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Josh Beckett scratched from Sunday start, Franklin Morales rejoins Red Sox rotation
Aug 3, 2012, 5:35 PM EDT
As expected the Red Sox have scratched Josh Beckett from his scheduled Sunday start against the Twins due to a back injury, announcing that Franklin Morales will take his place.
Morales moving back into the rotation seemed possible as soon as the Red Sox traded for left-handed reliever Craig Breslow earlier this week, although for now at least the move isn't permanent because Beckett remains on the active roster.
Beckett left Tuesday's start in the third inning due to back spasms and missed much of 2010 with a back injury, but so far the Red Sox have indicated this issue isn't particularly serious.
Morales had gone three years without starting when the Red Sox gave him a chance in the rotation in mid-June and he had a 3.42 ERA and 31/8 K/BB ratio in five starts, but then moved back into the bullpen for the past few weeks.
- razorbyrd - Aug 3, 2012 at 5:45 PM
I've never seen such a whiny, spoiled, diva-like pitcher than Beckett. I'd bet my house that he's not hurt, he just doesn't want to pitch at Fenway where the fans booed him. Such a little Sally…
- kkingprior - Aug 3, 2012 at 5:49 PM
So when is his tee time this weekend?
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
- bw1980 - Aug 3, 2012 at 11:14 PM
Well, given the choice between Beckett teeing off on a golf course or having nine men tee off on him, I guess I'd rather he be paid $15M to take his fat ass out to the country club then to be at Fenway.
- Glenn - Aug 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM
I would hope that Morales replaces Aaron Cook in the long term. I think that carriage has turned back into a pumpkin.
- willclarkgameface - Aug 3, 2012 at 6:10 PM
Josh will be teeing off at 7am on Sunday and should be finished in time to pick up his to-go bucket of chicken to bring to the Fenway home clubhouse so he can watch Morales get SPANKED by the Twins.
Beckett is a fucking ass hole, but you know what? His bosses let him act this way so they are ass holes too. There's no way he's going to change in Boston. It's too perfectly comfortable for him. Guaranteed contract, bosses let him act like a dick.
I just hope Red Sox fans continue to boo the pants off this fucker until he just can't pitch anymore and hangs it up.
- tfbuckfutter - Aug 3, 2012 at 6:15 PM
Now the really bad news…..he actually scratched himself from the start and got a blister doing it….then he pulled his lat getting up from his barcalounger.
- crisisjunky - Aug 3, 2012 at 6:28 PM
no, he actually got out of the chair small effort, the lat injury occurred receiving the heimlich
to dislodge the gristle.
- tfbuckfutter - Aug 3, 2012 at 6:29 PM
You know what I think the biggest problem with Beckett is this season?
You know how girls will always have an ugly and/or fat friend that they go out with because it makes them look more attractive by comparison?
I think Beckett misses JD Drew. Because he looked like a stud compared to Nancy.
- badintent - Aug 4, 2012 at 4:40 AM
always great to hear BRS fans rag on Beckett. They do a much better job than Yankee fans like myself ever could.Love to hear Curt will be replacing Bobby V … with himself as manager. He managed his game company real good too.

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The design of organisational intervention: Choosing the approach
UNSPECIFIED (1997) The design of organisational intervention: Choosing the approach. In: EURO XIV Meeting, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, JUL, 1995. Published in: Omega - International Journal of Management Science, 25 (4). pp. 415-435.
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At some point in an intervention, the operational research consultant has to choose how to approach the issue in hand. The need for an explicit approach depends on who will be involved and the nature of the relationship between consultant and client. Increasingly, as the organisational distance between the two parties increases, the approach taken has to be declared formally and at an early stage. The approach chosen may be a general approach for consultancy assignments, it may be a specific, named approach taken from the literature, or it may be designed specifically for that particular intervention. The choice of methods Bih depend on the organisational context, the degree of participation envisaged, the consultant's skills and an the nature of the outcome required. The paper draws on theory to articulate these choices. A personal experiment is described in which critical systems heuristics, soft systems methodology, and the strategic choice approach are used to structure the process of designing an intervention. As a result two concepts are introduced, (i) personal intervention competence and (ii) intervention transformation requirement and context. These concepts are used to suggest a general method mixing approach referred to as the transformation competence model. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
Journal or Publication Title: | Omega - International Journal of Management Science |
Publisher: | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
Official Date: | August 1997 |
Volume: | 25 |
Number: | 4 |
Number of Pages: | 21 |
Page Range: | pp. 415-435 |
Publication Status: | Published |
Title of Event: | EURO XIV Meeting |
Location of Event: | JERUSALEM, ISRAEL |
Date(s) of Event: | JUL, 1995 |
URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/16453 |
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PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti says Andre Villas-Boas needs time to overhaul Chelsea's squad.
AVB replaced Ancelotti over the summer at Stamford Bridge.
"You cannot reach your objective immediately. The change is that they want to refresh the team. The philosophy of this team was introduced by [Jose] Mourinho, who turned [John] Terry, [Frank] Lampard and [Didier] Drogba into great players. They're the same players I trained and the same players that are there now. Chelsea want to change this.
"In my last year we got Ramires, David Luiz and Fernando Torres. And this year I think they've bought a lot of players — young players — because they want to keep the team at the top." "I don't know how long Villas-Boas's changes will take, but when you change something at a football club you have to give the manager time," Ancelotti told the Telegraph.


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Ankou posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Most of the people that are dissing this are either gay, ugly, haters, or trolls. Now with that being said, i only got two words…DAT ASS!
Slipknotyk posted on April 22, 2011 at 3:35 am
It's a fail because of the little kid in the lower left you were obviously too dumbfounded to notice.
Duane Ellisando Herbert Caamancho Mt. Dew Hernanndez posted on June 7, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Thats why the kids lookin…
joe ciobanu posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:38 am
^^^ dumbfounded??? get your wack ass out of here using terms like those trying to sound smart for your GREAT analyses of this photo. you fuck tard
wicked phreec posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:06 pm
how the hell do you think the kid existed in the first place, douchetards?? it fell out of that ass!!
Nicky No Name posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:57 am
mmm hmm i here dat. God I hate retards.
that guy posted on July 30, 2011 at 3:08 pm
what, the kid or everything??? the kid as in the kid being the failure, or her gargantuan arangotang booty, or that hideous face, or the fact that shes in a shower or something, or that she was born??? more fails than 1 my nukka
Parents of a WHORE posted on September 12, 2011 at 7:24 pm
HANDS AGAINST THE WALL AND SPREAD YOUR LEGS! see she is ready for prison life already
krissy posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:38 pm
..or the fact that she is using her kids little pink chair to pose on….


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Last weekend national newspaper and broadcast television critics and bloggers gathered in Pasadena for a preview of PBS' highly anticipated fall specials. Among the gems they saw is a film I hope you'll enjoy: Inventing LA: The Chandlers & Their Times.Award winning producer-writer-director Peter Jones has created a definitive look at the family that single-handedly shaped and defined what we now know as Los Angeles. The two-hour documentary will air on KCET October 5 at 9:00 p.m.
After showing the media critics the opening of Peter Jones' film, I had the pleasure to introduce the panelists: producer/writer/director Peter Jones, former LA Times publisher and CNN head Tom Johnson, and Harry Brant Chandler. The television writers loved what they saw and had non-stop questions for the trio. Had there not been a hard out of 11:10 am to allow for the next session (featuring Alan Alda) to get underway, our portion of the critics tour would have gone until after the sun set. The press were that interested by what they saw.
Here is the opening of Inventing LA: The Chandlers & Their Times:
There would be many more one on one interviews for Peter, Tom and Harry later that day. One of the stops was in the PBS.org room where Mediashift host Mark Glaser conducted separate interviews with Messrs. Jones, Johnson and Chandler. Here are links to those interviews:
Glaser interviews former LA Times publisher and CNN executive Tom Johnson.
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Lemme tell you, as a Playstation fan, I've been waiting for this game for years — especially after Super Smash Bros. was released.
Ripoff or not, this would be one helluva game!
It's official
Lemme tell you, as a Playstation fan, I've been waiting for this game for years — especially after Super Smash Bros. was released.
Ripoff or not, this would be one helluva game!
Well its been announced that Insert Coin are making PaRappa the Rapper clothes and a hat.
A while back I made up with a moveset for Crash on the PS All-Stars Forums so if its Ok I thought I would repost it here and see what everyone's thoughts on it is.
Crash Bandicoot
Rival-Spyro the Dragon
Arcade mode
Crash,Coco,Crunch, and Aka Aka are relaxing inside their house when suddenly the power starts to go out all over the island and N.Sanity island begins to turn dark with it all 4 of the heroes knowing it is Dr.Neo Cortex and Uka Uka who was after the power crystals. Aka Aka being able to sense the elemental masks he figues out that Cortex and Uka Uka has once again recruited the help of the elementals. Wasting no time the 4 rush off to Coco's warp room where Crash & Aka Aka jump into a portal to find a power strong enough to once again stop Cortex and save N.Sanity island.
Rival Cutscene:
The cutscene begins with Aka Aka saying to Crash that he senses a strange force like magic. Crash nods and points over to a purple dragon and a yellow dragonfly beside him. Spyro says to Sparx how he was hoping to get a holiday after once again defeating Ripto after his latest revenge plan. Aka confuses Spyro for one of Cortex's projects much like Crash, Crunch, and The Evil Twins. Spyro defending himself saying that he has no idea what the mask is talking about. Aka Aka sees Spyro holding one of the power crystals which The Professor had found before. Spyro then telling Aka not to be so quick to judge and to leave with his pet before he had to get serious. Aka then tells Crash to stop Spyro.
Crash and Aka jump back out of the portal landing back in the warp room. Coco asks did they manage to find the power crystals but Aka replys that they unfortunely did not but they have managed to gain a great power that he has never sensed before and then Crash runs back into a portal with a blue glow more powerful than ever and ready to recovery the power crystals.
Square-Crash does a punch, (x3 times Crash does a punch combo)
Square and foward-Crash does a short spin
Square and up-Crash does an uppercut
Square and down-Crash does a body slam,
Circle-Holding Circle allows Crash to rocket jump into the air.
Circle and foward-Crash does a slide int oa enemy, Like Nate
Circle and down-Crash digs underground and can jump out and attack but a atack like Jak's dive will force Crash out.
Circle and up-Crash uses his Jetpack to attack, like Sackboy
Triangle-Crash does a longer and more powerful spin but is stuck in place and if its spammed Crash will get dizzy and by stunned for 3 seconds
Triangle and foward-Crash does a Crash Dash and does a punch,
Triangle and up-Crash throws a wumpa fruit into the air.
Triangle and down-Crash digs a hold into the ground fast and plants a nitro crate which works like a mine.
Level 1-
Crash Bashed-A Crystal appears near Crash and Crash does an extremely powerful and fast Crash Dash killing anyone in his way to the crystal.
Polar Push-Polar suddenly appears, Crash jumps up on and they do a short dash
Super body slam-Crash does a body slam which sends out a small shockwave
Level 2:
Polar chases-Crash and Polar start chasing everyone and anyone that is hit by them are killed.
Helping hand-Coco appears with her tiger and both start attacking, like Heihachi's lvl 2
Level 3:
Dance party!-Crash begins dancing while Aka and Coco activate a machine which forces enemies to dance like Crash, Crunch then tosses Crash the fruit bazooka and it goes into fps mode where Crash can shoot wumpa fruit to kill enemies while they are forced to dance.
Start dodgeing-Crash sends out a pile of TNT & Nitro crates everywhere while every attack he uses is a one hit KO, Crash also uses a faster version of the Crash sneak so he is not effected by the tnt crates.
Crystal Crazy-Coco teleports Crash a crystal which Crash then uses to hypotise his enemies and force them to do the Crash dance with him. Coco and Chunch then end the super by shooting Cortex's old laser into the enemies killing all enemies.
Default costume-Old School (His Crash Twinsanity design)
Level 10 unlockable costume-Evil Crash
1st DLC Costume-Terminator Crash (His costume on the cover art of Crash 3)
2nd DLC Costume-Explorer Crash costume (His explorer costume from Crash Team Tag Racing)
Want this?-Crash pulls out a crystal and shakes it and then it disappears
Can ya do this?- Crash does a handstand, walks a little and jumps back to his feet
Wanna Dance?-Crash does the Crash dance
Warped-A portal opens up and Crash is thrown out of it. He then smiles and gets ready.
Ready!-Crash is sitting sleeping on the floor, he wakes up and gets ready.
Thanks!-Coco rids in with Crash on her tiger, Crash jumps off and waves to Coco.
Riding with Crunch-Crunch drives in with Crash on the jeep from Crash The Wrath of Cortex.
Snack Time?-Crash eats a wumpa fruit and smiles
(Losing version)- Crash is dizzy while a wumpa fruit hits him on the head
Got what i needed-Crash smiles and throws a crystal in the air like he does when he beats a level in Crash 2,3 and Wrath of Cortex
(Losing version):Crash sits on the ground sad like he does when he loses all his lives before he finishes a level in Crash 2,3 and Wrath of Cortex,
Want more?-Crash looks off to the side smileing while doing fake punches to his defeated enemies.
(Losing version)-Crash is on the ground beaten while Aka Aka turns into feathers like he does when Crash takes a hit. Aka then reappears in an Aka Aka box that suddenly appears behind Crash.
Victory Dance!-Crash does the Crash dance while Aka Aka smiles at Crash.
(Losing version)-Crash trips himself when he attempts to do the dance and hurts himself while Aka Aka looks disappointed.
Unlockable minion:Coco
1st DLC minion:Crunch
2nd DLC minion:Aka Aka
3rd DLC minion (If there is going to be anymore dlc minions): Polar or Cortex
Am I the only one who feels that PS All-Stars online is starting to see things you would find in COD?
There is the assholes who spam online and have basically destroyed Ranked Match with all their spamming moves bullshit. Then there is the teabagging. Seriously Teabagging in a fighting brawler? Ugh this has become COD.
Lastly Kratos & Raiden remain almost unchanged even though since launch they were regarded as the most overpowered characters and yet they still don't get a nerf to balance them.
Sorry for ranting here but its just my thoughts. Characters like Kratos and Raiden remain overpowered while characters like Jak,Spike, and Sir Dan are underpowered and require skill to play.
Anyone want some bad news? Along with Dart and most likely to believed to be Abe who was cancelled. They cancelled a Gravity Rush/Journey stage. Here's the thread on the PS All-Stars forums where there is screenshots of the cancelled stage.
I have no idea.
In PS All-Stars news which Coolsome will most likely like. The third Raiden,Dante,Big Daddy, and Heidachi costumes will come out on the 27th of August for free for the US and most likely the 28th of August for EU. A new patch will come in the fall along with the third Zeus & Issac costumes which will also be free.
Unfortunely there is bad news as well. There won't be any new characters or stages.
No more characters and stages: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/08/02/playstation-all-stars-no-new-dlc-coming
The news on the patch and costumes:http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-All-Stars-Battle/Official-Support-Update-Costumes-Patch-Leaderboard/td-p/41178891
Honestly, given how little I've heard of this game since it came out, I'm amazed they're making new stuff at all.
Well guess what! A new PS All-Stars game has come out. Its a mini game collection for IOS and Android called Playstation All-Stars Island. It is sponsored by Coke Zero and only out in the EU right now.
There are 4 playable games (But only one is available as of this time.) The games are based on Uncharted (Which is the only playable one right now), inFamous, LBP Karting, and Gravity Rush with Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank have a cameo where they help out in certain mini games.
Btw I'm not kidding, I've played it on my IPad today and here's a link to prove its real.
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They should make an Ape Escape hat in the style of there helmets. They can sell 3 that way and only change a small amount of colour.


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Remember hearing that the Xbox version had some bugs, but in the quicklook they mentioned that Telltale had fixed them. Does anyone know for sure now that the game is out?
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I just finished playing through the game on 360 and I experienced no problems whatsoever.
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Good to hear because I'm loading it up now with the nerdiest of anticipation.
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Nothing wrong with it save for hiccups when changing cameras, cutscenes, or when it's popping an achievement. Really looking forward to chapter 2.
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First Received Date ICMJE | August 13, 2002 |
Last Updated Date | June 23, 2005 |
Start Date ICMJE | Not Provided |
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Brief Title ICMJE | Lidorestat (IDD 676) for the Treatment of Diabetic Neuropathy |
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Brief Summary | This clinical trial is to determine an effective dosage and to study the safety of an investigational drug -lidorestat (IDD-676)- which is intended to stop or slow the progression of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. |
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Study Phase | Phase 2 |
Study Design ICMJE | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double-Blind Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Condition ICMJE | Diabetic Polyneuropathy |
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Arriving During the Great Flood
Trip Start
Oct 15, 2009
Trip End
Dec 15, 2013
Where I stayed
Anantara Sathorn Bangkok
I know you all can understand that I have not had any computer time since arriving in Thailand Tuesday night. While there is a very real crisis with the flooding here in Bangkok, and it's been a big hassle, Noah, Sumalai, and baby Terran are all fine.
Actually Terran is wonderful and Sumalai is a terrific Mom! Terran has an easy temperament and he sleeps well too. Noah says it must be his Thai genes.
I arrived Tuesday night. Having just come from Hurricane Irene, I have seen the havoc a flood can wreck. I wanted to be prudent and safe but not impulsive in figuring out the best course here. Wednesday when I assessed the news viz a viz the location of Noah and Sumalai's home and factory (that area was still dry), I sourced out our choices and made a decision what to do. The government declared a "holiday" from work for Thursday - Monday. l was sure that the roads out of Bangkok that were still unflooded would be clogged with traffic-hours to go anywhere and
decided to move our family into an apartment at the beautiful Anantara Hotel here in Bangkok.
Most international guests have cancelled their trips.Tell me again why Icame to a disaster zone? Oh right, I have a new grandson and need to get to know him and had waited long enough already.:) Our hotel, new, opened last May, is filling up quickly with many Thai families as
Anantara is adjusting the rates to help out in this crisis.
We have a beautiful, comfortable 2 bedroom apartment here in the wealthiest district in Bangkok. I believe that because of the influence of the people living in this area, it will be the last to flood if at all. Indeed, as of today, it is still totally dry. It looks normal except that we are having problems finding supplies like diapers becausedelivery trucks can't get around the city. Bottled water is scarce but Ihad the hotel deliver a case to the apartment and there is more where that came from. Yesterday Noah and Sumalai finished securing their building. Everything of value is on the 2nd floor or higher (except heavy furniture) and a sandbag wall is in place. Not so tall as what we see around larger stores and buildings but the best they could do. Apparently, what will or will not happen will play out over the coming days. It's very sad to see this wonderful city and its gentle people worried and suffering and we hope for the best.
This is the latest from the Bangkok Post. Things do not look promising.
But know we are fine here (on the 7th floor) high enough to be safe and low enough to walk downstairs. As you can see from my photos, much of Bangkok is still business as usual. I did go to my favorite market one morning. Silom Soi 22 is always a great photo op early in the morning.Today, we will stock up on some more food and things we might need, and this weekend, we'll be relaxing together at the lovely Anantara Hotel. We are grateful that we can be here and hope that everyone in Bangkok will be safe and suffer little.


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For all the commercial acclaim and sobriquets it received, Sholay, one of the most seen Indian films, had, until recently, one of the least-seen climaxes.
"The greatest star cast ever assembled. The greatest story ever told." That is what the CDs/DVDs of the film proclaim. "Movie of the millennium" is how the BBC describes it. Articles, books; even high school chapters have been written about it.
However, Sholay - released on 15th of August, 1975 - had its first tryst with destiny not with the audiences but with the censor board.
The climax, as visualised by a young and ambitious Ramesh Sippy; and the Star writer duo of Salim-Javed, was perhaps the greatest ever to have never been seen until about five years ago.
The version most of us - except a few fortunate ones - saw until recently had Thakur Baldev Singh (Sanjeev Kumar) overpowering Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan) and having his hands crushed under his feet. Then, just as he is about to trample on Gabbar's face, the police arrives. They remind the Thakur of his past - of his alter ego Inspector Baldev Singh. Thakur, despite all the vengeance hardcoded into him since Gabbar mass murdered his family, decides to let the law take its own course.
However, this was not what the filmmakers originally had in mind. Thakur, though once an honest Inspector, was a warrior with a bruised ego, a humiliated fighter. The objective of his life, for many years, had been: Revenge [with capital R], by killing Gabbar. Qanoon (law of the land) wanted Gabbar dead or alive. Thakur wanted him alive, because he had the right of first refusal. And refuse he was not to.
However, Sippy was forced to go with the censors. To quote my friend Divya Solgama, who has spoken to the Sippys, and even got his sholay DVDs autographed by them, "the movie's release date could not be put off and it was the emergency". The ending had to be re-imagined and retrofitted. Though the removal of a spoke did not cause the wheel to come to a halt, it did disrupt its momentum.
This is what IMDB says, "[T]he Indian Censor Board did not agree with this ending, saying that its vigilante aspect undermined the rule of law and could adversely influence naive young minds." So, Gabbar gets arrested, to show the Police in good light and to avoid "adversely influenc [ing] naive young minds".
My tryst with the original version
I came across the original ending only in 2006. I had watched the film at least thrice by then. When one of my friends said he had dreamt about an alternate ending in which Thakur kills Gabbar, I retorted by remarking "Well if wishes were horses, Thakur would get his hands back!"
Only after watching the director's cut - whose length was 204 minutes, as opposed to 198 minutes of the abridged one - I somewhat understood the poetic justice the writers and the director set out to do by killing the unrepentant bandit.
Gabbar. Arguably the meatiest author-backed antagonist in the history of Bombay cinema. No redeeming qualities in him. Abrasive, foul-mouthed who treats the entire Ramgarh village as his fiefdom, he is shown fleeing life imprisonment once. He might have done it many times before. There is no reason he wouldn't do it again.
Thakur. Once a brave inspector with an inclination to take risks, an adventurist. One of his adventures end up in Gabbar's arrest. Gabbar comes back. He wants to hit back, by not killing him. He wants it to be more brutal: he wants Thakur stripped of his dignity. He cuts off those strong hands which are akin to phaansi ka fanda (noose at the gallows).
Would it have been more appropriate for Thakur to do a tit for tat and hand Gabbar over to the police, sans his mobility? Isn't that what Gabbar did instead of killing Thakur?
It is interesting to ponder over this but given that Thakur was too belligerent to consider an alternative and that Gabbar in all likelihood would have taken a different avataar even after losing limbs, it was approprite ato show Thakur killing Gabbar. Besides, police in our movies was always shown closing the stable door only after the horse had bolted. So, it would have been incongruous to show police doing it for the most notorious criminal - one who every neighbourhood mother used to deploy as a bogeyman while ordering her child to sleep. (so jaa beta so jaa, nahin to Gabbar aa jayega!)
Thakur Baldev Singh was once an adventurist who liked to play with fire. Gabbar is more of an IED (Improvised Explosive Device). If Thakur is son of the soil, Gabbar's abode is the jungle, the mountains. He understands only the language of violence. His response to any overt/covert display of human emotions - including servility shown by his minions - is violence. Hence, he is not able to differentiate between a conscientious inspector and his lovely little family.
As Gabbar kills Thakur's family members, we are spared the horror of watching him kill youngest member -his eight-year old grandson. Only to be served an even more terrifying reminder of what lies in store for the patriarch. We see the grandson's corpse only from Thakur's perspective - the noise of Gabbar's bullet gets dissolved into the noise of Thakur's train as Thakur returns home for his vacation.
Thakur is home. Powerful winds blowing across the mountains lift the veneer of silence to reveal the horror of corpses lying in a row. However, the winds are not intrusive enough. He has to forcibly lift the semblance of silence that a white chaadar (blanket) imposes to see the terror written over the child's body. We expect grief. We are served with angst.
As he seeks instant revenge from Gabbar, in all his bravura, he is outmanoeuvred by Gabbar's men; Gabbar intends to kill him but knows better - he ties Thakur's hands, the very hands which Thakur considers phaansi ka fanda (noose of the gallows). They plead for help as Gabbar dissects them, rendering them lifeless. Thakur's dead hands become an extended portion of the heavy iron chains to which they had been tied.
It is at this point that the two lifeless rock pillars in Gabbar's den on which the chains hang seep into Thakur's memory, become internalised into his psyche. The pillars assume an added dimension, become a character in the film.
Thakur comes out with little left inside but a desire for revenge. Having already lost his family, he loses his sense of dignity, his medal of pride.
Sharpening the axe
Another scene - presaging the climax - involved Thakur's faithful companion Ramlaal (Satyen Kappu) hitting nail on his two shoes with a certain mechanical precision. It's here that we see the pent up frustration, the raw anger, the existential angst on Thakur's face.
Ramlal keeps hitting the nail on the shoe's 'head' with his hammer. The monotony of hammer shots mix with with the Thakur-Gabbar motif - the background music - and create a workmanlike precision to the scene. No dialogue here. A sense of chill. Silence.
Thakur keeps staring at this process, unflinchingly. Once it is over, Ramlal takes the shoes up and shows them to Thakur. Thakur looks at them without batting an eyelid and gives a vengeful nod.
Without having the original climax, having this gem of a scene would have been unnecessary, hence it was not taken.
The expression and the coda
The pent up angst in Thakur finds expression when Veeru leaves Gabbar's fate to him. Thakur walks through the space - between two dilapidated rock pillars, one bigger than the other - where he lost his hands. The space that created the distance between his daredevil past and disabled present. That's the space where he lost his previous self, a part of himself. On the pillars hang the chains his hands felt before being rendered useless [ye haath humko de de Thakur].
He crushes Gabbar's hands, treating them as one treats a venomous snake once it comes under control, then forces Gabbar to ambulate near the same two lifeless rock pillars. Gabbar is by now losing consciousness though still having some willpower. He is about to collapse when Thakur forcibly makes him stand; then, sensing an opportunity, he rams Gabbar's body into a sharp, rusted rod, sticking out of one of the pillars like a sore thumb. The spot where he lost his limbs marks the point where his antithesis loses his life. The moment is as surreal as it is eerie.
To bring more phantasmagoria, the rod could well be a hardened form of one of his two cut hands - decayed, rotten - hanging out just for this one final act, to taste Gabbar's blood.
However, the real poignancy is reserved for the next sequence. Thakur collapses, his head resting at the adjacent pillar. Some kind of rigor mortis sets in. Veeru brings Thakur's shawl, a mark of Thakur's self esteem. Thakur breaks down, his head pressed firmly on Veeru's shoulder. Revenge accomplished, he mourns. Mourns for the lives lost. Mourns for his own helples self. Mourns for the futility and the fatality of all that has happened.
Thakur has not expressed his anguish till that moment: not when he realised that his family became unwitting victim to the dictates of his duty; nor when reality dawns that his bahu Radha (Jaya Bachchan) may remain a widow for the rest of her life, following Jai's death. He is someone who can't cry, can't stoop (na toot sakta hai, na jhuk sakta hai).
However, at that final moment, when he has extracted his revenge, it is as if his pain cannot hide itself any more behind the veil of vengeance. He cries, inconsolably. This forms the perfect poetic justice. "Revenge tastes best when served cold"; Thakur's grief waits till the perfect moment. This marks a well-choreographed closure for him, maybe a sense of justice? Perhaps, in this battle between bandits and peasants, only the rule of the jungle - not the rule of the law - can consummate his desire for justice?
It is when I ruminate on these questions that I realise that the act of Gabbar getting arrested takes the coda out of the climax.
Serotonin for the cinephilic soul
These changes, however, did not take away the charm of the movie. Perhaps that detour was necessary considering the political condition and considering that fundamental rights lay suspended. Maybe with the original ending, Sholay would not have become the cult classic it became.
We still had Veeru getting into the empty coach at the end with Basanti waiting for him inside, the train taking the couple to an unknown destination, in search of an unscripted future. We still had Manohari Singh's whistling in the background, as the end credits rolled, with Thakur watching the train depart. All of this creating a certain melancholy.
It was befitting to show a tired, emotionless Thakur wondering about how to keep himself motivated to live, now that his purpose was over. He needed a new purpose, a new vision.
The end credits roll. The film ends with melancholy, a sense of uncertainty, solitude and perhaps some tranquility [the background music here plays the role of a stimulant]. It is this tranquility that makes us want to rewind and watch the movie all over again, irrespective of whether Gabbar dies or gets arrested.
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Telecom regulation: High water mark
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Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin has started the "unrecusal" process with respect to commissioner Robert McDowell. McDowell, a Republican who once worked for companies that compete with AT&T, has "recused" himself from the AT&T-BellSouth merger review. He's actually expected to vote in favor of the deal, breaking a 2-2 party line tie.
Analysts still expect the deal to get done this month or next, although I wouldn't put the odds of this deal closing at 100%. Merrill Lynch analyst David Janazzo says that conditions on the agreement aren't likely to affect the value of AT&T. But the episode is significant because it demonstrates that the regulatory climate with respect to big mergers and acquisitions has changed since the Nov. 7 general election, at least with respect to telecom.
Janazzo notes:
"The next telltale sign relative to lifting the recusal of the fifth commissioner, in our opinion, could be Congressional Democrat response. A strong negative response by key Congressional Democrats raises the political stakes along with the possibility of increased FCC oversight in 2007, in our opinion. A more tepid response increases the viability of an ultimate 3-2 approval. In either case, the delayof AT&T closing the BellSouth deal highlights a view that the regulatory/legislative environment with regard to telecom may have reached its high water mark."
The most important question, I think, is whether the regulatory climate for telecom reverts to the "pro-competition" outlook of the mid-90s. That led to the Telecom Act and the late '90s telecom boom, but also to subsequent bust. The bust ended with the major telecom players were allowed to consolidate. The growth in wireless and broadband has been indisputable in recent years, and I argue that the laissez fare attitude toward telecom consolidation has promoted innovation and broadband.
It's too late to undo the telecom deals of the last few years, but the FCC and Congress could change the climate by forcing the big telecom players to resolve commercial disputes by through binding arbitration with their rivals. The other crucial issue is whether the telecom companies will be allowed to charge big bandwidth users such as Google as premium for handing video. I see little merit in forcing companies to accept baseball style arbitration, although the arguments for and against net neutrality are complex, and both sides need to be considered. Telecom companies won't continue to invest in broadband if they believe that third parties such as Google will derive all the benefit. But slapping huge premiums on Internet access could choke off innovation on the Internet, which is the last thing anyone wants or needs. Going forward, it's hard to imagine an isssue that will have a great impact on the economy.
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between urinary incontinence (UI) and parameters such as pregnancy, mode of delivery and other factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study was based on a questionnaire administered to 761 patients. After their age, menopausal status, number of pregnancies, number of deliveries and history of connective tissue disease (CTD) were recorded, the data were analyzed using a chi2 test. RESULTS: In patients who are post-menopausal and over 40, both stress incontinence (SI) and urge incontinence (URI) were found to be significantly higher. It was also established that both SI and URI increased with the number of pregnancies. As the number of normal vaginal deliveries increased, the rate of both SI and URI increased, while increases in the number of cesarean sections affected neither SI nor URI. Among women who had had abortions, the rate of SI was higher, and it increased as the number of abortions increase. Neither the occurrence of abortions nor increased numbers of abortions influenced the rate of URI. In patients with CTD, both SI and URI increase. CONCLUSIONS: Urinary incontinence in women seems to be influenced by the mode of delivery, menopause, age and CTD. |
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How about dealers with ethics? Guess what I saw displayed for sale at the Miami boat show? A really nice yellow Bertram named "Certifiable" You could see where the name had been removed on the transom but it was still on the chair and the pillows inside. How do you fix this boat where it is seaworthy enough to sell to someone? Pretty simple to fix the outer areas of de-lamination, re-gelcoat and fair, but how to you ever know if the inner layers are bonded to the core? http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/b...tastrophic-delamination-new-bertram-63-a.html Would you go offshore in this boat? I took pictures of it but they are pretty high resolution and I have trouble getting them down to size.
I've moved this thread to the Bertram forum. It was a bit of a hi-jack in the "Builder's with Ethics" thread. Also, please don't link off to other sites when info or images are present on YF. I have changed the link in your post. I received the images you sent. They don't really show much. Here's a couple...
To my knowledge has been for sale since last Summer, but they told me that it was at Allied Marine. Those pictures show a Marine Max sticker. Also the original owner also bought it from Allied Marine so I am even more confused with that sticker. According to what I know Marine Max dealership with Bertram is also nearly ended, and is only left virtually till MM sell the remaining stock. Someone I know also saw it being repaired at the factory in Spring, when it was nearly completed. Now all what I said can be wrong if it was sold and it is back in the market by a new owner, but why leave the stickers?
Shortly after the Certifiable episode when it was rumored to have been repaired I saw what appeared to be the same boat on Ebay from MM. As the op pointed out the interior had pillows all over it that clearly had the name on it. Yellow hull yada yada. There was no mention to it's history in the listing. Perhaps if someone went to purchase it they would have to disclose this? I have no idea if the history has to be mentioned. Just curious myself.
Different Boat This is not the same boat that had the problems last year. This was the owners 1st 63'.
Hin Before this boat owners chances of re-sale are affected, how about we find out the H.I.N of the De-Laminated Bertram and then ask for this ones' H.I.N. Far too important for speculation, or not? In either case, the owner is CRAZY to use the Cerifiable name!
These are the HINS and other details of the previous Certifiables. According to this the first Certifiable was not a 630 as the dimensions are different, but nor it is a 570 as it is a bit bigger. I read he had a 60 before going for a 570, a 630, and now a 700 Vessel Name: CERTIFIABLE USCG Doc. No.: 1164298 Vessel Service: RECREATIONAL IMO Number: * Trade Indicator: Recreational Call Sign: * Hull Material: FRP (FIBERGLASS) Hull Number: BERZ5006F405 Ship Builder: BERTRAM YACHT INC Year Built: 2004 Length (ft.): 63.2 Hull Depth (ft.): 10.6 Hull Breadth (ft.): 17.9 Gross Tonnage: 80 Net Tonnage: 64 Documentation Issuance Date: September 13, 2007 Documentation Expiration Date: October 31, 2008 Vessel Name: CERTIFIABLE USCG Doc. No.: 1215953 Vessel Service: RECREATIONAL IMO Number: * Trade Indicator: Recreational Call Sign: * Hull Material: FRP (FIBERGLASS) Hull Number: BERZ5050F809 Ship Builder: BERTRAM YACHT INC Year Built: 2008 Length (ft.): 66.8 Hull Breadth (ft.): 18.1 Gross Tonnage: 91 Net Tonnage: 73 Documentation Issuance Date: October 06, 2008 Documentation Expiration Date: October 31, 2009
No speculation here...this is not the boat that had the issues last year. That boat wax fixed and sold within 60 days to an owner in South America that saw the boat in the condition when it was pulled out in Palm Beach (in case someone was wondering).
I'm not quite sure what you are asking….? If I didn't know (things like this) I would not be doing my job. My knowledge is from asking questions, and most important seeing with my own two eyes.
It's kind of like me asking you to explain why you have an interest in this topic…or why you have over 2500 posts on this forum….
I guess we both would have the same answer…because certain things catch our curiosity and we want to know more about it!
K1W1 has nothing to explain to you. Every one of his 2500 posts are informative and come from a great deal more experience than you can even remotely fathom. You have repeatedly put forward 'inside' information. K1W1 asked a viable question..."Would you care to explain why you have so much knowledge about what went on?"
It was not ment to be offensive.And I'm sory if he took it that way, if you read my following post I answered both his (and your) question "I guess we both would have the same answer…because certain things catch our curiosity and we want to know more about it!"
There is NOTHING "inside" about this information! All one needed to do is pick up the phone and ask what happen to the boat!!! It WAS that easy!!!
That's funny, because there was only 1 Yellow hulled "Certifiable", and there wasn't a second "Certifiable" 630 that I know of....... Common knowledge in the industry is the yellow 630 was the warranty replacement boat for his 570 that had issues, and the yellow 630 with the hull peeling apart was replaced by a 70' that rumor has it, is at the factory having some stringer work done at the factory.


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Then uninstall the software, and not use my program. You do not agree to my terms which IS binding by law, and within those terms. If you do not then that in itself is also piracy. So therefor by not agreeing past the 30 days you do not agree to my terms, and therefor you are committing piracy.
As I said it myself My free version last 30 days and once 30 days if over it locks you out from all the features. To go past 30 days of use you must pay for the retail version. If you use a retail version without paying me then you are pirating my software.
Again there would be MORE piracy. History has shown that IN FACT piracy happens more often without DRM because people believe they can FREELY distribute. Though some people don't know how licensing works. There's a difference between licensing and actually selling of the product. You pay to USE, not pay to OWN the programs.
The software still belongs to us. You are licensing to USE our programs. There's a huge difference see above.
Again no it doesn't people can freely distribute the product and though may be unintentional is still pirating as people do not pay to use said program, or agree to the Terms of Use which doesn't give the right to do so.
Until you understand how intellectual properties work you will never understand the standpoint of developers. DRM will always be around no matter how consumers, and pirates try to get rid of it. We have a right to protect our property.
You know nothing of me and how many applications I produce. Let alone how much I make. Please DRM will always be around as it is some way for us to protect our property.
I hope those are legitimate keys btw. If they are not then you have no candle to me, and to other developers.
In several of your posts you have asked why no one here as offered a better DRM, but I do not see you even attempting to do the same. Why don't you attempt to create a better solution that actually makes things more difficult for the pirates instead of your paying clientel. Because that is why nearly all forms of DRM are, like most gun laws, just something thats something more difficult or annoying for the legit buyer but does nothing to actually stop the pirates.
As long as developers like yourself continue to embrace DRM that's more and more controling, the more you'll see people will find people looking for ways to circumvent it, and you'll likely be wondering why.
While I agree stealing is stealing, I feel the need to point out a critical error in your analogy. A car is a physical object, computer software (or anything else in digital form, like music or videos/movies) are copies of an original, and not the original itself. So for your analogy to work, you'd have to say that, instead of stealing the car, you'd some how construct an exact (or nearly exact) duplicate of said car, leaving the original completely untouched. Or even one furthur; you'd be making a copy of someone else's copy, which would be just like the original.
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As far as the car example goes, how often do car alarms actually prevent car thefts? They are failing attempt at convincing people their cars are better protected. Most just find them simply as annoying background noise these days. Also, stealing that car, a physical, limited supply asset, and prevents you from making money from the sale of said car to another person. Stealing a copy of software, though equally wrong, does not prevent you from selling it to the next customer.
Doppler, it is wrong to try and claim that piracy has taken significant amount of money from your pocket as the majority of those pirates would not have bought your software in the first place (like multiple posters have already stated). They are in the wrong, but you're lying to yourself if you believe that it keeps anymore than a relatively negligible amount of money out of your pocket. I'm pretty confident that any amount that it potentially keeps out of your pocket could be completely counteracted by better marketing. Furthermore, you even noted that pirating has been around since file sharing was created yet you chose to be a self-employed developer. No offense but if the piracy is that big of a negative to your business then you can always try another career.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way advocating the pirating of software, but at least get the facts straight about it. Pirating music on the other hand is an entirely different story.
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You guys have not shown me that ALL will not buy it if they couldn't pirate it. No matter how you guys look at it. You guys are looking at it YOUR way and EVERYONE thinks like you.
Piracy is ILLEGAL of course it is a NEGATIVE. The one example of the $7 application it has NO DRM and every update gets downloaded 4 times what it I have sold. My $30 application which has DRM has a lot smaller piracy rate, and 5 times the amount of customers of the $7 and from what I have gathered through my server numbers 17% of them are pirated and those keys are banned from my server.
What you guys are looking at is what is best for you with NO actual figures, and real world numbers like I have with my servers. DRM is a deterrent that works as intended like how the police is for crime. You are not going to stop them all, but if you can stop as many as you can then it is worth having.
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Two apps is nowhere close to a reasonable size sampling of the industry needed to try and gain any statistical insight to pirating.
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Yes, that is way too small a sampling, but also, what is always been interesting to me is how some people think they can just guess at how much what they've made has been pirated. You have no way of knowing how many have downloaded from, even if you have some sort of license/registration server; even Microsoft has had numerous problems with false positives with there so-called "geniune advantage" program since it's launch.
@Doppler: what you failed to mention was if there were any key differences between the $30 and $7 applications. What were each of these programs, what were their primary functions, what did they do? It sounds like they were two different apps, so, say, if the $7 app was something that more people would want, then of course it's going to get more attention.
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If Apple breaks the law by stealing Nokia's technology without paying, why does it expect users of its product to pay to use them? Can we not also say Apple's licensing fee is unacceptable I will use it until they change it to $1 per app, because that is what I wanted to pay similar to what Apple said to Nokia's accusation. After all what is good for the goose is good for the gander right?
I pay for my apps, apple approved or not. I am only stating this because Apple think they can get away from stealing why do they expect law to enforce their copyright?
You want examples? Here's an example:
A game that doesn't work because of DRM
And they don't understand why it doesn't work, after all the servers were 'constantly monitored'
Those people that bought the game at full price can't play their games. Because of DRM. Here's what the people that DON'T pay for games, or try and circumvent DRM to play the game they paid for already, without someone treating them as a criminal, get:
A game that does work because of stripped DRM
If I had this game (no more space in my boot camp partition) you bet your *** I would strip that crap off of it. But I had a better idea, not buy from developers that treat me as a criminal. Look what happened, they put these draconian measures in place, AND IT DID EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG. Screwed the paying customer. You have not given any examples to support your arguments other than some sob story about how you need to make a living yadda yadda yadda. I feel for you, but the measures you stake your well-being on have failed time and again to accomplish the goals it has set. Nice try.
And the police don't deter crime or even stop it. Example? I was robbed just before Christmas in 2006. Did the police prevent that from happening? NOPE. Did they catch who did it, and the other 6 break-ins in my neighborhood over a span of three years? NOPE. It wasn't the local police departments responsibility to make sure my belongings were well protected, it was mine. I failed. But my .45 Kimber will assure that if I get broken into again, they will be either dead or deaf, and that might deter them from doing it again. Not some overweight POS cop that likes to exercise his authority muscle whenever he gets the itch. There is no money in stopping crimes, it all about minor drug offenses, not small robberies. Again, you are making failed arguments. When you can come up with something that is based in fact, and not emotion, maybe I'll look at your point of view in a different light. Right now you just seem to desperately cling to an emotional need to believe in a failed system.
This is a very good summary of what DRM is to people. Stolen from MaximumPC about C&C4 and it's stupid constant internet connection DRM. That failed even EA employee, and former EIC of EA.com Jeff Green.
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Looks like Ubisoft has seen the egg on it's face and is trying, somewhat belatedly, to right the problem. They should get rid of the DRM altogether though. This is a very small step in the right direction though.
Ubisoft Giving Assassin?s Creed 2 PC Owners a Free Game
Here's another article for Doppler to ignore. I see he hasn't come up with any concrete evidence to support his claim that DRM actually benefits the developer AND the consumer. Guess that's what you get for desperately clinging to a failed system.
US government finally admits most piracy estimates are bogus
I really have to disagree here. MMI is about modding Apple products, and also serves as a news site for Apple and other related technolgy. This is a distinct difference from a site whose sole purpose is to praise and promote Apple products. You could also say MMI is about getting the most out of such products.
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Here we have a video that's full-on, old school, ready-for-late-night-cable fare.
Couples will feel right at home with this offering about sexual delusions and fantasies. Audiences looking for a raincoater's wet dream might want to look elsewhere, because that's not what Delusions is all about.
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Nice! I quite like it, bring on the next chapter!
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Only problem is that chapter 1 is verrrrrrrrrrryy short. Like, maybe half-a-book-page short. There's really not much to criticise because there's not much there. It's really cut-and-dry - it's difficult to criticise prose when there's just dialogue with no exposition or much of anything else. I'd suggest you beef it up substantially before moving on.
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Actually, I checked the word count, and it's about 4/5ths of a page. Like I said though, for it to really be criticisable, you'll need to put some meat on these bones.
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Wow i've been gone a while. I really want to continue this book. Any takers? I should have chapter 2 done tonight.
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Chapter One: The Finding Jason, Anna, and their father James Taylor were getting ready to go on their traditional monthly trip to the cemetery to visit Grandma Barb. They live in Brooklyn and the cemetery is in Times Square. So it isn't very far away. But they always have to go through the rough part of town because there has been construction going on on the Brooklyn Bridge. Anna is always a little creeped out by that. "I'll be ready in about twenty minutes!" said Anna. "She always takes forever, doesn't she dad." said Jason. " Why yes she does, but its a girl thing." said dad. " You're mother was always one to take hours on her hair and makeup, but if you can remember, she was the most beautiful woman in the world." Their mother passed away from a rare blood disease 1 year ago. She had gotten it from Bolivia where she was doing a paper on the polution in the water supply there. Her and a few other reporters were diagnosed with the disease about 4 months after they returned to the United States. Nothing was the same with the Taylors after this happened. James's mother passed away as well from cancer 3 years ago. It has been tough on them.' As they were pulling into the parking lot, Dad was already getting choked up, not a big fan of coming to visit his mom. It gets him every time. But because Anna took so long getting ready, it was already getting dark outside. "I have to pee, ill be right back." said Jason. "Okay son, don't be long." dad said. When Jason turned the corner to enter the bathroom, he heard a noise, "Jaaasssooonnn" coming from the palmetto bush on the edge of the sidewalk. "Hello? Anyone there?" he said. But no reply. He went to the bathroom, but when he came out, he heard it again.. "Jaaasssoooonnn". He had had enough. Jason decided to check it out. But when he looked around the bush.. There she was. There was Grandma Barb. "Grandma? This cant be possible....This is chapter one a little more beefed up. Made a little more detail to the second paragraph. Hope you enjoy.
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Thomas Nast
1840 - 1902Illustrator, Cartoonist
Born: September 27, 1840, Landau, Germany
Died: December 7, 1902, Guayaquil, Ecuador
A famous caricaturist of the nineteenth century, Thomas Nast is considered the father of American political cartooning. At age six, he emigrated with his family from Germany to the United States. He studied with Alfred Fredericks and Thoedore Kaufmann in New York and briefly attended the National Academy of Design. Throughout his career as a draftsman and cartoonist, he drew for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper's Weekly, New York Illustrated News, and Illustrated London News. Nast's work covered serious political and social issues, especially during the Civil War when President Lincoln described Nast as "the Union's best recruiting sergeant." From 1869 to 1871, he relentlessly attacked corrupt politicians in New York with his cartoons, spurring a public campaign that broke the Boss Tweed Ring conspiracy. By the 1880s, Nast's popularity as a cartoonist had declined, and he turned his attention to painting and illustration. He also published a book titled Thomas Nast's Christmas Drawings for the Human Race. In 1902, Nast served as an emissary to Ecuador but died six months later from an outbreak of yellow fever.