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Jose Baez calls Casey Anthony 'troubled' in TV special
TV special delves into case against Casey
The case against Casey Anthony will soon resurface on television.
Attorney Jose Baez is part of a TV special set to air Monday on True Crime with Aphrodite Jones.
"It takes a unique person to get up each and every morning, get dressed and go to a job that doesn't exist for two years. I could see someone doing that for a week, couple weeks, but for two years?" Baez said.
Much of the special details the depths Anthony went to in order to deceive people, including herself, according to Baez.
Anthony's former attorney tells Jones that Anthony is troubled because she never grew out of the fantasy world many people create and leave in early childhood.
Images: Many Looks Of Casey Anthony
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Over 1,200 genetic tests are now available on a clinical level with an additional 300 available on a research basis only, and the number is predicted to increase by 25% annually. Clearly, the business of genetic testing is booming. But are the test results reliable? Should insurers cover them? Should physicians trust them?
Genetic testing holds immense promise for diagnosis and treatment. Among medical professionals today, however, there is more skepticism than promise and for good reason.
Many of the genetic tests offered today have little or no evidence of clinically proven value. Moreover, the regulatory infrastructure to apply due diligence on the utility and validity of these tests is largely nonfunctional or nonexistent.
Of the tests currently available, only about a dozen are FDA-approved. The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) set laboratory standards for quality assurance and accuracy. Even so, there is currently no genetics specialty under CLIA, and the general lab-testing standards don't adequately encompass many of the issues specific to genetic testing nor do they address clinical utility, which is defined as the ability of the genetic test to inform treatment or care decisions for patients or their family members.
The vast majority of tests marketed today are unregulated, and anyone can develop and bring a genetic test to market. Development methodologies and test components don't have to be disclosed and can vary significantly among laboratories. This leads to genetic test results that are often unreliable and difficult to interpret. More troubling still is the fact that genetic tests are increasingly marketed directly to consumers, bypassing physician oversight.
Exacerbating this already complex scenario is a lack of trained geneticists and genetic counselors to read and interpret test results. Most primary care physicians are not qualified to do so.
None of this is lost on the healthcare industry. Healthcare professionals want tools and techniques to better scrutinize genetic tests, results, and efficacy. Although genetic tests cost from $100 to $7,000 (or more), insurance companies will cover them—if they have hard evidence that proves their clinical validity and utility.
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In addition, there needs to be greater FDA oversight of genetic testing kits and reagents than currently exists. Likewise, the FDA must regulate home-brew tests by increasing developer accountability. Developers should be required to provide the FDA with empirical data about a test's validity, accuracy, and clinical utility.
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Fortunately, progress is being made. The Laboratory Test Improvement Act (S. 736), spearheaded by Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), would amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require prescriptions for all laboratory-developed direct-to-consumer genetic tests. It also classifies tests as medical devices, which would put them under FDA regulation.
The Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act (S. 3822), introduced by Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Richard Burr (R-NC), would require manufacturers of laboratory-developed genetic tests to submit analytical and clinical validity data to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Secretary would make the data publicly available.
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ALBANY – State auditors have scuttled a multimillion-dollar, no-bid contract to find cost savings at Roswell Park Cancer Institute just weeks after the hospital's Chicago-based consultant was alleged to have charged exorbitant consulting fees at a downstate utility agency.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said a series of problems with the way Roswell Park and Navigant Consulting wrote up a contract to eke out efficiencies and cost controls at the Buffalo hospital left the state fiscal watchdog no choice but to kill the deal.
Roswell Park officials Thursday evening said the canceled contract will now be put out to competitive bid, a process expected to take up to three months as the institution faces a January deadline to provide a cost-cutting package to state officials as part of 2012 state law requiring the facility to become less dependent on state aid.
DiNapoli's office cited possible runaway costs, revolving door concerns involving a former top Roswell Park official now employed by a subcontractor of Navigant and vague benchmarks for performance.
In a letter obtained by The Buffalo News sent to a top Roswell Park official this week, DiNapoli's office said it could not even say how much the Roswell Park contract with Navigant might cost, but that it would be far more than the $3 million purported by the cancer treatment and research facility.
The comptroller's office called the proposed contract with Navigant "potentially detrimental'' to Roswell Park's finances and said the deal, which needs DiNapoli's sign-off to go forward, had "serious flaws'' and that the contract was "significantly favorable'' to Navigant as the only firm in the running for what's known as a single-source bidding selection process.
"Roswell Park's process for awarding contracts should be fair and get the best deal for taxpayers. This contract failed to do this so the contract was rejected. It had serious flaws and contained provisions significantly favorable to Navigant," DiNapoli said Thursday.
Roswell Park officials said they went with Navigant for the more expensive second phase of a cost-cutting effort because the firm already had staff on the ground in Buffalo and came up with a series of savings ideas as part of a competitively bid, $900,000 contract the company won more than a year ago.
Michael Sexton, Roswell Park's chief operations officer and general counsel, said the comptroller's office was "emphatic" that the decision to kill the Navigant contract was unrelated to the firm's recent controversial troubles with a downstate utility authority. He said DiNapoli's staff raised as their major concern Roswell Park's failure to competitively bid such a large contract.
The scrubbing of the Roswell Park contract comes amid troubled times for Navigant, a company with long ties to state agencies; the firm has been used by Thruway Authority administrations of current Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and former Gov. George E. Pataki to issue reports the agency held out as evidence to justify the need for big toll increases.
Last month, a special state panel formed by Cuomo to investigate utility companies' response to Hurricane Sandy found Navigant had billed huge fees and travel costs to the Long Island Power Authority, including $550-per-night Manhattan hotel rooms and a seaplane trip to a Puerto Rican island. One Navigant consultant billed LIPA for an average of 70 hours of work a week while another ran up a consulting tab of $4.5 million over five years.
The findings by the Moreland Commission involving LIPA and Navigant have since been turned over to federal prosecutors. LIPA and the New York Power Authority have since halted work with the company, though the firm still has active contracts with other state agencies, including the Department of Financial Services, a review of state records showed.
In the case of Roswell Park, DiNapoli's contract review office found the deal would cost far more than the $3 million the hospital was claiming. They cited up to $2.7 million in additional "success fees" that also could go to Navigant – "apparently regardless of results." Part of the success fees would be paid up front, with the remaining three-quarters of those fees to be paid by Roswell Park after four months of "sustainable results." DiNapoli's office called the results to be achieved vague as written up in the contract.
While the fixed and success fees could add up to a total contract worth $5.7 million, DiNapoli's office warned Roswell Park that the costs could be far higher because of provisions it agreed to with Navigant calling for "unlimited" travel, subcontractor and other expenses, and other costs, including temporarily placing a Navigant executive on Roswell Park's payroll.
The comptroller's office said the Roswell Park deal with Navigant put no cap on expenses by the Chicago firm, such as total travel costs beyond mileage, or on the use of outside subcontractors. It said one of those subcontractors was proposed to be Freed, Maxick and Battaglia, a Buffalo accounting firm whose employees include Jack Sieber, a former top finance official at Roswell Park. The contract rejection letter states that Roswell Park noted the state government's two-year revolving door ban for Sieber has expired, but said it is "not clear" that the arrangement with Sieber and his firm is allowed under state law limiting appearances by former officials before their agency.
Roswell, formerly part of the state Health Department, is a public benefit corporation under state law.
A Navigant spokesman did not respond to email or voicemail messages.
Sexton said state officials last year made clear that Roswell Park should be using an outside consulting firm to find cost savings to try to meet the terms of a 2012 law that seeks to make the facility more financially independent from the state. Navigant was chosen as the best and lowest bid last year for the first phase of that work, and helped to identify about $20 million in savings – about 3.5 percent of Roswell Park's operating revenues.
The second phase of the contract – implementing the savings ideas – was the contract scuttled this week by DiNapoli's office.
Sexton said Roswell Park will abide by DiNapoli's concerns and bid out the second phase of the project. "If that's what the comptroller wants us to do, that's what we're going to do," Sexton said. The first-phase contract did not need approval from DiNapoli's office.
But Sexton said Roswell Park will still move ahead with cost-saving plans as it goes through a new bidding process.
"The January 2014 deadline for submitting a plan to the state to become less financially dependent is in the law. So it's not like we can miss it," he said.
The comptroller's office, calling the now-scuttled contract a draft document, declined to release the written deal between Roswell Park and Navigant. But DiNapoli's reviewers criticized the deal on a number of other fronts, including failure to set a firm delivery of work by Navigant or an end date to the contract or caps on hourly rates. Navigant, under the Roswell Park deal, also would be able to terminate the contract at will, a move that still could leave Roswell Park on the hook for payment of fixed fees, the comptroller's office said in a letter this week to Roswell Park's Sexton.
The agency said the scuttled contract included a provision to have Navigant "procure" a specialty pharmacy service for Roswell Park, but that the deal included no written protections to ensure an independent and competitive procurement process is performed by the firm.
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
A Pertinent Question: Is the Opposition Wasting a Historic Opportunity?
This is a timely reminder from a reluctant politician and a fine gentleman. PR must start to live up to the people's expectations or perish in the next general election. Like a few other concerned and credible Malaysians, Tunku Aziz had decided to join the DAP and was immediately made its Vice-President because he had wanted to strengthen the multiracial image of the Chinese based opposition party.
Similarly, other politicians such as Dr Toh Kin Woon, Dr Tan Kee Kwong, Lee Kah Choon, Zaid Ibrahim and Chua Jui Ming had thrown their weight behind this newly minted coalition because they too wanted the two-party system to succeed.
A number of us, political analysts and observers, had at times overstepped our neutrality and urged our readers to support candidates from the coalition because we wanted it to become a viable alternative to the problem riddled, racist, corrupted and lacklustre Barisan Nasional/UMNO.
DAP, PKR and PAS did not win many state and parliamentary seats in the last general election on the popularity and credibility of their parties and leaders alone. Hadi Awang, Lim Kit Siang and Wan Azizah had shown their vulnerability in elections.
PR was a by-product of the 308 general election. On its own, the three parties had failed to sustain their cooperation. Many of us still remembered the disastrous 1999 general election for several top leaders in DAP. Both Kit Siang and Karpal Singh were defeated by lesser known opponents.
Kit Siang, who has reminded the coalition of the risk of becoming a 'one-term wonder', had pulled out his party from the 1999 alliance and contested independently in 2004. As a result, the opposition cohesiveness and its electoral pact was not fully achieved.
Both Kit Siang and Karpal were returned to the parliament after being left out for a term. Since then, both of them were convinced that working with PAS is detrimental to the DAP. Kit Siang had refused to support a PAS assemblyman as a new Perak menteri besar until the DAP Perak acted autonomously to endorse PAS Nizar.
It was not easy for Kit to have a change of heart. He must have seen something a number of his colleagues did not.
Today, the 3 parties are sharing power in 3 state governments and have just ironed out some details to make this coalition official. This outcome, which would not have been possible since the 1999 GE, should be celebrated as a first step towards the creation of a sustainable alternative coalition to check on the excesses and misdeeds of BN.
The post-2008 PR was created by the people especially those who were fed-up with the arrogance, power abuse, corruption and mediocrity in BN. The voters willingness to accept all three - PAS, DAP and PKR - had given both PAS and DAP the courage to collaborate and formalize their political partnership.
It was not achieved through the diplomatic efforts of Kit Siang or Hadi Awang. It was mind blowing that the latter was so keen to engage UMNO in a Malay-Muslim unity talk when there was no treat to the Malay-Muslim community.
A pertinent question to ask the PR leaders is how much progress has this coalition made in the last 20 months? Has an official power sharing structure being formulated to ease their cooperation in the PR governed states?
Has the coalition informed or explained to their supporters how they intend to govern this country differently from BN?
Is PR truly a Malaysian Malaysia coalition or is it also being bogged down by the same race and religious issues faced by the BN?
Over the last couple of months, I am sad to inform them that we have witnessed the same race and religious sentiments being played out in the coalition. From the banning of an open beer sales in convenient stores, protests against several concerts to some totally senseless and irrational statements and petty quarrels, the coalition has began to court attacks from BN supporters and leaders that this is a marriage of convenience and a weak and shallow partnership.
The fact that factions in both PAS and PKR which are so willing to cooperate and engage UMNO in a unity talk has chipped off our confidence in the coalition. Has PR moved beyond the race-based model or is it still housing and sheltering many closet race and religious extremists/nationalists? Is PR being trapped in the same ethno-religious hour glass that it was trying to break?
I was asked by a top national leader of a PR component party why I did not praise his effort to appoint an Indian Malaysian to a top post in his administration. A praise should not come from the fact that the person was from a minority race but it should come from his performance and capability. I am prepared to lavish my praises on him but can the leader provide me with the details of his adviser's achievement apart from his racial identity?
I have also encountered a change of behaviour of some PR leaders who cannot take the limelight of top positions and their newly acquired political influence and remain humble and engaging. Some have turned arrogant, inaccessible and irresponsible. Badrul of Port Klang, Zulkifli Nordin, the Perak 'kataks' and a few more had given the coalition a bad name.
An opposition MP had claimed that I had blackmailed a state government but had refused to show proof or retract his statement and offer an apology when it was clear that he had made a mistake. I was not to be his only victim. He had done a similar thing to other individuals and organisations.
A lack of discipline, clear direction, leadership vision and an effective and efficient team is hampering some of PR controlled state governments.
Some of the newly elected representatives are still hoping for a lack of choice or the non-Malays anger and dissatisfaction of UMNO to keep their seats and support in the next general election.
The unpredictability of Indian voters should serve as an early warning to these dreamers. They should depend on their own ability to lead, govern and serve to retain their seats instead of the weaknesses of their opponents.
There is a thing that our policy makers should learn and learn fast - don't just do something, do it really really well. The same malaise and mediocrity are still seen in all PR led states.
PR leaders and members should take note of the alarm bell sounded by Tunku Abdul Aziz before it is too late. The goodwill is fast depleting. I had warned them as early as the mid-2009.
An elected position can be taken back by the people easily, by a stroke of pen, when the time is ripe.
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More prominent people should come forward and sermonize to Pakatan leaders on the 'rudiments of unity'.
I hope the respective parties will sack Zukkifli Nordin, Wee Choo Kiong, Hasan Ali. These are all trouble makes.
- joenathan said...
'An elected position can be taken back by the people easily,by a stroke of pen,when the time is ripe'.I cant agree more with you ,Khoo.
I will take those positions back by the click of my finger.I am willing to spend double the amount of time and dollars which I had spent in the run up to the 12th GE.This warning is esp directed to Anwar,LGE and other mandores of PR.Never take the electorate for a ride,do it at your own peril,PR.We are watching and we will continue to do so,change or be changed.You haven't got enough time left.Heed this warning,our patience are diminishing by the day.
May God continues to bless Malaysia.
If I had to choose between a corrupted BN candidate and PAS candidate, I would still choose BN because I don't want to risk my way of secular life. PAS is just not sincere enough to depart from their Islamic state politic.
Anwar was seen as really suitable to act as a in between for PAS and DAP, but he's proving to be dissappointing - the latest being Sabah.
Totally agree that weasels like Zulklifi, Wee and Hassan + Badrul should be taken care of long ago.
Oh Yeah, PR leaders this opputiniti is surely for you all to throw away.
(But I still like to add - anyone is better than those selfish, greedy and ARROGANT goons from umno).
Once in a while you do project yr non-rcist anti Malay side. I suppose you need to do that for sake of balance. But however you dance you r just putting up a facade
Politicians r politicians i.e to get votes and the spoils. Likewise bloggers try to get readers at whatever costs, including inciting racial hatred
what to do, some people feel beers, concerts and gambling are bigger than corruption.
Not your fault to have misundestanding about PAS. Mainstream media did their jobs well
- Lee SH said...
Make no mistake, PR is losing its credibility, while BN under PM is regaining its ground. If PM continues to do what he is doing now, there is a high chance that people will return to BN.
Some of the leaders in PR are individualistic and weak. If ever PR want to go in for the next election, for god sake, get quality leaders. We are quite sick with what is going with PR
The world trends are powerful and enormous.
Those who follow the trends will prosper.
Those who resist the trends will collapse.
We cannot go back to the old ways whether Najib or Muhiddin is PM the system will still collapse since we are resisting the change.
We need a 2 party system
It is working in USA, UK, Europe and Japan.
Singapore is too small ,even Thailand and Indonesia are in the correct trends and they will survive.
And China will be hard to tell.
IMO, i am not too worried about pkr losing steam in sabah. it was planned that way. who says ai is not a sly politician? do not underestimate ai. pr's best partner in sabah is sapp. to achieve a malaysia for all races, peninsula political parties should not get involved in sabah/sarawak politics. umno should not have been in sabah in the 1st place; it is now seen to have colonized sabah. let sabahans choose their own, and be a partner in pr. the same in sarawak. the dayaks need to awaken just like what pairin did with the old pbs.
So true. The power is in the hands of the people. Eventually, it is the people power which decides in the next GE and GEs to come.
PR leaders have yet to come together in their aim for a coalition. Maybe they are carrying too much baggages from woes of politicking. Or are they becoming arrogant, power-hungry, too individualistic; party centred and not coalition centred; self-centred and not people-centred.
PR must pull themselves together with clear aims , leadership and resolute to harness a better alternative team, pitched against BN.
Time is clearly the essence and it is running out.
God Willing, and with hope PR will not disappoint a lot of Malaysians.
Dear Khoo Kay Peng,
for your info, a poll has been conducted by one of a gerakan youth member in his blog http://andyksyong.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/awakening-poll/
Interesting to note, from the poll, most people have the same feeling that Sedar (a gerakan think tank) is full or cronies. No wonder you left the place, since you are not the crony.


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I will be updating this post as the season goes on; new games tend to be up anywhere from 30 minutes to 24 hours after they've been played before they become archives.
I will also be adding posts in this thread of past playoffs and seasons, so eventually nearly every Wings game through the 07/08 season will be posted. Again I don't know how long this will last.
Due to this being a long list I'm generating in excel there could be some errors, or the rare chance there is no archive of the game. Just ask me to look at a certain game should you find one not working and I'll look into it.
I'm not sure of the best way to lay this out, so I'm just doing a simple list. If you have any suggestions, please share.
Red Wings Archives of the 2010 Playoffs
No longer updating this list, moved to my site....see my profile.
Red Wings Archives of the 09/10 Season
No longer updating this list, moved to my site....see my profile.
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Powell graduates from basic training
Army Pvt. Montez J. Powell has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core values and traditions. Additional training included development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics, and experiencing use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman.
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After a year of professional highs – and personal lows – Jason Aldean is looking forward to a quiet holiday with family.
"I'm on the road so much during the year, so what I look forward to the most is being home with my family, " he told PEOPLE at the taping of the CMT Artists of the Year special (airing Saturday at 10/9 CT), where he walked the red carpet hand-in-hand with his wife, Jessica.
Aldean says being with Jessica and their daughters – Keeley, 10, and Kendyl, 5 – and doing "things like taking the girls to the mall to shop or to see Santa Claus" are on his holiday must-do list. "Things that simple to me are really cool."
Looking back at 2012, some highlights for the country star include releasing a chart-topping album and playing sold out stadiums.
But Aldean also faced personal hurdles when photos surfaced showing him getting affectionate with another woman. Still, for the singer, who publicly apologized for his behavior, life is good.
"This year, the tour went really well, the album has done really well, and good stuff has definitely outweighed the bad," he says. "All that other stuff is kind of in the past and we're just looking to have a great year in 2013."
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A big change in New Zealand dairying
Milk producers vote to allow public ownership of shares in the country's largest co-op.
by Dennis Halladay, Hoard's Dairyman Western Editor
The U.S. isn't the only place where dairy producer opinion is divided about the actions and motives of their cooperatives. Not by a long shot.
My just-finished visit to New Zealand, the world's largest dairy exporting nation, coincided with a vote by members of Fonterra on whether to allow private sale of shares in the co-op. Fonterra accounts for about 90 percent of the country's milk production and about 48 percent of all dairy exports in the world.
Fonterra requires producers to own shares in the co-op in order to sell milk. One share is needed for each pound of milk solids produced per year (fluid volume doesn't matter). Fonterra is required to buy back all shares (at a price determined by an independent committee) whenever a producer leaves the co-op. This means it has to keep large cash reserves on hand for redemptions – cash that Fonterra says can't be used for investments such as new plants and equipment.
Its "Trading Among Farmers" proposal was to allow anyone – including nonmilk producers – to buy shares at whatever price the market would bear. Nonproducer owners would receive dividend payments but would not be allowed to vote on co-op policy matters. An outside market for shares means Fonterra wouldn't have to keep such large cash reserves for redemptions.
Just like in the U.S., some New Zealand milk producers wondered whether all details and motives behind the complex and confusing plan had been divulged. Debate on both sides was lively. The biggest argument seemed to be that some profits from New Zealand dairying would go out of the dairy industry and perhaps even out of the country. Some predicted that investors would drive up share values, thereby limiting the ability of producers to expand or enter the business in the future.
The measure was approved by a 62 to 38 percent margin, which means that dairying in quiet, idyllic, pasture-based New Zealand is now much more complex than it appears.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Some Republican voters voted enthusiastically for former Gov. Mark Sanford on April 2 and some reluctantly, but a vote is a vote, and Sanford got 26,066 of them, more than enough to beat former Charleston County Councilman Curtis Bostic for the nomination for the First Congressional District.
Bostic got 20,005 votes, or 43 percent. Of the five counties participating, only Beaufort chose Bostic over Sanford.
Less than 10 percent of Berkeley County voters took part in the runoff; Berkeley voters reflected the rest of the district as they gave Sanford a majority with 57 percent of the county vote, according Berkeley Voter Registration and Election commission results.
Sanford received 5,267 votes in Berkeley County while Bostic received 3,923 votes (42 percent). A total of 9,245 ballots were cast.
In Dorchester County, 4,208 voters, or 58 percent, chose Sanford. Turnout was 9.65 percent.
Sanford issued a statement Tuesday evening thanking voters and his opponent. He said the campaign between himself and Democratic nominee Elizabeth Colbert Busch will contrast his record of cutting debt and reducing taxes and on her side, "more of the same of what has gotten our country into the mess that it's in."
Chad Connelly, chairman of the state GOP, issued a statement calling Colbert Busch an "overpaid liberal educrat."
Colbert Busch, the director of business development at Clemson University's Restoration Institute, issued a statement saying her business experience will help her cut waste, lower tax rates for small businesses and be a "voice in Washington who stands up for South Carolina solutions – not either political party."
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TAHOE CITY, Calif. - TCDA is seeking a contractor to manage the signature event of the Tahoe City Solstice Festival: The Tahoe City Wine Walk. This special event holds enormous potential for growth in both attendance and sponsorships to benefit ongoing programs for the Tahoe City Downtown Association.
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6 Harry Potter Films According to Someone Who Never Saw Them
#4. Harry Potter and the Full Disclosure, I Started Drinking
[It is just really difficult for me to care about these movies.]
What We See in the Trailer
Everyone continues to not use "muggle" in a sentence even though it's a word I'm positive has something to do with this universe. Maybe it's a kind of hat, or "muggle" means "broom." Maybe the muggle was inside of them the whole time. Maybe who gives a shit?
This trailer's even darker and grittier than the last dark and gritty trailer. It opens with skulls and Dementors and lightning and rain.
There's a big sports dome and everyone's really excited about it.
There's a lot of talk about some kind of wizard sports tournament, except people might die in it, because there are dragons now. This is now the fourth movie where the possibility of dying was actually a legitimate part of the school's curriculum. Just seems like, if there are so few wizards in the world that they can all be contained to a single university, you might not want to murder them when they're all 12.
Like all Harry Potter trailers, this one ends with a rapid fire montage of air-chases, explosions, screams and me doing a shot of whatever I can find in my apartment.
What I Think It's About
Since Gary Oldman isn't around anymore, it's clear that he killed Harry's parents and has since paid the price, but that's sort of unrelated to this particular movie. For Harry Potter and the Next Harry Potter Movie, they decided to do something different. In the way that Community will occasionally do tribute episodes, this is Harry Potter's tribute to sports movies. They've flown in folks from all over the world to compete in a long tournament, and Team Hogwarts is the group of scrappy underdogs that all need to work together. It's the one time of the year when good wizards and Nazis set aside their differences and join forces to turn this team of misfits into champions! Gandalf II is their coach and Professor Alan Rickman is the grizzled, too-old-for-this-shit veteran (Tom Berenger in Major League II).
Harry also hits on an Asian chick, which I think is a neat direction for this franchise to take.
#5. Harry Potter and the They're Not Even Trying To Make These Accessible to People Who Haven't Read the Books Anymore
What We See in the Trailer
This trailer is just a series of wand points and explosions. There's some mild exposition dropped in -- Principal Gandalf II has a problem that only Harry can solve, which shouldn't really be all that compelling anymore since it was established in every single other movie. Ron is in love with some chick we don't know and the Girl One hits Harry with a newspaper (which is a silly weapon for a wizard to use). But after that, ghosts fly around, Professor Alan Rickman shoots stuff, Kid Nazi stares in the mirror to pump himself up to do something aggressively Nazi-esque, one imagines, somebody screams "HARRY" and BOOM, more explosions.
What I Think It's About
There's something [blank] happening at Hogwarts, and it's up to fucking Harry to save the day. This is quite possibly the scariest and most evil [blank] to ever threaten the school, but Harry will rise to the challenge and learn that, in the end, [blank blank blank]. Professor Alan Rickman and Nazi McBitchface will inexplicably continue to live. Explosions.
#6. Harry Potter and the It's the Last One! Hooray!
Last one, baby! One more trailer and I can watch the new one and feel like a normal member of society!
What We See in the Trailer
What are you? You a muggle? Are you what muggles are? OH SHIT HE'S SHOOTING LASERS AT HARRY!
OK, alright, good. Yes. And, hey, they brought that accounting monster back from the first one!
And now he's a driving monster! My understanding of the monster hierarchy is, at best, shaky, but I believe this is a step up.
And look at that, Ron and Girl One are all up on each other. Really blew it with that "Harry nails Girl One" prediction. Oh well. Next, several characters I've never seen before get badass close-ups, and I imagine they're all very important (or, alternatively, covered in muggles). The trailer ends with the typical explosion and "HARRY" scream montage, followed by a shot of Harry and that fella up top with no nose shooting magic wand bursts at each other.
What I Think It's About
Ron and Girl One are going to work through their bullshit and fall in love, and then someone will realize that their lead doesn't have a love interest, so Harry will start hooking up with some other chick, like a magic James Bond. That dude without a nose who is clearly the bad guy won't die, but neither will Harry. In fact, nothing with any kind of closure will happen at all. At the end of the day, this movie looks like an incredibly expensive trailer for the movie that's out today (Part 2). Two hours of just filler; just a bunch of magicians and monsters blowing shit up and shooting lasers at each other and chasing ghosts and oh my God why have I not watched these movies yet??
Daniel O'Brien is Cracked.com's Senior Writer (ladies), and also has the most muggles (lady-muggles).
For more of Dan's pop culture misunderstandings, check out My Brief Time as a Student at Hogwarts and If 'Twilight' Was About Dragons (And Contained More Fisting).


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ROSCOE — Lindsay Carroll of Roscoe and Gustavo Rocha of Machesney Park will be recognized Jan. 24 at Upper Iowa University for scholastic achievements as student athletes.
Carroll is a member of the women's basketball team and Rocha plays football. The pair earned at least a 3.2 grade point average to make the athletic director's honor roll.
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