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My Three Sons is an American television sitcom that aired from September 29, 1960, to April 13, 1972. The series was broadcast on ABC during its first five seasons, before moving to CBS for the remaining seasons. My Three Sons chronicles the life of widower and aeronautical engineer Steven Douglas (Fred MacMurray) as he raises his three sons.

The series originally featured William Frawley (who had first co-starred with Fred MacMurray 25 years earlier in the film Car 99) as the boys' maternal grandfather and live-in housekeeper, William Michael Francis "Bub" O'Casey. William Demarest, playing Bub's brother, "Uncle Charley", replaced Frawley in 1965 because of Frawley's declining health. In September 1965 (when the show moved from ABC to CBS and began to be filmed in color), eldest son Mike (Tim Considine) married fiancée Sally Ann Morrison (Meredith MacRae), and his character was written out of the show. To keep the emphasis on "three sons", original youngest son Chip's (Stanley Livingston) friend Ernie (Barry Livingston) was adopted. In the program's later years, Steven Douglas married Barbara Harper (Beverly Garland) and adopted her young daughter Dorothy Anne ("Dodie") (Dawn Lyn).

The series was a cornerstone of the ABC and CBS lineups in the 1960s. Disney producer Bill Walsh often mused on whether the concept of the show was inspired by the film The Shaggy Dog, as in his view they shared "the same dog, the same kids, and Fred MacMurray".

History

ABC years

The show began on ABC in black-and-white. The first season, consisting of 36 episodes, was directed in its entirety by Peter Tewksbury, who produced and occasionally scripted the programs.

During the 1964 fall season, William Frawley, who played Bub, was declared too ill to work by Desilu Studios, as the company was informed that insuring the actor would be too costly. Frawley continued in the role until a suitable replacement could be found at midseason. He was replaced by William Demarest, who played his hard-nosed brother (great) Uncle Charley, introduced partway through the 1964–1965 season (the last on ABC). According to the storyline, Bub returns to Ireland to help his Aunt Kate celebrate her 104th birthday. Soon after, brother Charley visits and stays on. Charley, a cello-playing merchant sailor, was a soft-hearted curmudgeon, who proved to be a responsible caregiver. Frawley left the series before the end of the 1964–1965 season. He died March 3, 1966.

The address of the fictional home in Bryant Park was 837 Mill Street. The phone number was LArson 0-6719, rotary dialed as 520-6719 (from Season 1, Episode 25 - 'Off Key' first aired March 16, 1961). The actual address of the home used for the Bryant Park episodes was 837 5th Avenue in Los Angeles California. The neighboring driveway to the right of the house was used as the Douglas' driveway on the show, although the real life driveway for that home is on the left hand side of the house. The fictional phone number for a neighboring home was 527-3601 Season 1, Episode 26 - Small Adventure aired March 23, 1961. Many of the 1960s My Three Sons external shoots were actually done on location on 5th Avenue, and many items, such as the two young trees growing across the street on early episodes, were still visible in 2022.

Directors
Peter Tewksbury directed the first season. The succeeding director, Richard Whorf, took over the reins for one season and was in turn followed by former actor-turned-director Gene Reynolds from 1962 to 1964. James V. Kern, an experienced Hollywood television director who had previously helmed the "Hollywood" and "Europe" episodes of I Love Lucy, continued in this role for two years until his untimely death at 57 in late 1966. Director James Sheldon was also contracted to finish episodes that had been partly completed by Kern to complete that season. Fred De Cordova was the show's longest and most consistent director of the series (108 episodes) until he left in 1971 to produce The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Earl Bellamy rounded out the series as director of the show's final year.

CBS years
My Three Sons moved to the CBS television network for the 1965–1966 season after ABC declined to underwrite the expense of producing the program in color. Along with the change in networks and the transition to color, Tim Considine (who had earlier worked with Fred MacMurray on The Shaggy Dog), playing eldest son Mike, had chosen not to renew his contract due to a clash with executive producer Don Fedderson over Considine's wish to direct but not co-star in the series. (Considine did, however, direct one of the last black-and-white episodes for ABC.) In an August 1989 interview on the Pat Sajak Show, he explained that he was also devoted to car racing, which his contract forbade. His character was written out, along with Meredith MacRae, who had played his fiancée Sally, in a wedding episode that was the premiere of the 1965–1966 season on CBS. After this episode, Mike is mentioned briefly in only four succeeding episodes (including the one in which the family adopts Ernie) and is never seen again, even at Robbie's and Steve's weddings. (Steve explains briefly in one of these episodes that he has another son who "lives away from home".) In the episode "Steve and the Huntress" (first aired January 27, 1966), Mike is specifically mentioned as teaching at a college. MacRae joined Petticoat Junction the following year, the last of three actresses to play Billie Jo Bradley.

To keep the show's title plausible, the show's head writer, George Tibbles, fashioned a three-part story arc in which an orphaned friend of youngest brother Richard (Chip, played by Stanley Livingston), Ernie Thompson (played by his real-life brother, Barry Livingston), awaits adoption when his current foster parents are transferred to the Orient. Steve offers to adopt Ernie, but faces antagonism from Uncle Charley, who finds Ernie a bit grating and forecasts major headaches over both the boy and his dog. It also transpires that a law requires a woman to live in the home of an adoptive family. A likable female social worker supervises the case and the Douglases speculate that Steve might marry the woman to make the adoption possible, but they agree that this is not reason enough for them to be married. Also, the family has no need for a housekeeper; Uncle Charley already has things running smoothly. The family soon appears before a judge who researches the law and determines that its intent is to ensure that a full-time caregiver is in the household. As Charley meets that role and has had a change of heart about Ernie, he assents to a legal fiction that declares him the Douglas family's "housemother".

While the three sons were always central to the storyline, several major changes took place by the late 1960s. In the spring of 1967, the series' ratings began to sag, and it finished its seventh season in 31st place in the Nielsen ratings. It was decided that the 1967–1968 season would bring the program not only a new time slot but also new storylines to spice up the ratings. In the fall of 1967, CBS moved My Three Sons to Saturday at 8:30 pm ET. In the season premiere episode, "Moving Day", the Douglas family and Uncle Charley relocate from the fictional Midwestern town of Bryant Park to Los Angeles, California. Robbie (Don Grady) marries his girlfriend Katie Miller. Katie is played by Tina Cole, who had appeared in different roles on three previous episodes: "House For Sale" from the fourth season (February 13, 1964), "The Coffee House Set" from the fifth season (November 19, 1964), and "Robbie and the Little Stranger" from the sixth season (February 17, 1966). At the end of the 1967–1968 season, the ratings had improved from the previous year with the series placing at 24th in the Nielsens. The following season, the newlyweds discover that Katie is pregnant and she gives birth to triplets named Robert, Steven, and Charles. Originally played by sets of uncredited twins, the boys were later played uncredited by Guy, Gunnar, and Garth Swanson; and in the last two seasons by Michael, Daniel, and Joseph Todd.

The following year in the 10th season, 1969–1970, Steve remarries. His new bride, widowed teacher Barbara Harper (Beverly Garland), brings with her a five-year-old daughter, Dorothy "Dodie" (Dawn Lyn), whom Steve adopts. Dodie is wary of Steve at first, believing that he wants her to just forget her late father, but he explains that he wants her to always remember and love him, but since he's no longer alive, Steve wants to raise her in his place and he hopes she'll come to love him, too. The series' last year and a half feature fewer appearances from both Don Grady and Stanley Livingston. Grady's character was written out at the end of the 11th season, which allowed for his wife Katie and their triplet sons to remain in the Douglas household for the following season (as a structural engineer Robbie was working on a bridge construction in Peru). Meanwhile, Chip and his teenage wife Polly (Ronne Troup), who had eloped after Polly's disciplinarian father refused to sanction their marriage, move into their own apartment.

At the end of the 1970–1971 season, the show's 11th year, My Three Sons was still garnering healthy ratings. By the spring of 1971, it had finished in 19th place. A 1971 television pilot with Don Grady and Tina Cole called Three of a Kind, then retitled Robbie—about Robbie, Katie, and the triplets moving to San Francisco—was filmed but not picked up as a series. The final episode of the 1970–1971 season, "After the Honeymoon", actually set up the premise for this pilot. Richard X. Slattery and Pat Carroll guest-starred as the landlords of the apartment block into which Robbie and Katie move. However, Don Grady had informed the producers of his intention to leave the series and pursue a new full-time career as a composer, which he ultimately did.

For the series' 12th and, ultimately, final season, CBS moved the show to Mondays at 10:00 pm ET. In addition to the time changes for the 12th season, a new four-part story arc is introduced with MacMurray in a second role, that of his cousin, the Laird (Lord) Fergus McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge; English actor Alan Caillou's voice was dubbed over MacMurray's. The plot centers on Lord Douglas's arrival in Los Angeles from the family's native Scotland, in search of a bride to take back to Scotland with him.

He finds Terri Dowling (Anne Francis), a waitress at the Blue Berry Bowling Alley. While initially reluctant to give up her life in America and return to Scotland as nobility, she finally accepts. This storyline continues a plot idea that originally began in the fourth season, when the Douglases visited Scotland on the pretense of having been told they had inherited a castle in the Highlands.

With a later time slot, the show finished the season outside the top 30. To save the series, CBS moved it in midseason back to Thursdays at 8:30 pm ET, its old time slot. Nevertheless, My Three Sons ended its primetime run in the spring of 1972 after 12 years on the air. CBS also aired daytime reruns starting in September 1971 (only the CBS color shows), for about one season.

Cast

Main

 Fred MacMurray, Steve Douglas (1960–1972)
 William Frawley, William Michael Francis Aloysius "Bub" O'Casey: Steve's father-in-law (1960–1965)
 William Demarest, Charles Leslie "Uncle Charley" O'Casey: Bub's younger brother (1965–1972)
 Tim Considine, Mike Douglas: Steve's son (1960–1965)
 Don Grady, Robbie Douglas: Steve's son (1960–1971)
 Stanley Livingston, Richard "Chip" Douglas: Steve's son (1960–1972)
 Barry Livingston, Ernie Thompson-Douglas: Steve's adoptive son (1963–1972)
 Meredith MacRae, Sally Ann Morrison-Douglas: Mike's wife (1963–1965)
 Tina Cole, Katie Miller-Douglas: Robbie's wife (1967–1972)
 Beverly Garland, Barbara Harper-Douglas: Steve's 2nd wife (1969–1972)
 Dawn Lyn, Dorothy Anne "Dodie" Harper-Douglas: Barbara's daughter (1969–1972)
 Ronne Troup, Polly Williams-Douglas: Chip's wife (1970–1972)
 Michael, Daniel, and Joseph Todd, playing Robbie, Stevie, and Charley Douglas: Robbie & Katie's triplet sons respectively (1970–1972)

Recurring

 Cynthia Pepper, Jean Pearson (1960–1961)
Peter Brooks, Hank Ferguson (1960–1963)
 Cheryl Holdridge, Judy Doucette (1960–1961)
Ricky Allen, Hubert 'Sudsy' Pfeiffer (1961–1963)
 Hank Jones, Pete (1964–1966)
 Bill Erwin, Joe Walters (1962–1964)
 Doris Singleton, Helen Morrison (1964–65) and Margaret Williams (1970)
 John Howard, Dave Welch (1965–1967)
 Joan Tompkins, Lorraine Miller (1967–1970)
 Norman Alden, Tom Williams (1970)

Episodes

My Three Sons had 36 episodes each in the first two seasons. The series had at least thirty episodes in each of the first eight seasons; the episode output then decreased by two episodes until the eleventh season, which had twenty-four episodes, along with the twelfth season. The first five seasons were filmed in black & white, then after the move to CBS, it was filmed in color for the remainder of its run.

Production schedule
The series was initially filmed at Desilu Studios in Hollywood, but at the start of the 1967–68 season, the cast and crew began filming the series at the CBS Studio Center in Studio City, California. The reasons behind this move concerned the sale of actress-comedian Lucille Ball's studios to the Gulf + Western conglomerate, which owned Paramount Pictures, so Don Fedderson Productions, who produced My Three Sons (along with Family Affair starring Brian Keith), had to quickly make other arrangements for filming.

Distribution
Although Don Fedderson gets the credit, My Three Sons was created by George Tibbles and produced by Don Fedderson Productions throughout the show's run, with MCA Television co-distributing the series during its 1960–65 ABC airing. When the series moved to CBS in 1965, the latter network assumed full production responsibilities (in association with Fedderson Productions) until the end of the series in 1972. CBS now holds the series' copyright. CBS Television Distribution presently owns distribution rights to the entire series (including the more widely seen and aforementioned 1965–72 CBS episodes). The show did not get syndicated until September 1976, when Viacom Enterprises assumed off-network distribution (although CBS did air reruns of the show in its daytime lineup from December 1971 until the fall of 1972), and even then, only the CBS color episodes aired, while the black and white ABC episodes did not air on broadcast TV at all. At the time, the first half of season 11 was in the same syndication package as seasons 6-10, while season 12 and the second half of season 11 were distributed with seasons 1–5.

Nick at Nite aired My Three Sons from November 3, 1985, to October 28, 1991, with episodes from Seasons 1–5, the second half of season 11, and season 12. The Family Channel also aired only the black and white episodes from September 7, 1992, to July 30, 1993. The Seasons 1–3 episodes had the original Chevrolet closing credits. The Seasons 6–10 (and the first half of season 11) episodes were later aired on TV Land in the late 1990s. Odyssey ran all of the color episodes in the early 2000s. They also briefly aired the black and white episodes. In 2000, TV Land briefly aired the black & white episodes again, using the same syndication episode rights that were on Nick at Nite during the 1980s. In 2006 the Retro Television Network broadcast the show. Only seasons 6-10 and the first half of season 11 were aired.

In 2009, FamilyNet began airing the program as a lead-in for its Happy Days and Family Ties program block, which ended in February 2010. From 2012 to 2014, and also from October 2015-February 2016, MeTV aired the Season 6-10 episodes in heavy rotation, and most closing credits included the original sponsor tags, such as those for Kellogg's. In 2016, Decades began airing the CBS (color) episodes in its "binge" blocks on some weekends.

MeTV began airing the black and white episodes on May 29, 2017, the first time the black and white episodes have aired on broadcast television since their original ABC airings. MeTV aired all episodes in order until August 3, 2018, when the series's last episode aired.  This marks the first time a U.S. television station aired the entire series in full. MeTV started reairing the entire series again on August 6, 2018 and has continued to do so ever since.

Reunion special

MacMurray and most of the cast took part in Thanksgiving Reunion with The Partridge Family and My Three Sons, which aired on ABC on November 25, 1977. The retrospective special looked back at the history of My Three Sons and The Partridge Family (other than featuring single parents with a large family, the two series had no narrative, or even a studio, link). The special was notable for featuring footage from early black and white episodes of My Three Sons that, at this point in time, were not in syndication. While most of the collected casts gathered in a studio to reminisce, Demarest appeared in a brief pre-taped segment.

Home media
CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) has released the first five seasons of My Three Sons on DVD in Region 1.

In most episodes, the soundtrack was edited to remove the background musical score, which were originally stock music from the Capitol Records library; the licensing agreement with Capitol only covered broadcast rights, not home video rights, and clearing the music for home video release with the individual composers who worked on the Capitol recordings was deemed cost-prohibitive. The Capitol scores were replaced instead with more modern, synthesized music. The original theme tune by Frank DeVol has been left unaltered; his musical scores in later seasons of the show, written specifically for the series, would less-likely be affected by licensing problems if the later seasons were released on DVD.

On May 13, 2019, the third season was released, in two volume sets, available exclusively through Amazon's made-on-demand (MOD) service. Season 4 was released on September 10, 2019 and season 5 on December 17, 2019.

Explanatory notes

References

External links

 My Three Sons at the Museum of Broadcast Communications

1960s American sitcoms
1960 American television series debuts
1970s American sitcoms
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Emira finds that her friends are passing her by in the growing up department, but she's enjoying babysitting (not even nannying!) for professional influencer Alix (née Alex) Chamberlain and has become particularly attached to daughter Briar. An uncomfortable grocery-store incident with racist overtones seems likely to blow up, but Emira really wants to put this behind her and convinces bystander Kelley, who recorded the incident on his phone, to not release it. When Emira and Kelley meet again, they start dating (even though she doesn't usually date white guys), but what Emira doesn't know is that Alix and Kelley have a past that ended poorly and they each have very different takes on it. With a story that bounces between the three viewpoints, Kiley Reid's debut novel features a wonderfully engaging and wiser-than-she-thinks-she-is heroine and is alternatingly inspired, infuriating, hilarious, and thought-provoking, touching on race, class, gender, friendship, dating, and motherhood, and filled with a whole mess of bad advice from everyone concerned. Lots of bad advice!
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
Published: One World - August 13th, 2019
The Well Plated Cookbook: Fast, Healthy Recipes You'll Want to Eat (Hardcover)
By Erin Clarke
Published: Avery - August 25th, 2020
Transcendent Kingdom: A novel (Hardcover)
By Yaa Gyasi
Published: Knopf - September 1st, 2020
Perestroika in Paris: A novel (Hardcover)
By Jane Smiley
Published: Knopf - December 1st, 2020
A Children's Bible: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Lydia Millet
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 12th, 2020
Millet gathers a large group of old friends and their children for an extended summer vacation in a ginormous rented house. The children, largely teens, are more or less forgotten by their drunken, self-absorbed parents. The kids, embarrassed - even horrified - by their parents' behaviors, actively disown them and take charge of their own vacation. A gigantic, climate-change-driven storm takes them all by surprise, causes significant destruction, and widens the wedge between adults and kids. Without giving away more of the story, Millet suggests the younger generation has the drive, but perhaps not all the tools, to save themselves, and even their disdained parents. Millet has penned a thoughtful, appropriately angsty, and definitely possible tale set in the not-very-distant future.
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
By Robert Kolker
Published: Doubleday - April 7th, 2020
I loved this book! Journalist Kolker chronicles the Galvin family, who settled in Colorado Springs with the creation of the Air Force Academy. Don and Mimi wound up having twelve kids, and six of them were eventually diagnosed as schizophrenic. The family history, often from the perspective of Lindsay, the youngest child (non-diagnosed) alternates with a history of the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia. The split between advocates of nurture and nature hypotheses continues since the break between Freud and Jung. I can't believe how Kolker was able to give such distinct life to the six men who presented their illnesses in such different ways. It's a tragic story, but it's also about the survival story of the six kids who weren't diagnosed, including one who seems to have skirted by the illness. If you are a fan of Brain on Fire, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, or the recent Boswell pick An Elegant Defense, Hidden Valley Road is for you.
Oona Out of Order: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Margarita Montimore
Published: Flatiron Books - February 25th, 2020
Imagine living your adult life never knowing how old you'll be when you wake up on your next birthday. This is Oona's life, starting with what should be her 19th birthday, when she wakes up 51 years old. Before the book ends, she flips through seven more birthdays, ranging from 19 to 53. Oona's reactions to this craziness, such as attempts to adjust her fate and to right past wrongs, feel surprisingly believable. This is a unique, fun, and thought-provoking book.
At her 19th birthday party on New Year's Eve, 1983, Oona is preoccupied. Should she accept an offer to study in London or go on tour with the boy she loves and their band? At the stroke of midnight, before she can make her choice, time and fate intervene. Just as Oona's boyfriend leans over to kiss her, she blinks awake decades later in a strange house and an unfamiliar body. This is the first of Oona's jumps along the timeline of her life, and from then on, each New Year's Day, she wakes up either younger or older than the moment before, but never in the right sequence. She struggles to fit herself back into her own life as she reconnects with friends and people she loves (or loved or will love) as her past and future selves, and mourns the ones she has left behind. Particularly meaningful is her relationship with her mom, who is just so charming and full of life, and who veers between being a mother, a friend, a frenemy, and the wisest person in the novel. I enjoyed thinking about, as Oona learns to, what it really means to live in the moment, with consequences delayed for future Oona, who might be much more adept at solving her problems - certainly much better than past Oona! For anyone who's been waiting seventeen years for a novel as engrossing as The Time Traveler's Wife, this is the book for you!
— Jenny Chou
The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook (Hardcover)
By Marcus Samuelsson, Osayi Endolyn (With), Yewande Komolafe (With)
Published: Voracious - October 27th, 2020
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope (Hardcover)
By Jon Meacham, John Lewis (Afterword by)
Published: Random House - August 25th, 2020
The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (Hardcover)
Published: Pamela Dorman Books - September 22nd, 2020
A Deadly Education: A Novel (The Scholomance #1) (Hardcover)
Published: Del Rey - September 29th, 2020
If you like your magical boarding school fiction delightfully dark and scary (and who doesn't?), then I have a book for you. Main character El Higgins has survived the killer (literally) breakfasts and ominous monsters who feed on students to begin her second-to-last year at the Scholomance, a school that instructs students in the art of magic. As for survival against the hungry monsters known as maleficaria (or mals for short), students either figure that out on their own or perish trying. Each student has a talent, and some are more useful for fighting off mal than others. El keeps her talent for complete and utter destruction a secret, hoping that a sudden and spectacular revelation will ensure her a safe home among society's most elite sorcerers if she manages to survive the carnage of graduation. Always wrecking her plans is the infuriatingly nice Orion Lake, who quest to save as many students as possible is stupid and hopeless, but maybe a little endearing too. The constant bickering between El and Orion create lots of laugh-out-loud moments in this creative mix of scorching humor and horror. Naomi Novik has a talent for creating fantastical settings, but the heartfelt way she develops prickly El into a character to root for proves her genius as a writer. The gasp-out-loud last sentence left me desperate for the sequel. A Deadly Education might sound like fun for really brave kids, but trust me, this magical treat is for grown-ups.
Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them (Hardcover)
By Adrienne Raphel
Published: Penguin Press - March 17th, 2020
From its beginnings as a 1920s fad whose detractors sounded much like today's video game vigilantes, crosswords were the bones of one major publisher (Simon & Schuster) and even developed an English accent, with British cryptic crosswords more focused on clue wordplay than the American counterparts. Puzzle creation etiquette was soon standardized under Margaret Farrar, with two sea changes to follow – the triumph of the pop culture guard over traditionalists (so OREO could now be a cookie instead of a mountain prefix) and the rise of crossword creation software, which has coincidentally led to a decline in the percentage of women constructors. Raphel visits the annual Stamford tournament and goes on an ocean-crossing crossword cruise. She looks at the clue-driven connections to mysteries and notes the puzzle's place in culture, from Vladimir Nabokov to Sex and the City. And she looks at how technology has changed the avocation, from construction programs to user apps. As a person who is attracted to puzzles but struggles with solving them, I am continually fascinated by the world of crossword puzzles, and it didn't seem to matter that I'd already seen Wordplay and read Marc Romano's Crossworld some years ago, I was thoroughly entertained by Thinking Inside the Box. Maybe it's a memory thing; I hear crossword puzzles are good for helping with that.
The Prophets (Hardcover)
By Robert Jones, Jr.
Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - January 5th, 2021
The Push: A Novel (Hardcover)
Published: Pamela Dorman Books - January 5th, 2021
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding (Hardcover)
By Daniel Lieberman
Published: Pantheon - January 5th, 2021
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning (Hardcover)
By Tom Vanderbilt
Published: Knopf - January 5th, 2021
The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating (Hardcover)
By Gary Taubes
Published: Knopf - December 29th, 2020
Himalaya: A Human History (Hardcover)
By Ed Douglas
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - January 5th, 2021
Better Luck Next Time: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Julia Claiborne Johnson
Published: Custom House - January 5th, 2021
Outlawed (Hardcover)
By Anna North
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - January 5th, 2021
In an alternate version of 19th century America, where a plague has killed so many and the U.S. has dissolved, Ada has been deemed an outlaw due to the fact that her marriage has been childless for a year. There's a bit of Salem here, as women who are infertile are considered witches and are dealt accordingly. Ada strikes out on her own to solve her problems and save her family from her barren stigma. Joining the Hole in the Wall Gang, made up mostly women in her own situation, she thinks she has only one objective. However, the longer she is with the gang and the more struggles she shares with these outlaws (whether or not they like her or want her there), the more she comes to discover what is most important to her. Anna North has delivered a worthy novel that can be shelved with The Handmaid's Tale and the like. So many issues circulate through this world that I was wondering how Anna North could possibly wrap this up; I had no need to fear as the pulse-pounding ending surprised and shocked. It's a violent world that Ada lives in, so it's a good thing she has a tough constitution.
— Jason Kennedy

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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza fishermen said one skiff was hit and sunk Wednesday night by an Israeli naval boat off the Rafah coast.
Fisherman Ahmad Abu Salmiyeh, 20, was injured after sinking with his boat following the collision, which took place near Tal As-Sultan in the southern Gaza Strip, his colleagues told Ma'an.
A group of fellow fishers rushed out to rescue him, Ma'an's correspondent reported.
An Israeli military spokesman said the army was not familiar with the incident, and denied that the navy sank a boat or caused injuries.
Israeli military ships patrol Gaza's Mediterranean shore, enforcing a 3-mile fishing limit and blockade on the strip, with fishermen reporting fire, boat confiscations and detentions by the navy.


On the way to the office today –yes, I worked yesterday and today– I spotted a great blue heron flying high overhead; the first heron I've seen this year. I also saw several male robins chasing each other around as they define their territories. One pair of robins nearly met their end as they eyed each other and hopped bit by bit, ever farther out into the road ahead of me! They seemed completely oblivious to the oncoming metal Bringer of Doom descending upon them. Or they may have been robins playing "chicken." This time of year many robins die on the roads as they get involved in their aerial territorial disputes that take them across roads and highways. I'm happy I didn't thin out their gene pool this morning!
Ah, I have never seen the robins taking their territorial disputes out onto the road. I have seen some very fat robins in the spring and I always wonder if they are the females about to lay eggs.
Yes, I love to hear the birds begin to sing again and to see the Robins return!


With the Management Plus upgrade, multiple managers can access the time clock with their own unique user name and password. For additional security, you can assign specific permission levels for each manager. This will allow each manager to view and edit only the data specified. As an added benefit, the Management Plus upgrade comes with the ability to pay, sort, and categorize your employees by department. Up to 32 different departments are supported system wide.
Manage your time clock more efficiently by setting up manager logins and permission levels and sorting employees by department.
Note: Manager logins are only available with Universal Time Clock 2.0 versions. Please provide serial number to receive activation code.


I created this license plate guitar art as a birthday gift for Rick Hendrick, owner and founder of the Hendrick Automotive Group. Here's how it happened.
A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of being on American Real for MAVTV. The Charlotte-based production team of Kevin Mooney and Chip Zayak, shot the piece. They made it a terrific experience.
During my interview, they asked me which piece was my favorite. While I've got a few, the first to come to mind was the license plate guitar I made for Brad Paisley that featured tags from his cars over the years.
As it turned out, they were shooting a piece with Brad Paisley the next day for AmeriCarna, a show that will air in January 2014.
It wasn't long before I received a call from the office of NASCAR great Ray Evernham, asking me to create a gift for Mr. Hendrick for his birthday. Mr. Evernham told me Brad Paisley raved about the piece I created for him. All I can say is man, did that feel good.
I interviewed Mr. Evernham and set about creating a piece that features the logo of the Americarna show. There are other details, like the "Mr. H" that appears on the bridge, that makes this one very special gift Mr. Hendrick.


I want to give the warmest welcome to you, the incoming class of 2021. The next four years will be filled with unforgettable memories and friendships on top of a world-class education. Coming in to a new environment can be intimidating for anyone, especially coming from another country. With that said, the number one concern of both the campus and community is your safety. Both the cities of Champaign and Urbana, as well as the University, have laws and policies in place for the safety of yourself and others.
In both Champaign and Urbana, illicit substances and their assorted paraphernalia are prohibited, and possession could cost you a minimum of $350. While medical marijuana is technically legal in the state of Illinois, the possession or use of medical marijuana is prohibited on the University campus. Along with the fine mentioned earlier, drug use to the point of needing medical attention triggers a mandatory assessment and review by the University.
If you live in a residence hall and are found in possession of illegal substances, the University may cancel your housing contract as well as give disciplinary action, which could include dismissal from the University.
The University of Illinois is a non-smoking campus, which includes cigarettes. Being caught smoking on campus will first get you a written warning but with each subsequent ticket the fine increases, from $25 for a second offense to $100 for the fourth offense and onward.
In Champaign, the legal age to enter a bar is 19; in Urbana, the legal age is 18. However, in Illinois, the legal drinking age is 21, meaning that even though you might be able to enter a bar, you can't purchase alcohol. Purchasing and consuming alcohol while underage can come with a minimum fine of $350.
If you live in an apartment, many leasing companies have restrictions and penalties regarding having alcoholic kegs in the apartment. While these differ between leasing agencies, city ordinances require all alcoholic kegs to be licensed – the minimum fine for an unlicensed keg is $350 for each person on the lease. On top of that, you may be fined if there are underage drinkers in the apartment under Champaign's "Adult Responsibility" ordinance.
If you live in a residence hall and are under 21, you are not permitted to have alcohol in your room. If you are over 21, you may have alcohol in your room, but can't have underage students in your room at the same time.
Students frequently use fake identification cards to access bars on campus.
If caught with a fake ID on campus, you will receive a $340 fine, a one-year driver's license suspension and University sanctions. If charged under state law, upward of $2,500 with additional consequences. In 2016, The Daily Illini wrote an article on where fake IDs end up after being confiscated.
In 2015, the state of Illinois passed a Medical Amnesty Law, which allows someone who has been drinking while underage to call 911 and not be prosecuted. This is in conjunction with an already established University policy which states that a person who requires emergency treatment will not receive disciplinary action. This policy is in place for the safety of students: It's important to remember that you should not avoid receiving help for fear of punishment, especially if someone's life may be on the line.
Elani is a junior in LAS.


Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season is coming to the Nintendo Switch new week, with all five episodes, visual enhancements, and the add-on anthology 400 Days. While the first episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season is already out on the Nintendo Switch and other platforms, Switch owners can now start from the beginning of Clementine's nightmare, and begin to experience her full journey.
The Walking Dead: The Complete First season is set to launch on the Nintendo Switch on August 28th, 2018. It will be available in the Nintendo Switch eShop for $24.99 USD in the United States, Canada, most of Europe, Mexico, and Australia. The audio will only be available in English, however all content will be subtitled in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish according to the press release.
Clementine and Lee amid some hungry walkers.
They also announced that the second and third seasons of Telltale's The Walking Dead will also be coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year. Furthermore, new episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season will continue to come out on all platforms throughout the rest of 2018.
Telltale's The Walking Dead takes place in the world of Robert Kirkman's famous comic book series of the same name. It puts players into a deeply emotional story, where their choices affect who lives and who dies. The video game series follows the journey of young Clementine, as the world collapses around her. Alone and scared, she must survive. It turns out luck is on her side for now, as another survivor named Lee Everret soon stumbles upon her.
Lee has an oh s#%$ moment!
Telltale's video game adaptation of The Walking Dead has earned a pile of over 100 Game of the Year awards, and sold more than 50 million episodes globally. It also got two BAFTA awards in the category of Best Story. You can find out more about the game at its official website. You can also learn more about Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, and any of his many other titles at Skybound.com.


This was my comeback publication. After not publishing for 16 years, I ended up publishing this in the 2015 summer solstice issue of Cirque.
I offered my femininity to my fiancé.
Her charge thought that I was just too old.
–with pink bows, of course.
–with tight curls, of course.
when I least wanted it.


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alumni feature, vocational journey, ministry
FJV Gains Inspiration from Óscar Romero's Servant Leadership Style
By Anthony Russo
(Berkeley 2014-15)
My journey to reconnecting in a personal, deep way with my Catholic faith starts with my introduction to the life and death of Óscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977-1980. In the midst of a spiritual drought, I signed up to take a political theology course my junior year as an undergraduate at Holy Cross. This course introduced me to Romero's life, ministry, and assassination in 1980, which took place during rampant state-sponsored oppression in a country on the brink of civil war. I admired the ways his faith led him to enter into deeply personal and loving relationships with the Salvadoran people, and to serve as a beacon of justice and hope, even in the face of threats to his life.
This introduction was the catalyst for a (long) journey -- one influenced heavily by my year as a Jesuit Volunteer -- to my current graduate studies in theology and ministry at Boston College. In many ways, through Romero, my faith continues to gain new meaning – including a trip to attend his canonization in Rome.
I was on an immersion trip to El Salvador with fellow graduate students this past March when Pope Francis announced Romero's canonization. While there, we witnessed the prominent ways Romero's legacy remains alive today. Reactions to the Pope's announcement ranged from tears to pure joy – as well as the acknowledgement that it took almost forty years for the church to proclaim what Salvadorans have always known: Óscar Romero, their martyr, is a saint.
This trip sparked the idea of attending the actual canonization in Rome. Considering the immense role Óscar Romero has played in my faith journey, I knew this was something I had to do if I could make it work. Five of us from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry ended up journeying to Rome for the October 14 ceremony, including another Former Jesuit Volunteer, Alec Hartman (Nashville 2016-17).
While there, we met up with Luke Hansen, SJ (San Jose 2004-05). When I was a Jesuit Volunteer, Luke was a member of my community's Local Support Team while completing his studies at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. Luke offered great support and friendship to us that year, and I was excited to get to see him in Rome. He gave us a tour of the rooms where St. Ignatius lived and died, and said mass for us there. This was a powerful moment to pray and reflect in gratitude for the role of both Ignatius and Romero in our spiritual lives, each of whom serve as models of deep faith and service.
Canonization ceremony in Rome. (2018)
Crowd gathered at the canonization ceremony. (2018)
On the day of the canonization, we awoke at 5:00am to head to the Vatican for the 10:00am ceremony. The surrounding area was already packed with people, many of whom were Salvadorans donning blue hats and Salvadoran flags. This moment obviously meant something particularly special to them, and it was an honor to witness it together.
In line, we were next to a Salvadoran couple who showed us images and videos of the current scene in San Salvador, where incredible crowds were celebrating and waiting with joy for the ceremony. The gates opened at 7:00am and everyone flooded into St. Peter's Square. As we waited, tired but with eager anticipation, I looked around and appreciated the diversity of the crowd – a profound symbol of our global church. We were gathered in thanksgiving for the lives of one of the seven individuals being honored that day – all of whom had courageously dedicated themselves in service to God's call.
Upon entering St. Peter's, I was struck by the juxtaposition of the grandness of the Vatican and the portrait of St. Romero that hung from its exterior. My prayer that day was for the spirit of Romero to fill the whole church – empowering and guiding us closer to the mission of God: a mission embodied by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and made continually present by the lives of saints, prophets, and martyrs. In a church that has so frequently fallen short in its mission as a sacrament of liberation (to use the phrase of Jesuit martyr Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ), by making Óscar Romero a saint, the church (formally) lifted his life and ministry up as a model for discipleship, one that makes demands on all of us.
In his homily that day, Pope Francis said, "Jesus is radical. He gives all and he asks all: he gives a love that is total and asks for an undivided heart…We cannot give him, who offers us eternal life, some odd moment of time. Jesus is not content with a 'percentage of love': we cannot love him twenty or fifty or sixty percent. It is either all or nothing." He continued by asserting that Romero "left the security of the world, even his own safety, in order to give his life according to the Gospel, close to the poor and to his people, with a heart drawn to Jesus and his brothers and sisters… All these saints, in different contexts, put today's word into practice in their lives, without lukewarmness, without calculation, with the passion to risk everything and to leave it all."
It is this spirit, love, and passion that first drew me to Romero in such a profound way six years ago and ultimately helped me reconnect with my faith. This journey made my attendance at his canonization even more special. As I prepare to enter full-time ministry come graduation in May, I pray to God to be continually guided in a lifelong journey of conversion and discipleship, oriented toward God's call for me, and with Saint Romero as source of hope.
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"I don't think I could be a Jesuit if it weren't for my JVC experience. Through JVC I began to hear more deeply the call to live a life of simplicity, justice, community, and faith, which allowed me to finally say 'yes' to my call.
LEARN MORE ABOUT MICHAEL BECOMING A JESUIT SCHOLASTIC
alumni feature, vocational journey
"JVC was the major stepping-stone my vocational journey to sisterhood. Through JVC, I learned what it was like to live in an intentional community and share my faith with my peers. I was blessed to have a community that wanted to share our faith and had a clear desire to work for justice."
LEARN MORE ABOUT SR. PEACHES JOURNEY TO SISTERHOOD
volunteer stories, international service
We cannot know what happens to "the face of the future" until we too respond to that knock on our door. And while I cannot answer with a quick solution to every problem my neighbors face, I can react with a listening ear.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PAPAL VISIT TO PERU


Your brain is at work all the time, but depending on what you are doing, some regions of the brain are more active than others.
PlatoScience uses a neurostimulation technology called tDCS to deliver a constant, low current to the brain. This activates neurons in specific regions and accelerates processes such as learning, focusing and creative problem solving.
In your brain, billions of neurons communicate with each other. A neuron sends a signal when it is activated by other incoming signals. Activating your neuron causes electrical changes that transmit a nerve impulse – your neuron is signaling. As you read this, nerve impulses run through your neurons and facilitate communication between them. tDCS makes it easier for the neuron to be activated – so with tDCS more nerve impulses are transmitted and thereby activity is enhanced.
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, or simply tDCS, is a non-invasive neurostimulation technology, used to modulate neuronal activity and increase synaptic plasticity by applying a low-intensity current to the scalp through two or more electrodes. The method can affect the activation of neuronal networks but is not strong enough to initiate non-existing neuronal activity. tDCS is used by both clinicians and researchers, and with PlatoScience it is now safe to use by private persons.
Normally (white line), for a neuron to signal it needs enough incoming signals from other neurons to reach a well-defined threshold (dotted line). It is a go/no-go mechanism, where only if the neuron is receiving sufficient signals to cross the threshold, the nerve impulse will be transmitted and the neuron will fire. tDCS works by applying a subthreshold electric current to the brain, which means that the neuron needs less incoming signal to fire (red line). tDCS does not in itself induce neuronal signaling but enhances your already existing neuronal activity.
At PlatoScience we have dedicated our attention to 2 specific regions of the brain: The Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and the area known as Precuneus. These areas are responsible for a variety of higher cognitive functions, which are all crucial for our ability to solve problems and optimize our workflow.
With PlatoWork we have made it as simple as possible for you to enjoy the benefits of tDCS, by offering 4 different the modes: Learn, Create, Concentrate and Rethink.
When you acquire new knowledge, your brain relies on the prefrontal cortex to process the information. The prefrontal cortex is responsible for higher cognitive processes including working memory, which is essential for learning. Analysis of tDCS studies have shown that the method improves learning and that new skills can be acquired faster with the use of neurostimulation.
The right prefrontal cortex is an area associated with higher cognitive processes such as non-verbal association. This mode stimulates the right frontal lobe of the brain, use this mode when you are generating new ideas or other brainstorming related tasks.
To concentrate or focus your attention on a task you need better attentional control. With the Concentrate mode, you target the prefrontal cortex to boost concentration and minimize impulses from reward-seeking regions of the brain, while minimizing mind-wandering through inhibition of activity in the precuneus.
When you need to get new ideas you need to rethink what you already know. The Rethink mode does this by boosting activity in the precuneus, the hub of your creative brain, and by inhibiting the prefrontal cortex – the control center of your brain – thereby increasing incoming thoughts, thoughts that may evolve into great ideas.
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is located in the frontal part of our brain and is the latest evolved part of it. It is responsible for all higher cognitive processes such as planning, attentional control, working memory (which is important for learning), abstract reasoning etc. PlatoWork stimulates the prefrontal cortex to enhance learning, concentration and creativity.
The Precuneus is the hub of the default mode network, an interconnected set of brain regions. The default mode network is associated with day-dreaming and mind-wandering and is found to be more active in creative individuals. PlatoWork stimulates the precuneus to enhance creativity and your ability to rethink ideas.
There is a great flexibility of possible stimulation sites, which means that different brain regions can be targeted. At PlatoScience we focus on the areas of the brain that you use when you think. To target the right brain region you need to know which skill you need to enhance. Using PlatoScience neurostimulation ensures that you target the right region depending on the stimulation mode you choose.
The effects of tDCS depends on functional tasks and it only works if stimulation is combined with a functional target. So it is important that you combine a task relevant with your choice of stimulation. At PlatoScience we do our best to guide you to what tasks fit the different stimulation modes.
It takes time for your neurons to respond to the effects of stimulation. The effects appear during stimulation and will last for approximately an hour, maybe more. To achieve the optimal effect of neurostimulation, you must work with your brain in the time after stimulation, where your neurons will fire in their normal pace again. But because of neuroplasticity the effect will last.
Stimulating your brain with tDCS will only work if your brain works with it. tDCS primes your neurons to perform faster, but it only works, if you yourself activate them. No input - no effect. This means that you need to activate the stimulated area of the brain to achieve the optimal and desired effect. So, the effects of tDCS depend not only on the stimulation site but also on the task you are performing.
- Signe Ulrik Holm, PhD.
When stimulating with tDCS, not only do your neurons fire more rapidly, they also fire together. This strengthens the connections between your neurons, resulting in increased neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is your brain's ability to change over time and to adapt to the skills you need. Allthough the brain is not technically a muscle, it works much in the same way; the parts of the brain that you use are strengthened, and the parts you don't use are weakened.
By enhancing neuroplasticity with tDCS you improve your brain's ability to adapt when you learn new skills. And the effects of tDCS are lasting. Numerous studies have investigated the effects of tDCS on cognition. While the effects of a single stimulation session vary too much to be finally conclusive (confounded by high individual variability), the effects of multiple stimulation sessions are found to have beneficial effects even in healthy people, especially if neurostimulation is done in combination with a task.
tDCS is widely used in research, in medical treatment and by healthy people. Thousands of studies investigating tDCS has shown the efficacy, reliability and safety of this method, and has laid the foundation for the headsets developed by PlatoScience. tDCS is considered a very safe method and an analysis of 33.200 stimulation sessions combined show no serious side-effects.
PlatoScience was founded by two PhD's in neuropsychology and product design & development respectively. Our research team is managed by a PhD in neuroscience. At PlatoScience we use a science driven approach and base our products on scientifically proven effects.
Safety is at the core of PlatoScience products and our products are CE marked to ensure a safe stimulation session, every time. Device safety has been at the core of product development, resulting in a series of mechanical and electronic measures to ensure that it's impossible for the device to deliver more than the desired currents. As a result PlatoScience has more than 500 current users, none of who have reported adverse events.
Below you'll find a research overview of the most important studies with links to the original articles.
The review Physiology of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation from 2018 explains the biological and physiological mechanisms behind the effects of neurostimulation.
Simonsmeier et al. investigated the effects of neurostimulation on learning in comparison to performance tasks in the meta-analysis Electrical brain stimulation (tES) improves learning more than performance from 2018. Here they show that neurostimulation during a learning phase has a much stronger effect than both before or during a performance task. They concluded that the effects of neurostimulation is stronger when used to acquire new skills. In fact, studies have shown that a new skill can be acquired up to double the normal rate if neurostimulation is used simultaneously.
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COLUMBIA — Walter Rasquin and Ronny Mauricio scored on an error in the third inning to help the Columbia Fireflies secure a 5-2 victory over the Augusta GreenJackets on Thursday.
The error, part of a four-run inning, gave the Fireflies a 4-1 lead before Hayden Senger hit an RBI single later in the inning.
In the top of the seventh, Augusta cut into the deficit on a single by Anyesber Sivira that scored Jose Layer.
Columbia right-hander Simeon Woods Richardson (2-8) picked up the win after allowing one run on just two hits over five innings. Opposing starter Gregory Santos (1-5) took the loss after a rough outing in which he allowed five runs and five hits over three innings.


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There were various tests and procedures that the "Flying Leathernecks" needed to conduct and pass just to get to this stage of their transition, including the assumption of command and posting of the sergeant major.
The commencement of flight operations marked the successful transition of yet another Marine Corps squadron.
"It's validation of all the work we've done, and we finally got over that hurdle that was keeping us from finally becoming fully functional," said Price.
Completion is on the horizon for VMFA-122 and the "Flying Leathernecks" are speeding toward it at jet speed.


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{{Ficha de gira musical
|nombre_tour      = Wishmaster World Tour
|imagen           =
|tamaño imagen    =
|descripción_foto =
|artista          = Nightwish
|lugares          =
|álbum            = ''Wishmaster|fechas           =
|fecha_comienzo   = 15 de mayo de 2001
|fecha_fin        = 15 de septiembre de 2001
|invitados        = Tapio WilskaTony Kakko
|etapas           = 10
|shows            = 97
|Director         =
|anfitrión        =
|añoA             = 1999
|tour_anterior    = Oceanborn Europe Tour
|añoAc            = 1999
|este_tour        = Wishmaster World Tour
|añoP             = 2002
|tour_siguiente   = World Tour of the Century
|misceláneo       =
}}Wishmaster World Tour''' fue la primera gira mundial que realizó la banda finlandesa Nightwish. Gracias al álbum Wishmaster la banda llegó a la final del Festival de Eurovisión en el año 2000; el público les dio el máximo apoyo, pero la votación del jurado de la televisión finesa les posicionó en segundo lugar y no llegaron a participar.

Canciones

Total
Angels Fall First
 "Elvenpath"
 "Beauty and the Beast"
 "Sleeping Sun"
Oceanborn
 "Stargazers"
 "Gethsemane"
 "Sacrament of Wilderness"
 "Passion and the Opera"
 "Swanheart"
 "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion"
 "Walking in the Air"
Wishmaster
 "She is My Sin"
 "The Kinslayer"
 "Come Cover Me"
 "Wanderlust"
 "Wishmaster"
 "Crownless
 "Deep Silent Complete"
 "Dead Boy's Poem"
 "FantasMic III"
 "Sleepwalker"
Over the Hills and Far Away
 "Over the Hills and Far Away"
 "10th Man Down"
From Wishes to Eternity
 "Crimson Tide / Deep Blue Sea"

Setlist
Un setlist típico consistiría de:
 "She is My Sin"
 "Gethsemane"
 "The Kinslayer"
 "Deep Silent Complete"
 "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion"
 "Come Cover Me"
 "Wanderlust"
 "Crimson Tide / Deep Blue Sea"
 "Swanheart"
 "Elvenpath"
 "FantasMic III"
 "Sacrament of Wilderness"
 "Dead Boy's Poem"
 "Walking in the Air"
 "Beauty and the Beast"
 "Wishmaster"

Fechas de la gira

2000

2001

Miembros
 Tarja Turunen  - voz
 Tuomas Holopainen  - teclados y voz masculina (en "Beauty and the Beast")
 Emppu Vuorinen  - guitarra
 Jukka Nevalainen  - batería
 Sami Vänskä  - bajo

Miembros invitados:
 Tapio Wilska  - voz masculina (en "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion")
 Tony Kakko  - voz masculina (en "Beauty and the Beast")
 Marianna Pellinen  - coros (en "Sleepwalker")

Referencias

Giras musicales de Nightwish
Giras musicales de 2000
Giras musicales de 2001


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Lightning set high ceiling as defending champs
BACKING up a championship-winning season on the back of losing three stars might appear a significant challenge but for Lakeside Lightning coach Craig Mansfield, he's not afraid to set the ceiling as high or potentially higher than it was in 2018.
Having built steadily in his first two years in charge of the Lightning taking over after they had won just one game in 2015, Mansfield took Lakeside back to the playoffs in 2016 before they lost to the eventual champion Willetton Tigers in the first round.
A year later and not only did they reach the playoffs from third position, but they got to Game 3 of the semi finals against the Mandurah Magic, only losing that on the road in a dramatic three-game series.
They then built further into being the standout team in 2018 losing just one game in the regular season and cruising to the Grand Final before it took the most remarkable of comebacks in the decider for them to secure the championship over the Magic.
Since then, the Lightning have lost Ali Schwagmeyer, Sydnee Fipps and Sam Roscoe who you could make the case were their three best players the past two seasons, but it's a challenge that Mansfield is well and truly up for.
While those losses are significant, the Lightning will be bringing in two new imports with guard GeAnna Luaulu-Summers having already arrived while Ellyce Ironmonger strengthens the frontcourt alongside Ash Grant.
With the majority of the rest of his championship group back, Mansfield sees no reason why the Lightning can't still aim high in 2019.
"Having been to a couple of Grand Finals unsuccessfully beforehand, for me there wasn't a lot of lingering emotion," Mansfield said.
"Wolves beat us in a Grand Final and the next year we played them there might have been a little bit of feeling in the first game, but after that life goes on and I expect it's probably the same for everyone.
"At the end of the day, if people do put a target on you it's a sign of either respect for what you've achieved previously or where they think you will go this year. If you get everyone's A-game and best performance and when they have a full team then at least you can gauge exactly where you are and everything is on the table with nothing hidden.
"If that means that there's more of a journey this year with a new team and the second import coming in late, so be it and I think our ceiling is as high or higher than last year. We just have to work on getting better each week and look where Mandurah came from, they finished sixth last year.
"There might be a target on our back, I can't control what other people think and feel, we just have to handle ourselves the best we can all the time. There's no point living in the past for us and I imagine it's the same for everybody."
There can't be any hiding from the hole the absence of Schwagmeyer, Fipps and Roscoe does leave with Lakeside, but Mansfield always had a team with strong depth last year and now he will be able to call upon some of the local players even more in 2019.
But then the additions of Ironmonger along with the two imports he is more than content with the way his squad has come together for their championship defence.
"We've been really fortunate to firstly return most of the locals, the only exception is Sam and we're really fortunate with Courtney, Jess, Ash and a host of others, and we've also got a very strong Division 1 squad," Mansfield said.
"We're hoping that two or three of them can make the big transition this year. Losing Sam is always tough and she was obviously a big contributor for us last year, but we were fortunate enough to pick up Ellyce Ironmonger who positionally is similar even though obviously they play in slightly different ways.
"That's helped offset that and Lakeside accommodates us to get two imports. We've had to put a lot of work in the off-season and we've got two very different imports to what we had last year in terms of positions and how they play. One of them is Geanna who played at the Blitz and is looking good. The other one will come in around the middle of May."
Thinking the team will be better than the one that lost only once in all of 2018 and had the MVP of the past three years in it would be a stretch, but Mansfield is looking forward to the changes that the new personnel will enable and for the Lightning to freshen things up in certain ways.
"Some of the change plays in our favour, whether it plays in our favour in our record and for finals who knows," he said.
"But now going into my fourth year it's really good to change dynamics a bit, evolve our offence, evolve our defence and continue to grow to try and stay ahead of everyone and to keep it fresh and interesting for the players to make sure they continue to grow and be stimulated mentally.
"If any sign of boredom creeps in you don't get the kind of work rate and results you want."
While Lakeside's second import won't arrive until closer to the mid-point of the season, Luaulu-Summers has already arrived, played at the Blitz and is ready to go in a combo guard role under Mansfield.
"GeAnna can play the one and the two, she doesn't have the size that the imports last year had but her passing and shooting is top notch," Mansfield said.
"That was one of the things with us last year, we moved the ball pretty well and led the league in assists but still had girls that were very aggressive to score and that worked in our favour, particularly in big moments.
"But I wanted to kind of evolve how we play and have people who could move the ball fluently and could play with and without the ball. That enables some of the Australians to grow as well and I think GeAnna will be a really good fit.
"She can play with it, she can play without it and she plays really fluently. Her decision-making is really solid and I think she'll make a really good combination with the Australian girls and particularly starting with Courtney."
Having a strong frontcourt centred around Roscoe and Grant has been a big part of Lakeside's success the past two years. Mansfield is confident that can continue now in 2019 with the arrival of Ironmonger and when the second import comes to town.
"Ellyce brings interior defence and rebounding but also a passing hub. I think that was one of her traits that was underutilised or undervalued in the last couple of years because she has a great ability to give her the ball to move it and use her as a passer," he said.
"It certainly helps us with her abilities and then the second import we've got coming in later in the season is a tall as well so that will give us a bit more flexibility than we even had last year to play tall and small.
"That will give us a bit more of a physical presence and I think there's some merit to that if you look at us getting my Mandurah in the Grand Final without Boag and Hawks in the first round without Sarah Donovan.
"Mandurah is set to be big again, Wolves will be too and we need to be able to compete with them. But I don't think it will lead to a big change in how we play. Whilst we've increased in size we haven't lost a whole lot in mobility and shooting so hopefully that helps us be a better team defensively this year."
Lakeside now turns its attention to the season-opener on Friday night which shapes as a big occasion with the raising of the championship banner and a first up Grand Final rematch with Mandurah at Lakeside Recreation Centre.
"In one sense it's nice to get it out of the way but in some ways by Round 1 teams won't have everyone available so in one way maybe it's a bit of a shame because if it was played in Round 10 or 12 with everyone available it might have been different," Mansfield said.
"I actually only thought about the banner the other day and I have no idea what the club's going to do. I haven't had a chance to talk to Steve about it but if it's up it will be nice to look at for us to try and honour the achievement.
"Mandurah knows what they are about with some very experienced girls and the rivalry has developed nicely the last few years.
"They eliminated us in 2017 and then we had the win last year so I think between the two clubs now at least in the short-term now every game is going to be pretty hot and competitive between two teams at the top end."


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In Passing…Imagining a Better World
On September 9, 2008 January 31, 2013 By Michael KirkeIn Culture Matters
Two shivers ran down my spine last month. One was when I read something by a columnist in The Daily Telegraph commenting on her reaction to the news about the pregnancy of Sarah Palin's daughter. The other was the account of the three teenage girls buried alive in Pakistan to maintain the "honour" of their tribe. But I was brought back to some semblance of hope and optimism by the Canadian philosopher-historian-sociologist, Charles Taylor whose great book, "A Secular Age", I'm ploughing through at the moment. It is a rewarding but demanding read.
Taylor, among other things, reflects in his book on the way our sense of morality has evolved over the centuries, indeed over the millennia, in which we have tried to live and work together as human beings in this world. Out of this reflection comes an awareness that while these two specimens of accepted "moral" behaviour that so disturbed me – the one a specimen of a primitive and backward tribal custom, the other a specimen of ultra sophisticated 21st century civilization – may always be with us as forms of behaviour, they can ultimately be consigned to the category of barbarism to which they belong.
Liz Hunt, writing in the Telegraph, wondered how good a "mom" U.S. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin could be if her pregnant daughter Bristol was in some way not being given the choice of whether or not to bring her baby into this world. Taylor has devised a term, "social imaginary", to represent the kind of images, visions, ideas we all have about our time in this world and they way we should live together. Think of what we mean when we say "I can't imagine myself doing this that or the other" and you get an idea of where he is coming from. We think of ourselves "putting theories into practice". Well he is using "imaginary" instead of "theory" because, he says – and he is probably right, – people live and act more on the basis of what they can imagine themselves doing than on theories. For many in the western world the "imaginaries" (theories) they have can, tragically, with the greatest of ease encompass the killing of unborn living human beings. This imagining allows, for example, that 17-year-old Bristol Palin, might take the life of her unborn child if, as Liz Hunt puts it, "becoming a wife and a mother at such a young age" just didn't fit in with her other plans.
Such a killing might not be an "honour" killing of the horrific kind reported from Pakistan. It would pure and simply be nothing more or less than a "convenience" killing. But why should we be any less disturbed by it than we are by the killing in tribal Paksitan? How different in fact are the western social conventions – enshrined in law in so many societies now – which readily accept the killing of the unborn from the conventions defended by the politicians of the province of Balochistan who in the Pakistan parliament defended the punishment of the three teenagers? Their claim was that the practice was part of "our tribal custom". What was the girls' crime? They refused to marry the husbands chosen by their families.
What light does Taylor's theory of "social imaginaries" throw on all this? In essence we see that while the two societies in which both these acts take place – the ruthless and relentless slaughter of the unborn in one; the terrible but much less frequent honour killing of young girls who want to assert their independence in the other – look worlds apart they are in fact no different from each other in real terms. They are only different in the "imaginings" of those who perpetrate them.
The encouragement I get from my reading of Taylor is in his reflection on how the process of change takes place in these "social imaginaries". In it we can see how mankind and societies have moved from the social acceptance of forms of behaviour to non-acceptance and even revulsion and horror at the same behaviour.
The tribal chiefs of Balochistan are clearly at ease with the practice of their tribe – as were many of the "great and good" of the 18th century with the practice of slavery and the brutality of the slave-trade. Many of the "great and good" of our own time have no qualms about the mass slaughter in progress in hospitals and clinics across the western world. Indeed, for many, contributing to it could just be part of what "being a good mom" might be about.
What Taylor's thinking suggests is that all this need not always be so and that moral sensibility does change if our "social imaginaries" can be changed. William Wilberforce effected the change in social imagination of his time and this was what brought the slave trade to its knees. Slavery sadly still exists but the "civilised" world at least has set its face against it and seeks to eradicate it. Sadly also, human beings will continue to kill each other, born or unborn, – probably until the end of time – but we can hope for a time when our imagining and our vision of how our society should be will always seek to prohibit such slaughter.
And a further consideration which I glean from Taylor seems to deepen the hope that we might have that rather than being on a slippery slope to more and more of this mayhem, we may in fact be climbing to a new flowering of the civilization of life. The practice of abortion is not new. What is new – at least on the scale on which we have it now – is the legal sanction of the practice. It is now carried out in the name of every member of those democratic societies in which it is legalised.
But this very sanction has the effect of bringing the practice into deep and potentially disturbing focus and therefore can be the very catalyst which may bring about the moral revulsion which should be the natural and rational response to such slaughter of innocent life. A Royal Navy which protected the slave ships crossing to and forth across the Atlantic in the 18th century revolted the British people thanks to the work of William Wilberforce and his friends. In the 19th the Royal Navy became the agent for the abolition of that brutal trade. This is a process of change which can be brought into play again. Indeed it is already in play. We can hope that the day will come when the conventional "wisdom" which says that it is moral and proper for one human being to chose to terminate the life of another in certain given circumstances will have no place in the social imagination of anyone.
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