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This year, there was an embarrassment of riches on screen. My cup runneth over with great films, so to speak. In fact, quite a number of films that were dismissed or passed over by audiences and critics alike really truly spoke to me in a profound way. There was an abundance of creativity, with directors, actors, and screenwriters finally bringing passion projects to the screen, and breaking new ground. Some have cited the summer movie season as one of the worst in recent memory. I couldn't agree more, but where there was darkness, light was also to be found.
By the end of the year, you have to try to ignore as much talk of Oscars and the like and really think about what films you saw and cherished. You start to think about what films you want to share with everyone as your favorites, the ones you truly loved.
I certainly loved watching the first part of the final chapter of the Harry Potter saga come to life on screen, even if it's not yet a complete film. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is probably the most fun I've had in a theatre all year, with its unique brand of comedy and action solidifying it as one of the most inventive and wildly entertaining films all year. And while Iron Man 2 was a bit of a disappointment compared to its predecessor, it was certainly a lot of fun watching Robert Downey Jr. continue to do his thing on screen, with Mickey Rourke stealing the show in every scene he was in.
The Fighter, if treading on familiar ground, very much came together as a compelling drama about family and the baggage they bring, headlined by a masterful supporting turn from Christian Bale. Kick-Ass certainly delivered on the hyper-stylized ultra-violence, if falling a little short in the storytelling department. But it's such a joy to watch Chloe Morentz in a star-making performance that one forgives the film's minor shortcomings.
There was no shortage of great documentary filmmaking this year. Restrepo, a film that is a miracle to even exist, really gave viewers a riveting insight into the realities of combat in the most dangerous posting in the U.S. military, putting us right in the front-lines with them. And while Exit Through the Gift Shop and Catfish never really came together for me as best films of the year, they certainly had a lot to admire about them.
There were a small handful of films I wanted to give a special mention to outside of my top ten. A runner up section, if you will.
Matt Reeve's Cloverfield follow up is not a typical remake. A lot of passionate supporters of Thomas Alfredson's 2008 film Let the Right One In scoffed at the notion of an American remake of a film they held dear. While I certainly liked the Swedish film a lot, I felt Matt Reeves's version was superior, trimming all the fat and creating a much more refined, frightening piece of cinema. Part vampire film, part love story, the film succeeds on crafting a violent nightmare of young love and friendship caught in a larger, grislier conspiracy. Succeeding in atmosphere and moving narrative, the film really solidifies Reeve's place as a genre force to be reckoned with.
Ben Affleck's sophomore effort as a director may not reinvent the heist genre, but it doesn't need to. Boasting one of the year's best acting ensembles, the film not only succeeds as an engrossing character study of a man trying to escape his life, but also as a riveting crime thriller. Featuring some of the most intense action sequences of the year, and a killer sound mix, the shootouts and chases in the film are as good as anything Michael Mann has ever done. While I respond to a bit more stylistic, art-house approach like Public Enemies and Heat Affleck's film really soars effortlessly on every level, making it one of the most entertaining and compulsively watchable films of the year.
In what may be George Clooney's most subtle, refined, and mature performance to date, he embodies an assassin on the run who simply can't outrun fate. Some will rebel against the film's deliberate pacing and long stretches of silence, however I found it one of the most compelling thrillers of the year. Director Anton Corbijn's eye for shot composition is incredible, and it shows here, in the golden sheen that envelopes a small town in Italy. It's not intense in a traditional sense, rather, it's a slow, beautiful burn that serves as the ultimate show don't tell film.
While I've cooled a bit on Danny Boyle's latest film since seeing it back in October, it remains one of the finer works of his career, featuring a masterful lead turn from James Franco, an actor I've admired for some time.
Watching the film, I saw a lot of myself in Aron Ralston, a man who lives in self-imposed isolation from the people who love him in order to seek out his own rush. An adrenaline junkie of the fiercest kind, rather than finding his plight a hindrance or bad experience, he comes out of it a better man. It only took losing an arm to get there.
Not since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King has there been a more emotionally satisfying conclusion to, what I feel, is a now vital franchise in motion picture history. In a lot of ways, this is a film made for those of us who grew up with the first two films, when we were a mere 5 to 10 years old. A real-time sequel if you will, it hits home for all of us who ever played with toys and have long since outgrown them, departing for college. But have the toys outgrown us? Can they ever let go of a life once shared in youth? The film closes on an emotional climax that reduced many a viewer, myself included, to a pile of weeping mush in the theatre, giving us closure on a chapter in our lives. If the opening scene of Up is perfect, the final scene of Toy Story 3 is as well. So long partners, we'll miss you.
Before I get to my top ten films, I want to give a special mention to a film that, while technically a 2010 US release, has always been a 2009 film in my mind, and will stay that way. However, it remains one of the most incredible films I've seen all year, and is a must-see, no question.
A Prophet
Jacques Audiard's prison gangster masterpiece is one of the most thematically, visually, and narratively rich and complete films I've seen all year. With an incredible ensemble headlined by a powerhouse performance from newcomer Tahar Rahim, the film ranks amongst the greatest crime epics of all time, schooling everyone on how to make a modern gangster film, the likes of which would make Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola proud. Featuring some of the most beautiful images you'll see on screen, the film leaves the viewer breathless from start to finish, ending on a melancholy note that concludes a masterful portrayal of the loss of innocence and the corruptive nature of power.
And now, without further adieu, the top ten films of 2010 are
10.) Enter the Void
Director Gaspar Noe's three hour hallucinatory nightmare may just be the most visionary and innovative film this year, not just pushing the envelope on narrative filmmaking, but tossing it out the window. Slow, deliberately paced, pretentious, indulgent, offensive, shocking, and ultimately the most philosophically challenging and stimulating film to come out this year, it's a bit like watching the "Jupiter and Beyond" segment of 2001: A Space Odyssey for nearly three full hours. Certainly not a film for everyone, especially those without patience for slow, somewhat narrative structure-free films, and especially not for people susceptible to motion sickness or seizures (plenty of strobe-light effects and flashing lights and colors), it's one of the most intense cinematic experiences I've had, and certainly one of the most rewarding.
9.) Blue Valentine
Derek Cianfrance's portrait of a marriage in crisis is everything Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road was trying to be, and so much more. Almost unbearably heartbreaking, yet subtle and gentle, the film never outstays it's welcome and never once beats its audience over the head with sadness. To say Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams give two of the best performances of the year would be an understatement. Both actors have come into their own in a way only hinted at in already incredible careers, with powerhouse performances behind them. Gosling in particular, gives what I think is one of the most emotionally complex and devastating performances since Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain, breathing life into a portrayal of a person who starts off as a ne'er-do-well man working as a mover, eyes-wide with ambition and love for life, to a broken, beaten down shell of his former self, complete with glasses, a receding hair line, and a beer gut. A tough film to sit through, but ultimately a rewarding emotional experience that will leave many in tears.
8.) The King's Speech
Tom Hooper is not a household name by any stretch, but what he accomplishes here should get him playing in the big leagues now. A truly moving tale of friendship and letting go of one's demons to fulfill one's destiny that is nothing short of brilliant. From the pitch-perfect original screenplay to Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush's phenomenal performances, the film is an exquisite insight into a man who had to overcome his fears and be the man he was always capable of being, even if he was terrified of being that man. So much more than the "Oscar bait period piece" people tout it as, the film has a true artistic and directorial identity to it that elevates it beyond whatever others may say it is or isn't, into a nearly perfect film.
Debra Granik's outing into the Ozarks isn't the thriller it was advertised as. It's a beautiful and compelling piece of modern noir set in the backwoods South with some of the scariest thugs in recent memory: meth dealers and addicts. Featuring a star-making performance from Jennifer Lawrence, and a scene-stealing turn from longtime Deadwood fan favorite John Hawkes, the film boats some of the most under-appreciated cinematography of the year. As a detective story, the dark, depressing nature of the film can be almost unbearable, but it's the fierce will and determination of Ree Dolly that really keeps the film from wallowing in self-pity and breathes life into what could have been an otherwise overbearingly gloomy film. A minor masterpiece of sorts that will hopefully garner more attention for Granik, Lawrence, and Hawkes.
6.) How to Train Your Dragon
For everything Pixar has accomplished this year, the true animated marvel of 2010 surprisingly comes out of Dreamworks Animation, long considered the less sophisticated little sibling of Pixar. What bursts out of the gates is a near-flawless film about friendship and trust, the likes of which we haven't seen since E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Featuring jaw-dropping gorgeous animation overseen by the legendary Roger Deakins, the film hits all the right notes, never once missing a beat. Hilarious, thrilling, and moving, the film never fails to get the waterworks out of me by the end with it's beautiful tale of a boy and his dog, err, dragon. At the risk of sounding cliche, the film soars.
5.) True Grit
Many fans of the Coen Brothers aren't really sure what to do with their newest film. Lacking the cynicism and dark nature of their previous efforts, its emotional warmth and earnestness has left quite a few Coen enthusiasts scratching their heads. However, to me, it's not only an incredibly moving tale of causality and the elusiveness of closure, but also the finest western since Unforgiven. However, unlike Clint Eastwood's film, it isn't trying to be a deconstruction or dissection of the genre. Rather, it's almost a love letter to the films of John Ford, Anthony Mann, and Sergio Leone. Western fans are a little wary of a supposed remake of a film they treasure. Not only is the film not a remake (it's a more faithful adaptation of the novel both films are based on), but it also surpasses the John Wayne film on every level. Jeff Bridges is nothing short of iconic in his turn as Rooster Cogburn, Matt Damon is a mini-revelation as Texas Ranger Laboeuf, and Hailee Steinfeld emerges as the biggest breakout star of the year in a performance that should win her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, even if such a statement supports category fraud. If nothing else, the cinematography by Roger Deakins is worth the price of admission alone, but this is truly extraordinary filmmaking on every level.
4.) Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky is quite possibly the most exciting filmmaker of his generation. If nothing else, he's incapable of making a boring film. That's certainly true of his psychological horror masterpiece, which stands as the most terrifying film since The Silence of the Lambs. And what more can be said of Natalie Portman's performance? It's nothing short of a revelation. Never once coming off as anything by genuine and authentic, she transforms herself, much like her character, fully making the transition from the little girl we all saw in Leon, to a woman of iconic stature. But the film is so much more than its horror genre beats suggest. A glimpse into the performing artist's plight, the film rings true for anyone who's been a dancer, musician, or actor, in search of perfection in their craft. Featuring some of the most dynamic imagery and film editing of the year, Aronofsky's film really is nothing short of breathtaking.
3.) Inception
Christopher Nolan showed us all two years ago that he could elevate the comic book genre out of its trappings and craft a crime saga masterpiece about morality, the nature of heroism, and how we react in the face of unstoppable evil. This year, he set out to bring his passion project about dreams, the nature of reality, and guilt to the big screen in a big way. And the result is the most original and intelligent blockbuster in decades. Featuring state of the art cinematography and art-direction, and a third act that serves as a master-class in set-piece construction, the heart of the film is a tragic love story between and man and a woman who lost sight of their own reality and how that man comes to terms with his grief and guilt. An extraordinary masterpiece from one of today's visionary masters, the film solidifies Nolan's place as one of today's most original and ambitious filmmakers of our time.
2.) Shutter Island
Unfairly maligned by critics upon its February release, Martin Scorsese's genre exercise is a stunning homage to Hitchcock and Wise, and yet finds an identity of its own in what is quite possibly the most moving film of the year. Many viewers were left agitated by a conclusion they felt was a cheat, but the real twist comes at the final moment of the film. Was this man ever cured? Or was he content to stay in his fantasy if it meant never having to live with the reality of the horrible truth of his life? A masterwork of craft and style, it's a film about human frailty in one of the most fascinating trips down the rabbit hole into the labyrinth of a very disturbed man's mind. As a narrative, the film doesn't rely on a twist to be a riveting piece of cinema, since it is an entirely different experience upon repeat viewings. It stands as the most under-appreciated film of the year. Featuring a career-best performance from Leonardo DiCaprio that serves as the culmination of his eight year collaboration with Scorsese, and the best cinematography of the year, the film is not just a stylistic and atmospheric masterpiece, but a truly moving tale of guilt and human frailty.
1.) The Social Network
It's easy to call a film like The Social Network overrated. But that's only because people like me keep piling on the praise for it. Easily David Fincher's best film since Se7en, there is a rhythm to the film that never once lets up or misses a beat. Intentionally lacking a traditional three-act structure, the film plays out like a long drum solo, never taking breather a skipping a note, and in my mind, this is the future of dramatic filmmaking. That Fincher filmed the entire thing on memory cards, no film, no tape, is a feat in and of itself. Quite a brave new world of filmmaking. Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake shine as supporting players, each one a voice in Zuckerberg's head, with Garfield the angel and Timberlake the devil. But it is Jesse Eisenberg who towers above the rest of the cast in one of the finest performances of the year. Some say it wasn't enough of a stretch for him, but given the amount of thought and preparation he put into the role, I'd say it was plenty difficult enough. And what more can be said about Aaron Sorkin's incredible screenplay? The dialogue is razor sharp and in Eisenberg, Sorkin has found the perfect actor to speak his language. But the film just comes together in a way that no other film does this year. It may be cliche at this point to join in on the praise for Fincher's masterpiece, but it's hard to argue with the evidence right in front of us. And while I never bought into the idea that the film defines a generation (I personally feel that the film needs more time before such proclamations are made), it's a brilliant character study within a profound statement about business culture, entrepreneurship, and what it means to create something. It is my choice for the best film of the year.
What a tremendous close to 2010! I for one am looking forward to seeing what 2011 brings us. Bring on the new year! Once again, the ten best films of 2010 are
1. The Social Network
2. Shutter Island
3. Inception
4. Black Swan
5. True Grit
6. How To Train Your Dragon
7. Winter's Bone
8. The King's Speech
9. Blue Valentine
10. Enter the Void
What are your favorite films of 2010? As always have at it in the comment section! Thanks for a great year and here's to another great one!


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I've never made candy of any kind before, but in the spirit of the season and making wishes come true I decided to try my hand at caramels and hope for the best. As it turns out, candymaking isn't nearly as difficult or stressful as I imagined it would be (I actually had to take a few deep, calming breaths before I started). Besides, what else was I going to make with leftover cider?
Patience was the biggest test for me here -- all cooks know that you can't rush the good stuff. My stovetop isn't the best for evenly or quickly heating, but I did my best to follow some tips about boiling the cider and reducing it.
Stir! Stir!
My mother gave me a great pep talk before I started, reminding me to watch the pot carefully and assuring me that I wouldn't burn my finger** this time. She also advised on the type of salt I should use to give the caramels that signature sweet-tart balance -- we agreed that fleur de sel would suffice this time, but I might try flake salt for the next go-around.
With the smell of sugar and cinnamon hanging in the air (is there anything better?) I crossed my fingers and popped this in the fridge.
Ready, set... solid!
A few hours later, I uncrossed my fingers and began the sticky process of slicing and wrapping each delectable, sugary piece of caramel. I can't get over the flavor in these little guys! I'm not usually one for finger-licking, but the sweet remains that remain on the fingertips after pulling the wrapper away are too good to waste.
I said it before, but I have to say it again: I made candy!! And I'll make it again, too. Something tells me I've found a new niche obsession in the world of dessert. Now I just need a new candy thermometer and a whole lot of sugar.
** The caramel drizzle I made a few months ago left me with a lasting impression and an extremely painful blister from an accidental brush with the stuff. I felt a little candy-phobic because of it, but I'm so glad I overcame it. No burns this time!

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A day after Palestinian mortar shells killed an Israeli and wounded three others, 10 Gazans were injured in retaliatory airstrikes and Israeli soldier was injured near the Gaza border when gunmen open fire on the patrol unit.
On Thursday, Amnon Rosenberg, 5-year-old father of three, was killed by a mortar shell attack on a Nirlat Groups facility located in Nir Oz. Palestinian doctors reported Thursday afternoon that a 4-year-old girl was killed and her mother wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip.
The escalations comes as Israel mulls a strong military offensive in Gaza. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, returning from a trip to the United States, said a decision is at hand.
"According to the information we have now, the pendulum is closer to a decision to embark on a harsh operation in the Gaza Strip than it is to an agreement with the terror organizations," he said.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who visited the scene of the attack on Thursday, said a military operation in Gaza "is closer than ever and it will likely precede the cease-fire."
But area resident and Eshkol Regional Council head Haim Yalin said he got the impression from the defense minister that a wide-scale IDF operation in Gaza wasn't close.
"We don't care if it is a military operation or a peace deal. All we want is security," he continued.
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Raptr has published their most played PC games of July 2014, and the news is not good for Zenimax. The Elder Scrolls Online has dropped out of the race. Considering all the bad press it received that doesn't really surprise me. But more on that in a moment. First, the official list!
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="550"] Raptr's Most Played PC Games - July 2014[/caption]
The top three are no surprise. The most popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game on the planet retains its number one ranking. It even managed to add nearly a full percentage point to its share. That also isn't really surprising as regional qualifiers are just around the corner (and some already begun.) Practice makes perfect, right?
I can make a similar statement about DOTA 2. It had a rise of just over a half percentage during a month that saw the completion of the 2014 International Championship, the biggest DOTA 2 championship in history. Congratulations to Newbee, the 2014 International DOTA 2 grand champions! Well played gentlemen. Your hard work and investment in your chosen MOBA paid off handsomely.
Even World of Warcraft managed to eek out a slight rise in playing share. This in the same month when WoW subscriptions hit their lowest point since the third quarter of 2006. Blizzard claims the loss 800,000 subscribers during their last quarter is seasonal. It is true that gameplay decreases for most MMOs during the Northern Hemisphere summer. I doubt that completely explains such a large drop in subscriptions. That's more than a ten percent drop, and makes the slight bump in subscriptions WoW for Mists of Pandaria look positively anemic. When you look at the graph, all Pandaria seems to have done is moderate a slide in subscriptions that was becoming an avalanche; resetting subscription numbers by six months only. I doubt Warlords of Draenor will do much more for WoW, and the moderate slide will continue.
The next game that raised my eyebrows was Smite. It rose 14 places to capture the number ten spot. That's three MOBAs in the top ten now, all free to play (F2P.) But I don't think the F2P status of the game is the real contributor to the hours spent playing the games. I think it's the allure of professional competition. And I don't mean the thrill of victory. I mean the thrill of cold, hard cash. I see this all the time in the blogging community. If you have 5000 readers/viewers, you can make substantial bank from monetizing your site. If you play a MOBA long enough, you might just be able to qualify for a tournament paying out millions to the winners. MOBA game play is highly incentivized in this manner. Players dream of making huge bank, and seeming to have no barrier to entry feeds that dream.
I've always found it somewhat naïve of gamers to point at F2P as the future of online gaming in general because MOBAs have been so successful at it. They point at LoL and assume LoL is similar to every other game. It isn't. What they totally miss is that the MOBA business model works best under F2P because it lowers the barrier to entry to nothing. It leads everyone to believe they can be part of the next team Newbee and win that million dollar jackpot. Tournament oriented games leverage the promise if you become good enough you can earn a living. But to become good enough you have to invest in training yourself. That means you have to spend money to get the most out of every minute you practice, and until you hit the big time that all comes our of your own pocket. Nevertheless people pay, and pay, and pay, hoping one day to be good enough to win a million dollars. That's how MOBAs make money - that and advertising. ;-) They are not selling the game, they are selling the dream™.
This also seems to me to be the mechanism in games like Minecraft and Landmark. However, in those games it's not the big cash payout that is the dream™. It is the dream of becoming Internet famous. If you can just build that really incredible thing, then everyone will acknowledge your godlike skills with voxels, and you will become Internet famous. And deservedly so I would add. I've seen some things built-in Landmark that are just freaking incredible. They are works of virtual art, and SOE seems to be taking great strides to insure the really talented player/creators get their showcase and their Internet fame. SOE also has a market where these newly famous virtual artisans can sell their virtual wares for real money, minus a "modest" commission of course. ;-) SOE does this because they understand the only reason people want to become Internet famous is so they can monetize their online activities. It's just another perturbation of the dream™. Just look at all the bloggers and vloggers who have gone that route. PewDiePie is estimated to make $4,000,000 a year from his YouTube site. That's some really strong motivation to make oneself Internet famous isn't it? And for those of us who are too introverted to act like PewDiePie in front of a camera (that's what really got him Internet famous BTW, not his expert cough, cough gameplay,) creating cool virtual goods from voxels is a good alternative. The dream™ can still be sold on that premise.
But can you sell the dream™ with an RPG game? If you can't sell the dream™, forget the F2P model. Many genres don't have a dream to sell. RPGs are a good example. Let's look at The Elder Scrolls specifically. If you look at the chart, you'll see Skyrim climbed from 19th position to 14th. I attribute that to Elder Scrolls lovers giving up on The Elder Scrolls Online and going back to the boxed game. MMO mechanics just aren't working well for The Elder Scrolls. The essence of what makes RPGs like Skyrim so compelling can only really be achieved the old-fashioned way: create the game as a self-enclosed (boxed) ecosystem and then sell the experience™ at a one time cost. The experience™ is what the Elder Scrolls sell, not the dream™. The same can be said for the Assassin's Creed series, or Far Cry, or almost any other MMO you care to name. Many RPG titles are just not MMO suitable games. The complexity of the game, the expected storyline, the character progression over long timescales, hell, even the graphics quality, all of that suffers when the game goes online. And none of it can be maintained with a F2P model even if they could get the necessary quality online. And as we are seeing with TESO, people are unwilling to pay every month for the privilege of suffering through the experience™. Enhancements come too slowly and people can't see the value for the money they are paying. Mistakes and bugs, which always occur in a dynamic MMO, are not tolerated by those who expect a near perfect box-like experience. They are willing to pay $60 for a finished, polished product. They are not willing to pay $60 a year in monthly installments on the promise they'll get that finished, polished product eventually. Bottom line, if they are not MMO suitable forget F2P. No online mode, no dream to sell.
Wow, did that take off on a tangent or what? I didn't plan those last three paragraphs. They sort of just came tumbling out. I actually like it when that happens. I hope you didn't mind. It made this post rather lengthy though, so I should bring it to a close. In the Raptr July numbers, we see the rise and fall of new MMOs. It's not looking to good for that gaming Genre. Even the MMO giant WoW is suffering, though most MMOs wish they had Blizzard's pain. MOBAs are on the rise. I feel this is because gaming is slowly moving from a recreational pastime to a full-time job for players. But MOBAs will only succeed if they can continue sell the dream™. For the rest of the gaming industry, they need to figure out how to sell the experience™. That will become a tougher and tougher sell as those looking to buy the experience™ expect more bang (or slash) for their buck.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Raptr Most Played PC Games: July 2014
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- Malcolm RennoldsAugust 13, 2014 at 8:30 PM
Yes. This dream/experience dichotomy is excellent. Also could add in in Eve you sell the dream of being the king of space/spacefamous. Especially since everyone admits talking about Eve is better than actually logging in and playing Eve.ReplyDelete
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concerned about creating just societies are so often inattentive to inviting
folks into relationship with Jesus? Or,
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Good morning! On the very off chance that you don't follow Cath Edvalson's Moxie Fab blog - you really ought to pop over there this morning - Cath has selected a number of stamp sets, including our recently released Fine Feathers set as her Stamp of Approval bundle this morning.
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from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The aromatic principle of coffee.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
The main effects of coffee are due to both the caffeine and the caffeone, which are antagonistic, though not contemporaneous, in action.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
This elusive material has been variously called caffeol, caffeone, "the essential oil of coffee," etc., the terms having acquired an ambiguous and incorrect significance.
"empyreumatic oil of coffee, _caffeone_," is active; but more recent investigations have yielded results at variance with this.
Later, Graham, Stenhouse, and Campbell started on the way to the identification of this aroma by noting that "in common with all the valuable constituents of coffee, caffeone is found to come from the soluble portion of the roasted seed." [


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There will be challenges all day long til 7 tonight and then a Ustream at 8. Everyone can join and add their projects to each challenge and they are giving away prizes for each challenge. If you enter each challenge you get a FREE stamp set.... YAY!!!!
So here is my entry for challenge #3 Embossing.
I used the Pink by Design Just Beachy stamp set for the main image. I stamped it onto Kraft card stock and then used some white card stock, Copics and some pattern paper and paper pieced it together.
The sentiment is from the Pink By Design Summer Vacation stamp set.
For the embossing part of the card I used my Cuttlebug and the Spellbinders M Bossabilities Sea Beauty, love this double folder.
I added some Blueberry Divine Twine to finish the card.
The inside sentiment and the shells also comes from the Summer Vacation stamp set.
So get your stamps out and start entering the challenges, remember you have about a 3 hr time limit. I hope everyone has a great time.
Good luck to all and happy crafting.


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Originally Published: April 27, 2014 6:03 a.m.
Fann Contracting, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) - Prescott/Prescott Valley, the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA), and their project partners were recently awarded three separate 2013 Arizona Transportation Partnering Excellence awards.
Partnering has become a formal process on construction projects, design efforts, and other teaming relationships that establish a collaborative approach to teamwork to achieve measurable results through agreements and productive working relationships, a news release states.
On today's projects, resources and time are precious. Successful partnerships conserve resources and allow for creative solutions that benefit the project and the project team as a whole.
Partnering has become more of a formal proactive process where the owner, contractor, subcontractors, designer, and other project partners and stakeholders work together to solve problems and achieve top-rated results on their projects with regard to quality, safety, schedule, teamwork, and issue resolution.
Construction locals Fann Contracting, Inc and ADOT Prescott/Prescott Valley, and FHWA were recently recognized at the ACEC Arizona Roads & Street Conference in Tucson for projects receiving 2013 Arizona Transportation Partnering Excellence awards.
The 2013 award recipients for Prescott-area projects include:
Fann Contracting, Inc. & ADOT - ADOT Fain Road Widening
Fann Contracting, Inc. & FHWA - FHWA Flagstaff-Clint's Well Road
Fann Contracting, Inc. & ADOT - ADOT Sunset Point Rest Area Rehabilitation
Lawrence Construction Company & ADOT - ADOT Hell Canyon Bridge Urgent Repair
Skanska USA Civil & ADOT - ADOT Prescott-Ash Fork Highway
Vastco/Sundt & ADOT - ADOT Cordes Junction TI
Other awards were for projects outside of the Prescott area.
The 2013 Arizona Transportation Partnering Excellence Awards are sponsored by Arizona Department of Transportation, Associated General Contractors Arizona Chapter, Arizona Public Works Association, American Council of Engineering Companies, Arizona Minority Contractors of America Arizona Chapter, Tucson Utility Contractors Association, Federal Highway Administration and Maricopa County Department of Transportation.
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Donegal athletes make waves
by Matt Britton
The snows and heavy frost of December are now but a distant memory and many of the planned traditional Christmas and end of the year functions are now giving a welcome boost to businesses this month.
Last Sunday evening as the reconvened Tir Chonaill juvenile club awards function got under way as the club took to the waves on the Donegal Bay Water bus,
Chairman Paul O'Gara welcomed the large gathering of athletes, parents and supporters on board the vessel as it sailed down a very tranquil Donegal Bay.
It was indeed a first-time experience for many of the athletes and their parents but strangely enough, also the maiden voyage for the builder of the impressive vessel, Francis Hegarty from Killybegs.
"I wanted to make sure she got a good testing before I put foot on her," joked Francis who was there along with his wife Valerie and son Mark.
Paul O'Gara congratulated all the award winners and thanked the various support subcommittees within the club for their unstinting work during 2010 and highlighted a number of 2010 club achievements.
"During the year Tir Chonaill Athletics Club opened a new half million euro facility in partnership with the AVS Parents Association and Donegal VEC, represented Ireland at the European clubs in Switzerland and organised and supported fit4life training/competition groups at various locations in south Donegal.
"We also ran very successful Easter and Summer camps for hundreds of young athletes and also coached hundreds of athletes on a weekly basis in Donegal Town, Ballyshannon and Bundoran."
Prior to making presentations to an impressive group of awardees Paul also thanked the media, the local community for ongoing support, numerous club sponsors and in particular Cara Pharmacies who annually assist an array of club activities.
The upcoming Cara Bundoran 10 mile challenge on the 5th March was highlighted as a most important event for club athletes and mentors and it is expected that it will draw record numbers to the resort town.


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We need a way for a .Net GUI to speak JMX to a Java server. Anyone come up with anything yet?
Doing a Google search, it looks like we are not the only ones with that need.
Has anyone checked out the WS-JMX Connector?
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You might consider using ikvm (http://www.ikvm.net) to convert the jmx implementation (jmxri.jar and jmxremote.jar) to .Net assemblies. This will give you the full JMX API callable directly from .Net code. I have done this indirectly in the past as part of quickly proting a large middleware product to .Net. JMX was not the focus of the effort however, and I did not specifically test this type of interop. My experience with IKVM in the past indicates that it would probably work.
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NEW DELHI: Private data of millions of customers of Reliance Jio may have been compromised through a large-scale hacking attack that revealed information such as a subscriber's name, mobile number, email and SIM activation details. Jio, however, called reports of a breach as "unverified and unsubstantiated claims", but added that it has informed the government about the incident.
The matter came to light on Sunday when a website, fonearena.com, said it has been able to get private details of customers of Jio on a website magicapk.com. The issue raised concerns about whether the alleged hacking of information may have also led to leakage of Aadhaar data, something that official sources described as "highly unlikely".
In any case, the information accessed by fonearena.com did not bring out Aadhaar details or even the Aadhaar number, even though it could access the names, phone numbers, email ids and SIM activation details of some customers. The magicapk.com website has since been de-activated.
When contacted, a spokesperson for Jio said data being put out appears to be "unauthentic". "We have come across the unverified and unsubstantiated claims of the website and are investigating it. Prima facie, the data appears to be unauthentic."
The spokesperson said authorities have been informed. "We want to assure our subscribers that their data is safe and maintained with the highest security. Data is only shared with authorities as per their requirement. We have informed law enforcement agencies about claims of the website and will follow to ensure strict action is taken."
Official sources in the IT ministry said there are "no reasons for a panic" as critical Aadhaar information -such as biometric details -remains safe. "It cannot be breached easily, and the government is always alert against any such hacking," a top official said, requesting anonymity.
Earlier this year, online restaurant and food startup Zomato said a record data of around 17 million users had been hacked from its database, which included email addresses and hashed passwords. Asking subscribers to reset passwords, it, however, said no payment information or credit card data had been stolen or leaked.Cyber security has emerged as a primary concern for online companies and the government as much of the customer verification processes get online, and cloud and private servers are increasingly being used to store critical data.
UIDAI: No leakage of Aadhaar data
New Delhi: Reacting to the alleged Reliance Jio data breach, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said the reports suggest that there is no leakage of Aadhaar numbers or any other information linked to it. "There is no question of Aadhaar-related data leak. UIDAI is very vigilant. And in case any leak comes to light, UIDAI will take strict action as per the law as it has done in the past," a top UIDAI official, who did not wish to be identified, told TOI.
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Kerry 'confident' of Israel-Palestinian talks progress
US Secretary of State John Kerry says he remains optimistic that tensions and difficulties can be overcome in the Middle East peace process.
Any negotiations have "moments of up and moments of down", he said after holding separate talks with the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships.
Mr Kerry reaffirmed Washington's rejection of Israeli settlement activity as "illegitimate".
The direct talks launched in July have shown little sign of progress.
Mr Kerry said: "We need the space to negotiate privately, secretly, quietly and we will continue to do that.
"We have six months ahead of us on the timetable we have set for ourselves and I am confident we have the ability to make progress."
Mr Kerry said he had had a "very, very good meeting" with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
This time there has been rising Palestinian anger at a perceived acquiescence to Israeli settlements as part of a deal to returning to talks.
"I want to make it extremely clear that at no time did the Palestinians in any way agree, as a matter of going back to the talks, that they could somehow condone or accept the settlements," Mr Kerry said.
A previous round of negotiations collapsed in September 2010 in a bitter row over Israeli settlements.
'Artificial crises'
After separate talks with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister said Israel stood by the terms agreed for the talks.
"I'm concerned about their progress because I see the Palestinians continuing with incitement, continuing to create artificial crises, continuing to avoid, run away from the historic decisions that are needed to make a genuine peace," he said.
On Tuesday, some Israeli media reported that Israeli negotiators had told their Palestinian counterparts that the barrier built by Israel in and around the occupied West Bank should serve as the border of a future Palestinian state.
And on Sunday, the Maariv newspaper carried a report saying Israel would build a security fence in the Jordan Valley, along the border with Jordan - a claim denounced by the Palestinians.
Mr Abbas also told a meeting of his Fatah movement that the negotiations with Israel had not made any progress so far, according to the Maan news agency.
For his part, Mr Kerry told the Israeli prime minister that, despite such reports, he was confident a deal could be reached.
Mr Kerry is pursuing an agreement based on a "two-state solution" that envisages Israel and a Palestinian state - consisting of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - existing alongside each other.
He has previously said that all "final-status" issues - Jerusalem, borders, security arrangements, Jewish settlements and Palestinian refugees - are on the table.
The negotiating sessions have been held in secret locations and at undisclosed times as part of a US-requested media blackout. But both sides have voiced frustration at a lack of progress on core issues.
The secretary of state has denied media speculation that he may propose a new interim peace deal.
Mr Netanyahu wants Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state as a priority, whereas the Palestinians say borders and security top their agenda.
The Palestinians want their state to include all land captured by Israel in 1967, but some 500,000 Jews now live in more than 200 settlements and outposts in the West Bank including East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
However, Mr Netanyahu has rejected any return to the pre-1967 ceasefire lines as "indefensible", saying it would not take into account the "demographic changes on the ground".
Mutually-agreed land swaps have been discussed in previous talks as a way to overcome this problem.


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Das Krankenstadt Tageblatt
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The Electorate of Zichenau Declares War on the Grand Duchy of Stollen
Rival Armies Converge on Unsuspecting Village of Doltz
Krankenstadt 30 July 1776 -- Reports from Stollenian agents along the frontier are beginning to arrive at the offices of Das Krankenstadt Tageblatt indicating that the armies of Stollen and Zichenau, after much aimless blundering for the last two weeks in the countryside of the contested Mark of Schleiz, are taking up their initial positions just outside the bucolic Village of Doltz. Although it might be Schtügesdorf. Or it could be the small settlement of Bumpfkinzort. Time will tell.
Long-time readers might recall the The Mark of Schleiz, currently possessed by the Stollenian crown, is a province rich in lumber, wildlife, grain, and lead. It is sandwiched between The Grand Duchy of Stollen to the north and the Electorate of Zichenau to the south. The territory has been the reason for many conflicts between the two entities during the last century, most recently falling under Stollenian dominion two years ago in summer 1774 at the close of the brief War of the Buttons, which was decided by the Battle of the Ellbogenfluss.
Complex Political Dealings at Heart of the Matter
The purported excuse for this latest round of hostilities between Stollen's Grand Duke Irwin-Amadeus II and Zichenau's conniving Princess Antonia III has more to do, however, with a pie fight that broke out between ministers attending the recent Congress of Schmitten in the neighboring Principality of Pillau-Zerbst. That's right. Matters came to a head after Princess Antonia herself received a lemon meringue in the face.
Known all around this end of the continent for her fiery and capricious nature, the Princess hotly declared war on the Grand Duchy of Stollen the following day. "Genetlemen," she shouted to her cabinet members and advisors, "My hairpiece has been mussed, my dress stained, and my décolletage made sticky. We will not stand for such foolish effronteries as these. Stollen and the damnable poppinjay who sits on its throne must be punished. The Electorate of Zichenau is at war!"
Respective Army Commanders Have Been Appointed
The notorious French mercenary-adventurer General Phillipe de Latte is now at the head of a powerful Zichenauer Army, which crossed the Lesser Zwischen river into the Duchy of Schleiz early this week. Facing him is the Grand Duke Irwin-Amadeus II, who, advised by General Alfons von Bauchschmerzen, will command the Stollenian Army. The latter man is reportedly under the weather yet again and rarely leaves the confines of his wicker coach, preferring the comforts of a favorite green lap blanket, a hot water bottle, and his treasured set of Just William stories to the rigors of a full day in the saddle.
Keep Calm and Don't Bother.
While the Grand Duke is excited for the chance to prove his tactical acumen, the precise degree of his talents on the field of Mars remain unclear. His gentleman's personal gentleman, one Gerald Arthur Hives, reports that the Irwin-Amadeus II has browsed a translation of Sun Tsu's The Art of War before bedtime these last few evenings, so there needn't be any worry. The troops should all be home in their barracks before the Autumnal Equinox.
The Prussian ambassador to Stollen, Herr Heinz von dem Salat, when asked for his opinon, commented, "What? Oh, right. Quite right. Yes. There's really no need to worry about packing to leave the capital. Our boys have the matter well in hand. Besides, there is an awfully good series of croquet matches scheduled during the next few weeks before the Stollenian cabinet is due to convene again. I say! Is that a steak and kidney pie on the lunch table?"
One of several versions of the campaign area compiled by Stollenian cartographers at the University of Krankenstadt during the mid-1760s.


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ATHENS, Ga. - A stingy Georgia Tech defense held Georgia (4-5) to just 34 percent shooting for the game, and propelled the Yellow Jackets to a 12 point victory Wednesday night at Stegeman Coliseum.
Georgia senior Gerald Robinson led the Bulldogs with 20 points. Freshman Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and junior Vincent Williams each tallied ten points apiece, while sophomore Marcus Thornton led Georgia with six rebounds
"That was a very disappointing loss. We're not a very good basketball team right now and that's my responsibility," said head coach Mark Fox. "Our defense collapsed on us in the second half but you have to give Georgia Tech credit. Their defense in the second half was better than our offense. That was just a disappointing loss."
Georgia led for nearly the entire first half, grabbing it's largest lead of seven with 2:24 remaining.
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The Yellow Jackets overwhelmed the Bulldogs in the paint, outscoring Georgia 34-14.
For Georgia Tech, freshman Daniel Miller led the way, scoring 10 points and grabbing nine rebounds. Four other Yellow Jackets tallied double figure point totals.
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Made pizza one day and low and behold, we are apparently the kind of people that are able to lose a large sized pizza cutters, so turning (no pun intended) lemons into lemonade, we bought a woodriver pizza cutter kit. Now I know it was a simple turning but it was a fun project that I know everyone is going to like, the pumele sapele doesn't show up very well in the camera but has a nice curl to it, only thing that would have made it better is if I didn't distroy the curly olive on the lathe that was attempt one…...still nice though.
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta formally notified Congress on Wednesday that the Pentagon plans to put civilian defense employees on unpaid leave this year if $46 billion in across-the-board budget cuts take effect on March 1.
The announcement of congressional notification begins a 45-day process that could ultimately lead to unpaid leave for most of the department's 800,000 civilian employees across the United States.
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"We expect more than 80 percent to be furloughed," a defense official said.
Panetta, who announced the notification in a message to Defense Department employees as he traveled to Brussels for a NATO meeting, is required by law to advise Congress 45 days before the Pentagon furloughs any workers.
The Pentagon is planning to put most civilian workers on unpaid leave for one day a week for 22 weeks between April and the end of the fiscal year September 30, officials have said.
The military services also were formally notified of the decision on Wednesday and have until early March to ask the Pentagon for exceptions, a defense official said.
The Defense Department will review the requests and approve exceptions by the middle of March, after which workers will receive 30 days notice of the impending furloughs.
The unpaid leave, which will essentially cut the pay of civilian employees by 20 percent, is expected to save up to $5 billion, one of many cuts required as the Pentagon tries to slash $46 billion in spending by the end of the year.
The across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration, are due to go into effect on March 1 unless Congress decides to delay them. They were mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011 because lawmakers and the White House failed to reach a compromise on alternative spending reductions.
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We don't have to worry about a 5'10 PG with ball security issues, a mediocre outside shot, lazy defense, and poor ability to finish at the hole leaving early.
He'll have Ross and Brown, plus three really good recruits coming in, including a PG who should be able to spell him a few minutes a game.
I think he's going to leave.
He's a goddamn idiot, but I still think he'll do it. If he didn't have his mind made up already, he wouldn't be playing this season like he is. I think he's coasting to try to get on the the pros.
I'm completely indifferent as to whether he stays or goes. He's just such a liability on the road and we become so dependent on him because of his performance in home games that we essentially guarantee this wild home/rd split and that's just not viable for a team that has any designs on doing damage in the tournament.
OTOH, he's very very good when he's good. If you could just talk him into being that guy for 3 weeks in March, you'd have your Final 4 team.
I'll just take it as it comes is the end result.
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A Sad Reminder
From the Editor: All of us have had the painful experience of having someone dismiss us as unimportant or insignificant or incompetent simply because the person didn't bother to focus sufficient attention on us to see the truth. It happens to blind people all the time, but it occurs to other people as well. Because it is such a common experience for us, it seems to me that I should be less inclined to dismiss other people out of hand than those who rarely have to fight to be taken seriously themselves.
At last summer's convention I conducted several meetings in which a woman named Laurel Buck took part. Once she even called and left a message on my hotel room telephone, but I never returned the call. She spoke haltingly and with little inflection to her voice. I found it difficult to listen to her words long enough to catch her meaning. I knew nothing about her, not even where she came from, and I didn't take the time to find out or even answer her questions with attention.
As it happened, Laurel was dealing with massive problems stemming from head injuries she sustained in a car accident. She had already adjusted to losses I can't even conceive of, and just to go on with her life, she had to muster courage and determination every day that I can only imagine.
I did nothing to compound Laurel's problems, but neither did I extend myself to get to know her or offer her encouragement. Now it is too late to do so. But it is not too late to remember her whenever I meet someone else who is carrying a particularly heavy load. Laurel committed suicide on New Year's Eve. There are many others in our Federation family and beyond who deal with problems every day that would stagger me. I for one have been reminded to be more alert to both the needs and abilities of those I meet. Here is the moving story about Laurel Buck by Susan Levine that appeared in the February 4, 1998, edition of the Washington Post:
Ending the Struggle To Rebuild Her Dream
Laurel Buck Saw Life as an Adventure, But a Car Crash Forced an Uphill Journey
by Susan Levine
At 10:35 p.m. on New Year's Eve, miles away from the pricey hotel party for which she and her boyfriend had paid weeks before and an eternity away from the future that had held such promise, a Rockville woman named Laurel Buck was pronounced dead at Suburban Hospital. She was thirty-four.
On his report the medical examiner wrote "suicide." Sometime the previous day Buck had swallowed forty-five shiny blue-and-yellow capsules of Verapamil, a drug often used to lower blood pressure. Each was 240 milligrams strong and built to detonate round-the-clock. By the time she confessed her action and handed her boyfriend a note saying that "nothing particular happened," the pills had been in her body for hours.
Of course something had happened, although it had occurred nearly a decade earlier as Buck made an ill-timed left turn and was broadsided just two miles from her parents' home in Prince George's County. Those who knew her well wonder now if suicide was the inevitable, tragic consequence of that moment, which fractured her face, destroyed much of her vision, and led to major brain injury. At the least her overdose became the final chapter of her struggle to rebuild her damaged body, to prove she still had value.
"She really, really wanted to participate in society, and she wanted to be productive," said a friend, Judy Rasmussen. What Buck apparently saw as her inability to do so should be a lesson for others, her brother Rick believes.
"Society," he said, "must do more to let marginal people live non-marginal lives."
Once she had been far different, an independent, adventurous spirit who delighted in the experience of life. She spent her junior year of high school in Japan and scaled Mount Fuji. She moved on to Bryn Mawr College, tried her hand at both wrestling team statistician and radio deejay, and graduated as a smart but unfocused geology major.
In 1985 she joined the Peace Corps, teaching in the parched land of Botswana. For two years a hut was her home, a washtub turned upside down her table. When she wasn't with her students, she hitchhiked across that country and much of southern Africa, lugging a village chieftain's chair all the way to Cape Town so she could take it to her parents one Christmas. She laughed generously. She could tell a joke in four languages.
But on July 23, 1988, having finally returned from her far-flung wanderings, the world shattered as she turned her beloved '67 Mustang off Indian Head Highway on the way home from the library. With only a lap belt for protection, her head smashed violently against the dashboard. The damage would be tremendous and largely permanent.
There was the loss of her right eye, of any sense of smell and taste. She stumbled often with a badly unbalanced gait; her rapid-fire speech became laboriously slow and slurred.
And though she eventually recovered speed and clarity, unnatural pauses between her words prevented them from flowing smoothly, which many people took as a cue to finish sentences for her. Even worse was when they listened too briefly and, Buck felt, concluded that she was stupid. As a final cruelty last year the already minimal vision in her left eye began deteriorating rapidly.
Yet, through more than six months of hospitalization and nearly two years of special rehabilitation, her humor remained intact; her intellect survived; and, according to friends and family, so did her matter-of-fact way of dealing with adversity and her dogged determination to be part of life. In the early '90's, Buck pushed herself to move out on her own. She maneuvered the Metro alone and tried white water rafting and skiing. Despite her arrhythmic speech, she went with the local chapter of the Federation of the Blind to lobby legislators in Annapolis.
She also held a job as a computer assistant at the National Naval Medical Center, a position that meant much more to her than a paycheckperhaps too much, as it turned out.
"She didn't let herself off the hook," Noreen O'Grady, a friend from Peace Corps days, reflected last week.
There'd been nothing dark or brooding about her before the crash, and until she came home from work on the afternoon of December 30, few saw any hint of a well of despair. "It's almost as if I had a daughter who was quite unique," said her mother, Nancy Buck, "and then I had another daughter who was also unusual. And now they're both gone."
Two memorial services were held in January for Laurel Susan Buck, one at a small country church not far from where her parents now live in Anne Arundel County, the other at the medical center chapel in Bethesda.
"It is not my place or yours to judge the heart of another person," the minister told her family and the nearly five dozen men and women gathered at the church service two Saturdays ago. They'd traveled from Vermont, California, Nebraska, and New York, friends from college, from the Peace Corps, from the Federation. Her Braille teacher came, as did another head-injury victim Buck had once encouraged.
The distance of time was reflected in the stories shared, but nobody appeared surprised by any of the tales. One person recalled how Buck had gotten her pilot's license and soloed over the Chesapeake Bay the summer after finishing college. Tina Vine drew laughter when she described Buck's sense of style in Botswana. "Who else would even think of taking fishnet stockings, lace gloves, and a clutch purse?" Vine asked.
Memories also were volunteered at the other service, but most people at the Naval Medical Information Management Center knew far less about the woman who had tried to work alongside them for nearly six years. They were not aware of Buck's deepening frustration over how little she seemed to be given to do. In the absence of other tasks she tried to take charge of certain responsibilities. Every morning in the kitchen for her section, she would practice making the coffee and refilling the ice trays.
She sensed that some employees shied away from her. Some were more polite than others. Lieutenant Commander Andrew Porter acknowledges painfully conflicted feelings about her extreme disabilities. He was the administrative officer whom Buck approached last fall for help in getting some computer equipment designed for the visually impaired. The order accidentally got set aside and then forgotten, and not until mid-December was it delivered to her office. It is unclear whether it was ever installed at her desk.
"I felt terribly guilty," Porter said last week. "In the back of my mind I'd like to think you have a chance to really change someone's life, to really give them hope, to really inspire them. I had that chance with Laurel, and through my...failure to take up her cause, I contributed to the mess."
Certainly she had several close colleagues, who were stunned by her suicide. Her supervisor, Zahur Alum, describes her as a "very special person." Her friend Alice Barkley says she misses Buck terribly. Nearly every morning Buck would stop by Barkley's cubicle for confirmation that her clothes looked all right. She joined Barkley's Wednesday lunchtime Bible study, and many evenings Barkley gave her a ride to her Grosvenor high-rise.
"She made me learn to listen," Barkley said. "I don't know of anyone who could have reconstructed her life as many times as she had." Maybe, Barkley suggests finally, "she just got tired of the fight and the battle."
In a corner near the front door of the condo Buck shared with Sean Sullivan, the long and slender opaque wand with which she made her way in the world still leans against the wall. On the floor, neatly paired, are her low black suede pumps, exactly where she put them when she walked in from work December 30.
"It's like I'm waiting for her to come home," he said.
The two had been together since 1992, and the forty-seven-year-old Sullivan, a country club groundskeeper, asked Buck to marry him on more than one occasion. As it was, they frequently struck friends as a comfortably married couple. He was solicitous, protective. "I accepted her for what she was," he explained. "To me she was complete."
Sullivan feels certain that suicide had been an option, however remote, for years. Although Buck never voiced any bitterness or complaintsno regrets about the Foreign Service career she might have pursued"it was so painful and so difficult [for her] to accept what life had become," he said. At the same time he wants to believe that her overdose was a rash impulse and that a remark she made in the hospital emergency room about changing her mind meant, too late, that she wanted to pull back. If his crosscurrents of thought sound contradictory, he says, well, conflicting emotions and agendas run through many lives.
Still, like the others grieving Buck's death, he is haunted by questions. Why or, more specifically, why now? In the last few weeks she had seemed even more beaten down by day's end. She had worried aloud to her mother recently that her memory seemed shakier.
On the other hand, the night before she had gone shopping at White Flint Mall for a sweater to match jewelry that Sullivan had given her for Christmas. She was looking for something in green cashmere. She was excited about their New Year's Eve plans.
Then he picked her up at work that Tuesday, and within an hour the world collapsed.
"She kept on pushing and pushing and pushing." Richard Buck, a pleasant but reticent man, views the youngest of his three children as a kind of Sisyphus. "She kept on pushing the rock up the mountain...and the rock finally rolled back on her."
Ultimately his daughter must have assessed her limitations in similarly bleak terms. In the contents of her desk at work five years of hopes and disappointments that were returned to her parents that afternoon of their memorial service for herher mother found a poem. She is sure Laurel is its author.
I saw the end of the world
On my TV last night;
It preempted the National Anthem.
I watched it half dazed
Through popcorn and beer;
Stunned by the color of death unfurled.
When the time was over,
No announcer came on
To tell me what was not left to feel.
So I smiled a tear;
And saluted the heroes
Who evolved to make gods.
Jesus, why did You forsake me when the power went off?


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Man, on the ground, below my office. Walking, slowly, towards one of the tables touched by the almost-sun of the early Norwegian autumn. He is carrying lunch, balancing a fork. Passing a couple of attractive, chatty young ladies. One of the girls laugh - not at him - enough to make his fine-tuned balancing act fall apart. The sound of a fork hitting the ground.
I can see his shoulders heave as he sighs.
Then he bends over - carefully considering the angle so that he will not have to reveal his bu... the crevice between his buttocks.. to the young ladies (not realizing that this instead reveals it to an entire building of lazy academics looking out of their office windows).
He picks up the fork and sighs again.
He wipes the fork off on his trousers, but it is evident that he cannot eat with it now that the young ladies have seen it touching the ground. (The three-second rule only applies when there are no potential hook-ups present.)
The man stumbles back the way he came from, wanting to throw a humorous comment in the young ladies' way as he passes, but feeling too self-conscious to do so. Instead he walks 50 meters or so, until he is out of sight for the people occupying the seating area. He is still unknowingly very visible to the academics in their stuffed offices.
He stands under a tree for the appropriate amount of time spent walking back inside to fetch a new fork. Then he returns to the table he first sought out.
When passing the young ladies he smiles at them, and one of them returns the smile with a promise of sorts.
There is hope, even for the lazy and socially awkward ones.
Friday, August 17, 2012
On socwardness (part two)
Giraffed by Cruella Collett at 12:25
Labels: cultural differences, digressions, dishes, everyday agonies, food?, men in suits and dresses, phobias, sophistication, storytelling, work
4 comments:
- M.J. Nicholls said...
Creepy. Voyueristic. More please.
- Saturday, August 18, 2012 8:47:00 PM
- Powdered Toast Man said...
He should of asked the girls in a seductive voice if they like dirty forks.
- Monday, August 27, 2012 4:55:00 PM
- Katie Rob said...
Oh, this is too good. Dirty forks, indeed.
- Thursday, August 30, 2012 6:43:00 AM
- Pat Tillett said...
Hi there! Long time...
This was really good. All part of the dance between men and women and people watching. Oh yeah, and people watching people watching people.
- Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:36:00 PM
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