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The Monster Squad (1987)
Rating #:8/10
Director:Fred Dekker
Runtime:82 minutes
Cast:Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan, Brent Chalem, Ryan Lambert, Ashley Bank, Michael Faustino, Mary Ellen Trainor, Leonardo Cimino, Jonathan Gries, Stan Shaw, Lisa Fuller, Jason Hervey
The 80's was a good decade for kids on film, with The Goonies in 1985, Stand By Me in 1986, and The Monster Squad in 1987. If you grew up in that decade or watched a lot of cable television throughout the 90's, then chances are you've come across this film. I've seen the movie numerous times when it aired on television, but I can't say I actually remember ever viewing it uncut, with its violence and language intact, until now. The film opened to theaters in 1987 to poor numbers, mostly believed to be due to the bad marketing campaign. Rated PG-13, with lots of language and violence, the movie was "too adult" for younger viewers and seemed "too childish" for older viewers, so it never really found its audience.
Over the next couple decades the movie would see itself on VHS and television screens, capturing a whole new audience and eventually creating a cult following. Those that grew up watching the film would try to seek it out as adults, but the out-of-print VHS was scarce, and online auctions had it at ridiculous prices. Regardless, people still sought it out and they'd usually end up with bootleg copies of it on VHS or horrible VHS-to-DVD-R transfers. I have no idea why it took so long, but it wasn't until twenty years later that Lionsgate would purchase the rights and finally give it the proper DVD release it deserved.
Co-writer and director Fred Dekker started his career as writer for the 1986 comedy-horror film House, then went on to do the awesomely-cheesy zombie romp Night of the Creeps shortly after. Being a movie buff with a passion for the old Universal monsters, he got an idea for a Little Rascals meets the Universal monsters film, so he and co-writer Shane Black got together and brought us The Monster Squad. Watching the movie all over again was a delight, but being older, I noticed things I didn't as a child. For one, the film has a huge number of plot-holes and scenes that seemed unintentionally hilarious, but then again, the whole premise for the movie is ridiculous, but that's also what makes it incredibly unique and fun.
Dracula using dynamite? intentional or not, I found it very hilarious -- he's supposed to be the badass boss of all bloodsuckers, yet he's seen here throwing around dynamite to get the job done! Then you've got some of the slowest-moving monsters you'll see on-screen, especially the vampire brides, who would casually walk (arms straight, as to not bump into things, I assume), giving one of our leads enough time to bust out his bow-and-arrow and take'em out.
So for those that, for one reason or another, haven't seen this film yet, the story starts off with Dracula getting a handful of legendary monsters together -- the Wolfman, the Mummy, Gillman, and Frankenstein's Monster -- in hopes of retrieving some sort of ancient amulet to help further his plan of world domination. However, the amulet and Van Helsing's book have found their way into the hands of a group of horror-fanatic kids that have determined it's their duty to be rid of Dracula and his goons.
Naturally, much like in most films, Frankenstein's Monster ends up on the side of good, being that his mind is still that of a child and he has no evil intentions like his fellow "peers". The movie is full of funny and vulgar lines from the young kids that add to the comedy aspect of the film, with "Horace" character as the "fat kid" offering the funniest dialogue. The overall tone of this picture is that it's a film not to be taken seriously, which is why a lot of the plot-holes and ridiculous moments in it can be forgiven. When it called for, the movie is a little dark and violent, while other times it's light-hearted and comedic. It's just an all-around fun movie, and still to this day there are very few films that can offer the unique dark and light aspect it had to offer.
With effects done by Stan Winston, the look of the monsters were pretty much guaranteed to be a success from the beginning. The looks of the Mummy and Gillman were my favorites, while Wolfman offered an interesting more Lupine approach. Frankenstein's Monster looked decent and offered more variety compared to the original take, and they pretty much went for the classic Universal Dracula, who I personally thought was the weakest-looking of the bunch, but that's just my opinion, and I'm not a particular fan of the old Universal monster movies anyway.
This film was released on DVD July 24th '07 and sold out everywhere. I literally visited three different stores to discover it wasn't in stock. Even my usual haunts online had it backordered for another week-or-so. It just goes to show that the film has a huge following and I wouldn't be surprised if Hollywood (as unoriginal as it is now-a-days) catches wind of this and decides to remake the film. Hopefully that time will never come, but at this point, you never know. There have been some genre films from the 80's and early 90's that have tried to capture the fun and unique aspect this movie offered, by combining a bunch of different monsters together against a group of underdogs, but of course it was never successfully duplicated and they ended up as easily-forgotten attempts.
Fans may have noticed that during some television broadcasts (namely one from TNT some years back) some of the language and violence was edited, but were compensated with extended and deleted scenes that were never seen before. For some reason these scenes didn't make it onto the newly-released DVD, but you can find them easily on YouTube. When it's all said and done, Monster Squad has definitely taught us one important thing through the years and that is, yes, Wolfman do got nards, and when face-to-face with him, it's best to remember that.
There's a reason why this film has a huge cult following behind it, and that's because it proves to this day that it remains as one of the most fun and creative films to come out of the genre, and even now, still gains fans thanks to numerous television broadcasts, and hopefully with the new DVD release. Haven't seen it? See it now! Already seen it? See it again!
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Labor's credibility lostPUBLISHED: 11 May 2013 00:35:00 | UPDATED: 13 May 2013 05:58:14PUBLISHED: 11 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 11 May 2013
The Australian Financial Review
When Wayne Swan reveals the size of the hole in the government's finances on Tuesday, it could be one of those penny-dropping, banana republic moments when it sinks in that we are truly in a fix. For the first time since the early 1990s, there is serious unease not just about threats from outside – the Asian and tech crashes, the global financial crisis and the euro zone disaster – but about our own government's ability to manage the economy.
Labor trashed its economic credentials under the Whitlam government, then repaired its image as Hawke and Keating renewed the Australian economy in the 1980s. Kevin Rudd rightly lectured the spendthrift late-era Howard government that "the reckless spending has to stop". Mr Swan, named the world's best treasurer only two years ago, once freely used "surplus" as a one-word code for Labor's economic credentials.
But Mr Swan, who began the job with a surplus in hand, has never delivered one of his own and in December gave up the notion of producing one any time soon. Since then, there has been a rapid series of revelations on how far revenue is falling short of Labor's inflated expectations.
Political theatre aside, in a medium-sized economy highly leveraged to commodity price swings, what the central government takes and spends matters a great deal. If it works well, fiscal policy should work with the floating exchange rate to stabilise the economy's growth path. Instead, fixing our broken budget will probably dominate the national debate for at least the rest of the decade, regardless of elections and party politics. In the rest of the Western world, politics since 2009 has been about how to spread the pain of spending cuts. From now on, we are in that boat as well.
Yet the Gillard government ignored the plentiful warnings this was what was coming. The benchmark iron ore price peaked through mid-2011. BHP announced last August that it was shelving massive planned expansions. The government's top economic official, Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson, warned in the same month that the revenue "bubble" from the resources boom was over, and that it was wrong to encourage voters to think that large spending programs could continue.
Months earlier, in March 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard agreed that prudent spending was a good thing. Pointing overseas, she noted "there has never been more punishment meted out to countries that don't meet their fiscal targets than there is today". But confronted with this reality at home, the Gillard government chose to keep spending as usual. Labor failed to react because its every instinct since 2007 has been that of an interventionist government that believes its own spending wish list – or "reforms", a word now as debased as surplus – comes first. Even as the revenue shrank, spending went on. In February 2009, Mr Rudd famously declared market economics dead. But neither he nor his successor had any serious plans to grow the economy by sharpening the incentives to work, save and invest. They were more attached to redistribution, even when the amount to redistribute began shrinking before their plans could be delivered.
The government now goes into the budget with a laundry list of plans that does not match the money available, and is madly back-pedalling on spending promises it made earlier in order to find odds and ends to fund what it can. Mr Swan tells elsewhere in the AFR Weekend that history will bear him out and that the coalition is offering only austerity. To be credible, he needs to confess how, under his watch, Labor has spent too much of a resources boom revenue bubble that could never last. He needs to offer a believable path back to surplus that comes after paying the full costs of Labor's big-spending programs. And he must explain how the budget will be in surpluses "over the cycle" as Labor's fiscal rules still maintain. That will be difficult as the upswing of a massive commodity price cycle has already passed. So this will have to be delivered through the downside – right now that is not a credible place to be.
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Shakespeare trivia
I'm off again, this time to Vancouver, BC for a Supernatural Convention with Eleanor, whose birthday we are celebrating, and our friend Glynis (the person who made my great blog header).
Until I get back and write some proper book reviews, I leave you with these trivia questions, from Literary Trivia by Richard Lederer and Michael Gilleland.
Cudgel thy brains to complete these expressions that first saw the light in the plays of William Shakespeare:
1. All the world's a ______. (As You Like It)
2. As good ______ would have it. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
3. The better part of valor is ______. (Henry IV, Part I)
4. A blinking ______. (The Merchant of Venice)
5. Break the ______. (The Taming of the Shrew)
6. Breath'd his ______. (Henry VI, Part III)
7. Come full ______. (King Lear)
8. The course of true love never did run ______. (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
9. Eaten me out of house and ______. (Henry IV, Part II)
10. Every ______ a king. (King Lear)
Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
Where have I been? Off having all kinds of fun!
First I went to the beach in SC for a week with Ron and both kids and we spent time with college friends and their kids and everyone had a great time. Our sandcastle for this trip was the U.S. Capitol, the Washington Monument, the reflecting pool, and the Lincoln Memorial. Our tradition is to make them and then watch the waves wash over until they're gone, so this year we called that part "global warming." (The green plastic alligator and orange crab in the reflecting pool are also traditional–they usually go in the moat of the castle, but this year I believe we gave them politician's names.)
After we drove home from SC, we washed our clothes and set off again for London, where we met my mother and brother and his family. Eleanor and I arrived in time to join them at Speedy's, after they had visited the museum at 221B Baker Street. Then we toured Westminster Abbey, where we were taken around by a verger, and his tour showed us new things. Of course, since we'd read more history since the last time we'd been, some of it meant more to us this time, too. We were fascinated with Henry VII, in particular–after seeing his grave at Westminster, we stood in front of his portrait at the National Portrait Gallery and tried to decide what we thought about his face.
For me and Eleanor, at least, the high point of the trip was the next day when Ron joined us and we went to the Aldwych Theatre to see a matinee of Wolf Hall and then an evening performance of Bring Up the Bodies. I had checked the handicapped accessibility of each theatre before buying tickets, because we were pushing my mother around in a wheelchair, so I had a seat for her that didn't require any stair-climbing. After seeing her get up and down to allow others in the row, however, the accessibility hostess, a lovely woman named Emer, offered us a box right over the stage. Some of the view was limited, but my mother was more comfortable, we could both hear better, and what I lost in full-stage-view I gained in being able to see the actors very close up.
The adaptation of the books to the stage was well done, especially for the scenes in which Thomas Cromwell exhorts the prisoners to confess (to "making love" in the literal sense–when he knew they had done this in the court-proscribed sense–to Anne Boleyn). Although there funny moments, usually gracefully delivered by the incomparable Ben Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell, the plays got increasingly intense. It's a good trick, making an audience hold its breath for a character whose fate is well-known and already decided, as some of the graves in Westminster Abbey had already demonstrated for us. One of the reasons we had to go to the National Portrait Gallery during this visit was to see the way they've hung Thomas Cromwell facing Thomas More. We crowded in as much fun as possible by not sleeping much, including an unplanned midnight show of Antony and Cleopatra at the Globe that got out at 3 am. It's a good time for that play, the middle of the night. Cleopatra was less regal and aloof than I've seen her in other performances. She was playful and passionate, feeding a slice of apple to a groundling and then kissing him and taking big gulps of wine from another groundling's plastic cup.
We also saw a kind of historical production of The Importance of Being Earnest, in which the cast members had played the same parts once each decade since the 1970's. They delivered the lines well, for the most part, but added some framing comedy, and the white-haired actor playing Jack went for the broad humor in his line about being "twenty-nine."
In a change of pace from the historical, we went to Leavesdon for the Harry Potter studio tour. My favorite part was the experience of walking through Diagon Alley–there were so many details in the shop windows and on the signs that I hadn't taken in while watching the movies!
We went on the London Eye, too, as our hotel was right beside it, in the County Hall.
Now we are back, surfeited with tea and plays for the meantime, and preparing for the start of classes at Kenyon, Grinnell, and Oberlin.
I have books to tell you about when I can get around to writing them up properly!
Orange is the New Black
Eleanor and I watched the first episode of Orange is the New Black recently. Not having read much about it, I wasn't sure, at first, whether the main character, Piper, was going to prison to do some kind of embedded reporter stunt or whether she was actually guilty of something—the episode didn't show that until after the first half hour, so all I got was the fish-out-of-water feeling that a white middle-class-woman, obviously supposed to be just like me, was going to a scary place.
In a stunning example of good timing, then, my friend Miriam sent me a copy of the Piper Kerman memoir Orange is the New Black, about her year in a women's prison for a non-violent drug offense. As I started to read it, I was impressed at the way the first episode of the show had been faithful to the details of the book. After I finished reading the book, Eleanor and I watched the second episode of the show. It used a lot of detail from the memoir, making me think that the rest of the show will use the fish-out-of-water perspective in order to focus on the other women, using the memoir as a starting place. The show tries to be funny, but the situation strikes me as terribly sad.
The memoir is detailed and sounds honest, and I read it quickly, in a couple of sittings. Piper's friends sent her books, magazines, and letters while she was in prison, and one of them sent a clipping of a fashion column from the New York Times in which women were wearing orange with a note saying "NYers wear orange in solidarity w/ Piper's plight!" This apparently gave her the title.
During her first two months in prison, Piper says she "tore through every book I received…and watched with envy as people went off to their prison jobs." She describes most of the jobs, including Puppies Behind Bars, Unicor, and Construction and Maintenance Services, where she herself worked.
Although she develops friendships with other prisoners, Piper's tone is occasionally enlivened by a different perspective, as in her description of behavior the week before Easter Sunday:
"I found the religious prostrations of my saber-rattling born-again neighbors tedious. Some of the faithful had a distinct aspect of roostering, loudly proclaiming that they were going to pray on any number of topics, how God was walking beside them through their incarceration, how Jesus loved sinners, and so on. Personally, I thought that one could thank the Lord at a lower volume and perhaps with less self-congratulation. You could worship loudly and still act pretty lousy, abundant evidence of which was running around the Dorms."
The tone does not get holier-than-though, however. The longer she spends in prison, the sorrier she feels about her drug-related crime (carrying a suitcase of money through an airport), because she sees the evidence of how drugs have ruined many of these womens' lives. She says "when I saw in the visiting room how addiction had torn apart the bonds between mothers and their children, I finally understood the true consequences of my own actions. I had helped these terrible things happen."
What Piper gets across most effectively is the emotional effect of living as a prisoner, when whatever you are told to do, no matter how illogical or cruel, must be done immediately. She tells the story of why she didn't volunteer for the education program, and readers can see why it wouldn't have been a good idea at all (there is a list of resources in the back of the book for readers, including those who want to help provide books for prisoners).
Piper claims that the "vast majority of women" in prison are nonviolent drug offenders: "in the federal system alone…there were over 90,000 prisoners lucked up for drug offenses, compared with about 40,000 for violent crimes." While she doesn't advocate for a simple answer like legalization of drugs, she does paint a picture of a legal system broken by mandatory drug sentencing. She also points out how ill-suited most of the women are to being released: "there was no continuity at all between the prison economy, including prison jobs, and the mainstream economy."
Her conclusion is that "our jailers are generally granted near-total anonymity, like the cartoon executioner who wears a hood to conceal his identity. What is the point, what is the reason, to lock people away for years, when it seems to mean so very little, even to the jailers who hold the key? How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?"
I think it's a book worth reading, especially for someone like me who is not aware of ever knowing a person who was locked up. I hear that some people who do know folks in prison have criticized the TV show for being unrealistic. I'd be interested to hear what anyone who has ever set foot in a prison thinks of the book.
Literary Trivia
I'm off for a vacation! I leave you to divert yourselves with a long list of trivia questions from Literary Trivia by Richard Lederer and Michael Gilleland, which I will post the answers for (in the comments) on August 11.
Match each literary locale with the name of its creator:
1. Barchester
2. Baskerville Hall
3. Belle Reve
4. Bensalem
5. Bleak House
6. Brewster Place
7. Brideshead
8. Cloud Cuckoo Land
9. Darkover
10. Devon School
11. Dune
12. East Egg
13. East Lynne
14. Egdon Heath
15. The Emerald City
16. Erewhon
17. The Forest of Arden
18. Gilead
19. Gopher Prairie
20. La Mancha
21. Land of the Lotus-Eaters
22. Lilliput
23. Looking-Glass House
24. Lowood
25. Manderley
26. Middle Earth
27. Middlemarch
28. Narnia
29. Never-Never-Land
30. Northanger Abbey
31. Oceania
32. Pandemonium
33. Pencey Prep
34. Pooh Corner
35. The Republic
36. Salemn's Lot
37. Serendip
38. Shangri-La
39. The Slough of Despond
40. Starkville
41. Toad Hall
42. Thrushcross Grange
43. Tilbury Town
44. Utopia
45. Walden Two
46. Waverley Honour
47. Winesburg
48. Xanadu
49. Xanth
50. Yoknapatawpha County
Asta in the Wings
I got a copy of Asta in the Wings, by Jan Elizabeth Watson, last week for my birthday. It had been on my wish list for four years, ever since I read about it at Boston Bibliophile. I'd forgotten the review that got me interested, so when I started reading it, I couldn't tell if it was set in a dystopian future with two kids and a mother that had survived a civilization-ending plague, or if the mother was crazy. While the text, spoken in first person by Asta, who is seven, indicates dystopian future, the clues—like the way her mother cuts her hair and eats cookies in front of the starving children—increasingly indicate that the mother is crazy.
It turns out that the mother is actually crazy. One night when she doesn't come home, Asta and her brother Orion find their way out of the house where Asta has lived most of her life, to find that the world is fine, even though the people they meet don't seem to be very sensitive to other people's feelings.
Some of the best parts of this novel are the parts about what Asta imagines about the world, having been exposed to her mother's stories about the stage and the plague-afflicted outside world, an old Dick-and-Jane-type primer, the Bible, a book about movies, and movies and game shows on TV. She believes the stories about a grandmother being an actress and her mother having stage training, and she takes her mother's advice about acting as advice about how to live in the world: "being someone else allows you to see the whole of things. You have to look at things upside down or inside out or sideways….I remember how exciting it was, standing there in the wings, waiting for my turn to go onstage."
Asta and Orion spend their days reading and playing games that they take very seriously. At one point, Asta and Orion put tea and pickle juice on the outside of his legs and then wrap him up in blankets so the tea mixture can heal them. While he is "cooking" in a hamper, she goes back to looking at the Bible: "I'd left it open to a plate of thirteen men competing for elbow room at a long supper table. All the men wore robes, and most seemed to have no legs. I looked from one man to the other, mentally comparing their faces to those of the actors in the Big Movie Book. What ripping silent movies they could make, these men! Perhaps the subtitles would reveal that their legs had been blown off in a battle. Perhaps their legs would have to be restored with the help of herbs applied by a clever little girl who would gladly join them for supper in the end."
When the starved children first make their way outside, Asta says "not everything I saw was new to me, for the world of books and television had introduced me to more things than one might expect" but she is surprised to find "no human limbs jutting from the snowbanks, thankfully, and no men hauling bodies away. The only horror was not knowing where Mother was."
Once the children are discovered, Asta is taken to live with an aunt she's never met and sent to school, which is the only place she sees her brother. She says he is living with a doctor, which may be true, although it's also true that this same doctor acts in an official capacity when he takes them to see their mother, so Orion may need more intensive therapy than Asta does to be able to come out from the wings and onto the world's stage. They visit their mother and play their old make-believe games with her, but they are newly conscious of the possibilities for interactions with those in the rest of the world.
The story is charmingly told, with an innocence that belies its smallness. To Asta, the house she grew up in, the neighborhood around it, and the next town over, where she is taken to live, feel like the whole world. Her mother and brother have been her world, and now it is expanding. Even though we see that the mother has been living in her own dystopian fantasy world and that she and Orion have been neglected and mistreated, we also see the magic they have created, the foundation of imaginative possibilities that lines from Shakespeare and images out of novels like The Stand, Earth Abides, and The Scarlet Plague have given these two children.
I loved this book, but had to take a brief interval of mourning for the book I wanted it to be, one about imaginative children who actually do emerge into a post-apocalyptic world.
Men at Forty
This weekend my father-in-law died. All three of his children were there but no spouses; I get to remember him as he was when I saw him last, at Christmastime, still 6'6", sitting in a recliner built up on a wooden platform to accommodate his creaky knees and never losing any arguments.
He was a history professor, and I admired and was entertained by him because we met as adults. I think we liked each other from the first time I walked up to his house to find him putting an inch-thick layer of concrete on top of a big picnic table he had built, the only picnic table I ever sat at and could swing my legs.
He was my remaining father after my own father died, and I keep thinking of Donald Justice's "Men at Forty" now that Ron and I are both left.
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
At rest on a stair landing,
They feel it
Moving beneath them now like the deck of a ship,
Though the swell is gentle.
And deep in mirrors
They rediscover
The face of the boy as he practices trying
His father's tie there in secret
And the face of that father,
Still warm with the mystery of lather.
They are more fathers than sons themselves now.
Something is filling them, something
That is like the twilight sound
Of the crickets, immense,
Filling the woods at the foot of the slope
Behind their mortgaged houses.
If fathers can die, then whose broad shoulders can we see from the backseat? Who's driving this thing?
Too Close to the Falls
Sometimes Ron tells me that other people don't have so much inner monologue or that they don't measure a situation in as much detail as I usually do, both before and after. When I went to visit my formerly imaginary friend Nancy, though, I got evidence that a few other people do measure a situation in pretty thorough detail, because in addition to making up a bed for us, Nancy left out a book she thought I'd like.
While it's true that I usually read before bed, I don't often manage this while traveling, due to the fact that I need more sleep than anyone else I know so am always running a deficit. However, if you tell me you think I might like a certain book, I will make an effort to read it. One of the most memorable moments in my adolescence came from being told I was the only person my high school speech teacher had ever met who "might actually like reading The Fairie Queene." So of course, I did like it as soon as I got my hands on it.
The book Nancy left out for me was Too Close to the Falls, by Catherine Gildiner. It's a memoir, and I don't read too many of those. When I do, however, it's usually as a houseguest, and often it happens early in the morning, like the spring morning I woke up in my great-aunt's Hyattsville apartment and started reading Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which begins with:
"I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. I'd half-awaken. He'd stick his skull under my nose and purr, stinking of urine and blood. Some nights he kneaded my bare chest with his front paws, powerfully, arching his back, as if sharpening his claws, or pummeling a mother for milk. And some mornings I'd wake in daylight to find my body covered with paw prints in blood; I looked as though I'd been painted with roses."
We got up early at Nancy's house and went out for beignets, so it wasn't until I got home that I tracked down a copy of Too Close to the Falls and began reading it. At first it seems like little Cathy Gildiner's life isn't like anyone else's, but then I started to have the same feeling that Jo Walton once described about reader reactions to Among Others, that the childhood which seemed so different from anyone else's usually strikes a chord among like-minded souls who have found each other over the internet. Many of us can identify with a child who did peculiar things and didn't realize they were peculiar. We had mothers who read and perhaps didn't pay attention to many of the household duties that occupied other mothers. My own mother, for example, never learned to type for the same reason Cathy's mother gives for not learning to type or cook, because then "you'd be requested to do both against your will forever." Probably there are other mothers from the 1950's and 60's who did the same thing and gave the same advice to their daughters.
Even though I don't find little Cathy's upbringing as odd as she seems to want me to, I did find that not many of us can write as well as adult Catherine. I love the part where she describes "normal" life for four-year-olds in a small town near Niagara Falls in the 1950's:
"other four-year-olds spent their time behind fences at home with their moms and dads, stuck in their own backyards making pretend cakes in hot metal sandboxes or going to stagnant events like girls' birthday parties where you sat motionless as the birthday girl opened her presents and then you waited in line to stick a pin into a wall while blindfolded, hoping it would hit the rear end of a jackass…."
The best parts of the memoir are the details about young Cathy's life delivering prescriptions from her father's drugstore with Roy, a kind and intelligent black man who never learned to read, but who knew how to keep a smart and energetic little girl on her toes: "Roy and I made up complicated systems for working together efficiently…..Roy loved to bet, and after I got the hang of it from him, I found that it gave life just that bit of edge it needed. Our days were packed with exciting wagers."
Roy also gives Cathy her first tastes of perspective on her own family. When he laughingly calls her "the angel of exactitude" to a group of people who laugh knowingly, she "understood for the first time that not all the world shared the values of my family. I thought it was inherently good to be exacting."
I got tired of the parts about Catholic school. It takes Cathy a very long time to realize "that advertisers only wanted to sell products and nuns and priests and parents only gave the party line but grew up with the same prejudices and instincts that everyone else had." She is naive about sexuality for what seems a very long time, although her story about the first time Elvis was on TV is brightened up by the sentence she gets out of the long recounting of her prolonged state of innocence: "by this time many people had their own television, but they got together to watch history in the making, I guess in case something lustful happened and it was really scary they could turn to each other."
The title comes from the kinds of danger an unsupervised and adventurous child could skirt in those days. Cathy gets "too close to the falls" literally, sliding down an icy slope towards them as a child and slipping drunkenly down some steps towards them as an almost-adult.
The geographical marvel I lived near as a child was utterly and completely forbidden–we were told that if any of us so much as put a toe into the Mississippi river we would be pulled immediately under by the current and never seen again, and even as teenagers we retained enough terror of the currents to resist partying on the sand bars, as a few of the bravest did. But I managed to find some pretty dangerous things to do. Most of these involved riding around on cars, in places other than the seats. Once we got stopped by the police for flapping tennis rackets out of the windows of a car to make it fly. Perhaps the police thought we had been drinking, but we had not. My friend Brad was driving, and he asked me to open the glove compartment to get his registration–when I did, a couple of rolls of toilet paper fell out because we sometimes went around t.p.-ing friends' houses in those days, sometimes by going in, visiting a while, and then asking to use their bathroom. We didn't always t.p. the yard; sometimes just the room itself.
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I'm ending all my posts (well, most of them, at least) with the cry of "Remember Benghazi!" Benghazi is the Alamo of our time, and this is as good a battle cry as any. We should never forget the desperate cries for help as a few brave Americans fought for their lives and the lives of others for seven HOURS! Unlike their leaders, these incredibly brave people gave their last, full measure of devotion. The decision to hang them out to die to cover-up the transfer of SA-7 AA missiles to Syrian rebels will live in the annals of infamy. Never have I heard of our people being betrayed to this extent by our own government, except perhaps some of our servicemen stranded in Cambodia in the early 70's. My heart burns with outrage. Remember Benghazi
Tea Party in Wisconsin formerlyTea Party Wrote: Oct 30, 2012 8:13 PM
Dittos.. one of my sons was a bubblehead for nine years, we are a Navy family..husband a tin can sailor (I know, I know.. my son called them 'targets") another five years in the Navy in security, and his wife a WAVE, and another grandson, a Navy Corpsman with the Marines, now discharged after being seriously injured a year after he came home from Iraq in a live fire exercise. He is a living miracle. And I am LIVID with rage over this deliberate abandonment of those men..I think the dearleader is thinking Sandy saved his sorry butt however NEVER FORGET BENGHAZI nor forget
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Bubblehead. I follow your lead. See the above post: same heading. REMEMBER BENGHAZI!
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HERE HERE USNbubblehead ! You have made an excellent suggestion and I am with you about that !
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10/8/2013 (10 months ago)
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The National Park Service has tried to close Mount Vernon, the home of George and Martha Washington, as part of the government showdown. The problem -the site is privately owned. The list of outrages against the NPS is growing.
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Keywords: National Park Service, NPS, shutdown, parks, water, handles, Mt. Vernon, Republicans, Democrats, blame, gestapo, taxes
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Until very recently, the National Park Service was one of the least-loathed government agencies in the country. Now, with orders from on high to keep the public from visiting beloved parks and monuments the agency is developing a poor reputation.
Park rangers have very diverse jobs, providing everything from policing to the janitorial duties required to keep public parks and memorials open, safe and enjoyable. However, they have recently been compared to the Gestapo (hyperbole) as they actively work to keep people from enjoying public spaces.
According to a report in the Newburyport Daily News, tourists at Yellowstone National Park were actually detained under armed guard and locked in their hotels when the government shutdown started on October 1st. The paper explained that foreign tourists with poor English skills actually thought they were under arrest because of their harsh treatment.
When the tourists were allowed to leave by bus, they were forbidden to stop anywhere during the 2.5 hour drive out of the park, not even at public restrooms along the way.
In other places, park rangers have issued tickets to people who have ignored signs and barricades and threatened others with arrest.
At Mount Vernon, the privately-owned and managed historic home of George and Martha Washington, NPS authorities erected barricades to keep people from parking at the site. The site is privately owned and funded, but the NPS technically co-owns part of the parking lot and a bus turnaround. Of course, since it is a parking lot, it requires no maintenance. Nonetheless, the NPS is spending more money and resources keeping people out of such places than it would spend by simply allowing the public to use them.
Republicans contend that the NPS, which is part of the executive branch, is under orders to make life difficult for would-be parkgoers as part of a broader political plan by the Obama administration to turn public opinion against Republicans. Both parties blame the other for the shutdown and so far appear unwilling to negotiate.
Meanwhile, the American people are disgusted with the antics. These sites belong to the American people and nobody should be barred from entry. Notably, the citizens of this nation have paid for the maintenance of these sites by their taxes, and there is no rebate or reduction forthcoming. Since the American people are being charged full price for these locations in spite of the shutdown, they should also enjoy access.
Senior Republicans have said they may open a formal investigation into the mass closures and the barring of people from places where no significant maintenance or security is required. Small children's parks, hiking trails, and outdoor monuments remain closed despite the minimal investment needed to maintain them, if any.
It what looks like a spiteful move, the NPS even removed handles from water spigots along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal where bikers and joggers exercise as well as along the Great Allegheny Passage, just to ensure people don't get any water from them.
Instead of saving money, the NPS is expending additional resources to go out of its way to close such locations and to make people miserable.
There's really no scenario where this ends well for the NPS. First, several of their workers have lost their wages, workers are working without pay, and when the dust settles, heads will roll in subsequent investigations. The NPS is making itself unpopular with the American public, which is stewing for vengeance as the weather turns cold and bitter.
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Seven Days Of Love
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Who likes a good surprise? I know I do! Well, how would you like to give your spouse SEVEN days of love surprises? Today, we have a fun printable that contains seven tiny notes you can have ready for your spouse within minutes! This fun printable contains love quotes, messages, and a few even allow you to write personal love notes.
The three things you need:
1: A standard Monday-Sunday pill box
2: Candies such as M&M's, Lemonheads, gum, etc.
3: Download the Seven Days of Love printable here
Once you have printed the Seven Days of Love printable, cut out each love letter and place one in each box Monday-Sunday.
I decided to put mine on my husband's nightstand. Each night, he will be able to end his day with a little love. Sometimes in life, it is the simple things that make us happy!
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I have a question. Where can I find/buy a standard Monday-Sunday pill box? If possible, please reply via email. Thanks and this is one of the cutest ideas I've ever seen!<3
Walgreens or any pharmacy probably
I found a bunch at the Salvation Army for 50 cents each. Try the second hand places first, you'll be surprised what you can find.
Found mine at the dollar store!
If you have a dollar tree in your area they carry a few different kinds for $1 …I am a home health nurse and they are just as good as the $5 ones
This is so great. Hubby has to take many pills daily, how fun to turn a have-to chore into a fun & loving thing! I will probably refill this prescription often!!
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Khloe looks so gorge on the cover of Yerevan Magazine! Read her article here.
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babydoll7 | Posted on Nov 6th, 2012
Wow, she looks stunning!!!
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She would look exquisite with her hands handcuffed behind her back
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Khloe, gets the Gorgeus Award for this cover shot. Love it!!!!!! xoxo
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Stunning view, exquisitely displayed in B&W. I must admit with the name being "Meat" rather than "Meet" I was looking for a hidden steak or pork chop ;-)
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Coulda, woulda, shoulda: Maria's H2Hs
Which of Maria's H2H against this generation's GOATs you wanna see her fix, which ones do you think are lopsided and don't really represent their rivalry?
Here are some of the most known ones, with slam H2H as well in brackets:
Lindsay Davenport: 5-1 (2-0)
Venus Williams: 4-3 (0-2)
Serena Williams: 2-8 (1-3) :sobbing:
Justine Henin: 3-7 (2-3) (she beat Maria twice at RG; this H2H really doesn't reflect how epic this match-up was)
Kim Clijsters: 3-5 (1-1) (that fucking Cincinatti final :sobbing:)
Jelena Jankovic: 6-1 (1-0)
Ana Ivanovic: 5-2 (1-1) (future bitch in the making :drool:)
Amélie Mauresmo: 1-3 (1-1)
Victoria Azarenka: 4-5 (0-1)
Caroline Wozniacki: 4-2 (0-1 :fiery:)
Petra Kvitova: 3-2 (1-1) (one retirement, so 3-1 really)
Justine is the top player against whom Maria played more matches at slams (5)
Re: Coulda, woulda, shoulda: Maria's H2Hs
I also want Maria to have the same number of slams as Kim, at the very least. Hopefully she'll end up matching Legend's 5 :worship: I want a FO and another AO and I'd be more than happy :drool:
Re: Coulda, woulda, shoulda: Maria's H2Hs
it's interesting that she had so much trouble with Bagelie early in her career...usually she does pretty well against players who slice a lot.
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Re: Coulda, woulda, shoulda: Maria's H2Hs
Really bummed she can't fix her H2H vs Mauresmo. I've always wanted her to do that for YEARS but they never met after 2006. :help: Also her H2H with Kim is really fixable (Cincinnati :sobbing: ).. and she's about to retire soon so not much time. Most of the people she has a losing H2H to, she doesn't play against very often. Serena's is pretty much unfixable so let's not talk about it. :lol:
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She needs to sort that H2H against Kim before she retires. It should be 4-4 :hsteric: Hopefully Maria can beat Kim in a US warm up and the US Open and it can end up at 5-5 when Kim retires.
Her H2H against Justine should also be a lot closer. That AO 06 loss should have been a win and the RG 10 choke could have put these two at 5-5 also.
She also needs a few slam wins over Venus :eek: I feel Maria should have a much more significant edge in this rivalry. Damn that Stanford match :sobbing: And 0-2 in slam matches :sobbing: Needs to fix that!
She'll sort the H2H against Azarenka in her own time ;)
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She'd BETTER have a positive head2head against Azarenka by the time she retires :o Noway does Aza deserve to be on that elite list.
I love when she plays Wozniacki these days :lol: She seems to really relish the challenge of playing her now. The last two times she played her, she brought some of her best post-surgery tennis (even though she was headcasey as fuck in their Miami match). I genuinely don't think she's losing to her ever again, or maybe just once if she's in Peak ErrorPova mode.
I REALLY want to see her play Kim again before she goes, not because I necesarily think Maria would win (I think it would be 50-50 at the US Open, Maria would have an edge everywhere else), but because her matches against the Belgians are literally ALWAYS good quality.
Re: Coulda, woulda, shoulda: Maria's H2Hs
her two consecutive chokes to Safina at Rolland Garros came when she was still trying to bash her way through the draws and had no clue how to adapt her game...I doubt she would lose a similar match now, hell, I don't think such hypothetical match would be even close...
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She once choked a huge lead to Safina in a match in Moscow aswell :rolls: That match-up was one of the most incomprehensible ever.
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who would have thought, that out off all russian headcases Maria would be the one choking to the biggest headcase of them all...WTA:tape:
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Lindsay Davenport's H2H with Maria....that 1 win comes with a huge asterik of a double bagel :hysteric:
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Can't get over Maria's semifinal "curse" back then. She could've been at least a 6-time slam winner now! Many epic 3-set chokes, where she won in the first set. I don't even want to remember anymore :(
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BEAR-ING IT ALL: The "Mayor Bear," created by Mayor Sam Adams (both pictured above), were just two of the celebs at Wilf's on Monday night at the "Bear To Make A Difference" event to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Portland was the first time that this very beary silent auction and cocktail party has left its Denver, Co. base and hit the road, and from the looks of it, the party was a huge success. Even my bear, a leather dude (that I outfitted with, no lie, some baby chaps I found at Build-A-Bear and turned into a tribute to my own hog-loving dad), went for its full value. Other big bids were placed on bears by Carol Burnett (her sweet bear re-created her famous curtains and rod ensemble she donned for her show's "Gone With the Wind" parody), Katy Perry, Mackenzie Phillips, and a slew of local drag stars, including one of the evening's honorees, Darcelle XV. And what did for Meryl Streep's "Mama Mia" bear go for, you ask? Well, hard to say, since it was lost somewhere between here and New York City prior to the event. "It will definitely show up," says event organizer Andrew Tweedie, "someday." Those who did show up for the swell soiree included Mayor Adams, Governor Barbara Roberts, her "best friend" Terry Bean, and Matthew's amazing mother, Judy Shepard.
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TELL US MOORE: The gorgeous and glamorous Julianne Moore was spotted at Nostrana last night enjoying dinner with hubby Bart Freundlich and their two kids. The actress and family are on a spring break road trip, and stopped into James Beard nominated Cathy Whims' restaurant for Sunday supper. No word if her friend and frequent director, the Portland-based Todd Haynes, joined the family for dinner.
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LIVING IT UP: The third outing of the EnergyTrust Better Living Show—held this weekend at the Expo Center—quickly proved that there is more to sustainability than just new uses for hemp and what to do with empty water bottles. In fact, the lowly lit, highly-attended weekend event has all the makings of becoming a permanent fixture in my spring schedule. Where else can you see the inside of a fish, or the outside of a building, and find out how they are all interconnected? And, really, where else are you going to see Mayor Sam Adams, at the city's climate change booth, handing out planting supplies like he was some sort of civic-minded mix of Bob Barker and Johnny Appleseed? There were plenty of samples—organic ice cream, wine and crackers—as well avian sights including henhouses full of chickens and a few feathered friends from the Oregon Zoo. One of the big draws was the sustainable clothing section which included offerings from the likes of Semper fashions, which helped to host a late-night after party at the Benson Hotel on Saturday night.
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DRAG-LICIOUS: "You suck, Byron!" screamed the crowd. That's when I knew I was truly back at RedCap's Drag Race. Last season I was one of two main judges for the Thursday night show (hosted by Poison Waters), but this season I've only made a couple of guest appearances. Last night was one of them, as I was asked by Poison to fill in for a judge who had a last-minute change in his schedule. I was more than happy to be the "judge that didn't really matter," as the always hilarious Treyla Hitch kept referring to me. It was a chance to see, at mid-season, how much the ladies had improved. And, I have to say, they really have. Or I just went on a really good night. The challenge for the ladies was to come up with a showgirl costume that incorporated a flavor of Absolut vodka. And, my, the outfits were tasty and tasteful. Brita Filta basically came out on stage naked except for, what judge Maria called, a "cootch patch" (see above). And all the contestants really stepped up their game, none more so than Saturn (who last year performed as Sizzlean). I also have to give a shout out to Kourtini Capri, who had nearly everyone in tears on her "birthday" night. It was, indeed, a very special night. I even had a chance to visit with "The Jarics," Aden and Jordan, who are adult film actors and will be performing/stripping/dancing at RedCap on Saturday.
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GAFFERS, GRIPS & CRAFT SERVICES ALERT: Are you ready for your close-up, or making sure someone else's close-up looks good? "In My Shoes," a television movie (not to be confused with the Curtis Hanson movie, In Her Shoes, starring Cameron Diaz [above] and Toni Collette), will begin shooting in Portland and the surrounding areas this spring. The production company is now accepting crew resumes for all positions. Prep starts April 5th and the 20-day shooting schedule starts on or about May 3. Please send resumes to:
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Wildman Kickstarter update introduces viewers to Kevin Pun's concept art
By Megan Farokhmanesh on Feb 10, 2013 02.10.13
The latest Kickstarter update for Gas Powered Games' Wildman offers a look at how concept artist Kevin "The Punisher" Pun creates his illustrations. Pun walks through the work involved in conceptualizing a jungle, from early ideas and casual brainstorming to fully illustrated art. You can watch the video above or check out the update with illustrations here. Additionally, Gas Powered Games engineer Bruce Bjorklund is holding daily Q&A sessions on Twitch.Tv at 8 p.m. ET. The Wildman campaign will end on Friday, Feb. 15. Currently, more than $465,000 of the $1.1 million goal has been raised. Polygon previously reported that if successful, the campaign could also save the company itself.
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Gas Powered Games holding live Q&A today, will stream progress daily until campaign ends
By Alexa Ray Corriea on Feb 04, 2013 02.04.13
Developer Gas Powered Games will host live streams every weekday until the Kickstarter campaign for its RTS role-playing game Wildman ends on Feb. 15, CEO Chris Taylor announced in an update to the game's Kickstarter page. Weekdays at 8 p.m. ET, associate engineer Bruce Bjorklund will host a live stream on the Gas Powered Games Twitch channel. Bjorklund has hosted previous streams for Wildman in which he took questions from viewers. Gas Powered Games will host another live Q&A session on its Twitch channel today at 4 p.m. ET. The developer also posted two videos to the Kickstarter page showing Wildman's Windows-based map editor. In one video, designer Brian Sturm walks viewers through creating individual pieces of terrain and how the map building software connects them at specific...
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Wildman developer explains the difficulties of RTS design on a crowdfunded budget
By Emily Gera on Feb 01, 2013 02.01.13
Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor tackles fan questions relating to the studio's currently in-development Wildman RPG, offering an explanation as to why the studio didn't attempt to create a pure real-time strategy game to appeal to its fanbase who enjoyed the likes of Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation. According to Taylor, it comes down to an issue of money. The cost of creating a legitimate and large-scale RTS is far higher than what is needed to fund the action RPG Wildman, while the crowdfunding model the team adopted fits the development of RPGs more comfortably, he says. "Wildman is a different game in that we can actually start at one part of the game and start building it over time, and it just fits the development model of working with the community, crowdfunding,...
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Roam throws you into a base-building zombie wasteland on PC and Mac
By Emily Gera on Jan 30, 2013 01.30.13
Former Gas Powered Games developer Ryan Sharr is teaming up with colleague Zach Barson to develop a new zombie-centric base-building title, Roam, which they hope to fund through a $40,000 Kickstarter campaign. The isometric strategy title throws the player into a zombie-filled wasteland where they must scavenge for supplies to build up a base and defend themselves from continued waves of undead hordes. Every stage of the game is procedurally-generated, increasing in difficulty over time. NPCs will react to choices the player makes throughout, while zombies can mutate and increase in strength. Bandits are another danger, as they can raid the player's supplies. The game also offers RPG-like elements, allowing the player to recruit or dismiss NPCs for their base and customize gear and...
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Wildman developer demonstrates new mod tool and platform Project Mercury
By Emily Gera on Jan 29, 2013 01.29.13
Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor gives a demonstration of the studio's mod tool and web platform, Project Mercury, in the latest Kickstarter update for the struggling Wildman action RPG. The development suite, which Taylor refers to as an "infinite desktop," is "like having a warehouse that's infinitely big. You never put anything away," he says. "You can manage space. It's all just always there." Taylor goes on to describe that its user can leave the desktop at the office, then log in to access his desktop remotely from home as the system is 100 percent persistent. Project Mercury is also compatible with dual monitors. "This is not something that we can take too much credit for," Taylor goes on to say. "This is the power of HTML5." Taylor also demonstrates in depth how users can mod...
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Wildman video explains how to fit an RTS into an action RPG, dev adds new Kickstarter tiers
By Dave Tach on Jan 26, 2013 01.26.13
A developer diary released Friday for Wildman takes viewers through the process of creating the action role-paying game/real-time strategy hybrid from Gas Powered Games. Check out the video above to see Gas Powered Games' CEO Chris Taylor explain how the game's systems will intertwine. Pencil in hand, he starts with a blank canvas and sketches out the theories behind characters, skills and systems you'd expect to see in an RPG. Talylor also explains Wildman's "technology" system, which allows players to build and level up components like weapons, armor, magic with the RTS-like system. Along with releasing the video, Gas Powered Games added two new pledge tiers to the Kickstarter campaign. The $5 tier will give posting privileges to Wildman blog, while the $10 tier includes access to a...
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Dungeon Siege developers post first update for Wildman Kickstarter campaign
By Tracey Lien on Jan 17, 2013 01.17.13
The developers behind Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander released their first update video for Wildman today, an action role-playing strategy PC game that they hope to Kickstart through the crowd-funding platform. In the three minute video, developer Chris Taylor answers questions from backers and shows the first gameplay footage. The footage shows the Wildman with a club-like bone running around and fighting in a war zone while Taylor provides commentary on how far the game is into development. "The number of characters that are fighting here is nothing compared to what we're gonna have," Taylor says as the Wildman fends off tens of enemies. "This thing is going to go crazy. When we talk about bringing over-the-top RTS action into a game, we mean it. So this is going to get crazier...
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Located in the beautifully maintained community of Bella Vista this 2 bedroom , 2 bath has been totally remodeled in 2010. Both bathrooms and kitchen along with tile throughout the main living area and new carpet in both bedrooms. Queen size bed in master bedroom and walk in closet, twin beds in 2nd bedroom. Flat screen TV's in both bedrooms with cable and large flat screen TV in main living area with DVD player. Private and sunny patio with gas grill perfect for outside dining. Laundry room with full sized washer and dryer. Has everything!!!! Your home away from home!!
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The Alfred State College Nursing Department is continuing its "Pay It Forward" philosophy through the awarding of its second annual "Pay It Forward" scholarship.
Alfred State College's WINS Club recently raised $354 in bottle and can returns and monetary donations from the campus community and from Immaculate Conception School (ICS) in Wellsville to buy presents for an area family.
Alfred State College student Elisabeth Elliott, Johnson City, a Building Trades freshman at the college's School of Applied Technology, was awarded a $500 National Association of Women In Construction (NAWIC) scholarship from Buffalo Chapter #172.
The Electrical Engineering Technology Department at Alfred State College will open a brand new class 10,000 cleanroom laboratory facility specifically designed for semiconductor manufacturing technology for the upcoming spring 2008 semester
SUNY Interim Chancellor Dr. John B. Clark today nominated Dr. John M. Anderson to be the next president of Alfred State College.
Dr. Richard Kellogg, professor of psychology at Alfred State College, is the author of a new book published by Gryphon Books titled Vignettes of Sherlock Holmes.
Anselm Tshibangu, assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Alfred State College has completed requirements to be named an ASQ-certified quality engineer (ASQ-CQE) by the Certification Board of the American Society for Quality.
Alfred State College staff members and current and retired faculty have contributed items for the featured exhibit in the Hinkle Library Gallery and Reading Room entitled "Student Life, Technology & Trends: 1908 - 2008."
Alfred State College Retirees Honored at Pioneer Dinner.
Graduates of Alfred State College's Internet-based health information technology/medical records (HIT) program Class of 2007 achieved a 100 percent pass rate on the Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) national certification exam.