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Squier Telecaster Special w/ Pics
Hey, this is my first post and I joined today bc I bought a new electric...after selling off a crappy Ibanez strat copy, a Mexican Fender Strat sunburst, and a 1978 Gibson THE Paul I finally came back to the electric...
I've been searching for a Squier Telecaster with the dark walnut finish and searching for weeks on craigslist expecting never to find it I FOUND ONE! FOR $100 bucks!...the thing is flawless...it screams and the tones are 1000% better than any of my previous guitars...its a discontinued model? and/or color...Ill post a few pics...I am looking to emulate George Harrison's Let It Be roof concert Telecaster..the rosewood one...mines not rosewood but its in the same vein color wise, just need to add a black pickguard and ill be on my way...thinking about keeping the electronics as is for now and staining the headstock to match the body...thoughts?..Im just trying to emulate not duplicate..
Another crazy thing about craigslist is that sometimes there are crazy guitars for very cheap...not that the Tele is a crazy guitar...but I replyed to a listing that said a 1960s Fender Telecaster and a 1960s Gibson guitar with a bird on it for sale...$100 for the Tele and $75 for the Gibson!!!...I jumped all over it and asked for pics and description but she never got back to me, said her uncle had left them behind from the 60s...a week later they were listed for $3000 each...someone either smartened her up or she got 100000 emails and figured it out herself...so just look out for those kind of deals in your town..
EDIT : I know selling the Mex and the 78 sounds dumb but I sold them like 5 years ago when I had some issues...I would take this guitar over both of em anyways...I bought the THE PAUL from a bum for $25 at Home Depot and it ended up being worth around $800...sold it for $400 and change...anyone else played a THE PAUL not a Les Paul...
EDIT 2 : For some reason the pics didnt come over so I just took some more...I name my guitars so the Tele is named Abbey and the Hofner is named Loretta...
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Happy new guitar day, but you may want to refer to the NGD sticky at the top of the Electric Guitar Forum page, because to post a NGD, you need pictures and a reveiw, but since you are new, they may let it slide, but you can work around it an make this NGD thread work.
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Thank you!.....so many rules...I had posted this same thread but in the wrong place and it wont let me repost the pics...im trying to download new ones...only take a minute or two...Im a newbie...sorry..
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Location: NewYork ............................... Hot Chick guitahh playah ~~teh sexay
nice pic, add some reviews too.
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Slamming into a A7 sends chills down my spine as the opening chord of Sgt. Pepper screams out of the amp sitting at my feet, I head into the following riff and repeat the same startling A7 chord and bust into the C7 plus riff and belt out, " It was 20 years ago today!"...The late sixties sound is bouncing off the walls in my room, knocking down paintings, killing cats!...The axe responsible for this mayhem is none other than a Squier Telecaster Standard Special Edition in "Walnut Satin" though I would call the hue more of a deep reddish mahogany. After years of dispising the brand and even Fenders as a whole I've come to my senses. I had a bad experience with a Mexican Fender Strat a few years back and it left a bad taste in my mouth bc of dull tones and frustration with the beast. I was guitar free for quite a few years until I got the itch again and started researching to make a purchase. I loved the custom rosewood Telecaster George Harrison played during the rooftop concert for Let It Be and it absolutely mesmerized me, I had to have IT, or something comparable.
During my research I found that I don't have the funds to procure a real rosewood Tele and definitely not rich enough to buy Harrison's exact Tele thats on auction for $40,000. I end up finding the Squier Standard Telecaster in Walnut Satin, obviously inspired by George's rosewood and I just had to have it. A online guitar site had it online for $229 but there was only one problem, it was discontinued!...Long story short I find a version of the guitar by Squier on craigslist at a steal for $100 and it was in prestine condition. Now onto the real review.
I am not much a guitar tech or guitar head and I couldn't tell you much of anything except for things I know from looking at the guitar from the exterior but here's my attempt at sounding competent. Okay the Tele has a dual humbucking pickup at the bridge that sounds Fing great and a regular single coil I believe at the base of the neck. I fooled around with the 3 settings and if I had to explain the tones in the terms of Beatle songs I would say the first position will give you a basic almost acoustic like Blackbird sound. Position 2 gives me a I Me Mine sharpness but a little funk thrown in. Lastly the 3rd position i've gone over...start jamming a A7 and you got yourself the opening of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Bottem line the guitar can rip any kind of tune you would like rock, funk, blues, country ect.
The finish is a matte dark stain that the seller likened to maroon but I would call it a reddish mahogany if that makes sense. The stain is solid like and full but at the same time showing some beautiful wood grains beneath. The neck I believe has a maple back with a black skunk stripe but the fret board is rosewood that I can live with but I'm not impressed with. The headstock as you can see from the pics is a natural unglossed color that claims the guitar is a Squier Telecaster Standard Series, bc of color and lack of pickguard it is considered a Special Edition also avaliable in Black.
Okay I'm getting called for dinner, if any other info is needed i'll provide it but this is all I can think of for a review right now, bc the review was manditory I guess....She is one heavy SOB though I can tell you that, maybe thats why they brought back the thin lines bc it was knocking over those old rockers. Being a young buck I don't mind it but I'll probably pay for it with back problems in my 60s....Okay gotta jet...out of 10 I would give her a 7.5 based on the total package...others might disagree or may have a different criteria for judging but this is just my humble opinion...enjoy...I would recommend it to everyone...
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yeah their totally different guitars...but I like the scheme of it and Im not rich...congrats on the $90 deal...I would of payed more if I knew the guitar sounded as good as it did..enjoy yours and if you think its a piece of shite thats your opinion and you can throw yours out for all i care...I like mine but it wont be my last guitar...I just needed an electric and I got the one I wanted for half of what I had in my pocket on that day...sorry if im sounding like a dick but people have been jerk offs to me on this site so far ( not in this particular thread ) and I cant tell if your picking on me or not....if not sorry
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nah, he's a good guy. just saying to show the guitar pic. here, ya go.
here's the TSs guitar!!!
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TBH, don't let any dingaling jerk-offs bother you. And if they picked on you, so what?
Hi Jen!
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sorry...I just came back over here from reading a bunch of BS some people wrote on a different thread I had to delete...I just took your good gesture wrong...thank you for posting all the George Rosewood pics...appreciate it bc its a GREAT guitar and not enough people know about it...it usually wouldn't bother me...its just the first day I'm posting and I've been a reader of this forum for a while and didn't expect people to be that rude...thank you for being cool...appreciate it...
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Cool! I posted the close-out of that model in 6 or 8 threads about 2 years ago. It has awesome specs, very similar features as the Fender Tele, except for the H-S PU config.
I might mod it to look like a Tuxedo Tele: Black with White binding, refinished Black neck with binding, etc.
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Nice...why do you think Squier got rid of it?...from what I read a lot of people like that guitar and that finish on the normal Telecaster Standard but their unavaliable now...makes it sort of a hot item so I'm not sure why they are getting sold on the cheap...
Tuxedo Tele eh?..just looked it up looks pretty sick...if your into it that would be a good project...Im not a huge fan of my fret board so if its possible I might refinish or swap out for something a tad bit nicer...Might go with a lighter colored wood...originally I was going to throw on a black pick guard but after having it in hand I'm not going to do it...
do they make like chrome pickup covers?...something to make the pickups a little classier looking...
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Baby Name Poll Results
Vaughn vs. Flint vs. Reed
Which name do you like best for a little boy-firstborn?
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I actually love the name Vaughn, but NOT as a first name. I think it makes a wonderful middle name. Think about it. ;) So I picked Reed, even though I\'m not wild about that name. Flint I highly dislike. A caveman comes immediately to mind. But whatever you choose, make sure it\'s right for your family!
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I love the name Reed! GL!
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Vaughn reminds me of an OLD man..not a name for a baby
Reed the same thing
Flint is ok (much prefer Flynn)
Reed the same thing
Flint is ok (much prefer Flynn)
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(Because many local and distant waters are beginning to slow down as far as productive fishing is concerned, and concessionaires who rent out boats having packed it in for the year, we now switch to a different format. Today is the first of our cold-weather fishing reports. Actually, it's about colder water temperatures that reduce the movements of a number of fish species. What the air feels like to humans has little to do with it. However, there are some places that will deliver the goods throughout the freezing months, and they will be highlighted every week as readers continue to look for watery places to visit. The regular fishing report with its dozens of listings will - depending on the weather - resume in March 2012.)
For anyone who owns a fishing boat or is willing to stand ashore when nighttime temperatures reach freezing, the top choice from December through February easily can be the large blue catfish that inhabit the upper tidal reaches of the Potomac River. They can be found from the Fletcher's Cove area of the river in Georgetown downstream to western Charles County, in Southern Maryland.
However, the blue cats especially seem to like an area just outside the tributary Piscataway Creek in Prince George's County, Md., where the water depths drop from as little as 12 feet to 35-foot layers, which is perfect for boaters. The area of the green "can" buoy outside the creek mouth, marking the edge of the main-stem of the river, is a good place to check with an electronic depth sounder that can mark the presence of the fish as they gather just above the bottom.
For shore-bound anglers, Fort Washington, run by the National Park Service, has an access road and parking spot not far from the water. Fishermen gather around the very point at the Fort Washington Light to cast their lines into the depths of the Potomac's main body. Typical baits include whole filleted slabs of menhaden, herring or small bluefish (if you can find someone who has a few in a freezer). Most anglers use stout 9- or 10-foot rods, with at least 20- to 30-pound testline on saltwater spinning reels. A 4-ounce bank sinker is slipped onto the line, followed by a large two-way swivel that tied to the end of the line that holds the weight; the other side of the swivel will then be connected to the end loop of a large snelled hook, something in the 6/0 or 7/0 size. This type of rig is known as a fish finder. The skin-on fish fillet is hooked, twisted, then hooked through once more. It will keep the catfish from stealing the bait.
Set the reel drag fairly light or open the bail altogether when a catfish picks up the bait. It should be able to pull line from the reel without noticing any real resistance. Meanwhile, the sinker stays in place, not alarming the fish. Allow it to take the bait, then adjust your spinning reel's drag quickly (or take a baitasting reel's click function off), remove slack line if there is any, and set the hook with all you've got.
The fight is on. Don't be surprised if a 30- or 40-pounder soon thrashes on the surface. Here's hoping you have a large landing net. Blue catfish can attain weights in excess of 100 pounds, although a 60-plus pounder is the biggest ever caught in the Potomac.
Crappie and bass bite continues. There is no reason why tidal Potomac River fans between Washington and Virginia's Prince William County shouldn't be hunting for local crappie and largemouth bass. Both species are available in the Spoils Cove, near Wilson Bridge, also the various marina docks and sea walls in the Swan and Piscataway creeks, and do not overlook the possibilities offered by the Occoquan Bay and River on the Virginia side of the Potomac; ditto for Potomac and Aquia creeks, also Mallows Bay on the Maryland shore. The same goes for Virginia lakes, such as Anna, Gaston and Kerr.
Chesapeake's stripers are waiting. The Maryland and Northern Neck portions of Virginia of the Chesapeake Bay are sure to give up more whopping-size rockfish this week, along with plenty of smaller resident stripers. The most productive catches have come from a broad area between Southern Maryland and the state's Eastern Shore. However, the lower Potomac and Patuxent rivers, as well as Bay portions toward the Choptank River, also provide decent catches. For example, local angler Frankie Houser came into Lexington Park's Tackle Box over the weekend and reported that he caught two 45-inch rockfish, one 43-incher, two 40-inch long beauties and one that measured 39 inches - all in one pass of trolling at Cedar Point around noon. Meanwhile, don't forget that the striped bass season ends in Maryland waters Dec. 15, but continues in the Potomac River and Virginia waters until Dec. 31.
Virginia ocean and bay. Dr. Ken Neill, the lower Chesapeake Bay and nearby Atlantic Ocean fishing phenom, sent word that warm water moved into the offshore Norfolk Canyon and on toward North Carolina. "Boats that ran out there found yellowfin tuna and wahoo waiting for them," he said and added that swordfish are available for boaters willing to spend the night, since swordfish are more likely to pick up lures and baits in the dark.
Virginia's close-in offshore Triangle Wreck is loaded with jumbo sea bass. "Some of those sea bass may come up [cut] in half due to the bluefish that are roaming around," said Neill. Meanwhile, tautog action is good at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and other nearby structures. Rockfish catches definitely are improving. "A number of 40-plus-pound stripers have been caught at the northern section of the bridge-tunnel," Neill said. "Larger fish should become more available each week."
By the way, Virginia's tautog regulations are about to become more restrictive. The state must decrease both recreational and commercial tautog landings by 53 percent. Proposals include reducing the bag limit to three fish, increasing the minimum size to as much as 17 inches and increasing the closed time period to as long as 177 days. Let the Virginia Marine Resources Commission know which of the regulation proposals you find least attractive by going to www.mrc.state.va.us/Notices/pn_multi1211.shtm.
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Host Andrew Denton on the set of Randling.
MY LATE maternal grandmother, who with the merest sigh could cause ice to form on skirting boards, was acerbic to the point of oxidisation. At a family lunch in Sydney many years ago, the jolly party at the next table burst into laughter, as jolly parties do. Granny, shuddering, while pursing her lips and clenching her teeth, muttered, ''Nothing could be that funny.''
Over the years I have often reflected on this maxim. When crying with laughter over something that transcended mere amusement - for example, noting the exquisite fact that Otis Elevators' Adelaide office is housed in a one-storey building - I think, would granny have cracked a smile?
She has become my posthumous comedy-gauge equivalent of The Old Grey Whistle Test - that long-ago British television pop show whose songs were judged successful only after they were whistled by the ancient BBC on-set security guard.
The old grey humour test has been on my mind recently. In fact, I have had sufficient cause for revisionism: was granny actually right?
The reason for this astonishing volte-face can be laid at the door of our esteemed Australian Broadcasting Corporation (television division). Not strictly what it shows on our screens, but the way it chooses to tell us about it.
The ABC's relentless promotions, artificially pumped full of cheer, overwrought adjectives and adverbial verbiage, as inferior ice-cream is inflated with air, achieve two things: they reincarnate granny as a philosopher way ahead of her time; and they put me off watching the actual programs being spruiked.
Just one promo for Andrew Denton's new quiz show, Randling, which consists entirely of people throwing their heads back and laughing, reinforces the old refrain: nothing could be that funny. Is it? Well, I haven't seen the program, but feel I have.
Unfortunately, ABC marketers seem to believe everything is funny. Even purportedly serious programs such as Q&A are rendered hopelessly comedic, even farcical, by dint of how they are promoted. I think particularly of the live promo just after Media Watch, with make-up artists playfully dusting Tony Jones' eyebrows or the back of Christopher Pyne's neck.
What is this supposed to convey? That any forthcoming intelligence or seriousness will be tempered with fun and games? I don't really know, as Q&A is also on my banned list. Mind you, those spasmodic twitter-droppings spattered across the bottom of the screen are another abiding repellent.
Watching ABC TV these days is a constant battle of wits between mind and heart and remote-control. It takes agility and nimble fingers to locate and activate the mute button. The moment a program finishes, on march the promos, joined trunk-to-tail like a procession of circus elephants.
For a while, earlier this year, it seemed as if the public face of the public broadcaster was Adam Hills, whose crinkly winking visage was as ubiquitous as the Queen's on our coinage. Then they got tired of him, and he was replaced with hectares of Ms Essie Davis as Miss Phryne Fisher, looking so awfully '20s. Now it's Andrew Denton and the Laughing Panellists in silly jackets.
The terrible inevitability of saturation selling is audience alienation. If I regard over-promotion - I nearly wrote ''self-promotion'', but that comes with the territory - as counter-effective and a form of torture-by-television, how many other regular viewers are put off?
It's not only the program promos, but all those others, including those endless epistles for the ABC Shop and the goodies therein, which constitute a neat form of in-house advertising and are therefore exempt from the corporation's strict guidelines on commercials. But isn't it still product placement of the only product the ABC can sell - itself?
So often the ABC insists it is above chasing ratings. Why, then, the need for the perennial promos? They may well be the stuffing in the turkey that is commercial television, but what point is there in running so many of them on a network that would be better off devoting its energies to creating or commissioning programs?
At the moment, to paraphrase granny, the promo makers seem to subscribe to the view ''nothing could be that serious''.
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We never got our gutters cleaned this Fall, let alone added gutter guards to keep them clean. Trouble.
Our bedroom ceiling has sprung a leak. And overgrown trees in our yard are swaying like hammocks.
But, in the gloom and doom of what will/might happen to our house I can't help but think of upcycling projects I'd like to do in the aftermath and clean-up of Sandy.
So, in the thoughts that there might be some of you who are sick of watching weather forecasts, here are some clever projects I found while searching the internet.
With any luck, everyone will stay safe and there will be lot's of discarded items up for grabs for clever folks like us.
Happy Sandy Upcycling!
My first thought, gutters - if your in need of replacements, don't let the old ones go to waste.
Plant a wall garden instead.
When you replace your old gutters, why not get a little crafty with the project -
If the gutters are still functional, donate them to your local nursery school for some water play.
After your trees fall (hopefully in the right direction) try one of these projects with your scraps -
and if you're hosting Thanksgiving, you have just hit the jackpot!
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And, my all time fav...
If we don't loose a tree in this storm, I will drive around looking for tree guys and beg them to cut me these slices.
Once the shock of our bedroom ceiling leaking sunk in, I won't lie. I started to think of what the possibilities could be for our "new" bedroom. After the ceiling caves in.
Yes, I would really do this to my bedroom ceiling.
Speaking of ceilings. I think I'll paint my dining room ceiling while stuck at home.
The winning color is Silver Marlin, by Ben Moore.
I'll also be adding some grasscloth wall paper to the walls above the board and batten.
If you're new here, you can see what my dining room currently looks like now here.
I hope I succeeded in keeping your mind off the storm for a little while.
If you're on the east coast I hope you are safe!
*added - if a tree must hit my house, I am crossing my fingers that it only takes out a bathroom , or two. With no people in it. And, if you're wondering what I'd do to that bathroom - check here


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Tom Clancy's series has been around for a long time, yet the multiplayer pc experience with GRFS seems like this was their first attempt at multiplayer gaming.
Rainbow Six series allowed for downloadable weapons mods, modifiable characters (you could add your Clan's own patch to the character's uniform), and the options to join whichever server you wanted at any time. The servers showed connection strength, numbers of players, with each having a chat room so you could coordinate.
No offense Ubisoft, but Red Storm knew how to develop a multiplayer game, and the Rainbow Six series had far more allowable customization and flexibility, and less BUGs.
I have a better than average connection, disabled firewall, CAT 6 hard-wired connection to a top-of-the-line gaming router, with a quad core I7 and GE Force graphics card and still deal with frequent "connection lost to server" and other buggy issues. WHAT'S THE DEAL UBISOFT? Of course there will be occasional connection losses, but it shouldnt take 15-20min (sometimes more) to get a game going. PLEASE FIX THESE CONNECTIONS ISSUES (or find a new way).
You have loyal followers who love the game and only want to be able to PLAY. The problem is Ubisoft seems less than willing to take a serious look at fixing these issues and providing good customer service. It's amazing you still have customers with the problems this game has.
The entire friends deal in GRFS is less than stellar. Its a great platform that has potential, but not enough flexibility. ONLY 10 FRIENDS?? REALLY??? An average clan has a lot more than 10 members, some over 100, or even 1,000. Why is it such a big deal to show a friend as being online or getting someone to join one of your games. The option to JOIN a friend playing another game is an excellent idea, the only issue is there is no TWO WAY COMMUNICATION. If a friend is in a game you cant send a message and say "Hey brother, please invite me to your game". There is no two-way communication, which makes it frustrating to coordinate with your team.
Im sorry but the weapons need improvement. The options are very limited, and even afte you work your way up to a higher level, the new weapons offered really arent much better than the ones you have already been using. Shouldnt you have more options, or at the very least, more powerful weapons. Some of the higher level weapons are worse than the lower level ones.
Only one grenade? REALLY?? Most soldier carry more than 1 grenade, why not 3? Or the option of more the higher level you attain (ie. a pouch that allows 2 or 3 at a higher level).
We need MORE MAPS! We love the game, but the same maps gets very old quickly. Why not let us use some of the maps in Guerrilla warfare options, or come out with some expansion packs. The game will not grow if new options, maps, fixes, do not become available.
I hope someone out there is listening to the customer and fixes some of these issues in an otherwise great game with LOTS OF POTENTIAL.


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Creamy Chipotle Cauliflower
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 35 mins
Three peppers goes into this recipe. Chipotle, fire roasted, and dried paprika. You can't say your cauliflower is bland!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 large cauliflower
- 10 garlic cloves, peeled
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
- 1⁄8 cup flour
- 1 cup warm milk
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (about 8 oz.)
- 1 -2 chipotle chile in adobo
- 1 fire roasted red pepper, your own or store bought
- 1⁄2 teaspoon sweet paprika or 1⁄2 teaspoon hot paprika, your choice
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- In a large pan toss cauliflower and garlic with oil. Spread so in a single layer and not bunched in.Season with salt and pepper to taste. Roast 25 minutes toss and roast for 10 more minutes.
- Add milk, paprika, fire roasted and chipotle peppers to blender and blend till smooth.
- Meanwhile in a microwave safe dish heat butter when melted add flour stir and add milk mixture whisking in till smooth heat in microwave oven 3 minutes,stirring when needed add cheese stirring in till melted heating in micro 2-3 more minutes. Keep an eye on it so it doesn`t bubble over.
- Pour over the roasted cauliflower and serve.
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This was perfect to use the enormous head of cauliflower that I got on sale yesterday. The sauce is delicious with just a touch of heat. I made the sauce on the stove top while the cauliflower was roasting so everything was ready at the same time. My husband, the vegetable hater, gave this recipe a big thumbs up so for sure I will be making it again.
Oh yum! Talk about comfort food at it's best. The chipotle chile in adobo was the perfect accompaniment to this savory dish. I followed this completely as we love cauliflower, fresh from the garden, and the kick of the chile. Will make this many times over. Very easy to put together, as I made the sauce stove top, and threw it in my toaster oven for warming, and development of flavor. Absolutely a winner to us! Thanks, Rita! Made for *ZWT3 07*
My son did not care for the garlic but I liked this recipe. I have a convection oven so I'll need to cut back on the first 25 minutes of roasting, I'll try 15 to 20 mins next time. I also think you could use 1 1/2 heads of cauliflower as this makes a lot of sauce. Oh yes, and I opted to use the stove top to make the sauce. Thanks Rita, I'll be making this one again. Made for ZWT III 2007 - United States Region


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Thomson Reuters(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co's
Chief Compliance Officer Cindy Armine is expected to take a job at payment processor First Data Corp, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. (http://r.reuters.com/qap27v)
JPMorgan could not be immediately reached for comment outside regular U.S. business hours.
Last year, the company agreed to about $20 billion in settlements to clear up legal claims. The deals covered claims about mortgage issues, as well as derivatives and power trading.
According to the WSJ report, the bank's Chief Administrative Officer, Lou Rauchenberger, has been appointed as interim chief compliance officer and the company is looking for a permanent replacement.
Earlier on Tuesday, the JPMorgan announced 8,000 jobs cuts and lowered its 2014 profit target, hurt by weakness in its mortgage and trading business.
(Reporting by Anannya Pramanick in Bangalore; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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Most scientists don't believe AGW is happening (?)
Nope, sorry, I don't accept the validity of this statement. There may be protestors within various Institutions; and lists of people who dispute the consensus view on Wikipedia; and lists of unscientific people that do not; but…
Wikipedia also contains a great deal of evidence to suggest that the overwhelming majority of scientists of all kinds accept the genuine consensus view that AGW is happening:
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
Indeed, the above (very long article) includes reference to the fact that more than 97% of published climate scientists take this view:
See http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/04/1003187107.full.pdf+html
Furthermore, there is also no EVIDENCE of a massive scientific conspiracy just to keep a few researchers busy. In fact, as George Monbiot has said, "It is hard to convey just how selective you have to be to dismiss the evidence for climate change. You must climb over a mountain of evidence to pick up a crumb: a crumb which then disintegrates in your palm. You must ignore an entire canon of science, the statements of the world's most eminent scientific institutions, and thousands of papers published in the foremost scientific journals".
See http://www.monbiot.com/2005/05/10/junk-science/
And as James Hoggan has said: "Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy. There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness".
See http://www.desmogblog.com/about-climate-cover
And finally, as I have said, "There is simply no evidence for your left-wing conspiracy to over-tax and over-regulate people; so as to make everyone poorer. Whereas, there is a great deal of evidence for a right-wing conspiracy to under-tax and under-regulate industry; so as to make a few people richer…"
So, will people please stop saying things that are not true? No matter how many times you say such things; it will not stop them being false. But it will prevent concerted, effective action being taken on a global scale to address a truly global problem.
Conspiracy theory – History for losers
So says David Aaronovitch in Voodoo Histories – and he is absolutely right. (For the benefit of new readers, David Aaronovitch is an old favourite of mine but let's not digress; unless you want to)…
In 2007, the American Physical Society (APS) decided to get off the fence and endorse the need for action to mitigate AGW; and 260 of its 48,000 members (by conventional maths that is just over 0.5%) have subsequently complained. Unfortunately, simple maths was apparently insufficient reason for influential British sceptical politicians like the Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP to choose to ignore such protests. On the contrary, he highlighted this protest in Parliament citing it as legitimate reason to question the scientific consensus that human activity is indeed affecting global climate.
The Institute of Physics (IOP) got into a similar mess after asking Energy Consultant (founder of Crestport Services) Peter Gill (just possibly prejudiced in favour of the continuance of "business as usual"?) to compile a highly sceptical submission (e.g. claiming that "Unfortunately, for many people [AGW] has become a religion, so facts and analysis have become largely irrelevant") to the Parliamentary Select Committee investigating the UEA/CRU email scandal. The whole fiasco left the IOP looking very foolish indeed.
And yet, these losers will not (it seems) give up.
As a first step towards realising their folly, they could all do a lot worse that read Ben Goldacre's Bad Science because the continuing existence of AGW denial can only be explained by the fact that its proponents are guilty of one or more of the fundamental mistakes Goldacre highlights in his book (see my previous post yesterday). Furthermore, he is therefore right to conclude that… "You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themself into".


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I hear that, man. My files usually get to around the same as yours and then I start going back and deleting layers.
I have been working on a large map in photoshop that is mostly depicting political divisions and hundreds of cities, which I intend to replicate on a large board to be hung on a wall in my room. Currently the photoshop version is 9748 x 7664 pixels. While working on the map, the program was slow, saving took too long, and it just made the process frustrating.
When I tried to copy the file to an external backup drive down in the basement, I discovered that it was 812mb.
Well, no wonder my computer was having problems.
So I went into the file and tried to see what I could do to reduce the size. The resolution could not be changed for practical reasons, and every layer in use was meaningful and could not be merged. Until I realized that every twelve or so layers had an invisible layer between them with outdated information. And at the bottom of the layer list I still had some lighting effects and terrain detail layers that weren't in use and were left over from when I was working in a dfferent style. And at the top of the layer list was my "overlays" folder. Five of the six layers there were now unnecessary because they were from yet another map style I tried that I decided against for practical reasons (since I am going to hand draw this).
So, after cutting out the now redundant layers, unused blank layers, obsolete details, unneeded effects and overlays, my project was cut down to a mere 95.3mb. Now I can edit with ease and save quickly. And copying the file to the drive takes seconds instead of an estimated time of 28 minutes.
People invented the facepalm smiley for exactly these kind of events.
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Children's Mass at St. Ann Basilica a family affair
The Children's Mass at St. Ann Basilica has become a multigenerational tradition for Rosie Wincovitch and Renee Lenceski.
The Taylor and Old Forge residents, respectively, are sisters and now take their children to the Mass they never missed as children. "It's special because it is for the kids, right down to the homily," Mrs. Lenceski said.
They joined about 600 people gathered outside on the grounds of the basilica in West Scranton for the Mass celebrated by the Rev. Michael Greene, C.P., who stepped into the makeshift altar in a bandshell trimmed with bright Mylar balloons to the opening hymn, "All Are Welcome."
Children joined the Rev. Greene, of the Bronx, N.Y., as lectors, ushers and servers. Readings focused on issues of family and children. The Mass is part of the 10-day Novena to St. Ann, drawing thousands to the basilica.
In his homily, the Rev. Greene told the story of two children, ages 18 and 13, left alone for a weekend full of poor judgments and mishaps children would recognize from a movie or television show. In the same way as those parents, he said, God trusts and has expectations. Sometimes, people fail, learn and, hopefully, become better.
"Parents and children share love, laughter and sometimes loss, but always retain a sense of loyalty," the Rev. Greene said. "You are a gift to your family, and your family is a gift to you."
With a weeklong heat wave relenting, many children enjoyed the rare opportunity to sit in the grass on a picnic blanket to attend church. The novelty of the outdoor Mass had appeal for Donna Fazio's children. But now they are in their teens and 20s, and it's harder to convince them to attend. The Sturges woman joined her friend, Rosalie Bialy, on folding chairs in the shade.
"The kids used to love it because being outside was so different," Ms. Fazio said. "My 14-year-old said she'll come, but hasn't been yet."
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Auteur: Grant Lovejoy
Date: 09.06.2010
Category: Oralité, Écritures, Formation de dirigeants
When I taught Chronological Bible Storying at an African seminary a few years ago, I asked the students to use Bible storying in ministry and write a report about how it went. Many students said it had worked well for them and their group. But several of the students who were also pastors noted in their reports that using Bible storying had or would create problems for them and their churches. Here's how I remember their reports:
"When I used the CBS method at the church where I have been pastor for nearly three years, I also allowed time for discussion. During the discussion I discovered that the church members are much more intelligent than I had thought. Though the people are not educated, they asked questions about the Bible story that I could not answer. I have learnt that I must prepare more carefully if I am going to continue using this method."
"I used the CBS method during the Sunday School hour because our lesson books have not yet arrived from the publishing house. When I told the Bible story, the people listened intently. Even the older men who usually sleep through the SS class listened very well. When I began asking the discussion questions, though, the members answered eagerly, many trying to talk at the same time. They were so enthusiastic that the discussion ran even into the time for the worship service. I think that this CBS method will create a problem for our church because it makes people not enter into the worship service on time."
"I decided to tell my church the Bible story of how God created the spirit beings, and how some of them rebelled and were put under his judgment. During the discussion about the story, I discovered that several of my members were previously in a cult group who worships angels. I discoverd that they are still worshiping angels. They seem to have learnt almost nothing from the topical sermons I have been preaching for the last two-and-a-half years."
Bible storying can be disruptive to a church and its pastor. You have been duly warned!
Mots-clés: Bible story, storying, pastoral training, Bible study
Chronological Bible Storying seems to have hit a spiritual nerve in these churches mentioned in what I perceive to be a very positive way. It is very interesting to note that pastors were able to evoke deeper discussion, better attentiveness, and probing questioning just by changing the approach to the same scriptures they had been teaching for years. I would be interested to see if they continued to use the CBS method or if it caused them to at least incorporate it into what they were currently doing. It is amazing how a change in delivery can illuminate the text in new ways, even to those who have "heard." Thank you for sharing these testimonials.
Sam, is a medical doctor and theological lecturer at Sydney Missionary and Bible College (Australia) with a PhD in the theology of preaching. He lectures in Preaching, Theology, Evangelism and Ethics. At his local church he leads a Bible study group with professionals who have been part of groups for years. He found that many of these group members in their 30's and 40's were bored, although trying not to admit it. Sam had a storying Bible study approach modeled to him and decided it was worth a try. He knew that stories appealed to post-modern thinkers. He tackled a seldom studied narrative portion in the middle of Isaiah (chapters 36-39) about King Hezekiah and Sennacherib of Babylon. He is currently using five questions which they first discuss in pairs before sharing their thoughts with the whole group.
What impresses you most in this story?
What don't you understand in this story?
What do you learn about people?
What do you learn about God?
How will this change your life this week?
Sam reports that the change in the group was immediately obvious. They loved the story and the place was buzzing with discussion. In the past, people often immediately forgot what they'd discussed. Now they are not only remembering longer but are noticeably more alert and participating. Group members demonstrated an avid interest in reading Isaiah for themselves.
The next question Sam asked himself was whether this approach only worked with that particular group. As part of the Bible College program, all lecturers lead a mission team to churches around the state, interstate or overseas. Sam's team were sent to a town in another state, one hour from the state capital. He selected a group of 40 to 60 year olds to experiment with . How would they respond to such a different style of Bible study? Never one to choose the easy option, Sam chose to try non-narrative in Isaiah 55. It's a prophetic oracle. Sam first told the whole section twice. Everyone was given one verse to prepare. They had to 'story board' it (use cartoons/drawings as memory prompts). Then they told it to each other in pairs. Then the whole group told the chapter in sequence from verse 1. Discussion followed the five basic questions. They discussed animatedly for 90 minutes and Sam had to remind them to go home because they wanted to keep talking. Many reported understanding that portion of Isaiah for the first time.
I find doing storying with those who've been in the church a long time a real struggle because I doubt they'll want to listen. I was once asked to lead a ladies group in Australia. I decided to do Genesis 1-3 with them in order to allow them to catch a glimpse of my work in Taiwan, as well as teach the Bible. Just before I opened my mouth and for the first few minutes of the story my mind was bombarded with the thoughts, "These people have grown up in the church. This is a story they've been hearing for 40-80 years. It's too simple. How ridiculous you'll sound…!" I knew I must immediately "take these thoughts captive" (2 Cor 10:5) or I'd be immobilized by my fear of seeming ridiculous. Concurrently with telling the story I was reminding myself of specific scriptural verses and principles. For example, all the Bible is "God breathed …and useful…" (2 Tim 3:16). The mental battle must be fought immediately.
That day the power of storying was again revealed. Those women were hanging on every word and buzzing with excitement as we discussed it afterwards. No special audio visual was used, it was just the biblical story.
3) Adapting for use with preaching
Once Sam had used storying in Bible study groups he began to think how the approach could be applied to preaching. He had followed the expository method that had been modeled to him. To most people he was 'successful' as he did lots of guest preaching in churches and conferences. His style was interesting to listen to and each point was well-illustrated. However he felt that the models he'd received didn't work so well with narrative. He also wasn't convinced that he was really connecting with teenagers, non-native English speakers and those without a university background. But could a storying style make people engage with the biblical text and apply it better in to their lives rather than simply saying, "Good sermon" and then being vague about what they liked about it and what difference it made to their lives?
He tried this approach. He spent most of the preparation time learning the story and meditating on it. At the same time he was thinking about his audience and pondering what questions they might have when they heard the story. He chose the most relevant of these questions and arranged them as his sermon points. His sermon became a retelling of the story and then a discussion answering the questions he'd thought they'd be curious about.
So for example, his sermon on the Rich Man and Lazarus (Lk 16:19-31) had this outline:
a) Why is the rich man in hell?
b) Why is there suffering in hell?
c) How do I avoid going to hell?
An evangelistic youth talk on the Parable of the Workers (Mt 20:1-16) asked,
a) Why isn't this unfair?
b) Why does everyone get the same pay?
c) What is God trying to teach me?
Some of the Bible study questions could also form the basic of sermon points. That is, you could use these three.
a) What do we learn about people?
b) What do we learn about God?
c) How does this apply to our lives this week? Then think of all the different groups listening and ask, "How would this story apply to retirees, business people, housewives, children, university students, the discouraged …?"
Sam has mentioned that before he spent most of his 20 hour sermon preparation time shared between understanding the Bible (great) and how to present it. Afterwards people might say, "Great sermon" (i.e. praised him but could seldom really tell him what they'd learned ...
Now with his new approach he spends most of his time (and it takes much less time than previously but he learns the text much more thoroughly) learning the story, meditating on it, praying and the organizing how he'll share it is relatively easy. Almost no one compliments him on his sermon but they are talking about the Bible and puzzling over it and applying it in their lives. Over the next weeks they come back to it over and over again. What is remembered is the story not how good the preacher is!
Isn't it amazing how people's traditions mean that they block the work of God? A mature pastor would be delighted that people are so engaged with the word of God that they don't want to attend the normal service (which often is in a form that people go to sleep or aren't really changed by).
It does indeed take huge courage to dare something different. I received a lot of pressure when I attempted to do storying in a Bible study group in a large traditional church in Taiwan.
2 1/2 years later the small number of people who stuck with it have been transformed. I suspect at least 2 have become Christians through it (including a deacon). When the group started they were mostly 2-3 generation Christian families but they couldn't pray in front of other people, didn't know much about the Bible, didn't read the Bible much for themselves ...now they not only have matured so much it is amazing but finally they are out every second week telling Bible stories in the community. I'm hoping that 4 new groups will start in the next few months and I can go on to other things.
I'll upload a section of a soon to be released book (July 2012, IVP-US) in a separate email with some comments about 'using storying in Bible study groups and preaching.)
Delighted that Lausanne has led to sharing of resources and people learning more about storying ...
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I actually disagree with the pastor who claimed there were problems with the CBS method. I believe that God would have preferred that the people learned more about Him and worshipped a little later. Actually I feel that learning about God can be a form of worship. By timing everything to a split second may harm the worship more than going over the time allotted once in a while.
The point at the end of the post that people were still worshipping angels and had not listen to the sermons, proves my pont even more. When people are engaged in the oral story and lesson, they tend to listen more and it affects their lives more productively.
I agree, MzBoom. The first scenario wasn't a problem of CBS, it was a problem of the leadership assuming too much about the people. The second problem wasn't a problem at all! As long as people are talking, learning, discerning, and building knowledge TOGETHER, good things are happening. The worship service will be there, but the people can capitalize on their excitement! This last problem is strange, and I'm not sure what to do with it. I do know that a lot of what I thought about God has been changed since I've been in the Church.
I suppose this shows that not every tool will function everywhere in the same way. The comment about how storytelling creates problems because it tended to make people late for the worship service is a little sad because I would think pastors would be excited that people were enthusiastic about discussing God.
Pastors write me asking about preaching narrative sermons. Some have already tried it and were finding success in the response of their congregations. Others tried making the jump from traditional preaching into narrative sermons and faced several dilemmas. There were a few of the older people who felt that only traditional sermons were a real sermon. So they were put out off by the pastor's change. Other pastors ran into difficulty when they tried to use a small group approach with a larger congregation and found that leading a pre or post-sermon dialog did not work well or at all with the larger group. Some who wrote admitted that they only tried a story sermon a few times and then switched back to their traditional preaching format. So they were not at all sure if their people liked the story sermons or not.
While still working in the Asia-Pacific Region I found a few pastors who did jealously guard their knowledge and were fearful of allowing their congregations to know too much. Their preaching was less informative than it was instructive from the pastor's point of view. In one country where I worked pastors used mostly proof-texting in their preaching that composed their argument for what the congregation "ought" to be doing or "out not" to be doing.
But a common question from many is how to transition from expositional preaching to story sermons. And I suspect these who ask this question will be the more successful in making a change. One suggested solution that has been used by a few pastors I've heard about is to preach the traditional expositional sermon, say in a morning service, and then a more narrative sermon in the evening. Another suggestion where worship services were only in the morning was to offer two services. This appears to work well where there is not an adult Sunday school. One pastor said that he did the more narrative sermon first and then preached on some aspect or text drawn from it in the regular worship hour. His people liked both approaches.
Another suggestion for making a transition is to combine both forms in one extended message in which the background story or main storyline is told as an uninterrupted story and then followed by a commentary or sermon based on a text found in the story. There are various formats for doing this in which the order of story and preaching can be varied.
Another has been to use the narrative sermon approach on those stories that benefit from the storyline and outcome. This could be a continuing series, say for a month or so. Then revert to the traditional expositional sermon. In any case this will allow the pastor to test the water for interest in the narrative approach and for their congregation to develop a preference for it.
What has been wonderful are the reports from those pastors who have made this change to the delight of their congregations. I recall a report about a pastor in the U.S. who practiced story sermons on his congregation on Sunday evenings for a time as preparation for an outreach project he was planning. At the conclusion of his practice, when he informed the congregation that he was ending the narrative sermons and returning to his regular preaching, some of the congregation asked the pastor to continue what he was doing as they were finally able to understand what he was preaching about!
In my early years I greatly enjoyed the story sermon of Dr. R. G. Lee who preached in my church the story of King Ahab and Jezebel. The sermon, Payday Someday, was 108 minutes long and was gripping. It was not pure story as there was commentary, but it was done in such a manner that the storyline was never lost in the commentary. A man I later had the good fortune to work under in the media ministry, Dr. Paul Stevens, also preached at my home church. His sermon was about God's judgment and provision for salvation through obedience in the Flood Story. It, too, was gripping as we all experienced the story as he told the story and preached, again without losing sight of the story. Another favorite was a later pastor in my home church who always illustrated or ended his sermons with one of the stories he heard from his father who worked on the railroad. These were intense stories that embodied the gist of the sermon in such a memorable way. One such story that ended a sermon on the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man was about a man mortally injured in a railroad accident who begged someone to kill him to put him out of his terrible pain. That sermon was titled "A Cry From Hell." I'll leave the reader to imagine how that story might have gone.
Thanks for your ideas on how to incorporate narrative preaching into existing traditional church situations. This is the kind of life experience stuff that is really helpful and inspirational.
There are more resources at www.sermonstorying.110mb.com.
There is no doubt in the success of the CBS as a method that carefully embraces and deals with both Fundamental Biblical Truths and worldviews (bridges and barriers). I agree that the challenge is how to incorporate it in our churches in an acceptable way.
The discomfort among the pastors is understandable as it requires stepping out of the comfort zone. In the end it comes down to change, and no one accepts it easily. I believe it is required a lot of wisdom from us in finding the right approach and strategy to engage to the traditional methods of preaching.
In post-communist Albania were the church is only 20 years old, there is a large number of pastors without a proper seminary degree. Many believers struggle to enjoy a proper expository or a topical preaching, partly because it requires a minimum knowledge in theology to grasp proper exegeses, and partly because the exegeses itself is poorly done.
Several other countries in South and South-East Europe are in the same situation as Albania.
I believe the easiest strategy for making a transition in this case is to combine both forms in one single message. I believe the natural transition will lean toward the best deliverer of the message —the storytelling.
From my 10 years of experience in Christian Radio I have observed that our series of Radio dramas have been the only among many other genres to receive an immediate feedback from our listeners. There is definitely something personal, easy, relational, and human in Bible Storying.
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The film opens with impressive CGI landscape shots of Fantasia. They're pretty and all, and I won't take that away from anyone, but it's obvious this movie was made around that time when Hollywood was still feeling the whole "computer" thing out. It's not as bad as Spawn, but none of this looks A) real or B) like any other background in this film or C) anything like the Fantasia we saw in the first two films. I almost feel bad making fun of it, knowing that it's not really their fault—it's just the technology (and budget) they had to work with at the time. I'll just marvel at how pretty it is, and move on.
A booming British voiceover tells us that the Mountains of Destiny are the highest point in Fantasia. I thought the prior films established that the Ivory Tower, home of the Childlike Empress, was the tallest thing around, but hey, continuity is for wusses.
It's revealed that the voice belongs to the Old Man of the Wandering Mountain. His job, as you might know from the novel, is to write down everything that happens in the NeverEnding Story so that it can become, well, the NeverEnding Story. The Old Man is played by Freddie Jones, who's had a lot of roles over the years, but Boothers will most likely remember him best from David Lynch's Dune, where he played Thufir Hawat.
Why the Old Man of the Wandering Mountain is currently hanging out at the Mountains of Destiny is anybody's guess. In the novel, the Wandering Mountain actually wandered, and the only way to find it was to climb up a different mountain and just hope the Old Man showed up. Also in the novel, the Childlike Empress just happened to guess that he would show up at the Mountains of Destiny. So I suppose it makes some sense for him to be here, but it strikes me as unusual that he would still be hanging around, as opposed to, you know, wandering.
Here, the Old Man dictates everything into a large book with the help of a "stylus" that looks like a high concept dentist's mirror. As he speaks, computer generated letters appear, and flutter into place on the page. He seems to be having some difficulty continuing the story, and I don't blame him. Kind of hard to tell a story when nothing's happening.
After briefly bickering with his book (yes, bickering), CGI letters fly onto the page that say, "There will be a day when the writing stylus will start to act strangely..." And it will pump out a script like this one, and blame it on someone named Jeff Lieberman!
The book goes one step further, and says this will somehow make it hard to remember the NeverEnding Story. According to the book, this will be a sign that "the Nasty" is coming. Hey, some people actually like doin' the Nasty, you know. And the sexual undertones of this name will become even more blatant as the film goes on, but for now we're supposed to believe that the Nasty is what happens when children "turn away from books and reading!" Well, you do have to put down your book to do the Nasty (at least if you're doing it right, anyway), so that much is true.
Blah blah blah, more exposition, something about how in order to "stop the Nasty, even temporarily", Fantasia will require someone who is "a voracious reader, of grrrreat imagination, and extra-ordinary courage!" Basically, the exact same characteristics as... Bastian Balthazar Bux! Oh yeah, like that was a surprise, what with him being the main character of the first two movies and all.
Still, I'll buy that Bastian can stop the Nasty. I mean, if I'd been the kid in the Free Willy movies, I'd have grown up to be a cock-block, too. And just like in the first movie, our intrepid hero Bastian is escaping from school bullies. Shortly on his heels are a gang of pasty white ruffians, led by... Jack Black!
Given how long they chase him, there are apparently six or seven floors to this school. I guess this is supposed to be one of those in medias res openings, where we wonder why he's being chased, and why the camera spends so much time on the people watching the chase (they'll be important characters later, in case you care). But in order for this to work, we'd have to forget the well-established fact that Bastian is the biggest puss-slash-bully magnet in history. So we're not the least bit surprised that, once again, he's being chased by bullies.
Seriously, how can we root for someone who escapes into a magic book every single time he gets scared? Oh, and this whole scene might be a jab at irony, since the Old Man just described Bastian as having "extraordinary courage", but I doubt it.
One thing I do find amusing is that the bullies run past a poster for the children's book Where the Wild Things Are, even though I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be a high school. Either that, or Jack Black is the oldest-looking middle-schooler since Stephanie Kaye.
Bastian ducks into, where else, the library. Here he runs into Mr. Koreander, or as I like to call him, the curmudgeonly cuss who constantly causes the mystic and magical malarkey that makes Bastian's life somehow worth filming. (Hey, if Michael Ende can write like that, why can't I?)
If you'll recall, Koreander is the former bookstore owner who brainwashed Bastian into shoplifting the NeverEnding Story in both of the prior movies. He's now a school librarian. I'm guessing he's also working under an assumed name, after shuttering his bookstore and disposing of his entire inventory in a single afternoon simply to avoid talking to the police.
And Koreander is no longer played by Thomas Hill as in the previous films. He's now being played by Freddie Jones, the same guy who played the Old Man of the Wandering Mountain. Not for any real reason, but there you have it. Maybe they were also trying to rip off Tron, where everyone in the "real world" had their own counterpart in the computer world, also for no particular reason.
This encounter is something of a surprise to both Bastian and Koreander. Evidently, they both moved away from the town where the other two movies took place, and just by pure coincidence, they both ended up here. Funny how life works sometimes, huh? Makes you wonder why they bothered changing the locale of this movie at all, considering how little impact it has on the actual story.
Which brings me to an important question: Why would Koreander sell his bookstore and become a high school librarian? Did he decide his job wasn't thankless enough?
Bastian thumbs through some of the books, which apparently came from Koreander's old store. And in the reference section, of all places, he finds the NeverEnding Story. As a reference book? I'd trust the Uncyclopedia as a reference before I'd trust the NeverEnding Story.
Koreander gets all menacing about how it's "strictly a reference book now" and Bastian can't take it out of the library. Okay, I think we can all see where this is going. I really wish Koreander would just give Bastian a break, and not make him steal the damn book in every single movie.
Bastian flips through the book and says, "It keeps going!" Koreander is a little too polite to reply, Of course it keeps going, it's the NeverEnding Story, ya dipshit!
There's a brief expository recap of how everything Bastian does ends up in the book. Koreander advises him to "remember that the next time you pick your nose!" Um, okay then...
Koreander then finds a convenient excuse to leave Bastian alone with the book yet again, and Bastian thumbs through it some more. He's once again shocked to find out something he just did is written in there. Oy. Will he ever stop being surprised by this?
Reading this helps me confirm my own sanity after watching that piece of crab movie.
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By: Matt Burkholder
FRESNO, Calif. - Kevin Viers provided the late offensive heroics and Derick Velazquez was lights out in the final three innings on the mound to propel Fresno State to a 5-3 win over Nevada on Saturday afternoon at Beiden Field.
With the bases loaded and one out in a 3-3 game in the bottom of the seventh, Viers stepped to the plate against reliever Colby Blueberg and drove a ball through the right side of the infield to score Taylor Tempel with what proved to be the winning run.
The Bulldogs (5-2, 2-0 Mountain West) added an insurance run in the eighth thanks to a 2-out RBI single by Chris Mariscal to score Jake Alvarez, who slid in just ahead of the throw from right.
Velazquez, the junior from Los Banos, Calif., picked up his second win of the season by throwing three shutout innings to finish the game. However, it didn't come easy for him. In the ninth, Nevada put the tying runs on base thanks to an error and a 2-out single and had Austin Byler coming to the plate representing the lead run. Byler, the Wolf Pack's top hitter this season, worked the count to 2-2 before Velazquez got him to swing and miss at a fastball to end the game.
In both games of the series, the Wolf Pack (2-5, 0-2) had the games' go-ahead run at the plate for the final out and was unable to push anything across.
Nevada opened the scoring in the top of the third off of freshman Jimmy Lambert. An RBI-double by Kewby Meyer and an RBI-single by Byler gave Nevada a 2-0 lead. The aggressiveness that helped the Wolf Pack grab the 2-0 lead also halted their momentum in the third. The `Dogs turned two on an unconventional 6-4-3-2 double play as the runner from second rounded third looking for the score to end the third.
Fresno State answered the call in the bottom half of the inning thanks to three clutch two-out hits. Trent Woodward singled to center to score Mariscal. Viers followed that with a single to right to tie the game and on the very next pitch, Taylor Ward hit a bloop single to left to score Woodward and give the Bulldogs a 3-2 lead.
Nevada knotted the game back up in the top of the fifth and forced Lambert out of the game after 5 2/3 innings and left with runners at first and third. Junior Casey Rodriquez entered and retired a pinch-hitter to keep the game tied.
Fresno State will go for the three-game sweep tomorrow afternoon in the series finale at 1:05 p.m., at Beiden Field.
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Alumni Update: Brandon Saad (Chicago Blackhawks)
Former Pine-Richland star Brandon Saad scored his first career NHL goal Tuesday for Chicago in the Blackhawks' 5-3 win against San Jose.
Saad played one season with the Rams, scoring a hat trick to lead the Rams to a PIHL Class AAA title as a freshman in 2008.
After that he went to Ontario Hockey League and also spent time on the U.S. Hockey National Team Development Program.
In 2011, he was drafted in the second round (43rd overall pick) by the Blackhawks.
Saad made his NHL debut last season and tallied one assist in two games.
His first goal Tuesday came in the first period against the Sharks' Antti Niemi.


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Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
Release Date: October 12, 1994
Running Time: 91 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Sequel
Now, fifteen years later, the secret of the spheres is finally revealed as Mike and Reggie follow The Tall Man and his silver spheres through a trail of evil and death. A sequel to the cult films "Phantasm" (USA/1979) and "Phantasm II" (USA/1988).


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The other day a couple of my "mom" friends came over to my house with their kids for a mass play date and they were a little shocked at my Christmas display. Our tree was pimped out with tons of sparkly ornaments, there were snowman and Santa sugar cookies in the oven for the kids to decorate and of course there was a big jingly bed wreath on the door to greet them. "So, clearly you're celebrating Christmas," said one of my friends, slightly puzzled cause, oh yeah, I'm sort of Jewish. I'm a Jew who celebrates Christmas. I'm totally into it, from the Christmas carols to the spirit of the holiday, I'm down. I may possibly be wearing a Santa hat as I write this column.
I'm certain that this is a little a tiny bit puzzling to my Jewish friends and I understand why.
I really am one of the worst Jews I know. I'm barely Jewish at all besides my rabid love of bagels, lox and cream cheese and Woody Allen but, of course, if anyone were to disparage Jews in front of me I'm kick 'em in the blintzes because you don't mess with my people! It's hypocritical I realize.
So why if I'm Jewish, have I gone so far the other way? I think it has a lot to do with the way I was raised. My mother proudly called herself an atheist and there was never much mention of being Jewish or of Hanukkah or any other Jewish holiday. From the earliest I remember, my family celebrated Christmas. We got presents on December 25th and stuffed our faces with chocolate Santas. The only difference was we weren't allowed to have a tree because that was "too religious." Looking back I realize that "too religious" really meant, too much work. Seriously, what the hell is religious about a tree? The point is, as far as I was concerned, I was not Jewish or Christian or any religion at all, I just celebrated Christmas.
And then suddenly, when I was ten, my mother woke up one day (at least it seemed that way to me) and decided she was Jewish after all. It was like Moses threw a torah and it hit her in the head. "We are Jewish," she said sternly. "That doesn't mean we believe in God, but culturally we are Jewish and so we are going to celebrate Hanukkah now." It felt like some sort of holiday whiplash to go from Christmas to Hanukkah. We went from counting down all month for Christmas morning, reading "The Night Before Christmas" on Christmas eve just before hanging our stockings with care to sitting through the story of Hanukkah (which involved Judas, some Maccabees, possibly the desecration of a temple) and lighting a menorah. I resented the hell out it.
With no meaning given to either holiday, I eventually lost interest in both until I moved out to Los Angeles when I was eighteen with my closest friend and realized that I could do whatever I want. And that was the year I took Christmas back. We celebrated a tree, with eggnog, with friends who were like family and it was the best holiday I can remember. It was Christmas with heart. I guess I've just always wanted to repeat that. There were many years when I didn't have a boyfriend or family around me and I didn't celebrate anything at all but when I met my husband, I knew which holiday we would honor.
My husband, Jon, is not a Jew, he's Episcopalian but he seriously knows more about Judaism than I do. His best friend growing up was Jewish, he's been to a bajillion Bar Mitzvahs. Despite having to attend Hebrew school after my mother's discovery about herself, I started too late and learned to little to have had a Bat Mitzvah. But Jon would have been fine with doing a little Christmukkah if that's what I wanted. But I guess I don't. Call it laziness, call it not being in touch with my roots, call it whatever you want but I celebrates Christmas and I'm really okay with it.
I'm a spiritual person. I believe in God (a God of my understanding) and I believe that whatever you celebrate, if it brings you together as a family, puts you in the spirit of giving and makes you happy that's what's important. That being said, I won't be putting any nativity scenes on my front lawn, because after all, I am a Jew.


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Anticipatory Medical Devices: The future of medicine?
Dr. Donald Ingber gave a glimpse into the future of medicine at my commencement ceremony this weekend. As the director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, Ingber is charged with leading the university's efforts to combine engineering, biology, and medicine.
According to Dr. Ingber, Wyss center researchers are particularly excited about devices that predict and fix medical maladies. He called these "anticipatory medical devices," and described a vision for a portable gadget that not only detected a patient's heart arrhythmia, high cholesterol, or low blood sugar, but also corrected the abnormality before the patient presents any noticeable symptoms.
While wearing a device that prevents hospital visits sounds appealing, the idea also raises some questions: Would patients trust a machine to automatically correct vital body processes? Would doctors accept relinquishing diagnosis and treatment power to a widget? Would insurers still cover an ER trip if the patient carried an "anticipatory medical device"?
Dr. Ingber and his colleagues will certainly face resistance from various stakeholders, and Wyss Institute researchers will need to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of their anticipatory products to overcome skeptics. Despite likely obstacles to wide adoption, the researchers can take solace in the success of colleagues in the motor vehicle industry. With cars now able to detect a medical emergency and pull over, an iPhone app that prevents heart attacks seems less outrageous.
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Lena's Dreams
|Release Date: December 18, 1998
|Running Time: 85 mins.
|MPAA Rating: None
|Genre: Drama
Marlene Forte
Gary Perez
Susan Peirez
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Summary:A verite drama centering on a 32-year-old embittered Cuban-American actress on the brink of giving up her dream of having a successful Broadway career. Besieged by rejection, defeat and the nightmare of yet another "Latina maid" role, Lena savagely tears her life apart, wanting to give up, but not knowing she may be only one opportunity away.


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How do others experience you as a leader? According to psychologist Kathryn Cramer, every leader has a "signature presence," a set of leadership assets that are as unique as your handwritten signature. Just as your autograph telegraphs who you are, so, too, do the daily actions that comprise your leadership presence.
Think about your signature for a moment: how has it morphed over time? As a young girl, my signature was a near carbon-copy of what I'd learned from my third-grade teacher, Mrs. Durr — a replica of what I'd been taught was the "correct" way to form the letters that comprised my name. As the years wore on, my signature began to reflect more of my personality and life's experiences. No doubt, yours has as well.
Our handwriting also shows tell-tale signs of stress or distraction: just look at a document that was signed during a hospital stay or in a time of crisis. And, in much the same way that the act of writing is largely unconscious as we scrawl our name at the bottom of a credit card receipt, as leaders, we can be unaware of the messages we send to colleagues.
In her book "Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do," Cramer writes about the difficulties of seeing ourselves as we really are. As difficult as this self-awareness may be, she says it's imperative that leaders use a combination of personal reflection and asking for feedback. Cramer explains that when you understand the positive qualities that comprise your signature presence, you can then allow them to "shine through in all that you do."
Here are five questions you can ask yourself and others to help determine those distinctive qualities that define your leadership.
- When I'm at my best, how would I describe myself?
- When I receive compliments, what specifically do people praise? Is there a theme to the praise?
- In what types of situations do I easily slip into "the zone" — meaning, with confidence and fluidity?
- Ask a colleague, "In what ways have I been a help to you?"
- Ask three people you know well: "Name five things about me that you can count on me to do."
Is your leadership presence a true representation of the person you really are? All leaders have unique gifts they bring to bear in the workplace. Use these five questions to help you understand the person that others see so that you can lead with your own distinctive flair.
Interested in learning more about discovering your unique qualities as a leader? You can download Kathy Cramer's free PDF resource "Your Leadership Life Map" here.
Career strategist Jennifer V. Miller is a former HR manager and corporate trainer who helps mid-career professionals chart the course for their next big "leap." A self-described "professional opportunity cultivator," Miller provides one-to-one and small group professional development coaching via her company SkillSource. She offers up tips for leading yourself and others at The People Equation.
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As the year comes to a close and different lists emerge proclaiming the top films of the year, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is a bit more ambitious unveiling its first ever list of 100 favorite films of all time. The "Alamo 100," which was generated by factoring the Alamo Drafthouse programmers personal list of favorite films and then factoring the number of times
the film appeared on more than one list, shows a hugely diverse selection.
The list features a few obvious choices such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Godfather" but also features a few eccentric surprises such as "The Goonies," "Home Alone" and "You've Got Mail."
When asked how Alamo Drafthouse CEO and Founder, Tim League came up with his own list, he said "I imagined that I was on a desert island (a really improbable desert island equipped with a TV, DVD player and electricity) and could only have 100 movies to rewatch for the rest of my life."
Alamo Drafthouse will be bringing films from their list to the screen this January at Alamo theaters nationwide. The first seven films to be screened will be: "Brazil" (1985), "City Lights" (1931), "The Goonies" (1985), "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" (1975), "Raging Bull" (1980), "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" (1981), and "Sixteen Candles" (1984) – with many more screening throughout the year.
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10 Things I Hate About You
2001: A Space Odyssey
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Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
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Apocalypse Now
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Beaches of Agnes
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