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I seems like ages ago when my husband and I tilled up a large area of grass in our backyard and transplanted our tiny seedlings into a barren patch of dirt. We tended to each little plant with love and waited all summer long to reap the fruits of our labor. Now, our garden is brimming with peppers, okra, cabbage, kale, cucumbers, herbs, and tomatoes.
Green tomatoes, that is. They are taking their sweet time in ripening; and, although I love nothing more than a ripe garden fresh tomato- a bit of impatience culinary nerve came over me.
In all the years I have grown tomatoes, I had never once considered eating the fruit before it ripened. So early yesterday morning, I decided I should create something delicious with my still green and crunchy tomatoes.
I knew I wanted to try a more unorthodox approach than simply frying them up, so I created these delicious turnovers.
Let me just state that I am extremely impressed with these things. In fact, my husband and I were both so enamored with the taste and texture, that we are already planning on making them again. Soon.
Like, maybe tonight.
The thinly sliced tomatoes and onions melded with the nutritional yeast and cumin inside the crispy pocket to create a treat that smells absolutely wonderful while baking in the oven.
And, they tasted so damned good.
Try them… if you've never eaten green tomatoes, this is a great intro recipe. Other fillings can be added or subbed in for the ingredients listed, but I really love the flavor of this exact recipe. Perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Now I wonder if my tomatoes will last long enough to ripen to red? At this point, I couldn't care less.
Green Tomato and Onion Turnovers – Vegan and Gluten Free
Wet ingredients for dough
Flour mix for dough
Proof yeast by combining all wet ingredients for dough (except oil) and let rest until foamy, about 5 minutes. Stir in olive oil and make sure the bouillon cube is dissolved well in the mixture.
In separate bowl, sift together the dry ingredients for flour mix.
Gradually add the flour mix to the wet ingredients to form a soft dough. Knead briefly with hands and let rest about 15 minutes in cool (meaning not super hot) area.
Turn the dough out onto lightly floured surface and roll out until dough is about 1/4 of an inch thick (I used sorghum flour). Flip dough over, using a flat metal spatula if needed to get underneath, and also to ensure there is no sticking. Dust any sticky spots with a little more sorghum flour and re-roll if needed. Once dough is about 1/4 inch thick, use an 8″ cake pan to cut circles.
Keep re-rolling and cutting circles until all dough is used. You should be able to make four 8″ circles with this amount of dough. This dough is very similar to wheat based dough. So, if you've worked with regular dough before, the handling of this stuff should be pretty familiar.
Once you have your circles cut out, set them aside and prepare filling. Don't stack them though, they will stick together!
Preheat oven to 400 °F.
Slice tomatoes and onions very thinly and cut tomatoes in half to make little "half moon" shapes.
Now, arrange the thinly sliced tomatoes and onions on half of the circle, as pictured below. Sprinkle each with about 1 tbsp nutritional yeast, 1/4 tbsp cumin, 1/4 tsp salt and then drizzle each with a bit of olive oil.
Fold half of the dough over the filling to make a semi-circle shape. Turn over edges to seal, and use a fork to crimp down the edges of the turnover. Place all 4 turnovers onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Brush the tops of each lightly with olive oil, and bake in preheated oven for about 30 minutes, or until crusts are golden brown.
Serve hot, and savor every single last bite.
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Thanks for sharing! Three of my tomatoes fell off before they were ripe while I was staking them. I was afraid they were not worth using. I'm excited to try your recipe!
[…] for early or late summer when green tomatoes are abundant, these turnovers are gluten-free and packed with […]
Oh my! I just saw your guest post on OSG and OMG! I haven't enjoyed turnovers since going gluten-free. Thank you for this great recipe. I'm totally making these next weekend :)
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So, I have made the actual turnovers twice and they were delicious! I am so excited to find a good gluten free "calzone" style dough. I have also used it a few times for pizza dough, and it turns out great thicker or thin! Thank you for this versatile recipe!
well, i finally got around to making these! i halved the recipe and used white rice flour instead of brown rice flour, because that is what i had. my dough was SO dry. i even added splashes of water along the way, including after rerolling out the dough for my 2nd turnover. it wasn't until i was preparing the filling that i realized i forgot to add the olive oil! oy! after being verrrry careful, they actually baked up beautifully. no explosion i was anticipating. but the turnover was break-your-teeth rock hard. i think i added enough liquid where this shouldn't have been a huge problem, but is it simply because i hadn't added a fat to the dough? or the white rice flour? i still ate the whole thing, no worries. ;) the filling was delicious!
These look quite tasty indeed. Actually I just made a few turnovers myself a couple of weeks ago. They are such a versatile food. You can fill them with anything. I'm currently working on a dessert version which I hope to be posting soon. I sure want to try these green tomato and onion ones too. You're brilliant!
Mmm… mark my words, I shall make these before summer is over! I love green tomatoes.
I've never tried green tomatoes before…but this makes me want to, and in this recipe!!
Hi – I came across this recipe from foodgawker, and I saw that I wanted to make this! However I have no sorghum flour or brown rice flour, tapioca flour, or even xantham gum. I have whole wheat flour, whole white flour… That's all I have here for flours.
Any suggestions?
How ADORABLE are those little pies?? Oh man, too cute. I love it. Awesome recipe and pictures!!!
I LOVE this recipe! I love green tomatoes, and I love onions, and I love turnovers. Swoon! I cannot wait to give this a try. What a simple and delicious summer meal. Perfection!
Wowsers, they look great and I am so grateful for the dough recipe, will try it out very soon!
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This recipe looks so interesting! So exciting to have found another site catering to us gluten free vegans :)
Wow, those are gorgeous!
I was also curious about flours. I have sorghum but no brown rice. What would happen if I subbed buckwheat or oat?
You were right, these looks SO great! Question for you. Why so much corn starch? Is that to bring the dough together for gluten-free baking? Thanks! Do you know what other gluten-free flour I could use, like buckwheat flour?
I love fried green tomatoes, so I'm sure I would love these turnovers. They sound delicious!
Oh I love green tomatoes! Doesn't it feel good harvesting veggies and herbs from gardens we've planted. Love that feeling! Wonderful idea to make turnovers, how delish! I made some green tomato relish last year and canned it, we just ran out a few days ago. Time to start harvesting! hehe :D
looks like I have something to do tonight! Yum!
Oh man, those look amazing!
I always think of green tomatoes as something to use at the end of the season when frost is threatening to take down the plants. I used to pickle a whole crock full, and slice and fry others. But they're so good, why not grab some at the front end of summer? Your turnovers look and sound delicious. Great idea!


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Game Blog: Brewers sweep Rockies with wild 6-5 victory
Denver – The Milwaukee Brewers look to continue their incredible roll this afternoon, as they close out their three-game series with the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
The Brewers come in with not only the best record in the National League at 46-30 but also the best road record in the major leagues at 26-15. If they can win today, they'll have swept the Rockies on their home field for just the second time ever and first time since 2004.
Colorado starts left-hander Tyler Matzek, meaning the Brewers are again going with their all right-handed lineup with Rickie Weeks hitting leadoff and Mark Reynolds hitting seventh.
Kyle Lohse will be trying to improve his record to 9-2. As of right now he has the highest winning percentage among National League pitchers at .800 (8-2).
Aramis Ramirez is back in the lineup today after being lifted late yesterday with a tight back.
Also, manager Ron Roenicke has a chance to win his 300th game as Brewers manager. He comes in with a 299-263 record (.532). In his fourth season at the helm, he's already the fifth-winningest manager in franchise history.
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Brewers – Weeks and Ryan Braun ground out sharply, and Jonathan Lucroy flies out to right. Three well-struck balls and nothing to show for it.
Rockies – Charlie Blackmon leads off with a bunt single. Drew Stubbs strikes out swinging. Troy Tulowitzki flies out to center. With Justin Morneau up, Blackmon steals second. Lucroy's throw beats him, but Segura can't hang onto the ball on the slide in and Blackmon is safe. Corey Dickerson flies out to center. No runs in the first inning? What's going on here?
Brewers – Perhaps inspired by Blackmon, Carlos Gomez lays down a perfect bunt that third baseman Charlie Culberson doesn't even attempt a throw on. That's an 18-game hitting streak and 35-game bases-reached streak for Gomez now. Aramis Ramirez follows with a booming home run to left, his second in as many days and 10th of the year. Khris Davis singles to right and Mark Reynolds singles to left. Jean Segura walks to load the bases for Lohse, who grounds into a 5-4 double play while Davis scores. I think I would have told him not to swing to avoid that. Weeks fouls out. Brewers miss out on a chance to break the game open early with two runs on the board and bases loaded with nobody out, but will settle for a 3-0 lead.
Rockies – Wilin Rosario beats out an infield hit. Josh Rutledge flies out to the wall in right, and Rosario tags and goes to second. Charlie Culberson hits one up the middle that Weeks knocks down, but the ball trickles away and Rosario heads home. Weeks' throw to Lucroy hits the mound and Rosario scores. With Matzek up, Culberson steals second and again, Segura can't hang onto the ball and the runner goes to third. Matzek grounds out to shortstop, and Culberson stays put. Blackmon flies out to right.
Brewers – Braun grounds out to shortstop, Lucroy lines out to shortstop and Gomez pops out to shortstop. Wrong guy to be hitting the ball to on this team.
Rockies – Stubbs singles to center and steals second as Tulowitzki is called out on strikes. Colorado is 8 for 8 on stolen bases in this series. Morneau pops out to second. Dickerson walks. That winds up being costly, as Rosario doubles to right-center and ties the score at 3-3. Rutledge walks. Lohse looks out of sorts here as there's a conference on the mound. Culberson flies out to center.
Brewers – Another 1-2-3 inning, with Reynolds being robbed of a bloop hit on a diving catch in short center by Rutledge.
Rockies – A much-needed three-up, three-down inning there for Lohse.
Brewers – With two outs, Weeks chops one to third that Culberson boots. He is somehow generously awarded a hit, and then moves to second on a passed ball with Braun up. Braun then walks. With the hit and run on, Lucroy singles to right. Weeks scores. Braun then misses second and has to go back to touch it. He slides into third. Lucroy gets himself in a rundown between first and second and Braun breaks for home. The throw goes home but for some reason Rosario doesn't even attempt a tag, instead throwing down to second to get Lucroy. He does, but the run scores first and the Brewers take advantage of another gift-wrapped run to lead 5-3.
Rockies – Tulowtizki and Morneau single. Dickerson flies out to center and Tulowitzki goes to third. Rosario pops out to Weeks. Rutledge hits a shot right at Ramirez that he boots initially, but then recovers to make a strong throw to first to just beat him. Big play there.
Brewers – Gomez walks to lead off and Ramirez bangs the 450th double of his career off the wall in center. Davis strikes out looking. Reynolds walks to load the bases, and Matzek is replaced by Rob Scahill. Segura has an awful at-bat and fouls out to new second baseman D.J. LeMahieu on the first pitch he sees. Scooter Gennett pinch-hits and grounds out to shortstop. More missed opportunities.
Rockies – Brandon Kintzler now on. Culberson singles to center, then is thrown out trying to steal second. LeMahieu singles off Kintzler's shin. Blackmon doubles to right-center to put runners in scoring position for Stubbs, who hits a swinging bunt between the mound and third-base line. Kintzler makes a great play on it and throws the speedster out at first. Tulowitzki comes up next and flies out to the wall in left. Call Kintzler Houdini – that was a great escape job.
Brewers – Weeks reaches on an error by Culberson. If Colorado's third-base situation isn't beyond awful with Gold Glover Nolan Arenado on the DL, I don't know what it is. Braun shatters his bat as he pops out to Morneau. Lucroy flies out to right and Weeks tags and goes to third. Gomez fouls out to first. More missed opportunities.
Rockies – Zach Duke comes on and gets a pair of groundouts to second but Rosario laces a single to left and now Rob Wooten comes on to face pinch-hitter Brandon Barnes. He gets him to pop out to an onrushing Gomez on his first offering. Two scoreless innings by the bullpen, and two more needed.
Brewers – Nick Masset comes on. Ramirez bounces out to third. Davis grounds out to third. Reynolds singles to center and steals second. Segura grounds out to shortstop.
Rockies – Will Smith comes on. Culberson grounds out to shortstop. LeMahieu bloops a single to right. Blackmon flies out to left. Stubbs triples off the wall in right, scoring LeMahieu. Braun did not look comfortable going back on that ball, and it hit on a lower part of the wall. The Brewers put the go-ahead run on by intentionally walking Tulowitzki. It works out great, though, as Morneau grounds out to third. Brewers maintain the lead at 5-4.
Brewers – Adam Ottavino now on. Lyle Overbay, pinch-hitting, delivers a huge leadoff homer to right. That's the fourth pinch-hit homer of his long career. Weeks singles to left. Braun strikes out swinging. He hasn't looked good today. Lucroy grounds out to third. Gomez strikes out swinging.
Rockies – Francisco Rodriguez comes on. Elian Herrera now in right. Dickerson leads off with a triple off the wall in right that caroms hard in. Gomez runs it down, makes a wild throw to Ramirez at third that gets past him and to the dugout. Dickerson comes around third, trips and is thrown out at home. Unbelievable. Rosario comes up next and crushes a homer to center. Pinch-hitter Ryan Wheeler is called out on strikes and Culberson grounds out to first. Amazing. First sweep for the Brewers here since 2004, and they're now 17 games over .500. Again, incredible.
- Brewers try for sweep of Nationals
- Brewers try to extend home winning streak
- Brewers sign first-round draft pick Corey Ray
- Chris Capuano back to Square 1 after setback
- Brewers open six-game homestand without Ryan Braun
- Brewers, Class AA Biloxi extend deal through 2020
- Craig Counsell pleased with Scooter Gennett's defense
- Aaron Hill leading off in Brewers' road finale
- Counsell giving Jonathan Lucroy's legs a rest
- Chase Anderson will have turn skipped to stay fresh

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Alemite 90wt gear lube. Probably 30s-40s era.
Just got at a farm sale. Still in use not too long ago.
A little history: Since 1918, Alemite has been supplying quality lubrication systems and equipment to meet the needs of numerous industries. With a commitment to provide innovative products that meet the highest quality standards, Alemite has achieved an international reputation as a leader in designing and manufacturing cost-effective lubrication and fluid handling systems.


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K-State women finish eighth in Lawrence
LAWRENCE — The Kansas State women's golf team finished the 2012 Big 12 Championship in eighth place at the par-70, 6,150-yard Lawrence Country Club after final-round play on Sunday.
The Wildcats turned in their best score of the weekend at 20-over-par 300 to finish with a 54-hole score of 92-over-par 932.
Leading the way for K-State on Sunday was junior Hanna Roos, who recorded an eight-shot improvement from the second round to card a 1-over-par 71. Roos finished in 15th to earn her second top-20 finish of the season, while she registered the highest placing by a Wildcat in the Big 12 Championship since Elise Houtz also tied for 15th in 2009.
"Hanna had a great round today," K-State head coach Kristi Knight said. "We got better each day. Today was a long day with the delay in the middle of the round, but we made positive strides this season. The ladies will continue to practice and improve in the offseason."
Whitney Pyle notched an 8-over-par 78 to finish in a tie for 20th, earning her fifth top-20 finish on the season. Three spots behind Pyle was Carly Ragains, who improved two shots from her second round to tie for 23rd at 23-over-par 233.
Gianna Misenhelter tallied the biggest improvement by a Wildcat by shaving nine strokes off her second-round score, finishing the final round at 5-over-par 75 to tie for 44th. Ami Storey turned in a 54-hole score of 35-over-par 245 to also tie for 44th.
Oklahoma won its second Big 12 Championship by combining for a 64-over-par 904, seven strokes ahead of second-place Texas. Texas A&M's Mary Michael Maggio won the individual competition with a 54-hole score of 9-over-par 219.
K-State will return seven players off this year's squad, including four juniors from the 2011-12 campaign. The Wildcats also bring back three players that competed in at least nine events this year.


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A little reading to prepare you for tonight's game in Ottawa:
• Red Fisher on the stern stuff of which Saku Koivu is made;
• Dave Stubbs on the mood in the Canadiens dressing room, and Carbo's plea to the media;
• Pat Hickey on the Senators, and on the test ahead for the Habs' depth;
• Herb Zurkowsky on a bad break, Steve Bégin and playing with pain.
• Mike Boone: Anyone else nervous?
• Roy MacGregor of the Globe and Mail on something amiss in Ottawa
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A book on the methods and ideals of Scouting. Very practical information regarding outdoor life.
"The Scout Handbook is a skill book in Fallout and Fallout 2.
Reading this book permanently improves the Outdoorsman skill. Time will pass while reading. If used in inventory screen, rather than used in weapon slots, time will not pass until the inventory screen is exited.
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The University of Massachusetts Boston will pay tribute to one of the people killed in the Boston Marathon bombings by posthumously awarding a victim her degree.
Krystle Campbell, 29, had been a sociology student at the school, UMass Boston said in an announcement Monday. She will be awarded a bachelor of arts degree at the school's commencement May 31.
"Our community experienced a tremendous loss during the Boston Marathon attack," UMass Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley said in a statement. "Krystle was a wonderful part of our campus community and we wanted to recognize her contributions and impact through the awarding of this posthumous degree. She was a great student and friend to many, and she will be greatly missed."
Campbell was one of three people killed when the bombs went off on Boylston Street on April 15.
UMass system President Robert Caret said he is proud of how the university community rallied in support after the attacks.
"The Boston Marathon bombings have deeply impacted all of us and we want to show our support for those who were hurt or killed, along with the first responders and other caregivers who responded so heroically that day," Caret said. "I'm proud of the way our students, faculty and staff have rallied in support of all the lives permanently altered by this attack, and our campus communities are truly embodying the spirit of 'Boston Strong.'"
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This course focuses on learning the basics of spreadsheets and various business applications offered in Microsoft Excel. It is designed for students who are comfortable with computers and it is highly recommend that you are familiar with Microsoft Word before talking this course.A reference guide is included.
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WARNING: Instances of very strong language may offend some listeners. Episode 80: CottageCon 2012 * Fraser is drinking Maclay's. Things of Which We Speak Many things which you will need to listen to this podcast to hear about. This is an open roundtable discussion about CottageCon, the games we have played, plan on playing, and brought with us but will not play. Joining us at the table is previous guest and friend of the podcast, Darcy. Feedback * If you want to contact us, you can email us individually at email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, and firstname.lastname@example.com. |


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WELLESLEY - MassBay Community College on Thursday announced one of the nation�s leading experts on African-American music and culture will be the keynote speaker at the school�s commencement next week.
Emmett G. Price III, an associate professor of music at Northeastern University and former chairman of the Department of African American Studies, has served on MassBay�s board of trustees since last August.
The college�s commencement ceremony will take place next Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Wellesley Hills campus at 50 Oakland St. Tickets are required to attend.
Price has written and edited numerous publications such as �The Black Church and Hop Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational Divide� and �Encyclopedia of African American Music.� A professional musician who received a bachelor�s degree in music from the University of California and a masters and doctorate in the field from the University of Pittsburgh, he has also performed for audiences throughout the region.
MassBay next Thursday will award about 400 associate degrees and certificates, as well as specific distinctions including Distinguished Service and Distinguished Alumni. The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra will provide musical accompaniment. More information about the ceremony can be found online at www.massbay.edu.
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June 18, 2012
40 comments:
- The Farmer said...
Both movies look crappy. That's all. It doesn't point to anything else.
- David said...
It's hard to be a star in a really crappy movie. In their defense, they need a lot of cash to fund their life styles.
- EMD said...
The internet killed them.
- TWM said...
Agreed, both movies looked crappy, but it's true that "star power" has been fading for a while now. Much of it due to the fact that many stars are taking political stances that are in direct contrast to over 50% of their audience. And what's worse is they do it in a belittling and insulting way.
A second reason is that pretty much every movie these days also insults half their audience by taking cracks at conservatives, and most people don't want to see a movie these days with a big star or not.
And finally, most of the movies just aren't that good anymore. At least not good enough to waste the time and money to hit a theater when the competition (HBO, Netflix, DVDs) are right there for the taking. - 6/18/12, 9:54 AM
- EMD said...
The funny thing is, I took the kids to Madagascar 3 and wasn't expecting much.
It was, however, pretty enjoyable.
Story still matters. - 6/18/12, 9:55 AM
- t-man said...
Oh, the stars *are* big, it's the pictures that have gotten small.
Having lived a life full of modern, American media, I am simply bored by 99% of what Hollywood puts out (in theatres and on television). The stories are completely predictable. Also, adults in Hollywood movies for the past twenty years have been in a state of perpertual adolescence, which I find unattractive.
The things I can still manage to watch are TV series, like "Game of Thrones," (or the "Sopranos") in which unexpected things still happen. - 6/18/12, 10:02 AM
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
Exactly what TWM said.
Plus Stars???? Adam Sandler? A star? Tom Cruise. So far past his sell by date that he is curdled. And he wasn't that good to begin with. - 6/18/12, 10:04 AM
- MadisonMan said...
Only 6 posts 'til the obvious quote appeared. That seems right.
I've not understood why Rock of Ages was made. Who is the audience for that thing meant to be? It doesn't seem like there is one, and opening weekend kinda showed that. Sandler has been on a downward trajectory for a long time. When was his last good movie? - 6/18/12, 10:07 AM
- rhhardin said...
There weren't movie stars even when there were movie stars, except for media hype.
- t-man said...
I am nothing if not obvious (added irony, given my complaint about predictability).
"And now, for something completely different... - 6/18/12, 10:15 AM
- edutcher said...
Try making movies with a real story, not ones based on biological functions, computer games, comic books (OK "300" wasn't bad), or old TV shows.
And maybe get some actors who can actually act. - 6/18/12, 10:17 AM
- ndspinelli said...
Madisonman, Your reading comprehension is poor. As stated in the piece, 2010 Grown Ups was Sandler's last big hit.
More and more folks are getting smart and choosing indy flicks w/ actual stories and superb acting/directing. - 6/18/12, 10:20 AM
- wyo sis said...
It's not extinction, it's evolution. Am I in the cliche trenches with t-man? Most of us have seen it all twice, and we're just not that entertained by it anymore.
- MadisonMan said...
Your reading comprehension is poor
Actually, it's my link-clicking ability that is poor :) - 6/18/12, 10:23 AM
- prairie wind said...
YouTube killed the movie star. Kids are more likely to recognize the "Charlie bit my finger" boy or the "Corgi flop" dog than movie stars. Movie stars used to be entertaining because we didn't have all the enterainment alternatives. Now they are just background noise.
- Rusty said...
I think , lately, Adam Sandler has been channeling his inner Pauly Shore.
- Paddy O said...
Another big movie coming out this year is the sequel to The Expendables. The whole cast is one time movie blockbuster stars who found that their season had passed. So the whole hook with the first one and the sequel is to get all these guys in one movie. They can't open a movie on their own anymore, and even together it's a gamble.
Meaning, basically, that the "why pay Brad Pitt $20 million when you get Hemsworth for $5 million" has been a true theme as long as there has been movies.
All the great stars stumbled into their sunsets, to be followed by the new thing. Some stars last longer than others, but as long as there has been Hollywood, stars fade away.
It's nothing new, just the faces are. - 6/18/12, 10:28 AM
- dmoelling said...
I watched one of those TCM shorts featuring MGM's movies in production for 1955. I had never seen any of the featured flicks but some looked not half bad. But the MGM stars and starlets worked hard at promoting them. Although TV was not yet a real competitor, todays studios sell to TV, internet, etc. so it's a fair comparison to see one company (MGM) produce so much product. Labor costs (Stars) were evidently less.
- cassandra lite said...
Stars largely function now as the final factors in what movies get made. If Tom Cruise wants to be in a film, it's given the green light.
Studios and distributors know that having a "star" in the film makes it more likely that the release will get (a) lots of free publicity and (b) more exhibitors willing to take the film. - 6/18/12, 10:30 AM
- Kev said...
(the other kev)
I know at least a half dozen people that had no idea Tom Cruise was in 'Rock of Ages', all they knew from the ads was that Alec Baldwin was wearing a shitty wig.
As for Adam Sandler, my guess is that his audience grew up. - 6/18/12, 10:31 AM
- holdfast said...
I quite liked Grown-Ups. Maybe I'm feeling my age, but I thought it was both funny and really positive. His best Work since Big Daddy. - 6/18/12, 10:34 AM
- whswhs said...
I think that worry is exaggerated. De Vany's Hollywood Economics, published nearly a decade ago, summed the situation up as "stars don't make pictures; pictures make stars." A single runaway success film can launch an actor's career as a major star, but a major star can't make a mediocre film take off—and every star has some embarrassments in their list of film appearances. And that pattern goes back a long way. Big stars who can't sell movies aren't a new development.
- virgil xenophon said...
So far unmentioned is the fact that the production end of the movie industry is dominated by gays and single professional females who make movies (or see that they get made) which appeal only to a very narrow audience of people like themselves (Gay Green Lantern, anyone?) or simplistic action-hero movies targeting "tweens." Straight white males 18-35 have abandoned movies en mass long ago for first-person shooter gaming, etc., taking their dollars with them.
- Seeing Red said...
They became small. They dress like hobos, they're hypocritical tax-dodgers and lost their mystique. I don't think the caliber of talent either writing or acting is there either anymore.
My family watches those Sandler movies and I don't get it, how does he pull in those female leads?
Grown Ups was a little different since it really was more of an ensemble piece and it was amusing, what I've seen of the others, not so much and my family I think started watching because they liked The Grown Ups. - 6/18/12, 10:58 AM
- Joe said...
Nothing. The phrase "movie star" as you are using it rarely existed. It required very managed publicity, i.e. the studio system. Even the few actors who succeeded outside the studio system depended on it.
That said, in this situation, the studios were simply playing the long con. Studio heads knew these two movies were crap, but gave themselves massive up-front pay and figured they could at least break even before word got out. - 6/18/12, 10:59 AM
- Tibore said...
I don't see what the point of the article is. It seems to say the obvious while ignoring the history of the obvious, namely that so-called "star power" can't save a bad movie. It's not the first time this has happened in entertainment, and it won't be the last.
And just because the identities of stars change doesn't necessarily mean they're heading towards extinction. Nowadays people don't give a damn about Hollywood stars, but sports stardom is definitely alive and kicking. And somehow, reality TV stars have managed to kick up their profile to be as noticed as any big movie star; how else does anyone explain the phenomenon of the Kardashians, who've done pretty much jack squat but appear in public, yet get highlighted as much as if not more than any actual working celebrity.
Celebrity waxes and wanes. I don't see that author writing anything that's not been seen in the past. You don't need Pitt because Hemsworth's available cheaper? Hasn't that been the story of Hollywood since the heydays of the 40's? - 6/18/12, 11:01 AM
- Scott said...
When Star Wars opened in the summer of 1977, there were NO big name stars on the top of the bill; and just a few in the supporting cast.
I think that was really the year that the "Hollywood Star" died. Star Wars proved that people would flock to a compelling spectacle with a great story, even if they never heard of the actors. - 6/18/12, 11:49 AM
- EDH said...
Celluloid Heroes
Everybody's a dreamer and everybody's a star
And everybody's in show biz, it doesn't matter who you are.
And those who are successful,
Be always on your guard,
Success walks hand in hand with failure
Along Hollywood Boulevard.
I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die.
You can see all the stars as you walk along Hollywood Boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you've hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Oh celluloid heroes never feel any pain
Oh celluloid heroes never really die.
I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die. - 6/18/12, 11:52 AM
- William said...
Tom Cruise briefly let the mask slip and revealed himself to be a jerk. But for all that he remains a star. I'll give him this: there's a better than even chance that any movie he appears in will be entertaining. I suppose it's a circular argument in that his stardom allows him to attract a good cast, huge budgets, and talented directors, but the fact remains that most of his movies are worth watching. Adam Sandler not so much.
- tim maguire said...
It would be a wonderful thing if name recognition stopped trumping talent, but I won't get my hopes up just yet.
- Dave D said...
Promethius was excellent. No real stars. Just great SciFi. More of that, please!
The previews, however, shoed an upcoming "Abraham Lincoln; Vampire Hunter" by Tim Burton. Hollywood has indeed run out of ideas....... - 6/18/12, 12:31 PM
- Christy said...
Is Hollywood not the perfect example of how industry can be Fooled by Randomness into thinking it was some actor's genius? Sometimes it is just a movie that resonates at a time and place.
t-man, I love The Song of Ice and Fire, but cannot bring myself to watch the GOT and go through all that heartbreak and angst again.
I was almost guilted into taking Nephews to the new Sandler movie because I drug them to Prometheus which we all agreed wasn't very good. Funny thing though. Prometheus is still going like gangbusters and garnered good reviews. - 6/18/12, 12:35 PM
- Methadras said...
Movie stars have eclipsed actual actors. They infest every imaginable form of media. There are more shows on tv about movie stars and their lives now than ever before. Regular working actors are getting drowned out if not completely. The biggest area where they are is in the animated voice acting area.
"EMD said...
The funny thing is, I took the kids to Madagascar 3 and wasn't expecting much.
It was, however, pretty enjoyable.
Story still matters."
Story still matters, but the movie stars doing the voice acting have killed the traditional voice actors overall. It's a shame. There is awesome talent out there. - 6/18/12, 12:38 PM
- Methadras said...
Dave D said...
Promethius was excellent. No real stars. Just great SciFi. More of that, please!
The previews, however, shoed an upcoming "Abraham Lincoln; Vampire Hunter" by Tim Burton. Hollywood has indeed run out of ideas.......
I thought Prometheus was excellent. It should have been longer. I didn't want it to end because there was so much there in terms of story and background that could have been expounded upon. However, I see a sequel to it clearly and I hope it gets made. - 6/18/12, 12:39 PM
- Synova said...
My husband and I are going to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter on its opening weekend. We're rather stoked about it.
We'll be taking the whole family to Brave, even though our youngest is 15.
The two of us went to Prometheus. I actually got he giggles when the eel monster attacked the first scientist. It was a good enough movie if you take it as a sci-fi monster fest. OTOH, I'm of a mind with the AoS Prometheus bash-fest going on. (And apparently Ridley Scott himself said that, yes, Jesus was an alien engineer and we killed him, and that's why the activity at the facility dates to 2000 years ago... and apparently why the title of the movie is a call-back to Greek Mythology, and the "virgin" got pregnant and... don't get me started, dear dawg.)
As for STARS....
"The scary truth is (well, scary if you're a movie star) that studios don't really need stars any more. In fact, they can be a hindrance. Why pay Brad Pitt $20 million when Chris Hemsworth will do the film for $5 million?"
If I ever see Snow White (buy the disk) it will be because it's got Chris Hemsworth in it. Brad Pitt, OTOH, is one of those, "I suppose I'll see it anyway", decision making processes. The MOVIE has to carry HIM.
There are stars, they just shine in places that aren't predictable. Perhaps they're shooting stars.
Or something. - 6/18/12, 2:04 PM
- sleepless nights said...
Social media has definitely made a difference to me. It's now a continuum. I just see "stars" as people with "a lot of followers." There are those with under 10, 10-100, 100+ followers, 1000, 10000, 100000, and then a 1000000+ at which point you're a "star". It's no longer qualitatively different, just a matter of degree.
Anyone involved now has that same pressure to "keep the audience interested" or "battles with integrity" that will lose you followers that famous people have long had. - 6/18/12, 2:44 PM
- Scott M said...
Skynyrd, Adkins, Kid Rock line up for RNC convention
Ugh. As an avid lover of many genres of music (rock in particular), having been in broadcasting for years and met quite a few of them, I couldn't be more "meh" about Skynyrd and Adkins. Nothing says bumpkin like Skynrd playing loudly.
Kid Rock is just sad and always has been. - 6/18/12, 4:03 PM
- rhhardin said...
Maybe you can get a star named after you.
- Jose_K said...
- PatCA said...
William Holden versus Giovanni Ribisi.
Yup, Hwood is so over. - 6/18/12, 8:33 PM


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Nishad Pai Vaidya examines the International Cricket Council's move to empower the third umpire with an independent television feed during the third Ashes 2013 Test. But will this help solve the DRS puzzle?
A framework that was supposed to eliminate howlers has been a banana skin of sorts. The Decision Review System (DRS) has come under fire during the ongoing Ashes 2013 series and in a bid to tighten it; the International Cricket Council (ICC) has added a new piece to the puzzle. The third umpire would no longer be at the mercy of the television producers for his "ideal" replays and would instead have an independent feed. It could be a move that may help the governing body create a more watertight system for the future. But what does it exactly entail?
The new system is revolutionary and promises to change the use of technology in the game if it passes its tests and is implemented. During the third Test At Old Trafford, it wouldn't be available for making decisions. As a part of the trial run, English umpire Nigel Llong would be given these feeds in a corner of the ground even as the designated third umpire, Kumar Dharmasena will ask the broadcasters for his feed.
Nevertheless, for the first time, an umpire (Llong in this case) will have numerous television screens before him — which will provide different camera angles, Hot Spot and Hawk Eye directly. As Dave Richardson, the ICC chief executive explained, "There will be a bank of televisions in the third umpire's room — with Hawkeye, replays and Hot Spot directly available to him to look at independently to what is on TV."
As things stand prior to the third Test, the third umpire has to ask the broadcaster when he needs a different angle or another facility. Currently, the new aspect is said to be at a "drawing-board stage" and it wouldn't be available for the third umpire's 'deliberations' at Old Trafford.
If this trial is successful and it is implemented in the long run, the third umpire would have a buffet of replays which should help him reach a conclusion faster and probably be more accurate in his decision making. Not only that, but it may also save a lot of time as the third umpire wouldn't be needed to contact the producer and wait for the replays. All the facilities would be there before him in an instance and he can chose what he wants to facilitate his decision. This will also put the ICC and its officials in complete control of the DRS system. The broadcasters are after all a third-party and leaving such a crucial system completely in their hands isn't ideal.
During the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2011, CricketCountry had reported that a wrong replay given to the third umpire had resulted in Sachin Tendulkar's dismissal. When Tendulkar was out caught, the on-field umpires asked for a referral to check for the no-ball. Two replays suggested that the bowler may have over-stepped and ultimately a third angle was considered. That crucial one showed that the bowler was behind the line, but then Tendulkar was at that end. How could he have been there when he was supposed to have faced the ball? Clearly, the third umpire wasn't given the right footage and in all fairness, he too was only looking at the line to see if the bowler was fine. A few months down the line, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was a victim of a similar incident during a Test match in Barbados.
Such instances only went on to highlight the broadcaster's duty of care. Their duty was to provide the right replays when asked by the authorities as a wrong decision could have a huge impact on the fortunes of the game. While these instances may have occurred few and far in between, they can have serious repercussions in the long run. There also have been murmurs of certain replays being manipulated for reasons left to conjecture. All these rumours are of course allegations and nothing specific has been established.
Nevertheless, if this system passes its trials, the authorities may no longer need to rely on the broadcasters and the chances of an erroneous or a manipulated replay would be slim. If there is a direct feed in the third umpire's room, his eyes would naturally turn to the screen that displays the best possible replay. It may be the Hot Spot for an edge, or Hawk Eye for a leg-before decision, but the third umpire may have it quicker than he normally gets. That is the whole idea behind this system.
However, one has to see whether this new proposal helps the DRS become more uniform. The first Test in Nottingham showed that the problem isn't all about the technology itself, but also the people implementing it. There was no uniformity in the decision making process and that is why DRS continues to divide the cricket world. While the new addition guarantees quick replays to the umpire, but will that also improve the accuracy rate? That question will only be answered in the course of time and a game or two will not give us a conclusive view. We need to assess it in the long run to form an opinion.
(Nishad Pai Vaidya is a Correspondent with CricketCountry and anchor for the site's YouTube Channel. His Twitter handle is @nishad_44)


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Netflix Warms Up to Your Facebook Friends
Netflix is ready to give its stateside subscribers something to talk about on Facebook .
The leading video service will now allow its domestic subscribers to automatically share what they're viewing -- if they want to -- through the world's leading social networking site.
If you're thinking that this is a move that's long overdue, don't blame Netflix for dragging its feet.
Netflix incorporated this feature in 44 of the 45 countries that it was doing business in back in 2011 when Facebook made it possible. The United States was the lone holdout, held back by an archaic 1980s law that prohibited sharing of video viewing data even if the consumer approved.
Netflix asked its users to get behind H.R. 2471 -- a House bill that eventually cleared its way into law -- and now the video service became more personal.
What exactly is Netflix Social? Well, in the coming days, a pop-up promo on the Netflix interface will ask subscribers if they want to share their viewing choices with Facebook friends. If so, two new social rows will appear in the Netflix streaming interface. One entitled Friends' Favorites will show all of the titles that fellow opt-in Facebook friends have rated four or five stars. A second row shows the videos that have been recently viewed by friends.
Is this too creepy? Is Netflix the next Zynga with annoying status updates going out into news feeds when someone completes a silly social gaming achievement? What happens if you catch a saucy video or a bad movie that you'd rather not share?
No worries. Again, this is entirely optional. The default setting even for those who do opt in is to only share through Netflix, though subscribers can also check off the box to share that info automatically through Facebook itself. As for the guilty pleasures, Netflix has you covered there, too. You can "unshare" any item on your profile.
This is a smart move that will help engagement on both Netflix and Facebook. It will give friends more stuff to talk about. Sure, folks are already posting "Walking Dead" and "Game of Thrones" chatter with every passing episode, but now folks will be armed with more conversation starters through shared consumption experiences.
It may have seemed a tad personal at the time, but didn't you feel the same way about everything you're sharing on Facebook these days?
Netflix knows what it's doing, and it's just a neat coincidence that CEO Reed Hastings just happens to sit on Facebook's board of directors.
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The UK's two largest property companies will this week report the first gains in the value of their portfolios since the start of the real-estate slump as investors look for confirmation of a nascent recovery.
Land Securities and British Land are to say that property values began to rise again in the third quarter, confirming that a recovery in the market is feeding through to the books of the large real estate investment trusts.
The tail end of the slump in the second quarter is expected to weigh on overall half-year results, however. Harm Meijer, analyst at JPMorgan, said that positive revaluations had started but added that more significant increases would have to wait until the next quarter.
Land Securities is expected to show a fall in its net asset value to about 568p per share, a decline from 593p per share in March. The company does not report quarterly numbers, but is expected to indicate a modest increase in its properties over the past three months.
During the half-year period, analysts expect to see a drop in value of its overall portfolio of about £150m ($250m).
The company's statement is expected to focus on its development programme. Land Securities stated its intention to develop two schemes in London's West End in its last set of results.
The group is expected to seek to highlight its cash and debt resources. Francis Salway, chief executive, has said previously that the market is recovering, but that it might be a long and bumpy road.
British Land is expected to be more aggressive in pinpointing market opportunities, with £1bn in its war chest for the next two years. The group will provide a quarterly valuation of its portfolio, which is expected to show a rise of close to 2 per cent.
Overall, net asset value is expected to have moved to close to 370p, from 350p following the partial disposal of its Broadgate office development in the City of London (or 361p without).
With rival Reit Hammerson, the group is on a shortlist to buy a large shopping centre in Scotland for more than £250m, with a decision on the preferred bidder due on Monday. Its interest shows its intent to invest again after bolstering its balance sheet through a rights issue and asset sales.
British Land is also expected to give details on strategy, having appointed two board members to look for opportunities across sectors and in Europe.
• JPMorgan will on Monday publish a report saying that UK Reits are more trusted in providing valuations than continental rivals. Two-thirds of investors believe the disclosure of valuations by continental companies is poor against 18 per cent in the UK.


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"Thank you for helping me Blossom this year!" - Teacher Appreciation Week
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Before college football's unwashed masses figured out how to bust the BCS, there was Fresno State.
The Bulldogs would play anyone, anytime, anywhere, often to the point of absurdity. Between 2000 and 2004 alone, Fresno State played 18 games against power conference teams (including bowls), all but three of which were away from home.
COACHES POLL: Bulldogs check in at No. 25
The Bulldogs' record in those games? A salty 10-8, with wins at places such as Washington, Kansas State, Wisconsin and Colorado.
But Fresno State's rise as the preeminent outsider program on the West Coast was short-lived. Boise State joined the Western Athletic Conference in 2001, upsetting a Fresno State team that had risen to No. 10 in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll. And by 2006, when Boise State had cracked the BCS system and won the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma, it was clear that the two rivals, who had been neck-and-neck a few years earlier, were heading in very different directions.
"I didn't sign up for that," Fresno State athletics director Thomas Boeh joked this week.
SPORTS ON EARTH: QB Derek Carr is the anti-Manziel
Though it's unfair to say the ensuing downturn at Fresno State was a direct result of Boise State's national success, it certainly highlighted how the program had slipped and put pressure on everyone involved. Pat Hill, who had authored those early successes at Fresno State, flattened out over his final six seasons and was fired after going 4-9 in 2011.
But a dozen years after their first meeting as conference rivals, the No. 25-ranked Bulldogs have their best opportunity yet to get back on equal footing with Boise State. After being part of a three-way tie for the Mountain West title last season, Fresno State will host the Broncos on Friday night trying to not only beat them for the first time since 2005 but make a huge leap in national perception.
"They've been the gold standard, and it doesn't just happen in one year," second-year head coach Tim DeRuyter said. "We're going to chip away at it. We competed better a year ago up there than what we had, but if you want to be the champ, you have to knock out the champ."
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When the two met a year ago, Boise State was preparing for a transition to the Big East (now American Athletic Conference) and Fresno State was still trying to find its identity under DeRuyter, who made his name as one of the nation's top defensive coordinators at Air Force (2007-09) and Texas A&M (2010-11). The Bulldogs weren't quite ready, losing 20-10 in what seemed like the final chapter of the rivalry for awhile.
Roughly three months later, however, Boise State was lured back to the Mountain West with the league offering unprecedented concessions that allowed television rights to the Broncos' home games to be carved out from the rest of the conference and sold in a separate package to ESPN. The result is that unlike other leagues, where television revenue is shared equally, Boise State will make more (and get more television exposure) than its rivals.
Though Boeh said the arrangement simply reflects the league "riding its fastest horses," the results so far this season would indicate that Boise State is coming back to the pack and Fresno State is catching up quickly.
The Broncos looked more inept in a season-opening 38-6 loss to Washington than at any time in Chris Petersen's tenure, and last Friday's 42-20 victory against Air Force was not nearly as convincing as the final score. The Bulldogs, meanwhile, survived a 52-51 overtime epic against Rutgers on Aug. 29 and currently stand as the Mountain West's only legitimate hope to make a BCS game.
Not to overstate the importance of a mid-September game, but Friday could very well determine whether Fresno State can carry the banner for the league or if the Boise State dynasty has a chance to continue.
"I kind of like it to be honest because it tells us early on, are we going to be a championship-caliber team?" DeRuyter said. "It's great when you have a competitive team like Boise in our league, because it makes you get up and work hard every day."
Fresno State had planned to prepare for Friday's game with another measuring stick-type matchup last weekend at Colorado. But because of the deadly flooding in and around Boulder last week, University of Colorado officials canceled the game Friday, just minutes before the Bulldogs were preparing to get on their charter flight.
It now appears unlikely that game will be rescheduled, Boeh said, as the teams' remaining bye weeks don't match up and moving other games around would be extremely complex. Fresno State's only realistic option to get a 12th game back on the schedule would be a Football Championship Subdivision or perhaps a Division II team with an open date on Oct. 12 or Nov. 16. Even then, it's unclear whether the cost of bringing in a team for that kind of game would make financial sense.
"It really would require the stars to line up just perfectly," Boeh said. "That doesn't mean we're going to stop trying."
DeRuyter acknowledged that he thought briefly about whether losing the Colorado game might affect his team's chances of getting a BCS bid but quickly put it aside as something to worry about down the line if his team keeps winning.
That conversation, in many ways, will hinge on whether the Bulldogs can prove they have finally caught back up to the Boise monolith that once left them in the dust.
"It's sometimes difficult to mobilize, to aspire to a higher level, if you can't identify and articulate what that higher level is," Boeh said. "Boise State has provided that for not only Fresno State but other schools in the Mountain West as well as others across the country. Their success has been admirable, but it's also been very helpful from the standpoint we know what is possible even with less generous resources that others enjoy just with the right people in place."
Dan Wolken, a national college football reporter for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @DanWolken.


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After seeing Lakeside jump out 8-0 and then lead 14-5 with 1:07 left in the first quarter, Evans head coach Kevin Kenny wasn't worried.
Nor should he have been. After calling time out, the Knights cut their deficit to 14-10 by the end of the quarter, then outscored the Panthers 23-4 in the second quarter to take a 33-18 halftime lead. Keeping the Panthers from making any sustained runs in the second half, the Knights went on to the 55-44 win.
All Kendall White had to do was fall on the ball – no running needed.
The Lakeside High School lineman recovered two fumbles and scored a defensive touchdown in Team Georgia's 24-10 win over Team South Carolina in the inaugural Border Bowl on Sunday.
Georgia forced five turnovers in the win.
"I scored a touchdown my freshman year on JV, a 98-yard pick-six," said White, who was named Georgia's defensive player of the game.
"I thought that, being on the D-line, that my glory days of scoring were over."
This weekend several Columbia County athletes participated in two big football events. First, on Saturday morning, Ryan Bowers of AthElite Sports Training Academy hosted the first-ever, invitation-only Underclassmen Football Combine.
Kudos go out to Chris McDaniel and the folks over at Greenbrier High School for playing host to a well-run Region 2-AAAAA Dual Wrestling Tournament on Jan. 4.
A tournament like that has a lot of moving parts and isn't easy to coordinate, but to an outside observer it looked like everything ran like clockwork. I'm sure it didn't, but if the lay person can't tell, then you've been successful.
Round one of three went to the Greenbrier Lady Wolfpack Tuesday night.
On the road against Evans, the Lady Wolfpack beat the Lady Knights 55-44, in both teams' Region 2A-AAAAA opener.
After playing three nail-biters against the Lady Knights a year ago, the Lady Wolfpack ensured that would not be the case.
The defending Region 2A-AAAAA champion Evans High Knights started a positive defense of their subregion title Tuesday.
The Knights built a first-half cushion and made it stand up, beating the Wolfpack of Greenbrier, 73-59.
Evans coach Kevin Kenny was pleased with the win because it helped signal a return to what he calls "the Evans way." After the Knights lost twice in their Christmas tournament, they rebounded with a win over Cedar Shoals on Saturday with a good defensive effort. Kenny liked what he saw Tuesday night as well.
During the 2009-10 basketball season, the most improved player in Columbia County was a 6-2 guard from Evans named Troy Griffith. Griffith had work on his game and transformed himself from a solid role player to a go-to guy for the Knights.
That season he earned first team All-County honors after averaging 15.7 points and 3.1 assists per game. Griffith was a wing player, and although solidly built, he did most of his damage from the outside. He led the entire CSRA in three-point shooting with an impressive 52 percent mark from beyond the arc.
Interest meeting
Those interested in the Clay Pigeon Target Sporting Program for seventh to 12th graders, should attend a meeting Thursday at the Columbia County Exhibition Center at 7 p.m. The yearly club fee is $135 and practices will be on Thursdays at a closed section of the Columbia County Landfill. Call (706) 541-4011.
Lacrosse Classic
The Emmanuel College Lions and Point University Skyhawks will play the first college lacrosse game in Columbia County on Jan. 25 at Blanchard Woods Park at 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 14
Augusta Christian at Cardinal Newman, 6 p.m. (girls), 7:30 p.m. (boys)
Augusta Prep vs. Alleluia, 6:30 p.m. (girls), 8 p.m. (boys)
Grovetown vs. Evans, 6 p.m. (girls), 7:30 p.m. (boys)
Greenbrier vs. Lakeside, 6 p.m. (girls), 7:30 p.m. (boys)
Friday, Jan. 17
Augusta Christian vs. Heathwood Hall, 6 p.m. (girls), 7:30 p.m. (boys)
Augusta Prep vs. Pinewood Christian, 6 p.m. (girls), 7:30 p.m. (boys)
Greenbrier vs. Evans, 7 p.m. (girls), 7:30 p.m. (boys)
The Evans Lady Knights haven't lost two games in a row this year and they weren't about to let that happen Friday night.
After losing their region opener to Greenbrier on Tuesday, the Lady Knights (10-3, 1-1 Region 2-AAAAA) got back into the win column with a 48-32 win over Lakeside.
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Brad Childress. That is the reason Randy Moss is not a Viking right now. Period. Don't blame the alleged caterer incident. Moss was released because Chilly was an idiot and had zero leadership skills. If in fact the player was rude about the food, you must address the player, not dismiss him. And if you won't address him, have a veteran player like Favre, or even Jimmy Kleinsasser, who has been a long-time teammate of Moss, say something. Instead, Childress released Moss, and at that time owner Zygi Wilf thought about releasing Chilly and keeping Moss. Now, thankfully, Childress is long gone.
Today the Minnesota Vikings open training camp. This should be a day of celebration, but even though the Vikes have added Donovan McNabb and Christian Ponder, they lost Sidney Rice. Minnesota desperately needs a big play WR and Moss is available. The fans love him and I'm sure McNabb would love to throw to him. Randy is better than Plaxico Burress or Braylon Edwards. Plax is now a Jet while Edwards used to be.
Minnesota is in an extremely tough division. I picked them to finish last a few months ago. McNabb may help in the short term, but he will need help. The Vikings are a team that has a lot of Pro-Bowl players that are at the end of their run. Moss, in the short-term would be an excellent addition. Sign him to a two year deal with some incentives, and you probably get him for $4-6 million a year. Minnesota, Moss, and McNabb are all missing one thing. A Super Bowl title. 3M should be the new Viking company.
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Univ of Alabama alumni. Born and raised outside Chicago, IL. Currently live in Florida. Some of my favorite teams include the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Vikings, Miami Heat, and the Florida Panthers. My interests outside of sports include music, outdoor activities, and anything with a motor(cars, bikes, boats, etc...).


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Walter Caulfield
Year: | Junior |
Hometown: | Cramerton, NC |
High School: | Highland School of Technology |
Position: | Epee |
2012-2013: Finished 58th in men's epee at the Big One.
Personal: Walter Caulfield is the son of Drs. Kathryn and Walter Caulfield of Cramerton, North Carolina…He has a younger brother and sister…Enjoys slacklining...Concentrating in Economics.


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A Record Filled With Sunlight
John Charles Frémont never succeeded in living up to his fame, yet he was one of America's great explorers
June 1956 | Volume 7, Issue 4
Any comparison of his reports with others brings his comprehensive scientific findings into clear distinction. Take his observations for four days, September 12, 13, 14, and 15, 1843, just after leaving Great Salt Lake. He gives two calculations of longitude and latitude, with a record of the means used in making them. He furnishes the altitude of a peak, the altitude of the pass between it and Bear River and the width and altitude of the Bannock River Valley. He identifies, with both English and Latin names, six varieties of trees found along Clear Creek, and one in the pass. He gives the temperature of some hot springs. He records thermometer readings at various hours, chiefly sunrise and sunset, but once at midnight. At eight points he inserts comments on the quality of the soil. Indeed, these four days include an emphatic statement on the fertility of the river and creek system in the Great Salt Lake area that swayed Brigham Young and the Mormons in their emigration of 1846–47.
It was Frémont who did most to dispel the impression, created by Long and others, that the trans-Missouri plains were barren. He writes repeatedly that the land is generally excellent, that water alone is needed, and that adequate moisture is often available. "The soil of all this country," he writes July 11, 1843—meaning the wide region between the Mississippi and the Rockies—"is excellent, admirably adapted to agricultural purposes, and would support a large agricultural and pastoral population." The first scientifically trained man to reach the shores of the Great Salt Lake, he supplied the earliest adequate account of it. He was first to reach Pilot Peak on a short cut across the Nevada Desert upon the general line later defined as the Hastings Cutoff. He did some very real pathfinding in southern Oregon, northern California, and the Sierras. He was the first man, as Alexander von Humboldt noted, to describe the volcanic character of certain Rocky Mountain areas, and to dilate on the volcanicity of the Cascades.
His greatest geographical contribution, however, lay in his identification and description of the Great Basin, the huge region whose special peculiarity had escaped B. L. E. de Bonneville and others. Frémont invented the term still used for the basin, or collection of small basins, between the Wasatch Range on the east and the Sierra on the west—a mountain-rimmed region with no outlet for its streams. Even yet, a better description of its major characteristics than that given by Frémont's reports would be difficult to find. The image of the Great Basin haunted Frémont from the moment he first seized and broadly sketched it. He had explored much of its high periphery on the Utah, the northern, and the California sides. "It cannot be less than 400 or 500 miles each way," he writes, "and must lie principally in the Alta California [then including Nevada-Utah]. … Of its interior but little is known. It is called a desert, and from what I have seen of it, sterility may be its principal character; but where there is so much water, there must be some oasis."
Frémont's estimate of distances was fairly correct. The Sierra and the Wasatch, their steep faces fronting each other, lie 400 to 500 miles apart. The mountain and plateau country between is much eroded, but since the stream cannot run to the sea, the eroded materials fill the space between the barren peaks to a great depth. An artesian well driller near Huxley, Nevada, has brought up well-preserved redwood from a depth of 1,900 feet. During the glacial period, when rains were heavy, two great bodies of water filled the basin; one, covering much of present-day Nevada, now termed by geologists Lahontan Lake, the other in Utah (with Great Salt Lake its vestige) called Lake Bonneville. Frémont's reference to an oasis is echoed by modern writers who have called the settled fertile parts of Utah "an oasis at the foot of the Wasatch." When Humboldt in his final volume adopted the explorer's term, he remarked: "Our knowledge of this configuration is one of the chief points of Frémont's great hypsometrical investigations in 1843–44."
While we cannot call Frémont a great man, we can maintain that as an explorer—the first distinctively scientific explorer produced by the United States—he had qualities of greatness. Alas that his career was warped into inferior channels, while he was yet in his early prime, by the Mexican War. The sun that rose so auspiciously on the well-equipped young man marching purposefully and joyously into the West of 1838 sank into the dust and commotion of California in 1846. The smoke of battle hid complications and frustrations that Frémont, turning back from Oregon on what he deemed an imperative summons, could never have guessed; and before it cleared away the quarrel with General S. W. Kearny had forced him from the Army and deprived him of government support in further exploration. His scientific labors were virtually ended, for the two privately equipped expeditions which he later led failed of significant results.


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State: 1 in 23 O.C. students suspended last year
Orange County schools suspended 1 in 23 students, expelled 1 in 1,411 and recorded as truant 1 in every 5 last year, according to a first-ever release of school discipline data gathered using a state system that tracks students more accurately.
The 2011-12 data released Friday reports school suspension, expulsion and truancy rates using a system that tracks discipline actions by student, rather than event.
The data is meant to provide a better baseline for tracking changes in coming years and help jumpstart local conversations about how districts handle behavioral problems, said Keric Ashley, the state Department of Education's director of analysis, measurement and accountability reporting.
"Common sense tells us that we cannot teach students who are not in school," state schools chief Tom Torlakson said in a statement.
The state suspended 1 in 20 students and expelled 1 in 1,000, according to Torlakson. Statewide, 1 in 3.5 students were marked as truant, according to the data release.
Database: Review 2011-12 truancy, suspension, expulsion data for all O.C. schools.
But even as the state touted the new system, an Orange County expert called its findings into question, saying the data may contain significant errors.
"I know with the numbers under the expulsions there is something wrong," said Rick Riegel, coordinator of student services for the Orange County Department of Education.
For example, the state reports no expulsions for Anaheim Union High School District, the county's fourth-largest school district. But under the old system, the district reported more than 100 expulsions.
Ashley said some errors may have occurred as school districts adjusted to the new reporting methods.
In the past, the state collected data from individual school districts on the number of suspensions issued during the year; now, they are asked to name each student suspended, which allows the state to track suspension rates.
The new system comes amid a statewide push to reduce student suspensions and expulsions.
Newport-Mesa Unified School District, at 14.7 percent, posted the highest suspension rate of any O.C. district, according to the state data.
High suspensions and truancy rates have plagued the district in past years, but measures put in place this year are expected push the numbers down, school board President Dana Black said.
"We have really looked at our children very carefully, trying to figure out why we're suspending and what we're suspending for," said Jane Garland, Newport-Mesa Unified director of community services.
The district's suspension rate dropped about 40 percent since it implemented this fall a restorative justice program that focuses on reasons students are suspended or don't show up for class, Garland said.
O.C. Department of Education schools recorded the lowest suspension rate in the county, because it enrolls students who have been expelled from other districts and rarely issues suspensions, Riegel said.
Anaheim City, the county's largest elementary district, posted a suspension rate of 2.4 percent. That is partly because of the students' age, but also because of a push to reduce suspensions and use positive behavioral modification systems, said Leslie Coghlan, Anaheim City's director of pupil services.
"It's not working just to suspend," Coghlan said. "That's not changing their behavior."
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Hi guys I'm running the virgin London marathon 2013 for SSAFA a forces charity. I am planning on setting a new world record by carrying weight on my back and wearing my army uniform. Has anyone got any ideas how I can boost my fund raising as I'm running out of ideas.
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Hello, im new here, and I m thinking in posting some cool t shirts, but I have 1 question I didnt find the answer really clear.
Does DBH select 1 t shirt everyday and give a prize of 1000 Dollars?
Example : I Upload my T Shirt, and during the 90 days, I can win 1000 dollars once if it is voted the most that day, or the most voted in total?
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Roundtable: Sale Of UT; Dire Straits For Schools; Guilty Pleas In SEDC Case
Friday, November 18, 2011
Aired 11/18/11 on KPBS Midday Edition.
Roundtable guests this week:
Mark Sauer, KPBS News Senior Editor
Emily Alpert, education reporter, Voiceofsandiego.org
Will Carless, investigative reporter, voiceofsandiego.org.
We speak with KPBS News Senior Editor Mark Sauer and voiceofsandiego.org Education Reporter Emily Alpert on the show.
Evening Edition airs weekdays at 5 PM and 6:30 PM on KPBS TV.
In this week's roundtable:
Controversial developer Doug Manchester has purchased The San Diego Union-Tribune from Platinum Equity and hired a local broadcasting executive to run it.
The budget deficit at the San Diego Unified School District is worse than thought.
And after three years of denials, the former leader of the Southeast Development Corporation and her lieutenant have pleaded guilty to embezzlement and misappropriation of funds.
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SandraWilliams | November 18, 2011 at 1:25 p.m. ― 5 years, 4 months ago
- RE: Manchester purchase of U-T. It's disappointing that there is yet an even greater apparent low point in the evolution of the Union-Tribune. My husband and I gave up on the U-T years ago – primarily due to the generally simplistic and narrow approach toward most subjects covered in the paper. After the post-Copley evisceration of most of the serious news staff, however, we became actively dismissive of the publication. Currently we revel in the journalistic offerings of the N.Y. Times (newspaper & on-line). Other sources include the occasional L.A. Times, KPBS radio & T.V., BBC, CNN, MSNBC, professional journals, professional on-line sources (i.e. Common Dreams), various on-line news columns (Slate, etc.).
Peking_Duck_SD | November 18, 2011 at 6:01 p.m. ― 5 years, 4 months ago
@ SandraWilliams, great post. It mimics my experience with the UT almost exactly. I never subscribed to it but I was a reader of the online version and have intentionally been boycotting it since about a few months ago after they pretty much let Rep. Darrell Issa write his own response to the NYT article about his corruption.
The sad thing about alternate media like the LA Times, NYT and the big cable networks is that they think San Diego doesn't exist (I guess the LA Times is a small exception because they do have an SD Bureau Chief).
Whenever anything happens in "Southern California" it is LA-centered, and it needs to be a REALLY big news event to get all the national media reps to come down here from their posts in LA.
I love the local KPBS radio coverage, Alison St. John does great reporting on local politics and issues. I also love KPBS radio's coverage of local arts events.
As far as the UT, someone should start a "boycott the UT" facebook page. It would be interesting to see how many are going to use the Manchester takeover to once and for all stop reading the joke that is the UT.


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now that my work and travel schedule are slowing down a tiny bit i finally have time to work on wedding planning a bit more. we're working with erin and nicole from bird & banner for our invitations (hooray!) and erin sent over a link to these lovely cake toppers from jennifer murphy. they're probably not new to most etsy shoppers but i loved them too much to not post. those rabbits are so, so cute. click here to check out jennifer's full collection.
[ps: jennifer did a great how-to on martha stewart with her toppers, posted here on once wed!]
I actually got my cake topper from etsy, but since my husband to be is in technology we got this one http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_3&listing_id=14986321
I usually love your entries. However, to quote another commenter on another blog – where you go (with these cake toppers) I cannot follow.
these are so awesome! i had never heard about jennifer until this post. totally bookmarked!
I love these cake toppers, they would even be cute for an anniversary party, if you've already gotten married and missed out on the cuteness.
The cake toppers are absolutely adorable, I wish I would have heard of Jennifer before I had my wedding.
these are fantastic! here is another etsy seller with some cute (and more affordable) cake toppers: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14321879
Love the bottom two (chicks and bunnies)!
very cute! i used more life-like toppers for my wedding from http://www.nicolewong.com. they were a big hit!
Wow, if you are having Bird&Banner for your invites and Jennifer Murphy for your cake topers, i´m sure your wedding is going to be the cutest and most stylish ever! :)