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"This project demonstrates our commitment to modernizing our court facilities and helping communities revitalize their downtown areas," said Governor Patrick. "Because we have responsibly managed these economic challenges and maintained an excellent bond rating, we are able to invest in projects like this for our future."
The new Superior and District Court is a 154,000-square-foot facility that exemplifies energy efficiency and sustainable design principles, designed for LEED Silver certification. The building will achieve at least 28 percent energy cost savings over standard building design, emphasizing access to natural light throughout the building. Additionally, the building achieves 20 percent water savings over standard building design.
The new courthouse, which began construction in 2007, includes nine courtrooms, the Superior Court, the District Court, a Jury Pool, Detention Area, District Attorney's Office and Law Library.
At its peak, construction of this project supported more than 150 construction jobs, keeping with the Administration's commitment to create new jobs and spur economic growth through investing in the Commonwealth's infrastructure.
"I am proud to stand with Governor Patrick and my colleagues in the Legislature as this new courthouse opens. It represents one of many important, targeted investments supported by the Patrick-Murray Administration throughout Fall River," said Representative Michael J. Rodrigues.
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Have you ever had a new girlfriend? You can't stop thinking about her. You want to make it work. So you start putting in an extra effort to give this relationship the best chance of success. You start buying new clothes, ensuring you look your best, maybe even start going to the gym everyday. In this situation everything matters. You want to spend every waking moment with her, because it is so enjoyable, so much fun, the future looks so bright, the whole thing is so new. At this time we can't imagine the joy of being involved in this thing ever diminishing.
Eventually, the emotions driven by newness wear off. It doesn't necessarily mean we love our new girlfriend less, we might even love her more. It's just a different set of emotions. And this new set of emotions often mean we, are less enthusiastic to prove ourselves, and or make it work – she moves from a chase, to a catch.
A new startup isn't much different. Just re-read the above two paragraphs and think back to when you got going on your latest startup. It was a lot like the new girl friend. It was love. The emotions and behaviour have a strong analogy. What matters as entrepreneurs, is having the ability to keep up the momentum when the newness wears off. And there is nothing more certain than this. It will become less fun, less exciting and more arduous. It's especially evident when we need to undertake administrative tasks with our start up – or keep door knocking after many rejections. It's our ability to stay focused on 'old projects' that will determine our ultimate success.
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I couldn't agree with you more. The start is always the most exciting where everything and anything seems possible and enthusiasm is almost limitless. It's very easy to lose that after the hubris dies down, at least I know it's happened to me on numerous occasions.


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Maurice Sendak's Hilarious Interview with Stephen Colbert
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Sadly, Maurice Sendak passed away today of complications from a recent stroke. He was widely considered the most important children's book artist of the 20th century with books like "Where the Wild Things Are", "Outside Over There", "In the Night Kitchen" and so many more.
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Taylor swiftly promotes Lance Out Loud
Last night was the book signing for Pat Loud and Christopher Makos's fascinating visual memoir of the late Lance Loud, Lance Out Loud (Glitterati Incorporated, $50). If you've seen the Louds in action on the first-ever reality show (all ensuing reality shows don't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath, in reality) An American Family, you'll know why I was excited to meet Pat, the woman Diane Lane recently played on HBO to great acclaim.
Delilah & Michele Loud, Makos, Bill & Pat Loud with a gentleman I haven't IDed
Pat was gracious and seems far younger than her 85 years. As a Polaroid-aholic, I was especially honored when Makos photographed me with Pat (I don't have the shot yet, and it wasn't a Polaroid), but it was also lots of fun to meet my longtime e-mail buddy Walter Newkirk and his friend Richard Berkowitz (legendary activist and subject of the film Sex Positive).
When I first arrived, I also bumped into actor Taylor Negron, who everyone remembers from just about everything (but especially for popping up in Fast Times at Ridgemont High), but who I will from now on always remember for his touching eulogy for his murdered landlady. I told him how much I liked his piece and he replied, "Yes, it was very well-written, wasn't it?" Actors and false modesty mix like oil and vinegar, but it was charming. He also razzed me mercilessly about being the middle-aged man behind "Boy" Culture. His next project opens this Halloween, a movie called Vamps by his pal Amy (Heckerling!), but he's also working with Barbra (Streisand!) on her upcoming Brooklyn show.
The night was fun and the book is a visual feast, but I must admit that flipping through it was enhanced by having Richard narrating his experiences with Lance, including sharing johns. I'm a fan of oral histories, and anal ones aren't half bad either.
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Richard L. Smith, 37, was charged with the distribution of controlled dangerous substances in Galloway and Absecon. He was jailed at the Gerard L. Gormley Justice Facility in Mays Landing on $300,000 bail, according to the prosecutorŌĆÖs office.
His wife Kerri Smith, 31, who is also known as Kerri Dougherty, was charged with possession of controlled dangerous substances and illegal possession of a firearm. Her bail for those charges was set at $150,000.
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You've seen the stereotypes. The "GRRL" girl, the "Yeah,-I'm-a-girl,-but-I'll-kick-your-ass" girl, the "celebugamer." While these girls do exist, hey, there're us regular-type girls who play videogames, too. Most of the gamer chicks you see promoting themselves on the internet love attention more than gaming, or are paid to adopt that stereotypical "girl gamer" persona, but what about the rest of us girls – the ones who actually play videogames? We're stealthily walking among you like ninjas – and man, do we have a lot to hate about gaming.
Contributors: Lizzie Cuevas, Cheryll Del Rosario
Why, because I showered? See how stereotypes feel? We're just as varied as anyone else, but most assume we must be hideously grotesque heifers who lose controllers into the folds of our fat palms like we're made of coconut-scented quicksand. Unless, of course, we're wearing Fragdolls T-shirts or Zelda tramp stamps, which is the other acceptable female gamer stereotype.
Above: Thanks – FOR NOTHING
Above: Obvs a grrl gamer
We don't all wear our love for videogames on our sleeves, just like we're sure you don't wear videogame novelty shirts every day... right? Right?
So you're playing an online game, and you hear yet another prepubescent boy over your headset... but wait, that's no boy! It's a girl! So naturally, you tell her to go back to the kitchen. Funny. Slap yourself on the wrist, you bad, bad boy. Your three seconds of stand-up was only funny the first time, when the other douchebag said it six matchmaking lobbies ago. No one laughed then, either, and no one's laughing now… probably because you sound fat.
Great, you met a girl who plays videogames – now you can ALWAYS talk about videogames with her! False. Just because we share a common interest doesn't mean we don't have other interests, too, and we know you also have other interests.
Guys love to dumb themselves down to ask us videogame-related questions, just for the novelty of talking to a girl about videogames. We're not Google, asshat. And don't condescend, there's nothing worse. That said…
Just because we're interested in videogames doesn't mean we're interested in you. Once word gets out that there's a female gamer in the vicinity, guys lose their shit. We're forced to leave our headsets muted when playing online to avoid the inevitable "So, do you have a boyfriend?" We wanna play the damn game, not hook up with you, kthx. Want a hook-up? Go to…
Earlier this week, GameCrush's public beta was launched. The service enables male gamers to pay to play with attractive female gamers ("PlayDates"). The guys can choose to have their experience be either "flirty" or "dirty." Ew. This kind of objectification of female gamers just furthers the idea that real female gamers don't exist, or that if they play, they must be ugly.
Because they're all stupid. Either the Lisa Frank-esque box art reeks of pastels, or the game's title is misspelled, or there's some combination of the two. Wait, you mean you MEANT to put a 'z' at the end of the game? Oh, howz cutez!!!!1 Tell the LOLcat who works at your company we don't need literal reassurance that your game isn't Call of Duty.
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And while Cooking Mama is fun and all, why do most cooking games have a chick on the cover? Piss off and cook your own damn meal.
Above: The sad reality (thanks to AJ Glasser for the Papa concept)
We realize games are largely based in fantasy, but could character designers get a little more creative with how they clothe their females? Male characters in games get tricked-out armor suits, iconic headgear (Master Chief comes to mind) and outfits that fit their surroundings. Meanwhile, female characters are left with only sashes and a smile.
Above: More of Samus, less of… the other stuff
Don't get us wrong – we get excited with each purchase of a new game. (After all, we do love shopping~!!! LOL!!) But we hate going into a videogame store, only to be directed to the Nintendo section or have the employees look at us like some lost sheep who strayed away from our boyfriends. Bitch, this copy of Halo is MINE.
Which kind of implies that we hate this article, but it is GamesRadar's Week of Hate, so maybe we do. HATE!
Just because we're girls who enjoy spending hours in front of a TV pressing buttons, that does not mean we need to join your community, blog, Facebook group or Twitter-feed-sorority-clustershart of gaming-girl goodness. We like playing games. We are girls. These things don't necessarily need to be tied together, nor do we feel the need to have special treatment because we're both. And if we happen to want to spend 31 hours perfecting our chopping techniques in Cooking Mama instead of having an equally enjoyable Modern Warfare 2 estrogen-fest against the boys, we shouldn't be considered less of a gamer than you.
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VHF spy circuits or Very High Frequencies circuits can transmit for a long distance. For that reason, you should check what laws you have in your country on fm transmitters. Here is the circuit, let's see how it is built:
Building a wearable microphone is nothing more than building a small fm transmitter circuit. This wireless fm mic is an fm transmitter and can transmit about 100 meters.
That's not too bad of a transmission range. It is fine if you are close enough to the person wearing the microphone. This has very few parts and can be built relatively quickly.
(source - http://www.flashwebhost.com/circuit/fm_wireless_mike.php)
This spy circuit only contains 5 components which makes it very simple to build. For a listening device, this is very tiny but given that it is tiny, it can only transmit a limited distance.
1 - 10nF, ceramic. Preferable NPO type
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Shoot, you are probably thinking, where do I find those parts? For the 74LS13, I would try getting it from Digi-key. Here is a link to a search I did there for it:
Creating a telephone bug is not all that difficult. The idea is twofold, you must create a transmitter and you must allow the phone signal to continue. If your transmitter is noisy or has a lot of static, then listeners are going to hear that. So you have to get the signal but not interfere with it on its way and then you have to get it somewhere else and not have it easily detected. This FM telephone bug is a simple start in that direction. Remember that this is just for the radio theory. This has many applications which are not illegal.
Creating a listening device that can transmit conversations or sounds for a longer range can be valuable in surveillance. This FM bug can serve a variety of purposes from listening to sounds, conversations, nature sounds, and other things. Building a listening device is rather easy to do.
If you are looking to transmit audio transmissions for a good distance but need something small to do it, then this micro spy circuit would be a good one for you. This very small spy circuit takes very few parts.
This micro FM bug is fairly small. About the size of a small matchbox and it is a neat little project to work on because it uses surface mount componets. Surface mount components are smaller. If you are working on them, buy a good soldering iron. I recommend a Hakko soldering iron. They are great and then you can get a special tip for doing surface mount soldering. Here is a link to the transmitter. It costs about 14 dollars. Alternatively, you can source the parts yourself and then make your own circuit board.
I saw this facinating idea where to transmit a phone converstation an unlimited distance another phone was put inline with the first phone's phoneline. Then when a call is made on the outbound phone, the second phone dials you or someone else and allows the original call to go through. It's expensive though, so pretty much out of reach for the common person. I guess though if you could program a cell phone to precall a certain number, that would work though but it would take some programming.
If you want to check out a circuit that is already built, consider this small device off of Ebay:
However, remember to check the laws in your area before proceeding with using a device such as this. And if you were to use a device like this, you should inform those listening that you are transmitting their conversations.
This FM telephone bug is somewhat compact. It is however, on the FM band, so that's a consideration to make when building it. Wouldn't it be bad luck if you bugged someone's phone and they happened to hear themselves talking while their radio was on. Of course, bugging a telephone is illegal in most areas so this is just for the theory of it all.
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The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is in search of two graduating CAS seniors (class of 2014) to speak on behalf of the graduating class. We are seeking one Bachelor of Arts graduate and one Bachelor of Science graduate. Candidates interested in delivering the speech or who would like to nominate another student should apply by March 15, 2014. The speech should be three to five minutes in length. Ideally, the speech should reflect on the experience of graduates at a Jesuit university.
Interested graduates must send a letter of intent, along with an abstract of their speech and a brief resume, to the College of Arts and Sciences, Sullivan Center Room 235, by March 15. It is important to include a telephone number and an address where you or your nominee may be contacted during the semester. Selected applicants will be notified by the College Committee on Commencement in early April, and the final selection will be made by late April. If you have any further questions, please telephone or e-mail the College of Arts and Sciences at the contact information listed below.


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Sucking fingers
My three-year-old daughter has sucked her fingers since she was a baby. Is there a way to make a child stop this behavior?Question:
Robert Steele
Robert W. Steele, MD, is a board certified pediatrician at St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield, MO. He graduated from medical... Read more
Thumb or finger sucking is strongest in children under six months of age. Up to 15 percent of children older than two years of age continue to suck their thumb. Most of these children give up the thumb or finger sucking habit by age four. Most of those who continue to suck their thumb after four years do so to assert their independence, especially if this issue is a hot one between parent in child.
Most of the time, this habit does not cause permanent damage except in two cases:
- Those who have permanent teeth erupting (usually around six years)
- Those who suck their thumb or finger in such a manner that it places outward stress on the teeth. This occurs most often when kids suck their fingers with the palm of the hand facing the ceiling.
If either of these is occurring, you should consult your physician or dentist.
It is normal for children under the age of four to suck their thumb or fingers. Thus, it will only buy you more trouble down the line if you apply pressure now to stop your daughter's finger sucking. Some suggestions for you to try in the meantime are to distract her if you notice that she tends to suck her fingers when she is bored. In addition, occasionally praise her for not sucking her fingers.
After the age of four, she will be able to reason with you about her finger sucking, if it is still present. There are techniques to employ at that time to help remind her about her finger sucking and give up the habit. However, a prerequisite to this is her having an attitude of wanting to give up the finger sucking.Answer:


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|Hi. I'm trying to figure out what species would best survive a specific set of conditions for a live display. It would need to do well in 75-80 degree temps year round as well as a humidity level of 60-100% throughout the day (probably something tropical). If you know of any species that might work, I'd like to know so I can research them.
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- Posted by nelsoncastro none (My Page) on Mon, Mar 11, 13 at 2:19
|You may have difficulty with tropicals. As tropical and subtropical plants are the best for indoor growing.
For indoor bonsai, the best plants are tropical and subtropical species.
Two species which are especially good bonsai for indoors are the dwarf Hawaiian umbrella tree, Schefflera arboricola and many small leaf Ficus varieites.
|Is this an indoor/greenhouse display?
Either those allready mentined and I would think a lot of Ficus or Wrightia Religiosa commonly used for bonsai.
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- Posted by Piranhamoose none (My Page) on Tue, Mar 12, 13 at 21:11
|It will be an indoor display. The dwarf hawaiian is almost exactly what I was picturing. I'll spend some time reading up on them. Thank you both for the suggestions. If anybody has anymore I'd like to hear them.
- Posted by Piranhamoose none (My Page) on Tue, Mar 12, 13 at 21:22
|I've found one website that says the Schefflera Arboricola is poisonous, but I haven't found a site that verifies that. Could anyone familiar with this species tell me if that's true or not?
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Jordan Henderson's late goal kept Liverpool's Barclays Premier League title bid on track as they earned a thrilling 4-3 win over Swansea City.
Daniel Sturridge scored twice to become only the second player – after former Manchester United forward Ruud van Nistelrooy – to net in eight consecutive Barclays Premier League fixtures. The England striker's brace was only one part of a remarkable story that unfolded at Anfield, with five first-half goals setting the tone for a classic.
It took just three minutes for Sturridge to break the deadlock and Henderson's pinpoint finish put Brendan Rodgers' side in the ascendancy midway through the opening half. The game was turned on its head as Jonjo Shelvey and Wilfried Bony scored within three minutes of each other, the former drawing applause from the fans of Liverpool, his former club, after he had arrowed a stunning first-time effort into the top-right corner. Sturridge netted again before the break to take his tally for the season to 18 league goals, but Bony grabbed his second, from the spot, early in the second half. It was Henderson who had the last say, though, his close-range finish sealing the points 16 minutes from time.
Liverpool signalled their intent from the off and took the lead as Raheem Sterling provided a defence-splitting pass for Sturridge, who side-stepped Michel Vorm before slotting home. The visitors did show some early promise, but Henderson's superb right-footed strike from the edge of the box seemingly put the hosts in control with 20 minutes gone.
Swansea needed a response and it was provided two minutes later in emphatic fashion by Shelvey, who scored one and set up another in September's reverse fixture, but was also responsible for a dreadful mistake that led to Sturridge's equaliser in a game that ended 2-2. He exorcised those demons with a glorious shot from 20 yards that left Simon Mignolet in the Liverpool goal with no chance.
The 21-year-old, making his return to league action from a hamstring injury, refused to celebrate but was applauded by many of the home contingent. Three minutes later Bony levelled matters. Shelvey was on the receiving end of a hefty challenge from Martin Skrtel. The Liverpool defender then appeared to get a decisive touch after Bony had headed goalwards Jonathan de Guzman's free-kick, wrong-footing Mignolet.
The breathless pace of the game continued and Rodgers' men were ahead again before the interval, Sturridge doubling his tally with a neat back-post header from Luis Suarez's cross. Suarez almost joined in the goals himself, lobbing an effort from the halfway line just wide of Vorm's goal.
Swansea levelled two minutes into the second half after Skrtel, already on a yellow, felled Bony going for a cross. The Ivorian picked himself up to convert the spot-kick.
Yet just as it appeared as though Swansea head coach Garry Monk would earn a point against his former manager, Suarez's effort was blocked but fell to Henderson who poked home from inside the six-yard box after his initial shot had been saved by Vorm.
The result moves Liverpool, who hit a post late on through Steven Gerrard, back to within four points of leaders Chelsea, while Swansea remain four points above the drop zone having won just two of their last 13 league games.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers: "He showed great leadership, Jordan. You could see him driving the team on. His first goal was an outstanding goal.
"We've spoken to him about getting up there - in training his finishing is sublime, he works at it. But what's really pleasing for me is the second goal because we've been speaking to him about getting in the box. He's got the legs and energy to do that.
"The thing I say to those midfield players, the advanced ones, is, 'Can you get in that six-yard box?' People talking about getting in the box, I always try to get them to get into the six-yard box and that's where his goal has come from. That was a really important goal for us.
"Sturridge is a natural goalscorer, great pace - a wonderful pass by young Raheem [Sterling] that gave us the first goal, and a wonderful finish. And the second one is an area of his game that he's been looking to improve, lovely ball by Luis [Suarez] chipped in and he's finished it really well with the header. He just looks like he can score every game, he's got that ability, that quality."
"Up until now we've got away with it [the poor defence]. The problem is it's not coaching. Some of the situations that we concede goals in, you can't coach that. There's a feeling in a game of how to defend and you have to use that experience to be able to defend properly."
Swansea head coach Garry Monk: "We didn't start well. We didn't get the ball moving, we were too slow, we had too many touches. I told the boys that at half-time. It's just that belief. Coming to a team that are trying to compete in winning the league and are right up there with the quality that they've got, we never really got going. But in the second half, we had a right go and we deserved something from the game.
"With the amount of games we've had recently, the fact that they kept up the energy levels right to the end was magnificent. If we'd started like that, the way we did in the second half, it would have been a different game. That's the character we've got. I don't ever worry about that. It's always been there in the group, it's just bringing it out of them and I think it's coming and it's getting better for the boys. To come to a place like this, away from home, where they're destroying teams week-in-week-out, it's all credit to my players, they totally deserved something from the game.
"The fourth goal was a ricochet back into their path and sometimes you can't do anything about it. You create your own luck. In the second half, I knew that if we did it properly, we could get back into the game and we did that. We got the goal and we were looking a threat.
"Towards the end, you ask them to keep on pushing, I think that's the point you need to be either winning the game or drawing the game. We were a credit, we went to the very end again. I can't be prouder of the boys. It was a monumental effort. With the amount of games we've had, it's all credit to them."
Manager: Brendan Rodgers
Manager: Garry Monk
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|v Sunderland (H)
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|v Spurs (H)
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|29 Mar 2014
|v Norwich (H)
|03 May 2014
|v Southampton (H)
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|19 Apr 2014
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Today we're debuting our new name! From now on, the blog of the National Archives' Special Media Services Division will be known as The Unwritten Record. We'll feature the same great content—film, photographs, videos, sound recordings, and other non-textual records from the National Archives' holdings– just with a new and improved name! Media Matters was fine, […]
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Nine U.S. Emergency Departments Recognized by Emergency Nurses Association for Supporting Excellence in Nursing Practice, Providing Exceptional Care
2013 Lantern Award Recipients Demonstrate Commitment to Excellence, Exemplary Performance, and Innovative Practices
DES PLAINES, IL, August 7, 2013.
— The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) announced the recipients of the Association's Annual Lantern Awards. The awards recognize emergency departments that exemplify exceptional practice and innovative performance in the core areas of leadership, practice, education, advocacy and research. ENA is a global membership organization of more than 40,000 emergency nurses.
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Two of Nashville's largest private colleges made the unusual move to cancel classes because of the cold temperatures. But it appears the decision was based more on timing of the wintry weather than its severity.
Spokespeople for both Vanderbilt and Lipscomb universities say safety is the priority. While they're worried about keeping students warm on campus during single-digits, they're more concerned for those traveling back from even icier parts of the country.
"Hazardous travel conditions and canceled air flights have already delayed some students and faculty from returning to campus from holiday break," said a statement from Vanderbilt officials sent Sunday night.
Lipscomb announced Saturday that the semester would be delayed, giving time for students to alter their travel plans. If it were mid-semester and students were already safely in their dorms, Lipscomb's Kim Chaudoin said the decision might have been different.
"If we had already been here on campus in session, completely different situation," she said Monday.
By contrast, Belmont University went ahead with the first day of classes after Christmas break, citing limited ice on the roads.
Lipscomb will be closed again on Tuesday. Vanderbilt resumes classes. Most public universities return as scheduled next week.


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Monday, March 13th, 2006
8:29 pm
what i would like to tell james
you hurt me. not because you won't go out with me. i got over that a while ago. you hurt me cuz you judged me without know the facts. i have slept with 4 guys and one girl. i knew all of the guys at least 2 years before i slept with them and there was always an emotional connection. you think that my sex history is bad, but you never bothered to ask. i just want you to know that i would have accepted it as final if you would have said that you weren't attracted to me or anything like that but you didn't. you admitted to rachel that you knew that you were missing out on a something good but you just couldn't jump that hurdle. that hurdle is not real, you only imagine it cuz you already judged me and didn't bother to ask what would have made it better. i thought that you were my friend so you would understand that i build walls and i left the door unlocked for you, but you never got that. i just want you to know that im not mad, i am hurt. i felt like i had a chance but it was unfairly ripped away. i will continue to feel hurt for a bit, but i would still like to remain friends. i just want you to know that you should find out all the facts before you judge.
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
8:10 pm
major confession time
i broke down and cried like a baby tonight. i cried like i was young and stupid and needed to be saved from all of the stupid men. i went out and hung out with an old crush of mine and when i came back i felt stupid and fat. not so much stupid stupid but stupid because i was so fat and i tried to flirt. then when i got home, i skipped eating and hopped right on my stationary bike. then i had to hop right off cuz my dog was biting at my feet and i got so stressed out that it wasn't even funny. so then my mom came home and i started crying like a baby. i decided that i was tired of hiding behind my extra weight and that i wanted to become a thinner me so that i could have more options. i was called pretty, well, youthfully pretty, but i feel like if i lost weight i could not only be pretty but i could be sexy and gorgeous and feel good about myself, at least good enough about myself that if i felt like people were talking bad about me i wouldn't want to crawl back into a hole. well, im gonna go look up crap for bariatric surgery, so wish me luck.
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Sunday, January 15th, 2006
12:25 pm
everybody has problems . . . preparation h.
so i start school on wednesday. i still don't want to talk to people or make new friends but i guess i might have to cuz sarah might not give me a choice. sooooooooooo. well, i might start a new blog cuz i hear you can do one on yahoo but that is still up in the air as yet. i have this one and i kinda like this one. its the real me. not the imagined me or the me that should be, it is who i truly am. i thought a bout deleting an entry cuz it wasn't me anymore but i realized that i am an amalgam of all my parts and i don't have to excuse myself for it. my uterus opened up and spill forth evil from my vagina. i also added another person to my duck behind aisles in a supermarket list. that was fun. or not. whatever. i am reading a book by rosie odonnell and it makes me feel more real to read it. its going on my list of favorite books now. do you ever feel like you are gonna be rundown a exhausted after you start something new? well, i haven't started something new yet and my body is already rundown and exhausted. im beginning to wonder if my body realizes the stress i am gonna put it under and is rejecting me before i even start. i just know that this kind of stress will send me into a depression and i have all accoutremants ready and eaiting to pull me out of it. im just glad that i got rid of my codependant relationship a long time ago cuz now i am ready to face the world on my own and i don't have to lie to myself and say that i need him cuz i really don't. so im good now, and im gonna go.
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
11:16 am
crap on my life
do you ever wake up in the morning and look at yourself and think im the kind of fat that will never get married or have a boyfriend or even sex anymore. its not even that, its that i am not happy in my body anymore. i got ok with my body and the i got fatter. its the endless cycle and i think i need to stop it but then i look at myself and think that it is hopeless. i guess im gonna give up the hope of ever being thin or desirable or sexy cuz when i do a come hither look its just pathetic. i guess i am gonna try to become healthy and then see how it goes from there. wish me luck.
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Friday, December 30th, 2005
2:36 pm
oh what questions i would ask
so the unfortunate part of my life is the fact that i am in fact signed up for like 3 meet someone new type of site and they are really beginning to disturb me. some aren't so bad but others really suck and i must say that none really asks the kind of quetions that i really want to know that answer to to find guys to talk with not that i actually will if i find one that intersts me, but in the end i want a site thats asks the importants questions. the questions that everyone should know the answer to to make an informed decision. so here is my list of questions that if i made a web site to meet people this would be in the questions to make a profile:
boxers or briefs?
what is your dream car?
do you consider any kind of car sexy? which one?
picture of your dream partner?
sex fantasy?
do you eat breakfast in the morning?
how do you take your coffee?
what is the last book that you read?
favorite movie?
soundtrack to your life (14 songs that describe your life)?
list of celebrities you would think of screwing (3-5)?
number of times you look in the mirror before you leave the house in the morning?
how long do you spend in the shower?
who do you want to be?
are you happy?
ok so i know that there are probly more to come, but i can't think of any now. i just want to say that in the end i don't want to spend two more years on something that should have ended after one month.
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11:48 am
get tina with the free
i just found out that you can download songs from amazon.com. not all songs and most of which i have never heard of before, but this way i can analyze haveing a cd of rock in spanish. or downloading a complete list of meditation or celtic music. now i don't really like music all that much, but hey its free so don't knock it.
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
11:10 am
43 goals and ambitions
i found a website for people who want to do, try, or accomplish 43 new things. and since i have wanted to do so many things for so long, i joined and decided to limit my goals to 43. at first i thought that it was a lot but then i started naming them and then i had to pair down my list and take things off. i got some ideas from the site but most of them are my own so while i kept the more ambitious ones on my list i decided to do some of the other ones just for fun or something like that and not make them a goal. for example i decided that i will tell people that door hinge and orange sorta rhyme but i wont make it my goal in life to make that well known. makes sense right, not really but i am tina so its ok, i can do that. so here for future record it my list of wacky goals and ambitions.
1. read a lot of classic novels
2. take up yoga
3. have better posture
4. learn to belly dance
5. become fluent in spanish
6. learn to surf
7. milk a cow or goat
8. make home made cheese
9. learn how to drive a stick shift
10. use a new word every day for a whole year
11. learn to skate board
12. make a quilt
13. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
14. skinny dip
15. embroider a tapestry
16. go on a cruise
17. watch all the movies and read all of the books referenced on gilmore girls
18. see the statue of liberty
19. rebuild an engine
20. learn to throw pottery
21. visit all 50 states
22. learn to ballroom dance
23. read the complete works of shakespeare
24. increase my typing speed (80-100 cwpms)
25. watch imdb.coms list of the 100 worst movies
26. sponser a child
27. paint a mural
28. hook a rug
29. loose 100 pounds
30. watch the worst 80s movies
31. visit avonlea
32. ride a camel and/or elephant
33. stand on the four corners
34. create a sanctuary
35. keep a journal
36. build a couch
37. write the great american novel
38. make a traditional several course meal
39. learn the aristocracy
40. learn to play bridge
41. go to a broadway play
42. build a computer
43. go to more musems
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
9:16 pm
earth girls are easy
3 words: comedy musical sci-fi
ok so most of yall are thinking what in the hell is she talking about. well the ones that truly know me know that i can't even sit through a movie anymore cuz i have such a short attention span. well i have now figured out that there is a very small section of videos that i can actually watch all the way but they have to be very specific videos. ok these are the videos that i can stand. they have to be crappy movies from the 80s. and i mean things that people watch and say wow i wish i could get that hour and a half back or i think i just lost brain cells watching this. they are the ones that you laugh at and poke fun of and they aren't even making a joke at the time.
ok so now what i started out with. i want to watch "earth girls are easy" now why i actually want to watch it im not sure. maybe cuz it have a love thing between geena davis and jeff goldblum. or is it the fact that they make over aliens and they turn me on. or it could be the creepy music. all i know is that i have to see that movie.
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
12:01 pm
i feel violated
i know that most people wouldn't use the same words as me but i just get so upset. omg, i am turning into my mother. some guy came over today that is some kind of official mail type person and told me that they wouldn't be delivering our mail to our house if our dog was out. i dont think that is right. we pay our taxes why shouldn't we get our mail? i could understand more if our dog was kujo, but shes not, she is gentle and kind and is afraid of people and would never bite them. i am so pissed of it is not right. i don't care how much they think that they have rights i think that our mail man is just being lazy and i don't like it. if they are gonna tell me to keep my dog inside or chained up the least that they could do is tell me when the mail is going to be here so that i can put her inside for that amount of time. that made me so up set that i actually fell like crying. ok, well im done bitching now, bye.
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Friday, October 14th, 2005
4:41 pm
there is somebody waiting for me out in the rain
go there. its a bonny mckee music video. i want my hair to look like her's in this video.
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
8:24 pm
a special kind of poverty
now i am gonna take another wack at being out spoken and all those things that i am. i just finished reading an article about infertility and the poor to which i have to say it was kinda pointless. i only describe as a feeling like just jumping into a bottomless pit and the whole way down going through a fire that is burning you. you feel bad and you would really like it to go away but there is nothing really that you can do. if you lobby to have the government provide infertility treatments for the poor, then taxes will be raised and then you will have even poorer people on your hands and at a certain point, i don't care how nice and responsible you are, if you can't even support yourself then why should you be having kids and if you have to infertility treatments to have kids then you can't say oops. its one of those subjects that you just have to say wow that sucks and move on cuz there are worse things going on out in the world. like the fact that bush is in office. ok wow, just kidding about that last part. but worse things like the hurricane the tsunami things we can help. i while i have the fact that i just insulted bush fresh in your minds, im just gonna say that whole thing with iraq was another thing where we should have just said gee that sucks and moved on. ok, while i still have my independence, ill go.
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4:27 pm
the whale and the antibody
today i worked on an assignment for my speech class cuz its due tomorrow and i haven't started it yet. so we were supposed to read 3 articles off of a specific list and then email our thoughts to the professor and so first i had the hardest time time picking 3 of them cuz they were boring and long but i did pick out my 3. one of the ones that i picked was about the effect of bellydancing on infertility. it was kinda creepy and i haven't finished it yet but im not gonna start belly dancing anytime soon. the one that i really wanted to talk about it something that i don't even know how to begin to explain. its about the attorney general in kansas was trying to get the abortion records of about 90 "women" from two different clinics and they were fighting it cuz of the right to privacy. at first look i will always say that right of privacy when having an abortion is always 100%. the the attorney general said that he just wanted the records of "women" that were 10, 11, and 12. and in kansas if you have sex with a girl that is younger than 12, it is a sex crime. i whole hartedly agree with that last part. i believe that a child has to at least be 13 to decide if she is ready for sex or not. then again i probly won't be a good parent. im not really sure about any of that anymore. but i still have a hard time trying to accept rejecting someone's privacy through abortion records. if the child was raped, wouldn't they report it, and if they didn't report it then it is their perogative. i know that i sound cold and unfeeling but take it from someone the was raped a couple of times, deciding to report it or not is each person's personal decision and i never want to hear of someone being criticized for not reporting a sex crime. and this was rather recent, at least is was in 2005 which is more than i can say about a lot of other things. ok, im done complaining.
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Thursday, October 6th, 2005
4:49 pm
what did i miss?
ok so i was looking at feminist tshirts today. don't ask why, reasons have never been my strong suit. so i was looking at them and i noticed that there was a lot of gay pride stuff. now i understand why my uncle was confused that my feminist english teacher was getting married. my bad, i didn't realize that feminists wanted to make it easier for ignorant people to make the connection.
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
3:48 pm
where are all the eligible men?
i have been searching the yahoo profiles for a man between the ages of 30 and 50 that is single in california with a picture and i have come up with one pathetic fact. there aren't many out there single after the age of 30 and the ones that are left you have to wonder about. i mean, ya, i have found the man of my dreams a couple of times, but then i realize that eee gad this man is gay. i guess what they say is true, they are all either gay or taken. the ones that aren't gay are either too into sex and getting sex and sex is the only thing on their brain and the others creep me out a bit. i have found one or two, but how do you rationalize iming someyou have never met and saying: hi, i am a 19 year old girl that lives out in the middle of nowhere and i am looking for my special guy that is over thirty and smart and great and perfect and while i look kinda like shamu now, i plan on having bariatric surgery soon and then i will be a thin pathetic girl looking for an older man to share my hatred of man and tv and books. oh and no, dinner and a movie for our first date isn't an option cuz i can't eat in public cuz i had my stomach stapled and i don't want to retch, and i also don't have the attention span to watch a whole movie, great thanks.
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
12:40 pm
happiness is how you percieve it
i have been thinking a lot lately about the kind of guy i would be interested in and i have pretty much come up with the kind of guy that i would like to be with. he will be between the ages of 28 and 44. working at a job that requires him to either wear a uniform like in the military or a cop or a ranger or something like that or he would have to wear suits. he would perfer to walk around in boxers and a wife beater when we are alone. he must find people stupid or something like that. be able to keep up with my sex drive. understand my jokes and sense of humor. bowl and play pool cuz i love to do those things but at the same time understand that i like to bowl cuz i am so bad at it and i like to play pool just to contort myself into wierd positions to poke the ball. answer my wierd questions. and most importantly, the guy of my dreams will love me for me.
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
10:40 am
my perfect person
if i ever meet someone that thinks that babe had a hard time learning his lines, im never gonna let them go.
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1:16 am
do people ever grow up?
i am 19 years old, i dated someone that was 15 years old. im not a pervert or some kind of sex feind or anything, i just thought that we had a lot in common, but it turns out that i was wrong. not only was i wrong, but i was wrong after 2 years. she stopped talking to me for a couple of months and then when me and my ex best friend go into a fight and decided that we didn't need to be friends anymore she decided to dump me. she kicked me while i was down. she told me that she still wanted to be friends and i really wanted to go with that, but then she tells me a month later that she is with someone new and that person is living with her and then she says that she still wants to be friends. i decided that i didn't want to be friends with her and so i just stopped talking to her, i think that i was fully justified in doing that. i got 3 count them 3 messages from her new girlfriend today. the first one told me to stay away from her. so i sent a message to my ex asking her what was going on. then her new gf writes back and says that im fat and ugly and no one would want anyone like me. then she says that i am abusive and a cheater. i only pushed my ex once and that was when she came at me. and the cheater accusation is not fair. on our 1 month anniversery she had sex with my best friend. i can understand the fat and ugly cuz everyone has been telling me that lately and its getting easier and easier to believe. the only thing i have left to say about this chick is . . . you are 19 years old and you whole world is a retarded attempt at validating yourself. you spend most of your time on negative thoughts and you say that you want to get into college, when will you have time to think about your classes?
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
10:23 am
the continuing adventures of being lonely . . .
i found out last night that the guy that i have had a crush on for the last year was born in the year 1953. that makes him 52 years old and 33 years older that me. but i just can't help it, i like him. im chatting with my ex right now and it kinda hurts. actually its the echo of what hurts cuz i lost the ability to hurt emotionally a while ago cuz ive gone through too much crap. enuff of that its too shitty to talk about.
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4:29 pm
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Top of the Backswing Cupped or Flat?
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Paul Wilson is the creator of Swing Machine Golf and founder of Ignition Golf. Paul's golf swing technique is based on the Iron Byron swing machine. YouTube Channels: Paul Wilson Golf and Ignition Golf Tips. Please Join me on Google+
18 Responses to "Top of the Backswing Cupped or Flat?"
January 25, 2014DavidJones Log in to Reply
Paul, although not related to your tip, during the slow motion portions of your tip I put a pen at the the top center of your head to watch its movement. Interestingly on the downswing your head drops several inches. I have always tried to hold my head steady on the downswing (although I know it moves some) without a similar movement. Is that slight dropping something one should strive for, and, if so, it could serve as a possible tip. It does not appear you intentionally make that move, it just seems to happen.
I look forward each day to your tips. Best regards and perhaps I can make it to Vegas this year for some more of your excellent one on one training.
Glad you like the tips. I appreciate the feedback.
A lot of this head dropping is due to my body angling more behind the ball in the downswing. I am also staying focused on where they ball is which is tucking my chin. I have never worked or even thought of this. I comes with working on the proper lower body action in your downswing and obviously not coming out of it when you contact the ball.
So make sure you are following my downswing and uncoiling tips while turning your arms off. Never try to keep your head still. The head moves back going back it may move a little forward in the downswing then it moves back again and the club approaches impact. It stays there until the lead is arm is a 3/4 through then it moves forward so you can get to the balanced position over the forward leg into the follow through.
Here you go:
Move Head: http://ignitiongolf.com/move-head-back
Impact Head Behind Ball: http://ignitiongolf.com/impact-head
Stop Fat Shots When Working On Moving Your Head: http://ignitiongolf.com/fat-shots-moving-your-head/
Uncoil 1: http://ignitiongolf.com/uncoil
Uncoil 2: http://ignitiongolf.com/uncoil-follow-up
January 25, 2014ChuckBaumgarner Log in to Reply
Do pros use these different positions to shape shots?
No. Pros alter their setup to shape shots.
Should You Hit a Draw or a Fade?: http://ignitiongolf.com/hit-draw-fade/
How To Perfect Drawing and Fading: http://ignitiongolf.com/perfect-drawing-and-fading/
I wouldnt Like to intrude on THE response Paul Will undoubtly give to Mr David Jones ,but this drop at THE beginning OF THE downswing is to be seen in all THE swings OF THE Great Champions .
Jim Mc LEAN in his book THE COMPLETE HOGAN shows this move in Great d
Sorry,I mistakenly said THE backswing ,THE drop occurs at THE start OF THE throughswing ,OF course !
January 25, 2014TIMADAMS Log in to Reply
I'll be darned if i can see differences in your wrist positions BUT what I do see is differences in the club shaft and face from the correct shots to the incorrect ones
The bones in my wrist stop it from overcupping at the top. This is a good thing but many years ago I fought a bowed wrist ala Tom Lehman at the top. Just follow the tip and work on the right grip and a slight cupping at the top.
Paul ,This is THE very best d
Glad you liked it. There is a reason you should be doing everything in the swing. Just takes some understanding and figuring out. Using the Iron Byron allows me to do his for most things. This one is just logic.
January 25, 2014HarveyKirk Log in to Reply
Great instructional video on a problem I may have and need to work on. In the past I have been told that my lead wrist should be slightly bowed, but when trying to do that is is very awkward and I always feel like I am slightly cupped. I can't wait to get in front of a mirror and maybe I don't have the cupping problem and only have what you call a slightly cupped position. I will continue to make sure I have a two knuckle grip and continue to follow your sage guidance and advice. Thank you.
You should never be purposely trying to bow this wrist. As I explained the wrist should be cupped anyway. This is relative to your grip and if you are manipulating the club as you go back. Glad you are going to work on it. Now, you should eliminate this uncomfortable feeling at the top.
January 25, 2014CodyCusick Log in to Reply
Paul just wanted to say thank you! Powerless arms is finally paying off. I have dropped 10 strokes in the last 2 weeks. I have got my swing to where I don't think about my arms at all. From the time I set up I am only thinking about touching the legs and my shots almost feel effortless win tremendous results! When I finished my round yesterday. I wanted to play again!
That's great news. It is different. In fact, it is the opposite to what people want to do so until they get used to it they will go right back to a swing that does not work. Now that you have felt the difference stay focused on it. So days will be better than others while you are developing a great swing but as you see the feeling of powerless arms gives you so much more power with little effort.
Don't fall into this trap:
Lose Your Swing: http://ignitiongolf.com/lose-your-golf-swing
You Will Top It: http://ignitiongolf.com/you-will-top-it/
January 26, 2014DavidAnderson Log in to Reply
Thx for everything Paul
In my mirror looking to my right I notice my hands are barely shoulder height at the top. Barely above my shoulder. I'd like to get them closer to my R ear. Any thoughts? Thx.
I have a couple of tips on this here:
How To Shorten Backswing: http://ignitiongolf.com/cure-shorten-backswing
How To Lengthen Backswing: http://ignitiongolf.com/lengthen-backswing
June 12, 2014MichaelRodrick Log in to Reply
As TimAdams stated in his reply, I also don't see a difference in your wrist position. What I have a problem with is my hands not turning over at or slightly before impact. To me, THAT feels like I'm manipulating the club. At the top of my backswing when I check my position, my wrist is definitely cupped, but doesn't appear to be over-cupped, but the clubface is definitely a bit open. I always use a 2 knuckle grip. If my wrist is flat, I always hit the ball straight with no movement either way. If it's cupped, I'll hit the ball a little left of my target. Not far left, but certainly left. I also always have a 1 piece takeaway. Lefty golfer by the way. The feeling I need to have is my thumb being directly under the shaft at the top which gives me a flat wrist. I guess this is a by-product of my wrists not rolling over before impact which I know is what you rightly promote. If my hands rolled over, I'd definitely have hook spin. I'm not saying my wrist should be flat but it's what works for me. Either way, thanks for another great video. I wish other instructors could make their explanations as easy as yours.
I just watched the first bit of the video. When I say is it cupped or flat you can clearly see the face square then close when I show it flat. All it take is a few degrees at impact to severely effect the ball. Moving it the amount I did would have the ball going off the planet left if it was that closed.
Your club should be squaring because your arms and wrists are loose and you allow then to full extend at the release point:
How to Release the Golf Club: http://ignitiongolf.com/impact-wrist-release
To get this you need to manually roll it in you have trained it to roll. At this point you do nothing and turn them back off. Watch:
Manually Square the Clubface: http://ignitiongolf.com/impact-squaring-clubface
Manually Square the Clubface (Follow Up): http://ignitiongolf.com/impact-squaring-face-follow-up
Although this may work for you if you are not a mid to low handicapper I would be working on the correct position. Up to you though. Might be tough if we cannot see it. I think we may be doing Skype Lessons shortly so we may be able to help you out.
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Bones Review: Mommy Dearestby Miranda Wicker at . Comments
I'm calling it now. Bones proposes to Booth by the end of Bones season 8. After tonight's heavy-handed set-up, if she doesn't, I will be shocked. SHOCKED, I say.
"The Party in the Pants" featured Booth's mother returning after a 24-year absence - and absolutely nothing about the way she showed up made much sense. Booth's mother's arrival was about as contrived a plot device as they come.
After receiving a call about a case, Booth walks into his office and who should be sitting there but Mommy Dearest, all these years after walking out on Seely and his brother and leaving them - her children - with their abusive, alcoholic father and the grandfather who raised them. And Booth harbors no resentment toward his mother for walking out and leaving them behind. She was just doing what she had to do.
So he welcomes her with open arms, gives her the address to his house and practically invites her to move in. After not seeing her for 24 years.
Everyone except for Seely thinks this is more than a little bit weird. But not Seely. He's just thrilled to have his mom back in his life.
On the one hand, I get it. He's an adult and he understands that she left and why she felt she had to leave to save herself. On the other hand, he's a parent who would not ever think of abandoning his own children, perhaps because he was abandoned himself, but still.
Nothing about their early interactions rang true, in part because it seemed out of character for Booth to just welcome her back so easily.
When Brennan asked Seely's mom point blank about how hard it must have been to walk away from her children, part of me cringed at the awkwardness of the situation, but the rest of me wanted to give her a high-five for being the one to ask the question.
How was she able to do that? And why stay away for so long? Surely she's known that her son is an adult for many years now. At any time she could've come back into his life to build a real relationship with him. But she didn't.
Finally, their conversation on the park bench gave us some real emotion from Booth. The emotions that everyone else was looking for when his mother returned.
She was getting remarried, to a man who has two children whom she helped to raise instead of her own children, and she wants Booth to...give her away at her wedding to this man?
After not being in his life for nearly two and a half decades she wants her son about whom she knows nothing to walk her down the aisle? That does not make sense at all in the least! Who does that?
Her request served purely as a way for Brennan to discuss religion and forgiveness with Booth to the point that he would forgive his mother so that she and Booth would later show up at the wedding where Brennan would go on to catch the bouquet.
Raise your hand if you think Brennan would ever willingly stand in the throng of single ladies at a wedding reception in order to catch a bouquet.
Maybe she did it for Booth and her new mother-in-law. Maybe. But really? She did it because the writers needed to put her in a wedding situation where she would catch the bouquet and then there would be more discussions of marriage.
Booth's mother's return was a vehicle to get Bones to talk about marriage. That's it.
And it wasn't even a good vehicle. It was some kind of jalopy of a vehicle. Broken down on the side of the highway and in need of a good towing. If Bones and Booth get married, I'm good with that. If they don't get married, I'm good with that, too.
But can we stop forcing the conversation in ways so completely inorganic to the issue of will they or won't they? Is that something we can make happen, writers? Because that'd be fantastic.
As to the case of the week, it's always a great day when Wendell Bray shows up in the lab. Of all the squinterns, he's my favorite. He's just so normal in comparison to the others.
The case this week let the team do what they do best.
Wendell assembled some bones. Angela worked her computer magic. Hodgins studied his particulates. Cam showed off her great arms and gave some pithy one-liners.
Cam: Either rats ate the rest of his underwear or I'd say our victim was a stripper. | permalink
All in a day's work, you know?
There were funny, if unprofessional moments, in the lab, like Hodgins pretending to strip for Angela. Hodgins and Wendell reenacting how the victim was injured was also light and fun.
I even found the fact that Brennan did a paper on stripping in graduate school to be interesting. She's never really been one to shy away from sexuality, so the fact that she not only researched and wrote a paper about stripping but also attempted it herself seemed reasonable enough.
Overall, tonight's episode, despite the contrived nature of Booth's mother's return, was middle of the pack this season. It wasn't the best episode we've had, not by a long shot, but it also wasn't the worst.
What did you think of "The Party in the Pants?" Did you think Booth's mother's return was well done or too forced?
Miranda Wicker is a Staff Writer for TV Fanatic. Follow her on Twitter.Tags: Bones, Reviews
I am a huge fan of this show. I agree that this episode covered a lot of territory emotionally in 45 minutes so it does seem a bit contrived. That being said, David B. rose to the occasion as always and gave a very touching and subtle performance. When she walked out of the office and he said nothing, you could just see the lost and lonely little boy in his face. I am sure there is more to come with this story. I bet that they have him act out emotions in other ways since he can't seem to really get in touch with all that he is feeling about his mom situation. I look forward to Brennan showing how well she can help him through his stuff, after so much of him helping her. I am glad that they are allowing her character to start showing off her strength and loyalty and compassion (albeit in very Bones style!). As always I watch the show to be part of the fictional family they have created. The episodes are fun, but really secondary to my enjoyment of the human relationships and interactions between the main characters. And with that, I have to say, I have never found a TV relationship so fun, exciting, real, and balanced. They really do complete each other. And when one falls, the other is always there to catch them. And Emily and David make is seem so very believable. Love it!!!
I enjoyed this episode as I have the ones in the past.I just wished that Hank or at least Jared would has been part of the reunion.since she abandon 2 sons.I just don't get it 24 years & not even a postcard.anyway hopefully. I will see them when Bones & Booth get married maybe in season 9 or 10 fingers crossed.
I love this show, but I also felt that it didn't ring true on estranged parent-child relationships this episode. My grandmother's father, an alcoholic, left his family with nary a backward glance. Years later, when he was dying of cancer, he reached out to my grandmother, a good Christian woman. She refused to even go and see him, the memories were so bitter. So Booth's easy acceptance of his mom at the start doesn't really ring true. His later anger does, but his too easy, quick forgiveness and dancing happily at her wedding just doesn't ring true either. And after her confession that she helped raise kids who weren't even her stepchildren, and didn't even check with Pops to make sure that Seeley and Jared were doing OK, ehhh, I have a hard time with that, and with him forgiving her so quickly for years of pain and undoubted feelings of rejection. Yes, Brennan has had a greatly healing influence on him, but I really couldn't buy this one. I'm glad he forgave her, but it seemed too easy and too pat.
Too many people associate criticism with bashing. A reviewer is allowed to be be objectively critical of a show and point out flaws they see in addition to the strengths. That's their job. I think Miranda is doing a good job being honest in her critiques without being rude. She's not hate watching the show just to insult it every week. Some of the delicate flower commenters should read reviews over at The AV Club or OffColor TV to see what I mean by that.
Worshipful fans are not the only group for whom this web site is designed. There are many folks, including some of the reviewers, who have negative things to say about programs that some fans revere. Without criticism, nothing will ever improve. And while I am sure that the ardent fans' love for their shows is sincere, so is the disdain of those who deplore bad writing, bad plotting, bad acting, bad singing, bad dancing, or whatever other afflictions are exhibited on some of the programs covered by TVFanatic. And those who choose to read reviews and comments are entitled to do so. Surely if you wish to only associate with others who would change nothing, you could find such a web site. This is not it.
It really is sad that you really seem to dislike every episode this year. Maybe it is time to stop reviewing?
Where I'm coming from: My mother lost her mother when she was 7. Her widowed father sent her and her younger brother to live with relatives because he couldn't handle raising 2 young kids. My mother's childhood became a cycle of moving from relative to relative until she graduated from high school and went to work. Flash forward 15 years when my mother, now married and a mother herself, gets a call from some one in the extended family that her father is in the hospital, dying. My mother rushes to say good-by, not having seen him in years. Who is at the bedside but a woman and her young adult children. It turns out it is the second family of my mother's father. The fact that he could have been caring for his first children all those years was a blow from which my mother never recovered. So you see this storyline hits very close to home.
I practically rose out of my chair when the faux mother said, "Don't I deserve happiness after all these years?" (or words to that effect) when she had already acknowledged that she had been with this guy raising his kids for years. She was a manipulative and deeply flawed individual and the conviviality of that wedding and reception made me feel a little queasy.
I enjoyed this ep, one of the best of the year. It played Booth perfectly, he was open to Mom returning until he found out she was there to sooth her guilty feelings. She abandons two small boys to an abusive drunk that threw her down the stairs to find a life where she could find some happiness. Good gawd, then she raises another man's children and not contacts hers for 24 years. Booth may have forgiven her but no way he's forgotten. This story is far from done.


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Americans Rekindle Relationship With MSG, But China's Giving It Up
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