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Movies have the power to transport us to different worlds. Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild transports us to a world we never dreamt before and beyond our imagination. It is a world wrapped in poetry, wonder, and magic. It is a work of breathtaking scope, vision, and confidence. It is a story bursting with life and death, rage and tranquility, fear and bravery, and all of it delivered through a magnificent score, thoughtful cinematography, and on the shoulders of its child star. It is an intellectual feast even though it sometimes leaves the emotional moments malnourished. But it is a movie unlike anything you've seen in recent years and it is a movie you must see.
Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father Wink (Dwight Henry) live in "The Bathtub", a land unto itself on the other side of the New Orleans levy. The people of the Bathtub pride themselves on their self-sufficiency and staying away from the cloistered, coddled lives of outsiders. The world of the Bathtub is held together with scrap metal, wooden planks, and the spirit of its community. The coming flood that will drown their houses and send them adrift is not the apocalypse but the beginning of a new odyssey. Several story threads runt hroughout, but the film mostly examines daily life in The Bathtub and the new challenges and new revelations it presents for its young protagonist.
Zeitlin opens his movie with a bravura opening sequence as we meet Hushpuppy, get a sense of her narration and voice, and then see how her community explodes with life as gorgeous music provides a rural yet symphonic quality to her journey. The opening provides a powerful and necessary hook to lead us across a movie that will eschew traditional narrative and character development for something abstract and literary. Beasts is never obtuse nor is it convoluted. But it's immensely difficult because it challenges the audience with every single frame. It's an intellectually demanding film because it's charging off in its own direction with absolute confidence and we must keep our minds running at full speed to catch up.
It would be an exhausting proposition if Zeitlin hadn't made his movie so damn compelling. We're absolutely enraptured by the world he's created. At times, it feels like The Bathtub, not Hushpuppy, is the main character and she is merely its voice. Beasts of the Southern Wild spins a rural setting into a rich and vibrant land. A sunken house becomes a houseboat and its roof of wooden spikes points defiantly against the sky. Even a great flood can't stop the survivors from throwing another party and reaffirming life. As Hushpuppy tells us at the beginning of the movie, the people of The Bathtub get far more holidays than us poor souls on the other side of the levy. For Hushpuppy and her community, the days are truly holy because they celebrate life. Of all the things it explores, Beasts of the Southern Wild is foremost a celebration of life and all of its wonder and devastation.
The celebration comes alive in the astounding score, visuals, and performances. The music of Beasts of the Southern Wild is so tremendous that you'll be furious about it not being available for purchase when you leave the theater. The cinematography is always in sync with the emotional tone of the scene. Zeitlin knows when to go for the intimate and when to go for the operatic. And then he asks Wallis to give voice to it all. Her performance is pure and completely free of self-awareness. Her narration is like a child reading a book report as she relates to us all that she knows. When Hushpuppy speaks to us, her wisdom is matter-of-fact, but not in a cloying out-of-the-mouths-of-babes fashion. She speaks in the poetry of her world so we can accept such lyrical and thoughtful words being spoken by a child.
However, Beasts is so finely tuned and so intellectually satisfying that sometimes it forgets to breathe. We become enraptured by the world and the marvelous direction, but we start to disconnect from Hushpuppy's struggle. Her narration sometimes puts us at a distance, and we don't feel the impact of her turbulent relationship with Wink. We're utterly captivated by what that relationship symbolizes, how it relates to Hushpuppy's arc, and how it relates to her understanding of family, dependence, and independence, but we don't feel the emotional power that comes from a father screaming at his child and treating her like a boy. But Beasts of the Southern Wild finishes as strong as it starts and the ending packs the emotional wallop we've craved for most of the runtime.
As a technical and literary achievement, Beasts of the Southern Wild is a marvel to behold. It is a movie that leaves your brain rattled and trying to sort out your thoughts before you just give up and realize that you'll require a second viewing and a pause button. But for all of its majesty and how deeply it sucks the viewer into its singular world, it can still keep us at arm's length. Our minds sit in awe, but our hearts stir to feel the same power.
Rating: B+
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For Parents Only: Rebel With a Cause - Part 1
- Shaunti Feldhahn & Lisa A. Rice Authors
- 2007 13 Sep
Rebel with a Cause
The intoxicating nature of freedom—and the fear of losing it—can lead even good kids to choices that look like recklessness and rebellion, but directly addressing their craving for independence will help them build responsibility.
Do you know that our teens are addicted? They really are. The facts is, even if our kids have never touched an addictive substance, they're still hooked on something with a high far greater than anything a basement lab can conjure up.
This intoxicating agent is called freedom. And as it turns out, a lot of behavior that confuses and alarms parents can be tied directly to a child's desperate quest for the rush of freedom—and to his fear of losing it.
Before we understood this, we were puzzled by exchanges like the following, in which a sixteen-year-old boy passionately complained about how he was being disciplined.
Him: "I hate when my parents take away my stuff, especially my cell phone or my computer. It's so unfair!"
Us: "Do you think you didn't deserve that punishment?"
Him: "I don't know. Maybe. But they just can't do that. That's my cell phone, man! That's my computer! They can't just take it away!"
After hearing this a few dozen times, we realized these comments signaled something beyond a teenager's obliviousness to the fact that Mom and Dad paid for the cell phone.
Freedom Is Like Cocaine
Enter Dr. Julie Carbery, adolescent and child psychotherapist, who has seen and heard it all in her twelve years of practice. We turned to her for help in identifying patterns in the teenage passions we were hearing. When we asked what was going on with this outraged sixteen-year-old and his fellow sufferers, she didn't hesitate.
"What's going on is freedom. Freedom is cocaine to a teenager. It's intoxicating. It's addictive. And it if often their biggest motivator. They will do anything to get it, and they are terrified of losing it. This cell phone kid is really saying, 'Don't you take away my cocaine! Don't you take away my freedom!"
Eyes: open!
Once our eyes were opened, we watched in amazement at how often that addictive quest for freedom explained the motives and behaviors of the kids we talked to. "Addictive" may sound like an exaggeration, but look at how one representative high-school sophomore explained the feeling of freedom: "Once you have it, you can't get enough. Once you taste it, you want more and more." He concluded, "I can't imagine being super-controlled anymore."
Almost all the kids we talked with described a desperate pursuit of the ability to control their own possessions, choose their own friends, stay up late, sleep over at any friend's house whenever they want, eat or drink what they want, drive where they want at the speed they want, and generally make their own choices apart from even the most well-intentioned parents.
This craving was demonstrated in our national survey, in which nearly three out of four kids said they were strongly motivated to pursue freedom, and only a tiny fraction didn't really care about having freedom at all.
Is freedom something that motivates you and that you eagerly want? (For example, the ability to have your own cell phone, drive yourself places to do what you want to do, and so on.) Choose one answer.
72% Yes, I feel like I have to have that freedom; I'm strongly motivated to pursue it.
27% Yes, the idea of having that freedom is good, but I'm not strongly motivated to go after it.
1% No, I don't really care about having freedom.
In other words, freedom is not just a big deal to kids; it's what gets them up and going in the morning. (Or noon.)
At the end of the last day of school last year, I (Lisa) watched in amusement as the doors to the high school flew open and the kids erupted with their arms raised, yelling the Braveheart battle cry. "Freeedooommm!"
It appears that war-painted William Wallace's epic passion for freedom lives on in our very own rosy-cheeked offspring. As our teens experience their first exhilarating rush of freedom, they realize it feels insanely good. Once they taste it, they want more. And more.
"It gives me such a sense of power."
People who use drugs or alcohol are seeking a temporary, exhilarating high—often described as the feeling of being able to do things they normally couldn't. Our kids are getting the same rush, but in a good way. They're experiencing the thrill of freedom, of being liberated to do things on their own, often for the first time!
Keep in mind that for their whole lives our children have been dependent on us in countless ways. If your daughter wanted to go to the movies, she had no way to get there without you. If your son desperately wanted to play on the soccer team, he had to rely on you for the necessary money and transportation. Even if your daughter simply wanted to talk with a friend about homework, she first had to be sure you didn't need the house phone at that moment. And if you suddenly did need to make a call, she has to wrap up her conversation.
You can see why finally being able to do things on their own is such a thrill for our kids. Look how passionately several teenagers described their relief at no longer being dependent:
- It took me three years to save up for my car, and now that I have it, I feel so released. Whenever it's stressful around the house, I just take off and drive, top down, wind blowing, music blaring and everything's better. I feel sorry for my friends that don't have wheels. I'll do anything to make sure I've got my own car handy."
- It gives me such a sense of power to be able to schedule my own time and do what I want" (emphasis ours).
- There was such tension building up inside me before I got my license, like I was ready to explode from having to depend on someone else to get me places. I'm much more relaxed now.
"I felt like a real person."
Freedom not only gives your child the powerful relief of no longer being dependent, it also gives him the thrill of being an independent agent out there in the world as his own person, without having life filtered through you as the middleman. Consider this revealing comment: "When I finally got my own cell phone, everything changed. I felt like a person, suddenly connected directly to my friends and the world through phone calls and text messages. I can't imagine living without that."
Once a kid enjoys the entrancing feeling of being a "real person," you can see how scary it would be to think of losing that feeling.
"I should be able to make my own decisions."
Kids who begin to feel they don't need a physical middleman anymore (a.k.a. Mom or Dad) quickly begin to resist and resent being controlled by that middleman as well. Look at the telling way one teen describes this frustration:
It makes me mad when my parents try to control who I talk to at night on the cell phone. I mean, if I'm keeping my grades up, why should they care if I stay up late talking and lose a little sleep? I have to keep up with my friends, or I go nuts. The decision should be up to me.
The Five Facts of Freedom
When we see our teens pushing the independence envelope, taking foolish risks, evading straight answers, or breaking rules, we often chalk it up to peer pressure, media influence, and even rebellion—and we come down hard. Sometimes, obviously, there is a rebellious heart that needs to be dealt with, and lowering the boom may be necessary. But if we can spot the much more common signs of a spirit that is simply straining for a healthy freedom (albeit imperfectly), we can guide our child's quest in ways that are healthy instead of counterproductive—helping them learn responsibility instead of triggering their sense of desperation.
We found five often-overlooked truths about this freedom-seeking aspect of a child's inner life.
Fact #1: Freedom wields a greater influence than parents or peers.
Over the years, many studies (and parents!) have asked whether parents or peers exert a bigger influence on kids' behavior. Our research convinced us that this question misses the main point. When freedom is added to the mix, it seems to far outstrip the influence of any person. Look at the astounding survey results.
When you do something that your parents would disapprove of, what is the best description for the reason that you do it? Choose one answer.
6% I'm just doing what my friends want me to do.
89% I'm just pursuing my freedom and my ability to do what I want to do.
4% I'm just being rebellious against my parents.
*Note: Because of rounding, numbers don't quite total 100%.
Nine out of ten kids said that when they do something questionable, it's not primarily because of peer pressure or because they are rebelling against parents; it's because they are pursuing their freedom and their ability to do what they want to do. And although parents with strong faith beliefs might wish otherwise, this dynamic wasn't markedly different among kids who described themselves as Christians attending church every week.
It's all about doing what they want.
We heard from the kids that although both peer pressure and parental expectation have influence, neither is usually the motivator that freedom is. Peer or parental pressure is imposed from the outside, while the desire for freedom comes from the inside. When the two are in conflict, the internal "want" often wins.
For example, on girl described a typical peer-pressure situation: a school dance, where she didn't want to "dirty dance" with a guy, but her close friend did. The first girl repeatedly told her friend it wasn't cool and asked her not to dance that way—but it didn't matter. The friend did as she wanted—and accepted that the first girl would be upset with her for a while. At that moment, the opinion of her peer was a lesser factor than doing what she wanted to do; in other words, a lesser factor than freedom.
They also realize they can.
Allied to the powerful pressure of wanting to do something is the potent realization that they can. We talked to do many "good" kids who confessed to doing at least some things that their parents wouldn't approve of. They described the intoxicating realization that, physically, they could do what they want to do—because no one could really stop them.
On our survey, nearly seven out of ten kids admitted they would find a way to do something they wanted to do, even if their parents might disapprove.
Think of something that you really want to do that your parents might disapprove of. Which statement most closely describes you? Choose one answer.
22% If I want to do something, I will usually find a way to do it, no matter what my parents think or say.
47% If I want to do something, I will usually find a way to do it … although I'd hope my parents wouldn't think I was being too bad.
31% Even if I really want to do something and even if my parents would never know, I generally don't do it if they would disapprove.
Here's what one representative teenage guy told us: "I'll stop at nothing to get my way. I might make a slight modification based on my parents' wishes, but yeah, I'll do what I want."
This is the stark truth: Short of locking our teenagers in their rooms day and night, there is almost no way to physically prevent them from doing what they want to do. And they know it.
Now, most of the kids in our survey consoled themselves with the hope (perhaps wishful thinking!) that their parents wouldn't think they were being too bad. In other words, although most kids still care what their parents think, less than a third will let it stop them from doing something they want to do.
We should, however, mention one heartening exception. In most cases, the focus groups and survey found very few differences between kids who had a strong faith influence and those who didn't. But this is one of the few cases in which a difference did jump out at us: kids in private Protestant Christian schools were almost the reverse of those in any other kind of school (public, Roman Catholic, and other private academies). Among the small number of kids attending private, Protestant Christian schools (6 percent of our sample), nearly two-thirds would stop themselves from doing something they wanted to do if they felt their parents would disapprove.
Fact #2: Under the influence of freedom, kids may do stupid things.
Like addicts under the influence of a real drug, kids high on the thrill of freedom may be not be thinking clearly. To complicate matters, it's not just the high of freedom at work.
It turns out—and we say this as respectfully as possible—our teens are not only addicted; they are also brain deficient. Science demonstrates that the frontal lobe of the brain—the area that allows judgment of consequences and control of impulses—doesn't fully develop until after the teen years. So in the absence of a fully functioning frontal lobe, teenage brains rely more on the centers that control emotion—which in effect means they give in much more easily to impulses.
Teenagers also subconsciously believe they are invincible, that nothing bad will happen if they drive too fast in the rain, become sexually involved, or get drunk and go swimming in the lake with their friends.
So kids who are operating under the influence of freedom, feel they are invincible, and suffer from incomplete brain wiring will sometimes disregard rules and consequences to do really stupid things.
We asked every focus group this question: "What if a hidden camera followed you and your friends for one week?" Without exception, every teenager gasped or groaned. When we pressed for details, almost every child provided examples of using bad language, lying, smoking, cheating, experimenting with sex, breaking curfew, or driving recklessly.
Trying not to gasp ourselves, we asked the kids, "Why do you do these things?"
The typical answer (again): "Because we want to, and we can." (And, brain scientists would add, because their brains are not yet wired to easily stop themselves!)
Now, before we move on, remember that we are not excusing poor choices. But this does help us understand why those poor choices sometimes get made.
Read more next week in Part 2 ...
*This article first published September 28, 2007.
Excerpted from For Parents Only © 2007 by Veritas Enterprises, Inc. Used by permission of WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Excerpt may not be reproduced without prior written consent.
Shaunti Feldhahn is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, public speaker, and a best-selling author whose books include For Women Only. After working on Wall Street and Capitol Hill, this mother of two not applies her analytical skills to illuminating surprising truths about relationships.
Lisa A. Rice is the associate editor of Christian Living magazine, the mother/foster mom of three teenage girls and one teenage boy, and an experienced screenwriter and producer. She's also the coauthor, with Shaunti, of For Young Women Only and a movie reviewer for Crosswalk.com.


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Parks Commissioner Stern renamed this 103rd Street parkland Playground 103 in 1998. The hopscotch court, probably painted by W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) workers during the Great Depression (1929-1941) is still used for hopscotch games. Over the years, Parks has added swing sets, safety surfacing, benches, and basketball courts to the site.


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Paul will be here from around 7pm.
So, are nasty old Celtic going to play fair tonight? The dastardly
Scots went so far as to defend well in the Nou Camp,
complicating a scheduled routine performance by the Catalan Art
Project. "You see Celtic defending with 10 men and almost snatching a
point - that is not fair," growled the former Barcelona schemer Bernd
Schuster. "Uefa needs to change this phase of the competition if they
want to breathe life into the Champions League. Celtic do not merit
their place if they are going to play in this style." Quite right.
What Celtic should be doing is splurging millions that they don't have
to hoover up talent from all over the world, much of which they will
leave in the reserves but, at least, out of the clutches of less
wealthy teams.
A quick sampling of the pre-match atmosphere at Parkhead suggests that
most of the 60,000 congregation are clad in the green and white and
not blue and purple, raising suspicions that the majority of the
assembly are going to cheer for Barcelona's opposition
rather than sit back and coo and clap in gratitude for the honour of
being allowed to watch the Catalan Art Project live. This is obviously
unjust and Schuster and other venerable Ethics Watchdogs are entitled
to be scandalised. Space restrictions prevent us from identifying all
of the scoundrels in the stands, but let us name and shame the fiends
on the field who shall be seeking to spoil Barça's sport:
Celtic: Forster; Matthews, Ambrose, Wilson, Mulgrew, Lustig, Commons, Ledley, Wanyama, Miku, Samaras.
And the guardians of all that is honourable and true in sport:
Barcelona: Victor Valdes, Dani Alves, Mascherano, Bartra, Jordi Alba, Xavi, Iniesta, Song, Alexis Sanchez, Messi,
Referee: N Kuipers (a man from Holland)
Weather report: It's raining cats, dogs, heifers and possibly even the Loch Ness monster. In short, conditions are filthy. Bernd Schuster may be calling for the match to be postponed as we speak. "If Barcelona are the Catalan Art Project, does that make Celtic Dadaists, and Neil Lennon the football equivalent of Marcel Duchamp? And are we in for a surreal night in Glasgow?" wonders Simon McMahon.
7.40pm: "Celtic are surely cubists!" gasps Mike Wilner. "All straight lines, blocky, and child-like in origin." Isn't everyone child-like in origin?
7.41pm: As the teams line up in the tunnel, there is an amusing shot of Fraser Forster standing beside Xavi, who, being half the keeper's size, looks even like a mascot. "It's been a while since a team in blue visited Parkhead to a sold out stadium," notes Wen Wei Loh. "How does the atmosphere compare to a Rangers visit?" Less animus, as much noise. It's rocking.
Prediction: Hooper and the ill Brown are huge being huge absences for Celtic, I'm saying 0-3 to the visitors. "Like many an aesthete and/or Glorious Glasgow Rangers fan, I will indeed be rooting for the Catalan's tonight, but surely Barca are currently, now, at a different stage from their Art Project best/worst?" blathers Ryan Dunne, taking time out from previewing his team's forthcoming visit to Hackiedoodle Thiustle or some such. "That nominal back line suggests (yes, I know it's really the result of injuries) that they're making it easier for teams to score goals against them, which is all to the good! Five nil to Barca would be good tonight, but I'd settle for a tightly fought 6-4 league cup style affair."
1 min: Barcelona kick-off amid a furious din and retain possession, more or less, for the first minute, which has to constitute a triumph of some sort.
3 min: Barça win possession. 50,000 people start praying. Pedro cuts in from the right and attempts a one-two with Messi, but three Celts converge on the little trickster and, eventually, nick the ball away. "Celtic they have to be The Glasgow Boys," booms John Thompson. "The Glasgow Boys consisted of several men, most of whom were trained in, or had strong ties to the city of Glasgow. These men were brought together by a passion for realism and naturalism and this showed through in the pieces they produced. Along with this passion for naturalism, they shared a marked distaste for the Edinburgh oriented Scottish art establishment, which they viewed as oppressive. Driven and motivated by these ideals they embraced change, created masterpieces, and became Scottish icons in the process –and all sadly many many years ago!"
4 min: Here's a phrase prepared earlier: Mascherano concedes a freekick. Mulgrew takes it short to Samaras and the gets it back and lofts it into the danger zone, which is not as dangerous as it could have been given that Samaras is not in it. Barça clear.
5 min: Commons clatters into Iniesta way late and is lucky to avoid a booking. Barça takes the freekick quickly and work it wide to Pedo. He flashes a cross in to the near post, where Mulgrew head it out only as far as Iniesta at the edge of the area. The imp's first-time effort is wayward but Alexis tries to divert it on goal with a foxy flick. Forster gathers.
7 min: Ping - ping - ping - bang! After a pingtastic move through the heart of Celtic, Messi booms over the bar from 10 yards.
9 min: Wanyama, who was superb in the first match, suggests we might be primed for another big performance by romping back through midfield to coolly dispossess Iniesta earning thunderous acclaim from the crowd.
12 min: The ref is proving quite popular at Parkhead. Moments after denying Barça a penalty following a clumsy tackle by Lustig on Alexis, he books Song for a challenge that was nowhere near as bad as Commons' early one.
13 min: A long throw-in by Matthews brings a weak punch from Victor Valdez. Barcelona eventually scramble it clear. In front of a TV somewhere, Bernd Schuster seethes.
15 min: After another prolonged bout of Barça probing, Ambrose intervenes to take the ball off Messi's foot, privately hope a photographer caught that moment, and bound out of the Celtic box before smashing the ball away.
18 min: A Barça attack breaks down and Miku tries to launch a Celtic counter but is cynically tripped by Song. The ref decides against showing a second yellow. Bernd Schuster shuts up.
GOAL! Celtic 1-0 Barcelona (Wanyama 21') Ambrose won Celtic's first corner of the game. Mulgrew fired his delivery to the back post, where the excellent Wanyama rose above Alba and butted a bullet of a header into the back of the net! Bernd Schuster beings penning a demand for the immediate abolition of the Champions League.
23 min: Barcelona lay siege to the Celtic goal. But Celtic keep them at bay before threatening to launch another counter. Barça cut that plan short as Samaras is engulfed by defenders and the visitors begin probing anew. Just 67 minutes plus added time for Celtic to hang on ...
24 min: Mulgrew hurls himself at Dani Alves to deflect a 25-yard shot over the bar.
25 min: Ooh! Another Celtic counter-attack finds Mulgrew racing free down the left. Samaras is baying for an early pass in the middle and the winger attempts to provide it ... but his cross with the outside of his foot is too close to the keeper, who duly cuts it out.
28 min: Messi Messis his way to the edge of the area and then zaps the ball to Iniesta, who slaps it back to him. Messi opens fire on the run from 12 yards and the ball skims the crossbar and goes over! The ref awards a goalkick but the replay suggests that may have have a stupendous save by Forster.
31 min: Alba has time to cross from the left. But Alexis is the only Barça player in the box, surrounded by seven Celts. The ball is cleared.
33 min: Messi attempts to reprise the move of a moment ago, but this time Wilson interrupts the attempted one-two. Messi shoots him a Schwarzeneggar-esque "I'll be back" look.
35 min: Another lightning Barça attack. Alexis receives the ball on the left and Alba lashes into the box and invites the pass. The full-back then smashes a low pass across the face of goal but there is no one on hand to tap it into the net.
37 min: Pedro, a constant menace down the right, sends in a fine cross and Alexis nips ahead of Matthews to meet it ... and his header bounces out off the post! Haven't we seen this match somewhere before?
38 min: Wilson booked for a needless swipe at Pedro. That could prove costly later on ...
40 min: Dani Alves gets the jump on Mulgrew and Xavi attempts to pick him out with a pass from half-way ... but fortunately for Celtic, the Brazilian fails to get it under control and the chance dies.
41 min: A wonderful pass from from Messi dissects the Celtic defence. Jordi Alba blems another low cross across the face of goal and Forster clasps it at the second attempt. Moments later Miku cops a booking for an unsightly challenge on Iniesta.
43 min: It's chaos in the Celtic box, where hooped players are hurling themselves in front of a succession of shots! Ambrose put in two heroic blocks before Matthews charged down an effort from Iniesta.
44 min: Celtic lost their lead around this time in the Nou Camp and are looking nervous now ...
Half-time: Mission half-accomplished! It's been a terrific display by Celtic so far. A stonking header from Wanyama has given them the lead and they have held on to it tigerishly. But Barcelona have dominated possession, hit the frame of the goal twice and generally looked capable of turning this around and then some. Celtic, mind you, have hinted at threatening again on the break. There'll be twists in this tie yet, I'll be bound.
46 min: Celtic get the second half under way ... and give the ball away within 10 seconds. "Did you know that Celtic were the opposition for Alfredo di Stefano's testimonial?" asks Alec McAulay. "I think Real would come over for Neil Lennon's if we could hang on tonight."
48 min: Or should we say 42 mins? As in time left for Celtic to cling on. Either way, Barça are pinning Celtic into their own box but not yet making any significant incursions. Dani Alves just attempted to fire in a cross but it deflected off Mulgrew and into the keeper's arms.
49 min: Dani Alves finds space wide on the right and curls in another cross. Yet again, no team-mate in the the predator area to convert. What they need is a fox in the box. A zorro, if you prefer.
51 min: It seems a strategy for Celtic to allow the full-back to get into crossing areas, possibly because they believe Celtic will win the ball from the ensuing cross. But they didn't that time and Pedro's header from Dani Alves' cross flew just over.
52 min: Splendid tackle by Matthews on Danis Alves! Corner to Barcelona. They take it short, naturally, and resume their hypnotic passing ... which ultimately results in Xavi curling in a cross from the right and Ambrose nutting it out for another corner. They take that one short too and come close to playing their way through Celtic but Matthews stretches out a leg to poke the ball off Messi's foot and behind for another corner.
54 min: Mulgrew dispossesses Messi and scampers forward to launch Celtic's first foray forward of the second half. But that little insurrection is quickly quashed and Barca resume their hypnoball.
55 min: Messi attempts a daring curler from 20 yards. Forster reads it and collects comfortably.
56 min: Corner to Celtic: cue mass cheers! Commons comes across to take it. He plays it low to Mulgrew at the corner of the box and he clips it into the box. Lustig leans back to effect a decent header but it's a comfortable save for Victor Valdes. Much more of this, though, and Celtic players may soon emulate those of Metz and ask Bernad Schuster: "Where's your ham now?"
59 min: Forster was immense in the Nou Camp and signs are he could be again tonight. He's just got down low to turn away a 10-yard drive from Alexis and then scrambled back to his feet to thwart the rebound too.
62 min: Ye gads! Bartra allows a long ball into the Barça box to bounce, thinking the keeper is coming to collect, but instead it runs to Mulgrew, eight yards from goal! The defender recovers in time to block the Celt's shot.
63 min: Jordi Alba blocked for some manner of infringement on Commons. I didn't notice anything awry.
66 min: This has been a heartening spell from Celtic, who are working heroically to knock Barça out of their rhythm and even put them on the back foot. Possession has probably been close to 50-50 over the last five minutes.
68 min: I neglected to mention that David Villa came on a couple of minutes ago for Barcelona, in place of Alexis.
69 min: Another fabulous save by Forster! Messi found the overlapping Alba, who cut it back to the little Argentinian, who let fly from 12 yards ... and the keeper throws himself across the goal to parry it with one strong hand.
70 min: Substitutions: Barcelona: Bartra off Piqué on, Song off, Fabregas on. Celtic: Lustig off, 18-year-old Tony Watt for his Champions League debut.
71 min: Dani Alves is writhing on the ground, seeking treatment for a bruised ego. The ref is having none of it.
72 min: The ubiquitous Ambrose puts an end to another jagged Messi run.
74 min: It's all Barça ... except when the ball goes in Celtic's box, when home players continually get to it first and welly it away. It's frantic, it's fierce, it's incredibly tense, and it's piddling down with rain, which is only adding to the intrigue: a slip or skid could yet prove decisive.
75 min: Iniesta conjures space for a shot from 20 yards ... and then blazes way over.
77 min: Dani Alves clips in a cross from the right by-line. Wilson nods it away. But it just keeps coming back ...
78 min: Villa wallops one over from 20 yards.
79 min: Samaras, the player Andy Carroll wishes he was, is replaced by Kayal.
80 min: Watt brings the crowd to its feet as he wins the ball on half-way and threatens to spring away from Mascherano. But the Argentinian sticks with him and, when the youngster turns back in search of support, wins the ball back.
82 min: Juan Carlos Valeras says this: Messi has been rubbish tonight, hasn't he?" Yes, but he's now standing over a freekick at the edge of the area ....
GOAL! Celtic 2-0 Barcelona (Watt 83') A mistake by Xavi puts 18-year-old Tony Watt in the clear ... and with Mascherano trying to chase him down, the teenager hammers the ball low and hard into the net from 14 yards! Parkhead explodes with joy!
84 min: Wilson blocks a header from Pedro at the back post. The ball eventually comes back to Villa, who blems over from 20 yards.
86 min: Barcelona encircle the Celtic box but the Hoops stand strong and eventually win the ball back. Then a long pass over the top sends Watt racing through again. He's strong and faster than Mascherano ... and then goes down just outside the box. The crowd reckon it's foul by Mascherano but I didn't see anything amiss and think Watt just slipped. The ref seems to agree.
88 min: A Villa header rebounds off Piqué and wide. Meanwhile, Matt Dony put things in perspective: "When I was 18, I was writing pretentious lyrics, slacking my way through college, and wearing more black than was healthy. I was definitely not scoring against Barcelona on my European debut. Tony Watt never has to do anything else in his life. Git."
90 min: Four minutes more minutes ...
GOAL! Celtic 1-2 Barcelona Messi (90+1) A flurry of passes in the Celtic box conclude with Forster making a fine save but Messi nips in to smash home the rebound. Barça halve the deficit and double the tension ...
90 + 3 min: It's mayhem in the Celtic box. Wanyama and Mulgrew make vital interventions but barely get the ball clear. Barcelona jsut keep coming ....
DELIVERANCE! Celtic have done it! Are you watching Bernd Schuster? Defending is part of the game and Barcelona couldn't do it properly tonight and Celtic punished them twice and then showed them to how keep opponents out. Lavishly skilled, relentless opponents. What a way to mark their 125th anniversary! Parkhead is bouncing. They have witnessed a superb and tactically astute performance by Neil Lennon's team.
Let's hang around and wait for the post-match interviews. See if any Celtic players can surpass t he Sky commentator, who greeted the final whistle with the words: "How do you describe this? How about 'wow, Wow, WOW!"
Hats off to the cameraman, who has just picked out Rod Stewart in the crowd, sobbing uncontrollably.
A number of you, a very large number of you, have emailed to ask whether Ryan Dunne has been in touch (see pre-match prediction). The answer is no, he's gone strangely quiet.
Some reaction:
Tony Watt on his goal: "I just saw Valdes and thought 'put it to the side of him but not too much and it might go in' and it did ... Beatign Barcelona in the Champions League: there's nothing better, is there?"
And on the atmosphere: "I was saying to the boys on bench that I've never heard anything like it, the place was rocking from start to finish."
Forster: "Words can't describe it. We put in so much effort in the Nou Camp and couldn't see it through but tonight we did."
Top emailer Simon McMahon: "Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali etc. etc. - your boys took one hell of a beating tonight."
Emailer Ryan Dunne: "I've been busy arguing online about the forthcoming new Star Wars films. George Lucas, unlike Barcelona, never lets you down."
Neil Lennon: "One of the proudest nights of my career, just a monumental effort from all these players. I wanted them to do themselves justice and they've even surpassed taht. They've got two of the stiffest examinations they'll ever get in their career and they've come through it with flying colours."
He attributes to the win to "team spirit, discipline, hard work" and reveals that they identified Alba has a potential weakness on corners so instructed Wanyama to target him, which, of course, led to the first goal.
"We've waited a long time to get back into this competitions ... I'm not saying this is the pinnacle because I think there's more to come from this team, but this is great."
On the atmosphere: When I took the job on and I said I wanted to bring the thunder back and I've never seen an atmosphere like I did tonight."


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Souls: A nutritious part of a complete breakfast.
Raziel's pain is neverending. He was once a noble, part of the vampire elite ruling
the world of Nosgoth. Then he had the misfortune of growing wings. His "father"
Kain, jealous that one of his progeny had evolved beyond him, threw Raziel into
the Lake of the Dead to wallow in torment forever. Or so Kain thought . . .
a millenium had passed, an ancient being known only as the Elder pulled Raziel
from the Lake of the Dead and breathed new "life" into him. No longer a vampire,
Raziel must feed on the souls of his former brethren to survive. His goal: Revenge
. . . oh, and he might happen to save Nosgoth along the way.
That is, of course, if this game was actually finished.
It's been a few months since the Playstation
version of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was released. Now out for
the Dreamcast with graphics superior than even the PC
version, the world of Nosgoth has never looked better. However, the problems
with the game were never due to the graphics.
But first, the good. Few games are as amoral as Soul Reaver. Taking
a cue from the original (See Blood Omen: Legacy
of Kain), this game is not for people who like clear lines of good and evil.
Raziel sees humans as little more than cattle. He's not out to save them, and
couldn't care less about their fate. Humans: The Other Red Meat.
As I said before, the graphics are great. With the Dreamcast version, you
can really see the world of Nosgoth in all its glory. Though I would've liked
to see them up the detail a bit more on Raziel himself, the movement is smooth
and clean. Of course, the Playstation version was amazing as well (given the
older system), so it's not surprising that the Dreamcast version looks as it
The sound, for the most part, is excellent. The voice acting is some of the
best I've heard. (Sega, please listen to this game. This is how voice acting
should be.) My only major gripe is that the humans, if you're nice to them,
don't make a single sound. They just watch you silently and fall to their knees
if you get close to them. I know they're supposed to only be livestock, but
even cows "moo."
levels themselves are fairly big and well designed. Thanks to the sharper graphics
on the Dreamcast, it's now easier to see that high ledge or climbing wall, making
the level design that much better.
While I'm happy that a game developer actually took a little time creating
their Dreamcast port instead of just throwing it together, they still didn't
fix the main problem with the game.
Basically, the game is unfinished, and not even the Dreamcast's eye candy
can hide that. In order to get this game to market quicker, someone decided
to just stop where they were in the game, remove one of Raziel's brothers, remove
many of the upgrades to your sword (which are actually still in the game – see
codes), disable
anything that didn't work fully, and slap a "To be Continued" sign where the
ending should be. (Note: Technically, I didn't just ruin the ending of the game
for you since it doesn't end!) There's no fight to the death with Kain, no returning
the world to balance . . . Nothing!
After writing the Playstation review, some readers didn't believe me and
claimed that "To be Continued" was the planned ending all along. Well, for those
of you who want to know the truth, click
here to download the original ending (410 KB Sound file).
Another casualty of the rushed release was the magic. The magic in Soul
Reaver is well-hidden. You have to perform a series of complex puzzles to
get any of the spells. This would be fine, if the spells actually did anything.
They're completely and totally useless. It is a complete waste of time to search
for them. Talk about anti-climactic.
Once again, it pains me to grade this game. What could have been one of the
best third-person games ever is reduced to mediocrity because of the almighty
dollar. Since they couldn't change the whole game only for the Dreamcast port,
we're still stuck with an unfinished game. Given another 6 to 12 months of development,
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver would have been a classic. As it stands,
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By the Candlestick concert, the Beatles detested touring
On Aug. 29, 1966, the Beatles appeared at Candlestick Park - the final stop not just on the group's three-continent tour, but in their life as a touring band.
One of the first shows on the tour took place in June in Hamburg, the city where just six years earlier, an unknown band from Liverpool had played for strippers and drunks in the red-light district, sleeping a few hours a night in squalid cubbyholes while the sound of gunfire from Westerns playing in the movie theater next door came through the walls.
Now the four Beatles were among the most famous people on the planet, and their concerts were a crazed cacophony of deafening screams and fainting girls.
The group's two earlier visits to the Bay Area, in 1964 and 1965, had been at the Cow Palace. Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters showed up at one of the 1965 gigs bombed out of their minds on LSD. It does not seem to have been an enjoyable experience. As Tom Wolfe wrote in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test": "CANCER - Kesey has only to look and it is perfectly obvious - all of them, the teeny freaks and the Beatles, are one creature, caught in a state of sheer poison mad cancer."
Actually, Wolfe's description of Kesey's mental state increasingly summed up that of the Beatles as they toured the world. Few of the 25,000 fans who paid $4.50 to $6.50 for tickets at Candlestick realized that the Beatles had come to detest performing in public.
For three endless, surreal years, touring had been the Beatles' life. They made multiple long tours each year from 1964 to 1966, through England and to America and various waypoints around the world.
Being on tour was a claustrophobic, hermetically sealed existence. As Hunter Davies writes in "The Beatles: The Authorized Biography," "They were trapped in their dressing room during a performance. There was the mad dash, guarded by hordes of police and bodyguards, to the hotel. There they stayed, with the outside world locked out, till the time came for the next move. They never went out in the street, to a restaurant or for a walk." (Actually, after one of their Cow Palace shows, John Lennon and Ringo Starr did manage to slip happily out to the Rickshaw, a Chinatown dive. But such escapes were rare.)
No fun anymore
Touring had ceased to be fun a long time ago. "For a long, long time they had hated what they were doing," Davies writes. "They disliked dragging around the world, appearing publicly in a glass box like a peep show. They disliked performing onstage in the same old way. They thought it was a farce, a mockery."
The fact they could barely hear themselves and played the same set list night after night degraded their musicianship. George Harrison, who detested being a Beatle more than the others, said, "We got worse as musicians, playing the same old junk every day. There was no satisfaction at all."
Starr was so bored he began playing only on the off-beat. At the 1966 tour stop in Hamburg, where the group played its customary 30-minute concert, Lennon told the fans with characteristic bluntness, "Don't try to listen to us. We're really terrible these days."
That 1966 tour proved to be the worst. In the Philippines, dictatorial first lady Imelda Marcos became enraged when the Beatles innocently turned down her invitation to breakfast. Band manager Brian Epstein's televised apology was mysteriously blocked by static, airport security disappeared, and the group and its entourage were assaulted as they tried to board the plane.
Fans chase bus
Things were just as fraught in the U.S., where outraged Bible Belters had begun smashing Beatle albums after Lennon was quoted as saying that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." Shaken by the hate mail he received, Lennon apologized, but the group was so edgy that when a firecracker was thrown onto the stage in Memphis, Tenn., they all feared for a moment that Lennon had been shot.
San Francisco was the 14th and final stop on the Beatles' 17-day U.S. tour, and the Candlestick show did not feature such high drama. But it did open with a weird mishap. When the group arrived at the ballpark in a bus, the gates weren't open and the driver was forced to careen around the parking lot, pursued by fans, before someone finally waved them through.
After a low-key backstage scene - Mimi Fariña, who was present, described the quartet as "calm and sweet and cordial" - the group took the stage just before 9:30 p.m., near second base, and tore into their usual opener, Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music."
It was a very ordinary Beatles concert. The 11-song set list was the same one they played on most of the tour: "She's a Woman," "If I Needed Someone" (the only George Harrison song they ever performed in concert), "Day Tripper," "Baby's in Black," "I Feel Fine," "Yesterday," "I Wanna Be Your Man," "Nowhere Man," "Paperback Writer" and Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally." They didn't play any of the songs from their new album, "Revolver," which had been released in the U.S. three weeks earlier.
It was not an intimate setting - the closest seats were 200 feet away - and the primitive sound system, combined with the incessant screaming, meant that most of what they played was swallowed up.
On the soundtrack of a 1991 TV special about the concert, occasional bursts of familiar chords or vocals cut through, but the overall aural experience is like listening to a huge transistor radio in a field where hundreds of babies are being delivered. Still, for anyone of a certain generation, it is impossible not to hear the chiming chords that introduce "If I Needed Someone" without getting goose bumps.
No goodnight
Fittingly, the final word from the Beatles to San Francisco was about Candlestick's invigorating weather. "We'd like to say that it's been wonderful being here in this wonderful sea air," Paul McCartney said before the last number. "Sorry about the weather. We'd like to ask you to join in. Clap, sing, talk, do anything."
He was about to say goodnight when he caught himself: If the fans knew it was the end of the show, they'd rush out and block the group's escape route. They finished "Long Tall Sally," jumped into their bus and were gone.
End of an era
No one outside of the Beatles' circle knew it at the time, but it was the end of an era. With the exception of one performance on the roof of the Apple building in London in January 1969, the Beatles would never play in public again.
It is fitting that McCartney's concert Thursday will be the last event ever held at Candlestick Park. Perhaps this time, 72-year-old Sir Paul, one of the two surviving members of the rock band that changed the world forever, will bid the "goodnight" he skipped on that chilly night almost half a century ago.
Editor's note
Every corner in San Francisco has an astonishing story to tell. Every Saturday, Gary Kamiya's Portals of the Past will tell one of those lost stories, using a specific location to illuminate San Francisco's extraordinary history - from the days when giant mammoths wandered through what is now North Beach, to the Gold Rush delirium, the dot-com madness and beyond.
Trivia time
Last week's trivia question: When and where was the first live bomb dropped from an aircraft?
Answer: In 1911, Lt. Myron Crissy dropped a 36-pound bomb on what is now the Tanforan Mall in San Bruno.
This week's trivia question: What was unusual about the security fence built along Chestnut Street for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition?
Gary Kamiya is the author of the best-selling book "Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco," awarded the 2013 Northern California Book Award in creative nonfiction. All the material in Portals of the Past is original for The San Francisco Chronicle. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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In 1986, my home on Three Mile Harbor Road burned to the ground. We were not home at the time, thank God. My kids were in school, my wife off shopping. I will, for as long as I live, remember the exact conversation I had when a fireman called me at work in Bridgehampton.
"There's a fire at your house. You need to come here."
"Is it bad?"
The Springs Fire Department fought it bravely for hours, but it was no use. My wife and I watched. She cried. I was too stunned. Flames were shooting out the windows. In the end, the roof collapsed and only a few walls stood. There is nothing like watching your life burning up.
I would not give up on this property, however. When I first saw it, I fell in love with it. I'd often stop, as did lots of people, to watch the sun set over the boats in front of it there on Three Mile Harbor Road. In 1975, a "For Sale" sign had appeared in front of the house there. I immediately bought it for the asking price. The house was perched on the side of the hill. On the other side of the road, the boats, 36 of them in numbered slips, sat in the water in a long, neat row facing a long, narrow public park. It was 30 feet wide. Benches on its lawn faced the water. Off in the distance, across the harbor, was the Northwest Woods. On sunny days, year-round, the sun set over Northwest, and the house on the side of the hill was the last piece of property in the area that received it. I'd drive up the street toward home to see this colorful sunset seemingly blessing the house with sunshine in a landscape already darkening. Coming inside, I'd notice the rays of the sunset, having bounced off the harbor, now splaying in interesting patterns on ceilings of the rooms inside.
I had offers for this property while the old house lay in smoldering ruin. But I turned them all down. I would rebuild. And I did. Which brings us to the present day, 26 years later, on Monday, October 29, 2012, the day of the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.
Everyone has a story to tell about this hurricane. Some horrendous, some not. This is mine.
On that Monday morning, I began to realize I had seriously miscalculated what was about to happen. Up until that time, I had my eye on the ball, which was the eye of this hurricane heading our way from somewhere off the coast of North Carolina. I could watch it on the Weather Channel on TV.
People talked about the great size of this storm, but in prior storms, no matter how great the size, the most damage done was right where it crossed over land for the first time. By Monday morning, however, it was clear the storm would not hit the Hamptons, it would hit the New Jersey shore, or perhaps northern Delaware. When it hit there, surely it would not be much of anything here.
My wife and I have a place in the city. We could have gone there. But, on that morning, we made our final decision that we'd be better off overlooking the harbor in East Hampton for the duration. We could be here to watch over the house. There could be flooding rains. There could be high winds, or a tree down. We should be here.
I should describe the mathematics of this house at this time. It will become relevant for the rest of this story, because we never thought it would be possible for the water in Three Mile Harbor to reach the house.
The new house I built to replace the old here sits at an elevation of 17 feet. The distance from the living room sliders, across our front deck, front lawn and street, then down the hill across the grass of the park to the seawall, is 74 feet. I know this because the survey I had made when I was planning the new house showed this. We felt we would be okay with this.
And so, on Monday morning, we were watching a weather channel on TV and suddenly I knew there was something else, something completely unexpected at hand.
"With this air view, you can see this huge swirl of clouds circling counterclockwise 150 miles around the eye of the storm slowly moving northward," pointing to it on a large map. "Under it is an enormous, elevated surge of water, created by the eye of the storm digging its hole in the ocean. When this storm comes north to hit New Jersey, this surge of water also comes north and will be driven from east to west into Montauk Point. It will split there. One part will surge north around the side of the lighthouse and head west into Long Island Sound to pile up against Manhattan. The other part will surge along the southern shore of Long Island to also pile up against Manhattan. We expect this surge when it meets back up to be about 10 feet high. It could breach the walls of lower Manhattan and enter the subways. A disaster.
It occurred to me as I contemplated the fate of Manhattan, that the weatherman had left out a middle part. This water would also surge between the North Fork and South Fork and come right up Peconic Bay into, among other places, Three Mile Harbor. The surge would reach its height at midnight. But midnight was our high tide. And it coincided with a full moon. This was incredible news.
Well, it was now too late to evacuate. The wind was screaming. Trees were coming down everywhere. And soon thereafter, at 4 p.m., all the power went out leaving us all alone in the howling storm.
At 6 p.m., just before sunset, I looked out from our living room to see the harbor begin spilling over the sea wall and onto the grass of the park. I had never seen it do this before. It was raining sideways. The trees on our property were swaying, and against all common sense, I again went out onto our front deck to briefly look down at it. It was oddly warm out. Skies were grey. It was time for sunset, but there wasn't any. The few boats tied in their slips were now separated from shore
by water.
At that moment, a pickup truck pulled off the road and parked by the curb in front of one of the boats. Two men in waders emerged from the truck, carrying planks of wood. They splashed through the few feet of water on the lawn, boarded their boat, a commercial fishing boat, and were soon nailing other pieces of wood to the tall pilings, extending them upward four more feet. If the surge was higher than the pilings, the extra wood could still hold the boat in place. The job done, the men splashed back through the grass and drove away.
Half an hour later, with the wind still screaming, I ventured out again to our front deck. I wanted to see the harbor before night fell. The boat and the few others remaining were now rocking 10 feet from the edge of the water on the grass. The harbor was on
the move.
In the darkness of the rest of the evening, we read by flashlight and listened to a battery-powered radio. There was nothing to see out our window. The usually bright streetlights were dark. You could just barely see the shadows of the boats rolling in the chop.
I thought about what we might do if the water reached the house. We could abandon it, and scramble further up to the top of the hill where a retired New York City Legislator had in recent years built a beautiful home. He was almost never there, though, and so we'd be trespassers if we got in. Maybe it would be locked. Well, maybe it would be better if we just sat in our car, parked in the lot in back of our house. I imagined the car, lifted up, rocking back and forth.
"If it gets really bad," I said to my wife, "we could retreat up to the second floor." I was referring to our house.
At 11:30 p.m. I put on my raincoat.
"Don't do that," my wife said.
New York City's underground systems had been breached. The water was pouring in. The surge had not been 10 feet. It had been more than 12 feet. A record. And it was still climbing. I thought more about this. I sat back down.
And then, suddenly, just after midnight,
right at the peak of our high tide, the howling winds outside suddenly died. It also stopped raining. It was quite amazing. I turned off
the radio for a moment. It was deadly silent
out there.
"I have to see where the water is," I said, grabbing a flashlight. And I was out the door and down the driveway. It had not reached the road, thank God. I walked across it. But then, just a few feet beyond it, almost all the way up to the road, was the harbor, all black and still, filling the park. In the moonlight, I could see it was flat as a mirror. Off in the distance, the fishing boats floated offshore.
At that moment, the pickup truck I had seen before came along, slowed, turned 90° toward the water, stopped and shined its headlights on the fishing boat. The back end of the truck stuck out a bit into the road parked that way. But it was okay. It sat there awhile, its radio playing. So I walked over to the passenger's window.
"Your boat?" I asked.
"Nope. My brother's."
"Ever see anything like this?"
"Never. We're here to report back."
The two men were Bonackers, among the many descendants of the original settlers who came to this place in the 17th century, and they still live nearby.
It was an extraordinary encounter. It was dark, quiet. Our house was behind us. The waters of the harbor, inky black, still, right at our feet. The radio in the car played a country western song.
"What do you think is going to happen?" I asked. I thought they would know.
"I think this is it," one of them said. "Tide's high. Wind is down. All this water, pushed up, now no reason to stay here. It's all over."
I considered it. Trillions of tons of the sea, shoved in against us, now about to fall suddenly away.
After awhile, I returned to the house and soon my wife and I went upstairs to sleep. At 7 a.m. I woke up, opened the bedroom curtains and looked out. Below us, in bright sunlight, the harbor was back behind the seawall where it was supposed to be, 74 feet from our window. I came back to bed and wearily and happily climbed in under the covers.
The electricity came back on two days later. By this time, I had learned of the great catastrophe that had struck the city and the Jersey shore. We were lucky out here. This was just my small story. And, as they say, there but for the grace of God, go I.


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ARDUINO 328 Functions Motors and Servos
From ROBOTC API Guide
Functions and Variables → Motors and Sensors
|For more examples and explanations, head over to Motors and Servos Overview!
|Up to 8 motors and/or servos can be connected to the VEX controller. Motor speeds range from -127 (full reverse) through zero (stopped) up to +127 (full forward). There is a small deadband in the motors from about +15 to -15
|bool bMotorReflected
|(bool) Boolean array with one entry for each motor. Indicates that the direction of a motor should be reflected 180 degrees. Useful when mechanical design results in a logical "reversed" condition of a motor.
|tSensors getEncoderForMotor(tMotor motorIndex)
|(tSensors) Returns the sensor port of the encoder paired to motor port, motorIndex.
|void mapEncoderToMotor(tMotor motorPort, tSensors I2CPort)
|(void) Map an I2C sensor port to the motor it belongs to (when using VEX Integrated Encoder Modules).
This is taken care of in the Motors and Sensors Setup window.
|int motor[tMotor motor]
|(int) An array variable with one element for each of the possible motors. This command is used to set the speed (-127 to +127) for a motor. Negative values are reverse; positive forward. Zero is stopped. To drive the motor on port1 at 50% of full power you use the statement motor[port1] = 63;
|word motorType[tMotor motor]
|(word) An array variable with one element for each of the possible motors. This command is used to read/write the type of the motor in question.


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SANDY, Utah – Fabian Espindola played the hero for Real Salt Lake on Wednesday night, knocking home a rebound off a Javier Morales free kick two minutes from time as RSL defeated Rocky Mountain Cup rivals Colorado 1-0 at Rio Tinto Stadium in a bruising 90-minute struggle.
The expected exciting matchup was in order early as Real Salt Lake were able to dominate the possession over the first portion of the match, while Colorado seemed poised to counterattack behind the speed of Omar Cummings and the size of Caleb Folan. But as it turned out, both teams lacked their normal sharpness and much of the game was played between the 18s.
Colorado had a good early chance when Jamie Smithtook an early volley from outside the area that surprised everyone except RSL goalkeeper Nick Rimando, who smothered the shot.
Just one minute later, Nat Borchers had a clear header opportunity that went well wide of goal.
The best chance for the Rapids came also in the early stages as Cummings caught a break against the slower Borchers. Defender Chris Wingert did a good job of hustling back to help. Cummings laid off a nice pass to Smith who came into the picture, but Wingert responded well and got a foot on the shot attempt.
It appeared that Espíndola had broken the ice late in the first half, but he was ruled offside after knocking the ball in the net.
The second half was a back-and-forth slugfest with a great deal of strong tackles, and missed passes. Neither team created many opportunities in the half, and it appeared that the match was headed to a scoreless draw.
However, in stoppage time, another set piece goal gave the home team the victory. Morales lined up a free kick from 25 yards out. His attempt at goal hit the upright, and rebounded to Paulo Jr. who was unable to control it, but nudged it forward to Espíndola, who was able to put the ball away for the game winner.
With the victory, RSL won their fourth straight to open the season. They next head to Monterrey, Mexico, to open the CONCACAF Champions League finals on April 20. Colorado, meanwhile, dropped their second straight; the Rapids will host Seattle on April 22.
Salt Lake will look to retain the Rocky Mountain Cup for the fifth straight season when the two teams meet again on Oct. 14 in Colorado.
Scoring Summary:
RSL -- Fabian Espindola 1 (Paulo Araujo Jr. 2) 93+
Misconduct Summary:
RSL -- Javier Morales (caution; Reckless Tackle) 32
COL -- Tyrone Marshall (caution; Tactical Foul) 59
COL -- Marvell Wynne (caution; Tactical Foul) 82
Colorado Rapids -- Matt Pickens, Kosuke Kimura, Marvell Wynne, Tyrone Marshall, Drew Moor, Brian Mullan, Jamie Smith (Andre Akpan 86), Jeff Larentowicz, Wells Thompson, Omar Cummings (Quincy Amarikwa 64) (Sanna Nyassi 69), Caleb Folan.
Substitutes Not Used: Joseph Nane, Scott Palguta, Anthony Wallace, Steward Ceus.
Real Salt Lake -- Nick Rimando, Chris Wingert, Jamison Olave, Nat Borchers, Tony Beltran, Andy Williams, Kyle Beckerman, Javier Morales, Ned Grabavoy, Alvaro Saborio (Paulo Araujo Jr. 69), Fabian Espindola.
Substitutes Not Used: Jean Alexandre, Arturo Alvarez, Robbie Russell, Chris Schuler, Collen Warner, Kyle Reynish.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo
Referee's Assistants: Peter Manikowski; Craig Lowry
4th Official: Tyler Ploeger
Time of Game: 1:51
Weather: Cloudy and 52 degrees
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DirecTV Settles Allegations of Deceptive Advertising
By: Attorney General Van Hollen
MADISON – Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen today announced a settlement with DirecTV over allegations that DirecTV has engaged in deceptive advertising. Under the terms of the judgment, which will be filed in Dane County Circuit Court, DirecTV must change its marketing practices, pay the state $185,000, and provide restitution for injured Wisconsin consumers. The settlement is the result of an investigation in which 48 other states and the District of Columbia participated. DirecTV must pay a total of $13.25 million to the states, as well as provide restitution to consumers nationwide who have been injured by DirecTV's practices.
Numerous consumers have filed complaints alleging, among other things, that DirecTV:
- Did not clearly disclose to consumers the price that the consumer would be charged and the commitment term that the consumer would be required to keep DirecTV services;
- Did not clearly disclose to consumers limitations on getting a certain price for DirecTV;
- Enrolled consumers in additional contracts or contract terms without clearly disclosing the terms to the consumer;
- Enrolled consumers in additional contracts when replacing defective equipment;
- Did not clearly disclose to consumers that they would automatically renew a seasonal sports package; and
- Offered cash back to consumers when the consumer would actually receive bill credits.
The settlement requires DirecTV to:
- Clearly disclose all material terms to consumers;
- Replace leased equipment that is defective at no cost except shipping costs;
- Not require the consumer to enter into an additional contract when simply replacing defective equipment;
- Clearly disclose when a consumer is entering into a contract;
- Clearly notify consumers before a consumer is obligated to pay for a seasonal sports package;
- Clearly disclose all limitations on the availability of local channels;
- Not misrepresent the availability of sports programming;
- Not represent that a consumer would get cash back if the consumer would actually get a bill credit; and
- Clearly notify consumers that they will be charged a cancellation or equipment fee at least 10 days before charging the fee.
The settlement also requires DirecTV to resolve consumer complaints about its practices. Unresolved complaints sent to DirecTV or the Attorney General that involve conduct addressed in the settlement and occurred after January 1, 2007 are eligible for the restitution program. Additionally, consumers can file a complaint with DirecTV or the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (at 1-800-422-7128) by June 9, 2011 to be considered for the restitution program as long as the complaint is about activity that occurred after January 1, 2007. DirecTV will attempt to resolve the complaints with consumers. If the complaint cannot be resolved, DirecTV shall inform the consumer that the complaint can be resolved by a Claims Administrator and mail a Claim Form to the consumer. The Claims Administrator will then resolve the dispute between the consumer and DirecTV.
The settlement is subject to approval by the Dane County Circuit Court. Assistant Attorney General John Greene represents the state in the action.
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For long-time readers of the blog, you know that I believe Suzie Lightning taught me everything I know about creativity. (Yes, my motorcycle has a name, and it's from a Warren Zevon song.) Now that the weather is warming up, I'll be riding through the desert more often. It's another form of meditation–one that requires full awareness in the moment. You don't think of anything except where you right now when you are on a bike. Full awareness keeps you alive.
Riding feeds me lessons in creativity. Your heart is lightened by the views of mountains and arroyos, Saguaros and blue sky. Arroyos are dry river beds that fill up in minutes when it rains, and can lift a big car when only 8 inches deep in water. My favorite drives are away from the interstate, the roads that curve through desert and the endless sky.
The road is two-lane and largely deserted. I stick to the speed limit, because I'm sight-seeing and not in a hurry, and 65-75 is plenty fast for me. But cars appear behind me, fill my rear-view mirror, then explode past me.
When that happens, I back off the throttle, slow down, and move over. If you ride a bike, you know that you stay out of the grease-strip in the middle of the road, and ride on either side of your lane—the first rider on the left, to protect the space, the second rider two seconds behind on the right, to fill the lane, and the third rider back on the left side.
When a car or pickup comes flying past, I move over in case they cut back too
soon, and slow down to give them more space between us. My full-head helmet is expensive—it's a "single-use helmet," and I'm not eager to give it the single use I bought it for.
Watching a pickup truck cut back into the lane in front of me, I realized that that motion of slowing down and moving over is a creative tool, too. When I'm dealing with ideas that are approaching fast and need to pass, I let them go. I don't try to speed up and catch them. Nor do I try to stop them or teach them a lesson. Ideas are plentiful, and not all alike.
The people who participate in my art classes (and some of my business classes, as well) are always worried that each idea may be their last. It's unlikely. There are a lot of ideas, and a few really good ones. Like the cars that whiz past, I remember the interesting ones, the unusual ones, the ones that remind me of something useful. The rest I just watch as they vanish in the distance.
Seeing a lot of cars, like ideas, allows me to choose what I want to remember and use. And let go of what is commonplace, too fast, or not remarkable. It's a good idea to let ideas go speeding past. It helps develop discernment.
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Former Price is Right model Brandi Cochran sued the show for harassing and firing her when they found out she was pregnant with a baybee. Apparently the right price to settle things with Cochran — who claims she was called names including "wide load" (original!) — was over seven million dollars. That's a whole lot of Plinko, my friends.
Please keep in mind, this is all TMZ, so take it with all the grains of salt in the entire word. With that, take it away, jerks:
The jury that found a former "Price Is Right" model was fired because she got knocked up just gave the beauty a huge parting gift ... $7 MILLION in punitive damages. Brandi Cochran sued the show for allegedly harassing her and ultimately giving her the boot when she got pregnant. She claimed she was called names including "wide load."
Earlier this week the jury awarded Brandi $775,000 in damages, but then heard testimony about possible punitive damages, which serve as punishment for intentional wrongdoing. Let's just say ... the jury found PLENTY of wrongdoing, because it just smacked the show with punitives to the tune of $7,763,440.
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This morning I noticed my phone has several light grey horizontal lines on the display, that don't go away when I change applications, or restart the phone. They don't rotate when I rotate the display - it reminds me of when we were warned about images "burning" into the display of PCs, hence screensavers.
Last night I went to bed with Winamp running while the phone was charging, and I have noticed it doesn't always seem to go to screensaver/black with Winamp. But the lines don't seem to correspond to anything in the Winamp UI, so...I have no idea.
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LEXINGTON, KY (RNN) – The No. 18-ranked Kentucky Wildcats defeated the Ole Miss Rebels 80-64 Tuesday night.
The win brings Kentucky (17-5, 7-2 SEC) to 5-0 at home during conference play. All three of the Rebels' (15-7) conference losses have been on the road. They now stand at 6-3 in SEC play.
After a brief Ole Miss lead mid-way through the first half, Kentucky took a one-point lead into halftime. The Wildcats broke away from the Rebels in the second half, leading by as many as 19 points.
Forward Willie Cauley-Stein led the Wildcats in scoring with 18 points off the bench. Four other Wildcats scored in double digits, including 16 points from guard Aaron Harrison. Kentucky shot 72.2 percent from the foul line and 51 percent from the floor, but made only two of its 13 3-point attempts. The Wildcats out rebounded the Rebels 41-26.
Guard Marshall Henderson led Ole Miss with 16 points, while guard Jarvis Summers scored 11 points. The Rebels shot 80 percent at the foul line, 38.5 percent from the floor and 28.6 percent from downtown.
Ole Miss will travel to Columbia to face the Missouri Tigers for a 5 p.m. ET tipoff Saturday. Kentucky will hit the road and face the Mississippi State Bulldogs for a 1:30 p.m. ET tipoff Saturday.
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Ride Shotgun :
If you ride shotgun, you protect or guard something when it is being transported.
Ride With The Tide :
If you ride with the tide, you accept the majority decision.
Riffraff :
A rogue
Right As Rin :
If things are right as rain, then everything is going well in your life.
Right Out Of The Blocks :
This means immediately.
At the very beginning
It describes a sprinter blasting out of the starting blocks at the beginning of a short distance race. (e.g., 100 yard dash, 50 yard dash.)
Right Royal :
A right royal night out would be an extremely exciting, memorable and fun one.
Right Up My Alley :
If something is right up your alley, it suits you perfectly.
Right Up Your Street :
If something is ideal for you, it is right up your street.
Ring A Bell :
If something rings a bell, it reminds you of something you have heard before, though you may not be able to remember it very well. A name may ring a bell, so you know you have heard the name before, but cannot place it properly.
Ringside Seat :
If you have a ringside seat, you can observe something from a very close and clear position.
Rip Van Winkle :
Rip van winkle is a character in a story who slept for twenty years.
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The folks behind an officially licensed Commodore 64 emulator on the iPhone are also working on an Atari 2600 emulators for the device, meaning more plink-plonk classics from the early 1980s could be on the way to you.
That's a tech demonstration of Space Invaders, Berzerk and Frogger for the 2600, played over virtual controls on the multitouch screen. Manomio, the firm behind the C64 emulator (made free for download earlier this month) are working on this and an Amiga 500 emulator. While Apple usually cocks an eyebrow at emulators, Manomio has succeeded at getting one approved.
Getting Atari's consent on these will be a different story, especially if it wants its own app on the device. Or it could just license its games over and not have to worry about coding such a thing.
C64 Creators Also Bringing Amiga, Atari 2600 Emulators to iPhone [TUAW via GameSetWatch]


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There's nowhere snowball the bunny feels safer than inside her owners magic hat, but unfortunately she's often pulled from it and has to perform magic tricks in front of grand audiences.
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Click the download button above to receive a .zip folder, inside this you will find the flat template of the paper toy along with a reference photo. Selected Fold Up Toys also include blank versions of the template. Open the flat template in your image viewer/editor of choice and print.
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"The woman who originally opened it now lives upstairs," he said. "She worked here for 30 years and the second owner worked here 10 years."
The bookstore has always been a staple in their lives, he said.
"We were customers, friends of the owner, and residents of the community," Goldstein said about why they decided to buy the bookstore.
Goldstein and Valdez said they are planning to clean the store up a bit.
"We're going to fix it up a little," Goldstein said. "We're going to put in a new floor and awning," Goldstein said.
Part of the character of the Community Bookstore & Café is its homey atmosphere. In addition to the comfy reading chairs and backyard seating area complete with a pond, there is a cat named Tiny, a bearded dragon, and two turtles who take up residence in the store.
There is also a kitchen area, the remnants of an old café, and a piano.
Another characteristic of the shop is its personable service. Goldstein said that they try to order what they think customers will like. Valdez added that they discuss the books with their customers and give their customers advice on literature.
Part of their personal service also includes summer reading for schools. Valdez said that they get copies of summer reading lists from neighboring schools and order all of the books on the lists so students can easily access them. They also offer discounts to students purchasing books for school.
Due to their dedicated customers, competition with bigger chain stores such as Barnes and Nobles is not really a threat to the small store.
"You can find books here that are not in Barnes and Nobles," Goldstein said. "We have a very customized selection. We specialize in literature, a lot of very good literature."
Goldstein said that a few years back, before they owned the store, there were four other bookstores in the neighborhood. However, when Barnes and Nobles came in, they were all driven out. The Community Bookstore was the only one to have survived.
"We're a different kind of store, we have very loyal customers," Valdez said.
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