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So let's get it out of the way, shall we? The Nats brass has been hinting at Hagerstown for Bryce Harper's regular-season debut since last fall, but I'm not buying it. Why? Because the same thing was said about Strasburg last year and Potomac, but also because it will make for a move that's part PR, part psychological ploy.
What I believe will happen is that Harper will play much like he did in the AFL and he'll "earn" his first promotion right out of Spring Training. The spin will be that "He proved to us that it would just be a waste of time," or something to that effect. But the reality is if they want him to "pay his dues," slotting him one level below where he belongs instead of two will suffice.
Now before folks accuse me of self-interest, let me remind you that I was actually relieved that Strasburg didn't come to Potomac last year. Sure, I missed out on seeing one of the great ones up close, but I also missed the throngs of overgrown fanboys. If you infer any animus, it's to those folks, not young Mr. Harper.
Now enough waxing Oblio, let's get back to the point. Here's my take on the position players that will begin in Potomac this year:
CA – Sandy Leon
1B – Justin Bloxom
2B – Jeff Kobernus
SS – Rick Hague
3B – Steven Souza
OF – Destin Hood
OF – Eury Perez
OF – Bryce Harper
DH – J.P. Ramirez
BCA – Sean Rooney
BIF – Francisco Soriano
BIF – Stephen King
BOF – Chris Curran
BOF – Brett Newsome
I'm much less confident about this group versus yesterday's. Kobernus and Hague could just as easily start at Hagerstown, but I'm slotting them here because of their age. Organizational guys like Sean Rooney and Brett Newsome may not break camp… or even go. Ramirez and Hood both need playing time in the OF, but I'm projecting that they'll split time until Harper is promoted. This is generally the last roster to be set, but I anticipate very few holdovers from last season.
As always, let's discuss in the comments.
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I cannot disagree with your thinking about Harper's initial destination … but I still believe he'll be in low-A to start. He'll be with guys closer to his own age for a bit of minor league bonding (Rizzo has all but said he wants Harper to have the "minor league experience.").
You think Kobernus and Hague could start *lower* than high-A ball? I dunno about that. Hague hit Hagerstown pretty well last year and has a good pedigree.
If Kobernus is in low-A in his third pro year after coming out of college, that's a big failure. Of course, you could already argue Kobernus is a failed 2nd round draft pick. A 2nd baseman with zero power who is won't make the AA roster in his 3rd pro year is a failure to me. I hope i'm wrong.
That being said, a high-A team with Hood, Perez, Ramirez and Hague could be a pretty formidable lineup.
Rooney is not playing this season
What's the story on Rooney?
either taking year off or retiring
Just how they handled Strasburg, i.e. to the maximum benefit of our home town teams, would tell me H-town & Potomac would benefit this time from Harper. Last year, they didnt' get in on Strasburgmania, so this year they get Harper-looza. H-town possibly thru June 7th which will give him 31 home games in 56. Then on to Potomac where they are in game 3 of a 14 game homestand and the P-Nats finish with 46 home games and only 34 roadies (these are not authoritative figures, random adding mistakes highly likely!)
My reason are 2 – the talk of a position switch to CF – you had instructionals and AFL to start on the switch to RF, now a switch to CF? Allows time for him to be comfortable in one place to learn. Plus you put the 2011 version of Devon White/Marquis Grissom there as his personal CF coach (Secondly, his high strikeout rate in the AFL (13 Ks in 43 PAs). I only see an earlier (May) promotion if he hits over .400 with 1.000+ OPS. Otherwise, .300 + with around a .900 OPS gets him promoted in June. I (hope) think they learned their lesson with Desmond 1st promotion to H-burg, to not promote without results.
Looks like you are demoting Curran? Who are you replacing him with in Harrisburg? Guess that's the next installment?
Devon White/Marquis Grissom there as his personal CF coach
They weren't very effective with Dukes and Milledge … actually Tim Foli seemed to have more of a positive impact on many aspects of the game. Wouldn't it be nice if FRobby were still there … kind of hard to argue with that guy given his stature when he played the game.
I am thinking they send Harper to AA if he pans out in ST the way he did in the AFL. He will see closer to major league pitching there otherwise I agree, its Potomac.
If he is anything at all like Jason Heyward or jumping into the "way-back" machine, Ted Williams he could manage in AA for a full year. Like both the other Nats "Teddy" and Heyward he would have to hit around .360 with a good number of extra base hits and decent plate discipline. I believe one could see a promotion to Syracuse to get Harper as far from DC as possible. If he can "thrive" there as Riggleman so aptly put it. In AAA he would face major league pitching while working on his defensive skills under Randy Knorr who appears to be a far better than average teacher. Hopefully, Derrick Norris will hone his skills there under Knorr's watchful eye as well.
One more post. On Riggleman's one year contract … I suspect Knorr may be Riggleman's potential "plug-in" replacement. Following Foli leaving the organization and Knorr's promotion to AAA. But I'm not sure I would pick Booker over McCatty. Tomlin?
HArpers numbers were great in the AFL but the spectrum of work was only a few games under 20 I believe. He will start in Hagerstown I believe. Age is a factor and do you really want your prized jewel getting his handed to him in AA. Strasberg was a completly different case because of his age and experience.
Kobernus had injuries in his first two years, which presumably and hopefully slowed his progress. This year will be big for him — and the Nats who used that 2nd round pick. The Nats seem loaded at SS and 2nd though, what with Desmond and Espinoza already intrenched and Lombardozzi, Hague, et al in the pipeline.
Kobernus needs to 1) stay healthy for an entire year, and 2) see #1. Had high hopes for him as a draftee in 2009 (college ball, solid fundementals), but is either 'snake-bit' or just fragile physicaly. His numbers in HAG last year (pre-injury) weren't particularly eye-catching, imo.
I don't know if the uniform numbers in camp would help with roster guesses … still I found it mildly interesting that Michael Aubrey had a pretty low number while Frazier's was in the seventies. Kimball's was in the sixties as was HRod's.
Not sure if that factors into things or not but Nats320 made a fairly comprehensive list.
Matched up a little better at this level than yesterday – 9+ (have Harper as a promotion, and Rooney as a possible re-sign). With the number of minor-league & 'make-good' split contract signings this year, the Harrisburg & Syracuse rosters might become clearer by mid-March.
Is Wirkin Estevez being brought state side this year?
I want to see how well he holds up in the GCL.
I am a bit curious about why he hasn't shown up on the bottom end of any of the prospect guides.
Is he not talented enough, or is it because he's been playing in the DSL that he's not really a known quantity for the prospectors?
I could understand him being looked over if he features an average to below average fastball… but since I know next to nothing about him, other than his stats, I really would love some information on him!
I'm cheating, in that I just pick the starting eight. Have six of Sue's eight. Ramirez, not Harper, is in the field. Have both Sousa and King at third. Guess it's six and a half then.
I know that both you & TBRFan have kids; I hope for the parents sake Harper starts in Hagerstown. There a certain sort of magic when a child can see, and maybe have their picture taken with, a rising star that they can follow all the way to the 'show'.
I was a teenager when Johnny Bench played his one season in the minors.
The magic is magnified 10X with kids under 9-10 years old.
My kid is interested in Harper as a date. 🙂 And that's no joke!
All laughing aside, I was able to talk to Bryce in Lakeland in October with no one around me. It was wonderful, and he signed a ball for her with a ref. to a bible verse on it (can't remember what it was)…he was a pleasant young man who looked nothing of 17 years old at the time. You'd be hard pressed to pick him out as the "kid" on the team, trust me. He is in incredible physical shape. I joked with him about hoping he'd start at Hagerstown, but I then told him to only stay for a few games and keep moving up. He laughed and nodded.
IMHO, I hope he doesn't start at the Muni. The facility is not set up to handle the crowds that he will bring. For the kids (young and old alike) there is a "magic" to seeing someone like this, and I know it was awesome to have him right in front of me in Lakeland with no one around for 50+ feet clammoring for his autograph. It surely made me happy, and I knew i'd never have that kind of access to that caliber of talent/athlete ever again. I was like a giddy kid with that baseball and I couldn't wait to give it to my daughter when I got home. She hugged me over and over!
Skill wise, I honestly think low-A is too low. Potomac or Harrisburg are seemingly more talent-wise suitable for what they need to see out of him at this time. He stood out at instructs for his pure power, and he surely didn't dissapoint in the AFL, although playing in a shorter schedule. I think he should be high-A, AA and AAA this year, and then right from spring training to the bigs next year. Part of me knows he's going to hit the Nats in 2011 though….
Amazing names on your list for the future of the OF of the Nats. I hope many of these names can matriculate together to AA by mid-season to stay on what I am hoping is to stay on the schedule I envision for the MLB team.
I also hope Hague and Kobernus can eat up A ball and be promoted too and a pitcher or 2 makes their way up as well.
[…] Picking up where we left off on Tuesday, let's take a look at my guess at the P-Nats position players from last February. […]

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It was great to be at the Seals Rock for some up close and personal experience. The weather turned out to be good, water was calm, got really close to the seals and see them play around the boat.
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This tour was hard to find online, probably because it is rare, as the seals are viewed from a boat in Bass Straight (so it is not available in bad weather). It was canceled the day before I was to go, but the operator offered me a variety of options to fill in the day, before seeing the penguins in the evening. I certainly commend their organisation of a myriad interlocking tours, their patience in looking for 'lost' travellers, and their their overall professional yet friendly approach. Don't miss the penguins!
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My friend explained to me the following model which comes psychology. I am fairly certain there must be mathematicians who study this type of thing because on its own right it is a very interesting mathematical object, but I do not know what it is called and would appreciate it. In psychology, I believe it is a model for segregation.
For example, we have a 50 x 50 grid. a person stands on each of the nodes. a mathematician or a philosopher. In this world, everyone can see (at most) 4 people around them.
A mathematician is unhappy if there is more than 1 philosopher around him. A philosopher is unhappy if there are more than 1 mathematician around him.
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Beginning his third season as coach of the Green Wave cornerbacks, Bill D'Ottavio is in his second season as the Tulane assistant head coach. In addition to tutoring a talented group of Wave corners, D'Ottavio handles several administrative duties for head coach Chris Scelfo and the Tulane program.
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Prior to his stint at UCF, where he coached with current Wave defensive line coach Zo Costantini, D'Ottavio spent 1997 and 1998 as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at his alma mater, Millersville University. In two seasons at the Division II school, D'Ottavio helped the Marauders to a 15-5 record, and the 1998 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division Championship.
D'Ottavio was the secondary coach at Middle Tennessee State University in 1995 and 1996 where MTSU compiled a 15-9 record in two seasons. In addition to working with the secondary, he coached several of the special teams units.
From 1989-1994, D'Ottavio was on the staff at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he was the defensive backs coach from 1989-92 before moving to defensive coordinator and defensive line coach in 1993. During that time, IUP boasted one of the top defensive units in Division II football, including ranking second in the nation in rushing defense and total defense in 1993. The Indians compiled a record of 65-11-1 during D'Ottavio's time there and advanced to the Division II national semifinals five times in his six seasons. IUP played in the Division II National Championship game in 1990 and in 1993. They won five straight PSAC Western Division Championships.
He went to Indiana after two seasons as a graduate assistant at Pittsburgh, where he worked with the Panthers' defense and special teams. Pitt went to the Bluebonnet Bowl in 1987 during his time there.
Following his playing career at Millersville, D'Ottavio began his coaching career at his alma mater as a student and then graduate assistant in 1985 and 1986. He earned his bachelor's degree from the school in 1986.
Birthdate: August 15, 1963
Birthplace: Roxbury, N.J.
Hometown: Roxbury, N.J.
Family: Single.
Playing Experience
Millersville (1982-85)
Coaching Experience
|Middle Tennessee State
|Indiana Univ. (Pa.)
Bowl Experience
1987 Bluebonnet - Coach
College: Millersville, 1986
High School: Roxbory (N.J.), 1982


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Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows Theme of Women and Femininity
What place do women have in a young boys coming of age story? Well, Billy seems to be asking himself the same question. Where the Red Fern Grows is full of female characters—Billy has three younger sisters, fer cryin' out loud—but the only female character in the book who gets a name is a dog. (Well, except Grandma—Grandpa calls her "Nannie." Once.) Instead, we mostly get your stereotypical helpless and passive female characters. None of the women really do anything, aside from cry, giggle, and worry. So why is this theme so important? Billy learns to be a man in large part by distinguishing himself from women and women's work.
Questions About Women and Femininity
- None of the girls or women in this novel have names. How does this affect your view of them? Did you notice or pass over them?
- How would this novel change if Billy had little brothers instead of sisters?
- Who do you think is the strongest female character? Why might she be the strongest?
- In what ways does Billy try to protect or care for his sisters? Why does he do this?
Chew on This
Because Where the Red Fern Grows is specifically about a boy's coming of age, it would be very difficult for girls to relate to this book.
To Billy, women aren't mysterious so much as they're just not interesting. He doesn't think there's anything worth knowing about the female world.


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Would VAT Add Value for Corporations?
The challenge of a U.S. corporate tax overhaul only seems to grow.
At a House Ways and Means hearing on Thursday, some business executives were even nodding to the possibility of a value-added tax to offset the budget impact of significantly lowering the U.S. corporate tax rate.
"As you take a holistic view… the value-added tax is one of those things that needs to be on the table," Greg Hayes, CFO of United Technologies Corp., said in response to a lawmaker's question.
In fact, there's a surprising amount of interest in that idea on all sides. Many Democrats see a VAT as a way to pay for new infrastructure and shore up spending programs. Some Republicans – and corporate executives – see it as a way to pay for tax cuts that would spur investment, and make U.S. businesses more competitive. Much of the corporate-rate cutting that has gone on around the rest of the developed world in recent years has been paid for by increasing value-added taxes. Other countries view it as a necessary tradeoff to boost domestic manufacturing and exports.
The question for Congress, as Caterpillar CFO Edward Rapp noted, is "how much change can you take on at once." Folk wisdom among lawmakers holds that every elected government in the world that has imposed a VAT has been voted out at the next election. And members of Congress have enough to worry about.
It all goes to show how knotty the long-neglected problems of the U.S. corporate tax system have become. The painful reality, as several lawmakers suggested, is that the U.S. would have to get rid of many if not most of its current corporate tax breaks just in order to lower the U.S. corporate rate to the high 20s. It's currently 35%, the second highest in the developed world. And to be truly competitive, the U.S. rate probably needs to get down to around 20%. That would leave room for state corporate rates.
Another alternative that surfaced last week is making the largest privately held businesses pay more in tax. Since the 1980s, many businesses have taken advantage of new rules to organize as small businesses, meaning they don't pay a corporate-level tax. Instead, they pay tax through the owners' returns. That's deeply eroded the corporate tax base.
Pass-throughs are vowing to fight that idea. But the Obama administration and many Democrats are clearly interested in the idea, and it could yet become part of the mix of an eventual solution.


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New roles await several returnees in 2015
Graduates represent 14 NIU teams and 19 different majors
NIU eclipses previous program record of three honorees
Huskies rally from 2-0 down to force fifth set, but fall in MAC Tournament semifinals
Huskie offense held in check by Eagles
Highlights from the Huskies 3-0 sweep over Toledo Friday night, November 6.
ESPN3 highlights from the Huskies victories over South Dakota State and Iowa at Victor E. Court in the NIU Invitational
2014: Saw action in 98 sets and 30 matches as a senior...Finished fourth on the team with 58 blocks and 0.59 blocks/set...Registered 98 kills and 1.00 kills/set...Ended the year with 42 assists and 0.43 assists/set...Notched a season-high six blocks against UIC (Sept. 16), while recording five blocks at UC Santa Barbara (Sept. 20)...Recorded a career-best 11 kills against Louisville (Sept. 13)...Set a career record with four assists against Santa Clara (Sept. 20), then repeated that feat three more times against Miami (Oct. 4), Eastern Michigan (Oct. 10) and Buffalo (Oct. 18)...Notched at least one block in 21 consecutive matches from Sept. 5 to Oct. 25.
2013: Competed in 98 sets and 31 matches, including six starts, as a junior...Ranked in the top five on the team in kills (84), attack percentage (.229), blocks (62) and points (120)... Finished third on the team with 52 block assists and fourth with 10 block solos... Named to the Huskie Invitational All-Tournament team after helping NIU go 3-0... Tied her career high twice with seven kills each against Western Michigan (Oct. 31) and Miami (Nov. 2)... Posted a .500 or better attack percentage against Kent State (Oct. 26), WMU (Oct. 31), Miami (Ohio) (Nov. 2), Toledo (Nov. 16) and Ohio (Nov. 23)... Posted a career-best nine blocks against Central Michigan (Oct. 5)... Also accounted for a career-high nine points against the Chippewas... Tallied five blocks each against IPFW (Sept. 20) and Toledo (Oct. 11).
2012: Garnered Academic All-MAC Honorable Mention recognition following her sophomore campaign with the Huskies... Earned her first career start, while playing in 28 matches during the season... Saw action in 79 sets in 2012... Scored a career-high 86.5 points by season's end... Tallied 64 kills on the year, putting her sixth on the team in that category... Compiled 39 blocks on the front line, including six solo stuffs... Added 11 digs and four assists... Set career-highs in kills (7), attacks (18) and points (7) versus Eastern Michigan (Oct. 26)... Tallied a career-high seven blocks in a MAC Tournament semifinal win against top-seeded Ohio (Nov. 17).
2011: Appeared in three of 35 matches and three of 125 sets as a middle blocker...made her Huskie debut against IUPUI (Aug. 26)...recorded her first career block against South Florida (Sep. 18)...finished the season with one block and 0.5 points...also saw action against Texas A&M (Sep. 10)...was a Victory Scholar (3.50 GPA or better).
High School: Three-time varsity letterwinner at West Chicago Community High School ... Received Honorable Mention 100 All-State status by the Champaign News Gazette ... Garnered All-DuPage Valley Conference and first team all-area honors in 2010 ... Led WCHS conference and regional championships as a senior, hitting .392 with 208 kills, 69 blocks and 20 aces in 32 matches ... Made Chicago Sun-Times' Top 50 list for volleyball players in 2010 ... Invited to play in 2010 SportsTownChicago.com Girl's Volleyball All-Star Game ... Named honorable mention all-conference and all-area as a junior ... Earned honorable mention all-conference recognition as a sophomore.
Club: Member of the Kane County Juniors ... Helped KCJ win the prestigious 2011 Volleyball Festival ... Finished second at the 2009 Volleyball Festival.
Personal: Born November 5, 1992 ... Intends to major in accounting ... Daughter of William and Barbara Paschke ... Aspires to be a CPA ... Perennial honor roll member ... Vice president of high school's Key Club... Member of the National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, and the math team ... Enjoys horseback riding ... Admires her grandfather, Jack ... Volunteers at the Northern Illinois Food Bank ... Involved with Volley for the Cure and Relay for Life programs.


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Angkor Wat, 1113-1150, built by King Suryavarman II (same regnal period as building period of temple).
Angkor Wat is surrounded by a 200-m.-wide moat, crossed by a bridge on the west. At the end of the bridge is a 200-m. long entrance structure: three central towers flanked on the north and south by a long, pillared corridors that end in entrance gateways opening flat on the ground. An enclosing wall stretches from these gateways around the temple compound.
There is a 352-m. western causeway that leads from the main entrance of the temple (just cited) to the central three galleries. The outer (third) gallery is decorated with bas-reliefs and dedicated to the history of the king. The next (second) gallery has bare walls and was dedicated to the god Brahma and the moon. The last (first) gallery surrounds the central tower and was dedicated to Vishnu as a Supreme Deity. We do not know the name of the image of Vishnu that was once in the central tower. Both the first and second galleries of the temples have towers over their corner pavilions, the third gallery has corner pavilions without towers.
The Role of Astronomy at Angkor Wat
The temple of Angkor Wat was constructed in the first half of the twelfth century by King Suryavarman II (r. 1113-ca. 1150). Astronomy enters into the meaning, format, and bas-relief decoration of the temple in three different ways. First of all, when the measurements of Angkor Wat are translated into the cubit unit used in the temple's construction, lunar and solar calendrical cycles are revealed in axial and circumference lengths. Secondly, there are several solar and lunar alignments between western points along the axis and the towers in the central galleries. Both the calendrical dimensions and the alignments were definitive elements in determining the format of the temple. In addition to actual sight lines, the solstice sun casts light onto specific segments of the bas-reliefs and corridors, planned so as to literally illuminate the selected segments with solar meaning. Finally, the composition and content of the panels of bas-reliefs further define solar and lunar periodicity. In particular, the scene of the Churning of the Sea of Milk (Milky Way) has been chosen here to demonstrate its calendrical function. In the end, we find that the king himself, in conjunction with the solar god Vishnu in the central sanctuary, is an integral part of the solar and lunar symbolism revealed in the measurements, alignments, and bas-reliefs.
The temple of Angkor Wat at the site of Angkor in northwestern Cambodia was started in 1113 CE when King Suryavarman II rose to power. Suryavarman died around 1150, at which time all work on the temple came to a halt. In this brief span of 37 years, the king endowed a monument that is now recognized as one of the world's most notable architectural achievements.
Angkor Wat did not rise up from a tabula rasa, however. The Khmer architect-priests, also fully trained as astronomers, had been building temples since the sixth century. This building activity culminated in the move to Angkor around 900, and in the final architectural perfection of Angkor Wat. Never again would Khmer architecture reach the same level of attainment and precision. Only 70 years after the death of Suryavarman, all monumental building activity at Angkor stopped and by the mid-fifteenth century, the site was abandoned due to economic reasons and the repeated invasions of Thai armies.
We know that long before the Khmers moved their capital southward to Phnom Penh, they had turned away from the gods that populated the stone and brick temples of Angkor. The people of Cambodia were converting to Hinayana Buddhism in large numbers during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. As devotees of this widely-practiced form of Buddhism, they rejected the ancestral and regional gods that once filled the temples and unified the nation. With this rejection, the Brahmanical (Hindu) architect-priests lost their constituency. This decline in priestly support caused a slow but inexorable loss of knowledge. Decade after decade, the priests diminished in number and the practice of building astronomical alignments and data into the temples receded in memory. It is likely that by the time the Khmers moved to Phnom Penh, the architectural coding that lay hidden in Angkor Wat for eight centuries was already forgotten At least, we have no evidence that the few Brahman priests left to perform royal rites of passage were in possession of an architectural tradition that had not been practiced for approximately 150 years. With the move to Phnom Penh, Angkor and its secrets remained dormant until brought into the consciousness of the western world in the mid-nineteenth century by French explorers.
I first became excited over Angkor Wat when I discovered that two parallel corridors in the third gallery, the gallery of large bas-relief panels, were exactly 202.14 m. in length - and this precision was typical of other measurements as well. "Why would anyone build a temple to such incredible accuracy?" Intuition and logic both argued that astronomical observation might be a possible cause for these precise measurements. Dated Khmer inscriptions begin with an elaborate description of the location of the planets, sun, and moon in both the solar zodiac signs and lunar constellations on the day the event in the inscription took place. This system also mentions whether the date in question was in the waxing or waning half of the lunar month, and on which day of the week. Astronomy is listed more than once among the subjects taught to Khmer kings. Based on the evidence of stone inscriptions then, it would have been clear even to the most casual reader that astronomy played an important role in the elite strata of Khmer society.
When I first translated the measurements of Angkor Wat from meters into the original cubit length used in the construction of the temple, my suspicions about the role of astronomy were startlingly confirmed. The axes of the outer enclosing wall around Angkor Wat equal 365.24 cubits repeated 12 times. In other words, the exact length of the solar year in days and in solar months is defined by the north-south and east-west axes of the temple grounds. The circumference of the enclosing wall is 354.36 cubits repeated 24 times. That is equivalent to the exact length of the lunar year in days, and to the 12 waxing and 12 waning halves of the lunar month each year. (Because the phenomena of the waxing and waning moon is a dominant lunar feature, the half-months were individually named since the inception of astronomy in India. This practice was passed on to Cambodia from India long before the Angkor period.)
As the analysis of the measurements of Angkor Wat unfolded over the next ten years of my research, it became more and more apparent that the circumferences of the temple were primarily dedicated to the moon while the axes of the galleries, enclosures, and individual chambers tended to focus on the sun. This is one of many patterns that characterize the temple's measurements. Another such pattern is the steady progression from measurements embodying the largest time cycles around the periphery of the temple to measurements focusing on smaller time cycles in the central galleries. A full exegesis of these patterns is not possible in the short space of this essay, however, it is worth noting that the measurements of Angkor Wat are highly systematized and logical. They include all time measurements known to the Cambodians in the twelfth century.
As a brilliant example of the synthesis of astronomy and architecture at Angkor Wat, the solar axes of the temple lead directly to the central sanctuary, a sanctum sanctorum devoted to the supreme solar god, Lord Vishnu. Vishnu manifests as one of the solar months, and the sun itself is thought to be his emanation. As we walk along the solar axes toward the god Vishnu, we encounter two major solar alignments.
First of all, if we stand at the beginning of the bridge into Angkor Wat on the solstice days, at the intersection of the triad of western staircases, we will see the sun rise directly over the two end gateways of the main western entrance. Although observation has not been studied from this juncture on the equinox days, the central entrance tower acts as an architectural pivot for the north-south oscillation of the sun, and by its central position between the solstice gateways, is a symbol for the two equinoxes. As we shall see, there is reason to believe that Suryavarman was crowned king of Cambodia at the time of the spring equinox.
On the morning of the vernal equinox day (roughly March 21st each year), once we have passed through the main western entrances and stand facing the interior grounds of the temple, we encounter a spectacular solar alignment . At 6:35 a.m., the sun can be seen rising dead-center over the top of the central tower of the temple - about 500 m. away - when observed from the top of the first northern staircase of the western causeway. Three days later, the sun can be seen rising over the central tower for the second and last time, from the center of the western causeway at a point just a few meters south of the first observation position. We know that the Khmers celebrated their new year for three days. The new year began on the spring equinox, but the first day of the new year in an actual count did not begin until three days after the equinox. This three-day new year period is both reflected and corroborated in these two consecutive spring equinox alignments that occur just after entering Angkor Wat.
The sun was thought to begin its yearly journey on the vernal equinox day. Therefore, as the Khmers at Angkor watched the sun rise up from the central tower, it would seem as though the god Vishnu inside the sanctuary were emanating upward and outward as the solar orb. It is highly likely that music, chanting, and ritual invocation inaugurated the new year at this annual event.
The central image of Vishnu - lost long ago - may have been sculpted in the likeness of King Suryavarman. Statements in the stone inscriptions refer to images in the likeness of real people, not just kings. The statue of Vishnu would have been sculpted with royal jewelry and clothing, and the name of this image - also lost to us - would have been combined with the name of the king according to Khmer tradition. If Suryavarman was not exactly an incarnation of Vishnu, he still partook of some aspect of Vishnu's sacred nature. The name of the sun god is Surya, and "Suryavarman" translates as "protected by the sun." With the union of the king and Vishnu in the central sanctuary of Angkor Wat, the king becomes an unspoken third component in the spring equinox alignment.
Angkor Wat - like all royal pyramid-temples - was at the conceptual center of the king's capital. The city and the nation extended outward from the union of the king and his deity in the main sanctuary of this temple. For all 37 years of the reign of King Suryavarman then, the Khmer nation was particularly joined to the sun god and to Vishnu, through the temple of Angkor Wat and the king. More than just the king alone, the entire nation was "protected by the sun." The solar measurements and solar alignments at Angkor Wat were concomitantly much more meaningful as their influence and importance extended from the hub of the nation outward.
Although the sun gains stature through its conjunction with the center of Angkor Wat, Vishnu, and the king, it is worth noting that lunar alignments are also recorded along the western axis of the temple. If we look again at the dimensions noted above, we see that the western causeway measures out two ways of defining the lunar month. These are the actual days in a synodic month (29.53), and the maximum number of days of lunar visibility (28) - numerically equivalent to the maximum number of lunar constellations crossed by the moon each month. This causeway that was used for lunar observation thereby records lunar measurements at the same time. The causeway's overlay of multiple functions is typical of the measurement patterns at Angkor Wat.
Finally, there is a bas-relief of the Churning of the Sea of Milk on the east side of the third gallery that is actually a calendar in disguise. The story behind the churning of the Milky Way begins with the gods losing battle after battle to their enemies, the asuras. Worried that they would be hopelessly decimated, the gods supplicated Lord Vishnu to help them churn up the elixir of immortality from the Milky Way. Once they drank the elixir, they could never "lose" a battle again. But the task of churning the Milky Way was of epic proportions. Ironically, once Vishnu agreed to their request, the gods had to trick the asuras into joining in the churning effort by promising them a part of the elixir.
Mount Mandara, a mountain to the east of the central, cosmic mountain, Mount Meru, was uprooted and brought to the Milky Way to act as a churning pivot. The snake Vasuki who lives in the Milky Way was wrapped around the pivot, with the gods pulling on the north side of the snake and the asuras on the south side. Vishnu took his place at the center to help with the churning, and also emanated both one asura form and one god form to further help on each side of the snake. His avatar or incarnation as Kurma, the legendary tortoise, placed itself under the base of the churning pivot so it would not sink. With everyone in place, the great churning event began.
Many auspicious objects were churned up from the Milky Ocean, including the goddess of good fortune. But when the elixir finally emerged, the gods and asuras began to battle over its possession. Lord Vishnu, in his wisdom, took the elixir away with him for safekeeping, but when the battle ended the elixir remained forever out of reach. Both the gods and the asuras were destined to be mortal. Once the battle was over and the dust had settled, Indra was crowned king of the gods and the story ends.
Astronomical or geophysical realities are woven like invisible threads throughout the preceding narrative. For example, the cosmic mountain, Mount Meru, is conceived as the axis of the earth. The Khmers knew the earth was a round sphere moving through space because they had inherited that knowledge from India, where it was first recorded in the sixth century CE. The gods reside at the north celestial pole, including the summit of Mount Meru - the location of Indra's royal palace. The summit has been flattened to accommodate the palace. At the south celestial pole, on the opposite end of Mount Meru, are the asuras. When Mount Mandara is used as a churning pivot, the gods pull the pivot to the north and the asuras pull it to the south, creating a north-south oscillation. This accounts for the north-south oscillation of the sun and moon each year, while the axis of the earth, Mount Meru, remains stable (precession notwithstanding, "stable" is a good descriptive word for the axis in comparison to the oscillation of the sun and moon). In most Khmer - and indeed, in most Asian depictions of the cosmic mountain, the sun and moon are shown in space at some distance to the right and left of the mountain's peak. This seems to be either a conscious or unconscious memory of the astronomical significance of the mountain in the churning scene. For whether it is logical or not, due to human fallibility the pivot of the churning scene tended to become identified with Mount Meru. This obfuscation is more commonly found than the actual recognition of Mount Mandara as the churning pivot.
According to evidence from Thai records and Khmer inscriptions, the churning of the Milky Way was performed at the coronation of Khmer (and occasional Thai) kings. The inauguration ceremony of a new king took place at the vernal equinox. Therefore, the coronation of King Suryavarman most likely occurred at the equinox day in March (the year remains in question) soon after he came to power. Although King Suryavarman was crowned before the central tower of Angkor Wat was anywhere near finished, future equinox risings of the sun at dead center on the top of the main tower would forever recall the exact moment when Suryavarman became king. The equinox, the sun, the temple, Vishnu, and the king were therefore joined in a moment of history that was to be recalled, year after year, at the spring equinox sunrise over Angkor Wat.
The calendrical meaning of the churning relief is equally inseparable from its association with the spring equinox coronation of King Suryavarman. In fact, the number of gods and asuras in the relief count out the days between the winter and summer solstices, and the three-day equinox celebration at the beginning of the new year is symbolized by the central pivot. The god Bali, the king of the asuras holds the heads of Vasuki on the south side of the relief. During the winter solstice, the rising sun illuminates Bali completely. This agrees with the 24-hours of sunlight at the south pole at this time of year. Meanwhile, the monkey-god Sugriva who holds the tail of Vasuki on the north end of the relief panel remains in darkness at the winter solstice, in a shadow cast by a pillar. Since the gods reside above the north pole of the earth, they would be in darkness at this time of year. On the summer solstice, the sunlight and shadow effect is reversed for Bali and Sugriva, as it should be to match the light and dark at the north and south poles, respectively. On the equinox days, the center of the scene with Vishnu and Mount Mandara is bathed in full sunlight.
A deva is flying down to steady the pivot of Mount Mandara and is most likely representative of the god Indra before he was crowned king. Only an important god could be placed in this high position, above the other gods. This figure also provides an alternate count of one extra day when needed to complete the calendar.
In Indian texts, the coronation of Indra occurs just before the coronation ceremony outlined for an earthly king, at the time of the spring equinox. This bas-relief itself, in fact, appears to symbolize the coronation of King Suryavarman and the churning event that was enacted at that time.
In summary, the solar axis of Angkor Wat takes us visually and physically in a straight line from the main entrance to the central tower. As we walk along the numerical symbol for the solar year, we would see the sun and moon oscillate from north to south and back again, on either side of the axis. Once the axis reaches the central galleries, it visually ascends upward at an ever-increasing angle until it merges with the vertical height of the central tower. On the vernal equinox day, as the sun appears to rise up from the top of the tower, it is joined to us along the axis of the temple.
Vishnu lies hidden inside the tower, looking very much like the king
of Cambodia in both his physiognomy and his refined jewelry and clothing.
Thus, the merging of Vishnu and the king at the symbolic center of the Khmer
nation was especially celebrated at the symbolic center of the solar year,
when the sun is midway between its northern and southern extremes. When
this profound solar, divine, and royal union was given its architectural
expression in the central tower of Angkor Wat, astronomy and architecture
were joined in homage to divinity and royalty. As mentioned earlier, the
tower is the axis of the temple and by extension, the axis of the Khmer
nation. The king and Vishnu are joined at this same axis, likened to the
axis of the earth in the cosmological design of Angkor Wat. That very equinoctial
axis slices through the center of the sun's oscillating movement each year.
At dawn on the vernal equinox day, the union of the king and Vishnu at
the heart of the Cambodian nation was celebrated with the rising sun at
the heart of the annual solar journey, and at the heart of Angkor Wat.
Astronomy was thus inextricably conjoined to the most profound expression
of the meaning of kingship and divinity accorded in Khmer sacred architecture.
The solar and lunar alignments at Angkor Wat were alignments with the gods,
alignments that tied the nation to the heavens above, and alignments that
imbued the king with the power to rule by divine association. As the measurements
of solar and lunar time cycles were built into the sacred space of Angkor
Wat, this divine mandate to rule was anchored to consecrated chambers and
corridors meant to perpetuate the king's power and to honor and placate
the deities manifest in the heavens above. Rarely has a temple achieved
such an overwhelming conjunction of time, space, and kingship through the
perfect union of architecture and astronomy.


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Matt Dillon
New Rochelle, New York
"Sunsets are great. Sunrises are a mixed bag. You either got up way too early or you went to bed way too late."
– Matt Dillon
For Matt Dillon, the life of an actor is actually about acting, rather than pure fame. He picks films from his heart and not from his bank account. That's why you're just as likely to spot him in a crafty indie like the Bukowski-inspired Factotum as you are to watch him in a broad studio comedy like There's Something About Mary or a dark drama like Crash. An actor who chooses longevity over popularity, Matt Dillon has a simmering career that has remained consistent for the last 30 years through his successful and deliberate transformations as a performer.
Matt Dillon's threesome with Neve Campbell and Denise Richards in Wild Things was far more risque than anything he's shared with the world where his personal relationships are concerned. That being said, we'd still like to shake his hand. Not for the threesome, but for having been a previous boyfriend of the lovely Diane Lane, and the former fiance of Cameron Diaz. Actually, forget shaking his hand. Where can we sign him up to be our new wingman?
Known for being choosy, Matt Dillon is one of the few actors who will publicly admit that he turned down a role -- that of Butch the boxer -- in Pulp Fiction. No one's slagging him for turning down The Blue Lagoon, but he does deserve a shot for agreeing to Herbie: Fully Loaded. We're just thankful he didn't get caught partying with Lindsay Lohan. Though he's done well at everything, the genre that Matt Dillon finds the most difficult is comedy. Ironically enough, this is also where he's found great success, both with the 1998 smash There's Something About Mary and the 2006 hit, You, Me, and Dupree. There's nothing funny about Matt Dillon's upcoming slate of films, which include Armored and Takers, a pair of thrillers that revolve around robberies gone wrong.
Matt Dillon BiographyMatt Dillon and his Entourage-inclined younger brother Kevin Dillon could've easily skipped acting and opted for comic strips instead. Despite being related to uncles who worked on Flash Gordon and Blondie, the Dillon brothers ended up having no inclination to draw, and in Matt Dillon's case, not much of an inclination for anything. A token New York badass, he was carving out a healthy niche as a wisecracking slacker who didn't think that school was in his best interest. Interestingly enough, he was proven right in 1979, when film scouts discovered him skipping school and thought he had the look of a future movie star.
Matt Dillon's early output included his debut as a troubled teenager in Over the Edge and his turn as a mean-spirited bully in 1980's My Bodyguard, but it was his role in 1982's Tex that began a streak of three films based on the works of S.E. Hinton. The subsequent two, Rumblefish and The Outsiders, were directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and gave him a reputation as a moody on-screen brooder, especially the latter film, which tossed him into a classic rainy screen fight that also included Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, and Rob Lowe.
matt dillon stars in drugstore cowboy and there's something about maryIn 1989, director Gus Van Sant put Matt Dillon's acting chops to the test in the disturbing drug odyssey Drugstore Cowboy. As Bob, the leader of a drug-seeking junkie "family," he let every flaw of his fractured character hang out, and was rewarded with an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. Based on the positive experience of making the film, Matt Dillon stayed close to the independent film circuit, playing a Seattle rocker opposite Bridget Fonda in 1992's Singles before re-teaming with Gus Van Sant for 1995's To Die For, in which he played a clueless husband married to an adulterous woman (Nicole Kidman) who has literally been raised on television.
Once reluctant to try comedy, Matt Dillon took on two of them in 1998, starting with In & Out, for which he took a page from the Hollywood award show playbook to play an ego-drenched actor who outs his high school acting teacher. He went back to high school for his next film, the guilty pleasure known as Wild Things, which cast him as a high school counselor getting down and dirty with two of his students. After that kinky rendezvous, Matt Dillon stayed sleazy but went the comedy route again as insurance investigator Pat Healy, the man with the tough task of following Cameron Diaz around in There's Something About Mary. Though he was not present for the infamous "hair gel" scene, Matt Dillon did get the chance to sedate a dog on-screen and bring it back to life with electric lamps and some quick thinking. Audiences loved his flair for comedy (not to mention his sleazy mustache) and he walked away with the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain. The film was one of the year's biggest hits and remains the movie that Matt Dillon is recognized the most for.
matt dillon stars in crash and takersAn ill-advised role in the comedy flop One Night at McCool's was Matt Dillon's first notable post-Mary film. Instead of revisiting the comedy well yet again, Matt Dillon settled on making a very personal film, 2002's City of Ghosts, a twisty drama set in Cambodia, inspired by the actor's own travels in the country. The film also marked his writing and directorial debut. 2005 brought with it Matt Dillon's debut as a Best Supporting Actor nominee at the Oscars, following his gutsy performance as an L.A. cop letting racism and hostility cloud his judgment in the ensemble picture Crash. He didn't win the Academy Award, but he did win the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Supporting Lead and shared in a number of ensemble acting awards that the eventual Best Picture winner would earn on the road to the Oscars.
Post-Crash, Matt Dillon has stayed true to his own belief of picking projects out of interest rather than financial necessity. After playing Hank Chinaski, a thinly veiled take on Charles Bukowski, in Factotum, he guest-starred on The Simpsons (a requirement for celebs these days), before playing husband to Kate Hudson and home owner to unwelcome house guest Owen Wilson in the 2006 summer comedy You, Me and Dupree. In 2009, Matt Dillon will be seen in Armored with Skeet Ulrich and Laurence Fishburne, an intense crime thriller about the robbery of a money truck, and next year, in Takers, he will play a detective opposite Paul Walker and Hayden Christensen trying to nab the crooks responsible for a $20 million theft.


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Like the tortoise of fable lore, the Bartlesville Doenges Ford Indians may be getting revved up following a slow start.
The tribe began play this morning at an ultra-competitive American Legion baseball tournament in Springfield, Mo.
A good showing in the Show Me State will prove to the Indians — and the Indians will prove to everyone else — they have the right stuff to compete with anyone.
Fresh off a stunning upset Tuesday of the Oklahoma (Midwest City) Outlaws, 5-4, the Indians opened Springfield play this morning by taking on Ozark. At 2 p.m., they are slated to play Rockbridge.
Bartlesville's tourney odyssey continues Friday when it will look to knock off KC Prodigy, in a game set for 11:30 p.m.
The rest of their tourney schedule is yet to be determined.
A year ago, the Indians muscled out a 3-2 record in the Springfield tourney after they had opened the season at 7-10.
This year, the Indians head west with a 4-11 mark — but they are 4-4 in their last eight games after getting off to a brutal 0-7 start.
Tuesday's victory against Midwest City proved to the Indians they have the character — and the tools — to win the close ones against quality opponents.
They had trailed in that game, 3-1, before rallying to win it in the ninth-inning on Gabe Meidl's bases-loaded walk.
Meidl has been one of the many bright spots this season for the Indians, who have endured costly injuries early that forced head coach Anthoney Towers to reach down and elevate a couple of United Linen Braves' players to help out.
Wes Shaffer, who displayed big promise on the season's opening weekend, hasn't played since. During the three games in which he appeared, Shaffer batted .429 and scored four runs and drove in four more in just seven at-bats.
Catcher Johnny Jansen also has played just one game.
Jacob Ruiz and Logan Reese both came up from the Braves to contribute to the Indians.
Indian veteran Jonathan Coyazo continues to sparkle at the plate.
He spanked five hits Tuesday night to up his season batting average to .477. Coyazo also boasts a team-high 14 RBIs and has struck out just three times in 44 at-bats — an average of one strikeout for every 14.3 at-bats.
Scott Koszykowski is hitting .364 in 22 at-bats, with three runs scored and four RBIs.Matt Hoelting owns a remarkable stat, scoring 21 of the Indians' 115 runs. The next-most runs scored are nine by Chris Noland and eight by Tyler Yardley.
Hoelting is batting .244, but has been walked 13 times and twice hit by a pitch.
He also has hammered a pair of doubles.
Noland suffered from an early season batting funk but is starting to find his batting groove again. But, he's found a way to get on base and score, and he also brings with a big glove and wide range in the outfield.
Yardley has been a solid, all-around contributor. He is batting .312, with two doubles, eight runs scored and eight RBIs.
Yardley also has pitched solid, but been bitten by defensive errors behind him.
Of the 16 runs scored off him, only six are earned and he holds an earned run average of 3.15.
No Indian pitcher's had tougher luck, however, than Jimmy Marsh.
Marsh (1-3) has had 28 runs scored during his mound time — but only seven of those have been earned and his ERA is an impressive 2.99.
Isaya Vysotsky has turned in the only complete-game — and shutout — pitching performance so far this season.
Vysotsky has a 2-0 record in just nine innings of work.
Josh Moore has registered the Indians' other pitching victory.
William Bradley has belted four doubles and Mason Orr has hit and pitched well.


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May 31, 2001
CHIETI, Italy - With a resounding 103-51 victory over the Villa Pini Cus Chieti club team on Wednesday, the Arizona women's basketball team returned to its winning ways in game five of its Italy tour.
The contest was close early on, with the Cats holding only a three-point (13-10) lead through the first six minutes of the game. The Wildcats then ended the first quarter on a 14-5 run, gaining a 12-point (27-15) advantage at the close of that period. The Cats out-scored Chieti, 30-14, for the second quarter, blowing the game open to own a 28-point lead (57-29) at halftime.
Chieti managed to stay somewhat even with the Wildcats during the third quarter, allowing the UA to out-score them by only one point through the period. But the damage was already done, and Arizona punctuated the win by out-scoring Chieti, 30-7, in the final 10 minutes of the game.
Junior forward Elizabeth Pickney led all scorers with 25 points that included a 12-for-14 performance from the free throw line. Freshman forward Veranda James continued to dominate, racking up 22 points and a tour-high 22 rebounds. Draining four 3-pointers, junior guard Julie Brase racked up 14 points, nine assists and five rebounds.
Freshman guard Candice Allen tallied 12 points, eight rebounds, three assists and three steals before having to leave the game with a bruised rib. She was taken to the hospital post-game for x-rays to rule out a broken rib and is questionable for Thursday's contest.
Junior center LaKeisha Taylor contributed 12 points and 12 rebounds, while freshman guard Aimee Grzyb had 10 points and two steals. Freshman guard Jen Chesney crashed the boards during the contest, grabbing a tour-high nine and adding eight points and two assists.
"I thought we played a great game, considering we had to drive three hours to get here today. This is the most aggressively we've played all trip, we really pushed the ball up the court well," said head coach Joan Bonvicini. "Julie really opened the court up by hitting her threes, then we had Veranda, Liz and LaKeisha all doing damage down low. Candice really attacked the basket, and this was definitely Jen Chesney's best game of the trip so far."
"This was a very physical game, and we came out to play as a team," said Pickney. "The physical play and the other team's attitude really got me fired-up to play more aggressively."
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I love these! They are totally different than the simplex so you can't really compare them- love these too- but the bottombumpers are similar to peachy green and good for trim natural fabrics.
I used the sized bottombumpers when my LO was smaller but at her current age (16, almost 17 months) the mediums still fit her but don't really have the absorption that she needs. I'm sure the larges would hold more. I haven't tried the one size to compare.
I will say that there were my husbands and MILs favorite diaper. I got a bunch of them in aplix so that MIL could deal with them easily (she kept LO while I worked).
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I was looking at these earlier. They now have a 2 sized system like thirsties. I have some in size small for my lo due in August. I also have some peachy green size 0. I wanted to compare the two to see which one I liked best to add to my os stash.
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ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper, said he liked the New Orleans Saints' draft this year, especially considering what they had to work with. But he pointed out that it really hurt them not having a second-round pick, where they would have had a chance to get a standout pass rusher.
I joined in on Kiper's conference call today because I'm collecting a few opinions from analysts and scouts on why the Saints' first-round draft pick, safety Kenny Vaccaro, was so highly-rated this year by just about every draft analyst, despite not really having a "star" career in college at Texas or putting up outstanding pre-draft workout numbers.
"His versatility," Kiper said. "I think with Vaccaro, he's an excellent cover guy, an intimidator, a physical presence in the secondary that gives you kind of an attitude back there. An enforcer. ... He didn't run that well (his 40-yard dash speed in pre-draft workouts), which caused some teams to maybe be hesitant in the top 10 or 12. But at 15 (he filled a need for the Saints)."
More from Kiper on the rest of the Saints' draft: "Not having a second-round pick prevented them from getting a very good outside linebacker. That hurt. But I like (offensive tackler Terron) Armstead. (Defensive tackle John) Jenkins at one point looked like a late-first-round pick. (Receiver Kenny) Stills at one point looked like a second or third rounder. He had some problems with drops. But a good pick in the fifth round. So overall, I thought it was a solid draft considering what they had. It really hurt them without having that second-round pick.


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The hardest films to review are the mediocre ones. "Great" and "awful" films alike, despite being polar opposites in terms of quality, are both easy to review for the same reason: They invoke passion in the reviewer, be it a passion of appreciation (for good films) or disgust (awful films). Mediocre films, however, do not illicit passion. The reviewer struggles to write about the mediocre film, since he/she neither feels the need to recommend it nor destroy it, nor to do anything with it for that matter. Gene Fowler Jr.'s 'I Was A Teenage Werewolf' (1957) is just such a film – a picture too flawed to be called "good", and yet not so unredeemable that one can write it off as "dreck" either.
'I Was A Teenage Werewolf' stars Michael Landon as Tony Rivers, a brooding James Dean-type with anger issues, who is convinced by his father and friends to go see the worst psychiatrist ever in the history of medicine, Dr. Alfred Brandon (Whit Bissell). Dr. Brandon, for reasons that are never adequately explained nor explored, is experimenting with serums and hypnotism in hopes of regressing man back to his "primitive" state, and decides that Tony is the perfect test subject for his ill-defined experiments. Not long after beginning his sessions with Dr. Brandon, people are getting killed by a werewolf, and it's up to the police to the stop Tony before he kills again.
Perhaps the deadliest flaw that Fowler makes with his picture is taking the material too seriously: It's title, along with the mechanism behind Tony's transformation, are too ridiculous and bizarre to be believable, and had the director instead made his film with a more 'tongue-in-cheek' aesthetic, then perhaps 'I Was A Teenage Werewolf' wouldn't come off as being so hokey and melodramatic. There are, of course, the other more typical flaws that inundate cheap, quickly made horror films like Fowler's: A lack of pacing, subpar acting (with the possible exception of Landon, who does an affable if not amazing performance), cheap and repetitive scenery.
But despite these flaws, 'I Was A Teenage Werewolf' also shows the occasional hint of competence and talent on Fowler's part: The first "werewolf attack" is crafted rather effectively by Fowler. In lieu of some cheesy "horror music" or some other amateurish trope, Fowler lets the scene unroll in near silence, with only incidental sound effects (footsteps, snapping twigs, etc.) to be heard. This gives the scene a sense of realism that helps to build atmosphere and a slow swelling tension that ultimately makes the murder/death of the victim a genuine fright and shock to the audience.
Another well-crafted scene occurs later in the film, when a young woman is practicing gymnastics in the local high school. Again, Fowler builds the tension up beautifully, the climax occurring when the camera switches to the point-of-view of the girl (who is hanging upside down) and we the audience get our first true glimpse at Fowler's werewolf. The image is jarring, the figure presented to us upside-down and in grotesque make-up causing one's mind to reel for a moment, while Fowler flouts general horror expectations and presents his creature rather abruptly and at an angle that obscures its appearance for a moment, creating a genuine moment of uncanniness that might not terrify audiences, but at least jars them from their seat and captures their attention.
Ultimately, Gene Fowler Jr.'s 'I Was A Teenage Werewolf' inhabits that cinematic grey zone between "good" and "bad", that realm where films that are neither good enough to recommend nor awful enough to become infamous go to fall into obscurity, and to remain save the occasional glance from cinephiles of esoteric cinema. 'I Was A Teenage Werewolf' might not be the best horror film, but compared to other schlock, its certainly much more competent and better put together.
Find the nearest Blockbuster (assuming they still exist) near your home so you can rent this film almost immediately. Or, if you prefer that movies came to you instead, set up a Netflix account and start your ordering as soon as possible.


text: Aug 5, 2014 08:18 Quake kills at least 381 in southern China Quake kills at least 381 in southern China In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers transport an injured man after an earthquake in Ludian County of Zhaotong City in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. The magnitude-6.1 quake in southern China's Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing scores of people and injuring more than 1,800. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhang Guangyu) NO SALES In this photo taken by cellphone and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, men at rubbles of buildings look for survivors after an earthquake in Ludian County of Zhaotong City in southwest China's Yunnan Province Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. A strong earthquake rattled southwest China on Sunday, knocking out communication and power lines and causing people to rush out of buildings, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. (AP Photo/Xinhua/Hu Chao) NO SALES In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers transport injured people after an earthquake in Zhaotong City in the densely populated Ludian county in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sunday Aug. 3, 2014. The strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 175 people and injuring more than 1,400, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Zhang Guangyu) NO SALES A man holds an injured child receiving medical treatment at a hospital following an earthquake in Ludian county in southwest China's Yunnan province Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. A strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing hundreds and injuring more than a thousand people. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT JACK CHANG| Associated Press Aug. 3, 2014; 9:38 p.m. Comments BEIJING — A strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 381 people and injuring more than 1,800. About 12,000 homes collapsed in Ludian, a densely populated county located about 277 miles northeast of Yunnan's capital, Kunming, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported. The magnitude-6.1 quake struck at 4:30 p.m. at a depth of 6 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Its epicenter was in Longtoushan township, 14 miles southwest of the city of Zhaotong, the Ludian county seat. Ma Liya, a resident of Zhaotong, told Xinhua that the streets there were like a "battlefield after bombardment." She added that her neighbor's house, a new two-story building, had toppled and said the quake was far worse than one that struck the area in 2012 and killed 81 people. "The aftermath is much, much worse than what happened after the quake two years ago," Ma said. "I have never felt such strong tremors before. What I can see are all ruins." Xinhua said at least 367 people were killed in the quake, with 1,881 injured. Most of the deaths — 357 — were in Zhaotong City, Xinhua said. Another 10 people were killed in Quijing City. News reports said rescuers were still trying to reach victims in more remote towns Sunday night. Photos on Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media site, showed rescuers searching through flattened buildings and people injured amid toppled bricks. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered "his condolences to the Chinese Government and the families of those killed," according to a statement from his office. The statement said the U.N. is ready to "lend its assistance to efforts to respond to humanitarian needs" and "to mobilize any international support needed." The White House also offered its condolences. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those that lost their lives," said National Security Council deputy spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan. "The United States stands ready to assist." Many of the homes that collapsed in Ludian, which has a population of about 429,000, were old and made of brick, Xinhua said, adding that electricity and telecommunications were cut off in the county. The mountainous region where the quake occurred is largely agricultural, with farming and mining the top industries, and is prone to earthquakes. Relief efforts were underway, with more than 2,500 troops dispatched to the disaster region, Xinhua said. The Red Cross Society of China allocated quilts, jackets and tents for those made homeless by the quake, while Red Cross branches in Hong Kong, Macau and neighboring Sichuan province also sent relief supplies. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the quake was the strongest to hit Yunnan in 14 years. In 1970, a magnitude-7.7 earthquake in Yunnan killed at least 15,000 people, and a magnitude-7.1 quake in the province killed more than 1,400 in 1974. In September 2012, 81 people died and 821 were injured in a series of quakes in the Yunnan region. In May 2008, a powerful quake in Sichuan province left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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I fell in love with this dress as soon as I tried it on. I was actually about to walk out of the store when the owner said they had just opened up a new sample dress and asked if I would like to try it on. I did and ordered one of my own! I wore this dress for both the ceremony and reception and I got so many compliments on it. I felt amazing!
This is a gorgeous dress and is still a current Maggie Sottero design. The construction of the gown, gathering of the bodice and layers of the skirt are extremely flattering and will make you feel like a bride the minute you put it on!
- Alterations: This dress was taken in a little bit, as I lost some inches (who doesn't for their wedding?) but it has a corset tie back that I needed almost completely tied on my wedding day. For my final fitting I was B: 35.5, W: 26, H: 39. With the corset tie it will be very accommodating for size variations. It also has a french bustle. There are 5 ties to secure the train. It also has cups/padding sewn in to the bodice so that a bra is not necessary.
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Wedding: Katie + AlexSeptember 19th, 2011
We are pleased to present to you the wedding of Katie Hammerer and Alex Harris, held early August 2011. This couple was such a delight to work with, making our job that much more fun. We hope you enjoy the outcome of this fabulous event as much as we do.
The reception was held at River Farm located on the beautiful waterfront of Alexandria, Virginia. The River farm serves as Headquarters to the American Horticulture Society and is the perfect setting for a bride who wants it all; waterfront views, luscious gardens, and a historic plantation right outside our Nation's Capitol.
The bride chose the colors of white, vibrant violet and a soft butter yellow, which perfectly complemented the greenery of the venue and the vibrant personality of the couple themselves. The flowers consisted of roses and were beautifully displayed in both round and rectangular vases.
Beverage urns of Spiked Lemonade and water were placed near the entrance of the venue for parched guests to quench their thirsts. There was also a full service bar for guests to visit throughout the night. During cocktail hour hors d'oeuvres were passed including mini crab cakes, bourbon glazed tenderloin, sun-gold cherry tomatoes, tenderloin + asparagus wraps, and an Asian style chicken + coriander dumpling.
The Bride and Groom wanted to keep the reception and cocktail hour fun so a dance floor made for moving and a Corn Hole set decorated with wedding rings + their wedding date, were brought in for their guest's enjoyment. Following cocktail hour was the seated dinner. The first course was a refreshing summer salad of baby spinach and ruby red strawberries dressed with an herbed balsamic vinaigrette. The entrée was honey roasted chicken with sage & walnuts or the vegetarian option of balsamic charred corn ravioli.
Following dinner guest were invited to join the bride and groom for the cutting of the cake. The white and violet cake was a custom made by our Executive Pastry Chef and was topped with vibrant flowers.
The outcome of this august wedding was absolutely breath taking. Thank you to Connor Studios for sharing your beautiful photos with us and thank you to Katie and Alex for letting us be apart of your special day. Here's to a lifetime of love and happiness!
Congratulations Katie + Alex!!
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How can I use Groups in Blackboard?
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You have to figure out the bell part first.
i got the bell to rise but the guy won't hit it
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I don't exactly know how it works, just read the bell and indy says "Ring for the master. I always thought thiese bells were rung at" then something that sounds like "moiama" and then "but i can't wait till noon" or something...
I just tried pulling the lever with the statue picture behind it multiple times, then it worked.... i guess it was at around 3 O'clock or somethin'
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