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In honor of my shiny new Twilight DVD, I have a little vampire-themed viewing party in the works, which should be FUN!
We'll definitely be having "Blood-Rimmed Martinis", and I made these Vampire Drink Labels to print out and slide over bottles of RED drinks like Pomegranate IZZE, Boylan's Black Cherry Soda, and whatever other red concoctions the store shelves have to offer that can pass for Type A and B! (Update 4/12: Too see actual photos of these labels in use, click here!)
If you're planning to host a Twilight/Edward Cullen-viewing party of your own and want to use these drink labels too, you can download them right here in Adobe pdf format.
There are 4 labels total (2 pages per page), and the files are high-resolution. Cheers!
P.S. A few people have commented that this is similar to an idea for some drink labels made for a show called Tru Blood. I've never seen that show or those labels before – so I promise this wasn't copied! But labeling drinks to look like "blood" seems like a pretty obvious idea for any party starring vampires – Twilight, Dracula, Tru Blood, or straight up Halloween, so feel free to use these for any kind of party you want!
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are free to download and print these designs for your personal use only. Please do not attempt to resell or redistribute them. If you'd like blog about these templates, please make sure to link to the full post at HWTM and not directly to the downloadable files. Thank you!
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1apparentlyjessy SAYS:
What a wonderfully cool idea! Thanks for sharing! :)
2April SAYS:
This is a great idea!
3Katrina SAYS:
Any Ideas on a purple drink…
light purple that is. Non-alcohol for a birthday party
4littleantdesign.blogspot.com/ SAYS:
Love the labels. We have been tossing around the idea of a Twilight party here at our house too but with a big move coming up I haven't been able to pull it off. These adorable labels might make me get going with the party plans.
5Kim O. SAYS:
Love love love love it!!!!:)
6maritessb.blogspot.com/ SAYS:
big twilight fan here. love these!
7Juligie SAYS:
These are so fun! love how you are carrying out the theme through design and witty one liners. =)
8Kendall @ Kendall's Entertaining Life SAYS:
OMG! I'm Twilight obsessed! I'll be printing these for sure. Thanks for posting them Jenn!!!
9Rachel SAYS:
SO much fun! Thanks tons for sharing, I'll be linking.
10Kendall @ Kendall's Entertaining Life SAYS:
Oe of the other blogs I read posted a blood-inspired design post today as well! There are a few fun ideas here!
12Davids SAYS:
My sister is such a nerd she would love these. I swear she could compete for the number one fan.
13Mara Wong SAYS:
i can't wait to see what other ideas you come up with!!! this is awesome! :)
14Debbie SAYS:
This is FABULOUS!!!! I LOVE IT! Thanks!
15Gale SAYS:
Where were these labels a few months ago. I hosted a Twilight Party in January at my work. We ate Mushroom Ravioli. I made werewolf cupcakes and Twilight cupcakes. I had found an assorted container of apple ornaments at Hobby Lobby for 90% off. Black and red glitter netting, apples, silver Volvos, chess pieces and red ribbon surround the vase of red and white tulips. We had a great time. I gave black favor bags tied with red ribbon. In the bags were a pack of Eclipse gum, a red ribbon bookmark, and white and red chocolate chess pieces in cellaphane bags tied with red ribbon.
16Emily F SAYS:
I love it! My party is all set for next Friday. Thanks!
17Allison SAYS:
Jenn, I LOVE it! So great.
18Alli SAYS:
How cute! I'm having a few friends over to watch the movie this weekend, and I'll definitely be using these.


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Ken Goldman, the recently hired chief financial officer of Yahoo and a veteran of the software industry, will give advice Wednesday in Buffalo to the founders of local technology startups.
Goldman was hired last October by Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer. He has worked in management positions for more than 30 years, including as CFO of Fortinent, which makes computer security software, and of Siebel Systems, which makes business software.
Goldman serves on the board of Infinera and NXP Semiconductor, and is a trustee of Cornell University, his alma mater.
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"He's very well-known in the venture capital industry," said Dan Magnuszewski, chief principal innovator at the Z80 Labs tech incubator.
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Your Reunion Committee has been meeting monthly for the last several months via conference calls with two wonderful young women from the College. We are putting together a few fun, yet meaningful, options for Reunion Weekend June 5-8, 2014. It's our 55th- hard to believe but true!
The "happy observance of reunion," as we say, is a thoughtful balance of the social, intellectual and philanthropic aspects of our time together. Our class committee is striving to offer unforgettable opportunities to reconnect with each other, Alumni College presentations that stimulate thought and conversation, and -- not least of all -- a meaningful gift to the College that captures our respect and admiration for our alma mater.
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Mianzhu, Sichuan Province, China: The best way to prevent epidemics in quake affected areas is to guarantee the safety of drinking water and the treatment of waste. IFRC has paid much attention to that and sent a health delegation to follow it up.
Along with the further investigations of the health delegates, IFRC is bringing more and more ERUs (Emergency Response Units) to help deal with the pain of the quake aftermath. And all ERUs, who will be the spot soon, will bring mobile systems for water purification. These are like small-scale water factories to offer safe drinking water for quake survivors.
The British ERU is ready to run and the Spanish and Australia-French ERUs are coming in a few days. Today I will go with the British ERU to Jiulong and Banqiao Townships of Mianzhu City, which were destroyed by the tremor, to investigate where to locate the water purification system and set up mobile toilets in order to ensure sanitation.
After a short meeting for dividing up work in the morning, I accompany the British ERU to visit two townships in Mianzhu City. After two hours driving, we arrive at Deyang Prefecture near Mianzhu City and have a meeting with the local Red Cross branch on setting up a base for the British ERU team. It is important to consider the security of ERUs in aftershock areas because Mianzhu is close to the mountainous area of the quake zone.
We arrive at Mianzhu City and check another big camp with approximately 8,000 homeless people there. Then we start the journey to Jiulong and Banqiao Townships of Mianzhu. During the way there, we see many ruins in both urban and rural areas, and especially the rural areas are very seriously hit with almost nothing left. Though people can stay in tents, their lives are suffering.
When we get close to Jiulong town, we see a woman near the road waving her hands and asking for help with her young baby. She explains to us that her baby may have diarrhoea and wantsto send him to hospital in town, but there are no buses available now due to damaged road. So we take her and her young baby with us and the IFRC health delegate gives a first diagnosis. We then send them to the Red Cross hospital in town and the baby gets good treatment.
In the afternoon, we check water resources for the water purification system, which should supply enough drinking water for 12,000 persons per day, and toilet sanitation conditions in both Jiulong and Banqiao townships. We have discussions with local leaders and interviews with villagers to get the full picture.
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Local church members have voted to sever ties with their denomination.
Members of the First Presbyterian Church of Edmond made the decision Sunday afternoon. Church leaders said the vote was the end of a long process.
The members of the Edmond church said there has been a drift from the central truths of the Christian faith, specifically with homosexuality.
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Former male model and Dallas Playboy Club alum reprises his role as Patrick Duffy's stand-in on 'Dallas' — 31 years later
Meet Paul Heckmann. I discovered him when he commented on our August FD Luxe story: "Bunnies gone wild: A dip back into Dallas' posh Playboy club". Turns out, Heckmann worked as a maître d for the club in the late '70s and early '80s (along with "Big" Dan Nolte of Plano, who is quoted in the story). "It was pretty wild," Heckmann told me over the phone. "I was a kid from a little town in Texas who ended up in the Playboy Club."
But that's not all. As you can see from the photos, Heckmann also has brooding eyes and a jaw that won't quit. He found work as a model. He dated Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Debbie Kepley (the Cowboys shared the same building off Central Expressway as the Playboy Club) and she introduced him to her agent. He says his gigs included editorial for Neiman Marcus, advertisements in GQ, even a campy 1980 spread in The Dallas Morning News' Fashion!Dallas section modeling, what else in Texas, fur coats. (I love the headline: "Put Hair on Your Chest." See the page here: Fashion!Dallas fur spread with Paul Heckmann)
And in Heckmann's spare time? He became an actor and landed multiple small bits in the hit TV show Dallas. Even better, he became Patrick Duffy's stand-in. Heckmann continued working over the years, getting small gigs in just about every production that has rolled through town, from Walker, Texas Ranger to the ill-fated GCB. He was even an extra in director Richard Linklater's film, Bernie, based on Texas Monthly scribe Skip Hollandsworth's story.
Heckmann had a full circle moment in his acting career when TNT launched its reboot of Dallas this year. Patrick Duffy was back, and so was Paul Heckmann, who once again served as Duffy's stand-in — 31 years later.
Not everything in Heckmann's life has been picture perfect. He quips, "I could have been a good actor except for one thing: talent." He reinvented over the years, working on cruise ships for a while, and today lives in Carrollton where he does IT work. Presently, he's between gigs as he recovers from major back surgery, which has also hindered his acting work. But don't count Heckmann out yet. He expects to be back in the game soon. If nothing else, Dallas — and Mr. Duffy — are officially on for season two in 2013.


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When we asked Navman to put up a satnav for our three-way test against the TomTom Go 920 T and Garmin nuvi 770, the Navman S90i was its obvious answer - all three products are the flagship models of their respective brands. And the home-grown Navman has some neat aces up its sleeve.
The most obvious of these, of course, is the Navman S90i's built-in 2-megapixel digital still camera, a feature both of its rivals lack. That's because Navman is keen to tout NavPix - a unique photo sharing site that enables Navman satnav users to see real pictures of potential destinations that have been uploaded by other members.
While we're sceptical about the real value of some add-ons for satnavs (MP3 playback, for example), sharing pictures of places you've visited does make some sense. Imagine being able to match the building, street or landmark you can see through the windscreen in front of you, with photos of that location downloaded from NavPix to your Navman - it should reassure you that you've arrived in the right place.
It has other obvious benefits too - relatives can send you pictures of their new homes so you can go to visit them, and you'll be able snap pictures of hazards like low bridges, fords, etc that you can share with other drivers.
You can, of course, view pictures on many other satnav systems - including those from TomTom and Garmin - but Navman has really made this feature its own.
Another benefit is geo-tagging. Every picture you take automatically has GPS reference information added to its metadata - enabling you and others to drive directly to that destination. Navman gives the example of tourist destinations like the Eiffel Tower or the Tower Of London - everyone knows what they look like, but geo-tagged photos will actually help you drive there. Navman is ahead of the curve in this respect.
The rest of the Navman S90i's features are more prosaic. Like its rivals, the S90i features UK and European maps supplied by TeleAtlas, built-in Traffic Message Channel data (with a free subscription for the lifetime of the product), Points Of Interest (POI) data and Bluetooth for use with mobile phones and so on.
Navman bulks up
We're not sure whether the built-in camera is to blame, but the Navman S90i is considerably chunkier than either the TomTom Go 920 T or the Garmin Nuvi 770. It has a much wider bezel around its 4.3-inch widescreen display than either of its rivals and is also considerably thicker than both.
On the top sit the power and camera buttons, the left side has sockets for an external aerial, microphone and headphones, while the bottom houses the USB / power socket and an SD card slot.
The camera lens can be found on the back - along with S90i's built-in speaker - where it's protected by a sliding cover that you can easily flick open and close with a thumb. The problem is it's almost too effortless, making it easy to fire the camera when you don't want it to - like when you're trying to get the Navman S90i on to its widescreen mount, for example.
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This in turn reveals another problem. The widescreen mount is fiddly to use - you have to slide the mount into a groove on the back of the Navman S90i, but not without first securely slotting the USB power cord into its own grooves on the windscreen mount. It took us a couple of goes to get this right - we only realised first time when the power on the unit suddenly gave out on our test route, the S90i gave us no indication that it was running only on batteries until it was too late.
Even when you do make sure everything is hooked up properly, getting the Navman on to its windscreen mount is still a faff to do. Both Garmin and TomTom have much more elegant solutions, but at least the Navman stays glued to the screen once it's setup - the widescreen mount is better than the one used by TomTom in this respect.
Fire it up for the first time and the Navman S90i immediately kicks you into street map view where it plots your current location. To set up your preferences you simply hit the slightly cryptic icon on the left of the menu bar. From then on you're presented with three sub-menus / pages of icon buttons, enabling you to setup and access your favourite destinations, search for location by address or postcode, access your NavPix etc.
Emergency, emergency
The way the menus have been structured is a little strange though - the first page makes sense, the second page is headed up by NavPix with virtual buttons for finding your nearest petrol station or parking, and the third has buttons for SOS (local hospitals, police stations, etc), cash points and food.
Now we know NavPix is a crucial part of Navman's worldview but you don't really want to have to sail past that before you get to sub-menu three and the SOS button, surely? 'I'm sorry I couldn't stop you from bleeding to death, but I have taken some nice pictures of the gaping wound in your chest.' OK, we've exaggerated a bit, but you get the point.
Although the main menu system is simple enough, a couple of other things grate - it's all very grey and bland with some fairly hideous icons. Other bits are cumbersome to navigate: having to select a country every time you want to find a POI gets old pretty quickly, as does the resulting long and very grey list which you scroll through using icky up/down menu buttons.
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The Navman S90i also failed our Points Of Interest test. We wanted to find a very popular tourist landmark (a city zoo) deep in the heart of Bristol, but it didn't exist on Navman's maps. It's not even listed as having a car park. Compare that to its rivals: the Garmin nuvi 770 found the zoo at the first attempt; the TomTom Go at least managed the car park. It could be an anomaly, but you expect it to be there. You almost start to wonder how good Navman's maps are likely to be.
On the road though it looks like we needn't have worried. The Navman got us around our test route with nary a glitch, even if some of the slightly barking voice commands did get a bit wearing after a while. At least like the Garmin nuvi 770, the Navman S90i has the decency to tell us which roads to turn into - eg 'turn left into Smith Street' rather than the more generic commands served up by TomTom.
It also appears to present a more detailed view of the road ahead a la Garmin - or it could be that its largely grey presentation seems just a tad more ovewhelming than either the Garmin nuvi 770 or TomTom Go 920 T.
The Navman S90i is also the only one of the three systems we looked at that is resolutely Windows only when it comes fetching updates from a Mac or PC. The software is easy to use. However we think Navman could do with expanding its horizons a bit here.
We think you can see what conclusion we're coming to. There are certainly some things we like about the Navman S90i - it's easy to use and it does a decent job of getting you from A to B, and it's cheap compared to its rivals, but it is competent, rather than awe-inspiring. What it lacks - aside from NavPix - is any real flair or leap of imagination over its rivals. For many the benefit of a built-in camera or even NavPix functionality per se - won't be enough to convince them otherwise.


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Trolling The American Id Between Four And Eight MegacyclesTuesday, July 7th, 2009
A few generations ago, another American president took office when our country was mired in another devastating financial disaster. Of course, I'm talking about Franklin Roosevelt, a president to whom Obama is occasionally compared (after JFK and Lincoln, I suppose). And following tradition, he addressed the nation announcing his vision for America. It was a bit of pep talk really. And although few who actually heard that rousing speech are still around today, we've all heard (or read) the declaration he delivered in this opening remarks:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Always presented to me as the key phrase of a historic speech, those words themselves never rattled with great wisdom for me. It always seemed a little redundant, and too straightforward to offer much in the way of revelation. But then again I didn't grow up during the Great Depression.
Now we're living though the worst economic crisis since that time, and while our circumstances aren't nearly as dire as the day Roosevelt moved into the White House, no one knows how much worse things may get. Or where we are headed as a nation. And as luck would have it, we seem to have brought in a decent and thoughtful man to help steer our country out of this new financial morass of our times. It seemed almost hopeful.
And then the fact that he happened to spend some formative years overseas in a Muslim country seemed fortuitous as well, following on the heels of an administration that incited so much hatred and animosity from Muslims around the world. Yet, for all the logic or serendipity that seemed inherent in the rise to power of Barack Obama, others see something else.
There is a bizarre streak of American humanity which is utterly convinced that Barack Obama is not an American citizen. And once you're willing to chain your brain up to that premise, it's an easy leap in logic to assume that this astute mulatto man must be an an evil foreign agent assigned to destroy our country. And there's more. A lot of these less than enlightened Americans also are certain that Obama is a communist, the leader of the evil "new world order," the devil or the Anti-Christ (are they the same thing? I'm still not sure), a fascist dictator, and perhaps gay or a Muslim, or worse– the most liberal politician alive. And they are scared. They are angry. And what should worry ALL of us, is that they seem to be beyond the reach of all logic or common sense.
And now I get it. FDR was right. As a country in crisis at a critical point in our history, the greatest thing we have to fear IS fear itself. And I don't know about you, but I'm beginning to really fear the fear. And I think the paragraph that surrounded his heralded declaration back in 1932 is even more illustrative of our current dilemma:
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days."
And this is EXACTLY what's going on– now, in these critical days. In the face of across the board loses at the polls, the Republican party and their media agents have chosen to unleash an unheralded fear and smear campaign to brutalize the enemy (i.e., the actual elected government). Rush Limbaugh, the defacto (media) leader of the G.O.P., openly cheers for the failure of our government under Obama. And he's just setting the tone for a massive ongoing effort– nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror is being instigated and encouraged via the many-headed hydra of the right-wing media machine. And it's nonstop.
And it's no secret around the world that Americans, in general, are some of the most ignorant people on the planet. Add to that, the anxiety that continues to grip our country since the September 11th attacks and the inconvenient collapse of our economic system, and there's suddenly a buzzing and bristling bunch of screwed Americans who suddenly want to know what the hell is going on? (While they didn't seem too concerned during eight years of mayhem and plunder under Bush.)
I suppose it's only natural to look for BIG answers when you've got big problems. And two unrelated historical milestones (moving into a new millennium and electing a black president) seems to have driven some of the logic-deprived among us to apply grandiose meaning to current events and invoked lots of irrational suspicion regarding any proposed changes in governance or our economic system. The three horsemen of contemporary apocalyptic fear (religiosity, paranoia, and xenophobia) were already mounted and ready to ride before Obama's election. And since that historic moment, a fourth has come forward. And I think he's going to lead the charge. Perhaps you already know where this is going. (Let's just say he used to wear a white sheet.)
Despite the fact that we miraculously elected a man with African heritage to our highest office, there's a seething element of race hatred that's still alive and well in this country that once enslaved people who looked like Barrack Obama. And although the dirty racist words and imagery are only used by the most extreme and extroverted of that crowd, for every one of them there's hundreds more across the fruited plain who will never accept or respect that uppity brown man who gets on the television and has the nerve to act like he's president.
And make no mistake about it, all this garbage about the invalidity of Obama's birth certificate, and all the disenfranchised and hateful white people alleging Obama is something "other" and not like you and me— it's all frosting and filagree on top of the word they dare not utter– nigger.
And whether or not the people who are behind all this incitement of hatred and fear mongering are actually racists themselves is beside the point. I mean, Karl Rove's atheism never got in the way of manipulating fundamentalists to vote (and campaign) for Republicans. It's not hard to see how it works. There's no shortage of less-than informed Americans to run through manipulative focus group studies. Then with data in hard, you go forward with media weaponry you know will be effective– no matter how profane or irrational the entreaty might be. Lee Atwater was an expert at this kind of thing, and he didn't seem to be an actual racist in his personal life. And when Hillary Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination began to founder, her operators started experimenting with the same kind of toolbox.
If you haven't seen this clip online of Shepherd Smith of Fox News, you oughtta take a minute and ingest this artifact of contemporary culture. I don't watch enough of Fox (mostly clips online…) to know much about the guy, but he seems to be emerging as some kind of reactionary conscience over there. (Like this outburst regarding our government's involvement in torture, or his habit of making fun of his unbalanced Fox News cohort, Glenn Beck.)
But in this particular clip (from the day that white supremacist loon went ballistic at the Holocaust Museum in D.C.), Smith noting he's frightened by the torrent of twisted and psychotic email that's been filling the Fox News servers since Obama's election. Mr. Smith and his guest agree– the realms of the internet provide a powerful clubhouse for all sorts of angry and misinformed people to feed into each other's insanity, loading up with "hate not based in fact". Although Smith seems shocked to discover some Fox viewers are "out there in a scary place." I'm sure others weren't surprised at all.
And what he doesn't say (and what he can't say), is how much the network he works for is feeding these people tainted factoids and manipulative Republican propaganda. Even Charles Krauthammer came out this year to congratulate Fox News for creating an "alternate reality." And he said that the relative consensus on current events we used to enjoy in our society was the result of a "liberal bias" in the media…which apparently existed for all time until Fox News came along to balance everything out. Which makes you wonder what a network like Fox News would have had to say during the great American labor struggles or the civil rights movement.
Of course his argument is bogus. But it doesn't matter. There's always Fox News, and NewsBusters, and the World Nut Daily out there to back him up. Once we had a marketplace of ideas where agendas and opinions and versions of events battled it out for the public's allegiance, and at a certain point some semblance of common sense would win out, and as a nation we would decide that slavery was wrong, and women should vote, and minorities should have equal rights, and wars of choice like we had in Vietnam were immoral. Sure, not everybody agreed. But some form of consensus came to pass and differing sides moved on to other battles. But not anymore.
Today, the natural coalescence of public thought is easily thwarted the monied and manicured "alternate reality."While some semblance of consensus is battled out in (what is pejoratively called) the "mainstream media," a conservative flavored narrative flows freely beside it as a more simplistic consumer-friendly product.
And it's not that corporate America or the Chamber of Commerce is necessarily invested in all that ignorant claptrap, but by putting that kind of manipulative language and cynically clever sophistry churned out by Karl Rove or Frank Luntz. And there's not a lot of quality control on some of these mindless appeals to the lowest of the lowest common denominator. An example might be a headline I saw at the Drudge Report on a slow day in June– BEWARE THE OBAMA 'EVIL EYE. Again, this was a headline on one of the most clicked pages on the web. Assorted photos of Obama's "menacing glance were included with this short and shabby piece of original Drudge journalism (something you rarely see)." And while it's easy to find almost any facial expression imaginable when you're dealing with someone as photographed as a sitting President, but the shots Drudge put together merely showed Obama looking attentive or tired, or perhaps just appropriately sober. Take a look yourself. It's ridiculous. And everybody knows, President Hairy-Eyeball went back to Texas months ago.
How did things get so ludicrous? You might wanna check out this confidential memo written by a corporate attorney named Lewis Powell (soon to be a Supreme Court Justice) back in 1971. It was a manifesto outlining how the business interests of America needed to get serious about shaping public opinion in their favor. It's one of those little known documents that truly changed the world, and not in a good way.
And if you recall those days so long ago, they used to call the mechanisms of wealth and power in this country "the system." And visionary people like Upton Sinclair, Rachel Carson and Ralph Nader successfully took on "the system" and helped protect millions from the deadly consequences of amoral profiteering and unregulated capitalism. Well, Lewis Powell saw these people as the enemy. And through his writing and counter-activism he helped create a broad public relations front in media and academia to defend and protect the raw capitalist ambitions of the system itself. But even the late Mr. Powell (who is often recalled for his perfect manners and genteel nature) might be shocked at the divisive and brutish behavior of the swarms of ignorant and politically agitated Americans who have been home-schooled by a sensational and partisan united front of right-wing media he arguably fathered.
In a recent column, Frank Rich discussed Shep Smith's scary inbox and how the new wave of anti-Obama rhetoric is increasingly paranoid and irrational across the board. While some white voters wouldn't support someone like Obama in any situation, the fact that they see him as the cause and architect of all the frightening generational changes that are happening all at once. He's the new boogie man– the embiodiment of a new century they're not ready to understand.
In closing, Rich linked to this video featuring Jon Voight at a Republican fundraiser, where he called Obama a false prophet, and said the Republicans have to get back in power so they can "free this nation from this Obama oppression." Which on the face of it seems like just so much mean-spirited red meat for the conservatives on hand, but in reality words like "false prophet" resonate profoundly in religio-paranoid circles. (And a lot of them have guns…) Plus– saying Obama is the cause of whatever "oppression" people might be feeling in the middle of a financial disaster that was coming on long before Obama came to power isn't just disingenuous– it's toxic. (And did you hear about his evil eye?)
And conversely, this column from a Fox website might be as good of an illustration as any of how much self-serving bullshit can be crammed into a short editorial. I don't even know where I ran across this piece, which reads like a ten-year old's attempt at a persuasive essay. The author of this gem is a guy named Noel Sheppard, who routinely churns out rightist grist for the unintentionally comical "NewsBusters" site (which often reads like a lampoon of a conservative news portal). But his point is this– if the electorate wasn't scared off by all the guilt-by-association tactics used by douche bags like Sean Hannity (i.e., using Bill Ayers, Reverend Wright and Tony Rezko as scarecrows), then the press must have hypnotized us into electing Obama. How else could it have happened? I mean, McCain had so much more charisma…
Sheppard's weak thesis somehow merited over four-thousand comments before they shut the floodgates. And if you have the stomach for it, you can go read a few. But I wouldn't recommend it. I hate to think of all the time I've wasted looking at all the ignorance and vitriol on display in the comments addendum to online articles and opinion pieces. Especially if I happen to follow a link from the ultimate right-wing portal behind this new Age of Unreasoning– The Drudge Report.
Anyway, I could spend all day linking to all the spewing spigots of ignorance and intolerance on the web. But I won't and I can't. But I will say this, when we went and hooked ourselves all together with all these computers and cell phones and hand-held whatchamacallits there was a general feeling that being able to share so much "information" was going to make us smarter or wiser. But "information" is neutral, it's just patterns of data. It can be good or bad or right or wrong. Or persuasive, if you have a particular mindset you wanna spread around.
And all we've done is make it possible to share "data" between ourselves like never before. We're not creating more truth. And just as old "information" industries like newspapers, magazines and the film and music business see all this data sharing as a devastating profit killer so far, there's no assurance that setting all this information free has made us any smarter either.
Like the flood waters after Katrina, some of the information that floods the American mind is a toxic soup. Awash in carefully targeted misinformation and logic-free passion screeds, there is a pandemic of fear and ignorance sweeping this country. And all this unjustified terror is poisoning American political discourse and is most certainly paralyzing "needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Thanks to the craven manipulation by people who should know better, the new American ignoranti are marching backward– into our racist past, into a new McCarthyism, and eventually all the way back to that Christian apocalypse continually predicted since the first century. And when these folks fire up their PC in search of information, you can bet they're not looking for verifiable facts, reasoned journalism, or opposing views. No no no. That's stuff the devil uses to fool ya.
And it gets worse. Since Obama's election there's been a huge surge in sales of guns and ammunition in this country. Prices are up and ammo is getting scarce. People are stocking up. For what? Good question. Meanwhile, the Obama administration really hasn't made any moves or statements indicating any coming new gun control regulations. However, there's lots and lots and lots of "information" out there telling folks that "Obama is coming to take their guns." So, are you scared yet?
After talking about so much trouble in our midst, there's an urge to come to conclusions– to predict or to warn of some assassination or apocalypse. Or perhaps to offer some road to widespread common sense in all this madness. But I don't have a good answer to plug into such an equation. When you have human beings as your adversary, there's always the last resort call for decency, or that chance of some recognition by the losing side that their goals or motivations may have been flawed. The system fights dirty. And empathy that makes us human is our fatal disadvantage.
When the Supreme Court granted corporations the rights of human beings and equated the money they spend as free speech (with the same Lewis Powell writing the majority opinion)– it set loose the hellhounds of capitalism in this country, allowing amoral ambition and soulless motivations to run rampant in the marketplace. And then Ronald Reagan came along to make it all official. And the legacy of Powell and Reagan (and more contemporary operators like Grover Norquist) is a Republican media machine that works on behalf of the large corporate financial concerns. Period.
And the Democratic party? Some of them are better than others. I generally trust Robert Kennedy Jr, who believes that the constant influx of big business money has completely compromised our political process, and says: "the Republicans are 95 percent corrupt and the Democrats are 75 percent corrupt." Sounds about right. It certainly helps to explain the inadequacies of the House and Senate under Pelosi and Reid. And while the nature of the Republicans is to stick to "the plan," the Democratic party is bigger, more varied, and unlike the Republicans they have to deal with the tough stuff– like consensus, ordinary constituents, and the most difficult of all– reality. The Republicans are in favor of God and lower taxes.
And if that sounds like a sinister plot, I suppose it is. And while you could make a case that this powerful triumvirate of transnational capitalists, the Republican party and assorted dark masters of media had a good ride, from the Gipper to the attack on Iraq. (Making Clinton's Presidency about a sex scandal was even somewhat of a victory, and he was half-Republican anyway.) And now we're left with a broken economy and two endless military occupations, and the Republican Party unpopular and out of power across the board. Yet, despite so many recent political losses their alternate reality media machine seems to be cranking even harder into the American psyche. It might seem counterintuitive, but winning isn't everything. It's all about not losing (money).
And I don't think you can blame it all on Rupert Murdoch or Rush Limbaugh or any of those guys. And if you look at the movie "Network," Paddy Chayefsky was incredibly prescient in almost predicting what would become the Fox Network and Fox News (although Glenn Beck is far less appealing version of Howard Beale). But I don't think the Ned Beatty character in that film really exists. My personal idea for this incredible conspiracy of fear and unreason is that there is no evil leader behind it all. I think we're through the looking glass now and a simple mathematics created to serve the short-term profit margin of the entrenched financial status quo is in charge now. And the right wing noise machine is running on autopilot. The reason there's no leadership on the right is because they don't need it (or can't have it). The politics, policy and all the Republican party products are generated by a big simple algorithm. And all their major candidates need to do is step up and put it on like a nice blue business suit. (Remember how McCain "transformed" during the last election?)
While they're getting the white and right crowd energized by these tactics, they're not winning over the rest of us. Big money had an eight year free reign over our government and economy, and it didn't work out so well. They've spent their wad, and run out of ideas, leadership, and vision, and all seem to do right is make a mess, while the media machine does all the heaving lifting. All the links on the Drudge Report and everything that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth is the result of this crude media mathematics. And there is no real rumination behind the on-air musings of Bill O'Reilly or Michael Savage, and no innate desire to leave a legacy of a life dedicated to the greater good of mankind. No, it's much simpler than that. When the other side is ahead in the polls, you operate like Limbaugh during the Democratic nomination process. You cause trouble. "Operation Chaos."
Perhaps by this point you're wondering what does all this have to do with radio? Well, for as long as I remember, in between the sane programming coming in from around the world on shortwave there's always been mad preachers and nutjobs from America exporting fear to the planet. And now that kind of diseased discourse has spread far beyond shortwave. Especially on the web. And Glenn Beck and his eyeballs have brought paranoid lunacy into the mainstream like never before. But shortwave has more charm. And you don't have to look at their faces.
So for a week in June I went back to the source, scanning the back alleys of radio with my antique Zenith Trans-Oceanic. It's an H500 from the early fifties, and it still works pretty good– at least on the band setting between four and eight megacycles. (We call 'em megahertz these days.) And more significantly it overcomes a bit of the RF noise of my Brooklyn digs. I guess it was my steampunk adventure of the summer– drinking hot tea and tuning in the apocalypse with a big gilded vacuum tube device.
It's a fun radio to use, but it's not so good for bandscanning. There's no digital frequency readout (for logging and ID purposes). And the dial itself needs to be calibrated. And besides, I wasn't DXing. For the first time, I was intentionally looking for as much stupid as I could find. Because of other obligations most of my roaming occurred after nine or ten at night. But I don't think there was any time when I couldn't find someone, somewhere saying something ridiculous. For this post I scooped up some of the more flavorful froth I found from the 60 and 49 meter bands. And I invite you to join me for some urgent and uneasy listening. You just might unlearn something.
WHRI – Trunews with Rick Wiles & guest Roy Moore 4:15
In this clip, former judge Roy Moore is chatting on the phone with Rick Wiles of Trunews. Which is not just the "end times newscast," but also the "only nightly newscast reporting the countdown to the second coming of Jesus Christ." And Wiles says that Obama has been put in office for one purpose– "to start a civil war in this country," just to give a flavor of the thoughtful rhetoric on this program.
Ever wonder if America just might be better off without all that "separation of church and state" business? And public school teachers reading the bible to our children, and religious police would enforce public morality? (like in… Saudi Arabia?) Then you might wanna head over to Alabama and get behind Roy Moore's 2010 campaign for Governor.
Perhaps you recall when Moore was the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court a few years ago. Because there was a big stink when he refused to remove an ostentatious display of the Ten Commandments from his courtroom. Not surprisingly, his stubborn religiosity cost him his high court gig, but it gained him a lot of brownie points with fundamentalists across the country, and served as the launching point for his new political career. And in his state he's effectively established a splinter sect of religious conservatives who are working on taking over the Republican Party there.
At first, Wiles gets Moore lathered up with talk about Obama's socialist agenda, but Moore quickly diverts the conversation into more religious territory– decrying Obama's recognition of Gay Pride Month. Perhaps if Moore is elected he could counter this move by observing a month of gay shame in Alabama.
"It's a travesty," Moore says when Wiles tells him there was actually a "gay party" in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. While it doesn't seem likely that all of our tax dollars that have gone toward death, torture and destruction would bother Moore all that much (he doesn't like Muslims much anyway), the idea that American money has gone toward letting a few gay service people blow off steam is too much for him to bear.
"Only God can right these matters," Moore says, seeming to stop himself from finishing where that thought might have been going. I'll leave it to you to ponder how that might play out if Moore and his ilk could play out their theocratic fantasies in real life.
(Probably WWRB) – The Prognostications of a Yahweh Cult Couple 29:59
I suspect this broadcast originates from one of the two giant brokered shortwave monsters in Tennessee– WWRB or WWCR. It's "Mark" and a female co-host I assume to be his wife. I guess you could call them radio missionaries working on behalf of the big sky guy– Yahweh. There doesn't seem to be any production to the program itself. It's just your basic phone call to the transmitter. Mark has a handful of notes and news stories to share, and when gets lost in his "documents" he hands the phone to the wife, letting her riff on the wornders of Yahweh until he has paperwork in order.
This clip starts out with Mark reading a letter from a concerned soldier from Kentucky regarding how the army is actively taking detailed inventory of all the personal firearms belonging to soldiers and officers on base. Hmmm. Could this have something to do with the internal Department of Homeland Security report on the threat of right-wing extremism that became public last April?
I don't know about you, but I kind of like the idea of the government keeping better track of heavy-duty home weaponry these days. The recent murder of an arbortion doctor as well the bloody incident at the Holocaust Museum added more validity to the warnings of Janet Napolitano and the DHS report she presented on the dangers of the deep and dark entrenched right-wing element in America.
And Mark has more bad news. Apparently, the world elites (including Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and the Rockefellers) are meeting on yachts and planning to kill off most of the rest of the people in the world. And I gues this may happen quite soon. Before the rapture. Massive depopulation theories have been popular on shortwave since I can remember– almost as common as the world government-new world order paranoia. And I guess it all feeds into the same colorful narrative, as the last hurrah of the evil forces on Earth before the messiah comes down and takes the faithful up to heaven for a big shindig– while the rest of us spend eternity as human barbeque. Burn baby burn.
Next up, some rather animated fire and brimstone style conspiracy radio.
WWRB – The Beast Preacher 1:38
This guy's worked up. And his sermon almost plays out like an exorcism, as he proclaims the names of all the evil he can think of– OLD Satan, and the anti-Christ of course– and THE BEAST, and then he goes down a list– the serpent, the old dragon, the devil, the son of perdition, Lucifer, the Destroyer, and more. Not only is the reception bad here, but he's a loud and boisterous guy and it's hard to understand all the prognosticating going on. But what he does do is move onto another important list. This time he proclaims the names of the embodiment of the "the beast" on earth. Specifically the one world government problem– the "one-worldism, the United Nations, the new world order, the Knights Templar, and the Priory of Sion (who apparently are even more powerful than the Illuminati), and all the sons of Cain. It sounds like the devil has quite a social calender.
He ends his rowdy lecture with a spirited sign-off worthy of a Latin American football announcer. All in all it's a testosterone-soaked overview of most (if not all) of the paranoia conspiracies that have haunted the followers of Jesus for hundreds of years. And then when it all ends with a telephone disconnect and an automated recording (just like the Yahweh cultists radio show) it even seems a little stranger, that this big voice being broadcast on an international radio transmitter was just another guy yelling into a telephone.
And the fact that this program cuts off in the same sloppy manner as the Yahweh believers program tells me that they were probably broadcasting on WWRB as well. And it seems that this big international radio outlet doesn't pay for an actual human board operator in the evening hours. From these recordings it appears their programming runs through some sloppy automation interface that doesn't compensate for incoming programming on the telephone ending a few seconds early. I guess everybody's cutting back these days.
Of course, if you listen to shortwave radio you've already heard all this heebie-jeebie hullabaloo before. All this rapture preparation and mark of the beast anxiety didn't just hit the airwaves when Obama was elected. It's a bizarre sickness in the very fabric of our culture. And while it infects so much discourse and entertainment all around us, only on shortwave you can hear (and almost smell) the mythical doom visions in their unrefined state. And while we didn't invent crazy religious thought, the United States of America has been a breeding ground for it for a mighty long time. Much in the same way Australia later became a dumping ground for unwanted criminals for the British Empire, the new world was a dumping ground for all sorts of wild-eyed religious fanatics from Western Europe. And their legacy lives on.
A 2002 Time Magazine poll found that almost sixty-percent of Americans believe "the events in Revelation are going to come true." And an AP poll in 2007 determined that one in four of us believed that Jesus was going to return to earth that very year. You get the idea. We is crazy. At least a lot of us are. And even among people who might not consider themselves overtly religious, there's still plenty of superstition and irrationality to go around. After all, when it comes to apocalyptic sensationalism and pornographic arousal of the conspiracy gland, why should the religiously-ill have all the fun?
WWCR – The Alex Jones Show – with special guest David Icke
Here you have a couple of the most successful secular scaremongers in the world in a bizarre radio pow-wow. It's one-time rivals Alex Jones and David Icke, rolling around in the mud of some middle-ground they've cleared between their divergent paranoid theories. These apocalyptic showmen mine the concepts of science fiction TV and movies instead of using the King James Version for narrative support. And a few years ago these two giant fear-purveyors realized that there were just too many more books and DVDs to sell if they could put their differences behind them and create some viable consumer crossover business by joint media appearances, like this one.
For those who don't know the history of these two professional paranoids, let me offer a little background. David Icke (pronounced like "Ike," not "icky.) was a BBC sports announcer and then a spokesmen for the UK Green Party when he realized he was "the son of god." and from that time forward he's taken himself quite seriously and has created a whole cottage industry based on his own magnificence and need to enlighten us all. While he seems to have abandoned all the son of god business, his claim to fame eventually came through exposing the evil cabal of shape-shifting reptile people who rule our world (like the Queen of England, Henry Kissinger and Bob Hope). Alex Jones on the other hand, is a big loud Texas talk radio host who got his start on Austin cable access TV. I"ve written about Jones before (which you can read here), and hardly feel the need to promote a guy who's one of the most ambitious self-promoters I've ever seen. When it comes to secular "new world order" conspiracy, Alex Jones is probably at the top of the heap these days. And at first he considered David Icke's presence in the paranoia panorama as a big problem. His concern over letting blood guzzling reptilians into the conspiracy cannon led Jones to call Icke a conman and an opportunist, and his theories the "turd in the punch bowl" for all the seekers of hidden truths.
In an odd turnabout, in this clip Icke kicks into some rambling discussion about the inherent weakness of our "reptilian brain." And he's NOT talking about scaly skin blood suckers, but the brain stem and all that squishy stuff around it that makes up the vestigial remnants of our pre-mammalian legacy. In light of Icke's long-standing fixation on reptilian villains, Jones steps in to let his listeners know–"this is not debatable. " Icke is talking about real brain science this time, not scaly-skinned Republicans. And Icke responds with a quick hint of nervous laughter before carrying on with his neurological mumbo-jumbo. And so the ambitious Mr. Jones has kept the "turd" out of his punch bowl once again.
But here's the funny thing. Protestant Armageddonists are even more bizarre. Instead of tending to their own souls, they seem more obsessed with the "sins" of other people– total strangers who don't necessarily have the same religious beliefs. And many long for the day when America will become the theocratic state they believe it should have been all along. The dream of Roy Moore and his ilk is to indoctrinate our children in the public schools. And let's face it, the only reason these people can keep riding that same sick pony around the American stage is because too many people let religiously infected people get a hold of their children at an early age. As their irrational belief beliefs are passed down generations it's not just child abuse– it's a viral infection that continues to stunt our spiritual growth as a nation.
However, the post-religious doom prophets don't worry about everyone's sins. They realize all that perverse religion turns a lot of people off. So, instead of putting a modern spin on ancient myths, they put an ancient spin on contemporary economics and politics. If you figure out we're under the thumb of powerful people, they'll tell you it all stems from bizarre rituals, or exotic bloodlines or visitors from outer space. Whether their conspiracy theories are more ridiculous than the burning bush or the impending return of Jesus doesn't much matter. Dressing up the machinations of big money and the world power mafia in the garb of the Illuminati or jumbo lizard suits just turns your righteous anger into comic angst. Because you've invested into a load of crap.
If you're willing to wade into the online swamps that surround showmen like Icke or Jones you can read how all these earnest believers create a burgeoning support group together to brace themselves against the coming cosmic doom they both predict. in their narratives, a seductive mix of fact and fantasy is always at play. Legitimate concerns about transnational corporations and governmental regimes twisting the truth, stealing our money and taking away our rights are all shuffled into fantastic all-encompassing conspiracies. And If I happened to be full of money and the devil, I'd pay clowns like Alex Jones or David Icke to exaggerate my crimes and mythologize my powers. Not only do the bad guys get all the best roles in the extravagant sci-fi narratives they fashion around themselves, but they also magically discredit every legitimate concern that gets sucked up into their conspiracy narrative. Call it disinfortainment.
I say this while hoping not to attribute any more power or pedigree to the postmodern carnival provided by David Icke or Alex Jones. They're more like parasites than movers or shakers in all this insanity. And when they talk about corporate bias in mainstream news and our government relieving us of rights and choices we once enjoyed, it's got to be seductive to people who are half-aware of what's going on. And if it's already in your makeup to believe in miracles and people rising from the dead, then how much of a stretch is it to imagine Dick Cheney (or Barack Obama) as a blood sucking reptile, or to obsess over what Republicans really do in the woods around the bonfires of Bohemian Grove.
And none of these samples of American sickness on shortwave radio are in and of themselves worthy of any great significance. But it's all symptomatic of something strange going on. In a country founded in the Age Of Enlightenment by thoughtful and brave men who wanted to improve on the European models of government for the greater good of our people, there's always been a counter-story. To get the United States off the ground, we relied on enslaved Africans for many decades. And then the mindset that helped people accept and embrace that kind of inhumanity didn't go away. It evolved into an ugly legacy of lingering bigotry and hatred. And it's easy to qualify the bizarre fundamentalism and the mindless racism as artifacts of the American South, but all this irrationality is much more widespread than that. (I'm resisting the urge to quote Pogo.)
While the Republican Party is in more serious disarray than ever, the big brutish media operation that brought them to power seems to be set on automatic, creating at least enough havoc to justify its cost. And lots of nameless unreasoning is indeed sweeping the nation. And when Icke sticks to the script he used on the air with Jones, that our lower "reptilian" mind is being manipulated by the man, he's stumbling onto some truth there.
As far as shortwave radio these days, I guess the tables have tuned. Once a tool that brought us the rest of the world is fast becoming more relevant as a way to tune inward, into the lower brain of our very republic. And plenty of people get in touch with their creator that way. And even Tim McVeigh found inspiration and guidance through listening to his shortwave.
And when you're out stocking up on ammo, you might wanna pick up some extra batteries for that radio. After all, a lot of folks are hoping for bad news.


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It's from Gigis For Little Girls (www.gigis.org) - you can buy online or in some boutiques. I was given a box of goodies from them when I wrote at Mama Speaks last year.
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Brad Sweet, a 2004 Bear River graduate, finished third Saturday in the sprint-car C Feature at the Goodyear Knoxville Nationals in Knoxville, Tenn. Competing for Kasey Kahne Racing, Sweet also took 21st in the B Feature.
Josh Roenicke (Nevada Union '01) Colorado Rockies - In Saturday's 9-3 loss at San Francisco, Roenicke gave up five hits, four earned runs and two walks in two innings, striking out none.
Tuesday against the Dodgers in L.A., he pitched three innings, striking out two in three scoreless innings.
Pete Ruiz (Nevada Union '05) Salem Red Sox - Ruiz got the 'W' in a 7-6 win Wednesday at Carolina. He pitched one inning and struck out two batters.
Friday at Wilmington, Ruiz gave up one hit and no runs in one inning.
Gary Daley (Nevada Union '03) Midland Rockhounds - Daley struck out two batters and gave up a run in 2/3 innings Saturday in Tulsa, where the Rockhounds lost 8-6.
In Wednesday's 5-4 loss at Northwest Arkansas, Daley struck out three and gave up one run during one inning.
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NEW WASHINGTON - At one point Thursday night, Upper Sandusky's Taylor Graboski hammered a kill so hard that it nearly knocked over Buckeye Central's Kilee Kimmel.
It was symbolic because Upper Sandusky put itself in a position to knock the Bucks off from their stranglehold of North Central Conference titles with a 24-26, 25-15, 27-25, 19-25, 15-9 victory.
The victory broke a first-place tie with two league games to go. Upper Sandusky plays Colonel Crawford Tuesday and Galion at home Thursday. The Bucks, who have won five straight NCC crowns, fell into a second-place tie with Galion, with Riverdale and Bucyrus left on their slate.
"We have kind of slacked off a little because of some distractions like the homecoming dance and things like that. Obviously to beat a team like Buckeye Central, you have to be on your game," Upper Sandusky coach Matthew McConnaughey said. "We were able to overcome some adversity and fight back. This is the kind of match you want going into tournament time. And beating them gives us a chance to win the league. We beat Galion next week and we win the league outright."
Buckeye Central coach Ken Brubaker said he knows what team he'll be rooting for next week.
"I'm a big fan right now," Brubaker said. "If Galion plays the scrappy defense I know they can play, they're one of the best defenses we've played, if Galion plays a tough defense and if they're aggressive on third touches and make Upper Sandusky play and not make the unforced errors like we did, they have a chance to beat Upper.
"So, a big fan. Hopefully a tie for first," he said. "We controlled our own destiny and we let it slip away. We just got to grow from it and learn from it."
McConnaughey said BC's remaining schedule made Thursday night all that more important.
"I didn't think they were going to play anybody that would let us back in if that happened," McConnaughey said. "So this was a must win for us. That's what we've told them all week."
It was BC's victory over Galion last week that set up this NCC showdown. Brubaker said that win in a way fed into this loss.
"That's a very good Upper Sandusky team. The first time we played them they didn't pass as well as they did this time. They passed the ball very well and because of that, that was a little bit of a difference," Brubaker said. "We had a bad week of practice. I'll admit that. We didn't practice well this week. ... We didn't work as hard this week. ... I think we got a little too satisfied. When you get too satisfied and complacent, you don't play well."
In one of the areas Buckeye Central was complacent was at the net where Upper's height and heavy hitters require more than one blocker.
"We were late on the block. We were going one-on-one with them most of the night and against Upper Sandusky you can't go one-on-one and block. You have to have two people up there every time," Brubaker said. "When you miss assignments against a team like that and you make unforced errors against a team like that, you're going to have to grind."
Namely Graboski, who pounded down 24 kills to go along with four blocks and two aces.
"It's really exciting because that was a really huge game for us," Graboski said. "They beat us in our place so we knew we had to beat them in their place, which is even harder than in our own. ... That was our first loss (at the time) so we were kind of feeling invincible. It was definitely a reality check. But in a way, it was a good thing because it brought us back down and showed us we needed to work even harder in practices."
McConnaughey said Graboski lived up to the reputation she's developed.
"Taylor is one of the most dominant players in Ohio. She came to play," McConnaughey said. "She did her job up at the front with two and three kids in blocking her and she still pounded it. She did a good job in back row the games she played. Taylor is one of a kind. There is only one Taylor. She's a stud."
Jessi Holly had 13 kills and a block and Molly Owens had seven kills and four blocks. Emma Smith dished out 51 assists. Jenna Holly had 32 digs.
After a see-saw battle in the first set, Upper Sandusky (16-2, 11-1 NCC) pulled to game point up 24-21. But the Bucks (16-3, 10-2 NCC) utilized some Rams errors to run off five straight points and win the set.
The Rams bounced back strong in the second set, taking an early 12-5 lead and parlaying it into a 25-15 victory. It was a game that saw Jenna Delarber, who had 14 kills and four blocks on the night, leave for a bit. Brubaker said she's been nursing a shoulder injury.
In set three, Buckeye Central had Upper on the brink of falling behind 2-1 with a 25-24 lead but kills from Jessi Holly and Graboski sandwiched around a Owens block reversed the momentum and gave the Rams the 27-25 victory.
"That was a big time for us to battle. We've played a lot of sets where it was boring. I mean 25-4, you don't have to battle. You don't have to deal with pressure and tonight we had to deal with pressure and my girls did that,"
McConnaughey said. "Neither one of us had anything to lose. We were battling for the league. They would probably win the league outright if they beat us and we got them. So it was huge I think."
Brubaker said giving that game to the Rams was pivotal.
"Huge. (It was) situational volleyball. We did not play good when situations were tight. We didn't play the smart point. We didn't spread the ball around. We were not diverse like we were the first time. When we beat them in three, we were much more diverse team. Tonight, not as diverse."
Buckeye Central lead most of set four. It was tied at 14 at one point before the Bucks pulled away for good with a 25-19 win.
"We battled being down two games to one," Brubaker said. "Same thing at Galion. We battled there. We don't ever give up. This a team that fights."
The Bucks led 3-2 early in the decisive fifth set but it was all downhill from there. It was 8-3 before the Bucks got a side out to end the Rams' run. Moments later it was 13-6 and the Rams didn't look back.
Sierra Hanes had 11 kills for the Bucks. Kimmel and Emily Weithman each had seven kills.
"I thought what brought them out of system more was that we blocked them better," McConnaughey said. "Last time, Jenna (Delarber) had her way with us. And we were able to slow her down and block her. Their serve receive was not as good as the first time we played them. They were running their offense from off the net a lot and that takes Jenna out of their offense. Really they have nice kids but she's their go-to hitter. So that helped us I thought."


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