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National touring theatre company comes to Florida, Alabama and Georgia schools to present education assembly programs in January 2013.
The performers explain that the performance will incorporate American Sign Language both as a means of communication and a form of creative expression, making the show accessible to the hearing-impaired and enthralling to the youngsters who may otherwise find it difficult to sit still for a solid 45 minutes. They ask the students to watch for common household objects such as a tennis racket to be used in creative ways such as a shovel, guitar or perhaps the entrance to a cave. Then teachers and students alike shake their heads in disbelief as Kimberly somehow manages to thread her entire body through the tennis racket and pop out the other side.
But the real show begins as the "Act!vators"
But are the students learning?
"Our productions are designed to carefully align with Common Core State Standards and teach valuable lessons across several grade levels", explains Kimberly Goza, one of the company's founders. Teachers are provided with study guides (http://activatedstorytheatre.com/
At a school in Jacksonville, Florida this February Act!vated Story Theatre will be conducting one such residency program, sponsored in part by a grant from Target Stores ®. The students will work with professionals studying and creating a unique melodrama theatre piece based on the story of How the Ice Cream Cone was Invented – a folktale, derived from what may true story, that took place at the World's Fair in 1904. In the process they will learn teamwork, history and writing skills along with music, song, dance and creative expression, while building self confidence and appreciation for multiculturalism and the arts. The students will present their program for their parents at a school family night.
Since 1988, Act!vated Story Theatre has been touring the nation presenting lively educational shows for children at schools, libraries, theatres, museums and more. This January they are bringing their giant book and loveable characters such as the hat stealing Monkey (video link (http://youtu.be/
For booking information please call 1(800)429-6576 or visit the Act!vated Story Theatre web site http://ActivatedStoryTheatre.com/
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What will happen now? When there's nothing left but you and me.
With the sun's radiance absent from the sky, the world was reduced to a twilight dusk. Streetlamps fizzled on, but their light collapsed inward, seeming to fall in on itself in a chorus of pops and whirs.
My hand found its way into yours, slowly, the mere touch a comfort in the dim and screaming world.
"Are you alright?" I asked, barely audible over the cacophony in the streets.
You nodded, but whispered your fears in my ear, near-silent mouthings that I couldn't defend you from. You were a writer, once, mind ablaze with thoughts and ideas: and that creative mind had come back, concocting the best and worst out of the situation at hand.
I hushed your streaming words, urging you to stay silent among the screams. You couldn't, though, not when there was so much you had to get out, had to say. Through the darkness I knew your eyes were searching for mine, trying to display your need of my listening ears.
A sigh escaped my lungs, soft and warm. Somehow, I knew you had a weak smile tittering at the corner of your lips, though it was soon removed as words flowed from your imagination into mine.

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Faith Walk (3 of 4) by Jeff Strite
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Jeff Strite
Matthew 14:22-33
Open: A Scotsman, was taking a trip to the Holy Land, and when he got to the Sea of Galilee he was aghast when he found it would cost fifty dollars an hour to rent a boat to go out on the water.
"Hoot mon," he said, "in Scotland I could ha got a boat for about $20."
"That might be true," said the boat man, "but you have to take into account that the Sea of Galilee is water on which our Lord Himself walked."
"Well, at $50 an hour," said the Scotsman, "it's little wonder He walked."
APPLY: How much would you pay to walk where Jesus walked?
ILLUS: About 6 yrs ago, someone built a 262 ft. long transparent bridge just below the surface of the Sea of Galilee so that visitors - for a nominal cost - could walk on the water… kinda like Jesus did (based on an article in Time magazine Feb. 22, 99 p. 26)
What would you do if you had the chance to walk where Jesus walked?
Our story today tells about a man who got that opportunity.
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He didn't have to pay a nominal fee to walk out on a transparent bridge.
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The Night I Sang Opera For Justin Bieber
One moment, I was in Spain, strolling the Passeig de Gracia, eating tapas and sipping red wine. The next, I was singing for Justin Bieber.
Perhaps it was jet lag. Perhaps it was the parade of superheroes that casually strolled by me as I donned my Marie Antoinette wig. Either way, it was the most surreal evening of my life.
A few weeks prior, I had been in hair and make up for the Canadian premiere of Mozart's Lucio Silla with Toronto-based opera company, Opera Atelier. The co-artistic director, Marshall Pynkoski, leaned over my make-up chair and asked me if I would be willing to fly back to Toronto from Spain to perform at an event.
"We're going to have to be quite secretive about planning this," he said. "It is the birthday party of one of our donors and is celebrating the engagement of his friend, Jeremy. Jeremy is Justin Bieber's father. Justin will be there."
I scanned for the address. "I think it's the one with the Batmobile," I said. And so began my evening singing for the Biebs.
The afternoon of April 30, my husband picked me up at Pearson Airport, where I had arrived direct from Barcelona. We weaved through the Toronto highways toward the Bridle Path -- I changed shoes, put on lipstick, warmed up my voice in the car. As we turned the corner of one of Toronto's most exclusive neighbourhoods, I scanned for the address. "I think it's the one with the Batmobile," I said. And so began my evening singing for the Biebs.
Andy Curnew and Dr. Rita Kilislian know how to throw a party. As guests were welcomed into their home, they walked a red carpet. The foyer was decorated with large scale, colourful artwork. Graffiti artist Nicholas Sinclair was painting a live commission. The whole evening was carefully curated by Andy with themes of art and pop culture woven throughout.
It was a mecca of visual titillation. With a new attraction in each corner, the party seemed to effectively reflect our society's need for constant, ever changing stimulus. As an opera singer, I appreciate spectacle. It is not an easy feat to capture the attention of one person, let alone a group. It is an art.
Toronto's best and most beautiful sprawled across the couple's property, a large pool canalling the space. Toward the left, a tent with Nyotamoiri or "body sushi." The right, a DJ playing songs far too hip for me to know. Wildly fit women served sashimi and miso-glazed eggplant, rousing within me tinge of guilt for all of the patatas bravas I had scarfed in Spain the week prior.
In a large tent at the back of the yard, decorated with torches and fire pits, there was a gallery of sculptures and art from some of the world's most famous artists. Rodin sculptures, original Andy Warhol prints, five-foot-tall photographs of early Kate Moss and statuesque paintings by Canadian artist Joanne Corno. As I sauntered past the artwork in my giant, Elsa-from-Frozen-esque ball gown, I felt flattered to be a living art installation amongst the greats.
After the acrobats and the fire throwers, we musicians got ready to take stage. Opera Atelier's Pynkoksi took the mic to announce that Andy Curnew and Dr. Rita Kilislian had just made a $25,000 donation to their Toronto-based company.
Let me quickly digress a moment to say one thing: opera is a hard sell. It is a gorgeous, archaic, at-times hard to swallow art form. There is something exotic but inaccessible about what we do. Being relevant to pop culture, to modern society and to current audiences is something we need, and for that, I'm thankful to Andy and Rita for not only their donation but their inclusion.
I like to think that it was a moment of repose for him, because for a second, someone else was on stage.
My colleagues, Nicole Bellamy, Chris Enns, Olivier Laquerre and I belted our way through the opera faves. The boys melted hearts with Sondheim, I flounced my way through Puccini's "Quando m'en vo," "flirting" with well-dressed strangers and draping myself over the lap of a Dragon's Den star.
Somewhere between La Boheme and "O sole mio," I saw a low-profile, beautifully handsome Bieber peak out from behind an oversized black hoody. I like to think that it was a moment of repose for him, because for a second, someone else was on stage. He seemed intrigued, which is exactly what one could hope for. With high notes and larger-than-life gestures, the set finished, perfectly timed with dusk falling. I couldn't help but wonder if that had been curated as well.
I climbed out of my corset and changed into plain clothes. My wig came off, my hair came down and I was entirely anonymous. As darkness fell upon our extravagant evening, I sat in a sleek poolside chair. I sipped a gin and tonic, leaned back and became an audience member: a voyeur to the those who had just watched me. The gymnasts, the electronic violin player squealing over Journey songs, wild opera patron Mike Wekerle getting a tattoo in the corner created the tapestry for an entirely different type of performance.
The difference between being an opera singer and a pop star like Justin Bieber is that at the end of the day, you shed your character and go back to being a regular person. The world of opera, so entirely unique and separate from modern society, has managed to exist in its own artistic universe.
Only time will tell if singing for a superstar will have any impact on my career or life. I encourage and welcome the melding of these worlds, but doubt it may. For now, I will I forge forward in preparation for roles in my world -- singing for opera companies in North America, performing in the Palace of Versailles, my upcoming debut at Lincoln Center. But who knows? Maybe next year I'll be singing for Miley Cyrus.
Meghan Lindsay recently performed the role of Giunia in the Canadian premiere of Lucio Silla with Opera Atelier. She has performed and recorded with Grammy-nominated early music company Ars Lyrica, has sung at the Royal Palace of Versailles, the Glimmerglass Festival, Het Concertgebouw and across North America. Next year will feature an album release and her debut at the Lincoln Center in New York. Meghan is an advocate for music education and community-involved arts.
More information can be found at www.MeghanLindsay.com
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Justin Bieber performs on the street August 20, 2007 in Stratford, Canada. (Photo by Irving Shuter/Getty Images)
Justin Bieber visits the Nintendo World Store on September 1, 2009 in New York City.
NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: Musician Justin Bieber performs on ABC's 'Good Morning America' at ABC News' Good Morning America Times Square Studio on November 15, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - DECEMBER 11: Singer Justin Bieber attends Z100's Jingle Ball 2009 at Madison Square Garden on December 11, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 15: Justin Bieber arrives at KIIS FM's Wango Tango 2010 at the Staples Center on May 15, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 13: Singer Justin Bieber poses after his free performance presented by KIIS-FM at Nokia Plaza L.A. Live on February 13, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 26: Justin Bieber promotes his new book 'First Step 2 Forever' at Barnes & Noble, 5th Avenue on November 26, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 16: Singer Justin Bieber arrives at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton hotel on January 16, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 16: Justin Bieber attends the 'Justin Bieber: Never Say Never' premiere at the O2 Cineworld on February 16, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Jon Furniss/WireImage)
LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 22: Singer Justin Bieber poses in the press room with the Digital Artist of the Year award during the 2011 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena May 22, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN - JUNE 08: Singer Justin Bieber attends the 2011 CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 26: Musician Justin Bieber arrives at the BET Awards '11 held at the Shrine Auditorium on June 26, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - AUGUST 07: Singer Justin Bieber arrives at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards held at Gibson Amphitheatre on August 7, 2011 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)
LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 28: Justin Bieber arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on August 28, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic)
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 13: Singer Justin Bieber arrives at The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on February 13, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 18: Justin Bieber poses on the observation deck at The Empire State Building on November 18, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 02: Justin Bieber attends the New York premiere of 'Justin Bieber: Never Say Never' at Regal E-Walk 13 on February 2, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 08: Justin Bieber attends the Dolce & Gabbana Boutique on September 8, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Dolce & Gabbana)
LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 18: Singer Justin Bieber attends the 40th American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on November 18, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - JULY 22: Justin Bieber arrives at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre on July 22, 2012 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - JULY 22: Singer Justin Bieber accepts the Male Summer Music Star award onstage during the 2012 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre on July 22, 2012 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
TORONTO, ON - JUNE 17: Justin Bieber perfoms at the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards at MuchMusic HQ on June 17, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - JULY 22: Singer Justin Bieber arrives at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre on July 22, 2012 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 20: Justin Bieber arrives at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand on May 20, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)
TORONTO, ON - JUNE 17: Justin Bieber and guest arrives at the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards at MuchMusic HQ on June 17, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 31: Singer Justin Bieber onstage at the 2012 Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards at Galen Center on March 31, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
CANNES, FRANCE - JANUARY 28: Justin Bieber poses as he arrives at NRJ Music Awards 2012 at Palais des Festivals on January 28, 2012 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
DUBLIN, IRELAND - FEBRUARY 17: Justin Bieber performs at the O2 on February 17, 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Phillip Massey/WireImage)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 19: Justin Bieber sighting at Beat Club on February 19, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Alan Chapman/FilmMagic)
Justin had his first, very public, run in with the paps when he stuck his middle finger up to their cameras (and thus the world).
Justin felt the effect of his first paternity suit. He was accused of being the father of a 4-month-old baby boy with Mariah Yeater, but complied with a paternity test and proved his 'innocence'.
It may not sound like a big deal, but in May 2012 a definitely-not-21-year-old Justin confessed to "having a beer" for the first time. Two years later, and he's pretty much a regular in nightclubs (and stripclubs) around the world. In the same month, he also got into an altercation with a tabloid snapper, who reportedly blocked his car in when he left a cinema with Selena.
Justin's love of fast cars took a turn for the worse as he was accused of 'reckless driving'. He called 991 to complain about paparazzi chasing him but it turned out he wasn't so innocent himself. "Bieber was driving like a maniac. He was weaving in and out of traffic. There was hardly any space between cars as he weaved from lane to lane," an eyewitness, who just happens to be L.A. City Councilman Dennis Zine, said.
This image provided by the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Christopher Guerra, the 29-year-old photographer who was struck and killed while trying to take photos of Justin Bieber's white Ferrari on Tuesday 1 January. Christopher's death spurred renewed debate over the dangers paparazzi can bring on themselves and the celebrities they chase. Justin wasn't driving his car at the time but it was no doubt a disturbing shock. In the same month, Justin was caught smoking a suspicious looking roll-up cigarette in a pic on a camera phone.
The O2 was forced to apologise to young fans after Justin was nearly two hours late on stage for his opening night at the venue. He failed to start his performance until nearly 10.30pm, which resulted in hundreds of fans and parents taking to Twitter to vent their anger. It was a school night, for heavens sake!
It all began getting a little 'Michael Jackson' when Justin donned a gas mask (natch) to go out for dinner at Mr Chow in London. The next day he was rushed to hospital after suffering breathing difficulties on stage at London's O2 Arena. Surely the two can't have been related?
Justin shocked monkeys, fans and animal rights activists when he abandoned his adorable monkey, Mally. The Capuchin monkey was seized by Munich customs when Bieber arrived in Germany as part of his world tour last month, as he did not have the correct paperwork. Justin then apparently decided he didn't want him back.
We really started to worry about Justin's ego when he speculated that teen Holocaust victim Anne Frank could have been a "Belieber" if she had survived the Nazis. A post on the official Anne Frank Facebook page described his visit to her former house: "Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House, together with his friends and guards. "Fans were waiting outside to see a glimpse of him. He stayed more than an hour in the museum. "In our guestbook he wrote: "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.""
Swedish police confirmed that they had found drugs on board Justin's tour bus. Police raided the vehicle after an off-duty officer smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle while it was parked outside the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. This was just the first of many tour bus raids.
An Ohio DJ claimed Justin spat in his face while at a nightclub. According to the story reported by TMZ, the pop singer thought the man was taking photos of him. The DJ who accused Justin of spitting in his face, Addison Ulhaq, filed a police report against the singer, according to TMZ. He claims he got tested for Hepatitis because the incident left him with saliva in his eye, nose and mouth.
Justin was filmed climbing over a car during a nightclub brawl in The Hamptons, New York. The 'Baby' singer came under investigation by the NYPD following the fight at the South Pointe venue in the early hours. 22-year-old Wayne Rennalls was hospitalised after the altercation and suffered a black eye, bruised ribs and a cut lip. He later filed an assault claim. Footage showed Justin at the scene, however his rep told the New York Daily News: "Justin was not involved in any altercation." The bust up is said to have started in the roped-off VIP area - where the 19-year-old was seated with his entourage - but ended up in the club's car park.
Justin was reportedly smuggled out of a brothel in Brazil during some time off from his tour in the country. According to New York Post's Page Six, the 19-year-old singer and a friend spent three hours in the Centauros brothel in Rio de Janeiro.
Justin's potty mouth landed him in a whole load of trouble when his entourage was detained at Brisbane International Airport in Australia on suspicion of smuggling drugs. Beebs was given a verbal warning for using "inappropriate language" following a conversation with a female customs officer, The Sydney Daily Telegraph reported. He had allegedly refused to remove his hat and sunglasses during an inspection and also used insulting language toward the officer. Police had to threaten to arrest him, the newspaper said.
Move over spurned violinist on Britain's Got Talent, Justin had his own egg-gate when he allegedly egged his neighbour's house, causing $20,000 worth of damage. Justin was detained in his garage while police with a "felony search warrant" looked for evidence in his home They then arrested his friend Lil Za for cocaine possession during the raid. Bieber has not been connected to the cocaine, but he has been neither charged nor exonerated in the egg incident that promoted the search warrant.
All of Justin's troublesome behaviour culminated when he was arrested in Miami Beach for driving under the influence and drag racing. The Miami Beach Police released what is possibly the happiest-looking mugshot in Hollywood's Hall of Shame.
Justin didn't forget his admiring teenage fans as he left jail following his arrest for DUI and drag racing. The 19-year-old, wearing a black hoody and dark shades, climbed on top of a waiting black SUV outside the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami to greet his fans before being driven away. And in the process angered a whole load more people.
Justin landed himself in even MORE trouble after being charged with assaulting a limo driver. The singer handed himself in at a Toronto police station, where he was mobbed by fans and TV crews. According to the Toronto Police service, he will now appear in court on 11 March in connection with the incident, which saw him hit the driver in the back of the head several times last December.
Pilots hired by Justin Bieber to fly him to the Super Bowl have revealed they had to wear oxygen masks to overcome marijuana fumes on the flight. An official report into the incident also revealed how the troubled teen and his father were "extremely abusive" to a flight attendant.
After his arrest footage then emerged of Justin appearing to sway and stumble as he attempted to walk in a straight line for a sobriety test. The film was shot at a south Florida police station following his DUI arrest in January and reveals the 19-year-old singer also dropping to the ground to do pushups.
In an example of saying something you never should, Bieber tweeted that The Black Keys' Patrick Carney should be "slapped around haha." (Following Carney's statement that Bieber shouldn't be angry over a lack of Grammy because he's rich.) Great. So that's when Carney got equally irrational: changing his Twitter handle to "Justin Bieber" for a weekend in an attempt to rile the fanbase and prove his own comedic talents. The bad news? Justin's fans have a penchant for using "gay" as an insult. The good? Justin never wrote back.
After underage members of his entourage were turned away from Bieber's birthday, the now-19-year-old pop star tweeted the lowly, "Worst birthday ever." Not to turn this into a competition or anything, but until the guy he likes eggs his house on his birthday morning, Justin Bieber has got nothing on some of us.
Few of us can imagine being followed around by men fighting to take our picture all day every day, so ultimately, we'll never know how stressful, invasive, or terrible it can feel – especially at an age where rationality isn't exactly at a premium. So maybe we would've done this a lot sooner: jumped out a van to tell a pap we'd "fucking kill them" after they slagged us off. However, we are lowly mortals. Biebs has been in the industry since before puberty – so maybe it's time to tap into the Zen.
During a European stop this spring, Justin visited the Anne Frank House; the place in which the Frank family hid from the Nazis during the Holocaust (in case you hate history and have refused to learn about it until this point). So as one does, Bieber signed the guest book: "Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would've been a belieber." Yikes. However, the wee pop star found an unlikely ally in Anne Frank's stepsister, who came to his defense following the fallout. "It's so childish," said 83-year-old Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss. "He's a young man, and she's a young girl, and she liked film stars and music." And who are we to argue with that?
A stun gun and pot were found on Justin Bieber's bus in Sweden, according to Swedish police, which J-Biebs adamantly denied via Twitter -- sort of: "Some of the rumours about me…where do people even get this stuff. Whatever…back to the music." (Where do people get this stuff, Justin? Like, if I wanted a stun gun. Where do I get one, since it seems like you know?)
After backing out of a payment deal with an indoor skydiving facility in Las Vegas, Justin Bieber was effectively banned for life, likely making it the first time someone has ever screwed up that badly in Las Vegas. (Which arguably actually makes this an achievement.)
Listen, we've all not wanted to hold it, but none of us – none of us (not even the guy from high school who still drinks in the 7-11 parking lot) – would pee in a restaurant mop bucket, no matter how badly we needed to go. Why? Because we've all worked jobs that have involved using a mop bucket. Also: because we are not morphing into the entitled anti-Christ. However, most puzzling was Justin Bieber's outburst at the end of his "rest room" visit, declaring "Fuck Bill Clinton!" (And listen, buddy, we don't blame you if want to be married to Hillary, but peeing in mop buckets isn't how you win her heart.)
Or maybe not. Despite reports – and images – that Justin Bieber was spitting onto a group of fans from a Toronto balcony, he and his camp claimed that wasn't the case, and that he bought them hot chocolate and played new music for them instead. Either way, points lost for spitting over the balcony at all. You're an adult, son. Swallow your spit like the rest of us.
It was bad enough Justin Bieber seemingly jumped on the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup-winning bandwagon, but then he stood on the head of their logo, and touched the Stanley Cup with his bare hands. Fortunately for Bieber, the Blackhawks still come out looking worse: their name and logo still culturally misappropriates Native Americans, after all.
After being rushed by a man in a Toronto nightclub, Justin Bieber and his men sprang into action (read: his bodyguards took the man down, and Justin Bieber kicked at him), and a disaster was averted. However, more disastrous was the loss of Bieber's $40,000 gold chain. (So don't say he has everything, you guys.)
At some point during the year, Justin forgot he once recorded a Christmas album, and sanctioned himself badass enough to dabble in graffiti. However, the real problem was his penchant for racist imagery: his most recent "work" (an image of a monkey decked out in cold) arguably drew far too many parallels to racist imagery of the past. So while he was reportedly charged with vandalism, may the real lesson be "read books before doing anything else again, Justin Bieber."
For the record, there's absolutely nothing wrong with brothels. The sex industry is older than any of us, and in the case of Justin Bieber, he was simply participating in an age-old activity with a consenting woman who was doing her job. However, it was the messy and impromptu exit from the Brazilian brothel that made the whole thing an ordeal: rushed out under a bed sheet (from the brothel, so for the love of all that is good, please let it have been clean), Justin slinked out. But seriously bro, if you're old enough to go to a brothel, you're old enough to leave it like a grown up adult.
After Justin's pet monkey was left in Germany in March, it found solace in a German zoo – one now waiting for $11 000 from Bieber. Says the zoo's lawyer, "If Mr. Bieber will not settle his costs, the payment might have to be enforced when he will enter Germany again." That's all well and good, but I just can't believe that with his power and influence, Justin didn't get his monkey on Sprockets.
Justin Bieber confronts awaiting photographers outside his hotel this afternoon. Pictures by Fame Flynet
Justin Bieber confronts awaiting photographers outside his hotel this afternoon. Pictures by Fame Flynet
Justin Bieber confronts awaiting photographers outside his hotel this afternoon. Pictures by Fame Flynet
Justin Bieber confronts awaiting photographers outside his hotel this afternoon. Pictures by Fame Flynet
Justin Bieber confronts awaiting photographers outside his hotel this afternoon. Pictures by Fame Flynet
Justin Bieber confronts awaiting photographers outside his hotel this afternoon. Pictures by Fame Flynet
Justin Bieber confronts awaiting photographers outside his hotel this afternoon. Pictures by Fame Flynet
Justin Bieber confronts awaiting photographers outside his hotel this afternoon. Pictures by Fame Flynet
The Biebs has dipped his toe into the acting world before, famously biting it on an episode of CSI, but as 2012 drew to a close, the singer inked a couple of deals that will make him a much bigger name on both sides of the camera. On the silver screen, Bieber will co-star with actor and Funky Bunch leader Mark Wahlberg in a basketball movie. On the small one, he'll be the executive producer of a sitcom based on his pre-fame life.
After falling for the irresistible earworm charms of a little tune known as "Call Me Maybe" on a trip back to Canada, Bieber and manager Scooter Braun flew Carly Rae Jepsen to L.A. and promptly signed her to Braun's label, Schoolboy Records. The singer also released a video of himself lipsynching and dancing to his new favourite song along with gal pal Selena Gomez and their famous friends, which instantly went viral and helped to turn "Call Me Maybe" into one of the biggest singles of the year.
In June of this year, researchers announced that Bieber Fever was more infectious than measles. In the book Understanding the Dynamics of Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases Using Mathematical Models, masters student Valerie Tweedle and her professor, Robert J. Smith, took a serious look at the Bieb phenomenon and discovered that it really does behave like a contagious disease, and a dangerous one at that. "Through constant exposure, Bieber fever has incubated and spread. Millions are infected, with more at risk every day. Action is urgently needed," they wrote.
On the eve of the release of Believe, and his big appearance at the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards, Bieber went back to his hometown of Stratford, Ontario, sat on the very same Avon Theatre steps where he honed his busking skills as a tween and played "Baby." The international star's performance immediately attracted a mob of excited local Beliebers, their cell phone cameras, and their excited squeals.
When Bieber appeared on Ellen, the talk show host and dance fiend gave him a fancy Fisker Karma sports car for his birthday. The singer promptly took the hybrid ride, which is a shameless rip-off of Hammerhead I Eagle Thrust by Top Gear's James May, and pimped it with a chrome plating job and illegal LED lights. The vehicularly fickle teen soon tired of his new toy, though, and gave it to "Beautiful Girls" singer Sean Kingston so that he could go back to getting tickets and evading spontaneous combustion in his Ferrari.
On June 15, the freshly legal Bieber released his third studio album, Believe. Showcasing a new, more mature sound with tracks like "Boyfriend" and "As Long As You Love Me," the record received largely positive reviews from critics and debuted at number one on The Billboard 200. Believe failed to garner any Grammy nominations, though, which infuriated manager Scooter Braun and bummed Bieber. But semi-protege Carly Rae Jepsen insists that the singer will bounce back from the snub.
Venerable music and culture magazine Rolling Stone decided to celebrate the fact that Bieber's adult fans could finally lust after the pop star without feeling creepy by putting the 18 year old on the cover and emblazoning the words "Hot, Ready, Legal" across his increasingly muscular chest. In the accompanying story, the singer discussed his newfound maturity and also lobbed a few golf balls at the paparazzi.
Bieber certainly kicked off his tour with a bang. Unfortunately, the explosive elements in this case were the contents of his stomach. Part way through "Out Of Town Girl" on the Believe tour's opening night in Glendale, Arizona, the star turned his back to the audience, hunched over, and spewed Exorcist-levels of bile all over the place and ran off. Biebs soon returned to apologize to his fans and finish the concert, asking "Will you love me even though I'm throwing up on stage?" He later admitted that milk was a bad pre-show choice on Twitter.
In a move that made Rolling Stone's celebration of the singer's legal status look tasteful and measured, American sex toy company Pipedream rung in Bieber's adulthood by releasing a sex doll named Just-in Bever. Biebs was reportedly unimpressed with the "love doll" and threatened legal action. Just-in is currently "out of stock," but no one's quite sure whether that's because the doll sold out or because it was pulled to avoid a lawsuit.
Bieber performed showstopping renditions of "Beauty And A Beat" and "As Long As You Love Me" at the 2012 American Music Awards, but it was his acceptance speech that made the biggest waves of the night. After winning Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist, the pop idol took some time to thank his detractors. "I want to say this is for all the haters who said that I was just here for one or two years," he declared. "I feel like I'm going to be here for a very long time." He also gave his family, his manager and his fans some love in the speech.
Bieber, named one of the most charitable celeb of 2011, continued his tireless work for the less fortunate this year. Among other things, the star contributed his time and resources to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life and visited an impressive but heartbreaking number of ill fans through the Make a Wish Foundation. He also donated the proceeds of his Mother's Day single, "Turn To You," to The Bethedsda Centre, the Ontario women's shelter that helped his mom when she was pregnant with him.
Unfortunate run-ins with the paparazzi have clearly become a rite of passage for the modern day superstar and the Biebs suffered his fair share of growing pains this year. In May, the singer got into fisticuffs with a photographer for getting a little too close during a date with Selena Gomez. Police had to be called to the scene. In July, the star became involved in a high speed chase with photographer Paul Raef. Raef was charged under a brand new paparazzi law in California, but a judge threw the case out of court in November. Prosecutors are currently appealing the ruling. In November, the singer stopped traffic to chew out a photographer. He's currently squirting the paparazzi with water bottles.
Bieber brought fellow Canadian superstar and hometown hero Drake on stage with him when he performed at Toronto's Roger's Centre (formerly and better known as the SkyDome) earlier this month. The pair performed Bieber's "Right Here" and Drizzy's "The Motto" together. Drake also took some time to give his fellow countryman props and thank him for the opportunity to perform at the venue. "I'll tell you, there's very few people I've met in the world that are as talented and incredible as this young man right here," the hip-hop artist told an ecstatic crowd. "I want to thank you for letting me live a childhood dream, which is my first opportunity to perform at the SkyDome. So thank you, my man." The pair then hugged, and a beloved gif was born.
Perpetuating the stereotyped that all Canadians know each other, genealogists at Ancestry.com announced that Justin Bieber might be distantly related to fellow musical Canuck export Celine Dion. According to the site, the teen heartthrob is the chest-pounding balladress's tenth cousin, three times removed. They also speculated that he might be related to Ryan Gosling and Avril Lavigne.
Enlisted to help the Canadian Football League recruit a younger audience on the hundredth birthday of its championship, Bieber took the stage as part of this year's halftime show. Biebs and the CFL fell short of being a perfect match, and his short set was peppered with the boos of indignant football fans. His appearance did attract a lot of young eyes and ears to the spectacle, though, and he now gets to say that septuagenarian folk hero Gordon Lightfoot opened for him, so it was probably worth the beating his ego took in the heat of the moment.
In November, police reportedly foiled a bizarre and elaborately detailed murder plot involving Bieber, his bodyguard and two other victims. Mark Staake and his nephew Tanner Ruane allegedly schemed to murder and castrate the "Baby" singer and the others while in prison with a Belieber-gone-wrong-inmate named Dana Martin who sports a tattoo of the singer on his leg. Fortunately, Staake and Ruane were prevented from carrying out their plans, which involved strangling their victims with paisley ties, when police arrested the pair on outstanding warrants in Vermont.
Korean viral superstar Psy was the one who had the '90s-style puffy-panted moment at the American Music Awards this year, but it was Justin Bieber who laid the groundwork for the much-maligned style's triumphant return. Between the modernized pair of red harem pants he rocked at the very same AMAs and his moments of black-haremed heartbreak in front of Selena Gomez's house, Bieber has emerged as the new face of the style. Kids these days only know these pants as Justin Bieber pants, unwittingly hammering the final nail in the coffin of the youth of the Hammer Pants generation. Vanity Fair even did a piece on Biebs and his trousers.
Living the dream of many a teenage boy, Justin Bieber got to perform at the Victoria's Secret fashion show and hang out and leer at Angels like Miranda Kerr and Adriana Lima both on and off stage. It was a bittersweet highlight for Bieber, though, as his backstage shenanigans with 19 year old model Barbara Palvin allegedly landed him in hot water with longtime girlfriend Selena Gomez. The pair have been on and off again ever since, and rumours surrounding Palvin just won't go away.
Until November of this year, it seemed that nothing could tear this pair of teen idols apart. But their two-year relationship hit an extremely rock patch when Bieber got a little too close to model Barbara Palvin at the Victoria's Secret fashion show in early November. Their once pure and innocent love has been mired in scandal and social media much-raking ever since, with Gomez's friends and coworkers taking passive aggressive shots at the Biebs on Twitter and gossip rags speculating on all sorts of famous involvement in the situation. Gomez might have gone back to her ex, Nick Jonas! Taylor Swift totally told her old pal to dump that no good Biebs! The two have made a number of attempts at reconciliation, including the dinner that ended in Bieber skulking around outside of his love's house with his spirits sagging lower than his infamous pants. The pair were seen kissing over the holiday, but who knows?
While he was back in his home and native land for the Grey Cup celebrations, Justin Bieber was surprised by Canadian Prime Minister and Emperor Palpatine impersonator Stephen Harper, who awarded him with a Diamond Jubliee Medal. Bieber dressed in Scott's Thompson's Idiot Boy costume from The Kids In The Hall to accept the medal, which is awarded to people who have "made a significant contribution to a particular provice, territory, region or community within Canada, or an achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada," but not everyone was impressed with his sartorial tribute. In the face of a public outcry, both Bieber and Harper have been forced to come to the defense of the much-maligned overalls.
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Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments
|Gavagai: fantasy word from a thought experiment of W.V.O. Quine. An expression (or fragment) of a completely foreign language is not unambiguously translatable into a known language, because it is not determined, whereupon the expression of the foreign language relates. Even pointing to an object does not create unambiguity. E.g. only a part or a property of the object can be referred to. See also translation, indeterminacy, translation manual, analytical hypothesis, uncertainty, reference, meaning.
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Gavagai: Quine asks how the sentences of the natives are to be distinguished into contingent empirical platitudes on the one hand and necessary conceptual truths on the other. For the natives it is enough to know which phrases are certainly true. They have no idea of conceptual, necessary truths.
If claims are justified by the community, not because of the nature of the inner episodes, it makes no sense to try to isolate privileged notions.
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Hermeneutical circle / Gavagai / RI / Davidson / RortyVsKripke: to go back and forth in the h.c. is no building block theory (like that of Kripke: correspondence between words and objects - causation has to do with the reference)) - instead it is more like the "reflexive equilibrium" of Rawls.
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Kontingenz, Ironie und Solidarität Frankfurt 1992
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Eine Kultur ohne Zentrum Stuttgart 1993
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4th Global Vegetation Workshop
Long term global monitoring of vegetation variables using moderate resolution satellites: June 16-19, 2009
A fourth global vegetation workshop at the University of Montana
The workshop was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who attended.
The presentations and posters from the 2009 Golbal Vegetation Workshop are available online.
The Programatic context for the workshop falls into three broad areas, each with its own related programs:
- Global Observations through the Global Observation of Forest Cover /Global Observation of Landcover Dynamics (GOFC/GOLD) and the Integrated Global Observations of Land (IGOL)
- Climate Science though the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and Global Terrestrial Observing System's Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (GTOS-TOPC)
- Societal Benefits through the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
Global vegetation parameters are critical for each of these three areas. The global product inter-sensor framework developed at this workshop will be submitted formally to each of these programs through their respective channels.
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"We absolutely represent two opposite ends of the spectrum," said Young, the former San Francisco 49ers star who joins Marino to headline the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2005, set for enshrinement Sunday. "There was a style that Dan had that was much more traditional. My style, while it wasn't traditional when I started playing, I look around the league today, and, absolutely, the quarterback can move around."
Pioneers Fritz Pollard and Bennie Friedman will be inducted, posthumously. (Related item: Hall of Famers by the numbers)
Marino, who played all 17 of his NFL seasons with the Miami Dolphins, holds most of the NFL's major passing records. All came after he was the sixth quarterback drafted in 1983 (27th overall).
"If you had asked me if I thought that any of those guys were better than me when I got picked, I would have told you that I was the best player there," said Marino, the Class of 1983's third Hall of Fame passer after John Elway and Jim Kelly. "If you didn't feel that way, then shame on you."
It's fitting that Friedman, who played for the New York Giants and three other teams from 1927-34, is in such a quarterback-rich class. In an era with a heavier football and minimal aerial attacks, he was the game's first dominant passer.
Pollard was a forerunner on another front. He was one of two African-American players in the American Professional Football Association, later renamed the NFL, in its inaugural season in 1920. Despite facing race-related threats, he starred at running back, leading the Akron Pros to the crown (8-0-3).
Pollard became the Pros' co-coach in 1921, and he was the NFL's only African-American head coach until Art Shell in 1989.
Marino excited about enshrinement
Marino came in as the frizzy-haired kid from Pittsburgh with the rocket arm.
He left with a horde of NFL and team records and a fanatical following that would appear to be as strong as ever — five years after he gave up playing the game he loved.
Dan Marino isn't just a legendary quarterback. In South Florida, and to Miami Dolphins fans everywhere, he is the equivalent of the Beatles and rock and roll. He's baseball's Mickey Mantle. He's hockey's Wayne Gretzky.
And Sunday, the man who has the numbers alone to put him into any conversation about the greatest quarterbacks of all time will take his rightful place among his peers when he is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
"It's going to be exciting," Marino said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience so I think you just jump into it and enjoy it. I think it's going to be very emotional for me because of the fact that there is going to be so many people that are involved, with your family, friends and players that are going to be there.
"You only do it once so it's hard to tell how you are going to react."
Jan 6, 1985: Throws for 421 yards and four touchdowns as the Dolphins beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 45-28 to win the AFC Championship Game. It led to his only trip to the Super Bowl. Sept. 4, 1994: In his first game back since a torn Achilles' tendon ended his 1993 season, Marino torches the Patriots for 473 yards passing with five touchdowns. He even scores on a 10-yard run. Nov. 27, 1994: The infamous fake-spike game. With the Dolphins trailing the Jets in the closing minutes, Marino drives Miami to the 8-yard line and hurries the team to the line, motioning as if he's going to spike the ball. Instead, he hits Mark Ingram with a touchdown pass. Miami wins 28-24. Dec. 2, 1985: Facing a Chicago Bears team that was threatening to end the 1972 Dolphins' reign as the only undefeated team in history, Marino throws for 270 yards and three touchdowns as the Dolphins win 38-24 in the Orange Bowl. Of the 260 games Marino played in, the Bears game is probably the one that gets talked about the most.
"I know that I was excited about that game because the Bears had an opportunity to break the Dolphins' undefeated record," Marino recalled. "It was probably the loudest stadium I've ever played in during my career. That night the fans were incredible."
Nov 12, 1995: Miami would lose the game 34-17 to New England, but with a 9-yard pass to Irving Fryar, Marino breaks Fran Tarkenton's NFL record of 47,003 passing yards. Tarkenton took 18 years to get that mark. Marino did it in 13.
Carl Kotala, Florida Today
Reacting well under pressure was always a Marino trademark, just like his intense desire to win, his hair-trigger release and his ability to see the entire field.
"When he came in as a rookie, I was already there," former Dolphins wide receiver Mark Duper said. "The way he threw the ball, it was like he had an arm-and-a-half. It was like he had no effort throwing the ball, but the ball would be there."
When Marino retired following the 1999 season, he held virtually every passing record that existed, including most career attempts (8,358), completions (4,967), yards (61,361) and touchdowns.
He also put together the best season of any NFL quarterback in history, throwing for 5,084 yards and 48 touchdowns in 1984. Throwing to the Mark Brothers — Mark Clayton and Mark Duper — Marino and the Dolphins were the most exciting team in football.
But it wasn't just what he did, it was the way Marino did it.
He had a big smile, but also he wore his emotions on his face — and they weren't always pleasant emotions.
There was that swagger. The look that let you know he was always in charge.
And somehow, no matter what the score, you always had the feeling he was going to pull it out.
He was blue collar. He was the guy everyone wanted to be.
"Dan is one of the greatest teammates I ever had," Hall of Fame center Dwight Stephenson said. "It was a real pleasure to play with a guy who went out every time and practiced what he preached in terms of the hard work.
"Dan Marino did all the things that winners need to do. He did it with class and he had a style about him. He was a real class guy."
Marino grew up in Pittsburgh, in a section of town known as Oakland. Money was always tight, but the family was as close-knit as they come and while they may not have had a lot of luxury items, it wasn't a bad life.
"The only one that gets credit is my dad," Marino said. "Growing up in that area of Oakland and in Pittsburgh, just our street alone, the field of people that were there, it was very competitive, a very sports-oriented neighborhood, a very ethnic neighborhood, and it was fun. You played and competed almost every day."
Not only could Marino walk to Central Catholic High School, but the team's starting quarterback — when Dan was a freshman and sophomore — lived right across the street.
It was a time when kids would carry a ball around with them everywhere, because you never knew when a game would break out.
Marino's father, Dan Marino Sr., taught him how to throw a football — a release that was so effortless that when University of Pittsburgh coach Jackie Sherrill saw it, he told him not to let anyone ever change it, because it was the best throwing motion he'd ever seen.
Playing professionally is every kid's dream. But with Marino, it didn't seem like so much pie-in-the-sky thinking.
"When he was about 12 or 13, I told him I thought he could play professionally," Dan Marino Sr. said.
The only question was, which sport. Marino was drafted in fourth round by the Kansas City Royals, even though he had already signed to play football at Pitt.
While Marino admits he liked playing baseball, it really wasn't much of a decision. Had he signed with the Royals, he would have had to pay his own way through college. The bonus money the Royals were offering ($35,000) wouldn't have covered it.
After a successful career at Pitt and a school record 37 touchdown passes in his junior season, Marino entered the 1983 draft as a sure-fire first-round pick.
The Dolphins, who had the second-to-last pick of the first round, barely scouted him because they had him ranked as the No. 2 quarterback in the country behind John Elway. But when Marino fell to them at No. 27, they couldn't resist taking him.
Dolphins coach Don Shula, who was known for his demanding style, made it clear in his first meeting with Marino that he expected him to play early. But he also had a plan to get him up to speed quickly.
"When I think back on it, it was kind of genius to do what he did," Marino said. "He made me call all my own plays in practice, and in (preseason) games. When you think about that, it's not like the coach walking up, giving you a play, you repeat it and you just run the play.
"You just sit back after someone else runs a play and you've got to think about what you want to call in that situation. You've got to put a lot more thought into it. At night, I'd go back to my room and start thinking about what I needed to learn for the next day. It put a lot of pressure on me to learn quickly, and I think that really helped me a lot."
Shula would coach Marino for 13 of his 17 NFL seasons. And as a Hall of Famer himself, he called his quarterback the greatest competitor of the more than 2,000 athletes he coached in a 33-year career.
"The thing that made Dan so special was his vision downfield," Shula said. "He always wanted to be looking downfield. He didn't like play-action passes where he would have to fake the handoff and pick up the receiver and see where the blitzes were coming from.
"He always wanted to be facing the line of scrimmage where he could see what the coverage was and where the blitzer was coming (from)."
Among the crowd expected to watch Marino get inducted into the Hall of Fame will be current Dolphins Sam Madison, Olindo Mare, Ed Perry, Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas.
Dolphins coach Nick Saban said he was open to letting the players arrive in Canton before the team flies in for Monday night's Hall of Fame game because he wanted the organization to support Marino in any way possible.
Had he wound up finishing his career in any other city — and Marino had chances to play in Minnesota and Pittsburgh — his image would not have been tarnished, but it might not have seemed the same.
Some players, after all, should be destined to spend their careers in only one place. Dan Marino was that kind of player.
"For me, there was something special about playing 17 years at one place, and I think that is never going to change," Marino said. "Although I was pretty close to doing it, it just didn't feel right. Sometimes you have to go by instincts and your emotions. That's why I probably didn't do it."
Two weeks before the ceremony, Marino said he still was working on his speech, and that he might not have it done until five minutes before he gives it.
His oldest son, Daniel — who will introduce him Sunday — has been keeping his speech a secret from the whole family.
Growing up in Pittsburgh prepared him for life. Playing for Shula prepared him for everything else. But as Marino gets ready to take his place in immortality, he's not sure what to expect out of this.
"I saw Joe Greene and he said, 'Listen, make sure you are prepared and you're ready to go because he said it is a real humbling experience,' " Marino recalled. "He said for him, when he got up there, it was kind of overwhelming to think about all the things that happened to you during your life, and then to be honored in that way and have family and friends and teammates there.
"He said, 'You better have it together.' That was some pretty good advice. I'm not sure I will."
Young replaced legend to reach pinnacle
It's never easy replacing a legend, especially when that guy is a future Hall of Fame quarterback. Just ask Jay Fiedler, who always seemed to be a Size 6, floating in Marino's Size 17 shoes. Young knows all about that, too.
The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback already had made a name for himself before he got to the city by the Bay. But nothing could have prepared him for the struggles of trying to take over for Joe Montana.
Unless it was taking over for Jim McMahon at BYU.
"Two of the reasons, the absolute key reasons why I'm going into the Hall of Fame is that I followed Jim McMahon in college — one of the great players in college, and Joe Montana, one of great players as a pro," Young said. "As quarterbacks, you could not be tutored any better than watching those guys play."
As a kid, Young had such a desire to imitate Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach that he would buy every poster he could find so he could see how his hero held the football.
But there was one big difference — Young was left-handed.
His college coach, LaVell Edwards, swore he never wanted to coach a left-handed quarterback, but recruited Young anyway. As a freshman, the youngster got a taste of what it was like to be on the bench. Far, far, down the bench.
"I went home one day after five days of summer camp, so frustrated, called my dad and told him that was it, I'm coming home, I quit," Young recalled. "He said, ... You can quit, but you can't come home.' No quitters. Turned out to be a formative day for me. As you leave high school, you leave home, you're not used to all of those pressures.
"It was a low that my dad helped me through. I don't know that I ever called him again and said I was going to quit, no matter how hard it was."
After starting his pro career with the USFL's Los Angeles Express, Young entered the NFL after being selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the first pick of the 1984 supplemental draft.
Acquired by San Francisco in a 1987 trade, he sat behind Montana until he started slowly working his way into the starting lineup in 1991. By 1992, with Montana gone but not forgotten, he won the first of his two NFL MVP Awards and began carving out his own career.
What set him apart were his incredible scrambling abilities in a day where pocket passers ruled the NFL world, and his amazing accuracy.
He holds the NFL's highest career passer rating (96.8) and is the only player in history to have a QB rating of more than 100 six times. He also holds the NFL record for highest career completion percentage (64.28) and the most consecutive games with 300 or more yards passing with six in 1998.
And while he passed for 33,124 yards, he also rushed for 4,239 — the latter figure ranking second only to Randall Cunningham all time. And his 43 rushing touchdowns are the most of any NFL quarterback in history.
"Steve Young is one of the great people I've ever been around," Denver Broncos coach, and former 49ers offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan said.
"What do I think of Steve Young? I think he's one of the five greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game. What do I think of Steve Young? I think he could be a U.S. Senator. I think he could be President of the United States. That's what I think of Steve Young."
Young, who will be the first left-handed quarterback inducted into the Hall of Fame, has had a busy five months since he learned he had been voted in.
There are 550 people expected to be in Canton to help him celebrate, which he jokes has been a tremendous strain on his wife. After all, they only had 95 people at their wedding.
"People always ask me, ... When did you know this was going to happen?' and I always joke, ... My tail was on fire the whole time.' I didn't know I was supposed to look up and figure stuff out like that," Young said. "It's welcome. It's a capstone for my career, and something that ... you can put the whole thing and wrap it up in a bow now. It's a nice feeling."
Contributing: USA TODAY Sports Weekly's Devin Clancy


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It was remarkable how quickly this year's Conservative Party conference degenerated into to what the novelist Anthony Powell (like David Cameron and several of his colleagues, an Old Etonian) called A Question of Upbringing.
Certainly the Tories' economic policies were thought to be of passing interest to the voter, but another crucial issue could be found sneaking up on the rails. Was the opposition front bench simply too posh? What could an Old Etonian be expected to know about the challenges facing that mythical man or woman in the street? The suspicion that we shall soon be the victims of a kind of toffs' conspiracy hatched at some long-ago meeting of the Bullingdon Club, and a level of cabinet-table social exaltation unmatched since the days of Harold Macmillan, was compounded by More4's screening of When Boris Met Dave, which dwelt, with no very great subtlety, on the sub-Brideshead recreations of the mid-1980s Oxford intake.
All this raises the fascinating question – fascinating, that is, to anyone who sees politics in terms of personalities rather than ideological cross-currents rolling back and forth – of what our political leaders are like as individuals, and the social and intellectual categories in which they repose. The exercise may be horribly subjective, but the results, especially for those of us still vestigially attached to the Labour Party, can be deeply depressing. Thus, a glance at Gordon Brown at the despatch box stirs only the thought that here is someone who seems deeply uneasy about the role he has to play and whose every gesture hints at massive inner disquiet. To inspect David Cameron, on the other hand, bobbing up in front of a conference microphone, or shaking hands with a well-wisher, is to be aware of a degree of familiarity. Over the past quarter-century, I have come across dozens of David Camerons, sauntering across college quadrangles and sashaying out of City boardrooms – affable, well-educated, well-lunched, intensely and often comically ambitious, but somehow redeeming this ambition through sheer charm and personal attack.
"The trouble about those Etonians," someone once said to me, probably in one of those selfsame college quadrangles, "is that they're so bloody personable." Indeed they are, and there is a whole thesis to be written about the right's ability to seem sharper, brighter, funnier and more sophisticated than the dim, benighted, upstart left. To put it another way, I could see myself having a conversation with David Cameron, but struggling to exchange the barest pleasantry with Gordon Brown.
The same distinctions apply, alas, to one's professional career. Back in the 1980s, scrabbling for a toehold on the rock-face of weekly journalism, it was always the glamorous, insouciant public-school boys of the Spectator who waved one into their offices and issued invites to their parties rather than the dour old polytechnic lefties of the New Statesman. My old tutor used to say that he was "a vote with the left, dine with the right kind of person". At the time I thought this one of the funniest things I had ever heard. Now I see exactly what he meant.
Watching the platform speakers at Manchester, flanked by a sign reading "Time For Change", one was conscious of something else the right usually does better than the left, and that is to dream up campaign slogans. There need not be a general election for another nine months, but already roomfuls of party apparatchiks are wrestling with the thorny problem of what to stick on the cover of next year's manifesto. If I were Gordon Brown, I should be very exercised by this responsibility, if only because Labour's track record in the sloganeering department is truly awful. 2005's strap-line – "Forward Not Back" – struck a note of banality unmatched since How To Be Topp's Nigel Molesworth remarked to the under-matron Prudence Entwhistle that on the whole mumps were better than measles, but the tendency to naff rallying calls goes back at least half a century.
In 1966, for example, with the Conservatives fighting under the terse banner of "Action Not Words", Harold Wilson's advisers came up with the hectoring "You Know Labour Government Works". Come 1970, faced with the sun-lit uplands prognosis of "A Better Tomorrow", Labour countered with the elephantine "Now Britain's Strong Again, Let's Make Her Great To Live In". As for next year, a number of possible slogans suggest themselves – "Belt-Tightening For All", perhaps, or "Don't Let Them Ruin It More" – none of them particularly enticing. Still, it could all be worse. Back in the 1960s, a proposal that the party should campaign under the shout-line "Labour's On The Go" was jettisoned at the 11th hour when someone pointed out that in parts of the north country this was a slang expression for diarrhoea.
The 40th anniversary of Monty Python's first appearance on BBC TV launched a flotilla of articles on its legacy to comedy. Most of these wondered whether, in the clear light of early 21st-century comedic taste, the programmes were actually funny. Several charitably concluded that it was the sheer novelty of watching soccer-playing philosophers and parrot-voiced housewives nipping to Paris to ask Mrs Sartre if Jean-Paul were at home that made audiences laugh. Somewhat marginalised in all this, though, was the Pythons' indisputable role in destroying the idea of a comedy mainstream, with its universal appeal to a mass audience.
In Revolution in the Head, his dazzling analysis of the Beatles and the 1960s, the late Ian MacDonald suggested that it was on the release of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that the parental generation parted company with their children's tastes. You suspect that something very similar happened when Messrs Cleese, Palin and co first performed one of their brainy skits on existentialism. My father, hitherto entranced by such exponents of anarcho-comedy as The Crazy Gang and prepared to put up with the Goons, drew the line at the fish-slapping dance. "College kids isn't it?" he used to complain. On the other hand, nearly all comedy is ultimately divisive, in that it rests on the ability to "get the joke". Set against what might be called the Tory view of humour, which holds that banana skins, slapstick and bodily functions are ipso facto hilarious, one sees the absolute inevitability of the rise of Monty Python. Whether or not you laughed, rather like Modernism, it had to happen.
The BBC News at Ten coverage of this year's Man Booker prize turned out to be even more irritating than usual. Instead of a synopsis of the evening's entertainment at the Guildhall, we were offered the briefest glimpse of Hilary Mantel at the microphone followed by a brisk little exercise in mass-market populism. Wolf Hall, it was revealed, had so far sold 50,000 copies and could expect to sell a whole lot more. Last year's winner, Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, had hit the half-million mark. On the other hand, last year's best-selling British novel had sold a cool 643,000, while Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol had registered a whopping 800,000.
I was trying to work out exactly what point this proved when the rugged features of the novelist Robert Harris appeared on the screen. Mr Harris, who was said to regard the Booker as "posh bingo", observed somewhat plaintively that we didn't disparage the Beatles simply because they sold lots of records. Again, I wasn't sure exactly what point was being made. Did Mr Harris think that Dan Brown was the literary equivalent of the Beatles? Or that the public was always right, whatever tosh they could be hoodwinked into buying? Or that high sales were synonymous with merit? In the end Ms Mantel had the last laugh, when it was announced, a bare 24 hours later, that she had replaced Dan Brown at the head of the Amazon chart.
Instances of what the poet Thom Gunn called "the revolt into style", whereby any newfangled and/or remotely threatening youth movement is instantly commercialised and sedated by the Biz, no longer have the capacity to startle. Even so I was mildly surprised to switch on the BBC's breakfast programme on Thursday morning and find the former Joy Division and New Order bass player Peter Hook plugging his new book, The Hacienda, inset left. Mr Hook, as is nearly always the case in these situations, was suavity itself, deprecated his youthful excesses, regretted the "vortex of hedonism" into which he had been sucked and counselled any young people who might be watching not to follow his example.
All this was deeply reassuring, and oddly prophetic. Looking ahead to 2029, I confidently expect to find Patrick Wolf judging the Booker Prize, Lord Lydon of Hoxton taking his seat in the Lords, and Lady "Lady" Gaga graciously accepting the presidency of the Townswomen's Guild.
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Friendly staff and owner. My room, while dated, was thoroughly cleaned each day of my stay. The motel is off the main drag in Cody, making it less noisy than other motels. Parking for my motorcycle was only a few steps from my room. A hose and water to wash motorcycles is conveniently located. The washer and dryer worked just fine. The nightly price, while comparable to others in Cody, WY for "in season" rooms, is outrageous. I understand it's a seller's market, but for comparison, I spent 2 different nights in another city in a nationally recognized motel for less than half the rate charged at Western Rose. And it included a continental breakfast.
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Dining room too small. Bkfst selection limited. Room had closet on corner, not in separate enclosure. Wrong rating by someone. Seems like rating was greatly exaggerated.
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Location was directly off the highway.
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Friendly staff. Location was a bit out of the way.
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It was available Way over priced, but that goes with the time of year I suppose
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"Adam. Adam! Are you listening to me?" Kat's voice intruded into Adam's daydream and he started guiltily. He should have been listening when she told him about the idea she had for a sketch, but he had other things on his mind at that moment. Important things.
Scary things. Or at least things that made his palms sweat and his heart race. It was a good scary though, at least he hoped so.
"Geez, am I interrupting something important?" The tone of voice alerted Adam to the fact that he was going to be in trouble if he didn't start to pull it together. So he rolled his eyes and smiled indulgently, trying to wipe his palms on his thighs surreptitiously.
Kat looked at him, her eyebrows raised, but she was relaxing and no longer on the warpath. "Well?" As usual, all it took to calm her down was seeing him smile. Something about the way he smiled at her made her believe in him. More importantly, it made her believe in herself, at least a little. It was the same smile of the boy she'd met on her first day, the same smile of the boy who wrote a story for her and spent most of his allowance on a sketchbook for her. The smile of the boy who played video games with her and let her just be herself, issues and all.
"Sorry. Just thinking about the English homework." It was a little white lie, and Adam felt ok telling that much of one to Kat. Nothing more than that, though. He told her the truth as a rule. This was a special case, however. Best of all, he knew Kat would believe it and want to change the subject.
"Ugh! I don't get how you can find that so interesting. Mr. James doesn't even let you write what you want. It has to be just the assignment, exactly as he stated it, none of that creative stuff that actually takes talent." Over the years Kat had perfected a tone of disgust. By the time they had reached grade 10 she was still the sweetest girl Adam had ever known, but she also had a sarcastic streak that was quite impressive. It surprised Adam sometimes, especially in her more bitter moments, but those were few and pretty far between. Most of the time.
Adam just laughed and shrugged, shifting in his seat. He'd started to buy different jeans, ones that he felt showed off the way he had filled out, especially when matched with one of the t-shirts that Kat had pointed out the last time they'd gone shopping, the ones she'd said had made his eyes stand out.
What she hadn't told him was that they also showed off his shoulders which she had found herself staring at more and more lately.
Adam had found his own reasons to steal glances at Kat when he hoped she wasn't looking. The bras she had bought in the past, the ones he'd blushed to see, had given way to ones he only saw hints of through her shirts. Kat's jeans had changed too, sometimes alternated with rather innocent-looking skirts that showed off her legs.
Their exchange of notebooks, however, hadn't changed. Adam closed the latest gift from Kat, pausing a moment to run a fingertip over the embossed letters on the front that spelled his name. It had been her birthday gift to him, and inside she'd redone that first map she'd drawn for him. She had reminded him every so often about that first story, suggesting he read it again and work on it. He hadn't, not yet, but she kept pushing at him.
"Come on, grab your stuff and come to the kitchen. Mom said she was going to bake some cookies for us." With that, Kat distracted, Adam stood and disappeared out the door of his room, leaving her to gather her bag and shove all her pens and pencils back inside. He had other things to look after, like heading down to the kitchen and giving his mother a nervous smile.
Mary flashed him a quick grin, patted his shoulder, then slipped past him to give him the kitchen to himself. She had no doubt that everything would work out fine, but it was obvious that Adam was nervous. It had been a long time coming, but she was glad that they had both taken their time.
Once his mother left, Adam tugged on the oven mitts quickly, tugging the last of the cookies out of the oven. Perfectly timed, as usual. Right in the center of the cookie sheet there was one heart-shaped cookie, just like he'd asked for. On the top were mini m&m's that spelled out "Kat." He'd wanted to spell out more, but there just hadn't been space. Instead he'd grabbed one of the pretty paper napkins his mom had bought and had written his note on that.
As he heard Kat thumping down the stairs he took a deep breath, then grabbed a plate, set the napkin on it, then lifted the cookie off the tray and onto the plate. It nearly fell apart - too warm - but he didn't care. No time. Then she was there, sniffing appreciatively as she grinned at him.
"Mmm. Smells great. Your mom is the best!" Kat had made her love of the chocolate chip cookies with m&m's known and Mary had ensured there were plenty around for the girl to eat. She reached for one of the cookies cooling on the rack on the counter, but Adam swatted her with an oven mitt, turning around with the plate in his hand and holding it out for Kat.
It took a second for her to realize something was going on. Then she saw that the cookie had her name on it. Then she realized it was a heart. She grinned at Adam, but he had a funny expression on his face. Oh well. His mom was so sweet, making her a special cookie.
Kat hadn't quite clued in yet, but she would. She lifted up a corner of the cookie, gingerly nibbling it as the melted chocolate smeared on her lips. Adam swallowed nervously, shoving his hands into his pockets before he yanked the napkin out and held it up to her nose so she would read what was on it. The waiting was killing him. As was watching Kat lick the chocolate off her lips.
A few more bites and Kat paused, looking down at the plate and the napkin that was being revealed. Another frown, and she lifted up the cookie, or what was left of it - most of it was gone now - and she stared at the napkin, reaching down with a finger to scoop up a chocolate chip that was in the way.
You are my princess. Will you go out on a date with me?
Kat's eyes widened as she finally figured out what the message said, then she looked up at Adam. Her mouth was open and some chocolate clung to the corner of her lips, unnoticed.
Adam waited nervously, hunching his shoulders a little as he grinned sheepishly. "Well?" The waiting was killing him.
It took another second for Kat to lick her lips and take a breath, and then she laughed, flinging her arms around his neck. "Really?! Of course! When?" Her enthusiasm caught her up, and she stayed relaxed as he wrapped his arms around her a bit hesitantly, not quite certain where he should put his hands.
"Tonight, if you can." Adam had actually planned it all out, hoping she'd say yes. "I was thinking dinner and a movie. There's that new zombie movie at the theatre!" He was finally starting to sound like the Adam she knew, especially with the zombie movie mention, but it was ok because she wanted to see it too. Plus it would give her an excuse to hold his hand maybe if she got scared.
Not that she would get scared. He was the one who got squeamish. But she could say she was scared, and he wouldn't laugh at her.
Kat looked at Adam, her hair a bit shorter than it had been that afternoon, older and hopefully wiser, and smiled a sweet, tentative smile at him. "It took us long enough to realize what we already had." Her smile turned wistful, and Adam laced his fingers with hers, giving her hand a squeeze. It had taken them so long to start dating in the first place, and then they had spent far too long apart.
"It's ok, Kat. We both had things to figure out. You had your demons, and I had to grow up. I didn't understand back then." He had thought things were so simple, but now he knew just how complicated they had really been. He knew what she had been through. And now she was back and they had another chance.


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For a long time we thought about it and reserved it, but the POP Circuit – Gayfestival of Pop is coming back for the third edition at the 22nd October in the new location Westbad Leipzig.
We guarantee a fantastic event with a lot of tension!
In third edition of the biggest Gayfestival of the middle of Germany you will find international DJs and shows of the big central club. One of our highlights is a 18m long bar. At the Jägermeisterlounge you get ice-cold specials and goodies of Jägermeister. The Crazyfloor is also full of Cocktailspecials and refreshing punchbowl.
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Central Club (POP / DANCE / CHARTS)
DJ Kevin Neon (KissKissBangBang Leipzig, CSD Hamburg)
DJCK (SEXY, Propaganda Berlin)
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JeanPearl (Kiss and Fly NewYork, FashionWeek Berlin)
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