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Forum:Better Quality Uncyc?
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Well, I think we should overall decrease the number of profanities and adult content on Uncyc so childern and so called "civillized people" can read it. Everyone deserves a good laugh, even spoilt brats who spend their whole day watching TV and eating crisps.
If we still want adult content, we can put the "warning to young readers" thing and don't let childern see it. From my point of view, Uncyc is very funny but not that children-friendly.
-Alexander the Great 10:23, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- Since when was uncyclopedia funny?--Mnbvcxz 01:55, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
- Well, feck! -- Style Guide 11:14, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- I don't like fecking children beatch! /me lobs buckfast bottle--Sycamore (Talk) 11:17, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- I have no problem with using those templates, and wouldn't like to see Uncyclopedia turn into a porn site (at least not before I have found a way to get my snout and front trotters into the trough). In fact I think I haven't yet written an article with profane expressions. I want to make one thing absolutely clear though: I would have sexual intercourse with all the living maternal members of my family (rigor mortis being the limit) rather than censor my motherfucking profanities when I see a humorous effect is even remotely likely. -- Style Guide 13:05, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- I don't like fecking children beatch! /me lobs buckfast bottle--Sycamore (Talk) 11:17, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- No. If you find a swear and it doesn't add to the page, take it out. Make the page more gooder. Just pulling it all ruins the effect (and cursing can be used to good effect, dagnabit), and that NSFW template ruins the suspension of disbelief (that's twice today that I've used that phrase), although there are times when that template is appropriate. The page is the thing. Anything that takes away from that takes away from the page. Then the page is naked, and it needs that damnable NSFW template. We're all mature adults here. Even the kids. The ones that aren't just vandalize a couple of pages, get banned, and move on. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 13:29, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- Multi's hit the nail on the head. If 'obscene language' is necessary for humour, it's fine. If it's swearing for the sake of swearing, ie; "XXX is a flipping cad then it reveals a writer with a poor vocabulary and no imagination. As for being child-friendly, when did we ever set out to be so? We're not Barney The Dinosaur.com. RabbiTechno 13:32, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
As Alex said, Everyone deserves a good laugh. Well, uncyc can use humour but not in a crude or profane way. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs)
- Uncyc can use whatever it gets. Poopy. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 14:18, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- If there's one kid left who can read English and has not learned to use all possible swear words and half the combinations of them by the time of his/her finding Uncyclopedia, I will turn myself in to the nearest church and become a devout christian. This is a promise, and not a politician's promise either. So, find me the kid and I'll go get converted. GET TO IT! -- Style Guide 16:49, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
"Civilized people"
would not understand any of the jokes on Uncyc. /thread. User:The Masked Editor/sig (16:54, Dec 14 2008)
As a rule, I generally support keeping the vulgarity level to a minimum. However, sometimes crassness and adult content are funny; but, I'm normally against full blown nudity, this site is not ED or a holder of masturbation fodder. The balance is far to much in favor toward the crass site. And it will always be thus, as it will always be too nonsensical and random, its the nature of the wikia. Writing good articles is hard and takes time: babbling incoherently, swearing like a drunked salior, and spamming boobage is easy and quick.--Mnbvcxz 17:45, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- Your mom, coincidentally, is also easy and quick. ;) - P.M., WotM, & GUN, Sir Led Balloon (Tick Tock) (Contribs) 21:54, Dec 14
- Very relevant - I masturbate to images of mammalian protuberances every day. Nothing to do with being oedipal, I hope! -- Style Guide 06:35, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
- Gee, it sure is horny around here. - Admiral Enzo Aquarius-Dial the Gate 05:18, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
- Very relevant - I masturbate to images of mammalian protuberances every day. Nothing to do with being oedipal, I hope! -- Style Guide 06:35, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm suprised nobody's mentioned this yet...
Why would anyone, civilized or not, want to come here? Don't they know we're the worst? Colin ALL YOUR BASEHeaney! Casa Bey Superfly Portfolio 03:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry, wrong post.--Mnbvcxz 06:08, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm screwed!
Aww man. I just did some math and one of my articles has an amazing 1:1 ratio of sentences to curse words. Which is terrible by the standards of this forum, and just amazing by my own. The Woodburninator (woodtalk) (woodstalk) 16:18, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Lower Quality Uncyc
I'd actually prefer that we actively work to lower the quality of Uncyclopedia, which is why I just wrote That time I accidentally launched a thousand ships with my face during my sojourn in Troy. pillow talk 18:24, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Slightly lower quality
This chapter is dedicated to lowering it only slightly BECAUSE I'M TOO FUCKING LAZY TO WRITE FULL ARTICLES ANY MORE! But if I manage to write an Absolutely Boring Subchapter into this chapter of the Forum, I feel I have done my part. So then, this isn't halfway bad yet. My sentences are coherent, my spelling seems to be all right --- twat! I cannot even lower the quality believably! Well maybe, if I ramble on, I manage to turn this into something super boring. Yes, that must be it. Going around in this circle here, pretending I'm trying to do something. I feel it working. This is turning into something absolutely unreadable. I cannot stop any more - and I'm not sure I want to! I don't! I will keep on for some time. Sooner or later I'll get some impulse to quit this. Not yet though. A few more sentences and this will be finished. Is this boring yet? "Man, it sure is! How did you manage?" you ask, disbelieving. Well, he he, the secret is just to keep writing even if you have nothing to say! "Tell us something we don't know, wankypants!" All right, this turned ugly - and boring. So there - quality lowered! What do you think? -- Style Guide 19:08, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Good Idea! Cut Chaucer and Carlin, too
...assuming they are posting on Uncyc. Because they were very naughty fellows -- "swive" this and "fuck" that. The problem as I see it is, toilet words can be hilarious. But like every other word-set, it requires a modicum of wit to make teh funny with them. If you are objecting to stupid vulgarity, good on yer, I'm right behind ya. But don't try to sanitize the site, because humor has never been sanitary AND NEVER WILL BE. And since I'm in the mood for all caps, KILL THE MINGE-SNOGGING DONGLE-SCHLEPPING NSFW TEMPLATE wherever it is found! It is ugly as a chihuahua's rump-flange with flecks on. Ugly as a goose's slippery prolapse. Ugly as a wormy booger, ugly as a bush war in the Congo, ugly as toejam preserves, ugly as a dead rat's swollen purple balls. (That last one went too far, dint it.) But be of good cheer, I think all templates are ugly (except the Wikipedia link one). I favor eliminating stupid vulgarity, and encouraging funny vulgarity. And if there are children too innocent to read the words fuck or swive then they should go to FamilyPedia or something. ----OEJ 02:12, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- In all honesty and seriousness and other things of that unfunny nature, I agree. I think "higher" quality (which in this case means watered-down G-rated "family-friendly" humor) content simply won't do Uncyc much good. Unless we're planning to advertise ourselves as such, it would be a buttload of work to implement a system for separating the adult stuff from the kiddie stuff, and we're struggling as a website to get it up at all. Er, by that I mean featured articles and stuff. Yeah. --The Acceptable Cainad (Fnord) 18:05, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
How to improve quality PRESTO!
It came to me in a vision: let's just nick the old Scott Adams joke and hang up a banner that says QUALITY! -- Style Guide 07:31, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Qaulity is are top proirity!--Mnbvcxz 07:48, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- I've got an idea: how about we improve quality by removing all the incentives to write successful articles? We could stop updating the featured artice daily, not bother voting for writer awards, and spend more time complaining than we do writing... oh.IronLung 09:19, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
- Or we could be sarcastic, because that would work really well. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 11:06, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
- I've got an idea: how about we improve quality by removing all the incentives to write successful articles? We could stop updating the featured artice daily, not bother voting for writer awards, and spend more time complaining than we do writing... oh.IronLung 09:19, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Even our rants about quality sux these days
Guess that is because our systems actually work these days. Oh, talking of VFH and only featuring every 2 or 3 days... When did we start doing that, and what else happened at that time? MrN Fork you! 12:10, Dec 20
I don't get it.
What would civilised people be doing on the Internet? I'm confused... --MegaPleb • Dexter111344 • Complain here 17:07, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
The only question I have is why no one has yet to cite Quality.--Sir Flammable KUN (Na Naaaaa...) 01:00, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Quality Check?
Quality check for Uncyc is recommended. Apply directly to the website. |Si Plebius Dato' (Sir) Joe ang Giratina CUN|IC Kill | 10:37, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, but don't use the generic Quality Check. That shit can give use a real bad rash down there. I would rather keep the crabs than use that shit again. --17:56, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- Uncyclopedia: Less Quality, More Crabs Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 19:08, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- Well, Uncyc needs to have a higher quality than Wikipedia. Wikipedia then should have crabs, lice and ticks. If you want the results of the quality of Uncyc, click here. -- |Si Plebius Dato' (Sir) Joe ang Giratina CUN|IC Kill | 02:17, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Friends and compatriots! Reading this Forum, I have come to the conclusion that the overall quality of Uncyclopedia has ALREADY been significantly improved! Can't you see it? Just look at the length of the article! How about the word/tit ratio? How about the almost nonexistent references to venereal disease or the like? How about the almost total lack of obscene words like pants, tits, butt, shorts, pee, or poop? I for one think this Forum is easily worthy of Christmas feature, if only we get one good festive image here somewhere! This is a miracle, just like the star that was visible in Bethlehem! This is like the second coming of Jesus - and I don't mean "coming" the way you think I mean it - if I know what you think, and I think I do! ET CETERA!! I rest my case. -- Style Guide 05:01, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
- Obviously, the forum is much better than mainspace, minimal boobage, templates are used with moderation, meaningful ideas are expressed instead of the insane or pseudo-insane babbling and lists upon lists, there is no quote spam, and the articles are long. Clearly, we should make the forum the backbone of the site and turn mainspace into an ignored archive. (or perhaps I'm a year or two late with that idea.)--Mnbvcxz (Annoy) 06:48, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
that help? --Mnbvcxz (Annoy) 05:21, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
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Producer Hudson Mohawke Claims Drake And Kanye Haven't Paid Him, Threatens To Leak Tracks
The Scottish producer Hudson Mohawke who works closely with several chart-topping musicians expressed understandable frustration last night when he revealed on Twitter that both Drake and Kanye have yet to pay him for recent collaborations. The now deleted tweet was screenshotted by Pitchfork, revealed Kanye and Drake's failure to pay, threatening to leak their tracks as a punishment.
After the tweet started to make the rounds, the producer quickly deleted it and took back its sentiments:
He also joking claimed that he didn't have the "10 Milly" required to have actual legal beef with Drake and Kanye, which poses the question — can anyone besides Drake and Kanye themselves afford that beef? Although Hudson Mohawke quickly withdrew his initial internet shade, he did get one last hit in when he claimed that "mainstream rappers have less business sense than yer mum."

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Creative Dramatics
Homeward Bound Theatre Company will offer "Creative Dramatics" on Tuesdays, Feb. 26 through March 19 from 2:45 to 4:15 p.m. at Bayview Elementary School in Waconia. Students in grades 3-4 will start at the beginning with the basics of acting, mime and movement. Ever wonder what your favorite actor or actress first learned? Join the fun and we'll show you how it is done! Information, cost of registration: Waconia Comm. Ed. at (952) 442-0610.
Lighthouse event
THURSDAY, FEB. 21 – The public is invited to attend Lighthouse Presents with Robin Rinke from 2 to 3 p.m. at Lighthouse of Waconia (500 S Cherry Street). Topic: Cabin Fever.
Firearm safety training
THURSDAY, FEB. 21 – The Mayer-New Germany Sportsman Club will host firearms safety training at the Mayer Community Center (413 Bluejay Avenue). Registration will be held at the community center starting at 7 p.m. Classes held on Thursdays from 7 to 9 p.m. Info: Beth at (952) 442-4443 or Doug at (612) 718-7188.
NAMI meeting
THURSDAY, FEB. 21 – The support group of the National Alliance on Mental Illness will meet at 7 p.m. at the Waconia Moravian Church.
Moms in Prayer
FEB. 21 & 28 – Moms and grandmothers are invited to an informational coffee to learn more about Moms in Prayer International, a Christian ministry where women come together to pray for children and schools. The introductory meeting will be held Thursday, Feb 21 & 28, from 8 to 9 a.m. at 1236 Kinder Drive, Waconia. Moms in Prayer, formerly Moms In Touch, is an interdenominational, nonprofit ministry with groups of moms meeting to pray for children and schools in every state in the USA and in 130+ countries around the world. Info: Jeanie at (952) 297-2476 or www.MomsInPrayer.org.
Early Bird Piano Bar
FRIDAY, FEB. 22 – The public is invited to attend the Early Bird Piano Bar 2 to 3 p.m. at Lighthouse of Waconia (500 S Cherry Street).
Waconia KC fish fry
FRIDAY, FEB. 22 – The Waconia Knights of Columbus Fish Fry will be held from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at St. Joseph Parish Center in Waconia every Friday from Feb. 15 to March 22. Adults: $10, children ages 5-12: $4, children under 5 eat free. Take out available.
St. Bernard's fish fry
FRIDAY, FEB. 22 – St. Bernard School in Cologne will be hosting an all-you-can-eat fish fry from 3:30 to 8 p.m. in the cafeteria. The cost is $9.50 per adult and $5.50 for children ages 5-10, and children 4 and under are free. Features home-made side dishes and desserts. Take-out orders available. A second fish fry will be held on Friday, March 22.
'Arsenic and Old Lace'
FEB. 22-24, 28, MARCH 1-2 – River City Theatre Company presents 'Arsenic and Old Lace" at Watertown-Mayer Primary School. Feb. 22, 28 and March 1: 7 p.m. Feb. 23-24, March 2: 2 p.m. Adults: $6, youth (17 & under): $5.
Schwichtenberg benefit
SATURDAY, FEB. 23 – Bruce and Darlene Schwichtenberg, lifelong residents of Carver County, recently suffered a fire at Bruce's mechanic shop and lost tools and equipment in the fire. Friends of the family are sponsoring a chili feed / chili contest on their behalf from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Waconia American Legion (233 Olive St S). Suggested donation: $15 for adults, $10 for ages 14 and under, children 6 and under free. To enter contest, call (952) 467-3929 by Feb. 21 to register your chili or for donation info.
French Toast breakfast
SUNDAY, FEB. 24 – St. Peter Lutheran Church (3030 Navajo Rd., Watertown) will host a French Toast Breakfast featuring fresh strawberries and pineapple, apple sauce, sausage, lemonade, milk and coffee. Breakfast is from 10-11:30 a.m.; feel free to join for worship at 9 a.m. Free will offering. Info: (952) 955-1679.
Challenge Choir
SUNDAY, FEB. 24 – Trinity Lutheran Church, Waconia will host Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge during worship at 10:45 a.m. All are invited to hear the choir and its dramatic, personal testimonies of lives transformed by Christ.
Waconia FCA
SUNDAY, FEB. 24 – Waconia Fellowship of Christian Athletes will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. at Crown College in St. Boni facius for games with the college students, ice cream and an encouraging message. Bring your friends!
Winter Carnival
MONDAY, FEB. 25 – St. Joseph Preschool in Waconia is expanding to offer flexible preschool with childcare for children ages 3-5 this fall. Partnering with Lake Area Discovery Center, a nationally accredited early childhood program through the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), St. Joseph will offer half & full day age specific preschool options 5 days/week with extended care from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm to accommodate the needs of busy families. Come to the Winter Carnival Family Night from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to learn more or visit www.ladcfamilies.org. Info: Jackie at (952) 442-4500 or [email protected]
Immunization Clinic
MONDAY, FEB. 25 – Carver County Public Health (600 E 4th St., Chaska) will hold an Immunization Clinic from 3 to 5 p.m. Public Health provides immunizations to residents who do not have health insurance or whose insurance does not cover immunizations. Adult, childhood vaccines available. A $14 fee is requested for the administration of each MnVFC vaccine. No one denied service if unable to pay. Information, appointment: (952) 361-1329.
Caregiver Support Group
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27 – Encore's Carver County Adult Day Services Program and Emerald Crest Assisted Living Memory Care provide a monthly Caregiver Support Group to address the issues of caring for the aging. This month's caregiver support group will meet at Ridgeview Medical Center's Auditorium from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Topic: "The Turning Point" presented by Dr. Joseph Gaugler and Mark Reese, from the University of Minnesota's School of Nursing. RSVPs appreciated at (952) 856-7529.
Early Childhood screen.
FEB. 28 & MARCH 1 – Early Childhood Screening is a free service offered by District 110 staff that will check a child's overall development and health. Recommended screening age is between the ages of 3 1/2 and 4 years. Screening will take place from 2:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28 and from 8:15 .m. to 2:45 p.m. on Friday, March 1 at the Early Childhood Family Center, 520 Industrial Blvd. Info: 442-0613.
Waconia KC fish fry
FRIDAY, MARCH 1 – The Waconia Knights of Columbus Fish Fry will be held from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at St. Joseph Parish Center in Waconia every Friday from Feb. 15 to March 22. Adults: $10, children ages 5-12: $4, children under 5 eat free. Take out available.
Ascension KC fish fry
FRIDAY, MARCH 1 – The Ascension Knights of Columbus are hosting their annual fish fry at Ascension Church Social Hall in NYA from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Serving Alaskan Pollack, au gratin potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, beverages and dessert. Adults and takeouts: $10.50, kids 6-12: $5, and kids under 5: free. Advance tickets: $9, available from Lano Equipment, KleinBank in NYA and Citizens State Bank in NYA.
Escape to the Islands
SATURDAY, MARCH 2 – Escape to the Islands! Shop, dine and play at participating Waconia Chamber businesses that will feature specials, games and classes. See articles on Page 2.
Pet adoption event
SATURDAY, MARCH 2 – Carver Scott Humane Society volunteers will hold a pet adoption from noon to 3 p.m. at PETCO in Chaska. Cats, dogs available. Adoption fees are $175+ for cats and $200+ for dogs. Info: (952) 368-3553 or www.carverscotths.org.
Waffle Brunch
SUNDAY, MARCH 3 – All are invited to attend the annual Trinity Lutheran Church & School (Waconia) Waffle Brunch from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The all-you-can-eat Waffle Brunch, held in the Fellowship Hall, features Dad's Belgian Waffles. Tickets available at the door (adults $9, seniors $7, youth ages 6-12 $6 and age 5 and under free).
Legion Auxiliary
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 – The Waconia American Legion Auxiliary will meet at 7:30 p.m. Next meeting: April 3.
Waconia KC fish fry
FRIDAY, MARCH 8 – The Waconia Knights of Columbus Fish Fry will be held from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at St. Joseph Parish Center in Waconia every Friday from Feb. 15 to March 22. Adults: $10, children ages 5-12: $4, children under 5 eat free. Take out available.
Steak fry dinner
SATURDAY, MARCH 9 – A steak fry dinner will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. at American Legion Post 150 (233 Olive Street, Waconia). Includes baked potato, cole slaw, bread, beverage. Price: $11.


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See and Say 7
See and Say by Antonio Frasconi. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., NY. 1955. ©Antonio Frasconi.
Love the numbers there.
Fantastic picture book featuring brilliant woodcuts by artist Antonio Frasconi. What's so cool about this book is the fact that it's in four languages, with the word for each object given in English (printed in black), Italian (blue), French (red), and Spanish (green).
There's no one place to learn about Fasconi, but here are a few links to check out about the man:
Antonio Frasconi on Artcyclopedia
Antonio Frasconi at Davidson's Galleries
Google Image Search for Antonio Frasconi
The dude was born in 1919 and is still living at age 90. Awesome. This was his first children's book.
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ONE MORE FOR THE GROUP: The U.S. Men's Olympic Team enters the third and final Group B game against Nigeria in first place and with a chance to win the group and advance to the quarterfinal stage. Wednesday's decisive match can be seen live on Aug. 13 at 5 a.m. ET on the USA Network. Fans can also follow the match on ussoccer.com's MatchTracker. The USA can claim the top spot in the group with a victory or a draw. They can also advance if Japan defeats or draws the Netherlands in their match, which kicks off simultaneously. Both the U.S. and Nigeria have four points from their first two matches, and have the same goal differential of +1, but the U.S. has the edge on the second tiebreaker – goals for.
Group B Standings
Team W L T Pts GF GA GD
Aug. 7
Japan 0, USA 1
Netherlands 0, Nigeria 0
Aug. 10
Nigeria 2, Japan 1
USA 2, Netherlands 2
Aug. 13
Netherlands vs. Japan, 5 a.m. ET
Nigeria vs. USA, 5 a.m. ET
UNPRECEDENTED BEGINNING: The U.S. Men's Olympic Team has never before taken four points from its first two games at the Olympics, and in Beijing they have done it in style. A 47th minute goal from Stuart Holden proved to be the game-winner in the 1-0 victory against Japan on Aug. 7 in Tianjin. An epic battle with the Netherlands followed in a game that saw the U.S. come back from a goal down to take the lead on goals from Sacha Kljestan and Jozy Altidore, only to see a stoppage time rocket from the Dutch end the game locked in a 2-2 draw. In 2000, during the USA's last run through the Olympics, the team won their opener but lost the second game. They came away with a tie in the third match to advance to the quarterfinals, where they defeated Japan in penalty kicks. With that game officially going down as a draw, the USA has never won two games in the Olympic Tournament.
2008 U.S. Men's Olympic Team Roster by Position
GOALKEEPERS (2): Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Chris Seitz (Real Salt Lake)
DEFENDERS (4): Patrick Ianni (Houston Dynamo), Michael Orozco (San Luis), Michael Parkhurst (New England Revolution), Marvell Wynne (Toronto FC)
MIDFIELDERS (8): Freddy Adu (Monaco), Michael Bradley (SC Heerenveen), Maurice Edu (Toronto FC), Benny Feilhaber (Derby County), Stuart Holden (Houston Dynamo), Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA), Dax McCarty (FC Dallas), Danny Szetela (Brescia Calcio)
FORWARDS (4): Jozy Altidore (Villarreal), Charlie Davies (Hammarby IF), Brian McBride (Chicago Fire), Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew)
- U.S. forward Freddy Adu and midfielder Michael Bradley will both miss Wednesday night's match due to yellow card accumulation. Both players picked up a caution in each of the USA's first two matches.
- Two Nigerians who started both matches so far – Olubayo Adefemi and Onyekachi Apam – will also miss Wednesday night's match after accumulating two yellow cards.
- Yellow cards accumulated during the first four games are cancelled out after the quarterfinal round.
- The 47th minute goal scored by Stuart Holden against Japan on Aug. 7 was the first scored by the U.S. Men's Olympic Team since September 26, 2000, when Peter Vagenas scored in the team's 1-3 semifinal loss to Spain in Sydney.
- The United States and Nigeria have never met in the Olympics.
- Nigeria made history by becoming the first nation outside of Europe and South America to win Gold at the Olympics when they took the title in 1996 in Atlanta.
- The U.S. has used a total of 14 of 18 players on the roster throughout the first two matches. U.S. coach Peter Nowak sent out the same starting XI against Japan and the Netherlands, and both Jozy Altidore and Benny Feilhaber entered each match as a substitute. Danny Szetela provided defensive cover for the final three minutes in the 1-0 win against Japan.
- The Beijing Games are the 13th Olympic tournament for the U.S. Men, more than any nation except Italy (15). Meantime, the Nigerians are playing in their sixth Olympic Games.
- There are 12 players on the roster who helped the team qualify for the Olympics in March. Adu and fellow midfielder Dax McCarty, along with defenders Maurice Edu and Michael Orozco, were named to the Qualifying Tournament Best XI. Midfielder Sacha Kljestan earned an Honorable Mention.
- Of the four players named as alternates to the U.S. team, only goalkeeper Dominic Cervi will travel with the team throughout their stay in China.
- Seven players were part of the U.S. Under-20 Men's National Team that advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2007 FIFA Under-20 World Cup. Altidore was among the leaders of that tournament with four goals, Adu had three and Bradley scored the overtime winner in the Round of 16 match against Uruguay.
- Six players participated in the 2005 edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, including Adu and Szetela, the only players to have appeared for the U.S. more than once. Other members of the 2005 team included Feilhaber, Patrick Ianni, Kljestan and Marvell Wynne.
- The U.S. team ranges in age from 18 (Altidore) to 36 (Brian McBride). The other two overage players – Brad Guzan and Michael Parkhurst - were both born in 1984, making them less than a year too old to be considered Under-23.
- Parkhurst was named Major League Soccer's Defensive Player of the Year in 2007 at just 23 years old, while Guzan was last year's MLS Goalkeeper of the Year at the same age. Edu was also an award winner last year, as he was named the league's Rookie of the Year.
NIGERIA'S 'DREAM TEAM IV' GOING FOR GOLD: Nigeria's Olympic squad entered the 2008 Games with high hopes and expectations following the country's second place finish in the 2005 FIFA Under-20 World Cup. Much of that squad makes up the backbone of the current team, who qualified for Beijing on the final matchday, winning 3-0 against South Africa while eliminating group heavyweights Ghana. Head coach Samson Siasia – an 11-year veteran of the Nigerian national team who started three games in the 1994 FIFA World Cup – has collected a talented and diverse squad led by the strikeforce of Victor Obinna and Everton forward Victor Anichebe. The pair of Victors were the goalscorers in Nigeria's 2-1 win against Japan. Combined with a hard fought 0-0 draw against the Netherlands to open the tournament, the 'Dream Team IV' heads into Wednesday in a difficult position. Despite holding four points and second place in the group, only a victory guarantees their place in the medal phase.
2008 Nigeria Olympic Team Roster by Position:
GOALKEEPERS (2): Ikechukwu EZENWA (Ocean Boys), Ambruse VANZEKIN (Akwa United)
DEFENDERS (5): Olubayo ADEFEMI (Hapoel Bnei Lod), Dele ADELEYE (Sparta Rotterdam), Efe AMBROSE (Kaduna Utd), Onyekachi APAM (Nice), Chibuzor OKONKWO (Bayelsa United)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Ebenezer AJILORE (Groningen), Emmanuel EKPO (Columbus Crew), Promise ISAAC (Trabzonspor), Monday JAMES (out of contract), Sani KAITA (Sparta Rotterdam), Oladapo OLUFEMI (Boavista)
FORWARDS (5): Victor ANICHEBE (Everton), Chinedu OGBUKE OBASI (1899 Hoffenheim), Victor OBINNA (Chievo), Peter ODEMWINGIE (Lokomotiv Moscow), Solomon OKORONKWO (Hertha Berlin)
Last Time Out:
August 10, 2008 - Olympic Center Stadium, Tianjin - Olympic Games, Group B
USA 2 Kljestan 64'; Altidore 72'
NED 2 Babel 17'; Sibon 93+
USA: Guzan; Wynne, Edu, Parkhurst, Orozco; Holden, Bradley, Kljestan, Rogers (Altidore, 65); Adu (Feilhaber, 80), McBride
NED: Vermeer, Zuiverloon, Marcellis (Makaay, 75), Jaliens, de Guzman, Emanuelson, Maduro, Drenthe (10-Sibon, 75), 17-Bakkal, 11-Babel, 16-Beerens (Jong-a-Pin, 69)
August 10, 2008 – Olympic Center Stadium, Tianjin – Olympic Games, Group B
NGA 2 Victor Obinna, 58, Victor Anichebe, 74
JPN 1 Yohei Toyoda, 79
NGA: Vanzekin; Okonkwo, Apam, Adeleye, Kaita, Obinna (Ekpo, 77), Isaac (Ogbuke Obasi, 73), Okoronkwo, Ajilore, Adefemi, Odemwingie (Anichebe, 62)
JPN: Nishikawa; Hosogai (Kajiyama, 75), Mizumoto, Morishige, Uchida, Honda, Taniguchi, Yasuda, Kagawa (Toyoda, 63), Honda, Lee (Okazaki, 63)
GETTING THE POINT: While the players are preparing for their key match against Nigeria, you can still take a look back at their epic draw against the Netherlands on Sunday. We caught up with the players post-game to get their reaction to the game and to sitting on top of a difficult Group B. They also spoke about their upcoming opponent, Nigeria. To hear what they had to say, check out ussoccer.com.
MO'S MOVE: U.S. Men's Olympic Team defender Maurice Edu hasn't been a defender for very long. He has made the move from central midfield, where he plays for both Toronto FC and the full National Team, to central defender for the Olympic Games. While it's not as drastic as asking Tyson Gay to run the 10,000 meters instead of the 100 meters, it's still a difficult transition. But for 'Mo,' as he's called by his teammates, it's been smooth sailing through the team's first two games. Read about Mo's smooth transition to the U.S. backline here.
EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME: The U.S. Men spent part of the day after their first match against Japan attending one of the biggest spectacles the world has ever seen – the Opening Ceremonies. In ussoccer.com's exclusive video, the players show off their parade outfits and talk about the experience, which some called 'the most amazing thing I've ever done."
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STUDIO 90 IN FULL EFFECT: The Studio 90 crew is splitting time between China and the home offices in Chicago, and you can come along on the journey. Today's video holds a preview of the U.S. Men's climactic group match against Nigeria, with post-match reaction following the U.S. Women's 4-0 domination of New Zealand on the way later today - and very early tomorrow morning, if you're following from Beijing! Don't forget to tune in all week long where U.S. Soccer's all_access video will have all the inside scoop as the U.S. teams continue their Olympic journey.
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The Dingo's Got My Baby
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
Early in 1980 our family (myself, Michael, Aidan and Reagan) moved to Mt Isa in north-western Queensland. I was pregnant and the first time I visited Dr Irene Milne, Michael decided to come with me to meet the new doctor and make sure I had decided on a good one.
When we got into the doctor's office and Dr Milne questioned me on my medical history, Michael gave the answers, much to my amusement. Although it seemed to throw the doctor a little, I was used to Michael doing that when we went out, so as long as he didn't give the wrong answers, I let it ride. After that visit I went alone and I could see that the doctor was quite relieved that I could actually talk and knew my own mind after all. (In years to come Michael's answering for me on that one visit still stuck in her mind as peculiar.)
The doctor asked me some questions about my first two births and said I was obviously one of those people who had a ten-month gestation period, not nine. 'I will not touch you until you have gone ten months,' she said, 'then, if we go too far over that, I will bring the baby on. We won't worry about it until then.' Sure enough, just a few days after the ten months, the baby started to make its presence felt. I felt a little uncomfortable the night before and wondered whether I was having contractions or whether, indeed, it was a false labour. It was my dad's birthday and I thought if I was going in, it would be lovely to have a baby then, especially if, as we hoped, the baby was a little girl.
Well, she wasn't to be born that day. At two the next morning, I got up and went to the toilet, then wandered around the house timing myself. When my contractions were five minutes apart, I knew it was time to go. My friend Jenny who was going to look after the boys couldn't come in the middle of the night, so another friend, Neroli Goss, was on standby if I had to go during the night. I woke Michael up and said, 'Honey, you'd better go and get Neroli in a hurry, I've got to go.' I expected him to be only a few minutes at the most, seeing she was half expecting him.
While he was away, I started to get anxious that he had been gone too long. That got my stomach in a knot and next thing I knew I was vomiting. That put my contractions out of order and from then on they came spasmodically. He arrived back nearly three-quarters of an hour later with Neroli and her husband Neville in tow—both looking sleepy but fully dressed. Michael asked how I was going, then said, 'We're pretty hungry. Do you think you could get breakfast before you leave?' Neroli's mouth dropped open and she was about to remonstrate with him, but I shook my head and said, 'Never mind, I'll get you breakfast. You've taken so long, I've done the washing ready to be hung out and I'm not going to go yet for a while after all, but we will have to get there fairly soon.' So they all had breakfast. Neroli had been watching me fairly closely and although she didn't have any children of her own at that stage, she said, 'It looks like it's time you went. Are you OK?'
I replied, 'Yes, but I do think it's time I went.'
She said, 'Right, I'll get him out the door.' So she shooed Michael out the door, and off we went. He then took close notice of the contractions I was having, decided it really was time to move and put his foot down. The more bumps we went over, the worse it was. When we got to the hospital, I was glad to get out and go in. We found the nurse was in a panic.
'I thought you were coming ages ago. We figured you must have had it on the way here or something had happened,' she said.
I assured her I was OK.
I was prepped and put into a room and Michael took off home. He had to be there before school, as Neville and Neroli were both teachers and would have to leave. He would get the boys up, send Aidan off to school and bring Reagan to see me for a while before taking him to Jenny's, then come back before the baby was born. I was having quite an easy labour compared to the boys. There was no pain in between the contractions and I was managing to deal with those.
Finally the nurse said, 'I think we will put you up in one of the rooms, there's a free one now. The baby's obviously getting closer; you're ten minutes apart now.' She would get a few things ready and was I OK?
'Fine,' I said.
As she went out, I said to her, 'I am starting to push.'
She said, 'Rubbish!'
'I am!' I said.
She said, 'I will wait for one contraction and see what happens.' Well, nothing happened. Not one thing.
'I don't care,' I said. 'The baby is very close. It is going to come in the next few minutes.'
She said, 'OK, do you want an injection?'
I said, 'Yes, please. Let's hope it will work before this happens.'
'It will work in about twenty minutes,' she said.
I thought boy! It better be before that, or this is going to hurt like hell. Although I was having an easier time, I knew what the final few minutes were like.
So she gave me an injection and said, 'I will just get all the other injections ready. I will wait for one more contraction, just in case you are right.' She turned around, picked up the syringe, and plunged it into the bottle ready to start drawing up the liquid, and I went into contraction. She took one look at me, said, 'Oh, gosh,' and pushed the emergency bell.
As a bell rang in the distance, we heard rushing foot steps down the hall. As Michael opened the door and walked in carrying Reagan, the nurse reached the foot of the bed, and the baby arrived in a whoosh. Michael stopped just inside the door and the charge nurse, who had been running behind him, almost went slap into his back.
'Well, that surprised everyone!' the charge nurse said. At the same time the nurse said, 'Well, it's a girl. Just what the doctor ordered.' I had seen as she was born that it was a girl and yet I thought—it can't be! I had been so disappointed when Reagan was another boy, and I thought, They're going to tell me in a minute that it is a boy and I have seen wrong. It can't be a girl. I wouldn't allow myself to get excited. I'd been too disappointed before, and yet I knew this time it was OK.
Well, Michael said it all for me. 'Are you sure?'
The nurse looked at him and said, 'Yes I am. Do you want to have a look for yourself? I'm sure it's quite plain.'
Michael, still standing there with his mouth open holding Reagan, looked at her and said, 'Oh . . . er . . . no thanks. I'm sure you're right.' He stood there for a few more seconds and then said, 'Do you hear that Reagan? You've got a baby sister . . . Did you hear that darling, we've got a girl?' And so we did. A beautiful little girl—3 kilograms (6 pounds 5 ounces)—with very dark violet eyes, so dark a purple they were nearly black. Black hair and olive skin. Apart from her eyes being darker, her hair just slightly bluer-black, and being smaller, she was the image of Aidan.
Michael rushed out to the car to grab his camera. When he came back he started taking photographs. He even talked Dr Milne into having her photograph taken with Azaria. She later said she thought he was a bit strange taking all those photographs but knew new fathers often did things she thought odd.
Reagan had seen his mum, and seen more than he bargained for. Michael took him out then and let him go and play while the doctor came to stitch me up.
When Michael came back later that afternoon I asked him what Reagan had said. He said, 'Nothing much, he just sat there quietly thinking about it and then later he commented, "Mummy had a lot of blood on her and so did bubby, didn't she, Daddy," and he never made any other comment than that.
Aidan, when he heard, was quite incensed that he had not been allowed to stay home from school. He said, 'I wanted to see bubby born too! How come Reagan was allowed?' We had to explain that it was purely accidental. Nevertheless, it was a bond that Reagan would never forget. He loved that little girl.
As Reagan had in effect been Aidan's 'baby' so Azaria was Reagan's. Aidan had guarded Reagan carefully. 'He is my baby, you stay away from him!' I worked in the camp store and when it came time for Aidan's meeting, Reagan had to go too. Aidan would push Reagan in the baby carriage across to the door while I watched, and the girls in charge would help him take the pram up the steps and park it. They were supposed to be officially babysitting for me while I was in the store, but no, they informed me, Aidan wouldn't let them near Reagan. He would sit at Reagan's side and if Reagan woke up, Aidan would roll him over and flop him forward on a chubby little fist, burp him and give him his bottle.
Reagan who, like Aidan, had pyloric stenosis (a restriction of the sphymeter muscle into the stomach, making feeding slow and bringing up wind without projectile vomiting impossible) was bottle fed not breastfed, so Aidan was able to enjoy feeding and taking care of his little brother to his heart's content. He was very possessive. If Reagan cried and he decided it was time to go for help, he would head towards the door and, on one occasion, he even told the girls that he could get down the steps with the pram by himself! Knowing that the handle of the pram was almost above his head and this wasn't true, they assisted him anyway. I heard him saying loudly, 'Don't touch my baby', looked out the door and saw him.
As they grew, Reagan and Aidan were great mates—and great enemies. Nobody fought together like those two but let anybody pick a fight with them, and that person would meet a solid wall of Chamberlain brothers who knew how to protect each other.
Reagan, of course, had been looking forward to his baby. For long enough he had said, 'How come Aidan had a baby and I didn't?' We had explained to him it was because he wasn't there at the time. Now he was getting his baby, and he was excited about it. When he saw her wheeled down from the nursery the first night and had his first hold, he was entranced at the tiny, weeny fingers and toes, and then the little black eyes opened and looked at him, and the smallest mouth he had ever seen in his life opened in a big 'O' and blew a bubble, the first of many. And so she got her nickname, 'Bubbles'.
Jenny was the only friend who visited me while I was in hospital, as I wanted a good rest (knowing I had two lively boys at home as well as the new baby), so the others all waited to see us when I came home five days after Azaria's birth. I had a private room and, although that is good for rest, sometimes it gets a bit lonely. Once when I wandered up to the nursery, I saw that the girl next door to me was on her own and starting to go into labour. She was obviously a little worried, her visitors had gone home and she was alone. I stuck my nose in to say hello. I was bored and so was she, so we sat and chatted.
It was her first baby and she asked me a few questions. She was a lot calmer when I went out. She said she was a local policeman's wife, and later that night I saw him arrive in his uniform. (I discovered that another woman I had met was also a policeman's wife, but I wasn't to find that out until quite a while later.) The other woman I befriended had obviously also delivered the day before. I asked her whether she had what she wanted and she said, 'Yes, a little girl,' quite delightedly, adding, 'I believe we had our babies fifteen minutes apart. I was in the other room yesterday when you had yours and heard all the commotion.' So we swapped news, as mothers do, of how our labours had gone, and later we compared little girls. They were very similar in size and we were thrilled with our daughters. I eventually went home and thought no more about it.
'Think Pink, Mum'
I decided that I would like to tell people myself that my daughter had been born. It always seems so unfair that the husband has the good bits—no pain, and the fun of announcing the news. I asked the nurses in the Mt Isa Hospital if I could use the phone. I was told I could make a couple of local calls, but I could not ring long distance. So, admitting defeat, I asked Michael to ring his parents and mine. He rang his parents but my parents were not on the phone so, rather than ring the neighbour like we usually did, he decided to send a telegram. It was very simple: 'Azaria born 9:16, 11 June, 6 lb. 5 oz. Mother and baby both well.'
My parents had been waiting for some time to hear about the birth of their new grandchild. They had just gone for their daily walk when the telegram boy went past them. Mum said, 'I'll bet that telegram's for us,' and so they stood at the top of the hill and watched which house he went to. Sure enough, the boy stopped at their house. So they walked back to get the telegram, fully expecting it to be about the baby. They read the telegram.
'Azaria. Well, she's had another little boy,' said Mum. 'I wonder why they called him Azaria?' Dad commented that the spelling was odd—perhaps we had meant 'Azariah' and left the 'h' off. Maybe Michael had simply spelt it wrong, or we had chosen a different spelling. It really did not seem to fit with Aidan and Reagan. Mum thought I'd be disappointed because I dearly wanted a little girl; if the baby was a girl, they had planned to ring.
I thought this time they would be so excited, surely they would have rung now I was home. But we heard nothing from them until a tape arrived. Mum began very politely and cautiously, 'Well, congratulations, we've got a new little grandchild, a little boy. How lovely.' She went on telling Aidan and Reagan how much fun three little boys would have with cars and toys and playing cricket and football. I thought, she's really having me on. She must know I've had a girl and she's teasing me. But I knew this wasn't really Mum's style.
And then she went on, 'Now the name Azaria—have I said that right? It's not quite what we expected, and we would really like to know how to say it? Is it after the three Hebrew boys?'
Then I realised they really thought we had a little boy. I laughed so hard I nearly cried. I wondered how I was going to tell her. If I rang up and said that we didn't have a little boy, she might think that he had died and be very upset. I hadn't decided how to break the news without distressing them when Michael arrived home. His comment was, 'They can't be serious. Ring them up.' So I did.
I rang Lin and John's next door. Lin said, 'Hang on, they're here now.' Then Mum came on the phone, excited to hear from us as usual, and asked how we were going, and how the baby was, and I said, 'Fine.' By then my ideas of how to get the news across had flown out the window and I was madly trying to think of a way to tell them.
Mum said, 'Now, how do you say his name? Because we are not sure.' Suddenly I knew how to tell them, and I said, 'Well, Mum, you have to think pink first.'
She said, 'I beg your pardon.'
I said, 'You heard me. You have to think pink, not blue, before I tell you.'
A very puzzled voice came back, 'Think pink? Is that what you said? What do you mean? Oh, you don't mean it's a girl.'
'Yes, it's a girl!' I said.
I heard her say, 'Daddy, it's a girl, she's had a little girl,' and then I heard him say, 'Oh, how lovely,' and everyone else exclaiming in excitement too. For over two weeks they had thought it was a boy. It took a while for them to calm down again, then I was able to tell Mum all about Azaria and how to say it 'As-aah-rea', like in the aria you sing. It was great, she was really thrilled.
I tried again to persuade my parents to come out for a holiday to see Azaria while she was little. Mum had never seen any of our children when they were really small and I thought it would be nice. They had never been to Mt Isa, we could take them around, and they would really enjoy themselves. But Mum decided against it, they were busy and shouldn't really spend the extra money. So they didn't come.
Domestic Traumas
I tossed up whether to go on a mission appeal trip Michael and a volunteer were making to the Bourke region in the gulf country, or stay home. As we were going on holidays shortly, and Michael was only taking a small ute, things would be difficult and I decided against it. So Michael went without me, and the boys and I enjoyed the time on our own. We were in a routine and Azaria was easy to look after. Although she had a touch of projectile vomiting like the boys had had, it was mild and nothing that I couldn't cope with. She was troubled with wind because of that, but compared to sessions with Aidan and even Reagan, she was a joy to me. She would play quietly and soon had nice strong little rounded limbs.
She would stay on her bouncinette by my feet, keeping an eye on what I was doing as I worked around the kitchen, or lie beside Reagan watching him play with his toys on the lounge room floor. When she was tired, she went to sleep and when she woke up, we suddenly found somebody looking at us very quietly. She cried only when she had a pain or it was overtime for her feed.
She was quiet most of the time, but she talked to herself, her toys and her mat. I took one picture of her with a beautiful shawl my mother had knitted for her. I put it over the couch and lay her on it. She went cross eyed trying to look at the pattern of the knitting and talked about it to herself. I captured her talking, a picture that Michael never liked much, but then it didn't have the memories for him it had for me.
When Azaria was about five weeks old, Reagan stood on the side of the shopping trolley in the supermarket (one of those with the baby bed in the top) to get a better view of the fruit scales, and the full trolley tipped. Another shopper and I dived for the trolley and Azaria, but although I managed to stop the weight of the trolley, Azaria still fell out, trapped between the cement floor and the trolley. I immediately took her to the doctor as it had been a hard fall with a bang on the head. The receptionist got me in to the paediatrician as my doctor was busy and, noting no damage from the fall, he remarked on how strong she was for her age and how bright and well developed.
The next day, Aidan got chickenpox. He had two whole pox and apart from being a bit crabby and off colour, he was reasonably OK. He was hardly over it when Reagan succumbed. Reagan, like his mother, does a very thorough job of it if he gets ill, and he developed the worst chickenpox I have ever seen or heard of. He was covered head to foot in pox up to four centimetres (one and a half inches) across. At the height of it I would just get him off to a peaceful sleep, and then he would turn over. The weight of his little body would burst the pox and he would be stuck to the bedsheet. This would pull as he turned and he would wake screaming. I would have to sponge him very carefully off the sheet, he would turn over and go back to sleep, and shortly the process would be repeated. Michael was still away on his church trip at the time. On the third night, Reagan became delirious. I sponged him down, knowing that there wasn't anything more to be done. I'd read the medical book and knew that he wouldn't be any better off in hospital. At home he would get individual attention.
As he got worse and my attention to him was necessarily more, my time for Azaria was less. I was breastfeeding Azaria and carrying her around with one arm while talking and reading to Reagan and smoothing his hair with the other. The feeding was fine, although I was getting very tired. The problem was burping her. If he got delirious during the nightfeeds and woke up, I would prop her up and hope for the best.
By morning, not only did I have a very miserable little boy, whom I thought now needed additional medical attention, but also a baby screaming with wind. I'd lost the home number the doctor had given me so I rang his surgery. The receptionist there promptly told me he did not make house calls, so I asked to speak to him personally. She was extremely rude and refused even to put my phone call through. Furthermore, she said, no other doctors in Mt Isa made house calls either and I was a very negligent mother for not bringing Reagan down to the surgery where they would fit him in between other patients. I was desperately tired, I had a screaming baby and an extremely ill small boy. I couldn't drive them in that condition myself. I'd have to get the doctor's permission to call an ambulance—and how could I get that when no doctor, apparently, would come and see Reagan? The last thing I needed was somebody berating me for being a neglectful mother. I was angry now, as well as distressed, and I told her that I did not appreciate her attitude. I was not neglectful, but I would be if I brought him down in his condition. I then hung up and burst into tears.
Fortunately at that moment Michael walked in, having come home a day early. He found me sitting on the floor by the phone in tears. When I explained the situation he said, 'I'll have a piece of that woman.'
'Don't do that,' I said, 'she's a receptionist and I have to take Azaria there for a check-up shortly, it will only make things worse. It's not worth it.'
He said, 'Well, I think I'll have something to say about it. It's unethical. I happen to know that other doctors do house calls. We'll just find one.' And he did; a doctor was there within the hour.
He told me I was right—Reagan didn't need to go to hospital and I was looking after him perfectly well at home. There were a couple more things that I could do now, but he definitely shouldn't be taken outdoors in that condition.
He later said he rang the doctor in question and reported the misinformation I had been given. Michael went down and saw the doctor also. It wasn't so much that the receptionist had said no, but that she had told us no one did house calls, then tried to stop Michael reporting her to the doctor on top of it all. The doctor apologised profusely and Michael left. I never thought much more about it at the time.
For Azaria's six-week check-up, both of us were dressed in our matching black and red outfits. It was the first time I had ever taken her out publicly in a little black cotton dress I had made for Reagan and it caused quite a bit of comment. People either loved or hated it. Dr Irene Milne's nurse asked if she could show her off and walked around with her for a while. When she came back she said, 'Lindy, you have been here for ages. Who are you waiting to see?'
I said, 'Dr Milne. It's Azaria's six-week check-up.'
She said, 'I'm sure your card isn't out.'
I said, 'I wouldn't be surprised, I've been waiting at the counter for ages but the receptionist won't speak to me.'
She volunteered to check up for me, returning to say, 'No, it's not out.' I saw the doctor within the next ten minutes. As with any other patient, the baby was stripped off ready for her check-up in the corridor and weighed by the nurse, so Dr Milne never did see the black dress.
It was still midwinter at that time and fairly cold at night. As I wanted to dry-clean Azaria's blankets, one of the easiest things to do was to put her in Michael's sleeping bag, so I popped it in her cradle, lay her on it and folded the top layer across. Because of her wind problem I had one end of the cradle propped up slightly to help her sleep. Like all my children she loved to sleep on her tummy, and when I put her down she would just put her head on one side and go straight to sleep.
As she moved in her sleep, she would wriggle down to the bottom of her bed, and she would be at the end of a warm tunnel with the top open. Of course, when she cried, the sleeping bag muffled the noise. I would hear a little scuffle, sense she was awake and go in and, sure enough, she would be worming around in the bottom. She sometimes used to make herself so hot with her wriggling that she would be red in the face. One time I went in, she had managed to make a little hole in Michael's sleeping bag and the super down was coming out. She had been playing with it and, because she was hot, it had stuck all over her and she looked like a brand new bird, just starting to grow down. Reagan thought it was a huge joke and called her his little bird for quite some time.
On one occasion, I went down the street to buy myself a new dress for church and a number of things that were coming up, such as a seminar Michael was running. I needed something decent and didn't have time to do any more sewing at that stage. I did not intend to take long, found parking close to the shop, and said to Reagan, 'Bubbles is asleep. I don't want to wake her up. Will you wait in the car out here with her? She will wake up for a feed soon and when she does, you call out and tell Mummy and I will come and get her and bring you both into the shop.'
I was trying on clothes when I heard a yell of 'Mum,' and a cry, and thought, hello, she's awake. I put my dress back on in a hurry and said to the saleswoman, 'I will be back in a moment. I will just go and get the baby.' As I walked to the door of the shop, Reagan stuck his little head out the car window and said, 'It's all right, Mum. I've just given her the bottle. You don't have to come and get us.'
I said, 'OK,' and went back to the woman and said, 'Mr Independence is feeding her.'
She laughed and said, 'That's all right.' I went on with my changing. A little while later, there was another yell, 'Mum! Mum!' I started to go out again. I got to the shop door and a clear little ringing voice came across to me, 'It's OK, Mum. She's just got some wind and I've burped her and she's done a big burp. But you'll have to change her pants because they're stuck.' This sounded interesting. The lady grinned at me and raised her eyebrows, and I grinned too.
I went over. Reagan had been trying to do everything for her, including changing her nappy. I have my own way of putting a nappy on. It doesn't come off in a hurry, it fits from newborn to two-year-old very tightly and manages to look like a nice little throwaway nappy without being bulky and floppy—often to my girlfriends' disgust, because they can't manage to put a nappy on anything like it. Reagan had got that nappy three quarters of the way off, then the pin had stuck and looked in danger of going in. She, of course, was not cooperating but happily and wildly kicking and cooing and playing.
He said to me in some disgust, 'I told her to lie still but she won't listen.'
I stifled a smile, 'Yes, babies tend to be a bit like that, you know. You were.'
'Oh,' he said and grinned delightedly.
When I changed her nappy and brought her into the shop the lady's face was comical when she saw the size of the child and the size of the baby. But when he perched beside Azaria to play with her and started telling the lady how wonderful she was, she soon realised I wasn't taking a chance, and had a real little pro on my hands.
It was no wonder Reagan was later hit so hard when she was taken from him and no wonder he initially rejected his new little sister, Kahlia, and took so long to accept her.
Michael was never good with nappies. When he did put them on, they seemed to come straight off again. They always seemed to be on upside down, inside out, or the wrong way round, they were thick where they should have been thin and vice versa. One day Azaria had had a lot of wind and I simply had to get down the street. As Michael walked in the door I said to him, 'Can you look after Azaria for a while? She's just been fed, bathed, changed, burped, and is asleep now, so she'll be right. She should be pretty tired and sleep solidly for at least three hours.'
He said, 'You better be right. Off you go and don't be long.' Promising to be not much more than an hour, I went.
I was quick as I could be because I knew she was unsettled, but still thought that she would be OK. Reagan went with me. As we came home, walking up the back stairs, we could hear her yelling. Reagan took off ahead of me and I heard him say, 'Where's bubby?' Michael looked at me and said, 'See if you can do something with her. I can't. I've tried everything. I even tried to feed her, she doesn't want a bottle.' There I saw the bottle I had given her about an hour and a half before, and left sitting on the bench ready to tip out. Michael had heated it up and reused it. It was only the comp bottle and she had had no more than two mouthfuls. The mixture can't have been too good sitting on the bench for that long but she wasn't interested anyway. I went round the corner and there she was propped up in the clean washing on the lounge, yelling.
I picked her up, gave her one pat on the back, at which she gave an almighty burp and immediately stopped crying. The exasperated look on Michael's face was probably indicative of all distracted fathers who try everything except what is needed. He uttered an explosive, 'Well, how was I to know she had wind? I never was any good at this sort of thing. I'm going down to my office.' And off he went.
Aidan, who was home from school, appeared round the corner and said, 'I told Dad she probably had wind, but he reckoned she couldn't have because she hadn't had anything to drink. Besides, he's put the nappies on all funny.' He had managed to take her nappy off but couldn't get the new one on. Thinking of boys, he had put three nappies on top and one underneath. Thank goodness she hadn't wet! I would have all my washing to do again and a wet couch as well. When Reagan and I had a look at the nappies, we had a good giggle and they both declared that when they grew up and had kids, they would know how to put nappies on because Daddy's Mummy couldn't have taught him.
Azaria was flesh and blood. She laughed and she cried and she talked, like you and me. It's no good saying she was only a few weeks old, she was just a baby and didn't have a personality. She knew and she understood. And when I sat with her in my arms at night feeding her, I talked to her and told her things. Sometimes we watched TV together, sometimes she stopped feeding and looked at it then looked at me and raised her eyebrows as if to say, 'Fair go. You don't expect me to believe that, really.' And then she'd laugh when I answered her. She knew. Maybe some babies are simply dull because their parents don't talk to them and don't give them the opportunity to respond. Some people said that Azaria smiled because she had wind, but when I took her to the doctor, we were talking and Azaria was listening then, she looked at the doctor and she smiled—a straight, knowing, direct smile. Dr Milne said, 'That's no wind, that one.' Dr Milne enjoyed babies. Azaria was small and dainty and pretty. She had little long legs and olive skin and big purple eyes, very expressive eyes, dark like her grandma's, very like Aidan but smaller and daintier, as a little girl should be.
I bought her a little white and turquoise frock. It was supposed to be for a one-year-old, but when I took in the little shoulder straps, instead of it being a bodice and short skirt, the bodice went to her waist and the skirt to her feet. It looked like a long frock and she looked like a little princess, with frills over her shoulders and around her toes. I bought her a little pink sunray pleated dress I was longing to put on her. I usually made all the things for myself and the boys, but I wanted something special, something pink I couldn't make. I hunted all over Mt Isa for that dress. It would have fitted her when we got back from the Rock. She had little shoes that were still too big for her, never worn. Now she wore the little dresses that Reagan had had.
She was small but strong. In my mind's eye I can still see her, at five weeks, bouncing in the Jolly Jumper I hung in the doorway. I used to put a magazine down the back of the harness to hold her head upright. She had the strength in her arms and legs but not quite yet in her neck to stay any length of time without support. She would jump and rest her head on the magazine, laugh and giggle and throw her arms around, strengthening her little legs and bouncing about on her toes. She loved it. It kept her occupied quite a bit while I got the dinner and talked to her.
In the evenings when the boys were asleep and Michael was still out, I would feed her. At first in hospital I had trouble, she didn't want to feed and I had cracked nipples and was extremely sore. As I hadn't fed the boys I was determined to feed her and I was feeling self-conscious—by your third child you should be an old hand but I wasn't. So instead of being uptight in hospital, I incurred the wrath of one of the sisters by telling her that I was going to put Azaria on a bottle because of the way she was vomiting. I held out for that and I did it, despite the fact that she told me I was an unnatural mother because of it. I went home, let my nipples heal, and then decided to try again and see whether I could feed her. I knew you could breastfeed a baby if you wanted to, even if it was adopted, so I decided to try and see if it worked.
I started in the bath and, instead of giving her a dummy, I gave her the breast. Gradually she started to suck and got used to the change of shape. As she sucked, my milk came in, as it does to a new mother. I discovered my milk was not as plentiful as I would have wished and found out how to resolve that too.
When Azaria was five and a half weeks old, Michael had to give an all-day seminar for which I was doing the catering. About seventy people were enrolled. I took Azaria with me and put her down in the kitchen; as people came down they said, 'Where's Azaria?'
I would say, 'Over there.'
'Goodness, she's quiet!' and there she would be playing in the basket on one of the benches.
The day went well all except for a minor mishap. I went to change her nappy and noticed that she had managed to hit her umbilical cord and it was three-quarters off, dried and bleeding. I wasn't quite sure what to do, it was swinging free and, like a broken toenail, was going to pull and really hurt if not cut off. So I went down to the car, got a tiny pair of scissors and used them to chop her cord a lot closer down. Then I pressed the cord back into shape and put her nappy on without any further trouble. I wiped the scissors clean and put them back in the glove box. As far as I knew I hadn't got blood on anything.
At her six-week check-up Azaria was fit, well, and healthy, and Dr Irene Milne was impressed and proud of her progress. She was interested that I had managed to start breastfeeding again, even though I had initially stopped. Things like that were interesting to her because that was her field; so many people had said it couldn't be done. By the time we got to the Rock, Azaria was fully breastfed, and I was carrying only emergency comp feed bottles.
In the evenings I would sometimes sit watching television while she went to sleep in my arms. I kept telling myself to put her down before she got big enough to realise she was being held so much and was being spoilt. And yet always it seemed as if tomorrow was soon enough. I felt that I needed to hold her; she was so beautiful that it seemed as if it wasn't true I'd had her in the first place, and she would disappear if I blinked. So I continued to hold her although my instincts said I shouldn't.
Sometimes for hours at a time I would sit up at night just holding her in my arms and cuddling her. How glad I am that I did. I have got that special time to look back on, and I know that I spent much more than her fair share of time with her. She knew she was loved, she knew she was wanted, she loved her family, she responded to them all very happily and, despite her tender age, it was obvious that she knew she was loved.
In 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo from her family's tent near Uluru in Australia's remote Northern Territory. Her body was never found. In a terrible miscarriage of justice, her mother Lindy was wrongfully convicted of her daughter's murder and sentenced to life in prison. It was seven years before the conviction was overturned. This is the true story behind a tragedy whose echoes reverberated around the world.
"This is the story of a little girl who lived, and breathed, and loved, and was loved. She was part of me. She grew within my body and when she died, part of me died, and nothing will ever alter that fact. This is her story, and mine." – Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
"Page after page demolishes the myth and fables that have been spun around a nation's obsession with the baby's disappearance." – The Sydney Morning Herald
"What first struck me on meeting Lindy was her sense of humour and surprising lack of bitterness. Here is a woman who has been under such macabre and intense public scrutiny and yet through all the tabloid hysteria they haven't managed to capture the real Lindy at all. There are so many myths about Lindy and the Chamberlain case that have still not been dispelled and to read this book is to get closer to the truth behind the story that has continued to fascinate Australia for the past 24 years." -Miranda Otto, Actress, Lord of the Rings Trilogy
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Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was born Alice Lynne Murchinson in New Zealand. When she was twenty months old her family moved to Australia. On 17 August 1980, while on a family holiday, Lindy's daughter, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain, was taken by a dingo from a camping ground near Ayers Rock (now Uluru). After two inquests and a police raid on her house, Lindy Chamberlain was tried and convicted of the murder of her baby daughter. She was sentenced to life in prison with …
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|Reviews for Lioness
| Guest chapter 1 . 9/6/2012
I love this story but I thought "Zaidy" was Hebrew for grandpa?
| Chloris chapter 1 . 9/2/2012
Mecha, this is beautiful. It's the best pick-me-up I've ever read and it makes me so happy for Ziva and Tony. Well done.
| Tracey chapter 1 . 8/31/2012
You must be from Florida. As soon as you mentioned banana spiders, I knew either you had been to or were from there. I have been reading this and the Village stories and they are wonderful.
| Amilyn chapter 1 . 8/29/2012
This is lovely. I don't know how I missed it, but, oh...the tender, cautious, slow steps, the uncertainty that flows through this...everyone's uncertainty is so clear and always under the surface of them and your words. Ziva's unsure about being a parent, Liana's unsure of her place in the family, Gibbs has never quite made it to "okay" with where Ziva is although he rolls with the reality, Tony trusts it'll all be okay, but is cautious of the others and often waiting for them to catch up to his belief in them...and it's never perfectly smooth, but it always works, as is the way of life and families that don't disintegrate. I love how much independence Ziva has by this time, I LOVE that she still has her owl, I LOVE that they're all a family still...this is a lovely depiction of the way the edges in adoption are always a little ragged, even when the center of the fabric is strong and sturdy and beautiful.
| KrisShannon chapter 1 . 8/23/2012
This is so beautiful! I have read 'Treading Water' and have enjoyed it so much. I hope you are planning to continue with it and link these two wonderful stories together. I do love that you wrote 'Lioness', it certainly does give a picture of Ziva's future. It shows her strong, capable, dedicated and happy... and now, a mother. Fantastic job. Looking forward to more of you beautiful work.
| alexindigo chapter 1 . 8/22/2012
This made me cry Mecha. :) Your writing evokes such intense emotions and I'm constantly amazed with each new chapter. This story was beautiful. To see Tony and Ziva happily married post injury is great. I'm also thankful that you didn't give us a fairytale ending. She's in a wheelchair, she still gets her seizures and has bad days, but in spite of that all is living the best life she can with the man she loves, her daughter and her father. :)
Have been AWOL for a while, sry. Just read the last few chapters of Village. Loved it. Am worried for Sara and Ziva. Mostly Ziva. She seems to be regressing in her depression. Am intrigued by what Sara said and why Tony seems to be disturbed by it (if I'm reading that correctly). Am heading to Treading now. From your Author's Note, am guessing that it's not a v pretty past few chapters? Will leave a review for that once I've caught up. Thanks for sharing! :)
| rica chapter 1 . 8/18/2012
I simply love this story!
| Guest chapter 1 . 8/17/2012
Crying here.
Tears of both sadness and joy.
| Eowyn chapter 1 . 8/16/2012
i liked it, don't mind the future glimpse:). Glad they will get to adopt.
| Guest chapter 1 . 8/16/2012
Absolutely beautiful. What a fabulous idea to write this in connection to Treading Water. You have blown me away.
| Guest chapter 1 . 8/16/2012
Awww! Love it! Though I hope you finish Treading water and this one too :)
| eva-david chapter 1 . 8/18/2012
Yayy! You're back :)
It is so sweet how you describe Liana dealing with Ziva's wheelchair and the seizure. I had to blink back a few tears over the last few sentences. :)
As always; I loved it!
| HAZMOT chapter 1 . 8/17/2012
I love Liana and how she's adjusting to her new parents. She is very protective of Ziva and Tony and Ziva are the right parents to handle her nightmares of abuse. I love this future for Ziva and how she can handle her life. Gibbs gave up his career to be a full time caretaker for Ziva. You couldn't ask for a better father and now grandfather to Liana. Liana is adjusting quite well in her new home and is already bonding with Tony. It's nice to see Ziva have a normal life, even with the wheelchair.
| rebecca-in-blue chapter 1 . 8/17/2012
Mazel tov, Mecha, you made me cry. You're right, this wasn't what I was expecting, but I loved it! I think we all understand if you need to take a little break from Treading Water. It can be hard to put the character we love through such heavy stuff. I'm kinda doing it with the story I'm writing now; even though I have a plan to patch everything up, it wasn't easy ripping Gibbs and Ziva apart for a while there.
I loved this beautiful glimpse into the team's lives post-TW, with how Tony and Ziva have fought to become parents through adoption, and how Gibbs has semi-moved in with them to help take care of Ziva. You can really see how far Ziva's come and how well they've all adjusted to their "new normal." I love Liana, and I'm impressed here, as I am in your stories with Sara, at how realistically you write children with traumatic backgrounds. The scene with Liana's nightmare just melted my heart. I love how firm but gentle Ziva is about holding her, and how Liana eventually warms up to the idea. Accepting comfort like that is an attachment milestone for adopted children.
I can't wait for more of TW and to see the team's journey to this story unfold. They achieve such peace and happiness here, and I get the sense that their family is complete now (although if they adopted more kids, I'd love that, too!) but I imagine they still have some tough roads to travel in TW before they reach this happy ending.
| hslacer chapter 1 . 8/17/2012
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The Fight Against Childhood Cancer Is Personal
September 30, 2014 | Home and Family
By John Kordsmeier, vice president of Strategic Philanthropy and Community Relations at Northwestern Mutual.
At Northwestern Mutual we have made a strong commitment to be a part of the fight against childhood cancer. Our cause of childhood cancer has allowed us to hear about the hopes, dreams and aspirations of children and families dealing with these terrible diseases. And these are not small numbers. In fact, 12,500 children develop cancer every year. But these are not just numbers; these are children whose names and faces we've come to know. Connor. Brooke. Austin. Emily. Issy. Cameron. Will. Nolan. Kimberley. Mitchell. Kayla. Cole. Tony. Addison. Alex. And, unfortunately, this list is not complete.
September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness month. We're talking a lot about it at Northwestern Mutual. That's because as a company we have made a commitment to fight childhood cancer—funding research and providing support to children and families dealing with these diseases. We understand that when a child must deal with the devastating impact of cancer, so does the family. That's why we've partnered with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation to raise funds for research, and organizations like Starlight Children's Foundation, which helps children dealing with cancer through distraction therapy.
What's been really inspiring is to watch how the Northwestern Mutual community has reacted. Since our partnership was initiated, we've heard stories about how people in and out of the organization have gotten involved.
We can't solve problems like childhood cancer without involvement by others. Whether you are involved with childhood cancer or another cause, spending your time and resources toward a cause is so important. And, it's rewarding and inspiring.
In the first two-plus years, our commitment has exceeded $6 million. We have funded more than 35,000 hours of pediatric cancer research. We have touched the lives of more than 3,000 families. We have funded the creation of the Northwestern Mutual Day Hospital at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin—providing an attractive and comforting space for children and their families receiving outpatient treatment for cancer and blood disorders. We have sponsored research grants and symposiums for promising young researchers through Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. And this is just the start.
This cause is personal to us. Childhood cancer affects the families of our employees, financial representatives, and their staff. And, many of you may have been touched by childhood cancer in some way.
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NY – World of Wakanda #1 Signing
November 7, 2016 by Colin Solan
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Alitha E. Martinez, the artist for the new Black Panther spin-off comic World of Wakanda, signs at Squiggy's Dugout from 2:30 to 4:00 PM on Saturday November 12th.
Squiggy's Dugout
237a East Main St, New Rochelle, NY 10801
(914) 636-7585
TX – Triple Creators Signing
April 5, 2016 by Colin Solan
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Comic creators Amy Chu, Alitha Martinez, and David Walker sign at Bedrock City Comic Co. on Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 5:00 PM!
Chu writes comics for DC, Marvel, IDW, Valiant, Alpha Girl Comics. (Poison Ivy, Deadpool, Infinite Ant-Man, and X-Files)
Walker is best known for his work on Cyborg, Shaft and Power Man & Iron Fist.
Martinez has drawn for Marvel, DC, & Vertigo. (Batgirl & Iron Man)
Bedrock City Comic Co.
6516 Westheimer, Suite D, Houston, TX 77057
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NYC – Forbidden Planet Mega-Signing
April 16, 2014 by Colin Solan
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James Tynion IV, Amy Chu, Alitha Martinez, Tom Chu, Marguerite Bennett, Morgan O. Shay, and Larry Hama appear at Forbidden Planet on Wednesday May 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm!
Forbidden Planet
832 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
NYC – JHU Anniversary Signing
April 13, 2014 by Colin Solan
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Amy Chu, James Tynion IV, Larry Hama, Robert Rodi, Tom Chu, and Alitha Martinez (Batgirl, WWE Superstars) appear at JHU Comic Books on Wednesday, April 30th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm to celebrate the launches of both Vertigo Quarterly and Girls Night Out: The Way Love Goes.
PURE INSANITY, MAYHEM AND ABSOLUTE FUN! Oh, and probably some cake, as it is also the first birthday of JHU Comic Books!
Purchase of Vertigo Quarterly: CYAN #1 required to participate in signing/event.
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32 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016
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DE – Free Comic Book Day 2014
April 8, 2014 by Colin Solan
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The Comic Book Shop welcomes special guests inker Bob Petrecca (Blue Beetle), Dawn Griffin (Zorphbert and Fred), Alitha Martinez (WWE Superstars), Eric Grissom (Dead Horse), Erica Schultz (M3), Amy Chu (Girls Night Out), Claire & Page Connelly (ThINK Illustration), Louie Chin (Museum of Chinese in America), Phil Chan (Reading with Pictures) on Saturday May 3, 2014 for Free Comic Book Day!! Plus, meet the podcasters from PAPERKEG and COMICS TANGO!
The Comic Book Shop
1855 Marsh Road, Wilmington, DE 19810
(302) 477-1119
NYC – Strong Female Protagonists Panel
March 24, 2014 by Colin Solan
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Raina Telgemeier, Diane Noomin, Shelly Bond, and Alitha Martinez appear at School of Visual Arts on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 7:00 pm!
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SVA Presents: STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONISTS: A Panel Discussion Featuring Women in Comics
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
3rd Floor Amphitheatre
209 East 23rd Street, New York City, NY 10010
This event brings together a diverse group of internationally recognized creators and editors for a discussion of the history and dynamics of women working in American comics. Panelists include women creators and editors of different generations including Raina Telgemeier, creator of Smile and Drama; Diane Noomin, creator of Glitz-2-Go and editor of the Twisted Sisters anthologies; Shelly Bond, Executive Editor of Vertigo comics; Alitha Martinez, a penciller and inker who has worked on Marvel's Iron Man, X-Men, Black Son, Fantastic Four, and the Black Panther and currently WWE Superstars for Papercutz. They will discuss the role of women in comic narratives, career advice, and personal history, followed by Q&A.
Registration is required and space is limited. RSVP at www.womenincomics.eventbrite.com
Questions? Contact firstname.lastname@example.com or 212-592-2370.
Archie Comics Signing Schedule at NYCC 2012
October 11, 2012 by Colin Solan
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Archie Comics isn't just about the FREE SWAG at New York Comic Con! Okay, so you've been to one of our awesome panels and you got your FREE gift bag filled with Archie goodies, but what's the next step? Get those comics signed by your favorite Archie creators, of course! This year's signing schedule is packed with so much talent that we can barely believe it ourselves, so be sure to work some Archie signings into your busy NYCC schedule. Stop by the Archie Booth, BOOTH #1720, and meet the talented individuals who make Archie Comics possible. We'll see you at the show!
All signings will take place at the Archie Comics Booth #1720 unless otherwise noted
Thursday, October 11th
5:00 – 6:00: Fiona Staples (Life with Archie)
6:00 – 7:00: Mike Norton (Life with Archie, New Crusaders)
Friday, October 12th
1:00 – 2:00: Pat & Tim Kennedy (Life with Archie)
2:00 – 3:00: Fernando Ruiz, Andrew Pepoy, Janice Chiang (Life with Archie)
3:00 – 4:00: Ian Flynn, Alitha Martinez, Mike Norton, Ryan Jampole (New Crusaders)
4:00 – 5:00: Dan Parent, Alex Simmons (Archie: Clash of the New Kids)
5:00 – 6:00: Ian Flynn, Jamal Peppers (Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man)
Saturday, October 13th
10:00 – 11:00: Paul Kupperberg, Pat & Tim Kennedy (Life with Archie)
11:00 – 12:00: Michael Uslan, Janice Chiang, Jack Morelli (Life with Archie)
12:00 – 1:00: Tom DeFalco, Fernando Ruiz, Tom Chu, Jack Morelli (Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E.)
12:00 – 1:00: Ian Flynn, Spaz, Jamal Peppers (Sonic the Hedgehog /Mega Man) – CAPCOM Booth #2120
1:00 – 2:00: Ian Flynn, Spaz, Jamal Peppers (Sonic the Hedgehog /Mega Man)
2:00 – 3:00: Craig Yoe, Victor Gorelick (Art of Betty & Veronica)
3:00 – 4:00: Ian Flynn, Alitha Martinez, Ryan Jampole (New Crusaders)
4:00 – 5:00: Batton Lash, Paul Castiglia (Best of Archie 1 & 2)
5:00 – 6:00: Dan Parent, Alex Simmons (Archie: Clash of the New Kids)
Sunday, October 14th
11:00 – 12:00: Michael Uslan, Fernando Ruiz, Jack Morelli (Life with Archie)
12:00 – 1:00: Dan Parent (Kevin Keller/Archie Meets KISS)
12:00 – 1:00: Ian Flynn, Jamal Peppers (Sonic the Hedgehog /Mega Man) – CAPCOM Booth #2120
1:00 – 2:00: Ian Flynn, Jamal Peppers (Sonic the Hedgehog /Mega Man)
3:00 – 4:00: Ian Flynn, John Workman (Sonic the Hedgehog)
NYC – New Crusaders Signing
August 9, 2012 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, New York, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Top Stories
Ian Flynn, Alitha Martinez, and Ryan Jampole sign at Midtown Comics Downtown on Saturday, September 8, 2012 from 1:00pm until 3:00pm.
Press Release:
Join us as we welcome the return of Archie Comics' superhero imprint, Red Circle Comics with writer Ian Flynn (Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man), artist Alitha Martinez (Iron Man, Black Panther, Spider-Girl, Batgirl) and variant cover artist Ryan Jampole (Mega Man) who'll be signing NEW CRUSADERS: RISE OF THE HEROES #1! at Midtown Comics Downtown!
Alitha and Ryan will be doing sketches for kids during the signing!
Purchase of NEW CRUSADERS: RISE OF THE HEROES #1 required for sketch, one per customer, time allowing.
Midtown Comics
64 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10038


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