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DO THE RIGHT THING Criterion Edition DVD
El Cosmico here, along with Alexandra DuPont, with a double-dose of reviewing power, taking in an exceedingly excellent double-DVD edition of Spike Lee's breakthrough and signature piece, DO THE RIGHT THING.
One of the great things about DVDs is that they give the reviewer-come-lately, webfolks like myself, a chance to review a film that's long since out of the cinemas. Most of the time, I really don't give a damn or think much of the latest flicks to come out on DVD, so why mention them at all? Better that many should just be forgotten. Not so with DO THE RIGHT THING.
I had forgotten just what a beautiful and lovingly made film this was until I saw it again with all of the wonderful extras that have been included. Ms. DuPont lists them all methodically below, so I won't get too redundant on you, but suffice it to say that one of the best things about this particular Criterion edition is that it really gives you an insight and a level of empathy with the director. Taken as a whole, all of the extras point clearly to exactly where the director is coming from, what the actors see in their characters, what the goal of the film was, and importantly, it helps in understanding whether and how that goal was reached.
Like I said, it's a beautiful and lovingly made film. When I got the DVD, the first thing that popped into my head was the violent ending. The confrontational nature of the film, which was a source of controversy, mostly by those who didn't care to think about it. What I should have remembered was the warmth with which all of the characters were treated; the depth of understanding that was shown in their relationships. Most of this film, almost all of it, is an affectionate portrait of a community, with all of its quirks, its strengths and failures.
More than that, there is such style in this film, it makes you wonder how so many directors get away with the rampant blandness that dominates film. Spike is one of the few contemporary directors, who, like the Coen brothers, has a genuinely distinctive look and feel to his films. They feel like paintings, done in a particular artist's fashion, or like music, played with panache and flair. When you're watching a Spike Lee film, you can FEEL it. There's a real artist at work in these movies.
I know, lots of you don't like Spike because he makes you feel uncomfortable. Maybe you feel accused of something, maybe you think he beats issues silly. I just like the conversation. I like that someone is giving his heartfelt opinion on something, and that he's not completely full of shit. To be sure, I disagree with some of the things that Spike says about the film. He thinks Sal is a racist. Danny Aiello and I don't. I think that if you call Sal a racist, you have to call just about everyone in this film a racist. Pino is a fucking racist pig bastard, but while Spike seems to think he gets it from Sal, I think Pino gets it from his friends, who we never see, but who are talked about. In that same conversation, we hear Sal talk about "these people", referring to everyone in the neighborhood. Spike mentions in the commentary that a comment like that is something like a separation, a way of calling them different. I watch that scene, though, and see Sal trying to explain to his worthless, racist son, that he, Pino, and Vito have more in common with the people in their neighborhood than they do with other "American Italians". I can almost hear Sal calling "these people" "our people", but being afraid to say something like that to his fool of a son, Pino.
There are lots of things like this, where I just disagree with what Spike says, but his skill in this film is that even though he interprets scenes differently than I do, they're still accessible to my viewpoint. I disagree with the order of the quotes at the end. Did Mookie do the right thing? Hell no. But I understand why he did what he did. I understand why all of the characters went the way they did. That doesn't mean that I like them all, but it does mean that I like this film. A lot.
So, this week doesn't provide the best in cinematic fare at the local megaplex, but it does provide the opportunity to own a significant work of true art, of truly important American cinema, presented as it should be, in a spectacular special edition from Criterion.
Well, enough from me, here's Alexandra DuPont, with a great and detailed breakdown of the disc, courtesy of the fine folks at DVD Journal.
I. A Fawning, Box-Cover-Ready Blurb for Do the Right Thing: Criterion Edition
Do the Right Thing deserves "The Treatment" as much as any movie Criterion's ever licensed. This is why DVD players are worth buying: to showcase a pristine print, plus a gaggle of supplemental materials that pile up taller than a congressional report.
II. Why the Criterion Double-Disc Treatment?
Well, for one thing, the movie's historically important. Do the Right Thing dropped onto cineplexes like an atom bomb in 1989, opening the financial floodgates for a new wave of black films that included Boyz N the Hood, Menace II Society and other, less deserving titles (including, I'm afraid, the post-Boyz career of John Singleton and many of director Spike Lee's subsequent films, which, excepting Malcolm X, have tended to suffer from goofy structural flaws and thematic deck-stacking).
But to the devil with economics and social context! Most important, Do the Right Thing is very nearly the only film about race to avoid pedantic sermonizing (or at least unfunny pedantic sermonizing), precious moments and/or the aforementioned thematic deck-stacking. Instead, the movie's sexy, funny, lean, mean, theatrical, surprising, tightly constructed and shockingly balanced in its empathy for (and condemnation of) all racial viewpoints. Roger Ebert puts it nicely in his "liner notes" for the Criterion edition:
"...it seemed to me that any open-minded member of the audience would walk out of the movie able to understand the motivations of every character in the film not forgive them, perhaps, but understand them. A black viewer would be able to understand the feelings of Sal, the Italian-American whose pizzeria is burned by a mob, and a white viewer would be able to understand why a black man who [sic] Sal considered his friend would perform the action that triggers the mob."
Well, exactly. Which sort of leads me to
III. The Story
It's the hottest day of the year in New-York's Bedford-Stuysevant neighborhood. The movie follows 24 hours in the lives of nearly two dozen broadly sketched characters among them a bum (Ossie Davis), an Italian pizzeria owner (Danny Aiello, never better), his Cain-and-Abel sons (John Turturro, Richard Edson), a delivery man (Spike Lee), a single mother (Rosie Perez), a radio DJ (Samuel L. Jackson, credited as "Sam Jackson" back in '89), a neighborhood activist (Giancarlo Esposito) and a young man (Bill Nunn) identified primarily by his 20-"D"-battery-requiring boom box and "LOVE" and "HATE" hand rings (lifted directly from Night of the Hunter).
IV. Parenthetically:
I should note that this movie isn't set in the real-life Bed-Stuy neighborhood; rather, it's set in a brightly-colored alternate-universe Bed-Stuy that's pretty much devoid of both serious crime (until the climax, anyway) and drug use. As one friend rather brutally puts it, Do the Right Thing's Bed-Stuy feels a bit like "Sesame Street" with racist epithets.
But the reductive treatment of the film's milieu is important: For one thing, it focuses the movie (and the viewer) on the racism theme without distraction. Still, this thematic exclusivity caused no small amount of consternation among PC critics in '89: They decried the dropping of Bed-Stuy's drug problem as if Lee should be responsible for shouldering All the Problems of African-American Culture in one sitting. (Lee beautifully addresses his reductionist choices in one of the film's extras, BTW, which I'll get into later.)
V. Anyway: Back to the Story
At first, Do the Right Thing seems essentially plotless a fast-paced Slacker filmed at Dutch angles with all these myriad characters wandering the neighborhood and sitting on stoops and crossing one another's paths and arguing and often as not being extremely funny in the process. (Keep an eye out for a very young Martin Lawrence in his first screen appearance.) But when Buggin Out (Esposito) notices that pizza man Sal (Aiello) doesn't have any African-Americans on his "Wall of Fame," he tries to "boycott [Sal's] fat pasta ass" a minor grievance that escalates over the course of the day, eventually drawing all the film's characters into a full-fledged riot.
VI. Why that Broad Plot Sketch Fails to Capture what Makes Do the Right Thing So Extraordinary
For me (and, one assumes, the fine folks at Criterion), the movie's damn near pitch-perfect lightning in a bottle, a magic confluence of cinematic players.
There's the writing, for starters revised and sharpened during the rehearsal process, if the disc's extras are to be believed. As mentioned, the dialogue's extremely funny filled with arguments that defy the normal trappings of the "message film" because winners are seldom if ever declared. One minor example: Ossie Davis' bum character, who calls himself "Da Mayor," gets into a tete a tete at one point with four kids. He starts out telling his nobly intoned sob story, which the other kids interrupt and more or less demolish a complete inversion of the usual "These-kids-nowadays" conversation. Also: What other screenwriter would dare to interrupt his narrative without explanation to stage a mortifying (and disturbingly funny) montage of characters staring straight into the camera uttering strings of racial slurs?
(Also, a parenthetical and not-at-all-important note on character names: Spike Lee has become sort of notorious for the bizarro monikers with which he saddles his protagonists the worst example being his naming Wesley Snipes' character in Jungle Fever, good Lord, "Flipper Purify." But Lee's naming instincts were never more spot-on than here: Buggin Out, Da Mayor, Mother Sister, Mookie, Radio Raheem, Coconut Sid, Sweet Dick Willie, Officer Ponte, Mister Senor Love Daddy.... If you can find it, it's worth tracking down the out-of-print Do the Right Thing making-of book, which contains Lee's excellent set diary: At one point, he lists more brainstormed character names: True Mathematics, Pain, Sweet Feet, Re-Re, Clean Head, Bleek, Peace God, Born Knowledge, Knock Knock, Indestructible, Be So Mighty.... Many of these names show up in his later films, BTW.)
Then there's the acting: Though broadly sketched, most of these goofily named characters generate a surprising amount of empathy, even when they're saying unlikable things. Special praise goes out to Esposito for his high-speed rantings; Aiello for his transcendent Italian hothead (a character rumored to have been carved out of arguments with Lee); Davis for elevating his "worthless bum" character well above the realm of cliché; Nunn for a monologue on his LOVE and HATE rings; the late stand-up comic Robin Harris for staring straight into the camera and saying terribly ribald things; Lawrence (in a tiny part) for never moving his lower lip, to hilarious effect; Rosie Perez for somehow making screeching an endearing character trait; and young "Sam" Jackson for binding the narrative together with smooth disc-jockey interludes.
I could go on and on. Ernest Dickerson's vibrant, complex cinematography (despite relying a little too heavily on cocked angles) is practically a character in the film; his use of light and color to convey sweltering heat is among the film's greatest pleasures. And the score by Bill Lee (Spike's father), featuring Branford Marsalis, is one of my personal favorites: It's jazz by way of Aaron Copland, with a tender, mournful sound that contrasts nicely with Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," which blisters throughout the film.
VII. So It's Criterion Already. What About the Damned Extras?
Do the Right Thing is deeply ingrained in the currency of my film-geek friendships, with lines and nicknames quoted to this day; as you can imagine, to this writer's eyes, the Criterion two-disc edition is like holy writ. Here are the extras far more than you can enjoy in one sitting in varying degrees of detail:
Scattered throughout are video introductions by Spike Lee, each about a minute-and-a-half long, featuring Lee leaning way too close into the frame and intoning quietly. Truth be told, many of these snippets have the substantive value of variety-show intros, and don't seem adequately prepared, but I'm still sort of glad they're here.
The audio commentary features Lee, cinematographer Ernest Dickerson, production designer Wynn Thomas, and Spike's sister Joie. It's a dense commentary, though somewhat apocryphal (Lee references a Jackie Robinson biopic, for example, that he hasn't made yet, though he says it's been released by the time we're hearing this). Kudos to the participants' acknowledgment of the film's inherent theatricality its sacrificing of realism in the service of theme.
But the real treat may be Spike Lee's videotaped behind-the-scenes footage, which includes the read-through, rehearsals, character-development discussions with key performers, set construction, and the film's "wrap party" (during which Lee is given a Larry Bird Celtics jersey by the crew). It's all messy and hand-held and full of improv that goes nowhere fast, but there are some treasures to be found:
- The read-through and rehearsals are marvelously unpretentious familiar to anyone who's been in community theatre, really and feature now-established actors chipping in eagerly. (Martin Lawrence in particular is a riot as he practices paralyzing his lower lip.) It's here that Lee's challenged on the "drug-free Bed-Stuy" issue. His reply? "You can't just have drugs on the side and not deal with it."
- Danny Aiello exhibits an assertiveness that I'm guessing had quite a bit to do with Lee's racially balanced approach.
- It's fun to watch Lee repeatedly interview a very green, quietly nervous Rosie Perez with his camcorder. He'd reportedly "discovered" her in a dance club, and he needles her into going off on the pretensions of other actors and her lack of ambition to be a movie star.
There's also a 60-minute documentary, "The Making of Do the Right Thing," that is, as Lee puts it in his video intro, "not one of those regular bullshit EPK things," God bless him. Directed by St. Clair Bourne and produced by Lee, the doc tells a fascinating story how the producers took the real Bed-Stuy and turned it into a fantasy Bed-Stuy, painting murals and using the Fruit of Islam (Louis Farrakhan's security force) to clear drug dealers out of the neighborhood so shooting could proceed. Under the same "Making of" menu, you'll also find the five-minute "Back to Bed-Stuy," in which Lee and line producer Jon Kilik revisit the Bed-Stuy locations. It's terribly poignant, 11 years later, to see the mark the movie left on the neighborhood the fading murals, the wall that's still "fire-truck red," the grassy lot where Sal's Famous burned to the ground.
Also on the Supplement disc: Public Enemy's music video for "Fight the Power," directed by Spike Lee; The 1989 Cannes Film Festival press conference with Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson and Spike Lee; storyboards (viewable one-at-a-time or three-at-a-time) for the riot sequence; a video interview with editor Barry Brown; and the theatrical trailer and TV spots.
Increase the peace,
Alexandra DuPont
Rating: four stars
- Color
- Anamorphic widscreen (1.85:1)
- Two-disc set: Disc One (the movie) is RSDL dual-layer edition
- English (PCM Stereo, Dolby 2.0 Surround)
- English subtitles
- Audio commentary with Spike Lee, cinematographer Ernest Dickerson, production designer Wynn Thomas, actress Joie Lee
- Video introductions by Spike Lee
- 60-minute documentary: "The Making of Do the Right Thing"
- Spike Lee and line producer Jon Kilik revisit the Bed-Stuy locations
- Public Enemy music video for "Fight the Power," directed by Spike Lee
- 1989 Cannes Film Festival press conference with Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson and Spike Lee
- Spike Lee's videotaped behind-the-scenes footage, including rehearsals, set construction, and wrap party
- Storyboards (viewable one-at-a-time or three-at-a-time) for the riot sequence
- Video interview with editor Barry Brown
- Theatrical trailer and TV spots
- Dual-DVD keep-case
Wonderful as always, Alexandra, many thanks.
-El Cosmico
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Feb. 19, 2001, 4:31 a.m. CST
What I wanna know is -- does Spikey bitch about Whitey?
by Mr_Intimidation
Does he bitch and moan about how evil the White Establishment, the Asian Establishment, the Italian Establishment, and every other Establishment, are while bestowing the awe-inspiring goodness of the Black Establishment? Get on the bus, Spikey! Get on the bus!
Feb. 19, 2001, 4:42 a.m. CST
by Lazarus Long
It's about time this thing was released. I'm wondering if there's any comment from Spike on his defeat at Cannes that year, which he was pretty pissed about. Although Sex Lies and Videotape is not considered a classic like DTRT (SL&V is remembered more for being the first big shot in the indie "revolution), it's hard to say who has blossomed into a better filmmaker. Although Soderbergh appears to have stumbled after SL&V before getting a new cinematic life, Lee's post-DTRT has been spotty as well (thanks Alexandra for excepting Malcolm X, another true masterpiece). Personally, I've enjoyed ALL of both of these guy's films; I'm just referring to the general consensus here. While Soderberg has found a way to sneak his independent spirit into mainstream filmmaking, Spike remains on the fence looking in, loud and controversial as ever, still pushing buttons. You wonder if Spike were white and Oliver Stone were black, would their positions be reversed? They come from the same school and the similarities are hard to ignore. But it looks like Ollie still gets the budgets he wants, whereas Spike fights for every dime. Hoping to see this DVD for myself. Now if Criterion can just get that Pulp Fiction DVD out...
Feb. 19, 2001, 4:43 a.m. CST
i am dorothy, queen of the wicker people.
by Westrum
love spike lee's work, and do the right thing is his best. one thing that bothers me is the fact that white people are so regularly ripped in his movie. that whole farrakhan bs. farrakhan is just as bad as david duke. racism obviously isn't left to only white people. i don't remember what this has to do with criterion's do the right thing, but i can be excused...i haven't slept in a long time.
Feb. 19, 2001, 6:52 a.m. CST
One point
by m2298
As a New Yorker, I've always wondered how Spike Lee could put an Italian pizzeria in the middle of Bedford Stuyvesant, a neighborhood not known for having an Italian American (or other white) community within the past 35-40 years. That, and the aforementioned lack of a drugs in DO THE RIGHT THING make me wonder about how much "reality" actually entered this film. It seemed to be less honest social commentary than furthering a political agenda (first and foremost getting rid of then-New York mayor Ed Koch).
Feb. 19, 2001, 7:15 a.m. CST
this is classic
by Guerilla_Films
I'm buying this the day it comes out. This is one of the 100 greatest films ever--screw the Eurocentric AFI :). No in all honesty I love this and especially the "confrontational" aspects of the race in the storytelling. I'd just like to add that people who have a problem discussing it in the film have a problem dealing with it in real life.
Feb. 19, 2001, 9:24 a.m. CST
Me use big words good.
by Guido El Dente
Funny, but I read through Alexandra's review without any problems. Believe it or not MQBlank, some people actually have extensive vocabularies and are able to put them to use. I for one think that it was a great review and refreshingly different from the usual "That movie licked the shit off of my ass" write ups we are given here.
Feb. 19, 2001, 9:54 a.m. CST
Can't Wait To Add This To The Collection
by mrbeaks
I've watched this film at different periods in my life, and have always come away with a different interpretation. Such open-endedness is a testament to Spike's ability as a filmmaker. He was never better than in 1989 (though he did equal his achievement in 1992 w/ MALCOLM X,) and I'm happy to see that Criterion has given this landmark work the treatment it so richly deserves. Thanks for the staggeringly complete review, Alexandra.
Feb. 19, 2001, 11:43 a.m. CST
Think of how good I'd feel about myself without Spike!
by user id indeed!
He's shown me how evil my race is, and for that my ego is in check and I am humble! Thank you, Spike! Let him do the same for you! Seriously, this was a damned fine movie. I should probably start filling my DVD collection with ponderous drama instead of slam-bam action. And don't forget, someone set us up the bomb! Someone set, someone set, someone set us up the bomb... This has been a User ID Indeed Joint!
Feb. 19, 2001, 12:37 p.m. CST
Where is our Malcolm X Criterion??
by 0007
Feb. 19, 2001, 1:32 p.m. CST
Further To FootFknMaster's (I Think) Post
by mrbeaks
Through a friend of mine, I was able to read the draft of DO THE RIGHT THING with which Spike went into production; a vastly different script that points up how important a role improvisation played in its filming (and I'm not just talking about Robin Harris' brilliant riffing. If you never got a chance to watch the man do stand-up, you owe it to yourself to track down a tape of his HBO special. His bit about a church in Compton that can only afford a piccolo player to accompany the hymns climaxes with one of the greatest punch lines I've ever heard. It ain't sophisticated, but it sure is funny!) Spike is, and always has been, a tremendously generous collaborator, even with them white folks he's supposed to hate with every fibre of his raging, militant being. That he allowed Danny Aiello the freedom to imbue the character of Sal w/ far more compassion than he originally envisioned speaks volumes about Spike's creative process.
Feb. 19, 2001, 2:10 p.m. CST
Pikuls got it right.
by Lemonator
How this movie could reach a level of acclaim is beyond me. I unfortunately fell prey to the hype and saw this turd in a theater. It felt like an angry college student film, you know, the kind where the maker feels they have such an important message to share with the world, then makes an embarrassing, amaturish, transparent film about it. Everything looks and feels fake in this film. Maybe it was the first pissed-off-black-guy-film of the PC era? I don't know. "She's Gotta Have It" was Citizen Kane next to Do The Spite Thing.
Feb. 19, 2001, 3:05 p.m. CST
Yeah, MQ...
by Di
...somebody should learn Alexandra to write more gooder, so she can say things like "show-offy."
Feb. 19, 2001, 4:25 p.m. CST
A cornerstone of any serious DVD collection
by MOSDEF
Along with Taxi Driver SE, Boogie Nights, and the Third Man. Do the Right Thing is on my Top Ten best films of ALL time. When i first saw it in the theaters I was completely blown away. And I must say, Spike has built an impressive filmography since including two more rock solid classics (Malcolm X and Mo' Betta Blues--the last twenty minutes of Mo' always get to me) and a few near masterpieces (Get On The Bus, Crooklyn and Bamboozled). Bottom line he's one of the greats. And please let's not get into a "Spike Lee is racist" thread. The guy is clearly NOT racist, just opinionated. The only reason this comes up is because Spike is black. Anyway DTRT is a very inspirational movie and a modern masterpiece, definitely a must buy.
Feb. 19, 2001, 4:49 p.m. CST
and that's the QUINTESSENTIAL truth, ruth!
by tommy5tone
'do the right thing' is spike's finest to date, but 'jungle fever' is pretty damn cool too. top-shelf stevie wonder soundtrack, funny and insightful by turns, excellent performances across the board (ESPECIALLY samuel l. jackson, goddamn brilliant as crackhead gator).
Feb. 19, 2001, 6:14 p.m. CST
I was going to talk about how much I love DTRT...
by Wungolioth
And I do, I really do. But I felt it was more important to tell tommy5tone this...Jungle Fever was laughable! You hear me, laughable!!!! One more time, LAUGHABLE!!! I laughed so hard at the end I didn't even remember the money I'd wasted watching that drek! Sorry, about that everyone, I'm all done, I love DTRT and I will be buying this. That is all.
Feb. 19, 2001, 10:33 p.m. CST
"I better not see her naked on pay day"
by Twig
Yeah DTRT is message heavy, but y'know, its also extremely entertaining. I first saw this film when I was 12 or 13, and I didn't see movies as much more than just entertainment at the time but I loved it cuz it was just so entertaining(plus it always-and still does-make me hungry as hell for pizza). Over time of course I've come to appreciate it more and more, though I still cite Clockers as my fave Spike film. And true, the Jungle Fever ending was rather dumb, but the last 10 minutes of Bamboozled were WAY worse.
Feb. 19, 2001, 10:52 p.m. CST
If my dick were flat and circular, I would fuck my DVD player ri
by Darth Taun Taun
Every movie deserves at least this much care when producing the DVD. Stop harping on Spike for making race such an integral part of his films. Race is an integral part of being an American. Let him be as angry as he wants to be. Anger is more interesting than paranoia. (Right, Mr. Stone? Ollie? You listening?)
Feb. 20, 2001, 1:55 a.m. CST
i wish i were Da Mayor.
by Westrum
totally agree with you taun taun. my only statement on spike lee is that sometimes he says white people are racist, while having his black characters be just as bad as any cracker racist out there. it's not a problem with the movie, the writing, or anything like that. i just disagree with some of what he says. it's not whether you disagree with a director or not, it's that he makes you confront and think about it. plus, Da Mayor is one of the best characters I've ever seen on film.
Feb. 20, 2001, 9:03 a.m. CST
Now this is an essential dvd.
by The Great One
I'm glad to see DTRT get this type of treatment. I hope Malcolm X is given equal treatment because I would love to see everything that's been put into that film. I hve to disagree about Miss (Mrs.?) Dupont on one point in that there is at least one other film that is structurally sound and every bit as thoughtful and introspective as Do The Right Thing, namely Get On the Bus. Each character is explored and given vastly different motivations for life, which is one of the elements that has made Spike's films true gems. Between this the the upgraded release of Manhunter, I'm gonna have a good time with the DVD player. Thanks for the review.
Feb. 20, 2001, 9:41 a.m. CST
what the hell?...
by coytuck
who cares if alex uses big words. it was once said that "it's the wisest who reaches the most people with the fewest words." or maybe i think someone once said it. or maybe i just made that up. either way, if the woman wants to use 50 cent words, good for her. maybe some will understand her, maybe some won't. maybe some will agree with her, maybe some won't. on the other subject at hand. i feel like i'm surfing through a gauntlet of anger and ignorance. the scary part is, it's hard to tell which side is which (or maybe it's the same thing on opposing sides). people always call films like DTRT controversial. i don't think so. it's a movie. the controversy lies within the people who discuss it and their feelings about it. but in this case (as in many), this is more a boondoggle. i'm sure some (or many) of you will comeback and proceed to "tear me an intellectual 'new one.'" so i would like to say to them... :-P... l8r
Feb. 20, 2001, 9:54 a.m. CST
i would also say...
by coytuck
... that i did like alex's review... 50 cent words notwithstanding.
Feb. 20, 2001, 10:11 a.m. CST
Like "...Right Thing" love "School Daze"
by ripper t. jones
Doin' Da Butt...(sexy sexy).
Feb. 20, 2001, 9:21 p.m. CST
TV Version.
by Ronabo
Has anyone seen this on television? Personally I laugh my ass off at it on TV because they use the words "Mickey Fickey" instead of "Mother Fu___er" So, in the sceen with Radio Raheem and the batteries, you get a bunch of people screaming "Mickey Fickey!" at each other. Classic....
Feb. 21, 2001, 1:39 a.m. CST
Do The Right Thing blew my mind bacjk in 89
by ol' painless
I staggered out of that theatre, blinking in the bright sun in New Zealand, my mind abuzz, PE ringing in my ears . . . and vowing to become a film maker. Then I went and played computer games. Ah well.
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With just days to go before the 2013 TT MCN gained exclusive, extended access over two days to the Norton team. They were preparing to test their new 200bhp V4, £100,000 Senior TT machine, which will run active/semi active suspension from Ohlins. And while we were with them, MCN road tester and TT racer Adam Child was given a world-first ...
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Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) continued...
A healthy lifestyle can reduce the risk of heart disease by as much as 80%, according to data from the Nurses' Health Study, an extensive research effort that followed more than 120,000 women aged 30 to 55 starting in 1976. Looking at data over 14 years, the researchers showed that women who were not overweight, did not smoke, consumed about one alcoholic drink per day, exercised vigorously for 30 minutes or more per day, and ate a low-fat, high-fiber diet had the lowest risk for heart disease.
"If you have high blood pressure, get it under control," says Brangman. "It reduces the rate of stroke and heart attacks. People say the medicines have bad side effects, but there are enough medications to choose from that you and your physician should be able to find one that's right for you."
And limit salt intake to control high blood pressure. "Prepared foods are loaded with salt," says Brangman. "The minute food comes out of a can or frozen food package or from a fast-food environment, you lose control of the ingredients. This is another reason to eat foods as close to naturally prepared as possible."
Vision and Hearing Loss
Age-related eye diseases -- macular degeneration, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma -- affect 119 million people aged 40 and older, according to the 2000 census. And that number is expected to double within the next three decades.
"Eating foods with high antioxidant content may be helpful in reducing vision loss due to macular degeneration," says Brangman. "And taking vitamin supplements for eye health may help. A lot of my geriatric patients are taking them now, which may not be as helpful as taking them when you're younger."
"It also appears that smokers are at higher risk for macular degeneration, so that's another reason to stop smoking."
Regular eye exams should include screening for glaucoma, which is called "the sneak thief of sight" for the fact that the first symptom is vision loss. The disease can be arrested, but vision lost to glaucoma cannot be restored.
The incidence of hearing loss increases with age. Twenty-nine percent of those with hearing loss are 45-65; 43% of those with hearing loss are 65 or older.
Hearing loss takes a toll on the quality of life and can lead to depression and withdrawal from social activities. Although hearing aids can help, only one out of four people use them.
High-frequency hearing loss is common in old age and made worse by a lifestyle that includes exposure to loud sounds. "The 40- and 50-year-olds who went to the rock concerts that were so loud they were pulsating in their chests are starting to pay now," says Brangman. "Another factor is working in a noisy environment, such as airports or factories."
Her advice to people at any age: don't use earbuds. "Any source of sound that fits in the ear canal, such as using Walkmans or iPods, really puts your hearing at risk. If you're going to use an iPod, don't put it directly in your ear, and lower the volume."
She says hearing aids are not an ideal solution for hearing loss. "My patients complain that they magnify the wrong sounds. They keep their $3,000 or $4,000 hearing aids in the nightstand."


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Suzuki 650 V-Strom Handling?
Can anyone tell me how the Suzuki 650 V-Strom handles with one up at highways speeds when fully loaded with two hard side bags and a trunk?
You'll be fine. We have 2 and they handle very well fully loaded. As always just try and keep the heavy stuff in the side panniers and the fluff on top. I like to carry soft luggage on top in case of a rear end collision by a cager. Bad things happen to your lower spine if you have a bolted on hard shell on back.
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Do not deceive yourself. This photo is fan made according to Fifty Shades Trilogy author E L James.
From her Twitter account, she says:
"No decisions have been made on the cast yet."
and again..
"No. Fan made."
This was the reply of gmanews to me when I asked if there's such a passenger/survivor.
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Jason Dowling has been a reporter at The Age for more than a decade. After breaking a significant number of stories for The Sunday Age as state political reporter, Jason was appointed City Editor for The Age. Jason has rotated through various areas of the paper including sport, business and general reporting.
Doncaster rail study may lead to more buses
Jason Dowling An improved bus service along the Eastern Freeway is now likely to be leap-frogged by plans for a multibillion-dollar road tunnel linking the freeway and CityLink.
Councils spend thousands to fight state election issues
Jason Dowling Councillors at Moreland and Yarra have been labelled, "chardonnay-swilling, yoghurt-eating, bike-riding socialists", for opposing the East West Link by a Casey City Councillor.
Transport investment 'an opportunity' for Victoria
Jason Dowling Victoria's spending on new transport infrastructure as a percentage of what it spends on building is the lowest of all Australian states, new research has found.
Plan Melbourne: Denis Napthine's 40-year vision for city
Jason Dowling In less than four decades the east-west link from the Eastern Freeway to M80 Ring Road, the north-east link completing the ring road, an outer ring road, the Melbourne metro rail project, new railway...
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Jason Dowling and Aisha Dow Melbourne's eastern suburbs will accommodate just half the population increases expected in the north, west, and southern areas of the city, a new planning blueprint shows.
Pressure rises over lack of transport plan
Jason Dowling Baillieu Government yet to deliver plan more than two years after taking office.
Coalition fails on rail plans
Jason Dowling A key election promise to ''ensure that the provision of rail services keeps pace with the development of new housing estates'' has been broken by the state government.
Freeway plans show huge impact zone in Royal Park
Jason Dowling Large sections of Royal Park could be dug up to lay freeway tunnels and construct overpasses as part of the massive construction program linking the Eastern Freeway to CityLink.
Eastern Freeway tolls loom
Jason Dowling Tolls could be charged on ''new'' lanes on the Eastern Freeway, with a section of the rail reservation down its centre sacrificed for the lanes.
East-west rationale to stay secret
Royce Millar and Jason Dowling Victorians will never get to see the economic rationale for the state's most expensive transport project, with the Napthine government ruling out public release of the business case for the...
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Jason Dowling Borrowing big could be the answer to boosting Victoria's public transport network, according to the state's public transport boss.
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Jason Dowling Shareholder activist and serial candidate Stephen Mayne confirms he will contest the Melbourne City Council election in October.
Council takes aim at Baillieu freeway link plan
Jason Dowling Architect of the proposed east-west freeway connection, Sir Rod Eddington, says road congestion in the corridor has worsened since his 2008 report.
Millions set to go to east-west freeway link
Jason Dowling The Baillieu government is expected to commit millions of dollars to planning work for the proposed new east-west freeway connection from the Eastern Freeway to CityLink in today's state budget.
Transport groups push for outbound bus lanes upgrade
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I saw a video from your Trex 550 in Loiter Mode. The heli is staying very rigid in the air.
I'm using a TREX 700E and want to fly this heli with apm 2.5 version 2.91 autonomously.
Currently I want to adjust the PID parameter. The stabilize and the Altitude Hold Mode is working perfect, but I have some problems with the Loiter values.
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Chapter Twenty.0 Reviews
Will Mikey be killed?
That makes me happy, I've gotten a few new reviews as well, I'm glad that all of ya like it. :]
Reviews are always nice, thanks for them. I promise that when I can I'll review you or something as my thanks. :]
I'll stop my babbling now, here ya go. :D
Day 112
Gerard's POV.
They can't do it! They can't kill my brother! Sure he's mentally unstable, but that's no good reason!
Gerard ran all the way down to the court office, where the police directed him. He burst into the office breathing heavily and cursing his smoking habits. He walked up to the counter and demanded to speak to the head of the council, or whoever was in charge.
Twenty minutes later he was in a heated debate with the person in charge of Mikey's file.
"You can't kill him!" "Yes we can, he is mentally and physically unfit for society." "You have to have proof!" "We do Mr. Way. He has hurt many people and killed a few others."
Whoa, he killed someone? I don't remember that...
"But he's my brother!" "Mr. Way please, I don't have time for this."
I sighed, they never had time for any damn thing. After a while they basically made me leave. What added onto that was I couldn't see my own brother. Life sucks.
Frank's POV.
Jez, they're going to kill Mikey. I didn't mean to like...be all mad...I mean yeah what he did do hurt, but I don't want Mikey dead. I feel bad now. Why are they going to kill him?! The world is a damn cruel place!!
Ray's POV.
Agh! They're killing our bassist!! Mikey can't die!! This isn't happening! Someone stop this immediately! Right now! Commence the stopping dammit!
Bob's POV.
Mikey can't die! Dude! Rockstars are supposed to live! Not go crazy, kill people, make weird ass rituals in kitchens and then get murdered! Nooooo!!
Mikey's POV.
So, I hear I'm dying. News spreads fast. -sigh- I knew this was coming. I'm so tired, I really can't wait. These voices...they won't stop. The cravings won't go away. Nothing works like it used to. My mind is being overtaken, everything is dark and most of the time I'm in a daze. I don't know what's wrong. Everything's going black, I'm feeling dizzy...
Gerard where are you?
Poor Mikey. I hope you enjoy this as well. :] So, how do ya think this is going? Good I hope. :D I can take pros and cons, so send what you will in reviews! I'm tough!! -puffs out chest- lol! :P Ta Ta For Now! :)


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Posted Jun 10, 2011By mleyba
Japan marks three months since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation's eastern coast on Saturday, June 11, 2011. In these combo photos, a comparison is seen from areas just days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area, and the current view of the same area.
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Syrian Troops 'Overrun Last Major Stronghold'
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Regime forces have overrun the last major opposition-held stronghold in Syria and left a trail of destruction, according to activists.
In a four-day attack on Saraqeb, corpses were left in streets and homes burned to the ground amid wholesale looting, they said.
The Local Co-ordination Committees network (LCC) issued an appeal for international humanitarian organisations to urgently visit the town and said there were many unidentified corpses and wounded people there.
"Regime forces have forcibly displaced a large number of activists' families, and burned and shelled approximately 300 homes," the LCC said in a statement.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the reports and said most of the town's residents had fled along with the rebels.
It said more than 40 people had been killed during the fighting in Saraqeb, a large town on the main highway linking the northern city of Aleppo with the capital Damascus.
Activist Fadi al Yassin, in the northern province of Idlib, said the army was now in full control of Saraqeb, stationing snipers on rooftops and conducting searches and raids using civilian cars and taxis to confuse residents.
He said army defectors in the Free Syrian Army resisted on the first day but then pulled out, fearing they would bring more destruction on the town.
"They fled because there was no way they were going to be able to face the regime's huge military force," the activist said by satellite phone.
Reports by activists could not be independently confirmed but internet video purportedly from Saraqeb appeared to back claims of destruction and pillaging.
On Wednesday, activists also reported more clashes between Syrian army units and rebels in the country's centre, east and south.
Meanwhile, amid the violence Arab leaders are meeting in neighbouring Iraq and are expected to call for Syria to implement a ceasefire.
Syrian President Bashar Assad said he has accepted a six-point United Nations plan to resolve the conflict, including a ceasefire, but opposition groups and countries remain sceptical.
That could set the stage for Sunni-led Gulf Arab nations, eager to see Shia Iran-backed Mr Assad's downfall, to take stronger action on their own.
On Friday, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton will meet Saudi King Abdullah and other government officials before joining top officials from all the Gulf Arab states for "strategic co-operation" talks.
Mrs Clinton is then due to participate in the 60-nation Friends of the Syrian People (FOTSP) meeting in Istanbul, on April 1.
At a February meeting in Tunisia, she called China and Russia's inaction "despicable" as FOTSP issued an ultimatum to Mr Assad to end the hostilities - but it was roundly ignored.
Some US politicians have become increasingly vociferous about international inactivity in Syria compared to the ousting of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
"How many have to die before the United States will take a leadership role to end the mass slaughter?" Republican senator John McCain, Barack Obama's 2008 presidential rival, asked.
"How can you sit on the sidelines when it comes to Syria?" Republican senator Lindsey Graham said.
"The United Nations is fiddling while Syria is burning."


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Music and Marketing Make 'Psych' Move
The success of USA Network's Psych rests in no small part on some savvy promotion by the show's marketing team.
The success of USA Network's Psych rests in no small part on some savvy promotion by the show's marketing team.
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August 14th's 2013 McCall Motorworks Revival is shaping up to be one of the best supercar parties in the event's history over the past two decades.
Golden and bubbling champagne, fine foods and the staccato rumble from an occasional ignition of the Pagani Huayra , Hennessey Venom GT or Porsche 918 Spyder is surely anyone car guy's vision of heaven. Set against a Californian sunset backdrop, and it is easy to see why supercar makers choose McCall MWR as the kickoff to this epic concours show week.
Any time you can gather hundreds of famous historical bikes, airplanes and exotic cars in one place is destined to be fun, but spread out over the Monterey Jets airport hangar with champagne flowing like jet fuel – the McCall MWR is a high-octane jump start for the automotive movers and shakers who plan annual calendars around August's Pebble Beach Concours week.
Unlike a regular auto show, which places the true exotics behind velvet ropes, this VIP event is private and allows its fancy crowd the chance to get very close and personal with these priceless exotics. Like Salon Privè in the U.K., this is as much a party as a marketing and sales event.
Discreetly to the side of the low-key manufacturer booths, there is typically a small business center for building the car's customer base. After all, selling a million-dollar hypercar is not like leasing a new Ford Focus. It can take months (or years) of polite contacts and follow-ups, test drives and $1,000 goody bags arriving in the mail to make these individuals write such a big check.
Among the less-wealthy but die-hard car enthusiast clan, any chance to get such a fine group of machinery together is reason enough to celebrate.
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Game and Series Recap: Cubs 1, Braves 4 (1-2) -- That sucked.
I'm a little late with today's recap because I don't really know what to say. And even if I did know what to say, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be fun to write. This is one of those pivotal games, and pivotal series, that you don't really want to talk about.
The month was starting off really nicely.That series against the Brewers? Clutch! We were gaining ground, playing well, scored eight runs in one of the games--it was all coming together, it seemed, for a push towards the top of the standings heading into the All-Star Break.
Then Ryan Dempster broke his toe. Then Javy Vasquez shut us down. Then Geo Soto strained his oblique (oblique injuries SUCK, by the way). Then Kenshin Kawakami shut us down.
In the last recap, I said I expected better results if our top two guys could get on. Boy, was I wrong! A lot of good it was for Kosuke and Ryan to get four base hits in front of Lee, Rami and MB.
I don't know what to tell you. What's reasonable to expect from this team going forward? Is it really all that doom-and-gloomish to expect offensive mediocrity throughout the remainder of the season? Is it overly optimistic to expect that they'll be able to flip a switch and turn it around at some point? Frankly, I can't blame either side of the debate after this past week of games.
(Un)fortunately, because this team CONTINUES to be in the thick of the division race, with a ton of baseball to go, we can't not pay attention. They'll just keep stringing us along, until something gives.
Oh, by the way--ready for a four-gamer with the Cardinals?
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This algorithm is where you take a positive integer, say 132, you reverse the digits (231) and add them together (132 + 231 = 363). You'll notice that 363 is a palindrome. If the result for a particular n isn't a palindrome, you just take it and add its reverse, repeating what you just did. Most numbers turn into palindromes pretty quickly with this 'reverse-then-add' approach, but some don't (like, 196 doesn't seem to, even after >10 million tries). Since 196 is the smallest number that doesn't seem to ever reverse-add to a palindrome, they called the algorithm the 196 algorithm.
So I did a search for palindrome numbers obtained by the 196-algorithm that have the number 1337 or 31337 in them (for that is humorously elite like my phone number (800 966 1337). My program hasn't haven't yet found one with 31337 in it, but I did find one that started with 1337 (LEET), and that's good enough for this blog post.
So, if you take 11207151140109101108120410517120 and add it to its reverse 2171501402180110190104115170211 then you get the elite palindrome: 13378652542289211298224525687331 (which has 32 digits, which is also sexy).
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"The low power consumption options using any of the official Arduinos all involve powering the whole unit off and using an external timer circuit to power it back on as required. That seems like a more expensive, more complicated and more difficult solution but it's technically feasible if you are committed to using an official Arduino."
That's what I had in mind, I use a Freetronics Eleven board and don't want to go to the trouble of stripping it down.


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#63 Air Jordan 16 Black/Varsity Red
The Air Jordan 16 was released on February 17th 2001 and again in 2008 apart of the Jordan Countdown Package alongside the "Hare" Jordan 7's. This particular colorway is the models most popular color scheme primarily because of it's close ties to the Chicago Bulls colors but also due in part to it's black patent leather toe cap which gave the sneaker an extra touch. It's light zoom air insoles and never before seen shroud cover system was the first of it's kind in the Air Jordan line.


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Josh is the visionary behind Guardly. He founded the company in 2010 to empower people during emergencies by connecting them to their personalized safety networks with a single tap.
Prior to Guardly, Josh worked at the BlackBerry Partners Fund and RBC Venture Partners where he supported ten investment transactions and developed expertise in location-aware applications, mobile business models, game mechanics and viral distribution strategies.
Josh was a Board Observer at SocialDeck (acquired by Google). He is a huge supporter of innovation, youth entrepreneurship and the startup community, and is the co-curator at Toronto [StartupDigest].
He completed his Masters degree at the University of Toronto and his Undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario.
He loves wakeboarding, squash and ping-pong and still enjoys the challenges of writing code to solve complex problems.
Experience (4)Update
Aug 24, 2010
RBC Venture Partners
Jun 23, 2008 - Aug 18, 2010
BlackBerry Partners Fund
Jun, 2008 - Aug, 2010
Toronto Curator
Advisory Roles (1)Update
Board Observer
Education (2)Update
Western University
B.S.Honors Genetics
University of Toronto


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The Wynn hotel is one of Las Vegas' most luxurious resorts and the sports book at the property is probably the most upscale place in town to place a bet or watch a game.
The sports book features dark wood décor and there are plush leather swiveling armchairs with drink holders and desks.
Gamblers can watch the action on one of 52 TVs that are 50 inches or larger -- and there are three 20-foot-by-20-foot big screens. All of the race bettors have Interactive Personal Terminal machines at the seats in the book, allowing them to place bets on horse races without having to go to the betting windows.
The Wynn race book is unique in that it takes horse racing future bets, including the Breeders' Cup and the Kentucky Derby. The book also offers the usual straight bets, money lines and totals wagers, as well as propositions and futures on all major sporting events, including NASCAR, tennis, golf and soccer.
An adjacent bar features TVs and plenty of seating including plush banquettes. The sports book at Wynn is also located adjacent to the Zoozacrackers deli for those who want to grab a bite to eat while watching the game. Allegro restaurant offering classic Italian meals for dinner is also located close to the sports book.
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Fashion's Favorite Beauty Pros, Now Selling…at Costco?
High-low fashion partnerships are a dime a dozen these days. Topshop has teamed up with Christopher Kane and Mary Katrantzou; Target has showcased capsule collections from Proenza Schouler and Alice Temperley; and H&M has stocked studded leather jackets designed by Donatella Versace, party dresses from Lanvin's Alber Elbaz, and, starting this Fall, quintessentially cool wardrobe staples from Isabel Marant. Now, the beauty world is following suit. With Walgreens and Duane Reade's The Look boutique and home-shopping channels such as QVC and HSN leading the charge, prestige beauty products are becoming more and more accessible to the masses—especially since Costco launched its Beauty's Most Wanted program.
The members-only wholesale-shopping destination that specializes in everything from clothing and electronics to grocery, pet-supply, and even funeral essentials (not lying) launched a three-piece hair collection with Orlando Pita last month, showcasing an Argan-oil-enriched shampoo, conditioning treatment, and hair oil created by the legendary hair hero, and today it added makeup and nail ranges to its arsenal. Celebrity face painter, and Gwyneth Paltrow favorite, Pati Dubroff has designed a twelve-color eye-shadow palette, as well as chubby eye and lip pencils, for her debut offering, while green-leaning nail artist Jenna Hipp has released a What's Hot Now kit that features a dozen eco-friendly lacquers in pastel, bold, and glitter-flecked hues that come packaged together with a nail file. Now you can buy that oversize dog bed you've been in the market for and get your upscale polish fix in one fell swoop.
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The strategic interaction between firms and formulary committees: Effects on the prices of new drugs
AbstractWe study the strategic interaction between the pricing decisions of a pharmaceutical firm and the reimbursement decisions of a government agency which grants reimbursement rights to patients for whom new drugs are most cost-effective. If the reimbursement decision precedes pricing, the agency only reimburses some patients if the drug's private and public health benefits diverge. This is, there are consumption externalities and the variable cost of the drug exceeds the alternative's. Contrarily, if the firm can commit to a price before reimbursement, a strategic effect implies that by setting a sufficiently high price, the firm can make the agency more willing to reimburse than without commitment.
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Volume (Year): 27 (2008)
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- García-Alonso, M. D. C. & Garcia-Marinoso, B., 2007. "The strategic interaction between firms and formulary committees: effects on the prices of new drugs," Working Papers 07/16, Department of Economics, City University London.
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As Mint Hill Arts prepares for its future, it has signed a short-term lease on a store front located in The Plaza at 11205 Lawyers Road in Mint Hill. It will now be able to hold members only exhibits for March, April and May in a bright and sunny space. Continue reading
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The fourth annual Rock a thon event was held at the Levine Senior Center last Saturday. The cause was to raise money for the center and its programs. There were crafts, virtual bowling, food and music. This is one of the center's prority events according to Barbara Guthrie, assiatnt director. "We work on this all year long," she said. "People bake. make crafts, donate crafts, all to support the center." Continue reading
Matthews Library honors volunteers at annual event
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Matthews Branch hosted its second annual Winter Celebration to honor volunteers on Sunday, February 12. Two volunteers, Feiwen Walker and Peggy Dixon, received the Ed Maag Volunteer of the Year Award for their dedication as volunteers for 2011. They each received an engraved glass star. Continue reading


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