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DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — The brother of an airline mechanic killed in a cargo plane crash in Afghanistan this week says he and other victims' family members have found comfort in each other during meetings at a Detroit-area hotel.
Glenn Stockdale's brother Gary was among the seven people who died when a National Airlines plane crashed Monday.
Stockdale said Wednesday he and other relatives have been telling stories of their loved ones at the hotel in Belleville, where they've been working on arrangements with the airline.
Six of the crash victims were from Michigan. One was from Kentucky.
The Boeing 747-400 was operated by National Air Cargo. It crashed just after takeoff from Bagram Air Base. It was heading to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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If I were the sort of cinematic clergyman who was inclined to judge a DVD by its cover, I would immediately give Satan's Baby Doll a 3-double-plus thumbs awesome award based on that poster art alone. I mean, just LOOK at that image and tell me you aren't tempted to have it tattooed full-size on your back. And if I didn't have a morbid fear of back-wax, I'd be right there with you. Unfortunately the old maxim proves true once again, and no amount of tat-worthy cover art can do anything to rescue this film from its status as the Wooden Spoon Award-winner in the Vicar's Satanpalooza Sweepstakes.
The unanswerable question is, how did Satan's Baby Doll (aka La Bimba di Satana) go so horribly wrong? On paper it sounds like it should be the most amazing slice of Satansploitation sleaze ever slapped on celluloid. In fact as you read the highlights following, you may find yourself thinking, "What are you on about, Vicar? This sounds completely awesome!" And to that I would just have to shake my head and sigh. Yes, it does sound awesome. And yet, it's not. How does that happen?
We open not with a black mass this time, but with a family funeral. A blonde, slightly less-than-middle-aged corpse lies on a bier in the middle of a great room, her presumed family hovering around her corpse like vultures. A beautiful young girl, hair blonde and styled just like the deceased woman's (so you know they're related) enters bearing a white carnation as an obvious symbol of her purity. As she stands over the body of the older woman, the corpse suddenly convulses and the girl screams! Freeze frame, start the credits. So far so good!
Unfortunately that's the last point in the movie where we'll have anything like narrative coherency. Over the next few scenes we see the traumatized girl, Miria (the jaw-dropping Jacqueline Dupré), flee to the arms of nun-in-training Sister Solo (Mariangela Giordano) for comfort. Sol is a live-in nurse for Miria's Uncle Ignazio, who is paralyzed at least from the waist down and must be carted everywhere in a wheelchair. Mira's father, Juan Aguilar, intercepts his brother's morphine supply from family friend Dr. Antonio, and kicks it Bela Lugosi-style in his bedroom, presumably while the cripple suffers.
Uncle Ignazio has his own methods of pain management, however, as he manages to lurch along well enough to peek in on Solo while she's getting out of the habit in her cell. As the nearly-nun undresses--showing off Giordano's rockin' bod and excellent high white stockings (she's in the Order of Our Lady Victoria's Secret, apparently)--we see superimposed images from Uncle's naughty imagination, with Solo going solo on top of the covers. The imaginary sister pleasures herself for Uncle's pleasure--for a LOOOOONG TIME--while in another room Daddy Juan is tripping his brains out and getting as paranoid as a recently-widowed junkie with some dark family secrets to hide. Spurred into action by the smack, Juan busts his crippled brother for peeping on Solo and generally behaves horribly to everyone who crosses his path.
Meanwhile, in another room, a dude dressed as a priest is writhing on the ground as if it's the night of the full moon and he's about to get all hairy on our asses. I had no idea who this fellow was supposed to be (I learned through later research some call him "The Butler"), but he's apparently under a lot of stress, which he works out by rolling around on the floor, crying "I'll save you, Miria!" and biting the heads off live chickens! Hey, in the days before Xanax, you did what you could, I guess.
A little later--or maybe the next day or concurrently with the geek show, who knows?--Miria is still convinced that her mother came to life and looked at her. Brooking none of this nonsense, Juan forces his grieving daughter to view Mom's corpse in the family crypt, with Dr. Antonio in tow to confirm his diagnosis of a case of advanced death. This leads to gratuitous matriarchal corpse nudity and extremely suggestive stethoscopy on Dr. Antonio's part. (Seriously, dude, her daughter is RIGHT THERE, lighten up!) After the widower and bereaved girl leave, Antonio goes to embalm Mama, but when she opens her eyes and suddenly transforms into the nude likeness of young Miria, he's had enough of this crap and blows out a massive coronary. Like you do when faced with a supernaturally hot nude 16-year-old; it's only natural.
So the family decides to cover up the doc's death, because--ah, I don't know, and it doesn't really matter. Juan tosses the doc into the family crypt, and everything returns to what passes for normal in the Aguilar household.
Part of what constitutes "normal" in this family is Juan being strung out and horrible ALL THE TIME, taking any opportunity to do or say something monstrously inappropriate. For instance, when he runs into Sister Solo walking in the garden, the greasy junkie leers, "Though you're not a nun yet, I've always dreamed of desecrating a temple!" Get in line, brother. Solo shoots him down with extreme prejudice, which he takes as a personal affront and growls that he will make her HIS. A real Don Juan, this guy.
Back in the crypt, crazy-butler-priest dude--who might also be a member of the family somehow, I really don't know--is rearranging the corpses in the crypt for some reason the director felt best left unexplicated. The corpses look more like mummies, but I'm willing to buy that it's just aristocratic grave wrappings and go with it. Meanwhile in her bedroom Miria is having trouble sleeping, and so decides to pass the time by copping a langorous self-feel--like you do--for a long, LOOOOONNNG time. As she's got an even better bod than Solo this is a welcome reprieve from the incoherencies, though the fact that she's meant to be underage makes things a bit iffy in the ethical spanking realm.
Down in the crypt Butler is molesting the mummies, again rambling about "saving Miria," though how his necrophilia is supposed to help is anyone's guess. Finally the possession plot comes into full swing, as masturbating Miria hears Mom's voice from beyond the grave, saying "Come, Miria! Kill, Miria! It is your mother who orders you!" Talk about a mood killer. Miria heads down to the crypt, re-animates one of the mummies and puts an end to Butler's nonsensical suffering. The gist of it is, Mom has possessed Miria, presumably through satanic and/or witchy powers--though we haven't heard anything about her being a Satanist or a witch before her death. I'm extrapolating here.
Back in Uncle Ignazio's room, it's time for his sponge bath! While Sister Sol soaps him up--including several flashes of graphic flaccid peen bath happening--he dreams of more nun-fun, which looks like the same footage we saw before. (Not that I'm complaining.) Juan poops the party once again, barging in to molest Sol in front of his brother, the paralyzed man impotent...to stop him!
Blah blah blah, Juan has withdrawal, we learn that the Uncle had an affair with Mamma Maria before his accident, which led Juan to retaliate, causing his brother's paralysis. Paranoid Juan leaves his brother to starve in the crypt, but possessed Miria comes to the rescue--or to the fondle, as it were, in a typically nonsensical scene. I think the brother dies here, but honestly, it all fuzzes together.
So it comes out that Mamma and Solo had an affair too, and in his jealousy Juan throws Sister Sol into the crypt (that's your answer for everything!) before Maria appears to Juan--nude, of course--to take her final revenge on him for poisoning her before the opening credits. Maria comes on to Juan hard, and then just as he's succumbing to the seduction, she turns back into Miria for a nice icky incest vibe. The horrified, horrible man runs madly away from his daughter--clearly-seen peen swingin' in the breeze--and takes a header off the balcony to his death.
With Sol the only person left alive, you think it's all over--but for some reason the sister goes down to say goodbye to Maria's corpse, which possesses Miria again and teases with some lesbonic beyond-the-grave action. Then Sol is pushed down on Maria's (actual) body, the corpse embraces her, crushing the life from her and effectively ending the movie.
Now, if you can go through all that and tell me WTF it was supposed to be about, by all means, feel free.
The nearest I can figure, Satan's Baby Doll is like one of those 80s body-switch comedies, except here the older person possessing the younger wants bloody revenge instead of a chance to dance the Charleston one more time. But without George Burns's buoyant personality and amazing dance steps, this one falls flat on its face. There's absolutely NO Satan on display here, possibly (but not necessarily) witchcraft, but pretty much it's just weird things happening for no good or well-defined reason. And while the lurid scenes described above might sound pretty good on their own, the long stretches of boring pointlessness rob them of their punch, and in the end even the imaginary nunsterbation and Miria's gorgeous nekkidity can't salvage it. And there's little-to-no gore either, which is just one more strike against it.
Unfortunately, and despite its great poster, Satan's Baby Doll was a very anticlimactic end to the Satanpalooza. If I had it to do again, I'd watch them in reverse order, building slowly through this one to the better blasphemies of Satan's Slave and ending up with the brain-battering evil of Satan's Blood. But on whichever end I watched Satan's Baby Doll, the judgement would be the same: 1 thumb, fast forward to the nudie parts and the mummy attack and skip the rest. You'll be glad you did.
Nota bene: According to my sources, Satan's Baby Doll is a remake of the wonderfully titled Malabimba, the Malicious Whore (1972), which also saw a mother's spirit possessing her young nubile daughter, but this time with hardcore inserts to keep the viewer engaged. I can totally see how this would improve things.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Satan's Baby Doll (1982): or, Mummies and Nuns and Yet So Little Fun
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 3:26 PM
Labels: '80s, 1-2 Thumbs, Mummies, Nunsploitation, Possession, Satanpalooza, Witchcraft
5 comments:
- Karswell said...
So the lesson learned: You want Satanic Sinema? Come to Karswell.
- April 4, 2008 at 4:59 PM
- BC said...
Hey you won the Day of the Dead DVD... email me (contact is on the top right of my page) your address and I will try to send it out this week. Grats!
(you won because you enjoyed the Night remake, which I have always really liked and think it gets a bum rap)
- April 7, 2008 at 9:35 PM
- sukcab said...
I just watched this movie last night. Tonight I found this review and it summed it up perfectly. Sum clarity and more selective use of nudity could have made this interesting. Add better writing to the concept and there could be a gem. But the real question this movie raises is, what ever happened to Jacqueline Dupré? she did a good job emoting (almost no duologue) and was gorgeous. It is a shame this is all she did.
- April 15, 2008 at 3:34 AM
- Gene Phillips said...
Ignacio does get killed, but apparently just because the director needed another death at that point. Miria indirectly causes that death, though she has no reason to be pissed at him that I could see.
- September 18, 2008 at 1:40 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Thanks for clearing that up, Gene--like I said, I kind of got lost in a haze of not caring by that point. :) I definitely got the "this is only happening because the director wants it to and not for any compelling story-telling reason" several times in my viewing, though.
Thanks for stopping by--hope you hang around!
- September 18, 2008 at 10:26 PM


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Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in IT today, and the excitement is fueled in part by free server virtualization products from Microsoft and VMware. Virtualization started as software that let you run different OSs on the same computer simultaneously. Today's technologies extend virtualization to the application level and even to the hardware level, and mature products are available in each category. Even if you're not using virtualization technology currently, you're likely to do so in the future, and you'll want to understand the current virtualization picture— how all the pieces fit together, and the major products available in each category. For a list of the leading virtualization products, see the sidebar "Virtual Server Products."
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Desktop and server virtualization products work in essentially the same way. Virtualization software runs on top of the system's native OS (aka the host OS). The virtualization software provides a management interface and lets you create multiple virtual machines (VMs). Like a physical system, each VM has its own CPU and RAM and can support multiple hard disks and NICs, but the VM's components are virtual, not physical. Figure 1, shows the relationship of VMs to the host OS.
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After you create a VM, you start the VM and use the administrative interface to load an OS, referred to as a guest OS, on the VM. The guest OS runs just as it would on a separate physical system. When the guest OS is up and running, you can install applications on the VM almost exactly as you'd install them on a physical system.
Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization products are used primarily in development, testing, and Help desk environments. Desktop virtualization products let you create virtual environments for desktop OSs, such as Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional. Desktop virtualization products can also be used to run server OSs, such as Windows Server 2003 and Linux, but they don't provide the scalability and performance that server virtualization products do for running multiple VMs simultaneously. Furthermore, desktop virtualization products support capabilities that might be important to end users, such as sound and USB devices. Server virtualization products don't always support such capabilities.
VMware Workstation popularized PC virtualization products and was essentially responsible for beginning the entire virtualization wave, and VMware Workstation 5.5 remains the leader in this space. Microsoft's entry in this category is Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. Although quite usable, Virtual PC 2004 doesn't support Linux or 64-bit technology and doesn't offer the advanced Snapshot Manager and cloning features found in VMware Workstation 5.5.
Server Virtualization
The subsequent generation of virtualization products took off in the server space. Server virtualization products solve two basic problems: They enable businesses to consolidate servers and to run legacy server OSs and applications. Server virtualization products run primarily Windows 2003, Windows 2000 Server, and Linux as guest OSs and provide greater scalability and the ability to run more VMs simultaneously than desktop virtualization products do. Server virtualization products also include features that let you manage remote and networked systems.
The five main products in the virtual server space are VMware Server, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 (R2), SWsoft Virtuozzo for Windows, XenSource's opensource product called Xen 3.0, and VMware ESX Server. VMware Server, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, and Xen 3.0 are free. The first three products have similar capabilities. VMware Server, which has replaced the VMware GSX Server product line, runs on both Linux and Windows as the host. A product of Microsoft's acquisition of Connectix, Virtual Server 2005 was later to market than VMware products and doesn't match their rich feature set. However, Virtual Server 2005 R2 has improved performance and support for Windows Server 2003 Clustering Services, a notable feature for server consolidation scenarios in which the virtual server host can be a single point of failure for multiple VMs. Virtuozzo for Windows and Xen 3.0 aren't as widely used as VMware's or Microsoft's solutions, but Virtuozzo is new to the Windows market and Xen, like most open-source implementations, is oriented toward Linux hosts.
The clear leader in the server virtualization space is VMware's flagship ESX Server. Unlike VMware Server or Virtual Server 2005, ESX Server doesn't require a host OS but is integrated with a specialized lightweight proprietary kernel. Its bare-metal implementation boosts VM performance, and the fact that there's no need for a host OS reduces the licensing costs. VMware also provides a tool called VMware VirtualCenter for managing VMs and dynamically moving VMs between hosts to accommodate changing runtime conditions.
Although most server virtualization products work at the single-server level, Virtual Iron Software's Virtual Iron represents a new class of server-oriented virtualization products. Based on Xen 3.0, Virtual Iron clusters multiple physical servers to create a scalable virtual system that you can partition into multiple virtual servers.
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Unlike virtualization products that let you run VMs, application virtualization doesn't provide system hardware or OS-level virtualization. Instead, it abstracts the file system and the registry for the virtualized applications. An application virtualization product lets you run virtual applications as if they were regular applications, but the virtual applications leave no footprint in the system registry or file system. Some benefits of application virtualization products are that you can install and run applications without worrying that one application might conflict with another or that an application will corrupt the registry, and you can freely install and test beta software without fear that it will corrupt the base system. And yes, you can combine virtual applications with virtual desktop and server products, run virtual applications on VMs, and install application virtualization products on VMs. Figure 2 illustrates the concept behind application virtualization software.
There are two main players in the application virtualization space: Softricity (recently purchased by Microsoft) with its SoftGrid Desktop product, and Altiris and its Software Virtualization Solution (SVS). The first application virtualization product on the market, SoftGrid Desktop virtualizes all aspects of the client and provides streaming application deployment. Unlike SVS, SoftGrid requires an Active Directory (AD) infrastructure, prepackaging the virtualized application, and a physical server system for streaming deployment.
SVS is a newcomer to the virtual application arena. SVS doesn't virtualize all aspects of the client. Certain functions, such as system and COM calls, aren't virtualized; only calls to the file system and registry are virtualized. However, SVS virtualizes important objects, such as the registry and file system, and has minimal infrastructure and virtual application setup requirements.
Hardware-Enabled Virtualization
In combination with processor enhancements by Intel and AMD, Microsoft technology enhancements are driving the future of server virtualization.
Virtualization software provides tremendous flexibility, but the overhead of maintaining the VM environment adversely affects the performance of virtualization software. Although there are exceptions, VMs typically don't perform as well as hardware-based systems do. Moving part of the support for virtualization into the hardware reduces system overhead and results in better VM performance. However, hardware virtualization requires support from the hardware as well as from the host OS.
On the hardware side, Intel and AMD added logic to their processors to support virtualization. Intel Virtualization Technology is part of the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon and Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor lines. AMD Virtualization Technology is included in the upcoming AMD Opteron line of processors. On the software side, Longhorn Server will support hardware virtualization through Microsoft's new hypervisor technology, as Figure 3 shows. The hypervisor enables the OS to take advantage of the new hardware virtualization support provided by the latest generation of Intel and AMD processors. The end result should be better VM performance and a lower cost. The VM images that Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual PC use will be compatible with future hypervisor VM support.
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EASTON, Md. (AP) — Rapper 2 Chainz has been acquitted of drug charges he faced after a traffic stop on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
The Star Democrat of Easton, Md., reports (http://bit.ly/11TIU4F ) that a Talbot County district court judge found the rapper, whose real name is Tauheed Epps, not guilty Wednesday.
The Atlanta-based rapper was headed to a college homecoming event in February when state troopers stopped the van he was traveling in. Police said they searched the car after smelling burnt marijuana and found a marijuana grinder and marijuana inside a backpack.
2 Chainz was cited for having drug paraphernalia and marijuana after police said he claimed the bag. A security guard testified that in the rush to leave the group's Baltimore hotel room he had packed the grinder, though he didn't know who owned it.
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Ravens All-Pro outside linebacker Terrell Suggs could play Sunday against the Houston Texans.
The Ravens on Saturday activated the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year from the physically-unable-to-perform list, a procedural move required under league rules for him to be eligible to play.
The team has decided to play Suggs if he feels and looks good after pregame warm-ups, according to sources familiar with the situation. The Ravens have until one hour before the game to designate their inactive players.
To make room for Suggs, the Ravens waived outside linebacker Sergio Kindle, a 2010 second-round draft choice. Cutting Kindle was regarded as inevitable...


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HANG TIME, Texas — It's the middle of summer when the temperature is already hot. But nothing gets the blood boiling in anticipation of hoops like the unveiling of next season's schedule.
Back in his playing days, Magic Johnson used to say the first thing he did was search for the dates when his Lakers would face Larry Bird and the Celtics and then he'd circle them on his calendar.
Nothing's changed over the years. When will the champion Heat and the Thunder square off for the first time since meeting in The Finals? When will Ray Allen go up against his former Celtics teammates for the first time? When will Steve Nash make his debut in Phoenix wearing the uniform of the hated rival Lakers?
NBA TV's NBA 2012-13 Schedule Release Special will exclusively announce the 2012-13 NBA regular season schedule on Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. The one-hour show will highlight the season's most-anticipated games including those scheduled for Kia NBA Tip-Off '12 (the opening week of the season), Christmas Day and Martin Luther King Day. Those matchups and many other marquee games and top story lines for the upcoming season.


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No, Japan not growing mutant vegetables
Images of deformed food from near nuclear disaster sweep Internet
Images of deformed food products from Japan attributed to the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster are sweeping the Internet.
"You might not want to eat your vegetables for an entirely new reason after seeing some strange fruit and veggies that reportedly have turned up in villages surrounding Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant," reported ABC News.
The plant was devastated by equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials in the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, the worst nuclear incident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Medical Daily reported the vegetables appear to be "tomatoes with tumors, horrifyingly large cabbage, and conjoined corn cobs and peaches."
A commentator at KSL-TV in Salt Lake City said the radiation from Fukushima has produced vegetables that are "really weird."
But a Ph.D. research scientist of international stature told WND the claims likely are false.
Art Robinson, who co-founded with Nobel-winner Linus Pauling the Linus Pauling Institute in Menlo Park, Calif., said the images reflect changes that wouldn't occur from radiation.
The anomalies, he said, are often seen in nature from a wide range of causes. Or they might simply be faked images, he said.
Robinson, is president of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which he founded with the help of his chemist wife Laurelee, famed biochemist Martin Kamen and Nobel Laureate Bruce Merrifield. He was the Republican candidate for Oregon's Fourth congressional district seat in 2010 and 2012.
The vegetable images were posted on an Asian image-sharing site.
One of the early reports came from Energy News: "It might be wise to steer clear of vegetables from Japan's Fukushima area for, oh, say a few hundred years. A Korean website assembled this image collection of produce from towns and villages surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. And they are NOT pretty pictures. … The region's agriculture appears to have taken a heavy radiation hit."
Robinson said the Japanese nuclear plant's failure is largely misunderstood. Virtually every system in Japanese society failed when the earthquake and tsunami hit, he argued.
He noted that some of the people who were in the nuclear plant survived while thousands in the surrounding countryside died.
He said plants are resistant to radiation, and it's unlikely that the images represent anomalies from the the nuclear facility's release of radioactive material.
"This is nonsense. It's just a form of lying. If you go into a large agricultural field, a big field of tomatoes, [such images appear]," he said.
While there were elevated levels of radiation from the plant, he said, there is radiation in nature as well.
Regarding the images, he said, "Lies are easy to tell and hard to displace in the public mind."
He pointed to Chernobyl in Russia, the worst nuclear disaster ever. While there were several dozen killed fighting the fire that erupted there, including some because of radiation poisoning, tens of thousands died because of hysteria, he said.
That toll was the result of tens of thousands of mothers from the region aborting their unborn children because they were warned the children would be deformed, he said.
Robinson said the attacks on nuclear power have existed since it was developed, but it remains one of the best sources of energy. China, he noted, has a full-fledged nuclear power program under way.
It's not the first time Robinson has knocked down a scientific claim.
Robinson has documented the utter lack of unanimity in the scientific community on man-made global warming through a petition he started – not an online petition, but an actual document signed by more than 31,000 scientists, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s.
All 31,000 agree "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."
His opinions are valued highly by his contemporaries. Martin Kamen, Fermi Prize recipient and discoverer of Carbon 14, said, "Dr. Robinson is one of the most gifted scientists I have ever met."
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Miranda Kerr has been announced as a global ambassador for Earth Hour 2011.
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Chase ends in I-93 traffic in Salem, Manchester man's arrestBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
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March 25. 2013 6:30PM
SALEM - An 18-year-old Manchester man set off a brief police pursuit near Interstate 93 Sunday afternoon after he allegedly stolen a TV and a computer.
Police were called to Walmart on Route 28 for a report of a man who just stolen a Sony Vizio TV and Gateway computer around 4:25 p.m.
The man, later identified as Keenan Falck, 18, allegedly fled from the store driving an older, gold Ford Focus. Officers who responded to the store found Falck driving erratically in a nearby neighborhood off Old Rockingham Road, police said.
Falck was able to drive out of the neighborhood and took Exit 2 to get on Interstate 93 during an attempt to dodge the officers, police said. But Falck got caught in heavy traffic, allowing police to stop him.
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This week has gone by so fast, I can't believe it's already Dessert Friday! To celebrate the end of school (and finals) and to reward the girls for their hard work, I decided to bake a pie.
The girls love coconut macaroons, so I decided to prepare a coconut macaroon pie. I made the filling with sweetened shredded coconut flakes and sweetened condensed milk. I served the pie with coconut flavored whipped cream, but I think coconut ice cream would have been even better!
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Granola topping is a healthier, more nutritious alternative to croutons for salads. I incorporated as many, if not more, flavors as I would for the bread, using lemon thyme, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, Pecorino cheese, Italian parsley, spices and extra-virgin olive oil. After the baked savory granola had cooled to room temperature, I mixed arugula with fresh cherries as an natural sweetener, drizzled a simple lemon vinaigrette and sprinkled the salad with the crunchy savory Pecorino granola topping.
I used boxed granola mix, called Granola Basics. It's made by our friend Sarah from "Nuts About Granola" (it's their 5th anniversary!). Ever since she sent me my first box, I've wanted to explore and develop a savory version. And if you have the opportunity to purchase this awesome product, you'll see on the back of the box one of my recipes with a photo taken by me!
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Smoked Eggplant Tart Recipe
I had one leftover smoked eggplant from the weekend. I used large, heavy, firm eggplants that I brushed with a bit of oil so the oil could absorb the smoky flavor from the hot charcoals. This evening, I peeled the paper-like skin and processed it with sesame chutney (til chutney in Urdu). I fried a shallot, added a little mound of butter, then added ground beef, fresh dill and tomatoes. This preparation made the perfect filling for a savory tart.
If you do not have a grill, you could replicate similar flavors using an Indian cooking method, which was my husband's grandmother's. Simply heat a piece of charcoal, preferably natural charcoal, directly over a flame until it's bright red and transfer it to small metal tin that you place in the center of a saucepan filled with the puréed eggplant. Drizzle a little oil over the hot coal to provide smoke, then immediately cover the saucepan with a lid to trap the smoke and let infuse into the spread.
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Sirloin Steak with Artichoke Butter
Here in the Bay Area, the weather has been gorgeous. I lit up my grill for the first time this season and made my favorite meal: top sirloin steak that I garnished with a dollop of artichoke butter, marinated artichokes capellini pasta and grilled artichokes.
I cooked the steak a la plancha by placing a cast iron griddle over the charcoal grill. The hot plancha created a nice crust around the steaks, which I had marinated in soy sauce to tenderize. Simple, juicy and delicious!
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Artichoke Butter Recipe
This butter is delicious on a piece of toasted bread, but would go wonderfully with pasta, fish or grilled veggies.
After making sweet potato tarte amandine and purple potato lavender white chocolate torte for my first cooking demonstration in front of a live audience recently, I had a lot of leftover high quality butter, so I decided to make a batch.
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Though the momentum was certainly going the Wildcats' way throughout most of the final round of the TSSAA basketball championship at MTSU's Murphy Center, an improbable rally by rival Blackman High School late in the matchup denied Oak Ridge its first state title in 51 years.
The final score was 60-58 Blackman in a heart-breaking loss for the 'Cats, who nevertheless worked their way to an outstanding No. 2-in-the-state performance as the 2014 season comes to an end.
MURFREESBORO —Though the momentum was certainly going the Wildcats' way throughout most of the final round of the TSSAA basketball championship at MTSU's Murphy Center, an improbable rally by rival Blackman High School late in the matchup denied Oak Ridge its first state title in 51 years.
The final score was 60-58 Blackman in a heart-breaking loss for the 'Cats, who nevertheless worked their way to an outstanding No. 2-in-the-state performance as the 2014 season comes to an end.
"It's a good improvement for our community," said Jaylin Henderson, who was named to the Class AAA state tournament team — along with teammates Kevin Steen and Isaac Merian. "It means a lot," the 6-1 senior guard added. "We're not considered a 'little school' anymore. … We had a great season (and) it has given us a lot of confidence."
Wildcat coach Aaron Green recalled: "I played in three state championships — won one and was runner-up twice. So I've been there on the losing end of this one as a player (for Sweetwater High School) and it's tough.
"There's nothing I'm going to tell them to make them feel any better; there are no 'moral' victories. I think down the road, (the players) will look back and appreciate what they accomplished and it'll sting a little bit because you had a chance to win it and just didn't play well enough to do that … and that's part of it.
"We haven't played this game as the boys basketball program since 1963 but that doesn't really help you much right now. You're frustrated because you lost the game.
"It's tough," Green said, "especially when you feel like you 'had' it. But there's a winner and a loser. They made the plays to win the game. … We didn't."
Blackman took the lead to start the game, but a jumper by Merian tied it up early. Blackman took back the lead, but foul shots by Henderson and a layup by Seth Davis gave the lead back to the 'Cats.
The Blaze tried to keep pace with Oak Ridge, but the 'Cats finished a close first quarter with a 12-11 lead.
Blackman took back the lead to start Period 2, but Merian got the rebound and tip-in after a missed 3-pointer by Davis to give the lead back to the Wildcats. A dunk by Blackman's Reid Pierce was answered with a layup by Steen and Oak Ridge maintained the lead for the rest of the quarter, expanding to a six-point advantage with 49 seconds left in the half. But a layup by Blackman's Isaiah Hart with 24 seconds on the time clock left the 'Cats enjoying only a 25-21 halftime lead.
In Period 3, Oak Ridge gained momentum and developed a more substantial lead over Blackman. A trey by freshman Tee Higgins with an assist by sophomore Geevantay Gee took the Wildcat lead to seven points with 3:28 left in the quarter. Then a Higgins' layup followed by two successful free throws by Henderson — executed on a technical foul — pushed the lead to 36-25 Oak Ridge just a little more than a minute later.
The Blaze struggled to regain postion, but another foul gave Henderson a chance to tack on two more points to bring the Wildcat lead to 38-26 — a 12 point margin with less than two minutes to go in the third! Blackman scored twice in the final 50 seconds to once again trim the Wildcats' lead to 38-29.
The 'Cats maintained their lead into the fourth while Blackman fought to gain position. With Blackman pressing, Oak Ridge struggled to get the ball into play. "We were up eight, we had six minutes left," 6-6 senior center Merian said. "We were feeling good about ourselves and I think we just let it slip by. I think we got too confident over having that cushion."
With only 5:46 remaining in the game, the 'Cats were enjoying a 10-point lead. But a questionable intentional foul called on Henderson ultimately led to a turning point in the game. A 45-35 Oak Ridge lead was whittled down to 46-39 in less than a minute, as the Wildcats began racking up fouls and The Blaze began sinking shots.
With 4:50 in the game, Henderson and Steen had both accumulated four fouls each, and Blackman had diminished Oak Ridge's lead to six. A turnover by Steen led Blackman to a layup with 4:20 left in the game. Then a turnover by Gee led The Blaze to another layup with 4:06 on the clock. And then a foul by Merian led to another big momentum change as Blackman tied up the game 46-46 with only 3:50 remaining. Another foul on Merian gave Blackman a 48-46 lead with 3:36 to go.
With 2:35 left in the final period, Steen got his fifth foul — sending him out of the game — and Blackman executed on the shots, taking a lead of 51-46 over the Wildcats.
With only 53 seconds left in the game, Blackman still led by five. A foul on Higgins gave Blackman another trip to the foul line that resulted in a seven-point lead. A 3-pointer by Davis with an assist by Henderson dropped Blackman's advantage to four with only 28 seconds remaining.
With 23 seconds on the clock, a foul on Higgins gave Blackman an opportunity to stretch its lead to six. Gee drained a trey with an assist by Henderson with only 15 seconds to go and that brought the score to 58-55. Gee's fifth foul at the 00:06 mark provided Blackman with an opportunity to make more free throws, and increase its lead to 60-55.
A buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Henderson wasn't enough to take the state championship game into overtime and the Wildcats came up just a few points shy of the win and the 2014 state title.
"I'm very proud of them," coach Green said of his players. "We're disappointed we couldn't bring home the championship ball, but we'll be back."
Heather Hicks can be contacted at (865) 220-5501.
"We had 13 turnovers second half," Green said, and most of those led to easy buckets for them, and I thought that was the difference in the game. Got to give them credit for forcing those turnovers. ...We did everything else we had to do to win; we defended and rebounded and done all those things. But again you've just got to take care of the ball we didn't do that."
Jaylin Henderson had 24 points in Saturday's Championship game. "He played really well." Green said, "He struggled" in Friday's semifinals game against Arlington, "I knew he'd respond well tonight and play well. I'm proud of him. I thought they all played hard." Steen, Davis, and Merian were each held to 8. Gee and Higgins contributed 5 points each.
"Very proud of them," Green said. "thanks for the seniors, and challenge them as they move forward in their college career to take care of business and go to school and graduate and do all those things and challenge our underclassmen to keep getting better and improve as people and as players as they continue to grow."
"Just disappointed we couldn't bring home the gold one, but we'll be back."
"We lost six seniors, so I'm going to have to coach a little bit next year," Green said.
Heather Hicks can be reached at (865) 220-5501.


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Team: Leavenworth powerlifting and weightlifting
Last year's meet record: Girls' team championships at Augusta, Kan., Kearney, Mo., and the NASA High School National Powerlifting and Power Press Championships in overall and the junior/senior divisions.
The boys' team were runner-ups in both the freshman/sophomore and junior/senior divisions for the power press at the 2012 NASA High School Powerlifting Nationals.
Coach: Daniel Capps
Key returnees:
Maggie Lee, 114-pound senior
Lacie Thornton, 148-pound senior
Emily Ruble, senior
Tabitha Larkin, senior
Hannah Overbey, 123-pound sophomore
Amelia Cribb, 148-pound junior
Laura Payne, 123-pound junior
Jasmine Swanagan, sophomore
Jarred Donnelson, 198-pound junior
Mike Stratton, junior
Matt Vail, 114-pound junior
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Nicole Tennant, 165-pound freshman
Brittany Bosarge, 165-pound junior
Alexus Scott, 132-pound junior
Jessica Rymer, 148-pound junior
Kris Imhof, 132-pound freshman
Will Walker, 198-pound sophomore
Team Outlook: STRENGTHS — A strong group of lifters return this year for the Leavenworth powerlifting team.
The majority of those experienced competitors come from the girls' side, where state medalists Maggie Lee and Lacie Thornton will be looked to provide leadership and consistent production.
"Both are terrific leaders," coach Daniel Capps said. "Both lead by example while training and competing and also the way they conduct themselves in everyday life."
On the boys' side, upperclassmen Mike Stratton and Jarred Donnelson will be asked to help a young group that is still developing.
WEAKNESSES — Inexperienced depth, much on the boys' squad, is the biggest area that needs improvement for Leavenworth.
Numbers are consistently affected by those going out for other winter sports such as wrestling and basketball, but Capps feels the team can overcome the deficit.
Big games: Jan. 12 at McLouth; Feb. 9 at Basehor; 5A State Championship in March; 2nd Annual Pioneer Deadlift-A-Thon on March 23; April 6 at NASA High School Powerlifting National Championships
Coach says: "I am very excited to see this team compete during 2013. Although we will miss our 2012 graduates Austin McDaniel, Enrique Gonzalez-Garcia, Hunter Anne Postier, Janay Johnson, Lauren Patelli and Alyssa Rivera, we certainly returned more than we lost for 2013.
We have some high quality lifters on this team and lofty goals to go with them for the year. One of our overall goals is to improve each year as a team, and sitting where I am right now, it looks as though we will do just that."
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AS A JUNIOR IN 2011: Started and played in 27 games … tallied 26 goals, 11 assists, 15 steals and drew 12 kick-outs … scored his first goal of the season against Brown … added one goal against St. Francis … led the Broncos' offensive charge with three goals against MIT … notched two goals against Fordham … delivered three goals vs. West Valley … tallied one goal against Redlands … totaled two goals against Occidental …scored two goals vs. LMU … connected for three goals against Pomona-Pitzer … scored three goals vs. Cal Baptist … recorded two goals against Harvard.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2010: Came off the bench as a lock down defender for the Broncos appearing in all 34 games... collected 15 goals, 11 assists and 26 steals... scored three goals against George Washington (9/11)… scored one goal while adding a steal and a earned ejection against Pomona (10/9)… scored one goal, while adding one assist and four steals in a win over Occidental (10/9)… added a goal along with two steals and an earned ejection against Cal Baptist (10/23)… scored two goals while assisting on two other in the Broncos win versus Brown (10/23)… collected four steals against Air Force (10/24)… scored two goals while adding one assist and a steal against UCSD (11/21).
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2009: Played in 34 matches and scored 13 goals, drew three ejections, and tallied five assists and 18 steals ... scored a goal against Princeton (9/13) ... scored in win over Whittier (10/8).
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2009 graduate of San Ramon Valley High School in Danville. ... coached by Corey Dolle and was on the wrestling and swimming teams as well ... was named to the 1st team All-NCS in 2008 ... MVP of EBAL during his senior season ... named a California-Hawaii All-American in 2008.
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PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic plans to donate 4 million koruna (some $200,000) to help the Texas town of West recover from a devastating fertilizer plant explosion.
The government decided to the provide aid in solidarity because a significant number of people in the town of 2,700 have Czech roots. The blast damaged numerous homes in the town.
The Foreign Ministry says Czech Ambassador to the U.S. Petr Gandalovic visited West last week and talked to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, West Mayor Tommy Muska and other officials about how to help.
A ministry statement Wednesday said the money will go toward repairing property in the town.
Thousands of Czechs, mostly from the eastern part known of Moravia, settled in Texas more than 100 years ago.


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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's anti-graft commission on Friday named the head of the country's ruling party a suspect in a corruption case and banned him from leaving the country.
Anas Urbaningrum, the chairman of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party, is accused of receiving payments in connection with the construction of a sports complex in West Java. He has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
Johan Budi, spokesman of the Corruption Eradication Commission, said there is enough evidence to declare that Urbaningrum violated the anti-corruption law.
He did not specify what kind of payment was allegedly received by Urbaningrum, but media reports say he was given a Toyota Harrier car worth about $75,000.
Budi said all five commissioners had agreed to name Urbaningrum a suspect, an apparent attempt to end speculation that there had been a rift in the commission.
The decision is the latest blow to the party's reputation and to Yudhoyono, its founder, who ran as "Mr. Clean" in his 2009 re-election campaign.
In a move to cleanse the ruling party, Yudhoyono, whose second five-year term ends next year amid widespread disappointment at his efforts to clean up endemic corruption, relieved Urbaningrum of his party duties early this month amid the corruption allegations.
Late last year, sports minister Andi Mallarangeng, another party official, was named a suspect in a corruption case involving the same sports complex. According to the state auditing agency, construction of the $122 million complex in Hambalang village involved many irregularities that caused up to 243 billion rupiah ($25 million) in losses to the state. The agency said the project was approved without a required environmental impact statement and the construction tender was rigged.
Mallarangeng is the country's first active Cabinet member to be named a suspect in a multimillion-dollar corruption case.
Last month, ruling party politician Angelina Sondakh, a former beauty queen, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in jail after being found guilty of accepting $3.6 million in kickbacks from a company commissioned to build housing for athletes at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games.
Last year, party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin was sentenced to four years in jail for corruption.


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LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says Columbine High School, the scene of a school shooting that left 15 people dead in 1999, is on a high security alert after an undisclosed threat.
The sheriff's office says in a tweet that the school is on lockout, which does not require students to take shelter, after authorities were notified of a telephone threat. The alert also applies to a half-dozen other schools in the area and was issued shortly before noon.
In 1999, two students opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school's library.
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Features:I was able to put it together in less than 5 minutes. The legs simply snap into place and the tower is the only other part to assemble. The instructions had pictures but they were close ups and it was hard to tell which piece went where on the tower. I ended up looking at the picture on the box to figure it out. This is what it looks like right out of the box.
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I decided today to click on the button at the top of a thread that says "view antipoint assignments made" however it came up with a message saying none had been made (despite the thread antipoint status being extremly positive).
I then went to my antipoint centre and opened up a thread that i new i had given antipoints in and got the same message. Basically i have tried it in a lot of threads in a lot of forums and got the same message everytime, except where somone gave me antipoints.
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60-Seconds #313 : Google Link Removal schemes raise a lot of questions
Ever since the bottom dropped out of the Google AdSense revenue I've searched and puzzled for an answer without success. Then I began getting Link-Removal requests from sites I had vetted long ago. Then one day Chuck Green, owner of the Jumpola web site asked a question on Facebook. The comments to that question inspired me to share my experiences with Amazon affiliates, Google, Panda, Penguin, SEO, searches, link removal requests, and the cybercrime industry. July 26, 2014


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EDMONTON, Alberta, March 18 (UPI) -- Ray Whitney capped a Phoenix rally with a shootout game-winner Sunday, completing a 3-2 Coyotes comeback victory over Edmonton.
Whitney also started the rally when he scored an unassisted goal 8 minutes into the final period, cutting Phoenix's deficit to 2-1.
Raffi Torres then scored the equalizer with 2:23 left, forcing a scoreless overtime and then the shootout.
Whitney's backhander past Devan Dubnyk in the third round of the tiebreaker gave the advantage to the Coyotes, and Mike Smith made it hold up with a final save on Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
Smith finished with 36 saves for Phoenix, which vaulted into seventh place in the tightly packed Western Conference standings with 83 points.
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Steven Montalvo
February 8, 1969 - June 17, 2013
Steven "Cubby" Montalvo, age 44, of Stockton, CA, passed away on Monday, June 17, 2013. He was born on February 8, 1969 in Stockton, CA, to his parents Pedro and Gloria Montalvo.
Steven had one child, Steven Joshua Montalvo. Steven attended Franklin High School. He was a plumber for 15 years. Steven enjoyed golf, listening to music and spending time with family.
Steven was preceded in death by his father, Pedro Montalvo, and will be greatly missed by his mother, Gloria Montalvo, brother
Pete Montalvo, his sister, Denise Montalvo, nephews, Aaron Allen, Scout Montalvo, nieces, Lexy
Allen, Lake Montalvo. Aunt and Uncle, Don and Lydia Gill. Steven also leaves behind numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.
Services for Steven will Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at DeYoung Memorial Chapel, 601 N. California Street, Stockton, California. Visitation will be Monday, June 24, 2013, from 1:00 p.m. to 5 pm at DeYoung Memorial Chapel.
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Reaction to death of former New York City Mayor Ed Koch:
"Ed Koch was an extraordinary mayor, irrepressible character, and quintessential New Yorker. ... In public office and beyond, his energy, force of personality, and commitment to causes ranging from civic issues to the security of the state of Israel always informed and enlivened the public discourse." — President Barack Obama.
"He was a man whose convictions ran deep. You knew where Ed stood on any topic, and whether or not you agreed with him or what he said, you couldn't help but like him." — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"Ed Koch embodied the highest ideals of public service, and his life was dedicated toward making New York— the city and our state — a better place for all." — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
"In elected office and as a private citizen, he was our most tireless, fearless, and guileless civic crusader. Through his tough, determined leadership and responsible fiscal stewardship, Ed helped lift the city out of its darkest days and set it on course for an incredible comeback." — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"Every atom in his body lived, breathed, spoke and exuded the city. He helped save the city and, perhaps most important of all, gave it confidence when it was beginning to doubt itself, which helped pave the way for the growth and prosperity we're still experiencing today." — U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer
"Ed Koch personified the spirit of New York. New York's mayor for life is now New York's mayor for eternity. May he rest in peace." — U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
"Although we disagreed on politics ... I have found that he was never a phony or a hypocrite. He would not patronize or deceive you. He said what he meant. He meant what he said. He fought for what he believed." — Rev. Al Sharpton, president of National Action Network.
"From his outspoken honesty, to his great New York accent, Hizzoner was larger than life. His wit, his wisdom, his candor and his irrepressible spirit will be sorely missed." — Former New York Gov. George Pataki.
"He helped a lot of people. ... I have an appreciation of his work as a public servant." — The Rev. Jesse Jackson.
"He's the guy who saved our city. He paid off the loans on the federal government, ahead of time. So he did a lot of good stuff." — Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins.
"He understood the real world. That's why the public attached to him. There was nothing fake about him. Agree or disagree, he was as genuine as they come." — Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
"The world is a less interesting place now that Ed Koch has left us. When times were tough, he was tougher and his resilience, sense of humor and candor made him accessible to his millions of admirers." — New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
"He was a visionary who used his political acumen to bring his dreams to fruition and to blaze a trail wide enough for a generation of New Yorkers to follow." — New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
"The ties between New York and Israel, between the United States and Israel, are as strong as they are today because of towering figures such as Ed Koch." — The Consulate General of Israel in New York.
"He was a tiger, unafraid. He used say, 'Alfonse, I'm a liberal, but a liberal with sanity.' " — Former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato. "He once said, 'I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone. This is my home.' Ed Koch will never leave New York City. He will exist forever in our hearts, and in the millions of lives he touched." — New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
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Saturday, January 5, 2008
Franklyn Vs. Lava: "Adventures of the Road Runner"
"To Beep" used footage previously made for the "Adventures" pilot/featurette, but Franklyn had passed away by the time "To Beep" was made.
Years later, for television, "Adventures of the Road Runner" itself was mined for material to create two shorts called "Zip Zip Hooray" and "Road Runner Ago Go", both of which retained the original score by Franklyn.
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- J.E.Daniels said...
I'm not sure if it's because I grew up with "To Beep" in it's released form, but I have to admit I like the Lava score better.
My decision could be affected by the terrible sound effects used with the Franklyn score (they just don't work).
Great post! This just further proves that the musical score adds so much to an animated cartoon. Especially a full orchastra.
- January 5, 2008 at 9:20 PM
Personally, I like Lava's music better. His music actually seems a part of the film, while Franklyn's is sort of quiet and you can't tell if it stopped playing or kept going.
- January 5, 2008 at 9:40 PM
- J Lee said...
I've been a longtime champion of Lava's music for the catapult scene being better than what Franklin did, both for its mechanical/soulless inevitability feeling and for the fact he cleverly started it in the previous scene with the wrecking ball gag, so that when Wile E.'s second attempt with the catapult shows up, it comes as something of a surprise the first time you see it. Lava also had a better end gag to work with, and his fanfare music does seemlessly flow into the 1955-64 end title music, something of a rarity for his scores.
On the other hand, Lava's music for the spring-and-boulder gag highlights everything that was wrong about his 1962-63 WB scores. Once the plan starts to backfire, Lava gives us a series of clangs, dings and screetches that doesn't follow the action on screen as much as try and compete with it for wackiness. Franklin's score here, while not memorable, does what a cartoon score is supposed to do in not taking your attention away from the animation on screen.
- January 6, 2008 at 8:45 AM
well, what can I say in few words about the long work of those great artists such as Lava and Franklyn?
LAVA RULES!! That's my opinion!
- January 6, 2008 at 10:40 AM
- jbwarner86 said...
I'm gonna go against the grain here and say that Franklyn's score is better. Despite having grown up with the Lava-scored "To Beep or Not to Beep", I still think Franklyn's score suits the onscreen action much better - the sequence where Wile E. continues to nudge the catapult and then dive into the manhole is a perfect example of how Franklyn knew how to make the music compliment what was going on in the cartoon.
- January 7, 2008 at 9:28 AM
I like the Franklyn score better. It's more sudden and intense while the Lava score is meandering, soft, and boring.
One other thing I noticed is that the colors in the Lava sections make my eyes hurt.
- February 8, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Franklyn's score is better. Bill Lava's music sounds like the background music from "The Flintstones!"
The only Lava music I prefer is the one from the Cool Cat and "Bunny and Claude" cartoons, as well as his "Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too" score. But the music he wrote for the late-1960s Speedy vs. Daffy cartoons can drive me nuts!
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By ADAM SWIFT
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— Students wanting to take driver education at Timberlane Regional High School next year could have a better idea of their options following the district's May 8 school board meeting.
Earlier this month, Superintendent Earl Metzler and the school board agreed to look at options for the program, which has been losing a significant amount of money each year.
The program lost close to $50,000 last school year and so far this year, it has lost about $35,000, Metzler said.
Approximately 200 students per year enroll in the program. There are 10, seven-week sessions offered per year and the program employs three part-time instructors, according to Metzler.
At the most recent school board meeting, one of those instructors said she would like to work with the administration to help save the program.
Instructor Cheryl Roy said there are some financial issues with the program, but the program has provided quality driver education for the high school's students for a number of years.
Roy said if the school board decided to contract driver education out to a private firm, the private firms would only take the contract because they would see an opportunity to make a profit.
"The problem is that some of the private schools are just meeting the minimum state requirements, and our standards are high," said Roy.
Metzler recommended that Roy meet with director of secondary educator Scott Strainge to further discuss the driver education program.
"Right now, we are trying to find the best way to provide that service, and it is an agenda item for May 8," said Metzler. "We are looking at all the options and trying to make the numbers work. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of strangers coming to our school and taking (students) out and driving them around."
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I just returned from a preview of a new exhibit at the Orange County Regional History Center: "A Year in the Life: Onstage to Backstage at Universal Orlando Resort." It opens to the public for a yearlong stay at the downtown Orlando museum on Saturday.
If you've followed Universal closely over the years, you might not learn anything, but it should remind you of days gone by, to a time without the double-sided mega-garage and to eras with bizarro Halloween Horror Nights characters.
I counted about 150 photos in the exhibit, which dabbles in the history of Universal Orlando and demonstrates the creative process that churns out annual events through the year(s). I liked examining three enormous aerial shots of the property: one pre-Universal, one during the late '90s boom, and one from a few years ago, pre-Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure.
As visitors turn the corner in the second-floor exhibit, they'll see the stages of the creative process, including sketches of costumes, blueprints of floats and haunted houses, molds (and fake eyeballs) for scary masks and some finished products.
Here are a few items that caught my eye:
+ A copy of a poster promoting the first year of Halloween Horror Nights, then known as "Fright Night." (Tagline: "Dying for a good Halloween party?")
+ An invite to the opening of Islands of Adventure, folded to form its iconic lighthouse.
+ Sketches and plans for the Psycho House in 1999's Halloween Horror Nights.
+ A notation in the blueprints for the Hop float in Universal's Superstar Parade: "All candy and icing to be scencially painted to include shadows and highlights per color rendering."
+ A sign that says Universal buys new Christmas ornaments and decorations in January and February.
+ The story of Hurricane Jeanne blowing apart the corn that Universal had lovingly raised just days before they needed it for 2004's HHN.
+ Papier-mache Mardi Gras heads of state (or somesuch royalty) and, nearby, a small shark -- certainly not one of the big relics from the now-shuttered Jaws attraction (but wouldn't that be cool?).
"Backstage to Onstage" is included in regular admission to the history center. For more information, go to www.thehistorycenter.org.
Remember, Mardi Gras poster artist will be at the history center on Saturday to sign posters and books.


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BEIJING, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Past champions Serena Williams, Agnieszka Radwanska and Jelena Jankovic all gained spots Friday in the semifinals of the China Open.
The fourth semifinalist is Petra Kvitova, who is coming off a tournament title last Saturday in Tokyo. Kvitova, seeded ninth, earned a berth in the semis with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 decision over No 4-seed and local favorite Li Na. Kvitova piled up six breaks over the last two sets.
Williams, ranked No. 1 in women's tennis, was a 6-1, 6-4 winner over sixth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki. Williams won more than two-thirds of the points on serve, losing a total of 154 points over nine games.
She did have her serve broken once but she also took half of the points off Wozniacki's serve and ended up with four breaks.
Radwanska, seeded No. 3, built a big early lead and then hung on for a 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 win over seventh-seeded Angelique Kerber. Radwanska was up 5-1 in the first set before Kerber's comeback. Radwanska was then able to get two second-set breaks for the win.
Jankovic, the No. 8 seed just got by Lucie Safarova 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-4 but needed three third-set breaks to do so.
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check out the video of the dual carbs first start
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I sold it to by a 1941 G506 but after i sold the car the guy sold the truck the day before if i knew that i would have never sold the car
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I'd rather see Palmer go, just because I know he will, and 6 mil for a RB isn't killing us. It really does not matter these days, RB's are a dime a dozen. Plenty of FA options will be out there. He needs a Wheatley type player to compliment him on teh short runs so his vagina doesn't break when he takes a hit
So whose going to be the back RB? we need a damn good one. Another year of palmer and McFadden. Funny thing is ill rather have McFadden here than palmer lol. For some reason I just can't stand looking at palmer.
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Front-month May natural gas futures are trading up over 20% from the February low of $3.26 per MMBtu, flirting with the top of the $3-$4 range in which prices have languished for the past year (Chart 1). The sharp rally was fueled by colder-than-normal temperatures across the US, where roughly half of homes rely on the gas for heating. When measured in Heating Degree Days (a commonly referenced measure of heating demand), the first two weeks of March have been about 3.3% colder than the average of the past five years.
This increased heating demand has been reflected in higher-than-normal withdrawals from storage, with more gas coming out of storage in each of the past four weeks relative to the same period during the past five years. Though, when viewed in the context of total gas in storage (i.e., in percentage terms), the withdrawals have been completely in line with historical norms. Market bulls have made hay about the large decline of gas in storage year-over-year, though this is misleading, because last year was an aberration (Chart 2). When measured against the five years before 2012, there is 14.1% more gas in storage for this time of year. The fact is, weather can have a short-term impact on natural gas prices, but the long-term fundamentals remain in place.