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#112607 - 09/24/03 11:05 AM Etymology
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I have got a question.
Being prone to irritation, I often burst out with words such as 'fiddlesticks!' and phrases (silly as can be, of course) such as 'poppycock and dewberries!'
This morning I was practicing my instrument when I made a mistake. I yelled 'fiddlesticks!' and a relation who heard asked if I knew why that word is used as an expostulation, since it means a violin bow.
I was immediately curious. This word is used a good deal- And I doubt many people know what it means. I looked it up on the Internet, but only found a few things. Does anyone have a good etymology for it?
#112608 - 09/24/03 11:17 AM Re: Etymology
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All AHD4 will say is that you're right.
#112609 - 09/24/03 12:50 PM Re: Etymology
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don't ya just love words that have there meaning staring you in the face, and somehow, you missed it?
disaster! -- one day, i finally realized, dis- a negative prefix, could mean not (dis obey)/or undone, (disrobe) and aster..stars. a bad outcome, one that was not predicted in some important persons 'star chart'... an unforseen event.. a disaster!
isn't self evident that fiddle sticks are bows?
and isn't fun to find out some 'self evident' etymologies are that at all --like the stupid psuedo feminists saying herstory for history.. (as if history was his story!)_________________________
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#112610 - 09/24/03 01:21 PM Re: Etymology
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Welcome, Scilla!
Well, I found this, but it isn't attributed:
fiddlestick (15c., originally "the bow of a fiddle;" meaning "nonsense" is from 1621)
#112611 - 09/24/03 01:24 PM Re: Etymology
Carpal Tunnel
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isn't attributed
#112612 - 09/24/03 01:32 PM Meanwhile, Scilla,
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: lower upstate New York
... I also found this:
Fiddlesticks: 'It's all fiddlesticks' implies that it is all nonsense.... I can't find a modern origin but, in 1811 "Fiddlestick's end" meant "nothing". The ancient fiddlestick (violin bow) ended in a point, hence, metaphorically, used to express a thing terminating in nothing.
http://members.madasafish.com/~jbriggs/book/e & f.htm
(both above sources thanks to MaxQ and his magical reference page: http://maxqnz.com/References.html)
#112613 - 09/24/03 01:38 PM Re: Etymology - tangential
old hand
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Loc: London, UK
Dear Scilla
On fiddlesticks, I must confess to not knowing why a fiddle's stick should be considered nonsense, but I am reasonably certain that poppycock comes from the Afrikaans (I think the original spelling is paape-kak, or some such) and refers to soft squidgy dung.
Don't know if that helps...
the sunshine warrior
#112614 - 09/24/03 01:54 PM Re: Etymology - tangential
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Soft squidgy dung
I for one will certainly file that away. And it's good to see you, shanks!
#112615 - 09/24/03 02:26 PM Re: Etymology - tangential
Carpal Tunnel
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shanks! Welcome home!
Re: Poppycock
AHD4 agrees with you:
#112616 - 09/24/03 02:28 PM Re: Etymology - tangential
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I've always thought that exclamations like "fiddlesticks" and "shoot!" were substitutions for other, more vulgar, oaths such as f--k and s--t. Likewise darn for damn, heck for hell, gosh for God, etc. They don't have to make any sense, as they're just substitute sounds, such as when "Doctor Evil" in the Austin Powers films says, "Throw me a frickin' bone here, people!"
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Killeen -- State Senator Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay) spoke to the Killeen Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. Senator Fraser discussed the upcoming property tax relief special session as well as Texas A&M Central Texas, water rights and telecommunications.
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Directed by Virgil W. Vogel
John Agar as Dr. Roger Bentley
Hugh Beaumont as Dr. Jud Bellamin
Nester Paiva as Dr. Etienne Lafarge
Cynthia Patrick as Adad
Alan Napier as Elinu, the High Priest
Standing behind a large, world globe, Dr. Baxter briefly summarizes the amazing progress of science "during your lifetimes and mine," how man has reached into the stars, been to the North and South Poles, charted nearly every inch of the surface of the planet. "Yet," wonders Dr. Baxter, tapping the model world, "what is inside this globe? What is beneath our feet?"
Describing the Underworld - Dr. Frank C. Baxter
Moving to a set of flip charts, Dr. Baxter next describes various myths and theories regarding just what might be beneath the surface of our planet. He discusses how great figures in literature - Dante and Gilgamesh - have "ventured down, down, down through the underworld;" how in recent times theorists have speculated that the Earth is actually layered like an onion, with each successive layer representing a surface hosting individual "worlds."2 Dr Baxter also touches on the "Cellular Cosmogony" theory of Cyrus Teed (wherein it is proposed that life exists on the inside of the Earth's crust, not the outside; and the sun is an enormous, battery operated machine existing at the hollow center - so that when we gaze at the sun, we are not looking outward, but inward).
"And so in this picture we're about to see," concludes Dr. Baxter, placing his hands in the pockets of his suit jacket, "you'll see the culmination of a long series of such desires to look into the Earth. One might well believe philosophically that some ancient culture, engulfed by a great and tremendous upheaval, might linger on in some pocket of the earth. This is science fiction, of course. It's a fiction. It's a fable - beyond fiction. Yet I believe that if you study this picture, and think about it when it's over, that this is something more than just a story told. It's a fable with a meaning and a significance for you, and for me, in the twentieth century."
Go bless you, Dr. Baxter. I believe as you do, brother, and follow your philosophy into the twenty-first century and beyond: This film, in fact all sci-fi B movies from the atomic age, are fables beyond fiction - timeless fables with significance and meaning for you and for me.
After Dr. Baxter's enthusiastic intro, the story proper begins and we find a team of archaeologists excavating a large, deep "dig" somewhere in Asia. Drs. Roger Bentley (John Agar) and Paul Stuart (Phil Chambers) are summoned urgently by a day laborer to examine a fresh discovery. Rushing, they are joined by Drs. Jud Bellamin (Hugh Beaumont) and Etienne Lafarge (the eternal ethnic, Nestor Paiva). The four find a partially exposed tablet in the dirt, which Lafarge quickly identifies as being written in Cuneiform script (one of the first forms of written language originating in Sumer circa 30th century BC).3
"But," says the Frenchman, Lafarge (Nester Paiva uses a nearly ubiquitous accent throughout his performance that is more "European" than French), "this is not possible in this part!"
"You mean it's not probable, Lafarge" scolds Bentley. "In archeology all things are possible!" (Yes, Bentley is an ass hole - that is to say, a "natural leader.")
The team take the tablet fragment back to their tent and begin brushing it and pointing at the ancient script with their pipe stems. Dr. Stuart explains that the piece was found below the great flood level, making it over 5,000 years old and thus one of the oldest human records. Being the expert on ancient languages, Bentley is asked to translate. Naturally, as is the case with nearly all tablets found by archaeologists in movies, the hieroglyphics reveal in part a warning for those that destroy or deface the tablet. Also naturally, an earthquake hits the camp on cue, cracking the tablet in half.
John Agar, Phil Chambers (seated), Nestor Paiva; and Hugh Beaumont
The next day, while the team are sitting around camp convincing themselves the warning could not possibly have been meant for them ("Our intentions were not malicious," says Lafarge), a shepherd boy is brought to them with a discovery wrapped in a blanket. "What, another one?" says Bellamin tiredly. Clearly, the local lads have been bringing the Western chumps many "discoveries" in exchange for silver. Bentley stands and hands the boy a coin. "You buys your ticket and you takes your chance," he says, stuffing his pipe in his mouth and unwrapping the offering. His face goes slack as he immediately recognizes the find as a legitimate prize - an object of great antiquity. "Hey," he calls after the ragamuffin local, who is fleeing the tweedy gang as though expecting a flogging, "where did you find this?"
The boy turns in his flight and points to a nearby mountain range, trimmed with snow. "Kuetara!" he says pointing. "High! High!"
"Kuetara," says Lafarge quietly. "The epicenter of the earthquake." (cue ominous music)
The four again retire to their tent and pick and scrape gently at the artifact, revealing it to be an oil lamp in the shape of a boat. Lafarge discovers a bit of moss in the clinging dirt that grows only on Kuetara, although not near the base where the boy found it but much higher, near the top. Bentley deduces that the lamp must have been dislodged by the earthquake and came down intact in an earth slide.
On the surface of the lamp are depicted pairs of animals and a couple, walking onto a large arc. Again, our ancient language expert, Bentley, is able to read the script which tells of an ancient king and his family escaping a great flood, eventually finding harbor on the peaks of the great mountain, Kuetara, as the waters subsided.
"A Sumerian version of Noah's Arc?" asks Stuart.
Exactly," says Bentley "The flood's been proven to be historical fact. Why not a Sumerian version?" He reads on, quoting from the inscription:
"I, Sharu, King of Kings, son of Sharuet; from water I emerged. I caused to embark upon the vessel all my family, my relations, my craftsman, my slaves, and all the beasts of the field. I made my home in the ark. We floated on the waves until we found the land of the snow near the goddess of Ishtar."
"The top of the mountain," says Lafarge reverently. "The Sharu Dynasty was saved from the flood on Kuetara!"
"And never heard from again," says the pragmatist, Bellamin.
"Of course not!" exclaims Stuart, "no one would look for human beings on top of Kuetara!"
We are!" proclaims bully-boy Bentley.
Lafarge for the first time shows the fragile set of nerves that will soon destroy him: "It is impossible," says the Frenchman, his voice rising. "It's treacherous, always wind and snow. Nothing is there! Nothing!"
"Than we shouldn't be afraid of . . . nothing," says Bentley, staring down Lafarge.
With that, the four archaeologists and local guide, Nazar (Rodd Redwing)4, begin the ascent to the plateau on Kuetara the next morning. After several, long minutes of stock footage of snowy mountain climbing; our team reaches the plateau and finds the massive ruins of a Sumerian temple. As they team begins to wonder around the crumbling walls and ancient idols, the four archeologist's spread out - each, no doubt, with dreams of fame wetting their lips. Only Bentley and Bellamin remain working as a team.
Reaching the summit of Kuetara
"I don't understand," says Bellamin. "They usually built their cities right next to the temples. Where are the rest of the buildings?"
"Five thousand years is a long time," says Bentley, piercing right to the obvious. "To make any sense of this is going to take awhile." Hmmm. Yes.
Suddenly Stuart, poking around by himself, falls into a massive sink hole. His screams echo loudly for a bit, then vanish amid the howling wind. Nazar and others rush to the hole and Bentley shines a flashlight down, but the pit is too deep to see the bottom. With Nazar's help, the team begins repelling down the face of the hole to save their colleague. As the three archaeologists reach the bottom, they find Stuart dead, his body bent and crushed by the fall. No sooner is Stuart's body discovered than Nazar, still descending, taps a poorly placed climbing piton into the rock face and causes an avalanche (earthquakes and avalanches provide the timely deus ex machina throughout the picture). Nazar is thumped on the head by a rock and falls to the pit floor. As the tons of falling rock cover the bodies of Nazar and Stuart, it also seals off the remaining three from the long shaft back to the surface.
The rumbling debris finally settles, sounding like fading thunder. Lafarge immediately goes white. "We are trapped here," he says, already fighting for control. He takes a step away from the others and sags against a wall, his eyes buggy with panic. Bentley and Bellamin ignore him. Bentley begins shining his flashlight around, its beams white with stone dust. They discover a draft, and begin to follow the air movement.
The movie kicks into high gear when the remaining three eventually discover an underground city and the remnants of the Sumerian Sharu dynasty, whom have mutated and splintered into two, separate races. The first, a race of albino rulers, complete with the ancient Sumerian cultural trappings; and the second - a race of mole-like slaves with enormous claws, reptilian skin, and bulging eyes. Our tomb raiders are captured and taken before the ruling king (Arthur D. Gilmour); who rather hastily decides to have them executed (it is explained that the Sumerian, underground ecosystem; which provides the Sumerians with a diet of mushrooms, can't sustain the addition of the three intruders). During an ensuing slugfest and escape, the increasingly shaky Lafarge finally cracks and rushes off on his own, only to be captured and killed by the lurking Mole People (who serve as slaves to the pale-faced masters). Just as the remaining two archaeologists are about to be captured, Bentley shines a flashlight into a bank of approaching guards, who cringe, shield their albino eyes from the glare, and scamper off like singed cats.
Hearing of this, the Sumerian king immediately assumes that Bentley and Bellamin are gods, as they posses the "light of Ishtar." Henceforth, and for a few, too many scenes, the two are treated as royalty; even given a serving girl, Adad (Cynthia Patrick). Inevitably, Bentley will fall in love with Adad who will, also inevitably, be sacrificed before picture's end for the surface man she loves.
Their godly status can't last forever as Bentley simply can't keep his yap shut about the glories of the surface world and about the unfair treatment of the subservient Mole Men. Bentley's blowhard soap boxing rankles the Sumerian high priest, Elinu (Alan Napier)5, no end; as he considers such crazy talk both dangerous and blasphemous. When Elinu discovers the dead body of Lafarge, he is able to convince the king that Bentley and Bellamin are mortals. Just as the two are about to be executed to Ishtar, Adad convinces the Mole People to revolt. In the movie's final scene, the Mole People slaughter their albino rulers, allowing the Bentley and Bellamin to escape with Adad. An extremely convenient earthquake occurs after their escape, killing Adad (and sealing of the liberated Mole People forever from the world of the surface). Thankfully, the script allows Adad no final speeches. She simply stares longingly into Bentley's eyes briefly before relaxing rather prettily into death. Cue rumbling timpani and credits.
The Mole People is often remembered for its flaws rather than its strengths; and certainly the picture is hindered by some very noticeable problems. First and foremost, despite being a short film (77 minutes); it is heavily padded. Scenes of mountain climbing and shaft repelling are asked to do far too much work, and there is a dance sequence in which an albino slave girl (Yvonne De Lavallade) entertains the court for what feels like several lifetimes (this seems to be the scene that is best remembered for good or ill). The romantic scenes between Bentley and Adad lumber along mercilessly, offering neither Agar or Patrick any respite from a grim absence of chemistry. Never at his best in a romantic scene, John Agar tended to go a bit smarmy when charming the ladies; and he and Patrick offer no combustion. Toss into this mix that the beautiful Ms. Patrick, not a terribly experienced performer at any rate,6 was more than likely instructed by director Vogel to speak her lines in a stilted way to approximate "alien" speech; and we have some problematic mountains very difficult to climb.
Yet, despite these challenges, The Mole People is an under-valued gem from Universal Studios - and not terribly far off the mark from 1954's Creature From the Black Lagoon, (Jack Arnold, dir.) which is generally regarded as the last picture of value from the studio's great cycle of monster pictures beginning with Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley, dir.) in 1923.
Why under-valued? Let's explore.
The Good Stuff, Part I: The Sumerians
The film works very hard, and succeeds, in creating a full-fledged Sumerian world existing under the crust of the earth. In fact, all attention and energy is devoted to this endeavor once the underground world is discovered - so much so that both leads, Bentley and Bellamin; begin to loose all character definition. Prior to their presentation to the Sumerian court, Bentley is a bully hero - noble and overly sure of himself; and Bellamin is cynical and tough - yet devoted to duty and mission. Their characters are perfectly delineated in a scene in which the two stumble into a crypt or burial tomb and find the skeletal remains of Mole Men:
Signs of advanced civilization - Hugh Beaumont and John Agar
"All we can say is they walked upright," says Bentley in his usual know-it-all-fashion, examining one elongated skeleton by flashlight. "And they have a skull large enough to house a brain large enough for associative areas." He touches a gaping crack in the skull. "And this one died as a result of a blow by a heavy, blunt instrument."
"That is a sign of higher civilization," says Bellamin flatly (actor Beaumont is here given the best line in the film and smacks it over the fence with a cool, understated reading).
Once they are brought shackled before the albino king, however, they become nearly interchangeable ciphers, simply marking time while the film becomes completely focused on developing the Sumerian world. The world presented is so interesting in detail, however, the film manages to keep its head well above water.
The world created is thus: Escaping an ancient flood in Mesopotamia (the same flood recorded in the Bible), a Sumerian ruler, Sharu, and his immediate family and court survived the waters by means of an arc. After many months afloat, the arc found port atop a mountain range in Asia (Kuetara in the film). Having survived the flood, the Sumerian remnants are plummeted into the bowels of the earth by a cataclysmic earthquake (hard luck, right?). Once submerged, the Sumerians mutated over thousands of years into two distinct races: The albino Sumerians, who retain the Sumerian traditions; and the Mole People, who have developed bulging eyes, elongated claws for digging, and reptilian skin. The collective culture has developed into a master/slave society with the pale-faces having the dominant role; while the mole culture (called "beasts of the dark" by the albinos) serve as tormented slaves. Occasionally the albinos produce a genetic throwback; a "dark one," like the girl, Adad. These unfortunates posses the human physiognomies of the albinos, yet with pigmented skin and blue eyes; and are thus able to tolerate light. These ones are treated little better than the mole people and are relegated to servitude.7
The film is rife with excellent and compelling detail, such as scenes of Sumerian workers forging metal by means of lava vents - their sooty, glistening bodies shining in lava light - and albino women weaving material from a burlap-like substance. The cavern walls are full of a phosphorous material, supplying the culture with its only source of illumination (save lave vents). The mole people are like plantation slaves, shepherding a few scrappy albino goats and harvesting mushrooms; which are the primary source of food. This limited ecosystem, with its limited resources, has evolved into a ruthless, pitiless world:
Elinu, the Hugh Priest - Alan Napier
The culture can stand a population of no greater than 150 Sumerian albinos at any time (the Mole People are simply fed sparsely and worked until they die). If the albino population exceeds 150, access numbers are chosen and marched like cattle into the burning "Eye of Ishtar."
These "fires" of Ishtar, as well as other savage aspects, lead us to more good stuff.
The Good Stuff, Part II: This Brutal World
The moment the archaeologists descend into the subterranean world, they enter a harsh, nether universe of brutal laws - both natural and un-natural. In fact, the brutality begins during their descent, which kills both native guide, Nazar; as well as Dr. Stuart. When Dr. Bentley first reaches the bottom of the shaft into which Stuart has fallen, he finds his comrade's body on the pit floor in a beam of surface light; smashed, twisted and bloody. The effect is jarring. Stuart looks not just "Hollywood dead," but rather smashed-and-cracked-open-like-a-discarded-doll dead. His shattered head trickles blood. Bentley tries to lift the body, but pauses as the pieces aren't holding together correctly. Likewise, moments later, when the unconscious Nazar comes tumbling down, his body hits like a bag of potatoes and is immediately smashed and buried under tons of avalanching boulder and dirt. Again, the effect is excellent (I even winced not once but twice - first when a rock clunk's off Nazar's head, making a sound like a thumped pumpkin, and then again when his body pounds heavy and flat on the shaft's unforgiving floor, sending up a cloud of dust).
Perhaps the best moments in the film come, however, when we are given glimpses of the dank, hellish world of the Mole People. During an early escape attempt, Bentley and Bellamin come across a scene straight from Dante's Inferno, wherein the albino masters are whipping the slave moles back into their pits after a day's labor. Each pit - an entrance into a Mole Man domicile - appears like a wet, ulcerous wound upon the surface of this steaming, inner chamber; and the walls are black and shiny as coal. The pale albino guards, in their Sumerian helmets and leather breastplates, move around in the gloaming like luminous phantoms, some feeding the Mole Men mushrooms from burlap sacks, others whipping them back into their slimy nests. The Mole Men lurch and scramble under the whip, moaning and screaming in animal noises; sometimes clawing at each other over a mushroom.
Masters and slaves - the domain of the Mole Men
Also impressive for its severe visuals are the final scenes in which Bentley and Bellamin are to be executed; and in which virgins are sacrificed into the Eye of Ishtar. Huge doors are cast open, brilliant light comes flooding into the court chamber; and young, naked virgins (naturally) walk stoically into a blinding light - into the "Eye of Ishtar." (These are the sacrifices made so that the population will not exceed 150). This eye of Ishtar is nothing more than a long shaft leading to the surface world, which is filled with brilliant, direct sunlight at noon - fatal to the albinos. After a few moments, the virgins are brought back in, burned to death, their pale bodies blackened nearly to bone. In the final scene, Adad inspires the mole people to revolt, and they slaughter all 150 of the Sumerians as the three escape into the shaft, beaming up into the sunshine of the surface as if gazing into the light of Heaven.
The Good Stuff, Part III: John Agar and Hugh Beaumont
First, a moment of appreciation for John Agar.
Early in the career of John Agar, the actor seemed destined for a snug spot in John Ford's acting troupe - perhaps even for a bit more. He appeared in Ford's Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, both with John Wayne. Yet, there was something about the young, handsome actor - something that nearly vanished when paired with the likes of Wayne, or any of the other roughnecks in the Ford stable like Ward Bond or Victor McLaglen. Perhaps working in the burly world of Ford so young was a misstep. When the Ford bulls came crashing through a scene, Agar always became the smiling clerk in the china shop, hitting his mark as if hoping to escape a trampling.
Agar found his niche in B work, where he better fitted the canvas. When he starred in Tarantula (Arnold, 1955) he was 34 years old, and his "relegation" to B movies was cast in stone. In our beloved genre of atomic age sci-fi, Agar would go on to star in Revenge of the Creature (Arnold, 1955); Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (Ulmer, 1957); The Brain From Planet Arous (Juran, 1957); Attack of the Puppet People (Gordon, 1957); Invisible Invaders (Cahn, 1959); and Journey to the Seventh Planet (Pink, 1962).
If one imagines that Agar was "cast down" to B pictures, so be it. One recalls Milton: "Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven," particularly if one serves poorly but reigns well. That is to say, Agar was one of the most important leading men that ever served in sci-fi B movies, and his work therein will be remembered fondly as long as people enjoy these movies. "A" list pictures tended to minimize Agar, force him into the woodwork, whereas in B movies, he became the actor the eye followed.8 And, not for nothing, Tarantula and Brain From Planet Arous are two of my personal favorites from the atomic age, so his place in my heart is bronzed.
Certainly, a pairing with Wayne Monument was problematic for Agar's style; yet in Mole People, the actor is well met with the sturdy but less monumental Hugh Beaumont.
Best known for his role as Dad, Ward Cleaver, in television's Leave it to Beaver (1957-1963), Hugh Beaumont always offered a confident, solid-as-a-rock presence with a persona often spiced with a pleasant dash of bedrock cynicism. While remembered best for his late 1950s television work, his career was built upon a very sold noir foundation a decade earlier. Beaumont appeared in several gems, like The Blue Dahlia (Marshall, 1946); Railroaded (Mann, 1947); and the under-appreciated Bury Me Dead (Vorhaus, 1947); all of which present the actor's surprisingly rough edge.
Agar and Beaumont make a very interesting and well-suited team, at least in the early going: Agar the idealistic blowhard with a reckless charm; with Beaumont offering a refreshingly jaded view and a pugnacious, steady competence. Once the movie goes underground, however, their very watchable partnership is lost in the greater glories of the Sumerian universe.
The surface as Heaven - Cynthia Patrick and John Agar
Had the movie received a significant tweak here or there (a tighter script, several deeper shades of development for the Mole Men, and a much brisker pace for a start), The Mole People just might have made it into Universal's monster hall of fame. As is, it qualifies easily as a must see for fans of atomic age sci-fi.
- Dr. Frank Baxter also hosted the popular The Bell Laboratory Science Series (appearing as "Dr. Research"), a series of documentary films produced for television explaining scientific phenomenon. These films were used for classroom education though the 1980s. (Link) In addition, his television program Telephone Time, and a series of lectures on Shakespeare, won seven Emmys. Dr. Baxter has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, right next to Yvonne DeCarlo. (Link)
- This "Hollow Earth" Theory was most famously proposed by John Cleave Symmes. For a great article discussing Symmes's work, try: Duane A. Griffin, "Hollow and Habitual Within: Symmes's Theory of Earth's Internal Structure and Polar Geography." (you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader) (Link)
- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2006) s.v. "cuneiform writing."
- Rodd Redwing, a Native American (Chickasaw), was one of the foremost weapons experts in Hollywood, known for training stars in whip, gun, knife, and tomahawk. His catalogue of famous students include nearly every male actor that appeared in westerns throughout the 40s, 50s, and early 60s. Perhaps most notably, Redwing taught Alan Ladd to handle a six-gun for his career-defining role in Shane. (Jim Martin, Rodd Redwing - Hollywood Gun Coach; (Link)
- Alan Napier will be best remember for his role as Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred, in the 1966 television series, Batman.
- The gorgeous Patrick appeared in only a small handful of pictures, nearly always uncredited. The Mole People was by far her largest part; and the part for which she will always be remembered.
- The racial hierarchy of the film is impossible to ignore. The paler one is, the higher one's status. The darker one is, the closer one is to an animal or beast, suited only for labor and slavery. This theme is not developed enough to count as social commentary, however.
- In a perfect bit of sweet symmetry, Agar found work alongside John Wayne again in the 1970s, when he appeared in supporting roles in Chisum and Big Jake. Wayne, always loyal to those he had enjoyed working with, more than likely found or secured a part for Agar (where he did a solid job in both pictures).
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2013 Hall of Fame Ballot; If I Had A Vote
Before I begin, let me first point out that of the 37 players on the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot, I'm only going to be discussing my thoughts on six of them: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Craig Biggio, Curt Schilling, Mike Piazza and Sammy Sosa; with whether or not I believe they belong among the games' all time greats in the Hall of Fame. Statistically, they're all worthy of the Hall, however, because of their connection to performance enhancing drugs (PED's), proven or suspected, it makes it one of the most difficult and controversial H.O.F. votes in years.
Having retired from Major League Baseball way back at the conclusion of the 2007 season, I've had a fairly long time to think about whether or not these select first year ballot players are worthy of a plaque in the Hall of Fame. But five years doesn't seem long enough, as it's now time to make a decision, and, even with hour after hour of debate, it's still difficult to decide one way or another.
To make it as clear as I possibly can, of how I went about deciding whether or not I believe the six previously listed players are HOF'ers, I've decided to give a general overview of the pros and cons I see to the three different options you have when going about this year's Hall of Fame vote:
This seems absurd to me, but it's an option nonetheless, so I had to include it. The only good thing about this is that by choosing to keep all six out of the Hall of Fame you ensure that no player that used PED's gets inducted in. Since we aren't 100 percent sure whether or not the suspected users did or didn't use drugs, this is the safe route to take. However, it's also the wrong route, in my opinion. Leaving out every single one of these players could possibly be keeping out a player who never allowed any drugs into their system whatsoever. While we aren't sure if there even are any, it's truly not fair to punish those who could have very well never broken the rules, just because you feel they might have. So, while this is in fact an option, it's just not right to keep out so many great players.
Although a little more practical than option one, I still don't feel this is what needs to be done. Sure, by keeping out the players who were connected to drug use while allowing in those who were merely suspected, you make it fair for the players who might've never done anything wrong. However, you could also be allowing a player into the H.O.F. who was just lucky enough to never get caught. That doesn't seem right to me. Electing to take this option runs the risk of allowing in someone who used drugs, while keeping out someone who did the exact same thing but just so happened to get caught. We don't know for sure who used and who didn't, so I feel they should all share in the same fate. Either let them all in, or keep them all out; and you already know how I feel about leaving them all out.
This is the best possible option, in my opinion. Yes, I'm aware that by doing this you're allowing in players who were connected to drug use, but I don't see another way to truly make sure the great players of that era are allowed in, without holding a grudge against one side or the other. Letting them all in makes sure that you keep it fair for the suspected users while also keeping it fair for the players who were actually connected. Leaving them all out isn't fair to those who didn't use, and letting the ones who were suspected in while leaving the ones who were connected out doesn't seem fair either. I know it might seem as if the players connected to drug use don't deserve a fair vote, but the way I see it, they do.
Those who used drugs throughout the 'Steroid Era' certainly made things very complicated.
Up until a few days ago, I never would've gone with option three. I was fairly adamant that any player who was connected to drug use shouldn't be allowed into the Hall of Fame. Those players cheated; plain and simple. However, the more I think about it, due to the lack of evidence against those players who were merely suspected of using a PED, in the end, I couldn't go with my original mindset.
Now, I'm sure many of you (perhaps all of you?) disagree with my take on the matter, but I hope you at least understand, to a point, where I'm coming from (if I haven't already confused the heck out of you). Due to the poor drug testing policy throughout the late 1980's up through the early 2000's', we will never know for sure exactly which players did, and which players didn't, use performance enhancing drugs. Therefore, if I had a vote, I would vote for every one of them to get into the Hall of Fame.
There are some people who say that if you allow players into the Hall of Fame that are connected to (or suspected of) PED's, that you should place them in a separate wing, or, at the very least, add an asterisk next to their name. I really don't see the need. Any true baseball fan who makes the trek to Cooperstown–a few years from now or 100 years down the road–will know the history of the 'Steroid Era', if they're honestly true fans. They'll know what each player did or didn't do, and they'll each have their own feelings as to whether they feel each player belongs in the Hall of Fame. Let them decide how they feel for themselves.
In the end, Bonds, Clemens, Sosa, Biggio, Piazza and Schilling are still some of the greatest players in the history of the game. Do I think any of them will get in this time around? Absolutely not. Do I think any of them will get in a few years down the road? I truly hope so. Keeping out this batch of players because of the unknown just wouldn't be right. But then again, if you'll look back at the history of Hall of Fame voting, the right thing hasn't always been done.
Should Bonds, Clemens, Schilling, Biggio, Piazza and Sosa ever be allowed into the Hall of Fame? Cast your vote (you can vote for as many players as you want):
If you wouldn't let any in, leave a comment below with your reasoning.
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I've got four of your six on my fake ballot: Bonds, Piazza, Biggio, Clemens; plus three more: Raines, Martinez, and Bagwell. In regards to Schilling, I feel like a lot of the argument there is that he was a dominating postseason pitcher, which is true. He has the highest winning percentage of any pitcher to throw past September. Though the postseason is the endgame for baseball, and though I truly feel it carries a lot of worth, I personally can't let him in. When I think of Schilling, I can't see a Hall of Famer, and that's something within me that's prohibiting his fake vote on my fake ballot. I kind of feel the same way about Jack Morris. Sure, the glove I used in Little League bore his signature, but I don't feel he's a Hall of Famer just because he had a gutsy performance in the 1991 World Series, among other times.
Speaking to Sosa, you may wonder how I don't let him in when I'm all for inducting Bonds. And to me, it comes down to the stats. Bonds was a better hitter than Sosa, hands down. When he wasn't hitting homeruns (which was pretty much all he did past his age 36 season), he would still often get on base with a hit. There's a bit difference in the .298 average put up by Bonds, and the .273 average put up by Sosa, and the .263 average put up by McGwire. I know, I'm not advanced with my Sabermetrics, or anything here, but I feel that Bonds had more dimensions to his game than a Sosa or McGwire, and that's why I'd put him in over the others.
Great vote though, glad to see someone get some love for Piazza, the greatest offensive catcher ever. It must seem weird to you as well that all the fans are getting the votes right, but all the people with actual votes are muffing it up. Heyman votes for Dale Murphy and Don Mattingly? He's delaying a yes vote on Bagwell until further proof…what can Bagwell do to prove his innocence? It's frustrating, because I just want baseball to get it right, and it seems like there's not enough people in power wanting to do that.
Thanks, Matt.


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Home List of Titles Gender and presentational style: when the verdict of the trial is unaffected by an attorney's personal characteristics and behavior, justice is served
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- Gender and presentational style: when the verdict of the trial is unaffected by an attorney's personal characteristics and behavior, justice is served
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- Campbell, Emily; Pierre-Trettel, Debra; Koenig, Hedii; Pfeifer, Jeffrey E.; Wolfe, Daniel; Gabriel, Kimberly Gabriel
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- Throughout history, the American trial by jury has been thought of as representing the principle that 'justice is blind.' However, studies on the social psychology of law have revealed several biases held by jurors that reduce the probability that a defendant will receive a fair trial. One of the extra-evidential variables that has been shown to effect jurors' verdicts is the defendant's race. Even variables, such as gender, associated with the jurors themselves may influence the verdict. Besides the defendant's and jurors' characteristics, lawyers' characteristics have been shown to affect the outcome of a trial. Among such characteristics are the perceived prestige of a lawyer, a lawyer's actions during voir dire, and an attorney's expertise. More surprising and potentially very disconcerting is the possibility that the gender of an attorney might sway a jury's vote, and thus, affect the fairness of the trial process. The possibility that a verdict might be influenced by an attorney's gender or other characteristics should be explored. This article presents a study that examined the effect of gender and presentational style on the outcome of a criminal trial, as well as the effects of these variables on jurors' perceptions of the prosecutor in the trial.
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Kristen Stewart On Her Edgy 'Twilight' Follow-Up 'On The Road'
Kristen Stewart's new movie is also based on a book that was highly influential on a generation. This is not Twilight though. On the Road is based on the Jack Kerouac book from 1957. The film version is rated R, for scenes of sex and drug use, in both of which Stewart's character partakes. It's all in the book though, which Stewart read in her early teens.
"I think the actual law is if you are with a parent you can go and see an R-rated movie, if you're over the age of 13," Stewart said. "I guess it depends on who your parents are, who you are. I read On the Road when I was 14, so I don't know. My parents never wanted to shelter me from the world that we live in, so I think I'm probably not the right person to ask. I think if you have a desire to see it, and your parents don't want you to see it, take that bull by the horns."
Stewart met reporters about On the Road just as the Twilight movies were ending. She compared the two types of readers. "I don't get to have very many involved conversations with Twilight fans. It's really rare. Sometimes, the girls that run the fan sites will come in and do an interview and I absolutely love doing that. I find that a lot of people I talk to, most journalists I sit down with, are huge On the Road fans. I feel that they're even assigned to those stories because they have an interest in it. I've got to talk to a lot of passionate On the Road fans. The difference is there's a lot to feel in Twilight, and that's the experience usually of having individual exchanges with fans, without even saying, you just feel it, but obviously with On the Road there's a lot to talk about."
Now that Twilight is over, it's up to a new set of actors to carry the next franchise. Stewart has some advice for those future stars. "You better love it or don't do it. To be on one project for five years, I had the exact same feeling that I had when I first started the project. The only difference is that now, only at this point, I have that weight lifted, I want it back. I don't have to worry about Bella anymore. But, I'm like, it's so weird. Where is it? She's not like tapping me on the shoulder anymore."
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Have you ever looked at photographs from the 1970s and thought, "Was everybody a serial killer between 1970 and 1980?" Until the entire decade answers for its skeeviness, I'm just going to assume that all adults of the era were Charles Manson's former acolytes.
Is this the Manson cult or Portlandia extras? Or both?
Maybe you're thinking I shouldn't judge people by their looks, that we all went through an ugly phase and who am I to condemn an entire decade for looking like Spencer's Gifts threw up all over it? To you I say go to your grandpa's closet and get his porn magazine stash. Ignore the body hair, natural boobs, and healthy-size women for a minute and flip to the back. There you're going to find some mail-order ads for novelty products that will unequivocally tell you everything you need to know about our past: that everyone was a creep and it's a miracle we as a civilization didn't devolve into walking gold medallions.
For those of you who don't have a grandpa or his vintage porn collection, here are six novelty products that prove that, despite everything you've heard, the past was a perverted creep.
6Bronzed Lips from a Narcissistic Psycho
South Mountain Passage
If you've ever been in love, you know that the thoughts that go through your head during the early stages of infatuation aren't necessarily the thoughts of a sane person. "This song reminds me of him." "I wonder what he's doing." "These bushes are scratchy, but it's worth it to watch his front door for a while."
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"I've already bought my wedding dress and named our first five children."
It's OK, because love is supposed to be obsessive and weird at first. But there's a fine line between "excessively infatuated" and "John Hinckley Jr.-esque." Do you know what that fine line is made of? Bronze. Which is why making a bronze statue of your own lips as a gift for another human was never a good idea. In 1972, a company called South Mountain Passage disagreed, so they advertised a service for young women in love. For only $21.95 (that's about $120 in 2013 dollars), you could order a foolproof Take-My-Lips Kit, which was probably less horrifying than it sounded. The ad doesn't tell us how the kit worked, but I'm guessing it wasn't much more that a small vat of paste you were supposed to apply to your lips.
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You missed, dummy.
After the plaster dried, the girl was instructed to send the cast of her lips to South Mountain Passage in Garrison, New York, where they'd definitely make a bronze statue of her mouth right away and definitely not use it for masturbatory purposes. For $2 extra, the company would mount the lips on a walnut base before sending them back to her. And when I say "mount the lips on a walnut base," I mean they'd complete that task in two different ways before the girl got her lips back.
From there, the girl would presumably give her lips to the object of her affection, which was where the whole concept took a turn for the crazy. It doesn't matter what year it is, giving the gift of a bronzed version of your own body parts is the worst kind of message. You can't pull it off unless you're a pharaoh, and I'm guessing only three pharaohs responded to this ad, tops. If the whole thing wasn't creepy enough, South Mountain Passage had a whole mess of bad speculations as to what the guy would do with the metal lips: ideas like wear them on a chain, or on a belt buckle, or as a bicep band. As if anyone on the receiving end of a mounted mouth replica wouldn't shut down that relationship faster than a guy regrets wearing a bicep band.
5Stalking Pillow for the Stalkiest Stalker
Between Snapfish, Photoshop, and everyone's Christmas cards since about 2001, most of us are familiar with the idea of plastering our own faces on crap and then giving said crap away as gifts. We've grown pretty conceited as a people in that respect.
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"Merry Christmas! We got you discomfort."
But it's one thing to stick your own family portrait on a jigsaw puzzle or mug or billboard and another to do the same thing with someone else's face. Especially if that someone doesn't know you from a hole in the ground and you're putting his face on a pillowcase so you can sleep with him at night. Worst scenario of all: You're 13 years old and your crush is old enough to be getting his first gray pubic hairs. The Portrait Pillow people had no problems with any of this.
Despite the creepy, sleepy-eyed look on the guy on this pillow case, make no mistake about this novelty product. Whoever the guy is, he's the victim here. It's the girl who's the real predator, what with her bubble-gum-machine engagement ring that she bought for herself, her lust-filled eyes, and her fingers on the facsimile of chest hair. Who could her fake boyfriend be? One of her dad's younger co-workers at the factory? The substitute teacher who insists that everyone call him by his first name? Her uncle? Maybe we'll never know who this mustachioed stalkee was, but we do know that the Portrait Pillow people encouraged girls to send in magazine pictures of their favorite TV and recording stars and they'd faithfully reproduce their likenesses on pillow cases.
Actually, this might be one instance when the '70s were grossly prescient.


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I'm not sure why they are called "egg rolls." They don't look like eggs. They don't taste like eggs. They don't even roll like eggs … they kinda make an awkward cylindrical rotation while leaving a slight trail of some kind of liquid fat. Quite unegglike.
But the etymology of this magnificent creation is not important. What is important is it is a deliciously deep-fried golden tube of unidentifiable ingredients wrapped up in an easy-to-handle stuff-in-your-mouth shape. I like to think of an egg roll as an Oriental Twinkie.
The first egg rolls I ever ate as a child were the frozen kind my mother bought at the food store. They were made by a company called "Chung King." This company was started by Jeno Paulucci, the son of Italian immigrants. Somehow he had gotten hold of an old world Italian recipe for Chinese appetizers, and, mama mia … datsa spicy egg roll!
I was quite satisfied with the taste of my euro-chino snacks for several years. In 1966, Mr. Paulucci sold his Chung King business. Guess who bought it? Yep, the most logical buyer of an Oriental food company would be the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Evidently the market for smoked menthol-spiced egg rolls was about ready to explode.
It was a bit later that I got my first taste of a real Chinese restaurant-style egg roll, after finally kicking my Chung King habit by wearing a nicotine/bamboo shoot patch. The name of the restaurant was Sunny Eng's, located in Crystal Lake. My first reaction was that I couldn't believe the size of their egg rolls. They made Chung King look like Chung Peasant.
But it was the taste that left me speechless. That, and the yellow hot mustard sauce that burned out my nose hairs and fried my vocal chords. Sure, the Kung Bao Chicken was tasty, and the Yu Hsiang Pork was succulent, but it was the egg rolls that held my taste buds hostage.
When Sunny Eng sold his restaurant in 1994 and it became New Sunny's, I was much relieved to see that all of the old recipes had remained unchanged.
Best of all, the egg rolls arrived as they always did: golden cylinders of sprouty stuff wrapped in crunchy Chinese warmth, served with toxic yellow emulsion.
But then it happened. New Sunny's announced it was closing. I remember having dinner there on its last night. I even got to take home one of the menus and a dining chair as mementos. But alas, no more Sunny's egg rolls. What would I do?
I set off on my quest for the perfect egg roll. For several months I took my wife to a number of perfectly fine Chinese restaurants, but, sadly, nothing could match the taste I had grown to love. I was ready to accept the fact that that is how the fortune cookie crumbles when I made an amazing discovery. I discovered that relatives of the family that had owned New Sunny's were operating a Chinese restaurant in Algonquin called China Bistro. Could it be that they were still offering the same recipe for egg rolls?
We quickly made a visit to their restaurant. As we sat at our table and I opened the menu, I couldn't believe my eyes … it was virtually the same as my old restaurant! Why, they even had a house specialty called "Sunny's Special." You could have knocked me over with an almond cookie!
Well, you probably can predict the rest of the story. My quest for the perfect egg roll was finally over. And, unbelievably, it was exactly what my fortune cookie said: "Something will happen today." How did they know that?
• Michael Penkava is a retired teacher who taught for 35 years at West Elementary School in Crystal Lake. He invites you to discover the perfect egg roll at China Bistro. Remember, Confucius says, "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I eat egg roll, I understand." He can be reached at email@example.com.


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"It's like when you're teaching a little kid how to walk and they fall and fall and then they run. It is that kind of experience, an overwhelming sense of pride," Coach Lee Ann Barker said.
For many of the players, they have played together for more than 10 years, so the foundation of teamwork they needed for a successful season was essentially a lifetime in the making. Senior Kaitlyn Roberts said it took a lot of hard work to make it happen.
This year's lineup had only four senior players, pitcher and outfielder Haley Hinojosa, left-fielder Briana Ruiz, shortstop and pitcher Savannah Lopez, and Roberts as a utility player.
"We have been playing together for so long and have grown not only as teammates, but as friends," Roberts said. "We put a lot of faith in God."
The Lady Bulldogs started the season out strong with victories over Dilley and La Pryor on Valentine's Day. Their next victory came just five days later against George West.
"I had a feeling we would go far," Ruiz said.
They went on two have three more victories in a row on Feb. 21 against Pettus, Stockdale and Nixon-Smiley.
Sophomore Anissa Alvarez said the senior players had pep talks with the team to help each of the younger players improve throughout the season.
"We played more as a team than all four of my years in high school," Ruiz said. "We didn't play for ourselves; we played for the young ones."
"It was a great experience for my freshman year," freshman McKenzie Ruiz added.
Things got a bit shaky for the team in late February when they lost to Karnes and Woodsboro. But they came back swinging on Feb. 28, as they went on to beat Cotulla and Kenedy.
"It showed they were fighters and ready to come out and prove to everybody what they were made of," Coach Dawn Dugger said.
After that, they had a winning streak of six games in a row, beating out Nixon-Smiley, Yorktown, Runge, Pettus, Kenedy and Falls City in the first half of March.
Their winning streak was interrupted by a loss to Woodsboro on March 20.
"We knew it was going to take sweat and crying and falling down and getting back up," Barker said.
Then as March transitioned into April, the Lady Bulldogs had their second winning streak when pitted against Yorktown, Runge, Pettus and Kenedy.
"It is incomparable to last season," Barker said. "I think, honestly, it would be comparing apples to oranges with the mentality to support each other."
Their final win of the season earned their first playoff victory in seven years when they stomped the La Villa Cardinals 11-4.
"It's been something we have wanted for so long," Lopez said. "It was so different and exciting. What made me most happy was seeing all the fans and the people go out and support us."
Ten players were named all-district this year. Barker said their names will be revealed once district play is complete.
"When things got tough we put our faith in God, this year," Lopez said. "It's been a good year. I'm sad to see it end."


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Comments: I got a normal width version, fits nicely. Has moderate cushioning and great feel. Still haven't tried over a long run.
From: Venkat, KY, USA
Comments: Excellent all around shoe and a good value. The cushioning is just what I like - neither stiff no squishy. I put them on and don't notice them or think about them until I take them off.
From: Dave, Central CT
Comments: Well cushioned, light enough to feel nimble. Ankle padding is great the shoe feels very secure on my foot. The tongue is also well padded which makes the whole ankle area feel really nice. Sizing seemed accurate. I like the low arch as it does not intrude. Toe box volume seems fine to me, particularly the width is nice.
From: Frank, Danville, Ca
Comments: I've logged almost 300 miles in these shoes. They are fantastic. Excellent fit and durability. Have started seeing wear in only the last 75 miles or so. Will be purchasing again. I am relatively new to running and was lucky to have gotten great fitting and advice from my local retailer.
From: Alan, Marietta, Georgia
Comments: Bought 10.5 and got a 2e becaue NB offers it and it fit better. Shoe felt good and cushioning ok but i recentlly purchased NB insole and it has been an improvement. Main concern now is how well it will hold up. Previously had been wearing nimbus.
From: skip, alabama
Comments: The fit of this shoe is very nice. The low toe volume is a valid concern. I would watch out wearing socks that have a seam on the top of the toe with these shoes. The light weight is great for a daily trainer. My only critique of this shoe is that the tread is very soft and wears down quickly. I am a heavy forefoot striker and tend to wear shoes out quickly anyway, but I have only gotten 50 miles or so in these and am getting close to the foam. Great road grip, like Tony mentioned below, but they do wear quickly.
From: Jeff, Lewisville, TX USA
Comments: Maybe the best daily trainer I've ever worn. Many are concerned about the low toe volume. I will say that when I first tried these on they indeed felt snug on the tops of my toes but once you start running this becomes a non-issue and in fact is a stability feature of sorts that I like. The width is average in the forefoot and midfoot. The Revlite midsole material is perfect in terms of a "just right" amount of cushion. Not a pillow like many Asics shoes and not an hard plank like some of Mizuno's models tend to be. The upper is the real home run that NB hit with this shoe. Soft, seamless, snug but not constricting at all with the heel collar and tongue never getting in the way. I'd
run sockless in these the upper is so well constructed. The 8mm drop is a nice sweet spot for a daily trainer and the lightness of the shoe is fantastic. I really hope they stick with the 8mm and don't go to 4mm in the next iteration of the shoe. The ride is smooth as butter from midfoot to forefoot if a little on the less responsive side. I'd say my only knock on this shoe is that the outsole rubber is quite soft. While this makes for fantastic road grip, I wonder how long it will last. Other than that - a 10/10 in my opinion. Don't change a thing NB!
From: Tony, Austin, TX, USA
Comments: Great shoe! Better fit than the original. One of the best fitting shoes I've ever worn. It's perfectly snug without any pressure points. I've never experienced a shoe that tightens so evenly. I wear the same size as I usually do in other running shoes. Some complain about it being long and having a low volume forefoot. For me, it's appropriately wide to allow splay, yet, the lack of extra room top-to-bottom allows for a performance fit which is unusual for a shoe with this amount of forefoot width. The ride is ultra smooth. It's a great balance between protective cushioning and responsive firmness. Maybe it's a tad bit soft for my taste. But, it's firming up with each run so I suspect the softness is due to the insole, not the midsole. Loving running in it at all paces!
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Comments: Love the heel-toe drop. Love the lightness. Cushioning feels good. But the toe box is so low! My feet are by no means high volume. I ordered my regular size, the length was good, but I wouldn't feel comfortable running significant miles in shoes that allowed very little wiggle room. It's not narrow, per se, but just very low.
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Putin touched a tender nerve
Russian President Vladimir Putin raised a storm with his criticism of "American Exceptionalism." One senator from New Jersey stated that it wanted to make "him vomit" when he read the op-ed in the New York Times. How dare any other national leader criticize what to many Americans is its historical prerogative -to advance its world view regardless of what others think of it or the other country's interest?
Certainly John McCain and Lindsay Graham believe that because the United States is so pure that it is the world's arbiter of conflict. Like the Caesar's of old it can give a thumbs up or thumbs down and make it stick. We have the right to indulge others' mistakes but woe betide any nation that dares to do the same to America. Camouflaged as internationalism, it represents the worst kind of parochialism and besides, it is dangerous.
Putin is certainly no saint, but his wars in Chechnya and Georgia were waged against rebels and those on Russia's border. His suppression of rights is unsavory, but never the less represent the actions of a government legally constituted, certainly the whiff of Woodrow Wilson remains with his non-recognition policy against nations we did not approve is prominent today. Better to stick with John Quincy Adams' admonition not to go abroad in search of "dragons to slay."
And besides it means war without end. Consider Great Britain, which was once the indispensable nation. From the 18th century on it fought "Universal Monarchy" as represented by the French and later Napoleon. It intervened anywhere it thought its moral code was being violated. In time the Empire that was accrued slowly eroded and the torch was unceremoniously passed to the United States. After World War II the USA with its power seemed able to demand and receive all it wanted.
By the 1970s, thanks to Vietnam, spiraling inflation and general fatigue, the American colossus lost a bit of its power. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger recognized this new world and modified America's foreign policy to reflect new realities.
Ronald Reagan carried a big stick but did not use it much. In the end he was careful, withdrawing from Lebanon in 1984 and expanding American power in subtle ways. George H.W. Bush built a coalition and joined for a time "a new world order." It was up to his son to undo what the father so carefully built.
The neo-conservative view that led to America's temporary setbacks was one built on flawed history and sentimental notions. Longing for the day when the United States had once imposed its will, it dredged up policies no longer valid. This was no longer the world of the 1960's when the economy grew at 7 percent, 8 percent and 9 percent per annum. Guns and butter was possible for a time – but that time ran out. Instead the U.S. ended up with high gasoline prices and a disillusioned public, thanks to hotheads like McCain and Graham.
President Barack Obama, despite rhetorical overkill, nevertheless was smart to return to bilateralism. This is based on strength – witness Nixon's 1972 Wheat Deal with the USSR. Hardly a giveaway, it demonstrated that the United States was the indispensable supplier of food, exposing the Soviet Union as bankrupt. Nixon got the ball rolling and Reagan kicked the goal. Obama would be best advised to follow their examples.


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Note: This recall has been reannounced. This press release is periodically updated as details are finalized.
September 1, 2011
Release # 11-315
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with nine manufacturers and distributors, is announcing a voluntary recall of all pourable gel fuels made or sold by these companies. Due to the serious risks of flash fire and burns when consumers add pourable gel to an already burning fire pot, consumers should immediately stop using the pourable gel fuel.
The recall involves an estimated 2 million units of various pourable gel fuels packaged in one-quart plastic bottles and one-gallon plastic jugs and sold in scented and non-scented formulations, which were sold since 2008 for between $5 and $20 by the companies listed below.
Consumers can contact these firms to obtain instructions for a refund of the product and for returning unused bottles and jugs:
The pourable gel fuel can ignite unexpectedly and splatter onto people and objects nearby when it is poured into a firepot that is still burning. CPSC is aware of 65 incidents resulting in two deaths and 34 victims who were hospitalized with second and third degree burns of the face, chest, hands, arms or legs.
Of the 65 incidents, 28 of them, including 37 burn injuries and two fatalities, occurred with fuel gel products made by Napa Home & Garden, which conducted a recall of its products in June 2011, in cooperation with CPSC. Also in June, CPSC issued a press statement alerting consumers to the hazards of pourable gel fuels. All pourable gel fuel, regardless of manufacturer, poses flash fire hazards.
Consumers should not attempt to use or fix pourable gel fuel bottles with homemade remedies, or replace the fuel with other flammable materials.
Retailers should stop sale of existing inventory and immediately remove all stock of pourable gel fuel from shelves. Some firms are working on a design for caps that may prevent flash fire hazards.
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The Phillies are visiting the Marlins in Miami as they plan to seperate completely from the rest of the East.
The first place Phillies (39-26) are visiting the second place Marlins (34-29) for a three games series at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, which they hope will end up with them creating a larger distance between themselves and the rest of the National League East. The first game will start at 7:10 pm Eastern. The Phillies' starter will be Brett Myers (3-7, 5.13), who is coming off of a lost to the Reds on June 4, where he lost a chance at a no-hitter as he would go seven and a third innings, giving up one earned run on one hit, in the Phils' 2-0 lost. His career record against the Marlins is 6-7 with a 4.89 ERA in 19 starts, including his recent start against the fish on May 30, in which he would pitch eight innings, giving up three earned runs on six hits, in the Phillies' 13-3 crushing of the Marlins. He will be looking for his fourth victory of the year while setting up the tone of the series, like he did when the Marlins came into Philadelphia during the weekend before last. The Marlins will counter with Ricky Nolasco (5-4, 5.05), who is coming off of a lost to the Braves on June 5 which saw the end of his four games winning streak, as he pitched only five and two-thirds innings, as he gave up seven earned runs on twelve hits, in the Marlins' 7-5 lost. He is 2-2 lifetime against the Phillies, which would include his May 31 start the Phils in which he would pitch six and two-thirds innings, giving up two earned runs on four hits, in the Marlins' 7-3 win. He will be looking to defeat the red hot Phillies while trying to get the Marlins back into the pennant chase.
The Phillies will be looking to increase their now four game lead over the Marlins as they start their three games series against the fish in Miami. The third place Braves are trailing the Phils by six and a half games, as they start their own three games series with the National League Central leader the Cubs in Chicago. The fourth place Mets are behind the Phils by seven and a half games, as they play a three games series with the National League West leader the Diamondbacks in the Bronx.
With the present series the Phillies have an excellent opportunity to take a commanding lead in the National League East by either sweeping or just winning the series, while the Marlins young bloods have a chance to get back into the race by trying to slow down the presently red hot Phillies' offense.
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Does it feel like 1993 again? It does to me! The Phillies have a tough schedule ahead but if they can take 2 out of 3 in Florida, they will have one heck of a lead before facing St. Louis, Boston, Oakland, etc. Looking forward to this series!
It does feel a bit like '93. Although I'm more reminded of 1976-77. (Yes, I'm that old.) As for the schedule, I'm more concerned about them meeting the World Champs at home, then either the Cardinals or the Athletics. But, if they do build a commanding lead after the Marlins' series, then it will a lot less of a worry. Let's Go Phils!!!!