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I haven't watched wrestling regularly in 3 years (by choice), although I've been a fan for over 30 years & still follow it occasionally online. Every once in a while I read about an upcoming PPV & decide to see it. This was one I wanted to see. Rather than review every match, I'd like to explain what I liked & didn't like & how it relates to me ending my love affair with modern wrestling 3 years ago.
Josh Matthews, bless his little soul for saying what Vince whispered into his all-too-willing ears, says "DX has never tapped." I hope I was just distracted, and that he actually started that statement with "As a team" because John Cena made them each tap at back-to-back WrestleManias. If he didn't & just flat-out claimed they've never tapped, well then the constant re-writing of wrestling history is inexcusable to me, since I've literally observed it for over 30 years. As for the match itself, I'm glad Legacy won. It was the right thing to do in order to keep getting these younger guys even more over than they've already gotten. Legacy is working for Rhodes & DiBiase, and having them go over clean on a legend like HBK was good.
Andre the Giant, Haystacks Calhoun, Big Show, Kevin Nash…these were/are big men who still manage(d) to get over & draw because they were able to rely on something more than their limited in-ring ability. Great Khali has nothing but an honest-to-goodness "I could kill you with my bare hands" look. But that's it. We've heard him talk, and it was so bad that they had to give him an interpreter. We've seen him go over Undertaker clean very shortly after his debut, and still no one took his in-ring work seriously. His credibility is completely shot, even after trying to work him into a comedy role & a babyface role. Everything that could be tried in order to find something salvageable with him, has been tried & failed. Why is he still here? Better question…why was his match kept on the show, and Morrison/Ziggler taken off when Morrison tore the house down with Rey so recently??
Christian vs Regal, good solid WRESTLING match. After Vince's every attempt to make ECW a C-grade show (and now with Superstars, maybe even a D-grade show), two solid in-ring performers stole the show for me.
Orton vs Cena. As good as the storytelling was for the match regarding the use of handcuffs, I am sick to death of seeing John Cena take a lickin' and keep on tickin'. Its Hulk Hogan all over again…take a guy with limited in-ring ability, have him take the best that "the bad guy" can dish out (in order to carry the match for "our hero" who can't work), and then make a comeback for the win. Seen it, sick of it.
Punk vs Taker. You couldn't find a bigger Undertaker fan than me up until a few years ago. He was constantly evolving through the years…visually, verbally, and in the ring as well. He found ways to keep his overall character fresh, which is why he's lasted for nearly 20 years without the fans turning on him like they did with Hogan & Cena. You simply never had a pocket of fans who hated him as the years went on because "He hasn't changed his act, he still does the same exact thing, its boring now." But even I am tired of him. He's done all he can, and I started resenting him soon after he returned to his (literal) Dead Man gimmick. Hardly anything new has been added since then, its been nearly all recycled material. So when I read (because I didn't watch it) that at SummerSlam, after taking months off post-WrestleMania, he just shows up at the end of the PPV & choke-slams Punk, and gets immediately put into a title match with Punk at the very next PPV…and that until the last few days leading up to it, he was scheduled to WIN the title…I make no apologies, I'm glad he got "screwed" out of the win. Montreal rehash? Its been rehashed before & I thought it was stupid, but this time I honestly don't care. I'm just glad he didn't win the title. If he'd won, it would've been Hogan & Cena all over again…and Undertaker has shown far too much talent & ability in the past to have to be lumped in with those two in my book. But, because of the booking of recent years, I'm sad to say that a longtime favorite of mine has been reduced to just that. As for Punk, he's the freshest top heel WWE has had since Edge, why ruin a good thing?
–Dave Barton, Seaside Heights NJ
I can easily admit that I did hear wrong. I just watched the Josh Matthews interview on YouTube, and he DID say "As a team, DX has never submitted." I don't know that they have submitted as a team, nor will I claim to. But, the statement that WWE constantly re-writes their history is still accurate and I WILL stand by that.
Cena's is not the only stale gimmick, Orton constantly being champion is just a rehash of what triple H was doing in 1999-2000 and also 2002-2006 and JBL in 2004 (legacy is virtually the same as evolution and looks to be heading the same way), the sneaky heel champion is such a tired plot. The wwe needs more complex characters or 'tweeners' . At the moment there are only four very cliched styles of character, the superman face, ie Cena, the more laid back/comedy face ie MVP or Khali, The sly heel (Punk and Orton) or the monstor heel (big show or Kane). As for Punk being 'the freshest top heel… since edge' That Is not true , He has a far too bland personality with non existant mic skills so basically he is just an Edge clone without the ability.
Ps I do however wholeheartedly take your point about the re-writing of wrestling history, examples include the pretence that Chris Benoit never existed (by claiming michaels as the only man to win the royal rumble as number one entry) and the best one being Kanes mask hiding a hideously burned face, and then when he had to unmask trying to claim that he had only emotional scars, fantastic.
Thank you so much for putting into words what I ahve been thinking for years! As a female fan of many genres of entertainment, I can wholeheartly state I've had more fun watching soap operas than I have McMahon's company in recent years. Unlike yourself, I didn't stop watching by choice, our young son was copying the moves on unsuspecting children. For the safety of other people's children and our own sanity, wrestling had to cease in our home. But, what we have seen since then has made this a blessing rather than a curse. This was a fun family thing for us at one time. We watched as a family, went out to see the PPV's together, and laughed when our daughter (4 at the time) drooled over her favorites like a teenager! But come on! It seems like they've either tried to turn unknowns into beloved characters of the past, or they expect what worked 10 yrs ago to work now (i.e. DX). I firmly believe the fault doesn't lie foremost with the onscreen personas, but with the writers…maybe it's time for a change, before ALL the fans decide a test pattern on the television is more entertaining!
Another thing with Kane's final unmasking is that he was unmasked previously 4 or 5 times. And every time, his hair was never a part of the mask.
Stone Cold, The Rock, Mankind…when did such TRUE superstars (lets face it, regardless of what WWE calls every single wrestler in their employ, they are not all "superstars") really hit their stride? When they were told "Well if you don't like what we're writing for you, then what do you want to do?" And all 3 became the biggest stars of the Attitude Era.
No one knows how to be innovative with their character anymore because they're not individual wrestlers, per se…its the same writing team(s) writing for everyone. How are a handful of writers supposed to come up with great gimmicks & great action for a hundred different wrestlers each year (including those who come & go quickly for "not getting over" and those who get tryouts in dark matches and at house shows), when the wrestlers aren't being given a chance to find what feels most comfortable for themselves? On top of that, they learn to find themselves in OVW or FCW or ROH, then get signed to WWE & get told "Yeah that was nice, but now you're going to do what WE want you to do." Wrestlers are forced to go completely against the grain of everything they've learned & practiced successfully.
As big of a machine as WWE is, they don't always know what's best for getting guys over. As I mentioned: Austin, Rock & Mankind were all "created" in large part by the athletes themselves. Hell, even Hulk Hogan had Hulkamania in full swing BEFORE winning the WWF Title in 1984. Vince didn't create Hulkamania, he capitalized on it just as he capitalized on what Williams, Johnson & Foley were coming up with. And I feel that this is the biggest reason why wrestling is so…boring for me, right now. No real originality or individuality permitted.
Regarding your latest point, about permitting individuality, I think that the reason the rock and stone cold were allowed to express themselves was that they became too important to lose to WCW, and that is why for WWE to be great again it needs serious competition, I mean John Cena is capable of far more moves than you see in wwe but he has to keep to 'trademark moves'. This is not a new thing, before WCW became a force they did it to hogan, if you see his matches in Japan he does wristlocks, armbars and even enziguris (im not joking) but Vinnie Mac limited him to about 5 moves in the wwf. Put it this way, How fast would usain bolt run if he didnt have competitors and wasnt timed? It is no coincidence that Wrestlings best years wereduring the monday night wars.
Let me admit right off the bat that I had no idea who Usain Bolt was until I Wikipedia'd him, but I see the relation.
Undoubtedly, competition did bring out the best in WWF. And maybe if Vince weren't so desperate to win the Monday Night War, he wouldn't have let Rock & Foley try something different. Likewise, DX became a hit for just the same reason, it was their idea & not Vince's…HBK & HHH used to goof around in the locker room & eventually begged Vince "Please, the boys like it, why wouldn't the fans enjoy it too?" Granted, it wasn't wrestling…actually, between DX, Rock, Austin, and Foley, they ran mostly on gimmick during their most popular years in the Attitude Era to begin with.
What's interesting is that it was June 23, 1996 when Austin broke the "no foul language" rule & blurted out "Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your ass" at KotR, which had him in the doghouse for all of about 24 hours, when the next night on RAW there were homemade Austin 3:16 signs everywhere…his choice to break script was an obvious hit with the fans. I say this is interesting because Nitro & RAW's were steadily trading wins in the ratings until then. Scott Hall had only shown up 4 weeks earlier on Nitro (with Nash following a week or two later), and it was 2 weeks later on July 7, 1996 that Hulk Hogan officially joined Hall & Nash to form the NWO.
The reason I find it interesting is because, although fans were digging Austin's new persona, it wasn't enough to lead WWF once Nash joined Hall & Hogan joined them, which started the Ratings Streak for Nitro. Even when DX formed to do their experimental gimmick in September 1997, it still wasn't enough. The second RAW after Austin won his first WWF Title (April 1998), when he was set to face Vince, was the first RAW to win the weekly ratings in over 80 weeks. It was also right at this time that The Rock took control of The Nation due to his rising heel-popularity for experimenting with his character. Foley had been making waves for about a year with his new "funny" version of Mankind, the new extended version of DX was just starting as well, and Undertaker had evolved into a more human-like creature to do battle with "brother" Kane.
Why am I bringing all this up? In all honesty, just to show that even if Vince allowed one or two of his low/mid guys to experiment a little, it probably wouldn't work. It was when 6-10 guys all started trying something new & worked on it, tweaked it, had the "thumbs up" to keep trying until they got it right, that the whole "let me try it my way, Vince" concept worked. Without any serious competition (TNA & ROH aren't close to the monster machine WWE is), Vince hasn't got the patience for it. He's fallen right back into his old cookie-cutter style of "Here's your gimmick, and here's your 5 moves."
Alot of guys had handcuffs put on them when they came to WWF…RVD, Y2J, Lance Storm, Jerry Lynn, Dean Malenko, and Raven, just to name a few. Pure coincidence, btw, that the first 6 names that came to mind had great success in Paul Heyman's ECW. But even in WCW, Jericho & Storm had some excellent matches. Even Rey Mysterio & Eddie Guerrero (more ECW alumni) had to work their butts off to be given enough TV time (or PPV time) to put together matches that I would've ranked near or as high as their work in WCW or ECW. And I think that's the biggest reason guys with good solid ability fail in WWE…they're not given enough time in the ring to really get going, or in Raven's case, not enough mic time to really show the personality that made them famous. Oddly enough, the 2 guys who I felt were given full reign over their arsenal were Kurt Angle and (after he'd earned the chance) Chris Benoit. I'd say the same of Eddie & Rey, but honestly, I didn't feel they had opponents they could go full-tilt with often enough. Kurt & Chris, on the other hand, always seemed to bring their A-game regardless.
I know this is a huge post, but I'm inspired. :-) That said, I'll leave with this. Hulk Hogan in Japan. Damn. Good. Stuff. I've seen his work in the 80's & 90's in Japan, and just as you said, the guy CAN work for a big man. Suplexes, leglocks, just being able to move around the ring & use some offense instead of relying on his opponent to do all the work & then "Hulk Up" and pin him anyway. He was no Dean Malenko (the best traditional Technical wrestler I've ever seen) or Kurt Angle (the best modern Technical wrestler I've ever seen), but he was good.
In trying to say something positive about John Cena (aside from his merchandise selling so well), I'll give Cena credit for one thing that I do like about his performances, and that's his raw power. Lifting Big Show for an FU at WM20, Edge & Lita at the same time for an FU at RR06, and then lifting both Big Show & Edge at WM25…mindblowing, I really enjoyed seeing that, especially since Cena's not a 300-pound monster like Hogan or Lesnar.
But his overall moveset, I don't like, especially that hip toss where he throws himself on his own butt…what's the advantage of that? How does that make the move, a simple hip toss mind you, any more effective? For that matter, wasn't that how he tore his pec? He just has alot of moves that I feel are more about making him seem "original" than for effectiveness. The FU in general is a little ridiculous. If it were a Death Valley Driver, I'd get it. But its a simple fireman's carry into a slam, one of the most basic maneuvers in pro wrestling, just modified a bit. In no way should it be considered a "devastating" finisher.


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The CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is designed with a maximum of 256 colors that are arranged in a color table. To make common modifications to a .gif image file, you must change a custom color table. However, when System.Drawing edits an Image object and is then asked to save the image with the GIF encoder, the resulting .gif file contains a halftone color table.
To save an Image with a custom color table by using the GIF encoder, you must work with a 256-color copy of the Image that System.Drawing has not modified.
Understanding .gif Files That Are Written By System.Drawing and GDI+The .gif image file can express a maximum of 256 colors. Because color is a scarce resource in the .gif file, optimizing those colors is a frequently requested task. To affect an optimized color table, you must be able to set any arbitrary custom color table in a .gif file.
The System.Drawing namespace is primarily a wrapper around GDI+, therefore this article refers to the namespace as GDI+ unless behavior that is specific to the System.Drawing namespace is discussed. In this case, the term System.Drawing is used.
After GDI+ modifies an Image, and then writes an image to a file by using the GIF encoder, GDI+ writes the file by using a halftone palette to which the Image bits of the object have been color reduced. GDI+ does a color conversion from 32 bits per pixel (32 BPP) when it writes the image to the file because all modifications to the image are made with GDI+ 32-BPP graphics engine.
Although GDI+ supports the creation of Images and Bitmaps of various pixel formats and can therefore load a .gif image, the use of the 32-BPP graphics engine necessitates the conversion to 32 BPP when they are modified by GDI+. However, an Image or Bitmap that is not modified by GDI+ retains its original pixel format and can be written to a file using the Save method with the appropriate encoder. This property forms the basis for a technique that can save an Image to a .gif file with a custom color table.
Writing a .gif File with a Custom Color TableYou can write an unmodified Bitmap with the GIF encoder and keep the Bitmap color table intact; therefore, you can use this method to save a .gif file with a new color table.
The method is to copy the image data from an original Image object to a temporary Bitmap object. This temporary Bitmap is created as an 8-BPP indexed Bitmap. This is the pixel format that is used to save a .gif file. The Bitmap color table is set by using the SetPalette method, and then the image definition is copied to the temporary Bitmap. After you create the temporary Bitmap with a duplicate definition, you can use the Save() method to save it with the GIF encoder, which preserves the 8-BPP color table.
To write a .gif image to a file with a custom color table, follow these steps:
Using the Sample CodeThe sample code in this article demonstrates how to use Bitmap.Save to write a .gif file with a custom color table of arbitrary size.
The sample function takes the following four parameters:
To create the .gif file, you must initialize the 8-BPP Bitmap object with the image definition that is to be written to the file. In the sample code, a central set of loops is used to color convert the incoming image to essentially the black and white TV color space.
For demonstration purposes, the source image pixels are accessed by means of the GetPixel() method of a Bitmap object that is a copy of the source image. A Bitmap copy is made because the Image class does not implement the GetPixel() method.
You can use other techniques to access the pixels, such as direct access to the pixels by using the LockBits() method or interop with native unmanaged code by using Windows GDI DIB Sections. When you use the BitBlt function to copy a bitmap from a Gdi+ HDC to a GDI DIB Section memory domain controller, the GBitBlt functions uses the color matching abilities of GDI.
Because the Visual Basic .NET Language cannot access memory buffers directly by means of a pointer as in other languages, an intermediate step is necessary. This code creates a working Byte buffer in which are placed the color indexes by the color conversion loops. This buffer is a managed data structure whose elements can be manipulated by Visual Basic .NET code. After the image color index defitions are placed in this buffer, interop services are used to call the RtlMoveMemory Operating System function to transfer the contents of this Byte buffer to the memory buffer that is referenced by the Scan0 IntPtr of the BitmapData object.
The Win32API class that is defined in the sample code demonstrates how to define and use an unmanaged operating system function by using .NET Framework interop services. RtlMoveMemory is declared by this class to be the CopyArrayTo method. This method is defined to marshal the appropriate Visual Basic .NET data types into the appropriate parameters for RtlMoveMemory. CopyArrayTo therefore takes the source Byte array in the second parameter and copies the contents of the Byte array to the memory that is pointed at by the value in the first parameter that is defined as an Int32. The first parameter to CopyArrayTo is an System.Int32 type because that is the value type that can be obtained from the IntPtr class.
After you create the Bitmap copy, use the Save method with the ImageFormat.Gif object to write the bitmap to the destination file.
GIF Files with Fewer than 256 ColorsThe GIF codec in GDI+ version 1.0 encodes only GDI+ Images that are 8 BPP. All other Image formats are converted before encoding. This code use the 8-BPP Bitmap format to write .gif files that have fewer than 256 colors because the GIF codec recognizes 8-BPP Bitmap objects that contain fewer than 256 colors by the Palette.Count property.
For more information about the GIF codec, see the "References" section of this article.
Unfortunately, the ColorPalette class of the System.Drawing namespace in the .NET Framework cannot be instantiated independent of a Bitmap object. This is a restriction that only the System.Drawing.Bitmap class imposes in the .NET Framework; however, to use the approach in this article, the Bitmap object must have a new ColorPalette object that contains fewer colors than the default 256 ColorPalette.
To achieve this, the sample code defines a function named GetColorPalette. This function creates a temporary Bitmap object that has a color depth close to the requested number of colors. The function then references the Palette property and returns it to the caller. This creates a new ColorPalette with one of several possible color counts: 256 colors, 16 colors, or two colors (monochrome). Although you can create color tables in .gif files that are smaller than 256 colors, color tables are limited to sizes that are a power of two.
When you limit color table sizes to a power of two, you minimize wasted space. The resulting color table in this example is 8 colors (2x2x2). With the sample code, the .gif file would be created with a color table of 16 colors because that is the smallest PixelFormat for a Bitmap that accomodates six colors.
The code in the processing loop that copies the image's pixel definitions to the 8-BPP Bitmap takes into account the size of the palette when the code computes a pixel's index value. The GIF codec limits the size of the palette and restricts the image definition to index values that are compatible with the palette size (that is, the potential GIF color table), and can therefore create .gif files with fewer than 256 colors.
GIF TransparencyIn the sample code, the ColorPalette creation routine sets the first entry to be the GIF transparent color to demonstrate the use of the transparency feature. The code does this by setting the Alpha component of the Color entry to ZERO. The sample code in this article is for demonstration purposes only, therefore, the transparency color is an arbitrary choice and may have unexpected results that depend completely on the source Image.
The GIF encoder identifies the first color in the ColorPalette that has an Alpha value of ZERO as the transparent color. This means that the transparent color does not have to be the first entry in the ColorPalette. It can be any one of the possible 256 colors in the palette, on the condition that all preceeding entries contain Alpha components with non-zero values. Any later entries with Alpha component values of ZERO are ignored. All entries that have non-zero Alpha components are considered opaque.
The GIF/LZW Licensing IssueMicrosoft has obtained a license from Unisys to use the .gif file format and other LZW technologies that are covered by the Unisys-owned U.S. and foreign patents in a number of Microsoft products. However, this license does not extend to third-party developers who use Microsoft development products or toolkits to develop applications. As a third-party developer, you must determine whether you must obtain a license from Unisys to use the .gif format or the LZW technologies.
For additional information about LZW licenses and GIF, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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About Sample CodeMicrosoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language being demonstrated and the tools used to create and debug procedures. Microsoft support professionals can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific needs.
If you have limited programming experience, you may want to contact a Microsoft Certified Partner or Microsoft Advisory Services. For more information, visit these Microsoft Web sites:
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TroubleshootingWhen you use this code to overwrite an existing file, you might see a problem with the size of the resulting file. This occurs because of a bug in GDI+ version 1.0 that does not truncate the file. For more information about Image file sizes, see the "References" section.
For additional information about GIF codec pixel formats, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
318343For additional information about Image file sizes, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/318343/EN-US/ )INFO: GDI+ GIF Files are Saved Using the 8-BPP Format
312119For additional information about writing custom GIF files using Visual C++ and Visual C#, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/312119/EN-US/ )PRB: Save Method of Bitmap Class Does Not Truncate File Size
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(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/319061/EN-US/ )HOW TO: Save a GIF with a New Color Table By Using Visual C#
bits per pixel - the number of bits used to represent the color value of each pixel in a digitized image; describes the physical layout of each pixel's color definition in an image. Common and generically referenced pixel formats include 32 BPP, 24 BPP, 16 BPP, 8 BPP, 4 BPP, 1 BPP.8 BPP
The image pixel format that is expressed as eight bits contained in one byte. The byte value is used as an index into a color table that contains the actual red-green-blue (RGB) color definitions. Because the index is one byte in size, the color table is limited to 256 colors.GIF
Graphics Interchange Format - a streamable image file format that was created by CompuServe.RGB
Red, green and blue - each commonly expressed as a byte, and resulting in a color 3-byte triplet.
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Right from first being diagnosed with celiac disease I've found that tapioca has an overpowering taste and I really find it very unpleasant. If I catch a whiff of it in anything I don't want to eat it. It's supposed to be tasteless but it has a strong flavor and smell! So I use corn starch or arrowroot starch instead.
I've noticed that in a few products that use it, I can't taste it, but usually in gluten free bread type products I can.
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The following is a timeline of events in the disappearance of two missing Iowa girls.
Friday, July 13
12:15 p.m.: Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrisseys grandmother sees them leave the house in the 100 block of Brovan Boulevard for a bike ride. Around the same time, a security camera near the house captures them riding their bikes.
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3 p.m.: An Evansdale resident sees the girls riding their bikes in the 1000 block of Lake Avenue.
2 p.m.: Families begin searching for the girls when Lyrics mom, Misty Cook-Morrissey, returns home and discovers the girls havent returned from the bike ride.
4 p.m.: An Evansdale firefighter finds the girls bikes and Collins purse and cellphone on a recreational trail at the southeast corner of Meyers Lake.
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Nearly 2,000 volunteers turn out to help search a 12-square-mile area in and around Evansdale. The 26-acre Meyers Lake is dragged.
Noon to 2 p.m.: Authorities conduct road stops of vehicles traveling through intersections near Meyers Lake. Vehicles are searched, and travelers drivers licenses are checked and recorded.
About 2:30 p.m.: Draining of Meyers Lake begins.
Early evening: FBI takes canines to the lake to search for the girls scents.
Draining of the lake continues; no new developments in the girls disappearance.
Authorities interview Daniel Morrissey, Lyrics father, who storms out of the interview, a family member reports Wednesday.
Daniel Morrissey is again interviewed, family members say, as are others.
FBI requests that the draining of Meyers Lake be stopped to allow silt to settle and to ensure a water depth of at least 6 feet so that sonar equipment will be effective.
Family members say that Lyrics parents have stopped cooperating with authorities because of aggressive questioning by the authorities.
Daniel Morrissey, Lyrics father, is placed in a pretrial supervision program of the Iowa Department of Corrections. Morrissey, 36, faces trials in two drug cases. The move ensures that he is supervised by parole officers, that he appears in court and that he does not violate the terms of his release.
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Theatre Arts
The Department of Theatre Arts is dedicated to the highest standards of excellence in both its academic and performance/technical theatre programs. Its energies are committed to fostering student creativity in all areas of theatre—design, performance, directing and management—and to helping students gain better insights into themselves and the world around them. The theatre arts program has been a vital and important part of the curriculum and student activities at North Dakota State University for more than 100 years. The program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre.
The Curriculum
The department offers three undergraduate degree programs in theatre. Each is flexible and can be designed to fit the individual student's career goals.
The Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in theatre arts is a general baccalaureate degree built around a traditional liberal arts curriculum. Courses are required in technical theatre, performing and directing, as well as in literature, theatre history and modern language. The B.A. program requires proficiency of a foreign language at the second year level.
The Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree is an alternative to the B.A. The B.S. requires a minor in an approved field.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) with an emphasis in musical theatre, performance or design technology is a professionally oriented degree track that places primary emphasis on performance and studio activity, while also requiring a high level of involvement in the academic curriculum. It can be entered only by audition. This degree track broadens the student's exposure to his or her field, and considerable study is made of other fine arts fields as well.
Admission to the B.F.A. degree program in theatre requires consistent involvement in Theatre NDSU and LCT Productions, and demands a high level of commitment on the part of the student.
The Program
LCT Productions, formerly known the Little Country Theatre, is a laboratory for learning in which imaginative play and disciplined work are fused in dramatic creations. A high degree of professionalism is consistently displayed. There are two major LCT Productions programs.
(1) Main Stage Productions --Four plays are produced each school year. These productions range from modern musicals such as The Wild Party and Sweeney Todd to classic comedies such as The Comedy of Errors and Noises Off, including contemporary and ancient plays of the widest variety. Production seasons are chosen according to a four year style-rotation cycle. This ensures that during the course of his or her undergraduate career, the student will have the opportunity to acquire first-hand knowledge of all major performance styles in the Western theatrical tradition.
(2) The Newfangled Theatre Company is the student branch of LCT Productions. This student-managed company produces a four show second stage season.
Numerous dramatic activities take place on a flexible schedule in Studio Theatre Productions. There are showcase productions for B.F.A. candidates and for student acting or directing projects as well as a dance recital each semester.
In addition, the department participates regularly in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (ACTF), inviting ACTF respondents to evaluate main stage productions and nominate students to compete for national scholarships.
The Facilities
Theatre arts students study, work and create on three stages:
(1)Askanase Auditorium (the main stage), a 380-seat theatre with continental seating,
(2) the Studio Theatre, a flexible studio-lab black box space also located in Askanase Hall, and
(3) the 1,000-seat Festival Concert Hall, in Reineke Fine Arts Center, used for major musical stage productions.
In addition, Askanase Hall contains theatre classrooms, costume, scene and property shops.
Career Opportunities
Theatre training develops and exercises the creative imagination.Our graduates have found a rich variety of professions. Former students have gone on to earn advanced degrees in theatre and related fields and now teach in colleges and universities, community colleges and high schools. Other graduates of our program work in arts management, technical theatre and technical consulting, as well as in community theatre, semi-professional repertory companies, professional theatre and commercial radio
and television.
A number of scholarships in theatre arts are available for students both in performance and technical emphases. Several scholarships are available to incoming freshmen. Both a student's academic record and his or her level of achievement in the production program are criteria used in awarding these scholarships. Active participation in the NDSU theatre arts program is expected of all scholarship recipients. Applications are available at www.ndsu.edu/finearts/theatre/.
Sample Curriculum
|General Education Requirements
|First Year Experience
|UNIV 189 - Skills for Academic Success
|COMM 110 - Fundamentals of Public Speaking
|ENGL 110, 120 - College Composition I, II
|3, 3
|English Upper Division Writing
|Quantitative Reasoning
|STAT 330 - Introductory Statistics
|Science & Technology
|Humanities & Fine Arts
|Humanities & Fine Arts Elective
|MUSC 100 - Music Appreciation
|Social and Behavioral Sciences Sciences
|ANTH 111 - Introduction to Anthropology
|Social & Behavioral Science Elective
|Cultural Diversity
|THEA 280 - World THEAre
|Global Perspective
|ART 111 - Introduction to Art History
|College/Department Requirements
|Humanities Elective
|3 or 6
|Social Science Elective
|3 or 6
|Fine Arts Elective
|Major Requirements
|ENGL 380 - Shakespeare
|THEA 161 - Acting I
|THEA 180 - Dramatic Literature and Style
|THEA 270 - Stagecraft
|THEA 274 - Introduction to Stage Design
|THEA 275 - Thearical Makeup Design
|THEA 280 - World Theatre
|THEA 365 - Directing I
|THEA 450 - Capstone Experience
|THEA 480 - History and Literature of Theatre I
|THEA 481 - History and Literature of Theatre II
|THEA 201-204 - Theatre Practicum I-IV
|THEA Electives
This sample curriculum is not intended to serve as a curriculum guide for current students, but rather an example of course offerings for prospective students. For the curriculum requirements in effect at the time of entrance into a program, consult with an academic advisor or with the Office of Registration and Records.
Reineke Fine Arts Center
Music Education Room 115
Reineke Fine Arts Center is located on the south end of campus on the corner of 12th Ave. N. and Bolley Drive (Campus Map)
Contact Information
Department of Theatre Arts
North Dakota State University
Reineke Fine Arts Center 115
Dept. 2330, PO Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050
Tel: (701) 231-7932 / Fax: (701) 231-2085
Web: www.ndsu.edu/finearts/
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Same absurd hyperbole.....in the speech, a line "it is not about me; it was about you"; but the hubris of such a statement is that he had to tell you it isnt about himself...
"You were the change" It is all about Obama....
"I'm the President"...really? Yet you arent responsible for the worst recovery from a recession since the 1930s...
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Darboh's recruitment: Is Kelly helping us out?
It sounds like WR Amara Darboh's guardians were taken back by the way Brian Kelly losses his poise and composure (while teaching that his team should keep theirs):
"I know how emotional it gets out there," he said. "I understand that's part of the game. I really do. But it did shock me. You hold Notre Dame up a little higher than that. It made me wonder how I would feel if Amara was treated like that on national TV."
When the Notre Dame player reached the sideline, lip readers across the nation were certain they saw Kelly call his player a (f-bomb) something or other. In front of "Touchdown Jesus" and everything.
When the player walked away, the coach followed on his heels and went off again. Always teaching, that guy. But not always learning.
This is also the person in charge the day a student-videographer climbed a 50-foot tower in 50 mph winds to record a practice session and fell to his death. It's been a rough couple of years.
Here's what Kelly said Tuesday at his weekly news conference: "Did I hit somebody? Did I strike somebody?"
Then he admitted to being "extremely frustrated" at the time and said, "I've got to do a better job of understanding when that camera is on me, and it seems like that camera is on me more than I'm used to. I'll have to do a better job of controlling my emotions."
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Given what transpired last Saturday I find this pretty ironic:
Notre Dame Helmet Cam
Brian Kelly is strapping cameras to the side of his quarterbacks' heads:
"Notre Dame has gone to a helmet camera to aid its evaluation of starting quarterback candidates, with Crist wearing the lightweight device on the left side of his helmet as spring practice began Wednesday.
Irish coach Brian Kelly said the program enlisted a company to make a light, portable camera with easily downloadable videos so that the staff could assess with the highest accuracy just where its quarterbacks were looking on any given snap.
"We have depth, we got guys we believe have the ability to run the offense, we want to be able to evaluate all the things they do," Kelly said following practice Wednesday morning. "To make this a real competition, we have to look at every part of their decision making. "
Have at it.
Semi-OT: Notre Dame
Stewart Mandel has an article in SI arguing that they're back, or at least might be back. He bases this on their late-2010 surge and their recent, defensively-stacked recruiting class, which includes 3 five-star DEs.
Now, I don't put too much stock in Mandel's opinion, as he's known for these kind of premature "could it really mean blah blah" articles. But I think the question of where Brian Kelly has our rival's program headed is a good one. Will Kelly be able to succeed where no one since Lou Holtz has been able to succeed? After all, Willingham and Weis both had good results early before tanking...
What explains ND's troubles when they have such great recruits, year-in, year-out?
Death to the Irish?
This guy makes a point.
OT: Notre Dame feeling the heat with more controversy
We all know about the mishap which resulted in the death of Declan Sullivan, who was filming the ND practice on a scissor lift in very windy conditions, and how the AD came out and basically denied that wind was a factor until the one gust which caused the accident.
Well, a female student - Elizabeth Seeberg - at nearby St. Mary's College committed suicide in September. She was a freshman at St. Mary's and was from Northbrook, IL, about 20 minutes from where I live. Apparently, she had filed a report with Notre Dame campus police that a Notre Dame football player sexually assaulted her on 8/31.
From the article linked above:
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Seeberg, a freshman at neighboring St. Mary's College who had battled depression, apparently overdosed on prescription medication in her own room during the third week of classes in September. The player, meanwhile, has remained on the field.
More than two months later, Notre Dame refuses to publicly acknowledge the case, and what actions university officials have taken to investigate her allegation remain largely unknown.
According to the editorial linked above:
It's time for transparency, a foreign concept on Notre Dame's campus.
No matter what Notre Dame knows about the details in its own police report, officials owe the Seebergs that much. If the family was satisfied with Notre Dame's investigation, it wouldn't have hired Zachary Fardon, the lawyer who took down former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, to dig for the truth.
I don't know what is going on on that campus, but it ain't pretty. These stories strike particularly close to home for me as a parent and as a local resident (Declan Sullivan's family lives in my town and the Seebergs are just 20 min away).
And for the record, ND Nation has put up a notice that discussion is not allowed on the topic because there is no first-hand knowledge, that they are "not in a position to assess the sufficiency of the investigation, and therefore take no position regarding the sufficiency of the investigation." Ironically, this follows a statement that they believe ND was investigating and taking the complaint seriously. Talk about of both sides of your mouth much?


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Now, of course we have no need for Kearns, especially with his current contract. I didn't particularly like him or his attitude when he was here, but I thought it would be interesting to pass along.
Could this mean that an extension with Dunn is in the works- and Austin knows the only way he can be reunited with his buddy is to come back to Cincy? Who knows, that's just speculation on my part.
My friend also noted that Bowden would love to acquire KGJ, as they are in desperate need of some "star power" heading into their new stadium. He didn't say that he thought anything would happen on that front, but he did note that Jr. and Ryan Zimmerman went to the Washington Wizards game together last week. Just seems a little odd to me that those two would be hanging out, especially considering Jr. is fifteen years older than Zimmerman.
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Grilled hangar steak with sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes, and chimichurri
Many years ago, right after my father passed away, my friend the punk-rock chef guru Fred Eric invited me to assist him at a cooking festival in Rio de Janeiro. I have to say it was one of the wackiest of all my culinary adventures ever. It turns out that the man who arranged the whole event was a raging cocaine fiend and had not actually "arranged" anything at all! Well, that's not completely true. We did have hotel rooms and what looked like an amazing itinerary. But, the first day, Fred and I stood outside our hotel for 4 hours waiting for a mysterious culinary expert who was supposed to take us to the market and then on to our host restaurant to prep for the first event, which was, of course, that evening. Long story short, the host restaurant didn't exist, and the crazy coked‑up guy placed us at some friend's restaurant, where they plied us with Caipirinhas made with Bolivian coca-leaf liquor and tried to make us cook—let's just say things got very ugly from there on out.
As soon as I got over the once-horrifying, now hilarious moments, I remembered having some of the most delicious meat of my life served in more ways than you can imagine—roasted on long skewers, in outdoor pits, and jury-rigged barbecues at the town market. As much as I was craving salads and vegetables after a few days, I told myself, when in South America, just indulge your inner carnivore. One of the most delicious ways to do that is with grilled steak seasoned with a traditional Argentinian warmed herb-and-olive oil sauce called chimichurri.
As you may have realized by now, I am on the constant prowl for new olive-oil-and-herb-based sauces. Something about the way that silky olive oil and the brightness and power-packed flavor of fresh herbs meld with meat juices is so perfectly balanced for my palate. The oil turns the natural juices into a sauce, and the herbs lift and counter the richness of the meat. But, whereas I tend toward the "soft" herbs, such as parsley, mint, and cilantro, in my herb salsas, chimichurri is made with tougher, more sturdy, dark-and-earthy-flavored members of the herb family. Rosemary, thyme, oregano, and even bay leaf are minced and warmed in olive oil with charred jalapeño and red-wine vinegar. This is a strong, bold gaucho to pistou's delicate mademoiselle.
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2 tablespoons thinly sliced chile de árbol
1 tablespoon cracked black pepper
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½ teaspoon rosemary leaves
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1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar
1½ teaspoons sweet paprika
6 large bell peppers (about 3 pounds), julienned
¼ cup sliced garlic
½ pint cherry tomatoes, cut in half
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
6 ounces cleaned arugula
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Light the grill.
Trim the hangar steak of excess fat and sinew, if any (it doesn't usually need much trimming). At least an hour before serving, season the hangar steak with 1 tablespoon sliced chile, the cracked black pepper, and 1 tablespoon thyme. Leave out at room temperature to temper. (Or, of course, you can refrigerate for later. Just make sure you take the meat out to temper at least an hour before serving.)
To make the chimichurri, char the jalapeño on all sides on a medium-hot grill, or on the burner of a gas stove, or in the broiler, until it is completely blackened. Place it in a small paper bag, and close it tightly (peppers can leak, so place the bag on a plate). Let the pepper steam for about 10 minutes, and then remove the seeds and chop the flesh of the jalapeño, including the charred skin, and place them in a medium sauté pan with ½ cup olive oil.
Mince the oregano, rosemary, and remaining 1 teaspoon thyme. Bring the jalapeño in oil to a simmer over medium-low heat, and then remove from the heat, and add the minced herbs, the bay leaf, the vinegar, and the paprika. Leave the chimichurri in the pan, off the heat, and let the herbs infuse for at least 1 hour.
Meanwhile, stew the peppers. Heat a large sauté pan over high heat for 1 minute. Swirl in ½ cup olive oil, and then add the bell peppers. Season with remaining 1 tablespoon thyme, 1 tablespoon salt, and 1 teaspoon ground pepper. Turn the heat down to medium, and sauté for 3 to 4 minutes, until the peppers start to wilt. Add the sliced garlic and the remaining 1 tablespoon sliced arbol chile, and cook for another 10 minutes, stirring often, until the peppers are completely tender. Turn off the heat.
When the coals are broken down, red, and glowing, season the steak generously with salt, and brush it lightly with 3 tablespoons olive oil. Place the meat on the hottest part of the grill, to get a nice sear on the outside. Cook for about 3 minutes, turn the meat a quarter-turn, and cook for another minute or two. Turn the meat over, and move it to a cooler spot on the grill. Cook for another minute or two for medium-rare. Rest the steaks on a wire rack set over a baking sheet.
In a large salad bowl, gently toss the arugula with the warm peppers, the remaining 1 tablespoon lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Taste for balance and seasoning, and divide among six large dinner plates. Set the pan with the chimichurri on the stove over medium-high heat. When it starts to boil, add the cherry tomatoes, and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 30 seconds, shaking the pan, as the tomatoes blister a little and release their juices. Squeeze in about 1 tablespoon lemon juice, toss in the parsley, remove from the heat, and taste for seasoning. Slice the steak against the grain, lay the slices over the arugula, and spoon the sizzling cherry tomatoes in chimichurri over the steak and around the plate.
Wine Note:
I love the Argentinian influence on this dish and am, of course, drawn to that country's dark and seductive wines for pairing. The Mendoza region produces outstanding Malbec, which is a really fabulous accompaniment to grilled meat. Malbec tends to show deep cocoa-infused black fruit notes with touches of smokiness and grippy tannins. These darker aspects of the wine are very much like the sweet charred flavors of the steak itself. The wine also tends to show a good dose of acid, which will work seamlessly with the bright-green herbs in the chimichurri and the tomato.
Fattoush salad with fried pita, cherry tomatoes, crumbled feta, and sumac
Fattoush is the Arabic word for a traditional salad made in most Middle Eastern countries, originally as a vehicle to use up stale leftover pita bread. I think I must just be a leftover lover, because so many of my favorite foods—stuffings, daubes, terrines, meringues—all evolved from using up excess or old product so it wouldn't go to waste. Traditionally, the stale pita is torn into bigger-than-bite-sized pieces, fried, and then tossed with lettuces and seasonal vegetables.
I'm sure there are as many "recipes" for fattoush as there are cooks, but I credit the key to our delicious version to Brian Wolff—one of our A.O.C. chefs in the early days, who was determined to make a better fattoush than the one he ate every Sunday at the local Middle Eastern restaurant in his San Fernando Valley neighborhood. Besides, of course, the super-farm-fresh ripe and crispy ingredients, the secret behind this salad is the dressing—and it's the touch of cream in the dressing that really brings this fattoush to greatness.
For me there are two types of salads, the ones that need to be gently and carefully tossed, and the more rugged ones with bold-flavored dressings—like escarole with anchovies and Parmesan, the farro salad with spring vegetables, and this fattoush, which I like to toss really well, almost massaging the dressing into the greens and other components. The flavors and textures really need to be brought together and integrated to create one glorious whole. It's amazing to me that you can give the same ingredients, and even the same dressing, to two different cooks, and, between the seasoning and the way the salad is dressed and tossed, you can end up with two very different results. So remember to toss this salad well; get your hands in there, make sure every element is getting well coated, and taste. You actually want the tomatoes to break up a tiny bit, so their juices meld with the creamy lemon dressing and bring all the flavors of the salad together.
3 pita breads
½ cup plus 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 clove garlic
¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (about 2 lemons)
2 tablespoons heavy cream
2 large heads romaine lettuce
1 small red onion
3 Persian cucumbers, or 1 hothouse cucumber
½ pint cherry tomatoes
¼ cup chopped flat-leaf parsely, plus ½ cup whole fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
¼ pound feta cheese
¼ cup mint leaves
1 tablespoon ground sumac
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Cut the pita bread into rustic 1-inch squares, and toss, using your hands, with 3 tablespoons olive oil until the pita is well coated and saturated. Spread on a baking sheet, and toast for about 20 minutes, tossing once or twice, until the pita squares are golden and crispy. (You can also deep-fry the pita if you like.)
Using a mortar and pestle (or the side of a knife on a cutting board), crush the garlic clove with a little salt, and then transfer it to a mixing bowl. Add the lemon juice and a heaping ¼ teaspoon salt to the bowl. Whisk in the remaining ½ cup olive oil, and the cream. Taste for balance and seasoning.
Cut each head of romaine in half lengthwise, and place them cut-side down on a cutting board. Make three long slices lengthwise, then turn the romaine and chop across the slices into ½-inch-sized pieces. Clean the lettuce, spin it dry, and place in a large mixing bowl.
Thinly slice the onion. Cut the cucumbers in half lengthwise, and cut them on the diagonal into ¼-inch-thick slices. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half. Add the onion, cucumbers, and tomatoes to the romaine, and toss with the dressing, the chopped parsley, toasted pita, half the feta, ¼ teaspoon salt, and some freshly ground pepper. Taste for balance and seasoning. Gently toss in the whole parsley and mint leaves, and arrange on six dinner plates. Sprinkle the remaining 2 ounces feta and the sumac over the top of the salads.
Wine Note:
This is one of my all-time favorite A.O.C. salads, and one that I have probably eaten over a hundred times. Though the crispy pita adds an indulgent, rich crunch, the essence of this salad is very clean, calling for a wine that is similarly so. I've found that the best match for this dish is a white wine with a savory core and notes of bright-green herbs, like Assyrtiko from Greece, which is lean, refreshing, and kind of unfruity. The wine almost becomes an extension of the salad, creating a seamless connection between the two, while also allowing the sweetness of the tomatoes to shine through.
Grilled fig leaf panna cotta with figs and melon sorbet
1/4-ounce package (2 1/2 teaspoons) Knox powdered gelatin
5 or 6 fresh fig leaves, washed and dried
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup sugar
Vegetable oil, for molds
2 tablespoons crème fraîche or yogurt
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1 recipe Walnut Lace Cookies (recipe in book)
9 ripe figs
1/2 ripe cavaillon, honeydew, or other melon
1 recipe Melon Sorbet (recipe in book)
Place 1/4 cup cold water in a large bowl, sprinkle the gelatin over it, and gently swirl the bowl to combine. Using tongs, gently grill 2 or 3 fig leaves for about 2 minutes, rotating frequently and being careful not to burn them. Or, alternatively, fan each leaf over a gas stove, without directly touching the flame, until the leaf begins to smell toasted. It is important that the leaves get toasted and have slightly golden- brown spots and edges but are not burned.
Combine the cream, milk, and fig leaves in a medium saucepan, and bring to a boil over high heat. Turn off the heat, cover, and let sit for 30 minutes, allowing the fig leaves to steep in the hot liquid. Strain the leaves from cream mixture, discard them, and return the liquid to the saucepan. Heat this cream mixture over medium heat to a scald, add the sugar, and stir until it dissolves. Slowly whisk the cream mixture into the bloomed gelatin until completely incorporated. Chill the cream mixture over an ice bath, stirring occasionally, until it's at room temperature or slightly cool.
Prepare six 3- inch ring molds (or individual ramekins) by lightly brushing vegetable oil on the inside surfaces. Pour a small amount of the cream mixture into a bowl, and whisk in the crème fraîche or yogurt. Then whisk that thickened cream– crème- fraîche mixture back into the cream. (Tempering the cream this way creates a very smooth and silky panna cotta.) Pour the panna- cotta cream into the prepared molds, and chill in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours, until set. When ready to serve, cut the remaining three fig leaves in half and place them on each of six dessert plates. Cut six 3- inch circles of walnut pain de Gênes and place one in the middle of each fig leaf. Center one walnut lace cookie atop each cake. Carefully unmold the panna cottas on top of each cake- cookie stack. (To unmold, gently press your finger down on the panna cotta close to the edge, pulling lightly inward, to the center, and then moving your finger along the perimeter of the panna cotta. When f ipped upside down, it should pop right out.) Trim the stems of the figs, and cut each one in half. Place one fig half on top and one fig half on either side of each panna cotta. Thinly shave the melon with a vegetable peeler; weave the slices around the plates, and place scoops of melon sorbet nestled among the fruit.
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"I just talked to a Romney campaign staffer at the Orem call center who said he was very disappointed in the turnout of volunteers for Governor Romney. In a state where Romney may get 80 percent of the vote, far too many people are apathetic. They don't think they can make a difference. NOT TRUE!! These call centers are targeting voters in swing states such as Nevada, Colorado, and Ohio. Utah volunteers are desperately needed in a very tight election."
I add: This election could prove to be a cliff-hanger. One prognosticator last night suggested that Romney might win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College. In other words, states like Nevada, Colorado, and Ohio could make all the difference. And if you imagine that, living in Utah or Idaho or some other safe Romney zone, you can't have any impact on the races there, you're absolutely wrong.
Monetary donations, even small ones, can still make a difference. Unless I'm mistaken, Barack Obama substantially outraised Mitt Romney last month, for the first time in quite a while. What a pity it will be if, having come this far, we falter at the end and fail by a hair's breadth.
This is the time for the final push in the race, the final burst of energy that guarantees the victory. Or the fatal loss of will that turns triumph into failure.
You can also volunteer to make phone calls. The ground game is everything at this point. The candidate who gets his voters out will win the vital contested states and take the presidency for the next four years.
Romney Call Centers in Utah, open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
If you would prefer to call from home, please click on this link to find out how you can set up your phone and computer. It will, I think, work from anywhere in the country. So you non-Utahns shouldn't feel that you're off the hook! You're needed, too!
Orem Office:
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Address: 1120 S 1350 W
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(It's just over on the west side of the freeway, not far from the University Parkway exit, more or less opposite UVU.)
Midvale Office:
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Midvale, UT 84047
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Please! Volunteer at one of these call centers. I've done it a few times. It's painless. Really quite simple.
Make it a fun outing. Recruit some of your friends.
And if you can't make it to one of the call centers, or don't want to, or want to set your own schedule, to devote only as much time as you can afford to spend (maybe even just a very short while, two or three calls), make some calls from home!
And, for the really ambitious:
The Romney campaign just got budget for another bus to travel to Denver this week to campaign for Mitt. It would be a great experience for students or families. Transportation, food, and lodging are all free. The bus is leaving for Denver from the Brick Oven in Provo at 1 PM this Thursday (the 25th) and coming back Sunday evening. Currently, they have about 40 spots left! Colorado could be decided by less than 1,000 votes. This is a great opportunity to MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. Email email@example.com ASAP to reserve your spot.
You can help to make history.
Please, join in the cause. Volunteer. Contribute. And encourage others to do so, as well. And, please, pass this information on to others. To as many Romney supporters as you can.
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One tablespoon of butter contains more than 7 grams of saturated fat - that's more than a third of the recommended daily value. It also contains 10% of your daily value for dietary cholesterol. Switching to a plant-based margarine spread will cut the cholesterol down to zero and replace the bad fat (saturated) with the healthy fats (unsaturated).
Using plant-based proteins such as nuts, peanut butter, sunflower nut butter, beans, edamame and tofu can create a serious cholesterol deficit in your day. Lean meats are a good alternative to red meats but still have up to 80 mg of cholesterol per serving. People with high cholesterol should have less than 200 mg/day.
For a healthier salad, skip the croutons and sprinkle walnuts on top instead. Walnuts are high in polyunsaturated fat and can lower your LDL (bad cholesterol) while boosting your HDL (good cholesterol).
Red meat is a source of both saturated fat and dietary cholesterol - two of the main sources of blood cholesterol. Ground turkey contains half the saturated fat of 85% lean ground beef, and it can be substituted easily for beef in most recipes.
Tortilla chips are often considered a healthy alternative to potato chips. They are certainly healthier, but an even better snack is homemade air-popped popcorn, which has 80% less saturated fat than tortilla chips and more than twice the fiber. You can also have a bigger portion (5 cups popped) for the same amount of calories as seven tortilla chips.
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Speedy Tortilla Pizza
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|1 Pound
|1⁄4 Pound
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1 Clove (5 gm), minced or pressed
|Canned green chile salsa
|7 Ounce (1 Can)
|8 Ounce (Jack Or Mozzarella)
|1 Small
|Green pepper
|8 inch flour tortillas
|Olive oil/Salad oil
|1 Tablespoon
|Canned sliced ripe olives
|2 1⁄4 Ounce, drained (1 Can)
|Grated parmesan cheese
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Sour cream
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
Crumble beef into a wide frying pan and cook, stirring, over medium heat until lightly browned and crumbly (about 5 minutes); drain any excess fat.
Meanwhile, insert slicing disc in food processor.
Slice mushrooms and add to meat along with salt, garlic, and salsa.
Cook, stirring, over high heat, until liquid has evaporated (about 3 to 5 minutes); remove from heat.
Change to shredding disc and shred jack cheese; set aside.
Change to metal blade.
Cut onion in chunks; cut green pepper in chunks and discard seeds.
Process onion and green pepper separately with on-off bursts until coarsely chopped.
Brush tortillas lightly with oil on both sides, being sure edges are oiled.
Place tortillas slightly apart on shallow baking pans.
Spread meat sauce evenly over tortillas; then scatter onion, green pepper, and sliced olives evenly over sauce.
Sprinkle jack cheese in an even layer over vegetables; then sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
Bake in a 475° oven until cheese melts and is lightly browned (about 7 to 10 minutes).
Peel avocado, remove pit, and dice with a knife; sprinkle over tops of pizzas.
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Cook frozen peas, asparagus, carrots and snow peas in large pot of boiling salted water until vegetables are crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Drain. Transfer vegetables to bowl filled with ice water. Drain vegetables and set aside.
Heat 3 tablespoons oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add shrimp and sauté until pink and cooked through, about 1 1/2 minutes. Transfer shrimp to medium bowl. (Vegetables and shrimp can be prepared up to 1 day ahead. Cover each separately with plastic wrap and then refrigerate.)
Heat remaining 3 tablespoons oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add onion and shallots and sauté until soft, about 5 minutes. Stir in couscous and tomatoes. Add wine and simmer until liquid is reduced by half, stirring often, about 10 minutes. Add vegetable stock and simmer until liquid is reduced by half and couscous is just tender, stirring often, about 8 minutes. Mix in reserved vegetables and whipping cream. Cook couscous over medium heat until mixture thickens and is creamy, about 3 minutes.
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