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This year marks John Deere's 175th anniversary. It's hosting events for employees at its various manufacturing sites and corporate offices, and you can join in the celebration by going to the facebook page and sharing your family's photo.
Here's a snapshot of the famous John Deere logos through the years. Scroll below the image, you can read about the history of the company at the time of each logo. Click here to learn more about the company's history.
The first trademark featuring the leaping Deere was registered (but registration papers indicated the mark had been in use for three years.) John Deere first made his polished-steel plow in 1837 and had relocated to Moline in 1848. In 1849, the company's work force of 16 people built 2,136 plows. In 1852, John Deere had bought out his previous partners and for the next 16 years, the company is known variously as John Deere, John Deere & Company, Deere & Company, and Moline Plow Manufactory. By 1876, the company was producing more than 60,000 plows a year, which were commonly referred to as 'Moline plows' because of the factory location. This trademark shows a deer bounding over a log. It's interesting that this original trademark shows a type of deer common to Africa. The native North American white-tailed deer is portrayed in future trademarks.
1910 and registered in 1912
This is the second version of the John Deere trademark. The deer again was shown leaping over a log. However, there was more detail and definition this time. The slogan "The Trade Mark of Quality Made Famous by Good Implements" first appears here, extending across the bottom. In 1912, the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the compnay consists of 11 manufacturing entities in the U.S. and one in Canada, and 25 sales organizations—20 in the U.S., including an export department, and five in Canada. The company also operates a sawmill and owns 41,731 acres of timberland in Arkansas and Louisiana. Harvester Works built in East Moline.
The company's standardization committee saw a need to "better adapt the trademark for stenciling on products." In response, the deer became a solid silhouette removing all the detail from the previous artwork. This change, combined with the outstretched legs, provided a stronger, more recognizable profile. A 12-sided border was added around the leaping deer, and the antlers were changed slightly. The words, "John Deere, Moline, Ill." remained in the same position but were made somewhat bolder. The slogan below it was unchanged. In 1918, after years of investigating tractor production, Deere bought the maker of Waterloo Boy tractors. The tractor will soon become the company's basic product. Though 5,634 Waterloo Boys are sold this year, Ford Motor Company sells more than 34,000 Fordson tractors. However, iIn 1923, Deere launched the Model "D." A success from the start and the first two-cylinder Waterloo-built tractor to bear the John Deere name, it would stay in the product line for 30 years. After a surge of consolidations in 1930, there are only seven full-line farm equipment companies: John Deere, IH, Case, Oliver, Allis-Chalmers, Minneapolis-Moline, and Massey-Harris.
Another updated trademark was registered. This one, even simpler. The typography and leaping deer remained, but the border disappeared. John Deere was offering more products than ever before. There were now more places to use the trademark, which may have prompted the update. The fact that 1937 marked the company's centennial could have been another factor in the change.
This update was a breakthrough in many respects when it first appeared in 1940. First, the deer's antlers were turned forward. Its tail was pointed upward to resemble the white-tailed deer. And it was no longer bounding over a log. The words "John Deere," now in a bolder square-serif font, were raised over the top of the deer's head and antlers. A new slogan - "Quality Farm Equipment" was set in a bold sans serif typeface and reversed out of the ground beneath the deer. The words "Moline, Ill." were also dropped -- a change long overdue since John Deere was increasing its reach throughout the world. The surrounding border was modified, becoming a four-sided shape with flat sides and curves top and bottom to unify and contain the elements of the trademark.
This version of the trademark, which was registered in 1962, represented yet again the call for a simpler design. The slogan "Quality Farm Equipment" was dropped. By then, John Deere was established in the construction equipment industry, and contractors and loggers became familiar with yellow and black machines bearing the symbol. A radius was given to the corners of the border, and a slight curve was added to all four sides of the ellipse. The words "John Deere" were placed below the leaping deer for the first time. The deer itself was left relatively unchanged: legs extended, antlers forward. This same year, the company goes more global and builds a small-tractor assembly plant in Mexico and buys a majority interest in a German tractor and harvester makers with a small presence in Spain. Soon, it also moves into France, Argentina, and South Africa.
This clean-cut, contemporary look marked the revision, and a company memo noted, "the new trademark is in keeping with the progress being made throughout all divisions of the Company... it provides for better reproduction and greater readability under a wider range of usage." The deer image was streamlined to show a straight-side silhouette with just two legs, instead of the four, and one four-point rack of antlers. The "John Deere" logotype was changed using a hand-modified version based on the Helvetica font. The width of the ellipse border was narrowed, and the size of the deer inside it was increased.By 1973, John Deere's total sales would top $2 billion for the first time.
John Deere unveiled the latest evolution in the trademark. This updated mark is true to the strong John Deere heritage. Yet, its sharpened antlers, angles, muscularity and attitude give the trademark an energized and dynamic edge. John Deere's logo, after being known for decades as the "leaping deer," for the first time is actually leaping upward instead of landing. The current version illustrates John Deere's determination to stay focused on being the premier company in its industries worldwide, while remaining firmly rooted in its basic values of quality, innovation, integrity and commitment. In 2010, the company's research and development investments are above $1 billion for the first time.


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Matt Damon has pulled out of his OneXOne Foundation events in San Francisco on Thursday, as well as Thursday night, due to a family emergency, Access Hollywood has learned.
Damon was scheduled to be on-hand at the 2nd annual OneXOne Fundraiser to benefit the organization, which aims to alleviate the suffering of children worldwide.
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Access has confirmed the emergency did not involve the actor's children with wife Luciana Bozan – daughters Isabella, 3; and Gia Zavala, 1.
No other details were immediately available.
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Damon, who had been tapped as the ambassador for the event, has been a very vocal advocate for OneXOne, even appearing on the season finale of "Entourage" with a passionate plea to Adrien Grenier's character to donate to the cause.
Other celebrities scheduled to appear at Thursday night's event include Charlize Theron, Carlos Santana, Josh Groban, Jeremy Piven, Mia Hamm and David Arquette.
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5 Ways to Guard Against Tax Fraud
Take these steps to protect your identity during tax season.
It's tax season, so you're probably thinking about how big your refund will be, or how much you'll owe the IRS. You should also be thinking about protecting your identity because thieves are looking for ways to steal it at tax time.
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Tax- and wage-related fraud topped the list of identity theft complaints received by the Federal Trade Commission in 2011, according to a report released February 28 (see the report). Tax-related identity theft is when crooks get someone else's Social Security number then use it to fraudulently file a tax return to claim a refund, says Adam Levin, founder and chairman of Identity Theft 911.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of ways for thieves to get your Social Security number (see the 10 Riskiest Places to Give Your Social Security Number). However, there are steps you can take to lower your risk of becoming a victim of tax fraud and identity theft.
Monitor your mailbox. Make sure you received all the W-2, 1099 and other tax forms you were expecting to get. If you failed to receive some, contact the company or financial institution that was supposed to send them to find out if and when they were mailed. If you suspect that any of these forms were stolen from your mailbox, contact the IRS Identity Protection Specialized Unit at 800-908-4490. Levin also suggests calling your insurance company or financial institution to see if it offers identity theft protection and resolution services. If so, you'll have an advocate to help you with paperwork and resolve the problem.
Also, if you file your tax return by mail, use certified mail from the U.S. Postal Service to confirm that your return was received. And opt for direct deposit of tax refunds to avoid lost or stolen checks. "It can be a real, time-consuming pain to straighten things out if an ID thief does steal your refund," Kiplinger's editorial director and tax expert Kevin McCormally said in a recent tax chat. "The best way to make sure that doesn't happen is to NOT have a refund coming in the first place." To do so, use our tax withholding calculator to find out how many allowances you should be claiming on the W-4 form filed with your employer so you can get your money when you earn it -- not in a refund next spring.
Store sensitive information in a secure place. Store paper tax forms in a locked home safe or safe-deposit box. Electronic forms should be stored on a password-protected or encrypted external drive or disk, Levin says. Use strong passwords that include upper and lowercase characters, numbers and symbols such as *, ! and & (see Protect Your Online Privacy With Unique Passwords). Never store tax files or any personal information on a cloud or Internet drive. And use a wiping application before getting rid of old computers that contain past tax information.
Ignore e-mails from the IRS. That's because they're probably fake. The IRS doesn't communicate or request personal information by e-mail. Forward all suspect e-mails to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Be picky about your preparer. Levin says that many fraud rings front as tax-preparation companies and may offer to review returns for inaccuracies, but they can steal your information and redirect your refund. Also be wary of tax services that promise a bigger or faster refund. Verify the status of a preparer's license with the Better Business Bureau and IRS Office of Professional Responsibility. E-mail the IRS at firstname.lastname@example.com with the full name of the individual or company and the address. Before handing over personal information, ask the tax preparer how your information will be stored and what his or her privacy policy is. This will help you feel more secure and will alert a less-than-reputable preparer that you're on the ball. Most importantly, scrutinize your prepared return and don't sign it if it is incomplete or if the preparer has failed to sign it (paid preparers are required to sign your return and complete all preparer sections requesting their ID number).
Read the fine print. If you plan to file your tax return electronically, read the service's privacy and security policy first. Find out when personal identifiable information will be destroyed and whether it can be shared with third parties. The IRS Free File program is a secure way to file your return online and is available to taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of $57,000 or less.
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ABC show to devote Friday episode to Bradenton Beach controversy.
Millions across the country will soon have a chance to make up their own minds about the 2009 death of Sheena Morris and the investigations and controversy that followed.
ABC's award-winning news magazine "20/20" will air an hour-long episode devoted solely to the Sheena Morris case Friday at 10 p.m.
The episode features interviews with crime scene experts; Morris' former fiance, Joe Genoese; her mother, Kelly Osborn; and Herald-Tribune reporter Lee Williams, who first broke the story. Williams has written more than 40 stories about Morris' death as part of the newspaper's ongoing series.
Crews from "20/20" filmed the episode in a rented loft in New York City, the Bradenton Beach hotel where Morris died and at Osborn's home in Tampa.
It was produced by "20/20"'s Emmy-winning anchor David Muir and producer Sean Dooley.
Osborn, who has been seeking answers about her daughter's death for nearly five years, said working with the national news crew was a "good experience."
"This case has so many details and twists and turns that it could take me hours to try to explain it to someone. I was amazed how in-depth they researched Sheena's case even before contacting me," she said. "That is helpful since it is difficult rehashing all the details again. Their producers are very professional and I realize how many hours they have into this."
The case
Morris, 22, was found hanging in a shower stall of a Bradenton Beach hotel room on New Year's Day 2009.
Bradenton Beach police detective Lenard Diaz quickly concluded that the young woman had killed herself — a conclusion Osborn and the rest of Morris' family have always rejected.
Neither Diaz nor his boss, Bradenton Beach Police Chief Sam Speciale, agreed to an on-camera interview with the "20/20."
They also did not return calls or emails from the Herald-Tribune seeking comment for this story.
Last October, after the Herald-Tribune published a series of stories about Morris' death, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement assembled a panel of experts to re-examine the case. The group consisted of seasoned prosecutors, detectives, forensic specialists and medical examiners.
The experts concluded that the case should be reopened, and the FDLE assigned several special agents to the investigation.
In June, Osborn met with the agents as well as a supervisor from FDLE's Tampa field office, and presented information about her daughter's death that she has gleaned during her own investigation.
Officials always had stressed the mother would be given the opportunity to present her own evidence to the agents as their investigation draws to a close.
Assistant State Attorney Art Brown III is overseeing the investigation. Brown, who has convicted more than 100 murderers, will determine whether criminal charges are merited.
Media coverage
This is not the first national media attention that the local case has garnered.
Late last year, Osborn and her daughter's former fiance Genoese, appeared on two episodes of the "Dr. Phil Show."
Genoese failed a polygraph examination on the show.
A former FBI polygraphist who conducted the test said Genoese was deceptive when asked if he killed Morris or was somehow involved in her death.
Genoese has always denied any involvement in Morris' death. He did not return calls from the Herald-Tribune for this story.
Osborn said she is pleased with any coverage of the case, especially from national media sources.
"I just wish that it wasn't necessary. What is necessary is for other victims to learn they don't have to take this sitting down," she said. "I will not stand for how that Bradenton Beach Police Department has treated our family and mistreated this investigation. They are to serve the public. However, what they served us was extremely unprofessional and arrogant behavior."


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Of interest to us is general and specific genealogical information about our French-Canadian (QUÉBEC in particular) and Franco-American ancestors. I hope to post pertinent info here on a regular basis as my research progresses. Details concerning genetic anomalies and hereditary diseases found among French-Canadians and their descendants would be welcome. Your input, corrections and comments are most welcome.
Re BMS 2000....... I used to use this great source of information, however now it doesn't seem to exist at all. When I attempt to connect, I get "site not found". Do you know if they have been taken off the web? Perhaps they are having technical problems?
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A facility in Bridgewater operated by the Greater Boston Food Bank provides up to 80,000 pounds of food for the region's hungry.
BRIDGEWATER – On any given Wednesday, between 30 to 40 local hunger relief agencies can be seen at 300 Elm St. picking up as much as 80,000 pounds of food to feed the region's hungry.
The location is the site of one of the six "cross docks" in eastern Massachusetts where the Greater Boston Food Bank distributes food to more than 500 local agencies that it partners with to feed the hungry.
"It's a convenience to our member agencies in outlying areas," said Cheryl Schondek, the organization's vice president of food acquisition. "What we do on a weekly basis is ship two to two and a half truckloads of food, so that our local agencies can pick up the food there instead of coming to Boston."
The other five cross docks are located in Harwich, New Bedford, Peabody, Plymouth and Framingham.
Bridgewater is the newest of the facilities, opening after the cross dock in Taunton that previously served the region was unable to continue the program.
On Wednesday, the Greater Boston Food Bank will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Bridgewater facility, which is housed in space donated by Pilgrim Consolidators Inc.
Schondek said the organization arrived at the facility after reaching out to state Rep. Angelo D'Emilia, who referred them to James Bagley, the president and owner of Pilgrim Consolidators.
"We needed a new home, and Rep. D'Emilia got back to us right away," Schondek said. "James Bagley and his team have been phenomenal."
The donated cross dock spaces allow the Greater Boston Food Bank to continue the fight against hunger, which remains a stubborn problem in Massachusetts.
"One in nine residences in Massachusetts is food insecure," Schondek said. "They don't know where their next meal is coming from, that's what keeps us up at night."
In 2013, the Greater Boston Food Bank donated 48 million pounds of food, enough to provide meals to 545,000 people.
Schondek said that the organization is on pace to distribute the same amount of food this year.
The organization also takes pride in its ability to donate an array of healthy food to those in need, with Schondek noting that 25 percent of the food they provide is produce.
According to the Greater Boston Food Bank's website, the problem of hunger has crept into the middle class with more than one third of the households they serve home to one or more working adults.
Those adults are often forced to make tough choices for their families, such as choosing between food and heat, rent or medical care, according to the website.
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Online Word Craft - A Bubbling Cauldron of Creativity
When you play free Word Craft online, you'll create words from a collection of letters from a cauldron. See how many words you can make as the letters bubble out in online Word Craft. Time is of the essence because once the clock runs out, so does your chance to spell any more words.
Adding extra fun to the challenge when you play free Word Craft online is to try and create words that relate to the suggested theme. A word challenge and a puzzler in one, online Word Craft is a game that tests your mind while helping you unwind.


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If you are a local of Salt Lake City or Sugarhouse, you have probably driven by Fat's Grill several times and probably noticed that it looked like a pretty cool joint to hang out at(if for some reason you haven't been there). I hadn't been to Fat's Grill in quite a while and I have never actually eaten there. A friend recommended that I check it out for Nosh Maven, and I thought it was a great idea. I am always on the lookout for new places to hang or play some pool…not to mention dine.
We decided to go in for lunch, which was great, because Fat's has a different feel about it depending on the time of day you go. What is a jumping pool hall/dance club at night is actually a very mellow, laid back, fun place for a business lunch. And what better way to get away from the stringent work day than to knock a few balls around on a pool table? If you have been to Fat's for a hang out, but haven't eaten there, I highly recommend you check this place out next time for some serious and reasonably priced fare.
My friend had been raving about the Chicken Quesadilla for a few weeks, so of course, we ordered that. It was different than I expected, but tasty nonetheless. The tomato tortilla was stuffed to capacity with chicken, cheese, and awesome jalapenos. The salsa and pepperoncinis on the side were great–but I think that some sour cream and guacamole would have been nice also. I am one of those people can't doesn't do any kind of Mexican food without those two items!
We also ordered the Chicken Basil Tomato Pizza, which was divine. It was the perfect size for a single person and ordering a couple of Fat's pizzas would be a great way to share. The chicken was fresh and tender and the tomatoes were ripe to perfection. Even the crust was mouth watering. I like dried basil, but I think for this pizza, the only thing that I would have rather preferred would be fresh basil–but hey, it was still a flavorful experience!
Another friend in our group ordered the Spicy Chicken Wrap–which came with chips and salsa. This was also on a tomato tortilla and looked awesome. It was bursting with chicken, lettuce, cheese, tomato, spicy sauce and ranch dressing. If there is one thing I hate, it is a dry sandwich or wrap, and this one looked juicy and delicious.
I asked the server what she recommended as far as my entree went and she quickly suggested the Fat's Burger. I took her suggestion and I was glad I did. This was a simple, yet flavorful burger and came with some awesome baked fries on the side. Some were a little crispier than others–but Jerry, one of the owners, told me that they bake their french friends, not fry them…so I was happy about the crispy fries! The burger came with every condiment that I could have asked for, which I also appreciated because I hate having to ask for basic items when ordering a burger. Overall, I think that the burger was my favorite item that we ordered–Fat's certainly has this one right; AND, they have several different burgers to choose from!
To top it all off, Jerry also treated us to some divine cheesecake for dessert! This was a very light, almost whipped tasting cheesecake and perfect for the three of us to each get our sweet tooth taken care of before we left. Thanks, Jerry!
Another thing about this menu that I love is how great the prices are. My burger was around 7 bucks, and I think we didn't pay more than 8 for any of these items. Everything on the menu seemed to range from 5 – 10 bucks, which is very doable for a quick lunch or an evening out. For the price, you get a lot of grub for your doller.
Fat's Grill is locally owned and operated, and I always give my support to those in our community who are running awesome businesses like this! Next time you are looking for a great hang out on a Friday night or a lunch in the cool Sugarhouse shopping district, don't just drive past this great joint–go in and get some real Salt Lake City flavor and atmosphere!
You can find Fat's Grill at 2182 South Highland Dr in Sugarhouse.


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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
My Thoughts on the Aughts
The first thought which comes to mind is that it may be the first decade to take away more than it gave back, considering the vast number of luminaries who have passed. This year alone: John Updike, Alain Robbe-Grillet, J.G. Ballard, James Purdy, Philip Jose Farmer in literature; Michael Jackson, Ron Asheton, Lux Interior, Bud Shank in music; Walter Cronkite, Don Hewitt and Paul Harvey in broadcasting; Patrick McGoohan, Gianna Maria Canale, Paul Naschy, Harryhausen producer Charles H. Schneer, Harry Alan Towers, composer Maurice Jarre, Ray Dennis Steckler and critic Robin Wood in film. This is not your standard obituary listing; it is a hemorrhage -- nay, an exodus.
In past decades, art has always been regenerated, but now, with the arts slowly perishing through a combination of factors -- lack of support, rampant remake-iana, inability to compete with the internet's onslaught of trivial communication and free access -- it seems that the gratification of soul that is the dividend of real art is vanishing from the bottom up, as death scythes the cream off the top.
For me, this past decade has been like an extended "time out" to explore work from previous decades that either got past my radar earlier, or was not previously available, or was not previously subtitled or translated, or needed to be re-read. I can remember joking during the '80s that everything needed to be put on pause so we could all catch up, and that pretty much happened. Here are some of the offerings this past decade that were especially meaningful to me...
Novels: Robbe-Grillet's REPETITION, Nabokov's THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA, Ballard's SUPER-CANNES, Theroux's LAURA WARHOLIC OR THE SEXUAL INTELLECTUAL, Pynchon's AGAINST THE DAY -- but the most meaningful, for me, aside from the one I wrote (THE BOOK OF RENFIELD), was GLIMPSES by Lewis Shiner, published in 2001. Honorable mention, if I may, for the completion of my 32-year project: MARIO BAVA ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK.
Films: Terry Zwigoff's GHOST WORLD, Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK, Lech Majewski's shot-on-video THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, Jonathan Weiss' searing film of Ballard's THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION, Wong Kar-wai's 2046, Terence Malick's THE NEW WORLD, Guillermo del Toro's PAN'S LABYRINTH, Tomas Alfredson's LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.
Some other 00's movies I loved or admired: MULHOLLAND DR., SIDEWAYS, LOST IN TRANSLATION, ONCE, LUST: CAUTION, ALMOST FAMOUS -- also THE DIRT, the short film starring Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, her best work to date. ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL continues to taunt me, such a near-miss.
Movies I saw this year for the first time that left a lasting impression: CHILDREN OF PARADISE (why did I wait so long?), FORBIDDEN GAMES, Robbe-Grillet's THE MAN WHO LIES, Frankenheimer's GRAND PRIX, Michael Blake's shot-on-video LAUGHING HORSE (an oddball, baffling showcase for the beauty of Irene Miracle, in her most enigmatic role), and the work of Myriem Roussel.
Music: For me, this decade was almost entirely retrospective in a musical sense. The completion and release of Brian Wilson's SMILE (a musical milestone yet somehow more tantalizing as uncoalesced puzzle pieces), DigitMovies' liberation of countless great Euro soundtracks from the CAM vaults, the Beatles and Stones remasters, some great Miles and Coltrane box sets, King Crimson and Pixies in 5.1 sound, the three-disc VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY set. But what made the most difference to me was my own postponed, deep-dish discovery of Françoise Hardy, who did record several fine albums this decade. None meant quite as much to me as my belated discovery of her 1971 and 1996 releases, LA QUESTION and LE DANGER. I recommend the five-disc set 100 CHANSONS as the best starting point, if you can find it; it's the only place you can be exposed to all her facets.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Happy Holidays!
We were hoping to have our new issue back from the printer in time for a pre-holiday mailing, but that didn't happen... subsequently, our work in the first days of 2010 is cut out for us. My apologies for not assembling a "Favorite DVDs of the Year" list from the lists of our various contributors, as has always been our tradition here, but I was under the gun with another deadline and couldn't manage it. The next issue will feature my own list of favorite discs from 2009 in my editorial, however.
Stay well, and keep checking back. You never know.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Complete PRINCE PLANET Series on YouTube!
I was amazed to discover that YouTube is now hosting what appears to be the entire 25 episode run of the early Japanese anime series PRINCE PLANET (Usei shônin popi), in stellar digitally restored prints, courtesy of MGMDigitalMedia. I saw a fair number of these episodes, imported by American International Television in 1965, circa 1969 when they ran on Cincinnati station WXIX-TV, Channel 19 -- and then they seemed to vanish for decades. A few years ago, I found the theme song footage (very scratchy looking) on a site specializing in such stuff, which confirmed its existence for me... but now, voila, here's the motherlode! Above is a direct link to Episode 1, "A Boy From Outer Space." Just click on "Prince Planet" in the blue fine print to bring up the full clickable episode guide. If you enjoy GIGANTOR, you'll enjoy this. But you WILL want to kill the xylophonist on the theme song (the singing kids too, maybe) after a couple of episodes.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
First Look: VIDEO WATCHDOG #154
With the help of Optimum Entertainment's new box set import, Kim Newman explores Britain's most enduring TV spy franchise, beginning with the surviving episodes of Season 1 and the complete Season 2, in the order they were taped!
DVD Spotlight:
Kim Newman reviews Sony's MATT HELM LOUNGE, a box set collecting the four films based on Donald Hamilton's spy hero, starring Dean Martin: THE SILENCERS, MURDERERS' ROW, THE AMBUSHERS and THE WRECKING CREW!
AVI WATCHDOG: Brad Stevens covers Bob Dylan's RENALDO AND CLARA!
VIDEO WATCHBLOG: Just when we think we've seen everything, guest blogger David Kalat turns up IL RAGGI MORTALI DEL DR. MABUSE, an Italian cut of THE DEATH RAY MIRROR OF DR. MABUSE that adds a number of never-before-seen sequences and qualifies as a substantially more entertaining picture!
PLUS Reviews of...
I RAGGI MORTALI DEL DR. MABUSE (Italian best-ever version of THE DEATH RAY MIRROR OR DR. MABUSE with additional never-before-seen footage!)
Ramsey Campbell on EDEN LAKE!
Reviews of HORROR CINEMA, CALIGARI'S HEIRS: The German Cinema of Fear After 1945 and COMEDY-HORROR FILMS: A Chronological History, 1914-2008!
Douglas E. Winter reviews the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold on CD, RESIDENT EVIL 5 and more!
Other contributors featured in this issue:
Anthony Ambrogio, Michael Barrett, John Charles, Bill Cooke, Shane M. Dallmann, Sheldon Inkol, Tim Lucas, Richard Harland Smith, Eric Somer, and Brett Taylor.
Release date: January 2, 2010. Order your copy now at www.videowatchdog.com !
Thursday, December 03, 2009
See Ken Russell's DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS!
DANCE -- which stars Christopher Gable (THE MUSIC LOVERS, THE BOY FRIEND) as Strauss, the wonderful Judith Paris as his wife Pauline, Kenneth Coffey as Hitler and Vladek Sheybal as Goebbels -- is well worth seeing, serving as a 16mm rough draft of ideas that would later flourish in his masterpieces THE DEVILS (1971) and, most particularly, LISZTOMANIA (1975). Chronologically, it may well mark the point where Russell's unmistakable directorial style approached full boil.
Postscript to an Editorial
For those who might be wondering, it has only been in the last few days that we learned exactly what happened to my mother Juanita and my aunt Rose. They were not in an accident together, as my editorial speculated from the fact that they died one day apart.
Last New Year's Eve, my aunt's husband Jack suffered a debilitating stroke. He was placed in a nursing home, but their insurance soon ran out. While caring for him, Rose was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given 3 to 6 months to live. After a week, her daughter (my cousin) Kim shared the news with my mother, who was Rose's closest friend and also reliant on her for things like grocery trips. Naturally, she took it badly and said that she didn't want to outlive her baby sister. My aunt's youngest daughter Susan asked her mother to bring her father with her for a visit to her home in Sacramento, in the hope of keeping them out there to care for them both. A couple of days before the trip west, aunt Rose went to dinner with my mother, along with Kim and her family; they all had a great evening together, my mother flaunting a new hairdo and the two of them acting like a couple of teenagers together, as they always did.
Kim received a call from her mother the next morning, complaining that my mother was ignoring her. When she fell out of her chair to the floor, they realized she had been silently stricken with some kind of stroke. She was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support while testing was performed. My mother had a living will and did not wish to have her life artificially sustained. A series of seizures ensued over the next 2 days. She was pronounced brain dead and life support was removed. She continued to breathe on her own for two days. Rose and Jack flew west to Sacramento on March 4. My mother died early on March 5, between 2 and 2:30am.
Upon arriving at her daughter's house, my weary aunt Rose had immediately stretched out on a sofa, exhausted. The news of my mother's death was communicated to her by phone the following morning around 9:00am Pacific time, and she never got off the couch -- passing away on March 6, the day after, around 1:30pm.
My cousins, sister and I all feel that their real causes of death was that each of the sisters was unwilling to live without the other.
I thank all of my correspondents for the kindness and enthusiasm they have expressed to me about the editorial. Frankly, I didn't intend to write it, but one was due, my back was to the wall, and because the news was fresh in my mind, it was the only thing I was able to think or write about. Because my mother had been a vital player in my early development as a moviegoer, and was such a lover of movies herself, it seemed permissible -- also because VIDEO WATCHDOG has always communicated with its readers about our relationships with movies as the most intimate shared experience. Suffice to say, I'm grateful for your kind indulgence and support.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
TARZAN AND THE SLAVE GIRL reviewed
1950, Warner Archive Collection, $19.95, 73m 52s, DVD-PO
By Tim Lucas
In the second of Lex Barker's Tarzan films, the Lord of the Apes swings to the rescue as the onset of a crippling disease compels the last surviving males of Lionia (who wear leopard-patterned headgear and other wardrobe familiar from the later Bert I. Gordon film THE MAGIC SWORD) to abduct women to repopulate their race. Tarzan enlists the aid of a kindly doctor (Arthur Shields, downplaying his Irish accent for a change) who prepares a serum to cure the affliction, but the vial gets lost along the way when Tarzan learns that Jane (Vanessa Brown) and the doctor's sexpot nurse Lola (Denise Darcel) have joined the list of abductees.
When Lola responds to the rough manhandling of chief abductor Sengo (Tony Caruso, above left) by scarring his face, he puts his own vanity before the survival of his people and attempts to entomb her and Jane alive in the crypt of their recently deceased King. Thanks to Cheta and alcoholic adventurer Neil (Robert Alda, third-billed in a negligible part), the serum is recovered in time to save the young son of Lionia's Prince (THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY's Hurd Hatfield, miscast as a devoted family man, albeit with no wife in sight) and the women are freed, with Lola only too happy to stay behind to wiggle her way into the tiara of Lionia's late princess.
Despite a weaker script, principally written by former Laurel & Hardy writer Arnold Belgard (BLOCK-HEADS), it is a considerable tribute to the abilities of director Lee Sholem that his second and last Tarzan picture takes notice of all the flaws and faults of its predecessor and ensures that none are repeated. Lex Barker is here considerably more at home in the role of Tarzan, losing his slippers, leaping dynamically over cameras like a born athlete, and tackling its many physical tasks with invigorating zest. This is also the first series entry to depict Tarzan as a skilled bowman, a trait that would become particularly essential to Gordon Scott's later portrayal. A magically regrown Cheta, now either male or sapphically mating with a female chimp named Coco (left behind in a tender farewell scene), is given only one comedic indulgence after draining a whiskey bottle, stumbling about in slow-motion for awhile but thereafter becoming a valuable aid to the hero in times of trouble. The simplistic story is given some interesting density in the middle with the introduction of a group of Nagasi tribesmen, who are able to merge with, and act lethally from, the jungle environment in the manner of African ninjas.
It is one of the curiosities, and weaknesses, of the Lex Barker Tarzan series that each of the five films presents him opposite a different Jane. In this entry, Jane is played by the Austrian-born Vanessa Brown, eleven years the junior of Brenda Joyce but with a wholesome, spirited quality that suggests a spunky, doe-eyed kid sister rather than a wife or lover. She might have had improved chemistry with Barker, but the plot separates them for most of the running time, and any opportunity she may have had to communicate her own nimble sex appeal is thwarted by scenes constantly throwing her up against French brickhouse fireball Denise Darcel, who loses a silly catfight with Tarzan's second-in-command but nevertheless steals the film as the sly yet uninhibited Lola.
opticals and dissolves are sometimes comparatively coarse in appearance. The sequence of the ascent to Lionia makes use of some excellent trick matte shots, comparable to those in TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN. The Warner Archive Collection presentation is framed in the original 1.33:1 ratio and, aside from some early scratching around the RKO logo, is even more spotless than their rendering of the previous film in this series.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
RIP Jacinto Molina / Paul Naschy 1934 - 2009
Praise is too often quick to go to actors who hide every trace of their craft. But once in awhile, an actor comes along who revels in the traditions of greasepaint and spirit gum and the idea of putting on a show. Such a man was Paul Naschy, who, under his birth name Jacinto Molina, wrote a series of unabashedly imitative scripts that made him, for the better part of 40 years, the cinema's torchbearer for classic horror and its second "man of a thousand faces."
Molina wrote scripts to carve out a place in the cinema for himself as an actor, but it took awhile before he could successfully attach himself to them as director. The films he directed (INQUISITION, PANIC BEATS, THE CRAVING) are not his best, though the little-seen and unexported El huerto del francés (1978) and El caminante (1979) are particularly good. His most capable and stylish collaborators were Javier Aguirre (who helmed the notable COUNT DRACULA'S GREAT LOVE and THE HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE), whose success rate was doubled by Carlos Aured (HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB, HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN, THE MUMMY'S REVENGE, CURSE OF THE DEVIL). He played the doomed lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky as many as 13 times, though, rather in the manner of Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius, the character was prone to appear in different countries, timelines and circumstances. It should also not be forgotten that, as he forged his screen persona in a country then under the fascistic rule of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, it constituted a revolutionary act.
The real Naschy is always conspicuous in his work, and his filmography at times unreels like a psychosexual playground in which he indulges all of his fantasies about cinema, women, monsters and violence. One is always conscious that the topless love scenes so frequent in his work were there more for his own pleasure than for any relevance they had to the stories at hand, or even to his films' exploitability, and some of his films contain instances of truly wicked sadism -- the back-peeling in THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI stands out in memory, as do some of the exploits of his incandescently evil Mr. Hyde in DOCTOR JEKYLL AND THE WEREWOLF. As his career matured, Naschy became more open about being the true focal point of his own Universal-derived mythos. In HOWL OF THE DEVIL (1987, which he directed himself) he played a sexually tormented actor, as well as the classic movie monsters populating his son's fantasy world. The 2004 film Rojo sangre (pictured above) cast him in a role perhaps closer to his true self and exploited, to a degree, Naschy's own bitterness over having his vast contribution to the popular Spanish cinema overlooked, and becomes the closest thing the Spanish cinema has produced to a self-reflexive horror film along the lines of Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM. Naschy's depression over his country's neglect of his accomplishments was a festering hurt that he was not shy about exploring in his autobiography MEMOIRS OF A WOLFMAN, but many later awards and recognitions for his life achievement came his way.
It is perhaps a kindness that Paul Naschy passed away before the release of Universal's remake of THE WOLF MAN -- in which Benicio del Toro and Rick Baker are sure to take the torch from Waldemar Daninsky's furry paw whether it be warm or cold -- and poetic justice that he sounded his last howl on the night of the full moon.


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When the sun sets on the refugee camp for black Africans that has sprung up at the marina in this town six miles west of Tripoli, the women here brace for the worst.
The rebels who ring the camp suddenly open fire. Then they race into the camp, shouting "gabbour, gabbour" — Arabic for whore — and haul away young women, residents say.
"You should be here in the evening, when they come in firing their guns and taking people," one woman from Nigeria said Wednesday as she recounted the nightly raids on the camp. "They don't use condoms, they use whatever they can find," she said, pointing to a discarded plastic bag in a pile of trash.
As she spoke, other women standing nearby nodded in agreement.
There is no way to know how many women have been raped here, where hundreds of Africans have settled in and around the boats of a marina. No one keeps statistics in the camp, and foreign aid workers say they are prohibited from discussing the allegations on the record. International Red Cross representatives say only that they have spoken to rebel leaders about "security concerns."
But the story that women tell is part of a larger picture of abuse of black Africans in Libya that is emerging in the wake of the rebel victory, born of allegations that Gadhafi often hired sub-Saharan Africans to fight for him.
Hundreds of black Africans have been swept up and are being held in makeshift prisons awaiting some sort of judicial finding of whether they were mercenaries or not. Thousands more are trapped in refugee camps. They can't leave the camps, they say, for fear they'll be targeted on the streets. They do not feel safe inside the camps, either.
Human rights advocates have decried what appears to be mistreatment of black African workers, and U.S. Ambassador Gene Cretz, speaking in Washington on Wednesday, admitted it's a growing problem.
"We've seen fairly credible reports that there has been some mistreatment of African migrants," Cretz told McClatchy. He said the U.S. was trying to work with rebel leaders to prevent abuse, which he blamed on young rebels who are confusing Africans who might have fought as mercenaries for Gadhafi with the hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan Africans who were working in Libya when the rebels took over.
"We don't think it's a systematic or intentional problem on the part of the Libyan authorities," Cretz said. "It's something that's happening at levels below that, which is of considerable concern to us."
Cretz said the rebels' National Transitional Council is working with the United Nations and other international relief organizations to ease the situation.
There was little evidence of such efforts at the marina here, however. At the nearby headquarters of the revolutionary forces in the area, Mohammed Abdullah Fatouri, the head of the military council, said that he was unaware of any problems in the camp.
"Have them bring a letter," he said. "If they tell us this is happening, we will protect them."
At the camp itself, fear is pervasive. When a car bearing two armed rebels drove into the camp, both men and women scattered.
It was not clear what the rebels wanted. Someone said they were looking for laborers. Perhaps emboldened by a pair of European TV camera crews, however, some of the camp's residents confronted the rebels. An older man, apparently the translator for one of the European TV crews, intervened, and after a few minutes, the militiamen got back in the car and drove off.
Tensions here have been made even worse, the camp's residents said, because Libyan fisherman whose boats have been turned into dwellings want them back.
Life in the camp has been difficult. Only on Monday did the Red Cross deliver aid packages.
"They brought us shampoo and some medical supplies, but not enough," the woman from Nigeria said. "We can't eat shampoo. There's no water for showers."
"Until two days ago we had no water," one man said. "People were drinking the seawater."
Relations between Libyans and black African workers have long been troubled. Many Africans came here without official documentation from the Libyan government and grew accustomed to abuse as a part of life, something they accepted in trade for employment in oil-rich Libya.
"Sometimes your boss beats you or doesn't pay you," said Stacey Alexandra, 26, who said she had spent the last three years in Libya cleaning private homes and hotels and sending money back to family in Cameroon. "Now everyone here wants to leave. This country is too racist."
Alexandra showed a scar on her arm that she said had come from an assault on the street as she was leaving her home last month as the fighting intensified.
"It was a group of young men," she said, adding that they did not appear to be a faction fighting for either side.
"The (revolutionaries) forced us to work for 10 days, cleaning up one of their barracks," said a man named Eddy. "Yesterday, two people went out to get bread. They have not come back."
"I fled with nothing," said a man named Nelly, pointing to the mismatched flip-flops on his feet. "When (the revolutionaries) took over Tripoli, they drove us out of our homes. I lived with my uncle in Souk al Jumaa. My uncle was not home. As I ran away, I saw many blacks. They said this was a safe place, so I followed them. I can't find my uncle. The war has taken my uncle."
For Nelly to look for his uncle in Tripoli on Wednesday would have been unthinkable. At a revolutionary base in Souk al Jumaa, one of the first neighborhoods in Tripoli freed from Gadhafi's control, revolutionary commander Jamal Ibrahim Safar offered advice, in English, to a Ghanaian citizen who had been detained by his men at a checkpoint.
"Stay off the street," he said to Essau Abdou Mohamed, who identified himself as a barber who lost his passport three months ago. Mohamed said that in the last three weeks, he hadn't left his house after dark.
"This is the third time I've been detained," said Abdou Mohamed. His saving grace had been a letter, now well-worn, from the revolutionary military council in Misrata, 160 miles east of Tripoli, explaining that he had lost his passport but that he was not suspected of being a pro-Gadhafi fighter.


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The violence and arrests that have accompanied Occupy Wall Street protests in several US cities, most notably Oakland, Calif., are raising the question of whether police are becoming too heavy-handed against the movement. Some key incidents:
• In Oakland, where 10,000 marchers shut down the nation's fifth-largest port Wednesday, violence broke out overnight and 80 protesters were arrested.
• Police officers in Denver used mace and shot paintball-like bullets of pepper spray at protesters in front of the state Capitol Saturday.
• Police in Portland, Ore., arrested 27 protesters who refused to leave a public square Sunday, though no violence was reported.
• On Oct. 11, more than 100 protesters in Boston were arrested after they refused to comply with an order to vacate their encampment.
The contrast between Occupy Wall Street clash incidents and the comparative calm of Occupy camps in places such as Los Angeles makes the protests a useful yardstick for gauging what has worked – and what has not – in crowd control and policing. With protesters calling the movement America's answer to the Arab Spring, academics and police watchdog groups are eager to glean lessons about how US law enforcement can best balance the goals of protecting both free speech as well as law and order.
The report card for Oakland so far is mixed – but perhaps improving.
Some critics have harsh words for the city
"This is a city completely out of control with a police force that doesn't know which way to turn, a mayor that is indecisive in giving instructions,… all at the mercy of a mob that is fomenting revolution," says Sam Singer, a political consultant who runs his own public relations firm in neighboring Berkeley, Calif. "This is part of the problem of a leftist progressive mayor who doesn't want to betray her own political background by taking a hard line when she needs to put an end to this because it is giving Oakland a black eye."
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But others say the Oakland Police learned volumes from the first episode last week, in which police groups tried to dismantle a downtown encampment.
"I would give them a failing grade of 50 for the first interaction," says Olis Simmons, executive director of Youth Uprising, an activist group which counsels young people.
She notes, however, that 19 other law enforcement agencies were called in, creating chaos and misunderstanding about standard OPD procedures.
She gives the police an 80 for their behavior during Wednesday's general strike, which brought between 10,000 and 15,000 protesters to the port area for several hours.
"I think they learned from the previous disaster," she says.
That assessment is echoed by Abel Habtegeorgis, a spokesman for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland. When the police took a surveying role by standing in the background, protests went smoothly and peacefully, with family members of all ages participating. But later, outside agitators arrived to create problems, bringing police into situations that then escalated into violence, he adds.
"Ninety-nine percent of people were perfectly well behaved, and the message was clear until vandals came along and police brought out their tear gas and percussion bombs," he says. "Then it got ugly."
In such situations, police are put in a challenging position, says John DeCarlo, former police chief of Branford, Conn., and an authority on police tactics. But their role is one fundamental to American democracy, he says, quoting late sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset: "Born out of revolution, the United States has always considered itself an exceptional country of citizens unified by an allegiance to a common set of ideals, individualism, anti-statism, populism, and egalitarianism."
Mr. DeCarlo says the police are at the center of this view of American exceptionalism. "It is the hallmark of our system that police must strike the balance between maintaining order in cities and towns while at the same time allowing the First Amendment rights of protesters to speak their message," he says. "It is a very difficult task to reach the balance between allowing residents to feel safe and yet allow crowds to be free to march and speak."
Moreover, crowd control forces police to blunt their usual tendencies.
"Ordinarily, cops are trained to take control of the situation: They respond to a domestic violence call, or recent robbery, or homicide scene, by taking over," says Joel Jacobsen, New Mexico's assistant attorney general for its criminal appeals division. "But crowd control is very nearly the opposite. Cops are expected to be passive, to allow things to happen, merely patrolling the perimeter, literally and figuratively."
"So you're asking people not only to do things they're not particularly trained to do, but to behave in a way they're trained not to behave," he adds.
Yet it can be done. In Los Angeles, arrests have been kept to a minimum, says James Lafferty, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles, a human rights bar association that facilitates public demonstrations.
"I think it's a credit to the Los Angeles mayor and city council that they got ahead of this whole movement by discussing ahead of time what it was all about and what they wanted to achieve," says Mr. Lafferty.
They pre-arranged arrests at a bank sit-in, for example, and the city council passed a resolution allowing the encampment to exist on the city hall lawn, though normal rules prohibit camping. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has visited the encampment several times and has said publicly that, despite technical infractions, he felt the city should "roll with them because this is an organized national movement."
Lafferty says he wishes other encampments could learn from the Los Angeles example – especially the lesson of not reacting against peaceful protesters even when agitators are among them. He and his wife were arrested along with other nonparticipants when visiting the New York encampment in Zuccotti Park.
"The Supreme Court has said the police must go after only the agitators," he says. "Otherwise, it would be a simple matter for someone to shut an entire protest down by just planting a few hooligans. No, you can't go into these situations wholesale with bean bags and tear gas."
• Staff writer Gloria Goodale contributed to this report.


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i watched the king's speech this weekend and unsurprisingly loved every minute of it. colin firth is as good (great) as everyone says he is, geoffrey rush is always brilliant and helena bonham carter is flipping delightful. the set design & colour palette throughout the film is also quite mesmerizing – lionel logue's office in particular. if this movie doesn't win every single award it will (hopefully) get nominated for at the oscars, it'll be a damn shame.
also look out for jennifer ehle (lizzie from the bbc production of pride & prejudice) as geoffrey rush's wife!
be sure to read my post about king george & elizabeth, i love them even more now after watching this.


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I heard the legend of los crutcheros got his first tonight at Swope . Congrats buddy
Connie Winchell got her first ACE Saturday at William Yates on the 9th basket which is a 176ft shot. She was using a Roc3 and it was witnessed by Miles McKee, Jared Kintzel and myself.
Went to rosie and played a casual with Kevin zane around 11am. I threw a meteor straight in the chains on hole 3. He signs my disk and then steps up on hole 7 and hyzers a gator for one of his own. 2 aces in one round. F ya. Thanks swade for the energy bar
After hitting an ace two days ago at legacy park on hole 11 with no witnesses I hit hole 17 tonight at Wilbur young league. Jordan Hinck and Palmer as witnesses.


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When the final horn sounded, Platte Valley senior linebacker Adam Bethel headed right for Bayfields TJ Pazell near midfield.
Bethel, like a brother from another world, embraced the grass-stained Bayfield senior like only a brother can.
With the Platte Valley home crowd celebrating a dominating 31-6 victory over Bayfield in Saturdays Class 2A state football semifinal, the two senior captains patted each other on the helmet and went their separate ways.
He told me we played a good game. He said we played ... hard, Pazell said of the friendly postgame exchange.
He called me a hoss.
Quite a compliment coming from a Bronco.
Pazell earned his new moniker after carrying the football a career-high 34 times Saturday against Platte Valleys big and boisterous defense.
He finished with 124 hard yards rushing and Bayfields only touchdown in the playoff game an 11-yard run at the end of a 17-play, 80-yard drive in the fourth quarter.
This is the last football game of my life. I gave it everything I had, said an exhausted Pazell, refusing to take off his trusty purple helmet.
They ... are a good football team, he said. I think we could have won, but we just didnt execute like we needed to.
Pazell also stepped in front of a Logan Sitzman pass for an interception midway through the fourth quarter, setting up the Wolverines for another possible score.
But in an apropos ending to a turnover-deciding game, the Platte Valley defense (Cody Gabel) forced and recovered a Bayfield fumble, ending the playoff contest at 31-6.
They are tough. Thats all I have to say, Bayfield senior defensive back Ian Sandrey said. They are the real deal.
He said Sitzman, the elusive Platte Valley junior quarterback, did an excellent job leading the Broncos no-huddle, option-read spread offense.
He knows how to get that team rolling. He read our defense very well, said Sandrey, son of Carl and Karen Rhodes and Ryan Sandrey.
The slender Sitzman, 5-11 and 145 pounds, put the Broncos ahead on their first series with a 30-yard touchdown pass to sophomore Daniel Franz. He added the 2-point conversion on a scrambling run after a bad center snap on the kick attempt.
Only four plays later, Platte Valley extended the lead when Jake Smith blocked Pazells rugby-stye punt, and he recovered the football in the end zone for a Broncos touchdown.
With the booming conversion kick by Bailey Collins-Landwehr, the Broncos led 15-0 before the huge crowd of Wolverines fans could get their lungs warmed up.
And the Broncos werent finished.
Frantz intercepted an Allec Rodriguez pass and returned it 33 yards to set up a 29-yard field goal by Collins-Landwehr and an 18-0 lead midway through the second quarter.
Yet another turnover, a strip and a recovery by defensive stalwart Dillon Joens (6-5, 215), set up Platte Valley for a final first-half score.
After Evon Frantz ran an inside counter play for 29 yards, Sitzman concluded the six-play, 47-yard drive with a 15-yard keeper for a touchdown that faked out nearly everyone in the Platte Valley stadium in Kersey, just east of Greeley.
Bayfields defense held the deficit at 24-0 with a goal-line stand right before halftime, stopping an 11-play drive short of the end zone. Joe Zink, Sandrey and a host of BHS defenders stopped Platte Valleys Caleb Creech a half-yard from the goal line.
Creech, however, could not be stopped in the third quarter when he bisected the Bayfield defense on a 44-yard touchdown run right up the middle, giving Platte Valley a 31-0 lead with 2 minutes, 47 seconds to play in the third quarter.
It was important that we scored, said Rodriguez, who was forced to play quarterback the entire game Saturday. Starter Matt Knickerbocker missed the playoff game because of effects of a concussion suffered during Bayfields playoff victory over Faith Christian last weekend.
We didnt want to get shut out. We had some hard memories of getting shut out last year (in the state championship loss to Florence), said Rodriguez, who rescued the Wolverines with his impromptu performance at quarterback last week.
We were battling hard. We just wanted to put some points on the board, said Rodriguez, son of Ramona and TJ Nava and Johnny Rodriguez.
On film, those guys didnt seem as quick as they showed (Saturday), he said. They fought hard, they showed up, and they played well.
Led by all-stater Raul Rios, the 6-3, 265-pound state heavyweight wrestling champion, the Platte Valley defense held the Wolverines (11-1) out of the end zone until the fourth quarter.
Bayfield did rush for 234 yards as a team. Rodriguez was 3 of 8 passing for 24 yards with one interception.
Sitzman, who rushed for 68 yards on 14 carries for Platte Valley, passed for 133 yards, completing 9 of 17 with one touchdown and Pazells interception.
He (Sitzman) had good command of his offense, Bayfield head coach Gary Heide said of Sitzman. Thats a tribute to their coaching staff. He was able to read on the read option. He kept us back on our heels.
The physical Platte Valley defense limited the Wolverines options.
We couldnt get the option part of our triple option going, the Wolverines first-year head coach said.
Heide said he was proud of the way the Wolverines responded in the second half with a long scoring drive and two takeaways from the Broncos.
Thats the character of this team ... that drive, Heide said. Its a tribute to those senior linemen.
Austin McMenimen, Jon Roberts, Nate Goddard and Kevin Donahue, the seniors on the BHS offensive line, helped the Wolverines to an 11-1 overall record this year, a Western League championship, two state playoff victories and a 23-2 record in the last two seasons.
Im proud of the people I got to work with this year, said Heide, who took over this season when former coach and Wolverines alumnus Marshall Hahn relocated to Rogers, Ark.
This year is something special. Ill remember this year for the rest of my life, Heide said.
No. 7 Platte Valley (10-2) will play No. 1 Kent Denver (12-0) for the CHSAA Class 2A Boys Football State Championships crown next weekend. Kent Denver ousted defending state champion Florence 42-16 on Saturday.
While the Wolverines will miss the chance to play in a second consecutive state title game, theyll treasure more than a handful of memories from 2012.
This year was one of the best times of my life, Sandrey said. Ill never forget these boys; they are my brothers.
Ditto, Rodriguez.
I told these guys they are my brothers.
Ditto, Pazell.
These boys mean the world to me. I appreciate them every day, said Pazell, son of David and Stacy Pazell.
I hope (the younger players) carry on our legacy and give it everything theyve got, like we did this year, said Pazell, still refusing to take off his helmet more than an hour after Saturdays game ended.
Hes probably still wearing it, with purple pride.


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Tuesday's lineup features Alejandro De Aza leading off and playing center, followed by third baseman Brent Morel in the two-hole. Adam Dunn bats third as the DH in front of first baseman Paul Konerko and catcher A.J. Pierzynski. Right fielder Alex Rios bats sixth, with Alexei Ramirez playing short and batting seventh, followed by left fielder Dayan Viciedo and second baseman Gordon Beckham rounding out the order."It's not guaranteed to be the Opening Day one," Ventura said of the lineup. "That's one of the things that I've messed with throughout the spring, is putting guys in different spots."
While Dunn might be a bit of a surprise after hitting .159 in 2011, his .255 (13-for-51) pace in the Cactus League, with five homers and 14 RBIs, has him looking like a middle-of-the-lineup man again. Dunn also posted a .415 on-base percentage this spring.
"He gets on base a lot," Ventura said. "Even though he might strike out a little bit, he does walk a lot. To me that's a good thing right in front of Paul."
Good to hear a White Sox manager not dismissing walking.
Other White Sox links:
- James looks at the final roster cuts, and the Conor Jackson signing.
- J.J. wonders if the Sox can afford to lose a starting pitcher, and previews the White Sox infield. He, also, has a hilarious 30 second video of Kenny Williams taking Batting Practice.
- Fangraphs' Chris Cwik looks at the closer competition.


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — For a few hours Saturday, the beleaguered residents of West could put aside this spring's deadly fertilizer plant explosion and instead focus on which baseball team they liked better — the Texas Rangers or Houston Astros.
|Fans give a standing ovation as West, Texas, first responders stand on the field before a baseball game between the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers on Saturday, July 6, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. The Texas Rangers are hosting a night to honor residents and first responders from the town devastated by a fertilizer plant explosion. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
The Rangers invited the entire North Texas community to its game Saturday night against Houston, and before the first pitch, held a 30-minute ceremony honoring the 15 people who were killed in the April 17 blast, including 10 first responders.
Kathy Matus, whose brother was among the first responders killed in the blast, said she couldn't thank the Rangers enough for helping the town with healing process.
"It's good for the community to get back some semblance of normalcy," said Matus as she fought back tears. "The fact that everyone's together and (the Rangers) are showing their support and appreciating what we went through."
The explosion, which also injured 200, leveled the West Fertilizer Co. plant and destroyed or damaged homes, schools and businesses for blocks around. Efforts to rebuild are still in their early stages, and many whose homes were affected have had to leave town. So for some, Saturday's game was a chance for some to reconnect and to enjoy a night at the ballpark with friends.
"It helps to know that people here (at the game) care about West people," said Donna Sepeda who came to the game with her family. She added that the game is just an escape from dealing with repairs to their damaged house.
West's mayor, Tommy Muska, said the town greatly appreciated what the team had done for it, and even called the game a part of the emotional healing process.
"This is a huge gift ... and it's something our citizens need," Muska said. "To have them come out and smile, and have some fun, it's important for their mental psyche."
During the pregame ceremony, the town was presented with $140,000 in donations from Major League Baseball, its Players Association and the Texas Rangers' foundation for the town's recovery efforts.
It "shows the humanity that is out there," Muska said.
Rangers player Lance Berkman, who grew up in Houston, donated a fire truck to West's volunteer fire department, which lost many of its vehicles in the explosion.
Former Ranger and West-born Scott Podsednik said he returned to his hometown to survey the damage.
"When something like this hits your hometown, and it hits that close to home, it brings on a whole new meaning," Podsendnik said.
But the mayor said the town would recover and be a much stronger for it.


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Police identify Troy man who shot himself before arrest on sex abuse charges
Suspect is expected to survive
Maine state police have identified the man wanted on a child sexual abuse charge who shot himself when troopers arrived to arrest him. The man, Raymond Carson, 71, survived and was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
Steve McCausland of the Maine Department of Public Safety said Carson refused to answer the door when troopers arrived in Troy on Wednesday to arrest him on the charge of sexual exploitation of a minor. The victim is a young girl.
McCausland said troopers called in the state police tactical team, and Carson shot himself with a .22-caliber rifle after team members arrived. No shots were fired by police.
Once Carson recovers, McCausland said he will be charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, furnishing liquor and providing a place for a minor to consume alcohol.


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 Ella, the Great
The First Lady of Song
Ella in Concert
Vintage Ella
By Yussuf J. Simmonds
Ella Fitzgerald
"The first lady of jazz and song, who played with the best in the businessâ€
Born Ella Jane Fitzgerald in April 1917, in Newport News, Virginia, she was professionally known as a jazz vocalist and affectionately called the "First Lady of Song.â€Â Though she died in 1996, her current website stated, "Well, I hope you have all purchased your 2010 calendars 'cause I've got some dates that you are not going to want to miss. And I hope you have lots of airline miles, too – we're gonna be traveling!â€Â Her music makes her legacy live and commanding.          Â
Shortly after her birth, her parents separated and with her mother, she moved to Yonkers, New York. Even though Fitzgerald was placed in an orphanage at an early age, her innate talent began to bloom listening to jazz greats like Louis "Satchmo†Armstrong – with whom she collaborated later on – and others, but she really wanted to be a dancer. Eventually she returned to her mother who nurtured her career by bringing home recordings of various jazz artists for young Ella to listen to.           Â
Fitzgerald's mother died of a heart attack in 1932 and her life ended up in shambles. Her grades dropped and she began to display delinquent behavior which led to trouble with the police and her being sent to a reformatory – from where she escaped. After that her life's downhill plunge accelerated even further and faster, and she ended up homeless.        Â
At 17, Fitzgerald made her singing debut in Harlem, and immediately became a weekly attraction, and began to draw crowds. She was one of the early competitors of the famous "Amateur Nights†at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, the place where many super stars got their beginnings. With dancing as her first love, Fitzgerald entered a dance contest deciding to go on stage at the Apollo's amateur night and 'dance the night away.' However, at the last minute, she developed cold feet because she believed that some of the other contestants may outdo her on the dance floor. So she decided to do what she had been doing before: sing. She sang a song from one of the recordings her mother had bought her and won the first prize, $25.00. Her career got a boost and she was on her way.            Â
As a diamond in rough, she had the talent, but she needed grooming and managing. In 1935, Fitzgerald met a bandleader, Chick Webb and she began singing with his orchestra regularly at the Savoy Ballroom, one of the more elegant night spots in Harlem. She even accompanied the band when they performed at a student dance at Yale University. In the late 30s, Fitzgerald began recording songs with the band. Her hits included "Love and Kisses,†"If You Can't Sing It, You'll Have to Swing It†(aka "Mr. Paganiniâ€) and her show-stopper, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket.â€
"Mr. Paganini†became her signature song after it was first recorded and it showcased her 'horn-like' ability that led to her scat singing: improvised melodies and rhythms which allow a singer to improvise and create the equivalence of an instrumental solo using their voice. Fitzgerald was considered one of the greatest scat singers in history and as a jazz vocalist; she had a vocal range spanning three octaves.
(In a 2007 tribute album, We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song, recorded to mark Fitzgerald's 90th birthday, Chaka Khan and Natalie Cole sang Mr. Paganini. Then June that year, Cole and Patti Austin performed it at the tribute concert to Fitzgerald. And the year of her 90th birthday ended when two other artists, Ian Shaw and Claire Martin performed Mr. Paganini at a London concert in December in her honor.)
When Webb died in 1939, Fitzgerald took over the band and renamed it "Ella Fitzgerald and her Famous Orchestra. While at the helm, she recorded numerous songs and music, and refined her own style, vocal novelties and then contemporary pop. As an alternative/competitor to rock 'n' roll and rock music, pop music focused on commercial recording directed towards the youth market with love songs. It has incorporated portions of other forms of music in conjunction with modern technology, creative innovations of musical instruments.
Three years later, she left the band, embarked on a solo career and signed on with Decca Records label and a fulltime manager. Her career was moving upwards. Fitzgerald teamed up with hit-makers of the day including the Ink Spots, Delta Rhythm Boys and Louis Jordan.  She also made regular appearances at producer Norman Granz's jazz concerts, a staple of the jazz community at that time. He also became her manager but was unable to sign her on his label immediately; due to contractual obligations and restraints, he had to wait about ten years eventually creating the Verve Records label primarily to accommodate Fitzgerald's talent.
Her reputation as a jazz vocalist increased with recordings like Oh, Lady Be Good and Flying Home, an infusion of scat and be-bop which others had tried before but Fitzgerald commanded that genre exclusively making her one of the most influential vocal jazz artists of the decade. Her styling change and innovation were products of the times that had been necessitated by the decline of the big bands and swing eras. One of the influences of her change in style was the advent of be-bop and the Dizzy Gillespie's big band with whom she often worked. While singing with Gillespie, she recalled, "I just tried to do with my voice what I heard the horns in the band doing.â€Â         Â
As with most artists, Fitzgerald had her critics; she understood that came with the territory, notwithstanding the racial climate of the era. However, her move to Verve Records label endowed her with new and different parameters as she gravitated to the mainstream of the jazz experience. During her final years with the Decca label in 1950, she recorded a series of hits on an album titled Ella Sings Gershwin. Â
When Fitzgerald performed at the Mocambo – a nightclub in West Hollywood, California that was a "watering hole†for the Hollywood elite whose frequent guests included Clark Gable and Carole Lombard; Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh; Errol Flynn, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Tyrone Power, Jayne Mansfield and Louis B. Mayer – she became the first African-American to perform there after Marilyn Monroe had lobbied the owner on her behalf. After her first performance, Fitzgerald's career skyrocketed. (In 2005, playwright Bonnie Greer converted it into a play).
Fitzgerald married Benny Kornegay in 1941; it was annulled after two years. Then in 1947, she married Ray Brown, a famous bass player. They adopted a child, Francis, who was christened Ray Brown, Jr. Because of their touring and recording schedules, Francis was mostly raised by her aunt, Virginia. Career pressures that resulted from the aforementioned hectic schedules also precipitated their divorce though they continued to perform together.Â
Her move to the Verve Records label also had a positive effect on her career; she made live recordings and went on many tours. She did Ella at the Opera House, a Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) concert; Ella in Rome that displayed her vocal jazz canon (scat singing mixed with instrumental imitations); and Ella in Berlin that became one of her biggest selling albums and included an improvised version of Mack the Knife.
Another turning point in Fitzgerald's career came with the release of Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook in 1956; it was the first in a series of songbook sets that were called the Great American Songbook and continued throughout an eight-year period. One of them, known as Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, was the only one in which Fitzgerald played with the composer, Duke Ellington. And the E and D Blues, a musical portrait, was the only one in which she did not sing. The series was her most commercially successful endeavor and according to music critics, a significant contribution to American culture.Â
At the end of her eight-year run – the Songbooks period – she decided to cross over into a non-jazz genre even though the pop album series had established a conduit for serious instrumental musical exploration and had achieved successes in several categories. The music Fitzgerald recorded during that period survived for generations and was critically written about up to her death in 1996. And while she was recording them, she was also touring throughout the United States and worldwide, cementing her reputation as a leading live jazz artist.Â
When MGM bought Verve Records label in 1963, the company did not renew Fitzgerald's contract. For the next five years, she tried several labels: Atlantic, Capitol and Reprise. For Capitol, she recorded Brighten the Corner, Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas, Misty Blue and 30 by Ella.     Â
 Her favorite albums were those devoted to Porter and the Gershwins (music by George) and (lyrics by Ira) from the days of her songbook series through 1972 and 1983. The specific albums were Ella Loves Cole, Nice Work If You Can Get It. Once again Fitzgerald changed labels ending up at Pablo Records label. There she recorded Ella Abraca Jobim – a throwback to the past with Ellington – whom she accompanied on vocals by Antonio C. Jobim and Ella in London, a live performance, and one of her best. She also worked with Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and a young Quincy Jones.
Over her 59-year recording career, Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy awards, performed at the White House and was awarded the National Medal of Art by the late President Ronald Reagan, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President H.W. Bush.  In 1980, she was honored by the Brotherhood Crusade as one of the Pioneers of Sir Duke Black Achievement. Fitzgerald is referred to in Stevie Wonder's hit Sir Duke from his album, Songs in the Key of Life and in the 1987 song Ella, elle l'a by French singer France Gall.
She has played in several movies including Pete Kelly Blues, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, St. Louis Blues and television's The White Shadow. In addition, Fitzgerald sometimes made television guest appearances often with fellow African American entertainers including Sarah Vaughn, Nat King Cole and Pearl Bailey. She also did commercials for Memorex cassette tape, Kentucky Fried Chicken and American Express. Fitzgerald supported many charities and non-profit organization such as the American Heart Association and the United Negro College Fund. In 1993, she established the "Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation" which continues to fund programs that perpetuate her ideals.
She began to be plagued by health problems which greatly restricted performing and scheduling obligations and arrangements. Fitzgerald made her last U.S. single with a cover of the Temptations' Get Ready, her last recording was in 1991 and her last public performance in 1993. Her health worsened, brought on by the effects of diabetes and she died in Beverly Hills, California. Her awards and documents were donated to the Smithsonian Institution, the library of Boston University, the Library of Congress, and the Schoenberg Library at UCLA. (In 1989, UCLA had awarded Fitzgerald the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achievement Award).
The city of Yonkers, New York, where Fitzgerald grew up, installed a life-size statue of her in the main entrance of its railroad station and in 2007 and the U.S. Postal Service issued an 39-cent stamp in her honor as part of its Black Heritage series. In 1997, the city of Newport News, Virginia, has established the Ella Fitzgerald Theater and created the Ella Fitzgerald Music Festival.


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Summary and Keywords
The American foreign mission movement at the turn of the 20th century adopted as its watchword "the evangelization of the world in this generation." The rapid expansion of missionary boards and the enthusiasm of volunteers and supporters corresponded with European and US colonial expansion around the world. For many evangelical observers, the opening of the world seemed to offer the greatest opportunity yet to share the gospel with all. "The crisis of missions," as one prominent author put it, required that Christians recognize the spiritual importance of this moment. Divine providence appeared to be removing obstacles to evangelization. Failure to act decisively would be a form of apostasy, an abandonment of responsibility toward God and the world.
Inspired by a revivalistic spirit, women and men joined a growing list of missionary and moral reform organizations. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions continued the work it had started in the early 19th century. New organizations like the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and the World Student Christian Federation created networks that linked Christian evangelists and communities around the world. They published magazines, books, and pamphlets and sent inspectors, organizers, and speakers on tours of the United States and Great Britain and on grand transoceanic voyages. In 1910 the movement celebrated progress and planned for next steps at the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Steeped in a sense of moral and racial superiority, attendees promised to transform the world.
Women found an increasingly important place in the US foreign missionary movement, especially as evangelical work diversified to include the establishment of schools and medical missions. American women labored in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere and eventually made up the majority of workers in the field. Women brought with them an ideology of domesticity that they hoped to share with their sisters abroad. Women from the US viewed local women in the missions as socially degraded and in desperate need of moral uplift. The moral authority that came with female standing in the home seemed to explain the elevated status and Christian liberty enjoyed by American women. At the same time, as more highly educated single women entered the field, the movement created space for new models of womanhood. These "New Women" lived independent lives out in the world, apart from the confines of the home.
American missionaries at the turn of the century became deeply entangled in the imperial connections of the United States and the world. While it would be a mistake to reduce their work simply to a particular strand of imperialism, it is important to understand their connections to American expansion. Missionaries took advantage of openings created by colonial activity and contributed to the spread of American cultural, political, and economic influence at a critical moment in the development of national power in the international arena.
Keywords: missions, imperialism, Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, World Student Christian Federation, World Missionary Conference, Woman's Board of Mission, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Woman's Missionary Jubilee
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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, June 2
With only seven games scheduled, today's slate is light even for a Thursday.
You know what that means: The sharks smell blood in the water. Your streaks are bobbing around helplessly in a vast ocean, and any number of catastrophes could befall them.
We've sent out some lifeboats below, but it's up to you to swim over and climb in. Oh, and we guess there's always the Coast Guard-helicopter-rescue "Holliday option." But we could never endorse such a maneuver.
Thursday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
Johnny Damon: .563 (9-for-16) since '06 vs. Mariners starter Felix Hernandez
Albert Pujols: .571 (4-for-7) since '06 vs. Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez
Carlos Beltran: .429 (6-for-14) since '06 vs. Pirates starter Paul Maholm
Jayson Werth: .500 (4-for-8) since '06 vs. Diamondbacks starter Zach Duke
Andrew McCutchen: .444 (4-for-9) since '06 vs. Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
Feeling kinda spicy?
Chone Figgins: .370 (10-for-27) since '06 vs. Rays starter James Shields
You'll thank me later …
B.J. Upton: .056 (1-for-18) since '06 vs. Mariners starter Felix Hernandez
Jose Tabata: .000 (0-for-7) since '06 vs. Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
Neil Walker: .125 (1-for-8) since '06 vs. Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
Leaderboard time!
Current leader jsmnapoli became the sixth Streaker to reach 28 games this season, inching one day closer to campaign kings buddycrise and jngmz733 in the process. Also one day closer: $5.6 million in U.S. currency.
Top MLB streakers
Ryan Theriot: 15 games
Hunter Pence: 13 games
Chase Headley: 11 games
Mike Morse: 10 games
Jhonny Peralta: 10 games
Home Run Beat the Streak pick:
Josh Hamilton: (1 HR this season) vs. Indians starter Carlos Carrasco
(Make a BTS pick)
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Keith. I'll pull stats for today then email yesterday and today's files. Not going to have time to post.
Check that. Had a bit of down time so I'll post today's. I'll still email todays files to you.
kewl. Send them b4 you leave. Have a good trip
Today is going to be a tough day. Hamilton will be in top 15 for tonight along with Young and the Picks Of The Day and Ichiro. I'm torn myself but I know I'm going with the early game.
Highest no selections 2 on page 7 with streaks of 15.
Today's leader taking a calculated risk. Going with Kubel but on rotoworld yesterday, manager said he was going to put either Kubel or Thome on the DL this week. In other words, odds are Kubel is not starting, but could pinch. Anticipation…
UPDATE: Both Kubel & Thome now on the DL per rotoworld. Leader remains idle today
LaV's List
Thursday's Top Picks of the current Top2500,
100 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Albert Pujols 347 14.02 (3RD)
Michael Young 229 9.25
Andrew McCutch 205 8.28
Josh Hamilton 202 8.16
Carlos Beltran 133 5.37
Jose Reyes 117 4.73
Asdrbal Cabrera 116 4.69 (2ND)
Jason Kubel 113 4.57 (1RST)
Matt Holliday 100 4.04
Ichiro Suzuki 85 3.43 (5TH)
Hunter Pence 81 3.27 (4TH)
No Selection 59 2.38
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 7 with streak of 15 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset rate was 23.12% with RYAN BRAUN reseting the most.
There was also 6.39% PPD due to players not playing. These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.
Got Pinched OR 1 AB Wonders
TOP2500 saved or reset by PHA (going to include any pinch hitters and/or double switch, 1 AB or More)
J Rollins PHI, SAVED 22, HIGHEST WAS 18 GAMER
X Nady ARI, RESET 4, 9,9,9,8 GAMERS
M Izturis LAA, RESET 3, 11,8,8 GAMERS
A Jackson DET, RESET 2, 14,11 GAMERS
B Gardner NYY, RESET 2,DEF SWITCH 11,8 GAMERS
J Lopez TB, RESET 1, 13 GAMER
A Craig STL, SAVED 1, 12 GAMER
J Sands LAD, RESET 1,DEF SWITCH 8 GAMER
W Bloomquist ARI, SAVED 1, 9 GAMER
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick, (Times picked in top2500)
Yanksgiantsdevils33, 12, pg 18, 428, BELTRAN (PICKED 133X)
Bloggers Reset Yesterday
Tolvar, 9,RESET BYNO SELECTION
GL to all
I should have taken McCutchen, he's already 2 for 2 and the Mets have only had 3 batters including an 0 for 1 Beltran.
No worries bro. Carlos belted a 3run jack to left. Let the 2nd guessing cease.
Beltran is 2 for 3 with a 3 run blast and a double! 🙂 🙂 🙂 I was just worried before that the Pirates would have all the fun.
Mets are coming back game tied 7-7 for those who are Mets fans.
I had Beltran on HR Beat the Streak too. 🙂 🙂
I went with Pagan today and he has come through already.
Some notes about Top2500 top picks
:: Pujols. 8 Apr vs. Sanchez. 0-3 with a strikeout. Got single late in game off reliever. How soon people forget
:: Hamilton & Young. Pretty much picks of faith; no pitcher history. Hamilton 0-for-last 12 ABs
:: Holliday. Safe-pick. Announced full day in advance he'll be on the DL today.
Above noted, could set tables for some unexpected resets today. But this is BTS and we all know, you can't play the game on paper
The PIT/NYM high picks already got hits in the early game.
A bit bored waiting on the nite games to start. So scrolling thru the Top2500 streakers found something quite interesting. Look at these user-names and their current streaks:
jvairo_18 @ 18 games
jvairo_78 @ 13 games
jvairo_38 @12 games
jvairo_26 @ 11 games
jvairo_34 @ 10 games
jvairo_11 @ 10 games
jvairo_17 @ 10 games
jvairo_35 @ 9 games
jvairo_31 @ 9 games
jvairo_41 @ 9 games
jvairo_29 @ 8 games
jvairo_70 @ 8 games
So, think some cheating is going on or does jvairo have like 80 family members playing 😉
I wouldn't even worry about it because if he does win he won't because u can only use one email and they monitor it.
Oh, I totally agree. Before MLB insurance kicked out 5.6 big ones, they'd do some verification. But what about those monthly prizes or mlb.tv prizes? Wonder if MLB puts in the effort to identify "cheaters" then? Just putting it out there. It's MLB's problem, not mine.
Actually, either the rules changed or I didn't pay close enough attention last year. Playing multiple accounts does not disqualify you, based on my interpretation of the rules. Here is an excerpt from the rules page: "In case of multiple registrations received from any person or email address, only the first registration received from such person or email address will be considered." Reading that, I would assume that jvairo's first registration is the only valid one, all the others are basically 'for fun'. However, if javiro is playing 100's of accounts, probably some sort of scripting is in play and that's a rules violation. Also, there is a generic cheaters rule: "Any incidence of collusion or cheating, as determined by MLBAM in its sole discretion, will be subject to disqualification from the Contest without limitation to any other rights or remedies available to MLBAM."
This might be way off base, but I sort of wonder if MLB would allow people to use multiple accounts as long as they put each pick in themselves?
I say this because every pick they put in generates another 5 or 6 clicks for the site and another set of views for the ads on the site. All that clicking might help inflate how much money they can receive for selling ads on the site.
But if a script was putting everything in, then no one is seeing the ads at all and so MLB would not benefit that way.
I noticed that back near the beginning. It was either that name or another one.
Same guy/gal. I believe Yanks brought it up in the 1st week or two when a few of those accounts showed up on the 1st and 2nd pages of the overall standings
Ok, that's why it looked familiar. 😉
Anyone notice that new section hovering over the Standings button after you log in? It's called "Featured". Kinda neat. You'll see some past $10K winners are still playing and who they picked and what their streaks are, along with some celebrities too.
lol @ Hazel Mae: No Selection
Maybe she could help explain why people forget to put picks in everyday!
1st AB bullet single by Span moves me to 3!


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So I was torn on WHICH recipe to post here since I have found a few good ones over the last few weeks... But since the one I found last night needs a bit of tweaking, I figured I should start with one from last week.
Stuffed Bell Peppers
YUMMY! This recipe makes a lot. I cut it in half and was very happy with how it turned out. Also, the filling freezes well, so feel free to make a full batch and freeze half if you have a small family.