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The University Of Louisiana's National Championship Weightlifting Teams
A Companion Book to the Documentary The Ragin' 13
High School Weightlifting
Olympic Aspirations
Masters Weightlifting
The Culture of Winning
The University of Louisiana
The Early 1960s
The Mid 1960s
The Late 1960s
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October 7, 2021 September 28, 2021 by Power Weightlifter
University of Louisiana's National Championship Weightlifting Teams
by Warren A. Perrin, Attorney at Law
Part Three: The Culture of Winning
Chapter 2 – The Mid 1960s
We seemed to have a love-hate relationship with the coaches of the other athletic teams and the physical education professors. Some loved us for the favorable attention our victories brought to the athletic department, yet some resented us and were jealous of our achievements and of our unusual independence. George Weatherford tells this anecdote which is illustrative of the relationships:
Warren, here's another interesting story. Joseph Murry Jr. and I were going to work out on a Saturday. The handball room a/k/a "the dungeon" was locked. We wanted to get inside. There was this big thick oak door between us and the weights. Joe and I worked out together often. I tried to break the door down, but I just bounced off of it. Joe said stand back—which I did. With a burst of energy like he was doing a jerk with 400 pounds, Joe kicked the door and it split right down the middle! We went in and worked out and left. The following Monday it was announced to everyone that there was a big investigation led by Coach "Dutch" Reinhardt, Jim's father—one of our most ardent supporters and defenders—and the PE professors. They confronted us about it. We lied and denied that it was us. They knew it was us, but the matter was immediately dropped.
We were always operating on a shoestring and sometimes we had to be creative with raising funds to go on some of out-of-town trips. Although Coach Reinhardt and Whitey Urban supported us, many of the other head coaches, like Falkinberry, did not like us. George Weatherford sent this amusing account of an incident that he experienced making arrangements for us to go to a weightlifting meet in Texas:
We had a meet in either Dallas or Austin. Urban was out of town. I had to go to Russ Falkinberry, the head football coach and assistant athletic director, to get two cars and a credit card. Russ told me I was not getting two cars for the trip. Russ was an ass! Anyway, he did give me a university credit card and told me to use my car—a 1952 Chevy with old "may pop" tires on it and it did not run very well. So, I went to the full-service Gulf service station on Johnston St. and told them that I wanted a complete tune up: change the points and plugs, change the oil and filter, grease it up and adjust the timing. Also, I had them put on four new tires and fill it up with gas. After we returned to Lafayette, I went right back to the Gulf station and had them fill up my old car before I returned the credit card to the athletic department. I was proud that we had won another weightlifting meet thus keeping our undefeated record intact and that I had gotten my four new tires! A couple weeks later a runner came to the gym from Russ's office saying he wanted to see me right away. I finished my workout and walked to his office. He screamed at me and showed me the bill from the Gulf station. I told him it would have been too dangerous to go with my old worn out "may pop" tires. He turned beet-red. I had never seen him so angry. Anyway, as usual Whitey Urban came to my rescue. Russ Falkinberry hated me. He told me he would love to get me on the football field. I said, "I don't think so" and walked out. I did not like him either and he knew it.
Poss Major was gifted with legendary leg strength. His lifelong friend Alvin Chustz sent this email relating an incident where Poss demonstrated not only his superb leg strength but his agility to complete a snatch:
Here is a story about Poss. For those of you who knew him you probably remember how large and powerful his legs were. Well, once we were at a meet in Texas and Poss was lifting in the 165-pound class. He was attempting a snatch of 225 pounds. He executed a great pull and dropped under the bar in a full squat. Everything looked good until the bar began to slowly move forward. We all know what happens when the bar does this—you lose the lift. Well, Poss was having none of that. In order to save the lift, he began to "duck walk" from the middle of the platform with the weight above his head. He waddled while in a deep squat all the way to the very front edge of the platform, regained his balance and stood up to complete a good lift. I might point out that he is now 77 years old and at a bodyweight of less than 160 pounds he bench presses 225 pounds for eight reps.
Here is a story from Weatherford exemplifying the depth of our team in 1968:
There were two competitions in one day, the AAU Louisiana State Championship in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Southwest AAU Region Three in Dallas, Texas. We told Whitey Urban that we could win both meets by splitting up our team and providing good competition experience for our younger lifters. He emphatically said, "no, because to do so you would risk losing our long winning streak." We disregarded his adamant instructions. We did it anyway and we won both meets! I went into his office on Monday and showed him the Region Three first-place trophy from Dallas. Urban said, "I told you to just go to one meet." I then reached behind the door where we had hidden the other trophy and showed him the first place trophy from the Louisiana meet. Urban "went bananas" and screamed out to his secretary Bonnie, "call the newspapers, the radio stations, the television stations and get the fabulous news out." He was so happy. But, not with me who had disobeyed him. However, he soon got over it.
On April 24, 2020, Weatherford sent the following email to me. He was one of the UL lifters who was on the team winning four National Collegiate Weightlifting Championships from 1965 through 1968:
Warren, we won four nationals in a row! 1965, 66, 67 and 68! I know this because I lifted in all four meets. The 1965 meet was in Michigan State University, 1966 was in Maryland, and both 1967 and 1968 were in Lafayette. While in college, I lifted in 23 meets and I took three seconds, one third, one fourth and won 18 meets. Here is a list of the major meets that we won every year from 1965-1968: Louisiana State Sr. Championships, the YMCA Christmas Weightlifting Championships, Gulf Coast AAU championships, Southwest Collegiate Championships, Southern Intercollegiate (1963-66), Ozark Mountain Championships, North Texas Region Three AAU Championship, NOAC Weightlifting Championships and the National Collegiate Championships.
In an interview with The Daily Advertiser in 1989, when he was inducted into the UL Athletics Club Hall of Fame, Alvin Chustz said to a journalist:
We trained ourselves. Everyone had extraordinary self-discipline and a great desire to succeed. We read everything we could on the sport. Bob Hoffman had published an issue of Strength and Health magazine that showed sequential photographs of the three lifts, and we would study that to improve our form. Our workouts were like constant tryouts. The 1966 team was by far the best we ever had, and we left behind in Lafayette some lifters who could probably had finished second if we had been able to enter two teams. We always had great depth.
Due to our reputation as winners, we often had students drop by and ask to join the team. Bill LeBlanc remembers how one request was handled by our George Weatherford:
I was a freshman on the weightlifting team in the Fall of 1967. George Weatherford, Paul Muffoletto and a few other lifters were in "the dungeon" weight room training. A USL student entered the weight room and said he heard about the success of the weightlifting team and wanted to tryout. His bodyweight was between 180 and 190 pounds. Weatherford asked if he had any experience and his reply was, "not much but I am eager to learn." The student was told most lifters on the team already had experience in Olympic lifting. George asked him what the strongest part of his body and his reply was his legs. George looked at me, the smallest and youngest lifter on the team at only 123 pounds and had an idea to see if the student was capable. George loaded 225 pounds on the Olympic bar perched on the squats racks and told the student, "if you can squat more reps than Bill, we will train you to be a good lifter." I told him to go first, and he squatted 17 reps. Now, it was my turn. I started slowly then picked up the pace. When I reached 17 reps, I felt pretty good, so I continued to 25 reps. I still had more in me, but it was time to quit. The disappointed student didn't say much; he just thanked us for the tryout and quickly left the room. Needless to say, after doing all those squats, I couldn't walk without pain for about a week. I'm pretty sure George knew I wasn't going to let him beat me. My legs were my biggest asset to my lifting.
Jay Trahan sent the inspirational email reproduced below showing how we were all committed to one goal: team victory. It was not about individuality, but all of our work and planning was moving toward the goal of keeping our winning streak intact. What Jess Shows did to make sure we won one meet at the NOAC posed a threat to his own health, yet he did it for the good of the team:
I remember one important meet when due to an illness we did not have a 132-pound lifter to compete for the team. About a week before the meet, Jess Shows, who was normally a 148-pound lifter, decided that he would try to help the team by dropping down from the 148-pound class to the 132-pound class and give us a chance to score some points in that weight class. For several days before the meet, he ate very little. What was so special about this was that Jess was already a very trim 148-pounder. On the day of the meet, he knew he was still a little over the weight limit of 132 pounds, so he just ate nothing. After a four-hour drive to New Orleans on a cold December Saturday, we arrived at the meet and Jess did an early weight check and disappointedly he learned that he was still a couple of pounds over the weight limit. As a last resort, Jess endured several hours sweating it out in a steam room, chewing on gum and spitting in a plastic cup. Finally, he made the weight—barely. After losing the 16 pounds in so short of a period of time he looked like a walking skeleton. Tellingly, the crash course to lose weight quickly caused him to be light-headed and weak. To conserve his diminished energy during the competition, he attempted only one lift in each lift category. He placed first. Jess took one for the team. We won a tight team contest and defeated the NOAC team. I am sure that Jess remembers that day and how much we appreciated his sacrifice for our team victory.
Another outstanding member of the team was James "Jim" Reinhardt, the son of the long-time USL coach and athletic administrator J.C. "Dutch" Reinhardt. Jim received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering and was a member of the UL faculty for many years. He and his father form the only father-son members inducted in the UL Athletics Hall of Fame. Reinhardt won two national championships in the 148-pound class. In 1967, he finished second. At his induction, Reinhart said, "We coached ourselves and gave each other tips. Lifters are a wonderful breed. They were all interested in helping the sport. I enjoyed the association with all of the guys working out and traveling to meets in old junky cars. It was fun to be part of the team. We were like a fraternity on the cutting edge of the burgeoning sport."
Here is a revealing story about Whitey Urban provided by Alvin Chustz and Dr. Lynn W. Aurich: In 1965, the team members were in their training room in the old gym. They were doing a variety of training exercises. Chustz was doing a set of "high-pulls" which is a training exercise that we all did because it is the first movement in all three lifts, the press, snatch, and clean and jerk high pulls. The high-pulls helped to develop full-body power. The exercise requires one to pull the weight up from a dead stop on the floor. The movement had to be done explosively with the bar loaded with more weight than the lifter can clean. Alvin was using some heavy weight. Unexpectedly, Whitey Urban walked in "the dungeon" carrying a clip board with papers. He was just paying a friendly visit to see how we were doing, which we appreciated, because no one else in the athletic department paid any attention to us despite being undefeated in all of our competitions. Alvin was doing sets of three repetitions each. After the third rep he lowered the weight on the floor. Whitey then said, "Son, if you can't lift that weight all the way up the first time, don't keep trying. You will hurt yourself." Not wanting to embarrass Urban, Alvin told him that he was doing the exercise to increase his pulling power. With that Urban turned and walked out never to return to "the dungeon." We all stared at each other in disbelief and then broke out into uproarious laughter. It was clear that Whitey meant well but knew nothing about training for weightlifting. We had no coach or supplies and little equipment which is why the long-running accomplishments of the teams over the years was so remarkable. We coached and supported each other and made do with whatever was available. It was a great time in our lives.
On December 4, 1965, UL hosted the Southern USA Intercollegiate Weightlifting meet on the campus of USL in Lafayette, Louisiana. David Berger participated in the meet representing Tulane and won first place in the middleweight class with lifts of press of 265 pounds, snatch of 245 pounds and clean and jerk of 300 pounds for a total of 810 pounds. Berger was awarded the Best Lifter trophy for the meet. Mike Blumenthal of LSU finished second with a total of 755 pounds and Joseph Poss Major of USL finished third with a total of 750 pounds. This was my very first collegiate meet as a freshman, and I finished in fourth place with a total of 745 pounds.
George Weatherford sent me this email retelling the story of the team going to compete in the Ozark Mountains Weightlifting Championships in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 29, 1966. While out-of-state, the Ark-La-Tex Region was hit by a massive ice storm causing us to have a very difficult time getting back to Lafayette:
We were in an ice storm! We had two cars but one's radiator froze up. We decided to pull the car by attaching it with a large rope. I drove the car that pulled the disabled car for about 300 miles. No one wanted to ride in the disabled car because the frozen generator would not allow the heater to come on resulting in the car becoming a frozen ice box. Obviously, we were not used to driving on hilly roads that were covered in sheets of ice so at various times one or both of our vehicles was skidding to and fro. We could have been killed! Oh well, to make matters worse, we were also never invited back to the meet because we behaved rather unsportsmanlike. Because we were the reigning national champions, and they were so excited to have us compete in their meet they also asked that some of us volunteer to be judges of the weightlifting and bodybuilding competitions. They were not happy with our performances as so-called independent judges because our lifters got way too many of the green lights and their lifters far too many red lights. Not unexpectedly, we of course won the weightlifting competition and continued our undefeated streak. To make the relationship between the Cajuns and the Razorbacks even worse, we also persuaded Pat Stewart to enter their bodybuilding competition. He was competing against an Arkansas native who had recently won the title of Mr. Arkansas, so he was the odds-on favorite to easily capture the crown. Surprisingly, we won that title also! There were four judges and Alvin and I were two of them! Mr. Arkansas got two 0's and Pat got tens from Alvin and me! Following the meet, we celebrated our smashing victories by getting drunk on beer and Big Bear wine and raised hell in the YMCA where we were sleeping. The meet director complained of our admittedly unprofessional behavior to Whitey Urban who was naturally very unhappy with our sophomoric behavior. Needless to say, we were banned from ever returning to their meet.
Here is how Jess Shows remembered the same unforgettable trip to Arkansas:
We went up to Little Rock in cars owned by Poss and me. The meet was on a Saturday at the YMCA. We had rooms at the YMCA. I think the room rate was $2. It snowed on Saturday. Some of the fellows couldn't afford the $2 for the second night, so they checked-out and snuck back into the YMCA and spent the night on the floor in our rooms. Some of us had rooms on the second floor. After we won the meet, we went out for dinner and bought some beer and brought it up to the rooms on the second floor. There was a roof outside the window so to keep it cold we put the beer outside the window in the snow on the roof. When we checked out the next morning, the clerk said that since we were such a good group of guys, he wouldn't charge us for the second night. There was heavy snow, and it was very cold. Being poor Cajun boys living in South Louisiana, it should be noted that Poss had bald tires on his car, and we had to be very careful. After a few miles, the engine on his car began to overheat. The radiator froze up due to the lack of antifreeze. Luckily, I had a large rope in the trunk of my car, and we pulled Poss's car. Some guys stayed in Poss's car, but due to the cold and freezing breaths on the inside of the windshield, eventually they came in my car. But someone had to stay with car in tow to wipe the windshield so that Poss could see. By the time we found a road to some little town, the windshield had only a small hole for Poss to look through. Luckily, we found a station that was open on Sunday. The attendant said to pull Poss's car into one of the bays. He defrosted the frozen radiator and filled it up with the proper amount of antifreeze. We asked if he knew a place where we could get breakfast and he sent us down the street where some older lady ran a rooming house. She served up a wonderful family-stye breakfast with biscuits, grits, eggs, bacon and sausage. After our ordeal, it was a welcomed feast. To be sure that we would make it safely back home, we bought two sets of snow chains for our cars from the station with a USL credit card. This is my best memory of the event that happened over 50 years ago. Great memories!
One of the lifters who had the most natural strength was Jay Trahan of Abbeville, Louisiana. He could dead lift a phenomenal amount of weight. He was a member of our 1967 and 1968 National Collegiate Championship Teams. He sent this email to me:
From my recollection of trips with the New Roads group I do remember their passion for celebrating our victories and they were memorable! After all we were unchaperoned college students. Great memories.
Because we were always broke, we sought out the cheapest beer in the French Quarter to celebrate our victories in New Orleans. This turned out to be La Casa's bar which became our favorite hangout. The following romantic situation evolved in the bar following one meet:
We were in New Orleans for a meet, and we were invited by a heavyweight named Bill Klock to go drinking. His lady friend watched the meet—but I could tell she focused only on me. After the meet, we all ended up drinking at La Casa de los Marinos, the raucous and rowdy Cuban bar near the Mississippi River frequented by foreign seaman and merchant marines. The woman walked up to me and said she wanted to be with me for the night. I told you that I was leaving with her and you said I could not do that and that I needed to ride back with the team. I said, "see you in Lafayette." You were so strait-laced you were in disbelief and shocked. Despite your pleas, I stayed overnight with the women. The next day she drove me back to Lafayette.
One of our lifters from New Orleans James H. Craig sent this email to me on February 19, 2021, providing more information on local bars we frequented following our meets there:
La Casa de los Merinos was a favorite spot for locals, tourists, the curious and merchant seaman from Cuba and Central America. It was locally known just as La Casa. It was located next to a bar called the Seven Seas. The Seas as it was called would attract local intellectuals and they would drink, philosophize and play chess into the night. I'm glad you and your buddies got to see La Casa at its best. It now only exists in our minds and a few old photos.
We all had different reasons for attending USL. For me it was to follow by brother's footsteps in weightlifting and try to go to the Olympics. For Dr. Joseph Murry Jr., it was due to him reading a magazine and seeing results of the National Collegiate Weightlifting Championships. Here is the way Joe described it in his book:
So, this is where the story comes together. That summer after graduation, I was browsing through one of those Strength and Health muscle magazines and noticed an article about the National Collegiate Weightlifting Championships. The team that had won the competition for the previous two years was the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, Louisiana, a school located two-and-a-half hours from New Orleans. It was at that moment that I realized that I had the rest of the answer to my Dad's question. I wanted, one, to attend a school that offered a physical education major so that I could eventually become that teacher and coach that I aspired to become, and two, I wanted to attend a school where I could be a part of that championship weightlifting team, and three, I also wanted to have the opportunity to earn an athletic scholarship by trying out for and making it on the track team or weightlifting. I had new hope that those goals could be realized at one place, the University of Southwestern Louisiana.30
One of the athletes who was at USL in late 1960s became famous for several other groundbreaking reasons. In 2014, writer Paul Anthony Arco revisited the news headlines that had appeared in the Belvidere, Illinois, local newspaper 45 years previously. As a result, he retold the story of Judi Ford Nash, who became Miss America in 1968. Arco wrote the following in the story cited below: "After high school, Nash spent the summer traveling around the state as the reigning Miss Illinois County Fair. In September, she left Belvidere to attend the University of Southwestern Louisiana, where she competed on the men's trampoline team. 'I went down there because they had a premier trampoline coach, Jeff Hennessy,' Nash says. 'He was willing to accommodate a female on the men's team.' Nash not only became the first woman to win a men's varsity gymnastics letter, but the first woman to win any letter in any sport at the university."31 Since both the trampoline and weightlifters worked out daily in the men's gym, we got to know Judi, who used her trampoline routine as her talent performance in order to win the coveted title of Miss America. Ford trained on the basketball court and we worked out in the old handball court.
Interestingly, the 1969 Mr. America was Boyer Coe, who was also a student at USL. Coe, a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Judi Ford were the first two title holders of Mr. and Miss America attending the same university in the United States.
Boyer was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on August 18, 1946. When he was 15 he started training at a studio in Lake Charles operated by Ray Roy, a brother of the famous trainer from Baton Rouge, Alvin Roy. Coe went on to claim the Mr. Universe title in 1969, 1973 and 1975.
George Weatherford recalls the one time that Boyer Coe competed in weightlifting before he seriously got into bodybuilding:
I competed against Boyer in the SAAU novice meet in New Orleans in the 181-pound class in 1964. I beat him handily and got Outstanding Lifter. He never competed in weightlifting again! I suppose you could say that I pushed him to bodybuilding—and made him Mr. America!
Because we were not given money by the university to travel to meets, we often had to be creative to save on money. Here is a story by Jess Shows of a trip that he and Boyer Coe took to Texas in the summer of 1961 and what they had to do to come home:
Warren, here is a little story. For a while in the early 1960s, Boyer Coe and I roomed together at USL. He and I went to a combination weightlifting and bodybuilding meet in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Anyway, we were going to leave early Sunday morning to come home, but our car, which was in a commercial parking lot, wouldn't start. I looked under the hood to figure out what was the problem. I saw that the distributor wire was missing. I figured that the parking lot attendant had probably taken the distributor wire off of our car so that we couldn't leave without paying his bill. To solve the problem, I simply stole the distributor wire off of someone else's car in the parking lot and we drove home. Boyer's main competition was a Mr. Texas. In bodybuilding they awarded individual parts of the body: best legs, best arms, best back etc. Well evidently the judges felt they had to give something to Mr. Texas so even though Boyer won the contest over all, they gave some best body part award to their native son Mr. Texas. Boyer was very upset about this because his body part was clearly much more developed. He complained about this all of the way home.
Boyer now lives in California and I reached out to him and asked him to send me some stories. He kindly complied with my request and sent some terrific memories from his high school years:
In the early summer of 1961, I was 15 and had been training for about two years. I convinced my father that I was ready to compete in a physique contest. I had read about a Teen Age Mr. All South Contest and Weight Lifting Championship to be held in Birmingham, Al. Being a patient man, he decided to go with me. In those days the bodybuilding contest did not start until after the lifting was over. This is the first time I became aware of "Poss" and Alvin. I remember them because they were the only ones in the weightlifting competition from Louisiana—and they were both victorious. They would certainly not remember me; they were older than me. One thing really stands out in my recollection: After everyone had finished the first lift—the press—Alvin took his first lift. I remember that he pressed 245 pounds which was a lot back in the early 1960s.
Regarding the contest, I had no experience in bodybuilding, except that I had seen Red Lerille in person when he gave a posing exhibition in Lake Charles at the YMCA in the fall of 1960. I had only seen photos in Strength and Health, Mr. America and Muscle Builder magazines. Yet, I was confident that I would do well.
The Teen Age Mr. South was won by Gable Boudreaux from New Orleans, who had an outstanding physique. Later, I learned that he was actually 21, but no one checked his age. I came in fifth. So, considering I did not know much, I had enough sense to get a pair of black swim trunks and rolled the legs up to try and show off my legs. Thus, my introduction to the world of bodybuilding.
Years later, when I finally did get to USL, I remember the names of those guys from New Roads, La.! In January of 1964, I placed third in the Mr. Louisiana, and in May, 1964, four days before I graduated from high school, I won the Mr. New Orleans contest. Actually, it was the biggest crowd I ever posed before—over 10,000 people in attendance.
Boyer eventually enrolled at USL and recited here the following stories of his relationships with some of the weightlifters:
I did meet George, but that was after I was enrolled at USL. I came to know Jess Shows, Pat Stewart and Poss Major, who later worked for Ken Guilbeaux from Lake Charles, who actually got me started in bodybuilding.
Jess lived with Frank Camalo and me for a short time when we were in college. The house was on Dean Street, on the side of Blackham Coliseum. As I recall, USL had some kind of experimental farm there where the agricultural department grew vegetables so under the cover of darkness Jess would sneak over and pick some. We always had fresh vegetables.
Jess went on one road trip with us to Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was Frank Camalo, Pat Stewart, Jess and me. Jess was always pulling stunts. For example, we are going down the highway and Frank was driving. Jess was in the back seat of car and he quietly slipped off the pillow case of Pat's pillow and quickly pulled it over Frank's head! Thank God Frank managed to get it off, otherwise the outcome would have not been pretty!
The only reason I went to USL was strictly because Red Lerille had his gym in Lafayette. I had already made up my mind at age 16 that was where I was going and learn everything I could from Red. This has proven to be a life-long friendship. I greatly value Red as a friend. We still talk at least once a week. In fact, the day after I graduated from high school—after an all-night party—I came home, packed my car and moved to Lafayette that same day.
The following appeared in the 1967 USL yearbook L'Acadien:
Rated as the team to beat in the nation, the USL weightlifters won the National Championships in 1966 for the second consecutive year. This marked the third time in the last four years that the strong men have accomplished this outstanding feat. Determination and hard work have proven successful. The USL team has lost but few meets in the last four years.
USL is especially proud of its 148-pound lifter, Jim Reinhardt, who was named National Collegiate champion last year. Other lifters scoring points in the National Championship were Mike Williams, Joseph Poss Major, Warren Perrin, Alvin Chustz, George Weatherford and Pat Stewart. The experienced lifters, along with the promising beginners, always prove too much for competition, thus making the team the most victorious team in USL's sports history.
George Weatherford prepares to complete a 270-pound press at the NCAA National Collegiate Weightlifting Championships held at the University of Maryland in 1966. Photo courtesy Strength and Health magazine, August, 1966.
30 Dr. Joseph Murry Jr., Coming of Age, (New Orleans, Louisiana, JHM Publishing, February, 2018), page 8.
31 Paul Anthony Arco, PAA, 'There She Is, Miss America: Catching up with Judi Ford Nash,' Northwest Quarerly.Com, Spring, 2014, accessed 20 February 2020, http://oldnorthwestterritory.northwestquarterly.com/2014/06/there she-is-miss-america-catching-up-with-judi-ford-nash/.
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I thought it would be a good idea to get some distraction from all the coding topics from time to time. You might know that I collect C64 Stuff but also Retro Videogames. I hope you enjoy to looking at some of the photos.
I will go down into my Retro lair and try to dig up some interesting stuff for a picture gallery on a regular basis. For the future I will set some theme to each gallery (e.g., Horror Games on C64) but for the first one, I have just grabbed some pictures I took in the last few weeks and months. Have Fun!
I have released a new Version of DUST and removed the setup routines to install Win32 emulation.
Why the removal of Setup Options for Win32 Emulation?
The automatic installation simply does not work satisfactory. There are countless sources of errors depending on OSX Version, previously installed Wine version and directory permissions. I realized it is much easier and straight-forward to write a short tutorial on how to get Wine working on Mac OSX instead.
A nice side-effect is that the whole DUST setup runs now through in less than 90 seconds on a standard OSX system.
Expect a tutorial on Win32 Emulation on Mac next week as chapter of a new episode which discusses playing with sprites where we want to use a Windows-Application to edit our graphics. That is unless I find an alternative Sprite Editor on Mac - if you know any, let me know.
I have released another new Version of DUST to address a problem affecting users of Unarchiver which led to the problem that WineBottler and the Win32 apps were not set up properly.
When 'dust test' reveals there are tools missing, you can just re-run the setup process.
Note that when the setup routine installs WineBottler for the first time - it will open the program during installation so it does some initial configuration. You must first confirm that you want to open the program.
In the meantime, the configuration in the terminal window will finish up. You can close the Wine Install window when the following message appears.
Winebottler Configuration is completed - close this window.
Run 'dust test' again in the terminal and everything should be fine.


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I discovered 'reborn' dolls quite recently, when I was browsing ebay.
I like dolls. I don't collect them, but I find it hard to take my daughter's Barbies to the charity shop, and, if someone hadn't stolen my childhood dolls a few years ago, I would still have them now.
My daughter's baby dolls haven't gone, though. I'm not sure that I could part with them. And, when I used to hold the most realistic one, I did hold it just like a real baby, and I found myself rocking it, as I used to do with my children when they were tiny. It was quite pleasant and soothing. I can understand childless women finding some comfort in one of these.
I have not bought any 'reborns', I must point out, I just looked at the pictures and showed them to my Mum. I joked that when I got old, I'd buy some for company!
I still think that many of them are really beautiful ~ but I also think that there is something just a little spooky about them, too.
I'm guessing that they are used in films in place of real babies and that's a valid place for them. I doubt that many little girls play with them.
I've added links below and you can find them on ebay, too.
As you can see, it's a thriving business!
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose" - Benjamin Disraeli.
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The NHS Learning Account Scheme was introduced in April 2001 as part of a firm commitment in The NHS Plan to widen learning and development opportunities for staff who do not have a professional qualification.
Although the take up and use of NHS Learning Accounts has been very successful overall, information collected by the Department of Health indicates that some staff groups are benefiting more than others from the Scheme.
Given this evidence of variability of take-up, NHSU set up a pilot scheme with the aim of seeking practical ways of involving a wider range of staff in taking up their entitlement to an NHS Learning Account.
A key aim of the pilot was to open up progression routes to 'non-traditional' learners, leading to a better-trained workforce for the NHS as a whole, and an increased supply into professional training.
In partnership with the Institute of Employment Studies, NIACE was asked to evaluate the NHSU pilot and to identify the elements necessary to ensure widespread and equal access to the NHS Learning Accounts Scheme.


Family Owned: A body shop that is household owned and operated might be trustworthy and honest as a result of household owned businesses are robust contributors of their community and offer many advantages and reductions to their loyal patrons. This might create up to $1.5 trillion—or 30 % more—in extra revenue potential in 2030, compared with about $5.2 trillion from traditional car sales and aftermarket products/providers, up by 50 percent from about $three.5 trillion in 2015 (Exhibit 1).
The automotive market in Uganda has been dominated by the multinationals from Japan, Korea, China, India, and Europe since independence. FCA group with Tata Motors Restricted created a joint venture – Fiat India Vehicles Personal Restricted (FIAPL). Competition between present vehicle firms is high as a result of there are too many selections for the customers.
This could create up to $1.5 trillion—or 30 p.c more—in extra revenue potential in 2030, in contrast with about $5.2 trillion from conventional automotive gross sales and aftermarket merchandise/services, up by 50 percent from about $three.5 trillion in 2015." McKinsey additionally estimates that world sales development will dip from 3.6 percent to 2 percent by 2030.
Almost three quarters (seventy two %) of large and mid-cap companies worldwide don't acknowledge the financial dangers of local weather change of their annual financial reviews, in keeping with the KPMG Survey of Company Duty Reporting 2017 revealed in the present day. EUR 43 billion in revenue is generated directly each year by Austria's whole vehicle sector.
Daimler AG holds a 20% stake in Eicher Motors , a ten.zero% stake in KAMAZ , an 89.29% stake in Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Company , a 6.seventy five% stake in Tata Motors and a 3.1% in the Renault-Nissan Alliance , a 12% stake in Beijing Automotive Group, and an eighty five% stake in Grasp Motors Daimler and BYD Auto have a joint venture called Denza , both firms maintain a 50-50% stake.


This past week I saw the new video of the cam-less technology called Freevalve. Its design by a sub company of Koenigsegg, the supercar maker. There are efforts to make the automotive industry cleaner and efficient by creating other types of technologies but theirs nothing like the sound of a gas engine, so why not make it better? The Freevalve promise a better gas mileage,performance and efficiency by eliminating the camshaft with air actuators to control the valve giving you more precision and range on the performance of the valve!
What do you think of this technology? Have better ideas to change the world? Forget about it and let the BRAP BRAP live? let me know in the comments!
Very interesting post 🙂 Thanks for sharing…very informative!


This is a galaxy map cross stitch kit in the color blue. You can't find a galaxy themed world map cross stitch pattern anywhere else. This pattern is lots of fun to stitch and looks beautiful when it's finished. This kit comes with everything you need to complete this cross stitch pattern.
Size: About 14.3 x 7.5 in. / 36.3 x 19.05 cm.


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This Day In History: July 2, 1776 CE
Posted by Smaktakula in Culture, History, Holiday, Mythology, National Events, People, Relationships, Social Networking
1776, all men are created equal, Declaration of Independence, Founding Fathers, Great Britain, Independence Day, John Hancock, July 2nd, July 4th, King George III, liberty, Liberty Hall, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Redcoats, taxation without representation, this day in history, Thomas Jefferson, United States of America
On which the Founding Fathers tell the tyrant King George III what he can do with his onerous taxes and hated Redcoats.
"Brothers, Let These Words Ring Out Not Only Across A Grateful Nation, But Also May They Resound Throughout Almighty Posterity Itself: Because In Signing This, We Are Good And Truly Fucked."
Careless Boy's Mother Ruins A Good Thing
Posted by Smaktakula in Constitutional Issues, Crime, General Foolishness, National Events, North America, People, Relationships, Scandal, Social Networking
California, Christine Shreeve Hubbs, coming of age, Coo Coo Ca-Choo!, cougars, double standards, hot sex offenders, molestation, Mrs. Robinson, nice job Mom, sex and firearms, sexual predators, skankery, Smaktakula's hypocrisy can sometimes be astounding, The Graduate
"Mrs. Robinson, You're Trying To Molest Me."
Livermore, California: A local skank faces 67 charges related to sexual acts with teenage boys. Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 42, is said to have engaged in the scandalous behavior with two junior high school students, both in her home as well as in a motel.
Hubbs is also facing several charges relating to contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She is alleged to have purchased BB guns for her two victims, and allowed them to perform "drive-bys" from the back of her moving Hummer. The victims also add that Hubbs plied them with gift cards and cash.
And Here's To You, Ms. Hubbs. Adolescent Boys Love You More Than You Will Ever Know. Coo Coo Ca-Choo!
As with all good things, this idyllic life of sex, easy cash and firearms was destined to end. One of the boys was careless with his cell phone, which contained nude pictures of Hubbs. The boy's snooping mother found the pictures and called the police, who brought this charming coming-of-age story to an abrupt and frustrating end.
How events might have unfolded differently if the boy's father had stumbled across the phone before his mother can only be conjectured.
Because Opportunities Like This Come Along So Frequently When You're Fourteen.
When am I gonna get over this? I don't know, Mom–How about NEVER?
Feud With Manson Family Now Officially A 'Beef'
Posted by Smaktakula in Crime, Culture, Drug Culture, General Foolishness, Music, Mythology, People, Prison Culture, Relationships, Social Networking
Abigail Folger, California, Charles Manson, Charlie, Charlie Manson is batshit crazy, comical spelling errors, Corcoran State Prison, crazy fucker, crazy people, cult leaders, Helter Skelter, Irene Folstrom, Manson Family, mass murderers, mental illness, Tate-Labianca Murders
Charles Manson: Believes He Has Been Unfairly Depicted As Some Kind Of Lunatic.
Corcoran State Prison, California: Messianic fantasist Charles Manson is said to be upset with website Promethean Times over some material which appeared on the site. On August 17th, Promethean Times published an article entitled Helpful Hints For Everyday Life: Family Matters, in which Manson was depicted as interpreting a message from the Beatles to mean that one of his followers, or "Family," should prepare a sandwich for the deranged cult leader.
Manson released the following statement late yesterday:
People talk about Charlie Manson all the time. They love to talk, talk, talk–and this dude with the ridiculous name ain't no different. But let Uncle Charlie share some wisdom with you and clear some things right up: Charlie is like a dark sun, and his light shines on you, Baby!
Man, it don't matter how safe you think you are 'cause Charlie's in here and you're out there, but already my people walk among you, Piggies.
Smaktakula is dead! He's dead and doesn't even know it yet, man! He was dead yesterday. He was dead before his parents met–before time began.
The people got to learn–they got to learn what happens when you tell lies about Charlie Manson.
Okay, in the first place, Charlie doesn't even like the Beatles. Man, I don't know how many times . . .
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This is the second instance in which Promethean Times and the Manson Family have crossed paths. The first, an insipid joke juxtaposing Manson Family victim Abigail Folger with Tiger Woods' former girlfriend Irene Folstrom, is considered something of a nonincident. The vast majority of Promethean Times readers either missed the joke or didn't get it. The 5 readers who got it were in complete accord, finding it hugely unfunny.
We Suggest Charlie Carve This Into His Forehead.
From his the security of his vast and well-appointed estate somewhere in North America, Smaktakula said:
We were notified of Mr. Manson's threats earlier this afternoon by officials at Corcoran. Smaktakula and the Promethean Times' staff want to let our readers know that we refused to dignify the spittle-flecked ravings of a sun-starved old man whose formerly shocking excesses have been rendered prosaic by the increasing horrors of the ensuing four decades.
These threats are more pathetic than frightening. Mr. Manson's ominous tales about the legions of fanatical acolytes waiting on the master's word to rise up and begin the great killing are somewhat dubious, when after forty years he still he can't spell 'Helter Skelter' correctly. That's right Charlie–it's got no A in it. The excess was no doubt due to you already being a complete A-Hole.
So, while we are certainly flattered by the attention, we doubt that any morrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
death to piggies
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Skanks In The Crosshairs, Part II: The War To End All Whores
Posted by Smaktakula in Constitutional Issues, Crime, Culture, General Foolishness, Hollywood, Human Rights, Justice, National Events, North America, People, Relationships, Satire, Social Networking
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, celebriskanks, childish sexual innuendo, David Gregory, did you see that thing about herpes--she really is a slut, Hobegon, Horn Dog Deomocrats, Joe Biden, John McCain, Meet The Press, Nicole Polizzi, Obama Administration, Obama's war on skanks, PPD 24601, President Obama, Presidential Policy Directive, pro-skank Democrats, Robert Gibbs, Sir Let Us Tan!, skankery, skankism, skanks, skin cancer, skonks, Snooki, Snooki's arrest, tanning, the beach ball problem at Chavez Ravine, United States of America, untalented stars, Vice President Biden, what IS the singular of Cheetos?
After issuing a string of denials over the past several weeks, the White House abruptly reversed itself yesterday, admitting the existence of Presidential Policy Directive 24601. This admission ends the mounting speculation regarding the anti-skank directive, dubbed 'Hobegon' by some in the press. The White House claims that Hobegon codifies America's foreign and domestic policy with regard to skanks. It does that, and more: PPD 24601 is nothing less than a declaration of war on hos.
"Let Me Be Clear: I See An America--One That Can Only Be Achieved By Rising Above Partisan Rhetoric And Red-State/Blue-State Name Calling--An America Once Again Setting An Example For Other Nations By Helping To Create--Not Only For Our Children And The World's Children, But Also The Many Children Yet Unborn--A World That Is Free Of Skanks."
"This is something about which the President feels very strongly," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a press conference this morning. "He has two daughters of his own, and like so many American parents right now, he's concerned about the type of world that little Sasha and Malia will find waiting for them when they grow up."
This sudden admission surprised most political observers, and apparently some within the Executive Circle. Last Sunday on Meet The Press, the Vice-President said, "If there is {the secret Hobegon document}, they sure haven't shown it to Joe Biden." He went on to add, "I mean, who doesn't like tramps, am I right?" at which point the Vice-President attempted to high-five David Gregory. Biden apologized for the comments just a few hours later after meeting privately with the President. What the Vice-President was denying less than a week ago is now official US policy.
The impetus for the Administration's abrupt about-face appears to be a series of events which drove the media into such a speculative frenzy that it became necessary to make some details of the secret directive public. One of the events which set this chain in motion were widely publicized comments made by reality tv grotesquery Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. The celebriskank fired a volley across the Administration's bow when she said, "I don't go tanning anymore, because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning, and I feel he did that intentionally for us."
Largely derided at the time, the enigmatic Snooki now appears to be something of a Cassandra. Even her foes are beginning to wonder if the talking party ball is shrewder than she appears, given that anti-tanning initiatives are part of Obama's War on Skanks. Snooki went on to note that Obama's 2008 Rival John McCain would not have applied the tax, "Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan."
Unlike Virtually Every Other Political Position Which He Has Taken Over The Years, Senator McCain's Staunch Support Of Skanks Has Never Wavered.
McCain's unfortunate history of skin cancer aside, this insight is trenchant. The Arizona Republican has long been staunchly, if quietly, pro-skank. Throughout the 20th Century, support for ladies of easy virtue blurred party lines, but since the 2000 presidential election has become increasingly divided among partisan lines, with Republicans generally opposing anti-skank legislation. Bill Clinton was the last pro-skank Democrat to hold a statewide office or higher. The promising young cadre of pro-skank Democrats ("Horn Dog Democrats") who swept into office with Clinton in 1992 are long gone.
Initially the White House attempted to shrug off Snooki's charges, labelling them, "Laughable" and "Not worth dignifying." However, as with so many Washington scandals, the further the administration tried to distance themselves from it, the more tenaciously the rumors clung.
The situation reached critical mass when Snooki was arrested on July 30th. Wearing a T-Shirt which read SLUT (Sir, Let Us Tan!) in protest of the effort to tax tanning beyond the means of the average tramp, which she calls skankist, Snooki was seen being led away by police. The official account claims that the plump strumpet was drunk and out of control.
Dodger Stadium Security Removes Another Beach Ball From The Field.
Not so, counters Snooki:
"Oh. My. God. Oh my God, I can't believe they said that. That's–I'ma fucking sue them, I swear to God I will–That's such a lie! Can I tell you? Can I tell you how much of a fucking lie that is? That is not true. Anybody who knows me–my good friends who know me, not the haters–knows that is just not true."
"I'm a political prisoner. They're trying to shut me up."
The Political Cost Of Looking Like A Soggy Cheeto.
Since then, Skanks have been notable for their absence. "Laying low," was how one observer termed it. Because of summer reruns and the ubiquity of archived material on the internet, the American public has so far not been greatly affected by the self-imposed Skankout. It has been pointed out that had this Skankout occurred during the school year, its presence might have been felt more profoundly in a reduction in the number of hot female teachers sleeping with their seventh-grade students.
But because those people passionate about skank rights would not be silenced, the ensuing e-storm would force the beleaguered administration to admit the existence of PPD 24601. President Obama promised the nation that "further details will be will be made available in the coming days."
Coming Soon: GO HO GO!
Skanks In The Crosshairs, Part I: Twilight Of The Strumpets
Posted by Smaktakula in Constitutional Issues, Culture, General Foolishness, Hollywood, Justice, Music, National Events, North America, People, Reality Television, Relationships, Scandal, Social Networking, Television
21st Century, AIDS, American Freedoms, anti-skank bigotry, Barack Obama, bigotry, Brazil, Britney Spears, Canada, celebriskanks, China, Co-Ed Sex Tryouts, crazy bald Britney, death by stoning, Europe, Flower of American Skankhood, Girls Gone Wild, India, intolerance, Joe Francis, Kim Kardashian, Lawrence Fishburne, LiLo, Lindsay Lohan, man-skanks, Mary Kay Letourneau, Montana Fishburne, Nicole Ritchie, Obama Administration, Obama's war on skanks, Paris Hilton, prudery, sex tape, Sexual Revolution, Shannon Elizabeth, skankery, skankism, skanks, skonkery, skonks, straight-to-DVD, Tara Reid, Thailand, United States of America, Vili Fualaau
Flower of American Skankhood: LiLo Mimes Fellatio For An Approving Audience.
The 21st Century promises to be a cold one for women of easy virtue. Harlots, hos, sluts, wayward girls, hussies (both brazen and wanton), tramps, Run-Around Sues, bad girls, seductresses, chickenheads, homewreckers, libertines, gold diggers, skanks, loose women, hose-monsters, skeezers, camp tramps, tarts, women of ill repute and those of low moral fibre, free love enthusiasts, Sybarites, Jezebels, bimbos, wenches bawdy and tawdry, fuck buddies, the wrong sort, your friend's cousin Sarah with the lazy eye, floozies, Lolitas, cougars, girls who you know, groupies, mattress backs, sure things, women named for places or emotions, hootchies, friends with benefits, supafreaks, poxy lasses, demimondes, succubi, skags, slags, vamps, the girl your mother warned you about and even the occasional adulteress have suddenly found themselves very much alone.
The Hard Part Isn't Someday Telling Your Children That You Participated In The Girls Gone Wild Co-Ed Sex Tryouts; It's Telling Them You Were Voted MVP Three Years Running.
It wasn't always like this. Not so long ago tramps were a beloved, if not respected, part of the national social fabric. During the Sexual Revolution, strumpetry gained such a seemingly intractable foothold within Western culture that it appeared nothing–not even the AIDS virus–could stop it.
Forty short years later the world is a very different place. Awash in a wave of anti-skank sentiment, many countries are taking extreme measures to eliminate skankery altogether. India's reputation for anti-skank bigotry–or skankism— is well-deserved. But the world hears little about skank repression in countries like China, where it is rumored that hos are forced to live in squalid re-education centers; or Iran, where strumpetry is punishable by stoning in some cases.
Today the United States and Canada, Eastern Europe and Thailand, are the last bastions of skankery. But even in these once-safe havens, it appears time is running out. In the United States, skankhood–long considered a cherished freedom by Americans–is facing a relentless attack.
FACT: How You View This Relationship Depends Upon Your Gender.
Not long ago, lifting up your shirt for a sweaty asshole with a camera would net you a shitty T-Shirt and enough self-loathing to last a lifetime. Now you only get the shame.
Circa 2006, a strategically released sex-tape was the best shot at success for moderately-to-very attractive but talentless 'actresses.' One has only to remember the meteoric rise to vacuous stardom of Hilton and Kim Kardashian after their sex tapes were released. But times have changed. Recently, when tiresome jackass Lawrence Fishburne's daughter Montana attempted to gain publicity for her own intentionally released sex tape, she was given the cold shoulder by the press. The media sources all cited the usual reasons for the snub–questionable values, poor production and a complete lack of interest from the public due to Montana's negligible body of work, etc.–but many feel that skankism is the cause.
Every Time Smaktakula Has Been In Paris He Has Quickly Regretted The Experience: It is Filthy, Pungent And Remarkable For Its Lack Of Native English-Speakers.
Skank arrests in the United States have more than quadrupled in the last few years. Among the more high-profile busts are such celebriskanks as Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie, or skank males–better known as skonks, such as oily pornographer, Joe Francis. Fearing for their safety, many skanks have gone underground. Others, such as actresses Lindsay Lohan, Tara Reid and Shannon Elizabeth have pledged only to appear in no-budget straight-to-DVD productions until they are destigmatized. Britney Spears famously cut off her hair in protest.
Sorry Britney: Folks Just Aren't That Into Crazy Bald Chicks. Elton John Is The Exception Which Proves The Rule.
Will strumpets, tramps and hos become a nostalgic relic of yesteryear America, like the mighty buffalo which once covered the Great Plains? If the Obama Administration gets its way, the answer is yes. The Obama Administration has made it a top priority to end Skankism in the United States by 2024, with a broader goal of stamping out skankism world-wide by 2040.
Coming Soon: Obama v. Snooki
Connubial Turkey Shoot
Posted by Smaktakula in Asia, Crime, Culture, General Foolishness, Social Networking
AK-47, aunticide?, celebration, connubial bliss, firearm-related homicides, groom kills family members, guns, jackassery, marriage, patricide, Tevfik Altin, Turkey, unconsummated marriages, wedding disaster, World's Funniest Wedding Mix-Ups
On a day which, barring one regrettable action, would have ranked among the best in his life, Tevfik Altin's world quite suddenly turned to shit. By the time the sun had set, this Turkish newlywed found that he was not only a patricide, but also whatever a person who kills his aunt is called.
Things turned sour when Altin chose–in retrospect, perhaps unwisely–to participate in the celebratory local custom of firing an AK-47 into the air. Altin, clearly a Turk above all others, somehow managed to slay his father and two aunts. He also injured six other people, three of whom were children.
Police promptly arrived on the scene and took that turkey into custody.
"This Is The Happiest Day Of My Life!"
Helpful Hints For Everyday Life: Family Matters
Posted by Smaktakula in Crime, Culture, Drug Culture, General Foolishness, History, Justice, Music, Mythology, National Events, People, Relationships, Social Networking
Bring Charlie a sandwich!, Charles Manson, Charlie Manson, Charlie Manson is batshit crazy, crazy fucker, cult leaders, cultists, demagoguery, helpful hints, Helter Skelter, Manson Family, murderers, piggies, the "White Album", the Beatles, would-be-Messiahs
If you ever find yourself forced to make small talk with wacky cult leader and would-be-Messiah Charles Manson, it's probably best not to mention the Beatles unless you've got the time to hang out for a while.
"Can You See It, Man? Can You Dig What It Says When You Take The First Letter Of Each Song On The White Album And Put Them Together? No, Man! It Doesn't Say 'BDGOWTWH MIBPRDWIJ BYMESHL RHSCRG!' It Says 'Get Charlie A Sandwich, And Not So Much Goddamn Mayo This Time!' It Also Says, 'The War Is Coming; Piggies Die!'"
A Great New Way To Make Mom And Dad Pay For What They Did
Posted by Smaktakula in Art, Cinema, Culture, Duh, General Foolishness, Health, Hollywood, People, Social Networking
attention-seeking behavior, bad decisions, caveat emptor, Chicago, citizen of Clan Arquette, crazy fucker, crazy people, Dad, daddy issues, David A. Cox, David Arquette, Did Courtney Cox lose a bet?, foolish choices, gettin' inked, getting back at mom and dad, ink, Mom, obscure celebrities, tats, tattoos, tiresome anachronism, untalented stars
Why not get inked by tiresome former celebrity and citizen of Clan Arquette, David A. Cox?
"It's A Dragon That Shoots Dragons From Its Eyes! And Then Those Dragons Shoot Dragons From Their Eyes, Too! And Then Those Dragons--Guess What They Shoot From Their Eyes? Guess! Oh, Man! You Are So Not Gonna Regret This!"
Well, you know what, Mom? Maybe if you'd bought me Red Power Ranger with the light-up eyes and collectible key chain for Christmas 1999 like I asked you to, then maybe I wouldn't need to get the Chinese character for 'Fire' tattooed on my chest. But what do I know, right? I'm only your son. You tell me, Mom. You tell me.
Eine Kleine Snatchmusik
Posted by Smaktakula in Art, Critters, Culture, Drug Culture, General Foolishness, Music, People, Social Networking
apologies to Mozart, attention-seeking celebrities, childish sexual innuendo, creativity, fecundity, human lava lamp, Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga's very talented vagina, Lady Minge, Lady Vajayjay, Polk High School JV Water Polo's very good day, Seriously? Do you even listen to the words coming out of your mouth?, servants' entrance, snatch, vagina, Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair is the Enquirer for college educated assholes
Lady Gaga, the intermittently interesting humanoid lava lamp, reveals to Vanity Fair the fecund loam from which, flower-like, her creativity springs.
"I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone, they're going to take my creativity from me through my vagina."
"Which Is Why I Must Insist That My Gentleman Callers Kindly Use The Servants' Entrance."
This just in: Polk High School JV Water Polo team writes, composes and performs Grammy-nominated rock opera.
Helpful Hints For Everyday Life: The Bluff
Posted by Smaktakula in Culture, Mythology, People, Relationships, Social Networking
Auric Goldfinger, bluff, bluffing, helpful hints, J. B. Fletcher, James Bond, Murder She Wrote, smirking A-Hole, why did no one ever kill that meddling busybody?, work smarter not harder
The Consummate Pro: This Man Knows How To Bluff.
On those occasions when you manage to bluff someone into telling you something by acting like you know more than you really do, and then he asks you, When did you find out?–resist the temptation to be the smirking A-Hole who says, Just now–when you told me! After that bush league play, he won't tell you shit.
The best responses run along these lines: We've known almost since the beginning. Your opponent will spend the next few moments trying to figure out where he got careless and screwed up. Meanwhile, you can follow with, "But there's just one or two things I don't understand." You'd be surprised at what he'll tell you.
"But You See, Mr. Johnson, I Didn't Know Until Just Now. I Followed You To This Remote Cabin Without Telling Anyone To Trick You Into Confessing. Now Please, Let Me Borrow Your Telephone. The Police Will Be Here In 20 Minutes."
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Satantango. (15.)
Directed by Bela Tarr. 1994.
Starring Mihaly Vig, Putyi Horvath, Laszlo Lugossy. In Hungarian with subtitles. Black and white. Available on Blu-ray/ DVD or streaming on Curzon Home Cinema. 419 mins.
If not now, then when? After months of lockdown those copies of Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest remain undisturbed on the bookshelf, but if you still want to make use of this enforced leisure and complete one culturally worthwhile feat then maybe, just maybe, now is the time to tackle the seven and a half monochrome hours of Hungarian master Tarr Bela's Satantango.
There is only one way with Tarr, and it is the hard way: slow pace, long shots, black and white, mud, squalor, hard-drinking, barren flat countryside, nice weather for ducks. The money saved on colour film went on the wind and rain machines that get extensive use. The shots are long but not fancy. The camera moves are generally unobtrusive. A lot of them are shots of people striding along open roads or over fields, usually in heavy rainfall, though it's not all walking. There's lots of sitting,wheezing and wince drinking (a shot of the cheap stuff followed by a grimace.)
An opening shot of cows leaving a shed and wandering through a derelict village is there to get you down to speed. That's the first ten minutes gone. The plot is Godot Turning Up Out Of The Blue, and doing so after everyone thought he was dead. It's payday in a run-down collective farm, when the people get the money for the last year's work and everybody is scheming to rip off the others. Then word arrives that Irimias (Vig), who used to work there and is believed deceased, is heading back to the village.
The film is divided into twelve sections, each concerning a different character or a location in the village. The first six all take place on the day before Irimias's arrival, and often they interlock, with the same events being seen from different perspectives. Given the length and the slow detailed representation, you might reasonably expect to find out about them in some depth but the film shows you everything and nothing. Various political and religious interpretations offer themselves up but Tarr's films always give a partial view: nobody here knows what's going on, not even the viewer who has seen it from a variety of viewpoints. What Tarr can do like no other is show how tentative human society is, how loose are the ties that bind us together and that what keeps civilisation going is mainly apathy and laziness.
In the last Sight and Sound Asleep poll of the greatest films ever made Satantango ranked 35th (tied with Psycho amongst some others) but watching this time around and attempting to do it down-in-one I can't pretend that there weren't moments of irritation and frustration, a few rewinds from nod offs. I appreciate the aesthetics of the long takes, of making the passing of time a much stronger element than in most films, but my God some of those shots go on forever. I reckon you could trim an hour off of it without any noticeable difference to its rhythm or mood.
I'd also admit that if you really can't face it Tarr's later The Werckmeister Harmonies achieves everything this film does, and a bit more, and does so at a third of the length. But, if you are at all peaked by this, give it go because it really delivers; even if you hate it, you'll never be free of it. The day after seeing I felt euphoric, released but tempted to go back to it. Of all the blocks of seven hours and nineteen minutes of your life that you'll never get back, these you won't resent.


I've started knitting when I was a little girl and started designing when I had my first baby girl. There was a long gap in my "knitting life", but now I can't imagine my life without knitting and designing (that includes drawings my ideas on every single piece of paper that just "happens" to be there: napkins, tissues, calendars, post-its..). Hope you enjoy my creations.
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Chinese media claims that Huawei's New OS is 60% faster than Android
Huawei's ongoing battle with the U.S. has led to reports by Chinese news agency, the Global Times, to claim that the Chinese tech firm is working closely with domestic partners.
With the Global Times as a government-friendly newspaper, comments have to be taken in the context of a PR showdown between Washington and Beijing.
It's almost like China's Global Times wanted to create an atmosphere of anticipation for the consumers considering many of them are trying to get rid of their Huawei handsets. Most of them are afraid they might stop getting Android system updates after the temporary 90-day ban reprieve ends.
According to the report, Huawei has been intensively testing the new HongMeng OS and has collaborated with a few local companies as well. Tencent, a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate, is responsible for the UI. Apart from this, Smartphone vendors like Oppo and Vivo have also sent their teams for testing the HongMeng OS, who have claimed it to be 60 percent faster than Android.
That's kind of a stretch keeping in mind that Huawei has recently started working on the OS and Google has been perfecting Android for many years.
Anyhow, the company's chief strategy officer, Shao Yang, said that the release date of HongMeng OS is a secret and will come as a surprise.
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In Future Trends – Artificial Power Islands we look at how 3 European countries want to change fuel production, 3D printing houses in 24 hours, quantum and chemistry, and a reminder of the prophecies of Marshall McLuhan.
Three western European countries have revealed plans to build a giant artificial island in the middle of the North Sea where wind farms would create power for 80 million people.
The sandbank Dogger Bank, 100 kilometres off the east coast of England, is the mooted location for the groundbreaking 'power island' which would have its own runway and harbour.
The North Sea area has a relatively low altitude and receives a high amount of wind, making it the ideal location for the green power hub, according to transmission system operators Energinet.dk in Denmark and TenneT in Germany and the Netherlands.
The power transmission companies are expected to sign a contract on the 23rd of March to enter a mutual feasibility study of the project.
Another advantage of creating the island will be a reduction in transport costs of materials for building the wind power plants in comparison with other offshore wind farms.
The island would be around six square kilometres in size and surrounded by thousands of windmills.
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We designed Adagio as two spacious pavilions separated by a very private sun deck and pool. The design incorporates a free flow of space for large groups as well as being able to ensure privacy for all guests.
Adagio's three-level main pavilion contains the expansive Great Room, graced by a beautiful and extremely well-equipped gourmet kitchen and two dining areas, one inside and one outside under the covered deck. To the left looking toward the sea is another covered area with a wet bar with ice maker, beverage fridge and sink with a gas grill along side. The Great Room is also the gathering place for friends and family, with stylish, but comfortable, sofas and chairs. Sliding glass doors open to a wide covered veranda set for outdoor dining or family games and relaxation; this looks out to the beach below and to the 180-degree blue sea vistas.
A staircase from the Great Room curves up to an air-conditioned double-twin bed master bedroom. This bedroom has an ensuite bathroom with a tropical glass-block shower and its own private veranda. A second identically sized air-conditioned king bed suite with a private verandah is just off the Great Room, and below, on the lower level accessed by a walkway around the pool deck, is a very large air-conditioned double-twin bedroom and bath ensuite with another private veranda; all twin bed suites may also be made up as king suites with advance notice.
Adagio is beautifully furnished in the Hemingway island style, bright tropical fabrics, and lovely artwork, all surrounded by flowering gardens and waving palms. It's well designed to provide generous space for togetherness, and areas throughout for private time as well. Just like its musical name, Adagio provides an island "slow tempo" in a luxurious, serene and well-equipped setting.


But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure who to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is, and to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.For Nora is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost her life.
Hush, Hush is the first book I read that's about Fallen Angels. At first, I though it would be ridiculous to read about fallen angels, but it proved me wrong. It was a fantastic read that was filled with mystery, thrillers, and love.
The story revolves around Nora Grey. Patch, the new student, ends up being Norah's biology lab partner. She finds out that Patch is a very mysterious and cocky guy, but she's sure that there is more to him than she thinks.
Nora might be described as stupid, but I find her clever. To actually think of the possibility of fallen angels is crazy. She was clever enough to know that something doesn't add up when it comes to Patch and the definition of normal. Norah's sensing of danger is spot on, she even felt something wrong when she met the two new guys at a café shop with Vee, one of them being a new transfer student. I thought she would be naïve at first, but she didn't. Her best friend Vee is the one who is careless and naïve. Vee just wants to have fun all the time and gets herself into situations that can actually cause danger to her. However I enjoyed Vee's company, she is supportive of Norah and always looks out for her.
Patch is a guy who seems very dangerous; at least he looks the part. He always wears black, and no one knows anything about his background or history. Patch is described as a hot guy, and his cocky comments to Norah never appease to amuse me. I adored Patch and loved his mysterious aura throughout the book.
I really enjoyed Becca's writing style. Especially when it comes to internal character conversations. It was full of entertainment, swoon worthy moments, and action scenes all packed into one book. I recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read it yet, and anyone who loves reading a book about fallen angels.
I liked this one a lot when I read it but I hated Crescendo. I know a lot of people continued to the like the series though so I hope you do!
I was reading it at home alone, and ran around the house slamming all the windows shut and turning the lights on.
I remember reading this a while back around when it first got published, and the story is familiar (I remember pretty much all the major plot points though, surprisingly)... Maybe it's time for a re-read soon. :) Great review.
I'm not a fan of this series. Something about the characters really grates on my nerves. Hopefully you'll continue on and enjoy it.
I liked this series lot. Although some people really didn't. But I kind of not really that into Nora. I mean, she likes to stalk. Out of all 3 books I kinda don't like crescendo.


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