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His Stone Cold Lead Pipe Locks picks are what you're supposed to base the fade off of. I've been following for years now. The other person was right, if you make the guy choose on one game, he has a 50/50 chance of picking it right because he has no idea.
Greeny's Locks record is 8-14-2 this season up to this point. So you'd be up 6 units minus some juice if you faded him.
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Skip to comments.Only backyard fence separates South Carolina sex offender from 10-year-old victim
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A South Carolina man cant understand why the registered sex offender who victimized his 10-year-old daughter gets to live next door, separated only by a chain link fence.
Chris Smith, of Conway, told the Sun News of Myrtle Beach that having Kerry Dane Marlowe for a neighbor is hell on his family. He said he would gladly move, but doubts he can sell a house next to a sex offender.
When its all stripped away, Smith told the paper. I still have a convicted, registered sex offender living next door.
Marlowe was convicted of criminal solicitation of a minor and forced to register after having a creepy conversation with the little girl through the fence that separates their yards, according to the paper. Smith said his daughter was playing with Marlowes cat when Marlowe asked her what size bra she wore and if he could rub lotion on her. He then exposed himself to her and leaned over the fence to kiss her, Smith said.
When its all stripped away, I still have a convicted, registered sex offender living next door.
- Chris Smith, father of sex offender's victim.
When the girl told her father what had happened, Smith called the Horry County police, who arrested Marlowe, the Sun News reported. At a probation hearing before his sentencing, a judge ordered Marlowe to wear an ankle bracelet and stay at least a mile away from the neighborhood, according to the paper. But when he pleaded guilty to criminal solicitation of a minor and was sentenced to four years probation and to stay at least 30 feet from Smiths daughter.
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the judges are sick..
And, if he did not do so within a reasonable time, he would get a visit some morning about 3 a.m. from a masked committee who would use one of these tools on him.
This wouldn't happen if fathers were allowed to kill the molesters of their daughters...much safer and cheaper, too.
Daddy needs to be quiet. Marlowe needs to have a "fatal accident." Problem solved.
Sex offender: Kerry Dane Marlowe, 62, was convicted of criminal solicitation of a minor
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That should be "...only a backyard fence, a Smith and Wesson '45, and a Winchester 12 gauge separate...."
Ah, much better.
I hope Mr. Smith can exercise great care the next time he cleans his rifle near the upstairs window so no accidental discharge injures his neighbor. That would be very unfortunate. Really.
Well...a Remington 1100 and a fence.....
This is sick. That perv needs to move far far away. For his own health.
If the father tolerates this sicko living next door, then he is as stupid as they come
Dad needs to move, whether our stupid laws are protecting them or not, in order to protect his daughter. He needs to move YESTERDAY. His daughter needs to know that her father will do whatever is necessary to protect her.
I had something very similar happen to me. My next-door neighbor was convicted and put on the sex-offender list. For nearly two years as I tried to sell my home it steadily decreased in value.
It wasn't until he lost his home due to foreclosure and moved far away that I was able to get a buyer and at that it was as a short-sale. I figure I and the bank lost about $150K in value because of all of the buyers that were scared off in that time period.
And before someone asks, under state law it was something that has to be declared to a prospective buyer.
Sex offenders of ALL stripes should be locked up permanently.
Why'd you sell after he was gone?
My wife and I had built a home in Kentucky and she was living there as I was still living in the original house trying to sell it.
Once I did I came here, to be with my family once again.
If he can sell his house, sure.
Unfortunately, he may find it difficult to sell since he is living next door to a child molester.
I'd agree except now everyone who commits any convictable offense involving anything to do with genitalia is now considered a 'sex offender'.
Got a indecent exposure as a 17 year old because you mooned your school president? Sex offender.
Making out in the back seat of the car with your sweety in high school, things got a little steamy, and you got busted for it? Sex offender.
Staggering back from the football game after drinking too much, and cop a pee in some bushes off the side of the road? Sex offender.
If he can sell his house, sure.
Unfortunately, he may find it difficult to sell since he is living next door to a child molester.
I'd live in my car before I let my daughter live next to that.
I'd move in with Grandma. Whatever.
I'm not saying it's "fair" to the man. I am saying it is what he must do. Protecting his daughter should be paramount, here. Not just if it's easy enough to do.
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Meyer Limoncello Sorbet
Cheers from chilly California,
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- Ally said...
Looks delicious...I have some limoncello that I've been trying to decide what to do with, this sounds like the perfect solution! And of course I have Meyers coming out of my ears. LOL
Looking forward to the lemon pound cake recipe!
- February 27, 2011 at 7:07 PM
- Chiara "Kika" Assi said...
What a great idea! I love sorbet with vodka, so I think I'd love sorbet with limoncello as well!
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- bellini valli said...
Snow in California, it is almost unheard of:D Our roads are clear and the stores are packed with imported citrus so sorbet sounds just about right right now.
- February 28, 2011 at 5:52 AM
- My Carolina Kitchen said...
Limoncello? Count me in.
- February 28, 2011 at 5:58 AM
- All Things Yummy said...
can't wait to read about your short ribs and polenta. sounds delicious.
- February 28, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- Joanne said...
Oh I am SO super jealous of your meyer lemon tree! And of this sorbet! Sounds utterly refreshing, even during these frigid times.
- February 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- Chris and Amy said...
We just bought 8 Meyer Lemons and can't wait to make our homemade limoncello!!!
- February 28, 2011 at 12:08 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
This looks delightful. I have made a lot of homemade ice cream in my time, but never sorbet. You've inspired me to give it a try.
- February 28, 2011 at 7:09 PM
- Allie said...
Yummm! You know another blogger mentioned Meyer lemons too! I have been missing out all my life! So lucky that you can grow them year round. I love any kind of frozen treat and lemon is so refreshing. I'm thinking I'm going to have a garden this summer so I can have my own fresh treats!
- February 28, 2011 at 7:56 PM
- Jackie at Phamfatale.com said...
Mm sounds like a delicious way to end the perfect meal. Can't go wrong with limoncello! ;)
- March 1, 2011 at 1:45 AM
- Kim said...
Debby - It is very exciting to have your own meyer lemons and also very nice of your husband to nurse them along so well. I love sorbet every day of the year (it's never too cold for me). This looks fantastic!
- March 1, 2011 at 5:44 AM
- The Chef In My Head said...
I am praying I get lemons from my meyer lemon tree this year!!! Cross your fingers for me!! Limoncello in the bar, so I'm ready!
- March 1, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- roz said...
Mmmmmmm, Limoncello! Love this idea for sorbet. I have that brand at home as well! Happy days of citrus, Debby! No snow here, almost balmy in fact . . . so weird for march.
- March 1, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- Simple Simon said...
This limoncello sorbet makes my mouth start watering just looking at it. Wonderful!
- March 4, 2011 at 6:28 AM
- Hannah Marie said...
This sorbet looks AMAZING!!!
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MRR Movie Review: "Gangster Squad"
-- Rating: R (strong language, violence)
Length: 113 minutes
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Genre: Action/Crime/Drama
Many tales of gangster corruption in Los Angeles have been told, but rarely have any of those tales been as enticing as the one in "Gangster Squad." It begins with sociopathic villain Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), a former boxer with a slightly deformed face who is trying to expand his crime empire in 1949. It doesn't take long for the audience to see that he has the money, muscle, firearms, and steel will that it takes to make it happen.
At first, he runs into very little resistance, as the corrupt cops of the Los Angeles Police Department seem content to let him run roughshod all over their fair city. Chief Parker (Nick Nolte) is a grizzled veteran of the force who hatches a plan to form a task force to stop Cohen. He finds that most of the cops are either in Cohen's pocket or too scared to take him on, because they know it is tantamount to a death sentence. He finally finds John O'Mara (Josh Brolin), a former military man who has just enough guts to accept the leadership position on the task force. He goes about finding other cops to round out the new unit, enlisting Officers Coleman Harris (Anthony Mackie), Conway Keeler (Giovanni Ribisi), Navidad Ramirez (Michael Pena), and Max Kennard (Robert Patrick), as well as Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who appear to be the only cops willing to take on such a daunting task.
They start by trying to infiltrate Cohen's inner circle, with Wooters showing a particular interest in Grace Faraday (Emma Stone), who just so happens to be Cohen's girlfriend. Wooters is a boozer and a womanizer who seems to have more interest in bedding Grace than in trying to get her to spill any information that she may have about the various rackets that her boyfriend has going. This puts the entire task force at risk, because Cohen could easily have each of them killed if he finds out that one of them is chasing after his girl. It causes friction between him and O'Mara, which ratchets up the tension, which is already very high. O'Mara and Wooters have to find a way to get along before all of their hard work goes up in smoke. As Chief Parker puts it, this is a battle for the soul of Los Angeles. Are O'Mara and Wooters up to such a lofty battle, or will they fail miserably?
It can't be easy to be the only female with a sizable role in an ensemble cast full of male movie stars, but Stone pulls off the role of Grace like a pro. She conveys the slightly aloof air of a classic film noir moll who is well dressed and perfectly coiffed. Though, on the surface, it would seem like Grace and Cohen would be a mismatch, the two really make it work. Stone also has incredible chemistry with Gosling, probably due in no small part to their previous effort as a couple in the superb "Crazy, Stupid, Love." Stone has proven her skills in comedies and dramas, but she had yet to do a period piece. Her performance in "Gangster Squad" shows that she can't handle almost any role.
The rest of the cast is superb, but Penn really steals the show with his role as a gangster that is so gleefully violent that he actually utters puns. When one of his many henchmen botches a job, he says to his other henchmen, "You know the drill," which causes them to start drilling holes in the man's body until he dies. This type of dark, bloody comedy becomes Cohen's signature throughout the film and is made believable by Penn's portrayal. With his recent turns in movies such as "Milk" and "The Tree of Life" being earnest, it is fun to watch Penn chew up the scenery as a mob kingpin who doesn't seem to have a single honest bone in his body. The best part is that Penn really looks like he is having fun, with the audience having fun right alongside him.
The final star of the film is costume designer Mary Zophres, who doesn't appear on screen at all. Every piece of clothing from Grace's elegant dresses to the cuff links looks authentic for the era. It creates a colorful look that director Ruben Fleischer takes advantage of by perfectly framing every shot. The mixture of style, story, and violence makes for an entertaining film that is as unpredictable as it is fun. Film noir is one of those genres that not all directors can do right, but with a strong script and an equally strong cast, Fleischer really delivers with "Gangster Squad."
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars


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Part 5: Singing Mendelssohn's praises
The Hallé and Mark Elder revealed a hidden treasure with their performance of the Second Symphony, says Tristan Jakob-Hoff
Mendelssohn's Lobgesang Symphony is still ringing in my ears this morning after last night's performance by the Hallé under Mark Elder. Actually, that's not strictly true – my ears are in fact ringing with a recording of the same work I downloaded this morning. But full credit to Elder and Co. for inspiring me to do so – after all, this is a piece which, a mere 24 hours ago, I had never heard before.
The pace of the Proms can be difficult to keep up with – it is hard even to get to all the events you consider 'unmissable'. But it is also a festival that yields happy surprises, especially when you take a chance to try something you normally wouldn't. The programme last night was, possibly for the first time in my concert-going life, completely unfamiliar to me; I mostly went to catch up with a friend of mine whom I knew would be there.
The Lobgesang is what will stay with me though. Mendelssohn's so-called 'Hymn of Praise' is rarely performed – my friend said he had waited years to hear it live – and I suppose this is due to its slightly unwieldy structure, a strange hybrid of early Romantic symphony and Bach-style cantata, complete with arias, recitatives and choruses.
I can't imagine it would convince everyone, but Elder and his Hallé forces certainly convinced me. It helped no end that everyone involved seemed so thoroughly dedicated to the cause, with extra credit going to the combined Hallé Choir and Youth Choir for their superbly committed singing throughout. The penultimate chorus, an unaccompanied setting of Nun danket alle Gott, was particularly sublime.
It was not a perfect performance, to be completely honest – Elder's generally fast tempos occasionally blurred Mendelssohn's melodic invention and the vocal soloists lacked inspiration – but it was an actual live performance, and with some pieces that is enough. For me, it was simply one of those magical discoveries the Proms seems to specialise in.
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MARIETTA, GEORGIA -- Ordered a product from this company that was supposed to be in stock, waited got the order confirmation and proceeded to wait for delivery, after 10 days I still had not even received something to say that they had shipped the product. I then sent an email asking what my delivery date would be, I received an email, which was so blunt and offensive, basically it told me to wait until I get it within the specified time frames posted on their website, "providing it was in stock". It then went on to tell me they sell over 7000 products and they don't stock everything so the customer has to wait for them to order it and get delivery, if it's available.
Now maybe I'm a stickler for the small things but, A: It was supposed to be in stock. B: They charged me when they didn't even know if they could get the product. C: You NEVER blame the customer for ordering from you.
Anyway, I waited until the "correct" time frame for delivery which was well after what they stated it would be. (This is because that they charge your CC, then after whatever time period they "update your order to be accepted, and they keep doing this btw, and at that point is when they say the order was finally placed. At that point they have had your money for anything up to 3 weeks and you have not had delivery or even confirmation they have the product available).
So in the meantime I notified my CC for fraud and they are monitoring the card/company. After another 2 weeks past supposed delivery date, I officially canceled my order and surprisingly enough, received an e-mail stating my order was canceled and I would get a refund ASAP. To this day it has been 6 weeks, my CC company has issued a fraud chard against this company, I have had to complain to the Better Business Bureau regarding this company.
DO NOT PLACE AN ORDER FROM THIS COMPANY, and IF you do, PAY with a CREDIT CARD not an ATM card as those charges are difficult to get back, and you will have to eventually try to reclaim your funds as the BBB has had MANY complaints about this company.
ACWORTH, GEORGIA -- I placed my order for a Christmas present. $59.78 I never received a shipping number. I wrote them today still waiting on that refund that now I know will never come. I also called and left messages. DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM! I went over to another place and received my order in five days. So, I did finally give that gift. But I didn't get it from KOS!
MARIETTA, GEORGIA -- I purchased a product from "King of Swords" website using my debit card and never received it. It's been 53 days now. Evidently they do this to hundreds of customers. This company is a complete hoax.
Here are the steps I took to resolve my issue and get my money back. I recommend you do the same otherwise they will keep doing this to honest customers. 1.) File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. 2.) File a complaint with your bank stating you never received item and they will credit your account for the amount until the money is received from King of Swords. 3.) Post a negative review of the company on every website you can find, including this one.
It's a shame that there are companies out there that rip off people like this. I guess they figure the majority of their customers are little kids that are into ninja stuff so they'll never get taken to court. They have absolutely no excuse for their inaction. If you don't have a product don't advertise it on the website. This is the WORST company I have ever dealt with. They're scam artists.
MURIETTA, GEORGIA -- I ordered online a pair of SFX contact lenses for Halloween (dragon eyes) priced roughly 2/3 of any other store I could find. I ordered late in the day and left relatively little time for delivery. KoS expedited the order. When the manufacturer gave notice that my choice was out of stock, just 3 days before pumpkin day, KoS offered a different pair of lenses (my second choice anyhow, predator eyes), sent the order by overnight Fedex and refunded $50 on top.
The lenses arrived exactly as ordered and with 24 hours to spare. I cannot tell you how impressed I am by this commitment to customer service. I would absolutely buy from KoS again and highly recommend them to all and sundry. Five stars.
Despite their claim of "Worldwide Shipping", my order was canceled (even though it is perfectly legal both to buy and own a stun gun in Japan - they are for sale everywhere) and I waited, patiently, for a refund to be issued. None was forthcoming.
When some weeks had passed and I had to write to ask where my refund was, I was instructed to "contact my credit card company" in order to facilitate my refund. Quite what power they imagined my credit card company had in instructing them to pay me back is beyond me. I had never heard of anything so ridiculous - it is up to King of Swords to refund my money; it is certainly not my credit card company's responsibility.
I was told to wait and that "an e-mail confirmation" would be sent to me when a refund had been issued. So, I waited - and waited - and waited. But, nothing. I even offered to have the refund made to my PayPal account - no answer. "The King wants to know what you think!" - Really? What evidence do they have for making this claim? I have requested a refund from them time after time and the King does not appear interested in hearing what I think at all. My advice: AVOID! Their customer service is non-existent and reflects the quality of the swords they sell - poor imitations of the real thing.
I've been waiting 40 days now for my order. I have contacted them 7 times now by phone and email with no response. I have left multiple messages on their answering service. Right now I'm waiting on hold with my bank to see if I can reverse charge this. Thing that sucks is this scam artist now has my debt card number. They did get back with me 1 time through email after 20 days, all they stated was the order was "accepted" AGAIN.
09/12/2009 Pending. 09/14/2009 Order Accepted. 09/22/2009 Order Accepted. 10/05/2009 Order Accepted. How many times are they going to accept it? When is it going to be shipped? Opening a claim with my bank now.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA -- I placed an order with King of Swords in late June 09. They immediately took the $105 payment then replied to me saying that they were unable to send me part of the order. They stated their accounts department was dealing with the refund and it would be done as soon as possible.
Very long story short, after many emails and being fobbed off and ignored countless times I have still yet to be refunded. I have read of many, many others in the same or similar situation with King of Swords, and this has motivated me to take legal action as they cannot be allowed to get away with what is blatantly theft. If you have had a similar experience with King of Swords I urge you to follow the matter up and not let them get away with it any longer.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA -- I regret not doing research on this company. I place an order and the charges were immediately deducted from my bank account via debit. After six week I sent an email and their reply was the order was being held up in customs. Three weeks later I found several complaints about this company on various sites. I then asked for a refund and was told it had to be approved by the accounting department. The truth is their phone number is unlisted. King of Swords is not registered with BBB. So no help there. Good Luck to those of you that are still in search of your stolen money.
I purchased two items on Jan 6, 2008 from this company. Little did I know that I should have performed a review search about them beforehand. I assumed they were a reputable company. I have found (after the fact) that they are not.
1 x 1 Dozen (12) Deluxe Ninja Throwing Stars Black/Silver
- Blade Color: SILVER $19.88
1 x ROYAL FLUSH THROWING CARD SET $19.45
Sub-Total: $39.33
(USA Shipping): $11.99
01/06/2009 Pending
01/06/2009 Order Accepted
01/19/2009 Order Accepted
I have contacted them more times than I can even count, but to no avail. They have not responded other than the first time I inquired and they sent an automated response saying it was in the queue. They have absolutely no customer service. Items never shipped. Refund never given. Stay away from this company. Buy the products elsewhere because other reputable companies have them.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA -- I ordered Swords from KOS in mid Sept. I never received follow-up emails from them, and only heard from them when I sent them and email from their site which stated I wanted to know where my item was! They would reply each time, that it was back-ordered, or they were waiting to get on, as they do not stock these. On Dec. 9 (3 MONTHS LATER - and STILL had not received them!) I told them I wanted ordered cancelled and Money applied by Dec. 12 or I will submit their names all over the Better Business Bureaus, etc. DO not ORDER FROM THIS RIP-OFF COMPANY!


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A free interpretation on the new collections. Video created by Virgilio Villoresi
Pens, pencils, bags, computer cases, reading glasses, a USB-rechargeable lamp, a book and e-reader stand. Also, clips, pockets, adhesive labels and removable accessories to personalize these items that go with the notebooks and planners.
Designed by Giulio Iacchetti, the three new collections take on the aesthetic and functional characteristics of the classic notebooks: the elastic band, the rounded corners, the black color, the simple design, the "In case of loss" page on the inside.
The launch will take place during Milan Design Week with installations and events going on all over the city. These include the exhibition, Interni Mutant Architecture&Design, where Moleskine presents Scriba, a robot that transcribes tweets sent in by the public, an installation where the past, present and future of writing discover new connections.


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A Shelf Over the Kitchen Door
When your kitchen is short on space, ekeing out even one more shelf can be helpful. Which brings us to the shelf over the kitchen door. It's a perfect place for storing those kitchenwares that you like to look at:
No door? Try the same thing over a window! We love how each of these examples adds an almost architectural quality to the kitchen, even if the room is plain and devoid of much character.
Do you have a shelf over your kitchen door (or window)? What's on it?
Related: Before and After: My Ikea Shelf Epiphany
(Images via The Martha Blog, A History of Home, A Touch of Country with Natalie, A Girl & a Key, Lumberjocks, Houzz)


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My first question is how do you frame every thing like when you go to AO's home page every things is in a nice neet little box with the yellow hedding. how is that dose is it done with tables or something if some one could just point me in the right direction that would be great.


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MYSTIC - Martha Hug has never really been a fan of the grind of the retail business.
Despite that, her looming retirement after 31 years of running the successful downtown Mystic shop, Whyevernot, has not come without some tears. Hug tends to look at Whyevernot as a labor of love - an outlet for her creativity and artistic sensibilities.


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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mo Williams was having such a hard time in the first half of Utah's game Friday night against the Trail Blazers that he didn't even play in the second quarter.
That made Williams mad. And that was good for the Jazz.
Williams responded by scoring 26 of his 28 points in the second half to lead the Jazz to a 105-95 victory over the Blazers.
"You get angry and instead of feeling sorry for yourself, you come out and be aggressive," he said.
Paul Millsap added 25 points and 10 rebounds as the Jazz snapped a nine-game losing streak on the road, their longest since they dropped 17 straight in the 1981-82 season.
The victory certainly wiped away Williams' frustration.
"Winning does that," he said. "It puts you in a good mood."
The Jazz (37-36) pulled even with the Los Angeles Lakers for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Blazers (33-39) dropped 3½ games back with their third straight loss.
Portland, playing without forward LaMarcus Aldridge because of a sprained right ankle, got 24 points from rookie Damian Lillard. J.J. Hickson added 17 points and 14 rebounds.
The Jazz trailed 92-86 with 3:48 remaining when they took off on a closing 19-3 run, led by Williams with 12 points. Williams made a 12-footer and Randy Foye added a layup and free throw with 2:57 remaining to go ahead 93-92, and the Jazz led the rest of the way.
Al Jefferson had 22 points and eight rebounds in Utah's third straight win.
The Jazz were coming off a 103-88 victory at home over the Suns on Wednesday, but it was costly. Center Enes Kanter, averaging 7.2 points and 4.3 rebounds, dislocated his left shoulder. It is not known when he might return.
The Blazers took a 30-22 lead on Wesley Matthews' 3-pointer at the first-quarter buzzer. Victor Claver made a layup after a behind-the-back fake pass that put Portland ahead 34-28.
Derrick Favors' jumper pulled Utah within 40-38 and Jefferson's hook shot tied it with 4:41 left in the first half. But Portland responded with a 12-0 run, capped by Nicolas Batum's 3-pointer and Hickson's jumper to make it 52-40. Jefferson hit a jumper and the Jazz trailed 54-42 at the half.
"Everybody came out focused, especially in the second half. We didn't do a good job in the first but in the second half we came out with a different attitude," Millsap said.
Gordon Hayward made a pair of 3-pointers that pulled the Jazz within 64-61 midway through the third quarter. Williams added a pair of layups to give Utah a 65-64 lead.
Claver's dunk put the Blazers back ahead 72-70 before the quarter was over. It was back and forth until Eric Maynor made a 3-pointer that gave Portland an 85-80 lead with 7:55 left.
It was Utah's 14th comeback victory in a game in which the Jazz trailed by more than 10 points.
"If we lay everything we have on the floor and come up short, we can deal with that," Utah coach Tyrone Corbin said. "But we can't hold anything back at this point."
Aldridge was injured early in Wednesday night's 111-93 loss to the Brooklyn Nets. He left the game briefly, but returned to lead the Blazers with 24 points.
The two-time All-Star is averaging 21 points and 8.9 rebounds and the Blazers need him for any push toward playoffs. Two straight losses to Oklahoma City and the Nets were already a setback.
Rookie Meyers Leonard got his third career start in Aldridge's place and finished with 12 points.
The teams play again on Monday in Utah. Before that, Portland visits Golden State on Saturday while the Jazz host Brooklyn.
"We're still playing to win," Hickson said, despite Portland's dwindling playoff hopes. "We're still playing to make the playoffs. I know our window is definitely smaller at this point, but as long as we've got a chance, we're going to keep playing hard and we're going to play with integrity."
Notes: The teams had split their previous four meetings at the Rose Garden. ... With Batum's 3-pointer late in the first half, the Blazers surpassed their single-season record for 3s with 597. ... It was Lillard's 20th game this season with at least 20 points and seven assists. ... Hickson's double-double was his 39th this season.


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> Section 2. The Three Matters of American Romance
Carl Van Doren
The American Novel.
2. The Three Matters of American Romance
for the work of Irving, who deliberately chose short stories to avoid any rivalry with Scott, the first twenty years of the nineteenth century produced no memorable fiction whatever in the United States. Even the example of Scott, who was immensely popular, at first failed to arouse imitators. Indeed, the brilliance of his achievement served to discourage his warmest admirers. Such learning, such experience, such humor, such abundance as the Author of Waverley displayedwho dared match his powers against them? Moreover, the elements which gave Scott his vogue, and which for a time seemed the essential elements of fiction, were not easily transportable to another soil. The attitude of Americans in the matter was well set forth by John Bristed in his book on
The Resources of the United States
in 1818: Of native
we have no great stock, and none good; our democratic institutions placing all the people on a dead level of political equality; and the pretty equal diffusion of property throughout the country affords but little room for varieties, and contrasts of character; nor is there much scope for fiction, as the country is quite new, and all that has happened from the first settlement to the present hour, respecting it, is known to every one. There is, to be sure, some traditionary romance about the Indians; but a novel describing these miserable barbarians, their squaws, and papooses, would not be very interesting to the present race of American readers. To Bristed, as to most contemporaries, it seemed impossible for the novel to flourish in a country which had no aristocracy, no distinct classes of society, no wide range of poverty and wealth, no legendary and semi-legendary lore like that of the English-Scottish border. A genuine task challenged the American imagination before any considerable body of fiction could be achieved. Whatever man of genius might appear, there was still the problem of reaching a public taught that fiction belonged to the Old World, fact to the New; taught to look for the pleasures of the imagination on the soil where they had long existed and to which even the most self-conscious and politically independent American had been accustomed to look back with admiration, with some vague nostalgia of the spirit. Yet at the very moment when Bristed wrote, national passions were awake which within a half-dozen years had not only elicited a great romancer but had shown a popular imagination unexpectedly prepared for him. Out of such emotions come, in the proper ages, ballads and epic lays. In the United States, though prose fiction was the form at hand, the narratives were all romantic, and the literary process but repeated the processes of romantic ages. As in medieval France there were three matters of romance,
De France, et de Bretagne, et de Rome la grant,
so in the United States there were also three: the Revolution, the Settlement, and the Frontier.
The Revolutionary generation had been an age of mythmaking. Washington, for instance, to his very face was apotheosized by his followers with a passion of language which notoriously embarrassed him. Almost before his bones were cold appeared Parson Weemss astounding tract, miscalled a biography, to catch the popular fancy at once and to establish the absurd legend of Washingtons superhuman virtues. Private life, Weems avowed, is real life; and though, lacking first-hand knowledge, he was obliged to invent, he seemed intimate and credible to an audience somewhat overwhelmed by the heavy splendor of the more official orations and odes and sermons called forth by Washingtons death. Thereafter the legend grew unchecked, until the pious Catherine Maria Sedgwick, in 1835, apologizing for the introduction of the hero in her novel
The Linwoods,
could write in extenuation of what may seem presumption, that whenever the writer has mentioned Washington, she has felt a sentiment resembling the awe of the pious Israelite when he approached the ark of the Lord. The legends of Arthur and Charlemagne grew no more rapidly in the most legend-breeding ageindeed, did not grow so rapidly as this. And around Washington, as around Arthur his knights and around Charlemagne his peers, were speedily grouped such minor heroes as Francis Marion, whose life was also written by Weems, Israel Putnam, whom David Humphreys celebrated, Patrick Henry, whose biographer was no less a person than William Wirt, Attorney-General of the United States, Ethan Allen, who wrote his own record, and others whose fame or infamy (as in the case of Benedict Arnold) depended less specifically upon books. As all these heroes were consistently whitened by their biographers, so was the cause for which they fought; until the second generation after the Revolution had hardly a chance to suspectat least so far as popular literature was concernedthat the Revolution had been anything but a melodrama victoriously waged by stainless Continental heroes against atrocious villains in British scarlet, followed by a victory without ugly revenges and crowned by a reconstruction culminating in the divinely-inspired Constitution. George Bancroft himself, a scholar of large attainments, could write as late as 1860 such words as these concerning the Declaration of Independence: This immortal state paper, which for its composer was the aurora of enduring fame, was the genuine effusion of the soul of the country at that time, the revelation of its mind, when in its youth, its enthusiasm, its sublime confronting of danger, it rose to the highest creative powers of which man is capable. The bill of rights which it promulgates, is of rights that are older than human institutions, and spring from the eternal justice that is anterior to the state. Two political theories divided the world; one founded the commonwealth on the reason of state, the policy of expediency; the other on the immutable principles of morals: the new republic, as it took its place among the powers of the world, proclaimed its faith in the truth and reality and unchangeableness of freedom, virtue, and right. The heart of Jefferson in writing the declaration, and of congress in adopting it, beat for all humanity; the assertion of right was made for the entire world of mankind and all coming generations, without any exception whatever; for the proposition which admits of exceptions can never be self-evident. As it was put forth in the name of the ascendent people of that time, it was sure to make the circuit of the world, passing everywhere through the despotic countries of Europe; and the astonished nations as they read that all men are created equal, started out of their lethargy, like those who have been exiles from childhood, when they suddenly hear the dimly remembered accents of their mother tongue. This, the most patriotic American must now admit, is the language of romance.
The deeds and personages of the Revolution, steadily growing in the popular imagination under the stimulus of an exultant and hopeful independence, were naturally first expressed and most highly regarded of the new national themes. But side by side with them, in part aroused and drawn along by the Revolution, went the matter of the Settlement, consisting of the tales told in every state about its colonial days. Here again Parson Weems took a hand and wrote folk-books about William Penn and Benjamin Franklin. Weems, himself a Virginian, in his choice of these Pennsylvania worthies as subjects for his art illustrates the national feeling which gradually superseded the old colonial memories and prejudices. The new states no sooner pooled their national resources than they began unconsciously to pool their resources of tradition, of legend, of local poetry. Their wealth was as unequal in this respect as in any other, and widely different in quality. Certain themes from the first assumed a prominence that attracted to them the national imagination as it was attracted to no others. The landing of the Pilgrims, the witchcraft mania at Salem, Connecticut and its Charter Oak, the Dutch on the Hudson, Penns liberality and tolerance, the settlement at Jamestown, Pocahontas and her career, Bacons Rebellion, John Lockes schemes for the Carolinas, the debtors in Georgia, and, somewhat later, the siege of Louisburg and Braddocks defeat: each of these early became the center of an increasing legend. Particularly important was a theme which in some form or other belonged to every colonythe warfare with the Indians for undisturbed possession of the soil from which they had been driven. So long as the natives had been dangerous to the invaders there had existed that bitterness of race-hatred which goes along with race-menace, and which kept out of the records of the old Indian wars, from Maine to Florida, any real magnanimity or sympathy for the dispossessed owners of the land. They were as paynims to Christian knights, as the sons and daughters of Amalek to the invaders of Canaan. King Philips War in New England having begotten better books than any other, it lived in the popular memory more vividly than did the equally bitter and important but unrecorded Tuscarora and Yemassee wars in the Carolinas, for instance. The Deerfield raid, in large measure because of the Rev. John Williamss narrative of his captivity, became classic while similar episodes elsewhere were forgotten. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, however, when the Indian was no longer in any way a menace, he had begun to be sentimentalized by admirers of the natural man, with whom he was commonly identified by Europeans and not infrequently by the descendants of the very Americans who had hated him so bitterly a century before.
The Indian was a link connecting the matter of the Settlement with the matter of the Frontier, the only one which had a contemporary aspect. It was the frontier not as remembered from the beginnings but as reported from the more distant territories where it still lay in the early years of the new century. Even before the Revolution not a few imaginations had turned inland. The settlement of Kentucky had excited the seaboard, and Daniel Boone, though not the greatest of the pioneers, before 1800 was already beginning to be the most famous of all of them, a true folk-hero. Literature unquestionably did him this service, in the person of the eccentric schoolmaster John Filson, who wrote for Boone his
in 1784. Later the Louisiana Purchase drew still more eyes to the West, while the government expedition conducted by Lewis and Clark, rather less through its reports than through busy rumor, had an influence upon the popular imagination perhaps larger than that ever produced by any other American exploring venture. As contrasted with the tradition of the Settlement or of the Revolution, the reports concerning the contemporary frontier came as news, but there was still about them the haze of distancedistance in miles if not in years. The Great Lakes, the prairies, the plains and mountains beyond, the fever lands of the lower Mississippi, and especially the broad rivers and bluegrass of Kentucky, all of these constituted a sort of hinterland for the national imagination which writers of fiction were not slow to take advantage of. Nor did the frontier lie entirely inland. The sea also was a frontier. From every port of the New England coast, and to a less degree from the Atlantic coast generally, ships went out to every corner of the world, particularly to the mysterious Pacific, with its strange calms and rich pastures for fishermen, and to the exotic countries beyond, but also to the crowded Mediterranean, the banks of Newfoundland, the neighborly West Indies. The new nation was setting out in every direction to become acquainted with its own immense domain and to establish communications between it and all the rest of the world, real or imaginative.
Such potentialities, of course, still ran a long way before the facts at the time Bristed made his unhopeful prophecy. What he said of existing American fiction suited its recent examples accurately enough. John Davis, a visiting Englishman, had taken a fancy to the Pocahontas legend and had dealt with it in three versions in his
Captain Smith and Princess Pocahontas
(1805), and
The First Settlers of Virginia
(1806). Preposterous as they all are, they are interesting as the first treatment of one of the most persistent of American legends. A rollicking anti-romance,
Female Quixotism
(1808?) by Tabitha Tenney, which made very good fun of the novels of the day by showing into how many follies its heroine could blunder by taking the manners of such novels for her guide, was far less popular than the absurdly sentimental performance, probably by Isaac Mitchell,
The Asylum
(1811), which achieved at least a score of editions and exhibits the worst qualities of Mrs. Radcliffe to an extent which now makes it incredibly amusing. The nadir of the old-fashioned, sensational, sentimental romance was reached, however, in Samuel Woodworths
The Champions of Freedom
(1816), written to order to celebrate the second war with England. Pompous language (Ossian mixed with Sterne and Cicero), a ghost that walks like a man, shrieking patriotism, and ineffable sentimentality are all it has to commend it. No wonder that from such monstrosities the public turned with delight to a story-teller by comparison so natural, so rational, so critical, so sensible as Fenimore Cooper.
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MOAB, Utah - A Hollywood production company has been slow to restore land damaged during the filming of a stampede scene in City Slickers II.
Federal land manager Brad Palmer said the movie crews trampled about 30 percent more acreage than they were supposed to in an area above the Colorado River, just off the Shafer Trail near Canyonlands National Park. The scar is still visible from Dead Horse Point, a state park and popular overlook.
Crews were supposed to rehabilitate the 20 or so acres of damaged ground last fall, said Palmer, who works for the Bureau of Land Management.
"We had to put some pressure on them. We had threatened to go after their bond ... That seemed to help them move faster," Palmer said.
Rick Dalago, location manager for Castle Rock Pictures, which produced the movie, said BLM deadlines for reseeding last fall conflicted with the film company's completion dates.
"We couldn't do it properly (under the deadlines)," Dalago said. "We didn't want to do a half-assed job."
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Castle Rock also ran into controversy farther south, where a crew illegally bulldozed a 20-foot-wide road about half as long as a football field. BLM rangers issued a citation to Dalago for illegal road construction. Dave Krouskop, realty specialist for the BLM, said filmmakers created the road to provide a smooth surface for Billy Crystal when he was dragged by a wagon in one scene.
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Marketers, providers, and FDA leaders want to enact a user fee bill by summer, but the legislators indicated they have pet issues to tag onto this must-pass legislation. The most likely addition is a measure enhancing FDA controls over the global drug supply chain, including stiffer import controls, more inspections of foreign operators and (most likely) wider manufacturer notification about looming drug shortages. Both Democrats and Republicans want to boost foreign inspections to level the playing field for U.S. firms, and new user fees for generic drugs provide needed funding for these activities.
More contentious is whether to loosen conflict-of-interest (COI) requirements for advisory committee members that Republicans say are too stringent and can delay new drug approvals. Orphan drug advocates similarly claim that stiffer restrictions on FDA advisors keep out key scientists in specialized research fields. However, commissioner Hamburg said that the current COI policy and waiver caps are not a problem, and that the issue doesn't need a "legislative fix." That was a shift from her testimony last year that the COI rules made it difficult to find sufficiently qualified individuals to serve on advisory panels.There was debate over proposed changes to the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA) and the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA), which both offer incentives for manufacturers to study the safety and efficacy of drugs for children and are up for five-year renewals as part of the PDUFA process. The programs enjoy strong support from health professionals, researchers, and pharma companies, but a number of reform proposals have surfaced.
Industry opposes any reduction in the extra six months' exclusivity given for doing requested pediatric studies, as well as new penalties for failing to complete requested studies on schedule. But there's support for FDA to be able to levy fines on companies that miss deadlines. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) also wants pharma companies to submit pediatric study plans at the end of Phase II, instead of waiting until application submission, and to include neonates in more studies. Researchers and sponsors agree that PREA requirements for pediatric studies should be made permanent, but the docs support the Democratic position that the exclusivity provisions authorized by the BPCA should continue to be re-evaluated every five years.
In addition to providing more information on therapies for children, PDUFA may contain new proposals to spur development of critical therapies, including antibiotics to combat drug resistance and treatments for rare conditions. There's bipartisan backing for the "Sprint Act" (Spending Reductions through Innovations in Therapies), which would provide $50 million to fund public/private partnerships doing research on critical conditions like Alzheimer's disease. However, FDA and sponsors are leery of measures that prevent the agency from seeking necessary clinical data to approve a new drug, as sought by smaller biotech firms and patient groups clamoring for more certainty in the approval process.
Complaints about the proliferation of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) may be off the table due to FDA efforts to scale back that program. But there may be some sparring over revising FDA's mission statement to highlight its role in creating jobs and economic growth. Hamburg noted at the Energy & Commerce hearing that FDA would have trouble factoring jobs creation into decisions on new product approvals. "It will get very, very complicated and, frankly," she said, "I think it would be quite inappropriate."


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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government announced plans Monday to have the state oil company turn over more of its earnings in dollars to the Central Bank, seeking to confront shortages of some foods and other products that have worsened due to a lack of dollars provided to importers at official rates.
Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez announced the change at a news conference, saying state-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA is to increase by nearly $2.5 billion the amount of dollars it turns over to the Central Bank this year.
Ramirez said that President Hugo Chavez had supported changing the law and that is to be approved by the National Assembly, where pro-Chavez lawmakers hold the majority.
Sporadic shortages of some foods such as cooking oil and chicken have worsened recently while the government has been making available fewer dollars at the fixed exchange rate. Since November, the government has scaled back the amount of dollars it has been providing through its currency agency to businesses and individuals.
The situation has generated growing rumors of a possible devaluation while pushing down the bolivar in street-level black market trading to less than one quarter of the official rate of 4.30 bolivars to the dollar.
Some business leaders have said that the insufficient amounts of dollars provided to businesses has led to fewer imports and worsened shortages of some foods and other products in stores.
Ramirez said the government has sufficient funds to meet the economy's needs for dollars. Oil is the lifeblood of Venezuela, accounting for most of its export earnings and helping to bankroll an economy heavily reliant on imports.
The law modifies the tax scheme for windfall oil earnings in the country, changing the formula to both free up more dollars for the Central Bank and reduce the amount flowing to the National Development Fund, or Fonden. The government uses that fund for a variety of government programs and public works projects.
Ramirez said that as a result of the changes, Fonden would be expected to receive nearly $3 billion less this year.
The redistribution of funds will also allow state oil company PDVSA to improve its cash flow and boost investments in the oil industry, Ramirez said.
Last year, the state oil company sold to the Central Bank $46 billion, Ramirez said. This year, he said, if oil prices keep to the range where they have been, the oil company should provide about $49 billion to the Central Bank.
Ramirez spoke in front of a photo of Chavez saluting, and showed journalists a document with the president's signature.
The oil minister was among several officials who visited the ailing president last week in Cuba, where he has been recovering since undergoing a Dec. 11 cancer surgery.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro had announced on Saturday that during their meeting, Chavez made decisions on certain economic matters and had signed various documents. They included the decisions announced by Ramirez on Monday.
PDVSA has accumulated growing debts in recent years while Chavez has enlisted the company for additional government tasks including food distribution and supporting social programs.
Last year, the company's debt reached $40 billion after rising from about $16 billion in 2007. Ramirez has insisted, despite criticisms by some market watchers, that the company has an appropriate level of debt. He said on Monday that during 2012 it paid debts of more than $15 billion.
Ramirez also denied one news account that some foreign companies have been holding off on their investments in oil projects in the country due to uncertainty about Chavez's health situation.
The oil minister said he plans to meet on Tuesday in Caracas with Igor Sechin, chief executive of the Russian oil company Rosneft, along with more than 30 other representatives of Russian businesses. He didn't offer details of what they plan to discuss.
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Epic or epic failure? Game changer or the Great Hype Machine? All eyes are on "Avatar," and two of the top reporters in Hollywood, John Horn and Claudia Eller, check in with a survey of the sensation in a story that ran on the front page of today's Los Angeles Times. Here's an excerpt. — Geoff Boucher
Inside a dark mixing stage at 20th Century Fox a few weeks ago, writer-director James Cameron, surrounded by nearly a dozen colleagues, stared at a clip from his upcoming movie, "Avatar," unhappy with the look of the precipitous peaks on the horizon.
Circling the summits with a red laser pointer and speaking to his computer-effects team at Weta Digital in New Zealand via videoconference, Cameron came up with a Muhammad-like solution: Shift the mountains to the left.
"Moving a mountain," the 55-year-old filmmaker said, laughing, "is nothing."
Such bravado might be expected from the man who declared, "I'm the king of the world!" during the Academy Awards 11 years ago, when his last feature film, "Titanic," collected 11 Oscars. It was the highest-grossing movie in cinema history.
Throughout his career, in films such as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "The Abyss," Cameron has used eye-popping digital effects to create worlds and characters. But he never has attempted anything as creatively and commercially ambitious as "Avatar," a groundbreaking combination of 3-D filmmaking, photo-realistic computer animation and live-action drama that opens Dec. 18.
"Avatar," a futuristic thriller, may be Hollywood's most expensive movie ever, and many in the industry fervently hope it will transform 21st century moviemaking the way sound and color did decades ago.
The film business, struggling with flat theater attendance, collapsing DVD sales and the serial firing of top executives, certainly could use a game changer — an immersive moviegoing experience that delivers more than anyone can get from their HDTV or home computer screens. But though "Avatar" might be all that, it also defies conventional Hollywood wisdom that today's blockbuster movies need to be "pre-sold" as bestsellers ("Harry Potter," "The Lord of the Rings"), comic books ("Batman," "X-Men"), toys ("Transformers," the upcoming "Battleship") or based on other movies (every sequel ever made).
Thus the novelty of "Avatar" could also be its biggest liability. And some wonder if the film's plot — dense with action sequences and special effects, but also featuring a love story between two 10-foot-tall blue aliens — will resonate with a wide enough audience to steer the movie into profitability.
Hollywood has tracked "Avatar" closely. Many of Cameron's friends — members of a filmmaking elite that includes Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Ridley Scott — made pilgrimages to his Santa Monica production house and the Playa del Rey hangars where he worked on the film.
"I was blown away," said Guillermo del Toro, director of "Pan's Labyrinth" and the upcoming "Hobbit" movies. "The creation of this technology is what allows a movie like 'Avatar' to exist."
Said Jim Gianopulos, co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment: "He gets to the edge of the envelope, and then goes as far past it as possible."
To observe Cameron directing "Avatar" is to witness filmmaking as it's never been done before. Whereas most movies add all of their visual effects in post-production, Cameron was able to see fully composited shots in real time: The actors he was directing may have been performing in front of a blank green screen, but Cameron's camera eyepiece — not to mention giant 3-D television monitors — immediately displayed lush, synthetic backgrounds.
The filmmaker has spent the better part of a decade developing the technology used in "Avatar," which is set on a distant moon under siege by humans determined to pillage its natural resources. It required the reinvention of bulky 3-D cameras, which had to be downsized to fit into smaller spaces and move with fluidity, and lengthy experimentation with improvements in motion-capture animation, which superimposes animated characters onto real actors, as in the current Disney version of "A Christmas Carol."
As part of his research and development, Cameron directed the 3-D documentaries "Aliens of the Deep" and "Ghosts of the Abyss," which visited the Titanic's underwater wreckage. To overcome what many critics regard as the great flaw of motion-capture animation, the "dead-eye" appearance of characters, Cameron mounted tiny cameras above the faces of his "Avatar" actors, recording their smallest facial expressions and most intimate eye movements.
"What had been missing in motion capture was the 'E' — the emotion," said "Avatar" producer Jon Landau.
— John Horn and Claudia Eller
Sam Worthington looks for the humanity of "Avatar": "I don't want to be a cartoon"
James Cameron on "Avatar": Like "Matrix," it opens doorways
Is "Avatar" just "Dances With Wolves" in space?
Welcome to the jungle: Mixed reaction to "Avatar" trailer
VIDEO: "Avatar" interviews with Sigourney Weaver and Jon Landau
"Avatar" coming to a theater near you . . . and sooner than you think
Peter Jackson: Movie fans are fed up with the lack of original ideas
The late Stan Winston and the tricky business of Legacy
James Cameron brings "Avatar" to Comic-Con
The Del Toro decade? Guillermo on "The Hobbit" and more
Photo: Filmmaker James Cameron with actors Sigourney Weaver, Joel Moore, center, and Sam Worthington. Credit: Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox


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March 11, 2014
Thomson Plastics to Add 46 Jobs at $4 Million Howell Plant
Thomson Plastics Inc. expects to create 46 new jobs over the next two years at its new $4 million plant in Howell Township.
March 11, 2014 The plant, which opened in January, is equipped with seven molding presses to support automotive customers in the region.
"Thomson Plastics' decision to operate in Howell was due to the easy access to local expressways, and central location for major regions of automotive manufacturing in Michigan," Rick Kibbey, president and COO of the Georgia-based company, said in a press release. "In addition, the factory selected is in very good condition and has helped Thomson minimize launch costs."
The $4 million investment is supported by a 50 percent property tax abatement from Howell Township. Ann Arbor Spark assisted the supplier in filing for the incentive.
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Folding Campaign Table
Reproducing knock-down furniture from two centuries ago.
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When on campaign, during the l8th and l9th centuries, British military officers frequently traveled with portable furniture pieces. These durable and compact pieces were characterized by their simple design and various ingenious (hardware) mechanisms that allowed the furniture to be quickly and easily assembled for use or dismantled for transport. A butler's tray-on-stand is typical of campaign furniture and might have been used by officers as a small desk or side table.
Today this piece provides practical utility and versatility in any home. I've used one in my home office to park my dictionary and reference materials, and one in the kitchen to hold cooking supplies. Now I have one by my front door, providing a convenient perch for keys, cell phones and mail. This sturdy tray with a three-part gallery is supported by a folding scissor-leg stand and takes about half a minute to set up. When knocked down, the pieces can be tucked out of the way into any corner or closet.
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