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Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by Klaus, Sep 27, 2011.
It's a classic. You should definitely record it.
This is how much of a nerd I am: I turned on the TV for half a second, saw a glimpse of a boat and immediately realized it was the one from the creature from the Black Lagoon
Oh, darn, I forgot this was tonight, and it's too late to record Creature. I'm not sure I've ever seen that one, at least since childhood.
Yeah I got sucked in. I haven't seen it since I was a kid and one of the things I had forgotten was how smart the creature is. he effectively outwits the crew of the boat more often than not.
Also as an aside I gotta say how incredibly hot Julia Adams was at the time. I couldnt take my eyes off her. Absolutely stunning.
^^ Yeah, the white bathing suit scene is legendary.
Hopefully, my recording of Tarantula was successful. I'll try to watch it today.
Dare I admit that I have an autographed photo of Julia Adams framed on the wall of my office? (I'm looking at it right now!)
Alas, I haven't met her. The photo was a gift from a friend years ago.
I didn't even catch the white bathing suit scene this go-round. Just her face alone was incredible, a bit like a more down to earth Liz Taylor.
Monday 1/14
9 PM: What Lies Beneath (2000 Zemeckis supernatural thriller w/ Harrison Ford)
Thu 1/17
6 AM: 20 Million Miles to Earth (Harryhausen classic)
6:15 PM: Ghosts Italian Style (haunted-house comedy)
Wed 1/23: Marathon of horror films from 7:30 AM to 8 PM, including but not limited to (leaving out the non-SF/supernatural ones):
9:15 AM: The Terror (Roger Corman ghost story with Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson)
10:45 AM: The Reptile
2:15 PM: The Mummy (1959 Hammer version w/ Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee)
4:15 PM: The Body Snatcher (last film Karloff & Lugosi did together, directed by Robert Wise -- maybe not supernatural, but of interest to horror fans)
6:00 PM: The Haunting (also by Wise, w/ Julie Harris & Claire Bloom)
Saturday 1/26
2:30 AM: House of Seven Corpses (1974 haunted-house film)
4:30 AM: House on Haunted Hill (with Vincent Price)
Watched a horribly turgid 1971 version of MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE on TCM the other night. Not sure how you make a movie about a disfigured homicidal maniac in a gorilla suit boring, but somehow they managed . . . .
^^ I saw part of that. That was a bad gorilla suit.
In their defense, it wasn't supposed to be a real gorilla. It was supposed to be a madman in a stolen gorilla suit.
This was (possibly unintentional) bright idea: Rather than trying to pass off that crappy gorilla suit as as a real ape, they established early on that the killer was just what he appeared to be: a man in a crappy gorilla suit!
Still a pretty lousy movie, though.
I'm a fan of B-Movies and it did not look interesting to me at all.
Honestly, you didn't miss anything. Old B-movies are my comfort food, but even I almost gave up on it. It's slow, convoluted, and padded out with repetitive dream sequences and flashbacks. The earlier versions (with Lugosi and Karl Malden, respectively) are much better.
As for the upcoming stuff, I can't recommend THE BODY SNATCHER highly enough. Probably Karloff's best performance, aside from maybe FRANKENSTEIN and THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Lugosi's part is much smaller by comparison, but he and Karloff have one great scene together.
More trivia: the movie is directed by Robert Wise, whom, of course, went on to direct such films as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, THE HAUNTING, and STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE. (Not to mention THE SOUND OF MUSIC and WEST SIDE STORY!)
Yes, The Body Snatcher is very good. I have that one on DVD. I forget if it's part of the Karloff collection DVD set, or a standalone that I got from Alpha or one of those companies.
Oops, we let this thread slide for a bit, but here's what's coming up over the rest of February:
Today (2/10) at 5:45 EST is Ron Howard's Cocoon, which is inexplicably listed as "Horror."
Tue 2/12, 6:15 AM: Does The Hunchback of Notre Dame count as genre? They've got it billed as Horror too. It's the '39 Charles Laughton version.
Wed 2/13, 4:30 PM: Mighty Joe Young (1949), Ray Harryhausen's first major film (working with King Kong animator Willis O'Brien).
Sun 2/17, 7:15 AM: King Solomon's Mines (1950) with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger.
Mon 2/18:
6 PM: George Pal's The Time Machine (1960)
8 PM: Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982)
Wed 2/20, 5:30 PM: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), featuring stop-motion animation by George Pal (within a live-action biopic about the Grimms).
Fri 2/22, 8 PM: Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), which was remade in 1978 as Heaven Can Wait.
Sat 2/23:
8 AM: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953), an overlooked classic written by Dr. Seuss and starring Hans Conreid.
11:30 AM: Bell, Book and Candle (1959), James Stewart movie about a witch who doesn't use the Oxford comma (I guess).
Mon 2/25:
5:30 PM: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) -- evidently the original theatrical cut, since it says "135 minutes."
8 PM: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Tue 2/26:
9:15 AM: One Million B.C. (1941) with Victor Mature -- sadly, not the Raquel Welch remake.
3:15 PM: Topper (1937)
5:00 PM: Topper Takes a Trip (1939)
6:30 PM: Topper Returns (1941)
Wed 2/27, 1:45 PM: The Jungle Book (1942) -- I guess it's marginally fantasy.
Thu 2/28, 2 AM: The Thief of Baghdad (1940)
Roger Rabbit? Awesome, I've been wanting to see that again.
I haven't seen either The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm or The 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T, I don't think, so I'm looking forward to taping those.
Ah, but this is a wonderful movie. Carole Landis is a match for Raquel Welch and Victor Mature is far better than whatsisname. This is a rare case of the original and the remake being equally good.
I remember a high-school history teacher, when we watched an edited-down version of Mature's version of Hannibal [the Carthaginian general, not the famed nosher] in class, describing Victor as having two expressions-- "pain, and more pain."
I love him wrestling the stuffed lion in Samson and Delilah, personally. An all-time classic awful sfx moment.
I enjoyed the original version, too, but I'd say the Ray Harryhausen effects give the remake an edge. And Carole Landis is a cutie of a cave girl, true, but no match for Raquel and her legendary fur bikini!
^^ Well, an early 40s movie and a late 60s movie are an entirely different mind set. It's like a Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon and 2001. Certainly, Harryhausen is superior to pigs with prosthetics, but the artistry is still enjoyable. And while the fur bikini is certainly better, Carole Landis was pretty incredible-- I guess a perfect world would have Carole Landis in the fur bikini.
Yes, that was awesome indeed.
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Detroit's rich history adds new chapter
City recalls past pennants with 10th appearance in World Series
By Mark Newman / MLB.com
How much different are things nearly a century later? There are more than 6,210 fans right now ordering American League championship regalia at MLB.com. There are probably more than 6,210 fans right now talking on the phone about Magglio Ordonez's three-run homer that won a pennant on Saturday for the Tigers.
When the 2006 World Series opens next Saturday at Comerica Park, there could be more than 6,210 fans just lined up along the see-through fencing outside the ballpark. There probably will be a big screen somewhere in Detroit next week drawing at least a crowd that big. And make no mistake, any discussion about a Tigers World Series has to include not only their players but also their fans.
This is the city where then-Commissioner Judge Landis had to remove Cardinals left fielder Joe Medwick from Game 7 of the 1934 World Series because Tiger Stadium fans threw soda bottles and fruit at the player after he had jostled Marvin Owen while sliding into third. The following year, Detroit finally won its first World Series, and the victory celebration lasted until dawn of the following day.
This is the city where that dramatic seven-game triumph over the Cardinals in 1968 helped bring people together during a time of historic civil unrest. It is the city where the Tigers last won a World Series title in 1984 and celebrated to such excess that night that security measures were taken to ensure all pro sports celebrations thereafter would be more peaceful and controlled.
Detroit is passionate about its Tigers, and now that they are in the World Series for the first time since those days of "Bless You Boys," the fever there (and in Tigers Nation worldwide) is right up there with any time in the city's past. The local nine just became the first team in Major League history to win six consecutive postseason games by three or more runs -- overcoming that opening loss to the Yankees in the AL Division Series to win the next three games and then a four-game sweep of the AL West champion Oakland A's. What makes it all the more uproarious now is the fact that it was only three years ago that this franchise lost 119 games; suddenly, this might be the newest AL destiny darling.
Now, the World Series home-field advantage goes to Comerica Park, marking the third consecutive year that the AL has had that privilege by virtue of winning that year's All-Star Game. Can the Tigers make it a third consecutive World Series sweep by the AL? If that happens, they would match last year's White Sox postseason record of 11-1, because they are already on their way.
For now, just being here is plenty enough for Tigers fans, who endured that 119-loss season in 2003 and in many cases have never seen a World Series featuring their team in their lifetime. People aren't just talking about the Tigers -- they are talking about Tigers fans again, too. It is a breakout of mammoth proportions, seen in everything from attendance to TV ratings to merchandise sales and the general excitement level around Motown. Detroit is back in the World Series, and there will be an entire week for the hype and the water-cooler discussion to live at blissful levels.
Tigers World Series history
This will mark the 10th World Series in the rich history of the Detroit franchise, one spiced with names like Ty Cobb, Hank Greenberg, Hal Newhouser, Charlie Gehringer, Al Kaline, Willie Horton, Denny McLain, Alan Trammell and, yes, Ordonez.
If they win the World Series, the Tigers would jump up into a four-way tie for sixth place on the all-time list for most World Series championships by a franchise. The Yankees lead with 26, followed by the A's (Philadelphia and Oakland) and Cardinals with nine apiece, and the Dodgers (Brooklyn and Los Angeles) and Red Sox with six apiece. Detroit is hoping to join other cities with five World Series titles, including the Giants (all in New York), Pirates and Reds.
For the Tigers, the early World Series years didn't go so well. But they have won four of their last five. Here is a closer look at their past appearances:
1984: Tigers 4, Padres 1
Detroit won 104 games in 1984 season and was expected to have no difficulty whatsoever in this series. It turned out to be very evenly matched, but like the 2005 World Series between the White Sox and Astros, the only thing that mattered was the final result. Trammell had nine hits for a .450 average, Jack Morris pitched two complete games, Kirk Gibson went deep twice in the 8-4 finale and the city celebrated to the hilt. In fact, a bit too much, setting off celebration trauma that eventually led to an overall security improvement in the way cities fete their pro sports titles.
1968: Tigers 4, Cardinals 3
It was the year that McLain won 31 games for Detroit (baseball's last 30-game winner) and Bob Gibson compiled a 1.12 ERA for St. Louis. They were brought together in that World Series, and it began with Gibson's incredible 17-strikeout performance in Game 1. All signs pointed to St. Louis winning the Series after it took a 3-2 series lead back to Busch Stadium, but McLain was the winner in Game 6, then Mickey Lolich won a great pitchers' duel with Gibson in the finale.
1945: Tigers 4, Cubs 3
It was the last World Series of the wartime era, and Greenberg was back from military duty to lead the way for Detroit. He had five extra-base hits and a .305 average in the series. The Tigers were pushed to the limit after Stan Hack's walk-off double (they didn't call them "walk-offs" in those days) won it for Chicago in the 12th, and Detroit scored five in the first inning of the clincher after an off-day.
1940: Reds 4, Tigers 3
It was the year that someone other than the Yankees finally represented the AL, and many students of Tigers history remember it for what happened with Bobo Newsom. He went the distance to win the opener, but tragedy struck a day later when his father died of a heart attack. Newsom somehow came back for an even more brilliant Game 5 shutout, but Reds righty Paul Derringer beat him in a 2-1 pitchers' duel in Game 7.
1935: Tigers 4, Cubs 2
The Tigers win! That was the news in Detroit, where it was two old Fall Classic rivals and a celebration scene in the streets of Detroit that lasted until dawn of the following day. Goose Goslin won it with a two-out single that scored Mickey Cochrane in the bottom of the ninth.
1934: Cardinals 4, Tigers 3
In the sixth inning of Game 7, Medwick of St. Louis jostled Owen while sliding into third. Landis appeased the Tiger Stadium crowd by ordering Medwick -- who was pelted by soda bottles and fruit after taking his left-field position afterward -- out of the game. Part of it was frustration; after a great battle against the Gas House Gang, Detroit lost the finale, 11-0.
1909: Pirates 4, Tigers 3
Cobb hit .231 with five RBIs in his final World Series, and it was too much Honus Wagner: .333, seven RBIs, six steals. A different team won each game in order, and unfortunately for Detroit -- which had home-field advantage -- Pittsburgh won Game 7.
1908: Cubs 4, Tigers 1
As just about every Cubs fan knows, this was the last time that the franchise won a World Series. The Tigers didn't put up much of a battle against Mordecai Brown, and the guys from Chicago won easily. That was apparently a foregone conclusion, as few watched the Game 5 finale in Detroit.
1907: Cubs 4, Tigers 0, 1 Tie
Detroit World Series play got off to an unfortunate start. The Tigers apparently had Game 1 when Del Howard struck out, but Detroit catcher Charlie Schmidt couldn't hold on to the ball and a run scored, tying the game. It was called for darkness after 12 innings, simply resulting in a tie. Cobb, playing in his first of three straight World Series, batted just .200, scored one run and didn't drive in any.
Mark Newman is enterprise editor for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Full Name: MarcusSource
Status: Vampire
Group: Volturi Coven
Date of Birth: Around 1300 BC
Date of Transformation: Unknown
Special Abilities: He sees the strength of the relationships between people
"You already know what you'll do, Aro."
Marcus is the most detached of the Volturi leaders. The loss of his mate has essentially turned him into a zombie over the centuries. He is surprised by the intensity of Bella and Edward's relationship.
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CBS News is reporting that it was the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that purged references to "al Qaeda" and "terrorism" from talking points given to Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Rice used those talking points to promote the lie that the Benghazi massacre resulted from a spontaneous mob protest rather than a planned terrorist attack. CBS adds that the CIA and FBI signed off on this false version of events.
This is all farce, of course. There being no more honor among con-men than among thieves, there comes a time in all busted conspiracies when the conspirators start pointing fingers at each other. With their guy safely reelected, this spectacle has finally drawn the Obamedia's attention to the president's Benghazi travesty. Let's not get lost here. It is critical to step back and bear two things in mind:
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(a) All of the players here, including Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (both of whom the CBS report purports to absolve), are guilty of conspiracy — in this case, to mislead Americans about the cause of the attack and to aid the administration's Islamist allies, whose objective is to impose sharia blasphemy standards on our country (a project on which the Obama administration has been colluding with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation since 2009). It was not for their own benefit that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Rice were, respectively, doctoring talking points and using them to create a false impression. Obama was the intended beneficiary. Patently the White House — which pitched Rice to the Sunday shows because Obama wanted to get the Mohammed-movie talking points publicly aired — was in the loop.
(b) Given that the conspiracy is a cover-up, there is the more salient matter of what is being covered up? The brain-dead mantra in Washington is always — all together now — "The cover-up is worse than the crime." That is not true here. To be sure, it is very serious that Rice was sent out to trumpet the false narrative; that Clapper apparently orchestrated the purge of information about al-Qaeda's complicity; and that a compromised General David Petraeus appears to have knowingly misled Congress (that's a felony) in his initial briefing about Benghazi on September 14. They and others involved in the cover-up should have a day of reckoning. But vastly more significant is what the administration was and is so desperate to obscure by the cover-up.
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There are three areas of great concern:
1. The Benghazi attack was the natural result of Obama's Libya policy.
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Four Americans were killed in Benghazi as a direct result of President Obama's unprovoked and, I believe, unconstitutional war in Libya. This foolish gambit had the easily foreseeable result of empowering Islamists, very much including violent jihadists who now have access to much of the Qaddafi arsenal, in addition to other arms and training they received from the U.S. and NATO in the mission to overthrow Qaddafi (then, an American ally).
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The Orange County Sheriff's Office held a news conference Wednesday morning on the cold case death of the 22-year-old Navy veteran who was shot and killed in Orange County.
At the news conference, Roberto Guzman pleaded for help in finding out what happened to his son, Jeffrey.
"I want them [gunman] to know that they not only have destroyed the life, Jeffrey's life, but my whole family's. We are completely devastated," Roberto Guzman said.
Deputies said on Nov. 6, 201, US Navy sailor Jeffrey Guzman Perez was dropping off a friend on his motorcycle when two people got out of a blue minivan, one opened fire near Lancaster Park and Winegard in south Orange County.
Deputies say he was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
"We should be preparing for a trial at this point instead of still trying to solve a case," said Corporal Dave Nutting with the sheriff's office said.
Investigators say it has been a frustrating case, but they are certain someone knows who did it. Jeffrey's brother said, "every moment is missing, every situation is lacking."
Jeffrey's family says that each of their lives has never been the same. They say Jeffrey had a passion for cars, motorcycles and was a hard worker since he was very young.
"Anybody who is seeing this, put yourself in our shoes, our situation, and see our family, see how we are and just have some compassion for us and come forward," said Jeffrey's brother.
Deputies have very little information on the suspects. There is not much of a description other than one was wearing a mask and another had dreadlocks.
If you have any information, call CRIMELINE at 1-800-423-TIPS (8477) or the Orange County Sheriff's Office Homicide Squad 407-254-7000 x70538.
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Dr. Jim Collins, professor of horticulture and executive director of the Miss Arkansas Tech University Scholarship Pageant, accepted the award from the Miss Arkansas Executive Directors Association during Miss Arkansas 2013 in Hot Springs on Saturday.
Collins said that factors such as the amount of scholarships awarded and the number of contestants entered are considered in selecting the Miss Arkansas scholarship pageant of the year.
The 2013 Miss Arkansas Tech Scholarship Pageant, which was held in February, awarded more than $19,000 in scholarships and gifts to a field of 21 contestants.
"I was proud for Tech," said Collins. "There were 45 pageants this year, and to think that Arkansas Tech won the top award was pretty cool. The Miss America system is about scholarship. I am happy that our university supports the pageant and our community supports the pageant through advertising revenue so that we can offer educational opportunities to our contestants. I hope we will have even more scholarship funds to award next year."
In addition to the overall pageant of the year award, Miss Arkansas Tech was also named university or college pageant of the year in Arkansas.
Two Arkansas Tech students collected individual honors at Miss Arkansas 2013.
Claire Hodgson, Miss Arkansas Tech 2012 and Miss South Arkansas 2013, received the overall Service Above Self Award in recognition of her community service projects. Hodgson is a senior psychology and sociology major from Russellville.
Kristen Hayes, Miss Arkansas Tech 2013, won the Tony Bowls/Mon Cheri People's Choice Award and a newcomer talent award for her Irish step dance. Hayes is a senior health and physical education major from Ozark.
Hodgson and Hayes were joined in Miss Arkansas 2013 by two of their fellow Arkansas Tech students — senior Leah Cleaver of Huntsville and sophomore Deidre Holben of Lamar.
"We would love to make top 10, but you just never know how the scores will go," said Collins. "All four of the girls from Tech really represented us well."
As a veteran of 13 years as executive director for the Miss Arkansas Tech Scholarship Pageant, Collins views the life skills that contestants gain as an added benefit above and beyond the scholarship opportunities.
"I've seen contestants through the years who really gain a leg up on job interviews because of the interview experience they gain in the Miss America system," said Collins. "They learn about current events and how to keep up with what is going on in the world. They learn about nutrition. As much as anything, they gain confidence."


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Fancy Condo Hates Women, Breastfeeding, Children's Happiness
The Upper Breast Side is Manhattan's leading lactation and breastfeeding resource center and retail store with a pun in its name. A valuable resource for befuddled and sore-titted moms. Naturally, a cabal of wealthy bastards want to destroy it.
Elissa Gootman has the tale of UBS's battle with The Pythian, the fancy apartment building that rents ground floor space to the breastfeeding center. The Pythian's board fined the store's owner for leaving the door cracked so that pregnant moms would be able to, you know, open it. And more:
This was not her first run-in with the condo board: She said there had been complaints over her daughter's drawing on the sidewalk outside with chalk, for example, and about her placement of a plant in front of the store.
The Pythian wants to kick UBS out for not being a "community facility." What a bunch of shitheads.


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We had a TrainWreck in the Final!
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That's right, the lead singer of the country band TrainWreck from NE Ohio, Lou Greco, met head on with Vermillion's Maddie Fenn, a young lady who's racing career is really starting to take off, in the Abruzzi Transmissions "Box Super Roller. Fenn Dials a 6.31 against Greco's 5.93. She leaves first with a .030 light. Greco's light not that much better, but he makes it up at the other end by running dead-on his dial-in with a zero versus Fenn's 6.366.
In the Foghorn Desings No Box Super Roller, we almost had another Obertanec (Steve) in the winner's circle tonight. Nine times out of ten, when you go dead-on your dial-in with a four… the "W" should come up on your side of the lane, but that was not the case tonight. Rick Baehr had a .031 starting line advantage over Obertanec and took the stripe by .0174.
Click here for the final round stats and updated Quick Fuel Technology Halloween Classic presented by Harland Sharp race results.
When you attend the Quick Fuel Technology Halloween Classic presented by Harland Sharp, there is more to the event than just racing. On Thursday racers and fans brought tons of jokes to race control for the announcing team of Mark, Skeet and Ron to read, but there was only one joke that stood out above them all. And it was submitted by one of the quietest individuals in the pit area…Norwalk's Larry Hurst. Mickey Thompson Tires awarded Hurst with a set of Mickey Thompson Rear Slicks for having the best joke of the day!
Friday morning started off with the R&R Auto Body Pageant of Excellence.
Several dozen racers braved the cold temperatures to show off their 'pride and joys' to a panel of judges, hoping their vehicle would stand above the rest. The names of the winners are included in the current results above.
Friday was also Trick Flow Specialties Limerick Day! Who knew there were so many poets residing in the Summit Motorsports Park pit area this weekend? Unlike some of the jokes brought to the tower, these poems were definitely not recycled from the Internet. Besides following the Limerick rhyme scheme, all poems submitted had to have a drag racing theme. The panel of judges narrowed the selection down to five poems and the one that stood above them all was written by the duo of Mark and Katie Moreland, from Pioneer, OH. This couple won a Trick Flow Heat Carburetor that was manufactured by Quick Fuel Technology especially for Trick Flow.
And all roads lead to Saturday's, Trick Flow "Fright Night". Racing begins at 8 a.m. with Accel Sportsman presented on time by TFC Transportation. We have a full day of racing, as all classes in competition will run one round of eliminations. Family activities will begin at 1pm with hayrides, then the Croghan Colonial Bank Classic Kids Costume Party presented by Kelleys Island Venture Resort, which will start promptly at 5pm! Then at 7 p.m. all motorized traffic ceases, the lights go out and the scary music is played to signify the start of TRICK OR TREAT! Kids bring your pillowcases, as a small bag will not work out here. You can trick or treat to over a 1000 different pit areas and collect a ton of candy! Afterwards, the adult costume contest will get underway and racing will resume with the final round of qualifying for the Graphic Inc Signs Top Gun Shootout and the famous Trick Flow wheelie contest.
Tickets can be purchased at the gate. Kids 6-12 are just $5! Adults $20! Parking is Free. Want to stay for the finals on Sunday, upgraded to the weekend admission Kids 6-12 $15 and adults $40. Children 5 and under are FREE!


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A large number of economists were quick to express their dislike of the Paulson plan and have been vociferous in urging Congress to not be stampeded by the administration but to use this opportunity to put back into place some of the regulations that were dismantled over the last three decades.
Meanwhile on NPR this morning, Allan Meltzer, a former Fed economist and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University says that he does not see that this 'crisis' hurts anyone other than a few major players on Wall Street and that all the scaremongering about a global financial catastrophe if nothing is done are nor warranted.
Meanwhile a group of 150 economists have also weighed in, saying that there is no need for this mad rush and we should think things through carefully before committing ourselves to the Paulson plan or some minor variation of it.
As economists, we want to express to Congress our great concern for the plan proposed by Treasury Secretary Paulson to deal with the financial crisis. We are well aware of the difficulty of the current financial situation and we agree with the need for bold action to ensure that the financial system continues to function. We see three fatal pitfalls in the currently proposed plan:
1) Its fairness. . . .
2) Its ambiguity. . . .
3) Its long-term effects. . . .
For these reasons we ask Congress not to rush, to hold appropriate hearings, and to carefully consider the right course of action, and to wisely determine the future of the financial industry and the U.S. economy for years to come.
I am not optimistic that these cautions will be heeded. The administration and Congressional leadership is deep in the pockets of Wall Street and will find some face-saving way to give them everything they want.
Alexander Cockburn walks us through some of the highlights of the bipartisan deregulation that resulted in Wall Street firms playing fast and loose with other people's money for their own benefit. One key person who appears repeatedly in this sordid story is Phil Gramm, the former Senator from Texas who is now economics advisor to John McCain and reportedly his preferred choice to be Treasury Secretary. As US senator from Texas, he pushed through some of the key legislation that resulted in this mess.
In 1999 John McCain's friend and now his closest economic counselor, then a senator from Texas, was the prime Republican force pushing through the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. It repealed the old Glass-Steagall Act, passed in the Great Depression, which prohibited a commercial bank from being in the investment and insurance business. President Bill Clinton cheerfully signed it into law.
A year later Gramm, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, attached a 262-page amendment to an omnibus appropriations bill, voted on by Congress right before a recess. The amendment received no scrutiny and duly became the Commodity Futures Modernization Act which okayed deregulation of investment banks, exempting most over the counter derivatives, credit derivatives, credit defaults, and swaps from regulatory scrutiny. Thus were born the scams that produced the debacle of Enron, a company on whose board sat Gramm's wife Wendy. She had served on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1983 to 1993 and devised many of the rules coded into law by her husband in 2000.
Somewhat stained by the Enron debacle Gramm quit the senate in 2002 and began to enjoy the fruits of his own deregulatory efforts. He became a vice chairman of the giant Swiss bank UBS' new investment arm in the US, lobbying Congress, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department about banking and mortgage issues in 2005 and 2006, urging Congress to roll back strong state rules trying to crimp the predatory tactics of the subprime mortgage industry.
Cockburn points out that the enabling of Wall Street shenanigans has always been a bipartisan affair.
But is [Gramm} Exhibit A? No. That honor should surely go to Robert Rubin and to the economic course he set for his boss, the eagerly complicit Bill Clinton. Gramm has been the hireling of the banking industry. Rubin is at the beating heart of Wall Street finance, and he and Lawrence Summers at Clinton's Treasury, were the guiding forces for financial deregulation.
Obviously the Republicans hoped that the roof wouldn't fall in on their watch, and the crisis could be deferred to 2008 and then blamed on the Democrats. But their insurance policy was that if the roof did cave, as it has now, the rescue policy would be identical in both cases. That's why Obama has collected more money than McCain from the big Wall Street houses.
The gang that successfully got out of Dodge in time was the Clinton-Rubin-Summers gang, just before the last bubble -–the stock market bubble — burst in March of 2001. They knew what was coming.
Rubin is one of Obama's advisors, Gramm is McCain's so whoever becomes president, as usual Wall Street has its friends in high places. They make money from public investments when the going is good and make money directly from the taxpayers when the going is bad. The only way their hands can be taken out of the till is if the public angrily tell their representatives that there should be no bailout until massive reforms and regulations are put into place so that people's money is safeguarded from these rapacious predators.
This episode illustrates better than any civics class exactly who runs the country and for whose benefit.
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Wells provides veteran presence in diminished role
Reserve outfielder continues to work hard, ready to seize his opportunity
By Spencer Fordin / MLB.com
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Vernon Wells has grown up in the game of baseball, going from one of the youngest players in the league to a steady veteran voice in the Angels' clubhouse.
There was a time -- and it wasn't all that long ago -- that Wells could count on sage counsel from disparate voices like Carlos Delgado and Tony Fernandez. Now, at the advanced baseball age of 34, Wells knows what it means to be giving out advice instead of taking it.
"I've been used to it for a while," Wells said Friday. "The thing is that mentally, you're still the same as you always have been. Especially while you're in the middle of it. For the time you spend at the ballpark, you feel like all the ages are the same. I guess it starts to feel different when you're done."
Wells, the fifth overall pick in the 1997 First-Year Player Draft, was the second-youngest player in the Majors when he made his debut in 1999. And a year later, when he played three games as a September callup, he was the sixth-youngest. But that was a baseball generation ago.
Teammate Mike Trout, for instance, was just 8 years old when Wells got started. Wells tries not to think about things like that, and coming off a pair of disappointing seasons for Los Angeles, he said he's excited for the chance to rebound and to prove that he can still play at a high level.
Wells, a three-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove Award winner, is batting .385 with two home runs through his first six Spring Training games. And though his playing time is uncertain for the season ahead, Wells knows that that you can learn as much from adversity as you can success.
"It's difficult when you're in it, but I think you learn so much from failure in this game," said Wells, who batted .230 last year. "It's just another educational process that you go through, whether you're 23 or 33 when you go through it. I think it's important to remember everything that went on during that process so you can relay it to the younger guys. They'll eventually end up going through those things, too."
Wells, for the time being, is positioned as the Angels' fourth outfielder, as Los Angeles is planning on playing Peter Bourjos, Trout and Josh Hamilton ahead of him. But that alignment can change in a heartbeat or a hot streak, and Wells worked hard this winter to be ready for his opportunity.
"I just kind of got back to the basics. From a swing standpoint, I tried to get back to what I was doing when I was younger and just put the barrel on the ball," Wells said. "So far, so good here in Spring Training. It's just a matter of being consistent with your approach and not changing.
"When you go through struggles, the byproduct of that is making changes. And when you're continuously making changes, you can't get consistent with one approach. It's just a matter of sticking with what I'm doing right now through thick and thin and making sure that I stay on top of it."
Wells, a career .273 hitter with 259 home runs, was named the Branch Rickey Award winner in 2010 in recognition for his work in the community, and he's been the same type of person in the clubhouse. Manager Mike Scioscia said Friday that Wells hasn't made waves about his diminished role.
"He's been very accountable for his performance," said Scioscia. "He understands it. He wants a chance to win at-bats and he certainly can win at-bats. He understands and he's been fine."
Wells has played in 1,601 games without going to the postseason, and he knows his best chance may be coming late in his career, which he has said would end after the 2014 season. And if he's nostalgic, it rarely shows. When asked if his precocious teammate Trout reminds him of a younger version of himself, Wells is humble and direct.
"I don't know if there's anybody who can compare to what he was able to accomplish last year," Wells said. "There are guys that maybe had success in one aspect of what he can do, but I don't think there's been anybody who can do everything on a baseball field he's able to do at the age of 20."
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Girl's eyes severely burned after popping liquid detergent pack
NEWBERG, Ore. - Four-year-old Roxy Wiltshire, like many children, is curious.
On Thursday her curiosity led her into her parents' laundry room. She climbed on top of the toilet and opened a bag of laundry packs. She squeezed one. It popped and liquid detergent squirted all over her face and into her eyes.
She screamed, and her parents took her to the hospital, but the pain didn't go away for days.
It's the second recent local incident involving children who have accidentally gotten into these types of small packets of detergent thinking they are toys or candy reported on KATU News.
On Sunday, Julia Low's one-and-a-half-year-old son, Kai, became violently ill after he bit into a small laundry detergent pod by accident.
Roxy Wiltshire thought the laundry pack was a toy balloon.
"She didn't open her eyes for four days. We didn't know what the damage was," Roxy's mother, Jessica, said. "So for four days her dad and I had to take care of (her) and basically were devastated, sick, worried. We didn't know if our daughter could see again."
Roxy said when the detergent got into her eyes, "it felt like fire."
Her parents worried she'd go blind and doctors didn't know at first if that would happen. But on Sunday Roxy opened her eyes again.
Her eyes still have a little bit of redness and she still can't completely see out of her right eye. Jessica said doctors aren't sure yet whether that's permanent.
Roxy is doing much better. Doctors said she had a chemical burn from the detergent.
Her mom admitted she kept the bag open on the washing machine because she never heard the little packs could be dangerous.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, it is in the middle of investigating all kinds of the small laundry packs. It started the investigation because children had been eating them, not popping them.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just released some poisoning statistics.
For a one-month period in May and June of this year, more than 1,000 cases of laundry detergent exposure were reported to poison centers across the country. Of those, almost half were exposures to laundry detergent contained in pods. Most of the cases involved children who were two and three years old.
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Chevrolet TrailBlazer instrument cluster is out
tonyglobal Posts: 1In '05 the cluster was changed under warranty. Recently my Instrument cluster is again blacking out. Although unrelated, I installed a new battery which gave me the opportunity to clean & freshen up the chassis grounds, hoping this would resolve the issue...It Didn't. GM should have liability over the cluster...It's lifespan should be greater than 8 years. Replacement of Headlights, tail lights, etc. is basic like tires...SO...Any leads on a new panel?
tbowner1 Posts: 1Try the ignition switch, mine went out on my 07 and it did some very bizarre
things! Thank goodness I have a great dealership here in Phoenix (Midway) who fixed it right the first time and was reasonable too.
Every since I have had my 2005 Trailblazer I have had one problem after another, first the gas gauge, shortage in the radio and door chime, right speakers works left does not until I hit a good bump then the left speakers, rear and chime comes on, then it will go back off the next time I go to drive, no heat in the back or passenger side, the blowers went out for a long time, then suddenly popped back on meaning there is a shortage, cd player stopped working, axle broke in half , can not put in four wheel drive, sounds like metal grinding against metal, now when I put on breaks the steering wheel shakes, when I get on the highway and go about 65 mph the car vibrates/shakes. Now again have to find out what I have to do to get check engine light off, codes says something about temperature or something not in front of me. The blower will not work on 3 or 5. Never again will I buy a Chevy!
dyer33704 Posts: 2Well, as if we haven't spent enough on this piece of S*#T, now the instrument cluster stopped working and the gauges point and are stuck all over the place! Speedometer shows going 110 MPH at standstill, and well all the gauges are messed up! Can't believe all those stepper motors went all at the same time! Now they need to be refurbished!
My parents have been GM / Chevy people ever since I can remember. I think their first was a 1962 Impala Station Wagon. Anyway, I was with them when they purchased their Trailblazer. What a piece of S*#T it is! All the same issues as everyone else has been stating. Stalling at lights and pulling into and out of the driveway and intermittent rough idle and high rapid idle for no reason at at 32,000 miles. 40,000 miles brought about incorrect inside/outside temperature readings and inability use climate control which was supposedly unrepairable. Seatbelts that don't release and just keep getting tighter and tighter ever since purchase and they can't seem to repair it or didn't want to. Let's see, at 67,000 miles had to spend $2,800 to replace the air conditioner! Numerous engine problems. Rear Window motor went at 70,000 miles. Transmisison shift linkage broke stranding me in the middle of know where unable to change gears from reverse to drive or even put in park at about 76,000 miles. Windshield wiper motor on slow or intermittent (didn't even bother spending more money to get that fixed). Passenger seat stopped working at 81,000 miles.
I had an accident with my 1997 Jaguar XJS (That plus my 1995 Jaguar Vanden Plas and 1997 Jaguar XJS were possibly the BEST cars I have ever owned apart from my Mercedes')
Anyway, my rental car for the month (yep it was a BAD accident) was a Ford Edge! For any of you looking to purchase a new SUV or Crossover, the Ford Edge IS the vehicle to buy! WOW! Has Ford far surpassed GM!!!! The ride was amazing. The fit and finish were beautiful! The electronics were far ahead of anything else out there! Voice activated everything and the vehicle drove like, well it was AWESOME! NO MORE GM FOR THIS FAMILY! MY PARENT NEXT VEHICLE (as soon as we can give away this piece of crap) IS THE FORD EDGE!
As for me, I just gave away my 1997 Jag XJS with 188,000 (still in incredible condition) as I did with my 1988 Mercedes 350SD (still in incredible condition). They still run and drive flawlessly! Yes, I guess I am a Mercedes owner for ever and ever. My 2006 Mercedes CLK has 112,000 miles on it and the only repair so far has been one electronic auto-open car door handle and the car still looks new and doesn't have a squeak, rattle or bump! It pays to buy quality!
Ok, my rant is finished. IF you're going to buy American, the ONLY way to go is FORD. IF you're going to buy foreign, well I'll let you research for yourself! HAVE FUN, BE CAREFUL AND USE EDMUNDS!
Now my trailblazer cuts off at the light when stopped, the brakes makes this squealing, squeaking noise when mashed, and sound like air in them, I not too long ago got new brakes, and rarely drive this car, I got it at 108,000 miles in 2010 and it is only at 111,000 that shows how much I drive this heap, now the car is going to the left, and I just had an alignment, when they had to fix my front end and axle. Geesh! Can I get a break?
kimmiesum Posts: 1
Gas gauge stopped at 1/2 full on my 05 Trailblazer (117,000 miles), fixed this with 1/2 price warranty sent by Chevrolet, now speed odometer goes to 110 mph and stops, headlight and brake lights constantly
replaced, and Now when its cut off and key is out and it is locked park lights mysteriously come on by themselves and next morning--battery is dead--changed air filter---check engine light comes on--no codes shows--put in a different air filter (same brand that was in it before I changed it) reset check engine light was off for two days back on--still no codes show up
My next resort is to change the instrument cluster that all the post are about--I have seen the check engine light on and have put more money in this vehicle than all the 5 other Pontiacs I have owned together--Really!!! How many does it take to get a recall?
@mmstandish4 said:
My 2004 Trailblazer ext has lost tach, oil pressure, temp, speedometer. Gas guage still seems to be ok but we certainly do not trust it. Also quoted $800.00 for gauge repair from Chevy dealer in SW Florida. I too have issues with the stalling and the idle. It hurts the budget a little bit but we have been using premium fuel and that seems to help with the idle and stalling. Mine is at 105K. It sure would be nice if GM stepped up. Thank God for the GPS to help manage with the speed.
2004 Trailblazer LT instrument cluster issues. See many complaints about this. GM should recall and repair at no charge. Their Customer Service SUCKS! They just don't care!
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@sabotage said:
Started to sporadically work and not work, example slamming the door would make it work.,..The gauges would be all erratic and then correct themselves..Now I have no mileage shown and gauges do not work at all..Is there a certain place I should look for a loose connection or something or a possible solution.It only has 19,000 miles on it...PLease HeLP mE OUT !!!!
haroon1 Posts: 1
I have Chevrolet TrailBlazer LS 2008 having 65000 miles
I am facing problem of dropping of temperature gauge while driving. It comes automatically after some hours during driving. One of the mechanic has replaced temperature sensor but problem still persists. Moreover, once temperature needle goes down to zero during driving, Airconditioning COOLING system also stops working during that period. Please help me.
mjestra Posts: 1I have a 2003 Chevy Trailblazer LTZ that recently reached 150,000 miles. 2 years ago I replaced the transfer case which wasn't cheap. Now I'm having issues with the speedometer, oil gauge, service engine light, cruise control...latest problem is when it's on 2Hi and the light is lit showing this, when driving the light will change to 4Hi or Auto and the truck begins to drive different. I'm not sure what this can be...does anyone have any ideas?
gigi1957 Posts: 5
2003 Trailblazer nightmare! My daughter's truck is not running currently. Many of the problems that her truck has are already listed here. When calling customer service Monday and waiting for one half hour the phone disconnected after giving her name and the last 8 digits of the VIN. Would one of the customer service reps please list the email contact info so that an email can be sent.
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Uggla, Fredi offer take on transfer rule
By Mark Bowman / MLB.com
ATLANTA -- Late last week, Major League Baseball informed each of its 30 clubs that there could soon be some adjustments made to rules involving home-plate collisions and transfer plays.
Over the past couple of weeks, the Braves have watched a number of players affected by the transfer rule, which has gained a different interpretation since the expanded instant replay system was put in place at the start of this season.
During the eighth inning of Monday night's 10-inning win over the Marlins, Dan Uggla became the latest to run into trouble with this new interpretation. Uggla dropped the baseball as he transferred it out of his glove in an attempt to complete what would have been an inning-ending double play. Second-base umpire Marvin Hudson ruled Uggla possessed the ball long enough to record an out. But Hudson's ruling was overturned after Marlins manager Mike Redmond's challenge resulted in a replay review.
"I don't like the rule," Uggla said. "That's been an out since the beginning of time. I don't agree with it. You can go around the league and probably 100 people out of 100 or however many people are in the big leagues -- players, coaches, staff -- I'm sure will agree with me. Whoever has had a problem with it so far, I'll agree with them."
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez sympathizes with the players who have been affected by this new interpretation of the transfer rule. But until the rule is adjusted, he will continue to preach the need to be extra cautious. Gonzalez said he has gone as far as to tell his outfielders to be careful about how quickly they flip a ball into the stands after catching a ball to end an inning.
"I think the transfer rule should be distinguished between a [caught] ball and a thrown ball," Gonzalez said. "Let that stand where it has been. A batted ball, let's let that one stand where you have to catch it and you've got to come out with it. Let the actual thrown ball [on] a double play, just let that be where it has been for 100 million years."
One more rehab start before Minor's return
ATLANTA -- Mike Minor was looking forward to the chance to make his regular-season debut this weekend against the Reds. But the Braves have decided Minor will instead make one more Minor League start.
Minor will attempt to throw somewhere between 90-100 pitches when he takes the mound on Friday night to start Double-A Mississippi's game in Pensacola, Fla. Including the Braves Futures Game he pitched on March 29, this will stand as the sixth start he has made during a rehab stint that has essentially served as his Spring Training.
"Coming out of Spring Training, you usually get six starts," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "So, let's keep it that way. We'll give him [another] start and then he'll be ready to come in."
If Minor gets through Friday's start without any setbacks, he could join Atlanta's starting rotation as early as April 30.
"It's their final decision," Minor said. "I feel good and that's what I told them. But they want to err on the side of safety and precaution and make sure I'm OK."
Minor has gone nearly two months since last feeling any discomfort in his left shoulder, which proved to be tight during the early days of Spring Training. The tightness has been blamed on the month-long stretch of inactivity Minor experienced after undergoing a Dec. 31 urinary tract procedure.
Had Minor started one of this weekend's games against the Reds, the primary concern would have centered around his durability. Given that he has not thrown more than 80 pitches during any of his rehab starts, Minor likely would not have been available to throw much more than 90 pitches in his season debut.
With Minor now set to make another rehab start, the Braves will not have to deal with the possibility of playing three straight games in which they would have been sending a starter to the mound with two extra days' rest.
Such would have been the case for Minor or Ervin Santana had either started Saturday's game against the Reds. With Monday's off-day, Alex Wood and Aaron Harang would have also been lined up to start the first two games of next week's series in Miami with two extra days' rest. Santana will now start Friday's series opener against the Reds with one extra day of rest. Julio Teheran and Wood are in line to start the final two games of the series on regular rest.
Heyward expounds on decision to bunt in ninth
ATLANTA -- When Braves backup outfielder Jordan Schafer doubled off Carlos Marmol to begin the ninth inning of Monday night's 10-inning win against the Marlins, Jason Heyward looked toward the dugout and saw manager Fredi Gonzalez give him the choice to either swing away or attempt to advance Schafer with a sacrifice bunt.
After choosing to do the latter, Heyward popped his bunt up to Marmol, who caught the ball near the mound. The decision drew great scrutiny throughout the ninth inning that concluded with Chris Johnson grounding out with the bases loaded.
"I did not want to not get [Schafer] over with a strikeout," Heyward said. "I wanted the ball to be in play there. I wasn't thinking negative-type [thoughts] in general. I was just overthinking the situation. Looking back on it, it wouldn't have hurt just to pull the ball again."
Heyward halted a 3-for-32 skid with Sunday's three-hit game, and then lived up to his reputation as a pull hitter when he delivered a go-ahead single to right field in Monday's seventh inning. Instead of attempting to hit another ball to the right side, Heyward opted to put himself in an unfamiliar situation. He has recorded just one sacrifice bunt during his Major League career.
"You're almost better off trying to bunt for a hit rather [than a sacrifice]," Heyward said. "I feel I'm more than capable to get the bunt down. I feel like I'm more than capable of getting him over. I feel like I'm more than capable of getting a hit there. All the above. I was trying to play the game. I tried to do a little bit too much with the situation."
Gonzalez understood the reasoning that influenced Heyward's decision to bunt.
"I left it up to him," Gonzalez said. "Whatever he wanted to do, whatever he felt comfortable doing there. You don't want to play extra-inning games and the chances of scoring a run from third base is greater than scoring a run from second base, especially with a guy like Marmol. With a guy on third base, maybe you take one of his breaking pitches away or his split because he doesn't want to bounce it and let the runner score there. That was fine. I had no problems whatsoever."
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Im finally studying the prospects. We obviously aint gettin beasley or rose now but i just wanna say damn!!! Those guys will both be stars. Im not sure if Beasleys gonna be a pf or sf but hes got alot of potential and will make an impact immediately. Rose and Chris Paul will be the 2 best point guards for a while, with deron williams being 3rd.
Im scared we gonna get that italian kid.
From what i learned so far it appears like brook lopez and OJ simpson.......or mayo look like the best options. I still got some more studying to do, some more videos to watch but this is how i feel at this point.
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Pittsfield woman accused of snatching purse hours after theft charges dismissed
PITTSFIELD -- Less than two hours after a city woman's larceny charges were dismissed against her in court, she was arrested for swiping a shopper's purse at a grocery store, according to police.
Katie Polidoro, 25, of Maple Street, is being held without bail after pleading not guilty to larceny from a person, a felony, in Central Berkshire District Court on Tuesday.
Earlier the same day, Polidoro was about to go to trial on charges of larceny from a person, assault and battery, and larceny of a drug. But she went free when the key witness, her mother, didn't show up and the charges were dropped. Polidoro had been accused of taking money from her mother's purse and scuffling with her over the bag.
Prosecutors say they couldn't go forward with the case without the mother's testimony.
A few hours later, Polidoro was back in court. According to a police report, Polidoro was arrested for stealing a 63-year-old woman's purse at the Price Chopper on Hubbard Avenue at about 11:20 a.m. on Tuesday.
A witness told police she saw Polidoro grab the purse from a grocery cart when the owner wasn't looking.
When confronted by the woman, Polidoro -- who was heading to the front of the store with the purse on her shoulder -- said the purse was hers, but then gave it back and left the store, according to the report.
The victim said between $40 and $50 was taken from her purse. The police report didn't indicate whether the money was found on Polidoro or returned to the woman.
When police arrived, several employees from Price Chopper had Polidoro cornered near Staples, located in the same plaza. Polidoro allegedly admitted to police she took the bag, and she was arrested and brought back into District Court.
Judge Paul M. Vrabel revoked Polidoro's bail on two other open cases -- one for assault and battery, the other for forgery -- citing her criminal record. She is also on probation for assault and battery.
She is being held for up to 60 days without bail in the Berkshire County Jail & House of Correction. After the two months, she must come up with $1,500 cash or $15,000 bond to be released.
She is being represented by attorney Thomas M. Sherman Jr. and is scheduled to be back in court Nov. 14.
Police say they are investigating six other recent purse-snatching incidents in the Coltsville area. A police report states that Polidoro may have been involved in at least one of those crimes. No other charges have been lodged as of Wednesday.
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Copper dazzles investors
What is it about the red metal called copper that is making investors go crazy? Already this month Azure Minerals has more than trebled, while Inca Minerals, which we mentioned last week, has quadrupled.
These two are definitely on the small end of the Small Cap spectrum, with a combined market cap of less than $80 million, and they also have very little cash with about $3 million between them.
Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) touts itself as ''Australia's Leading Explorer in Mexico''. Yesterday it came up with more data giving investors hope that it has its foot on a lucrative copper deposit.
After drilling only one exploration hole on an untested prospect, it came out with a 70 metre intercept at relatively high grades from a shallow depth of 42 metres.
The company has proved up its JORC compliant resource of just over 500,000 tonnes, which means it dug more holes to increase the certainty that there is an ore body. And now the highly rated geologist and managing director Tony Rovira and his team will be working feverishly on what to drill next. For an explorer, it's a nice problem to have.
Elsewhere Inca Minerals' shares (ASX: ICG) quadrupled in two weeks after it came out with data that could only be described as preliminary, indicating it might be onto a giant copper deposit in Peru.
Gold does have more romance about it, but as industrial metals go, there aren't any that are more essential than copper, which is used for construction, power generation and transmission, electronic product manufacturing, and the production of industrial machinery and transportation vehicles.
It's important to remember that copper, like gold, is very hard to find.
Finding it is getting increasingly worthwhile, according to Matthew Trivett, an analyst with Patersons Securities, because of its improving fundamentals.
The red metal is priced at about $US8200 a tonne, and has more than trebled in the three or so years after the financial crisis. Says Trivett: ''The consensus is that copper is going to have tight supply until 2015, however any surplus is dependent upon major projects being brought into production.''
This last point is important because the big projects are being delayed due to cost reviews. Projects like BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam in South Australia and Antofagasta Minerals' Antucoya copper project are forecast to produce millions and millions of tonnes.
The market has been expecting a surge of copper to hit the market in 2015 and 2016, but because of the delays, there is increasing probability that this copper supply won't come on until much later.
One company Radar will be talking more about in our Spec Series which kicks off in our next issue tomorrow is Tiger Resources (TGS), a copper producer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Leaving aside the inherent sovereignty risk, this company now has funding for its expansion ($80 million via a South African bank) and is set to produce copper at 70 cents a pound, which it will sell for about $3.60 a pound.
Its Kipoi mine is expected to be one of the top 15 highest-grade mines in the world among projects with at least 50,000 tonnes a year copper production.
There is abundant exploration potential to boot with this company, but there is no doubting the risk you take on when you put your money into a company whose operations are in the DRC.
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Subpoenas and congressional oversight hearings are in store to force Department of Veterans Affairs officials to explain runaway spending on employee conferences and similar events, the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs said today.
Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., said stonewalling by the VA, the second-largest federal agency, is forcing the committee into the unusual step of issuing congressional subpoenas for all documents detailing spending on conferences.
Also on the list will be financial records for the Golden Age Games, friendly sporting tournaments VA hosts annually for aging veterans.
The events were held in Hawaii last year at a cost of about $2.5 million.
|"Unfortunately there is this culture within VA that if they don't spend the money, they're not going to get it again. What we are finding now is a complete waste of dollars."
-- Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman, House Committee on Veterans Affairs
"Because of the lack of transparency, we will be subpoenaing – which is not the customary thing to do – their records on all conferences across the United States in an effort to have complete openness and find out where the money is going," Miller said while campaigning for Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill.
"Unfortunately there is this culture within VA that if they don't spend the money, they're not going to get it again. What we are finding now is a complete waste of dollars," Miller said.
Last month, the agency's Inspector General issued a report blasting officials in the VA's Human Resources and Administration office for wasteful spending on a pair of training conferences in Orlando in 2011 that together cost $6.1 million.
Baubles bought with taxpayer dollars include a $50,000 video parody of the movie Patton and almost $100,000 worth of promotional trinkets such as shopping bags, pedometers and squeeze bottles.
In all, the IG questioned $762,000 in spending on the two events.
Agency officials who planned the conferences also took expensive pre-conference scouting trips, and improperly accepted gifts such as manicures and massages offered by vendors.
Miller previously called for the ouster of VA Chief of Staff John Gingrich, the top official implicated in that IG report.
A VA spokeswoman said in a written statement that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, a retired Army four-star general, immediately informed Congress when he learned the IG was investigating the Orlando conferences. The veterans committee separately has struggled for more than a year to determine how much the VA spends on conferences.
Agency officials delivered estimates between $20 million and $100 million for last year alone. They recently admitted to the higher figure if travel expenses are counted.
Miller demanded detailed conference spending records from the VA in an Aug. 16 letter to Shinseki that was co-signed by the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Bob Filner of California.
So far, Miller has not been satisfied with the answers.
The veterans' panel traditionally is bipartisan and rarely uses subpoenas or even sworn testimony, Miller said Thursday, adding he expects people to tell the truth. That's not happening with witnesses from the VA, he said.
"The Department of Veterans Affairs has been less than forthcoming," Miller said, adding he plans oversight hearings on the conferences sometime after next week's election.
Veterans attending the Golden Age Games are expected to pay for their own transportation and hotel rooms, yet the VA spent about $2.5 million on the Hawaii event.
Costs include more than $1 million for an outside consultant, as well as travel and lodging expenses for the 178 VA employees sent to Hawaii to plan and put on the games, which are open to veterans aged 55 and older.
"The culture of overspending is outrageous," said Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kansas, a member of the veterans committee.
Miller and Huelskamp spoke at a news conference for Walsh, whose opponent is Democrat Tammy Duckworth, former assistant VA secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs.
Duckworth planned and attended the games.
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The Los Angeles Lakers will honor six-time NBA MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with a statue outside Staples Center sometime in the upcoming season, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.
Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA's all-time leading scorer with 38,387 points.
He has six NBA titles, five with the Lakers and one with the Milwaukee Bucks, who drafted him first overall out of UCLA in 1969.
Abdul-Jabbar complained after the Lakers erected a statue of former teammate Magic Johnson in November of 2010, saying he felt "slighted" and "insulted." He also said "the Lakers don't care about me."
A 7-2 center best known for his unstoppable sky hook, Abdul-Jabbar played in the NBA from 1969 to 1989 and made 19 All-Star Games.
Regarded as introverted and notoriously rude, Abdul-Jabbar seldom spoke to the press during his playing days. In his book My Life, Magic Johnson, who later won NBA championships with him, recalls being ignored by Abdul-Jabbar when he asked for an autograph as a kid.
Abdul-Jabbar, 65, has tried to get into coaching for roughly two decades, with little success.
He has served as a special assistant with the Lakers since 2005, and has been credited with helping recently traded center Andrew Bynum develop into an All-Star.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4GB Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 dual-GPU graphics card uses two GK104 Kepler cores and has a total of 3,072 NVIDIA CUDA cores! With a base clock speed 915 MHz and a "typical" Boost clock of up to 1019 MHz, we are pretty sure this card will be faster than anything we have every tested! Read on to see how it performs and overclocks in our review on this monster! When it comes to the performance results, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 easily becomes the fastest gaming graphics card that we have ever tested. It is also one of the better looking cards that we have ever used as well. You can tell that NVIDIA left no stone unturned and has tried to make this product the best video card the company has ever released...
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Benchmark Performance @ Benchmark Reviews
Back on 22 March 2012, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 video card made headlines and became the best-performing single-GPU graphics card on the market. Only six weeks later NVIDIA engineers have successfully combined two 28nm GK104 GPUs together to create their new GeForce GTX 690. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests game performance with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690, a double-slot graphics card equipped with a pair of Kepler GPUs. Featuring NVIDIA's cutting-edge GPU Boost technology, the GeForce GTX 690 video card can dynamically adjust power and clock speeds based on real-time application demands. Using EVGA Precision-X, the GeForce GTX 690 has both GPUs overclocked beyond 1200 GHz to produce ultimate graphical performance in PC video games.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Review: Ultra Expensive, Ultra Rare, Ultra Fast @ Anandtech
In an unusual move, NVIDIA took the opportunity earlier this week to announce a new 600 series video card before they would be shipping it. Based on a pair of Kepler GK104 GPUs, the GeForce GTX 690 would be NVIDIA's new flagship dual-GPU video card. And by all metrics it would be a doozy. Packing a pair of high clocked, fully enabled GK104 GPUs, NVIDIA was targeting GTX 680 SLI performance in a single card, the kind of dual-GPU card we haven't seen in quite some time. GTX 690 would be a no compromise card – quieter and less power hungry than GTX 680 SLI, as fast as GTX 680 in single-GPU performance, and as fast as GTX 680 SLI in multi-GPU performance. And at $999 it would be the most expensive GeForce card yet.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Dual GPU Video Card Review @ HardOCP
On Saturday April 28th, many hardware enthusiasts and gamers had reason to be excited excited as NVIDIA introduced its GeForce GTX 690 to the world. In our GTX 690 sneak peek we discussed NVIDIA's goals, pricing, and a few specifications along with pictures. NVIDIA went to great lengths to seal the deal on this being the most robust, and well engineered dual GPU video card ever. Kyle called the GTX 690 "Perfection Inside and Out," and he may just well be correct as the GTX 690 was built with design and engineering priorities rather than budget restraints.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Review - Dual GK104 Kepler Greatness @ PC Perspective
Today is the first on-sale date and review release for the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4GB dual-GPU Kepler graphics card that we first announced in late April. This is the dream card any PC gamer out there combining a pair of GTX 680 GK104 GPUs on a single PCB and running them in a single slot SLI configuration and is easily the fastest single card we have ever tested. It also the most expensive reference card we have ever seen with a hefty $999 price tag.
GeForce GTX 690 Review @ Guru3D
The GPUs on the GeForce GTX 690 have a boost clock of 1019 MHz, and that's less than 3% away from the GeForce GTX 680 at 1058 MHz, so that sounds pretty terrific. All other specs are identical; the number of shader processor cores, memory speed, and memory bandwidth per GPU are the same on both cards. The first impressions of the board are really good, a nice sturdy design, the cooler is nearly a work of art -- we'll talk about it guided with some photo's though as there is much to talk about. Looking at the printed circuit board (PCB) we spot a vigorous 10-phase digital PWM design for the cores themselves while the memory will likely receive its own 2-phase grid allocated. Two 8-pin PCI-E connectors feed the card. NVIDIA is giving the GTX 690 a maximum power target of +35%, which given the card's default power target of roughly 265W means it can be set to draw up to ~350W, and that means you'll be able to overclock nicely as well.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4 GB Review @ TechPowerUp!
In more ways than one, this launch is an assertion of NVIDIA's technological leadership, because AMD still hasn't launched its enthusiast-segment dual-GPU graphics card, yet, and one can't expect it to be out before June. The GeForce GTX 690 is a dual-GPU graphics card with two 28 nm GK104 GPUs, the same chips found in the GeForce GTX 680. The two chips each are clocked slightly lower than GeForce GTX 680, and rely on a PCI-Express 3.0 bridge chip for bus interface, however, NVIDIA claims that GTX 690 should provide performance comparable to GeForce GTX 680 2-way SLI. The card also costs the same as two GTX 680s, at US $999. Which makes it the most expensive reference design graphics card ever released.


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By Sam Strong / MLB.com
Longoria sits from lineup for first time this season
ST. PETERSBURG -- Rays third baseman Evan Longoria was not placed on the disabled list Saturday after the plantar fasciitis in his right foot flared up in the second inning of Friday's loss to Detroit.
Longoria wore a walking boot out of Tropicana Field on Friday but had shed the boot Saturday and said he felt less sore than he expected.
"I'm hoping that after some of the pain I'm experiencing today subsides, I'll be able to go back out there as soon as possible," Longoria said. "It's not something that I think is going to threaten me long term, it's just pretty sore today."
Previously the only Ray and one of just 11 Major Leaguers to start in each game this season, Longoria's name was missing from Saturday's lineup card. He started all but eight of those games at third base, with another bout with plantar fasciitis forcing him into being the DH, something he "didn't like."
"I feel that my body feels better when I play every day," Longoria said. "It's tough to play this game once a week and feel like you're ready the next day. It's a routine thing. Your body gets used to it and you know what to expect the next day. It's definitely a point of pride. I want to go out there and play in the field every day and be able to do the things that have made me successful and beneficial to this team."
Manager Joe Maddon is hopeful that Longoria will be back in the lineup sometime during the Rays' visit to Houston next week but could not assign a timetable to his recovery.
Although a return date is not known, Longoria said he prefers this sort of day-to-day injury as opposed to the torn left hamstring that kept him out for more than three months last season. The Rays averaged nearly one fewer run per game and had a losing record without him in 2012.
Longoria has not received an MRI, and the X-rays he received during the last flare-up in mid-June revealed no permanent damage.
Rays call up Roberts, option Colome
ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays received infield reinforcements to compensate for the loss of third baseman Evan Longoria on Saturday when infielder Ryan Roberts was recalled from Triple-A Durham.
Manager Joe Maddon expects to split starts at third base between Kelly Johnson, who filled in for Longoria on Friday and started on Saturday, and Roberts depending on matchups. Roberts is likely to see more time against left-handed pitching.
Roberts was on the Opening Day roster and started 25 games for the club before being sent to Durham on June 17 to make room for Wil Myers.
Roberts, who was hitting .238 for the Rays, hit .276 in eight games with Durham.
"I wasn't angry when I got sent down," Roberts said Saturday. "I wasn't bitter toward anybody. I knew I was going down there for a reason. I got at-bats. I played every day. I got to see a wide range of pitchers and pitches. I definitely think I came back a little better than I left."
Some of Roberts' Tampa Bay teammates didn't recognize the clean-shaven version of Roberts, who complied with a Durham team rule and shaved his beard, which required a trimming machine and two razors.
"I stood in front of the mirror staring at myself for a good 30 or 45 seconds," Roberts said. "I hadn't seen my cheeks or my chin in about seven years. It was eye-opening. I Skyped with my daughter and she wouldn't even look at the phone because she kept saying, 'Where's Daddy's beard?' It was definitely a reality check for me."
Right-hander Alex Colome, who is 1-1 in three starts this season, was optioned to Durham to make room for Roberts. Colome's demotion cuts Maddon's starting rotation from six to five, a necessity for David Price's return from the disabled list on Tuesday.
Gomes dealing with setback in rehab assignment
ST. PETERSBURG -- Right-handed reliever Brandon Gomes was scheduled to throw his second rehab inning for Class A Charlotte on Thursday but felt discomfort in his strained right lat.
"Gomer felt more sore than he had been when he was warming up to pitch," manager Joe Maddon said Saturday. "It was a little bit of a setback. He'll be re-evaluated to see where he's at. The soreness did pick up a notch. To that point, everything was going along swimmingly. He was doing good."
Sam Strong is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Hold off Pistons in a heartstopper
By OHM YOUNGMISUK
Brian Scalabrine (l.) and Richard Jefferson celebrate after helping Nets take 3-2 series lead.
Kenyon Martin maneuvers for a shot against Pistons' Corliss Williamson during the first quarter.
AUBURN HILLS - An exhausted, sweat-drenched and bloodied Jason Kidd barely had the energy to celebrate or hug Richard Jefferson when the game finally came to an end.
In a classic reminiscent of their double-overtime Game 5 win over Indiana in 2002, the Nets survived a buzzer-beating half-court prayer by Chauncey Billups in regulation and three overtimes before taking a 127-120 nailbiter from the devastated Pistons before 22,076 at The Palace of Auburn Hills last night.
The Nets knew they were due for a close game in this series, in which the first four games had been decided by an average of 17.5points. But this was ridiculous. After winning just the fourth triple-overtime playoff game in NBA history, the Nets have a chance to close out Detroit in Game 6 tomorrow at the Meadowlands and go to their third straight Eastern Conference finals.
"Nobody wanted to lose tonight," said Lucious Harris. "That was a classic. You will see that game five, six years from now."
Yesterday morning, Kidd had said this would be the biggest game of the series, the closest thing to a Game 7. He wasn't lying as both teams played like their season depended on it. There was blood - Kidd suffered a gash to his nose in the third overtime - sweat, fouls and heroics in a game that took four hours and seven minutes.
Eight players fouled out last night - the most in NBA playoff history - and five players logged over 50 minutes. That forced little-used reserves like the Nets' Brian Scalabrine into action. The third-year forward from USC played the biggest game of his life, scoring a career-high 17 points and making six of seven shots. Richard Jefferson had 31 points and 11 rebounds and scored 18 of his points in the three overtimes after Kenyon Martin (22 points, 9 rebounds) had fouled out with 2:29 left in the fourth.
"I'm not drained, I'm proud," Detroit coach Larry Brown said. "I don't know how many people can see a better game than that."
The Nets had this game seemingly won in regulation when Kidd went to the line with the Nets up two and 11.6 seconds remaining. However, he missed both free throws. Still, Jefferson came up with what looked like a game-sealing block on Billups (31 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists) with 3.9 seconds to go.
The Pistons fouled Kerry Kittles and the Nets began celebrating with 2.9 seconds left. But the Nets should have learned from the Lakers-Spurs Game 5 classic Thursday night that nothing is over until it truly is over.
Kittles missed the first of two foul shots, which allowed Billups to take the inbounds pass, dribble up the court and bank in a 43-foot prayer at the buzzer to force overtime tied at 88.
It was Reggie Miller all over again. Miller banked in a three-point prayer at the buzzer two years ago in the Nets' Game 5 first-round win over Indiana.
"That was what it was, just a little farther," Martin said of Billups' Reggie-like shot. "We had been there before. All I said was, 'Oh, here we go again.'"
That wasn't what Lawrence Frank was thinking. "I'm truly an idiot," the Nets coach said. "Could've fouled, could've double-teamed (Billups). Did neither."
The Nets had a chance to win the game in the first overtime but Kidd - who hit a game-winning shot in Game 1 here in last year's conference finals, couldn't shake Lindsey Hunter and ended up passing the ball away before the Nets turned it over on a shot-clock violation with 2.3 seconds left. Billups missed a contested three-pointer at the buzzer to send the game to a second overtime tied at 99.
The Nets had a shot to win the game in the second extra session but Kittles missed a contested off-balance 19-footer and the score stayed 111-all. With all the Nets' big men - Martin, Rodney Rogers, Aaron Williams and Jason Collins - having fouled out going into the third overtime, the Nets were forced to play Scalabrine, Jefferson, Lucious Harris, Kittles and Kidd.
Detroit, however, was without big men Ben and Rasheed Wallace as well as Richard Hamilton - all had fouled out. The Pistons finally ran out of gas, missing 12 of 16 shots in the third overtime while Jefferson and Scalabrine kept hitting big shots. Now the Nets look to close out Detroit knowing that of the 115 previous best-of-seven series that have been tied 2-2, the team that won Game 5 has gone on to win 96 times (83%).
"Missing the free throws that we did and getting the lead in overtime and letting them tie it ... it would have been pretty devastating to lose," Harris said. "That was a classic."
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TACOMA, Wash. – The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded University of Puget Sound a $700,000 grant to support sabbaticals for pre-tenure faculty members, the university announced today.
The funding for 20 junior faculty sabbaticals over three years will enhance Puget Sound's ability to attract and retain the highest-quality teaching staff, to provide new faculty with opportunities for research and renewal of their pedagogy, and to give students the unparalleled benefit of studying with professors at the forefront of currency in their fields.
"We want to thank the Mellon Foundation for the tremendous support they have given Puget Sound over the years, and particularly for this important grant, which directly sustains our unqualified commitment to excellent teaching," said Puget Sound President Ronald R. Thomas. "By allowing junior faculty the time to renew their leadership in their fields, to explore new ideas, and to develop new curricula and research, we ensure that their ability to provide the very best in learning is revitalized and advanced."
The value of such funding to faculty, students, and the campus as a whole is illustrated by the results of an earlier grant for junior faculty sabbaticals from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, five years ago. Comments from the 25 faculty recipients of the one-semester awards indicate the grant allowed them to further their scholarly development at a critical time in their careers and to create an even more vital and intellectually-engaging educational experience for students.
"Reading widely during my sabbatical helped me refill my mental reservoir of ideas and develop two new classes, which I have since taught …," wrote Katherine Smith, associate professor of history. "The Mellon Award also enabled me to draft a substantial portion of my forthcoming first monograph . . . and to turn a conference paper into an article, which has since been published in a leading journal in my field."
Kriszta Kotsis, associate professor of art, wrote that the award "… gave me an opportunity to interact with fellow scholars more extensively than it would be possible during a normal semester."
Gwynne Brown, assistant professor of music, noted that, "My engagement with the musicological field as a researcher and writer, which the Mellon award dramatically intensified, has attracted the interest of several of my students, some of whom … have come to my office to talk to me about my scholarship."
The results of the earlier grant were also seen in Puget Sound's enhanced ability to attract top-choice candidates for open faculty positions, in the low attrition rate within the teaching body, and in the excellence of scholarship submitted by faculty who came due for tenure.
Puget Sound aims to continue to extend the opportunities for both junior and senior faculty sabbaticals through endowment gifts. A key goal of the $125 million capital campaign—One [of a Kind] The Campaign for University of Puget Sound—which launched last fall, is to generate $2.5 million for endowment specifically to support faculty sabbaticals in perpetuity.
The generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation allows Puget Sound to steward its resources and maintain its support of both pre- and post-tenure faculty sabbaticals, with the aim of further enriching Puget Sound's nationally-recognized, liberal arts education experience.
To read more about the One [of a Kind] capital campaign visit: https://www.pugetsound.edu/one-of-a-kind/
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