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17 May 2012
The idea of Dark Shadows has been kicking around forever; Johnny Depp has been trying to star in a feature-length remake of the 1966-'71 paranormal soap opera for most of the '00s, and it rather stands to reason that he'd finally manage to suck longtime collaborator Burton into the project with him, it being characteristic of all of their work together since at least the aforementioned Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that they consistently and even eagerly feed each other's worst impulses and most undisciplined missteps. And so it is that the Burton-directed Dark Shadows feels at all steps like a favor for a friend, lacking the fullest expression of the director's characteristic over-designed aesthetic (though for that reason, it lacks the horrible feeling of e.g. Alice in Wonderland, that it's just an exercise in branding, Burton® "doing" Lewis Carroll). It is, in fact, just a wee bit tired, though better by far to be tired than to be manic, particularly in Burton's case, recently.
The story has been exceptionally loosely adapted from the several hundred episodes of television by John August (his fourth Burton project) and Seth Graham-Smith (his first motion picture, though not his first horror pastiche; he authored the novel-length joke Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and is turning his Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter into another movie later this year), and it goes a bit like this: in the 1770s, Barnabas Collins (Depp) of the Anglo-American Collins family of Maine and Liverpool, owners of a trans-Atlantic fishing empire, made the mistake of screwing a French servant girl, Angelique (Eva Green), who also happened to be a witch. In punishment for mistreating her, she sent his fiancée, Josette (Bella Heathcote) over a cliff, and turned him into a vampire, thereafter whipping the local townsfolk into a torch-wielding mob and leaving her ex-love buried under the ground for centuries.
Jump to 1972 (which we note, is the year after the series ended, for what is no doubt a good reason): a young girl who looks exactly like Josette travels to the old Collins home of Collinwood, on the outskirts of Collinsport, Maine, under the assumed name Victoria Winters. There, she takes on the job of governess for the last straggling remnants of the Collins line: matriarch Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) and her miserable teenage daughter Carolyn (Chloë Grace Moretz), Elizabeth's shiftless brother Roger (Johnny Lee Miller) and his strange ghost-spotting son David (Gulliver McGrath). Here also we meet drunken psychiatrist Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), drunken handyman/Renfield surrogate Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley), and dotty old housekeeper Mrs. Johnson (Ray Shirley). For a little while, we follow along with Victoria as she encounters various creepy things going on, including Josette's ghost drifting along the halls; but then Barnabas's coffin is dug up by a construction crew, and we mostly stop caring about her as all, as the plot heavily shifts gears to follow the vampire's attempt to restore the financial fortunes and good reputation of the Collins family, which has long since been driven to the point of ruin by upstart fishery Angelbay, run by the immortal and ageless Angelique, who built an entire town's economy around screwing over the family of the man who slept with her.
Two things, and I do not know which matters more: first, though I admire the intention to cram as many details from a 1225-episode television serial into a feature film as possible, even at a swollen 113-minutes, Dark Shadows can't deal with them all. And that is how we end up with things like the false first act with false protagonist Victoria Winters, at least two more major characters than the movie knows what to do with (Roger ends up being blackmailed away just to keep the headcount down, Carolyn is saddled with an out-of-nowhere third-act twist in a feeble attempt to justify her character, Willie is shoehorned into positions where no character was necessary in the first place), the overabundance of incident in the film's middle; and the need to wrap up a serialised story in one big moment leads to an awkward, largely incoherent climax that gets out of Burton's control almost from the moment it begins.
The other thing: in 2012, are we really still at the "sexually spurned woman goes nuts and destroys her lover's family" stage? And even if we are, is there any reason at all for her to be presented as so unambiguously monstrous as Angelique is throughout the film? Lord knows that Burton has never been particularly interested in such issues one way or the other, but there's something bizarrely anti-progressive about the gender politics on display here.
And while the story is an ungainly, frankly unpleasant mess at times, Dark Shadows works - or it worked for me, anyway, and I'm not going to ask anybody to join me in having it work for them. But it does plenty of things well enough, if not very good, especially the creation of a self-contained visual world in which all sorts of different and theoretically incompatible styles are contrasted and mixed. No surprise here; it's the thing that Burton does, and particularly the thing that Burton does with the aid of production designer Rick Heinrichs and costume designer Colleen Atwood, his frequent collaborators, who here create together exactly the Gothic-meets-'70s-parody look you would undoubtedly expect from the scenario and their previous work; but then, there's nothing wrong with the look of a thing being unsurprising, if it works. And as a sheer exercise in mixing tacky over-saturated colors with gloom and dust and grey everywhere, Dark Shadows pleased the heck out of me, particularly with Bruno Delbonnel shooting everything in a chilly array of whites (and boy, there's nothing fascinating in the same way as when over-saturated colors in the sets and costumes are shot with deliberate under-saturation). And Burton oversees it all with an infinitely more laconic, observational style than we're used to seeing these days - the slow cutting, the constantly drifting camera, the lack of depth, and pretty much everything else gives the film a certain rhyming feel with the director's second film, Beetlejuice, I thought; not the same aesthetic, as such, but maybe the same technical vocabulary. And this gave me a considerable amount of pleasure: after the nightmare of Alice in Wonderland, it's a welcome return to films that are stylised without being stylish and glossy, and if it does not feel revelatory in the way that all of the director's films up through 1999 did, it also does not feel as derivative and artificial as most of what he has done since 2001.
This is, then, the point of the review where I confess that design is the best thing that Dark Shadows has going for it; not the only thing, though. Grahame-Smith's screenplay has more than its share of clunky jokes and anachronisms, but there are enough moments that land that it's safe to call it a successful comedy on the whole; and for that matter, however much the project would seem to scream "ironic camp fest!" from every corner, it's shocking how much the filmmakers are completely sincere in their approach to this story; save for a few too many musical cues deployed a bit too cutesily (the film is absolutely rotten with musical montages), Burton & co. never obviously or smugly look down at the story nor the time period. It's sad that this even has to be said; once upon a time, the defining element of Burton's storytelling was how guilelessly sincere he was towards his misfits, oddballs, and weirdos, and despite the inherent camp potential in, say, an Ed Wood, there's barely a moment in that film where he's mocking the characters.
And maybe because of this, or maybe it's just incidental, but there were more performances I enjoyed in this film than in any other Burton picture of the last decade. Not Depp's. No, he and Burton need very much to stop seeing each other for a little while at least, and while there's nothing grotesque about his Barnabas, as there was in his Mad Hatter and Willy Wonka, there's nothing very interesting, either. But there are three terrific performances by the three main actresses: Bonham Carter, unrecognisable in her lusty alcoholic swanning; Pfeiffer, whose last project with the director resulted in one of the all-time best performances in a superhero movie, giving far and away the funniest performance in the whole movie, often by doing nothing besides raising her eyebrow; and especially Green, stuck with a shallow character but playing the villain role for all it's worth, shuttling from angry to sexy to gleefully evil in the blink of an eye and being stupendously, impossibly gorgeous while doing it. Three great performances out of a bloated cast like that isn't all that much, but it's two more than any other Burton film this millennium. And anyway, character creation isn't really what the film's about, so when it happens by accident, it's just a nice perk. No, the game here is heavy atmosphere and a light tone colliding in what amounts to an amiable walking tour of some really swell locations, with just enough spookiness that it earns the "Gothic" tag. Not a masterpiece; not a great, and hardly even a good film. But it's a step in the right direction, anyway.
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- Christopher Neeson said...
I think the central issue here is that the film doesn't exactly know how to treat its source material. It's not very faithful, but at the same time it borrows too many characters for its own good. While in the show its thrown-together nature had a certain charm, here it seems lazy. After a while, the movie just becomes the Barnbas and Angelique show, with Victoria and the family fading from our minds and just reappearing when they need to.
- Jake said...
I felt like it was a nominal return to form (its plot is sort of Beetlejuice meets Edward Scissorhands) but that it was so awkward that I hated more than Alice or Planet, both of which at least had some nominal amount of ambition. The actors were caged in, except for Depp, who has utterly forgotten the meaning of restraint. The production design of the house was good, but the CGI took away from its tactile presence.
But mainly, I think the movie fails because it's about a man out of time, set in a time period unfamiliar to the target audience. It's just Burton indulging his own nostalgia, right down to the music (Moody Blues and T.Rex? Tim you topical mofo!) And its sexuality is incredibly anachronistic, with the grossly sexualized Moretz, Heathcote's virginal purity, Pfeiffer's starched matriarch and Angelique's unending jealousy and man hunger. Even Carter, playing a somewhat more modern woman, is presented as a joke for it. God this was the worst.
- jjjonatron said...
I saw this last night and agree with everything you said, pretty much. I was mesmerized by the visuals, turned off by Depp's performance (though I loved plenty of the jokes, I'm afraid), and moderately amused by everything else. Maybe with Frankenweenie coming out Burton will finally start heading on a better, though perhaps lesser path.
- Daniel Silberberg said...
"there's barely a moment in that film where he's mocking the characters."
Really? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2lf84TVyFQ
- Tim said...
That is a fair point. I suppose I meant that he never makes any fun of Ed at all, despite it seeming (to me, at least), the most approach to take to his life story.
- Pan Miluś said...
One of few Burton films I didn't like. I did like Deep and Eva Green preformance and visuals are great but the humor in the script is so weak (especialy in the middle) then it's almost painfull to re-visit. To bad. Hope Big Eyes will make up for it.


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Hoping to find some help here! Baby J is 13 days old today. Between recovering from the c-section (+ dealing with the pain meds making me constantly sleepy), and all of the visits from family, I have yet to establish anything resembling a routine for her. I basically try to nurse every 3 hours, but also respond 'on demand' which throws the whole 3 hours thing off. But on to my real questions...
I want to nurse her through the day, but also find time to pump enough to leave my husband 1-2 feedings worth to get her through the night AND freeze some to start a stockpile for my return to work in 2 mos. If I'm nursing every 3 hrs...I just don't know when to pump. I seem to be able to produce a good amount when I do pump (5oz in about 10 minutes), but I dont want to risk running out for the next feeding. This has to be a common problem...can anyone advise a sample schedule for all of this BF'ing/pumping?
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Cool. I guess I just felt attacked. I never leave my kids EVER but I have to go to this wedding with my husband and honestly we haven't done anything together on our own in like over 2 years. Gotta take care of your marriage in order to be there for your kids, you know? I have a Medula Pump in Style and it works fine. Taking it with me and pumping in place of feedings.
And y'all that replied... Thanks! I checked her cheeks and no white spots, she's acting fine, eating fine, just had a white tongue, so I'm just gonna keep an eye on her and I to make sure we don't develop symptoms. Thanks everyone for the advice. I feel better about it now!
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I gota plugged duct that felt a lot like mastitis when I had an overnight away from ds at 4 months. It wasn't even 24 hrs. So that was my first thought when you said two days away. Just wanted to make sure you were prepared, if not that you had the opportunity to be.
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OP, good luck! I understand about needing time for your marriage as being good for the whole family.
This is why I love this place: Juno & JoMo had the guts and the kindness to let us know that there are some other factors to think of, and how to be prepared. Plus I learned a new term in English: chillax
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Ouch! Is it thrush or Raynaud's phenomenon?
Can baby not attend the wedding? I've taken all of mine to weddings
EPing at that age for 2 days is a pain and probably way more work than you realize. 120 minutes every 24 hours, broken into at least 8 sessions. And I would still expect a decrease in supply with a PISA.
DH and I haven't done anything by ourselves overnight in over 7 years its all perspective
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Some of our readers have complained that we pick on alternative medicine while ignoring the problems in conventional medicine. That criticism is unjustified: we oppose non-science-based medicine wherever we find it. We find it regularly in alternative medicine; we find it less frequently in conventional medicine, but when we do, we speak out. A new book by Dr. Peter Palmieri is aimed squarely at failure to use science-based medicine in conventional practice.
Dr. Palmieri is a pediatrician who strives to provide the best compassionate, cost-effective, science-based care to all his patients. Over 15 years of practice in various settings, he observed that many of his colleagues were practicing substandard medicine. He tried to understand what led to that situation and how it might be remedied. The result is a gem of a book: Suffer the Children: Flaws, Foibles, Fallacies and the Grave Shortcomings of Pediatric Care. Its lessons are important and are not limited to pediatrics: every health care provider and every patient could benefit from reading this book.
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Co-sign. A crisp, truthful post.
There is another stat line, that is hinged on TS%, and also includes turnover ratios and such. Gallo excels even further there.
TS% True Shooting Percentage calculates what a players shooting percentage would be if we accounted for free throws and 3-pointers. True Shooting Percentage = (Total points x 50) divided by [(FGA + (FTA x 0.44)]
Amare Stoudemire: 56.2 TS%
Raymond Felton: 52.9 TS%
Wilson Chandler: 55.9 TS%
Danilo Gallinari: 60.3 TS%
This is the most accurate way to judge a players efficiency as a scorer, much more accurate than fg% b/c it calculates free throws and 3 pointers into the equation.
Maybe our 2Nd option should be Gallo instead of Felton or Wilson
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Co-sign. A crisp, truthful post.
There is another stat line, that is hinged on TS%, and also includes turnover ratios and such. Gallo excels even further there.
Last edited by iSaYughh; Jan 24, 2011 at 15:29.
U redeemed yourself quite a bit w this one dude. Thoughtfully crafted post..
While useful, TS% is to an extent valuable only if the player can also play on the defensive side of the ball. Kevin Martin always has a high TS% but he's a sieve on D, look at him on Sacramento and Houston, sub .500 teams with him in the lineup.
This is so overrated. FG% already takes into account 3pt accuracy and adding in FTs is stupid because its not a shot you can take anytime you want. FTs are conditional while everything else is free will.
Why include a shot where no one can be 3-4 feet anywhere near you while you take it?
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A true shooting percentage is designed to measure points scored per shot attempted. If a player takes 10 two point shots and hits 5 of them his FG % is 50% and with his 10 attempts he has scored 10 points. If a player takes 10 three point.shots and hits 4 of them, his FG% is 40%, but with his ten attempts he has scored 12 points. If a player takes 9 shots, and let's assume they are two point shots, and makes four of them, his FG% is 44.4%. If on a 1oth shot he gets fouled and makes both, then on 10 attempts, he has scored 10 points.
Cool, lets sell this bridge to Denver or any other team that fits his style of play. I'm not impressed at all with his flopping and dropping for points, thats cheap ball, it leaves us exposed and it slows down the tempo of the game. Williams and Walker should be ahead of him on the pine. The numbers mean nothing if they don't contribute to wins.
Oh, and did I mention he's the coach's son?
Our situation this year is unique like no other. We might not have another opportunity like this again. Not with Dolan, not with Walsh aging, and Zeke lurking.
This is the vibe i'm picking up here around the board...keep the coach's non-athletic streaky shooter son, and trade away our better players...players that compliment the team more. Am I clear about this?
i agree with people that the TS% can only go so far.
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Take this with a grain of salt...
The NBA leader in true shooting %age for the last 3 years running is Nene Hilario.
So let me get this str8, someone came up with another useless formula to tell us if someone can be a great and efficient scorer??
I h8 these formulas in sports. It really leads to alot of battles over who had better stats, when the player might not have been better than over who you were arguing.
Other players over the years w really high fg% have lead in this statistic like Barkley and Wilt...
Then you have more traditional shooters, guys like Nash and Stockton who've also made the list several times respectively.
I like this stat because it shows ones prowess and efficiency purely as a shot maker, no matter what position they play, type of game they wield and because it is all-inclusive w regards to the various facets of shooting.
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There's a stat based on ts% that takes into account turnovers, too, which Gallo rates even higher on.
Not a be all end all, but again shows Gallo's worth and possibilities.
Summarily dismissing this stat, isn't much different than dismissing fg%; it's actually more accurate tho w less "outliers" who sneak onto top player lists, and more encompassing.
Let's face it, statistics almost always suck and r so circumstantial and variable and dependent; even up a players' teammates.
Stuff like ts% helps cut thru a lotta of that, and give a more accurate answer to the question: how good of an all around shot maker is he.
Breaking down ts% lists by *position* is best, IMO.


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Advanced Micro Devices on Monday continued to reinvent itself and change its strategic goals. The company said that it had appointed Rajan Naik, onto senior vice president and chief strategy officer positions.
Rajan Naik, who was most recently a partner in McKinsey & Company's Technology practice will be responsible for AMD's short-and long-term strategy development, including market opportunities, strategic partnerships and investment strategies. He will report to president and chief executive officer Rory Read.
"Rajan Naik possesses a strong track record of execution in strategic planning, product and market strategy, and operational performance. He will help ensure strategic and operational alignment across our business to take advantage of growth opportunities in lower power, emerging markets and cloud computing," said Mr. Read.
Mr. Naik spent 11 years at McKinsey & Company, where he provided counsel to various companies in the technology and telecom industries. Prior to his tenure at McKinsey, Mr. Naik worked as a senior engineer at Intel Corp.. Prior to Intel, he was a member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies.
Mr. Naik joins AMD following the appointment of Dr. Lisa Su as senior vice president and general manager, global business units, as well as the appointment of Mark Papermaster as senior vice president and chief technology officer.
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Team: Richard Childress Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: Harvick jumped up three spots, from 11th to eighth, following his late surge for the win at Phoenix. He stands 86 points behind points leader Brad Keselowski, trails seventh-ranked Matt Kenseth by eight and leads ninth-ranked Tony Stewart by one point.
HOMESTEAD RECORD: 11 career starts, 0 wins, 5 top-5s, 9 top-10s, 0 poles. Best finish: second in 2003 and 2008. Finished eighth in this race last year.
LOOKING AHEAD: Harvick has a mathematical chance of cracking the top five, but that's about all he has to look forward to, other than potentially finishing the season with a second straight win. Here are his thoughts on Sunday's season finale: "Homestead has been one of those tracks we've been fortunate to go to where everything kind of fits the styles of the way our cars are built to run and my driving style. It's definitely been a good race track for us and we're looking forward to going down there and closing out the season strong this week."
LOOKING BACK: Harvick looked like the kind of driver who won three come-from-behind races last year by rallying late and winning Sunday at Phoenix, holding off Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch for the win.
ETC.: Harvick has completed 99.9 percent (2,941) of the 2,942 laps contested in his 11 career starts at Homestead. His average start is 13.9, with an outstanding average finish of 7.9. He has two DNFs there.
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Team: Stewart Haas Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: Tony Stewart fell one spot in the standings, from a tie for eighth to ninth place after Phoenix. He trails points leader Brad Keselowski by 87 points, eighth-ranked Kevin Harvick by one point and leads 10th-ranked Martin Truex Jr. by 24 points.
HOMESTEAD RECORD: 13 career starts, 3 wins, 4 top-5s, 7 top-10s, 0 poles. Best career finish: first in 1999, 2000 and 2011. Finished first in this race last year, capping off the season with his third career Sprint Cup championship.
LOOKING AHEAD: Stewart will not repeat as Sprint Cup champion. And at this juncture, he'll be lucky if he can finish the season in the top five. Here are Stewart's thoughts on Sunday's race: "As soon as your car settles in you can really just mash right back in the gas and just ride that second level around down onto the backstretch. … And it's the same thing, once that car settles in; you get on the gas and ride it around to the frontstretch. It's a pretty smooth racetrack."
LOOKING BACK: Stewart finished 19th, one lap down to winner Kevin Harvick, who is expected to drive for Stewart Haas Racing in 2014.
ETC.: Stewart has completed 99.9 percent (3,473) of the 3,476 laps contested in his 13 career starts at Homestead. His average start is 14.5; average finish is 11.5. He has 0 DNFs there.
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Team: Michael Waltrip Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: Truex fell two spots in the standings after Phoenix, from a tie for eighth to 10th place. He trails points leader Brad Keselowski by a distant 111 points, and ninth-ranked Tony Stewart by 24 points, and leads 11th-ranked Jeff Gordon by four points.
HOMESTEAD RECORD: 7 career starts, 0 wins, 2 top-5, 5 top-10s, 0 poles. Best career finish: second in 2006. Finished third in this race last year.
LOOKING AHEAD: As far back as he is in the standings, Truex likely won't finish much higher than seventh place, if he's lucky, with the potential of dropping as low as 11th place if he has a bad race. Here are Truex's thoughts on Sunday's race: "We have a lot of unfinished business to do and have just one race to do it. … So Homestead-Miami is going to be it for us. We need to finish our season on a high note and it's time to finally get that win."
LOOKING BACK: Truex had his worst showing of the season, suffering a blown engine to start the race and finishing dead last in 43rd place.
ETC.: Truex has completed 98.9 percent (1,854) of the 1,874 laps contested over his seven career starts at Homestead. He has an average start of 17.3; average finish of 10.4. He also has recorded one DNF there.
24 JEFF GORDON, Chevrolet
Team: Hendrick Motorsports
WHERE HE STANDS: 11th, 115 points out of first place. Lost five spots last week.
HOMESTEAD RECORD: Finished fifth in 2011 for his tenth top-10 finish in 13 starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Gordon wants to celebrate his 20 years with DuPont as a sponsor with a win at Homestead. "DuPont gave a young man with a dream a shot – and I'll never forget that," said Gordon. "After a few years into the sponsorship, I started to consider myself a DuPont employee – which is an honor. So I just want to thank all of my co-workers for being my most loyal supporters for the last 20 years. I sure hope we can put an exclamation point on these last 20 years with a win on Sunday."


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The Uncle Ralph Letters recap: Checked the blurb slurp against my original Word documents. I really wished that Blurb would have worked for me, but the vision in my head was so much different than what I could put out in Blurb. Therefore I had to scrap that plan. I have about a week's worth of edits before I can download my documents into Scribus. Then probably a week or more of adding pictures, and revising. Tis going slower than I had hoped --- and my friend of friends who was my artistic soulmate was killed in a car crash. Took the wind out of my sails for awhile. Now, I have to just imagine her wise advise. Nonetheless, Uncle Ralph's Letters are indeed taking shape and my autumn publish date should hold.
I have been told by many good and true friends that perhaps I would do well by just sticking with one project, and not be so scattered here and fro. But that is now how I work. I poke along --- and then all of a sudden I dive headlong into a project until it's finish. Done it time and again, so I know how it feels. Like the eggs a hatching, but not before their time.
That said, I am writing short historical pieces (well, sometimes a tad embellished, but I try to remain true to the core) about my father and my McPherson aunts, uncles, and grandparents. When I started gathering the bits and pieces into files for each, I was surprised at how much I had actually written. This next weekend, I am taking a folder down to my 91 year old auntie in Redding. I plan to sit beside her on her deck --- just the two of us -- and read to her. I hope this will be a a gift to her, and also, that if I am not true to her heart that she will set me straight. So looking forward to this weekend.
The other venture that I embarked upon is transcribing James Peter McPherson;s diary. I didn't mean to even start reading my great-great grandfather's diary--- but one night I just took a peek. OMG, I can't stop!!! I sneak in a page here, a half-page there, and glory in that right and true history unfolding before my eyes. In the future, I will be sharing with y'all the bits of James Peter McPherson's years in Springdale, Wisconsin.
Over the past several years, I have read books and articles about the early days in Springdale, so I at least had a working knowledge of some of the names and localities. Now, it seems that I am on first name basis, not only with grandpa JP, but John Beat, John Stewart, A. LaMont, G. Davidson, Mr. Paton, Mr. Anderson, John and James McDonald, Mr. Baird, Mr. Childs, Mrs. Thomson, and every once in awhile, old JP even mentions his wife Mary. My sister always teases me that my friends quite often have been dead for two hundred years or more. I am beginning to think she might be right, as I anxiously open another page of the diary to greet new friends and old.
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Oh, Joan, I'm so sorry about the loss of your friend, and in such a traumatic way. It is food that you can imagine the advice she would give. It does sound like you are keeping busy with a variety of projects and I say, whatever method works for you, just keep doing it! Blessings to you.ReplyDelete
Joan, I am one of your more recent followers. I just love how you put things--the very things that sometimes are on my heart, too. Today's sound bite that rang true was "my friends quite often have been dead for two hundred years or more." Love it! And can so relate to that!ReplyDelete
Great to hear about your latest adventures! Have a wonderful time spending time with your aunt!ReplyDelete
Nancy, thanks for your kind thoughts about the loss of my dear friend. Nice that people who dinna even know her respond with sympathy at our loss. Thank you. ---Also for the "thumbs up" on my peculiar work habits.ReplyDelete
Jacqi, so glad you follow my blog -- tho I have been plagued by "fits and starts" lately. I will be looking forward to reading more of your Family Tapestry.ReplyDelete
Dorene, always good to hear from one of long time followers. And you can bet you will be hearing about the visit with the Auntie --- actually aunties, as there are 2 surviving sisters in Redding at the tender ages of 87 and 91 --- and going strong! I am so lucky. Thanks for reading.ReplyDelete
Your friends are always here when you are ready to post, and it is a treat when you do. Hope you have lots of fun in all of your research and writing pursuits!ReplyDelete
O Greta, you do warm the cockles of my heart -- whatever that means --- looks strange on the page. It's good to know that my friends haven't forgotten me -- and may still be interested in my wanderings.ReplyDelete


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The keel was preserved along 3 m. section was 6.4 cm sided and 9.6 cm molded. The mast step was preserved
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When: 3rd quarter of the 6th century BC.
Where: Found near Saint Tropez, in the South of France and excavated by Jean-Pierre Joncheray.
Origin: It is almost certainly from Etruscan origin.
Dated by amphoras; very sparsely preserved. Was approximately 10 m long.
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The keel was preserved along 3 m. Its section was 6.4 cm sided and 9.6 cm molded. The mast step was preserved
Frames and Joinery The few frames that survived were polygonal in cross-section and spaced a meter apart. Futtocks were joined by treenailed diagonal scarfs. The frames did not appear to be attached to the planking, but to what and how they were attached was not described.1 Five frames were preserved. Diagonal holes in the planking piercing the strakes all the way through and spaced 4.5 cm suggest that these frames were sewn in the same way, this explaining the shape of their oval-like section. Frame number 4 had a hexagonal section with a maximum sided dimension of 12 cm (and a minimum of 3 cm in its base) and was 14 cm molded. Notches on the base of the frames suggest that the ligatures were pressed against a roll of fibrous material with double function: isolation/caulking and rounding of the knots. Floors and futtocks were assembled through diagonal horizontal scarves locked by two small internal treenails. The frames were spaced from .92 to 1 m.
The planking was 2 cm thick. The dowels linking the planks were 10-12 cm long, with Ø 1 cm and // 15-16 cm. The pegs closing the diagonal holes were 2.5 cm long, with Ø 5/6 mm and // 4 cm.
1. Richard Steffy, INA Shipdata Project, Texas A&M University.
2. Pomey, P., "L'epave de Bon-Porté et les Bateaux Cousus de Mediterranée, Mariners Mirror 67.3 (1981): 225-43.
Basch, Lucien, Le navire Cousu de Bon-Porté. In 'Cahiérs d'Archeologie Subaquatique' V (1976): 37-42, and The Sewn Ship of Bon-Porte. In 'Mariners Mirror' 67.3 (1981): 243-244
Jestin, Olivier and Carraze, François, Mediterranean Hull Types Compared 4. An Unusual Type of Construction. The Hull of Wreck 1 at Bon Porté. In 'I.J.N.A.' 9 (1980): 70-72
Joncheray, Jean-Pierre, L'Épave Grecque ou Etrusque de Bon-Porté. In 'Cahiérs d'Archeologie Subaquatique' V (1976): 5-36
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i have an equipment question for anyone listening. i'm making my first trip there in October and i want to make sure that i'm using the right stuff. what is normal size of leader/tippet that is typically used there? here in Missouri i generally use 6x or 7x and can occasionally get away with 5x. i typically use tapered leaders with a loop on them for quick changes and carry tippet with me to extend the life of my leaders. should i be using something thinner since the fish seem to be smaller?
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I typically use 6X when I'm fishing in the park. You probably could get away with 5X if the water is a little off color. You shouldn't need 7X unless the water is very low. In my opinion, 6X is the way to go.
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Thanks for the info Griff, i appreciate it. I have figured out some flies to use from this board but i'm curious about a certain pattern. My wife likes to use glo balls er.. pre emergent juviniles (egg patterns), do those work down there? How about mini jigs or streamers like wooly buggers?
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moflyangler, Oct. is a great time to visit and fish here in the Smokies. I tie my own leaders but a good quality knotless leader from 7.5 to 9 ft tapered to 4X is standard. I also carry 4,5 and 6X tippet to use depending on water levels and sizes of flies used. Stealth and presentation are usually more important than tippet size here. Good luck.
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I agree with Troutman. I have caught fish in the park on everything from 3x-6x. I have never used 7x there b/c I usually fish a 5wt rod and it's too difficult for me to not break 7x on a 5wt when I set the hook. I would say that the majority of my fishing in the park is 5x whether nymphing or dry. I always make sure my 5x tippet is flouro when nymphing. I have experimented a lot this past year on the Davidson in N.C., and I feel like 5x flouro catches fish as good as 6x mono does. I like to use as heavy as I can get away with in the park, b/c you never know when that 25" brown that just got posted on here might take your fly. I wouldn't want that fish on my 5wt with 7x. Well, I take that back, I wouldn't mind that fish on my 5wt with 7x, I would just feel a little better if I have my usual 5x on.
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The only reason you will need 6-7x would be low and clear h2o, You shouldn't have that problem when you arrive, but check the board now and then b4 your trip for stream conditions. Leader thickness has been more crutial when throwing dries for me than when nymphing. I think people place too much emphasis on all this. Proper presentation is the key in the Park. I know people who fish with 4x and catch fish all the time.
As far as what bugs to throw, a trip into LRO is much advised. The staff are all very helpful and you will definitely catch more fish using what they have. Some of the locals tie their version of some popular patterns, those are what I try to buy. Once again, presentation is the key. Don't overfish a hole. There is a lot of water to cover here. Don't waste time going for the 'perfect' cast over an area where you've fished for the last 15 minutes. Move on and save that cast for fresh water.
Good luck and leave some for the rest of us.
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Well it sounds like i'm on the right track anyway. i can usually adapt to most situations with a little advice. i would consider myself an advanced beginner with fly fishing so i'm really looking forward to throwing some dries. i've only done that once and did catch a bow. time to go into the back yard and fine tune the casting and then head to the tying bench. my wife however doesn't even own a dry fly so it will be very different for her. she will probably stick with what she knows and knowing her she will still catch fish. i created a monster when i took her fly fishing for the first time a couple of years ago. we have been married for two years this past August and have spent both anniversary's fly fishing. in fact when i asked her what she wanted to do for our honeymoon she said "i want to go fly fishing". how lucky can one guy be. we both caught our first fish on flies that we tied this last trip. i think she is looking forward to fishing there is much as i am.
tight lines 8-)
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have fun man. the smokies is a beautiful place and you will have a blast fishing. hope you catch the heck out of em. ill be there in october too, we might cross each other on the trail. tight lines.
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you will find us at LRO fairly early on 10/15. gotta gear up and stock the fly box. if you see a couple asking a bizillion questions and buying all the fly's, that will be us. we should keep them in business for at least another month buy the time we get out of there.
hope to meet some of you fine folks while we are there.
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hey mofly......we are coming in on the 16th of oct thru the 22....will be staying in townsend area and fishing / photographing the park all week.....
you said "we" will be in......are you a husband wife team or a couple of guys on a fishing trip.....just curious as my fiance and I fish the park and thought it would be nice to have dinner company a night while we are in town.......
good fishing and
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Nvidia Corp. is reportedly preparing a yet another dual-chip graphics card that will be competing against ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2. The new board is projected to be based on 55nm version of the GeForce GTX 200 chip, but although its precise specifications are unclear, its market prospects are under big question mark.
The new GeForce GX2 graphics board will powered by two G200 chips produced using 55nm process technology (55nm version of G200 is also known as G200b, GT200b, GT206, G200 revision B, etc) with 216 stream processing units enabled, according to a news-story by Expreview web-site. It is expected that the new graphics board will deliver performance close to that of two GeForce GTX 260-216 graphics cards.
While performance of two overclocked GeForce GTX 260-216 graphics boards is higher compared to the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, it is highly likely that Nvidia will try to be conservative about the clock-speeds of the chips. As a result, the advantage of the new GX2 – which is due only in Q1 2009 – over the graphics card that will have been on the market for about half a year by mid-January.
Given that Nvidia is known for rather surprising behaviour, it is highly likely that the new dual-GPU board will feature higher performance than anticipated. Perhaps, Nvidia plans to enable 240 stream processing units in every graphics processor, or maybe the new G200b chip sports 256 stream processing units and is capable of very high clock-speeds, which would tangibly increase performance compared to the existing GeForce GTX 280.
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Safe to say JR was a worthwhile addition.
The depth he gave us in case of injury to Fields or Shump (ahem) was worth the 2.5 alone.
JR Smitty is the player of the game for me.
Dude was defending all night long and came up with alotta steals.
Also, BDiddy and JR have some chemistry going on now. Same with Lin and Fields.
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Safe to say JR was a worthwhile addition.
The depth he gave us in case of injury to Fields or Shump (ahem) was worth the 2.5 alone.
There are some really negative people on here damn.... We're up 20 and people still look for something to blame on Dantoni. I don't know how many people on here are Pro Basketball head Coaches but I'm going to assume none. The guy obviously knows what he's doing for him to be at that level and if he does get fired at the end of the season I can almost guarentee he will be picked up by another team.
Now if you ask me, are you a fan of Dantoni? My answer is simple....No
I don't see us getting JR back for next season though. Unless he takes a major pay cut like Haslem did in Miami. We have to resign Fields and Lin too.
Maybe BDiddy?
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The only bad thing I can say is he hoisted a couple of crappy fadeaways but it was a blowout so who cares?
Those alley oops with Baron????
DId this game set the record for turn overs or no
Jeremy did not get 20 points tonight. Let's trade him to Taiwan
I suspect JR will explode tomorrow in Miami from downtown... Just a warmup before he tears up the clubs on South Beach. knicks gonna get the W in a battle for the ages... cANT WAIT DAMMIT
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Born in The Hague, Dick Matena studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, but stayed there for only one year. He worked as a decorator in a department store in The Hague and then became an appretice with the Marten Toonder Studios in 1960. There, he cooperated on the advertising project 'Het Geheim van de Gulden Gaper', and he became the penciller of the 'Panda' strip in 1961.
Polletje Pluim
In spite of several fights he had with the management (he quit the studio two times but came back both times), he drew 'Panda' for five years. During the same period, he cooperated on 'Tom Poes', and created his own series, 'Polletje Pluim' for the weekly magazine Prinses. He additionally illustrated 'Big Bad Wolf' stories for the Donald Duck weekly through the studios.
De Argonautjes (Pep #25, 1970)
Matena was the third Dutch artist to join the magazine Pep in 1968. He created historical series like 'De Argonautjes' (1968-1973) and 'Ridder Roodhart' (1969-1971) with Lo Hartog van Banda, as well as 'Grote Pyr' (1971-1974), for which he wrote the scripts himself. He also wrote the scripts for the soccer comic 'De Maccaroni's', that was drawn by Dino Attanasio.
Big Bad Wolf (Donald Duck 7, 1977)
Matena was also present Pep's successor, Eppo magazine. He wrote one episode about the privateer 'Kleine Pier' in 1975. He left the magazine for a while and worked as an advertising artist. Upon his return, he focused on scriptwriting for other artists. He started the series 'De Partners' with Carry Brugman, succeeded Martin Lodewijk as the writer of 'Storm' for Don Lawrence and wrote three 'Blook' stories for Johnn Bakker.
He drew the western comic 'Dandy' himself (1979-1980) and made several independent stories under the name A. den Dooier. These were collected in 'De A. den Dooier Omnibus' in 1986. Matena redrew the collection and published it under the name 'De teloorgang van Oude Knudde' in 2008.
Grote Pyr (Pep #30, 1974)
Between 1976 to 1991, he was present in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly again with stories starring Disney side-characters like 'The Big Bad Wolf', 'Bucky Bug', 'Hiawatha' and 'Gus and Jaq'. Starting in 1988 he made several adaptations of Dutch children's books for the magazine, including 'Kruimeltje', 'Pietje Bell', 'Dik Trom' and 'Afke's Tiental'. In the mid 1970s he was also present in Revu as the illustrator of the 'Revuutje' section and in the family weekly Wij with a comic of the same name, which he made in cooperation with Fred Julsing.
Matena first showcased his talent for realistic drawing with the science fiction comic 'Virl', that appeared in Mickey Maandblad from 1977 to 1981. He focused on adult-oriented and often controversial comics from the late 1970s. He started out with 'Amen' in Gummi and he was the first Dutch artist to publish in Heavy Metal Magazine in 1979. He made the series 'Mythen' until 1986, in which he portrayed famous persons like Bob Dylan, Alfred Hitchcock and Elvis Presley.
These were followed by one shot comics like 'Lazarus Stone' (1979), 'De Prediker' (1982), 'Het Web' (1983) and the full color strip 'Beet!' (1983). Most of these were published in Spanish magazines like El Vibora, 1984 and El Comico Vivo, and collected in Dutch in book format by Espee and Arboris. Matena lived in Spain for while, but eventually settled in Belgium. He received the Stripschapprijs in 1986.
Het Web
Dick Matena was present in Playboy with 'Titia' and in Titanic with 'Sterrenschip' in the mid 1980s. Besides making adaptations of children's books for Donald Duck, he also started making biographical comics. The first one, 'De Laatste Dagen van Edgar Allan Poe', was published in Titanic. It was followed by 'Gauguin & Van Gogh', 'Mozart & Casanova' and 'Sartre & Hemingway', that were published by Lombard. He made four albums of the series 'Flynn' for Arboris in 1993 and was present in Sjosji with the science fiction comic 'Alias Ego' between 1993 and 1996. He assumed the pseudonym John Kelly and drew three stories in the 'Storm' spin-off series 'De Kronieken van de Tussentijd' from scripts by Martin Lodewijk.
De schoolband (Tina 36, 1998)
A versatile artist, he was furthermore present in Tina with 'Joop ter Heul' (1997), in Krant van West-Vlaanderen with the weekly comic 'Familie Algoed' and in the erotic comics magazine Rooie Oortjes. In 1997 he was asked by Marten Toonder to revive the 'Tom Poes' balloon comic. Two new stories were published in Donald Duck, but an attempt to revive the newspaper version was aborted. He is also the cover illustrator of the 'Tom Poes' book collections of Hans Matla's publishing house Panda since 2000.
De Avonden
Since 2000, Dick Matena has been mainly busy with comic adaptations of classic books from Dutch literature, starting with Robert van Gulik's 'Rechter Tie'. In 2001 he commenced working on a comics version of the classic novel 'De Avonden' by Gerard Reve, which gave him wide media attention. It was published in Het Parool and later as a series of books by De Bezige Bij.
Later followed adaptations of Dickens' 'Christmas Carol' (2004), 'Kort Amerikaans' by Jan Wolkers (2006), 'Kaas' and 'Het Dwaallicht' by Willem Elsschot (2008), Freek de Jonge's theatre show 'De Komiek' (2009) and 'Kees de Jongen' by Theo Thijssen (2011). Dick Matena was additionally present in the relaunched edition of Eppo magazine in 2009. He makes new stories for 'De Partners' with Carry Brugman and even revived his classic SF comic 'Virl' in 2011.
In 2003, he was the first non-Belgian artist to win the Bronzen Adhemar, the official Flemish Community Cultural Prize for Comics.
Dick Matena hosted a signing for his book
'De Avonden' at Lambiek in March 2003
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IC 1623 is an interacting galaxy system that is very bright when observed in the infrared. One of the two galaxies, the infrared-bright, but optically obscured galaxy VV 114E, has a substantial amount of warm and dense gas. Warm and dense gas is also found in the overlap region connecting the two nuclei. Observations further support the notion that IC 1623 is approaching the final stage of its merger, when a violent central inflow of gas will trigger intense starburst activity that could boost the infrared luminosity above the ultra-luminous threshold. The system will likely evolve into a compact starburst system similar to Arp 220. IC 1623 is located about 300 million light-years away from Earth.
This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.
Object Names: IC 1623, IC 1623A/B, Arp 236, VV 114
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The environmental studies concentration is designed for students who have an interest in environmental issues and plan careers in related fields. Due to the varying interests and backgrounds of the students who choose this option, the choice of courses for this concentration is more open than in the environmental science concentration. Participating students may pursue a major in any field. Students who complete this concentration might, for example, enter science journalism or work for environmental advocacy groups.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 (IDEA)
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, established in law in 1975, retains the basic rights and protections for children with disabilities. In 1997, President Clinton signed amendments to the Act that focus on improving the education of children with disabilities by
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- Educating children with disabilities with their nondisabled peers,
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The members of the Refugio Volunteer Fire Department would again like to thank everyone who contributed in one way or another to help make our 22nd annual Labor Day dinner a great success. We find ourselves indebted to all our supporters who came out to help us put on a great meal to raise money for the department.
We hope everyone enjoyed the meal this year, and we keep trying to make improvements that we hope help us to serve a good meal and keep people looking forward to coming back. This year, a couple of apologies are in order. One, from the writer of this thank- you note for failing to get notice of the dinner into the Press beforehand. So sorry about that.
Also, we did not have enough signs out on the streets showing where the dinner was for our out-of-town guests. We will do better on those items next time. Thanks again to everyone who participated, either by helping us cook and serve the meal, or by donating all those great desserts, or by donating financially so that we could lessen our expenses on the meal, and thanks to all our great supporters who came out and bought tickets to the dinner. Also, a great big thanks to our firefighters who come together to help with the dinner, and a special thanks to all our non-member volunteers who help us in so many ways during our effort to put on a good Labor Day Dinner.
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- Love v Vilsack: women farmers allege USDA discrimination
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- Love v Vilsack alleges USDA discriminated against women farmers trying to secure loans.
- USDA announces claimant process.
Over a decade ago, as the Pigford class action lawsuit alleging discrimination against black farmers by the USDA was picking up steam, class attorneys were confident the agency would face discrimination claims by other minorities.
In the years since, those predictions have proven accurate as Native Americans (Keepseagle), Hispanics (Garcia) and women (Love) have laid out a litany of USDA sins they claim need to be addressed in court.
In late February, the USDA announced it would establish "a process to resolve the claims of Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers who assert that they were discriminated against when seeking USDA farm loans."
The USDA said the process would be a "streamlined alternative to litigation and provides at least $1.33 billion in compensation, plus up to $160 million in farm debt relief, to eligible Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers."
Further, the USDA would provide "up to $50,000 for each Hispanic or woman farmer who can show that USDA denied them a loan or loan servicing for discriminatory reasons for certain time periods between 1981 and 2000. Hispanic or female farmers who provide additional proof and meet other requirements can receive a $50,000 reward. Successful claimants are also eligible for funds to pay the taxes on their awards and for forgiveness of certain existing USDA loans. There are no filing fees or other costs to claimants to participate in the program. Participation is voluntary, and individuals who opt not to participate are not precluded by the program from filing a complaint in court."
To find out where the women's claimant process currently stands, Delta Farm Press recently spoke with attorney Kristine Dunne, Love v Vilsack counsel for plaintiffs. Dunne is with the Arent Fox law firm. Among her comments:
On where Love stands…
"Presently, the women farmers' discrimination lawsuit – Love v. Vilsack – is still pending in federal court in the District of Columbia. The parties have been in discussions but the case is still pending.
"The government has announced it plans to initiate a voluntary claims processing program. They haven't said when specifically it will be launched other than sometime this summer."
On how much is being sought by plaintiffs…
"The women farmers' complaint does not specify an amount. There was legislation pending in the last Congress that sought $4.6 billion to remedy the women farmers' discrimination claims. The government has announced that it intends to provide $1.3 billion for women and Hispanic farmers combined."


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