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Star Fox Adventures
Review by John E G
"A mixed bag of pros and cons"
Let me start off by saying that I love Zelda and I also love star fox, but this meeting between the two genres didn't seem to work at all for me personally. The game seems to have much of Dinosaur Planet's original theme to it and some slight starfox storyline tacked on! It just seems cheap and forced onto us in the end.
Star fox fans I believe will be so embarrassed by the flying levels that they will ban this game because of it.
Graphics: 9.5/10
Nobody can deny the amazing visuals in this game! The fur rendering and lighting effects blow the mind, the water affects rival Super Mario sunshine and Waverace blue storm, And the planet's appeal seems very ancient and prehistoric. This all comes together to bring a visual feast to your eyes, but there are some setbacks involved in this games graphics. The enemies seem to all be cloned from eachother, I know this was acceptable back in the N64 days, but now I like some variety. Look at Resident evil for Gamecube, each zombie is different from any other in the game, yet starfox only seems to have 4 or 5 enemies running around. The framerate seems to drop here and there, but it's not terrible really.
The musical score is great, there is some retro feeling themes from star fox 64, and suitable music for each enviroments you go to. The voice acting is good and a treat actually, not many games actually have voice acting to this extent, In many ways it would be embarrassing not to have voice acting as Star fox 64 had full game voice acting, and that was in 1997!
Gameplay: 6/10
This is where the game fails in my opinion, the puzzles are tedious hunts for the next item to locate and place somewhere else, it's not very fun at all! I was excited when this game was reported to have zelda-ish puzzles and gameplay, but this game is not zelda at all! Here is how most of the game goes, find this and put it here, get this upgrade and you get to go there, do this boring puzzle and you get this! There is far too many one time use item collection in this game, you go through near death and anguish for little items that seem irrelevant and only serve to lengthen the game for no reason. Fighting is another tedious battle, you either get to smoke your opponent right of the bat in a quite appealing whooping which I have to admit still makes me smile, or wait until he hits you across the face thus letting his guard down. The world seems overly cramped and doesn't leave anything to be explored, narrow passages and cramped rooms are all you will find here. Flight levels are what really brings the game down, the levels are so horrendous and boring I wish they weren't there, fly through gold rings to bring down a forcefield? What forcefield, I really don't remember that being in the storyline at all. The ship doesn't relocate back to center like the previous games once you let go of the control and shooting is terrible. I'll explain, in star fox 64 rapidly pressing the fire button would not result in higher fire rate, it was the timing. Holding down the button released a short wave of blasts, if timed right you get a stream of laser blasts so perfect, trying to shoot fast in adventures in really a pain without a purpose, so I gave up on that. No lock on either, unless I didn't figure it out which is a possibility. The gameplay in star fox is what really kills this game and is the ultimate proof that great graphics don't make a great game.
Length Replay value: 4/10
There is really no sidequests or huge secrets and the game simply isn't so enjoyable that you'll want to play it again and again. Oh wait you can try and top your high scores on flying levels, that's something. The length of the game itself is okay, about 15 hrs for a good gamer.
Story: 5/10
Well it's Dinosaur Planet's storyline with Fox coming to save the day for little to no reason. It's okay I guess, no big twists in the plot, no character development, generic evil villains. It's forgivable and it's not expected that people will buy this game for the story, most people will be sucked in by the graphics actually, which is understandable.
Final Score: 33.5/50
Out of ten: 6.7/10
I would recommend a rent if you are interested, some people like this game, perhaps it just wasn't my cup of tea.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
Originally Posted: 09/27/02, Updated 02/09/03
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A chance to explore the nature of this music, to see what it means to experience it today as we reflect on what it might have meant in the camp.
"Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat, Op. 1, No. 1 is the first modern piano trio." Yael Weiss
On this week's episode we're talking about the Double Exposure series. Double Exposure pairs student filmmakers and student composers to collaborate on films.
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Japanese Phase 1 Study of BMS-844203 (CT322)
This study has been withdrawn prior to enrollment.
Bristol-Myers Squibb
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First received: June 10, 2010
Last updated: February 6, 2012
Last verified: February 2012
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|June 10, 2010
|Last Updated Date
|February 6, 2012
|Start Date ICMJE
|November 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|January 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Determine recommended dose for Phase 2 study of CT-322 [ Time Frame: Within the first 28 days ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01146171 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Japanese Phase 1 Study of BMS-844203 (CT322)
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Phase I Multiple Ascending Dose Study of BMS-844203 (CT-322) Monotherapy in Japanese Patients With Solid Tumors
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this clinical study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of CT-322 monotherapy to determine the recommended dose for phase II and subsequent studies
|Detailed Description
|Not Provided
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Phase
|Phase 1
|Study Design ICMJE
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Condition ICMJE
|Intervention ICMJE
|Drug: BMS-844203 (CT-322)
Injection, IV, 1 and 2 mg/kg, Weekly, Until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity became apparent
|Study Arms
|Experimental: BMS-844203 (CT-322)
Intervention: Drug: BMS-844203 (CT-322)
|Publications *
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|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Estimated Completion Date
|January 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|January 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|20 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
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|IPD Sharing Statement
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Study Director, Bristol-Myers Squibb
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Are people going to see Jack Kevorkian differently after watching this film?
Well, I think a lot of people have the wrong impression of the man because he only exists through little sound bites. That's the impression we have of him. So there's very little known about the man, his private life, his relationships, etc. -- which are some of the elements we try to show. We're not trying to glorify the character, but we are trying to give a better picture of what he was about, how he thought, how he viewed the ethics of it all. I think that's one of the interesting aspects of the film.
The film focuses on Kevorkian's dedication to assisted suicide, and then there's his downfall. Can you talk about the story a little bit?
What happens is that he is so committed to this idea and believes that he is so right, that there's a point where he wants to push the issue. His might not be the best way to approach it, because he doesn't look at the nuances of it all. He just wants to bring it to a head and resolve that question. It basically leads to his incarceration and eight years in prison. He is so committed to what he believes should be a reality, that he can't deal with all of these obstacles, as he sees them. He wants a conclusion, so he presses ahead with a kind of single-mindedness that he possesses. And it is his downfall, certainly in that he went to prison for eight years.
How did Al Pacino take to playing Kevorkian?
I think Al responded to the character. He can't be doing an imitation; he has to try to get the essence of Kevorkian. He takes certain elements that resemble him, but he can't act just as Kevorkian did, nor is that a requirement. It's not like he's playing FDR, where there are certain requirements to fulfill. He tries to get to the general sensibility and the humanity of the character.


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I keep finding in the NHK guides that when Alphabet Bates appears, it starts from a street story, and a cast member will look up and say they see him. I was hesitant to put an eka on the sketches b/c of this, but i guess that is all in the intro. Because they really don't see him there, they must just have to use a letter which that cast member recorded with kids trying to guess the letter. So first of all, if this is how they're usually introduced, i don't see the point in listing episodes in which he is mentioned by name (except that one where it's a reference rather than an intro to his clip). Also, does this mean every time he draws a Q it's with Susan's voiceover? I've never actually seen one, so I don't really know. - Kate 13:43, March 21, 2010 (UTC)
- That would be about right. Usually a cast member would alert the kids, and then we'd see a film of the given letter being "skywritten". During the film, we'd hear the kids guess what the letter was going to be (presumably along with the kids at home). This happened on Episode 0054, shown on Noggin, although in this example AB was not referred to by name. Perhaps in the first season there hadn't been a name designated for him yet. Hope that helps! --Dave Splurge 21:48, March 23, 2010 (UTC)


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|19 Oct 1999
|Filing date
|26 Jun 1997
|Priority date
|26 Jun 1997
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Ronald I. Bailey
|Original Assignee
|Bailey; Ronald I.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (28), Classifications (13), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a new type of electrical receptacle for installation within a wall of a building. The receptacle is capable of swiveling along a vertical axis, allowing the receptacle face to move left or right in response to a pulling force exerted thereon by an attached electrical plug as the electrical plug is pulled on by its attached electrical cord.
2. Description of the Related Art
Employers of power equipment operators are required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to have their electrical equipment properly grounded. This requires operative grounded electrical receptacles and grounded electrical plugs for engaging the grounded electrical receptacles. For example professional office janitorial services, which vacuum carpeted office floors on a nightly basis, must frequently replace the electrical plugs on their vacuum cleaners. The reason the electrical plugs require frequent replacement is that employees using the equipment simply jerk on the electrical cord to disengage the electrical plug from the electrical receptacles in the office being cleaned. Unless the pulling force on the electrical cord is perpendicular to the face of the electrical receptacle, the rigid ground prong provided on the plug can be damaged by being bent, or alternately, can be snapped off when the plug is pulled out of the rigidly fixed electrical receptacle. Once the ground prong on the plug is thus damaged, the plug can no longer be used and must be replaced with a new plug. Although the two blade prongs provided on the plugs are also normally bent as a result of this pulling force, since they are somewhat flexible, they generally do not break when so bent and normally can be bent back into shape by the user so that the plug can subsequently be reinserted into another electrical receptacle. Also, the electrical receptacle can also be damaged when the plug is jerked out of engagement with the receptacle.
Although employees are advised not to jerk on the electrical cords to disengage the plugs, the problem continues because it is more convenient for the employees to disengage the plugs using this procedure. The ground plug may also be bent or broken accidentally and the receptacle may be damaged when the equipment operator attempts to go beyond the reach of the power cord.
Most of the solutions which have been proposed in order to address this problem employ some modification of the plug, such as a swivel provided on the plug or an extra length of easily disengagable cord employed between the electrical receptacle and the equipment plug. Although these proposed devices may provide some improvement in the incidence of damage to plugs and receptacles, they do not provide totally satisfactory solutions. The reason is that none of the proposed devices address the fundamental problem of having a pulling force exerted on a plug such that the pulling force is not perpendicular to the face of the electrical receptacle. More simply stated, the fundamental problem is that the prongs of the plug are not being pulled straight outward from the openings in the electrical receptacle in which they are removably engaged.
The present invention seeks to address the fundamental problem by providing an electrical receptacle capable of swivelling along a vertical axis in response to a pulling force applied directly on an engaged electrical plug or applied indirectly on an electrical cord attached to an engaged electrical plug. The present invention allows the face of the electrical receptacle to swivel, and thus, to align itself perpendicularly with the pulling force exerted on the engaged plug.
The present invention is a swivel electrical receptacle comprised of an electrical box, a swivel portion and a faceplate. The electrical box secures via fasteners inserted through fastener opening provided in both side walls of the electrical box to a structural member in a building wall.
The electrical box is provided with a bottom wall and an opposite, parallel, space apart top wall, such that the bottom and top walls are perpendicular to the two parallel, space apart side walls. A back wall secures to and is perpendicular to each of the side walls, the top wall and the bottom wall, forming a 5-sided box with a front opening provided opposite the back wall.
The top wall is provided with a downwardly extending tab adjacent the front opening, and the bottom wall is provided with an upwardly extending tab adjacent the front opening. Each tab is provided with a threaded opening for receiving respectively a top faceplate screw and a bottom faceplate screw.
The faceplate is provided with a large central opening capable of movably receiving and providing access to a face of the swivel portion. An upper hole for receiving the top faceplate screw is provided centrally in the faceplate above the central opening, and a lower hole for receiving the bottom faceplate screw is provided centrally in the faceplate below the central opening.
The swivel portion swivels on a vertical axis located adjacent to a reverse side of the faceplate. The reverse side of the faceplate is also provided with a pair of arcuate wings which extend rearward from the faceplate and concentrically surround an arcuate rear side of the swivel portion. Stops provided on the arcuate rear side removably engage the wings to limit rotation of the swivel portion, thus keeping flexible wire extending out of the arcuate rear side from becoming dam aged.
One end of the flexible wire is electrically connected internally within the swivel portion to slots and prong opening which are provided in the face of the swivel portion in order to removably receive blades and ground prongs of an electrical plug. An opposite end of the flexible wire is electrically connected to an electrical house wire via suitable wire connectors. The electrical box is provided with wire holes therein which allow the electrical house wire to enter the electrical box where it is connected to the flexible wire.
The swivel portion is provided with a top surface and an opposite bottom surface. Each of the top and bottom surfaces is provided with a rod receiving opening. A first end of a rod movably inserts into each rod receiving opening. Each rod has with an opposite end which is provided with an eye opening. The top faceplate screw inserts from a front side of the faceplate consecutively though the upper hole in the faceplate, through the eye of the rod which is inserted into the rod receiving opening provided on the top surface of the swivel portion and into the threaded opening provided in the downwardly extending tab in order to rotatably secure the swivel portion between the faceplate and the electrical box.
Likewise, the bottom faceplate screw inserts from the front side of the faceplate consecutively through the lower hole in the faceplate, through the eye of the rod which is inserted into the rod receiving opening provided on the bottom surface of the swivel portion and into the threaded opening provided in the upwardly extending tab in order to rotatably secure the swivel portion between the faceplate and the electrical box.
FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a swivel electrical receptacle constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, showing the faceplate and swivel portion disengaged from an associated electrical box.
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the swivel electrical receptacle of FIG. 1, shown with the faceplate removed.
FIG. 3 is a rear perspective view of the swivel electrical receptacle of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view of the faceplate and swivel portion of the swivel electrical receptacle FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a top plan view of the swivel electrical receptacle of FIG. 1 shown with the top wall cut away, installed in a wall and connected to an electrical house wire.
Referring now to the drawings, and initially to FIG. 1 and FIG. 3, there is illustrated a swivel electrical receptacle 10 constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The receptacle 10 is comprised of an electrical box 12, a faceplate 14 and a swivel portion 16.
Referring now also to FIG. 5, the electrical box 12 is provided with fastener openings 18 extending through each side wall 20 and 22 of the electrical box 12. Fasteners 23, such as screws, nails or other suitable fastening means, insert through the fastener openings 18 in order to secure the electrical box 12 to a structural member 24, such as a wooden stud, provided within a building wall 26.
The electrical box 12 is also provided with a bottom wall 28, and opposite top wall 30, and a back wall 32. The side walls 20 and 22 are approximately parallel and spaced apart from each other. The top wall 30 and back wall 32 are approximately parallel, are spaced apart from each other, and are secured perpendicular to the side walls 20 and 22. The back wall 32 is secured perpendicularly to both the side walls 20 and 22 and secured perpendicularly to the top wall 30 and the bottom wall 28, forming the five (5) sided electrical box 12.
The electrical box 12 has a front opening 34 opposite the back wall 32. The front opening 34 faces outward from a building wall 26 when installed, as illustrated in FIG. 5.
Referring now to FIGS. 1 and 2, the bottom wall 28 is provided with an upwardly extending tab 36 located centrally on the bottom wall 28 and adjacent to the front opening 34. The top wall 30, likewise, is provided with an downwardly extending tab 38 located centrally on the top wall 30 and adjacent the front opening 34. Each tab 36 and 38 is provided with a central threaded opening, 40 and 42 respectively, for receiving bottom faceplate screw 44 and top faceplate screw 46, respectively, as will be more fully described hereafter.
The faceplate 14 is provided with a large central opening 48, a centrally located upper hole 50 provided in the faceplate 14 above the central opening 48 and a centrally located lower hole 52 provided in the faceplate 14 below the central opening 48.
The central opening 48 is slightly larger than the swivel portion 16 so that the swivel portion 16 can rotate or swivel along a vertical axis 54, illustrated in FIG. 2. The swivel portion 16 swivels along axis 54 located just behind the faceplate 14 and swings freely within the central opening 48, as shown in FIG. 4.
A reverse side 56 of the faceplate 14 is provided with two arcuate wings 58A and 58B extending rearward from the faceplate 14. The wings 58A and 58B serve to protect an arcuate rear side 60 of the swivel portion 16. The wings 58A and 58B also serve as a surface with which stops 62A and 62B can reversibly engage to limit maximum angle "A" of swivel between a front side 64 of the faceplate 14 and an outwardly provided face 66 of the swivel portion 16. The stops 62A and 62B are provided on the arcuate rear side 60 on either side of a centrally located flexible wire 68 which extends outward from the arcuate rear side 60 of the swivel portion 16.
The purpose of the stops 62A and 62B is to prevent damage to the flexible wire 68 by preventing it from being flexed excessively as the swivel portion 16 rotates and by preventing the flexible wire 68 from banging against the faceplate 14. The flexible wire 68 is preferably 3 strand braided flexible copper wire or a suitable substitute which is able to withstand frequent flexing resulting from movement of the swivel portion 16 along vertical axis 54. As illustrated in FIG. 5, internally within the swivel portion 16 one end of the 3 strand flexible wire 68 is electrically connected to slots 70A and 70B and prong openings 72 provided in the face 66 so that prong openings 72 are grounded and slots 70A and 70B are connected to an electrical current via an electrical house wire 74 connected to an opposite end of the flexible wire 68. The flexible wire 68 is connected to the electrical house wire 74 by means of standard wire connectors 76, such as the crimping connectors illustrated in FIG. 5 or other suitable wire connectors, such as, for example, screw type connectors. Alternately, the flexible wire 68 may be soldered to the electrical house wire 74 or otherwise suitable attached. As illustrated in FIG. 5, the electrical house wire 74 enters the electrical box 12 either via a wire hole 78 provided in the back wall 32 or by via an alternate wire hole 80 provided in the bottom wall 28.
The swivel portion 16 slips vertically between the arcuate wings 58A and 58B until the face 66 of the swivel portion 16 aligns within the central opening 48 of the faceplate 14. First ends 81A and 81B provided respectively on rods 82A and 82B then insert respectively into rod receiving openings 84A and 84B provided respectively in a top surface 86 of the swivel portion 16 and a bottom surface 88 of the swivel portion 16. The engagement between the first ends 81A and 81B and the receiving openings 84A and 84B provides sufficient clearance so that the first ends 81A and 81B are freely rotatable within receiving openings 84A and 84B. This is important as this allows the swivel portion 16 to rotate relative to the electrical box 12 and the faceplate 14, as will become clear hereafter.
Opposite second ends 90A and 90B on the respective rods 82A and 82B are each provided with eye openings 92A and 92B respectively, therein. Eyes opening 92A is then aligned with upper hole 50 and with threaded opening 42. Top faceplate screw 46 is then inserted from the front side 64 of the faceplate 14 consecutively through the upper hole 50, the eye opening 92A, and into the threaded opening 42 to secure the faceplate 14 and the associated swivel portion 16 over the front opening 34 of the electric box 12. Likewise, the eye opening 92B is aligned with lower hole 52 and with threaded opening 40. Bottom faceplate screw 44 is then inserted from the front side 64 of the faceplate 14 consecutively through the lower hole 52, the eye opening 92B and into the threaded opening 40 to secure the faceplate 14 and the associated swivel portion 16 over the front opening 34 of the electric box 12.
When the swivel electrical receptacle 10 is thus installed, the rods 82A and 82B are aligned along vertical axis 54 and the swivel portion 16 is free to rotate on the stationary rods 82A and 82B.
While the invention has been described with a certain degree of particularity, it is manifest that many changes may be made in the details of construction and the arrangement of components without departing from the spirit and scope of this disclosure. It is understood that the invention is not limited to the embodiments set forth herein for purposes of exemplification, but is to be limited only by the scope of the attached claim or claims, including the full range of equivalency to which each element thereof is entitled.
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This is my daughters favourite dip that their Nana Jude makes. A southwest US recipe.
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What a great salsa. Many thanks to nana for this delicious treat. We enjoyed it very much. The dip was flavorful, smooth, silky, chunky and had a great texture. It was perfect served with the corn chips. We enjoyed it even more the following day. Thank you so much for sharing a new family favorite.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. - The Brevard County Sheriff's Office says a 13-year-old boy who was last seen Monday afternoon has reunited with his family.
Patrick William Logan was previously last seen at his Melbourne home at 4:30 p.m. Monday. He left on foot, according to the news release.
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BWW Previews: THE 13TH OF PARIS a Romantic Opening to Theatre [502]'s Fourth Season
Theatre [502] has built three seasons of productions featuring fresh voices in contemporary playwrighting around a simple, yet flexible, philosophy: "recent and relevant."
The local group opens its fourth season Friday with a work that juxtaposes love's timeless ideals with contemporary realities in Mat Smart's "The 13th of Paris," which opened last Friday in the Martin Experimental Theater at The Kentucky Center for the Arts.
The play centers on a young man, Vincent, who sets out to unlock the mysteries of love by taking a suitcase full of his grandparents' love letters to the place where the spark between them was lit: their old Paris apartment.
"Thematically, it has a very classic feel to me," said Gil Reyes, director of the production and Theatre [502] co-artistic director. "You could plop Gene Kelly in and it might work out pretty well. And at the same time, it has a contemporary bent that connects those ideals of romantic love to the very real, sort of messy and new things couples deal with at this moment in our history, serving as a nice bridge and conversation for those topics."
The play is the second of Smart's works staged by Reyes for the company. Theatre [502] premiered with Smart's "The Debate Over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, Nebraska," a love triangle piece with an interactive element: the audience chooses which suitor wins Miss O'Connell's hand.
The selection of "The 13th of Paris" was not a deliberate choice to work with a playwright for a second time; rather, the Reyes and co-artistic directors Mike Brooks and Amy Attaway simply loved the play.
"The play just spoke to us," Reyes said. "This is a very different style for him, and you can see a lot of growth in his writing, because it's a lot newer. 'Courtney' was one of his early pieces. What we loved about that show was the highly interactive nature of it, and the second act being very fantastical. 'The 13th of Paris' has some of those fantastic elements, but a clearer and more classic style leading up to it."
"The 13th of Paris" opens a season that will include mainstage productions of the competitive doping drama "Red Speedo" by Lucas Hnath, whose "The Christians" premiered at the 2014 Humana Festival, and Anne Washburn's "Mr. Burns, a post-electric play," in which a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world cling to hope through ritual recounting of an episode of "The Simpsons." Theatre [502] will also return to the Slant Culture Theatre Festival with Mike Bartlett's workplace satire "Bull," and resident playwrights Diana Grisanti and Steve Moulds are creating new selections for the company's magic-themed "Ludlow Quinn Presents" series, showing at Baron's Theater in Whiskey Row each month during the First Friday Trolley Hop.
Producing plays from active, working playwrights gives the artistic minds of Theatre [502] the opportunity to collaborate directly with the scripts' creators, who may still see potential for development in their works. The process is different from show to show, according to Reyes.
"We do have access to all three of this year's playwrights," he said. "With 'Burns,' we've had three very different copies, and there may even be one more she sends us at some point. It all depends on the playwright. With Lucas and Mat, these plays are set. 'The 13th of Paris' is published, and we're using published version of it. We can get in touch with them, ask questions and have a dialogue about what's important about the play.
"There was another we really want to do this year. We contacted the playwright, but he said 'I need to do some more work on it. It's not ready yet. Can you hold off?'" he said. "I'm starting to feel like the playwright community is very small nationally, at least for the style of plays that we look for. We read a lot of the same playwrights right now. We try to expand our horizons, but when a play is good, a play is good."
Reyes, Brooks and Attaway first began working together locally with companies such as The Necessary Theatre. They shared a passion for stories that might not be told locally. Though the company's aesthetic was initially loosely defined, their work together and with their artistic teams over the course of three seasons has kept the company's mission fresh and relevant.
"I think that we've influenced each other even more, and we're very conscious of that, and that's why we're making an effort to involve more and more people in this process," Reyes said. "So I think we're building on it more than defining it."
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I was reading that this ends today (April 15th, 2013). Anyone have an idea when / if we'll know what went where (aside from a studio announcing "We're making X" somewhere down the road)? And where you'd be most likely to find a list?
I'm really most interested to see what happens to the Darksiders IP.


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Former United States Peace Corps Executive and Malibu resident Dr. Paul K. Jhin was the graduation speaker at the San Fernando Valley YouthBuild "Phoenix Rising," 2014 Commencement Ceremonies on Friday, June 20.
As a Korean American, Jhin has the distinction of having been appointed to executive federal government positions in Washington, D.C., by three U.S. Presidents — Director of the Office of Planning, Policy and Analysis for the Peace Corps by President George W. Bush; Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs by President George H. Bush; and National Advisory Council on Adult Education member by President Gerald Ford.
In addition, Jhin served as Director of the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging and Commissioner of California Postsecondary Education Commission.
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Jhin has addressed the e-Learning Africa Conference, 2009 in Senegal and 2010 in Zambia, International Conference on Volunteer Efforts, 2002 in Seoul, Korea, Asian Model United Nations conference, 2010 in Seoul, Korea, United Nations Global Alliance for ICT for Development conferences, 2009 and 2010, UCLA Model United Nations conference, 2012.


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Steven, I was definitely smarter back then.
I did not post on that thread.
(You all can decide whether those two statements go together or not.)
beta, did not get to hunger.
From what I've discovered, the history of the Archinect before the great purge of 2003/2004 is only accessible on the wayback machine, and unfortunately what exists of the forum from "pimpin'" days is only front-page.
I am attempting to piece together a collective history of the Archinect in order to understand the current state of ruination within the forum. The goal is to pinpoint the exact moments of both rise and decline - the latter of which I am suspecting happened when this site became "legitimized." At first this project will revolve around bringing forth old threads to be ogled and commented on by the Constantinople of the former great empire, with hopes of gaining greater insight and visibility for my project. Then it shall eventually spin off into a rarely updated and highly obscure blog highlighting crucial moments in the Archinect history.
Don't tamper with the Old Ones. You have no idea what you might unleash.
donna, your post hit the top of page 1,000. congrats. 46 more posts to go.
archinect is in it's prime. there was never a decline, just constant evolution. sometimes we fear change, but change isn't bad.
if you want to see when things went from somewhat optimistic with inside jokes and such, to more pessimism and cynicism, i would predict that coincided with the fall of bear sterns and lehman brothers. that's because, as an outlet for the people involved in the profession of architecture, this forum will take the general tone of the aggregate profession. also, it got worse when i started posting. then it got lots worse when observant started posting.
My Dearest Miles and miles and miles... unless you are willing to divulge your activities on The Archinect prior to your current nomme de plume, I shall ignore your warning.
The first of my efforts of resurrection is The Archinect user the Garpike. This user gained mythical status once it obtained the form of a chimera, but I have yet to find substantial evidence of any great prophetic wisdom or forum contribution for a rightful place in the pantheon of The Archinect.
^ How would you know what the 50's were like?
Especially on the internet? LOL
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also, it got worse when i started posting. then it got lots worse when observant started posting.
First, there's a thread about bitterness that was meant to take this kind of stuff out of the front yard, as the willster once called called it, and move it elsewhere. That was very astute of Nam to suggest that, and another member, gruen, took up the task of creating that thread.
Curt, the inputs into shaping your perceptions of life are 180 degrees from mine. "Modern Family" isn't the baseline for a lot of people, and pandering to that sort of stuff is optional. You detest stereotyping and anything that is not PC, typical of those in homogenized America spanning from the Upper Midwest to the Pacific Northwest, since the former populated the latter. I was once living in an apartment complex and these girls were moving out of a unit. I asked them where they were going. "Closer to the university." They told me they were PhD students in social psychology. I asked them if that was the branch of psychology that dealt with stereotyping, studying group behavior, and making inferences. They beamed in that I was correct. I would have loved to have given them a research topic. Get a bunch of college women majoring in business. Ask a cross section of society to scale them on appearance, much like on "Dancing with the Stars" or in a beauty pageant. Then, test the correlation back to the discipline within business to see if the higher scoring ones are in marketing, management, and international business, and if the lower scoring ones are in finance, accounting, and MIS. I'd bet you dollars to donuts that this would be positively correlated. Jokes about good-looking college girls and the marketing major are ubiquitous. I didn't invent that wheel.
Note that I also tell people on here who inquire to major in architecture if they really want to, when it has been a lifelong passion and not a newfangled whim. You are actually more negative about it. I think it's a draw - the positives outweigh the negatives. You get to do interesting work, use all parts of your brain, and earn a middle class salary and above once seasoned. You seem to have a house in BBQ-town and a dog to walk, so you must be doing ok. The negatives are the eccentricity, egos, lack of collegiality, and lack of uniformity in education and licensing requirements. For physicians, med school is a must. So there you have it. Assign your weighted values and make a decision. Also, I see very few people here advise people about the scholastic, internship, and exam process, other than make snide comments like "get out while you can."
Shit-stirring role went from garwondler to observant, with a few exceptions. It's a bit like the 1950's in here sometimes.
The 1950s are still here, will. People are pretending and putting on veneers and facades. There are people who will never break bread together. Also, if you look at the garbage looming in Washington DC threatening a government shutdown, you can see that ... ahem ... one party is still firmly entrenched in the 1950s. You know - "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
You've got your front yard back ...
Sarah, we should reserve the 50,000th post for you. Make it about tasty food.
Ya tampering with this old dog...might get you bitten. I was looking at Miles Dad's work today and thinking wonder if on of his vacation beach houses may have been the reason I stuck it out with Architecture. I recall my college adviser saying to me you should do some more reading about architecture.....My thoughts....hum...had my head in every architecture magazine since I was 18 and at the time I was in my middle 20's. Having had the opportunity to start working in an office at 18, they were always there, it was my job to put them back in order once a week after everyone else pillaged thru them. Think it was when I first saw Miles Dad's work. I said I want to do wild shit like that. Years later I discovered I had been associated with three of Bruce Goff's students. I said again I want to do wild shit like that. I don't think all this bantering gets me any closer to doing wild shit like theirs. There are a lot of people stuck in the muck of life. You know fighting with design issues like how the hell did the building column end up in the side wall of a walk in freezer. My best one was in Boston in the Prudential Center. Our firm was hired by the USPS to go look at a site in the Prude...because the USPS wanted to move the post office out of the basement because they were looking at making post offices more like retail stores. So we head up there is is a couple of hour drive, arrive, find the Developers Project Manager, he takes us to the space to be designed. In the middle of the space is a sizable room, we open the door and it is filled with the biggest electrical conduit I have ever laid eyes on. Our job is to field measure the space so we can go back to the office and do the fit out. Before we leave we stop in and visit with the Project Manager. He shows us the drawings and they don't show the room with the conduit. I say what about the room with the conduit. He says oh it will all be moved, and I'm thinking this is the electrical core of the building. So we go back to the office and we tell the boss what we encountered. He checks with the Post Office and they say if it isn't shown in the plans then they are moving it. My boss being the smart one says, well we will prepare drawings based on the fact that it is being moved. However if we end up doing a redraw because it is to remain then we need to be paid for that work as well. USPS agrees, so off we go to designing by using the "Postal Standards - Kit of Parts." Crank out one solution with complete working drawings, only to hear back from the USPS. We have to work the Electrical Conduit into our design. We try but nothing is working. The USPS is under the gun cause the Post Masters Convention is to be in Bean Town in a couple of months. Eventually the project dies, because it can't be done in time for Convention, and well they have decided they need to locate a better site in the building. No one was ever going to move all that power, no one ever had an intention of moving the power. Door must have been locked when Benjamin Thompson's office did the field survey work. So the moral of the story is, "Look inside every door when your doing a field survey."
lol sarah
@ miles, i mean in a william whyte mythic grey men sort of way. lots of humbuggery going on, which is not remotely as interesting as buggery at all.
the whole world is convinced conformity is the way forward and playing it safe is probably all for the best. I notice it in our interns and my students too. So serious, so safe, so worried. It is hard to be creative, or even interesting in this economy because risk taking is riskier than it has ever been.
Architects are at least beginning to see beyond the design side of things and picking up on real social issues again, which is brilliant, but the solutions being proposed are seldom risky, seldom interesting, and really are leading to a big pablum life for everyone that is a bit unsettling. Building a culture of creativity in the midst of all this is going to be a challenge. Developing big ideas is even harder. But more necessary than ever.
Maybe Dylan can write something about the times that will make alright.
Oh, Sarah, that last sentence made me smile ruefully. There are several buildings in my town that I flip off when I drive by.
Achinect changed when the profession changed when the economy changed. Not that is isn't always changing anyway, but we used to have lots of people posting from the office, confident they would not get fired because they were desperately needed due to how much work was going on. A 360d. flipflop in the employment world happened in 2008, to pretty much everyone - it was the beginning of the end of my partnership, for sure (I'm still best friends with my former partner, we just stopped *working* together).
I'm gonna go look at MIles' dad's work. I have a suspicion I will recognize it.
Ah ha, yes yes yes yes yes. The Gates of the Grove synagogue. It's beautiful, and it's one my boss and I looked at closely when we were designing an addition to a Norman Rice synagogue in Philly. We also cited the wooden temples demolished in Eastern Europe as precedents in our design. Sadly, the project never went forward.
Awesome work, Miles' dad!
^ My father spent 2 years trying to get that project. He was sick of luxury residential clients who over the years had gone from avant-garde film directors and musicians to crass garmentos, developers and social climbers. So when he heard about the synagogue project he tried everything he knew to get the commission.
He approached the board repeatedly with various design concepts. He met with all of the board members independently to feel out their concerns and positions. He identified all of the various powers involved including wealthy donors to the center - some of whom were previous clients - and approached them for support.
Nothing worked. The board looked at him as the guy who designed houses for rich people and said 'what do you know about spirituality?'.
Finally my father offered to do the project for no fee. The members of the board of the Jewish Center looked at each other and said, "No fee - what have we got to lose?"
I see that the project was awarded at both the national and state level. The serrated major volumes are strong and give it a unique feel. The interior detailing, on the micro level, with indentations, lattice type projections, and other manipulations, in addition to the windowed clerestories, make it a serene and interesting space. It's always "easier" to worship in a space that is open and windowed rather than one that feels cloistered and foreboding. Very cool.
Clinging to historical styles has left us with a lot of worship spaces that don't breathe well or make the congregation feel small, but make a majestic statement.
A lot of students who adhere to a faith often try to do something related to their faith for a final project, but when the rubber hits the road, it's a lot harder to pull off because they experiment with concepts more than for other typologies because of the statement they might be making.
Garmentos! The garment district in L.A. has some colorful personalities in its ranks.
wow thats an amazing decision. a great project too.
School is paying for the AIA membership.
That's nice, Orhan!
Sarah, Norman Jaffe is real and so is the synagogue. It's not the FLW one in Philly, it's in New York.
Miles, that story makes me sick to my stomach. Having to work for free just to get people to accept something of such beauty.
Be an autodidactic. Your degree should be impressive enough.
Donna, the humor is when you intone it with the a Jewish accent.
"No fee - what have we got to lose?"
The moral is that money can't really buy anything good. They could have paid a fortune in fees and ended up with crap. Instead they paid nothing and got a magnificent building that is widely recognized and admired. That kind of care and effort comes form the heart, not the checkbook.
It also shows just how sick my father was of working for the rich, many of whom failed to pay anyway.
the humor is when you intone it with the a Jewish accent.
Thinking: "for you, and only for you ... " Love this kind of stuff. It's all good.
Is this news or an infomercial? Such a weird addition to Archinect top page.
One doesn't even have to take a second look to know that's a Colorado custom megahouse. Whether in the suburbs of Denver high enough to be studded with evergreens, or up in the mountain ski towns, that's what the affluent typically request and get. That vernacular is very common, but they can be nice. Probably what many CU-Denver M.Arch. grads wind up doing.
Gah, total infomercial. Weird.
Many websites for either the federal or individual state run health exchanges crashed today as they were glutted with interest, according to the news.
I suppose that explains the "sponsored" tag? night all...
I am so mad. I AM SO MAD. I read a blog today that said lefties are "shitting their pants with rage" and that is very near to what I feel. It's broken. Everything about our society is broken. My neighborhood was redistricted into a gerrymandered Republican zone and my rep is a COMPLETE IDIOT supported by the rural hicks to the north of me. In my state the majority of votes were cast for Dems, but the 9 districts are held by SEVEN Rs and only 2 Dems, due to gerrymandering.
It's the same reason I hate "professional" sports: the only values it teaches are win at all costs. And screw whoever gets hurt in the process. This is the message our politicians, sports stars, musical acts, advertising, and every so-called "adult" in our society is teaching: win, no matter what. If you lose due to someone else cheating, that's your own damn fault for not cheating too.
The Urban Archipelago is totally where my brain is right now. Dumb uneducated country hicks who cling to god-n-guns are ruining the opportunities in our society for anyone not like them to succeed, and they claim Jesus loves them for doing it! Hell, they're ruining the ability for us to HAVE a society because they won't deign to be near anyone not like them. Live in a city, and you learn that you have to be tolerant of ALL kinds of people. Live amongst a bunch of dumb ignorant sheep fuckers and you start to think sheep fucking is the norm. The country is a bunch of sheepfuckers surrounding and holding hostage the people who are actually curious, educated, reflective, and tolerant. And they won't let us tax ourselves to improve things for EVERYONE, and use the words liberal and progressive as epithets, as if it's a bad thing to want to improve the world or to help others!
Fuck them, fuck them. Let the rural population flood, burn, dry out, get sucked up in a tornado and see how quick they run to the godless liberals to bail them out. But ask a so-called Christian family values voter to pay a few pennies to make sure a kindergartener can get a decent meal at a free school and they accuse you of being a thief and a moocher.
I'm done. I'm done. I'm so angry and so disheartened and somehow still at age 46 can't believe humans can be as awful, heartless, callous, willfully ignorant as every teabagger is, time and again.
Yes, I do think rural uneducated people are sheepfuckers. I'll stop believing it when they stop fucking sheep.
(This is a reference to an old joke, if you don't know. One that Jerry Lewis told, I think, off the record? About how you can build a great barn and the villagers will give you the nickname John the Barnbuilder, you can heal a sick horse and the villagers will call you Lisa the Horse Healer, and if you fuck one sheep…)
(And I'll also point out that my family is generations of rural pig farmers, but back then it wasn't as possible or necessary to get an education. These days there is no excuse for willful ignorance.)
Donna, you're 100% on the money. These fuckers can goat themselves. Sheep fuckers is the least bad I could say about these clowns.
Pardon me.
I have to step out and settle a disagreement between a subcontractor and the cleaning lady for a client. Seems like some wood pallets ended up in the wrong dumpster and no one wants to take ownership. Now is what Architecture is really about.
wow donna
There are lots of intelligent folk in rural usa. I am certain only a handful are doing weird things with their livestock.
It isn't ignorance, its lack of compassion, and possibly fear, that drives the republican pseudo libertarian nonsense. OK some ignorance too, as in not understanding that the affordable care act is obama-care and what-not.
anyway, good luck with the funny farm.
sometimes it's ignorance. a lot of people really do feel sympathy for the poor or people who can't get jobs/income for whatever reason, but they honestly think there is a church/NGO there to help them. that really is the case in most rural areas. if someone is downtrodden, you can't really ignore them. you know them, you know their parents, you know the name of the dog they had when you were kids, so there is genuine shame if you don't help them. in those areas, government intrusion into the way things work can actually make things worse.
if you live in an area with people, a lot of problems can just be ignored because there is a certain anonymity. government regulation is designed to help those people, not the people who already have support networks. if you don't understand those people exist, or if you really think everyone on welfare is a lazy cheat, it's probably more ignorance than lack of compassion.
just sort of a theory i have, i could actually be pretty far off.
my grandpa had cows. i'm fairly certain there was never any sexual relationships involved with the livestock.
If it's not ignorance then it's plain old meanness. Actual quote from my congresswoman's FB page last night, made by one of her constituents: "I don't want to have to subsidize other people's healthcare". So this is a person who is a mean, hateful, selfish, greedy assclown.
Alternatively, this person doesn't understand that we ALL already subsidize each other, even for things we don't want to: roads, police, etc. AND unjust wars AND healthcare whenever someone who can't pay shows up at an emergency room, because that is how a society works. So this person is ignorant.
If this person is also rural, then this person is probably BOTH mean and ignorant, because he either 1. doesn't know or 2. doesn't care or 3. both that we city people pay out more in taxes than we get back in subsidies, while the rural counties take more. This is a widely documented phenomenon, here is just one state example.
Obviously I'm blanketing, obviously I'm generalizing. There are smart, generous, talented rural folk and there are asswipe ignorant city people. But ON THE WHOLE, cities vote in ways that lean toward being helpful to other people and improving everyone's opportunities, while rural counties vote selfishly and for keeping things backwards.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, though, it's a generational problem. For the most part, kids who grow up rurally are moving into cities. In 25 years the country's makeup is going to look very different, if we haven't destroyed ourselves by then.
Quote by a professor, who was a great teacher but an insecure jerk off-screen, teaching an introductory course in taxation in u.g.:
"Taxation is the price we pay for a well-functioning society."
The ACA will mean an incremental hike of sorts over the short-, or long-term, for some or most people. Incremental often means a little, and not a lot. And if it is tiered and the bigger hikes are reserved the rich, then "c'est la vie." The Leona Helmsleys of the world are getting their just returns on their karma for comments like 'taxes are for the little people.' The economy will adjust, by moving other levers up and down, as it did with Social Security.
Post 50,000 is near and is reserved for Sarah who will be posting a recipe for good food, and that could even be for a cake with green icing in my book.
Donna's sentiment is exactly why I gave up doing planning. That ignorance combined with the willful manipulation of codes and ordinances to ensure cities never change. Various "Good Ol' Boys" social clubs, Chamber of Commerce and certain professional organizations spend so much time rigging local politics.
Most cities and towns are so destroyed that they're beyond repair. They will never have the laws or tax base to lead to crucial development or infrastructure to drag them out of the impending poverty they face.
Bottom line is greed. Greed makes people stupid, mean and fearful - afraid they are going to lose something. This is the basis for every problem we face today from environmental destruction to war to health care and education.
i think this is an example of the extreme case. public services cost money. that money has to come from somewhere.
there are conservatives who think they are an island. nobody should have to pay for them, and they shouldn't have to pay for anyone else. these are typically people who have the means to pay others to take care of them when needed. they don't understand that shit happens sometimes. they really think a homeless person just has to lift themselves up by the bootstraps and get one of those well paying manufacturing jobs that are so common here. they believe the people working 40 hours a week but still need wic or other assistance are just not working hard enough.
most of us know that when this person goes to the doctor, there is a lot of money dumped into infrastructure, equipment, research, and education so that doctor can keep them healthy. most of those are funded in part by government. the government is helping to keep that conservative healthy, because that's what government does.
they don't want harm to come to others. it's not that they're mean. they're just so dumb, and have this fairly tale so ingrained into their psyche, that they can't incorporate the real-world into their ideology, so they just pretend it away. i think it's easier to keep this fairy tale alive in a rural area, because a lot of that infrastructure is out of sight and out of mind. they don't need fire services on a daily basis, so they can ignore it until they need it. they can ignore research into bypass surgery until they need the surgery themselves, in which case they're carted off to the city since rural areas aren't going to have the infrastructure required to keep them alive. then they get home, and it's easy to say they were able to take care of themselves without other people giving them handouts, and just wish away all of the pesky real-life evidence to the contrary.
of course there are a lot of evil, mean, self-absorbed assholes too. i just think it's more difficult to actually believe in this sort of conservative fairy tale in a populated environment, since you're confronted with the obvious need for community involvement more often.
Greed is bad. Yet I live in a community of people - NONE of us are rich, just in the low- to mid-middle class, by American standards - who would gladly give up a bit of what we have *if* it meant that every child had food, a secure home, healthcare, a good education, and equal opportunities in the world. Healthy, happy children become happy, productive adults, and *that* is the society we want to live in.
Instead we get closure of SNAP, CHiP, WIC, Head Start, school therapy et al programs and a lot of blame and anger from people who call users of those programs "moochers". The outcome of this government shutdown is that I'm giving up and giving in to returning that anger: I'm done being nice to people who won't play fair. Done.
Why thank you, Observant. I promise to come through for you!
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Pioneer Editorial: Reflect on freedom, veterans this week
In this fast-paced, digital world, you often wonder if we stop long enough to reflect on the people who and the events that shaped all that we know today. There's that next tweet to read, after all.
But as a society, we need to think more often and more deeply on those things because we wouldn't be as free as we are today to tweet on Twitter or post on Facebook and Instagram if it wasn't for our veterans.
Sure, there's Veterans Day, Memorial Day and Flag Day, and possibly the most patriotic of all, this week when we celebrate Independence Day. But, sadly, more often than not, many associate those days with paid time off from work or barbecues and visits to the lake.
And as the years stretch, our connection to those people and events in the past becomes that much more tenuous.
So, in addition to the parades and the flags this Independence Week, there's another event we should stop and reflect upon.
On Wednesday, Bemidji World War II veteran John O'Boyle will receive the National Order of the Legion of Honour from the French government in recognition of his services in the country.
The 91-year-old O'Boyle was a private first class in 1944 and took part in the Normandy and Rhineland campaigns that helped free France and others from German occupation. Although not on the first wave of the D-Day invasion, fighting was still heavy, as O'Boyle told Bemidji's Dave Quam, who did a series of video interviews with WWII vets for Veterans Day 2012 you can find on the Pioneer's website, www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/interviews-bemidji-area-world-war-ii-vete.... O'Boyle told Quam about how he was one of only three people in his 12-person squad to survive the fighting outside of Saint-Lo, France, in his early days in combat.
O'Boyle later was seriously injured by machine gun fire in September 1944 at the Siegfried Line as Allied troops continued their way to Germany. He was awarded the Purple Heart.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., will present O'Boyle with his Legion of Honour recognition on Wednesday. When contacted by the Pioneer for a preview story, O'Boyle was quick to deflect any personal praise.
"I think the award is more important than the recipient," O'Boyle told Pioneer reporter Trent Opstedahl. "I should say there are thousands of soldiers who are equally qualified to receive it."
O'Boyle's and other WWII veterans' contributions to who we are and how we live today should never be forgotten. And as they leave us, projects such as Quam's become an even more important part of history.
True, there are many others who are equally qualified. But so are you, John.
Thanks for your service.
Now, tweet about that.