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#OTD in 1892 – Birth of Tom Maguire, an Irish republican who held the rank of Commandant-General in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
Tom Maguire was an Irish republican who held the rank of commandant-general in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
On 18 September 1920, the Mayo Brigade was reorganised, it was split up into four separate brigades. Tom Maguire was appointed commander of the South Mayo one.
On 3 May 1921, Maguire led an ambush on an RIC patrol in Tourmakeady, Co Mayo,…
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Quotes from my Stagecraft Professor Spring 2017
Okay I am going to preface these quotes by saying that this is a man probably in his late 30′s early 40′s originally from Pennsylvania and now in Missouri. He, along with his wife, has done work in the theatre for his entire professional career. He is the king of dad jokes because he is one. And he has been through hell and back with medical issues that he has gone through or his family has gone through. That said, let us begin:
“White People are like olive oil mayo. We’re not really sure why we’re here. We’re not really good for you. We don’t really taste good.”
“’She’ is a an option. Let’s start breaking those gender barriers. He or she is allowed.”
“Theatre is someone doing something and someone to watch it”
“Hamilton tickets are up to what like 3/4 the GEP of Ghana?”
“You didn’t go to see Spider-man Turn Off the Dark because it was good. You went to see it to see who would get injured that night.”
Yea I mean I guess you could say that Jeffrey Seller has a pretty good track record. Hamilton, In The Heights, Rent, Avenue Q...”
“Boston took second in the Poker game and said we’re not taking 2nd we’ll take two ones and that is why they are Local 11.Talk about petty”
“To those people who say you must be an actor I say not anymore because I grew accustomed to things like food and shelter.”
“Break down those gender barriers!!”
*When talking about where the Rock and Roll hall of fame was* “IT’S THE NORTH COAST! There’s like a shit ton of water up there!”
“I have never seen someone want to be swallowed by their own asshole so much in their life. He said nothing good ever came out of South Korea and I said ‘oh you mean like my wife?’”
“The Backstage Handbook is the greatest non-religious book known to man.”
“Nails are easy. Put it in, bang it with a rock or a hammer or your friend.”
“I am blue color all the way. Like fuck the man. If you are in administration you are like a turd on my shoe.”
“The president of our university is like our flu shot.”
“If you know anything about opera well... Save that for Monday.”
“Next time someone tells you that women don’t belong in the shop two things. A: BULL FUCKING SHIT! Some of the best carpenters I’ve seen in my life are women. B: Women think things out better than men. Dating back to cavemen when men would just focus on the same thing til it died and women would look at the whole thing.”
“This is the circulur....lar. saw La-la la-la.... Wicked? No nobody?”
“No show tunes playing during shop. You all get distracted and then try to one up each other and then you get hurt acting like idiots.”
“Pi are not squared. Pi are round.” *talking about circle formulas*
“Authority throne? I think that’s what our president uses to tweet out every morning” Other student: “Did you just compare me to--” Professor: “Yupp! Moving on.”
Me: “Then why do we call it a podium?” P: “Because we’re all fucking ignorant. It is a lectern and if any of your professors say it is a podium you walk up to them a slap them across the face and say ‘No that is a fucking lectern”
“Oh...Single clown tear of not caring.”
“And here we have the dead body in the river for a week grey traveler. Look at it. Have you seen CSI Miami? It’s the same color as those dead bodies.”
“You need to know what the Bible, Torah and Qur’an say. And you need to be able to quote Star Wars, Harry Potter and know who fuckin Indiana Jones is.”
“You always wanna be ‘something fucking something’ never “fucking something something. Like if you hear someone say Fucking Billy Bob, you know Billy Bob is an idiot. But if you hear someone say Billy fucking Bob, you know Billy Bob is a badass”
“What the fuck you said it was dry? Yea dry not cured dumbass.”
“For any of you in off campus housing with borderline slumlords for landlords.”
“If I wanted vandyke brown, which is the sexiest brown ever-- Vandyke brown is like being hugged by your favorite coffee and favorite chocolate as it holds you and just whispers it’s gonna be okay. One day I will be able to go steady with vandyke brown but until then it is just a fleeting tryst.”
“Audra McDonald is like vandyke brown in human form. My wife and I were watching the Tony’s one night and for all of you who are in this class because you are actually doing something with theatre you know who Audra McDonald is and you know that she is a gift this world does not deserve. Anyway we were watching the Tony’s and Audra comes out to start singing and I turned to my wife and said ‘I would leave you for Audra McDonald’ and my wife turned back to me and said ‘Good ‘cause I would leave YOU for Audra McDonald.”
“What do I care? I’m tenured. I can do anything short of killing you assholes.”
“My God you read the back of a hotpocket but you can’t read the back of a can of paint? You just wasted $200″
“Very good! Blue’s Clues seems to have paid off”
“We removed Spongebob from his home in pineapple acres, split him in half and now paint with him.”
“Google screaming death sounds of natural sponges”
“The shop hires do immediate death. I am patient. I wait years and years to the perfect time and then get my revenge.”
“Let’s split the tools into tools that can kill you and tools that can’t”
“And here we manipulated spongebob to make a paint cover for a roller. Someone somewhere said hey spongebob bend over and then there ya go”
“Soooo..... ELECTRICITY!”
“You’ve all shuffled your feet across the carpet then touched a friend...or your son because the fucker did it to me first.”
“9/8 time is the holiest of time signatures. It’s a Trinity within a Trinity. Thank you Johnny Bach.”
*Talking about bights in rope* “Think about it, you wouldn’t want a bite in you. Or...well... maybe... you would..... BUT you wouldn’t want your mother knowing you had a bite in you. Well played Mr. Benson (his name)”
“I don’t call you student #12. You a have a name. So do they.”
“Oh my God spell ferrule, it’s in your book.” Me: “What if we spell it with a and u (we had been giving him shit about spelling). Professor: “I will fail you for the course”
“You can make paint brush handles out of anything. Wood, plastic, metal, bones of failed students as I sit at my work bench late at night fashioning them for the next semester.”
*student dabs after giving right answer* *Mr. B gives them look of disappointment* “Hardly dab worthy.”
“The heat is distributed unevenly. Kind of like wealth in a capitalistic society *laughs sarcastically then gives deadpan* Tell me I’m wrong”
“On today’s episode of how to get away with murder in the theatre.”
“Here we have an athletic director to talk about money and how it should be spent. We’re either going to get funding for the next season of shows or learn how to dispose a body.”
“If you’re gonna murder someone, use a revolver so your casings don’t go flying.”
“Mental illness is a real thing. And it is completely okay to reach out. If you are struggling, let someone know. Because we care. I care. They care. You matter to someone even if you don’t think so.”
“There are two types of performers. Moths and cockroaches. Moths run to the light, cockroaches scurry away. Be the moth.”
“Negligence is you failed to check. Criminal negligence is you were aware and you ignored it. And now for all of you theatre teachers in the class you can be charged with criminal negligence if you get the wrong rigging equipment because I just made you all aware and it says so in your syllabus and will hold up in a court of law ha ha ha.”
“I know that look. That look either means that the cat is in the microwave, the bathroom is flooded, or there’s a mud covered swamp monster. And we don’t have a cat.”
“There are no unimportant parts in the theatre. You don’t have to act either. And now you all have like 8 columns of just some of the jobs in the theatre. How many require acting? One.”
I told you at the beginning of the semester to pick a statement. I can or I can’t. So go ahead and pick one again. Sometimes ‘I can’t’ is chosen for you. The senior who is in a wheelchair will never be able to dunk a basketball in the NBA. But she tries her damndest to do everything else in front of her. ‘I can’ takes effort. I have tried all semester to get you to believe that you can do anything within your power. You have to at least try something first. Can you get ‘I can’t’ out of your vocabulary? You already have so many people telling you that you can’t do something. So don’t tell yourself. Because you sure as hell won’t hear it from me. So you shouldn’t hear it from yourself either.”
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Patient finds leading cardiac surgeon on internet
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Patient finds leading cardiac surgeon on internet
I’m writing this just a week after I had surgery to repair the mitral valve in my heart.
Before I start I would like to thank my friends and family for all their prayers thoughts and best wishes in this ordeal.
When I was in my 30s, I was diagnosed with Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) and at that time the doctor said nothing needed to be done. This is a genetic condition that I have since learned that my father also had.
Recently, I had my annual appointment with my Cardiologist. I expected to get a status quo report that I would still require surgery on my mitral valve in about five to seven years. My wife and I received a shock at the appointment. When the doctor took out a piece of paper and wrote down numbers in two columns and then started to compare the numbers, I started to get an uneasy feeling. He proceeded to say that my regurgitation and leakage from my mitral valve had become severe, causing my heart to enlarge. He recommended heart surgery within the next year. He made an appointment for us to talk with a cardiac surgeon at Mayo Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona.
We met with the cardiac surgeon at Mayo Hospital and we discussed my options: repair vs. replacement of the mitral valve. Due to my current age of 54 and my other health issues, it was extremely important to me that the valve be repaired and not replaced. When the mitral valve is replaced with a mechanical one, it would have required blood thinners for the rest of my life. With my other health issues, that would not be a good option. Another option would be to replace the mitral valve with a valve from an animal (pig or cow), and that would mean I would be facing another surgery in about 10 to 15 years. Animal tissue valves only last about 10 to 15 years. We also discussed minimally invasive vs. cracking the chest. He suggested that I have a TEE (transesophageal echocardiogram), which was scheduled for the following week.
I had the TEE and it confirmed what the initial echo showed. We met with the surgeon again after the TEE and he felt there was an 80-85 percent chance he could repair the mitral valve and the surgery could be performed minimally invasively. My wife inquired as to his experience with this procedure, and he responded that he does on average about 20 to 25 mitral valve surgeries per year.
In the meantime, I started to do some research on the internet and found there were about five surgeons in the USA that completed more than 200 of these mitral valve repairs a year with a repair rate of approximately 95 percent. The surgeon located in Maryland, Dr. James Gammie, had a video on the internet and stated “there is no better valve than the one God gave you,” and at the end of the video he said “Repair, repair, repair.” After watching the video I immediately called Dr. James Gammie’s office at the University Of Maryland Medical Center and then forwarded all of my test results to them for review. They confirmed that I needed to have my mitral valve operated on but could not make a determination if it was possible to repair it until they got a copy of the CDs from my Echo and TEE.
At this time I decided to schedule an appointment to have surgery and proceeded to make my airline reservations for my wife and I to fly to Baltimore. Since our son lives south of Baltimore, having the surgery done in Maryland was an attractive alternative to the Phoenix area.
About four days after Dr. Gammie received the CDs from my Echos and the day before my flight to Maryland, Dr. Gammie concluded that I had “classic mitral valve prolapse” with a 95 to 98 percent chance he would be able to repair the valve. Hearing this news made it became obvious that I made the right decision.
We finally met with Dr. Gammie and his nurse practitioner. He went over the procedure and what would happen. He informed me that there was a greater risk for me to not have the surgery than to have it. He also did not minimize the procedure and informed us of all possible outcomes.
Dr. Gammie successfully repaired the mitral valve. I spent 24 hours following surgery in the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit (CSICU). My nurses were absolutely excellent, and I could not have asked for better care. On Saturday, 24 hours after my surgery, I walked from the CSICU to the step down unit in the hospital.
I was in the step down unit for four days, at which time I was released from the hospital. Prior to my release, they did an Echo and concluded that there was no Mitral Valve regurgitation. I couldn’t have asked for better news. The nurses and entire staff in the step down unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center were wonderful.
Last, I would like to profoundly thank Dr. Gammie and his entire staff. They answered all of my numerous questions and explained the procedure in detail. They were professional and caring and I could not have asked for a better team behind me for my surgery.
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#OTD in 1892 – Birth of Tom Maguire, an Irish republican who held the rank of Commandant-General in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
#OTD in 1892 – Birth of Tom Maguire, an Irish republican who held the rank of Commandant-General in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
Tom Maguire was an Irish republican who held the rank of commandant-general in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
On 18 September 1920, the Mayo Brigade was reorganised, it was split up into four separate brigades. Tom Maguire was appointed commander of the South Mayo one.
On 3 May 1921, Maguire led an ambush on an RIC patrol in Tourmakeady, Co Mayo,…
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#Anti-Treaty IRA#Commandant-General#Dáil Eireann#England#Ireland#Irish Civil War#Ruairí Ó Brádaigh#Sinn Fein#South Mayo Flying Column#TD#Teachta Dála#Tom Maguire#Western Command of the IRA
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#OTD in 1892 – Birth of Tom Maguire, an Irish republican who held the rank of Commandant-General in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
Tom Maguire was an Irish republican who held the rank of commandant-general in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column. On 18 September 1920, the Mayo Brigade was reorganised, it was split up into four separate brigades. Tom Maguire was appointed commander of the South Mayo one. On 3 May 1921, Maguire led an ambush on an RIC patrol in Tourmakeady, Co Mayo, killing…
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#Anti-Treaty IRA#Commandant-General#Dáil Eireann#England#Ireland#Irish Civil War#Ruairí Ó Brádaigh#Sinn Fein#South Mayo Flying Column#TD#Teachta Dála#Tom Maguire#Western Command of the IRA
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#OTD in 1892 – Birth of Tom Maguire, an Irish republican who held the rank of Commandant-General in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
#OTD in 1892 – Birth of Tom Maguire, an Irish republican who held the rank of Commandant-General in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
Tom Maguire was an Irish republican who held the rank of commandant-general in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column. On 18 September 1920, the Mayo Brigade was reorganised, it was split up into four separate brigades. Tom Maguire was appointed commander of the South Mayo one. On 3 May 1921, Maguire led an ambush on an RIC patrol in Tourmakeady, Co Mayo, killing…
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#Anti-Treaty IRA#Commandant-General#Dáil Eireann#England#Ireland#Irish Civil War#Ruairí Ó Brádaigh#Sinn Fein#South Mayo Flying Column#TD#Teachta Dála#Tom Maguire#Western Command of the IRA
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#OTD in 1892 – Birth of Tom Maguire, an Irish republican who held the rank of Commandant-General in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
#OTD in 1892 – Birth of Tom Maguire, an Irish republican who held the rank of Commandant-General in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
Tom Maguire was an Irish republican who held the rank of commandant-general in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column. On 18 September 1920, the Mayo Brigade was reorganised, it was split up into four separate brigades. Tom Maguire was appointed commander of the South Mayo one. On 3 May 1921, Maguire led an ambush on an RIC patrol in Tourmakeady, Co Mayo, killing…
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#Anti-Treaty IRA#Commandant-General#Dáil Eireann#England#Ireland#Irish Civil War#Ruairí Ó Brádaigh#Sinn Fein#South Mayo Flying Column#TD#Teachta Dála#Tom Maguire#Western Command of the IRA
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