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To ride through a classic Zane Grey Western like The Rainbow Trail rarely allows readers the luxury of walking or trotting, loping or pacing; rather, it almost always demands galloping, or at least cantering. Grey ranks among the most intense writers in any literature. Unlike many of his kin, such as Edgar Allan Poe and H. Rider Haggard, whose intensity rises primarily out of the psychological focus of their works, Grey's own literary power rises primarily from a physical focus, including but not limited to action. Exclamation marks thunder through his Westerns; passions pulse through his heroes; landscapes are vast, ineffably beautiful; adventure, danger, violence, and love can loom immediately around any bend of canyon; life itself is mystical in essence, God to be experienced rather than known. Each of these Grey trademarks is present in The Rainbow Trail, a book that ranks high among the best Westerns ever written.
Grey's parents, Dr. Lewis M. Gray, a dentist, and the former Josephine Zane, named him Pearl Zane Gray upon his birth in Zanesville, Ohio, on January 31, 1872. Grey's father changed the spelling of the family's last name when they moved to Columbus, apparently because of some financial difficulties he had created for himself. Later, for fairly obvious reasons, Pearl dropped his first name in favor of his middle one. However, despite being an almost humorless writer, another of his finest books, Wanderer of the Wasteland, includes the following inside joke in a description of a landscape: "so beautifully pearl gray in tint" (emphases mine).1
Whatever negatives the feminine original first name engendered—or perhaps in part because of them—Grey became an outdoorsman as a youth and was a good enough athlete to play college baseball at the University of Pennsylvania. Like George Armstrong Custer and many other vitally active men, Grey was at best an indifferent student. His father pushed Grey to follow him into dentistry, an occupation Grey loathed but nevertheless practiced for a few years in New York City. During a trip to Pennsylvania in 1900, Grey met his future wife, Lina Elise Roth, better known as Dolly. They married five years later, beginning a thirty-four-year marriage that survived Zane's multiple and often strange affairs with other women, as documented by Thomas H. Pauly's definitive biography, Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women. In fact, Zane and Dolly Grey's marriage created one of the most intriguing literary partnerships of the twentieth century. In numerous ways, Dolly was both inspiration and stabilizer, and in more practical matters, from typing, editing, and rewriting to managing her husband's career and various facets of the cottage industry that sprung up around it, she helped forge his huge success—as, apparently, did some of Grey's other women.
Zane Grey was almost certainly manic depressive (bipolar), his moods ranging and raging from incredible highs to tumbling depressions. Yet like many such individuals then and now, he possessed extreme gifts. He basically self-medicated, though not with the usual alcohol or other substances, but via other addictions: writing, women, fishing, hunting, living a vigorous life outdoors. In a writing career of almost forty years, he has been credited with writing roughly ninety books (many published posthumously, many of those in truth written by "hired ghostwriters").2 Well over fifty of these books are Westerns, and Grey additionally published a large number of articles. He also played a strong hand in the young film industry and its reliance on the Western. In addition to his writing, which more than one hundred films have been based upon, he formed Zane Grey Productions and produced several films of his own. He died on October 23, 1939, appropriately enough for an outdoorsman and romantic, of a heart attack, his second in two years, each suffered while he engaged in physical activity.
Running hard, both in date of publication and as sequel, on the rear hooves of Grey's first full-bore success and best-known title, Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), The Rainbow Trail (1915) features a frequent Grey brand of hero, the lost but searching "pilgrim," as a John Wayne character likely would term tenderfoot John Shefford. From the Midwest like many Grey characters, Shefford grows into a true Westerner. Indeed, the novel is set in the sweeping country that director John Ford, along with Wayne and others, would make famous in numerous films beginning, ironically enough, in the very year Grey died, 1939, with the release of Stagecoach: the northeastern Arizona–southeastern Utah region in and around Monument Valley and the Painted Desert. But if Ford turned this region into a national icon, Grey blazed the trail.
One key to categorizing Rainbow Trail in terms of literature is that like so many of Grey's books, it is a romance, which is the very term Grey uses to identify it in the foreword, as well as the term he uses for all of his books in his long-unpublished essay, "My Answer to the Critics." If readers remain unaware of or misunderstand this intention and what it actually means, it will prove difficult or even impossible for them to understand or appreciate it, as, strangely enough, numerous critics who should have known better nonetheless have managed to do. Romances, in fact, provided the seedbed for the novel's future growth and evolution as a literary form. As major critic of the Western John G. Cawelti notes, adding his own voice to that of twentieth-century literary critic Northrop Frye, in The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel, "The Western is clearly an example of . . . romance." Cawelti, in a statement that fits The Rainbow Trail's main hero, Jim Shefford, promptly adds that romance incorporates "the movement of the hero from alienation to commitment."3 Additionally, romance focuses on adventure and a quest, the idealization of characters, places, occurrences, and even ideas, on mysterious forces and even the supernatural. In essence, a romance allows an author to go beyond realism even while employing vast amounts of it. Moreover, it connects strongly to myth-making and demands heightened emotions, two features of The Rainbow Trail and Grey's writing as a whole, whether fiction or nonfiction. As such, romance demands what the great British Romantic Thomas Coleridge famously termed "willful suspension of disbelief."
One result of Grey's repeatedly writing romances is that, strangely enough, it helps qualify the commonplace claim that he penned mere formula fiction; while Grey most certainly employs abundant formulaic elements, on the whole, his romances fit more as literary equivalents to music's variations on a theme. Granted, Grey's variations may not ascend to a sublimity analogous to classical music, but they do register somewhere comparable to the more complex songs of rock and roll, like Bruce Springsteen's "Backstreets." The Rainbow Trail, in fact, creates one of these variations. John Shefford's quest proves at least three-pronged. Yes, love also being central to romance, he improbably seeks out Fay Larkin, an exotic young woman he has only heard about through hearsay from two friends, Bern and Elizabeth Venters. Ancillary to that, Shefford hopes to account for the legendary gunman Jim Lassiter and his female companion, Jane Withersteen, about whom the Venters have told him. But because the former pastor Shefford also finds himself adrift in a crisis of faith, his personal dark night of the soul, his quest also involves seeking a truer vision of God than he ever found in the pulpit he preached from. Consequently, this three-pronged quest ends up leading to the novel's original title when it was serially published, The Desert Crucible. Not only must Shefford undergo the desert heat in order to be first tested and then reformed, but also by its metaphorically connected companions: the heat of love, the heat of adventure, the heat of doubt. Together they form his quest as well as him.
In The Rainbow Trail, consequently, as is typical in Grey's books, the hero must loom nearly as large as the land. In fact, in some ways, since the land creates him, the hero and the land are one. Although in the foreword Grey termed The Rainbow Trail "an independent story," it is nonetheless a sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage that provides "an answer to a question often asked." Consequently, The Rainbow Trail poses a hero problem, since in it Grey needs to include the two heroes of the earlier book. Venters and Lassiter have already been reformed by the crucible, already lionized and completed. This is Shefford's moment, and thus his book. So the two heroes of Riders of the Purple Sage must decrease that Shefford increase, as frequently indeed, the heroes of romance do fade and give way to the next in line. In the final analysis, while these and other of Grey's heroic characters may not cast mythic shadows as long as that cast by James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo in The Prairie, at least some of their shadows emerge off to its side, thus extending the totality of its form.
Though certainly capable of overwrought descriptions, Grey is frequently over-criticized for his purple prose. For one thing, it is part and parcel of the romance form. Yet few observant people who spend much time away from cities and suburbs in the western United States would find much to criticize in a vast number of Grey's natural descriptions. Even in its current battered condition, pockmarked with oil and coal-bed methane wells and blighted by McMansions, the American West likely remains the single greatest home of the larger-than-life landscapes that further enhance a romance. From his purple sage to his hellishly haunting Death Valley to, yes, his Rainbow Trail, Grey thrives on exotic but real landscapes. Place serves not just as the main inspiration for but also as the main character in many of his books, including The Rainbow Trail. . Grey maintains the following in "Nonnezoshe," his essay about his own trip to Rainbow Bridge:
This rainbow bridge was the one great natural phenomenon, the one grand spectacle which I had never seen that did not at first give vague disappointment, a confounding of reality, a disenchantment of contrast with what the mind had conceived.
But this thing was glorious. It absolutely silenced me. . . . I had a strange, mystic perception that this rosy-hued, tremendous arch of stonewas a goal I had failed to reach in some other life, but had now found. Here was a rainbow magnified even beyond dreams, a thing nottransparent and ethereal, but solidified, a work of ages, sweeping up majestically from the red walls, its iris-hued arch against the blue sky.4
For all of their blood and thunder, then, Grey's descriptions are more comparable to lightning, emitting as they do flashes of light on the ineffable he seeks to understand. Therefore, they actually prove to be understatement. He is the patron pilgrim saint of place, The Purple Sage, with "the" answer to life being that true knowing is unknowing, a mystical something that is no-thing but rather beyond thing-hood and sensed, felt, experienced via the portal of the concrete, particularly as it is represented by places that are exactly that: distinct places, not the rapidly multiplying everywheres of the twenty-first century.
Place, nonetheless, was far from the only real-life "natural" ingredient in Grey's work. Zane Grey lived, to a degree, much of what he wrote into his Westerns. He was, of course, an accomplished outdoorsman, one who knew his rugged business, as both "Nonnezoshe" and The Rainbow Trail conclusively demonstrate. The numerous world records he held for fishing and his plethora of hunting successes, along with his many horseback camping tours, at once proved and provided much of his expertise. Yet ultimately he left Arizona for good in 1929 because he believed commercialism, in particular tourism, was ruining the state. In many ways, this man who looked back on a Golden Age that to his eyes had rapidly declined to silver to bronze to brass to clay was paradoxically prescient at the same time, especially regarding the destructive ways of what we now term an amenities tourist economy. Both in fiction and in life, Grey desperately loved and held hard to the savage, the wild, the elemental, and he bemoaned what he viewed as its exponential maiming.
Despite his own philandering, Grey particularly valued women and was critical of Mormon polygamy, which, as in Riders of the Purple Sage, serve as central concerns in The Rainbow Trail and thus to a large measure again place him ahead of his time. These issues, as much a part of Grey's world as they continue to be to ours with the rise of various forms of feminism and the more recent sensationalizing of "fundamentalist" Mormons, Warren Jeffs, and polygamist enclaves, provide both books with significant plot and thematic elements, not to mention despicable but somewhat complex villains. The Rainbow Trail, however, reveals a greater ambiguity on Grey's part regarding polygamy and the Mormons, even featuring a secondary level cowboy hero who is also a Mormon, Joe Lake, based on the real-life Joe Lee, a companion of Grey's on his initial trip to Nonnezoshe. Much of this softening is due likely to Grey's trip falling in 1913, a year after the first book's publication.5
Finally, Grey further strode beyond most people of his time in the nature of his views about Native Americans, and other than in his decade-later The Vanishing American, his stance is most apparent in The Rainbow Trail. Here, the Paiute guide Nas ta Bega of Grey's initial trip to Nonnezoshe becomes only slightly altered in tribe and capitalization as the Navajo Nas Ta Bega, both a spiritual and physical guide for Shefford. Most telling issue-wise is the story of this man's sister, Glen Naspa, who is seduced and ruined by a white missionary, then dies. Grey despised the missionaries and subsequently withstood heavy fire for his stance on that issue. In addition, Nas Ta Bega orates several telling speeches about his sister and his people, moving (perhaps unfortunately) beyond personhood to a symbolic and even mythological status, ending up somewhere with or just below Cooper's Uncas as the "last" of his immediate people.
In the end, then, for all of Grey's romance, for all of what Mark Twain little doubt would call Grey's excesses and "literary sins," when properly contextualized and understood, Zane Grey curiously proves to be one of America's trailblazing earth poets, one of its most honest "environmental" writers, one of its most powerful authors, period. The Rainbow Trail belongs among his best books in these regards, too. As he characteristically (and ironically enough, ultimately incorrectly) moralizes about Rainbow Bridge, or the romantic indigenous word "Nonnezoshe" of his essay title:
It was not for many eyes to see. The tourist, the leisurely traveler, the comfort-loving motorist would never behold it. Only by toil, sweat, endurance, and pain could any man ever look at Nonnezoshe. It seemed well to realize that the great things of life had to be earned.6
As for Grey's writing itself, in all of its own toil, sweat, endurance, and pain, it is not merely purple prose about purple sage, but rather what T. S. Eliot famously terms a "bold raid on the inarticulate." Grey strives mightily, wrestling like Jacob with God. In doing so, he has cast a long shadow of his own, influencing, whether directly or indirectly, numerous acclaimed later writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway and Larry McMurtry to Edward Abbey and Cormac McCarthy. Grey beckons them and us to strive with him and, in the process, to honor the wildness without, our own wildness within.
David Cremean is an Associate Professor of Humanities and English at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, as well as upcoming President of the Western Literature Association (2009). He earned a Ph.D. in English from Bowling Green State University. His scholarly writing focuses on Western American literature and film and his creative writing on the West and the outdoors.
1. Thomas H. Pauly, Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005), 25.
2. Zane Grey, Wanderer of the Wasteland (New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1990),
3. David Fenimore, "'A Bad Boy Grown Up': The Wild Life behind Zane Grey's Westerns," in Exploring the American Literary West: International Perspectives, ed. David Rio (N.p.: University of the Basque Country, 2006), 65.
4. Zane Grey, "Nonnezoshe," in Tales of Lonely Trails (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1922), 14–15.
5. Ibid., 3.
6. Ibid., 17.


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Two playful black bears are ready to show off a favorite bottle
of wine, along with two wine glasses, upon your bar or countertop.
Rustic carving features a baby black bear climbing a tree
while big brother black bear awaits a bottle of wine and stemmed
wine glasses. 9 1/2" x 8" x 8 3/4" high. Polyresin.
Item:10016201 (Regularly $32.95) SALE!
Color Changing Lighted Ice Bucket with Remote Control
Light up your next party with this cool ice bucket! It features
an interior battery-powered LED light that makes your bottle
sparkle and shine in whichever color you choose. Plus, you
can change the color using the handy remote control. What
a fun party accessory! Plastic. 9 1/4" x diameter x 10"
high. Battery operated. Item:10017478 (Regularly $44.95) SALE!
Wine Decorations: Grapevine Decor, Grape Motif Candle Holders,
Wine Connoisseur Candles, Wine Theme Party Candles
Bottle Cork Candles: Set of 4 Wine Cork Candles for Bottles
Recreate the romance of your favorite wine bistro! Whimsical
wine cork candles fit into the neck of your empty bottles,
creating a refined display that will delight any gourmet.
Lifelike wine fragrance adds a luscious touch to a romantic
meal or wine lovers party. Each wine cork candle burns up
to 4 hours. Each is 1" diameter x 3" high. Paraffin
wax. Set of 4. Item:14374 (Regularly $9.95) SALE!
Wine Bottle Design Hanging Candle Holder: Wine Bottle Lantern
A tasteful way to infuse your love of wine with your love
of candlelight! This olive green glass wine bottle features
a matte-black foil wrap at top, and the metal framework cradles
the bottle and creates an easy hanging loop for mounting this
unique wine-inspired lighting accent. 3 1/4" x 3 1/4"
x 14 1/2" high. Metal and glass. Item:10015655 $9.95
Table Lamp with Connoisseur Wine Corks Design Lamp Shade
Cheers! This wine-inspired table lamp is the perfect finishing
touch for your bar or buffet. Pull the stainless steel cord
to illuminate the neatly arranged wine corks printed on the
round shade. The slim design of the lamp makes it easy to
add to even the smallest space. Stainless steel. 7" diameter
x 16 1/2" high. Item:12010235 $34.95
Iron Fireplace Screen with Grapes and Vineyard Motif
The fruits of a vineyard's finest crop are cast in iron to
create a beautiful screen for your fireplace. Flames illuminate
this screen's fine details, from scrolling decorative flourishes
to its pretty grape leaves and fruit. Tri-fold construction
allows you to form and fit this screen in front of your fireplace
with ease.Iron. 28" x 8 3/4" x 29" high. Item:10015993
(Regularly $99.95) SALE!
Iron Hanger with Blue Wine Bottle Candle Holder
This gorgeous blue bottle beckons all who see it to admire
its simple beauty. The black iron framework features a platform
base and an elaborate hanging handle. Lift the bottle and
place the candle of your choice inside. Iron and glass. 4"
diameter x 11 1/2" high, 16 3/4" high with handle.
Item:10016179 (Regularly $19.95) SALE!
Iron Tea Light Candle Holder with 3 Colored Glass Wine Bottle
Shaped Chimneys
Set the night aglow in sparkling candlelight and dazzling
color with this fantastic iron and glass display. The black
iron framework features three cups for the candles of your
choice, and three tall glass bottles in red-orange, blue,
and green make the flickering flames come to life with stylish
color. 11" x 3 1/4" x 10 1/2" high. Item:10016684
(Regularly $29.95) SALE!
Glass Wine Bottle Shaped Hanging Candle Holder for Tea Light
A coil of black metal holds the perfect seat for a tea light
candle, surrounded by the most beautiful apple green glass
bottle. Hang it up from your ceiling or porch roof for country
chic glow. 18" high with chain. Glass and iron. 3"
diameter x 11" high, 18" high with chain. Item:10016790
Glass Wine Bottle Shape Hanging Candle Holder for Tea Light
A coil of black metal holds the perfect seat for a tea light
candle, surrounded by the most beautiful blue glass bottle.
Hang it up from your ceiling or porch roof for country chic
glow. 18" high with chain. Glass and iron. 3" diameter
x 11" high, 18" high with chain. Item:10016791 $12.95
Glass Wine Bottle Shaped Hanging Tea Light Candle Holder
A coil of black metal holds the perfect vessel for a tea light
candle, surrounded by the most beautiful red-orange colored
glass bottle. Hang it up from your ceiling or porch roof for
country chic glow. 18" high with chain. Glass and iron.
3" diameter x 11" high, 18" high with chain.
Item:10016789 $12.95
Decor Accessories for Wine Lovers: Decorative Wine Racks,
Wine Baskets, Carts, Wine Glass Holders, Wine Bottle Shelves
Baby Elephant Sculpture Wine Bottle Holder
What's tickling the tummy of this roly-poly baby elephant?
A bottle of any wine you please! Baby elephant sculpture wine
bottle holder playfully cradles your wine and makes a fun
party decoration. Polyresin. 10 3/4" x 6 1/4" x
6 1/2" high. Item:12615 (Regularly $24.95) SALE!
West Boot Spur Sculpture Wine Bottle Holder
Giddy up and grab your favorite bottle of wine with this Wild
West theme wine bottle holder. Fashioned after a cowboy's
boot spur and set on a base carved to look like a piece of
wooden fence wrapped in barbed wire, it adds rustic charm
to your counter or bar. Polyresin. 8 1/4" x 4 1/4"
x 6" high. Item:10015445 (Regularly $24.95) SALE!
Western Cowboy Boot Wine Bottle Holder with Lucky Horseshoe
on Toe
Show off your favorite bottle of wine in cowboy style with
this finely detailed wine bottle holder. The decorated cowboy
boot looks like the real deal, and the lucky horseshoe at
the toe keeps a standard-sized bottle of vino in place. 10"
x 5" x 9" high. Polyresin. Item:10016833 (Regularly
Antler Wine Bottle Holder: Ceramic Antler Wine Holder
Hunting for a great way to display your favorite bottle of
wine? This is it! Cradle a wine bottle of your choice in these
faux antlers and add some rustic charm to your decor. Great
for a vacation cabin or rustic wine tasting party! 7 1/2"
x 4" x 6 1/2" high. Item:10015443 (Regularly $19.95)
Iron Wine Rack Table with Glass Table Top - Holds 8 Wine Bottles
This beautiful table makes the most of a small space! The
glass top gives you space to decorate with style or to offer
some cheese and crackers to your guests. And below, the curled
iron framework holds up to 8 bottles of your favorite wine.
Iron and tempered glass. 32" x 14" x 32" high.
Item:10016832 (Regularly $199.95) SALE!
Decorative Winged Dragon Sculpture Wine Bottle Holder
Do you dare to drink that bottle of wine? Cool bronze tone
Medieval winged dragon wine bottle holder makes a legendary
finishing touch for the bar or buffet in your castle or home.
Horned dragon sculpture wine stand holds a standard bottle
of wine in fierce style while he also guards his other prize,
a gem! Polyresin. 11 1/4" x 7" x 12 3/8" high.
Item:10017312 (Regularly $59.95) SALE!
Skull Skeleton Wine Bottle Holder Sculpture
Fun and creepy wine bottle holder features a skeleton rising
up from flames to take a drink. Display on your bar or counter
and you've got an instant conversation starter with guests.
Just add your favorite bottle of wine and this deadly funny
skeleton holds it for you. 12" x 5 3/4" x 6 1/2"
high. Polyresin. Item:10015871 (Regularly $29.95) SALE!
Wood and Wrought Iron Wine Rack Decor for 4 Wine Bottles
Four rustic wooden slats mount to your wall and feature simple
wrought iron wine holders that allow you to store four bottles
upside down. A great accessory for your cellar or dining room,
you'll always have your next bottle of wine within reach!
22 3/4" x 5 1/8 x 15 3/4" high. Iron and Wood. Item:10015543
(Regularly $49.95) SALE!
Bottle Shape Wall-Mounted Wine Rack for 4 Bottles of Wine
Have a taste for dramatic design and fine wine? This stylish
wall-mounted wine rack is made from wood and metal, and it's
the perfect silhouette to showcase four of your favorite bottles
of wine in kitchen, dining room or wine cellar. Fir wood and
iron. 19 1/4" x 2 3/4" x 22 1/2" high. Item:10017096
(Regularly $59.95) SALE!
Design Metal Art Tower Wine Bottle Holder for 6 Bottles of
Keep your fresh bottles of wine handy while dressing up your
countertop or bar with an artistic touch. This stunning pavilion-style
metal wine bottle stand features a rustic antiqued finish
and holds up to six bottles of wine horizontally. Iron. 8
1/2" x 8 1/2" x 18 1/2" high. Item:10015378
(Regularly $59.95) SALE!
Iron Eiffel Tower Sculpture Wine Bottle Holder
Ooh la la. Put your wine on display the French way! Fun decorative
countertop wine bottle holder has space for six bottles of
your favorite vino, and its charming metal wire frame looks
like one of the most iconic landmarks in the world, the Eiffel
Tower! 18 1/8" x 5 7/8" x 25 7/8" high. Iron.
Item:10015803 (Regularly $39.95) SALE!
Fashioned Tricycle Design Wrought Iron Wine Bottle Rack
Fun antique style wrought iron tricycle makes a charming way
to display three of your favorite bottles of wine. Place the
bottles in the front wheel and decorate your counter, table
or bar with great taste! Fun decor for a wine tasting party!
6 1/2" x 14 1/2" x 15 3/8" high. Iron. Item:10015802
(Regularly $24.95) SALE!
Wrought Iron Wine Rack with 9 Wine Bottle Slots
Show off your favorite wines with style and keep them within
easy reach! This attractive metal wine rack display stand
features a decorative top handle and artistically holds nine
bottles of your favorite wines. 8" x 7" x 23 5/8"
high. Iron. Item:10015843 (Regularly $34.95) SALE!
Blue Wood Wine Cabinet with Drawer for 12 Wine Bottles
What a noble way to store your favorite wine! This lovely
wine storage cabinet features a pullout drawer at top and
seats 12 bottles of vino below. The calming shade of blue
showcases your great taste in decor and wine! 17 3/4"
x 14 1/4" x 34" high. MDF wood. FREE SHIPPING!*
Item:10016135 (Regularly $199.95) SALE!
Decor: Baker's Rack with Holders for Wine Bottles and Glasses
Open "baker's rack" design enhances home's decor!
Stylish functional unit has cradles for ten wine bottles,
a rack for ten stemmed glasses and three spacious shelves
for storage or display. Wood and metal. Baker's wine rack
measures 24" x 16" x 68" high. FREE SHIPPING!*
Item:34775 (Regularly
Decorative Vine Motif Vases and Urns, Wine Glasses
Wine Barrel Wine Bottle Holder - FREE SHIPPING!*
A barrel's worth of good times and great wine awaits you when
you bring this wine rack home. A wooden barrel complete with
metal banding and golden rivets has space for multiple bottles
of your favorite vintage, thanks to the inset black metal
wire rack. Fir wood and iron. 22 3/4" x 13 1/2"
x 18" high. Item:10015494 (Regularly $179.95) SALE!
Barware: Celebration Shot Glasses with "Cheers"
Etched in 6 Languages - Set of 6 Glasses
Raise a toast to good times, good friends, and great glassware
with this charming shot glass set. Six glasses, etched with
"cheers" in six languages, are sure to turn your
toast into a celebration. Each tall shot glass is etched with
"cheers" in English, Chinese, German, French, Italian
and Japanese. Each is 1 1/2" x 4 1/2" high. Set.
Item:12010098 $49.95
Wine Theme Decor: Decorative Wine Serving Accents,
Decorative Wine Bottle Stoppers, Wine Openers, Wine Gadgets
Wine Stopper: Black Open-Toed High Heel Shoe Wine Bottle Stopper
Keep your wine fresh in fabulous style with this charming
wine bottle stopper. It keeps your favorite bottle fresh for
the next serving, and the sparkling black peep toe high heel
shoe decoration on top is a fashion must have for a stylish
party! Polyresin and rubber. 2 3/4" x 1" x 5"
high. Item:10017212 $6.95
Stripes High Heel Shoe Wine Bottle Stopper: Stiletto Wine
If you love wine, shoes and animal prints, this is the perfect
accessory to add to your collection! The functional wine bottle
stopper keeps your wine fresh for the next serving, and the
decorative zebra stripes pattern high heel on top makes your
party fabulously stylish. Polyresin and rubber. 2 3/4"
x 1" x 5" high. Item:10017211 $6.95
Shoe Wine Bottle Stopper: Leopard Print Stiletto Wine Stopper
Save your unfinished bottle of wine in style with this fantastic
high-heeled wine bottle stopper. This functional bottle stopper
keeps your wine fresh for the next serving, and the leopard
print shoe on top makes a wild party accent for ladies night
out or any high style gathering. Polyresin and rubber. Item:10017210
Gift: Deluxe Wine Accessories in Wine Bottle Shaped Case
Any wine aficionado will delight at this fun and practical
wine accessories set! Tucked inside a decorative black wine
bottle shaped case, a professional quality corkscrew, pourer
and drip collar let you enjoy your favorite wines to their
fullest. A great gift for the wne lover! 2 1/2" diameter
x 9 1/4" high. ABS plastic, stainless steel. Item:D1161
(Regularly $19.95) SALE!
Wine Opener Gift Set with Corkscrews and Foil Cutter
Stop struggling and start sipping sooner with this easy-to-use
wine opener set! Stubborn corks are no match for this handy
opener that pierces the cork and pulls it out with swift action
and fluid movement. Set includes two corkscrews and foil cutter
that helps remove the bottle wrapping over the cork. Wine
opener: 5 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 7 3/4" high. Item:10015322
(Regularly $24.95) SALE!
Decor Accessories: Wine Bottle Picnic Backpack & More
Theme Decorative Birdhouse: Finch Valley Winery
Great gift for wine lovers for indoor or outdoor display!
Open daily for wine tasting, this "Finch Valley Winery"
birdhouse features metal grape leaf accents. Wood. 10 5/8"
x 7 7/8" x 10 1/8" high. Item:35146 (Regularly
Cottage "Winery" Decorative Birdhouse with Clean
Out Door
Birds won't be able to resist an overnight stop over at this
quaint cottage winery! The green cottage features a darling
brick-red roof that's crawling with ivy. Faux wine barrels
perch outside, welcoming your feathered friends to the perfect
place to unwind. Clean out hole on back. 10 1/4" x 7"
x 8" high. MDF wood. Item:10015391 (Regularly $19.95)
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Fun fact: the first in-person interview I ever did was with director Michael J. Bassett. Not only did I have the nervousness of it being my first interview, I also hadn't prepared for it at all because, until 3 minutes before I did it, I had no idea I was even doing an interview. Long story involving me ordering a Screwdriver at 11am short, one of the only good questions I managed to pull out of thin air was whether or not he had had any conversations with producer Samuel Hadida about directing Silent Hill 2. Bassett gave me a startled look and said something to the effect of, "How'd you know about that?"
It was a simple thing of putting two-and-two together. I knew Silent Hill 2 had just lost director Roger Avary, I knew Hadida was a producer on Bassett's Solomon Kane (which the interview was for), and I frankly thought his style was a perfect match for the franchise. Turns out Bassett was a big, big fan of the franchise long before talk of doing a movie had even come up, but that just days before our conversation he had actually begun meeting with Hadida and talking about taking over the helm. Over a year later it was announced that Bassett would be directing the newly titled Silent Hill: Revelation 3D.
All of this is a long way of saying that when Bassett says in the below video that he's a big fan of Silent Hill, he's not just putting on a show to sell the movie. The guy's a legit fan and was one well before he was even signed to direct the movie. Unfortunately the below video only features Bassett and star Adelaide Clemens talking about what they're doing with the film and what storyline from the game they're adapting and no actual footage, but if you're a fan of both the game series and the Christophe Gans' first film, it's reassuring to hear that this won't be just a cash-in project.
Also, because why not, here's the trailer for Solomon Kane, which for some inane reason still doesn't have US distribution two years after it came out in the UK.


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I'm writing my masters thesis and my supervisor has picked up my sentence structure, in that they are too long. She commented that Microsoft Word has a feature to investigate 'large' sentences. How can I do this with TeX? I'm using a mac and TexShop.
I think this is the easiest way. First, make sure you have pdftotext and diction installed. These should be available via MacPorts.
Alternatively, you can do it all as a one-liner:


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We stayed at the City Hotel when we visited Stuttgart to enjoy Canstatter Wasen. We were able to get their quickly via train, but were able to enjoy being a bit further away in the evening.
The hotel was clean and comfortable, with a private balcony that you could kick back and enjoy the Stuttgart skyline drinking a beer or wine from the in-room bar (which was VERY reasonably priced, unlike most minibars). The beds were comfortable, and the bathroom was sparkling clean. The breakfast included with the stay was also excellent, and the breakfast room is BEAUTIFUL.
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Joe Mahoney, Associated Press
DENVER — Ben Roethlisberger was rarin' to go after rallying the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth quarter.
Standing on the sideline, the banged-up quarterback with the balky ankle was anxiously waiting for his chance to take the field in overtime.
Given the new rules, all the Pittsburgh defense had to do was hold the Denver Broncos to a field goal — or, even better, a punt — and Roethlisberger would get another crack.
It didn't happen.
The next time Roethlisberger stepped onto the field was to congratulate the Broncos. Tim Tebow worked his magic yet again, hitting Demaryius Thomas for an 80-yard catch and run in a stunning 29-23 win in the AFC wild-card game Sunday.
The play that ended the season for the Steelers (12-5) took 11 seconds and erased all the hard work Roethlisberger had done to rally Pittsburgh from 14 points down.
"Any loss stinks for me and this is no different," Roethlisberger said. "It's hard to put into words right now. It's a frustrating thing."
Moments earlier, the Steelers were poised to steal an improbable win in regulation. With his team trailing 23-16 with less than 4 minutes remaining, Roethlisberger found Jerricho Cotchery in the end zone for the tying score.
After getting the ball back with 1:37 remaining, Roethlisberger — showing little effects from an ankle injury that's been bothering him for about a month — drove the team to the outer edge of field-goal range.
From there, it unraveled. Roethlisberger had the ball jarred loose by Elvis Dumervil before pouncing on it. But it pushed the Steelers out of range and led to overtime.
The Broncos (9-8) won the coin toss and Tebow quickly went to work.
One play later, the capacity crowd was roaring and the Steelers were reeling. The Broncos move on to play New England next weekend.
"Nice job by those guys," Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said. "They made the significant plays tonight."
And took advantage of blown coverage on the game's final play. Thomas hauled in a play-action pass at the Denver 38, stiff-armed cornerback Ike Taylor and then outraced safety Ryan Mundy to the end zone.
"I felt like I probably could have helped Ike out," said Mundy, who was filling in for Ryan Clark as the team's leading tackler sat out as a precaution because of a blood disorder that's exacerbated by altitude. "That's a tough coverage for (Taylor). No help, and my help was late. This game wasn't on Ike. We win as a team, we lose as a team."
Roethlisberger had a conversation with Taylor after the game, but wanted the exact nature of it to remain private.
"I told him I loved him," Roethlisberger said.
The Steelers entered this game as a nine-point favorite even though they were dinged up at virtually every position. Roethlisberger was bothered by an ankle injury, but still played.
And pretty well, too, finishing 22 of 44 for 289 yards and one TD pass. He also threw an interception.
Tailback Rashard Mendenhall didn't play due to a knee injury and Pro Bowl center Maurkice Pouncey was inactive for the game because of a sore ankle.
Later, the Steelers lost left tackle Max Starks to a right knee ailment.
If that wasn't enough, Pittsburgh also had defensive linemen Brett Keisel (groin) and Casey Hampton (left knee) leave the game with injuries.
A factor? Tomlin wouldn't even entertain that notion.
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The Herm Sprenger Offset Eye Stirrup helps the rider keep the stirrup footbed on the ball of the foot. Because it eliminates stirrup leather twisting, this offset stirrup design also helps with quick recovery of a lost iron.
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Acavallo® Opera Stirrups help keep stirrup leathers flat against the saddle to encourage a consistent leg position and minimize friction on the rider's legs. Slightly angled, extra-large open grated stirrup pads offer grip and a wide weight bearing area to help reduce knee, hip or ankle tension. National flag decals are included for optional decoration. Pair.
Weighing just 200 grams each, Royal Rider Original Stirrups are made of high-tech DuPont® Technopolymer which absorb shocks and tension without addung bulk. These lightweight stirrups come with two sets of pads.
One of today's most popular jumper stirrups, the Royal Rider Flexible Stirrup is super lightweight at just 200 grams. This high-tech, lightweight stirrup includes interchangeable grip pads.
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Herm Sprenger System 4-F Bow Balance Stirrup Irons help improve rider comfort, flexibility and leg position. Wide, shock-absorbing footbeds only add to the comfort level, while cut-out branches reduce weight.
In lightweight aluminum, Stübben STEELtec Maxi Grip Stirrups features ergonomically-formed, grated footbeds for security and grip. These Stübben stirrups also have a slightly angled branch to help keep foot and leg in the ideal position.
Herm Sprenger System 4-F Stirrups With Offset Eye are designed to help ease leg positioning and allow flexibility for more comfort in the saddle. Special treads adapt to your foot, ensuring consistent contact with stirrup. These offset eye stirrup irons have weighted bottoms.


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That does look annoying. Wat ever happened to the nice solid bag with well attached and thick handles that would allow you to carry things with little trouble. Yet another reason to buy things over the internets so my idiot of a mail carrier can deliver it to the neighbors or just not deliver it all making me go the fucking post office to pick it up. If murder were legal he would be first on the list.
Maybe women are the new men, maybe even firefighters. 11:00, how about those wild ones in California and the Kenai Peninsula.
Anthony Hecht, welcome to the man purse!
(Or murse if you prefer)
The Apple Store does the same thing, only it's bags look more like a backpack or laundry sack, not quite as purse-y, at least IMHO. I still don't like em though. Give us a simple bag people!
Don't fire them, just tell them to shorten the rope. But I have to say that the last time I shopped at the Levi's store, my bag didn't look like that one does. My bag was plastic, which is not good for the environment.
how about
dear levi's store,
when are you going to make clothes that don't suck or fall apart again. you used to make your jeans in america. they were made by people that knew how jeans should fit. now two pairs of the exact same # style will be made in sweatshops in thailand and haiti, and neither will fit correctly. what's up with that Levi's? could you fix that and come back to america so we can have decent jeans again? and so we don't feel guilty about your clothes being made by children whom you are not paying a fair wage?
Go Terry.
Stop Terry.
For the record, the ones I got were heche in Mexico.
Thank you for bitching about the bag. It's everyday annoyances like this that drive me crazy.
We don't need to get all arty with the stupid bag handle. Just a sturdy bag handle is fine. They've been making bags for hundreds of years that work fine. If it's not broken, please don't fix it.
Cliche Brown
Gee Anthony, that is tough man. But speaking of tough: at a hotel in Iraq today 30 people were blowen to pieces in Dan Savages glorious war. Over 2,000,000 million Iraq citizens have left their homes and fled to Syria. But as Dan would say-FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH!
both plastic and paper are bad for our environment. so do what i do:
leave house w/ no pants on.
purchase pants at store.
wear them home; your hands are now free to carry other things like the bulky iPhone.
I was reading these comments about this bag handle and got to #9 when I wondered, how much longer 'til some douche mentions Iraq.
I hate those fucking string handles. They burn into my hand after a while if I've bought a lot of stuff. I found H&M makes nice bags, with super soft plastic (yeah yeah) handles. One of the key secrets to its friendly construction, I found, is being separately attached ... those one-piece bags are as terrible as these string dealies.
I'm talking about shopping bags, but at least it's in the right thread, ok?
Tie the handle in a knot to shorten it and stop whining
bring your own bag.
Be glad you have hands! In a single American Hospital for war wounded today, while you whine about shopping bags, More than 800 of them have lost an arm, a leg, fingers or toes. More than 100 are blind. Dozens need tubes and machines to keep them alive. Hundreds are disfigured by burns, and thousands have brain injuries and mangled minds.
These are America's war wounded, a toll that has received less attention than the 3,500 troops killed in Iraq. Depending on how you count them, they number between 35,000 and 53,000.
Its a european carry-all
Its a european carry-all
It signals a larger problem than a poorly designed bag. It shows that Levi's doesn't have a good quality control system. A basic principle of design is to test something before release, whether it be a shopping bag, library (especially on how to get from the 4th floor to the 5th), or coffee carafe. Those office carafes that you can't fit a travel mug underneath are especially annoying.
If carrying that bag makes you feel unmanly, how do you deal with your inability to tie a simple overhand knot?
Maybe you should start a support group.
(Yes, it's a lousy design. So cowboy up and solve the problem!)
#14 and 20: I'm embarrassed to say that I never would have thought of that. Then again, I'm a girl and probably would have slung it on my shoulder cause it's less heavy that way.
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AbstractThe objective of this proposal is develop a concept for embedded peer-to-peer human/robot interaction that will allow a robot to work side-by-side with a person or a group of people in contrast to more traditional deployments of robotic hardware which keep the robots and humans very far from each other. MobileRobots Inc and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will exploit advances in dynamic perception and probabilistic reasoning techniques to develop a concept for robust human robot interaction (HRI) that will provide a robot with the necessary situation awareness to achieve a high level of peer-to-peer interaction. In the proposed concept, humans will interact with the robot in a natural fashion using speech, gestures, and verbal dialog. To facilitate such understanding of the human's activities and communicative acts, we will exploit the state of the art in computer vision techniques (both monocular and stereo) to detect and recognize the presence of humans, monitor and understand their gestures, and track their activities over time. This multi-modal situation awareness will allow the robot to monitor the actions and speech of a human in order to interactively learn to execute a state sequence for rudimentary joint plans with the human.
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take a look at the DNS errors on this site. Might it affect how google indexes the site? The site is not even returned in searches http://www.intodns.com/legacytrustuk.org
Ok, so here is what intoDNS is complaining about. I'll first give you all the commands I executed and then explain them step by step.
So the first thing I did was ask the Whois Server what he thinks the DNS Servers for legacytrustuk.org are. He returns the telivo.com ones.
So it's exactly as intoDNS explains. The parent Nameservers (those responsible for the TLD .org) think that ns0.telivo.com and ns1.telivo.com are authoritative for legacytrustuk.org. However when you ask them they tell you something different. And there's the missmatch. So technically it works but formally - as far as the registar information goes - the setup is broken.
To fix this just update the Domain Registration Information. Remove the ns0.telivo.com and ns1.telivo.com nameservers from the registar info and add the two ns0.lcn.com and ns1.lcn.com servers.
(Reposting my answer to your SO question.)
To index a site, Google has to be able to reach it. The absense of
But one of the biggest problems surely is:
...which is going to make it hard for Google or anyone else to actually visit the site. But I was able to ping it and get name resolution (188.8.131.52), so clearly something somewhere is working for you.
At the end of the day, you want to clean up the errors regardless of SEO.


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Greetings Gabri, I like your choice of frames for the water and park. Interesting how the foreground is color and the background monochrome. Nice shot.
Questa è grandioso. molto bella. complimenti!
Ti Ringraxio Irene...ciao
There is a curious harmony between the background and the first plane :) Very well done, Gibrail!
thank you Marcelo
I like the way you play with colours, mixing bright shades with monochromatic ones. Greetings from Greece
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Installing WordPress is a breeze. Although it didn't take me five minutes it was still really easy and now a week later I have a highly successful and well-trafficked site. But I think that WordPress would get an even bigger audience if it was bundled with a distribution like http://www.apachefriends.org/en/, which itself is widely used and really easy to install. Wouldn't it be neat if Apache Friends came with WordPress ready to use right out of the box? The reason is that - shameful as it is to admit - I knew about a number of blogging tools but clueless as I was I had never heard of Word Press. Neither did I realize that it simply is the best blogging tool around.
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PREP VOLLEYBALL: The team will be allowed to compete in postseason
Published: Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 1:00 a.m.
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VENICE - As far as the Venice High volleyball team is concerned, it is water under the bridge.
The Indians had their sanctions from Trophygate reduced dramatically Friday by the Florida High School Athletic Association.
The Indians initially received a three-year ban from the postseason for throwing the regional runner-up trophy into Tampa Bay after losing the Class 5A-Region 3 final at East Lake.
Instead, Venice will serve the following penalties:
Coach Brian Wheatley is suspended from coaching the team in the 2011-12 postseason, will not receive 10 percent of his coaching stipend and received a verbal reprimand from the FHSAA in his permanent file. He must purchase and replace the regional runner-up trophy and pay the $500 fine.
Wheatley also will conduct a sportsmanship clinic for the Venice Middle School volleyball team, attend the FHSAA Sportsmanship Summit and the FHSAA compliance conference in August 2011.
The team is banned from playing home matches during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 postseasons.
The team must purchase the champion and runner-up trophies for the 2011-12 Class 5A-Region 3 tournament.
The team must write a letter of apology to the teams in 5A-District 10 and send a letter of apology to East Lake High.
The team must take a sportsmanship class.
Wheatley is on administrative probation with the athletic department for the 2011-12 season and the volleyball team is on administrative probation with the FHSAA.
All the actions were self imposed.
"We're happy with the new ruling," said Venice director of athletics Pete Dombroski, who worked with school principal Jack Turgeon and Wheatley on drawing up a new proposal to the FHSAA. "We just wanted to take it off the student/athlete volleyball players and make sure they weren't punished in this."
"It's great," Wheatley said. "It's been a humbling experience. Since the beginning, I've taken full responsibility for it. My focus has always been on the girls being able to play.
"Any time something is taken away from you, you want it back. Our team is going to have a renewed focus going into the season next year. Good sportsmanship will be a cornerstone of the Venice volleyball program.
"I especially want to thank the VHS administration, especially Jack Turgeon and Pete Dombroski to find out the true facts and standing behind their coach."
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- Summary: This documentary presents the intense, true-life experience of the National Spelling Bee as seen through the eyes of eight driven, young spellers. (ThinkFilm)
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While it may be excruciating to watch a speller miss a word by a letter, it's just as exciting to watch another kid jump the hurdle.
The end result is the best documentary you'll see this year, as thrilling a competition as any Super Bowl and as suspenseful a story as any Hitchcock film.
The movie becomes a nail-biter, the audience hanging on every letter. Who could have anticipated that a spelling competition would yield such a heartbreaking thriller?
Blitz captures the intensity of the bee itself, showing how it frazzles the nerves of even the most well-prepared spellers as, one by one, their colleagues and competitors drop away.
Loses its momentum just when you'd expect the suspense to mount -- at the competition itself.
Many of the kids seem to be social outcasts of one kind or another, but Spellbound, which will show on cable later this year, doesn't dig deep enough to disturb the movie's relentless feel-good tone.
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Jan 22, 2012This movie completely changed my outlook on life. I was 7 when I first saw it in theaters, and I was completely blown away. I was veryThis movie completely changed my outlook on life. I was 7 when I first saw it in theaters, and I was completely blown away. I was very impressionable, as so many 7 year olds are, and for the first month or so after I watched it, I had it decided that I too, was going to be a spelling bee kid. Obviously I didn't really stick with my plans of being a nationally ranked speller, but, a year ago, when I watched the movie again, I realized the impact this film had on me had just about nothing to do with spelling. Spellbound provides revealing insight on being the best, regardless of what hobby, sport, or subject you're trying to excel at. Surprisingly compelling, Spellbound ranks near the top of my list as far as documentaries go.… Expand
ChristopherJ.Mar 20, 2007A documentary that exposes the lifestyles of the nerdy and almost-famous spelling bee contest. The kids are fascinating and the parents are A documentary that exposes the lifestyles of the nerdy and almost-famous spelling bee contest. The kids are fascinating and the parents are what you'd expect them to be: strange.… Collapse
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Youngstown State's new defensive coordinator is well-known to Mahoning Valley football fans.
He's also well-traveled.
According to FootballScoop.com, the Penguins have hired Warren JFK High graduate Joe Tresey to replace Rick Kravitz, who served as YSU's defensive coordinator the past two years.
Thursday, a YSU spokesman would not confirm Tresey's hiring, saying only that the school is finalizing a contract with its leading candidate.
This is Tresey's eighth different stop over the past decade and his fifth in as many years.
He spent last season as UCLA's defensive coordinator and held the same post at South Florida (2009), Cincinnati (2007-08), Central Michigan (2006), Georgia Southern (2004-05) and Akron (2002-03).
UCLA surrendered 31.4 points per game and 417.1 yards per game last season for Rick Neuheisel's Bruins. Neuheisel was fired following a 6-7 season.
Tresey also spent the 2010 season as the defensive backs coach for the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League.
His defenses are known for their attacking style that emphasize turnovers and negative plays. That's the same style preferred by Kravitz, whose unit surrendered 25.7 points and 352.3 yards per game last season.
YSU gave up a season-high 38 points in a four-point loss to Missouri State in the regular-season finale, a defeat that cost the Penguins a playoff berth. MSU scored 28 of those points in the second half.
YSU gave up 31.5 points and 411 yards per game in 2010.
Arod, PLEASE find me a solid defense in the Pac12 last year. Furthermore, his defense was top 30 at Cincy and at USF.
ToyCannon, he has a five year contract and he does have things "ROLLING" in the right direction. Just ignore the fact he beat the National Champions last year.... ON THE ROAD IN FARGO! Their ONLY loss of the campaign.
You guys are the same individuals that have had a personal vendetta against Wolford from day 1. He is doing things the right way and was left with a mess of a program with the lack of talent to compete at this level. He now has had 3 solid recruiting classes and will have a contender for a title this year.
Go Guins!
Another 6 win season and Wolford will have more wins in his first 3 seasons than Tressel had in his first 3 seasons. People seem to think a young first time coach is going to come in and win fast. Tressel did not. Not many do.
Arod, you have bashed Wolford at every possible chance you possibly could get. Sitting on a message board or commenting on articles bashing the guy is going to make a difference.
Instead of bashing the guy, support him and attend the games. This year is going to be a special one!