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Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 (US - BD RA)
Gabe revisits his favourite Tarantino films, but likely not for the last time...
Four years ago, a beautiful blonde bride (Uma Thurman) and her wedding party were attacked by the Deadly Vipers Assassin Squad, under the direction of their leader, a mysterious man that goes by the name Bill (David Carradine). The assassins made one mistake, they didn't kill the Bride, and after four years in a coma she's ready for her revenge. It'll be a long road to vengeance, but one thing is certain, at the end of the road the Bride will surely kill Bill.
It's been four years since the second part of Quentin Tarantino's first real ode to the grindhouse, Kill Bill, was released in theatres, and the hype has finally and thoroughly subsided. Now, as a fan, I can look back at the events of Beatrix Kiddo's bloody affair without concerning myself with the baggage that came with the two film release, films which came so many years after Jackie Brown that even passing Tarantino fans were salivating at the mere possibility of a new film. Does everyone remember that first teaser trailer, the one that came before the films were divided? The one with the Tomoyasu Hotei Battle without Honor or Humanity song? That was a great teaser. Remember the news of the film being cut into halves, when the hype and expectations kicked into hyper-drive?
A lot of folks realized too late that Kill Bill wasn't made for them—it was made for Quentin Tarantino. Despite the cult popularity of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and (to a lesser extent) Jackie Brown, Tarantino's own personal tastes proved surprisingly varied, and even less mainstream then most fans had initially assumed. Then Volume Two was released, and it was even more varied, and even more experimental. Kill Bill as a whole is quite possibly the most self indulgent, self-serving motion picture ever released by a major studio. For some people this was a rude awakening, but for others, like yours truly, it was like watching a filmmaker you hadn't quite trusted craft the sexiest pornography imaginable.
There's been so much written about these films already that I doubt anything I have to say is going to change any opinions on anything to do with them, so putting it as simply as I can, it genuinely felt as if Kill Bill was made specifically for me, taking into account everything I love about film, music and pop entertainment.
Tarantino stirred homage to samurai fiction, spaghetti westerns, kung-fu operas, Italian horror and crime epics, and even an animated sequence into his homage pot. Watching Kill Bill is like conversing with a fellow multi-genre lover as he doles out his 35mm, OOP VHS and DVD collections, then dares you to step up your fandom and obsession to his level. And after the party of lights, colours, flash bulbs, camera tricks, and stolen imagery that was Volume 1, Volume 2 ended on a personal and dramatic note. The beauty of these films isn't the deft homage alone, it's the way that Tarantino manages to create an enthralling and entertaining mythology around the deft homage. He even makes distinct and sophisticated statements on the nature of revenge towards the end of Volume 2.
I also admit that I wasn't, and am still not a fan of Tarantino's work pre- Jackie Brown. Frankly I found Reservoir Dogs dull, and Pulp Fiction overwrought. I didn't appreciate Tarantino's sense of humour, I thought his compositions were lacking depth and intrigue, and I wasn't fond of his wordy language (unless it was coming out of Sam Jackson's capable mouth). With Jackie Brown I was convinced that Tarantino could write adult and interesting characters, but I still wasn't convinced of his camera control, or ability to create his own adult and interesting characters (as Jackie Brown was based on an Elmore Leonard novel). With Kill Bill Tarantino proved his aptitude with the visual medium of film, and stopped depending solely on mouthfuls of flowery language.
Besides an almost shocking handle on graceful steady cam, complex action, expert split screens, and wonderfully post-modern stage setting, Tarantino's greatest achievement here is the production of an almost infinitely exploreable mythology. Tarantino and his good friend Robert Rodriguiz had been trying to create a universe for their films for years, but I didn't find myself buying into it until Kill Bill. Now I'm all ready for more journeys into this world. Hell, I'm willing to sacrifice any future Tarantino originals to see more of the same.
Buried in the mess of style and substance the performances in these films have been overlooked, or basically forgotten. Uma Thurman was given a stunt role, a part so steeped in parody that it was hard to mess up, but even harder to do right. Thurman was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, but I'd put her above most of the 2003 and 2004 Academy Award nominees. David Carradine admirably overcame decades of shoddy productions, and old fashion bad career moves to make Bill one of the most surprisingly likeable characters in recent history. There's simply no reason to think of Bill as anything but a bastard in the first film, but when we finally get to know him he's positively loveable (too bad Carradine squandered this good will with STV and Yellow Book commercial work). Perhaps the most exciting cast elements are Sonny Chiba and Gordon Lui, specifically considering the humour and breadth they're able to lend to their characters that, again, could've been jokes alone. Credit is also due to Michael Madsen and Daryl Hannah for digging themselves out somewhat embarrassing later careers to deliver two truly 'cool' performances (though like Carradine they seem to have wasted these gifts ever since).
One of the film's (both parts) most defining sequences is the one where Elle Driver attempts to murder Beatrix as she lies sleeping in a bullet to the head induced coma. These five or so minutes epitomize everything Tarantino was trying to achieve with the film. The scene's early shots of Beatrix recall Citizen Kane directly. Then Driver enters the scene wearing a trench coat similar to that worn by the killer in De Palma's Dressed to Kill, and as if to slam home the point of the homage, the belt and stitching is literally drawn onto the coat. Over her eye is a patch, in homage to Thriller: A Cruel Picture, and she whistles the theme to Twisted Nerve, while the screen breaks into very DePalmaian split screen (or possibly it's John Frankenhiemer inspired, I suppose). Driver's preparation harkens back to Dressed to Kill again, but also recalls Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Umberto Lenzi's Gialli, which are known for their procedural and fetishistic close-up weapons worship. When Bill calls to stop the hit, his face is obscured, maintaining the mystery until the second film. This sequence recalls several specific films from many different genres, but makes the scene an important character introduction for Driver, and character verification for Bill, both of whom aren't officially introduced into the plot until the second film.
It's not all sunshine and cornflakes though; these are the US theatrical release, R-rated versions of the films. This is a minor problem in the case of Volume 2, but anyone that's had the pleasure of seeing the international, Universal cut of Volume 1 knows what they're missing, and if they're anything like me they can never go back to black and white bloodshed, censored animation sequences and amputations, or the missing jokes in the Crazy 88 sequence. I don't need the 'Whole Bloody Affair' version; I just want each film uncut.
Kill Bill looked pretty good on DVD, and I assumed the only real difference between that and this Blu-ray release would be a general lack of compression noise and edge enhancement. I was wrong; there were apparently leagues of room for improvement. Honestly, I felt like I was watching a Hong Kong bootleg when I ran a direct comparison to the DVD (the R1 release of Volume 2, and the R2 release of Volume One for your notes).
Part of the fun of these films, and possibly their most impressive aspects, are the many different film stocks and lighting tricks Tarantino and cinematographer Robert Richardson used to tell such an homage steeped montage of a film. In their own way these choices tell the story just as well as the character dialogue.
The super saturated and soft-focused Pasadena sequence just leaps off the screen with vibrant pastels, each solid, clear, and relatively noiseless. The glaring whites of the following scenes are much more defined then the blooming chaos that accompanied the DVD release. The most noise in the entire first film appears during the animated sequence, but the noise appears so deliberate I have trouble believing otherwise, that and I hadn't really noticed it on the DVD release due to a general lack of detail. The early Japanese sequences are as soft as the Pasadena sequences, but not quite as colourful, so details aren't quite as sharp as Blu-ray lovers may be expecting, though noise still remains virtually absent. The black levels of the Yakuza meeting scene pushed my television to its limit, and the gory details of the fight at the House of Blue Leaves are breathtaking (if only they were in colour).
Volume 2 begins with that beautifully lit black and white sequence, which unlike just about every other black and white sequence is actually presented in true black and true white. The following Bud and Driver sequences are probably the most naturally lit scenes in either film, and reveal the sharpest details and deepest depth of field. These scenes also demonstrate the most colours of any in the film, though not quite as overly splashy as some of the other sequences. It sounds a little funny, but one of the transfer's greatest assets is actually Uma's blonde hair, which looks almost like a special effect it's so detailed and yellow. The Pai Mei scenes are more blown out and high contrast, featuring deep blacks, and fiery whites. The colours are muted too, mostly revelling in rich greens and deep blues. These scenes are also the grainiest of the second film, but the grain here is far finer than that of the DVD release. Just about my only complaint with the entire collection is the last act, which features a little bit of icky red noise in low-lit skin tones, and some minor edge enhancement on middle and background figures.
Kill Bill's sound design is perhaps the most pronounced and hyper reactive of any non-animated or non-effects heavy feature I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Okay, so there is an animated scene, but you know what I mean. Unfortunately for me, I still cannot listen to uncompressed PCM tracks with my current set up, so I'm stuck with a good, but not perfect, Dolby Digital track. The Dolby track is still a slight improvement in general compression then the DVD's DTS track, but it's a close call.
Using mostly unoriginal or 'acquired' music wasn't something new for Tarantino, after all, he was the guy who brought about newfound popularity of Stealer's Wheel's 'Stuck in the Middle with You' and Dick Dale's 'Miserlou' several decades after they were first released, but using score rather than pop music was a stroke of genius. The Kill Bill CD soundtracks are two of the best homemade mix tapes you're ever likely to hear, even if they are incomplete. I've got special love for the use of 'Il Grande Duello', 'Battle without Honor or Humanity' and 'Flower of Carnage' in Volume 1, and 'Silhouette of Doom', 'Il Mercenario (L'Arena)' and 'Three Tough Guys' in Volume 2.
Musically speaking, and from the point of view of pure audio design, movie one's best scene is the steady cam walk around the House of Blue Leaves as the 5,6,7,8s belt out their most famous song. Following that we have Beatrice's fight with Go Go, which is brimming with stylized and over-the-top audio shenanigans, and the arrival of the Crazy 88, which gives the rear channels an effective work out by way of revving motorcycle engines.
The ace scene audibly on Volume 2 is the burial scene, which starts with a cool, whistled score and some of the bassiest hammer hits you'll ever hear. Then, while Thurman gasps and weeps into the centre channel, the surrounds are attacked by the sound of shovels of dirt being thrown onto her coffin. As the dirt becomes thicker the sound becomes muffled, and more prominent in the back speakers. Eventually the ever so subtle sound of Bud's pick-up pulling away is heard, leaving a cherry atop the aural sundae.
I'd love to tell you this set features a Quentin Tarantino commentary track, pop-up facts pointing to the specific films paid homage on screen, and in depth documentaries about the making of the films, but there's nothing new on either of these Blu-ray discs. You'd think that someone who enjoys talking as much at Tarantino would be dying to record commentary tracks, and you'd think that being friends with Robert Rodriguez he'd want to compete with making-of documentaries like Full Tilt Boogie, but apparently you'd be wrong.
Volume 1 comes with a twenty-two minute featurette, two 5,6,7,8 performances, and trailers for every Miramax released Tarantino film, all in standard definition. The featurette, which you all saw on the DVD, is informative enough, and includes a number of cute stories, such as QT's discovery and hiring of the 5,6,7,8s, but it's mostly just a tease. The musical performances are the best extra on the disc, but they aren't even anamorphically enhanced. So sad.
Volume 2 features another behind the scenes featurette (this one running twenty six minutes), which works on the same relatively entertaining and relatively informative level as the making-of on the other disc. Again, though, this is mostly a fluff piece, with a lot of footage from the film and EPK interviews, which teases a possibly more fully developed documentary. The disc also features a three and a half minute deleted scene, featuring Bill kicking Michael Jai White's ass. This is the only hi-def extra on either disc. The scene is pretty cool, but it really doesn't have much place in the narrative Tarantino was telling. Everything ends with a live musical performance featuring Robert Rodriguez and his band.
So I love Kill Bill, and I'm sure you do too, so the question of purchasing these Blu-ray discs really comes down to your level of patience. Apparently the Weinsteins own the rights to the US release of the uncut version of the film, but if their treatment of Grindhouse is any clue, we aren't going to be seeing the 'Whole Bloody Affair' version anytime soon. I'm personally hoping for a Japanese Blu-ray release of Volume 1 sometime in the next year. These discs look and sound great (I'm sure even greater for those of you with PCM capabilities), but they are the cut versions, and have basically nothing in the way of extras.
But the Kill Bill adventure doesn't have to end here, many, if not most of the films Tarantino has quoted here are readily available on DVD. Take a trip to this site to learn a little more. I personally recommend Hannie Caulder, Django Kill, City of the Living Dead, Deep Red, Seven Notes in Black (aka The Psychic), Shogun Assassin, Tokyo Drifter, Death Rides a Horse, The Five Deadly Venoms and especially Lady Snowblood, from which Tarantino takes the film's basic structure. I'm going to continue looking for copies of Rolling Thunder, Samurai Fiction and Twisted Nerve.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 9th September 2008
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: PCM 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Extras: Behind the Scenes, Trailers, Musical Performances, Deleted Scene
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Lucy Lui, Gordon Lui, Sonny Chiba
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama and Thriller
Length: 248 minutes
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In less than one month, two brazen daylight robberies occurred in the city of Butler; one near Cubs Hall at 4:30 p.m. and the other on Kaufman Drive near the Elks lodge at 3:30 p.m. on June 5.
These incidences are stark evidence Butler is not the safe and welcome city it once was.
The mayor and others are trying to promote revitalization here. They claim this city and county are a great place to live and visit. Really?
To truly revitalize, first clean up the city's crime problem, a lot of which is caused by drug abuse and drug trafficking. This problem has escalated over the past several decades here.
Second, we must stop attracting the criminal element. What kind of revitalization can we possibly succeed in implementing when our law-abiding citizens are being attacked by criminal thugs on busy streets at times of the day when it should be safe to be out and about?
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Fifth, we have a problem with children under age 17 out past midnight, unsupervised by parents, in parks and the streets. The parents don't seem to care what their children are doing or where they are.
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Despite the economic challenges of the last several years, the demand for talent in the life sciences industry continues to increase and, in turn, is driving up executive salaries. As a partner in the life sciences practice of ON Search Partners, I have seen first-hand how large pharmaceutical companies and smaller biotech companies alike are beating their competition in the hunt for talent by leveraging different components of their compensation plans. Companies are getting more aggressive and creative around their compensation offers to win this talent war. Recently, I've been studying the structure of executive compensation plans in our industry and it is changing broadly across the biotech and pharmaceutical market, regardless of company size. Not only are we seeing not only a healthy gain in total compensation, but also a distinctive shift in the mix of cash versus equity that companies are giving executives, including a shift away from options towards stock awards. Companies need to take note should they want to remain competitive in recruiting and retaining their most talented leaders.
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While I had empirical experience that life science companies were adjusting their offers to compete for talent, it seemed prudent to confirm if the same held true on a macro-scale. Looking at public biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., our analysis of the most recent publicly disclosed compensation plans of their top executive roles illustrated several changes in the way they are being rewarded. These trends can be observed across the spectrum of large companies with market capitalizations over $10 billion to small businesses under $250 million. Since 2009, these executives have seen double digit increases in their overall compensation, mostly driven by increases in variable compensation, including cash incentives and stock and options awards. Additionally, we found that life science companies are moving away from incentivizing executives with cash bonuses, and gravitating much more aggressively towards a mix of equity incentive awards. The percentage of stock to options is increasing, likely reflecting the last several years of stagnant stock performance. Increasing the stock offer in the form of restricted stock units, performance share units and other non-option grants in an overall compensation package has become a differentiating offer strategy. These trends are particularly evident with small- and mid-cap companies, organizations that historically had leveraged stock options as their primary equity driver. That same group now prefers stock awards as a major component of their equity incentive. Even micro-cap companies are jumping on the bandwagon. Historically, with most of these companies having yet to successfully commercialize a product, their compensation structure tended to focus on significant option awards and lower cash compensation. Today, we see that these micro-cap companies are compensating executives with an even mix of cash and equity value, and the share of stock awards within that equity package has grown significantly over simply options.
Competition for key senior executive talent is the clear reason behind biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies continuing to grow executive compensation packages at a double-digit rate annually. The drive behind increased stock awards also seems obvious. Over the last decade, candidates have found themselves holding options that inevitably had little or no value after years of service to a company. This is not surprising given the high-risk nature of an industry challenged with difficult scientific hurdles, ever strengthening regulatory barriers, and issues of broad global market access. Many companies fail; many therapies do not make it to market. With this sobering view of our market and the odds of success less certain, executives are unwilling to put such a large percentage of their compensation into traditional option awards which – based on recent exits – are less likely to realize the pay-offs seen in years past. Until the industry can reinvigorate pipelines and opportunities for significant growth with healthier returns, this trend is certain to continue.
Base compensation is certainly the foundation of a compelling offer to a candidate for an executive position, but in my experience (and the numbers we analyzed confirm) companies are leveraging stock awards to attract talent. Companies that traditionally only offered options have moved to either a balanced offering of options and awards or, in some cases, abandoned options all together in favor of offering only stock awards as part of the compensation plan. The recommendation that I make to my clients is to be more cognizant of these trends on equity compensation and how their own compensation plans may be affecting their ability to attract and close talent. Stock options are not valued as highly as they had been before and prospective candidates are well aware of the market trend. Now significant stock awards are expected, not just a negotiation strategy. To remain relevant within the marketplace, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies will have to adjust their ongoing corporate compensation strategies accordingly.
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Adding television monitors to give office staff members a better view of the front doors at some schools in the Rolla School District is imminent.
"We want to be community friendly. We want to accommodate the needs of parents and patrons," Assistant Superintendent Kelly Hinshaw said at Thursday night's Rolla Board of Education meeting. "But we need to balance that with security."
Hinshaw continued the talk about school facility improvements that he started at the first January meeting two weeks ago, and security was a big part of that discussion.
So, too, was a plan to solicit bids for the expansion of the Rolla High School cafeteria and the synthetic turfing of the Lions Memorial Stadium.
But it was building security that was front and center in the discussion of building improvements.
"We've been talking about this quite a bit," Hinshaw said, noting that the administrative team and members of the Rolla Police Department have met and will continue to meet to discuss improvements to security.
Both Hinshaw and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Aaron Zalis insisted the attention to building security is not new and is not a reaction to the shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that resulted in the deaths of more than a score of children.
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It is to assure the public that security is always a part of facilities planning that it has been talked about at two consecutive meetings, they said.
In his presentation, Hinshaw security and safety in each building is unique for several reasons:
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Personnel and procedural changes can also be used to enhance security.
Even with careful attention to changes in the structure, improvements continue to be needed.
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"Simply locking doors when they need to be locked" is the starting point, Hinshaw said, noting "there are 400 doors at the high school." Keeping those doors locked "is a challenge."
Monitoring the flow of students out of the building each day can also help. "How you load buses and how you load students into cars" is another factor in security, Hinshaw said.
Using photographic slides, Hinshaw looked at the entrances of each building to suggest changes.
Truman Elementary School has limited visibility of the front door by office staff, so Hinshaw said a television monitor will be placed in the office and a chime will be placed on the one unlocked door. The chime will alert staff when the door is open, so they can check the video monitor.
Similar adjustments are planned at Mark Twain Elementary School and Rolla Technical Institute.
At Rolla High School, Hinshaw said replacement and reconfiguring of doors and the air lock at the Cedar Street entrance will be accomplished. At the new entrance on the lower level, on what had traditionally been the back of the school building but which has become the main entrance, a receptionist's desk and greeter are planned.
It's possible badges will be added as a requirement for all visitors. Buzzer-locks are also a possibility at all school doors. These will be discussed further as the board and administration seek to balance security with community and parental openness in the buildings.
Superintendent Zalis said the district has the money budgeted for facilities changes, and work can start now.
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Leila Cross and Jason Lane, both of Dickson, Tenn., were united in marriage Oct. 6 at Dickson County Saddle and Bridle Club in Dickson. The Rev. Bobby Smartt officiated. A reception followed at the Dickson County Saddle and Bridle Club.
They also held a ceremony Oct. 20 at SS. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Lyndora. The Rev. Paisius McGrath and Rev. William Diakiw officiated. A reception was held at the Ukrainian Hall in Lyndora. Bobby and Jaime Jones of Butler were honor attendants and Greg and Vickie Prokopchak of Butler were sponsors.
The bride is the daughter of William and Teresa Wyant and Jerry Cross, all of Butler. Parents of the bridegroom are Johnny and Linda Lane of Dickson.
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The bride is a 2001 graduate of Butler High School and a 2012 graduate of Nashville State Community College.
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The bridegroom graduated from Dickson County High School in 2002.
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The Fall 2009 Deerfield Magazine features stories about Deerfield's 20th Anniversary of Coeducation, women employed by Mr. Boyden reflect, girls crew, and the life of Rev. Dick McKelvey. A PDF version of the Fall 2009 Deerfield Magazine is available for download.
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- Boyden's Girls: Women employed by Mr. Boyden reflect on his legacy and coeducation
- Ready All… Row: On Pace with Girls Crew, interviews with Deerfield's rowers
- A Life Well Lived: Remembering the life of Dick McKelvey
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Posted on November 30, 2012
So did you win the Powerball? No, I know you didn't, just as you know I didn't. But we can put that behind us now. Time to look ahead. Why not play the NEXT Powerball? Fewer people will be buying and there's less of a chance you'll have to split the jackpot with somebody else. Don't you feel sorry for those two winners who will have to divide that $580 million two ways? Yeah, me too.
As I say, we need to look ahead. December will soon be upon us, and, after that the New Year, full of possibilities. (Not as full as it would have been with half a billion dollars, but we're not going to talk about that any more.) What have we to look forward to?
Well, 2013 will be the first year in a quarter of a century in which all four digits are different. The last time this happened was 1987. I know I've mentioned this before, but now it is particularly significant, because once 2013 actually begins, I won't have any reason to mention that factoid again. (Like that 500 million that went to somebody else. Nope, not gonna say a word about it.)
This is also the last year that we'll be able to say "Wow! The month, day, and year all match!" 12-12-12 will be the last such day until the new century. (Which might involve even higher lottery payoffs, after all.)
The Dredge is coming up next week, and someone has donated over a thousand dollars' worth of art books which I will rush onto the tables. (If you have been yearning for a copy of the five-volume catalog from the sale of the Yves St. Laurent art collection, WITH its accompanying DVD, we're ready for you.) And there are about thirty boxes of cookbooks which have come in this fall, and a selection from those–probably to include the Nancy Drew Cookbook as well as one of the early Barbie cookbooks–will be out for sale. (Of course, for half a billion, we might have sold you a few members of the Dredge to supply your winter caroling needs.)
There are seasonal closings coming up, which should kind of be read as "Days Not To Bring Books". The library will be locked up tight on December 25 and January 1, and the reading rooms will be closed December 22 through December 26. The exhibit galleries will be open, as will the A.C. (Also Cookbooks) McClurg Bookstore. You will be able to see the last few days of the Quasquicentennial Exhibit and buy those last minute presents. (500 million would have just about bought out the store. Heck, it might have bought a goodly chunk of the exhibition.)
The reading rooms will also be closed December 14, for our Spring Cleaning Day. See, a lot of people have spring cleaning in the fall as well, and December 14 is TECHNICALLY still an autumn day. (Going to show that even without half a billion dollars, you can own a calendar.)
The end of the year also means, of course, those last minute donations to please the tax folks. Could you PLEASE not wait until December 31 to drop off your boxes of treasures? We'll be working with a skeleton staff at that point, and their bones get cold dragging in banana boxes at one minute before closing time. I will, myself, be off watching the numerically interesting new year come in, and will not be around to drag in books again until 2013. In other words, with the threat of so many last minute banana boxes, I'm going to split.
(And half a billion dollars might have been enough to bribe to use other words in that last sentence. But maybe not.)


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Cisco is providing the community with a packaged version of the Openstack Folsom release with opensource components delivering additional service assurance functionality such as HA, monitoring, and Cisco enabled networking via Quantum.
Cisco Edition of OpenStack
The Cisco Edition of OpenStack is a validated deployment based on Puppetlabs scripted OpenStack services on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS platform.
Developer support email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Cisco Openstack Edition based on the Openstack Folsom release, is qualified as follows:
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Included in the Cisco release are the following capabilities that have been configured and qualified:
- Active/Active HA: Unlike most existing solutions today, which are active/standby, Cisco has utilized off the shelf opensource components to develop an active/active model for the Folsom release of openstack. Included in this architecture are RabbitMQ redundancy, MySQL redundancy, and load balancing (HA Proxy). Cisco is presenting a blueprint of the architecture at the Grizzly summit. The Cisco Edition provides the appropriate configuration files to enable active/active HA.
- Monitoring: A basic architecture to monitor the system processes and physical components using collectD, graphite, and Nagios is qualified for the Folsom Openstack release. The Cisco Edition provides the appropriate configuration files to enable this baseline monitoring model.
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Newton County welcomed three new office holders and five returning office holders in a swearing in ceremony Thursday afternoon in the Newton County Division I courtroom of the Newton County Courthouse.
Newton County welcomed three new office holders and five returning office holders in a swearing in ceremony Thursday afternoon in the Newton County Division I courtroom of the Newton County Courthouse.
Kay Baum, Newton County clerk, swore in Alan Cook, Jim Jackson and JeAnna McGarrah for their first terms in county office.
The office holders officially begin their terms on Wednesday, Jan. 2.
Cook will begin his duties Wednesday as associate commissioner for District I, while Jackson will join him on the commission as an associate commissioner for District II.
The new commissioners will fill the seats of Jerry Black and Jack Sanders, who are retiring from their posts after 12 years of service.
Cook won the Republican nomination in August, after facing off against Kyle Seaman, and Henry O. Stout. Cook then defeated opponent Roxie Fausnaught, a Libertarian, in the November election.
Jackson defeated Republican challengers W.B. "Doc" McCready, Rick McCully and Carl Brand in the August primary, and Libertarian opponent Heather Bowers in November.
McGarrah will take over the role of Newton County public administrator, a position held for the last eight years by Diane Dodson. Dodson also opted to retire instead of seek re-election. McGarrah defeated Republican challenger Billie Adams-Herrell in the August primary and ran unopposed in the November election.
Cook said the commissioners have already begun the transition process, as he and Jackson have been spending time in the commissioner's office to get a head start on their new jobs.
"For the last couple of months we've been sitting in, listening to the budget process and a lot of the projects that are going on in the county, which has helped immensely," Cook said. "We can kind of hit the ground running come Wednesday, so it's been very good for them to allow us to be part of that."
This is Cook's first elected public office, and he said he's looking forward to getting started.
"It's overwhelming," Cook said after being sworn in. "It's humbling but yet very exciting. I'm anxious to get started."
Thursday's swearing in ceremony also included incumbents who were sworn in for a new term.
Baum swore in returning Newton County assessor, Gloria Gourley, who was re-elected following a race with Tami Renfro-Owens in the August primary.
She also swore in incumbent county surveyor James Loncarich, who ran unopposed in both the primary and general election, and Presiding Judge Timothy Perigo, who was re-elected without competition as Division I judge.
Perigo also swore in incumbent county coroner Mark Bridges, who had no challengers in the primary or general election, and Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland, who will begin his third term next Wednesday.
Copeland was challenged by fellow Republican Mike Langland in the August primary, and ran unopposed in the November election.
"I'm very excited to be serving the citizens again," Copeland said. "It's a great honor and I recognize that it's a huge responsibility and I accept that responsibility to the citizens and to the office of sheriff. It's more than just words to me."
Copeland said the first order of business in his new term is addressing the county's radio system.
The state will transition into a narrow band system at the first of the year, and Copeland said the county's 15-year-old radios are not compatible with the narrow band frequency.
"Our system will work right now it's just not what it should be," Copeland said. "This will affect about every emergency service in the county."
He said the department is looking into some grants to help with the radio upgrade.
Newton County Sheriff's Deputies, as well as assistant coroner Lee Ireland, were also sworn in at Thursday afternoon's ceremony.


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The year 2012 was a memorable one in the world of sports here in Siskiyou County.
A number of teams and individuals achieved at a high level and gave fans a lot to cheer about. Personally, this year was one I will not soon forget. After covering sports on the coast in Crescent City for more than five years, I arrived to work as the new sports editor at the Daily News the end of February with spring sports about to kick-off. A number of teams fared well in 2012 as I was treated to a number of amazing games, teams and story lines in my first year covering sports in Siskiyou County.
Below are some of the 2012 highlights for the year in sports in Siskiyou County, starting with spring sports.
The Yreka Miners baseball team dominated in 2012 and earned a Northern Athletic League title by defeating rival West Valley in the NAL regular season finale on the road by the score of 10-8. It was the first time since 2008 the Miners had won the NAl crown. A highlight for the Miners was when senior Russell Sweet and junior Christian Charles pitched no-hitters on back-to-back days.Yreka made it all the way to the Northern Section finals in its division where they fell on the road to Sutter 5-0.The Miners finished the year 22-10 overall.
The Miners were not the only Siskiyou County team to achieve great success in the spring. Down in Etna, the Lions played some inspired baseball and took the Shasta Casade Conference by storm as the Lions earned their first outright Shasta Cascade League Championship since 2006. Etna was the SCL co-champion back in 2007.
A highlight was pitcher Preston Munson throwing a perfect game in a first round playoff contest versus Biggs. Etna also made it to the Northern Section finals in its division, losing a tight battle to Hamilton 1-0. Etna finished the year 22-5-1 overall.
The Mount Shasta softball team featured senior pitcher Kayla Spini, who became the all-time Northern Section leader in wins. The Lady Bears made it all the way to the section title game where they lost at home to Colusa in a 4-3, 12 inning heartbreaker. Mount Shasta finished the year 31-4 and won its fourth straight league title.
Things were bittersweet for the College of the Siskiyous softball team. On a positive note, head coach Doug Eastman led the Lady Eagles all the way to the state title game, which they lost. Eastman ran a very successful program in his time with COS. In 2003, the Eagles won the GVC championship and made the first of seven trips to the state softball championships in 10 years, including the last six years in a row. But in August, COS announced that it would seek a new softball coach due to sanctions that were imposed against Eastman by both the California Community College Athletic Association and Golden Valley Conference.
The sanctions stemmed from a verbal incident involving Eastman and an umpire during the state championship game on May 20 in Bakersfield. The sanctions, including an indefinite ban on Eastman's future participation in post-season play, were based on what CCCAA CEO and President Carlyle Carter described as a "decorum violation" involving an umpire in the 2012 state championship game. Eastman was replaced by Mount Shasta High varsity baseball coach Jon Cox.
In track and field, Yreka High sent a total of four participants to state. Jenavieve Turner earned a berth in the 100-meter hurdles. It was the second straight year the sophomore had earn a state berth. Eric Neill earned a berth in the 1,600 meter race by running a personal best time of 4:21.05 at the Northern Section Championships. He finished in 16th place at state. Senior Ryan Kennedy qualified in the discus and sophomore Kaden Culp earned a berth in state in the high jump.
Etha High had pole vaulter Andy Nadig qualify for a state berth and Janelle Jaegel of Mount Shasta earned a state berth in the pole vault.
In boys tennis, the Yreka High squad went undefeated in the regular season in the NAL. At the NAL Championships senior Austin Kische won the No. 1 singles title and Kische and junior Niraji Khalasi won the doubles crown.
In June, local professional MMA fighter D.J. Linderman earned the Cage Warriors Fighting Championship heavyweight belt over defending champion Mike "300" Hayes in Dublin, Ireland at Cage Warriors 47.
In the fall, the Yrkea Miners volleyball team earned its second straight trip to the Northern Section Division 4 Championship game. The Miners took out top seeded Sutter in the semifinals as the No. 5 seed. While the Miners lost to West Valley in the finals, head coach Scott Eatsman and his team showed that they have something special in place with the volleyball program. Also, for the first time since 1989, Yreka earned a co-share of the NAl crown.The Miners finished the season 29-9. Also, senior Emily Andrus earned the NAL Most Valuable Player honor by an unanimous decision.
In cross country, John Whelan of Etna High had a very memorable senior year. Whelan proved that despite coming from a small school he was one of the best runners in the state and proved it at state in Fresno in November when he took second place in Division 5 at the 2012 CIF State Cross Country Championships.
The Yreka Miners cross country team had another memorable season after winning state in Division 4 in 2011. A highlight was when the Miners took first place in all four divisions at the NAl Championships at Lassen High.
At state, the boys finished in 10th place in Division 4 while the girls were 23rd overall. In Division 5, the Mount Shasta boys took18th overall at state while the girls finished in 20th place.
The COS football team had its best season ever, going 10-1. it was capped off with a 47-18 victory over Chabot in the Top of the State Bowl in Weed in November. It was the first time since 1985 the Eagles had hosted a bowl game.
In December, a total of four Eagles signed with four-year schools, with more expected to sign in the coming months. Myke Tavarres, a linebacker who earned All-American honors on the junior college level, signed with SEC school Arkansas. Safety David Guthrie signed with the University of New Mexico.
Record-breaking running back Christian Reyes signed with Charleston Southern, a Division 1-AA program. Defensive lineman Sedric Watson signed with Campbellsville University of Kentucky, an NAIA school.
The Dunsmuir Tigers earned its first ever Division 6 football title in November by defeating Redding Christian, which had handed the Tigers it's only loss of the year, by the score of 34-15. The Tigers finished the season 12-1.
The Yreka Miners varsity football team made great strides in 2012. After going 5-5 in 2011, the Miners finished the season 7-4 and earned a playoff berth while playing in the very tough NAL conference, which featured West Valley, which made it all the way to the title game in Division 4. The Eagles lost to Sutter, the team Yreka fell to in the first round.
The Yreka Miners girls tennis team had a strong season in the NAL and went undefeated during the regular season.
It has been a pleasure to cover sports here in Siskiyou County. I have enjoyed the passion on display from the fans,coaches and players here. It is abundantly clear sports plays a vital role in the county and I am honored to cover what goes on in local sports for the Daily News. I'm looking forward to seeing what 2013 brings.
Sports 'n'Such column: Looking back on local sports in 2012
The year 2012 was a memorable one in the world of sports here in Siskiyou County.


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Baconian Cipher
To encode a message, each letter of the plaintext is replaced by a group of five of the letters 'A' or 'B'. This replacement is done according to the alphabet of the Baconian cipher, shown below.
a AAAAA g AABBA m ABABB s BAAAB y BABBA b AAAAB h AABBB n ABBAA t BAABA z BABBB c AAABA i ABAAA o ABBAB u BAABB d AAABB j BBBAA p ABBBA v BBBAB e AABAA k ABAAB q ABBBB w BABAA f AABAB l ABABA r BAAAA x BABAB
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Affine Cipher
In the affine cipher the letters of an alphabet of size m are first mapped to the integers in the range 0..m - 1. It then uses modular arithmetic to transform the integer that each plaintext letter corresponds to into another integer that correspond to a ciphertext letter. The encryption function for a single letter is
where modulus m is the size of the alphabet and a and b are the key of the cipher. The value a must be chosen such that a and m are coprime.
Considering the specific case of encrypting messages in English (i.e. m = 26), there are a total of 286 non-trivial affine ciphers, not counting the 26 trivial Caesar ciphers. This number comes from the fact there are 12 numbers that are coprime with 26 that are less than 26 (these are the possible values of a). Each value of a can have 26 different addition shifts (the b value) ; therefore, there are 12*26 or 312 possible keys.
Plaintext: rapam
The decryption function is
where a - 1 is the modular multiplicative inverse of a modulo m. I.e., it satisfies the equation
The multiplicative inverse of a only exists if a and m are coprime. Hence without the restriction on a decryption might not be possible. It can be shown as follows that decryption function is the inverse of the encryption function,
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ROT13 Cipher
Applying ROT13 to a piece of text merely requires examining its alphabetic characters and replacing each one by the letter 13 places further along in the alphabet, wrapping back to the beginning if necessary. A becomes N, B becomes O, and so on up to M, which becomes Z, then the sequence continues at the beginning of the alphabet: N becomes A, O becomes B, and so on to Z, which becomes M. Only those letters which occur in the English alphabet are affected; numbers, symbols, whitespace, and all other characters are left unchanged. Because there are 26 letters in the English alphabet and 26 = 2 * 13, the ROT13 function is its own inverse:
ROT13(ROT13(x)) = x for any basic Latin-alphabet text x
An example plaintext to ciphertext using ROT13:
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Polybius Square
A Polybius Square is a table that allows someone to translate letters into numbers. To give a small level of encryption, this table can be randomized and shared with the recipient. In order to fit the 26 letters of the alphabet into the 25 spots created by the table, the letters i and j are usually combined.
Basic Form:
Extended Methods:
Method #1
Plaintext: rapam
Method #2
Bifid cipher
The message is converted to its coordinates in the usual manner, but they are written vertically beneath:
r a p a m 2 1 5 1 2 4 1 3 1 3They are then read out in rows:
Then divided up into pairs again, and the pairs turned back into letters using the square:
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Method #3
Plaintext: rapam
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Permutation Cipher
In classical cryptography, a permutation cipher is a transposition cipher in which the key is a permutation. To apply a cipher, a random permutation of size E is generated (the larger the value of E the more secure the cipher). The plaintext is then broken into segments of size E and the letters within that segment are permuted according to this key.
In theory, any transposition cipher can be viewed as a permutation cipher where E is equal to the length of the plaintext; this is too cumbersome a generalisation to use in actual practice, however.
The idea behind a permutation cipher is to keep the plaintext characters unchanged, butalter their positions by rearrangement using a permutation
This cipher is defined as:
Let m be a positive integer, and K consist of all permutations of {1,...,m}
For a key (permutation) , define:
The encryption function
The decryption function
A small example, assuming m = 6, and the key is the permutation :
The first row is the value of i, and the second row is the corresponding value of (i)
The inverse permutation, is constructed by interchanging the two rows, andrearranging the columns so that the first row is in increasing order, Therefore, is:
Total variation formula:
e = 2,718281828 , n - plaintext length
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My take on the gun control issue.
There used to be a saying, "Old soldiers never die, they only fade away." I think it may have even been a song at some point. I'm not even sure what the saying means, but I'm going to don my soldiers cap for a bit.
I'm told by friends who care about me to avoid writing about controversial issues, particularly political ones. I'm kind of stumped this week about what to write next, so I thought I'd write a little about my take on the gun control issue. Someone even told me they couldn't imagine what I would say that hadn't already been said. Probably true, but no one is required to read what I write, and this is on my mind.
I will start by telling you that I wasn't that much of a soldier. I got drafted. I was, however, a grunt in the Vietnam "Conflict." That means that I carried an M-16 rifle. It means I was shot at. I was also qualified on the M-60 machine gun, 80 mm mortars and 4.2 mortars.
The M-16 is a frightful weapon made for killing people. An M-16 can fire 45 to 60 rounds a minute, (rpm), but not for a sustained length of time. It can sustain firing 12 – 15 rpm. The M-60 machine gun can fire 500 – 650 rpm and has a range of about 1200 yards. The 80 mm mortar has a range of 3-4 miles, and fires artillery.
I can tell you that I came home a decorated soldier with a bronze star for valor and a bronze star for service as well as some other medals that recognize my proficiency as a soldier.
I remember when my platoon went through M-60 machine gun training. It was raining. We were glad it was raining. We were firing at targets fashioned in the shape of human beings. The rain camouflaged tears. Most soldiers don't really want to kill people, and the realization that it would soon be our mission was truly overwhelming. Even now, as I type this, the memory is almost too much to even think about. It's raining in my room.
I am not now a hunter. My maternal grandfather and grandmother were both excellent marksmen. They each got a dear every year. I guess you'd call them sportsmen. There are rifles that are appropriate for sportsman. The M-16 is not one of them. If a person needs an assault weapon, he or she is not much of a sportsman, in my opinion.
I understand protecting one's property. Does that mean that if I have three square miles of land, I can purchase an 80 mm mortar to kill anyone who approaches my property?
From what I have heard and read, nobody wants to take away the rifles and other paraphernalia one needs to exercise their full-fledged sportsmanship. But according to a Reuters poll, 74% of Americans support the restrictions that President Obama set forth the other day. Most of the poll was completed prior to the President's announcement. In a democracy, it only takes a majority. If our congress is truly representing the wishes of the American people, the decision should be an easy one, but it won't be. The entire subject is thrown off course by a few people in powerful positions.
I'm not going to ramble on. I hope I've made my point simply. I'd like to see our democracy work for us.


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Superintendent Rick Rubino presented Gridley High School parents information about the Life of an Athlete Program—or Bulldog Committed—on Monday at the GHS Parents' meeting. There were approximately fifty parents in attendance. According to some parents, the meeting was heated at times and left some parents with a lot of questions.
Life of an Athlete, created by John Underwood, includes a five-phase process. Those steps include establishing mandatory meetings to discuss conditions for involvement, expectations, philosophy and what it meant to be an athlete; bringing a code of conduct from conceptualization to implementation and enforcement—including strategies for fan behavior, parental issues and non-negotiable conditions for being part of an athletic team; training all coaches at all levels to understand and confront chemical health issues, including workshops on how to send a message to your team and use student leaders to monitor team dynamics; identifying and developing student leaders who assist the coach with identifying behaviors of concern with the peers; and ensuring all members of the community take stake in eliminating drug and alcohol use among youth.
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The code goes on to note that those athletes should encourage as many teammates to leave as possible. The code also states that the athlete is required to disclose his or her attendance at the event within 24 hours to the team's coach or an administrator. For the rest of this story please pick up a 2/15/13 edition of The Gridley Herald.


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"Yesterday my desktop died, and so I went ahead and got a brand new Windows 8 laptop. It's always been my feeling that as years go on, user experience has been going down for people who use a computer and the Internet, because of decisions all companies make that are clearly anti-user, either because they think they know best, or in many cases, for financial gains. But from spending all night reinstalling everything and customizing the laptop, I realized just how bad it has become." Probably the biggest reason to go Mac or Linux. Such a shame Microsoft found it more important to pressure OEMs into silly Secure Boot nonsense instead of doing something about the anti-user crapware disaster. Goes to show who Microsoft cares about. Hint: it ain't you.
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I've found Xfe to be a pretty nice Windows Explorer clone. Try it if it's in your distro's repositories.


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I've been thinking a bit more about those iPhone 5C/5S weekend sales figures, and while it is certainly impressive, if you compare it to the iPhone 5's first weekend sales figures, it's actually quite a step backwards for Apple. The issue here - something many sites and even Apple itself doesn't want to focus on - is that the iPhone 5C/5S is available to a lot more people than the iPhone 5 was.
The iPhone 5 was available to 720 million people at launch, and sold 5 million units. This is a penetration of 0.69%. The iPhone 5C and 5S, however, are available to 2078 million people, and sold 9 million units, which constitutes a penetration of 0.43%. So, Apple has two new models to advertise and lure consumers with instead of one, and has a huge additional market (China) to address, yet it failed to capitalise on either of these two factors.
What this shows is that while the sales figure is still pretty darn impressive, it's not nearly as groundbreaking if you put it in perspective. Looking at it this way, the so-called record breaking 9 million figure can easily be explained away by Apple almost tripling its launch weekend audience, instead of an increasing popularity of the iPhone.
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Sara Riekenberg was born and raised in Dodge City. When she was growing up she played a lot of sports, and when she got injured, she went to see Dr. Henrichs. But she never thought she'd be joining his practice someday.
Sara Riekenberg was born and raised in Dodge City. When she was growing up she played a lot of sports, and when she got injured, she went to see Dr. Henrichs. But she never thought she'd be joining his practice someday.
"I came home from school one summer, and he asked me to help him out," Riekenberg remembers, "I was a little unsure. As a business major, I didn't think I knew anything about helping a chiropractor, but I decided to help him anyway. I thought it was so cool, I went back to school and asked how to change my major right away."
Once her major was changed, Riekenberg spent the next four years studying Kinesiology at Kansas State University. After she graduated, she attended Logan College of Chiropractic, in Chesterfield, MO.
What most interested her about becoming a chiropractor was the idea that she could help people feel better without the use of drugs or surgery, she said. Instead she could help her patients with more natural remedies.
"Logan is well-known as one of the top schools for chiropractic studies," Riekenberg said.
She attended Logan for 10 trimesters, or about three and a half years, and earned her doctor of chiropractic degree, as well as a bachelor's degree in life science. She also met her future husband, who just happens to practice at Stout-Henrichs as well.
"When Shaunnon (Flickinger) and I met he was two years ahead of me in school, so we had to decide what we were going to do pretty quickly," Riekenberg explained. "He decided to move to Dodge for me."
Growing up Riekenberg always thought she'd like to live in the mountains, but she's glad to have decided to stay in Dodge.
"It's really a blessing the way things worked out," she said. "I have my family here, and we're all really close, and a brand new niece who I love spending time with, so I'm glad it worked this way."
Riekenberg is excited about getting to work in the same office as her fiancé everyday. She said she's talked to several husband and wife chiropractors and they all have good things to say. The support is what she's really looking forward to.
Riekenberg will see patients for any reason, but she has a special interest in women and children's issues. She also uses "low-force" techniques, which children especially appreciate.
"A lot of people think when you go to a chiropractor they crack your bones," said Riekenberg, "it doesn't have to be that way. There are several new techniques out there that I'm really interested in using low-force, so there isn't as much discomfort and pain."
She also believes that you shouldn't wait until there's a problem to go see a chiropractor.
"If you keep your muscles healthy, then as you age you won't have back pain or joint pain," she said.
In addition to spinal adjustments, Riekenberg also does acupuncture, is a firm believer in kinesio tape, that brightly colored tape many athletes were wearing during the Olympics last summer, and AdvoCare, a line of wellness supplements.
"I believe in a healthy lifestyle all around," Riekenberg, "And my family does too. My parents visit a chiropractor once a month, for a 'tune up' as they say, to help their joints. We try and stay active as much as possible, drink plenty of water and just live well."
Although Riekenberg hasn't begun seeing patients just yet, she hopes to begin sometime next week.
"I'm still filling out paperwork right now," she said. "But I am accepting new patients for when I can begin practicing.
To schedule an appointment with Riekenberg, call (620) 227-7082.
In her spare time, Riekenberg is planning her upcoming wedding with Flickinger, enjoys several outdoor activities and reading. She is planning on taking some Spanish classes at the college.
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