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All India Institute of Management Studies (AIIMAS), is an independent educational institute conducting distance education programme, having a national network with whole-hearted and continuous support of eminent Industrialists, Management Professionals and Industrial Relations/HRD Experts. At the prevailing context of aggressively proceeding towards excellent quality system by Industries, high quality products/ services, economic and manufacturing, there is acute scarcity of right quality personnel. The course Content is:
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Nov. 24, 2012
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Senior Leonor Rodriguez (16 points) led five Seminoles in double figures as Florida State improved to 5-0 with a 73-59 victory over No. 17/19 Vanderbilt (3-3) on Saturday at Mario Morales Coliseum on the second day of the San Juan Shootout.
The Seminoles have won five straight games for the first time since beating Florida, Stetson, Missouri, Virginia Tech and Virginia from Dec. 28, 2010 to Jan. 9, 2011. FSU also remains undefeated (5-0) in the San Jan Shootout all-time.
"We talked about integrity in our pregame tonight," head coach Sue Semrau said. "What integrity means is you are who you say you are. This was a test for us today to find who we are. Are we a team that fights? Are we a team that does the little things? Do we value team over self? In every category, we did all of those things tonight."
Joining Rodriguez in double figures were junior forward Natasha Howard (15 points), senior guard Alexa Deluzio (14), senior forward Chasity Clayton (13) and senior post Chelsea Davis (10).
Junior guard Cheetah Delgado, a second generation Puerto Rican, dished a career-best nine assists and made four steals in front of a group of family members and friends. Davis added three blocks, while Clayton pulled down seven rebounds.
Rodriguez followed up her perfect 8-of-8 performance against EKU on Friday with another stellar game, making 4-of-7 shots and sinking two treys. She drilled all six of her free throw attempts, including four in the final 50 seconds to ice the game.
"You can look at her scoring, and it's great," Semrau said. "But her intangibles are where she really shines – the way she thinks the game and puts people into position. She's great on the defensive end, too. Leo has been our MVP so far this season."
Vanderbilt was led by junior point guard Jasmine Lister, who scored 16 points and made 3-of-4 from three-point range. Vanderbilt forward Tiffany Clarke came into the San Juan event averaging 17.3 ppg, but the Seminoles held her to just two points and she didn't make a field goal. The Commodores' star shooting guard, Christina Foggie, went down with a turned ankle midway through the first half.
The Seminoles trailed 17-16 eight minutes into the game, but a layup by Davis sparked seven consecutive points for FSU, as Rodriguez hit a jumper, Deluzio made a free throw and Clayton connected on a bucket from the block
A three-pointer by Rodriguez from the corner capped another quick 7-0 spurt by the Seminoles and gave them a 12-point lead, 36-24, with two minutes remaining in the first half.
FSU went to the locker room with a 10-point advantage and extended it to 12 points on a layup by Clayton nine seconds into the second half.
Vanderbilt kept clawing back, however. A three-pointer by Elan Brown cut the Noles' lead to just 4, 43-38, with 15:36 remaining in the game.
FSU answered right back.
Delgado found Howard for a layup and then stole the ball from Kady Schrann and dished another pass to Deluzio for a transition layup to put the Seminoles back up by 8 with 15 minutes to go.
A putback layup by Deluzio with 9:46 left gave the Noles a 10-point lead, 57-47.
Davis answered another run by Vanderbilt with a block of Lister at the 5:36 mark in the final frame and scored from the block to put FSU ahead 65-55 with five minutes remaining. Howard added a block of her own on Vanderbilt's next possession, and Clayton split a pair of free throws to bring FSU's lead up to 11 with four minutes left.
Rodriguez iced the game with four free throws in the final 50 seconds.
The Noles shot 50 percent from the floor (25-50) and held Vanderbilt to just 29.5 percent (18-61), while also holding a 42-33 edge on the glass.
Florida State returns to action on Wednesday when it hosts Iowa at 7 p.m. at the Donald L. Tucker Center in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge matchup.
For more information on Florida State women's basketball, follow the Seminoles on Twitter @FSU_WBasketball and like their official Facebook page.
Notes: After going 8-for-8 from the field against EKU on Friday, Rodriguez made her first shot attempt against Vanderbilt…Dating back to her miss at the end of the Stetson game last Sunday and going until the 10:04 mark in the first half versus the Commodores, Rodriguez went 51 minutes and 11 seconds of game time without a missed a shot, making nine in a row…Howard reached double figures for the ninth consecutive game…Rodriguez scored 10 or more points for the fifth straight game…Delgado's nine dimes were a career high.

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Battle for Blair Mountain
Aired August 20, 2011 - 20:00 ET
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The way it is in southern West Virginia, it is the coal fields. That's what we've done for a hundred years. Coal miners, they'll stand up at fight as long as they can. You know? But you can just do so much. SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: James and Linda Dials live near Blair mountain in West Virginia. Ground zero in the battle over mountaintop removal mining. One side says it's a fight to preserve jobs. The other side says it's about preserving mountains. UNIDENTIFIED WOMEN: We've united people on one issue and that's stopping mountaintop removal on Blair Mountain! Woo! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Shame on you! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is how we support our families. I feed my kids with this. CROWD: Go! Go! Go! Get out! UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If mountaintop removal does not end soon, everything you see here will be gone in 20 years. O'BRIEN: Have you felt like it's been a big fight? LINDA DIALS: Kind of feels like us against the world. JAMES DIALS: If they lived our life, they would understand. O'BRIEN: For James and Linda Dials, their way of life, and their future, are on the line. LINDA DIALS: Coal means we're going to have a job. Coal means we're going to be able to support our family. We're going to be able to stay where we're at. We're going to be able to retire some day. O'BRIEN: Do you think people are disrespectful of coal miners in general or maybe even people in West Virginia? LINDA DIALS: They do. They think they're ignorant people that don't know any better. I think a lot of them think that they still mine coal with picks and shovels. I don't think they understand that it takes people with brains to do this. O'BRIEN: How long you been a coal miner? JAMES DIALS: 30 years. O'BRIEN: So your whole adult life. JAMES DIALS: Yes. I'm a carpenter. I build houses. I'm a mechanic. So I know different ways of life. O'BRIEN: So why coal? JAMES DIALS: It's better pay. O'BRIEN: James makes about $65,000 a year. Compare that to teachers who make about $38,000. What are the big changes that you've seen? LINDA DIALS: Used to be a lot more people. O'BRIEN: The Dials lives in Sharples. In its heyday hundreds of families lived and worked here in the surrounding mines. Today Sharples is barely hanging on. LINDA DIALS: As far as the community goes, it is not much left anymore. You know, there's still some people here, but in this area, that's all there is. If the coal company shuts down, be a ghost town. Nothing left. O'BRIEN: Logan county, where Sharples is located and where James works, is one of the top ten coal producing counties in America. About half of America's power comes from coal. One way to mine it - mountaintop removal. SCOTT SIMONTON, MARSHALL UNIVERYSITY: It's literally when they take the top off the mountain. They'll take hundreds of feet off the top of a mountain to get to a few feet of coal. If you're taking 100 feet of rock off to get five feet of coal or so, then you're going to have a lot of waste material left over. You've got to do something with that rock. And so one of the things they do is to dump it into the valley next door. Streams are buried. They're gone forever. LINDA DIALS: What we do here is the only thing in this area for the boys. O'BRIEN: Linda is committed to keeping her community alive. LINDA DIALS: There's probably no two people in here that has clashed any harder than Billy and I have. O'BRIEN: Billy is her neighbor, Billy Smutko. LINDA DIALS: When you're here this is not about him against mountaintop removal and me for mountaintop removal. These are for these kids. O'BRIEN: Was your dad a miner? BILLY SMUTKO, RESIDENT: Yes, he was. O'BRIEN: How about your grandfather. SMUTKO: He died in a mine not a mile from here. O'BRIEN: Why are you not a miner? SMUTKO: Never really was interested in doing that. O'BRIEN: Billy's job still relies on coal. He works for the power company. Can people co-exist with mining? SMUTKO: They have for a hundred years until here recently. O'BRIEN: And what happened recently? SMUTKO: That's when it all began. When the mountaintop removal started, that's when the community started to disappear. O'BRIEN: People have said to me, if you're asking me to pick between how a mountain looks and a job, I'll pick the job. I'll pick someone's job. You know, because that means feeding their family and giving them a livelihood and a community. SMUTKO: But it's temporary. The job is temporary. What they've done here is permanent. JAMES DIALS: Say that mountain right there. If they would restrict mountaintop removal and left it, I would be the first one to complain about it. That's my job. It's doing right for my (inaudible). Seeing that it's being done right. O'BRIEN: James believes surface mining projects bring jobs into his area. It's not that clear-cut. The average surface mining job employs about 25 percent fewer miners than underground mining operations. CHUCK KEENEY, ORGANIZER, MARCH ON BLAIR MOUNTAIN: Blair mountain was the site of the largest labor of uprising in the United States history. They can mine the coal around Blair Mountain without using mountaintop removal. Now they may not make as big of a profit. In fact, one of the reasons why they may not make as big of a profit is because they'll have to hire more miners. So this isn't about jobs at all. LISA JACKSON, ADMINISTRATOR, EPA: They need to understand that, yes, you can mine coal. You can give jobs to people but you can't do it at the expense of their lives, their health, their water, their air. That's too much. O'BRIEN: That's why, as 2011 begins, Lisa Jackson, the head of the environmental protection agency, is weighing whether to allow the largest mountaintop mining permit ever proposed in the state of West Virginia. It's called spruce one. It would eliminate nearly seven miles of streams and alter more than 2,000 acres of land. JAMES DIALS: Everybody is kind of worried about what's going to happen. O'BRIEN: Without new permits, mountaintop miners like James fear their jobs will dry up. LINDA DIALS: You know they keep changing the date and backing it up. O'BRIEN: For the Dials, the EPA decision looms. JAMES DIALS: It's like if somebody be coming in your home and hold you hostage and you just go day by day. If you want to take it, take it. If you're not, let us have it. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) JAMES DIALS: Ninety percent of the people live in this hall here are coal miners or retired coal miners. As far as I can remember, I never dreamed of being anything else. O'BRIEN: Winter in West Virginia. James Dials and miners throughout the state begin the new year waiting for an EPA decision on the spruce one permit. JAMES DIALS: Any direction you turn, you will see replay. O'BRIEN: James is a surface miner. He drives a rock truck and works in reclamation. That's the last stage of mountaintop removal where miners try to put the mountain back together. JAMES DIALS: I built these mountains. They're not natural, they're man-made, but we did put them back to the best that a human can do. O'BRIEN: This is how it starts. Powerful explosives rip open mountains and expose rich coal seams. SIMONTON: You know I can look at a mountaintop removal site as an environmental person and think, oh, that's horrible. I could look at it as an engineer and think, wow, that's incredible that we are able to take the top off of a mountain. O'BRIEN: Scott Simonton is a civil and environmental engineer who teaches at Marshall University in West Virginia. SIMONTON: To me the problem is that we don't fully understand the costs of mining. I want to better understand who's bearing those costs. O'BRIEN: When you say costs, do you mean costs to people's health? Cost to the land? Cost to jobs? Cost to what? SIMONTON" All of the above. O'BRIEN: Most mountaintop removal sites are hidden from roads. To get a clear view of the aftermath, you need to go up. O'BRIEN: Here we go. This is mountaintop removal in process. SIMONTON: Right. They're going to be taking al of that rock material. They're going to take it all. O'BRIEN: Simonton sits on the board of the state's department of Environmental Protection which means he's made decisions for and against the coal companies. SIMONTON: (Inaudible) O'BRIEN: What was that? SIMONTON: This would have been a headwater stream. O'BRIEN: So where there was a stream is now steps and rocks. SIMONTON: Right. LINDA DIALS: I can't afford to go up in an airplane and helicopter, go ride and see what the top of a mountain looks like. I see what's down here. What's down here is still beautiful. Still pretty. Clean. O'BRIEN: Linda's neighbor, Billy Smutko, lives below what was a mountaintop removal site. That's now been reclaimed. SMUTKO: Getting back to primitive. This road went al the way through Blair Mountain. O'BRIEN: So this is natural? SMUTKO: Um-hmm. O'BRIEN: This is reclaimed? SMUTKO: Um-hmm. O'BRIEN: OK. Let's go take a look. They don't make it easy to get up here, huh? SMUTKO: No. O'BRIEN: OK. Thank you. SMUTKO: This has been reclaimed almost 20 years ago. O'BRIEN: And you can see the dirt isn't dirt. SMUTKO: It's just rock. Nothing can grow on it. O'BRIEN: I mean is every mountain going to be this? SMUTKO: If things keep going the way they are, this is what this will look like. Because there's coal under here, too. They just don't show any respect for the mountains. SIMONTON: There's tens of thousands of years of forest there and all the things that make that soil. You can't just put that back. You can't hide or see it and call it good. Systems take too long to put into place not to be able to replicate easily. O'BRIEN: Another concern for those opposed to mountaintop removal projects, the blasting. CHARLES BELLA, BLAIR: That shook the houses we will bad. It would shake pictures off the walls and sometimes even crack their porches. Ceilings in their houses. But you couldn't prove it was done by blasting. This was just a bad place to live. O'BRIEN: Charles Bella lives in Blair, just down the road from James and Linda. When blasting began near his home in 1997, he was working in the mines. BELLA: Every time I'd complain about the blasting, the superintendent said to me one day, he said, do you realize that you're biting the hand that feeds you? And I said, yes, but I also realize it's the hand that's killing me. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You climbed up in that old tree. BELLA: You did? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Come on. BELLA: And not only me, but my family and everybody else that lives down there in that valley. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tell me what that is? BELLA: That's that mountain right there. While they was in the process of tearing it down. Reminds me of hell. That reclamation's been done 11 years ago. It still keeps slipping and sliding. O'BRIEN: Do you worry about what the environmentalists say? That the streams are damaged, that the dust is in the air? DIANE KISH, SHARPLES It's not healthy. You can't tell dust sniffing and you know it! O'BRIEN: Another of Sharples' neighbor is Diane Kish. KISH: Let me tell you, these (inaudible) are families. O'BRIEN: So, you don't think it is unsafe? KISH: No. I would take a drink of this water. O'BRIEN: You would not take a drink of this. KISH: Yes, I would. O'BRIEN: Come on! Look at the color. I wouldn't let you. KISH: Better than black. There was three houses here. The church was here. Of all things used here is stoplight here. O'BRIEN: So when did everything go? KISH: When federal judges and the EPA come in, started messing with our livelihood. O'BRIEN: When you look at this mountain, trees are stripped away, is that progress to you? KISH: It's a job in the making. JAMES DIALS: Well, I would like to, do I have a job or not? O'BRIEN: Early in January James and Linda are waiting news from Washington on the spruce one permit. LINDA DIALS: Nobody where it's at, nobody knows anything until we get word. I think we'll see it on TV first. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now to a developing story -- LINDA DIALS: Look at there. Coal mine. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) LINDA DIALS: If the spruce number one mine permit doesn't go through and they end up closing the strip down. People aren't going to want to buy property up through here. This would be a ghost town. Nothing left. O'BRIEN: It's 13 days into the new year. LINDA DIALS: Look at there, coal mine. Any time you hear something about a permit, it makes your heart thump. O'BRIEN: This is the news Linda dials has been dreading. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The U.S. environmental protection agency has now denied the coal mining permit for the spruce number one mine in Logan County. LINDA DIALS: Unreal. O'BRIEN: The mansion says the EPA decision will have a chilling effect on our investments and our economic recovery. LINDA DIALS: You got your TV on? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On Dora. LINDA DIALS: Not on "Dora." you need to put it on 13. They took the permit. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Huh? LINDA DIALS: They took the permit. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're joking? LINDA DIALS: No, I'm not. Just flat-out is gone. O'BRIEN: After more an a decade of argument and challenges, the EPA says no to the spruce one permit. Linda is devastated. LINDA DIALS: Just uncertainty. What happens now? O'BRIEN: Her husband's job is now in danger. JACKSON: It was a tough decision. Very tough. But in the end, we could not justify that filling seven miles of streams, destroying over 2,000 acres of forest wasn't going to have an effect on water quality, wasn't going to affect public health. O'BRIEN: EPA administrator Lisa Jackson says the decision to veto spruce one was based on her authority under the clean water act to decide if a permit will have unacceptable adverse effects. JACKSON: The people of West Virginia deserve jobs and the people of West Virginia deserve clean water. O'BRIEN: The company that applied for the permit, Arch Coal, turned down our repeated requests for an interview. But in a statement, accused the EPA of overreaching and predicted the decision will have a chilling effect on future U.S. investment. Even though spruce one had been approved five years ago by state agencies and the army corp. of engineers, the EPA action reverses those approvals. It's the first time ever the EPA has used its veto under the clean water act to block a mountaintop mining permit. LINDA DIALS: It's just unreal. The resulting rubble known as spoil would be dumped into nearby valleys and streams killing fish. Salamanders and other wildlife. Instead, they'll kill families off. Let's protect those fish and salamanders. O'BRIEN: We talked to a woman named Linda Dials. And when you talk about sort of saving the ecosystem and protecting the environment, she thinks of what about protecting me? What about protecting my husband's job, what about protecting our community, which, without work, is going to die? JACKSON: And I would say to her, and to that community, that EPA's sole job is to protect the water. Clean water is extremely important to the future of any community. It's not a decision we made lightly, but I believe very strongly that it is the right decision. JIMMY WEEKLEY, DIALS' NEIGHBOR: no within haven't heard any news. O'BRIEN: The biggest victor on this day, Jimmy Weekly, another neighbor of the dials. WEEKLEY: They done the right thing, the EPA did. Praise god for that! O'BRIEN: The last hold-out in this holler near Blair Mountain, he refused to sell his land to the coal company. His home stands directly in the path bulldozers would have traveled if spruce one had been given the green light. WEEKLEY: It was just destroying everything. Seemed like it was just like a hurricane. When it goes through, it wipes out everything. O'BRIEN: As the mining got closer, Weekley promised his wife he'd save their home. Cindy Weekley died four years ago. WEEKLEY: It is a victory for her, too. Because she was with me at different meetings I spoke at. Yes, it is a victory for her, too. O'BRIEN: Weekley hired environmental attorney Joe Loveitt to stop spruce one. JOE LOVEITT, ENVIRONMENTAL ATTORNEY: Almost all of my clients are West Virginians . I am a West Virginian. We are West Virginians and we appalled by this practice. O'BRIEN: While the clean water act allows the EPA to veto a permit, it gives the job of issuing permits to the army corp. of engineers. LOVEITT: I don't understand how the army corps can continue to maintain in the face of all evidence that streams can be created. It is a fantasy. The corps knows it is a fantasy, yet they persist to issue these permits on the fiction that streams can be created. MARGARET PALMER, EXPERT, HYDROLOGY AND EXTREME ECOSYSTEMS: There is absolutely no evidence that you can create a stream de novo that is where one never existed before. O'BRIEN: Margaret palmer is a leading expert on hydrology and extreme ecosystems. PALMER: We are talking about a pile of rock that's been pushed on the side of a mountain and taking a low-lying area, a ditch, and making that into a living ecosystem, a stream, and there's absolutely no evidence. O'BRIEN: In fact, the army corp. of engineers admits it's rethinking the process called mitigation. Everybody sort of now says listen, we agree, we've learned, streams cannot be created. MARGARET GAFFNEY-SMITH, CHIEF, ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERING REGULATORY OFFICE: What I'm hearing from the scientists is that the manner in which we require this mitigation is not necessarily always compatible with a mine. And on-site mitigation, that preference, we've abandoned that preference. O'BRIEN: So that's a long way of saying it doesn't really work? GAFFNEY-SMITH: I'm saying in the context of the rock line difference, I don't believe that that's truly a fully functional stream. O'BRIEN: A startling admission that calls into question the whole permitting process. How was it that streams were ever allowed to be destroyed, and what will be acceptable in the future? LINDA DIALS: Be honest with you, just a piece of you that never thought this would happen. It is terrible. You just don't know. It's probably not going to make an impact today or tomorrow or whatever, but it's going to affect everybody. JAMES DIALS: If they took this, they're going to take the rest. But I've got to work. And that's bottom line. I've got to work. O'BRIEN: Linda decides she's got to work, too. Fighting hard to reverse the decision on spruce 1. LINDA DIALS: We've still got a voice. It's not a done deal. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) LINDA DIALS: Oh, Diane you got a hobby. I want mine. O'BRIEN: January 20th, 2011, exactly one week since the EPA veto. Linda dials is heading to a pro-coal rally where she's speaking for the very first time. LINDA DIALS: No hubby. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ready to pull out. LINDA DIALS: I'm not a speaker. Just a housewife. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What the EPA has done is fundamentally wrong. This rally is about jobs, plain and simple. Don't have this radical environmental philosophy, destroy the jobs of West Virginia. LINDA DIALS: Wow! This is really kind of scary. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And I have told the federal government, I don't need a handout. I need a work permit. You give us a chance to work and we'll show you how to rebuild America. LINDA DIALS: I'm still not sure I can do this. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The EPA would let the country think that we are ignorant people and we're controlled by one company. But we're smart people. We're survivors and we know how to live. LINDA DIALS: The main thing is we need to join together as one huge coal family now and we need to fight this and we need to fight it hard. It is a huge family that we can be. Thank you. O'BRIEN: The coal miner's wife from tiny Sharples -- LINDA DIALS: I survived. O'BRIEN: Has now joined the fight with heavy hitters like Senator Joe Manchin. SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D), WEST VIRGINIA: The EPA should be working with us not against us. And that's all we're asking for. Be our partner. If we are doing something wrong, show us. But you have no scientific proof what you're doing. O'BRIEN: What's the science? JACKSON: We have science as well as now peer-reviewed science and there's actually been outside scientists and their language is strong. They say this process is leading to irreversible harm to water quality. O'BRIEN: Arch coal applied for the spruce one permit. The company's declined to be interviewed but claim the veto cost Logan County 250 jobs. Arc Kirkendall, the county commissioner for 30 years, blames the EPA's decision for the loss of millions of dollars in tax revenue. KIRKENDALL: Why do you think the oranges grow in California? Or the tobacco in the Carolinas? I mean I believe god had a plan for everybody to have certain areas with certain economic availability. O'BRIEN: Do you think god thought I hope they lop the tops off the mountain and dig in and get that coal? KIRKENDALL: Yes, I do. O'BRIEN: Do you really think God is saying I prefer mountaintop removal to underground mining? KIRKENDALL: Well, if God wanted underground mining why would he put a 13-inch seam of coal ecology on man underground? Why would he have done that? O'BRIEN: James had been counting on work connected to the new permit. JAMES DIALS: That would have opened up more opportunities for more jobs and it's not going to be 15 or 20 men. It's going to be 300 or 400 men out of jobs. O'BRIEN: By March, he's so worried about layoffs that he begins to look for a new job. JAMES DIALS: Resume. LINDA DIALS: He's got resumes and applications in. You know? He's got a decision to make. If he gets a call for another job. O'BRIEN: Statistics show coal mining jobs in West Virginia are dying. Government projections say by 2035, coal production in West Virginia will decrease by 40 percent and require thousands fewer miners. Wyoming has already replaced West Virginia as the top coal state, producing 400 million tons a year. That's four times what's mind in West Virginia. KEENEY: You need to be very crystal clear about this message that you can hire more people without mountaintop removal than with it. O'BRIEN: Chuck Keeney is a professor at the local community college. KEENEY: It is not coming down to a job, and if they say it is coming down to your job, then they are lying to you. Working people stood up - O'BRIEN: Keeney is crisscrossing West Virginia trying to raise support for a march on Blair Mountain. Right across the valley from spruce one. KEENEY: Blair mountain was the site of the largest labor of Barazi in the United States, possibly the largest insurrection outside of the civil war. O'BRIEN: The first march was led by Keeney's great grandfather in 1921. KEENEY: Coal miners had been denied their basic rights, freedom of speech, freedom to unionize, freedom of assembly. They went on strike to unionize. They were kick out of their homes an they lived in tents. O'BRIEN: The battle pitted nearly 10,000 miners against coal company supporters and ended only after the U.S. military was called in. The goal of Keeney's new march - to get area residents like Linda and James to believe their jobs depend on ending mountaintop removal. KEENEY: I understand that this will engender many hard feelings. But if my great grandfather can risk his own personal life and the life of many others, I can deal with a little bad PR, I think. Mountaintop removal actually destroys jobs. O'BRIEN: James an Linda believe Keeney is trying to take advantage of the EPA decision to kill mining jobs. LINDA DIALS: I think the underground miners and service miners are going to have to come together on this in order to get anything done. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Shame on you! Shame on you! LINDA DIALS: Just like back in the olden days when the miners all had to ban together. We're going to have to do that now. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) LINDA DIALS: We're going to clean the lake up. Pick up all the garbage up. Just make it better. O'BRIEN: Clean-up day at the lake in Sharples. LINDA DIALS: This is the reclaimed mountain site. This was a surface mine. Thank you! KISH: To be out and help your community is everything. O'BRIEN: Today's clean-up was organized by the community advisory panel. KISH: No chasing Linda with snakes. No chasing Linda with anything. O'BRIEN: Linda and Diane are members, and so is their neighbor, Arch Coal. KISH: They are part of our community. They are the biggest business in the community. We have a little grocery store. We have a little gas station and we have a whole company. UNIDENTIFIED KIDS: Oh, my god! LINDA DIALS: That's nasty! (LAUGHTER) They keep trying to come up with scientific proof that coal has been the reason for everybody that's ever been in West Virginia to die. KISH: A new study just out. Study, study, study. Well, I got news for them. I'm part of a heritage. I live right under the coal dust. Played in the black water. My children. We have no allergies. We never was in the hospital. I could go on and on. O'BRIEN: Neighbor Billy Smutko lives just below this man-made lake built on what was a mountaintop removal site. So where is your house from here? SMUTKO: Just on the other side of the hill there. O'BRIEN: And what happens to your house in. SMUTKO: Well, the water continuously rinse into the yard in the back side. O'BRIEN: Every day. SMUTKO: Yes. Yes. And it's useless. O'BRIEN: Billy shows us where the lake is leaking into his yard. He thinks it's because of cracks created by mountaintop removal mining. SMUTKO: The spring's right in behind that right there. That's where the badgers used to get their drinks of water when it was younger. I mean it's good water, it was. I wouldn't drink it now, but it was good water. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why wouldn't you drink it now? SMUTKO: It's coming from the lake. And it's coming off of the old mountaintop removal site. PALMER: Minerals that are dissolved when the water runs through those valley fills include things like high levels of sulfate, manganese, iron, calcium, magnesium. You get this solution running out of the basin of the alley fill and into the stream that together are actually fairly toxic. O'BRIEN: Researchers have begun testing the lake in Sharples. Michael Hendricks is a professor of public health at West Virginia university. For five years he's been investigating if there's a link between health problems in his state and mining. MICHAEL HENDRICKS, PROFESSOR, PUBLIC HEALTH, WEST VIRGINIA: The more I look, the more it's there. And I think that it's the biggest public health problem that West Virginia faces. O'BRIEN: Hendricks says almost 11,000 excess deaths occur every year in mining areas of Appalachia. HENDRICKS: There's multiple illnesses that are problematic in mining areas. Higher rates of cancer is one of them. Heart attacks. Lung disease like COPD. Kidney disease. O'BRIEN: As part of a new field study with a U.S. geological survey looking at kidney disease, Hendricks and his team are testing the water near mining sites in southern West Virginia. HENDRICKS: Rates of disease are higher here in these areas that are closer to mountaintop mining activity, and we know it is partly relating to the polar economic conditions and partly related to other behaviors, but not totally. This area's got lots of coal just lying on the ground. O'BRIEN: At CNN's request, they also test the stream right outside James and Linda's house. WILLIAM OREM, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: We're learning that these streams that are connected to the coal mining activity have elevated contents of dissolved ions. O'BRIEN: How did the dials' stream do? OREM: The values are over 1,000 when they should normally be in the range of 200 to 400. O'BRIEN: As much as five times higher than it should be. The researchers say the test is preliminary and will require retesting. Though the dials don't get their drinking water directly from the stream, the study is examining if dissolved particles eventually enter the drinking water supply, which could cause health problems over time. So even testing water, and they tested your stream last month. They say it's sort of the highest levels of toxicity that they found. We're talking about your stream right there. You worry about those numbers? LINDA DIALS: What did it test 20 years ago? What did it test 40 years ago before those mines up here? JAMES DIALS: Where is the levels coming from? I mean there's miles of this stream that people's sewers running in. O'BRIEN: But do the numbers worry you? Even if it is not coal, even if it's someone's septic system? LINDA DIALS: No, they don't. O'BRIEN: Really? LINDA DIALS: No, they don't. JAMES DIALS: To me, they were not dangerous levels. Because if they were, fish would be floating on the water. Then I would have a problem with it. If a deer can live down here like they do and get a drink out of the creek and find them laying here in the yard debt because they drank that water out of the creek, yes, I would be concerned about the water. But that don't happen. O'BRIEN: Is it possible to be healthy and live near a mountaintop removal mine? BILL RAINEY, PRESIDENT, WEST VITGINIA COAL MINING ASSOCIATION: I think it clearly is. O'BRIEN: Bill Rainey is the president of the West Virginia Coal Mining Association and a lobbyist for the coal companies. RAINEY: I think when you look at some of these studies, if you're referring to those that have been recently released. O'BRIEN: Michael Hendricks, West Virginia University. RAINEY: I think what you find there is a correlation as opposed to a causation, and again, it's got to be analyzed. O'BRIEN: You don't trust the study? RAINEY: I think there is a lot of questions in the studies. I spent time in Sharples talking to the people. They don't seem to be concerned by it. O'BRIEN: The coal industry disputes Hendricks' findings, though they haven't provided any science to refute it. They point to their efforts to try to minimize environmental impacts while still meeting the nation's energy needs. KEENEY: Well, are they allowed to give people cancer for profit? Are they allowed to give people brain tumors? Kidney disease? Should a company be allowed to harm people to make profit? I don't think so. O'BRIEN: Back at lake clean-up, plans start to heat up for the community's next team effort. KISH: March on Blair Mountain is what the environmentalists are having a. They're marching through here on the 9th. LINDA DIALS: It's not at all a fitting tribute. It's to dishonor the miners that are working today if you are in their trying to do away with their jobs. O'BRIEN: Even to this day, they're still digging up artifacts from the 1921 battle. KEENEY: We wish to honor a history that some would like to see destroyed. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to Blair! KEENEY: I've said to many environmentalists, if you can't save this mountain, you can't save any mountain. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN: I am writing in response to an event set for June 6th through the 11th called the March On Blair Mountain Appalachia Rising. O'BRIEN: June, 2011, the march on Blair Mountain begins. BRANDON NIOA, ORGANIZER, MARCH ON BLAIR MOUNTAIN: We're marching to preserve Blair Mountain, demolish mountaintop removal in Appalachia, to strengthen labor rights. LINDA DIALS: These organizers are not concerned about job creation in Appalachia. This group is focused on one thing - ending surface mining and in doing so robbing us of our jobs, our homes and our way of life. O'BRIEN: Linda's letter to the local paper is an inspiration to coal mining families who turn out to let the marchers know how they feel. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's what supports my family. That's the main reason I'm here. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are working. Get a job! UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For some locals that they said we are making a mockery in the history. In my point has always been you make a mockery of history by allowing it to be destroyed. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They're trying to shut us down. They don't even live here. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go home, tree huggers! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I was a child, me and my family used to come to Blair. Please stop telling me to go home! (CROWD SHOUTING) KEENEY: Initial goal here is to save Blair Mountain. If we can't save that, then all of the other goals are washed away. LINDA DIALS: If you were standing on the street or sit out in your yard and the march is coming by, turn your back. I know it sounds like you're fighting for what you know is right but sometimes the easiest victory is one you don't fight. Linda dials. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go home! O'BRIEN: But Linda can't join her neighbors. JAMES DIALS: She's in Cleveland right now with her mother. She's on life support machines. O'BRIEN: Linda's mother is dying and Linda must miss march. James stays behind but he's missing the march, too. He's got to work. His resumes have paid off. James has a new job. He's a mechanic on a mountaintop removal site. The money's better but it is an hour's drive from his home. JAMES DIALS: The job I had is the job that the permit was pulled from, which is four miles from my house. You know there's nobody out here really wants to have to drive for an hour to get to work when you can drive four miles to work. But I can stay there like the rest of them until the very end, and then at the very end, you're going to have hundred of men looking for jobs. SMUTKO: Takes a lot of nerve to do what they're doing right now. I'm glad to see they're here. O'BRIEN: Billy Smutko welcomes the marchers as they get closer to his home. How come you're not suiting up to march with them. SMUTKO: For one thing - she's afraid if I do. I was wanting to. She's afraid someone in the community might shoot me. O'BRIEN: Your wife. SMUTKO: Yes. O'BRIEN: She thinks it could get dangerous. SMUTKO: She knows it could. If not during the march, maybe later. They may hurt someone in the family because there's people that are upset over this. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you want? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nothing, sir. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some people are really showing their uglier side. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No camping allowed in any of the park. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've had a number of camp sites that have dropped us. O'BRIEN: During their journey to Blair Mountain, the marchers faced plenty of obstacles. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Three, two, one. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Coal companies have blocked this all out and this is state property. O'BRIEN: While Linda cares for her mother in Ohio, her friends fight. KISH: It's really been hard on her. O'BRIEN: Does she want to be kept up with what's going on? KISH: Absolutely. She would be on the front line. KISH: Coal country! O'BRIEN: Diane lets the marchers know they're not welcome. KISH: My papa was in the first march! You have no right to be here. KISH: I feel sorry for one. To me, they're sacrificing over something they don't even know. The reason I'm sitting here, if they really knew what we sacrificed and lost, I don't believe they'd be marching with them. I thought you told me you weren't going to say a word. You were going to turn your back. That's tomorrow. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You put that sign down! O'BRIEN: When the coal miners say to me, they really just want to take all of our jobs, aren't they kind of right? KARA DODSON, MARCHER: No. I don't want to take anybody's job or ruin the entire West Virginia economy that's based on the coal industry. That's not - O'BRIEN: You don't want to see coal mining. DODSON: I don't want to see coal mining that drives away the biodiversity of such a beautiful, wonderful place and also drive away jobs that could be in place of mining that perhaps other people in this community would want to be part of. O'BRIEN: So there's no room for compromise. EMMAKATE MARTIN, MARCHER: If your compromise is still destroying the mountain, then there's no room for compromise. CROWD: Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? We have to safe this historic site and I am not going to compromise on that now. I mean if somebody were to say you could blow up hat of Gettysburg, you know if there would coal underneath, would people stand for that? I would hope not. O'BRIEN: Who owns Blair Mountain? JAMES DIALS: The coal companies own it. The property belongs to coal companies. O'BRIEN: Should it be preserved? JAMES DIALS: I feel that it's a point that they want to argue, preserve the mountain because the battle was fought on it. I would hate to see it go, but if it meant 300 or 400 men losing their jobs, flatten it out. O'BRIEN: As the march nears its final destination, Charles Bella joins the man who began the fight here. Jimmy Weekley. WWEKLEY: I'm so happy to see you here! O'BRIEN: After six days and nearly 50 miles in the sweltering summer heat - UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You made it, folks. O'BRIEN: The marchers reach Blair Mountain. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're shaking this mountain. More than any mountain on top (inaudible) right now. O'BRIEN: There are some people who are from here who say you're a tree hugger. That's a nickname for an environmentalists. Are you a tree hugger? SMUTKO: I don't consider myself a tree hugger. But I am environmentally concerned for my children, and my grandchildren, and every generation after that coming. O'BRIEN: Linda is back in Sharples. Her mother has died. LINDA DIALS: You know, my mother was from here and my father was from Blair. This big mountain that they're protecting. So yes, in a way, with mom gone, it renews my passion, I guess you'd say, my fight. JAMES DIALS: It's all about jobs right now. In two weeks we get a payday. In 30 years what do we get? O'BRIEN: How do you think the battle for Blair Mountain ends? JAMES DIALS: We will fight. We won't give up. I'll never turn my back on fighting for coal. O'BRIEN: In my next documentary - UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I and my sister firefighters and my brother firefighters were all there. O'BRIEN: They fought for the chance to even be there, to risk their lives. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I'm still here, I need to serve a purpose. O'BRIEN: Beyond bravery - the women of September 11th, airing September 8th on CNN.


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Verify whether the signing authority is registered in the client's trust store.
To test whether the client will accept certificates signed by your certification authority, try to establish an SSL connection, as described above under Configuring and Running an SSL-Based Client Using Self-Signed Certificates. If the CA is in the client's trust store, the connection will succeed and you can skip the next step. If the connection fails with a certificate validation error, go on to the next step.
Install the signing CA's root certificate in the client's trust store.
The client searches the key store files cacerts and jssecacerts by default, so no further configuration is necessary if you install the certificate in either of those files. The following example installs a test root certificate from the Verisign certification authority from a file named testrootca.cer into the default system certificate file, cacerts. The example assumes that J2SE is installed in the directory $JAVA_HOME/usr/j2se:
keytool -import -keystore /usr/j2se/jre/lib/security/cacerts -alias VerisignTestCA -file testrootca.cer -noprompt -trustcacerts -storepass myStorePassword
An alternative (and recommended) option is to install the root certificate into the alternative system certificate file, jssecacerts:
keytool -import -keystore /usr/j2se/jre/lib/security/jssecacerts -alias VerisignTestCA -file testrootca.cer -noprompt -trustcacerts -storepass myStorePassword
A third possibility is to install the root certificate into some other key store file and configure the client to use that as its trust store. The following example installs into the file /home/smith/.keystore:
keytool -import -keystore /home/smith/.keystore -alias VerisignTestCA -file testrootca.cer -noprompt -trustcacerts -storepass myStorePassword
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As has widely been reported, Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott recently agreed to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion for the Sunshine State. However, Avik Roy (co-author of a good piece on why the expansion is a bad idea) explains that this doesn't mean that the expansion will occur in Florida.
Roy relies on the reporting of Tia Mitchell of the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald, who covers health care developments in Tallahassee. Mitchell notes that Scott agreed only to support the expansion if the legislature votes in favor of it. But according to Mitchell, the Florida House may very well reject the expansion.
Scott's stance (as reported by Mitchell) would enable him to "have his cake and eat it too," in Roy's words. If the legislature rejects the expansion, he doesn't take much heat for having agreed to not to block it. At the same time, he avoids responsibility for the absence of the expansion.


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text: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 hanzl at noel.feld.cvut.cz wrote: (a bunch of stuff, leading to...) > The only difference I can see is the application (which is not a CFD or > galactic evolution or similar). From the point of wiew of > interconnects, OS types, parallel libraries used, RAM, processors, > cluster management etc. I see no reason why databases and beowulf > could not overlap. And I would agree, and even pointed out that there WERE areas of logical overlap. The problems being solved and bottlenecks involved are in many cases the same. However, by convention "beowulf" clusters per se and MOST of the energy of this list is devoted to HPC -- numerical computations and applications. It is undeniable that numerical applications exist that interact with data stores of many different forms, including I'm sure databases. Databases are also used to manage clusters. Grids, in particular, tend to integrate tightly with databases to be able to manage distributed storage resources that aren't necessarily viewable or accessible as "mounts" of an ordinary filesystem. When one has thousands of (potential) users and millions of inodes spread out across hundreds of disks with a complicated set of relationships regarding access to the HPC-generated data, a DB is needed just to permit search and retrieval of your OWN results, let alone somebody else's. Nevertheless, databases per se are not numerical HPC, and a cluster built to do SQL transactions on a collective shared database is not properly called a "beowulf" cluster or even a more general HPC cluster or grid. That is one reason that they ARE rarely discussed on this list. In fact, most of the discussion that has occurred and that is in the archives concerns why database server clusters aren't really HPC or beowulf clusters, not how one might build a cluster-based database. The latter is more the purview of: http://www.linux-ha.org/ and its associated list; at least they address the data reliability, failover, data store design, logical volume management aspects of shared DB access. Even this list doesn't actually address "cluster implementation of a database server program" though, because that is actually a very narrow topic. So narrow that it is arguably confined to particular database servers, one at a time. To put it another way, writing a SQL database server is a highly nontrivial task, and good open source servers are rare. Mysql is common and open source (if semi-commercial) for example, but there exist absolute rants on the web against mysql as being a high quality, scalable DB for all of that. (I'm not religiously involved in this debate, BTW, so flames->/dev/null or find the referents with google and flame them instead, I'm just pointing out that the debate exists;-). Writing a PARALLEL SQL database server is even MORE nontrivial, and while yes, some reasons for this are shared by the HPC community, the bulk of them are related directly to locking and the file system and to SQL itself. Indeed, most are humble variants of the time-honored problem of how to deal with race conditions and the like when I'm trying to write to a particular record with a SQL statement on node A at the same time you're trying to read from the record on node B, or worse yet, when you're trying to write at the same time. Most of the solutions to this problem lead to godawful and rapid corruption of the record itself if not the entire database. Robust solutions tend to (necessarily) serialize access, which defeats all trivial parallelizations. NONtrivial parallelizations are things like distributing the execution of actual SQL search statements across a cluster. Whether there is any point in this depends strongly on the design of the database store itself; if it is a single point of presence to the entire cluster, there is an obvious serial bottleneck there that AGAIN defeats most straightforward parallelizations (depending a bit on just how long a node has to crunch a block of the DB compared to the time required to read it in from the server). It also depends strongly on how the DB itself is organized, as the very concept of "block of the DB" may be meaningless. In fact, to make a really efficient parallel DB program, I believe that you have to integrate a design from the datastore on up to avoid serializing bottlenecks. The actual DB has to be stored in a way that can be read in units that can be independently processed. It has to be organized in such a way that the hashing and information-theoretic-efficient parsing of the blocked information can proceed efficiently on the nodes (not easy when there is record linkage in a relational DB -- maybe not POSSIBLE in general in a relational DB). The distributed tasks have to be rewritten from scratch by Very Smart Humans to use parallelizable algorithms (that integrate with the underlying file store and with the underlying DB organization). These algorithms are likely to be so specialized as to be patentable (and I'll bet that e.g. Oracle owns a slew of patents on this very thing). Finally the specter of locking looms over everything, threatening all of your work unless you can arrange for record modification not to serialize everything. For read only access, life is probably livable if not good. RW access to a large relational DB to be distributed across N nodes -- just plain ouch... So yes, it is fun to kick around on this list in the abstract BECAUSE lots of these are also problems in parallel applications that work with data (in a DB per se or not) but in direct reference to the question, no, this list isn't going to provide direct guidance on how to parallelize mysql or oracle or sybase or postgres or peoplesoft because EACH of these has to engineer an efficient parallel solution all the way from the file store to the user interface and API, at least if one wants to get reliable/predictable and beneficial scalability. There may, however, be people on the list that have messed with parallelized versions of at least some of these DBs. There has certainly been list discussion on parallizing postgres before (e.g. http://beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/1998-October/002070.html Which is alas no longer accessible in the archives at this address, although google still turns it and a number of other hits up; perhaps it is a part of what was lost when beowulf.org crashed a short while ago. Unfortunately, I failed to capture the list archives in my last mirror of this site. And Doug Eadline probably can say a few words about the parallelization of mysql (which has ALSO been discussed on the list back in 1999 and is ALSO missing from the archives). Both mysql and postgres appear to have a parallel implementation with at least some scalability, see: http://www.illusionary.com/snort_db.html Mysql's is an actual cluster implementation: http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/ (note that bit about "Designed for 99.999% Availability" -- high availability, not HPC). A thread on mysql and postgres clustering on slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=62549&cid=5843509 (a search is complicated by the fact that postgres refers to relational database structures on disk as "clusters" and has actual commands to create them etc.). Postgres based clustering project (of sorts) lives here: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/erserver/projdisplay.php There is a sourceforge project trying to implement some sort of lowest-common-denominator embarrassingly parallel cluster DB solution that can be implemented "on top of" SQL DBs (as I make it out, read it for yourself). http://ha-jdbc.sourceforge.net/ Really, google is your friend in this. In a nutshell, it IS possible to find support for cluster-type access to at least mysql and postgres in the open source community, in at least two ways (native and as an add-on layer in each case). Add-on layer clustering provides a better than nothing solution to the serial bottleneck problem, but it will not scale well for all kinds of access and has the usual problems with the design of the data store itself. I can't comment on the native implementations beyond observing that mysql looks like it is in production while postgres looks like it is still very much under development, and that both of them are "replication" models that likely won't scale well at all for write access (they likely handle locking at the granularity of the entire DB, although I >>do not know<< and don't plan to look it up:-). Hope this helps somebody. If nothing else, it is likely worthwhile to reinsert a discussion on this into the archives because of recent developments and because previous discussions have gone away. rgb > > Best Regards > > Vaclav Hanzl > > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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From the main lobby of the hospital to the patient floors where walls were built on a curvature, you can see a nurse the minute you step off the elevator. Claypool said they've thought of every detail as they bring the St. Vincent's Ministry to Middleburg.
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Different, but pretty good
- Moose
- 3/11/19
Any film with Audrey Totter can't be ALL bad!
Tough-guy slang shtick way overdone
- Anthony
- 12/17/18
The trouble with this picture is Montgomery. His incessant tough-guy attitude, his anger, his acerbic tone, the incessant insults, they all just weigh a ton. It's all over-done in a way that isn't the case in The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep. Bogart's tough talk in those pictures is leavened by humor and wit. This picture is sorely lacking in those qualities. Here, the world-weary gumshoe shtick descends into bad caricature. Too bad because Robert Montgomery seems like a great guy and was so good in Ford's magnificent They Were Expendable.
Loved it!
- Mary
- 12/7/17
I loved this movie. One of my two favorite film noirs, the other being The Blue Dahlia. I see a number of reviewers here didn't like it, so maybe the thing to do is to give the first 20 minutes a chance to see if its your kind of thing. Maybe the unusual filming (from the main character's pov) was an issue for some with getting into the movie. I got used to it quickly, and thought the way Montgomery did it was very well done and creative. We see things from his eyes as he talks or narrates, and occasionally get glimpses of him in mirrors. I don't know how they pulled that off so well- there were moments when I wondered how exactly they were getting such perfect shots! The cast was good, and I especially liked Audrey Totter and her storyline. I wasn't quite sure at the beginning if she would end up being a good or bad guy, and it was nice to see her character development. I did know who the murderer was in his/her first scene, thanks to Roger Ebert's useful Law of the Economy of Characters, which has served me well (or poorly, according to your point of view) in murder mysteries. In the end, the complicated mystery was resolved and everything worked out, so it's a fun time spent with a classic film noir.
experiment perilous
- don letta
- 8/20/16
In 1947 two directors embarked on their own voyage of discovery. One was Montgomery,the other one was Hitchcock. They each created a unique method of filming a story.One film read as a series of auditions strung together by a trite plot, and came off as self-conscious and tiresome.The other was a masterstroke that's still being heralded as a masterpiece, today. That one is Rope.Lady, unfortunately drowned of its own weight.
Liked it
- Judy
- 1/6/14
I had seen it beFore. Liked it. Liked more now because I watched it with my hubby. He really got into the complexity of the storyline. How it was filmed did not distract him at all. Audrey totter was the best. Jayne meadows was a surprise as the murderer. Finally, I always liked Lloyd nolan. Film noir is always so gritty but I like that there is a desire by the characters to do right thing. Being a good guy is important.
disappointing, interesting attempt
- Barb
- 6/29/13
I found the restricted point of view intriguing at first, but then almost intolerable. Kept thinking, get on with it! Interesting performance by Audrey Totter, surely one of her best, even if somewhat obvious. It seems to be overlooked by many. She isn't one of my favorites but in this she certainly contributed to whatever there is of the mystery & suspense.
- Larry
- 12/10/12
I just got done watching this move - and it was truly awesome. The camera movement was different becauseIt was as if I was Phillip Marlowe in the movie.Brilliant acting - a great script.I highly recommend this movie for all to see.
Montgomery A Real Hero
- Jack The Hat
- 12/9/12
The film it's self was awful, Robert Montgomery just doesn't have that look a movie private detective should have. But, what most do not know, Robert montgomery was a real hero, not only for his naval record but his taken on organized crime in Hollywood and also the communist there too. There should be a movie on his life----the left in Hollywood though would never allow this, I'm sorry to say.
I wanted to love it, but ...
- Johnny Perry
- 5/24/12
I love film noir - really love it. And I wanted to love this picture. However, I didn't.I like Robert Montgomery, but this is so obviously a vanity project for him to show moviegoers how inventive he could be. Unfortunately, the subjective camerawork gets tedious very fast and actually distracts from the narrative. (Bottom line: Try as I might, I've never been able to watch this straight through.)
Novel style
- Commenter77
- 3/4/12
If someone had told me how this was done, I wouldn't have checked it out, but watched without knowing because of an interest in detective stories. At first, I found the approach kind of irritating, but came along. Most actors were fairly natural with it, a few seemed to be talking to a camera instead of the detec. Robert Montgomery gets points for novelty and the film for overall interest. Audrey Totter grew on me as it went along. I kept waiting for her to miss a beat in that stylized attitude in the office especially, but she didn't. It was interesting and probably not easy to do. Leon Ames is a strong character actor, who holds up his end throughout, maybe the most natural with the technique. Montgomery seemed to be talking at people instead of to them. Whatever they intended with that, it didn't seem to come off - the deadpan kind of thing. It needed some more practice, but they probably didn't try again with bad reviews nipping at their heels. This seems too unique to compare with other noirs, Marlowes, etc. It would probably help to watch several more times.
- Robert
- 11/1/11
I loved this movie. I found it entertaining on many levels. Sure old cliches, corny detective phrases, bring it on! And a warm romantic story underneath. Yes it was corny, but I love old stories like this. Bravo!
The Lady In The Lake
- Rob Woods
- 10/20/11
TERRIBLE! Poor Mr. Chandler. Robert Montgomery (who also directs himself) works from a butchered script and it doesn't even seem as though he (or the script supervisors) has ever read the book.Do yourself a favour and read the book AFTER you've wasted 103 minutes in front of this yawner.
Lady in the lake
- Tom
- 10/8/11
**** Love this one. Excellent camera work. Saw this one many times but still can't look away when it is on.
An adventure!
- Abdiel Alvaro Lara
- 5/21/10
This film is so extraordinary in the most obvious way, the way the majority of the film was shot in first person. From the movies I have seen, I have never seen this way of story telling before, and it absolutely took nothing away the whole, i think it made the film that much more dramatic. I felt as if I was the detective at some points in the story. Also, the scenes where the actors were looking straight at the camera I felt as if they were talking right at me, the effect of the first person angle has so much power. I loved every second of this film. I highly recommend this film to anyone with a taste for adventure and suspense.-Abdiel
Lady in the Lake (1947)
- James Higgins
- 3/9/10
85/100. Underrated classic, very innovative and exciting. It uses the very unique technique of using the camera as the eyes of detective Marlowe in this fine adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel. Robert Montgomery directed it and did a wonderfully imaginative job. Excellent support from Audrey Totter and Audrey Meadows. Excellent cinematography.
Audrey Totter
- Martin Nathan
- 5/21/09
I saw this movie a few years, and was very intrigued by Audrey Totter, a rather unique actress. I had never heard of her before. She seems to have been fairly popular in the mid to late 40s, then faded. She was even on the show Medical Center in the early 70s, which I wathed but don't remember her.
Saw only half of the movie
- Scott Ruiz
- 4/6/08
Are you expecting to show "Lady in the lake " again anytime soon. I happened to see only the last part of the movie when it last aired several months ago and I have been hoping that it would air again. Any chance that it will be aired again?
The Painting......
- Paul
- 11/2/07
As we were watching that scene my wife commented she thought that was a Renoir hanging on the wall. She had no idea you had posted this question. I hope you've been checking back-it's been over a year.
I am looking for information on this film
- tracy vizcarra
- 4/2/06
I would like to know the artist name of the painting over the fire place in the womans apt. The painting is of a woman with a paracell. Lookes like a french woman?(IN a red dress). I would love to receive the info.
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The following people
question the government's version of 9/11, or the government's openness
in providing information about the September 11 attacks.
The co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission (Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton)
that the CIA (and likely the White House) "obstructed our investigation".
The co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission also said that the
9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts
to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal
charges for such false statements, yet didn't bother to tell the
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Indeed, the co-chairs of the Commission now admit that the
Commission largely operated based upon political considerations.
Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says "I
don't believe for a minute we got everything right", that the Commission
was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11,
that the 9/11 debate should continue, and that the 9/11 Commission report
was only "the first draft" of history.
Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that "There
are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what
we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . ."
Commissioner Timothy Roemer said
"We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting"
9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: "It
is a national scandal"; "This
investigation is now compromised"; and "One
of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue
is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up".
Commissioner John Lehman said that "We
purposely put together a staff that had – in a way - conflicts of
Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) who led the 9/11 staff's
inquiry, said "I
was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described
.... The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told
to us and the public for two years.... This is not spin. This is not true."
to the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head
of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, a
U.S. government informant was the landlord
to two of the hijackers for over a year (but the White House refused
to let the 9/11 inquiry interview him).
U.S. Senator (Patrick Leahy) states "The
two questions that the congress will not ask . . . is why did 9/11 happen
on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to
happen? Why did they allow it to happen?"
Current Republican Congressman (Ron Paul) calls
for a new 9/11 investigation and states that "we
see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less
cover-up and no real explanation of what went on"
Current Democratic Congressman (Dennis Kucinich) hints
that we aren't being told the truth about 9/11
Former Democratic Senator (Mike Gravel) states that he
supports a new 9/11 investigation and that we don't know the truth about
Republican Senator (Lincoln Chaffee) endorses
a new 9/11 investigation
U.S. Democratic Congressman (Dan Hamburg) says that the
U.S. government "assisted" in the 9/11 attacks, stating that "I think
there was a lot of help from the inside"
U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services
Committee, and who served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research
and Development Subcommittee (Curt Weldon) has shown that the U.S.
tracked hijackers before 9/11, is open to hearing information about
explosives in the Twin Towers, and is open to the possibility that 9/11
was an inside job
our government had merely [done] nothing, and I say that as an old interceptor
pilot—I know the drill, I know what it takes, I know how long
it takes, I know what the procedures are, I know what they were, and
I know what they've changed them to—if our government had
merely done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that
morning of 9/11, the Twin Towers would still be standing and thousands
of dead Americans would still be alive. [T]hat is treason!"
is no way that an aircraft . . . would not be intercepted when they
deviate from their flight plan, turn off their transponders, or stop
communication with Air Traffic Control ... Attempts to obscure facts
by calling them a 'conspiracy Theory' does not change the truth. It
seems, 'Something is rotten in the State.' "
"I am 100%
convinced that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were planned, organized,
and committed by treasonous perpetrators that have infiltrated the highest
levels of our government ....
Those of us in the military took an oath to "support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic".
Just because we have retired does not make that oath invalid, so it
is not just our responsibility, it is our duty to expose the real perpetrators
of 9/11 and bring them to justice, no matter how hard it is, how long
it takes, or how much we have to suffer to do it.
We owe it to those who have gone before us who executed that same oath,
and who are doing the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan right now.
Those of us who joined the military and faithfully executed orders that
were given us had to trust our leaders. The violation and abuse of that
trust is not only heinous, but ultimately the most accurate definition
of treason!"
"This isn't
about party, it isn't about Bush Bashing. It's about our country, our
constitution, and our future. ...
Your countrymen have been murdered and the more you delve into it the
more it looks as though they were murdered by our government, who used
it as an excuse to murder other people thousands of miles away.
If you ridicule others who have sincere doubts and who know factual
information that directly contradicts the official report and who want
explanations from those who hold the keys to our government, and have
motive, means, and opportunity to pull off a 9/11, but you are too lazy
or fearful, or ... to check into the facts yourself, what does that
make you? ....
Are you afraid that you will learn the truth and you can't handle it?
world-renowned scientist, recipient of the National Medal of Science,
America's highest honor for scientific achievement (Dr. Lynn Margulis)
suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly
erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new,
thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken."
principal electrical engineer for the entire World Trade Center complex,
who was "very familiar with the structures and [the Twin Towers'] conceptual
design parameters" (Richard F. Humenn), stated
that "the mass and strength of the structure should have survived the
localized damage caused by the planes and burning jet fuel . . . . the
fuel and planes alone did not bring the Towers down."
Director for Research, Director for Aeronautical Projects, and Flight
Research Program Manager for NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, who
holds masters degrees in both
physics and engineering (Dwain A. Deets) says:
many visual images (massive structural members being hurled horizontally,
huge pyroclastic clouds, etc.) leave no doubt in my mind explosives
were involved [in the destruction of the World Trade Centers on 9/11].''
prominent physicist, former U.S. professor of physics from a top university,
and a former principal investigator for the U.S. Department of Energy,
Division of Advanced Energy Projects (Dr. Steven E. Jones) stated that
the world trade centers were brought down by controlled demolition
A U.S. physics professor who teaches at several universities (Dr. Crockett
Grabbe) believes that the
World Trade Centers were brought down by controlled demolition
An expert on demolition (Bent Lund) said that the
trade centers were brought down with explosives (in Danish)
13-year professor of metallurgical engineering at a U.S. university, with
a PhD in materials engineering, a former Congressional Office of Technology
Assessment Senior Staff Member (Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn), is calling
for a new investigation of 9/11
Danish professor of chemistry (Dr. Niels Harrit) said, in a mainstream
Danish newspaper, "WTC7
collapsed exactly like a house of cards. If the fires or damage in one
corner had played a decisive role, the building would have fallen in that
direction. You don't have to be a woodcutter to grasp this" (translated)
mechanical engineer with 20 years experience as a Fire Protection Engineer
for the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, who
is a contributing Subject Matter Expert to the U.S. Department of Energy
Fire Protection Engineering Functional Area Qualification Standard for
Nuclear Facilities, a board member of the Northern California - Nevada
Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, currently serving
as Fire Protection Engineer for the city of San Jose, California, the
10th largest city in the United States (Edward S. Munyak) believes
that the World Trade Center was destroyed by controlled demolition.
former Chief of the Strategic and Emergency Planning Branch, U.S. Department
of Energy, and former Director of the Office of Engineering at the Public
Service Commission in Washington, D.C., who is a mechanical engineer (Enver
Masud) , does not believe
the official story, and believes that there is a prima facie case for
controlled demolition of the World Trade Center.
prominent engineer with 55 years experience, in charge of the design
of hundreds of major building projects including high rise offices, former
member of the California Seismic Safety Commission and former member of
the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council (Marx Ayres)
believes that the World Trade Centers were brought down by controlled
demolition (see also this)
professors of structural engineering at a prestigious Swiss university
(Dr. Joerg Schneider and Dr. Hugo Bachmann) said that, on
9/11, World Trade Center 7 was brought down by controlled demolition
(translation here)
S. Obeid, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering from
UC Berkeley, of Fremont, California
H. Brookman, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering
from UC Davis, of Novato California
John Inman, structural engineer, of London, England
you grow up in the United States, there are some bedrock principles that
require concerted effort to discard. One is the simplest: that our leaders
are good and decent people whose efforts may occasionally warrant criticism
but never because of malice or venality... But one grows up. ... And with
the lawyer's training comes the reliance on evidence and the facts that
persuade... After a lot of reading, thought, study, and commiseration,
I have come to the conclusion that the attacks of 9/11 were, in their
essence, an inside job perpetrated at the highest levels of the U S government."
Former FBI agent (Robert Wright) says "The
FBI, rather than trying to prevent a terrorist attack, was merely gathering
intelligence so they would know who to arrest when a terrorist attack


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Williamstown Independent Schools is now a tobacco-free campus after the school board adopted a new policy.
The policy change stems from a Kentucky Healthy Communities Program grant awarded jointly to the district and the city of Williamstown.
The district will receive $7,000 to purchase no smoking signs and education material for students and staff.
The city of Williamstown will use $13,000 from the grant to develop better access to walking and biking paths in the community.
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