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|March 24, 2001, 01:07 PM
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I'm pretty conflicted about how I started out. my first formal training was in a Chung Do Kwan TKD. to make a long story short, I spent years in that school, achieved a certain amount of satisfaction and recognition in our insulated circle, and went on to get my a** reasonably kicked when I started working out with people from other schools, in other words, people who weren't just stand-up fighters at arm's length. I suppose I knew then how people felt when someone suggested the earth wasn't the center of the universe. talk about an eye opening experience. although I could never say it like this to my peers from that old school, many of whom are still close friends, they really are kidding themselves if they think they're prepared for I know is out there, in other styles.
not to say those were wasted years, not at all. just that I think it would serve a lot of people well if they could clarify for themselves what they think they're doing, and towards what purpose. sport v combat v whatever, etc.
|March 24, 2001, 03:34 PM
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I started out in kodokan judo. I still use some of the techniques, but I moved into more striking orientated skills after I became a peace officer. For me, judo was a good introduction to martial skills, and I would reccomend it to anyone who wants to get their feet wet in unarmed combat.
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|March 25, 2001, 08:49 AM
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Isshyn Ryu when I was 13.
My opinion of it now?
It looks nice in the dojo.
The one thing that still carries over are the physiological factors. (i.e. chambering for a kick, what part of the fist to punch with, etc...) The rest was "sport karate."
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|March 25, 2001, 11:14 PM
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Started off in TKD. Spent several years there. Now I'm into Aikido. TKD seems much more flashy and superficial than it did at the time. Alot of the things we were told in TKD just don't bear up in the light of experience and other arts. Live and learn.
|March 26, 2001, 10:02 PM
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M.A. Schools?
Started in old style jiujitsu.
Moved to soCal and traded time for training in Kempo karate. I was told that jiujitsu was outdated and two of the blackbelts showed me that their way worked....STupid me, I fell for the throw a punch at my face routine so of course their stuff worked. STayed seven years in kempo and goju-ryu, and shotokan. Did really good in tournaments.
Met Bruce Lee in the mid-60's, he was the only one who could hit me at will after he called the hit and which limb he was going to hit me with then do it in a matter of seconds.
I went through some mental gymnastics about how I wasted my time in pursuing all these martial arts and being told how great their school was when one individual could tear me apart.
I learned a little while from Bruce, but I joined up to spend a tour in southeast Asia care of Uncle Sam. I did what he suggested during that time..."discard what is not useful to you and keep what you can simply and effeciently apply."
I lived with that, came back to the states and tried what I kept against TKD, HKD, JKD, judo, kickboxing, contact martial arts, Shoriniji Kempo, etc.., etc...and I am quite happy...I got to the point that others asked me to teach them...I formed up a club and have taught some 500 individuals in self-defense classes and am happy to report that many have successfully defended themselves.
My biggest challenge now is teaching my daughter who is 14 years old and she has already had to defend herself against larger and more experienced individuals several times and she has won. I hope she will continue....I do not teach formally with her...we wrestle and box every night when we roughhouse...she's getting pretty good.
My personal challenge at age 52 is to learn the art of gunfoo...I have just begun to learn the use of handguns for self-defense...I prefer long guns, but they don't conceal as easily.
|March 28, 2001, 08:28 PM
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I began training with Stephen Hayes in '94, while he still operated from "the barn". Since he had written all the books, (and had been inducted into the MA Hall of Fame) he had to be the best, right?
It took me a long while to let go of some of the things I had learned badly while in Steve's dojo (only 6 months). I estimate a year and a half, but it may have taken me longer. It would have been easier not to have been training at all, than to learn the wrong thing, then work to clear it out.
I currently train with John Orth in Lawrenceville. If I ever become anything close to the teacher and artist he is now, I will count myself happy.
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|March 28, 2001, 09:26 PM
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I started out learning Shuai Chiao from my uncles around age 8. At age 15, I started training under their teacher. Mostly in Shuai Chiao and Hsing I, but some Tai Chi Chen as well. So far it has served me well, and I feel lucky to get able to train under a highly skilled master from the "old school".
|March 29, 2001, 08:38 PM
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I started out at the age of 11 in TKD. And looking back, it was good for a kid to play with and learn some discipline. But it was nothing that would hold to the real world. I soon met up with a student of Stephen Hayes, who I trained with for about a year. Thought that I learned alot, but in reality, not the case. Then a form of Kenpo called Saie Khan for a couple years. I did well in that. Competition went well. But again, still sport stuff. Then I got into the good stuff. I got into Muay Thai. That really stuck with me. Found a home in my soul! Did well competing. But definately not Lumpini champ material. Still doing muay thai as part of my every day workout now. I picked up Kali about 5 years ago. And loved that too!! After training thai for a while, I became really discriminating in what I would study next. And kali is a perfect fit. I then came into brazilian jiu jitsu. I studied kali and bjj concurrently for quite a while. then only bjj under an instructor. Of which I am still studying. My instructor, is also my business partner, and room mate. He is a bjj 5th deg bb from Brazil. We have a fight school in Atanta, and one in Brazil. We teach thai and bjj. But we also do gunfoo! to use the words from the gentleman above! My partners brother is the owner of Taurus firearms. So naturally, we have a good gunfoo training regimen and support. We currently train some rather prolific no holds barred fighters. Who we learn just as much from in heart and attitude. I have learned, never stop learning. And finding what works for YOU. Good to see so many students on the forum.
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|March 30, 2001, 08:12 AM
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Hey Everybody,
I started my first serious martial training in... (surprise, surprise!) TKD. It was a slightly more traditional form of it, being in the ITF. No tournaments and no competition sparring. I finally achieved a 1st Dan and since then have had to quit due to moving and a lack of funds for monthly payments.
My critique of it now looking back is that they taught me how to punch and kick really hard. Those are good skills to have IMHO. However, I didn't learn much else. Though the schools I was at avoided the "sport" aspects of olympic TKD, they swung too far in the other direction with almost no sparring at all! I find this to be a tremendous hole in my training and readiness, especially since (and I hang my head in shame) I've never been able to do any full contact training. Also there was a distinct lack of emphasis on moving and footwork. Like I said, I basically learned to punch and kick hard.
Lately I've been a part of the growing movement to resurrect and practice Medieval/Renaissance arts as a martial art (NOT a re-enactment group and NO roleplaying!). I've been focusing on medieval longsword (hand and a half) and am just starting (as of this week!) to toy with some Medieval grappling techniques. The best thing I've learned from these arts is some fighting strategy (which I was never taught in TKD), footwork and some cool training principles (such as sparring in a variety of manners and cross training with people of different styles).
In the future? I'll be staying with the longsword study group I have and looking for a martial arts school where I can do some full contact fighting. Hopefully I can even find a place that teaches something from the western tradition.
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If you've been a fan of Krankl's wines since he debuted with his Queen of Spades Syrah in 1994, you're most likely related to him, and you're surely on his mailing list. That will enable you to buy this year's releases--the blend of Rousanne and Chardonnay that he has anointed Omadhaun and Poltroon, and the Syrah-based Against The Wall--for the bargain price of $36. If you stumble upon the right retail outlet, you can purchase some for about $50. Otherwise, you'll have to scour restaurant wine lists or page through auction catalogues to pay market value, which is $75 and up. Then you'll drink the wine, and you'll understand that whatever you paid was worth it.
Sine Qua Non is actually one of the most accessible of California's current generation of superstar wineries. If you search hard enough, you might find its releases, though you'll never track down the featureless warehouse and its tiny, hand-lettered sign without written directions.
Locating some of the state's other preeminent wines can be just as elusive. A wine pilgrim can tour California from north to south and back again and see no sign of Screaming Eagle, Araujo Estate or Harlan Estate, nor a single bottle of the wines they make. Undoubtedly, there are members of, say, the Screaming Eagle cult who have read about the wine in Wine Spectator, argued about the price in Internet chat rooms, left plaintive messages on the answering machine at proprietor Jean Phillips's real estate office (she's a broker by day), yet have no idea what a bottle looks like, let alone how it tastes. This upper echelon of California wineries is hidden and virtually anonymous.
A few hundred miles up the Pacific Coast from Krankl, Phillips lives alone in a Napa Valley house, surrounded by orange Formica in the kitchen that she hasn't had the money or time to renovate, and gazes at the grapevines that produce Screaming Eagle. Up Silverado Trail, Bart Araujo, a former home builder and a wine neophyte when the decade began, presides over production at Napa's storied
Eisele Vineyard. Across the valley, on a hillside above Oakville, businessman Bill Harlan's shimmering vision of the finest Bordeaux-style wine in America is coming into focus behind an electric gate, inside a half-constructed winery that resembles a Tuscan ruin.
These are not, be assured, California properties on the order of Caymus or Beringer, though those, too, are occasionally capable of producing transcendent wines. There are no tasting rooms at this rarified level of California wine making, no T-shirts, no stops on the Napa Wine Train. The wines themselves are available only at auctions, in select restaurants in California and beyond, off mailing lists that have long since been closed out, and occasionally--very occasionally--at retail outlets, often for $100 or more. And it doesn't cost that for long. By the time a bottle reaches auction houses or restaurant wine lists, it can be priced at four, five or 10 times retail price.
What these new elite wineries have in common is that their wines have become commodities, to be hoarded and traded like pork bellies. The other similarity is that their wines are invariably very, very good.
The idea of even a $50 bottle from California once seemed unthinkable to Americans, who have always been reverse chauvinists when it comes to wine. Today, perhaps a dozen properties release wines priced at or about $100, with Diamond Creek's Lake Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon ($240 on release) leading the way. It's getting so that a wine with a price tag that would have been considered high only a few years ago now has trouble getting taken seriously.
"One winery raises its price from $40 to $80, and all of a sudden a Spottswoode, for example, is forced to raise its price or it looks like they're selling crud," says Krankl, who has tried to hold the line for those fortunate enough to buy directly from Elaine at Sine Qua Non. Since $40 wines are now $80, $20 wines have increased to $40, and so on down the line. Many of the discriminating consumers' favorite bargain bottles are no longer bargains.
That's the unfortunate byproduct of the increased esteem the world's wine drinkers now hold for California wines, and evidence of what a 98-point rating from a wine critic can do. On the other hand, these wines are quite possibly the best ever produced on this continent. At least, many of those reviewers think so--as do auction bidders, who have made investing in top California Cabernets the oenophilic equivalent of holding Internet stocks.
"I think everybody has gotten too wrapped up in what these wines are worth," says Ann Colgin, a wine consultant at Sotheby's West Coast. A case of her Colgin Cellars Cabernet fetched an inconceivable $16,100 at Christie's All California auction in Los Angeles in 1997, and her worry is that these wines have become too valuable to drink. "If you're not going to eventually open these bottles," she says, "you should be chasing something else."
Colgin Cellars Cabernet, which by virtue of price alone heads the roll call of cult California wines, is made by Helen Turley, a Napa-based enologist and wine-growing consultant with a reputation for both Draconian wine making and the thrillingly drinkable product that results. Turley also is responsible for the cult Cabernet made by Bryant Family Vineyards, for Pahlmeyer Merlot, and for two famously unctuous vintages of Zinfandel at Turley Cellars, which is owned by her brother, Larry Turley. She has lately been growing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes for her own label, Marcassin, and the wines that emerge are fiercely coveted among retail buyers and at auction.
In Napa's upper valley, the Dalla Valle winery produces a proprietary red wine called Maya that wine writers have judged just about perfect. And the Grace Family Vineyards of Dick Grace produce small batches of legendary and quite expensive wine annually. (David Abreu, the vineyard manager for many of Napa's properties, and the man who deserves much of the credit for the quality of fruit now available in Napa, himself produces a few hundred cases of theoretically extraordinary Cabernet called Abreu. It is difficult to say how extraordinary because the wine is utterly unavailable, and Abreu, a skittish sort, chose not to be interviewed for this story.)
Many of these are established properties, meaning they extend back into the early 1980s, and some are newer. Most of the proprietors have roots in the business that push at least as far into the California soil as their vines. (Helen Turley, for example, has hands-on experience in Napa County vineyards since the late 1970s.)
That's not the case with Araujo, Screaming Eagle, Sine Qua Non or Harlan Estates, although Bill Harlan had owned Merryvale Winery from 1983 to 1996. This quartet of superstar properties represents, if you can bear the contradiction, the democratization of elitism. Krankl is a restaurateur with a background in hotel management. Harlan, creator of Napa's Meadowood Resort, is a developer and businessman who lived on houseboats for more than two decades. Neither Phillips nor Araujo had ever made a bottle of wine or owned a vine as of just a few years ago. Each set out with little more than the vision of making the best wine possible--and enough money to make it happen.
Almost always, making extraordinary wine means severe vine pruning, low grape yields and limited bottlings. Inherent in the purchase of any of these wines is the cachet of scarcity. While Bordeaux's first-growths can produce as many as 30,000 cases, or 360,000 bottles, of their best wine out of a given harvest, these California wines are made in minuscule quantities: 200 cases here, 400 cases there. The tiny volume of wine, combined with the intense interest, has rendered marketing rather unimportant. Neither Araujo, Screaming Eagle, Harlan Estate nor Sine Qua Non has ever failed to sell a bottle of wine it has produced for sale.
When you combine that scarcity with the quality of these wines, you get something akin to hysteria. Consumers show up at front doors unannounced, terrorize answering machines, offer to swap goods and services ranging from motorcycles to cosmetic surgery--all for the right to purchase the wine. Retail stores fortunate enough to score a few bottles mark up the prices, then sell the wines only to consumers who purchase at least a case of something else. Even then, the wines usually stay on display for only a matter of hours. Various newsletters now exist that tip off their readers to little-known sources for these magical bottles.
"One man called me up because he had seen my wine for sale at a store for $900 a bottle, and he asked me how I could permit that," says Phillips. She explained to him that, like a painter, she gets paid for her artistry only once; any future sales benefit only the speculator. "The wine is the wine, and the rest of it has a life of its own," she says. "It blows my mind that all of this has happened."
Phillips stands outside her house--which sits, nestled among the grape vines, down an unmarked driveway off Silverado Trail--and gestures toward the horizon. Around her, like points on a clock, are vineyards owned by Groth, Dalla Valle, Oakville Ranch, Turnbull, Vine Cliff and other familiar Napa properties. In each case, Phillips introduced the property to the eventual buyer, matching the land to a prospective winery owner's desire.
By the time Phillips purchased her own acreage in 1986, she had created a niche as Napa's premier listing agent for vineyards. The daughter of a Florida real estate broker who vowed she wouldn't end up in real estate, she had traveled a circuitous route there and back again. She worked as a dressmaker, owned an antiques shop and learned to fly airplanes, then found her calling selling land. She developed such a feeling for those parcels of vineyards, she ultimately yearned to work one herself. "I'd sold so many, I had wine in my blood," she says.
The temptation is to perceive Phillips, 54, as a mere real estate broker who has, in effect, purchased the fame and respect her wines have received. In fact, although the esteemed Heidi Barrett, the wife of Bo Barrett of Chateau Montelena and the daughter of former Beaulieu Vineyard winemaker Dick Peterson, is her winemaker, not a single task in the tiny winery takes place without Phillips supervising--and, in most cases, actually doing--the work. "I was down there this morning putting CO2 in the tanks and it was cold and my hands were like chipped ice," she says, hugging herself against the chill of the memory. "I was thinking, 'This is fun?' But it was beautiful in the valley, and I looked around at where I live and what I do and I said, 'Yes, this is fun. This is what I want.' "
At her winery's size--it produces an average of some 200 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon-based wine a year--she can do almost everything herself. After the harvest, when the grapes proceed by conveyer belt to the crusher, Phillips sorts them by hand. "I've touched every grape that goes into my wine," she says. "I've done it from day one. The wine doesn't move without me moving it. Ever."
The tangible reward for more manual labor than she'd ever possibly considered is a remarkably rich yet balanced wine that is sold in a wooden box for $100 a bottle. She could double the price and it wouldn't matter--"It wouldn't be a blip; it would be gone in a minute," she says--but like Colgin, she knows that the higher the value, the less chance that anyone is drinking the stuff. So when Phillips allots her wine to a few Napa-area restaurants, she stipulates that it must not only be sold there but appear on the wine list.
When the wine can fetch a lot of money, it feels even better to give it away. Phillips donates bottles of Screaming Eagle for charity auctions as small as Napa Valley school fund-raisers, where one bottle can provide seed money for a new library. She's now packaging a single bottle of her '92, '93 and '94 vintages, each worth at least $579 according to the latest auction results, and asking for bidders from her mailing list, including prospective buyers who've been on the waiting list for as long as four years without getting to taste a single bottle. The money will pay for schooling for the children of a family of farm workers who live on her property and help with the field work.
Uncorking a bottle of the 1992, Phillips's face beams with expectation. One sip, and it is evident why. This is not a standard-issue California Cabernet, almost too mathematically perfect to be interesting, but every true winemaker's ideal: a wine from somewhere. Rich and intense, with cascades of red fruit, it is undoubtedly a California wine, but a special one, a specific one. Will it age as long as a great Bordeaux? There may not be enough left to ever know. Though its nose remains muted and almost half an hour in the glass is needed for it to fully open, the wine is irresistible right now.
"Every time I drink this wine," she says of the '92, "I pray I'll never run out. It will be gone someday, but the memories I will always have." She lifts a glass to eye level and gazes into the deep garnet color of the wine. "Not many dreams come true like this," she says, then takes a drink.
Ten years ago, Phillips met Bart Araujo, a Harvard Business School graduate who had arrived in Napa looking to buy property. He had sold his home-building company in 1988, when he was 44, and after staying on to run it for four more years, found himself at a turning point. "I was 48, and too young to retire," he recalls. "I was a wine fan, though not a wine geek. But Napa seemed like a good idea."
In 1990, Araujo and his wife, Daphne, purchased a vineyard and property through Phillips with the idea of growing grapes and selling them in bulk. At the same time, he mentioned to her that he was distressed by the number of northern California's best-known vineyard properties that were being bought by corporations. He would love to bid against them, he said, if the opportunity ever arose. Two months later, when the Eisele Vineyard--which since 1971 had been producing fruit for Joseph Phelps, Conn Creek or Ridge at one time or another--came up for sale, Araujo bought it and revised his plans.
Ultimately, he decided to create an estate-grown brand rather than sell the grapes, as was done there before. He built a compound of wood buildings with pea-green corrugated roofs to serve as a winery.
Phillips, Harlan, Krankl, Colgin and a number of other superpremium wine producers had worked at least tangentially with wine, anything from selling the land to serving the bottles, but they had no reason to expect success at the highest level when they started their wineries. Araujo, an utter newcomer, did expect success. The Eisele Vineyard's unparalleled track record and his winemakers' 20-plus years of experience gave Araujo the confidence that Araujo Estate would be making some of California's most impressive Bordeaux blends almost from the start. As a home builder, he knew the value of location: in this case the mix of soil, climate and sun exposure that the French call terroir. "In my mind, that's at least 80 percent of making great wine," he says.
The Eisele Vineyard is a 36-acre plot of stony soil some 800 feet above sea level. It sits under a ridge called the Palisades, in the northeast corner of Napa's wine-producing region. It was first planted with Zinfandel and Riesling in 1886, and the first Cabernet Sauvignon was planted in 1964. Those Cabernet vines still exist and are bearing fruit. So are additional vines planted in 1978 and 1991.
Milton and Barbara Eisele purchased the property in 1969, and two years later began selling their Cabernet to Ridge Vineyards. In 1974, Conn Creek produced an Eisele Cabernet, and from 1975 to 1990 Joseph Phelps held title to the grapes and made the wine. Irrespective of the winemakers, the Eisele Cabernets--which are blended with small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot--invariably show a distinctive earthiness with notes of spice and chocolate. Along with Heitz's Martha's Vineyard, Ridge's Geyserville, and a handful of other renowned tracts of land, the Eisele Vineyard is one of the strongest expressions of California terroir.
This fact is not lost on wine drinkers. From Araujo Estate's initial release, which coincided with Phelps's final Eisele Cabernet in 1989, the wine has caused a sensation. Priced then at $40 (it went for $169 recently at auction; the recently released 1995 retails for $75), it immediately sold out. Today, Araujo sells half his wine--2,500 cases of the 1995, his largest release ever--to his mailing list, about 35 percent to restaurants in more than 20 states and internationally, and the remainder in selected retail outlets. In 1996, he introduced a Sauvignon Blanc and last year added a Syrah. He makes wine, as all winemakers do, to be enjoyed, but admits that the prices his wines get have altered them from mere premium releases to wines so rarified as to be almost too valuable to drink. "It has changed the nature of how people view it," he says.
In a sense, Araujo is showing more respect for the vicissitudes of his land than any of his predecessors. Although the Araujo wines originate in a single vineyard, he treats each sector of land as if it were a different plot. He jumps into his four-wheel-drive vehicle and shows off the property, pointing out imaginary borders between sectors that are as real in his mind as the old Berlin Wall.
Over the nine years he has been working the land, he and his wine-making team have come to know the growing characteristics and weather exposure of practically each vine. (The team includes winemaker Francoise Peschon, viticulturist David Abreu and consulting enologist Mia Klein; another long-time enologist, Tony Soter, retired in April.) His stainless steel tanks vary in size so he can harvest some fruit and begin the fermentation process while other, slower-ripening grapes are still maturing on the vine. (Ultra-ripeness, resulting in wines of high alcohol and rich, extracted fruit, is a danger here because, while it creates wonderfully pleasurable wines and, not so incidentally, high scores from many influential critics, it tends to mute influences like terroir.) The final product is a blend of cuvées; that's common practice in many wineries, but almost always from fruit of different vineyards.
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MILWAUKEE -- Second-year Brewers shortstop Jean Segura entered Sunday's series finale batting .336 with four home runs and 13 RBIs. He was tied for the National League lead with three triples, tied for third with eight stolen bases and tied for fourth in average.
Yes, he is exceeding the Brewers' expectations, especially in the power department.
"Everything he's doing is really good," manager Ron Roenicke said. "I didn't think he'd be hitting whatever he is now. Yesterday, [hitting] into three double plays was a complete shock. Even after the first two, the last thing I thought on the last one was that he would hit into a double play. Not going to happen to him again.
"He is really playing well. Driving the ball, stealing bases. The defense -- we knew he was going to be good defensively, but I still thought he would make some mistakes, just being young. He's not making too many mistakes."
Through his first 107 at-bats this season, two things appear clear: Segura likes hitting at Miller Park, and he likes hitting to the opposite field.
Each of his first four home runs and seven of his first 10 extra-base hits came at home, and all four of the homers were to straightaway center field (two) or right field (two). His first-inning, two-run homer off Adam Wainwright on Saturday landed in the visitors' bullpen in right field.
"That's been his strength," Roenicke said. "Before we got him, we knew he hit the ball hard the other way, which tells me when you do that, that you're going to hit for a better average and drive in runs. He's fun to watch."
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Excited as Oliver Sim is that his band, British trio the xx, is making its New Orleans debut this Mardi Gras weekend, the moody, minimal, hushed music that the xx makes may be the ultimate counterprogramming to the raucous sounds of Carnival time in the Crescent City.
The same weekend that Mardi Gras parades roll and the French Quarter fills with revelers, xx members Sim, Romy Madley Croft and Jamie Smith will perform their ethereal songs at the House of Blues.
Still in their early 20s, Sim, Croft and Smith have already toured the world multiple times, released two albums and won the United Kingdom's prestigious Barclaycard Mercury Prize for their self-titled album debut.
The xx's New Orleans show is part of winter tour of the United States that includes sold-out shows in New York, Orlando, Austin, Texas, Tulsa and Tucson. Tours of Europe and Australia follow the trio's American visit.
Having shows sell out weeks in advance in American cities astonishes Sim, one of the xx's two singer-songwriters.
"It's a surreal thing," he said from London on the eve the band's flight to the United States. "When we were making our first album, we didn't really imagine it would leave London or the U.K., let alone take us to all these places that we've never been to."
There was much interest in the xx in the United States from the beginning of the group's recording career.
"On our first trip to America, we went to New York and played the CMJ Music Marathon," he said. "We turned up to our show and there was a queue going 'round the corner. We were blown away. Yeah, we still have that feeling."
Sim and Croft started the xx when they were 15, still in the British equivalent of high school.
"We were really starting to fall in love with music then," Sim recalled. "We were going to lots of gigs and sharing new music. Then it was just kind of thought of, 'Why not try it ourselves?' But I still don't call this my career. It's just what I love to do."
Early xx milestones included writing the band's first original song and overcoming the group's collective shyness to play its first gig.
"We were just playing little pubs in London, begging people to let us perform in their venues," Sim recalled. "We didn't have huge expectations. We were just having fun."
An unintended career in music slowly became reality for the xx.
"For a very long time, there was no real intention to share our music with anyone else," Sim said.
XL Recordings — the hugely successful independent British label that's released recordings by Adele, Jack White and Vampire Weekend — began working with the xx when the band's members were 17. The label gave the group use of a small in-house studio.
"It was just a space with a computer and a place where we could make noise," Sim said. "We were given the freedom to do what we wanted in there. We didn't have the pressure of constantly thinking about the studio time and how much money it cost."
The xx's debut album, released by XL Recordings, won the Mercury Prize in 2010. The award revived sales of the record, sending it to its highest U.K. chart position.
In recent years, Sim and his xx band mates have become much more confident on stage, but they're still not the natural performers that friends and peers such as Mumford & Sons and Florence Welch (Florence + the Machine) are.
"Touring with Florence, I'd see that she's so comfortable up there on stage every night," Sim said. "That's completely not us. Being on stage is something we have to work at. But I do love it now, and I love it more and more."
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In the past, one's state of mind used to be analyzed by a Rorschach test. If you saw homicidal clowns in an inkblot, it was between just you and someone sworn to absolute secrecy (even if they seemed to be taking an unusual amount of notes at the time). But now, Google puts it all out there for the world to see.
That Googling you do day in and day out is feeding the beast known as Autocomplete. Google Autocomplete's algorithm takes what millions of users input into the search box every day and then uses it to predict future searches and offer up suggestions as a query is typed. So useful…and so scary.
It's especially scary for you, Eli Manning. Did you know that when people type in "Where does…," they're looking for where you live? Your home address is more coveted than the one who started all this Bieber Fever. And, you, Chuck Norris. People are more anxious to find you than they are their iPads. At least you can take care of yourself since you're the reason why Waldo is hiding. The rest of us aren't so lucky. The people performing these searches are out there among us. Or they are us and we're just loathe to admit it.
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Effects of Growth Hormone in Chronically Ill Children
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified January 2006 by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
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The specific aims for this study are –
- To determine the effect of GH on height, height velocity, body weight and lean body mass. This specific aim tests the hypothesis that GH significantly improves height, height velocity, weight, weight velocity and lean body mass in chronically ill children who have grown poorly despite adequate nutritional rehabilitation.
- To determine the effect of GH on whole body protein turnover (WBPT), IGF-1 levels and on cytokines. This specific aim tests the hypothesis that chronically ill children have increased catabolism, caused by high levels of circulating cytokines and low levels of IGF-1, and that these abnormalities improve with GH treatment.
- Evaluation of bone mineral density and bone turnover. This specific aim tests the hypothesis that bone density is low in chronically ill children secondary to increased osteoclast activity correlating with elevated cytokine levels.
We hypothesize that the anabolic effects of growth hormone (GH) will improve the height and weight of chronically ill children who have failed to grow despite receiving adequate nutrition via gastrostomy tube or oral supplementation.
|- Hurler Syndrome (MPS-1) With Short Stature and Muscle Wasting - Cerebral Palsy With Muscle Wasting - Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis With Muscle Wasting and Short Stature - Crohn's Disease - HIV Infection.
|Drug: Growth Hormone Procedure: Whole body Protein turnover Procedure: DEXA scan
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Crohn disease juvenile idiopathic arthritis metatropic dysplasia pseudoachondroplasia
MedlinePlus related topics: Hormones
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Cerebral Palsy Hurler Syndrome Mucopolysaccharidosis Mucopolysaccharidosis Type IU.S. FDA Resources
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We will test our hypotheses by using a pilot study, in which we will recruit 18 chronically ill children from our clinical practice. We will obtain medical records for each patient 12 months prior to starting the study. Those patients without pre-study medical records will be studied for 12 months prior to starting GH. If we can obtain 6 months of prior medical records, then the patients will be studied for 6 months before starting GH. Anything less than 6 months will be studied for the full 12 months prior to starting GH. Patients will receive treatment with GH (0.3 mg/kg/wk) for 12 months and their growth will be compared to the year before treatment. All subjects will be followed every three months for the entire study. We will measure height and weight using a standardized stadiometer and scale, respectively, every three months during the study. From these measurements we will calculate height and weight velocity and height and weight Z score. Lean body mass (LBM) will be measured by DEXA every six months. Utilizing the stable isotope 1-[13C] leucine, we will measure whole body protein turnover (WBPT). Measurements of WBPT will be correlated with LBM and changes in height and weight velocity. This data will be compared to that from age matched normal children (archival data maintained by the PI). We will measure IGF-1 and the cytokines TNF-α, IL-6 and IL 10 at baseline and very six months. We will evaluate GH effects on these levels.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|3 Years to 17 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ages 3-17 years
- Tanner stages 1-3
- Each child must have received adequate nutritional therapy supplied by aggressive oral supplementation, gastrostomy tube, or TPN for at least 1 year prior to enrollment.
- All children will have been referred for continued poor growth and will be less than the 10th percentile for height compared to age and gender normal values.
- low IGF-1 level at the time of enrollment (measured in the Endocrine clinic).
- Chronic illness to be included are Hurler Syndrome (MPS-1) with short stature and muscle wasting, cerebral palsy with muscle wasting, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with muscle wasting and short stature, Crohn's disease and HIV infection.
Exclusion Criteria:
- previous diagnosis with diabetes, chronic fevers (temp > 101.5) or chronic bacterial infection.
- substantial change in steroid dosing, or having a formerly steroid negative patient start long-term-steroids (anticipated use greater that 7 days
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00286689
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00286689
|United States, Texas
|Children's Medical Center of Dallas
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Dana S Hardin, MD
|University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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|Study First Received:
|February 1, 2006
|Last Updated:
|February 1, 2006
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
HIV Infections
Crohn Disease
Cerebral Palsy
Wasting Syndrome
Arthritis, Juvenile
Muscular Atrophy
Mucopolysaccharidosis I
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Brain Damage, Chronic
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An Early Look at the Decor Behind This Year's Big Oscars Afterparty
A Sneak Peek at the Decor and Floral Designs Behind This Year's Big Oscars Afterparty
The Oscars are still nearly three weeks away, but the party planning for the annual Academy Awards Governors Ball is already well underway. I was lucky enough to get a behind-the-scenes look at the decor and floral arrangements, along with the food and drinks by Wolfgang Puck and Katie Lee, who are setting the theme for this year's afterparty.
Mark Held, who has been designing the florals and tablescapes for the ball for nearly two decades, says this year, he took a more "whimsical" approach than in the past. Each table will be unique, but Held is incorporating metallic accents, feathers, tropical leaves, and exotic orchids — along with cabaret lamps and candles— into the designs. He's also focusing on three different color combinations: blue and purple, amber and red, and green and amber. Held says if you'd like to emulate one of his creations at home, it's all about contrast. He says, "I would say you should do something with a few small pieces rather than one, because that's what we're doing on every table. So take three small vases and put a different kind of flower in each one, and make the whole table one color . . . and then incorporate some candles with it, and that will add the ambiance and atmosphere."
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oh man this was insane
the pants and the haori were made in one friday night. yes on my friday nights I shut myself in my room and sew. I am just that cool. the Haori is a modified kimono pattern from simplicity *thanks to cosmode for the tip* and the big circles are the wrong side of black patent leather adhesive-d to the jacket. then the outer circles are hand painted with screen printing ink. at first i had a few plates to guide them but then I got peeved and started free handing them. fabric is cotton from JoAnns
the pants are a New look pajama pants pattern. there is elastic in the top and bottom. fabric from JoAnns
the Gi is a shorter version of the simplicicty kimono pattern. fabric from JoAnns.
Sash is from Rikuo cosplay hahahhahah its white poplin with hooks and eyes in the back
my socks actually dont match. they're both some horribly ita socks I found in Harajuku. the shoes are from Old Navy
the hat is stiff felt and the pattern I used is here http://tinypic.com/r/2rfdldd/7 then I found a fake fern looking thing and poked it though the hat and the wig
the necklace is pom poms stung with yarn hahahah
wings are from a costume store and are worn over the gi and the straps go through the haori
glasses are just regular glasses with the tops cut off
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Treatment of Claudication With a Peristaltic Pulse Pneumatic Device
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
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|Intermittent Claudication
|Device: Peristaltic pulse PCD Other: Exercise and lifestyle counseling
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Efficacy Study of a Peristaltic Pulse Pneumatic Device in the Treatment of Claudication
- Peak walking time (in seconds) during a graded-protocol treadmill test [ Time Frame: initial; 3 months; 6 months ]
- Claudication onset time (in seconds) during a graded-protocol treadmill test [ Time Frame: initial; 3 months; six months ]
- Walking Impairment Questionnaire, including pain subscale, speed subscale and stair climbing subscale [ Time Frame: initial; 3 months; 6 months ]
- Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) [ Time Frame: initial; 3 months; 6 months ]
- Integumentary changes as evaluated by photographs of lower extremity hair pattern and great toenail growth [ Time Frame: initial; 3 months; 6 months ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2009
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|March 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|March 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Exercise and lifestyle counselling
Patients will receive standard recommendations for ambulatory exercise and standard educational discussion of risk factor control, including smoking cessation.
Other: Exercise and lifestyle counseling
Patients will receive standard recommendations for ambulatory exercise and standard educational discussion of risk factor control, including smoking cessation.
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Experimental: PCD with peristaltic pulse waveform
Daily use for two hours
Device: Peristaltic pulse PCD
Daily use for two hours
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Detailed Description:
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a common disorder, affecting 12% of adults older than 50 years of age. Approximately one third of these patients experience intermittent claudication, defined as pain in the thigh or calf muscles during walking and that resolves with rest. Lower extremity pain is often severe enough to significantly limit ambulation, forcing many patients to seek medical care. Current treatments include two FDA-approved medications, supervised walking programs, arterial angioplasty and/or stent placement, and open arterial bypass surgery. The problem is that noninvasive treatments are oftentimes ineffective, while invasive treatments are effective but expensive.
A non-invasive lower extremity treatment that has shown success in treating lymphedema and venous insufficiency will be studied during this protocol to assess its effects on claudication symptoms. Half of the participants in this prospective, single-center randomized controlled trial will be treated with a pneumatic compression device in a home treatment program, while half will receive standard medical therapy. If effective, potential benefits are high, providing relief of personal disability and avoidance of costly surgical intervention.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Consistent claudication symptoms for at least 6 months
- ABIs at rest as follows: 0.5>ABI<0.8 minimally on one leg
Exclusion Criteria:
- Refuses to consent
- Unlikely to be compliant with protocol
- Unable to perform treadmill test
- Current use of Cilostazol (Pletal) or Pentoxyphylline (Trental)
- Lower extremity surgery or endovascular procedure within the last 3 months
- Currently has a non-healing wound on either leg
- DVT in the past 3 months
- Unstable hypertension, angina, uncontrolled glucose levels
- Participating in a supervised exercise regimen
- Claudication medications regime changed within the last 3 months
- Diagnosis of Raynaud's Disease
- Requires a custom fabricated boot appliance
- Single limb amputees meeting inclusion criteria may participate in this study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01007604
|Contact: Sharon R Besso, MS, ARNP
|802-295-9363 ext 6390
|Contact: Joseph P Duggan, DPM
|802-295-9363 ext 5289
|United States, Vermont
|White River Junction VAMC
|Not yet recruiting
|White River Junction, Vermont, United States, 05009
|Contact: Sharon R Besso, MS, ARNP 802-295-9363 ext 6390 email@example.com
|Contact: Joseph P Duggan, DPM 802-295-9363 ext 5289 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Sharon R Besso, MS, ARNP
|Principal Investigator: Joseph P Duggan, DPM
|Sub-Investigator: Caroline Whittington, DPM
|Principal Investigator:
|Sharon R Besso, MS, ARNP
|White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Joseph P Duggan, DPM
|White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|Sharon Besso, ARNP, White River Junction VAMC
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01007604 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 3, 2009
|Last Updated:
|November 3, 2009
Keywords provided by White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center:
pneumatic compression device
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Intermittent Claudication
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
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The Boy Scouts could learn a thing or two about tolerance from the Girl Scouts
This is commentary from political blogger and cartoonist Rob Tornoe.
It's that time again. All across the region, girls have begun peddling their delicious cookies, dutifully stationed outside of Wawas and grocery stores and going door-to-door with Thin Mints, Tagalongs and the rest of your resolution-destroying favorites.
I bet when you bent over to give that little girl your $20 for those delectable treats, the last thing on your mind was, "I wonder if she's gay." Like most Americans, you were probably more focused on helping fund a great scouting organization that has helped mold millions of young girls into upstanding citizens than the sexuality of the children in question.
See, the Girl Scouts are more representative of our society's every-growing inclusiveness of homosexuality. They practice what conservatives preach – they respect the values of their members and don't intrude into their personal matters. That's inclusion, not exclusion. Forget "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the Girl Scouts practice "Come One, Come All!"
And that brings me to the Boy Scouts.
As many of you might know, I'm a former Eagle Scout. Last year, I mailed my Eagle Scout Badge (much to the chagrin of my mother, a lifelong Scouting volunteer) back to the heads of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in protest of their decision to continue their discriminatory policy of banning gay scouts and scoutmasters.
Last week, when all signs seemed to point to the Boy Scouts finally changing their outdated views on what the term "morally straight" means, they backtracked again, delaying a decision on any policy change until May at the earliest. The paranoia is ridiculous.
Defenders of the Boy Scouts bigoted policies think the only thing a young man who happens to be gay cares about is having as much sex as possible and talking about it all the time. They also seem to think gay adults are the only ones capable of sexually abusing children. That doesn't require having a gay scoutmaster, it just requires having a weak or immoral one, as the Boy Scouts clearly know (and have tried to cover-up over the years).
The irony of course is any bigoted policy harms young men instead of helping them. What will a young man learn from the Boy Scouts current policies - kids that happen to be gay are somehow different and weird, and can't be trusted to participate in activities with "normal" kids? That's a far cry from the Boy Scout's slogan, "Do a good turn daily."
It's not as if the Boy Scouts have always been so vocally anti-gay. In the first edition of the Boy Scouts Handbook in 1911, they promised, "every American boy shall have the opportunity of becoming a good scout." That seems pretty inclusive to me. What makes the Boy Scouts so scared of allowing gay members into their ranks, when the Girl Scouts have been doing so successfully for as long as I can remember? It's easy to blame the influence of religion, but it's more complicated than that.
The scouting movement began in England in the early 1900s to let boys experience adventure and outdoor activities together. Lord Baden-Powell founded the scouting movement in America 1910 as a youth organization "independent of any single faith or religion." The Mormon Church basically co-opted the movement in 1913. Today, virtually every Mormon Church in the country has a scout troop, and Mormon boys are automatically enrolled in the Boy Scouts.
However, it's not that black-and-white. After all, while Mormons don't allow same-sex marriage, they do allow gay and lesbian members into the church. Even Mitt Romney, who was on the executive board of the Boy Scouts back in 1994, said he personally felt that "all people should be allowed to participate... regardless of their sexual orientation."
So why have the Boy Scouts turned up the anti-gay dial to 11 in recent years? Look no further than the current Boy Scout leadership, best embodied by Wayne Perry, a proud member of the Mormon Church and the National President of the Boy Scouts of America . According to campaign filings, Perry gave $15,000 to the Free and Strong America PAC, which among other things, helped fund outfits like the National Organization of Marriage, which worked hard to ban same-sex marriage in California.
Perry also put a lot of money behind the support of anti-LGBT candidates, like Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA). Hastings voted for a Constitutional ban on gay marriage and supports a ban on gay adoptions, and has a 0 percent voting record towards gay rights, by the Human Rights Campaign.
Think lest morals, more politics. Talk about not being trustworthy. The Girl Scouts, on the other hand, are a secular organization. Not shackled by religious bigotry, they are free to do what is in the best interest of their kids, which should really be the driving force behind any scouting organization. That's not to say they exclude religion – on the contrary, they encourage girls to take their own spiritual journeys via their own faiths' religious recognitions. Maybe it's their level of inclusiveness that makes their cookies taste so damn good.
Rob Tornoe is a political cartoonist and a WHYY contributor. See more of his work at RobTornoe.com, and follow him on twitter @RobTornoe.
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Some Catholic Ireland ResourcesThursday, February 3rd, 2011
We at Church Services TV work very closely with Catholicireland.net. Indeed we share a kitchen. kettle and daily chats with them:). So Today's blog is about what an important support they are to the Irish Catholic community.
Catholicireland.net is owned by Church Support Ltd, a registered charity in Ireland. Charity number CHY17720. www.churchsupportgroup.com
It is set up to promote and support the work of the Catholic Church in Ireland and abroad on the World Wide Web. Its aim is to ensure that the positive initiatives being taken by members of the Catholic Church in Ireland have a dynamic and attractive forum on the web and other modern media. Its goal is apostolic, to support people in the living of their Catholic faith, to reach out to those who may have drifted away and to be a source of information and inspiration for those who do not believe and are searching.
The idea is to establish Catholicireland.net as the internet Portal website, gathering all the very best of Irish Catholic activity and international links. The Catholicireland.net team will generate resources to support people at each milestone of their Catholic life.
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Why are they only showing the NIT games and not the first round NCAA games on TV? Only available online?
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Why are they only showing the NIT games and not the first round NCAA games on TV? Only available online?
NCAA games are on Tru TV, TBS, TNT, and CBS.
I thought I checked TNT and TBS last night. I'll have to locate Tru TV on the channel listing. That seems like an odd fit for NCAA games! Thanks.
The First Four was a resounding failure. You didn't miss anything worth watching by not finding truTV.
Though it does seem odd to me that they aren't moving the local games to the local CBS station. I imagine there are some Butler fans in Indy who can't find the game right now.
"I had to take her down like Chris Brown."
-Lance Stephenson
Cbs is not broadcasting in hd. Fail.
Tru tv is so I'm glad the butler game is on that channel. Its 37 on comcast.
Man, CBS is the worst sports channel ever. I don't know how they've owned the tourney for this long.
Also, way to go on blocking out Matt Howard on the final play Old Dominion. I mean it's not like he's Butler's best post player or anything.
My gripe about CBS MMOD online is that there is a little box displayed with the score of the game that is about a minute or so ahead of the action. I watched the last minute of the Butler game with the final score staring me in the face. Still an exciting finish though.
More like not blocking out Smith. He kept that ball alive for howard. And playing about sixteen minutes with four fouls was epic.
They did get better ratings for the games this year, than they have in previous years, even with the fact that not everyone gets TruTV.
Ratings are all that matters.
Huh? They blocked out Smith. He just happens to be 6'11". They completely ignored the weak side though.
Yeah I picked that Morehead State game. Not trying to toot my own horn anyting. /stops channeling his inner Naptime Seth
that was heartbreaking for my Nittany Lions...
1st weekend of the NCAA tournament.
Best four days in sports. PERIOD. NOTHING compares. Nothing.
Am I the only person that thought ODU was incredibly under seeded? Best rebounding team in the country, one of the best defensive teams in the country, 27-7, 5 wins over current tournament teams, including xavier.
9 seed?
6 wins actually. They beat a really good George Mason team. And nearly beat Georgetown.
Yeah I thought ODU should be a 5, but then they came out and laid that stinker yesterday so who knows. That Butler-ODU game was almost painful to watch.
Also can someone explain to me how Kemba Walker isn't a lock top 10 pick?
he is about 5"9
I still think he will go top 10 he is a beast
Nah, he's 6 feet for sure.
Because he has no pro position. He's a SG in a PGs body.
He reminds me a ton of Bobby Jackson.
Ben Gordon went like what, 3rd overall? How is Kemba any different?
Kemba's smaller, and doesn't have quite the range.
That said, Ben Gordon was drafted way too high.
Kemba is listed at ESPN as 6'1", but there's no way he's any taller than 5'11".
Yeah Ben Gordon small as he is has at least 3 inches and 30 lbs on Kemba.


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Despite Sunday's miserable early morning weather, the turnout at the Roundball Classic Media Day was pretty good. But, the best part of 3 hours spent there turned out to be a pep rally.
The Roundball Classic will be coming up March 28-29 at North Hagerstown HS. The big game will be the North-South alumni game on the 29th.
The picture above? Well, there are a few points scored in those careers and a few games won. …. Great seeing David Miner from South, former North coach Tim McNamee, Phil Young of Norh and many others, all absolutely excited to have the long overdue chance to play one another again.
This one is sure to be lots of fun and excitement on March 29. You can log on to the roundballclassic.com for more info.


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Date: September 30, 2012
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As I stated in my earlier article about my summer plans, this summer I wanted to re watch a series that I had watched when I was a teenager and take a look at what I think of it now. The series I decided to go with was The WB classic (and later CW but I rarely count it) Gilmore Girls. I was 13 years old when this show first premiered on The WB back in October 2000. At the time I was the ideal person that The WB advertised their shows to and to be fair, I was watching Dawson's Creek, Charmed, and 7th Heaven, so there was no way in hell that I wouldn't be watching Gilmore Girls. I mean come on; it was a show about a mother-daughter duo who also happened to be best friends where they lived in a charming small town in New England. I was sold from the very first trailer.
Now I would like to tell you that I was a clever and witty teenager who could keep up with Lorelai and Rory's pop culture reference heavy dialogues but I'd be lying. I'd have been lucky if I understood just one of their witty remarks. Even today, after re-watching the pilot, I still have to look up some of the references she and Rory and others make. It was part of what made the show so clever and unique; not only was the show about a charming mother-daughter duo, it also had sharp, witty, and pop-culture reference heavy dialogue that made it all the more interesting.
However, their sharp and witty dialogue was only half of what made Gilmore Girls so great; the other half belonged to the superb cast who made that dialogue so entertaining that it didn't matter that a 12 or 13-year-old (or younger) couldn't understand the references. The cast was that charming.
I've always had this theory that even if the show has a great script, if the actors can't live up the words that are coming out of their mouth than show wouldn't be believable. The thing that makes shows like Gilmore Girlswork is that the actors who play the characters, in this case Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel made it easy to believe that Lorelai and Rory really were pop-culture fiends. Take one of the very first scenes in which we meet Lorelai and Rory in the pilot. Lorelai, a single woman in her early thirty's, had just been hit on by an out-of-towner named Joey, at the Luke's Diner in Stars Hollow, whom she calls "a regular Jack Kerouac" in which the guy looks totally confused, when her 15-year-old daughter, Rory, walks in. They had a quick discussion about how Rory is in desperate need of lip-gloss:
LORELAI: Oh, what do you need? Hot tea, coffee RORY: Lip gloss. LORELAI: Aha. (Lorelai picks up a makeup bag.) LORELAI: I have vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and toasted marshmallow. RORY: Anything in there not resembling a breakfast cereal? LORELAI: Yes. (Lorelai pulls out another bag.) LORELAI: It has no smell but it changes colors with your mood. RORY: God, RuPaul doesn't need this much makeup. LORELAI: Well you're crabby.
A few seconds later Joey, the out of towner who hit on Lorelai comes back to hit on Rory. Lorelai introduces Rory as her daughter to Joey, much to his puzzlement. As if we already didn't know, we now know that this is no ordinary mother-daughter relationship.
As I said earlier, it's not just the two main stars that make this show work; it's the entire cast that makes it work. During that earlier scene in which that poor man hit on both Gilmore Girls, we meet Luke, the owner of Luke's Diner. It is obvious he knows Lorelai well as he is the one who feeds her caffeine addiction, much to his chagrin. At one point she even calls him "Office Krupke" after he tells her about how unhealthy it is to drink that much coffee.
Stars Hollow. I cannot write a pilot review without talking about the town that became on the most idyllic locations in TV history. Stars Hollow is the small town in Connecticut (about 30 minutes outside of Hartford, according to Rory) where our Gilmore girls live. After giving birth to Rory it was the town to which Lorelai ran away too and has since never moved away. It is an extremely charming little town with its variety of zany residents. We don't meet all the residents in the pilot episode but we do meet some, like Ms. Patty, the dance instructor as well as resident town gossip.
We are also introduced to Lorelai's place of work: the Independence Inn. Lorelai is the general manager. There we meet two of her quirky co-workers, Sookie, the head chef and Michele, the rude and constantly annoyed French concierge. It is obvious from the very first scene that Sookie and Lorelai have together that they are best friends. Throughout the entire series, Lorelai and Sookie's friendship grows into something very special, and in my opinion remains one of the best parts about this series.
After meeting Lorelai's crazy staff and friends at the Inn, we move on to the high school where we learn that Rory is not your average teenage girl. While other girls are not paying attention in class and talking about nail polish and boys, Rory is actually studying. She spends her free time doing extra credit and reading the classics, like Madame Bovary or Moby Dick. She also has a quirky best friend named Lane, who is Korean. After school we meet Lane's mother, Mrs. Kim, who isn't all that fond of Lorelai because she is an unwed mother. Mrs. Kim is a total dictator whom Lane has to constantly hide stuff from, like her personality. One thing that I still find completely fascinating about this series is Lane and Mrs. Kim's relationship as a foil to Lorelai and Rory's relationship. Lane's relationship with her mother may be completely different from her best friend's but the story that develops throughout the series is just as compelling.
The main arc of the series begins when Lorelai gets a letter that says that Rory has been admitted to an exclusive private school called Chilton. It has been Rory's dream since she was a young girl to go to Harvard and being admitted into Chilton is almost a sure-fire way of securing that little dream of hers. There is just one slight problem: Lorelai doesn't have the funds to send her daughter to this élite private school. After searching for solutions left and right and ending up short, she finally decides to ask her parents for help.
It is here in which we meet Richard and Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop and Edward Herrmann), Lorelai's parents. We learn that after Lorelai had Rory at 16, she ran away from home and since has only seen her parents on holidays like Christmas and Easter. Richard and Emily are high society brats, Richard works as the vice president to a highly regarded insurance firm and Emily is a socialite. Lorelai never wanted to have to go her parents for a situation like this but she was desperate. Emily, finally seeing a way in says that they will give her the money but only if they can be a part of Rory's life, which means weekly Friday night dinners at their house. Lorelai reluctantly agrees.
At the Friday night dinner we find out just how strained Lorelai's relationship with her parents really is. She was already in a fight with Rory about Rory's new reluctance to go to Chilton (because she met a boy named Dean) and being at her parents wasn't making her feel any better. When Richard and Emily bring up Rory's father, Christopher, Lorelai loses it. We learn that Lorelai feels like her parents have always loved Christopher more, even though she never married him –something her mother reminds her of often. Though they make up briefly this is nor the first or last fight that will occur between Emily and Lorelai.
The episode ends with Lorelai and Rory at Luke's. Rory has just found out what her mom has had to sacrifice to have her daughter go to Chilton and agrees to go. They share a very sweet moment in which Rory tells her how brave her mother is before Rory gets grilled by her mother about Dean, in which Rory pulls out the daughter card and tells her mother that it is none of her damn business proving that there might be something normal about this mother-daughter relationship after all.
Other Thoughts/Quotes/Observations
~ It's funny to notice the differences between the pilot and the rest of the episodes in the series. Luke's for example, looks very different. Same goes for Lorelai's jeep.
~I forgot how dark and mysterious they made Dean in the first episode, considering how sweet he really ends up being. I don't understand why they tried to give him a bad boy type look when he was anything but.
~ I hate Emily's hair in the first season. It's just dreadful.
~I completely forgot about the rude harp player, who was only around for like a couple of episodes I believe before they gave her the boot. I like the troubadours better.
And finally, here is how I plan on writing about the first season. As I stated earlier, I will write another review at the end of every 3 episodes. This is mainly because there are 21 episodes and writing an episode a week would a really long time. This way, if I want, I can maybe even get through the end of season 2 by the end of summer. We'll see. What I do know is that the next post will be about the episodes 2-4, since they do a really great job at setting up who the characters are, their background stories, and why the town of Stars Hollow is just so special. It should post sometime next week.
Also, please feel free to comment on things I might have missed or other observations you remember about the Pilot. Gilmore Girls is such a clever show that I am positive there are things that I still missed, so I welcome opinions and thoughts! See ya next week!


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BWW JR: Off Broadway Alliance Recognizes Outstanding Family Theatre
Yesterday, BroadwayWorld reported that The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing firms, has announced the nominees for the 2nd Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off Broadway during the 2011-2012 season.
It's especially exciting to note that among the categories of nominated shows is the Best Family Musical group, which includes a number of BroadwayWorld Jr. faves!
Congratualtions to Alice in Wonderland, The Amazing Max and the Box of Interesting Things, The Berenstain Bears LIVE!, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The OhmiesandStinkykids, The Musical.
It's been a great year for family theatre, and BroadwayWorld Jr is thrilled to see some of the best being recognized this year. Winners will be announced May 22nd. For more information, visit www.offbroadwayalliance.com
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Jim Heynen, Associate Professor Emeritus of English, will read from and discuss his new book The Fall of Alice K. Jim is best known for his collections of short prose featuring young farm boys: The One Room Schoolhouse, The Boys' House and Fishing for Chickens. His poetry includes The Man Who Kept Cigars in His Hat and, most recently, Standing Naked. The author has been featured on NPR and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both poetry and fiction.
We are happy to welcome back Jim Heynen who was a part of the English Department faculty at St. Olaf From 1992 until 2007.
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