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1. Geoff Stults
He played Jessica Biel's boyfriend Ben on "7th Heaven."
His brother played his fake brother on the show also.
And Eddie Latekka on "October Road."
He was also in "The Finder."
You can see him now on Ben and Kate.
2. Marla Sokoloff
Most people got to know her as Gia, the mean girl from "Full House."
But she was also on The Practice for a long time.
And in the movie "Sugar and Spice."
Oh, and Dude Where's My Car? Plus Whatever It Takes with Shane West.
But if you stay up late enough, you can watch her on ION in the made-for-tv movie "A Christmas Wedding Date."
3. Ashley Willams
She'll may never out-famous herself past her role on "How I Met Your Mother" as Victoria.
Though she was in Something Borrowed recently (and is the sister of Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Brad Paisley's wife and Peggy on Nashville).
4. Jordan Bridges
He started out as Oliver on "Dawson's Creek", a friend of Dawson's who was lame because everyone Dawson associated himself was lamer because of it.
Right now, he plays Frankie Rizzoli on "Rizzoli & Isles."
5. Monica Keena
She played super bitch Abby Morgan on "Dawson's Creek."
And was Rachel in one of Judd Apatow's many cancelled-too-soon shows, "Undeclared."
And E's on-again, off-again girlfriend Kristen on "Entourage."
6. John Patrick Amedori
He played Poot in "Stick It."
A movie that has a surprisingly rabid fan base.
He was the hated (and quickly removed) Aaron Rose on "Gossip Girl."
And played an adorable character named Mikey in the Netflix Instant-available film "TiMER."
It's a great movie. Watch it.
7. Jill Flint
She plays FBI agent Lana Delaney on "The Good Wife."
Flint's got a following in the gay community because of her role, but it's unclear where that plotline is going because Lana sucks. This GIF might be the most badass that character ever gets.
She's also Jill on "Royal Pains."
Sorry to the real Jill: this character is also boring.
8. Chris Lowell
He played Piz on "Veronica Mars."
And Dell, the young surfer staff member, in "Private Practice" before being dramatically killed off, as is usually the case with Shonda Rimes shows.
You've also seen him in "The Help" and "Up in the Air."
9. Julie Gonzalo
You've seen her in "Freaky Friday."
But she was also on the short-lived "Eli Stone."
And she did a stint on Veronica Mars.
Right now, she plays Rebecca on "Dallas" 2.0.
10. Michael Cassidy
He's the one on the right. That other dude is Danny Masterson.
He played Zach on "The O.C."
As well as characters on other WB/CW shows, like Privileged, Smallville and Hidden Palms.
Right now he's Tyler on TBS' "Men at Work."
11. Rachelle Lefevre
She was recently a doctor on "Off the Map."
And a stripper on "What About Brian."
But she's also been on Boston Legal, Swingtown and A Gifted Man.
You know her as the original Victoria in "Twilight"
But Bryce Dallas Howard was recast in the role because Lefevre decided to do another movie and thought they would accomodate her. Girl, you're not Bella!
12. Adina Porter
She's Lettie Mae on "True Blood."
And was also on "American Horror Story."
Right now, you can see her on "The Newsroom", where she has basically no lines.
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"Put your trust in the Lord. Your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank."The prison's warden will be a heartless, soulless monster dedicated to abusing and bullying prisoners in the most brutal ways possible. Alternatively, he or she will torment prisoners emotionally by saying hurtful words and putting them down. Or it could be both. Bonus points if his or her actions are illegal themselves and makes some of the prisoners act as his enforcers. Double bonus points if he/she gets busted and becomes an inmate in the prison they once ruled with an iron fist. Don't even think about thinking about crossing him or her, and don't even think about thinking about escaping. If you do, the punishment will make you wish you were dead (assuming it doesn't involve death). Note that this doesn't necessarily have to be a prison warden; it could just be the commander of a prison-like institution. Compare Corrupt Politician, Screw the Rules, I Make Them! Contrast Reasonable Authority Figure and The Jailer.
— Warden Norton, The Shawshank Redemption
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Anime and Manga
- Dokuro has Kawashima Junta, chief prison guard.
- One Piece: While he really means well for the world, Chief Warden of Impel Down Magellan qualifies. He has stated (and demonstrated) that he has the authority to punish or kill any prisoner there as he sees fit, and along with being a Poisonous Person, it's the reason he's so feared there. He's not without limits, though; his former colleague Shiliew is far worse, brutally massacring the prisoners for the fun of it. This disgusted Magellan so much that he ordered Shiliew to be imprisoned.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, there was Takasu, the obese warden of the prison facility. Among the unpleasant tropes that could be applied to him were The Bully, Politically Incorrect Villain, Bad Liar, Sore Loser, and Cheaters Never Prosper. A key part of his plan to break Yusei was to make ending a long lockdown depend on his success in a duel, and make sure he couldn't duel and was disqualified, the end result being the inmates hating him. But he forgot one thing: The inmates, without exception, despised Takasu, and weren't as stupid as he figured. They not only figured the plan out fast, they helped Yusei to makes sure he could duel. In fact, Takasu was such scum that his boss (Rex Godwin, the Big Bad of the first season, was disgusted with him, and fired him after his brutal treatment of inmates became known.
- Batman and the Outsiders #4: Warden Brewster of Gotham State Prison deliberately denies a prisoner (codenamed "Meltdown") needed medical treatments and then lies that the Prison Board was responsible. He does this to trick the dangerously radioactive felon into escaping so he can be killed to save the public. Turns out the warden has decided rehabilitation doesn't work, so he's been finding ways to "legally" off prisoners.
- Gregory Wolfe warden of Iron Heights Penitentiary in The Flash Comics. He's a bully who has inmates beaten for the slightest thing, and he himself has the power to induce muscle pain and will do so at the drop of a hat. He even had Fallout hooked up to a painful device designed to draw the guy's radiation out of him to power the prison. When Wally West (the Flash) realised, he had his friends design a much more comfortable manner of doing so, something they did with ease; likely, Wolfe didn't give a crap. Oh, and Fallout isn't even amoral; he's a complete victim of circumstance. Wolfe's brief moments of humanity involved helping Hunter Zolomon walk again (more to keep the two alive than out of kindness), and a regretful look on his face when Hunter was imprisoned after becoming Zoom/Reverse-Flash II.
- Doctor Who Magazine features Thinktwice, a space prison whose inmates are kept under control through memory-wiping. At best, this leaves them with no sense of identity and thus nothing to fight for; at worst, it fries their brains. The warden claims to be doing all this for their 'rehabilitation' while loving every minute of it. Oh, and his memory-wiping machine? It's being used to feed some very nasty, very hungry aliens.
- Warden Kang of Kaijumax rules the island of giant monsters with an iron fist. Helps that he can turn himself into a giant armored soldier who can shoot lasers out of his chest.
- Subverted by Maxon, appearing in one Tex Willer story: he has no problem beating up the inmates and make their lives into living hells, but they have to be creating discipline problems for that, as made clear in his Establishing Character Moment (he beats up his new inmate Jim Lowell, AKA Tex faking being a murderer to infiltrate a gang, but that's after 'Lowell' went out of his way to provoke him into a fistfight, and doesn't give him anymore trouble after he 'learned his lesson').
- Ranko, featured in a Diabolik story, torments his prisoners while also selling them guns, knives and other illegal goods. Diabolik actually takes advantage of it: when one of the prisoners kills someone who befriended Diabolik in the process of breaking out, Diabolik's revenge is to drug the convict into walking back to the jail, with Ranko shown anticipating all the tortments he'll inflict on him for getting him in trouble with the riot he caused to break out.
- In Escape from Alcatraz, the contrast between the unnamed Wardennote and the rest of his staff is quite obvious. The guards and the Deputy Warden are just people doing their job and don't resort to plain brutality at any point. The Warden on the other hand is a cold, vain bully. He drives an old prisoner to madness by taking his painting privileges away just because he didn't like a painting the man made of him, and drives another into a heart attack by crushing a flower that the prisoner had brought into the cafeteria (and then not only remains stone-cold calm as the man dies at his feet, but he immediately follows up with a Bond One-Liner to remind the other onlooking prisoners that Alcatraz is inescapable). His mission to ensure that Frank Morris will remain in prison is also portrayed as more of a personal obsession than just fulfilling his duties as head of the prison.
- Cool Hand Luke. The Captain is the sadistic warden of a chain gang prison. He ruthlessly mistreats the title character by locking him in a punishment box and having him beaten.
- In The Shawshank Redemption Warden Norton is skimming money off of the price he charges for prisoners to work for various buinesses/public works/etc., and is willing to kill to protect his profits. When Andy reveals the corruption the warden commits suicide. Byron Hadley, the captain of the guard, is just as bad, insulting the prisoners with every breath and issuing brutal (and sometimes deadly) beatings as a matter of course.
- Death Race: Warden Hennessey of Terminal Island Prison is a cold-hearted bitch which shanghais Jensen Ames (in more ways than one) into taking part of the titular Deadly Game (and plans to either keep him racing forever or kill him as soon as his usefulness as the season's Frankenstein is over-not that she had a plan to have anybody win). The Prequel movies also retroactively show that she had some amount of Small Name, Big Ego-she says on the first movie that she was the creator of Death Race, but in reality it was the corporation she works for, and they knew she would take credit around anybody who could buy it.
- The Last Castle: James Gandolfini 's Warden Winter is an excessively brutal, excessively petty bastard. Doling out rules about prisoners not being able to act like soldiers anymore? OK, tough, but understandable. Using a number of brutal methods to break prisoners' wills (especially when Determinator Badass General Eugene Irwin arrives), and ordering prison guards to shoot prisoners in the head with 12-gauge rubber bullets (which is highly lethal) if they somehow manage to piss him off (which is unfortunately often)? Firmly cements him in this trope.
- In The Count of Monte Cristo, the warden of the Chateau d'If is a sadist who among other things has the prisoners flogged and given a lash for every year of imprisonment. Incidentally, this is a case of Adaptational Villainy, since in the novel the guards (the warden doesn't appear) are presented as good men doing a bad job.
- The Boss from Big Stan is a near-perfect example.
- Warden Drumgoole (played with gleeful smugness by Donald Sutherland) in the Sylvester Stallone prison flick Lock Up has a grudge against Stallone's character Frank Leone for getting him demoted by succesfully escaping a prevous prison he was responsible for (because he refused Leone the chance to see his dying friend, even with armed escort). Frank just wants to sit out his remaining time and reunite with his wife after his release, but the warden would like nothing better than to see him in prison for life or on the electric chair. He tries to provoke Frank throughout the entire film so that he'll lash out and turn himself into a lifer, even murdering Frank's best friend and pulling a Batman Gambit on Leone to make him try to escape, involving threatening his wife with rape.
- Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky has a Warden as the Big Bad. He grinds his prisoners up in the kitchens to make food out of them.
- Death Warrant: The Warden agrees with corrupt state officials to kill his prisoners to harvest their organs. Unlike the mastermind behind this scheme, his own motive is just profit. He's also a violent racist and a sadistic bully.
- On Runaway Train, we have Warden Rankin, who holds a brutal vendetta against Manny. Granted, Manny is mentioned (and then shown) to be an escape artist (who had escaped before) and a violent thug, but Rankin himself is a Rabid Cop that welded Manny's solitary confinement cell shut (and felt content to have managed to keep him inside for three years before the court forced him to cut it open), arranged for other prisoners to try (unsuccessfully) to kill Manny, and violently strong-arms a train technician to tell him where the runaway train is so he can give it chase personally.
- In Chicago, Matron "Mama" Morton isn't exactly evil, but corrupt to the core. Her motto (and introductory song) is "When you're good to Mama, Mama's good to you."
- The guards in Mad Dog Morgan regularly hand out beatings to the prisoners, but Sergeant Smith is particularly brutal. His boss, Cobham, is even more sadistic.
- Vicious prison guards have been stock villains in many Australian Westerns, from Captain Thunderbolt to The Outlaw Michael Howe.
- Newsies: Warden Snyder, the head of the New York "refuge", where boys and young men convicted of crimes are sent to be "re-socialized" and turned into productive members of society. In reality Snyder pockets most of the money intended to be used for the boys' upkeep, leaving them living in basically a poorhouse. He also seems to use his charges as his personal servants.
- Jailbait: Warden Frank sexually abuses the girls in his care in exchange for protection and not putting them into solitary. He also has the nurse first beaten, then shivved by one of the inmates to prevent her from talking.
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?: The Sheriff. He he goes for overkill tactics while hunting for the protagonists like burning down a barn with them inside, he insists that he answers to a higher law than man's (so he will just keep coming to matter what), and the moment he makes it clear that he will see them all hang even if they are now innocent (and he will kill Tommy for no reason other than him just being there alongside the fugitives), he crosses the Moral Event Horizon hard. That he is a Satanic Archetype doesn't helps any.
- Prime Cut: The nasty old madam who sold the young orphans under her care into prostitution.
- Suicide Squad: Captain Griggs, the closest thing Belle Reve has to a warden, is an asshole who enjoys abusing the prisoners and has a massive gambling problem that makes him an easy target for blackmail by the Joker.
- Fortress (1992): The wardens in both movies are more than happy to oversee a prison where the inmates are treated like cattle. However, the first movie provided a subversion where the Prison A.I. was revealed to be the one really in control.
- An interesting case in Discworld. The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is generally portrayed as heroic, but the city prison, the Tanty, is apparently answerable to the Patrician rather than the Commander of the Watch. When the protagonist of Making Money is springing a prisoner, he is pleased to find Bellyster, an evil cuss who doesn't even have the grace to turn his back when gobbing in a prisoner's food, on duty, because of the problems he's about to make for the man. Later in the book, when Moist's been arrested, the guards treat him pretty well because of said trouble (it seems Bellyster's not too popular).
- In Escape from Furnace Warden Cross sees the inmates as a hivemind, starving them all out as the punishment of one persons actions, or sending them to solitary confinement in a literal hole in the ground. He could not care less if said inmates are killed by his guard dogs or by each other. Even in his first introduction, Alex notes that he couldn't stare Warden Cross in the eye, that there was some darkness that refused to let him do it. Later it's revealed Cross is actually a century old Nazi who drags inmates away in the night to surgically transform them into his guards in order to make a new master race.
- Holes: The Warden at Camp Green Lake crosses the Moral Event Horizon when she slashes Mr. Sir across the face with her rattlesnake-venom-polished nails. Later, it is revealed that she established Camp Green Lake for the sole purpose of using inmate labor to find the relics of outlaw "Kissin' Kate" Barlow.
- Al Capone Does My Shirts: Warden Williams is a tyrant who threatens to fire Moose's father just because Moose said something rude. A slight subversion in that his victims aren't prisoners, though.
- In The Crowner John Mysteries, Stigand - the jailer at Roguemont Castle - is universally known and reviled as being a sadistic bastard.
Live-Action TV
- Averted in Oz. Prison warden Leo Glynn is tough and takes no crap, but is, in general, a fair and understanding person who never abuses his power.
- In Red Dwarf VIII, when the crew are back on the Dwarf as it was, but are sent to the onboard prison for correction: the Warden is a sadistic grudge-holding bully who takes delight in having Rimmer and the Cat beaten up.
- Edwin James, the warden of Alcatraz. He has been shown to resort to psychological torture in order to learn crucial information about prisoners, such as manipulating Ernest Cobb's attempts to be placed in solitary confinement or threatening to leave Kit Nelson in a small dark room until Nelson admits the truth about his first crime (although Kit Nelson really had it coming, having been sent to Alcatraz for being a child killer). His deputy Tiller is corrupt and more open in his cruelty towards the inmates.
- On The X-Files, Warren Brodeur, the corrupt petty tyrant of a Florida death row in "The List."
- Subverted in Prison Break, where the warden Henry Pope is more of a reasonable authority figure who genuinely believes in reforming the prisoners. A straighter example would be the skull-cracking captain of the guards, Brad Bellick.
- In NBC's Hannibal, Dr. Frederick Chilton oversees the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and has shown himself to be an evil, conniving man. In season 1, Chilton brainwashes Abel Gideon into believing he's the Chesapeake Ripper. In season 2, he secretly records nearly all of his inmate's conversations, and secretly shares Will's conversations with Hannibal without Will's consent. He hires Matthew Brown as an orderly despite Brown's history of mental illness.
- In the Leverage episode "The Jailhouse Job," Nate finds himself in a prison run by a corrupt warden who is imprisoning innocent people to keep his occupancy rates up.
- An episode of Quantum Leap has Sam leap into an inmate at a women's prison who must prove the innocence of another inmate accused of murdering yet another inmate. The actual culprit turns out to be the male warden who had gotten the deceased inmate pregnant, forced her to have an abortion, and then allowed her to bleed to death when the procedure was botched. After exposing the corruption Sam is told that, as a result, a sympathetic guard who had helped Sam throughout the episode eventually becomes the new warden (who, presumably, would avert this trope).
- Mr. Robot: Ray is an interesting example. On the surface, he is the complete opposite of this trope: kindly, charming and friendly to the inmates, good at peacefully dissolving disputes and eager to help others work through their problems. Unfortunately, he's also running an illegal website specialising in weapons, drugs and human trafficking, and orders two inmates to be brutally beaten for looking into his business. He later undergoes a Heel Realisation and allows Elliot to turn him in.
- In Orange Is the New Black, the prison's warden is often discussed and referred to, but never seen. The assistant warden, however, is a cold-hearted and self-serving woman who frequently turns a blind eye to the prison's problems or covers them up, blames the rest of the staff for everything that goes wrong, and is embezzling money from the prison's budget.
- Doctor Who: The unseen warden of the prison space station that Davros is kept on in "Resurrection of the Daleks" is supposedly a real tyrant who even the staff of the station are afraid of. However, he is killed when the Daleks storm the station without ever appearing onscreen.
- The warden from season 3 of My Name Is Earl subverts this by being a reasonable guy who lightens Earl's sentence when Earl's good deeds improve the prison. Double subverted when the warden shreds the early release documents so he can keep Earl there, continuing to improve the joint.
- On Gotham Detective Jim Gordon is framed for murder and sent to prison. Unfortunately for Gordon the warden is a friend of the former corrupt police commissioner whose career Gordon ended. As soon as the publicity from the case has died down, the warden has Gordon transferred from protective custody to general population which is a death sentence for Gordon. Gordon is soon the victim of brutal beatings and the warden orders his guards not to intervene.
- MacGyver: In "Jack in the Box", the warden of a prison farm is a Corrupt Hick in cahoots with the local sheriff to jail people on trumped-up charges where they are used as a slave labour force to search an abandoned mine for hidden millions of dollars.
- Luke Cage has Albert Rackham, the corrupt warden of Seagate Penitentiary.
- An episode of Murder, She Wrote has Jessica visiting a womens' prison where the discovery of a body leads to a series of events that uncovers significant corruption throughout the prison which goes all the way to the top. In a subverion of the trope, the warden is revealed as possibly the only member of the staff who is not in on it, and in fact she is sincerely advocating for beneficial reforms.
- Father Brown: In "The Penitent Man", one of the warders smacks Flambeau in the face for his smart mouth when he first arrives in prison, and then takes every opportunity to torment him about his upcoming execution. The prison governor is a closeted homosexual who attacks Flambeau when Flambeau calls him on it.
Tabletop Games
- Basic Dungeons & Dragons module DA1 Adventures in Blackmoor. The warden of the Prison Out Of Time is a sadistic former slave master who has been ordered to kill King Uther rather than let him be rescued. He carries out this order by trying to magically torture the King to death.
- Classic Traveller Adventure 8 Prison Planet. The warden is a lying, hypocritical crook who orders cruel punishments for minor offenses, violates prisoners' rights in order to make his quotas and takes out his anger at his superiors on prisoners by arbitrarily denying parole.
- Mutants & Masterminds has a character actually called the Warden, who let his desire to keep Freedom City's crooks in the Cardboard Prison overtake his empathy and turn him into a brutal petty tyrant, reasoning that they forfeited their rights when they became criminals. When he was fired, he turned to supervillainy.
- Mice and Mystics defies this trope by featuring s Warden class in the Downwood Tales expansion. The Warden character introduced, Ansel, takes this further by being one of the most idealistic characters in the game, giving even Prince Collin a run for his money.
- The Brony D And D campaign Welcome to the Show opens with the characters being tormented by a Warden which persists in their dreams after they escape.
- Mr. Lockit from The Beggar's Opera is corrupt and abusive. When you arrive in his jail, he picks out your chains. The bigger your bribe, the lighter your chains.
Video Games
- In Mass Effect 2 the prison ship Purgatory is run by Warden Kuril, a corrupt mercenary who extorts planetary governments to keep convicts off their worlds, sells convicts to people who want to mete out "personal justice" and, inevitably, tries to double-cross Shepard. He is also one of the few Turians shown without any face paint, hinting he was going to stab Shepard and his squad the moment he could from the start as the term "barefaced" means "untrustworthy".
- SaGa Frontier: The Warden is so evil that he's actually one of the felons imprisoned within The Alcatraz.
- Maiev Shadowsong from Warcraft III is a downplayed version- when you control her, she's chasing after Illidan, who was her prisoner for ten millenia, but there's no evidence that she mistreated him (and given that in the previous game, you freed him by killing her troops, her anger is understandable). She turns into a Knight Templar over the course of the campaign, willing to sacrifice her own allies in order to motivate the others to hunt him down.
- Baldur's Gate II has an extra-dimensional prison whose warden is a Cambion, a half-fiend. He clearly doesn't care at all if his prisoners are guilty, and fits them with collars that allow him to kill them at will.
- It is the (justified) fear of Police Brutality and possibility of a Lawman Gone Bad or Lawful Stupid Principles Zealot that make most Warden and Head of Security players in Space Station 13 inherently subject to this trope, and paranoia ensues every time a Warden is seen straying from the brig control desk.
- Warden Montag in Strife. "Shackles or chains, I want you to hang around!"
- Zet the Arc Warden in Dota 2 is a subversion. In the original Dota, he's amongst the Scourge, and when he's ported to the sequel, subsequently, he's amongst the Dire, which has some Dark Is Not Evil elements. However, he's less abusive and more concerned on bringing back those he kept from his prison: The very Ancients all heroes fought over, Radiant and Dire, he kept them from destroying the world. So he's basically trying to keep the world together by trying to re-imprison two wildly destructive above-godlike being.
- In Secret Agent Clank The warden of the prison Ratchet gets sent to regularly and on purpose puts Ratchet in danger with the other inmates and taunts him as well.
- Sheriff Fester Shinetop in The Secret of Monkey Island tries his best to stop Guybrush, is a jerk to his one prisoner, and is just generally sinister. He turns out to be the Big Bad in disguise.
- Path of Exile has Brutus, Lord Incarcerator. As the warden of Axiom Prison he was legendary for his cruelty, and the prospect of being sentenced to his care was considered to be little better than a death sentence. When he grew old and infirm he let the thaumaturgist Shavronne experiment on him, turning him into a hulking monster and the mid-boss of Act 1.
Visual Novels
- Averted in Ace Attorney Investigations: Prosecutor's Path. The warden, Patricia Roland, is uncannily kind to the inmates, referring to them as her "family" and the prison as their "home." Her Leitmotif is even called "Hugs and Kisses"! This is Double Subverted after all when she's unmasked as the killer of the previous case's culprit, who she was manipulated into believing was a subordinate of a notorious assassin already in her custody and bent on revenge. In cases 4 and 5, the skeletons really get dragged out of her closet when it's revealed that, years earlier, she ran an Orphanage of Fear and was directly and willfully involved in a presidential assassination.
Western Animation
- Avatar: The Last Airbender:
- The warden in "Imprisoned", voiced by George Takei, is a Bad Boss who throws subordinates overboard, delights in crushing the spirits of those in his custody, and on top of it all is a Dirty Coward.
- The warden in the two-parter Episode "The Boiling Rock" would rather die (and have prisoners killed as well) than tarnish his prison's record of zero escapes. Also, he tortures a prisoner into revealing escape plans.
- Batman: The Animated Series has Lyle Bolton, head of security at Arkham Asylum. He decides to end Arkham's Cardboard Prison status by brutally torturing the inmates. When he gets caught, he gives us the page image by becoming the vigilante Lock-Up and creating his own prison to house not only criminals but the political leaders who opposed his methods. By the end of the episode, he's confined to his own cell at Arkham.
- Walker from Danny Phantom is an obsessive Rules Lawyer when it comes to the rules of The Ghost Zone, and will go to great length to belittle his prisoners and keep them under control by any means necessary. His prisoners may be ghosts, but he can ensure a Fate Worse Than Death.
- Storm Hawks: Mr. Moss is the Cyclonian warden of a high-security prison located on Terra Zartacla. He wields an energy whip and takes sadistic glee in hunting escaped prisoners.
- Although he wasn't explicitly evil, the diamond-obsessed Warden Cyrus Meece in SWAT Kats was presented as greedy and unlikable. He even gets what the writers intended as a Karmic Death, being turned into crystal and then shattered.
- The Clone Wars gave us Osi Sobeck, the Separatist warden of a huge prison known as the Citadel. In addition to being a Bad Boss who has his own droid guards destroyed if they even say the word "escape," he also tortures Jedi Master Even Piell for information, and executes a captured Clone Trooper in an effort to make Obi-Wan talk.

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In my mind, I've got an idea for a station id for one of my radio stations, consisting of three times the word 'Good Vibrations' (= the station name) right after eachother, spoken/sung in three ways. I prefer a warm tone of voice, fitting the male station voice already broadcasted.
Good Vibrations (gentle spoken voice, happy/uplifting but not hysterical) - Good Vibrations (whispered) - Good Vibrations (sung in an enthusiastic way).
-People don't having the right voice for the sung version can also provide a voice over only containing the spoken and whispered version; I can also make a somewhat shorter jingle.
-People having the right voice voice for the sung version can try different melodies and/or tones of voices (gentle and more rough, at the edge of screaming) to increase the chance the right one is among them.
I hope there's someone who wants to give it a try!
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"It is vitally important that farm policy include programs for farmers and ranchers to manage their risks of bad yields and low incomes, and the current system of crop insurance does a good job of that. However, crop insurance, particularly revenue protections, should not be considered a replacement for fair market prices.
"Last summer's drought was devastating for many farmers around the country, but the damage was not as catastrophic as it was in other bad years, like the 1988 drought, largely because the crop insurance system provided a vitally necessary backstop. Only 55.8 million acres of major crops were covered by crop insurance in 1988, while in 2011, a total of 265.4 million were insured. More farmers carry crop insurance coverage today so that they might be able to stay in business through tough times.
"NFU also believes that crop insurance subsidies, like other safety net programs, should be targeted to family-sized farmers.
"NFU has supported reasonable limits on the amount of crop insurance premium subsidies that farmers can receive. During the
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Texas added far fewer jobs in June than in each of the previous two months, but the state still leads the nation in long-term employment growth.
Texas gained 19,100 jobs in the month and its seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stayed the same at 5.1 percent, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday. The state's rate was well below the U.S. jobless rate of 6.1 percent for June.
While positive, the monthly job gain lagged the 62,400 jobs added in April and the 55,500 added in May.
Even though Texas' job growth moderated last month, it was the strongest employment gain in history on a three-month moving average basis, according to Wells Fargo economist Michael Wolf.
Texas also stands out longer term. The state added an average of 37,433 monthly jobs in the first half of this year, up from an average of 27,760 jobs in the first half of 2013. And Texas led the nation with 371,000 jobs in the last 12 months, or a 3.3 percent annualized growth rate.
Overall, 47 states and Washington, D.C., added jobs and three states lost jobs in the last 12 months, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.
All of Texas' 11 major industry groups added jobs in the last 12 months, with energy leading the way with a 7 percent annual growth rate.
"The oil and gas sector … is showing a lot of direct growth in terms of jobs and contribution to economic output," said Tom Jackson, a regional economist for IHS Global Insight. That industry also "generates other jobs, including those in high-tech sectors."
Florida led the nation's job growth in June, with 37,400 jobs, according to the BLS. Next was California (+24,200 jobs) and New York (+22,500 jobs). Texas was No. 4.
Seven of Texas' 11 major industry groups gained jobs last month, led by trade, transportation and utilities' 7,700 jobs. Education and health services added 7,400 jobs and professional and business services added 5,600. Declines were seen in construction (-3,400 jobs), leisure and hospitality (-2,200) and information (-1,100).
Other statistics show a strengthening Texas economy. Growth in manufacturing, service activity and retail sales accelerated in June, according to recent reports from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
"We're going to start to see very low unemployment rates across Texas metro areas over the next year — and upward pressure on wages," said Robert A. Dye, chief economist for Dallas-based Comerica Bank. "It's good news for employees and adds more cost for employers, but it's part of the deal when you get into a situation with fast-improving job growth."
Already, 26 states have unemployment rates below 6 percent, including 13 states with rates below 5 percent, according to The Dallas Morning News' analysis of BLS data.
The Dallas area's unemployment rate was 5.4 percent and the Fort Worth area's rate was 5.3 percent in June, not adjusted for seasonal variations.
As wages and inflation continue to rise, it will put pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates some time next year, Dye said. He expects the first rate hike around June, but it could happen earlier if "we continue to see strong job numbers, especially at the national level."
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As of May 28, the U.S. Department of State issued a Travel Alert to all U.S. citizens considering a trip to Thailand. In response to the Royal Thai Army's decision to impose a nationwide curfew, a ban on political assemblies, and a limitation on the liberties of the media, the Department of State recommends that U.S. citizens "reconsider any non-essential travel to Thailand, particularly Bangkok."
In recent years, with some well publicized civil unrest in Thailand, it's not unusual for the U.S. Department of State to issue occasional bulletins, advisories, and traveler warnings.
I have been traveling to Thailand for more than 36 years, and have never felt threatened or put in a position where my safety was compromised. I've had a home there since 1992 and I have a deep affection for the country and its people.
Although the word "coup" has understandably dangerous connotations, it's also important to put the term in historical context.
Since the Siamese Revolution of 1932 that resulted in the creation of the nation's first constitution, the Thai government and its people have experienced at least 15 coups d'etat—more than any other country in history.
But what constitutes a true coup d'etat is subject to continual debate. Many people automatically think a coup means violence, often preceded by the assassination of a sitting ruler. In Thailand, a coup is a relatively peaceful event. The group wanting the coup usually goes to the King for his blessing. If it's given, the coup happens. The leader is removed. Occasionally, the Army makes itself known with a public display of strength in numbers. Then, within a few days, the local Thais put flowers in the muzzles of the guns, everyone poses for pictures, and then goes home.
With the most recent problems in the land of smiles, Thailand's political polarity has been a source of social instability since protests began in November 2013. But most Thais familiar with these protests have reacted rather calmly to all the commotion. They may not like it, but have adjusted to it as a relatively normal ritual.
So, once again, we have a de facto coup in Thailand. The prime minister was removed by a high court. There was a power vacuum. The military wasted no time moving in to take control. As usual, daily life remains more or less the same on the streets of Bangkok, as a number of jovial locals take selfies with the soldiers.
This current coup is different in one respect: The Army announced it expected to stay in power for at least the next 18 months. One of the reasons the army moved so quickly to take power is to avoid any street violence in the wake of the prime minister's ouster. But a far more compelling reason has to do with the King himself. Thailand's King is the longest reigning monarch in the history of the world. For an overwhelming majority of Thais, he's the only King they've ever known, and he is revered.
But for nearly four years, the King has been ailing and his health has been gradually deteriorating. While the line of succession is clearly marked with the King's son poised to assume the throne, there are a growing number of Thais unhappy with that choice, claiming the unpopular son is simply not equipped for the job. There's a growing movement supporting the ascension of the Princess instead.
So, the unwritten/unspoken reason the Thai Army announced it intends to stay in power for the next year and a half is that the army leadership is convinced the King will die within the next 18 months. This is a quiet preemptive move of security—anticipating the King's passing to maintain control of the streets and vital installations ahead of the event.
Now comes the easy part.
Given all this information, should you travel to Thailand?
That's a rhetorical question but, if you need help with the answer, it's a resounding yes.
Don't just depend on U.S. State Department advisories. Check with the British Foreign Office for the advisories they send their citizens. I often find them more helpful, with more immediate, up-to-date information.
History reflects Thailand's resilience, and this political upheaval has so far been bloodless. General Prayuth Chan-Ocha, leader of the army and—for the moment, the country—insists that the military rule is essential for "society to love and be at peace again…and asks the public not to panic and to carry on their lives normally."
There's a strong economic incentive to maintain the peace: tourism dollars and jobs. Travel and tourism contribute roughly $74 billion to Thailand's economy, making up about 20 percent of its total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Drastic changes to the volume of visits would be catastrophic for the well-being of country.
Here's my definition of normal: just be smart and be aware…then go.
This is a time where social media can be your friend. Twitter, for one, is an excellent way to get real-time information about the social climate throughout the country. Additionally, join the State Department's Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP), which lets U.S. citizens and nationals traveling abroad enroll their essential details and trip information with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate. This way, the U.S. government will be aware that you are in the country in case the situation turns violent, and will send you updates and alerts.
In the unlikely event that the situation in Thailand deteriorates rapidly, do NOT head for the U.S. Embassy, because the U.S. Embassy is the very first place that shutters. Instead (and the U.S. State Department loves when I advise this) head immediately for the British, Australian, or Canadian Embassies. In my own personal experience, they are welcoming and have been my lifesavers if the proverbial you-know-what hits the fan.
To read more from Travel Detective Peter Greenberg, check out:
- Why TSA PreCheck Isn't Working
- Can You Survive in a Plane Wheel Well?
- Will MH370 Change Airline Flight Tracking?
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Since opening last spring, Jeppa Joe's food cart has become something of a lunchtime favorite among hurried and hungry downtown professionals. Owned and operated by Jeff Steckel, Jeppa Joe's features a small selection of inventive sandwiches, like Korean-style barbequed beef, caramelized pork bánh mi and jerk chicken. A graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Scottsdale, Ariz., Steckel worked as a chef in Madison and New York City before journeying to South Korea to teach English. There, he became a self-professed student of Korean cuisine, developing a deep appreciation for Korean cooking and the techniques of street vendors as he continued his travels through Southeast Asia. His experiences abroad eventually served as inspiration for Jeppa Joe's menu. Though apt to change as summer arrives, the menu will continue to reflect Steckel's culinary mission of preparing fresh food, with high quality ingredients at a reasonable cost. Visit jeppajoes.com to learn more.
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Since opening what has been billed as "Wisconsin's first electric food vendor" nearly four years ago, Pita Brothers has become one of Milwaukee's most popular street vendors. Grilling up freshly made Middle Eastern and American favorites on Lebanese flatbread, owners Vijay and Manoj Swearingen can often be spotted serving up pitas at Marquette University, Schlitz Park, Red Arrow Park, Catalano Square or outside the courthouse, depending on the day and time, of course. In addition to their regular haunts, the brothers also work large events and festivals and are available for bookings. The Pita Brothers are considering expansion in the form of a retail location, according to Vijay Swearingen, who says that he and his brother are weighing their options at present, but plan to keep Pita Brothers' customer base up to date on Twitter and Facebook. Visit pitabrothers.com to learn more.
On most weather-permitting Tuesday afternoons, husband-and-wife team Debbie and Craig Mengeling join a select group of Milwaukee street vendors for "Take-Out Tuesdays" in Schlitz Park. Parked within a tempting line of food trucks and carts, the handcrafted Hard Wood Café and Catering "Traveler's wagon" houses a smoker, grill and one very busy couple. The barbeque pork-laden "Street Faire" menu certainly doesn't outdo Hard Wood Café and Catering's impressive "Dinner Buffet" and "Picnic and Platters" menus, but it does provide some excellent comfort food on the cheap. The best-selling "Deluxe Pulled Pork Sandwich," covered with "Uncle Poppy's River Sauce" and topped with coleslaw and a pickle is just the beginning. There are pork nachos, which should require no explanation, "The Porky Burger" and something called a "Pork Poncho." The list goes on and fortunately for fans of Hard Wood Café and Catering there is another wagon in the works and a commercial kitchen in development. Visit hardwoodcafe-catering.com to learn more.
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Bruno Mars At Hollywood Bowl
Welcome to The Set List. Here you'll find the latest concert recaps for many of your favorite, or maybe not so favorite, artists. Our bloggers will do their best to provide you with every detail of the show, from which songs were on the set list to what the artist was wearing to which out-of-control fan made a scene. Hey, it'll be like you were there. And if you like what you read, we'll even let you know where you can catch the artist on tour. Feel free to drop us a comment and let us know your concert experience. Oh, and rock on.
By Steve Baltin
Los Angeles
Two months into 2014 Bruno Mars had already enjoyed a better year than many artists can ever hope to have in an entire career. After taking home the GRAMMY for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 56th GRAMMY Awards on Jan. 26 (marking his second career win), a week later the multitalented singer/songwriter/producer turned in one of the best Super Bowl halftime performances in recent years.
Yet, Mars seemed genuinely humble on June 1 as he headlined his second consecutive sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl.
At various points in the 90-minute set, Mars showed his chops on guitar, delivered heartfelt ballads and presided over a drawn-out R&B jam. Though the latter went on a bit long, his ability to play in any style was impressive. And he paid homage to his musical roots with a little doo-wop action.
While Mars is a musical chameleon who can shine in any format, he has established himself first and foremost as an artist who writes great pop hooks. His craftsmanship was on display starting with the up-tempo opener, "Moonshine," which was augmented by lasers and lights.
Mars has learned a lot from the masters as a showman, as evidenced by his choreography, which found him and his Hooligan band showcasing some nimble dance moves in a line on multiple occasions. And perhaps what sets Mars apart from so many other pop artists is his ability to work choreography seamlessly into his set, having it feel natural and good-natured, as it should be. It only added to the joy of songs such as "Natalie" and "Treasure."
"I want you to know how surreal this is for me," he told the crowd, before recalling how he used to perform covers during three-hour sets at local L.A. clubs such as King King and Molly Malone's. "Would you want to hear what we would do back in the day for pizza?"
Mars and his superb band then showed what they used to do, starting with Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love." They then ran through four decades in moments, including the Outfield's "Your Love," Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison," Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step," Michael Jackson's "Rock With You," as well as his Record Of The Year-nominated collaboration with B.o.B, "Nothin' On You."
Other highlights were as expected, including the main set closers "Just The Way You Are," "Grenade," and a medley of "Money (That's What I Want)" and "Billionaire."
The honesty of "When I Was Your Man," which he introduced by talking about the difficult personal situation that led to the song, was another standout performance and cemented the bond between Mars and his adoring audience, which ran from 6 to 70. In one box near me, a mom and her young daughter held hands and danced often throughout the night.
Such a wide audience demographic is something you'd expect to encounter at a classic rock concert. But to see a contemporary artist with cross-generational appeal is rarer. Mars is able to reach multiple generations because of the scope of his talent and his acute appreciation of music history. Maybe more up-and-coming artists should work their way up playing covers — you can't argue with Mars' success.
Set List:
"Money (That's What I Want)" (Barrett Strong cover)/"Billionaire" /"California Love" (2Pac cover) (medley)
"Bam Bam" (Sister Nancy cover)/"Show Me"/"Our First Time"/"Pony" (Ginuwine cover)/"Ignition" (R. Kelly cover) (medley)
"Let It Please Be You" (Desires cover)/"Marry You"
"If I Knew"/"It Will Rain"
"Runaway Baby"
"Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin cover)/"Your Love" (Outfield cover) (medley)
"Poison" (Bell Biv DeVoe cover)
"This Is How We Do It" (Montell Jordan cover)
"Every Little Step" (Bobby Brown cover)
"Rock With You" (Michael Jackson cover)
"Nothin' On You"
"When I Was Your Man"
"Just The Way You Are"
"Locked Out Of Heaven"
Catch Bruno Mars in a city near you
(Steve Baltin has written about music for Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, MOJO, Chicago Tribune, AOL, LA Weekly, Philadelphia Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, and dozens more publications.)


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ZURICH Community Trust Swindon employee Clare Maynard is the 100th employee since its beginnings in 1994, to travel to India to help a rights based child centred charity by sharing her business skills and expertise.
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About a month ago, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) announced that it was going to introduce newer and more powerful versions of the Model S and Model X. The two will feature 100kWh battery packs and deliver improved acceleration with the new Model S P100D, with Ludicrous Mode hitting 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds while the updated Model X will achieve the same in 2.9 seconds. That's a considerable improvement from the previous 3.2 seconds acceleration time by the Model S P90D and Model X P90D, and makes them the only sub-3.0 sedans in the market today. The more powerful battery pack also improves the driving range for both vehicles to more than 300 miles.
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A CHESTER family battling cancer has called on young men in the city to join the bone marrow registry.
The family of three-year-old Erin Cross, who is fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia, has called on young men to sign up to the bone marrow register to help people who may desperately need a transplant.
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is looking to recruit 7,500 male blood donors aged 18-30 to join its bone marrow register.
Throughout Erin's treatment, which has included four rounds of intensive chemotherapy, she has needed numerous blood and platelet transfusions but may also need a stem cell transplant in future.
As a result, Erin's parents Sarah and Anthony are backing NHSBT's drive to increase the number of blood donors also on the register.
Many people suffering from life threatening blood disorders, cancers and immune deficiencies often require a life-saving blood stem cell transplant from a donor with a matching tissue type.
Research has shown that the most successful blood stem cell donations come from younger donors, as these have the strongest chance of success for the patient.
Erin and mum Sarah went to a blood donation centre in the University of Chester to speak to students there about why it is important to join the register.
Sarah said: "Erin has a 15 per cent chance of relapse and if this happens, her only chance of a cure would be a bone marrow transplant.
"So we're now trying to boost the numbers of people on the British Bone Marrow Registry ahead of this time to give both Erin and all others the best chance of a match.
"If you are already on the BBMR – thank you. If not, please do consider joining – it only means an extra sample taken at the time of your blood donation and completion of a simple form.
"It has been great speaking to all the students today and there have been a lot who are really interested in joining which is great."
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UNC head coach Roy Williams spoke with reporters Monday in the Atlantic Coast Conference's weekly teleconference. Williams' Tar Heels, sitting at 3-1 in ACC play, return home Thursday night for a home game against archrival N.C. State, who currently sits tied with Florida State and Duke atop the league with a 4-1 record.
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Needless to say I feel a heck of a lot better today than I did last Monday after we had gotten kicked so badly at Florida State. We did some really nice things particularly in the second half against Virginia Tech. I thought it was the best defense that we had played all year. The most active we were around the basket, defending the goal. I think that was directly related to our better player on the offensive end as well.
Now we're getting ready to play at North Carolina State. A hot basketball team. Just had a great road win at Miami. We had -- this was our bye weekend, so we didn't play anyone, as you know, over the weekend. We tried to give our guys a couple of days to let them get their legs back, because after the Florida State game, we worked them really hard.
You may know Jason Capel and Wes Miller are going to be coaching against each other this week. I was curious about how much contact -- I know you played Capel's team earlier this year, but how much contact those two coaches have had with you this season or if they've called you for advice over the course of the year?
I talk to Wes more than I talk to Jason, because I did not coach Jason. We have the North Carolina ties, and he knows that I'm here if he needs me. Sometimes I reach out even if he doesn't need me as I do some other guys, but I've had more conversations with Wes. And his was a much more unusual situation, taking over in the middle of the season.
He's got a couple of nice wins recently. I know there will be a lot of pride at stake when that game starts, and it will be interesting to see how it comes out.
Can you give me anything specific about what you and Wes talked about?
Yeah, I asked him what we should be doing after we played at Florida State. We didn't want to discuss any of his stuff. No, it's everything. It's a kid that I coached for four years, encouraged to get into coaching. We talk about everything. We talked about
his staff. We talked about practice situations, how long for practice, how short. When he got his first win, I called him and left him a message and said don't try to call me back. Then decided to call him one more time. I said your phone's lighting up. He said coach, the only call I'm taking was yours.
It's something special. I don't share everything. But when what we do is you're talking
coach speak right now. We talk about everything.
Have you decided yet how you're going to handle the starting lineup with Dexter Strickland being out? Who replaces him?
We haven't even talked about it very much, but yesterday in practice we put Reggie in there, and I would assume that's the way it would stay unless something weird happened in practice. Reggie's gotten better defensively. He's started giving us a lift rebounding the basketball on the offensive board, and the defensive board. I think that he deserves it. Knows more about what's going on than P.J., for example.
I know that there are 25 to 30 minutes a game there that somebody's going to have to pick up, and my guess it would be a combination of a lot of guys. But we'll see after we start Reggie.
Was there any conclusion to Leslie coming off of his year now? Was that even considered?
It really wasn't. And I grabbed Leslie last night and told him as far as I was concerned it didn't change his situation. Where it hurts the most with Dexter is having that back-up point guard. That's where it hurts the most.
We've had Reggie playing and Harrison and P.J., those three guys have spent a lot of time at the wing spots with Dexter, so we still have three of the four. But where it really becomes harmful is that back-up point guard role.
How much more playing time do you anticipate Kendall's going to have to undertake? Like you said you guys are basically without a back-up for him?
It remains to be seen. We're going to try to give Stilman (White) some time there. We're going to try to do a little more work even on the passing game not having a true point guard, see how that works out. We'll see what John Henson or Tyler Zeller looked like out there. You never can tell.
Right now, Dexter has been giving us probably three minutes or so each half, and that's just a guesstimate kind of thing, at the point guard spot, and Kendall's played the rest. But we've got to find some way to get Kendal a little bit of a break during each half. Stilman White will be asked to do it, and again, we'll be looking to see what else we possibly could have.
Did it help to not have to play Saturday or Sunday and have almost a week to adjust to what you're going to have to do without Dexter as opposed to having to play right away?
Well, I'm sure it does, but we really haven't practiced that much. I mean, we came back and we're getting in here to the Smith center at 2:30 in the morning Friday morning. So we gave them Friday off, and then Saturday we just had a shooting period. So yesterday's the first practice that we've had.
Now, there is no question that you'd rather have it this way as opposed to playing Thursday night at Virginia Tech and playing Saturday. But it's something that we've got to work on and keep working on. Having these couple extra days here will hopefully help us.
N.C. State got five guys scoring in double figures, but the guy seems to be leading them lately is Scott Wood. I just wondered what you saw as kind of the problems that he presents?
He's just having a heck of a run here. I think it's what, 58 in a row or something, something crazy like that. That's a phenomenal run.
I always say when you have a guy shooting the basketball like Scott is from the free-throw line, if you foul him, it's the same thing as giving him a lay-up. It's just automatic. He's really shooting the ball well from the three-point line too. He's probably shooting 45, 46% from the three-point line.
He does cause you some major problems. You've got to adjust your game. Lorenzo Brown is doing a good job distributing the basketball. C.J. they had the scare with the shoulder, but he bounced back this weekend and played well. And then Richard Howell and C.J. up front are doing a good job of rebounding the basketball, and scoring as well.
So they're a much more balanced team than they've been in the past. I've always felt like it's harder to guard a team when all five guys could score. They present problems that way, but as you said, Scott is on a heck of a run right here, and whoever gets that defensive assignment has got to be willing to get out there and get a hand up and bother him as much as he possibly can, because he's just playing so, so well.
This is the kind of player that you probably would have asked Dexter to guard, too.
Yeah, there's no question about that. Dexter's guarded him the past couple of years. It's a spot where people say he was only averaging six points a game or something. That's a big time loss. He was our best perimeter defender. Gave us some minutes at the back-up point guard spot, really ran to help our break.
It's a big time loss for us. Hopefully somebody else will be able to step up and do a better job defensively each and every night to make up for Dexter.
The question has already kind of been answered, but I guess, Roy, more of can anybody else -- do you envision anybody else being able to run the point other than Stilman? It sounds like Stilman's going to be your first option here to try to get those three minutes in a half? Is that what I'm gathering?
Yeah, there is no question. We've had this before. Every team goes through some spots where you lose a back-up or worse, a key starter, so you just have to prepare for it. Larry Drew leaving last year left a big gap in our program because it's hard to find a point guard in the spring kind of thing.
We knew this could happen. It has happened. Now we have to deal with it. I may just decide to play 2-3 zone the whole game and put Kendall in the middle and tell him never to foul. So try to make sure he gets to stay in the game without foul trouble.
You've talked about the defensive capabilities of Reggie and P.J. How does it change your identity or not really style, but having maybe more of a scoring two guard, but it seems those guys have pretty good defensive capabilities?
Well, they realize the one thing ahead of them with Dexter's abilities was how Dexter could play on the defensive end of the floor. So they've both been trying very hard to see if they could match his defensive capabilities, because they do shoot the ball better. They are bigger, but they haven't been able to do that enough to get him out of the starting lineup kind of thing. Now one of them's going to really have to step forward and be a defender for us.
They will be a better rebounder because of size, and the ability and knowledge that they have to get to the backboards. But at the same time, defensively, you give up something, and on the defensive transition. Because Dexter's a guard that spends some of his time at the point guard spot so, he's always willing to get back on the defense to give you defensive balance. Now we've got to have those guys being willing to sprint back and get in the stance too.
Do those guys have to take any different approach with their roles slightly changing with a little bit more minutes?
People talk about roles. I think kids fall into their role. They know what they can do and what they can't do. I always say you know what your strengths are. Try to play to them, and you know what your weaknesses are. Stay away from them. Don't try to show somebody they're wrong.
Most of the time people say you can't shoot or you can't dribble or you can't defend, there is a reason for that. So don't try to show somebody what you can't do. Play to your strengths. I think that's what we'll do with those guys.


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The dysfunctional New York family who won Neil Simon the Pulitzer
'Lost in Yonkers' is the admired playwright's most Jewish work. Derek Bond, director of a new production, explains why
'Dying is easy," Shakespearean comic actor Edmund Kean is supposed to have said on his death bed. "Comedy is hard".
It is rare that a new playwright will attempt a comedy, and if they do, it is even rarer that it will actually work. But pulling off the high-wire act of creating a play that is not just funny, but also asks questions — that does not just make you laugh, but also think — that is a stunt that only experienced masters should attempt. Fortunately, with Lost in Yonkers, we are in very safe hands.
By the time Neil Simon wrote the play in 1992, he was already a household name on both sides of the Atlantic, having racked up awards and delighted audiences for over 20 years with plays and films like Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple and Brighton Beach Memoirs. There was even a theatre named after him on Broadway, an honour usually only bestowed posthumously.
Like many of his previous plays, Lost in Yonkers opened to packed houses and rave reviews. But it also won Simon the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the highest accolade any writer in the United States can receive.
It is August 1942, and brothers Jay and Arty (aged 15 and 13 respectively) find themselves in Yonkers — a smallish city on the northern edge of New York. Their father, Eddie, explains that he has got into debt to pay his late wife's hospital bills.
Now she has gone, the loan shark wants paying. Eddie has found a job selling scrap metal, but has to travel around the southern states of the US for the best part of a year. While he is away, the boys must live with their grandmother and aunt, above the family's candy store and ice cream parlour in Yonkers. How hard can that be?
But very little sweetness is dispensed by Grandma Kurnitz, a steely German immigrant who teaches the boys some important life lessons, whether they like it or not. The boys become reacquainted with their two aunts: childlike Bella and Gert, who speaks for half a sentence breathing out and speaks the second half breathing back in.
When Uncle Louie, a "freelance financial adviser" with a trilby hat and wing-tip shoes, turns up to lie low in the middle of the night, accompanied by a mysterious black satchel, it seems increasingly unlikely that the boys will make it through the year unscathed.
Simon says in his memoirs, The Play Goes On, that Lost in Yonkers is not autobiographical, and it isn't: he did not grow up in Yonkers (he was from Washington Heights on Manhattan island), his grandmother was not from Germany (she was Lithuanian), and he did not have any aunts with speech impediments or learning difficulties.
But his father was away a great deal when he was young, his own wife died of cancer and he could not be separated from his brother, Danny. And of course, the Kurnitz family are Jewish, as is Simon.
Although his plays have never been explicitly Jewish, there is something inherently Jewish about a lot of his characters. Perhaps even his trademark bittersweet, humour-in-the-face-of-adversity style is something specifically Jewish. (Although, judging by the DVDs of Old Jews Telling Jokes circulating among the cast during rehearsals , if there is such a thing as a Jewish style of humour, it probably involves dirty jokes about rabbis.)
At first glance, the family in Lost in Yonkers might seem quite unconnected to their Jewish heritage: they work on Saturdays, never mention going to synagogue, or being barmitzvah-ed, do not use Yiddish slang, and so on. Yentl or Fiddler on the Roof, this is not. But there are a few, darkly ironic references to what it means to be Jewish in 1942. Eddie (played in our production by Jonathan Tafler) says: "If my mother hadn't come here 35 years ago, I could've been fighting for the other side. Except I don't think they're putting guns in the hands of Jews over there."
The reason why Grandma (Bernice Stegers) is so cruel to her children slowly emerges: she has experienced cruelty herself, being beaten with sticks because she is Jewish in her native Germany.
She wants her children and grandchildren to survive, to be strong, even if that is at the cost of their affection. "It's not so important that you hate me," she tells Arty "It's only important that you live."
There is something very powerful about an older Jewish woman, having survived persecution, giving her all to make sure that the generations that follow her survive.
For me, along with the humour, it is this struggle for survival that is one of the play's most Jewish qualities. The other is the importance of family. When I was 18, a friend invited me to his brother's barmitzvah. I stayed with his family in Edgware, and I was blown away by how welcoming his family was — I instantly felt at home, and family and community were absolute priorities to all the Jewish people I met. I knew when I was casting the play that the actors would need to reflect that; to feel like a family, a close one that has been through a great deal together.
Casting a play is a tricky business. It is one of the only jobs where discrimination on gender, age, race and appearance is not only part of the job, it basically is the job. But there is some latitude — if you're casting a character that is 35, you don't only audition actors who are exactly 35. You look at actors with a "playing age" of 35. They could be any age, but as long as they look convincingly 35, it does not matter.
The same is true of race or ethnicity in casting: when casting a Jewish family the important thing is that they look and feel like a family. I hope that any audience will be able to recognise themselves in the Kurnitz family: the matriarch, the siblings supporting each other through thick and thin, other generations seemingly recently arrived from another planet. But for a Jewish audience, I hope there will also be stronger resonances, older relatives fleeing persecution to seek out a better life for their children, for example. But, whatever the audience, I hope they laugh. A lot.
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West Bromwich Albion boss Steve Clarke believes the securing of James Morrison's services is a "big coup" after the player signed an improved four-year contract with the club.
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Clarke has been impressed with Morrison, 26, since becoming manager of the club and has moved swiftly to secure his services until 2016.
The Scotland international, who moved to the Hawthorns in 2007, is the club's longest serving player and has become a key figure since the club's return to the Premier League.
Clarke has been busy during the transfer window, bringing in new players such as Romelu Lukaku to strengthen the squad, but believes keeping Morrison is some of the best business completed by the club this summer.
"After strengthening the squad during the transfer window, it's equally important to hold onto your best players and I'm delighted James has signed a new deal," Clarke said.
"The new contract is fair reward for James' hard work and efforts. He's been here a number of years now and has always been one of the key players. It's also a big coup for the club because I'm sure that if James was on the market, there'd be a few clubs interested in him."
Morrison still had a little less than two years of his existing contract to run, but Clarke believes players should be rewarded for their impact.
"This is a good message to send to the rest of the squad, that if you do well and keep improving you will be rewarded," he said.
Sporting and technical director Dan Ashworth, who has been linked with a move to the Football Association, added: "I'm delighted James has committed his future to the club for the next four years.
"He's been one of our most effective players in the Premier League over the last couple of seasons and fully deserves his improved deal. The fact we've got a player of James' calibre to sign a longer contract is a sign that the club is moving in the right direction."
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Mao's Last Dancer [Audiobook]
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Li Cunxin, "Mao's Last Dancer" [Audiobook, Unabridged]
Bolinda Audio Books | 2004 | ISBN: 1740933761 | MP3@128 kbps | 17 hrs 07 mins | 939.22 MB
Bolinda Audio Books | 2004 | ISBN: 1740933761 | MP3@128 kbps | 17 hrs 07 mins | 939.22 MB
This is the heartening rags-to-riches story of Li, who achieved prominence on the international ballet stage. Born in 1961, just before the Cultural Revolution, Li was raised in extreme rural poverty and witnessed Communist brutality, yet he imbibed a reverence for Mao and his programs. In a twist of fate worthy of a fairy tale (or a ballet), Li, at age 11, was selected by delegates from Madame Mao's arts programs to join the Beijing Dance Academy. In 1979, through the largesse of choreographer and artistic director Ben Stevenson, he was selected to spend a summer with the Houston Ballet - the first official exchange of artists between China and America since 1949. Li's visit, with its taste of freedom, made an enormous impression on his perceptions of both ballet and of politics, and once back in China, Li lobbied persistently and shrewdly to be allowed to return to America. Miraculously, he prevailed in getting permission for a one-year return. In an April 1981 spectacle that received national media attention, Li defected in a showdown at the Chinese consulate in Houston. He married fellow dancer Mary McKendry and gained international renown as a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet and later with the Australian Ballet; eventually, he retired from dance to work in finance. Despite Li's tendency toward the cloying and sentimental, his story will appeal to an audience beyond Sinophiles and ballet aficionados - it provides a fascinating glimpse of the history of Chinese-U.S. relations and the dissolution of the Communist ideal in the life of one fortunate individual.
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Brannon Braga Celebrates 100 EpisodesBy Caillan
May 11, 2003 - 1:59 AM
Wednesday night boasts a double whammy of Trek milestones � Enterprise's fiftieth outing and executive producer Brannon Braga's one hundredth credited Star Trek episode.
"Bounty", set to air at 9:00 p.m. on May 14 after "First Flight", marks the one hundredth Trek hour which bears Braga's name as a writer, his official web site reported. This encompasses all episodes on which Braga has been credited using the terms "Written by", "Story by" or "Teleplay by" on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise.
Brannon Braga has been one of the stalwarts of Star Trek's creative team since landing an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Writing internship on The Next Generation in 1990. His first credited episode was season four's "Reunion", which he penned with Ronald D. Moore, among others. He gained a reputation for writing some of the show's most high-concept instalments, including "Cause and Effect", "Schisms", "Realm of Fear" and "Genesis".
Braga and Moore later wrote The Next Generation's final hurrah, "All Good Things", for which they won a Hugo Award, and the feature films Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, both of which were nominated for Hugos. In 1994, Braga was part of the producing team recognised with an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series for The Next Generation's seventh and final season.
After the end of TNG, Braga joined the staff of Star Trek: Voyager and rose through the ranks to become executive producer for the show's fifth and sixth seasons. Together with Joe Menosky, he penned many of Voyager's two-part "event" episodes, including "Future's End", "Scorpion", "Year of Hell" and "Dark Frontier", as well as the show's one hundredth episode, "Timeless". His other Voyager credits included "Deadlock", "Prey", "Living Witness", "Someone To Watch Over Me", and "Life Line". One of his most infamous contributions to Trek was season two's "Threshold", in which Tom Paris broke the Warp 10 barrier only to mutate into an amphibian.
Stepping back from showrunning duties to become consulting producer in Voyager's final season, Braga set about creating the fifth Trek series, Enterprise, with longtime franchise head Rick Berman. Braga has written or co-written over thirty Enterprise outings so far, including Wednesday night's "Bounty", on which he is credited as the story writer. Two of his latest Enterprise episodes, "Carbon Creek" and "A Night In Sickbay", were last month nominated for Hugo Awards (story).
BrannonBraga.com is compiling a book of congratulations to celebrate the writer's one hundredth Trek episode. Fans are invited to send in photos of themselves, memories of their favourite episodes, and photos of Brannon Braga from conventions and other appearances, as well as congratulatory messages. Please note that story ideas will not be accepted.
If you wish to participate, head over to this page. All submissions must be received by Thursday, May 15, 2003. Congratulations to Brannon Braga from everyone here at TrekToday!
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