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By Jay Knower
From: Campton, NH
Feb 12, 2007
rating: 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
|People really shy away from this one. I know of solid 5.12 climbers who have not yet sent this climb. The moves aren't that hard, but they sure are intimidating.
By Tristan Perry
May 11, 2007
|This is without question the testpiece at the grade for Rumney. It is such a varied and well-defined line, with several cruxes that take both power and finesse and a willingness to go a little farther "out there" than on most climbs at or below the grade at this area. Flyin' Hawaiian definitely has a well-deserved aura about it.
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Jul 10, 2007
|i climbed this one for what was maybe my 5th time the other day and it is always hard and always so fun... dont worry about its scary reputation, grab a solid belayer and give it hell... as scary as it is, its safe...
By Mike Thompson
From: Manchester NH
Jan 9, 2008
|so i was talking to my friend recently,(friend you know who you are) about how i never want to get on this route becuase it frankly scares the crap out of me. but he eventually persuaded me enough to take a look at it here and after looking at the pictures i am getting deffinatly pumped for the route and i really want to try it next time. essepsialy since said friend has a hancoring for danger and has begun to give me a slight hancorin for it myself. a side question though.... i heard from someone that you can make a small trad placement at one point that makes the route alot less intimidating....is this true?
By Ladd
Jan 10, 2008
rating: 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
You may be able to get some very small gear in the corner but I don't think it would help the fall, you would just get smacked into the corner instead of falling down and out of it. FYI- I've never fallen on this route but the top mantle move is also one you don't want to fall on or above.
Good Luck!
By Mike Thompson
From: Manchester NH
Jan 11, 2008
|thanks! i may be heading out there this sunday...so im really excited!
By tscupp
From: Englewood, CO
Feb 27, 2008
rating: 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
I might be the only one who thinks this, but I think part of the intimidation of this route is the quality of the rests. At three different points you can basically chill out and think about what is ahead, unfortunately I think you're given too much time to ponder what a fall from the dihedral or top out may be like. Personally, it'd be less intimidating to just keep on climbing through the rests. This climb is just an adventure through and through.
On a side note, the first time I got on this route I was baffled by the move from the horizontal in the dihedral to the left angling rail (is it supposed to be a lunge?) So I backed off slightly to try to rest in the corner by stemming. Well somehow I got turned around and ended up resting no-hands facing outwards. If you feel like goofing off, try and find that rest because it gave a great view and was quite exhilarating even though it was solid.
By dbyte
From: Carbondale, CO
Mar 11, 2008
rating: 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
|This is 1 of the best sport climbs I've ever done, anywhere, @ any grade. The aesthetic of the line, length, differing styles of the cruxes, topping out & clipping the chains between your feet all combine to form a truly unique climbing experience.
By David Aguasca!
From: New York
Apr 11, 2009
|It's possible to stem all the way to the good hold in the dihedral, avoiding the heinously tiny holds on the lower rail. I def. think it's easier...
By chris deulen
From: Castle Rock
Apr 25, 2009
|I think this is the best 5.11 in America. Have I been on all of them? No. Have I climbed everywhere? No. But until I find one better, for my money this is as good as the grade gets. Tremendous and exhilarating.
By twellman
From: Cambridge
Jul 12, 2009
I did this route this weekend, and it was amazing! Probably the hardest but most fulfilling 11b I have done. The rests definitely give you a little too much time to look up and start worrying, but as you make the clips you'll find yourself saying, well that wasnt as bad as it looked like it would be.
I was a bit confused by the topout though. I've seen many people mention a mantel move to exit. There are two triangular-looking outcrops above the last bolt, and I used the lower one, throwing a heelhook over it then doing some awkward rock humping and straddling to get standing on top. Is this not the normal beta? I wish there were a picture of someone doing this move.
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Jul 12, 2009
|that sounds about right... fun top out!!!
By nooky brown
Dec 14, 2009
Your not serious I hope on the pic?, just goes to show they will put any old rubbish in the climbing mags these days.
A bunch of half naked guys hanging around watching a girl dogging on the rope faking a move, sweet.
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Mar 11, 2010
|we all want to be in the mags but that was a pretty crappy photo haha
By nooky brown
Mar 16, 2010
I have actually and of all things it was on the nearby Technosurfing, a bizarre twist of fate.
Sorry about the comment, I did not realize it was your girlfriend in the photo.
By twellman
From: Cambridge
Apr 17, 2010
|Did this route for the second time today, and it was really fun. Definitely more of a mental game than a physical one, but there is just so much good climbing in this one line that you'd be at a loss if you missed out. So get on it!
By James Otey
From: NH
Apr 17, 2010
|Perhaps we should just agree on the fact that this route could quite possibly be the best 5.11 in America, and we should throw mad props at Tom for leading it ON GEAR.
By M Sprague
From: New England
Apr 18, 2010
|There were pins in the corner and I am pretty sure the bottem had bolts, though perhaps less then now. .verry nice lead though and a super classic no doubt
By Colin R
From: Ottawa, ON
Apr 25, 2010
rating: 5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a PG13
|I was happy to onsight this thing. Probably my best onsight ever (I didn't want to have to do it again at the time). It's probably in the top 2 or 3 5.11's I have done. I can't think of any 5.11 that is better, only a couple that are as good. The other two are Thin Fingers (11a trad) at Index WA and Burning Down the Couch (11d sport) at Murrin Park in Squamish.
By Colin R
From: Ottawa, ON
Apr 25, 2010
rating: 5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a PG13
|I also think this route is undergraded slightly. There are some other 5.11+ routes at Rumney that I found easier than this. Maybe it was just the head factor but it felt really engaging...
By Tradiban
May 25, 2010
rating: 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
|Would have been fours with out awkward ledge rest and awkward top out. The 25ft of dihedral are absolutely the best for the grade at Rumney. Not scary anywhere in my opinion except for the top out.
By Eric8
From: Maynard, MA
Jun 19, 2010
|great route and only scary by 'Rumney' standards, could also be considered well protected and safe
By CARLITO
Jul 1, 2010
I have been climbing for 13 months and after reading all the comments about this route I'm very happy I actually did it as my first 5.11 ever outdoors. a friend mentioned the route to me as i was walking by it, and im like!! let's do it; I love this route from begging to end, every move, every hold, the hydro, everything, (maybe i was happy cuase i was doing well on a 5.11!!!) even the top out which is the scariest part of that climb; I took 2 big falls, but that didn't stop me from finishing this beauty.
I hope next time I do this route, I send it clean.
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Jul 22, 2011
lots of folks get super spooked about falling in the corner... here is a video i found of the fall no one wants to take... its far but totally safe...
By S. Neoh
Jul 23, 2011
|Hilarious. I have actually taken the fall shown in the video, from slightly higher even. The spookiness factor is definitely there, esp the few moments before actually pitching off. Safe fall, shakes out the cobwebs though! :)
By James Simone
Aug 1, 2012
Fun fact - the girl in the video that Lee posted is the same one hanging in the magazine picture from a few year's back.
What more is there to say about Flying Hawaiian? How hard it is to spell that damned second word?
I would suggest that the true crux of the route is actually the first move - whether you do the left or right variant, I doubt you're going to see anybody ground up without a stick clip for that one. Despite this, the dihedral has attracted (even amongst my friends, clearly) an aura of mystique that anybody familiar with stemming (bolted stemming, no less) will easily dispel. In other words - don't believe anything except the good rumors. While certainly in an exposed position, the stemming is merely an enjoyable exercise. I hope these words do not serve in any way to diminish your own enjoyment of the dihedral, or indeed the route itself! Lest it be said otherwise, I consider this to be amongst my favorite climbs. For some true power stemming at the grade, you might want to take a look at Coarse and Buggy in J Tree. Like Flying Hawaiian, the crux STILL isn't the stemming there.
The last move may be spooky, but aside from the potential to cheese-grate your right armpit, [warning, BETA alert] if you put aside your doubts and (perhaps) rapidly tiring forearms, you'll realize all you need to do is throw your right foot over the arete to have completed a truly magnificent Rumney classic. After hearing that it was first lead on gear, I am eager, too, to climb this in a more traditional style.
By Mike.Lewis
Aug 7, 2012
|Scary! This route really got in my head.
By Will Stat
Oct 14, 2013
rating: 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
|One of the best sport pitches I've done, and it actually felt more like a boulder problem into a trad route. I used a chimney/buttscum technique into a stem at the end of the dihedral and it was pretty casual. Those insisting this feels harder than 11b probably don't have very well-rounded skills. I hope the "runout" mentioned in the description is a joke because your feet barely ever make it above your last bolt!
By Nick Grant
From: Natick, MA & Tamworth, NH
Jul 15, 2014
|Just curious--if you DO blow the mantle (or whatever the last move is), is it (a) a long but safe fall, or (b) a long fall where you might hit something?
By M Sprague
From: New England
Jul 15, 2014
|People are usually too scared to fall, so I have never seen anybody do it ;)
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Jul 15, 2014
|I have seen people fall everywhere on this route... The "bad" fall is scary but as long as your belayer is on their game it shouldn't be a big deal... this would be a very standard fall from a 5.11 slab route at most trad areas... if you think you might fall wear long pants so you can slip slide away :)
By Will Cornell
Aug 17, 2014
rating: 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c PG13
|What everyone says about this route is true. I got a send during my most recent trip to Rumney a few weeks ago. It was my first 11b and let me say it is definitely a classic -- without a doubt. the moves are fun and varied, but it is an EXTREMELY heady route. The heel hook and mantle at the top is quite scary. I had to hang on the last bolt for a few minutes to compose myself before going for it. Approach it with confidence!
By Zach Swanson
From: Newton, MA
Jul 15, 2015
There is a slightly easier way to start this than the left hand 'up the fin' variation that everyone seems to use (as depicted in Lee's video on youtube). Look to the right at the start for a good crimp that won't require quite as much power right off the ground.
By Eli
From: Lives in a truck
Sep 30, 2015
rating: 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
|That crimp is a total razorblade, but it does make the start a little different, and caters more towards less powerful and more balancey climbers.
By Zach Swanson
From: Newton, MA
Nov 12, 2015
|I didn't find it very sharp, just a little tricky to prevent a barndoor getting to the crimp.
By Seth Cohen
From: Concord, NH
May 23, 2016
|I heard a rumor that a hold broke off the starting boulder problem, making it considerably harder. True? Details?
By Zach Swanson
From: Newton, MA
May 31, 2016
|@Seth - I was just there on Sunday and someone else had raised this question (maybe it was you?). I went and checked it out, nothing broken at the start that I could find. Both the right and left hand variation of the start appeared intact.
By Graham O.
Aug 27, 2016
|THE best sport climb I have ever touched. If there was a 20 star rating on MP, this would get it. GO CLIMB THIS ROUTE!!!!
By Daniel Kaye
From: Boston, ma
Aug 28, 2016
rating: 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c PG13
In response to what Nick Grant asked, it's (b).
In trying this, I did blow the mantel, and came down barley clearing the little rest ledge before this move - sleeve of my shirt caught it as I fell past it. So it is totally possible to land an elbow or foot or worse on that ledge if you fall... IMO you get an awesome mix of heady, technical, and powerful moves in the this climb before the top mantel, all of which seem safe. I don't think the top mantel adds anything amazing to the climb.
Also, start seemed intact. The way I did it, twas not more than a 2-move V3 maybe?
By Hans Weber
From: Hudson, NH
Dec 10, 2016
|Best route I've done at Rumney, and a huge confidence builder due to the aura surrounding it! If you can pull V2/3 moves but lack endurance like me this is a very sendable 5.11-- the 3 rests allow for plenty of recovery time. And although intimidating, the dihedral is the easiest part, and I've never stemmed before. Pumped out from the day, I fell several times on the final mantel lol, but every time was left unscathed, so give it hell!
By Owen Silitch
From: Brunswick, ME
May 15, 2017
|This route might be the best pitch of rock climbing that I have ever done! Felt slightly sandbagged though IMO felt more like 11c
By ward smith
May 16, 2017
I first did this way back in the day based on it being a new route listed in Climbing Magazine, rated 10d/11a (which seemed accurate at the time). One bolt on the route, and that you could clip from the ground, risking groundfall on the initial boulder problem and then gear off to the sides on the second crux. Pins and brass nuts in the dihedral, my now wife then girlfriend gave me a ball nut for my birthday that protected it better.
The original route finished up a crack to the right. Everyone used the anchor for Technosurfing that was added later at the top of the corner, so I added the finish and retrobolted the route in the 90's. If you think that the top is hard then you are dong it all wrong! Go right young man, top out on the slab, and THEN go left and clip the anchors! There is tons of chalk all over the nothing holds below the anchors. Maybe it is 5.9 or 5.10 if tall - at most.
My brother and I have both toproped it clean barefoot but it has not yet seen a barefoot lead as far as I know.


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On the other side resides the vast majority of companies who must contend with data that is "increasingly fractured and allocated into separate departmental silos within an organization," notes Rockwell. He recently took time to respond to questions about valuable analytics-related opportunities, obstacles impeding the adoption of continuous monitoring and auditing, and the changing nature of financial planning & analysis (FP&A) functions.
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In this photo, members of China's paramilitary troop evacuate flood-affected residents in Baisha Township, Jiangjin District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, on July 23. In Jiangjin District, situated upstream from the city proper of Chongqing along the Yangtze River, more than 40,000 residents have been evacuated. In all, the flood has affected some 300,000 residents within Chongqing's periphery.
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You can't undo history.
The Calgary Flames at least figured out a way to stop it.
With Wednesday's 3-2 triumph over the Phoenix Coyotes at the Saddledome, the Flames — FINALLY! — ended a franchise-record seven-game losing skid on home ice.
"It seems like it's been forever since we came in here and were able to smile after a game instead of putting our heads in our hands," said Flames left-winger TJ Galiardi.
"We talked about it internally, that it was getting a little ridiculous how long it's been since we've won here. The fans have been sticking through it and supporting us all the way, so we wanted to do something for them."
Wednesday's win wasn't just a boost for fans of this rebuilding bunch.
It was a boost for the confidence of a group of guys who might have been on the brink of forgetting the lyrics to Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire, the song that blares from the speakers at the Saddledome after the locals collect two points.
The last time the crew from Calgary celebrated an NHL victory under the saddle-shaped roof, Santa Claus had yet to drop off his gifts and Flames head coach Bob Hartley and Vancouver Canucks bench-boss John Tortorella were — well, they might have been — still exchanging Christmas cards.
Hartley's squad scored only four times during the seven-game slide at the Saddledome, but it nearly equalled that output in Wednesday's date with the Desert Dogs, which marked the start of a five-game homestand.
Sean Monahan, Lance Bouma and Matt Stajan each found the back of the net, while Flames puck-stopper Karri Ramo made 30 saves and added an assist to do his part and then some. Desert Dogs Antoine Vermette, with a shorthanded goal, and Shane Doan were the only guys who fooled Ramo.
"We needed that. We've been fighting it here on home ice — there's no secret to that," said Stajan, sporting the Flames' fire helmet as the team's standout player of the night after his second-period strike stood up as the game-winner. "We got some timely goals, and Rams did a good job. And as a team, we didn't give up much. Most of their shots were from the outside. We can start building off that one."
As Stajan points out, there were plenty of positives.
Monahan accepted a great feed from Galiardi for an early tap-in — the first time the Flames had opened the scoring on home ice since Dec. 12. The rookie centre now leads the team with 14 snipes so far this season, which is an impressive stat for a 19-year-old.
Bouma added to the Flames lead with a top-shelf shot near the midway mark of the second period.
Then, just a few shifts after Vermette put the visitors on the board, Stajan blasted a slap-shot by Coyotes netminder Mike Smith. Flames captain Mark Giordano had a helper on Stajan's marker, running his personal point-streak to five games.
That's not the streak, though, that folks would have been talking about if the Flames had frittered away their lead.
Doan gave the Saddledome faithful reason to go overtime on their fingernails with a tally about seven minutes into the final frame, but that's as close as the out-of-towners would get.
"I could feel that there was urgency — the boys were sharp," Hartley said. "Even though we made a few mistakes, we stayed on track, and we didn't let them come back on us. That's huge."
Next up for the Flames is Friday's tussle with the Nashville Predators at the Saddledome (7 p.m., Sportsnet Flames/Sportsnet 960 The Fan).
There's no way to erase that seven-game home skid from the franchise record books, but … hey … at least it's over now.
"We just had to find a way to win one," Giordano added. "It was really fun to get a win. I mean, it's been awhile."
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You know, for practicality's sake, there's no way to arrive at a definitive "answer" for this sort of question (as has been intimated by more than one person responding).
Trying to focus on sheer weapon capacity can distract someone from the arguably more critical factors that ought to be considered.
Things like the user's - knowledge (laws, tactics, etc); training; physical condition (including any disabilities, injuries or other restrictions); practice regimen; skillset; familiarity with the weapon (manipulation, maintenance, appropriate carry method, etc); experience and mindset.
Time and time again, being able to make
accurate and effective
hits on the intended threat targets was the one thing that stood out most in the minds of several cops who have been involved in shooting incidents to whom I've listened.
Not caliber. Not capacity. Not handgun type. Not brand of weapon or ammunition.
Being able to make accurate and effective hits on their attackers.
Shooting incidents are often described as unexpected, dynamic, rapidly evolving and chaotic events. Often occurring in bad lighting conditions. Physically and mentally stressful. Creating a fear-induced hormonal stress response (different than just running around a track or doing pushups and physically taxing the muscles).
Capacity? Sure. Something to think about ... after other critical influences and conditions have been considered.
Properly supervised Sim gun/marking cartridge training, and Force-on-force training (again, properly supervised) can help reveal things about training and skillsets ... and whether or not someone is able to effectively use good tactics when caught by surprise and put under stress ... and perhaps help someone determine how well they can access "ingrained" training, as well as their decision-making abilities and skills under stress.
There's still something to be said for having a solid foundation in a handgun skillset, though, whether it be for semiauto pistol or DA/DAO revolver ... or both (if you're lucky and able to develop and maintain skills using both platforms). You have to have something to build on, after all.
Ammunition capacity is just ... well, available ammunition capacity. Doesn't mean it'll be lawfully, appropriately, safely, accurately or effectively used.
How much capacity is "enough" when it comes to a gas tank in a car, truck, tractor, motorcycle, boat or airplane? Does whatever capacity you think is "enough" going to guarantee the operator is going to be able to complete their trip, not make mistakes, or be able to properly respond to exigencies or emergencies?
I've often thought that a dismaying number of folks nowadays sort of look at having "hi-cap" mags in the same way some folks used to look at having a rabbit's foot on a key chain when I was a youngster ...
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Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007 showed revenue for the quarter grew to $55m compared to $32.6m in the prior year period. The company reported net income for the quarter of $5.1m compared to a net loss of $8.3m in the third quarter of 2006.
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AVONDALE, Ariz. -- NASCAR will bring in outside experts to examine potential changes to race track fencing in the wake of last weekend's accident at Daytona that injured several spectators, and could apply any short-term improvements to the next restrictor-plate event at Talladega in May.
Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR's senior vice president for race operations, said Saturday that the car of Kyle Larson, which flew up into the Daytona catchfence, will be reconstructed at the sport's Research and Development Center in Concord, N.C. The sport will also involve outside experts, including SAFER barrier developer Dean Sicking and fence engineering firms, to examine potential improvements that could include the relocation of crossover gates.
"To do this right, we've got to take the time to reconstruct the car, reconstruct the fence, reconstruct the accident," O'Donnell said at Phoenix International Raceway, "and then go out and say -- OK, here's what we know happened, and what would prevent that moving forward?"
Larson's car flipped onto the frontstretch fence as part of a massive final-lap accident that marred last Saturday's Nationwide Series opener. Although all the drivers involved walked away, several spectators were injured after parts of Larson's car -- including the tires and engine -- penetrated the fencing. Two of those spectators remain hospitalized at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Fla.
O'Donnell said Larson's car and its parts were impounded by NASCAR, and initially remained in Daytona so track officials and their fencing experts could inspect the wreckage. The vehicle is now on its way to North Carolina, where it will be examined both by NASCAR engineers as well as the Turner Scott Motorsports employees who built it.
"The team hasn't had a chance to look at it," O'Donnell said. "We want to talk abut how car was constructed, how it was fabricated, what we can learn jointly as they look at the car."
Outside experts will also be involved. O'Donnell said NASCAR would include Dr. Dean Sicking, director of the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who worked closely with NASCAR to develop the SAFER barrier, as well as officials from Indianapolis Motor Speedway and fence engineering firms. It was a collaboration with a fence engineering firm that led to a new fence at Daytona in the wake of a 2009 accident at Talladega that involved Carl Edwards' car flying up into the catchfence, and debris from the vehicle getting into the grandstands.
One focus of the investigation will be crossover gates. Larson's car impacted the Daytona fence at the site of a gate, which allows access from the grandstand to the infield. O'Donnell said NASCAR will look at the placement of gates specifically as it applies to Talladega, given the similarities between that track and Daytona.
"I think because of where it hit, it having pieces that did get through, and it being a gate area, I think that's really going to be the focus for us," he said. "We'll certainly look at fencing in general. But I think that particular area, the fact that it is a gate, did that impact it. We know the gate was locked, we know it was secure, but does that provide as much stability as the rest of the fencing? We believed it did. But we've got to now take a look at that based on this impact."
O'Donnell said the search for fencing improvements will involve all tracks, but restrictor-plate venues -- where vehicles are more likely to become airborne -- will come first.
"Superspeedway racing at Daytona and Talladega is going to be the first concentration for us," O'Donnell said. "We have a race coming up in May at Talladega, so anything we can learn in the in the immediate future that we can apply to Talladega, we'll do that."
O'Donnell also addressed other issues Saturday:
-- The injury Nationwide driver Michael Annett suffered in an earlier crash last week, he said, is concerning. Annett suffered a fractured and dislocated sternum in a head-on crash, and Thursday required surgery that used a metal plate and screws to pull his sternum back to its original position. Although Annett is already out of the hospital, he could miss up to two months.
"That's an injury that we have not seen for some time now," O'Donnell said. "So we're going to look through that car now … That's something that we've got to take a hard look at it, and make sure all the things that were in place worked for Michael, and anything we can improve on, we will."
-- Nationwide driver Jeremy Clements, recently suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for using a racial slur in front of an MTV reporter at Daytona, will work with Richard Lapchick, who founded the Center for the Study of Sport in Society and is now chair of the sports business program at the University of Central Florida. Lapchick is renowned for his efforts in furthering diversity and human rights activism within sports.
"We'll have Jeremy work with Dr. Richard Lapchick," O'Donnell said, "and get him back in the race car as soon as possible, and as soon as we deem fit."
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But I still haven't hit my 50s, and so when it dawned on me a couple months ago that I would be responsible for writing up an article about the best films of the '00s, my instantaneous and completely honest reaction was: "But it hasn't been a decade yet!"
No, I wasn't nitpicking about whether decades start and finish in years that end in 9s or 1s or 0s. Rather, I was thinking that there was more time ahead, that I hadn't seen enough films of quality, that the truly great works of the decade that I will forever refer to as "The Naughts" were still ahead of us.
And then I checked the record.
(And, yes, there is a record.)
And it was shinier than I had remembered.
As it happens, it has been my habit since 2003 to keep a spreadsheet of every film I've seen in a given year -- it helps me slap grades on 'em to see 'em all in a sortable stack -- and, beyond that, I have copies of every single review I've written going back to 1986, filed and sorted on my hard drive in year-by-year folders.
And having poured over my spreadsheets and folders and best-of-the-year lists (and peeked at the best-of-the-decade lists posted online by colleagues hither and thither), I received a second surprise: Namely, a lot of good movies were made and released during the past ten years.
I thought at first that I could sum up the decade in 10 films. Ha. An initial pass over my database gave me a short list of 128 titles -- or, roughly five percent of what I'd seen -- that I thought of as memorable or admirable enough to warrant mention in a roundup of the decade.
And they were all over the map: blockbuster franchises and little indie sleepers, sturdy domestic dramas and adventuresome international genre-busters, critical darlings and oddballs that only I and the directors' mothers loved -- the gamut, really, of what the movies bring each and every year, but blown up tenfold into a Costco-sized heap.So I winnowed and split hairs and threw cherished movies off cliffs and lost sleep (literally: I had a dream about ticking off both Spider-Man and Batman) and finally, after some effort, came up with not 10, not 20, but 50 films that represent, in my mind, the best of the decade.
The picture my choices paint is as diverse, I think, as a decade should be. The top two films, for instance, were instantaneous choices, but they couldn't be more distinct from one another. And yet, in representing respectively, the megamovie and the personal film, they were intriguingly similar -- each crafted to a glittering sheen, each deeply entertaining, each groundbreaking and anticipating other (and, frankly, lesser) works, each ravishing, moving, true, dear, and fine.
Much the same can be said, I think, for almost every movie I've cited, though, and for some which didn't crack my list. As I learn anew each December when I try to sum up a movie year in 1500 words, film and art and life and the world are simply too big to be accounted for in a list. And lists themselves are part of the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of decisions -- rational and sub-rational -- that we make each second as audiences: "I like this," "I don't like this," "She's cool," "I'm tired of her," "I was annoyed by that," "I can't stop thinking about that," and so on.What I'm saying, I guess, is that this is a snapshot of my thinking about a decade that is still revealing itself and which caught me unawares in coming to its end. Ask me in a year's time what the best films of The Naughts were and I'm pretty sure I'd respond with a top ten drawn from these 50. But the top 50 could, as a block, look substantially different.
That impermanence, finally, is one of the best reasons to read (and to write) arts criticism. You do it not to carve opinions into stone columns that will stand unchanged over millennia, but, rather, to capture a slice of a present, a now, that eternally disappears even faster than you can find words in which to describe it.
A decade, in short, is not enough time to think about, much less write about, a decade.
And they're only gonna start to get faster, or so I hear....
1. "The Lord of the Rings" (Peter Jackson, 2001-3): A titanic achievement, taking a massive literary treasure, adapting it more or less faithfully, breaking new technological ground AND, perhaps above all, providing more than a dozen hours of fabulous entertainment. People will be watching this for generations and on technologies we can't even imagine. I'm frankly jealous of them.
2. "Far From Heaven" (Todd Haynes, 2002): Inspired in part by a move to Portland, where he still lives, Haynes recognized very early in the game the relation of our flashy, hollow contemporary era with the go-go '50s-turning-into-'60s, anticipating "Mad Men" but focusing more deeply on race, sexuality and the very form of filmed drama. Gorgeous and mesmerizing.3. "The Best of Youth" (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003): This, too, is an epic, but it takes a captivating form that blends a richly observed and stirringly acted family drama with a history of Italy since the '50s. Six hours that fly by in a heartbeat and pull you in every direction in which your spirit can stretch.
4. "The Lives of Others" (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006): A powerful film about the nexus of the personal and the political, made with shockingly confident craft considering it marks the writer-director's debut. One of the very rare films that adds an entire additional act and makes you grateful for the extra time spent on a remarkable story.5. "Memento" (Christopher Nolan, 2000): Nolan did bigger (and also fine) things, but nothing as audacious as this inside-out, backwards-forwards film about memory, forgetting, pain and the search for peace. In its cut-up-and-remade fashion, it echoes a filmmaker's own working life and reveals just how arbitrary and provisional all narratives are at the core.
6. "Spirited Away" (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001): In a decade in which digital technologies forever altered the landscape of animation, the Japanese master hand-made three wonderful features, none better than this moody, earthy masterpiece to rank with anything by Lewis Carroll or L. Frank Baum. It moves like a dream and sports a vividly game spirit.7. "Angels in America" (Mike Nichols, 2003): It was made for HBO, but by a theatrical director and with such movie stars as Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson. A vital and impassioned adaptation of a play that's as elusive as it is epic -- and, I think, the best thing that Nichols has ever done.
8. "Waking Life" (Richard Linklater, 2001): The nearest thing I've ever seen in a movie to "Finnegans Wake," with ideas and images and personalities and the very flow of time and space and logic all unmoored and let loose in a thrilling stream. All that plus deliciously groundbreaking animation. Like dreaming in public with your eyes open.9. "The Motorcycle Diaries" (Walter Salles, 2004): A beautiful bildungsroman, the protagonist of which happens to be a real person who became one of the most famous figures of the century, Che Guevara. More like John Ford's "Young Mister Lincoln" than Steven Soderbergh's "Che," and filled with wit, sex, nature and journeys of the heart and spirit.
10. "Pan's Labyrinth" (Guillermo del Toro, 2006): A combination of fantasy, politics, mythology, horror and the most extraordinary imagination. Del Toro is a fanboy's fanboy, yet this film is planted firmly within a plausible vision of the mind and soul of an formidable and brave young girl. And it simply teems with unforgettable imagery.
11. "An Education" (Lone Scherfig, 2009): A film so sleek and pointed and precise that you want to call it perfect -- and, what the hell, it is.
12. "Caché" (Michael Haneke, 2005): Chilling, demanding and razor sharp, a thriller that avoids thrills but not shocks, and a masterwork from a terribly fine filmmaker.
13. "Oldboy" (Chan-wook Park, 2003): A delirious drama/mystery, filled with blood and horror, built with dazzling craft. Thank heavens the US remake has been scotched.14. "A Christmas Tale" (Arnaud Desplechin, 2008): A film about family bonds severed and reinforced, it spills out like blood at a crime scene and is never less than beautiful.
15. "Once" (John Carney, 2006): Sweet, tuneful, tiny and very real, with marvelous songs and the sort of making-of story you can't help but cheer for.
16. "Volver" (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006): In which the great director reaches an acme of comic/horrific melodrama and makes an icon of his gorgeous star, Penelope Cruz.
17. "Beau Travail" (Clair Denis, 2000): A literary classic reimagined, modernized and exploded with dazzling technique. Very influential for something so little-seen.
18. "City of God" (Fernando Meirelles, 2002): The best American crime drama of the decade was South American -- an intimate epic about murder, moviemaking and home.
19. "Before Sunset" (Richard Linklater, 2004): A brilliant sequel to a brilliant film, a work so delicate that mere physical gestures carried the weight of time bombs.20. "The Incredibles" (Brad Bird, 2004): The best and most entertaining film from the only American studio worthy of a brand name. Family fun in all senses.
21. "Talk to Her" (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002): A deconstructed soap opera, a gimlet-eyed tearjerker, and made with impeccable, impish technique by a director in top form.
22. "No Country for Old Men" (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2007): A wild-eyed nightmare combining a chase movie, a western, and a serial killer picture spun with po-faced are-they-kidding? quirk.23. "Dance Party USA" and "Quiet City" (Aaron Katz, 2006, 2007): A breathtaking double-headed debut by a young Portland talent who easily tops the mumblecore heap. Shockingly, hearteningly poised and true.
24. "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains" (Gonzalo Arijon, 2007): One of the most terrible real-life stories of the 20th century becomes a powerfully moving documentary in the 21st.
25. "The Beaches of Agnès" (Agnès Varda, 2009): An artist in her 80s revisits the homes and people and films of her life and proves still vital and delightful.
"28 Days Later" (Danny Boyle, 2002), "Amélie" (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001), "Billy Elliot," (Stephen Daldry, 2000), "Brokeback Mountain" (Ang Lee, 2005), "Death Proof" (Quentin Tarantino, 2007), "Dirty Pretty Things" (Stephen Frears, 2002), "Eastern Promises"(David Cronenberg, 2007), "Elephant" (Gus Van Sant, 2003), "Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)" (Zacharias Kunuk, 2001),"Happy-Go-Lucky" (Mike Leigh, 2008), "Hero" (Zhang Yimou, 2002), "A History of Violence" (David Cronenberg, 2005), "Human Resources" (Laurent Cantet, 2000), "In the Mood for Love" (Wong Kar Wai, 2000), "Million Dollar Baby" (Clint Eastwood, 2004), "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" (Jonathan Demme, 2006), "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2000), "The Queen" (Stephen Frears, 2006), "Ratatouille" (Brad Bird, 2007), "The Royal Tenenbaums" (Wes Anderson, 2001), "Russian Ark" (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002), "Shaun of the Dead" (Edgar Wright, 2004), "Tell No One" (Guillame Canet, 2006), "Touching the Void" (Kevin Macdonald, 2003), "United 93" (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
ICONSActor of the Decade: George Clooney
Who else? An icon of modern masculinity, a star of action adventures, comedies, dramas, and indie films, a director and producer of genuine quality, a man with a life outside of movies, and the only guy in modern Hollywood who could sit between Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum at a bar and not look like a little lost boy. (Honorable mention: Johnny Depp)
Actress(es) of the Decade: (tie) Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep
It's not a cop-out not to pick only one: There's not a slice of difference in the quality of their work. Blanchett made "Lord of the Rings," "I'm Not There," "Notes on a Scandal," "The Aviator"; Streep gave us "The Devil Wears Prada," "Doubt," "Adaptation," "Angels in America." This is why God invented the multiplex: so we don't have to choose.
Director(s) of the Decade (domestic): Ethan and Joel Coen
When they followed "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" with a couple of underrated underperformers, they were said to be done, and they replied with "No Country for Old Men," "Burn After Reading" and "A Serious Man" -- better films than most 'important' Hollywood directors have ever made. Inimitable, inscrutable and still in their primes. (Honorable mention: Steven Soderbergh)
He's never made a bad film, but my God what a decade: "All About My Mother" (which opened locally in 2000), "Talk to Her," "Bad Education," "Volver" and "Broken Embraces." He combines old and new Hollywood, European art cinema and soap operas, melodrama and crime thrillers, earnest sentiment and chic cheek. One of the greatest careers in all cinema, and thriving yet. (Honorable mention: Zhang Yimou)


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25th anniversary: Bizarre hop ruins Stieb's no-hitter
25 years ago today was a disappointing day for Blue Jays ace Dave Stieb. Well, there were plenty of good things about it. He got the win, and a starting pitcher always likes that. He got a complete game; pitchers take pride in that. He even got a shutout, and that's a feather in anyone's cap.
But if you're going to pick up a win by throwing a complete game shutout, it's hard to have it end in a more deflating way than the way it ended for Dave Stieb a quarter-century ago today. You see, he came one out from a no-hitter, and would've had it, had it not been for a fluky bad hop.
On Sept. 24, 1988, Stieb led the Toronto Blue Jays against the not-so-mighty Cleveland Indians. Early on, it was clear that Stieb had brought his A game. He set down the side in order in the first and second innings. Though he allowed a one-out walk in the third, that batter was gunned down in a failed steal attempts, and Stieb retired the next batter to end the inning.
In his second time through the order, it was more of the same. In innings four through six, the only batter to reach base came on a walk, and he was rubbed out on the base paths (this time as part of a double play).
People were starting to wonder: Could Stieb do it? Could he throw a no-hitter? Then again, maybe they were wondering if anyone would score, for Indians pitcher Rod Nichols was twirling a gem of his own. It wasn't a no-hitter, but it was a shutout.
Stieb retired the side in order again in the seventh. He was just six outs away. In the eighth, he hit a batter with two outs, but then retired Terry Francona via fly out. Stieb wouldn't be able to face the bare minimum 27 batters on the day, but the no-hitter was intact. And Stieb had just one more inning to go.
Even better, in the top of the ninth the Jays finally broke through, turning a pair of singles, a sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice fly into a run, for a 1-0 advantage. Now it was all up to Stieb.
First up in the ninth was catcher Andy Allanson. He's the guy who walked and tried to steal back in the third. This time, Stieb fanned him for his eighth K of the day. Next up came veteran first baseman—and former Jays teammate of Stieb—Willie Upshaw. Pinch-hitting for the shortstop, Upshaw tapped out a routine grounder to second.
Stieb had never thrown a no-hitter. The closest he'd come was earlier this year when he had a complete game one-hitter, but the hit there came in the fourth inning, so there wasn't much drama to it. Now he was just one out away.
To get that out, he'd need to retire leadoff hitter Julio Franco. Franco took the first pitch for a ball, and then took the next two for called strikes. Apparently, the umpire was calling a wider strike zone than Franco expected, so he began to protect the plate. Franco would play until he was nearly 50 because he was such a good professional hitter, and it showed here. He fouled one off. Then he fouled another off. And a third. Franco was battling. He was going to make Stieb throw him a good pitch. On the seventh pitch, Franco took one that was outside and this time the umpire gave it to him—ball two.
Stieb threw another one—pitch No. 123 of the game—and Franco made contact. This time the ball landed in fair territory—an easy hopper to the second baseman. This was it! All second baseman Manuel Lee had to do was follow the bouncing ball into his glove and Stieb would have it.
The ball bounced on the turf to Lee and then… took an utterly insane hop wildly over Lee's head. No jump in the world would be high enough to catch it. It was like the ball was suddenly possessed by an evil spirit that hated Stieb. The ball went into the outfield for a single. You couldn't call it an error—Lee had no play. Apparently, the ball bounced on the seam where the turf meets the dirt at second base and went goofy as a result.
Stieb retired the next batter to preserve the win, but lost the no-hitter. This would become in some ways the signature game for Stieb. He was the guy who kept just missing the no-hitter.
In fact, in his very next start, on Sept. 30, 1988, Stieb took a no-hitter into the ninth, only to allow a single with two outs. At least that time it was a routine single. Incredibly, in his second start in 1989, Stieb had another one-hitter. This time the single came early—in the fifth inning—but Stieb had three one-hitters in four starts.
In August 1989, Stieb was one out from a perfect game, only to allow a double, then a single, losing his perfect game, no-hitter and shutout. (He did get a complete game win, though). Three weeks later Stieb took a no-hitter into the sixth only to have a Robin Yount single ruin it for him. In 15 months, Stieb had five one-hitters, and a two-hitter, with three of those games seeing him come within one out of a no-hitter.
Hellish, isn't it? The story has a happy ending. The next year, on Sept. 2, 1990, Stieb finally did it: He threw a no-hitter. If anyone ever earned it, it was Dave Stieb. He had plenty of hard luck close calls, but none were harder luck than the one-hitter he threw 25 years ago today.
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I miss the listings of other events on this day that used to be included in the anniversary of an important baseball event.
I miss them, too, but life & time isn't permitting their inclusion right now. (Hell, I barely had time to write this up & may not have time to do a write up for tomorrow's 10th anniversary of Carlos Delgado's four homer game).
Since it was being played in Cleveland, the crowd was probably so sparse, that in fact no one saw where the ball hit, so you have to assume it was on the seam. Too bad we don't know for sure.
I remember all of those one-hitters, but not the details. Stieb was a good pitcher at the time, obviously.


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Thanks to the efforts of Hyderbad police, some 140 people were saved from committing suicide by jumping into the Hussain Sagar lake. Just within the past two weeks, the police were able to save 15 lives. A constant vigil is being maintained here by the police, to check suicides. Though the police have no boat, they save the lives of those who jump into the lake, with the help of a rope. Also, they lack good swimmers.


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BAMAKO (AFP) - Renegade Malian soldiers traded gunfire with troops outside the presidential palace on Wednesday night as others occupied the headquarters of the state broadcaster in an ongoing mutiny, witnesses told AFP.
"We are in control of the presidential palace. People are shooting towards us and we are returning fire," a member of the presidential guard told AFP via telephone.
One of the mutineers spoke to AFP as gunfire rang out in the background: "We are doing everything we can so that our demands are met."
Other witnesses near the palace confirmed the shooting was under way.
The presidential guard is made up of elite paratroopers known as "Red Berets", a unit loyal to President Amadou Toumani Toure who is himself a former soldier and is holed up inside the presidency, situated on a hill overlooking Bamako.