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Please Rate This Review: Skyrim
The Good: Immersive game world, brilliant soundtrack, and a streamlined progression screen.
The Bad: Game-breaking bugs, nasty glitches, and the botched PS3 release
WTF?!: Why didn't that dragon give me it's soul?!
To note: This game was played on the XBOX 360. This is a spoiler free review.
Go to any website where the primary objective is to review a plethora of different video games across a litany of genres. Click on their Skyrim review or any other article pertaining to the game, and you will see nothing but love and admiration, praise and aggrandizement for it. The aura of the reviews practically emanates right from your computer screen, minus the backlight already present on your device. The halo looms large over Skyrim for those who've reviewed this game, and for the most part, these tendentious peoples are correct. Skyrim is worthy of all of the worship thrown towards it, all the passion present in reviewer's written/spoken lines. It is a game that almost demands your affection, and you would be hard pressed to not obey the "bowing standard" after playing it. However, with Skyrim being a "big picture" game, it's easy for one to get lost in it's carefully crafted seas and all the while forget about the many facets and abnormalities that break down it's foundation, not just including the glitches. Skyrim is eminently enjoyable, but it's game-breaking flaws, daft design/writing, and an awkward engine tear it down immensely.
Skyrim starts you off as a prisoner (surprise?) who is about to get the axe dropped on their head before a dragon comes and stops the ordeal (surprise?). Once you make your way through the hell-beat landscape incinerating around you, you'll eventually find yourself walking through the cave hole that leads to a glorious shot of Skyrim. From there, who you are is up to you, where you go is more based on whims, and an epic journey that will take you hours to complete is laid before you. Right off of the bat you are greeted with a panoramic view of a mountainous landscape adorned by brilliant clouds and organic colors, all capped off by hues that hint at the frigid landscape. The sound design's mastery is easily apparent from these early moments in the game. The terrain changes bring forth different audio cues from your foot, and the level of immersion is positively augmented when you begin to hear birds in the background.
However, almost as immediately as you begin your journey to the wonderful sights and sounds of Skyrim, you are plunged into the all-to-familiar realm of Bethesda awkwardness. I could write a whole essay on the individual aspects of their engine/design features that are most perplexing, but I have a life unfortunately. To start off, character faces are completely dead wrong. Static, stale, no emotion, little movement above the nose aside from blinking. These models are improvements over Oblivion and Fallout, but that's not saying much. The faces are dreadful, half-assed, and pull you out of the experience. Mass Effect has been out for four years Bethesda, get with the times. I know it would take a lot of work and memory to finally get the character faces right, but the time spent correcting the issue would be well justified. And why does my main character not have a voice exactly? The every-man approach to video games doesn't work for an experience like this, where you can tweak the smallest detail of a character's face, right down to their dirt color. It's an old game mechanic that's alright for games like Zelda, but not immersive experiences such as this.
Then you come across the combat. Two words: floaty and odd. You've heard floaty before surely in other reviews, and for good reason. The weapon strikes lack any sort of dynamic traction or force. Swinging sword sword at anything feels the same across the board (meaning, hitting a wall feels the same as cutting through a Markarth guard), and in general it just lacks polish. Future perks that you might get in the game would help to remedy this to an extent, but not by much. Aside from this, the animations on the characters are woefully stiff, as if no one was mo-capped for a single action. Characters don't move gracefully even as they're walking, and too often have I found myself snickering at something that a character was doing when I should have simply been acknowledging their presence in the game world.
Along with stiff, awkward conversations that are emotionless and devoid of any sort of conviction (the oddly always-placid voice acting doesn't help) and the animations ripped right out of KotOR, Skyrim has many, many bugs. Bad bugs. Not the bugs you swat away as a quick remedy, but bugs that outright destroy the foundation of the game and turn it into a Bethesda comedy. Or tragedy, if you will. Mammoths falling out of the sky? That's nothing. How about entire quest-lines not having a conclusion because of some rule the game doesn't allow you to break, like having a quest item before triggering that quest and not being able to use said item for no apparent reason, leaving it perpetually unfinished? How about NPCs always standing in your way, all the time, whether they be standing right at the doorway or in the middle of a hallway? How about things that get stuck in your inventory because they're quest items, even though the quest is completed already? And my personal favorite, how about Bethesda not adding additional character save slots, relegating all save files to one pool and therefore running the risk of you losing prior save data because of an infamous autosave glitch? Seriously, how hard is it for an RPG to include different save pools for different characters? KotOR 2 managed, as did Mass Effect. Quirky bugs I can deal with, but bugs that ruin the fabric of this game are unacceptable and impossible to ignore.
On top of all this, the writing is hit and miss. The Dark Brotherhood quest-line was one of the best I have ever played in any RPG, while conversely the Civil War missions are nothing short of vapid and repetitive. As stated earlier, the voice acting leaves much to be desired, and it is apparent during both main quests and side quests. At times, the poor or annoying performances drag down the quality of a story. I can think of one character in particular from an aforementioned side quest, but spoiler-free is the way to be. A lot of times, you'll pass the same character and hear them say the same thing over and over again. And over again. Additionally, characters will utilize two, sometimes three distinctly voice actors. This is an inexcusable mess that would make the most jaded of gamers scratch their heads. It is lazy and embarrassing, to put it plainly. The excuse that "it's a big game" simply doesn't cut it for this one. I don't remember that problem reaching prevalence for me in Fallout from 2008, so it shouldn't have achieved prominence here.
So what did the game do well, you say? Everything else, and that is the truth.
Once you look past the bevy of problems and flaws (many of which I didn't name), Skyrim is too much fun to be had. It's a time sink that has very little regard for your daily life. It will absorb you in ways you thought unimaginable. Each nook and cranny is teeming with life, adventure, and excitement, unmatched by other games of it's kind.
The scale is the best I've ever seen. The graphical fidelity of a vista view rivals what you would see in Eastern Europe, and is only made better if you happen to see a dragon passing a treacherous cliff. All of this is strengthened by the soundtrack that might just be the best I've ever heard. It's sweeping brilliance is heard at every possible interval, always elevating the level of excitement for whatever you happen to be doing. It's medieval tones that sound familiar if you're a LotR fan, but nevertheless, it's rich, dynamic, and easily the best individual accomplishment of the game.
Speaking of music and dragons, encounters with them are as pulse-pounding as anything else in the game. While at first they might be tough to defeat, once you understand their movements and start predicting their patterns, they become much more tolerable in the difficulty department, and defeating one gives you the ultimate "bad-ass" feeling that even Dark Souls can't compete with.
In general, combat is rewarding despite how awkward it feels. The rush to loot a fallen enemy remains with you until your twilight hours of playing, the promise of rich rewards never escaping your thoughts. While at times the looting is not as fruitful as you'd imagine, constant and vigilant pillaging will eventually be rewarded with a bundle of gold or superior weaponry or armor. Granted, most people will end up devoting points to smithing and enchanting anyway, but finding weapons is a good way to fill up your display cases.
The seamless integration of the quests into the world gives the game a uniqueness over other RPGs. Side quests don't feel disjointed as they normally tend to do. Unfortunately, they still do boil down to fetch quests, escort quests, and the like. Unrivaled is it's sense that this is a world you are forming, a story forging itself into the annals of greatness, you name etched in stone. You truly feel that this is your game, your story, and that no one else is playing it the way you are. In all honesty, with all the variables this game has available, it is safe to say that your experience is wholly unique, a special and rare achievement for a video game.
What makes it all better is how well the RPG mechanics work. Gone are the days of major/minor skill progression, gutted instead for a simple school progression system that's simple and easy to understand. You dump points into whatever school you want to learn more about, and that's it. The game takes care of everything else for you, Gods be praised. This makes the game accessible, more fun, and gives it infinite replay value because of the number of combinations you can go with, though the game seems to prefer people who decide to invest in Destruction magic. Bethesda finally understood that people want to spend their time playing the actual game than gawking at a clunky progression screen. One minor gripe I have is separating the Map/Magic/Skills/Items screen from the pause menu with quests, statistics, and system management. I understand the purpose, but it's an awkward transition from other games that I still haven't gotten used to. It helps to streamlines the menus, but I can't help but feel that all of those items would be better served in one accessible menu, with the "B" button serving as some sort of alternative function.
With all said and done, 150+ hours over two different files and a sense of overarching accomplishment that no other game has provided me in the past, Skyrim is a wondrous achievement. It is a labor of love made specifically for those that want an RPG experience that is true to it's genre. It will consume all of your free time, especially if you'd like to get fully into the minutia of the game. It can easily take you over 300 hours to fully complete, and even then there will be things you simply haven't seen. Skyrim has far too many faults to be considered anywhere near a perfect game, with some glitches in the realm of insanity. And if Bethesda did find it in their right mind to ship a broken game for the PS3, then it makes the process all the more shameful and inexcusable. I know this is a large game, but that's what play testing is for, and no doubt they came across file-size problems for the PS3 edition. Problems such as these is what delays are for, and I'd much rather have a more polished game two months later than a rushed, buggy one that tries to meet the holiday demand, punishing early adopters senselessly.
Still, Skyrim manages to be a complete game, and one that keeps me coming back for more each and every day. There's simply too much to explore to leave it lying on a shelf, meaning that months of game time can be put in before it's taken out of the disc tray. I can't even imagine what the DLC will consist of. If you decide to go into Skyrim, know that you are going into experience one of the finest RPGs of all time; however, also know that bugs, game-crippling problems, and a dated engine might negatively impact your experience.
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Oops, didn't see Naik's review when I posted this originally. Sorry for taking up space.
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Great Review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only problem is that it was a tad too long
but apart from that, excellent!
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Brian Kelly walked off the tarmac, hopped aboard one of Notre Dame's team buses that bore his image on the side and grinned broadly as he sat in the driver's seat.
Soon, the Notre Dame coach will know if his team - or Alabama - will finish college football's season in that proverbial spot.
The top-ranked Fighting Irish landed in South Florida on Wednesday, not long before the arrival of the second-ranked Crimson Tide. The teams meet Monday night to decide the BCS championship, a matchup that was set more than a month ago, the hype growing with each passing day.
"Going to play the national championship game in Miami, it's not like any trip that they've had before," Kelly said. "It's not like any trip that I've had before. And so there was an anticipation that when we got on the buses to the airport that they were really excited about this trip. It's something that you dream about when you play this game and when you coach this game."
For Notre Dame - at least for this current batch of Fighting Irish - this is all new, as one of the game's most storied programs has not won the national title since the 1988 season. For Alabama, the hubbub that goes with the BCS title game is familiar, as the Tide is trying to win its second straight crown and third in four years.
And for Alabama coach Nick Saban, it was a return to his former home. Saban coached the Miami Dolphins before going to the Crimson Tide, famously saying toward the end of his tenure in South Florida that he wasn't "going to be the Alabama coach."
He was hired by the Tide not long afterward.
Grand welcomes were executed for both teams, including water cannon sprays over their planes and greetings from local officials and members of the Orange Bowl Committee. Notre Dame landed in Fort Lauderdale, Alabama in Miami, the teams about equidistant from Sun Life Stadium - the site of Monday's showdown for the title.
And work is left in both Notre Dame's and Alabama's quest to finish at No. 1. Both teams are set to return to the practice field on Thursday, with workouts scheduled throughout the remainder of the week.
Dozens of players, coaches and guests on the Notre Dame flight took photos of the mass of reporters, Broward Sheriff's officers and fans when they deplaned, a few carrying video cameras and a couple even tossed oranges - a nod to the Orange Bowl Committee - from one hand to another.
Kelly said Notre Dame will find ways to mix fun and relaxation with the element of it being a business trip as well.
"All the people that were looking out the window were pretty much amazed to see the kind of draw that this game has," Kelly said.

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Engine Swap - Easy Big Block SwapWritten by on April 29, 2004
As corny as the old adage is, in most instances it's true: There's no replacement for displacement. And these days, with the availability of stout mail-order crate engines, the cost of buying a brutish big-block is now within the budget of many gearheads.
Case in point: GM Performance Parts' burly 502/502 big-block (PN 12371171) that can be had for about $6,000. In the Sept. '97 "Crate Engine Shootout!" story we tested the 502/502 and were giddy to see 513 hp and 555.5 lb-ft of torque. However, even though a crate engine's price may be lower than what you'd spend building a similarly performing mill, we wondered what hassle and expense would be required to shoehorn such a fat-block into a traditional musclecar.
We'd always heard that a big-block Chevy was an easy swap into a small-block car--but is it true? With the 502 and an A-body on hand, we decided to find out for ourselves and share with you the details and the costs. As usual, CC's much-abused Cheap Street Chevelle was the guinea pig, but much of the info will apply to most '68-'72 GM A-bodies or GM fullsize barges.
After jerking the small-block and test-fitting the 502, the first thing we learned was that the 502/502 comes with a six-quart truck-style oil pan that interferes with the engine bay in our '70 Chevelle. We replaced it with a special Milodon oil pan that merges the correct old-car-shape to fit the chassis with the new-car-type pan rails that fit the new Gen 5/Gen 6 big-blocks and their one-piece rear-main seals and revised gaskets. The Milodon oil pan's unique design has a large seven-quart oil capacity for reliable oiling during racing yet is a low-profile design to avoid ground-scraping woes. Often, you can reuse the 502's stock one-piece rubber oil pan gasket, but if not, companies such as Fel-Pro offer a gasket under PN OS34407R.
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The Milodon oil pan (PN 30955) requires a special oil pick-up tube assembly (PN 18301) to be properly oriented within the new oil pan's sump area.If your '68-'72 GM A-body originally came with a 350 small-block, you can retain the original engine frame mounts. If it had a 307 V-8, you'll need to switch to 350/396/454-style engine frame mounts (GM PN 3980711 left, 3980712 right), which should also work on non-Chevy A-bodies. On the engine side you'll need to upgrade to new GM big-block engine motor mounts (PN 03962748).We installed a new Milodon 160-degree-F thermostat and then bolted on a reproduction big-block-style thermostat housing (PN 26016) from OPG. Rather than reusing the crusty old bolts from our small-block, we opted for an ARP big-block bolt kit (PN 535-9501).The 502/502 comes with an aluminum water pump, but it's designed for Reverse rotation and would require switching to modern-style serpentine belt-type pulleys and brackets that would be a bit pricey. We installed a new Edelbrock long-style aluminum water pump (PN 8851) that accepts traditional early type pulleys, brackets, and hoses.New crank and water pump pulleys are available from OPG. We opted for LS6/L78-style deep-groove crank (PN SL39119) and water pump (PN SL39414) pulleys to avoid any high rpm belt-throwing mishaps. A 15450 fan belt fit perfectly.The small-block alternator brackets won't work with the big-block, so we installed OPG's big-block alternator bracket set (PN FL8502). Our old alternator already had an aftermarket deep-groove aluminum pulley, but if you want one of OPG's deep-groove pulleys, order PN SL39120.We found out the hard way that small- and big-block (right) power-steering pumps looked the same, but had slightly different lines exiting the back. To use OPG's factory-type big-block brackets (PN SFL8504) we also needed to upgrade to a new (expensive, ouch!) big-block power-steering pump (PN TRI6165) from OPG.A big-block (including Gen 5/Gen 6 big-blocks) fits into the engine bay of a GM A-body without much hassle, but getting headers to fit was the real trick. Hedman offers two varieties of 13/4-inch headers (full length and 3/4-length) that work great. We opted for Hedman's 3/4-length headers (PN 68610) because they're easier to install, tuck up tighter, and provide added ground clearance. The headers can also be ordered with a trick hi-temp coating for an added price, but gaskets and bolts were included free. Before installing the engine, we test fit the headers to make sure they cleared the gear-reduction starter (included with the 502), motor mounts, and oil pan. If you prefer, stock-type manifolds are available from OPG.
Installing the driver-side header was even trickier. After numerous failed attempts we realized that you must remove the driver-side motor mount bolt, slightly lift up on the engine with the hoist, slip the header in from below, lower the engine, and then install the gasket and bolts.Once the engine is bolted to the motor mounts and the headers are in place, bolt the tranny to the back of the block. Then, from under the car, bolt the big-block's flexplate to the torque converter. Both the bellhousing and the flexplate use the same bolt pattern as the small-block, so that's no big deal. If you're running a manual tranny, you'll need to swap the 502's stock 12-inch flexplate for GM's 14-inch flywheel (PN 14096987).The 502/502 comes with a specially calibrated HEI distributor. To avoid breakage, we removed the distributor during engine installation and reinstalled it once the engine was in place. Afterward, we installed the heavy-duty 8mm spark plug wires included with the 502 crate engine.To retain original heater hose routing, we used OPG's big-block water pump nipple kit (PN WP21551) with heater hose nipples that thread into the intake manifold and water pump (arrows).Big-block-equipped GM A-bodies used a slightly different (actually smaller) radiator fan shroud than small-block cars. To maintain proper fit and cooling, we installed OPG's reproduction big-block fan shroud (PN PZ01017).Small- and big-block clutch fan assemblies differ in size and strength. Our stock small-block clutch measured 6x21/4 inches, while the new OPG big-block clutch (PN FC57) measured a larger 71/4 x21/2-inches. The stock fan, however, interchanges small- to big-block.Rather than use universal flex-type radiator hoses, we installed new LS6/L78-type lower (PN 3959188) and upper (PN 3942453) molded radiator hoses. We cut off 1 inch of hose on the thermostat housing side of the upper hose for an improved fit.The new Holley carb didn't like the Q-jet linkage brackets from our small-block, so we procured the proper Holley carb throttle bracket (PN KM02019) from OPG.
We went to a local speed shop to buy a new Holley carb inlet fuel line (PN 34-160) only to find out that it was the wrong unit (arrow). Actually, we needed PN 34-150 to properly fit the dual-metering-block 850-cfm vacuum secondary Holley carb fitted to the 502/502. After scouring an auto parts store, we came up with a PCV valve that had a 90-degree bend (Auto Tune PN PT3771) making for a sano installation of our PCV breather system that tapped into the back of the Holley carb.We filled the 502 big-block with fresh oil and coolant, rough-timed it, then cranked it over to bring it to life (the engine had been dyno tested and was already broken in). With the distributor vacuum advance disconnected, the initial timing was set to 12 degrees BTDC with a total advance of 36 degrees, then the carb floats and air idle bleeds were adjusted. Because the 502 was taller than the 355, we had to switch to a drop-base-type K&N air filter assembly (arrow) for hood clearance.With its all-steel bodywork, six-point rollbar, 4L80E overdrive tranny, and a half-tank of fuel, our Chevelle (without driver) weighed in at 3,710 pounds with the 355 small-block. In the same condition, but with the aluminum-headed 502 big-block in place, our Chevelle's weight swelled to a porky 3,840 pounds and the nose dropped down about 1/2-inch.We wheeled the car to the high desert merriment of L.A. County Raceway for some drag test action. Speaking of a drag, for our earlier cross-country roadtrip we replaced our drag-friendly 3,000-rpm stall converter with a cruise-friendly 1,400-rpm converter that killed us off the starting line. Regardless, with pump gas, full exhaust, and wearing a pair of Mickey Thompson E.T. Street 26x10.5-15 tires, the 502-equipped Chevelle hustled to a 12.41 at 111.41 mph. With a performance converter it would run 11s, dammit!


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No. 17 ISU Moves to 9-0 With Win Over George Mason
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Iowa State can match its best start in school history tomorrow when they play Akron. Monday's game will be at 3:30 p.m. Central Time and on ESPNU.
Keys to the Game
Iowa State used a late first-half run to get some breathing room going into the locker room and was able to get the lead to as many as 12 points early in the second half.
However, the Patriots were able to battle back and reduced the lead to 56-51. The Cyclones promptly went on a 9-0 run which included five free throws to get the lead back to 65-51 and give Iowa State some breathing room down the stretch.
A back-and-fourth first half saw George Mason pull ahead 25-24 before Iowa State pulled off a 10-2 run with four points each from DeAndre Kane and Melvin Ejim which was finished up with a Dustin Hogue lay-in on the fast break to give the Cyclones a 34-27 edge, their largest of the first 20 minutes.
Hogue, the Big 12's leading rebounder, was at his best on the offensive end in the first frame as he led the Cyclones with 11 points on 5-of-6 shooting. While Ejim only contributed six points in the first half, he found other ways to get involved with nine rebounds and tying a season-high with three assists.
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Dustin Hogue. Though he did not lead Iowa State in scoring (Georges Niang posted 22 points) or rebounding (Melvin Ejim had a season-high 11 rebounds), Hogue was a reliable presence for Iowa State throughout the entire game. The junior was the go-to guy for the Cyclones in a sluggish first half with 11 points on 5-of-6 shooting. Hogue finished the game with 17 points and nine rebounds.
Hogue also showed he could share the ball as well, posting a career-high three assists. Among them was a nice outlet to find Kane on the break to give ISU an early 38-30 lead in the second half. Two possessions later, Hogue fired a strong bounce pass to a posting-up Niang to set up hook shot that moved the Cyclones lead to 42-32.
Cyclone Notes
*Iowa State has started the season 9-0, the second-best start in school history (10-0 in 1996-97).
*Georges Niang posted his third-straight game with at least 20 points, finishing with 22.
*Dustin Hogue's 17 points marked his fourth-straight game in double-figures and seventh of the season.
*Hogue also recorded a career-high three assists.
*Melvin Ejim started his 99th career game, tying him for 11th in school history with Diante Garrett.
*Ejim posted his 24th career double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds.
*Ejim had his second game of the season, 33rd of his career with at least 10 rebounds as he finished with a season-high 11 rebounds.
*Naz Long has made at least one 3-pointer in each game this season.
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Iowa State will play Akron, which beat Oregon State in its first game. The game will be tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. Central Time, and will be televised on ESPNU.


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Fuji Cross 1.5 Cyclocross Bike - 2014Fuji Cyclocross bikes are running on pro cyclocross circuits all over the world--with over a hundred years of cutting edge cycling design and engineering, Fuji has garnered respect in every form of racing. The Fuji Cross 1.5 is a trail-ready CX machine that comes in a lightweight, ultra-durable, and smooth operating package.
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Hall of Fame Classic Photos
Some of your all-time favorite Royals played against a team of former MLB stars in the Hall of Fame Classic on Friday. As the photos show, they had a great time at the "New" K as they raised money for TeamSmile and Royals Charities.
Here's what we noticed in a few of the pictures below: Dennis Leonard has maintained his imposing look on the mound…Willie Wilson still has that great jump out of the batter's box…George Brett played defense as a righty and as a lefty…Frank White connected on a couple of great hits…and Brett's signature follow through looks the same as it did throughout his career.


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Experimental kids
Family | It's a brave new world of alternative family models, but some "lopsided" children are beginning to speak out about what they missed growing up
"Experimental kids" Continued...
At 7 years old, Katrina Clark was a precocious little girl. When adults asked her questions like, "What does your daddy do?" Katrina had a ready answer: "I don't have a daddy," she would chirp cheerfully. "My mother was artificially inseminated."
For a time, Katrina enjoyed her novel lineage. She liked the way adults admired her grasp of donor-conception biology, which she explained to them as frankly as if she were explaining Barbie dolls.
"I knew all about the birds and the bees and the concept of someone donating genetic raw material," said Katrina Clark, now 18 and a freshman at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. "I could understand it technically, but not socially and psychologically."
As Clark headed into adolescence, however, all that changed. Her mother had told her that the man who had donated the sperm to make her was probably a college student. "When I got to be about 12, I realized that meant he was still alive, that I could pass him on the street one day and never know it. . . . Then I started observing my friends and their situations with their fathers. And it hit me that there might be something wrong with this situation."
Clark is among the first in her generation old enough to begin speaking out about growing up in the brave new world of alternative family models. Driven by the increasing use of reproductive technologies, the debate over same-sex parenting, and the acceptance of single and even "group" parenting, a growing panoply of new "family constellations"-as one psychologist has termed them-is raising questions: Where does society draw the line between adults' perceived right to parent and what is best for children? What role should the state have in defining parenthood? And with little data to measure outcomes, is the world steaming away too rapidly from the two-parent, mother-father model?
"Our societies will either answer these questions democratically and as a result of . . . serious reflection and public debate, or we will find, very soon, that these questions have already been answered for us," writes Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values (IAV) in New York. In her 2006 report, "The Revolution in Parenthood: The Emerging Global Clash Between Adult Rights and Children's Needs," Marquardt cites evidence that governments worldwide are quietly pushing aside old-as-time familial identities such as "mother" and "father" in favor of legal terms elastic enough to accommodate everyone:
- In Spain, where same-sex marriage was recently made legal, the legislature voted to replace the terms "mother" and "father" with "Progenitor A" and "Progenitor B."
- In the United States, judges in donor-conception and surrogacy cases now must navigate the labyrinthine complexities of the planning, financing, conception, carrying, bearing, rearing, and genetics of a child, to determine which adults hold parental rights. (Commissions in Australia and New Zealand have proposed unraveling similar problems by allowing donor-conceived children to have three legal parents.)
- In same-sex parenting and divorce cases, U.S. judges have declared non-relatives "psychological parents," even when a fit biological parent wanted the child.
- In Vietnam, a state-supported hospital is considering setting up a community sperm bank due to demand from single women who want a baby but wish to remain unmarried.
On that front, Katrina Clark's mother was in the vanguard. "She was one of the pioneering women who went into [artificial insemination] as a single parent," Clark said. Throughout early childhood, Clark developed coping mechanisms to deal with the utter absence of a father figure in her life. She would tell herself that her father was dead or that the college student whom her mother had chosen from among other potential donors was probably too young to take good care of her, anyway. "It didn't occur to me that he was aging along with me," Clark said.
But when Clark hit middle school, parents of one friend divorced while another friend reunited with her long-lost dad. Katrina found herself yearning for the chance to experience not only life's greatest joys, but also its deepest sorrows. In the divorce case, "I was almost jealous. I knew I could never feel that pain," she said. "And not only would I never feel that pain, I would never have the chance to reunite."
Such emotional wounds are just one negative outcome chronicled in studies of children who grew up in single-parent and fatherless homes. Writing in The Weekly Standard, W. Bradford Wilcox, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a resident fellow at the IAV, ticks off a partial list of U.S. and international studies that link fatherlessness to higher rates of suicide, teen pregnancy, and criminal behavior:
- A Princeton University/University of California at San Francisco study of 6,000 boys found that boys raised in single-parent homes were twice as likely to wind up in prison.
In a study of over 750 girls in the United States and New Zealand, University of Arizona psychologist Bruce Ellis found that those who saw their father leave the family before age 6 were more than six times as likely to become pregnant as teenagers than those whose fathers stayed in the home throughout their childhoods.
- A 1991-1998 study of Swedish children found that those in single-parent homes were twice as likely to attempt suicide and 50 percent more likely to succeed in committing suicide than those in two-parent families.
Meanwhile, according to a 2005 University of Chicago literature review, students living with married parents score higher on reading comprehension, compared to students living in stepfamilies, with single mothers, and in other types of families. Living in a single-parent family is linked with decreases in children's math scores.
But, as with many social hot potatoes, each wing of the debate about families can produce research studies bolstering an alternative view. For example, Joann Paley Galst, a clinical psychologist specializing in reproductive health issues, recently completed her own review of more than 100 studies of families built through gamete donation, surrogacy, and lesbian parenting. She concluded: "I don't think we have evidence that the families that have been created [using reproductive technologies] are doing such a disservice to the children."
Likewise, Florida child psychologist Vicki Panaccione, founder of the Better Parenting Institute, had only praise for lesbian-parented families: "We're talking about stable, committed families that have been together, raising children with traditional values such as respect for elders, responsibility, and education."
In her private practice, Galst works with lesbian and opposite-sex couples seeking counseling while going through "fertility work-ups" with couples from pre-conception until preadolescence. "From my clinical experience, these children are very much wanted and loved. They are definitely seen as a gift."
Katrina Clark, who networks with other donor-conceived people, agrees. "But that's not the issue," she said. "The issue is adults making life-altering decisions for their children that are in the adults' best interests as opposed to what's in the best interests of the child." And while various child-welfare experts define "best interests of the child" variously, Clark argues that the real experts, the children themselves, are not being heard. (Even Galst concedes that she works with the parents in donor and surrogacy cases, but has not worked with the resulting children.)
"Part of the problem now is this is still a new situation," Clark said. "My generation is the first to be studied and no one has really looked at us. I'd rather not have been a guinea pig, but I was. Still, a lot of people in the medical, scientific, and legislative communities are not listening to us. I don't know why. Maybe they can't relate to our pain."
Dawn Stefanowicz echoes Clark's complaint. A Canadian author and speaker whose father was gay, Stefanowicz, 43, grew up with a parade of his male partners marching through her home. Some stayed for years, some only for hours. "My father could cruise during broad daylight and get someone to have sex during the lunch hour," Stefanowicz said. "By the time I was 10 years old, I had been exposed to a sex shop, a gay nude beach, and a bathhouse."
Stefanowicz said she did not see women valued in her household and grew up finding it difficult to receive love or appreciate her own womanhood. She also lacked the sense of filial grounding common to traditional two-parent families, such as the enduring presence of extended family. In her 20s, Stefanowicz buried her pain and tried to move on with her life. Now married with kids of her own, Stefanowicz has come to terms with the past and chronicled her experiences in an autobiography, Out from Under: Getting Clear of the Wreckage of a Sexually Disordered Home, due out next year.
"The reality is that the children are not being heard," Stefanowicz said. "You're a dependent; you can't speak up. You can't say, 'I'm 6 years old and this is the third partner my daddy has had.' The children are completely silenced and have to pretend it's fine and OK."
It is not an equal opportunity silencing, however. Public schools nationwide have embraced "What Makes a Family," a photographic exhibit and film that includes same-sex-parented families as part of one great big mosaic of "normal." Meanwhile, the mainstream press now rarely questions the social and clinical wisdom of same-sex parenting, preferring to explore its internal challenges instead. For example, the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 29 ran a positive front-page feature on Chad and David, a pair of white-collar homosexuals struggling to become co-fathers through surrogacy.
Stefanowicz, on the other hand, has already received physical threats and profane e-mails for going public with her very un-PC account of growing up in a gay-parented household. "That is why so few of us will ever go public. It is not a big, safe, supportive, and 'happy' family that surrounds us as children-something the media portrays."
Still, the negative views of some adult children are bubbling to the surface. Some born into same-sex parenting situations call themselves "queer spawn," according to Elizabeth Marquardt's research, while some donor-conceived young people refer to themselves as "lopsided" or "half-adopted."
"We all feel some loss of kinship, a lot of the same things that adopted people feel," Clark said. But while adopted people usually come from difficult circumstances then find healing once taken into a loving home, donor conception is encouraged as a brave new way for people to form families who would not have formed families before-purposefully creating in the process a crop of biologically rootless kids.
Donor conception "robs the birthright of a person to know who their parents are," Clark said. "Ethically, I see something wrong with that."
Driven by her desire to know her blood origins, Clark in 2004 contacted the "cryo-bank" that provided the sperm that helped make her. But personnel there threw administrative spike strips in her path. After trying a couple of other avenues, Clark found a "donor and offspring" registry on the internet, where the donor-conceived children could connect with donors willing to reveal their identities. Scrolling down to the date the college student had probably donated his sperm, Clark found a likely candidate and e-mailed him. Within two days, the man e-mailed her back with three pictures of himself attached.
It only took one. "When I saw the first picture, I just started to bawl," she said, noting the family resemblance. "I knew that he was my father."
That was February 2006. In March, after a DNA-matching test came back 99.9902 percent positive, the man revealed his name, as well as a basic medical history of his family, something most donor-conceived children lack.
Clark and her biological father began to talk on the phone about once a week, then even more often, and she began to hope for some kind of relationship. But this fall, the contact waned. "He's not comfortable with the situation," Clark said in a tone so mature it's easy to forget she's still a teenager. "I don't know how to make him more comfortable. He hasn't told his parents and siblings about me. . . . He said he would when he felt comfortable with it. I don't know when that will happen. It could be the day he dies. I'm trying to understand his perspective, but it's very difficult to do that. I'm not a donor."


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Here is a link to a Sioux Falls Skyforce game highlight video in which Will makes a unbelievable pass! It's about half way through the highlights. Sorry if it's been posted before, but its worth a watch.
Will Blalock makes unbelievable passes in his sleep.
It would not have sucked to have him last season...
That was awesome! Right up there with the Tinsley dribble between the legs of the defender and on in for a layup. I can't remember which game it was (early non-conference maybe?) but Hilton went nuts.
Kind of funny that the break that featured the Blalock magic was off of a Stinson rejection. Curtis had a good line though 23 pts 5 reb 5 assists 3 steals.
It was against Auburn in the NCAA tournament!
Awsome! Thanks for the link!!!
Originally Posted by cyclonedcm
It was against Auburn in the NCAA tournament!
I thought it was Oklahoma in the Big XII Tourney??
That play was sick...
Stinson scored 23 pts. in the game too.
ironic that will gets the assist right after curtis gets swatted
Originally Posted by psycln11
I thought it was Oklahoma in the Big XII Tourney??
You are correct it was against OU in the Big 12 tourney
Wonder if its weird for Stinson & Blalock to be playing against each other? Did they have to guard one another?
Look familiar?
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watching that almost made me cry....the season that could have been
the lonely cyclone in husker country
damn, that was filthy good.... thanks for sharing. Is Des Moines going to have a development league team? I mean for cripes sake, if Sioux Falls can....
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
Thomas Jefferson, 1802
Good work Kyle
Tinsley did it multiple times...I remember the Oklahoma Big 12 Title game against Nolan Johnson, and he also did it at Kansas State that season.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio House leader says he plans to again speak to an indicted state representative about resigning following the lawmaker's failed primary bid.
State Rep. Peter Beck of Mason lost his Republican race to real estate developer Paul Zeltwanger. Unofficial election results show Beck won just 9 percent of the vote.
House Speaker William Batchelder told reporters Wednesday that he plans to talk to Beck about the election results. The Republican leader says he would prefer that Beck step down.
A message seeking comment was left at Beck's legislative office.
Beck is accused of soliciting and persuading investors to put thousands of dollars into an insolvent software company, stealing money from his accounting firm, and putting investors' money into his political campaign fund. He has denied the allegations.


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OH GOODY! My favorite thread each week. (I'm being serious).
Since I stink at this, I will step aside and let the professionals handle everything.
I wish you could post a team picture of the 2003 Cyclone football team because that's who this current KU team reminds me of.
Quinn Mecham - 3rd String JuCo QB just named the starter for this week
FRESH MEAT (hopefully)
2014-15 Cyclone Fanatic NBA Fantasy Basketball Champion!
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His playing status for this game.
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No mangino this year! Now who???
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No mangino this year! Now who???
Wait for it.... I am sure he will make a special appearance or two.
Duane Zlatnik
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...And the home of the CHIEFS!!!
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Qiagen and Eli Lilly have teamed up to develop and commercialize companion diagnostics for pairing with Lilly investigational and approved medicines across all therapeutic areas. The agreement reportedly provides a framework for Lilly and Qiagen to collaborate on future projects across all of Lilly's therapeutic areas aimed at bringing to market Lilly medicines paired with Qiagen diagnostics.
"Tailored therapies are a key component of Lilly's strategy of providing improved outcomes for individual patients," said Daniel Skovronsky, M.D., Ph.D., vp, tailored therapeutics at Lilly, and CEO of Lilly subsidiary Avid Radiopharmaceuticals. "By working with partners like Qiagen, we are advancing a number of tailored therapeutics in an effort to target the right medicine to the right patient."
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Qiagen and Lilly have previously collaborated on companion diagnostics designed to run on Qiagen's Rotor-Gene Q system, a component of the QIAsymphony family of automated instruments. Qiagen's strategy is to develop FDA-approved diagnostics in the U.S. for use on this platform. Qiagen has also teamed up with Pfizer to develop a companion diagnostic for use alongside Pfizer's investigational compound for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, dacomitinib (PF-00299804).
Qiagen is expanding its pipeline of tests for biomarkers and intends to submit several companion diagnostics for U.S. regulatory approval. Last month, Qiagen announced submission of its therascreen® EGFR RGQ PCR Kit test to the FDA as a proposed companion diagnostic to guide treatment with a new investigational oncology compound developed by Boehringer Ingelheim. Qiagen says it is currently engaged in more than 15 projects with leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies to co-develop and market companion diagnostics.
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This was a fairly large Blacktail. Live weight 170 lbs.
Nice Blacktail Sawfish. A buddy of mine killed this buck in that area in August.
Taken by Cory Gabrielson during the rainstorm on the 10th of October......C-3 Zone, Northern California
Hey man nice deer. What part of Ga. you goin to. i'm originally from Tillamook, Or but i'm stationed at Ft. Stewart
where abouts in trinity..
did you weigh it with the guts in it??
Nice pics boys... Bringing back some memories from back in the day. When i was a young lad.
here is my 2011 whitetail buck, this is my first ever buck nice seven point from michigan!
Here's my two 2011 bucks. Nothing special but they filled the freezer.
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Originally Posted by sjsmallfield
Here's my two 2011 bucks. Nothing special but they filled the freezer.
A couple dandy bucks! Congrats on a great year.
That's two more bucks than I killed this year! Good job dude.
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Politics | The botched firings of eight federal prosecutors have the White House playing defense and Congress smelling blood
It's the biggest story in Washington, yet one over half the American public claims it isn't following. Despite the international war on terror raging overseas, Capitol Hill and many national media outlets appear obsessed with the mysterious firings of eight U.S. attorneys late last year.
Cries of scandal saturate headlines and echo in both chambers of Congress. Legal scholars claim that an important battle over the separation of powers is underway. Do these highly scrutinized dismissals warrant such attention? What is ultimately at stake?
A recent Pew Research survey of 1,048 Americans found that 57 percent of respondents were not following the story closely. Only 8 percent of people named it the top news event on their minds.
Yet accusations of impropriety and calls for disciplinary action continue to spill from the mouths of Democrats and even some Republicans. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) charges that White House involvement in the firings undermines the apolitical integrity of federal prosecutors. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee believes that a thorough investigation into why the attorneys were let go is critical to restoring public faith in the Justice Department.
Both the Senate Judiciary Committee and a House Judiciary subcommittee have authorized the use of subpoenas to extract testimony from White House aides as to whether the firings were politically motivated. President George W. Bush remains resolutely opposed to his aides making any sworn, public statements on the matter. He proposes private interviews as a conciliatory alternative, an offer that Leahy and other investigating lawmakers hotly reject.
Bush argues that because U.S. attorneys serve at his pleasure according to the Constitution, he is free to dismiss any or all of them at his discretion without congressional oversight or public inquiry. Indeed, past presidents have made sweeping personnel changes at the position without much fuss: Presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan each replaced 89 of 93 federal prosecutors within two years of taking office. Bush likewise installed 88 new attorneys within two years of his election in 2000.
The difference this time around hinges on whether the White House ordered the firings as a means of interfering with particular prosecutions. Reagan, Clinton, and Bush removed U.S. attorneys upon entry into office for general political reasons-namely to replace Democrats with Republicans or vice versa. Critics of these latest dismissals charge the Bush administration with specific political motivations-namely to punish the eight prosecutors for a lack of partisan favoritism.
That distinction between proper and improper political considerations is often lost in the popular debate over whether the firings were appropriate. Democrats eager to drown the White House in scandal make much of released email correspondence between Bush aides and Justice Department officials that include discussions of which attorneys to fire. Democrats cite such messages as proof of political meddling.
But long-time federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy rebuts that notion. He is surprised that anyone would even question White House involvement, because "the removal or selection of a U.S. attorney is a White House decision." No concrete evidence has yet emerged to demonstrate any politically motivated interference with particular prosecutions.
Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmiec, who served as assistant attorney general under Reagan and former President George Bush, explains that the Constitution requires Senate approval only for U.S. attorney appointments, affording the president unfettered authority to fire those same attorneys as he sees fit. Congress has no jurisdiction to parse the motives behind such decisions. "The separation of powers is at stake here," Kmiec told WORLD. "President Bush is legitimately concerned about whether Congress is, in a partisan way, seeking to create something out of nothing for the purpose of greatly limiting the scope of his oversight."
Bush has strongly resisted Congress in its efforts to circumvent executive privilege and has characterized as generous his offer for private interviews with his aides. Should Democrats issue subpoenas, White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush would withdraw his proposal for voluntary cooperation, potentially sparking a drawn-out legal battle. The president seems poised to hold steady for such a showdown and has demonstrated similar resolve in his unwavering support of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who many Democrats and some Republicans say should resign.
Kmiec believes Bush has done well in "rising to the occasion in defense of his prerogatives. I hope he will stay principled throughout the coming weeks as the pressure continues to build."
History appears to side with the president: In the 1926 Supreme Court decision Myers v. United States, Chief Justice William Howard Taft wrote that any limitation on the president's power to independently remove executive officers could result in executive "paralysis" at the hands of "a partisan Senate and Congress." The majority opinion further determined that the Constitution's silence on protocols for removing executive officers implicitly denies the need for congressional approval.
That ruling codified a precedent set six decades earlier when Congress failed in its effort to oust President Andrew Johnson for his unilateral removal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. The House of Representatives impeached Johnson in 1868 for his action, but the Senate fell one vote short, averting what many historians believe might have dangerously altered the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches.
Such history offers little comfort to the eight fired U.S. attorneys, who consider themselves casualties of inappropriate partisan politics. David Iglesias, former attorney for the district of New Mexico, told WORLD that his dismissal resulted from the administration's dissatisfaction that he did not race to press corruption charges against local Democrats prior to last November's election.
Iglesias, whose prosecution skills inspired the character played by Tom Cruise in the 1992 film A Few Good Men, cannot produce any smoking-gun evidence to support his contention. But two improper phone calls last fall from GOP lawmakers inquiring about the corruption case lend validity to his account-albeit circumstantial. In the first call, Iglesias evaded questions from Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.), citing his legal obligation not to discuss sealed indictments. When Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) called soon after to inquire if he planned to file charges before November, Iglesias said he didn't think so. Domenici expressed disappointment and abruptly hung up.
Iglesias received a call from the Justice Department several weeks later asking for his resignation. He was shocked: "I asked main Justice why, and the response I got was, 'I don't know, and I don't think I want to know.' That was troubling, because normally when you tell someone it's time to move on, you at least give them a reason."
The reason came later-after Congress demanded the Justice Department explain itself. In a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 18, Attorney General Gonzales testified that he would "never, ever make a change in a United States attorney position for political reasons." Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty told that same committee on Feb. 6 that the firings of all eight U.S. attorneys were for "performance-related" issues.
Those statements proved inaccurate on March 13 with the release of Justice Department emails revealing several non-performance-related issues, political considerations among them. Gonzales responded to those revelations with an apology, claiming that his staff made mistakes of which he was previously unaware. Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' chief of staff, promptly resigned. Michael Battle, the director of the Executive Office for United States attorneys, had already stepped down one week earlier for his poor performance in personally calling several of the attorneys to fire them on Dec. 7.
Such inconsistencies and overall mishandling of the situation continues to fuel suspicions that the Justice Department is covering up some illegal activity. A further revelation that Gonzales participated in a Nov. 27 meeting about the firings contradicts his claim that he was not involved in the process, upping the temperature of an already sizzling hot seat.
Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer believes that alone is enough to warrant the resignation of Gonzales, who "has allowed a scandal to be created where there was none."
Indeed, if the firings of all eight U.S. attorneys were based on legitimate reasons, even legitimate political reasons, why have they resulted in two high-level Justice Department resignations and an impending showdown over executive privilege?
The answer for many Democrats and several Republicans is that Gonzales simply proved incompetent and must step down. But for Iglesias and his dismissed colleagues, such political fallout pales in importance compared to the impact on their professional reputations. "What would really settle this in my mind," Iglesias said, "is a written retraction from the Justice Department stating that performance was not the true basis."
Instead, the Justice Department has provided more details as to why it judged the attorneys' performance sufficiently poor to warrant dismissal. On March 6, William Moschella, the principal associate deputy attorney general, testified to the House Judiciary Committee that Iglesias had delegated too much responsibility to his first assistant, effectively handing over the running of his office.
Moschella went on to explain that fired attorneys Carol Lam of San Diego and Paul Charlton of Arizona maintained disagreements with the Bush administration over prosecutorial policies and priorities. Bud Cummins of Arkansas and Daniel Bogden of Nevada were let go to make room for new blood, specifically a personal friend of White House adviser Karl Rove in the case of Cummins. And John McKay of Washington state was dismissed due to concerns over his manner in advocating particular policies.
In an attempt to explain why such information took so long to surface, Moschella noted that "the Department-out of respect for the U.S. attorneys at issue-would have preferred not to talk at all about those reasons, but disclosures in the press and requests for information from Congress altered those best laid plans." He added that "just because you might disagree with a decision, does not mean it was made for improper political reasons-there were appropriate reasons for each decision."
Moschella did not offer explanations for the removals of Margaret Chiara of Michigan or Kevin Ryan of San Francisco, but some media outlets have speculated that the pair's reluctance to seek the death penalty in murder trials may have played a role.
Justice Department emails hint that a little-publicized 2006 addition to the Patriot Act provided another potential motive for the eight firings: The provision allowed the attorney general to appoint replacement U.S. attorneys permanently without nomination by the president or confirmation from the Senate. The House and Senate have since passed bills with overwhelming majorities striking down that measure.
Democratic leaders now aim to strike down Gonzales, but even success in that ambitious objective will not foster resolution. Sen. Chuck Schumer intends to mount a long, drawn-out investigation in hopes of coloring the 2008 presidential campaign with a massive Republican scandal.
The Bush administration stands in a tough spot of its own making: How to apologize for a botched cover-up yet continue to insist there is nothing to hide? Professor Jonathan Turley of the George Washington School of Law is astonished at the level of mishandling needed to generate such a sticky predicament: "This is not one train wreck. This is a train wreck where people rush to the scene and crash the train again."
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John Travolta has broken his silence after becoming the butt of jokes following his misreading of singer Idina Menzel's name at the Oscars on Sunday night.
The "Grease" star took the stage at the Dolby Theatre to introduce the Broadway favorite's Let It Go performance from Frozen, which went on to win the Best Song award, but he got tangled up over Menzel's name and called her "the wickedly talented, one and only Adele Nazeem".
His flub became one of the most talked-about moments at the Academy Awards, and now Travolta has spoken of his error.
In a statement issued through his publicist on Tuesday, the movie star says, "I've been beating myself up all day. Then I thought… what would Idina Menzel say, She'd say, 'Let it go, let it go!' Idina is incredibly talented and I am so happy 'Frozen' took home two Oscars Sunday night!"
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I don't think we want to play them when they are all pissy.
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I don't think we want to play them when they are all pissy.
Agreed. Not to mention, it's only the second quarter and it's tied! I mean I can see it happening but there's is a whole-lot of football left to be played today.
Keep cool...OU just tied it up and I'm confident they will take it to them in the second.
That being said, who knows how any type of scare will affect OU. They are already pissy that we took their NC leap game away from them.
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And BOOM goes the Baylormite.
If Oregon goes down, that would be outstanding! Then, next week its a win-win for ISU. If OU beats ISU and OSU, then we are more likely to get 2 BCS teams from the Big 12.
C'mon OU. Don't let the Green Bears beat you.
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I want to upset OU next week and end their NC run!! They can't win!
I'd rather OU beat BU, too ... no need for a wake-up call loss, and I don't like the odds of OU losing two straight weeks.
Ultimately, it comes down to ISU playing well enough to win, and nothing else.
Still, it would be a more high-impact upset if OU went into it with a mathematical chance at BCS title game.
And I would just have to laugh if ISU, in effect, ruined OU's hopes three times in one season. One directly; the other two indirectly, crushing Tech and helping bring down the computer numbers, then beating the team that gave OU the best chance to jump back into the race.
Since when has a previous game affected how a team came out to play us? If they lose, they lose steam and have to reassess goals as a non-title contender. If they win, they may overlook us for the next week. Either way, the game has to be played and fought through.
Oklahoma usually opens up a can on whoever they play after a loss. See the K-State game the week after losing to Texas Tech.
OU ties it up. makes me feel like even if we keep it close for the first half, OU still may drop 35 unanswered on us in the 2nd half. see: kansas state
I'd just assume play OU when they don't have much to play for.
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Broyles and Whaley being out are huge for them, especially if the D can step up again. LJ on Stills neutralizes him, but the rest of the D has to step up again and force TO's
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The votes are in for the Royals Player and Pitcher of the Year awards.
Media Relations just announced that pitcher Gil Meche and second baseman Mark Grudzielanek took home the club's top awards. In addition, right-handed rookie pitcher Brian Bannister snagged the 2007 Joe Burke Special Achievement award. The awards were voted on by the Kansas City Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Here are the players' stats from this season…
Meche, 29, was an American League All-Star in his first season with the Royals. He posted a 9-13 record, but set career highs in starts (34), innings pitched (216), ERA (3.67) and quality starts (23) while equaling his career high with 156 strikeouts. Meche tied for the A.L. lead in starts and finished eighth in innings pitched. His 3.67 ERA was the best by a Royals starting pitcher since Kevin Appier posted a 3.40 ERA in 1997 while his 23 quality starts were the most by a Kansas City hurler since 1993.
Grudzielanek, 37, hit .302 with 32 doubles, three triples, six home runs, 51 RBI and 70 runs scored in his second season with the Royals. His average led all Royals regulars; he finished second in doubles and third in hits and runs despite playing only 116 games due to injuries. His .302 average marked the fifth time in his career he topped the .300 mark (also 1996, 1999, 2003, 2004). On top of his solid offensive numbers, the 2006 Gold Glove winner remained amazingly consistent in the field, posting a .988 fielding percentage (six errors in 490 total chances) at second base. Grudzielanek was the Joe Burke Special Achievement winner following the 2006 season.
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