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Posted: Wednesday, December 12th 2012 at 1:44pm
Shirreffs approaching legendary status for Dragons
By Jeff Hart Staff
Jefferson quarterback Bryant Shirreffs has led the most prolific offense in Dragons' history in 2012 as they prepare for their first state title game in 35 years against defending Class AA champion Calhoun on Saturday at the Georgia Dome.
JEFFERSON -- Jefferson football coach T McFerrin knows a good quarterback when he sees one. After all, he coached former Georgia standout David Greene while at South Gwinnett.
Greene is among a handful of great quarterbacks McFerrin, who began his coaching career in 1968 at Lithonia, has coached along the way. Chris Welton, who went on to play for Georgia in the 1970s, and more recently Darius Minor in 2009 at Jefferson are others that came to mind during a conversation Tuesday as the Dragons prepared for their first state title game since 1977 against defending Class AA state champion Calhoun at the Georgia Dome on Saturday.
So as McFerrin has watched the maturation of current Dragons signal-caller Bryant Shirreffs over the last three seasons, what is his assessment of the tall, cagey senior that took over as a sophomore with the graduation of Minor?
Well, you really cant compare (Greene and Bryant), McFerrin said. David was more of a pure drop-back passer while Bryant is more of a dual threat. But both have a lot of heart and the desire to do whatever they need to do to win. Darius was more like Bryant with his ability to run. But Bryant is a better passer than Darius was. Bryant is definitely one of the best Ive ever coached.
COMING UP: On Thursday, we'll look at Gainesville's Class AAAAA title showdown with Ware County. ... On Friday we'll preview Jefferson's battle with Calhoun. ... ALSO on Friday we'll present a special video review of Buford, Gainesville and Jefferson's MARCH TO THE DOME.
For the season Shirreffs has amassed some huge numbers. He has 2,181 yards and 17 touchdowns passing and 1,233 yards and 18 touchdowns rushing. His passing yards are slightly more than Greenes as a senior but with two more games played.
If not for Deshaun Watson at Gainesville, Shirreffs numbers would be good enough to be the standard-bearer for north Georgia quarterbacks.
The Gainesville kid is great. I would think Bryant is among the best around. He may not have the numbers that the Gainesville kid has but he does so many little things that dont show up in stats but get you wins, McFerrin said.
Still, with Shirreffs at the helm, it is the most prolific offense in Jefferson history averaging just under 39 points a game. That surpasses the previous best of 36.7 points a game by the Minor-led 2009 team.
The Dragons also are on a streak of 11 straight games of scoring 31 points or more, the longest such streak in team history. In comparison, the 1977 state runner-up team scored 13 points or less seven times and was shut out twice. That team was defensive-minded allowing just 121 total points (8.0 ppg) with five shutouts and held 12 opponents to 14 points or less.
But McFerrin said its more than just numbers.
They believe in him and feel when hes out there he will make things happen, McFerrin said. Hes had a remarkable season so far.
No matter what happens on Saturday, Shirreffs has already cemented his place in Jefferson lore. He guided the Dragons to a huge upset over then-Class AAA-ranked North Hall, which advanced to the semifinals, on the road early in the season and then helped direct a 31-0 destruction of a Class AA ranked Washington-Wilkes team that was a the early favorite in Region 8-AA.
One of the most incredible games and performances Ive ever seen in all my years of coaching, McFerrin said. He just kept making plays and even helped spark our defense when he had to go in for an injured player for one play.
Fellow senior teammate Wesley Simonton said Shirreffs has earned his wings as the leader of the team.
He does whatever he has to to win, Simonton said. When the offense is out there we just know hes going to lead them down the field. He gives everyone confidence that we can win every game.
I wasnt worried about him playing defense as much as I am when I see him take a big hit on offense. But hes a tough dude.
Shirreffs proved that midway through the Fitzgerald game. He took a huge shot to his side on a keeper and laid on the turf for several seconds. A collective groan reverberated through Memorial Stadium as he was forced to leave the game. But one play later he was back in the huddle.
"We definitely got a little worried when we saw him come off the field," Simonton said. "We weren't sure what was going to happen because we had never seen him leave the field like that. But when he came back out, it showed he wasn't going to go down easy."
The spread offense system McFerrin has put in place is taylor-made for Shirreffs. He has the ability to take read-option running plays, roll-out, or drop back in the passing game depending on where the defense is vulnerable.
The game has changed so much over the years, and I think its a better game, that you need to have things in place that play to the strengths of your personnel, McFerrin said. Bryant can do it all and we try to take advantage of that.
In the Dragons semifinal win over Greater Atlanta Christian last week, Shirreffs tossed two more TD passes, but it was his 51-yard quarterback keeper to give them a lead they would never relinquish that was the back-breaker for the Spartans.
It came after Simonton had set the tone on the defensive series just prior with a quarterback sack, a tackle for those, and then helping force a GAC fumble with the game tied.
(His run) got us going as a team, Simonton said. We knew after the fumble he and the offense were going to do something special. You could see it when he went out there.
Shirreffs however, downplayed his role as a one-man wrecking crew.
Its a team sport and we play real well as a team, he said. The defense has picked us up a couple of times and we have several guys on offense who have made big plays all year. I cant do it all by myself.
But he did say he has come a long way since that first spring practice as a nervous freshman knowing he had a shot to play in the fall as a sophomore.
There was competition with a couple of other guys but I thought I had a pretty good spring and would get a shot, he said. My first year I was pretty nervous. I dont remember a whole lot so I dont think it was that remarkable a season. I think I got better last year but this year I think all the seniors have improved a lot and we talked about going out in style. The game slowed down a little for me and thats when I started to get more confidence.
Despite wanting to go out in style as a senior, Shirreffs said no one really talked about getting to the Dome or winning state titles. Until two weeks ago.
Not that we didnt want to do it but we started bad with a loss to Commerce and we knew we would have to play week-to-week and play hard to win games, he said. The North Hall game was a turning point that gave us confidence and the Washington-Wilkes game proved that we could beat good teams. But we really just worried about who we were playing each week.
But after the Fitzgerald game I think we all started thinking about the Dome. We knew we were close and I think that helped us get ready for GAC. Now were here so well see how we do.
Simonton said he is feels the Dragons have the secret weapon with Shirreffs under center.
(The defense) watches them every time they go out there because they are fun to watch and we feel they are going to score every time, Simonton said. Calhoun will be a huge challenge for us, the toughest yet. But I have confidence that No. 15 will make things happen for us.
JEFFERSON vs. CALHOUN
-- WHAT: Class AA football championship
-- WHEN: 2:30 p.m. Saturday
-- WHERE: Georgia Dome, Atlanta
-- JEFFERSON (13-1, No. 1 seed Region 8-AA): Defeated Greater Atlanta Christian 42-14 in the semifinals.
-- CALHOUN (14-0, No. 1 seed Region 7-AA): Defeated Lamar County 21-14 in the semifinals.
-- HISTORY: Calhoun won the only previous meeting between the two teams, 39-6 in the first round of last year's Class AA playoffs.
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@Butuz which version of firmware was that box running out of interest if you know?
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@Butuz which version of firmware was that box running out of interest if you know?
I hate to be the odd one out here, but having worked with Andy T (Cutter), Andy P (WTL) and Phil L (Oracle) for a while on the S7000 stuff, I can say our S7410 has generally worked very well, been well supported, and been a product I'm happy I bought. I think there are a lot of happy S7000 customers out there, but generally people only post on forums when something is broken rather than when things are working perfectly. I'm sure there are a lot of S7000's out there working well, but it looks like the original S7110's and S7210's haven't been as well supported as the S7310/S7410 + S7x20 range. That's definitely not okay by any means, but it doesn't mean the whole product range is completely cr*p. My NetApp FAS2020 sucks, but NetApp's higher-end stuff is successfully used by huge organisations around the world.
I hope I don't get hated on for saying this, but I still stand by the S7410 being a good product and I assume the S7x20 stuff is too. The Fishworks OS, DTrace, and the protocol licensing model are still all excellent innovations that most other storage providers are still playing catch-up to. I spoke to Phil L yesterday (sorry again for scaring you Phil) and I know he and Andy from Cutter have worked with Steve Darkes (Oracle - good guy from everything I've seen) to really try to get things moving on the issues people here are having. I just hope Oracle can turn things around because we had a great community on here around the S7000 stuff and I'm not sure we'd get the same 'personal' level of support we got from Phil Lawrence from a company like EMC or NetApp. :(
Thanks Chris. I just want to echo this, I have S7000 series customers including 7110 users that are having no issues at all. Steve Darkes (Oracle) had a long chat with me yesterday and is working hard to sort things out.
Will keep you all posted
Have had response from Oracle. Will update in a bit.
Both myself and Ric have pushed limits with our boxes, we have used all protocols, services and features, as they were sold as boxes to do all that stuff, as the stuff under the hood has got fancier they have failed to keep going and the hardware has given out. Regularly the 7110 has DRam issues in that its not got enough, yet if I double it I bet some of my issues will go away /reduce as will my Oracle support (well likely to have arguments bit like top PC makes and non-genuine parts). Other issues are still occuring with mine but I bet if I double the DRam it will improve an number of issues that we are presently having with it. The analytics are the best feature and I love that as I can see whats going on and show the kids what is going on visually when they all try and load HD Video at once etc... so on that score 10/10 :)
I think the high end S7*00 range is probably better suited due to the tin it runs on that is what is holding it back I think now, its like running Vista on a "vista ready" PC it never was going to work with a lot of them, I see them now as "S7000 ready" boxes when actually they are not fit for it any longer without dual processors and more DRam.
The S7120 we have is working, its got issues but not on as grand scale as the 7110 thankfully (touches lots of wood!!!) buts its not without fault I'm afraid and that has more grunt, flash accelerators, more ram etc....
I have been dealing with Steve and others at Oracle on my issues and shouted about the Escalation process and it sort of works, my main issue is still a P1 case yet updates are not fast enough for my liking, however we do have to slow it down at times waiting for a logable incident of our problems to collect / provide data so I accept that we dont' always help keep it flowing fast but reply#s once we provide the data I would expect to be very prompt.
Once again I want to say that @linescanner (Andy) and @kmount (Kim) from Cutter have been brilliant throughout this saga and still are supporting me with it so full marks to them as a reseller, I owe them more beers and dinner for all the help and support they provide with this. Phil from Oracle is also very helpful and he has been poking and kicking people for me as well :)
as promised an update from Oracle.
Service Request Handling
1.Provide root cause where possible for each open Service Request - with workaround, hardware or firmware fix, or interim binary relief to resolve
2.Where not possible to establish true root cause, provide probable or possible cause(s), and data-gathering action plan to confirm upon next occurrence
3.Provide clear escalation procedures when SR response does not meet expectation, or when management awareness is needed
I am aware that some of you are experiencing long gaps between updates from the support engineer involved, should this be the case you need to provide an idea to the engineer of what level of response you require ie (once a day even if to say we are still working on it)
I have also raised the fact that some of the engineers assume that the end user is happy in a Solaris console and are asking end users to run commands from here etc. I know some of you chaps are *nix friendly but I am also aware that a load are not. This has been passed on to Steve Darkes to address internally.
For all you looking at this thread and thinking......eeek....lastest upgrade is looking dodgy/scary read on
Q3.3.1 Upgrades
1.Q3.3.1 upgrade process includes new health-checks with aim to reduce failure during upgrade attempt (specific examples : SIM path offline, SSD path offline)
2.Customers concerned regarding Q3.3.1 upgrade process should raise a Service Request, requesting pre-upgrade checks (log file size in particular)
3.I will provide you with a list of the Bug fixes already implemented to improve log file management, to demonstrate improvement has been made
4.Log file issue specifically observed by Settle College is being root caused by the Oracle TSC engineer who restored this customer's system
As soon as I have the details on note 3 here I will pass them on as it is something that concerns us also.
Make use of note 2
S7110 Performance Constraints
Cutter will work with Oracle to provide feedback to Scott Meadows (ZFSSA engineering manager)
on issues arising from memory pressure on low-end (S7110) through use of specific features:
(ie deduplication), and through lower potential I/O headroom potentially leading to more severe relative performance degradation under high load.
Regular Service Review
1. Bi-weekly call agreed, initial run of 4 calls - to bring, discuss and respond to technical issues and concerns brought by Cutter Project customers
2. Email follow-up to be provided with customer-ready response to help explain and where necessary counter, feedback originating from individual customer issues
So to that end, if you are one of my customers and you want to have us raise anything about the above, please contact me. Oracle do genuinely seem want to get this resolved as are we. I have lots of these boxes out with customers and they underpin our VDI offering.
And if it all goes wrong.........shout at Phil :)
So, for the sake of balance I figured it wouldn't hurt to post my recent Oracle support experience:
On Monday we had a disk failure on the 7410 but it ended up being a slightly larger issue:
(pool is RAID-6 over 20 disks + 2x hotspares)
- Disk 2 failed
- Hotspare 23 kicked in
- Resilvering started
- Resilvering completed
- I replaced Disk 2 with one Oracle sent me NBD
- Resilvering started
- Disk 2 failed (the new one)
- Hotspare 3 kicked in
- Resilvering completed
- Both hotspares are still active
At this point my first-level Oracle support guy was confused, as I essentially had a 20-disk pool running over 21 disks. He passed my case to the recovery team (they need a better name that doesn't scare the :censored: out of customers). I added a note to the case this morning asking if they could ship a replacement disk (as I assumed I'd need one anyway) and could I raise the priority of the case as it had gone from just a simple disk replacement to something more serious.
The second-level Oracle guy phoned me back in 5 minutes, initiated a shared shell and fixed the problem in another 5 minutes with no downtime. It turned out to be a software rather than hardware bug (the second disk failure - the first one was actually a dead disk). The bad news is that it was a known issue, and they hadn't managed to get the fix built into the latest release. The good news is that (fingers crossed) it's fixed with no downtime. So, overall not ideal, but not too shabby either. :)
Nice to hear of a good resolution Chris :)
We're still playing ping-pong on ours :( But the complaints are stacking up internally now, if I wasn't off to the F1 this weekend I would be finishing the data migration off it, but its past the point of acceptable / workaround / blagable now so I'm going to have to finish the migration and bin the system and start again on it :(
I hear back from Oracle every couple of days about it saying we are still working on it so I am sure they am but there not the one with the queue of staff and students who have "lost" work due to it mapping but not mapping etc :(
Didn't really want to start another thread, but yet another update is now available 2010.Q3.4.0.ak-2010.08.17.4.0 Release Notes - Fishworks - wikis.sun.com
EDIT: Ooh, fix for a bug I hit though: 6999699 - Two spares disks used for the same failed disk and not detached after replacement and resilvering
Ooops, I'd completely forgotten about updating our S7000's, will add it to my job list.
Has anyone here done a BIOS update on an S7000? Apparently the Fishworks updates don't include them and they have to send an engineer to manually do it. The guy dealing with my support case has said we should do one prior to upgrading to the latest release, but so far he hasn't filled me with confidence, and I'm hoping the engineer they send has some experience doing this...
In unrelated (but awesome) news:
Hehehehe! :)
(I've done some...), it's mostly about marrying up settings in the BIOS afterwards.
If you want to, ping me the name of the engineer you're having visit and I'll see if I know of him :)
Moreover, ping me the name of the one you're dealing with if you're concerned to see if I know of him too. (we can also raise awareness of this with the SR in our escalation process)
Or drop @Hebdenlad a message to sound stuff out by him.
Thanks Andy!
Seriously though. If anyone has issues then please, please contact me either on here or via my Oracle email address (email@example.com). The only way we can fix your issues and address your concerns is if we hear back from you so please call or email me if you have issues or concerns.

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- November 5th, 2011.
Shahrukh Khan joins 100 crore club!
It took a while, but it was just a matter of time before Shahrukh Khan, arguably Bollywood's biggest superstar, joined the 100 crore club.
He's the fourth entrant; behind Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan.
Below is a list of stars with 100 crore grossers.
- 1) Salman Khan (3 films) – Salman tops the list with three films – Dabangg, Ready and Bodyguard. All three movies released over a period of one year (September 2010 – August 2011)
- 2) Aamir Khan (2 films) – 3 Idiots and Ghajini are two of the biggest blockbusters in history. 3 Idiots is the only film to cross the 200 crore mark. Aamir was also the first to go past both the 100 and 200 crore milestones.
- 3) Ajay Devgan (2 films) – Golmaal 3 was a multi-starrer, but Ajay was easily the only salable male star in the film. Released this year, Singham too crossed 100 crores.
- 4) Shahrukh Khan (1 film) – My Name Is Khan was expected to go past 100 crores, but didn't. SRK's most ambitious film, Ra One collected more than 100 crores in Week 1 (9 days).
Who will be the next to join the list? Our pick – Hrithik Roshan with Agneepath. Akshay Kumar has a pair chance too, if Desi Boyz turns out to be good and is marketed well.
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pajju: (November 5, 2011 at 1:12 am)
i think it should be hrithik roshan from agneepath
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Akram: (November 5, 2011 at 2:33 am)
Good. So, so-called King just joined 100 crores… I think, Joker is better than King :D Ace is always Ace!
but I think these days, crossing 100 crores is just like crossing non-traffic road. I hope you got my point. ;)
Now real fact is that who will beat 3 Idiots lifetime record?? I feel that, my gut feelings Ek Tha Tiger will break.
If good publicity, then nobody can't stop you crossing 100 crores in weekend. :D
Salman Khan does very good publicity of his movies ( recent ) , that's why he got his movies hit very early, what if his movies content were also good ;)
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Vinod: (November 5, 2011 at 3:40 am)
King to king hai.salman is king of the world.srk is rone of bollywood. Ab tera kya hoga kaliya(don2 copy of bollywood movie)
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suodi arab: (November 5, 2011 at 4:49 am)
hakh tho hakh tho don 2 super flop
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suodi arab: (November 5, 2011 at 4:52 am)
aamir khan is king of the bollywood 3idiots 202 crore
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Raj: (November 5, 2011 at 5:18 am)
Have u heard about film crossing net figure of triple hundred ???If not u will hear it in 2013 when Dhoom 3 releases…If there is any one who could break Aamir khan's record,then its Aamir Khan himself…..My salute to true genius of Bollywood……
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niks: (November 5, 2011 at 5:24 am)
Aamir the ace khan will break 300 crores barrier with Dhoom 3 in 2013…..if D3 is released on a holiday period and get an extended weekend of 9 days like Ra.one it can do wonders on box office….best time to release Dhoom 3 will be on Diwali or Eid to show what Aamir is capable of in terms of box office …..
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ahmed: (November 5, 2011 at 6:25 am)
Aamir is in a league of his own. nobody can touch him he is priceless. I dont know about agneepath but don 2 might cross 100 crores. but the champion of box office is salman rhe rockstar khan.
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akhjak: (November 5, 2011 at 6:30 am)
No chance 4 AnyOne 100% sure
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KING SAL MAN: (November 5, 2011 at 7:41 am)
only salman is a king of 100-200-3000-onnnn. aamir too
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Saboor khan: (November 5, 2011 at 7:53 am)
JUST SALMAN IS KING. top ten 2012 100crore club movies. No.1. For ever in history DABANGG 2 350 to 400crore. No.2. EK THA TIGER 260crore. No.3.YASH CHOPRA NEXT 180crore. No.4.DHUAN 160crore. No.5.TEZZ AND AGNEEPATH 150crore. No.6.POWER 130crore. No.7.OUATIM 2 105crore. Also KRRISH 3 AND DHOOM 3 go on floor in 2013 both are biggest movies both movies can make 220crore
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Sunny: (November 5, 2011 at 8:02 am)
Hrithik Is Going To Join This Club With Agneepath… Hrithik Rockssssssss…. :)
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true viewer: (November 5, 2011 at 8:21 am)
so it took 3 yrs, 1 year promotion and budget of 175 cr to cross 100 crore mark???/ which even ajay devgan's film crossed two times…it has triple budget of bodyguard but still couldnt win it!!!!!!!!!! if wk tha tiger comes after 2 yrs, salman's fan would make it blockbuster in weekend itself…
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Vinod: (November 5, 2011 at 11:13 am)
R.one movie se acha himesh's damadum movie hai. Himesh betar than srk.
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Aashkaran: (November 5, 2011 at 11:27 am)
3-4Years Back…their was only one actor..Mind it only one actor
whose all movies were going in 70-80 cr range while the other could'nt even touch 40-45Cr mark..
That actor was called SRK..
Tell me how can you forget him..
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Aashkaran: (November 5, 2011 at 11:28 am)
Indicine urignoring Don2 in that list..??
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srkrocks: (November 5, 2011 at 12:36 pm)
Rise up Guys. Negativity through word of mouth and media has pulled down the movie which could have shattered all the records.Its time for us to show the true power of SRK fans.I am going to watch this movie 3 times on Saturday,Sunday and Monday.What about you???????
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shams: (November 5, 2011 at 2:08 pm)
@indicine which is the only movie that crossed 100 crore mark in overseas…and which actor has the most 100+ overall collections(India+overseas)…do reply…do not forget…
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shams: (November 5, 2011 at 2:09 pm)
Collections till yesterday: 112 Cr Nett. in India.
Overseas Collections: Around 45-48 Cr(Appx. Figure)
Total: 160 Cr Nett.
*All these figures are Nett. figures. Gross figures are more than 230 Crore. 3 idiot's Gross collection was 340cr.. Bodyguard's was 220cr.. Ra.One's is more than 230 so far… Lets see what happens…
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afraz: (November 5, 2011 at 2:53 pm)
don2,agneepath 100%….disspointd znmd missd out marginally of 5 crs :(
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SrkRocks: (November 5, 2011 at 3:49 pm)
Why arguably . He is unarguably the biggest superstar of bollywood
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Bunnu: (November 5, 2011 at 3:59 pm)
SINCE 2005(PAHELI average) SEK NEVER GAVE FLOP AS A LEAD ITS 100% SUCCESS RECORD.wow THATS KING FOR YOU.
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Bunnu: (November 5, 2011 at 4:06 pm)
@SRKsGurl SO FINALLY RA ONE DECLARED HIT.
SINCE 2005(PAHELI) SRK NEVER GAVE FLOP AS A LEAD ITS 100% SUCCESS RECORD.wow THATS KING FOR YOU.
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Wirch snags budget committee slot after leadership vote
Madison -- A Democratic senator said to have changed his vote for his party's leader snagged a coveted appointment Wednesday on the Legislature's powerful budget committee.
Sen. Bob Wirch (D-Somers) and Sen. Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse) were chosen to serve on the Joint Finance Committee by incoming Senate Minority Leader Chris Larson (D-Milwaukee). Earlier this month, Larson beat his Democratic colleague Jon Erpenbach of Middleton in a race for minority leader.
After the vote, Erpenbach's backers concluded Sen. Bob Wirch (D-Pleasant Prairie) had voted for Larson after saying he would vote for Erpenbach. One of them had noticed Wirch had folded his ballot multiple times and was able to tell which ballot was cast by Wirch after the fact.
Justin Sargent, Larson's chief of staff, said that the Milwaukee Democrat hadn't considered the recent leadership vote in deciding on the committee appointments. Shilling, who had run for assistant minority leader and lost to Sen. Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay), was seen as being aligned with Erpenbach.
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I find it amusing that Justin Sargent, Larson's chief of staff, is as big a slime ball as Larson. Just admit what you did, I couldn't care less - it's politics.
sounds like playing games goes to press. ouch.
At least we know they also lie amongst themselves!
Don't ever turn your back on a politician!
As much as I hate to say - I am not at all surprised. Not the first time he pulled the wool over the eyes of others.
Do they really think that people don't know the antics of politics? To me this isn't as slimy as them thinking we are that stupid.
There is one person from each "camp", so what does this have to do with the original vote for minority leader. It would only make sense as a theory if both people were thought to have voted for Larson and not Erpenbach. Does this mean there are only 2 Democrats on the finance committee?
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|I am new to Texas gardening - west Texas to be more precise. I need to know when is the best time to move a bed of cannas. They are where I want to plant something else and I have another good spot for them, plus they are pretty thick.
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- Posted by merrybookwyrm 7a / 8b dfw (My Page) on Tue, Jan 11, 11 at 12:14
|The lady I got my cannas from thinned and dug hers in the fall, maybe September? October? That way the cannas had fall and winter to settle into the beds at my house.
Maybe if you cut a large rootball for the cannas with a shovel right now, then left them in the orginal place for a few weeks so they could grow some new roots inside the cut area, then transplanted the cannas to their new bed?
I'm no expert though. Hope someone more knowledgeable answers.
|Ladysmith, welcome to the Texas forum!
It's hard to hurt cannas. They can ge dug up now and separated before planting in another spot. You can just break the the corms apart with no harm done.
I've moved the corms at all times of the year without a problem. If moved in high summer the foliage springs right back. If moved in winter they will lie dormant until warm weather. The stores sell canna corms either laying loose in big boxes or in plastic bags.
Another tip: when a stalk is done blooming just cut it back to the bottom and the corm will put up another blooming stalk. I love cannas!
- Posted by ladysmith94 TX (My Page) on Wed, Jan 12, 11 at 21:27
|Thank you both for your responses. I love cannas too, but have not grown them before in Texas. They were already here when we moved to this house last summer. I was busy this fall with some other things - planting new flower beds, and the cannas got neglected. I want to plant lilies where the cannas are now and have other places crying for sturdy, hardy plants like the cannas are. Just as soon as the weather warms back up enough for me to be out there working, I will get the new bed ready and move them!
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SIDS Pediatric Code - page 2
So I'm a new nurse, I just passed my 6 month mark. I took a job at a smaller, but very busy ER right out of nursing school. We have a great time there, I love my coworkers. There's just something special that you can't relate... Read More
- 0Sep 12, '12 by chaka_1709*Hugs* Your story brought tears to my eyes.
I'm a nursing student and I'm not sure if it was in class or on a thread here that was discussing whether family members should be in the room during a code. I think it is much more important to include the parents of a child than the children of a parent during the code because children are much more unexpected (in most cases). I'm sure the mom appreciated seeing that y'all did everything you could in order to save her baby's life.
- 0Sep 12, '12 by merleeI know that a code in PEDS is always different, and it is hard to describe why. You wrote this very well.
I know it is frequently a good thing for a family member to be in the room, regardless of who the patient is, during a code. Families want to know that 'everything' was done if that was their goal.
Keep us informed about your career path.
Best wishes!
- 2Sep 12, '12 by CrazedI lost a child to SIDS in 2004. It was a grueling and horrible experience but one I have learned from. That mother has some dark days/week/months/years ahead of her but hopefully she has a strong support system. Reading the latest genetic research on SIDS there really isn't anything we can do. There is no such thing as "near miss SIDS" and once a child starts down the SIDS path there is no turning back. The latest link from Hopkins has to do with defective genes and serotonin which honestly makes a lot of sense. My child was a winter baby in a cold climate but was always sweating.
By the time we awoke to find my child it was far too late.In a way I am glad I didn't have to wrestle with the trauma of a code as well. As the mother to a SIDS baby, thank you for feeling the importance of the child. More often than not, because our children die so young no one feels their loss in the same way the immediate family does, much in the way no one knows what the mother of a stillborn or miscarried mother goes through. In the end it is the same, the death of promise.
- 1Sep 12, '12 by Glycerine82, CNAGod bless you. I have no idea if I could do what you did or if I'd ever be the same afterwards. People like you are angels and I thank you for sharing your story. Now if I could only dry my eyes.
"No day but today"
- 0Sep 13, '12 by Bobmo88I may not be a nurse yet but I have had my fair share of pediatric codes working as an ER Tech. When I read this I was reminded of a particular code where the patient had been seen in our ER the day before and discharged but returned due to no improvement in symptoms. The patient had labs drawn and within normal limits as far as I could remember but the patient was still not getting better. We finally did a CT scan and I believe they had found some sort of cellulitis in the neck and we decided to transfer the patient. The Dr. initially wanted to transfer the patient to a general peds floor at a hospital that had a PICU just in case the patient got worse but then the nurse recommended a PICU after reassessing the patient.During this time the patient got progressively worse and then eventually started coding. We coded this patient for at least 30 minutes and did everything that we could but to no avail. A few of the nurses were in tears, especially those that had young children. As deeply saddened as I was by what had just occurred, I felt like I needed to stay strong for not only the family but my fellow coworkers. There was an autopsy done to determine the cause of death and I believe the patient had MRSA and became septic. It must have been a fairly rapid onset since the blood cultures that had been drawn initially were negative (though this particular patient had spent a very long time in our ER, they had gone through 3 different doctors) I have been through many codes but pediatric codes are most definitely different.
I was involved in another code in which the mother spoke Spanish and I was the one who had to tell her that there was nothing more we could do for her child so we were going to stop resuscitating. I think the hardest thing about pediatric codes is when the families ask you why? Why did God take my child away? My inability to give them an adequate answer was probably one of the most humbling experiences I had ever had.
Thank you for sharing your story. I will reiterate what one of the experienced nurses I work with told a younger nurse who was distraught from the first code described but had held her composure drawing up medications even though she initially did not want to. "We may not have been able to save this one but you will save thousands of kids with the skills you learned today"
- 0Sep 13, '12 by ncatincredible experience--may u always remember the power and skill u had and the power and skill god has. when i was getting my master's and had to take a course in death and dying, the instructor-a ph d herself--shared that there really is no known black and white reason for a sids baby. it was felt that the infants-who are truly just arriving from heaven-see their future before them and choose to go back to the other side.... bless u!
- 0Sep 13, '12 by ♪♫ in my ♥I had my first (and only) SIDS code about a year ago. It still stays with me... we were working this kid though it was clearly a show-code for all of us... poor kid had moved on long before we got him.
Mom and dad were there and dad just flipped out - punching the wall, throwing things, howling. I'm a dad and I've faced some scary moments with my kid and I could sooo identify with the guy's raw grief and rage.
This family had tried so hard and so long to have this kid. It was just... wrong.
I've coded lots of folks (and picked up my share of cadavers in a prior life) and pronounced a few DNRs but, for the most part, they were 'right.' This (and a couple of similar experienes - a young father killed in an MVA coming home from work, specifically) have just been 'wrong.'
For the most part, I like the drama and trauma... with the kiddos, though, I have to go home and just hold my own kid for awhile - until I get the, "Daaaad...." and 'my' life comes back into full focus.
- 0Sep 13, '12 by NurseDirtyBirdThank you so much for doing a job many (including me!) cannot do. A natural death at the end of life is one thing, but unexpected and traumatic at the the beginning of life, for all caring for the patient.
We hear "it takes a special kind of person to do what you do," all the time, but for Peds, it really really does.


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SEAN MCNEANEY completes his review of the ghosts to be encountered on Lincolnshire's haunted roads, with particular reference to the infamous A15.
Sightings of the ubiquitous phantom coach and horses have become increasingly rarer since the advent of the motor car, but they are still occasionally reported. For example, a lady driving along the A169 between Louth and Grimsby, related her experience of this phenomenon to Jared Williams in the 'Lincolnshire Life' of April 1985.
She said: 'I was driving down to Grimsby just as day was breaking. As I approached the village of Waithe I was surprised to see a horse-drawn cab ahead of me and going in the same direction. As it had no lights I thought I'd better over take and tell the driver. I did so. But when I looked in the driving mirror the road was empty. And there was no turning this cab could have taken.'
At 'Double Tunnels' between Fulstow and North Thorsby it was said that 'something used to roll across the road and frighten horses'. Nobody liked to drive there at night and many accidents occurred where the thing was seen.
An extraordinary amount of paranormal activity is associated with the A15 north of Sleaford, near the Ruskington turn-off, in Lincolnshire. In 1998 the A15 shot to national prominence when it was featured on ITV's daytime show This Morning. Dozens of viewers phoned into the programme to report sightings of a ghostly figure in black which ran out into the road before vanishing.
One witness had an unnerving encounter when driving home at 3am from Lincoln to Sleaford. He described seeing something that looked like a white bin liner float across the road, attach itself to his windscreen and morph into the shape of a man. He later described the apparition as 'having dark hair, greenish pitted skin, and a sort of Mediterranean look'. The only other parts of the ghost visible to him were it neck and an arm that was held up in a 'stop signal'.
Another witness was convinced she had run over a man dressed all in black but when she got out to check there was no trace of anyone. A number of theories have been offered to explain the phantom. Some believe it to be the ghost of a highwayman because of its tendency to appear in an area known as Hangman's Haunt, once a notorious place for footpads and highway robbers. Another theory is that because the remains of the medieval village of Dunsby – wiped out by the plague – is nearby, the ghost may be that of a villager trying to warn people of the disease and warning them to turn back.


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- Seven out of ten drivers who try Progressive's Snapshot® UBI program have qualified for a discount, which can be as high as 30 percent for the lowest-risk drivers. Progressive now expands access to Snapshot to drivers who aren't Progressive customers.
MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio – Progressive today released new findings from an analysis of five billion real-time driving miles, confirming that driving behavior has more than twice the predictive power of any other insurance rating factor. Loss costs for drivers with the highest-risk driving behavior are approximately two and a half times the costs for drivers with the lowest-risk behavior. These results suggest auto insurance rates can be far more personalized than they are today.
Progressive has also found that 70 percent of drivers who have signed up for its Snapshot UBI program pay less for their insurance. Now, it's expanding access to Snapshot to all drivers—not just Progressive customers— who can take a free test drive of Snapshot, and after 30 days find out whether their own driving behavior can lower the price they pay for auto insurance. 1"The consumer was right all along," said Glenn Renwick, Progressive's President and CEO. "For most, the rates they're paying are higher than the risk they actually present—and in many cases, much higher. Until now, insurers had no effective way to capture actual driving behavior and factor that into the rates they could offer. But we have made a meaningful start toward personalized insurance pricing that's based on measuring real-time driving behavior—the statistics of one."
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The Princeton Review includes New Paltz in its most recent Guide to Green Colleges
Princeton Review's Guide to 311 Green Colleges (2011 edition) features the State University of New York at New Paltz as one of the nation's significant colleges committed to sustainability and green issues. Inspiration for this guide originated with prospective college students across the country who expressed interest in attending colleges where green issues are taken seriously.
Environmental sustainability and responsibility are a priority at New Paltz. All new construction on campus of 5,000 square feet or larger will be, at a minimum, certified LEED Silver. The new Student Union Building is the most environmentally friendly building on campus incorporating recycled glass in the concrete flooring and a glaze on the exterior glass to reduce heat absorption.
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Pump it, ladies -- it's good for body and brain! / by sylvia kronstadt
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Muscle Your Way Into Lifelong Brain Health
Let's all drag out our inner Schwarzeneggers and say to ourselves, affectionately but sternly: "I am going to pump you up!"
There's a "pressing" need for resistance training.
Believe me, working out with weights doesn't have to be a chore. Once you get into it, you can almost feel your body chemistry changing. Your awareness seems to blossom. Everything just feels right, as if you had been totally realigned. Don't picture a grunting, grimacing, screaming-with-pain situation, if that's not your style (usually it is my style). If you choose, it can be relaxing, almost like a meditation. You emerge from your workout in a shimmer. Suddenly, everything seems more manageable. You feel kind of sexy, too.
Staring down your enemy (flabby brain) is kind of sexy.
In my experience, weight training is a very effective outlet for anxiety and anger, and an antidote to feeling generally tired, overwhelmed or unwell. I consciously use negative feelings as fuel: I push, pull, yank and scream out my rage or pain. Very cleansing.
Weight training helps protect you from osteoporosis, preserves your muscle mass, (which will otherwise decline steadily as you get older), aids in maintaining your desired weight, and gives you an overall sense of confidence and well-being.
More than 30 years ago, my mother gave me a set of three-pound dumbbells. She says she didn't even know what they were, but thought they looked interesting. I had recently begun jogging, but I was having trouble sustaining my motivation. I desperately needed something to help with my mood.
Poor Mamacita never dreamed she was unleashing a weight-lifting maniac. Before long, I was dancing around the house day and night (wearing the radio headset she had also given me), flinging those dumbbells around.
The weights made me aware of each muscle. They felt so good!
I was doing it to lash back at my unhappiness, for catharsis, for diversion and because it felt good. The music made me do it!
I did it until it hurt, and then I kept on doing it. Pretty soon, the pain became pleasure. It was the first time in years that that anything besides alcohol had energized me.
The next thing I knew, I had killer arms, a flat stomach and a strong back. It seemed to happen so suddenly -- like magic. A man I used to date said, "You look like Robocop's girlfriend."
Guys half my age at Blockbuster Music were staring at my arms, saying "Whoa!" and flexing their own biceps so we could compare sizes. ("Ha, ha, you little twerp!")
This was way before I embarked on anything so formalized as "weight training" (and it was when guys half my age were teenagers...the good old days. Now, guys half my age have a wife and five kids). (But they're still twerps in the bicep department.)
We've known for years that cardiovascular exercise -- such as jogging, brisk walking and biking -- is arguably the best thing you can do to maintain good brain function.
The weight-lifting study released late last month, which corroborates the findings of research completed in 2010, suggests that resistance training might have benefits that are just as important.
Frankly, I didn't believe it until I saw the actual MRI photos, which clearly show increased activity in three areas of the cerebral cortex that involve cognitive behavior and what is known as executive function.
Have you ever had a sparkling brain?
"Executive function involves complex thinking," explains study coordinator Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, who is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. "It's your ability to make decisions, multi-task and to plan."
( An earlier study led by Liu-Ambrose showed a once-weekly, hour-long program of resistance training resulted in fewer doctors visits, less medication and a lower overall health care costs for women aged 65 to 75. There's no reason to think that it would do any less for younger women -- and men.)
When I'm jogging, I have a perception that my brain is being both enlivened and challenged. I haven't felt that sort of brain involvement with weights -- what I feel is an intense and quite thrilling sensation that my muscles are doing what they were Born to Do. But the study showing cognitive enhancement is impossible to ignore.
I prefer the cute, little weights -- the pastel, girly-man variety!
So now I have one more reason to keep doing my weight workouts. As always, I am using visualization: I imagine, as I experience the "resistance" in resistance training, that my brain is being flooded with protective chemicals. Close your eyes and see the sparkle.
In the early 1980s, when I got involved, weight training wasn't a part of the culture the way it is now. I had no guidance, and it never occurred to me that I needed any. The first time I picked up the weights my mother gave me, they felt good. It just felt right -- I was surprised -- to raise and lower them, to swing them from side to side, to push and pull them at various angles. I had a chart of the body's muscles, and it helped me to visualize which ones I was developing.
I highly recommend having access to something like this, or even putting it on the wall. Our musculature is beautiful. When you see what you look like under your skin, it illuminates your exercise experience.
For a few years, even as I was getting fully entrenched into a jogging routine, I also danced around with those three-pound dumbbells to some good '80s alternative music (Oingo Boingo, David Bowie, INXS, Thomas Dolby, Duran Duran, The Clash, etc.). I rocked the Casbah, and I rocked it good. It did wonders for my physique.
Then, in about 1985, I saw an ad for one of those weight machines that are so common now. The "home gym" was a new concept. I was blown away by the idea that I could have my very own workout room.
The Weider weight "system" was the best $258 I have ever spent. It is not a flimsy piece of junk -- it is heavy, solid cast iron, firmly bolted into place. It came with an exercise guide that included photos and instructions (now that we have this newfangled "Internet" thing, you can find much more detailed training instructions and videos online).
The knowledge that I had a "200-pound weight stack" at my disposal gave me a mind-boggling new sense of my potential. Maybe I would become Miss Bodybuilding Universe! In the past, I had harbored fantasies that were more outrageous (like having YOU reading my blog), and some of them had come true.
Yank out all your anxiety and build up your beauty!
In my big old house, I had a large, well-lit dining room that I didn't use. My boyfriend assembled the weight machine in the center of that room. I put up a mirror, laid out my free weights on a long, low table (by then, I'd gotten five- and ten-pound dumbells as well) and also brought in a radio/cassette player. I later bought some resistance tubing with comfortable handles, which provided an enjoyable, meditative way to wind down. (Perhaps the tubing is a less-intimidating way to launch a resistance-training regimen, and it does give you quick, gratifying results.) Unlike the woman pictured below, I stand up, so I can pull back farther.
The tubing works your arms, chest and back. Turn on some music!
I fell in love with my machine. Just owning it was a very cool feeling. I was sure that even if for some reason I could never use it again, I'd keep it as a piece of sculpture. Its mere presence made me feel like a BadAss Woman!
I was ecstatic that I could work out whenever I wanted. If I had ten minutes while the rotini cooked, or until I had to leave for my mammogram, I'd jump onto that baby and do a few sets of bench presses. The girl below looks pretty serene, but I prefer to add some weight and scream my brains out:
With the bench press, you can forcefully KILL negative feelings.
I could do it in privacy (no fear of looking stupid, sweaty or ugly). No need to wear the "proper clothes," or any clothes at all. No need to drive anywhere. I was in charge of the temperature and the music. I removed a stunning antique chandelier and installed a ceiling fan. I had wooden shutters that allowed me to look out at the lovely sky without anyone being able to see inside. My kitchen and bathroom were right there. Perfecto!
It gave me a feeling of liberation that was probably way out of proportion to its real import, but I feel the same way all these years later.
I was never this hot, but I did pretty well.
A concept soon evolved in me that my body is a "project." It is mine, and I can do whatever I want with it. It is a work in progress, which is a reflection of the beautiful foods I choose to eat, the nutritional supplements I take, plus my jogging, weight training and stretching. I was, and still am, captivated by this feeling of autonomy.
Take ownership of your body, and make it into your own work of art! It is your right to choose what "style" of art it will be, of course. But when we become more conscious of our power to mold ourselves, it's easier to take control of our choices.
The shoulder press builds formidable deltoids.
Working with weights, or "resistance training," is gaining in prominence as a key to physical and brain health.
It probably appears either very intimidating or horribly boring to those who have never tried it. My advice, as with jogging, is to start slowly and have low expectations. I think you will soon begin to feel a flood of endorphins in your bloodstream, and you'll sense the golden glow in your muscles, and you'll develop a clear concept of how they all work in concert. We are such ravishing machines!
The leg press is a magical booty booster!
It helps to have a good role model when you launch into such a challenging project. I bought an excellent book by professional bodybuilder Anja Langer, "Body Flex-Body Magic," which is filled with clear instructions and gorgeous pictures of her. It is still in print, and I highly recommend it.
In this large, thick book, Anja gives thoughtful, detailed tips for every level of fitness and includes directions for using either free weights or a weight machine. The photos of this lovely girl -- ranging from her extremely bulked-up competitive days to her exquisitely toned post-professional life -- are really inspiring.
She was very ripped during her competitive era.
Just don't get carried away!!!
Carried away.
Before I started jogging and pumping, there were the eating disorders and alcoholism, which were a colorful phase.
Now, I'm addicted to vitamins. I take more than Oz and Weil combined.


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(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
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Man convicted of killing woman in 2000 accident facing third DWI
A Sauquoit man, convicted of running over a woman and killing her 13 years ago is now facing his third DWI charge. Scott Zimmer was arrested on March 17 when New Hartford Police stopped him on Route 8 for failing to stay in his lane. According to police, his blood alcohol content was .20 at the time. His case has been turned over to the Oneida County District Attorney's Office. In 2000, Zimmer was convicted of leaving the scene of a fatal accident and it was never determined if he was drunk at the time he struck Joan Foley, because he fled the state. Zimmer was sentenced to four months of weekends in jail, but was later sentenced to prison time for violating his probation. In 2003 and 2004, Zimmer was charged with DWI. The 2003 charges were dismissed as part of his plea in 2004 and he was sentenced one to three years in prison. Archives indicate Zimmer was also arrested in 2007, found sleeping in his car. He refused a breath test and nothing ever came of this. According to the District Attorney's Office, Zimmer's most recent case should be presented to a grand jury in the next month.


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Billy Liar
1963, UK, Directed by John Schlesinger
Black & White, Running Time: 98 minutes
Review Source: DVD, R1, Criterion; Video: Anamorphic 2.35:1, Audio: DD Mono
The original novel of Billy Liar, written by Keith Waterhouse, earned notable critical commendation on its release in 1959 prior to its adaptation as a stage play (co-written between the book's author and Willis Hall). During its initial West End run it was Albert Finney who played the lead role Billy Fisher, bringing a wider audience to the production as Saturday Night And Sunday Morning became a big hit, but his departure opened up a slot in the play for Tom Courtenay, an actor who would attract some acclaim for his part in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner before securing himself the part of Billy again for the movie adaptation of Billy Liar. The film's narrative wasn't too far removed from its literary counterpart: Fisher works in an administrative capacity at a funeral parlour dreaming of greater things, particularly becoming an author of either comedy scripts or novels, whilst allowing his love life to become an increasingly tangled mess. He also has a tendency to fabricate the truth to others as his imagination runs largely unrestrained in addition to the apparent ongoing requirement for such manipulation to cover up his proclivity towards laziness and almost accidental dishonesty, for example his failure to post a batch of calendars on behalf of his employers leading to the absorption of the postal money into his own pocket. The story effectively snapshots one day in his life as he awakens one morning before work (his parents having great difficulty actually getting him up and on his way), endures the short working day before handing in his notice to take up the script-writing job that hasn't quite made it to reality, tries to sort out the periodic incidents with his multiple girlfriends, goes to a dancehall in the evening where a number of problems inconveniently collide, and makes a decision to head off to London with his favoured woman, Liz, at the end of the day after his gran dies.
There are a fantastic array of characters that either get in Billy's way throughout, or become antagonised by his inconsistent ability to be honest: his mother and father for starters, the latter almost constantly shouting at the lad or doubting his ability to do anything, something which might have instigated Billy's all thought and no action approach to life. At work we then meet his best mate, Arthur Crabtree (Rodney Bewes), who Billy ends up arguing with after telling a lie to Arthur's mom, and beyond that there is Barbara, Rita, and Liz (Julie Christie), Billy's three antithetical girlfriends. Barbara is an uptight virgin who won't let Billy even touch her until they're married, Rita is the promiscuous tart who's relentlessly squawking and nagging him, primarily about the engagement ring that she doesn't know is actually on Barbara's finger, and finally Liz is the girl who likes to drift between towns, refusing to pin herself down to a place she cannot identify with. In most respects Liz is the girl most suited to Billy's unpredictable strategy for dealing with life's more mundane details, someone who similarly uses her imagination to free herself from the constraints of a humdrum existence. One crucial difference manifests itself as the separating factor between Billy and Liz however, and that's the fact that Liz acts on her impulses while Billy doesn't, and it's that issue that will ultimately determine the outcome of their relationship - at least on the day focused on by the story. Billy's daydreams are given life by cinema: reality is punctuated by episodes of mental wanderings as Billy imagines himself in a plethora of situations adopting roles preferable to that which he has to endure on a daily basis, from a surviving war veteran, to a reformed prisoner-cum-successful author, with the inhabitants of his 'real' life often making an appearance somewhere (spot Liz alongside him in one of his early fantasies before we've even met her, suggesting that she has a relevant part to play in his ideologies). These episodes don't tend to be my favourite pieces in the film, however. What rises the film to a higher plane is the ongoing complexity of Billy's relationships, these giving rise to beautiful moments of drama. The characters throughout appear to have their own agenda, merely getting caught up in Billy's confused world where fact and fiction aren't mutually exclusive concepts, and most of these characters are granted life by the astounding talents of a well selected cast. While this film would most likely be categorised as a 'drama' it's not without its frequent moments of amusement as Billy progresses from one awkward situation to the next and even when his gran dies the film refuses to get bogged down too much in melancholy. Hence Billy Liar remains an uplifting experience every time, featuring people whose actions can be scrutinised, dialogue that is fascinating despite familiarity granted over repeat viewings, and a gorgeous Northern 'kitchen-sink' appeal throughout. Stripped of glamour, but not beauty, Billy Liar is one of the greatest triumphs of sixties British cinema, and almost certainly one of the greatest irrespective of era or geographical origin.
Stamping on the old pan & scan video cassettes and TV broadcasts that we had to put up with in the distant past, Criterion's DVD presented the film accurately representing its CinemaScope ratio (the 4:3 transfers were simply awful). It's a decent looking image that could be improved slightly I suspect, but is satisfying nonetheless. An informative commentary from the director, Courtenay and Christie accompanies a 15 minute TV featurette that focused on Billy Liar and another of Schlesinger's earlier films, A Kind of Loving. Hardly in-depth but the package is rounded out by excellent liner notes by Bruce Goldstein, the founder of the company (Rialto) that rescued Billy Liar to provide a theatrical re-release 35 years after it was made. The British DVD lost the majority of the bonuses but obviously came in a lot cheaper. This disc/film remains one of the most valued entities of my movie shelves.


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Rating: 2 stars
Where: 1450 Kraemer Blvd., Placentia
Hours: 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; 5-9 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
Don't miss: Crab cakes, Roman Holiday casserole, lobster pot pie, layer cakes, pies.
Best place to sit: Any of the green chairs.
About the noise: It's quiet when not crowded, but I suspect it could get loud if the dining room fills up.
Cost: Lunch: appetizers, $4-$9; entrees, $6-$12; desserts, $7-$9.Dinner:appetizers, $4-$15; entrees, $19-$38; desserts, $7-$9. Breakfast/brunch items, $3-$15. Corkage, $8.
Phone: 714-961-1377
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If I've ever raved about a crab cake at another restaurant, I take it back.
Go to Sue Ann's. Order the crab cakes. This is how they are done, pure and simple. No fillers. Just crab. Lots of it. Amazingly sweet, mildly briny, fresh crab chunks held together with sheer will.
The white corn relish served alongside is delicious, if slightly vinegary, but never mind that. It's hard to make my fork bend toward the corn when the crab is this good. I honestly don't think I'll be able to eat a crab cake anywhere else for a while, at least until the memory of these fade.
Chef Gillian Clark isn't well known in Orange County, but I suspect it won't take her long to become as big of a deal here as she has been in Washington, D.C., where she owned several restaurants over the past decade. She recently relocated here, and in May she quietly opened Sue Ann's American Kitchen.
Sue Ann's is a quirky little cafe. Clark clearly has a sense of humor. At her restaurants on the East Coast, she was always a champion of classic American cooking, and she continues that fascination around a clever menu of mid-century American "dinner party food": Scotch eggs, curried Waldorf salad, chicken casserole, lobster pot pie, the sort of aspirational dishes that the glossy magazines of the "Mad Men" and "Brady Bunch" eras deemed important, the curious worldly foods that Julia Child and Graham Kerr introduced through TV in black-and-white.
Just inside the entrance, three vintage TVs broadcast those old recordings of Child and Kerr in a continuous loop. Tables are set with ceramic pop-art salt and pepper shakers. Lava lamps and swags cast a vintage glow upon the dining room.
From the stereo speakers, I hear Richard Harris singing "MacArthur Park," followed by the Carpenters, Jefferson Starship and B.J. Thomas. There's a fern in the front window suspended in macramé. And if you need to borrow the phone, you'll have to remember how to use a rotary dial.
But while the ambience is pure kitsch, the kitchen doesn't fool around. Everything is made from scratch. Check out the restaurant's Facebook page, and you'll see freshly baked brioche being pulled from the oven at 5 a.m.
The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as weekend brunch, but my several visits focused on lunch and dinner. The menu for each is different, and both are fairly extensive.
At lunch, Clark focuses on casseroles, pot pies and sandwiches. My favorite casserole is one called Roman Holiday, which is essentially mac 'n' cheese with ground beef and tomato sauce. This sort of dish fell out of favor with gourmet cooks around the time Hamburger Helper was invented and ruined the concept for everyone. Clark reminds us why casseroles became popular in the first place.
Another one involves chicken and tortillas, with bright, fresh, sweet-tart tomatillo salsa. Although I find it too drippy and not as creamy or melded together as my ideal, I must admit the flavors are wonderful. Casseroles like these, taken out of context and served at another restaurant, probably wouldn't make as much sense. But set in Clark's anthropological study of American homemaker cuisine, they're undeniably fun. There's even a rice casserole that involves Velveeta and Spam. I haven't tried it yet, although I hope to eventually.
For now, I'd rather order the lobster pot pie, which is exactly as it should be. The hand-pinched crust is golden and flaky, hiding a rich, creamy filling that's studded with small chunks of lobster and cubes of carrots and peas.
As with most one-dish meals, the pot pies and casseroles scream for little salad on the side, or something to break up the monotony of eating the same bite over and over. Thus, the day's soup or a side salad can be added for a pittance. The tortilla soup is very comforting.
The best of the sandwiches is probably the burger, with its fat, medium-rare patty of high-quality beef and a side of onion rings that prompt everyone at my table to keep reaching their hands for my plate.
A steak sandwich with "toasted mozzarella" is just OK, as is the LGBT sandwich, a twist on the BLT with the addition of too sharp goat cheese. Oddly, the best sandwiches are reserved for dinnertime, in which a Reuben and Monte Cristo turn up on a beautiful sandwich board. Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of sandwiches for dinner.
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We are a Club that knows how to have fun in helping our community, our state and the entire world. We cover all of South Lake County. The Club meets every Thursday at the Wesley Center, First United Methodist Church, downtown, corner of 8th St. and Hwy 50. Every 4th Thursday, we meet at IHOP, 25689 U.S. Hwy S. in Clermont. The Club makes a special effort to invite guests. Each first meeting of the month, we discuss the general business of the Club. The remaining meetings, we invite guest speakers from the community.
Clermont-Minneola Lions Club was founded April 12, 1949 with 31 members and has had a significant impact on the community ever since. The Club's major activities include a golf tournament held in the late Spring; spaghetti lunch and dinner at Jenkins Auditorium in December right after Light Up Clermont at the downtown Christmas parade; four or five shot gun shoots in the fall held off Hwy 50 west of Clermont; vision screening and support for corrective lens; diabetes blood screening at various public events and places in town; collection of used glasses that are sorted, classified and shipped all over the world. The Club has supported the South Lake Historical Society with funds and highly skilled craftsmen (special recognition for Larry Rescoe and the late Bill Jackson). The Club also provides funds for the scholarship fund in the Community Foundation of South Lake County; finacial support for Lake-Sumter Habitat for Humanity.
Longest local continuing serving members: Jay VanderMeer, Jerry Brown, Nick Jones. Lion, Robert E. Lee is a past District 35-0 Governer. This past year we have lost three great Lions, Ken Sanders, Dick Harris and John Minor. Over the years, the Club has contributed countless hours of work on such things as Braille Blocks, shipping medical equipment no longer being used in local hospitals to distressed communities in South America, raising funds for seeing eye dogs and the Conklin Center that specializes in caring for the most difficult vision impaired patients.
The needs in our community are growing very fast. Be a volunteer with a bunch of roaring Lions that know how to get things done and know how to have a great time doing it.
Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.3 million members in approximately 45,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world.