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The idea of in some sense rewarding DeMarcus Cousins for the havoc he has wreaked yet again on the Sacramento Kings grates on some of us here at the HTB Hideout. When you're the best player on your team's roster, you're supposed to fix things, not escape them.
But the flip side of any rumored Cousins-to-Boston trade coin is that the Celtics would be the ones getting rewarded. Proud, aging stars Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, along with respected coach Doc Rivers, would get a XXXL-sized transfusion in wring a bit more postseason success from the era begun nearly six years ago.
The third side of that coin, though, would ask: Would a trade from 13-21 Sacramento to 16-17 Boston qualify anymore as a reward?
OK, so that's a little snarky. But seven years of lottery finishes (and four coaching changes) has left the Kings a core of young talent. Marcus Thornton, Tyreke Evans, Jason Thompson, Isaiah Thomas, James Johnson and Cousins all are 26 or younger. Chuck Hayes (29) and Aaron Brooks (27 till next week) still are helpful pieces. Rookie forward Thomas Robinson, the fifth pick in the Draft in June, has had a bumpy start but perked up both in performance and in awareness on the road this weekend in Toronto and Brooklyn.
Cousins, of course, remains the key. He has averaged 20.8 points, 13.5 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 1.8 steals over the last six games, driving Sacramento's 4-2 mark. He has exasperated team members, staffers and fans alike with his unprofessionalism, which earned him a team suspension right before Christmas. Yet there is no denying Cousins' skills and potential – that's what keeps the apologists alive and the trade market in overdrive.
It's hard to know what to believe at the moment. Sam Amick, USA Today's rock-solid NBA guy who is based in Sacramento, continues to report that the Kings are not moving Cousins.
DeMarcus Cousins is not going to the Celtics. Teams continue to be told that he's not available. That is all.
— Sam Amick (@sam_amick) January 7, 2013
But NESN.com, like a lot of Boston fans, wondered if the Celtics' decision to waive Kris Joseph and Jarvis Varnado might suggest – open roster spots! – that some multi-player maneuver was in the works. That speculation had life breathed into it by NBAonNBCBoston.com, via a Twitter item based on an anonymous source to that site's Patrick Gilroy:
Sources close to nbaonnbc.com confirm that Danny Ainge is working to complete a deal to bring Cousins to Boston, tonight.
— NBA on NBC Boston (@NBAonNBCBoston) January 7, 2013
(Notice that the replies to that "tweet" ranged from @JFunkyD_JD's "We need to do something to shake up the mix" and @RiGronkulous87's "I'll believe it when I see it" to @seanoblizalo's "I just threw up.")
Meanwhile, Boston sports reporter Mike Petraglia of WEEI was offering up an idea that would have the Celtics headed in an entirely different direction: Trading Garnett, the oldest guy on the roster, in a move for now but especially later.
The Celtics have precious few trading chips to do what they really need to do, and that is move forward.
The Celtics are not going to even sniff the NBA finals as currently constituted. I wrote in this space last week that the Celtics should get Garnett some help. But after what I watched last week on the West Coast and Wednesday against Memphis in person, I'm convinced another big man won't make up the talent deficit the Celtics face. Even worse, if the Celtics decide to improve the roster, it will come at the expense of at least Bradley, if not draft picks.
That's exactly what [Celtics basketball boss Danny] Ainge should not do. … This is about rebuilding a roster with the type of younger and more athletic talent it takes to compete year in and year out.
Obviously, the Cousins and Garnett schools of thought could only co-exist in a trade of three or more teams. Even if Garnett were to waive his no-trade clause, he wouldn't do so to relocate to Sacramento. The Kings, likewise, would have little use, while still on training wheels, for the pricey 36-year-old.
Cousins as the centerpiece of roster renewal in Boston? Garnett landing with a team with real championship potential? Sure, it's all fun to ponder. All long shots, too.


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MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. – Jasmine Whitby scored 20 points and Brittany Miller recorded her first collegiate double-double, but turnovers plagued Mount Olive in the second half as the Trojans fell to Coker 57-55 in Conference Carolinas women's basketball Monday at Kornegay Arena. The Trojans committed 21 of their 27 turnovers in the second half.
Lotta Aaltonen scored 19 of her game-high 24 points in the second half for Coker, which defeated Mount Olive for the first time since February 29, 2004. The Trojans had won the previous eight meetings prior to Monday.
Mount Olive (6-3 overall, 2-2 Conference Carolinas) used an early 10-2 run as Alisa Jones' layup gave the Trojans a 12-7 lead with 12:56 left in the first half. Coker (2-6, 1-2) got as close as one point, but Tomeka Prichard's three-pointer and Whitby's putback highlighted a run of seven unanswered points to extend Mount Olive's lead to 21-13 with 6:11 remaining.
Coker ended a near six-minute scoring drought and held the Trojans scoreless for five minutes to again close within a point. Megan Thomas keyed a run with a three-pointer and Alexis Blow's short jumper brought the Cobras within 21-20 with 2:37 remaining.
Mount Olive closed out the half on a 5-0 run, as Prichard hit a jumper with 33 seconds left and Brittney Robich converted a three-point play with six seconds left after a steal by Jones at midcourt. Coker was unable to get a shot off in its final possession and Mount Olive went into the locker room with a 28-22 halftime lead.
Turnovers would be the story after intermission as both teams exceeded their first half turnover totals in the first 10 minutes of the second half.
Coker pulled within a field goal, but the Trojans matched their biggest lead after a Cobra turnover led to Whitby's layup with 16:20 remaining to give Mount Olive a 36-28 advantage. But turnovers on three consecutive possessions, including two in the backcourt, led to an 8-0 Coker run as Aaltonen's putback tied the game 38-38 with 13:25 left to play.
Mount Olive regained the lead on its next possession as Meaghan Vanderhorst drove the length of the floor and dished to Jones for an open layup. Shequanta McGee's layup with 8:48 remaining extended the Trojans' lead to 49-43. But Mount Olive would be limited to three field goals the rest of the way.
Aaltonen's three-pointer cut the margin in half and Heidi Rienstra's layup pulled Coker within 49-48 with 6:52 remaining. Coker had a chance to take its first lead of the second half on each of its next eight possessions, but was unable to capitalize. Robich, who dished out a career-high six assists, found Jones for an open layup to give Mount Olive a 51-48 lead with 3:24 remaining, ending the Trojans' five-minute scoring drought.
Coker tied the game 51-51 after Aaltonen hit 1-of-2 free throws and Keisha Beavers hit a fastbreak layup with 1:36 remaining. Mount Olive went back on top seven seconds later on Miller's 15-foot baseline jumper, but Aaltonen answered with a basket to tie the game 53-53 with 1:14 remaining.
The Trojans missed on their next possession and Blow's layup with 42 seconds left put Coker on top for the first time since leading 7-6. After a Trojan missed three-point attempt, Blow hit a pair of free throws with 24 seconds left to make it a two-possession game.
McGee drove the length of the floor for a layup to pull the Trojans within a basket with 13 seconds left. Coker ran the clock down to four seconds before missing a pair of free throws, giving Mount Olive one last chance. But a 35-foot three-point attempt at the buzzer went off the side of the rim.
Miller finished with 12 points and a career-high 10 rebounds for Mount Olive. Whitby narrowly missed a double-double of her own, finishing with nine rebounds. Jones had eight rebounds and four blocked shots, while McGee added seven rebounds, five assists and four steals. Prichard also recorded four steals. Mount Olive outrebounded Coker 46-36.
Aaltonen, the only Coker player in double figures, pulled down a team-high seven rebounds. Thomas added nine points, four assists and four steals, while Jessica Hayes finished with six rebounds and six assists.
Mount Olive returns to action Thursday as the Trojans travel to Belmont, N.C., to take on Belmont Abbey in a Conference Carolinas match-up. Tip-off is 5:30 p.m. Coker plays host to St. Andrews Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in Conference Carolinas action.


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What Did You Crave?
On Facebook, I have a Navelgazing Midwife page, my midwifery-oriented page... different than my personal page (which I keep for family and non-birthy friends). Each day, I ask a new question pertaining to birth and/or parenting. The answers have been fabulous, so I thought it'd be a good idea to share the questions (and answers) here, too. And since it is NaBloPoMo and all, I'll be sure to get at least one post in a day.
Today's blog question: What did you crave when you were pregnant?
BJ: Sauerkraut and sausages.
CS: Milk and canned ravioli (and beer but I didn't drink it, although in retrospect that would have been better than the ravioli) oh, and Icees! With the second it was MEAT.MEAT.MEAT.
TC: Red onion diced up and mixed with ketchup.
CS: I craved beer with my other pregnancies. I also crave salads, steak, with one I loved green apples w/ caramel dip, my last pregnancy it was watermelon. It varies.
GD: Peaches. And I wanted wine, too. But, of course I didn't.
KLT: Sweets!
DBH: DD: lemons w/salt, Taco Bell and egg mcmuffins (hyperemesis, 7# gain, 36 weeker); DS: burgers from Red Robin, egg salad, strawberry bkfast shakes (30# gain, unplanned 37w1d uc); DD: avocados mashed with salt, PB&J's, pizza (10# gain ...but had flu and viruses most of the pg, mw assisted hb 39w6d).
AL: Lemonade.
CG: DD1: Lemonade from Hot Dog on a Stick; DD2: Don't remember anything. DD3: Gyros.
JM: Burritos! I wanted one every day and milk, now I only drink almond milk but I drank about 1 to 2 gallons a week sometimes when I was pregnant. (Lalalalalala... I'm not hearing that!)
TO: Grapefruits! We lived in Orlando and I would take them off the neighbors trees! Second kid-spicy food...and I was never a spicy food person!
SH: With my first: red meat and blood. With my second, flowers and leafy greens.
KP: Full-fat chocolate milk! Made me sick afterwards, but I could guzzle a quart of it at a time.
EC: Pumpkin anything!
SM: I ate a full pound of red grapes every day when pregnant with my daughter. Literally, every stinkin' day. (WOW!)
TR: Taquitos and guacamole with my first, egg rolls and stir fry veggies with my second, pad Thai and peanut sauce with my third.
AHT: I get pica with all of my pregnancies! I really like eating soft crushed ice, and I wish I could lick wet concrete. I haven't ever licked it, but it sure smells like it tastes good! I have had my Hgb tested everytime and everything comes back normal....just my weird pregnancy thing I guess. (This could be a topic all on its own... if you had pica, what did you crave? I'll have to do that one.)
JS: Cucumbers, limes, tapatio sauce with lots of salt!
SD: Pizza!
Me: With Tristan, I craved Slurpees and Snickers. And Bomb Pops. Hmmm... wonder why I gained 80 pounds. With Meggie, I ate blocks of cheese. B-LOCKS. With Aimee, anything American... we were in Germany and I missed American food something fierce.
What did you crave when you were pregnant?


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Police: Accused Robber Called With Info
Sioux Falls Police say the man arrested and charged in five armed robberies in the city is believed to be the same person who called three times with information about the holdups.
Domach Kong Khai, 21, was arrested Friday night on five counts of first-degree robbery, and Information Officer Sam Clemens says it's believed Khai called from a blocked number on December 6th, December 27th and January 7th with information about the robberies.
Clemens says some of the details were inaccurate, but some were not, including details about the five robberies that police had not made public. Clemens says the caller gave information about a suspect that is not believed to have been accurate.
He says although the number the caller was using was blocked, police were able to trace it, and they asked that person to come and talk with detectives. He says that person turned out to be Khai, who was arrested Friday night.
A search of Khai's apartment turned up several robbery-related items.
For the record, the robberies were:
Caseys, 701 S. Sycamore Ave on 11/11/2012
Caseys, 701 S. Sycamore Ave on 12/06/2012
Get N Go, 5400 E. Arrowhead Parkway on 12/25/2012
Gas Stop, 3000 E. 26th St on 12/30/2012
Cones Amoco, 1027 S. Cleveland Ave on 01/07/2013
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ajday wrote:Two things: Don't say "boring" and don't start a "Ring of Honor" chant at any point of the night. Better yet, knock off the "WRESTLING!" shit during ever single match, too. The shit was getting old.
drop19 wrote:Fun show. Some of my favorite things:
-Willie Mack picks up a big win over Steen. Hopefully he wins against Hero tonight.
-Chucky T picks up a dominant, clean win over Kenny King. He didn't even need any help to do it.
-Shelley/Edwards was a masterpiece. Incredibly impressed.
-There were some scary moments after the top rope broke in the Main Event. Looks like Hero took the ringpost loop to the lower back during a turnbuckle spot. Both guys adapted well and put on a hard hitting match.
fatallylost wrote: -Now.. we all know my love for The Kentucky Gentleman. But, you were kidding right? Cause, you know, there was interference.
drop19 wrote:fatallylost wrote: -Now.. we all know my love for The Kentucky Gentleman. But, you were kidding right? Cause, you know, there was interference.
If Brian Cage-Taylor comes out to see what merchandise is for sale and King can't stay focused I don't see how that's interference.
Night Two was another fun show. As cliched as it sounds, I don't know that the Legion Hall has ever been as loud as it was after the Hero/Tozawa match. Tremendous war between those two and a fitting end to Tozawa's tenure in PWG.
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The third time's a charm for Mary Margaret McCord.
The third time's a charm for Mary Margaret McCord.
McCord, a Gadsden native and graduate student at the University of Alabama, was crowned Miss Alabama USA 2013 Saturday night and will represent the state in the upcoming Miss USA pageant.
McCord, 22, was one of 33 young women competing for the crown at the 61st annual pageant, held at the Montgomery Performing Arts Centre.
"I am so excited," McCord said Monday of winning. "I can't believe it's actually happened. I woke up this morning and I looked around my room to make sure my crown and sash were still there —to make sure it wasn't a dream.
"This is my third year to do it, so I've put a lot of time and effort into making sure I was 100 percent there in competing, and I can't believe it's actually happened," she said. "I'm so exited to be given this opportunity."
McCord was first runner-up in the Miss Alabama USA 2012 pageant and third runner-up in Miss Alabama USA 2011.
She graduated in 2012 from the University of Alabama with a degree in public relations, minoring in both entrepreneurship and communication studies. She now is working on a Master of Science degree in marketing at the university.
McCord will participate in the nationally televised Miss USA pageant this summer. According to a press release about the event, the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA specials are produced by the Miss Universe Organization, a Donald J. Trump and NBCUniversal joint venture.
McCord will waste no time preparing for the event.
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Fans have been as supportive of Thomas Rhett's second single as they were his debut effort, 'Something to Do With My Hands.' 'Beer With Jesus' sets a different tone than the fun Top 20 hit, but it strikes a deep chord with fans of country music. With two Showdown wins behind him, the singer will take on another newcomer in Greg Bates and 'Did It for the Girl.'
Bates, a Nashville native, has enjoyed watching his debut single race up the charts. It's a simple and fun love song that tells a story many men are familiar with. It will take full support from his fans to get the song to another round on Friday, as Rhett's single is red-hot just weeks after being released.
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Millionaire Steve Fossett made his way into the record books — once again — when he successfully became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world.
Fosset flew more than 67 hours nonstop in the Global Flyer, a Burt Rutan-designed aircraft, landing at 1:49 p.m. (CST) March 3 at Salina Municipal Airport (SLN) in Kansas, where he began his historic flight the evening of Feb. 28. Fossett is the first person to make the 23,000-mile trip around the globe alone without stopping or refueling.
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Dave Brubeck, jazz legend, dead at age 91
Dave Brubeck, whose more cerebral approach as a pianist and composer helped elevate jazz in the 1950s and made him one of the music's best-known figures, died Wednesday in Norwalk, Conn. He was one day shy of turning 92. The cause of death was heart failure, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Brubeck's 1960 recording "Time Out'' became the first million-selling jazz album. Its most celebrated track, "Take Five,'' was the first jazz single to attain gold-record status. It almost immediately became Mr. Brubeck's signature tune, one of the most recognizable pieces in jazz.An anthem of dawn-of-the-New-Frontier cool, "Take Five'' epitomizes what one might call JFK jazz: laidback yet intense, aloof yet engaging. It also epitomizes Mr. Brubeck's music in its use of an unusual time signature (5/4) and lucid, abstract feel. By Mr. Brubeck's standards, 5/4 was reasonably mainstream. He also recorded music in 7/4, 9/8, 11/4, and even 13/4.
Although Mr. Brubeck composed a number of jazz standards, including "Blue Rondo a la Turk,'' "The Duke,'' and "In Your Own Sweet Way,'' the composer of "Take Five'' was the alto player Paul Desmond. Desmond's unmistakable tone — dry, floating, incisive — was central to the sound of Mr. Brubeck's quartet, which from its formation in 1951 to its disbanding in 1967, dominated both reader polls and sales charts. Desmond's lyricism and understatement ideally complemented Mr. Brubeck's more earthbound pianism.
Mr. Brubeck played a crucial role in the transformation of jazz from a broadly popular, if little respected, genre that was viewed mainly as dance music to one accorded greater intellectual respectability and listened to for its own sake, albeit by a markedly smaller audience. "Dave's contribution lies in the dignity he's given jazz,'' music promoter George Wein said in 1955.
Certainly, no one would ever accuse the Brubeck Quartet of being a dance band. "I wanted to play against the rhythm sections rather than with them, just as a modern choreographer does in ballet,'' Mr. Brubeck once said. "It was very hard to get a rhythm section to do what I wanted it to do.''
It was apt that one of Mr. Brubeck's most successful albums was called "Jazz Goes to College.'' "Brubeck and his quartet galvanized an entire college generation's interest in jazz,'' the critic Doug Ramsey has written. His cool, intellectual approach made the music seem part of the undergraduate climate, giving rise to a new breed of BMOC: Brubeck men on campus. As much as his growing popularity, it was Mr. Brubeck's ostensibly academic bent that led Time magazine to make him just the second jazz musician to grace its cover, in 1954, after Louis Armstrong, in 1949.
Mr. Brubeck's fondness for exotic time signatures contributed to his music's brainy reputation. Also, there was his use of polytonal harmonies and classical devices, such as fugue and counterpoint. Mr. Brubeck liked to say he was "a composer who played the piano'' and he had spent three years in the late '40s studying with the classical composer Darius Milhaud. The foremost influences on his music, Mr. Brubeck often said, were Milhaud, Duke Ellington, and the virtuoso jazz pianist Art Tatum. There was also a visual aspect to Mr. Brubeck's intellectual image.
His quartet looked like a Phi Beta Kappa chapter meeting on the bandstand. Three-fourths of its members wore horn-rimmed glasses: Desmond, drummer Joe Morello, and Mr. Brubeck. In addition, all three were white (bassist Eugene Wright was black). This led to a widely held view among critics that the group didn't really swing, further enhancing the quartet's reputation for intellectuality. Yet for all the accusations about the quartet's music being rarefied — and Mr. Brubeck's playing being somewhat stiff — no less an authority on swing than the great blues shouter Jimmy Rushing asked the quartet to back him on what would prove one of Mr. Brubeck's most engaging recordings, the 1960 album "Brubeck & Rushing.''
Mr. Brubeck's reputation for high-art intellectualism contrasted with his Wild West upbringing. He'd been a teenage cowboy, in northern California; and, minus the glasses, he had the look of a native American chief, thanks to his craggy nose and prominent cheekbones. Desmond said he had "the expression of a surly Sioux'' and the critic Gene Lees entitled an essay on Mr. Brubeck "The Man on the Buffalo Nickel.'' Mr. Brubeck was frequently classified as belonging to the "West Coast'' or "cool'' school of jazz. It's true he grew up there and began as both performer and recording artist in the San Francisco Bay area. And West Coast musicians were predominantly white.
Yet in musical terms, Mr. Brubeck stood apart from the cool school. His music tended to be harmonically denser than anything found on the recordings of such West Coast stalwarts as Chet Baker or Shorty Rogers. Nor did they share his interest in polyrhythms and classical devices.Indeed, Mr. Brubeck helped point the way to third stream music, the blending of classical and jazz, in the late '50s and '60s. With his quartet, he performed on a recording of his brother Howard's "Dialogue for Jazz Combo and Orchestra'' with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in 1960. In the early '60s, Mr. Brubeck began to compose extended pieces of his own: a ballet, "Points on Jazz,'' and a musical, "The Real Ambassadors,'' with book and lyrics by his wife, Iola (both 1962); an oratorio, "The Light in the Wilderness'' (1968); a Mass, "To Hope! A Celebration'' (1980); and several cantatas, the most popular of which is "La Fiesta de la Posada'' (1975). In 2005, he composed 'The Commandments,'' a choral work.
David Warren Brubeck was born on Dec. 6, 1920, in Concord, Calif. His father, Howard Brubeck, was a rancher. His mother, Elizabeth (Ivey) Brubeck, was a pianist and piano teacher who had studied with the celebrated English pianist Myra Hess.Encouraged by his mother, Mr. Brubeck began playing piano at 4. He had such an adept ear he didn't learn to read music until he was an adult. Even when helping his father herd cattle, Mr. Brubeck was being musical. "The first polyrhythms I thought about were when I was riding horseback,'' Mr. Brubeck recalled in an interview for the 1992 box set "Time Signatures.'' "The gait was usually a fast walk, maybe a trot, and I would sing against that. . . There was nothing to do but think, and I'd improvise melodies and rhythm.''
Mr. Brubeck studied music at the College of the Pacific, in Stockton, Calif. After graduating, in 1942, he enlisted in the Army. Mr. Brubeck insisted that military regulations be breached and the service band he led be racially integrated. Using his GI Bill benefits, Mr. Brubeck studied with Milhaud. He had begun to lead his own big band before the war and now formed an octet, largely composed of fellow students. "The damnedest bunch of noise I've ever heard,'' Mr. Brubeck's father said after a concert.
In his biography of Mr. Brubeck, "It's About Time,'' Fred M. Hall quotes him as saying of this period, "I was trying not to listen to much jazz. . . I was trying to develop an individual style. I probably heard Miles Davis' 'Birth of the Cool' once, maybe. . . If any contemporary jazz player impressed me, it was [pianist] George Shearing.''
Mr. Brubeck had been introduced to Desmond during the war. In the late '40s they began playing together. "Paul and I seemed to have some kind of telepathic communication,'' he told Hall. "We would even make the same mistake together and then correct it, in the same way, together. We seemed able to spin out our contrapuntal lines anticipating each other's thoughts. If any two musicians were destined to play together, it was Desmond and I.''
Mr. Brubeck formed his quartet in 1951. Its classic configuration, with Morello and Wright joining Desmond and Mr. Brubeck, lasted from 1957-67. He then began playing in a trio format, with Jack Six on bass and Alan Dawson on drums, often joined by baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan.Billed as "Two Generations of Brubeck,'' Mr. Brubeck also frequently performed with his sons: Darius, on keyboards; Danny, on drums; and Chris, on bass and trombone.
Two notable appearances by Mr. Brubeck came when he performed in San Francisco for John Paul II music he'd composed for the pope's visit, in 1987; and, in 1988, when he performed for Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev at the leaders' Moscow summit. Among many other honors, Mr. Brubeck was a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, in 1994, and was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, in 1996.
He was a Kennedy Center honoree in 2009.
In addition to his wife and sons, Mr. Brubeck leaves two other sons, Michael and Matthew; a daughter, Catherine; grandsons and one granddaughter.


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Armia (#10) was excellent in keying the Finnish offense. After a scoreless first, the 6'3 wing absorbed a hit to advance the puck deep, went to the front of the net, and won a battle below the goal line against two USA defenders to assist on Finland's first goal just 81 seconds into the middle frame.
After USA tied the game in the early third, Armia would show deadly transition skills by accepting a pass and gaining enough separation to break in and score the game winner while using his left knee to thwart off the backcheck.
The big wing capped his performance with an insurance marker at 16:27 by jamming a loose puck underneath John Gibson and into the American net. Armia started the play with a nice effort on the boards to free up the puck before drifting to the net and tapping in the area pass.
Armia, who now has two goals, an assist, two shots on goal, and a +3 rating through the first two tourney games, will look to continue his offensive stacking on Friday when the Finns take on Denmark.


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Denver still dragging feet on new STRIVE Prep High School
The Denver School Board has been tying itself in knots trying to find a good location for a new STRIVE Prep High School – when it already has one.
Three months ago the board flinched when presented with an attractive plan to "co-locate" a STRIVE Prep High School (known at the time as West Denver Prep) at half-empty North High in the fall of 2013. In the face of opposition from some parents who unfortunately saw high-performing STRIVE as a threat, the board established a Stakeholder Working Group to search for an alternative.
Well, the citizens committee reported its findings recently and the board is still mired in indecision. And no wonder.
The committee concluded the "best solution would be to place STRIVE Prep High School at Lake, and find a new location for STRIVE Prep Lake Middle School south of Lake and north of 6th Avenue." That sounds relatively simple except that it's not. The committee admits it "will not be an easy option" and that "there will no doubt be costs involved with identifying a new building."
The board has given staff 30 to 60 days to find a new location for STRIVE Prep Lake Middle School and to assess the financial implications.
Will the Denver school board really be willing to placate critics of the North High option at the expense of taxpayers elsewhere in the district if it turns out that the citizens committee's top alternative costs significantly more than the original plan?
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DAPHNE, Ala. – Sports fans, set your online-viewing alerts to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday for the next edition of the United States Sports Academy's Sports Talk program.
This week, Sports Talk moderator Dr. Stephen Butler; Dr. Bret Simmermacher, Chair of Sports Coaching; Dr. Brandon Spradley, Director of Sports Management; and Ben Billman, doctoral teaching assistant, will recap the 2016 Olympic Games continuing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
To view the program live, visit the Academy's Google Plus page at http://google.com/+UssaEdu.
Sports Talk features commentary on a wide range of current events in the sporting world, usually in a panel-discussion forum with Butler, Dean of Academic Affairs at the Academy, serving as moderator.
In addition to being available live, the program will be available for viewing afterwards at the Academy's YouTube site at https://www.youtube.com/user/USSportsAcademy.
The United States Sports Academy is an independent, non-profit, accredited, special mission Sports University created to serve the nation and world with programs in instruction, research, and service. The role of the Academy is to prepare men and women for careers in the profession of sports. For more information about the Academy, call 251-626-3303 or visit www.ussa.edu.


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Kim Kardashian Flaunts Sideboob + Booty in White Bikini [PHOTO]
Kim Kardashian gives whole new meaning to the phrase "Baby got back!"
You'd NEVER know that the reality star had a baby four months ago thanks to the smoldering and sexy snap she shared on Instagram, showing off a bit of sideboob and that famous booty of hers while wearing a white bikini. That's some serious junk in the trunk.
She's blonde. She's back. And baby got back! Her tanned skin really pops against the stark white bathing suit.
Dayum, she looks fine. We'll go ahead and say it. Kimmy K. is one hot mama.
Kardashian must have been working overtime to return to her pre-North West figure. She's also dethroned Jennifer Lopez as the booty queen with one picture.
Yeah, that thing is on Nicki Minaj-like levels of shapely.
Kanye West, her baby daddy, is a very lucky man.
Yeezy even tweeted his reaction to the photo! Steamy!


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Westlake Village, CA (PRWEB) June 29, 2013
Crystal Travel is promoting new specials for travel to France for members of their private travel club located on the border of Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village.
According to the travel manager at Crystal, Jeff Green, "Crystal is all about finding deals for members so they can travel more often, and have more money to spend while on vacation. It's confusing. People see that they can get fifty percent off on a trip, but they're getting that discount off of an inflated rate, and in the end, they're still paying a lot more than they need to for their vacations. We just recently came across a new vendor who offers amazing deals to France so whenever this happens, we like to let our members know right away."
Crystal Travel is a private, members only travel club, where one pays an initial membership fee and a small annual dues in order to get the right or ability to book all travel at cost, saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As far as France goes, people often ask, when is the best time to go? It is recommended to viisit Paris in the spring (Apr-June) or fall (Sept-Nov), when things are easier to come by -- from Métro seats to good-tempered waiters. The weather is temperate year-round. July and August are the worst for crowds.
Hotels used to charge off-season rates during the cold, rainy period from November to February; now, they're often packed with business travelers, trade fairs, and winter tour groups, and hoteliers have less incentive to offer discounts. Airfares are still cheaper from November to February, and more promotions are available.
Also worth mentioning, the first two weeks in October is the even-numbered years is the auto show, so Paris is very crowded.
As far as weather goes, Paris is seldom cold, but conditions vary from region to region. The Mediterranean coast in the south has the driest climate. When it does rain, it's heaviest in spring and autumn.
For more information on being a member of Crystal Travel, one must attend a presentation at the local sales center in Thousand Oaks, CA.


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Grandhotel Pupp has been recognized by Fodor's Travel, the foremost name in travel publishing, as a 2010 Fodor's Choice selection. This distinction represents a remarkable achievement and recognizes Grandhotel Pupp as a leader in its field for service, quality, and value in the 2010 year.
Since 1988, Fodor's Travel has been awarding the Fodor's Choice distinction to only the very best hotels, restaurants and attractions around the world. Every year, Fodor's writers experience, examine and evaluate thousands of hotels, restaurants and attractions in their travels across the globe. While every business included in a Fodor's guide is deemed worth a traveler's time, only fifteen percent of those selections are awarded the very highest, Fodor's Choice designation by Fodor's editors.
"These places are the best of the best, providing a remarkable experience in their price range or category."


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Last season Tom cracked the singles line-up and started in over half of the team's dual matches. His best win came against nationally ranked Santa Barbara in the #5 position. During his sophomore year Tom saw most of his action during the fall season. In the spring he started in three matches winning two, and an excellent 7-4 doubles record playing with 4 different partners. Tom represented Yale in two tournaments freshman year and went 2-4 in singles matches. Tom is a three-time ITA Scholar-Athlete Award recipient. Prior to Yale, Tom won the Connecticut State High School 77th Annual CIAC Singles Championship. He is one of the top junior players from New England and was ranked among the top 100 junior players nationally. He graduated 2nd in his class at East Lyme High School.
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Outdoor Soccer Schedule – Coed
2019 Outdoor Soccer Schedule – Coed
Team Colour & Roster List
Schedule subject to change, please check schedule weekly to verify correct game time and field location. All games are played Sunday evenings. Rain out's (if any) will be made up on any days a field is available.
WE play Rain or Shine, assume there is a game unless you hear otherwise from NRS. Notifications will first be on the website, and we will send an email if possible.
Playoff Schedule Can Be Found Here.
No games on long weekends unless we need them for rain out make up games.
Outdoor Soccer Standings Quick Link
Team Colour & Roster List
For field locations follow this link.
Outdoor Soccer Schedule 2019
B Division
C Division
2018 Season Layout
Intermediate Division
B Division is our top division, teams will be playing for the NRS Champions Cup when Playoffs arrive. Even though it is our top division please keep in mind it is not a "Competitive" Division, it is coed adult soccer, first priority should be to have fun.
B Division
The B Division is playing for the . After the regular season is complete the division will be broken up and the top 8 will be playing for the NRS Consolation cup, the remaining teams will be playing for bragging right's in their respective division.
C Division
The C Division is playing for NRS Consolation Cup. The division will be broken up into smaller divisions come playoff time, top 8 and bottom 6.
2018 B Division Schedule
B Division Schedule by Week (match day) or Team
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In 2010 and 2011, Family Care International conducted mappings in five regions: Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Francophone West Africa, East Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and South Asia. Each document is available in English; when relevant to the region, they are available in French and Spanish as well.
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So here we have President Obama back in the Oval Office for another four years. A resounding victory in both the Electoral College and the popular vote. One of only four Presidents in the last century to have received 50% or more of the popular vote twice. We are now being told that all of those confident predictions of "Romney momentum" and a Romney win from the GOP and its echo chambers on the Fox"News"Channel and right-wing talk radio were nothing more than self-delusional distortions of the facts (that the New York Times' Nate Silver had right there for everyone to see).
My own prediction of a Romney win was based not on the polls, which I don't trust too much anyway, but on the assumption that the Rove cheat-the-vote machine was fully geared up and ready to go. I thought that combined with the massive GOP voter-suppression efforts, especially in Ohio and Florida, I thought that it would swing the election to Romney regardless of what the honest vote total would be. Then, having seen the now-famous Rove-Fox"News"Channel live, I speculated that the former had simply failed. A consideration of all the GOP-and-relatives' hand-wringing and "where-do-we-go-from-here" that is now going will be the subject of my next column. But in this space we shall briefly consider the choices facing President Obama as he heads into his second term.
I have never considered the President to be any kind of a left-winger. Back in December 2007 I said: "As they have done in the past, the center-right Democratic Leadership Council is this time around running what in Standard-Breed (trotters and pacers) horse racing terminology is known as an 'entry.' One owner enters two horses and bettors can bet on the two together." The "entry" was of course Obama and Hillary Clinton. (The DLC no longer formally exists. But its Republican-lite, or what used to be called "liberal Republican," policies do and they are held by a number of still-powerful Democrats. There are contemporary observers who consider Pres. Obama to actually have that sort of politics.) I considered the issue of Obama's attachment to the DLC and DLC policies again in 2009, and once again following the elections of 2010. In that column I had cited a leading DLC-er on the results of the 2010 Congressional elections:
"On the day after the 2010 national elections, Evan Bayh, retiring Senator from Indiana, laid out very clearly the current political and policy program of the dominant power in the Democratic Party, the Democratic Leadership Council. The reasons for the Democratic losses around the country, so Bayh told us (paraphrasing in quotes), were that Obama was 'too far left,' that he should have 'pushed jobs,' not pushed health care reform so hard, and should have taken it easier on Wall Street and the banks. 'Cut taxes, attack the budget, grab the center' was the central headline in the piece. Obama has to 'move to the center,' needs to 'reach across the aisle,' and 'must learn to work with GOP in order to get things done.' "
OK, now here we have had Sen. Mitch McConnell announce in December 2010, just after the deathless prose above of ex-Sen. Bayh had appeared, that his number one objective in the Congress was to enable the defeat of President Obama in 2012. We have had McConnell and Boehner/Cantor push that strategy to the limit, not only on legislation but on appointment confirmations. On bank regulation they were so aggressive on the possible nomination of Elizabeth Warren to be the first head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which she had virtually invented, that Obama didn't even bother trying. (Think that the GOP might be regretting that one, eh Scott Brown? Duh!) Nevertheless, contrary to the advice ex-Sen. Bayh was rendering, Pres. Obama, still no radical he, had made it clear that were he to be re-elected any "budget deal" would have to include tax increase for the wealthy. He also pushed hard on the so-called "women's issues" that the DLC-ers always want to put on the back-burner. And he took what can be described in current US politics as a "left" position on the immigration question. And guess what? He won!
Funnily enough, I happened to hear ex-Senator Bayh as the token Democrat (sic) on a Fox"News"Channel post-2012 election wrap-up. And guess what? Despite the clear illustration of the GOP tactics and strategy, really for the whole of the Obama Presidency, and despite the early indications that they ain't budging much, at least for now, there's ex-Sen. Bayh, on the telly, virtually quoting himself from The New York Times in 2010. It happens that Sen. Bayh still represents a powerful wing of the Democratic Party. There's ex-Sen. David Boren (also an influential DLC-er) saying exactly the same thing. There are still right-wing "Blue Dog" Democrats in the Congress, Sen.-elect Joe Donnelly of Indiana being one of the new ones.
At the same time, the liberal/progressive wing of the Congressional Democratic Party is getting stronger too. First, Harry Reid, with his majority enlarged (when the prediction had been that it would shrink or even disappear), is starting to make some aggressively true Democratic noises. Then we have newly-elected progressive Democratic Senators like Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin. The best left-Democrat of them all, Alan Grayson, has been re-elected to the House. And of course there is still the 75-member strong House Progressive Caucus, led by Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva. In the last Congress they proposed the only responsible, progressive deficit-cutting budget out there. It received no attention in the mainstream media or from the Obama White House, but this time around, with a reduced GOP majority on the House, and Obama not facing re-election, hey, you never know.
So here we have the Presidential decision to make. It's not about a legislative agenda first, a laundry list of nice programs that left-Democrats have always run with in the past, and still do, actually. It's about first, which domestic political direction is he going to go in, which political philosophy: DLC or Democratic Progressive Caucus, Clintonian "triangulation" to fend off the liberal wing of his party, or moving forward to re-establish the true Democratic brand, domestically. The President is not going to change US foreign policy, which first and foremost focuses on the onward march of American imperialism. But on the domestic side there is a major decision to be made by him. We will know which choice he has made when we see his bottom line on the upcoming (mis-named) "fiscal cliff" (really a fiscal slope). We will know which choice he has made when we see what his new cabinet appointments are. For us political junkies for progressive democracy it's going to be a very interesting couple of months.
Steven Jonas, MD, MPH is a Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University (NY) and author/co-author/editor/co-editor of over 30 books. In addition to being a columnist for BuzzFlash/Truthout (http://www.buzzflash.com, http://www.truth-out.org/), he is the Managing Editor of and a Contributing Author to TPJmagazine.net.


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Are we not all apes, in the bigger scheme of things?
First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972). Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Written by Paul Dehn, from characters created by Pierre Boulle. Starring Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, others. 88 minutes. * 1/2
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011). Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Written by Rick Jaffa and Pamela Silver, from characters created by Pierre Boulle. Starring James Franco, Frieda Pinto, John Lithgow, Tom Felton, and Andy Serkis. 105 minutes. ***
Related Films: A host of Planet Of The Apes movies, from both incarnations. Plus a TV-show, and, ummm, Spartacus, I guess.
Of all the films that play the remake game, Conquest and Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes probably have the most reflexive, Moebius-Strip geneology. Consider:
1) Because time travel (in both directions) informs the backstory of the first set of movies, the first version of this particular story is simultaneously both sequel (as it details the adventures of a chimp whose genes originated in a post-apocalyptic future) and prequel (as it details how he makes a version of that future come to pass).
2) Because the first Planet Of The Apes was remade, badly by Tim Burton, in a version that failed to make a lick of sense, this latest incarnation is not really billed as either sequel or prequel to that film but shows signs of being aware of the first Planet's backstory.
3) It can also be seen as a stand-alone film, and probably should be.
So what you have here is ipso facto, a stand-alone film that is also a remake of a film that is both prequel and sequel. (And then, the makers deny that it is a remake, which only complicates this; but then some of us have memories that extend back as far as earlier in the year, when the makers were less shy about trumpeting its connections to the earlier Conquest).
This is almost as impressive as though not nearly as elegant a feedback loop as a sequel to a remake which is itself a remake of a sequel.
Either way, both stories detail the lonely struggle of a super-intelligent chimp named Caesar, freeing his less evolved brethren from bondage to human beings, in the first of a series of events that will, we're meant to understand, culminate with those apes in charge of the Planet Earth. But both deal with that story germ in significantly different ways; the first is shackled to a torturous backstory and a minimal budget and really doesn't work all that well, and the second has the benefit of advanced technology as well as the performance of a guy who, by now, really does deserve to be a household name. Let us now take a look at both.
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972)
The lower budgets and more limited technical capabilities of some past films sometimes required its viewers to fill in some blanks, a responsibility that was sometimes good for our collective imaginations but which also sometimes smacked us in our faces when we were faced with circumstances where those imaginations had to fail.
For instance, take the various species of ape in the original Charlton Heston Planet Of The. The makeup that permitted McDowell, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans and divers others to hobble about as hyper-evolved chimps, orangs and gorillas was a marvel, in that it both evoked the desired level of otherness while still permitting the thespians to act. It also left the actors recognizable to some small degree, even if, in one famous incident, Heston later encountered Hunter at a party and had absolutely no idea who she was even though the movie they'd just made together had included a scene where they'd kissed goodbye. Hunter was reportedly very amused. She must have enjoyed watching Ben-Hur wrack his brains as he wondered how the hell he knew her.
In the context of a science-fictional universe, subject to lord alone knew how many millennia of evolution, it was acceptable that the creatures evoked but didn't actually look all that much like the species of ape we know from the real world. They were apelike but humanoid; animalistic, but civilized. It wasn't anything anybody saw reason to remark upon, except insofar as the story remarked upon it already.
But this became somewhat more problematic as the arc of what had become an extended movie series sent two apes back in time and obliged them to set a hyper-evolved chimp, the future Caesar, loose in that famous science-fictional realm, "the near-future." By Conquest, a plague established in Escape From has killed all cats and dogs and set humans to seek animal companionship somewhat further up the evolutionary scale, a development that has eventually led to chimps, orangs and gorillas doing menial work in our cities as a kind of downtrodden slave race.
Here, the same makeup that worked in Planet Of The now fails miserably. Even if the viewer refrains from analyzing the images on screen to the degree a science fiction writer would, he can see that the apes shuffling about on the city streets are not the apes we know from our world, but a kind of strange hybrid, half-man, half-ape, that is for some reason being treated by fascistic human beings as all ape. The proximity to our time wrecks the illusion and adds a layer of cheese thick enough to make a dietician blanch. Especially to our modern eyes, accepting it requires active forgiveness on the part of the audience – which may have been possible in 1972 when this was the fourth film in a blockbuster franchise, but is pretty damn difficult when the movie is watched as a stand-alone artifact.
Second problem, which may be almost impossible for people of our era to comprehend: in 1972, sequels to hit movies were not given larger budgets than the originals. They were asked to get by on less. This was in part because sequels were not widely respected (Heston, for one, played his role in the first Ape sequel, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, reluctantly and with a clear sense of sheepish embarrassment), but also because it was felt that the name was enough to get asses into theatre seats and that larger budgets were therefore unnecessary. Conquest did not have the money to build a futuristic city, so it staged all the action around a number of ugly concrete-and-steel municipal plazas, often in closeups designed to hide any revealing contemporary details that might have been invisible around corners or over the tops of buildings. It is difficult to escape the impression that the action involves no more than about six city blocks. The scale seems tiny, cramped, and ugly.
The third problem is that this future society sure likes public address systems. Cops don't have dispatchers; they have loudspeakers telling them exactly where they need to go to break up riots. Guys at control panels don't tell their co-workers to do something; they broadcast it to the entire building so everybody within ten blocks knows what orders are being given. This is the opposite of fascism, which usually tends to be a little more secretive. This is just being pushy.
Fourth, the story has many moments that are just plain stupid. Take the fate of Armando (Ricardo Montalban), the kindly circus owner who was entrusted with the infant Caesar at the end of the prior film. Now Caesar's surrogate Dad, he takes the evolved chimpanzee, the only one in the world who can reason and speak, for a visit to the big city where the future liberator ape will receive his first glimpse of the slavery to which others of his kind are subjected. Caesar is warned at length that the authorities have never given up on finding the offspring of his deceased parents, who is regarded as a clear threat to humanity's survival. The chimp nods and says that he understands and naturally reveals himself by shouting an angry epithet at some fascistic cops in the first few minutes of the film (an act that proves he may be sentient, but is not necessarily intelligent, if you can get the difference). Write that off as a moment of youthful passion on Caesar's part and you still arrive at the next logical development, Caesar on the run pretending to be another uncomprehending ape, while Armando falls into the hands of the police and is interrogated at length over his charge's whereabouts.
Interrogated at length, Armando tells the cops at length, I don't know about any talking ape. This, if you believe the film, goes on for days. The cops say that they've decided to believe him, then bring out a magic futuristic device which forces people to tell the truth. This, in turn, obliges Armando to leap out a nearby, conveniently breakable window to avoid narking. Which is great when it comes to providing this film with a taste of tragedy, but really: if the fascist cops of this posited era have such a device on hand, and believed all along that Armando was lying and that finding Caesar was high priority, why keep that device locked up and only haul it out when their prisoner believes that he's pulled a fast one? How much time have they wasted, by their lights, just to keep the past and future Khan Noonian Singh in suspense all those hours while they sweated him? That's dumb. Or mean: the kind of thing Dick Cheney would do, just to prove he can be sufficiently cruel to suspected terrorists.
More clumsy plotting manifests when Caesar is placed on the auction block. The villain of the piece, Governor Breck (Don Murray), who seems to have few government duties other than snarling, spots him from a distance and says, there, that ape, THAT'S the one I want as slave. Since Breck has been ranting about the missing Caesar at length, it is easy to believe at this moment that Caesar has in some way betrayed himself, or that Breck has in some way spotted him as the super-ape he's hunting. But, no: the purchase is totally random, Breck just happening to have the impulse to buy the one ape he's looking for. This would be forgivable were there an important narrative reason for it, but no; in fact, it serves the story only so Caesar can find himself in the same room with Breck and hear some of Breck's vicious ranting about the threat posed by the apes. After which, Breck just as quickly decides, no, I don't want this ape as my bartender after all.
Deep Racial Sensitivity
The other major purpose in inviting the chimp up to job interview as bartender is introducing him to MacDonald (Hari Rhodes), who, as a black guy, is sympathetic to the plight of lower-evolved simians being used in slaves. (This is not my characterization, but, inherently, and wincingly, the film's; a side-effect of the recent developments of the Civil Rights Movement being that some cinematic allusions to it were not only strident and obvious but, as in this case, tone-deaf.) MacDonald must endure a number of moralistic sentences about the indignities suffered by the apes that begin with phrases like, "You, of all people…" He takes this with the expected level of stoic nobility. Today we wish we could peel away that actor's skull and see what was going on inside his brain: perhaps a number of sentences that began with, "Fine, so I'm the human face of the chimps, now. Thanks a fuckload, whitey."
Anyway, Caesar rallies his fellow apes via a series of secret meetings (arranged via methods that are swiftly glossed over in this society where two or more apes congregating in a public place can be met, on sheer principle, by riot police). He is captured but freed in part because MacDonald intervenes. Violence ensues, and after the titular "conquest" (actually, a street riot, which the movie acknowledges will soon be put down), Caesar rants some inspirational words about how word of his act of defiance will soon spread throughout the world, and reach every place where apes are held in bondage.
"Where there is fire," he says, " there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch, and conspire, and plot, and plan for the inevitable day of Man's downfall. The day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities, in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends! And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you NOW!"
McDowall, bless him, actually manages to sell this. As he also manages to sell an immediate pull-back, when the apes seem about to beat the captive Brock to death.
"But now… now we will put away our hatred. Now we will put down our weapons. We have passed through the night of the fires, and those who were our masters are now our servants. And we, who are not human, can afford to be humane. Destiny is the will of God, and if it is Man's destiny to be dominated, it is God's will that he be dominated with compassion, and understanding."
Way to be mushy, Caesar.
As it happens, this was not even close to a sufficient bridge to the final film in the series, Battle For The Planet Of The Apes, so the makers of that one had to provide a flashback which establish that a convenient nuclear war erupted almost immediately after the events of this film. It was a nuclear war that had nothing to do with any of Caesar's actions; it just happened, and left the apes on top. So what we have here, really, is a movie about an incident that doesn't amount to much, that doesn't have any resounding effects, and is rendered wholly irrelevant by events that took place off-screen not long afterward. Nice going.
Incidentally, the less than impressive direction was, believe it or not, by a pro responsible for at least one genuine, pulse-pounding classic: J. Lee Thompson, who had about a decade earlier made The Guns Of Navarone. See what difference a budget, a script and enthusiasm for the source material makes?
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011)
In between the 1972 and 2011 versions we had a much-derided Planet remake by Tim Burton that didn't do much to advance the fortunes of the franchise, and which may have come to naught had not somebody skipped forward several sequels and alighted on Conquest as the one with the germ of a story that might be revisiting all by itself.
Early publicity actually had it called Rise Of The Apes, which might have been preferable, as it's not only a decent film with some actual resonance to the way we treat our fellow creatures, but one good enough to deserve to stand apart from a now-hackneyed franchise.
Which is, really, not saying that it fires on all cylinders. Its main problem, really, is that it comes alive only when the apes, led by this film's Caesar (a wondrous motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis, the unheralded human face behind Lord Of The Rings's Smeagol and Peter Jackson's King Kong), are on-screen. The film makes Caesar a sympathetic, flawed three-dimensional being, and accomplishes much the same for many of his fellow apes, but neglects to do the same for any, repeat any, of the human characters. They all speak in declarative sentences that propel the plot, and sometimes in villainous utterances that propel our hatred for them, but none of them have fully-rounded personalities, not even Will Rodman (James Franco), the dedicated Alzheimer's researcher whose formula makes the infant Caesar smarter than the average ape. Sure, we know that he's driven by love for his ailing, demented father Charles (John Lithgow, best of all the hairless apes on display), and he's far as we can see a nice guy who means well, but it would be nice if he was actually memorable in some way, if he was a person whose fate we cared about and whose presence on screen was more than an interruption in the fateful saga of Caesar. As it is, his romance with pretty young veterinarian Caroline Arinha (Frieda Pinto) is about as bloodless a pairing as anything we've seen in movies for years.
Most human beings in the film don't make out even that well. Tom Felton, who played a snotty, cruel twerp in the Harry Potter series, plays a snotty and cruel twerp here; way to enlarge your range, Tommy. (And, yes, I know that he's a working actor, at the mercy of whatever role comes next; I'm just saying.) There's a next-door neighbor named Hunsinger (David Hewlett), who out of some misplaced understanding of the rule of conservation of characters must be the story's designated abrasive asshole and the guy who makes things worse every single time he appears; thus, he not only wields excessive force against Caesar when the baby ape gets loose, but also assaults the clearly confused Charles for getting behind the wheel and damaging his car and is cast as the human face of the deadly plague that, we're meant to understand, goes worldwide and wipes out human civilization within days of the final fade to black. To call treatment of his character, and of Felton's, and of a number of others, unforgivably primitive on the face of it is to understate the case. It's rubber-stamp writing, which is dumbfounding in a film that has such a fully-realized, fully-imagined character at its center.
Because Caesar himself is a wonderment, maybe the most fully realized movie ape since any version of King Kong. A character who, unlike the predecessor played by Roddy McDowall, pretty much doesn't speak except via the sign language he's been taught (and eventually via the few words he eventually manages to vocalize), he inhabits the center of a movie that is, pretty much, the arc of his life: from the brutal trapping of his pregnant mother in Africa, to his adoption as pet by the ill-advised Rodman, to his carefree and adorable childhood to his gradual realization as he reaches adulthood that he's not like the humans who have raised him and not at all like his fellow apes either. It is as expressive and as silently articulate an animated character as any that have ever been put on film, and much of the credit accrues to Serkis, who was actually on a set wearing a motion-capture suit and providing the film with the body language that went into making this put-upon chimp such an engaging and sympathetic presence.
The film is superb in those scenes where he is banished to an ape sanctuary that is not nearly as benevolent as it seems when Rodman first brings him there, and must find out a way to survive among his fellow apes (and eventually, lead them to freedom). Caesar is a sentient creature among largely non-sentient ones, and though initially overpowered, is constantly watching and learning. He woos allies, makes plans, becomes radicalized. It is hard not to root for him over the stupid, arrogant, lord-of-creation people who keep him down. The audience cheers his every incremental victory and is driven to cheer him and his fellow apes in what amounts to a huge, brutal prison breakout, even when human beings are hurt. Why not? In the universe of this film, and generally, human beings suck.
It helps, too, that the movie exercises what is sometimes a remarkable visual imagination. There's a splendid scene set on a quiet tree-lined suburban street where humans are minding their own business, which suddenly becomes a green blizzard as thousands of leaves plummet from their branches and fall all around them, courtesy of the mob of apes passing by in the upper branches. It is gorgeous, in its way; a last moment of beauty before an epic battle on the Golden Gate Bridge, which the apes must traverse if they're to get to their sanctuary among the Redwoods. (This would of course no permanent solution, if humanity remains intact, but some people are already spitting up blood, so that'll be a moot issue within days.) The final battle is thrilling. Audiences are moved to passionately root against their own species. I don't recommend putting the DVD on the players at any sanctuaries where apes interact with modern technology.
In the end, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes misses greatness because the human elements are so undercooked, but the simian elements are divine. Another pass at the screenplay and it might have been truly something else.
The Plaque On The Wall Of The Monkey House
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, a now largely embarrassing entry in a series struggling to keep the wheels spinning for one more installment. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, a film where the apes get all the best moments and where humans should have been a little better developed.
And now, the wife falls to her knees in front of the shattered Statue Of Liberty and cries, "You maniacs!"
Second Commentary by Judi B. Castro
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972). Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Written by Paul Dehn, from characters created by Pierre Boulle. Starring Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, others. 88 minutes. *** (9 year old self); * (adult me)
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011). Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Written by Rick Jaffa and Pamela Silver, from characters created by Pierre Boulle. Starring James Franco, Frieda Pinto, John Lithgow, Tom Felton, and Andy Serkis. 105 minutes. ***
Related Films: A host of Planet Of The Apes movies, from both incarnations. Plus a TV-show, and, ummm, Spartacus, I guess.
I was such a happy me when I heard about the remake of one of the apes films. Then I watched the remade Planet of the Apes and all my hopes were dashed.
Zip ahead a few more years. Here I sit , supposedly older and wiser, but again I let my hopes rise. Another Apes film is being redone. Will they get it right this time? After all, my nine year old self LOVED the first version. It had a talking circus chimp that looked like a guy in a suit, but who cared. There was action and apes beating up humans. Who needed more at nine?
Well at this age, I need more. What a painful hour and a half that recent rewatch was. I squirmed and found reasons to run to the kitchen, bathroom, computer etc. What had my nine year old self been watching? This 1972 film was as preachy as they could make it without losing commerciality. The speeches were overblown and the sets minimal. They obviously had major budget cuts from the earlier films, but some contractual need to make this one.
Do I need to even mention the uneven acting? I felt I was watching soap opera at its worst.
So, I was ready for anything when we went to see Rise .
Oh happy day! Rise of the Planet of the Apes is well thought out (for the most part), well acted and most importantly perfectly paced.
I'm sure Adam has done his usual stellar breakdown of both films, but I have to say Wow! Andy Serkis more than deserves a lifetime achievement Oscar by now. He brings life to a character that could have been nothing more than another CGI Yoda. Caesar lives and breathes. This is a chimp whose thoughts are there for humanity to see and misinterpret. All of that is Serkis, the CGI interpreters did a bang up job of covering the human with chimp, but its still the human actor who makes the ape.
Now the storyline is plausible, though if I wanted to a could drive a few cars through the holes in logic. And, the use of the timeworn science gone horribly wrong actually works here. However I noticed too many audience members leaving the theater before the apparent effects are shown. They won't realize why this is called Rise instead of Creation or some such. Foolish mortals!
Also, I was taken aback by the cheering audience. Didn't these folks know that these apes were about to become humanity's oppressors? I guess I needed less perspective to get past all of that nonsense.
All in all, a hell of a good ride for this remake. Another one to prove that sometimes they can get it right the second time around.


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The house is a shape everyone has some form of relationship with. Whether it symbolizes comfort, global financial crises in housing market, cookie cutter mediocrity or family, the house as a mundane symbol or object has been elevated to captivating experimental art and high art on several occasions. This weekend we share with you a selection of significant works that adapt houses into art objects.
Urs Fischer's Untitled (Bread House), constructed of bread, bread crumbs, wood, polyurethane foam, silicone, acrylic paint, screws, tape and rugs leaves every ingredient exposed. Stepping inside this large sculptural work recently at MOCA had the effect of walking inside a decaying fairytale, as the work is naturally allowed to crumble and decompose in exhibition. Stepping over piles of crusts of cinnamon raisin bread amidst dirty rugs and peering up at the bubbled polyeurythane foam that seeps between boards and rows of old bread, the viewer may feel any combination of wonder, amusement and fear- much like Grimms Brothers Fairytales.
An Te Liu's Title Deed evolved from the Leona Drive Project in Toronto where a number of vacant tract houses were offered to artists to be reinvented as artistic installations. As this project took place in 2009 in the height of the housing market crash, the artist observed that the simple shape of the existing house represented the 20th century iconic Monopoly board game house pieces. The simple, yet flawless execution of Title Deed situated within a functioning suburban neighborhood carries comical yet heavy implications.


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It simple, cheap and easy way to get your vitamins in a delicious and hydrating way.
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If I made a WoW expansion, I'd repeat the motto: a WoW player doesn't like killing things, but trying to.
It would increase the difficulty, bring the need to have good survival skills like mana efficiency back, reduce leveling speed, make uncommon+ gear much harder to obtain and herlooms just above common, and expand the current system to be reduce the amount of spells you have and make classes more diverse and useful.
moving on, it would be called 'chronicles of the old gods' and it means that if you complete the main story of a zone and reach the maximum level of that zone, you would be able to unlock a new version of that zone which eventually features fighting a 'new god', which is like one of the old gods, in the story of that zone, and that zone would also have dynamic difficulty, scaling to level. the final boss of the zone is insanely difficult and near impossible to kill without a proper raid group, but at least it shares the loot with all who helped kill it, depending on how well they did. if they kill the boss enough times and well enough, they would combine the currency gained to create the 'heart' of that boss zone. once everyone in your raid has every single one of these boss hearts, they can combine them at the maelstrom to summon the old god form of deathwing. and if you were disappointed by the madness of deathwing encounter, this one actually has you fighting deathwing the way you've always wanted it. besides deathwing actually walking around the maelstrom and being massive, he would crack a pillar four times during the fight. one pillar floods the world, another causes an earthquake, the third one burns up the land, and the final one will magically shatter the earth into pieces. however, if the raid survives to this point, then there will be an event which stops the earth from shattering, and allows the raid to fight the true form of deathwing.
but even though there is a boss for every zone, there will be an extra boss for the night . in the night cycle, there would be a beast called the wanderer, which is deliberately meant to be horrifying. you will not be able to see its' true form, even if it attacks you. if you aren't near a light source or campfire, then the one spawned in that zone will pick up on your scent, and will begin to find you if there is no one else it has smelt. most of its' spells are instant death attacks, and if a raid is gathered, the wanderer is designed so that 3 people will die before its' basic attacks are no longer instant death while it is in combat.. its' true form will only be revealed when it is close to death.
heroic dungeons and raids would be extremely hard to do well at and then complete, but give great rewards.
I have roughly 20 other game mechanics I have theorized and tweaked for WoW, but I'm just a limited access account, what would I know?


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Says one writer: it's time to end the myth that just because someone raised kids, they know what they're doing.
It's true that the grandparents of Teen Mom are not an impressive lot. There's Farrah's mom, arrested for hitting her daughter. There's toddler Sophia's other grandmother, who's suddenly shown up and filed for custody. We could talk about Caitlin and Tyler's respective parents, abusive, married to each other and condemnatory of the kids' decision to give their daughter up for adoption. They might all have changed a diaper in their time (well, maybe not Tyler's dad) but they're not people you'd want raising children.
And, says Jeanne Sager, that's the point: "Grandparents tend to earn automatic respect because, gosh darnit, they raised kids of their own. They must know what they're doing." While plenty are great — and no one's saying a Marion Robinson situation isn't an ideal situation for many a family — dysfunction knows no age limit. In Sager's words. "Simply getting your kids to adulthood doesn't mean you did it well."
That said, it's true that many a grandparent has a less fraught relationship with his grandchildren than he might have with his own kids — and partially, surely, because they don't have to do the day-to-day work of parenting and disciplining. In some ways, it's unfair to judge as grandparents those who, like Farrah's mother, are still parenting themselves. Maybe part of the issue is that when the mom's this young, she doesn't have the wherewithal — or the distance — to decide what she'd do differently. Or at least the space to implement those changes.
'Teen Mom' Reminds Us Grandmas Are Crazy Too [CafeMom]


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If you are a crime victim or if you witness a crime, your observations can lead to a faster resolution of the case.
When you report a crime, a Broward Sheriff's Office Communications Operator will ask you to describe the suspect(s) you observed. NEVER place your personal safety or the safety of those around you in jeopardy to get a better description of a subject, but if possible, make a mental picture of the suspect(s) by scanning the individual(s) from top to bottom, and outside to inside.
Note the most obvious information first: race, sex, approximate age, weight and height. Then note hair and eye color, complexion and any distinguishing features such as glasses, scars, facial hair, etc.
Notice what the person is wearing, starting with the outside layer of clothing. Many times a suspect may remove outerwear to elude law enforcement officers.
If you're describing a vehicle, remember the acronym CYMBALS:
C - color
Y - year
M - make
B - body
A - additional descriptive features
L - license
S - state