Australian politics is in a holding pattern.
The Government circles around and around, but it never gets anywhere and it never lands. At times it seems sure to consume itself in a fiery ball, or run out of fuel and crash, but it never quite does. So the plane of state keeps circling, lower and lower, trailing smoke and sparks, battling through gales and headwinds, with lightning crackling all around it.
The pilot takes his hands from the controls to airily emphasise his point.
Screams are heard in the back as the plane drops 200 metres before the controls are casually collected again and the plane slowly levels out. The urbane Captain smiles confidently at a startled flight assistant who has rushed into the cabin to investigate. She backs away slowly, her eyes wide.
Around the runway the aeroplane circles, narrowly missing hills and tall buildings as it sinks ever lower each time.
Beside the Captain sits new Co-pilot McCormack. His teeth are chattering and his face is white. He is awash with perspiration. McCormack is frantically reading the plane's instruction manual. This is because he is totally unqualified to fly an enormous jet aeroplane, being only a fresh-faced trainee at the academy, only there for the ride.
He had been suddenly promoted from economy class after the previous co-pilot had truculently resigned his commission. There had been a nasty argument between previous Co-Pilot Joyce and the Captain about some of the former's behaviour towards the cabin crew. Now Joyce is in first class with a stewardess on his lap, a tie wrapped around his head, sloshing a half-full glass around, tunelessly bawling 'The pub with no beer'.
Despite the hasty promotion of Trainee McCormack, Joyce hasn't ruled out a return to the flight deck. Meanwhile, as Captain Turnbull whistles cheerily, McCormack continues sweatily thumbing through the manual as he looks around the panel in confusion.
"This manual is so gay!" he is heard to mumble to himself.
A voice crackles over the radio. It is the control tower.
"I most assuredly doo," intones the Captain in his euphonious rounded vowels.
"You have now done 27 circuits of the airfield. You only have three circuits left before your loss of height means you will have to land," crackles the transceiver.
"Wait... what? Why on earth do you think that will work!?" squawks the controller.
"Oh, it's just Aeronautics 101, you impertinent fellow! Haven't you ever read the Institute of Plane Altitude newsletter?" Turnbull snarls and petulantly flicks the radio receiver off.
The plane continues circling. Seeing the city lights coming closer and closer, the economy passengers look fearfully at each other. Up in first and business class, however, the mood is buoyant and relaxed, with the cabin crew are still circulating, lavishing smiles, and aperitifs, and delightful appetisers on all and sundry. To all except one jug-eared man in first class, who is nodding his head maniacally, his eyes fixed on the door to the cockpit, as if he might suddenly make a dash for it at any time.
A burst of lightning shakes the plane. The Captain begins to hum 'Hard to be Humble'. The passengers at the back of the plane grimace and begin to assume the brace position.
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Q: Cant send the whole vector through MPI_send I have been trying to learn MPI. and when i try to run the following code i get the wrong output.
if (world_rank == 0){

    vector<vector<double> > n(4,vector<double>(4));

    srand(time(NULL));

    for(int i=0; i<4 ;i++){
        for(int j=0;j<4;j++){
            n[i][j] = (double)rand()/RAND_MAX;
            cout << n[i][j] << " ";
        }
        cout << endl;
    }
    MPI_Send((void*)&n[0][0],16*sizeof(double),MPI_BYTE,1,0,MPI_COMM_WORLD);
}else{
    MPI_Status status;

    vector<vector<double> > n(4,vector<double>(4));

    MPI_Probe(0,0,MPI_COMM_WORLD,&status);

    int size;

    MPI_Get_count(&status,MPI_BYTE,&size);

    cout << endl << size << endl;

    MPI_Recv((void*)&n[0][0],16*sizeof(n[0][0]),MPI_BYTE,0,0,MPI_COMM_WORLD,MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);

    cout.flush();
    cout << endl;

    for(int i=0; i<4 ;i++){
        for(int j=0;j<4;j++){
            cout << n[i][j] << " ";
        }
        cout << endl;
    }
}

i get all the double values except the last 3.
like this.
0.824468 0.752417 0.757125 0.470763
0.251683 0.703306 0.157991 0.764423
0.815327 0.0402807 0.897109 0.313816
0.997203 0.796665 0.0522305 0.797733

128

0.824468 0.752417 0.757125 0.470763
0.251683 0.703306 0.157991 0.764423
0.815327 0.0402807 0.897109 0.313816
0.997203 0 0 0

can anyone tell me why this is happening?
i ran the same code around a hundred times and still get the same output (of course with different values) but the last three always are 0.
but when i changed the size from 16 to 19 i get all the values.
i also have another doubt.
some times the outputs (values from node 0 and 1) get overlapped. can anyone tell me how to stop that or at least explain why that happens. i mean even though send and recv are blocking functions. how can the node 1's output get printed before node 0's

A: Your definition of the 2D data n as vector<vector<double> > makes it non-contiguous in memory. Therefore, you cannot transmit it simply using MPI (there are ways for doing it, but you'd better just making the memory contiguous instead).
To have your memory contiguous, you can declare your n like this (not tested):
vector<double> ndata(4*4); //contiguous storage of the actual data
vector<double*> n(4);      //vector of pointers to access the actual data
for (int i=1; i<4; i++)    //initialisation of the pointers to the data
    n[i] = &ndata[4*i];

Of course, there are better ways of defining a contiguous storage for multidimensional arrays in C++, but this is just a quick fix for your immediate problem. See for example this answer for a better structure.
And BTW, your MPI_Send() and MPI_Recv() calls should use 4*4 MPI_DOUBLE instead of 4*4*sizeof(double) MPI_BYTE.

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This picture is rad because it kind of looks like a still from a 1920s film set. Maybe partly because its black and white and the separation between the foreground and horizon kind of make the sky look like a back drop. The jagged outline of the ridge and the single climber look very dramatic. Great image.
I think my REI Visa card stole your picture. It's pretty close... Great shot!


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What's college worth these days?
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:00 UTC
Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education.
© Edmon de Haro
I have been in school for more than 40 years. First preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, and high school. Then a bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley, followed by a doctoral program at Princeton. The next step was what you could call my first "real" job-as an economics professor at George Mason University.
Thanks to tenure, I have a dream job for life. Personally, I have no reason to lash out at our system of higher education. Yet a lifetime of experience, plus a quarter century of reading and reflection, has convinced me that it is a big waste of time and money. When politicians vow to send more Americans to college, I can't help gasping, "Why? You want us to waste even more?"
How, you may ask, can anyone call higher education wasteful in an age when its financial payoff is greater than ever? The earnings premium for college graduates has rocketed to 73 percent-that is, those with a bachelor's degree earn, on average, 73 percent more than those who have only a high-school diploma, up from about 50 percent in the late 1970s. The key issue, however, isn't whether college pays, but why. The simple, popular answer is that schools teach students useful job skills. But this dodges puzzling questions.
First and foremost: From kindergarten on, students spend thousands of hours studying subjects irrelevant to the modern labor market. Why do English classes focus on literature and poetry instead of business and technical writing? Why do advanced-math classes bother with proofs almost no student can follow? When will the typical student use history? Trigonometry? Art? Music? Physics? Latin? The class clown who snarks "What does this have to do with real life?" is onto something.
The disconnect between college curricula and the job market has a banal explanation: Educators teach what they know-and most have as little firsthand knowledge of the modern workplace as I do. Yet this merely complicates the puzzle. If schools aim to boost students' future income by teaching job skills, why do they entrust students' education to people so detached from the real world? Because, despite the chasm between what students learn and what workers do, academic success is a strong signal of worker productivity.
Suppose your law firm wants a summer associate. A law student with a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford applies. What do you infer? The applicant is probably brilliant, diligent, and willing to tolerate serious boredom. If you're looking for that kind of worker-and what employer isn't?-you'll make an offer, knowing full well that nothing the philosopher learned at Stanford will be relevant to this job.
The labor market doesn't pay you for the useless subjects you master; it pays you for the preexisting traits you signal by mastering them. This is not a fringe idea. Michael Spence, Kenneth Arrow, and Joseph Stiglitz-all Nobel laureates in economics-made seminal contributions to the theory of educational signaling. Every college student who does the least work required to get good grades silently endorses the theory. But signaling plays almost no role in public discourse or policy making. As a society, we continue to push ever larger numbers of students into ever higher levels of education. The main effect is not better jobs or greater skill levels, but a credentialist arms race.
Lest I be misinterpreted, I emphatically affirm that education confers some marketable skills, namely literacy and numeracy. Nonetheless, I believe that signaling accounts for at least half of college's financial reward, and probably more.
Most of the salary payoff for college comes from crossing the graduation finish line. Suppose you drop out after a year. You'll receive a salary bump compared with someone who's attended no college, but it won't be anywhere near 25 percent of the salary premium you'd get for a four-year degree. Similarly, the premium for sophomore year is nowhere near 50 percent of the return on a bachelor's degree, and the premium for junior year is nowhere near 75 percent of that return. Indeed, in the average study, senior year of college brings more than twice the pay increase of freshman, sophomore, and junior years combined. Unless colleges delay job training until the very end, signaling is practically the only explanation. This in turn implies a mountain of wasted resources-time and money that would be better spent preparing students for the jobs they're likely to do.
The conventional view-that education pays because students learn-assumes that the typical student acquires, and retains, a lot of knowledge. She doesn't. Teachers often lament summer learning loss: Students know less at the end of summer than they did at the beginning. But summer learning loss is only a special case of the problem of fade-out: Human beings have trouble retaining knowledge they rarely use. Of course, some college graduates use what they've learned and thus hold on to it-engineers and other quantitative types, for example, retain a lot of math. But when we measure what the average college graduate recalls years later, the results are discouraging, to say the least.
In 2003, the United States Department of Education gave about 18,000 Americans the National Assessment of Adult Literacy. The ignorance it revealed is mind-numbing. Fewer than a third of college graduates received a composite score of "proficient"-and about a fifth were at the "basic" or "below basic" level. You could blame the difficulty of the questions-until you read them. Plenty of college graduates couldn't make sense of a table explaining how an employee's annual health-insurance costs varied with income and family size, or summarize the work-experience requirements in a job ad, or even use a newspaper schedule to find when a television program ended. Tests of college graduates' knowledge of history, civics, and science have had similarly dismal results.
Of course, college students aren't supposed to just download facts; they're supposed to learn how to think in real life. How do they fare on this count? The most focused study of education's effect on applied reasoning, conducted by Harvard's David Perkins in the mid-1980s, assessed students' oral responses to questions designed to measure informal reasoning, such as "Would a proposed law in Massachusetts requiring a five-cent deposit on bottles and cans significantly reduce litter?" The benefit of college seemed to be zero: Fourth-year students did no better than first-year students.
Other evidence is equally discouraging. One researcher tested Arizona State University students' ability to "apply statistical and methodological concepts to reasoning about everyday-life events." In the researcher's words:
Of the several hundred students tested, many of whom had taken more than six years of laboratory science ... and advanced mathematics through calculus, almost none demonstrated even a semblance of acceptable methodological reasoning.
Those who believe that college is about learning how to learn should expect students who study science to absorb the scientific method, then habitually use it to analyze the world. This scarcely occurs.
College students do hone some kinds of reasoning that are specific to their major. One ambitious study at the University of Michigan tested natural-science, humanities, and psychology and other social-science majors on verbal reasoning, statistical reasoning, and conditional reasoning during the first semester of their first year. When the same students were retested the second semester of their fourth year, each group had sharply improved in precisely one area. Psychology and other social-science majors had become much better at statistical reasoning. Natural-science and humanities majors had become much better at conditional reasoning-analyzing "if ... then" and "if and only if" problems. In the remaining areas, however, gains after three and a half years of college were modest or nonexistent. The takeaway: Psychology students use statistics, so they improve in statistics; chemistry students rarely encounter statistics, so they don't improve in statistics. If all goes well, students learn what they study and practice.
Actually, that's optimistic. Educational psychologists have discovered that much of our knowledge is "inert." Students who excel on exams frequently fail to apply their knowledge to the real world. Take physics. As the Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner writes,
Students who receive honor grades in college-level physics courses are frequently unable to solve basic problems and questions encountered in a form slightly different from that on which they have been formally instructed and tested.
The same goes for students of biology, mathematics, statistics, and, I'm embarrassed to say, economics. I try to teach my students to connect lectures to the real world and daily life. My exams are designed to measure comprehension, not memorization. Yet in a good class, four test-takers out of 40 demonstrate true economic understanding.
Economists' educational bean counting can come off as annoyingly narrow. Non-economists-also known as normal human beings-lean holistic: We can't measure education's social benefits solely with test scores or salary premiums. Instead we must ask ourselves what kind of society we want to live in-an educated one or an ignorant one?
Normal human beings make a solid point: We can and should investigate education's broad social implications. When humanists consider my calculations of education's returns, they assume I'm being a typical cynical economist, oblivious to the ideals so many educators hold dear. I am an economist and I am a cynic, but I'm not a typical cynical economist. I'm a cynical idealist. I embrace the ideal of transformative education. I believe wholeheartedly in the life of the mind. What I'm cynical about is people.
I'm cynical about students. The vast majority are philistines. I'm cynical about teachers. The vast majority are uninspiring. I'm cynical about "deciders"-the school officials who control what students study. The vast majority think they've done their job as long as students comply.
Those who search their memory will find noble exceptions to these sad rules. I have known plenty of eager students and passionate educators, and a few wise deciders. Still, my 40 years in the education industry leave no doubt that they are hopelessly outnumbered. Meritorious education survives but does not thrive.
Indeed, today's college students are less willing than those of previous generations to do the bare minimum of showing up for class and temporarily learning whatever's on the test. Fifty years ago, college was a full-time job. The typical student spent 40 hours a week in class or studying. Effort has since collapsed across the board. "Full time" college students now average 27 hours of academic work a week-including just 14 hours spent studying.
What are students doing with their extra free time? Having fun. As Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa frostily remark in their 2011 book, Academically Adrift,
If we presume that students are sleeping eight hours a night, which is a generous assumption given their tardiness and at times disheveled appearance in early morning classes, that leaves 85 hours a week for other activities.
Arum and Roksa cite a study finding that students at one typical college spent 13 hours a week studying, 12 hours "socializing with friends," 11 hours "using computers for fun," eight hours working for pay, six hours watching TV, six hours exercising, five hours on "hobbies," and three hours on "other forms of entertainment." Grade inflation completes the idyllic package by shielding students from negative feedback. The average GPA is now 3.2.
What does this mean for the individual student? Would I advise an academically well-prepared 18-year-old to skip college because she won't learn much of value? Absolutely not. Studying irrelevancies for the next four years will impress future employers and raise her income potential. If she tried to leap straight into her first white-collar job, insisting, "I have the right stuff to graduate, I just choose not to," employers wouldn't believe her. To unilaterally curtail your education is to relegate yourself to a lower-quality pool of workers. For the individual, college pays.
This does not mean, however, that higher education paves the way to general prosperity or social justice. When we look at countries around the world, a year of education appears to raise an individual's income by 8 to 11 percent. By contrast, increasing education across a country's population by an average of one year per person raises the national income by only 1 to 3 percent. In other words, education enriches individuals much more than it enriches nations.
How is this possible? Credential inflation: As the average level of education rises, you need more education to convince employers you're worthy of any specific job. One research team found that from the early 1970s through the mid‑1990s, the average education level within 500 occupational categories rose by 1.2 years. But most of the jobs didn't change much over that span-there's no reason, except credential inflation, why people should have needed more education to do them in 1995 than in 1975. What's more, all American workers' education rose by 1.5 years in that same span-which is to say that a great majority of the extra education workers received was deployed not to get better jobs, but to get jobs that had recently been held by people with less education.
As credentials proliferate, so do failed efforts to acquire them. Students can and do pay tuition, kill a year, and flunk their finals. Any respectable verdict on the value of education must account for these academic bankruptcies. Failure rates are high, particularly for students with low high-school grades and test scores; all told, about 60 percent of full-time college students fail to finish in four years. Simply put, the push for broader college education has steered too many students who aren't cut out for academic success onto the college track.
The college-for-all mentality has fostered neglect of a realistic substitute: vocational education. It takes many guises-classroom training, apprenticeships and other types of on-the-job training, and straight-up work experience-but they have much in common. All vocational education teaches specific job skills, and all vocational education revolves around learning by doing, not learning by listening. Research, though a bit sparse, suggests that vocational education raises pay, reduces unemployment, and increases the rate of high-school completion.
Defenders of traditional education often appeal to the obscurity of the future. What's the point of prepping students for the economy of 2018, when they'll be employed in the economy of 2025 or 2050? But ignorance of the future is no reason to prepare students for occupations they almost surely won't have-and if we know anything about the future of work, we know that the demand for authors, historians, political scientists, physicists, and mathematicians will stay low. It's tempting to say that students on the college track can always turn to vocational education as a Plan B, but this ignores the disturbing possibility that after they crash, they'll be too embittered to go back and learn a trade. The vast American underclass shows that this disturbing possibility is already our reality.
Education is so integral to modern life that we take it for granted. Young people have to leap through interminable academic hoops to secure their place in the adult world. My thesis, in a single sentence: Civilized societies revolve around education now, but there is a better-indeed, more civilized-way. If everyone had a college degree, the result would be not great jobs for all, but runaway credential inflation. Trying to spread success with education spreads education but not success.
Higher education in hell
SOTT Podcast: The Role of Education in the US (Part 1 of 2)
ancientbird66 · 2017-12-11T22:45:38Z
I have several friends who have Bachelors and Masters ect ect.................All of them will NEVER pay off their student loans...........they will NEVER make enough to cover what they put into it..........when they die their estates will be pillaged by the Govt.............go figure
baron · 2017-12-11T23:41:04Z
Education isn't about education any longer, it's about social engineering, it's about big business, it's about indebted slavery. Today we have this keyboard and screen which can teach you anything. Anyone going to a University today is basically burning money and time.
I have to wonder what kind of life, what kind of common sense someone who's in their 40's can possibly have without ever having held any real jobs prior to becoming a professor. Makes no sense at all to me.
lsjarvi · 2017-12-12T04:53:22Z
I have a master's degree (a joke, if there ever was one). I know how poor the quality of that 'education' was, and have no respect for it at all. I have 4 children, none of which have a college degree. However, they each exceed my level of education by far due to their own efforts and pursuing their areas of interest with much more authenticity than I did. Due to the blindness that is credentialism, they are hard-pressed to find ways to 'prove up' on what they know, but I know that they will. Eventually, anyway. What a mess.
Highland Fleet Lute · 2017-12-12T09:25:58Z
I haven't got anything like that. I left school and home at 16 to go off and have adventures.
Highland Fleet Lute Wish I had done that.
shellycheval · 2017-12-12T11:59:20Z
There are two arguments being made here presented as one. The first argument that a college education is not for everyone and is useless for many is spot-on correct. Even when K-12 education is excellent, the majority of graduating high school students in the US do not have the interests or skills to succeed at more than a year or two of basic community college courses that are a rehash of what they should have learned in high school. There is evidence going back over one hundred years that only the top 25-30 % of people engaging in higher ed are measurably successful, although the value of gaining some knowledge is often useful in life in ways that are not quantifiable.
The second argument that
knowing full well that nothing the philosopher learned at Stanford will be relevant to this job.
is a weak all or nothing absolute argument and a logic error. The world would likely be a much better place today if the philosophy of the ancient Stoics had been taught and employed in life for the last 2000 plus years. Many people who argue that an education spent on art, music, history, philosophy, literature, rhetoric, in addition to literacy in math and language, is wasted because it contributes nothing to the job training needed for employment, when in fact this type of study CREATES the thinking, communication, and cultural skills employers are always telling us community college teachers they want their employees to have. Ironic.
All people need employable skills and an opportunity to work at a jobs that pay fairly and benefit them in ways they can support themselves and their families. There are many jobs that can employ people who are trained to do work that does not require a college education credential and we should be supporting and growing educational opportunities for all workers, not just for those suitable for "higher ed."
nedlud · 2017-12-12T12:42:52Z
PSYCHOPATHIC STIMULANTS
Today's so-called advanced studies, aka higher education, are completely incestuous.
Everything is conducted inside of a tightly constructed technological veil of shame, violence, seclusion, perversity and madness and this is rewarded in the most ill-conceived and disgusting manner.
'Suck your daddy's big hard one. Suck it good, now. Mmmm, good boy, that's my son.'
'Go down on mommy dearest and her 'sweetness'. Atta girl, give mommy your full attention, get your num-num.'
'That's our wonderful little baby!'
And you've now earned your college degree and certificates of 'accomplishment', you are now numbered and ranked and a member of society.
The 'baby' (who might have been a human being to begin with) has no chance, none whatsoever, to develop normally.
Absolutely disgusting.
Beyond disgusting.
Psychopathic.
This is our great world today.
ned,
Let's be serious. Outages, just don't happen for a reason. There has to be a external influence( I need to check something out, back soon)

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Joe Mascolo Speaks Out About Being Written Out Of DAYS … For Now!
As fans are watching this week the drama unfolding on Days of our Lives, most of the residents of the town of Salem are about to ready, aim, fire a gun at Stefano DiMera! Who pulls the trigger will be the ultimate mystery? Or, will it be if Stefano is truly dead, dead?
In the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest on newsstands now, the very popular Joe Mascolo (Stefano) talks openly about the events that led to Stefano being shot and the decimation of the nucleus the formed the current DiMera Clan!
Mascolo revealed, "Every single thing that went wrong in Salem was Stefano's fault. Every single thing. He got blamed for everything. When Stefano got blamed for this business with Lexie illness, I got very angry. Stefano and his daughter had an absolutely pure relationship. I adore Renee Jones (Lexie). When she came to my dressing room and said, "I'm going to be leaving soon, and this is what is going to happen," I said, "Oh, no!"
Joe also goes on to say how unhappy he was that they changed the father/son relationship between EJ and Stefano too!. "It was very difficult. The bottom line Stefano is will always be about family. So when they wrote that, I couldn't figure it out. In all honesty, Stefano nor EJ would have had wanted it that way. As a matter of fact when James Scott (EJ) saw the business that Elvis wasn't Stefano's son, we both went, "No, that's wrong." We didn't want it that way."
Another issue for Mascolo was the ruination of Stefano's relationship with Kate, played by Lauren Koslow. "Stefano and Kate were solid, and in love, and I thought breaking them up was such a bad move."
As for now, Mascolo told SOD, "For all intent and purposes, Stefano is dead." But sources are reporting that he is already included in future story plans! So, will the Phoenix rise again? Do you think the writer ruined the character of Stefano with all these latest plot shifts leading up to his "murder"? Or, do you think it's making for great soapy drama? Let us know your thoughts!
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No offense to Joe Mascolo, but it was time for Stefano to go, or to change. I do agree with him though, about the ruin of the DiMera family. EJ should be Stefano's son, and the abrupt way that Kate betrayed him with Ian just didn't make sense to me. As a John and Marlena fan, I would have liked to have Stefano stay around, because it gives J & M more story, but maybe have Stefano diversify and have him do something besides the vendetta against the Brady family stuff. Hopefully he'll be back, if the story is good.… Read more »
i disagree about the Kate stuff, first he blackmailed her into marry him so it is not really a 'pure' relationship, secondly Kate is slutty nothing new she had affairs with many men even Ej (Stefano's son..come on he is still his son). That being said i love Joe Mascolo and his Stefano Dimera character and hope he will come back but make more creative stories for him writers..and that's right without him John and Marlena have no stories they are boring but it is time to change the dynamics between these characters..Stefano being the uber-villain is so predictable and… Read more »
I want him to come back …he is a great actor
Yes. He should come back. It will not be the same without the man we love to hate. They need the character.
I so enjoyed Stefano's character and I will miss him terribly. I hope they do write him back in, at least as a ghost or something. He will be missed! Loved his acting!!!
i do agree we need stefano back. I do believe that john is going to end up ejs father
I don't like them writing Stefano out. He was one of the main characters. His storey line was great for the show. They have already gotten rid of so many and each time the replace someone in the show it hurts the show. I don't like the Ian character if he is to be the new villain. Stephano was much better and had a sense of humor too. Ian is dulllllll.
The show will not be the same without Stefano! Cut out all of the teen age junk about bullying etc. Who cares? I've watched DAYS since in was created as a half hour show back in the sixties and it's become dull, uninteresting and it's time to write out all that teenage stuff that nobody's really interested in. Come back to us, Phoenix – we all miss you. Next will be getting rid of Victor – another big mistake to affect ratings.
Donna Lane
Stefano was a great character in the show hasn't been the same since they wrote him out hoping that he will come back soon that will make the soap more interesting
I can't believe how badly Joe Mascolo has been getting treated by this bloody show. All the reaches that had to be made to blame absolutely everything that's gone wrong over the past century on Stefano are not only implausible to viewers who only recently started watching the show, they're insulting to longtime viewers – not just fans of the show, but fans of Stefano and the lovely, talented man who portrays him. The people behind this show right now continue to treat us all as though we're idiots. The worst part about all of this is that it isn't… Read more »
Have to agree with what you stated. I have not been a longtime fan of the show, but recently started watching after OLTL was cancelled. I like the character of Stefano, but am not happy with the direction that the writers took with Stefano and his family. Even though I haven't been watching the show for decades, I am aware of the family dynamic that Stefano has for his children, and I think it was a poor decision to have the weight of the world all thrown on Stefano's shoulders. And I truly hated the way they dealt with the… Read more »
kay killgore
Right on Torrey excellent post!!!! I have not watched Days in a long time but you are right on about what is going on. These four soaps will be gone if they do not get their act together. Days in the 80's use to be the soap with super couples!! I guess not anymore.
Supercouples is too cheesy, people don't watch corny stories like that anymore, the real problem is that these writers are not daring and not creative enough.
I completely agree. The destruction of the DiMera family is ill-conceived and alienating. I so miss the uplifting moments and loving example of Viki (Erika Slezak) and others on OLTL. I remember feeling good after OLTL. Days and GH seem so depressing in comparison.
Don't forget the wonderful comic relief that Roxy brought to the show. She was one of my all time favorites. People may not agree with me, but I think it's hard to play someone who is drunk all the time, and pull it off in a believable manor, and Ilene Kristen was fantastic!! OLTL was such a well rounded show….that had drama, suspense, romance, comedy, action and everything else in between….something that sorely lacking in the four remaining soaps.
I so agree with you about Roxy. She was so funny and made watching OLTL such a pleasure. I wish she would open a beauty shop in Port Charles. I don't think she was drunk all the time (although she started out that way) but had a unique, quirky personality. I would love to see Roxy do Carly or Kate's hair when they couldn't get an appointment at their regular salon. Roxy would bring some needed humor to GH, although I don't know if GH viewers would give her a chance.
Cheryll
I agree, did not like the way it all went down, Stephino is the man you love to hate… The writers… who were supposed to do all this wonderful, writing – story lines that were going to make us all want to watch… failed, failed, failed. All they did was retell, stories of old, boring, and then ruined characters that used to be likable, I so wish I was educated in soap writing, because I sure as heck could have done a better job then they did….
I want stefano back not the same without him
I have been a DOOL fan for 20 years and I did not like how they changed Stefano's dynamic on family. There have been a few that we're not biologically his and yet, they were still his family. DOOL writers better not mess around with the foundation of strong, identifiable characters or they might be another AMC or OLTL!
Well actually he let Tony captive on a island for 20 years if not more, Kristen as a slave, Peter in jail and the other ones are DEAD so i love Stefano, very entertaining character but to say he is good to his family is a BIG FAT LIE.
Mascolo just did not like the changes, he will get over it when he will come back lol
I can only wonder with so many actors exiting recently if Days isn't under incredible financial pressure and the stress is so high that poor decisions are being made. It's as if the show is imploding before our eyes.
Wondered about that myself.
Stefano was an integral character to the show for years and should be brought back! Also EJ should have continued being his biological son. Big mistake. What are the new writers thinking? Have been a huge days fan and have watched it over 20 yrs and really am unhappy about the recent changes, comings and goings, and getting rid of great actors like joe mascolo etc.. also where is philip kyriakis? Chloe? Plus writing off jack devereaux? another big mistake. If the current writers continue messing with the traditional story lines and characters of this much beloved soap, I feel… Read more »
Lil0
I want Stefano to stay dead. But I think Stefano's ghost might return from time to time to "visit" Salem residents.
bonnie wallace
I certainly hope not!! I detest when they have a character come back as a ghost!! If not the real thing, then not at all!!
Man did these fired writers have it in for Joseph or what? I hope Stefano and Kate will get back together. I liked them.
I like them but they became boring they needed some drama so their break up was a good thing imo, moreover Stefano was not kind to Kate, to see her being so passive was quite awful..the guy tried to kill her beloved sons for pete's sake !
Baby MV
I ask how many more viewers are you willing to lose? Stefanos character ddisplayed an allusive allure. loved or hated the actors skills were comparable to Humphrery Bogart. Certainly I abd milliions of veiwers appreciated the immense style Stefano's character added to
Exactly what we all said "No, that's wrong" I hope the writers fix this mess! Ej is a Dimera ! We love James & Joe.
Joe & James are my favorite men on Days and I absolutely HATE what mardar did to the character of Stefano! They better bring him back and change the writing back to him being EJ's father. In changing that alone I have barely been able to watch. I hate how they have Stefano treating EJ their dynamic was so real! They are wonderful as father & son. Loved him with Kate and Lexi too. Stefano not caring about Johnny & Sydney is so"un Stefano". I did however like that he wanted EJ & Nikki broken up…please let that stick!
Gmbenet
I agree with everything Joe Mascolo said. (Who is going to disagree with Stefano?! Ha, Ha!)
But everything will be alright.
metejt
I completely agree with Joe Mascolo. The writers at Days are ruining the entire show. It's gotten so hard to follow again. I had SUCH high hopes when they did the "reboot" and brought back many long loved characters/actors. Sadly, that didn't last long before it once again became the "Sami Brady" show. I am sick to death of Sami Brady. I'm sure Ali Sweeney is a great woman but Sami Brady has been front burner FAR too long. It seems as though she's the only one the writers know how to write for. What they are doing with the… Read more »
Your comment is going to get you into trouble. Fans love Sam Brady, and the writers can write for her, but unfortunately not for several other characters.
The reboot was a good idea but nothing came from it. Subsequently, the loss of several veteran actors is painful. Now Joe! Please say no!
Wouldn't want to be an actor over there.
I have watched DOOL since it's inception and I hate the Sami Brady character. I would be so happy to see her leave town for awhile.
LOL Well, I'm a fan and I can't stand the character of Sami Brady anymore. Other characters/actors have much more potential for the show IMO.
And i love Sami Brady she is my favorite character by far on this show so i guess there is some balance out guys..ha
i agree with everything you said 1000%…………..
this was for metejt's comment…………
Mark It Right
Let me say that I met Ali Sweeney and she is the least friendly celebrity I have ever met and I have met a few. She was even at a meet and greet. Wasn't like I intruded on her personal time. I had loved her so much till then. Btw, Jaclyn Zeman was so wonderful and so was Colin Egglesfield (What a hot man). Anyway back to Days. I agree I don't want it to turn back into teh Sami show. Why would any of those guys want to be with her? She maybe has worked 2 weeks total since… Read more »
Maybe you were obnoxious and she was tired, actors are not always here to please you fans..me on the other hand i heard lot's of awesome things about Sweeney from people who met her.
As for Sami's love life, all the men are not after her at all, she has had just three love-interests all these last years, it is certainly not more than for the other female characters..actually it is LESS !
@Ella Maybe you are idiot. I have heard a lot of people say that about you. It must be true. Apparently you don't comprehend things very well. 1.) She was at a fan meet n greet. Since you obviously you have never been to one or know what one is. Let me explain it to you. The actors are there to meet their fans. That is the only reason. So she was there to please her fans. If she was tired or not that is irrevelant. Can you go to work at Kroger and get the shopping carts from the… Read more »
I understand Sweeney if she was annoyed by you Mark..lol, i don't know you and even i find your posts obnoxious that being said, i will close this 'lovely' debate with you, not worth my time anymore..bue bye
There is no debate. You can't. You have never met her. So you can only go by what someone else has told you. I had the unfortunate pleasure of meeting her.
First of all Sami Brady has only ONE storyline where she is not the lead her son Will is, secondly other characters who came back this year have as much if not more stories than her, i am fed up with these silly attacks on Sweeney and her character just because of some bitterness, jealousy misplaced..it is pathetic.
Moreover Steffi in character would not forgive Kate like that AT ALL, do you his character ? He did far worse to people who did not do one pourcent of Kate did to Stefano Dimera !!!
Maybe you should have someone to proof read what you write. According to your comment and I quote " Sami Brady has only ONE storyline where she is not the lead." So you are saying the same thing that everyone else has been saying that she is on too much.
Read your second paragraph again. It makes no sense. Also the correct spelling of pourcent is percent.
Ella you're a fan of hers, I get it. But let's be very clear about something. There was NO attack on Ali Sweeney. I don't like the character she plays. In fact I'm fed UP with Sami Brady. Far too much air time for ME. You like it, many of us do not.
What i wrote make perfect sense, thanks Mark.
Maybe to get it you have to think a little..as for 'percent' and not pourcent..who cares i am not the only one making gramatical, spelling errors on internet boards and i will not be the last..
Yep i like Sami Brady and while she has some detractors she has AS MUCH if not more fans, don't worry.
I have to agree they took what started out as a good s/l and totally jump the track. Stefano never after all these years would of turned his back on EJ. He would of found out who EJ's real father was not just except a old lab paper. he would still of loved EJ as he has others. The chasing the egg came out of the blue and what does it have to do with anything. Just to give John, Marlena, Hope and Bo a s/l? I have watched since the early 70's and the last 5mts have been all… Read more »
Pammydogs
You are so right on with your comments on Sami. I quit watching after being a die-hard fan for over 20 years…watched Sami grow up on the show…however, she keeps constantly regressing to the eternal 15 year old teenybopper – she's like Peter Pan – never really growing up. Sami, this and Sami that. I used to like Sami – but rinse, repeat and she is the girl that can do no wrong with Mr. Corday these days of the soaps lives…As for Stefy – he was the baddest of the bad and I really hate to see Stefano depart… Read more »
i have been watching days since i was 8 yrs old with my grandmother and love joe as stefano BIG MISTAKE WRITING HIM OFF, AM MAD AS HE!! AND IF HE DOES NOT COME BACK , I AM SO OVER DAYS PERIOD HE HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR THE SHOW FOR MANY YRS NBC AND CORDAY BETTER GET IT TOGETHER CAUSE THEY MAY BE NEXT FOR CANCELLATION WITHOUT JOE AKA STEFANO SO DISAPPOINTING, CHANGING HIS WHOLE STORYLINE, I AGREE WITH HIM 100% BRING BACK JOE IF HE WILL COME BACK THE PHONEIX NEEDS TO RISE AGAIN TO SAVE DAYS AND… Read more »
without Bo,Hope,E.J and Stephano the show is dead. I have watched it since I was 16 years old and am now 66 years old. If they get rid of all the old characters they will loose the fans that keep the show going. Where will the Cordays paycheck go then? STOP AND THINK WHO PAID YOUR SALARIES FOR YEARS"
I heartily agree with Mascolo's comments here – with the caveat that he can't really complain about Stefano being blamed for everything in slightly out-of-character plots since this is basically the point of the character of Stefano. But yes, the EJ plot is a disgrace (or is it just me or the mention of a DNA test may suggest Stefano will be EJ's father after all). As someone (was it EJ?) pointed out on the show, Stefano has had plenty of "children" that were not biologically his and that he stayed loyal and loving to and went to great lengths… Read more »
NeeNee
Sara, totally agree. Thaoo Penghlis' character of Tony DiMera was adjusted – readjusted – tweaked – & outright changed in order to accomodate various plotlines over the years. Final reveal on that was Tony was NOT his biological son, but Stefano didn't disown him; in fact, when he died in the freak impalement accident on the pier, Stefano mourned for months. I also concur about the coin plot. Blergh, indeed! But I'm thinking it may be the way Stefano's murderer is caught: perhaps it's Agent Harmon who would not have been on canvas were it not for the John/Hope Alamaina… Read more »
Thetruth
Stefano also let Tony prisoner for years and years and years on a island so pleas the out of character with Stefano and his children is ridiculous, by the way were are Kristen and Peter ? He doesn't care and did not mourn Benjy..so stop with this BS, i like Stefano and Mascolo charisma but get real please.
Agree. Kate and Stefano where great. Never understood why he would test her love for him. Ian has come and now is I think gone. For what? Since Dar/mar have been writing this show has been full of half s/l that never seem to have no real finish. I often see them given this or that fan base a bone s/l that ends up going no where.
I agree with everything Joe said and have said it many times to my friends in posts. Stephano this & Stephano that …every day 24/7 since John has been back and even before that. The one thing Stephano did do was love Lexie and it was wrong to blame Stephano just because Andre existed. GMAB.
I agree with everything Joe said!!
I love him and his honesty!!
Mardar made a mess out of Stefano and the Dimeras in general!
They ruined Stefano's character!
I hope the new writing team brings Joe back and fixes the EJ/Stefano paternity storyline!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen!!!!!!! We want Stefano!!!!!!!
I hate what they've done to Stefano, to Stefano/Lexie, to Stefano/EJ and to Stefano/Kate. He is a vital part of the show & I, too, hope that the new writers are smart enough to bring him back ASAP!!!
This reminds me of what another writer [Reilly, was it????] did to Victor years ago because he didn't like him. Victor had a stroke and was written out for years until someone was bright enough to realize how vital he was to the show.
Please and now Victor is a lame lame lame character, they should have killed him off instead of this awful writing for him right now..Victor Kiriakis is not Mickey Horton..pitiful
I LOVE Victor and now that he's with Maggie would love to see them get more story lines. They are wasting the real talent they have at Days.
goodcoffie
This writer shot Stefano and Killed Lexi and…and he is going to try and put EJ away and…and… he is just MEEEEAAANNN.
He is trying to destroy the whole DiMera Family! I…I….I….I JUST WON'T STAND FOR IT!!
You put it back or I will stop watch, Now!
The new writers are WORSE, be careful what you wish..they wrote the fake Rafe story AWFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I was crazy bad.
I AGREE WE WANT STEFANO PERIOD ANYWAY WE CAN GET HIM
NBC YOU TOTALLY ARE SO HORRIBLE IN ENDING HIS RUN AS THE
DIMERA PHOENIX, WHAT A MISTAKE
FIX DAYS NOW AND BRING HIM BACK
I "AGREE", bring Stefano back. He's my favorite!
Excellent article! Joe Mascolo said exactly what all of us have felt. What a huge mistake to destroy the DiMera Family. I can only hope Days rectifies the mess they've written themselves into.
Engrady Pind
Stefano is much more the heart of DooL than Sami Brady could ever hope to be. I do think it is time for him to disappear for a while and let Salem get along without him. I thought the breakup of his marriage came out of nowhere. Maybe it is time to close up the DiMeara mansion, set up fan allowance for Chad who can't get his thoughts out of Melanie's pants, and let EJ flounder on his own without the SiMeara name and power to throw around. I will miss Joe. He is certainly a suitable counterpoint to Drake's… Read more »
Why this attack on Sami ?!! Her character has nothing to do with that, back off !
She is a character who actually right now is complex, interesting and has only one story unlike some other boring characters who are on every days.
I Fast Fwy Sami to the next scene.
Terri Meyey
I have been watching Days forver, you can hate the Dimiras and then love them, its just part of any soap..theres been times I thought same for even some of the Bradys..I hope Stefano will come back..He is part of Salem and always will me..
Yes, the writers ruined Stefano, but he's not alone. Writers really messed up having EJ not be his son. Hope that's a mistake. And even if EJ isn't bio, don't push him away. It's also been way too long in bringing Chad back to the fold. The scenes yesterday with Stef and Lex were really good. Doesn't bother me so much that he could be to blame for her illness, but all the other stuff Stefano has been doing doesn't make sense. The stuff with trying to mess up EJ's bid for mayor, getting Will to rat on EJ (how… Read more »
Mo said, "how did Stefano know about EJ and Sami and that Will shot EJ? Did the couch talk?"
Remember the old one-season 1960's show, "My Mother the Car"?? Starring Jerry Van Dyke, this old vintage car talked because it was his mother, reincarnated as a car (voiced by Ann Sothern). Mo, you may have struck gold here . . how about "My Father, the Couch" to resolve EJ's parentage??!! Stefano could still do the voiceover . . .
Beverly Louise Jordan
I think it would be an interesting story plot for Stefano to survive but be totally dependent on E J for some time. And Lexie should have an experimental treatment for her condition given by a famous European doctor. She recovers but does not remember anything before the operation.
Rene Jones playing Lexie doesn't want to stay, so leave Lexie well alone, for once she is a character who has a great exit story, no need to mess it up with some silly corny rewrite, and i love Lexie/Jones but it is her choice.
II think this is the perfect oppertunity to bring Joe back to B&B because that needs something fresh right about now.
I was a long time viewer of Days but quit when Drake and Deidre were fired. I started watching OLTL then. After their cancellation, I tried to watch Days again but knew so few characters. It's just not the same and I'm not going to invest the time and my heart in another soap. But they should have left the character of Stefano alone. He's been killed and revived so many times. Let the main characters stay on the show. I'm really surprised Days is still on the air.
He's right about everything being bad being Stefano's fault, it seems like everything that goes wrong he is behind it. That's why I was disappointed in Ian being written off, he could've been a good villian and a good rival for Stefano. It's boring when you know Stefano is behind it, there's no suspense or mystery. Salem needs another bad guy, I use to like Stefano vs Victor, to bad Victor's been domesticated. I do not agree with Stefano and Lexie's having a pure relationship, and I actually like him being blamed for Lexie's illness. Stefano is the one that… Read more »
He did worse to Tony, Kristen, Peter, Benjy, René ect..and yep he disowned Tony more than once !
jorgeann
MarDar made a terrible writing decision. I am also upset about the destruction of Stefano and the DiMera family. i love Kate and Stefano and the relationship between EJ and Stefano. Joe Mascolo and James Scott are a dynamic acting duo that can't be matched. When I met James last year I commented on how I enjoyed his and Joe's scenes (I even entertained him by acting out the scene when Stefanobecame angry with EJ, and he told him to get out and never comeback). The DiMera should never have been blamed for all the injustices in Salem. I remember… Read more »
well these old/new writers are not better you will see, they just fired Ian Buchanan who had the potential to be a new villain and yep Ej needs to be gray not the new Stefano..but Ej an entity by himself, grey character.
I wholeheartly agree with everything Joe has said. It seems someone wanted to erase the DiMera Family methodically one by one. Stefano is the patriarch of the DiMera family and writing him off – well killing him off would be his "Swan Song". They destroyed his relationship with his son EJ, his daughter Lexie, his wife Kate. His "supposed son" Chad never wanted anything to do with him either. What was left? The man had no family? DAYS erased them all. I was extremely upset with the way DAYS treated this man who has worked so hard and dedictated so… Read more »
I totally agree with Joe. Days began on the right track with the Dimera family, Stefano, E.j, Kate and Nicole. There was a lot of potential for strong stories as they fought against Salem's perfects. They have destroyed what made them work, their commitment to each other. Now each member are written horrible.
I disagree their dynamics; the bad against the good people of Salem was boring and played out..however Stefano will come back which is a good thing and a new villain should be here to go toe to toe with him.
Sami was is and always will be the perfect mate for Ej : a grey couple Nicole is not needed, and ratings did prove it.
The bad versus good storytelling is corny and boring, people are not interested anymore by that except maybe you Trinity, time to move on complex grey characters is where is that.
I agree with EVERYTHING that Joe said. Stupid writers. Hopefully, the new (old) writers, can fix all this crap.
Realitycheck
THE NEW OLD WRITERS ARE FAR WORSE !
I agree with almost everything Joe said. I hate how everyone is out to kill Stefano and how he is to blame for every single thing that happened. Stefano wouldn't abbandon EJ like that. Joe's right. Stefano was always about family and he cared for Kristen, Peter and Tony and they weren't his bio kids either. So why would he turn his back on EJ? It doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. I also adore Stefano and Lexie's complicated relationship. They have had many ups & downs but in the end it's clear they love eachother and I really… Read more »
it is not too much actually where the gas stories was played in 2007 Stefano was involved and responsible so for once they just follow the initial writing, sadly Lexie fate is Stefano's fault.
I'm just saying it was unnecessary to have the toxic gas in the tunnel be the cause of Lexie's brain tumor. Alot of people die from a brain tumor without knowing the real cause. The writers just had to blame Stefano for everything so they could get rid off the character. It's as simple as that. And as far as i can remember Stefano didn't know Lexie was locked up in that tunnel. It was Andre who put her there. He wouldn't have allowed Andre to do that, but he did bring Andre to Salem so if anything he's indirectly… Read more »
Andre was Stefano's soldier, Stefano was the mastermind he knew everything !
JamesRox
Joe Mascolo is a wonderful performer whose character Stefano Dimera is an absolute delight.
It is hard to envision fictional Salem without Stefano outwitting the good guys and making DAYS's audience smile in the process.
May the Phoenix of daytime continue to rise for as long as there is sand in that hourglass.
AlistairCrane
The writers did a good job of making Stefano a scary and threatening villain again. He hasn't been that way since 1997! He's always at his best when he's terrifying. That being said, undoing EJ as Stefano's son was a huge mistake, and the break-up of Kate and Stefano was unnecessary. Can't wait for the Phoenix to rise from the ashes!
Yes to EJ not being Stefano's son because I want EJ to grow up and stop being Stefano's lapdog and fall guy for the evil Stefano does.
'But that does not mean I want him to be anyone else fall guy and lapdog.
AGREE, Ej being a mini one-note Stefano is pathetic and not interesting at all, we have ONE Stefano no need for another, Ej has to be grey.
I been saying this for awhile..Mar/Dar totally went out of their way to distroy, dismantle,errase all that was DeMira…I mean it was down right obvious when Mar/Dar took over they said then they were tired of the bad guys always winning and that will change boy they weren't kidding they totally and completely wiped them off the map of Salem…. I hear Tomlin already ask Joe to return so they can restore the DeMira family,, that includes Kate and EJ being his son…so all we have to do is watch painfully for 2 more months before Tomlin starte to fix… Read more »
Tomlin make bad bad bad storyline, totally boring and cliche, it will not get better Stefano or not.
I TOTALLY agree with Joe about everything he said! It was stupid to have EJ and Stefano not son and father, it was stupid to break up Stefano and Kate, and it was stupid to have him blamed for Lexie's illness. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
I defended these writers when they were fired but now I'm glad they'll be gone! The only thing they did right of all the stories is Will's story, and his scenes with marlena and Sami.
Hopefully Lorraine and the new team will fix these errors!
Stefano has always been responsible of Lexie's illness, they did not make anything !!!
You mean the illness that just came up a few months ago? You make it sound like she's had it for years.
Plus even the actors don't understand that.
no i am talking about her being kidnappened and hiden on the gas tunnels for MONTHS !
I agree with most of Joe Mascolo's comments. But, the fact that he is indirectly responsible for Lexie's illness: to me is karma. What goes around, comes around. For so many years, he has destroyed the lives of the Brady family, the Black family and what about André, Tony, and the list goes on…So it is poetic justice that he should pay in a most painful way: the death of his own daughter. What I do not like though, is the break-up with Kate. That was unnecessary! I loved them together. I also do not like the fact that E.J.… Read more »
i love joseph mascolo as stefano dimera. but they ruined his character. the writers don't know what they are doing. mark my words stefano will be back. for now we need a break from stefano dimera. stefano needs to pay for his crimes. stefano always gets away with everything. enough is enough.
I agree with most of what Joe said. It was stupid for the writers to play with EJ's paternity and make him not Stefano's son. I believe the writers wanted to make Ian the new Stefano, and make him a Dimera and EJ's father, given that Ian was these writer's creation and baby. I think they were going to do yet another big reveal for shock value as opposed to writing a good well developed story about family dynamics. Now they've fired the actor that plays Ian, so all of that storyline and what they have put the audience through… Read more »
I love Stefano. Please bring him back to the show. I agreed with everything Joe Mascolo said. I've been watching the show since 1991. Big fan of Joe Mascolo.
Hope Stfano will be back soon.
Some commentaries are really silly, Sami Brady is one the most iconic and complex characters still on this soap, no need to blame her when she has nothing but really nothing to do with this. Stefano has always been responsible of Lexie's illness (this story was written in 2007 and he was already responsible) he disowned his children time and time again, let them rot as slave, in jail or in a island ect.. His pairing with Kate became stale and boring it needed movement, moreover seing Kate as some lapdog with a guy who blackmailed her, tried to kill… Read more »
I think the writers have lost their minds; I love Joe Mascolo! I am growing tired of the storylines on Days and have watched since I was a kid
Days should hire back Kola Boof!!! She has a freaking "bible" of the soap already written. They stole the idea of Will becoming gay from her so why not hire her and get all of her story ideas. I'm just sayin.
DOOL, without Alice Horton… is DAYS without STEFANO… LEGEND. Contrasting Energies. The "Good" and the "Bad". The Hortons, Bradys, and the Dimera's. Nuff Said… Joe Mascolo… "God", the "Phoenix", "Satan". Shakespeare. A tour de fource JUGGERNAUT. daytimes FINEST. it's maddening… Sad… Anxious Times. I marvel, the talent, we've witnessed… Stefano, is one of those actors, we shouldn't do without. He defines Serials. soaps are an outlet… an escape… A voyeuristic flight. 5 days a week… without fail… whether you wanted it or not. Who's knocking at the door? the first thing that came to mind… when he left the last… Read more »
Patrick replied May 30th, 2012 at 12:28 am Thank You…. Intriguing writing. your words… "the hourglass isn't going to trickle down forever…." Enliven us back… to the Tom and Alice Horton spirit. My take on Stefano… i want him to stay on DAYS… COULD THIS BE… THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY… for a new reign… a new helm… taking command of the Dimera Enterprise… ALA… Eileen Davidson! Returning as KRISTEN?!?! TO Perfect this juggernaut powerhouse…. bring back jason brooks as Peter… flirtatious, simmering sensuality… for Jenn! remember those days? Kristen as an adversarie, even ally, for Salem.. and vying for John's affections…… Read more »
Peter returning with "simmering sensuality" for Jenn . . .
Don't think that will ever happen. As I recall, the actor who played Peter and Melissa Reeves had a real-life steamy affair. And she almost lost her marriage over it. But she & husband Scott Reeves worked through it, with the Jennifer character just disappearing off the canvas for many years. In addition, didn't the Peter character die??
I know… thankfully, Melissa and Scott… worked thru this trying time in their past. it's definately wishful thinking… all things considered.. these two worked great story… Stefano's son and Grans grandaughter.. Peter Blake and Jennifer Horton… The Spawn/pawn of stefano ala Jason Brooks.. and Closer to Gran in Salem true Heroine Jennifer. According to Soap central… the story with Peter ended with him in jail… Stefano "gave" him a cure for his jungle madness… as stefano waned his way out of this and in salems' good graces as an upstanding citizen… thereby… peter "paying" for stefano's machinations… just like Kristen… Read more »
Yeah, Patrick now I recall the "jungle madness" thing. Maybe this whole bring-back-Peter-and-Kristin thing could happen . . . IF they use a different actor for Peter (that would take away the awkward factor for Melissa Reeves). I am betting there has been some kind of contact between Corday & Eileen Davidson. Her various personalities of Kristin/Susan/and others were just a hoot! My husband still laughs about the faux wedding between Susan & John Black when Susan's fake teeth flew into Vivian's martini glass!!!!
NeeNee… i'm so glad.. we can You-Tube… said… episodes… That is the all time ultimate scenery… john and kristen/Susan's Wedding… LOL… i'm laughing just thinking about the same episode. as for a recast of Peter blake… i, for the heck of it.. said… Vincent Irizarry… ie: dr. david hayward… wouldn't he be great as a son to Stefano? and his talented acting with both eileen davidson and Joe Mascolo… course, i got stomped on… as Dr. david.. is Mr. AMC. how about robert kelker kelly? the former Bo… so Billie can have some one…. to par with…. heck… please, sony/days… Read more »
Patrick replied May 30th, 2012 at 9:35 pm do you remember, when Laura and Bill came home for Grans funeral? Bill and Kate fell outa the tv. they were so real. they need to bring jenns mom Laura and Bill Horton back… this would be a great dynamic and trio to mix in with the veterans. Kate/Laura/Bill… with Stefano fighting back….. whilst Kristen (i hope) helms the Dimera Empire. teasing John and Marlena. top this all off with Peter Blake and Jennifer Horton. Toast to the hour glass. Repeating myself… this is still my favorite IDEAL. my other two…. bring… Read more »
Javen
Good idea! Kayla with Daniel . They are not using Kayla now and that is silly as she is great. Javen
Patrick replied May 30th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Remember Jenn's Mother… Dr. Laura…. LOL… she was pure camp.. classic Serial…. Miss Egg Shells. Jenn was just beside herself. Fragile neurotic.. there were many flights Laura had left in her..
Didn't Laura look good with Bill! i thought so… when they returned forn Grans' funteral. I also liked the chemistry with Bill and Kate. this would really rock Dr. Laura's Boat.
OK… i'm gushing… pulling out all the stops… Heed my vested Interest.
What are you talking about ?!! Sami should be the last one to be an homophobe, it doesn't fit at all with her character !! Sami was an underdog who suffered of lack of self-esteem, insecurity actually she would totally get the underdog status of somebody young who is afraid of coming out !! On the other hand Lucas being the homophobe would have made a great story, it would fit his character and finally give him a story otherwise he is useless and boring. As for Nicole she is not a force at all, where did you see that… Read more »
I was agreeing with another poster, fan, who suggested this ideal… about giving Sammi new meaty material to work with. Sammi's drive… ala her insecurity…is another dimension. Sammi has a GAY son.. that should be plenty for Sammi to work with. Let's see SAMMI TAKE A STAND. AN ADULT with INTELLIGENCE.. step outside herself… and BOND with WILL. another fan, stated, aside from the "downfall" of DAYs as of late… the Will/marlena story has been the BEST. I AGREE. kudos to these two… WILL AND MARLENA ARE GIVING US PURE EMMY CALIBUR PERFORMANCES. As, fans, of the show… we simply… Read more »
i kinda see this as a catalyst… a full circle, if you will… in Sammi and Will… Lucas, readily admitted he wasn't around for so many years… and is re-learning how to be a father.. you have Sammi and her oldest son… parenting with his siblings… and side by side, through the years.. distant, moreso… watching Sammi's relationship(s) fallout, one after another… No stable influences… or father figure(s). it's just time for Sammi, to pay attention and focus on her son. She has support from Lucas… the three of them will find their way back to each other. it's a… Read more »
And Lucas will remain a useless sidekick to Sami (or Kate) not a real character..not good for the Lucas character imo..
They already rocked Laura's boat years ago. Lucas is Bill Horton's son.
I think it would be FUN… to have Laura and Bill; (jamie Lynn Bauer & John Martin) back… to bring the Hortons Back while we stew over Stefano and his family's return… (ALA Kristen Davidson and wishful Jason Brooks). Jenn needs her mother.. ala alice hortons family… and Lucas father… for Kate… this triangle… would smolder… till the Phoenix' return… off all of Stefano's dalliances… Kate is his best "bet". it would be a treat to see Laura and Maggie helming the Horton clan… with Jenn/Bill/Lucas – kate… a stronghold.. a comaraderie.. then the DiMera's force in to town.
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I, too, recently started watching DOOL after OLTL was cancelled, so I've not got the years of history with this show that many of you have.
That being said, I am glad that this character is being written off. I haven't seen anything in the months I've been watching that would make him a character I would "love to hate"…I just "hate." I've FF'd through the majority of his scenes except for most with EJ. Maybe that's because EJ IS a character I can "love to hate."
I can't stand what they have done to Days. First they bring back my beloved Jack, played wonderfully by Matt Ashford, I got used to him being back and now they are going to write him off. What they have done to the Stephano character is appalling and after watching the show since 1976 I think I'm ready to give it up. Why have that Gabi character become a psycho chasing a man who is in love with another woman, who cares about Gaby, I have no time invested in her and if she left I would not miss her.… Read more »
Because it was his fault, look back to 2007 you will see that Stefano is the one responsible of Lexie trip on the gas tunnels, they did not rewrite the story this time, it is a good move.
Stefano needs to stop being so bad…the ISA thing is gettting really old. But I will miss seeing Joe on screen. , or leave
I meant to say that Stefano needs to stop being bad or leave
OH please it is the essence of the character, without the bad side he is useless..just watch Victor Kiriakis..he is a pathetic bore right now and has no storylines..you really want that for Stefano ?!
Yes. Victor is not boring. Maggie just found out the truth. Now THAT is interesting, not some ISA crap where Stefano is never punished. Why would anyone want to see the same old storylines where Stefano tries to ruin someone's life, the cops try to get him, he escapes, and then he just does it all over again? Victor is not boring; he just doesn't have much screentime because stupid Stefano and ISA took over the show!
You are right, Margot. Victor has become mundane but the writers can change that. Love Maggie but victor needs to get his "manhood" back. He and Stefano are important for days. We can't have a show with only "good" people. Javen
Joe Mascolo needs to be on DOOL… it won't be the same w/out him… they're a team.
I hope Days rethinks this bad move…
I believe they already have when Tomlin took over the reigns ..that was the first thing he done was to bring back Joe..I believe he'll be back just in time for the son Ian McAllister makes his departure so I he be back July Cliffhanger..
NO! I don't agree with any of it. They should never have broken Stefano & Kate up, nor should they have created the stupid story line that now all of a sudden EJ is not his son. I will no longer watch Days without Stefano (Joe). He is and was the best part of the show and one of the major reasons why I watched. I will look at another show to watch as it won't be Days now that he's gone.
My motto if Joe is not on I am not there..last day for me will be 6/13 when we see the last of Joe Mascolo (Stefano) but don't worry we only I hope have only a no joe siting until August and he'll be back repairing his family
Don't worry…SOD hinted in 2 magazines that the Phoenix will rise again..he is already in future story plots..I believe Tomlin frst Job task was to ask Joe to return after the terrible treatment he suffered under Mar/Dar…He will be back problerly just to kick McAllister butt to the curb and take his family back..hints of the week of 6/18 spoilers Has hinted that Stefano "death" is not what it seems a his daughter dis in other wrods his death didn't take
Why????????????? Kill Stefano,???? Bad Idea!!!!! E.J. not Stefano's son… That was not a good move….. I loved Stefano and all his evil doings….. He loved his family…. Oh how much he loves Lexi, what a shame she is leaving.
Kate and Stefano was such a great match, now that marriage is over too…
What a shame….
I always loved watching Day's… I hope the show can still remain interesting to watch….
I finally caught up… thru wedneday. after seeing Lexie… break down… i could actually.. see, her, possibly doing the evil deed of comeuppance for Salem. FOR THE LOVE OF THEO… MISSING OUT… i broke with her.. when she was hugging Abe… saying… "she's not ready".
i hope, as most want… that it's a who shot JR? – Phoenix rising, Summer Break for Mascolo… as they create Mystery… intrigue… Build up… for Stefano… having Kristen.. helming the Dimera Empire… Reaks… Drama.
Lexie asked EJ.. why no DNA testing? EJ said…"fathers' already convinced"… ???
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I understand that Joseph Mascolo is 83 years young and he has truly perfected the Stefano Dimera character. Frankly, I can't see Days surviving without the character. Yes, he's been gone for small stints before but he always returns. As for the writing I have to agree that EJ not being his son was a ludicrous move. To add injury to insult, we have no clue who his biological father really is (John Black ?) He will be sorely missed as he really is a central character to the entire soap. Why split up his marriage to Kate, let her… Read more »
the one we don't need is Rafe the faux-hero and his dull family. End of story.
I have been watching DOOL for almost forty years and the current story line involving Stefano has been pathetic. The show needs the continuity between Stefano and E.J. They also did not need to tie Stefano to Lexie's demise. He has always been a loving and faithful parent. I just wish the writers would stop making so many stupid character changes. There was never a need for Ian, or Carrie and Austin. Madison should have been developed better. The people who run DOOL should realize that changes for only making a change is not always a good thing. Sure hope… Read more »
It is untrue ; he has not always been a 'loving and faithful parent' you are kidding i hope, he spend all his time blackmailing Ej for one reason or another, not long time ago he let him mourn a child who was not his for pete's sake !
Right and the Brady family is perfect. They don't follow the law at all, their kids are never around. Bo's daughter kills his son. Bo cheats on his wife and Hope has done the same (Mimi's brother). Marlena has shot Stefano and then put him in a coma, while Roman looked the other way. I much rather be in Stefano's family. By the way, remember when Hope gutted Bart for a key??
By the way. Why was the fact that Stefano and John being half brothers developed at all. No mention of it at all.
fired writers desolved that family reunion dispite Joe personally going to them and reminded them that John is his Brother. it's .unknown if Tomlin will DeMirize John as Stefano brother again
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Paul Graham famously said, "I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds." This quote comes from an article in which Graham tried to reason whether or not a city could create its own Silicon Valley. He wrote that article in 2006 and like most of his writing it is pessimistically optimistic. It is possible to create another Silicon Valley, though it's going to be difficult. Here are five cities that could make a run for it: Nashville, Tennessee – Nashville might just be the happiest city in the US. And what's not to be happy about there? Music streams out of every door. Downtown has a fun, funky, walkable design. It's beautiful and people are kind. The city just feels good. It has an inherently social vibe that makes interactions easy and sharing of all kinds probable. Sounds like a recipe that's ripe for collaboration and is exactly what a tech hub needs.
In October, Launch Tennessee re-launched the Phase 0/00 Program, a competitive process to help small businesses apply for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants or contract funding. The program is funded in part by a Federal and State Technology (FAST) grant from the Small Business Administration. Since we re-launched the program, Launch Tennessee Commercialization Director Jim Stefansic and Mark Henry, a nationally known SBIR/STTR expert and consultant, have screened numerous companies, helping them apply or prepare to apply for government grants. I spoke to Jim to get his take on some of the most common questions we get about the program.
Cloud-based patient engagement platform IngagePatient, founded in 2007 as RegisterPatient in Gainesville, Fla., is moving its corporate headquarters to Franklin and plans to double the size of its team with new hires. Justin Neece, COO of the company, said Nashville makes sense as a home base because of its broad health care community and the strong "entrepreneurial spirit" in the area's health and technology sectors.
Chattanooga resident and budding entrepreneur Ongeleigh Gipson has combined two passions—environmental science and sustainability and fashion—to create a business called Temperate, which offers women's clothing made from local, organic products. "It's taking [the locavore movement] and applying it to clothing," Gipson said. "It wasn't but 100 years ago when we knew exactly where everything came from. Now, it's about getting your dress as cheaply as possible because we've extorted child labor in other countries." On Thursday, Gipson is having a pop-up shop at Society of Work, a relatively new downtown collaborative workspace.
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In fact, 51% haven't taken a day off at all for a minor ailment in the last 12 months. 74% admitted that they went to work feeling enough to stay at home.
So, what is it making people solider on? Of those who took less time off this year, one-quarter had not wanted to let their colleagues down. 1 in 5 of the 2,000 workers surveyed was concerned about their job security, and 1 in 12 mentioned uncertainty after Brexit.
Men were more concerned about the impact of Brexit than women (12.73% compared to 4.85%), as were the younger generations (aged 25-34) at 12.57%.
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'Devastating' weekend as Gibraltar loses 13 people in two days to Covid-19
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Gibraltar recorded another 13 Covid-related deaths over a "devastating" weekend that drove the death toll to 43 since the start of the pandemic.
During the past week alone, 27 people have passed away either as a direct result of the virus or while infected with it.
Nine Covid-related deaths were recorded on Sunday, the worst in a single day since the public health crisis almost a year ago.
The stark data was confirmed by the Gibraltar Government in its latest Covid update on Sunday, as Chief Minister Fabian Picardo confirmed he would address the community in a live press conference from No.6 Convent Place at 4pm on Monday.
Mr Picardo described the latest developments as "harrowing", adding he himself lost a relative and friends in recent days.
All but three of those who died this weekend were in the care of the Elderly Residential Services, where there were still 130 active cases of Covid-19 on Sunday.
Those who died included six women and four men, the youngest in their early 70s, the eldest in their late 90s. All were recorded as being deaths from Covid-19.
Two men and woman who were not in the care of ERS also died this weekend from complications arising from Covid-19, including a man in his late 60s.
"The death toll is growing at an intolerable rate both in terms of those resident in ERS and those in the hospital on arrival from the community," Mr Picardo said on Sunday.
"Personally I have lost friends, work colleagues, supporters and relatives in three days."
"I know that many others also share this deep sense of loss and my thoughts are with everyone who has lost a loved one at this difficult time."
"It is just devastating at a human level."
"Our vaccination programme brings us hope but we need to work together to see away these dark days."
"Accept the vaccine when the GHA offer it to you."
"For now, stay home unless it is absolutely necessary and keep at our tried and tested methods of keeping the virus away from you and your loved ones."
"Wash your hands, wear a mask, call 111 as soon as you notice symptoms."
"Together we will pull through."
And as the Chief Minister shared the sad news on his social media, Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya sent a message of support to Gibraltar.
Dear @FabianPicardo I want 2 express our solidarity with all Gibraltarians who are fighting #covid19 as are Spaniards - we all hope that with the vaccines and the observance of recommendations from public authorities the pandemic will soon be behind us 🤝@MAECgob https://t.co/yADqfYiaei
— Arancha González (@AranchaGlezLaya) January 17, 2021
The latest deaths were reported as the number of new Covid-19 infections fell over the weekend compared to the preceding days and more people recovered from the virus, offering at least a slim ray of hope against the backdrop of tragic news.
On Saturday, 62 new active cases were recorded, dropping to 33 on Sunday.
Another 101 people recovered from the virus on Sunday, bringing the total number of recoveries since the start of the pandemic to 2689.
The number of active cases in Gibraltar stood at 791 on Sunday and there were 1628 in self-isolation.
There were 35 people being cared for in the Covid wards at St Bernard's Hospital and another 10 in the critical care unit.
The latest information was released as Gibraltar continued apace with its vaccination program.
To date, a total of 5,847 people have received their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
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PUBLISHED: November 29, 2012 at 10:37 p.m. | UPDATED: July 22, 2021 at 1:47 a.m.
HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush was in a Houston hospital Thursday for continuing treatment of a lingering cough. Bush, 88, has been in and out of the hospital recently for complications resulting from bronchitis, Methodist Hospital said in a brief statement. The hospital and Bush's spokesman in Houston, Jim McGrath, described Bush as in stable condition and said they expected the former president to be released by the weekend. He's been under hospital care for nearly a week. "If you asked him today, he would tell you he feels good enough to get out this afternoon," McGrath said Thursday. "But the doctors have a different view. He's 88, and they're being extra careful, and understandably so." The former president's illness was described as not life-threatening. "Any time someone the president's age had bronchitis, there's concern about possible pneumonia," Dr. Amy Myunderse, who is in charge of Bush's care, told the Houston Chronicle. "Mr. Bush's condition never progressed to that level." Bush was treated with antibiotics and steroids, she said. McGrath said this is Bush's second extended hospital stay this month. "This cough has kind of been building on itself since roughly the beginning of the month," he said. "He was hospitalized earlier in the month for a little over a week. They thought they had successfully contained the bronchial issues but they hadn't. "It kind of flared up again over Thanksgiving and the day after Thanksgiving, he was readmitted." McGrath said physicians want the cough to go away completely before Bush is discharged. "They don't want to put him through this again," McGrath said. Bush's son, former President George W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Laura Bush, slipped in to see him Sunday. They now live in Dallas. The elder Bush was vice president under Ronald Reagan from 1980 to 1988, when he was elected president. He lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton four years later. Bush and his wife, Barbara, now make their winter home in Houston and spend summers in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush was seen a few weeks ago attending a Houston Texans NFL game, something he does frequently. He suffers a form of Parkinson's disease that has forced him to use a wheelchair or motorized scooter to get around. The former president was a naval aviator in World War II — at one point the youngest in the Navy — and was shot down over the Pacific. He achieved notoriety in retirement for skydiving on at least three of his birthdays since leaving the White House in 1992.
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Most of the students that we get require help in their global essays and hence, in this guideline assignmentstudio.net would like to highlight the key components of most global essays; the themes which are uniformly present in all essays of this nature will be mentioned and elaborated so that any student who mentions these is likely to score well.
The first theme that any global essay must contain is that of identity and ideology, and this is specific to your history, your national identity, and why you subscribe to it. How do you feel your country's identity contributes to the global arena and the international platform. What diversity and what functions does your different identity play? Additionally, who subscribes to it? What are the grassroots of this ideology?
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Conflict resolution is perhaps the most important theme in a global themed essay. The reason why it is mentioned in our assignment help mechanism is that in the global arena there are multiple nations involved and all of them have their own agendas. At times these agendas clash with one another and a conflict arises. How a conflict is resolved and how conflict resolution is an important process for the propagation of a peaceful global climate is important to mention.
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Realpolitik, being counted as the fifth theme is a rational view of the world adopted by nations who wish to ensure their sovereignty. The concept of the state and its allies emerges from the selfish notion of propagating itself, and ensuring that its national interests are satisfied. Being a widely used ideology by states, any assignment if is to acquire the best marks would be incomplete without this theme.
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