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...The film is well-done, a case of suspenseful competence trumping questionable relevance.
Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
In spite of its third-act collapse into obviousness and sentimentality, I Am Legend is among Will Smith's better movies.
A.O. Scott - New York Times
There is something a bit thin about the story, and just as in 28 Days Later, I find that digital, rage-filled zombies halve in dramatic interest with every second that passes.
Peter Bradshaw - Guardian [UK]
[Smith's] powerful performance is not enough to save the movie -- initially a potent meditation on loneliness and an absorbing doomsday action movie -- from taking a wrong turn and never getting back on track.
Claudia Puig - USA Today
Instead of maintaining its edgy sense of constant discomfort, the movie is compelled to make Neville as fuzzily adorable and messianic as possible.
Desson Thomson - Washington Post
I Am Legend is actually about the last man on earth played by one of the last real movie stars on earth.
Wesley Morris - Boston Globe
If, as a movie, I Am Legend is less stylistically mind blowing and intellectually ambitious than last year's Yuletide dystopia, Children of Men, it's not far off.
Scott Foundas - Village Voice
The Manhattan movie of the year, Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend, offers a stunning glimpse into how the city -- as we know it today -- might look in 2012 if it were abandoned in 2009.
Jack Mathews - New York Daily News
The herky-jerky script, by Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman, favors vignettes and set pieces over dramatic development, and those damned zombies are everywhere, overwhelming the proceedings with their slobbering and howling.
Joe Morgenstern - Wall Street Journal
Lawrence's direction is patient, solid and suspenseful, and his vision of a lone fellow wandering through the atavistic hulk of Manhattan yields an indelible portrait of post-cataclysmic solitude.
Amy Biancolli - Houston Chronicle
I admire the intent of Mr. Smith, who has made it his mission to mix escapist fare with socially relevant material. Legend seems to split the difference and land in the middle of nowhere. That's a lonely place for moviegoers to be.
Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News
What should be shattering is often merely intriguing.
Lisa Kennedy - Denver Post
The first two thirds and change of I Am Legend is terrific mindless fun: crackerjack action with gnashing vampires barely glimpsed (and scarier for that) and how'd-they-do-that New York locations that retroactively justify the traffic jams.
David Edelstein - New York Magazine
The movie works well while it's running, although it raises questions that later only mutate in our minds.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
For most of the way it's starker (even with the comic relief) and more eerie in its atmospherics than the usual big-budget monster.
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
The popcorn elements are well handled, but what lingers is the sense of urban despair.
J. R. Jones - Chicago Reader
It's almost as if the filmmakers wanted to say something about isolation, and loneliness, in the urban environment. Almost.
Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
Director Francis Lawrence makes eerie, effective use of New York City locations drained of human activity, shooting them for maximum anxiety and agoraphobia.
Colin Covert - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Smith is worth watching; the movie is not.
Adam Graham - Detroit News
I Am Legend is carried for a long while on the strength of Smith's performance, but even he can carry it only so far.
Bill Goodykoontz - Arizona Republic
I Am Legend is a grenade that goes off when least expected. It has more horror than heart, but it is never boring.
Rex Reed - New York Observer
Remarkably eerie yet annoyingly larded with cheap horror-film shock effects.
Todd McCarthy - Variety
Is going to be bigger than crucifix sales on Judgment Day. Scary, inventive, exciting and breathless adventure.
Kyle Smith - New York Post
This can't-miss concept, in development for decades, was done first and done better in 28 Days Later.
Roger Moore - Orlando Sentinel
'Nothing worked the way it was supposed to work!' Will Smith rages from his solitary hell in I Am Legend, yet this remarkable sci-fi thriller works a lot better than anyone could have expected.
Peter Howell - Toronto Star
Francis Lawrence's 'I Am Legend': The First Half - Its Better Half - Plays Like An Extremely Effective 'Anti-Michael Vick Flick'
Joe Baltake - Passionate Moviegoer
After its promising opening, I Am Legend devolves into a generic zombie slaughterfest, highly reminiscent of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and its sequel 28 Weeks Later.
Liam Lacey - Globe and Mail
I Am Legend is a blockbuster like no other, one that finds its grandness in modesty. It's a star vehicle with a star who knows his place in the universe.
Stephanie Zacharek - Salon.com
A big part of the reason for this movie's nose dive around the one-hour mark is that, seen up close, the Infected just aren't that scary.
Dana Stevens - Slate
Smith nails the portrayal. It's not the kind of work that will earn him an Oscar nomination but audiences usually don't see better than this in genre films.
James Berardinelli - ReelViews
The film can never quite decide whether it's speculative fiction or a B-movie horror show. It's not a fatal flaw, though.
Kirk Honeycutt - Hollywood Reporter
I Am Legend turns from a quiet meditation on the nature of humanity into a B-movie schlockfest.
Christy Lemire - Associated Press
It's in the last half-hour that I Am Legend imports new elements that both propel the story to its explosive climax and just aren't as compelling as the day-in-the-life story that preceded it.
Richard Corliss - TIME Magazine
Big Willie has no problem holding the screen. In fact, trouble enters only when the script overcomplicates things in the end. Until then, especially in a growling dogfight, director Francis Lawrence keeps you squirming.
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
It doesn't serve I Am Legend to give you too much time to think. Better when it's galloping forward at top speed, dodging caribou and translucent zombies and putting the dog in peril.
Carina Chocano - Los Angeles Times
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Nell Minow - Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Joshua Rothkopf - Time Out
It's a better-than-average blockbuster, which sweeps around some large ideas and interesting themes, but never delves for long enough to make this film a true classic.
Alex Fletcher - Digital Spy
Inevitably, ideas give way to special-effects
Fernando F. Croce - CinePassion
I Am Legend is three film genres for the price of one: Science Fiction, Action, and Horror, and while it's no classic in any one arena it remains edgy fun.
Craig Phillips - GreenCine
This is no graphic shoot-'em-up but an intelligent, if sometimes sentimental, exploration of human decency and responsibility that ponders the limits of rationality and faith.
Peter Keough - Boston Phoenix
There are some good points, but there are too many ineffectual aspects that keep I Am Legend from being the sophisticated film it was clearly meant to be.
Felix Gonzalez Jr. - DVD Review
The movie is simply okay. Not awful, not great. Definitely beneath Smith's abilities, though.
David Medsker - Bullz-Eye.com
When they do, banging their heads against plate glass as movie zombies always do, I started needing something else to think about.
Bob Mondello - NPR.org
Smith still manages to find something touching and occasionally even tragic in the character.
John Hazelton - Screen International
Brian Gibson - Film School Rejects
For everything that is good about it, though, I Am Legend struggles against two primary problems.
James Kendrick - Q Network Film Desk
I Am Legend is far from a feel-good film; it's a familiar (for fans of Stephen King's The Stand or Heston's Omega Man) post-apocalyptic adventure rife with chills and hopelessness.
Tyler Hanley - Palo Alto Weekly
It left me highly entertained, since out of the original story the filmmakers have created a different, but exciting and tense story filled with action, suspense and a lead character you can truly care about.
Scott Nash - Three Movie Buffs
Smith turns in a terrific performance, nailing Neville's angst while allowing room for humor.
Calvin Wilson - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Vic Holtreman - ScreenRant
Will Smith shows some promise trying to find a cure for a horrific virus, but somehow the plot becomes Shrek, Bob Marley and God trying to save the world.
Jeff Bayer - The Scorecard Review
With "I Am Legend," Will Smith has accomplished what Tom Hanks did back in 2000: Effectively star in a movie that involves very little interaction with other human counterparts.
Adam Tobias - Watertown Daily Times
The monsters are routine CGI creations, crudely animated and unconvincing. In a film of such visual majesty and surprisingly weighty drama, they present an unfortunate and needless distraction.
Rossiter Drake - San Francisco Examiner
I wouldn't dream of giving away the ending, but it's not likely to satisfy either the action crowd or Matheson fans.
David Ansen - Newsweek
...a triumph of set design and CGI over story line or credibility.
John J. Puccio - DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio - Movie Metropolis
If a horror movie is of true holy-bejesus caliber, you should be exhaling with relief at the end instead of thinking, 'Gee, that went fast!'
Tricia Olszewski - Washington City Paper
Eerie and breathtakingly evocative, the solid I Am Legend nevertheless tries to be too many things to too many people, weighed down with cheap horror-film shock effects and barely passable CGI, instead of trusting in its legitimately captivating
Brandon Fibbs - Colorado Springs Gazette
The exacting demands of filmgoing audiences have finally drawn out the heart of this book. (Disclosure: I have not read it, but now am willing to. For the antidote to this impulse, see The Omega Man.) Adding a dog probably didn't hurt either.
Karina Montgomery - Cinerina
It is absolutely gripping in its vision of how lonely it would be to be the last man on Earth. It's absolutely dull in almost every other respect.
Paul Byrnes - Sydney Morning Herald
I liked a lot of things about this movie, but there were two things that I didn't care for too much.
JoBlo - JoBlo's Movie Emporium
O impacto dramatico de seu desfecho e um tributo nao so a narrativa construida com talento pelo diretor, mas tambem ao carisma do cada vez mais eficiente Will Smith.
Pablo Villaca - Cinema em Cena
Facing down a body-slamming, wholly inarticulate Alpha Male, Neville appeals to their shared humanity, even though it's obvious: the damage of difference has been done.
Cynthia Fuchs - PopMatters
I Am Legend has everything a great summer blockbuster should have - except it's hitting theaters in December, not June.
Christian Toto - Washington Times
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Joseph Proimakis - Movies for the Masses
The acting by Smith is excellent as he plays Robert Neville, a scientist who is slowly going crazy as the last uninfected human being in New York City.
Robert Roten - Laramie Movie Scope
Las libertades que se toma al adaptar la novela de culto de Richard Matheson no impiden que sea un entretenimiento efectivo y por momentos inquietante.
Enrique Buchichio - Uruguay Total
a solid piece of entertainment
Stefan Birgir Stefansson - sbs.is
So often, sci-fi is overproduced, but I Am Legend doesn't look like a CGI extravaganza. It looks like an edgy suspense movie shot on the fly in New York City after the fall. And because of that, it's all the more effective.
Tom Charity - CNN.com
A film capable of more, settling for less.
Rob Humanick - House Next Door
Scary, thought-provoking, jump-in-your seat suspenseful, it conjures up a 'Cast Away' meets 'Dawn of the Dead' concoction full of simultaneous solitude and nightmares.
Bruce Bennett - Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
'I Am Legend' is essentially a Will Smith one-man show, and he succeeds marvelously.
Steve Crum - Video-Reviewmaster.com
Bold, and successfully maintains suspense.
Anthony Quinn - Independent
You're left gawping at $100 million-worth of eye-popping futuristic B-movie.
Nigel Floyd - Time Out
The depiction of the eerily overgrown city is one of the first genuine and unobtrusive testaments to the groundbreaking power of computer-generated effects in years.
Kevin Maher - Times [UK]
Though it fails to do justice to Matheson's novel, /I Am Legend/ isn't without merit, particularly in its stately, moody build-up. Unfortunately, the final act squanders the tension in favour of daft religious symbolism and silly CG zombies. Shame.
Jayne Nelson - Total Film
A film that blends a blockbustery bluster with a gaunt apocalyptic sobriety to good effect that is only compromised by its latter stages.
Daniel Etherington - Film4
Smith is a good deal better than Arnold might have been, and the dog is wonderful. Watch the first hour and see something a bit special.
Derek Malcolm - This is London
What started out so promisingly, a companion piece of sorts to Children of Men, disappears in a frenzy of screaming, head-banging, bloodiness - followed by totally unconvincing redemption.
Sukhdev Sandhu - Daily Telegraph
I Am Legend feels like a work in progress, the sort of movie you can bet will get the director's cut treatment when it's released on DVD. In the meantime, we have a film that doesn't make sense and boasts dire special effects.
David Edwards - Daily Mirror [UK]
Despite stunning visuals, it is a B-movie.
Christopher Tookey - Daily Mail [UK]
The actor's natural charisma carries the movie in I Am Legend, a film in which Smith is left talking to himself most of the time.
Dean Essner - Sun Online
Issues of depth aside, this is as distracting an event movie as there's been all year. But it's the stuff of multiplex, not legend.
Elliott Noble - Sky Movies
Much better than any self-respecting science fiction fan could have hoped for . . .
James O'Ehley - Sci-Fi Movie Page
first-time feature director Francis Lawrence deserves an ovation for his scene-setting and early scare count.
Nigel Andrews - Financial Times
Enjoyable, impressively designed thriller with a strong performance by Will Smith, though it's let down by a disappointing ending and some dodgy effects work.
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
While the sun shines, it's a four-star thriller with a superb turn from Smith. When the moon rises, it's a two-star horror cartoon with some of the worst FX we've seen all year. So, really, it has to average out at...
Dan Jolin - Empire Magazine
When I am Legend reaches for the tissues in the third act, director Lawrence loses his grip on the film entirely
Dan Jardine - Apollo Guide
While the last half hour is a weak and unnecessary pat ending typical of Hollywood, Lawrence wins me over on the first half, and I absolutely loved what was on display here...
Felix Vasquez Jr. - Cinema Crazed
It's a well-made and chillingly effective zombie movie, but that's all it is.
Sean Means - Salt Lake Tribune
...virtually a one-man show for [Will] Smith, who commands the screen.
Jim Lane - Sacramento News & Review
... does its job very well: we jump, we cringe, we even weep. Sometimes it goes just a little beyond the predictable as well.
Andy Klein - Los Angeles CityBeat
Thanks to the botched cancer cure, 'social de-evolution has occurred,' says Will. 'And typical human behavior is now entirely absent.' In other words, it's another night on the town with Lindsay Lohan!
Mark Ramsey - MovieJuice!
The opening act is too magnificent for the terrible ending to wreck it.
Tim Brayton - Antagony & Ecstasy
Liking Smith is one thing and praising his hollow performance here, as almost all of them have, is another.
J.B. Mitchell - Orlando Weekly
It's a shame that Smith's heartfelt work and preparation doesn't pay off with better background and CGI work.
Diana Saenger - ReviewExpress.com
The German shepherd makes this worth seeing.
Matt Brunson - Creative Loafing
The end result is an eerie, creepy, doomsday-laden film with plenty of thrills %u2013 and for anyone so inclined, a smattering of metaphors that pass comment on the human condition.
Urban Cinefile Critics - Urban Cinefile
PG-13 thrills to placate more easily placated genre fans, while serving up Will Smith in a variant on Cast Away with a dog to talk to rather than a volley ball.
Ken Hanke - Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
I Am Legend sees Smith deliver a surprisingly moving performance as he wanders empty New York streets going slowly ga-ga.
Jamie Russell - BBC
A tidy post-apocalyptic thriller starring the increasingly impressive Will Smith.
Jon Popick - Planet Sick-Boy
It's a tense and strangely quiet movie. ... But this is no horror film.
Gina Carbone - Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
I Am Legend is Will Smith's one-man sci-fi thrill show, entertaining in all the ways we've come to expect from the talented actor.
Kit Bowen - Hollywood.com
Almost unrelievedly grim and increasingly tedious as it goes along, with a third act that stumbles badly and a coda that's speciously uplifting.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
Lawrence's film is probably the most fun audiences will likely have during this holiday season. But it's also the emptiest and most calculated of efforts...
Todd Gilchrist - IGN Movies
'I Am Legend' may boil down to a zombie flick with a religious motif, yet it entertains the way a popcorn movie should.
John P. McCarthy - ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Will Smith is in prime form.
Richard Roeper - Ebert & Roeper
Will Smith's astounding one man show is never less than physically and emotionally shattering, from moment to gripping moment. Think An Inconvenient Truth: The Last Sequel. Ever. And give the man a couple of awards a stiff drink.
Prairie Miller - NewsBlaze
Will Smith plays Robert Neville robbed of most of his anguish and his advancing madness. Some of the visual images are nice.
Mark R. Leeper - rec.arts.movies.reviews
Will Smith raises his game and insists that those around him do the same. The result is a movie that's massively entertaining, and another jewel in its star's cinematic crown.
Mike McGranaghan - Aisle Seat
There's greatness inside I Am Legend, however it's too much work to act enthused about a film that runs out of gas halfway through.
Brian Orndorf - eFilmCritic.com
pretty much a one-man show, and Smith proves to have the acting chops to keep us interested in the story
Sean McBride - Sean the Movie Guy
Some movies, from Superman: The Motion Picture to Office Space, are great until they get around to telling a story. Add I Am Legend to that list.
Jeffrey Westhoff - Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
This is Will Smith's Cast Away.
Kevin A. Ranson - MovieCrypt.com
New York City co-stars with Will Smith in this intense film and both give Oscar-caliber performances
Tony Medley - tonymedley.com
Before the diseased-yet-oddly superhuman villains start to appear en masse, I Am Legend works surprisingly well. Then they do.
Scott Weinberg - FEARnet
It's got a great performance by Will Smith and just enough edge-of-your-seat entertainment to remain recommended, even if the cinematic house of cards collapses during the third act.
Kam Williams - NewsBlaze
I love movies where survivors have to find supplies. You give me two hours of Will Smith alone gathering supplies, that's all I could ever hope for. I Am Legend gave me even more. It is the best survival movie ever made.
Fred Topel - Can Magazine
The incredible amount of buildup and excitement of the first half ends up driving us down the road to disappointment.
Michael Ferraro - Film Threat
This new version of I am Legend completely perverts the meaning of the title, losing the clever, dark irony and turning it instead into something heroic rather than something tragic.
Beth Accomando - KPBS.org
As good as the action scenes are, the humanity in [Will] Smith's performance is most responsible for I Am Legend's success.
Mark Pfeiffer - Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
The last man on Earth screams there is no God and has a dog who will not obey his commands.
Victoria Alexander - FilmsInReview.com
Smith is given the opportunity to explore every emotion and he does them all admirably. I must also give credit to Sam the dog, Robert's only real companion. Not since Wilson the volleyball ... in "CastAway," has a non-speaking character meant so much to
Michael A. Smith - Nolan's Pop Culture Review
The ending feels like M. Night Shyamalan gone all wrong adapting Stephen King. Still Will Smith gives a solid performance and Sam is sure to become legend among Hollywood canines.
Laura Clifford - Reeling Reviews
Solitary and suspenseful, it's the scary of which nightmares are made.
Susan Granger - www.susangranger.com
Fits comfortably among a spate of recent films -inclusive of dramas, thrillers, action pictures and anxiety-infused comedies -which all can be boiled down to: we are lost.
Brent Simon - FilmStew.com
Will Smith carries the day... and the movie.
Gary Brown - Houston Community Newspapers
It moves fast, it's exciting, it's suspenseful, stuff blows up, and, best of all, Smith isn't smirking and showboating.
Dave White - Movies.com
Downright hokey...a billboard for a Batman-Superman team-up movie...will elicit more gasps from the fanboys than anything else.
Peter Canavese - Groucho Reviews
Mind-blowing excitement, an expert thriller that really thrills and makes you think. A special shout-out for the dog, Sam. Now that's acting!
Pete Hammond - Maxim
The vampires aren't a particularly inspiring creation -- all pale and hairless and red-eyed -- but director Francis Lawrence gets some great effects out of New York itself.
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
Had I Am Legend kept its personal, human and contemplative atmosphere over the loud, crowd-pleasing whiz-bang action, these messages of faith may have carried more weight and heart.
Todd Hertz - Christianity Today
For the most part, I Am Legend delivers the kind of eerie suspense that will bring joy to the world of casual horror fans everywhere.
Glenn Whipp - Los Angeles Daily News
I Am Legend should be a stark, frightening story of post-apocalyptic New York, but the film is shockingly never once scary, valuing countless overhead shots of an empty Manhattan over anything relatable.
Brian Tallerico - The Deadbolt
I Am Legend, despite its glumness, ultimately feels like a watered-down version of more thoughtful doomsday movies like Children of Men, or Sunshine or 28 Days Later. Or 28 Weeks Later.
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
Go for the thrills, for some nerve-gnawing suspense, for the wonderful production design and for the opportunity to spend some time with Will Smith. But this one is not the stuff of legend.
Robert W. Butler - Kansas City Star
Smith has delivered the popcorn movie of this holiday season.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
I Am Legend may be the umpteenth variation on the post-apocalyptic zombie genre, but, for the first two-thirds, it's nervy and haunting and creepily adroit.
Kevin Williamson - Jam! Movies
In the infantile prioritizing that occurs when Hollywood wants to be 'inspirational,' the hero's Everyman crisis of religious faith is supposed to be as important to audiences as his struggle to save humanity from extinction.
John Beifuss - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
The stunning set pieces (the production cleared and dressed the streets of New York for every outdoor scene) serve as the backdrop to Smith's rending performance as a man struggling against guilt, hope, and God.
Annlee Ellingson - Boxoffice Magazine
While scary at first, the film dies shortly after it gets going.
Danny Minton - Beaumont Journal
[Director] Lawrence is pretty good at the spectacular stuff. And he's smart enough to let Smith be Smith. But there's only so much you can do with CGI monsters that don't seem right for this kind of sci-fi scenario.
Walter V. Addiego - San Francisco Chronicle
Will Smith passes a big test -- let's call it the Tom Hanks-in-Cast Away test -- for any movie star: carrying a movie alone for most of the way.
Carla Meyer - Sacramento Bee
The design of the film is absolutely superb.
Coco Forsythe - Future Movies UK
For about three quarters of its running time, I was thinking this could be one of the very best movies of the year.
Luke Y. Thompson - New Times
Each successive development in the increasingly ludicrous narrative saps a little more of the goodwill engendered by the early scenes.
Rob Vaux - Flipside Movie Emporium
If you like your science fiction with some popcorn-throwing moments, check out this post-apocalyptic story before someone spoils it for you.
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone - TheMovieChicks.com
I Am Legend is a scientific marvel - A must see on a cold winter night!!
Vince Koehler - Entertainment Spectrum
For all the straining efforts of the star and overheated action and warmed-over emotionalism, this is a grim and flat and too often listless film.
Shawn Levy - Oregonian
For horror fans, Halloween came a little later than usual this year, but it was worth the wait.
Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald
Smith has the ability to make you feel he's a regular guy put into an extraordinary situation, instead of a movie superhero who handles such things as a matter of course.
Daniel M. Kimmel - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Even as an incredibly expensive hunk of eye candy, the film comes up surprisingly short.
Peter Sobczynski - eFilmCritic.com
The pulp ironies grow so crude and deafening that despite its scattered virtues, I Am Legend leaves you emotionally parched and aesthetically ticked-off.
Michael Sragow - Baltimore Sun
Good enough that the mistakes it makes are genuinely frustrating rather than feeling par for the course.
Eugene Novikov - Film Blather
In the end, this is a sci-fi zombie movie, folks.
Peter Rainer - Christian Science Monitor
Smith is, as always, a likable hero, and his unforced performance is definitely a saving grace.
Jeff Vice - Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Even though Lawrence's film is an honorable attempt to bring more depth and meaning to the tale, ultimately he probably should have opted for more gore, less grief.
Lewis Beale - Film Journal International
A film that obviously feels familiar, yet fresh and exciting at the same time
Jim Judy - Screen It!
Intense, thoughtful thriller has some big scares.
S. Jhoanna Robledo - Common Sense Media
Feels like a false start allowed to run the length of the track. There's an effort, but nothing is really accomplished.
Mark Dujsik - Mark Reviews Movies
Most everything in I Am Legend feels lifted from elsewhere.
Jan Stuart - Newsday
It looks like poor old Richard Matheson will go to his grave without ever seeing a movie that does justice to his great 1954 novel, I Am Legend.
Mark Rahner - Seattle Times
I Am Legend simply sucks but that's putting it a little too mildly when the last man on earth is liable to skip over it in favor of I Am Sam.
Erik Childress - eFilmCritic.com
if not a classic, at least memorable as it aspires, but doesn't quite succeed, in being more than just a horror flick as mindless as the roving mutants it showcases
Andrea Chase - Killer Movie Reviews
a captivating and exciting film because of Smith, but even he can't save us from this ending.
Willie Waffle - WaffleMovies.com
Provides a well-produced, if not necessarily fresh, version of the apocalyptic scenario, with the most haunting visuals being that of empty New York.
Jeffrey Chen - Window to the Movies
[M]agnificently disturbing.... a masterful rendering of a city stripped of its soul...
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
Director Francis Lawrence alternates cleverly among scenes of high tension, ferocious scares and moments that bring home Neville's feeling of abandonment and solitude.
Lawrence Toppman - Charlotte Observer
I Am Legend is a frightening film. What gets under your skin, though, has nothing to do with the conventional horror elements.
Dustin Putman - DustinPutman.com
A very disappointing sci-fi snoozer.
Steve Rhodes - Internet Reviews
Maybe not the most uplifting choice for a holiday flick, but Smith's riveting performance and tight action scenes make this a smart, gripping view of the end of the world.
Chris Farnsworth - E! Online
I don't know how well I Am Legend will hold up on repeat viewings, or over time -- but while it's happening, I Am Legend is a slick, scary, superbly made action/science fiction/horror film with a lot more art, heart and smarts than you'd expect.
James Rocchi - Cinematical
The movie year's most expensive and ambitious sci-fi spectacular, I Am Legend, is three movies in one: a futuristic effects-o-rama, a zombie thriller and a survivalist parable. Each is better than average, and the experience is fairly gripping.
William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The only perspective you'll gain about being the last man on earth is that other cars never move and TV's always in reruns. Eerily similar.
Matt Pais - Metromix.com
The silence, the suspense, and Smith's accessible performance draw you in for some post-apocalyptic fun.
Eric D. Snider - EricDSnider.com
Even weeks after having seen the film, I can still remember many of the nuances of Smith's performance - in my usual vortex of forgettable film screenings, this is rare indeed.
Staci Layne Wilson - Horror.com
Smith goes deeper here than he ever has on screen to show us the desperation and devastation that are attacking the infratructure of his rational mind like the grass is overtaking the city streets.
Nell Minow - Beliefnet
The movie ... seems to mutate into a clone of 28 Days Later since the virus not only has altered those infected ... but have transformed many of them into CGI figures ...
Bob Bloom - Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
The monsters ... look like cartoonish, drooling mannequins. It's like being chased through the Macy's men's department.
Josh Larsen - Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)
I liked it better when it was called 28 Days Later.
Duane Dudek - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The "Infected" here are no mere vampires or zombies, but outrageously super-powerful albino demons who'd make even the meanest Uruk-hai wet its tunic.
Gregory Weinkauf - UberCine
I Am Legend is a depressing experience. For everything it gets right, dozens of things go horribly, horribly wrong.
Bill Gibron - PopMatters
What starts off as a compelling drama descends into a stock B-grade horror flick with some of the worst big budget special effects of recent memory.
Bill Clark - FromTheBalcony
All the effort that went into the spectacle of destroying Manhattan in flashbacks could have been better spent on developing the claustrophobic, creepy present.
John Monaghan - Detroit Free Press
Superlative fright-fest featuring Will Smith at the top of his game as the last human survivor in a Manhattan full of night-dwelling mutants.
Joe Lozito - Big Picture Big Sound
The third act is where it finally, fatally trips itself up. A couple of key revelations seem like they are leading somewhere and suddenly, the film is over.
Eric Melin - Scene-Stealers.com
I Am Legend is a wasted opportunity -- a rickety, weather-beaten framework around an otherwise strong central performance from Smith.
Eric Alt - Premiere Magazine
A scary sci-fi story set in Manhattan in 2012 where a lone surviving scientist struggles to find a cure for the virus that has destroyed most of the human race.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spirituality and Practice
I wouldn't want to watch I Am Legend again even if it were the last movie on Earth.
Phil Villarreal - Arizona Daily Star
What we have here is about two-thirds great and one-third awful, and in that order.
Adam Nayman - eye WEEKLY
One great big stinking pile of missed opportunity.
Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central
yet another instance where Smith does all he can, but his material ultimately fails him.
Jeffrey Lyles - Gazette (MD)
And as for that ending... sigh. I guess two thirds of a great movie is better than nothing.
Sean Burns - Philadelphia Weekly
though a little too pat in its conclusion, the journey it takes to get there is no less entertaining.
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The first half, the sci-fi part, is fine; the second, the same ol' undead horror segment, is tune-out time.
Harvey S. Karten - Compuserve
Reasonably absorbing.
Tasha Robinson - AV Club
Even with Smith acting up a storm, what starts out as a potentially fascinating picture about an apocalyptic plague soon devolves into yet another special-effects laden zombie movie.
Bruce Newman - San Jose Mercury News
A fun movie. It's a popcorn thriller providing some alternative fare for genre fans during the drama-heavy awards season.
Jeff Otto - ReelzChannel.com
The demands of 21st century Hollywood strain the story. It's big and exciting, but not very smart.
Rich Cline - Shadows on the Wall
While I Am Legend is formulaic sci-fi action (ripping-off 28 Weeks Later) it's only interesting as a cultural-political artifact.
Armond White - New York Press
The film descends into a monster-movie malaise starring a horde of balding CGI monsters that look like refugees from a video game and that will scare absolutely no one, save those who worry that green-screening is ruining the movies.
Josh Rosenblatt - Austin Chronicle
Unwise use of CGI is eventually no more debilitating a defect than I Am Legend's wayward third act, which begins with Neville cornily reciting lines from Shrek.
Nick Schager - Slant Magazine
Whether he's attempting to maintain his sense of bravado or glimpsing his complete and total despair, Smith nails the character brilliantly.
Alonso Duralde - MSNBC
A largely terrific, meanly gripping movie ... nearly upended by the use of some noticeably lousy CGI effects. Ditch the computers, slather some greasepaint on some extras, and we'd be talking a minor classic.
Andrew Wright - The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
The movie takes chances, assuming its audience is up for more than ear-splitting explosions, zombie retreads, and happy, catchphrase laden endings.
Joshua Tyler - CinemaBlend.com
Even A Boy and His Dog (1974) carried a stronger punch [than this] visually transformative but thematically weak movie.
Cole Smithey - ColeSmithey.com
Looking terrific, star Will Smith gives a commanding perfromance that tries to link two disparate films competing for attention. A stark apocalyptic saga with some existential ideas (first half) and a conventional special-effects zombie flick (second).
Emanuel Levy - EmanuelLevy.Com
One of the more creative presentations on [a] very worn theme despite the usual pathology to devour or infect humans.
Jules Brenner - Cinema Signals
The script seizes on Matheson's messianic strain, his weakest element, resulting in a doomy mysticism not unlike last winter's overrated Children of Men.
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One of the most disheartening features of the Republican Party's lurch further to the right over the past few years is that New Jersey's delegation has done so little to push back against it.
Even people such as Rep. Leonard Lance (R-7th Dist.), who was a famous moderate and environmentalist as a legislator in Trenton, has been acting like a fire-breather from Mississippi, reversing himself on climate change and voting for the harsh budgets that devastate programs, including Medicare, while showering more tax cuts on the rich.
So let's hear it for Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-2nd Dist.), who finally put his foot down last week on an important budget vote. He was one of just 16 Republicans to jump ship, and the only one among New Jersey's formerly moderate GOP delegation.
The vote concerned the automatic spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect at the end of the year. The cuts, which amount to $1.2 trillion over the next decade, were required as part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling last summer after Republicans refused to include any tax increases as part of the package.
Now, though, House Republicans don't like the deal they signed, because half the cuts will land on the Pentagon. So they passed a measure on Thursday to protect defense spending and make even deeper cuts in discretionary spending. About one-third of the new cuts would land on programs for low-income families and seniors.
LoBiondo — whose district sits in South Jersey, the poorest section of the state — objected to the cuts in food stamps and Meals on Wheels. He said he won't go along unless the House first cuts the wasteful subsidies for the oil and gas industry, for ethanol and for farm supports.
Imagine that. It seems to us that his priorities are in perfect order. And he, at least, has the integrity to vote his conscience.

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Electric shock drowning is a potential killer, where victims swimming near the docks or docked boats suffer shocks leading to paralysis. Often such deaths are blamed on simple drowning because investigators are not familiar with ESD, said Beth Leonard, director of Technical Services at BoatUS.
The culprit may be a short circuit in the dock or boat wiring and a fault in the ground safety circuit, said David Rifkin, a marine surveyor based in Florida who co-authored the Coast Guard study.
The problem is less pronounced in salt water, because of the conductivity of the water allowing electrical current to bypass the swimmer. In freshwater the swimmer becomes part of the circuit, said Leonard.
Dockside electrical service should be checked once a year by a licensed electrician, Rifkin said, and boat wiring should be checked by a qualified technician. But even if all the wiring checks out, you never know when a fault may occur so it's best to stay out of the water near the dock.
Would-be rescuers should be aware of the possibility of electric shock, and render aid from shore, or from a boat, not by entering the water.
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Don't swim within 100 yards of any marina, boatyard, or electrified dock or boat connected to shore power. If you feel tingling, numbness or pain, don't swim toward a dock or boat. Try to leave the area the same way you entered and then go ashore 100 yards or more from any marina or dock.
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For more information check The Electric Shock Drowning Prevention Association at electricshockdrowning.org.


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St. Alban's Church
The fundraising committee of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Eltingville, met Sunday to plan for the annual Basket Auction (Chinese Auction), to be held Fri., March 15. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Admission is $5 and includes coffee, cake and some tickets on smaller items. Refreshments will be available for purchase and there will be raffles of theme baskets, gift certificates, ultra sweeps, toys, food baskets, a wine basket and a garden table. There will be a Special Raffle, with the prize a week from Aug. 18-24 in a condo at Waters Edge Resort, near Myrtle Beach, S.C. Tickets for this are $10 each or 3 for $25. For more information call the church at 718-984-7756.
Christ Church
At a meeting Sunday at Christ Church, New Brighton, plans were finalized for the Piano Concert featuring Anthony Colucci, set for Friday at 7 p.m. in the church, located at 76 Franklin Ave. The concert will feature selections by Liszt, Chopin, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. The commentator will be Paul Guest Smith. A meet the artist reception will follow in the parish hall with wine and hors d'oeuvres. The donation is $20 and proceeds will benefit the restoration of the windows in the landmarked historic parish hall at Christ Church. For information and reservation please call 718-727-6100.
All Saints Episcopal
The Lenten Committee of All Saints Episcopal Church met Sunday to discuss final plans for its Lenten Day of Recollection, to be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the church, located at 2329 Victory Blvd., corner of Woolley Avenue. The Rev. Lewis Marshall, pastor, is offering this retreat to people in our community to provide them with a meaningful, spiritual Lenten experience. There will be a presentation about Centering Prayer, and periods of silent reflection and meditation. This will be followed by a Communion service at 2 p.m. A light potluck luncheon will be offered, and admission is free. No reservations are necessary. For more information, please call the church at 718-698-1338.
Holy Child Church
The Holy Child Church '50s Doo-Wop Extravaganza Committee met Sunday in the Eltingville school. Some tickets remain for the third annual fundraising event, set for Match 2. Ticket sales will end next Monday, and no tickets will be sold at the door. This year's event will again benefit the School of Religion, and will again feature RB Express, a male doo-wop quintet. There will be a catered buffet dinner, dancing raffles, a special 50/50 raffle and a special mini iPad raffle. Tickets are $45 per person and it is open to the public. For information or to reserve a ticket, call Marie Ferro at 718-356-5277.
Lambda Kappa Mu
Lambda Chapter, Lambda Kappa Mu Sorority, Inc., met recently at a member's West Brighton home. There was a review of the recent membership drive. Packets for the national Florence K. Norman Scholarship Awards were distributed. Applicants must be in their senior high school year and sponsored by the chapter and completed applications are due by April 5. For information, call Sheila Cofield at 347-645-0961. There will be a bus ride to Atlantic City on March 23; for information call Barbara Christopher at 718-981-8624. The National Youth Meeting for the Kopelles will be held in Baltimore, Md., on March 2. The next meeting will be held March 18.
Warm Up America
The Michael's group of WARM UP AMERICA met Saturday at 30 Barrett Ave. in the Forest Avenue Shoppers Plaza. The afghans completed and collected at the Jan. 19 meeting were donated to New Dorp High School's Super Storm Sandy Chinese Auction to be held March 1 for the benefit of storm victims. Donations of completed afghans, afghan sections, and yarn for these afghans are being accepted at Michael's, 30 Barrett Ave. WUA volunteers donate their time to crochet and/or knit 7" x 9" rectangles (or larger) and join the sections. Completed afghans, lap blankets, shawls and baby blankets are donated to local charities. The next meeting will be held March 16 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Michael's in the Forest Avenue Shoppers Plaza. For more information about joining or to make contributions, contact Angel Krumrey at 917-817-9084.
Singles on the Go
Singles on the Go Social Club met Saturday at Holy Child School, Eltingville, and members enjoyed a Valentine's Day Party. Eileen Torricelli, president of Garden Therapy Garden Club, donated a beautiful Valentine's floral arrangement, which was raffled off at the meeting. Trips planned include Cherry Blossom Time in Washington, D.C., April 12-14; "Motown, the Musical," Broadway show on April 10 (waiting list only); and the Renault Winery lunch, music and tour with a side trip to Resorts Casino in Atlantic City on April 23; and a trip to the Delaware Water Gap and Stroudsmoor Inn on May 21 with a trolley tour, lunch and a comedy show. All are welcome to join us on trips and events. The next meeting will be held Sun., March 10. All future meetings will be held the second Sunday of the month. The club is open to all 58 plus. For information and reservations call Ann at 718-317-6686.
Garden Therapy Club
The Garden Therapy Garden Club met Saturday. After a how-to demonstration by Georgie Hicinbothem, members made spring floral centerpieces. They will make and donate centerpieces for the Pasta Bowl fundraiser at Community Resources, Travis, on Sunday. There will be a tree planting in early spring in memory of those lost in Hurricane Sandy, with a donation from Eileen Torricelli. Rev. Dr. John Carlo Sr., pastor of Christian Pentecostal Church, will be honored for his efforts in helping storm victims.The club made a Valentine's arrangement and donated it to Singles on the Go. We are reaching out to those whose gardens sustained storm damage to help them restore their gardens. The club will participate in the Ecology Fair to be held the last Saturday in April. If the club can be of help or you are interested in the club please call Ms. Torricelli at 718-370-1294.


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Shane Clipfell seemed to want the moment the Western Michigan University women's basketball team experienced in Cleveland on Wednesday to linger for a while.
Clipfell led the Broncos into the second round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Cleveland in his first year as head coach, which was a goal reached but not a mission accomplished as ninth-seeded Western Michigan fell to fifth-seeded Bowling Green, 55-53.
"It's a good feeling, but an empty feeling," said Clipfell, whose team rallied from a 37-19 halftime deficit against the Falcons. "It's a double-edged sword. We didn't come here to lose a close game or hope we could compete. We really felt like this was a chance for us to advance deeper in the tournament."
The Broncos (11-20) trailed 52-47 with 3:06 remaining in the second half and eventually pulled within a point, 54-53 with 45 seconds left on an Aurielle Anderson layup.
Bowling Green (22-9), which faces Central Michigan in the quarterfinals on Thursday, turned the ball over with 13 seconds remaining, giving the Broncos a chance to win the game.
Anderson got the ball on the inbounds play and was tied up by a BGSU defender and the possession arrow gave the ball to the Falcons, who made one of two free throws with four seconds remaining.
The Broncos were unable to get a final heave away before the horn sounded.
Anderson, Western Michigan's lone senior, and Marquisha Harris each scored 12 points to lead the Broncos.
Anderson said a lively halftime pep talk worked wonders in the second half.
"I thought in the first half we struggled to defend as a team," she said. "We talked at halftime. We talked before coach even got in there. I gave a pep talk saying we needed to play together on the court as a family and let's not drown in this game. Everyone stepped up on defense a notch or two and we started rotating and we did what we had to do. The confidence went up."
Western Michigan defeated Bowling Green 55-54 in Kalamazoo on Feb. 10, but the Falcons controlled the offensive rebounding as they pulled in 22 offensive boards.
Clipfell said he was happy with the rebounding effort and the defensive intensity in the second half, when the Broncos outscored BGSU 34-18.
"It was everything we expected it would be with them," he said. "We knew the single biggest key from a physical standpoint was going to be our ability to defend the ball efficiently and effectively and we didn't do that in the first half. Once we shored that up at halftime we made them miss a lot more than they did in the first half. We did a pretty good job on the boards."
Anderson said her emotions were pouring out after her final game, but she said they weren't all bad feelings.
"To say we made it to Cleveland is an accomplishment," she said. "It's a humbling moment to know we got here. I made it here in my fourth year. They'll get back here next year. I'm confident they will."
The Broncos will need to find a new point guard to replace Anderson. Clipfell said there's a chance he might sign a third recruit sometime in the spring to fill that void or he could look within the current roster.
The coaching never stops and Clipfell said he's glad he can turn to Wednesday's game as a reminder of what the Broncos did and still have to do.
"A lot of our goal when we took over this team was not how many wins we could get or could we win a championship in the first year," he said. "My No. 1 goal was to get this team here. They know what's at stake now. They know what they're playing for. I think it was invaluable for us to get here this year so they know what they can do."
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Feb 19, 13 at 8:52pm ^Waluigi :)
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May 26, 13 at 6:22pm ^re: Waluigi :)
make sure you have 150 stars then go up to the endless stairs and dont jump into the hole,or else!jump into the big bowser pic.,then kill a goomba with a waluigi hat,BUT FIRST, get a w key then cill the gooomba
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May 26, 13 at 6:48pm ^re: Waluigi :)
Go into that other locked door next to Warios once you collcet all the Shiny Rabbits. now go keep going in and out of the door 10 times each...
Get all 150 stars on only 1 file save and when it is saving turn of your DS... Go back into the game and you'll have 151 stars.. now for some starnge reson the cannon doesn't open... Now do the glitch on youtube how you slide down from the green grass and somehow you go underthe ground now go to the cannon and you'll be in it now you shoot onto the top of the castle... There will be a note on the top saying The Rabbit King has gottan him self lost up where that tall spiky pillar is...
Now do the glitch were you get on top of the pillar and you fall through, now go through the "Glitched" door to find your self in the first floor that has Bunny foot prints all over it... Now defeat all 3 of the bosses from which you got Mario, Luigi and Wario. Instead of the usual bosses it is a giant rabbit and he will throw up rabbits whi'll he tries to stomp on you, be Wario for the first and 2nd boss and throw the rabbits and the Rabbit Kind 20 times, He will retreat, do the same in the 2nd time, now be Luigi and jump on the rabbits and you'll hover over the Rabbit King and then ground pound, do tis 3 times then eventually he'll blow up and you'll see a little rabbit with Waluigi's cap on it and he'll run away, now go to the Locked door and you'll find the rabbit, catch him and he'll run into the locked room and now there will be an upside down L on the door signifiying that thats Waluigis door, now go inside and Waluigi will come out and you can now play as him...
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May 26, 13 at 6:52pm ^re: Waluigi :)
Get 150 stars, then delete your save file. Get 150 stars again, and you'll find Peach outside on the bridge. She'll say "Don't help me, I can do this......150 + 150....=......Ummm.......300!" You'll be prompted with answers. If you say "Right!" Then she'll say, "Yay! I knew I could do it! No you should too!" Then your file will be erased. Try it again to find that where there was one star, there is a slightly different challenge near it for another one. When you collect all 300 stars, delete your file and start again. Collect all 300 stars and go to the front bridge. If you are Luigi, he will hold them up, then trip and die. If you're Wario, he'll eat a donut first, then explode and die. If you're Mario, he'll eat all the stars and die. If you're Yoshi, he'll be smothered by fans and die. Confused? I'll bet. Do this with any of the aformentioned characters and all the stars will be on the ground. A voice will sigh. You'll then become Waluigi's silhouette. Don't celebrate yet, he can only carry the stars to the roof. Go to the cannon and "cannonguy" will ask you a question. Answer right and you'll fire 1 star up to the roof. do this for all 900 of the stars you collected. When the last one is fired he'll say, "Next!" Waluigi will say, "I don't have any more". Cannonguy will laugh and erase your game. You must now start again. ALL THE WAY AGAIN! Yes that's doing the 150 stars twice, listening to Peach be stupid, getting 300 stars twice and letting a second character die. Then, you'll fall down a hole. Inside you'll find 1000, (yes, 1000) stars floating around, you must find the 100 real ones. When you do, you'll have 1000 stars. Take these to cannonguy and answer 1000 new questions. When all the stars are fired up, he'll ask you the square root of 9476508456320975609480739487530948039. Straps will fly out of your DS and ensnare you, so you can't use a calculator or anything. Answer right and you'll be blasted onto the roof, where you should check to see if all 1000 stars are there. If any fell off, you'll have to do everything above AGAIN. If not, carry them to Peach's window and drop them in. Waluigi will laugh and disappear. Now, you take control of one of the two remaining live characters. Go up to the new door to Peach's room and try the door. An electrical surge will go through the doorknob and your character will die. Go get the last character and try again. For some reason it works. Now, grab the stars and thrust them up into the design on the roof. They will go through a purplish void thing (that may have destroyed a place called Sammerville once....) Jump up yourself, and The character will pop out of the DS. Now you must control him as he walks around your house. You have 10 minutes to utterly destroy the place. When everything is deemed destroyed, a void will open in the sky again. It will suck you and your character into it. You will find yourself in an open castle with purple as far as your eye can see. The door will open to reveal the real final boss, Bowzania. You character will faint and die. Now, you must use your own skills to kill this Uber-strong Bowser form. If you somehow manage to do, walk through the next room to find Waluigi locked in a cage. Before you can get to him, a trap door will open beneath you. You'll find yourself on floor 1 of the Pit of 100 trials (TTYD version). You must make your way to Bonetail (using your own skills, remember) and kill him for the key to Waluigi's cage. Then everyone except Bonetail will regenerate and you'll have to kill them all again in backwards order. When you finally reach the top, you can use the key to turn the lock. A DS will appear with Super Mario 64 DS in it. You must get all 150 stars on this game, and it will turn into another key. Use it on the second, invisible lock, and the cage will open. Waluigi will step out and thank you. "Yes! I unlocked Waluigi!" You will shout gleefully. Waluigi will look at you confused. "What are you talking about, you noob? I'm not in the game. It was an April Fool's joke. Don't tell me you believed that 'gaming magazine'?"
So now you're trapped in a void, with a Super Mario 64 DS game, with all the characters dead. Enjoy!
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First, get 150 stars on all files. Then, delete the files and get 150 on all three again. Continue this until you've done this 10 times.
Then, drop your DS into a pit of acid, and pray the liquid doesn't dissolve the handheld. If it survives, fish it out and lick the excess acid off. If it doesn't survive, either buy a new DS and repeat the process, or give up fitfully and leap in the acid yourself, finally ending your quest.
You are now tethered eternally to this quest - you will become immortal and invulnerable, and you will be able to do anything you want except give up on the quest. If you give up your quest now, then you will die one of the most gruesome and horrible deaths conceivable.
With that pleasant thought in mind, you will sit in the acid pit for 30,000 years, or until someone discovers you - whichever comes last. During that time, all you can do is play Super Mario 64 DS.
Once you're finally free of the acidic prison, find the legendary Platinum copy of SM64DS. There is only one, hidden away in a sacred location somewhere on Earth. You will be given no clues as to its whereabouts, and you have 5,000 years to locate it. If you do not find it in that span of time, you will be vaporized.
If you find it, the 5,000-year time span you were given will be subtracted from how many years it took to find the Platinum copy of SM64DS, and that is how many gallons of the acid from the acid pit you must drink.
When you've had your acid binge, load the Platinum SM64DS into your DS. The entire game will be the same, except everything has the distinctive effect of being plated in chrome or something similar, making the game infinitesimally more annoying to look at.
Beat this game with 150 stars on all three files 10 times while simultaneously walking around the Earth 10 times. When you return to your original location after this, you will find a door, rimmed with purple and an upside-down L.
Your quest will almost be over then - be sure to unload the Platinum SM64DS from your DS, because if not, your quest will be impossible to complete, and you will be sacrificed on the sacred hearth of the purple-edged door.
Venturing into this door will be dangerous indeed - it takes perseverance, strength, skill, wit, and a tinge of raw luck. Also, anything within your DS will be glued within. Once you reach the Pit of Broken Souls, sacrifice the Platinum game to them as an offering of peace - otherwise, they will feed on your soul and drag it into the pit.
Later on, in the Arena of Truth, you will face off against Waluigi himself in the most epic battle of your quest - a no-holds-barred, 4,500-year-long match of SM64DS Download Play (this is why you needed your DS intact - if you sacrificed that and the Platinum game to the pit, you couldn't face off against Waluigi).
If you defeat him, he will congratulate you, enter your game, transform the white door into his door, and become a playable character, finally bringing you success. If you fail, he will drag you to the sacrificial hearth, where your soul and body will be consumed by purple flames before being thrown into the Pit of Broken Souls, dashed and broken against the jagged rocks of the pit.
Jun 3, 13 at 9:02am ^re: Waluigi :)
Just print out a picture of him, and tape him to your DS. That's the easiest way to get him.
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MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – For some people receiving Social Security for a disability, the price of a safety net is never being able to build savings.
People who receive Supplemental Security Income payments can't have more than $2,000 in savings under federal rules, Arc of Muskegon Executive Director Margaret O'Toole said. The Arc advocates for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
"You have to maintain yourself at a poverty level," she said.
Supplemental Security Income is for people who have disabilities, but haven't worked long enough to qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance and have very little in the way of assets. SSDI doesn't limit savings, but it does prohibit recipients from earning more than $1,010 per month in income from working.
Now, the Arc is putting together a trust pool that will let people with disabilities accumulate savings legally, without jeopardizing their Social Security benefits. Those savings could be used to pay for medical equipment that isn't covered by government funds, to establish a "rainy day" fund or to save up for luxuries like a vacation, O'Toole said.
"It really provides for the extras," she said. "It really could sustain someone's independence too."
Each person who contributes would have a separate sub-trust managed by the Arc, O'Toole said, but the funds would be invested together.
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The Arc will hold a seminar explaining how a trust pool works from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 26, at its offices, 1145 E. Wesley Ave. People who want to attend are asked to register by Monday, by calling (231) 777-2006 or emailing email@example.com.
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Thibault re-nominated in West Nova
The West Nova Liberal Association held its annual meeting, nomination and lobster dinner October 3. Some 150 supporters were present for the uncontested nomination of Robert Thibault, left. As the Liberal candidate in the next federal election, Thibault will attempt to regain the seat he held for three consecutive terms until he was defeated by Conservative Greg Kerr in 2009. Thibault spoke of the need to elect a fiscally-responsible, compassionate government under the direction of Michael Ignatieff and the Liberals; and also said West Nova needs a strong voice representing its interests in Ottawa. Dominic LeBlanc, Liberal MP for Beausejour, right; criticized the Conservative Stephen Harper government for squandering a budget surplus during good economic times, limiting its ability to react to the current economic downturn.


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ANN ARBOR -- Jordan Kovacs took a phone call from a reporter the other day, and exchanged pleasantries. He's working on a presentation and preparing for finals next week.
But only a question or two is asked before he hangs up. The Houston Texans are on the other line, so he'll have to call back.
He calls a few minutes later, but only two questions are asked before the Dallas Cowboys buzz through. He says he'll call right back.
He does -- but no time for questions this time. The Green Bay Packers are on the other line.
Kovacs, a 5-foot-11, 205-pound former walk-on who became an all-Big Ten safety at Michigan, might not be a typical NFL draft candidate. But it's clear there's interest in the safety at the next level.
The Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs flew him out for visits, and the New England Patriots worked him out back in Michigan. He's also received significant interest from the Dolphins, Jaguars, Jets, Browns and Titans, and had cursory conversations with several other teams.
Kovacs could be selected in the late rounds of the draft, which begins Thursday, or sign as a priority free agent after it concludes Saturday.
Either way, he's just asking for a chance.
"I'm hoping for the best, preparing for the worst," Kovacs said. "That's always been my approach. If I get picked, that'll be great. If not, I've beaten the odds before.
"It'll be a challenge either way, whether I'm picked in the fifth round, or whether I'm undrafted. It's going to be a dogfight just to make a roster. I'm looking forward to the challenge."
In a lot of ways, Kovacs is back to where he started in 2008, when he didn't have a single FBS offer coming out of Clay High School in Ohio and was a nobody just looking for an open tryout with the Wolverines.
Kovacs remembers his preparations back then, pushing his limits at the Central Campus Recreation Building on campus. He'd run laps, pushing himself to the brink as he tried to prove people wrong. That he could play football.
Literally. To the brink -- and one time, over it.
"I was running, then actually ran to the garbage can, threw up and kept running," Kovacs said with a laugh. "People around me were looking at me like, 'What the hell is this guy doing?'
"Right now it just sounds so goofy."
Kovacs didn't make the team the first time he tried out, due to a previous knee injury that required surgery. He remembers the second tryout, during spring ball in 2009 -- remembers getting pushed around as the coaches figured out which walk-ons had the heart to play.
"They wanted to see how bad you wanted it, because if you're walking on and you don't want it bad enough, you're expendable. And I've seen it happen," Kovacs said. "(Then-coach Rich Rodriguez) threw us right into a workout called 'Tour of Duties.' It was 6 a.m. runs. They gave me my equipment and said, 'Be here by 5:30 a.m. and be ready to go.
"Just rapid-fire drills. Cones. Run 10 yards and back, 15 and back, 20 and back. It's pretty insane."
Of course, we know how this story ends.
Kovacs made the team after the second tryout in 2009 and, due to a twist of fortune, was thrown onto the field against Notre Dame due to an injury to then-safety Mike Williams.
He went on to become a four-year starter, three-time all-Big Ten player and team captain and MVP as a senior.
Now as he's trying to make the NFL, he's hearing a lot of the same stuff he heard coming out of high school. That he's too small, too slow. A nice player, but just that.
He's ranked the No. 27 safety by CBSSports.com, and No. 31 according to ESPN.
But all Kovacs is training for, and asking for, is what he trained for and asked for four years ago -- a chance to see the field and prove he belongs.
"That's my advantage -- I've been through this before," Kovacs said. "I wasn't born with a silver spoon, so to say, at the University of Michigan. Far from it, to be honest with ya. I had to walk-on twice. I had to basically convince the coaches to take me, and just had to be stubborn about it.
"It'll be interesting to see how the guys that never really had to work to be on a roster, how it plays along for them, because I'm confident in what I had to do to make it at Michigan, and I'm confident I can do it again in the NFL."
Kovacs knows he has an uphill battle, but is encouraged by the spike in interest the past few weeks. His pro day helped, as he answered questions about his athleticism with a 4.60-second 40-yard dash (would have placed 10th out of 21 safeties at the combine).
The process has been taxing, though, especially for a guy who is taking 10 credits and preparing for graduation next month. Take his visit to the Raiders, for example.
He flew out of Detroit at 7:30 a.m., had a layover in Phoenix and arrived in Oakland around noon. He made it to the facilities by 1 p.m., where he met with position coaches, as well as head coach Dennis Allen and general manager Reggie McKenzie.
Kovacs finished up around 4 p.m., hung around the facilities for a while, then caught a flight back at around 10:10 p.m. local time. After a layover in Philadelphia, he finally arrived back in Detroit around 9:30 a.m. the next day.
A 26.5-hour trip. And it's not like he could sleep much on the plane.
"I had a middle seat, which I'm still pissed off about," he said with a laugh. "I woke up after about 45 minutes, just hot, uncomfortable, stuck between these two old guys."
Kovacs knows his odds are long of making an NFL roster. But then he thinks back to a time when he puked in a CCRC trash can just to make the Wolverines, and it steels his resolve that, given a shot, he'll prove once again that he can beat the odds.
"It's the same approach I took when I walked on at Michigan," he said. "That's what I'm telling scouts. I just want an opportunity. That's all I want.
"I want an opportunity to play football in the NFL, and if I get that opportunity, I'll make the most of it. I've done it before in college, and I'll do it again."
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- You don't have to be a genius to figure out the favorites for the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2. There are plenty of critics who will gladly tell what to expect.
This may be one of the most competitive awards seasons in recent memory, but there's always a favorite. And as any cynical competitor will tell you: second place is the first loser.
When it comes to the Academy Awards, second place (and anything after) is often not remembered. But that doesn't mean the non-winners should be dismissed.
Here are seven nominees that have very little chance of winning this Sunday. Yet, each is a stunning performance that will endure for quite some time.
(Nominated for Best Picture)
"Philomena" was not the best film of 2013, but it's not as low on the totem pole as people may think. Steve Coogan and Judi Dench give touching performances in the true story of a British journalist who helps an elderly woman try to find the son torn away from her by Catholic nuns for adoption. There are a few subtle twists that keep you guessing, but it's Coogan and especially Dench's ability to have you care about the characters that makes the conclusion so emotional. That's more than you can say about some of the other, more recognizable nominees for Best Picture.
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
(Nominated for Actor in a Leading Role)
There is a moment towards the end of "12 Years a Slave" when a group of slaves gather for a funeral of one of their own. Most of the slaves break into the choir song "Roll Jordan Roll." And there stands Solomon Northup (so brilliantly played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) who is silent at first. Once a free man and now a slave, he has exhausted everything he has to the point of desperation and hopelessness. It's a situation that would seem impossible to capture, but Ejiofor stunningly holds it in his eyes for nearly two minutes as he finally joins in the singing. He won't win the Oscar for Actor in a Leading Role (that will likely go to Matthew McConaughey's flashier performance in "Dallas Buyers Club"), but Ejiofor gives perhaps the best acting performance of 2013. It's a performance as much about the triumph of the human spirit as it is about the depths of despair humans must sometimes endure.
June Squibb, "Nebraska"
(Nominated for Actress in a Supporting Role)
June Squibb doesn't stand a chance against Jennifer Lawrence ("American Hustle") or Lupita Nyong'o ("12 Years a Slave"), but that doesn't matter. She steals every scene she's in as Kate Grant, wife of Bruce Dern's Woody Grant, a senile drunk you can't help but feel sorry for. Squibb's Kate is foul-mouthed and bitter, but there's a heart in there that creeps out towards the end.
"The Wind Rises"
(Nominated for Animated Feature Film)
"The Wind Rises" will be the final film from legendary Japanese director and animator Hayao Miyazaki, who has drawn comparisons to Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg. Miyazaki's previous work includes "Princess Mononoke" and "Spirited Away." "The Wind Rises" is his fitting swan song for its visual beauty and its ability to capture the spirit of life and the magic of dreams that come true.
"Lone Survivor"
(Nominated for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing)
Peter Berg's moving film about a four-man SEAL team that
finds itself heavily outnumbered by members of the Taliban in Afghanistan
grips you with its intense action sequences. Your eyes
and ears are fixated on quick cuts and realistic sounds, putting you right in the middle of the action. You already know how it ends, but
you're on the edge of your seat the entire time.
Bob Nelson, "Nebraska"
(Nominated for Original Screenplay)
Bob Nelson's script for "Nebraska" is something for young writers to marvel at. The movie moves at a snail's pace at times, but Nelson's dialogue will get you through. The words are well timed, humorous and, most importantly, real. The highlight is a scene where a son (Will Forte) asks his elderly father (Bruce Dern) why he married mom. His response: "She wanted to." You don't doubt him for a second.
"The Moon Song," "Her"
(Nominated for Original Song)
Of the music nominated for Original Song, Karen O's "The Moon Song" is easily the most subdued. But it's also the best fit for its respective film. Spike Jonze's "Her" makes us take another look at what it means to fall in love. "The Moon Song" puts a nice exclamation on that, capturing the simplicities of love and how a feeling truly lies in the person who is feeling it, no matter how real or make-believe the other person may be.


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Brewers owner Mark Attanasio awaits information on Ryan Braun controversy
Phoenix - Brewers principal owner Mark Attanasio said Saturday he has no inside knowledge of the ongoing controversy involving star leftfielder Ryan Braun and the Miami-area clinic alleged to have provided performance-enhancing drugs to baseball players.
"I'm learning along with everybody else, day to day," said Attanasio, who made his annual visit to address players before the first full-squad workout at Maryvale Baseball Park.
Attanasio said he has no more knowledge than anyone else about the two reports showing Braun's name on lists created by Biogenesis clinic operator Tony Bosch. Braun said his defense team used Bosch as a consultant in preparing for his successful appeal of a positive drug test for elevated testosterone and that's the only link.
"It's really come out more in the press than through Major League Baseball," said Attanasio. "Baseball is obviously investigating it, so we'll see how that investigation goes."
Asked how concerned he is that his top player is embroiled in the controversy, Attanasio said, "Frankly, you're always going to have concerns if it's any player. But it's out of our hands. So, we'll just have to see where it goes."
As expected, Braun said his policy on not taking questions about Biogenesis remained the same after an ESPN report the previous day provided documents supposedly linking him more strongly to PEDs. He would not take questions the previous day about the Yahoo Sports report that originally tied him to the Biogenesis link and said that also went for the second report.
Still no Lohse: Attanasio was asked about any talks he had with agent Scott Boras about free-agent right-hander Kyle Lohse, who is still on the market.
"Scott's always pushing," said Attanasio. "One of the reasons Scott is such a good agent is that he's always pushing everybody all the time. What Scott does is try to optimize situations for players. The fact that he thinks Milwaukee is a good situation speaks well to what we have going on here in Milwaukee.
"Our ears are always open. We don't want to lead our fans on in any way. There's not an active conversation. But our ears are always open. Doug ( Melvin) and his group are always looking to improve the team."
The Brewers aren't interested in paying the level of salary that Boras is seeking for Lohse. They have trimmed their payroll from $100 million to about $80 million and want to retain financial flexibility for the future.
"The corollary to where the money is right now is that we have a lot of flexibility," said Attanasio. "This year we have a lot of returning guys but we definitely have capital flexibility. Everybody always talks about free agents, but we can have a trade, too. Whether it's now or midseason, we can do things. But we really want to see what these guys can do because they've earned that.
"Setting a rigid number (for payroll) and sticking to that number, I've not found that to be a good way to run the team, either from a business standpoint or a baseball standpoint. It's better to look at where your team is from a baseball standpoint and then fill in as needed. So this year, we have more flexibility. Whether we use that flexibility this year or next year depends on both how we're doing and who's available.
"We have the luxury of doing that because we've been disciplined in how we've run the team from the business end."
Positive thinking: Because the Brewers are committing to inexperienced pitchers in their starting rotation, Attanasio acknowledged that expectations from outside are not high. But he said that is not the case from within.
"We didn't get eliminated until Game 159 last year and our best performance was with this group of guys that's here now," he said. "Our expectations are high. If the young guys had not earned the shot, we might have done something different, whether it was signing a free agent or do a trade, or both.
"I'm excited about the team. We think this team can win; we think this team can contend. So, I'm looking forward to the games starting."
Welcome back: While his role will be much different from last season, Alex Gonzalez said he's pleased to be back with the Brewers.
A year ago, Gonzalez was the team's starting shortstop and was off to a solid start at the plate and in the field. On May 5 in San Francisco, he suffered a torn ACL in his right knee on a steal of second base.
Gonzalez needed surgery, and his season was over. The Brewers used a patchwork corps of players at shortstop in his stead - Cesar Izturis, Cody Ransom and Edwin Maysonet - without much success before eventually acquiring prospect Jean Segura from the Los Angeles Angels in the Zack Greinke trade.
Segura, who'd played just one game above Class AA before the trade, acquitted himself well down the stretch after being installed as the starter at shortstop. He is pegged as the starter for 2013, leaving the Brewers searching for a veteran backup.
Melvin said from the outset he was interested in bringing Gonzalez back but only as a backup, not an easy decision for a proud veteran who'd started his entire career.
Unable to find anything better, Gonzalez eventually re-signed with the Brewers, getting a one-year, $1.45 million contract worth another $1 million available in incentives.
"In the off-season I was talking to a couple of teams, but I wanted to be back," Gonzalez said. "I told my agent if you can't find (a starting job), try to go back to Milwaukee. It was a little late, but I'm happy to be here."
Gonzalez said there was an open dialogue between his side and Melvin over the winter months.
"We were always talking in the off-season," he said. "I was doing my rehab. I just waited for those guys. I'm glad they took me back."
Gonzalez, who hit .259 with four home runs and 15 runs batted in 24 games with the Brewers, proclaimed himself 100% recovered before the New Year.
"I think it was December," he said. "I had a showcase for myself, invited about 10 teams to watch me down in Miami. At that point I was ready to do a lot of things on the field."
In addition to backing up Segura at shortstop, Gonzalez will serve as a backup at third - a position he played in winter ball in Venezuela - and possibly second base.
Manager Ron Roenicke said he'll also ask Gonzalez to try some first base, with the Brewers on the lookout for a backup to Mat Gamel early in the season.
"I'm just trying to help the team," he said. "You never know what can happen during the season."


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Editor's note: Tom Hallman Jr. is at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. While he's sending the photos, I'm supplying the text today, with the aid of The Associated Press. If you'd like, follow Tom on his Sturgis adventure on Instagram @thallmanjr.
The word out of Sturgis, South Dakota, today is this: Motorcycles aren't just for men. In fact, last year 44 percent of the attendees were women.
"You always think of the beard, think of it as the hardened riders. It's not like that," said Jennifer Warner, 44, from Georgia.
While many still ride behind husbands and boyfriends, a growing number of mothers, wives, girlfriends and grandmothers are grabbing their own gear to hit the road, the Rapid City Journal reported
This next item should resonate in bacon-loving Portland, or the bacon-loving universe: Among the thousands of motorcycles rumbling through Sturgis this week is one fueled by bacon grease.
Austin, Minnesota-based Hormel Foods Corp. had the bike customized so it can run on fat that's refined into a biodiesel blend.
The goal is to promote its Black Label Bacon line, but we'll take it.
And finally, not all that long ago, if you thought you had to be on a Harley to show your face at Sturgis, you were right. In those days, foreign-made bikes where dropped, stacked, burned and melted together in front of a cheering crowd.
Those days are over.
Eli Gabriella, of Loveland, Colorado, says Harleys are practically in his blood. But he told the Rapid City Journal said that there's no reason to disrespect other bikers if they ride another brand.
"The way I see it, we're all doing the same thing and taking the same chances," he told the Rapid City Journal. "So what you want to ride doesn't really matter."
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Early country music from Detroit, 1949-1951
Earl & Joyce Songer & the Rocky Road Ramblers
Label:Old Homestead OHCS 338
Country:United States
BG Unlimited:1993-12
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A-1. We're satisfied
A-2. Fire in my heart (will be drowned in tears)
A-3. Honky tonkin' blues
A-4. My wife and sweetheart too
A-5. Whose naughty baby are you
A-6. I won't confess I'm sorry
A-7. Will there be any flowers on my grave
A-8. Fox chase
B-1. West Virginia waltz
B-2. Mother in-law boogie
B-3. Spanish fire bells
B-4. Someone to call my own
B-5. In a broken heart no love is found
B-6. Blue Mountain girl
B-7. Dissatisfied
B-8. Smiling through the years


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Justin Morell Quintet: The Music Of Steely Dan
The quintet's modus operandi rings loud and clear as Morell, John Daversa (trumpet) and Tom Peterson (saxophone) jubilantly state the memorable choruses in concert with the jazz-based rhythms. Whereby, the guitarist often anchors the proceedings via his deft comping and beautifully structured soloing. They adhere to the original compositions while injecting a personalized stamp into works such as the dreamy "Home At Last," and others. In addition, the soloists articulate a mild frenzy atop the rhythm section's leanly executed swing on, "I Got The News."
The musicians touch upon a higher worldly plane during their modern jazz-based spin of "The Royal Scam." On this piece, the soloists' augment the song's soulful motif with ferocious call and response type dialogue. Legendary L.A. session drummer, John Guerin lays down a brisk strut in support of Daversa's warmly stated lines and Peterson's soul-searching tenor sax solo on "Babylon Sisters." Bassist, Todd Sickafoose often propels the band into mid-tempo swing vamps while Morell's well-placed chord progressions provide a budding flow throughout.
Many of "Steely Dan's" LPs continue to enjoy staying power, as Morell and co. parallels that notion in exuberant (jazz-based) fashion with this glowing testament to a great outfit. Highly recommended.
Track Listing: 1.Home at Last 2.My Rival 3.I Got the News 4.Third World Man 5.The Royal Scam 6.Maxine 7.End of the Line 8.Babylon Sisters
Personnel: Justin Morell: guitar
About Justin Morell
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- Justin Morell Dectet - Subjects and Compliments by C. Michael Bailey
- The Music Of Steely Dan by Glenn Astarita


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Even with the hordes of Manchester United fans descending on the Red Bull Arena in Harrison for the MLS All-Star Game tonight, there are still Red Bull fans who will be rooting for the MLS All-Stars.
Michael Mederrick is a Red Bull season ticket holder who has braved the legions of Manchester United fans to see this game.
"There's a lot of razzing from the Man U. fans," he said.
"But its all in good fun, all in good spirit. It's great that soccer is taking a better hold in this country."
Mederrick, who is attending the game with his father-in-law Elliot Bennett, is very happy he got the opportunity to watch this game live.
"I'm really exited, I've been looking forward to this game for a long time."


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One VOICE (Valley Organizations in Collective Effort) is launching a donation drive for a large assortment of items as a prelude to a December holiday event for families in need in the Snoqualmie Valley.
Local financial institutions will also be joining the collection efforts for One VOICE. Donations of new and gently used coats can be made at Sterling Bank, Chase Bank, Bank of America, Opus Bank, Key Bank and Sno-Falls Credit Union. Donations will be accepted now until Tuesday, Dec. 11.
Donations of other items including gift cards, non-perishable food, gingerbread house kits, personal toiletries, new and gently used winter clothing, shoes and boots, dental products, toilet paper, diapers and wipes will also be collected in North Bend at Encompass Main Campus, 1407 Boalch Ave N.W. and Chaplin's North Bend Chevrolet, 106 Main Ave. N. and in Snoqualmie at Peak Sports and Spine, 7726 Center Blvd. S.E., Suite 220 and Snoqualmie Chamber of Commerce, 38767 S.E. River St. Many other local organizations will also be coordinating drives for these items as well.
The One VOICE Holiday Event will run Thursday and Friday, Dec. 13 and 14, 2012, at the Church of Latter-day Saints at 527 SW Mount Si Blvd., North Bend, and includes distribution of cold weather clothing along with other necessary items and gifts to keep families in need warm and happy during the holiday season. The event includes the Kiwanis Giving Tree and Encompass Respectful Giving.
One VOICE was organized in 2010 to coordinate opportunities to serve families in need and allow them to discover resources available to them in the Snoqualmie Valley. One VOICE includes more than 40 businesses, healthcare professionals, social-service programs, schools, churches, local governments and community organizations.
For more information, call Stacey Cepeda at 425.888.2777 or e-mail email@example.com, or visit the One VOICE Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/OneVoiceSnoqualmieValley.
Participating One VOICE organizations and businesses in addition to those listed above : Cascade Covenant Church, Cascade Dance Academy, Cascade View Elementary, Chaplin's North Bend Chevrolet, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, City of North Bend, Eastside Self Storage, Encompass, Jolene's Hair and Skin Care, Kiwanis, Moose Lodge, Mt. Si Gymnastics Academy and Dance Studio, Mt. Si Helping Hand Food Bank, Mount Si High School, Mt. Si Sports & Fitness, Our Lady of Sorrows, Peak Sport and Spine, Ridge Fitness, Rotary Club of Snoqualmie Valley, St. Anthony - Carnation, St. Joseph School- Snoqualmie Campus, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Snoqualmie Valley Alliance, Snoqualmie Valley Hospital District, Snoqualmie Valley Hospital Foundation, Snoqualmie Valley Record, Snoqualmie Valley Women in Business, Walk the Talk with Kim Radio Show.
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