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Video Game Review: Super Mega Baseball
April 14, 2015 | By HC Green | comment on this post
Forget about the curveball, give 'em the heater!
Let us start with a question: do you remember when baseball games were fun? Back before it was all about picturesque recreations of stadiums, lifelike players and tons of statistical minutia. We're talking the days of Baseball Simulator 1000 and Baseball Stars, when sitting down and basking in the gameplay trumped everything else. Well, if you do, Metalhead Software's Super Mega Baseball hopes to recreate that fun. And if you don't, it intends to introduce you to it.
CONTROLS (4.75/5)
There are always four aspects to any baseball game's controls: hitting, pitching, fielding and running the bases. Of the group, hitting is the most enjoyable. Here you'll be asked to track pitches with the left stick, positioning your cursor on the sweet spot. Pressing "X" initiates a contact swing, while circle aims for the fences. You can also use the analog stick, which includes a power meter that fills and depletes as you hold it down, for batting. It's well done, requiring both reflexes and timing to excel.
Pitching is fun, too. Flicking the right stick selects the pitch and "X" delivers. From there you'll try to steady the shaking cursor and make it line up with a box that indicates the intended location. As you'd expect, different pitches break differently, so a forkball dives down sharply while a slider features side-to-side movement. The only real downer here is that every pitcher appears to have the same repertoire, so they all handle similarly.
Most of the fielding is done automatically, though you can take charge and manually dive for balls and attempt to scale the fence to bring back home runs. Throwing is handled with a simple meter. Base running is strong, mixing the analog sticks and triggers to create one of the best experiences we've ever had in that department. On the downside there's a minimal sense of speed, and even the faster players seem to steal bases like they're running in quicksand.
Easily the weakest aspect of Super Mega Baseball is its presentation. The players resemble something you'd see from Nintendo Miis and the like, with disproportionate body parts and exaggerated features like massive craniums. There's not a lot of variety, so even though players are customizable you're still bound to see a lot of similarities from one player or team to the next. Ballparks follow the same style, and with only four to visit you'll be revisiting them a lot.
With no commentators or on-field chatter, all that's left is the ultra intense umpire and the cheering of fans, who don't seem to care whether you're at home or on the road. There's nothing terrible in any facet of the presentation, but it does little for the game other than differentiate even further from those with real major leaguers.
GAMEPLAY (4/5)
As you've likely surmised by now, Super Mega Baseball is completely unlicensed. That means no players, no teams and no logos — hell, there aren't even any cities. Instead of the Yankees and Red Sox you've got the Beewolves and the Sirloins. Instead of Alex Rodriguez and David Ortiz you've got luminaries like Rip Dingers, Norton Pickle and Ella Roids. Suffice to say that SMB doesn't bemoan its lack of a license, it revels in it by injecting humour into the game.
Thankfully, that humour never threatens to impede on the gameplay, knowing when to be front and centre and when to fade away and let baseball be baseball. Difficulty is based on your Ego rating, which can be tweaked to your liking until you find the proper level of challenge. Turn it down and pound away on the CPU with forgiving pitching and an automatically tracking contact point, or crank it up for a very tough test of your gaming mettle.
Although there is no advanced roster management, such as trading or minor league systems, Super Mega Baseball still allows you to find a roster to your liking. For starters, each of the 12 teams has a core skill (power hitting, pitching, defense, etc.) that can then be augmented by hiring staff to provide boosts to players. Staff hires become available as you level up, done by earning stars in game, and they offer unique bonuses to increase your ratings like contact and mojo (read: player confidence).
It's a good system, but it has limited applications because of the lack of game modes. Your two options on that front are Exhibition and Season. Both are self explanatory, though Season mode at least allows you to tinker with things like length, number of innings and so on. You're also free to customize your players' name and appearance. There's no online component outside of leaderboards, confining the limited multiplayer to those in your home.
OVERALL (4.25/5)
If you play video game baseball to ape what you see from April to October, Super Mega Baseball isn't for you. If, however, you're looking for a fun take on the sport with excellent controls and tight gameplay, it's well worth your time.
By HC Green
Tags: BASEBALL, Super Mega Baseball
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Auckland's heritage-listed St David's Church.
This enchanting virtual concert is aiming to save one of Auckland's most important historic buildings
Following the announcement, earlier this year, that St David's Church on Khyber Pass Road was to be put up for tender by the New Zealand Presbyterian Church, organisation Friends of St David's Charitable Trust is putting out an urgent call to all New Zealanders to help preserve a priceless piece of Aotearoa's history for current and future generations.
The news blindsided supporters of the important historic building, which was built in October 1927 and dedicated as the Soldiers' Memorial Church. It was also chosen by the RNZE (Royal New Zealand Engineers) as their church, and holds the Sappers' Memorial Chapel, RNZE Roles of Honour WWI and WWII and the RNZE Memorial Window.
To raise money to buy and protect St David's Memorial Church as a living memorial, the Charitable Trust, chaired by Paul Baragwanath, (who was awarded as one of our 2019 Denizen Heroes for his The Art of Remembrance fundraiser) has created 'To the Stars', a virtual, 45-minute concert that was filmed inside the church. It can be streamed at www.rememberthem.nz, simply by purchasing a $25 ticket.
Highlights of the programme include performances by opera star Simon O'Neill, pianist Flavio Villani, the NZTrio and traditional Māori composer and musician, Horomona Horo, playing the taonga puoro. Completing the outstanding line-up is a selection of well-known professional and emerging talent such as Rita May, a 21-year-old singer/songwriter on acoustic guitar, and 19-year-old Sozia Herlihy-O'Brien playing the church's 1910 Croft organ, plus the Graduate Choir NZ and more.
Friends of St David's Charitable Trust chairman Paul Baragwanath is one of those leading the charge to save the church.
"St David's is a sacred place. There are no other living memorials built to honour our soldiers quite like it in this country," says Paul Baragwanath. "This is the inaugural concert of The St David's Centre showcasing our plan to open its doors as a lively, much-needed centre for music that honours its heritage, allows the church to remain available to our armed forces all while ensuring its commercial survival through concert performances."
Purchase a ticket to stream this beautiful concert from the comfort of your own home, and you'll also go in the draw to win one of two Max Gimblett Quatrefoils which were displayed at Te Papa.
The St David's tender closes on Thursday the 17th of June, so time is of the essence if this beloved building is to be saved.
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Kenya Says Westgate Mall Siege Is Over
By Eric Linton
A Kenyan soldier holding a dog by its leash enters the main gate of Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi on Sept.22, 2013. Photo: Reuters
Update 8 p.m. EDT: "Two or three" of the al-Shabab gunmen were Americans, said Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed. They were described as "young men, about between maybe 18 and 19," and of Somali or Arab origin.
Original story:
Kenyan authorities are in full control of Westgate mall in Nairobi after a long siege, the Interior Ministry said in tweet Monday night.
"We're in control of Westgate," the ministry announced.
"Our forces are combing the mall floor by floor looking for anyone left behind. We believe all hostages have been released," the ministry added.
Earlier in the day, officials said three attackers were killed in fighting, and more than 10 suspects arrested. Eleven Kenyan soldiers were wounded in the running gun battles.
"Taken control of all the floors. We're not here to feed the attackers with pastries but to finish and punish them," Police Inspector General David Kimaiyo said on Twitter in the early evening.
Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said the evacuation of hostages "has gone very, very well" and that Kenyan officials are "very certain" that there are few if any hostages left in the building, according to the Associated Press.
Before the final battle, Kenyan officials earlier said 62 people had died since the siege on Westgate Mall began on Saturday, while the Red Cross had put the toll at 68, then in a tweet lowered it to 62, saying some bodies had been counted twice. The wounded are estimated around 200.
Kenya believes there are also foreigners among the Somali-led attackers, with military chief Julius Karangi saying they came from all over the world. "We are fighting global terrorism here," he said, without giving their nationalities.
White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said he had no direct information that Americans had participated in the attack, but expressed U.S. worries.
"We do monitor very carefully and have for some time been concerned about efforts by al-Shabab to recruit Americans or U.S. persons to come to Somalia," Rhodes told reporters travelling with Obama to the United Nations in New York.
Speculation rose about the identity of the attackers. Ole Lenku said they were all men but that some had dressed as women.
Despite his assertion, one intelligence officer and two soldiers told Reuters that one of the dead militants was a white woman. This is likely to fuel speculation that she is the wanted widow of one of the suicide bombers who together killed more than 50 civilians on London's transport system in 2005.
Called the "white widow" by the British press, Samantha Lewthwaite is wanted in connection with an alleged plot to attack hotels and restaurants in Kenya. Asked if the dead woman was Lewthwaite, the intelligence officer said: "We don't know."
U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to assist his father's homeland in the aftermath of the bloody assault in Nairobi.
"We stand with them against this terrible outrage that's occurred, we will provide them with whatever law enforcement help that is necessary," Obama said before a meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
The attack "underscores" the need for the international community to work together to fight terror, Obama added.
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At least 20 dead as Israel strikes Gaza after Palestinian rocket firings
Gaza/Jerusalem Updated: May 11, 2021, 12:37 PM IST
Photograph:(AFP)
Nine children were among the 20 dead in Gaza on Monday and scores of rockets were launched into Israel, many that were intercepted by missile defences
Palestinians fired uninterrupted barrages of rockets into Israel, as its military pounded Gaza with air strikes through the early hours of Tuesday, in a dramatic escalation of clashes in Jerusalem. Nine children were among the 20 dead in Gaza on Monday.
Explosions shook buildings throughout Gaza and rocket sirens sent Israelis in many southern towns scurrying for shelter overnight. Two Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded in air strikes, Palestinian officials said.
Six Israelis were wounded by a rocket, medics said.
On Monday, scores of rockets were launched into Israel. Many were intercepted by missile defences.
The events were unleashed by Gaza militants firing on the Jerusalem area for the first time since a 2014 war, crossing what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a 'red line'.
The upsurge in violence came as Israel celebrated 'Jerusalem Day', marking its capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
The escalation began with confrontations at al-Aqsa Mosque in the heart of the walled Old City on the compound known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary - the most sensitive site in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said more than 300 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police, who fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas in the compound. Police said 21 officers were hurt in the skirmishes.
Although the trouble died down after a few hours, there were other focal points of tension, such as the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem just north of the Old City, where several Palestinian families face eviction from homes claimed by Jewish settlers in a long-running legal case.
Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls Gaza, set an evening deadline for Israel to remove its police from Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah. When it expired, sirens wailed in Jerusalem and rockets pounded the city's outskirts.
Israel views all of Jerusalem as its capital, including the eastern part annexed after the 1967 war in a move that has not secured international recognition.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem for the capital of a state they seek in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group claimed responsibility for the rocket fire on Jerusalem.
The Israeli military said it struck targets that included militant operatives, attack tunnels and the home of a Hamas battalion commander.
Of the 20 Palestinians killed on Monday, seven, including three children, were family members, who died in an explosion in the town of Beit Hanoun. It is unclear if it had been caused by an Israeli strike or a Palestinian rocket that had fallen short.
An Israeli military spokesman said about a third of the Palestinian rockets fired had fallen short and caused damage and casualties inside Gaza.
International efforts to stem the violence appeared to have already. A Palestinian official said that Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations, which have mediated truces between Israel and Hamas in the past, were in contact with the group's leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Tension had been building for weeks during the Muslim holy month of Ramzan, amid clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters prompting international concern that events could spiral out of control.


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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Previous: Chapter I
Next: Chapter III
Razumihin waked up next morning at eight o'clock, troubled and serious. He found himself confronted with many new and unlooked-for perplexities. He had never expected that he would ever wake up feeling like that. He remembered every detail of the previous day and he knew that a perfectly novel experience had befallen him, that he had received an impression unlike anything he had known before. At the same time he recognised clearly that the dream which had fired his imagination was hopelessly unattainable--so unattainable that he felt positively ashamed of it, and he hastened to pass to the other more practical cares and difficulties bequeathed him by that "thrice accursed yesterday."
The most awful recollection of the previous day was the way he had shown himself "base and mean," not only because he had been drunk, but because he had taken advantage of the young girl's position to abuse her fiance in his stupid jealousy, knowing nothing of their mutual relations and obligations and next to nothing of the man himself. And what right had he to criticise him in that hasty and unguarded manner? Who had asked for his opinion? Was it thinkable that such a creature as Avdotya Romanovna would be marrying an unworthy man for money? So there must be something in him. The lodgings? But after all how could he know the character of the lodgings? He was furnishing a flat . . . Foo! how despicable it all was! And what justification was it that he was drunk? Such a stupid excuse was even more degrading! In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"! And would such a dream ever be permissible to him, Razumihin? What was he beside such a girl--he, the drunken noisy braggart of last night? Was it possible to imagine so absurd and cynical a juxtaposition? Razumihin blushed desperately at the very idea and suddenly the recollection forced itself vividly upon him of how he had said last night on the stairs that the landlady would be jealous of Avdotya Romanovna . . . that was simply intolerable. He brought his fist down heavily on the kitchen stove, hurt his hand and sent one of the bricks flying.
"Of course," he muttered to himself a minute later with a feeling of self-abasement, "of course, all these infamies can never be wiped out or smoothed over . . . and so it's useless even to think of it, and I must go to them in silence and do my duty . . . in silence, too . . . and not ask forgiveness, and say nothing . . . for all is lost now!"
And yet as he dressed he examined his attire more carefully than usual. He hadn't another suit--if he had had, perhaps he wouldn't have put it on. "I would have made a point of not putting it on." But in any case he could not remain a cynic and a dirty sloven; he had no right to offend the feelings of others, especially when they were in need of his assistance and asking him to see them. He brushed his clothes carefully. His linen was always decent; in that respect he was especially clean.
He washed that morning scrupulously--he got some soap from Nastasya-- he washed his hair, his neck and especially his hands. When it came to the question whether to shave his stubbly chin or not (Praskovya Pavlovna had capital razors that had been left by her late husband), the question was angrily answered in the negative. "Let it stay as it is! What if they think that I shaved on purpose to . . .? They certainly would think so! Not on any account!"
"And . . . the worst of it was he was so coarse, so dirty, he had the manners of a pothouse; and . . . and even admitting that he knew he had some of the essentials of a gentleman . . . what was there in that to be proud of? Everyone ought to be a gentleman and more than that . . . and all the same (he remembered) he, too, had done little things . . . not exactly dishonest, and yet. . . . And what thoughts he sometimes had; hm . . . and to set all that beside Avdotya Romanovna! Confound it! So be it! Well, he'd make a point then of being dirty, greasy, pothouse in his manners and he wouldn't care! He'd be worse!"
He was engaged in such monologues when Zossimov, who had spent the night in Praskovya Pavlovna's parlour, came in.
He was going home and was in a hurry to look at the invalid first. Razumihin informed him that Raskolnikov was sleeping like a dormouse. Zossimov gave orders that they shouldn't wake him and promised to see him again about eleven.
"If he is still at home," he added. "Damn it all! If one can't control one's patients, how is one to cure them? Do you know whether he will go to them, or whether they are coming here?"
"They are coming, I think," said Razumihin, understanding the object of the question, "and they will discuss their family affairs, no doubt. I'll be off. You, as the doctor, have more right to be here than I."
"But I am not a father confessor; I shall come and go away; I've plenty to do besides looking after them."
"One thing worries me," interposed Razumihin, frowning. "On the way home I talked a lot of drunken nonsense to him . . . all sorts of things . . . and amongst them that you were afraid that he . . . might become insane."
"You told the ladies so, too."
"I know it was stupid! You may beat me if you like! Did you think so seriously?"
"That's nonsense, I tell you, how could I think it seriously? You, yourself, described him as a monomaniac when you fetched me to him . . . and we added fuel to the fire yesterday, you did, that is, with your story about the painter; it was a nice conversation, when he was, perhaps, mad on that very point! If only I'd known what happened then at the police station and that some wretch . . . had insulted him with this suspicion! Hm . . . I would not have allowed that conversation yesterday. These monomaniacs will make a mountain out of a mole-hill . . . and see their fancies as solid realities. . . . As far as I remember, it was Zametov's story that cleared up half the mystery, to my mind. Why, I know one case in which a hypochondriac, a man of forty, cut the throat of a little boy of eight, because he couldn't endure the jokes he made every day at table! And in this case his rags, the insolent police officer, the fever and this suspicion! All that working upon a man half frantic with hypochondria, and with his morbid exceptional vanity! That may well have been the starting-point of illness. Well, bother it all! . . . And, by the way, that Zametov certainly is a nice fellow, but hm . . . he shouldn't have told all that last night. He is an awful chatterbox!"
"But whom did he tell it to? You and me?"
"And Porfiry."
"What does that matter?"
"And, by the way, have you any influence on them, his mother and sister? Tell them to be more careful with him to-day. . . ."
"They'll get on all right!" Razumihin answered reluctantly.
"Why is he so set against this Luzhin? A man with money and she doesn't seem to dislike him . . . and they haven't a farthing, I suppose? eh?"
"But what business is it of yours?" Razumihin cried with annoyance. "How can I tell whether they've a farthing? Ask them yourself and perhaps you'll find out. . . ."
"Foo! what an ass you are sometimes! Last night's wine has not gone off yet. . . . Good-bye; thank your Praskovya Pavlovna from me for my night's lodging. She locked herself in, made no reply to my bonjour through the door; she was up at seven o'clock, the samovar was taken into her from the kitchen. I was not vouchsafed a personal interview. . . ."
At nine o'clock precisely Razumihin reached the lodgings at Bakaleyev's house. Both ladies were waiting for him with nervous impatience. They had risen at seven o'clock or earlier. He entered looking as black as night, bowed awkwardly and was at once furious with himself for it. He had reckoned without his host: Pulcheria Alexandrovna fairly rushed at him, seized him by both hands and was almost kissing them. He glanced timidly at Avdotya Romanovna, but her proud countenance wore at that moment an expression of such gratitude and friendliness, such complete and unlooked-for respect (in place of the sneering looks and ill-disguised contempt he had expected), that it threw him into greater confusion than if he had been met with abuse. Fortunately there was a subject for conversation, and he made haste to snatch at it.
Hearing that everything was going well and that Rodya had not yet waked, Pulcheria Alexandrovna declared that she was glad to hear it, because "she had something which it was very, very necessary to talk over beforehand." Then followed an inquiry about breakfast and an invitation to have it with them; they had waited to have it with him. Avdotya Romanovna rang the bell: it was answered by a ragged dirty waiter, and they asked him to bring tea which was served at last, but in such a dirty and disorderly way that the ladies were ashamed. Razumihin vigorously attacked the lodgings, but, remembering Luzhin, stopped in embarrassment and was greatly relieved by Pulcheria Alexandrovna's questions, which showered in a continual stream upon him.
He talked for three quarters of an hour, being constantly interrupted by their questions, and succeeded in describing to them all the most important facts he knew of the last year of Raskolnikov's life, concluding with a circumstantial account of his illness. He omitted, however, many things, which were better omitted, including the scene at the police station with all its consequences. They listened eagerly to his story, and, when he thought he had finished and satisfied his listeners, he found that they considered he had hardly begun.
"Tell me, tell me! What do you think . . . ? Excuse me, I still don't know your name!" Pulcheria Alexandrovna put in hastily.
"Dmitri Prokofitch."
"I should like very, very much to know, Dmitri Prokofitch . . . how he looks . . . on things in general now, that is, how can I explain, what are his likes and dislikes? Is he always so irritable? Tell me, if you can, what are his hopes and, so to say, his dreams? Under what influences is he now? In a word, I should like . . ."
"Ah, mother, how can he answer all that at once?" observed Dounia.
"Good heavens, I had not expected to find him in the least like this, Dmitri Prokofitch!"
"Naturally," answered Razumihin. "I have no mother, but my uncle comes every year and almost every time he can scarcely recognise me, even in appearance, though he is a clever man; and your three years' separation means a great deal. What am I to tell you? I have known Rodion for a year and a half; he is morose, gloomy, proud and haughty, and of late--and perhaps for a long time before--he has been suspicious and fanciful. He has a noble nature and a kind heart. He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. Sometimes, though, he is not at all morbid, but simply cold and inhumanly callous; it's as though he were alternating between two characters. Sometimes he is fearfully reserved! He says he is so busy that everything is a hindrance, and yet he lies in bed doing nothing. He doesn't jeer at things, not because he hasn't the wit, but as though he hadn't time to waste on such trifles. He never listens to what is said to him. He is never interested in what interests other people at any given moment. He thinks very highly of himself and perhaps he is right. Well, what more? I think your arrival will have a most beneficial influence upon him."
"God grant it may," cried Pulcheria Alexandrovna, distressed by Razumihin's account of her Rodya.
And Razumihin ventured to look more boldly at Avdotya Romanovna at last. He glanced at her often while he was talking, but only for a moment and looked away again at once. Avdotya Romanovna sat at the table, listening attentively, then got up again and began walking to and fro with her arms folded and her lips compressed, occasionally putting in a question, without stopping her walk. She had the same habit of not listening to what was said. She was wearing a dress of thin dark stuff and she had a white transparent scarf round her neck. Razumihin soon detected signs of extreme poverty in their belongings. Had Avdotya Romanovna been dressed like a queen, he felt that he would not be afraid of her, but perhaps just because she was poorly dressed and that he noticed all the misery of her surroundings, his heart was filled with dread and he began to be afraid of every word he uttered, every gesture he made, which was very trying for a man who already felt diffident.
"You've told us a great deal that is interesting about my brother's character . . . and have told it impartially. I am glad. I thought that you were too uncritically devoted to him," observed Avdotya Romanovna with a smile. "I think you are right that he needs a woman's care," she added thoughtfully.
"I didn't say so; but I daresay you are right, only . . ."
"He loves no one and perhaps he never will," Razumihin declared decisively.
"You mean he is not capable of love?"
"Do you know, Avdotya Romanovna, you are awfully like your brother, in everything, indeed!" he blurted out suddenly to his own surprise, but remembering at once what he had just before said of her brother, he turned as red as a crab and was overcome with confusion. Avdotya Romanovna couldn't help laughing when she looked at him.
"You may both be mistaken about Rodya," Pulcheria Alexandrovna remarked, slightly piqued. "I am not talking of our present difficulty, Dounia. What Pyotr Petrovitch writes in this letter and what you and I have supposed may be mistaken, but you can't imagine, Dmitri Prokofitch, how moody and, so to say, capricious he is. I never could depend on what he would do when he was only fifteen. And I am sure that he might do something now that nobody else would think of doing . . . Well, for instance, do you know how a year and a half ago he astounded me and gave me a shock that nearly killed me, when he had the idea of marrying that girl--what was her name--his landlady's daughter?"
"Did you hear about that affair?" asked Avdotya Romanovna.
"Do you suppose----" Pulcheria Alexandrovna continued warmly. "Do you suppose that my tears, my entreaties, my illness, my possible death from grief, our poverty would have made him pause? No, he would calmly have disregarded all obstacles. And yet it isn't that he doesn't love us!"
"He has never spoken a word of that affair to me," Razumihin answered cautiously. "But I did hear something from Praskovya Pavlovna herself, though she is by no means a gossip. And what I heard certainly was rather strange."
"And what did you hear?" both the ladies asked at once.
"Well, nothing very special. I only learned that the marriage, which only failed to take place through the girl's death, was not at all to Praskovya Pavlovna's liking. They say, too, the girl was not at all pretty, in fact I am told positively ugly . . . and such an invalid . . . and queer. But she seems to have had some good qualities. She must have had some good qualities or it's quite inexplicable. . . . She had no money either and he wouldn't have considered her money. . . . But it's always difficult to judge in such matters."
"I am sure she was a good girl," Avdotya Romanovna observed briefly.
"God forgive me, I simply rejoiced at her death. Though I don't know which of them would have caused most misery to the other--he to her or she to him," Pulcheria Alexandrovna concluded. Then she began tentatively questioning him about the scene on the previous day with Luzhin, hesitating and continually glancing at Dounia, obviously to the latter's annoyance. This incident more than all the rest evidently caused her uneasiness, even consternation. Razumihin described it in detail again, but this time he added his own conclusions: he openly blamed Raskolnikov for intentionally insulting Pyotr Petrovitch, not seeking to excuse him on the score of his illness.
"He had planned it before his illness," he added.
"I think so, too," Pulcheria Alexandrovna agreed with a dejected air. But she was very much surprised at hearing Razumihin express himself so carefully and even with a certain respect about Pyotr Petrovitch. Avdotya Romanovna, too, was struck by it.
"So this is your opinion of Pyotr Petrovitch?" Pulcheria Alexandrovna could not resist asking.
"I can have no other opinion of your daughter's future husband," Razumihin answered firmly and with warmth, "and I don't say it simply from vulgar politeness, but because . . . simply because Avdotya Romanovna has of her own free will deigned to accept this man. If I spoke so rudely of him last night, it was because I was disgustingly drunk and . . . mad besides; yes, mad, crazy, I lost my head completely . . . and this morning I am ashamed of it."
He crimsoned and ceased speaking. Avdotya Romanovna flushed, but did not break the silence. She had not uttered a word from the moment they began to speak of Luzhin.
Without her support Pulcheria Alexandrovna obviously did not know what to do. At last, faltering and continually glancing at her daughter, she confessed that she was exceedingly worried by one circumstance.
"You see, Dmitri Prokofitch," she began. "I'll be perfectly open with Dmitri Prokofitch, Dounia?"
"Of course, mother," said Avdotya Romanovna emphatically.
"This is what it is," she began in haste, as though the permission to speak of her trouble lifted a weight off her mind. "Very early this morning we got a note from Pyotr Petrovitch in reply to our letter announcing our arrival. He promised to meet us at the station, you know; instead of that he sent a servant to bring us the address of these lodgings and to show us the way; and he sent a message that he would be here himself this morning. But this morning this note came from him. You'd better read it yourself; there is one point in it which worries me very much . . . you will soon see what that is, and . . . tell me your candid opinion, Dmitri Prokofitch! You know Rodya's character better than anyone and no one can advise us better than you can. Dounia, I must tell you, made her decision at once, but I still don't feel sure how to act and I . . . I've been waiting for your opinion."
Razumihin opened the note which was dated the previous evening and read as follows:
"Dear Madam, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, I have the honour to inform you that owing to unforeseen obstacles I was rendered unable to meet you at the railway station; I sent a very competent person with the same object in view. I likewise shall be deprived of the honour of an interview with you to-morrow morning by business in the Senate that does not admit of delay, and also that I may not intrude on your family circle while you are meeting your son, and Avdotya Romanovna her brother. I shall have the honour of visiting you and paying you my respects at your lodgings not later than to-morrow evening at eight o'clock precisely, and herewith I venture to present my earnest and, I may add, imperative request that Rodion Romanovitch may not be present at our interview--as he offered me a gross and unprecedented affront on the occasion of my visit to him in his illness yesterday, and, moreover, since I desire from you personally an indispensable and circumstantial explanation upon a certain point, in regard to which I wish to learn your own interpretation. I have the honour to inform you, in anticipation, that if, in spite of my request, I meet Rodion Romanovitch, I shall be compelled to withdraw immediately and then you have only yourself to blame. I write on the assumption that Rodion Romanovitch who appeared so ill at my visit, suddenly recovered two hours later and so, being able to leave the house, may visit you also. I was confirmed in that belief by the testimony of my own eyes in the lodging of a drunken man who was run over and has since died, to whose daughter, a young woman of notorious behaviour, he gave twenty-five roubles on the pretext of the funeral, which gravely surprised me knowing what pains you were at to raise that sum. Herewith expressing my special respect to your estimable daughter, Avdotya Romanovna, I beg you to accept the respectful homage of
"Your humble servant,
"P. Luzhin."
"What am I to do now, Dmitri Prokofitch?" began Pulcheria Alexandrovna, almost weeping. "How can I ask Rodya not to come? Yesterday he insisted so earnestly on our refusing Pyotr Petrovitch and now we are ordered not to receive Rodya! He will come on purpose if he knows, and . . . what will happen then?"
"Act on Avdotya Romanovna's decision," Razumihin answered calmly at once.
"Oh, dear me! She says . . . goodness knows what she says, she doesn't explain her object! She says that it would be best, at least, not that it would be best, but that it's absolutely necessary that Rodya should make a point of being here at eight o'clock and that they must meet. . . . I didn't want even to show him the letter, but to prevent him from coming by some stratagem with your help . . . because he is so irritable. . . . Besides I don't understand about that drunkard who died and that daughter, and how he could have given the daughter all the money . . . which . . ."
"Which cost you such sacrifice, mother," put in Avdotya Romanovna.
"He was not himself yesterday," Razumihin said thoughtfully, "if you only knew what he was up to in a restaurant yesterday, though there was sense in it too. . . . Hm! He did say something, as we were going home yesterday evening, about a dead man and a girl, but I didn't understand a word. . . . But last night, I myself . . ."
"The best thing, mother, will be for us to go to him ourselves and there I assure you we shall see at once what's to be done. Besides, it's getting late--good heavens, it's past ten," she cried looking at a splendid gold enamelled watch which hung round her neck on a thin Venetian chain, and looked entirely out of keeping with the rest of her dress. "A present from her fiance," thought Razumihin.
"We must start, Dounia, we must start," her mother cried in a flutter. "He will be thinking we are still angry after yesterday, from our coming so late. Merciful heavens!"
While she said this she was hurriedly putting on her hat and mantle; Dounia, too, put on her things. Her gloves, as Razumihin noticed, were not merely shabby but had holes in them, and yet this evident poverty gave the two ladies an air of special dignity, which is always found in people who know how to wear poor clothes. Razumihin looked reverently at Dounia and felt proud of escorting her. "The queen who mended her stockings in prison," he thought, "must have looked then every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees."
"My God!" exclaimed Pulcheria Alexandrovna, "little did I think that I should ever fear seeing my son, my darling, darling Rodya! I am afraid, Dmitri Prokofitch," she added, glancing at him timidly.
"Don't be afraid, mother," said Dounia, kissing her, "better have faith in him."
"Oh, dear, I have faith in him, but I haven't slept all night," exclaimed the poor woman.
They came out into the street.
"Do you know, Dounia, when I dozed a little this morning I dreamed of Marfa Petrovna . . . she was all in white . . . she came up to me, took my hand, and shook her head at me, but so sternly as though she were blaming me. . . . Is that a good omen? Oh, dear me! You don't know, Dmitri Prokofitch, that Marfa Petrovna's dead!"
"No, I didn't know; who is Marfa Petrovna?"
"She died suddenly; and only fancy . . ."
"Afterwards, mamma," put in Dounia. "He doesn't know who Marfa Petrovna is."
"Ah, you don't know? And I was thinking that you knew all about us. Forgive me, Dmitri Prokofitch, I don't know what I am thinking about these last few days. I look upon you really as a providence for us, and so I took it for granted that you knew all about us. I look on you as a relation. . . . Don't be angry with me for saying so. Dear me, what's the matter with your right hand? Have you knocked it?"
"Yes, I bruised it," muttered Razumihin overjoyed.
"I sometimes speak too much from the heart, so that Dounia finds fault with me. . . . But, dear me, what a cupboard he lives in! I wonder whether he is awake? Does this woman, his landlady, consider it a room? Listen, you say he does not like to show his feelings, so perhaps I shall annoy him with my . . . weaknesses? Do advise me, Dmitri Prokofitch, how am I to treat him? I feel quite distracted, you know."
"Don't question him too much about anything if you see him frown; don't ask him too much about his health; he doesn't like that."
"Ah, Dmitri Prokofitch, how hard it is to be a mother! But here are the stairs. . . . What an awful staircase!"
"Mother, you are quite pale, don't distress yourself, darling," said Dounia caressing her, then with flashing eyes she added: "He ought to be happy at seeing you, and you are tormenting yourself so."
"Wait, I'll peep in and see whether he has waked up."
The ladies slowly followed Razumihin, who went on before, and when they reached the landlady's door on the fourth storey, they noticed that her door was a tiny crack open and that two keen black eyes were watching them from the darkness within. When their eyes met, the door was suddenly shut with such a slam that Pulcheria Alexandrovna almost cried out.


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Which of the following U.S. Senators was responsible for the anti-Communist movement know as the "Red Scare?" a. Robert Kennedy. b. Earl Warren. c. Joesph McCarthy. d. Lech Walesa.
U.S. Senator Joesph McCarthy was responsible for the anti-Communist movement know as the "Red Scare.
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Windows 10 How to Play BD,Blu-ray ISO and Blu-ray Folder on Windows 10?
How to Play BD,Blu-ray ISO and Blu-ray Folder on Windows 10?
admin November 3, 2016 December 11, 2016 Windows 10
Windows 10 is the Goldilocks version of Microsoft's venerable PC operating system — a "just right" compromise between the familiar dependability of Windows 7, and the forward-looking touchscreen vision of Windows 8.
This new Windows, available as a free upgrade for existing Windows 7 and Windows 8 noncorporate users, is built from the ground up to pursue Microsoft's vision of a unified OS that spans all devices without alienating any one platform. It's an attempt to safeguard Microsoft's crumbling software hegemony, assailed on all sides by Google and Apple. And it's a vision of the future as Microsoft sees it, where a single user experience spans every piece of technology we touch. Welcome to Windows as a service.
What is Blu-ray ?
Blu-ray is an optical disc format designed to display high definition video and store large amounts of data. Blu-ray also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a new optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience.
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Want to play and enjoy Blu-ray on Windows 10 anywhere you like? Follow this article, you will know how to open Blu-ray movies on Windows 10.
It is still difficult for Windows 10 to play DVD and Blu-ray movies out of the box. To get DVD playback from Microsoft, you'd have to buy the Windows Pack for $100 and the Media Center Pack for $10 — and that only gets you DVD playback, not even Blu-ray support! Wanna enjoy Blu-ray movies on Windows 10? This article will talk about how to open Blu-ray discs on Windows 10.
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Episode 968: The Only Weakness
December 17, 2016 March 1970, Violet Wellesbad news, chromakey, go back to your grave, scissors, warner brosDanny Horn
"When the cairn blew up and the room burned, that should have been the end of you, too."
So here we are at the tippy top of Widow's Hill, waiting for teen gang leader Jeb Hawkes to drown his sorrows, and ours. Jeb is a Leviathan, which is a word you use when you're not really sure what your monster is supposed to be. He used to be a hundred feet tall, with glittering teeth and eyes like opals, but he's given it all up for love. And now we're here, potentially ending it all.
The spirit of Peter Bradford blew into town yesterday, with a king-sized kick against Jeb that he's been bottling up for a hundred and seventy-three years and counting. You remember young barrister Bradford, of course; he's the lawyer who couldn't win a witch trial, a hundred years after they'd stopped having witch trials.
But somehow — by luck or inspiration or lunatic plot contrivance — Peter Bradford figured out the Leviathans' only weakness, which is drowning, and he figured it out by pushing a Leviathan off Widow's Hill and into the water, where it drowned. Or maybe he found out some other way, like reading the Book, which has a whole chapter on what the Leviathans' only weakness is. The Leviathans would apparently write down their only weakness in a handy reference guide and then leave it on display in an antiques store, because they're a secret society that isn't really very good at keeping secrets. They also wear jewelry with a four-headed snake on it, so you know who to drown.
The only way that Jeb can die is to fall from the top of Widow's Hill to a messy death on the rocks below, like Josette and Beth did, which I believe means that they were both secret Leviathans the whole time. And then there's the three widows from the old legend that Elizabeth got all worked up about; they were probably Leviathans too.
Oh, and then there was the other Jeb, the impossible Jeb, who lived in 1797 somehow, and died right here, impossibly, at Peter's hand. Peter was annoyed with Jeb at the time because he'd lured Victoria Winters to these cliffs, and made her jump to her death, so I guess she was a Leviathan, too. Oh my god, you guys, I think Vicki was a Leviathan.
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Episode 717: Mommy Weirdest
September 2, 2015 March 1969, Violet Wellescrazy lady, jane, narrative collision, scissors, sister, writersDanny Horn
"They're dolls! Plain ordinary breakable dolls! She has dozens of them, and can't tell the difference between them."
Mad Jenny Collins is loose in the haunted corridors of ABC daytime television, eyeliner askew and ready for adventure. She's been locked up in the tower room for god knows how long, and from the looks of her, it hasn't been a soothing experience.
She keeps breaking out of her cell and setting fire to people's bedrooms, which isn't a productive use of her time, and at the moment she's got hold of a pair of scissors that must be left over from the Jurassic era. You know how they tell you not to run with scissors? You shouldn't even walk with these. That's a pair of scissors where you close the door and turn the lights off and hope it goes away.
It's not easy to explain just how insane this situation is, so let's see how Charlotte Brontë described it, in Chapter 20 of Jane Eyre:
What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner? — what mystery, that broke out now in fire and now in blood, at the deadest hours of night? What creature was it, that, masked in an ordinary woman's face and shape, uttered the voice, now of a mocking demon, and anon of a carrion-seeking bird of prey?
Well, I mean. You have to give it up to Charlotte B for that. I can't speak for anybody else, but in my opinion I think she nailed it.
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Episode 654: Half-Hour of the Wolf
May 30, 2015 December 1968, Sam Hallalex, gay, irresponsible, pretty boy in peril, scissors, shambles, shirtless, shoulder wound, spectacle, twilight, werewolf, young setDanny Horn
"And after you see what happens, you will never be the same again!"
It's the day after Christmas, and now on the show, a werewolf is tearing the hell out of Joe.
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Episode 607: In a World of Turtlenecks
March 18, 2015 October 1968, Ron Sproatbeatles, doors, fashion, if they both live, one life to live, pretty boy in peril, sacrifice, scissors, shirtless, spectacle, teenagers, turtlenecksDanny Horn
"Put down that letter opener, you look ridiculous."
We've watched our enormous teenage Frankenstein monster as he was brought to life from weeks-old corpse parts. We've seen him read poetry, and play chess. We've seen him kidnap women, break out of jail and jump off a cliff. We've even seen him cry.
But have you ever seen him in bed, wearing revealing nightwear? Welcome to Dark Shadows After Dark.
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Episode 496: Father of the Year
October 7, 2014 Gordon Russell, May 1968backacting, bechdel test, if they both live, scissors, shoulder wound, tape recorder, teleprompter, writersDanny Horn
"Well, never mind about that now. David was very nearly killed this evening."
It's a tough job, don't let anyone tell you different. It must be one of the toughest jobs in television — writing the script for a daily soap opera. It's not the long-term planning, which has got to be kind of fun. The brutal part is the scene breakdown.
The problem goes like this: We have a plot point to establish, and it requires these three characters to be on this set, in this kind of mood. Go make that happen. And sometimes there's just no logical reason why that particular group of people would even be talking to each other. This is why you don't see a lot of jolly soap opera writers.
Of course, on some days, you figure out a clever twist that solves the problem, and the world is full of sunshine, and that's a good day. Gordon Russell is not having a good day.
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The 12 Best Clutch Goalscorers in NHL History
By: Ian Palmer
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
Source: New York Times
Scoring goals at exactly the right time is something of a gift and skill that numerous NHL players have perfected during their careers. These are players who know how to find the back of the net on a consistent basis when the game is on the line. This list features the 12 best clutch goalscorers in the history of the NHL. We've used several factors to come up with the best clutch scorers in history and taken into account the number of game-winning goals in both the regular season and playoffs as well as overtime markers and and game-tying goals.
In addition, we've taken into account total goals scored in their careers and games played. When everything was considered, Some excellent regular-season, game-winning scorers just missed the final cut including Gordie Howe, Phil Esposito, Teemu Selanne and Jarome Iginla. And on the other side of that coin, some players such as Chris Drury were fantastic clutch scorers in the playoffs, but couldn't replicate the feat in the regular season. If the game's tied with just minutes to go, these are the 12 players we'd be sending over the boards to try and settle it.
12. Brendan Shanahan
Former winger Brendan Shanahan was known for his rough and tumble style of play as he's still the only player to score more than 600 goals and serve over 2,000 minutes in penalties. He was an elite scorer in all situations and finished his career with 656 goals. A total of 109 of them were game winners to currently rank sixth on the all-time list in that category and he was in the top-10 during seven of his seasons. He's also tied for 12th place when it comes to regular-season overtime markers. He helped himself win a trio of Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings from 1996 to 2002 by netting another 12 game winners during the postseason with a pair of them coming in overtime. Shanahan also finished his career with 23 shorthanded goals and scored 15 game-tying goals.
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11. Mats Sundin
Mats Sundin was never a 50-goal shooter, but was able to score on a consistent basis. He totaled 564 goals during his career with 96 of them being game winners to rank 12th on the all-time list. Fifteen of those came in overtime which means just three players have scored more in the extra session. He enjoyed seven seasons in the top-10 for game-winning goals, led the league with 10 in 2003/04 and scored an impressive 31 shorthanded markers. Sundin never won a Stanley Cup, but scored eight game winners in the playoffs including two in overtime. One of his most famous postseason goals came in 2001/02 when he scored with just seconds to go in the third period to tie Carolina in game six of the Eastern Conference Finals. Sundin's 500th career goal was just as memorable as it was his third goal of the game and came in overtime against Calgary in 2006.
10. Patrick Marleau
Winger Patrick Marleau of the Toronto Maple Leafs is one of just two players on this list who are still playing in the NHL and is climbing the ladder when it comes to all-time game-winning goals. The 38-year-old currently sits in seventh place all-time with 103 game winners with 10 of them being scored in overtime. Marleau has placed in the league's top-10 game-winning goals in five of his seasons and he's chipped in with 17 shorthanded markers. The Stanley Cup has managed to elude him so far, but Marleau has scored his fair share of clutch goals in the postseason with another 16 game winners, including four in overtime. Just eight players have managed to score more game winners in the playoffs than Marleau.
9. Claude Lemieux
Claude Lemieux was called a lot of things during his career such as rat, weasel, dirty and a cheap shot artist so it might surprise you we're calling him a clutch goalscorer. The former winger often came through with the game on the line. He scored 80 playoff goals in his career with 19 of them being game winners and three of them coming in overtime. This means Wayne Gretzky and Brett Hull are the only two players to score more postseason game winners and 23.8 per cent of Lemieux's playoff goals were clinchers. Also, 15 per cent of his regular-season goals were game winners as he netted 57 of them in 379 total goals. He was ranked in the top-10 for game winners on three occasions and Lemieux was the first rookie to score an overtime goal in game seven of a playoff series.
8. Sergei Federov
Former Russian center Sergei Federov is currently tied for 14th place for regular-season game winners as 93 of his 483 career goals earned a pair of points for his team. Federov also ranks fourth all-time in regular-season overtime goals with 15 of them and managed to finish his career with 36 shorthanded markers. He helped Detroit win three Stanley Cups during his time in the Motor City and pulled his weight by chipping in with another 12 game winners in the playoffs. Federov enjoyed five seasons in the top-10 for regular-season game-winning goals. Twenty-three per cent of his 52 playoff goals were game winners while 19.3 per cent of his regular-season goals won the game for his team. This was definitely a guy who came through in the clutch time after time.
7. Alexander Ovechkin
The other active NHL'er on this list is the great Russian sniper Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals. His 100 game winners rank him ninth all-time and he's steadily gaining ground on those above him. When it comes to regular-season overtime winners, The 32-year-old is already the best ever with 22 of them. Like Patrick Marleau, Ovechkin hasn't been able to hoist the Stanley Cup as of yet, but he's chipped in with half a dozen game winners in the playoffs. The six-time Rocket Richard Trophy winner has placed in the top-10 for game-winning goals a total of six times in his career and led the league in the clutch-scoring category three times. These were in 2007/08, 2010/11 and 2014/15 when 11 of his goals won games for the Capitals.
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6. Joe Sakic
Joe 'Sudden Death' Sakic leads the way when it comes to overtime goals in the playoffs with an all-time high of eight. He's also tied with Claude Lemieux for the most game winners in playoff history at 19, with Wayne Gretzky and Brett Hull being the only players above them. Of his 84 playoff goals, 22.3 per cent of them were game winners and 42 per cent of those came in overtime so it's no wonder he won a pair of Stanley Cups with Colorado. Sakic also added 86 game winners and seven overtime goals in regular-season play along with 13 game-tying goals and 32 shorthanded markers. He led the league in game winners in 2000/01 with 12 of them and was top-10 in the category in five seasons.
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5. Maurice Richard
Let's go back a few decades to the pre-overtime regular-season era in the NHL. One of the league's clutch and top scorers back then was the fiery Rocket Richard of the Montreal Canadiens. Richard still ranks fifth all-time in game-winning goals in the playoffs with 18 and six of them being scored in overtime. His quickest overtime winner came after just 71 seconds and his longest came in the fourth overtime period after 61 minutes. His clutch playoff heroics helped the Montreal Canadiens win eight Stanley Cups during his days at the old Forum. This means 22 per cent of the Rocket's 82 playoff tallies were game winners. When it came to the regular season, Richard also had a knack for scoring big goals as 84 of his 544 career markers clinched the game for the Habs.
4. Wayne Gretzky
You probably knew the NHL's all-time leading scorer would have to be on this list somewhere and here he is. Wayne Gretzky drilled in 91 game-winning goals during regular-season play, scored another dozen that tied the game and ranks first overall with 73 shorthanded markers, leading the league six times while his team was a man short. Gretzky was in the top-10 for game-winning goals on four occasions and led the league with 12 of them in 1981/82. It was in the playoffs where the Great One really shone though as he is tied with Brett Hull for first-place overall with 24 game winners and four of them coming in overtime. He also added another dozen shorthanded goals in the postseason to help him hoist the Stanley Cup four times during his career.
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3. Jaromir Jagr
When it comes to game-winning goals, the league's all-time leader is 46-year-old Jaromir Jagr, whose NHL career is in limbo right now. Jagr has won the game for his teams 135 times in regular-season play, which is 14 more than runner-up Gordie Howe. He's also right up there when it comes to overtime goals as he's currently second all-time with 19 of them under his belt. The most famous mullet in NHL history didn't dry up when the playoffs rolled around either as just eight players have scored more than his 16 postseason winners. In addition, the two-time Stanley Cup winner is tied for fourth all-time with four overtime tallies in the playoffs. Along with 135 game winners, Jagr netted the game's first goal a record 135 times too.
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2. Mike Bossy
Right winger Mike Bossy was one of the purest scorers the NHL has ever seen and it's a shame he retired early due to a back injury. He scored 573 times in 752 career games with 80 of those goals being game winners for the New York Islanders and four of them coming in overtime. Bossy led the NHL in game-winning goals in both 1980/81 and 1985/86 when he racked up 10 and nine of them respectively. This wasn't surprising since he finished in the top-10 for game winners in eight of his seasons. He also helped get his name engraved on the Stanley Cup four times with the Islanders by adding 17 game winners and three overtime markers in the playoffs. This ranks Bossy in a sixth-place tie for all-time postseason winners. Bossy scored the series-winning goal in the 1981/82 and 1982/83 Stanley Cup Finals to become the only NHL player ever to score back to back Cup-winning goals.
1. Brett Hull
The most famous and controversial goal of Brett Hull's career won the Dallas Stars the Stanley Cup in 1998/99. Hull scored in triple overtime against Buffalo Sabres' hall of fame netminder Dominik Hasek to win the silverware in six games. It was controversial since Hull's skate was in the crease at the time the NHL was disallowing goals if anybody had a foot in the crease. The goal stood though and it was just one of Hull's three overtime and 24 game-winning goals in the playoffs, which is the all-time NHL record he shares with Wayne Gretzky. The Golden Jet's son won a pair of Stanley Cups and wasn't too shabby in the regular season either as he netted 110 game winners to tie Teemu Selanne for fourth place all-time. In addition, just 11 players have scored more than Hull's 12 overtime goals in regular-season play and he also added 12-game-tying markers.
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Julie McNiven on Supernatural, Anna, and That Scene with Dean
March 21, 2021 spnfans
Next up in our Supernatural Spring Break celebration, the There'll Be Peace When You Are Done book club also chatted with Julie McNiven, Supernatural's Anna and another contributor to the book. I love what her chapter has to say about how Anna inspired her and how the show and the fandom have done the same. She also had some heartwarming things to say in her chapter about filming Anna and Dean's love scene in the Impala's backseat, and how Jensen Ackles helped her 'find her light'.
Here are some excerpts from the book club discussion. I neglected to explain to her that the book club was on Discord, so Julie was laughing as she sat there with her ring light ready – sorry, Julie!
JMN: Hi Everyone!
BC: The chapter was beautiful.
Lynn: Julie, you wrote your chapter more than a year ago (unbelievably) – how does it feel now to have Supernatural for real coming to an end?
JMN: Sad…but it's been over for me for a looooong time so it feels almost unbelievable that it's still on. It really goes to show how great this cast and fandom is!!! I'm also excited to see what my talented group of SPN friends will do next!!
BC: It's a recurrent theme that this cast and show and set have been so different than all others.
JMN: Absolutely.
BC: Did you ever expect for the fandom to still care about you or your character even years after her last appearance? What is the most surprising thing about that??
JMN: I NEVER expected for Fandom to care about me after my death!!! That has been the gift that keeps on giving. I'm so grateful that y'all tune in to Doom Patrol and cheesy Christmas movies to support me!!!!
Julie onstage at Vegas con
BC: Anna was a complex character. Did you enjoy the challenge of playing a character that went from lost to (being) such a badass? (In response to the Christmas movie comment:) I've loved Matt Bomer since White Collar!
[I mean, what's not to like about Matt Bomer? Also Doom Patrol is a great show]
JMN: This was my favorite part about playing Anna and I'd be lying if I said I was totally fine not getting one more chance to portray her…I wonder how the Empty changed her? Matt (Bomer) is a dream. So kind and an incredible acting partner.
BC: The behind-the-scenes glimpse of the how-to of intimate scenes in your chapter was eye-opening. [In which Julie writes about the challenges of the backseat scene with Jensen Ackles] I'm so glad you had a positive experience on the SPN set. Have you been able to maintain that control and self-agency on sets after that, or is it still a challenge? I would like to think we're all moving forward along those lines, but sometimes the pace seem glacial.
JMN: I've been able to maintain that control but it definitely helps when the co-star is supportive and protective! They have "intimacy directors" on set now…this is new and I have yet to experience it but I think that it's a great move.
BC: I think that a lot of people who find someone like Jensen incredibly attractive would find it easy to do this type of scene, but I think it would be so difficult and terrifying. I love that you told your story so that we see a positive way that it can be done, while highlighting that it's not the fantasy some might have about this.
JMN: Truly, that's the LAST thing on an actor's mind…it's very choreographed and does not FEEL sexy or anything.
BC: I'd definitely feel awkward faced with that type of situation.
JMN: Awkward for sure…but it's part of the job…someone's gotta do it. HA!
BC: I think it'd be so hard to be in character while kissing someone all while knowing 50 people are just watching.
JMN: Yup…very weird!
BC: Like, why can't they get under a bluff (behind a blind??) like the nature filmers do when they're watching bears or something?
JMN: HA HA!
Lynn: Julie, do you think the respectful tone of the SPN set was something that came from producers, directors, or was influenced by the leads and the tone they wanted to set?
JMN: 100 percent came from the boys…they set the tone for the crew. And of course the crew was great too…but it's up to them to lead by example.
BC: It's been their playground for so long. I'm always inspired by what wonderful people the SPN cast & crew are.
JMN: ME TOO!!!!
BC: It always amazes me that there are nightmare sets where the leads are just totally self-centered or bullying. Like, how does that show stay on the air if no one wants to work there???
JMN: Many times those shows don't last long…and if they do….that's probably MORE miserable.
Lynn: It's clear from your chapter in There'll Be Peace When You Are Done that your experience on Supernatural had an impact on you. Has your experience with the Supernatural fandom had an impact also? Do you think differently about fans after being part of this SPN Family?
JMN: Yes! I never even really knew fandoms existed!!! Now I feel so lucky that you guys will watch my smaller-budget passion projects…it's a whole new world.
BC: I thought what you said in your chapter about wanting to be seen as "easy to work with" – I think that's common in a lot of workplaces, but with acting in particular, with a higher ratio of men vs. women in leadership positions such as producing, directing, leads (gap seems to be closing a little, but we're not there yet), do you feel there is more pressure on women to want to appear that way, or is it pretty equal?
JMN: Hmmmmm…hard to say, but I would lean to "yes"…
And with that, Julie had to run. She launched a campaign with Stands shortly after we chatted, an 'Angel radio' charm benefiting @KIF1A to raise funds to fight a rare neurodegenerative disease. Hopefully they'll bring it back at some point! And she supported her friend Gen Padalecki by modeling some cute NowandGen styles too.
Modeling for NowandGen
Lynn: Thanks, Julie. So glad you're part of There'll Be Peace When You Are Done as it continues to benefit Random Acts and SPN Survivors.
JMN: Thanks so much everyone!!! Love you all!!!! Bye everyone!!!
I'm looking forward to the Anna episodes as we do our Supernatural From the Start Rewatch, and looking forward to Julie's upcoming projects too. And if you haven't read Julie's chapter in the book, it's inspiring and a great example of the things that make Supernatural so unique, in such a good way.
Stay tuned for more interviews, reviews and articles as our Supernatural Spring Break week goes on a little bit longer. We're having too much fun celebrating Supernatural to stop quite yet!
You can read Julie's chapter along with the
other Supernatural actors' chapters in There'll
Be Peace When You Are Done and Family
Don't End With Blood. Links on the home page
or at peacewhenyouaredone.com
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4 thoughts on "Julie McNiven on Supernatural, Anna, and That Scene with Dean"
Don't get me wrong. I love Julie and Anna. Buts it's my opinion that Dean slept with the wrong Angel. Happy Spring Break everyone
Julie is a delight, so much fun. Her character was memorable and brave, offering hope to Dean at a very difficult time, her relationship with him was complex and beautiful. Anna gave Dean comfort and compassion when he most needed it, it went deeper than the physical relationship, Anna did something no one else could at that time, she made him feel loved and less hideous, less alone, enabling Dean to be able to reach out to his brother. Anna's presence was a turning point in Dean's life that made a huge difference to him being able to face up to his time in Hell.
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Julie was awesome as Anna, and when I first watched the show I was disappointed that they killed her off so soon. Her storyline was really cool, and I still consider her one of my favorite characters.
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