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On a sunny fall Saturday at a farmer's market in San Francisco, three women aggressively approached a Chinese woman in her 60s. Authorities say they told her she was plagued by evil spirits and that a loved one was in danger.
They frightened her, telling her to get her money and valuables and to bring them back for "a blessing" to save her family.
She remembered hearing about a similar tale and went to the police. When officers arrived, they arrested the trio and a man who was holding money and other valuables that police say they just scammed from another older Asian woman moments earlier.
Such crimes have not only played out in San Francisco. They have occurred in other cities with large Asian communities, such as Seattle, Boston, Chicago and Honolulu. They have also occurred in the United Kingdom and in Australia in recent years.
Authorities in San Francisco say the thieves have stolen about $2 million in nearly 60 cases. Three other women, arrested while attempting to catch a plane to Hong Kong in May, are awaiting trial on 28 felonies, including grand theft and extortion.
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr has flatly called the scams "an organized crime ring" with likely international ties, prompting his city - whose Asian community is about a third of its overall population - to find ways to combat it.
In San Francisco, where the scams began surfacing in March, the district attorney's office, police and politicians have waged a public safety awareness campaign, including community meetings and a video depicting a reenactment of a scam and tips on how to spot one.
"They're clearly preying on the immigrant community who has stronger religious beliefs and customs. It's been a very profitable scam," district attorney George Gascon said.
Prosecutors say the three women awaiting trial stole more than $100,000 in various scams of cash and jewelry from women they approached by telling them they could remove a curse if they handed over their money for a "purification" ceremony.
Gascon said at one of several community meetings on the scams he was approached by a woman in her late 50s who spoke little English. She tearfully described through a translator how she was scammed of $10,000 - money she had been saving for her kids' education.
"She was sobbing and said `I thought I was the only one. I felt very stupid,'" the district attorney said. "She said, `People at work were asking me what was wrong with me and I couldn't tell them what happened to me.'"
Anni Chung, president of a self-help organization for seniors in San Francisco, shame was preventing them from talking about it.
"They are too ashamed, too embarrassed to tell any that they have been cheated," Chung said. "They're worried that family members would be upset with them. But, now with all of this attention and the arrests, they are starting to understand that this is a big deal."
It is a scam that is popping up in other states and countries.
In Boston, an Asian woman told police in April that she was approached by three scam artists in Chinatown who she claimed hypnotized her without permission. She said she gave them $160,000 in cash, jewelry and other valuables.
Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, say the scammers try selling victims a "lucky jade bracelet" or bottles of "blessed mystical water" that supposedly removes bad luck and restores her victim's family karma.
One woman reportedly removed $15,000 from her bank account to buy the junk jewelry.
In Seattle, where older Chinese women are prime targets, three Cantonese-speaking women approached one woman in the city's International District and told her that her entire family was in danger, a local community expert said.
The woman withdrew $50,000 from her bank and gave the thieves $20,000 worth of jewelry in a backpack so her family can be "blessed." The scammers told her not to open the backpack for week. When she did, she discovered that her possessions had been replaced with flour, tapioca and bottles of water.
"Older people believe more deeply in the ancient traditions and superstitions, but in these instances, it also makes them very, very vulnerable," said Alan Lai, a crime victim project director of the Chinese Information and Service Center in Seattle.
Lai said the scam artists work usually in teams of three or four. They scout out their areas well in advance to make sure they avoid surveillance cameras and a large police presence.
The scammers, Lai said, usually approach the victims with an in-your-face, life-or-death urgency declaring that spirits or ghosts are ready to harm a relative and that they must see a "healer" to be saved.
"They say, `To be sincere, bring all of your cash and your jewelry. Don't leave anything behind or you won't be helped,'" Lai said. "Then they say, `This is a heavenly secret, don't leak (this) to anybody. Heavenly secrets should not be leaked.'
"This is how powerful and persuasive these thieves can be," Lai said.


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Many people can barely tolerate a visit to the dentist's office, but the dreaded sound of the dentist's drill doesn't bother College of Saint Benedict senior, Holly Breeggemann.
Since her junior year of high school, Breeggemann has worked at O'Brien Dental Care, located in her hometown of Shakopee, Minn. She helps with everything from sterilizing dental instruments to providing assistance to doctors.
Breeggemann, a biology major in the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University pre-dentistry program, says she loves being able to assist the doctors because it reassures her that dentistry is what she loves and wants to pursue for the rest of her life.
"I love seeing a patient's smile prior to dental work and then being able to help restore their smile, so that he or she feels more confident in themselves," she said.
Breeggeman has worked at O'Brien Dental Care, in Shakopee, Minn., since she was in high school. She has had the opportunity to experience a lot of the elements of dental care through her time there.
"I cannot explain the feeling I had after finding out I was accepted into Creighton," she said. "I cried from excitement most of the day. It is such a relief to know that all of my hard work has paid off."
According to Breeggemann, she's looking forward to moving one step closer to her next goal. She'd like to return full-circle and work at O'Brien Dental Care after dental school.
"As much as I love my time and friends here at CSB/SJU and don't want to leave, I am so excited to move forward and begin another part of my life at Creighton," she said. "I feel confident that the skills and tools I have gained here (at CSB/SJU) will help me out in the future."

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3-car crash in Manchester results in arrest
MANCHESTER - A city woman was arrested for driving under the influence after she was involved in a three-car crash on Front Street early Wednesday night, police said.
Jessica Sheridan, 31, of 644 Front St., was driving a Mercury Tracer north on Front Street when police say she drifted left and crossed the center line into oncoming traffic. The car first sideswiped a Ford Explorer heading south on Front Street before colliding head-on with a Mazda 626, also heading south, police said.
The Explorer's driver, Thomas Foley, 58, 10 King St. Extension, Leicester, Mass., was not injured, while the driver of the Mazda, Gregory Stroman, 34, of 18 Country Club Drive, Manchester, complained of minor injuries but refused an ambulance ride to the hospital.
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Only a few years ago, despite having a deep knowledge of the effectiveness of dietary restriction on life extension, some experts seemed reluctant to believe that this sort of approach could be applied to humans. For example, in his major work Secrets of Life Extension (Harbor, San Francisco, 1980) John Mann states:
At present there is no safe way to apply the calorie restriction techniques towards the extension of human life. They would have to be started shortly after weaning and continued
thirty years or more. The mortality rate would be high, and if a person did survive, his mental, emotional, and social development would be distorted by the drastic experience.
So John Mann, as recently as 1980, felt obliged to warn off seekers of a longer life span with this categorical statement that while these methods were OK for fruit flies and mice, there was no way humans were going to be able to benefit from the knowledge by applying modified versions to themselves.
And yet less than a decade later Drs Weindruch and Walford came to a vastly different opinion; that life extension through dietary modification is not only possible but safe. They arrived at this conclusion largely from having successfully conducted a lengthy series of dietary interventions involving adult animals, where, by skillful and slow introduction of dietary restriction, they have avoided the hazards which Mann seemed to believe were automatically built in to the process (and which might well be if early intervention is attempted, before maturity?.
A first and vital caution is therefore that dietary restriction techniques should never be applied to children. In this context a child is someone who has not yet completed growth, and for safety's sake this rule should apply to anyone under 20 years of age. This ban, however, does not apply to periodic therapeutic fasting (see Chapter 13) or to the use of antioxidant nutritional strategies, but it certainly does apply to the methods of caloric restriction which I describe later in this part of the book.
No attempt should be made to deliberately increase growth hormone production in any child, by any means at all, unless under the guidance of a medical expert.
Evidence abounds of an adult human's ability to withstand lengthy periods of caloric and general dietary restriction (starvation) for periods of up to two months, as long as liquids are available. If supplements are provided, starvation (restriction of food involving not only calories but all nutrients) for up to six months is possible (depending on available body tissues) without serious long-term effects. However, similar (or even much
shorter) periods of dietary restriction involving children would produce marked malnutrition, and probable irreversible stunting and damage to immune and other functions. So, on no account must this be tried.


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PORT ANGELES — Joshua Jones has been elected the 2017 Port Angeles School Board president.
Sarah Methner will continue in her role as vice president.
Both were elected unanimously at the board's Dec. 8 meeting at Franklin Elementary School.
They will serve in the positions for one year.
Other directors who continue to serve on the school board are Cindy Kelly, Sandy Long and Susan Shotthafer.
Visit www.portangelesschools.org to learn more about the school board, its committees and assignments.
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PORT TOWNSEND — Nathanael O'Hara will continue to hold his position as chairman on the Port Townsend School Board in 2017.
Board member Keith White was voted in as vice chairman during the board's annual reorganization Monday.
O'Hara and White will serve on the finance committee. O'Hara also will serve on the policy review and facilities and long-term planning committees along with board member Jennifer James-Wilson.
Board members Connie Welch and Laura Tucker will make up this year's instructional materials committee; Tucker and James-Wilson will be on the wellness committee; and the technology committee will be the sole responsibility of Welch.
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PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare will present two programs next month.
The first will be 12 sessions of "Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance," scheduled to begin Jan. 10 at Mountain View gym, 1919 Blaine St.
Tai Ji Quan is a fall prevention program for adults that consists of warmup exercises, core practices, variations of forms, mini-therapeutic movements and cool-down exercises.
Classes will be Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. with Sarah Grossman, MS, PT, or 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. with Tracy Ware, PTA.
Class size is limited to 12 people. For cost and to register, call 360-385-2200, ext. 1200.
For more information on Tai Ji Quan, visit www.tjqmbb.org.
The second program is a six-week chronic disease self-management workshop that meets every Wednesday from Jan. 10 through Feb. 14.
Participants meet from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the first floor of Jefferson Healthcare, 834 Sheridan St., in the rehab center's Olympic Room.
The free program is meant to help people explore healthy ways to live with a long-term physical or mental health condition, according to a news release.
Class size is limited to 18 people.
To register, call Mitzi Hazard, DPR, at 360-385-2200, ext. 1270, or Kathy Spangler, RN, at ext. 4952.


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Servicemembers may transfer unused Post-911 GI Bill benefits to their spouses or dependents. Get more information by reading factsheets at: Transferability of Education Benefits (TEB) or U.S. Department of Defense website.


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Potter, A. A. (Andrey Abraham) (1882-1979) | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Andrey Abraham Potter, a nationally recognized figure in engineering and scientific education, was born in Vilnius, Lithuania (then known as Vilna, Russia), on August 5, 1882, to parents Gregor and Rivza Potter. Potter's early education was in the people's elementary school in Vilna. During these early years, Potter's reading of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin made a profound impression upon him. His fascination with Franklin led him to the decision that he would one day leave Czarist Russia and make his life in America. In 1897, fifteen-year-old Potter's dream became reality. He left home and sailed to Liverpool, England, then to Quebec on a cattle boat, finally traveling by rail to Boston, Massachusetts. There, he lived with an uncle while he studied and waited until he reached the age of 17 and could apply for entrance to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Potter passed his entrance exams, was admitted, and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from MIT in 1903. Following graduation, Potter's early career was devoted to the development of steam turbines for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. Although he was considered one of the company's most promising young turbine engineers, he left GE in 1905 to accept a position as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Kansas State Agricultural College. Potter was responsible for establishing at Kansas State one of the first curricula in agricultural engineering. In 1906, he became a U.S. citizen. Potter married Eva Burtner that same year, and the couple had two children, Helen and James. In 1913, Potter was named Dean of Engineering and Director of the Engineering Experiment Station at Kansas State. In 1916, he testified in Washington on behalf of the Newlands Bill, which would have provided $15,000 annually to each land-grant institution for the establishment and support of an engineering or a mechanic arts experiment station. Although the Newlands Bill did not pass, the hearings focused attention on the value of engineering research and gave a stimulus to the founding of engineering experiment stations throughout the country. Purdue's own station was founded following Potter's testimony.
In 1920, Potter joined Purdue University as its third Dean of Engineering. Immediately following his appointment, Potter began work on building a student personnel service similar to the one he started in 1905 at Kansas State. The Purdue Placement Service formally opened February 1, 1922. It was the first student personnel service of its kind, and was widely copied by other universities. Potter began an exhaustive study of the state of the engineering profession and of engineering education. In 1929, the Wickenden Report was published, offering crucial insight into the needs and strengths of the engineering profession.
While at Purdue, Potter increased the number of professional engineering courses and added four new schools to those existing at the time of his arrival. He was responsible for three new buildings and introduced the idea of Purdue having its own airport. From 1945 to 1946, Potter served as Director of the Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue's Acting President, in addition to continuing in his position as Dean of Engineering. He was offered the Purdue presidency, but declined, stating that he preferred teaching to administration. Potter was often referred to as "The Dean of Deans" because of the large role he played in the direction of engineering education in the United States during the twentieth century. He was dedicated to both students and engineering, and was widely known as a consultant to schools of engineering, industry, and government. In 1953, Potter was named Dean Emeritus of Engineering at Purdue. During his tenure, Potter built Purdue into the largest and one of the most respected engineering colleges in the country.
Potter was President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1932-1933), the American Society for Engineering Education (1924-1925), the Kansas and Indiana Engineering Societies, and the American Engineering Council (1936-1938). He was appointed to advisory boards and special commissions of the United States Government, and was acquainted with, and served on panels for, most of the United States Presidents during his tenure at Purdue. Potter served as a consultant for the departments of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, National Office of Education, and was one of the early members of the Advisory Board of the National Science Foundation. During the two world wars, he actively formulated programs for training men in war industries, personally directing the training himself and utilizing engineering colleges as sources for industrial preparation. He strove to protect the rights of inventors' ideas, and served as executive secretary of the National Patent Planning Commission from 1942 to 1945. From 1950 to 1960, Potter served as President of Bituminous Coal Research.
Potter was awarded 10 honorary doctoral degrees during his career. In 1940, he was presented the prestigious ASEE Lamme Award for his contributions to engineering education. Three years later, the Western Society of Engineers presented him with the Washington Award for distinguished leadership in engineering education, research, and patriotic service in mobilizing technical knowledge for victory in war and peace. He was also presented the McCormick Medal for his contributions to agricultural engineering. Additional honors include the 75th Anniversary Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the 1950 Americanism Award, the Cyrus Hall McCormick Medal in 1953, and the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award. He was a member of Sigma Tau, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi.
Potter was an expert in power generation and the behavior of steam under high pressure, and his work in power plant engineering, thermodynamics and fuels firmly established his reputation among American engineers. His pioneer efforts in personnel work for engineering students and humanizing engineering education have also been recognized. Potter wrote several books on engineering and more than 300 scientific papers and articles. His first book, Farm Motors, was published in 1913. His text, Elements of Steam and Gas Power Engineering, was published four months prior to his move to Purdue. The same year, he co-authored Engineering Thermodynamics.
Even after his formal retirement from Purdue in 1953, he continued to make himself available for consultation. He remained president of the Bituminous Coal Research, an industrial organization, until 1960. The Potter Engineering Center at Purdue was named in his honor, and was dedicated in 1977. A medal struck in his honor commemorating the event contained a quote from Potter which characterized his very essence: "Interest in people first, then in ideas and things." The man known affectionately as "The Dean of the Deans" of engineering universities died in Lafayette, Indiana, on November 5, 1979. He was 97 years old.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Mine That Bird stood regally, his ears pricked, his gaze fixed on the rows of clicking cameras. Then the 50-1 upset winner of the Kentucky Derby put his head down and began munching on grass, leaving his human handlers still in shock about his stunning 6 3/4-length victory a day earlier.
"It's hard to believe we come in here and actually won this thing," bareback rider-turned-trainer Bennie Woolley Jr. said Sunday morning. "Right now it's a little overwhelming."
As proof, Mine That Bird wore a cream blanket with embroidered red roses proclaiming him as the Derby winner.
Whether he moves on to run in the 1 1-16-mile Preakness on May 16 will be decided in the next couple days, Woolley said.
"The Preakness tends to be a little more speed-biased and I don't know that that's going to fit our horse all that well," he said.
If Mine That Bird skips the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, he'll be pointed toward the Belmont Stakes in June. Woolley believes the grueling 1 1/2-mile "Test of the Champion" would suit the gelding, whose father Birdstone won the 2004 Belmont.
The Derby winner hasn't bypassed the Preakness since 1996, when Grindstone was injured between the two races and retired. The Derby winner has followed up by winning the Preakness seven times in the last 12 years.
Mark Allen wants to see the horse he and Leonard Blach purchased for $400,000 before last year's Breeders' Cup run in Baltimore.
"If this horse is doing good, you bet we'll run, but he's going to have to tell us," he said. "The horse will tell us. We don't owe nobody nothing."
Going into the Derby, Woolley, along with co-owners Allen and Blach, had the modest goal of finishing sixth or better with the gelding they vanned from New Mexico to compete against some of the sport's priciest horseflesh.
"The horse was training good, we knew that," Allen said, "but we were going against guys like D. Wayne Lukas and Bob Baffert, so you got to be real about it."
Under an expert rail-hugging ride by Calvin Borel, Mine That Bird came flying home in the mud to earn a victory that was worth $1.4 million. He'd never even run in a Grade 1 stakes race before Saturday.
Baffert and Lukas, both Hall of Fame trainers who own a combined seven Derby victories, later offered their congratulations to the self-described cowboys who came up the same way they did, owning and training quarterhorses.
Woolley, Allen and Blach didn't bet on Mine That Bird, whose $103.20 win payout was the second-largest in Derby history.
"I figured he'd go off at 100-1," Woolley said. "Every playmaker in the Form and everything else said he had the biggest chance to run last of anybody."
While Mine That Bird's connections considered his Preakness prospects, potential rivals were lining up to take him on.
Trainer Gary Stute said Papa Clem, who finished fourth in the Derby, will run in the Preakness.
"I looked at the charts this morning and I was only beaten a nose and a head for second," he said. "Baffert's horse (Pioneerof the Nile) came over and bumped me. If it were a normal race there might have been an inquiry. With any luck we could have been second."
Other possible starters from the Derby are runner-up Pioneerof the Nile, third-place Musket Man, Join in the Dance (7th), General Quarters (10th) and wagering favorite Friesan Fire, who finished next-to-last.
Potential new shooters are Delta Jackpot winner Big Drama, Withers winner Mr. Fantasy, Take the Points and Miner's Escape.
The Preakness is limited to 14 starters.
After a steady rain gave way to overcast skies, Woolley and Allen made their way to the front gate of Churchill Downs.
They placed the winner's garland of red roses on the recently unveiled statue of Barbaro, the 2006 Derby winner who broke down in the Preakness and had to be euthanized nine months later.
After fans had a chance to take photos, the garland was removed. The two men then stripped the blanket of its flowers and handed them out to a long line of fans, some of whom told Woolley and Allen they had cashed big win tickets on Mine That Bird.
Several people congratulated and thanked the buddies, who first met up in a New Mexico bar 25 years ago.
"I started a fight and he helped me out," Allen said, nodding in Woolley's direction. "We wound up on top, but it took us a while."
They could say the same thing about their road to improbable Derby glory.
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How to heat your house—not the outside.
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More than 20 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in the United States come from energy use in homes. A major source of the problem is heating, and even though we're heading toward summer, heat is still an essential element in reducing your carbon load for the year. Some of us keep our homes warmer than we need to—if yours feels like an icebox in summer and a toaster in winter, you're probably in this group. In addition, most houses leak some hot air (and, in the summer, cool air) from every window, doorway, and air duct, which means that they're constantly wasting energy, and thereby upping CO 2 emissions.
This is not a necessary evil. Solar and wind power, which both create largely emissions-free electricity, can be expensive, tricky, or impractical. Likewise the newfangled geothermal energy. But you can stick with regular old oil, gas, or electricity and still cut down on the amount of energy you use to heat your home. Weatherizing is an excellent place to begin. Along with shedding carbon pounds, it can save you hundreds of dollars each year. It will also help save cool air from escaping during summer months. There are relatively painless ways to address overheating as well. Some suggestions for getting started:
• According to the National Resources Defense Council, the gaps around the windows and doors in most houses let out the same amount of air, all told, as a 3-by-3-foot hole. You can find the leaks and then use caulking and weatherstripping to seal them off. (Here's a how-to guide.)
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VB - Investors piled out of Zynga and seemingly right into Activision Blizzard.
Zynga's dieing that's why.
And Activision milk the customer... That's why Investors love them so much!
Doesn't mean much for games as a whole, really.
Zynga and Blizzard are far from being the "be all end all" of videogames.
Also, I believe there might be a point in a casual gamer's life when he/she really did all there was to do in farmville...
And next week the stocks will change. Are we gonna get an article on that also?
Mobile gaming, while no doubt it's a healthy industry with many developers profiting and making millions from it, it still can be very risky sometimes.
It is VERY saturated with everyone and their grandma can publish a game very easily in the appstore/Google play. It is not the magical solution for gaming companies to abandon consoles/PC for it.
Not much in my opinion. I could see this being a thing if they ran the entirety of the gaming economy, but these companies are no goldman-sacs.


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Last season, a lopsided loss to Suffield gave the Lady Knights a lot to think about at the turn of the calendar. It spiraled the team below .500 for the first time that season. It capped a three game losing streak at the end of the year that set the stage for everything that followed.
The Southington girls didn't forget the lesson. On Friday, Dec. 28, the Lady Knights returned the favor with a 51-24 win to push themselves back to .500. If last year's loss killed the team's momentum, Coach Mike Forgione hopes that this year's win will spark it.
"Suffield lost two all-state players to graduation, so we knew that they were going to be young," said the coach. "I told the kids that we needed to pressure them right away. We needed to go at them, and we did that."
Mission accomplished. The Lady Knights blitzed the young Wildcats, and Suffield managed just one point in the first quarter. Southington smothered them in the second quarter and ran to a 17-point lead at the break. The steel curtain defense held the Wildcats under 20 percent shooting for the game, and Southington responded with one of their best shooting performances of the early season.
"We want to play an uptempo style," said Forgione. "I think it's the most effective style for our team. It causes us to keep moving and being aggressive. No matter who we play, we're going to attack them and take our best shot. I think the kids enjoy playing that style, and it's certainly the most effective considering our personell."
On the other end of the court, Danielle Charamut led the charge. The senior co-captain scored 13 points with 16 rebounds and four blocked shots. Natalie Wadolowski added 10 points with six rebounds, and the Knights never trailed.
The seniors anchored the defense as well. Maeghan Chapman (7 points) collected 10 rebounds with 4 steals, and two blocks. Stephanie O'Keefe scored just one basket, but led the fast break with five assists and trapped Suffield's guards to come away with six of the team's 16 steals.
"We need all three seniors to be in that 10-13 point range," said the coach. "We don't have anybody that's going to score 30 points each night, but if everybody does their job and contributes on the offensive end, we can be tough against any team in our conference."
Southington showed its depth. Nicole Fischer scored seven points. Nine Lady Knights contributed to the scoring, and Southington improved to 3-3 with the win. Forgione said that it was a good response to the poor shooting the game before, and he hopes to build on it with the new year.
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mst wrote:Any advice from some local cyclists?
The North Easter is definitely the most common wind along the coast. It's a sea breeze effect, and springs up after lunch, and usually relatively light (but as well know, there is no such thing as a light headwind). While this is the most common, it's not a guaranteed wind direction by any means. The NE'er is also usually associated with fine weather. Southerly winds can occur at any time of year, and are usually associated with miserable weather. They are usually much stronger, but not as common.
All of the possible routes are reasonably windy/hilly and sheltered with trees.
Also, regardless of route variant you take, you won't be spending much time right on the coast anyway. For me, I don't think wind should be a really big deciding factor in choosing trip direction.
If it were just wind, I'd probably go Brisbane to Sydney. Plus I think Sydney makes a more rewarding destination city, but that's just because I'm from there. And the last day into Sydney is really nice (last 30km excepted), but I never found an enjoyable way to ride into Brisbane.
But then there are other considerations. I try to minimise the number of flights I take at the beginning of a tour, and have all the tricky connections
and multiple handlings at the end of the trip. This is to minimise the risk of the bike being damaged *before* the trip. So depending on where I was flying in from, I'd consider starting in Sydney, leaving the connecting flight to
Brisbane for the return leg.
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Arriving in Sydney is definitely a nice thing to look forward to. We've been there several years ago. Never been to Brisbane so far and most likely we won't cycle near the coastline close to Brisbane. Surfers Paradise and area doesn't really look that nice cycling area. Guess we rather visit the national parks in the hinterland here. Let's see if it'll be north to south or the other way round.
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Postby djf01 » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:29 am
mst wrote:TNever been to Brisbane so far and most likely we won't cycle near the coastline close to Brisbane. Surfers Paradise and area doesn't really look that nice cycling area. Guess we rather visit the national parks in the hinterland here. Let's see if it'll be north to south or the other way round.
You will find that regardless of the route you take, you won't see too much of the coast line from the roads, whatever route you take.
There are a lot of short rivers along this coastline, and most of the towns - and river crossings - are ~10km upstream. You have to make the effort/detour to get out to the coast. I know I'm biased, but the NSW coast line is among the most beautiful in the world.
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mst wrote:I'll go back to the Great Ocean Road for a close look
GOR is overrated IMHO. If you lived all your life in Melbourne, or England, then I can see why it might be impressive. And yes, the road does hug the coast for about 80km, but it's only the Victorian coast . I grew up in the Illawarra, and for all it's faults, it's a particularly appealing stretch of coastline (as is most of the east coast of Australia south from Fraser Island, IMHO). But then I would say that, wouldn't I.
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Postby il padrone » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:48 pm
mst wrote:Yes, I'm aware that we'll not always be right the shore. I'll go back to the Great Ocean Road for a close look I haven't thought about the route in more detail unless we know we're really going. But there are several options to Hw 1 and we'd probably head a little more inland some place anyway.
10 years ago I rode from Sydney (Manly) to Qld then back to Murwillumbah. I took 3 weeks and enjoyed the tour very much. In all that distance I managed to ride on Hwy 1 for no more than 30kms That 30kms was some of the worst riding I did.
There are lots of route choices away from the main highway, and they are often very peaceful, scenic roads. Helps if you don't mind riding some gravel road along the way.
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I'm starting a Melbourne to Brisbane tour in early Oct and expecting to leave Sydney around the 17th of Oct. Looks like I might have a rider from Brisbane joining me in Sydney for that leg. We'll be taking an inland route which I think will be very rewarding. If you're interested in teaming up let me know. Otherwise I'd be happy to let you know the route we'll be taking. Where are you from, and how much riding have you done over here?
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Getting a suitable flight looks pretty tough, planes very well booked. And our bosses would still need to give their ok as well. If I have any news, I can post here.
We're from Berlin/Germany and we've done 3 trips to OZ so far. We've been cycling between Melbourne and Sydney, South Western WA and around Tasmania. So we explorer the country step by step
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Some Nebraska schools made adequate yearly progress (AYP) under federal "No Child Left Behind" legislation but most did not.
No districts in the Southwest Conference, of which Gothenburg Public Schools is a member, and only one in an array of schools the local district compares itself to demographically met AYP goals.
District 20 curriculum director and junior high principal Ryan Groene said Wahoo was the only district in the 21 array schools that met AYP in 2012 and 2013.
Groene discussed the results at a school board Monday night.
The information is from the Nebraska Department of Education in a 2012-13 State of the Schools report.
Of the SWC schools, only Gothenburg and Valentine met AYP last year, based on NeSA tests taken by students in reading, math, writing and science, and none this year.
Gothenburg did not meet AYP in reading and math and will not next year when schools across the country are expected to show 100% student proficiency.
The 2013 goal was between 80% to 90% proficiency. In 2012, when District 20 met AYP, 70% to 80% proficiency was expected.
"The latter was more realistic," Groene said.
District 20 exceeded proficiency goals in NeSA scores under Nebraska State Accountability in all subjects except writing when compared to average scores of schools across the state.
Throughout the rest of the year, he said teachers will focus on improving instruction to raise assessment scores, especially in reading.
Last year's eighth grade showed a 34% reading proficiency.
Groene said schools are given five years to reach AYP and if they don't, the state will intercede and could allow students to transfer to other schools, change administrator positions and more.
However those measures are not likely as Common Core standards, with a focus on English and math, may be adopted by then.
The State of the Schools report can be accessed on the NDE website at www.education.ne.gov.
On another matter, the board discussed the district's policy on identification of learners with high ability.
Board member Amber Burge, serves on a committee to revise the policy, said some changes have been recommended, noting that MAPS assessments are now used to identify high-ability learners instead of the ITBS test in grades four through eight.
Students meeting three, instead of four criteria, is also recommended.
The board will act on the policy at the Nov. 11 meeting.
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approved an option enrollment request of 11th grader Kimberly Luong into the district from Cozad and an option-out request from senior Amber Bartels and ninth grader Sarah Redding to Cozad.
heard the annual special education report. The district provides services to 10 children, from birth to age 5, and to 87 students from kindergarten to 21 years old.
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found out that 95% of Dudley Elementary parents attended parent-teacher conferences and 58% (a drop of 19% from the previous year) of junior and senior high school parents. High school activities scheduled the evening of Sept. 19 may have hurt attendance, principal Randy Evans said.
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LONDON (AP) - Stock markets in Europe clawed back some of their earlier losses Monday after orders for long-lasting U.S. factory goods fell sharply last month, raising hopes that the planned phase-out of the U.S. Federal Reserve's bond-buying program might be delayed.
The U.S. Commerce Department said orders for durable goods plunged 7.3 percent in July, as demand for commercial aircraft plummeted and businesses spent less on computers and electrical equipment.
The durable goods figures followed a report Friday revealing that new home sales in the U.S. tumbled last month, raising questions about the strength of the recovery in the U.S. housing market, a key piece of the country's overall economy.
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By close of trading in Europe Monday, Germany's DAX had risen 0.22 percent to 8,435. Meanwhile, France's CAC-40 improved from the morning's drop to close barely unchanged, down 0.06 percent, at 4,067. Markets in Britain were shut for a public holiday. Italy's FTSE MIB was immune to the news from the U.S., however, falling 2.1 percent to 16,977 on continuing fears about the stability of the country's coalition government.
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Asian stock markets outside of Japan were mostly higher Monday. Daniel Martin of Capital Economics in Singapore said he believes the markets were mostly rebounding from an aggressive sell-off last week and not the Friday housing data.
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.7 percent to 22,005.32 while Japan's Nikkei 225 retreated by 0.2 percent to close at 13,636.28. Benchmarks in mainland China, India, Taiwan, New Zealand and Thailand also rose.
Benchmark oil for October delivery was down 27 cents to $106.15 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained $1.39, or 1.4 percent, to close at $106.42 on Friday.
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Last year, however, the festival had to share top billing with the Artists' Studio Tour when the two events coincided on the same weekend. While festival founder and Jersey City native Bill Sorvino said the double-booking didn't hurt Golden Door ticket sales, the scheduling made it difficult for residents to check out both events.
With the 2013 Studio Tour ending days before the festival even begins, this year's Golden Door International Film Festival is back in the spotlight with a fresh lineup of newly-released independent films from across the country and around the world.
The festival will get underway this week, on Thursday, Oct. 10, with a reception and feature presentation of Alexandra Pelosi's "Fall to Grace" at the Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre. The HBO film, which debuted on the small screen in March, follows the post-political career of former New Jersey Governor and seminary school graduate James McGreevey and his work with current and former prison inmates.
This year, the Golden Door board received nearly 200 submissions.
A screening of "The Fix," an 18-minute film short starring Armand Assante, Kresh Novakovic, and Luca Pierucci, will precede "Fall to Grace." The Ante Novakovic-directed film centers on two low-level hoods who are offered a shot at redemption after botching a job for their crime boss.
This kickoff will begin a weekend of more than 60 independent movies from the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, India, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Turkey.
"People who have been with us from the start will I hope see some growth in the diversity and quality of the films we're showing this year," said Sorvino, who is a professional actor. "For people who are new to the festival, I think this year offers them a nice roster of films that will give a sense of what we're trying to do as a showcase for independent work."
Assante – an Emmy-award winning actor who has starred in such films as "The Lords of Flatbush," "Private Benjamin," "American Gangster," and "The Mambo Kings," among other films – will receive the festival's 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award on closing night during the annual awards ceremony.
Growing reputation
While Jersey City is accustomed to living in the shadow of its more popular and better known big sister across the river, Sorvino said Golden Door has distinguished itself partly because it's based here and not there.
"New York has a lot of film festivals and basically what you find is there's Tribeca, and then there's everybody else," Sorvino said, referring to the Tribeca Film Festival, which was cofounded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff. "What I've been really surprised by is the number of film industry people who are beginning to hear about us. And I think being a little bit off the beaten path has helped us establish a reputation that's independent of New York and the pack of film festivals that take place there."
For the past two years, he said, the payoff has been that festival organizers have been able to be more selective about which films get selected for the four-day event.
This year, the Golden Door board received about 500 submissions from filmmakers who wanted their movies to be screened. More than 60 films were selected.
Among the highlights on the schedule this year are Patrick Burke's "Jersey City: 24 Hours in Public Places," a documentary about the diverse cultural, historic, gritty, and eccentric places that comprise Jersey City.
Also of note is "Fratello." The dramatic film by director Jason King follows brothers Todd and Jimmy, two New Jersey foster care kids who are forced to skip town and rely on each other for survival.
One festival feature that debuted last year is back this year: student films directed by co-eds who are from Jersey City. A portion of the proceeds raised from the festival will be donated to an emerging Jersey City student filmmaker. This year, the student film screening will take place on Sunday at noon.
Tickets for opening night and the closing night celebration are $52.74 each through BrownPaperTickets.com, which includes the $2.74 service fee. There is also an All-Access Pass available for $104.49, including a $4.49 service fee. Ticket prices for individual screenings are $11.34 each.
Tickets to individual screenings can also be purchased at the door. To purchase tickets or for more information about the festival, including the full schedule and synopses of each movie, visit http://goldendoorfilmfestival.org.
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Lady GaGa Gets Cheeky
Lady GaGa arrives at fellow singer Mika's house, and wears a pair of thigh length lace-up boots in London, England on Monday (April 20).
The 23-year-old singer might have felt a draft, as her backside got up and personal with photographers.
In the UK, Lady GaGa's Pokerface, held onto the third slot with Pussycat Dolls (Jai Ho) and Ciara/Justin Timberlake in 4th and 5th place respectively. (Calvin Harris was number one, while La Roux was number two.)
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A new educational program is being developed at RIT that could help younger students understand the variety of professions needing the skills of engineers and scientists.
The Toyota USA Foundation has awarded RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering a three-year, $420,000 grant to develop the Relevant Education in Math and Science Program. The program targets students in the fifth to 12th grades; uses real-world engineering, math and science problems; and it will eventually incorporate an online component to reach beyond its initial offering to students from schools in Rochester and the surrounding areas.
Two engineering faculty members, Margaret Bailey and Andres Carrano, will lead the team developing 33 classroom modules. Each module will be linked to math and science theory that students currently learn in school, but applied using specific, understandable examples.
Bailey is an engineering professor and director of the Women in Engineering program, WE@RIT. Carrano is associate professor of industrial and systems engineering and director of the Toyota Production Systems Lab. The team will consist of engineering faculty and staff as well as area middle- and high school teachers.


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10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Date A Writer
I would never date a writer. I did date one once, and although he turned out to be a strangler and that was our undoing, I knew that it wouldn't last because of his profession. Dating a writer, like dating a musician (think Adele here, among so many others), is basically setting yourself up for humiliation, torment and a raw exposure for which you probably didn't bargain. If you really think that every argument or moment of bliss is going to go undocumented by the writer you're dating, you're wrong. The writer tells all.
They say that the best writers are the ones who write what they know; and of course what one knows and knows best is what's immediately in front of them: you. Since I first started writing when I was, oh, I don't know how old, it's been the people in my life who have fueled my work. I can say honestly, that I'm not quite sure how to write fiction. The talent that must be involved to come up with a world and people that don't exist is something I just don't have in me. I may not be a fan of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, but that woman is insanely gifted. We're talking about someone who invented the word "muggle"! Granted, I don't know what the hell a "muggle" is, but I know it's Rowling's doing and that's pretty fucking fantastic, as it probably is one of the most fun words to say when you need a giggle.
However, I'm sure there are still parts of Rowling's real life interwoven in her world of wizardry. How could there not be? You can't completely separate your existence from your art, because without life, art can't exist and vice versa.
Although I have found that the people I have dated liked whenever I wrote about them, or at least claimed they did, personally, I wouldn't want someone else sharing the intimate details that I put on display almost everyday for everyone to see. I can put myself on display just fine, thank you; I don't need anyone else doing it. So while I sit here with Tattoo Guy watching Silence of the Lambs on my couch, I can't help but think how severely unbalanced he must be in the head every time he asks: "Did you write about me again?" Sure, Tattoo Guy, but this is the last time; I swear.
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Never mind: I found some ancient notes from that time nearly a third of a century ago and more than half the history of tabletop roleplaying gaming.
So now I know once again how most of us -- or at least how most gamers on the West Coast -- handled non-combat rewards back in the late 1970s and most of the 1980s.
Thanks anyway.


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It's a MAD Mad Mad Mad Movie Week--Day One, Review #97
Trivia Question: What's more awesome than a rampaging stop-motion Jackal/Human Hybrid monster? Answer after the review.
I had seen I, Madman back in the days of 49¢ VHS rental binges at my local college-town Hastings, and I remembered liking it a great deal. Of course the same could be said of roughly a hundred-million half-forgotten horror flicks I wolfed down those days along with generous helpings of cold pizza and Icehouse beer. Some of those I've revisited and found that drunkenness and the nightmare visions induced by grease-poisoning had more to do with my memories of horror than the flicks themselves. So when I decided to give this one a spin after all these years, I kept my expecations cautiously low.
I needn't have. I, Madman is a fun, frantic, and even frightening slice of 80s goodness, served with just the right sprinking of shredded cheese. Good gore, a wild plot, and a striking visual style all add up to make this a new favorite in the pantheon of glossy fear flicks from that decade of my youth.
We open in a brightly lit hotel with candy-colored decor and an outrageous wrought-iron balustrade atop a spiral staircase. The fashions and set design all point to a 1940s Hollywood setting. A blinking neon light outside throws pulsing red flashes through the window of Dr. Kessler's apartment as he leaves for the night. Kessler (played by Randall William Cook in great Max Schreck-makeup) barely acknowledges the talky bellhop, who then turns to his manager to comment in a stagey voice what a weirdo that Dr. Kessler is! When they get a call from Kessler's neighbor complaining of animal sounds in the doctor's room, the manager himself goes up to investigate.
The manager finds Dr. Kessler's room in disarray--rotting food, strange medical implements, fetuses floating in specimen jars, and even some scat on the floor that could be from a dog... It must be said that the art direction here is top notch, with the weird shapes in shadow and the red neon pulsing every now and then like a heartbeat to reveal just a little bit more. Cool, creepy stuff.
The manager finds a strange steamer trunk peppered with airholes, and hears a tiny high-pitched voice say "Daddy?" "My god--it's a child!" the manager says, and opens the lock on the trunk before rushing to the phone to call the cops. When he turns around the trunk is open and the "child" is gone. There's a very effective build-up of suspense as the manager hears something moving in the room and struggles to see what it is, only to have it finally revealed: AN AMAZING STOP-MOTION JACKAL BEAST! The humanoid dog-man goes all Harryhausen on the manager's ass--for you kids at home, that equals AWESOME--and then...
Virginia slams the book closed, shocked at what she's just read. Yes, it was all a story...or was it? Virginia (played by the absolutely luscious Jenny Wright of Near Dark and Pink Floyd's The Wall fame) is ROCKIN' the 1940s nightgown and hairstyle--she was born in the wrong era, clearly, because she looks absolutely smashing here--and her appartment also has period accoutrements. She hears animal noises just like those described in the book, and goes to her door to investigate, when...SHOCK! HORROR! ROOOOOWR!
Virginia slams the book closed, shocked at what she's just read. Aha--a DOUBLE frame! You don't see those every day! Oh, wait, yes you do. Anyway, the real Virginia (still Jenny Wright, still gorgeous, though now in 80s owl-glasses and a panties/silk shirt ensemble...zang) is reading an obscure pulp novel by little-known writer Malcolm Brand, a copy of which she came across at the used book store in Hollywood where she works. She's a wannabe actress--aren't they all?--dating a cop (Clayton "Hey, I've seen that guy in something..." Rohner), who does not fully approve of her choice in reading material. He doesn't mind coming over to comfort her when she's spooked, though, especially when it involves some sexay novel-synopsis foreplay followed by hittin' it jackal-style on the sofa! Bookish Jenny's tentative love bites here hint at her secret, wilder nature and propel the Vicar into his happy place, despite the regrettable lack of nekkidity.
The next day Jenny arrives for her shift at the bookstore where she and her sassy coworker Mona (Stephanie Hodge) engage in some funny banter before Ginny goes to unload some books from a recent estate sale. She's looking for Malcolm Brand's second novel, entitled I, Madman. (How very meta.) While searching the dusty, book-filled attic of the store (aside--I LOVE this bookstore--I could wander for hours there if it wasn't merely a Hollywood set...), she finds a steamer trunk from the estate sale...a steamer trunk riddled with holes, strangely like the one in the book... She opens it, but there are only more books inside. But who is that strange fellow she glimpses later in a bookstack mirror, who disappears a moment later?
Collette (Michelle Jordan) and Lenny (Steven Memel), Virginia comes home to find a strange package on her doorstep--which contains an antique copy of I, Madman! Thinking it a gift from Mona, she dives right in.
Now we enter the candy-colored "fiction" world again, all bright primaries and long shadows, where a damaged-eyed maniac with a scarf over his face is stalking fictive Jenny. Professing his love while admitting the fact that his ugliness prevents her from loving him back, he tells her he will make himself a new face...and removes the scarf to reveal a noseless, lipless, earless visage straight out of an EC Comics nightmare! (How he's able to talk so clearly without lips is one of those "don't ask" questions.)
Virginia slams the book closed, shocked at what she's just read. But then she hears something in the apartment--a tea kettle boils on the stove, despite the fact that she already HAS a cup of tea...but the Virginia in the book WAS making tea! Little details start to build as the world of the book impinges slowly but surely on the real world--a not-quite-but-almost threadbare conceit still handled with aplomb here by directer Tabor Tikacs.
(I wonder if Tabor Tikacs would care for some Tic-Tacs? Or maybe Tikacs prefers a pick-axe? Some tie-racks sans sales tax? A wry fax for buy-backs? What would Tabor make a grab for?)
"elongating hallway") all add up to a very tense chase. Of course Red can't get away from the Madman, who drugs her and saws her lustrous hair off with a straight-razor, scalp intact! The sound effects as the Madman saws away while gouts of blood cover the girl's pretty face are squidge-ily great too, it must be said.
The next day, while Virginia in Real Life is waiting on the bus, she is accosted by the Madman from the book--only now instead of his hat he has luscious red tresses, the stitch-scars clearly visible on his scalp! Before she can scream the phantom disappears, leading her to question her own sanity. But when she learns later that Collette has been murdered and mutilated, she wonders if there might be more at work here than chemical imbalances...
Her fears are more than confirmed later that night when she stars in an impromptu remake of Hitchcock's Rear Window, watching from her apartment as the Madman stalks and kills a piano-playing security guard at the music store next door. (We've heard the guard play a couple of times up to this point, usually in love scenes, so this use of the motif is nice; the Madman takes his ears, natch.)
"Why would he--why would anyone do such a thing?" they ask. "Because he thinks it will please me," she replies. You mean it doesn't? C'mon, he just wants to look good for you! The cops offer her no protection, though: the Madman meets her in the basement to show her his new ears and tell her, "I'll have your heart...one way or another!" Stakes sufficiently raised, it's time for Jenny to go investigatin'.
She quickly tracks the publisher of the book, a charmingly slimy fly-by-night porn publisher called Sidney Zeit, played with show-stealing verve by character-actor Murray Rubin. (The wonderful pulp-art jackets framed in Zeit's office bear such wish-I-could-read-'em titles as East of Edith and Moby's Dick.) Zeit tells her that Malcolm Brand was a maniac who claimed his characters talked back to him and wouldn't do what he wanted, and who ended his days in an asylum...or did he?
Convinced now that it's flesh-and-blood Brand following her and acting out his own literary scenarios, Virginia tries so save her friend Lenny from the madman's clutches, but fails by a nose. (Ba-dump.) She convinces her spectacularly unsupportive boyfriend to set up a stakeout where she thinks the final killing will be, but faulty literary interpretation proves her downfall and leads to a wild climax in the bookstore that boasts among other things: a corpse-eating kitty, an awesome avalanche of books, and a Deux Ex Libris ending that is just about as perfect as you could wish.
Tabor Tikacs (which backwards is "Scakit Robat," a Japanese robotic aerial mammal toy that's all the rage overseas) puts a lot of nice touches in this film that make the visuals almost as much fun as the wild plot. The "hyper-reality" of the scenes depicting passages from Brand's books is very striking, everything filmed and colored like one of those awesome pulp book jackets from the 50s. The cinematography is great throughout, and the score is nice too--even if a bit too obviously Elfman-derived. (In fact, I got a strong Darkman vibe from the killer's look and some of the compositions here, together with the whole facelessness thing--sort of "Darkman Gets Darker.")
The gore and makeup are really standout aspects--we get a lot of thick dark blood and some cool sound fx when the Madman is working on his victims, but the nicest touch is the way that Brand's self-stitched skin grafts deteriorate over the course of the movie, making his final appearance more grotesque and gross than any previous. (Obviously he just sewed them in without attaching any blood vessels...ick. Nice attention to detail, Robat.) All in all, a squicky icky effort that exemplifies what we love about 80s horror.
The acting is fairly good too. Cook is really creepy as Brand, and only part of that is the makeup--okay, a big part--but his mannerisms and speech work well with the prosthetics to create the character. A few bit characters do well in small roles (Rubin most memorably), even though love-interest Rohner is fairly bland. But it's Jenny Wright's movie to carry or drop, and she plays vulnerable, shy girl with a wild side very well (though admittedly there WERE a couple of scenes where the glazed look on her face made me wonder whether she might have been "altered" that day). And she's easy to look at, especially in those wonderful 40s gowns. (Ziggity-zang.)
A success by any 80s horror fan standard, I, Madman also delivers some meta-metafiction, dark fantasy, and book-nerd in-jokes to keep you turning the pages. It's a story I couldn't put down, and you won't either. 3 thumbs. Do yourself a favor and it out. (<--Library pun! Get it?)
Trivia Answer: Incredibly, half a rampaging stop-motion Jackal/Human Hybrid monster! Strange but true.
Monday, June 30, 2008
I, Madman (1989): or, She Got the Books That Kill!
It's a MAD Mad Mad Mad Movie Week--Day One, Review #97
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 2:01 AM
Labels: '80s, 3+ Thumbs, Mad Mad Mad Mad Movie Week, Monsters Amok, Psycho Killer
4 comments:
- Tenebrous Kate said...
>>I wolfed down those days along with generous helpings of cold pizza and Icehouse beer
So that's what they serving in the cafeteria at the VHS seminary? I had no idea, although this makes perfect sense! ;)
As for the movie, you had my interest at "Stop Motion Jackal/Human Hybrid" and sealed the deal at "Corpse Eating Kitty." Seriously, "Killer Cats" is in my top ten most awesome things in movies. If there was a rapey bigfoot, this might be one of the finest films ever...
- June 30, 2008 at 9:28 AM
- OCKerouac said...
How I missed this gem when I was blowing off classes in favor of cheap horror rentals is beyond me... Probably because I accidentally rented Shock 'Em Dead twice instead...
BTW, SO worth it BOTH times...
- June 30, 2008 at 2:00 PM
- The Duke of DVD said...
A masterful review, dearest Vicar. I shall immediately order a crate of Scakit Robats, and I simply must watch this movie.
- June 30, 2008 at 3:47 PM
- Karswell said...
Man I haven't thought about this movie in years! I remember attending a showing at the theatre but this was during the "date years" so I'm sure I wasn't paying enough attention to the silver screen. I will seek this one out immediately though as it's always fun to re-evaluate an 80's film 20 some years later with a new set of eyes (and my hands not down some chick's pants.) Ahhh, it's all coming back to me...
- June 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM


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The city of Manaus is home to a busy commercial and cruise port, but luckily for visitors the port itself is right downtown. This means you can make the most of even a short stop in Manaus without ... Read more
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FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — Ann Romney fired back Wednesday at critics who have accused husband Mitt Romney of being out of touch with average Americans, saying her own bout with multiple sclerosis taught the family what it means to suffer and lose hope.
"When people say that we've led a charmed life and we don't relate to people that are having trouble, I want to remind you that I've been in a very dark place, and I know what it is like to have no hope," Mrs. Romney said at a rally for women supporting her husband, the Republican presidential candidate, at the University of Findlay in Ohio. "So believe me when I tell you these words: We are there for you because we know what it feels like."
Democrats attending their party's national convention this week in Charlotte, N.C., have repeatedly accused the wealthy Romney of a remoteness from the problems facing ordinary Americans. That critique is one of the primary arguments Democrats have used to criticize Romney and support the re-election efforts of President Barack Obama.
"My husband was getting demonized, lied about, and now, you know, we're really getting it, as you know," Mrs. Romney said.
She described her struggle with the disease, which coincided with her family's move to Utah so her husband could oversee preparations for the 2002 Winter Olympics there. She said she lost the use of her right side and had problems getting out of bed, but said that despite initial second thoughts the move turned out well.
"Sometimes when you take a risk like that and you just go and do what you know is the right thing to do, sometimes God looks over you," she said.
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Milwaukee-area family says they'll never forget smells from ill-fated cruise
One lady wants a hot shower, juicy burger
A Milwaukee-area family is home after several difficult days aboard the ill-fated Carnival cruise ship.
After finally docking in Alabama late Thursday night, the family made the last leg of their trip to Milwaukee.
The cheers from waiting family members quickly turned to tears of joy, and relief at Mitchell International airport Friday.
"So joyous. I was just waiting to hug them," Gene' Albanese said.
For Albanese, the warm welcome couldn't erase the disturbing memories of a cruise gone wrong.
"The no toilets. It was that bad. It was that bad. The smell and the swamp," Albanese said.
"Just the smells, you can't really describe it at all, but it'll be stuck in my nose forever," Gene's daughter, Allison Raison, said.
Raison said the situation was made worse by the uncertainty.
"Oh, 'You'll be home on Wednesday, then Thursday, maybe Saturday.' It was always up in the air, so I was just kind of waiting, playing a waiting game," Raison said.
There was one moment the women said was the scariest.
"When we went upstairs and saw the black smoke hovering over us, it was a cloud that we couldn't even breathe. Everybody wanted masks because we thought we were going to die of smoke inhalation," Albanese said.
Albanese' 77-year-old aunt, Karen "Toots" Paddock, also made trip, and had her sights set on something she'd been waiting for.
"Take a hot shower, hot shower, and then maybe have a great big burger, juicy," Paddock said.
The cruise line said it will pay all expenses and has offered passengers another cruise, plus $500. Albanese said she doesn't need more than that.
"There's not a price on what we went through, so it's hard to say if it's enough. Just being home to my family is all I needed," Albanese said.
The three of them also praised the ship's crew, calling them outstanding.
They said the passengers were very well cared for, considering the situation, and all three said they will probably get back on another cruise ship, but it may be a while.
A team from the National Transportation Safety Board is in Alabama looking into the cause of the engine fire that shut the ship down.


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Classic Media has signed a raft of new deals across Central and Eastern Europe for several of its titles. Preschool series Tinga Tinga Tales and Guess with Jess have both been acquired in Hungary (MTVA) and Russia (Channel One Russia's children's channel, Karusel). Postman Pat now has complete coverage across all major markets in the region, in addition to launches with Czech TV (Czech Republic) and Orlando
Kids (Ex-Yugoslavia). Nan and Lili and Little Red Tractor have both been acquired by Voxell across CIS. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, and Voltron: Defenders of the Universe will air in Russia as part of 2×2 Channel's retro slot. The channel has also acquired the CBBC's comedy shorts, OOglies.
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