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Braxton, Anthony / Milford Graves / William Parker
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Three of the most important virtuoso instrumentalists in improvisation in an historic and intense musical meeting, recorded and mixed by Bill Laswell.
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Released: 2008
Country: USA
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Recorded by Bill Laswell, engineered by James Dellatacoma, mixed by Bill Laswell at Orange Studios, NJ.
Anthony Braxton-Saxophones
Milford Graves-Percussion
William Parker-Bass
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1. First Meeting 14:49
2. Second Meeting 10:48
3. Third Meeting 16:34
4. Fourth Meeting 16:08
5. Fifth Meeting 5:11
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"Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves and William Parker are quite literally three of the most important virtuoso instrumentalists in new music, each a vivid conceptualist as well an influential composer/performer. This intense improvisational outing features them at their best-excited, inspired and in complete communication. Recorded and mixed by musical alchemist Bill Laswell, sparks fly in this important and historic meeting of creative music masters."-Tzadik
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[Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and instrumentalist.]
"Genius is a rare commodity in any art form, but at the end of the 20th century it seemed all but non-existent in jazz, a music that had ceased looking ahead and begun swallowing its tail. If it seemed like the music had run out of ideas, it might be because Anthony Braxton covered just about every conceivable area of creativity during the course of his extraordinary career. The multi-reedist/composer might very well be jazz's last bona fide genius. Braxton began with jazz's essential rhythmic and textural elements, combining them with all manner of experimental compositional techniques, from graphic and non-specific notation to serialism and multimedia. Even at the peak of his renown in the mid- to late '70s, Braxton was a controversial figure amongst musicians and critics. His self-invented (yet heavily theoretical) approach to playing and composing jazz seemed to have as much in common with late 20th century classical music as it did jazz, and therefore alienated those who considered jazz at a full remove from European idioms. Although Braxton exhibited a genuine -- if highly idiosyncratic -- ability to play older forms (influenced especially by saxophonists Warne Marsh, John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, and Eric Dolphy), he was never really accepted by the jazz establishment, due to his manifest infatuation with the practices of such non-jazz artists as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Many of the mainstream's most popular musicians (Wynton Marsalis among them) insisted that Braxton's music was not jazz at all. Whatever one calls it, however, there is no questioning the originality of his vision; Anthony Braxton created music of enormous sophistication and passion that was unlike anything else that had come before it. Braxton was able to fuse jazz's visceral components with contemporary classical music's formal and harmonic methods in an utterly unselfconscious -- and therefore convincing -- way. The best of his work is on a level with any art music of the late 20th century, jazz or classical.
Braxton began playing music as a teenager in Chicago, developing an early interest in both jazz and classical musics. He attended the Chicago School of Music from 1959-1963, then Roosevelt University, where he studied philosophy and composition. During this time, he became acquainted with many of his future collaborators, including saxophonists Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell. Braxton entered the service and played saxophone in an Army band; for a time he was stationed in Korea. Upon his discharge in 1966, he returned to Chicago where he joined the nascent Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). The next year, he formed an influential free jazz trio, the Creative Construction Company, with violinist Leroy Jenkins and trumpeter Leo Smith. In 1968, he recorded For Alto, the first-ever recording for solo saxophone. Braxton lived in Paris for a short while beginning in 1969, where he played with a rhythm section comprised of bassist Dave Holland, pianist Chick Corea, and drummer Barry Altschul. Called Circle, the group stayed together for about a year before disbanding (Holland and Altschul would continue to play in Braxton-led groups for the next several years). Braxton moved to New York in 1970. The '70s saw his star rise (in a manner of speaking); he recorded a number of ambitious albums for the major label Arista and performing in various contexts. Braxton maintained a quartet with Altschul, Holland, and a brass player (either trumpeter Kenny Wheeler or trombonist George Lewis) for most of the '70s. During the decade, he also performed with the Italian free improvisation group Musica Elettronica Viva, and guitarist Derek Bailey, as well as his colleagues in AACM. The '80s saw Braxton lose his major-label deal, yet he continued to record and issue albums on independent labels at a dizzying pace. He recorded a memorable series of duets with bop pioneer Max Roach, and made records of standards with pianists Tete Montoliu and Hank Jones. Braxton's steadiest vehicle in the '80s and '90s -- and what is often considered his best group -- was his quartet with pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Mark Dresser, and drummer Gerry Hemingway. In 1985, he began teaching at Mills College in California; he subsequently joined the music faculty at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he taught through the '90s. During that decade, he received a large grant from the MacArthur Foundation that allowed him to finance some large-scale projects he'd long envisioned, including an opera. At the beginning of the 21st century, Braxton was still a vital presence on the creative music scene."-All Music, Chris Kelsey (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/anthony-braxton-mn0000924030/biography)
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"William Parker is a bassist, improviser, composer, writer, and educator from New York City, heralded by The Village Voice as, "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time."
In addition to recording over 150 albums, he has published six books and taught and mentored hundreds of young musicians and artists.
Parker's current bands include the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, In Order to Survive, Raining on the Moon, Stan's Hat Flapping in the Wind, and the Cosmic Mountain Quartet with Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, and Cooper-Moore. Throughout his career he has performed with Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Milford Graves, and David S. Ware, among others."-William Parker Website (http://www.williamparker.net/)
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Apparently, Mother Nature doesnt like me writing recaps for Reality TV World. Once again, my reality tv viewing was interrupted by rotten weather, this time thanks to Ivan. Unfortunately, even Ivan wasnt powerful enough to wash Rose off my tv screen. *sigh*
Last week on The Complex, Rose got her verticals and got rid of Kim and Carl. It was a good week for her.
Upper complex has a meeting and comments on how they have no other choice but to go for broke. Lower complex celebrates with a bottle of champagne and Brad and Lew talk about how their apartment has been #1 three weeks straight. Rose interviews that Their room was #1 again. They act like they're gods or something. Compared to you, honey? Oh, believe me, they are. Rose says she initially wanted to win for the money to help her kids and grandkids, but now she wants to win just to stuff it in their faces. Well, with her solid design scheme of vertical blinds in place, how can she lose?
Mail call! The next room is the living room. Total budget - $14,000. $11,000 in cash and a $3,000 Sears gift card. Brad and Lew also have the extra $2,000 for being the winning room of last week. Time 5 days. Lower complex agrees on Ana as property manager and Steve will do the job for upper complex.
In apartment #4, Ana says that she wants to keep the view of the ocean the central theme of the room (good call) and that the furniture should be white. Dave talks about doing something modern and Barney immediately jumps on the idea of doing a waterfall on the wall opposite from the ocean view. Yeah
.because why look at the natural beauty of the ocean when you can look at a real live fake waterfall?! What a tool. Ana says she doesnt like the waterfall, so Barney responds maturely by throwing his pencil on the table and Rose walks out. Rose and Barney then get in a fight about her walking out and the whole situation ends up with Barney throwing down his pencil again and saying Do what yous want, and Rose leaving saying Im outta here. Promise? Can I get that in writing please?
Everyone starts ripping up old flooring, molding and the like. Excuse me, but didnt they do this the first day? In lower complex, Dave says he doesnt want to go shopping with Ana because she cant make up her mind, so he and Barney go instead. Theyre definitely the two Id want picking out my furniture. Rose and Ana pull staples out of the floor. Eventually, the guys come back, bragging about the couch they picked out. Ana gets the hiccups (because thats what she does when she sees ugly furniture) and asks if they store will take returns if she doesnt like it. Rose and Barney tell her shes going to have to deal with it because the decision is final.
In apartment #4, they lay the floor. As they finish, the very last board breaks. Somehow, Barney convinces Brad and Lew to pick up an extra board for them. When they guys get to the flooring store to buy the floor for their apartment, they get distracted by some cute kittens in the store and totally forget to get the extra board. Barney, of course, thinks this is a huge conspiracy against them so apartment #4 will lose. Yeah, because deliberately making your apartment lose so you can get rid of some competition isnt a conspiracy at all.
Just over 24 hours to go, Steve basically throws Nicole out so she can buy some furniture. Brad and Lew finish laying the floor and painting the walls. Meanwhile, apartment #4 sits around on their balcony, bragging about how far ahead they are. Steve tells Sam she has to go shopping with Nicole.
Tyler pops his head in and asks Steve to round up all the contestants and gives them their 24 hour warning, then shakes things up a bit. He tells them that they have to switch apartments with their teammates and cannot work at all on their original apartments. So that means Steve and Nicole can only work on Sam and Scottys apartment and vice versa, and Dave, Ana, Barney and Rose can only work on Brad and Lews apartment and vice versa. Teams can act as advisors on their original apartments, but nothing else.
The first to complain, of course, are Rose and Barney. Rose says shes pissed because they have to basically start from scratch and Barney whines that now he has to cut more molding. Brad and Lew comment on how this is basically another form of sabotage. They talk about how they have to abandon three projects for their apartment because theres no way the other team could make them.
Upstairs, Sam and Nicole go power shopping to finish decorating their rooms. Sam basically chooses everything. Meanwhile, Scotty and Steve work on their apartments. Scotty says the shake-up isnt that big a deal to them because theyd been working together since the first day anyway. Steve comments on how he cant wait to see how Brad and Lew direct the four clowns from apartment #1 in finishing their apartment. Steve apparently knows all of Brad and Lews plans because he talks about the desk-corner unit the guys were planning to build. Scotty says Theyre basically screwed.
Barney does the bare minimum on Brad and Lews building projects, but Dave pitches in and says that he actually learned some stuff from them. Awww
Dave just moved back a spot on my jack@ss meter. (Barney and Rose are still steaming all ahead full.)

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Stuart Broad re-ignited England's hopes of Ashes glory with a sensational five-wicket burst on the second day of the decisive fifth Test against Australia at the Oval here on Friday.
Broad took five wickets for 27 runs in 12 overs to remove Shane Watson, captain Ricky Ponting, Michael Hussey, Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin as Australia, bowled out for just 160.
Off-spinner Graeme Swann provided fine support with four for 38 as Australia suffered their third first innings collapse this series.
That left England, who made 332 in their first innings, 172 runs in front and by stumps they had extended their lead to 230 after closing on 58 for three with three more days still scheduled in the match.
Australia left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson, with the aid of two catches at short leg by Simon Katich, removed England first innings top-scorer Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood, who again fell cheaply.
But England captain Andrew Strauss was 32 not out and Test debutant Jonathan Trott unbeaten on eight.
It was a dream position for England in a Test, with the series all square at 1-1, they had to win to regain the Ashes but one where Australia required merely a draw to retain them.
Australia would have been wary of one blond, pace-bowling all-rounder.
But Andrew Flintoff, in his final Test before an injury-induced retirement, was a bit-part player on a day where Broad, in only his 22nd match at this level, took his third five-wicket haul - the same number as Flintoff had managed in 79 Tests.
Australia, on a dusty, crumbling pitch, had made steady progress to be 73 without loss before Broad, the fifth bowler called upon by Strauss, struck with only his sixth ball to spark a collapse that saw eight wickets lost for 58 runs in an extraordinary second session.
Broad, often lauded more for his batting than his bowling, had Watson lbw for 34. It was the first time the opener had failed to reach fifty since coming in for the dropped Phillip Hughes for the drawn third Test at Edgbaston.
Ponting got off the mark with a lucky inside-edged four off Broad.
But the 23-year-old captured the prize wicket of the star batsman, who made just eight, when Ponting played onto a full length ball.
Left-hander Hussey was then undone by a superb Broad inswinger that pitched in line and was lbw for nought.
Australia vice-captain Clarke, the leading batsman in either team this Ashes, had been a thorn in England's side all series with 445 runs, including two hundreds at an average of 89, before this match.
However, he could only manage three on Friday before, driving, he was well caught off Broad by Trott at short extra-cover.
Australia's slump continued when Marcus North was lbw to Swann for eight.
No sooner had left-handed opener Katich completed a 106-ball fifty, he gave a bat-pad catch off Swann to Alastair Cook at short leg.
Katich's innings was one of only three double figure scores in Australia's innings along with Watson's knock and Peter Siddle's 26 not out.
Broad, who maintained good control of line and length throughout his spell, then bowled Haddin with a beauty that hit the middle and off stumps.
It meant he'd taken five wickets for 19 runs in 47 balls, with Broad's haul owing more to his skills and Australia's batsmen than the pitch.
Broad had already had a decent day with the bat before he was last man out for 37.
Johnson fell next, well caught by wicketkeeper Matt Prior off Swann before Australia, at tea, had at least avoided the follow-on.
Flintoff, left out of the side that lost the fourth Test by an innings and 80 runs at Headingley because of fears his suspect right knee would not stand the strain of fast bowling, ended the innings when he bowled Ben Hilfenhaus.
Australia had lost 10 wickets for 87 runs in 30 overs.
England, in a way few had forecast, had given themselves a shot at only a second Ashes series win since Broad's father Chris, the former Test opening batsman, had starred on the team's victorious 1986/87 tour of Australia.
Broad revives England's Ashes bid
Stuart Broad re-ignited England's hopes of Ashes glory with a sensational five-wicket burst on the second day of the decisive fifth Test against Australia at the Oval here on Friday.


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Tag: Salvador Sobral
How I found inspiration in Eurovision and Salvador's song?
"Music is not fireworks, it's a feeling", said Salvador Sobral from Portugal, after winning this year Eurovision. I've embedded the song here, just for a reading atmosphere 🙂 When I was a little girl, I used to love that weekend in May. Many times


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There he stood at the corridor facing the college's cafeteria with his old best friend, the cigarette and a few other friends around him. His friends were talking about their last hang out and the hot girls they met along the way. He was teased for being eyed the most. He just snorted and didn't pay much attention to them. Not that he was bored or being rude, it's just that he was busy. Busy figuring out someone.
That girl over there. On the stairs. In her baju kurung and adidas skate shoes. Her hair a little our of place as usual and she had this little black notebook with her. Which from his observation, she carried all the time. The first time he saw her was when the semester started. At that same stairs, he and his friends used to get to class and saw her sitting there, listening to her MP3 player and writing in her little black book.
He took another puff of his cigarette and continued examining the girl. She was so into writing. She'll be either writing or reading in that book for almost all the time. It was as if that book was her only friend.
They've bumped into each other a few times but never really talked to each other. Once at the boutique where the girl bought an Ian Curtis t-shirt.
"You like Joy Division?" he asked.
She answered with a nod and smiled. Then she walked out of the store. He watched her walk away. "cool" he thought.
Another puff, he took. The curiosity grew deeper by the second. "I have to go check out what's in that book". he put out a cigarette and abandoned his friends. "Where are you going man?" asked one of them. "Somewhere" he answered and headed to the stairs. As he drew closer, he got a closer look at her. She didn't look up to see him. She was so into that little black book. He stopped at the soft drink machine nearby to get catch a clearer view. He wasn't really thirsty but he added coins into the machine anyway. To make it a little less obvious. He did get a clearer view. She appeared to be a little different. A little hardcore. Well, the way she dressed. Baju kurung and skateshoes. Damn. And wrist occupied with bangles. He took a look at her bag. Pinned with badges. Then he shifted his view to her face. She was kinda fair and had this layered long black hair. He smiled. "Not bad.heh".
"You gonna buy that drink or not?" said a voice from behind him. He looked at that guy behind him and pressed the Pepsi button. He then walked up the stairs and stopped halfway. All of a sudden she looked at him with her big dark brown eyes. It was the first time he had a good look at her face. Her facial expression showed no signs of "i want to be alone" or "this stairs belongs to me". She just looked blankly at him. Maybe she was smiling a little bit. "Uh, waiting for a friend" he said. She nodded and smiled at him. He smiled back. She then got back to "work".
Now that he was so close, the hope to catch a glimpse of the content of the little black notebook skyrocketed. Since she was sitting at the left side of the stairs, he moved slowly, soundlessly, carefully to the left until "Dude!!" yelled a friend of his from above the stairs. He was shocked and dropped the can of Pepsi. Yeah, she had a Pepsi bath that day. But somehow, her notebook was safe. Not a drop of Pepsi on it. "Fuck!" he raced down the stairs. "Hey, uh..sorry..damn..you're all wet". She wiped the Pepsi using a tissue, which seem not to have any effect on the cleaning. He crooked his eyebrows. "I'm really sorry". He looked at him straight into his eyes and nodded. "I'm sorry" he repeated. She nodded and smiled, again. This time she even held his shoulder. He felt terrible for what happened. "Do you want me to send you home?" he offered. She shook her head. "Are you sure?". She nodded. A few minutes later, she waved her hand and disappeared into the crowds.
"Dude, what the hell were you doing just now?" asked his friends. He looked at his friends and crooked his eyebrows. He too walked away. Along the way, he realized something. That girl didn't utter a word.
Just a little piece of my extream imagination. It gets worst when I'm bored.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
There he stood at the corridor facing the college's cafeteria with his old best friend, the cigarette and a few other friends around him. His friends were talking about their last hang out and the hot girls they met along the way. He was teased for being eyed the most. He just snorted and didn't pay much attention to them. Not that he was bored or being rude, it's just that he was busy. Busy figuring out someone.
Posted by Lily Cartina at 8:56 AM
2 screams:
- C.E.@ said...
suicidal we are when boredom explodes.
- March 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- Lily Cartina said...
very suicidal indeed
- March 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM


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Somebody is going to jail over this one! It was only last week that the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch dropped a bombshell when it announced the discovery of a treasure trove of at least 18 classified emails on pervert Anthony Weiner's laptop! Although the sex offender is currently serving time in a federal prison, his affiliation with the Clinton political machine is keeping his name at the top of national headlines.
But among the classified materials, there was something else discovered…
While Weiner was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin, some very important classified material passed through this laptop and into the hands of potentially anyone.
According to Judicial Watch some of the classified information includes:
There are five new classified emails among 147 new Abedin work-related documents released by the State Department on Friday, December 29, 2017.
Thirteen emails containing classified information were also found on the Weiner laptop computer that had already been released to the public. This classified material includes discussions about Saudi Arabia, The Hague, Egypt, South Africa, Zimbabwe…
But that's not all…
On Tuesday, Tom Fitton reported that the identity of a CIA official was found on Anthony Weiner's laptop by the FBI.
"The classified material included the identity of a CIA official. I don't need to tell you why we protect the identities of our intelligence officials. They're doing clandestine work. You don't want the other side to know who they are, that they work for CIA. It is exceedingly dangerous. Abedin kept this information in an insecure location – her husband's laptop," Fitton said.
Anthony Weiner is literally rotting away in a jail cell for texting underage teens pictures of his genitals and this type of classified information was just chilling out on his laptop! This is unbelievable.
If anyone doubts that former Secretary of State "Crooked" Hillary Clinton was criminally negligent in her tenure under Obama, this is the perfect remedy for that delusion. All during 2016, the country was bombarded by the liberal mainstream media that Clinton's emails were not that big of a deal.
Heck, anyone could make that mistake, right? Wrong.
Classified information is to remain a closely held secret at all times because people's lives depend on it.
What do you think of the revelation that a CIA operative's identity was found to be compromised on Weiner's laptop?


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Michael Jackson's final business manager is seeking detailed financial records from the singer's estate, arguing that the sealing of the documents could prevent him and other creditors from being paid.
Business manager Tohme Tohme has claimed he is entitled to at least $2.3 million from the estate.
In a court filing Tuesday, Tohme's attorneys argue he and other creditors should have access to unredacted copies of a report filed last week by estate administrators on Jackson's post-death finances.
Tohme's motion seeks access to revenue, expense and profit information that is not publicly available.
Jackson estate attorney Howard Weitzman had not seen the motion and says he could not immediately comment.


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Free guided tours 365 days a year
Eze, the picturesque medieval village, is the home of our charming perfume museum. It reflects the nostalgia of the past with its magnificent antique perfume bottles, as well as the realistic or present state of the industry. This includes the demonstration of our soap production which supplies all of our shops.
You will go behind the scenes and discover the Perfumer's laboratory.
As in Grasse, our shop offers the opportunity for visitors to buy our products at factory prices.
Our establishment is open daily. Guided visits are available for groups or individuals, in all major European languages (and also in Russian and Chinese).
Monday to Sunday, including public holidays
May to September included : 9:00 to 18:30 (visits from 9:00 to 17:45)October to April included : 9:00 to 18:00 (visits from 9:00 to 11:15 and 14:00 to 17:15)
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Each participant will first explore our range of 10 fresh and subtle Eaux de Cologne. Each visitor will then have the opportunity to select 2 to 3 Colognes and blend them to obtain a unique formula to suit the creator's taste and olfactory affinities.
This first step in discovering the magical world of perfume creation will be an unforgettable memory for all.
The workshop will end with a guided visit of our Museum.
Duration: 1 hour (workshop + visit). Suitable for children aged 6 or older. Open to individuals, no minimum number required. In Galimard Eze-Village only.
Available every day from 9:30 to 16:30, subject to availability of our Parfumeur or her assistants.
15ml Eau de Cologne creation per participant.
Price : €15 / person
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Happy New Year everyone. Whether you're suffering from a celebratory hangover or feeling the pain of rooting for a football team that won't be playing for a championship, let part two of my favorite matches from 2016 cure what ails you. If you missed part one you can check it out here.
I want to start out with a few honorable mentions that just narrowly missed making my favorites list but are certainly worth acknowledging.
Viewer Discretion Is Advised for all videos below. I neither own nor operate the pages, links or videos associated with this article and have given video credit to the sources below.
Killshot vs. Dante Fox–Lucha Underground 11-23-16
An interesting back story and no expectations allowed these guys to blow away the "believers" in the LU Temple in this bad-ass, action packed hidden gem.
Video Credit: WWEShowOFF channel; YouTube
American Alpha vs The Revival(NXT Tag Team Titles) 2 out of 3 Falls Match- NXT 7-6-16
Somehow managing to raise the bar from their wrestling clinics at Takeover: Dallas and Takeover: The End, these two teams clashed again in another instant classic that would see the "Top Guys" of NXT narrowly escape with their titles.
Video Credit: WWE channel; YouTube
Cedric Alexander vs. Kota Ibushi – WWE Cruiserweight Classic 8-10-16
Big fan of both guys and was pleased they had THE match of a highly entertaining Cruiserweight Classic tournament. WWE hiring Cedric afterward was also a very cool moment.
Video Credit: WWE channel; YouTube
Kyle O'Reilly vs. Adam Cole (ROH World Title) No DQ Match –ROH Final Battle 12-2-16
ROH's biggest show of the year would close with a wild match between bitter rivals for the world title as Kyle O'Reilly would finally capture the ROH World Championship.
Video Credit: StingerHighlightsHD channel; YouTube
Hirooki Goto vs Kenny Omega- G1 Climax Final 8-14-16
Kenny Omega would summon the spirits of some of New Japan's most notable departures to become the first foreigner to ever win the G1 climax tournament.
Video Credit: Jester channel; DailyMotion
8. Sami Zayn vs. Samoa Joe 2 out of 3 Falls Match – NXT 3-9-16
A methodical masterpiece by two of the best, the Samoan Submission Machine and Sami Zayn went at it for an entire episode of NXT to determine the number one contender to the NXT Title. These two emptied their arsenals transitioning from technical counter and submission wrestling, to high flying and strike based violence seamlessly as they traded falls in this near hour contest. After a grueling match it was Samoa Joe who would earn the victory propelling him back to an NXT Title main event at Takeover: Dallas, and sending Sami Zayn to a clash with the King of Strong Style.
Video Credit: HTWsHighlights channel; YouTube
7. Okada vs. Tanahashi – G1 Climax Tournament 8-12-16
A variety of story-lines converged to up the ante for what was already expected to be another match of the year candidate from New Japan's top hands. Following their match in January at Wrestle Kingdom which saw Okada finally defeat Tanahashi in the Tokyo Dome, seven months later the last two winners of the vaunted G1 Climax tournament would meet again in the finals of Block A. A win by either man would send them to the finals, but a draw would clinch a spot for Hirooki Goto. Okada sought to win the tournament as IWGP Heavyweight Champion and Tanahashi looked to put an exclamation point on a successful return from injury; both attempting to prove to the other once again that they were the best in New Japan. An intense, must-see contest, this match personified the excitement and high match quality the G1 tournament is known for. In a 30 minute time limit draw, each man would keep the other from achieving his goal and blur the answer to the question: Who really is "The Man" in New Japan Pro Wrestling?
Video Credit: Jester channel; DailyMotion. Match starts around 15 minute mark
6. The Young Bucks vs. The Kingdom vs. ReDragon Philly Street Fight – ROH TV Episode 226 1-16-16
Ring announcers…commentators…valets…no one was safe in this one. One of the most fun matches of the year to watch, these three teams would compete with nothing on the line but the desire to win and entertain the raucous Philly crowd in the former ECW arena. They succeeded. Non-stop bad-ass action, exciting weapon shots, table spots and a Fatality Finish that is just too sweet to miss secure this match's place on this list in an illustration of just how fun and entertaining professional wrestling can be.
Video credit: Brutuske Jay channel; YouTube
5. AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (IWGP Intercontinental Title) – Wrestle Kingdom 10 1-4-16
I suffered through the headache of deciphering the Japanese language order page for New Japan World, the streaming service of NJPW (luckily now there is an English language page) and then stayed up until 6 A.M. for the sole purpose of seeing this dream match between the two best performers in the world. Kept apart for two years, the Phenomenal One and the King of Strong Style would finally do battle in the Tokyo Dome in each man's final singles competition as a part of New Japan Pro Wrestling, in a fantastic match that more than exceeded the hype. No interference. No controversy. Just awesomeness from the onset of their entrances. This back and forth battle would see Nakamura retain his title and in a sign of respect, fist bump Styles after the match. While 2016 was undoubtedly the "year of the Phenomenal One" it began with this match. Little did we all know that their fist bump would be a sign both men were coming for the best of WWE, with Styles and Nakamura finishing 2016 as WWE and NXT champion respectively.
Video Credit: TD Factor channel; DailyMotion
4. DIY vs. The Revival – 2 out of 3 Falls for the NXT Tag Team Championship Takeover: Toronto 11-19-16
In one of the greatest tag team matches I've ever seen these four men brought the house down in Toronto. The Revival's in-ring psychology is unparalleled in the world of professional wrestling and this match with Ciampa and Gargano served as a master class on the art of tag team wrestling. With innovative moves, dramatic moments and the crowd in the palm of their hands throughout, these two teams stole the show and even in defeat, the Revival cemented their place as the greatest tag team in NXT history.
Video Credit: WWE Channel; YouTube
3. AJ Styles vs. John Cena – WWE SummerSlam 8-21-16
In a match that should have main-evented the summer's biggest show, AJ Styles and John Cena pushed each other to their breaking points in front of a sold out Barclay's Center in Brooklyn. With each man surviving the other's best finishing and submission moves, the raucous crowd would be brought to their feet following a shocking kick out by Styles. The expression of disbelief, bewilderment and uncertainty on the face of Cena made for one of the most unforgettable moments of the year. Defiantly Styles would rise to his feet and in a stunning turn of events beat John Cena clean on WWE's second biggest show of the year supplanting Cena as "the face that runs the place" in a marquee victory that would propel him to his first WWE Championship only a month later.
Video Credit: WWE Channel; YouTube
2. Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura – Takeover: Dallas 4-2-16
It didn't just steal the show. It didn't just steal WrestleMania weekend. Sami Zayn's NXT swan song and Shinsuke Nakamura's debut stole the entire year from every other performer in WWE. Regardless of what pro wrestling style you fancy, this match has something for you. If you like technical catch wrestling, they do it. If you're a fan of unique submission offense, they do it. A fan of high risk? Its in there. If you like it when guys just smash each other in the face as hard as they can with fists, feet, knees and over two minutes of straight forearm shots, they do it. Eliciting chants of "fight forever" from the energetic Texas crowd, the story-telling, psychology and execution displayed by these world class performers will have you watching this match again and again.
Video Credit: WWE Channel; YouTube
1. Tetsuya Naito vs. Kenny Omega – G1 Climax Tournament 8-13-16
The two villainous leaders of New Japan's most popular factions would meet with a berth in the finals of the G1 Climax Tournament on the line. The outlandish "Don" of the Bullet Club would seek to join Rick Rude and Karl Anderson as the only foreigners to compete in the finals, while the head of Los Ingobernables was on a mission to claim his second G1 title and take his place in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom that he felt he was robbed of in 2014. While I'm not the biggest fan of either guy, the heel vs heel dynamic added to the intrigue of the match and the crispness and smoothness of their performance is impossible to deny. Featuring some outside elements and spots that did not appear in Nakamura vs. Zayn, and having watched it back several times, I feel this was the most complete match from start to finish that 2016 had to offer. Emerging victorious in this match Kenny Omega would go on to win the G1 Climax Tournament putting the cherry on top of a career year that saw him transition from a junior to a true heavyweight, assume the leadership role of the Bullet Club by taking out AJ Styles, earn victories over Nakamura and Tanahashi and capture the IWGP Intercontinental and newly minted 6-Man Tag Team Titles. He heads into Wrestle Kingdom 11 this week to face Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Title in a match that I'm sure will more than earn its place as the main event of New Japan's biggest show of the year.
Video Credit: WrestlingVideos channel; DailyMotion
2016 was a banner year in the world of professional wrestling and if you haven't seen some of these matches or even some of these companies I hope you take the time to check them out. There is so much quality pro wrestling out there and so many different entertaining styles to enjoy.
I want to close this out with an awesome quote from Stone Cold Steve Austin he used when sharing his thoughts on Will Ospreay vs. Ricochet: "If you love this match, more power to you. If you hate this match, more power to you. Its like I always say, professional wrestling is purely subjective. So whatever I like and you hate or vice versa, as long as you have an opinion, nobody's right and nobody's wrong."
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The positive mayor: Gatsas' vision for ManchesterEDITORIAL
November 09. 2013 12:40AM
Congratulations to Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas for his election to a third term last Tuesday. And condolences to Democrat operatives who no doubt thought their higher party registration and labor union support would do the trick this time in a "nonpartisan'' election that is rarely that.
The difference in the mayor's race may have come down to non-aligned or "independent'' voters who looked at the job Gatsas has done more than his Republican Party designation.
Those voters were also likely attracted by something the mayor himself has pointed out: He kept things positive.
There were no negative mailers from Gatsas' campaign. No personal attacks.
He simply ran on and defended his record, which has included helping the state's largest city weather one of the worst economic recessions in modern history.
His challenger was backed by a teachers union that is upset Gatsas keeps asking it to pay its fair share for rising health costs. But his challenger, who complained that the incumbent lacked vision, had none of his own to offer.
Gatsas does have a vision: to manage a challenging, diverse city as efficiently, safely, and positively as possible.
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Feld, one of five "wise men" economists whose views help shape the public debate in Germany but often have little direct impact on policy, said recent estimates by the group suggested Germany's gross claims from the eurozone are about €3.5 trillion (£2.7 trillion).
"When a good part of the claims would go in default, there would be insolvencies in small and medium-sizes firms and the economy would be hit," Feld told a Frankfurt journalist club.
"This drop could amount to 7pc to 10pc of the [German] gross domestic product."
A Greek exit could also not be achieved without substantial costs, Feld said and added that the risk of contagion via the banking system had been reduced, but there was still a strong risk that Greece's exit could prompt investors to expect other countries to follow suit.
A number of German officials have been talking up the options of pushing Greece - which is largely being kept afloat by funds from the German government - to drop out of the euro.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and allies remain firmly against that idea.
Feld also said that there are few options to solving the crisis, "and many of them are not especially pretty".
He also said that he expected the German economy to grow about 0.8pc to 0.9pcpc this year, with third and fourth quarters seeing no growth or contraction.
Meanwhile, ratings agency Moody's said the eurozone crisis tops a list of threats to the global economy, followed by the risk of a "hard landing" in emerging economies.


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Vortex Solution at Montreal's Grafik'Art Salon
15 April | Posted by @Catherine Beaumier Lacroix Presented by Maître Imprimeur, the Grafik'Art Salon is considered to be the ideal annual event for professional graphic designers in Quebec. This year, the sixth edition, which is currently being held at Place Bonaventure until April 16, has gained in popularity.
Creating websites: Database design
15 April | Posted by @Marc-André Lamothe The foundation of a powerful and easy-to-maintain website lies undeniably upon the database on which it is built. Nowadays, almost every online website is database-driven; these are referred to as dynamic websites.
Quebec is on the fast track to Web TV
13 April | Posted by @Guy Michon In 2010, Quebec television has taken a new turn that could read the pulse of the future of our traditional ''small screen''. At the heart of the challenges that the digital industry is facing, Web TV has made a lot of noise and is at the crux of numerous debates in Quebec as elsewhere.
Companies in the digital age
07 April | Posted by @Catherine Beaumier Lacroix Mankind has lived through the Stone Age, the Neolithic period, the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Modern Age and the Industrial revolution, building, over time, societal structures that enable humans to communicate with each other and that continuously improve interactions between them. Humankind is gregarious, probably the most gregarious of all species known to exist. From hunter-gatherer tribes to megacities such as Tokyo and New York, individuals, for thousands of years, have established a process of interaction by which humankind is able to evolve. At the dawn of the 21st century, humanity has entered a new era, one that completely transforms interpersonal relationships; welcome to the digital age!
Cybersquatting: a widespread custom
01 April | Posted by @Catherine Beaumier Lacroix Last Thursday, the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) has published the latest results regarding cybersquatting. The study reveals that the number of complaints registered in 2010 has reached a new peak. With a 28% increase on the 2009 level, which was 16% higher than the registered numbers in 2008, we can state that cyberspace litigations are causing more and more headaches.
Vortex Solution is proud to be associated with Montreal's 2011 INTRACOM event!
31 March | Posted by @Catherine Beaumier Lacroix The quintessential web and new interactive communications event, Montreal's INTRACOM, will take place on April 12 and 13, for its tenth edition.
It's Yulbiz's fifth birthday; and Vortex Solution was there!
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Mugen No Ryvius (sub)
In medieval Japan, a witch curses a master swordsman with immortality. After many years he grows tired of it and asks her to make him mortal again if he atones for his sins by killing a 1000 evil men. A girl seeking revenge helps him.
Genres: Animation, Action, Adventure
Actor: Mela Lee, Keith Silverstein, Rina Satô, Tomokazu Seki
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Country: Japan
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Antique Bakery 4
March 7, 2007
Aah! It ended! There was no closure, and the end was a bit agonizing when the kid kidnappings started up again and you think that Tachibana is going to get revenge, but… he does get his moment, a couple times.
Lots happens with Eiji early on in the volume. He has to start taking French lessons against his will, and Ono has to put him back in line when he strays. He has a mini-confession about how much he likes the bakery, then things go back to normal.
There are lots of weird hints and reflections about Tachibana and Ono's past. I kind of liked it.
Yeah. I liked this series. It was fantastic. Scratch-n-sniff covers for life, baby.
Also, I feel the need to mention that I got all four volumes of this and Flower of Life together from Amazon, and the books arrived absolutely SOILED. Like, caked in filth so bad that my hands were completely covered in dirt just from unpacking the box. After wiping them all down copiously with paper towel, the books are still so dirty that I need to wash my hands after reading each one. Buyer beware on that one, I'm cutting back on my Amazon.com stuff.
Antique Bakery 3
March 7, 2007
It's a real shame this series is only 4 volumes long. Then again, I can't imagine where else it would go.
There was significantly less interesting backstory in this one, but plenty of character development all the same. Our man Ono gets a ton of screen time, with both backstory and a scene where he overcomes his fear. There is also lots more of slipping in and out of the past for all three of the old men this time around, and we even get an exciting relative showing up for Chikage near the end of the volume.
I wound up liking Chikage a lot more here. I still think he's kind of a silly character, but when they showed him holding Tachibana after he'd woken up from a nightmare and promising Tachibana he wouldn't tell anyone, it's hard not to just melt.
There's also much time dedicated to two female reporters. I kinda hope the one doesn't come back as a love interest for Tachibana, because that would be too predictable.
Other than that? Still an awesome character-based series that lives in the moment. It's not even right to call it episodic because so many small events happen in each chapter… the whole thing just blends together in this sort of wonderful Yoshinaga harmony.
Antique Bakery 2
March 7, 2007
There are many scenes where the characters are yelling where, for whatever reason, their teeth have been shaded in. It makes it look as if all our young men need dentures or something.
I don't approve of the addition of sunglasses man. He doesn't quite fit into the bakery, but I suppose they needed another person so that the main character could run out and do Christmas deliveries. That chapter about sampling the Christmas food was pretty funny. There were a bunch of good parts, like the chapter about Ono and sunglasses where the main character got a slap in over a slight to sunglasses, or where we learn young kid was some sort of punk manwhore when he was younger. They needed to balance the supergay chapter after it with a chapter that implied a lot of straight sex. In fact, so much straight sex that the young boy didn't want any anymore.
My favorite chapter this time around though was probably the one where we learn so much about the main character's past. He's not just some scruffy old dude, he's actually got a lot of family that care about him and a traumatic past that ties back to the bakery. At this point, I'm beginning to like the little time slips the series does occasionally, because they always seem to tie back.
Not that I even want an overarching plot, but maybe we'll get one yet. We'll see.
Antique Bakery 1
March 7, 2007
Here, Fumi Yoshinaga, take my money! Please! You can have it all if you keep producing manga as consistently good as every single page of all the volumes I've read from you so far!
I actually had my doubts at the beginning of this one. I liked the focus on the bakery at first, but the story jumped around so much at the beginning it was hard for me to place the characters and link them to the brief glimses of the past I got. It was a really unique technique though, and I admired it. I got into the groove about halfway though, and I was sold on the full page that Ono got where he posed and said something about being a gay of demonic charm. It was totally random and wound up being an awesome chapter. He truly did get into every guy's pants he sought, and it was also a testament to the strength of the story that the two guys who worked there were the only two guys on earth who could resist him and it was totally believable (or maybe just not something that you thought too hard about).
But it's not a Boy's Love series! Fumi likes to tease cause she knows that's what you think she does. Mostly it's a lot like Flower of Life where random events and conversations carry the series. A lot of the stories deal with the customers at the bakery and random little events in their lives, some deal with the backstories and lives of the three that work at the bakery, and the conversations at the bakery itself are interspersed with copious descriptions of every kind of delicious cake imaginable. It's hard not to run to the bakery down the street and scarf a bunch of cheap cookies to curb my appetite for delicious French confections.
Also: three pages detailing the morning routines of the three main characters. They manage to be hilarious despite the slim amount of time you've spent with these three characters.
Also Also: Why didn't anyone tell me these had scratch-n-sniff covers!? I would have bought them a long time ago had I known about that.


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Rhen Var, shortly after the events in the Rise of the Legend 11.
Harash Soru stared out across the frozen plains of Rhen Var and shuddered.
Harash Soru: "Jedi aren't supposed to fell the cold they say."
He snorted.
Harash Soru: "Tell that to my chattering teeth."
His first mission had been nothing more than an inspection. He was about to turn back to his ship when suddenly the ice below him let out a soft groan.
Before Hara could do anything the ice before him broke apart and a tall metal cylinder rose up out of the frozen rubble.
Hara slowly inspected the metal tube. He found a hatch a shrugged.
Harash Soru: "If its a trap I might as well spring it."
Hara jumped down and landed in a long, bare corridor.
Harash Soru: "Hello?"
He bit his lips and began to move forwards.
Opening a small hatch he found himself in a square room, a figure in red stood with his back to Hara.
Altria Skyner: "Greetings Harash Soru, my Master will be disappointed."
Harash Soru: "You are Irvin Mard's Apprentice I take it."
Altria Skyner: "Yes. And killing you will make me his equal."
Hara chuckled.
Harash Soru: "Everyone seems to want me dead these days."
Altria Skyner: "Then maybe you should take the hint."
Altria charged Hara, the two warriors clashing together in a shower of sparks.
They spun arund, Altria hissing wildly.
Altria: "I cannot be stopped!"
Hara jumped, grabbing hold of a metal pole and spinning around to kick Altria squarely in the chest.
Harash Soru: "Altria Skyner, you are under arrest."
Altria Skyner: "Arrest? Why not kill me Soru?"
Harash Soru: "Because then I would be no different to you, Skyner. A fool and a slave."
Altria Skyner: "You're a fool Soru! You may have won today but my Master and I will destroy you!"
Altria jumped to his feet and charged past Soru.
Hara turned and hurried after Altria.
Harash Soru: "If you're so powerful then why do you run?"
Altria turned into a small bay and hurried into an escape pod.
Altria Skyner: "I'd run if I were you Soru. I'd hate to see this place blow up with you in it."
Hara gritted his teeth. Skyner had activated the sub's self-destruct sequence, Hara had moments to escape.
Harash Soru: "Another day Skyner."
The Jedi spun around and ran out of the sub, calling on the Force to increase his speed.
The ground shook as the sub exploded, the shock wave throwing Hara off of his feet.
Hara lay quietly on the floor and sighed as a second explosion rang out across the Arctic waste.
Harash Soru: "Well there goes my ship I guess. Looks like I'm stuck here for now."
Tron-117: "You're a Jedi Master Soru. You're never alone!"
Hara frowned as he stood up and turned around.
Harash Soru: "Who are you?"
Tron-117: "I am Tron-117, this is Padawan Wez Spargal. We'd be happy to give you some help."
Harash Soru: "And I'd happily take it. Thank you, Master Tron."
Tron-117: Thanks are not needed Master Soru. After all, we are all brothers in our war for justice."
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April 2, 2012
awesome episode :) i like this series and the character.
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jedi master skyner
March 27, 2012
YAY i'm in thank you and the creation is epic
Timmy Sterkel (currently on spring break)
March 27, 2012
ohhhh the name i forgot! just Timmy Skywalker if possible. or is that to complicated cause skywalker may mess up the series
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Timmy Sterkel
March 27, 2012
awesome!! ya ill have another sig fig. ill take one purple saber and make it look like my sig ifg if possible thx! also i think if u keep making these types of comics ur bound to get recongizied by someone star wars professionial guy
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March 27, 2012
Great episode mate! The fight scene is epic just like always.
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Michael Kringe
March 26, 2012
Excellent! The thing I love most about Rise of the Legend is the many different characters and planets and the amazing SW athmosphere.
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Ben Cossy
March 26, 2012
Another great chapter with an epic fight scene :D Nice work ;)
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Admiral Varkov
March 25, 2012
Excellent chapter! The surprise appearance of Tron and Wez at the end is great!
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Draconic Master of the Dragon
March 25, 2012
Awesome chapter! can't wait for the next one!
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Commander Chain
March 25, 2012
Really great episode! Great battle scene, this was awesome!
I made it
Harry 863
March 25, 2012
Quoting Gabe Martinez
Very good, but one question: where did Tron and Wez come from?
All will be revealed next episode haha
Gabe Martinez
March 25, 2012
Very good, but one question: where did Tron and Wez come from?
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commander ben
March 25, 2012
Very cool good job
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This was a little project made out of walnut and bradford pear that is styled after a mushroom. Made on a Nova 3000. Finished with Watco danish oil and beall buffed.
-- Bob Anderton - Austin, TX - Nova 3000 lathe, Alaskan Mark III mill, Husqavarna Saw
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#1 posted 10-07-2013 02:53 AM
Always a fum project. Nice work.
-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.
#2 posted 10-07-2013 10:56 PM
It's a whole other reason to love mushrooms!
-- Henry Mowry, Santa Clarita, CA, http://www.MowryJournal.com
#3 posted 10-09-2013 02:45 PM
Cool little box! Like the mushroom shape and the contrasting wood colors. Great work!
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Kelvin Sampson was genuinely pleased to be home in Pembroke and The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
"I never thought I would be a distinguished speaker," Sampson told an audience of more than 500 on April 28 at the Givens Performing Arts Center. "I never thought I would be distinguished. I'm honored."
Sampson, a 1978 graduate and head basketball coach at Oklahoma University, was the final speaker in UNCP's Distinguished Speaker Series.
"I take representing Pembroke and UNCP very seriously," he said.
Appearing very comfortable on his home court, Sampson mixed stories of his family and growing up in Pembroke with the lessons he has learned in 26 years as a head coach. And, he offered inspiration.
"As you grow older, you go from having heroes to having people who inspire you," the 46-year-old coach said. "I challenge everyone in this room to find someone to inspire you and find a way to inspire someone else."
Sampson and his teams have been accused of being overachievers after building one of top programs in the nation without the benefit of waves of blue-chip players.
"I don't like the word over achieve. Don't ever tell me my teams overachieve," he said. "If you're successful, you've live up to your ability level."
"We don't want to have great teams," he said. "We want to have a great program."
Sampson's team has won three straight Big 12 Conference tournament championships and is invited to the NCAA tournament every year. But he said he has learned more lessons from losing than winning.
At his first head coaching stop at Montana Tech, his first two teams went 5-22 and 4-23.
"Jud Heathcote called me up to congratulate me for taking Montana Tech from obscurity to oblivion," Sampson laughed. Heathcote was the Michigan State coach who gave the young college graduate from Pembroke his first coaching job.
"The first step up the ladder of success is failure," he said. "It's nothing to be ashamed of."
Sampson persevered at Montana, and his next stop was in the PAC 10 at Washington State.
"The toughest job in the PAC 10 is Washington State," he said. "Any team that would hire a 24-year-old Native American as its coach has to be in bad shape."
Sampson's first team went 1-17 in PAC 10 play.
"We weren't really that bad. We just weren't good enough to win," he said. "Of all the things that have happened to me, that was the best."
"Mature people know how to handle adversity," Sampson said. "People who can't handle adversity, blame others."
Sampson said he admires commitment, unselfishness and teamwork in his players.
"Some kids have a hard time being teammates," he said. "A very good player will get you 15 points and 10 rebounds a night. A great player will get you 15 points, 10 rebounds and will be your most popular player, the kid of kid other players will go to when they're down."
"Coaching is getting your kids to understand teamwork, to be givers," Sampson said. "I don't like people who were born on third base and think they hit a triple. If your best player is your hardest worker, it will be hard not to succeed."
"Soft people want things handed to them," the coach said. "Successful people compete, not just play hard."
To the young people of the audience, Sampson had this advice.
"Kids will tell you it's tough for them," he said. "You can be anything you want, but you can't be afraid to fail."
"Ordinary people do extraordinary things," he said.
Sampson answered questions following the speech. During the day, he taped an interview with WNCP, the university's broadcast program, and spoke with UNCP's men's basketball team.
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Three speakers have been signed on for next year's Distinguished Speaker Series, Today Show host Soledad O'Brien, Native American Olympic champion Billy Mills and filmmaker Spike Lee. A fourth speaker will be announced soon.
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After a record-breaking junior season, an ACL injury derailed the much-anticipated senior campaign of East Surry's Bryce Smith. And while an injury is never something to celebrate, it could be one of the biggest things to ever happen to Surry Community College's volleyball program.
Smith, who drew attention from college scouts across the nation after an impressive showing in the Under Armour Phenom Showcase in Nebraska last year, signed her letter of intent Friday to play volleyball at Surry Community College in 2017. And while the injury was definitely a blessing in disguise for the Knights' volleyball program, SCC head coach Jan Marion-Kiser believes it will be mutually beneficially for Smith, who just happens to be her niece.
"Absolutely she would have been able to go to a bigger school without her injury. She does have schools talking to her. But I think her mentality is she feels comfortable being at Surry because she will have to get back into this slowly. She was just released to start playing again this past week," Marion-Kiser said. "She is going to have to really get back into it slowly and she will have to wear a knee brace, which she hates, but I've never seen a kid so committed to getting herself back to where she has before, and I feel like she will come back stronger. There were tons of schools emailing her and calling her. She has options and some really good options, so we are extremely fortunate she made the choice she made."
If Smith returns anywhere near the caliber of player she was at East Surry, the Knights will be getting a superstar. During her junior season in Pilot Mountain, Smith set the school record for digs in a game with 40 in a contest against East Wilkes. She tallied 36 more in a clash with Mount Airy. Both totals helped her break the Cardinals' school-record for most digs in a season with a whopping 575. She would have shattered several more school records if she could have played her senior season, Marion-Kiser said.
"I'm very lucky to get this caliber of player. She is phenomenal in what she does on the court," Marion-Kiser said. "She's a top-notch player and such a competitor. She can do it all. She can set and pass, she's just not a big hitter. But we have gained one of the best defensive players we have ever had. She is only 5-3, but she's quick and she hits the floor. I have a quote that every ball is playable. I tell my girls all the time you just have to make it where you are able to play the ball. And Bryce is that quote. She believes every ball she can get up and make a play on. I feel like with what we have coming back and adding her in with this group of girls, this will be a fun season."
At the Libero position, Smith possesses all the physical tools to excel on the court at the collegiate level. But as impressive as her game is on the hardwood, Marion-Kiser was equally taken aback with how the East Surry senior has handled herself off the court after her season-ending injury.
"She is the type of person that a coach wants. She is a general when she is on the floor. She just commands everybody to be playing at their highest level. She will be the first to be there to tell you what a great job you did, or if you mess up to tell you to keep your head up and keep pushing," Marion-Kiser said.
"But this year I've noticed it more watching her not be able to play, that she has such a maturity in the way she looks at a game. It was really hard for her because her little sister, Morgan Smith, was a freshman at East Surry and took her spot on the floor. What I love about Bryce is how she didn't allow that injury to sideline her, she took it as a challenge to teach Morgan the game as she knows it and to push her to excel at that position. Morgan did a great job as a freshman and I think did Bryce the justice that position deserves. Most kids you see have an injury like that feel like they are not a part of team because they are not playing. Bryce never had that attitude. She was a huge presence on that court with them because of where she was on the sideline and helping younger players and taking Morgan under her wing and making her a mentally tough player. Surry is really lucky to have her on the floor."
Attending Surry Community College will allow Smith to get some classes out of the way since she's undecided on a major, while getting back into the groove on the volleyball court. Smith said she is glad to get back on the court and she's particularly intrigued by the level of talent returning to Dobson in 2017.
"I am really excited because I know most of the girls that are on the team," Smith said. "We go watch the team play a lot and I think we will have really good chemistry and play well together."
CUTLINE: East Surry senior Bryce Smith signs a letter-of-intent to play volleyball at Surry Community College on Friday. Pictured are front row, from left: Connie Smith, Bryce Smith and Keith Smith. Back row: East Surry volleyball coach Caleb Gilley, Surry Community College volleyball coach Jan Marion-Kiser, Morgan Smith, Preston Smith, East Surry Principal Lorrie Sawyers.


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Don't make any sudden movements, or I will hurl. That's how sick I am right now. My body wants to throw up, and all it needs is the slightest visual excitement to cause it. The Final Four is going on right now, but I'm watching golf instead, because it's the only thing slow enough to keep my lunch in my stomach.
I tried to watch basketball, but I'm at a stage of sickness where if someone on TV runs, jumps, or even speaks above a whisper, I will hurl a quantity of vomit that rivals the floods in Fargo. Yet if I don't watch TV, I will think about hurling, which will also cause me to hurl. It's only 11am, and I'm trapped. All I can do for the rest of the day is watch golf on TV until it's time to go to sleep, and then hope that I don't unknowingly hurl all over myself before I wake up again.
If I had cable TV, I might be able to find an old black and white movie where the characters do nothing but talk, but I can't afford cable. So I'm forced to watch The Arnold Palmer Invitational, which is the entertainment equivalent of watching your grandmother sew a pair of mittens from start to finish. But even your grandmother wouldn't pair ugly Nike shirts with business pants.
I hate golf. My parents call me once every few weeks to keep in touch, and whenever we talk on a Sunday my dad will ask me if I'm watching golf. It's a mean trick. He knows I'm not, and the minute I say no, he'll launch into a full description of whatever boring golf tournament is on TV.
"Well, Tiger is catching up . . ."
"Stop it! I hate golf!"
"He wasn't doing so hot earlier, but now he's . . ."
"I hate this! Stop describing it! You always do this!"
What's the point of watching golf? Tiger Woods could hit a 700-yard drive, and it would still look the same as a 200-yard one on TV. I'll admit that the green grass, calm blue skies, and quiet announcers are great at fighting off hurl, but why would anyone in good health watch golf? It's four hours of people with silly names like Sean O'Hair and Matthew Goggin hanging out on a very nice lawn. The only person I've heard of in the entire PGA is Tiger Woods, and he's wearing a pink shirt, so I refuse to root for him.
Did you know 79-year-old Arnold Palmer isn't even playing in his own invitational? What a dick.
Oh God. I almost hurled. They cut to a golfer named Brian Gay, and I laughed a little. The involuntary movement almost caused me to barf. I need to be more careful in the future. If there's anything worse than watching golf for four hours to keep from barfing, it's doing so and then puking anyway.
Some people say I should just throw up and get it over with. Screw that. It's a matter of pride. If I hug a toilet, then the virus wins. It's like waiting until the last possible day to pay your taxes. You know the government will win, but you'll be damned if you're going to pay them earlier than necessary.
Some guy named Zach Johnson just spent four minutes practicing his stance while the announcers discussed how pleasant he is in person. Can one of you faithful readers please kill me? This is TV for old people with easily hurt feelings. I can't take this crap anymore.
Oh God. They cut to a car commercial showing a view from inside a fast-moving vehicle. It's making me woozy. I was able to close my eyes in time to keep from hurling, but I'm going to get an old cooking pan and place it next to the couch just in case this happens again.
Have you ever heard someone throw up into an old cooking pan? It echoes a little.
Oh God. They just played a Howie Long truck commercial. It wasn't particularly fast-moving, but Howie Long's haircut makes me want to puke even when I'm not ill.
The TV listings say this golf tournament was supposed to be over at 3pm, but it's now 4pm and it hasn't stopped. I'm glad. When this ends, my only chance for vomit freedom will be to go online and watch golf clips, or go to the video store and rent "Dorf on Golf" or various Leslie Nielsen golf instructional videos.
Oh God. Now there's a commercial for grilled cheese on TV. It's showing kids pulling apart the two halves of a sandwich, with the gooey cheese stretching and oozing. This is too much. I need to . . . Can you hold on for a second? Excuse me.
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I just cooked my first cheesecake and cooked it in a water bath. I put foil over the springform pan as Thomas Keller describes in his Ad Hoc cookbook, but somehow water snuck in. My crust looks pretty soggy. I really don't have time to make another cake; it's for a party tonight. Is there anything I can do at this point to make it less soggy? Will it still taste decent? Thanks!
If the water only made the crust soggy then I think your cake should still taste good. You could replace the crust with crushed nuts or cookies or even graham crackers to get the crunch back. I would carefully scrape the soggy crust away from the sides and press in something new. If the bottom is also soggy you could lay some of the replacement on a plate and slide the cake right on top. You could even use crushed up candy (it being close to Halloween). Heath bars, peppermint bark or nut brittle come to mind. If it looks like the replacement crust isn't going to stick to the sides of the cake after the scraping you could apply some frosting or whipped cream to act as glue. If you use nuts I would suggest toasting them before crushing and applying to the cake. Cookies or graham crackers could be crushed (not too finely) and tossed with a little melted butter to get them to stick. It won't be identical to the baked cracker crust but cheesecake+crunchy stuff is good regardless.
Hmm. This is a tough one -- and we've all been there! If it's just a bottom crust, you might consider not serving the crust part. As you cut slices, just stop when you hit the crust, so you're serving, essentially, cheese custard. No one is going to ask "Where's my crust!" so don't worry.
I'd transfer the cheesecake to a stack of paper towels which should wick away the moisture. Taste shouldn't be a problem.
I'd probably scrape off the crust and make either a chocolate sauce or berry compote to cover everything that was under the crust.
Let us know what you ended up doing! How did it go? I hope well.
Thanks so much for the prompt and helpful ideas. I ended up using ChefOno's idea, since it was the fastest/least labor intensive option, and it turned out well! The crust wasn't as crisp as it should have been, but was still good and edible (it helps that it was chocolate, probably). No leftovers, so I think my guests enjoyed it!


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Since we don't have Kirsten's St. Lucia gown, I decided to make one! I used Josefina's blouse from her feast outfit and a red ribbon we had lying around. For the wreath, I scrounged in the basement and found some faux leaves that twine around each other nicely. The candle is just from a box.
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Re "Jerry Brown's Comeback" by John Nichols [June 9/16]: I have been voting for Jerry Brown as long as I've been voting for Tom Hayden—but not this time. In his quest to prove to himself, perhaps, that he is an independent man, Mr. Brown is bringing us fracking.
This is California! We have all the sun and wind necessary to create a solar/wind-powered, energy-efficient, carbon-neutral state that could be a shining star. Jerry has the drive and creative energy to create a program that would put thousands of disenfranchised Latino and African-American kids to work in their communities doing something to make us all proud! Instead, he is bringing us fracking. He will never get my vote again.
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When will California's governor display the smarts to have desalination units installed along the state's coast? They would pipe cleaned ocean water into drought-stricken areas and provide drinking water to their inhabitants. Ditto for states that border the Gulf of Mexico. During his presidency, Jimmy Carter promoted water pipelines from the Gulf to the Midwest. Congress ignored him. Now, because of political ignorance, drought threatens our agriculture. Would a President Bernie Sanders act smarter? Yes.
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Thanks for introducing Nation readers to my friend the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II ["A Prophetic Moral Vision," July 7/14]. He is a brilliant strategist and tactician who speaks like an angel. At the end of his article about movement building, there was an unfortunate typo. You printed: "God has given us everything we need; all we need to do is fight back and fight forward. And if we do it, our children's children will holler our name, because in the time of challenge, we did not give up." Sometimes we do "holler" when the racist right tries to aggravate the man-made breach in the human race we have dedicated our lives to repairing. But here, he wrote "hallow," as in "hallowed be thy name."
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In a first-of-its-kind development, the Oregon legislature passed and the Governor will sign into law a minimum wage hike law that will go into effect July 1, 2016. Under the new law, the rates will steadily increase through 2023, eventually giving Oregon the highest minimum wage rates in the nation.
For the first time in Oregon history, employers will pay different minimum wage rates depending on the part of the state in which they are located, with employers in Portland's Urban Growth Boundary paying the most, employers in sparsely populated "frontier" areas paying the least, and a middle tier of all other employers in between. The details are as follows:
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The law does not specifically explain how an employer should determine its location for purposes of paying minimum wage, or whether employees will be entitled to various wage rates if they travel through the state (or out of the state) as part of their jobs. Instead, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries has been given the authority to issue rules that will describe how that determination is to be made. We will update this Alert once the clarifying rules are finalized.
Several worker-advocacy groups have been collecting signatures on proposed ballot measures since last summer, seeking to raise the minimum wage for all Oregon workers; one would raise the state-wide minimum wage to $15.00 by 2019, and another would raise the rate to $13.50 by 2018. It remains to be seen whether passage of this law will dissuade advocates from continuing their efforts to include these proposals on the November ballot.


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O, Canada - Ontario, Land of Lakes
Ontario's 'National Anthem'
It's all in a name
There are several theories about where the name "Ontario" originated. Some say the name is a variation of an Iroquoian word, "kanadario" which means "sparkling, or beautiful water".
Another resource says it is a variation of the word "Onitariio" which translates to "beautiful lake". Still another purports the name to have been developed from the term "Skanadario" which means "very pretty lake", however, it has been stated that the translations could not have been as descriptive as previously thought.
Beauty in geographical features is uncommon in Aboriginal naming. In the Iroquioan languages such as Huron, Mohawk and Seneca, the name most likely means simply, "a large body of water".
Either way, the name "Ontario" fits the geography of the region like a custom fitted moccasin.
Canada's most famous, or infamous, province is Ontario. The first Europeans to explore this immense piece of real estate were Etienne Brulé, Henry Hudson, and Samuel de Champlain in 1610, 1611, and 1615 respectively, which sparked a feud that has lasted until present day.
Dubbed Upper Canada in 1791, Ontario weathered several wars and subsequent name changes until 1867, when it was finally decided to call this new province, Ontario.
Size does matter
Even the residents of Ontario sometimes don't appreciate the sheer size of this province. Canada's second largest province covers more than one million square kilometers (415,000 square miles,) and is larger than France and Spain combined.
Ontario sits in between Quebec to the east, and Manitoba to the west. Hudson Bay and James Bay form its northern border, with the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes providing its border to the south.
Boasting an east-west distance of 1690 kilometers, (1050 miles) and a north-south distance of 1730 kilometers, (1075 miles) this province's most northerly communities are nearly the same latitude as London, England and Warsaw, Poland, with its southernmost point being roughly the same latitude as Barcelona, Spain, and Rome, Italy.
The world's largest freshwater island of 2766 square kilometers, (1068 square miles) is Manitoulin Island in Georgian Bay, and Ontario is deemed the largest province in regards to population, with over 13 million residents.
Water, water everywhere...
Over a quarter million lakes and countless rivers and streams in Ontario hold about 1/3 of the world's fresh water supply. Most northern Ontario rivers flow into James Bay and Hudson Bay, and the rivers of southern Ontario flow into the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River system.
With all this much water surging through the province, a lot of it ends in rapids and falls, such as Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park in Thunderbay.The Ojibwa Indians (who Longfellow wrote about in his Hiawatha poem) were the original inhabitants of this area. Legend has it that an Ojibwa Princess saved her people by pretendingto befriend the Sioux tribe. She showed them where their enemy, theOjibwa, lived and paddled down the river with the Sioux on her tail, lurching out of the water just before the great falls as theSioux tumbled to their deaths.
Ontario's jewel
Nicknamed the 'Honeymoon Capital of the World', Niagara Falls was formed when glaciers receded at the end of the last Ice Age.
The water from the newly formed Great Lakes, carved their way through the Niagara Escarpment on their way to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Falls are not exceptionally high, but they are approximately 790 meters, (2600 feet) wide. Over 6 million cubic feet (168,000 m3) of water cascades over its crest every minute, during high flow, and nearly 4 million cubic feet (110,000 m3) on average, making it the most powerful waterfall in North America.
The Falls have been a major tourist attraction and honeymoon haven since the 18th century, and by mid century it was the area's main industry. Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Jerome, reportedly visited with his bride in the early 19th century.
Bobby Leach was the second person, and the first male to go over the falls in a barrel, resulting in a six month hospital stay from his injuries. In the winter of 1911, Niagara Falls completely froze over, as shown in the picture.
The Great Lakes
Ontario's southern border is mostly taken up by The Great Lakes.
Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario hold one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water. The combined shoreline of the Great Lakes is equal to about 45 per cent of the earth's circumference, and are the world's biggest continuous body of fresh water.
More than 98 per cent of Ontario residents — 13 million people — live within the Great Lakes Basin, and depend on the Great Lakes for their drinking water. Over 70 per cent, or three out of four residents, get their drinking water from the lakes.
The nation's capital
Welcome to our nation's capital, home of the Legislative Buildings, the Prime Minister, Governor General, and my birthplace, which is of course, much more important (to me at least) than the fact that Ottawa is the political hub of Canada.
The Prime Minister's official residence is a beautiful mansion overlooking the Ottawa River, at 24 Sussex Drive. It is modest in comparison to the American White House, but is much more private. There are no tours, and you cannot even enter the grounds, except by special invitation of the Prime Minister. Most of the functions of the kind performed at the White House are held elsewhere.
In terms of official powers, the Prime Minister of Canada wields more power than an American President, whose actions are limited by Congress, however, the PM has to answer to his opponents on an almost daily basis in the House of Commons.
You can take a tour of Ottawa, via the Rideau Canal, or of course, by other means as well, but these tours are so scenic you wouldn't want to pass them up. The very best time to take a stroll, or river tour is in the autumn, when the leaves start to turn. The maple trees that made our flag famous, show off their fall hues of red and gold - and all the shades in between, making this the most beautiful time of year to visit Ontario.
Interesting facts
Did you know...
- The largest rock formation in Canada is the Canadian Shield and it covers almost two thirds of Ontario.
- The Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie is the halfway point of the Trans-Canada Highway which runs from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John's Newfoundland.
- The Ontario - U.S. border is made up almost entirely of water.
- Heart valves were transplanted for the first time in Toronto, Ontario in 1956.
- The world's first successful double lung transplant was done in Toronto, Ontario in 1986.
- Ontario is Canada's leading manufacturer, producing and shipping over 60% of all manufactured goods.
- The Trent Canal has the highest hydraulic lift lock in the world - the Peterborough Lift Lock - which raises vessels 65 feet.
- The east and west wings of the Ontario Legislative Building are two different shades.
- Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in Toronto on September 5, 1914.
- Ontario has two time zones - Central and Eastern.
- Apollo 16 and 17 astronauts had geology field trips to Sudbury as part of their training.
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I learned a lot about Ontario from you, and loved the pictures.
Haida language - interesting differences from Iroquois phrases!
I really like the black fly video, I forgot to say
Hi Enelle! - This half-Mohawk woman can say only "water" to you - Ohneka - or "lake" - Kenyatare, and send you telepathic thoughts that is is beutiful! Otherwise I could wish you Ohio (O-hee-yo), great river. Too bad we don't have the expression "smooth sailing." lol The language is kind of like Klingon in that way - modifiers take up survival time. In modern days, I hear that many Iroquois have indeed replaced the "great" in English with "beautiful", which I like. Can I wiah you a Great Beautiful River? That is my wish.
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Beautiful Place, beautiful hub, beautiful pictures.
Wow! Let em be the first to congratulate you on this quality work! What a great capstone for Ontario - you have certainly done your birthplace proud. Love all the First-Nations at the beginning. Well done, as usual, and even better than usual Enelle!


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