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The Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility provides approximately 273 megawatts (MW) (as of October 2012) of affordable, pollution-free electricity to the Northwest, which is equal to the annual energy requirements of around 80,000 homes. Located near Ellensburg in Kittitas County, Washington, this facility, operated by Puget Sound Energy, has 149 turbines spanning across 10,000 acres. Wild Horse came on line in December 2006, and was expanded in 2009. One of the great things about Wild Horse is that it has a visitor center - you can drive right up to it, with spectacular up-close-and-personal views of the wind turbines. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, April through November, weather permitting. It features a conference facility with a meeting room accommodating 48 people, and a kitchen and catering facilities. Lands within the Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility are also open to hunting, hiking, bird watching, horseback riding and other recreational activities by written permission only (apply for a permit online to pick up at the visitor center). Gates along the Beacon Ridge Road are open April 1 to Nov. 30, from two hours before sunrise to two hours after sunset. Wild Horse also contains the Pacific Northwest's largest solar-power array that can generate up to 500 kilowatts of electricity.
Location: Kittitas County, Washington
Acreage: 86,000 acres
Project Size: 230 MW
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The Wild Horse Wind Farm is located in central Washington's Kittitas Valley, which has long been known for its vigorous winds. The wind farm is placed on the high open ridge tops of Whiskey Dick Mountain between the towns of Kittitas and Vantage. The open rangeland is currently zoned as Forest and Range by Kittitas County. The project site was selected for its energetic wind resource and its access to several sets of power transmission lines, which have adequate capacity to allow the wind-generated power to be integrated into the power grid system.
The Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility, located in Central Washington, is Puget Sound Energy's second wind-powered electric generation facility. It is also the utility's largest wind farm with 127 turbines. Wholly owned by PSE, Wild Horse has the capacity to generate up to 229 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Construction began in October 2005, and was completed in December 2006, with a 22-turbine, 44 MW expansion underway in 2009. According to the American Wind Energy Association, one megawatt of wind power capacity is equal to the electricity needs of 225 to 300 average U.S. homes.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — With all due respect to the men working hard at their hoop dreams in Las Vegas and the patriots toiling away with USA Basketball on their way to the Olympics, the two most talked about basketball players in the world today are Jeremy Lin and Dwight Howard, put them in whatever order you prefer.
Lin's on his way to Houston, the product of a free agency saga almost as intriguing as the Linsanity movement he inspired months ago when he was starring for the New York Knicks. Howard is on his way to … well, we're still not sure where the Orlando Magic superstar will end up. But he's in Los Angeles these days, the object of affection and scorn for fans from coast to cast, it just depends on where you are at any given moment.
We're giving them both all of our attention on Episode 87 of the Hang Time Podcast, enlisting the services of two men well-versed in the art of discussion where both Lin and Howard are concerned. When discussing anything about Howard, RealGM columnist Jarrod N. Rudolph is the man in the know. He joins us to break down dynamics of the Howard situation in ways you haven't heard before. New York Magazine contributing editor and Deadspin founder Will Leitch makes his Hang Time Podcast debut to help us measure the outrage felt throughout the Five Boroughs (and beyond) after the Knicks' decision to let Lin walk for a measly, relatively speaking of course, $25.1 million.
Check out all that and more on Episode 87 of the Hang Time Podcast featuring RealGM columnist Jarrod N. Rudolph and Deadspin founder and New York Magazine contributing editor Will Leitch (who lives in Brooklyn but hasn't given into the dark side just yet and started rooting for the Nets).
As always, we welcome your feedback. You can follow the entire crew, including the Hang Time Podcast, co-hosts Lang Whitaker of SLAM Magazine and Sekou Smith of NBA.com, as well as our superproducer Micah Hart of NBA.com's All Ball Blog and the best engineer in the business, Jarell "I Heart Peyton Manning" Wall.
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It's easy to lose yourself in "A Maze."
Rob Handel's enigmatic new play spins around sly tales that intersect in unexpected ways in a two-hour, 20-minute mystery. The addictive nature of fantasy, reality and the fusion of the two known as art are all probed in this smash hit staged by Just Theater. This startlingly inventive West Coast premiere is now being remounted by Berkeley's Shotgun Players through Sunday.
The puzzle begins to unravel when a teenage girl named Jessica (a radiant Frannie Morrison) emerges from captivity after being kidnapped at the age of 9 and spending the next eight years of her life trapped in a basement. Snatched out of a grocery store while eyeing the candy aisle, she has her fate sealed in a few minutes of her mother's inattention. Despite the horror of her childhood, Jessica appears to emerge unscathed from her ordeal. The media-savvy survivor quickly bests the smooth Oprah-like TV personality (Lauren Spencer) trying to get to the bottom of her story.
In another piece of this dizzying spiral, a pair of rock stars, the edgy Oksana (an electric Sarah Moser) and the earnest Paul (Harold Pierce), try to bounce back from their success. Their band Pathetic Fallacy has made them celebs, but it has also driven a wedge into their romance. Paul goes off to detox to find himself when Oksana boots him out of the band until he gets clean.
Amid the plush environs of rehab at Desert Palms, Paul befriends Beeson (an intense turn by Clive Worsley), a twitchy graphic novelist who can barely be bothered to eat and sleep in between channeling the characters in a 15,000-page graphic novel that seems to write itself.
Director Molly Aaronson-Gelb's sharply detailed staging turns the narrative into a kind of Rorschach test for the theatergoer. What you make of the story and its themes may say as much about you as it does about the authorial intent. Handel layers the heady plot so carefully that it's not until far into the proceedings that you suspect how Beeson's fairy tale, the twisted fable of a king (a tart Lasse Christiansen) gradually weaving a maze around his queen (Janis DeLucia) and her baby, might connect with the rest of this jigsaw universe.
The actors display a depth and sensitivity that dares us to care for all of the characters, even the monstrous ones. Morrison grounds the production with an emotionally transparent performance that captures the heartache of confronting the facts. Christiansen displays a devilish wit as a jaded rock producer as well as the king. Carl Holvick-Thomas nimbly hops between playing a stressed-out lawyer, a nurturing drug counselor and a spaced out musician. But it's Worsely's depiction of Beeson as a tormented artist driven by the characters in his head that cuts closest to the bone.
Martin Flynn's intricate yet abstract scenic design further deepens the play's labyrinthine themes until "A Maze" has sucked you in.
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Locals Say Moore Was Banned From Mall for Harassing Girls
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After a woman came forward to accuse Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was a 16-year-old waitress, he issued another denial, saying he didn't know her or the restaurant she worked in—but her yearbook appears to tell a different story. Beverly Young Nelson showed reporters a high school yearbook with the inscription: "To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say 'Merry Christmas.' Christmas 1977. Love, Roy Moore, D.A. ... Olde Hickory House." The signature matches that from a document Moore signed earlier this year, tweeted Business Insider's Josh Barro. The Alabama US Senate candidate didn't comment on the yearbook during his Monday press conference, during which he said the accusation was "absolutely false" and he doesn't know where the eatery "is or was," the Week reports.
In other developments:
- Not welcome at the mall. More than a dozen sources tell the New Yorker that Moore was either banned or "run off" from the Gadsden Mall in his hometown for persistently trying to pick up teen girls when he was in his 30s. Former mall employees say they were told to look out for an older man pestering young girls. "The general knowledge at the time when I moved here was that this guy is a lawyer cruising the mall for high-school dates," one law enforcement officer says.
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Evelyn E. Handler, 5th president of Brandeis, killed in automobile accident
First and only woman to lead the university served from 1983 to 1991
Evelyn E. Handler, 78, the first and only woman to serve as president of Brandeis University, died Friday, Dec. 23, after being struck by an automobile as she crossed a street in Bedford, N.H. Handler was the university's fifth president and served from 1983 to 1991.
At the time Handler was named president, few women led major American universities. During her tenure, Brandeis was admitted to the Association of American Universities (AAU), a notable achievement for an institution only 37 years old at the time.
A scientist whose own research focused on leukemia, she was a passionate supporter of education and research into the life sciences and helped to launch the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis and the program in neuroscience.
"She made the case that by any measure, Brandeis deserved to be in the AAU despite its youth and relatively small size," said Malcolm L. Sherman, chairman of the Brandeis Board of Trustees. "Because of her background in the sciences, she had an invaluable perspective in an area of great curricular strength at the university. That strength continues to be reflected at Brandeis today."
President Fred Lawrence noted that Handler served as president for eight years, during which the university reached its 40th anniversary. "Brandeis is now nationally ranked in neuroscience and biochemistry and her leadership played a major role in that," he said.
Handler sought to bring greater diversity to the student body, and during those years admission to the university became more competitive. Brandeis also became a founding member of the University Athletic Association sports conference, and the university built the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. She is credited with laying the groundwork for what later became the Brandeis International Business School.
"As president, Evelyn Handler led Brandeis University's growth from a high quality liberal arts college with some outstanding graduate programs to a nationally and internationally respected small research university with an exceptionally strong undergraduate college at its core," said Steven L. Burg, the Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Politics. Burg served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Dean of the Faculty during Handler's presidency.
"She helped make the campus more welcoming to a larger and more diverse undergraduate student population, including establishment of the university's Intercultural Center, and she upheld the university's commitment to a need-blind admissions policy," added Burg. "When Evelyn Handler departed Brandeis, she left behind a better, stronger, more competitive and respected university."
Handler's presidency was not without controversy. Pork and shellfish were introduced to the student cafeteria menu, prompting a backlash by some members of the Brandeis community who believed the university should adhere to certain Jewish dietary laws. Other members of the community were supportive of the change.
Irving R. Epstein, the Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry and senior adviser to the provost for research, called Handler "a woman of strong opinions and big ideas who worked to make Brandeis a real player among top American research universities."
Handler, who was born in Budapest, Hungary, immigrated to the United States with her family in 1940. She received a B.A. from Hunter College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. She also received a J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center.
Before arriving at Brandeis in 1983, Handler was president of the University of New Hampshire, where she was also the first woman to hold that position. She previously served as dean of sciences and mathematics at Hunter College.
After leaving Brandeis in 1991, Handler was a research fellow and associate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a senior fellow at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. From 1994 to 1997, she served as executive director and CEO of the California Academy of Sciences.
According to the Nashua Telegraph, Handler, a resident of Bow, N.H., was struck by a car at about 5:20 p.m. while crossing an intersection in Bedford, N.H. to meet her husband, Eugene Handler, for dinner. She later was pronounced dead at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. Police told the newspaper that the accident remains under investigation. "She was just a wonderful, wonderful person," Eugene Handler told the Telegraph. "She was incredible in that she had strong feelings and carried them out…This is a complete shock."
The Brandeis community learned of Handler's tragic death in an email from Sherman and Lawrence. "On behalf of the entire Brandeis community, we extend our deepest sympathies to the Handler family," the email said.
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Suzanne Fields in the Washington Times discusses the reinvention of Hillary Clinton. I haven't had much to say about Hillary's latest act of reinvention — her expression of "respect" for people who oppose abortion under all circumstances — because it struck me as inconsequential. Given her opposition, for example, to the ban on partial birth abortion, it's difficult to see how Ms. Clinton is going to score any points by "feeling the pain" of those who are pro-life. Only ardent feminists who demonize the pro-life movement are likely to be impressed, and not favorably. In short, this was not a Sister Souljah moment.
Perhaps, though, one should view Hillary's statement in the context of a larger effort to create a buzz that she is moderating. If journalists talk about her this way often enough, it may become the conventional wisdom. And if she periodically throws out statements that, however superficially, sound moderate, journalists can be expected to talk about her this way. In terms of domestic policy and values, Hillary will never succeed in looking like a new Democrat the way her husband (an unknown quantity at the national level) did. However, as Fields points out, there are many young voters for whom values matter. During the next few years, these folks will be looking at Hillary essentially for the first time. Thus, it can't hurt for her to make conciliatory noises.
Foreign policy and national security issues provide Hillary a better opportunity. Hillary's fixed image as an ardent liberal never extended to this realm. Thus, she plausibly can present herself as tough-minded here (more than plausibly perhaps — few have ever questioned her toughness). And if she continues to project that image, her liberal image on domestic issues, and even on values, will not pose an insuperable obstacle to her quest to become our next president, assuming her party is willing to nominate a fairly hard-liner.
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Robert Wyatt | RUG283 | Released: 19/10/08
Working alongside French producer / composer Bertrand Burgalat, Robert Wyatt delivers a hymn to the sensuality of a Summer's evening.
This Summer Night is a glorious addition to Robert Wyatt's list of collaborations as a guest vocalist. Accompanying auteur Bertrand Burgalat's suitably dreamy composition, Wyatt's singing on This Summer Night ensures a song dedicated to the essential pleasure of dancing the summer night away soars past the full moon and into transcendence.
Moving out of the pastoral pop jam of a late evening's bliss and into the heart of the night, Hot Chip take us right up til dawn. This is something, you feel, they're beginning to be expert at by now as this extraordinary maximal / minimal reworking demonstrates.
Hearing Wyatt, immersed in Hot Chip's r'n'bleep, being joined by Alexis Taylor is to hear two generations of English mavericks sharing tips with each other about how to get a proper groove on. This surely,should tell you all you need to know about doing the same yourself.


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Dear Dr. Wally
I have a bike and know how to balance on it. What more do I need? The sales guy said I should have a helmet and he even offered some free classes. It's all bunk. Everyone knows how to ride a bike!
Broderick in Crawford
Owning a bicycle and knowing how to balance it is much like have a 44 magnum and only knowing how to load the bullets. It's like having a pit bull and not investing any time in training him. It's like having a car and a seat belt, and thinking that's enough to know about driving.
Some people insist that a helmet is essential, and it is, if you're planning to crash. In your case, definitely buy a helmet. Better yet, buy two because you'll be twice as safe.
But let's assume you're not intending to crash. You'd rather avoid it. That's understandable, but how do you go about learning not to crash? There are a couple of ways, actually. The one I went through was call the School of Hard Knocks and Bitter Experience. I don't recommend it to anyone more intelligent than a small kitchen appliance. So, assuming you can outwit the toaster most of the time, you'll probably benefit from the other approach, and that's to learn from an experienced instructor.
Local bike shops can refer you to a qualified instructor, or you can look on the League of American Bicyclists web page. The main advantage of formal training is that you gain the equivalent of a year of experience in a nine hour class. That's a big jump start toward confident, competent road cycling, and it's an approach I readily endorse.
Dr. Wally
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Just this new commercial "Child of the 90s". Boy does time go by fast or what. Now that I am all grown up, it seems the best times in life were most from my childhood. It would be pretty awesome to take a time machine and go back to the past and see yourself from the outside in. One thing for sure, life was so simple and innocent back then.
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I think this could quite possibly be the hardest question I've had to answer in a very long time. On one hand, I wish I could go back to my childhood, minus all the control freak crap from my parents, and only if I could take with me, the knowledge I've gained so far. Things like really knowing for sure that dropping out of high school could quite possibly ruin my life... and hanging out with 'that' crowd is a bad idea... but for the most part, my childhood was pretty happy. When I watched that commercial, I was only part way reminded of my childhood, and partial of my kids, who are now all adults, and were children of the 90's. Since I was only an adult by one day when I gave birth to my oldest child, I feel like I got to have a second childhood with my kids. I would love to be able to go back in time to the day my daughter was born, just so I could relive hers and my son's. There are so many things I would do differently just to make theirs even better.
There are several sci fi stories out there about people wanting to go back and change something in their own life or history with the result that no matter how hard they tried, the relevant outcomes remained unchanged. For example (this is made up), a guy goes back to save his mother from being murdered by his abusive father on this one day, so he drums up some reason for his mother not to be home that day, but she's killed in a car accident. Maybe the theme is that nature is so constructed to avoid the so-called "grandfather paradox."
The Final Destination series of teen horror flicks are, similarly, based on the idea that ultimately you can't escape your fate, and if you defeat it at some junction, nature itself (in the form of an almost-personified Death) will eventually have to set things aright.
Yes, but I miss the 60's & 70's. It was very quiet then, but the cold war was ragging.
Fascinating question. I had a childhood that was so happy I wrote a book about it ("97th Street"). But there were also sad and unhappy interludes, like having to go to school. I am now 77 and I truly believe that this is, overall, the happiest time of my life.
Or at least it is the most contented. I no longer have many instances of the kind of joy I experienced at various times in my earlier life. But, for me, stress-free contentment is the ultimate objective.
I disagree, though, that "life was so simple and innocent back then." I no longer hide under a desk, for instance, for fear that an atomic bomb will land in my neighborhood. I no longer avoid public pools because of polio. I no longer live in a neighborhood where black people and white people glared at each other on the street. I no longer have to stay indoors to avoid choking on thick, brown, smog. Those things may have been "simple," but I sure don't miss them.
RE: "I no longer hide under a desk, for instance, for fear that an atomic bomb will land in my neighborhood." - how naive were we, Dale, to believe that was really going to make a difference?
Duck & Cover.
I no longer hide under a desk, for instance, for fear that an atomic bomb will land in my neighborhood.
The dissolution of the USSR and the end of the cold war has, many believe, had the effect of making the world a more dangerous place. The USSR and USA, despite the tension, did seem to exist in a state of stasis due to the threat of mutual annihilation. However, the new state of Russia has not been able to keep its fissionable material under the same degree of control.
As this free material makes its way to who knows where, while the possibility of a full on nuclear exchange is less, the risk of it being used for terror makes the possibility of a nuclear event more likely.
A nuclear delivery system for a major device can be as simple as a freighter pulling into New York or L.A.'s harbor. Suitcase bombs can kill thousands or 10's of thousands. Imagine one being smuggled into the stadium where a Super Bowl is being held.
Will a nuclear bomb be detonated in the USA within the next 50 years?
Sadly I am impelled toward yes.


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Allfirst Financial: Out of ControlBy Sean Gallagher | Posted 2002-03-12 Print
Allfirst Financial ran its currency trading desk without much of the software that was standard at its corporate parent, Allied Irish Banks. Was that a $690 million mistake?
Baltimore's Mount Washington neighborhood is not a likely locale for an international banking scandal. But the narrow streets of this hilly upper-middle class enclave were jammed in the first week of February with TV remote trucks and British tabloid journalists standing vigil around one $232,020 home. The hope: John Rusnak, a currency trader at Baltimore's Allfirst Financial, would pop out of his hole like Punxsutawney Phil had four days earlier to see his shadow.
But Rusnak wasn't at home. Nor, for that matter, was $691 million that was supposed to be in Allfirst's treasury. And the bank faced a lot more than six additional weeks of winter.
Even though Allfirst, the U.S. unit of Ireland's Allied Irish Banks (AIB), should have been able to prevent or flag unauthorized trading of this magnitude, it didn't. And the damage from bogus trades and secret accounts that Rusnak appears to have created is tangible. In a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Allfirst warned it will have to re-submit annual financial statements going back to 1997. The loss effectively wipes out the company's net income for the past four years.
At the heart of the problem was the bank's system of currency trading controls. "It's very clear now that this guy targeted every control point of the system and systematically found ways around them, and built a web of concealment that was very sophisticated," AIB CEO Michael Buckley told reporters while discussing Allfirst's loss.
Allfirst won't say why they failed to detect such a long-running scam. But in this case, a single trader should not have been able to put more than $2.5 million of the bank's capital at risk. And if all trading had been electronic, no individual should have been able to hide losses.
The debacle is proof the global marketplace isn't electronic from end to end. And while AIB has deployed software that effectively tracks and controls the actions of its traders in its own offices around the world, Allfirst had implemented only a portion of that system. Not yet installed, for instance, is a program that would capture the specifics of currency trades electronically, and, one that would manage the confirmation of electronic trades, once executed. With only two employees including Rusnak on the currency-trading desk, Allfirst apparently didn't think the expense of full integration was warranted. And, AIB appears to have been happy with Allfirst's results.
In the company's annual financial statement for 2000, Allfirst crowed:
Trading income, before the effect of the cost to carry derivative assets on the balance sheet, increased by $6.6 million, due to growth in foreign exchange trading activities. Trading income (net of the cost to carry derivative assets) was $10.9 million in 2000 and $9.8 million in 1999.
That $10.9 million would have been the equivalent of 6% of Allfirst's net income for 2000. This, with a trading desk of two people.
Which seems to show Rusnak wasn't out to bankrupt his employerhe was out to make Allfirst a lot of money by taking big risks on the relationship between the values of the dollar and the Japanese yen, according to AIB executives.
Trading of currencies is broken down into two functional areas, the "front office" and "back office." The front office is the trading desk itself, where trades are made and recorded. The back office handles accounting and oversightthe confirmation of validity of trades, enforcement of internal controls (such as trading credit limits), the matching of trades with confirmations from the counter-parties (who the trade was executed with), trade fulfillment, and passing data on the positions taken by traders to managers and risk analysts.
This separation of responsibilities is key to the control of trades. When the two functions are blurred, the opportunity for a trader to "go rogue" rises exponentially. The greatest example: the 1995 case of Barings Bank. There, a single trader, Nicholas Leeson, lost nearly all the assets of the bank, amounting to $1.2 billion. "It was established after the fact that he had control over back office," says John Harvey, a managing principal at Capco, a financial systems consulting firm in New York. "The initial cause of [the Barings disaster] was due to lack of segregation."
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Mitt Romney had quite a scandalous revelation to share on this morning's Today show: He does, from time to time, and always while exercising great caution, participate in certain leisurely activities, like watching television and reading novels. Would Mother Mittens approve of this? Let's just say, doubtful.
American Idol is a delightful television program, Mittens says. He finds it pleasurable to view. That guy, the guy on American Idol — a real talent, that young man! And the Twilight books: such great fun, a real hoot of a time. Not that Mitt Romney condones vampires, mind you.


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ST. LOUIS—Two murder suspects and a third inmate who escaped from a southeast Missouri jail were found hiding Tuesday in the cab of a truck at a salvage yard, still wearing their orange jail suits but without their shoes, authorities said.
The trio—Matthew Brandon Cook, Kade Reaves Stringfellow and Rodney Joe Green—were taken into custody around 3:30 p.m. without incident, said Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman Trooper Clark Parrott. One of the men had previously worked at the salvage yard, which was about five miles from the jail.
"The guys who were out there searching were doing a systematic search and opened up the cab and there the three of them were," Parrott said, adding that all three were wearing orange jail-issued shirts and pants but had lost their shoes.
All three men had been jailed awaiting trials. Cook and Stringfellow were facing murder charges in separate cases, while Green was facing charges for allegedly shooting and wounding a couple after breaking into their home.
The men had walked to get to the salvage yard just east of Poplar Bluff after escaping around 11:30 p.m. Monday through the ceiling of the Butler County Jail. Parrott said authorities hadn't received a tip that the men were there.
"It was just, 'Hey, where would you go if you were on the run?' Someplace familiar," Parrott said. "We have turned over every rock we could find in Poplar Bluff and southeast Butler County today. And that was just one more place for us to go look."
Parrott said the men were being interviewed, and he didn't have any information about new charges.
Cook's public defender, Ian Page, said he hadn't had a chance to talk to his client and couldn't comment. Stringfellow's attorney didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment, and no attorney was listed for Green in online court records.
Sheriff Mark Dobbs didn't immediately respond to phone messages Tuesday left by The Associated Press, but he told local media that the inmates climbed through air ducts to get out of the jail. He blamed faulty building design—walls that don't extend all the way up to the ceiling—that he said he and two previous sheriffs have tried to get fixed.
Jail employees discovered the inmates were missing a short time after the escape, said Frank Casteel, 911 director for Butler County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol, Butler County authorities and police from neighboring counties and towns assisted in the search that extended as far as Little Rock, Ark. Schools in the town limited access and took other precautions, Poplar Bluff School District Superintendent Chris Hon said.
Cook, 29, is one of two men charged with first-degree murder, robbery and other crimes in the Feb. 19 killing of a man in a McDonald's parking lot in Advance, Mo. Court documents allege he sent a text message to the victim using the cellphone of a woman they both knew, asking Crow to meet at the restaurant. The victim was found fatally shot in his pickup truck the next day. Surveillance video helped lead police to Cook and a man who was with him.
Stringfellow, 23, of Portageville, is charged with second-degree murder in the July death of his infant son. A probable cause statement said medical workers became suspicious due to the child's injuries and inconsistent statements by Stringfellow, who claimed he had slipped and fallen while holding the infant.
Green, 40, of Poplar Bluff, is facing multiple charges for allegedly breaking into a rural Butler County home in February, holding a husband and wife at gunpoint, then shooting them after a struggle before getting away with their pickup truck. The man was struck in the thigh and his wife was shot in the hand. Both survived.
Green was captured days later after a state trooper spotted him driving on a rural road and gave chase. The chase ended when Green's car struck a utility pole and a tree.
Hollingsworth reported from Kansas City, Mo.


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JOHANNESBURG—Namibia's government sterilized three women infected with HIV without getting proper consent, forcing them to sign forms they didn't understand as they suffered through the pains of labour, a judge ruled Monday.
Activists applauded the decision by Judge Elton Hoff, though the ruling rejected lawyers' accusations that doctors sterilized the women specifically because they had HIV in a country where the virus remains endemic. The activists say they worry more women in the southern African nation are coerced into the procedure, as other cases pending before courts allege women suffered similar treatment at the hands of doctors.
The three women, in their 20s to 40s, all sought care at government hospitals in Namibia. All signed release forms that allowed doctors to sterilize them, though at the time they didn't realize what they had agreed to, said Nyasha Chingore, an HIV project lawyer with the Southern Africa Litigation Centre. In one case, a woman signed a form that used only acronyms to describe the procedure, while another signed after being told she didn't have a choice, Chingore said.
"The consent forms were all signed when they were in labour," she said.
Corinna van Wyk, the lawyer who represented the women in court, said the government had 14 days to appeal Hoff's ruling. All three of the women will be entitled to monetary damages, though that portion of the case will be delayed as the court deals with other similar cases.
However, the major point of the case — that women should have the right to be properly informed and allowed to make their own free decision about being sterilized — has been upheld by the court, she said.
"Right now, all we wanted was a standard and we got that," van Wyk said.
Namibian authorities could not be immediately reached for comment Monday.
As many as 210,000 people live with HIV in Namibia, nearly 10 per cent of the population in the country of 2.1 million people, according to UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS.
Sterilization is a drastic tactic to treat HIV-positive women, as mother-to-child transmission of HIV and AIDS can be prevented with medication. However, that medical aid reaches about 58 per cent of pregnant women in Namibia now, according to UNAIDS.


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Aug 1, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Apple's iPhone may frequently be viewed as the leader in the smartphone category, but it's actually two Samsung devices that got the highest scores in a recent smartphone customer satisfaction study from American Customer Satisfaction Index.
Specifically, Samsung's Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II tied for the top two scores in the new survey, ACSI reported on Wednesday, followed by the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and the iPhone 4 closely behind.
"Not only does Samsung edge ahead of all iPhones, Apple customers themselves dont see much difference between the iPhone 4, 4S or 5," said ACSI Director David VanAmburg.
Samsung "shows a strong upward ACSI trend, from the Galaxy S II to the Galaxy S III," VanAmburg added. "If the S4 performs as well -- or even better -- in the eyes of customers, Samsung could threaten Apples dominance in overall customer satisfaction."
The Elements of Satisfaction
The ACSI study looked at several factors on new phone purchases, including customer expectations based on word of mouth, advertising and media coverage, and perceptions of quality and value. The study also asked 10 questions on the overall phone experience that looked at how customers view functions including ease of making and receiving calls, battery life, OS and software, design, audio and video quality, and navigation of menus and settings.
All factors went into creating a score for each individual handset ranging from 0 to 100.
Samsung's Galaxy SIII and Galaxy Note II each scored 84 based on all of the factors considered in the study. Apple held the next three positions, with an 82 for both the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S, while the iPhone 4 trailed closely with an 81.
Other smartphones in the top 10 include the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD (80); Samsung Galaxy S II (78); Motorola Droid Razr (77); and the Curve (67) and Bold (64), both from BlackBerry.
While ACSI has looked at the brands in prior studies, this was the first report to look at individual handsets to rate consumer satisfaction. Included in the ACSI's statistics are interviews with roughly 70,000 customers annually.
From Expectations to Reality
Prepurchase factors such as the marketing of the phone and recommendations from friends and family are clearly important, but it is the experiences that shape the phone's ratings, the ACSI says.
"Once you've made the purchase, expectations tend to drift into the background," VanAmburg told CRM Buyer. "Once you've made that purchase, your perceptions shift to the actual quality of the purchase."
Recent reports have put Android shipments -- including individual handsets from Samsung -- ahead of Apple iPhone shipments, and it appears consumer opinion backs up those statistics.
"By contrast, Samsung did get that kind of game-changing phenomenon when they came out with the S III," VanAmburg noted. "That was much more of a game-changing moment for Samsung."
Looking ahead, while many consumers were initially attracted to the iPhone for its innovation, it's not clear that advantage is being sustained, telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told CRM Buyer.
"Two things have changed," said Kagan. "One, Apple has not had any innovation in the last couple years. That means there isn't a lot to talk about with Apple today.
"Two, Samsung has started an aggressive public relations push," he added. "Their advertising, marketing and PR have been in overdrive. There are plenty of new things to discuss with Samsung."
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Of course, there's no denying that Apple has a strong hold on its market.
"Samsung and Apple customers are two completely different types," Kagan suggested. "Think of this like Microsoft vs. Apple. Both use computers, but customers choose one or the other based on it matching the way their minds work. Same here."
In other words, "Apple customers will stay Apple customers," Kagan added.
"I don't think consumer interest in Apple is waning at all," he explained. "iPhone customers will remain iPhone customers. I think Apple will recapture its excitement when it comes out with something new -- if it comes out with something new. Until then, their customers will remain their customers: happy, but quiet."
In the meantime, Kagan concluded, "Samsung is rockin' and rollin' for now."


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Nurses impact lives every day. But once in a while, a nurse comes along who touches the lives of the world, and not just her patients. These women went above and beyond for the field of nursing. They served in wars, broke down racial barriers, and campaigned for women's rights. They have become role models for women everywhere, not just nurses. However, nurses can be especially proud to share a title with these 10 ladies.
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Processor Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
Processor speed:
The clock rate typically refers to the frequency at which a chip like a central processing unit (CPU), one core of a multi-core processor, is running and is used as an indicator of the processors speed. It is measured in clock cycles per second or its equivalent, the SI unit hertz (Hz). The clock rate of the first generation of computers was measured in hertz or kilohertz (kHz), but in the 21st century the speed of modern CPUs is commonly advertised in gigahertz (GHz). This metric is most useful when comparing processors within the same family, holding constant other features that may impact performance.
2.5 GHz
Processor family:
Intel Core i5-2xxx
A processor is the logic circuitry that responds to and processes the basic instructions that drive a computer. The four primary functions of a processor are fetch, decode, execute and writeback.
Processor boost frequency:
Turbo Boost is automatic. It will scale up the frequency by itself as and when required while keeping it from overheating. You can not control it yourself, but you do not need to, it works very reliably by reducing the frequency when you do not need it to save power and increasing it when you need it to give you more performance.
3.2 GHz
Processor core:
A multi-core processor is a single computing component with two or more independent actual processing units (called "cores"), which are the units that read and execute program instructions. The instructions are ordinary CPU instructions such as add, move data, and branch, but the multiple cores can run multiple instructions at the same time, increasing overall speed for programs amenable to parallel computing. Manufacturers typically integrate the cores onto a single integrated circuit die (known as a chip multiprocessor or CMP), or onto multiple dies in a single chip package.
Processor threads:
Hyper-threading was Intels first attempt to bring parallel computation to consumer PCs. It debuted on desktop CPUs with the Pentium 4 HT back in 2002. The original Pentium 4 had just a single CPU core, so it could only do one thing at a time - but hyper-threading attempted to make up for that.
System bus data transfer rate:
5 GT/s
Processor cache:
A CPU cache is a cache used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average time to access data from the main memory. The cache is a smaller, faster memory which stores copies of the data from frequently used main memory locations. Most CPUs have different independent caches, including instruction and data caches, where the data cache is usually organized as a hierarchy of more cache levels (L1, L2, etc.).
Processor socket:
In computer hardware, a CPU socket or CPU slot comprises one or more mechanical components providing mechanical and electrical connections between a microprocessor and a printed circuit board (PCB). This allows for placing and replacing the CPU without soldering.
Socket 988
Processor cache type:
CPU caches are small pools of memory that store information the CPU is most likely to need next. Which information is loaded into cache depends on sophisticated algorithms and certain assumptions about programming code. The goal of the cache system is to ensure that the CPU has the next bit of data it will need already loaded into cache by the time it goes looking for it (also called a cache hit). A cache miss, on the other hand, means the CPU has to go scampering off to find the data elsewhere. This is where the L2 cache comes into play � while it�s slower, it�s also much larger. Some processors use an inclusive cache design (meaning data stored in the L1 cache is also duplicated in the L2 cache) while others are exclusive (meaning the two caches never share data). If data can�t be found in the L2 cache, the CPU continues down the chain to L3 (typically still on-die), then L4 (if it exists) and main memory (DRAM).
Smart Cache
PCI Express configurations:
PCI Express, technically Peripheral Component Interconnect Express but often seen abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-E, is a standard type of connection for internal devices in a computer. Generally, PCI Express refers to the actual expansion slots on the motherboard that accept PCIe based expansion cards and to the types of expansion cards themselves. PCI Express has all but replaced AGP and PCI, both of which replaced the oldest widely-used connection type called ISA.
1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4
PCI Express slots version:
Maximum number of PCI Express lanes:
Integrated 4G WiMAX:
Processor manufacturer:
FSB Parity:
CPU multiplier (bus/core ratio):
Synonymous with core temperatures and calculated based on the output from the DTS using the formula shown further down in this post.
Thermal Design Power (TDP):
Processor lithography:
32 nm
Bus type:
Stepping level refers to the introduction or revision of the lithographic photomask or masks within the set of plates that generate the pattern that produces an integrated circuit. The term originated from the name of the equipment ("steppers") that exposes the photoresist to light. Integrated circuits have two primary classes of mask sets, base layers that are used to build the structures that make up the logic such as transistors, and metal layers that connect the logic together.
Processor series:
Intel Core i5-2500 Mobile series
Processor codename:
Sandy Bridge
Processor operating modes:
The x86 has been extended in many ways throughout its history, remaining mostly backwards compatible while adding execution modes and large extensions to the instruction set. A modern x86 processor can operate in one of four major modes: 16-bit real mode, 16-bit protected mode, 32-bit protected mode, and 64-bit long mode. The primary difference between real and protected mode is in the handling of segments: in real mode the segments directly address memory as 16-byte pages, whereas in protected mode the segments are instead indexes into a descriptor table that contains the physical base and size of the segment. 32-bit protected mode allows paging and virtual memory as well as a 32-bit rather than a 16-bit offset.
Conflict Free processor:
ECC supported by processor:
Error-correcting code memory (ECC memory) is a type of computer data storage that can detect and correct the most common kinds of internal data corruption. ECC memory is used in most computers where data corruption cannot be tolerated under any circumstances, such as for scientific or financial computing.
Memory Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
Internal memory:
RAM (random access memory) is the place in a computing device where the operating system (OS), application programs and data in current use are kept so they can be quickly reached by the devices processor. RAM is much faster to read from and write to than other kinds of storage in a computer, such as a hard disk drive (HDD), solid-state drive (SSD) or optical drive. Data remains in RAM as long as the computer is running. When the computer is turned off, RAM loses its data. When the computer is turned on again, the OS and other files are once again loaded into RAM, usually from an HDD or SSD.
Internal memory type:
Memory clock speed:
1333 MHz
Memory slots:
2x SO-DIMM
Maximum internal memory:
Storage Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
Total storage capacity:
Number of hard drives installed:
Hard drive capacity:
Host interface:
Hard disk rotational speed:
Card reader integrated:
Compatible memory cards:
Memory Stick (MS), MiniSD, MMC, MS PRO, SD, SDHC, xD
Display Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
Screen Size:
Display size (or viewable image size or VIS) is the physical size of the area where pictures and videos are displayed. The size of a screen is usually described by the length of its diagonal, which is the distance between opposite corners, usually in inches.
Screen Resolution:
The number of horizontal and vertical pixels on a display screen. The more pixels, the more information is visible without scrolling. Screen resolutions have a pixel count such as 1600x1200, which means 1,600 horizontal pixels and 1,200 vertical pixels.
1366 x 768 pixels
LED backlight:
An LED-backlit LCD is a flat panel display which uses LED backlighting instead of the cold cathode fluorescent (CCFL) backlighting used by most other LCDs. LED-backlit LCD TVs use the same TFT LCD (thin film transistor liquid crystal display) technologies as CCFL-backlit LCD TVs. Picture quality is primarily based on TFT LCD technology, independent of backlight type.
Aspect ratio:
The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height. It is commonly expressed as two numbers separated by a colon, as in 16:9. For an x:y aspect ratio, no matter how big or small the image is, if the width is divided into x units of equal length and the height is measured using this same length unit, the height will be measured to be y units.
Graphics Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
On-board graphics adapter:
Discrete graphics adapter:
On-board graphics adapter family:
Intel HD Graphics
On-board graphics adapter model:
Intel HD Graphics 3000
On-board graphics adapter base frequency:
650 MHz
On-board graphics adapter dynamic frequency (max):
1300 MHz
Number of displays supported (on-board graphics):
Discrete graphics adapter model:
Not available
On-board graphics adapter ID:
Maximum resolution:
2048 x 1536 pixels
Maximum graphics adapter memory:
Optical Drive Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
Optical drive type:
DVD Super Multi DL
Disc types supported:
CD-R write speed:
CD-RW write speed:
DVD-R write speed:
DVD-R Double Layer write speed:
DVD-RW write speed:
DVD+R write speed:
DVD+R Double Layer write speed:
DVD+RW write speed:
DVD-RAM write speed:
Audio Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
Number of built-in speakers:
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Networking Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
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Ports & interfaces Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
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Windows 7 Professional
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7.5 h
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Weight & Dimensions Toshiba Tecra R850-14C (PT525E-00H00KGR)
5.49 lbs (2,49 kg)
14.9" (379 mm)
9.92" (252 mm)
Height (front):
0.819" (2,08 cm)
Height (rear):
1" (2,54 cm)
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Friends, comrades, and random people attempting to sidle up to me during a garden party, effetely holding your hand out, twittering at my every comment in an obvious attempt to enter my bedchamber, I bid thee all welcome! It is I, the Duke of DVD, once more brandishing my pulsing member to passersby from the store window of MAD Cinema, dispelling the demons of Hollywood and yanking down the frilly pantaloons of stuffy critics. Oh sure, they'll nod knowingly at one another, cloistered in their smokey dens, adjusting the fronts of their trousers and sniffing with disdain at the so-called "bad" movies. But we know better! We know better.
As has been obvious of late, I have a man-crush on Mario Bava. "But sir!", you say in a piping voice, "Surely there are other, even more obscure, even more MAD, filmmakers from 1960's Italy that you could expound upon!" You would be incorrect, peasant. Mario looks down upon us now from his throne of bone and sinew, tilting his head slightly to the right in order to hear us talk about his masterworks over the screams of the damned.
Let us not keep him waiting!
Kill, Baby... Kill! is not really a good title, in my opinion. It is also known as The Curse of the Living Dead and, my personal favorite, Operation: Fear. "Operation: Fear" is so very much more descriptive to what the movie contains. "Kill, Baby... Kill!" sounds like the title of a Russ Meyer film, or perhaps the title of the Vicar's upcoming autobiography (ghostwritten by Tom Clancy). Granted, a "baby" does do some killing, but in this case it's a young child instead of a busty blonde. This movie is very much about fear, though, and when a certain Italian director initiates a clandestine operation titled "Fear," well, you better be ready!
Our movie opens with a woman shrieking "No, NO!!" as she flees from a stately mansion. Running across the expansive front lawn, she flees upstairs in an abandoned tower. Shrieking again, she leaps to her death, impaling herself onto the top of a spiked fence! We see the shadow of someone watching. They turn to leave, walking slowly back down the stairs, and we see the lower half of what appears to be a young girl, buckle-shoes and all. Some giggling is heard. Creepy!
We cut to a group of fellows carrying a coffin through the dilapidated streets of a poor Transylvania town. A carriage arrives, and out steps the strikingly handsome Dr. Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart). He watches the coffin parade as it goes around a corner, out of sight. His coach driver warns him that this village is known for its hatred of visitors and general unpleasantness (and apparently abysmal housing market). The doctor goes off in search of the only inn in town. He passes windows where pox-ridden villagers watch him with distrusting gazes. Finally he arrives at the tavern/inn, where it seems most of the populace has gathered.
As it turns out, the good Dr. Eswai is a coroner, called into town to conduct an autopsy. The person who called him is Inspector Kruger (Piero Lulli), an out-of-towner himself called in to investigate the apparent suicide of the chick who impaled herself. The doctor is shown up to Kruger's room, where we see him getting slightly angry and rough with a local in an attempt to get some information. The Inspector knows something is foul in the town and is dedicated to finding it. Accompanying the Inspector is the burgomeister of the town, Karl (Max Lawrence). Karl knows the score, being a local, but so far he's keeping mum on the subject.
The doctor asks to be shown to the body, only to find out that it happened to be in the coffin he saw upon arriving in town. It seems the townsfolk are in a mad hurry to get the body buried as soon as possible. The doc and the Inspector manage to stop the gravediggers, who protest loudly that handling the dead is a sin and will be punished. Not deterred, the doctor has the body delivered to a local shop of sorts, and lets the Inspector know that he'll need a witness. That witness turns out to be the stunning Monica (Erika Blanc), a medical student who is a native of the village, returned to visit the graves of her parents, or so she says.
The autopsy reveals a surprise in the form of a silver coin embedded in the heart of the deceased! Monica lets us know that this ancient custom apparently is designed to protect the soul of the departed from further evil influence. Sounds like a good idea that needs to be adopted in our day and age. Suddenly, we get the first of what will be many creepy little kid moments: a small hand is pressed up against the window of the autopsy room, unnoticed by the doc or Monica. Slowly it pulls away, leaving us on edge.
"Now, Monica, I want you to make out with whatever you find under that sheet. I'll be taking notes."
It must be said here that Bava plays up the "creepy kid" thing like few others. Melissa, who according to sources was played by a young boy in drag, is all sorts of creepy. Wide staring eyes, like saucers they are, send shivers down the spine as this little ball that she plays with bounces in and out of scene after scene. Bava uses some odd zoom-in, zoom-out camera tricks to replicate the child swinging on a swing in a very dream-like sequence, filled with fog and beautifully creepy lighting. His use of colored lenses and unsettling camera angles is simply unparalleled, and it's little wonder that directors like Scorsese and many others have admitted to taking inspiration from Bava.
After the autopsy, our two protagonists part, Monica going to her lodgings, Dr. Eswai going to his. He is accosted, however, by the two gravediggers, in a dark alley. They attempt to murder him(!) for simply performing the autopsy. Sheesh, overreact much? He fights them valiantly, but they appear to be getting the upper hand when suddenly they are scared away. A mysterious, raven-haired woman has appeared up some stairs nearby. The doctor turns to watch the diggers flee, and upon turning back finds that the woman has disappeared.
The doctor returns to the inn, where the serving girl (and daughter of the innkeeper) tells him that the town's ills can be firmly laid at the feel of the Villa Graps, a haunted spooky mansion containing untold evil. Suddenly, the girl realizes her mistake! She shouldn't have even mentioned Villa Graps! The creepy blond girl shows up at the window again, pressing her hands against it. The serving girl screams, knowing she's been cursed. Her parents know they must send for Ruth. Turns out, Ruth is already at the door, sensing the need for her services. Ruth, as it happens, is the dark haired mysterious lady who scared off the gravediggers. Played by the stunning Fabienne Dali, she is apparently the local witch/medicine lady.
Ruth sets about helping save the serving girl, employing the use of various herbal essences and abrasive chemical solvents. The ritual culminates in Ruth whipping a bundle of herbs across the bare back of the serving girl, which apparently saves her from Melissa's wrath (as well as making her Massengil fresh). Upon leaving the inn, the doctor stops Ruth to demand answers. She informs him that a curse is upon the village but doesn't elaborate, telling him to leave or risk death. Not content with this, and having read nothing about it in the village's brochure, the heroic doctor takes it upon himself to check out Villa Graps firsthand.
We cut to Ruth's house, which looks very witch-like with herbs hanging to dry and various apparatus sitting around. Jars and vials sit around, no doubt containing such witch-related items as "bunghole of toad" and pixie farts. Karl the burgomeister is there and it turns out they are lovers! Ewwwwwww! Karl has another dead body with him, shrouded with a sheet, fresh from the Villa Graps. Ruth lets us all know that the body needs to be buried before sunrise the next day, and then proceeds to implant a coin in its heart. We are never really let in on why the dead bodies need to be buried so quickly, but I'm gonna go with my answer to all of life's unanswered questions: zombies.
Meanwhile, Dr. Eswai arrives at Villa Graps, which is (no surprise) the large mansion we saw the girl at the first of the film fleeing from. He goes inside, seeing as how the door is unlocked, and explores. The mansion is a dusty collection of Gothic furniture and mouse droppings. Going upstairs, the doctor finds a haggard old lady, who informs him that she's the Baroness Graps, living alone. The doc finally leaves, but sees Melissa on the way out. He tries to talk to her but she teleports around, bouncing her ball and giggling creepily. The doctor chases after her to no avail, but he does find a portrait of Melissa, which informs us all that she is long deceased.
We cut to Monica, sleeping in her bed, terrorized by ghostly whispers. The doctor heads back to the inn and finds that the serving girl is also being haunted. The doc goes in search of help, leaving the serving girl alone long enough for her to impale herself on the sharp edge of a candelabra! The doctor sees Ruth and the gravediggers carrying a shrouded corpse to the graveyard. He follows and gets a free moment to check out the body. It's the Inspector! We cut to the burgomeister, alone in his room. He opens his wardrobe and we are all shocked to see Melissa there, staring death at him! He backs away, but Melissa is too strong. Using only her mind, she forces him to cut his own throat with a handy sickle hanging by the door.
Just as the doctor arrives back at the inn and discovers Karl's body, Monica walks in and sees his corpse. She takes off, screaming that she just can't take it anymore. Dr. Eswai follows, and they soon get lost (due to her wailing meanderings), and then, surprise, end up back at Villa Graps. The Baroness Graps, feeling extra chatty, shows them Melissa's room, which is covered in dolls for that extra creep factor. The doc and Monica soon get seperated, and as he's trying to find Monica the doc runs afoul of the ghostly whispers. Fleeing in terror, he runs through a shitload of cobwebs, which stick to him like, uh, cobwebs. He finally makes it outside the house before fear overcomes him and he passes out on the front lawn, looking like a cobwebbed frat guy after a particularly rowdy party.
The doctor comes to in Ruth's house. She's had time to rescue the doc and then return to her house. He watches as she's about to insert a coin into the heart of her lost love Karl, the burgomeister (I love that word, btw, and plan to use it every day). Suddenly, the bombs start dropping! Ruth informs Dr. Eswai that Monica is in fact Melissa's sister! Apparently they were separated at birth or some such. We cut back to the Villa and Monica is talking to the Baroness, who informs her of that very same fact. She also tells of how Melissa died in an accident and has systematically gone about killing everyone because of it.
Monica flees in terror, down into the family crypt (when is it EVER a good idea to seek refuge in a fucking CRYPT? When, I ask?!). Of course Melissa shows up, saucer eyes in full effect. We cut back to the Baroness's room as Ruth enters, ready for a showdown. She informs us that the true evil in Villa Graps is the Baroness herself, who, it turns out, is a powerful medium and is using her powers to control the dead, forcing them to kill with fear! We next see Dr. Eswai running to the Villa to save Monica. Monica, however, is in the grip of fear via Melissa via the Baroness (got that?).
The doctor arrives to see Monica walking up to a ledge just outside the family crypt. The door won't budge! We cut back to the Baroness and Ruth, locked in mortal combat! Ruth begins choking the life out of the Baroness, who in turn is grasping for a poker near the fireplace. Suddenly the Baroness collapses, dead. The door opens finally letting the good doctor in, who rushes up to save Monica from throwing herself off the ledge! Alas, poor Ruth is done for. We switch scenes back to the Baroness's room where Ruth stands impaled through the stomach with the fireplace poker. She collapses knowing that she's rid the town of the curse for good.
Monica and Dr. Eswai walk off back towards town as the sun rises on a new, and hopefully less evil-filled, day... Fin.
Operation: Fear is, in my humble opinion, one of Mario Bava's most awesome masterpieces. The Gothic styling, the way he uses the small setting of the town to instill a sense of isolation, and his acute awareness of just what makes us scared, all of these things add up to something many have attempted, and failed, to copy. I was constantly stunned by how beautiful the scenery was, how Bava's camera transported me to this small hamlet. His use of fog and light should be held up as a master class on environment and space. The use of slightly fogged windows upon which Melissa's hands would press was genius.
The acting was top notch as well. Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, who played Dr. Eswai, was very much the image of the everyday man thrust into a situation which requires a hero, and rising to the occasion. I was particularly smitten with Fabienne Dali, who was simply beautiful in every single scene she was in. Her Ruth affected a slightly disheveled look, and constantly gripped a black shawl draped around her neck. Her beauty was breathtaking. Melissa (or rather the young boy who played her) was also equally adept, but in a way more creepy way. His/her way of never blinking and simply looking ominous was spot-on.
In the end, I must conclude that this movie is the bee's knees and give it 3 Thumbs Up. Everything from the sets, to the camera work, to the acting is across-the-board fantastic and represents everything we all love about Italian Gothic horror.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966), Or How A Boy In Drag Inspires Fear In All
Posted by The Duke of DVD at 2:35 PM
Labels: '60s, 3 Thumbs, Creepy Kids, Dolls Dummies and Puppets, Mario Bava, Witchcraft
12 comments:
- Al Bruno III said...
Another great review... KILL BABY KILL is one crazy flick isn't it? It puts all the twists and turns of Miike's ONE MISSED CALL to shame.
And Fabienne Dali was the bomb.
Also... I find nothing wrong with them dressing up a little boy as a little girl for this film. I think that if more little boys were allowed to dress like little girls once in a while there would be no wars.
Don't you agree? I'm sure you do, the Vicar especially always struck me as a crotchless panties kind of guy...
- January 9, 2010 at 7:07 AM
- Al Bruno III said...
Oh... and also...
I just wanted to let you know I have awarded you a ONE LOVELY BLOG award... http://tinyurl.com/ykbtxsd
- January 9, 2010 at 8:06 AM
Bless your Dukeliness, sir, for another fine Bava review. Imparting a deeper knowledge of The Maestro to us great unwashed is a noble mission indeed.
And if you're gonna have a man-crush, well Bava is an admirable choice for your affections. While not exuding the husky manliness of say, The Jacinto (Really, who could equal that towering icon of machismo?), Sir Mario does have an intellectual charm that's hot in a kinda nerdy sort of way.
The ironic tragedy of the man's career was that, in order to prove himself to money-conscious producers, Bava regularly came in well under budget. On "Danger Diabolik", for instance, he spent only around a third or quarter of the money allotted by using foreground miniatures, glass mattes, and the like to create that picture's over-the-top look. Unfortunately, his frugality kept him relegated to the low-budget field.
What an inspired touch here to cast a boy as creepy Melissa -- so Bava. I wasn't aware of that tidbit of Bava-lore.
I've got "K,B... K!" on the shelf in the next room, as part of Anchor Bay's excellent Mario Bava Collection. To-date, I've misguidedly overlooked it. Well no more. Thanks to you, I'll have it in the player tonight!
- January 9, 2010 at 10:23 AM
- The Duke of DVD said...
@Al - Thanks for the kind words! Yes indeed the Vicar is known for crotchless panties and a penchant for wearing too-small leather vests with nothing on underneath.
Thanks for the award!
@Geo - I was unaware that Bava was so budget-minded. It really doesn't show, at least to me, too much in his work. Perhaps it's better for, forcing him to use everything to its utmost.
I have the same Anchor Bay boxed sets, and I'm planning to go through every single one for this blog. Is work considered "work" when you would murder a hundred hobos to keep doing it? No, says I.
- January 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM
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- January 9, 2010 at 12:41 PM
Duke - The painful irony was that, because the producers expected "Diabolik" to play well in America, Bava considered it his calling card to Hollywood. So he was especially careful with the budget and pulled out his full bag of cinematic trickery. But those very industry people that he was trying to impress were underwhelmed because Bava spent so little money. Makes sense only in the convoluted logic of Hollywood, I guess.
And no, it is not considered work under such circumstances. Hence the nervousness of hobos in your presence.
- January 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM
- James said...
I also have a man crush on Mario Bava - the guy is so underrated and his influence is rarely appreciated. This is one of my favourite Bava (fav Bav?) films.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- dfordoom said...
I always thought Bava was at his best in gothic horror. His entries in the giallo genre leave me cold but his gothic horrors are magnificent.
Especially Lisa and the Devil! Which could well be the most underrated movie of all time. Too arty for most horror fans, too horrific for most art-film fans. But it's utterly brilliant. And it stars Telly Savalas and Elke Sommer - what more could anyone possibly want?
- January 12, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- The Duke of DVD said...
@James - It's so hard not to love Bava, so why even try? Those of us with man crushes on him are a hopeless but dedicated lot.
@dfordoom - Telly "Fucking" Savalas?! Thank you, sir, for directing me to the next Bava film I will review for this blog!
- January 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- dfordoom said...
Lisa and the Devil is one of the two great horror movies Telly Savalas made, which gave him his two best ever screen roles. The other one being Horror Express, another shamefully underrated movie. How could you not love Telly Savalas as an insane Cossack, on a train with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and a monster?
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- June 4, 2010 at 10:45 AM
I was showing this movie to a friend and he says to me, "If Ruth is such a powerful witch, why doesn't she do something about Karl's hair?" My reply: "Maybe she already did! Ha ha". That shut him up. The transfer in the Bava box set is the best one I've seen- it looks like it was shot today! Also, you gotta dig those emerald green cobwebs!
Always nice to meet another bavafan - have you done a write-up of "Blood and Black Lace" yet? I remember my entire family gathered around the TV one Saturday afternoon in 1970 to watch that one. My sister's fiance was there, too. God only knows what he thought of our family at that point.
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VIDEO: Stan Van Gundy to coach Pistons and run the front office
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Stan Van Gundy the basketball coach is a proven commodity, with five 50-win seasons on his resume and not one losing season. Stan Van Gundy the team president, however, is a rookie with no front-office experience to speak of.
The Detroit Pistons reportedly have tabbed Van Gundy to fill both positions, reaching an agreement in principle with the former Orlando Magic and Miami Heat coach, according to multiple reports and confirmed by TNT's David Aldridge. ESPN.com's Marc Stein was the first report the deal.
The deal is reported to be worth an estimated $35 million over five years. The official announcement could come as soon as Wednesday.
Van Gundy joins a short list of elite coaches who also serve as the personnel bosses for their franchises. San Antonio's Gregg Popovich and the Los Angeles Clippers' Doc Rivers also have final say on player personnel.
Popovich and Rivers, of course, have won championships. And they both have their teams playing in the Western Conference semifinals right now. Van Gundy's teams did rank in the top 10 in both offensive and defensive efficiency in five of his seven full season as coach. Van Gundy, who was also being pursued by the Golden State Warriors, is taking over a Pistons franchise whose basketball operations were in shambles at season's end.
Hall of Famer Joe Dumars stepped down as team president, and interim coach John Loyer — who replaced the fired Maurice Cheeks andlasted just 50 games on the job this season — was obviously not considered as a permanent replacement.
Van Gundy will have his work cut out for him. The Pistons have a talented but uneven roster, including young big man Andre Drummond as a building block for the future. They also have Greg Monroe, Josh Smith, Brandon Jennings and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope as a part of the current core.
But there's no telling what direction Van Gundy will go this summer in putting his own imprint on this team and franchise. He's spent the past two seasons as a broadcaster and spending time with his family. While he's been candid about missing the competition and adrenaline rush that comes with coaching in the league, he said last week on an Orlando radio show that he would need a "great situation" to consider getting back into the mix somewhere.
Apparently, he found exactly that in Detroit.


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