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Thursday evening, a trade went down between the Colorado Rockies and the Texas Rangers. It was a trade apparently of such little consequence that the Rockies' official Twitter account tacked it on at the end of an unrelated message.
Rockies agree to one-year contract with 3B Casey Blake. Rockies also acquire INF Chad Tracy from Texas in exchange for RHP Greg Reynolds.
"We just signed a veteran third baseman to a major league contract. Also, hey, while you're here, we got this other guy in exchange for this other guy. Let's not say too much about the second other guy."
It was a trade of minor leaguers. Tracy, 26, spent last year in triple-A. Reynolds, 26, spent most of last year in triple-A. Tracy's never seen the majors. Reynolds has 94 innings of experience. These kinds of moves usually aren't very interesting, relative to others. But this move is interesting, because of the players involved. Let's dive in.
We'll begin with the biggie. Reynolds, of course, was selected second overall by the Rockies in 2006. He was selected right after Luke Hochevar, and right before Evan Longoria. The Rockies' selection of Reynolds was thought to be a reach, and it took the Rays by surprise. The Rays had another plan, assuming the Rockies would take Longoria. That plan? Andrew Friedman:
We had Evan Longoria first on our board…We thought Longoria was going to go two to Colorado, and we had cut a deal with Tim Lincecum, to take three.
The Rays were planning to take Tim Lincecum. The Rays had already made a deal with Tim Lincecum. Then the Rockies took Reynolds instead of Longoria, leaving the Rays to take Longoria and Lincecum to fall all the way to the Giants.
It's really easy to go back in time and point to an event and say "that event could have been different!" and then note the various consequences. It's also really fun. Imagining is fun. Just think how different things might have been. Do the Rays go to the World Series? Do the Giants win the World Series? Is the entire baseball landscape a different one? For a while, people have pointed to Longoria's contract as being the best contract. What if he didn't have that contract? Would the Rays have offered a similar contract to Lincecum?
And so on. It's amazing the way, a lot of the time, baseball doesn't hinge on individual decisions. And it's amazing the way, some of the time, it totally does. One decision by the Rockies - one difficult decision - did so much.
About that difficult decision. The Rockies wound up drafting Reynolds, but it wasn't always a given that they were going to draft Reynolds. Remember, that caught the Rays off guard. Let's go to Troy Renck:
Reynolds' failures were magnified because the Rockies nearly drafted Long Beach State third baseman Evan Longoria before turning to the Stanford pitcher. At the time, the Rockies felt starting pitching was more of a priority with Garrett Atkins and [Ian] Stewart both in the fold.
It seems like, every year, there are arguments over whether a team should draft for need, or draft the best player available. In almost all circumstances, you should draft the best player available. Obviously, drafting for need won't always blow up the way it did for the Rockies, but there's that lesson here. Plus, at the time, Atkins was hardly established, and Stewart wasn't exactly setting the minors on fire. Good talents, sure, but not such good talents to warrant picking Reynolds over Longoria. I'm biased by subsequent events but the Rockies' pick drew criticism immediately.
In Reynolds, Ian Stewart and Casey Weathers, the Rockies have traded their top draft picks from 2006, 2003 and 2007 within the past month. The three have combined for a Baseball-Reference major league WAR of 0.4.
Since 1901, 4,043 pitchers have thrown at least 90 innings in the major leagues. Reynolds' ERA of 7.47 ranks sixth-worst, all-time, just ahead of Radhames Liz. The worst ERA belongs to John Van Benschoten, the famed bust for the Pirates. Van Benschoten allowed 100 runs in 90 innings. Oh, and while I'm here, Reynolds' home run rate of 1.91 per nine innings is tied for 11th-worst in history.
Reynolds has a 5.99 career ERA in triple-A. Granted, the Rockies' triple-A affiliate plays on the moon, but it's not like he's some kind of quad-A superstar. He's been horrible in the majors, and he's been horrible just below the majors. His career minor league K/9 is 5.2. He's never checked in higher than 6.2. Reynolds was taken second in a draft.
What's so...well I won't say "tragic", but sad about Reynolds' story is that it's not like he wasn't an extremely talented pitcher at the time he was drafted. Even though he wasn't supposed to go second overall, he was supposed to go pretty quickly. He was one of those safe college picks, a starter with a mid-90s fastball who could go on the fast-track. Then the injuries came and ripped his stuff to shreds. His average fastball with the Rockies in 2008 clocked in at 89.9. His average fastball with the Rockies in 2011 clocked in at 88.9, even though he'd mostly moved to the bullpen. The Reynolds pick would look bad just because of the way Longoria has turned out. But because of the way Reynolds has turned out, it looks like an absolute disaster.
The Chad Tracy going from the Rangers to the Rockies in this trade isn't the Chad Tracy I thought it was when I started writing this piece. It turns out there are two Chad Tracys. One of them was a Diamondbacks prospect who hit 27 home runs for Arizona in 2005. The other one just got traded to the Rockies. So maybe this trade isn't quite so interesting, since Tracy doesn't really bring much to the table.
Wait, I've got it! Chad Tracy - the actual Chad Tracy, here - is the son of current Rockies manager Jim Tracy. This trade should be a revealing test of Chad Tracy's emotional state. If he's a happy, confident person, he'll figure the Rockies traded for him because last year he tied for the PCL lead in runs batted in. If he's a depressed, less confident person, he'll figure the Rockies traded for him because his dad gets to see all the players naked.
The Rangers drafted Tracy in the third round in 2006. Twenty-two rounds later, they drafted Derek Holland. Interestingly, in the 22nd round, the Rangers drafted Cory Luebke. They were the second of three teams to draft Luebke in a four-year span. Now I'm just talking about Cory Luebke again.
Greg Reynolds' MLB.com video page has four highlights. One of them is footage of a decent start Reynolds turned in last April. Two of them are of RBI hits he allowed to the Astros. And one of them is this strikeout, which Reynolds recorded against opposing pitcher Kyle Davies.


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Friday, November 25, 2005
Thanksgiving - The Day After
I got some nice goodies in the mail today, including my check from the gentlemen who have optioned the screen rights to my novel, The Book of Renfield. I knew that screenwriter Mark Kruger was one of the optioners, and now I have learned that his partner in this venture is Ryan Murphy, the creator of NIP/TUCK, who has written and directed several episodes of that hit series, as well as a couple of feature films, including the promising-sounding RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, currently in post-production. My agent tells me that Mr. Murphy is hoping to direct THE BOOK OF RENFIELD, which is exciting news. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS sounds like it could have been based on my own life, so his interests seem well-attuned to mine -- and his partner Mr. Kruger, of course, wrote the excellent Hallmark adaptation of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN last year, which showed him to be a skillful practitioner of the faithful and artful adaptation. I feel the book is in good hands.
Also in today's mail came the three new French import sets of Alfred Hitchcock's 1927-32 work (said to be beautiful and a great improvement over the many domestic PD releases); an eBay-won copy of Peter Reich's memoir A Book of Dreams (logical next-step reading now that I've happily re-read Orson Bean's Me and the Orgone); a couple of books on the Pixies (a British copy of the oral history of the band that comes out in the States early next year, and John Mendelssohn's much-maligned book, which sounds intriguing to me); and Simon Reynolds' Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984, which looks to be fabulously written and well-researched. My KING KONG box set also arrived.
VW #123 went to the printer before we turned in last night. So today is for unwinding, for prolonging a somewhat compromised holiday by tucking into some new books and listening to some music and appreciating the fact that I am inside and warm when it is turning so cold outside. A day for feeling blessed and being appreciative.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
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Of whose charms you're left dying to sing.
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Of a dinner that will hold us entranced.
Stuffing, cranberries -- pumpkin pie, of course,
With some coffee as we unbuckle our pants.
Give your thanks, pilgrim, and when you've eaten it all
In the company of those whom you love,
Here's a suggestion from me: Turn off the football...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Of November 22, on November 23rd
As Fate would have it, this woman happened to be the same home room teacher I'd in second grade at North Norwood Elementary on the day of the assassination, and it was from her -- en route to the school's lunch room -- that I first heard about it. As I recall, the shooting was known but the fact of the President's death was not learned until after lunch, at which time the students were dismissed to go home and be with their families. I had not yet spoken to this teacher (whose name I've since forgotten) to remind her of our previous acquaintence, so I was eager to raise my hand and tell her what I remembered of that day, part of which we had spent together.
About halfway through my story, when she realized I was including her in my recollection, her expression became very strange, as if she was trying to place me. When I finished telling my story, she said with awed surprise, "I remember you!" Then she paused before adding... "Are you still drawing monsters?"
And the whole classroom broke into laughter because, yeah, I still was.
SPEAKING OF MONSTERS, I'm still awaiting my KONG stuff from Warner Home Video, so I chose not to pre-empt the pleasure of receiving the discs by watching the TCM broadcasts last night. Instead, I found myself drawn to watching a movie on IFC that I actually love a good deal more: Krzysztof Kieslowski's THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE, a wondrous and tragic masterpiece that deserves DVD release more than any other film I can think of. Watching the movie again for the first time in close to a decade, I was struck by how the scene in which Véronique (the wonderful Irène Jacob) begins to intuitively grieve the passing of the Polish double she has never met, and how evocative this scene is now of the fact of Kieslowski's own premature death. When I discovered Kieslowski's work, it was like discovering a brother; he captured on film something of the way I view my own world, which no one before him had done in quite the same way. Each of his films reawakened in me a long-dormant hope that was more of a constant in the 1970s, when any movie I went to see harbored the possibility that it might change my life. So when Kieslowski suddenly died in 1996, it was like losing someone of close and mysterious kinship, and much of my hope for a renaissance of the cinema also died with him. I have yet to see the work of any new director who I think might conceivably replace him, which would be impossible anyway; better to say, no new director has come along since to offer me anything like an equal measure of hope. So I still grieve for Kieslowski. I can only imagine how his actors must feel, carrying on in their careers without him.
There are times when I feel I need, for the well-being of my soul, to spend some time with the healing works of a Kieslowski or De Sica or Parajanov or Rohmer, but my job being what it is, what I have to watch is... something else. And so it was that I had to follow last night's viewing of THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE with Ishiro Honda's MATANGO, aka ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE -- a movie I've always enjoyed and respect to some degree, but hardly the ideal chaser for a Kieslowski film. I ask myself if I didn't hurt the experience by subjecting it to such comparison. Fortunately, I have to watch the movie again with its audio commentary on, so I'll have a second chance to approach the film when I'm in a more receptive mood for it.
TODAY IS THE 118th anniversary of Boris Karloff's birth (Billy Pratt's, anyway) but I'd like to extend more active birthday greetings to some still-vital people I doubt read this blog: the inimitable Michael Gough (who turns 88 today, proving that railing at people in Herman Cohen productions is good for your health); WILD WILD PLANET star and former president of the English Language Dubbers Association, Tony Russel (80); TOMB OF LIGEIA screenwriter Robert Towne (71); and, with pleasing symmetry, Boris' daughter Sara Karloff is celebrating her 67th today. (I once spoke to Sara on the telephone and she seemed to me a very nice lady.) Also worth mentioning is that ONE STEP BEYOND host-director John Newland (a fellow Cincinnatian) would have been 88 today, and CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN director Rafael Balédon would have been 86.
OVERNIGHT, CINCINNATI HAD its first snowfall of the year. I hate snow. It doesn't help that I'm dieting -- never a good idea on Thanksgiving week, anyway -- and taking diet pills that seem to be making me just a litt-tle bit cranky.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
The Eighth Wonder of the World... and More
New Yorkers won't understand this because many of them grew up with the MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE, which sometimes played KING KONG every day of the week, but there are still a lot of people who have never seen the movie called "The Eighth Wonder of the World." In conversation with our next-door neighbor recently, we found that he'd never seen it, and we also know that a friend of ours who passed away some years ago spent her entire life without seeing it. I first saw KING KONG the first chance I got, when it turned up as the premiere offering when Bob Shreve's ALL-NITE THEATRE moved from the local CBS affiliate, WCPO-TV, to the NBC affiliate WLWT-TV around 1970. I went over each new issue of TV Guide like a hawk in those days, and it was the first local broadcast I was aware of. I was accustomed to the crystal clarity of the stills that appeared in the pages of Famous Monsters of Filmland, so I was surprised by the ancient look of the actual movie -- remember this was a local television print of an early sound picture -- but I was instantly drawn in by the human drama of the depression-era "hard luck" of Fay Wray's character Ann Darrow and the exuberant bombast of Robert Armstrong's great '30s character, Carl Denham. Kong himself was worth the wait, and once he showed up, the movie was at once charmingly antiquated and intoxicatingly fresh. More than 30 years later, it still plays that way to me. Isn't it the closest thing to a genuine American fairy tale that we have?
A few years ago, when we first got our HD widescreen set, I discovered how much the format favored stop-motion films like EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS, turning my TV into a regular Saturday matinee movie-house. So I decided to watch a German import DVD of KING KONG I happened to have. I'd had it for awhile, but had been putting off because rumors of an impending domestic, restored KONG release were going on even then. That German import looked pretty good (though not as good as this new DVD is supposed to look), about as good as the laserdisc releases had looked, but it gave me the happiest KONG experience I'd ever had... and by then, I'd even seen it a few times in a theater -- in 16mm at the University of Cincinnati, and in 35mm at Cincinnati's (now long-gone) Alpha Theater, with the long-rumored "censored" scenes restored. (When the film got to those points of Kong stripping Fay Wray or stomping native Africans into the ground, the movie got a lot darker because the footage had been recovered from a dupier print. Reportedly, the new DVD makes these scenes and shots look fully reintegrated with the rest of the picture for the first time.) Seeing KING KONG large in your own living room is one of life's great pleasures.
If you're reading this blog, you're probably an old hand at KING KONG. Maybe you've even seen it more times than I have. (I've personally long stopped counting the numbers of times I've seen movies, but I know I've seen KONG more than 15 times.) But if you're one of the people who has somehow missed out on this ineffable pleasure, do yourself -- do your family -- a favor and rush down to the video store today and buy or rent yourself an unbeatable evening of entertainment. Or, if you have Turner Classic Movies, turn it on tonight starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern for a full evening of KONG-related entertainment, beginning with the Merian C. Cooper documentary, I'M KING KONG.
KING KONG changed Ray Harryhausen's life when he first saw it at the age of 13. If you're the right age, maybe it'll change yours, too.
Today I get to do the final proofreading of Video Watchdog #123, our 20th Anniversary issue, which features Steven Lloyd's coverage of the second LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION set and David Kalat's profile of the inventive Japanese horror writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (CURE, CHARISMA and BRIGHT FUTURE). You may be interested to know that the great horror novelist and critic Ramsey Campbell has agreed to join the VW Kennel with a regular column, "Ramsey's Rambles," which will debut in VW #124. In each issue, Ramsey is going to discuss whatever film is obsessing him at the moment, and I'm sure we'll all enjoy following his lead to wherever it might take us.
Lastly, I want to mention that the new Mario Bava Soundtrack Anthology, Volume 2 disc -- a two-disc set from DigitMovies featuring Carlo Rustichelli's complete scores for THE WHIP AND THE BODY (mono) and BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (full stereo!) -- is now in stock here at Video Watchdog. (Several of these cues can also be heard in other beloved movies, too, including Bava's KILL, BABY... KILL! and the Paul Naschy film A DRAGONFLY FOR EACH CORPSE.) We don't have an order page up yet on the home site, because we're still busy with the issue-in-progress, but it can be ordered from our toll-free number 1-800-275-8395 for $29.95 (USA first class) or $34.95 (outside USA, air mail), postage paid. (I should emphasize that I think these are the correct prices, which are the same as the EUGENIE double disc set we are selling from the same company. Donna, who will be filling your order, will know all the correct pricing so discuss this with her.) This is the soundtrack set all your Eurocultists have been most eagerly awaiting, and it's everything you hoped it would be. The full-color, illustrated booklet includes liner notes by Claudio Fuiano and me, as well as an interview with Maestro Rustichelli, who lamentably passed away before seeing this project come to fruition.
So today, two great dreams come true: KING KONG on DVD, and the two greatest Mario Bava scores on CD!
Monday, November 21, 2005
A Fine Feathered Film
The movie I felt most like watching to test these newly remastered waters was THE BIRDS (1963), which I haven't seen for awhile and was the subject of a recent interesting discussion on the Classic Horror Film Boards, in the "1960s and '70s Horror" folder. The gist of the conversation was, "Is it science fiction or not?" I can see where some might think so, but I would more readily categorize it as fantasy since there's no science involved, unless you side with the picture's resident ornithologist Mrs. Bundy (Ethel Griffies, who played Mrs. Whack in 1935's WERE-WOLF OF LONDON!) and consider that different species of birds don't typically flock together; then, I suppose, the story might represent some department of science fiction.
Well before I'd read much in the way of film criticism or analysis, I understood intuitively that the movie was a kind of allegory and that the bird attacks were somehow connected to the clashing psychic energies surrounding the characters of Melanie ('Tippi' Hedren) and Lydia (Jessica Tandy, whose performance struck me as particularly marvelous on this viewing). Since it had been some time since I'd seen THE BIRDS, my memory was that Melanie was herself the instigator, being something of a flighty character, wary of being caged, and that her mysterious relationship to the birds became most pronounced at the end, following her attack in the upstairs room. Just as she, in her shock, is easily disturbed, so must the Brenners guide her through the birds warily. There is something to this interpretation, I think, but it doesn't shell out quite so perfectly -- or so I see on refreshed acquaintence -- as do the birds' ties to Lydia, a widow who fears the coming of Melanie as a sign that her grown son Mitch (a pitch-perfect Rod Taylor) may leave her home without its core male strength. A gull swoops down to strike Melanie as Mitch prepares to intercept her at the dock where she is returning her rented boat; a gull crashes into the door of Annie Hayworth's (Suzanne Pleshette's) house after Melanie agrees to stay for Cathy's (Veronica Cartwright's) birthday party; Lydia persuades Melanie to pick up Cathy from the school house because she is fearful of another attack, which does indeed happen -- endangering Melanie, as well; at the Tides restaurant, the bird attacks cause a group of (interestingly, all women) customers to turn against Melanie and accuse her of being "evil" and attracting the birds to Bodega Bay; and I also find it relevant that Lydia is startled by a dead bird at rest on the portrait of Mitch's father, because she later describes her "weakness" as being instilled in her by a lifetime with a strong husband. Of course, during the birthday party, Melanie confides to Mitch that she harbors only angry feelings toward her self-absorbed, absentee mother, a confession whose contained emotion seems to immediately precipitate another attack on the children at the birthday party.
Thus, the most meaningful storyline of THE BIRDS (as I read it, anyway) is really about Lydia's acceptance of Melanie as a daughter, and Melanie's acceptance of Lydia as a mother. (There is a physical resemblance between Melanie and Lydia too, that doesn't exist in Mitch's earlier girlfriend Annie; it may well be the sign Lydia recognizes as indication that this is the woman Mitch will take seriously.) When Melanie emerges from her shock long enough to look up at Lydia at the end of the movie, their connection has the uplifting power of a happy ending before the film continues on to its final, uncertain shot, and we sense that Lydia has finally found her strength in the necessity to care for this more vulnerable creature. The lovebirds are, in a sense, these two -- two of a kind. Their truce may last, or it may not.
I love the fact that THE BIRDS continues to reward me intellectually, as well as viscerally, each time I see it. I have vivid memories of seeing it for the first time, with my mother and grandmother, on NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES -- several years before I caught up with PSYCHO on television. People of subsequent generations can't appreciate the impact of that program, which was a very big deal in those three-network days, and I'm sure the movie was cut to some extent... but it was a major discovery for me, and I especially remember the excitement created in our living room by the playground scene as more and more birds were added to the jungle gym. Along with the TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Eye of the Beholder," it was one of my earliest and most captivating encounters with film technique. It was almost certainly one of the starting points of my appreciation for film editing. (All hail George Tomasini, who also edited Rod Taylor's performance in THE TIME MACHINE.)
It's been 40 years since that night, and seeing THE BIRDS again -- for the first time on my HD widescreen set (the biggest I've ever seen it, which gave me a whole new appreciation of its uses of landscape and depth of composition) -- I was filled with absolute admiration. Yes, Hitchcock takes his sweet time telling the story, which would certainly never be tolerated in today's market (today's loss), but it's not tedium; it's remarkable technique, a master toying with his story the way a cat toys with a mouse before the kill, and making his characters and their relationships all the more real in the process. Consequently, there is not a single performance in the film that falls short; not only that, but everyone seems to have layers of backstory and their intimate conversations often fade to black on notes of wonderment -- offbeat, haunting chords in a minor key. Most significantly, this is a special effects movie and it's hard to imagine any of its effects being filmed with greater success or to greater effect today. To note that its dramatic impact was not buttressed by a musical score only adds to its achievement, though it is nevertheless one of the most sonically manipulative of Hitchcock's films.
So much to savor here: the way Mitch's discovery of Melanie's lovebirds prank is played out entirely in long shot, silent, with Mitch emphasized in the distance by his white sweater... Lydia's discovery of the shattered teacups in the neighbor's farmhouse (pictured above)... her discovery of the dead neighbor, a FRANKENSTEIN-like three-step cut closer into his gouged eyesockets, follwed by her silent flight from the house and reckless drive back home (again, in long shot)... Cathy feeling sick prior to the attack on the Brenner home and asking Melanie, rather than Lydia, for help (and the cutaway to Lydia, underscoring her notice of it)... Mrs. Bundy unable to turn around fully to face Melanie in the wake of the attack outside the Tides restaurant... and the way the lights suddenly go out in the Brenner home during the final attack. For the first time, I got a sense from watching the film on video how theater audiences must have jumped when this happened -- and also the trepidation they must have felt when Melanie guides her flashlight beam toward the PSYCHO-like flight of stairs leading to that fateful room on the second floor.
Furthermore, this viewing pointed out to me how much George A. Romero is indebted to this film, in particular. Hitchcock's "siege" picture, like Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, begins with the everyday, offers no explanation for the attacks, stages some memorable shots of Rod Taylor bracing the interior of his home against invasion (I love the moment when, having no rope, he trashes a living room lamp to rip out its wiring and secure a shutter), and the ending finds the survivors packing up into a reliable vehicle and moving out. This film's basic structure has served Romero well for four separate films -- and it's a testament to Romero's own resourcefulness that he's parlayed his borrowings into a whole new subdivision of horror fare, itself imitated by countless others.
Hitchcock's later films all have points of interest, even long stretches of bravura filmmaking, but THE BIRDS is the last produced of the films in this "MASTERPIECE COLLECTION" that seems to me an inarguable masterpiece. As time goes on, Hitchcock shows signs of becoming, in death, a kind of conscience of cinema. We may drift away from his movies from time to time, but they always remain a part of us and it's always refreshing and nourishing -- even enlarging -- to return to them. It's hard to think of areas on the map of cinema that he did not chart or extend in some way, and our appreciation of them speaks to our own lifelong growth as an audience.
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For example, for the first time in 25 years, there will be a new sheriff in town in Hamilton County. Sheriff Simon Leis has been re-elected in the last six elections, but will retire after this term.
Running on the Republican side, Chief Deputy Sean Donovan is looking to replace Leis. Jim Neil will run on the Democrat ticket. Regardless of who wins in Tuesday's election, the changing of the guard after 25 years will result in some changes to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.
On the agenda for both candidates is a look at the shrinking budget and how the money can be used most effectively.
"The county is under severe budget constraints," explained Chief Deputy Donovan. "We have a $54 million budget. But the basic police service, the basic public service, that's what we're here to do. As a service agency, I want to provide that service to the best."
"I'm looking to do an independent fiscal and operational audit of the sheriff's office budget," said Neil.
Both candidates have been with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office for more than 30 years. For the last 15 years, Chief Deputy Donovan has served as Sheriff Leis' right-hand man. But Donovan says he wants to implement his own ideas if elected.
"Do I have plans to maybe modernize or do things more efficiently than we're doing now? Well yes," Donovan said. "And I'm going to look at those things."
Neil has worn many hats within the sheriff's office, and feels that one way to tackle the budget issue is to join forces with other agencies.
"I will be working with the other agencies," Neil said. "That doesn't cost anything. That's just something that needs to be done."
Both gentlemen feel that they have the experience needed to take the sheriff's office to the next level.
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Town's new Vodafone store leads the world (From Swindon Advertiser)
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Town's new Vodafone store leads the world
5:30am Saturday 22nd February 2014 in News
VODAFONE has opened a world-leading store in Swindon.
The communications giant yesterday unveiled the product of five weeks' building work in the town centre, after contractors knocked through to the former Jessops unit which stood next to Vodafone in Canal Walk.
The store design is one of only four in the world modelled on the global design which will eventually be introduced to every retail space in the world.
The decision to triple the original store's floorspace in Swindon was a response to the high demand which has been seen in the town.
New jobs have been created as a result of the renovations, with prospective applicants encouraged to access the careers section of the Vodafone website.
Alex Leonard, the store manager, said: "The majority of the customers have been blown away.
"The increase in size is a response to the regeneration which is going on at the top of town and with stores like BHS, which are all improving. We are just trying to keep up.
"All the handsets in the store are now live models. And we are actively encouraging customers to come in and play with them for 15 minutes. "It's nothing like we have ever had before.
"There was a demand in Swindon that the previous site couldn't cope with."
Opening hours at the store will remain the same, from 9am until 6pm Monday to Saturday, and 10.30am until 4.30pm on Sunday.
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11:07am Sat 22 Feb 14
Phantom Poster says...
11:15am Sat 22 Feb 14
Mango man says...
Shoplifters paradise in other words!
4:18pm Sat 22 Feb 14
GalaxyMan says...
4:41pm Sat 22 Feb 14
house on the hill says...
12:05am Sun 23 Feb 14
Phantom Poster says...
house on the hill wrote:We don't want stupid reporting saying things such as "leads the world". Can't Adver reporters spot marketing **** and as a result not lend it credence?
So a global company opens a revamped store in Swindon and still they moan! What exactly is it you want?
7:26am Sun 23 Feb 14
GalaxyMan says...
house on the hill wrote:But it does look like a classroom in an infants school!
So a global company opens a revamped store in Swindon and still they moan! What exactly is it you want?
Of course its good news to have shops being opened, that goes without saying surely, but if it looks something less than perhaps it could is that not worth pointing out?
8:25am Sun 23 Feb 14
house on the hill says...
GalaxyMan wrote:I would imagine that a company like Vodaphone would have does their market research and if that is what they feel will generate the most business then clearly that is what they are going to do. I wonder what the demographic of their customers actually is?
house on the hill wrote:But it does look like a classroom in an infants school!
So a global company opens a revamped store in Swindon and still they moan! What exactly is it you want?
Of course its good news to have shops being opened, that goes without saying surely, but if it looks something less than perhaps it could is that not worth pointing out?
And I actually agree with you that it looks like a kindergarten, but then i dont have the benefit of Vodaphones market research department and you can get better deals online anyway.
10:45am Sun 23 Feb 14
faatmaan says...
3:15pm Sun 23 Feb 14
house on the hill says...
faatmaan wrote:I think you will find thats just called good business
whats the beting they also spent money with the adver advertising this !
12:01pm Mon 24 Feb 14
Swindon_AOK says...
Like others said, advertising that the models on display are now fully functioning handsets is not a good idea in a town like Swindon.....a women in the O2 shop once told me they had terrible problems with theft in there. This news will be a boon to the handset resale market in the town, true regeneration at work!
8:29pm Mon 24 Feb 14
SockPuppet says...
Still they did need to make it bigger and it is smart.
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PLATTSBURGH — A new bill being considered by New York state lawmakers would help prohibit the spread and introduction of invasive species across the state.
Sen. Betty Little recently introduced the legislation to the New York State Senate as a companion to a similar one put forth by Assemblyman Bob Sweeney and co-supported by Assemblywoman Teresa Sayward.
The legislation would provide the state's Department of Environmental Conservation with explicit authority to regulate the sale, purchase, possession, introduction, importation and transport of invasive species and would establish penalties for those who violate such regulations.
"This is a huge problem in our country and a huge problem in the Adirondacks and all of our lakes," Little said of the continued spread of invasive species. "It affects the quality of our environment, and it affects the value of our property. The spread of invasives on our land and in our water is a rapidly growing problem."
Invasive species, such as water milfoil and zebra mussels, out-compete native species and diminish biological diversity. As invasive species take hold in fields, forests, streams and lakes, they change a region's entire ecosystem and have caused widespread and costly damage.
Supporters believe the new legislation would help reduce the potential impact invasive species have on communities.
"This will help close down the pathway of our worst invasive species," said Hilary Smith, the current chair for the New York State Invasive Species Advisory Committee. "It will set up a regulatory system to evaluate species and, based on a variety of different criteria, the likelihood of a species spreading.
"The state would be charged with developing a list of species that people are prohibited to sell," she added. "It would basically remove the worst invasive species from being able to be sold in New York state."
Although many invasive species have established colonies on lands and in waters across the state, many of those infestations are not wide-spread. The legislation would add another measure in preventing those species from spreading further.
"The invasive-species problem is exacerbated by humans moving things around, sometimes unintentionally and sometimes intentionally," Smith said. "Regulation is one piece of the solution."
Another focal point is public education, Little noted.
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The St. Louis Cardinals have signed a trio of amateur teenage prospects out of Latin America for a total of $1.25 million, as Ben Badler of Baseball America reports. This is the first year that MLB's new collective bargaining agreement has placed strict rules on amateur talent spending, so bonuses are smaller than we would've seen in the past.
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5:00pm Thursday 29th November 2012 in News By Emily Roberts, Chief Reporter
Buy this photo Lilly-Ella Butler, five, from South Ham, Basingstoke meets Jonas the reindeer
SANTA'S sleigh bells rang out as he arrived in The Malls in Basingstoke – pulled by a herd of reindeer.
The beautiful animals travelled all the way from Cairngorm in the Scottish Highlands to Basingstoke, where they were admired by hundreds of spectators who had gathered for the popular annual event.
Leading the procession were reindeer Grunta and Jonas, followed by Oryx, Macaroon, Duke and Stenoa, who at just six-months-old was the youngest, and smallest, in the gang of males.
The herd belongs to Tilly Smith, who has looked after them for 32 years.
She said: "They live in the only mountainous area of Great Britain, and it's been 60 years since the first ones arrived.
"They are very tame and docile and quiet, and very easy-going when they see new surroundings. They are here as a little herd of reindeer and they get confidence from each other, and from us. They absorb that from people."
Children stroked the friendly animals, and gave letters to Father Christmas who wandered around chatting to families in the crowds.
Caitlyn McGowan, seven, from Lawrence Close, Popley, handed a Christmas list to Santa. The Marnel Junior School pupil said: "I asked for a new scooter because I broke my other one when I was playing on it. I like the reindeer – they look pretty."
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Toyota unveiled the new Camry it will use in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for 2013 and beyond on Tuesday, showing reporters a redesigned race car that closely resembles the street version of the popular sedan.
All four of NASCAR's auto manufacturers – Toyota, Ford, Dodge and Chevrolet – are bringing new versions of the so-called COT chassis to Sprint Cup Series racing next year.
A major complaint with the original version of the COT is how unattractive and boxy it was. After adding some manufacturer-specific design elements into the Nationwide Series cars starting in 2011, NASCAR is now letting the auto makers put their own identity into the Sprint Cup Series cars.
While the Ford and Dodge models unveiled earlier this year look a bit racier, the Toyota looks pretty much like a Camry (which apparently is the point of the whole thing).
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(UPDATE 3:02 PM)- As expected, Craig Anderson will get the start in goal for the Senators tonight. Matt Carkner draws back into the line up and Brian Lee heads to the press box. Game is on CBC and puck drop is just after 7:00PM.
A night after another thrilling win at Scotiabank Place, the Ottawa Senators will try to close out the 2011 schedule in style when they visit the Buffalo Sabres.
The Sens should be riding a high after a dramatic 4-3 overtime win over the Calgary Flames last night. A win punctuated by a one time blast that was the 400th goal of Daniel Alfredsson's amazing career.
As Ottawa Senators fans, I think we sometime forget just how lucky we are to have a Captain like Alfie. The NHL's longest serving captain has played his whole career in our city and has poured his heart and soul into this team. When he ripped that that OT winner home last night it was just another amazing moment for a guy that should be a Hall of Famer when his career is all said and done.
The reaction of his teammates, the crowd and Alfredsson himself during the three star announcement showed you just how special it was for Alfie to hit that milestone on home ice.
Last night's win was just another in a long line of dramatic rallies by Paul MacLean's team. Even with the Sens down 3-0 through twenty, I had a feeling the game was still in reach. That`s just the way things have been for Ottawa this season.
They refuse to quit.
Foligno got the ball rolling, Zack Smith made it a one goal game and a dazzling effort by Erik Karlsson set the stage for Alfie. I don't know if I was alone in this but I could just feel that Alfredsson was going to get the winner. When the Flames took a penalty in OT, the stage was set.
Looking on from the comfort of the Wiser's Box, I watched Alfie score one of the most memorable goals I have witnessed at SBP. I have now sat in the same seat in that box while the Sens rallied to beat Columbus with two late goals, Foligno scored in the dying seconds to beat the Panthers, Butler scored in OT to beat the Panthers again and and last night, when Alfie scored 400.
Needless to say I will be petitioning for a full time seat in that box!
The Sens won't have a ton of time to enjoy this victory as they play an important contest in Buffalo tonight. Ottawa sits in 9th in the East, but are tied in points with the 6th place Devils. A win tonight could see the Sens jump a few teams depending what happens around the league.
No morning skate for the Sens today but expect Craig Anderson to get the start in goal. He was excellent in relief of Auld last night and his steady goaltending allowed the Sens to rally.
The Sens are on the ice for an optional morning skate at 11:30 AM this morning in Buffalo so I'll pass along any line up updates as they become available.
- A final note- Thanks to all of you that took the time to cast your ballot yesterday. Really sounded like a ton of you took up the challenge and with the voting set to close on January 4th, we need to keep the ball rolling. Our Sens are in a great spot and should be well represented in this year's All Star Game. Thank you, Sens fans!


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On Saturday, I ventured over to Sterling for the afternoon to help out the MRC Sterling Classic Road Race. On my way to check in I bumped into former teammate and all around cool dude, Jim English. He asked when I was going to start blogging again… because he needed a laugh. Well Jim, If you're reading this, the dry spell is now over.
My blogging break, which lasted for two solid months and 16 days, was action packed with school, applying for jobs, and of course riding bikes. On the school front, I am done! On Saturday I graduate. Nuts. It hasn't quite hit me yet that I am all done. On Sunday I will be having a graduation party at my house in Shirley. Anyone who wants to come is invited. I think it's at 4 pm… I'll have to check with my Ma.
On the job front…I have a job. I sent out no less than 30 personalized applications, cover letters, resumes, and portfolios to lots of different companies. I heard back from a few but lots suggested I try back at the end of the summer when more were hiring. I think that part of me was too picky and limited the range of the skills and knowledge I have picked up… but I know what I want to do. I was hired as the Creative Director (in charge of designing logos, packaging, managing web sites, promotional material, and so much more…) at a sporting goods manufacturer (which also happens to be my family's business). I am super excited about this because I get to do everything which I love doing. Yea!
Biking is also going well. I haven't raced yet this year or have even bought my racing license. My plan is to only mountain bike race over the summer and mainly focus on the long 6, 12, and 24 hr events. Every once and a while I'll throw in a regular xc race for fun. I want to save up as much money as I can though because there is lots of stuff I would like to buy, I would like to move out of Shirley by the end of the summer, and I will be racing cross every weekend come the fall. As of now, I am super excited about how crisp and dark my tan lines are this early in the season.
Yea. Oh and thanks to all those people which still came to this site to see if I had posted anything. Surprisingly there were about 40 hits (on average) every day over the last few months.
I woke up nice and early, ate some b-fast, and jetted off to Lincoln Woods for some sweet riding. My fingers were crossed and hoping for completely ride-able conditions… and that's what I got.
It was a bit nippy and there were random patches ice, but all things considered, it was great to be zipping in and out of trees again. The ride was cut short (after about an hour and a half) when I began getting hunger pains which forced me to retreat back to my bachelor pad to stuff my face with some chili. I love chili.
I finished writing 15 cover letters last night. Those will be sent out in a little care package to 15 lucky companies over the weekend along with my resume, work samples, personality, and of course… the business cards.
My fingers are crossed. You should cross yours too.
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Ive been looking at this for a while and am virtually immune to noticing anything wrong now. I've gotta take a break… and stay awake for saftey's sake.
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Temperatures were soaring over here on the East Coast today. It felt like 50 degrees outside but even more so, when biking and in the sun, it was just… ahhhhhh perfect. No hat, no gloves, and no winter jacket. I even contemplated beginning to work on my tan lines… but ruled against it.
A few reasons made me put on my leg warmers. Firstly, my legs are a forest right now. Ever since I started shaving 'em for racing, I just feel weird when I rock the bibs and my legs don't look fast. It's all or nothing. Once the temp increases another 10 degrees I'll be busting out the clippers and Venus razor.
Secondly, the roads are a mess. Water water everywhere. No Ice though… so that's a huge plus. Having that extra layer between me and the puddles, besides my leg fur, is kinda nice. You just don't get cold. Yea.
3 hrs in the books today. I have no clue how far I went but I was riding just how I wanted too.
With temperatures predicted to be in the 40's over the weekend, I planned to venture home for part of the weekend to get in some solid miles with my brother and his new custom IF which can be set up for road, cross, single speeding, can be broken in half for traveling, and even has all of these extra little do hickeys which allow for fenders/racks to be thrown on as well. It's pretty awesome. Anyway, plans changed mid week when I began to develop the beginnings of what would be a cold which would knock me out of commission through the rest of the weekend.
I went home anyway though. There is nothing like having a full fridge at your fingertips compared to the random assortment of food I have here at school… which includes salsa. Salsa can be put on anything or just eaten with a spoon straight out of the jar. I'm guilty.
So no riding happened from Thursday through this morning (Monday). I did put in 3 hrs today and have the same planned for tomorrow.
Within the next couple days I'll be registering for the first race of the year. I've also been chatting with Rich about 24 Hours of Great Glen. Looks like a 2 man team. For 24 Hours of Pats peak I'm set on solo.
With temps in the 40's today I was determined to get into the woods and give it my best shot of riding despite all of the snow which is still around. To make a long story short…it was impossible to ride anywhere… except for down stuff. I like riding down stuff.
Twice I hiked my way up through 6 inches of dense wet snow to the highest point Lincoln Woods has to offer. Now if you've ridden at Lincoln Woods you know that you are most likely riding uphill or downhill the whole entire time. As a result, the two trips I spent pushing my bike up hills were well spent on the slip sliding journey on the way down.


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The Jets have signed Schilens. Terms of the deal with Schilens were not immediately disclosed.||||||| The 6-foot-4 Schilens, who spent the last four seasons with the Oakland Raiders, gives New York a much-needed big and speedy target.
The Jets addressed a couple of their major needs in free agency Friday, signing wide receiver Chaz Schilens and backup quarterback Drew Stanton.||||||| The 6-foot-4 Schilens, who spent the last four seasons with the Oakland Raiders, gives New York a much-needed big and speedy target. He'll likely be given the chance to win the No. 2 starting job opposite Santonio Holmes since Plaxico Burress is a free agent and is unlikely to be re-signed. Schilens, a seventh-round draft pick out of San Diego State in 2008, has 72 catches for 902 yards and seven touchdowns.
Schilens got hurt in the preseason again, injuring his knee in the exhibition opener. Schilens will be evaluated week to week, coach Hue Jackson said Saturday.||||||| Schilens missed significant time the past two seasons after breaking his foot in practice in 2009 and having knee surgery last August.
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Schilens is seeing a knee specialist and may need arthroscopic surgery.||||||| Coach Tom Cable made the announcement Monday about Schilens' latest injury. Cable says it likely is a result of Schilens overcompensating for his injured left foot. He had 29 catches for 365 yards and two touchdowns, but needed another operation after the season to help the foot fully heal. Cable says he hopes Schilens would be back by the opener Sept. 12 at Tennessee if he needs the surgery.


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Spring 2014 (Issue No. 2) (pdf)
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DALLAS — The Convoy of Hope kicked off a national two-year tour in Dallas Saturday to help break the cycle of poverty.
Thousands of volunteers teamed up with dozens of churches to hand out supplies and food to families in need at Fair Park.
"We know there are a lot of problems in South Dallas," said one of the organizers, Steve Patterson, pastor at Dallas Metro Family Fellowship Church. "Our primary goal is to bring hope and restoration to the citizens of Dallas."
Thousands of people wandered around dozens of booths getting everything from free groceries to haircuts to family portraits.
Krystal Williams and her young daughter received new tennis shoes. "We're blessed," she said. "God is blessing us, he really is."
Organizers expected to help 20,000 people. After the Dallas event, the Convoy of Hope will then spend the next two years traveling the country helping people in all 50 states.
The effort is expected to cost $50 million.
Since it was formed in 1994, Convoy of Hope says it has helped more than 51 million people in more than 100 countries.
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Vera A. (Wind) Spaulding, 91, entered into rest on April 16, 2012, at her home in Clayton surrounded by her children.
Vera was born in Spokane on Nov. 13, 1920, and moved to Clayton a short time later. She graduated from Deer Park High School in 1938 and then attended St. Luke's Hospital for nurses' training in Spokane, graduating in 1941.
Vera married Jack Spaulding on Oct. 18, 1941, and they moved to Seattle.
She worked at West Seattle General Hospital until she moved back to the family homestead in Clayton in 1975.
Jack preceded Vera in death, in 2004.
A funeral service will be 2 p.m. on May 21 at Wild Rose Prairie United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Betty Smith officiating and the Scottish Rite Rose Croix Funeral Team participating, for lifelong Wild Rose Prairie resident John E. Yingst, 92, who passed away on May 14.
Born in 1920 on Wild Rose Prairie, he graduated from Deer Park High School in 1938. He served as a U.S. Army radioman during World War II in the Aleutian Island and the Philippines.
After his discharge, he worked for years at Deer Park Pine Industries.
(Updated May 20)Washington State Patrol investigators who thought more than one person may have been involved in a fatal one-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 395 on Friday morning, now believe the driver was alone in the pickup truck.
According to the WSP, 19-year-old Jesse Cox was southbound on the highway between Hatch and Monroe roads at around 5:45 a.m. when he left the roadway and rolled a couple of times before it came to rest in a backyard of a home on Ballard Road.
When emergency crews arrived on the scene they found a body that had been apparently ejected from the vehicle.


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With the beginning of Spring Training games, the eyes of Angels fans turn to the Arizona desert. Some of us are going to make new Spring Training memories in 2013 and many have great ones to share from years past. So let's hear them.
For me, Spring Training is about so much more than baseball. It is a couple of days out of the office, in the sun, hanging out with my dad and/or friends. It's the realization that summer is almost here, and a time to remember summers of the past.
My favorite trip would be my first, in March of 2007. I bought a package for myself and my father as a Christmas gift; a way of saying thanks for hanging in there until I finally got my act together. Yes, I found out I overpaid for everything, but the barbecue after the game was great. Great food, free beer, and time to hang out with Scioscia, Hatcher, and Reggie Willits.
Coolest baseball moment: seeing a 19 year old Mike Trout in March 2011. He flew out to center in his one at bat, but was standing on second when the ball was caught.
I've been to most of the ballparks (no Phoenix Municipal or Surprise until this upcoming trip) and would love to see which are your favorites, have your favorite foods and features, or are on your wish list. Obviously Tempe Diablo is a blast, but here are some of my other favorites.
Overall: Camelback. From walking through the practice fields to the sight lines and look of the park, it is great.
Hidden Gem: Maryvale. Home of the Brewers, this is a beautiful ballpark with shaded seats tucked in a nondescript neighborhood. Bonus: the brats are the same as the ones served in Milwaukee and are amazing.
Nicest: Scottsdale. All brick and very classy. The smell of garlic fries is incredibly welcoming for a guy who lived up north for a while.
Food: Peoria. A huge variety, but the clincher is the fresh made mini-donuts. You watch the dough drop, cook, and land right in a bag. Cover with powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar, shake, and enjoy.
Too Big: Salt River. This place is a AAA stadium. It is gorgeous, probably nicer than Sacramento's AAA stadium, I just find it lacks the intimacy and charm I expect out of Spring Training.
Please add your stories, favorites, and tips you think might be helpful, or ask questions if you are planning a trip.