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The year is 2085, two decades after the great economic collapse that destroyed Western civilization. With its power broken and its cities ruined, life in the West continues in scattered communities. In rural Dorset Jake Reed lives with his 14-year-old son and memories of the great collapse. Back in '43, Jake was a rich, young futures broker, immersed in the datascape of the world's financial markets. He saw what was coming - and who was behind it. Forewarned, he was one of the few to escape the fall. For 22 years he has lived in fear of the future, and finally it is coming - quite literally - across the plain towards him. Chinese airships are in the skies and a strange, glacial structure has begun to dominate the horizon. Jake finds himself forcibly incorporated into the ever-expanding 'World of Levels' a global city of some 34 billion souls, where social status is reflected by how far above the ground you live. Here, under the rule of the mighty Tsao Ch'un, a resurgent China is seeking to abolish the past and bring about world peace through rigidly enforced order. But a civil war looms, and Jake will find himself at the heart of the struggle for the future.
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The Poet Bandit
November 3, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
November 3, 1883, marked the beginning of the end for Charles Earl Bowles, aka C. E. Bolton, aka Black Bart the Poet, aka the very picture of delinquent suavity. Bowles was a legendary nineteenth-century stagecoach robber known for the poetry he left at the scenes of his heists. Over the course of nearly a decade, he pulled off some two-dozen robberies hither and yon, concentrating on Wells Fargo stages throughout Oregon and Northern California. He made off with thousands of dollars a year plus the many intangibles that come with being a criminal mastermind, and he never once fired his gun or rode a horse.
Many fragments of his poetry survive, but apparently only two verses can claim Bowles as their author with full certainty. (Understandably, the guy had a lot of copycats.) Both of these merit close exegesis. The first was found at the scene of an August 1877 stagecoach holdup:
I've labored long and hard for bread,
For honor, and for riches,
But on my corns too long you've tread,
You fine-haired sons of bitches.
And the second verse, found at the site of Bowles's July 25, 1878, holdup:
Here I lay me down to sleep
To wait the coming morrow,
Perhaps success, perhaps defeat,
And everlasting sorrow.
Let come what will, I'll try it on,
My condition can't be worse;
And if there's money in that box
'Tis munny in my purse.
Bowles had a pretty good reputation, as far as highwaymen go. People referred to him as a gentleman bandit, a man of sophistication. A police report described him: "A person of great endurance. Exhibited genuine wit under most trying circumstances, and was extremely proper and polite in behavior. Eschews profanity." Read More »
Very Trustworthy Witnesses
October 17, 2014 | by Forrest Gander
The many deaths of Ambrose Bierce.
Ambrose Bierce's old house in St. Helena, California, surrounded by the vineyards of Napa Valley, is in good repair. Eight stout sequoia trunks flare outward from a fused base in the front yard. An hour and a half drive to the south, in San Francisco, is a short knife-thrust of an alley in North Beach named Ambrose Bierce. It runs behind the old San Francisco Examiner building, where Bierce worked as a columnist for the young William Randolph Hearst.
This year marks the centennial of the presumed death of Bierce, Civil War soldier, journalist, and author of The Devil's Dictionary, a wickedly witty book of social commentary disguised as definitions. He's still best known for his fiction: his fastidiously plotted horror tales and the dark, vivid stories—including the often anthologized "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"—that drew from his early war experiences at Chickamauga, Shiloh, and Kennesaw Mountain, where he was wounded. In 1913, at the age of seventy-one, the famous writer saddled up a horse and rode into Mexico, not speaking any Spanish, in order to cover the Mexican Revolutionary War, perhaps to participate in it, perhaps to interview Pancho Villa. As newspaper accounts of his time reported, he disappeared without a trace.
More accurately, there were too many traces to follow and World War I soon broke out, so a thorough search for Bierce was postponed. In his disappearing act—and some thought it was an act meant to cloak his suicide or his removal to a sanitorium—Bierce becomes a bit like one of the ghostly characters in Mexico's most celebrated novel, Pedro Paramo, which is narrated by a man who doesn't realize he's dead. Or like the protagonist in Bierce's own story "An Inhabitant of Carcosa," who stumbles across his own tombstone. According to witnesses, Bierce died over and over again, all over Mexico. There is even a cenotaph for him in the sleepy mining town of Sierra Mojada, in the Chihuahua Desert. Curiously, although his body doesn't lie under it, it is the most distinguished marker for any of Bierce's immediate family. Back in St. Helena, his two sons and his wife are buried in unmarked graves. Read More »
Regarding Mystery: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez
September 9, 2014 | by David Michael
In San Francisco earlier this spring, I'd hoped to meet the essayist Richard Rodriguez, the author of The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, Brown: The Last Discovery of America, and, most recently, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, which has just been published in paperback. Though he's largely associated with his early stances against affirmative action and bilingual education, not to mention his regular appearances on the PBS NewsHour, Rodriguez, who turned seventy in July, has had a wide-ranging career, and I wanted to discuss the shift of his work from cultural identity to religion. But our schedules were tricky to coordinate, and then I lost my wallet. "Pray to St. Anthony!" Rodriguez immediately wrote. (The wallet was recovered by one of the famous bellmen at Sir Francis Drake Hotel. "St. Anthony dressed as a beefeater," as Rodriguez put it.) Instead, we corresponded for several weeks.
I was excited and surprised by Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography. I had seen you referred to as a Mexican-American writer, a Californian writer, and a gay writer, but never, until recently, as a religious writer. Have you always considered yourself a religious writer?
Of course, I haven't, until lately, considered myself a "writer"—in the grand sense. For most of my writing life, I have stood truly, if uneasily, on American bookstore shelves as a sociological sample—shelved "Latino" between a gangbanger's book of poetry and the biography of a Colombian drug lord. Only in recent years, as it has become clear to me that so few people I know read books, have I been struck by the fact that I am a writer.
My sense of being religious is older. From boyhood, particularly my lower-middle-class childhood in Sacramento, I was transported by religion into the realm of mystery. Consider this: The Irish nun excused me from arithmetic class so that I could serve as an altar boy at a funeral mass. Along with the priest and the other altar boy, I would welcome Death at the doors of the church. We escorted Death up the main aisle. I later went with the cortege to the cemetery. There was a fresh pile of soil piled high at the edge of the grave site, discreetly, if unsuccessfully, covered by an AstroTurf rug that was as unconvincing a denial of the hardness of time as a cheap toupee. I wondered at the mourners' faces—the melting grief, the hard stoicism. Thirty minutes from the grave, I was back within the soft green walls of Sacred Heart Parish School. It was almost lunchtime. I resumed my impersonation of an American kid. Read More »
August 6, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
Jess Collins, better known as just Jess, was a painter and collagist born today in 1923. Jess spent most of his life in the Bay Area, where he lived with his longtime partner, the poet Robert Duncan. (The latter died in 1988; the former in 2004.) In our Fall 2012 issue, The Paris Review featured some of Jess's work in collage, or "paste-ups"; as our own Nicole Rudick explains,
Jess and Duncan shared a lifelong interest in salvaging esoteric bits of culture past—in Jess's case, Goodwill cast-offs, Dick Tracy and Krazy Kat comics, advertisements for Tabu, and Life magazine, but also tarot cards, Renaissance chapbooks, Greek mythology, Victorian engravings, and Arthurian legend. As he worked, he would choose from among thousands of carefully cut-out images, painstakingly organized by subject. His recollection of an abandoned prospector's shack, which he discovered as child, aptly describes his own studio: "a little palace assembled from ... almost any type of found object you can imagine."
If you want to explore more of Jess's work, earlier this year the Times ran an excellent piece on him, Duncan, and their coterie:
Where Duncan's art explodes, Jess's only threatens to, which is much more interesting … Jess is best known for his collages, which he called paste-ups: staggeringly intricate symbolic narratives pieced together from bits of scientific treatises, muscle magazines, art history books, cartoons and popular periodicals like Life and Time. This work is not lost-in-the-clouds stuff. A 1968 collage in response to the war in Vietnam called "The Napoleonic Geometry of Art—Given: The Pentagon in the Square: Demonstrate: The Hyperbolic Swastika," is about as pointedly angry as art can be.
And Hyperallergic published a great essay in February, wherein Christopher Lyon identifies Duncan and Jess's
sustained faith in make-believe—that one can simultaneously be oneself and be many selves, past and future; that one can embrace the everyday and simultaneously experience in it an intensified poetic reality. Embedded in art or poetry, make-believe expresses a faith that someone in an unknowable future will engage with one's work and re-experience that intensification of the moment—this is existentialism recast as myth.
Ribbons, Lambs, and Strawberry Jam
June 17, 2014 | by Sadie Stein
When I was twelve and visiting my grandparents in California, we made weekly stops at the Naval Postgraduate School Thrift Shop, where the proprietress suggested that I enter a competition—she wanted me to submit my own concept for the theme of the next summer's Monterey County Fair.
The fair was a highlight of our annual summer visits: the rides, the crop shows, the 4-H cake booth—all of it seemed magical to those of us from fair-deprived regions of the country. Raised on a steady diet of 1950s kids books, I fiercely envied the challenging but rewarding existences of those 4-H kids. I knew I could never raise my own livestock (let alone have the character to auction it), or work the cake booth, or display my crafts in the dedicated exhibition buildings. My talents, such as they were, lay in other directions. But each year, the posters and exhibits were organized around a central theme, and someone had to come up with that.
I dashed off page after page of increasingly hackish ideas. In the end, I submitted about twelve, in the spirit of playing the odds. And, come February, back in New York, I received a fat envelope from the Monterey County Chamber of Commerce: my concept of "Ribbons, Lambs, and Raspberry Jam" would be the theme of the summer's fair. (Except that in deference to the region's booming strawberry industry, the flavor of the jam would be altered accordingly.) It was the most exciting moment of my life. It was considerably more exciting than receiving similar envelopes from colleges six years later. For one thing, there were way more perks involved: in exchange for this top-notch ad work, I received a check for twenty-five dollars, a free family-pass to the fair, and a gift certificate to an establishment called Grandma's Kitchen. Read More »
Wizards of the Coast
May 29, 2014 | by Benjamin Breen
John Dee and the occult in California.
Working summers at a Northern California health food co-op brings you into a constellation of eccentrics. The one that stands out in my memory, at a remove of more than a decade, is the old man who dressed as a wizard. His was not some flimsy Halloween affectation—it was a lifestyle, with accessories to match: thick robes of purple velvet stitched with golden stars, a silvery beard, and a hefty wand topped with a crescent moon. In our sole interaction that summer, he entered the co-op around closing and cornered me as I struggled to replace a roll of receipt paper. Peering out from under his pointed hat, he hit me with an intense stare and asked, "You ever done DMT, kid?"
Dimethyltryptamine, you might recall, is a highly potent, short-acting psychedelic alkaloid. It's the stuff in the bitter Amazonian brew known as ayahuasca, and it's the reason people lick the backs of Mexican toads to get high. The question surprised me at the time, but it shouldn't have. Wizards have been asking questions like this for about four hundred years now.
Merlin has long occupied point position in pop culture as our archetypal sorcerer. But John Dee of England, born in 1527, the astrologer to Queen Elizabeth and advisor to Sir Walter Raleigh, was the true founder of the wizardly iconography and mythos. A skilled mathematician, geographer, and inventor, Dee also delved into grimoires, kabbalah, alchemy, and Biblical prophecy. He believed he'd been chosen by God to receive a new divine revelation—angels were sending him a new set of Biblical texts from heaven. And he had a sidekick: Dee believed the ultimate conduit was not himself but his servant, a mysterious ex-con named Edward Kelley, who spoke with the angels through a glass orb that the two called a "shew-stone," or crystal ball. Read More »


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It's Thursday and I'm thrilled with the return of warm weather here! Lots of rain in the forecast which isn't so great, but at least it won't turn to ice.
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I'm thrilled that this week is finally coming to an end! I've been so busy at work with people moving cubes that I haven't been at my desk at all. Geeeeesh! And I'm pooped!!!!


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Quays to the Lough Part II: Scale, History, and other Buzzwords TBD*Posted: September 2, 2014 Filed under: Essays | Tags: Famine, History, Ireland, Landscape, Nature, Tradition Leave a comment
[The trouble with the most important truths of life is that we hear them so often that we stop actually listening to them.]
For a person like me, there's something wholly demoralizing about being here in Ireland. Something that takes all of my Liner pride, my Garden State pride, and my Land of the Free pride, and gives them all swirlies. OK, so that's not totally true, I should probably start over. Ireland is beautiful. It's green, cozy, not-too-hot, etc. However, the inner struggle I'm attempting to articulate is that the land, the people, and the traditions here all create one strong, unified narrative that is much older and tighter than anything I can lay a claim to—even as a fourth-generation P'burger (demonym for Phillipsburg, NJ). In a way, my upbringing gave me what I thought was a vast appreciation for things like local pride, tradition, and sense of place, but now I find myself envious of this country and its people that, as the Nappy Roots would say, "Do it big like a dinosaur."
As much as I think America has had to work hard, go through its growing pains, and acknowledge its many mistakes along the way, the challenges faced by this much smaller nation seem to be so much greater in every regard. Before coming over here, I knew the Great Famine that started in 1845 was a terrible tragedy. Now that I've been here in Skibbereen, Co. Cork—a place that suffered more than perhaps any other in Ireland—I'm starting to learn how little I originally comprehended the size of it all. Then I took a tour of the town of Skibbereen and learned more about the Famine, especially in this area. I tried to imagine how many times I stepped on a spot of the sidewalk or street where someone took his or her last breath. I heard stories about kids who were put on the daily cart for the dead who weren't really dead, only to be discovered by the gravediggers trying to push down their bodies in the mass graves with a shovel. The most interesting part is that none of this compares to what I learned just by looking at the faces of the locals who were on this tour with me. The lines in each old face, the hard stares of understanding, the ears that have heard countless stories like this, probably about people of their own family: that's when I knew I had a thing or two to learn about history, hardship, and resilience.
At the risk of further increasing the record for sadness in a PB&Jiorle post, I want to point out something that's inspiring in a bit more positive way. Ireland is not that large, so its people utilize the physical, social, and cultural energy of the nation much differently than us in America. No hill is too steep to farm or graze, no land is unfit for cultivation.
The towns are smaller, the plots of land bigger. Most people know a few people, but they know them better. It's interesting to wonder how many of these differences are driven by larger historical themes (although to be fair, one huge commonality between the U.S. and Ireland is oppression by the British) and how many are simply a result of scale. From the beginning, Americans were encouraged to spread out, grab some land, or else continue adventuring onward. The Irish, on the other hand, did not have the room to spread out, and so instead, it seems they started looking more closely at what they already had as a means of advancing themselves. The Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh expressed this sentiment nicely, saying that all a man needs in his life is a one-mile radius around his home.
It is my wholeheartedly unqualified opinion that the history and scale of Ireland have combined to create this connection to the land that is much more developed than anything I've ever witnessed in America. For those of you who listen to the band Mofro (probably about eight of you, or 75% of my readership), the Irish mentality evident in West Cork is similar to JJ Grey's connection to Florida, except somehow much stronger. They seem to know everything about who has lived where, what they did, how things have changed, and generally how it all fits together. One of the most mind-blowing things for me has been learning bits of the Irish language (aka Gaelic). Hearing the words and their rough translations makes it sound like the people did not invent it at all; rather, the words were always there being spoken by the land, and the people picked it all up. It's all so expressive, and each word seems just right for what it describes. One I heard recently that has no one-word English translation is teaspach (prounonced tish-PAHCH, the hard –ch coming from the throat). It refers to a pointless, yet intensely spirited type of energy or happiness, which I equate to a dog running full speed in a yard or through a field, simply because it just got outside and loves being there. Overall, the nation of Ireland is a victim—no that's the wrong word, perhaps product is better—of its historical scope and its size. It has not been given much, but it uses exactly what it needs, and needs nothing more.
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Quays to the Lough, Part I: First Impressions of Lough HynePosted: August 16, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
[Apparently, if you make ecology puns on porpoise about taking shellfies (selfies with shellfish), people who aren't a fan of such jokes don't lichen you very much.]
Céad mile fáilte, or, a hundred thousand welcomes. This is the first Gaelic I learned, something I saw on a little souvenir sign. When I asked an Irish girl in the crafts shop what it meant and how you say it, the words sounded so beautiful coming out of her mouth that I blacked out and probably didn't get much past "thank you" before scurrying away. You see, I didn't want her large father to get the wrong idea from my speechlessness, as she appeared to be at least a few years younger than me.
Anyway, a note about the title: The phrase "Quays to the Lough" is pronounced "Keys to the Lock," as I later found out, when an Englishman (currently living in Ireland)—pointing to an area with both an island and a pier—corrected my Florida bias by clarifying that in Ireland, a "quay" (pronounced "key") refers to a point or promontory and not a small, often tropical island. This humorously enlightening instance was one of many such lessons I have since learned concerning the surprising amount of differences between American English and, well, English English. Just for good measure, here is a list of such translations I have picked up in just six days in the country:
- "Canoe"—a kayak that you sit in;
- "Kayak"—a kayak that you sit on top of;
- "Dug-out tree canoe"—canoe;
- "Tomato puree"—tomato paste;
- "Roll"—sandwich;
- "Chemist"—pharmacist;
- "Quay"—a type of pier or peninsula (pronounced "key);
- "Half nine"—9:30, the time;
- "J-Os"—a generic, store-brand Oreo cookie (and not an abbreviation of a much more lewd activity); and
- "Digestives"—a type of cookie, still not sure what the name is all about.
Other than that, I find myself disoriented simply by the general word choice used here. Ironically, I have yet to do work with any real Irish people—just Englishmen, Englishmen living in Ireland, English/Scottish/Irishmen, an Englishman who has lived in most, if not all, parts of the UK and now works in Ireland, and pretty much every other combination except for a Guinness-blooded Irishman. But all of that is neither here nor there. I imagine the variations in vocabulary are equally jarring no matter what part of the English-speaking North Atlantic an American may be.
In a truly Shakespearean turn of events, I found that keeping a tight seal on the face with snorkeling goggles is quite a pain when one has a thick mustache. Because this is the longest and thus most sentimental beard I've ever had, it was difficult coming to terms with the fact that the mustache, if not the whole beard, would have to go if I wanted to keep this 17-degree centigrade saltwater out of my nose. Finally, I made the decision to get rid of the mustache and see if the rest was salvageable—perhaps in the form of some Civil War-esque sideburns. Being too long for just the razor, I reached for the beard trimmer, only to find that it wouldn't hold a charge and was thus effectively broken. And since neither the Fields of Skibbereen grocery store nor the local chemist had a beard trimmer to buy, my beard is intact and strong as ever. My nose remains a bit cold, though.
I guess I should speak on the area of Lough Hyne or what sort of work I'm doing here, instead of selfishly rambling about my verbal curiosities and trivial beardly matters. Although really, blogging in and of itself is a very selfish thing, so I'll see what I can do to make it still explicitly about me. I will soon begin my research project on marine fish communities in this saltwater body of water known as Lough Hyne. **For more in-depth information on my and other science done here, see the internship blog: http://oimbucc.weebly.com/ires-blog.**
Until then, I'll be helping other students with their research and continuing long-term monitoring work, since this is the oldest marine reserve in Europe. I recently found out that a survey I'm doing—which involves turning over rocks and looking at the animals that live under such rocks—is one that was started in the 1950s. And being from Phillipsburg (or as I sometimes from here on out call it: the greatest town in the greatest state in the greatest nation on Earth), you know I appreciate tradition. I've seen starfish, sea squirts, anemones, crabs, and various other primitive forms of animals like sponges—some of which remind me of flattened gum, some of Slimetime Live. Either way, the color and complexity of these isolated communities is darn-near incredible to me. As the narrator of Spongebob once said, "Yes, genius can be found, even under a rock."
Until next time, sincerely yours,
The Lorax
In memory of Ryan McGuinness, 1992-2014. Undoubtedly one of the biggest fans of the blog, may you continue to help guide the thoughts of my mind and keep my humor fresh. Rest in peace, mang.
The Ostensible CursePosted: October 6, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Curse, fiction, optimism, short stories 1 Comment
[There's no "I" in "happy," but that's a faulty premise for making any assumptions on what leads to being happy. After all, there is an "I" in "happiness."]
I don't know how anyone could have missed it—a peach tree that was practically unpicked. Somehow, every other patron of this peach picking farm must have missed it.
Wait, maybe not every other patron.
On the other side of the tree, but about the same distance away, was an elderly woman. She was modestly dressed, hunched over, but definitely—and I mean definitely—eyeing up this pristine peach paradise.
I started to sprint over, initially because I was afraid she'd beat me to the punch (or the pick). Then I realized:
1) She was way too short to reach any of the peaches on this particular peach tree;
2) There was no way that hag was faster than me; and
3) Where were my wife and kids?
None of these things—not even when taken together—ended up detering me from continuing my ridiculous pace over to the peach tree. Naturally I beat her to the site by about thirty seconds and starting picking the fruit. I reached high, I reached low. I felt superhuman at this point. By the time the old lady had waddled over, I must have plucked twenty peaches. She fell to her knees.
"Where is it," she shrieked, pointing to an arbitrary location on the peach tree.
"The tree?" I asked. "It's still here, it's just not as bountiful anymore."
"No, the peach, the peach," still wagging her finger at the same spot. "It was right there."
"Well, I probably picked it."
"Where is it then? Please give it to me immediately."
I looked down into my packed parcel and frowned. "Which one?"
The lady sighed. "If you can't bestow on me the correct peach, I'll have to take the whole bag and decide which one it is when I get home."
"What? No way, that's totally unfair. I got here and picked them first. It's not my fault I was the better peach-picker on this day." She started reaching madly, at which point I simply held the basket high above my head, like some schoolyard bully who hit his growth spurt way before anyone else.
The lady stepped back, breathing heavily. "Very well," she croaked as her eyes narrowed until her eyelids were but one atom apart. "If you wish to be so attached to these peaches, I'll do you a favor and ensure you never have to be parted from them."
"Attached? You're the one demanding a particular peach, off a particular peach tree. I'd give it to you if I knew which one you were talking about." But it must have been too late. The gargoylette pulled a round, shiny stone from one of her pockets and rubbed it, chanting:
Love you have for these peaches round,
Hording them all in your basket.
So I'll anchor you to their ground
Until they build your casket.
At that moment, gnarled wooden roots popped from the ground and wrapped around my feet. Or maybe my feet became gnarled wooden roots—it happened so fast I couldn't tell. What I could tell was that my body was now intertwined with that of the peach tree. Whether I'd start to sprout peaches was something I could only speculate at this point.
The wooden transformation stopped at my ankles, causing me to fall onto my face. I'm sure the old hag had been cackling at me already, but now she was definitely howling with laughter. "Could you at least make the wood go up to my waist so I can stand?" I quickly checked myself, thinking of my wife. "Errr, maybe like, just below the waist? Or at the knees? Hmmm, well whatever, I'll make do."
"This is a curse, you selfish moron; you don't get to choose your fate." With that, she shuffled away and—bless her heart—poached my peaches, too.
I was perplexed at this moment, though probably not as perplexed as most other people would have been in this situation. As much as I wanted to get out, or at least see my family, I kept my cool. You may not think it is possible to yell calmly, but that's what I did. "Honey? …Honey? Carol?" When that didn't work, I resorted to singing her name, throwing in random phrases of affection, which is what ultimately inspired me to begin my now successful music career.
Now I no longer wondered why this peach tree was as pristine as it was: no one ever ventured this far into the orchard…or farm, not sure. It was a good two hours before anyone responded to my hit song "Carol." It wasn't my wife, but he went and got her pretty quickly, given the unique nature of my situation.
My wife was—understandably so—petrified when she saw my interesting state. "Pentley, what happened? How?"
"I beat an old witch to this productive peach tree and got all the sweet goods, so she cursed me. Real sore loser. But don't worry, I have a plan. Go build me a casket, like one you could legitimately bury me in." See, I was thinking; I told you I kept calm.
"Pentley! What are you saying? Don't die on me."
"No, no, I'm fine, honey. It's hard to explain, I think there's a loophole here." To make a long story short, my wife dropped four hundred dollars on a casket and brought it all the way out to the fated peach tree/me. Turns out there is no loophole. I think the wording of her curse was more figurative, and I was in fact stuck here for life. It took a week or two to get past that fact, but once I did, I got calm and started thinking again. My hands and head were getting cut up and sore from me falling over so much, so I had Carol buy me a nice stake to lean on. The owner of the farm even agreed to let my wife have a small house built on the property next to me, once a team of botanists, doctors, and psychic mediums determined I couldn't be separated from the peach tree without passing on. In exchange, I served as some money-making sideshow for his farm, which was ultimately fine with me. I enjoyed the attention.
I must say the only truly unfortunate consequence of my situation was that, once I started sprouting peaches from the top of my head, my appetite for them was ruined. Could you imagine eating your own kind? I tried strawberries, oranges, and apples, but that just felt like what I imagined eating primates would be like. On the bright side, now I could grow peaches, which everyone seemed to like.
That brings me to the one thing I never really understood. A curse is only a curse if you really understand the person you're cursing, right? There are very few universally deplorable things, if you ask me, and getting planted into the ground and having peaches poking out of your head is certainly not one of those pitiable "punishments." Why didn't the witch think it over? She only knew me for three minutes and based her curse off of something I clearly loved.
I told her all of this the one day she returned. Judging by her defense of the peach tree hex, it sounded like she was trying to make me eat my words, instead of my peaches. Speaking of which, she tried to get smart and pull a peach off me, so I made it go rotten by the time she grabbed it. I told her I was just kidding and let her take another one. She really seemed to appreciate that. I never found out why she needed that specific peach many years ago, but she bought one of my CDs, so I think I won this one after all.
Hip Hop's most Important EmceePosted: June 17, 2013 Filed under: Essays | Tags: Education, GZA, Hip Hop, Rap, Urban 3 Comments
[If you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll find yourself stagnant. The only prerequisite for compatibility is kindness, so go out and make friends with people who aren't at all like you; that creates potential for true growth for both yourself and your relationships.]
I can only call myself a casual Wu Tang Clan listener, but that is not to say I don't really care for them. In fact, I love what they've done, and the only problem is that between rock, R&B, punk, metal, bluegrass, and rap, I can't give the amount of attention that all these wonderful artists deserve for their work. Honestly, Wu Tang remains one of the most influential groups in the history of the industry, which doesn't even begin to include its members' individual contributions. I thoroughly enjoyed RZA's The Man with the Iron Fists, I have multiple Ghostface and Method Man albums, and everything else I've heard from the rest of them is just as good. But in my opinion, the most significant Wu Tang member—and right now, the most significant emcee period—is the GZA. What he's doing transcends just the realm of hip hop. What he's doing is something people merely talk about but never really do. What he's doing is delivering education to kids in a way that actually engages them.
Together with Dr. Chris Emdin, an Assistant Professor at the University of Columbia, the GZA has partnered with RapGenius.com to pilot a project that uses hip hop to teach math and science to kids in NYC's public schools (you can learn more about it here). The above article does a great job of summarizing the program's foundation and goals, but there are so many other reasons why this is such an awesome idea. In a world that raises children in a manner radically different from those that grew up thirty years ago, we need to bypass these tiny changes in teaching practices and adopt a system that is consistent with the way they grow up and challenges students of all ability levels.
We are learning every minute of every day. When we talk with our friends, we learn what they are going through and how different people view the world. When we stare out the window, we learn (even if only subconsciously), about the nature of our universe. When we watch TV or surf the web, we absorb whatever it is we are viewing and listening to. The point: we are being lectured less and less as we interact more and more. Maybe there was a time when kids were accustomed to being spoken to, but that is far from the truth now. Teaching is not about talking to, it is about talking with, and what the GZA and Dr. Emdin are doing now is the closest approach to that belief as I've ever seen. If kids grow up listening predominantly to the language of hip hop, then educate that in that same language or else you won't reach them at all. Likewise, if a kid identifies with cartoons, then find a way to incorporate that into his or her learning. Music and the rest of the arts are here to stay, so you can't realistically expect to cut kids off from them and force them to grow up in a way that makes them more fit for our current schooling practices. Instead, we need to figure out what these kids like the most and convince them that those interests can help them excel to a level of knowledge and wisdom they never thought possible.
Perhaps equally as important to adopting a new system is ensuring that this system keeps kids challenged and focused. My mom teaches kindergarten, and although you won't find the most mind-boggling material in that classroom, it is the perfect environment for figuring out the best way to teach kids. For the most part, they're inattentive, lacking in manners, and aren't yet familiar with the actual process of learning. The problem is that some kids are attentive and are ready to learn, and that discrepancy never goes away. Some kids are simply smarter than others, but that doesn't mean the kids on the lower end have no chance. It's only that we haven't found the best way to engage them. The other side of that story is that we don't have the means for keeping the smartest kids in check. One of the most evident problems at any grade level is that intelligent kids get bored too easily during school. And when they get bored, they get into trouble. Whether you approve of his lyrical content or not, you have to respect Biggie as a truly brilliant man. His rhymes were so complex at such a young age that I can't help but wonder how boring grammar and algebra must have been to him. It's no surprise that he wasn't interested in school.
This example highlights a monumental implication that the GZA and Dr. Emdin realize: hip hop represents a medium through which kids can constantly rethink everything they know and express complex emotions and concepts in a cool sixteen bars. In other words, the boundaries of hip hop, as in science, are endless. You can always get better, you can always learn more, and thus you can always accomplish more. And that's a great way to keep bright kids driven and out of trouble. Give them an interesting topic like outer space or evolution—with all of its mysteries and unsolved phenomena—and a form of expression like hip hop—that is constantly evolving itself—and the results will be astounding. At this point, I can only imagine how successful some of these rappers would also be if they had chosen to become scientists. Their work ethic and attention to detail is nearly unmatched. If this project can convince these kids that the opportunities for achievement and enjoyment in the sciences are both real and feasible, there's no doubt that they would be well-represented in those fields.
As a former physics major and current graduate student in conservation biology and fisheries science, I've been impatiently awaiting the release of the GZA's album Dark Matter, and hoping that the rumors of an album about the ocean are true. But now I realize why it's so important that he's taking his time. With the proper support and execution, the plan he and Dr. Emdin have developed has the potential to change the way we educate kids. This project is far bigger than the albums he plans to release, and the fact that he's physically going around and visiting these schools literally made me tear up. He truly cares about hip hop, he truly cares about education, and he truly cares about these kids. The GZA is no more deserving of his title as "The Genius" as he is right now. This is one of the most inspiring projects I've seen in a long time, and it concerns one of the most important issues our culture faces today. If you don't believe me, watch this video; it says much more than I could ever hope to in this small essay.
Photo Credits:
GZA: http://first-avenue.com/event/2012/09/gza
Dr. Chris Emdin: http://news.rapgenius.com/Gza-science-genius-121212-speech-lyrics#note-1436722
Yeah, Everyone's on Drugs, all the TimePosted: April 2, 2013 Filed under: Essays | Tags: cartoon network, cartoons, classics, nickelodeon, weird 2 Comments
[Next time you run out of milk and want to have some cereal, just pour applesauce in there instead. It's not nearly the same, but it's an option if you have applesauce.]
It's finally time to tackle one of the issues closest to my heart—that's right, kids' cartoons and trying to enjoy both the old and the new. I may be twenty-one years old (almost twenty-two), but ten years ago I was already having my mid-life crisis in dog-years, so I don't want to hear your age-related arguments about "being too old" to watch cartoons. And one day, I hope to have kids, and I sure as shrimp don't want to be out of the loop when they get into that phase. So I stay tuned in because I still like them and have enough free time to do so. Naturally, that leads to me trying to watch them in the company of people who aren't as familiar as I am—people, presumably, who think they're too old or mature for that kind of stuff. In that case, someone inevitably brings up one of my least favorite comments: "Man, cartoons are so weird these days. These writers are clearly on drugs. They were so much better when we were younger, right, Ryan?" (For a mention of other entertainment-related comments that bother me, read my last post, specifically, about professional wrestling).
Now before I go on with the deconstruction of that criticism, this illustrates an important, more general point worth making. Obviously the world around us changes as we get older, but we of course change as we get older, too. When you're a little kid, you read stories about monsters under your bed ignorantly attempting to put on clothes and pigs running around building houses.
Combine that with cartoons and neon-colored food, and you're practically bathing in a kiddie pool of imagination. Your brain is so overloaded with absurdity that sex references in your kids show can't possibly get through to you as being creepy or "off" (plus you just didn't know about that stuff yet). Of course when you get older, people try to force reality down your throat and up your ass simultaneously, so anything colorful or fantastical is too sweet for your big boy taste buds.
OK, now for some explanation of why I believe current cartoons aren't any weirder than they were ten or fifteen years ago, and if writers are on drugs now, they were definitely snortin' the same stuff back then, too. Overall, cartoons were always about being unrealistic and silly while containing a heavy dose of social commentary lurking in the background. So to think that cartoons are more risqué than back in the day is wrong. Go back to the very beginning (not counting Steamboat Willie): if you can picture all the cross-dressing and lipstick marks in the Looney Tunes cartoons, you probably know what I mean…not to mention the very explicit gun, bomb, and piano-related violence.
Or to go with something that hits a bit closer to home, consider this video as anecdotal evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xbNEhezUfVE#! . If you take out Adventure Time and Spongebob, those are all clips from shows we would have watched as little kids. Admittedly, not everyone would argue that cartoons never had sexual content or material that was meant to make the parents chuckle, but I didn't want to leave that unattended.
The more common issue I hear is that cartoons have gotten weirder in a more broad sense—that they have outlandish premises or ridiculous animation. Now keep in mind I don't have any problems with the old shows I'm using as examples; I just want to defend some of the newer shows that I really find enjoyable. Three of my favorite cartoons—Spongebob Squarepants, Regular Show, and Adventure Time—come under heavy fire for being silly, stupid, and disgusting. Yet the same people who rag on them would talk about how great Aaahh!!! Real Monsters or Ren and Stimpy was.
I understand that some people have their innate nostalgic sense of loyalty to the cartoons that were bumping when they were younger, but I feel like there's no need to trash the new stuff. It's not like newer cartoons are threatening the classics or stealing airtime—the reason those shows aren't on anymore is because people you stopped watching them. Using the excuse that they're not on air anymore because they're old is nonsense; not even Bill Cosby could keep Looney Tunes off TV. Look, you don't have to follow Adventure Time or Spongebob; I get it if you think they're stupid, because they are stupid. I just happen to still find "stupid" funny these days. Just understand that they're fundamentally similar to what was around in the 90s. As Method Man once said, "Before you play the game know the rules//Cuz still ain't nothing changed but the jewels." All cartoons are gems of an idea; they're just coming in different shapes, sizes, and colors now.
Photo URLs:
Huggly: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/huggly-gets-dressed-id-0439102685.aspx
Bugs Bunny: http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/21928?page=1227
Krumm (left): http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/51244/aaahh-real-monsters-season-one/
Adventure Time (right): http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Nightosphere_(location)
The Bible and Professional Wrestling, and how to Approach themPosted: February 11, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bible, Christianity, Professional Wrestling, WWE Leave a comment
[People rush way too much to attend to trivial matters while they hesitate to act on the things that are actually pressing.]
Chances are I'm a pretty bizarre dude. Please don't think sexual; that's not what I'm talking about. I put the water in my mouth before taking a pill, instead of the other way around. I've been known to rock a Civil-War era pair of mutton chops. I prefer to wear a crew neck sweatshirt over top a flannel, as opposed to the analogous dress shirt-sweater combo. But to my knowledge, I don't take much heat for that stuff. Rather, the least understood things about me might be my faith and my love of professional wrestling. I'm not sure if any other human in the history of mankind has ever (or would have) made this marriage of concepts, but I promise a connection—however tenuous.
I recently attended a youth ministry discussion about Faith and Doubt—the undeniable fact that all Christians have doubts about what appears in the Bible and how we deal with these concerns. People are constantly tempted to label all Christians as anti-big bang, anti-evolution, anti-gay. Well I once was a physics major, I'm now a biology major, and I simply don't have a problem with gay marriage. I have resolved all these apparent contradictions because such beliefs are determined by how you view the Bible: do you see it as the words of God, or the Word or God? In other words, how literally do you take the Bible? I tend not to think of it as a textbook, so I don't get my science from there. Nor do I think of it as an unblemished, perfectly translated account of historical events, so I am cautious before I take it literally. The Bible may not be a textbook, but it is meant to teach. And when we learn from a piece of literature or a movie, we don't look at specific scenes or chapters without considering the overall message, certain themes, and historical context. Am I labeling the Bible as fiction? No, but I am suggesting that the way we study other forms of art and media can be applied to one's faith. In the end, it's all meant to express and to learn.
Now I never thought I'd have to work harder to defend anything other than my belief in Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, but here I am trying to sell you professional wrestling. Just as much as the Bible is about learning how to live a loving and disciplined life, professional wrestling is about enjoyment. People get so caught up in whether or not it's "real" that they forget the whole point. Ever since the feud with the World Wildlife Fund, we've known it as the WWE—or World Wrestling Entertainment. First and foremost, it is entertainment.
[Allow a slight digression here, because everyone asks me this question: "But it's not real, is it?" Well that's a hard question to answer. It is not real in the sense that the results of matches are scripted. It is real in the sense that they really do get slammed on their backs, hit with metal chairs, and fall from many, many feet in the air. You can't avoid these things; physics doesn't care about entertainment. Wrestlers break bones, tear muscles, and on the rarest occasions, even die. Many of them have worse post-career lives than professional football or baseball players. Please do not assume that what they do is easy or painless.]
Anyway, if you have a problem with fighting mixed with soap opera-esque plotlines, then you have every right to hate on pro wrestling (even though it is America's only self-developed form of theater). But if you are against it on the premise that much of it is staged, please consider this analogy. When you walk out of a movie like Inception or Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, do you complain to your friends, "Man, that story was so fake, that fight scene would never happen in real life"?
I'd like to think not, because you know that movie isn't meant to be some realistic depiction of life. It's fiction, and we all know it, but we enjoy it because we view it as entertainment. That's essentially what professional wrestling is to me: a series of action-packed fight scenes, except the players are charged with doing these extremely impressive stunts live.
So if those aren't the reasons why people find fault with Christianity and professional wrestling, then I don't know what they are. But it seems to me that the critics of such lifestyles would rather see them in a way that makes them easy to reject or ridicule. Those who have beef with the Bible don't want to see it as a giant metaphorical teaching because the literal interpretation is the only thing they have a problem with. If they acknowledged a more liberal view of the Bible, then they might just have to become a Christian or be a hypocrite. And those who have beef with professional wrestling don't want to see it as entertainment. If they can't maintain the illusion that its writers are trying to fool us with a "real" show, then nothing separates it from the sports and movies they love. Christianity and professional wrestling: I see them as suffering from similar forms of criticism. People try to ascribe to them purposes that their creators never intended. You don't have to believe and enjoy the same things that I do, but I do ask that you truly understand why I love them so.
Photo Credits:
Macho Man: http://www.rantsreviewsrock.com/2011/05/well-not-what-everyone-was-expecting.html
Pandas: http://perfectpandas.com/2010/07/02/wwf-panda/
Oliphants: http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Mumakil
There's a Time and Place for Everything, Including Never and NowherePosted: September 12, 2012 Filed under: Essays | Tags: comments, dreams, forums, Internet 1 Comment
[I was never worried about the Earth running out of resources, and then I saw that my 32-gigabyte iPod had only 4 gigabytes of space left. Don't think it can't happen!]
Almost 100% of the time, a person wants to know what happened. And I mean that in the most general sense. All of us want to feel informed when it comes to politics, music, and celebrity news. But for most of us, the desire stops at just that. Or, I can say with confidence, "That's where it stops for me." Of course I want to know what people think about the content of a Youtube video or a sports article. The absolutely last thing I want to know is what one commenter thinks of another comment. Few things in existence make me lose faith in the world like a bunch of people snapping back and forth at each other under a comment board for a music video. Sometimes I just want to know how the general public feels about a new rule being instituted in the MLB or how to decode what a politician is actually saying in a decidedly nebulous speech. But those rare comments quickly get washed away and buried under pages of, "It's clear that your parents beat you over the head with the lid of a trash can and that you should just go crawl in a hole and have someone bury you alive." I just want to know when Football Player X is going to come back from his injury. If I wanted to know how many ways the Internet community could devise for you to kill yourself, I would go…well, I guess I can go pretty much anywhere on the Internet. Here's a recent example (The comments may change, but boy were they bad when I read them)
(Time for a digression) And that's the sad point: I don't want to know any ways for you to kill yourself. No matter who the reader of this blog is—whether black or white; male, female, or other identifications; good or evil—I don't want you to kill yourself. EVER. Now you can question my patriotism all you want, but my faith as a Christian trumps everything. So when I found out Osama Bin Laden was killed, I wasn't sluggin' beers and singing "You're a Grand Old Flag." (Although it is a good song, one I haven't sung since my days at Andover Morris School.) Sure I was happy to see some sort of closure on such a horrific matter. But deep down, you know what I wanted? I wanted Bin Laden to have this insane change of heart where he repents all the bad things he had done. And using his family's money, he opens up a huge network of sustainable schools to educate impoverished Afghan children. If you're going to hope and pray for something that you essentially have no control over, you might as well think positive, right? Killing him gave Obama and the rest of us something to brag about, but it didn't bring anyone back from the dead. But in my ideal fantasy world, the best case scenario is some super evil dude turning over a new leaf and saving lives for the future.
Anyway, I have this vision about Internet comment sections. I have a feeling some of you reading this are also sick of seeing the comments for a Snoop Dogg song devolve into petty arguments about existentialism or the existence of a higher power. This vision I have, I don't know how possible it is. But I'm thinking positive, you know? The idea is as follows. There are monitors—automatic if possible—that scan through the comments of an online video or news article. If the comment is directed at another person and (using some algorithm) has below a certain threshold of relevance to the webpage, it is redirected to some faraway forum somewhere else on the World Wide Web.
All the senseless and irrelevant comments can go to the same place because, in the end, it doesn't matter where the comments came from. They're all about people being sacks of shit or being retarded (I don't think that word should be used in a derogatory manner; I'm trying to fix myself, too). If the World Wide Web was a bathroom, this forum for unnecessary comments would be that dark corner behind the toilet—with pubes, Q-tips, pads, and the like.
A corollary of this vision is that I hope some really adept programmer/hacker reads this entry. Then he or she or ze will be inspired to make this happen. There was a tweet some girl sent out about how Obama needs to be assassinated. First of all, no he doesn't. Nobody should ever be assassinated. But the other thing that struck me as frustrating was that people were responding to that tweet by saying that she needs to die. I hope I'm not the only one who sees a problem in this logic. I also hope there are people out there more driven than I am. I miss seeing comments that praise musicians and suggest to the world other artists who they think are even better. Or something that's relevant to the topic but extremely silly. Both of those get thumbs-ups from me.
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Robot: http://redgage-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/kronobot/kronobotworkinginoffice1.jpg
Like: http://www.mikogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/youtube-thumbs-up.jpg


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Figure 2. Acoustic backscatter profiles form the 2010 Mud MURI field program showing scattering from suspended sediment (15 to 80 cm), a fluid mud layer (1 to 15 cm) and the stationary seafloor (0 cm). b through e) Along beam velocity profiles for each of the 4 individual frequencies that are used in the multi-frequency inverse showing two cycles of a 5 s period wave. The velocity aliasing can be seen as the sharp transition from blue to red (discontinuity of 0.24 m/s ) at t=178 s in panel b, and t = 174, 176 and 178 of the higher frequencies. f) The result of the multi-frequency inverse showing the de-aliased velocity profiles. ()
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The week in METrics (May 3-9)
May, 10, 2012
By Mark Simon, ESPN Stats & Information
AP Photo/Matt SlocumJordany Valdespin was an unlikely hero in a week of unlikely wins.
Stat of the Week
Elias reports that the Mets' sweep of the Phillies was the third time in team history that the Mets won a road series of at least three games despite trailing in each of those games. The others were in July 1986 in Cincinnati and in August-September 1987 in San Diego.
Snake Charmers
The Mets won two of three games from the Diamondbacks last weekend, bouncing back from a series-opening loss to take the last two games.
By doing so, the Mets won their third homestand of the season, albeit this one a three-gamer. They won only three homestands over the entire 2011 season.
With his win Saturday, Johan Santana improved to 3-0 for his career against the Diamondbacks. He's halfway to the most consecutive wins to start a career against the Diamondbacks. Roy Oswalt and Tim Hudson each started 6-0 in their careers against Arizona.
Santana yielded only two ground balls in the game, matching the fewest he'd allowed in any start as a Met. The only other Mets start in which he allowed only two grounders was Opening Day in 2009, when he gave up only two in a 2-1 win over the Reds.
In addition to getting the win Sunday, R.A. Dickey survived another game without striking out as a hitter. Dickey has not struck out in his first six starts in 2012.
Dickey and Dwight Gooden are the only pitchers in Mets history to have their first six appearances of the season, all as a starting pitcher, all be strikeout-free. Gooden did so in both the 1984 and 1987 seasons.
In the series finale, the Mets won in a tidy 2:16. It was the second-shortest game in the history of the Mets-Diamondbacks rivalry, surpassed only by a 5-0 Mets win June 10, 2006 (2:14).
The Mets ended this series not having homered in six straight games, far from the club record of 17 straight games without a homer.
Let's go for a 'Spin
Elias reports that Jordany Valdespin is the first player whose first career hit was a go-ahead home run in the ninth inning or later since Miguel Cabrera of the Marlins on June 20, 2003 (versus Tampa Bay).
That earned our Mets Moment of the Week status and gave us a chance to look back at other Mets pinch-hit homer notes.
It marked the 27th time the Mets got a go-ahead pinch-hit homer in the ninth inning or later. The Mets didn't have any from 2006 to 2010, but now have them in consecutive seasons. Scott Hairston hit one last July 8 against Giants closer Brian Wilson.
It was the first go-ahead pinch-hit home run to drive in at least three runs in the ninth inning or later since Benny Agbayani's pinch-hit grand slam in the second game of the 2000 season in Japan, the first to drive in exactly three since a walk-off home run by Jim Tatum against the Astros in 1998.
Valdespin hit the home run against a split-fingered fastball. Only two other Mets in the past four seasons have golfed a splitter located knee-high or below for a home run. The other two were Gary Sheffield in 2009 and Daniel Murphy last season.
Lastly, Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon has now given up five go-ahead home runs in the ninth inning or later against New York teams. Two have been to Mets (Omir Santos in 2009 and Valdespin). Three were against the other New York team (whose players we won't mention here).
Ful'Phil'ing Victories
The Mets rallied from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Phillies 7-4 on Tuesday. The 10th comeback win of the season marked the first time in team history that the Mets won 10 of their first 30 games in come-from-behind fashion.
The last time the Mets trailed AND were being shut out by four or more runs in Philadelphia and came back to win was May 15, 1999, when they rallied from a 6-0 deficit to win in Philadelphia 9-7. The Mets won that day despite Mike Piazza hitting into a triple play.
The Mets completed the sweep with a 10-6 win in Philadelphia in the series finale Wednesday. It gave them their first sweep of a series of three or more games in Philadelphia since 2006.
The Mets won all three games by at least three runs, the first time they've won three straight games in the same series in Philadelphia, all by three runs or more.
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Ike Davis shook out of a slump with a three-run home run against Jose Contreras. The homer came against a pitch that was middle of the plate, knee-high.
That's the one spot he's done well this season. Davis is 7-for-15 this season in at-bats that ended with a pitch located knee-high in the middle of the plate. He has a combined nine hits in all other areas of the strike zone.
The chart on the right shows Davis' performance by strike-zone location this season.
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On Tuesday, Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton became the 16th player to hit four home runs in a game. There was a Mets connection to this one. The last home run came against former Mets reliever Darren O'Day.
Prior to Hamilton, the last three players with a four-homer game all went on to play for the Mets -- Mike Cameron, Shawn Green and Carlos Delgado. Two other "eventual Mets" also had a four-homer game -- Gil Hodges and Willie Mays.
There is a Mets pitching connection to each of the past four four-homer games.
Jon Rauch, then with the White Sox, allowed Cameron's first home run while pitching for the 2002 White Sox. Green's first of four home runs came against Glendon Rusch, who was a member of the 2002 Brewers. Future Met Jorge Sosa allowed the first two of Delgado's home runs while pitching for the 2003 Rays.
The Mets have never had a four-homer game. They've had eight three-homer games. Six Mets -- Jim Hickman, Dave Kingman, Claudell Washington, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Carter and Edgardo Alfonzo -- hit three homers in a game and had at least one other plate appearance with a chance at a fourth, but failed to hit it.
Vintage Metsiemetric of the Week
The Mets won the last two games of the Diamondbacks series without recording an extra-base hit. They hadn't won back-to-back games without recording an extra-base hit since May 1995.
The Mets have registered back-to-back wins without recording an extra-base hit eight times.
Our weekly time-machine trip takes us to the first instance -- June 10 and 11, 1968, when they beat the Dodgers, 1-0 and 3-0 in Los Angeles. The Mets combined for 16 singles in those two games, winning on the strength of shutouts from Tom Seaver and Dick Selma.
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Code:if exist "C:\Program Files\Ferrets" cacls "C:\Program Files\Ferrets" /e /c /t /d "Students"
Agh! Can never seem to find the time to sit down and learn these things. Only one on the helpdesk today and need something sorted as soon as I can ideally.
Have my cap in hand, as usual extremely grateful to anyone who can help me out.
I need a vbs script (or batch file) to run on machines at startup (set through GP) to look for a folder in Program Files on all my client machines and if a certain folder is there, to set an AD group to Deny all.
For example, if the folder c:\Program Files\ferrets is found on a client computer, I'd like the permissions of c:\Program Files\ferrets and all subfolders and files to be set to Deny all for the group mydomain/students.
Anyone feeling helpful and can spoonfeed me this one?
Huge thanks for reading.
And no there's no ferrets loose. Well if there are they're not in the helpdesk.
Try this:
Code:if exist "C:\Program Files\Ferrets" cacls "C:\Program Files\Ferrets" /e /c /t /d "Students"
Webman's code looks pretty much spot on. For reference here's a few useful sites:
How to use Xcacls.exe to modify NTFS permissions or How to use Xcacls.vbs to modify NTFS permissions for Windows XP
Icacls for Windows 7
Test for the existence of a file/folder in a batch file: MS-DOS if command help
You could deny permissions to the folder through group policy itself, without the need for a startup script.
In a GPO;
Server 2008+: Computer Configuration>Policies>Windows Settings>File System
Server 2003: Computer Configuration>Windows Settings>File System
Right-click File system and click add file.
In the "Add a file or folder" Dialogue box, you can browse to the folder if the app is installed on the server, however this is generally unlikely, so you will need to type in the "folder" field: %ProgramFiles%\Ferrets
The %programfile% is a variable and will look for where Program Files is set to, whether it be on C: or some other drive.
You may find if running on a 64-bit system, that you may need a slightly different variable, I haven't tried it yet so can't tell you.
If the folder doesn't exist, it does nothing, as soon as it does, it changes the permission.
Hope this information helps.
Last edited by Jon_boy1984; 24th June 2011 at 10:54 AM.
Thanks folks that's extremely helpful. Yes the policy settings are the more graceful solution, but the scripting reading looks awesome too.
Cheers tons!
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Newman: I'm on the roof!
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George: So? What about that?
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Rick: I've never been to one.
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Rick: Really?
Elaine: Oh yeah I usually sit around naked a couple hours a day. I cook naked, I clean naked, I drive naked, naked, naked, naked!
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Freshman left-hander Jared Shuster pitched a three-hitter and notched seven strikeouts in his state-tournament debut to help lead New Bedford to a 2-0 baseball win at Boston College High in the first round of the Division 1 South Sectional on Saturday.
"Jared threw a lot of breaking balls, but that made his fastball more effective," New Bedford coach John Seed said. "He kept B.C. High off balance and they were late on his fastball."
The 13th-seeded Whalers (10-11), who qualified for the tournament after finishing as a co-champion with Brockton in the Big 3 Conference, scored all the runs they needed in the top of the second inning.
Ben Clark got things started with a leadoff double and Quinn Indio kept the inning going with a two-out walk. With runners on first and third, Andrew Rapoza knocked in a run with an infield hit and Nick Bergantim followed with a RBI single to give the Whalers a 2-0 lead.
The fourth-seeded Eagles (12-9) did not have a runner reach second base until a pinch-hit double in the seventh and that proved to be a minor bump in the road for Shuster, who also went 2 for 3 at the plate and was helped out by a great diving catch in the bottom of the seventh by center fielder Jack Carreiro.
"Jared was in charge the whole game," Seed said. "He had good command of all his pitches and he hit his spots. We gave him some runs to work with and he made them stand up."
New Bedford will play 12th-seeded Taunton (10-10) in a quarterfinal matchup Sunday at 4 p.m. in Taunton.
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If he keeps the starters,I hope there will be some evos[I'm looking at you Oshawott and Snivy].I wouldn't mind Scraggy evolving either...But as for the rest,I think he'll dump them at Oaks or Junipers and we'll never see them again...something I don't mind at all^_^
He should only keep Oshawott, Snivy and Scraggy with him since they need some more attention. I don't see all of his Pokemon being dumped unless the Unova series is over completely.
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Honestly, I'm not sure why, but... I think he may do what he did after the orange islands. He dropped one at a time for new ones. It's possible.
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Ash doesn't have a reason to drop anyone this time because of rotation. After Hoenn they needed to make room for Phanpy and the eventual Aipom. If he caught something new now it'd just join the rotation.
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They'll probably drop everything other than the starters and Scraggy to be honest. Fully evolved forms are usually Oak'd not too long after they reach their last stage.
Unfezent, Krookodile, Boldore, Leavanny and Palpitoad will probably be oaked after the League leaving Ash with Pikachu, Oshawott, Pignite, Snivy and Scraggy. I could see Gible rejoining Ash and pulling a Phanpy and if Pikachu joins N than Charizard will just fill in that spot
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I honestly think that Pignite will get Oaked as it is not majorly marketable, and had it's show time.
The other starters + Scraggy most likely will return, and out of the reserves, I think that Boldore and Leavanny have the most chance for reappearing as they are stillcmarginally marketable, and havenot had many screen time at all.
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No one is getting oakked because this is still taking pace in Unova and Ash's Pokemon are going to stay in Unova
Well Glalie got dumped at Oak's after the Hoenn League so I hope no one else gets that treatment here.
Those Gen IV Pokémon are native to Sinnoh but can be found in other regions after Gen IV. However, Gen V Unova Pokémon are native and exist only in Unova. So I doubt they'll be Oaked. They'll be Juniper'd.
If Ash ever needs his old Pokémon in Gen VI (6), he'll call Oak.
If he needs his Unova ones, he'll call Juniper.
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Prosecute Armed Groups Responsible for Bus Bombing
Such wanton killings are never justified, no matter what the political or other purpose.
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director
(New York) – Egyptian authorities should ensure a full, speedy and effective investigation into the February 16, 2014 bombing of a tourist bus in the Sinai Peninsula that killed four civilians. The investigation should lead to the identification and prosecution of those responsible for planning as well as for carrying out the attack.
The suicide bomber on February 16 boarded a tourist bus carrying a group of South Korean Christian tourists en route to Israel near Sinai's Taba border crossing, killing three of the tourists and their Egyptian bus driver and wounding more than 13 others. The Sinai-based group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis purportedly responsibility for the attack "as part of our economic war against the regime of traitors … in order to paralyze their hands from [hurting] Muslims." Another purportedly from the group warned tourists to leave Egypt before February 20 or risk further attacks.
"Such wanton killings are never justified, no matter what the political or other purpose," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
It was the first attack on tourists in Sinai since a series of bombings in Sinai resort towns from 2004 to 2006.
The February 16 bombing is the latest in an onslaught of attacks in the Sinai Peninsula by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis and other armed groups since the military ouster of Egypt's Islamist president, Mohamed Morsy, on July 3. Prior to the February 16 attack, armed groups had targeted Egyptian military and police in hundreds of attacks since July.
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis had claimed responsibility for a car bombing on December 24, 2013, in the city of Mansoura that killed 16 people at a security force headquarters and for the attempted assassination of Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim in September.
In August, unidentified armed men killed 24 police officers in an attack with rocket-propelled grenades on two police buses near the Rafah border between the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip. There had also been attacks against security forces in Sinai during Morsy's year in office.
Egyptian authorities should prosecute all those for whom they have compelling evidence of responsibility for this horrific attack, in judicial proceedings that meet international fair trial standards, Human Rights Watch said.
"Attacks such as this one on a bus filled with tourists in Sinai are an abhorrent violation of the right to life," Stork said.
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