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Comics Time: Locas, or Announcing LOVE AND ROCKTOBER
NOTE: Nearly six years ago, I panned Jaime Hernandez's life's work in The Comics Journal. Though this is probably the Comics Journal-est thing I've ever done, for the Journal or anywhere else, it's not one of my prouder moments as a critic. At the time I was coming down from the high of brother Gilbert's epic Palomar hardcover and his two stand-alone masterpieces Poison River and Love and Rockets X. By comparison, Jaime's stuff, though prettier on the outside, was basically about the female Latina punk versions of Beavis and Butt-Head. Unable to see past the fact that Maggie and Hopey were annoying and did stupid shit a lot of the time, I gave Locas, which collected all their stories from Love and Rockets v1, a bad review.
Here's where I make up for it.
I happy to announce the start of LOVE AND ROCKTOBER here at Attentiondeficitdisorderly. For the next month, I'll be devoting my regularly scheduled Comics Time reviews to as much of Los Bros Hernandez' work as I can get through, starting with the Jaime material I misguidedly maligned. I believe that Love and Rockets is all but unique in comics in the way it has taken advantage of serialization to slowly create a rich and enveloping world peopled with multifaceted characters who seem to be living lives on and off the page. And it did this twice, simultaneously! With this in mind I think it's a book that's best consumed the way great TV shows are best consumed: In huge, weeks-long binges. It may be Fantagraphics' wonderful Love and Rockets digests facilitating this rather than Netflix, but the principle is the same.
So, first up, Jaime and the Locas stories. After that? I might continue forward with Xaime till I'm caught up. I might switch over to Beto's stuff. (And Mario's too!) I might do both (which I imagine would necessitate LOVEMBER AND ROCKETS). I might do neither. But whatever I do, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of it, and I hope you do too.
First, let's start by revisiting sins past: My Comics Journal review of Locas, which I'd avoided re-posting here on the blog for years, waiting for precisely this sort of opportunity to serve as a corrective. Please take everything you are about to read with a grain of salt, as much of what I once saw to be weaknesses I now recognize as strengths. And Jaime, if you're out there: Sorry, man!
Jaime Hernandez, writer/artist
Fantagraphics Books, October 2004
712 pages, hardcover
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The first collection to span one of Los Bros Hernandez' major output during the first 20-year run of their umbrella title Love and Rockets was Palomar, an anthology of brother Gilbert's chronicles of the titular Mexican town. Aside from a few frustrating attempts to muddle through the multi-genre mishmash of Music for Mechanics, L&R's first softcover volume, Palomar was my first real exposure to Los Bros' series. To say "it's a tough act to follow" would be to imply that one of maybe the three or four greatest achievements in comics history could be followed at all, so instead I'll say that I was almost totally unprepared for how thoroughly the book would floor me. Gilbert's uncanny grasp of the totality of each of his characters allowed him to jump back and forth in time with ease, showing us different periods in their lives that for all their temporal disconnect never made anything but perfect sense for each indelible creation. His senses of humor, horror, and eroticism would each be enough to sustain the career of a lesser cartoonist for years at a stretch. The book succeeded as maybe the great long-form narrative in comics, even (as I learned later) despite the fact that it for some reason omitted major related works like Love and Rockets X and especially Poison River, without which much of the book's concluding section was difficult to follow. Perhaps most impressively, Gilbert's mastery of the formal stuff of cartooning -- of line, design, characterization, caricature, panel transitions, the whole shmear -- was so complete that I had to wonder (partially in skepticism, partially in giddy anticipation of fresh discoveries), "The other brother's supposed to be the better artist?"
Locas, Love and Rockets' second definitive hardcover collection, focuses on the work of that other brother, the "better artist," Jaime -- and I'm not sure if I can remember a more awkward comics-reading experience than my recent sojourn through its 700-plus pages. I say this not because of the book's unwieldy length. I say it rather because of the dual irony that this massive collection could consist of material that feels so slight, and that after reading the single longest comic book I've ever come across I should find myself with so little to say.
One thing I will say, since it's unavoidable, is that the book is nowhere near the masterpiece that Palomar is. It could be argued that it's unfair to compare the two works simply because their authors are brothers. Now, I don't think it could be argued persuasively -- when one spends years and years sharing funnybook real estate with one's sibling and indeed adopts a collective moniker, one invites such comparisons -- but that's not even the point. Locas suffers in comparison to Palomar, but so do most comics. The point is that it suffers from much more than that as well.
Things get off to a rough start with the uneasy blend of sci-fi, soap opera and cheeky revolutionary politics found in "Mechanix" and "Las Mujeres Perdidas," the two big storylines that begin the collection. This is not to say that even these unrepresentative, shaky stories do not have much to recommend them. Here Jaime's art most clearly displays his classic influences, imbuing the dinosaur-fighting and rocket-flying action with beauty and dynamism. "Mechanix"' unusual structure -- a series of letters from traveling mechanic Maggie to her best friend and fellow punk Hopey, punctuated with predominantly stand-alone panels which illustrate the text -- serves as an early indication of Jaime's great strength, that of graphic design. The title panels/pages Jaime constructs are inevitably the best looking part of any of his stories, as they allow his gifted use of high contrast and his inventive and iconic lettering and portraiture to shine; since "Mechanix" is essentially a series of such images, it's awfully nice to look at.
Yet already the flippant tone Jaime adopts for writing his characters, one he will be unable to shake off throughout the book, works to his detriment. Maggie essentially has two settings for looking at the world: Everything's either a goof or a tragedy. This gives these early stories, in which the lives of thousands of people, including our heroine and her friends, are often at stake in power struggles between crazed plutocrats, an air of frantic, bipolar absurdity that does not at all suit them. Perhaps the intention was a sort of Duck Soup-style lampooning of love and life in the nuclear age, but the stories come off as inconsistent and unsure of what they want to be and how they want to be it.
Before long the sci-fi trappings are shed entirely, seemingly more out of embarrassment than aesthetic evolution. The high-decibel hijinx, however, remain. Maggie and her sometime-girlfriend, sometime-best friend Hopey spend the bulk of the book fuming, with exclamation points and distorted kabuki-mask faces abounding. Listen, I've certainly known people who've spent years and years dancing around their true feelings for each other, but never so loudly! It's like a soap opera scripted by Fourth World-era Jack Kirby! When quieter characters like Hopey's ex-girlfriend and current bandmate Terry or witchy, death-haunted Izzy appear, I swear I can hear my ears ringing in the relative silence.
If Jaime has a claim to greatness in these pages, it's in his creation of those two comparatively minor characters. Terry Downe looks so much like The Amazing Spider-Man's Mary Jane Watson that she might as well be a fanfic version of her: "What if Gwen Stacy had lived, and M.J. moved to California, got into punk rock, and became a lesbian?" But behind her resolute, John Romita-derived wall of punk cool, there's just oceans of pain, observable both in her relentless quest for musical success (given what we know of her, this may well be possible) and for Hopey (given what we know of Hopey, this isn't). She's easily the book's most compelling character, and the story in which she stars, "Tear It Up, Terry Downe," is easily its most compelling sequence. With alarming proficiency not in evidence elsewhere in the book, Jaime constructs a riveting story out of disjointed panels, each depicting a scene from different stages in Terry's life or a comment from someone who knows or knew her, each offering a vital glimpse of the origins of her reserved persona. Clearly, it's one born out of trauma rather than pretension. (Would that this could be said for the object of her unrequited love: Hopey's early relationship with Terry is undoubtedly tumultuous, but it feels as though this simply brought out obnoxious qualities in the character that were already extant.)
Black-clad psychic Izzy is also a revelation. Her premonition of disaster in "The Death of Speedy Ortiz" is the truly haunting moment in a story I found to be otherwise quite oversold by its admirers (who are many, and vocal); her fascination with the missing-persons ad Hopey eventually finds herself on is equally memorable, as is her quietly built-up battle with cancer, and indeed the simple presence of her stoic countenance in a book that's full to bursting with mugging. But Izzy's great shining moment, "Flies on the Ceiling," isn't even included in the collection. Meanwhile, a zany, Warner Bros.-style Maggie'n'Hopey romp redrawn from a comic made when the brothers were little kids is included, proving that the parameters of the collection -- "The Maggie and Hopey Stories" -- may have been more than a little short-sighted.
Jaime's technical skills as an artist are not to be scoffed at, obviously. This is a beautiful book. Each of his characters is a wonder in design, and even as Jaime's style shifts from the rendered EC-isms of the early stories into a sort of graphic-design shorthand by book's end, you simply have to marvel at his skill in creating recognizable characters who maintain their essence through over a decade of hairstyle and hair-color changes, weight gain and loss, and radically shifting stations in life. (This last, too, is a strength of the book: Locas is one of comics' more interesting explorations of the simultaneous fluidity and rigidity of America's class-and-race caste system, all the more so since the topic seems to get explored almost incidentally.) The art's strongest moments come during several pin-up style panels depicting Hopey and Terry's band on stage during their ill-fated tour. Simply put: If there are better depictions in this medium of the allure of punk rock than the page-spanning panels in "Jerusalem Crickets 1987," I'd like to see 'em. Too bad that so few of the characters seem to have gotten much more out of punk than an excuse to act like jerks and push their loved ones away -- and too bad we're supposed to think that the band's drummer is an idiot for wanting to play like John Bonham. Odd that an artist's love of technical proficiency would be mocked in a Jaime Hernandez comic!
Meanwhile, Jaime's temporal jump-cuts demonstrate a wonderful faith in the intelligence of the reader to follow the increasingly complex lives of the characters. The problem here, though, is that the characters lack the strength of characterization to back these jumps up. As presented within Locas, too many characters suddenly appear from nowhere and are given prominence that their development itself won't bear. The character of Tex, for example, emerges suddenly to become a pivotal player during some of the book's central stories: He helps Hopey escape from her band's rapidly imploding tour, then ends up impregnating both Hopey and her larger-than-life trophy-wife friend Penny Century before just kind of petering out of the storyline. Now, I can already hear people say "but this is how life works," and indeed I've got a roster of ex-friends as long as your arm to prove it, but life also includes two hour visits to the DMV. Trueness to life is a potential means to the end of great art, not a guarantor of it. (At any rate, few people's true-life trajectory involves knocking up two lipstick lesbians in one of said lipstick lesbians' so-big-there-are-whole-wings-no-one-sets-foot-in mansion, owned by said lipstick lesbian's horned husband.) A natural-feeling rapport between familiar and out-of-nowhere characters can be established -- see Ralph Cifaretto's introduction in The Sopranos, Wolverine's conversation with Doop in Milligan and Allred's X-Force (I shit you not), or really any such incident in Palomar -- but in Locas the continuous accrual of sisters, cousins, roommates, co-workers, ex-girlfriends, bandmates, tag-team partners and so on feels forced and arbitrary, and at its worst like a convenient distraction from the voids at the centers of the two main characters.
That, too, is the problem. Yes, I'm sure we all know basket cases like Maggie and angry youth like Hopey, but so what? I also know several people (say) with masters degrees in engineering, and if they weren't also interesting people, no degree of accuracy in the depiction of their lives would save a comic I might make about them from being rather pointless. Near as I can tell, there's simply not much to Maggie and Hopey. The funny thing is they are so very often held up to be the pinnacle of multi-dimensional female characters in the male-dominated world of comics. Now, I'm not sure I see the feminist victory present in the ongoing chronicles of beautiful, bed-hopping, punked-out teenage lesbians; otherwise I guess we could all trade in our P.J. Harvey records for those Tatu girls. (And let's not even get started on Penny Century, a character whose sole purpose seems to be to conveniently deploy her tits, mansions, or both, depending on the needs of a given story.) But even putting all that aside, what is so wonderfully multi-dimensional about a girl who is continuously pining, fuming, or (to steal a line from Tina Fey's Mean Girls) eating her feelings, or a girl whose sole, and I do mean sole, means of interacting with the world is to embrace terrible behavior on the part of herself and those around her toward anyone she might be tempted to care about? The torpedoing of one's own chances at happiness is often a fascinating topic for comics, yet only if the character doing the torpedoing seems to have some inner life worth preserving does that fascination arise. Hopey, a character who among other things bounces back from a miscarriage like it was the common cold, ostentatiously applauds the sexual depravity of a group of wealthy acquaintances until it inevitably erupts into violence, kicks the snot out of her ex-best friend for no good reason, and (during a flashback) delivers her new friend Daffy into a terrifying encounter with an unhinged, nymphomaniacal pro-wrestler just for gits and shiggles, does not have such an inner life. Hopey is at her most interesting in the story "A Date with Hopey." Told from the point of view of a character that we never see before or again, it describes the instant rapport like-minded, alienated youth feel for one another, and the mysterious way in which such instant closeness evaporates. With Hopey, evaporate is all it can do. (Maggie, saddled as she is with years spent in love with this woman, is rendered uninteresting by osmosis.) Like Daffy after that pro-wrestler flashback, we're left wondering: Is the woman we've spent years (or the page-count equivalent thereof) questing after like some combination of Dulcinea and Moby Dick really just kind of a boring asshole? And has punk -- along with Latino culture and professional woman's wrestling, milieus Jaime chronicles with a great deal of self-evident passion and love -- taught her anything aside from how to be professionally unpleasant, to the detriment of herself, her friends, and us readers?
A little over a year ago, before the release of Palomar and Locas rendered such questions irrelevant, I wondered where was the best place for a Love and Rockets neophyte to start reading the series. As a result I posted a thread to this publication's Internet message board, entitled "Help me learn to like Love and Rockets." The gist of the post was this: As a stickler for reading any given series in the chronological order of its release, I'd found myself stymied at the logical starting place, Music for Mechanics, which I'd tried and failed to get through three or four times now. My hope was that an alternate option would be proposed. Little did I expect the combination of bafflement, indignation and fury that would be aimed in the post's direction. Though I did receive a number of considered and considerate recommendations, the general attitude displayed by the board toward those who had not already pledged allegiance to Los Bros could be likened to those T-shirts you sometimes see straightedge hardcore kids wearing, the ones that say "If you're not now, you never were!" If I didn't already love Love and Rockets, if I didn't already see why it deserved its two decades of plaudits, it's probably best if I just shut the fuck up about it. In other words, "If you're not now, you never will be!"
I wanted to like the Maggie and Hopey stories as much as I was supposed to. I wanted to let the strength of "Tear It Up, Terry Downe" and "A Date with Hopey" and parts of "Chester Square," "Wigwam Bam" and "The Death of Speedy Ortiz" convince me of the near-messianic value of the volume's remaining 650 pages. But in the end, maybe Maggie, Hopey, and Jaime's whole half of L&R are like the early gigs of the band Ape Sex that the pair reminisce over, heaping scorn on those who weren't in attendance. Maybe you had to be there.
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I fully support and endorse LOVE AND ROCKTOBERFEST.
I've been meaning to do a reread through the material as well so I might join you. (In between volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire.)
I would recommend doing all the Jaime Locas material (v1 + v2) then all the Gilbert Palomar material (v1 + v2), then Mario + odds and ends, then v3.
I gotta say, you might be better off reading this stuff in the original floppy format. There was something about the wonderful chemistry of Los. Bros. stories side by side, in semi-regular chunks, that might be lessened by the omnibus format. Anyway, that's how I read 'em. I grew up with those characters; their lives ran parallel to mine.
Hey man, looks like we're both undertaking some long form stuff this month. Seriously though, this is a great idea and I really enjoy it when you do extended reads on things like Barker's work and The Dark Tower stuff. I love this series unabashedly and can't wait to follow along with you.
That said, man, that LOCAS review was tough, for this fan anyway. Happy to see you're going back and giving it another shot.
In some ways, I think this review holds up pretty well as a critique of LOCAS as opposed to of L&R or of Jaime's work generally. As COOP notes, this isn't really how they were meant to be read, and leaving out stories like "Flies on the Ceiling" and (I presume) "Spring 1982" and other ones focusing on the rest of the cast -- I almost called them peripheral characters, but that's buying into the logic of the collection, which is what I'm arguing we shouldn't do -- intensifies the focus on Maggie and Hopey in a way that isn't always to the benefit of their stories. Texas showing up and then bowing out somehow doesn't seem as arbitrary if it's in the context of stories that are also about Ray, Doyle, etc.
It's been interesting to watch Fantagraphics struggle with the challenge of collecting L&R. I think the new-format digest collections work great for Jaime but not always very well for Gilbert -- especially in the second volume, there's something jarring about jumping from the end of "Human Diastrophism" (the story) to "Farewell My Palomar" and the other later material without the benefit of the info in (and the experience of reading) "Poison River."
Extending my earlier comment a bit, I think it's possible to read LOCAS as an artifact of its particular moment in the evolution of comics readership and how that evolution shapes the print culture of comics: That is, the effect of LOCAS is not only to make a big chunk of Jaime's comics accessible in one package, but also to shape the messy sprawl of L&R into something resembling the "graphic novel" of the sort reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, etc. Although I'm not suggesting it was Fantagraphics' or Jaime's intent, LOCAS, as a package, is as much a bid for legitimacy and recognition as it is celebration of Jaime's work or a handy way of accessing it. And I think your review points out what is lost in the transition from "comic book" to "graphic novel," when a linear story is privileged over the branching and dividing that is a real part of the comic's appeal.
They left out "Flies on the Ceiling" and "Spring 1982"????
Wha... why... huh?
Hob, for reasons I cannot begin to explain, the big LOCAS and PALOMAR hardcovers are not complete. Another reason I prefer the more recent paperback omnibus versions.
(Although I am assured that the big LOCAS II hardcover is complete for vol 2.)
I think the fact that I clicked in here expecting at least 5 of the 7 comments to be either spam or one person's comment accidentally triple-posted and instead got 7 actual comments tells me that this is going to be a fairly successful project. :)
Heh, I remember reading that TCJ piece a couple of years ago and wondering how the Sean T Collins who showed such impeccable taste on his website could possibly be the same Sean T Collins who wrote off one of my favourite comics of all time with a sneer and a shrug, while falling into the oldest, lamest trick in the book by comparing the two brother's work. (Fun fact: they're BOTH awesome.) I feel almost vindicated by the fact that it's been bothering you ever since.
I still go through periodic L&R binges, usually when I grab one issue at random, which inevitably leads to more and more, bouncing around a quarter-century of dense, funny and moving narrative. I'm really looking forward to seeing what else you have to say, Sean, especially on the post-v1 Jaime stuff, which is criminally under-rated.
No "Flies on the Ceiling" or "Spring 1982" is a serious flaw. But I'm glad to see you are atoning for your youthful sins, Sean.
We've talked about this at length before, of course (in person even!), but coming to L&R late as you did, I had much the same reaction as I began to work my way through the Jaime stuff. Unlike you, though, I had the benefit of reading it in these new phonebook editions, and so got the full experience of all the stories about the non-Maggie and Hopey characters that kept me in it. M&H annoyed me too, but I stuck around because of Ray, Doyle, Izzy, Terry, Danita, etc. The second book ends with "Flies on the Ceiling" and the third begins with "Wigwam Bam," which are pretty much my high points for the series (vol.1 anyway), so how you gonna put it down then?
What's interesting about Wigwam Bam is how M&H are sort of the lacuna at the center of the story - how they're there but not there, central but somehow peripheral. That blew me away, while mirroring my feelings about the stories in a strange way.
Since then I've read all three books again, all the way through. While I'm never going to have the "OMG MAGGIE AND HOPEY ARE LIKE MY BEST FRIENDS EVER" reaction that so many people have (and still confounds me) I've been able to absorb the full scope of Jaime's genius.
Doyle's omission from LOCAS was nigh unto criminal. Doyle remains a favorite-- the Hopey to Ray's Maggie. (I love how Jaime's characters 'flock': they recognize the need for psychic balance; who we pick to complement ourselves, and why, etc.)
Thirded the floppy opinion. There are Great Beto Issues, Great Jaime Issues, and Los Bros. Jamz-- to say nothing of the historical curio value to be found comparing the serialized chs. of 'L&RX' & 'Poison River' to their GN incarnations. You get interesting glimpses into Beto's creative process, viz. what pages (or panels) he chose to whittle, chop & rearrange.
Hey Sean, I'm late to this post but still glad to see you revisiting (and re-evaluating) this great body of work. I'm doing the same myself (almost done with the first Locas volume, I'll follow it with Locas II) and enjoying it immensely (these are stories I haven't read in years). They resonate well in light of New Stories #3, which contains Jaime's greatest masterpiece in storytelling.
And, by the way, that was my post that accidentally posted three times in your Ex Machina review. Damned if I know how that happened. I'm still surprised that you deleted all of them, though. Didn't think it was *that* bad of a comment.


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Cardinal Ritter College Prep's Charles Jones and ROTC's Michael Wells entire the first leg, as it were, of the high school track and field season this spring as two of the most accomplished and celebrated runners in the city of St. Louis, the greater metropolitan area and the state of Missouri.
Both of them captured individual state championships in their respective state classifications and also led their school relay teams to state titles the last two seasons as sophomores and juniors. Now as they progressed further into their senior campaigns, their races will be against records and legacies more so than opponents. This weekend both will compete in meets with a bevy of large-school standouts: Jones, a middle-distance ace, will compete in a prestigious meet, the Kansas University Relays with top performers from the entire Midwest region.
Meanwhile Wells, a speed merchant, will run in a Kirkwood High invitational in South St. Louis County, which will feature the best of the entire St. Louis metropolitan area, save for Charles Jones and only a few other standout male athletes.
Jones, known as CJ, is the two-time reigning boys 800 meters state champion in Class 3 and has ran legs on the Lions' 4x400 and 4x800-meter relay state champions as well. He won the open 800 meters at the 2013 state championships in 1:50.33, just a tad slower than his winning state-record clocking of 1:49.96 in 2012. For good measure, he won the 17-and under 1,500 meters in 4 minutes, 2.59 seconds at the Junior Olympics last summer. Typically he also won his specialty, the 800 meters at the same event with a time just under 1:50. Earlier this winter he signed a scholarship letter of intent with Texas Tech University in the Big 12.
"He is a tremendous sign for our program," said Texas Tech coach Wes Kittley in a statement released by the university. "Charles has the kind of talent and character that champions are made of. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have him become a Red Raider.
In addition to his head coach at Ritter, Ruben Albright, Jones is also coached by his father Chico Jones, a fitness guru of sorts. For his work as an assistant basketball coach and conditioning coordinator at the University of Missouri- St. Louis for over 30 years, Jones is in the UMSL Sports Hall of Fame "for exceptional contributions". Suffice to say, it appears that Jones has done an "exceptional" job coaching his son, an honor the elder Jones is proud of.
"Just having the opportunity to coach, train and watch my son CJ perform from a 5-year old to the present has been a blessing for me," said Chico Jones. "Having the chance to watch him fail and learn how to succeed through his failures has made life a joy for me."
At the same time, Jones will be taking his talents to Lubbock, Texas and the Big 12 Conference next season, Wells will be taking his talents to a rival Big 12 school, the Oklahoma Sooners. Wells won the 100 (10.79 seconds) and the 200 meters (22.02) and ran leadoff leg in the Commanders 4x200-meter relay state champion and anchor in their 4x100-meter relay state champion in the Missouri Class 2 state meet last spring, even though he endured a spring of sporadic leg injuries. For as a healthier super sophomore, Wells captured the 100-meter title in 10.75 seconds.
Based on his limited indoor season this winter, Wells seems primed for another banner campaign. At the Mizzou Big River Running Series he won the 60 meters in 6.78 seconds and the 200 meters in 22.05.

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Buff-bellied Warbler (Phyllolais pulchella) - HBW 11, p. 489
French: Phyllolaïs à ventre fauve
German: Akaziensänger
Spanish: Prinia Ventripálida
Other common names: Acacia Warbler
Taxonomy: Malurus pulchellus Cretzschmar, 1830, Kordofan, Sudan.
Sometimes placed in genus Apalis; also has been linked to the Acrocephalinae subfamily of Sylviidae. Monotypic.
Distribution: NE Nigeria, N Cameroon, W Chad, W, SE & S Sudan, N Eritrea, W & C Ethiopia, NE DRCongo, Uganda, NE Rwanda, Kenya and N Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a tree, foraging. Locality Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 November 2005 10 years ago 31 sec 4.5
2 birds in sunlight Locality Mburo Lake National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 14 September 2010 5 years ago 54 sec 4.1
A bird moving around on a branch above, flying away and calling. Locality Awassa Lake, SNNP Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Keith Blomerley 28 October 2013 2 years ago 17 sec 4
bird in the scrub Locality Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 2 October 2010 5 years ago 15 sec 4
foraging in vegetation Locality Bekele Molla Hotel, Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 5 November 2010 2 years ago 16 sec 3
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On a acacia.
Locality Awash National Park, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 9 November 2012 2 years ago 4.3
Perched on a bare branch.
Locality Lake Abijatta, Abijatta-Shalla National Park, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 3 February 2009 3 years ago 4.3
a bird calling from a flowering tree
Locality Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Stefan Helming 27 June 2009 6 years ago 4.1
A perched bird.
Locality Nairobi National Park, Kenya
Tadeusz Rosinski 29 November 2014 1 year ago 3.9
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Locality Nairobi National Park, Kenya (Monotypic species)
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Sep 11
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richarderp says:
It's always a problem – especially when the competition is of the type where you go straight into the jumpoff so you've got a course of twelve or more fences to remember.
Naturally, you've got to remember the whole course but when you're walking it, I'd look for any turns where you could make a mistake. Usually, most of a course is obvious and you are forced to go a particular way but inevitably there are one or two points where you can see you could go wrong. Concentrate on remembering the first two or three fences along with these decision points and you'll be fine.
My biggest nightmare is actually remembering a jumpoff course where you've already jumped it one way but the jumpoff is in a completely different order. In this case, you can't even look at the numbers to help you. Add to that jumping against the clock and there's plenty of scope for getting it wrong. In this case, I'll walk the first round course then spend as much time again walking the jumpoff course. Okay, so it's a bit of a presumption that you'll get into the jumpoff but better that than not being prepared. At least you're being positive.
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Jul 11
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leanne23 says:
Hi I don't do a lot of jumping but I know how HARD it is to remember the course. I am not sure if this method will work for you or not but I ind remembering the colours of the jumps is the easiest way to remeber a course. For example, blue red green spots, blue red green spots. Like that. Hope it helps!!! Leanne23
Mar 12
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FreddieBoy says:
I know this sounds silly but sometimes if you don't remember the course get a friend to shout out it hope this may work x
Jun 12
Posts: 11
ponycrazy3 says:
If you want you can go around the course a few times on foot to help or practise alot but dont tire your pony out before the show
Hope this helps goodluck hope you come first in the next one!! :)
Aug 11
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lottiehorse says:
i watch and learn but i always look for the numbers remember how many you jumped and if you just jumped 5 and your horse is heading too 9 then you know its wrong
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olivia1234 says:
give yourself plenty of time if its a big class dont put yourself near the top, walk the course and after every 3rd jjump you get too do the course in your head untill you get to that jump your on i.e if you walked to number 6 walk the course in your head to jump 6.... so on. Walk the course as many times you can in the space provided for course walk. Come out of the arena memorise the course again. Depending where you are to jump.. either watch a few or go and warm up either way give your pony a warm up then come and watch a few then go round the course in your head again.Dont panic and if you have a sudden blank mind ask politely to get moved down ive had to do this before lol! oh and like someone said below DONT get people to shout the course out to you if you are competing as this is classed as outside ring help and can get disqualified. good luck xx
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Rider118 says:
(Cross country and Show jumping)
I must look like an idot doing it, but what I do is:
When I get the course, I go into my truck and place straw on the table as the jumps, and with my fingers jump over the jumps, and when I get more confident with remembering I see If I can walk the course by memory, and just build up from there.
I agree, do go last, to try and allow you more time, but don't forget to watch how they tackle the jumps!
"Don't be afraid, even if you fall, you get back right in the saddle."
Feb 11
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XsugarstarX says:
This is what I used to struggle with but this is how I remember them:)
I was reading this article about this dyslexic rider and how she remembers courses by colours. I started doing this as most shows their jumpss are different colours or fillers. For example if the jump had a sea filler I'd remember it by that but if it had red and green poles with no fillers remember it by that.
Remembering courses takes time so give yourself plenty of time and watch the other riders. You just need to find a way that suits you:)
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Song obsession friday! (for the week ending Feb 1)
Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I've collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their "song obsessions of the week." Quite often it's easy to explain why the song is good; it's much hard to explain why we're obsessed. Maybe you'll become obsessed with one of these.
Adrian (me):
the Special Goodbye – Country Radio (demo mix) (mp3) (not released, buy other recordings at the artist's myspace)
I saw David Stockhausen and company close their set with this song on Sunday with this lovely song. I asked about it and he was nice enough to send me a rough mix of this song that they'd just recorded. There's something really nice about the juxtaposition of the rigid beat with the malleable pedal steel with the electric piano blocking out the chords between them. The vocal melodies and harmonies work really well too.
Chromatics – Running Up That Hill (mp3) (buy)
My obsession with Kate Bush back in my high school days bordered on disturbing, which still deactivates portions of my critical faculties to this day. Take this restrained cover of her biggest US hit "Running Up That Hill." Is it really the spookily brilliant creation my ears declare it is,
or is it just an off-key singer with slight range mated to a simple keyboard cadge? Only you can decide.
Mobius Band – Secret Language (mp3) (buy)
So after hearing and loving "Friends Like These" I decided to buy their new album and have now become obsessed with track #2. Oh man, the claps get me every time. I also like how they fake you out with the start of a breakdown at the end…PSYCH!
Damien Jurado – Omaha (mp3) (buy)
I've noticed a trend in my listening habits of late towards the soupy and sensitive lands of songwriter folkdom (maybe I should get this looked at, it could be serious.) One of the consequences of this has been a near constant rotation in my player between two superior albums of the genre: Nick Cave's "No More Shall We Part" and Damien Jurado's "Where Shall You Take Me?"
I like Jurado's voice especially for its peculiar focused quality — it sounds almost like the sound is coming from a few inches in front of his mouth and has to find its way back in somehow before we'll hear it. I guess that's a weird way to think about it… but it's both focused and relaxed, that's my point, and it sounds completely different depending on his dynamic level, register, or even backing
instrumentation, making for a truly unique instrument.
John Thill – I.E. Anthem (mp3) (buy)
John Thill – Riverside (mp3) (buy)
two short songs? i've been listening to "I.E. Anthem" and "Riverside" by John Thill. i saw him open for abe vigoda last summer. it was cool. i like sweet, nostalgic songs with people singing about their home towns. kinda a back reference to my previous obsession with the early microphones song 'anacortes has a secret love'.


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23rd Annual Biblical and Archaeological Journey to the Splendor of the East Turkey: The Crossroads of Civilizations
Spring Break: March 6-15, 2015
Tyler Junior College is offering a ten day travel/study project in Turkey with the optional extended fourteen day visit. Sites to be visited include: Istanbul, Topkapı Palace, Archaeological Museum, St. Sophia, Blue Mosque, Hippodrome, Grand Bazar, Spice Market, Dardanells, Bosphorus, Marmara Sea, Canakkale, Aegean Sea, Troy, Pergamum, Ephesus Antique City, Ephesus Museum, Izmir, Kusadasi, Didyma, Aphrodisias, Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Konya, Mausoleum of Mevlana, Cappadocia, Kaymakli Underground City, and more.
Package Includes: Accommodations, Two Meals a Day per itinerary, Entrance Fees, Land Transportation within Turkey and Hotel Transfers, Administration Fees and Orientation costs.
Cost for the Ten Day Tour: $1,590 for the land portion plus the international and domestic airfares.
Single supplement: $320 for the entire trip.
TJC students will travel with a $150 reduced cost of $1,440 plus the airfares. Additional funding maybe available for TJC students based on merit and need. TJC will purchase the international and domestic airline tickets for travelers based on the quotation by our travel agent at the time of ticketing.
A deposit of $590 is required before Friday, December 1, 2014. A full payment is due by January 2, 2015. Enrollment after January 6 will be based on the space availability and on a first come first serve basis. Travelers are welcome to join the tour the last minute, as long as there is space available and TJC is able to make arrangements after the deadline. Any community member, student, or faculty member may enroll for this project. All age groups are welcome to join this tour.
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Arizona On The Air
Radio: Wildcat Sports Properties/Host Communications (Flagship - KCUB, 1290 AM, Tucson, Ariz.) ?- Brian Jeffries (Play-By-Play), Lamont Lovett (Color), Sean Mooney (Sidelines), Ryan Radtke (pregame/halftime/postgame)?- Spanish Language Broadcast (XENY 760 AM in Nogales/KXEW 1600 AM in Tucson) ?- Francisco Romero (Play-By-Play)
Television: FSN AZ ?- Dave Sitton (Play-By-Play), Larry Smith (Color)
We Like Mike
For the third time in the last five years, the Wildcats will be taking the field on opening day under a different head coach. Mike Stoops was tabbed by athletic director Jim Livengood to the be the 28th head football coach in school history last November, taking over for the departed John Mackovic and interim head coach Mike Hankwitz. Since Stoops' arrival last autumn, he has helped revitalize the players' attitude toward the game and reinforced his dedication to winning, and winning now. The positive feeling originating with his hire has electrified the Tucson community and Southern Arizona, with new orders for season ticket sales surpassing the 4,000 mark prior to fall camp even opening.
Stoops' Bio In Brief
Nov. 2003-Present Arizona Head Coach
1999-Nov. 2003 Oklahoma Assistant Head Coach/Def. Coordinator/DB
1998 Kansas State Assistant Head Coach/Def. Coordinator/DB
1996-97 Kansas State Co-Defensive Coordinator/DB
1992-95 Kansas State Defensive Ends
1988-91 Iowa Volunteer Assistant Linebackers/DB
1986-87 Iowa Graduate Assistant
1981-84 Iowa Player (1983 and ?'84 All-Big Ten DB)
Arizona Under First Year Head Coaches
The Wildcats' 27 previous head coaches have enjoyed a fair share of highs and lows during the first season of their tenure at UA. The men who preceeded Stoops went a combined 100-102-8 in their first seasons and own a 15-10-2 record in the first game they coached. College Football Hall of Fame member Jim Young is the last UA head coach to post a winning season in his first year, going 8-3 in 1973, however, Dick Tomey, UA's all-time coaching wins leader, broke even at 4-4-3 in his first year in 1987. Of Arizona's last five head coaches (Tony Mason 1977, Larry Smith 1980, Dick Tomey 1987, John Mackovic 2001 and Mike Hankwitz 2003), only Mackovic won his first game.
Some Game Themes
The long-awaited culmination of nine months of anticipation for UA patrons, as Mike Stoops puts his first team on the field as a head coach... Curiousity about what the Cats will look like touch every aspect of play, as the program features 10 new coaches for the first time in more than three decades... The first demonstration of what is expected to be a rebirth of Arizona's defense, after three seasons of emphasis on the other side of the ball... Will Arizona be a tougher team than the units that struggled to an 11-24 record in the past three years?... UA faces the first of a eight consecutive games against teams that played in the 2003 postseason... NAU, off a second-round I-AA playoff season, tries to beat the Cats for the first time since 1932, when the smaller school prevailed, 7-6, in a game played in Phoenix... The Cats work to break a three-game losing streak against non-conference opponents...
Getting off on the Right Foot
Despite Arizona's recent struggles, the Wildcats have been very good in season openers. Arizona is 72-23-5 (.745) all-time on opening day dating back to 1899 and will enter the 2004 season with a four-game winning streak in the first contest of a year. Arizona has downed Utah (2000), San Diego State (2001), 2004 opening day opponent Northern Arizona (2002) and UTEP (2003) during the recent streak. The Wildcats last lost their first contest of the season on Aug. 28, 1999, when UA was defeated by Penn State 41-7 in State College. The school record for consecutive opening day wins is six straight, set four different times, most recently from 1971-1976. The 1899-1912 teams did not lose a season opening game for 12 straight years, but played to a tie twice during the stretch to break up winning streaks.
Home Openers
For the third straight season, Arizona's opening game is also its home opener. The Wildcats are 15-1 in home openers over the last 16 seasons, with the lone loss coming from Ohio State in 2000 (27-17).
The Cats and Jacks - The Series
Arizona and its northern neighbor NAU will meet up for the eighth time since 1931 ... The Wildcats own a 6-1 advantage in the series and have won the last five straight ... This year's game will be just the second contest between the two in the last 56 years, but it is also the second game pitting the in-state schools against each other in the last three seasons ... Arizona defeated NAU 37-3 in the opening game of the 2002 season ... Arizona is a perfect 5-0 against the Lumberjacks in Arizona Stadium, 1-0 against NAU in Flagstaff and 0-1 in Phoenix.
Noting the Lumberjacks
Picked to finish third in the Big Sky Conference in 2004, the Lumberjacks are coming off a historic season that saw them go 9-4 overall and reach the NCAA I-AA quarterfinals for the first time in school history ... NAU shared the Big West Conference title with Montana in 2003, posting a 5-2 league mark ... Jerome Souers is in his seventh season as the head coach of the Lumberjacks. His seven-year run is the third longest in school history behind former Arizona assistant coach Steve Axman (8 years in Flagstaff) and all-time leader Max Spilsbury (9 years) ... Souers has a career 36-34 record at NAU, the third most for any head coach in school history ... NAU returns 10 starters (3 on offense, 6 on defense, 1 specialist) and 36 letterwinners from last year ... Highlighting the returning starters on offense is the 2003 Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Year, QB Jason Murrietta ... A sophomore, Murrietta set a NCAA D-I AA record for touchdown passes by a freshman last season with 29, while also nabbing NAU single season records with 3,472 passing yards and 3,460 yards of total offense ... Joining him in the backfield is last season's leading rusher senior Roger Robinson ... As a junior last year, Robinson rushed for 1,108 yards and eight TDs en route to earning All-Big Sky honors ... On defense, leading tackler Jeremy Thornburg returns to his starting safety spot after tallying 92 stops in 2003 ... Joining Thornburg on defense will be a solid group of linebackers led by 2003 All-Big Sky selections Bruce Branch and Ian Gunderman and a defensive line that returns just one starter from last season, John Perrigo.
Tucson Ties
Northern Arizona quarterback Keoni Akina is no stranger to Tucson or Arizona Stadium for that matter. His father, Duane, was an assistant coach at Arizona under Dick Tomey for 14 years ... The Lumberjacks also have a pair of players that call Tucson home. Senior offensive lineman Cisco Peralta is a graduate of Sunnyside High School and Pima Community College and junior running back Philo Sanchez is a fellow Blue Devil alum.
NAU and Arizona - The Last Time Out
Arizona opened the 2002 season with a 37-3 win over the Lumberjacks on Aug 31. The Wildcats posted 510 total yards on offense with a balanced mix of 41 rushes against 41 passes, while scoring on five of their first six possessions of the game. Junior quarterback Jason Johnson passed for 381 yards and three touchdowns to pace the Arizona offensive effort. Mike Bell, then a freshman making his first UA appearance, led all Wildcats with 59 yards on 13 carries (4.5 ypc). Freshman classmate Darrell Brooks led all defenders with six stops, one for a loss, and a pair of pass break ups The Wildcat defense limited the Lumberjacks to just 202 yards of total offense and nine first downs in the game.
Cat's Picked To Finish 10th
The Wildcats have been picked to finish 10th in the Pac-10 this season, but that doesn't mean Arizona has to like it. Head coach Mike Stoops made that point at Pac-10 Media Day in Los Angeles.
"Expectations here (at Pac-10 Media Day) aren't high. As a staff and as a team, our expectations are much higher. When I think of the past seven or eight months, I'm proud of what we've accomplished. When I took this position, I knew it would be a challenge in the beginning. The players have made it very easy for me and they're excited about having some success on the football field again ... We feel we're a stronger football team than we were back in December."
Phillips Gets A Sixth Year
Senior Brandon Phillips asked for and was granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA after getting hurt in UA's third game of the year last season. The sixth year of eligibility makes the big offensive lineman the only player on the team to have played for Dick Tomey, John Mackovic, Mike Hankwitz and now Mike Stoops. Phillips will have to serve a three-game suspension before he is allowed to take the field.
Cats To Face Tough Slate in 2004
After a 2003 season that saw the Wildcats play both national champions (LSU and USC) and seven other teams that participated in bowl games, the 2004 schedule couldn't get any harder, right? Well the early forecast predicts another tough slate for the Cardinal and Navy. Right from the start the Wildcats will be tested as opening day opponent NAU has been tabbed third in I-AA for the preseason by Street and Smith's, while Utah is the early pick to win the Mountain West Conference and is ranked No. 21 in the preseason USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. The Big Ten does not list a preseason prediction outside of the top three, but Wisconsin, UA's final non-conference opponent of the regular season, will open the year ranked No. 22 in the coaches poll. Once conference play begins, Arizona will face five straight games against 2003 bowl teams, including preseason No. 15 Cal and at No. 25 Oregon. Arizona's final month features a road trip to Seattle to face the Huskies, a jaunt to LA to face preseason No. 1 USC and match up with rival Arizona State in the final game of the year for the Territorial Cup. Combined, Arizona's 2004 opponents posted an 89-52 record last year, including a 5-3 record in bowl games.
Starting Line
The offensive line at Arizona has strung together a pretty impressive list of starts. Center Keoki Faser leads all Wildcat players on both sides of the ball with 29 career starts, including 23 straight. Joining him along the front five are tackle Chris Johnson (20 starts), guard Kili Lefotu (19 starts) and tackle Brandon Phillips (16 starts). Add in tight end Steve Fleming's 11 starts, tackle Tanner Bell's six and guard John Abramo's four and the offensive line has combined for 105 career games started.
Watching You
The Sports Group in Dallas, Texas, has announced that senior Keoki Fraser has been added to the Rimington Award Watch List. The award will be presented to the top collegiate center in the country at the conclusion of the 2004 season. The award is named in honor of Dave Rimington, a consensus All-American at Nebraska in 1981 and ?'82 ... Fraser has also been named to watch list for the Outland Trophy. The award has been presented to the top interior lineman on either side of the ball by Football Writers Association of America at the end of the year since 1946, making the Outland the third-oldest award presented in collegiate football behind only the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award.
Bell Ready To Toll
One of the most pleasant surprises out of Arizona's 2-10 season was the emergence of sophomore Mike Bell as a force running the ball. A junior now and the Pac-10's leading returning rusher from 2003, Bell is coming off a season that saw him finish third in the conference in yards per game with 76.7. He finished 2003 with 920 yards on just 168 carries, a 5.5 yard-per-carry average, and was Arizona's lone representative on the All-Pac-10 team with second team honors. His 222 yards in a 27-22 win over Washington were the fifth-most in a single game for any running back in school history. In addition to racking up an 8.5 yard per carry average against the Huskies, he scored three touchdowns in the game, including scoring runs of 69 and 67 yards.
Additional Running
While Mike Bell will be the primary ball carrier for Arizona in 2004, halfbacks Gilbert Harris and Chris Henry will figure prominently in the rushing rotation. Harris, a 6-foot-1, 222-pounder, is listed as a fullback, but will see time in the tailback spot and serve as a change-of-pace back when compared to Bell. Henry, a redshirt freshman, appears to have overcome the leg injury issues that limited him to just two games a season ago and will provide added depth for Arizona's running game. Junior Pedro Limon, a sturdy 6-foot, 250-pounder, appears to relish the unsung fullback role, but will be a threat to both carry the ball and swing out of the backfield for passes.
Ealy Out
Junior wide receiver Biren Ealy will miss at least the opening game of 2004 with a mending right foot. Arizona's leading pass catcher from 2003 with 42 receptions and four TDs, his presence in the starting line up will be missed. However, the Wildcats still have a stable of capable returning receivers in seniors Ricky Williams (36 receptions in 2003) and Juan Valentine (5 receptions), sophomores Mike Jefferson (16 receptions) and Syndric Steptoe (9 receptions) and even senior tight ends Steve Fleming (24 receptions) and Clarence McRae. Redshirt freshman Anthony Johnson and newcomer Brad Wood add even more depth.
Fling It To Fleming
After snagging just three balls for 30 yards in his first two season, senior tight end Steve Fleming is coming off an impressive 2003 campaign that saw him record 24 receptions for 252 yards and two touchdowns. His reception total from last season was the third-most in a year for any UA tight end since the Wildcats joined the Pac-10. A duplication of his numbers from last year in 2004 would place him among the top tight ends in school history. Currently Mark Keel (1981-82) holds the school record for both receptions (59) and yards receiving (856 yards) by a tight end, while former Wildcat Ron Beyer (1975-78) holds the record for the most touchdown receptions by a TE with seven.
Feeling Blue
Fans catching the Wildcats for the first time in 2004 might not recognize the team when they take the field for the first time this season. The reason? Arizona has changed the color of its helmets from primarily all white to a solid blue. The "Academic A" remains on the side, but it has no other markings or stripes and a blue face mask. The change marks the first time since 1980 that UA will be wearing a helmet that is a different primary color than white.
The solid blue helmet is the first time in school history that Arizona will take the field with head gear so colored. In looking back through photos in Arizona's Heritage Hall, it has been found that former Wildcat great Art Lippino, UA's "Cactus Comet", and his 1955 Wildcat teammates took the field in a helmet that featured blue around the sides with a red top. All other color photos over the years have shown that the Wildcat gridders have donned either primarily red or white bonnets.
Costa The Chameleon
Nic Costa will play a number of different roles for the Wildcats this season. The speedy and athletic junior will line up in the slot as a receiver, as a running back and even take snaps as the quaterback. Whether serving as a decoy or as the primary threat, opposing defenders will have to take note when and where Costa takes the field this season. Evidenced by a 43-yard scamper against UCLA in 2003, Costa is an elusive and mobile runner. As the quarterback last season. he averaged 4.4 yards per rush, despite getting sacked six times.
Heavner Gets the Early Nod
After appearing in his first career game at Purdue on September 20 last year, quarterback Kris Heavner went on to start the final eight games of the season for Arizona in 2003. In doing so he was one of just six true freshmen to start at quarterback on the Division IA level last season. His efforts in 2003, and a strong spring and fall camp showing, have earned him an encore performance in the starting roll this year. However, should Heavner falter at any point, capable backups are in place in the form of Ryan O'Hara, Richard Kovalcheck and even Nic Costa.
Making A Change
Last season Arizona finished last in the Pac-10 in rushing defense, passing effiencey defense, total defense and scoring defense. Unaccoustomed to such rankings, head coach Mike Stoops has gone on record as saying "Those numbers are unacceptable in my eyes. If we are going to have success, we are going to have to cut those numbers down dramatically." With a track record like Stoops' (Top 10 national rankings in total defense and scoring defense as the co-defensive coordinator at Oklahoma the last four straight seasons) it is safe to say that improving Arizona's defense has been a major point of emphasis heading into the year.
A Crowded Corner
With the departure of 2003 senior starters Gary Love and Michael Jolivette, the Wildcats will have to find a new pair of cornerbacks in 2004. Fortunatly for defensive coordinator and DBs coach Mark Stoops, the UA roster has plenty of them to choose from. Returning from last season are Zeonte Sherman (1 start) and Luis Nunez (1 start), as well as redshirt freshmen Wilrey Fontenot and Michael Beach. Add in talented transfers Keil McDonald and Dramayne McElroy and true freshmen Antoine Cason and B.J. Dennard, and Arizona will surely find a pair of capable corners if not more.
Turnering It On
Newcomer Johnathan Turner has been a difference maker on the defensive line, so much so that head coach Mike Stoops has said about him; "He is going to be an amazing, amazing player. He is as good a young D-lineman as I ever been around. I could not be more impressed with him."
The 6-foot-3, 254-pound true freshman has flexibility as a defensive end or tackle. A late addition to the roster, Turner joined the Wildcats in the middle of the summer from Corona, Calif., and will open the season on the two-deep up front.
On The Defensive Front
Along with Turner, the Wildcat defesnive line will also have some veterans to line up on the front. Senior defensive tackle Carlos Williams is second among all defenders with 16 career starts under his belt. Slated to start next to Williams is sophomore Paul Philipp. As a redshirt freshman last year, Philipp tallied 10 total tackles, forced a fumble and recovered two others. Joining Williams and Philipp up front will be the leading returning tackler along the defensive line from last season, DE Marcus Smith. As a sophomore in 2003, Smith posted a career-high 40 tackles, inclulding six for losses with four sacks. Filling the other defensive end slot will most likely be senior Andre Torrey. Joining UA in 2003 as a juniorm he recorded 22 total tackles, including seven for a loss. Others that will be in the mix in the defensive trenches are juniors Brad Brittain, DE Copeland Bryan, redshirt freshman DT Lionel Dotson and true frosh Turner.
The Linebackers
The Arizona linebacking corps will have a couple of familiar faces, as well as some new ones. Seniors Kirk Johnson (12 career starts) and Pat Howard (6 career starts) return after combining for 97 tackles last season. Joining them will be sophomore John McKinney who started one game last season and newcomers Sean Jones (a two-year letterwiner at fullback), redshirt freshman Dane Krogstad and JC transfer Randy Sims.
Kicking Game On Point
It's no mystery that the Wildcat kicking game has struggled over the past couple of years. Last season Arizona managed just two field goals in 11 attempts, meaning that UA was more successful going for it on fourth down (3 for 11) then it was in converting field goals. The struggles appear to behind them however, as sophomore Nick Folk and true freshman Jason Bondzio have been one of the many bright spots during fall camp. The duo have consistnently put the ball through the up rights during practices and in scrimmage, hitting from distances from 45 or more yards.
Bootin' Baugher
Hopefully the Wildcats won't need to kick as many times in 2004 as they did last year when they led the Pac-10 with 98 punts. However, when the need arises junior Danny Baugher will be up to the task. Entering his third season as the starting punter, Baugher has already punted 114 times in the last two years and has amassed 4,672 yards (41.0 yds/punt). In 2003 he finished 30th in Division I-A with a 42.6 average.
Pointing A Finger
No longer will fans and coaches have to speculate as to whom the guilty party is on penalties. Beginning this season, officials will designate the players that are guilty of infractions on the field by calling their number along with the infraction.
Ticket Sales Soaring
The excitement and anticipation of Mike Stoops' hiring and first season in Tucson has caused season ticket sales to boom. The day after the athletic director Jim Livengood announced the hiring of Stoops last November, the McKale Center Ticket Office phones began ringing with new season ticket orders. Prior to single game ticket sales, which began on Aug. 28, orders for season tickets have surpassed the 25,000 mark, including over 5,000 new orders. In addition, all 22 of UA's corporate suites in the press box have been sold out for the year.
ALL ACCESS ?- Catch the Cats Live
Arizona and its website partner XOS have teamed up to allow Wildcat fans a chance to "Catch the Cats Live On Their Desktop". By subscribing for the All Access Pass, Wildcat fans will have a chance to listen to all audio broadcasts of Arizona athletics, as well as see some sporting events streamed in real time, watch home postgame and weekly press conferences live and view coaches' shows on demand right from their computer. To subscribe for the service, fans can click here, or to see what features will be available please click here.


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BT: Creative Proj Management
This 3 credit seminar course will focus on the skills and methods of bringing architectural design work and other creative projects into the stages of full physical realization. Our seminar group will work together as a project team to design, plan, and prototype an open-source machine/structure to address essential infrastructure needs for developing economies and post-disaster recovery operations. Through this applied case study, seminar members will participate in the project realization from the point of view of information modeling, physical modeling, scheduling, budgeting, communication, documentation, and project management. Through readings, presentations, and field trips, the students will become familiar with the structures and vocabularies of Integrated Project Delivery and Building Information Modeling, and will explore emerging concepts of project management and project delivery in the architecture and construction industry, with an emphasis on understanding and utilizing web-based project collaboration systems to coordinate the work of diverse and geographically distributed project teams. There are no specific prerequisites except for enthusiasm, and we hope to have a broad range of background skills and interests to fill out the various team requirements.


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Thursday, August 26, 2010
World of Mystery #6 - Al Williamson, Steve Ditko art
World of Mystery v1 #6, 1957 - A foreboding haunted house becomes the initiation test for a trio of teenagers. Al Williamson opens with a crumbling Victorian, conveying its age and condition by a broken fence and withered trees. Ralph Mayo's splendid inks keep the panels appropriately dark and ominous. Steve Ditko illustrates a tale of a man who becomes invincible after a freak lightning strike. The art is a atypically textural, yet the artist comfortably meets expectations. Other artists in this issue include Gene Colan, Mac Pacula, Chuck Miller, Sol Brodsky and Carl Burgos (cover). This is number 2 of 2 World of Mystery issues with Ditko art and/or covers and 1 of 1 World of Mystery issues with Williamson art and/or covers. See today's posts or more Williamson, Ditko or World of Mystery issues. See also this blog's Williamson checklist or Ditko checklist.
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Herring Family, (Clupeidae): The Herring or Clupeidae Family are known in Mexican fishing areas as "Sardinas." The Family consists of Herrings, Menhadens, Pilchards, Piquitingas, Sardines, Shads, and Threadfin Herrings.
In general, they are small silvery shallow water fishes that are found in all cold and warm waters of the seas. They normally travel in schools that consist of hundreds to thousands of individuals. They feed primarily on zooplankton.
They are characterized by their scuted keels along the entire belly, a single dorsal fin in the middle of the body, anal fins that are well back with a short base, pelvic fins on the abdomen below the dorsal fin, pectoral fins that are low on the sides and their fins have no spines.
Herrings are of major importance to fisheries comprising 50 percent of the global catch of fishes each year. Globally, 227 species of Clupeidae have been identified, of which only 10 are found in Mexica fishing n waters of the Pacific.
Members of the Herring Family represented in the photo identification section of this website include:
Deepbody Thread Herring, Opisthonema liberatate.
Middling Thread Herring, Opisthonema medirastre.
Round Herring, Etrumeus teres.
Sardina or Flatiron Herring, Harengula thrissina.
Striped Herring, Lile stolifera.
Yellowfin Herring, Pliosteostoma lutipinnis.
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