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^I just had a similar discussion on Facebook.
"Hillcoat's new film Lawless looks awesome" (trailer is attached)
"It looks boring, like The Road"
"The Road was riveting!"
"No it wasn't, it was a snoozefest"
The Road… I did not like that film, all that sentimentality about the wife / mother… a bland and desaturated post apocalyptic present, oh against colorful and happy flashbacks of the wife… how freaking obvious is that.
And my god don't get me started on the attack of the falling trees sequence, they basically wanted to throw a little action scene is, so with fast cuts WATCH OUT HERE COME THE TREES.
And it really annoyed me SPOILER ALERT the way the wife just walks off into the night, like she's so scared for her family that one second ago she's going to just kill the kid and end it all… but her solution is to not actually shoot herself or do anything, but just to strut out into the dark…. Seems realistic.
And Lawless also looks dumb from that trailer, imho.
The Road(the novel)=great
The Road(the movie)=ok.
just my opinion.
Hillcoat is an interesting director but his movies are not well paced imo.
I think that the topic is a quite important one, and it goes by different names depending on which philosopher we're talking about.
Baudrillard calls it the hyperreal, Virilio calls it the dromosphere, Vattimo the transparent society, Lyotard the postmodern condition.
But I think the concept of electracy best gets at what we're dealing with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electracy
Whether the condition of speed we're living in now will someday erase our ability to contemplate is very much in the air, but I think that there's a way in which all of these ways of looking at our current moment stress elements related to contemplation, like the emphasis on sensual experience and "body knowledge." I think that this might be the way that cinema will be retained even in an age when a glorious film like Shame will get left on the cultural scrapheap.
"I forgot to comment on this point—which is really counter-intuitive when you think about it. Shouldn't the opposite be the case? Given the amount of people online, shouldn't we see more over-lap?"
Well, in my experience, because there has been such a proliferation of access points, what you're really getting is slight overlaps with many more people rather than a small group of people with matched experiences.
. . . which, on the one hand is great because it gives you access (indirectly) to a whole series of new experiences and ways of thinking about stuff, but on the other hand it can lead to a Tower of Babel effect if you aren't able to impose some sort of generally agreed upon order on the conversation, if indeed you can't pause a conversation for a moment of contemplation. etc.
I'm going to a meetup this Saturday called 'Slow art day' where the idea is we go to the MFA, pick out a piece of art and look at only that piece of art for a long time.
I don't think we're seeing a disappearance of silence and stillness. Older people still appreciate both those qualities. It's just that before all this connectedness, kids would get bored and go out and play baseball or spend all day on the phone (Actually talking over the phone) instead of doing everything on their smartphone apps and internet sites.
I question the romanticized past where everybody had this ability to contemplate. Sure, it was a lot harder to bore somebody but slower art was more popular because it was more trendy. Most people weren't really spending the time to contemplating it. They looked at the art they were supposed to then went to the pub, drank and played darts.
^ I question those ideas too but it's difficult to articulate and differentiate. After all, 'leisure time' is a relatively modern, actually post-Industrial, phenomenon, but it's not like there was no leisure time before the Industrial Revolution. Farmers certainly had more time to contemplate while they did their farming, but who's to say agrarian thought was any more or less contemplative than this here Internet conversation? Yet that's also a false dichotomy, a misinterpretation of very different cultural and historical settings, basically different human beings altogether.
The issue I have about the argument for contemplation is that it connotes some sublimated or enlightened perspective, and my own opinion about the past is that it is far from indicative of the sublime or enlightenment. OR, it assumes that people don't use media to contemplate, when many people are fond of using music for downtime or writing in a blog to pull together their thoughts of the day or, well, read, which apparently is a more 'contemplative' than 'distractive' medium (despite requiring literally unnatural cognitive development be imprinted into the forelobe, and if that unnatural process isn't impounded enough then the human is criticized for being 'illiterate.' Think about it from that perspective for a little bit, how strange literacy is and the fact that we value it as knowledgeable or more contemplative than visual media, or that criticism of televised media itself was a big reason why people mostly remained media illiterate, because you couldn't convince book-learners to teach television literacy in school).
I agree that increased access to information in no way makes increased knowledge or wisdom, but I have seen absolutely no proof whatsoever or in any way or form that previous generations were more knowledgeable or wise, and I do have proof that they had less information. Oftentimes these very measurements of 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' are defined by the nature of communication that has changed, so that those operating in a previous/older medium see the decline of that medium as a decline in wisdom/knowledge and those operating in the replacing/newer medium see the increase of that medium as an increase in wisdom/knowledge. It is, rather, a somewhat Joycean result: "I am the sum total of who I've always been and everything that's happened to me." Human knowledge is the sum total of human nature and how it uses its information, not how much information it has. I.e., humanity is its civilization and current mass media.
Or, to state it in another way, 'People are shallower than EVER BEFORE' is so five minutes ago, brah. They've been saying that shit since Plato. It's post-retro-post-retro-post-retro.
It's unclear to me what it is about 'people' that makes them so stupid as a pluralism whereas any individual conversations between individuals indicates the rather rare and idiosyncratic idiot, notable because of how exceptionally stupid he or she is, yet 50% of people are dumber than average, as the joke goes. That dialog is constant in a manner I do not think we really can ignore. For some reason, even Men in Black says it better than most sociologists: "The person is good. People are dumb, scared, crazy animals and you know it."
My personal opinion on the matter is that it's bullshit that people were in the past any more contemplative than they are now, at least to any significant measurement; rather, we're always in some social change or another so the decided and set movements of the past seem clearer and the way people thought easier to define than now. For instance, you read an article today about 'textophrenia', the phenomenon of someone thinking they are receiving a text message when they are not. You have a conversation about how fucked up that is, how our minds are totally blown away by these cellphone things and dear god what is happening to us? But where was phone-call-phrenia back in the days when people would suddenly say, "Did you hear that? Oh I thought we just got a phone call…" or refrigeratorphrenia for when people would forget what they were doing and so for whatever reason just walk to the refrigerator and open it? What was previously material for stand up comedy ('What is the deeeal with that!') is now op-ed articles on the slow decay of the Universe.
Did you know that one of the reasons we forget things when we walk from one room to another is because when we cross through a door, it signals our brain that the situation has changed? That, "I just walked in the room and forgot what I came in here for" is the medium of households boxing in our memories and ruining our brains. Alas for the pre-housing days when we sat outside with more open minds and better memory (and felt the rain instead of getting wet like we do in this post-shelter world).
… is what I'm saying these arguments sound like to me, especially since I feel like everyone thinks everyone else is the one that isn't contemplative/knowledgeable/wise enough but they themselves have their 'me' time that the rest of the world apparently never does… observable from all the times we go outside and interact with other people and see how they're always interacting and never just sitting in silence in their own room away from where we can… observe them….
"My personal opinion on the matter is that it's bullshit that people were in the past any more contemplative than they are now, at least to any significant measurement;"
Can you explain then why more contemplative (and slower) films were more popular 40+ years ago compared to today? It used to be that the films that made the most money at the box office also had the best reviews. Now it's the complete opposite.
To me it seems pretty clear that with the advent of modern technology, people have changed dramatically over the past 50-100 years.
I'm not going to argue that things haven't changed (they have), and commercialism has its effect, but let's also think about the theory that points out that movies are faster because audiences catch the image faster — it needn't necessarily be about speed of cuts, per se, but as written language has advanced into more complicated and diverse structures so has even film sequencing. Remember when audiences had to expend mental energy working out the non-chronological narrative structure of Pulp Fiction, and how today these things are all like, "Oh yeah I know what's going on, no problem"?
I'm arguing against larger assumptions of modern humans being any more or less contemplative, knowledgeable, or wise in comparison to historical evidence. History is difficult to deconstruct, but is still several times more static than current changes. To return the conversation to how this relates to art, some people actually see modern movies as an improvement on the past. I think that's like saying 'What's better, Homer's Odyssey or Joyce's Ulysses?', they're incomparable albeit informed by each other, even retroactively.
Precisely. People today have been conditioned to expect quicker cuts, etc. So when they don't get those quicker cuts – when they see a film that has longer takes and has scenes that play out in wides and doesn't exclusively rely on the close-up, they freak out. And I'm not even talking about Bela Tarr extremes. I'm talking about normal pop culture movies. For instance, I've heard many people today who have told me they hate Rosemary's Baby because it's so slow and boring. But did people in 1968 feel that way? I doubt it. I have to think that this kind of conditioning has effected people in ways outside of how they digest cinema.
We've gone down the rabbit hole and there's no climbing ourselves out.
^^ A media essentialist.
Television literacy exists, by the way. Because it was never accepted academically, it became a 'watchdog organization' sort of movement, the people who watch television to point out its errors. There are also television literacy movies that are very commonly shown in public schools, like Merchants of Cool or that one famous one that deconstructs commercials for children to understand how they operate, and sometimes media literacy efforts would take the form of things like Channel One news station et al.
Think about it like this. Television is not in and of itself a bad medium, it was just never used widely in a very good way. Because commercials paid the television bills, television was more commercial than it was instructional or democratic — it didn't have to turn out that way, it just did. So if you say that television as a medium itself is essentially illiterate, you're wrong — to say it's historically illiterate is correct, because we never made it literate. Now it's technically more literate than before: TV on DVD has increased content quality and production value as networks have discovered that people are more willing to buy shit when it's actually good. However, the Internet has replaced television as the new big medium and its still mostly text-based method of communication as well as democratic accessibility and better informational structure has given it much more critical street cred as regards its possibilities for 'literacy.' Television never got that respect so it never had a chance to earn it, so it never became literate.
Right, Santino. Again, I would refer to Birkerts' book The Gutenberg Elegies. The predominance of electronic media, specifically video games, cellphones, internet imagery and bite-sized information, is changing the ability of people immersed in this soup of sound and image to process longer and deeper trains of thought. The proof of this is the rise of ADHD and the lack of focus and attention of young people who couldn't (and wouldn't) read The Odyssey and Ulysses, much less compare them.
^ :D I had a looong discussion with a friend about whether or not printed media are an inherently superior art form than tv. I just don't understand how you could possibly think that they are!
"The proof of this is the rise of ADHD and the lack of focus and attention of young people who couldn't (and wouldn't) read The Odyssey and Ulysses, much less compare them."
Again, ADHD is increasingly observed today but not necessarily nonexistent or less existent in the past (textophrenia is a thing we worry about, telephonephrenia and refrigeratorphrenia never existed). My uncle was diagnosed with ADHD when he reached 70 … he's had it his whole life and it was never observed because it wasn't a phenomenon we recognized.
Better proof I have is my experiences in the United Arab Emirates. There, they do not recognize many of the learning disabilities and emotional disabilities that have become recognized in the West. In fact, culturally they are resistant to men wearing glasses because they see glasses as a sign of weakness. Compare data charts and the UAE has a heavily statistically smaller rate of learning disabilities and better eyesight. From first hand experience, they're on the level with us (except their education is worse; they get more A's but at lower levels, so 'Mericans are le stupid with their C averages in trig but Emiratis are smarter with their A averages in algebra).
I'm pretty sure more people read The Odyssey today than most of history, and a large reason for that is because we actually assign it in these very modern institutions called public high school classes; certainly there was a time it was held in higher esteem, and that was back when academies were classist institutions for the rich and knowledge of Homer was part of an identifier of the elite… after all, all those dumb idiot proletariats were watching those flickers in nickelodeons learning how to rob trains and stuff, the dirty immigrants.
To think that they actually teach film courses in universities these days. Literacy is doomed.
Several points. I am not inherently against television. Hell, I was watching television and films thirty years before you pups were born. I watch great series on HBO etc. all the time. But it is distressing and ironic to speak of television literacy when actual literacy (in the literal sense of the word) is flagging badly. And printed media has about a five hundred year head start on television and film. If I didn't love film, I wouldn't be on this site, now would I? But the history of printed media is so vast and varied and rich that there is really no comparison. But the essential point is being lost here. It's not that electronic devices are intrinsically bad. Again, I have a laptop, a smartphone, a tablet, a CD player (several) and DVD player. I am hardly a Luddite or an "essentialist." But when those devices are used to the exclusion of reading or contemplation (however one wants to frame that) then something essential is being lost. Santino is on track here. I have worked with kids for decades and I have seen a steady loss of the ability (generally) to be able to read for content and engage in discursive thought on what has been read. Those who feel that this ability is not important are part of the problem. Incoming college freshman are often unable to write a simple, intelligible essay about anything, including television. Presumably the respondents on this site are the exception, but that doesn't alter the prevailing drift.
Besides, I sense an inherent defensiveness about literacy on these boards which is all too common among the very young and which merely serves to prove my point.
The world is getting noisier and brighter, and the universe seems to be accelerating, so . . .
I'm curious if there are statistics to back up the claim that films that received higher reviews made higher box office. I'd like to see that compared to today.
Though even if that trend is true, I propose this experiment:
Take the total gross after six months, divide it by the first weekend gross. I would bet a very strong correlation between the resulting dividend and the quality of reviews. That would be something like a 'word of mouth' index. Quality doesn't affect whether people see a movie right when it comes out, but it sure affects whether people continue seeing it later.
And I think the reason movies were slower before is, back then a movie had to please all demographics, both young and old. Now there are movies that are made only for younger people, and they're more digestible if they move faster. Whereas there's also movies like King's Speech which are the correct pace to be digestible for older people.
I'm also of the opinion that art should continuously be threatened. To quote Neil Young, "It's better to burn out than it is to rust". If art survives too long it ceases to be art.
I question the notion that leisure time is an invention of the industrial revolution. I believe anywhere there was a flourishing marketplace, there was leisure time.
All I'm saying, you know what they found when they dug out Pompeii, right? ;)
I agree that there's no climbing out, short of a massive disaster that plunges the world into another dark age (Which I'm not entirely ruling out). But I question whether this trend is a good or a bad thing.
I might argue that being able to outsource trivial information from our brain to electronic devices, there's more room in our brains to focus on building up skill sets. It's the same way how, when you're married to someone who's great at remembering birthdays, you lose all ability to remember birthdays on your own. When we don't have to spend mental resources remembering every day facts we can specialize our intellect in other ways.
Nice cartoon VOLUPTE NOIR… I'm gonna pass it on!
Interesting conversation… here's my two cents:
Saw The Turin Horse the other day and I must say that the theater was totally silent the entire time…. but then there were only 5 other people in the audience.
"the prevailing drift.
Besides, I sense an inherent defensiveness about literacy on these boards which is all too common among the very young and which merely serves to prove my point."
I personally get defensive because when people are pointing at 'us' saying, "You're dumber than we used to be" we're just saying, "Um, statistically speaking that's not true and oh hey look we're capable of linking to the evidence that you're wrong ". Weird stats like devices seem to be increasing reading are more debatable but the debate usually uses anecdotal narratives to question whether the reading's getting done. And again, from a historical perspective, I don't see previous generations being all that smart either.
Detached media theory attempts to explain these sorts of divides as being connected to how media shapes our thought. 'Literacy' is a logocentric term — visual media dominated societies will have less 'literacy' in that specific technical term, but more 'literacy' in terms of understanding the medium they have access to. The popular argument 'Yeah but textually literate people are also more media literate' are countered with the Einstein quote But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree… (that hyperlink links to something interesting, take a look). Human beings are human beings are human beings — what is constantly changing is HOW they communicate and with WHAT medium. If it is 'true' that we're not reading books, is it because we're stupid or because we're intelligent in a different way? Both the 'if' and the either/or statement in that question becomes ideology. This is an ideological debate, since the numbers won't convince either way.
Edit: Haha, and that NASA fun fact link may be wrong, I'm looking into it but for now keeping it.
Playing to audiences perceptual habits no doubt played a role, but bear in mind that it's not simply a matter of linear progress. It's largely a matter of technological adaptation. Many silent films are cut quite quickly—the Soviet silents are the obvious example, but also a number of the more impressionistic French silents and many of the shorts that Griffith made. The onset of sound seems to have curtailed fast cutting for a time and then cutting rates started to accelerate again as technology advanced (the sound Moviola was introduced in 1931 and edge numbering in 1932). Somewhat analogously, you see editing styles change somewhat as it became increasingly common for editors to switch from vertically-oriented Moviolas to the newer, horizontally-orientated Steenbeck flatbeds (circa the '70s), and again when non-linear, digital editing systems started to replace linear, analog editing systems.
Eh, I'm calling out my own NASA statistic as bullshit.
Anyway, that is all. This is retreaded material for me, really. It's funny how defensive I am about optimistic perspectives. Apparently I'd get along much better with people if I agreed that we're all doomed and the world is a horrible place.
"I had a looong discussion with a friend about whether or not printed media are an inherently superior art form than tv. I just don't understand how you could possibly think that they are!"
I don't know that print is better than TV, that would assume that words are better than visuals (books are better than paintings, etc.). I'm more comfortable saying they are just different and that they are both valuable.
For instance, if we're talking about news, yes an article in The New Yorker might be more in-depth than a two minute piece on Fox News. In this case, one is better than the other. But of course we're not comparing apples to apples here. Instead, compare the article in The New Yorker against an hour discussion on Charlie Rose. In this case, both are equally valuable and both have pluses and minuses.
Actually hey, I just thought of a different way of looking at it, re: Matt's 'noisier' link.
The world is getting noisier and lighter. When I was in high school I had major insomnia and spent a lot of time researching sleep, and learned about electronic light's effect on our sleeping patterns. All sort of perturbing, humbling thoughts. BUT, it hasn't killed us… at least not yet. We've adapted to our own lights. Bad or good thing? We're still healthier, living longer, less infant mortality, et al so on but that really is not linked to lights only but wider technological and medical developments — the correlation is that those medical and technological developments that are making us healthier coexist with the developments that aren't very healthy at all. But we seem to be adapting to them well.
So I think about my mother and the problem she has with noise. She just doesn't like it, it overwhelms her. She can definitely complain about the effect increasing noise has on her own ability to contemplate. However, I think about things like white noise CDs and 'background music' and noise-canceling headphones and I realize the older/younger generational conversation about the whole overall social effect of noise seems to be boiling down to this:
"How can you think through all this noise?!"
"….What noise?"
Maybe the fact of the matter is that the modern world makes it harder for aging people to contemplate.
"I'm curious if there are statistics to back up the claim that films that received higher reviews made higher box office. I'd like to see that compared to today."
I've mentioned this before but I'll say it again because I think it fits here. Last year when the Ebert show was running old episodes of Siskel & Ebert, they ran an episode from the early 80s (I think it was 1980 or 1981) where they were recapping the best films of the year. Siskel made the point that for the first time, most of the highest grossing films of the year were not positively reviewed. He was shocked by this because in previous years, most of the films that audiences flocked to were good films.
Of course today we expect that the ten highest grossing films of the year will hover below 30% on Rotten Tomatoes but in the past, this would be unheard of.
(I think the best way you can judge this is to go on Box Office Mojo and pick a random year and look at the highest money makers. Now imagine if that film would even break the top twenty today. For instance, I'm thinking about a movie like All the President's Men, which was in the top five for 1976. Can you imagine that today? A movie like that competing with Transformers and Twilight?).
"I might argue that being able to outsource trivial information from our brain to electronic devices, there's more room in our brains to focus on building up skill sets"
I agree. There are certain advantages to having IMDB/Wikipedia/etc. readily at our finger tips. But there are obviously disadvantages too. The issue being aware of them. The problem with younger people is that they may not even be aware of the disadvantages, since this is all they know.
Ok. I'm not surprised people watch a lot of bad movies now, but I'm questioning more whether it really was different in the past. And it is true, 1980 corresponds with the rise in popularity of the VCR. That could be it, that after the VCR came out they had to please individual demographics rather than the entire family at once, so they started making stuff marketed specifically at young adults.
Maybe what I'll do is if I have some free time I'll go over the-movie-times and do the ( total gross / first weekend gross) experiment and see if anything changes.
"Maybe the fact of the matter is that the modern world makes it harder for aging people to contemplate."
I defer to the aging people to comment on that.
"I personally get defensive because when people are pointing at 'us' saying, "You're dumber than we used to be"
That is not at all what I was saying. This is not and should not be a generational thing. I know many young people who are very bright and of whom I am very proud. I also know many people of my generation who are as dumb as rocks (George W. Bush comes to mind.) It 's not at all about which generation is smarter. Totally irrelevant. I am merely making the point (for the umpteenth time) that the ongoing loss of literacy imperils culture and consequently future generations and that the overweening predominance of electronic devices in modern society has a great deal (but not everything) to do with that. I take your point about being intelligent in different ways. After all, some of my favorite artists didn't read very much. That being said, to say that many don't read books because they are intelligent in different ways strikes me as an evasion. It's not stupid necessarily to not read, merely deeply unwise. Those who are intelligent in other ways should also read. Literacy forms the basis of virtually everything. Films (and television) require good scripts and technical manuals. As an educator, I perforce must believe in the perfectability of humankind. I WANT succeeding generations to be better and brighter than preceding ones, including mine. In addition, those who swim effortlessly in the electronic sea may be quite proficient at processing information and communicating. Buit what kind of information? What level of communication? Does texting, sexting, tweeting, etc. have much real value? What is happening to real thought and is that being fully communicated? I sincerely hope the answers are good, but I don't see it.
"Maybe the fact of the matter is that the modern world makes it harder for aging people to contemplate."
As one of those "aging people", I admit that I actually find I contemplate much easier than when I was younger. This, I expect, is due to so much more experience at contemplating. Like meditation, it gets "easier" the more you do it.


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Hoisin Chicken With Chinese Pancakes
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|Hoisin sauce
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|1 Teaspoon
|Sesame seed oil
|2 Teaspoon
|Boneless, skinless, chicken breasts
|2 , cut into 1 /6-inch chunks
|Green onions
|4 , trimmed, cut into 1 1/ 2-inch pieces
|2 Large, skin and threads removed
|Green bell peppers
|2 Medium, seeded, cut into 1/ 2-inch pieces
|Chinese pancakes/Rice
|Pine nuts
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (For Garnish)
|Canola oil
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Add chicken, toss and marinate for 1 hour.
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You are correct in that this has to be the worst music video ever. No one should encourage these two to continue in the music or video business. I would suggest practicing the phrase: "Would you like fries with that?"
The Midnight Phil Eoin Callers - Party For Dogs (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
December 16, 2011 Posted by ADMIN in Music Video, Video 5 comments
Quite possibly the worst music video ever made. Highly recommended.
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December 17, 2011 6:18 pmPosted 3 years ago
December 18, 2011 6:18 pmPosted 3 years ago
Lisa! You're crazy! You must be deaf and blind, these guys are really talented!!! Could you produce a catchy song like that, or produce a video like those guys?
December 19, 2011 8:18 amPosted 3 years ago
I think we need a 'Party for Lisa'
I think this is the best video since pat the baker met charlie and the choc factory. Super man and bat man would be proud of these guy if they were alive today……….PARTTTIE FOR LISA
December 19, 2011 11:18 amPosted 3 years ago
I think Lisa needs to party, BIG STYLE
December 19, 2011 2:01 pmPosted 3 years ago
I with Lisa on this one. why would anyone like this garbage? I couldn't stop cringing at how bad it was.


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NORMALLY, no one is ready for a dismissal from one's job. This is why one got that job to be in it to earn a regular monthly income for ever unless otherwise. But employers hire and fire whenever they feel it is necessary to do so. Therefore, one should also be prepared to leave a job at any time.
Therefore, former home affairs deputy minister, Alfredah Kansembe's confession that her dismissal from her ministerial position has affected her; and that she is trying to cope with her emotions from such an incident helps each Zambian workers to consider how permanent are these jobs that we get; and therefore generates lessons from those who lose their jobs.
It is against such a background that one prays and wishes Hon Kansembe the best in her new endeavours.
It is a known fact that Hon Kansembe is not the only worker or appointee who is negatively affected by a dismissal. Many other workers and appointees can equally be negatively affected by a dismissal.
Consider also what most of the nurses who were also dismissed from their positions said. They pleaded with their employers to reinstate them in their respective positions because they had no alternatives to feed their families. The nurses' union and Zambia Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) president, Leonard Hikaumba also pleaded with the Government to forgive and reinstate the affected nurses.
This is why it is said that what happened to Hon Kansembe and some of the nurses; and their consequently confessions generates a lot of lessons to both current workers and appointees in any organisation.
The purpose of this article is not to celebrate the dismissals of our colleagues who have lost jobs in various organisations; but to remind our esteemed readers who are also job seekers and or workers that if something can happen to others, it can also happen to us. Therefore, this article further reminds all workers and appointees to prepare for any negative eventuality when they are in any employment.
While no one can celebrate any worker's dismissals, one can argue that the incident generates a lot of lessons for current workers. One of such lessons is that immediately one gets a job, each worker is supposed not only to be loyal to their appointing authorities and work hard in that job but should also start preparing for such a negative situation in case it happens.
One of our esteemed readers is whispering in the background that how can one prepare for unforeseen circumstances or a negative event like death since dismissal is like death to someone?
Yes, you are right. But who doesn't know that one day, one will die? Being fired from employment is something one should expect because anything can happen when one is in employment. Just as one gets a job; one should always know that one day, one is going to leave that job for any reason from yourself as a worker or from an employer. Employment has never been for life unless it is your own organisation.
Employment is like life. It has a beginning and an end. And an end we should always prepare for.
Preparing for a dismissal doesn't mean that one should be involved in illegal activities or malpractices to raise more money within a short time in case the appointing authority fires you soon. Preparing for a dismissal means that one is supposed to use legal incomes from one's employment diligently from the first month of one's getting that job.
This is why Bank of Zambia (BoZ) Governor, Dr Michael Gondwe says that BoZ will be carrying out a nationwide financial literacy camp to help citizens understand the importance of saving.
If one has been saving soon after getting a job, probably by the time an employer thinks of firing that worker, one would have accumulated enough savings to start a business or to become a good entrepreneur.
It is encouraging to learn that Hon Kansembe said that there is more to life than a political job. This means that despite being affected by her dismissal; she is ready to exploit other opportunities in life. In short, she was ready for any eventuality in her former ministerial position.
Learning from some people who have lost jobs for various reasons; and how preparations for loss of a job has helped some people who lose jobs, one should reduce on using incomes from formal employment on too much luxurious activities and increase on saving money before one loses a job. This is should part of each worker's insurance policy. Be fore-armed. Be insured. Tomorrow never comes.
Getting a job should be regarded as a blessing from God. One should thank God; The Almighty for giving someone a job where one will earn a regular income for a stipulated time from.
Therefore, while one is in employment, one is supposed to invest and establish businesses which can replace a regular income whenever one leaves formal employment.
Some workers have even thanked their employers for terminating their contracts or firing them because such a situation gives them more time to manage their private businesses than when they were in formal employment where they had divided attention for formal employment and managing their own private businesses.
Not being prepared for leaving a job has seen many people applying for a contract after being retired or renewing their contracts many times after one comes to an end.
There is nothing wrong with getting a contract or renewing one after retirement or after one contract comes to an end. What is worrying is doing so just because one has no any other source of income or survival apart from the same job that has come to an end.
Some of those who have not been given a contract or who haven't been given a chance to renew their contracts have developed depressions or stroke. Wishing people undergoing depression from effects of being dismissed from their respective jobs a quick recovery.
Workers or appointees should always be ready for retirement or to be fired. This doesn't mean that workers or appointees should deliberately be showing disloyalty or doing things against organisation's policies, rules and regulations; but it means that they should always know that being in employment or being out of a job is a two-way thing in that either an employee or an employer can terminate that employment at any time with or without genuine reasons.
Therefore, never take employment for granted that as long as one has been appointed in that position, one will be therefore ever. Things change. They can change for the better or for worse. What is important is to be prepared financially and psychologically for an eventuality.
Work hard in any job you are offered. Hard work might compromise employers' decision to terminate or not to renew your contract. Prove to your employers your loyalty, hard work and the value you add to the organization.
Hard work creates good curriculum vitae (CV) for your future prospects. Therefore, while one cannot order one's employers not to renew or terminate one's employment or not to be fired; good performance in one's job creates reservoirs for further bright future in job prospects. Better still, if you have been saving or investing in a form of business while you were working, one is able to survive the negative effects of losing a job from one's business investments regardless of its size. What is important is have some savings or an alternative income to the current formal employment in case whatever reasons you lose the current job.
One can also use one's knowledge, experience or skills in one's former job to run one's businesses effectively and efficiently.
Therefore, take the job you will be offered or the current job as a stepping stone in your life. Don't take your current job for granted. Always assume that you will lose it soon. Such an assumption makes you so wise that you use any income from such a job wisely for your better future with or without a job.
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The Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion announced Friday that North Carolina-based Americana band The Avett Brothers will perform in September at the Rogers venue.
The Avett Brothers have released eight full-length albums, with their latest being 2013's Magpie and the Dandelion. The band announced on its website in May that it was nominated by the Americana Music Association for Duo/Group of the Year. The Americana Honors & Awards will be held Sept. 17 in Nashville, Tenn.
The concert is scheduled for Sept. 26 with doors opening at 6 p.m. and the music beginning at 8 p.m. The venue is at 5079 W. Northgate Road in Rogers.
Tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. June 25 and range from $32 to $53.50. Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office at (479) 443-5600 or at www.amptickets.com.
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Single-topic publications that cover such areas of cross-partnership interest as healthy communities and technology.
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In the build up to their five-night run at The Boulder Theater, Yonder Mountain String Band announced that a guest musician would be sitting in with them each evening.
French–born guitar virtuoso Stephane Wrembel - whose original theme song for Woody Allen's smash hit Midnight in Paris is currently topping charts - today announces the 2012 Django A
Pan Am: Music From and Inspired By the Original Series, a collection of music from and inspired by the ABC television drama, slated for January 17, 2012 CD release from Verve Music Group, is a non-stop flight back to the early '60s.
Following the release of their new self-titled full-length album out now on No Sleep Records, and their year-end shows with Thursday and Screaming Females, Albany, NY's indie-punk hybrid Aficionado have announced a string of US tour dates supporting Electric Six. Taking place this March and April, the dates will also follow the band's return from Europe where they're currently touring the continent with friends End Of A Year Self Defense Family.
For the fans of the Grateful Dead most saw the time they spent as shows as an escape from reality, a dojo where the realms of the ordinary and the everyday vanished. The counterculture that surrounded that band was not only based on the years of memories captured in the hearts of millions, but like church, a Deadhead could truly have a mind-left-body experience and be closer to their spiritual selves.
Boulder Weekly & Z2 Entertainment are proud to present Zach Deputy at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, March 14th. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 6th for $10.00.
Multi-PLATINUM singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley is sharing new details about his forthcoming sixth Capitol Nashville studio album HOME, in stores Feb. 7. One of country music's most distinguishable voices, Bentley returns with a mainstream country collection for the first time since 2009.
Independent Blix Street Records will inaugurate 2012 with the U.S. release of STORIES FROM THE STEEPLES, Mary Black's first new studio recording in six years. Arriving in stores in time for Valentine's Day on February 14, 2012, the album from the Irish singing legend will be followed by three more releases from the Seattle-based label during the first months of the year.
On New Year's Eve, Railroad Earth swung into a rendition of Warhead Boogie that, when all was said and done, left me in a state of almost comical ecstasy. During the crescendo and climax, I was twirling and spinning and swirling and grinning, and, then, when even kinetic rhythm couldn't contain my body, I jumped as high I could, over and over, like a gobsmacked pogo stick.
Grateful Dead tribute group Dark Star Orchestra rang in 2012 with a 2 night run at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ with three sets of different show from 1960's , 1970's, and 1980's. The band also did an original setlist on December 30 beginning with an acoustic set (complete setlist for 12/30 below).
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Metal album of the year,
Pompompom (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sunbather (Audio CD)
It's hard to get me excited about metal these days. Everything's been done. Been there, done that. Of course metal is still my main fare, but I tend to gravitate towards old classics.
Hearing this album for the first time put a HUGE smile on my face. I felt I'd been hit by a train, and liked it.
If you need a genre this is black metal. Vocals and drum blasts are pure black. But it's the black metal that Wolves in the Throne Room contributed to free from itself and its rehashed clichés. It's powerful, brutal, melodic, original. Never has an album brought together such brutality (as in power) and melodies so catchy they're almost pop-like. Oh, yeah, and it's also a bit experimental.
It's going to be hard for them to top this album but you know what, it doesn't matter. It's a classic.
The best metal album I've heard this year, and that's putting it mildly.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Someone went and made an important metal album.,
Mr. Omnibus Biscuit "O.B." (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sunbather (Audio CD)
For too long has the heavier side of guitar music been dominated by angry men with long hair and black T-shirts. This is something new, something chimeric, something serious.
This record takes the sound, and unique technical aspects of melodic death/black metal, and integrates it with the wall of noise/soundscape elements of post-rock/punk bands like My bloody valentine, and sonic youth, and in doing so seems to have created a new cultural footprint. The result is utterly refreshing. There are bands; alter of plagues, wolves in the throne room, - who seem to be moving melodic black metal away from the tedious and angsty gothic-cabaret of bands like COD and Dimmu Borgir(whom I enjoy, but not without a hefty pinch of salt and regular bursts of belly laughter)but none I know of who have eschewed the cultural aesthetic of metal entirely. Which is why deafheaven and esp. sunbather is so exciting. It is not envisioned within the dogmatic confines of the heavy-metal subculture, it is expansive, unrestrained, and unapologetic about it.
The name too is apt, the music is the sonic equivalent of staring at the sky through closed eyelids on a hot cloudless day. You feel bathed in sound, it is at once aggravating and cleansing, combining the cultural literacy of post-rock with the aggression and catharsis of heavy metal. Seriously good stuff.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Deafheaven - Explosions in the sky,
Red on Black - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sunbather (Audio CD)
"Sunbather" is going to knock the china ducks from over the top of your grate, strip it of the Anaglypta roll and leave big bunkers in your concrete walls. Deafheaven have created a post metal behemoth here that is so large it may auger gravitational collapse and a musical black hole. This second album from the San Francisco band of noise merchants comes with songs that roll in at well over 10 minutes and which assault your musical sense in a way which was last achieved by Josh T Pearson's soaring aural assault in Lift to Experience's "Texas Jerusalem Crossroads" or the works of fellow Lone Star state residents Explosions in the Sky. On these songs George Clarke's rasp screams over the pile driver arrangements which sound like shattering blasts of pure cacaphony. Yet uplifting melody and triumph lurks here not least in the wonderful heights scaled on the opener "Dream house" whose crescendo builds to a sense of scale and power in its nine minute plus which is completely overwhelming.
Thus to describe or to compare this to black metal anymore (particularly the unholy Scandinavian variety) is to miss the point; this is post rock like Slint but done at warp speed. The closer "Pecan Tree" leaves you gasping for breath. In its 11 minute plus duration its like experiencing a sonic apocalypse which literally pulversises your senses and stops your daily deliberations. Much heavier is the epic mid track "Vertigo" this time at 14 minutes resembling a mini math rock opera with influences and traces of Black Sabbath, Husker Du and previous greats, and with Clarke's fellow band members Kerry McCoy, Derek Prine and Daniel Tracy whipping up such a fierce musical tornado that you should head to the ground shelter. When it comes to the shortest track on the album "Irresistible" its like a single in comparison to its lengthy counterparts and provides shelter from the storm from what follows but at the same time it shows how the band are confident in their own skins that amongst all this full on assault they can interject a lovely guitar lament. The eerie neo religious chant of "Windows" does feel more like an interlude which some may find a distraction. Amends are made however with the pulverising title track that has pitch-warped guitars almost being overcome by fuzz and static. "Sunbather" is a bold and thrilling album from a band whose music has gone into another league on this release. People of a certain age may question the sanity of those who love this undiluted wall of noise produced by Deafheaven, but you the listener will smile politely safe in the knowledge that something very special is going on here and if others can't recognise that then aren't they the poorer for it?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A recent discovery,
S. Brown - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sunbather (Audio CD)
I was pointed in the direction of this band by a friend a month or so ago. After listening to a couple of tracks online, I bought for the album. It has quickly become one of my favourites of this year; it's heavy and brutal in places and ambient in others without sounding forced which is something of an achievement.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Deafheaven - Sunbather - (91%),
Gavin Turner "Manbeast Warmachine" (Leeds) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sunbather (Audio CD)
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I've had a recent lull in review writing and it has lead to an intimidating backlist of stuff to get through. I partially blame Sunbather for this, as for some reason big releases can give me writer's block - to excuse myself, I think this is because so many people have had their say on this work and I didn't want to either trip over someone else's ideas or find myself being objectionable over some of the choice descriptions I've read and found pretty inaccurate. Now all that's out of sight and mind and I actually feel slightly awake for the first time in two months - hopefully I can get back on the mission. This fourth release by Deafheaven is by far their best work - and that's not to the discredit of the demo or `Roads to Judah', which both helped the band carve their firm and exciting niche.
But Sunbather? Sunbather! With guitars that seem to flawlessly and effortlessly conjure the most beautiful and sophisticated chord sequences accompanied by heart wrenching, epic and expressive embellishments - this harmonic journey is not only a fresh approach within the black metal landscape, but as far as the horizon, the territory seems unfamiliar.
This album definitely contains black metal, as far as an aural energy goes, but if you're the type to procrastinate over descriptions you'll vehemently defend the stance that this is obsolete from that particular crowd - and in fact, purists would be excused for vomiting blood and spitting fire out of their ears (or whatever) at the thought of allowing some handsome, young, cocksure San Franciscans anywhere near their precious kvlt of ugliness, bitterness, morbidity and despair. But the fact remains, this draws on black metal for it's fervour.
I've tried to hear a wasted moment on this album, a cut corner, but I can't and it's not there. I even love the interludes. I really thought I was going to have an issue with the fact that the atmosphere comes across as a sort of suffocating love-sick suburban tragedy, with life really getting on top of these kids who've just found talent comes very easy (it's easy to feel envious), but then I found myself picturing this atmosphere through the more critical and objective lens offered in the spirit of films like American Beauty, or the graphic novels of Daniel Clowes (think Ghost World) and Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings).
So in short, the reason why everyone's talking about Sunbather is it's a genuine masterpiece with an incomprehensible breadth of appeal. It's impossible not to feel - from passion to loss and longing to contentment when those melodies find you.
5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime, brutal and beautiful.,
This review is from: Sunbather (Audio CD)
I bought this album as the result of pure serendipity. This album was recommended in some music press as one of, if not the, best album of 2013. A controversial and audacious statement so I had to investigate. Perfect combination of death metal and the indie shoe gaze tunes of the early 90s. Despite this combination this album can be very extreme.
I pleased to say that a few mates who dislike my tastes in music have falling in love with this album. Time to open up more ears to death metal.
Brilliant and highly recommended to everyone.
5.0 out of 5 stars Sunbather, Wow,
This review is from: Sunbather (Audio CD)
If you're fan of Black Metal or Post-Rock and love just being taken on a wonderful journey through time, space and rock. You will love this. If Pink Floyd was satanic, If Heaven came crashing down to earth.
I'm glad I have ears. Just go buy it already. -Calscape
5.0 out of 5 stars Great album. Influences coming for all directions,
This review is from: Sunbather [VINYL] (Vinyl)
Great album. Influences coming for all directions, a great new take on black metal/shoegaze/hardcore/post rock. A truly Epic album, definitely worth a listen.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars,
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Vinyl was A++!!! Service was A++!!! Had already seen Deafheaven's live which was awesome and got the autographs!!! Everything was A++!!!
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The Amazing Race has won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program" nine times in the past 10 years.
This season, which marks the 22nd race around the world for the series, will introduce a new twist to the game in which the first Team to check in at the first pit stop will earn two "Express Passes" - one to keep for themselves and one that must be given to another Team by the end of the fourth leg of the Race.
Teams will travel more than 30,000 miles, over five continents and through nine countries as they skydive from 10,000 feet in Bora Bora, participate in a Shemozzle race in New Zealand, hunt for scorpions with the Bushmen of Botswana and scale the treacherous north face of the Eiger Mountain in Switzerland.
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Hometown: Chicago, Ill.
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Hometown: Buffalo, N.Y.
Current occupation: Pharmacist
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Age: 33
Hometown: Castle Pines, Colo.
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Hometown: Raleigh, N.C.
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Hometown: Raleigh, N.C.
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Hometown: Nashville
Current occupation: Songwriter (Band Member of "Stealing Angels")
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Age: 21
Hometown: Los Angeles
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Hometown: Los Angeles
Current occupation: YouTube Host
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Hometown: Los Angeles
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Hometown: Los Angeles
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On the Other Hand:
Oregon St is generally strong at home, and you have to think that the back to back losses were a bit of an aberration. The defense is starting to play better, and the offense did a solid job against a very good ASU defense last week in Tempe. Just as importantly, this is a program that simply knows how to win, which is an issue for Stanford, as shown in their only road game against anyone decent a few weeks ago at Wake. When push comes to shove, if the Beavers have to get key yards and make big plays, the Cardinal secondary simply doesn't look good enough to stop them.
Bottom Line:
This game is pretty much a true tossup. Stanford is playing better, but Oregon St has the Rodgers brothers, really need the win, and are at home. That's enough to make me think that they'll probably win this game.
@ Oregon St 31, Stanford 27
Oregon (-3.5) @ UCLA
Preseason Pick: Oregon
This is an interesting game between two good teams who have suffered setbacks (Oregon in week 1, UCLA last week), but still want to make a big push towards the top of the league. Of the two teams, Oregon looks better right now, having annihilated Cal and Wazzu in successive weeks. The defense is playing very well, and the offense is finally starting to come around. Meanwhile UCLA looks somewhat vulnerable, having not really done much of note other than winning at Tennessee in a game that Crompton largely gave away; last week's loss to Stanford exposed the defense as being somewhat vulnerable and the offense has been OK, but was largely contained by Stanford and almost entirely contained by Tennessee, so they could have issues with the Duck defense.
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There are three consistent, year in year out, home-depenedent teams in the league, and two of them are playing in this game (Cal being the other, though Arizona, ASU, Oregon St and Washington aren't very far behind). The Ducks have only played once on the road this year, and that was the embarrassing showing at Boise. They've played well in the last two games at home, but it remains to be seen whether they can carry over their performance on the road.
Just as importantly, UCLA's quarterback Kevin Prince should be back, and he's a definite upgrade over Kevin Craft. Meanwhile, Oregon QB Masoli may not be playing, and at least won't be 100%. Good things are said about Nate Costa, but he's still the backup, and if he didn't get time when Masoli was heavily struggling against Boise and Purdue, there's probably a good reason. Add in a growing number of injuries in the Duck secondary, and there's definitely cause for concern. They're still playing well, but at some point you have to think the sheer number of injuries will take its toll on this team.
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My gut is picking the upset, but Oregon has just played so well of late that I can't go against them. UCLA will play very well, but the Ducks will make the plays they need in order to win.
Oregon 27, UCLA 24
Arizona (-3.5) @ Washington
Preseason Pick: Washington
The Washington Huskies are starting to look like their win against USC a couple weeks ago wasn't nearly as much of a fluke as some thought, going into South Bend last week and very nearly pulling off the upset, falling to a late Irish comeback (and some very questionable calls from the refs). Jake Locker is playing very well, the defense is doing a decent job, and it looks like this team is starting to make some real progress. The Wildcats have played well so far, but they aren't always on top of their game, and their track record in road games against teams that they're supposed to beat isn't exactly great. If there's going to be a repeat of the more than annual Wildcat meltdown, this is a pretty good candidate.
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Perhaps no team in the country is as underrated as the Arizona Wildcats. They played decently well on the road against a really good Iowa team, and their wins against Central Michigan and Oregon St aren't getting nearly the respect that they deserve. They've had days when their offense has been off (Iowa), where their defense has been off (Oregon St), but overall they've consistently played very solid football, a big departure from their normal M.O. And while this game is on the road (where they've struggled in the past), they had a bye to prepare, and quite simply they are the better team, and it's probably not very close.
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This definitely could be a "same old Arizona" game, where they blow a game to a lesser team and make you wonder why you started believing in them in the first place. However, they're the better team, they'll be rested, and they should win this game without too much trouble.
Arizona 28, @ Washington 17
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Preseason Pick: Washington St
ASU really looked mediocre last week, and they're on the road in fairly cold weather. Traditionally, that's a very bad combination. However, Wazzu is a very turnover-prone team that has major injury issues on the offensive line. 21 points is a lot to cover, but the Sun Devil D will get a score, and consistently put the offense in position to succeed. The final score should hover right around a 21 point margin, and I'm guessing that ASU actually does manage to cover this line, despite their severe offensive issues.
Arizona St 35, @ Washington St 10
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Florida (-7.5) @ LSU
Tiger Stadium at night is always tough, and Tim Tebow probably won't be close to 100%, but Florida is just so good that I think they win much more easily than anyone expects.
Florida 27, @ LSU 14
Alabama (-4.5) @ Ole Miss
This should be a very entertaining game. Bama has clearly been the better team so far this year, but Ole Miss has a reasonable shot at this game. It's a gut feeling rather than anything tangible, but I smell an upset.
@ Miss 24, Bama 21
Wisconsin @ Ohio St (-16.5)
We've seen this play out before: a scrappy, underrated Badger team is up against a heavily favored Ohio St team that has looked great against bad teams but not so hot against everyone else. Result: either a Badger win or a very close call.
@ Ohio St 24, Wisconsin 21
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Iowa -8 vs Michigan
It's amazing that this is over a touchdown less than the Wisconsin line, considering that the Badgers are probably better than Michigan and Iowa is probably not much worse than the Buckeyes. Michigan is living off of their close win over the Irish (who aren't exactly tearing it up these days), didn't look good in their only road game, and are about the face by far the best team they've seen all year. I look at Iowa's Penn St win as a template here; other than the one big pass play at the start of the game, they shut down the Lions, and at home they'll do the same thing to Michigan. This could very well be a total blowout.
Tennessee -1.5 vs Georgia
Despite being an underdog, Georgia is going to be picked by everyone, from experts to casual bettors. WATCH OUT! Everyone seems to be assuming that Georgia is really good, but I have to wonder. They lost by 14 at what now looks like a mediocre OK St team, they barely beat a mediocre ASU team, and they were really lucky to squeak out a home win over South Carolina. In terms of resume… meh. Meanwhile, Tennessee has (very) quietly not been that bad. As long as Crompton isn't self-destructing (see: UCLA), they can do fairly well, and with their strong defense might actually be the better team. They hung with Florida at the Swamp, and gave a pretty good Auburn team a scare. They're at home, in a desperation game (2-4 would be a major crisis), and NOBODY likes them. Works for me.
Michigan St -4 @ Illinois
Through five weeks of the season, the Spartans are mediocre, and the Illini are completely awful. Maybe they finally wake up and play to their talent level, but right now I've got to see it to believe it.
Minnesota -3 vs Purdue
Umm… why is Purdue supposed to be good? At Minnesota this line says they're basically even, which seems a big over-reaction to the Badgers' close loss last week to Wisconsin, or way too much credit being given Purdue for close losses against Oregon and Notre Dame. I'm not buying either one at all. Minny wins, probably easily.
Idaho +4.5 @ SJ St
Even off of a bye and at home, I just don't think the Spartans ought to win this game. Despite a 5-0 ATS run (@ Washington was close to a push), Idaho continues to be overlooked, while SJ St seems to be coasting on reputation rather than performance. Either the Spartans had a breakthrough during their bye week, or they simply aren't winning this game.
Navy -11 @ Rice
Rice is just completely awful. Navy will run circles around the Owls.
Colorado St +8 vs Utah
Very quietly, the Rams have not been bad, and at home they're always tough. Utah has struggled a bit so far this year and is very susceptible to getting knocked off here.
Season Record:
Pac-10: 27-10 SU, 13-18-2 ATS
National: 5-10 SU, 6-91 ATS
Bad Lines: 14-6
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