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Jen Chaney and Liz Kelly
Washington Post "Lost" bloggers
Wednesday, April 14, 2010; 2:00 PM
Join "Lost" bloggers Liz Kelly and Jen Chaney each Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET to talk about "Lost's" sixth and final season.
A transcript follows.
Liz and Jen, both obsessive "Lost" fans, have been writing their weekly dueling analysis of the show since 2006. When not debating the merits of Sawyer's hotness, Liz Kelly writes the Celebritology blog and Jen Chaney acts as movies editrix and DVD columnist for washingtonpost.com. For episode analysis, discussion transcripts and more, visit washingtonpost.com's Lost Central.
Jen Chaney: Great to see you all here. As always, lots to discuss. But I want to throw out one more probably meaningless thought before we get underway.
It seemed to me that pretty much ever finale thus far was referenced in some way during last night's show, adding more creedence to the notion Liz and I raised in the analysis, that it seems like everything from the past five seasons is all coming to a head. (I was actaully counting finale moments last night before I went to sleep. Because that's what dorks do instead of counting sheep.)
Did you feel that way, too, or am I just looney tunes? Liz is joining us shortly. So let's get things rolling.
Michael: In your Pulitzer prize-winning point/counterpoint from this morning, you mentioned the possibility that Michael us the MIB trying to push Hurley one way or another and I thought so too when he showed up, all angry. But, Jack didn't see him. Do we have any indication that the MIB can take the form of another and have that viewing be limited? (Begs the question as to how he would do that). The whispers is a different sound than the crackling the smoke makes so I'm happy de-linking them. I think the creepy boy and Michael come from the same place and are controlled by the same thing...whatever that is at this point.
Jen Chaney: Thanks for saying Pulitzer Prize-winning and making me spit out my Coke Zero.
Jack didn't see him, this is true. That is a bit curious. And someone else has pointed out that MIB is supposed to be trapped in Locke at this stage in the game, which I forgot due to my infautation with the idea of him becoming Michael for a minute.
That may put the nail in the coffin of MIB as Michael theory, especially if that genuinely is Michael's limbo-spirit, as he contended.
Washington, DC: Ilana blew herself up on purpose. She was throwing those water bottles into that bag quite deliberately. Question is: Why?
Jen Chaney: Really? You think? Because if I were going to blow myself up on purpose, I'd at least finish my sentence first.
But that's me. And I'm a communicator.
Desmond v. Locke: Does Desmond know Locke isn't really Locke?
Jen Chaney: I don't think so, no. And since MIB and Sedated Sayid have kept him away from the rest of the camp, no one has been able to explain.
Speaking of Des and Locke, did anyone else see the wheelchair hit-and-run coming? I did, but no one was watching with me so there is no way for anyone to back me up on that ... once Des got chucked down the wall, I figured he'd hit Locke, just for symmetry's sake.
Baltimore: I guess Hurley's "the boss." He was meeting Rosalita at "Spanish Johnny's," presumably via the E street shuffle.
Jen Chaney: And driving a pink Cadillac.
DC: One thing I can't reconcile: in the analysis, you said that Widmore probably wants to harness the power of the island. But didn't he want to destroy the island via the freighter folks? Weren't they there to destroy it??
washingtonpost.com: They were there to get Ben off it/kill everybody.
Jen Chaney: Right, as producer Paul notes, Widmore wanted to boot Ben since Ben kicked him off the island and made him stay away.
So he did not want to destroy the island. He wants to preserve it and have access to it, although it's still unclear exactly why.
Liz is here now. So she probably can explain all of this in great detail.
Liz Kelly: Gee thanks Jen. I would love nothing more than to launch into an extended version of my thesis on Charles Widmore's plans for the island, but alas, it would eat up the rest of the hour.
Suffice to say I agree with Paul and Jen: Widmore's not there to destroy the island. Just MIB.
The Human Fund: Did either of you catch Hurley mentioning him attending a banquet for the "Human Fund"? How very Seinfeldian.
Jen Chaney: I did notice that! And completely forgot to mention it. Love it when they do shout-outs to other shows on "Lost."
The first one I remember was when they referenced a paper company in Slough, a nod to the original, British "Office."
Salem, OR: What do you think about the chances of Locke, rather than dying, being able to walk again after the car crash in the sideways world? It reminded me of Sun running into the tree and then starting to merge with her sideways personality. Maybe it works in both directions.
Jen Chaney: Oh, Salem, that is interesting.
Let's map this out. So Locke's been hit by a car, like someone invariably always is on this show. He's got to go to the hospital. Who wants to put solid odds on who will be treating him at that hospital?
I'm going to say Jack. And then I'm further going to say Jack will finally give him that consult and, as you astutely suggest, figure out some way to "fix him."
Liz Kelly: So Desmond is again facilitating a situation in which Locke (and possibly Jack) will be forced into a realization of their island pasts? Me likey.
Another theory from blog commenter blondie3:
I think Desmond tries to kill Sideways Locke (after all, we don't know he's dead) so that when the two realities merge, MIBLocke doesn't have a corresponding body to merge with - ergo, he remains stuck on the Island. Just as Sideways Libby, Faraday, Charlotte, etc., will all disappear because they're already dead in the Island reality.
Jen Chaney: Can both of these concepts be correct? Because I really like both, although I don't want Faraday, Libby and Charlotte to cease to exist.
Mike Mclean: With all the talk of bloodbath and people dropping like flies, should we expect quick, unceremonius deaths for major characters? Am I going to see a tree fall on Sawyer and the other characters just kind of go "well that's the island for ya!" like Illana?
Jen Chaney: That's a good point. Not a lot of mourning there. Frankly, everyone seemed a lot more upset when Arzt went boom.
If a tree does fall on Sawyer, he will not die. He will simply say, "Son of a bitch," then wriggle out from underneath and make some sort of joke related to the planet Endor. He will do all of this without wearing a shirt.
Man, that sounds like a *really* good episode.
San Francisco: Ladies - the bag Hurley looked into after Ilana went kablooie was the one she kept the Jacob ashes in - so thats what Hurley saw, although why he freaked...who knows
Liz Kelly: Seriously, he seemed galvanized by his peek at whatever was in there. And you're right, it should have been Jacob's ashes. Maybe, a teensy three-inch-tall Jacob was perched inside the bag and shouted (with his three-inch-tall appropriate voice) that Hurley needed to destroy the dynamite?
Arlington, VA: Do you think they picked the Willy Wonka song at the end to foreshadow what is coming up? The whole point of Willy Wonka was to find someone to take over his chocolate factory. Can we assume a connection there?
Liz Kelly: Thank you for bringing this up. That parallel didn't occur to me until the analysis was already live on the site, but thanks to you and other astute readers it is out there. Viewed in that light, it's yet another reason to think Jack will be revealed as THE candidate over the next few weeks. As long as he and Grandpa Joe away from the fizzy lifting drink.
Jen Chaney: I also wonder about the name of the song: "Wondrous Boat."
Is it possible that they'll finally sail away from the island successfully, as Sawyer, Michael, etc. almost triumphantly did in season one?
Orlando, FL: So, who else needs a kiss to remember the island, and/or discover their true love?
Jen Chaney: Me. From Boone.**
**My apologies to my husband for making this comment. I am sure he knows I am kidding. You know, mostly.
Liz Kelly: I didn't realize it was possible for me to actual do a full 360 degree eye roll. But it is.
Santa Clara, CA: If it wasn't already clearly obvious, here are two more reasons to suspect Jack is THE Candidate:
1. When talking to Hurley, he mentioned that maybe he needed to cede control. Another way to interpret this statement is that he should let others make their own choices, which is basically what Jacob's role is, an observer who wants people to figure out right and wrong for themselves.
2. After Desmond hits Locke with his car, we see the same pained look on Locke's face that we saw after he hit the ground from his fall in Season 5's finale. Jacob subsequently touched him and revived him. My friends and I are betting that Locke will be taken to the hospital and be saved this time by -- you guessed it -- Jack.
Liz Kelly: We already covered your second point, but I think this is worth posting because your first is so interesting.
Jen Chaney: That's very true, Jacob has become more of a Jacob figure. And I wonder if it's that realization -- that it's not about him controlling others or being the Hero -- that will let him truly heal John in the sideways world.
Annapolis: "Maybe, a teensy three-inch-tall Jacob was perched inside the bag and shouted" I kinda think you're right! I'm thinking that the kid they saw in the jungle is Jacob...he's grown since last time they saw a kid in the jungle...he's like a phoenix! So, something Hurley saw (or maybe didn't see) in that bag led him to realize that Jacob's on his way back to life. Wow, that sounds so ridiculous now that it's been written down.
Jen Chaney: You're right. It kinda does.
Liz Kelly: Something that made him realize Jacob is that kid and is growing rapidly? Like a discarded retainer?
We're kidding, of course. Hurley clearly saw something surprising. It's just a question of what.
It's all about Lapidus: I sent this in late a couple weeks ago, but more and more there are rock references (last night Jack said something about getting off this rock when he very easily could have said island. Lapidus means of stone; Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am A Rock" with its "I am a rock, I am an island" lyrics immediately comes to mind. He's still hanging around, he's brought people to the island twice, and he's due for more of an explanation. Jeff Fahey's comeback will soon be complete.
Jen Chaney: Is he the Candidate, then? I was wondering about him last night, actually. They've done very little with Lapidus's character this season, so he is due for a bit of attention.
Liz Kelly: Agreed.
Another thing: They need to give him a wardrobe change. If Ilana could somehow lose her vest in the last couple of episodes surely someone can give the man a t-shirt to swap out for that Captain Steubing-looking pilot's uniform.
Jen Chaney: Looks good on him, though, Liz.
Liz Kelly: No, the white is really starting to show some wear and tear. I'm thinking some kind of olive-toned tee.
Libby on the Label: I can't get this early 80's jingle out of my head since last night. Libby Libby Libby on the Label Label Label....anyone else remember this?
Jen Chaney: Yes! And now it's in my head, too.
Thanks for the earworm, man.
Brooklyn, NY: While the past couple episodes are vastly better than the beginning of the season, they feel a bit rushed all of a sudden. At the same time, the story line of the temple is less and less important and doesn't seem critical to wrapping up the series at all. So why did we waste so much time at the temple at the beginning of the series at all? I can't understand it.
Jen Chaney: You and me both, Brooklyn. If we ever talk to LindeCuse again, I really want to ask them about Dogen. I don't see, at least right now, why we spent so much time with that dude at the beginning of the season. A bit baffling.
Liz Kelly: Again, I would have been perfectly happy if the season had begun with last week's Desmond episode.
Burke, VA: Is it just me or did the Desmond vehicle demolition of sideways Locke look really bad? The way he was convulsing my first thought was "traumatic brain injury and death". I don't think he's walking away from that one. Next week should be legendary!
Jen Chaney: I initially thought he was a goner, too. But now that we've advanced this Jack Will Heal Him Theory, I am thinking he might come close to death's door, then retreat thanks to the healing hands of one Dr. Shephard.
PM Ontario Canada: Did you pickup on Hurley's response after he blew up the Black Rock? When confronted he stated "I was trying to save or protect IT" What it, MIB or the plane?
Jen Chaney: Or Door No. 3: the island.
Everyone DOES Love Hugo: Where is Jin? Was I the only one who hadn't really noticed he wasn't around and when Sun walked into MiB Camp, was all "oh my god, we're finally getting the reunion of the series" only to realize "Jin isn't there. Where did he go?" BTW - my sweetie and I were both laughing so hard we almost fell off the couch when Desmond gunned his car into Locke.
Liz Kelly: He's with Widmore over on Hydra Island.
Jen Chaney: Laughing at Locke getting runned down? That's cold-blooded, brotha.
And I'm with you on Jin. Liz had to remind me he was on Hydra Island because I, too, was caught up in the two of them reuniting.
Milwaukee, WI: Ok, why in Season 4 was Widmore concerned with capturing Ben and not MIB? Now he wants MIB and from what we can tell he couldn't care less about Ben. What the heck is going on with that?
Liz Kelly: At that point perhaps things were at a point where containing Ben -- who was still somewhat in control -- would have achieved Widmore's goals? Because at that point John Locke was still alive and had yet to be killed by Ben, which then made it possible for MIB to take on Locke's form and mount an escape attempt from the island.
Jen Chaney: Or maybe Widmore knew that MIB was controlling Ben, or trying to? So getting to Ben was akin to getting to MIB, in Widmore's mind?
Hugo vs. Richard: Did anyone notice that the people who went with Hugo were all the original plane people plus Frank who was supposed to be on the original plane while Miles and Ben who got to the Island other ways went with Richard? A very neat separation.
Jen Chaney: Nice observation.
Jacob's Ashes: I can't believe no one has mentioned that Hurley's decision to go see FLocke came after he found Jacob's ashes. What can Jacob's ashes do if spread in a circle around him? Why trap him, of course! Not sure that's where this is going, but seemed worth mentioning.
Jen Chaney: Good point. We mentioned the ashes, as well as a nutty theory about mini-Jacob. But this is the obvious answer: Hurley knows about relevance of spreading the ash. So he thinks they can confront MIB and stay safe.
Liz Kelly: I dunno. I'm not sold on it. I think he saw something else in there.
Don't stand next to wells with people you don't know: I think Desmond does know Locke is not Locke. When Locke turned to talk to Sayid, Desmond gave him a very unfriendly look. He was not surprised at Locke's question about not being afraid. Also, he tells Ben he has a son named Charlie in the Sideways world. Why would he know that much and not who Locke isn't?
Liz Kelly: I'm with you. I think Des totally realizes that Locke is MIB. Or at least that he is no longer the Locke he knew.
Jen Chaney: Hmmm. I'm still not sure if he does. But I concede it's possible.
And thanks for mentioning his reference to Charlie. That struck me, too. I thought maybe he just invented the first name that came to him and, like Claire, he was able to pull his actual son's name from some corner of his subconscious. But maybe he does know more than that.
Ilana we hardly knew ye: Although I saw it coming a mile away, I was pretty dismayed by Ilana's sudden death. Namely because she seemed to have some pretty important backstory relevant to the plot. You know, her years of training, Jacob is her father figure, why out of all people Jacob picked her for the job, etc.
Do either of you have any hope that her back story will still be explored? It felt really important to me... and of course in true Lost fashion, a character is bumped off before their relevance can be explored. I mean, in her time on the Island, she didn't really DO anything. She didn't even protect the candidates very well, which was apparently her job.
Liz Kelly: Well, Zuleikha Robinson did say -- in a NY Mag Vulture blog interview we've linked here before -- that we would get more of Ilana's back story. But at this point, I don't see the point. Or how they'd work it in, unless she surfaces in sideways world.
Despite the fact that Ilana seemed like a strong addition to the cast, and the story, when she arrived last season, she just never ended up adding too much to the show. The woman had no idea what she was doing there. She followed orders.
I guess I'd be more interested in learning more about her in terms of what she represented -- f'rinstance a sect of off-island knights sworn to defend his candidates -- rather than find out more about her personal story. And if she was a member of some kind of brother/sisterhood sworn to Jacob, are there more like her?
Jen Chaney: I just want to understand how she came into contact with Jacob, and how she was "trained."
Hey, Wasn't that....: .....one of the 3 geeks from "Freaks and Geeks" as the cashier at the Mr. Cluck's where Hugo and Desmond have their conversation?
Jen Chaney: Yes! Let's hear it for Samm Levine! Forgot to name check him in the analysis.
He's responsible for one of my favorite "F&G" quotes: "Friday night -- always a good time for some Sabbath."
TheTruckGuy, DC: Did Hurley get a mirror reflection scene in his flash sideways? Who are all the ones who have gotten to see the mirror and who havent? I know Jin didnt see the mirror but Sun saw, did Sayid see the mirror reflection? did Hurley?
Jen Chaney: Sun did, Sawyer did, Jack did. I can't remember whether Sayid did. Liz?
Liz Kelly: Shoot. That's a good question. And thanks to the ever helpful Lostpedia, we have an answer.
These are the main characters that have supposedly seen their reflections in varying surfaces (not always an actual mirror) in sideways world:
They don't include Hurley, but it could be they haven't updated to reflect (ahahaha) last night's episode yet. And I honestly can't remember.
Bedford PA: Re the dark haired boy in the jungle. A commenter on your analysis suggested it was the same blonde boy as earlier in the season with dark hair. Perhaps he is the young version of MIB and the blonde the young Jacob as supposed previously. But instead of two separate entities they are the same boy, the good and the evil side, who at some point in time, separated and grew to become Jacob and MIB.
Liz Kelly: So you're saying he's like the Cher action figure I had in second grade whose scalp swiveled so she could have either blond or black hair?
Jen Chaney: Oh man, I remember that doll.
I'd like this idea except it was clearly a different kid. Not only the hair color was different, but his face was completely different, too. So I don't know about that one.
Jack: Someone posited over on the ew.com thread that Hurley watching the tribute video to himself at the awards ceremony might/should count as him seeing his "reflection".
Liz Kelly: Meh.
Jen Chaney: A stretch, yeah. I'd go with it being flashes before your eyes -- sort of seeing your whole life really quickly, as Des has done before -- as a more apt analogy.
The Plane, The Plane!: It's getting on my nerves that Richard has been going on about the plane for a few days (island time) and Frank has yet to say anything. I really don't think it can move, much less fly, so why doesn't Frank just speak up and say "Well, that ain't going to happen!" Of the whole crowd he's the one who would actually know.
Jen Chaney: Good point. As I made clear in the analysis, Richard's fixation on the plane also strikes me as oddly short-sighted.
Liz Kelly: And one would think Lapidus would also have some handy ideas for disabling the plane that don't rely on porting wildly unstable dynamite to a whole other island while possibly being shot at by Dirty Liz Lemon.
Chicago, IL: Seeing Libby in the mental institution at the end of the "Dave" episode in Season 2, was that a sneak peak into the alternate world we now have going on in Season 6, with Libby again in a mental institution. Or is Libby in a mental institution in both the "main" reality and the alternate reality?
Jen Chaney: Good question. Last night, Libby mentioned that she remembered being at Santa Rosa before. Which makes me think the second thing you said -- that she's in an institution in two versions of reality -- is probably right.
Dazed and Confused: I agree with the comment that things seem to be really rushed. There's so little time left and every week it seems we're given with a new explanation: Richard - The island is hell. Michael - The island is purgatory. Desmond - We're in the Matrix. Jus sayin".
Jen Chaney: I hear you. In general, though, I think the episodes have been stronger in the second half of the season. Although, one other complaint: I noticed last night that there is some unnecessary summarizing, as if we're getting "Previously on Lost" moments during the episode for those who are tuning in for the last leg.
When Hurley was at Libby's grave and reminding us that they were supposed to go on a picnic date before she dies, I felt like that was a reminder for those who might not catch the relevance of their inevitable picnic later in the episode.
Liz Kelly: True. Though I have to think those gentle reminders are inserted for viewers like my mom, who has been watching for five years but gives "Lost" the same level of concentration she devotes to "Desperate Housewives." People like mom may actually have forgotten about that season two moment.
Frederick, MD: Hope this isn't too late. I just remembered that Desmond came to see Mrs. Hawking when she told everyone they had to be on the Ajera flight to Figi, then stormed out. He might have found out about John Locke's death then.
Jen Chaney: How would he have found out, though? Locke was undercover as Jeremy Bentham, which is the name that ran in the obituary.
And Ben was taking Locke's body to the 'ol butcher around that time. So I don't know. Not saying he doesn't realize Locke isn't quite Locke, but I'm not sure he found out he died.
Liz Kelly: I guess I'm assuming that when Desmond had his latest electromagnetic experience (in last week's show) all was made clear. That somehow he is now possessed with certain knowledge of where everyone and everything stands on island.
I'll admit that's a pretty big assumption.
Jen Chaney: No, that's possible. At least within the context of Lost.
I don't think he knew Locke died before then, though. How's that?
Hugo-a-go-go: I was hoping to see the crazy guy who gave Hurley the numbers when he went to see Libby at Santa Rosa (who also appears to Hurley on the island). Anyone?
Jen Chaney: Well, there was a crazy-seeming dude playing Connect Four. But I don't think that was Leonard.
Richmond, VA: Jen and Liz: One of your astute readers checked Wikipedia and noted that one actor played the kid in the jungle in both episodes. I think you need to let go of the Aaron theory, too, as do many of your other readers.
Liz Kelly: Hmm, just did a quick look back at the press releases and one Kenton Duty is listed as appearing in both episodes as "teenage boy."
So maybe you're right. But if so, that raises new questions: Why the changing hair color? Is it meant to hint the duality of Jacob/MIB. Suggest that they are, in reality, one person with two distinct sides?
Jen Chaney: I looked at the screencaps and it's definitely the same kid. So I totally stand corrected.
And now I think he's mini-Matt Damon, sent to the island to set things straight, Jason Bourne-style.
(Seriously, he does look kind of like Matt Damon.)
I think the black vs. white idea has more creedence now. I still want him to be Aaron, though, because I want Aaron to be important!
bethesda, md: so no one has mentioned the fact that richard claimed that jacob told him what the island was and no one seemed to pay this any attention. how does anyone let something like that slide!?!?
Jen Chaney: I guess I thought Richard was referring back to the conversation we saw him have with Jacob during "Ab Aeterno."
Jacob told him it was not hell, and made the whole bottle-with-the-cork comparison and talked about how he brought people there to prove that they can evaluate right vs. wrong on their own. Which is a pretty vague explanation. But maybe it worked for Richard.
Liz Kelly: Okay, thanks for playing along. A really good chat today. Lots to ponder as we count down to the end.
See you back here next week after we all digest "The Last Recruit."
Jen Chaney: Many great observations and insights here today. Thanks for all of them. See you next week.
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RECIPES: Recipe Details
Angus Burgers with Grilled Oysters and Spicy Avocado Lime Mantequilla (Butter)
3 HAAS Avocados
Juice from 1 lime
1 Roma tomato, seeded and diced
1 small jalapeno, seeded and finely diced
2 Tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
2 Tablespoons plus 1/4 cup finely diced Texas "1015"
onion, divided
3 Tablespoons TREASURE CAVE Blue Cheese, crumbled
1 teaspoon COLAVITA Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 1/2 pounds ground Angus Chuck
4 Tablespoons LEA AND PERRINS SAUCE, divided
2 teaspoons Kosher salt
1 Tablespoon TABASCO CHIPOTLE PEPPER SAUCE
2 Tablespoons SUTTER HOME WHITE ZINFANDEL
12 oysters on the half shell
1 12"x16 1/2" perforated aluminum grill pan
1/2 Tablespoon WEBER GRILL CREATIONS "Zesty
Lemon Seasoning"
Oil for brushing on grill and on rolls
6 Kaiser rolls, split
2 cups baby sweet leaf spring mix (greens)
Prepare a medium-hot fire in a charcoal grill with a cover, or preheat a gas grill to medium-hight heat.
To prepare MANTEQUILLA, peel and pit the avocados and mash with a fork. Add the lime juice, tomato, jalapeno, cilantro, 2 Tablespoons onion, cheese and olive oil. Cover and set aside.
To prepare the PATTIES, in a large bowl, break up meat. Add the reserved 1/4 cup onions, 2 Tablespoons LEA AND PERRINS SAUCE, salt, TABASCO PEPPER SAUCE and wine. Lightly mix and form into six 3/4-inch patties. Using your thumb, make a slight indention in the top of each patty. Set aside.
Ready the OYSTERS by loosening the oysters from the shell with a small knife (leave oysters in shell). Arrange oyster half-shells in a 12"x16 l/2" perforated aluminum grill pan. Sprinkle the oysters evenly with the remaining 2 Tablespoons LEA AND PERRINS SAUCE and the WEBER lemon seasoning. Set aside.
Brush grill rack with oil. Place patties in center of rack and grill for about 4-5 minutes per side (or to desired doneness). Remove from heat and keep warm.
Place grill pan containing the oysters on the grill. Close cover and grill for 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat and thinly slice the oysters; keep warm. Lightly brush olive oil on inside of rolls. Place rolls, cut-side down, on the grill and lightly toast.
To assemble burgers, spread an equal portion of the avocado mantequilla on the bottom half of each roll. Top each with an equal portion of the oysters, baby greens and a patty, followed by the roll top.
Makes 6 burgers. ENJOY!
I am sending this in again at 1:46 PM Texas time (CDT) because I did not receive your return stating that BBB had received my first recipe. I also sent an e-mail to Michele Moline inquiring about the first recipe sent in.
Comments: Texas has been blessed with the Gulf Coast, The Rio Grande Valley and numerous cattle ranches in practically every one of its 254 counties. This hearty burger brings smoky "surf and turf" flavor plus Mexicali to the table, so sit back, relax and enjoy this summertime favorite.

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Yesterday's piece on Mazda's "upmarket" move (really, a pledge to improve the quality of their cars) dredged up the name "Amati", as these discussions are wont to do. The legend of Amati has persisted for years, partly due to the fact that so little is known about the project.
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The words "Mazda" and "premium" will be forever linked with the stillborn Amati brand in the mind of car enthusiasts. Cancelled at the 11th hour, Amati was supposed to be Mazda's luxury brand that would go head to head with Infiniti, Lexus and Acura. All we got out of it was the Millenia.


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Kourtney Kardashian gives birth
Kourtney Kardashian has given birth to her second child.
The 33-year-old reality TV star and her partner Scott Disick welcomed a 7lb 14ozs daughter into the world on Sunday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles.
The happy couple have called her Penelope Scotland and Kourtney is doing well after the labour.
"Scott and I are overjoyed to welcome our precious angel Penelope Scotland Disick into our lives," she told E! News. "We are forever blessed. Mommy and baby are resting comfortably."
The pair already have a two-year-old son called Mason.
Kourtney's mom Kris Jenner revealed the star had a natural birth. She is thrilled with the latest addition to their family.
"It was a great. She had an easy delivery," Kris beamed. "[Penelope] is so cute. She looks just like Mason. She's so beautiful. We are so happy."
Kourtney and Scott announced they were expecting their second child in November last year. They confirmed it was a girl in February.
Kourtney has always dreamed of having a daughter, so was thrilled when she found out the gender.
"I even wanted a girl the first time - and then we had Mason and it couldn't have been any better" she told OK! magazine earlier this year. "We're very fortunate to have the combination that everyone wishes for."
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Gift aids Cannon Falls schools
For Cannon Falls school supporters, Paul Bringgold really did live up to his name.
During a January School Board meeting, the banker presented the district with a $1.16 million donation.
"It was like a gift out of heaven," Cannon Falls Supt. Todd Sesker said.
The funds will go toward upgrades and expansion at the park and ballfields behind the high school, a sound system for the new performing arts center and a Steinway piano.
Bringgold's donation comes on the heels of a $21.2 million referendum approved by voters in November. The two-part referendum authorized major construction projects and renewed student funding.
"It's like icing on the cake," Sesker said of the donation.
Bringgold, the former owner of First National Bank of Cannon Falls -- now Merchants Bank, where he remains an executive -- said the contribution represents his passion for schools. Stronger schools make communities more attractive for prospective businesses and boost the quality of life, he said.
"It's kind of been dear to my heart," the 80-year-old said of public schools. "It's definitely the foundation of a town and a state."
Over the years, he has belonged to the school foundations for Cannon Falls, Randolph, Minn., and Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical's Red Wing campus.
Sesker said he's been hearing that the windfall is one of the largest private donations to a public school in recent memory.
"For a public school to get something like this is pretty rare," he said.
Bringgold approached a stunned Sesker with the donation offer around the holidays, telling him to draft a list of projects. After the shock wore off, Sesker and district officials gave Bringgold the list, which he pared down to three.
The repairs and upgrades to the schoolside park couldn't have come at a better time, Sesker added.
By most accounts, the park's practice football field and track are in pretty rough shape.
"It needs a big facelift," Sesker said. "Right now it's not really appealing."
Bringgold's donation is expected to pump about
$1 million into improvements there.
The new Steinway replaces a piano that's about 50 years old, Sesker said.
As for the sound system, Bringgold -- who said he planned on being a regular at the new performing arts center -- asked Sesker what the audio quality would be like. The superintendent informed him the district had planned to take a thrifty approach on the sound system.
Bringgold's ears -- which he admitted don't work like they used to -- perked up.
"I said, 'Why don't we see about getting a good one?'" he recalled.
He pinpointed the performing arts center project as a tribute to his children, who Bringgold said have been deeply rooted in music throughout their lives.
Sesker is sure the donation will touch countless more children's lives.
"It's only going to make this a better place for kids to go to school," he predicted.


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John Preston was a pro at remembering faces and putting the correct name with that face.
He loved the Lions organization and served it well and with unbridled energy. He was a member of the Linwood and Wyoming clubs and, most recently, Forest Lake. He totaled 34 years of membership.
Preston was past zone chairman and regional chairman for the Lions and had a knack for attaching Lions with their respective clubs. Preston was a people person and often had his hand out for a handshake before the other person could initiate contact.
He received the LCIF Melvin Jones award and several other club and district awards. Preston and his wife, Lillie, served the Lions as a very effective duo, showing their love of Lions and family always.
Preston died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, at the age of 86.
He was preceded in death by his loving wife Lillie Mae and son-in-law Aaron Bennett.
He is survived by five children, Cecilyn Green, Larry Green, Jocelyn (Lennard) Johnson, Kim Bennett and Pamela Preston; by 18 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; and a host of other loving relatives and friends.
Visitation is from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 17 at Campher United Methodist Church, 585 Fuller Ave., St. Paul. A funeral service follows at 11 a.m. with burial at Linwood Cemetery. Arrangements are at Chapel Funeral Providers.


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Short-Run Oil Price Drivers: South America's Energy Integration
The aim of this paper seeks to analyse how the energy price's cojuntural behaviour and structural conditions affect the short-run and mid-run overview of the energy integration process in South America (SA). For these porpoise we - first describe the world-wide energy agenda and the effect of current oil price swings and the corresponding natural gas adjustment – next we discuss about the regional stakeholders perspective of energy integration. We used two methodological approaches – first we calculate the oil prices according to their structural conditions or fundamental – second we detect the right ARIMA model with outliers and calendar effects for the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price and the Henry Hub (HH) natural gas price. With this information we develop an analysis proposal based on their underlying growth rate and inertia.
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getting the path of a file by clicking on its icon using glade2
hi members!
I am using glade to develope gui of the application which i want to create as my project work.
i have encountered a problem.
My problem exactly is :
Suppose i have created an application using glade2.In the source files(say, main.c) i create a character array (i.e. a storage space) & then i run the aplication. Now, when i click on a file icon while my application is running, i must get the full path of that file in my pre-allocated storage space.(for eg. if the file is q.c in directory /home/chaits/ , then when my application is running, if i click on the q.c's icon, i must get "/home/chiats/q.c" in the character array i created)
Is it possible using glade2? if yes, how?
i heard that there are somethings called gtk+ functions which allocate such space themselves.... but i am totally clueless about it.
If this is not possible using glade2, which designer i should try?
Please help me.
you're not really within the right scope. glade is just a toy for building UI's and thier callbacks. you need to code a signal handler to do what you need, which is not what glade is for. http://gtk.org
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2005 was a very interesting year personally and professionally.
Personally it has been difficult as I lost both of my remaining Grandparents in England during the year. However that was made easier with the news that my wife is expecting another baby. Professionally I have been really busy and have been promoted to Senior Engineer, this has meant a lot more responsibility and work which is why I have not been able to contribute as much to SkyOS.
Anyway why put this in a Developer Blog on SkyOS. The reason is that I am still very interested in being involved in SkyOS development and wanted to start off the year a fresh, I recently posted the source code to some of the projects I had been working on. I have not fully abandoned these projects but rather wanted to concentrate on tools that would be more productive for the Community as a whole.


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I THINK Malala Yousafzai might just be the bravest 14-year-old girl in the world.
The Pakistani schoolgirl has been living in a Taliban-controlled area, and her blog about her daily life has highlighted just how repressive that regime has been to her and her schoolmates.
She has revealed since the age of 11 how the Taliban had previously closed down her school, issued diktats on what she should and should no wear, and how extremeists have threatened her life simply for telling the world through her BBC blog what was going on.
Yesterday, she remained critically ill in hospital after being shot in the head as she travelled home on a school bus in Mingora in the Swat Valley.
Her friend told reporters: "It was just a normal school day. We were coming home after our second term exams. The bus was taking the usual route.
"Then it stopped and two men confronted us. They asked: 'Which one of you is Malala?'
"Some of the girls started to talk and then one of the men opened fire. All the girls started crying and shouting. Malala was hit in the head and fell to the floor unconscious. There was blood everywhere. I was in total shock..
"Then the man with the gun fired at me and another girl, and ran awy."
The bus driver raced them to hospital. The friend was hit by two bullets and is in hospital. Another girl had minor injuries.
Opening fire on a bus full of teenage girls because one of them told the truth.
And these are the people, after ten long years of war, hundreds of British soldier deaths and thousands more civilian deaths in nearby Afghanistan, who have simply moved their misogyny and repression across a porous border.
Despite the terror the Taliban inflict on women, in particular, the fact that a teenage girl was courageous enough to speak out against them, knowing what was awaiting her, is important.
So is the fact that her friend says they are determined to go back to school, whatever the Taliban throws at them.
So instead of getting Botox or liposuction or fake breasts or Christian Louboutin shoes, or spending our lives on Mumsnet in pointless judgement of those who choose to give their kids a dummy, it's high time women here did a damned sight more to support girls like Malala.
SO MANY people have so many questions to answer about the behaviour of Jimmy Savile.
The fact that he behaved in a predatory fashion towards young girls was obviously an open secret in the entertainment industry - so many people have in the past week to revealed their concerns about his behaviour there was clearly a critical mass of it which should have done more than just set alarm bells ringing.
It is no use simply vilifying the BBC as some sections of the Press are doing. Yes, they were his employers, and yes, they must now explain themselves.. How much did top executives know, and when? Was there a top-level cover-up?
But the rest of the Press which is now in a BBC-bashing frenzy should be asking themselves why they did nothing too. They must have been equally aware of these allegations.
And much, much more seriously, what on earth were police doing for the 60 years he is now alleged to have carried out his acts of paedophilia?
There were serious allegations of criminal acts which were first investigated, according to newspaper reports yesterday, in 1958. Savile was investigated six times.
In this newsroom, we see cases of historic sexual abuse before the crown courts regularly, and there have been a number of convictions after a jury trial in the past year alone.
We must now be told what evidence there was, and just why it was not deemed good enough to proceed to Savile being judged by a jury of his peers, like anyone else.


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Sam Baker's Bank Holiday Reads
Sam Baker on the best reads for the bank holiday
August used to be a quiet month for books. Like fashion, it seemed the publishing industry took a snooze, hung out at the Edinburgh Book Festival, and eked out the occasional beach read while readying itself for the literary onslaught of September.
But this year, somebody forgot to send the memo and the new titles just keep on coming. From Roddy Doyle's sort of follow-up to The Commitments, The Guts, to wunderkind Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season (dubbed Harry Potter meets the Da Vinci Code with a little Hunger Games mixed in, it's the first of a seven-book series that earnt her a six-figure deal while she was still at Oxford...) to Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam, the third part of the trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake, and Burial Rites, Hannah Kent's unsettling debut set in a 19th century Icelandic community with a convicted murderer in its midst. It's almost impossible to choose any favourites, but here are three...
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P, Adelle Waldman (William Heinemann)
When is chicklit not chicklit? When it's written by a man? When it's got a man's name in the title? When it's not packaged to look like it? When it's compared to the Brooklyn Jonathans (Frantzen and Lethem) not women's fiction juggernauts like Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult? (A comparison, I wouldn't sniff at by the way.)
The chicklit debate rages, at the very least, annually, and the recipient of this year's attentions is Adelle Waldman, author of the funny, frank Nathaniel P, who manages to tick three out of four on the above checklist, being letdown only by the fact she's a she, but gaining points for convincingly portraying a (not unirritating) 30-year-old man (as far as I'm able to tell), adrift on the Brooklyn dating sea.
Post-feminist child of the eighties, Nate is a nerd who, thanks to a big-bucks book deal suddenly finds himself spoilt for both jobs and women. But which of the women will his conscience let him choose? Nathaniel P has been compared somewhat onerously to Middlemarch, Jeffrey Eugenides and Nora Ephron - which, let's face it, not many novels could live up to, and this one doesn't. But as a hipster Sex And The City it's hugely enjoyable and nowhere near as irritating as that may make it sound.
The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer (Chatto & Windus)
Meg Wolitzer seems to be one of those novelists who almost, but not quite, breaks, with every book. The Uncoupling, The Position, The Ten-Year Nap, The Wife are all sharp, moment-capturing reads, and yet... Somehow they haven't quite taken off. Her ninth novel, The Interestings, however, looks set to be a different story; its sales in the states already prompting Wolitzer to describe herself as a "thirty year overnight success". It's an apt scenario given her subject matter. The Interestings of the title are an ironically self-named group of creatively inclined teenagers at summer camp in 1974. The novel follows the friends back and forth over the next forty years through failure and success, resentment and pride. Wannabe actress Jules fails and retrains as a therapist, golden boy Goodman crashes and burns, while Ethan, the boy least likely to, cleans up. What makes one person succeed where another, seemingly just as talented, person fails? And how much envy and disappointment can a friendship stand? Wolitzer has some rather compelling answers.
Almost English, Charlotte Mendelson (Picador)
If you're drawn to tales of outsiders, onlookers from the wrong side of the human divide, chances are you're already familiar with Charlotte Mendelson's work, for Mendelson specialises in exiles, incomers and outliers. This time the divide is not just cultural, but class too. Almost, but not quite, English, sixteen year old Marina lives with her mother and three elderly Hungarian aunts in a tiny west London flat. When she gets a place at a traditional English public school Marina thinks she's found her escape, instead she discovers she's simply traded one kind of almost for another. The descriptions are alternately vivid and eye-watering, the humour will make you wince (and not always in a good way), and the characters are, on the whole, inspired. With Almost English Mendelson has added a ManBooker longlisting to her Orange shortlist for When We Were Bad. I can see why.


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SENIOR men's head coach Zak Jones has named his 16 player squad set to compete for Team Wales at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
With a team of Commonwealth debutants, apart from Manchester 2002 competitor Huw Jones, the squad have worked hard over the past 12 months to earn their place in the squad and to compete at the biggest Welsh multi-sport competition in the calendar.
There are two sets of brothers in the team with head coach Zak Jones joined by brother Huw Jones – the most capped player in the squad – and James and Daniel Kyriakides both included.
Following a successful season Cardiff & Met will have four players represented in the squad.
Lewis Prosser, son of former Wales and Great Britain captain David Prosser, is also a member of the squad.
Zak Jones said: "The final selection of the 16 for the Commonwealth Games has been incredibly difficult, which is a huge credit to all the players that have been involved in the Senior Men's programme over the past 18 months.
"The group have remained fully engaged and united throughout, and the standard and intensity of training has never been higher. "I am very proud of where we are as a collective group and would like to take this opportunity to thank all the players for the selfless commitment and integrity they have shown throughout the programme and selection process.
"The Games gives the selected 16 a fantastic opportunity to test themselves against some of the best nations in the world as we continue to look to move forward and progress as a group. "I would like to congratulate them on their selection. I know that they will represent the senior men's squad with humility, passion and pride."
Chris Jenkins, chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales, said: "We're delighted to be able to select a men's hockey team to compete for Team Wales at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
"It's been 12 years since a men's team has been involved as part of Team Wales with just one of the players in this squad already having Commonwealth experience.
"I'm looking forward to seeing the squad pull on their Welsh jersey's and compete for Wales in just a few weeks' time."
Wales squad: Benjamin Carless, Peter Swainson, Lewis Prosser, Andrew Cornick, Matthew Ruxton, Richard Gay, Huw Jones, Nicholas Rees, Liam Brignull, Rhys Gowman, Owain Dolan-Gray, Michael Shaw, James Kyriakides, David Kettle


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Taco Salad Waffles Recipe
"What a quick and easy twist on the usual Mexican fare," writes Trisha Kruse from Eagle, Idaho. "This recipe is perfect for a build-your-own party for teens, and I've also served it as a brunch dish—to rave reviews."
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 cup salsa
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies
- 1 envelope taco seasoning
- 8 frozen waffles
- Shredded cheddar cheese, shredded lettuce, chopped tomatoes, cubed avocado, salsa and sour cream, optional
- 1. In a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in the salsa, chilies and taco seasoning. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer for 5 minutes.
- 2. Meanwhile, toast waffles according to package directions. Serve with beef mixture and the toppings of your choice. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
2 waffles with 1/2 cup beef mixture (calculated without optional toppings) equals 432 calories, 17 g fat (6 g saturated fat), 65 mg cholesterol, 1,676 mg sodium, 43 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 25 g protein.
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I have long been fascinated with pastor, author, and evangelical leader Francis Chan. I first "discovered" the man in 2005 when I was still relatively new to the Christian faith and already getting bored with my church's sermons. I was captivated by this pastor with a Chinese name who preached, quite powerfully, to huge crowds of white people. When I heard those first audio-only sermons, I closed my eyes and imagined a short, pale Chinese guy with glasses — someone who looked like me — commanding an auditorium and changing lives.
Little did I know that Francis Chan looked more like the Chinese version of Montel Williams than the nerdy guy I first imagined, but at that point it didn't matter. I was already sold. The man fundamentally changed the way I understood faith. I found the website for his church — a mostly white, affluent, suburban church in Simi Valley, California called Cornerstone — and downloaded his sermons every week without fail for the next several years. His sermon "Lukewarm and Loving It" absolutely wrecked my entire 2006. I owe much to Francis Chan.
Recently, I wrote in my blog that Francis Chan was "the patron saint of Asian American Christianity," which drew the ire of a couple prominent Asian American Christian leaders on Twitter. I get it. I get why some people have given up on Francis Chan. I get why there was heated debate over an article in 2009 that asked, "Is Francis Chan a sell out?" That question still needs to be answered. Because in all the years I've been listening to Chan preach, I have never heard even a hint that he cares that he is Chinese in an American evangelical world where it is precisely his Chinese-ness that distinguishes him from all the white faces he ministers with and to.
This is the tension I've discovered in my (one-way) relationship with Francis Chan: I was first drawn to him so powerfully because I believed I could identify with him as a Chinese American. His very appearance validated my experience. However, it has become increasingly apparent to me over the years that Francis Chan does not seem to care that he is Chinese. In fact, it seems that it is precisely the abandonment of his Chinese-American identity that has afforded him such great influence.
Nonetheless, I believe that Chan's Christianity is profoundly affected by his ethnicity — affected in ways that he has never been able to articulate.
Searching Chan's sermons for ethnic identity clues
To test this hypothesis, I put my Francis Chan devotion to good use: I combed through all the sermons I've downloaded over the years to find all the times Chan mentioned being Chinese, or at the very least expressed some kind of conscientiousness regarding his race or otherness. This is what I found:
The oldest example was from a sermon in 2004, where Chan reflected on growing up with his Buddhist grandmother in Hong Kong:
I remember when I was in college, I went back to Hong Kong to visit my grandmother and we went to see where I grew up and stuff like that. And my grandma, every time there was a Buddha, she would, like, bow down to it . . . . And then we got to this place where there was this giant, iron Buddha, it was about as big as this ceiling; it was this huge thing. So my grandma's all fired up. She's like "Aahhh" and comes up to this Buddha, but this time after she goes and pays respect to Buddha, she looks at [me and my siblings] and says, "I want you guys to pay respect to Buddha now." And there's something about, in our culture, you always respect the elderly. You don't ever tell them no when they ask you to do something . . . . But then she looks at me and is waiting for me to go up to this idol to worship. And I looked at her and said, "I can't do it. I'm not going to do it." And I told her, "I believe in Jesus Christ and therefore I can't bow down to some idol." ("John 1," 7/5/2004)
Chan, speaking to a mostly white audience (we can assume as much moving forward), shares about how his faith in Jesus separated him from his Buddhist grandmother. The subtext here is the pairing of Chan's American and Christian identities over and against the pairing of his grandmother's Asian and Buddhist identities, almost as if to say that becoming Christian necessitated not only the abandonment of Buddhism, but also his Asian roots. Chan continues in his telling of the story:
And I'll never forget what she said to me. She looked me in the eyes and she says, "[Francis speaks in Chinese]" . . . Can you believe that? So what would you do, y'know? I had to learn your language! No, what she said was, "You go your way, I'll go my way, we'll both get there." And it's sad because that's so much of what the world believes is, y'know, whatever you believe to be true is true. But y'know, the truth is, there is a truth. ("1 John," 7/5/2004)
Chan's telling of his story in this way gives me pause. What is the point of speaking in Chinese to his white audience except for it to be laughed at or to further accentuate the otherness of his grandmother's culture and religion relative to his American Christianity? His grandmother's Buddhism, tied inextricably with her indelible Asian-ness, is used as an example of the world's folly, and, coupled with a Confucian-style aphorism, is shown to be backwards and false. In this short reflection on his trip to Hong Kong, Chan seems to cut all ties to his family background.
When it comes to his ethnic identity, Chan only jokes
Using his Asian-ness as a joke becomes an uncomfortable pattern throughout his preaching:
Some of you go, "It's weird that your pastor's Chinese." No. It's weird that you're not! ("Lukewarm and Loving It," 10/1/2006)
You see, spiritual knowledge isn't just about intellect . . . you don't get to know things of God just through pure intellect and just through studying enough. If that were true, then y'know, all the most intelligent — all the Asians — would know God the best. ("Grace, Grace, Grace," 11/4/2007)
When I was a kid, all I cared about was what everyone thought about me. Because after my mom died they sent me to Hong Kong, so I only spoke Chinese when I came back to America and it was just weird trying to make friends. Because all your friends have sandwiches in their lunch box and you have sticky rice covered in green leaves . . . it was so hard to fit in. And all I cared about is, "Oh, I want people to rike me." ("Identity Unleashed," 9/7/2013)
Especially in the last example, Chan actually has an opportunity to say something insightful about his desire to fit in amongst his white friends. He notices his difference. He feels his otherness. This particular sermon, "Identity Unleashed," was held in San Francisco with NBA star Jeremy Lin. There were tons of Asians in attendance. Chan began to share something that I'm sure a lot of the audience could relate to and understand, but he cuts the reflection short with a cheap, tasteless joke about Chinese accents.
This is what I see in Francis Chan repeatedly in his reflections on his Asian-ness — he never properly identifies what is important about his ethnicity, how it makes him who he is, or how it informs the way he understands the God he professes. When it comes to his ethnic identity, all he ever does is tell jokes.
When Chan speaks of his inability to fully understand God's grace and Good News, he lists distinctly cultural reasons, he just doesn't see them as such. And as long as he remains in an evangelical world that does not value cultural or ethnic difference, he will continue to be blinded to his own cultural brokenness. If Chan would own his ethnic identity, he could become an even more powerful witness to the gospel.
In 2007, Chan offered this assessment of himself:
I've been realizing I've got so many insecurities in myself just as a person. And I don't want to get all psychological on you, but I know some of it, you know, my mom died giving birth to me, and so I always felt like my dad resented me being born. Like, I just really believe that if he could live his life over, he would have just wished I was never born . . . . I feel like he never really wanted me alive. He would just get so ticked off at me. Everything I did wrong, he would just go after me. And just, I don't know. And maybe he loved me, maybe he wanted me there, but I didn't think that way. So when I read in the Bible about God being this fatherly figure, it's hard for me to get past some of this stuff, naturally. It's hard for me to just think, "Oh, cool. He's a father figure. That means he loves me." Because the only picture I really have is, well then he's ticked off at my existence. I bug him. I do things that he still hasn't forgiven me of. And I better not doing anything wrong or he'll be really angry. And really punish me. And so that's the only picture I really had in my mind of God. ("Grace, Grace," 10/28/2007)
This is one of Chan's most powerful and self-aware moments in his entire preaching career. And it has everything to do with his and his family's ethnic identity. It turns out that Chan, like many of us, has dad issues — Asian dad issues. In other sermons, Francis tells stories about how his father would beat him, once tying him to a tree and beating him with sticks until his older brother Paul (also a Bay Area pastor) came to untie him. In this excerpt, Francis tells his story which is, in many ways, our story.
What Asian Americans need from Francis Chan
How can we possibly understand a God whose name is Love when our fathers were abusive, insecure, and emotionally distant? And what is there to be done for insecure fathers when all the images of Asian-American men in media are timid, repressed, courage-less tools? Is it any mystery, then, why so many of us serve our churches lifelessly, robotically, in hopes that we can enter into our Father's good graces if we simply served loyally enough? Is it any surprise that one of my best friends says the goal of his faith is "not to grieve God"? Which is qualitatively different than its positive, more-Western corollary, making God happy, or, as we say in more progressive circles, joining with God's purposes in the world.
We worship, therefore, often subconsciously, a God who wags the finger, one who waits for the smallest slip up just so he can express his disappointment, a God who is abusive at worst and emotionally neutral at best, never fully happy or pleased with us, who, in his proudest moments, just nods his head in acknowledgement when we are fortunate enough to prove our worthiness to him. And as long as this is our understanding of God our Father, how could we ever have love for ourselves, we who are made in his image? And if this is who we imagine God to be, how could we ever appropriately understand even the basics of our faith — things like grace, redemption, and love? And how could our love and worship of God ever be divorced from our deeply embedded fear of him?
But this is the God that Francis and I know. This is ethnic identity brokenness. And I believe that the gospel of Jesus Christ is indeed powerful enough to redeem even our deepest places of brokenness, but emotional and cultural wounds often need to be named before they can be healed.
This is the kind of powerful narrative I think so many Asian Americans need to hear from a pastor with as much spiritual capital and influence as Francis Chan.
Francis, named after San Francisco where he was born, has returned home (like LeBron). And there are Asian Americans everywhere who flock to hear the Chinese pastor who made it in the evangelical world. Francis, more than any other person in the world, has the opportunity to revitalize an Asian-American Christian community in San Francisco — and we are many — hungry for a faith that matters and desperate for a gospel that includes our stories and affirms who we are.
But Francis is insistent on staying under the radar. I don't mind this; in fact, it's part of the reason I respect the man so much. I am not asking Francis Chan to be the Moses of Asian Americans. But I am hoping that his move to Daly City is his Midian, his personal exodus before the Exodus of his people. I am hoping that he finds his burning bush that reminds him of who he is and what his voice can mean.
His most recent comments on the Chinese church, however, do not offer me much hope:
I don't wanna be racist here . . . . When I was in China, in the underground church, I was blown away by the passion of these people. There were these 20-sometings, they were just crying and they were praying and screaming out to God and saying, "God send me to the most dangerous places on earth." They were literally standing up and begging God, "Please send me somewhere dangerous. I want to die in your name. I want to die preaching the gospel . . . . "
But it bothered me because I thought, "Man, why is it that the church in China is so fired up and nothing is holding them back and they're reaching millions of people, but then I go back to the Chinese churches in America and I go, "Where is the fire?" — and again, I don't mean — I grew up in these kinds of churches and I go, "Man, how come you guys aren't fired up about this? How come you're not concerned about your friends and where they might go if they don't know God?" and just pray, "God, I know there's gonna be a lot of people from the Asian community here tonight."
And I go, "God, would you just light a fire in us again?" Could it happen right here in America? See I thought I was gonna stay in China and just thought, man this is where I love it — I feel like I just fit in and I'm not looked at like I'm crazy and I just feel like God was saying, "Go back. Go back to America, because I'm going to do something there." And I gotta believe that he can stir something up in this group. ("Identity Unleashed," 9/7/2013)
This is the most explicit I have heard Francis comment on the abstraction that is the "Chinese church." But again, it reveals a shallow, limited understanding of our churches and what is necessary for our progress.
"Where is your fire?" is not the question of someone who understands the complex story of the Chinese-American church. It is the question of someone who prefers not to face the cultural brokenness present in both our churches and ourselves. The problem is not that we have "lost the fire." The problem is that we never knew there was a fire present in us in the first place. The problem is that our faith experience has been marginalized to the point that we are no longer convinced of our own creative potential or the power of our voices in the movement of God's Kingdom. The problem is that we are forgetting who we are and the God who calls us good.
The problem is not that the fire needs to be started. The problem is that it needs to be noticed. It needs to be recognized and cultivated.
My open letter to Francis Chan
Dear Francis,
I am grateful for you and the difference you have made in my life. It was nice meeting you that one time at that random Mexican restaurant in the Bayview. You probably don't remember.
I am convinced that God moved you from Simi Valley to the Bay Area because he is indeed "going to do something here" with the church in San Francisco, as you suggested last year. There are Asian-American Christians who are capable of renewing this city, capable of transforming their families and neighborhoods for the Kingdom of God, but they are afraid. And they are waiting for someone who understands them who can speak a truth that cuts deep enough to reach our calloused, over-achieving Asian-American hearts. I am not sure if you are that person, but I am praying for you. I am hoping that you can believe in a gospel big enough to include your family's story, your dark skin, and your father. I am hoping that you can come to terms with your ethnic identity, your Chinese-ness, and that you could live fully into who God has created you to be.
I believe that God takes people on journeys like these. He took a Jewish man named Saul and transformed him from seeing Christianity as a threat to his Jewish-ness to seeing it as the completion of his Jewish-ness. He showed the Apostle Peter in a dream a renewed vision for what the church could look like if both Jews and Gentiles could worship together, and he radically transformed his understanding of his ethnic identity and what that meant in the world. Finally, he took a Jewish girl named Esther, too afraid to use her voice on behalf of her people, to ultimately rescue the Jewish people once she was reminded who she was. Maybe God has brought you to the Bay Area for such a time as this, to begin this journey. May it be so.
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"Wow, I'm really excited about $PPHM," said no one at #JPM13.— Adam Feuerstein (@adamfeuerstein) January 7, 2013Peregrine's attempt to resurrect the bavituximab second-line lung cancer data is a colossal waste of time. The data are corrupted and nothing the company says or does will change that fact. Peregrine claims drug vial coding discrepancies were isolated to placebo and the 1 mg bavituximab dose, leaving the 3 mg bavituximab vials pristine. Peregrine believes a "conservative" approach to resurrecting the lung cancer study results will be to combine the placebo and 1 mg bavituximab doses into a single control arm, which can be compared against the 3 mg bavituximab dose. Nonsense. For starters, the evidence by which Peregrine concludes only the placebo and 1 mg bavituximab vials were corrupted is ridiculously flimsy. The company has only managed to obtain full pharmacokinetic (drug blood level) data on 18 of 120 patients in the study, according to an investor who met with Peregrine executives last week. Pharmacokinetic data is the only way to determine which patients truly received drug or placebo. Peregrine also has antibody data on patients but this information can't distinguish between the 1 mg and 3 mg bavituximab dose, so it's not helpful. Even if we buy into Peregrine's spin, the consolidation of the placebo and 1 mg bavituximab dose into a single control arm is absurd. Peregrine doesn't have the right to write its own rules governing data analysis. Again, if you believe the 3 mg bavituximab data are clean (which I don't), then the best Peregrine can do is throw out the placebo and 1 mg bavituximab data entirely, turning the phase II study into a single-arm, uncontrolled trial from which no conclusion on a survival benefit can be made. "With the results of this review in hand, we are now in the process of updating potential partners and moving the program forward," said Peregrine CEO Steven King, in the company's Jan. 7 statement.
BOSTON ( TheStreet) -- The Biotech Stock Mailbag is back for its seventh year! Seth T. writes: "I checked your site but couldn't find anything on Peregrine Pharmaceuticals (PPHM) and the update on the bavituximab data. How do you judge the company's conclusions in regards to this matter? I'm hesitant to give them the benefit of the doubt after what happened but perhaps bavituximab has a future role to play in lung cancer. I appreciate your thoughts." I didn't get a chance to write about Peregrine's bavituximab update because I was busy covering the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference. I did tweet my thoughts (snarkily):


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BYU Basketball: Contender or Pretender?January 23, 2010
As the NCAA tournament approaches and conference play heats up, the hierarchy of college basketball contenders slowly begins to come into focus. The cream eventually rises to the top.
The BYU Cougars are off to one of the best starts in school history. Their impressive performance through the season's first two months is generating considerable buzz. The Cougars are good, but just how good are they?
With that in mind, let's play a little game; a blind resume of sorts.
Team A:
Top 25 in both polls
RPI is 21
Leads the country in wins
Perfect record in conference
14 game winning streak
Three time defending conference champion
Led by one of the top point guards in the nation
Team B:
Top 25 in both polls
Strength of Schedule is 146
Seven wins over teams with an RPI of 200 or lower
Twelve wins over teams with an RPI of 100 or lower
Have a 1-1 record against the RPI top 100 on the road
Haven't won a conference championship since 2001
Have no likely NBA players on the roster
Which team is BYU?
If you picked Team A, Congratulations. You are absolutely correct.
If you picked Team B, Congratulations. You are absolutely correct.
It's true.
Both sets of characteristics describe this year's BYU squad.
The Cougars have 19 wins, more than any other team in the country. They are a perfect 4-0 in conference and have won 14 consecutive games. They have won at least a share of the regular season conference championship each of the last three years.
Jimmer Fredette is one of the best college basketball players in the country. Before a recent illness set him back, he was gaining steam as a dark horse National POY candidate.
The Cougars national ranking appears wholly justified.
That being said, the doubters have ammunition.
BYU has done most of its damage against a far-from-daunting schedule. The Cougars have a couple of nice wins, but none that are truly impressive. They have been remarkable consistent, but far from spectacular.
Over the last few years, BYU has failed to validate regular season achievements with postseason accomplishments. They have failed to win the MWC tournament championship despite earning the top seed each of the last three years.
Their last NCAA tournament victory came in March 2003.
Optimism and skepticism continue to jockey for position.
So just how good are the Cougars? Are they a Sweet Sixteen caliber team? A potential Final Four dark horse? Or are they headed for another first round disappointment?
The Good
The success BYU is enjoying can be summed up with one simple word:
They shoot, pass, defend, score, and execute at a remarkably efficient level.
The Cougars lead the Nation in free throw percentage. They are eighth in three point percentage, third in overall shooting percentage.
They also rank among the best in the country in scoring offense (eighth), scoring margin (second), field goal percentage defense (26th), rebound margin (23rd), assists (13th), assist turnover ratio (17th), and turnover margin (24th).
All of these numbers are explicitly related to execution; crisp, efficient execution.
It comes as no surprise, then, that BYU comes in at No. 4 in stat guru Ken Pomeroy's College Basketball Power Rankings .
In fact, each of the Cougars' starting five ranks in the top 100 nationally in the kenpom.com individual player overall efficiency ratings.
Unspectacular but effective Noah Hartsock leads the way at No. 9, followed by Jackson Emery (No. 11), Tyler Haws (No. 52), Jimmer Fredette (No. 81), and Chris Miles (No. 100).
If BYU continues to play with such dazzlingly monotonous efficiency, the sky is the limit for the Cougars.
The Bad
It is not a coincidence that BYU has exited the first round of the NCAA tournament each of the last three years. The Cougars have not been able to overcome a glaring imperfection in postseason play.
Athleticism is Cougar Kryptonite.
There is one surefire way to derail the BYU freight train of efficiency. The Cougars can be rattled, flustered, and/or overwhelmed by quick, strong, aggressively athletic teams.
The key to taking down BYU is to make them uncomfortable; take away easy baskets; force turnovers; force the Cougars to make plays.
BYU is without a doubt one of the best teams in the country at knocking down open looks, capitalizing on fast break opportunities, and playing fundamentally sound basketball.
They have yet to prove, however, that they can overcome adversity when over-matched athletically in a tournament atmosphere.
The Verdict
This year's version of the BYU Cougars has an all-too-familiar ring to it. The Cougars played a few good teams in the non-conference schedule, but no great teams. They entered conference play unproven, despite an impressive record.
BYU is on an accustomed path. They've been here before.
The Cougars will likely earn at least a share of the MWC regular season title once again. They'll probably protect their home court and play well enough on the road to finish atop the standings.
They'll advance to the NCAA tournament and the match up will be announced.
Will they win in March?
Probably not. At least, not if they are matched up against an athletic team from the Big 12. Maybe they'll get lucky this year and draw a Big 10 team, or even a Pac 10 team. They fare well against the Pac 10.
They have their chance to demonstrate this team is different when they visit San Diego State and New Mexico in the next week. A pair of victories would silence the critics indefinitely.
Until proven otherwise, BYU basketball is what it is, and 'what it is' is also what it was; what it has been.
They are a good, solid, well-coached, consistent basketball team, built to win in February and disappoint in March.


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Budding fashionista Lourdes Leon was spotted hanging out with a friend in New York City on Wednesday (November 4). Lourdes looked lovely in a lime blazer as she held onto her phone and vitamin water. We love the writing all over her left hand!
Lourdes and her siblings have just returned from Malawi, Africa, where her mom, Madonna, launched construction of The Raising Malawi Academy for Girls.


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Richard Ghormley Eberhart grew up on his family's estate, Burr Oaks, in Austin, Minnesota. His early life was almost idyllic. His father, Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the son of a Methodist minister, typified the American Dream, having worked his way up from being a farmhand at the age of fourteen to becoming a business owner at the age of twenty-one. Working for the Hormel company, where he trained as a salesperson, he accumulated a fortune; by the time his son Richard was born, he had been able to buy Burr Oaks, an eighteen-room house on forty acres of land. Here the poet, his brother Dryden (b. 1902), and his sister Elizabeth (b. 1910) enjoyed financial security until the year following the poet's graduation from high school, when tragedy struck both his mother and his father.
In 1921, a trusted member of the Hormel enterprise was found to have embezzled more than a million dollars from the company. As a result, the poet's father lost his accumulated wealth. The more serious catastrophe, however, was the poet's mother's lung cancer, which caused excruciating pain from the fall of 1921 to her death on June 22, 1922. Eberhart, who was then eighteen, stayed out of college for a year to help take care of her. It was the most profound experience of the poet's life, and it provided an impetus for his poetry and for his exploration of the meaning of suffering, what is real and unreal, the mystery of creation, and the place of the imagination in art....
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 13, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Meritage Homes Corporation (NYSE:MTH), a leading U.S. homebuilder, today announced the closing and settlement of a private placement of $175 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.50% Senior Notes due 2018. The notes were offered only to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and outside the United States to persons other than U.S. persons in reliance upon Regulation S under the Securities Act. As announced on February 27, 2013, Meritage intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repurchase or redeem all $99,825,000 aggregate principal amount of its 7.731% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017 with the remaining proceeds to be used for general corporate purposes. This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation, or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale is unlawful. The securities have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws, and unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state laws. About Meritage Homes Corporation Meritage Homes is the ninth-largest public homebuilder in the United States based on homes closed in 2011. Meritage builds a variety of homes across the Southern and Western states to appeal to a wide range of buyers, including first-time, move-up, luxury and active adults. As of December 31, 2012, the company had 158 actively selling communities in 15 metropolitan areas, including Northern California, East Bay/Central Valley and Southern California, Houston, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Tucson, Las Vegas, Denver, Orlando, Tampa and Raleigh-Durham. In 2012, Meritage also announced its entry into the Charlotte market.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) New York Sen. Hillary Clinton still holds a 20-point lead over her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination but she and Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani are in a dead heat, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Among Democrats, Clinton leads with 47 percent, followed by Illinois Sen Barack Obama at 25 percent and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards with 11 percent, NBC reported yesterday.
Clinton's 22-point advantage over Obama in the poll is virtually unchanged since this summer.
In the new poll, 76 percent of Democrats surveyed give Clinton high marks for being knowledgeable and experienced enough to handle the presidency, compared with just 41 per cent who say the same about Obama, NBC said.
When asked who was more likable, 72 per cent said Obama versus 49 per cent for Clinton. A majority, 65 percent, also viewed the Illinois senator as more honest and straightforward versus 53 per cent who rated Clinton higher, NBC reported.
While Clinton is out front in the Democratic field, she would be neck-and-neck in a hypothetical general election match-up against former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, NBC said.
According to the poll, Clinton leads Giuliani by just one point, 46 per cent to 45 per cent rpt 45 per cent , a statistical tie. In September, Clinton was 7 points ahead of Giuliani, 49 per cent to 42 per cent.
Giuliani leads Republican presidential contenders with 33 per cent support, followed by Arizona Sen John McCain at 16 per cent and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson at 15 per cent.
The poll of 1,509 adults was taken Thursday through Monday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.


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If you have experienced truffles they are most likely to be the chocolate kind. These only came later and although they might seem expensive, they are a bargain compared to the truffles they take their name form.
The first citation we have in English for the word truffle comes in a translation of a 1591 document entitled The geomancie of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman.
Geomancie was a very popular technique at the time for predicting the future. It was like reading the signs in chicken entrails, but without the mess.
Instead geomancie used signs from the earth itself. And two of the things that came from the earth are mentioned in this citation we have for truffle. One is topaz, the precious stone and the other is truffle itself.
Originally truffles had nothing to do with chocolate and everything to do with earth.
Truffles are a kind of mushroom that grows underground. They are highly prized by gourmets and consequently sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars a pound.
But the Geomancie of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman got it all wrong because what it says there is that
"The Topas and the Truffle haue power of Chastity, and to subdue the flesh."
If this was true I suspect the market price of truffles would be lower than the chocolate variety.
The fact is that truffles are so highly valued because they are particularly aromatic and the reason they are aromatic is because they need to attract hungry animals to help them spread their spores.
Not only is the truffle itself motivated by sex, but some of the complex aromas it produces mimic sexual aromas in animals.
Pigs in particular are turned on by truffles.
And to the extent that a man's armpit holds any appeal at all, some truffle scent elements share these manly attributes; at least according to the chemists. There must be something to it, referring again to the price tag on the things.
As far as the etymology of truffle goes, their poor cousins are potatoes since the thinking is that truffle evolved from the Latin word tuber.
The reason that both truffles and potatoes are tubers is that a tuber is a swelling, in this case on the roots of plants or trees.
This swelling meaning goes back to Indo-European teu and has made its way up into any number of modern words for things that are swollen.
Thumbs are thicker than other fingers and the thigh is the thicker part of the leg. Both thumb and thigh go back to the same Indo-European root.
For all their value truffles are shapeless blobs with a dusty crackled surface and it seems that it was this shape and surface texture that caused their name to be lent to chocolate truffles, not their luxury allure.
The first citation we have for chocolate truffles is from 1926 in the unlikeliest of places, the Army & Navy Stores catalogue.
If you've ever had supper in an Italian restaurant where they served tartuffo for desert, now you know that this ball of ice-cream with nuts or chocolate shavings as a coating is named for the Italian word for truffle.
Moliere, the French playwright wrote a play called Tartuffe. The main character is named Tartuffe because he is a religious hypocrite and like a truffle his true nature lies hidden below the surface.
Five days a week Charles Hodgson produces Podictionary – the podcast for word lovers, Thursday episodes here at OUPblog. He's also the author of Carnal Knowledge – A Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia as well as the audio book Global Wording – The Fascinating Story of the Evolution of English.


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UN has it right about Canada
To the Editor,
For those miffed by a United Nations representative for "only spending nine days" visiting Canada before critically commenting on how Canada treats First Nations, nine days is unfortunately probably more time than most Canadians have ever spent learning about First Nations issues and how Aboriginal Peoples are treated in our country.
Prior to the last federal election, I remember watching a TV interviewer ask an aboriginal woman if she planned to vote and who for, only to be shocked and dismayed to hear her reply "Why? We're nothing but third-class citizens anyway."
Pretty much says it all, methinks.
Liz Stonard,
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