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The Beach Pumas, a team of girls representing the Beach United Football Club, capped their summer of Coerver Cup competition with a new title to their resume - state champs.
The Pumas captured the Coerver Cup 5 v 5 U-12 Co-ed state championship on Saturday in Columbia, winning all five of their games and allowing only one goal all day.
After winning their opener 5-2, giving up a meaningless two-point goal, the Pumas rolled the rest of the way en route to the state title. They won their pool games by scores of 1-0, 6-0 and 1-0 before defeating an all-boys team 3-0 in the championship game.
The win capped an incredible season that saw the Pumas peak at the right time. They finished fourth in the Hartsville tournament, took third at an event in Summerville, placed second in Myrtle Beach and won their first event two weeks ago in Sumter before dominating their way to the state title in Columbia.
The Pumas were coached by Chris Newman and included Wendy Arneberg, Sidney Croland, Gabby Giracello, Madilyn Green, Riley Massey, Sadie McMillan, Avery Newman and Cooper Sanders. BUFC members Rebecca Eagerton and Peyton Grainger also played for the team during the season.
Beach United Football Club is a Myrtle Beach-based youth soccer organization offering top-level instruction and competition for ages 5-18.
An all-girls team representing Beach United Football Club captured the championship of the Coerver Cup 5 v 5 tournament's Under-13 Co-ed Division in Sumter on Saturday.
Consisting of players from Beach United's Pride Pumas and Fury, the squad posted a p[erfect 5-0 record on the day and defeated an all-boys team in the championship game.
The team won their pool play matches 4-0, 5-2, 5-2, and 3-0 to earn the top seed. They went on to defeat Metzgers 4-1 in the final.
By capturing the title, the team earns an automatic invitation to compete in next week's state championship in Columbia.
Beach United Football Club is a Myrtle Beach-based youth soccer organization offering instruction and competition for ages 5-18.
The Beach United Football Club's Pumas and Flash competed in the Coerver Cup 5 v 5 tournament at Christian Academy of Myrtle Beach on Saturday.
The Pumas girls teams finished second place in the Under-11 Coed Division, losing 3-0 in the finals to the champion Carcineros, an all-boys team.
The Pumas, made of members of the BUFC Pride/Pumas and Fury, went 1-1-1 in round-robin play to earn a spot in the finals.
The Flash finished fourth place in the same division, playing against all-boys teams and an older girls team.
BUFC is a Myrtle Beach-based youth soccer organization that offers first-class instruction and competition to boys and girls ages 6-17.
The Beach United Football Club Legends swept their way to the Under-11 Boys Grey Division championship of the Seaside Soccer Classic over the weekend in Wilmington, NC.
The Legends gave up one goal in their first game for a 5-1 win and didn't allow another score en route to the championship. They won 8-0, 5-0, and then 7-0 over the CASL Hornets in the final.
The BUFC Storm U-10 Boys won all three pool games in the Silver Division, including a pair of exciting 4-3 finishes on Saturday, before claiming the championship in a commanding 7-2 victory over BSC Liverpool in the final.
Also participating for BUFC were the U-10 Boys Strikers, BUFC Flash U-11 Girls, BUFC Pride/Pumas Girls U-13, and the BUFC Tiempo Under-15 Boys.
Beach United Football Club had several teams make successful showings at the 2015 Publix Academy Cup, Open & Rec tournaments held in Sumter, Greenville and Lexington on May 2-3.
More popularly known as the State Cup, the tourneys featured the top boys and girls teams from South Carolina competing for season-ending honors. Four BUFC squads posted runner-up finishes, including some close calls with state titles.
On the girls side, the BUFC Panthers Under-10 Academy team went undefeated through pool play before falling by one goal in the final, 3-2. The BUFC Pride/Pumas, competing in the U-13 Classic division, suffered a similar fate, with their only loss coming in a 1-0 penalty-kick defeat to champion SC/UMP 01 Crescent. The BUFC Fury also suffered only one loss in the U-13 Girls division in Greenville.
In boys action, the BUFC U-13 Predators took second place in the Classic I division with a 2-1 weekend that ended with a one-goal loss in the final. The BUFC U-10 Strikers were runners-up in the Recreation division.
Beach United Football Club Director of Coaching Thuba Nkomazana recently attended the National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention in Philadelphia, joining more than 10,000 soccer coaches from all over the world.
During the five-day event, Nkomazana (pictured left) was able to attend a long list of meetings, lectures, seminars and roundtable discussions about coaching philosophies and club management. Nkomazana also met with some of the biggest names in the sport, such as Dick Bate (pictured right), Rene Meulensteen and many more.
"I'm always trying to learn from the best and improve how I coach players," Nkomazana said. "I got an opportunity to talk to former Manchester United assistant coach Rene Meulensteen and FiFa advisor to Asia and England Dick Bate. These two coaches are the best at what they do and their work speaks for itself. We do share the same coaching philosophy and it made it so much easier to talk to them."
Among the many areas covered at the convention were coaching education, managing coaches, players and parents, sharing information and ideas with other club directors, and learning new ways to improve the club. Nkomazana called the trip both refreshing and enlightening, and he hopes to implement many of the things he learned at Beach United.
Beach United Football Club is a Myrtle Beach-based youth soccer club that offers instruction and competition for boys and girls ages 7-18.
The Beach United Football Club's Boys Under-17 team, the Mundial, wrapped up a perfect 10-0 record and the regular-season championship of the PMSL II Soccer league on Saturday.
The Mundial used an inspired second half to claim a 4-1 victory over Liverpool FCA, symbolic of the turnaround the team has made in recent years. Tied 1-all at halftime with their undefeated and untied season on the line, coach Jonattan DeLeon lit the fuse.
"It was closer than we wanted early but we had possession, and that was one of my goals with this team: If we control the ball we control the game," said DeLeon. "But you have to be able to finish and that's what I told the guys: We've got to finish and score some goals."
The Mundial scored three unanswered goals in the second half to clinch a perfect season and cap a reversal over fortunes since DeLeon joined the squad in 2012. He served as an assistant under BUFC director of coaching Thuba Nkomazana before taking over the team with assistant Sunnie McGonigal, and the chemistry has sparked a worst-to-first turnaround.
"The first year we only won three games, and last year we finished third," DeLeon recalled. "We just practiced hard and went back to the basics - receiving the ball, playing unselfishly, putting pressure on the opponent. The guys worked really hard and I am proud of them."
DeLeon is also the proud father of 3-year-old Jonah, who many may see running around the practice fields and playing soccer with anyone willing to join him. The elder DeLeon came to the US in hopes of playing college soccer, but student-visa issues and his need to work prevented him from reaching his goal.
Instead, he got married, had Jonah and adopted a dozen more young men on the soccer pitch. The change in game plan appears to be paying off for everyone involved, and for the BUFC extended family. He got to see more than just his own son grow over the past three years.
"Playing soccer never really worked out for me here but I still love being involved with it," said DeLeon, who played briefly for the Rochester (NY) Rhinos and Wilmington (NC) Hammerheads. "My wife tried to get me to coach and I am glad she did. I enjoy it and the kids help me a lot. They say, 'You help me a lot' and it's so rewarding. I say, 'No, you help me.'"
The Myrtle Beach based Mundial team will compete in the South Carolina Youth Soccer State Cup in December.
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From 17 bypass south, turn right onto 29th ave north (beside Planet Hollywood) towards the ocean. Go through stoplight at Grissom Parkway. At next stoplight, Oak Street, take a left. You will pass Pepper Geddings Recreation Center on left, take immediate left right after the center. Stadium Field will be first field on the left. Use the large parking lot to the left.
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My original source was the Questia Library, which includes the Henry and Milovanovich article on "Constitutive Criminology: Origins, Core Concepts, and Evaluation." Journal article by Stuart Henry, Dragan Milovanovic; Social Justice, Vol. 27, 2000. What I would like to offer here is a general summary of the concepts of the core concepts. For those of you who would like to work with this theory, I recommend Henry and Milovanovic's text.
Henry explains the meaning of constitutive criminology quite well in this article, albeit briefly, as a theoretical approach that resists the duality of blame. Instead of asking what caused the alleged perpetrator to commit a crime, Henry and Milovanovic ask what social context was formed interdependently in the setting through the effect of agency and structure."Instead of setting out to identify factors that "cause" offending, constitutive criminology seeks to examine the relations that coproduce crime, as well as ways to intervene in that coproduction to reduce the harms that are its ongoing outcome."
This fits with Quinney's concept of the social definition of crime, yet emphasizes that we are taking "social" beyond the bounds of nurture and environment. We are suggesting that the ways in which individual's exercising of their agency interacts with the entire infrastructure, not just once, when the crime is committed, but in a continuing manner. The interdependence goes way beyond the act itself, both forward and backward in time. Thus, this theory has much to say about both what happens in nurture and development, and what happens once the alleged crime has occurred. . . .
"Constitutive criminology leaves us not in an endlessly deconstructed world, but one in which we acknowledge the constructed nature of the world and the continuous input of energy humans make to maintain it. Constitutive criminology maintains that it is possible to expose, not only the tentative, contingent nature of knowledge and social reality (Butler, 1992), but also to make the politically conscious analysis that some social constructions and ways of constructing reality are more harmful and others are less harmful."
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WASHINGTON, (Xinhua): The U.S. House of Representatives adopted a bill on Wednesday aiming at choking out Iran's oil exports, just four days before the Islamic republic's moderate president-elect takes office.
The bill, which passed with a vote of 400 to 20 in the Republican-controlled house, seeks to squeeze further Iran's oil exports, the country's economic lifeline.
The bill will move on to the Senate Banking Committee in September. If passed in the Senate and signed into law by President Barack Obama, it will cut Iran's oil exports by an additional one million barrels per day in a year.
More than a dozen economies, including Japan, India, China, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea and 10 European countries, are having U.S. waiver in their importation of Iran's oil, though the Obama administration and the European Union have targeted the country's oil exports in their efforts to stop its uranium enrichment activities suspected of being used to produce nuclear weapons.
The sanctions, which hit Iran's financial system as well, have reduced Iran's oil exports by half.
The House's move came just as Hassan Rouhani will be sworn in on Sunday as Iran's new president, and despite efforts by some Democrats to stop it.
The Democratic lawmakers had called on the House leadership to delay the vote on the bill on the grounds that it could jeopardize the Obama administration's renewed effort to engage Rouhani over Iran's nuclear program.
Press reports said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki had told the Obama administration that Iran was interested in direct talks with the United States about its nuclear activities.
Washington eased sanctions on Iran last week, allowing more basic medical supplies and devices into the country.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, while refusing to comment on the House's expected vote on the bill earlier in the day, was hopeful of engagement with Rouhani's government.
"Following his inauguration, we hope that President-elect Rouhani…and the Iranian government will engage substantively with the international community to reach a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program," she said at a daily press briefing.
"We and our international partners remain ready to meet at the earliest opportunity once Iran is prepared to do so," she added.
Two rounds of talks have been held this year between Iran and the six powers of Britain, China, France, Russia, the U.S. and Germany, but produced no substantive breakthrough due to lingering differences over Iran's enrichment activities.
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1. Here's a cool cultural engagement site: Gospel and Culture. Phil Ryken just recommended it on the Reformation 21 blog (itself a worthy site), and I've checked it out a bit. Bill Edgar, one of my favorite thinkers, started this project, and it looks quite worthy of attention. They do need to post media from [Read More…]


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Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (www.beg.utexas.edu).
Bureau of Economic Geology Technical Seminar, September 19, 2003
Sequences, Depositional Systems, and Synsedimentary Tectonics, Oligocene Rocks, Corpus Christi Region, South Texas: Revisiting Mature Fields with New Prospecting Tactics
L. Frank Brown
Subregional 3-D seismic volumes and wireline logs permitted recognition of 2nd- to 5th-order (~10 m y-10 k y) Frio and Anahuac (Oligocene) sequences, systems tracts, and associated syntectonics. Third- and most fourth-order sequences were correlated within several subregional wireline-log and seismic networks. Composite site specific sequence stratigraphic sections (S5 benchmark logs) characterize principal fields. Sequence analysis identified and correlated all key surfaces: type 1 unconformities, maximum flooding surfaces, and transgressive surfaces bounding systems tracts. Although microfossil occurrences are not necessarily required for sequence analysis, limited data were integrated with the final sequence frameworks, providing secondary verification of assigned ages. Lithostratigraphic Frio and Anahuac strata comprise six chronostratigraphic, third-order depositional sequences (~32.0-23.6 Ma) and myriad fourth- and fifth-order sequences or parasequence sets. Except for incised valley fills, lowstand tracts comprise offshelf systems deposited within active, growth-faulted, intraslope footwall subbasins. Maximum Anahuac 2nd-order flooding (Heterostegegina sp.condensed section) provided a regional, age-dated (~24.57 Ma marker) to which latest published ages of sequence surfaces were calibrated. Maximum flooding surfaces and type 1 unconformities are essentially isochronous, but sand-rich lithofacies are mostly diachronous. A major error in previous studies has been the assumption that all sands deposited between successive maximum flooding surfaces must be correlative. In fact off-shelf and on-shelf deposition were temporally unique. Many previously inferred Frio strike aligned "stacked barriers" (i.e., blocky on wireline logs) are dip-oriented incised valley-fill facies, but wave-dominated highstand and transgressive tracts are characterized by strike-aligned blocky barrier/strandplain systems that were eroded by incised valleys.
Basinward of shelf edges, successive lowstand sedimentary subbasin wedges and superposed shelves become younger. Entrenched rivers supplied sediments via ephemeral deltas until high gradients induced gravity failure and transport to basin floor and slope fans. By mid-slope-fan deposition load-stressed lowstand depocenters initiated gravity faulting, mobilized deep muddy facies, and, hence, produced younger faulted, shale-withdrawal subbasins that experienced abnormally high accommodation rates. Later diminished rates of faulting and accommodation permitted lowstand deltas to prograde over slope fans and shelf edges farther basinward. Lowstand deltaic ramps were anchored at the basinward margin of buried subjacent shale-ridge that established the subsequent upper continental slope and shelf edge. During a later cycle, highstand shorelines regressed basinward over the shallow, lowstand ramps. On-shelf regression was eventually stalled by increasing accommodation space and deeper water near the continental shelf edge, followed by creation of another lowstand depocenter and intraslope subbasin. .
Gas is trapped in lowstand deltaic and superposed thin transgressive parasequences and distal valley-fill reservoirs that pinchout updip against hanging-wall extensional faults overlying shale-cored anticlines. Combination trapping and basin-floor and slope-fan reservoirs are viable targets. Sequence results support improved traditional and improved speculative prospecting methods.


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[Identification of item], Anne Firor Scott Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
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Professor emerita of history at Duke University, Durham, N.C.
The collection contains writings of Anne Firor Scott and materials relating to her academic work in Southern and women's history. The materials primarily refer to her scholarly activities, and include her dissertation, occasional papers, articles, speeches and lectures, book reviews, contracts, conference proceedings and schedules, course materials, newspaper clippings, and other activities related to academia. There is also a file of correspondence written by Anna Lord Strauss (then president of the League of Women Voters) in 1949 and mailed to all members the league. Notes by Scott in this file explain her connection to Strauss, and the circumstances of the correspondence. In addition, there are newspaper articles related to the first and second editions of Scott's book,
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Thread: Wot films are you watching?
I thought it was a much better movie when I watched it the second time when I was older, agree about the hype though.
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02-04-2014, 03:57 PM #2243I really like it for Raul Julia. The man was an amazing actor and he took a complete piece of poo-poo 100% seriously (as an actor. He totally hammed it up) and gave it his all. And it is really put in an even better light when you realize he knowingly signed up for a movie that would probably put a black mark at the end of his career because his kids loved the franchise and he wanted to get one more big payday before he died.
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the coming race war was hilarious.
The second movie was also fun, but pretty much more of the same with less gratuitous nudity.The Medallion of the Imperial Psychopath, a Napoleon: Total War AAR
The Red Blades, a Battle Brothers AAR
The Legend of Hercules. Just watched it. I suspect that if I waited a few hours before posting this, I'd forget to include it. It's just not much of anything.
300 - Rise of an Empire. Stylish, but you have to make an effort to overlook some parts of the plot to enjoy it (or to not be annoyed, possibly). Lacks focus.
Kick-Ass 2. Odd and somewhat unpleasant mix of comedy and violence. It's like the type of violence in most of the movie only fits the scenes with Hit Girl and seems off in the rest.
Ong Bak. Seriously, wtf is this? A Muay Thai movie featuring horrendous acting, uninteresting story, generic and one-dimensional characters, topped by some pretty shoddy directing. The action scenes were okay (although nothing special), but suffered from some occasional heavy overuse of instant replays when something supposedly super cool happens (some bits were shown 4-5 times). I gave up eventually. I don't remember who recommended this movie, but I'll find him eventually. I was still in the mood for some Asian action, however, so I watched...
Red Cliff (1&2). It was good, I suppose. Much Chinese. Very visuals. To the moon. The acting had its ups and downs, but I had no problem with it. The story wasn't that impressive, but decent. My experience in Chinese movies is more or less Crouching Tiger and Hero, so it was nice to see one focusing less on superpowers and more on warfare and tactics. Some of it was a little ridiculous, especially a battle in the first part. ("It's an ambush! Let's ride around in it for a while and then stop and do nothing, but for gods sake do not fight back when they stab you!") I mean, let's not allow logic and basic reactions interfere with our awesome setup, amirite? Of course, it didn't help that the big baddie reminded me of his counterpart in Kung Pow (a movie that's so bad it's g... sort of funny on occasion. And proud of it.). It did have some actually intended comic relief, which was godawful. All-in-all, it doesn't hold up to comparison with CTHD or Hero, neither in visuals, nor story or action, but it had its charm. It really didn't have to be five hours long, though.
I really liked Winter's Bone. Big fan of Jennifer Lawrence. She's been great in every role I've seen her in. The rest of the cast was great, as well. Interesting story. The protagonist is no superhero, but a rather normal girl (in an abnormal environment) being pushed by desperation. The pacing was kind of slow, but I really didn't mind. It was nicely shot, both unsettling and beautiful. I really enjoyed the setting, but then I harbour some rather romanticized "back to the nature!" sentiments. It gets the much coveted Fanbuoy Stamp of Approval!
Today, I watched Black Book/Zwartboek, which I also liked. It's a Dutch movie about a Jewish woman during the German occupation, which eventually turns into a bit of a spy thriller. The acting is good, the characters are of varying quality. I really liked the story, which evolved constantly, with new objectives presenting new obstacles. It has some elements of evil for evil's sake, but generally keeps it on a good level. I wouldn't call it a must-see, but I'll recommend it to those who might be interested.
Ugh, one day I'll manage to teach the world how bad Crouching Tiger is, I swear. One-dimensional characters, problematic female roles, painfully obvious it's adapted from a book that comes in the middle of a series, poor choreography, average direction... Red Cliff comfortably eclipses it in pretty much every conceivable way, as do most Asian films over the past thirty years. Its success came from being in the right place at the right time, end of story (as in, a ton of Western audiences who'd never really paid much attention to Asian movies watched it, went "Ooooo, they're flying! How novel! And isn't it pretty?" and didn't think about it any more than that).
Not going to argue too much about Ong Bak, though. While Tony Jaa is a tremendously gifted martial artist and it's fun watching him elbow people in the head I never saw the sequels and have no real desire to watch the first one again, either. I wouldn't be as harsh about it as you, but you can tell Prachya Pinkaew and his peers started out doing quick and dirty Z-grade action flicks and even their bigger-budget efforts don't change things up that much.
It's not me being contrary, I genuinely think pretty much everything in that film has been done better elsewhere, and that it's frequently held up as a work of genius by people who don't know what they're talking about (for example, the number of people who praised it for bucking some kind of trend by having well-written female characters when 1) they're arguably not, and 2) martial arts/Asian flicks have had well-written female characters for decades, it's just those films didn't get to ride the wave of some dumb ASIA XTREME!!11!1 brand or fleeting mainstream interest in tarted-up exoticism).
Wow, Rooks. You're like the Michael Jordan of wrong opinions. Every week you wonder "How is he gonna top the last one?" and then he just does. I don't mean to antagonize - I am simply in awe.Immersive Sims on Steam WIP
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If I remember rightly Hero and House Of Flying Daggers came after Hidden Dragon and was clearly aping a lot of the stylistic choices that the film had as well and advancing those choices.
Yep. Hero came out TWO years after CTHD and Flying Daggers was a good FOUR years after it. The Banquet is SIX years after it.
If any of these movies came out prior to CTHD you might have had a point to make."Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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I liked CTHD. As I said earlier, that and Hero is pretty much what I knew about Chinese film, so I'd probably fit quite comfortably in the "Ohh, shiny! Ohh, flying!" category, but that category exists because those movies did something that many people hadn't experienced before. I haven't seen either in a long time, so I can't discuss specifics, but I do know that I enjoyed them. Meanwhile, Red Cliff doesn't really do anything new, and so loses the wow factor. It's rather capable in what it does (barring the funny stuff and the "funny" stuff), but it doesn't excel in anything. It's a decent historic war movie, but nothing that makes me want to preach to the uninitiated.
Watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Overall, I liked it a lot, and it is actually going to make me give Agents of SHIELD (the shitty TV show) another shot. I think it may be my favorite Marvel Movie yet, but it really isn't a superhero movie (except, maybe, the last twenty minutes). It is really more like a spy/action movie. And considering the title and much of the story is taken from a Brubaker comic (by the way, loved his cameo), that is to be expected.
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It was kind of... REALLY violent. And I think Steve Rogers was more "super" than any Marvel comics superhero to date. I think, in large part, because he finally got to wail on mooks. When Thor whacks a super-elf with his hammer, the no-sell makes sense. When Stark executes someone with a dart to the head, they drop. When Captain America hits someone, you can almost feel their ribcage shatter and they leave a dent in the wall. It was... interesting, to say the least. Same with a later sequence where an enraged Cap is breaking down doors and slamming against walls. It really felt like a freakishly powerful guy on a rampage.
In essence, all the different types of capes have their own distinct "style". Black Widow is very much about nimble movement and suppressing fire. Cap is all about brutalizing people (which seems kind of wrong, but Marvel Movie U). The Winter Soldier is very clinical and precise.
I liked their take on The Winter Soldier (referred to by his real name from here on out because that is how I think of him in the comics). The costume might very well have been the exact comic costume (mid/late 00s character, so not much change needed) and I really liked the approach the movie took to the domino mask and face mask. Looked like the comics look but "practical" enough to be believable in the real (Marvel Movie) world.
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And I think I prefer this take on Bucky. While I love the character in the comics (he was the best Captain America), it was always a bit awkward to have him be a child soldier who was all about assassinations and spec ops and got captured. This version works a lot better. He was Steve's childhood friend and his transformation really began when he was captured (during the montage, before the Red Skull fight). The movie did a really good job establishing him as Cap's greatest failure (he was the only Howling Commando to die) in the limited time they had.
I do feel Black Widow had a fun part of her origin story taken away though. At first I thought they just didn't want to go into who she was for time purposes, but she specifically mentions she was KGB in the past, and it looks like Bucky was still working for The Russians, based on the file she got Cap at the end.
Also, I feel Sharon Carter was handled quite well. Her relation to Cap's Lady Love is left as something for the comic book fans (unless she had a nametag I missed), and they do a good job of establishing her. She doesn't have a lot of scenes, but all of them work pretty well to establish her as (in order of appearances): A love interest for Cap, a very sneaky spy, someone who doesn't follow orders blindly, the kind of person who doesn't lead but makes sure that leaders can do what they need to do, and a rather dangerous "badass normal".
Also, I liked them working in Leviathan. Obviously it had to be simplified drastically and I think they blew their load way too fast (would have preferred it spread out over maybe an entire generation of Marvel movies, with a Nick Fury or Winter Soldier movie being used to tie things up. Well, a Daisy Johnson movie optimally, but she can't even get to keep her job one issue after Hickman finishes a run, so she'll never get a movie), but it did a good job of ushering in the "Red" that will be the tone of Avengers 2.
And I really liked Falcon. Didn't feel like a forced character. Was obviously a REALLY big coincidence that Steve's new friend happens to be a super special forces operative, but it still mostly worked and the fact that he had that background explains how he would put two and two together to realize his running buddy was Captain America. The movie kind of dances around it a bit, but it looks like they are basically taking the comic book approach (from probably 80s/90s/00s?) where the world knows Steve Rogers was Captain America and they know what Steve Rogers looks like, but he lives under a false name and most people don't realize the ridiculously fit guy is a superhero. Plus, Falcon's flight scenes were gorgeous. It is one thing to watch Robert Downey Jr float and occasionally thread the needle, but Sam's flying was fluid and beautiful.
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And this hopefully explains why Agents of SHIELD was complete shit. It started six months too early and had to spin its wheels to wait until the post-Cap2 status quo was established. Most of my complaints with the tone of the show make sense in light of this movie and, from what I have heard, the show has actually been getting decent (possibly even good) over the past month or two. And yes, I realize I sound like a battered spouse saying "I'm sure he'll change, he was just under a lot of pressure at work".Steam: Gundato
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As a non-comic book reader, everything about Bucky felt completely contrived to me. It didn't help that I couldn't shake the image of Kai Leng fighting Captain America.
Okay, so now I've watched House of Flying Daggers, as well. Much like Red Cliff, I liked it, but it didn't really do anything I haven't seen being done better elsewhere. I think I may simply be tired of this type of movies. The fights are visually great and well choreographed, but I feel they're very much style over substance. Logic and reason are thrown to the wind because "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if... they started tiredly elbowing each other for 15 seconds, while their swords are kept idle in their free hands?", etc. The word incredible can be used in two different ways here.
The story was okay. It wasn't quite as predictable as the first five minutes had me believe, but there were no OMG moments either. The ending made very little sense to me. The premise:
There's a stand-off, where the good guy has a sword, the scorned guy has a throwing dagger and the woman has a dagger in her chest (the removal of which will kill her). Scorned guy wants both others dead, the others want him dead. Good guy drops his sword and moves closer to Scorned guy, in order to prevent Woman from killing herself by throwing her dagger at Scorned guy. Scorned guy fakes a throw, causing Woman to throw her dagger at, erm... a tree, dying in the process. Good guy mourns and Scorned guy walks away.
None of these actions make sense to me. I mean,
1) Good guy moving closer: Should Scorned guy decide to throw his dagger at Good guy, it wouldn't have mattered who was closer to whom. He would die either way, so Woman's incentive to throw wouldn't change.
2) Scorned guy withholding his throw: This would effectively mean that Good guy would be the only survivor, since Scorned guy would be killed by Woman's dagger, while she died from removing it. Why would he want that, when he was previously dead set on killing Good guy?
3) Woman throwing her dagger at a tree: I'll assume that it was deliberate, since no one had missed a throw previously. I can sort of understand this, though, since she probably didn't actually want to kill Scorned guy, but didn't want to live on with Good guy dead.
4) Scorned guy walking away afterwards: He had previously thought that he killed Woman and tried to kill Good guy. Now he doesn't want to kill a more or less defenceless Good guy because Woman is dead? However, I can let this slide, since seeing Woman willingly die for Good guy, while sparing him, could understandably change his mind.
Oh and both Good guy and Scorned guy have multiple cuts and have stabbed each other through the back, but that doesn't seem to matter.
Also, do blind people not blink or was that just something the director used to tell us that she faked her blindness?
The South Park movie, the Trapped in the Closet episode, and 22 chapters of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet, while drinking and smoking like a Turk. Then I had the weirdest fucking dreams, which looked like South Park and were narrated by R. Kelly. These were followed by absolutely horrible nightmares. I'm feeling suicidal right now. I blame Canada and R. Kelly.
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Captain America is by far my favourite part of the avengers movie canon that isn't the avengers film. But I'd like a hulk movie with the avengers actor in, please. The only thing that sort of bothered me about the film (and not really excessively) is how Black Widow has a completely unforeshadowed gadget for every plot difficulty they might encounter. Given the sort of superhero she is they're all in character but it feels a bit cheap. Beyond that, excellent action movie, fun action sequences, silly plot that doesn't apologise for itself or feel slightly ashamed of being a superhero movie.


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A very good taxidermist from Alexandria Mn. passed away a week ago from heart attack, name was Ron Wittrock, any taxidermist in that area that could help his family out he was only 53, and was in the shop when he died. All of us know how tough that could be for his wife and children, any help from any of you in yhe area would be a lifesaver. it would be tough for any of us to suddendly die, where would one start to try to pick up and know where to begin to get customers their things back. any responses i can get back to you jerry nissen
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I'm very sorry for your loss, to answer your question, is that if he was licenced, he should have a log book with a list of clients and numbers at the place of buisiness.
Sorry to hear of this passing. I will pray for this family
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Sorry to hear about your loss. I have been a taxidermist for many years. Having worked for some of the biggest shops in the world.
I even had my own shop. I got out of it full time 6 years ago. I am now a licensed electrician. I am able to take off and work for you long enough to get customers work back. I would enjoy the change of scenery for a while. Let me know if I can help or what you need.
are you the same buck that worked for D.I. in Hillsborough ? Where are u living now?


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Manor Rectoria Eadburby Adderbury in Co Oxon
8 October 1712
"Richard James of Adderbury aforesaid Hemp dresser a customary tenant of the said Manor doth surrender into the hands of the Warden and Fellows of New College in Oxon Lords of the said Manor by the hands of John Belsher one other customary tenant of the said Manor All that his one land of arable ground with the appurtenances thereunto belonging lying near a certain place called Gawne hedge the ground of Thomas Judd lying on the East part thereof situate and being within the said Manor and now in the possession of the said Richard James his assignes or assignes. To the use and behoofe of Hannah Bly daughter of Thomas Bly of the West side of Adderbury aforesaid Miller and of her heirs and assignes for ever according to the custom of the said Manor. In witness whereof the said Richard James hath hereunto set his hand the day and year first above written."
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Oh you sneaky one!
Earlier today, I heard my husband exclaiming loudly in the living room. He was sorting out the music CDs and discovered that many of them had the CDs missing. The missing CDs were all tucked away in Lucas' room amid his other children's DVDs.
Lucas loves music of any kind.
He'd get into the car, buckle up, and ask for the radio to be turned on (if it wasn't already).
Home from school, straight to room and the music player comes on.
When he watches TV, it's perpetually tuned to MTV.
When Adam Lambert performed on American Idol (S8) and now James Durbin on Season 9, he'd run out from his room, clap and dance.
He can identify the song he wants to listen to (or not) by the first few notes, and he taught himself to play the first two bars of "Happy Birthday" on the keyboard by ear.
So, it shouldn't come as a surprise to any of us that he would help himself to our music CDs. It's how he does it.
Our CDs are kept in a drawer in the cabinet where the TV and other multimedia devices sit. There's a portable fan that's positioned in front of it. To open the drawer, you need to move the fan.
I first realised that Lucas was taking the CDs out when in the early mornings when he wakes up before we do, I could hear a slight squeak which is emitted when the fan is moved. Once I got out of bed to check, and Lucas was standing guiltily by the fan and pretending to turn on the TV! At first glance into the drawer, nothing appears missing. But I could tell when he has removed CDs by the different music he plays in his room, and also by the tell-tale signs of haphazard stacking of the covers. This doesn't bother me; in fact I am rather pleased.
So, as my husband shook his head in resignation as he opened empty CD cover after empty CD cover (total of about 50), I couldn't stop laughing!
Being sneaky is a high level functioning behaviour, I told him.
Anyway, we agreed to turn it into a learning task by having Lucas match CDs with their covers and returning them to the drawer. And he can do this every couple of months.
My son's upset with me & I'm happy about it!
No, I'm not a mean person. I don't relish in other people's unhappiness.
But when you live with someone with autism, anything that deviates from the person's 'normal' behaviour is a cause for examination, hope, and even, celebration. For sometimes, it means that there's a form of breakthrough, and perhaps this is the one that would tip the scales in your/their favour from now on.
In general, Lucas is a happy boy, and he loves to travel. We are blessed as he's very well behaved and it's very easy for us to bring him overseas on vacation. He doesn't complain about long plane rides or the waiting or the long queues (Mom is usually the one grumbling). He loves beach holidays and is happiest in the pool or walking on the sand along the beach.
He has come to associate certain things with holidays – luggages being the most obvious 'clue' to him. He would also watch us when we pack, to see what goes into the luggage. When I used to travel for work previously, Lucas would stay with his grandparents which he doesn't mind.
Last week, my husband had to go on a short work trip, and I decided to accompany him. As Lucas had school, I decided not to bring him with us. So I explained to him earlier in the day that he would have to stay at his grandparents' place for a couple of nights.
We took a cab to the departure centre, and enroute, dropped Lucas off at the grandparents'. Throughout the cab ride, Lucas sat staring out of the backseat window moodily. I knew he was upset as he was disinterested in the music playing in the background, and when I prodded him in the ribs (which usually cause him to chuckle), he merely ignored me. Not a smile could be seen.
When we reached my parents' place, he reluctantly waved goodbye and walked off. I learned when I returned that he took a long time to settle down that evening for bed. Instead he kept pointing to pictures of me at home.
Fortunately, his moodiness didn't last long and his teacher reported that he was his usual happy self the next day. And just as thankfully, when we returned two days later, he was thrilled to have us home and to be back in his own home.
Most parents out there would say that it's usual for children to miss their parents when they are apart and that this is normal. And that is precisely why I'm pleased about it – because it is a normal. Previously, it would never have bothered Lucas when we travel without him. If he was bothered, he had never shown it.
Now I hope that one day soon, I'd have to actually call him each day that I'm away to tell him that 'Mom is coming home soon'.
You're a winner!
I love taking part in contests. I remember being 5 and submitting my first entry to a colouring competition organized by a local newspaper and winning a set of colouring pencils. Never mind that I already had numerous sets and they cost my parents a lot more than the set I'd won. It was the thrill of winning that mattered.
As years went by, I became more selective in the kind of contests I participate in. If it's a pure lucky draw I usually give it a miss. I like those in which I had to actually do something – usually solve a puzzle or tell the organizers why I deserved to win.
My winnings to-date includes a pair of air tickets to Paris, an all-expense paid vacation at a resort in Malaysia, a DVD player and other smaller forgettable ones.
As a strategic planner, I'd advised clients over the years on their own contest promotions. To me, these are important points to bear in mind whenever you're planning a contest.
1) Excite
Give something that's really desirable. This may seem like a given, but I have come across contests that are not worth the trouble of participation.
2) Engage
It's a no-brainer to just fill in your personal particulars and drop an entry form off. But most people probably won't even remember participating in the contest after a few days. What's more, with all the spam out there, people are becoming more wary of such tactics for fear that it is merely a database building exercise. (OK – let's be honest here, when you carry out any promotional activity that asks for consumers' particulars and contact information, almost all the time it is to beef up your database. What's important here is that you should give participants the chance to opt-in to (ideal) or opt-out of (acceptable) receiving future marketing communications from you.)
Their participation could well be a one-shot deal, so make the most of it. Make it a requirement that they answer a question or two in order to be eligible to win. What single most important information do you want the consumers to know? Is it the location of your new store? A new brand positioning? The latest feature in your product? Make that information the answer to the question and ensure the information is easily available (eg. in your website or in an accompanying literature.)
So, even if they opted out of receiving further communications from you (and you had better respect that choice), by their participation, you would have informed them of something new about your company or business.
3) Entertain
Make it fun for them to take part. There have been contests that involve puzzles, treasure hunts, jingle singing and endurance tests. The more the participants enjoy it, the more likely they'll tell others about it – think viral. And hey, you'll fulfill the engagement part of it too.
4) Easy to redeem the prize
What's more disappointing than not winning? Finding out that the prize you've won comes with all kinds of ridiculous conditions.
Don't give away a free meal which is only valid from Mondays to Wednesdays, between 2pm & 4pm, and only if it falls on an odd date! Oh and you'd need to redeem it within two weeks or it'll no longer be valid!
Most would understand that they may be certain restrictions – just make them reasonable.
So, if you're a running a restaurant, it's generally OK to restrict redemption during days like Christmas, New Year & Valentine's Day. If you are giving away a spa treatment, you may request that an appointment is made at least a week in advance and is non-cancellable within 48 hours of treatment. Giving away a trip to Europe? It's perfectly acceptable to have a designated travel agent handle all the travel arrangements, and to limit any changes to the itinerary.
Travel prizes are tricky. When I won the trip to a resort in Malaysia, it was a week's vacation for 2. I wanted to bring my son along, and my husband and I couldn't take a full week off work. The organizer was extremely accommodating. I paid for an extra plane ticket for my son, and since we were only staying for 4 days instead of the full week, they included full-board for my son for the entire 4 days, and upgraded us to a junior suite. We had a lovely time and since then, I've always recommended friends the resort when I hear that they are visiting the area.
Another good way to tackle travel prizes is to give away a travel voucher instead. I recently attended a prize-giving ceremony where the winner won S$3000 worth of travel to Japan*. This is probably one of the most flexible of travel prizes as it allowed the winner to plan the itinerary as desired. Of course, you can still set certain conditions like preferred cities, airlines & hotel chains. Oh, and please allow time for redemption. Not everyone can hop on a plane the following week.
* At the time of publication, Japan was suffering from post-tsunami and the threat of radiation. I understand that the organizer had agreed for the winner to redeem the travel prize to another destination of the winner's choice.
Have you organized a recent contest promotion that was highly successful? Or took part in one that you really enjoyed? I'd love to hear about them.
Shepherd's Pie
Made the most delicious Shepherd's Pie last week, so I thought I would share the recipe here. I cook very much based on what I think is enough so my measurements are not 100% accurate. Do feel free to add or reduce the amounts to suit your palate.
4 Russet Potatoes
300 gms ground beef (lean preferably)
1 cup/230 gms mixed vegetables
1 tin button mushrooms (diced into quarters)
1 yellow onion (chopped)
1 tbs chopped garlic
2 tbs olive oil
1 tbs black pepper
1/2 tsp sea salt
2 tbs soya sauce
1 tbs ground chili pepper
1 tbs dried basil / oregano / thyme (or all of them!)
1 tsp dried parsley
shredded cheddar cheese (enough to cover the top layer)
1) Peel, cut in half and boil the potatoes for about 10 mins until a fork can pierce through easily. (You can leave the skin on but make sure they are washed properly).
2) When done, drizzle olive oil (about 1 tbs) and mash them. Put aside.
3) In a heated saucepan, drizzle olive oil (about 1 tbs), add garlic and onion. Stir fry till fragrant.
4) Add ground beef and stir fry till beef is cooked. (You can marinate the beef beforehand with a little bit of soya sauce, pepper and herbs, if you like.)
5) Add mixed vegetables and mushrooms.
6) Add soya sauce, pepper, salt, chili pepper and herbs according to taste. (I like it a little spicy, so I am quite generous with the peppers.) Mix well, and turn off heat when it begins to simmer.
7) In an oven-proof dish (approx 9″ round), spread half of the mashed potatoes on the bottom of the dish. Add the meat & vegetable, and cover with a top layer of mashed potatoes. Spread the chedder cheese on the top.
8) Place in a preheated oven (180 deg C) for about 20 mins.
Technically, all the food is already cooked even before it goes into the oven. But that extra 20mins would melt the cheese and form a tasty crust and seals all the juices within.
It only happens during Chinese New Year!
Without fail, several things will happen during and in the days leading up to Chinese New Year (CNY).
Annual food debate
All my relatives on my dad's side of the family will meet at our family home in the morning of the first day of CNY. Every year, with the exception of 2009 & 2010*, we would serve up fried bee hoon (vermicelli), chicken curry, my mom's fried turnip cake (on special request), and mixed soup**.
Every year, one of us would suggest that we try something new. So once Christmas of the prior year is over, we will begin discussions on what to cook for all the guests on the first day. We will toss out menu ideas, only to be shot down for various reasons.
Popiah – too messy for guests to make and it's a dish best eaten DIY. Also, food preparation takes a lot of time.
Fried Hokkien Mee (instead of fried bee hoon) – doesn't keep well as it gets soggy too fast. This means one of us (probably mom) would be in the kitchen throughout cooking batches.
Roast chicken/chicken wings – too western; we should have something Asian. Anyway, there's already chicken curry.
Fried rice – too simple.
Various Chinese/Peranakan meat dishes with rice – too complicated.
… and so on. Invariably, we'd fall back on the fried bee hoon, curry chicken, turnip cake & soup, telling ourselves that we'll do something different the NEXT year.
*In 2009, my maternal grandmother passed away shortly after X'mas, and according to Chinese customs we were not supposed to celebrate CNY that year. In 2010, my sister was too busy with her then-one-year-old, and so I made dry mee siam (Malay-style fried vermicelli) in place of the fried bee hoon which my sister traditionally makes. The mee siam was a hit but it was a lot of work too, hence only that one time.
** Mixed soup is a melting pot of all the leftover steamboat ingredients from the previous night's reunion dinner.
Same old questions
I see many of my relatives only once a year – during CNY. Unless there's a huge wedding or death, we rarely meet otherwise. (This is actually quite sad as we live in a small country. It doesn't take anyone more than half-an-hour in decent traffic to drive from one corner to the other of the country.)
So, we would try and at least spend a few minutes with everyone. A typical conversation goes like this:
Them: How are you?
Me: Great, and you?
Them: Very good. Lucas is such a big boy now.
Me: Yes he is. Shot up a lot in the past year. How's <name of child/parent/spouse>?
Them: <Name> is doing well. Are you still with Gosh?
Me: (Inwardly rolling my eyes) Oh no, I left the agency 5 years ago. (Which I'd told you every one of the last 5 times you asked me in the last 5 years.)
Them: Oh, what are you doing now?
Me: The same thing I was doing last year …
I swear I could have recorded and played back such conversations multiple times each CNY.
Ang Pow collection
No, I'm not referring to stuffing ang pows, deciding the amounts to give, nor calculating how much Lucas receives (which usually ends up almost equivalent to what I've doled out, so it's almost as though the money is transfered from my bank account to his!)
I mean collecting ang pows – literally. My mom has a huge collection of different ang pow designs, amassed over decades. To help her collection, we would put aside all the unique designs we get and hand them over to add to her already impressive collection. We'd hustled with business partners, clients, suppliers and friends for those that their company produces as giveaways.
One year, I was at a mall which had a really pretty design and I'd asked the customer service person if I could have one. Unfortunately, because I didn't spend enough money at the mall, I couldn't get one! Damn! Very fortunately, a kind security officer overheard my conversation and took one of the ang pows which was used as a hanging decoration and gave it to me! Thank you Mr Security Officer, you had stopped me from 'stealing'.
Playing "In Between"
Funny how even though we get together as a family and with friends rather often, there's no other better season like CNY for gambling fever to spike. We love this game as you can have as many players joining in as you'd like, bet as much or as little as you like, and get ready for a 'heart attack'.
Without fail, everyone would throw caution to the winds when the pot gets higher. Somehow the odds between a Queen & 8 appears better than a 3 & 7 then.
I also love being seated as the next player after my dad. Amazingly, 90% of each time he gets dealt a good pair of cards, he would bet the entire pot and lose! Which means I get to possibly win the next hand BIG!
A really fun time filled with laughter, teasing, and good-natured taunts.
There are many other traditions that come with CNY, but none like these to make me look forward to the occasion. Do you have a favourite festive tradition? I'd love to hear of them!
Love. Laugh. Listen. Three words to describe my parenting style.
I first posted this on CooBabyTalk – a blog on my online store – www.coobabes.com – which I also write & edit. Thought I'd share this here as well.
February 4th, 2011
Love. Laugh. Listen.
In a recent tweet, I responded to a Parenting question to describe your parenting style in three words. My three words were: Love. Laugh. Listen.
This is almost a given. I mean, which parent, out of love, will not go out of his or her way to do what's best, to provide the best, to make sure it's the best for his/her child?
Recently, there was an article in the Straits Times in Singapore about how parents queued overnight to secure a place on the waiting list to enroll their pre-schoolers in a popular kindergarten. Apparently it also seems that one mother in a delivery suite even called the school to enquire about placing her about-to-be-born child on that said list.
In movies and books, we sometimes hear this phrase – a face that only a mother can love. Although meant usually to insult whoever 'owns' that face, it is true that to a mother, her child is the cutest, prettiest, most handsome and every other positive superlative you can imagine. Which reminds me of a Chinese proverb – "There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."
We have to learn to enjoy parenthood and sometimes it means laughing off things that might otherwise upset you. You can't fault a child for every mistake made.
Your son runs his dirty, sticky fingers through his hair? Hey, he's just a little bloke. The dirt and grime comes off in the bath.
Your daughter raids your cosmetics and now has a clown-like face? Well, she's just pretending to be like Mom and you know imitation is the greatest form of flattery. (It could also mean that Mom needs to touch up on her make-up application skills.)
Tearing pages off books? As long as it's not a limited edition copy, give them unwanted magazines next time. And hey, it's practice for scrapbooking in future.
When you laugh, your child will probably laugh with you, and who wouldn't want a happy baby? At the end of the day, parenthood can be and is fun. How many times have your child done or said something that just made you laugh? Too many too count for most.
Communication is two-way, and that means listening to what your child is telling (or not telling) you. Even with infants, parents can tell from the way they cry whether they need food, a diaper change, or just a good cuddle.
As babies learn to talk, it can be tough to make out their babble. Many times it is guesswork but when you listen carefully and you get it right, what a wonderful reinforcer it is.
Listening also shows you are engaged and interested in your child. All children want attention, and listening to them is a great way to give it to them and just one of the many ways to show you care.
As a parent of a non-verbal autistic teenager, listening may seem difficult but I listen with my eyes – what Lucas is trying to tell me through his gestures, his expressions, his behaviour. It's a more active form of listening, but you hear volumes.
How would YOU describe your parenting style? I'd love to know.
~ Sharon
Mommy's out here!
Lucas and I go out together pretty often. At 14, he's almost a head taller than me (which is quite easy to achieve since I'm only 5ft barefooted.)
When he was much younger and needed to go to the toilet, I would find a relatively isolated ladies' toilet and hustle him in to conduct his business. It's quite a common sight where we live whereby mothers would bring their young sons into the toilets with them and any other women in the toilet would usually be quite forgiving.
But as a teenager, it is no longer appropriate. I would try and find a handicapped toilet located outside the restrooms but some places don't have them. At these places, I would have no choice but to let him go to the men's room on his own if he needs to pee.
Given his innocence, and the fact that if he was harrassed in the toilet by unsavoury characters, he would not be able to tell me, I worry very often when we're out by ourselves and he needs the toilet.
Lucas can pee independently. He knows to use the urinal, flush and wash his hands when he's done. So, when he uses the men's room on his own, to deter any would-be predators, I would stand by the entrance of the toilet, and very loudly call out to him from the time he enters till he comes out.
It goes like this:
"Mommy will wait for you out here."
"Don't forget to flush the toilet."
"Remember to wash your hands."
"Mommy is here."
"Use the hand dryer."
And so on, until he comes out, often hands still wet from the wash!
He still needs help when taking a dump, so that's a different story altogether.
What do other mothers do if their sons need help with toileting in public?


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SAN DIEGO ---- At 10, he fled Cuba. At 25, he heads to the Pentagon.
Yo, Yonder, pretty extraordinary.
"I just want to see it,'' said Yonder Alonso, the Padres' surging first baseman.
Alonso visits the Washington, D.C., landmark next week when the Padres play the Nationals. But before deciphering that five-sided, 6-million square-foot complex, he has conquered another baffling building: Petco Park.
"I see a quality approach and he stays within himself,'' teammate Nick Hundley said of Alonso's at-bats. "He's not trying to do too much, and he's wise in terms of his swing.''
Alonso's cuts have helped slice through a dismal spring of Padres baseball. While the home nine has shown life of late, Alonso is among the few rays penetrating a last-place season played under a black cloud.
After struggling early, Alonso has hit .400 (20-for-50) since April 25. By going 2-for-4 in Wednesday's 6-2 loss to Colorado, Alonso's average has risen from .196 to .292.
"We've seen a guy that has settled in,'' manager Bud Black said. "When you're part of a significant trade, I think there are internal pressures you put on yourself.''
Especially when plopped into spacious Petco, where hitters collect more stress than knocks. But after escaping a communist country, does an unforgiving ballpark get you flustered?
"It really doesn't matter,'' said Alonso, a key piece coming west when the Padres traded pitcher Mat Latos last offseason to Cincinnati. "I just try to hit the ball, hit it square and try to hit a line drive. If it goes in the gap, it goes in gap. If it falls for a base hit, it falls for a base hit.''
Sounds simple, no? But with all the griping about the vastness of these downtown digs, might Alonso fall in line, using it as a crutch?
"If you really let it get to your head, it can,'' Alonso said. "In a game, if you hit a ball that you think you got and they run it down, it's human nature to think about it. But do I dwell on it and go to sleep and think, 'darn it, why is this field so hard to hit in?' No, because you are going to have a long year if you're thinking about that.''
The Padres' brains speculated the team was better served with Alonso, instead of last year's phenom, Anthony Rizzo. Not wanting what general manager Josh Byrnes called a "quarterback controversy'' he peddled Rizzo to the Chicago Cubs.
Instead of doubling-up on first-base prospects, the Padres got a double-producer. Alonso had another one Wednesday, to drive in a run and extend his career-high hitting streak to seven games.
His 11 doubles leads all rookies; his two doubles in four different games is two shy of the single-season team mark shared by Tony Gwynn and Adrian Gonzalez.
"He's relaxed, and he is swinging the bat like all our scouts thought he would,'' Black said of Alonso. "He is using the whole field, hitting line drives and keeping the ball out of the air, for the most part.''
True that, as Alonso's numbers reveal a goose egg under home runs. But the Padres embrace someone raking it from line-to-line in a park where potential dingers morph into cans of corn.
"It's definitely a line drive-built park,'' said Alonso, who has hit in 12 of his last 13 contests. "It plays big with a lot of opportunities for doubles. I don't think of the power numbers in a sense of home runs, but in a sense of doubles and triples.''
A sense of freedom motivated Alonso's family to risk a run to America. With his parents and sister, Alonso departed one morning from Cuba and arrived in Miami, his life never the same.
"The law in 1995 was once you land on American soil, you can stay,'' Alonso said. "We just left, and that was about it.''
What about Alonso's reaction to Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen's recent remarks about his admiration for Cuba's Fidel Castro?
"No comment,'' Alonso said. "No comment.''
No problem. No first base controversy. No way Alonso isn't among the foundation this look-ahead team builds around.
"Guys are counting on me, I understand that and I appreciate it, and I welcome the challenge and understand I have to be ready for any situation that may come,'' Alonso said.
"With that being said, it is a fun time, I guess, to be Yonder.''
We think Alonso just saluted himself. Soon, he can do likewise to those at the Pentagon.


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Reader: Denver needs more foreign food from more far-flung places
Hummas at Mecca Grill: Lebanon meets Morocco.
Danielle Lirette
Mecca Grill was a longtime go-to spot for Lebanese food in Denver. Under new owners, it's turning the focus to Morocco. In her review of Mecca Grill, Gretchen Kurtz says that while you'll still find worthy Lebanese dishes there, she's also longing for more Moroccan food -- and other ethnic cooking in short supply here. Readers came up with their own wish list: Caribbean, African, Czech, "actual Texas-style BBQ." See also: Review of Mecca Grill, which is changing course from Morocco to Lebanon
Says Michael:
Well, from the "Captain Obvious" file, it needs a White Castle ASAP. Other than that, more foreign food from more far-flung corners of the world. There was a mall in Michigan by where I grew up that was called Tally Hall. It was just a massive food court with food from 58 different countries around the world, all under one roof. It was the most amazing thing you have ever seen. Now, if they could build one of those in Denver, that would be incredible!
Tally Hall? Sounds like a mammoth version of the old Yum Yum Tree -- imagine an updated version in the Source. What else does Denver need? Post your suggestions below, or join the conversation already under way here.
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Artist: The Residents
Label: Ralph
Produced By: The Residents
- Won't You Keep Us Working?
- First Warning
- Back To Normality?
- The Sky Falls!
- Why Are We Crying?
- The Tunnels Are Filling
- It Never Stops
- March To The Sea
- The Observer
- Hole-Workers New Hymn
- Rumors
- Arrival
- Deployment
- Saturation
- Ideas
- Construction
- Failure / Reconstruction
- Success
- Driving The Moles Away
- Don't Tread On Me
- The Short War
- Resolution?
Part one of the Mole Trilogy, or, rather, the first Mole Trilogy, sets the stage for the story of the Moles (underground workers) and the Chubs (Bourgeois Leisure-Types); the Moles' world is flooded, and so they must come up to the world of the Chubs where they face discrimination; the story is a metaphor for underground culture versus mainstream culture, and it's a much darker album than the Residents typically did at the time. It was recorded out of frustration as being seen as "Pop Music Pranksters" (as a result of albums like Duck Stab and The Commerical Album, and to a lesser extent Eskimo) and, as such, it didn't have any elements that could really be seen as amusing. It's a really good album, but I have to admit, it's not one I go back to a lot—it tends to be one of those albums where I have it listed in my brain as a really good album, and when I go back to listen to it, I go "yes, this is a very good album!", but I just don't seem to think to put it on very often. It's definitely worth checking out, though. - Rev. Syung Myung Me


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Second City is ready to make its audience laugh ? and participate
For Eileen Montelione, preparation is an essential part of improv comedy.
Montelione arrives in town Thursday as a performer in the Second City's green company, which will play four sold-out performances of the famed comedy troupe's new show "Laugh Out Loud" at the O'Reilly Theater, Downtown.
The show features classic sketches from the Second City archives, musical accompaniment and audience-participation segments.
But it's most revered for the performers' improvised skits, which are based on whatever people in the media and in the streets are talking about that day.
Creating lively, topical and hilarious material on the spot requires dedication and daily study to keep the material fresh and immediate, Montelione says.
"You don't get a day off. You have to get up every morning and read the newspaper and study 'The Colbert Report' or 'The Daily Show' to see what they're doing with the headlines," she says. "These are the things that people want jokes about."
Her usual sources range wider than you might expect -- from Mother Jones to National Geographic.
"They're great for cultural references (and) ... ideas for things you wouldn't know existed," she says.
For world and national news, Montelione scans newspapers such as The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. For trends and pop culture, she goes online to the Huffington Post, which she calls "super accessible" and "succinct."
Vigilance is necessary to make sure that already-written sketch material doesn't get stale or out-of-date.
"We have sketches in the show about Occupy Wall Street. If you don't keep tabs on it, it could be irrelevant by that night," she says.
As part of a touring company, Montelione also knows it's essential that she does a bit of research on what's happening on the local scene.
That could mean including references to the area's sports teams and their chances for making the playoffs or the town's most widely talked about political gaffe.
Alternately, it allows performers to anticipate and discuss topics they might want to avoid or dodge.
"Nobody wants jokes about (ex-Penn State assistant coach) Jerry Sandusky. Nobody is ready to laugh about that," she says. "If somebody is shouting out Sandusky (for inclusion in an improv), you've got to be prepared (to decide) how do we handle that."
That's one of the advantages of being part of a performing ensemble instead of soloing as a stand-up comedian, she says.
"The ensemble takes care of itself. When you've got other people backing you up, one of them will figure out what to do."Additional Information:
Second City's 'Laugh Out Loud!'
When: 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 5:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday
Admission: Sold out
Where: O'Reilly Theater, Downtown
Details: 412-316-1600 or www.ppt.org


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Ask a Lawyer and Get Answers to Your Legal Questions
Good morning. I'll be assisting you with your question.
When did you become aware the trespassers were living at the cabin?
Its actually my mothers case. She had been notified by the neighbors of the trespassers and called the police to have them removed. But they had been living in the house for awhile. She was notified of the fire within this past week by the neighbor. She was given a report by a neighbor who said his property was damaged. She has called to request a report from the fire department and the person who was taking her request has the same last name as the person who said his property was damaged. And also her address is around the corner from the property. It would be easier if you spoke directly to my mother since she is the one involved. I gave her number. She just wants to know about the liability on her. Otherwise I will get the info. The fire is under investigation.
Just so you know, experts on Just Answer are not allowed to communicate with customers outside of this forum, so I won't be able to speak to her on the telephone. However, if she's able, she can participate in this question and answer.
As far as her liability, based on what you've told me, she likely has none.
They would be seeking to make your mother vicariously liable for the actions of a third party, simply because they were on her property, in this case, importantly, as trespassers.
First off, it is important that she did not allow them to stay and took steps to have them removed once she found out they were there. Based on what you've said, she never granted them permission to stay, either express or implied.
In fact, she called the police.
So, at that point, they are trespassers, and they are commiting a crime. Under basic vicarious liability law, a person's liability for someone else is essentially cut off when the other person has committed a criminal act.
So, the proper party to sue in this case would be the people on the property, not your mother. I'm not sure if her homeowners insurance would cover them (I seriously doubt it, but I've never looked into that specific issue), but it was their negligent act that caused the damage, not your mother's.
Thank you. Is there a particular place that I can look this up at?
Moreover, your mother has a legitimate lawsuit against the trespassers, as well.
Much of this is driven by court opinions, so there isn't a way to point you to a specific statute. Also, this is what's known as "common law," that is, commonly understood legal principles.
Ok thanks.
Glad to help!


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Jen Schollin
I spent three weeks in France during the summer of 2009, as part of the Goucher French Theatre Intensive Course Abroad. Each week was spent in a different city, where we saw at least two plays. I spent the first week in Avignon, where I stayed with a host family, was involved with workshops with the T.R.A.C. theatre group, and visited Pernes-les-Fontaines and Beaumes de Venise. The second week I went to Marseille and stayed with a student from the conservatory. We had workshops with the conservatory students, explored the city, and saw a Moliere play with traditional costumes. The third week was spent in Paris, where we were involved with workshops with New York University, toured the city, and ate a traditional French meal. This was an incredible experience that not only improved my knowledge of the French language, but also taught me about French culture and introduced me to amazing people.


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