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Final OSU report card: Do you view this Ohio State football season as a success?
There was a lot to weigh this season in passing judgment
Final OSU report card: Do you view this Ohio State football season as a success? There was a lot to weigh this season in passing judgment Check out this story on thenews-messenger.com: https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/sports/college/ohio-state/2019/01/09/ohio-state-football-osu-2018-season-grades/2522426002/
Jon Spencer, Mansfield News Journal Published 3:24 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2019 | Updated 3:26 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2019
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer shares a celebratory moment with quarterback Dwayne Haskins after the Buckeyes beat Washington in the Rose Bowl 28-23.(Photo: Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)
In case you missed it — given all the comings and goings in the past few days, highlighted by the pillaging of the Michigan coaching staff — Ohio State finished No. 3 in the final Associated Press Top 25 college football poll, behind Clemson and Alabama.
Those three were the only schools that won 13 or more games.
There's two ways of looking at this:
A. As another chance to pile on for the Buckeyes' head-scratching, 49-20 loss to a Purdue team that finished 6-7 and gave up 56 first half points in a 63-14 Music City Bowl loss to Auburn.
B. As a tribute to Ohio State for all the team overcame this season to finish 13-1 and win Big Ten and Rose Bowl championships: The Zach Smith saga, which sidelined head coach Urban Meyer for all of training camp and the first three games; the early injury and departure of their best defensive player, Nick Bosa; and, yes, the loss to Purdue, from which the Buckeyes would recover to win their last six games, four over ranked teams.
The "A" perspective will probably linger with us longer. The final AP rankings will serve as an off-season-long reminder that the Purdue debacle cost OSU a spot in the playoffs and a chance to compete for a national championship.
Do I think the defense would have slowed Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence or Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa? Almost certainly not. But the offense, spearheaded by the historic play of QB Dwayne Haskins, was playing as well as any in the country over OSU's last three games and, ultimately, might have delivered more than just OSU's best finish since the 14-1, national championship season in 2014.
My final grades of the season are more of a reflection of the "B" perspective, so let's get to it:
The Buckeyes averaged 42.4 points and 535.6 yards, and as they say, everything starts up front. The line allowed only 23 sacks, which ranked 37th nationally and behind only Iowa and Rutgers in the Big Ten. That's sort of skewed because the Buckeyes attempted 153 more passes than Iowa and 210 more than Rutgers. The line had some issues at times with blocking on RPOs and the ground game never completely gained its footing. Michael Jordan never looked comfortable in his conversion from guard to center (and yet he was named to two All-America teams) and OSU dealt with injuries down the stretch to Demetrius Knox and Thayer Mumford. But, all in all, the unit held up well. Now with Jordan leaving early, the Buckeyes are looking at replacing four starters up front.
Running game
Ohio State tailback J.K. Dobbins crosses the goal line for a touchdown in the 45-24 victory over Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship Game. (Photo: Thomas J. Russo/USA TODAY Sports)
Regular readers of these grade cards know I was never a fan of alternating J.K. Dobbins and Mike Weber by series. I thought it worked to the detriment of both backs, especially the more dynamic Dobbins, who seems to be more of a rhythm runner. Ohio State can point to the final numbers — Dobbins gained over 1,000 yards for the second straight year (1,053) and Weber finished at 954, with the two combining for 15 touchdowns — but they rarely played well together in the same game and for large portions of the season the offensive balance was out of whack. There were only four games where the Buckeyes rushed for over 200 yards as a team and two of them were the first two against patsies Oregon State and Rutgers. There were games of 119, 92, 76, 108 and 113. Very un-OSU-like.
Passing game
Wow. We may never see another passing attack like this again from Ohio State. Of course, you start with Haskins, who in his one-and-done season completed 70 percent of his passes for 4,831 yards and 50 touchdowns, setting 20 school or Big Ten records en route to finishing third in the Heisman Trophy race. Just wow. He still needs to get better at handling pressure and not locking in on his primary target, but he'll be the first QB drafted, so he needed to go. It looks like 5-star transfer Justin Fields will be his successor and he'll have a very good stable of receivers, even though the Buckeyes are losing the prolific trio of Parris Campbell, Johnnie Dixon and Terry McLaurin. They combined for 167 catches, good for 2,433 yards and 31 touchdowns. The consistency issues of the past disappeared.
Washington Huskies running back Myles Gaskin runs against Ohio State Buckeyes safety Jordan Fuller in the third quarter in the 2019 Rose Bowl at Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo: GARY A. VASQUEZ, USA TODAY Sports)
The Buckeyes suffered a huge blow when Bosa got hurt just 2.5 games in, never to return. To help prevent double-teaming the linemen he left behind, the "braintrust" (which is no longer) had the linebackers crowd the line of scrimmage, and we saw the disastrous effects. Once backs got past the first level, there was nothing but green in front of them. Ohio State gave up seven touchdowns of 75 or more yards, six of them runs, and in a span of three weeks gave up the two longest plays from scrimmage in OSU history. Most of that is on the back seven, not the front four, as the Buckeyes finished with 99 tackles for loss (17th nationally) and 41 sacks (9th). End Chase Young led the way with 10.5 sacks and 15.5 TFLs and tackle Dre'Mont Jones, who is leaving early for the NFL, had 8.5 and 13.0. Add Bosa to the mix and maybe this is the best team in the country when everything shakes out.
Ohio State Buckeyes 62, Michigan Wolverines 39: Photos from The Game
Ohio State wide receiver K.J. Hill (14) runs for a first down against Michigan during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan defensive back Tyree Kinnell walks by as Ohio State running back Paris Campbell (21) celebrates his touchdown during the second half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson is pressured by Ohio State defensive end Jonathon Cooper during the second half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson is pressured by Ohio State defensive end Chase Young during the second half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan running back Karan Higdon (22) runs against Ohio State safety Brendon White (25) during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State fans celebrate a touchdown against Michigan during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh watches a play against Ohio State during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh talks to offensive line Ben Bredeson at a timeout during the second half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan running back Tru Wilson runs against Ohio State during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State running back Mike Weber and teammate offensive line Thayer Munford (75) celebrate a touchdown against Michigan during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan kicker Jake Moody (2) kicks an extra point from the hold of Will Hart against Ohio State during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson adjusts his helmet on the sideline before going on the field during the second half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan wide receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones (9) checks on quarterback Shea Patterson (2) during the second half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State safety Brendon White (25) jumps over Michigan wide receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones (9) during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan tight end Zach Gentry (83) injured during the second half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan tight end Zach Gentry (83) is being carried off the field due to an injury during the second half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan running back Karan Higdon (22) is stopped by Ohio State linebacker Malik Harrison (39) and defensive tackle Davon Hamilton (53) during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State receiver Paris Campbell runs against Michigan defensive back Josh Metellus during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan linebacker Devin Bush (10) and linebacker Devin Gil (36) try to stop Ohio State running back J.K. Dobbins (2) during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan kick return Ambry Thomas (1) adjusts his helmet before kickoff against Ohio State during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
A Michigan fan in a crowd of Ohio State fans reacts to another Ohio State touchdown during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh looks down at his notes during a timeout in the second half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan defenders chase Ohio State running back Mike Weber in the second half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State running back Mike Weber signals first down against Michigan in the second half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan defensive back Tyree Kinnell misses the tackle on Ohio State running back Mike Weber in the second half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson is chased by Ohio State defensive end Chase Young (2) and defensive tackle Davon Hamilton (53) during the second half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh talks to players during the second half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson leaves the game with trainers after being injured during the second half against Ohio State, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan linebacker Devin Bush is carried off the field with a hip injury during the second half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson leaves the game after being injured during the second half against Ohio State, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan's Chase Winovich tries to tackle Ohio State running back Mike Weber during the first half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson is chased by Ohio State defenders during the first half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan's Sean McKeon tackles Ohio State safety Jordan Fuller during the first half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State receiver Binjimen Victor drops a pass behind Michigan defensive back David Long during the first half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan defensive back Brandon Watson (28) chases Ohio State wide receiver K.J. Hill (14) during the first half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State wide receiver Chris Olave (17) and wide receiver Terry McLaurin (83) celebrate a touchdown against Michigan during the first half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh reacts to a play against Ohio State during the first half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan defensive line Chase Winovich (15) and defensive line Rashan Gray (3) tackle Ohio State running back J.K. Dobbins (2) during the first half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson hands to running back Karan Higdon during the first half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan linebacker Devin Bush (10) and defensive line Rashan Gray (3) try to stop Ohio State running back Demario McCall (30) during the first half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan fans cheer for the Wolverines against Ohio State during the first half at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan celebrates after a fumble recovery on a kickoff during the first half against Ohio State, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan running back Chris Evans (12) celebrates after his touchdown during the first half against Ohio State, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones makes a catch against Ohio State during the first half Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan defenders Devin Bush (10) and Rashan Gary tackle Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins Jr. during the first half Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson looks to pass during the first half against Ohio State, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan receiver Nico Collins celebrates his touchdown against Ohio State, Nov. 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan wide receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones (9) walks towards the field before the OSU game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh watches warm up before the OSU game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Joe Milton (3) warms up before the OSU game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh watches warm up before the OPU game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan fans cheer for the Wolverines before the OSU game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan defensive line Rashan Gray (3) warms up before the OSU game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson warms up before action against Ohio State Saturday, November 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh on the field before action against Ohio State Saturday, November 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan running back Karan Higdon warms up before action against Ohio State. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Jordan Dugan of Cincinnati poses with his sign during ESPN's College GameDay event outside of Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Sam Wilson of Ann Arbor poses with his sign during ESPN's College GameDay event outside of Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Kati Molnar of Columbus, Ohio, poses with her sign during ESPN's College GameDay event outside of Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Fan gather outside of Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio for ESPN's College GameDay, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Harold Burbridge of Columbus, Ohio, dresses as Woody Hayes adjusts his signs during ESPN's College GameDay event outside of Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Adam Boehne and his wife Nikki, both of Goshen, Ind., pose for a photo with their sign during ESPN's College GameDay event outside of Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan players arrive at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio before the OSU game, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer walks across the field at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio before the Michigan game, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer greets fans at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio before the Michigan game, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan defensive line Chase Winovich walks off the bus as the team arrive at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio before the OSU game, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson walks off the bus as the team arrive at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio before the OSU game, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh arrives at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio before the OSU game, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer hugs a OSU players at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio before the Michigan game, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Fans arrive for the Home Depot Game Day show before the Michigan vs. Ohio State game Saturday, November 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh arrives for the game against Ohio State Saturday, November 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Fans show off their signs during the College Game Day show before the Michigan vs. Ohio State game Saturday, November 24, 2018 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Linebackers coach Bill Davis was part of the coaching purge on this side of the ball and, really, it could have been predicted back in September. But not all the blame falls on him. Outside of Malik Harrison, this crew struggled. I would have preferred to see more of Dante Booker. Maybe he just couldn't shake some of his health issues, but the guys in front of him, Tuf Borland and Pete Werner, didn't cut it, whether athletically or instinctually. And Baron Browning hasn't yet lived up to his 5-star rating, although he moves better than Borland and Werner. Hopefully, help his on its way, beyond new 'backers coach Al Washington.
Grade: D
Ohio State safety Brendon White (25) tackles Washington receiver Andre Baccellia in the Rose Bowl. White, who got a chance to play down the stretch, stabilized the secondary for the Buckeyes. (Photo: Kelvin Kuo/USA TODAY Sports)
A lot of people believe the Buckeyes miss former secondary coach Kerry Coombs. Who they missed even more this season were those six DBs taken in the first or second round of the NFL draft the last three years. As former coach John Cooper always said, it won't catch up with you until it catches up with you. It caught up with them. Freshman corner Jeff Okudah flashed his potential in the Rose Bowl and safety Brendon White became a late season "find." But Jordan Fuller, even though he led the team in tackles, didn't play as well as the year before, while Kendall Sheffield and Damon Anrette were often overmatched on the outside. Playmakers were sorely lacking in general. Nine interceptions from this crew all season?
Grade: C minus
You aren't going to do any better than Drue Chrisman for your punter. He averaged 43.2 yards a kick, with 16 of his 61 traveling 50-plus yards and 29 of them downed inside the 20. The coverage units, led by Terry McLaurin, were outstanding. Blake Haubeil was 10 of 13 on field goals, including 2 of 3 from the 40 and beyond. The longest return was a 42-yarder on a kickoff by Demario McCall. Given the speed on this team, you would have thought the Buckeyes could have broken at least a couple for touchdowns.
Urban Meyer leads the Ohio State Buckeyes onto the field at the Rose Bowl in his final game as head coach. (Photo: Kelvin Kuo/USA TODAY Sports)
Urban Meyer leaves with an 83-9 record, a national championship, seven East Division crowns, three Big Ten titles and a 7-0 mark against Michigan. The stains on that ledger will always be losses to Purdue, Iowa (2017) and Michigan State (2015) that should have never happened and keep the Buckeyes from being talked about like Clemson and 'Bama. Ryan Day has already proven himself as an OC and is quickly making his mark as Meyer's successor with the early signees in the 2019 recruiting class, the addition of Justin Fields, and the staff he is assembling.
Grade: A-minus
— Jon Spencer
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UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff is the sixth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released on July 18, 1989. The album is the final of Yankovic's to be produced by former McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer. Recorded between December 1988 and May 1989, the album served as the official soundtrack to the 1989 film of the same name, although the original score by John Du Prez is omitted. The album's lead single was the titular "UHF", although it was not a hit and did not chart.

The music on UHF is built around pastiches of rock, rap, and pop music of the late 1980s, featuring parodies of songs by Dire Straits, Tone Lōc, Fine Young Cannibals, and R.E.M. The album also features many "style parodies", or musical imitations of existing artists. These style parodies include imitations of specific artists like Harry Chapin, as well as various musical genres like blues. The album also features many music cuts from the film as well as some of the commercials, like "Spatula City", and other parody bits, like "Gandhi II".

Peaking at No. 146 on the Billboard 200, the album was not a commercial success, and received lukewarm critical attention. The UHF soundtrack is one of Yankovic's few studio albums not certified either Gold or Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States. It would also be Yankovic's last studio album to be released on vinyl record in the U.S. until 2011's Alpocalypse.

Production

Background and recording
Following the success of Yankovic's 1988 album Even Worse, which featured the Michael Jackson spoof "Fat", Yankovic pitched a screenplay co-written by his manager Jay Levey called UHF (internationally known as The Vidiot from UHF) to Orion Pictures. A satire of the television and film industries, the film starred Yankovic as George Newman, a man who stumbles into managing a low-budget UHF television station and finds success with his eclectic programming choices. Also starring Michael Richards, Fran Drescher, and Victoria Jackson, it brought the floundering studio Orion their highest test scores since the movie RoboCop. Although the movie made slightly over US$6 million domestically—out of a budget of $5 million—it was considered unsuccessful.

In December 1988, Yankovic returned to the studio to record the soundtrack to his feature film. Once again, former McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer was brought in to produce the album. This would be Derringer's last production credit for Yankovic. The producer and musician eventually parted ways because Derringer found that Yankovic would not listen to his input, and Yankovic came to realize that he could do most of the production work himself. Subsequent studio albums would be produced by Yankovic. Recording with Yankovic were Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on drums, Steve Jay on bass, and Jim West on guitar. The album was recorded in six different sessions at both Santa Monica Sound Records in Santa Monica, California and Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles. During the first session, the song "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" was recorded. The second session yielded the titular "UHF" and "Let Me Be Your Hog". During the third session, Yankovic recorded "Stanley Spadowski's Theme"—which would later be renamed "Fun Zone"—as well as the skit "Gandhi II". Only one song was recorded during the fourth sessions, the skit "Spatula City". The fifth recording session resulted in five songs: "Spam", "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars", "Hot Rocks Polka", "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", and "Generic Blues". The sixth and final session produced the two parodies "Isle Thing" and "She Drives Like Crazy".

Originals
On February 24, 1989, Yankovic recorded the first original song for the album, "Let Me Be Your Hog". The song is a short rock snippet that is heard in the movie as Newman's uncle Harvey (Stanley Brock) lounges in his pool. Originally, Yankovic had wanted to use the 1974 single "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas for the scene, but he could not obtain the rights for the song, and thus "Let Me Be Your Hog" was recorded. Yankovic then recorded the theme from his movie, the titular "UHF", written in the style of a TV station's large promotional campaign. On February 25, Yankovic recorded the instrumental "Fun Zone", also known as "Stanley Spadowski's Theme". Originally written four years earlier for a failed Saturday Night Live replacement titled Welcome to the Fun Zone, this song is played at the beginning of every "Weird Al" concert.

Three months later, on May 24, 1989, Yankovic recorded three more originals. The first of these, "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet Near Mars", is a rock song about a number of mutated hamsters terrorizing Earth. The second original song, "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", is a folk ballad about a family road trip to a tourist location in Minnesota. Musically, the song was inspired both by the book Roadside America, which "featured all the campy places around the country that one could possibly visit", as well as the music of Harry Chapin and Gordon Lightfoot, which Yankovic described as "storyteller songs, [with] sprawling narratives". The final original song recorded for the album was "Generic Blues", Yankovic's attempt to write "the ultimate blues song". After the release of the song, B.B. King listed it as one of his top ten favorite blues songs.

UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff is also notable in that it was Yankovic's first and only studio album to dabble in the art of skits. The first of these segments is called "Gandhi II", which re-imagines Mahatma Gandhi as the hero of a blaxploitation-style sequel to the film Gandhi, spoofing both the theme and promos for the film Shaft. The second skit is called "Spatula City" and is an advertisement for a spatula outlet store. These short segments were used in the film as commercials; other commercial segments, such as "Plots 'R Us" and "Conan the Librarian", were not used on the album.

Parodies and polka

On December 20, 1988, Yankovic recorded "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies". The song features the lyrics of The Beverly Hillbillies theme song altered slightly and set to the tune of "Money for Nothing". The song appears in its entirety within UHF as a computer-animated dream sequence, framed as if it were part of a music video. As part of his terms that allowed Yankovic to record this parody, Dire Straits lead singer and guitarist and "Money for Nothing" songwriter Mark Knopfler insisted that he be allowed to play the guitar featured in the parody. As a result, both he and Guy Fletcher—Dire Straits' keyboardist—recorded their parts on guitar and synthesizer respectively. According to Yankovic, his guitarist Jim West had practiced the song for weeks, and, as a result could recreate the original; Knopfler, on the other hand, had been playing the song for years and was much more relaxed with his playing. As a result, West's version sounded more like the original version, although Knopfler's track was the one used. Yankovic revealed in the DVD commentary for UHF that the concept "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" was originally a parody of Prince's 1984 hit "Let's Go Crazy". Prince, however, refused, and was unreceptive to any parody ideas Yankovic ever presented him with. The fractured titled "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" is a result of Dire Straits' lawyers insisting that "Money for Nothing" remain in the parody's title. Yankovic was unhappy with the title and stated that he would rather have had the title be either "Money for Nothing for the Beverly Hillbillies" or "Beverly Hillbillies for Nothing". The legal title for the song features an asterisk after the word "Hillbillies", although it is often printed without the marking.

On May 24, 1989, Yankovic started recording the second parody for the album, "Spam". The song, a play on R.E.M.'s hit "Stand", is an ode to the canned luncheon meat Spam. Yankovic noted that it was "fun to pick [apart the song] and figure out some of those almost subliminal parts—parts that would fade in and out, little bell sounds, things you don't really hear on first listening." On May 25, 1989, Yankovic recorded "Isle Thing", a parody of "Wild Thing" by Tone Lōc, about a woman who introduces the narrator to the television show Gilligan's Island. Notably, the song is Yankovic's first rap parody; an earlier rap, "Twister", is a Beastie Boys style spoof, but not a direct parody. Another Tone Lōc hit, "Funky Cold Medina", is referenced in the lyrics: "Ginger and Mary Ann coulda used some funky cold medina". The final parody, "She Drives Like Crazy"—recorded the same day as "Isle Thing"—is a spoof of Fine Young Cannibals' 1988 single "She Drives Me Crazy". Lyrically, the song is about a man who fears his girlfriend's crazy driving habits.

Like many of Yankovic's previous albums, UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff features a polka medley of hit songs. "The Hot Rocks Polka" contains songs written and made popular by the Rolling Stones.

Music videos

Both "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" and "UHF" received stand-alone music videos. The "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" video was reused for the movie, described above. The "UHF" video featured Yankovic and his band parodying other musicians and specific music videos, interspersed with clips from the movie. Artists  and videos parodied included Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle", ZZ Top's "Legs", the Beatles' "Your Mother Should Know", George Michael's "Faith", Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love", Prince's "When Doves Cry" and "1999", Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" and "Girlfriend is Better", Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer", Billy Idol's "White Wedding" and "Rebel Yell", INXS's "Mediate", and Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.".

Reception

Critical response

Due to the short stint of UHF in theaters, its soundtrack got "lost in the shuffle" and did not receive much of a critical response. However, from the few reviews it did receive, the album received a mixed response. Jacob Lunders of AllMusic awarded the album three stars out of five and called it a "guilty pleasure". Lunders noted that the album "endures artistically as a transitional album between his '80s heyday and the imminent artistic makeover revealed on 1992's Off the Deep End". He ultimately concluded that the album is something that only "moderate [to] genuine" fans may want, but that it is "nearly as accessible" as many of his compilation albums. The Rolling Stone Album Guide awarded the album three stars out of five, denoting a "good" album. A TV Guide critic, in a review of the movie, wrote that "the quality of [the movie's] parodies" are "inconsistent, with the movie and music takeoffs being obvious and out of date."

Commercial performance
UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff was released July 18, 1989. After it was released, the album peaked at number 146 on the Billboard 200. Much like Polka Party! (1986), the album was considered a major commercial disappointment for the comedian; the album is his second-lowest charting album after Polka Party!. The UHF soundtrack is one of only a few of Yankovic's studio albums that is not certified either Gold or Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States. The others include Polka Party! and Poodle Hat (2003). UHF would also be Yankovic's last studio album to be released in the US on vinyl record until 2011's Alpocalypse.

Track listing

Personnel
Credits adapted from LP liner notes.

Band members
 "Weird Al" Yankovic – lead and background vocals, keyboards, accordion
 Jim West – guitars, banjo, background vocals
 Steve Jay – bass guitar, background vocals
 Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz – drums, percussion

Additional musicians
 Kim Bullard – synthesizers
 Rick Derringer – guitar, background vocals
 The Waters Sisters – background vocals
 The Step Sisters – vocals (track 10)
 Jimmy Z. – harmonica
 Warren Luening – trumpet
 Donny Sierer – saxophone
 M.G. Kelly – "Spatula City" announcer
 Jim Rose – "Gandhi II" announcer
 Mark Knopfler – guitar (track 1)
 Guy Fletcher – synthesizer (track 1)

Technical
 Rick Derringer – producer
 "Weird Al" Yankovic – arranger
 Tony Papa – engineer
 Daryll Dobson – engineer
 Jamey Dell – assistant engineer
 Bill Malina – assistant engineer

Notes

References

External links

"Weird Al" Yankovic soundtracks
Comedy film soundtracks
Albums produced by Rick Derringer
1989 soundtrack albums
Scotti Brothers Records soundtracks
Rock 'n Roll Records albums
1980s film soundtrack albums

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With more than twenty years of professional experience, Jan Pohle is one of the leading legal advisors for technology and data protection law in the German market. He advises national and international companies on complex, technology-related projects, on legal issues relating to digitalization, on data protection law issues, and on legal issues relating to information security.
His practice is focused on strategic digitalization and outsourcing projects (ITO and BPO) as complex IT procurement and implementation projects including the comprehensive legal structuring and management of such long-term projects.
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Jan is lecturer at the University of Oldenburg in the postgraduate program Law and Information Systems. He is, inter alia, co-editor of the benchmark publication Computerrechtshandbuch and among others author at Taeger/Gabel commentary on GDPR and BDSG.
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Pandemic Board Game
Brands:Z-man Games
In PANDEMIC, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease foci while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand.
The game board depicts several major population centers on Earth. On each turn, a player can use up to four actions to travel between cities, treat infected populaces, discover a cure, or build a research station. A deck of cards provides the players with these abilities, but sprinkled throughout this deck are Epidemic! cards that accelerate and intensify the diseases' activity. A second, separate deck of cards controls the "normal" spread of the infections.
SKU: PAN 分類: English Games 標籤: Pandemic
Taking a unique role within the team, players must plan their strategy to mesh with their specialists' strengths in order to conquer the diseases. For example, the Operations Expert can build research stations which are needed to find cures for the diseases and which allow for greater mobility between cities; the Scientist needs only four cards of a particular disease to cure it instead of the normal five—but the diseases are spreading quickly and time is running out. If one or more diseases spreads beyond recovery or if too much time elapses, the players all lose. If they cure the four diseases, they all win!
The Pandemic Series
Pandemic is the first game in the Pandemic series.The 2013 edition of Pandemic includes two new characters—the Contingency Planner and the Quarantine Specialist—not available in earlier editions of the game.
2-4 players|Age 8+|Playing time: 45 minutes
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Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 (Black)
Embark on an epic adventure to bring humanity back from the brink of extinction in this standalone follow-up to the acclaimed Pandemic Legacy: Season 1. Black and Yellow Editions have variant covers; game contents are the same.
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (Red)
Actions have consequences from one game to the next as you strive to avert global disaster in this stand-alone epic twist on Pandemic. Red and Blue Editions have variant covers; game contents are the same
Pandemic: The Cure Board Game
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Pandemic: Rising Tide Board Game
Pandemic: Rising Tide is a stand-alone game in the Pandemic series. You and your fellow players are Dutch civil officials trying to keep the ever- encroaching waters at bay. Can you control the water flow long enough to build the modern hydraulic structures that will help you defend against the flood?
A cooperative game for 2–5 players, ages 8 and up. 45-60 minutes
Flooding from North Sea storms and overflowing rivers constantly endanger the Netherlands. With one quarter of its land reclaimed from the sea—or below sea level—the Dutch have long depended on dikes and wind-powered pumps (windmills) to keep them safe.
Now, as their population expands with the dawn of the Industrial Age, it is up to you to build the needed canals, dams, and delta works to protect them from the rising tide.
All players win or lose together. The goal is to construct 4 modern hydraulic structures to defend against floods.


The Buccaneers aren't in the market for another quarterback at the moment, they'd just like the one they have to stay on the field.
And according to coach Dirk Koetter, Jameis Winston is talking to his elders in an effort to find out how to become more durable.
Winston missed three games last year with a shoulder problem, and was limited by that injury in other games.
Figuring out a way to stay well over a long season would certainly help, but he also needs to become more consistent when he's out there. Toward that end, he's been getting extra work in with wide receiver Mike Evans, going to Texas A&M for some throwing sessions before the Bucs offseason program starts.
"I think if I'd be putting that jacket on right now I'd probably puke," Widmer said, via Jon Maletz of the Bozeman Chronicle. "I don't think I'd be able to shake a hand. And that's why I'm doing it this way; I don't want to make some political statement right in the middle of their party and take advantage of some very nice people.
His playing career was ended by a back problem, but he's dealing with much more than that now. Widmer said he's suffering from a number of problems which he believes are related to concussions, and doesn't want that to happen to others. He knows trying to derail the most powerful sports industry in the United States won't be effective, but he does with he could share his message to convince parents to delay participation in full contact tackle football until the senior year of high school.


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What happened in The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore - Recaptains
The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore
Title: The Rise of Nine
Author: Pittacus Lore
Series: Lorien Legacies #3
- I Am Number Four (2010)
- The Power of Six (2011)
- The Rise of Nine (2012)
- The Fall of Five (2013)
- The Revenge of Seven (2014)
- The Fate of Ten (2015)
- Untitled (2016)
The Mogadorians who destroyed the planet Lorien continue to hunt down the Garde, the small group of Loric survivors who have taken refuge on Earth. The Garde must come together. They are Lorien and Earth's only hope.
During the dangerous mission at the Mogadorian base in West Virginia, John found and rescued Nine. But even with their combined powers, special abilities known as Legacies, the pair barely escaped with their lives—and they lost Sam in the process.
In order to save our world and their own, John and Nine must join forces with Six and Seven who have been battling the Mogadorians in Spain, and who are now trying to locate Number Eight in India.
Power in numbers will save us all.
Read a full summary of The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore below. If you can't remember what happened in The Rise of Nine and you need a refresher, then you're in the right place.
Marina (Seven), Six and Ella (Ten)
Marina, Six and Ella travel to India with Ella's cepan, where they find Eight pretending to be the Hindu god Vishnu, in the Himalayas. They learn his guardian is dead and that he can teleport, which they want to use to get to America and John. However, they are attacked by Mogs and Ella's cepan dies and they teleport in panic, causing Six to end up alone in New Mexico and the rest somewhere else. Six is captured by the FBI and meets Sarah Hart, John's GF, who turns into the leader of the Mogs. HALP. Marina and Ella meet up with John and Nine and get into the cave together…
John (Four) and Nine
John and Nine are captured by the FBI and manage to escape while "killing" annoying Agent Walker. They go to Nine's safe house in Chicago where they're both very annoying and try to kill the other and stuff. Then they have a dream (Ella's telepathy) telling them to go to New Mexico and they do. They meet the other members of the guard and go into the cave, where they meet Sarah AND Agent Walker. Also, Setrakus Ra has turned Six into stone and pretends to be her. Eight teleports to her to hug her but gets stabbed. Their legacies are taken away and eventually given back and Marina heals everyone, but the Mogs disappear.
What happened in The Rise of Nine?
Marina, Ella, Crayton (Ella's guardian) and Six are on the plane to India, where apparently another member of the guard lives. In India, they are picked up by followers who claim Number Eight is the Hindu god Vishnu. They bring them to Eight, who lives in the Himalayas.
Before they arrive, however, they are attacked by an organization that wants to kill Number Eight. Naturally, they escape. But before they meet him, Six, Marina and Ella have to deal with three of Eight's transformations, to see if they're really Lorien.
They are, obviously, and Eight tells them how his guardian was killed after being betrayed by a human he loved. The Mogs took Eight's chest, but then Marina finds it at the bottom of the lake. Eight has been living in the mountains since.
One of his legacies is teleportation, and they want to use it to get to America and Four. They then travel to a Loric cave, where there are paintings that seem to tell the Loric's deaths. They also see a painting where Eight has a sword in his chest. Uh oh.
Then the Mogs attack the cave and Crayton is killed. The Loric transport, but Six ends up alone in the dessert in New Mexico, while the others end up in Somalia.
Six gets captured by FBI and is imprisoned. But when she tries to escape, she happens to see Sarah Hart, John's girlfriend, alone in a cell. Sarah and Six talk but THEN Sarah turns into Setrakus Ra (the leader of the Mogs) and Six is horrified, but gets thrown in another cel with the REAL Sarah. Phew.
Marina, Ella and Eight have trouble transporting to New Mexico, but end up there eventually. Ella's legacy is telepathy and she contacts both Six and Four, to talk about their locations.
Marina, Ella, Eight, John and Nine meet up before the Mog cave and go in together…
Four, Nine and Bernie Kosar (Four's Chimaera) are captured by the FBI, who work with the Mogs. They escape but not before learning the whereabouts of Sam and Sarah from Agent Walker, who seems to die then.
Four and Nine decide to go to Nine's safe house in Chicago where they fight in training rooms because Nine seems to be a bastard who doesn't care about Sam and Sarah, and they are all John can think about. Drama.
Anyway, they manage to get the stone tablet they found in Paradise to work and find a map which shows the other members of the guard and also the Loric ships.
John and Nine fight over where they want to go and there is more useless drama, but then they both have a dream that tells them to go to New Mexico (actually Ella using her telepathy), so they do.
They meet up with Marina, Eight and Ella and go in the cave to find Setrakus Ra…
Setrakus Ra is fighting Six and turns her into stone. The other members of the guard find Sarah, who eventually believes John is really John blah blah, and also Agent Walker, who is not dead. Sarah is told to watch her.
In the cave, they see Six standing in the middle who tells them she killed Setrakus Ra and Eight transports to her to hug her, but then Six turns INTO Setrakus Ra and stabs Eight and removes all of their legacies.
Marina tries to heal Eight while Nine fights Setrakus Ra and Four and Bernie Kosar fight the Mogs. Ella throws something at Ra that gets them their legacies back and Marina heals everyone (including Six-the-statue). But then all the Mogs have disappeared.
Lorien: The planet John and his fellow aliens (the Loric) are from. Lorien has been destroyed by the Mogadorians, and all the Loric's family members are dead. These nine are the elite, and they're meant to get back to their planet once it's safe.
Mogadore: The planet all the evil aliens are from (the Mogadorians/Mogs). We don't like them.
Legacies: Powers the aliens have.
Chimaera: A shapeshifting animal, like Bernie Kosar.
This is a full plot summary of what happened in The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore. Check out our recap list for more recaps. If you can't find what you need, you can request a recap from us!
The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies #2)
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies #1)
How was Setrakus Ra able to stab eight even though the Garde before him were still alive? I thought he wasn't able to harm them if the Garde before them weren't dead.
corinne says:
once they are together the killing-in-order charm is broken. That is one of the original reasons why they all went in different directions when coming to earth.
clayton says:
I thought John and nine would have stayed with six,four with her guardian crayton but to sad that he be dead.


Since everyone share Piano sounds lately ... I thought maybe i can share my Steinway Piano.
Note: This is a simple 1 layer Steinway Piano, noting fancy about it.
For the big Piano experts who likes Piano with 8 layers and minimum 1-2Gb in size this is not the right Piano sound for you.
For those who are tired of the onbord Grand Piano sound, this is a great piano sound to start with.
and warm sounding piano sound.(High quality samples).
Each sample is about 5.3-6 sec long and not looped.
Although it's 1 layer (1 Element) you can hear that it is different velocity depending on how hard or soft you hit the keys.
I like this Piano. I am used it since 3 years and it s really warm and sound nicely with just one layer.
Thanks a lot for sharing your effort !
Since you seems to have a lot of experience with YEM, may I ask you a question ?
Is there a possibility to trigger a sample on 'Key Off' event ? (for example, when we release a key for a piano sample, I would like to be able to play a 'Note Off' sample…).
If you want the piano a little bit brighter just increase the brightness in the Mixing console as the picuture and save it as user voice.
This is much better than the default Live! Grand Piano in my Psr-s770.
BenoitM: I think it's possible to add that function with SampleRobot, but you need to save it in Sf2-format.
Unfortunately, the YEM does not offer the possibility of key-release or note-off trigger samples. We've done that several times with Yamaha, but it seems to fall on deaf ears in Japan.
Its indeed strange Peter, knowing that The engine supports it..
And on the modx, there is quite a few more option onboard for sound edditing compared to yem, like articulations and legato..
This issue is familiar to Yamaha, but marketing interests seem to be in the way. Apparently you want to deliberately maintain a certain distance to the synthesizers in order to build in their own house no competitor. Too bad, because the Soundengine has loosely the potential for more and the current equipment is far from the term "workstation".
I said it many times..
Genos is the best arranger ever..
Butbits still a poor mans workstation..
Is this something related to piano only?
What does it mean 1 vs multiple layers?
I prefer the term "velocity ranges" or "strike" levels because the word "layer" often has other meanings. It all relates to "velocity switching," another topic that is heavily discussed on the Web.
The basic idea is that you want the sound for a note to be different depending upon how hard its key is struck. MIDI allows 128 distinct velocities where "velocity" is how hard the key is struck.
A different waveform (sample) is assigned to each velocity range (strike level).
As you already thought, a nine strike piano (nine velocity ranges per note) needs many more samples than a three strike or one strike piano.
Now i understand why the file size can be so big.
Here's a video about Sampling.
BBC News doesn't know the difference between Sampling and Synthesizer.


Many people, at one time or another, have had the chance to observe couples who seem to have been made for each other. To them, it appears like the law of attraction for love is in full swing and they have found their perfect match.
Of course, to some single people, this would lead them to ask, €When will I find love? Why does it seem like finding a soulmate comes naturally to other people, while others struggle through countless unsuccessful dates and meet-ups?
Here are seven simple steps to help you in finding a soulmate within mere weeks. These are based on the law of attraction for love and have been proven time and time again to be effective.
1. Be honest with yourself. Finding a soulmate begins with finding out who you are exactly. Forget about who you would want to be, not everyone can be Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt. However, only you can be who you are. It all starts with being comfortable with who you are and having a healthy sense of self-esteem. Once you are ready to accept yourself, you will also become ready to accept others in your life.
2. Be ready to meet others. Once you've learned to be honest with yourself and be comfortable in your own skin, it's time to start wanting to meet the one destined for you. The law of attraction for love states that everything depends on how strongly you want it to happen. If you sincerely want something, the Universe will make way for your wish to come true.
3. Be aware. Many soulmates are said to have an uncanny resemblance with each other. Despite superficial differences such as hair color, height or skin tone, these people have a certain chemistry that simply cannot be denied. Things like common quirks, gestures, mannerisms and even the way they say things are all signs of great compatibility between two people. Watch out for these signs when meeting potential dates. Make a picture in your mind of what your potential soulmate would be like, it's vital to know exactly every single detail of the way you want it to be.
4. Be focused. As the universe works to make your wish come true, it's easy to grow impatient when results don't come at once. Again the question of, €When will I find love?€ might haunt you until it cultivates a restless energy. Don't fall into that trap. Things are only difficult when we are unsure of what we want and do not have enough faith that things will work out. Focus on the solution instead of the issue.
5. Be free. This might sound contradictory to step 4, but it actually complements it rather than contradicts it. As you allow the Universe to help you in finding a soulmate, you should also allow yourself to go about your usual daily routine. Everything will fall into place on its own, live life normally and enjoy every waking moment.
6. Be patient. Naturally, many people would think that this is the toughest part. Waiting for good things to happen goes against everything that we have been taught when we were growing up. As time ticks by, it's so tempting to take matters into our own hands, but resist the temptation to do so. You have already set things into motion by letting the Universe act upon your wish, it's time for the law of attraction for love to do its work.
7. Be quiet. As exciting as it is to share your wishes with friends, it's better to not tell anyone that you are about to meet your soulmate. Until they come true, your deepest desires should not be shared with anyone as this might interfere with the Universe in motion for your plans. It may also disturb you from practicing the previous six steps, which could be detrimental to you finding a soulmate.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lorii Abela is a love coach and relationship expert. Men and women over 40 can count her for advice on finding true love. She uses the law of attraction as a focal point for her articles and advices. As an expat who was successful in finding her mate through the law of attraction, Lorii is able to give first hand information on what one needs to do to find true love.


Liverpool. I have never been before – nor much to the north-west unless en-route to places north of the border and the Lake District – real sin of omission of which I am not proud.
First impressions arriving by train are not good. Walking from the station to our hotel which was on the edge of the old docks and main shopping plaza was a journey back to the seventies. The scars of the war are still there in widespread dereliction, buildings with greenery sprouting from the roof and window-ledges and almost every vertical surface covered in fly-posters. This is in the very centre of the city. Our hotel – modern and comfortable - looked over boarded up windows and roofs of only few slates and exposed timbers and we were only a few hundred yards from a huge John Lewis. It was raining.
Photographs in the station show the extent of the wartime devastation: it isn't Dresden or Hamburg but not far off – and much of the city is reminiscent of places like Cologne where the famous cathedral is bracketed by run down buildings from the fifties and sixties. This and the collapse of the docks along with imperial wealth have given Liverpool a dragging sea anchor that wasn't helped by far-left government in the eighties and the centripetal pull of London and the south east over the last two decades. Its famous children, the Beatles, noticeably went to live elsewhere and never returned except for sentimental reasons.
Things are changing – but slowly and in patches. The Albert Docks with its museums, restaurants and shops is a triumph with its modernist buildings contrasting magnificently with the iconic Liverbuilding on the front. The shopping centre nearby is as windswept and anodyne as any other in England – but all the brands are there. The people are friendly and the liverbirds pretty and there are many active bars and clubs.
We spent an afternoon at the two cathedrals which dominate the skyline and are architecturally contrasting twentieth century takes on how an archbishop's seat should look. The Anglican cathedral has the longest nave of any in England and is the work of Giles Gilbert Scott who was only twenty-two when he was selected for the task of building only the third cathedral in England since the Reformation against over a hundred challengers. He was also a Catholic. He was working for someone else at the time and produced his scheme in his spare time having only designed a pipe rack before. He is principally known for both the Tate Modern's home and the Battersea Power station and was prolific if not always beautiful. I spent five years of my life living in one of his creations at school. It looked like a bunker - as does the New Bodlean library on Broad Street in Oxford. His Liverpool masterpiece is a happier creation – magnificent is not too strong a word and built with a solidity in sandstone that allows it to sit comfortably with its glorious medieval counterparts.
The Metropolitan Catholic cathedral was conceived to serve one of the largest catholic populations in England – many of them Irish refugees from the famine in Ireland. It took a long time to get out of the ground principally because the mainly working class congregation was very poor and the money was spent on education and other more pressing social needs. When the hierarchy finally got round to commissioning Lutyens in the early twentieth century it was on the site of much misery – the workhouse which had once housed nearly four thousand indigents. His design was extraordinary in scale. It would have been the largest cathedral in the world with a dome thirty foot wider than that of St Peter's in Rome – almost dwarfing its Anglican neighbour. The main thing that strikes you about it, apart from the scale, is that it is as if Lutyens had taken the Catholic Westminster Cathedral – a Byzantine inspired creation – and dumped the dome of St Paul's on top of it. Cost and two world wars got in the way but the Lutyens crypt, vast in scale, did get built and is a must-see.
The final commission was won in the sixties by Frederick Gibberd who was a modernist disciple of Meis van der Rohe. His creation is pretty hideous from the outside – a concrete wigwam is one of the more kindly descriptions - and its execution with faulty or untried materials meant that it nearly disintegrated within twenty years of its completion. The interior is much happier – if not beautiful then certainly an arresting circular space bathed in multicoloured light from the John Piper stained glass surrounding the central lantern. If the Anglican cathedral is about the glory of God, the Catholic version more about the needs of his people.
I won't be moving up to Liverpool to live – not least because I already live about four hundred miles too far north and the gray skies would kill me – but I will certainly visit again.


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April 9, 2012 · 11:33 am
The Art of Dying
The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O'Rourke (Riverhead Trade, $16.00, 320 pages)
Someone once wrote: "We fear death the way children fear going into the dark." Meghan O'Rourke
There'll come a time when all your hopes are fading/ When things that seemed so very plain/ Became an awful pain/ Searching for the truth among the lying/ And answered when you've learned the art of dying… But you're still with me. George Harrison ("The Art of Dying")
Meghan O'Rourke has presented us with a serious, somber and thoughtful memoir about the grief she suffered when her mother died at the age of fifty-five. Although her mother's age is noted, one has the impression that she would have felt the same burden if her mother had lived to be 100, as O'Rourke was simply unprepared to live in a world without its (to her) most important resident. As she states so well, "One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you used to be when the lost one was alive… One night (my brother) Liam said to me, as we were driving home from my dad's to Brooklyn, 'I am not as sad as I was, but the thing is, it's just less fun and good without her.'"
In order to deal with her pain, O'Rourke conducted a personal study of death, the standard fear of it, religious beliefs and the traditions surrounding it, and the vast amount of research that's been done on the human grieving process. She even addresses the matter of grief in animal colonies. One discovery she made in the process is that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' work on the stages of grief has often been misunderstood. These were intended to represent the stages that the chronically ill pass through, not the stages that mourners – those left alive – go through.
O'Rourke is at her best when she discusses her own fears with the reader. She has been afraid since childhood of the notion of death and yet it remained an abstract – if still frightening – notion up until her mother's passing. Then her grief became all-consuming, and it became something that she could not put aside in order to live a "normal" life. Grief, in a sense, made her crazy for a period of time but it also brought with it some very valuable lessons – the chief among them being that one has to focus on death in order to truly appreciate life. As O'Rourke's father told her several months after his wife's death, he had always focused on what he didn't have; now he had learned to appreciate what he did possess in the world and the universe.
After a loss you have to learn to believe the dead one is dead. It doesn't come naturally.
There's a sense of accepting humbleness that permeates O'Rourke's account. Although she was raised as a Catholic, she refers numerous times to Buddhism. If there's a weakness in the telling, it's a factor that naturally affects most memoirs, a tendency to make one's own life sound more important than that of the others that share the planet with the writer. And, like Julie Metz in Perfection, O'Rourke tends to tell her readers more than they would actually want to know about her social (meaning sexual) life.
At one point, O'Rourke comes off as strangely naive when it comes to social relationships. At the time that her mother died (at Christmas), an old boyfriend – whom she once dropped without the benefit of an explanation – comes back into her life, and she wonders why, "…he always seemed to be holding back – why, I did not know." The reader wants to scream back at her, "Because you dumped him when you went away to college!" (The ex was simply acting like a normal, scarred, self-protective human being.)
But these are minor points, because O'Rourke succeeds quite well in making us examine death as something both micro and macro; internal and external. It is something that must be fully understood before we can make realistic choices about what is key in our lives. In her almost philosophical approach to examining death and dying, she has written not only a monumental love story for the person who went missing in her life, she has also placed death in its natural and proper context.
(I think I wanted to grow up to be my mother, and it was confusing to me that she already was her.)
This is, in the end, a work about acceptance – the good with the bad – life continuing on through death, the sudden eclipse of a life and eternal love. O'Rourke masterfully teaches us about the art of dying, a matter for both hearts and heads (minds).
Very, very well done. Highly recommended.
A review copy was provided by the publisher. The Long Goodbye: A Memoir was released as a trade paperback book on April 5, 2012. "We feel our own grief, past and potential, as O'Rourke grapples with hers… Now her book can provide similar comfort for others." The Washington Post
"And life flows on within you and without you…" George Harrison ("Love You To")
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Riverhead Books is releasing two books, a memoir and a nonfiction book about a personal obsession, on April 14, 2011. You will have to wait until then to buy and read them, but you can try right now to win a galley copy of these books. Based on the responses received to this giveaway, Munchy the cat may decide to give one galley each to two readers, or both of them to one lucky reader. (These galleys are pre-publication paperback versions of books that will be released in hardbound form.)
The first of the two books is a memoir, The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke. Here is the official synopsis:
What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother's death, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief – its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies – an endeavor that ultimately produced this book. With poignant lyricism and unswerving candor, O'Rourke captures the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. The Long Goodbye is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.
"The Long Goodbye is emotionally acute, strikingly empathetic, thorough and unstintingly intellectual… and elegantly wrought. …It's above all a useful book, for life — the good bits and the sad ones, too." Richard Ford
Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the award-winning book of poems, Halflife. She is a culture critic for Slate.
The second book is The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure, subtitled My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie. Here's a summary:
Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder – a fantastic realm of fiction, history and places she's never been yet somehow knows by heart. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family – looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota – and immerses herself in all things Little House. This is a loving, irreverent, spirited tribute to a series of books that have inspired generations of American women. The Wilder Life is also a story about what happens when we reconnect with our childhood touchstones – and find that our old love has only deepened.
Wendy McClure is the author of I'm Not the New Me.
To enter this giveaway, please provide your answer to this question: Which of these books would you like to win, and why? You can post your response here (with your name and an e-mail address), or you can choose to send an e-mail with your answer to Josephsreviews@gmail.com . This will count as a first entry. For a second entry, give us the title and author of the very best or very worst book that you've read in 2010-2011, and explain why you loved it or hated it.
In order to be eligible to win a galley in this giveaway, you must live in the continental United States and be able to supply a residential mailing address. You have until Thursday, April 14, 2011 at midnight PST to submit your entry or entries. Munchy will use his feline instincts and judgment to pick the winner or winners. The winner(s) will be contacted via e-mail.
As always, be careful out there. Good luck and good reading!
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Common sealse merge and bask out onto rocky shores, mud flats and sandy beaches. They may also inhabit fresh water. Travel is usually within 20km of the the shore.
The common seal is a feeder of opportunity hunting fish, molluscs and crustaceans. They make short regular dives, usually to >100m.
Mating and Courtship take place underwater , females give birth to a single pup. The pup is born in an advanced state of development, and can crawl and swim within a few hours of birth. Mothers will mate again immediately after weaning.


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The end of the transition period will bring about additional layers of complexity for UK organisations' compliance with data protection law. The relevant changes will come into force at 11pm on 31 December 2020. Some of them will apply to all UK organisations, for example in relation to cross-border transfers of personal data and the requirements to update data protection documentation. Others will be specific to those organisations that have presence in the EU or carry out certain activities involving EU individuals. In this article, we look at what is changing and how UK organisations should prepare.
The extent of the changes will depend on whether the European Commission grants the UK an adequacy decision before the end of the transition period. Adequacy decisions are granted to those countries outside the EEA, which the European Commission deems as providing an essentially equivalent level of protection for EU personal data. An adequacy decision would be the best-case scenario for UK organisations, as it would allow for the free flow of personal data from the EEA to the UK to continue, eliminating a significant burden of additional compliance and related costs.
Given that securing an adequacy decision before the end of the transition period seems increasingly unlikely, UK organisations should continue their preparations for a non-adequacy scenario.
What is changing (and what is not)
Law: three different data protection regimes
The UK GDPR
The GDPR will be retained in domestic law at the end of the transition period as the 'UK GDPR' and will apply to all UK organisations processing personal data. The Data Protection Act 2018, which introduced the GDPR framework, will remain in place, as will the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. From this perspective the day-to-day- data protection obligations on UK organisations will hardly change.
The EU GDPR
The GDPR will continue to apply in EU Member States and will be referred to as the EU GDPR from 1 January 2021. The EU GDPR will apply to some UK organisations with links to the EU (i.e. with an establishment in the EU or those that process personal data of EU individuals when offering them goods or services or monitoring their behaviour). These organisations will have to comply with both the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR. The processing of UK personal data will be covered by the UK data protection law and EU data processing activities will be governed by the EU GDPR (and the relevant national data protection laws).
'EU legacy data'
Additionally, in the no-adequacy scenario, the Withdrawal Agreement grants special protection to non-UK citizens' personal data which was transferred to the UK before the end of the transition period (or will be processed pursuant to the Withdrawal Agreement). Such 'EU legacy data' will have to be processed in accordance with the GDPR as in force on 31 December 2020 and any new caselaw from the European Court of Justice may continue to apply.
This will put UK organisations in a complicated situation, where they will be legally obliged to process different categories of personal data under effectively three different legal regimes (UK law, EU law, and EU law as on 31 December 2020). Initially, the practical consequences will be limited as UK data protection law will remain essentially aligned with EU law (in terms of data subjects' rights, principles and obligations on organisations processing data). However, the UK will have the independence to keep its data protection framework under review, meaning that over time it may diverge from the European law. If the UK law were to diverge substantively from the EU GDPR, this application of A recent report from UCL European Institute estimates that post-Brexit restrictions to EEA-UK personal data flows in no adequacy scenario may cost UK organisations on aggregate between £1 and £1.6bn. These costs could be especially threatening to small and medium enterprises, who will be the least well-resourced to deal with the additional compliance burden.
UK's status as a third country and impact on personal data flows
At the end of the transition period, the UK will become a 'third country' in relation to the EEA and in the absence of an adequacy decision, the UK will officially become an unsafe jurisdiction for EU personal data. Personal data flows between the EEA and the UK will become 'restricted transfers' under the EU GDPR and the UK GDPR. The UK government has confirmed that personal data flows from the UK to EEA will not require any additional safeguards (as part of a provisional 'adequacy decision') and there will be no changes to the way organisations send personal data to the EEA. The EU GDPR's restrictions on the free flow of personal data will, however, apply to data transfers from the EEA to the UK. This means that unless a derogation applies (which may be the case only in very limited circumstances), additional safeguards will be required to send personal data from the EEU to the UK. This new compliance burden will fall on EU data exporters, but UK organisations will be required to cooperate to ensure that personal data can continue to flow lawfully.
For most organisations, unless a derogation applies, the best (or the only) way to keep data flowing is by signing the standard contractual clauses (SCCs) adopted by the European Commission. In light of the CJEU ruling in the Schrems II case in July this year, SCC will need to be accompanied by a 'data transfer impact assessment' and on the basis of such an assessment, organisations may need to put in place additional technical, contractual or organisational safeguards. For more information on additional measures required to legitimise international transfers of personal data and the new (improved) SCCs expected to be finalised by the European Commission at the beginning of 2021, please see our article 'Changes to international data transfers' here.
The ICO will remain the supervisory authority in the UK. However, to the extent that the EU GDPR will apply to the UK organisations (see above), that processing governed by the EU GDPR will be supervised by a relevant European data protection regulator. It means that at the end of the transition period, some UK organisation processing EU personal data may find themselves exposed to regulatory scrutiny of multiple national regulators. This may include enforcement actions from both the ICO and its European counterparts. If, for example, a UK organisation suffers a personal data breach, which affects the UK and European data, both the ICO and the relevant European regulator(s) may need to be notified. Where a UK charity has establishments in more than one EU country, it will need to decide which European regulator should be its 'lead supervisory authority'.
EU Representative (Article 27 GDPR)
A separate compliance requirement, applicable to some of those UK organisations that will need to comply with the EU GDPR, is the 'representative obligation'. Article 27 of the GDPR stipulates that organisations which are not established in the EU but offer goods and services to EU citizens (even for free) or monitor their behaviour (for example, through cookies and other online trackers), must have a 'representative in the Union' unless an exemption (for occasional, low risk processing) applies. This requirement will apply even if the UK is granted adequacy recognition. In practice, it means that after the transition period, many UK organisations that systematically process EU personal data, may need to appoint a representative with an EU postal address, who can correspond with EU regulators and data subjects. This will impose an additional burden on many smaller organisations without an international presence.
What action do you need to consider now?
The impact of Brexit on UK organisations' data protection compliance will differ depending on the nature of their links with the EU.
All UK organisations will need to:
Identify flows of personal data from the EEA (e.g. from their service providers and partners),
engage with the EEA counterparts, consider if they can rely on derogations under the EU GDPR for any transfers of personal data to the UK (this will be the case only in very limited circumstances) and if not, implement safeguards required to legitimise EEA - UK data transfers (SCCs and, if required, additional measures).
Update relevant data protection documentation (for example privacy notices, privacy policies and/or protocols, records of processing and DPIAs) to implement any (mainly minor) changes that will be required at the end of the transition period. For example, references to EU legislation will need to be replaced with references to the new UK legislation and where relevant, privacy notices will need to include details of a representative in the EU.
Be aware that special rules may apply to personal data of 'non-UK citizens' processed up to the end of the transition period or processed pursuant to the Withdrawal Agreement ('EU legacy data').
We have produced a Brexit readiness tool for organisations which can be found here.
In addition to the above, UK organisations with a certain presence in the EU:
Will need to assess if post-Brexit, their processing of EU personal data will trigger the application of EU data protection laws and how to satisfy any new requirements.
They should assess which national regulators will supervise their processing activities. They should be cognisant to the fact that in some cases, e.g. in case of a cross-border data breach, they will need to liaise with multiple supervisory authorities. It may be prudent to re-assess their risks and to amend their internal procedures and training.
Organisations with establishments in a few European countries will need to select a 'Lead Supervisory Authority' in the EU.
Organisations that don't have an establishment in the EU might need to appoint a representative in the EU, unless an exemption (for occasional, low level risk processing) applies
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Foo Fighters "Greatest Hits" 2LP
Format: 2LP, gatefold cover
Label: Roswell Records/RCA
Country: EU
Almost 15 years on from their debut, Foo Fighters deliver their first Greatest Hits, a 15-track (16 if the double dip on "Everlong" counts) retrospective covering their six albums from 1995 to 2007.
Greatest Hits isn't arranged chronologically, which isn't a detriment; if anything, skipping through the years emphasizes just how consistent the Foos have been, always delivering oversized rock & roll where the hooks are as big as the guitars. The only exceptions to the rule are the two lo-fi cuts "Big Me" and "This Is a Call," with "I'll Stick Around" qualifying as this comp's inexplicable omission ("Walking After You," "DOA," "Stacked Actors," and "No Way Back" all also didn't make the cut), plucked from their 1995 debut, where the band was only Dave Grohl recording at home. Apart from this pair of tunes, this is all muscular, melodic modern rock, the kind that Foo Fighters almost patented, and if their consistency has occasionally made their albums blend together, it does result in one strong hits collection.
Best of You
Everlong
Big Me
Long Road To Ruin
This Is a Call
Skin And Bones
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