubborn.
I thought I was home free (finally) after getting the offending "beard" removed, but the second I sprayed these finished Santas with clear sealant, the sharpie started to bleed and fan out all blurry.
I don't know why. It did in some areas more than others, and thankfully the faces stayed ok.
I think this craft did not want to be done!
I put some string in these babies and called it a day.
our finished Santas (thank goodness)
Don't forget
You can find all of our posts on my pinterest board
You can see pics of our Christmas Book Countdown activities on instagram,
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Can anyone recommend a good raid controller for linux (suse 9.2 in particular). I've got an adaptec aaa-131u2 and I cant seem to find any drivers. Thanks...
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I've got an adaptec aaa-131u2 and I cant seem to find any drivers.
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just about all scsi adaptors/controllers are supported in the kernel! (i think all but u never know there is always something new)
though here is an excerpt from: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...05.3/0720.htmlits their Ultra2 scsi raid. And no its not supported.
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Thanks fellas. I've looked on opendrivers but theres nothing.
Looks like I've lucked out. Until I can afford another SCSI controller, I'll have to use windows 2000, which is slightly depressing because I'd rather use linux anyday over windows!


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The Indians should be poised to contend for the AL Central title next year because the Tigers and Royals are going to take a hit in free agency, opines Paul Hoynes of the Northeast Ohio Media Group in the latest edition of his "Hey, Hoynsie" column. Free agency won't damage the White Sox, Hoynes adds, but they are in need of pitching to complement their power while the Twins are still putting together the pieces after four consecutive seasons of at least 92 losses.
Here's more on the Indians from Hoynes:
- Manager Terry Francona had clauses inserted into his contract when he was hired by the Indians allowing him to leave if President Mark Shapiro or GM Chris Antonetti are fired. Would Francona ever follow Joe Maddon's lead? Hoynes notes Andrew Friedman left the Rays voluntarily and isn't sure whether such a departure by either Shapiro or Antonetti would trigger Francona's opt-out.
- The Indians will not be bidding on the premier bats available in free agency (e.g. Pablo Sandoval (#5 on MLBTR's 2014-2015 Top 50 Free Agents list), Victor Martinez (#6), Russell Martin (#8), and Nelson Cruz (#9), according to Hoynes, who sees the club setting their sights on the likes of Michael Morse (#28) and Ryan Ludwick (unranked) once other moves are made.
- Jose Ramirez will be the Indians' 2015 Opening Day shortstop, Francisco Lindor is probably ticketed for Triple-A, and Zach Walters, acquired in the Asdrubal Cabrera trade, will have to make the team as a bench player.
- The Indians are not in the position of needing to trade their core players, so Hoynes would be surprised if Corey Kluber, Yan Gomes, or Michael Brantley are dealt this winter.
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Baseball America has released its list of the top 100 amateur prospects for this year's draft. Interestingly, both Jeff Hoffman and Erick Fedde are still listed in the top ten, despite the fact that the pair of collegiate righties will enter the draft fresh off of Tommy John surgery. Here are some notes from around the game:
- Free agent reliever Todd Coffey impressed in a workout today, throwing his fastball consistently in the low-90s, reports Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports (Twitter links). He could sign by the weekend, according to Passan. Twelve to fifteen clubs were represented at the showcase today, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. Chris Cotillo of MLBDailyDish lists some of the clubs in attendance. From the American League, the Tigers, Mariners, Astros, Athletics, and Orioles sent scouts, while the Braves and Diamondbacks were among the NL clubs on hand.
- Reliever Rich Hill of the Red Sox has an opt-out date from his minor league deal tomorrow, tweets Cotillo. The nine-year MLB veteran has been strong at Triple-A, throwing to a 2.84 ERA through 19 innings pitched with 10.4 K/9 against 4.7 BB/9.
- Diamondbacks top prospect Archie Bradley is set to begin throwing and move towards a return to the rubber, reports Jack Magruder of FOX Sports Arizona (via Twitter). GM Kevin Towers said that the club does not have any further medical tests planned at present for the young hurler. Given his current situation, it seems that the club will exercise plenty of caution in promoting the 21-year-old.
- With the Rockies off to a hot start, Mark Kiszla of the Denver Post opines that the club should act decisively to seize the momentum by exploring a trade for Cubs pitcher Jeff Samardzija. While the price will surely be steep, Kiszla sas that the team should be willing to deal either of the team's two prized young prospect arms — Jonathan Gray and Eddie Butler — to make a deal.
- The Blue Jays never saw in Yan Gomes the potential that has been unleashed since he was dealt to the Indians, writes Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca. In some part, says Davidi, that could be due to the fact that Gomes was buried in the minor league depth charts, such that he never caught more than 58 games in a single season. "Ultimately you wonder if we didn't have other prospects that were so talented, if Yan had played more, would the development path have changed, would we have had a better feel for him?" Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos said. "We were finding places for him to play, but he was never the everyday catcher because there was always someone else who was there." Gomes, of course, has excelled (and been rewarded with an extension) in Cleveland after coming over with Mike Aviles in exchange for reliever Esmil Rogers. "We always liked Yan," said Anthopoulos. "Clearly he's become a better player sooner than we would have expected. That's not a slight against him, that's a full credit to him."
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Indians Extend Yan Gomes
The Indians have officially agreed to a six-year, $23MM extension with catcher Yan Gomes that includes two option years, as first reported by FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal (Twitter link). The agreement will cover two pre-arbitration seasons, as well as three arbitration years and a year of free agency (with two more free agent seasons under team control through the options). Gomes is represented by Players Edge Sports Management.
The two club options are valued at $9MM (2020) and $11MM (2021), reports MLB.com's Jordan Bastian (via Twitter). Gomes will receive a $500K signing bonus, according to Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com (Twitter links), and will earn the following annual salaries: $550K (2014), $1MM (2015), $2.5MM (2016), $4.5MM (2017), $5.95MM (2018), and $7MM (2019). The options can each increase by $3MM apiece based on escalator provisions, and come with a $1MM buyout.
Gomes enjoyed a nice season in 2013, slashing .294/.345/.481 in part-time play. However, he'll serve as the club's primary catcher in 2014 now that Carlos Santana has been converted to a third baseman. The 26-year-old did significant damage against left-handed pitchers last season, punishing them to a .327/ .376/.558 line, but his .336 wOBA against righties suggests he's more than just a nice platoon backstop. Advanced defensive metrics have also liked his work behind the plate.
If Gomes can replicate his 2013 numbers as the club's No. 1 catcher in 2014, the deal has the potential to bring major surplus value to the Indians. In just 88 games in 2013, Gomes generated more than 4 wins above replacement, according to Baseball Reference. And while not as club-friendly as the five-year, $7MM deal with three club options that catcher Salvador Perez agreed to with the Royals in 2012, Gomes' average annual salary of $3.83MM means there's limited risk here for the Indians.
The Brazilian catcher joins an increasingly crowded list of players who have been extended this offseason with between one and two years of service time. However, that list contains an outfielder, three starting pitchers and a shortstop. Instead, the most comparable deal on the books for Gomes' extension is that of his teammate, Santana. The Indians' new third baseman inked a five-year, $21MM pact early in the 2012 season. While Santana has the edge in yearly salary, Gomes' extra guaranteed year makes his deal the largest ever given to a pre-arb catcher.
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Carlos Santana Expects To Play Third For Indians
MONDAY: In the "Around the Horn" section of his latest column, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports writes that despite Santana's comments, club officials will wait until Spring Training to make a definitive call on his position. The team still hasn't ruled out using Chisenhall at third base, according to Rosenthal.
FRIDAY: Carlos Santana has served as the club's primary backstop for the last three seasons, but says he is preparing to play at the hot corner in 2014, according to ESPNDeportes.com's Enrique Rojas (Spanish language link). Though Santana was known to be trying his hand at a return to third — where he spent some time early in his professional career — this report indicates a much more serious likelihood of a position shift.
As Santana explains (all translation errors mine), he is only preparing to play third at this point in time. "Those are the plans of the team at this moment," Santana said. Indicating that the club asked him to give third a try, Santana said he "took a month thinking about it before accepting."
Santana seemed destined to spend less time at the catcher position anyway next season, for several reasons. To begin with, the 27-year-old's bat is good enough to play anywhere on the diamond. Last year, he posted a .268/.377/.455 triple-slash, including twenty home runs, in 642 plate appearances. That was good for a 137 OPS+, a particularly impressive mark given that Santana labored behind the dish for 84 games.
And while any player can theoretically be more valuable while playing a defense-first position like catcher, Santana had increasingly struggled at the spot. Defensive Runs Saved panned Santana's work in 2013, and recent pitch framing metrics (e.g., here and here) have viewed him as a poor framer. There were good reasons for Cleveland to limit Santana's defensive impact, though of course third is hardly the easiest position. (And UZR has not looked kindly on Santana's 942 2/3 career innings at first, though he told Rojas that he never felt comfortable there.)
Most importantly, perhaps, is the emergence of Yan Gomes, who was picked up from the Blue Jays in a deal that has strongly favored the Indians to date. The 26-year-old's emergence last year played a big role in fueling the club's Wild Card run. He hit .294/.345/.481 in 322 plate appearances, splitting time at catcher with Santana. In just 88 games, Gomes was worth 3.7 fWAR and 4.0 rWAR, drawing positive reviews for his defensive work.
The news on Santana could have hot stove implications. For one, it may explain why the club has done little to push Lonnie Chisenhall outside of inking David Adams, who has just 152 big league plate appearances under his belt despite the fact that he will turn 27 in May. For what it is worth, Santana is a better hitter from the right side (.855 OPS vs. .794 OPS hitting lefty), though he'd surely find his bat at another position in the lineup if he were to platoon at third.
Of course, if Cleveland no longer plans to give Chisenhall regular at-bats, it raises the question why the team was so hesitant to part with him in a prospective Matt Garza trade deadline deal. And if Santana were to spend significant time at third, it could make the 25-year-old a candidate to be dealt. He was once a top-25 prospect, and his career .694 OPS has come in only 682 plate appearances over three MLB seasons.
If Santana is able to play a passable third, moreover, it could impact the fate of both he and Gomes. Spending less energy behind the dish, and more time in the lineup, could lead to bigger offensive numbers for Santana. He would make for quite an interesting multi-position player, given his outstanding bat, and would increase his stock as a trade piece or eventual free agent. (He is signed through 2016, plus the Indians hold an option for the following season.)
As for Gomes, the shifting of the club's prized young catcher off of the catching position would open up a world of opportunity. Gomes would presumably be looked upon as the catcher of the future in Cleveland. The Oliver and Steamer projection systems (via Fangraphs) both project him to keep hitting at better than league average, and view him as a three or four win player in a full-time role. Eligible for arbitration after the 2015 season, Gomes would have a chance to build real value through arbitration or as an extension candidate.
Steve Adams contributed to this post.
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Quick Hits: Angels, Montero, Gomes, Dodgers
Miguel Cabrera might have been hitting home runs in Anaheim if the Angels had been able to swing a deal for him in 2007, Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times reports. The Marlins had Cabrera on the trade market, and the Angels offered Howie Kendrick, Jeff Mathis and either Ervin Santana or Nick Adenhart. But the Marlins wanted both Santana and Adenhart, and the Angels changed their minds about dealing Kendrick, and the trade fell through. Had the deal worked out, Shaikin says, Cabrera could have joined with fellow 2012 MVP candidate Mike Trout in the Angels' lineup. (Of course, Trout was acquired with the No. 25 pick in the 2009 Draft, which was a compensation pick for losing Mark Teixeira. If the Angels had acquired Cabrera, they might not have acquired Teixeira, which means it's possible they wouldn't have drafted Trout. They also would have had to sign Cabrera to a long-term deal, the way the Tigers did. Reimagining history can be complicated.)
The Marlins' side of the deal would have worked out a bit better, too. We'll never know what might have been with Adenhart, who died in an accident in 2009, and Mathis hasn't hit well. But Kendrick turned out to be a better player than any the Marlins got when they sent Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis to the Tigers for a package centered around Andrew Miller and Cameron Maybin.
Here are more notes from around MLB.
- After Jesus Montero's demotion, his role in the Mariners' future is unclear, Jon Morosi of FOX Sports writes. Mike Zunino now appears to be the Mariners' future catcher, and Montero will work on playing first base at Triple-A Tacoma. If Montero will play predominantly first base and designated hitter going forward, that puts him in an awkward position, because one of the reasons he was sent down in the first place was that his hitting wasn't particularly good even for a catcher. Still, the door remains open to Montero, Morosi notes, since Mariners first baseman Justin Smoak has not hit well, and main DH Kendrys Morales will be a free agent at the end of the season.
- Yan Gomes' play so far is creating a "pleasant problem" for the Indians, Sheldon Ocker of the Akron Beacon-Journal writes. Gomes, who arrived in Cleveland with Mike Aviles when the Indians sent Esmil Rogers to the Blue Jays last offseason, is hitting .311/.328/.672 with five home runs in 61 at bats so far. His performance suggests he might be able to one day become an everyday catcher, not just a utility player who catches occasionally, Ocker writes. Carlos Santana is, of course, the Indians' starting catcher, but if Gomes keeps hitting, the Indians will have to find a way to get him more playing time.
- The Dodgers were criticized for absorbing hundreds of millions of dollars in salary (and giving up five players, including prospects Allen Webster and Rubby De La Rosa) when they acquired Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett and Nick Punto from the Red Sox last August. But, MLB.com's Lyle Spencer tweets, Gonzalez, Crawford and Punto have been the Dodgers' three best position players this year. Of course, that says more about the Dodgers' offense than anything else — the Dodgers are scoring just 3.39 runs per game, second-to-last in the National League.
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Central Notes: Twins, Reynolds, Gomes, Choo
The Twins are piecing together a "promising future," and Miguel Sano, who is hitting .362/.457/.681 for Class A+ Fort Myers, is a key part of that, argues ESPN's Buster Olney writes (Insider-only). Byron Buxton, the No. 2 overall pick in last year's draft, has also played brilliantly in the minors, hitting .331/.436/.574 for Class A Cedar Rapids. Minor-league pitchers Kyle Gibson and D.J. Baxendale have performed well, too. Olney cites Peter Gammons' comparison of the Twins to the 2007-2008 Texas Rangers, who were about to emerge as an AL powerhouse. Here are more notes from the Central divisions.
- Mark Reynolds, who is batting .263/.353/.564 this season, could be hitting his way out of the Indians' price range for 2014, Sheldon Ocker of the Akron Beacon Journal writes. If Reynolds keeps hitting, the only way he'll still be in Cleveland in 2014 is if the Indians sign him to a contract extension before he hits free agency. Ocker also suggests that the Indians should sign Michael Brantley and Jason Kipnis to multi-year deals.
- Yan Gomes' play makes the offseason trade that brought Gomes and Mike Aviles to the Indians for Esmil Rogers look like "a steal," MLB.com's Jordan Bastian writes (on Twitter). Gomes has hit .273/.283/.545 for the Indians this season, and Aviles has also been productive. Rogers' meanwhile, has struggled out of the Blue Jays' bullpen.
- The Reds would like to keep Shin-Soo Choo beyond this season, Ken Rosenthal says in a video at FOXSports.com. Choo has hit .314/.462/.569 this year, however, and Rosenthal notes that the thought of shopping a hot-hitting outfielder on the free agent market this winter must be tempting to Scott Boras, who represents Choo.
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I so often need to remind myself (especially lately) of the things I can do and stop thinking on the things I am not able to do. I have been dealing with some medical issues that has stopped me from pretty much all exercising ok, pretty much moving. I allowed my mind to sink into self pity and stopped thinking on what I was eating and I guess you can say giving up. It has been a rough 8 months since my surgery but you know what?!? I am alive. I am not the worst off person thank you God for that and prayers for those that are worse off than me. I am a child of God and I AM worth taking care of myself!
I may not be able to run on my treadmill anymore but I AM able to walk on it so no excuses.....5 minutes is more than nothing at all! I AM in total control of what I eat and for that I should be grateful. So, what excuse do I have....NONE! What REASON do I have...NONE! There is absolutely no reason why I can not get to my goal it is just going to take me longer than planned with a few challenges added to the mix but hey that is exactly what they are challenges. Challenges to keep me pushing on. Challenges to remind me that I AM WORTH fighting for!
No excuses, moving is moving no matter how little, calories are calories and they do add up! I am grabbing my goal and no letting go because giving up is just not going to cut it!
Weight loss is a journey. It's taking me through many peaks and valleys and I am learning that I have a choice. I have a choice as to how long I want to spend in my valleys before I reach my next peak. I mustn't give up! No matter what hurdle I have to climb it is worth it to get over it because I am worth it. I have given in to my pain and given up to my pain but no more. While my physical therapist helps me get rid of the pain only I can get rid of my excess weight. Buckling up for a ride that is going to shake me to healthy. Want to go? Come on.....You CAN do it too! Let's go and don't look back but more importantly don't give up!
My BLC Fitness Test for week 6 is just going to have to wait but I am going to kick it's butt just as soon as I can move again!! LOOK OUT Fitness Test you have a target on your back!
I am half way through the BLC Challenge and although I am not any where near where I would have liked to be I am accepting where I am. Accepting, that is an odd word for what I am doing. I had surgery in May and was really excited about the timing of the BLC challenge starting just as I am released to resume all activities and exercise. I was doing great with the exercise up until about 2 weeks ago when my body decided it wanted to have a major set back. I have been hurting hurting to the point I often think it was just the other day when I had the surgery but you know I have a choice to deal with the pain and getting depressed or deal with the pain and do all that I can with what I have to work with. I am choosing to deal with the pain and do what I know I can do! I have met some really wonderful ladies on the Ivory Falcons and I would not trade that opportunity for nothing. I am not able to do any type of exercising because no matter what you do you have to engage your core and too much excess walking also triggers more pain but I can walk for 5 minutes at a time at a little less than moderate pace (that would be defined as slow but that's OK because I am doing what I can do rather than nothing at all). With that in mind I have come to see that I need so much more to focus on what I eat and to do that there is no pain involved (except for maybe my mouth not getting that chocolate cake with chocolate icing, that yummy creamy cold on a hot day bowl of ice cream OK OK enough teasing my taste buds for one night) which means I CAN do that so that is what I am going to focus on from this blog on! It's in writing so there is no turning back now and although it is easy to deceive those not really seeing me and knowing what my hand and mouth do behind the "web" I know and that is really the only one that counts in the end. I don't cheat on my taxes, I don't cheat on my wonderful hubby, and I didn't cheat on my school work (yep, I can remember that far back) so why cheat on me!?! I am by far way WAY too worth it for a moment of blissful yummy binging for a lifetime of regret...we ALL are! So next time you go to eat something that you know you shouldn't eat or the extra helping that you 'think' you want stop for just a moment and think of YOU and ask yourself if you really want to spend those calories on that and if you are willing to do the exercising to work them off. That food we eat when we know we shouldn't isn't thinking of us not one second and it's purpose is to only satisfy the person who benefits most from it....the maker (the one who reaps your money that you work so hard to sow) not the owner (you). This blog, it's all about me and the pep talk that I needed to hear because nothing I mean nothing tastes as good as it's going to feel wearing it! These next 6 weeks (praying that my sitting around doesn't last the whole 6 weeks) I am going to be more aware of what I eat, why I am eating and if I really want to waste the calories on something that tastes YUM but defeats my goal...I AM WORTH MORE THAN ANY YUM! (YOU ARE TOO!!)
So, it is just past midnight here so tomorrow is now today which means it is a new day with a new chance to make the right choices and any past choices well, they are just that past!
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There are only two rules for the "idea dinners" held by New York early-stage investment firm ff Venture Capital. No side conversations and a strict 8 p.m. end time. Every month, the company invites financiers, founders and other "influencers" to its Midtown headquarters for a catered get-together. The meal is served in a glass-walled conference room, situated just past the rows of adjustable standing desks, where it's not unusual to see startup employees cranking out code well past dessert.
The conversation often focuses on tech-oriented subjects, but this February, as the group fired questions at veteran investor Esther Dyson, the discussion turned to the subconscious.
Josh Weinstein, the 25-year-old founder of YouAre.TV, brought up his experience using lucid dreaming to get over his fear of heights, noting that he first toyed with the idea while trying to memorize Chinese characters during an immersion program in Beijing—using his nonwaking hours to cram for tests. Later, when he found himself flying above the jogging path along the FDR in a dream, "I just let myself drop onto the concrete," Mr. Weinstein said. "I would hit the ground, but I wouldn't feel impact. I kept experiencing that sense of falling without actually feeling the pain of impact." Above him, the sky morphed into psychedelic swirls. "I don't do any drugs or drink, so when people talk about their experience being high, this is analogous."
Lucid dreaming refers to the act of being conscious while in a dream state—you're in the dream, but you know it. With practice, proponents say, you can harness that awareness to manipulate your surroundings. Think Inception without the corporate espionage, or Neo's trips to the Matrix after he downed the blue pill. (Tom Cruise's cryogenically induced affair with Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky doesn't quite fit because, for a good two hours, the poor sap thought it was the real deal.)
A century after the term "lucid dreaming" was coined by Dutch psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in 1913, the practice is experiencing a major resurgence. For New York techies, already dutifully maximizing their waking hours, it seems sleep has become the last efficiency frontier. "We need to maximize the output that we get from our time, so if I'm not sitting in front of Codecademy or eating, I should be doing something cool, learning something, analyzing things, having cool experiences," Mr. Weinstein said later.
After two hours that included watching investors whip out their calorie-tracking FitBits (Ms. Dyson's was affixed to her bra strap) and blood-pressure monitoring iPhone apps, the takeaway from dinner seemed to be that truly self-optimized life-hackers should be quantifying their bodies' every input and output, standing while they work, learning to code or speak Mandarin in their free time and using their dreams to overcome personal weaknesses or conjure up the next billion-dollar app. Or at least indulge in some mind-blowing virtual sex—often the first stop on a Lucid Dreaming Experience Tour. "It's rewarding," suggested psychologist Stephen LaBerge, who spent decades researching the science of dreams at Stanford and then at the Lucidity Institute and has been credited with proving the existence of lucid dreaming, "and people who don't have the opportunities for getting sex elsewhere in their lives, then why not?!"
Then again, who wants to be conscious all the time? Weren't bars invented expressly to avoid the burden of 24-hour lucidity?
At the dinner, Rob Cromer, the 26-year-old founder of a stealth startup called Adcade, chimed in with advice about "reality checks" that he picked up from a lucid dreaming coach at a cocktail party. One of the trickiest parts of lucid dreaming is recognizing that you're in a dream. Thus practitioners train themselves during their waking hours by, say, drawing a dot on their hand as a signal to look at a clock.
New apps are coming on the market to solve the same problem. In less than a month, the Brooklyn-based duo behind Bitbanger Labs has managed to raise more than $330,000 from more than 3,800 backers on Kickstarter, including Mr. Weinstein and Mr. Cromer, to build a sleep mask called Remee that uses flashing LED lights as a "reality check." Their initial goal was just $35,000. Kickstarter also hosted campaigns for the book Oneironautics: A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming, funded three times over; and The Lucid Dream Tour, a "multimedia, multidimensional road trip event" that promises to showcase the "entrepreneurial possibilities of today's consciousness movement." Soon that will include a video game designed to elicit lucid dreams currently being developed by a grad student in Copenhagen.
Since Remee first appeared on Kickstarter on April 3, the number of people who subscribe to the lucid dreaming forum on Reddit has grown more than 30 percent, up to 33,300 "oneironauts," as practitioners like to call themselves. The influx of new users got be such an issue that the moderator was moved to create a separate forum for lucid dreaming memes so as not to interrupt discussion topics like "I can't feel emotions in my dreams" or "Loosing [sic] track of reality quickly, help!"
The fantasy of controlling one's dreams goes way back—Aristotle and Tibetan Buddhists were proponents—but for the new wave of technologically-savvy acolytes, dreams are seen more as a form of virtual reality. "The brain works so well it's like the operating system on a Mac," said Dr. LaBerge. By exploring your subconscious, "You find out how the system works."
The last lucid dreaming boom had a more spiritual cast. "I think that was the '80s," noted Bitbanger Labs cofounder Duncan Frazier. "It kind of got new-aged a little bit. It went away and now it's coming back and people are trying to make sure it doesn't go down that weird road of pseudo-science."
According to psychologist and dream researcher Jayne Gackenbach, hard-core gamers are more likely to both have lucid dreams and be able to control them. She's releasing three books on the subject this year, including a self-published e-book called "Play Reality" told from the perspective of her 27-year-old son, a harcore gamer.
Still, both Dr. Gackenbach and Dr. LaBerge cautioned against getting too goal-oriented with one's REM cycle. "Dreaming is specifically designed for information processing," Dr. Gackenbach explained. "It's when we store new emotions and process negative emotions and try to make sense of them. If you're trying to optimize it, what does that mean? Do you want to get rid of your negative emotions in an efficient way? It's a system that's doing pretty well on its own." She expressed some skepticism about the idea of maximizing the use of this supposed downtime. "If it's just about being able to control this alternative reality and go to a Rolling Stones concert," she noted, referring to a goal articulated by one of her students, "then I have some concerns."
Mr. Frazier and Steve McGuigan, the 30-year-olds behind Bitbanger Labs, makers of the Remee sleep mask, don't seem too worried about it. During a late-night visit to Mr. Frazier's apartment in Windsor Terrace, he talked about flying over the Grand Canyon and being able to push and pull the mountains below him at will, like he was "conducting music." On the desk next to his left, a handful of Remee prototypes with their circuitry exposed lay in front of a 3D printer Mr. Frazier built from scratch.
Mr. McGuigan plays around with dimension. "I've always been into increasing or decreasing my size," he said. "Shrink down to the size of an atom. Get microscopic and go hang out with subatomic particles."
Teaching oneself to fly is another favorite pastime of lucid dreamers. "People on Reddit like to ride dragons," added Mr. Frazier. At the dinner, Ms. Dyson, a trained cosmonaut, said she dreams of weightlessness.
In the late '80s, Dr. LaBerge actually put out two versions of a mask similar to the Remee, among other "lucid dreaming induction devices," called the DreamLight and NovaDreamer. But at around $1,000 a pop, he sold only 10,000 or 20,000 in the five or six years they were on the market, though he noted that they "had a disproportionate influence on technical types."
A standard-issue Remee will retail for $80. The device is simple, using flashing LED lights on a timer—"like the front of Knight Rider," as Mr. Frazier put it—to prod the dreamer into lucidity without waking him up.
"We've had to explain it to most of our friends, and it takes awhile," Mr. Frazier admitted. "Over beers."
A version of this story appeared in the May 2, 2012 issue of the New York Observer.


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Republican Bill First of Tennessee, the U.S. Senate majority leader and one of the presidential "hopelesses" for 2008 (He has all the makings of another Bob Dole) was quick to pounce on the resolution sponsored by Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wisconsin, to censure President George W. Bush for authorizing wiretaps without a warrant on people in this country suspected of having phone conversations with Al Quaeda terrorists abroad.
"Russ is wrong. He is flat wrong. He is dead wrong," Frist said on Sunday's "This Week" on ABC, just moments after Feingold had announced his resolution on the same program. Frist at least showed a little more class than NewsMax.com publisher Carl Limbacher did in his report on the controversy Monday morning. The majority leader did not use, as Limbacher did in his opening paragraph, the phrase "aid and comfort to America's enemies" to describe what Frist sees as the likely effect of Feingold's resolution. No, the distinguished senator would not stoop so low as to accuse his "good friend" and colleague of treason. He merely hinted at it.
"As I was listening to it," First said of Feingold's discussion of the resolution with host George Stephanopoulos, "I was hoping deep inside that the leadership in Iran and other people who really have the U.S. not in their best interests, were not listening, because of the terrible, terrible signal it sends."
It seems a strange, yet unchecked, assumption that we should judge the value of a measure introduced in the U.S. Senate by how it will be judged by rulers and peoples in other lands, especially by those hostile to us. Were that the rule from the beginning, we might never have passed and ratified the Bill of Rights, which, come to think of it, would have made things a lot more convenient for the current administration and those who, like Sen. Frist, squander a great deal of their time, energy and, sad to say, credibility defending it.
It also seems unlikely that the "leadership in Iran" and others in the Middle East who may wish us harm were listening at the time to ABC's "This Week." In light of recent events, I think some of them, at least, may have been watching the cartoon channel. Still, they have no doubt heard about Feingold's proposal, and Frist worries about the "terrible, terrible signal it sends."
Think about that. Our nation is ostensibly trying to spread democracy throughout the Middle East and doing a wonderful job of it, according to President Bush, citing elections in Afghanistan and Iraq (and ignoring, as much as possible, the results in Palestine). Yet if our elected representatives attempt to call the chief executive to account for breaking the law and violating the Fourth Amendment rights of people in this country, that supposedly sends a "terrible, terrible signal" to the part of the world where we are trying to promote self-government. Apparently Frist and others in Congress believe our commitment to spreading freedom around the world is so all-consuming that we can't afford the time and effort to defend it at home.
Consider what has happened: The president has acted in apparent violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which stipulates a warrant is required for the eavesdropping that Bush (or Cheney or whoever) has authorized without warrants. Then there is that little detail called the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures," and requires that all warrants be issued only on a show of probable cause. That is all part of the Constitution that this president and every president since the beginning of the Republic has sworn to "preserve, protect and defend." That same Constitution stipulates that the president shall "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Is it too much to ask, then, that the president himself obey the law — or be called to account by the people's representatives if he does not?
Apparently so, according to the Senate majority leader. "So the signal that it sends, that there is in any way a lack of support for our Commander-in-Chief, who is leading us with a bold vision in a way that is making our homeland safer, is wrong," Frist said. First of all, the president is commander in chief of our military forces only, which hardly gives him or his subordinates the authority to spy on civilians in our land. Secondly, it is by no means certain that these wiretaps or other secret surveillance of our people being carried out by various agencies of the government are making "the homeland" any safer. Not knowing the details of all the surveillance programs (and I doubt President Bush does either) I am nonetheless inclined to agree with Veterans for Peace activist John Amidon who spoke at a rally in Albany, New York against the policy of excluding homosexuals in military recruiting. Later he learned that the gathering of about 75 people at the SUNY Albany campus was being watched by government officials.
"Maybe, just maybe," said Mr. Amidon, "if the leaders of the u2018Free' world stopped spying on Quakers and librarians and Veterans For Peace, they might actually engage in the work we are paying them to do — protect rather than harm and threaten us."
Gee, a government that protects, rather than harms, harasses or otherwise threatens the law-abiding people it allegedly serves. A government that requires even its highest elected officials to obey the law. Just think, Sen. Frist, of what a "terrible, terrible" signal that might send to the rest of the world!
Manchester, NH, resident Jack Kenny [send him mail] is a freelance writer.


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Riding Mr Henderson's railway with his titled descendants
April 21, 2013
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IT'S teatime on a wet Wednesday in April when the Algeciras-to-Ronda train makes an unscheduled stop at San Pablo to collect 24 passengers from the rain-soaked platform.
This is unusual. There's not too much call for San Pablo, a Toytown station in the middle of nowhere particular, so the train doesn't always stop here.
But this is no ordinary escorted group tour, as I already know. I'm in the next carriage, keeping a low profile, a proviso of being privy to this top-secret visit.
I feel like a spy, my nose pressed to the rain-spattered window, watching them. Two British peers of the realm, their 'Lady' wives and an assortment of Honourables; three generations of the same family (practically an entire dynasty), climbing into a one-class-fits-all carriage.
I'm not sure what I'm expecting. Pomp and circumstance? Twinsets and pearls? (What foolish stereotypical notions we journos sometimes entertain!) Maybe not leggings and pacamacs, though.
So what are they all doing here, in this far-flung but far from God-forsaken spot in rural Andalucía?
The short answer is, they've just eaten lunch. At the railway station. Not an establishment you would ordinarily find Lords and Ladies frequenting. But L'Estacion is no ordinary railway buffet. This charming country station that could have been plucked from the pages of a Thomas the Tank Engine book does double duty as a gourmet restaurant.
(While I was munching on a muesli bar from the train's vending machine, these distinguished guests were dining on veal topped with foie gras!)
The longer answer is, they've flown out to Spain for a whistle-stop tour of their heritage: the Victorian train line locally known as 'Mr Henderson's Railway'. It was financed by the patriarch of their tribe, Sir Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon of Oxfordshire, a mere 'Mister' when it opened over a century ago.
Mr Henderson financed many more famous and important railways in his time but none with so colourful a history: a line in Spain plied by British trains powered by steam through notorious 'bandit country'. He also financed elegant Edwardian hotels at either end, the Reina Cristina in Algeciras and the Reina Victoria in Ronda. Their own history is spiced with stories of Hollywood stars, WW2 spies and a young Winston Churchill. (More on that coming soon!)
Celebrities and writers rode the line (the ubiquitous Hemingway too – he sure got around). TB sufferers and the families of Gibraltar garrison officers rode it for a fix of Ronda's fresh mountain air. Fine Edwardian ladies rode it (craning their necks for a glimpse of those reckless bandits, no doubt). Smugglers rode it too, to sell their contraband goods through the carriage windows.
Today, two of Mr Henderson's great grandsons and their clan are riding the line for the very first time. (Perhaps for the last time, too, but that's another story.)
The train is modern but the views are little changed in over a century: a collage of cork oaks, dwarf olives, crumbling fincas, nesting storks, lonely goatherds and majestic mountain peaks flashes past the carriage windows, much as it did in Mr Henderson's day (but now in faster-forward).
The train winds a circuitous trajectory across river and mountain, via 20 bridges and 16 tunnels, to an altitude of 730 metres – an astonishing feat of engineering.
Much like the present Lord Faringdon and family's visit – a one-year feat of engineering.
It took eight months of mind-boggling Spanish bureaucracy to engineer the train's un-timetabled stop at San Pablo (where it sometimes stops anyway) … plus a lot of nuts and bolts in assembling the three-day itinerary.
For this feat of 'people engineering' Manni Coe, indefatigable MD of Toma Tours, should take a bow. Manni lived up to Toma's promise of showcasing 'the Spain you never knew' – in spades. Keeping 24 members of the same family happy on a whistle-stop tour in a foreign country deserves a mention in the annals of guiding.
(Maybe he'll get one. I wrote to TV train buff Michael Portillo and now he's planning a Great Continental Railway Journeys programme about the line. Toma's Revival Walking Tour this October, based around the railway, can only benefit.)
Manni has also engineered an exclusive interview for me.
While I wait, I pace the laminate floors of the hotel, recently reopened after zealous refurbishment. Most of the original objets d'art have been spirited away for safe keeping by the new owners, Fundación Unicaja Ronda. But the wallpaper and mirrors in the Salon de Espejos are genuine.
A distinguished-looking gentleman in natty red trousers approaches.
"I'm Mark," says Lord Marlesford of Suffolk, offering me a firm handshake. "Lord Faringdon will be along shortly. We're second cousins, you know."
Lord M regales me with tales from his Cambridge undergrad days. In the 1950s he worked in the kitchens and waited on tables at the Reina Cristina! (More on that coming soon!)
We are joined by another distinguished-looking gentleman with silver hair and a broad smile. The present and 3rd Lord Farringdon, in the flesh (and looking great for 75).
For the next hour we talk about everything – the weather, the IMF, jamón Ibérico, the "splendid" countryside views through the train windows – everything except what I'd really come for: the history of the train itself.
Old photographs, perhaps? Memorabilia? Timetables? Letters? Anything at all?
Lord F shakes his head. "Nothing. You see, I come from a family of shredders. When my great grandfather died, all he left in the middle drawer of his desk was his passport and title deeds."
"Although maybe I do have something …" Lord F, seeing I'm crestfallen, goes off to his room to fetch it.
He returns with a photocopied excerpt from The Tangier Diaries 1962-1979, by American author John Hopkins. "Wonderful writing – sums up the whole thing, I think, including the weather," he laughs.
And he proceeds to read it aloud, quite beautifully, with enunciated consonants and rounded vowels. English as it used to be spoken! (I'd link you to the tape recording but the 'musak' in the background quite spoiled it.)
This is what he read:
"Today we took a train up here through the green hills of Andalucía. Spring has come howling into southern Spain and, after days of torrential rain and frightening winds, we were greeted by sun and a profusion of wild flowers. Fat pigs snoozed contentedly beneath the cork oaks and we passed the diminutive, immaculately white Spanish RR stations one after another. Now we are living and working in this austere but comfortable hotel (the Reina Victoria). A thick, icy wind moans out of nowhere as screeching eagles dive over the cliff. Rilke stayed here during the winter of 1912-13. His sad effigy surveys the valley from the garden."
"Let's have one beside old Rilke," says Lord F, when I ask if I can take a photograph. Thousands of German-speaking tourists flock to the Reina Victoria just to share the views that inspired this Austro-Hungarian poet.
It's windy and spitting with rain again, so the scene is perfectly set.
Out into the garden we go and stand by Rilke's statue, sharing his view of the mist-swathed valley below us (minus screeching eagles).
It's one of those fleeting moments in time you know you'll remember forever.
As we say our goodbyes, Lord Marlseford glances at my business card and chuckles.
"Mistress of Sizzle eh … what's that all about?"
Sometimes, I wish I knew!
"Well, everyone claims to be a writer these days so I have to make the distinction," I explain. Lord M understands. He was a journalist on The Economist. Although it was a bit easier to earn a living from writing then, than now.
I've spent unpaid weeks 'selling the sizzle' of this wonderful little train and Lord Faringdon's visit. What a great story! But only Michael Portillo replied (well, his researcher, to be honest). My other emails are circulating in cyberspace, marked 'deleted, not read'. Enough to make anyone's sizzle fizzle…
But I'm not giving up! My brief encounter with two British peers on a rainy day in Ronda has rekindled my sizzle. I've made a spiritual connection with the railway that stops in my village (Los Barrios) and I'm going to ride this train to the end of the line.
Whatever it takes and wherever it takes me!Belinda Beckett is a qualified journalist and freelance writer based in the Campo de Gibraltar. She specialises in travel and lifestyle features, humour columns and copywriting with wow factor. Read more of her blog at www.belindabeckett.com
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April 22nd, 2013 9:34 pm
Hi Belinda,
A great read… really fun, well put together and interesting.
Much better than what I read in the CDSN funnily enough.
We need to get this in the paper next week… and, of course, we hope we will be the first to read about Snr Portillo's journey when he comes.
I actually tried to get an interview via his agent, but was told he would not be doing anything.
April 23rd, 2013 8:26 pm
Wonderfully written.
Gracias, doña Belinda! I loved it.
April 28th, 2013 1:03 pm
Loved your article on Mr Henderson's Railway, perhaps you know there is a "Mr Henderson's Walk" which was his favourite section of the track?
The 8km walk runs alongside a river from Benaojan station to Jimera de Libar.
Details of the walk are available at the hotel Molino del Santo at Benaojan and the walk ends at a bar, run by a Sheffield man, Paul Darwent and his family, at Jimera. There is a train at about 5pm back to Benaojan.
This walk has been done by no less a person than our PM, David Cameron, whos photo adorns the wall in Paul's bar
May 16th, 2013 4:32 pm
Is the this the same Ronda to Algeciras train that RENFE said today that is being discontinued due to it being non-profitable?
May 16th, 2013 8:34 pm
Dear Fred
It is the route from Bobadilla to Algeciras which yes, passes though Ronda.
We have been working for two years to revive this railway and are wel on the way to great exposure. It is used constantly by locals and tourists alike anam convincd it will survive. The tracks have been prepared for e third rail necessary for High Speed trains (2010) so even if they install the fast train, most of the route will remain the same.
Look out for coverage by Michael Portillo in the not too distant future.
Kindest regards, Manni Coe
Toma Tours
And the Mr Henderson Railway Revival
May 16th, 2013 11:27 pm
Good luck. Will it be run privately in future?
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