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BOSTON -- After four candidates recommended by former Superior Court Chief Justice Suzanne DelVecchio of Hingham failed to advance toward probation officer jobs, a western Massachusetts judge testified Friday she overheard DelVecchio admonishing Rep. Sal DiMasi.
"They didn't make it through," Judge Bertha Josephson recalled hearing DelVecchio say in a phone call with DiMasi around 2000 or 2001. Josephson also said she heard DelVecchio say, "Well next time send me goddamn candidates who can make it through an interview."
Josephson, who was called by the prosecution to testify on another aspect of the case against three former probation department officials, said that when she was leading the hiring committee for probation officers DelVecchio had earlier passed her a piece of paper with four names on it and told Josephson she was "hopeful" they would move forward in the process.
"I said, 'I can't tell the committee what to do,' and she appeared to accept that," Josephson testified Friday. She said, "I never even read the names."
At the time, judges had the power to hire probation officers. After the annual budget was passed in 2001, the authority to appoint probation officers shifted from the presiding judges at individual courts to the probation commissioner.
Federal prosecutors have accused former Probation Commissioner John O'Brien and two of his former deputies, William Burke III and Elizabeth Tavares, of rigging hiring within the department, secretly shuttling jobs to people with the support of lawmakers and others with influence.
Defense attorneys are trying to make the case that patronage hiring is widespread in state government, and the chain of influence Josephson recalled gave credence to that theory.
"We're somewhat far afield here," Judge William Young cautioned the jury before Burke's attorney John Amabile drew out Josephson's recollection of the events 14 or 15 years ago.
On Friday, prosecutor Robert Fisher focused on Burke, the deputy commissioner for the western part of the state, and his role allegedly securing an assistant chief probation officer job in Franklin County Superior Court for Frank Glenowicz, which prosecutors claim was fraudulent.
Josephson said she was "upset" when Glenowicz received the post because she "didn't feel he had a good grasp" on Franklin County as he was a probation officer at a juvenile court in Springfield.
"He had worked with juveniles, and we were working with criminals who, for lack of a better word, had graduated" to worse crimes, Josephson said. When she asked Burke about it Josephson remembered him saying, "That's somebody else's decision and that's just the way it goes."
Josephson had preferred Sheila Dintaman, and served as a reference for the probation officer she had known since her time as a state prosecutor in the 1980s. Dintaman also testified Friday that she filed a grievance after she didn't receive the job, and was subsequently offered a position as probation officer in charge at a community corrections center.
Amabile suggested Burke was familiar with all the candidates up for the promotion, while Josephson did not know Glenowicz before the interviews, and said Glenowicz had lived his whole life in Franklin County.
A Gov. Bill Weld nominee, Josephson also spoke highly of Christopher Hoffman, another hire who federal prosecutors contend was fraudulent.
"I thought he was good," Josephson said.
"How about exemplary? Would you go there?" Amabile asked.
"I suppose," Josephson said.
"What's the biggest compliment you would be comfortable with?" Amabile asked.
"He was very good," Josephson said.
According to The Republican, of Springfield, Hoffman, the former Hampshire County probation official, was sentenced to two years imprisonment last October for intimidating and attempting to harass a witness. Both Hoffman and Burke are from Hatfield.
Josephson was also complimentary of Burke, who retired after 37 years in the public safety agency.
"It's hard not to like Mr. Burke. He's a very affable man," Josephson said.
Defense attorneys have cast recommendations from legislators and directives from O'Brien as aspects of a legitimate merit-based hiring system that incorporates the opinions of respected officials and delegated authority from O'Brien.
Prosecutors have claimed the patronage was systematic and hidden, as jobs were offered as bribes or gifts to powerful lawmakers with the hopes the Legislature would be generous to the department through the budgetary process and other laws.
Francis Wall, a former deputy commissioner who claimed to have been involved in hundreds of hires, said he always ensured that O'Brien's choice candidates were bumped to the top regardless of their qualifications.
Wall, who has corroborated a substantial portion of the prosecution's case while facing accusations that he is a "serial liar" from defense attorneys, ended his testimony Friday morning, after having first taken the stand Tuesday afternoon.
While defense attorneys have demonstrated that Wall recalls few specifics of the people he interviewed and scored, Wall has said he gave little thought to their qualifications or interview performance, giving them the scores that would advance O'Brien's goals of hiring pre-selected candidates.
Sometimes O'Brien would ask him how candidates performed in interviews, Wall testified, and Wall would reply sarcastically, saying "You want me to truly evaluate them" after "asking me to fix" the interviews?
Brad Bailey, an attorney for Tavares, attempted to cast Wall as the criminal in the department, noting that Wall had committed perjury in arbitration proceedings and admitted to embellishing scores when interviewing people for jobs. Bailey suggested Wall encouraged Tavares to lie to independent counsel Paul Ware during his 2010 investigation.
Tavares had told Wall she planned to tell the independent counsel about her role in passing preferred names from the commissioner, Wall said, acknowledging that upset him, and saying he told her, "You're setting us up."
"You were asking her to lie for you, weren't you?" Bailey asked.
"If she were to testify that way, she would be lying, that's correct," Wall said, acknowledging that he and his colleague Patricia Walsh planned to lie if they were forced to testify.
Wall, who received immunity ahead of his testimony, said he invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself when he was called to speak to Ware.
Wall has said he agreed to lie under oath out of "loyalty" to his boss, O'Brien, and on Friday under questioning by prosecutor Fred Wyshak, Wall said he committed perjury at arbitration proceedings "to maintain the integrity of this type of process, so the commissioner could continue to have preferred candidates selected to positions."
When Wyshak asked Wall about his conversation with Tavares about testifying, he said, "I said, 'You do know that with your understanding, Pat and I had gone into arbitration and lied under oath," prompting Bailey to accuse Wall of embellishing the account.
"I may have left that out," Wall said, acknowledging that in prior testimony he had not said he told Tavares he committed perjury "with your understanding."
"Is that an embellishment sir? Nothing further your honor," Bailey said. Because Wall had not been given an opportunity to answer, Young struck the question from the record.
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BOSTON -- After four candidates recommended by former Superior Court Chief Justice Suzanne DelVecchio of Hingham failed to advance toward probation officer jobs, a western Massachusetts judge testified Friday she overheard DelVecchio admonishing Rep. Sal DiMasi.


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SHIRLEY -- Parents of Ayer-Shirley middle- and high-school students hoping for an after-school late bus may have to wait.
Parents approached the School Committee at its meeting in Shirley two weeks ago with a petition signed by more than 100 people asking that a 4 p.m. bus be considered for students who want to do after-school activities or need extra help but wouldn't have a ride home.
Shirley is seeing a potential 11 percent increase -- $260,000 -- in the amount it will have to pay the school district next year as part of its required local contribution, which is determined by the per-capita income of residents in town and property values.
Superintendent of Schools Carl Mock told the committee that if the district were to take the town's $300,000 in new revenue, he will still need to target $800,000 to cut from the budget.
School Committee member Pat Kelly said implementing a late bus two days a week, as requested, may not be possible next school year.
"There's no philosophical opposition to this by the School Committee," Kelly said. "It will be part of the entire budget discussion, but we'll have to see."
Mock said he has determined a late bus would cost $75 a run, or about $10,000 a school year.
"I'm not sure there's a way we can afford a late bus this year," he said. "We'll continue to talk about it quite a bit moving forward.
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Anthony Hopkins gives a great performance as Alfred Hitchcock, along with Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. We get an inside look into the famous director's psyche and the influence his wife had on the making of his movies.
Most of the movie centers around his making of "Psycho," an idea that he couldn't and wouldn't let go, even though nobody, including his studio, Paramount, wanted to touch with a 10-foot pole.
This is not a great movie – not a lot happens – but it does give you an insight into the making and selling of a movie from a different perspective.
When Hopkins, as Hitchcock, talks to the camera at the end of the movie, he faces the ultimate question, "Where do I go from here?" The writers have come up with a clever answer.
Rated PG-13, with some profanity. Young folks who have not seen "Psycho" will not get it. If I were the film promoter, I would have brought it back either in theatres or on TV.


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STOCKTON - Top brass at the Bank of Stockton knew they had to take action after bullets came through the windows on three occasions last year from gunfire erupting at Fremont Plaza, a park across the street.
STOCKTON - Top brass at the Bank of Stockton knew they had to take action after bullets came through the windows on three occasions last year from gunfire erupting at Fremont Plaza, a park across the street.
First, they installed bulletproof glass and security cameras at the bank inside and out that capture license plate numbers of passing motorists.
Now, they have turned their sights onto the drug dealers who have set up shop on the park's northeast corner. With the bank's financial help, the city demolished all the benches and picnic tables to make it less inviting.
"When bullets start coming through the windows, it accelerated the excitement," said Thomas Shaffer, the Bank of Stockton's executive vice president and chief operating officer. "It's a real mess."
The city has agreed also to keep the park's bathrooms locked. They've trimmed back the trees to let the sunshine in, and brighter street lights are coming, among improvements they're making on a shoestring budget.
Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones said he doesn't normally recommend tearing the benches and tables out of city parks, but in this case, they had to make a clean slate of the historic park.
"It was occupied by the wrong folks," Jones said. "Those benches had to go."
The effort to take back the park started a year ago, when he met with bank officials and others neighbors, including a church and mortuary. They all were fed up with gambling, drinking and drug sales, activities that often come with guns.
The demolition project is designed to disrupt the daily patterns of criminal activity at the park, Jones said.
The bank with 250 employees and its neighboring park sit on the border of Stockton's downtown and a neighborhood with chronic crime problems to the north.
Some bank employees park on the opposite side of the park. Ideally, they would like it to be safe enough once again for their employees to eat lunch in the park.
Jones said that when they've driven off criminal activity, the city will redesign the park so that it creates a positive space.
The benches were demolished Friday. On Monday, a group of men stood at the park's troublesome northeast corner as if lost.
The bank still has scars of gunfire that increased in frequency about 18 months ago. Bullet holes are in plain sight.
There's a clean shot through the metal awning over the parking lot, and just inside the door a slug dented the side of a counter. One employee has a collection of a half-dozen slugs in a tray on his desk.
Emily Baime, general manager of the Downtown Stockton Alliance, said she wasn't too worried about making the park inconvenient for the drug dealers. The park remains open for anybody using it productively, she said.
"Drug deals lead to shootings, and that's a threat to bank employees," Baime said. "Frankly, I feel that's more important."
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Another fascinating insight into the mentality of the warmist which chillingly demonstrates just how much they seem to be animated by hatred of the modern world .
Prominent global warming alarmist Chris Hedges has made a startling denouncement of his own country and condemned its actions in winning the Second World War. America, he writes, demonstrated that it was "as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished" when it dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki.
America, he goes on, deliberately committed an act of carefully planned, cold-blooded genocide for which there was no reason –
It was an act of mass annihilation that was strategically and militarily indefensible. The Japanese had been on the verge of surrender. Hiroshima and Nagasaki had no military significance. It was a war crime for which no one was ever tried.
Chris Hedges, The Science of Genocide. Truthdig.com
Hedges' contention that it was unnecessary and that Japan was "on the verge of surrender" is of course not only remarkably stupid but an insult to the lives of the tens of thousands of servicemen and women who fought and died battling the fanatical Japanese military machine which – and this is perhaps the crucial point Hedges is at pains to omit – launched an unprovoked attack on America, as well a murderous campaign of invasion, rape, torture and slavery on neighbouring countries. On this, Hedges is totally, completely silent.
Hedges target here, though, is not just his own country, but science and technology in general which he claims are responsible for the genocides of the twentieth century by making them possible, an argument analogous in its fatuousness to claiming that matches are responsible for arson attacks because they make them possible. You see, science for Hedges is not the rational discovery of truth for the benefit of humankind. It isn't medicine, warmth, power, light, and knowledge. Rather, for him and his kind it is something to be feared and loathed:
Science is for us what totems and spells were for our premodern ancestors. It is magical thinking. It feeds our hubris and sense of divine empowerment. And trusting in its fearsome power will mean our extinction.
Fittingly, he quotes noted psychotic liar, Bruno Bettelheim, as support for his argument that progress hasn't actually improved the lot of mankind but is responsible for all the terror and slaughter that the rest of us thought were caused by the communists in Russia and China and the National Socialists in Germany. Bettelheim was a man so prone to confabulation that even his long-time personal assistant remarked of him "you couldn't believe a word he said". Why would Hedges or anyone else, then, quote such a person in support of their argument? I can't fathom it and will leave to the reader to speculate.
How ironic then that in his column, The Sky Really is Falling, he accuses skeptics of global warming of "self-delusion". This from a man who apparently really believes there's an equivalency to be drawn between Nazi Germany and Japan which launched genocidal attacks on the world, and America, which reluctantly entered the war only after it was directly attacked without provocation. A man who doesn't welcome science for curing crippling and painful diseases and ailments, for feeding the world, and lifting humanity out of drudgery, but rather sees it as some malignant force that will lead to our extinction.
This is something, I believe, to bear in mind next time you read another jeremiad on global warming or "evil capitalism" from Hedges or one of his alarmist cronies. The fact that he is still being published by media outlets is nothing short of a scandal.


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More Brains!: A Return to the Living Dead (US - DVD R1)
Gabe learns just about everything about O'Bannon's Return of the Living Dead...
I quite enjoyed Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch's all-inclusive, some would say excessive, Nightmare on Elm Street series documentary Never Sleep Again, and have actually watched all 480 minutes on more than one occasion. But those 480 minutes cover the making of eight films. When presented with a 240-minute documentary on a single film, I was suspicious. I could see 240 minutes covering a film as massive as Fellowship of the Ring, or as lasting and 'important' as Seven Samurai, but Dan O'Bannon's Return of the Living Dead isn't exactly what I'd call worthy of such an extensive runtime. And I say this as a fan of the film, and of zombie cinema in general. Well, despite what the lack of verification on the box art, the Return of the Living Dead part of this documentary runs somewhere around 120 minutes, which is still 30-plus minutes longer than the film, but not as excessive as I had assumed. The other 120 minutes are found in this disc's special features.
More Brains, directed by Never Sleep Again producer Bill Philputt, is a fun, poppy ode to a fun, poppy film, and is generally quite informative, even for those of us that already gave a thorough listen to Dan O'Bannon's commentary on the Return of the Living Dead DVD and Blu-ray releases. There is a lack of behind the scenes footage, which certainly hurts. However, there are plenty of pertinent photo stills, and on occasion there's some footage from the rough cut of the film as well as what appears to be b-roll, which is a pretty impressive 'get' for the filmmakers. The bulk of the doc is made up of talking head interviews, which are augmented and made interesting with comic book inspired titles, graphic design, and backing set pieces. Interview subjects include actors Brian Peck (who also acts as narrator), Linnea Quigley, Thom Matthews, James Karen (who is a sarcastic, witty joy), Clu Gulager, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Allen Troutman, Jewel Shepard (who makes it pretty clear why people didn't get along with her on set), James Dalesandro, Drew Deighan and Don Calfa, writer John A, Russo, former Orion Pictures head Paul Sammon, production designer William Stout, co-producer Grahm Henderson, make-up effects techs Tony Gardner, Kenny Myers and William Munnis, cinematographer Jules Brenner, casting director Stanzi Stokes, SSQ lead singer Stacy Q, and second assistant editor John Penny. There is a brief, touching piece of filmed interview with O'Bannon at the very end of the film, but otherwise this footage is delegated to the special features for some reason.
Much of the focus is on the difficulties of the production, including the usual money issues, rights issues, studio disinterest, rewrites, O'Bannon's inexperience as a director and his battles with Clu Gulager, cast arguments, the effects challenges stemming from a difficult budget which led to the firing of original effects artist William Munnis (the images of his work are pretty telling), and filming long hour night shoots in pouring rain. The doc also covers more positive elements, including the basics of production design (based largely around EC Comics), special effects, make-up effects, casting (Miguel A. Núñez Jr. was homeless when hired), rehearsal time, costuming, the basic filming process, the most simple and successful of the special effects (especially the half-torso woman), Linnea Quigley's nude dance (including her 'modesty patch'), the scripts more original elements (brain eating, no death rule, though no mention of running zombies), the editing process, the novelty punk-infused score, and the surprise box office success.
My only real complaints pertain to a slight glaze over some of the George A. Romero stuff inherit in the fabric of Return of the Living Dead. Philputt does cover the film's Romero and John Russo roots, Russo and Romero's break into two different companies following Night of the Living Dead, and a lawsuit that Russo claims had nothing to do with his relationship with Romero. My disappointment pertains to the doc ignoring the minor feud that was kindled among horror fans. Return of the Living Dead was released almost exactly a month after Romero's third zombie film, Day of the Dead, which led to a bunch of comparisons, and petty, but juicy, fan arguments. If there would've been internet at the time, there would have been a gigantic flame war. In the end the R-rated, comedic, poppy Return was a hit, and the unrated, dark, depressing Day was relatively ignored (though it made a decent profit on video after the fact). This is possibly unfair of me as a George Romero fan, and I also admit fanbase melodrama was probably beyond the scope of this documentary, but it would've been a blast to see a bevy of fans and critics weighing in on the subject.
This DVD release looks about as good as a standard definition release of a low-budget documentary can. The 1.78:1 image looks as good as the quality of the interview footage. For example, Linnea Quigley's footage is darker and grainier than the majority of the other interviews. The interviews are set against cartoonishly bright red, blue and green lit backdrops, which offer a lot in the way of vibrant colours, which are pretty smooth, and feature only the usual, minor compression artifacts. Contrast around these areas is also quite sharp, and the blacks are usually deep and pure. The footage from the subject film, Return of the Living Dead, strangely enough, looks inconsistent, and sometimes pretty terrible. It's dingy, dark, heavily edge-enhanced, and appears misframed several times. I don't know if this was because the production wasn't sure if they could get the rights to use the footage and never bothered to replace some of their temp footage, or if they couldn't afford to buy the new HD footage.
There is almost nothing to say about this Dolby 2.0 Surround audio outside of the fact that it sounds just fine. The dialogue is clean and clear, and pretty consistent from interview to interview, and volume levels maintain a basic middle ground throughout. Occasionally I noticed the otherwise (ghost) centered dialogue wafting into the stereo channels a bit too loudly, but it wasn't particularly distracting. The film footage appears to be mono, which is fine, though the clips are a bit tinny. There are plenty of sound effects between shots, the best of which abstractly represent a zoom into a still photo, or an image sliding over another. These offer a bit of stereo movement, and occasionally echo in the rear channels, but are still largely centric. The doc's music is pretty low-key, but lays over almost the entire film, and offers warm stereo texture to the proceedings. The bulk of the track's bass also lies in the music.
The disc's special features continue the story, and eventually fill out the 240 minutes of runtime promised on the back of the box. 'They Won't Stay Dead' (29:40) covers the production of the utterly awful Return of the Living Dead Part II. This includes interviews with many of the same people, plus Part II actors Suzanne Snyder and Michael Kenworthy. The basic theme here is that no one wanted to do the film, and that the bulk of the original production staff resents the film, or at the very least their work in it. Discussion includes the script's plagiarist elements (it's almost the same movie), director Ken Wiederhorn's ( Shock Waves) disinterest in the project, casting, the more elaborate special effects, the last minute addition of a Michael Jackson zombie, and the film's general failure as both a comedy and a horror film. There is no footage from the original film present, or any behind the scenes footage, only still photographs, which are put to good effect.
'Love Beyond the Grave' (21:00) covers the making of the third film in the series, the aptly titled Return of the Living Dead 3. The third film is actually quite entertaining, and even moving at times, but doesn't have a lot in common with the first two films. It's more of an imaginative, standalone zombie feature. I do recommend seeing it, preferably in its uncut, unrated form. Some of the same interview subjects appear, but very few people crossed over into working on the third film, and the bulk of the interviews belong to director Brian Yuzna, make-up effects supervisor Steve Johnson (who married Quigley), writer John Penny, and actors J. Trevor Edmond and Brian Peck (again). Subject matter includes the writing pitches (including Kenny Myers and Brian Peck's treatment), script development, casting, filming on sets and locations, difficulties filming the opening scene, splitting the effects throughout different effects houses, and the film's disappointing release. There is a reasonable amount of behind the scenes footage, and production photos and illustrations, but again no footage from the film itself.
Next up is footage from Dan O'Bannon's final interview (28:30), a rather extensive interview that was for some reason almost entirely unused for the final film. There's good stuff here, stuff that could've helped the narrative of the documentary. O'Bannon does go a bit off the topic of Return of the Living Dead, sure, but there's plenty of usable, pertinent information, especially his discussion concerning avoiding 'stepping on George Romero's toes', and direct references to some of the negative things spoken about him by the actors. This is followed by 14 scenes deleted from the documentary proper. There is, unfortunately no 'play all' option, which is annoying, but these include some amusing anecdotes. The disc also features a 'Tonight' by Stacy Q music video (3:20), 'Resurrected Settings: The Filming Locations Today' with Brian Peck and Beverly Randolph (10:00), ' Return of the Living Dead in Three Minutes' (3:00), a trailer, and a trailer for Never Sleep Again.
More Brains is exactly what Return of the Living Dead fans ordered, and fills a void left by the decent, but incomplete extras found on the special edition DVD and Blu-ray releases. It's not a head the head to toe, exhaustive, and exhausting 240-minute documentary the box art threatens. It's a full-bodied, but brisk two-hour look back with the cast and crew, and generally quite entertaining. The extras feature more information on the first two sequels, an extensive 28 minute interview with writer/director Dan O'Bannon, and several deleted scenes that total to bring things closer to that 240 minute runtime, just in smaller bites. This is a must buy for Return of the Living Dead fans, and a probable rent for more general and passing horror fans.
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Yes, truly a crowning cinematic achievement, that. I often root for Blu-ray releases of films because of one bad joke too.
Wilson Bros wrote: It speaks volumes that the most remembered thing about the second one was the Michael Jackson bit, a last-minute gag which was the dumbest piece of comedy in the whole movie. Oh, and there is no truth to the rumour that George Lucas wants to add a CGI Conrad Murray vanquishing said zombie!
It's legal to say it now...
The Michael Jackson bit isn't what I remember about the movie. In fact, I completely forgot that boring part until I saw it mentioned. What I remember about the movie is the zombie head that says "OK. You win. No more brains."
It's legal to say it now...
The Michael Jackson bit isn't what I remember about the movie. In fact, I completely forgot that boring part until I saw it mentioned. What I remember about the movie is the zombie head that says "OK. You win. No more brains."
They verify on the doc that the Michael Jackson zombie only got filmed at almost the last possible minute, almost literally. Everyone seems to hate it too.
It speaks volumes that the most remembered thing about the second one was the Michael Jackson bit, a last-minute gag which was the dumbest piece of comedy in the whole movie. Oh, and there is no truth to the rumour that George Lucas wants to add a CGI Conrad Murray vanquishing said zombie!
It's legal to say it now...
It's legal to say it now...
Gabe Powers wrote: Return of the Living Dead II is a badly made, boring replay of the first film. So true, the only highlight to the film for me was Phllip Burns's performance as the Doc. The point where I put my head in my hands and started to cry was the Michael Jackson scene. I could go on but I won't.
It has nothing to do with camp. If you've ever read anything I or the Wilsons have written you'd know we have affection for camp. Return of the Living Dead II is a badly made, boring replay of the first film. It's the very definition of a cash-in, and it has nothing to offer the viewer. It's an entirely pointless and dull film, which is much, much worse than a bad film.
You people are missing the point. Not every movie is made to win awards or be some serious scary movie. It was made to be fun. It was campy on purpose. That's the whole point of the thing. It's not a bad movie. It's funny. There ARE bad movies. The version of Hamlet used on MST3K, for example. Or Overdrawn At The Memory Bank. Or My Pet Monster. Those are bad movies.
Part 2 is a different kind of movie from the first. I enjoyed it, but makes me wonder what kind of film it could've been if it had a better - passionate director.
i actually liked part 2 way more than part 1. Suzanne Snyder was f'ing hilarious in that. both are fun movies IMO.
part two is on UK tv tonight, early hrs. TCM channel. I`ll tape it and give it another go. Part ones the best though. Go and buy the ROTLD book, its great.
The only good thing about Return of the Living Dead Part 2 is director Ken Wiederhorn's commentary on the DVD--it's actually pretty enjoyable.
Thom Mathews is going to be at Horror Hound in Cincinnatti, OH this weekend. May have to take either the DVD or laserdisc of ROTLD to be signed or something.
Thom Mathews is going to be at Horror Hound in Cincinnatti, OH this weekend. May have to take either the DVD or laserdisc of ROTLD to be signed or something.
Gabe Powers wrote: Keep waiting. Hopefully they lost the negative and no one will ever have to see it again.
Amen, brother!
Return of the Living Dead Part 2 was absolutely ghastly.
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Amen, brother!
Return of the Living Dead Part 2 was absolutely ghastly.
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Just stick your thumbs in your eyes and watch the first one. It's roughly the same effect.
No hopefully. Part 2 is the one that I like. You're acting like it's Watchmen, Paranormal Activity, or Hangover !
Keep waiting. Hopefully they lost the negative and no one will ever have to see it again.
I'm waiting for part 2 to come to blu-ray.
don't feel bad, i've watched the Nightmare documentary more than once myself. this one time i was just in a mood to watch until part 4 but i went all the way anyway.
despite owning the blu-ray, i'm not a big enough fan of this movie to buy this but i wouldnt mind checking it out sometime. they impressed me with their work on the Nightmare one so i'm sure this one is good too.
despite owning the blu-ray, i'm not a big enough fan of this movie to buy this but i wouldnt mind checking it out sometime. they impressed me with their work on the Nightmare one so i'm sure this one is good too.
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RCE: No
Video: NTSC
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Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Surround 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: They Won't Stay Dead, Love Beyond the Grave, Dan O'Bannon Interview, Stacy Q Live Music Video, Resurrected Settings, Return of the Living Dead in Three Minutes, Trailers
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A Townsend man died in a single vehicle crash west of Clayton Thursday night.
A Townsend man died in a single vehicle crash west of Clayton Thursday night.
The accident occurred at about 7:15 p.m. as Robert R. Pizarro, 27, of Townsend, was operating a 2007 Saturn Aura south on Daisey Road north of Millington Road, according to Delaware State Police. The Saturn traveled off the west side of the road and struck a ditch. The car continued in a southwestern direction into a wooded area where it struck numerous trees before stopping.
Pizarro, who was not properly restrained, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Police in the Collision Reconstruction Unit are continuing their investigation into this incident.
Daisey Road north of Millington Road was closed for about two hours as the crash was investigated and cleared.


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One of the best things about having four boys is the opportunity to get involved in youth sports, both as a parent and coach. Team sports was a big part of my life growing up, so it's wonderful to see my own kids becoming part of something bigger than themselves. I can only hope that the lessons they learn stick with them as they stuck with me.
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What is it about the beginning of a new year that motivates many of us to proclaim our delusions of self-reform?
What is it about the beginning of a new year that motivates many of us to proclaim our delusions of self-reform?
Each new year, otherwise rational people (you know who you are) make resolutions meant to make them more organized, addiction-free and healthier even though for the past hundred years those same resolutions have gone to the way-side.
For whatever reason, Hubby decided that our lives have become muddled and as newlyweds, we need to make some changes beginning in the new year.
When Hubby announced this to me I pondered why after only six months of marriage he already thought we needed reform, but before I could consider any further he was shoving an agreement he'd drawn up under my nose.
The agreement began with the date Jan. 1, 2013. Hubby and wife (now jointly referred to as a "couple") whereas the new year is approaching we are both bound not only by marriage, but also by new year resolutions.
Our resolutions according to Hubby go something like this:
Diet: Couple shall reduce intake of calories and not tempt each other with junk food or comfort food except on special occasions which include hot summer days when a cold beer would taste really good, birthday's, Sunday sporting events, when we are tired after work and don't feel like cooking healthy meals or an occasional Saturday or Sunday when we feel that we've been consistently following our resolution and deserve a treat.
Couple shall modify alcohol intake to include Hubby drinking "lite" beer and wife refraining from nagging about how many "lite" beers he is drinking.
Exercise: Couple shall occasionally join each other on a walk or at the health club when there is nothing good on TV to watch. The couple may consider purchasing exercise equipment to use indoors when weather is below 70 degrees which couple will make reasonable efforts to use, unless the equipment is currently in use as a clothes hanger.
Whoever than decides to use the exercise equipment must first put clothes hanging on equipment away and shall then count that time as exercise.
Finances: Couple shall create a budget for necessities such as housing, utilities, food, clothing, doctor bills, cable and poker allowance. Wife shall not criticize Hubby when he overspends on poker allowance budget "once-in-a-while."
Family: Couple shall make an effort to spend more quality time together defined as time when each is awake and nobody is yelling. Violations: Couple shall not nag each other when they fall astray from said resolutions. Couple shall exercise restrain when resolutions violations occur. Hubby and wife shall instead take notes and get a head start on next year's list.
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J.D. Martin is having fun this season pitching for the Durham Bulls. For opposing hitters, the former Burroughs standout's starts have not been that enjoyable.
J.D. Martin is having fun this season pitching for the Durham Bulls. For opposing hitters, the former Burroughs standout's starts have not been that enjoyable.
"I've been off to a pretty good start so far and I'm trying to keep that going," Martin said. "It has been a fun year and I've really enjoyed it."
Martin signed a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays in January. In his fourth major league organization since being drafted in 2001, the 30-year-old right-hander is in the midst of a career season with the Rays' Triple-A affiliate.
"This is one of my favorite teams I've been on," Martin said. "We have a really great group of guys, a great coaching staff and a great ballpark. Putting all of those together, it really makes the year go by a lot faster and it's a lot better."
In the first half of the season Martin had an 11-4 record in 19 starts, struck out 81 batters in 113.1 innings, and earned International League Pitcher of the Week honors during a two-start week in June. He was named an International League All-Star for the second time in his career and threw a scoreless inning in the Triple-A All-Star Game on July 17 in Reno.
"It's always an honor to throw in an All-Star game, and it's nice to get that recognition," Martin said. "You just go out there and you have fun — you don't worry about how good or bad you do. It's about having fun and being there for the fans."
Amongst the crowd at Aces Ballpark, Martin saw some familiar faces. A local contingent of friends and family made the trip to Nevada to get the chance to see him throw, including his grandparents, brother Kevin, cousin Mike, Tom and Victoria Annos and other family members.
"It was nice to get out on the West Coast for a couple days and see some family," Martin said. "They're hoping I'll get back to the big leagues soon and maybe get the chance to pitch at Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium or in San Diego — somewhere close."
In his first start after the All-Star break, Martin picked up where he left off. He threw eight shutout innings, struck out six batters and didn't issue a walk in a 7-0 win at Gwinnett on July 22 — an outing that lowered his season ERA to 2.82. In the previous three seasons, Martin had a 5.11 combined ERA pitching for Syracuse and New Orleans.
"I like to throw a lot of innings — I want to get deep into the game — and I hate walking people," Martin said. "That's probably my favorite start of the season right now."
Martin's success this season hasn't been due to a change in mechanics or strategy. He is taking the same approach on the mound that he's had throughout his career.
"I try to throw the ball to both sides of the plate, change speeds occasionally and really let them hit the ball," Martin said. "I try to let them mishit the ball and really let the fielders field the ball."
Between starts, Martin works with Bulls pitching coach Neil Allen to focus on his mechanics. Since Martin throws a majority of his pitches within the strike zone, he said that consistency and locating pitches are key to his success.
"I'm not a guy that is going to go out and blow 95 mph fastballs by guys," Martin said. "I don't throw very hard, and my whole career has been about location. If I miss by a couple inches at this level and in the big leagues, it gets hit hard."
In an organization full of talented pitchers, Martin has been the Rays' best starter at the Triple-A level in 2013 — yet he hasn't gotten a look in the majors. Tampa Bay has called up fellow Bulls starters Jake Odorizzi (23 years old), Alex Colome (24) and Chris Archer (24), opting instead to see what they have from their younger prospects.
"They have so many guys up there right now that there's no room for anybody," Martin said. "If a couple things happen, you never know — I might find my way up there and be back on the West Coast again.
"I can't really worry much about that; it's kind of out of my hands. All I can worry about is what I can do here at Triple-A right now — throw the best I can and hopefully something will come up."
Martin last appeared in the big leagues with the Nationals three years ago, and made 24 starts for Washington during the 2009 and 2010 seasons. He said he is hoping to get another chance in the majors before this season is up.
"That's why we play — to get to the big leagues. I would love another shot up there, but it's not really something I like to stress about," Martin said. "In my situation, a lot of things have to go right — it has to be a timing thing and a luck thing."
While keeping the majors in his mind, Martin is happy with his current situation in Durham. The Bulls are currently in first place in the International League South, and went into the All-Star break with the league's best record (63-35).
"We have a great group of guys," Martin said. "We all get along, we all hang out and there aren't any bitter, salty veterans on the team — all the veterans are just having fun, trying to win games and not getting upset because we're in the minor leagues instead of being in the big leagues."
While with the Bulls in the second half of the season, Martin is focused on winning a championship. An International League crown would add to the four championships he won in the Indians' organization in the 2000s.
"I'm ready to keep doing what I've been doing. I'm not going to change a thing, and if I'm still here in the minor leagues for the rest of the year then I hope we win a championship," Martin said. "That's what we're looking at — we want to play into September and we want to win to another ring.
"I've been on some good teams and this is one of the best that I've been on, if not the best."


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PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. – The doubles team of junior Hanna Mar and sophomore Beatrice Capra won their quarterfinal match on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Riviera All-American Championship in Pacific Pasalides, Calif. Despite only playing one match together last season, the 19th-ranked duo has defeated two ranked opponents en route to the semifinal, including an 8-5 win over third-ranked Annie Goransson and Anett Schutting of California on Thursday.
In the first round of the main draw on Thursday, Capra and Mar downed Ema Burgic and Jordaan Sanford of Baylor, 8-6, before edging the Goransson and Schutting to advance to the quarterfinals. In their quarterfinal matchup on Friday, Capra and Mar cruised to an easy 8-2 victory over No. 21 Simona Synkova and Veronica Popovici of Wyoming.
"It was by far the most complete match of the tournament we have played," said head coach Jamie Ashworth. "We returned really well and did not give up a lot of free points. We talked before the match about getting off to a quick start and we were able to do that. We came out and won the first 13 points of the match, which set the tone for the rest of play. Tomorrow we need to do the same thing, keep playing aggressive, smart tennis."
Capra and Mar are slated to face No. 34 Brynn Boren and Kata Szekely of Tennessee on Saturday with the winner advancing to the championship match on Sunday. Boren and Szekely enter the match on a seven match win streak, after winning four straight matches in qualifying to earn a spot in the main draw.
1st Round
No. 19 Capra/Mar (Duke) def. Burgic/Sanford (Baylor), 8-6
2nd Round
No. 19 Capra/Mar (Duke) def. No. 3 Goransson/Schutting (California), 8-5
No. 19 Capra/Mar (Duke) def. No. 21 Synkova/Popovici (South Florida), 8-2
No. 19 Capra/Mar (Duke) vs. No. 34 Boren/Szekely (Tennessee)


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ADRIAN — Life is a full-court press for Aaron Benard.
The 31-year-old truck driver and father of four is re-starting a stalled college career. He continues coaching local youth sports. And he is youth leader at his church, where he says he preaches, teaches, "all the way down to I'm the janitor."
It's a challenge to keep up with everything on the daily schedule, Benard said. But he is enjoying it, he said.
"I'm very glad to be where I'm at in my life right now," he said.
So are others in the community. Bernard was presented with this year's community service award at last week's Martin Luther King Jr. dinner in Adrian for his work with local youth.
He began coaching youth teams in 2009, when he was asked to help out with flag football and basketball teams at the YMCA, he said. After that he was asked to work with other programs. He has coached middle school football and basketball players and last fall started the Lenawee Lightning AAU basketball group. He and other coaches manage 25 boys divided between two teams.
Benard said volunteer coaching is a way of being a role model to his four sons, Logan, Adian, Kobe and Deon, aged 9 to 3.
"It's a way to show them I'm in their corner. I can teach them and guide them in the right direction," he said.
It is also an opportunity to have a positive impact on others in the community who need a big brother or father figure, he said.
He stresses academic achievement is as important as performing in sports, he said.
"We talk about real-life experiences," Benard said.
Discipline and cooperation are also taught.
"It takes everybody to work together as a team," he said.
Benard said he works side-by-side with his father, Robert Benard, bishop of Christ Temple Ministries, headquartered in Adrian. His is youth leader at the church in Adrian.
Last fall, Benard said, he started taking classes at Jackson Community College and plans to return to Eastern Michigan University, where he started college after graduating from Adrian High School in 2000. He recently celebrated his third anniversary with his wife, Sarah, a chemistry student at Adrian College, he said.
Keeping up with all his commitments takes a lot of energy, Benard said. Knowing that he's making a difference to his family and community provides the fuel, he said.
Even if his sons have to struggle as he has, Benard said, "I'll have the faith in knowing they can do it."
Benard energized by mentoring kids
ADRIAN — Life is a full-court press for Aaron Benard.


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The Hobbit (1977 film)
|The Hobbit
|Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Jules Bass
|Romeo Muller
|Orson Bean
Richard Boone
Hans Conried
John Huston
|Maury Laws (music)
Jules Bass (lyrics/lyrical adaptations)
|NBC at Wikipedia (original transmission)
Warner Bros. (home video)
|November 27, 1977
|77 minutes
|$3 million (est.)
|IMDb Profile
|Orson Bean
|Bilbo Baggins
|Richard Boone
|Hans Conried
|John Huston
|Gandalf the Grey
|Otto Preminger
|The Elvenking
|Cyril Ritchard
|Brother Theodore
|Paul Frees
|Bombur, Dwalin, Troll #1
|Don Messick
|Balin, The Lord of the Eagles, Fíli, Kíli, Troll #3, Goblin guard
|John Stephenson
|Dori, The Great Goblin, Bard
|Jack DeLeon
|Nori, Bofur, various Dwarves & Goblins
|Glenn Yarbrough
|Thurl Ravenscroft (uncredited)
|background voices, ensemble vocalist
The film was produced and directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass and adapted for the screen by Romeo Muller; with Rankin taking on the additional duties of production designer, and Bass adapting some of Tolkien's original lyrics, as well as contributing, along with Maury Laws, an original theme song, "The Greatest Adventure (The Ballad of the Hobbit)," sung by Glenn Yarbrough.
The same team, along with Bean, Huston, Theodore, Frees, Messick, Stephenson, DeLeon, and Ravenscroft returned for the 1980 adaption of The Return of the King.
- "Bilbo's Visitors" (4:07)
- "Outlining the Adventure" (3:53)
- "Credits" (2:20)
- "Troublesome Trolls" (3:35)
- "Lonely Mountain Map" (3:06)
- "Elves of Rivendell" (3:04)
- "Goblin Attack" (3:33)
- "Gollum's Riddler" (6:20)
- "Follow the leader" (4:28)
- "Funny Little Things" (2:12)
- "Flown to Mirkwood" (2:36)
- "Forest Diary" (3:04)
- "Spider's Web" (1:19)
- "Sting Strikes" (2:00)
- "Wood Elves" (2:50)
- "Laketown" (2:04)
- "Secret Doorway" (2:09)
- "Smaug's Lair" (4:14)
- "Weak Spot" (4:31)
- "Black Arrow's Mark" (3:08)
- "Treasure Clash" (2:59)
- "Five Armies Meet" (4:42)
- "Farewell, Thorin" (2:07)
- "Only Beginning" (1:50)
- "End Credits" (0:56)
Critical Reaction
The movie was first broadcast on NBC at Wikipedia in the United States, on November 27, 1977, and was tailored to children: the story was done in a very light-hearted style, and featured a lot of songs (most of which came from the book). Much of the story was simplified and several key parts are omitted.
The art is both praised and criticized. Some reviewers regard it as a strong point of the movie. Inaccuracies in the depictions draws a lot of criticism from Tolkien fans: Gandalf has a hood instead of a hat, despite clearly being described in the book; Gollum looks like some sort of frog-creature (though the book does describe his large eyes and webbed feet); Elrond has a beard despite the book outright saying that Elves do not have beards; the Wood-elves, rather than being the "fair folk," are almost as ugly as the goblins (and the Elvenking has a thick German accent); Smaug is extremely hairy for being a dragon.
In 1977, NBC, Rankin and Bass won a Peabody Award for The Hobbit[1]. The movie was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1978, but lost to Star Wars.
Differences from the book
While the movie is quite faithful to the story, it is at its core still a child-oriented musical adaptation, and therefore not a perfect adaptation of Tolkien's novel. Most of the changes are found as omissions rather than modifications of the plot.
- All the Dwarves show up with Gandalf all at once in the film rather than coming in groups the day after Gandalf meets Bilbo and puts a mark on his door.
- The company leaves Bilbo's house on ponies, but after that the ponies are not seen until they are lost in crossing the Misty Mountains. In the book, the company rode ponies from Bag End to Rivendell.
- Bilbo is noticed by the Trolls as he sneaks up to steal some meat rather than disclosed by the Trolls' "talking" purse.
- The Dwarves flee in terror from the Trolls and are picked up one at a time instead of walking blindly into the camp and being ambushed (except for Thorin, who puts up a fight).
- Gandalf apparently has the power to make the dawn come earlier in dispatching the Trolls rather than tricking them by throwing his voice.
- The Troll cave does not have a locked door like in the book.
- Gandalf gives Thorin the Map of Thrór and the key in the troll cave rather than back at Bag End.
- Up in the mountains, there are no stone giants playing games amidst the storm.
- Gandalf is missing in the cave when the goblins emerge, rather than sleeping when it happens. The Dwarves run into the tunnel rather than being grabbed.
- The Dwarves do not fight the goblins in the tunnel.
- Bilbo specifically asked Gollum what he has in his pocket rather than muttering it aloud to himself. Gollum does not even try to guess instead of demanding three guesses. Only four riddles are said in the movie (there were ten in the book).
- Bilbo pulls the ring out of his pocket after Gollum says he's looking for his "golden ring, magical ring".
- Bilbo has no trouble getting out the back door (no goblins to sneak by or tight spots to fit through).
- Rather than meet the Wargs in the forest, the goblins come with them, riding on them and wielding torches (despite the Wargs' fear of fire in the book).
- The Great Eagles do not take the company to their eyries, but to the edge of Mirkwood, bypassing Beorn (who does not appear in the movie).
- The incident at the enchanted river, including Bombur's magical sleep, is omitted.
- The feasts of the Wood-elves are omitted (yet are referred to when the Wood-elves capture the Dwarves).
- Bilbo has to fight and kill only four spiders rather than dozens and dozens. Bilbo's sword, Sting, always glows in the movie regardless of whether goblins are nearby or not.
- Thorin is captured with the other Dwarves by the spiders and then the Wood-elves.
- There is no stop over from the journey via barrels from the Wood-elves' castle to Lake-town.
- There is no Master in Laketown; Bard the guardsman runs the city.
- The company does not make camp at the base of the mountain.
- Balin does not go with Bilbo into the secret entrance.
- Bilbo has only one audience with Smaug and the thrush is present. Bilbo orders the thrush to seek Bard to tell him of Smaug's weakness.
- The Arkenstone and all that goes with it is omitted.
- Roäc the raven is omitted. In the book, the ravens tell the Dwarves that Smaug is slain and is sent to Dáin to call for assistance. In the movie, the Dwarves wait, lost inside the Lonely Mountain for a week and it is never explained why Dáin arrives at such an opportune moment.
- The company discovers the two armies coming when they are on the doorstep rather than being warned in advance.
- Since the Arkenstone is omitted, Thorin instead loses respect for Bilbo through his supposed lack of understanding of honor and war.
- Thorin and the dwarves plan a suicidal last stand against the elves and men in a pitched battle outside the mountain and are pleasantly surprised when Dáin's army arrives.
- Ravenhill is not mentioned.
- The armies in the Battle of the Five Armies are divided differently (Bilbo counts the Goblins and Wargs as one army; the Eagles are counted as a separate army).
- Beorn is not present in the Battle of Five Armies. Also, Bolg is never mentioned nor seen.
- In the book, only Thorin, Fíli and Kíli die from the battle, leaving 10 survivors from Thorin's company. In the movie, Thorin, Bombur and five other unnamed dwarves are all killed. (In fact, Bombur was one of the few Dwarves in the quest known to be still alive in the days of The Lord of the Rings.) Glóin is the only other dwarf whose fate is officially revealed in the movie, as he is seen covering up Thorin with a blanket after he dies. Another dwarf (who does not clearly resemble anyone from the company) then lays Orcrist on top of Thorin's body. It's possible that this could be Dáin.
- Most of the return journey, including winter at Beorn's home, a stop at Rivendell, and digging up gold they buried by the troll camp, is omitted.
- The auction back at Bag End is omitted.
- Gandalf and Balin's visit to Bag End years later is omitted.
At the end of the film, Gandalf reveals to Bilbo that he is not only aware of Bilbo's ring, but knows that it is in fact the One Ring, and foreshadows the events of The Lord of the Rings. In the books, the ring is not discovered to be the One Ring until The Fellowship of the Ring. Such an indication would lead one to believe that Rankin/Bass was always intending to do a follow-up using story elements from The Lord of the Rings. Indeed, production had already begun on their adaptation of The Return of the King before The Hobbit had even originally aired[2]. However, it remains a mystery as to whether or not their plans for what story elements from The Lord of the Rings were originally intended for inclusion in this follow-up were at all affected by the 1978 theatrical adaptation by Ralph Bakshi, which was also in production at that point.
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|The Hobbit (1966) · The Hobbit (1977) · The Lord of the Rings (1978) · The Return of the King (1980) · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) · The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) · The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)


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On the game: That was a good football team we beat. The coaches put together a good game plan for us. Everybody on offense, everybody on the team did their job. They didnt try to do too much. We beat a really good football team.
Did you have an advantage having faced this team already this season? It is always better to be able to see a team twice. Having said that they beat me the first time. Thats a good football team. They have a great chance to win the Super Bowl. We are happy we played together as a team. Our coaches coached great and we got a big win.
Where does this game rank in your career? This about the most fun as Ive had on the football field. You go through practice and all that stuff but your teammates dont really know you until you get in that huddle. Thats a special time for me, inside the huddle. I kind of turn into [another] person. I think everybody took it well. We had a lot of fun and battled together.
Before scoring the touchdown, was it frustrating having only field goals on previous trips to the Red Zone? We just kept on pressing. We kept on pushing and kept on fighting. Obviously, when you are playing an offense on the other side, which is so prolific, you want to come away with touchdowns. We talked about it all week. They did a good job on their goal-line defense and we couldnt punch it in. Its a team win. We kicked field goals and special teams played outstanding and we made enough plays on offense.
Did it help to be named the starter early in the week? Yes, not only for me but for all my teammates too. No matter what, the quarterback has to lead the team through the week of practice and lead them into the game. I always try to be the most prepared guy on the field and go out a play well for my team.
What did they ask you to do in the game? I thought our tight ends showed up. I dont know if [Coach] expected them to catch that many passes but they were open and did a great job. They made some big plays. [Leonard] Pope made a couple of really big plays for us. Anthony [Becht] on the naked we ran to get the touchdown was a huge play. I think everybody stepped up. It was a total team win. It wasnt just one guy. It wasnt just one coach. It was everybody fighting together for a win.
How do you deal with moving around and the uncertainty of the future? We play Oakland next week. Thats the only thing that you think about. We had so much to think about this week. We played a great team in the Packers and now we will go play a big rival in the Oakland Raiders and try to go get a win.
Was this the most excited you have ever seen a locker room? Ive played in a Super Bowl so its hard to say. All teams are different, with different personalities and thats the tough thing coming into a team late in the season; you havent had training camp, you havent had all those grueling practices to get to know the guys. They havent had those practices to get to know me so it was a crash course on the field. I thought everybody gelled together and played hard for each other and got the big win.
Whats the key to keeping the ball for 36 minutes? I think that was the key to the game. We talked about it all week. I thought we did a great job of having success on first down. We ran a bunch of second-and-three, second-and-four plays. We could throw play action, we could run the ball, we could take shots and we did them all. I thought Bill [Muir] called a great game, was aggressive and gave us a great chance to have success.


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UPDATE: The envelopes and labels being used by the Supervisor of Elections Office for absentee ballots are the same ones they have used in the past. Nothing new was done to the envelopes. Without casting blame on anyone, the problem seems to be occurring with the machines that handle the mail. And the Post Office is on alert and working to get ballots to the Supervisor's Office on time. If you get a ballot returned, please get with your carrier or the post office. Or you can drop it off at the supervisor's office. They have an after hours box to accept ballots. — Lou Elliott Jones, Editor
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A spokeswoman for the Chiefland Post Office said the agency is working with its Gainesville and Jacksonville centers to solve an address label issue that is causing absentee ballots to be returned to voters.
Tammy Jones, Supervisor of Elections-elect, speculated that a label with the voter's address on the back of the envelope is being read by the machine routing mail instead of the Supervisor of Elections Office address on the front. Jones was contacted as Supervisor of Elections Connie Asbell is on family leave this week.
The Post Office spokeswoman said the staff noticed a number of absentee ballots were coming back earlier this week and the staff has been working with the regional centers on the issue and will see to it that the envelopes get to the right place. But she expressed concern that the delay could cause some to miss the voting deadline. The spokeswoman said she is contacting Jones to discuss the situation.
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The Baker St. Pub & Grill restaurant in Boulder has ceased operations.
The English-themed restaurant at 1729 28th St. shuttered during the weekend.
Officials for HUSA Management Inc., the Houston-based hospitality group that operates the Baker St. concept, were not immediately available for comment.
When reached at the Boulder restaurant on Monday, HUSA's regional director of operations declined to be interviewed and said the company would release a statement in the coming days.
HUSA's Sherlock's Pub Co. operates more than 20 English-themed restaurants — under the banners of Baker St. Pub & Grill, Sherlock's Baker St. Pub & Grill, Sherlock's Baker St. Pub and Watson's House of Ales — in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado.
Signage posted on the Boulder restaurant's doors directed customers to Baker St. locations in the Denver area.
Baker St. opened in February 2009 at the nearly 5,200-square-foot building off 28th Street and Canyon Boulevard that formerly was occupied by Chili's Grill & Bar. Chili's closed its doors in 2008 after more than 20 years in operation.


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Firefall developer Red 5 Studios and Shacknews are teaming up to offer readers 20 chances to get into the Firefall beta, with five lucky winners getting upgraded to Founders packs worth from $20 to $100. All you have to do to be eligible is to be as creative as possible in letting us know in the comments below why you should be selected. Here's the kicker: Do it in eight words, no more, no less.
A $100 Commander's pack will be given to the best entry, while we also have three Lieutenant's packs and one Ensign pack to give away. Also included will be an exclusive in-game Merch pet (as seen on Penny Arcade), as these packs were created for PAX Prime. The in-game items won't be unlocked until September 24. As for the beta keys, anyone redeeming one of the 20 keys from Shack will get immediate access to the beta, with no waiting.
Deadline for entries is Sunday, September 16 at 9 p.m. PT. No comment below (or not meeting the eight-word requirement) means no valid entry. If you are selected as a winner, you will be alerted via Shack message on how to redeem your prize. Check out Steve's preview from PAX to find out more about the game.
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announced today the gift to its Greek and Roman Art Department of an endowment fund from The Museum of Cycladic Art, in Athens, Greece. The gift, in memory of Dolly Goulandris, will support lectures about the ancient art of the Cyclades and other regions of the ancient Greek world. Also announced was the intended gift by Pat Getz-Gentle of a photograph archive of Cycladic art.
The Museum is very pleased to announce these gifts from our generous colleagues and friends, noted Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum. Through their support and vision, the scholarly activities of the Department of Greek and Roman Art have been greatly enhanced, transforming it into a major center for the study of early Cycladic sculpture.
An endowment fund has been established for Lectures in Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art, a permanent series of lectures, symposia, and other similar presentations at the Metropolitan. Funded by The Museum of Cycladic Art, the programswhich will begin in 2011are intended to make the ancient art and culture of the Cyclades and later Greece more familiar to a broad audience.
The Departments important collection of Cycladic art and resources for its study will be further strengthened by the intended gift from Pat Getz-Gentle, one of the foremost specialists in the field of Cycladic art, of her photo archive. Assembled for her own scholarly investigations since the early 1960s, the archive documents more than 2,000 Cycladic marble figures and stone vases. It will join other specialized archives (including personal papers of the distinguished curator and former head of the Greek and Roman Art Department Gisela M. A. Richter and the archives of the art dealers Dikran Kelekian and Piero Tozzi) that have been presented to the department since 2000. Dr. Getz-Gentle will prepare the photograph archive, which has served as a personal working tool, for use as a resource for research. The archive will be accessible in the departments Onassis Library for Hellenic and Roman Art by appointment.
The Cyclades are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of the Greek mainland, where an important Neolithic and early Bronze Age culture flourished from before 5000 B.C. until about 2000 B.C.
The Metropolitan Museums Department of Greek and Roman Art was established in 1909. Since the completion in spring 2007 of a comprehensive, 15-year project to redesign and reinstall all the galleries for Greek and Roman art, more than 6,000 works from the departments exceptional collection have been on view. The departments holdings include outstanding examples of art from around 6000 B.C. to the time of the emperor Constantine I (reigned A.D. 307337). Cycladic art is displayed in the Museums Robert and Renée Belfer Court for Prehistoric and Early Greek Art.
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One of our test units and two other units in the field have been blowing fuses without any other issues. We have tracked the problem back to the spade connector on the fuse holder. The spade is wavy to promote contact but when it heats up, it wants to go back to flat and looses its connection with the connector on the wire.
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text: As I stated prior to the Combine, the goal for evaluators is to be as prepared as possible heading into the event. The hope is to avoid surprising results. However, a few prospects each year make this an impossible effort. The question is, why? Why can these prospects show superior (or inferior) athleticism than they put on tape for 12 games, and in many cases multiple seasons?There are a couple of reasons. First, coaching at the college level isn't universally great, so prospects might have been put in situations where they couldn't shine. Also, these future draftees have been training for their workouts for a month, or even longer. In many cases, that is very high level coaching from experts who know how to make the most of the prospect they are given. Now, not every player is receptive to or implements this kind of coaching, so the proverbial leg up does not apply to everyone.The other conclusion is an obvious one... I could have been wrong about the prospect's athleticism following initial exposures. With this in mind, I will offer three names of prospects that unexpectedly impressed me during workouts and three that left me with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.Before we get started, let me re-post something I wrote in my Combine preview about not counting the athletic upside of a prospect twice: When watching prospects' game action, an evaluation takes athletic upside into account if it is a noticeable trait. Therefore, any notable times, repetitions, or numbers should be expected, not counted again as an extra positive. It is putting a score to that athletic upside, not adding to the evaluation. It was already there. Keep this in mind when reviewing workout numbers from the last four days.Unexpected Success1. South Carolina DE Devin Taylor - There's a lot to like about Taylor's frame. He's long and lean, which might lead many to believe he can add weight. The Gamecock should be one of the first players off the bus. However, on the field, I considered Taylor a sixth-round prospect due to his lack of aggressiveness, high pad level, stiff hips, and inability to change directions. That is quite the combination for a pass rusher. However, in Indianapolis, Taylor finished in the top two in the short shuttle (4.30) and three cone (6.89) drills, two tests I think project pass rushers' success better than any other. This is stunning. I haven't seen how he ran the drill, but I must stress again how stiff Taylor looked in games. Usually, stiff players do poorly in both of these events, so unless Taylor has turned into Gumby, I do not know what to think. If Taylor has learned how to bend and can implement it into his game, that is scary. Perhaps I'm the stiff, after all.2. Arkansas RB Knile Davis - The Razorbacks running back had his set of struggles the last two years. In 2011, Davis suffered an ankle injury and missed the entire season. It didn't get much better in 2012 as Davis was benched from his starting role after coughing up eight fumbles and frequently going down on first contact. After running a 4.37 forty, 31 reps on the bench press, 33.5" vertical, and 121" broad jump, Davis is a size and speed freak. I question if he was running at full health this season, since he tended to hesitate when facing contact or a clogged path.3. Florida LB Jon Bostic - From film work, I considered Bostic a hammer between the tackles due to his physical presence on first contact. Then he ran a 4.61 forty with a 1.58 10 yard split. With two inside linebackers ranked ahead of him, Kevin Minter and Manti Te'o, who struggle at times to get to the edge, Bostic showed his sideline and straight-line speed while in Indianapolis. Now the question is if his slowness to the outside in games was due to hesitation or indecisiveness. I think he has locked up a third-round selection.Rubbed Me The Wrong Way1. 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His forty of 4.82 was expected, and I know the linebacker is dealing with a shoulder injury, but I wonder if Te'o adds the 15 pounds he lost prior to the Combine to boost his strength numbers at the school's Pro Day. I found it interesting ESPN's Chris Mortensen said team's consider Te'o undersized for the inside linebacker position because there isn't a better positional fit. Finally, the Irish linebacker said he ran in the 4.6s during workouts, but blamed the long days in Indianapolis for the slower time. Right, because he was the only one having to deal with the Combine grind.3. LSU DE Sam Montgomery - The Tiger defensive end delivered the quote of the week, for the wrong reasons: "Some weeks when we didn't have to play the harder teams, there were some times when effort was not needed. But when we had the big boys coming in, the 'Bamas or the South Carolinas, I grabbed close to those guys and went all out." 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It's one of 300 gospel rescue missions in North America—havens of hope for the lost and lonely who call the street home. Inside are hot food, clean clothing, temporary shelter, and the possibility of a more abundant life.
Gospel rescue missions have a long history of providing lifelines for those drowning in the waves of adversity and the undertow of addiction. For more than a century, they have been keeping watch on the waterfront of despair, and countless men, women, and children have been saved in every sense of the word.
Gospel is part of their name because their leaders are compelled foremost by Jesus' instructions to actively care for those in need, and to introduce them to the liberating good news of His kingdom and all it represents.
Their name includes rescue because delivering those in need from danger is the critical and consuming first part of a sometimes slow but always exciting journey that leads to new desires, choices, and direction in life.
The word missions is in their name because those in need see each of their structures as a bastion of protection and a refuge from fatigue and failure, similar in concept to those Southwestern sanctuaries built by pioneering padres long ago.