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I still remember Jon Stewart as the host of a consistently unfunny MTV sketch show called You Wrote It, You Watch It. He was the only memorable part of that unmemorable endeavor.
Then he had a regular ol' talk show with a monologue and musical guests and all; first on MTV and then in syndication.
Then he took over an existing comedy-talk franchise from Craig Kilborn on a cable channel that, at the time, you couldn't get here.
The first piece I heard from Stewart's Daily Show was a bit replayed on KJR sports radio. He introduced a clip from the GOP rebuttal to one of Bill Clinton's State of the Union speeches, delivered by athlete-turned-politician Steve Largent.
Largent began by telling his own rise-to-fame story, noting how "I lived out every boy's dream, to play professional football… for the Seattle Seahawks."
Stewart jumped in: "It's really every boy's dream to play professional football for any team OTHER THAN the Seattle Seahawks." (The Seahawks, just a few years after almost moving to Anaheim, were decidedly not the powerhouse they became.)
I knew then I would like Stewart, and have continued to do so.
Even when he was injecting humor into really icky news events (of which we've had a lot) and other TV channels' lame coverage of those events (of which we've had a HELL of a lot).
Surveys listed Stewart as some people's primary "news source." Here's one reason why:
There came to be a lot of "funny fake news" out there—in print (for a while), on TV, and especially online.
But Stewart didn't run totally-fabricated stories with halfway plausible "clickbait" headlines.
He and his rotating sidekicks ("correspondents") repeated the facts of a story (or whatever other channels claimed were the facts), and only then joked it up about them, in ways ranging from the joyously juvenile to the deadly serious.
Along the way, he always appealed to his audience's image of itself as the only people who "really knew things," as above all the hype and manipulation. (Which, of course, is exactly what Stewart's nemeses at Fox News encourage their own audience to believe about itself.)
If there were any surveys about "the most popular TV show among people who pompously refuse to own TVs," Stewart's show would have topped them. (And they still could, with multiple online ways to see the show.)
safeco field sushi stand in 2001
Last season, the Seattle Mariners were playing for respect.
At the start of this season, some fans and observers thought the Ms would be playing for their first World Series rings. (Hasn't turned out that way so far, alas.)
But this story is about some of the other teams that call Safeco Field and CenturyLink Field home.
Staging a Mariners game, Sounders FC soccer match, or other major sports event requires a small army of workers, from ushers and ticket takers to standby paramedics.
And among them are an unsung aspect of the teams' charitable contributions.
This season, the teams and their concessionaires are working in conjunction with local charities including the Millionair Club to furnish overflow staffing in fiood service at the games. The concessionaires get extra hands; the workers, many of whom are long-term unemployed and underemployed, get hands-on experience in the industry.
As with the Millionair Club's better known "day labor" program, all workers are interviewed and vetted before they're sent out. The group helps them attain the needed food handling permits, and in some cases also state alcohol servers' permits.
Despite common stereotypes about the jobless, these are diligent and ambitious men and women, striving to improve their lives.
More than one hundred of them (the number of workers invited depends on expected game attendance) waited patiently outside Safeco Field's gates in the early morning of Opening Day. As instructed, they were clad in black shoes, black slacks, and black shirts.
Eventually, they were organized into lines, handed uniform shirs and hats, and sent through the gates onto the stadium grounds. Just beyond the gates, the workers stopped at a table where supervisors assigned them to their respective work stations and duties.
One group was sent to the opposite corner of the stadium, to a hot dog stand on the highest deck. While the concessionaires' regular staffs had done a lot to prepare it and the other food/drink outlets for the new season, much remained in the last moments before the first fans streamed in. But with some applied "organized chaos," all the menu items, trays, cups, and straws got to their proper spots. The new workers were quickly taught to operate the grills, the soft-serve machine, the beer taps, and the point of sale terminals.
By shortly after 11 a.m. the first customer had the first beer poured at that stand this season. Business gradually picked up as the sellout crowd continued to gather.
By the first pitch at 1 p.m., the joint was hopping. Beer taps that poured mostly foam at first now efficiently dispensed plastic cup after plastic cup of Coors product. The three varieties of hot dogs were sold as quickly as they could be cooked.
While the workers could neither see nor hear the game (the TV monitors on each side of the stand were, of course, pointed outward toward the customers), they heard, and sometimes joined in, major cheers that erupted whenever the Ms did something spectacular. With pitching ace Felix Hernandez leading the team to a 4-1 victory that day, such celebrations came frequently.
It should be mentioned that each of the food and beverage "stands" in each stadium is a fully equipped, permanently installed facility. Each has its own coolers, freezers, and cooking and cleaning equipment. The price of stadium food and drink isn't just the result of exploiting a "captive market." The concessionaire companies put a lot of investment into facilities that only earn income 81 days a year. (And that's at the baseball stadium. The football/soccer stadium has even fewer event dates.)
While the concessionaires tried to anticipate opening-day demand, some of the beer kegs "blew" prior to the scheduled cutoff of alcohol sales at the end of the seventh inning. Supervisors scrambled to replace them, even for just a half hour's worth of potential sales. That's what you do when your sales day is so short. (Soccer matches, which run for less than two hours, have even shorter sales "windows.")
Once the beer officially ceased flowing and the tap handles got put away, food sales also trickled off. The stand remained open until some time after the game's end. Then came a furious hour of thorough cleaning, wiping, and product inventory. The regular staff and the charity "day workers" had worked as one team, and done it well.
By 5 p.m. the day workers had returned their uniforms and signed out. Only some of them would be needed at the next day's game, for which far fewer tickets had been pre-sold. But all of them had gained work experience in a high-energy, high-volume, group effort.
Even if that effort was for nothing more significant than feeding some hungry baseball fans.
(Cross-posted with City Living Seattle.)
letterman with seattle comix legend lynda barry, 1988
Either the first or the second most famous ex-Mariners co-owner (before or after Danny Kaye) ends late night TV's longest run (almost 33 and a half years, between two networks) tonight.
Besides having been an investor in the Ms during the baseball team's disastrous George Argyros era, he often had locally-connected guests over the years, including Foo Fighters as the official last guests on the last show, and Eddie Vedder on Monday's third-to-last show. (Also: Lynda Barry (above), Soundgarden, Bill Nye, Joel McHale, Kyle MacLachlan, Artis the Spoonman, Sean Nelson's band Harvey Danger, and especially the late Seattle-born comedian George Miller.)
Some commentators have pointed out that his NBC Late Night series (and especially his short-lived NBC morning show, which never aired in Seattle) were landmarks in conceptual humor (as masterminded by original head writer Merrill Markoe).
Some of these same critics complain that his act on CBS has morphed into a real version of his onetime grumpy-old-guy character, the one with the catch phrase "Get off my lawn.'"
It had been clear for some time that Letterman had accomplished all on TV that he ever would; but that he was determined to stick around until his onetime pal Jay Leno left (for good) first. Once that finally happened, Letterman announced his own retirement. That was followed in short order by the ends of Chelsea Lately, The Colbert Report (a post-"idiot"-character version of Colbert takes over from Letterman on CBS this fall), The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, and soon The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
(All this has happened while, in the eyes of some industry watchers, online streaming is allegedly "killing traditional TV.")
It was also clear that Letterman had ceased even pretending to care about the showbiz-hype rituals that are the state religion of late-night talk; leaving a sincere (if borderline-pandering) appreciation for a certain few celebrity pals and longtime frequent guests. These people have populated the Late Show guest roster during this almost year-long "farewell tour," an exercise in mawkishness that just kept getting mawkish-er as the finale approached.
And the whole hip-irony shtick he'd popularized back then has become one of the native tongues of marketing and advertising, in all its air-quotes smarm.
As of Thursday, the longest-serving hosts still in late night will be (1) Conan O'Brien (who'd originally replaced Letterman at NBC) and (2) Jimmy Kimmel.
Letterman's leaving the public stage means I'll now probably never get to ask him what, if anything, he remembered about Frances Farmer. He and the ill-fated Seattle-born film actress were each on Indianapolis local TV, albeit at different times.
I do know a guy who'd studied drama with Letterman (and future Three's Company star Joyce DeWitt) at Indy's Ball State U. This guy had remembered Farmer's TV show, but alas not much about it; only that she'd been a low-rent Loretta Young introducing creaky old movies in the afternoons.
I stayed off of social media (except for my classic-cartoon Facebook groups) after the Seahawks' devastating last-minute loss (or rather failure to win) in Super Bowl Eks El Eye Eks.
I'm still not ready to see any replays of that fatal last play, or to really discuss it.
But I will say this:
After cheating death so many times, the Seahawks' lucky streak finally ran out with one ill-advised pass play at the game's end.
But that single moment can't erase the team's great achievements this season and last.
And it can't lessen how coach Pete Carroll and the players (including and perhaps especially Marshawn Lynch) have performed, both on the field and as members of the larger community.
The game telecast provided an intriguing addendum to our recent story about Anheuser-Busch taking over the local Elysian craft brewery and brew-pub chain.
Just over a week after the Elysian announcement, AB ran a Super Bowl commercial touting Budweiser as the drink of choice for real beer drinkers, not those artsy craft-beer snobs who go for "pumpkin peach ale."
I.e., just the sort of product that Elysian has made, marketed, and championed.
Jim Vorel at Paste calls the spot "hypocritical" and "anti-craft-beer."
I call it big corporate pseudo-anti-elitism.
You can just call it dumb.
Super Bowl Eks Ell Eye Eks begins some time after 3:30 p.m. our time on Sunday. By 7 p.m. the mighty Seahawks will either "Re-Pete" as NFL champs (a slogan based on the name of beloved head coach Pete Carroll) or not (perish even the possibility of the thought).
This time the whole civic zeitgeist about the game seems different.
Nothing can compare to the city's first major men's pro sports championship of the century, of course, for collective excitement, enthusiasm, and pride.
This time the civic experience (on the streets, on sports talk radio, in the sports bars, in social media, at home-game tailgate parties, etc.) seems more familiar, even rote.
It sure wasn't expected, though. Not by everybody here; not during all of the season and post-season.
Yeah, right after last year's game, the team and the 12s were full of confidence that our boys would be the first in a decade to win consecutive Super Bowls.
But then the '14 season began with the Seahawks going 3-3.
But then the team got its collective act together, and sealed the top seed in the conference by the regular season's end.
But then the Packers looked invincible for three and a half quarters of the conference championship game.
But then the Seahawks, who'd come back from halftime deficits throughout the regular season, pulled off the Miracle on FieldTurf®, sending them (and, by extension, us) straight into the Big Game.
So here we are, back at the biggest event of the year (in either sports or entertainment) in this country. The eyes of the sports world (or at least the U.S. and Canadian sports world) are upon our noble and valiant gents.
Even The Nation, a publication that seldom pays any attention to sports (or, despite its name, to anything beyond the NY/DC corridor), is chanting "Solidarity and Seahawks Forever."
Writer Dave Zirin admires how Seahawk players have spoken out about racist cops, racist sports-media, and college sports' frequent neglect of injured players.
Zirin likes how Marshawn Lynch has consistently defied "that walking, talking corporate crime spree Roger Goodell."
Zirin even likes coach Carroll ("that rare football coach who does not think he's the reincarnation of General Patton").
So sleep tight, 12s, secure in the knowledge that we, and our champions, are in it for more than just a game.
usa today chart listing the odds of a seahawk victory in the nfc championship game at one percent
Of course, I have to write about the Seahawks Miracle Win in Sunday's NFC championship game.
Even if I don't have much new to add about it.
You already know the story (or rather, the instant legend):
For most of the game, the Seahawks' offense could no nothing right. (The team's only score through three quarters had come from special teams, on a fake field goal executed for a surprise touchdown.)
Then with the clock inexorably winding down toward certain doom, Russell Wilson and co. suddenly could do everything right.
With impossible play after impossible play, they got a touchdown, a successful onside kick, another touchdown, and a two-point conversion, taking a three-point lead with less than a minute and a half left.
After the Packers re-tied it with a field goal in the last minute of regulation, the Seahawks won the coin toss for the first possession in overtime. Then they quickly scored a sudden-death touchdown to win it all, send the Seahawks to their second consecutive Super Bowl Game (the first time in more than a decade any team did that), and cause more jubilation all the way up First Avenue and throughout the region.
KOMO's Eric Johnson calls it "not a game, but a metaphor for life."
So what lessons could be learned from it? Perhaps these:
this year's space needle fireworks were sponsored by t-mobile and heavily emphasized the color 't-mobile magenta.'
As promised previously, MISCmedia is back for two-ought-one-five with a new commitment to try and make sense (or at least document the nonsense) of Life in the Demitasse Size City.
To start things off, and for the 29th consecutive year (really!), we proudly present the MISCmedia In/Out List, the most trusted (and only accurate) list of its kind in this and all other known media relay systems.
As always, this list operates under the premise that the future is not necessarily linear. It compiles what will become torrid and tepid in the coming year, not necessarily what's torrid and tepid now. If you believe everything hot now will just keep getting hotter, I've got some RadioShack stock to sell you.
It's usually awkward to be outed as a flaming racist.
It's infinitely worse when you are in certain lines of business.
Owning a professional basketball team is one of those lines of business.
So, after all hopes of the scandal "blowing over" evaporated, rookie NBA commissioner Adam Silver put a "banned for life" fatwa on LA Clippers owner/racist/adulterer Donald Sterling.
This means, among other things, that Sterling can't attend games or take an active management role in the team that he still, for now, majority-owns. He'll be encouraged, but apparently not forced (at least not yet), to sell the team. That last part could conceivably lead to a court case.
Yet, already the rumors are abuzz that the Clippers could (just could, mind you) potentially move to Seattle.
Obviously a lot would need to occur for that to happen.
Sterling would need to be eased, or forced, out.
Other LA buyers would have to be turned down in favor of Steve Ballmer and Chris Hansen. (Former Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz has supposedly talked, or been talked about, about fronting a group to buy the team.)
The Clippers' share of Staples Center would have to be sold back to the Lakers and the NHL's LA Kings.
The league's other team owners would have to be convinced that having two teams in the #2 TV market (even if that second team is the traditionally hapless Clippers) would be less lucrative than regaining a team in the #12 TV market.
But think of the possibilities: If the Clippers were co-owned by an ex-Microsoft CEO, they could bring back the old Windows Office Assistant mascot "Clippy"!
The most recently estimated population of Seattle is 637,000 and change.
Another 200,000 workers commute into town on a typical weekday. (I don't know how many city residents commute to suburban jobs.)
Police estimated 700,000 people lined Fourth Avenue and Pioneer Square on Wednesday.
A lot of them were kids. Some really young kids. Some older kids, skipping school for a major life experience.
(The victory parade had to be on a weekday because the players were about to disperse to off-season homes.)
The day was sunny and mightily cold. People, lots of 'em, found themselves trapped in the middle of the crowd as the hastily-conceived parade started more than half an hour after its scheduled start time.
Then the buses, humvees, and "Ducks" bearing the players and coaches finally appeared. Whoops and hollers and cheers rose up all around. I took these last two shots from an upper floor of an office building two blocks away and could still hear it.
The Seahawks' previous playoff game, against the team's current division rivals San Francisco, carried such a sense of challenge, struggle, and last-minute triumph, that I feared the big game for the total league championship might seem anticlimactic.
My fears proved unfounded.
Two great local pregame storylines immediately developed:
Sports bars (and other bars that could be used for watching sports) were full. Other spots around town were empty or closed.
I'd mentioned previously that everyone I read or talked to here in town was absolutely certain the Seahawks would win. But many of them predicted the Seahawks would win by just a few points. Almost nobody expected a blowout.
A blowout was what they, and the rest of us, got.
It started with a Broncos safety (the rarest scoring play in the sport) on the very first play from scrimmage.
It just went on from there, with a Seahawks field goal on the very next drive. Before the game was done, there were Seahawk touchdowns from kickoff returns, interceptions, and pass receivers scrambling past tacklers. The Broncos' offensive drives (with one exception) ended with fumbles, interceptions, punts, or fourth-down stops.
The result was "boring" to some national commentators.
But it was ecstatic to all of us.
Some national bloggers apparently thought it amusing that we mostly celebrated sanely. (Unlike, say, the 2011 riots when the Vancouver Canucks lost the NHL finals.)
But that's how we roll.
We get angry over injustice.
We get joyous over spectacular successes.
(Although I suspect many of Sunday night's 12th Men and Women might now be looking into the 12 Steps.)
A few civic-culture thoughts:
No, the Seahawks' victory was not solely due to its aggressive defense. A defense-only team would be like those dot-com bosses who boast of how "disruptive" they are, but whose works contribute nothing back to the world.
The Seahawks' offense is every bit as important as its "D." It's a balanced offense, that relies as much on solid rushing plays as on spectacular passes.
And the Seahawks, and their players, contribute a lot.
In charity drives, publicized and other.
In economic activity, bringing fans from around the region and beyond into Seattle.
In just being decent people off the field, something you don't see often enough in bigtime sports.
And in uniting a whole region in a cause.
A meaningless cause, yes; an entertainment.
But a cause of power and (yes) beauty, of guts and glory, of being seen and recognized and respected.
Some thoughts by others:
You can feel the electricity and expectation everywhere you go. The atmosphere is different lately at the mall, the grocery store and even in the classic Seattle traffic. The 12th Man flag flies everywhere from skyscrapers to SUVs. Even our fountains burst with bright blue.…
Why are we so passionate about our SEAHAWKS? Because despite the impression that the national media is portraying, we know our Hawks are true INSPIRATIONS on and off the field. We have a team that acts, plays and respects like a true team, and they are lead by a man who recognizes that our city is a part of that team. The 12th Man is more than a saying here in Seattle; it is the role we play in the success of this outstanding football team.
You can feel the electricity and expectation everywhere you go. The atmosphere is different lately at the mall, the grocery store and even in the classic Seattle traffic. The 12th Man flag flies everywhere from skyscrapers to SUVs. Even our fountains burst with bright blue.…
Why are we so passionate about our SEAHAWKS? Because despite the impression that the national media is portraying, we know our Hawks are true INSPIRATIONS on and off the field. We have a team that acts, plays and respects like a true team, and they are lead by a man who recognizes that our city is a part of that team. The 12th Man is more than a saying here in Seattle; it is the role we play in the success of this outstanding football team.
Since most of my most loyal readers will have other things to do on Sunday afternoon, here's some relatively timeless randomosity for whenever you log back in:
And the ol' 12th Man Fever, the regionwide joyous insanity over the Seahawks' magic season, has continued for two weeks following the NFC Championship victory. It continues at least until early Sunday evening, when Sooper Bowl Ex El Vee Eye Eye Eye finally produces a winner.
Many non-sports-bar businesses around the city and region have already announced they're going to be closed Sunday during the game, or all day. The Boat Show has even closed early. The Seahawks' second-ever try at the league title has become an impromptu local holiday.
One big difference from 2006: As KING's Linda Brill notes, there's a "different vibe."
Everyone here, and I mean everyone, is absolutely certain of a Seahawks victory.
So what, locals say, if the other team has a media-anointed Celebrity Quarterback? We've got the defense, the discipline, the guts, the heart, and the loudest fans anywhere.
And did I mention the attitude? A lifetime of traditional Seattle self-deprecation has blown away. At least for now.
Sleep well tonight, Seattle. If you can.
(The title of this post continues with the Sinatra-esque title treatment of the previous post.)
The Seahawks are off to the Super Bowl for the second time in team history. Just like the last time, you can expect all the national media to be against us. It's going to be all "THE GREAT LEGENDARY PEYTON MANNING and some other team."
Or that's how it was going to be, until certain online commentators found a hate object.
Yeah, Richard Sherman is loud.
Yeah, he talked like a trash-talking wrestler during his impromptu sideline interview just after the game.
No, he was not, and is not, a "goon" or a "thug." (He's really a thoughtful young man who gives generously to charity.)
And no, his remarks do not justify idiotic racist bigotry.
The game's striking ending, in which Sherman's tip-away of a touchdown pass preserved the Seahawks' lead with less than half a minute to go, was the climax of a huge day that capped a huge season.
It had been a day of high hopes and high fears.
The 2013-14 Seahawks had united this region in ways I didn't think possible. Even some sports-hating hippies got into the fever.
The pregame festivities outside the stadium were a glorious cacophony of enthusiasm, pride, joy, and (yes) love.
And, yeah, maybe a little bit of bragging. Like when a lot of us noticed that one of the two Pioneer Square bars taken over by 49er fans was the New Orleans—namesake of the Seahawks' previous playoff conquest.
(The "pegging" in the above photo was only with small water balloons, and was a school fundraiser, though they never said for which school.)
A nice lady gave me this cupcake decorated with Skittles (a product of Mars, originally founded in Tacoma), and a plastic kid-size Seahawks helmet ring.
Eventually, though, it came time to gather inside the stadium, to private parties, or to bars (such as Safeco Field's "The 'Pen"; yes, the Mariners learned to make a few bucks from a neighbor team's success). I dutifully found myself back in Belltown, cheering on the team with about 40 other rabid fans.
And, as you undoubtedly know by now, it was a knuckle biter of an experience.
Our boys were down (but not by much) the entire first half, broken by a short-lived tie in the third quarter. They only took the lead early in the fourth quarter, and held precariously to that lead until Sherman's final pass deflection.
The whole bar I was at became noisy as hell after that, and remained that way for a good half hour afterward.
Then the party spilled into the streets, with revelers driving and marching up First Avenue from the stadium. Revelry continued well into the night.
Something tells me the Super Bowl itself (which will occur in East Rutherford NJ, despite what the promo ads may say), even when we win it, might feel anticlimactic in comparison.
'i hate the 49ers' on facebook
(Note: This post's title is a gag based on a song lyric. Californians never get the joke.)
Twice a year, I get to express out loud an opinion that usually attracts scorn and correctiveness from even my closest friends.
And this week, I get to really say it.
The excuse: The Seahawks' upcoming battle in the National Football League's playoff semifinals, against the arch rival 49ers.
The opinion: San Francisco is a land of pompous, arrogant snobs who falsely believe themselves to be the Supreme Species of the Universe.
Especially San Francisco's "alternative" and "radical" scenes.
That's a socially forbidden opinion there—and even, often, here.
All my life, I've heard people here insisting that Seattle was a "hick town" that needed to become "world class" by religiously copying everything in, from, and about San Francisco. Its restaurants and bars. Its bands. Its fashions. Its municipal political structure. Its architecture. Its media institutions. Its stores. Its strip clubs. Even its street crime.
To these "local boosters," anything Seattleites created on their own was intrinsically inferior to anything swiped from or "inspired by" cultural dictates from down south. (This attitude was particularly strong during the '70s and '80s, when Seattle's civic establishment was almost completely run by upscale baby boomers.)
Over the years, there's also been a steady stream of promoters and hucksters from there moving up here, opening "authentic San Francisco style" hoity-toity clubs or boutiques, long on attitude and short on anything really interesting. When these enterprises failed, as they usually did, said hucksters bemoaned us Seattle hicks for failing to appreciate their genius.
To a true San Franciscan, there is only San Francisco, and maybe New York, and just-maybe-maybe Los Angeles. The rest of America is all Bumfuck, Iowa.
"But," people invariably say, "what about all the bohemian rebels and counterculturists and Establishment-challengers from there?"
They can be even more annoyingly snooty than your basic San Franciscan annoying snoot.
And it's an American tragedy, the way they've helped left-wing politics to get ensnarled with the most anti-populist, square-bashing sentiments, in which one is supposed to love "the people" and hate "the sap masses" at the same time. (I'm talking to you, Mr. Tom Tomorrow and Mr. Jello Biafra.)
I happen to believe progressive/revolutionary politics should be for everybody.
Even meat eaters. Even TV viewers. Even people who don't drink lattes or listen to public radio.
Otherwise it's just a worthless pose.
There's now a book out by one Fred Turner, called From Counterculture to Cyberculture. It traces the twisted path of San Franciscan "liberation" ideology/hype, from the "flower power" wild-oats sowers, through the Whole Earth Catalog gang, to the early microcomputer startups, to Wired magazine's founders, to the hyper-alpha guys (and too few gals) running today's dot-com giants.
Turner traces how a particular strain of NoCal "personal freedom" beliefs mutated and metastasized into corporate-Libertarian selfishness.
The Harvard Business Review story about the book carries the telling title, "How Silicon Valley Became the Man."
Right now in Frisco (an informal, anti-elitist abbreviation I always insist upon using), there's a loud backlash against dot-com one-percenters taking over the whole city, forcing artists and musicians (and, oh yeah, non-white folks) out, and making annoyances of themselves with their big spending and boorish behavior.
Protesters and pundits forthrightly proclaim that this all runs counter to "The City" and its heritage of rugged individualists, rule breakers, and wild boys.
No. It's a monster bastard child of that heritage, taken to a parasitical extreme.
So no, Danny Westneat and Knute Berger: I don't share any "sense of inferiority to San Francisco."
I treat it as an example of what Seattle should not become.


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dang it! i wanted lexie & mcsteamy to get back together! now its ruined! :(
We allllll know whats going to happen! It's going to be the Mark loves that he has a baby when it was ADDISON, HIS DAUGHTER, and now CALLIE.......he's just going to be dissapointed and lexie and mark will fight and break up. surprise surprise........
"Cause I'm in love with Lexie and it would be.....OMG! Lexie. What am I gonna tell Lexie?"
I know it's not a funny situation....but that was so funny!!!! lol
Now we know that mark is okay with it but i dont think lexie is going to be okay with...
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Archive for 'Rare Photos'
Plucked from our records: Pasquale Taraffo and the Harp Guitar
"Attachments," the current exhibit at the National Archives in Washington, DC, tells the stories of some of the millions of people who have entered and left the United States.
One visitor, Pasquale Taraffo, came to the United States three times—once for a concert tour of New York City and California in 1928–29, once as a crew member of a ship that docked in New York in 1933, and once for a concert stop in New York in 1935.
Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1887, the musician began giving guitar concerts at age nine. He eventually switched from the traditional guitar to the harp guitar, a 14-string instrument mounted on a pedestal. Taraffo started touring abroad in 1910, performing on his own and with other musicians. Known as "the Paganini of the guitar"—a reference to the legendary Italian violinist—he was wildly popular around the world and especially in South America.
When he came to the United States, he applied for a visa based on artistic abilities, and probably had to submit evidence of his exceptional talent in order to enter the country. Photo postcards of Taraffo with his harp guitar, along with a handbill for his 1926 concert in Corregio, Italy, were found, but these documents were separated from any of his other documents, mixed … [ Read all ]
Posted by Nikita on July 18, 2012, under Rare Photos, Unusual documents.
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More Hitler art albums discovered
This morning in Dallas, TX, the Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero, Senior Archivist Greg Bradsher, and President of the Monuments Men Foundation Robert M. Edsel announced the discovery of two original albums of photographs of paintings and furniture looted by the Nazis.
The Monuments Men Foundation will donate these albums, which have been in private hands since the end of World War II, to the National Archives.
These albums were created by a special Nazi task force, the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), to document the systematic looting of Europe by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. The ERR was the main Nazi agency engaged in the theft of cultural treasures in Nazi-occupied countries.
"The Foundation often receives calls from veterans and their heirs, who don't know the importance of items they may have picked up during their service, or aren't aware that anyone is looking for the items," Edsel said. "These albums are just the tip of the iceberg for hundreds of thousands of cultural items still missing since World War II."
In the closing days of World War II, U.S. soldiers entered Adolf Hitler's home in the Bavarian Alps. Many picked up souvenirs to prove they had been inside the Berghof.
Cpl. Albert Lorenzetti (989th … [ Read all ]
Posted by Hilary on March 27, 2012, under - World War II, News and Events, preservation, Rare Photos.
Tags: 989th Field Artillery Battalion, art, Berchtesgaden, Girl with Two Doves, hitler, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Monuments Men, Nazis, Nuremberg, Robert Edsel, Rothschild, stolen art, World War II, WWII
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Secession, Congress, and a Civil War Awakening at the Archives
As a new year begins, the 112th Congress reconvenes for a second session of legislative activity. Representatives and senators from across the country are again descending upon the Capitol, ready to commence debates, proceedings, and hearings. This is how the legislative branch of the Federal Government always functions, right? Well, not always.
On the eve of the Civil War in 1860, the 36th Congress consisted of 66 senators and 234 representatives. There was a Democratic majority in the Senate and a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, and every state in the Union was effectively represented.
But once South Carolina issued its ordinance of secession on December 20, 1860, a surge of southern legislators began withdrawing and retiring from Congress.
By the time the 37th Congress convened in March of 1861, six states—Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas—had already joined South Carolina and left the Union. This prompted Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina to follow.
When the torrent of secession finally concluded, vacancies existed in both chambers of Congress. The mass exodus of southern Democrats, coupled with the commencement of Union-Confederate hostilities, shrank the Federal legislature to 50 senators and 180 representatives by the beginning of 1863.
Southern secession transformed Congress in many ways. The dozens of unfilled vacancies in the Senate and the … [ Read all ]
Posted by Gregory Marose on January 6, 2012, under - Civil War, News and Events, Rare Photos, Unusual documents.
Tags: 112th Congress, 1860, 36th Congress, Adam Goodheart, Alabama, Arkansas, civil war, Confederate, federal government, Florida, Georgia, kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, missouri, North Carolina, secession, South Carolina, Tennessee, texas, Union
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Hit the Road, Jack!
Today's post is by Miriam Kleiman, public relations specialist at the National Archives.
Jack Kerouac—American counterculture hero, king of the Beats, and author of On the Road—was a Navy military recruit who failed boot camp.
Navy doctors found Kerouac delusional, grandiose, and promiscuous, and questioned his strange writing obsession.
I learned this in 2005, right before the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis announced the opening of more than 3,000 military personnel files—including those of some famous folks.
Working in public affairs at the National Archives is a challenge. We're always trying to make what's old seem new. Just yesterday someone asked, "What's new at the National Archives?" I responded "Absolutely nothing, but I can tell you some neat new things about what's old."
The St. Louis records release gave us a chance to share some unknown gems about some very well-known people including Elvis, Clark Cable, and Jackie Robinson. Our colleagues in St. Louis sent us files to see what might interest the media, but most of the material didn't qualify as newsworthy. It's vision and dental records, physical exam notes, letters of recommendation, or names and addresses of next of kin.
Then, I found Jack Kerouac's file. Thicker than the rest, it details his 10 days in basic training—and 67 under psychiatric evaluation. This, I thought, is NEWS! … [ Read all ]
Posted by Hilary on November 22, 2011, under - The 1960s, Prologue Magazine, Rare Photos, Unusual documents.
Tags: Basic Training, Clark Cable, delusional, dementia praecox, Elvis, grandiose, Jack Kerouac, Jackie Robinson, national personnel records center, On the Road, promiscuous, St. Louis
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Aunt Jemima, what took you so long?
Today's guest post for "What's Cooking Wednesdays" comes from Acting Director Patrick Connelly with Education Specialist Christopher Zarr of the National Archives at New York City.
Sometimes walking down the stacks of the National Archives can be like walking down the aisles of your local supermarket. Names like Heinz, Anheuser-Busch, Hershey, Sara Lee, and Perrier line the shelves of the National Archives.
The only difference is that these brands aren't for sale—they are a part of the holdings of district court records of the National Archives. Whether Good Humor and Popsicle are waging a different kind of cold war involving patents or, as in the following case, Aunt Jemima is accusing competitors of trademark infringement, food fights are common in the district courts.
Aunt Jemima has been adorning the tables of America's breakfast nooks for well over a century. R.T. Davis Milling Company brought this racially charged image to life in 1890 when it hired Nancy Green to be the company's spokesperson. Success even led the company to change its name to the Aunt Jemima Mills Company. Later purchased by the Quaker Oats Company in 1926, Aunt Jemima's name and face helped sell milled oats, grains, and ready-mix pancake flour. Surprisingly absent (at least to me) from the product line was pancake syrup. It would take nearly 50 years, at least two lawsuits and even … [ Read all ]
Posted by Hilary on August 3, 2011, under Rare Photos, Unusual documents, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
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i'm going to have to set aside some time to browse through UGArdener's almost 8000 photos on flickr, because they are literally what i imagine heaven to be like – beautiful houses, amazing gardens, huge old trees – ranging from towns in the southern states of the US through to country gardens in england. his own garden is incredible, too.
i grew up in a white walls household – it just went with my parent's 'modernist' house and that was that. i still get nervous about putting colour on the walls, though i have toyed with the idea of light grey (hah). my rented flat has a sort of beigey crap colour in all the rooms (even the bathroom!) that i'm not allowed to paint over & it drives me kind of nutso.
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In their first appearance (Hornet's Nest, 1997), Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Virginia West, and reporter-turned-rookie-cop Andy Brazil battled a serial killer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now, in Patricia Cornwell's Southern Cross, the trio are dispatched to Richmond, Virginia--via an NIJ (National Institute of Justice) grant--to quell the growing gang problem and modernize the beleaguered Richmond PD. They bring with them a sophisticated computer program for tracking criminal activity and a tried-and-true methodology for reforming Richmond's men and women in blue. Unfortunately, Hammer, Brazil, and West could not have been prepared for the resentment they would confront... or the bizarre cast of characters they would find upon their arrival: Lelia Ehrhart--wealthy (and nosey) chair of the Blue Ribbon Crime Commission--whose heavy European accent renders her English dangerously hilarious; Butner "Bubba" Flunk IV--tobacco industry worker, gun collector, and UFO aficionado; Smoke--the sociopathic leader of the Pikes gang; and Weed Gardener--14-year-old painter turned master graffiti artist.
Unlike Cornwell's usual fare, Southern Cross is driven almost exclusively by an interest in these strange personalities and their surreal hometown, rather than in fast-paced thrills. The novel becomes a satire on city politics, Southern culture, the ever-tense relationship between the police and the public, and the struggles of the average man and woman with computer technology. Cornwell does fall down in a few places. First, her description of the computer virus that somehow infects police department Web sites from Richmond to New York seems a bit far-fetched. Also, her narrative, divided among three major characters, loses its focus and sags at several points. In the end, though, Southern Cross is redeemed by Cornwell's inimitable renderings of police work and the quotidian life of Richmond's many odd denizens. --Patrick O'Kelley --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
It's fortunate that Cornwell has a new Kay Scarpetta thriller (Black Notice) coming out in July, because this second novel featuring southern police chief Judy Hammer is as disappointing as last year's Hornet's Nest. The problem is elementary. Cornwell, who writes the Scarpetta novels in a first-person voice that blazes with passion and authenticity, lacks control over the third-person narration here. The tone is all over the place, veering from faux-Wambaugh low-jinks to hard-edged suspense, and the plotting is, too. Hammer and her team of deputy chief Virginia West and greenhorn cop Andy Brazil have moved via a federal grant to Richmond, Va., in order to set straight that city's policing. If only they could bring order to the narrative, which twists into an unwieldy welter of subplots. Early on, for instance, Hammer and West misconstrue as malevolent an overheard phone conversation between a local redneck, Butner (Bubba) Fluck IV, and a coon-hunting pal. From there Cornwell spins seriocomic descriptions of Bubba at work, Bubba on a hunting trip, Bubba arguing with a black cop. Among these events and those of other subplots (stymied love between West and Brazil; sabotage of the cops' Web site; the jailing of a police dispatcher; etc.) runs a more dominant plotline?the only one in the novel that exerts dramatic force?about a talented boy artist strong-armed into a gang by a sociopathic teen. There's a lot of broad, often slapstick, social commentary (mostly about class warfare) larded into all the goings-on. If Cornwell's intention is to reproduce with a snicker the chaos of a big southern city, she has succeeded all too well. 1 million first printing; Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; foreign rights sold in France, Germany, the U.K., Italy and Norway. (Jan. 11). FYI: In May, Putnam will publish Cornwell's first children's book, Life's Little Fable.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This one misses the mark for me. Try another like the Body Farm to enjoy this talented writer. From Potter's Field was also a good read.Published on March 29 2004 by Patty Philbrook
Southern Cross is too ridiculous to be a detective novel, to violent to be a comic novel. This is my first venture into Cornwell. Read morePublished on April 15 2003
YUK. Will never read another by this author. Took it back to the store and was told alot of people did the same.Published on Jan. 6 2003
Despite all the negative reviews, I recommend this book. I felt for Weed and hated Smoke, as anybody who has ever been bullied hates bullies. Read morePublished on Sept. 3 2002 by Dennis E. Cochran
This book struck me as a failed attempt by Patricia Cornwell to publicly flex her literary muscles. Read more
This is my first (and last ) Patricia Cornwell read. A trio of policemen and women try to clean up a Southern town populated by psycopaths and rednecks. Read morePublished on June 11 2002 by Beverley Strong
The story about how a female Chief of Police in Richmond deals with a new crime epidemic was very gripping. The humor was well-timed and appropriate and the concept was timely. Read morePublished on June 10 2002 by Amazon Customer
This is a poor book. Cornwell has no understanding of Policemen, the south or COMSTAT as used in New York City. The effort at comic relief is silly and not funny in the least. Read morePublished on March 3 2002 by c b scott


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November 22, 2012
A Garner family tradition
Anthony Dasher
Two dollars wasn't quite what he was looking for.
"That probably won't help much," Garner said. "I was thinking about that the other day. After 15 years of doing it here, I've made a nice little investment."
But Garner, whose wife and mother organize the annual, couldn't think of a Thanksgiving without their annual Turkey Day bash.
"Oh yeah, as long as the guys have fun, I'll do it. It's more for them and my mom now. She looks forward to it every year; my whole family looks forward to it," Garner said. "It's a good thing. It's family time and to me that's what the holiday season is all about. Growing up in Alabama, this time of year is special. It's time for family to get together at grandma's house, my aunt's houses, it was a good time."
We're not talking turkey sandwiches.
According to Garner, the tables today will be overflowing with a wide variety of family specialties, including chitlins, mac-and-cheese, dressing, fried turkey, ham, Boston butts, greens, collards, turnips, peas and any kind of cake one could ever dream of.
"You walk in and Coach G's got that little smile, saying 'Go ahead and eat, go ahead and eat,'" said John Jenkins, who will be bringing his family with him to the Garner abode.
"He's got some family coming down with him with it being Senior Day so we wanted to be able to provide a family environment," Garner said. "John was only here for two years, so I'm pretty excited about it."
But the 350-pound Jenkins wanted to make one thing clear, he'll just be there for the mac-and-cheese.
"To be honest, I really don't eat too much of anything, except baked macaroni cheese and ham," Jenkins claimed. "People think that I eat a lot of everything and I really don't. I know what I like and I like what I like."
For example:
"Baked macaroni and cheese," Jenkins said. "I may get a little potato salad, but that's it."
Garner begged to differ.
"Oh, really?" quizzed Garner, when told of Jenkins' claim. "He eats certain things in view of others and I think he eats other things in private. I think he definitely has evidence that he eats. It's kind of like me, there's evidence out there."
Defensive end Garrison Smith took the side of his coach.
"You don't even believe that yourself," laughed Smith, who said the key to surviving Thanksgiving with the Garner clan is to not eat too much.
"You've definitely got to watch what you eat and not load up, especially someone like John Jenkins," joked Smith. "He might try to eat 30 pounds of mac-and -cheese. You've got to tell him he can't eat more than his body weight."
Smith - who will be dining with his family in Atlanta this year - said taking time to savor the many flavors can keep teammates out of trouble.
"You need to try and taste the food and chew slowly," Smith said. "I don't try to gorge myself so I'll be moving slowly with a big, fat stomach. I'll take my time. Plus, there will be a lot more food to take back to school with me."
Although Smith won't be there this year, Garner said he's expecting upwards of 50 people for this year's dinner.
It will be a full day.
"They just hang out, chill out. My girls actually have the guys making fools out of themselves and their mom is actually going out to but "Let's Dance" � the X-Box deal," said Garner, who has six daughters, five still living at home ranging from ages 9-15. "They'll have dance contests. They brag about how they beat (Bacarri) Rambo last year. They'll have them doing some crazy things."
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New York Post columnist Rich Lowry and The Washington Examiner defended the controversial new Arizona immigration law by suggesting the state was forced to act because the Obama administration was not enforcing immigration policies; specifically, citing frozen funding for a virtual border fence. However, the administration reportedly stopped funding the virtual fence because it was over-budget, behind schedule, and a "complete failure," and the administration has redirected money to "other tested, commercially available security technology along the Southwest border."
Remember when Kanye West said George W. Bush "doesn't care about black people"? Of course you do; it was kind of a big deal. Such a big deal that when then-Senator Barack Obama appeared on ABC's This Week a few days later, he was asked about it. There was an avalanche of media coverage, including predictable outrage from conservative publications. A New York Post headline blared "WHERE DOES KANYE WEST GET OFF," while National Review sneered "'Racism!' They Charged - When don't they?" Jonah Goldberg blasted West's "self-indulgent diatribe" and insisted "He should be ashamed." Goldberg went so far as to argue that even if West was right, he should have kept his mouth shut: "Assume for the sake of argument that West's rant was accurate. Was this really the time to say so?"
Conservatives were certainly not alone in rebuking West; many liberals did so as well. To pick just one example, Richard Cohen -- the ostensibly liberal Washington Post columnist who supports torture and opposes affirmative action -- leapt to Bush's defense.
In short: suggesting the president might be a racist was widely seen as a Big Deal -- and widely condemned.
So I was startled to see how casually ABC's The Note quoted Rush Limbaugh calling Barack Obama a racist this morning:
Rush Limbaugh, not a fan of the efforts to restart the campaign engines: "This is the regime at its racist best," he said, per Politics Daily's Lynn Sweet. "He is asking young people, African-Americans, Latino and women to reconnect, to fight who? Who is this fight against?"
Now, Rush Limbaugh isn't a rap star like Kanye West -- but he is one of the most influential leaders of the conservative movement and the Republican party. And The Note quoted him calling the president a racist as casually as it would have had quoted him saying "I find the president's fiscal policies lamentable."
Maybe journalists have become dulled to statements like Limbaugh's because of the frequency with which they come. Conservatives have been calling Obama, and those around him, racist since he took office. Longer, actually. Today's Washington Examiner reinforces those allegations with a headline taking up much of the front page: "Obama disses white guys."
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the first Richard Cohen column defending President Obama from charges of racism.
Washington Examiner contributor Jed Babbin claimed that the administration is "reassigning some of [the CIA's] most valuable assets to study global warming." In fact, the CIA has said the climate data sharing program "draws on imagery and other information that is collected in any event."
Conservative media have falsely claimed that a motion filed by disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich indicating that Blagojevich and President Obama spoke on December 1, 2008, contradicts Obama's statements about his contacts with Blagojevich. Media have also falsely claimed that the motion states that Obama and Blagojevich discussed who Blagojevich would appoint to fill Obama's Senate seat.
Fox News' Dana Perino and Byron York of The Washington Examiner channeled Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) criticism of Democrats for reportedly planning to pursue immigration reform legislation before a climate change bill. But last month, Graham himself reportedly called for President Obama to "step it up" on immigration reform efforts.
Right-wing media are falsely claiming that, in recent interviews and speeches, former President Bill Clinton compared the tea party movement to the domestic terrorists who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing. In fact, Clinton did no such thing; rather, he stressed the importance of citizens' ability to criticize the government, and in drawing "parallels" to the rhetoric leading to the bombing and the rhetoric today, he specifically limited his criticism to those currently advocating or encouraging violence.
With the Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled to hold a confirmation hearing on April 16 for Goodwin Liu, who was nominated by President Obama to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, Media Matters revisits some common myths and falsehoods pushed by right-wing media to attack Liu.
Conservative media have attacked financial reform legislation under consideration in Congress by stating that it establishes a "permanent bailout" or "bailouts forever" -- echoing language recommended by Republican strategist Frank Luntz to derail the bill. But far from encouraging "bailouts" for failing financial firms, the bill would establish the government's authority to liquidate them.
In a Washington Examiner column, the Heritage Foundation's James Carafano falsely claimed that the Obama administration is "refusing to modernize the U.S. [nuclear] arsenal" and is "cutting back on defense." In fact, the administration's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) includes "significantly increased investments" to modernize America's nuclear weapons infrastructure, and each of Obama's two defense budget requests have increased the budget by billions of dollars.
Fox News' Bill Hemmer and The Washington Examiner's Byron York distorted federal appeals court nominee Goodwin Liu's record to paint him as out of the mainstream, with York suggesting that Liu supports reparations. However, neither York nor Hemmer noted that Liu has widespread support from across the political spectrum, including from former independent counsel Kenneth Starr and Bush administration lawyer John Yoo.
Right-wing media have accused Rep. Henry Waxman and the Obama administration of "tyrannical" actions after Waxman announced a hearing looking into several large corporations' assertions about prescription drug costs related to health care reform. According to Waxman, the companies' claims "appear to conflict with independent analyses."
Washington Examiner columnist Theodore H. Frank distorted a column by federal circuit court nominee Goodwin Liu to claim Liu was "disqualif[ied]" from that position because he purportedly spoke "against private ownership of property." In fact, Liu merely identified the term "private ownership of property," as used by an organization then-Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was affiliated with, as indicative of "an ideological agenda hostile to environmental, workplace, and consumer protections."
In a Washington Examiner blog post, David Freddoso baselessly suggested that Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN) -- who is seeking the nomination to run for retiring Sen. Evan Bayh's seat -- "s[old] his 'yes' vote on ObamaCare for $1 million in campaign money." However, the campaign money that Bayh is reported to be contributing is for the Indiana Democratic Party, not simply for Ellsworth; moreover, in announcing his retirement in February, Bayh made clear that he would use his remaining campaign money "to help whoever our nominee is in Indiana." Ellsworth has been widely reported to be the "frontrunner" for the nomination since Bayh's announcement.
Right wing media figures have compared the passage of landmark health care reform legislation to historical events including the Black Plague, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bloody Sunday, the passage of the Stamp Act, the federal government's refusal to bail out New York City in the 1970's, the Jonestown massacre, and The Day The Music Died.
From a March 22 Washington Examiner editorial:
Well, they finally did it. Despite more than a year of steadily rising public opposition, manifested in opinion polls and in protest rallies across the country, President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally rammed through Obamacare late Sunday when House Democrats gave the bill their imprimatur.
The House vote isn't the end of the national debate on this issue, however, as the Senate still must accept the House changes in the Senate Obamacare bill. Senate Republicans argue that the House reconciliation bill that makes significant changes in the Senate bill violates the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, maintaining that it should be ruled out of order by the Senate parliamentarian for consideration in the upper chamber. That in turn would mean the only bill the president could legally sign would be the original Senate bill, with its massive funding of abortion and the infamous deals used to buy senators' votes, including the Cornhusker Kickback. At that point, a constitutional crisis of historic magnitude seems inevitable.
A fast-track challenge to Obamacare's constitutionality will likely reach the Supreme Court in coming months. The justices will have multiple issues to consider, including the unprecedented federal mandate that all individuals buy approved health insurance, the undeniable inequity of the many corrupt bargains used to buy votes for the measure, and the banana republic parliamentary tactics used by the Democratic congressional leadership. Whatever the high court's decision, it won't be nearly as unpleasant as the verdict many Democrats will hear from their constituents in November.


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So what's the plan for BYU's track team? That's a fairly strong draw with a
decent amount of national prestiege. Not the cream of the crop, mind you, but
no slouch, either.
I hope they don't cancel it.
Can they compete anywhere else?
- 6:13 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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May not be the best deal but this is not the end game. BYU will have to work hard but there are many schools who will want to play BYU for the exposure that BYU will bring, this will not only be about BYU. Sure, we may drop a bit but in the end we will be stronger. All other sports will be just fine, I am sure BYU looked to ensure everyone got a fair shake in this. Sure Utah won getting into the PAC-10 and an auto bid to BCS but BYU will end up better off exposure wise which will help BYU recruiting. Some think that BCS status is better than exposure but ask an athlete which is better when wanting to play in the NFL where it really matters. Why do you think so many athletes want to play at Notre Dame. If they can get a coach who can make all that talent work, Notre Dame will be awesome. Same thing will happen for BYU.
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Lots of idiotic knee jerk reactions here. Why not wait until the press conference tomorrow. Bet lots more information comes out then.
- 6:13 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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Wow. They're taking the leap. I like it. Good luck Cougars. I hope you land
on your feet.
Go Utes!!!
- 6:14 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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For us in SoCal, YES to being INDY and you'll see us at the "other" sport venues cheering on the COUGS. We will miss the COX arena for our annual BYU vs SDSU Basketball game. SDSU has always brought to the court, great teams to play.
- 6:14 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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@ MapleDon
Reverse your statements (rhetorical questions) about nearly everything you just posted...and then you'll understand why BYU went independent.
What a troll!...to take the very reasons BYU is going independent and consider them as the folly of going independent.
Are you following this story at all?
It IS money and exposure.
BYU has been held down as the teller in the MWC who brought in the dough to make the MWC bank profitable and has now decided to become an entrepreneur with the likelihood of making a fortune.
How's that analogy working for you?
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The other non premier sports at byu don't have to worry at all. That is a common situation for teams all over the ncaa. mens volleyball and soccer and rugby already don't compete in the mwc but all very successful at the highest level. well not soccer but the other two sure. then you have teams like boise's wrestling and there are other examples. so don't worry. then as far as the teams that will compete in the wcc it is a step up in competition for the most part. BBall does take a slight hit, instead of playing three good in conference teams you play two, but they can still schedule more non conference now and they can do that how they want. all in all this is a good decision for all of BYU athletics
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Good stuff.
The days of insensitivity for the no-play on Sunday policy ends now that the Y joins other faith-based schools who, while they might play on the Sabbath, will respect LDS standards.
To those who consider the WCC less visable than the WAC, that is only true in the intermountain west. To the rest of us this is a huge upgrade.
The silly Utah fans who can't resist name calling and putting down all things BYU, outside your narrow world are many, many true college sports fans who pull for the Utes and the Cougars throughout the year and then support their respective favorite when the two schools play.
Give it a try. Each schools individual success enhances the standing of the winner of Utah vs. BYU contests!
- 6:17 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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Boise State wanted a bigger pond to swim in. Utah, TCU and BYU dreamed of being
invited to the PAC or Big12. It happened for Utah, and good for them. TCU and
BYU were left sitting in a weak spot, now just TCU. If TCU is invited to the
Big12, they are gone about 10 seconds later.
For BYU this makes sense. The MWC is great in many ways though for the money maker football can do better for the athletic dept as a whole. BYU will generally win 8-12 games a year and receive a bowl invite every year, just like Norte Dame. BYU will also have great regional exposure and should do much better than the cruddy Mntn cable program.
This will be fun to watch!
- 6:18 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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I do think the MWC would have achieved BCS status if Utah and BYU stuck around.
With BYU, Utah, TCU and Boise State it probably would have taken no more than 2
more years at best. That's a tough lineup to ignore for even the BCS snobs.
But Utah bailed on the MWC (and yewties likely will ignore their own selfishness and say BYU is acting like selfish 5th graders) and that put BCS automatic-qual status for the MWC further away, more than BYU wanted to wait, I think.
- 6:18 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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Wow. They finally pulled the trigger. Question is, did they get a bullseye or
shoot themselves in the foot.
Only time will tell.
Should be interesting.
One thing I think we can say, the move probably seals the deal with continuing the rivalry games with Utah and USU, at least in football and basketball.
Good luck.
- 6:19 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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There is no question that BYU will get more money out of this deal, the ability
to televise any games or sports that it wants to, and the exposure it desired.
I hope it works out.
- 6:22 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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Good move for BYU. The WCC is a step up from the MWC academically, and is also a solid basketball, baseball, soccer, and volleyball conference.
- 6:27 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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The 2011 schedule will be a fun one to watch. Jake heaps and nelson having a good year of experiance along with a strong offensive line and experianced defense will be a good year. This is what needed to happen for BYU. The west coast conference will be a good conference for basketball. Half the other sports were in different conferences, so there will be hardly any change there. We will be able to add those other sports because most of them dont have the traditional 11 conferences. Great move and i cant wait to see them on ESPN again and be rid of Todd Christianson's horrible commentary. Cant wait to actually see college game day come to provo and be able to see the game on ESPN! Great job BYU for doing what is best. Gonzaga is going to get lost in the Marriot Center where it seats 3 times as much as its enrollment!
- 6:28 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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I just love it when Ute fans pretend that BYU's football independence is
inferior to their invitation to the PAC. Sure, Utah will split a much more
generous pot-o-gold, but BYU will not have to split their gold at all. BYU will
be playing the big boys from multiple AQ conferences, not just a bunch of weak
sisters from the PAC-1.
I was excited to see Utah escape the MWC and the MTN. I am excited to see what Utah can do in the PAC. I hope they represent our state by dominating the PAC in football. It would be swell if Ute fans could reciprocate by wishing the Cougars well in their departure from the MWC and the MTN.
Go Utes! Go Cougs!
- 6:29 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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Gutsy or risky? Going to the WAC in other sports was a small step down. I think
the WCC is a big step down. Plus, BYU now has to play teams it has NO history
with. At least in the WAC, most of the teams there are teams BYU has played
How will this affect recruiting in basketball and other sports? And if those sports go downhill, how could that affect football? And who will BYU be scheduling in football? I suspect a lot of MWC teams will look the other way if BYU comes calling now.
Lots of questions.
- 6:29 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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This is a bad move for BYU. The MWC would of still been a solid conference with out Utah. Plus 60 million do not watch BYU like people think. There channel is available to 60 million homes which is not the same as having 60 million viewers.
- 6:30 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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It's disappointing. I mean when we were in the WAC we were playing these crappy teams and we were getting zero respect from the college football world. It's that situation all over again. On top of that, the church and BYUtv has zero interest in any sports programming. Can you imagine you have invited ten friends over, you've got your BYU gear on, you've got your pizza and beverages, it's kickoff time for BYU - Texas and daaaang!!!!! the football game is pre-empted by last weeks BYU devotional re-run.
- 6:30 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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I am totally in favor of football going independent. The opportunity cost of
staying in the MWC was just too high--especially in view of Utah's move to the
We used to be able to watch every BYU football game on local TV (and at stake centers on the Church satellite system nationwide) before we entered the MWC and Craig "Einstein" Thompson negotiated this Mountain television deal. The Mtn TV channel is so insignificant that most couldn't even watch all of the few games that were broadcast. And the quality was terrible.
Revenue wise, leaving the MWC is a no brainer. Exposure wise, there is no comparison. BYU football is going to appear on ESPN multiple times each year and get exposure nationwide. Same for basketball. It will go to 60 million homes when broadcast on BYUtv--all in hi-def.
I am confident that BYU will find a home for all of its sports, which will also be broadcast more often than now.
The worst possible thing would have been to say put. Yes, there will be challenges, but the upside is huge. Thanks to BYU for having the guts to make this move.
- 6:32 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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Re: "1984 for life | 6:04 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
Cougs leave Utah State twisting in the wind."
Hey, '1984 for life', don't you mean Utah's departure to the PAC(12), Fresno State's and Nevada's departure to the MWC left Utah State twisting in the wind?
How is it, exactly, that what Utah, Fresno State and Nevada did was PURELY unselfish but BYU going independent is?
Go ahead, I'll check back for your answer....
- 6:32 p.m. Aug. 31, 2010
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In a report released on Sept. 1, the Instituto Nacional de Ecologia (INE) released the results of a study indicating that emissions of these harmful substances in Mexico increased by 30% between 1990 and 2002. The study, called the Inventario Nacional de Gases de Efecto Invernadero, said emissions of greenhouse gases during the 12-year period increased by an average of 2.2% annually.
The INE said the energy sector, which includes the state-run oil company PEMEX and the government-affiliated Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) was responsible for one-fourth of the gases.
Transportation activities, particularly automobiles, were responsible for another 18% of the emissions, said the INE, which is a unit of the Secretaria del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT).
Discharges by private industry were responsible for another 16% of the emissions, while waste-disposal activities accounted for another 11%, said the study.
Increases in carbon dioxide and methane posed the most serious problems for Mexico. "Among the challenges faced by the country is to find ways to reduce the use of fossil fuels for transportation," said the report. "We must begin to promote energy-efficient vehicles.
The INE recommended an increase in the use of hybrid vehicles for public and private transportation. "Hybrids generate about two tons of carbon dioxide per year, compared with three for a conventional compact car, seven for a Suburban sports utility vehicle and ten tons for a Hummer," said the INE.
The INE's September report was a follow up to a similar report released in May of this year, which noted that Mexico ranks first in Latin America in fuel consumption, with usage estimated at 99.7 million tons per year.
According to the May report, almost all of Mexico is vulnerable to the effects of global climate change, with possible effects including the desertification of northern and central areas, a drop in agricultural production, a loss of biodiversity, water shortages, and flooding of coastal areas. "States like Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, and Campeche have large areas that are susceptible to floods," said the Mexico City daily newspaper La Jornada, quoting the INE report.
Global warming summit held in Monterrey
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