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The eleven best Australian essays of the past 3,533 days
By Dean Biron
It begins with the admission that my entire life is a facade. I teach but am not a teacher, write but am not a writer, edit but am not an editor, take photographs but am not a photographer. On occasion I have attempted to make art or play music, yet I am the mere simulacrum of an artist, the bare chalk outline of a musician. Moreover, I hold no claim to scholarly influence, nor do I pretend to boast any kind of public reputation. The ultimate confirmation of this – if you enter my name into Wikipedia, it responds: Did you mean: dead bison?
At first blush, this history of self-deceit and insignificance disqualifies me from passing judgement on contemporary Australian writing. Developing catalogues of superior texts has traditionally been about the exercise of power: the anointed few endorse a select range of monuments, excluding countless others, both known and unknown. It is assumed that to evaluate any field first requires unerring self-assurance as to one's own authority within it. Indulging in such 'debaucheries of judiciousness' – Northrop Frye's quaint term for critical value judgements – surely requires unquestioned cultural competence, not the kind of gauche sensibility and frailty of character routinely ascribed to those at the outskirts of the literary scene.
Yet here I would offer a counterargument: only by starting from a position of utter irrelevance can one hope to be liberated from the unseemly struggles for dominance that have enveloped cultural inventory-taking, both in Australia and elsewhere. I do not see myself as so different from those learned anthologisers who grope around blindly in the interminable library of cyberspace. Like me, they are overwhelmed by choice; like them, I try to deal with the finitude of time by creating clumsy canons to systematise my reading. Perhaps being several steps removed from a literary realm that the unwittingly serpentine Les Murray termed 'a nest of vipers' actually puts one in prime position to assess it.
My obsession with orders of excellence dates back to Spin magazine's terrifically whimsical 'Twenty-five Greatest Albums of All Time' edition of 1989: James Brown's Sex Machine at number one, Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime at twenty-five, and not a Beatle in sight. Though since then tracking an increasingly conventional contemporary music canon has led mostly to despondency, I have found myself unable to stop doing so.
Later I became fascinated with those high priests of literature who take critical evaluation to absurdly particular lengths. What novice would not be intimidated by the audacity of the first sentence of FR Leavis's The Great Tradition: the 'great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad'? Austen, Eliot, James and Conrad as the great English novelists, and Dickens, Hardy and Woolf be damned? How could a neophyte quarrel with Harold Bloom's divine team selection of Shakespeare as playmaker, a Dante-Chaucer-Cervantes front three, Henrik Ibsen and Pablo Neruda on the substitutes' bench, and Thea Astley and Randolph Stow watching from the stands?
Still, there are other ways into that game. One is suggested by Edward Said's notion of the critical nomad, a wanderer who remains 'essentially between homes'. This is the critic who perpetually seeks expertise but never expects to attain it. My own doomed quest for truth, undertaken in Said's shadow, becomes less a search for works of genius to be deified than a starting point from which to branch out.
When it comes to writing, I am dedicated, if not to say limited, to the essay form. To paraphrase Seinfeld's Frank Costanza, my journalism is mushy, my poems oily, my attempts at short stories a disgrace to this house. In striving for some vestige of relevance, the ensuing list is therefore a paean to the type.
Doubtless readers will about now be asking how someone who does not know their arse from their elbow literary-wise gets to decide exactly what that type is. The best I can come up with is to try, Kurt Schwitters-like, to paste together a few found fragments in the hope of stumbling across some kind of aesthetic coherency.
The Oxford English Dictionary calls the essay 'a short piece of writing on a particular subject'. (Not a bad start, if a bit vague.) It goes on to note that its origins are 'to weigh up' or 'to try'. (A little better.) Leslie Jamison, introducing a collection of the things, writes that the essay 'investigates its own seams'. (Wish I had said that.) Brian Dillon, in his recent book Essayism, asserts that the essay is 'diverse and several – it teems'. (Now we are really getting somewhere.) Rebecca Solnit, one of the hottest properties in essay writing today, reckons that the format is presently 'in a golden age'. (Without explaining exactly what that format is.)
Then there is LC Rodd, who, in his 1968 work The Australian Essay, helpfully declares that 'the true essay has the air of having grown like a flower, rather than of having been put out with the cat and the milk bottles in the course of ordinary living'. To this I add possibly the worst definition ever – from a New York Times article titled 'How to Write a Good College Application Essay' – which advises prospective writers that 'the essay is your megaphone', alongside one of the more helpful, attributed by Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan to his old English teacher, who told him that 'the point of an essay is to amuse, educate and express something personal'. And, for Robert Dessaix, the essay drifts from 'the lament or playful doodle towards setting fire to the furniture'.
To summarise: the contemporary essay is most often nonfictional, most commonly shortish, quite possibly personal, quite likely expository, rather probably argumentative, and with luck aesthetically pleasing; it is rarely confused with the short story, even less regularly mistaken for poetry, and arguably distinct from blogs and podcasts, though do not ask me how. So are you closer to understanding exactly what an essay is yet? No, me either.
In early 2018, Black Inc., for two decades the publisher of the annual Best Australian Essays compilation, announced that it was revamping – that is, discontinuing – the series. What follows is an arbitrary yet sincere attempt to fill the void left by the series' demise: a quasi-canon celebrating recent short nonfiction in all of its weird, manifold glory.
'The Limit of the World' by Kerryn Goldsworthy (The Saturday Paper, 2017)
Always begin with a failure.
Writing ought to combine perpetual self-doubt with a bare smattering of hubris, misplaced or otherwise. To write, you should be just arrogant enough to believe yourself capable – in your better moments – of outdoing almost anybody. At the same time, you must always be ready to acknowledge writerly skill beyond your own purview.
When I was first confronted with this Horne Prize-winning essay, my instinct was to wish a pox upon the author and her kin, pets included. That was because I had entered for the same competition, with a creation I was convinced deserved to win. Such pretension is acceptable so long as one knows when to jettison it and face reality. And the reality is that I would give up ragù alla Bolognese and Baudelaire to be able to construct something this compelling. 'The Limit of the World' interweaves many of the attributes that one imagines a great essay might contain: clarity, subtlety, modesty, and personal observations that transfer to broader insights. Conceivably one might in time reach this level, but for now Goldsworthy has totally fucking outclassed the likes of me.
You admit it; you get on with it.
'Eulogy for Nigger' by David Bradley (TriQuarterly, 2014)
Some might query why an essay by an American author who won the UK's prestigious Notting Hill Prize is included here. However, that would be to make certain assumptions as to what constitutes an Australian essay. This was not written by an Australian. It is not explicitly about Australia. Yet it sure as heck requires being read in Australia.
'Eulogy for Nigger' is by turns elegiac, astute, hilarious and tragic. Bradley's themes are universal: for instance, what he sees as 'Nigger's vital signs' – higher unemployment, lower incomes, more frequent arrests, rampant discrimination and patronising whiteys – readily translate to Australia and its First Nations. Bradley has said that part of his motivation was to question why 'we make war on symbols rather than dealing with underlying issues'. By the end, in fear of being lynched, 'Nigger' leaps from a balcony, only to escape unscathed because he 'lands on an immigrant'. Bradley lays bare those deep-seated social issues in the best way possible – by making formidable art.
The power of this weakens me even as it sustains me. It is so extraordinary that it entirely obliterated my writerly self-confidence. Or it would have done if I had any self-confidence.
'One Plot, at Most' by Jane Rawson (Overland, 2018)
There is no such thing as a writer. There are only readers who write. Great readers are more essential than great authors, mainly because the latter group is subsumed by the former. Some of the foremost essays and stories give a sense of having been written by an ardent reader who got unexpectedly sidetracked into writing.
Rawson's audacious essay on the Australian short story namechecks Barbara Baynton, Truman Capote, Angela Carter and Donald Barthelme, among others. It feels a bit like a short story that turned into an essay by accident, which is apt as the distinction between the two is fuzzier than we tend to allow. Rawson mostly casts herself as victim of her own dry wit – 'In December 2017, a short story from the New Yorker went viral. I was off Twitter at the time, sulking about not getting on any best-books-of-the-year lists, so I missed it' – and remains refreshingly aware that her work is but another speck of dust in an ever-expanding multiverse of published writing.
'One plot, at most' is something that only a great reader could write.
'Against Progress: Dreams, Nightmares and the Meaning of Abbott' by Joshua Mostafa (Southerly, 2014)
I am taken with the notion of this list having a ripple effect: if, as a consequence of my championing these texts, at least one person seeks them out, then good writing will be more widely read. Of course, such a hope first depends on somebody reading this.
Nonetheless, choosing to read something is one thing, being able to read it quite another. Few of the essays discussed here are freely available; most reside in publications that are, by financial necessity, hidden behind paywalls. Other than by purchasing a subscription to every single one, only those in universities will likely have access to them all.
'Against Progress' is a quasi-academic essay that too many people will never be able to access, let alone read. Mostafa's is a voice of reason: on grave matters like capitalist-induced environmental ruin he makes statements that are both compellingly simple – 'the plundering of the earth on which our current way of life depends cannot go on indefinitely' – and simply compelling – 'burning the petrified remains of the last mass extinction will hasten the onset of the next.'
When government financing of arts and culture is but a skerrick of that spent on defence, intelligent writing of this calibre is worth more than any number of tanks or submarines.
'The Little Murders Sunset?' by Kareena Dhaliwal (Voiceworks, 2017)
The best part of becoming a self-appointed appraiser of literature is the enforced expansion of one's reading horizons. Without wanting to imitate those critics who infer having studied every single contender in their quest to isolate greatness, I undertook to at least try.
One happy consequence of these explorations was discovering Voiceworks, a periodical featuring 'exciting new writing and art by young Australians [under twenty-five]'. I had not previously paid heed to the publication because (a) as I couldn't write shit until well beyond the age of twenty-five, I naturally assumed that condition to be ubiquitous, and (b) I am way too old to publish anything there. It turns out that a sadder case of reader-as-moron is barely imaginable, as even a fleeting survey of the nonfiction category in Voiceworks unveils much first-rate stuff.
Dhaliwal is a mere twenty-one years old and already has a cooler two-sentence biography than I could ever come up with. Her essay reflects on working in the theatre, as well as race, gender and other crucial issues, all considered with a combination of youthful exuberance and an absurdly well-developed prose style that makes one sick with envy.
'Only Women Bleed' by Rebecca Harkins-Cross (The Lifted Brow, 2017)
I should at this juncture admit to a clear bias in my selections so far. As prominent neo-conservative economist Edward Nell once stated, 'adventure, imagination and boldness in the taking of risks … are the central elements in the make-up of the entrepreneur, true creator of the world in which we live today.' Reactionaries across Australia certainly have taken this creed to heart, with scarcely anyone to the right of John Hewson prepared to eschew capitalism for aesthetics to the point of creating any short nonfiction worth reading.
Doubtless I exaggerate. There must be a few half-decent conservative writers out there somewhere, right? But for now, I would rather concern myself with reflective radicals like Harkins-Cross, whose 'Only Women Bleed' is an explosion of bodily paroxysms that features more intricate wordplay and acute perception than a year-long subscription to Quadrant could furnish.
'This Connected Life' by Katharine Murphy (Meanjin, 2013)
I planned on continuing this theme by way of a chicken-and-the-egg scenario: are moderate to left-leaning writers better essayists because they are moderate to left-leaning, or does the converse apply? Then I decided that anyone who prefers the insidious puddles of linguistic piss that the likes of Rowan Dean, Nick Cater, Janet Albrechtsen, Rebecca Weisser, Kevin Donnelly or Gerard Henderson squirt out is unlikely to be hanging around these pages to begin with. Overland readers already know that Mel Campbell, Jacqueline Maley, Benjamin Law, Kim Mahood, Jeff Sparrow, Bridie Jabour, Julian Burnside, Ben Brooker, etc. bear scrutiny in a way that the right's almost universally dishwater prose stylists do not.
A political commentator who theoretically straddles the line between progressive and conservative, Murphy specialises in the kind of high-pressure journalism that I find impossibly daunting. This composition proves Murphy also capable of producing high-quality nonfiction of the less-rushed variety, though it probably took her half the time that I spent over this sputtering paragraph alone.
'Untitled' by Hugo Wilcken (The Wire, 2009)
Short nonfiction appears in all kinds of places and comes in all sorts of categories, including sometimes in a regular format devised by a specific publication. The 'epiphanies' column from the 2000s heyday of The Wire magazine (subtitled 'adventures in modern music') was a favourite of mine in this monthly-series mode. Jace Clayton on Japanese noise, Geeta Dayal on drone, Simon Fisher Turner on field recordings, Ian McMillan on Captain Beefheart, and Mike Barnes on the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir were all mini-essays I revered for both their inventiveness and subject matter.
Wilcken's account of how Manchester band Joy Division fired imaginings of Britain in a teenager lounging in early 80s Sydney was perhaps the best of all. This expatriate narrative – by 2009 the author was living in Europe but dreaming of Australia – is evocative of the work of Robert Hughes. And, as with Hughes, this first experience of Wilcken set me off in pursuit of the rest of his oeuvre, which I guess is another function of exceptional essays.
'The 90s – Why You Had to Be There' by Sally Breen (The Conversation, 2017)
To revel in the durability of the essay while simultaneously witnessing the attempted annihilation of the form, look no further than the university. Every year millions of the things are churned out at undergraduate level, and if many are babbling pieces of batshit, why blame the students when too often their teachers trivialise written expression and narrative ability, insisting instead that written work be graded chiefly on 'content'?
Meanwhile, the scholarly publishing mill grinds on with dismal obstinacy. Yet rather than devouring the hand that sportingly tosses crumbs at my faltering career, I ought instead testify that there are countless academics out there who – against all odds – write at the highest levels under the most testing of conditions. Breen's chic, ravishingly crafted, consistently pleasurable essay provides a perfect example of this.
'Our Politics Is a Dreadful Black Comedy' by Richard Flanagan (Guardian Australia, 2018)
One reads to gain knowledge, along the way making inevitable judgements on what has been read. I have one main evaluative criteria: does the text bear re-reading? In a cultural epoch characterised by transience, consumers flitting dragonfly-like from one thing to the next, to be impressed by a piece of writing enough to want to return to it seems a big thing.
Upon reading Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North, it immediately joined That Deadman Dance, It's Raining in Mango, Tourmaline, Tirra Lirra by the River and a few others as Australian novels that I will return to for the rest of my life. This recent essay – originally a speech, but it works just as well on the page – pushes Flanagan even higher in my internal hierarchy of authors. Our politics have hardly become less black or comedic since – indeed, the candidate said to embody the traits of 'simplicity as a national virtue' and 'language unimpeded by the necessity for thought' has lately found himself elevated to prime minister. Yet it makes it easier to deal with all the imbecility knowing there is someone out there capable of summing it all up in a couple of thousand brutally brilliant words.
As a concession to the inadequacy of a selection process that has bypassed myriad worthy candidates, my eleventh and final choice is to make no choice. Instead, I note some further contenders. For excellence in longer-form nonfiction, Mungo MacCallum's Quarterly Essay 'Girt by Sea' from 2002 would have been included had it not missed the cut-off date (even though I had no idea what the cut-off date was). Rebecca Giggs' 'Whale Fall' (Granta, 2016) is as good as anything that I read, but it has already been anthologised elsewhere and young writers tend to be greedy enough for fame without my encouraging more. Carmen Lawrence's 'We Are Destroying the Joint' (Destroying the Joint, 2013) is so logically argued that I questioned whether it was written by a politician. Chris Fleming's dazzling 'On Drugs: Part II' (Sydney Review of Books, 2015) was omitted because I once had a drink with the author (sycophantism is rife in the Australian writing community and so I baulked at contributing to it here). Jesse Paris-Jourdan's 'Shit City' and Rhea Bhagat's 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love' were additional cases from Voiceworks of irritatingly talented young people writing at a level of cogency most only dream of achieving.
Then there is Safdar Ahmed's 'Villawood' (The Shipping News, 2015), an impressive reminder that the essay now crosses over into various graphic formats. It overlaps with memoir, too, and for those who, like me, prefer terser essays that disrupt the genre and are only incidentally about the person's life, Hugo Race's 'The Crystal Blitz, 1981' (Overland, 2014) and Liam Pieper's 'Mistakes Were Made' (Kill Your Darlings, 2015) are spellbinding examples. Finally, to kid myself that I am right up with the zeitgeist, Martin McKenzie-Murray's 'Changing the Discourse on Suicide' (The Saturday Paper, 2018), Tim Soutphommasane's 'Race and Representation' (Griffith Review, 2018) and Anwen Crawford's review of the Spike Lee film BlacKkKlansman (Australian Book Review, 2018) enticed me long after I had sworn to stop researching and simply write this bloody thing.
To conclude, this venture into the evaluative sphere has corroborated my sense of a vigorous complexity in short-form nonfiction in this country. The rude health of the type is especially remarkable given that the essay seems often regarded as less aesthetically significant than fiction, and near inconsequential alongside actual books. (Try telling someone that you write and see if they reply, 'Really, what essays have you published lately'?)
The broad range of styles and subjects on display demonstrates to some extent a uniquely antipodean take on the modern-day essay. At the same time, though, the evident burgeoning of the form takes it way beyond parochial boundaries, situating it more properly within a global context of potent nonfiction writing in the twenty-first century. Hopefully even most real authors will agree with me on that score.
And that, pace Henry James, is the last word on the essay … until another word be written.
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Dean Biron holds a PhD from the University of New England and teaches in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology.
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Coach K's farewell tour: Duke hosts Georgia Tech as Blue Devils return from COVID-19 pause
Mike Krzyzewski's legendary coaching career is officially in its final calendar year as the No. 2 Blue Devils prepare to begin the 2022 portion of their slate with a home game against Georgia Tech on Tuesday night. Duke (11-1, 1-0 ACC) has been off since Dec. 22, when it opened league played with a 76-65 win over Virginia Tech. Since then, the Blue Devils have dealt with COVID-19 issues that kept them from playing two league games as scheduled last week.
"COVID hit our program extremely hard," Krzyzewski told reporters. "It went through most of our players and is still finishing up. It went through a lot of our staff, including our support staff."
The win over the Hokies turned into a freshman party as a trio of underclassmen combined for 35 of Duke's 44 second half points in an impressive victory over one of the team's top challengers in the conference. Setting the pace for the Blue Devils was Paolo Banchero, who scored 17 of his 23 points in the second half to lead Duke in scoring. Fellow standout freshmen Trevor Keels and AJ Griffin provided key contributions as well.
Griffin has been particularly improved as of late, averaging 12 points per game on 50% 3-point shooting over the Blue Devils' last four contests. Remarkably, the former five-star small forward has turned the basketball over just three times in 168 minutes entering the Georgia Tech game.
Krzyzewski is retiring after this season, which will be his 42nd as Duke's coach, and handing the program over to his assistant and former Duke star Jon Scheyer. As Krzyzewski's final season continues, we will update this piece with the latest tributes — and tribulations — from the farewell tour of a coaching legend.
How to watch Duke vs. Georgia Tech live
Date: Tuesday, Jan. 4 | Time: 9 p.m. ET
Location: Cameron Indoor Stadium — Durham, North Carolina
TV: ACC Network | Live stream: fuboTV (Try for free)
COVID-19 foils start of ACC play
Duke began ACC play with a 76-65 home win over Virginia Tech on Dec. 22 behind a huge second half from its key trio of freshmen. Paolo Banchero, Trevor Keels and AJ Griffin combined for 35 of the Blue Devils' 44 second half points as Duke overcame a 36-32 halftime deficit in the victory. It was a good start to conference action, but then came an unwelcome disruption.
As much of college basketball dealt with scheduling disruptions due to COVID-19 issues, the Blue Devils were among those hit by the virus. That kept them from playing their second and third league games as scheduled against Clemson and Notre Dame, meaning Duke's second ACC game didn't come until Jan. 4 against Georgia Tech.
Returning from break
Duke had a two-week hiatus between games spanning the first two weeks of December amid the final exam period for the university. But it returned with a 103-62 win over South Carolina State on Dec. 14 and followed that with a 92-67 victory over Appalachian State on Dec. 16. It was supposed to play Loyola (Maryland) on Dec. 18, but the meeting was canceled because of a COVID-19 issue within the Loyola program. Replacement opponent Cleveland State also had to cancel on Duke because of the same issue, which left the Blue Devils scrambling to find a third potential opponent for the slot. Elon agreed to play on short notice, giving Duke one final tune-up before ACC play.
The wins over South Carolina State and Appalachian State were two of the best games yet for freshman forward AJ Griffin. He made 5 of 9 attempts from 3-point range over those contests to bolster the team's perimeter shooting outlook after it struggled in that facet during the first month of the season.
Short stay at No. 1
Just one day after rising to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 on the heels of a thrilling win over Gonzaga, Duke dropped a 71-66 decision at Ohio State in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Buckeyes outscored Duke 41-23 in the second half and roared back from a 15-point deficit behind a 20-point night from sophomore big man Zed Key. Wendell Moore Jr. led the Blue Devils with 17, and Paolo Banchero added 14. But Banchero struggled in the second half, going 0-for-7 from the field in the second half.
Knocking off the Zags, rising to No. 1
Duke improved to 7-0 with an 84-81 win over No. 1 Gonzaga on Nov. 26 in front of a crowd of 20,389 at T-Mobile Arena. It was the largest crowd to ever see a basketball game in Nevada, and they were treated to a thriller. Paolo Banchero scored 20 points in the first half before dealing with cramps in the second half and going quiet. Wendell Moore Jr. picked up the slack by scoring 16 of his 20 points in the second half.
The victory improved Krzyzewski to 7-11 all-time against No. 1 ranked teams, and it catapulted the Blue Devils to No. 1 in the new set of rankings released three days later.
Getting ready for Gonzaga
Duke easily won games against Lafayette and The Citadel on Nov. 19 and Nov. 22 as it prepared to face No. 1 Gonzaga on Nov. 26. The Blue Devils beat Lafayette 88-55 behind a 23-point outing from Wendell Moore Jr. Duke beat The Citadel 107-81 behind a combined 50 points from Moore and Paolo Banchero. There was a scary moment in the Citadel game, when Bulldogs' coach Duggar Baucom collapsed on the court in the first half. He stayed overnight at Duke University Hospital and was released the afternoon after the game.
DWI charge for grandson
An otherwise sterling start to Krzyzewski's final season hit a speed bump in the early morning hours of Nov. 14, when Duke walk-on Michael Savarino, who is Krzyzewski's grandson, was arrested for suspicion of DWI. Complicating matters, Duke star freshman Paolo Banchero was a passenger in the vehicle and was cited for aiding and abetting DWI. But while Savarino was suspended, Banchero was not held out of any game action, as Krzyzewski explained "it's two different situations."
"Headlines might make it look like it's the same," he said. "It's not. I think the decisions we made are in conjunction with our authorities, my superiors."
West Point flashback
Duke played host to Army West Point on Nov. 12 in its home opener as part of the Duke Veterans Day Weekend Showcase. The Blue Devils won 82-56, but the game carried special significance because Army is where Krzyzewski both played and first served as a head coach. Between his four years as a student at Army and five as the coach, Krzyzewski spent nearly a decade of his young adult life in West Point. Army explored his history with the program in a special tribute video released before the game.
Krzyzewski's final season began on a big stage, with the Blue Devils beating Kentucky at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 9 in the Champions Classic. The venue is one of Krzyzewski's favorites, and it offered a parting gift to the legendary coach. Krzyzewski is now 34-11 all-time at Madison Square Garden, and that record will remain unchanged unless the Blue Devils end up playing in the NIT, which would be nothing short of a disaster.
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Want better leaders? Pay politicians more money.
Tell me, can you name one great leader that Australia has had? Is there an Australian leader, be it political or otherwise, that instantly springs to mind when we use the word 'great'? To be honest, I struggle to find a name.
When you look at other nations around the world, there is often a prolific leader that comes to mind. We can argue about the merits of their 'greatness', yet their name has survived the history test and become entrenched in their respective national psyche.
I think of Great Britain: Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Henry VIII, Queen Victoria.
The United States: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King.
France: Napoleon, Charles De Gaulle, Joan of Arc.
Russia: Joseph Stalin (like Hitler), Mikhail Gorbachev.
You get the picture. Rightly or wrongly, the names mentioned above belong in a league of extraordinary gentlemen, or women. There's many other names I've left out, but those mentioned above are not only well known in their respective countries but throughout the world.
Now think of Australia. Is there anyone, really, who would even come close to the prolific people mentioned above? I really doubt it. I mean, we have had leaders who stand out, but could they be considered 'great'?
Robert Menzies stood for nineteen years as this country's Prime Minister, yet his face might pop up only once or twice in any Twentieth Century textbook. Gough Whitlam has his own collection of admirers, and John Howard earned the begrudged respect of many during his near eleven years in office. But great?
What about the earlier leaders? Arthur Phillip? Lachlan Macquarie? Henry Parkes? I'd bet that many people would stare back blankly and ask the question: who? The same might be asked of this country's first Prime Minister, Edmund Barton.
So, I'm struggling. I know that Australia is a young country and does not have the benefit of time in history, yet it's interesting that not one obvious name comes to mind. Not one.
I hope that one day Australia will see a leader who leaves his or her mark not only on this nation's history, but potentially the world's. A leader that people from other countries will recognise as a great icon.
But how to get great leaders? We complain about the current crop and we repeat the same old, tired lines: they're all useless. You can't trust 'em. They're all the same. Bloody liars. Yet on the same token we scoff at the very suggestion that might actually attract better quality people to the nation's capital: money, and lots more of it.
Daily scrutiny from journalists, political opponents, colleagues, foreign diplomats, academics, students, voters.
Work seven days a week.
Be responsible for the state of the country and your party.
High job insecurity – performance subject to review from every voter in the country every three years.
Needless to say, it's a thankless role. 50 percent of the population will likely detest the leader of any political colour no matter what they do, and most often, the job will end with the ignominy of defeat at the hands of millions.
Why would a talented, charismatic, intelligent individual choose the public spotlight when they could utilise their skills in the private sector and pocket a neat seven figure salary per year?
Now before anyone even mentions it, there is of course the generous superannuation and the gold pass flights our pollies have treated themselves to over the years. Like most voters, I believe these entitlements are without merit, and they do politicians no perceptive favours in an already highly sceptical and suspicious electorate. Taxpayers should not have to fork out money for people when they are no longer in parliament. However, while they're in the job, I think it's fair enough that they be remunerated generously.
There is also the other counter argument that we want to be attracting people with altruistic minds who don't see money as the end value in everything. Fair enough, we do want people who care about their local communities and the wellbeing of their country to run for office. But we can't turn around and complain about the calibre of our leaders and expect the best when we are not prepared to pay them accordingly. Shouldn't we be prepared to reward duly those people prepared to sacrifice their private life for the better of their country?
Politicians of any colour enter the parliament with a common goal: they each have their own ideas on how to make the country better. In their own way, they're all altruistic. They are people who have dedicated their time to serving us, and like other noble professions who serve the community, they deserve our respect even though their performance might not always live up to our standards.
We are a strange lot sometimes. We complain about our political leaders, yet fail to recognise that comparative to other nations around the world, they're doing a fair job. We complain about them, but then we don't want to cough up the dough that might attract better quality applicants to the job.
So if you are not satisfied with your lot and you look at our current politicians and despair: as the old saying goes, you get what you pay for.
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You are a compelling writer and I hang of every word that is written.
You speak with such enthusiasm and power that could stop an elephant in it's tracks. You make me change my perspective every time I read your articles.
More money is never, ever, ever the answer. In fact, it's the 'mo' money' mentality that keeps giving us increasingly idiotic, financially greedy, human-rights-abusing, thuggish, profit-before-people, sociopathic, 'leaders' – and the rot has got to stop – by yesterday, if not sooner.
If anything, we need to REDUCE the insanity of political salaries (and all of their perks) down to the national minimum wage with a sharp reminder that it's an HONOUR to serve, not a free meal ticket to an excessive lifestyle, compliments of taxpayers, for the rest of their stinking, god-forsaken lives, no matter how long they choose to stay in politics (and I'm not even religious).
That's the only way we're going to begin to see the Pablo Iglesias/Jose 'Pepe' Mujica's of the world step up to the plate to govern our nation with dignity, truth, compassion and transparency.
Money corrupts. I think we've seen that the rise in political salaries in Australia over the years has proved that.
Cogitate on that for a bit, mate.
I agree with Gabrielle. More money attracts sociopaths who will ruthlessly stop at nothing to line their pockets.


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House OK's Bill On Animal Cruelty Whistleblowers
Associated Press Published: February 6, 2013
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A measure that could prevent animal-rights groups from making surreptitious videos during undercover animal cruelty investigations has passed the Wyoming House of Representatives.
The bill would make it illegal to make video or audio recordings at agricultural operations under false pretenses. It passed the House 33-27 on Tuesday and now goes to the Senate.
The bill also makes it illegal to get access to those operations under false pretenses.
The Associated Press reports that supporters say the bill would stop animal rights groups from getting agricultural jobs only to make undercover videos. They say some of those videos have been heavily edited and were misleading.
Opponents, including the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, say the bill would prevent well-meaning whistleblowers from exposing abuse.
Filed Under: animal cruelty, House, Legislature


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Shooting With The Stars: American History X Edition
Shooting With The Stars is a series where we analyze the technical basketball skill and the ins-and-outs of the basketball competitions we see in movies and television shows without any consideration for the context and overall plot.
The stakes are high and the game is crammed with four hundred years of tension. At the famous Venice Beach basketball courts where the soft white sand meets the hard concrete, we see White team versus Black team. This time around the White team starts with the handicap, and 6-8 is the starting score as a condition of the bet Derek made his new basketball rival.
In the first possession for each team, the players swing the ball around a couple of times, which leads to athletic dunks. One is a pump fake, drive and pass to a cutter for a dunk and one an unguarded alley-oop dunk. With the previous scene's heated confrontation, an objective spectator of the game would be surprised that the players have cool enough heads to pass and wait for a right read on the defense. For anyone who has played pickup, this is impressive, as usually there is a chucker, an over dribbler, or a turnover to disrupt the offensive motion.
The score is now 7-9, and it is noted in a moment of levity that Seth, a low-post player on Derek's team is not getting back on defense. Seth seems to have close to no actual basketball skill and his role is more of a mascot hype-man who unfortunately takes up a spot in the starting five.
For the White team, an unnamed player goes on a one-man fast break off a turnover. He looks down as he's dribbling the ball across court but gathers well and leans into the layup to avoid a block. After what must have been a quick defensive stop, we see Derek's team swish a 20-foot jumper on the wing to suddenly tie the score 9-9.
Next point wins. Basketball is a game of momentum and it is certainly in White team's favor. What's new?
Derek is the best player on the court. His dribble is weak with his left but strong with his right, a common shortcoming among team White's players. He makes up for it by keeping it advantageously below the waist and low to the ground. At one point he ices a defender with a Pistol Pete Maravich style move where he switches hands behind the back while two stepping into the key. He also shows his grit by taking a nasty elbow to the nose in what would be a flagrant foul in any league; then coming back to play after a sip of water seems to quickly regenerate his nose cartilage.
In the last play, Derek playing off his man and seems ready to play help defense. In a move reminiscent of another six-footer, Allen Iverson, he gets in the passing lane to swipe a pass and start a fast break. The drama ends with an out of nowhere athletic 180-spin dunk at the other end of the court. Wow.
Derek will make it to our end of the season tournament. A scout might suggest Derek try out for a community college squad to further develop his skills and continue to use his athleticism.
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Centre in Rotherham which was awarded the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2001.
In addition to his role at CRAB Studio, he continues to lecture and teach design at the Bartlett (UCL) and in various universities in Europe, Asia and the USA.
Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.


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Judah Leib Gordon.
Judah Leib Gordon (born Dec. 7, 1830, Vilnius, Lithuania died Sept. 16, 1892, St. Petersburg, Russia) (Hebrew: יהודה לייב גורדון) was among the most important Hebrew poets of the Jewish Enlightenment.
Gordon was born to well-to-do Jewish parents who owned a hotel in Vilnius . As a privileged child, he was able to study Torah with some of the great educators of the city, and soon proved to be an exceptional student. He had already mastered the entire Bible by the age of eleven, and was fluent in hundreds of pages of Talmud. Matters took a sharp turn when Gordon was fourteen, and his father went bankrupt. Unable to finance his son's education any longer, the younger Gordon began a course of independent study on one of the many study halls in the city. In just three years, he had mastered almost the entire Talmud and dozens of other religious texts. By that time, however, he was also drawn by the spirit of the Enlightenment that was sweeping across the city. He began reading secular literature and learning foreign languages, and he befriended some of the leading Enlightenment figures of the time, including Kalman Shulman and his son Michel.
With the financial situation deteriorating at home, Gordon, then twenty-two, decided it was time for him to pursue a career. He received a teaching certificate from the local rabbinical college, and became a school teacher in some of the smaller towns that housed major yeshivas, including Ponivezh and Telz . During the twenty years he spent as a teacher, he produced his most important work as a poet and author. Having an established reputation, he was invited by the Jewish community of Saint Petersburg to serve as secretary of the community and of the Society for the Spread of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia. He died in Saint Petersburg in 1892.
Much of Gordon's poetry revolves around biblical and historical themes. These include The Love of David and Michal (1857), King Zedekiah in Prison (1879), Judah's Parables (1859), David and Barzilai, Osenath, Daughter of Potiphera, From between the Lion's Teeth, and From the Depths of the Sea. The works were intended to disseminate Enlightenment values and had a profound impact on Jewish life. Many feel his romantic works lack the same militancy of his poetic works, though his advocacy resurfaces in his realistic novels. Gordon also published collections of fables, most of them translated. In works such as "Little Fables for Big Children," he continues to advocate for the adoption of Enlightenment values, as he does in his memoirs, published in the last year of his life. Among his other writing on social issues is The Point on Top of the Yod, dealing with the rights of women.
Israel and Zionism Biographies
Stanislawski, Michael: "For Whom Do I Toil?" Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry, New York/Oxford 1988.


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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 1, 2013 Human Resources, Orange County � Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the. scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice " impaired, call 711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93151 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 012890-0 DIVISION: 37 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, ' Plaintiff, VS. B. JAMES KENNEY JR., ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: B. JAMES KENNEY JR. AND SUSAN J. KENNEY 1525 Hartsburg Ln. North Aurora, IL 60542-8947 Notice is hereby given that on Fabmary 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real pmpertias at www. myorangeclark.realforenloss.com: COUNT L AS TO-DEFENDANTS, B. JAMES KENNEY JR. AND SUSAN J. KENNEY An undivided 0,6158% interest in Unit 10 of Disney's Beach Club Vfilas, a leasehold condo- minium (the "Condominium"), according to the Declaration o1 Condominium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 6531, Page 3526, Pub- lic Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 6001849.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Us Pendans must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of oreciosure in Civil NO. 2012-CA- 012890-0, now pending in the Cimuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day. of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT% FLORIDA flC: Michael N. Hutter HAEL N. HuI-rER Florida Bar No.: 850730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Telenopiar: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICETO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a parson with a disability who needs any accommodation in order tO participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resoumas, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Rodda, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this " notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less. than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. Febcuary 1, 8, 2013 L93152 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 018910-0 DIVISION: 37 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Flodda corporation, Plaintiff, VS. MAN" MC CALLUM, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: MAll" MC CALLUM AND AMY MC CALLUM 5166 Century Heights Battendorf, IA 52722 Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by alectmnic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforectoss.com: COUNT I, II AS TO DEFENDANTS, MATT MC CALLUM AND AMY MC.ALI.UM An undivided 0.0962% interest in Unit 8A of the Disney Vaca- tion Club at Disney's Board- Walk Villas, a leasehold condo- minium (the "Condominium") according to the Declaration of Condominium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 5101, Page 147, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 4012776.003) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lie Pendens meat file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2012-CA- 018910-0, now pending in the Cimuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By: Miohaai N. Hutter MICHAEL N. HU'I-I'ER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Telecopiar: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICETO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Averlue, Suite 510, Orlando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this not fication if tha time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call.711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93153 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 01891 0-0 DIVISION: 37 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, VS. MATE MC CALLUM, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: DOLORES MOLINA MISLANG 20421 Lake Canyon Dr. Walnut, CA 91789 Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.resiforecloss.com: COUNT XV, XVI AS TO DEFENDANT, DOLORES MOLINA MISLANG An undivided 0.6569% intar- eat in Unit I(T2B, of Disney's. Saratoga Springs Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Condominium") according to the Declaration of Condo-. minium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 7419, Page 4659, Public Records of Orange County, Rorida, ano all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"), (Contract No.: 7048086.000) Any person clalmin an in(erast in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Us Pendens must file a lalm within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made ursuant to the Final Judgment of oreclosure in Civil No. 2012-CA- 018910-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA I1: Michael N. Huttar CHAEL N. HUTTER Flodda Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Orlando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Talacopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICETO PERSONS WITH DISABlUTIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any acoommqdation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Flodda, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time qoafore the � Februaw 1,8, 2013 L 93155 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, . FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 015648-0 DIVISION: 32A FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, vs. R. VALDEZ, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: RUDY A. ROCCO AND KATHLEEN A. ROCCO 12 Coventry Cir. Flemington, NJ 08822-1825 Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangenlark.reaiforeclosa.com: COUNT II AS TO DEFENDANTS, RUDY A. ROCCO AND KAlnltLEEN A. ROCCO An undivided 0.3289% interest in Unit 24 of Disney's Beach Club Villas, a leasehold condo- minium (the "Condominium"), according to the .Declaration of Condominium thei"anf as recorded in Official Records Book 6531, Page 3526, Pub- lic Records of Orange County, Rorida, and all amendments thereto (the *Declaration=). (Contract No.: 6005086.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the proparty owner as of the date of the Us Pendans must file a ctalm within sixty (60) days attar the date. The aforasald sale will be made ureuant to the Final Judgment of orenlosure in Civil No. 2012-CA- 015648-0, now pending in the Cimuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By: Michael N. Hutter MICHAEL N. HUTTER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Orlando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Telecopler:. (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICETO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a persc with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orenge Avanue, Suite 510, Orlando, Rorida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impmred, sa!l 711. February 1,8, 201=1 L g315(5 echeduled appearance Is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. February 1,8, 2013 L 93154 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COU NT, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 01891 0-0 DIVISION: 37 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, VS, MAn" MC CALLUM, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: STEPHEN RESAVY AND STEPHANIE S. RESAVY 41 Alvin Rd. West Milford, NJ 07480-1642 Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by alectronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclark.rsaiforeclose.com: COUNT XlX, XX - AS TO DEFENDANTS, STEPHEN RESAVY AND STIEPHANIE S. RESAVY An undivided 0.6021% inter- est in Unit 125A of Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Condominium") according to the Declaration of Condo- minium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 7419, Page 4659, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amendments thereto (the =Declaration=). (Contract No.: 7057148.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lie Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date� The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreciosura in Civil No. 2012-CA- 018910-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By: Michael N. Huttar MICHAEL N. HU'I-I'ER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Tsiecopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICETO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are heanng or voice impaired, call 711. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 018910-0 DIVISION: 37 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Fiodda corporation, Plaintiff, VS. MATT MC CALLUM, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: JOHN ROFF AND BRENDA ROFF 112 Hudey Dr. Hackeftstown, NJ 07840 Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A,M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorengeclark.realforeclosa.com: P.0UNT XXlU, XXIV AS TO DEFENDANTS, JOHN ROFF AND BRENDA ROFF An undivided 0.6139% interest in Unit 21 of Disney's Animal Kingdom VIllas, a leasehold condominium (the "Condomin- ium=) according to the Declara- tion of Condominium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 9077, Page 4252, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all arnendrnents thereto (the "Declaration'). (Contract No.: 8007248.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property ownar as of the date of the Us Pandans must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Fbreciosure in Civil No. 2012-CA- 018910-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT%, FLORIDA By: Michael N. Hurter MICHAEL N� HUTTER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Orlando, Flonda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Telecopiar: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93157 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 010305-0 DIVISION: 40 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, VS. JOAN G. SMITH, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: MARK A. SIMO AND THERESE L. SIMO 2557 Galliano Cir., Winter Park, FL 32792 Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.rsalforeclose.com: COUNT IV AS TO DEFENDANTS, MARK A. SlMO AND THERESE L. SlMO An undivided 0.5036% interest in Unit 78A of Disney's Sarato- ga Springs Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Condomin- ium") according to the Declara- tion of Condominium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 7419, Page 4659, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 7036385.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, il any, other than the property owner as ol the date of the Lie Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made Foreclosure in Civil No. 010305-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By: Michael N. Huttar MICHAEL N. HUTTER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Orlando, Rorida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Teiecopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled,, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator Human Resnurcas, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93158 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COU NT, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 018903-O DIVISION: 32A PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Flodda corporation, Plaintiff, VS. KENNETH J, WASCO, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: ANGELA J. WANGER 3281 Lyon Rd Mason, M148854-9715 Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.reaiforecloss.com: COUNT Xl, Xll AS TO DEFENDANT, ANGELA J. WANGER An undivided 0.4379% inter- est in Unit 122B of Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Condominium") according to the Declaration of Condo- minium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 7419, Page 4659, Public Records of Orange County, Ronda, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 7062659.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Us Par}dens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2012-CA- 018903-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Flodda. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013� LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By: Michaal N. Huttar MICHAEL N. HU'fTER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Telecopiar: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearanca, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93159 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 010306-0 DIVISION: 37 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, VS. SALLY E. WHITE, ET. AL Defendants � NOTICE OF SALE TO: SHANE D. WILFORD 3420 Pickney BIf Fort Mill, SC 2g715-7093 Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk�will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclark.realforeciose.com: COUNT VII AS TO DEFENDANT, SHANE D. WILFORD An undivided 0.8759% interest in Unit 87B of Disney's Sarato- ga Springs Resort, a laasehold condominium (the "Condomin- ium") according to the Declara- tion of Condominium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 7419, Page 4659, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.:'7041148.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lie Pandens must fiis a claim within sixty (60) days after the date� The aloresaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment ol Foreclosure-in Civil No. 2012-CA- 010306-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Flodda. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By: Miohaal N. Huttar MICHAEL N. HUTTER Rorida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Offca Box 112 Orlando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Talscopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICETO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are e person with a disability who needs any" accommodation in order to participate in this procaeding you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Human Rasourcas, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93160 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 004611-0 DIVISION: 35 VISTANA DEVELOPMENT, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, vs. WILBERT EDMONDS, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: HASSAN AL-IDRiSSL P.O. Box 40004 Alkobar, 31952 Saudi Arabia Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclark.realforeclose.com: COUNT XV AS TO DEFENDANT, AL-IDRISSI Unit Week 20 in Unit 1859, an ANNUAL Unit Week in Vistana Lakes Condominium, pursuant to the Declaration of Condo- minium as recorded in Official Records Book 4859, Page 3789 of Orange County, Florida and all amendments thereof and supplements thereto ("Declaration"). (Contract No.: 01-25-818259) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus fom this sale, if any, other than tffe property owner as of the date of the Lie Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2012-CA- 0046t1-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA By: Michael N. Hutter MICHAEL N. HU'I-rER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Orlando, Florida 32802-0112 Talephone: (407) 649-4000 Telecopien (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICETO PERSONS WITH DISABIUTIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Human Rasourcas, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odandq, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93181 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COU N'I', FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2011-CA- 013404-0 DIVISION: 40 I BELLA FLORIDACONDOMINlUM ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, VS. NELSON P BOLANO, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: ALL POINT SOLUTIONS GROUR INC. 501 HUME STREET COLLINGWOOD, ONTARIO L9Y 4H8 CANADA Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangaclark.realloreciosa.oom: COUNT VIII AS TO DEFENDANT, ALL POINT SOLUTIONS GROUP, INC. Unit Week 49 in Unit 3503, an ANNUAL Unit Week in Bella. Florida Condominium, pursu- ant to the Declaration of Con- dominium as recorded in Offi- cial Records Book 6222, Page 1987 of Orange County, Florida and all amendments thereof and supplements thereto ("Declaration"). (Contract No.: 15-01-705627) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Us Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date� The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of oreclosure in Civil No. 2011-CA- 013404-0, now pending in the Cimuit Court in Orange County, DATED this 29th day ol January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By: Michael N. Huttar MICHAEL N. HUT'rER Rorida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Orlando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Telscopian (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93180 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 016056-0 DIVISION: 43A vIsTANA DEVELOPMENT, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, VS. RAYMOND R RICHEL, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: CALLAHAN & ZAI INSKY ASSOCIATES, LLC 1148 PULASKI HIGHWAY #475 . BEAR, DE 19701 USA Notice is herob given that on February 27, 201 / at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the fgllowing described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeciosa.com: COUNT V AS TO DEFENDANT, CALLAHAN & ZAUNSKY ASSOCIATES, LLC Unit Week 14 in Unit 2629, an FLOAT ANNUAL Unit Week in Vistana Cascades Condo- minium, pursuant to the Dec- laration ol Condominium as recorded in Official Records Book 5312, Page 2312, Pub- lic Records of Orange County, Florida and all amendments therecf and supplements thereto ("Declaration"). (Con-. tract No.: 01-26-026545) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lie Pendens must file a claim within aixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2012-CA- 016058-0, now pending in the Cimuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013. LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT% FLORIDA By: Michael N. Huttar MICHAEL N. HUTrER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Flodda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Telecopiar: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff � NOTICETO PERSONS WITH ,, DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 5t0, Orlando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receivin 9 this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93179 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 016150-O DIVISION: 32A VlSTANA DEVELOPMENT, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, VS. JAWAD AL-HADDAD, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: ROBERT J DULYEA AND TIFFANY L DULYEA 8986 STEBBINS ST MONTAGUE, MI 49437 USA Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, tha undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclosa.com: PAGE 7B cOUNT XIII AS TO DEFENDANTS, ROBERT J DULYEA AND TIFFANY L DULYEA Unit Week 49 in Unit 2685, an ANNUAL Unit Week in Vistana Cascades Condominium, pur- suant to the Declaration of Condominium as recorded in Official Records Book 5312, Page 2312 of Orange County, Flodda and all amendments. thereof and supplements thereto ("Declaration"). (Con- tract No.: 01-26-035228) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Us Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date� The aforesaid sale will ba made ursuant to the Final Judgment of oreclosure in Civil No. 2012-CA- 016150-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 29th day ol January, 2013. LYDIA C-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-RDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA : Michael N. Huttar HAEL N. HUTTER Rodda Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Rodda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Taleco. (407) 841-0168 Attomeys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES I1 you are a person with a disabi!ity who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this oneeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Rorida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hasnng or voice impaired, call 7tl. FebnJasy 1, 8, 2013 L 93178 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 016151-O DMSION: 33 V1STANA DEVELOPMEN'I, INC,, a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, VS. .LEXEY M KASHIRIN, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: GALLARDO PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC, A CALIFORNIA CORP 23539 HIGHLAND GLEN DRIVE NEWHALL, CA 91321 USA Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myoran geclerk.malforeciosa.com: (D4LINT Xll AS TO DEFENDANT, GALLARDO PROPERTY" MANAGEMENT, INC, A CALIFORNIA CORP Unit Week 4 in Unit 2637, an ANNUAL Unit Week in Vistana Cascades Condominium, pur- suant to the Declaration of Condominium as recorded in Official Records Book 5312, Page 2312 of Orange County, Flodda and all amendments thereof and supplements thereto ("Declaration"). (Con- tract No.: 01-26-040534) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the LIe Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. � The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of oreclosura in Civil No. 2012-CA- 016151-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Rorida. DATED this 29th day of January, 2013� LYDIA GARDNER CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT � COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By:. Michael N. Huttar MICHAEL N. HUrlER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LIP Post Office Box 112 Orlando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4000 Tele�opien (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needa any accommodation in order tq participate in this )roceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to tha provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Rorida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. February 1, 8, 2013 L 93177 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2012-CA- 004587-0 DIVISION: 32A VISTANA DEVELOPMENT, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, VS. HERNAN PIERRET, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: TOMAS SERRANO GONZALES AND MARIA M RODRIGUEZ ZAYAS 14 Calle 3 Apt 102 Ponce, PR 00716 Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2013 at 11:00 A.M, by electronic sale, the undarsigned Clerk will offer for sale the following descdbed real properties at www. myorangeclark.malforeclose.com: � COUNT VIII AS TO DEFENDANTS, TOMAS SERRANO GONZ/g.ES AND MARIA M RODRIOUEZ ZAYAS Unit Week 07 in Unit 1960, an


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Hell's Kitchen Recap 02/11/21: Season 19 Episode 6 "Metal & Marina"
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Tonight on FOX their Gordon Ramsay culinary competition series Hell's Kitchen airs with an all-new Thursday, February 11, 2021, season 19 episode 6 and we have your Hell's Kitchen recap below. On tonight's Hell's Kitchen season 19 episode 6 episode called, "Metal & Marina," as per the FOX synopsis, "The Red Team gets to choose which member of the Blue Team they would like to go head-to-head with in a challenge to reinterpret classic Italian dishes.
Later, the chefs get a surprise when Hell's Kitchen hosts diners who will later be part of the audience at the Pen & Teller magic show."
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Gordon tells the teams that the next time he sees them they are going up a level. The next day, it's Josh's birthday and he tells the red team they have to throw it, he doesn't feel like having a punishment on his birthday. Gordon calls and summons everyone to the dining room. In the dining room, Spandex Nation is performing and Gordon tells the cooks that today they are going to be modernizing classic Italian cuisine.
Gordon asks Lauren who she wants to go against, she chooses Josh, they get Lobster Ravioli. Declan chooses Mary-Lou, they get Chicken Parmesan. Adam Chooses Nicole and they get Chicken Saltimbocca. Kori chooses Marc and they get Artichoke Veal Milanese. Jordan chooses Cody, they get Seafood Risotto. Syann and Amber get each other by default and they have to make Tortellini. They have forty-five minutes to put their own unique spin.
To help him judge these dishes are Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, they are chefs and owners of Animal.
The Lobster Ravioli gets three points for the blue team and 9 points for the red team. The Artichoke Veal Milanese gets 3 points for the blue team and eight points for the blue team. The Tortellini gets 9 points for the blue team and 3 points to the red team; Syann used wonton wrappers for the Tortellini and Gordon said it too bad there were no zeros on the paddles to give the score. The Veal Saltimbocca gets six points for the red team and 6 points. The Seafood Risotto gets four points for the red team and four points for the blue team.
The men are leading by five in the final round. The Chicken Parmesan gets the blue team three points and three points for the red team. The blue team wins. Their reward is very thrilling, they will be in a very powerful muscle car with a stunt driver drifting around the corners reaching speeds of 200 mph. Afterward, they will dine on Italian cuisine. The red team will have to make hand-made pasta from scratch, then blanch, seed, and score four cases of tomatoes, followed by making the most amazing pesto by hand.
Gordon gathers the teams before dinner service and Penn and Teller are there. Penn tells the teams to do a good job and get those diners over to their show afterward. It's Italian night in Hell's Kitchen. Two legendary restauranteurs are in Hells Kitchen tonight, Frank Pellegrino, JR, owner, Rao's Restaurant Group, and Robert Earl, Owner Buca Di Beppo.
Amber is at the fish station tonight and she starts off by dropping a scallop on the floor and the lobster is raw. In the red kitchen, Jordan's station has a huge fire that she has to get down. Jordan starts the scallops before speaking to the appetizer station and Gordon gets upset and throws them in the trash.
It's forty minutes into dinner service and Gordon is already frustrated when Jordan walks out of the kitchen, takes a moment, and returns. Jordan redeems herself with new scallops. A flood of appetizers are leaving both kitchens and Gordon tells them to have the same momentum with the main dishes. Marc and Josh are all over the place in the blue kitchen and Josh's potatoes are sent back because they are not seasoned. The blue team is finally managing to be on the same page. Syann and Mary-Lou are trying a personal approach on the meat station.
Gordon sends back the lamb on the red station, it is raw, Mary-Lou takes ownership for the mistake. The next one is nicely cooked and she tells Gordon she won't let it happen again. On the blue team, Josh is scatterbrained and Gordon is getting frustrated. Gordon takes Amber to the backroom to talk to her because the salmon was overcooked, she starts crying. She is floundering like a fish out of water, he tells her she can do better than this, he tells her to give him her best. Amber recovers with the salmon.
Gordon says the good news is, both teams delivered but the winning team is the red team. Blue team has to go back to the dorm and come up with a consensus of which two should be put up for elimination. Declan says it should be Josh because he is like a deer in the headlines. Amber says Marc is weaker than Josh in the kitchen. Adam wants Marc gone too he lacks communication skills.
The blue team's first nominee is Amber, their second is Josh. Amber says she is a very strong chef, she just let too many things get to her head tonight. Josh says he is a leader and a good chef. Gordon tells Josh that he saw no strength in him. Gordon tells Amber to get back in line. He tells Josh that he has been waiting since day one for him to use his voice and he cannot wait any longer, he is going home.
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