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Many of us living in the United States — especially in the central states of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas — are very familiar with a long-tailed bird called a scissor-tailed flycatcher. They are often observed on fences, light posts and other exposed places where they scan the air for flying insects, upon which they feed. In the Southern Hemisphere, there is a counterpart of the scissor-tailed flycatcher called a fork-tailed flycatcher. Amazingly, this species has even longer tail feathers — so long that it is a wonder that these birds can even fly!
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On your next Costa Rica ecotour with International Expeditions keep an eye out for the shining honeycreeper. This diminutive tanager is found throughout Central America and in parts of Colombia, and is easily recognizable due to its prominent royal blue coloration.
Paradise tanagers are as colorful as parrots and just as plentiful in the Amazon rainforests and throughout northern regions of South America. These small birds are prized by birders, and you can see one of the subspecies on your next Amazon cruise. These creatures travel in mixed-species groups of about five to 20, but rarely remain in one spot for very long.
The plants and animals found on Galapagos that helped Darwin form his Theory of Evolution are exactly what makes a Galapagos cruise unforgettable. There are many endemic birds on the archipelago, including the Galapagos flycatcher. This small bird is also called the large-billed flycatcher even though its bill is not that big in size compared to the bird itself.
This poem about the Cuban Emerald Hummingbird was shared by James Blackburn, a guest on our recent People-to-People Cuba trip.
The Cuban Emerald Hummingbirdby James Blackburn
Not far from colonial Trinidad lies the Sierra de Escambray, one of the most mountainous regions in all of Cuba. Housed within this area is the Topes de Collantes National Park, which offers travelers one of the best spots to take in some of Cuba's endemic wildlife and landscapes. The park offers a little bit of everything, which is perfect when traveling with International Expeditions' small-groups of both causal nature enthusiasts and avid birders.
The animals found in Africa are often unlike any other creatures in the world, and this goes for birds as well as mammals. The grey crowned crane is a shining example of distinct African birds, as its unusual features make it stand out in the African wetlands and the minds of travelers who see and hear the bird in action.
Low-level fires are a natural but infrequent occurrence in rainforests, but due to industrialization, logging and other deforestation, the severity of forest fires is increasing. This may pose a serious threat to the plants and animals of these regions, and many scientists are concerned for the future of the Amazonian rainforest. The impact of forest fires on local bird populations in Brazil was the focus of a recent study conducted by researchers from the U.K. and Brazil.
Superb starlings are some of the most colorful birds endemic to northeast Africa, but you will likely hear these birds long before you can spot them in the bushes of the Serengeti. The songbirds are very vocal and have a variety of different calls they use to communicate with one another. They likely need to be so loud to be heard above the group, as the starlings live in large flocks that can number well into the thousands.
Fischer's lovebirds are a delightful treat for birders planning a Tanzania wildlife safari. These colorful birds are typically seen in pairs, as they mate for life and stay close by the side of their partner. You will not likely see lovebirds mingling with other parrot species. While they have much love for one another, lovebirds tend to get into trouble with other parrots.
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Best Redhead In NBA History? Bill Russell.
Your day will be instantly brightened if you just assume that Ron Boone answers all questions with "Bill Russell." »
Your day will be instantly brightened if you just assume that Ron Boone answers all questions with "Bill Russell." »
Bill Russell and President Obama share an embrace underneath the recently unveiled Russell statue. It looks like Bill Russell gives the best hugs. »
The 79-year-old Celtics Hall of Famer was arrested at a security checkpoint Wednesday night at Sea-Tac International Airport for allegedly bringing a loaded handgun into a prohibited area. Russell had a permit for the gun and was later released, but still, what the hell? »
When your career includes 11 NBA championships, two NCAA championships, an Olympic gold medal, five NBA MVP trophies, and getting confused for Morgan Freeman, we imagine pretty much anything basketball-related might bore you to tears. »
Here is a good story from "Second Wind: Memoirs of an Opinonated Man," by Bill Russell with the historian Taylor Branch (1979, Random House; currently out-of-print). It's about Russell's grandfather and his mule, Kate. Russell's family was from Monroe, La., and he lived down there until he was about ten (his family… »
Reports are swarming that LeBron James will be named the NBA's MVP for the fourth time in the past five seasons. Somehow this makes Derrick Rose's 2011 MVP — the only blemish in that stretch for LeBron — seem all the more impressive, if all the more anomalous. Only four other players (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill… »
Today Philadelphia's district attorney got on the Twitter to muse about opening an investigation into Andrew Bynum's lack of contributions to the local basketball club. This fellow Seth Williams did so because Bynum, a very talented and thus very expensive professional basketball player, has earned a great deal of… »
This clip popped up on YouTube two days ago. According to the uploader, that's a young Bill Russell—playing for the University of San Francisco—grabbing a defensive rebound, streaking down the court on a one-man fast break, and jumping over some poor sap while gracefully laying the ball in. According to us, Bill… »
Never mind that Morgan Freeman looks nothing like the 6-foot-10 NBA Hall of Famer: The Celtics cap with Russell's number on it apparently wasn't enough of a clue for Stephanopoulos, either. With a nudge from David Remnick, Stephanopoulos—a Massachusetts native—quickly corrected himself. But not before his error was… »
I'd love to know the backstory behind this inspired bit of casting. Who is it that looks at a script calling for a corrupt Miami judge and says, "Get me Bill Russell on the phone now!" Indeed, in a second-season episode of Miami Vice, Russell makes a star turn as a crooked judge who pays off gambling debts by taking… »
From J.E. Skeets and The Basketball Jones comes this tremendous video of a 1973 Bill Russell commercial in which he attempts to save you money on your long distance bill. »

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I've had this for a month and a bit and I can already tell you guys this is worth the 5. I've had the copy in my hands for weeks and it just fascinates me how fucked up this album really is.
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Great rev as usual, Wiz! Pos'd hard.
Gna czech this but daaaamn, a 5!
That's your fantasy on the cover innit Plebster?
Bondage, noose, rack and tackle.
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Album Rating: 4.0Great review, Wiz. The album's hideous in the best way possible.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffI see a 4.5...
It's an objective 5 hahahaha. I will in time.
Greg, thanks buddy. I kind of want to hear your perspective on this too considering you loved Pervertor more than anyone I know (besides Josh too).
cool review man. I know you have good taste so i'll give this a go
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffDang a 5 will read as soon as I can
'That's your fantasy on the cover innit Plebster?
Bondage, noose, rack and tackle.'
Fucking lol.
Album Rating: 4.0I'd probably end up writing something similar to your write-up, except I think Pervertor is a tad better. Coil is definitely a weak link here. It sounds cool at first, but then it gets boring.
Sick sound, totally ripped out.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffNice review Wiz but you refer to the album as Body Choke twice in the opening paragraph and it's called Death Mask, or am I missing something?
Album Rating: 4.5No, Death Mask is the correct album title
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffFixed the mistake, I was just listening to 'Body Choke' on repeat for the past week cuz it fucking makes me feel so weak and insignificant.
Album Rating: 4.5tmi dude
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"they're" at the end of the 4th sentence should be "their". apart from that good review. Listening to Body Choke right now and the vocals remind me of Anaal Nathrakh, good stuff
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffThank you Buzz for pointing that out.
fuk yea wiz this is indeed awesome
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffWhoa, who bumped my rating to a 5?
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffWould've happened automatically when you edited the review.
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Now that it's snowed, it's time to go to Switzerland to go skiing, right? Oh, no, my bad, we're going to Aspen. Actually, no, Aspen is so basic. Let's just ski down a big pile of money. Much simpler.
Now that we have a destination, it's time to prepare accordingly. Onward, one-percenters!


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Examples of applications include wide area coverage for situational awareness, persistent surveillance and plume/gunflash detection; infrared search, identification and tracking, missile detection and interception, and hyperspectral imaging, CERDEC said.
Components that will have to be developed include type III-V superlattice large-format, small-pixel mid-wave infrared, long-wave infrared, and very long-wave infrared detector arrays; high-performance and low-cost III-V epitaxial wafers; large gallium antimonide substrates; and advanced readout integrated circuits supporting advanced III-V detectors.


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Nicolle Zellner, a planetary scientist at Albion College, helped organize this year's viewing party of the transit of Venus across the sun.
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As might be expected, most commentary on death and dying in Shakespeare's plays centers on the final moments of his tragic protagonists. Karl S. Guthke (1992), for example, maintains that in these episodes, Shakespeare frequently challenges the ars moriendi (art of dying) tradition, especially the conventional view that one's dying words always represent the truth and that they may even be prophetic. Calling attention to Shakespeare's unconventional introduction of comic elements in scenes of tragic death, Catherine I. Cox (1992) argues that these allow the audience to accept the characters' fate and simultaneously anticipate the sense of freedom and communal reordering that will follow their deaths. T. W. Craik (1979) notes that the final scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies often feature a series of reversals: from hope that a character will survive to dread of impending disaster, then back again. Discussing the question of whether Shakespeare's tragic heroes achieve understanding of existential issues before they die, Walter C. Foreman, Jr. (1978) emphasizes these characters' final affirmations of human control—even though such affirmations may be illusory. Susan Snyder (1982) also explores the issue of self-assertion in the face of destruction, observing that a principal function of tragedy is to protest the inevitable.
Snyder's remarks on tragic self-assertion appear in her analysis of the most frequently discussed deaths in the Shakespeare canon: those of Lear and Cordelia. The demise of the old and exhausted king represents the natural consequence of human mortality, she argues, whereas Cordelia's murder incarnates our sense that death is monstrous. Examining the ending of King Lear in the context of early modern Christian belief, Ian J. Kirby (1989) declares that the play's evil characters all die in ways that signal their eternal damnation. By contrast, he contends, Lear dies in a state of grace, and his final words express not despair but rather the joyful conviction that he and Cordelia will be reunited in heaven. Addressing the issue of Hamlet's despair, Richard Fly (see Further Reading) maintains that although the prince falls into despondency midway through the play—after confronting and acknowledging the annihilating power of death—in his final moments he reaffirms the value of human existence. The critic finds evidence in the graveyard scene (V.i) that Hamlet's despair has lifted; he asserts that here the prince counters the clown's profession of the transiency of all human endeavor with a newly acquired, dispassionate attitude toward the fact of human mortality. Also evaluating the encounter between Hamlet's perspective and the gravedigger's, Michael Cohen (1987) contends that an important subtext in their debate is the issue of whether death levels all class distinctions.
Another noteworthy comic episode in the midst of Shakespearean tragedy is the Porter scene in Macbeth, where, Catherine I. Cox maintains, the clown presages both life and death, evoking our sympathy for Macbeth as a man who must be punished for his sins. The dramatic discrepancies in the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra are the focus of James C. Bulman (see Further Reading), who emphasizes the disparity between conventional expectations of heroic death and what is actually enacted. Bulman points out that Antony's claim to be an epic hero dying a noble death is sharply at odds with his botched suicide; the critic also calls attention to Cleopatra's procrastination and equivocation even as she prepares herself for a heroic death. Jean-Marie Maguin (1995) analyzes the deaths of Shakespeare's other pair of lovers who die entombed: Romeo and Juliet. The critic contends that, for them, death is both an escape and a resolution.
Reading the Henry VI trilogy as an "intersection" of tragedy and history, Alexander Leggatt (1996) turns to the deaths of Lord Talbot and his son John in 1 Henry VI. As with the deaths of heroes in Shakespeare's tragedies, theirs represent the end of an era, he argues, and they personify Shakespeare's concept of history as a compilation of individual tragedies. By the same token, Dorothea Kehler (1985) emphasizes the tragic elements of Richard II and the king's painful endeavor to acknowledge his personal mortality. For all his egotism and vacillation, Kehler maintains, Richard dies well, neither begging for life nor relinquishing it without a struggle. Paul M. Cubeta (1987) evaluates Falstaff's death—one of the most notable deaths in Shakespeare's histories. Though the fat knight's death scene is recounted rather than enacted, his ending is intensely realized, Cubeta remarks, and it is suffused with an ambiguous atmosphere of folklore, superstition, and Christian beliefs about the art of dying.
Deaths in Shakespeare's comedies always occur offstage, Marjorie Garber (1980) points out. Yet the recognition of human mortality is intrinsic to these plays, she contends, and each of them contains at least one character or speech that reminds us of the inevitability of death. Garber also notes that after Measure for Measure, where death takes center stage, Shakespeare wrote no more comedies. Both Phoebe Spinrad (1984) and Robert N. Watson (see Further Reading) have examined the motif of death in Measure for Measure. Assessing the prison scene (III.i) in terms of traditional Christian views on preparation for death, Spinrad traces Claudio's unsteady passage toward repentance. The critic also remarks that Angelo's puritanism and Isabella's martyr-like isolation constitute figurative prisons from which they will be released only when they accept death as an integral part of life. By contrast, Watson views Measure for Measure's accommodation with death as halfhearted. Despite its gestures toward pardon and redemption, he argues, the play mocks the hope of individual survival in some transcendent sphere. Evaluating accommodation with death in The Winter's Tale, Cynthia Marshall (1986) focuses on the animation of Hermione's statue in Act V, scene iii. This scene offers an image of the restoration of the earthly family in heaven, she maintains, but even as the vitalization of the statue dramatizes the Christian concept of resurrection, Hermione's transformation remains a mystery.
Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
SOURCE: "I Know When One Is Dead, and When One Lives," in Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. LXV, 1981, pp. 171-89.
[In the following essay, originally presented in 1979, Craik reviews the final scene in King Lear together with scenes in other plays where Shakespeare treats life and death with dramatic ambiguity.]
I am very grateful to the British Academy for inviting me to deliver this lecture. For my title I am indebted, obviously, to Shakespeare himself, but it was a colleague of mine at the University of Durham, Dr Derek Todd, who provided the stimulus. In his book I Am Not Prince Hamlet Dr Todd writes as follows:
'I know when one is dead, and when one lives', says Lear as he carries in Cordelia: a statement which turns out to be strangely false, for he alternates several times between believing her alive and believing her dead.1
Dr Todd's remark made me curious to examine this scene afresh, and also to examine other scenes in which death and life are, or may be, treated with dramatic equivocation. The more often I read Shakespeare's plays the more firmly I believe that they are thoroughly dramatic. The truism is intentional. It seems to me impossible to stress too strongly that the life of a Shakespeare play lies in the effect it makes on a spectator (or on a reader who reads as if he were a spectator) as it proceeds, act by act, scene by scene, speech by speech, line by line. It makes its effect equally in its structural design, which becomes clearer and clearer as the action unfolds, and in its minute particulars of language and gesture which catch our attention and are, so to speak, the nerve-endings of the whole dramatic system. In the present century perhaps no critic has shown himself more aware of this Shakespearean dramatic life, in all its grandeur and in all its finesse, than Harley Granville Barker, to whose memory (coupled with Shakespeare's) I should like to pay tribute today. His first volume of Prefaces to Shakespeare (1927) is my exact contemporary; I was lucky enough to encounter his writings when I was a schoolboy, and I have reread them frequently since then, marvelling at so robust a common sense wedded to so sensitive an imagination. The last word on Shakespeare will never be said. Granville Barker, like the good exploratory critic he was, never wrote as though he thought he was saying it. But later critics who ignore his views, and the aspects of Shakespeare's plays to which they were directed, do so at their peril.
Granville Barker followed A. C. Bradley in believing that King Lear dies of joy, and I may as well say immediately that I share their opinion.2 Opinion, of course, it is and must remain. Shakespeare did not expound through Kent and Edgar (or rather, allow them to try to expound) Lear's final emotional state. This is not to say that he left it a mystery: on the contrary, in his theatre it must have been settled one way or the other, by Burbage's intonation and gesture, and had there been a continuous theatrical tradition from Burbage onwards it would be no mystery now. However, the theatres were closed in 1642, and when they reopened after the Commonwealth Tate rewrote King Lear as a tragi-comedy. When Shakespeare's tragedy returned to the stage it was for the actors to build a new tradition upon the foundation of the script. Whether any actor had made Lear die of joy between the restoration of Shakespeare's text and the publication of Bradley's study I do not know. If not, I am rather surprised that a critic discovered what lay more obviously in an actor's way. The crucial words are: 'Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, / Look there, look there!' They seem to me to express excitement: the emotion, not of Laertes' exclamation 'Do you see this, O God?' but of Lear's 'Look, look, a mouse!' If it is agreed that Lear's tone here is not one of flat despondency, then it rests with those who maintain that he dies of grief to show what change in Cordelia has excited him, and to show why any change confirming her death should excite him, since he has just been exclaiming against the injustice of meaner creatures' having life while she has 'no breath at all'. Breath has been Lear's continual theme in his attempts to find life in her body: looking-glass, feather, voice (Shakespeare frequently tells us that words are made of breath), all point in the same direction. Colour he never mentions at all (though it is mentioned, whether present or absent, in connection with Juliet and Desdemona), and therefore the argument that Cordelia's lips have lost their colour seems a weak one.3 The inference (drawn from Lear's long digression about his attempted rescue and Kent's attempt to make himself known) that Lear has abandoned all self-deception when he reaches his last speech is also considerably weakened by the fact that this last speech itself includes a digression, albeit a short one, the line in which Lear asks a bystander to 'undo this button'. That break in continuity is important, for it allows Lear to look away from Cordelia and then to look back and become excited by what he thinks he sees.4
The objection to Lear's dying of joy is not, I am sure, based on dramatic principles but upon principles quite different, those of tragic propriety. Many readers feel that, in a tragedy so deeply concerned with the theme of understanding, Lear must not be allowed to die in error but must die confronting his tragic situation. This argument, I think, would have weight only if the counter-argument was that Lear never did believe that Cordelia was dead. The poignancy of his final joy, in my opinion, rather heightens than lowers the tragic tone established by his opening words. As for the mass of illustration that is sometimes advanced in support of the thematic argument, I can only say, firstly, that to me a dram of the dramatic is worth a pound of the thematic when plays are in question, and, secondly, that if Lear dies with a poignant joy, his death bears a striking thematic relation to Gloucester's, whose
flawed heart, Alack, too weak the conflict to support, 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly.
Moreover, if Lear's last speech is to contain no such fluctuation as Bradley detected, what is the dramatic point of all his earlier fluctuations? They would seem to lead up to nothing.
In discussing the last scene of King Lear I have dwelt till now on Lear's emotions as they are dramatically presented. I turn, next, to their object, the body of Cordelia. We are so familiar with the play that it is worth asking whether, if we had been at the first performance, we should have known for certain that she was dead, and if so, when. To take the general aspects of the matter first, Shakespeare's is the first tragic treatment of a story which previously had ended with the king's restoration and might have been expected to end so again; but, on the other hand, the loss of the battle, the capture of Lear and Cordelia, and Edmund's significantly secret instructions to the Captain, are pretty clear indications of disaster to come; these are, however, followed by the exposure of Edmund and Goneril, the defeat of the former by Edgar, and the suicide of the latter, having previously poisoned her sister—events which, at the eleventh hour, seem to tip the scales back towards hope; at the same time, despite the interest of these events, we are subtly kept conscious (mainly by means of observations from Edmund) of the danger to the prisoners, so that when the reprieve is at last sent we feel little but apprehension. The entry of Lear carrying Cordelia's inert body realizes our fears, and his opening lines proclaim her death in tragic tones.5 This speaking picture of heroic bereavement is our immediate assurance that she is dead: were she now to revive, our humanity would be gratified but our exaltation would be diminished. Yet while Lear plies his futile attempts to find a spark of life in her, a glimmer of hope, almost as irrational as his, persists: like him, what we really want is a miracle—but, unlike him, we know this is what would be needed. This is what goes on in part of our minds, the part given over to sympathy. The other part, the part open to dramatic suggestion, observes that no one on stage—not even Kent—attempts to assist Lear in his repeated efforts.6 There is, accordingly, no real suspense as to whether Cordelia might revive, though there is a kind of false suspense, related to pity. Lear's own death, by contrast, is confirmed—after Kent's moving lines—by Edgar's simple 'He is gone, indeed.'
Shakespearean deaths are, with few exceptions, as unequivocal as Lear's. Often—and by no means only in the earlier plays—they are given emphasis by a couplet, such as Arthur's
O me! my uncle's spirit is in these stones: Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!
or Richard's
Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high; Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.
or Brutus'
Caesar, now be still; I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.
or Othello's
I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee; no way but this; Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
It would be interesting, though the present topic forbids it, to discuss why some of Shakespeare's characters die upon a couplet and others do not. Othello has not always been allowed his. When Edmund Kean reached the half-line 'And smote him, thus', he acted on the medical knowledge that 'death by a heart wound is instantaneous': an eye-witness reported of him:
He literally dies standing; it is the dead body only of Othello that falls, heavily and at once; there is no rebound which speaks of vitality and of living muscles. It is the dull weight of clay seeking its kindred earth.7
This was doubtless fine theatre, but the suppression of the couplet seems a great pity, since Othello's last thought, touchingly recalling the beginning of the scene, should not be of himself but of Desdemona, and the dying kiss, physiologically impossible though it may be, is his reconciliation.
The great liberty which Shakespeare takes in this scene is, of course, in connection not with Othello's death but with Desdemona's:
The revival of Desdemona from a state of suffocation, and her expiring without any fresh violence, we apprehend to be rather absurd; therefore, highly approve Othello's stabbing her with a dagger.8
This comment of a theatrical critic of 1770 shows both when and why this change in the stage business at 'I would not have thee linger in thy pain' was made. It became usual in the following century. But should realism be the arbiter of such matters? In Webster's Duchess of Malfi the heroine is strangled, suffers no fresh violence, is supposed quite dead, and yet recovers speech for a moment before she positively dies. It is probable that Webster is here imitating Desdemona's unexpected late utterances, as in The White Devil he had imitated Lear's pathetic hopes of Cordelia's recovery when portraying Cornelia hoping as vainly for Marcello's. If so, Webster may serve as a contemporary witness against the stabbing of Desdemona. But, as usual, the strongest evidence as to stage business is to be drawn from Shakespeare's lines. When Othello tells Gratiano, later in the scene,
There lies your niece, Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly stopp'd,
his statement is conclusive that he used no other means than suffocation. The extreme improbability of Desdemona's recovery of speech, to utter her noble lie testifying to her loyalty to her husband and sparking off a fine exchange between Othello and Emilia, is clearly justified by something more than theatrical surprise. Theatrical surprise is, however, an important element in Shakespeare's intention. Why else should he allow Othello to emphasize, just before Emilia's entrance, that he has put Desdemona out of her pain and that she lies 'still as the grave'?
I have mentioned already Othello's 'And smote him, thus', a magnificent coup de théâtre. Incidentally, I believe it supplies further argument (if further argument were needed) against the notion that Othello uses a dagger to dispatch Desdemona, for if he did use one, what would he do with it afterwards? To sheathe it, ready for his own suicide, would ruin the surprise of that splendid climax. It should not only be Cassio, but the audience, who think he has no weapon, especially in view of the way Shakespeare has made him lose not one sword but two. The long explanations involving Ludovico, Cassio, and the rest, serve a useful purpose besides conveying information: they separate Othello's loss of his second sword from his suicide with the dagger, thus preventing our suspicion that Shakespeare has cheated by concealing this dagger's existence from us, and also, it would seem, from Othello, whose poignant line 'For in my sense, 'tis happiness to die' immediately follows his loss of the second sword in the unsuccessful attempt to kill Iago. During the explanatory dialogue just mentioned, one more fact comes out which relates to Shakespeare's interest (in this scene) in surprise and in the equivocal treatment of death: Cassio says,
There is besides in Roderigo's letter, How he upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came That I was cast; and even but now he spake, After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him, Iago set him on.
This last detail comes as a surprise, and a gratuitous one, for the letters 'found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo' have already convicted Iago of setting him on to murder Cassio, and as for stabbing him, Iago made no secret of that at the time. The point does seem to be being made in this tragedy that murder is not only impossible to hide but also remarkably difficult to effect. Perhaps Iago's failure to dispatch Roderigo neatly makes Othello look less like a bungler, supposing we had thought him one. In any case, this reported revival of Roderigo raises a question of performance in the scene where Cassio wounds him (mortally, to judge from his exclamation 'O, I am slain!') and Iago finishes him off. Was Kean right, when he played Iago in 1814, to 'throw his eye perpetually towards the prostrate body', having already 'given and repeated the atrocious thrust, till it may be supposed no life remains', instead of, as was usual, stabbing Roderigo once and then walking away 'with perfect ease and satisfaction'?9 Is the dramatic effect at the time the all-important thing, or will the memory of the scene so played persist to the detriment of the report of Roderigo's brief revival in the last act? This is, I think, an open question.
Having begun my examination of Shakespeare's equivocal death scenes with King Lear and Othello, and brought in Webster for purposes of analogy, I may seem to be suggesting that such treatment of death particularly belongs to the Jacobean Shakespeare. There is, I think, something to be said for that view, and I shall be returning to it later. But equivocal death scenes are not confined to his Jacobean plays. In one of his earliest, the Third Part of Henry VI, Clifford enters mortally wounded at the battle of Towton:
Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, while it lasted, gave King Henry light. O Lancaster, I fear thy overthrow More than my body's parting with my soul!
In a long speech he laments Henry's weakness and foresees his ruin, ending as follows:
The air hath got into my deadly wounds, And much effuse of blood doth make me faint. Come, York and Richard, Warwick and the rest; I stabb'd your fathers' bosoms, split my breast.
With that he faints, and upon their cue his victorious enemies enter. They speculate on Clifford's whereabouts, Warwick affirming confidently that 'whereso'er he is, he's surely dead'. As he speaks this, 'Clifford groans and then dies'; but his death, though attested for a reader by the Quarto's stage direction, is deliberately kept in doubt for an audience:
Rich. Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave? A deadly groan, like life and death's departing. See who it is. Edw. And now the battle's ended, If friend or foe, let him be gently used. Rich. Revoke that doom of mercy, for 'tis Clifford; Who not contented that he lopp'd the branch In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth, But set his murd'ring knife unto the root From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring— I mean our princely father, Duke of York. War. From off the gates of York fetch down the head, Your father's head, which Clifford placed there; Instead whereof let this supply the room. Measure for measure must be answered. Edw. Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house, That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Now death shall stop his dismal threat'ning sound, And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak. War. I think his understanding is bereft. Speak, Clifford, dost thou know who speaks to thee? Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life, And he nor sees nor hears us what we say. Rich. O, would he did! and so, perhaps, he doth. 'Tis but his policy to counterfeit, Because he would avoid such bitter taunts Which in the time of death he gave our father. Geo. If so thou think'st, vex him with eager words. Rich. Clifford, ask mercy and obtain no grace. Edw. Clifford, repent in bootless penitence. War. Clifford, devise excuses for thy faults. Geo. While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Rich. Thou didst love York, and I am son to York. Edw. Thou pitied'st Rutland, I will pity thee. Geo. Where's Captain Margaret, to fence you now? War. They mock thee, Clifford; swear as thou wast wont. Rich. What, not an oath? Nay, then the world goes...
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Criticism: Comedies
Marjorie Garber (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: "Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death," in Shakespearean Comedy, edited by Maurice Charney, New York Literary Forum, 1980, pp. 121-26.
[In the following essay, Garber argues that although no character introduced into a Shakespearean comedy ever dies, the knowledge that death molds and informs life is implicit in every one of them.]
I don't want to become immortal through my work. I want to become immortal through not dying.
Woody Allen
It may seem perverse to argue that Shakespearean comedy is really about death and dying, but that is nonetheless what I should like to propose. More precisely, Shakespearean comedy is about...
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Phoebe S. Spinrad (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "Measure for Measure and the Art of Not Dying," in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring, 1984, pp. 74-93.
[In the following essay, Spinrad analyzes the eventual acceptance of death as a part of life by the major characters in Measure for Measure. The critic examines this acceptance in terms of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century religious writings that view life on earth as a form of imprisonment, and pays particular attention to Claudio's conduct in the prison scene (Act III, scene i).]
In many ways, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure may be considered a culmination of the Morality tradition that extends...
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The United States is expected to reassign its special envoy on North Korea issues and may not replace him, the Korea Times reported on Friday.
Glyn Davies, the current U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, is seen as a top candidate for the post of U.S. ambassador to Thailand, unidentified sources told the newspaper. Davies, who has served as special envoy since early 2012, is anticipated to be reassigned in the coming months.
However, it is not clear that the Obama administration will retain the diplomatic post of special envoy for North Korea following years of zero progress on the denuclearization front, according to the Times.
Davies brokered a nuclear and missile-testing moratorium with Pyongyang in early 2012 but the deal fell apart when the North several weeks later launched a space rocket -- technology with direct implications on the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Other than that stillborn accord, no serious nuclear discussions have taken place since late 2008.
Meanwhile, official Syrian media are reporting that Damascus and Pyongyang agreed in late May to deepen their collaboration on science, technology and industrial manufacturing, the Yonhap News Agency reported.
The Syria-North Korea relationship is closely watched by the United States and other countries due to proliferation concerns. Damascus is believed by defense experts to have been able to rebuild missile manufacturing capabilities hurt by the Syrian Civil War with help from North Korea. Diplomatic sources in 2012 said the North was caught attempting to smuggle ballistic missile components to Syria. And Pyongyang is widely assumed to have provided Damascus with technical support to build an undeclared military reactor that was destroyed in a 2007 Israeli air strike.


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CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 13 people after their boat sank in the waters off Clearwater.
Luckily the family's boat sank close to the Coast Guard station at Sand Key on Saturday morning. Everyone on board was also wearing a life jacket.
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Tuesday will be a busy day in Bossier District Court with several high-profile cases.
Court action in Bossier Parish Tuesday will make that a day for people to sit glued to a court bench in Bossier District Court, according to Bossier Parish District Attorney Schuyler Marvin.
Brandan Butler, 26, will be arraigned in connection with the Mother's Day weekend slayings of Jacqueline Beadle, 24, and 26-year-old Karyl Ann Cox, in a residence the two young mothers shared in the 3000 block of Bragg Street in Bossier City.
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Well before dawn, Shirley Robertson and her crew checked the hotline and found out where the ice was hard and smooth and set off for Kuressaare on the Island Saaremaa in Estonia, and the 2011 DN Europeans. The conditions were so good and the stakes were so high that over 150 DN's 12-foot coffins on three sharp blades and a 6.5-square meter sail were gathered.
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Poland's Karol Jablonski, who was nearly unbeatable in the 1990's returned to the ice to show everyone, especially those new to the sport, that once an Iceman, always an Iceman. Robertson interviewed the tenacious America's Cup, TP52 and maxi yacht's skipper about his passion for single-handed sailing on hard water.
Said America's Cup legend, Buddy Melges, who still sails his DN as much as he can, 'That Karol Jablonski is a hell of a sailor on soft water and on hard water.'
Melges, who traces his roots back to the Schleswig-Holstein area of Europe shares more than a passion for DN sailing with the Argo Challenge afterguard. He shares his name. Argo skipper Lars Grael's father's name was Torben Melges Grael.
Said Melges in a recent interview, 'Argo is off and running with the back of the boat. Lars is a good tactical sailor. Karol and Lars are good people. Everyone is going to be going through a steep learning curve and it's nice to see that Argo has solid experience.'
Both the Tornado and the DN have less hull resistance and go at speeds much faster than traditional monohulls. Jablonski has gone as fast as 145 kilometers an hour in 25 knots of wind. Iceman described his most harrowing iceboating experience. 'Many years ago in Austria on the Neuseedler lake I was sailing at 145 kilometers per hour. More than half of the fleet's rigs exploded before the day was over. It's expected in DN sailing, even today when the rigs are much better. You spend a lot of time sharpening blades and preparing your equipment while waiting for perfect conditions.'
Jablonski and the Argonauts are working hard trying to make their Challenge within the Challenge of raising several million dollars before the end of the month so that they can register for the America's Cup, pay the bond, purchase and AC45 and start practicing. Just like the mightiest band of warriors that the team is named after, this modern day squad is determined to overcome all obstacles to find the Golden Fleece. Follow them and Jablonski at www.ArgoChallenge.com and on CNN starting this week.
Argo Challenge Nonprofit Corporation is an international team of sailors and athletes with disabilities as well as able-bodied sailors who are seeking the initial funding necessary to enter the America's Cup. At this point no one is sure whether the team will be among the international challengers or if they will be consider challenging Oracle Racing for the right to defend the America's Cup.
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We are pleased to be participating in Twitter Taste Live 3 next Thursday, September 18 at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT. Our friends at Bin Ends Wine selected us as the first American winery to participate after two very successful tastings of European wines this summer.
It's easy for you to participate along with co-host and wine blogger Sonadora of Wannabe Wino. Just pick up one or more of the wines to be tasted before the event. Bin Ends Wine has a special pack on sale or look for the wines at your local wine store. Join the conversation on Twitter on September 18th at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT and share your tasting notes. You'll also want to follow several participants from the list on the Twitter Taste Live website.
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Army closing Utah center for wounded soldiers
The Army is closing an office at Camp Williams that helps wounded soldiers transition back to civilian life.
Thirteen similar offices are closing across the country. But the Army is opening or enhancing 13 transition facilities on army posts, including one at Fort Riley, Kan., that will provide services for wounded Utah soldiers, said Robert Moore, a spokesman for Army's Warrior Transition Command. Many Utah soldiers already stop at Fort Riley on their return from war zones, Moore said.
The Army is making the changes as it prepares for fewer troops returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Army is not trying to save money, Moore said, but rather seeks "efficiencies in terms of performing more robust services."
The transition center at Fort Riley will be able to offer more services, Moore said, and personnel there will make periodic trips to Utah for what are called "musters," where soldiers and former soldiers meet to discuss their adjustments what services they need.
The Utah transition center served 249 soldiers or former soldiers in January 2013, but that number declined to 187 by July, according to the Army.
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Well as the name suggests I'm looking for some help with sizing a new board up. I haven't boarded in about 7 years, been living in Texas, but am currently in Korea and there are some places here to go, also I will be in Alaska in about 6 months. I'm 6'3 and roughly 205-210 lbs and a boot size of a 12. The 2 sizes I'm trying to choose between are the 159W and the 163W. The 159 has a 259 waist width and the 163 has a 261. After reviews and a few hours going through boards I'm pretty stuck on this board, just not sure which size. I would appreciate any help, thanks!
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Review: Judge Dredd Classics #1
Re-presenting classic Judge Dredd tales monthly, with all-new colors by Charlie Kirchoff! Up first, 30 pages of "Block Mania," which will lead to the beloved Apocalypse War!
IDW kicks off their Judge Dredd classic series featuring colored strips with one of the most classic Dredd stories, Block Mania. The five part story serves as a prequel to The Apocalypse War. The story is written by John Wagner and Alan Grant (who were credited in the strips as T.B. Grover). Mike McMahon handles art for parts one and two, with Ron Smith taking parts three through five. Tom Frame handled lettering. Charlie Kirchoff goes back over the original strips and adds color. We know it's a great story, so the real question is whether or not it should be updated with color.
Block wars are an average occurrence in Mega-City One. Sometimes the heat and tension just boil over and the citizens of each block go to war with one another. The Judges don't like it, but they can usually handle it and get things back in control. It soon becomes apparent that this isn't an average block war. The wars are spreading and it looks like the whole city will quickly devolve into chaos. The Judges, with Dredd serving as a field commander, are running low on supplies and things just keep getting worse. As the Judges themselves even start to side with one block or another, it's apparent that there's something causing people to give in to their more primal instincts. Dredd starts to get things under control, but it turns out that was just wave one. Who is behind the new outbreaks in hostility? What will happen when Mega-City One descends into complete and lawless chaos?
It's easy to see why this is classic story. It's a prologues so it doesn't offer up a complete meal, but you get to see a different side of Dredd than we've seen in more recent appearances. He's more than a guy that blasts away bad guys. He's a Judge who is fighting to save his city from lawlessness. We see him commanding other Judges, using his brains more than his brawn. That's something some tend to forget about Dredd. The colors add another dimension to the story. Kirchoff had great art to work with, but he helps elevate the story even higher. He makes it fill timeless while still having that unique 80s vibe in which the Judge Dredd stories were written.
Bottom Line: It's easy to see why this story makes it into all "essential Judge Dredd" lists. It's a fantastic and action-packed prologue that shows Dredd at his best. Yes, he blasts away bad guys and scowls, but he also fights hard to save his city and ultimately serve justice. 4/5
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The true freshmen who signed this past February reported in early June to enroll in classes and to get acclimated to the new demands of college classrooms and the football weight room.
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As a slave it is my duty to my master to be pleasing. When I fail to please it is also my duty to accept the punishment that is coming to me. I know that I am weak. A weaker girl must always understand that her job is to be pleasing and I failed in my duty last week to my master. In his eyes what I did was a much bigger thing than what I thought it was. I realize now that I spoke out of turn and embarrassed my master. Not because he is insecure but because y actions are a direct reflection on him. Others who know what we really are are always watching and they always are judging his level of control over me by observing the way I behave.
My master knows this, too. I knew it as well but I wasn't thinking. I am a silly girl and I deserved the punishment that master chose for me. A slave auction for public use wasn't something that I thought he could pull off. He had threatened it before but I always just assumed it was only that. The threat of being put on display for his friends' amusement and use. master knows a lot of men who know how to treat a misbehaving girl. He knows more of them who don't mind doing it at all even when other people are watching.


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York, PA - The new Cornerstone Bible Church in Dover Township might be open by Easter Sunday, Trustee Ted McWilliams said.
He was quickly corrected by Jeff Firestone.
"We will be open for Easter services," Firestone said.
The owner of J. A. Firestone Construction is the point man on Cornerstone's $1 million do-it-yourself project to build its first church at 3500 Cardinal Lane.
Several members of the congregation gather every Tuesday and Thursday night and all day Saturday to construct what they are calling "phase one" of the church.
The sanctuary and Little Blessings Day Care occupy most of the 11,000-square-foot ground floor. The 2,800-square-foot basement level is home to offices and multipurpose rooms where the church could hold classes in the future, Firestone said.
Cornerstone formed nine years ago, initially meeting in the Rev. Larry Carpenter's basement.
A small congregation with 44 members, Cornerstone struggled to raise the money needed to finance its own church. One way to make it happen was for members to roll up their sleeves and do whatever work they could, said McWilliams, chairman of the church board of trustees.
So they looked around and counted two contractors among the congregation: Firestone and Phil Carpenter, owner of Phil Carpenter Custom Homes. Phil is also the Rev. Carpenter's son.
"Even though we're a small congregation, we have a lot of people who are mechanically inclined," said Firestone, of Dover Township. "We wanted to do this . . . and we felt God would take care of us."
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Cornerstone purchased the 10-acre tract along Cardinal Lane in 2004 for $99,000. But it couldn't put together the collateral necessary to secure a bank loan.
When a "private investor," which church officials declined to name, put up money, it helped Cornerstone finance the $1 million. Some members of the congregation "put their houses on the line," to seal the deal, Firestone said.
Work began in October, and church volunteers have finished electrical, plumbing and heating and ventilation work. They also laid tile and carpeting. Firestone estimates they have saved close to $200,000.
Those who are not as mechanically inclined are making other contributions -- for example, by making food for the volunteers.
"It's literally our whole congregation involved," Firestone said. "We have everybody on the same sheet of music."
Karen Fink began attending Cornerstone after moving to Lewisberry from Arizona. She chairs the church's hospitality committee and can't wait to move in to the new building.
"I'm really excited because now we'll actually have a kitchen and stuff to work in," she said. "We'll be able to do a lot more things in the new place as opposed to what we can do now."
The church could host dinner theaters for adults and pizza or movie parties for the kids, Fink added. The potential is there for the church to grow significantly now that it has a home, she said.
Outside contractors were needed for the concrete, roof, painting, exterior metal and a few
other items, said McWilliams, of West York.
Carpeting is being laid in the church and a few additional things need to be done to get the sanctuary ready for Easter services. And the day care will be moved to Cardinal Lane on April 1.
Cornerstone established Little Blessings from a local day care that was going out of business, McWilliams explained.
The day care is its own entity with a separate board of directors and will pay rent to the church, he added.
The new church is blessed, McWilliams said, pointing to a couple of accidents during construction that yielded no serious injuries.
For instance, a backhoe operator doing site work tripped a gas line that was improperly marked. In another, McWilliams said he was struck by lightning through a window while on a ladder inside the church.
"It knocked me off my ladder," he said. "But other than a few nicks and bruises, we've been blessed."
The church did have some unexpected expenses. Excavation revealed more rock than anticipated and removing it put Cornerstone about $100,000 over budget, Firestone said.
Future phases call for larger additions, but church officials say that is years away. Right now, they are just happy to get the church open in time for Holy Week.
The Rev. Carpenter compared the church-building experience to the biblical story of Nehemiah, who rallied the Israelites to work long days rebuilding the city walls around Jerusalem.
"That was our idea -- to be like Nehemiah and get the whole family involved," he said.
Dedication services
Cornerstone Bible Church plans a dedication weekend May 19-20 for its new church at 3500 Cardinal Lane, the Rev. Larry Carpenter said.
A youth concert is planned the evening of May 19, with a special dedication service at 3 p.m. May 20. A regular concert will take place in the evening.
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Cornerstone Bible Church is accepting donations for its new church.
For more details, contact the Rev. Larry Carpenter at 717-324-4102, or write him at
200 Gross Ave., Dover, PA 17215.


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Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
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Learn more about the first American women pilots in World War II. This special presentation celebrates Women's History Month and will be presented by Sinclair professor, Dr.Yufeng Wang.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - State officials are searching for the cause of a fish kill at Cave Run Lake.
A statement from Kentucky Fish and Wildlife says thousands of white bass were affected in the 8,270-acre lake near Morehead. Dr. Bob Durborow, an aquaculture extension specialist at Kentucky State University, says his inspection of some fish found bacterial infections but he didn't think that was the primary cause of the kill.
Durborow sent samples for additional testing and said results weren't expected until late summer.
Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources assistant director Gerry Buynak said anglers first reported seeing thousands of dead and struggling white bass during the weekend of June 8.
Biologists restocked the lake with white bass on June 13.
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Why Women Sometimes Reluctant to Give Phone Number?
When introduced to a woman, it usually ends with exchanging phone numbers.
When introduced to a woman, it usually ends with exchanging phone numbers. But it is not necessarily the same way, there are also women who are not willing to provide a phone number especially private number. Want to know why?
1. He was not interested. When met at the bar and you talk to him long enough can cause a woman to be not interested to give her phone number.
2. He knew that one of his friends who are interested in you. Once you know your friend likes you, then she will try to keep one of them by not providing personal phone number to you.
3. You meet online. Not all women will give you his number if you make contact through social networking, except that none of your friend's friends who knew him.
4. He was married and faithful. Well this could be the reason that makes women reluctant to give her phone number to you. Moreover, so know you are interested in him.
5. He does not know you well enough. This reasoning also makes women reluctant to give his personal phone number to you. That means you should be able to establish communication more intense again.
However, if you have another chance to chat and he continues to open each time, most likely for you to mnedapatkan private number would be wide open. What is needed now is patience
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The most valuable lesson I have learned occurred unexpectedly, on a day unlike any other, and it still resonates with me years later. It was not planned out and scribbled on a chalk board, and I did not have to jot it down in my three-ring binder, but what I took away from it made me a better individual.
Class was about halfway over. I sat a few rows back, leaning over and talking to a classmate. We were joking around with one another while my teacher went over a worksheet on the projector. I remember the two of us laughing about something.
Youre so retarded, I joked to my classmate.
Suddenly, I heard my teacher set down her marker. I turned to face her. Any expression seemed to be washed from her face. She wore a stern countenance, but I could see hurt behind her eyes.
I would appreciate it if you did not use that word, she declared. My brother, one of the most important people in my life, is mentally handicapped. I apologized and stated that it would not happen again. Class ended a little while later, and I went about the rest of my day in a sort of daze.
I could not stop thinking about what had happened. I thought about it as I fell asleep, as I got ready in the morning and as I sat in class the following day.
Later that day, I pulled my teacher aside and expressed how deeply sorry I was for my behavior. She accepted my apology and said that it meant a lot. What I learned from this experience is how important it is to respect those around you and to use only kind words when speaking to consider how your words could affect others.
A few months after the incident in class, I got to meet my teachers brother. He was one of the sweetest men I have had the pleasure of meeting. I felt lucky to have met the man who brought so much joy to my teachers life.
This experience showed me how great of an impact a single word can have.
Lauren Calderella, 12th grade, Point Pleasant Borough High School


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Skyhook: Google co-founder sabotaged our relationship with Apple
updated 09:16 pm EDT, Tue July 2, 2013
Latest salvo of legal filings from geolocation firm accused Brin of misconduct
Documents in Skyhook's third legal action against Google have surfaced, accusing Google co-founder Sergey Brin of disparaging the company in discussions with Apple in the early days of geolocation on Apple's iPhone. Skyhook believes that Brin "had discussions with Apple representatives about Apple's announcement regarding Skyhook's location technology and Google's displeasure with it."
In its court filings, Skyhook claims that "having apparently disparaged Skyhook's technology to Apple, Google proceeded to then launch the same Wi-Fi based location technology by infringing Skyhook's patents. Thus, Mr. Brin's statements and documents may be relevant to Google's willful infringement, because they would show Google's awareness of Skyhook's technology at the highest echelons of the company. Mr. Brin's statements and actions may also be relevant to non-obviousness of Skyhook's patents if in fact Mr. Brin disparaged the same methodology that Google soon after employed and monetized."
Skyhook has asked for Brin's deposition, but so far, is settling for a search of the co-founder's documents with a limited selection of search terms. Notably absent is a filing from Skyhook claiming that Brin's remarks in 2008's MacWorld Expo caused Apple to drop the Skyhook implementation from the iPhone in 2010.
Skyhook Wireless alleges willful infringement, given existing business relationships in place in 2006 and 2007. The previous lawsuits against Google showed that a set of messages from the ongoing Skyhook lawsuit against Google may have supported Skyhook's claims that Google was abusing its control over Android to shut out competing services. Google engineers were reportedly worried that it would cut off the improvement of Android's location database accuracy and looked like it began seeding concerns about compatibility primarily in a bid to force Skyhook out.


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And it's a four-man race for the starting quarterback job. Players, all with perceived strengths and weaknesses to their games, and with anticipation as to how each will fit into a new offense implemented by a new coaching staff.
The competitors: Last year's starter Andrew Manley (drop-back passer with a rocket arm, yet not known as a runner), last year's backup Travaughn Colwell (a player who has shown mobility in the past, yet is still working on his passing skills), a 2012 junior college transfer in Andrew McDonald (one who didn't play last year, yet has some experience and savvy at the position) and King Davis III (a true freshman with athletic ability who should get his shot).
"I think it's going to be an interesting battle. Between all those guys," head coach Doug Martin said. "That's going to be really good competition."
But how do they fit Gregg Brandon's spread offense, where the first-year offensive coordinator said a mobile quarterback is "preferred," before adding "I think the No. 1 thing that I would like in our quarterback is accuracy. Somebody who can complete passes when we need to. Obviously, you'd like a mobile guy. The thing with this offense is, the quarterback has really got to be on top of his reads and be able to get the ball out, on time with rhythm."
Manley said the offensive system is predicated on a "quick game" - short drops, fast release, high-percentage passes to backs and receivers.
"No-huddle, high-tempo," Manley said, before adding in the rushing game, "we run the zone-read, we run the option."
Being able to establish a ground attack will be key for the Aggies. With Martin as offensive coordinator in 2011, they were able to generate one with a running quarterback (Matt Christian) and a fast, quick gamebreaking running back (Kenny Turner). The duo was a catalyst when running the speed-option to the outside, combining for over 1,250 rushing yards in nine games as the starting offensive backfield.
Last year, in a more traditional offense - Manley as a drop-back quarterback, a between-the-tackles running game with the backs - the Aggies averaged just 97.6 rushing yards per game on 3.0 yards per carry, numbers that ranked next-to-last and dead last in the Western Athletic Conference.
The past two seasons, as offensive coordinator at the University of Wyoming, Brandon's offense revolved around Brett Smith, a multi-faceted quarterback who averaged 256.3 yards of total offense per game - passing and rushing yards combined - during the 2011 season.
"To me, still, to be effective in football, a run game is huge," Brandon said. "If we can run the football, it will really help the whole team. It will help our defense, give us an opportunity to maybe use the clock a little bit. We're going to work hard on that."
He later added, "We have a good play-action package. I think that's going to be a big part of it, no question."
When asked how often the team would run the speed-option, Brandon said "That's hard to say. We're going to exploit, obviously, what the defense gives us. And defenses are catching up with the spread now."
Following Thursday's spring practice, when asked about the speed-option's utilization in this year's Aggie offense, McDonald responded "We just put that in today. We do a little of everything."
He then added, "We're putting in Nevada's run game when Colin Kaepernick was there. Zone-read where we have a chance to pull it. Stuff where we read the second level, we can throw bubbles and key passes. I like it a lot. It adds another dimension to the run game."
Davis said he was working on his quarterback ability out of the shotgun formation, while Colwell added that the QB is used more in the run game this year, as opposed to last.
McDonald was sure to include, "The biggest thing is you have to get completions, make the right decisions and move the sticks .... At the end of the day, whoever can get us in the end zone the most is going to get the job."
Martin described the offense as a quarterback-friendly system, one that will spread the defense with multiple receivers.
When asked in general if he preferred versatile players - those who do a number of things well, as opposed to one or two things exceptionally well - he concurred, yet expanded on that philosophy.
"You've got to make things happen. You can't just come out and do your assignment and be steady, but never show up. That's not it .... I don't care what position you're at. You've got to make a tackle that causes a fumble. You've got to be able to make sacks. You've got to be able to make a great catch if you're a wide receiver - you can't just catch the ball when it's right there, perfect. You've got to make the great catch. And that's what these guys need to learn. It's not about coming out here and being an average player. You've got to make plays."
Teddy Feinberg can be reached at (575) 541-5455. Follow him on Twitter @TeddyFeinberg