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Keep Your Mouth Shut, Or Say Goodbye to the Kid
First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Charles Bennett and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis, from a scenario by Edwin Greenwood and A.R. Rawlison. Starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, others. 75 minutes. **
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by John Michael Hayes, from the earlier screenplay. Starring James Stewart, Doris Day, Alan Mowbray, Hillary Brooke. 120 minutes. ***
You and your family are on holiday abroad. You are intent on having a good time and minding your own business, but a mortally wounded secret agent warns you of an assassination plot threatening the stability of the entire world. Naturally, you resolve to tell the authorities…but before you can the bad guys kidnap your child and threaten murder if you ever tell the police what you know. All you have left is your own resources, your own determination to get that child back…and an imminent rendezvous at a concert in London's Royal Albert Hall, where an assassin's bullet has been scheduled to coincide with a climactic clash of cymbals.
This is the dilemma that faces the protagonists of the only story Alfred Hitchcock ever saw fit to revisit, the two Men Who Knew Too Much; two very different films similar in plot outline and much more than "similar" in the Albert Hall sequences that mark the high points of both, but which are in other ways quite different. Hitch himself told Francois Truffaut that the first film was the work of a talented amateur and that the second was the work of a seasoned professional; he is not wrong about that, even though both are second-tier work, missing the subtext and psychological richness that mark the best of the suspense master's output. It's safe to say that without the master's name on it, the first would now be totally forgotten if not the presence of the great character actor, Peter Lorre; and that the second, fun as it is, would likely not be remembered all that much more. (Sorry; even as lightweight Hitch goes, it's certainly no North by Northwest.) But as far as originals and remakes go, they make a deeply instructive pair, because a side-by-side comparison demonstrates the best possible reason to make a remake in the first place: i.e. fixing what was, initially, wanting.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The first The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) presents us with Bob and Jill Lawrence (Banks and Best), a British couple on vacation in St. Moritz. Jill is a competitive-level skeet-shooting champion; she misses her shot here, but her skill is established, and anybody who wants to know whether this will eventually be a story point should recall the maxim once posed by Anton Chekhov. The first thing worth noting here is that while kids in jeopardy are a long-standing tradition in movies, kids in jeopardy can be annoying when they almost die stupidly, and Betty gets on our crap list right away when she chases a weiner dog – which we take to be hers, though it is never seen again – onto a ski-jump slope, and comes within a few feet of being mowed down by a skier in competition. (Given Hitch's later fame for staging elaborate and persuasive set-pieces, it's worth noting that the near-accident is presented as unconvincingly a product of stock footage, a reaction shot, and the editing room, as anything you are ever likely to see in a Hitchcock film ever again; this in part because it's a low-budget film from the very early days of sound, and in part because Hitch was, as he later admitted, still learning his craft).
It is also worth noting that Bob and Jill feel like place-holders instead of characters. We are invited to root for them because the camera is on them, not because either one of them does anything to make us fall in love. Bob pulls what is allegedly a neat trick involving his daughter's knitting, which he hooks onto the tux of a man dancing with Jill, so it unravels during the waltz and tangles everybody on the dance floor in twine…but the moment is pure movie hokum; it's impossible to believe that the dancers would all fail to notice that this was happening, for as long as they do. And there is absolutely no sense, aside from the natural assumption, that this couple has any real affection for their child, until that child is kidnapped; there simply isn't any real chemistry between spouses or between parents and child.
(It's worth noting, by the way, that even by the standards of the era, where some actors seemed to have used their cigarettes as substitutes for actually giving a performance, it's downright cringe-worthy to see star Banks take a deep drag and deliver his next line with a big, white cloud of toxicity puffed directly into his little girl's face, at what amounts to point-blank range. Betty doesn't seem to mind much. The actress, Nova Pilbeam, retired from show biz only a few years later but is is apparently still alive, her iron constitution providing a terrific defense against second-hand smoke.)
The subsequent assassination of the secret agent makes little sense even by the flexible physics of Hitchcock movies. The bullet, evidently fired by a sniper outside the building, cracks a window, its trajectory carrying it over a very crowded dance floor with other bodies in every direction, and then manages to hit the secret agent in the chest even though – I cannot possibly stress this enough – even though he is at the moment dancing with Jill and any bullet striking him in that spot would have had to go through her first. It is in short such a magic bullet that the one responsible for hitting President Kennedy and Governor John Connolly is revealed as a muggle bullet by comparison. We will forgive the happenstance that has it piercing the agent's chest UNDER his tuxedo without making a hole in that tuxedo; the logic of bullet holes was extremely loose at this point in film history, and if we started to complain about that one we'd have to complain about all the others and would probably be here all day. Still, the moment doesn't work at all.
Following Betty's subsequent kidnapping by the bad guys, the action moves to London, where in between bouts of dramatic cigarette smoking, Bob decides to investigate the assassination plot himself, and (because this movie is only 75 minutes long), finds the conspirators right away, through a visit to a creepy dentist. There is some goofy nonsense involving a "Church of the Sun," which manages to hypnotize Betty's monocled twit of an Uncle, but for our purposes the important part has to do with Bob's almost immediate capture by the bad guys, who have him in custody and ENTIRELY ineffective for most of the rest of the film. Led by droopy-eyed, cigarette-smoking Peter Lorre – they naturally spend this time blowing smoke in his face. (Lorre's filmic output consists of many great films like M and Casablanca and The Mask of Dimitrios and The Maltese Falcon and Mad Love and Arsenic and Old Lace where he gave performances by, you know, brilliant acting, and a couple of others like this one and the tv version of Casino Royale where he substituted his cigarette; he is profoundly creepy here as always, but really, the cigarette is being asked to do far too much of the work.)
The climax is an all-out assault by cops where Bob accomplishes almost nothing – the very model of the ineffective hero. (Jill's skeet-shooting does come into play, however, a twist telegraphed for almost the entire length of the movie that nevertheless got outright applause at the one repertory theatre showing where I saw it, years ago.)
Is there anything to recommend the film to earn it its unlikely reputation as a classic? Well, yes; the Albert Hall sequence, where the leadup to an attempted assassination is set against a classical music piece, while Jill sits helplessly in the audience. It is a remarkably effective and suspenseful interlude, the one thing here that would lead any viewer to think that this young Hitchcock fellow might indeed have a future. But even there, there's an astonishing gap in logic. The point is made, following the non-fatal shooting of the foreign dignitary, that the concert resumes after a slight delay, even though the assassin has not yet been caught. This is a line of unnecessary passing dialogue that doesn't really affect the plot at all, but…umm, what? Does this follow any real-world behavior you recognize?
But that brings us to the remake, which is in very small part an exercise in brilliantly re-staging that scene and providing it with a surrounding story that is somewhat more worthy of it.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The second The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) is separated from the first by two decades, a generation's worth of technical advances, a clearly superior budget, and the increased clout of its superstar director. Make no mistake: it is still not a great film. Hitchcock did make other great films in this decade, among them the other James Stewart vehicles Vertigo and Rear Window; this was merely a solid thrill ride, with little in the way of resonance beyond the doings on screen. (And even as such, not nearly as fun as North by Northwest.) But as a story, it works substantially better, for a number of reasons.
To start with, it's visually far more sumptuous. The black-and-white cinematography of the original is not particularly special, except in moments. The 1956 film is never less than gorgeous, even during scenes set in Morocco that clearly employ rear-screen projection and other artifices easy to discern by a sophisticated modern eye.
It's also better storytelling. It actually takes time to get us to know its two leads, Ben and Jo McKenna (James Stewart, Doris Day), an American doctor and his somewhat retired stage actress wife. We learn that they have an easy familiarity, that Jo has a somewhat more refined bullshit sensor than Ben, and that Ben has an amiable awkwardness about him, here shown in his discomfort with Moroccan table manners, that instantly humanizes him and makes him more than a generic thriller hero.
Doris Day gets a lot of crap for her performance as Jo, and particularly for her two renditions of her signature song "Que Sera, Sera," – a ditty that strikes many modern ears like nails on a blackboard – but, your opinion of the song aside, look at how it's used as storytelling. We see Jo singing the song while making the bed for her son Hank…who happily joins in to sing a verse on his own. There is strong story value in this moment. You know at once that she's sung this song for her son many times, and that he takes an uncomplicated, unembarrassed joy in singing it with her. An entire childhood is sketched in with this one unremarkable demonstration of a parent/child relationship. The song comes up again – irritating its detractors still further – at the climax, when Jo uses an impromptu embassy party performance to signal her captive son that she is in the building and looking for him; it is also pure hokum, but it is hokum based on character, a climax that is therefore infinitely more satisfying than the one in the original, where the lair of the villains is stormed by police and Bob Lawrence accomplishes little before being knocked out beyond freeing his daughter from a locked room.
The gradual entrapment of Ben and Jo into the espionage plot is a lot better established than in the original. In this version, it turns out that spy Louis Bernard sought out the McKennas because he has reason to believe a vacationing couple might be involved in the assassination plot he's investigating. As it happens, he has mistaken the pair for the actual culprits, the Draytons…who in turn note how familiar the Mckennas are with Bernard and assume that they're associated with him. It's a wildly unfortunate series of coincidences that gets the McKennas in trouble, but then coincidences are perfectly fine as plot devices when they make matters worse. They're only unacceptable when they make matters better. The net that gradually draws around the McKennas in the first half hour of the film is a perfectly acceptable evocation of the capriciousness of fate, and works quite well at setting up the conflict – best of all during the scene where a mortally wounded Bernard, who's disguised as a street arab, staggers through a crowded market toward the man he knows to be a doctor, who will not be able to help him. The moment where his false brown skin color comes off Stewart's hands is downright horrifying in its subtext: a visually compelling cue for the danger being passed from one man to another.
Every element of the story is improved. In the original, when Jill finds out that her daughter has been kidnapped, she turns away, dazed; she looks downright stoned, and it's such a terribly designed scene that it's difficult to empathize with her. In the 1956 scene, physician Ben tells Jo that he has something to tell her, which he will only impart if she does what he says and takes a pill he has offered her. It is a sedative, which he has prescribed to lessen her shock. Even with the sedative, she is downright hysterical. The scene speaks on more than one level: Ben's cold-blooded practicality in a crisis, Jo's tremendous love for her son, the size of the hole that's just been ripped in their lives.
The plot even works better when the movie moves to London. In the original, when Ben decides to go after the kidnappers himself, the piece of paper he has picked up from the dying spy leads him directly to a dentist affiliated with their conspiracy. The dentist may be creepy, and Bob's encounter with him effective enough, but the lead still seems too easy; almost spoon-fed. The remake addresses this by sending Ben on a wild goose chase to confront a hapless taxidermist named Ambrose Chapell, who clearly knows nothing of the conspiracy…when he should be visiting a house of worship named Ambrose Chapel, instead. It's a funny, frustrating, and suspenseful interlude, raising the possibility that Ben's independent investigation might end before it begins. Best of all, it defuses what would otherwise be an overpowering sense that everything here happens just a little too conveniently.
The set piece at Royal Albert Hall is largely a shot-by-shot remake of its counterpart in the prior film, but even it works better, in part because Hitchcock plays more visual tricks, among them visual tracking of the musical notation as the orchestra proceeds toward the fatal crash of cymbals. It is lusher, more visually enchanting, scarier, and in part even funnier (thanks to the special attention paid to the guy whose job in that orchestra is to sit there quietly, bored out of his mind, until the time comes to bang those cymbals together). You may note that Bernard Herrmann, the composer whose famous scores included the famous one for Psycho, plays the conductor – and is even identified on-screen as himself, a bit of meta-humor that he likely appreciated.
We will also note that the scene has been improved dramatically, as well. In the original, Jill silently pieces together the assassination to come while sitting in one of the seats; here, Jo stands at the rear of the auditorium, clearly not part of the audience, her discomfort palpable until it becomes unbearable and she is left silently weeping, utterly lost over what to do. You may, like many, hate the two performances of "Que Sera, Sera," and indeed it's not unfair to call Day a mediocre actress at best, but she still acts the living hell out of this particular scene. In a career that was largely dominated by lightweight comedies of no particular memorability – and which she ultimately walked away from in disgust, following horrific mismanagement of her finances and her thespic options by a manager/husband who was either totally oblivious to her desires or downright contemptuous of them – these are likely the best few minutes she would ever have on film.
James Stewart made four movies for Hitchcock, two of which are all-time classics and none of which are less than interesting. (Even the worst one, Rope, is a fascinating experiment, that rises to greatness at several moments.) His The Man Who Knew Too Much occupies a position somewhere in the middle. It's a solid, nuanced, movie-star performance of a good man forced to rise to an untenable occasion over stakes that affect him deeply. There's a reason why Stewart's place among the immortals is as linked to Hitchcock's fame as it is to the direction of Frank Capra and Anthony Mann; his work for Hitchcock, even in this film where he played the most straightforward character of the quartet, helped give him the impact of a star who could express inner darkness while still projecting basic decency.
This was no small thing.
The Crash Of Cymbals
Hitchcock said it to best: The first film is the work of a talented amateur. It shows genius in spots, but is otherwise not very good. The second film is the work of a professional at the peak of his craft – not his best work of the period, but never less than assured.
And now, the wife prepares to shriek from the cheap seats…
Second Commentary by Judi B. Castro
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Charles Bennett and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis, from a scenario by Edwin Greenwood and A.R. Rawlison. Starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, others. 75 minutes. *
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by John Michael Hayes, from the earlier screenplay. Starring James Stewart, Doris Day, Alan Mowbray, Hillary Brooke. 120 minutes. ***
I was actually looking forward to seeing a Hitchcock film I had yet to see.
Adam and I, early in our relationship, took a trip to Universal Studios and had to see the special effects exhibit framed around the works of Sir Alfred. We entered the hall with about a hundred fellow visitors and perused the photos and films names about the room. Adam and I began happily checking off the films we had seen and making note of those we hadn't. Most of the crowd just mulled about waiting for something to happen. After all this was Universal and a special effects exhibit, so I guess they were waiting for someone to pop up and yell BOO! Nope, a guide came out and began asking folks how many of the listed films they had seen. Never had I been so bothered by silence as then. Only one other couple in that room had even remembered seeing at least 3 of the master's works. As for Adam and I , we stopped counting somewhere around 12 films, with many more yet to go, realizing we had seen more by far than most others in that place. We sat wondering why these folks had come to see this particular exhibit if they had no clue about these films. The Hitchcock tour closed a few months later to be replaced by some cartoon-related attraction, but Adam and I miss it to this day. (Especially when we use our Bates Motel towel set).
Ahh, but on to the films.
I understand why Hitchcock felt an absolute need to right this wrong in his career. The early version (1934) was clearly made by a filmmaker constrained by budget and his own learning curve. The characters are absurd, exhibiting a lack of warmth I can only attribute to poor scripting and worse acting. We get to meet a disappearing dachshund who nearly causes the death of the soon to be kidnapped "child", a mother conveniently a champion skeet shooter, a poor maligned father who takes abuse with a cheerful smile, and a group of friends and who don't question why a child who has been travelling with her parents and pet must suddenly stop and visit an never before heard of aunt in a different country.
Next, we deal with the lack of reality in both the shooting and the sudden angst of the parents. The shot rings out, the spy slumps over to whisper those needed clues, and dies without a hole in his dinner jacket or blood spreading out anywhere. Come on, even in the 30s a death was a death. And, now suddenly, when the kid disappears(and the dog, but no one mentions this), the parents get all upset, when earlier they would have gladly bundled her off to the nearest boarding school or convent. PUHLEEZE! These parents early on show all the warmth of a pair of wet shoes and only daddy shares a childlike joke with his daughter, more like a friend than parent.
So, I quickly gave up hope that this (I cant use "old" cause the film was released the year my mom was born and she'll be annoyed by the old word) first version would resolve in a logical or satisfying manner, and I was right. The cops can't shoot straight and are afraid to take a kill shot. They are more interested in the residents of the homes they take over than the killers firing at them. And, of course, it all falls on skeet champ mama to save the day, after ineffective daddy gets all the leg work done. Last I checked shooting skeet is waaayyy different than offing a human through an open window, who also happens to be holding another human shield in front.
Now let me get on to the musically irritating, but eminently better 1956 version.
I was born in the early 1960s, therefore "Que Sera Sera" was sung and played around the house a LOT. Did I learn to despise it? YES! Do I still cringe when I hear it? YES! Has anyone actually analyzed the message handed out by this little ditty? Obviously not really, or maybe this ear worm is the reason for all the ills suffered by the baby boomers and Gen-Xers.. After all, the song does say just roll over and accept whatever happens, and that does seem to be the problem we face. So I guess I can blame part of the woes of the world, since the 1960s, on the effect that the placement of this one song , in one film, had on the world. But, Don't blame Doris Day, she was just the delivery system for this ennui bomb.
In this version we have a more believable family group. Older, doctor husband, hot, young musical theater star wife and precocious spoiled child. There is actually a semblance of familial feelings seen from the start. This said, when the fan gets hit, the couple who worries about arranging for a sitter in the hotel for their 8 year old child while they attend a local restaurant, have no qualms turning said child over to a couple who amount to total strangers who happen to share the bond of a common language. Ummm..??? Maybe this comes from a jaded sense of the 80's and children on milk cartons, but I remember my folks cancelling plans, rather than leave me with an unknown sitter. Same time frame, better parenting? Maybe?
Then, these caring, loving parents refuse the help of professionals in the mistaken belief they only they, with no expertise, can rescue their child. OK. Right! The film follows the same pattern from here as the original, but the red herrings and set ups are MUCH better, but still, that damn song is the key, or is it? By the time daddy doc finds the kid, the song is over and the bad lady kidnapper is helping the kid get away. Happy ending, with a glib last line, as is the trademark of all the good Hitchcockian films, but kinda unsatisfying on multiple viewings. Now, North By Northwest, so much more fun!


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Census: Most Schenectady kids live in poverty
Despite reports of Schenectady's resurgence, U.S. census statistics show that most of the city's children live in poverty
SCHENECTADY — The latest U.S. census figures show an alarming statistic — 50.8 percent of Schenectady's children reportedly live below the poverty line.
For a family of four, that means a yearly income of less than $22,350. That number, provided as part of the 2011 American Community Survey, puts Schenectady 13th in the nation for highest childhood poverty rate among cities over 65,000 in population, behind Syracuse and Rochester — which ranked in the top 10. Albany, the only other local city surveyed, ranked 91st.
For about the last five years, Schenectady's leaders have touted the city's rebirth, as empty storefronts downtown have been replaced by restaurants and businesses that complement the renovated and expanded Proctors Theatre. But celebration over State Street's success, along with General Electric Co.'s renewed commitment to its birthplace with 350 jobs at its new battery plant, overlooks a harsher reality — that life is getting worse for Schenectady's poor only a few block's beyond the city's showpiece.
Amanda Seyboth, a 25-year-old single mother of two, is one face of that Schenectady.
Last week, she waited in line with her 3-year-old son, Braydin, and 100 other people for a bag of canned vegetables, tuna and soup at Schenectady Inner City Ministry's pantry. In September, Seyboth said, she was laid off from her job as a dental assistant at Aspen Dental. Her cupboard will likely go bare before her unemployment check arrives, she said. Her children's father helps Seyboth when he can, but he lives 70 miles away and is often laid off from his construction jobs.
Seyboth was at the pantry to make sure she had enough food in the house to make lunch for her 5-year-old daughter, Angelina, who attends kindergarten.
"Every food pantry I've been to has been packed," said Seyboth, a Saratoga Springs High School graduate who lives in the Mont Pleasant neighborhood. In 2009, statistics showed that the neighborhood had the third-highest percentage of residential vacancies in the state. Housing is one of Schenectady's biggest challenges. The city, which once had a population of 100,000, now has 66,000 people and is crushed under the weight of abandoned and blighted properties.
But the poverty rate is about more than just the unemployed, said Phillip Grigsby, executive director of Schenectady Inner City Ministry.
"The growth of what we're seeing is underemployment, part-time jobs, no benefits. I know moms who are working two or three of those jobs," he said.
Highest rates of childhood poverty in the U.S.
Gary, Ind.69.1%
Flint, Mich.59.7%
Canton, Ohio57.6%
Detroit, Mich.57.3%
Camden, N.J. 56.7%
Reading, Pa.54.8% Rochester53.9%
South Bend, Ind.53.2%
*13. Schenectady50.8%
*91. Albany37%
2011 American Community Survey, cities over 65,000 population. Percentage of people under 18 who live below the poverty line.
SICM's free summer lunch program has expanded from two outreach sites in 1996 to 16 this year. And since moving its emergency food pantry to a larger location in 2007, visits to pick up food, which averaged 4,000 a month, topped 5,000 in August, said Gail Van Valkenburgh, food program director.
Deb Schimpf, executive director of Schenectady Community Action Program, said the waiting list for her nonprofit group's Head Start program is well past the 321 slots the federal government funds. The program provides free care for 3- to 5-year-olds.
"As wages continue to stay flat or people are getting their hours reduced or their working low-wage jobs," Schimpf said, "more and more people are coming through our door."
Rocco Ferraro, executive director of the Capital District Regional Planning Commission, said Schenectady's poor have fewer choices because the city doesn't have the employment base of state government in Albany — where lower-paying jobs exist alongside those of $100,000-plus administrators.
Crystal Gonzalez, 23, said she was let go at ShopRite in Niskayuna when she was pregnant with her now 11-month-old daughter, Ivelis. She has another daughter, age 4, in their Mont Pleasant home in addition to letting her 17-year-old cousin and her baby stay there. Her cousin, who dropped out of Schenectady High School, is unemployed, too.
"I've been looking for a job for 4½ months, " Gonzalez said while waiting at the food pantry last week. She said most of her rent is covered by government assistance, but there's little money left to pay the utility bills. "I'm here now because we're running low."
Schenectady is ahead of Capital Region cities in other poverty indicators. For those with populations above 25,000, Schenectady moved last year into fifth place from seventh in 2006 in violent crimes per capita statewide, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. Schenectady County also has the highest rate of teen pregnancy outside of New York City.
The state Health Department doesn't break out the numbers by municipality, but it's believed that most of those teens live in the city of Schenectady.
For children in the city's public schools, the percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch has risen, from 61 percent five years ago to 67 percent in 2010-11.
But not all statistics are created equal. The National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University urges caution when using the American Community Survey's numbers because they're derived from a mailed-in survey and the sample size is small. Census spokesman Robert Bernstein, however, looked closely at Schenectady's data and said the city's leap in one year from just above one-third of children living in poverty to just over half last year is a troublesome sign — even if the number might not be as high as 50.8 percent.
Ferraro doubts that one in two children in Schenectady lives in poverty. He said the combined data from five years reveal a truer picture. The 2006-2010 survey shows Schenectady's childhood poverty rate was 31.3 percent — which is actually lower than Albany's 35.6 percent. Troy's five-year statistic was the highest, at 40.2 percent.
"There are middle-class neighborhoods in Schenectady," Ferraro said, adding that city leaders have been "successful in some ways, but it takes time."
He is referring to downtown's revitalization since the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority was created in 1998. The authority is a publicly funded quasi-government organization that has funneled sales tax revenue into redoing State Street buildings and redeveloping American Locomotive Co.'s blighted property along the Mohawk River. But the city counts heavily on the refurbishment of Proctors — which has a robust schedule of Broadway favorites, celebrity appearances and other shows — and the dining and other nightlife that have emerged around it.
Some thought that success would benefit the neighborhoods. That has not happened.
Judy Atchinson, executive director of Quest, which serves free dinners five nights a week to teenagers at its location in the Central State Street neighborhood, said she meets children in the most difficult situations: teens who have parents in jail or who are drug users, and turn to roving gangs for money and companionship.
"What does the city do to specifically address these issues?" she said.
Mayor Gary McCarthy said the empty storefronts on State Street had to be attacked first before attention swung to the neighborhoods. Now, he said, his program to partner with contractors to redevelop abandoned properties is one way to address the poverty plaguing once- vibrant working class enclaves.
McCarthy has also been working with city schools Superintendent Larry Spring on a grant application to Bloomberg Philanthropies in hopes of getting $5 million to start a mentorship program for preschoolers and up.
"We still have a long way to go," the mayor said. "But I don't believe we're continuing to decline."
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Choice hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning after Darvish blew a four-run lead and the Rangers snapped Cleveland's six-game winning streak with a 6-4 victory over the Indians on Friday night.
The decisive shot from Choice came after his RBI single in a four-run second. A night earlier, he homered to give the Rangers another big early lead they couldn't hold before going on to beat Baltimore.
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"I feel like I started out kind of passive at the plate, trying to feel guys out," said Choice, who is getting his first extensive time in the big leagues after an offseason trade brought him from Oakland. "And lately I've tried to be more aggressive and be not so picky at the plate."
Choice went the opposite way just over the right field wall against Marc Rzepczynski (0-2) with two outs for a solo homer. The shot made a winner of Darvish (6-2) after the Japanese ace gave up a season-high nine hits in seven innings.
Texas reliever Jason Frasor got a nifty double play from Elvis Andrus in a scoreless eighth, and closer Joakim Soria had two strikeouts in the ninth for his 13th save.
Lonnie Chisenhall and Asdrubal Cabrera homered off Darvish to wipe out a 4-0 deficit, but the Indians followed a 6-0 homestand by starting a 10-game trip with their fifth straight road loss. They have the worst record in the majors away from home at 9-20.
Chisenhall hit the first three-run homer Darvish has allowed in his three big league seasons, a shot off the foul pole in right field in the third inning. The Indians pulled even an inning later on a solo shot to right by Cabrera, who had three hits.
"When you're going against a guy like him who never gives in, his best stuff every night, the best stuff in the league, it's a good feeling to answer back real quick and he's not able to get comfortable," Chisenhall said.
Trevor Bauer had retired 13 of the last 15 Rangers he faced without allowing a hit when Rzepczynski came on to face the left-handed Leonys Martin and struck him out. But Choice put the Rangers ahead on the next pitch.
Rzepczynski "was just trying to get ahead like he does and sink it," Cleveland manager Terry Francona said. "It just caught too much of the plate."
Cleveland had a good chance to take the lead in the sixth after singles from Yan Gomes, his third of the game, and Carlos Santana. But Darvish got Mike Aviles and Michael Bourn on called strikes and Cabrera on a weak grounder back to him.
Darvish had eight strikeouts, and three of the four against Bourn.
"I think the strike zone was a little bit smaller today so I had to be creative," Darvish said. "So I started throwing cut fastballs and sliders to throw the other hitters off."
Bauer had all six of his strikeouts after giving up a two-run homer to Rougned Odor into the upper deck in right field in the second.
"He pitched behind a lot in the count to a lot of dangerous hitters, but he still competed," Francona said.
NOTES: An eighth-inning single gave Andrus a hit in all 38 games of his career against Cleveland. It ties the second-longest streak for a player against the same opponent going back to 1914, according to STATS. Vladimir Guerrero had a 44-game streak for the Los Angeles Angels against Texas from 2004 to 2006. Boston's Jacoby Ellsbury had a 38-game streak against Baltimore from 2009 to 2012. Andrus' streak started with his major league debut on April 6, 2009. ... Cleveland's David Murphy was 0 for 3 with a walk in his first game in Texas since leaving as a free agent. He spent six-plus seasons with the Rangers, including both of the franchise's World Series years in 2010 and 2011.


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Most people in the traditional publishing believe that Google and friends want quality. And quality will always win. I don't believe that to be true. I think that they favour Relevancy, more Quality. Quality is an abstract notion anyway. They can be the same thing, but commonly not.
Journalists and professional writers do a great job of writing well constructed arguments. Web content producers do a great job of meeting their brief. So, depending on what you want as a temporary commissioning editor you can brief that way.
Let's think about online publishing and the internet specifically. So, if English (my preferred language) is used by many, many millions of people. For many it wont be their first language and they also want access to content, access to information and access to answers. Then relevant content is far more important than a abstract notion of Quality.
As a digital marketer and a SEO working in businesses whose objectives are about getting many visitors and conversion, choosing the appropriate level of content is what you need to do.
Maybe journalists could learn from SEO's and digital marketers as we only produce content that is being demanded. And maybe we could learn from trying to ensure accuracy and minimum standards/consistency etc.
There are more people and with the democratisation of the web there is a progressive demand for all kinds of content.
A few articles have made me aware of the "Internet Content Syndication Council" and their own ambitions for content web standards for the net. They are likely to only read by like minded individuals If you wish to see their site, you'll understand if I don't make this a link
www.internetsyndication.org. But, if it does catch on, then if you are commissioning content and you want a minimum standard, someone who can demonstrate the levels of skills demanded is no bad thing.
The future is about companies, journos, writers who embrace the distribution model. Where is your audience? How do they want to read the content? How will you promote it and get it in front of them? As you are a competing with other content publishers. You competed with another daily newspaper, or another publishing house. You have probably been competing with online reading of your content versus the print form.
New services such as Demand Media, Associated Content and many more are satisfying a new demand. For How-to's, Video and easily accessible volume content. There will be a place for 'proper' articles, but it will be in Sunday papers, books (still relevant in 2010, who knows when/if you read this?!).
I think we need them all.
Some related articles that sparked me into life writing these thoughts:
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6th July 2010 on AdWeek
7th July 2010 on CNet News


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It had been a particularly slow night. The plant security guard had just made his rounds on this Sunday evening shift. As soon as he passed the weighing scales, he could enter the guard shack and get off his feet. Challenging A Curious Incident However, on this night, he noticed the waste vendor's truck sitting half on and half off the scale. He stopped dead in his tracks to see if the truck would back up and completely sit on the scale. It never did. The observant guard walked up to the truck and challenged the driver who seemed surprised. "Hey, you're not weighing your truck properly." The driver fumbled for a response before replying, "Sorry, I was on the phone with a friend. I didn't notice it." But this security guard had the presence of mind to demand the driver's phone. The driver was caught off guard and surrendered the phone. The guard then pulled up the most recent incoming/outgoing calls and saw no calls during the last 30 minutes. "I don't think so." "You don't think so what?" The security guard was frank, "You haven't used this phone in over half an hour." The truck driver sheepishly acknowledged the fact. It was decided to install video surveillance covering the weighing area and scales – no easy feat due to poor lighting Preventing Crime As It Happens Knowing the driver was lying, the security guard ordered the truck back on the scale for a correct weighing and advised the driver that he would report the incident. The security guard wrote up his report and handed it off to his supervisor who, in turn, contacted the local corporate investigator. This investigator was soon on the phone with his boss at corporate headquarters on the other side of the world. Together with Security, they decided to install video surveillance covering the weighing area and scales – no easy feat due to poor lighting. However, once completed, they waited. They would not have to wait long. For the next two months, the waste vendor trucks, filled to the brim with production waste, black-and-white paper and other waste products from the plant, would stop on the scale only for a moment and then drive the front half of the truck off the scale for weighing. It was obvious that the vendor was cheating the company by only paying for half the waste. After two months, it was decided to catch the next cheating driver "en flagrante." Sure enough, the next truck went half on and half off the scale and was weighed. Security then asked the unsuspecting driver to park his truck and invited him inside the building to talk to a supervisor. The driver signed an incriminating statement about the scheme and his role therein. They sent him on his way asking him to keep it quiet Waiting for the driver in a large office was the local investigator and his close friend, the Head of Security. After a difficult interview, the driver admitted to cheating on the scales over a two-year period—he claimed that some of the scale cheating was done at the direction of the vendor's management, while some of it he did himself by "ripping off" the vendor—which he acknowledged was dangerous. Working With Authorities The driver signed an incriminating statement about the scheme and his role therein. They sent him on his way asking him to keep it quiet—they would see what they could do for him later on. In the meantime, Corporate Investigations had received a due diligence report on the vendor company which contained disturbing news—the company and its managers were associated with a countrywide waste management mafia. The report suggested that the vendor had a reputation for thefts and involvement in numerous lawsuits regarding thefts and embezzlement. Shockingly, no prior due diligence had ever been conducted on the vendor. Fortunately, the plant's finance and audit team had maintained good records over the past 5 years and were able to re-construct the amount of waste going out the plant door and the amounts being claimed and paid for by the vendor. The discrepancy and loss stood at a multi-million dollar figure. After consulting with the local police authorities and company lawyers, it was decided to pursue a civil case against the vendor. Pursuing Legal Action The regional lawyer, the Head of Investigations, the Head of Security and the CFO invited the vendor to discuss the problem. Some of the evidence was shown to the vendor's CEO who became indignant and, in order to save face, promised to fire the truck drivers and to repay any losses for the last two months. Inter-dependent entities - security, investigations, finance/audit and legal - combined their resources and agendas to form a unified front That was not enough for the company and a protracted legal battle ensued which lasted several years and resulted in the vendor's paying almost the entire amount in instalments. The vendor was dropped from the contract and internal controls strengthened—the only plant employee dealing with the waste issue left the company and was replaced by two individuals. The plant also began paying more attention to the waste process and less to the production side. Several "lessons learned" come to mind. First, the tripwire came in the person of an astute and well-trained security guard who exhibited some of the best characteristics you want to see from men and women in that profession. The Security Department was also adept at installing the surveillance system and capturing the fraud live on videotape. But a far greater lesson was learned—of what can happen when inter-dependent entities (security, investigations, finance/audit and legal) within a company combine their resources and agendas to form a unified front. The results speak for themselves.
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u2Thank you for sharing this wonderful concert, It was awesome
03 January, 2010
WOOOI feel SO stupid. Ive been looking for this everywhere. YAY im so glad U2.com posted the whole thing. Ive been watching only like 6 songs that they have left on youtube. Thanks U2.com!!
31 December, 2009
Great!And I wanna see it again!!
31 December, 2009
u2.....amazing...im growing up with u!!!!
15 December, 2009
ReliefIm a recovering heroin addict and a lifelong U2 fan, i live in Finland so had to get up very early to catch the show and wow for those Two and Half hours my sickness went as my body was overflowing with adrenaline and each song just made me feel better and better and by the time of Streets even my stomach had stopped hurting. These guys save lives and for some make life just that little bit more bearable, thanks lads, only wish you knew just how much your music impacts on people, cant wait for Helsinki 2010 and Songs Of Ascent which i feel will be a better album than NLOTH, especially if songs like Mercy + Winter are included.
13 December, 2009
come to Braziljust perfect for getting better miss a show in Brazil
05 December, 2009
big guitarsamazing vocals, solid bass, ecstatic drumming, and an echo. I hope that the dvd (or blu-ray) comes out soon
04 December, 2009
PROUD TO BE IRISH!!it was totally worth gettin up at 3am to watch this masterpiece,even though i had work at 7am and was shattered for the day,i'll never forget that morning and can't wait for the dvd to come out so i can watch it over and over again until i go to paris next year to see them for the third time on this tour.U2 are legends and will never be beaten by any band in terms of genius lyrics and mind blowing music.makes me proud to be irish with these lads.words cant describe how much their songs have influenced my life!!! roll on le stade de france 2010!!!!
27 November, 2009
fantasticit was incredible, i vill never forget.
27 November, 2009
FantasticSeen them twice this year, absolutley brilliant, though a little fatigue in Bono's voice at the rose bowl. Give up the smokes man!
26 November, 2009
Rose bowl concertI had to wait 5 years to go to a U2 concert and I finally got tickets for the Pasadina show, it was the best concert of my life i guess there is a reason why I waited so long, my life was incomplete but now I feel like I can die in peace. :)
19 November, 2009
edgenessi love this song live
18 November, 2009
please bring back the show stream! :)Oh no! the show is not online now- just 11 of the songs. Please please bring it back so I can enjoy the last half of it. it was amazing to relive the chicago show that i attended (waiting in the sun the entire day!) would love to see a DVD or Blue Ray release of 360 tour! keep up the amazing live shows, guys!
16 November, 2009
even better than the real thingwoke up on a cold wet morning in dublin, turned on utube put on the kettle, and watched the lads, it turned out to be a beautifull day ,they still have it all these years later, nobody can touch them ,have my ticket and flight booked for new york next year,
16 November, 2009
Sunday Bloody SundayGreat show in Pasadena but the YouTube video didn't capture the impact of Sunday Bloody Sunday. Just after unkown caller a close up of an eye was projected on the 360 screen. And although I can't remember word for word what Bono said, it went something like this, "Are you listening Radio Tehran? This is the United Staes calling with a message. You are not alone." This was extremely pwerful and moving and wish it was covered in the streaming YouTube video. Perhaps, maybe in the DVD is they decide to put it out. I hope so because it was probably my most memorable moment from the show. As mentioned above, my seats sucked because they were in section 27 behind the stage. But for any U2 show, I'll take what I can get. My seats for the upcoming Oakland show next Summer are considerably much-much better and I can wait!!!
15 November, 2009
Amazing...GraceWe saw that in group with people who have lived with this band very close to their daily work, I had the opportunity to see the 360 Tour live with this show but my view has finally been lifted. This band is huge, because they are pioneers in all, great for a huge show and a huge stage.
15 November, 2009
DAS.RFCI have been lucky enough to see the band 3 times on this tour.Wembely,Phoenix and the Rose bowl. All 3 gigs were great but the Rose bowl was a bit special. Everybody was up for it and that seemed to filter back to the band.I must say a big shout out to the Black eyed peas.On each night I seen them they really rocked the place and with Slash from G&R on stage with them doing Sweet child of mine at the Rose bowl made the night even more special. 25yrs since I first seen the band live and there still better than anybody else out there!! DAS.RFC. Glasgow.
15 November, 2009
It was greatI watched concert tree times and i loved... I cant wait when thei comes to finland
15 November, 2009
MAGNIFICENT!!!Every show, stage and songlist gets better and better. Legends.
14 November, 2009
And Then There Was U2I keep watching this video over and over. U2 is just the best. Sincere, talented, real..no finer people you will ever find. Thanks guys see you in 2010.
12 November, 2009
An unforgettable evening!This U2 concert was a blast!!! This was by far one of the best concert's I've ever been to, and I only had one beer that night (due to the huge crowd everywhere) ... imagine that. We had an awesome time! We even watched the concert again on YouTube the next evening. It was even better seeing it a second time to catch everything we could not see from our seats. A truly spiritual experience with lots of crowd energy! I was not a huge U2 fan before, but now I'm hooked!! Favorite moment: To hear 96,000 people singing Amazing Grace with Bono just after "One" & right before "Streets Have No Name" was extremely moving! I can hardly wait for the DVD. We have our tickets for the Anaheim show on June 6, 2010. We feel very fortunate to be able to see them again. U2 fans are the best! We hope to see you there.
10 November, 2009
U2 Sheffield - 20.8.09!!!!!!!U2 Sheffield - 20.8.09!!!!!!!
10 November, 2009
The BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It was a spectacular event and glad being there to be part of this historical concert because U2 is a surviving alternative rock band from the new wave era 80's to champion against annoying heavy metal bands! U2, you're the best and I'll see you guys at Anaheim next year on June 6th!! You guys RULE!!!
09 November, 2009
funit was simply amazing
09 November, 2009
Blew my mindI attended this amazing show with my whole family, my two sisters, brother, mother and father. We all love U2 and to be able to go all together it was very special for us. We all loved the band's performance...they totally kicked it out of this world. Just to be able to say "yeah, I was at the Rose Bowl when U2 played there" will be something I'll be telling my grandkids one day. Can't wait to catch them in Anaheim!!
09 November, 2009
Blew my mindI attended this amazing show with my whole family, my two sisters, brother, mother and father. We all love U2 and to be able to go all together it was very special for us. We all loved the band's performance...they totally kicked it out of this world. Just to be able to say "yeah, I was at the Rose Bowl when U2 played there" will be something I'll be telling my grandkids one day. Can't wait to catch them in Anaheim!!
07 November, 2009
Randy in VancouverCould not watch before the show in Vancouver. I did not want to take away from the experience I knew was coming. What an experience and now I got to see it again.... Thanks for the electrical storm and baby, you lit my way.
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Brian O'Connell co-owner of the Whistle Stop Grille, believes any decrease of parking would not be beneficial for the city.
"We need the parking, it's already limited as is. Possibly 20 spots gone will hurt us," O'Connell said.
Leroy McGhee from Leroy Styles expressed the need for parking to city councilors at a public meeting recently. "Obviously the downtown needs some improvement but there needs to be other ways to handle the parking situation," McGhee said. "Perhaps a parking lot would help," he added.
The engineering firm Hoyle and Tanner, Associates, hired by city officials to design the reconstruction of areas from West High Street to the Berwick Bridge, presented a project overview at City Hall recently. If all goes through, bidding has been recommended to start April 1 and construction would commence in mid-May.
Drainage, water, sewer and pavement is expected to be installed in November.
The final pavement timeline is to be determined and night work is being considered. Downtown utility project cost breakdown of the $4 million dollar bond includes, 21 percent to drainage improvements; 27 percent to curb-to-curb paving; 38 percent to water main improvements; 8 percent to sewer improvements; and 6 percent to curbing and sidewalks.
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Introduction to Newton's Three Laws - Lesson 1
This NASA video segment explores how Newton's Laws of Motion apply to the development and operation of airplanes. Viewers watch an instructor at NASA's National Test Pilot School as he describes and then demonstrates why seatbelts are an important force on pilots; what it means to pull 2, 4 and even 6 g in a jet; and how the thrust of a jet engine causes an aircraft to move forward. Formulas are presented onscreen along with the calculations discussed in the segment. For example, the instructor
An Introduction to Primates
This video covers 41 species of primates ranging from the 300-gram sized pygmy slow loris to the 200-kilogram-sized gorilla. The animals are organized by taxonomic categories. Run time 03:53.
An Introduction to Humanism
This video is from a lecture in Canada in 2008. It is a brief introduction to Humanism (a non believer, man centered person) and its varied aspects, including Athiesm, Freethought, Agnosticism, Transhumanism, and Skepticism. Humanists believe that they can be good without God. Recorded in left audio channel only. (7:57)
An Introduction to Christianity as a World Religion
A recorded speech from Dr. David Perrin, of St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, Ontario, who explains what Christianity is, its history and its beginnings. It is only recorded on one channel, so it comes out your left speaker only. As well, there is a biography of Dr. Perrin superimposed over his image from 1:37 to 2:37 on the video.
Introduction to Sikhism
This video is a good overview of Sikhism is explained in an articulate, cogent way. Most of its major tenets are described. The only problem with the video is that it was recorded on the left channel only, so on headphones, it sounds out of your left side only. (9:40)
Introduction to Sikhism
Animated Introduction to Core Sikh beliefs. The music is taken from a track produced by the late Singh Kaur and Amar Singh. Singh Kaur was a talented vocal artist and Caucasian western convert to Sikhism. Her music has been compared to that of the the celtic sounds of enya. Sadly Singh Kaur passed away a few years ago (may waheguru bless her soul in eternal bliss).
Introduction to Buddhism
This video introduces Buddhism and talks about its roots. There is historical background and reference to its establishment in China.
An Introduction to Adjectives
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Introduction to Order of Operations Part 1
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Introduction to Order of Operations Part 2
This is a continuation of part 1. The problem they are working on was introduced in part 1, they are working through all the rules of order of operations. They are continue to work on examples. Video is good quality and good for all students as review or initial learning of concept.
Introduction to Order of Operations
This video starts off with a black screen because the narrator uses it as a 'chalkboard'. In an easy, conversational tone, the instructor offers an introduction to the order of operations.
Introduction to the Dissection of a Virtual Frog
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An Introduction to Voicethreads
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Introduction to Using Voice Thread
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Introduction to Anthropology (1)
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Introduction to integration
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Subtraction 3: Introduction to Borrowing or Regrouping
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Introduction to Caravaggio
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Introduction To Personal Pronouns
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Introduction to Spinning, Part 1
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Fun Fact: I took 4,150 photos and videos in 2014. Here are just a few.
We started the new year in our new apartment in Northampton, having moved from Queens just a few weeks before. To my credit, there were only a few boxes still around, but Christmas had made the apartment a little hectic.
I had spent New Year's Eve with the Flu, but we still got our beans in.
My new full-time job was being mama, so I spent my time trying to figure out fun things for the child (and not watching TOO much Netflix).
We had people over for birthday dinner and Pineapple Upside Down Cake!
January also saw my first Etsy sale!!! I put up Rowan's Pigeon Hat, and by the end of 2014, I had sold about 20 of them!
Even though it was winter, we started riding our bike's a lot!
I also started marketing for my Childbirth Ed classes!
Elephant and Piggie at the Eric Carle Museum.
And Ro starts his college search.
And I finished my last requirements for my Childbirth Ed certification!
Gramma Rita Chamberland died in early February, and after someone came to the funeral with H1N1 Flu, the rest of the Chamberland clan was sick for days. I think the total infected as 25, including Chris and Rowan. I was oddly thankful that I had had it over New Year's, so I could take care of my boys.
Did I mention that since the year had begun, it had not stopped snowing?
Rowan discovered how to take Selfies.
Ro and I visited the city to see friends and grab a few things still at the apartment.
We had one last meal on the floor in the living room ... which is actually how we had our first meal there too.
And we got to see Emily and Zoe and Rafael!
Emily came to visit!
Then I had an In-Reel-Life meetup with some of the ladies from Attached Parents at Work in Boston.
Then remember that time baby malcolm was born 5 weeks early and I missed it by about 30 seconds?
Resurrected the annual Easter Egg Party (without Kerri of course).
Rowan turned three years old!!!
We had a Pigeon Party, and I made Pigeon Cake Pops!
We celebrated a few days early, because on the 11th, I went in for Radioactive Iodine Treatment for my thyroid.
I was quarentined at home for 3 days while the boys and Gipper stayed with the grandparents. I watched a lot of Doctor Who and knit a sweater.
At the end of April we got some good news!!! The co-op board approved our buyer and our apartment sold!
In May, Emily and Zoe came to visit!
For Mother's Day my boys went hiking and left me alone for many many hours, and it was amazing.
Chris and I celebrated 7 years of being married and still liking each other.
I taught my first official childbirth ed series!
We spent the 4th of July in New Hampshire.
I also promised myself I would start my Christmas Tree skirt over the summer.
We kept up with lots of fun activities for the child, lots of knitting for me, and lots of biking.
Butterfly Exhibit with Gramma
Radio Controlled Airplane Show
Dana's wedding was also fast approaching, and I was working hard on her Wedding Programs!
Also, the 3-County Fair has piglet racing.
and teeny tiny tractor pulls.
We spent Labor Day on the Cape with Chris's family.
Ro started Preschool!
And yes I cried.
Northampon offers many fun family activities, like the Gluten Festival.
I had also been riding my bike pretty much all summer ... so yeah, I was pretty proud of that.
Fall started to show itself ...
We tried out stencils for Pumpkin Carving
We went real-life door-to-door Trick-or-Treating!
Chris and I went up to Pittsfield, VT for Janna and Don's Wedding!!! #Lovember8th
We spent Thanksgiving with my parents ... without Power. Hello snowstorm.
And the only Day-After-Thanksgiving shopping we did was to the plant store to see Santa, who gave Ro a high five because he didn't want anything for Christmas.
I finally finished the Tree Skirt!
We sang Christmas Carols down town
The Grandparents went overboard on Christmas ... again.
We spent New Year's Eve in Jammies with the Kinnes and McDonalds, 8pm NYE via Netflix for the Kids, and lots of Mexican Food.
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SPOILER: First 10 minutes of GoW III leaked
4player's leaked the first ten minutes of God of War III. It's pretty spoilerish, so if you want to stay clean, don't hit the jump.
Rumour: IGN gives GoW III 10/10 in leaked score
If this screengrab is correct, IGN's going to be giving God of War III a straight 10.
God of War III listing shows demo release next week
If a listing on Game's UK site is correct, a God of War III demo is out next week.
GoW III video shows the making of the Leviathan
IGN's got up a making-of video for God of War III's Leviathan. Get it after the break.
GoW III scans are properly, properly epic
Some new God of War III scans have appeared from the latest issue of OPM France. Properly, properly epic is how we'd describe them.
GoW III video shows how Chimera was made
SCEA's released a new making-of video of God of War III. It shows how the team made a new enemy for the game, the Chimera, which has been in the works since God of War II. Watch from about 7:40 onwards for new gameplay footage. Get it below.
God of War III, Collection rated by BBFC
The BBFC's rated both God of War III and the God of War Collection at 18 in the UK.
God of War III dated for March 16 in US [Update]
Update: Here. We. Go. SCEE's just told VG247 an EU date will be announced on the EU PS Blog at 6pm GMT. Update 2: No confirmed EU date yet. SCEE just said it is aiming to release in the PAL regions in the same week as the US. Original Story: God of War III has […]
New God of War III art released
Some new art for God of War III has gotten out.
God of War II could have been a PS3 launch game, reveals Yoshida
God of War II could have become a launch title for PlayStation 3. That's what SCE worldwide studios president Shuhei Yoshida has revealed to Game Informer.
God of War III Special Edition to skip UK, says SCEE
Know that Special Edition of God of War III revealed last night by a Swedish retailer? Yeah, if you're in the UK, start the tears: SCEE's told VG247 it won't be coming here. Unlucky.
God of War III Gaia level screens shit the bed
SCEE has lifted the lid off of an embargo for God of War III, which means previews and impressions are free to go live. It also released some new shots of the Greek actioner. Get them after the break.
No God of War III trailer today, SCEA confirms
SCEA's Jeff Rubeinstein has confirmed that, while you can expect a load of God of War III info later today, none of it's going to be moving.
No plans for seperate GoW III/GoW Collection bundle, confirms SCEE
SCEE has just told VG247 that there are currently no plans to release a separate bundle of both God of War III and the God of War Collection outside of the Ultimate Trilogy Edition.
SCEE confirms £110 pricetag for GoW III Ultimate Trilogy Edition in UK
SCEE's confirmed to VG247 that the God of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition will set you back £110 when it releases in March.
New GoW III scans show Poseidon
Some new Japanese God of War III mag scans popped up this morning, confirming Poseidon as one of the game's bosses. Needless to say, it looks epic. Find them over at N4G. The game releases in March everywhere. Thanks, mojo.
Sony: "God of War III is a must have"
SCEE has told CVG that God of War III "is a must have" title.
God of War III confirmed for March 25 in Japan
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has confirmed that God of War III will release in the country on March 25.
God of War III gets new concept art
Two new pieces of Gow of War III concept art has appeared on the interwebs, following the launch of the game's European portal. Find them over at CVG. The game will release in March alongside the God of War Collection in a "Ultimate Trillogy Edition", announced last month.
Studio Santa Monica latest
God of War II could have been a PS3 launch game, reveals Yoshida
No plans for seperate GoW III/GoW Collection bundle, confirms SCEE
SCEE confirms £110 pricetag for GoW III Ultimate Trilogy Edition in UK


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