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The Shepherd of Your Souls…
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23
For "you were like sheep going astray," but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 1 Peter 2:25
Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Matthew 11:28-29
My sheep (believers) listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. John 10:27-28
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21
My name is Mark Horowitz. Throughout my childhood and adolescence, I believed there was a God, but never understood or knew Him. Being raised in a non-religious Jewish home, I lived my life without ever recognizing I was a sinner and that the forgiveness and love of God was something needed and available to me. I always thought I was a "good person" and that would be good enough to get into Heaven, especially being Jewish. After I got married, my wife Sharel started reading the Bible. She was so excited about what she was learning. Every day she tried relentlessly to get me to read the Word with her. I wanted to have nothing to do with it. I was hostile to anything that had to do with Jesus Christ. After hearing her say, "why don't I believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah?" I asked myself that very question. Was it because of my Jewish upbringing? I wondered if there is more to this than what I perceived. I started reading the Bible on my own personal journey of truth finding prophecies of the Messiah in the Old Testament, then reading their fulfillment in the New Testament. More and more God revealed his truth to me. In 1992, at the age of thirty seven, I asked Jesus into my heart as my Lord and Savior. By his grace I am able to share his word with others. The Lord has given me a ministry to spread the Word of God through the Internet using "Biblestuph.com" I started putting selected scriptures together every week with a theme so that believers and nonbelievers could grow in the knowledge of God. I know that the Word of God is vital for salvation and spiritual growth. "Nuggets of Wisdom" will help people understand the essence of life by beautifully connecting the scriptures together so that they will discover: • Answers that will bring light to the needs, questions, and challenges that we face each day. • Promises that will bring the fullness of God's love, truth, and hope to our hearts. • Words that will bring people to a personal encounter and revelation of the Savior, the Messiah, the Word, Jesus Christ! eMail: firstname.lastname@example.com For Mark Horowitz's Bio Click Here! To see all Nuggets of Wisdom articles Click Here!


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by Rob Moseley
Editor, GoDucks.com
After a season in which UO athletics finished 15th in the Director's Cup standings, the Ducks begin their quest for an encore Saturday when the Oregon soccer squad plays an exhibition at UC Davis, the first event of the 2013-14 year on the UO athletics calendar.
The 5 p.m. exhibition is also the competitive debut for new Ducks soccer coach Kat Mertz. The squad opened training camp just over a week ago, and has held two scrimmages in the past week to prepare for Saturday's match.
"We're coming together and hitting some of our goals, as far as being more defensively organized and getting a little more creativity from the midfield," Mertz said. "Now it'll be fun to see how we do against an opponent that's not ourselves."
The Ducks and Aggies also scrimmaged during the spring, playing to a 2-2 tie. A victory Saturday could validate the hard work Oregon has put in since, though Mertz said she won't put too much stock in the outcome.
"Obviously you want to be able to set the tone, and go into the regular season with a positive," Mertz said. "But at the end of the day, the result is the result, and you can learn from it and move on.
"You'd love to see a lot of goals and zero against, but the reality is there's gonna be something we have to fix. And it will be a good test for us, to see what we need to tweak and how to do it."
The Ducks held a scrimmage last Friday, early in training camp, that ended 3-1, with Bri Pugh finding the back of the net twice. They scrimmaged again Monday, a 40-minute, scoreless affair in which the rigors of training might have contributed to the lack of scoring.
Mertz will test her team again in that regard, as the Ducks didn't taper their training on account of Saturday's exhibition. As was the case for Monday's scrimmage, they held tough workouts up to and including the day before an exhibition.
"I explained to them, this could be a Sunday game (in the regular season)," Mertz said. "Not every Sunday you feel fresh, if you played on Friday. In-season you're not going to feel fresh. We have to find a way collectively to step up to the challenge."
As far as the roster is concerned, Mertz is still experimenting with her defenders, after the Ducks suffered losses to graduation and injury on the back line. She said Pugh and Shanelle Simien helped set the tone with their fitness levels at the opening of camp.
"There's some people we definitely need to continue to push, but as a whole we're happy with where we are," Mertz said. "But we can't be complacent. There's a whole other level we have to get to."
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Picks of the Week - Happenings
By Chris O'Neal and Michel Miller 10/24/2013
THE COLLECTION'S HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR Oct 26, 2-5 p.m. Featuring pumpkin decorating, a costume parade, a magic show and a Color Me Mine Halloween ornament making station. The Collection at RiverPark, Park View Court, Oxnard. For more information, visit www.thecollectionrp.com/.
DEAD RUN 805 Oct 24-27, 5-10 p.m. Escape from Zombie Village! Runners will navigate a 10,000-square-foot maze in an attempt to escape zombie infection. $10. The House of Magic, 5353 Walker St., Ventura. For more information, visit www.deadrun805.com.
FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL Oct 26-27, 10:30 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Several varieties of pumpkin will be on display, with lessons on proper carving and care as well as performances by spooky bands. $12. Underwood Family Farms, 3370 Sunset Valley Road, Moorpark. For more information, visit www.underwoodfamilyfarms.com.
FARMERS MARKET PUMPKIN FUN DAYS Oct 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. A multitude of Halloween events, including a mummy wrap and pumpkin seed spitting contest. Channel Islands Certified Farmers Market, 3350 South Harbor Blvd., Oxnard. For more information, call 643-6458.
15TH ANNUAL GHOST TOUR IN STRATHEARN PARK Oct 26-27, 7 p.m. Featuring 24 actors portraying the ghosts of one-time Simi Valley residents in docent-led walking tours to hear the ghostly apparitions tell their tales of life in Simi Valley. $8-$10. Strathearn Park, 137 Strathearn Place, Simi Valley. For more information, call 526-6453.
HALLOWEEN ZOMBIE TRAIN PARTY Oct. 25, 6-10 p.m. A Fillmore & Western Railway train will take visitors out to a zombie village for dancing, fun and food. $55. Boarding at the Fillmore Depot (free parking behind Fillmore City Hall), 250 Central Ave., Fillmore. For more information, visit www.fwry.com.
HAUNTED HOTEL AT THE MISSION Oct 25-26. Kid-Friendly Hour 5:30-6:30 p.m; general admission 7-9 p.m. The San Buenaventura Mission Youth Group presents a tour of a real-life old abandoned and haunted hotel. $3-$5. Mission's Hotel, 211 E. Main St., Ventura. For more information, visit www.downtownventura.org.
HOMEGROWN SURF SHOP HALLOWEEN FEST Oct. 26, noon-7 p.m. All-ages Halloween show and party featuring musicians Brilliant Machine, Die Evil Die and Kapeesh. Taco truck and art. $5. Homegrown Surf Shop, 811 E. Thompson Blvd., Ventura. For more information, call 642-7873.
NOSFERATU Oct 27, 7 p.m. The American Guild of Organists presents a screening of the original vampire film accompanied by a live organist. Ascension Lutheran Church, 1600 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks. For more information, call 231-2697.
ROCK CITY HALLOWEEN SHOW Oct. 24-27. 7 p.m. Featuring a professional musical performance, a haunted asylum tour and more than 30 vocal students performing classic villain songs. Rock City Studios, 2258 Pickwick Drive, Camarillo. For more information, visit www.rockcitystudios.org.
SANTA PAULA GHOSTWALK Oct 26-27, 6:30 p.m. An hour-long guided tour of vintage Santa Paula, featuring historical and architectural history of the city of Santa Paula. $8-$15. Santa Paula Airport, 28 Wright Taxi Way, Santa Paula. For more information, call 525-3073 or visit www.ghostwalk.com.
SOMETHING SPOOKTACULAR FEST Oct. 26, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free arts and crafts, pumpkin pie eating and costume contests followed by downtown trick or treating for kids. California and Main streets, Downtown Ventura. For more information, visit www.downtownventura.org.
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- "The meat-head with attitude and interchangeable hands is Gobber. I've been his apprentice ever since I was little...well, littler."
- ―Hiccup, introducing Gobber in his narration[src]
Gobber The Belch is a veteran warrior of the Hairy Hooligans Tribe and a long-time friend and adviser of Stoick the Vast. He is 50 years old in the first film, and 55 in the sequel.
In the books
Gobber the Belch is a six-and-a-half foot tall madman who is tasked with training Hairy Hooligan teens in various skills needed to become a Viking: catching and training dragons, pirating skills, sword-fighting, and rudeness. He is incapable of speaking in any tone of voice other than a bellow. He has trained many students that became great warriors, being a capable warrior himself. He normally wears his small shorts. He believes Hiccup's group is the best group he has ever taught. He was also one of the few people to live and tell the tale of him stealing a book from the Meathead Public Library and under the Hairy Scary Librarian's nose also. He was the Hooligan that stole How to Train Your Dragon by Professor Yobbish. Though In A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons Hiccup steals the second volume of this book.
In the tenth book, Gobber is made a slave in the Amber Slavelands when he protested Alvin's kingship. He later joins the Dragonmarkers, and in the eleventh book, he is captured by Alvin and his beard is cut off, the ultimate Viking shame.
Gobber is known as the great-great-great-grandson of Bork the Bold, author of the first Dragon Manual.[2] At some point in his life, his father used barbaric methods like acting to threaten his son's life in order to teach him to swim as he revealed when working at the Academy.[3] In his youth, Gobber also had a pet Yak named Pepe that his family ate for Snoggletog, as well as fell in love with a female Viking named Greta.[4]
As revealed in Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon, when he was a teenager on a summer vacation trip with his parents, he stopped inside an frozen cave for a bathroom break and was surprised to see a wall of ice with Vikings trapped inside. Gobber noticed that one of the Viking was holding a treasure chest and decided to claim it for himself. It was here that the Boneknapper appeared and began to chase after him. The Boneknapper flew after Gobber until he escaped with the treasure box.
In the course of Berk's long wars with the dragons and at some point in his life, Gobber lost his left hand and right leg in battle with a Monstrous Nightmare. He has managed to replace his missing limbs with a variety of metal prostheses of his own design and creation. His arm can be interchanged with other items such as a hammer or axe if needed[5] (similar to Alvin the Treacherous in the books).
When he was stranded on an island himself many years later, armed with only his broom arm attachment, the Boneknapper found him again, causing Gobber to flee though an ocean filled with Hammerhead Sharks.[6]
Since he is no longer able to take an active part in the war, Gobber is left responsible for the village's smithy and armory, keeping the other Vikings well suited with weapons.[5]
Gobber then sets a trap for the Boneknapper, but they fail. When the Boneknapper had him in his clutches, Gobber then cried out for help. Thor had heard his cry and sent down a lightning bolt that Gobber had thought he missed. However, Thor was able to summon the Hammerhead Yak riding the Hammerhead Whale that tried but failed to eat defeat the elusive Boneknapper.[6]
Gobber was also able to convince Astrid to refrain from taking on the Flightmare that froze her uncle Finn, telling her that it would take more than her axe.[7]
After Stoick does some convincing, Gobber agrees to train some of the younger Vikings for battle at Dragon Training while Stoick and the rest of the village head out to find the dragon's nest.
How to Train Your Dragon
Hiccup, the son of Chief Stoick, was tasked to assist Gobber in the armory ever since he was a small boy. Even though Gobber taught him a fair amount of skills which he would later put to good use, Hiccup's clumsiness eventually made him into the despair of Gobber, his father and the whole village. Seeing Hiccup's desire to become a true Viking, Gobber was the one who convinced Stoick to admit the boy to Dragon Training.
After a typically clumsy start, Gobber was amazed when Hiccup became the new class's most proficient trainee, being able to incapacitate the beasts without the need for weapons. His skill grew so much, he even outclassed the fierce Astrid and earned the right to kill a dragon.
When Stoick ordered the entire village to embark to the island where the Dragons' Nest was located, Gobber went along with them although with some signs of nerves when asking what the plan for the attack was. The Vikings inadvertently released the Red Death from the Nest's depths and it soon set fire to their ships. Trapped on the island and forced to fight, Stoick ordered his people to flee to the other side of the island while he distracted the dragon by baiting it. As his oldest friend, Gobber volunteered to do the same. Together, they bought enough time for the Vikings to retreat. Gobber shared equal amazement when Hiccup and the other Vikings arrived riding dragons and took down the Red Death.
Later, when Hiccup had been wounded defeating the dragon, Gobber crafted a metal prosthetic to replace his lower left leg, cleverly adapting Hiccup's custom-made dragon-saddle with a matching left metal stirrup to accommodate the new foot. When Hiccup regained consciousness, Gobber welcomed him home by presenting him with a brand-new prosthetic tail fin for Toothless that would allow them to fly again.
Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon
- "The Boneknapper has no roar at all, that's why it's terrifying! It's a silent killer."
- ―Gobber[src]
After the events of How To Train Your Dragon, Gobber's house was set alight one night. With some help from the now peaceful dragons, the house was saved but Gobber was convinced that a dragon had caused the fire. Mentioning his old tale of the Boneknapper, he set out to try and take down the beast once and for all to prove to the rest of the village that it was real, with his pet sheep Phil in tow. Hiccup, fearing for Gobber's safety, decided to tag along, and convinced his friends to come too.
Using a small long boat to reach a distant island, Gobber told stories of his previous encounters with the mythical dragon, including stealing a treasure box from frozen Vikings, being saved by Hammerhead Whales and Hammerhead Yaks and failing to trap the Boneknapper himself in a forest. The sheer odd nature of his stories soon tell the Viking teens why the village does not believe his claims of the Boneknapper being a real dragon.
Now stranded themselves after their ship sinks, Gobber convinces the Viking youngsters to help him catch the Boneknapper, using Fishlegs as bait. Unbeknownst to them, the Boneknapper appears behind them and begins to attack. In the confusion, the Young Vikings group are trapped beneath a gigantic rib-cage. Luckily, Hiccup notices what the Boneknapper wants. The treasure Gobber took from the frozen Viking was a small belt buckle made of a tiny bone fragment. As the Boneknapper is always attempting to find the perfect bones for its armor, Hiccup notices the belt buckle fits the outline of a missing fragment from it's neck plate. With some persuasion, Gobber agrees to give the bone back and the dragon becomes docile and friendly.
The Boneknapper flies the group back home, joined by others of its species, as Gobber laughs that Stoick will have to believe his claims now.
Book of Dragons
Gobber is present in the Great Hall, along with Hiccup, Astrid, Toothless and Fishlegs, in order to explain about the various Dragon species, and Bork the Bold. Gobber claims you won't survive a day of Dragon Training without the Book, to which Hiccup answers that he can't scare them, seeing how they've already trained dragons. Gobber continues to explain about his great-great-grandfather, Bork the Bold or, as he was once known, Bork the Very, Very Unfortunate. He explains that Bork hated dragons, because they kept attacking and raiding him. At the end of the special, Gobber takes the viewer to the Arena, where a Deadly Nadder, Gronckle, Monstrous Nightmare and Hideous Zippleback are waiting.
Gift of the Night Fury
Unlike the other specials, Gobber's role is very small in this one. At the beginning, he helped some Vikings and their dragons to make a 'Snoggletog Tree'. During the meeting, after Stoick claims they can happily celebrate the Holiday without dragons, he agrees with Stoick, stating that Vikings are tough. The other Vikings laugh about this, because Gobber is wearing several holiday stockings, to which Gobber replies: '...Most of the time'.
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Riders of Berk
Following the end of the war with the Dragons, Gobber finds his duties as a weapon-smith superfluous with the current peace. With Hiccup's urging, Stoick has Gobber help him with his chiefly duties. However, Gobber proves lackluster at best. Gobber then decides to help out at Dragon Training, offering to use his weapons to "encourage" the Dragons. Hiccup asks him to make saddles for the other dragons instead, but Gobber goes over the top, adding cumbersome "extras". After Hiccup glumly declines Gobber's future assistance, Hookfang suddenly goes on a rampage. Gobber arrives to help, during which he realizes that Hookfang has a bad tooth, and removes it. Afterwards, Gobber realizes his new calling as a Dragon dentist.[3]
He still stands as Stoick's trustworthy right-hand man. The series also highlights Gobber's practical wisdom and experience. He is the one to figure out why the animals have stopped producing[8], and reveals that the Book of Dragons is wrong about the Scauldron lack of venom[9]. Gobber also helped Stoick and the Dragon Riders in fighting the Alvin and his outcasts on a couple of occasions.
Defenders of Berk
Gobber then made adjustment to Stoick's saddle when he went on patrol with Thornado, despite his ban flying.[10] Gobber also discovered that Meatlug could produce a new type of iron stronger than anything he's ever forged.[11] He then assisted Stoick in defending against newly-hatched Whispering Deaths left by the Outcasts.[12] He then assisted Stoick in preparing the village for the Flightmare's arrival during Aurvandil's Fire.[7] Gobber then showed Hiccup and his riders how disarm the traps. He then sent thme to clear the forest of all the left over dragon traps.[13]
Gobber then took Stoick and the others to the cove during the Speed Stingers attack.[14] He then helped Silent Sven cool his chest airs during a Screaming Death drill.[15] Gobber was then stricken with Eel Pox.[16] Gobber then bought a pile of scrap metal from Trader Johann. He then donated his hook to Hiccup in order use the Smothering Smokebreaths against the Dagur and his forces.[17]
Race to the Edge
Three years later, Gobber tried to open the Dragon Eye, to no avail. He then filled in for Gothi as the village healer.[18] Gobbe, along with the rest of the Berk Council, then supported Hiccup's mission to explore the edges of the archipelago and search for Dagur.[19] Gobber also took the liberty of waxing the riders saddles with his earwax. Unfortunately, Fishlegs was allergic to his earwax.[20] Gobber then went to Dragon's Edge to ask Hiccup to talk to his father about his behavior. He then assisted in helping the dragon riders in building a wall against the Rumblehorn's attacks. Though the wall held, Gobber was then hit with rock and was then spouting nonsense. As he walked around, he thought the rumblehorn was his pet yak, Pepe, believing that his family had not eaten him. After Dragon's edge was saved from the tidal wave, Gobber returned to Berk along with Stoick and his new dragon, Skullcrusher.[4] Gobber was then given the formula for making Gronckle Iron by Fishlegs. He also told Hiccup the legend of the Lycanwing when Tuffnut believed he was turning into one.[21]
Dawn of the Dragon Racers
Gobber then attempted help round up the sheep who were afraid of Silent Sven's new-found voice.
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Later, five years in HTTYD2, Gobber, Stoick and the rest of the villagers watch Astrid, Snotlout and the teens who are now five years older compete with each other in a dragon race. Gobber then launches the Black sheep, which Astrid used to win. After the races, Gobber has became the dragon dentist and doctor of the tribe and owns a Hotburple named Grump. Gobber and Stoick are arguing on whether or not Hiccup is ready to run Berk.
Gobber then went with Stoick and the other riders after Hiccup and Astrid when they heard from them that Drago Bludvist was coming with a dragon army. Gobber and the others found Hiccup on Eret's ship. Gobber knocked out Eret and then had Grump hold him down. When Hiccup ran off, Gobber went with Stoick to track him down before he found Drago.
Gobber and Stoick found Hiccup at Dragon Mountain. As they were making their exit, Gobber then came across Stoick's presumed dead wife, Valka. After having a meal together, Gobber, Stoick, Hiccup, Valka and the dragons then came under attack by Drago's army. During the battle, Gobber and Grump knocked several of Drago's archers. Gobber then gave Stoick his mace to fight Drago with. Gobber also followed Stoick as he rescued Valka from Drago's Bewilderbeast. He continued following Stoick and Valka until Stoick was killed by Drago, and used Toothless under the Bewilderbeast's control.
After Drago, his army and Bewilderbeast left, Gobber gave him Hiccup a bow and arrow for Stoick's viking funeral. Gobber gave an eulogy and took part in lighting his boat on fire. Gobber, following Hiccup, then rode a baby Scuttleclaw back to Berk. There Gobber and the other riders used the sheep launcher to distract the Bewilderbeast. After Hiccup and Toothless, now the Alpha dragon, defeated Drago and his Bewilderbeast, Gobber reunited with his dragon Grump. He even watches Hiccup and Astrid kiss, while covering a squawking boy's eyes. After Hiccup was named Chief, Gobber announced that the Chief has come home. During the next Dragon Race, Gobber, assisted by Valka, then removed armor from dragons that came from Drago's army. Gobber finally launched a black sheep for the dragon race which Astrid won, thanks to Hiccup.
Stoick the Vast
- "May the Valkyries welcome you and lead you through Odin's great battle field. May they sing your name with love and fury so that we may hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla and know that you have taken your rightful place at the table of kings. For a great man has fallen, a warrior, a chieftain, a father, a friend."
- ―Gobber's final farewell to Stoick[src]
Gobber is Stoick's best friend and second-in-command. Apparently, they've met when Gobber talked with Valka, to which Stoick replied rather aggressively. However, according to the HTTYD2 art book, the two are childhood friends.
Either way, the two became great friends with a strong, brother-like relationship. Gobber seems to be very supportive of Stoick, as he convinced Stoick to let Hiccup enter Dragon Training, because he can't protect him forever. However, he also isn't afraid to call out Stoick on his mistakes. Gobber was heartbroken when Stoick died, and he delivered an eulogy as a final farewell to his best friend.
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Gobber serves as Hiccup's Stand-In-Father, godfather, uncle, mentor and teacher. Apparently, Gobber is like a family to Hiccup, which explains why they have a close friendship. Before meeting Toothless, Hiccup was Gobber's blacksmith Apprentice, and Gobber taught him everything he knew. Gobber also made Hiccup's prosthetic leg and Toothless' new tailfin. Throughout the movie, while he is constantly annoyed by Hiccup's antics, he's more supportive of Hiccup than Stoick. Gobber's support is what gets Hiccup into Dragon Training.
At the end of How to Train Your Dragon 2, Gobber announces Hiccup as the new Chief of Berk.
- "Oh, give me a cuddle, Grumpy!"
- ―Gobber, as he reunites with Grump
Grump is Gobber's dragon, who first appeared in How To Train Your Dragon 2. Seeing how Grump is an extremely lazy dragon, Gobber often complains about him, even threatening to put him up for adoption. However, in the end, he does love Grump.
Gobber first met Grump while undercover at Viggo Grimborn's dragon auction with Snotlout. While the Hunters mistreated the Hotburple, Gobber was immediately awe inspired by him. He quickly earned the dragon's trust by feeding him and treating him with kindness. Gobber managed to get Grump to come to his and the Riders rescue. The Hotburple took out the guards and break the Vikings out. Afterwards, Gobber decided to keep Grump.
Though not much of their relationship has been seen, it can be assumed they are on good terms. Gobber was the first Viking to recognize Toothless as a Night Fury, and also made his new tail-fin, after the old one got burned during the Battle with the Red Death in The Dragon War.
It can be assumed that Valka and Gobber are good friends. Gobber also claims that, if the entire Haddock clan will go back to the Isle of Berk, he will cook, because he claimed Valka is a bad cook, (a lot like Astrid).
Astrid Hofferson
- "It's gonna take a lot more than that wee axe, Astrid."
- ―Gobber, stopping young Astrid from facing the Flightmare
Gobber and Astrid seem to be on good terms. Before Hiccup learned how to train dragons, Astrid was Gobber's Star Student in Dragon Training. He was also the one who stopped her from doing anything stupid after the Flightmare had defeated her Uncle.[7]
Fishlegs Ingerman
Fishlegs and Gobber are on good terms. They had a brief business relationship, with Fishlegs' Dragon barfing up an unique kind of lava, that can be forged into very strong and light metal called Gronckle Iron. However, Fishlegs ends the business when he returns to the Dragon Riders and the Academy. Gobber doesn't seem mad by this, and gives Fishlegs the first sword he made, which he originally wanted to keep for himself.[11] Three years later, Fishlegs then showed Gobber how to make gronckle iron.[21]
Snotlout Jorgenson
Gobber seems to have a certain annoyance and disdain of Snotlout, as was seen in In Dragons We Trust. This is shared by many in the village. But he does not wish Snotlout any harm.
Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston
Just like with Snotlout, Gobber doesn't seem to have a very high opinion of the twins.
Gobber was the one who led Hookfang back into his cage, after Toothless had chased him away.[5] Gobber figured out Hookfang had a toothache, and took the tooth out. This started his business as a Dragon Doctor and Dentist.[3] He briefly rode him in when they searched for Snotlout and Hiccup.[22]
Gobber's Hands
Gobber's prostheses include:
- Spiked Hammer
- Stone Hammer
- Blacksmithing Hammer
- Blacksmith's Tongs
- Double-headed Axe
- Long Hook
- Short Hook
- Drinking Tankard/Mug
- Spit for roasting food
- Oar
- Butter-Knife
- Broom
- Eggbeater
- Flag
- Lute
- Jingle Bells
- File
- Wooden hand
- Club
- Hacksaw
- Crossbow
Abilities and Skills
Gobber has quite a few talents and abilities that make him and his advice useful to the people of Berk.
- Intelligence: Gobber's practical knowledge is quite good, as he figured out the gender of a yak without even looking at it, and knew why the farm animals were behaving strangely.
- Teaching: Gobber used to teach the Teens of Berk how to fight Dragons, and also taught Hiccup everything he knew about forging. He did teach them to fight to defend themselves in Gem of a Different Color. As he even told them the best weapon will be a shield in combat.
- Healer: Gobber also had experience as a healer such as when he removed Scauldron poison from Mildew's butt.[9] He also able to to treat things such taking a trap of Magnus's foot. He was also able to create a potion that gave Agnar his hair back, though the potion was supposed help his stomach.[18]
- Strength: Gobber is shown to be very strong. After all, he used to forge weapons and fight Dragons. He had shown that he can throw a kitchen knife to a tree to split in half.
- Forging: Gobber used to be the blacksmith of the Hairy Hooligan Tribe, providing the Town with weapons in order to fight the Dragons.
- Reading Gothi's Writing: He, Hiccup and Fishlegs are the only Vikings that can understand what Gothi means.
- Replaceable hand: Gobber has been seen to remove and replace his prosthetic hand with several other tools, such as hooks, axes, maces, or others.
- Senses: He has strong sense of smell. For example, he knew exactly where and how long the Teens had been in one spot.
- Dragon Dentist and Doctor: It was revealed in Viking for Hire that, ever since Hiccup made peace with the Dragons, Gobber had run out of a job. However, he is now the current Dragon doctor and dentist of the Tribe. As Dragon doctor he can surprise others just like Fishlegs what he learned by using a feather on a dragon underbelly like a Gronckle to puke out of their digestive system to be cleaned from over eating.
- Dragon Riding and Training: The first time Gobber rode a Dragon, was when he and the Teens met his old arch-nemesis, the Boneknapper. The same Dragon ended up giving them a ride back home. He has also been seen riding Hookfang and Flystorm. In the second film, he has a Hotburple named Grump. He also rode a baby Scuttleclaw with a lot of struggling since they don't listen to anyone.
- Speed: Though for only have one leg and the other leg was replaced with a peg, he can move much faster than he appears even though he is a heavy Viking. He does this to surprise others of his own speed. In HTTYD 2, he has shown from his age increase that he became much slower.
- Fighting Skills: Very good to fight other Vikings such as Outcasts and he is able to fight off young Whispering Deaths by using his shield. He was also able to fight Ryker one-on-one.
Memorable Quotes:
How to Train Your Dragon
- "Oh, nice of you to join the party! I thought you'd been carried off!"
- "Well, they need toothpicks, don't they?"
- "Oh, you've made plenty of marks. All in the wrong places!"
- "You can't lift a hammer, you can't swing an axe. You can't even throw one of these!"
- "Hiccup. If you ever want to get out there to fight dragons, you need to stop all...this."
- "Now, you're thinkin' about this all wrong. It's not so much what you look like, it's what's inside that he can't stand."
- "I'll pack my undies."
- "Trolls exist! They steal your socks! But only the left ones! What's with that?"
- "Welcome to Dragon Training!"
- "Let's get started! The recruit who does best will win the honor of killing his first Dragon in front of the entire village!"
- "Don't worry. You're small, and you're weak. That'll make you less of a target! They'll see you as sick or insane and go after the more Viking-like teens instead."
- "I believe in learning on the job."
- "Focus, Hiccup! You're not even trying!"
- "Blind spot, yes. Deaf spot, not so much!"
- "And with one twist, he took my hand and swallowed it whole! And I saw the look on his face: I was delicious! He must have passed the word, because it wasn't a month before another one of 'em took my leg."
- "It's the wings and the tails you really want. If it can't fly, it can't get away. A downed dragon is a dead dragon."
- "Who would have thought it, eh? He has this way with the beasts!"
- "Then I can double that time."
- "Every bit the boar-headed, stubborn Viking you ever were."
Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon
- "Fishlegs, I know what I didn't hear!"
- "No need to panic, kids. I've been shipwrecked many times!"
- "You never forget your first shipwreck..."
- "Someone forgot to brush!"
- "Ehh, safety's overrated!"
Dragons: Riders of Berk
- "Ah! Here's Mildew with the complaint of the day."
- [To Stoick] "He's right, he's hideous."
- "You're getting a Dragon Training Academy!"
- "You can tell them the part about how proud you are of them!"
- "Grab a weapon! No time to be choosy!"[3]
- "Eeh? Hildegard? Doesn't seem like a Hildegard to me. Let's go with Magnus."[3]
- "Diplomacy, check. All right, what's next?"
- "I thought maybe we could train them by threatening to kill them. That's how my daddy taught me to swim."
- "I've got my axe and I've got my mace, and I love my wife with the ugly face! I'm a Viking through and throouugghh!"
- "Oh come on! You can't tell me my saddle is heavier than Fishlegs!"
- "I would never shoot you, Hiccup. Unless I absolutely had to."
- "Stand back. I came here to do what I do best."
- "I've forgotten more about dragons than most men will ever know."
- "This reminds me of the time I moved my mother in with my goat. She was mean, ornery, ate everything in sight. The goat was so scared of her, she couldn't give milk."
- "Dragons are complex creatures, Hiccup. They operate on many emotional levels. Me? I've only got the one."
- "You want to dance, big boy? 'Cause I've got my dancing shoe on!"
- "Listen to yourselves! 'My feet are cold!' You're Vikings! Everything is cold!"
- "'DUMB'. Well that suits you."
- "I think I showed sufficient respect to a sash that says 'DUMB'."
- "Pie would be nice too. Who doesn't love pie?"
- "Oh, you lousy Outcasts! You'll never take me alive!"
- "I'm better than okay, I'm in heaven!"
- "Well, that's ruined. I'll never get that yak to vomit again."
- "It's my skivvies. They're glorious!"
- "I may need to change my skivvies again."
- "Ive seen a Nadder's spine slice through a man's eyeball like a grape. I watched my own arm get devoured by a Monstrous Nightmare. But never, NEVER, have I seen anything so disturbing as that old man's bare behind!"
- "Here, take this to your dragons. I'm going into the forest to scream."
- "Look at those goosebumps!"
- "Eh, whatever it is, it's giving me the willies."
- "Why don't you do that thing where you touch its nose and feed it grass?"
- "Trick question, don't answer it."
- "He's really got a handle on that whole "deranged" thing."
- "You don't sneak up on a man with a hook for an arm!"
Defenders of Berk
- "Stoick, I'm nothing if not careful-- [gets hit with shield lever] OOF! Catapult. Should've seen that one coming."
- "Why does he keep saying that? It's kind of giving me the willies."
- "You know what I always say. 'Pound it while it's hot'!"
- "A Viking is supposed to smell this way! It's a badge of honor!"
- "Hiccup, slap me in the face. Your Dragons are glowing. I must still be dreaming."
- "I don't know, Stoick. Seems pretty cut and dry to me. I mean, if you think about it, an attack is an attack, am I right people?!"
- "Couldn't agree with you more Stoick!"
- "'Sorry' doesn't un-burn Silent Sven's chest hair."
- "It would appear that I've trapped myself in my own booby."
- "Stoick, Silent Sven just broke his silence! And you are not going to like what he has to say!"
Dawn of the Dragon Racers
- "Just a bit of rogue wool. Nothing Ol' Gobber can't handle."
- "Done it. Wouldn't advise it."
- "Beats the heck out of the old boat race, doesn't it chief? Boat race was good too."
Race to the Edge
How to Train Your Dragon 2
- "Scared 'em off with the big talk, didn't you Stoick?"
- "Righty-ho! Last lap!"
- "This is your big moment! Have a nice flight!"
- "Ah, he's probably flown off to the edge of the world by now!"
- "You sure you want that boy running the village? You could still delay your retirement."
- "You know, you two are going to get yourselves into serious trouble one of these days. Not everybody appreciates this way of life."
- "He's just twenty. And a Viking! I mean could there be a worst possible combination? Hah, I think about how stubborn and senseless you were back in the day... Oh, well, not much has changed, actually."
- "Ah, nothing could hurt Hiccup as long as he has that Night Fury's around. It's a NIGHT FURY!"
- "You might want to take this one."
- "This is why I never married. This and another reason."
- "I hope not. Her meatballs could kill more beasts than a battle axe. I still got a few knocking around in here!"
- "Oh, I love this one!"
- "Great! I'll do the cooking."
- "May the Valkyries welcome you and lead you through Odin's great battle field. May they sing your name with love and fury, so that we might hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla. And know that you've taken your rightful place at the table of Kings. For a great man has fallen: A warrior. A chieftain. A father. A friend."
- "This is... very dangerous!"
- "Some might suggest this is poorly conceived!"
- "Oh, give me a cuddle, Grumpy!"
- "The Chief has come home!"
Rise of Berk
- He seems to be overly interested in Hiccup's relationship with Astrid. Especially when he sees them kissing.
- He was the one that make Hiccup's leather baby diapers.[3]
- Gobber believes in trolls and that they steal left socks.[5]
- Gobber sings a special song when he's happy[3]:
- "I've got my axe, and I've got my mace, and I love my wife with the ugly face. I'm a viking through and through!
- I've got my sword, and I've got my bludgeon, and 16 Berserkers locked in my dungeon, I'm a viking through and through!"
- Gobber is said to resemble a yak[8].
- Gobber used to play the pan pipes in a band.[23]
- He names all the weapons he makes and forges, always referring them as female (In Dragons We Trust).
- He and Stoick had once went on a treasure hunt but failed to figured out the clues (Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Young Man).
- His left hand was eaten by a Monstrous Nightmare[9].
- Gobber's teeth were messed up by the Frozen Viking.
- He has a fur vest in the movie, but a leather one in the show due to budget constraints.
- Heather Report Part I is the only episode Gobber didn't appear in Riders of Berk. He had a very small cameo in Heather Report Part II at end. He was behind Heather as she was saying to Hiccup and Astrid that maybe they'll see each other again.
- Gobber is shown to have good detective skills including a well developed sense of smell.[24]
- Gobber absolutely hates taking a bath[12].
- According to the official website, Gobber is five years older than Stoick.
- In HTTYD 2, Gobber's new, mace-like, hammer-shaped artificial arm and Grump's tail bludgeon strongly resembles each other.
- Gobber wears the same outfit he wore in the first film in the sequel. It is noticeably more torn and charred.
- DeBlois revealed that, the reason Gobber never got married, is because he is homosexual. This makes him the first homosexual character of the franchise, and even DreamWorks itself since Chimi and Changa from the Dreamworks show Father of the Pride.
- It is possible that DeBlois, was either joking when he made this comment, or Gobber may be bisexual, as in the Race to the Edge episode: "Crushing It," Gobber names a wall "Greta," for his first love; though this was likely an oversight from the story team, or an intentional line. It's also possible that Greta was actually a man.
- Even though Gobber isn't Stoick's official Second-In-Command, he often still acts like one.
- It was originally Gobber who was actually suppose to die from Toothless being mind-controlled instead of Stoick, but was then changed.[25]
- Gobber is the only Dragon Rider who didn't name his dragon, as Grump already had a name.
External link
Gobber the Belch in the Viking Guide.


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How to compress for the web? That is the question. Well, there are a lot of options out there but the main consensus is that you don't want to use your creative programs like Premiere or After Effects to do it. Although you can use great formats like MP4 and H.264, the handling of the compression is not very good.
I use Camtasia Studio to record and export my tutorials in the FLV format (flash video) and the results are great but require some tweaking. The new camtasia studio has some great features although some important ones still missing… Another good standalone app is shown above called Sorenson Squeeze which allow batch processing of many great formats but some need to be unlocked to use them. The one think After Effects does well is exports to Flash Video, but you need to have some flash experience to embed the video for the web.
Our good friend Aharon Rabinowitz has a pretty cool training DVD that covers how to properly compress video using a bunch of different software. He is like that magician on FOX that gave away all of the secrets and he was smart and wore a mask but then he took the mask off and that wasn't a good idea because all the other magicians killed him or made him dissapear. I think that is what happend… anyways.
Check out his DVD if you ever need to that kind of stuff it is good one
UPDATE: Here is a link to one of the lessons:
I need your help. But first, let me say that your tutorials are the best, the way you explain things.. just excelent!
Now I have a problem. I have a website with Photoshop tutorials, and I look forward to make video-tutorials but, the export thing is making me crazy. I record a 1024x768 resolution video with Camtasia Studio 7 and compressing with FLV format, but a video of 25mins ends in a file of 288mb!! I cant upload that.. Hope you can help me with settings or something.
I really apreciate your tutorials and help, thanks from Argentina!
Aharon!- Whatever Andrew says...You are WAAAAAY cooler than the Val Valentino (AKA "The Masked Magician"). I can't even put into words how much cooler you are than him......you too Andrew.
sorry for the off topic post but I laughed inside when I saw it.
The Flash player Andrew use is:
It cost around 25 $
My latest DVD was captured at 1024x768. I was working with a lot more than AE, and needed the screen real estate. But I output my tutorials at that resolution and at 800x600 for those with slower machines.
Andrew: Do you do the same thing? Capture large, and shrink? It seems the VCP tutorials are 1024x768, I think. Do you just capture a 1024x768 box?
thanks guys
bwoogie - Technically, my name is actually pronounced Ah-HA-rone but growing up I was called "Ah-Rone.†According to my birth certificate, my name is actually Aaron, but all of my ID's says Aharon. Someone somewhere screwed up. I like it.
mark - I think after giving away about 8-9 hours of free video tutorials, you'd think I'd have shown enough to convince you. But it's still a good point. I hope to release another meatier chapter in the near future.
J – We may have been separated at birth, but he got all the looks.
Tobias – Andrew is funnier hands down. My target audience is males… who are my age… who are… me. If anyone else laughs then I consider it a bonus!
Everyone else – thanks for the compliments and support!
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I need to learn as much as I can.
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Is it possible to buy the DVD as a download, in the same way as your products?
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Kramer, you'll be better of answering that one.
So how about when your actually capturing the tutorial. Do you keep your resolution at full, and shrink after effects up to 1024x768 then capture that area? or do you actually change your screen resolution and capture full screen.
Also I notice on some of aharons videos he is doing zooming and such do you guys record your videos at a higher resolution and size them down?
I honestly cant think of a good way to say thanks for everything you have given to the film community... but I think you get the idea! thank a lot man
and thanks to Sam too... I feel like he doesn't get the love he deserves! :)
I'm kinda confused why his parents stuffed an 'h' in his name though :P
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btw, anyone else have problems importing avi(xvid) files to AE
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I disagree, Andrew's humor is much better.
I need to pick it up as well. One more thing to add to my list of wants.
I hope I can convince my pastor to let me purchase the DSFX and the soon-to-be-released Evolution. I already own the Riot Gear and he likes that in the Youth Activities promotionals. When we decide to go bigger for our videos, I'll definitely have to check out Aharon's DVD.
In case anybody on a Mac wants to do screen capturing, you can capture ANY SIZE, ANY frame rate, ANY resolution, and compressed ANY way you like...it's from Ambrosia called SnapzProX: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
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Colorado has been giving its students the CSAP test for over ten years now, and still it seems that economic status has a bigger impact on those scores than any other factor.
How then, can the state determine whether a teacher is doing their job by how a student scores on a test?
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Daniel Agger spoke of his honour after being named Denmark's Player of the Year for the second time.
The national team captain beat the likes of William Kvist, Niki Zimling and Nicklas Bendtner to the award, which he first won in 2008.
"Winning this award is one of the greatest things you can achieve as a Danish footballer," said the 27-year-old. "I'm really committed to spending all my time involved in football.
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College Hockey:Turgeon Carries Maine Over Amherst
Minutemen Fall to 0-15 at Alfond
ORONO, Maine — Before Thursday night's contest with UMass-Amherst, Maine forward Niko Dimitrakos underscored the game's importance.
"We have to approach this like a playoff game," he said. "We have to have this game."
With the teams tied for fifth place in Hockey East, two points could vault the winner all the way to third place. "This game is big," Minuteman coach Don Cahoon said. "Especially with the break ahead of us."
The action played out as advertised, as UMass overcame a pair of one-goal deficits in the first period to stay close. But in the end, the heroics came from an unlikely source. Maine defenseman Eric Turgeon, a late addition to the lineup, scored his first career goal late in the third period to lift the Black Bears to a 3-2 victory.
The loss continued the Minutemen's steak of futility at the Alfond Arena, where they dropped to 0-15 lifetime.
The game winner came with a little over five minutes remaining and was set up by a Minuteman turnover in the neutral zone.
"In between the second and third periods [assistant coach Grant] Standbrook came into the locker room and told us to hold the red line," Turgeon said. "They'd made that same mistake a couple of other times, but nothing came of it."
This time, however, Turgeon capitalized. Corralling an errant clearing attempt, Turgeon broke into the UMass zone on a two-on-one break with freshman forward Mike Mantenuto.
"The defenseman [R.J. Gates] leaned toward Mike," Turgeon said. "Their goalie has a big five-hole, so I shot it there."
Turgeon's wrister found a space between Minuteman goaltender Markus Helanen's pads.
The festive mood was short-lived, however. Maine was forced to endure a UMass six-on-four skating advantage in the final minute of the game. The Minutemen took the play to the Black Bears in the final seconds, a sequence that was capped off a bizarre tipped shot that almost tied the game.
With the clock ticking off the final seconds, Minuteman forward Brad Nizwantowski unleashed a blast from the right point that was tipped by Maine defenseman Doug Janik.
"I was screened," Black Bears goalie Matt Yeats said. "I didn't have a clue where the puck was."
The puck, knocked high into the air on the tip, floated over Yeats' shoulder and clanged off the crossbar with three seconds remaining. The rebound was immediately cleared as the horn sounded.
"We finally got a break," Maine coach Shawn Walsh said. "It might be a sign of things to come."
The Black Bears came out flying early and broke on top at the 2:08 mark of the first period when sophomore Robert Liscak rapped home the rebound of a Martin Kariya shot with Maine on the power play.
UMass answered two minutes later with a power-play tally of its own. Forward Martin Miljko drove past Black Bear defenseman A.J. Begg in the left circle and flipped a backhander on Yeats, who made the stop but left a rebound that deflected of Janik's skate and past him for the tying score.
Matthias Trattnig notched his team-leading eighth goal of the season at 8:31 to put the Black Bears back on top. Trattnig took a feed from Tom Reimann along the right-wing boards and found some room into the circle.
"I had a guy in front of me," Trattnig said. "But I had the far side open and shot for that."
Trattnigs wrister seemed to have eyes, floating through traffic and beating Helanen high to the blocker side.
The Minutemen wouldn't go away. Mike Warner collected the rebound of a Justin Shaw slap shot behind the Maine net and his wraparound beat Yeats to pull the Minutemen even at 15:55 of the first.
A solid effort was little solace for Cahoon.
"I suppose it's good that we're improving," Cahoon said. "It's good to know we can come into a place like this and compete. But at the end of the day, we leave with nothing."
In the other locker room, relief was mixed with expectation.
"With that puck hitting the post we become a much better hockey team," Walsh said. "We get Donny Richardson [transfer, forced to sit first semester], Peter Metcalf [sprained MCL] and Brendan Donovan [lacerated kidney] back in the lineup after Christmas."
Walsh explained he was forced to go with a limited roster down the stretch due to injuries.
"Gary Shaneberger went out with a concussion and Begg went down with a groin injury," Walsh said. "I had to put [freshman forward Francis] Nault on the fourth line as a forward. That line was on the ice when Turgeon scored."
Walsh was proud of Turgeon's effort.
"He's a guy that probably shouldn't have played," Walsh said, noting Turgeon's injured shoulder sidelined him for the previous four games. "He wouldn't have played if we didn't have so many guys out, but he stepped up."
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Politics & Media Mashup
Some believe Nathan Fletcher is at war with U-T San Diego. I wouldn't call it war, but relations certainly are chilly.
Fletcher's expectations for his morning newspaper aren't what they used to be. That might not be a big deal if the election wasn't less than a month away.
For all its troubles, the U-T is still the biggest game in town, meaning it could play a significant role in the San Diego mayoral race. Some insiders believe the race is down to Fletcher, Carl DeMaio and Bob Filner. Only the top two vote getters move on after the June 5 primary election. So a rough few weeks of coverage in the U-T could finish Fletcher, who has been surging since leaving the Republican Party in March.
The newspaper has run several stories and editorials recently that have had an anti-Fletcher bent. The daily paper also made quite a splash with its support of DeMaio when it wrapped its endorsement across Sunday's front page. I have never seen anything like that.
I also have never seen a newspaper's top editor back away from an editorial the way the U-T's Jeff Light did this week.
After Fletcher released a tape of his interview with the U-T's editorial board – which makes Light and the paper sound like good Republicans – Light felt compelled to explain himself on his Facebook page. He said the editorial really wasn't about him or his beliefs.
"It does not mean that I, Jeff Light, am a Republican," the paper's executive editor said.
The DeMaio endorsement was mostly expressing the position of the paper's new owners, Doug Manchester and John Lynch, Light said.
"I do think the recording has caused some confusion among some readers, and that is unfortunate," Light said. "I can't guess at the motives of the people involved."
It's certainly not unheard of for editors like to Light to sit on editorial boards. It's awkward because a newspaper's executive editor oversees the reporters who write the stories that populate the paper. Most reporters count objectivity as one of their strengths, which made Light's recorded comments so intriguing to local news outlets and politicos.
Light can be heard saying: "You've put us sort of in a tough position. We as an editorial board do not want to see Bob Filner get through to the general election, because the environment around the general election is much more favorable to Bob Filner. So we certainly want to keep that from happening. On the other hand, some of the things you said, it was a little more than, 'Hey I just want to be an independent voice.' And I think this was what Pete Wilson was reacting to. It was sort of that message that the Republican Party is bad. How can we get behind you given that we've got a lot of Republican backing and Republican tradition? I think that puts us in a tough position."
And later: "As an institution it puts us in a pickle because we're like – I think that's sort of a problem. If there is a repudiation of the Republican Party, you know, I think this place isn't going to be super fond of that. And so that we have endorsements coming up, and so I'm looking for a reason we can argue that, we can say, we should endorse me."
Newspapers usually avoid endorsing a candidate in a primary. If that candidate doesn't get past the primary the paper looks foolish and is forced to decide between rallying behind its second choice or not offering an endorsement in the general election.
The U-T's decision to go all in on DeMaio drew praise and criticism this week. Much of the blowback was directed at Light and his response to the drama.
Voice of San Diego CEO Scott Lewis tweeted: "The awkwardness comes from endorsing 'as an org' and then pretending the most important part of the org is still neutral."
I worked at the U-T, The Detroit News, Florida Today and other newspapers. No one ever said to me, "Do this story. The owner really wants to see it in the paper."
Editors do assign some stories and columns but, for the most part, a wall between the editorial board and the newsroom exists. I don't, however, think the public sees it that way. To them, the paper is the paper. In other words, there is no wall. Light's recorded comments add to that perception.
In the last week, the U-T published its DeMaio front page wrap; stripped two unflattering Fletcher headlines across its Local section; ran an op-ed ripping Fletcher by Rodger Hedgecock (without noting Hedgecock has endorsed DeMaio and helps his campaign with fundraising); and it published this column by Matt Hall.
Hall's column, which he says was not assigned, essentially was about an anonymous blog post published on Rostra nearly two months ago. I hadn't seen any discussion about the post for weeks, yet there it was on the Local front of Thursday's U-T. Hall and I had a brief exchange about this on Twitter, which ended with him telling me Twitter chatter was the news hook for his column.
The anonymous blog post and Hall's column zoom in on a $500 campaign contribution Fletcher received from Lorena Gonzalez's teenage daughter. Gonzalez, the local labor leader, is supporting Filner, the only Democrat in the race, for mayor.
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"I do think the recording has caused some confusion among some readers, and that is unfortunate," Light said. "I can't guess at the motives of the people involved."
To get a verbatim record of what was said?
Excellent job, Tony! Well written and insightful.
I've never heard of a campaign releasing a recording of a discussion with an editorial board.. I can understand recording to protect against something you said being misconstrued. This was simply an attack on the UT by Fletcher before the endorsement was even released.
Tony: Really appreciate you referencing and linking to my column in your post. But I disagree with your reductive statement that my column was "essentially" about an anonymous post published on Rostra "nearly two months ago." Also gotta dispute the implication that no one has discussed the things I wrote about "for weeks."
My column was about much more, as I'll explain in greater detail below. Get a coffee everyone. You'll be here awhile. Not really.
Here goes. My column was about the entertaining, thought-provoking and evolving political activity of the teenage daughter of one of San Diego's most well-known political figures, which has got a lot of politically involved people talking around town. It was about that daughter's decision to engage in what I (accurately!) called a doozy of a mayor's race. It was about the speculation about the donation, and my chance to say I don't think the conspiracy theory holds water. It was about the (again) entertaining social media interaction between Lorena Gonzalez and her daughter, Tierra, that followed Tierra's contribution. It was about me sharing those Twitter conversations with a broader audience outside the insular Twitter bubble. It was about being a teenager and being a go-getter and blazing your own trail at a young age. It was an opportunity for myself as a newly-minted columnist and for all of us as adults to look back on our own teenage years, which most likely came and went without the scrutiny of Tierra's, and which certainly came and went without the mirror (and potential land mine) of social media that we all carry around with us today.
One other nit, about me saying the "hook" was the "Twitter chatter." The word "hook" was yours. You'll see I put it in quotes to reflect that. To elaborate: There was Twitter talk about this on May 1. Lorena herself weighed in. I called her May 2. That's timely. Period.
Anyway, I wrote the column for the reasons above, and because I knew it would provoke thought and conversation. That's my job. Not to persuade people to one side or another of an issue, but to get them thinking and talking. As your post shows, I clearly succeeded.
Thanks for indulging me on this long post here, everyone. Please let me know what *you* think of my column (this one or any other) in the comments section there or here, by email or via social media.
To see them all, visit my U-T San Diego staff page here: http://www.utsandiego.com/staff/matthew-hall/ And if you have a column idea, you know how to reach me.
Cheers. See ya around town.
Matt, thank you for the explanation, although under normal circumstances it wouldn't be necessary. Your column was well-done, taking the reader through the labyrinthine twists and turns of the Gonzalez/Fletcher saga. The mother-daughter angle is heartwarming and funny.
In my personal opinion, the real culprit is the practice of newspapers of running institutional editorials. These purport to reflect the view of the paper as an entity. Justly or unjustly, this practice casts suspicion on the news staff. And reporters, who have no control over the editorials, take the brunt of the suspicion.
To people unschooled in the arcana of journalism, and to some that are, the distinction between the paper's putative institutional voice and its news reporting is as mysterious as the Trinity.
U-T San Diego's owners can mitigate the confusion by removing the news-side staff from the editorial-writing process. And on major subjects, the truth would best be served if the editorials were signed by Papa Doug and John Lynch.
Finally, it seems to me that the paper's heavy-handed way of promoting DeMaio's candidacy is counterproductive. Is Papa Doug secretly backing Fletcher?
What was the editor doing talking about the endorsement process in the first place? Reporters don't talk about their reporting methods; we talk about what we found out. If the editorial board thinks it's appropriate or necessary to explain how an endorsement was arrived at, that's the job of the editorial page editor.
This is one more thing the U-T has done lately — like a Page 1 endorsement for mayor — that blurs the lines and reinforces the widespread myth that the editorial policy drives the news coverage.
Not sure what's so wrong with a candidate releasing an interview if he thinks there's more to the story than what was reported. This was an on-the-record interview; both sides knew the other side was recording.
Ayn Rand: Fletcher released the recording in response to this: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/apr/28/on-nathan-fletcher-and-political-independence/


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Freshman Jessica Tonn recently placed eighth at the Pac-10 Championships to help Stanford win the conference title. She was Stanford's third runner and the second-fastest freshman in the conference. Already this season Tonn has established herself as a major part of the women's team that has rose to No. 4 in the country and is looking like a legitimate podium contender at NCAA's. She took a few moments to answer some questions from gostanford.com.
GoStanford.com: Why did you choose Stanford?
Tonn: After visiting Duke and the University of Oregon, I really thought I could picture myself at both of those schools, and that I was going to have a tough decision to make ahead of me. The teams at those two schools were great, both campuses were beautiful in their own ways, and I connected with the coaches as well. But when I took my visit to Stanford, I couldn't picture myself anywhere but here. The girls on the team were extremely inviting and went out of their way to make me feel welcome, the campus left me speechless, and the coaching staff was so great, and of course I couldn't forget the outstanding academic reputation at Stanford, which played a major role in my decision. Over all, Stanford is the entire package for me, and I couldn't be any happier!
GoStanford.com: How has the transition to college Cross Country been?
Tonn: So far, the transition to college cross country has been relatively smooth. My training in high school was very similar in terms of the mileage I am running now, as well the intensity of my workouts. The biggest change for me so far is always having a pack of girls to run with during practice, I am not really used to being pushed in every work out and I believe this has really been a positive difference for me this year.
GoStanford.com: Have you exceeded your goals so far? What goals do you have for the rest of the season?
Tonn: So far, yes I have exceeded my goals. I really wanted to come into Stanford and our preseason camp and be able to contribute to the team right away, which I have accomplished. But I would say my goals have changed in the sense that I am not really setting as many individual goals for myself because the team's success is almost more important to me right now. I think that if I focus on the goals that we have set as a group, I will definitely be satisfied individually as well.
GoStanford.com: Do you have a mentor on the team or someone you look up to?
Tonn: Coming to Stanford I was already close with Alex Dunne because we had raced each other in high school and were on the West team at Footlocker Nationals my junior year. I honestly look up to all of the older girls on the team and having all of these awesome mentors is so new to me just because I have been so used to being the one looking after all of the youngsters on the cross country team at Xavier. I couldn't wish for a better group of girls to be on a team with. I have really looked up to Kathy since my freshman year in high school when she won Footlocker Nationals, and I definitely look to her as a role model now at Stanford even more so because she is my teammate. She is extremely dedicated to the sport and our team and it definitely shows in everything she does.
GoStanford.com: It is impressive to already be contributing to teams as talented as Stanford as freshmen. How does that affect your goals for your four years here?
Tonn: Contributing to the team as a freshman is such an amazing opportunity, and being able to make an impact right away, I am finding myself setting higher and higher goals every time I compete. My main goal for the next four years is staying healthy, and continuing to improve so I can perform at my best for the team and help us reach our goals. I haven't really thought about my goals for the upcoming indoor and outdoor seasons, but I want to improve my times that I ran in high school, and give the 5K on the track a try.
GoStanford.com: What is your favorite place to run both back home and here at Stanford?
Tonn: Back in Phoenix, Arizona, my favorite place to run would be on the trails through Squaw Peak Mountain Reserve right by my house, but my all time favorite run would be on the Rim Trail around Lake Tahoe. I would have to agree with Erik and say Huddart Park is my favorite place to run at Stanford so far, it is beautiful, but really hilly!
GoStanford.com: Has it been difficult to balance school and running so far?
Tonn: Surprisingly, I have had no difficulty balancing school and running in my first couple months here at Stanford. My high school, Xavier College Preparatory, prepared me so well for the challenging academics here at Stanford, and my coaches in high school, Jeff Messer and Dave VanSickle, couldn't have prepared me better training wise. Coach Dunn, Coach Vidal, Hakon and the older girls on the team have really helped me adjust in every way. The only difficulties I have faced occasionally are time management, just because running and school are so demanding, and sleep!
GoStanford.com: Favorite class so far? Any idea what you are going to major in?
Tonn: So far, my classes aren't super interesting because I am taking classes that fulfill my GER's, but I am taking classes that I am more interested in next quarter, especially sleep and dreams and possibly psychology. I am not dead set on a major yet, but I love English and psychology so maybe a mixture of the two, or focusing more on English for my major.


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The new wheels retain all the small details that make Zipp wheels what they are. Exposed spoke nipples sit in the aerodynamic shadow of the rims, keeping serviceability simple without compromising speed. And Zipp's signature ABLC rim dimples squeeze every last second of performance possible.
To complete the package, Zipp has refined its venerable 88/188 hubset, reshaping the hub body and pushing the non-drive-side flange and bearing out by 7.5mm on the rear hub to increase overall stiffness and strength. The wheelsets come with two decal options, the stealthy Beyond Black or the distinctive Classic White decals. Both decal options feature black anodized hubs, black spokes and black nipples.
The new 188/V9 hub has larger precision Swiss steel bearings for increased durability. Our new "virtual 3 cross" lacing on both sides of rear wheel improves stiffness, achieving 3 cross stiffness in a 2 cross pattern with a new spoke geometry. The 188/V9 has 25 percent more torsional stiffness than a leading competitive hub. This measure of stiffness is crucial for the direct power transfer to the rear wheel for out-of-the saddle sprints and climbs. The new hub also is laterally (side-to-side) stiffer that its rival or predecessor.
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The Eastside Cincinnati RPG group from the Southwestern Ohio Gathering of Gamers meets the third Sunday of every month. This group meets at Eastside Games N Cards in Milford starting at 1 pm. A different game is played every month.
On Sunday April 17th the group will host Retro 80's Game Day. Three different gaming tables will be available with three different games to play. Two of the games actually are from the 80's but the third is fits the genre regardless of its release. One table will showcase Ghostbusters, a classic game and movie from the 80's. The second table will have Dungeons and Dragons based off the cartoon version of the same name. At the third table will be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, which is the actual title of the game.
Gamers are encouraged to come in their favorite 80's clothing style or band t-shirt. Prizes will be given to those who look the part of an 80's gamer, voted on by all those in attendance.
Currently there are 16 gamers attending and more spots are available. A good time will be had by all who attend.