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Kinnoull have signed striker Darren Taylor on loan from North Region Super League side Stonehaven. Darren is Stonehaven's top goalscorer this season and we welcome him to football in Perth and happy times ahead at Tulloch Park.
Kinnoull are delighted to announce the signing of Scone Thistle centre forward and top goalscorer Charlie Fertacz. Noull midfielder John Mitchell has gone to Scone as part of the deal. We welcome Charlie to Tulloch Park and thank John Mitchell for his time at Noull.
Kinnoull have signed defender/midfielder Neil Ritchie from Luncarty. This is Neil's second stint at Tulloch Park, so welcome back Neil!
Kinnoull are delighted to announce that Murray McDowell has been appointed as the new manager at Tulloch Park. He will take charge of the team for the first time on 4th January versus Kirkcaldy away.
At the Kinnoull Trophy Night Presentations in the Tulloch Institute on Sat 25th May, the winners were :
Player of the year - RICHARD DOIG
Players Player of the Year - CHRIS ANTON
Clubman of the Year - MICHAEL DOTT
Top Goalscorer - RICHARD DOIG
At the Tulloch Institute on Sat 25th May, and on the Clubs 70th Anniversary, Kinnoull inaugurated
our new HALL OF FAME Honours Board.
The first three persons into the Hall of Fame are -
Charlie Grieve presented a commemorative certificate to Peter Moncrieff's widow Vera. Peters son Duncan and two of his grand-daughters also attended the event.
Chris Jones presented the award to Willie Soutar and Willie in turn presented the certificate to Andy Dott.
Kinnoull are pleased to announce the signing of Paddy Deane from local rivals Jeanfield Swifts.
KINNOULL are delighted to announce the signing of midfielder David Banjo on loan from Arbroath FC until th end of the season. David has spent time with Wimbledon and Ilford before venturing North of the Border. Welcome to Tulloch Park, David!
KINNOULL have released Kevyn Fowler, Andy Smith & Gary Campbell. Our thanks to them all for their efforts this season.
KINNOULL are also happy to announce the return of Andy Smith to Tulloch Park. 'Ammo' had a short spell with Fair City Amateurs but is back and raring to get back in action at Tulloch park. Thanks to Fair City for their help.
KINNOULL are happy to announce the signings of midfielder Kevyn Fowler from St Johns Amateurs and goalkeeper Mark Mitchell from St Johns Amateurs. Both have been Jeanfield Swifts players for the past few seasons. We welcome them both to Tulloch Park !!
Darren Kelly has arrived back at Kinnoull for a second loan spell. Welcome back Darren!
KINNOULL are delighted to announce the signings of CHRIS DODD from Oakley United, CHRIS ANTON from Tayport and DARREN KELLY from Peterhead FC. Chris Dodd spent some time at St Johnstone and Chris Anton is back for a second spell at Tulloch Park. Darren Kelly has arrived on a Loan spell from Division Three side Peterhead after spending last season at Newburgh. WELCOME to Tulloch Park Darren, Chris & Chris !!!
KINNOULL JFC SPORTSMANS DINNER - SATURDAY 8th SEPTEMBER 2012 at the Tulloch Institute, Perth. Thanks to all those that attended! Not as busy as we would have liked due to the Scotland match the same day, but still an enjoyable night. Kinnoull thanks go to top Comedian FRANK ROBB and Aberdeen Boss CRAIG BROWN who entertained us so thoroughly on the night. Our appreciation also to our compere BRIAN FALCONER for his superb MC performance in making the evening run so smoothly.
Kinnoull have placed Fife-based Central defender Gordon Brown on the open to transfer list. Interested parties should contact Kinnoull Secretary Charlie Grieve on 07557 792832 or Kinnoull President Chris Jones on 07940 814 370.
Congratulations are due to Gavin Price, Duncan Robertson and Alex Bone for guiding Kinnoull through a very successful season. A place in the last 16 of the Scottish Junior Cup was surpassed when Kinnoull reached the Final of the East of Scotland Cup, only to lose narrowly to St Andrews Utd by the odd goal in three at Keirs Park, Hill of Beath.
At a hastily arranged venue, the Kinnoull Player of the Year Awards were announced as follows -
Charlie Grieve announced the PLAYER OF THE YEAR as GARY FRASER
Chris Webster announced the PLAYERS PLAYER OF THE YEAR as RICHARD DOIG
Graeme Chalmers also presented RICHARD DOIG with the TOP GOALSCORER AWARD and
Gavin Price announced DUNCAN ROBERTSON as CLUBMAN of the Year.
Congratulations to One and All
Enjoy the Close season, all at KINNOULL look forward to seeing you again next season. Can it get better still....
KINNOULL are delighted to announce the signing of goalkeeper Gavin SORLEY, released by Berwick Rangers this week. Welcome to Kinnoull Gavin!
KINNOULL won the FAIR CITY pre-season tournament without conceding a goal. Host Fair City were defeated twice 1-0 and Noull also defeated HESTON ROVERS 2-0 before securing a 0-0 draw in the last match to top the round-robin section undefeated. Our thanks to Fair City for hosting the event in atrocious conditions and for their hospitality afterwards.
Kinnoull held a highly successful Sportsmans Dinner in the Tulloch Institute in Perth on Saturday 7th May with the speakers being the ex-Aberdeen, Hibs & Scotland striker Joe Harper and the undoubted highlight of the evening the banter and incisive wit and ad-libs of observational comedian Frank Robb who won himself a standing ovation from the Tulloch faithful crowd. Thanks also go to the compered for the evening, Tommy Campbell of St Johnstone FC who did a splendid turn keeping the nights entertainment ticking along.
Gavin had a spell as a player at Kinnoull in the early 1990's and his senior career included spells with Forfar, Brechin, St Johnstone and Stirling Albion as well as experience in Holland and in Hong Kong.
KINNOULL JFC PLAYER OF THE YEAR for season 2009/10 was STEVIE McMANUS, announced at awards presentation night in the Kinnoull Social Club in Charles Street, Perth on Saturday 19th June 2010. Stevie also won the Goal of the Season Award.
CHRIS ANTON was named Players Player of the Year and also Top Goalscorer.
Sportsmans Dinner 31st October 2009
Many Thanks to everyone who turned up on the evening and all those who supported the event in other ways. A good evenings entertainment was had in the company of Speakers Jim Leishman & Bill Barclay.
Also thanks to St Johnstone's Tommy Campbell for his MC role on the night
It was Kinnoull's first attempt at such a prestigious event and while it was not perfect, there was enough good points to know that it could be a possibility to make it even better next time, if we ever have another!!
A decent sum was raised on the night too!!!
Saturday 13th June 2009 in the Kinnoull JFC Social Club, CONGRATULATONS to STEVE McALLISTER who picked up both the PLAYERS PLAYER AWARD presented by club captain Sandy Ross and the PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD presented by Kinnoull legend Willie Souter. Congratulations also to JON KELLY who was presented with the TOP GOALSCORER award by the Kinnoull goalscoring hero Jimmy Carle. SCOTT ADDISON was CLUBMAN OF THE YEAR presented by the Jimmy Whyte, the ex-Noull player and committee man who presented the trophy to the Club around 30 years ago
On Saturday 14th June 2008 in the Kinnoull Junior FC Social Club, President Chris Jones announced that goalkeeper Duncan Bruce was the Player of the Year for 2007/2008. Stuart Nicol was named as the Players Player of the Year by team Captain Sandy Ross with further awards being presented to Robbie Holden as top goalscorer and Tommy Todd as Clubman of the Year. A special mention to Tommy Todd who is to 'retire' from his position as Physio and 'Bag Man' with the Club at the end of the past season after over ten years rubbing down (and up!) the Kinnoull players
At the Player of the Year Presentation Night on Saturday 9th June 2007 in the Kinnoull Social Club the following awards were made:- Player of the Year - Robbie Holden
Players Player of the Year - Sandy Ross. Top Goalscorer - Robbie Holden. Clubman of the Year - Gordon McIntosh. Goal of the Season - Jason Scrymgeour
Congratulations to all concerned.
Kinnoull Enamel Pin Badges are now in - Please E-Mail Me at email@example.com Please see Shop/Merchandise page for full details. Price is £4 each
The Club have many plans for this season including sponsorship of all kinds. If you know of anyone who might help please let me know. The Club has produced a sponsorship brochure which shows the kind of sponsorships possible. See link at the top of the page. As the club moves into the East Region Premier League the costs involved will require a lot of sponsorship to allow us to compete with some of the top clubs in the area. If you need a hard copy send me an e-mail at mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com or phone/fax me on the telephone numbers listed on the main page.
Kinnoull have now linked up with McBOOKIES who provide Odds on ALL JUNIOR FOOTBALL MATCHES IN SCOTLAND.
Kinnoull have teamed up with McBookie to give all fans a free £10 bet on the Juniors. Simply place your £10 bet and if it doesn't win then McBookie will put the money back into your account - basically you can't lose. Make sure that you use the banner above so that McBookie know you have come via the Kinnoull website. Only one free bet per fan and household.
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Nothing could be easier - and you will be supporting KINNOULL by doing so - and do not forget your FREE £10 BET when you do !!!!
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Update (2:20 p.m.)
When Donovan McNabb was a rookie with the Eagles in 1999, Steve McNair was leading the Tennessee Titans to the Super Bowl.
Today, the Eagles' quarterback reacted to the stunning news od McNair's death.
"Shocking. Tragic. I can't find many other words to describe what happened to Steve McNair," McNabb said, according to the team's Web site. "He was a good friend to me over the years. My condolences go out to his family."
From earlier:
We'll use this space today to get caught up on more of the details surrounding Steve McNair's death, which shocked the football world Saturday afternoon.
** The woman who was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head was 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi. According to several published reports, the gun was found near Kazemi's body. The pair was involved in a DUI traffic stop on Thursday, according to the Nashville City Paper. Kazemi had been pulled over while driving an SUV registered to both her and McNair. Per the report, McNair had been approached and threatened at a Nashville restaurant on Friday evening.
** McNair is survived by his wife MeChelle and four sons.
** The Tennessean is calling the death an "apparent murder-suicide" and reports that McNair and Kazemi had been dating for months. According to the article, Kazemi told police she was high and not drunk when they stopped her on Thursday.
** The Tennessean also reports that Wayne Neely, a longtime friend of McNair, found the bodies shortly after 1 p.m.
** Jeff Fisher, visiting troops in the Persian Gulf, talked to The Tennessean about McNair's death:
"I am deeply saddened and at this point do not have the words to describe this loss," Fisher said. "It is an extremely emotional moment and I don't have the words to explain how I am feeling. I ask people to please pray for Mechelle and the entire McNair family. This is a tragic moment for his family, and it is a tragic moment for anyone who knew and loved Steve."
** Good, succinct commentary by Richard Justice of the Houston Chronicle:
I don't know what happened to McNair. I don't know the circumstances of his death. I just know there are layers to all of us, that none of us is perfect, that it's foolish to paint someone with a single brush. I also know Steve McNair cared about people and performed brilliantly and courageously on the football field. In the ways we should measure a professional athlete, there were few better than McNair. I know he touched a lot of people in the right way, and today their hearts are breaking.
** Redskins quarteback Jason Campbell, also a Mississipi native, had this to say about McNair, according to The Washington Post:
"The whole black quarterback thing, it's like a fraternity," Campbell said. "Guys who played before you pass the torch down to younger guys. You always keep in contact with those guys who came before you. You try to keep in contact with them and learn as much as possible from them. Losing a guy like that from our fraternity ... it hurts because of how much you looked up to him. He's definitely one of the guys I looked up to. A lot of other guys looked up to him to. It's just a real hard day."
I remember being in Baltimore when the Ravens acquired McNair. A team with a top-notch defense that was looking to fill the void at QB. I was at Camden Yards when he threw out the first pitch at an Orioles game and was introduced to the Baltimore fans. He led the Ravens to a 13-3 record in his first season before they fell to the Colts in the playoffs.
As I said yesterday, feel free to share your thoughts and memories of McNair, or pass along good links that I might have missed.


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LANSING, Mich. – A divided Michigan appeals court ruled Thursday that the state's right-to-work law applies to 35,000 state employees.
In the first major legal decision on the much-debated, Republican-backed law eight months after its passage, judges voted 2-1 to reject a lawsuit filed by labor unions. The passage of the measure drew thousands of protesters to the state Capitol late last year.
The law prohibits forcing public and private workers in Michigan to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment, and applies to labor contracts extended or renewed after late March. It went to court after questions were raised whether it applies to state workers, since the Michigan Civil Service Commission, which sets compensation for state employees, has separate powers under the state constitution.
The majority said lawmakers have the authority to pass laws dealing with union fees.
"In light of the First Amendment rights at stake, the Michigan Legislature has made the policy decision to settle the matter by giving all employees the right to choose," Judges Henry Saad and Pat Donofrio wrote.
The dissent said the court's decision strips the civil service panel of its "regulatory supremacy."
Multiple lawsuits have been filed to strike down the law in a mainstay of organized labor. Legal challenges in neighboring Indiana, which passed a right-to-work law just before Michigan did, have been unsuccessful.


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• Here are four stories that didn't make the mainstream news. They range from some you will find easy to believe to some you'll find incredible. If you want to know more about the fabrication of 9/11 and you're tired of the lies we've been told or want new independent information, you'll want to attend The Vancouver Hearings, June 15-17 at the Denman Theatre, 1737 Comox Street in Vancouver.
Story 1: The "collapse" that wasn't a collapse
Videos show Flight 175 completely entering the South Tower before it explodes, when that should have happened on contact. Would you believe that Pilots for 9/11 Truth has studied air/ground communications and discovered that Flight 175 was in the air but over Pittsburgh at the time?
Did you know the fires in the towers did not burn hot enough nor long enough to cause steel to weaken, much less melt? Have you noticed those buildings are blowing apart in every direction rather than falling to the ground – that they did not collapse?
Story 2: The first death of Saddam Hussein
How about the hanging of Saddam Hussein? You probably saw it on television. It was widely broadcast at the time. But Saddam Hussein, his two sons and about 60 members of his general staff were killed on April 7, 2003.
Chris Wachter, a B-1 bomber pilot, took them out with 2 JDAM bombs at a restaurant on the outskirts of Baghdad. He was lionized when he returned to his base, put on CNN, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and honored by The Rev. Robert Schiller at The Crystal Cathedral on May 25, 2003.
The following day, he was flown back to Langley, VA, home of the CIA, and told that, while they admired his flying skill, "officially," Saddam had gotten away. Killing the leader of a foreign nation had been made illegal by executive orders from three presidents: Reagan, Carter and Ford. So they put one of his doubles in a spider hole, "found him" and then tried him and hung him on December 30, 2006. Almost no one noticed the difference.
Story 3: The second death of Osama bin Laden
Everyone knows that Barack Obama took out Osama bin Laden during that daring raid on his compound in Pakistan, right? There was a famous photograph of Obama, Biden and Hillary watching as it went down.
However, Leon Panetta, Director of the CIA, explained there had been no coverage for the first 20-25 minutes and these assaults only take five minutes or less. Osama bin Laden actually died of medical complications on December 15, 2001 and was buried in an unmarked grave.
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Scholars for 9/11 Truth published an editorial about it. David Ray Griffin wrote a book on it, Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive? Nicholas Kollerstrom has an article, "Osama bin Laden: 1957-2001."
Story 4: What didn't happen at the Pentagon
The official account claims a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon, but there's no massive pile of debris, no wings, no tail, bodies, seats or luggage. Not even its massive engines were recovered from the building even though they are virtually indestructible – they weren't there.
The plane is supposed to have skimmed the ground at 500 mph and taken out a series of lampposts en route to its target. But "ground effect" makes that impossible and those lampposts would have ripped off the wing and exploded the jet fuel stored inside it.
It didn't happen. And the only photo the Pentagon has provided shows a plane that is far too small to have been Flight 77. For more on the fabrication of all four crash sites, see my Vancouver Powerpoint presentation.
NOTE: This article first appeared in COMMON GROUND (June 2012).
Jim Fetzer is a former Marine Corps officer, the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and a journalist for Veterans Today. He has written dozens of articles on subjects like 9/11 and JFK.


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Brooklyn Foodies Supper in Silence
Dinner was served, minus the din.
As a pilot run for what it hopes to make a monthly event, Eat, a restaurant in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, served a capacity crowd of 17 people a $40, four-course dinner (plus palette cleansers) of organic locavore fare in 90 minutes of total silence on Sunday night.
Nicholas Nauman, Eat's 28-year-old managing chef and events planner, said he was inspired to hosts the meals by silent breakfasts he enjoyed at a monastery in the Indian Buddhist pilgrimage city of Bodh Gaya.
"We wanted to bring attention to the physical and visceral properties of eating, and less of the distractions you see so much these days," said Mr. Nauman.
As patrons made their way into Eat, which opened in 2003 as a record store that sold coffee, they milled about in quiet conversation in the venue's antechamber, which is separated from the dining area, ironically for the night, by an upright piano.
"I tend to pride myself on my ability to articulate, so I'm eager to see what happens here," said Jessica Laser, a 27-year-old writer from Greenpoint who learned of the event through the silent art of eavesdropping.
Several patrons mentioned stints in silence at meditative retreats, hoping to rediscover that pastoral energy in a city-bound context.
Christopher Tandy, a 29-year-old illustrator from the East Village, was hoping to find some of what he'd lost by moving to New York from San Francisco, whose restaurants are legendary.
"Eating out is more relaxing there. It's nice time, not competition time," he said, as he checked into the restaurant on Foursquare and became its mayor. "I feel like that doesn't happen here. You have to yell at the person you're out with. What's nice about that?"
In a New York magazine essay in July on the "Great Noise Boom" at city restaurants, food critic Adam Platt pointed out the on-purpose loudness of top-dollar spots including Babbo and Le Bernadin, noting that Midtown's Lavo restaurant "was measured at 96 decibels, louder than the whine of a suburban lawn mower."
Perhaps, though, the patrons themselves are as much to blame as the establishments, with their awful offal blather and endless prattle about every nuance and sub-nuance of the food. And that's not to mention the all-too-familiar smartphone zombie meal, where diners are glued to their iPhones and Androids.
Mr. Nauman's goal was to call out dining's sound and fury on both sides of the kitchen.
At 8:04 Sunday night, after imploring patrons to "speak now or forever hold your peace" about nut allergies, the silence set in. Punishment for talking was having one's plate--filled with handmade whole wheat pasta or scallops and calamari, among other dishes--removed and placed on a bench outside, where loudmouths could finish their meals.
There was no slurping of the summer squash chili basil soup. Or of the various chilled teas.
At 8:12, the first muffled sneeze. At 8:20, the first throat cleared.
Maria Usbeck, a 28-year-old freelance art director from Williamsburg, tried to make her companion laugh by turning her napkin into a paper airplane and sailing it from one knee to the other.
Three women celebrating a 30th birthday developed such elaborate pantomimes that they were able to have a fully silent conversation in which they decided to have a round of shots afterwards at Nights & Weekends, a nearby bar.
Some patrons (who ordered ahead of time) closed their eyes in acts that proved later to be both meditation and napping. One patron texted up a storm on her iPhone, as her friends wondered whether or not she would be showing up to their "Breaking Bad" viewing party.
At 9:17, around the time the entrees were being finished, Fawn Embrey, a Greenpoint bartender and visual artist who was celebrating her 30th birthday, made the first bathroom break, triggering a trickle of others.
Ms. Usbeck, who felt she might break into speech before dessert arrived, used the opportunity to give herself a pep talk in the bathroom mirror — "only a mental pep talk," she promised — in which she stared herself down and told herself "You can do this."
Finally, at 9:34, 22 cleared throats later, Mr. Nauman spoke up: "Thanks, guys." The crowd erupted in spontaneous applause, followed by lots of making up for lost chit-chat.
"At first it felt like being 50 and married," said Bianca Alvarez, a 33-year-old creative director from Williamsburg. "But then it became good, the good kind of quiet."
Ms. Usbeck, of napkin origami and bathroom mirror pep talks, said: "I'm one of those people who can't not be working on something. Very anxious. I just started focusing on details of the room, of the food; I could probably draw everyone in here quite well right now."
Freed from their vow of silence, they rejoined the honking, cursing, blaring stereoscape of the city's 8 million decibels, in a neighborhood for which a recent analysis of 311 calls showed the most frequent complaint was loud music.


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Knights Gourmet Popcorn started in Milwaukee on the porch of Ted & Llewellyn D. Knight. Time was, people would come to the porch, knock on the window and Ted would sell popcorn from the machine located in his living room. Over time, the reputation of Knight's Popcorn grew to such an extent that Lou opened a store at 9th and Mitchell. As the demand for Knight's Popcorn grew, the Mitchell Street location became too small and the business relocated to its present address in 1988.
Ted & Lou later retired and sold the business and his popcorn-making formulas. The demand in the mid 1980's for a low-cholesterol or cholesterol-free snack became apparent. Over time our popcorn experts here at Knights experimented with many different oils. The recipe we have today is not only cholesterol-free, low in saturated fats, 0 transfat and low sodium, but it tastes great!!!
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J.P. Howell landed two of the best punches in Tuesday night's Dodgers-Diamondbacks brawl, cranking his closed right fist into the ribs of Diamondbacks assistant hitting coach Turner Ward as the melee began at Dodger Stadium. Howell then drove Ward roughly 15 feet past the dirt and halfway over the railing along the camera well.
"I just wanted to make sure I've got him pinned and not me because I've been in that situation before and it's not fun," Howell said Wednesday.
Howell experienced his share of scraps on the basketball court growing up in Modesto and with fraternity brothers as a freshman at Texas. But those don't compare to bench-clearing brawls in the majors, he said. Howell likened Wednesday's brawl to a Red Sox-Devil Rays skirmish on June 5, 2008, when he played for the Rays. Coco Crisp and James Shields were at the center of that one, while Howell remained mostly outside the fray.
This time, it was Howell at the heart of the shoving. He and the rest of the relievers immediately looked for departing Diamondbacks starter Ian Kennedy, who was promptly ejected after hitting Dodgers starter Zack Greinke on the top of his left shoulder with a pitch. But Kennedy was quickly ushered by coaches and teammates into the tunnel as the relievers joined the raucous mob in front of the visitor's dugout.
"You just keep your head on a swivel because it can get weird," Howell said. "You just try to defend your guys, and if something happens you want to get in there and help him out."
Howell saw Dodgers reliever Ronald Belisario tangling with Ward and worked his way to them. As Ward moved toward him and hunched over, Howell pressed his left hand on the top of Ward's back. He grabbed Ward's jersey and lifted him up while sweeping the pair of punches into his side.
"You don't know who's who and what's what," Howell said. "You just react and that's what happened. I just wanted to make sure I didn't get got. And that was it."
Howell rammed Ward head-first over the railing, Ward's wedding ring pressing right in front of the television camera. As Howell began to flip him over, Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero swooped in and threw Howell off him.
After all was said and done and the Dodgers closed out a 5-3 victory, Howell went home, but two images stood out in his mind: Yasiel Puig getting grazed in the nose with a pitch in the sixth and Greinke getting plunked high in the seventh.
"I kept seeing Greinke getting hit in the face, in the head," Howell said, adding that he got goosebumps when Puig hopped up and jogged to first base.
But this morning, there was a rejuvenated aura in the clubhouse, Howell said. Last night's tremendous victory gives the Dodgers a chance to win their second series since May 22.
"There's a lot more energy, but we've got to get back to playing baseball, and that's the key," Howell said.
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Thieves Break In
Bantam, Nov 2004, 6.99, 336 pp. ISBN: 0553584316 During construction work at Datchworth Castle in the village of Wallwoon in Oxfordshire, England, a secret room is uncovered. Expensive silver dating from the Cromwell era and manuscripts are found in the forgotten room. Rob Hillman is hired to translate and catalogue the manuscripts, a job he loves. Not long afterward, castle owner Sir Gregory asks his butler to bring Rob to him, but after he s...


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Is it moral to vote out of state repeatedly in order to stack a pole to get a secular result?
Interesting discussion -
The pole isn't particularly important in the bigger scheme of things - and it would seem that repeated voting isn't illegal - the site is perhaps designed - like most things in our society - to be an honesty based system.
The organisers would perhaps organise a different way to do it - but perhaps it isn't an issue to vote repeatedly. If it was there would be some way of registration or cookies - which there doesn't seem to be.
It could be set up like big brother or other reality tv voting systems where you can vote as many times as you wish.
Why get all 'holier than thou' about it?
I think we need to use our rational thinking in this case - go through the facts of the case, before condemning others of immoral actions. What's wrong with some reasoning - rather than public shaming?
I'm for the Naturalistic attitude of compassion due to our deterministic universe.
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I don't support it either way - I live in Australia and we don't have online voting for anything political. Personally I think if the 'sticker' is important then perhaps they need a better system of deciding which sticker they want to use. I don't know anything about the implications of the end result of the vote either.
But I thought it better to have this conversation in a discussion post rather than on the message board for the entire group.
I went along with the idea initially because I didn't see any harm in 'stacking' the pole towards getting a sticker without the word 'god' in it. But perhaps that's naive and immature on my part.
What's good and bad and moral and just etc seems to be cultural as well as personal or religious.
<i>To go to the heart of the matter. When the poll is set up to gain an idea of the state's resident's wishes, any attempt to subvert it is just that. The only way you can decide it is ethical to subvert is if you decide that your concept of what should be trumps our civic duty to one another.</i>
I'm not sure I agree with this. The very last part "trumps our civic duty to one another" is not what is going on. I have a civic duty, but I also have my ethics, and they don't always agree. Additionally, I don't think my civic duty is served by allowing something like the poll in question go forward as set up. When an option that is patently unconstitutional is at hand, I think my civic duty and my ethics push me to do what I must to stop it. Call it "civil disobedience" if you like, I think it is a bit much to say that since it is a freaking sticker, but that is essentially what I'm doing.
Thanks for this ongoing conversation by the way, it has been very thought provoking.
Great discussion. Sometimes, there is NO need to have a "side". This is not an athiest or other belief situation. It is a pure matter of right vs. wrong, and I take it from some posters, justifications of why its ok to do different than what was setup. The world at large has laws, rules basically for the world to get along. I do not like many things attached to a law/rule, but must abide by them. Again, this has nothing to do with stated belief systems. Speed limits were designed for safety, although I like to go faster, a penalty will be paid if I do not follow the limit, like it or not. We can see right thru the underhanded sneaky double talk. Richard is not worked up, he is rather intelligence (and compassionate LOL) in logical/rational replies. Also the truth. Truth does not hurt, its the disclosure of it....
voting as many times as you wish is a violation.
Except the site explicitly says:
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Destiny will also be unlocking beta access in early 2014 on Ps3, Ps4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Pre-ordering the game at the following participating retailers will grant you early beta access: Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Gamestop. That applies only to the U.S., so if you're in a different region, you might want to visit Destiny's pre-order page to find out your participating retailers. Bungie also recently unveiled the official box art for Destiny for your viewing pleasure, so feel free to take a gander below!


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My name is Paul, I'm in my 20s, and I've just become re-interested in lucid dreaming. I did it a lot as a child (without knowing specifically that "it was a thing"), and it has happened from time to time again since then. I only began reading and researching the subject about a week ago, and (pretty cool) I actually had my first lucid experience since then two nights ago, and I actually became lucid for a couple dreams in a row. Last night I performed a reality check and failed to consciously realize that it had failed (I realized it when I woke up in the morning), and so I'm making sure to focus and *concentrate* as I perform them in my daily life. Wish me luck! I'm enjoying reading all the things you guys have had to say on the subject.
EpicNickey07 wrote:My name is Nick, eighteen years old, and I kind of need help. I've learned about lucid dreaming in November almost two years ago. In all that time, I've come up with one solid lucid dreams (Though not very clear) and a few semi-lucid dreams. I've tried several different methods, and this time around my current methods are meditation, WBTB, and MILD. My more obvious problem right now is my slight lack of focus as I use MILD after I go to bed for the second time. For some reason I fall asleep before I start visualizations. Anyway, my other issue is figuring out when I'm dreaming. I have no consistent dream sign, and any rare chance I do a reality check in my sleep, it fails. I'm thinking of a programmed dream sign but I don't know that'll work. The whole reason why I'm here is to consult expert lucid dreamers on any advice for my situation. Seriously, when you have one lucid dream in almost two years and you don't even know how, then that's a good sign to get some help.
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In honor of summer Fridays and shortened attention spans, I thought I'd go a little 'lite' today and share a few links that caught my eye on the natural parenting scene this past Mon- thru-Thurs. Click on, crunchy moms:
Natural Parenting "Carnivals": I like the term 'Natural Parenting' because, although it's sometimes used interchangeably with 'Attachment Parenting' (which has recently received a lot of attention), it feels a bit more flexible than the latter term. Natural Parenting is very much a concept that's still in the making; while there are certainly common themes across the natural parenting spectrum, each family's interpretation, exploration and enactment of these themes looks a bit different; while one mom might strive to eliminate her family's production of waste, another might be more interested in natural birth practices. I am endlessly fascinated by the different approaches people take, and therefore really enjoy reading through the current, and archived, contributions to the bi-monthly "Carnivals" of Natural Parenting, hosted by bloggers Dionna at Code Name: Mama and Lauren at Hobo Mama. For each carnival, bloggers write and share posts on a chosen natural parenting topic, resulting in a huge variety of ideas and perspectives all in one place. Pretty awesome.
Everyone Loves a Makeover: I've been enjoying Alicia Silverstone's blog, The Kind Life, for a while now (her book, The Kind Diet, is also rad); through it, this celeb mama champions eco-friendly, health-friendly, and happiness-friendly lifestyle tips to a broad audience in an accessible, non-preachy way. Icing on the vegan cake: her blog got a makeover this week, and it's now even more delicious than before; there's an entire category dedicated to mama-specific content. Headlining right now? Oh, you know, just Alicia's recent interview with super-cool Parenting magazine. ;-)
Liquid Gold Gone Sudsy: Are you one of those lucky mamas who can fill a freezer with breast milk in seconds flat? Check out what this Etsy seller can do with your over-supply: turn it into soap! I wish I'd had this option back when I was breastfeeding (and battling baby eczema to no avail); all-organic soap made from my milk may have been just the thing to soothe Kaspar's skin. In any case, this caught my eye as way amazing, and seems like a pretty cool and affordable soap option for sudzing up the littles. And, actually, you don't need a freezer-full of milk to make it happen; 4-12 ounces will do you, depending on the size of your order.
Even More Breastfeeding Excitement:We've been on a bit of a breastfeeding content streak here on 100% Natural Parenting, in pre-celebration of World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7. Here's a bit more breastfeeding party fodder to keep you going strong through the weekend: This article, about a mom's experience nursing an adopted child, caught my eye, since… who knew you could do that? And this one, about an adoptee mom's revelatory breastfeeding experience, is beautifully written.
Close to My Heart: While I didn't have breast milk soap to help my baby heal from full-body eczema (and the severe food allergies that went along with it), I did find my way – our way – to Traditional Chinese Medicine, and it completely changed our lives. (All of Kaspar's allergy counts -- including his crazy-high nut allergy numbers-- have come down significantly since he started taking TCM herbs, and he can eat a huge range of foods that were formerly unavailable to him. And his skin? Totally clear.) As a result of our experience, I am extra committed to the belief that healthcare should be available to all people, and that alternative healthcare has a big role in this picture. It's definitely gaining recognition here in the States; we're actually meeting with a leading TCM researcher next month at Mt. Sinai, the hospital where Kaspar was born. I feel so lucky and grateful for our access to this stuff, and I've shared our experience with many people since, and, in turn, have heard a whole host of other amazing stories about this system of medicine and what it can do. As it happens, a friend of mine, Tara Gregory, has recently finished her training in this field, and is about to go to Nepal for a couple of months via the Acupuncture Relief Project. There, she'll work at a clinic, providing free, safe healthcare to the surrounding community. In Tara's words, "The clinic provides the only access many people have to health care, and they often have to travel a great distance to get there." She needs to raise $4,500 in donations by September in order to go do this thing. Every little bit counts. If you'd like to make a tax-deductible donation, please click here and select Volunteer Tara Gregory under "Select Campaign." Go on now, give ten bucks. (Done? Great! From Tara, from me, and from the mommies and babies in Nepal: Thank you. You rock.)
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Will new ed policy affect all districts equally?
Here's some interesting analysis on the fallout from the midterm elections by Anne Geiger, who writes as the Public Policy Blogger. You can see more of her analysis here.
From Anne Geiger on the fallout from the midterm elections and the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives:
The good news and the bad news.
First, some important data...
As this table and this table show, there are 47.7 million students enrolled in public schools and 14,229 school districts in the U.S. Just over 13% (1,883) enroll 67% of all students (32 million students).
Among this 13% are the school districts of our major cities, such as Washington D.C, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Houston. Member districts of the Council of the Great City Schools (I served on the council's board while on the Orange County (FL) School Board), a member organization of the 65 largest, serve over 7 million students.
Their students are 75% non-white, 60% low-income, 15% English language learners, and 12% special-needs. (Twenty-five of these districts serve over 100,000 students each. Their enrollments total 12% of students overall).
The remaining 12,346 school districts serving the remaining 33% of students (15.7 million students) have enrollments under 5,000. Over 6,000 (about half) of these have enrollments under 800.
I share these numbers because the policy implications of the new political landscape are not going to affect school districts in the same way.
I don't have a firm number, but most of the 12,346 with enrollments under 5,000 and many of the 1,883 that serve over 5,000 represent a big political force.
They're fatigued by the punishments and labels of "failure" contained within NCLB. They're fatigued by the heavy use of standardized tests. They are fatigued by the dominance of the U.S. Department of Education although it provides 8.3% of public education funding.
They're fatigued by increasing mandates without adequate funding to implement them. They're fatigued by recent rhetoric from the national media, national business organizations and education reform personalities that paint all schools and all teachers as failing.
Specifically, suburban and municipal school districts of middle to high income enrollments and high-performing, dynamic schools are fatigued by being lumped together with school districts that struggle with issues of high poverty and divisive politics.
Rural school districts, some with tiny or widely dispersed enrollments, are likewise fatigued by education reforms designed more for urban districts and distant policy makers who don't understand their unique challenges involving teacher recruitment and retention, operational efficiency and adequate funding.
First the good news. (Or some would say, sort of good news.) In the aggregate, these school districts would welcome (and advocate for, in many cases) policies that return more local control, loosen the intense focus on standards and standardized testing to facilitate and fund more whole child learning, add flexibility to accountability measurements, simplify rules and better define adequate funding, and lessen the anxiety over performance pay to allow more collaborative, locally designed models.
As to school choice, incentives, support and flexibility will increase at the federal (and state level) to benefit them, but in these school districts, they will likely emerge more on a local basis instead of being mandated from above or forcefully inserted by outside organizations. Rural school districts will probably welcome any new flexibility and certainty, but would welcome most adequate funding tailored to their unique needs. With more focus on local control, that may now be more likely. (This would be helped if all states used an equitable funding formula for all school districts like they do in Florida .)
(A few caveats and nuances: 1) Political dynamics vary from community to community, city to city, state to state. School choice, in particular, will play out differently according to those dynamics and level of parental support or interest. 2) The role that the business community varies between school districts, too. Some serve more of a supportive role. Some insert themselves into school board politics, operations and policy-making. Some do both. This affects the personality, policies and composition of school districts, too. 3) Perennial controversies surrounding curriculum, school prayer, teaching of evolution, etc. will continue to simmer and boil over from time to time as local control again regains foothold. This very American aspect will continue to have implications to what and how children learn. 4) Importance of diversity varies between districts and isn't even an issue in the many where most children are not too demographically different. With the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that weakened the legacy of Brown v Board and rise of public desire for "neighborhood schools," the goal to maintain diverse schools will diminish over time. It will be maintained in those districts where parents, school boards and the business community believe in it and have the diverse enrollments to implement it in policy. No mention of diversity by state or national lawmakers indicates it will live on mainly on a local basis.)
Now, the bad news. (Those with vested interests would say good news.)
Those 65 school districts that are members in the Council of the Great City Schools and other urban school districts with significant numbers of students who are low-income, non-English speaking and high-needs, will likely experience something quite different ( or I should say more of the same).
Again, I don't have firm numbers, but it's at least the 7 million enrolled in the council's districts plus millions (?) more. These are the districts that have been most deeply affected by the most onerous sanctions of NCLB, most intense occurrence of narrowed curriculum, formulaic teaching and rigid school culture, most intense fragmentation by school choice (charters, school management companies, etc.), most intense reconstitution of local control by eliminating or weakening school boards and instituting mayoral control, most intense scrutiny and criticism by local and national media, and most intense involvement of think tanks, foundations and private education providers to prod, test and experiment with the children in these districts.
Since they are affected by high poverty, lack of cohesive, dependable community support and volatile politics, these districts are most vulnerable to such intrusion. It's led mainly by maverick politicians who live on challenge and controversy, altruists who genuinely want to serve the underserved and private enterprises that see a path to political gain, social prominence or financial profit. A huge critical mass of these "crusaders" has coalesced over recent years and been well supported by Congress, former President Bush and now President Obama, in policy, funding and the bully pulpit.
They will not want to lose their mission, their power or their network. They have invested too much capital and prestige. And with all of they hype they've orchestrated through movies, manifestos, editorials, disaster warnings and the like, they clearly have something to prove.
So, while the majority of school districts may find this new political era as a way to achieve the flexibility that they've been yearning for, these urban school districts may see a doubling down to keep things as they are.
If moderates take hold of the policy making on Capitol Hill ... they will not be focused on these urban districts. They will instead focus on the majority of school districts in the vast middle and far reaches that seek significant change.
Chances are, too, they won't be visibly focused on urban poverty, at least not in a traditional sense. This gives lots of open ground for the education reform coalition to continue defining the problems and designing solutions in these urban school districts in their own way. And if they have the blessing of the president and influence of Secretary Duncan as the Education and Secondary Education Act is reauthorized, these districts can very possibly expect not more flexibility, but more of the same.
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Schools are just political footballs in the U.S. It's so sad.
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This article is excellent.
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This is one of the most insightful pieces that I have read on the subject. I teach in the public school system, and this article captures the essence of what I see happening in our schools. Bravo!
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Introductory book that focuses on the essentials of Lisp programming and discusses the "bottom up" paradigm for program design. This well organized introduction to the language also serves as a useful...
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 2002, ISBN 0137903952. A popular AI textbook with an agent-based approach.
Basic Lisp Techniques
Book by David Cooper, 2003. It showcases the features that make Lisp a better language, and provides a quick-start guide for Using Common Lisp as a development environment. Full text available online.
COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach
Book by Stuart C. Shapiro. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1992, ISBN 0716782189. Full text available online.
Common Lisp Quick Reference
A booklet with short descriptions of the symbols defined in the ANSI standard. It comes with a comprehensive index.
Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
Book by Guy L. Steele Jr. Digital Press, 1990, ISBN 1555580416. Full text available online. Generally refered to as CLTL2
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
Book by David S. Touretzky. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1989, ISBN 0805304924.
Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon
Introductory book by Mark Watson, 2002. Full text available online.
On Lisp - Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp
Book by Paul Graham. Prentice Hall, 1993, ISBN 0130305529. Full text available online.
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Starts with an introduction to the language, including an excellent discussion of programming style. Most of the book is a collection of projects covering classic topics in Artificial Intelligence. Th...
Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community
Book by Richard P. Gabriel. Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0195121236. Full text available online. It is a collection of essays on software engineering, writing, business, and the author's life s...
Practical Common Lisp
A Common Lisp book by Peter Seibel for folks who already know how to program but who don't know Lisp. Focuses on practical applications of Common Lisp. Apress, 2005, ISBN 1590592395. Full text availab...
Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp
Book by David Lamkins. BOOKFIX.COM, 2004, ISBN 3-937526-00-5. Full text available online.


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A historic Spencer landmark will be restored in full now that Cook Group Incorporated has committed to sponsoring the preservation project on behalf of all employees of Cook Urological in Spencer. The Tivoli Theatre, which has fallen into disrepair in recent years, will be restored to its original presence on Washington Street. Construction is scheduled for completion in 2013.
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The commonly asked question that we will look at today is, "What is man?" Since I believe that the Bible is the source of truth, I am pointing us to the Word of God for our answers to these common questions. Today we are reading from the 144th division of the Psalms.
In the past several weeks, we have discussed prayer and its many forms and trustfully, I hope we are exercising our duty and privilege to pray daily for ourselves, for others, our nation and our world.
"Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade."
Last week, those tough words were uttered not by a fiery union organizer or laid-off worker but by Robert B. Reich, a university professor, economist and author who was Secretary of Labor when Bill Clinton was president.
Reich minced no words detailing the source of discontent that demands a protest march.
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More than $20,000 in electronic equipment stolen from Amherst Apple retailerBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
June 27. 2013 7:44PM
Police are investigating a burglary at a local computer store that resulted in a loss of more than $20,000 in electronics.
Early Tuesday morning, Brinestone, an Apple specialist store located at 124 Route 101A, was burglarized, according to police. Detective Jim Crocker of the Amherst Police Department said authorities are following up on a few leads but are still asking the public to contact police with any information about the crime.
"I have a lot of mixed emotions. I am clearly upset and I am angry that someone did this to my business," said Matthew Bernard, owner of Brinestone. "It is quite upsetting."
Bernard said he was contacted by one of his employees Tuesday morning, notifying him that the front door of the store was broken, glass was scattered throughout the store and the internal alarm had been activated.
Between 12 and 14 computers were missing from the store, some of them demo devices and others that were in stock.
He believes the burglary occurred around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, based on various computer logs.
The store was closed Tuesday and Wednesday as employees cleaned up the mess and ordered new computers, according to Bernard, who said he hopes to have Brinestone fully operational by Friday.
Meanwhile, the store is still handling service-related work, he said.
Although Bernard has insurance for the loss, he said the burglary is still devastating to him and his four employees.
Crocker said the burglary was an isolated incident, and no other burglary-related crimes were reported recently in Amherst.
He urged anyone with information to call police at 673-4900.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — FedEx Corp. says that it is raising its shipping rates for ground and home delivery services in January by an average of 4.9 percent.
The shipping company said Friday that the new rates will take effect on Jan. 7. Its SmartPost rates also will go up.
FedEx, which is based in Memphis, Tenn., announced earlier this year that it would increase its shipping rates for FedEx Express by an average of 3.9 percent for U.S. domestic, export and import services. Those hikes also take effect on Jan. 7.
FedEx Freight raised its rates 6.9 percent in July.


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For UNH football team, time to reflect, then recruitBY ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 02. 2012 8:27PM
THE GOOD FOOTBALL FOLKS of Wofford College no doubt spent Sunday watching tape and game-planning in preparation for a quarterfinal duel at North Dakota State on Saturday in the Football Championship Subdivision.
University of New Hampshire coach Sean McDonnell and his staff met on Sunday morning to look and think a little further ahead.
UNH coaches hit the road to recruit today.
Wofford whacked UNH, 23-7, in Spartanburg, S.C., on Saturday, smothering the usually potent Wildcat offense and rolling up an impressive 454 yards on the ground against the defense.
Thanks to the Terriers, another impressive Wildcat football season crashed to a disappointing close.
"That's the whole thing with the playoffs," McDonnell said late on Sunday morning. "With success come those kinds of feelings. You've got to sit here and hurt for a couple of days and then you've got to put it in perspective and see who's coming back and what you've lost - and we've lost some great players and more importantly some great kids with this group - and move forward."
For the first time since 2002, two years before UNH's current best-in-the-nation string of nine straight playoff appearances began, the Wildcats lost their last two games of the season.
Every other tournament year in this run, UNH had won its last regular-season game.
Towson knocked off the Wildcats, 64-35, in Durham on Nov. 17 and UNH had a bye in the first round of the playoffs.
"You went from being 6-1 in the league and playing for the league championship and having a great season to losing that game and then losing in the playoffs and finishing with back-to-back loses," McDonnell said.
UNH was playing for its first outright league title since 1994 against Towson and instead had to settle for a share of the CAA crown.
On Saturday, McDonnell reminded the Wildcats in the locker room of what they had accomplished.
"I told the kids we did some real good things this year," he said after the game. "We were 2-2 and go on a six-game win streak and win three of them on the road and did some things in what I think is one of the best leagues in the country."
The Wildcats had numerous pieces returning this season, but did not have an experienced player back to run the offense at quarterback. Redshirt freshman Sean Goldrich and Andy Vailas, a sophomore out of Bedford and Bishop Guertin of Nashua, stepped up and did the job and offensive coordinator Ryan Carty has two guys to build around.
"From where we were coming into this season with a lot of question marks, especially at the quarterback position and a couple others, you go to the playoffs and you make another run at it, it's a successful season," McDonnell said.
But it's not enough.
"We want better," the coach said. "No one in that room is satisfied with getting in the playoffs and losing in the first round. So we have to go back and look at what we're doing and work to improve and try to figure out how we can become a better program that way."
In six of the first seven years of this playoff run, UNH won its first game and then lost its next.
Each of the last two years, the Wildcats have been ousted in their first game.
It may seem strange for a team that largely thrives on offense, but for the most part the defense has given UNH a chance to win in recent playoffs games, but the offense has come up short.
Even Saturday, despite giving up 454 rushing yards, the defense came up with three turnovers and turned one into UNH's only touchdown of the game.
Last year, the Wildcats lost 26-25 at Montana State and the two seasons before that ended at Delaware, 16-3, and at Villanova, 46-7.
"It's just disappointing, because you don't expect that to be the deal," said McDonnell, who was not assigning blame to any particular part of his team.
"As I told them, we don't point fingers," he said. "We're all in this together. If we need to score 65 points to win, we should do it. If we need to hold them to six points, we should do it."
It's a philosophy that has served the Wildcats quite well - they have an overall record of 81-33 over the nine tournament years - for the last decade.


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Michael is currently in Europe doing several press and television appearances. Michael appeared on "Yes We Can Dance" in Germany October 16th; he appears on the Italian television show in Milan, "Che tempo che fa" (RAI 3) October 18th and on the Heart Radio Show and BBC Radio 2 in London on the 20th & 21st.
Michael performs live on the UK's popular talent show, X Factor October 25th. Michael will continue with press through month's end. Stay tune here for updates.
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Clue: The Movie (US - BD)
Gabe rolls the dice on the first and best board game movie on Blu-ray disc...
On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to the government are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving). Boddy's butler, Wadsworth (Tim Curry), assigns each guest a colorful code name – Mr. Green (Michael McKean), Col. Mustard (Martin Mull), Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), and Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn). Two additional servants, the Cook (Kellye Nakahara) and Yvette, the French maid (Colleen Camp), assist Wadsworth as he informs the guests that they have been gathered to meet the man who has been blackmailing them – Mr. Boddy. When Boddy turns up dead, however, the guests must try to figure out who killed him so they can protect their own reputations and keep the body count from growing.
People can joke all they want about how silly it was to adapt the Battleship board game into a blockbuster alien invasion movie (mostly because it was silly), but the concept of turning a board game into a feature film was proven viable in 1985 with the release of Clue. Clue is one of those understated little classics that worms its way into personal top ten list after personal top ten list without ever garnering the massive recognition it deserves. It wasn't beloved by critics upon release, and audience reaction was equally luke-warm, as it didn't manage to make its modest budget back at the box office. I believe these factors all add up to a textbook case of a cult classic. Even I constantly forget Clue even exists until I'm reminded by a surprise television airing, which makes occasional rediscoveries like this one all the more enjoyable.
Clue is often compared to Robert Moore's Murder by Death, and both films take their most obvious inspiration from the work of Agatha Christie, especially her similarly ensemble cast/confined space work Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None (aka: Ten Little Indians). Director/co-writer Jonathan Lynn, who made his feature film debut here, following a successful career writing for British television, treats the film very much like a stage play, and begs comparisons to other brilliant play-to-film adaptations like Sidney Lumet's Deathtrap and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (the original, not Kenneth Branagh's remake; a huge personal favourite that you all need to see right this minute). Of course, this all points to a particularly old-fashioned brand of filmmaking, which likely explains why the film didn't really connect with 1985 audiences. Lynn's direction is simple and stagy, utilizing few major camera moves while opting for a point and shoot structure, and dependant on editing to speed the story along. Occasionally the movie does get away from him, as apparent in some shots where interaction takes place off-screen for no apparent reason other than he didn't have the coverage. For example, there's a brief shot where Mr. Green fails to catch a fainting Mrs. Peacock and we only visually witness the end of the fall.
But Lynn was a first time filmmaker and the screenplay more than makes up for his occasionally sloppy direction. Clue properly embraces its source material, which is an achievement in itself. Obviously, the Parker Brothers board game playing dynamics lend themselves to a narrative format, as the very process of playing the game is a form of narrative development. But there are plenty of games with similar sensibilities (video, board, and pen & paper) that have been adapted to film, and you can probably count the successful ones on one hand (assume you have low standards). The screenplay doesn't work quite as well on a murder mystery level as it does on a comedic level (there's nothing realistic about the set-up), but there's still a number of clever twists and not one, but three climaxes. Clue's credited co-writer was John Landis, who was busy in 1985 directing two flops – the forgotten Into the Night and the notorious Spies Like Us – neither of which were based on his own screenplays. I'm not sure exactly what Landis contributed, especially since Lynn's follow-up features could almost all be confused for John Landis movies ( Nuns on the Run, The Distinguished Gentleman, Greedy, Sgt. Bilko, and even My Cousin Vinny).
Given Lynn's obvious talent with writing for ensembles, I can't imagine he needed Landis' help tying things together, and none of the jokes strike me as strictly Landis-ian, except maybe the sudden death of a singing telegram girl. The film's sense of humour chiefly surrounds slapstick and fast-talking, often manic performances, which makes it something of a neo-screwball comedy in the Frank Capra/Howard Hawks tradition. This allows Lynn to lean pretty heavily on his actors (another trait he shares with Landis), meaning most of his job is done following the casting process. The top-tier cast is made up of a wall of character actor greatness, the likes of which are usually delegated to B-budget westerns, and everyone does their very specific job in a delightfully theatrical manner. Each character here is simply, yet consistently defined. Tim Curry is the obvious cast frontrunner and Clue's Wadsworth is certainly among his most memorable performances. He unravels mouthfuls of exposition without missing a beat or losing vital performance. His rundown of the first hour of the film is utter, breathless perfection. It's hard to choose a second favourite, outside Colleen Camp's glorious cleavage (not to say her performance isn't nearly as glorious), but Madeline Kahn's decidedly deadpan Mrs. White lands some of the film's heaviest and most undervalued laughs. Her delayed squeak of a scream and 'flames on the side of my face' speech slay me every time.
This new 1080p Blu-ray transfer is a sort of hit and miss affair, but a sizable overall upgrade over a standard definition release. It appears that Paramount has put very little effort into remastering the original footage. There are hints of print damage, mostly in the form of white flecks and a few shutter effects, and the grain levels pump up and down throughout the film, but none of these are particularly distracting. Even with an expensive digital overhaul, I don't believe Clue would ever appear super-sharp given Lynn and director of photography Victor J. Kemper's penchant for softer and shallower focus, the overall lack of lighting, and rather uncomplicated colour schemes. I do believe that the transfer is too dark given the crushed quality of the blacks, the dim quality of highlights and the loss of textures in even the moderately darkened hues. There's clearly a mood Lynn and Kemper had in mind, but I'm guessing it wasn't quite this stark. The detail levels are consistent throughout, with a handful of brief exceptions, but again, things are so dark that it's hard to really appreciate anything outside of the more complex background décor. The warm colour quality doesn't lead to much in the way of bleeding or compression artefacts, and the occasional blue highlights stand out sharply enough, but the crushed qualities do create a bit of a brown wash at times.
There's little specifically wrong with this DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono soundtrack, I'm just surprised a major 1985 release wasn't mixed into some kind of stereo or surround mix. I'm usually not a fan of re-mixing up mono tracks into multi-channel spectaculars, so I suppose this is the best option, but it certainly doesn't sound great. The flat aural qualities of the track aren't really a problem, given the film's conservative sound design, but there are a few sequences where ambience is effectively turned to mush. The much bigger issues are the tinny and inconsistent qualities of the vocal effects. The words are all clear enough to understand and dynamic enough to differentiate who is speaking, but there's an unnatural, canned quality to every word spoken. There's also a noticeable degree of distortion on the higher volume levels, especially those shrill screams. Of the qualities I had forgotten about the film, John Morris' quirky Tales from the Crypt-meets-dinner theater score is very high on the list. The monoraul sound quality does hurt the scope of the music a bit, but generally, the fidelity doesn't suffer and instruments aren't muddied.
Will Clue ever get a proper special-edition release? Maybe someday, but today is not that day, and the shelf life of physical media is dwindling pretty quickly these days. The only extras here are the original trailer and presence of all three endings (which better well be on there, anyway).
Clue remains every bit as buoyant and fun as it ever was and continues to deserve multiple viewings, so I'm sure core fans will be happy to upgrade their old DVDs despite this Blu-ray release's lack of special features. Unfortunately, the 1080p video quality doesn't look like much of an upgrade to me and the DTS-HD MA mono audio doesn't impress. Still, the improvements are there and those that don't already own the DVD release should be plenty happy with the disc overall.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer. Thanks to Troy at Andersonvision.com for the Blue Underground Blu-ray screen-caps.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Some material may not be suitable for children
Disc Details
Release Date: 1st January 1995
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Spanish, French and Portuguese
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese
Extras: Three Different Endings, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Cast: Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Colleen Camp
Genre: Comedy
Length: 96 minutes
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Terri Fried, MD
Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
Departments & Organizations
Internal Medicine: Geriatric Medicine: Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center
Office of Cooperative Research
Dr. Fried completed her medical school education at Harvard and an internship and residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital. She did fellowship training in geriatrics, ethics, and clinical effectiveness at Harvard Medical School. She came to the Yale section of geriatrics in 1996 as a clinician investigator, after several years as a clinician-educator at Brown Medical School. Her research interests involve decision-making for older persons with advanced illness and with multiple conditions, with a particular interest in the elucidation of patient preferences.
Education & Training
|Harvard University (1988)
|Harvard Medical School
|Rhode Island Hospital
|Board Certification
|AB of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (1991, recertified: 2013)
|Board Certification
|AB of Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine (1994, recertified: 2014)
Honors & Recognition
Faulkner Visiting ProfessorBoston Medical Center (2011)
Julien Davis Memorial LectureThe Jewish Home, San Franciso, CA and UCSF (2009)
Robert C. Rosenlof, MD Visiting Professor, University of NebraskaUniversity of Nebraska (2006)
Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award, American Geriatrics Society American Geriatrics Society (2004)
Professional Service
NCQA (2007) Member, Vulnerable Elder Technical Expert panel
NIH (2003 - 2006) Permanent member, HSOD study section
American Geriatrics Society (2002 - 2005) Committee member, Ethics Committee