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Advanced user identity and mandate management as a service: Treasury business processes with tailored banking controls
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Carlos Rodriguez August 14, 2008 @ 2:39 PM
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Leaking Boiler TubesI would like to know why its that our steam boiler have at least 1-6 boiler tubes leaking at the end of heating season. There is no water treatment in place. Thanks CR
Derheatmeister August 15, 2008 @ 11:56 PM
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Softener=DisasterTreatment good, Softener bad.You should check with Rhomar and ask them for help.Start with your information of you Boiler and work it from there. i.e PH,tds.They may want to have a sample of your Boiler fluid. Again Most Boiler manufactures will even Void the Warranty on the boiler if you have a Softener installed feeding into the system ! Richard from Heatmeister.
Edward A. (Ed) Carey August 16, 2008 @ 8:36 PM
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Make up water"The Boilers are Commercial. They are 100 hP gas. Manufacturer is York Shippley". First, the leaking tubes must be replaces by a properly certified repair agency. You did not say if the boiler(s) are heating only, process, or a combination. Before you start treating the water, you should check your system for the amount of make up water you are using. (Not from the leaks, but in the system itself). If this is process and there is normally a lot of make up water consumed, you must treat the make up water accordingly or this problem will only get worse. That could be expensive however if a 100 HP boiler lets loose and has a BLEVE at pressure, the damage it can cause could be catastrophic. If this is a sealed system, it should not use much make up water. If it is a sealed system and it does use a lot of make up water, you have to find any leaks and correct them, before trying to treat water. If you have a sealed system and you leave leaks in the system, and then start treating the water without correcting the leaks, it is treating the symptom while not bothering to cure the disease. You will be wasting a lot of money and really not solving your problem. Ed Carey
Henry August 15, 2008 @ 11:17 AM
Contact this userHeating boilers normaly do not require any water treatment only a softner. Only if you have problem water do you treat it. You have leaking tubes that need to be replaced. You don't notice it diring the season as the water turns to steam and exist in the chimney.
mtfallsmikey August 15, 2008 @ 6:35 AM
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Is thisResidential or commercial??...my water treatment guy has some facinating photos of all kinds of equipment run with no water treatment whatsoever!
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LEAKING BOILER TUBESThe Boilers are Commercial. They are 100 hP gas. Manufacturer is York Shippley.


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After 10 years, it's time for a refresh at Bangkok Joe's on the Georgetown waterfront.
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Italian market and restaurant chain Carluccio's has its eye on more than just one location in the D.C. region.
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Mess Hall, D.C.'s newest food incubator, is coming to Brookland
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Mike Isabella to open Mexican restaurant in Ballston
Celebrity chef Mike Isabella is making himself right at home in Arlington's Ballston neighborhood. Work is underway on his second Greek restaurant, Kapnos Taverna, at 4000 Wilson Blvd., and now the chef also plans to open a Mexican restaurant, called Pepita, around the corner.
Controlling venomous lionfish one dish at a time
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New Ocean City pub unveils fruity brews, social seating
An ambitious new craft brewery awaits Ocean City beachgoers this summer.
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A new bus service for villages west of Cambridge is set to launch in April.
The bus, which would mix a timetabled route with a dial-a-ride service, is planned to replace existing routes which are subsidised by taxpayers.
It will serve a 'roam zone' between the A428 and the A603, stretching from Comberton and Orwell in the East, to Gamlingay and Abbotsley in the west.
The plan is for timetabled services to run at peak times and on St Neots' market day, with dial-a-ride journeys available anywhere in the 'roam zone' at other times.
As part of the project, a bus shelter offering real-time departure information and bicycle parking will be built in Cambourne High Street.
Cllr Mac McGuire, the deputy leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, said the new service had been "designed by the local community".
He said: "Currently the council spends around £170,000 subsidising services in this area of south Cambridgeshire but many of the buses run with just a handful of people on.
"The feedback from the community and current passengers is that they would like a combination of timetabled service at peak times and market day in St Neots as well as more 'demand-responsive' choices.
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Icy water continues to hamper the search for two missing men in Dawson County.
Mason Cox and David Wood, both 20, have been missing for a week.
According to family, Cox and Wood were set to go fishing near Fredericks Cove on Jan. 2. Their fishing poles were found outside on the porch.
For two days, ice prevented a Department of Natural Resources boat from launching to help look for the men.
A barge was used to break up ice around the dock at Fredericks Cove and crews are hoping to use sonar to complete an underwater search.
A petition created to urge CNN and other media outlets to air the story of the missing men has gained attention. It currently has 4,932 signatures.
The Dawson County Sheriff's Office, in collaboration with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Dawson County Emergency Services, are searching for Cox and Wood.
If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of the men, please contact the Dawson County Sheriff's Office at 706-344-3636.
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The subscriptions will be a U.S. replication of a strong business model in Europe, reports the New York Times.
Among the new children's magazines are the 52-page bimonthly Phineas and Ferb built on the TV series, to sell for $4.99 per issue and $23.95 per subscription year; a Cars monthly; and other magazines based on Marvel movies such as "Captain America."
Unlike Europe, the U.S. market for subscription magazines for children's magazines is a tough one due to a decline in reading by children and a rise in video games, among other reasons.


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Despite 2009 order to close 'black sites,' many unaccounted for. In 2009 President Obama ordered the CIA's "black site" prisons closed. That same year, ProPublica reported that more than 30 people who had been held in them were unaccounted for. In a look at what's happened since, ProPublica reports that at least 20 prisoners remain missing. A 216-page report from the Open Society Foundation last week asserted that several of those who have "resurfaced" were transferred to prisons in Libya, Syria, and Egypt and ultimately gained their freedom in the Arab Spring uprisings; one was found to have died in a Libyan jail in 2009. The report contains the longest list yet of those detained or transferred by the CIA: some 136 people. And remember, it could happen to you!
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Michael Creegan, who graduated from the Bachelor of Science in International Business program in the spring, says his academic experience at Northeastern has prepared him for a career in the U.S. Foreign Service.
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The answer is yes, according to Michael Gasiorek, a fourth-year student in the Bachelor of Science in International Business program who is spending two years studying and working in China.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned last week as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) amid allegations of sexual assault in New York City — leading to larger questions of how this will affect French politics and financial matters across Europe. Natalie Bormann, a visiting assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, assesses the implications of this situation and the media coverage that followed.
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Albany - Happy Birthday U.S. Marine Corps, number 232. MCLB Albany celebrated today with a cake cutting ceremony.
As is tradition, the first piece of cake was sliced with a sword, the given to the oldest Marine present and passed on to the youngest Marine.
"It's just very special. They are passing down tradition. The Master Gunnery Sergeant who's the oldest Marine here, passed it on to me. That's the symbolism of the cake cutting ceremony," said Cpl. Leo Flores.
Lt. Caleb Eames said, "By passing that cake, the oldest Marine really puts a big responsibility on the youngest Marine's shoulders to carry on the tradition of the Marine Corps, a tradition of excellence, honor, dedication and courage."
In addition to the cake cutting ceremony, Marines will continue the celebration with a Birthday Ball.
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WALLA WALLA, Wash. - Jennifer Blomme, the swim coach at Whitman College the past four seasons, has earned "Coach of the Year" honors for women's swimming in the Northwest Conference.
Al Stephenson, the swim coach at Willamette University in Salem, Ore., received the same award for men's swimming. Decided by a vote of coaches, the awards were given Sunday at the conclusion of the Northwest Conference Championships at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash.
Competing in a field of eight schools, the Whitman women's team placed fourth at the championship meet with 388 points, just 11 points behind third-place Willamette and 49 points out of second place.
With one exception, it was the highest point total for the Whitman women's team in the 27-year history of the conference swim meet. The Missionary women scored 416 points at the 1992 meet, placing fifth in a six-team field.
A year ago, the Whitman women's team placed fifth at the NWC championships with 310 points. That was just 18 points out of fourth place but a whopping 206 points out of third.
Travis Feezell, the athletic director at Whitman, wasn't surprised to see Blomme singled out for one of this year's coaching honors.
"The direction of our swim program has been on a phenomenal upward trend since Jenn's arrival," Feezell said. "It seems only natural that her peers in the conference would recognize her hard work. She is a supremely talented coach. It's a well deserved honor."
Alexis Jinbo-Doran, a junior captain, and first-year swimmers Danielle Shea, Nora Feeney and Alexis Krupp sparked Whitman's strong showing at this year's conference meet. In individual events, Missionary women placed in the championship flight (top eight) a total of 13 times, up from eight times in 2003 and just three in 2002.
Under Blomme's direction, the Whitman men's team also made big improvements at this year's NWC championship meet. Led by sophomores Matt Warren and Arthur Jones and junior captain Keith Jarrett, the Missionaries placed in the top eight a total of seven times. The men's squad failed to place any of its swimmers in the top eight in 2003, after placing just one swimmer in the top eight in 2002.
Blomme began coaching at Whitman in the fall of 2000, after completing a master's degree in applied sports science at Indiana University. She served as a volunteer women's swim coach at Indiana for two seasons while she worked on her master's.
As an undergraduate, Blomme was a varsity swimmer at Grinnell (Iowa) College, where she specialized in the breaststroke. Grinnell, which has a traditionally strong NCAA Div. III swim program, captured its conference title in two of her four seasons there.
After earning her undergraduate degree in Spanish at Grinnell in 1996, Blomme was an assistant swim coach at Dickinson College (Carlisle, Penn.) for one season and the head coach at Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College for one season.
Taking the coaching position at Whitman was a homecoming for Blomme, who was born in Walla Walla while her mother, Gayle Blomme, was working as a sabbatical teaching replacement in the English Department at Whitman. The family soon moved to the Olympia, Wash., area and later relocated to Michigan.
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Coburn as Anthony Wayne in The Californians (1959)
August 31, 1928
Laurel, Cedar County
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|Compton Junior College
|Alma mater
|Los Angeles City College
|Years active
|Home town
|Compton, California
|Beverly Kelly (1959–1979)
Paula Murad (1993–2002, his death)
|James Coburn IV,
Lisa Coburn
|James Harrison Coburn, Jr.
Mylet Johnson Coburn
James Harrison Coburn III[1] (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002)[2] was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made more than 100 television appearances during his 45-year career,[3][4] winning an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.[5]
A capable, rough-hewn leading man, his toothy grin, and lanky body made him a perfect tough guy in numerous leading and supporting roles in westerns and action films,[6] such as The Magnificent Seven, Snow Dogs, Hell Is for Heroes, The Great Escape, Major Dundee, Our Man Flint, In Like Flint, Duck, You Sucker!, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Charade, and Cross of Iron.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s Coburn cultivated an image synonymous with "cool",[7] and along with such contemporaries as Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson became one of the prominent "tough-guy" actors of his day.
Early life[edit]
Coburn was born James Harrison Coburn III in Laurel, Nebraska on August 31, 1928, the son of James Coburn, Jr. and Mylet Johnson. The elder Coburn had a garage business that was destroyed by the Great Depression.[8] Coburn himself was raised in Compton, California, where he attended Compton Junior College. In 1950, he enlisted in the United States Army, in which he served as a truck driver and an occasional disc jockey on an Army radio station in Texas. Coburn also narrated Army training films in Mainz, Germany.[9] Coburn attended Los Angeles City College,[10] where he studied acting alongside Jeff Corey and Stella Adler, and later made his stage debut at the La Jolla Playhouse in Herman Melville's Billy Budd.[11] Coburn was selected for a Remington Products razor commercial in which he was able to shave off 11 days of beard growth in less than 60 seconds,[12] while joking that he had more teeth to show on camera than the other 12 candidates for the part.[13]
Early work[edit]
Coburn's film debut came in 1959 as the sidekick of Pernell Roberts in the Randolph Scott western Ride Lonesome.[14] Coburn also appeared in dozens of television roles including, with Roberts, several episodes of NBC's Bonanza. Coburn appeared twice each on two other NBC westerns Tales of Wells Fargo with Dale Robertson, one episode in the role of Butch Cassidy, and The Restless Gun with John Payne in "The Pawn" and "The Way Back", the latter segment alongside Bonanza's Dan Blocker.[15]
During the 1960-1961 season, Coburn co-starred with Ralph Taeger and Joi Lansing in the NBC adventure/drama series, Klondike, set in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway. When Klondike was cancelled, Taeger and Coburn were regrouped as detectives in Mexico in NBC's equally short-lived Acapulco. Coburn also made two guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, both times as the murder victim in "The Case of the Envious Editor" and "The Case of the Angry Astronaut." In 1962, he portrayed the role of Col. Briscoe in the episode "Hostage Child" on CBS's Rawhide.
Coburn became well known in the 1960s and the 1970s for his tough-guy roles in numerous action and western films. He first appeared with Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson in the John Sturges films, The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. Coburn played the part of a villainous Texan in the successful Charade (1963). He was then cast as a glib naval officer in Paddy Chayevsky's The Americanization of Emily. Coburn was signed to a seven year contract with 20th Century Fox.[16] His performance as a one-armed Indian tracker in Major Dundee (1965) gained him much notice. In 1966, Coburn became a bona fide star following the release of the James Bond parody film Our Man Flint. In 1967, Coburn was voted the twelfth biggest star in Hollywood.[17]
In 1971, Coburn starred in the Zapata Western Duck, You Sucker!, with Rod Steiger and directed by Sergio Leone, as an Irish explosives expert and revolutionary who has fled to Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century. Coburn teamed with director Sam Peckinpah for the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, in which he played Pat Garrett. The two had worked together in 1965 on Major Dundee. The producer of the film, Jerry Bresler, took editing responsibilities away from Peckinpah during post-production. Peckinpah accused Bresler of engaging in sabotage of his film, and he threatened the studio with a lawsuit. Columbia Studios relented, mainly because Charlton Heston, the star of Major Dundee, said that he would no longer work for the studio unless Peckinpah was allowed editing rights to the film.
Though some of Peckinpah's demands were met, the finished product was still not satisfactory to him, and Peckinpah disowned it. Peckinpah and Coburn were greatly disappointed and turned next to Cross of Iron, a critically acclaimed war epic that performed poorly in the U.S. but was a huge hit in Europe. Peckinpah and Coburn remained close friends until Peckinpah's death in 1984. In 1973, Coburn was among the featured celebrities dressed in prison gear on the cover of the album Band On The Run made by Paul McCartney and his band Wings. Coburn returned to television in 1978 to star in a three-part mini-series version of a Dashiell Hammett detective novel, The Dain Curse, tailoring his character to bear a physical resemblance to the author. During that same year as a spokesman for the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, he was paid $500,000 to promote its new product in television advertisements by saying only two words: "Schlitz. Light."[18]
Final years[edit]
Because of his severe rheumatoid arthritis, Coburn appeared in very few films during the 1980s. Coburn continued working until his death in 2002. Coburn spent much of his life writing songs with British singer-songwriter Lynsey De Paul and doing television series as his work on Darkroom. He claimed to have healed himself with pills containing Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) a dietary supplement.[19] Coburn returned to film in the 1990s and appeared in supporting roles in Young Guns II, Hudson Hawk, Sister Act 2, Maverick, Eraser, The Nutty Professor, Affliction, and Payback. Coburn's performance in Affliction eventually earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Coburn's interest in fast cars began with his father's garage business and continued throughout his life, as he exported rare cars to Japan.[10] Coburn was credited with having introduced Steve McQueen to Ferraris, and in the early 1960s owned a Ferrari 250 GT Lusso and a Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California SWB. His Spyder was the thirteenth of just fifty-six built. Coburn imported the pre-owned car in 1964, shortly after completing The Great Escape. [20] The car was restored and sold for $10,894,400 to English broadcaster Chris Evans, setting a new world record for the highest price ever paid for an automobile at auction.[21]
Cal Spyder #2377 was repainted several times during Coburn's ownership; it has been black, silver and possibly burgundy. He kept the car at his Beverly Hills-area home, where it was often serviced by Max Balchowsky, who also worked on the suspension and frame modifications on those Mustang GTs used in the filming of McQueen's"Bullitt." Coburn sold the Spyder in 1987 after twenty-four years of ownership. Over time he also owned the above-noted Lusso, a Ferrari Daytona, at least one Ferrari 308 and a 1967 Ferrari 412P sports racer.[22]
Coburn died of a heart attack on November 18, 2002 while listening to music at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was survived by his second wife, Paula (née Murad), son James IV, and a stepdaughter. Coburn was cremated and his ashes were interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, and marked by a stone bench inscribed with his name. At the time of his death, Coburn was the voice of the "Like a Rock" Chevrolet television ad campaign. James Garner succeeded Coburn for the remainder of the campaign.[citation needed]
Critical analysis[edit]
In his New Biographical Dictionary Of Film, American-based British Film critic David Thomson stated that "Coburn is a modern rarity: an actor who projects lazy, humorous sexuality. It is the lack of neurosis, an impression of an amiable monkey, that makes him seem rather dated: a more perceptive Clark Gable, perhaps, or even a loping Midwest Cary Grant. He has made a variety of flawed, pleasurable films, the merits of which invariably depend on his laconic presence. Increasingly, he was the best thing in his movies, smiling privately, seeming to suggest that he was in contact with some profound source of amusement".[23]
Film critic Pauline Kael remarked on Coburn's unusual characteristics, stating that "he looked like the child of the liaison between Lt Pinkerton and Madame Butterfly".[24] George Hickenlooper, who directed Coburn in The Man From Elysian Fields called him "the masculine male".[25] Andy Garcia called him "the personification of class, the hippest of the hip", and Paul Schrader noted "he was of that 50's generation. He had that part hipster, part cool-cat aura about him. He was one of those kind of men who were formed by the Rat Pack kind of style."[26]
|Ride Lonesome
|Budd Boetticher
|Face of a Fugitive
|Paul Wendkos
|The Magnificent Seven
|John Sturges
|The Murder Men
|Arthur Troy
|John Peyser
|Hell Is for Heroes
|Cpl. Frank Henshaw
|Don Siegel
|The Great Escape
|Louis Sedgwick
|John Sturges
|Tex Panthollow
|Stanley Donen
|The Man from Galveston
|Boyd Palmer
|William Conrad
|Kings of the Sun
|J. Lee Thompson
|Action on the Beach
|The Americanization of Emily
|Lt. Cmdr. Paul "Bus" Cummings
|Arthur Hiller
|Major Dundee
|Samuel Potts
|Sam Peckinpah
|A High Wind in Jamaica
|Alexander Mackendrick
|The Loved One
|Immigration Officer
|Tony Richardson
|Our Man Flint
|Derek Flint
|Daniel Mann
|What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
|Lieutenant Christian
|Blake Edwards
|Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
|Eli Kotch
|Bernard Girard
|In Like Flint
|Derek Flint
|Gordon Douglas
|Waterhole No. 3
|Lewton Cole
|William A. Graham
|The President's Analyst
|Dr. Sidney Schaefer
|Theodore J. Flicker
|Also Produced
|Robert Parrish
|Dr. A.B. Krankheit
|Christian Marquand
|Hard Contract
|John Cunningham
|S. Lee Pogostin
|Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
|Sidney Lumet
|Duck, You Sucker!
|John H. Mallory
|Sergio Leone
|Renamed A Fistful of Dynamite for U.S. release
|The Carey Treatment
|Dr. Peter Carey
|Blake Edwards
|The Honkers
|Lew Lathrop
|Steve Ihnat
|A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
|Colonel Pembroke
|Tonino Valerii
|Renamed Massacre At Fort Holman for U.S. release
|Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
|Himself (uncredited)
|Shih Wu
|Harry in Your Pocket
|Bruce Geller
|Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
|Pat Garrett
|Sam Peckinpah
|The Last of Sheila
|Herbert Ross
|The Internecine Project
|Robert Elliot
|Ken Hughes
|Bite the Bullet
|Luke Matthews
|Richard Brooks
|Hard Times
|Walter Hill
|Sky Riders
|Jim McCabe
|Douglas Hickox
|The Last Hard Men
|Zach Provo
|Andrew V. McLaglen
|Capt. Vinton Maddox
|Jack Smight
|White Rock
|Tony Maylam
|Cross of Iron
|Sergeant Rolf Steiner
|Sam Peckinpah
|California Suite
|Herbert Ross
|The Dain Curse
|Hamilton Nash
|E.W. Swackhamer
|TV Mini-series
|Speed Fever
|Ottavio Fabbri
|Michael Winner
|The Muppet Movie
|Owner of El Sleezo Cafe
|James Frawley
|Cameo appearance
|Jack Dryden
|Joseph Sargent
|The Baltimore Bullet
|Nick Casey
|Robert Ellis Miller
|Loving Couples
|Jack Smight
|Mr. Patman
|John Guillermin
|High Risk
|Stewart Raffill
|John Reston
|Michael Crichton
|Sam Starret
|Steven Hilliard Stern
|Martin's Day
|Lt. Lardner
|Alan Gibson
|Death of a Soldier
|Maj. Patrick Dannenberg
|Philippe Mora
|Walking After Midnight
|Jonathon Kay
|Call from Space
|Richard Fleischer
|Train to Heaven
|Torgny Anderberg
|Young Guns II
|John Chisum
|Geoff Murphy
|Hudson Hawk
|George Kaplan
|Michael Lehmann
|Major Manley Battle
|Michael Engler
|The Player
|Robert Altman
|Mike Donan/Lou Donan
|Christopher Coppola
|Curse of the Dragon
|Tom Khun, Fred Weintraub
|Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
|Mr. Crisp
|Bill Duke
|Commodore Duvall
|Richard Donner
|The Set-Up
|Jeremiah Cole
|Strathford Hamilton
|Frank Jove
|David DeCoteau
|WitSec Chief Arthur Beller
|Chuck Russell
|The Nutty Professor
|Harlan Hartley
|Tom Shadyac
|Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right
|Tom Thurman
|Keys to Tulsa
|Harmon Shaw
|Leslie Greif
|The Disappearance Of Kevin Johnson
|Francis Megahy
|Glen Whitehouse
|Paul Schrader
|Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
|Brian Helgeland
|The Good Doctor
|Dr. Samuel Roberts
|Kenneth Orkin
|Short Subject
|Captain Hal Josephson
|John Putch
|Jim Corcoran
|Scott Zheil
|Texas Rangers
|Steve Miner
|The Yellow Bird
|Rev. Increase Tutwiler
|Faye Dunaway
|The Man from Elysian Fields
|George Hickenlooper
|Monsters, Inc.
|Henry J. Waternoose III
|Pete Docter
|Adam Low
|Snow Dogs
|James "Thunder Jack" Johnson
|Brian Levant
|American Gun
|Martin Tillman
|Alan Jacobs
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents — "The Jokester" (1958)
- The Californians — as Deputy Anthony Wayne in "One Ton of Peppercorns" and "An Act of Faith" (1959)
- State Trooper — as Dobie in "Hard Money, Soft Touch" (1959)
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson — as Floyd in "The Girl" (1959)
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp — as Buckskin Frank Leslie in "The Noble Outlaws" (1959)[27]
- The Texan, as Cal Gruder, with Roger Perry as Robin Randolph and John Dehner as Major Randolph, in "Friend of the Family" (1960)[28]
- Men Into Space — as Dr. Nanny in the episode "Contraband" (1960)
- Tate — as Jory in the episode "Home Town" (1960)
- The Rifleman — "Young Englishman" (1958); "The High Country" (1961)
- Tales of Wells Fargo — "Butch Cassidy" (1958); o"The Wayfarers" (1962)
- Trackdown — "Hard Lines" (1959)
- Tombstone Territory — "The Gunfighter" (1959)
- Bat Masterson — "The Black Pearls" (1959); "Six Feet of Gold" (1961)
- Wanted: Dead or Alive — "Reunion For Revenge", "The Kovack Affair" (1959); "The Trial" (1960)
- Bourbon Street Beat — as Buzz Griffin in "Target of Hate" (1960)
- Bronco — "Payroll of the Dead" (1959); "Shadow of Jesse James" (1960)
- Have Gun Will Travel — "One Came Back" (1959); "The Gladiators" (1960)
- Klondike— 10 episodes as Jeff Durain (1960–1961)
- Peter Gunn — "The Murder Clause" (1960)
- Lawman — "The Catcher", "The Showdown" (1960)
- The Deputy — "The Truly Yours" (1960)
- Acapulco (1961) (canceled after 8 episodes)
- The Brothers Brannagan as Dell in "Death is Not Deductible" (1961)
- The Outlaws — "Culley" (1961)
- Laramie — "The Mark of the Maneaters" (1961)
- Cheyenne — "Trouble Street" (1961)
- The Tall Man — as John Miller in "The Best Policy" (1961)
- Bonanza — "The Truckee Strip" (1959); "The Dark Gate" (1961)
- The Untouchables (1959 TV series) — "The Jamaica Ginger Story - S2E44" (1961)
- Perry Mason — "The Case of the Envious Editor" (1961); "The Case of the Angry Astronaut" (1962)
- Checkmate (TV series) — "A Chant of Silence" (1962)
- Rawhide — "The Hostage Child" (1962)
- Combat! — "Masquerade" (1963)
- The Twilight Zone — "The Old Man in the Cave" (1963)
- The Greatest Show On Earth (1963) — "Uncaged"
- The Eleventh Hour (1963) — as Steve Kowlowski in "Oh, You Shouldn't Have Done It"
- Stoney Burke — "The Test" (1963)
- Route 66 — "Kiss the Monster, Make Him Sleep" (1964)
- The Defenders — "The Man Who Saved His Country" (1964)
- Bracken's World — "Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon" (1970)
- The Dain Curse (1978) (miniseries)
- The Muppet Show (1980)
- The Fall Guy (1981)
- Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981)
- Darkroom (1981–1982)
- Explorer, 13 one-Hour co-hosted with producer, director by Douchan Gersi (1981)
- Malibu (1983)
- Draw! (1984)
- Faerie Tale Theatre — "Pinocchio" (1984) - The Gypsy
- Sins of the Father (1985)
- The Edge and Beyond (1988–1990) (narrator)
- The Infinite Voyage (host from 1990–1991)
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers (voice-over cast member from 1990–1993)
- Silverfox (1991) (pilot)
- Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1990)
- Hollywood Stuntmakers [1991] host
- Murder, She Wrote — "Day of the Dead" (1992)
- National Lampoon's True Facts (1992)
- The Fifth Corner (1992) (canceled after 2)
- Christmas Reunion (1993)
- The Hit List (1993)
- Mike & Spike (1994-) as Horsecup
- Greyhounds (1994) (pilot)
- The Avenging Angel (1995)
- Picket Fences — "Upbringings" (1995)
- Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995)
- The Cherokee Kid (1996)
- The Second Civil War (1997)
- Profiler — "Shadow of Angels" (1997)
- Mr. Murder (1998)
- Noah's Ark (1999)
- Vengeance Unlimited — "Judgment" (1999)
- Shake, Rattle & Roll: An American Love Story (1999)
- Missing Pieces (2000)
- Walter and Henry (2001)
- Arli$$ (2002) — "The Immortal"
- Shark Chronicles (1991) (Narrator; re-broadcast in 1995 for Discovery Channel's "Shark Week")
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- ^ Biography for James Coburn at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Allmovie Biography
- ^ James Coburn at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Awards for James Coburn at the Internet Movie Database
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- ^ Rhys, Timothy. "Quintessential Cool". Moviemaker 1999/04/09
- ^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=36024
- ^ Published: 12:03AM GMT 20 Nov 2002 (2002-11-20). "Obituary in ''The Telegraph''". London: Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ a b Horwell, Veronica (2002-11-20). "James Coburn". The Guardian (London).
- ^ "James Coburn Biography - Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ "The Hollywood Interview blogsite". Thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com. 2008-02-28. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ "Allbusiness.com". Allbusiness.com. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ Miller, Ron (1995-01-22). "Coburn's Comfort Zone at Home in Western with Heston and Berenger Supporting". San Jose Mercury News. p. 6. "JAMES COBURN began his movie career in a saddle 36 years ago, playing the gangly and not-too-bright sidekick to bad guy Pernell Roberts in the 1959 Randolph Scott western "Ride Lonesome.""
- ^ The Restless Gun, DVD, Timeless Media Group
- ^ Entertainment: Coburn Wins Pact, Role in 'High Wind' He'll Star With Anthony Quinn; Mrs. Ames Pens Kidnaping Tale Hopper, Hedda. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 04 June 1964: A10.
- ^ 'Star Glitter Is Catching' By Richard L. Coe. The Washington Post, Times Herald (1959-1973) [Washington, D.C] 07 Jan 1968: H1.
- ^ Tarshis, Barry. What It Costs. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977.
- ^ 'Coburn beats back tough disease' By Ann Oldenburg. USA Today [McLean, VA] 29 Dec 1998: 02.D Life.
- ^ Valdes-Dapena, Peter (2008-05-19). "$11 million: Ferrari nets record price". CNN.
- ^ http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/classic/112_0901_1961_ferrari_250_gt_spyder_california/test_drive.html
- ^ January, 2009, Motor Trend
- ^ Thomson, David. "The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film". Knopf 2004
- ^ Rule, Vera. "James Coburn". The Guardian, Friday 3/6/99
- ^ "Tough Guise". People Magazine. December 2, 2002
- ^ Breznican, Anthony. "Actor James Coburn dead of heart attack at age 74". Today's News-Herald. Nov, 20, 2002
- ^ "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp; The Noble Outlaws (24 Nov. 1959)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
- ^ "The Texan". Classic Television Archive. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
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Hundreds of passengers became stranded at Portland International Airport as at least two flights were redirected there from San Francisco International Airport.
United Airlines ticket agents worked to get hotel vouchers for travelers aboard a Boeing 747 from Frankfurt, Germany, that was delayed until Sunday morning. They had already issued so many vouchers at that point passengers had to wait for the computer system to reboot.
The San Francisco International Airport is one of United's biggest hubs. The airport was shutdown immediately after Saturday's crash and then eventually reopened two out of four runways.
The shutdown had a domino effect on passengers up and down the West Coast.
"They just told us that the runway was closed in San Francisco and we were going to be delayed," said Sandra Baker, who was on the tarmac in Long Beach, CA, when she learned she'd be redirected to PDX.
As many as 18 flights here were either diverted or canceled Saturday.
So many people flooded the website FlySFO.com, it was unavailable for most of the day. However, passengers told FOX 12 agents worked efficiently to get them back on board.
"The woman we worked with was very pleasant, and everyone was very calm," said Linda Carter, who was rebooked on a later flight home to San Francisco.
The Port of Portland is urging passengers to check with their airlines before heading to the airport for flights.
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Sarah Panzau-Evans walked down the stairs of the Frenship Performing Arts Center wearing a black tank top and shorts, revealing scars from a horrific incident in 2003.
Her left arm is gone and scars cover nearly every inch of her body from below her knees up to her face.
Ten years ago Panzau-Evans wrecked her car in Northern Illinois after having too much to drink. Today she travels the country speaking about the night she nearly lost her life.
According to doctors, she had a 0% chance of survival but today she is using that near death experience in her past to change the futures of young students.
More than 900 juniors and seniors at Frenship High School packed the room to hear her story.
Panzau-Evans is a former two time All-American volleyball player from Illinois who dropped out of college her sophomore year and soon after became immersed in the world of drugs and alcohol.
In August of 2003 she was in a one car accident with a blood alcohol level nearly four times over the legal limit.
As she was lying, nearly dead on the road, an ambulance happened to pass by to find her.
She spent two weeks in a coma and four weeks in intensive care and on a ventilator.
Panzau-Evans has overcome all odds to stand before students with one simple truth: that one bad choice can have horrible consequences.
"I would say that it is a complete miracle that I'm sitting here today." Panzau-Evans said.
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A MAN was left with a fractured cheekbone and a broken thumb following a late night attack in Southampton.
The 20-year-old victim is believed to have been attacked in Bedford Place while he was walking with friends to get a taxi, between 1.30 and 2am on Friday night.
They saw a group of men and women across the road shouting at them, before a woman from the group came towards them.
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His injuries include a broken thumb which has required wiring and metal rods, a hairline fracture on his right cheekbone, a sprained neck, and bruising to his face.
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Further action needed from UK Government
– Edwina Hart AM, Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science
"Today's figures continue the positive trend of recent months and show employment in Wales at a record high.
Year-on-year, Wales has seen the joint largest increase in employment rate within the UK.
However, whilst this is welcome news for Wales, today's figures also show a continued weakness in the Welsh labour market, including a small increase in the claimant count.
They add to the strong case for action from the UK Government to better promote growth as its economic policy based on spending cuts is not working.


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Damian Goddard: 'What the Argo's Grey Cup win can teach about the culture wars' (video)
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Late last month the Toronto Argonauts trounced the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League championship game – the Grey Cup. By all accounts it was a spectacular victory.
After watching that game, sportscaster Damian Goddard, who was famously fired from his job with Rogers Sportsnet after sending out a tweet in defense of traditional marriage, asked himself if there is anything that we who are fighting for the culture war can learn from the Argos' performance.


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Peter Hanson finished at 9-under through 18 holes in the third round at Augusta, currently sitting atop the leader board of the 2012 Masters, shooting a 7-under 65 for the day. Hanson birdied four of his last five holes on Saturday, totaling eight on the day.
Phil Mickelson shot 6-under through 18 holes to take a one-stroke lead over Luis Oosthuizen, who is 3-under through 14. Oosthuizen has shot for par on four of his first five holes on the back nine. After Bubba Watson (5-under total, 1-under Saturday through 16), the two hottest golfers of the day are tied for the biggest leaderboard jump at 19 places: Ireland's Padraig Harrington and American Hunter Mahan both shot a 4-under 68 in the third round, and both are tied for fifth at 4-under.
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Minimum Wage is also an attempt to keep the employer/employee relationship decent.
You could have a business model in which you maim small children so that they can earn more money while begging for you, but we, as a society, have decided that it is a bad thing. Yes, it happened in Victorian England and present day India, but we don't do it, even if it is "optimal" under free market conditions.
So, requiring you pay a person enough to live a decent live might not be that bad of an idea. If your business model can't support it, maybe you shouldn't be in that business.


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Human capital trends 2012: Leap ahead
Discover the top eight human capital trends this year
It is appropriate that 2012 is a leap year as many market trends are causing organizations to make considerable leaps. The 2012 human resources (HR) focus is on both the organization's overall growth and driving efficiency in the business of HR. These two focus areas demand significant action as the risks are greater than ever.
Businesses will require a specific combination of human capital investments and organizational strategies to make the leap ahead and drive breakthrough performance. By focusing on the trends that matter most for your enterprise, your HR teams can add even more value to business strategies.
Read Human capital trends 2012 to explore the top eight trends, including:
- In 2012 growth is job #1
- Operation globalization
- Fast-track to the top
- People risk is risky business
- Seeing around corners
- #social #mobile @work
- Clouds in the forecast
- Stay in front with an effective sales force
Read the report today and start your leap ahead.
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An Ode to the Filling Station
Filling station. Gas station. Whatever you call it, nearly all of us have used them on an almost weekly basis. They've been a part of the American landscape for over a hundred years now. They're so ubiquitous that most of us probably don't even notice them until we need one, and then only to check the prices. Now, it's true that today most stations are rather bland affairs: a bunch of pumps under a freestanding roof with essentially a small convenience store on the inside, and occasionally a service bay or two.
"Pah," I hear you scoff, "they're just gas stations, what's the big deal?"
Well, they're not that big of a deal, but as I have previously waxed poetic about Sinclair stations, I decided that it was time to indulge myself a bit further. Like any feature of the architectural landscape, while the buildings themselves are largely designed around a particular set of functions -- selling gas, goods, and sometimes servicing -- within those constraints they can vary according to prevailing stylistic trends, local aesthetics, and aspects of corporate self-imaging. Studying stations of past times tells us what people thought about the role of gas stations, the role of the automobile, the structure of the human landscape, and even how we ought to relate to one another generally. Some are simple, some elaborate, but all have something to say about their time and place. Unfortunately, due to their ubiquity and generally lowly function many have not survived to the present day. But I think they're worth noting, appreciating and, in many cases, saving from the wrecking ball.
I suppose I don't have to note that we've come full circle with today's stations being, in a sense, general stores with gas pumps out front.
By the 19-teens as cars became more ubiquitous, oil companies started setting up their own stations to distribute their product. Initially, these were simple 'sheds' with a single a canopy over the pumps and an attached small office and cashier. Often, they were made from pre-fabricated components with the name of the oil company embossed on various parts and erected in strategic locations (see top photo). Drivers could drive right up, fill up their tanks (was it self-serve back then?), pay the cashier and be on their way. These sorts of stations were most often located in urban centers as they took up very little space and drivers could be in and out quickly. Rural stations tended to be larger and were usually attached to other businesses with more parking area while customers gassed up and did other business in the same location.
By the 1920s stations had started to look more like formal businesses and less like ramshackle sheds. They were also starting to spread away from city centers and into more residential neighborhoods and so began to take on the character of the local area's architecture rather than a prefabricated utilitarian structure. Along with this trend, oil companies were also starting to concentrate on brand loyalty and the more general concept of 'branding' and began to make their stations more distinctive to their company. To be sure, in many cases this was also part of what we would now call a public relations move: in many areas, oil companies had been knocking down a lot of historic buildings to build filling stations and causing some public outrage in the process. For example, Standard Oil caused so much outcry after they razed three historic residences in Charleston, SC that they hired the architect Albert Simons to design a station in the colonial revival style using bricks, columns, and other materials left over from the demolition of another historic structure. That particular station remained in use until 1981 and was restored and reused for a different function. Standard Oil, in fact, became rather famous for it's colonial revival style of station and several have survived. Other companies developed their own styles which were often tailored to suit the location such as the mission revival style popular in the southwest and west.
As the century progressed different forms developed, had their heyday, and declined. For the remainder of this post I'll just highlight a few of them.
This Sinclair station was highlighted in my earlier post and is located in Fort Worth, TX. It's a typical box type of station with the canopied pumps out front and a couple of service bays attached to the office/store. Many of these stations, especially popular in the 1930s, used a lot of white porcelain and glass in their construction and featured straight, clean lines to project an air of cleanliness and efficiency. The Depression prompted companies to add to their revenue streams by offering automotive services and products in addition to just selling gas and thus we go from the basic shed to a larger, more multi-purpose structure.
This image is of a 1960s-era Phillips 66 station in Flagstaff, AZ. This sort of large V-shaped canopy was used by Phillips in a lot of post-WWII stations and was very popular for quite some time. They were so popular that many of them were torn down and are considered fairly rare and historically significant these days.
Another development of the 1930s was the 'programmatic' or 'novelty' form where the main structure was designed as a large representation of some object. These could be representative of the oil company such as this Shell Station, built in 1930 in Winston-Salem, NC:
Or this example from Washington State, meant to recall the Teapot Dome Scandal:
Perhaps the most beautiful gas station from the early decades (or ever, IMO) is the Tower Conoco Station in Shamrock, TX:
This station was built in 1935 and was one of the many businesses catering to travelers on Route 66. It was originally designed in the art deco style common to the day, and was meant as a multi-purpose structure with the gas station, a cafe (The "U Drop Inn"), and retail space that was never used as such. Happily the city of Shamrock restored the building to its original glory and it remains there to this day (see here for more photos and here for more history and some period photos).
A little-known company, Wadham's Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee, WI, constructed a number of pagoda-shaped stations between 1917 and 1930:
Not that Wisconsin was a hotbed of Japanese culture in the early 20th century, but the "Japonism" style was popular at the time and this style, designed by Alexander Eschweiler, was adopted by Wadham's as part of their corporate branding strategy. These were built in and around southern Wisconsin and only a few remain. One is in West Allis, WI, and was restored and is maintained by the city of West Allis. Another is located in Cedarburg, WI and is now the home of Pagoda Fine Jewelry, who continue to maintain the building.
There are far more examples of weird and wonderful stations I could highlight, but I'll leave the interested reader to pursue more of these. Ohio Barns, for example, has a great online collection of photographs.
Why bother with these? Mainly because they're a part of our collective heritage and remind us where we were and how we got here. Like any other old building, existing 'antique' service stations can inform us of historically significant contributions to both local and national history. So next time you drive by what seems little more than a local eyesore, stop to consider its place in the history of your town and perhaps give a thought to starting a push toward preserving some of these.
--Anthony Cagle
Credits: The Shell shed station and the bottom photo are from a National Park Service document that gives a more thorough history of filling stations and also provides information on the many and varied ways that they can be restored and preserved. The mission revival station is from the LA Times, and the Phillips station is from the Edward Ruscha collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art. THe historic photo of the Melrose, Louisiana station is part of a fascinating set of color photos published by the Denver Post. The Shamrock Conoco photo is from the link above. The remainder are from Wikipedia.


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Remember Me
A presidential budget is many things. It is a chance for the President to declare his priorities, to highlight his initiatives, and to offer reforms of how our government does business. But most importantly of all, it is a chance for the President to lead on the fiscal issues of the day. We certainly need that leadership now.
Negative vs. Positive regarding Dollar General
There have been several newspaper articles regarding the possibility of Dollar General locating in our Ottoville community.
All the reading has been from a negative point of view, something which seldom pleases the residents or is a good reflection left on the town we call home.
As the old saying goes, "there are always two sides to every story."
Perhaps equal time should be given where citizens can openly express their positive views and desires before the administration makes the final decision. Would it be feasible to conduct a public town hall meeting?
Golden opportunities seldom come along to villages with a population of less than 1,000.
Many established businesses here could benefit with the additional amount of people patronizing Dollar General and at the same time, stop elsewhere throughout the retained business district for miscellaneous purchases.
This new adventure could open the door to commercial growth for all of us to benefit now and in the future.
Closing the door on this proposed commercial project, while taking into consideration the site across the road (State Route 224) of the K-12 school, the positives outweigh the negative points of concern.
Hopefully as our governing officials preside and after all matters have been explored, it is decided to grab the brass ring — before it slips away.
Jerry Hohlbein
Regarding the article which appeared in the Van Wert Times Bulletin on Feb. 7, 2014, the American taxpayer, not Iberdrola, is the real reason why Van Wert County received the $2.07 million check. Yet, no one in the article even mentioned nor thanked the American taxpayer.
Please note the following which was taken from a Fort Wayne Journal Gazette article on 10-21-13:
"The $172,688,076 grant from the U.S. Treasury Department awarded to Iberdrola on Aug. 20, 2012, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the capital cost of the Blue Creek Wind Farm. The cost of that grant money is borne by taxpayers, including taxpayers in Ohio."
In reading the Times Bulletin article, I was surprised to learn that the $2.07 million check presented to Van Wert County was in lieu of property tax dollars. One has to wonder how much more money would have been collected had Iberdrola been required to pay property tax on each turbine?
While $2.07 million is a lot of money for Van Wert County, it is a drop in the bucket compared to the approximately 173 million of American tax dollars Iberdrola received for the Blue Creek Wind Farm.
This is a prime example of wasteful government spending that continues to plague our country. Especially when 46 cents of each tax dollar spent is borrowed from countries like China.
This is why we must vote for and support state officials who support SB 34, which seeks to repeal Ohio's energy policy. Furthermore, we must encourage our Van Wert County Commissioners not to provide future tax abatements (in lieu of property taxes) for Iberdrola's proposed Dog Creek Wind Farm. Iberdrola has received enough of our tax dollars and it's time they start paying their fair share. The proof is in the numbers.
Mark A. Wilson
Van Wert County Taxpayer
A recent frozen water line problem occurred after normal working hours that required help from the City of Delphos.
We will never be able to thank Sherryl George, Jeff Stockwell and Tim Williams enough. They gave us the best service any citizen of this community could have asked for. We are lucky to have these quality people here to help us through a very tough time.
Also, to Mike Miller, thank you for the help you always seem to give us when we need it.
Citizens of Delphos: please consider passing the May tax increase; the city needs to keep these quality people working for all of us!
Mike and Jan Odenweller
Growing up in Delphos, I thought the town should've changed the motto on the welcome sign to "America's Most Boring City." I didn't care that Delphos had friendly people — I wanted something to do. But with no mall or movie theater and only a few places to eat, Delphos seemed like the least exciting place my family could've chosen to live.
After college, I moved to Dallas and I thought I had found the perfect city that offered me everything Delphos hadn't (and couldn't). If I got hungry, I could choose from dozens of restaurants or grocery stores, all within a 5-minute drive of my apartment. If I got bored, I could head to one of the country's largest malls or take in a movie at one of the 40 theaters nearby. And to top it off, if I had an emergency, I could call for help from a 3,500-member police force or walk across the street to the second-ranked hospital in Texas.


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The old man's still got it!
Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Tim Hudson was named the National League's Pitcher of the Week for his work this past week. He not only won the 200th game of his career on Tuesday, but he followed that up with another sterling performance yesterday afternoon.
Hudson went 2-and-0 with a 2.51 ERA, holding batters to a .158 batting average against. Oh, and Hudson also went 2-for-5 with a double and a home run at the plate. (Opposite field home run!)
It's great to see the guy who is supposed to be our ace acting like it. Hudson had a rough start in Pittsburgh, giving up six runs in just four innings of work, but he's bounced back strong since then. The competitor in him was probably pissed to no end that he allowed the Bucs to hit him that hard.
Hopefully he can continue his solid work throughout the season. I have no expectation that he'll be as good as he was during his 200th win, but an effort similar to yesterday's game would suit me just fine. He'll face the defending World Series Champion Giants in San Francisco next, and his mound opponent will be Matt Cain.


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Sweet 16 party arrest: Suspect Rijkard Jean Baptiste in custody for deadly Riviera Beach shooting
Mayor's granddaughter may have been dating suspect
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla.-- Riviera Beach Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the deadly weekend "Sweet 16" birthday party shooting at Newcomb Hall and released the names of the victims.
Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters says his granddaughter may have been dating the suspect.
Riviera Beach PR Manager William Jiles identified the suspect as 20-year-old Rijkard Jean-Baptiste, who was arrested at his Lake Park home at 806 8th Street.
He was taken to the Palm Beach County Jail where he was booked on first-degree murder and 2nd degree murder charges.
The names of the shooting victims were released on Thursday. Those killed were Antonio Hinds, 17, and Andy Black, 16.
The five injured are Slater Griffin, 32, Jashua Chenet, 18, and three minors who WPTV is not naming.
Jean-Baptist was in a wheelchair at his first appearance Thursday where a judge denied setting bond. A probable cause affidavit says Jean-Baptiste claims he was shot in the leg, and once on the ground, pulled a gun from his pocket and shot back.
Jiles says no other arrests have been made.
The shooting left two people dead and six others wounded.
The probable cause affidavit says police are looking at video obtained from a videographer who was shooting video during the party.
Masters said Jean-Baptiste is "supposedly a young man that she (Master's granddaughter) has been dating."
Masters, a Baptist bishop, has been advocating for increased assistance from the community in stopping local violence.
"Guns and children don't mix," he said.
Masters says he is following his faith, asking God to use him to help stop violence.
"I just want to continue to pray for my granddaughter. I know it will be tough for her and anyone else with connections to those involved, or allegedly involved, in the shooting," he said.
Jose Lambiet's Gossip Extra was the first to report the connection between Jean-Baptiste and Mayor Thomas Masters' granddaughter.


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I get the feeling you would still criticise this even if it was the complete and total opposite to your above criticisms, either way you'd still blast it. Have you actually read The Hobbit and LOTR (Including the appendixes)? You would know that Tolkien had to rewrite parts of the Hobbit to blend it into the LOTR story...If he had to do that, imagine how it must of been for Jackson to transcribe this into a film adaptation in order to explain the backstory, characters and the snippets of information to please the cinema audience?
Could you do better? I think not.
It is quite clear from the review that the author knows enough about the books to deliver informed comment, including the appendices. The author laughs at the notion that Radagast the Brown appears in the film, despite the sparse and bare role of this character in the source material. So would I.
Uh-Huh, And how does the author go into detail about Radaghast's appearance in the film other than just not like him being in the picture at all and cringing? There is no justification to his criticisms at all. Now if the author stated that Radaghast's appearance in the film was laughable because he dressed in red and rode a sleigh drawn by reindeer and had hundreds of hobbits helping him delivers toys to the children of Minas Tirith...I would be inclined to agree....and laugh alongside you both.
It's quite clear that Jackson has done his best to capture the story and the magic of the hobbit as well as blend it into Lord of the Rings. Where as its also quite clear that "Knowing enough about the books" just doesn't qualify to you criticise Jackson on his attempts to present the movie to a degree that would satisfy readers and non readers of the books alike.
Well said
Cinema reviews are short and subjective, and they are not intended to provide a cinéaste-style critique of the meaning of a film. With respect, you are the one who first raised knowledge of the source material as a qualifier for having a valid opinion.
Come on, surely you can't allow someone only to comment and critique if they themselves can or have done better...
There will be no recourse for poorly performing presidents or prime ministers unless from better serving ones, there will be no career journalists whom haven't worked in different fields and there will never be a review of new technology.
As an aside, however, what are these appendixes like? I only own original copies of both The Hobbit and LOTR that my grandfather passed to me that don't seem to have these insights.
True, I did raise that. But not to have a valid opinion in general, but to have a valid opinion in cricitising the points penned above. It's clear that the author hasn't taken into account the magnitude of this film or even read the books or appendixes anytime in the recent past. Otherwise he wouldn't pick up, tear apart and throw down the film like a child, unhappy with its Christmas present. The only valid point IMO in this entire review is the fake sheen of 48p (which seems to be causing general distaste in all reviews) - I for one am lucky enough to have seen a preview screening in standard 24p. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind the loyal Tolkien fans will praise this extension of Jacksons vision.
Of course they "couldn't do better". What does that have to do with anything? Is it not possible to dislike a particular song without being able to sing properly yourself, or to find a certain structure appalling without having the first clue of how to build something like it?
I haven't seen the movie yet, but it has been getting bad critical reception across the board basically. I was sceptical beforehand: the same amount of movies with about a tenth of the material compared to Lotr? Feels like production studios cashing in, even if I'm sure Peter Jackson did his absolute best.
Your comment is a silly ad-hominem attack.
Of course the Economist cannot make a film better than Peter Jackson can. That doesn't change their analysis. They're comparing it against the greatest films of all time and are giving honest critique.
Of course it is difficult to make a movie from a manuscript but the result should not be judged differently to reflect this.
In the reviewer's opinion (and pending seeing the movie, I'm inclined to agree) - it's precisely this obsession with "backstory" that has made Jackson miss "the story and magic" of The Hobbit.
Dear Mr Jackson: Take your "backstory" and shove it - umm, to the back. This is a simple children's story, it should be perfect fare for a typical Hollywood director. So we appreciate your models and visualisation and all that design you did for LotR, but for pity's sake leave the foreshadowing to hacks like Lucas.


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