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10 weird Florida things that COULD happen in 2014
It is hard at times to take the Sunshine State seriously, as it seems to be at the epicenter of every bizarre news story in almost any given news cycle.
From giant reptile encounters and man-eating sinkholes to dumb criminals (and politicians like Trey Radel) doing exceptionally dumb things, Florida rarely disappoints by keeping reporters, pundits and news people across the nation constantly amused.
With a reputation like that, there is only one thing left for Floridians to do — laugh at ourselves.
The folks at Tallahassee-based public affairs firm Sachs Media Group looked in its "cloudy crystal ball" to find a few things just quirky enough to happen in Florida next year.
Here are some of the "10 weird Florida predictions that could happen in 2014" via the Sachs Media blog:
Tebow Makes 'Run' for Governor
Native son Tim Tebow – the popular former University of Florida Heisman Trophy winner whose NFL career went from Denver to New York to New England to out – announces in late spring his plans to run for Governor of Florida.
The lackluster contest between incumbent Gov. Rick Scott and ex-incumbent Gov. Charlie Crist creates an opening for Tebow to call an audible, and early polls show a surge of support for the Gator legend, across all lines. When it is discovered that he can't pass (the minimum age requirement of 30), Tebow is sidelined once again.
Florida Bans Winter
To boost its tourism industry, Florida lawmakers pass a law to extend summer to six months, with a three-month break for fall, thereby banning any "winter" in the Sunshine State.
In their own redux from the title song of "Camelot," Visit Florida marketers promote that "… the winter is forbidden until forever." Snowbirds flock in record numbers to Florida's second summer: December through March.
Kumbaya to 'No Recount'
When all of the votes are counted in the closest race for Governor in Florida history, Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist score an exact tie, with each registering 4,253,656 votes.
Rather than submit to a controversial recount, the two collaborate on splitting the term – with Gov. Scott to serve two years, followed by Gov.-elect Crist's two-year term. The two leaders call for a new "Golden Era" of bipartisan leadership – and state lawmakers agree to work together for the common good.
(And then we wake up.)
Florida Oranges Get New 'Squeeze'
To boost sagging citrus sales, Florida orange growers forge an alliance with Absolut to develop a hybrid crop of oranges that are vodka-infused – dubbed the "screwdriver fruit." The new citrus farms have an adult section – and a family section.
Jaguars Go From Worst to First
Following three straight miserable seasons, the Jacksonville Jaguars shock the football world through a new approach to team-building: Every player grows a waxed mustache like the one sported by team owner Shahid Khan.
"The Boston Red Sox had their beards, and we've got our Khans – whatever it takes to win," proclaimed new Jags quarterback and former gubernatorial candidate/college football analyst Tim Tebow.
Playing as a single unit for the first time in history, the Jags squeak through the regular season and then really wax their foes in the playoffs, winning the Super Bowl behind the rallying cry, "We Khan Do It."
Tebow is named the Super Bowl MVP after amassing six TDs (3 passing, 3 rushing) and running for more yards – 135 – than any quarterback in Super Bowl history.
Voting: It's Alive!
After election supervisors find that large masses of dead people have voted in 12 Florida counties, a lawyer representing Florida zombies comes forward, claiming "they are not completely dead" and insisting that courts must reaffirm undead voting rights.
A Census recount is required, and it is discovered that, although Florida is home to 19 million residents, more than 1 million of them qualify as "voting zombies" – with more joining the ranks every day.
As the zombie population grows, so too does a movement for the "Zombie Party" – whose first open political convention in Orlando is boycotted by every elected official and candidate. Zombie PR spokesman Ima Stiff is widely quoted as saying, "We'll get them all, eventually."
The entire list of 10 is at the Sachs Media Group website.


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Do you enjoy watching the birds but hate the mess generated under a feeder? Take a scrap of carpet, new or used, cut a circle 30" to 40" in diameter, put it down anywhere in the yard face down and put your feed on it. Move it every two or three days, the birds have no trouble following it around the yard and you have no dead or messy spots! If you enjoy different sitting areas in the yard, you can easily move the "feeder" so you have a perfect view from any area. |
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Good idea, I had an elderly friend & he had a large piece of property out back & too much to mow he said so he brought home all the carpet piled up at the curbs, turned it over & covered most of the ground out back, did a great job of keeping the weeds down & looked lot better than 4 ft high weeds. Had row of shrubs across back of his lawn so he could enjoy 1/2 his yard with lawn, fruit trees, grapes etc but didn't have to spend so many of his "golden years" trying to mow all that. Jan |
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Sanjay Dutt stars look really in trouble because he is facing one problem after another. Hardly, few months have passed when he got some relief from Supreme Court for punishment given to him from the Tada court and a new trouble has emerged to threaten his 3rd marriage. Recently, Sanjay Dutt married his girl friend Manyata in Goa court and as per Hindu rituals.
First, Goa government stayed his marriage due to the use of false certificates arranged through corrupt means and second, a person called Miraj-ur-Rehman Shaikh has claimed that Manyata real name Shehnaaz Shaikh is his wife and they were husband wife as per the Muslim laws. According to him both married on 5th April, 2005 as per the Muslim law. He also admitted that they are not living together for long time; however, he has not given legally Talak to Manyata.
They also have a two and half year old son, who lives with Manyata's mother in Hyderabad. Therefore, he has filled a case in Mumbai court against this marriage. He has also provided some photographs of his marriage with Manyata. Interestingly, Miraj-ur-Rehman Shaikh was also involved earlier in a case for threatening film personalities for ransom.
On the other hand, Goa government has also ordered further enquiry into this case which can create more problem to this couple. Moreover, there is also news in media that Manyata is pregnant. Sanjay Dutt's life is always filled with roller coaster rides and mostly, he lands into troubles due to his own decisions. Time will tell exactly that what is stored for Sanjay Dutt and Manyata in future, till we can only hope that everything goes right for him.
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This Week In DVD: Clunge, Ass Grabbing, A Little Head and Fisting Susie Salmon In the Hymen
Features By Rob Hunter on July 17, 2012 | Comments (6)Welcome back to This Week In DVD! I'd apologize for the title above, but those are actually legitimate elements of four of the releases below. Okay, maybe the Susie Salmon one is sophomoric wordplay related to the otherwise boring Salmon Fishing In the Yemen, but the others are completely legit. I swear. As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. The Inbetweeners: The Complete Series When Will's mother moves him from private to public school he thinks his life is over, but thanks to three new friends he'll be wishing it really was. Will's anal, Simon's a bit too gullible, Jay's an irresponsible tool and Neil is a bit of an idiot. Together they're hilarious. This UK series ran for three seasons, and each is literally better and funnier than the last. Each episode is essentially what the American Pie movies think they are… crass, heartfelt and funny as hell. [Deleted scenes, outtakes, commentaries, featurettes]
The 87 Most Interesting Movies of the 2012 European Film Market (or 87 Movies You Probably Haven't Heard of But Need On Your Radar)
Berlinale By Scott Beggs on February 27, 2012 | Comments (4)There's a solid chance that you haven't heard of most of these movies. Yet they exist – out there somewhere as a thorn in the side of movie fans trying to see as much as possible. Nuggets of potential waiting to be picked up from the movie orphanage by a distributor and given a warm home with cup holders in every seat. The European Film Market is fascinating for that reason and for the way people attend it. Tickets this year were around $600, but that's a reasonable price for companies sending representatives trying to find the next moneymaker for their company or the hot movie to bring to their festival. That means screenings come complete with people on cell phones and unimpressed buyers walking out after ten minutes to hustle next door to see if the other movie playing has any promise to it. It's a bizarre way to watch movies, but it makes a kind of sense given the massive size of the movie list compared to the tiny amount of time to see everything. There were upwards of 675 movies in the EFM this year, all of them with their own selling points. Here are the 87 most interesting-sounding with descriptions found in the official catalog. For the most part, I haven't seen these movies (and didn't even know about many of them until the Berlin Film Festival), but they all have something going for them that should earn them a spot on your radar.
Ohio's Shock Around the Clock 24-Hour Horror Marathon Finalizes Films
Film Festivals By Kevin Carr on October 12, 2011 | Be the First To CommentFrom 12 noon on Saturday, October 15 through 12 noon on Sunday, October 16, horror fans will descend on the Grandview Theater in Grandview, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. The line-up includes 35 mm prints of rare, historic, and foreign films along with trailers, cartoons, and various short subjects. Other activities during the movie marathon will include the annual costume contest and scream contest. Just this weekend, marathon organizers announced the final line-up of films, which includes a rare 35 mm screening of the controversial A Serbian Film, presented unrated and uncut. This will likely be one of the few times horror fans in Ohio will be able to see Srdan Spasojevic's international shocker on the big screen. The other anchor film will be the Midwest premiere of Midnight Son. Although Shock Around the Clock is only the third annual horror marathon at the Grandview Theater, these events go back to 1988 with the Night of the Living Drexel 24-hour horror movie marathons. All-night horror marathons struggled to find a home in Columbus during the 90s after the historic Drexel North theater was turned into a drug store and later a health club. Various incarnations of the event took place at different theaters in the central Ohio area, sometimes only in the form of 14-hour marathons from 10 pm until 12 noon the next day. With the opening of the Grandview Theater in 2009, the 24-hour line-up returned.
Midnight Son – directed by Scott Leberecht Festival screening times – 3/4 @ 930pm, 3/6 @ 645pm, 3/11 @ 1230pm WORLD PREMIERE If there's one film genre that's been done to death in recent years it's the whole 'sexy ballerinas engaging in lesbian shenanigans' storyline. Hollywood needs to give that one a rest already. But close behind it are movies about vampires. From Twilight to True Blood vampires are a character type well past the point of over saturation as filmmakers seem content on milking the same weak conventions time and again. For every Let Me In we seem to get five more like Suck or Transylmania. The need for a more nuanced and interesting take on these blood-suckers is long overdue. Which makes the arrival of Scott Leberecht's Midnight Son such a goddamn relief. Part urban horror, part loneliness drama, and part late-night romance, Leberecht's film takes a low-key approach that avoids most of the cliches while reveling in the only one that matters… the unquenchable desire to drink blood out of Styrofoam cups.
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Senegalese investor meets President JammehMonday, February 09, 2009 The Gambian leader, Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, yesterday afternoon received in audience Mr Dairou Diallo, the general manager of Batigroup Company limited, at his office at State House. Mr Diallo, a Senegalese investor whose company deals in construction, was accompanied to State House by top officials of his company. Speaking to reporters shorty after his audience with President Jammeh, the Batigroup boss disclosed plans by his company to invest in the country "very soon." But he maintained that the type of investment will be known later. According to Mr Diallo, his company has seen the need for investing in the country. He spoke at length about the Gambian leader's commitment to national development, saying "The Gambia is blessed with a hard working and devoted president who has a great vision for his country." These qualities in the Gambian leader, coupled with the unique investment climate, according to Diallo, prompted him and his group to come and explore the investment qualities in the country. Author: by Hatab Fadera |
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Patrick-Murray Administration's Division of Banks to Hold Hearing on New Foreclosure Regulations
BOSTON - August 23, 2012 - As the Patrick-Murray Administration's Division of Banks prepares to issue rules that require lenders and servicers to take reasonable steps to avoid foreclosure for certain mortgage loans, a public informational hearing will be held on August 29th to gather input on the regulations.
The upcoming regulations are part of legislation signed by Governor Deval Patrick on August 3, 2012 that strengthens consumer protections for the residents of Massachusetts and continues the Commonwealth's national leadership on foreclosure prevention. Homeowners in Massachusetts will also benefit from protections that prohibit certain conduct in connection with foreclosure including misrepresentation, unfair costs, and imposition of fees for services not performed.
The new law requires that lenders send a notice to borrowers of their right to pursue a loan modification for certain mortgage loans. This law also requires lenders to conduct an analysis to determine the net present value of a loan modification for these types of loans. Lenders cannot foreclose if modifying the mortgage will cost the lender less than the cost of foreclosure. In addition to requiring lenders to take reasonable steps to avoid foreclosure, lenders must prove loan ownership prior to taking foreclosure action.
"The new law provides additional protections to consumers and ensures borrowers will have a reasonable opportunity to save their home," said Barbara Anthony, the Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. "These first-in-the-nation standards will help prevent avoidable foreclosures and position the Commonwealth for recovery in the housing market."
The public informational hearing during which the Division will accept comments is scheduled for:
- Wednesday, Aug. 29, 10 a.m., 1000 Washington St., 1st Floor, Boston, MA 02118
Additional announcements relative to the hearing and subsequent rulemaking schedule will be posted on the Division's website.
Throughout this informational process, written comments may be submitted to the Massachusetts Division of Banks, 1000 Washington St., 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02118-6400 or at email@example.com. All comments to the Division must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, September 7, 2012.
The Division of Banks oversees state-chartered banks and credit unions as well as mortgage lenders and brokers, debt collectors, and check-cashers, and is an agency within the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. Follow the Office at www.mass.gov/consumer, its Consumer Connections Blog, on Facebook and at its Twitter feed, @Mass_Consumer.


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WASHINGTON – Marco Belinelli and Joakim Noah were expected to be back over the weekend in Dallas, but as of the Tuesday morning shootaround, it now seems that the Bulls will be looking to take their time bringing both of them back.
The hope now? Just make sure they can get in a few games before the regular season comes to an end and the playoffs begin.
"I feel better,'' Belinelli (strained abdomen) said. "[Monday] morning I tried to run, it hurt a little bit. I'm not 100 percent, I'm still feeling a little bit of pain, but at least it's better than last week. I'm getting better.''
As far as Noah, the plantar fasciitis in his right foot has been a problem since January, but the recent flare up was enough to shut him down for the last five games.
Coach Tom Thibodeau called Noah and Belinelli "day-to-day,'' but neither looked like that day was anytime soon.
If Noah misses the game against the Wizards it will be his sixth straight, and it will be Belinelli's fifth. Surprisingly, the Bulls were 4-1 in their last five games, including wins over Miami and Indiana in that time.
"They're both better, but they both have the type of injury where you don't want it to linger,'' Thibodeau said. "Plus, where we are in the season. You're winding down right now so you just want to make sure that they are completely healthy.''
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The Women's Center collaborates with various campus departments, student organizations and local organizations to raise awareness about sexual violence and the profound impact it has on the USD community. We provide education and opportunities to take action throughout the year.
Sexual Assault Awareness Week is a time to support survivors in our community and come together to break the silence surrounding the issue of violence. By uniting together, we will stand up and work to end the violence that happens everyday. Like us and learn more on our Facebook page!
Clothesline Project
Displayed throughout the week in various prominent locations, including in front of the Hahn University Center
The concept is simple - let each woman tell her story in her own unique way, using words and/or artwork to decorate her shirt. Once finished, she would then hang her shirt on the clothesline. This very action serves many purposes. It acts as an educational tool for those who come to view the Clothesline; it becomes a healing tool for anyone who make a shirt - by hanging the shirt on the line, survivors, friends and family can literally turn their back on some of that pain of their experience and walk away; finally it allows those who are still suffering in silence to understand that they are not alone. (clotheslineproject.org)
Monday, April 7
Who Are You? Dinner & Discussion
5:00-6:00pm, UC 128
A dialogue directed through the "Who are You" campaign about bystander intervention as it relates to sexual assault at USD. Discussion will include: What is bystander intervention, what techniques are best for effective bystander intervention, and how can it be used to end sexual assault.
Tuesday, April 8
Take Back the Night: March & Vigil
6:30pm, Plaza Menor (outside of UC/SLP)
Join us in a march and vigil as we Take Back the Night to empower survivors of sexual violence. This annual event strives to both educate the campus community about the impact of sexual violence while also empowering survivors of sexual assault and those that care about them.
Wednesday, April 9
Awareness & Education Forum
7:00-9:00pm; Soloman Hall
Sponsored by Phi Alpha Delta, the forum is intended to raise awareness on how to recognize and respond to sexual assault. Tentative speakers will be from the San Diego Police Department, Center for Community Solutions, USD Student Conduct, and a C.A.R.E. Advocate. During the forum, they will review definitions of sexual assault, how to recognize it, and what steps someone might take if it happens to her/him or a loved one.
Thursday, April 10
PRIDE's Celebration of Gender Expression: Supreme Drag Superstar III
7:00-9:00pm; Shiley Theatre
Transgender & Transsexual? Gender expression & gender identity? Drag queen & drag king? What do these terms mean? At this Changemaker event, we'll explore these questions and how they impact the USD community and our lives. We will celebrate our diversity and the inclusion of *everyone* in our community. Join PRIDE for an evening of music, pageantry, and fabulosity!
Co-sponsored with Changemaker Hub. Co-produced in collaboration with Torero Program Board and Associated Students.
Friday, April 11
Can't Thread a Moving Needle
Fri April 11; 8:00pm, Shiley Theatre
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By Barbara Means Fraser, Directed by Meggie Zanger
In an effort to raise awareness and put an end to sexual violence on college campuses and to promote and educate students about healthy relationships, Can't Thread a Moving Needle is a compilation of real stories about college students whose lives have been impacted by sexual assault.
Talk Back, facilitated by Playwright Barbara Means Fraser, following the performance
Annual Events
- V-Day Rose Sale - As part of the international "V-Day Movement", on Valentine's Day we will hold our annual "V-Day" Rose Sale, raising funds for a local women's shelter. Stop by the front of the UC or in front of La Paloma.
- Vagina Monologues - Also part of the "V-Day Movement", we will be hosting a trip to UCSD to see a performance of the Vagina Monologues. Learn more about the International "V-Day Movement" and why we offer this important program.
In support of USD's core values, the Women's Center gathers students to discuss and attend a Vagina Monologues performance each year as part of the "V-Day Movement." This event invites students to explore sexuality and the impact sexual violence has on both local and global communities by bearing witness to the experiences of women and girls throughout the world.
USD's core value of Compassionate Service calls us to "embrace the Catholic moral and social tradition by committing to serve with compassion, to foster peace and work for justice. We regard peace as inseparable from justice and advance education, scholarship and service to fashion a more humane world."
We in the Center believe it is through storytelling and experiencing the lived reality of others that we are truly transformed and able to move closer to who we are each called to be as change agents.
For the last 15 years, February has been home to an amazing display of activism called the V-Day movement. The purpose of "V-Day" is to end violence against women and girls worldwide. The V in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine, and Vagina. This movement seeks to educate people about the global reality of violence against women and girls. Through benefits, films, and live performances (among many other creative ideas) people call attention to issues including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation, and sex slavery.
The "V-Day movement" began with a play called The Vagina Monologues, written by Eve Ensler, which combines over 200 interviews Eve conducted with women. The play focuses on women's sexuality and the social stigma surrounding rape and abuse, inviting everyone to start a new conversation about and with women. Eve used this forum to call people to action to end violence and it took off from there.
Each year V-Day "spotlights" a particular group of women in the world. In 2012, V-Day sponsored women in Haiti and highlighted the increased rates of sexual violence since the devastating earthquake that took place in January 2010.


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The extent to which you will benefit from 24-bit/96kHz audio playback highly depends on what you use your PC for. You will not notice much difference when playing an MP3, however, you are sure to notice a significant improvement when playing high quality audio such as the above mentioned DVD audio.
As well as this, the Audigy 2 is the first consumer level sound card to receive the THX certification from Lucas Arts. Although not much is known regarding the requirements to obtain this certification, you can rest assured that you are purchasing a high quality product if you see the THX logo plastered across the box.


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New charges filed in teacher murder caseTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS | September 24,2013ST. JOHNSBURY New charges have been filed against a couple accused of killing a St. Johnsbury teacher.
Allen and Patricia Prue already face murder charges in connection with the March 2012 death of 33-year-old Melissa Jenkins. Both have pleaded not guilty.
The new charges of conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping were filed against the Prues last week by Caledonia County States Attorney Lisa Warren.
Prosecutors also filed charges on eight counts of possession of child pornography against Patricia Prue after finding multiple images on her laptop computer.
The Prues are accused of luring Jenkins from her Danville home, strangling her and dumping her body in the Connecticut River. Jenkins vehicle was found idling with her 2-year-old son inside.MORE IN This Just InPolice: Man robbed Full StoryIllegal gun buy Full StoryPolice are looking for a hit-and-run driver. Full Story -
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Nvidia has used its pre-CES showcase to unveil Shield, the chipmaker's first foray into bespoke game consoles.
The open platform, Android-powered handheld device is powered by a Tegra 4 processor, and resembles a home console controller with a screen attached.
Demonstrated by Nvidia's chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang, the Shield can be attached to a HD TV and used as a home console. It boasts a 5-inch retina-display touchscreen, HDMI port and a microSD card slot. Its battery life is said to be 10-11 hours in-game, and 24 hours for HD video playback.
Additionally, the Shield is capable of streaming games from a Windows PC via Wi-Fi, so long as it wields a GeForce GTX 650 or higher card.
Nvidia says the Shield will be available in the US and Canada in the second quarter of 2013.
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Cole's post on Facebook
Cole gets call to join Arkansas football team
Cole McKeel Decides Not to Sign a NLI on Wednesday
Although Cole had strong interest and Scholarship offers from a variety of schools at different levels of play, non of them were the school for which he wanted to play. Cole's favorite line is, "I love doing what others say I can't!"
Cole's Recruiting Picking Up Towards the End
Cole's recruiting appears to be picking up as we head down the final stretch to signing day. Schools like Air Force, Northern Colorado, Lindenwood, Angelo State, among others are showing strong interest with verbal offers. Cole is receiving calls from schools almost every day trying to determine if Cole is interested in playing football and attending their school.
There is such a wide range of interest, everything from D-1 FBS, D-1AA FCS schools to D-2 schools.
Cole has been on many recruiting boards for a long time and few schools have pulled the trigger with an offer. With coaching changes and changes in commits, the idea of a kid that will probably be 215-220 in a year and can still run a 4.4 has got to be intriguing.
Cole's Sr Highlights
Here is Cole's final Senior High School Highlights. He finished the year with 134 attempts for 883 total yards. 1089 all purpose yards. Averaging 6.6 yds per Attempt and 6 TDs. He caught 53 passes.
Star local Press Flower Mound Loses in Mound Showdown
By Justin Thomas, email@example.com
Published: Saturday, November 3, 2012 2:27 AM CDT
FLOWER MOUND — With one game remaining in the regular season, Marcus' football team is hopeful it is starting to find its offensive rhythm.
Exerpts:…… The win improves Marcus to 2-2 in district, tied for third with Denton Ryan (2-2) and one game in front of Flower Mound (1-3) with the tiebreaker now in hand…..
……While Flower Mound's playoff hopes took a big hit, the Jaguars haven't officially been eliminated. Should Marcus defeat Hebron (3-1) next week and Flower Mound top Denton Ryan, the Jaguars would advance by virtue of the head-to-head tiebreaker. The Jaguars would also have a slim chance to qualify on tiebreakers with a win and Marcus loss to Hebron creating a three-way tie.
"If it goes to points, I would have to look it up, but that's going to be tough," said Dane Johnson, Flower Mound head coach. "We don't deserve it anyway right now. You can't play like that. Like I said, I'll have to look, but it's a reach and that was a tough one tonight. It's one you wish didn't happen, but you have to live through those."
The Jaguars continued their trend in district of getting out to sloppy starts.
After a 49-yard completion from Ryan Vaughn to Wyatt Verret set up a 4-yard touchdown reception by Verret on Marcus' opening possession, Marauders' defensive back Tyler Mouton intercepted Flower Mound quarterback Connor Wanhanen on the Jaguars' first play from scrimmage and returned the pick 20 yards for a 13-0 advantage after the extra point was blocked.
It was the third consecutive game Flower Mound has turned the ball over on its first possession. In their 5-5A opener against Lewisville, the Jaguars had a turnover on their second possession.
"I think we've done it every game in district," Johnson said. "We're consistent."
The other big blow came midway through the second quarter when Marcus' Garrett Putnam blocked a punt just outside the end zone that was recovered for a touchdown by Victor Villareal to put the Marauders in front, 34-7. Five plays prior, Marcus had increased its lead to 27-7 on a 5-yard touchdown run from Prescott capping a 12-play, 88-yard scoring drive that included a 21-yard reception on a reverse-pass by Verret from receiver Logan Sepanek….
….Following the first-quarter interception, Wanhanen settled down, completing passes of 17 and 22 yards to Finn Foster setting up a 7-yard touchdown run by Cole McKeel, who hurdled a Marcus defender at the goal line.
In the third quarter, Flower Mound cut the deficit to 34-13 with a 4-yard scoring run by Wanhanen, who completed 6-of-7 passes on the drive.
Wanhanen finished the contest 22-of-31 for 207 yards to go with 39 yards rushing. McKeel gained 60 yards on 11 carries to go with nine receptions for 50 yards, while Foster had seven grabs for a team-high 97 yards.
"We just got outplayed from the get-go," Johnson said. "Outplayed from the opening kickoff. There's nothing much to say. That's just a good ole fashioned butt-kicking. That's what that was.",,,,
,,,,,"Nobody gave up, that's something to be proud of," Johnson said. "And it's been fun coaching these kids and these seniors. We'll go out there and play one more game together and see what happens." ….
Cole: Maxpreps Interview After Lewisville Win
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Wixon: After painful week, Coppell honors teammate by holding off Flower Mound
Matt Wixon
Matt Wixon The Dallas Morning News
Published: 20 October 2012 12:11 AM
FLOWER MOUND — Football teams often put stickers on their helmets to honor someone, but rarely are those stickers as large as the "21" that dominated the right side of the Coppell helmets Friday night. The Coppell coaches and players wanted it to be clear that Jacob Logan was a huge part of their team — and their lives.
But even without the helmet stickers, it would've been clear at Neal E. Wilson Stadium. Coppell, playing its first game since Logan died Sunday, didn't look like the dominating team that won its first six games.
Coppell looked like what you might expect after a brutally painful, emotionally draining week. It was a passionate, but also tired, team that was happy to hold on for a 27-18 victory over Flower Mound.
"We played the way our week has been," said Coppell coach Joe McBride. "It was hard to care about football. To be honest, football just didn't mean that much to us this week."
Logan, a senior who played safety and receiver, died after a cliff-jumping accident at Possum Kingdom Lake. Fans wore T-shirts in his honor, and the banners attached to the stands had messages such as "Play for J-Lo" and "Fight for J-Lo."
Coppell (7-0, 2-0 in District 5-5A), No. 2 in the area Class 5A rankings, had to fight to stay undefeated. Flower Mound (3-4, 1-1) trailed 20-3 early, but cut the lead to 20-18 in the fourth quarter with two touchdowns in six minutes.
The first came when Connor Wanhanen scored on a 9-yard run to cut Coppell's lead to 20-12 with 11:28 left. The score was set up by Flower Mound's biggest play of the night: Wanhanen's 54-yard pass to Cole McKeel.
Flower Mound scored on its next drive when McKeel took a bubble screen down the left sideline for a 55-yard touchdown with 5:02 left. Coppell lineman William Udeh pulled down Wanhanen before he could tie the score with a two-point conversion, but Flower Mound was in position for an upset if it could get a defensive stop.
That's when Coppell put the game away by using a little trickery.
Football: The clock strikes zero: Flower Mound escapes Lewisville with win
Flower Mound Beats Lewisville 34-33
Flower Mound's (3-3, 1-0) Dane Johnson picks up a win in his first district game as a head coach while the Farmers – looking to snap a 13-game skid in district – fall to 0-1 and 1-5 on the year.
"Coach Miller is doing a great job over there," Johnson said. "That team is way better than it's been the past three years. He's got a great little player in Brown and hats off to them. It's one of those games you hate for a loser.
"It was fun to watch and the kids were playing hard. I'm just glad we came out on top."
Quarterback Connor Wanhanen keyed a comeback that saw the Jaguars climb out of a 20-7 hole early in the third by outscoring the Farmers the rest of the way, 27-13.
Wanhanen completed 11-of-16 passes for 230 yards and three touchdowns with one interception while also chipping in 47 yards on the ground with a score. Brendon Ianeiro was his top target, finishing with four catches for 147 yards and three touchdowns. Cole McKeel chipped in 78 yards rushing on 11 carries with a touchdown.
"We talked to [Ianeiro] this week and said 'We have to have you if we're going to win games.'" Johnson said. "And he stepped up and did it; I'm proud of him."
Ianeiro had touchdown catches of 55 yards to open the scoring in the first, 69 yards in the third and a 13-yarder in the fourth to bring Flower Mound within 33-28 before Wanhanen plunged in from 2 yards for what proved to be the winning touchdown.
After failing to pick up a first down in the second quarter, Flower Mound erupted for 12 first downs and 279 yards in the second half.
"Connor did a good job for us," Johnson said. "In the second half, we really gained a lot of momentum, so we kept rolling with him and the leadership he brought."
Flower Mound too much for Keller Central
Fri 8/31, 7:30pm, Neal Wilson Athletic Stadium, Flower Mound
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Final | |
Keller Central | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
Flower Mound | 7 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 33 |
By Louie Horvath
Special to the Star-Telegram
FLOWER MOUND — Flower Mound got a huge first half from Cole McKeel on Friday night and rode that to a convincing 33-8 win against Keller Central.
McKeel scored on a 31-yard screen pass on the Jaguars' first drive. Two drives later, he hurdled a Central defender and ran 44 yards for a touchdown.
Cole McKeel's First Game Sr. Highlights
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Here is the link to Cole's Hudl highlight video Keller Central. He had 129yds on only 8 touches and 2TDs. The team won 33-8.


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Courtesy Tanimura & AntleFoodservice trends have begun to lean toward red onions, and industry sources say offering multiple options to meet the needs of customers has the best benefit.
Corey Griswold, president, ProSource Inc., Hailey, Idaho, has noticed that reds are on trend in foodservice.
"The trend for more red demand has been consistent over the past three years or so. It's seen as the rising star of the onion industry," he said.
Griswold said chefs and other foodservice professionals have been interested in using red onions in new ways.
"There's a lot of exciting new demand. People are doing more with them," he said.
Foodservice sales is the main focus of Las Cruces, N.M.-based National Onion Inc., according to Steve Smith, president and owner.
"We have a lot of onion ring contracts and foodservice customers. That's our main focus," Smith said.
Because of that, he said the majority of their customers want larger onions.
"It seems like everyone is really always interested in the bigger size jumbo onions. They don't want the smaller ones," he said, mentioning that trend has been constant for several years.
He said most foodservice places want the biggest, as well as the best.
"No one wants to deal with anything less than perfect," Smith said.
Of course, there will always be onions that aren't quite as nice, and Smith said processors or foodservice venues that can peel off the outer layers make a good home for those less-than-perfect onions.
"You can get a few people who are going to dice them as opposed to slicing them for onion rings or something else," he said.
Smith has also seen a recent uptake in interest for red onions at foodservice.
"It seems they are taking more red onions," Smith said.
He's not sure if it's because the sandwich shops have switched to red onions or if the upscale places are wanting more color in salads and other dishes, but it's likely a combination of all those factors.
"Overall, there's just been a big demand for red onions over the last year," Smith said.
Bill Coombs, sales, Desert Spring Produce, Hatch, N.M., agreed colored onion varieties tend to do well in foodservice outlets.
"Yellows and reds tend to go mostly to foodservice," he said, adding that it depends on each individual market. "We have a mix to suit the needs of our customer base."
Kim Reddin, director of public relations for the Greeley, Colo.-based National Onion Association said she has seen the non-commercial side of foodservice begin using more colored onions.


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Introduction to SQLAlchemy - Pycon 2013 - Wrapup
April 04, 2013 at 12:10 PM | Code, Talks, SQLAlchemy | View CommentsVideo is up for my Pycon 2013 tutorial Introduction to SQLAlchemy.
For those who want to follow along at home, the full code and prerequisite material is available here:
Introduction to SQLAlchemy - Pycon 2013
March 05, 2013 at 12:10 PM | Code, Talks, SQLAlchemy | View CommentsPreparations are just about complete for my upcoming tutorial Introduction to SQLAlchemy. There's a good crowd of people already attending, and I think registration is still open in case more people want to sign up.
But in any case, if you are coming, this year there is prerequisite material, including the software installs as well as a "Relational Overview" section that covers the basics of SQL and relational databases. Everyone coming to the tutorial should read through this document, so that we're all on roughly the same page regarding upfront SQL knowledge, and try to get the software installed. If there's any issues with the software, please report bugs to me and we'll try to get them resolved by tutorial time. We will also be available at the Wednesday 6:30pm tutorial setup session to help with installs.
Historically, tutorials pack the whole three hours of material up pretty solidly, and I hope I can balance getting lots of coverage versus not talking too fast. Thanks for signing up !
Pycon Canada - the SQLAlchemy Session In Depth
November 14, 2012 at 08:31 AM | Code, Talks, SQLAlchemy | View CommentsVideo is up for my Pycon.ca talk, The SQLAlchemy Session - In Depth. In this talk, I delve into the key philosophies behind the design of SQLAlchemy's Session system. Starting with a brief review of the ACID model, I contrast the approach of the so-called "active record" pattern to that of the more explicit Session pattern, and how the two approaches integrate with the ACID model at work within a relational database. Afterwards, I present an HTML animation of a Session object at work.
Supporting a (Very Interesting) New Database
October 25, 2012 at 08:12 PM | Code, SQLAlchemy | View CommentsUpdated 1/23/2014 - Akiban is now rolled into FoundationDB, where it serves as the "FoundationDB SQL Layer". Work has continued on the DBAPI and SQLAlchemy libraries; see the updated links at the bottom.
As SQLAlchemy 0.8 nears its first beta release, possibly within the week, lots of new features and additions became apparent as the development cycle went on. One area that saw more activity than usual was in the area of new dialects. Going forward, SQLAlchemy will be much more capable of supporting externally-installed dialects, thanks to a new testing suite. The motiviation for this new suite started when I was tasked with supporting a new and very interesting database vendor.
A Late Add
I was approached some months ago by a vendor known as Akiban, with a request that was totally new to me. On the initial emails, the idea seemed to be some kind of database that can produce JSON documents from tables, which by itself didn't seem at all very novel; there are already products like HTSQL and SlashDB (friend of SQLAlchemy!) which provide RESTful services around relational databases.
But digging in, it became apparent that this company was taking a much more elaborate path to that goal - this company is producing their own relational database from scratch. The server itself, Akiban server, is written in Java and is designed to act in large part like Postgresql, with some MySQL compatibility added in as well. Within the span of this obviously monumental task, they have built what seems to be exactly one twist, but it is a really interesting twist, which they call a "table grouping".
I was very flattered that Akiban not only wanted me to provide SQLAlchemy support for their database, but to help them come up with their Python DBAPI story overall. And, they wanted not just a SQLAlchemy dialect and Python DBAPI story, they also wanted my thoughts on how modern ORMs can integrate with the unique features of this system.
The reason all three of these areas are up for grabs with Akiban, is that while it acts pretty much like a regular relational database most of the time, it does something strange when the "table grouping" idea is in use. At the DDL level, a "table grouping" is established just like a foreign key:
CREATE TABLE customer ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL ) CREATE TABLE cust_order ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, customer_id INTEGER, ordernum VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL, timestamp DATETIME, GROUPING FOREIGN KEY (customer_id) REFERENCES customer )
This single keyword on GROUPING causes Akiban to organize the data in a way I don't think any other database does, which is that it stores the rows for cust_order interleaved within those of customer. Meaning, it stores the data hierarchically, on disk. This special hierarchy is then made available through SQL. This is the second part that is really surprising, which is in order to support this, there were no changes at all needed to the SQL syntax. The only change made to SQL was a semantic one.
Normally, SQL allows us to query for a correlated SELECT in the columns or WHERE clause of a SELECT statement:
SELECT name, ( SELECT ordernum FROM cust_order WHERE customer_id=customer.id AND ordernum like 'order1%' ) AS ordernum FROM customer
The correlated SELECT must return exactly one column, and one row, or your database will complain. Here, Akiban merely took away the "complain" part, and when specifying a correlated subquery with multiple columns and potentially multiple rows, you instead get back a result that is hierarchical, assuming the tables you're embedding are related to the parent via a "grouping" - the "nested" rows are fetched in groups along with each corresponding parent row, and delivered inline. We would get such a result from Akiban given a statement like that below:
SELECT name, ( SELECT ordernum, timestamp FROM cust_order WHERE customer_id=customer.id ) AS orders FROM customer
But what does a "hierarchical" result look like? Well, for Akiban, since they wanted this to all work over the Postgresql protocol, for now they actually send you back a JSON string per parent row, as one column. Such as this:
{"name":"Some Customer", "orders":[{"ordernum":"some order", "timestamp":"20121005121700"}, {"ordernum":"some other order", "timestamp":"20121012184507"}]}
With that, Akiban asked me what I can do with this. Particularly, how can an ORM like SQLAlchemy take advantage of it?
well it's just nested
The first thing I wanted to do with this data was to make that JSON look like a regular SQL result again. Having worked with "eager loading" for so many years, I already tend to see SQL products as "hierarchies" - a regular JOIN of customer and order would have rows like:
customer.name ordernum timestamp ------------- ---------------- -------------- Some Customer some order 20121005121700 Some Customer some other order 20121012184507 Some Other Customer ... ...
The result set from a correlated subquery on a "grouped" foreign key, in my mind, looks pretty similar:
customer.name orders ------------- ---------------------------------- Some Customer ordernum timestamp ---------------- -------------- some order 20121005121700 some other order 20121012184507 Some Other Customer ... ...
When we normally have a subquery in the "columns" clause of a SELECT, the result of that SELECT comes back as a single result set column. My idea was that just as they don't have to change the syntax of SQL to express a "grouping" here, we didn't have to change the idea on the result side either - we just have a nested cursor, where a single result set column orders returns a new cursor as its value.
I initially studied Postgresql's protocol quite a bit, mostly by reading the source to the pure-Python pg8000 DBAPI for Postgresql, and proposed to Akiban that they just add some extra messages to the Postgresql protocol to support this concept without the need for JSON being involved. I could extend or fork pg8000 into a new Akiban-specific DBAPI. But for the time being, what I ended up doing was to stick with the DBAPI that already works with Akiban, psycopg2, and extend it on the outside of the JSON to coerce the result back into a cursor shape. With psycopg2's very extensible design, I was able to make use of its Connection extension system to intercept JSON-formatted results back into cursor-like results, as well as to reuse its existing typing system in order to apply the same string interception it uses on raw Postgresql messages to the JSON-encoded fields as well. The result of this stage of the game is Akiban for Python, an extension to psycopg2 that introduces a new result-row datatype, the nested cursor, which is transparently returned when you emit an Akiban "nested" SQL statement - the presense of JSON is entirely concealed.
turtles all the way down (or up, in this case)
With a DBAPI providing nested cursors, the next task was an Akiban dialect for SQLAlchemy which can wrap these nested cursors into SQLAlchemy's cursor-wrapping ResultProxy object. Over the years, I've had to make ResultProxy objects deal with so many curveballs, from cx_Oracle's streaming LOB objects and OUT parameters, to the buffering required with psycopg2's "server side cursors", to pysqlite's quirk with column name descriptions being prepended with the table name when the SQL statement is a UNION of two SELECT statements, that this task was relatively easy to get going. Slightly more tricky was to get the statement compiler to keep track of "nested" select() constructs and to relate them to the nested cursors ultimately produced. The end result is that we can build an Akiban nested query and get its results:
from sqlalchemy_akiban import nested stmt = nested([order.c.ordernum, order.c.timestamp]).\ where(order.c.customer_id == customer.c.id) stmt = select([customer.c.name, stmt.label('orders')]) for customer_row in connection.execute(stmt): print "customer name:", customer_row['name'] for order_row in customer_row['orders']: print "ordernum:", order_row['ordernum'] print "timestamp:", order_row['timestamp']
And with the above, all of the usual SQLAlchemy Core capabilities like result-set typing and column targeting work out the same. At the ORM level, I added similar nesting features into Query (meaning, you can get back nested tuples) and also produced a new "loader strategy" specific for "Akiban" style loading on relationships, so that a "nested" cursor can provide for the simplest eager loading implementation ever. The familiar syntax we use with joinedload() and subqueryload() gets the addition of nestedload(), which we drop in in the same way:
from sqlalchemy_akiban.orm import nestedload_all result = session.query(Customer).options( orm.nestedload_all(Customer.orders, Order.items)).\ filter(Customer.id == 1)
Above, the Customer.orders and Order.items collections are populated directly from nested results, using a single statement that optimizes as fast as a straight select of just the customer table and nothing else:
SELECT customer.id AS customer_id, customer.name AS customer_name, (SELECT (SELECT item.id, item.order_id, item.price, item.quantity FROM item WHERE "order".id = item.order_id ) AS anon_2, "order".id, "order".customer_id, "order".order_info FROM "order" WHERE customer.id = "order".customer_id ) AS anon_1 FROM customer WHERE customer.id = %(id_1)s
All of the above was possible with pretty much no changes to SQLAlchemy itself, save for one new dialect hook which allows the cursor context to be available to type objects - since we introduced an extension type called NestedResult which needs more information than most types. The ORM, compiler, etc. needed no changes. The result of this stage is available at SQLAlchemy Akiban.
Updated 1/23/2014 - Links below now refer to the up-to-date libraries on the FoundationDB Github repository.
- fdb-sql - FoundationDB/SQL extension for the psycopg2 DBAPI
- SQLAlchemy-FoundationDB - FoundationDB/SQL dialect and ORM extension for SQLAlchemy
Lately I've been studying Redis a lot. When using key/value databases like Redis, as well as caches like Memcached, if you want to scale keys across multiple nodes, you need a consistent hashing algorithm. Consistent hashing is what we use when we want to distribute a set of keys along a span of key/value servers in a...well consistent fashion.
If you Google around to learn what consistent hashing means, the article that most directly tells you "the answer" without a lot of handwringing is Consistent Hashing by Tom White. Not only does it explain the concept very clearly, it even has a plain and simple code example in Java.
The recipe in Tom's post is dependent on the capabilities of Java's TreeMap which we don't have in Python, but after some contemplation it became apparent that the functionality of circle.tailMap(hash) is something we already have using bisect, that is, we have a sorted array of integers, and a new number. Where in the array does the new number go? bisect.bisect() will give you that, with the same efficiency as TreeMap.
As a sanity check, I searched a bit more for Python implementations. I found a recipe by Amir Salihefendic, which seems to be based on the Java recipe and is pretty nice, but in the post he's searching the circle for hash values using a linear search, ouch! Turns out Amir is in fact using bisect in his Python Cheese Shop package hash_ring, but by then it was too late, I had already written my own recipe as well as tests (which hash_ring doesn't appear to have, at least in the downloaded distribution). There's also Continuum, taking a slightly more heavy-handed approach (three separate classes and an expensive IndexError being caught to detect keys beyond the circle). Both systems, Continuum more so, seem to encourage using hostnames directly as keys - as noted by Jeremy Zawodny, with a persistent system like Redis this is a bad idea as it means you can't move a particular key set to a new host.
So spending a bit of NIH capital, here's my recipe, which provides a dictionary interface so that you can store hostnames or even actual client instances, keyed to symbolic names:
import bisect import md5 class ConsistentHashRing(object): """Implement a consistent hashing ring.""" def __init__(self, replicas=100): """Create a new ConsistentHashRing. :param replicas: number of replicas. """ self.replicas = replicas self._keys = [] self._nodes = {} def _hash(self, key): """Given a string key, return a hash value.""" return long(md5.md5(key).hexdigest(), 16) def _repl_iterator(self, nodename): """Given a node name, return an iterable of replica hashes.""" return (self._hash("%s:%s" % (nodename, i)) for i in xrange(self.replicas)) def __setitem__(self, nodename, node): """Add a node, given its name. The given nodename is hashed among the number of replicas. """ for hash_ in self._repl_iterator(nodename): if hash_ in self._nodes: raise ValueError("Node name %r is " "already present" % nodename) self._nodes[hash_] = node bisect.insort(self._keys, hash_) def __delitem__(self, nodename): """Remove a node, given its name.""" for hash_ in self._repl_iterator(nodename): # will raise KeyError for nonexistent node name del self._nodes[hash_] index = bisect.bisect_left(self._keys, hash_) del self._keys[index] def __getitem__(self, key): """Return a node, given a key. The node replica with a hash value nearest but not less than that of the given name is returned. If the hash of the given name is greater than the greatest hash, returns the lowest hashed node. """ hash_ = self._hash(key) start = bisect.bisect(self._keys, hash_) if start == len(self._keys): start = 0 return self._nodes[self._keys[start]]
The map is used as a dictionary of node names to whatever you want, such as here we use Redis clients:
import redis cr = = ConsistentHashRing(100) cr["node1"] = redis.StrictRedis(host="host1") cr["node2"] = redis.StrictRedis(host="host2") client = cr["some key"] data = client.get("some key")
I wanted to validate that the ring is in fact producing standard deviations like those mentioned in the Java article, so this is tested like the following:
import unittest import collections import random import math class ConsistentHashRingTest(unittest.TestCase): def test_get_distribution(self): ring = ConsistentHashRing(100) numnodes = 10 numhits = 1000 numvalues = 10000 for i in range(1, 1 + numnodes): ring["node%d" % i] = "node_value%d" % i distributions = collections.defaultdict(int) for i in xrange(numhits): key = str(random.randint(1, numvalues)) node = ring[key] distributions[node] += 1 # count of hits matches what is observed self.assertEquals(sum(distributions.values()), numhits) # I've observed standard deviation for 10 nodes + 100 # replicas to be between 10 and 15. Play around with # the number of nodes / replicas to see how different # tunings work out. standard_dev = self._pop_std_dev(distributions.values()) self.assertLessEqual(standard_dev, 20) # if the stddev is good, it's safe to assume # all nodes were used self.assertEquals(len(distributions), numnodes) # just to test getting keys, see that we got the values # back and not keys or indexes or whatever. self.assertEquals( set(distributions.keys()), set("node_value%d" % i for i in range(1, 1 + numnodes)) ) def _pop_std_dev(self, population): mean = sum(population) / len(population) return math.sqrt( sum(pow(n - mean, 2) for n in population) / len(population) )


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Lorne Michaels says that Saturday Night Live can expect cast changes before its 40th season begins in September. In an interview with Deadline, the creator and longtime executive producer of NBC's late-night sketch show said, "We're still in the middle of rebuilding. So there will be changes this year." READ FULL STORY
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Fox orders 10 more episodes of new sitcom 'Mulaney'
Fox has faith in John Mulaney.
The network has its extended its order for Mulaney, the sitcom starring the Saturday Night Live writer, from 6 episodes to 16. The comedian tweeted about the news early Wednesday morning:
FOX made this a great night by picking up my show "Mulaney" for 10 more episodes. I am thrilled. Sincerely. Call me with any questions.
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Maya Rudolph's variety show: Guest list and air date revealed -- EXCLUSIVE
Maya Rudolph will make her return to NBC next month with some song and sketch — not to mention, a little help from her famous friends. READ FULL STORY
'SNL' to add black female cast member in January
No more wigs and heels for Kenan Thompson!
Early next year, Saturday Night Live will add someone new to its ranks — specifically, its first black female cast member since Maya Rudolph vacated in 2007. (SNL has only featured four African-American women in its entire 39-year history: Yvonne Hudson (1980-81), Danitra Vance (1985-86), Ellen Cleghorne (1991-95) and Rudolph (2000-2007).)
The news comes from straight from executive producer/SNL Czar for Life Lorne Michaels, who told the New York Times that his team has been holding special casting sessions for weeks. The search culminated in an under-the-radar audition for black female comedians held at Los Angeles's Groundlings Theater last week, at which about a dozen performers were present. READ FULL STORY
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True, most of their names have been floating around the Internet since August. But today, it's official: Saturday Night Live's 39th season will feature the debut of half a dozen new cast members, including one longtime SNL writer, one skilled impressionist, and one very familiar face — provided you don't fast-forward through commercials. Here's the announcement, straight from the peacock's mouth:
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The dream of the '90s is still alive! IFC has renewed Portlandia, starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, for two more seasons. Season 4 will begin in early 2014 and season 5 is scheduled for early 2015. Each season has a ten-episode order.
In a press release, the president and general manager of IFC Jennifer Caserta said, "Portlandia has celebrated sustainable local agriculture, underemployment, avian crafting, gender politics, intense bicycle messengers and so much more. We can now celebrate two more seasons."
Armisen recently said goodbye to Saturday Night Live singing a song he wrote called "It's a Lovely Day" that ended "It's been all right, I've had a lovely night with you."
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Seth Meyers will return to 'SNL' this fall, leave for 'Late Night' in 2014
Who will replace Seth Meyers at Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update desk? We'll have to wait at least until January to find out. Meyers explained on the Today show this morning that he plans to return to SNL this fall, continuing to anchor Update through the end of 2013.
"I just am nowhere near emotionally ready for Saturday to be my last show," the comic explained to Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie in a voice that sounded choked with emotion. (In reality, Meyers is just nursing a particularly nasty cold.) SNL's most devoted fans probably feel the same way, especially if Saturday marks the exit of Fred Armisen and Jason Sudeikis as well as Bill Hader — the only cast member who is confirmed to be leaving the show.
'Saturday Night Live' announcer Don Pardo suffers broken hip -- Report
Live, from New York, it's… not Don Pardo, who wasn't on hand to announce SNL's lineup during last weekend's show. According to TMZ, the nonagenarian — he recently celebrated his 95th birthday — sat this week out because he's recovering from a broken hip.
NBC declined to comment on Pardo's health, but TMZ's sources say he's "doing just fine" — which should be a relief to longtime SNL fans. The iconic announcer has been reading off names for the sketch show since it began in 1975, and has missed only one year in Saturday Night Live's 38-season run: season 7, when producer Dick Ebersol also nixed starting the show with "Live from New York…" Thankfully, both the line and Pardo were restored for season 8 in the fall of 1982.
See the face behind the voice in this video from 2010, in which Amy Poehler and Lorne Michaels welcome Pardo into the Television Academy Hall of Fame:
Best of 2012 (Behind the Scenes): Inside Kristen Wiig's enchanting last dance on 'SNL'
After seven seasons on Saturday Night Live, Kristen Wiig said goodbye on May 19. She'd co-written and starred in the surprise 2011 blockbuster Bridesmaids and the time had come, just as it had for stars like Chevy and Eddie and Will before her. SNL godfather Lorne Michaels called her one of the "top three or four" performers the show had ever produced, and during her reign, the show was dominated by sketches filled with the likes of the Target Lady, tiny-handed Dooneese, and compulsive one-upper Penelope.
Colin Jost started writing for Saturday Night Live in 2005, the same year that Wiig began as a featured player. They connected creatively and ultimately collaborated on several sketches, including some of her Björk bits and a commercial parody for Red Flag perfume. With Mick Jagger hosting the season finale, Jost assumed the responsibility of sending her off in style. The premise he came up with could not have been more simple — Jagger bidding farewell to an honored "graduate" with an impromptu dance — but when each cast member cut in to share one last moment while Arcade Fire played the Stones' "She's a Rainbow," the effect was magical.
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I don't think I raised the bar in any way. I think people find different ways of saying goodbye or people find different ways of saying goodbye to them. I remember when Will Ferrell left, he had a really funny documentary where people talked about Will, and Tracy Morgan talks about how Will Ferrell stole from him and [says] really mean stuff. I remember that Tina [Fey] and Jimmy [Fallon] had done one that was like a "Summer Lovin" from Grease kind of farewell. So people have different ways of doing it, and I think this is just one of them. READ FULL STORY
'Saturday Night Live': Lorne Michaels talks Kristen Wiig's departure, the new cast members, and Jason Sudeikis' future -- EXCLUSIVE
This season, Saturday Night Live has had to adjust to the departures of two of its biggest names in recent years, Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg. To fill the void, the show has four new featured players: Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, and Tim Robinson. The newcomers have all shown promise, particularly McKinnon, who debuted at the end of last season and who's gotten buzz for her impersonations of Ann Romney and Penelope Cruz. EW talked with SNL maestro Lorne Michaels about the newbies and losing Wiig and Samberg.
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LORNE MICHAELS: I think there's a tremendous feeling of loss like, What will you do and it will never be the same. Then, the sun comes up. I was in Chicago for like four days just looking for people. Kate we brought in the spring and that worked well. The one thing you can't do is try to replace Kristen Wiig with Kristen Wiig. You know Chevy Chase was followed by Bill Murray. And that worked well because it's hard enough to make your mark without being compared to the person that you are "replacing." READ FULL STORY
Lorne Michaels: Jay Pharoah to take over Obama job on 'SNL'
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In an interview with The New York Times, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels said that Pharoah would play President Obama on the show, stepping in for Fred Armisen, who has impersonated the President since 2008.
"Jay has been doing Obama in his act this summer, and Jay is coming into his own," Michaels said. "I just thought it might be time to shake it up."
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Eighteen-year-old Sita wants just one thing—an iPhone.
Even though I'd been volunteering in Cambodia for eight weeks, this revelation comes as a surprise. First, because Sita would have no way to pay the monthly bill; he sends every dollar he makes to his mother. Second, it's common knowledge here that the country's service towers don't work with the iPhone.
I ask Sita—a lover of Beyoncé's dance moves who sports an urban playboy haircut—why the phone and not, say, a house or a college education. "It would make me a man," he says, voice breaking. "It means I am important enough to be called by someone." He wipes his eyes with the back of his dirty hand. "Anyone."
So I send a missive to my Facebook friends, asking who might have an old phone to spare. Someone does. With the coveted iPhone en route, I run to tell Sita the good news.
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Book Review: The Game by Diana Wynne Jones
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March 2007
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Review by Carlos Aranaga © 2007
Hayley is a fireball of a girl who lives with a stone-faced control freak grandma. Grandpa is a harried man who, as an advisor to government ministers, seems to shoulder
the weight of the world. They live under the thumb of Uncle Jolyon, a patriarchal gasbag of a tyrant who brooks no defiance. Troubled people they are, but more than that, too. Behind their quotidian facades dwell the personalities of the primordial gods.
In The Game, the new Firebird imprint novella by Diana Wynne Jones, British master of high fantasy, we trip the mythosphere fantastic as Hayley finds the truth about who she is, and about what happened to the mom and dad she never knew. Along the way we meet the living archetypes of the Greek and Indo-European pantheon, who relive their fated roles on the mythic strands that underlie the world of our senses.
Living on the outskirts of contemporary London, Hayley is a normal if timid girl, browbeaten by her grandmother but nurtured in spirit by her grandfather, who instructs her on the stars and the planets, and helps her glimpse the geography of myth. So, too, do Hayley's Russian nanny and two mysterious strangers, the street-corner musicians who guide Hayley on her first serious excursions on the strange and surreal side.
It doesn't take long for Hayley to seriously put out grandma, and to be shunted off to never-before-met cousins in Ireland. But what's meant as punishment turns out as liberation as Hayley, an orphaned only child, is caught up in the embrace of her numerous aunts and cousins, who induct her into The Game, a scavenger hunt across the mythosphere.
What Hayley finds there is often not pleasant, no more than classical myths or fairy tales are always so. We're reminded of the foibles and petty vengefulness of the gods of old. Far from being paragons of perfection, these were. The Game is perfect for young adult readers and all fans of high fantasy. Jones' knack for showing young people facing extraordinary challenge in magical worlds is on full display here.
Alternate worlds are always nearby in the works of Diana Wynne Jones. It's where you get to by going in the direction of the corner of your eye. From the Related Worlds of her Chrestomanci series to romping novels like Deep Secret or Dogsbody, where no one is what they seem at first. In The Game a bratty cousin may well be a demi-god, and Hayley a celestial being cursed with ignorance of her antiquity and of who she really is. It's good to be reminded that we can all be more than what we think we are.
Lovers of high fantasy that touches close with the world we live in will likely already know all about Diana Wynne Jones. Finer young adult fiction there cannot be found. Her work can be compared favorably with that of Philip Pullman and Terry Pratchett. Neil Gaiman praises Jones as "quite simply, the best writer of magic there is, for readers of any age."
In Conrad's Fate and The Pinhoe Egg Jones has at last returned to the Chrestomanci series, must-reads for fans of young wizards, enchanters, English country schools and other worlds. With the winsome A Charmed Life (1977) Jones can actually lay fair claim to having created the trope.
Notable also is Japanese animation great Hayao Miyazaki's 2004 screen version of Jones' novel Howl's Moving Castle. Interesting, too, how Howl features an ambulatory castle, and in The Game there's an appearance by the chicken-legged walking hut of Slavic magical mistress Baba Yaga.
For the spell of a book we, too, can run among the stars and recall that we are children of the universe. Maybe we live in our world as shadows of the greater things we may be in over-arching reality. The mythosphere is all human imagining lurking in the realm of archetype and potentiality. At a time when our understanding of reality is starting to factor in the creative role of the subjective observer, we may start to see we've come the long way around to finding out what the sages and bards of old knew all along.
Oh, but watch them golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides. The Game is a great story for readers with expansive minds, young or old. It has a short glossary in case you need to keep straight your Pleiades from your Titans, and who these days doesn't? Classical mythology brought to life as it is by Jones reminds us of its eternal vibrancy and, yes, relevancy.
Thanks Firebird, for dishing up a memorable addition to Diana Wynne Jones' worthy oeuvre. Firebird is a Penguin imprint led by editor Sharyn November, specializing in YA fantasy and science fiction, with the likes of writers Tanith Lee, Emma Bull and Charles Vess. Anthology Firebirds Rising (2006) was a perfect pou-pou tray of short works that included stand-out stories by Alan Dean Foster, Kelly Link, and Charles De Lint.
Coming soon is another promising Firebird novella, Indigara, by Tanith Lee, that looks to be a playful future adventure of Jet, a teenaged girl, and her robot dog Otis. Meantime, be sure not to miss out on The Game.
The Game is available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Carlos Aranaga is a life-long SF connoisseur, world traveler and man of letters, born in the Andes, and who at various times has occupied temporal coordinates in Atlanta, Bangladesh, Bolivia, India, Lithuania and Maryland, USA.
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