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The main task of a veterinarian is to examine animals to detect and determine their health status as well as diagnose any injuries or illnesses they may be afflicted with. A veterinarian must then be capable of providing treatment, advice, and/or prescriptions to treat whatever may be ailing the sick animal. If a veterinarian is unable to treat the animal himself or herself, then he or she must be able to refer the pet's owner to a specialist who can treat the animal. In addition to treating the animal, a veterinarian must be able to professionally interact with the pet's owner(s). He or she must be able to counsel pet owners regarding the best form of treatment, as well as provide calm assistance during difficult times for a family who may have to euthanize their pet.Read More...
The work of a veterinarian is both physically and mentally demanding. The veterinarian must be capable of standing on his or her feet for long periods of time, and should be able to lift heavy patients and equipment. The work also requires the constant use of one's mental abilities. A veterinarian must always be ready to diagnose any illness or injury, as well as be able to identify the best form of treatment for both the patient and the family. A veterinarian typically works indoors in a veterinary hospital or clinic. He or she must be able to work well with many other people, including nurses, assistants, and veterinary technicians. Extensive education is required to become a veterinarian, including high school, college, and postgraduate training.
The biggest paychecks can be found at VCA Antech — the median salary there is $99K; however, employees are subject to a wide range in pay, with the lowest salaries sitting near $63K and highest ones in the neighborhood of $126K.
VCA Animal Hospital offers the lowest compensation; the median salary there averages out to only $75K. The pay range is also narrow, ranging between $64K and $133K.
Survey results suggest that Veterinarians put a wide range of professional skills to use. Most notably, skills in Ultrasound, Emergency Room, Emergency Medicine, and Surgery are correlated to pay that is above average, with boosts between 11 percent and 19 percent. Those educated in Medicine / Surgery tend to be well versed in General Surgery.
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For Veterinarians, level of experience appears to be a somewhat less important part of the salary calculation — more experience does not correlate to noticeably higher pay. Although individuals who have less than five years' experience earn $69K on average, people with five to 10 years benefit from a notably larger average of $80K. The average pay reported by folks with 10 to 20 years of experience is around $86K. People who have worked for more than 20 years report a median income of $88K, which is barely higher than the median for folks with 10 to 20 years of experience.
Home to some of the best pay for Veterinarians, New York offers exceptional salaries, 27 percent above the national average. Veterinarians will also find cushy salaries in San Diego (+18 percent), Los Angeles (+18 percent), Sacramento (+14 percent), and San Francisco (+13 percent). Seattle is home to the smallest salaries in the field, lagging the national average by 4 percent.
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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini admitted it has been a "crazy season" after his side pipped Manchester United to the Barclays Premier League title with a last-gasp 3-2 victory over QPR.
The Blues looked set to endure a awful afternoon when Djibril Cisse and Jamie Mackie overturned Pablo Zabaleta's first-half strike in between Joey Barton getting sent off.
But Edin Dzeko rose to give the Blues fresh hope before Sergio Aguero drove home the goal that turned City into champions for the first time since 1968.
Mancini told Sky Sports 1: It was incredible - they deserved this. To win it like this is incredible. I don't think I've ever seen a finale like this.
"We didn't deserve to lose, we had a lot of chances and we deserved to win the game and championship.
"It's fantastic for the club and the supporters after 44 years. It's been a crazy season and a crazy last minute."The Italian added: "Five minutes from the end, I didn't think we'd win this game. But we deserved to win this and deserved to win the title. We were on top for 20 games.
"I think for us it was really important to start winning this championship, Manchester City can have a big future now."
City captain Vincent Kompany admitted the dramatic ending was almost too much for him.
"You want to say it's the best moment of your life but, if I'm honest, please never again this way.
"Even though the first half was really good we just couldn't get through."
Kompany insists he never lost faith, though.
"I never stopped believing," he said. "When Edin scored that goal, it reminded me of so many other moments during the season when we've done this before. There was no reason not to believe.
"It's not sunk in yet. I don't know what happened at the end, it was just a huge mess.
"I'm so happy for the guys cos they've given so much this season. We've dreamed of this all our lives and now we're champions. See the fans and how happy they are - unbelievable."
Samir Nasri, a summer signing from Arsenal, was thrilled to taste league success in his first season at the Etihad.
"It's the first time in my life I've won something like this - to be losing 2-1, to come back and score the winning goal to give us the title," he said.
"It's amazing and I'm really happy. I knew I made the right decision (coming here) and tonight I want to celebrate with all our fans, my family and my friends."
Goalscorer Pablo Zabaleta added: "I thought when we were losing 2-1, I thought 'we'll score one goal and we're still going to lose'.
"I don't want to wake up from this. You just look at the players and the fans, everybody deserves this.
"The most important thing for any team is when you believe. If you believe in yourself you win. We believed until the last minute."
Goalkeeper Joe Hart hopes it is the first league title of many for City.
"I'm proud to play for Man City and I'm proud to play with these boys," he said.
"It means the world to these fans - we need to do it again now, let's do it again."
City's controversial striker Mario Balotelli, who came off the bench with the team 2-1 behind today, used the occasion to take a swipe at his critics.
He said: "We are the best and that's why we won.
"We didn't play very well in a few games but the rest of season we played very well so we deserved to win.
"Personally I think too many people talked and too many people said bad things about me, and now they have just to shut up."
And the Italian forward insisted his future is at the Etihad Stadium, saying: "Manchester City is a great club, a great team, I have great team-mates.
"I don't see my future far from here so I think I want to be here."
City legends Francis Lee and Mike Summerbee, who were part of the City side which won their last league title in 1968, were at the Etihad Stadium to witness the latest success.
"It was real Roy of the Rovers stuff," said Lee. "To come back with five minutes to go and score twice, it was unbelievable.
"As I said last week, if your name's on it, your name's on it. If your luck's going to go against you, it will do.
"They've got a very strong team and the will to go forward now, very good footballers, great backing, a top drawer manager. Let's hope they can carry it on."
Summerbee admitted he thought the club's title chances had disappeared as the final whistle approached.
"I thought we were out of it completely," he said.
"I can't handle a situation like this, going through things like this at my age.
"To be honest I'm a bit speechless, but this is brilliant and a fantastic occasion for the club."
QPR boss Mark Hughes demanded that the focus should be on his team's incredible efforts at City rather than Barton's red card
"I understand there will be a lot of comment about Joey's behaviour," said Hughes.
"I would rather concentrate on what we did.
"I haven't seen Joey and I haven't seen the incident but people were saying he had to go.
"It didn't cost us though."
In the end, QPR retained their Premier League status thanks to Bolton's failure to beat Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.
However, for most of the second half the Londoners seemed set to hand the title to Manchester United, having taken a 2-1 lead despite the loss of Barton.
"If we had pulled it off and won the game, it would have been the greatest Premier League performance in history given the significance of the game and the attention focused on it," said Hughes.
"I congratulate City. It is a huge achievement for them. I am sure there will be many more in the future. We touched the well of apprehension they experienced. It was all the more exciting because of that."
In the end though, Hughes accepted that the moment his side knew they were safe quite possibly turned out to be the moment upon which the entire season turned.
"The one criticism is that we understood we were safe just prior to their winning goal," he said.
"Maybe we just switched off.
"I have never been involved in anything like that but Roberto would have to admit he has been lucky today."
Hughes was magnanimous in his praise for Mancini, whose arrival in December 2009 following the Welshman's sacking provoked so much ire.
A number of players he signed were part of the City team and spoke to their former boss afterwards.
However, Hughes did not take any of the credit.
"It is nothing to do with me," he said.
"I was pleased for the players I worked with because I know the qualities that they have.
"They all came over and shook my hand but the credit is totally theirs.
"It was a great day for everyone, although I have to admit, I am a little bit flat because I am disappointed we got beaten."


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Exeter band Velvet Touch to play city again – 40 years on
Posted: January 31, 2013|
ONE of Exeter's best-known bands of the 1960s and 70s Velvet Touch are reuniting for a gig in the city.
The band played with The Who, the Bee Gees, Tina Turner and the Kinks, and were regulars at the city's Tiffany's club in their glory days. The six-piece pop and soul band operated out of Exeter between 1967 and 1974.
They were one of the most successful bands in the South West, and spent much of their time acting as the main support to many of the famous chart bands of the time.
In 1971, a poll was conducted from all the major live music venues in Devon and Cornwall to discover the most popular band.
The Velvet Touch won the poll with more than 60 per cent of the vote.
Although most of their work was within the four counties of the South West, they did occasionally play as far away as Wales and Yorkshire.
A few years after the band ended, two of the current band won ITV's talent show New Faces in their current band Pride, the only British act to have won a major national television talent show with a self-written song – a record that still stands today.
The original band, less one member, reformed late in 2005 as a five piece, to perform at a small number of private functions, and at occasional bookings to help local charities.
The band comprises of Neil Govier on bass and vocals, Paul Walters on guitar and vocals, Pat Young on keyboards and backing vocals, Bob Dennis on saxaphone and Dave Denning on drums.
Steve Gibbings, who has been helping promote bands in and around Exeter for many years, said the idea came following a conversation with Pat Young.
Steve said: "One day we were talking about music in general, and to my surprise he told me he had once been in a band playing gigs around Exeter in the late 60s and early 70s. After talking for many hours, it was discovered that I had actually seen the band in Tiffany's back in the early 70s.
"When Pat told me Velvet Touch were rehearsing with a plan to do some gigs in 2013, I told him I was so interested in the band I would like to meet them and try to get them a gig in Exeter.
"I thought there would be great interest in a top local band of the 60s playing again in Exeter after 40-odd years.
"I remember watching Velvet Touch at an under-14s disco at Tiffany's on a Tuesday night, and also one lunchtime for the Radio 1 roadshow.
"I also remember seeing Pride, who used to play regular gigs at the Queens Vaults in Exeter on Sunday evenings.
"It was a regular music venue back in the day and the only place to be on Sunday nights."
Forty years later the original band is back almost in its entirety, and will play at Exeter City FC's Centre Spot on Saturday February 16.
It promises to be a real trip down memory lane – the evening consists of a 60s disco and two sets from the Velvet Touch.
For enquiries relating to the gig contact 07708 943616.


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Trainer Kathleen O'Connell said she hopes the rains that fell on the Louisville, Ky. area this weekend and Monday, May 2, end in time for the May 7 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).
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Ever had one of 'Juan's margaritas?' My guess is that tons of you know exactly what I'm talking about – the incredible margaritas that Juan Romero at La Fonda in Alamo Heights has been pouring for 40 years! He's celebrating the milestone this month–still at La Fonda Alamo Heights and still mixing margaritas, thank […] [Read More]
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Texas Army veteran Ryan Rafols worked as a missile defense engineer during his time in the U.S. Army, operating military defense systems, calculating targets and maintaining computer systems.
But when Rafols came back to Texas and applied to the engineering school at the University of Texas at Austin earlier this year, he was told none of his experience would count toward his degree. That made no sense to him.
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How many times will the JJ use that same 'ol photo of jcpd Car # 2622 ? No matter where in Jersey City the story occurred, you use the same tired photo, of the Heights.
Some criticism is often made that newspapers use "sensationalism" in headlines to catch a reader. This headline is a perfect example. The defendant used to be married , but was divorced , quite a while ago, from the sister of some ( former ) TV character. Uh-huh. so why put the TV character in the headline?
RIP, Willie was one of the most capable leaders , particularly at the J.C. Bd of Ed. She will be missed.
In the immortal words of VP Joe Biden, "This is a big - deal" Thank you, JJ for featuring this story. It's a real feather in the cap of the kids, & their Science Teacher . Congratulations!
Millions spent to entrap & try this elderly woman? This is the priority of NJ Law enforcement? This woman never received one dollar. But she'll serve 3 years in prison? There is nothing positive in this story. She may die in prison, but her jail sentence will certainly deter all such conduct in Jersey City in the future. Thank Goodness.
Isn't this the same jerk who thought it was funny to put fresh dog poop throughout the Seaside house? He sure does need "rehab" .
Here's a simple solution: simply ask that the headline be reversed...Were the NJ Muslim leaders able to " assure Mayor Cory Booker that their mosques were free of terrorist rhetoric & sympathies??" If not, why would any police investigation be stopped??
After 10 Years, after thousands of dead Americans (clearly an ever-increasing number) and while today WE ARE SPENDING 2 BILLION DOLLARS EVERY WEEK ON AFGHANISTAN, and we see large #'s of Afghans protesting & murdering us like this? Time to bring the troops home.
Hmmmmm, Mr Dusenberry, the Political Hack who ran for Jersey City city Council; and after losing, had his campaign manager issue the excuse that voters confused Dusenberry with Doonesberry, the political cartoon. Once a Buffoon, always a Buffoon.
Good Point. Of course there are dozens of active cameras at, around, and in the Holland Tunnel. The perpetrator's license plate number is already known.
God bless those firefighters and all the brave men & women who serve as Firefighters in our city. Our prayers are with the injured.
Would it be too much to ask to tell us the address? Attention re-write Editor : Writer assumes everyone knows about/ whereabouts of Monroe Center. Please add location. Thank you.
As my late,great Irish Grandaddy used to say..... ahhh, the fo*kin' Irish, if they stopped fightin' between themselves, they'd rule the world.
Oh, my....neighbors not down for the march towards "Green Energy"? Sounds like NIMBY-ism.
Thanks to very good Police work these thugs were caught & punished. We should be very thankful for the tenacity of law enforcement on this matter.
She demanded SALT? Salt is a leading cause of Hypertension. Sounds like she doesn't need any more salt.
Oh, and by the way, New Jersey residents PAY THE HIGHEST PROPERTY TAXES IN AMERICA. Uh-huh, and then they pay Sales Tax, and State income Tax. And we see how the $$$$$ are used...to give tax credits, and financial breaks to this Youth Reality(?) Show about young people "hooking-up". You may love or hate the show, but it should not be subsidized by N.J. Taxpayers.
Whaaa? The defendant has no alibi?? These jurors are TV "trained" : i.e There must be another side to this story. Well, guess what? This defendant has NO alibi, NO explanation for his whereabouts. Didn't take the witness Stand? Awwww, poor baby!!!!! Here's a favorable Jury, straining to hear his explanation, even when he didn't offer one. This is rich!!! thank you, Jersey Journal, Good story.
Sounds like another Bridge to Nowhere... asking the rest of the country to pay $18 Million Dollars so Jersey City drivers don't have to drive 1 mile south to Johnston Ave is selfish, especially in these tough economic times. It seems incredible that no better use of $ 18 Million Dollars can be found in all of Jersey City.
Incredible, your story features the word "contract" 5 times....but never gives even one detail of the existing contract. You keep repeating that you don't have any details of the proposed new contract. OK, but that is no excuse for not including the existing contract terms. Or, don't you have them either?? Poor journalism!


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The Rufus Reid Quintet
Sunday, November 2, 2014
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Award-winning bassist, educator, and composer Rufus Reid has been playing jazz for over fifty years. He was influenced by the greats and even had opportunities to play among them. Now, he is a highly sought-after teacher and mentor in the jazz community. This year, Reid released the album Quiet Pride – The Elizabeth Catlett Project to critical acclaim, bringing Catlett's striking sculptures to life with music composed for large ensemble. Reid brings his quintet of star players to Baltimore for our 24th season opener.
Rufus Reid, bass
Steve Allee, piano
Duduka Da Fonseca, drums
Freddie Hendrix, trumpet
Gary Bartz, alto saxophone
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The Houston Person Quartet
Sunday, February 8, 2015
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Houston Person has called his style "good old bootin' tenor sax playing." Focusing on melodies in the tradition of Gene Ammons, Person explores blues repertoire, ballads, popular and R&B standards. He has made a name for himself in the genre of "soul jazz," expressing influences from soul and gospel music. Person has been described as having a "fundamental approach to his horn, eloquently expressing heartfelt emotion in much the same way a vocalist might. " (Jazz Times)
Houston Person, tenor saxophone
The Terell Stafford Quintet
Sunday, March 8, 2015
5:00PM Performance
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"Jazz is the art of storytelling…so if you're not conveying a message, your music is trying to breathe without oxygen." (JazzTimes)These evocative words were spoken by trumpet player and educator Terell Stafford. Having experienced an incredibly diverse performance career, this University of Maryland graduate is recognized as an incredibly gifted and versatile player who combines a deep love of melody with his own brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism. He has maintained the rich tradition of those who have influenced him, while making his own mark on tradition itself.
Terell Stafford, trumpet and flugelhorn
Tim Warfield, tenor and soprano saxophone
Bruce Barth, piano
Peter Washington, bass
Billy Williams, drums
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The Renee Rosnes Quartet with Steve Nelson
Sunday, April 12, 2015
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Canadian pianist Renee Rosnes is a composer and arranger in the hard bop and post-bop genres. "Rosnes and company produce glorious, soulful and deep modern jazz that is firmly rooted in the tradition while showcasing a truly inspired original voice," according to The Times Colonist. Inventive and complex in her playing, this four-time Juno Award Winner has been featured twice on NPR's Live at the Village Vanguard series.
Renee Rosnes, piano
Steve Nelson, vibraphone
Peter Washington, bass
Lewis Nash, drums
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Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio
Sunday, May 3, 2015
5:00PM Performance
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Living legend and Hammond B3 organ master Dr. Lonnie Smith is yet another artist in our program who has been working for more than five decades. He has been featured on over seventy albums and has received countless accolades and spots on "Top Organist" lists from several publications. Smith has a worldwide following and as a leader and innovator on his instrument, he has influenced generations of musicians with his creative styles and often relentless grooves. The energy and innovation in his live performances are not to be missed!
Lonnie Smith, Hammond B3 organ
Jonathan Kreisberg, guitar
Johnathan Blake, drums
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Headed down to Taney for a little night/morning fishing. Got down at about 5 and started fishing between outlet 1 and 2. Not much happening , only landed one. When the sun started coming up, I switched to a soft hackle and started catching fish after fish. started just below rebar and landed several nice bows, including the one pictured. Fished all the way down to the old koa campground, I guess it is Trophy Run now? Stayed there for a long time, because the fishing was amazing. Probably landed 30+, should have landed about 50 but missed alot of them and had several making wakes behind the fly, but never hitting it. I did manage to catch one really beautiful brown down there, but did not get a picture taken. All in all, it was an amazing day, long overdue.
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 10:20 AM
NIce one and great picture!
Posted 19 March 2012 - 10:36 AM
Nice, was down last week and tried the soft hackle to no avail. Couple of questions, which soft hackle and do you use full sink line at all??
Posted 19 March 2012 - 12:38 PM
It was a soft hackle that I tie. It is a size 16 tied with the super bright dubbing mixed with the yellow and green that kinda makes a caddis green. I only use a floating line because the fish that I am targeting are the fish that are midging on the surface. The best days to try it are cloudy like yesterday, but I have done well on bright sunny days as well if there is a little chop on the water. I try to find fish on the surface, and cast across or down stream to them so the fly swings in front of them while I am stripping. I strip the fly pretty quickly with short quick strips, never stopping or pausing. The action is great when they are on the fly, making wakes behind, or exploding out of the water from beneath. Hope this helps, and hope the picture shows everything ok.
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Target: I love you but...
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One of those ways is not, however, your ease of use. And I'll tell you what I mean, specifically: it's your carts.
Just take a look at this photo here. I'll have you know that I came to your store, the one at Mall 205 in Portland, Oregon, with two children who both wanted to ride in a cart. Despite your huge store with wide, wide aisles; your carts only have one seat.
No matter. I put Truman, my 11-month-old, in a sling. And proceeded upstairs to get a new car seat for him. He's getting so big!
And you see what happened? It didn't fit. None of your car seats would have. In fact, a good percentage of your large items can't possibly be wedged in the cart.
Instead, I balanced it precariously and proceeded to push the cart gingerly through your store, holding my large baby in the sling. The box fell out three times. Maybe four, I lost count. And what's worse, I conked my poor son on the head a couple of times.
Please get carts that fit your merchandise, Target. Then I'd love you a little more unreservedly.
[p.s. I do love my evenflo car seat, Truman quite enjoys riding in it and it's a nice plaid color.]
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4-14-2006 @ 7:19AMAngelica said...
I agree! You can't fit much in those carts, especially when both kids want to ride in it.
I love the double seat carts. We have them at Sam's which used to be BJ's WholeSale and then something else, anyway, they have double carts and are a lifesaver. Plus, their carts are pretty damn roomy. I would suppose they have to be, when you are buying in bulk.
4-14-2006 @ 8:21AMCrystal said...
I will also add that the carts at Walmart are WAY TO SMALL! In the last two years they have gotten SMALLER. When I asked an associate why the carts are so small, they informed me it was to accomodate the mechanical cart pusher machine. So I have to suffer with my small cart so an associate doesnt have to make two trips outside to get carts?? That doesnt make sense. I was there last night and I bought a storage tote, easter basket, new booster seat for the kitchen table & a bunch of other stuff. My husband was following me holding items that wouldnt fit. Thank goodness I didnt have my toddler. Where would I have put him???
4-14-2006 @ 8:22AMJulie said...
The problem is, it seems like every time I go to Target I'm buying in bulk--my cart seems to get just as full just as fast with just as many BIG packages as it would in Sam's.
4-14-2006 @ 8:40AMMichelle said...
I have 2 small children. Neither are really old enough to walk beside me. They do have the "special multi-child" shopping carts, but you are lucky if you can find one, and then you lose space. I usually put the preschooler in the basket, crowd crap in around her, and heaven help me if it's a big shopping trip. Which you know it is, bc at Target and Wal-mart, you always end up getting WAAAAAAAAy more than was on your list! You'd think they would get a clue!
4-14-2006 @ 9:10AMelsimom said...
Hey Guys - as a fellow Target shopper, let me try to help you out. If you have a big item, look for a Target team member (or, if one is not nearby, use one of the service phones). At your request, they will carry a large item like a car seat, bike, furniture, lamp, whatever, to the front of the store. They will tell you which lane they will leave it at. When you get to the front of the store, you simply tell your cashier that you have a large item waiting at Lane X, and what it is. They should then summon someone to bring the item, and if you ask nicely, they will even help you get it to your car.
When I was pregnant, anytime I had to get something heavy, like softener salt, I simply asked them if there was someone who could help me, and they always obliged.
It WILL slow you down - sometimes you have to wait for someone to go to the other lane to get the thing, or help you to your car. BUT - sometimes a little extra time is worth it.
ALSO - did you know that if they are out of something (like a car seat - we needed two and they were being clearanced, but the model was on the shelf), you can have someone scan the shelf tag, and go with you to customer service, and customer service can print a list of nearby Target stores that have the item. I have even had them call the store I planned to go to and hold those items for me. (Note that I have noticed that sometimes the team members don't think to offer this - and I'm not sure it works on little things, but it does work on the bigger items).
Although I work at their corporate headquarters, when I am in the store, I am just a shopper (my job doesn't deal directly with the stores) - so I just try to think "Hey, as a Target shopper, what do I need?" Then, I think "Hey, as someone who wants the company to do well, what should I be asking them for"? Voila - if I need help, I ask for it.
I hope this is helpful (and hopefully unbiased) information.
Good luck.
4-14-2006 @ 10:01AMKim said...
Elsimom, I love Target in general but the team members at my store are worthless. They wouldn't lift a finger to help their grandmother. If I did the things you suggest they would either laugh at me or act like I was the biggest pain in the butt they ever met.
I know this isn't the case at all locations since I've been to other stores with great service. I'd really like to trade staffs with one of them!
4-14-2006 @ 10:04AManna said...
Also, when i used to go to Target when my youngest was a baby I'd try to snap his car seat into the front of the cart like i could at all other stores - and it doesn't fit! At all.
I've seen SO many women struggling with that!
4-14-2006 @ 10:06AMEden said...
Speaking of Target carts and cartseats, the backs on the front basket where a child sits don't work w/ the Graco car seat/carrier that my 3 month old is in. I have to hold the car seat in place b/c it's too precarious in the Target cart. The bar-to-seatback distance is also too short for the car seat/carrier. My choice is either having him practically vertical or to have his head lower than his feet.
The best solution has been to have my infant in his Baby Bjorn and my toddler in the cart. One advantage of the Target carts is that they're plastic, not metal, and aren't so cold. We use a cart cover on the seat when my daughter rides anyway but sometimes we forget it in the dryer at home.
4-14-2006 @ 10:17AMann adams said...
Commenter #5 said it. Our local Target has always been willing to take articles to the front for me. I use their red phone if I don't see someone. Never had any problems.
I don't believe local stores set national policy. Maybe Kim's store needs a wakeup call.
If I have a second person with me (like my husband) on major shopping days, we use two carts. He's there; he might as well push too.
4-14-2006 @ 10:19AMbellamama said...
I used to get SO MAD because the carseat wouldn't fit in the front of the cart!
I see moms trying to get theirs to fit and i just tell them it won't. arg.
4-14-2006 @ 10:31AMAngelica said...
I definitely agree that carseats do not fit in the carts. It isn't just Graco either. Peg Perego seats don't fit worth a damn. I would have to put the kids in sideways. Or in the basket and then just hope that I didn't get that much stuff.
4-14-2006 @ 12:44PMSadaf Trimarchi said...
I've had good and bad days with the Target team members. But on a day when I needed help lifting items off the shelf, or carrying heavy boxes to the car, they were really great. I just had to ask. And yes, it did involve a little extra waiting, but overall, it wasn't bad. I love Target.
4-14-2006 @ 2:18PMMichelle said...
I've always wondered why they don't put foot brakes on shopping carts like on strollers. I'm always worried that the cart is going to roll away from me when I get it to the car.
I agree about Target team members' varying degrees of help. Sometimes they are really great, sometimes they are woefully unhelpful. Other times they are nowhere to be found.
4-14-2006 @ 4:24PMNancy Toby said...
If you have any ideas for shopping with twins, I'm all ears! Right now we're a little limited, since one can be strapped in the front of the cart, the other one sits IN the cart (when she's not standing) and my purchases are limited to whatever I can wedge in the cart around the one sitting in the cart. Which have to be things she won't open or eat or we have endless trouble. Not fun!
4-14-2006 @ 4:32PMDaniele said...
You're so right! Even worse, with an infant, try pushing the Target shopping cart packed with large items on one hand and push the stroller with the other hand. And I totally do not want to wait around until someone shows up to help me carry stuff to the front. Well, I guess that puts me in a lose-lose situation, huh? ;-)
4-14-2006 @ 4:37PMdlbs said...
At my Target in San Jose, CA they have carts outfitted with the double seats (attached to the front of a regular cart). They don't have a ton of them, but I've never had a hard time getting one when I need it.
4-14-2006 @ 5:44PMMichelle said...
I've taken my twins and preschooler shopping at Target by myself. I push the twins in the double stroller and pull a cart with my preschooler in it. I'm nuts.
4-14-2006 @ 5:45PMcee said...
Your kidding me, your Target has large aisles? The Targets I frequent have skinny aisles that two carts can barely squeeze through in passing. I have seen those carts that have the attachment on the front for two kids but there is no way I will push one of those montrosities (sp?), there is no way it would fit down an aisle.
It would be nice if they had some type of service where a Target employee could take large cumbersome boxes up front to a holding area until a person is ready to check out.
4-14-2006 @ 9:21PMNancy Toby said...
Only once in my experience of going into stores with my twins has there been a double cart available, and it was a small grocery store in rural Michigan. Never once in the Big Box stores! Somebody always has them first.
4-14-2006 @ 9:23PMNancy Toby said...
Maybe I should add that I've seen lots of times when people put their ONE kid in the cart built for two kids, so it's not available to people (like me) who really need it. Or the seat belts are broken, and my kids NEED those seat belts.
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And is there any way for us to find out? Long gone are the days when little faces lit up at the sight of Mom dropping by school for a surprise lunch. Like the Jesus of my Catholic girlhood, all teens prefer to be known as the products of an Immaculate Conception. The Heavenly Father motif works for them. Mother on Pluto is also good. So even if the parent of a teenager could penetrate a high school's armed security, that little face would light up with nuclear embarrassment.
How then does the mother of a teen boy gather intel when his answer to all questions—"Teachers?" "Classes?" "Friends?" "Existence of life on other planets?"—is "Fine"?
How else? Go undercover. Which is why I volunteer in the attendance office in Teen Boy's two-thousand-student, middle-class, suburban high school. I go every other week for a few hours as an anthropologist, to collect data about the culture of a fascinating, alien land. Let's call it Bureaucracia, because of the extent to which it is wrapped in red tape. Even though no one likes it—not students, not teachers, not even the administrators who must enforce legislative fiats and district directives—there that red tape is, tangled around your child.
To give you a tiny hint of the Department of Motor Vehicles—flavor of the place, I offer the following notes—but no real names—from one stint in early spring at Giant Public High School.
It is pouring rain as I splash through puddles in the parking lot, hurrying to make my eleven-thirty shift. Girls as skinny as gazelles in bumster jeans and tiny pink terry hoodies run in ahead of me. The smell—poster paint, floor wax, disinfectant, overripe bananas, teen anxiety—takes me instantly back to my own unlamented adolescence.
There's already a crowd at the counter. Miss Bettina and Miss Blanca, the conscientious, overburdened ladies who run the attendance office, are ensconced behind their computers. Miss Blanca is sending messages from the principal to parents, alerting them that their spawn missed class. Miss Bettina is recording the phone-book-thick stack of permits and notes that the office generates every single day.
"I need a permit to enter class," the first student in line tells me. Permits … right! My job is to issue the passes that allow students to come and go. From her carefully guarded supply, Miss Bettina hands over one pink pad, Permits to Leave School, and one white pad, Permits to Enter Class.
"Be careful," she tells me. "It happened again."
"Some kid swiped a pad and was getting his friends out of class."
Students shove notes at me. I place a three-by-four scrap of carbon paper (yes, Bob Cratchit, carbon paper!) into the pad and start scribbling permits in duplicate. A window opens into the young lives before me as I decipher parents' handwriting, reading the reasons for absences: "Migraine." "Orthodontist appt." "Funeral." "Car brooken donw." "College visit to Dartmouth." "Bad cramps." The student gets the original. I staple the carbon to the note, then divide pinks and whites into two baskets.
A cute, pudgy girl with corpuscle-colored hair wearing a T-shirt that reads "I Think Therefore I Have a Headache" grabs the last pass, and then I scramble to record pinks and whites on separate lists that Miss Bettina will scrutinize for times logged in and out, nabbing those who would game the system. With a few moments free, I join a student aide in a bit of Sisyphean filing. Every scrap of paper is sorted, first by last name, then by second letter of last name, until all those notes and passes are entombed in the student's individual file and sent to an eternal rest in the district graveyard (state law requires such documentation).
It reminds me of a friend's account of buying a candy bar in India during the seventies. Several mysterious steps, including filling out an order form, were required for the purchase of a Snickers bar. Each one involved a different clerk who stamped, initialed, and filed. The purpose seemed to be to see how many times one slip of paper could be handled before the transaction was complete.
My filing of slips of paper worn soft with handling is interrupted by static from a school cop's radio. It is still a shock to see an armed police officer in a school. I assume the boy giving him a dramatic rendition of being beaten up has been caught fighting.
"There was, like, blood everywhere," I overhear one of the gaggle of Tardies (late lunchers needing Permits to Enter) remark about the fight. I fill in names and student ID numbers. I lean in close to whisper, "Cause?" It's really none of my business, but the form demands it. When one student doesn't answer, I glance up, meet his bloodshot eyes, and ask again why he is late. He shrugs, his puka shell necklace rising and falling, then


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Looking to the 'Promise Land'
With a jubilant march and a program of music, dance and reflection, Sevier Countians on Monday remembered Martin Luther King Jr. during the national holiday commemorating the civil rights pioneer.
Before the march, about 100 people gathered in the parking lot of First Baptist Church. Among them was Betty McMahan, whose son, the late Joseph McMahan, organized Sevier County's first King celebration in 2006.
"It's a great thing for Sevier County," McMahan said of the celebration. "It helps us to realize the things Martin Luther King stood for, not only for the black race but for the human race." McMahan carried a sign memorializing civil rights martyrs.
Kristie Gutierrez of Boyds Creek Church of God helped organize church members. "We march every year," she said of the event. "It brings unity to the area."
After a prayer by Bishop Zack Flack, senior pastor of Boyds Creek Church of God, the group marched down Court Street toward the courthouse. They were led by officials including Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Gary L. Wade, Sevierville Mayor Bryan Atchley and Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters.
"MLK, it's your day," the marchers chanted. "The dream you had is here to stay." They also chanted about Rosa Parks, and they sang "We're Marching Up to Zion."
After the march, the program remembering King began in the church's sanctuary. First was a film about King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Then opening remarks were made by Judge Dwight Stokes of General Sessions Court, who chairs the committee that organizes the celebration.
Waters and Atchley also spoke, as did Rev. Dan Spencer, pastor of First Baptist Church. "This is a day that should bring us all together to recognize Dr. King and what he did for civil rights," Waters said.
"Let's love each other," Atchley said, "second only to our love for our lord Jesus Christ."
Regina Pate sang a soaring version of the Negro National Anthem, and a team from Boyds Creek Church of God performed praise dance. Only the dancers' white-gloved hands, illuminated by black lights, could be seen.
Wade delivered the keynote address, which he began with reflections on the desegregation of Sevier County schools in the 1960s.
Then he spoke on judicial and legal history, including the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision declaring African-Americans non-citizens. He also described the court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld racial segregation.
"Neither shed favorable light on the Supreme Court," said Wade of the decisions.
Wade concluded by describing events in King's life, including the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech King delivered on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated.
Wade read King's words: "We, as a people, will get to the promised land."


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MOBILE, Ala. — They might be small, but don't sell them short.
Three diminutive running backs hope they're delivering that message at the Senior Bowl this week. Noel Devine of West Virginia and Kendall Hunter of Oklahoma State are both 5-8, and Derrick Locke of Kentucky is the titan of the trio at 5-9.
Backs small in stature are getting it done in the NFL, guys like Maurice Jones-Drew (5-7), Ray Rice (5-8) and Darren Sproles (5-6). However, the three smallest backs at the Senior Bowl face a familiar obstacle, trying to get NFL coaches and general managers to see beyond the tape measure.
"Those other guys are doing it, so I know it can be done," Locke said Wednesday. "I like all the small backs—Darren Sproles, Dexter McCluster. Give me touches. Get the ball to me however you can get it to me, and I'll do something with it."
Most NFL scouts do not expect Devine, Hunter or Locke to go in the first two rounds of the draft. However, with strong performances on and off the field at the Senior Bowl and at the NFL Scouting Combine, a team in need of a third-down back and return man will move them up their draft boards.
A look at what this trio brings to the table:
Noel Devine, West Virginia
What he brings: Speed, take-it-to-the-house speed. Devine might be the fastest player at the Senior Bowl, and look for him to post a blistering 40-yard dash at the Combine. Devine also has good hands, so he can be a chain-mover in the passing game.
Meanwhile, there are no questions about Devine's ability to persevere. His father died from AIDS when Devine was an infant, and his mother died from the same disease when he was 11. Devine used his love for football to help deal with his grief.
"It shows up on the field—my big heart and determination," Devine said. "Film don't lie."
What he must prove: At 160 pounds, Devine's ability to stay healthy in the NFL will be questioned. He was nagged by injuries during his senior season at West Virginia. He also must prove he can contribute on special teams.
"He's never returned a punt," said Mike Mayock, an analyst for NFL Network and NBC. "If you're going to draft him, he better return punts, he better return kickoffs and you better have a specialized way to get him on the field."
Kendall Hunter, Oklahoma State
What he brings: With a solid body (199 pounds) on his small frame, Hunter is having a good week, showing a willingness to run between the tackles.
"I'm here to compete," Hunter said. "Every day I get a little more comfortable."
Many young backs struggle with pass protection, picking up blitzing linebackers who can seriously outweigh them. But Hunter has stood out in blocking drills, too, which helps his draft stock.
"I like Kendall Hunter," Mayock said. "I knew he could run and catch, but what I saw this morning in pass protection was a little kid that squared up, stuck his face right in everybody's chest. I talked to a couple of coaches and scouts afterwards: They saw the same thing.
"He's tougher than people know. I think he's a solid third-round pick."
What he must prove: He must improve his route-running skills to become a more versatile receiver, and he also must convince scouts he will be durable.
Derrick Locke, Kentucky
What he brings: He has deceptive speed as a former track star who wastes little motion when he runs. Locke came to Kentucky on a track scholarship before switching to football.
"But I'm not a track guy who plays football," Locke said. "I'm a football guy who used to run track."
Locke has shown that this week by hitting holes with authority.
What he must prove: Locke also must answer questions about his ability to block. But both Locke and Devine, who are teammates on the South team this week, are used to proving people wrong.
"He has to have the same mentality I have," Locke. "He's going to hear it too—he's too small to be a running back. I hear the same thing. Hopefully, he's going to handle his. I'm going to handle mine."


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The Jewish people's historical claims to a small area of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean are not only the foundation for the modern state of Israel, they are also at the very heart of Judeo-Christian belief. Yet in The Mythic Past, Thomas Thompson argues that such claims are grounded in literary myth, not history. Among the author's startling conclusions are these:* There never was a "united monarch" of Israel in biblical times* We can no longer talk about a time of the Patriarchs* The entire notion of "Israel" and its history is a literary fiction.The Mythic Past provides refreshing new ways to read the Old Testament as the great literature it was meant to be. At the same time, its controversial conclusions about Jewish history are sure to prove incendiary in a worldwide debate about one of the world's seminal texts, and one of its most bitterly contested regions.
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Thomas L. Thompson is one of the leading biblical archaeologists in the world. He was awarded a National Endowment fellowship, has taught at Lawrence and Marquette Universities in Wisconsin, and currently teaches at the University of Copenhagen, which has one of the most prestigious Biblical Studies programs in the world. His book, The Early History of the Israelite People, a famously controversial book at the time, is now a standard text in the field. He lives in Denmark.
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Arguing that the Bible should be read as literature rather than history in the modern sense, biblical archaeologist Thompson (Biblical Studies/Univ. of Copenhagen) sweepingly reassesses the historical evidence for the existence of ancient Israel. Bitter scholarly controversies, fueled by religious belief, have raged for decades about the historical authenticity of such Bible stories as the Garden of Eden, the Flood, and the flight from Egypt. These debates are misconceived, argues Thompson: much of the Bible was never intended to be read literally, or even to be understood as history as modern readers conceive it. Instead, much of the Bible consists of tall stories and other types of literature that, in ancient Jewish society as in other ancient cultures, provided people with an understanding of a common past. Relying on archaeological rather than biblical evidence, the author sketches the ancient economy and society of the people of Palestine. Rather than the unified "kingdom of Israel" depicted in the Bible, he paints a picture of a turbulent tribal Palestine, buffeted by drought, waves of immigrants from the Aegean, and expansionist neighbors. Contrasting this evidence with biblical narratives, shot through as they are with elements of the miraculous and the fantastic, Thompson questions the historicity of such scriptural accounts as the stories of the kingships of Saul, David, and Solomon and the Babylonian exile. Thompson finds magnificent poetry in the Bible, brilliant epic narratives and folktales, and great philosophical and moral writing that raises important questions about the meaning of life and the name of God: "it is only as history that the Bible does not make sense." In rather heavyhanded fashion, Thompson makes a good general point: that many biblical narratives should not be read literally as history; but in his total reliance on archaeology, he may overstate his case somewhat for the ahistoricity of the Bible. (Kirkus Reviews)


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Secret agenda: 20 classic spy movies
As "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" receives a stylish update, we survey our favorite espionage films, then and now
10. "Top Secret!" (1984) and "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (1997)
We start our list with two of the best espionage movie spoofs, "Top Secret!" and "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery." "Austin Powers" sends up both James Bond and the swingin' London thrillers and post-Beatnik youth culture flicks that were popular in the late 1960s. Channeling Peter Sellers via his own brilliant if off-putting talents, Mike Myers plays multiple roles, including the titular spy, a geeky fool who's nonetheless catnip to the ladies, and Dr. Evil, an Ernst Stavro Blofeld-style villain whose purring vocal rhythms are reputedly modeled at least partly on Myers' old "Saturday Night Live" boss Lorne Michaels. Both have been thawed out from 1967 and are still mentally stuck in that time. This ultimately doesn't slow Austin down too much, but it creates some awkwardness for Dr. Evil, who hasn't grasped the concept of inflation and still thinks a million dollars is a lot of money. Evil employs hench-people with Bond-style stupid-clever pun names such as Alotta Fagina and Random Task, dominates his son Scott Evil (Seth Green) and dotes on his cat Mr. Bigglesworth. The movie has held up surprisingly well, thanks mainly to its non sequitur-laden dialogue. "My childhood was typical," Evil reminisces. "Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really."
The latter — a spoof of French underground thrillers, Elvis movies about 37 other things — might be the crowning achievement of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the filmmaking trio that created "Kentucky Fried Movie" and "Airplane!" It's especially sharp in its send-up of Cold War spy film clichés, which here get inexplicably and delightfully mixed with World War II film clichés and a lot of ridiculous musical numbers. American singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) falls in love with a beautiful resistance fighter named Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge) and joins forces with the underground to rescue Hillary's dad, who has been imprisoned by the East German military and forced to design something called the Polaris naval mine. Omar Sharif shows up as Nick's trench-coated contact, intoning code words ("Novelties … Souvenirs … Party tricks …") and enduring surreal humiliations (at one point he's trapped inside the blocky remains of a compacted automobile). The resistance fighters are named Du Quois, Latrine, Chocolate Mousse and Déjà Vu. "Have we not met before, Monsieur?" Déjà Vu asks Nick. "No," Nick says blankly. "I don't think so." But there's doubt in his eyes.
9. "Ronin" (1998) and "Spartan" (2004)
What happens when David Mamet does espionage? You get a couple of tough, cryptic, highly original thrillers. "Ronin," directed by John Frankenheimer, is about a team of former CIA special ops headed by Robert De Niro who wander from mission to mission during the post-Cold War era. The script, rewritten by Mamet from an original screenplay by J.D. Zeik, likens the group to masterless samurai from Japanese history, roaming a hostile world fighting other people's battles; they're hired by Irish terrorists to retrieve a mysterious metal case, a classic Hitchcockian MacGuffin that has no real meaning aside from its status as the thing that everybody's chasing. De Niro's character is one of the most laughably super-macho heroes in film history — in one scene, he directs a surgeon on how to remove a bullet from his body without anesthesia. And yet neither this conceit nor the film's many lavish car chases feel out of place because the whole film is conceived as a sort of film noir fable, a sort of modern cousin of "Le Samourai" that allows Frankenheimer to indulge both his love of high-octane cars and his lifelong Francophilia.
"Spartan," written and directed by Mamet, updates the Cold War puzzle thriller to the post-9/11 era; like "Ronin," it seems to be taking place in a testosterone-poisoned alternate universe several degrees removed from our own, but its sense of paranoia and its obsession with honor and duty feel very real and relevant. Val Kilmer plays the Delta Force cadre member entrusted with rescuing the president's kidnapped daughter from a sex slavery ring (an odd premonition of the plot of 2008′s vastly more successful "Taken"). The mission is far more compromised than it originally appears, devolving into a crazy quilt of fake-outs and double crosses as tangled as the plots of Mamet's "House of Games" and "The Spanish Prisoner." Yet Kilmer's character doggedly follows through all the way to the end, illustrating a concept laid out in the film's opening scenes: A soldier's first obligation is to the mission.
8. "Casino Royale" (2006) and The "Bourne" Trilogy (2002, 2004, 2007)
Should the James Bond and Jason Bourne films even be considered true spy movies? Some would argue no, because although the heroes of these film series engage in deception and information-gathering and get tangled up in international political intrigue, they're mainly assassins, and their adventures are ultimately more action thrillers than real-world espionage dramas. But if the assassin thriller is actually a splinter of the spy movie genre, the two are related closely enough to be indistinguishable for list-making purposes. And no spy film list would be complete without a citation of these two franchises.
My pick for the best Bond film is "Casino Royale," the Daniel Craig-starring reboot that has the cool toughness of an early Sean Connery picture, the romantic charm of the best Roger Moore movies, and the mournful afterglow of the lone George Lazenby entry, 1969′s "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." It is also arguably the only Bond film in the series' nearly 50-year history that actually works as a self-contained, completely adult movie rather than a knowingly campy thrill ride. It even has psychologically plausible characters and one of the only fully convincing love stories in the franchise, between Craig's young, untested Bond and Eva Green's Treasury agent, Vesper Lynd.
The Bourne films are all tough, smart and engrossing (though the wild camerawork and frenzied cutting put off viewers who were used to the more stately Bond style) but it's hard to choose one over the rest because they're all of a piece, telling a complete and satisfying story. Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's series of novels — which were adapted for TV in the 1980s with Richard Chamberlain as Bourne — they amount to a three-part, six-hour action epic about an amnesiac assassin (Matt Damon). He's a Frankenstein's monster of U.S. intelligence — a black ops attack dog seeking explanations for his mistreatment and redress for the sins committed against him. The series owes a lot to the paranoid thriller genre that was so popular in the early '70s; the Bourne films capture the post-Vietnam and Watergate conviction that institutions were blandly vicious and would steamroll over any honest person who tried to hold them accountable for their actions. That feeling became pervasive again in the era of state-sanctioned torture, promiscuous surveillance and flagrant disregard for international law. Bourne keeps getting closer to the center of the immense machine that created him and tried to destroy him, and inevitably learns — to paraphrase Michael Corleone — that the higher up he goes, the crookeder it gets.
7. "Three Days of the Condor" (1975) and "Rubicon" (2010)
One of the many remarkable things about "Three Days of the Condor" — adapted from James Grady's novel "Six Days of the Condor" — is its portrait of the very uncinematic workaday world of actual intelligence, which has less to do with seductions and baccarat games and machine gun battles than with sifting through mountains of raw data and looking for patterns that might be messages or clues. But of course that's just the first few scenes of Sidney Pollack's film. Once CIA analyst Joseph Turner (Robert Redford) gets back from lunch and finds his whole office murdered, he has to go on the run to save himself and figure out who did the deed and why, and is forced to become a real-world version of James Bond, using his fists as well as his brain. Brains will out: Turner ultimately protects himself — and his on-the-run girlfriend, played by Faye Dunaway — by correctly untangling clues, puzzles and portents, and playing people against each other. The key to the entire story is hidden within — or between the lines of — a text.
The near-great AMC series "Rubicon" often felt like "Three Days of the Condor: The Series," except that much of its action stayed rooted in the information-gathering part of the intelligence trade. James Badge Dale — who briefly played Kiefer Sutherland's partner on "24″ — stars as Will Travers, an analyst at a think tank called the American Policy Institute who notices suspicious patterns in crossword puzzles published in several newspapers on the same day. When he reports this finding to his boss, the boss is killed in a train crash. Things get deeper and darker from there, but what makes "Rubicon" so unusual, and so exceptionally creepy, is that most of violence is mysterious and has what shady public officials would call "plausible deniability." Will becomes convinced that he's on to an international global conspiracy that intertwines with, and surely influences, U.S. foreign policy, but the clues are so elusive that it's hard to assemble a convincing case. He's helped by his supervisor Kale Ingram (Arliss Howard), but is he really helping Will, or is he secretly doing the conspirators' bidding and throwing Will off the case, perhaps even setting him up for disgrace or death? This is a quiet, slow and highly intellectual series, much more left-brained than the usual spy thriller, but refreshingly so, and it has the best paranoid thriller atmosphere of any such story made after the 1970s. Every frame seems suffused with mystery and menace.
6. "Army of Shadows" (1969) and "The Lives of Others" (2006)
Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film "Army of Shadows" and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "The Lives of Others" are set in different countries and different time periods and have very different styles, but they're linked in my mind because they show intelligence operations (and their moral compromises and outrages) taking place within the context of a larger society, rather than presenting them as something that stands apart from the rest of life. Nothing that happens in these movies is hermetically sealed off from the world, as is so often the case in spy, assassin and other espionage films. Every frame communicates a powerful sense that whether the characters are persecuting political enemies or seeking payback for grievous wrongs, they're still ultimately channeling their culture and upbringing, and that any pretense of detached rationality is just a cover for their personal issues, their pathologies.
Set in 1942 German-occupied France, "Army of Shadows" presents one of the toughest, at times nastiest views of the anti-Nazi underground ever captured on film. Lino Ventura stars as Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer and secret resistance agent arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo after a colleague gives him up; he escapes police custody and seeks revenge; from there the movie turns into a twisty-turny action thriller that lays out multiple lines of action, with risky acts of impersonation and deception and several thrilling action sequences. "Army" delivers many of the expected spy thriller pleasures — and gives Simone Signoret one of her meatiest roles as Mathilde, one of Gerbier's most important operatives — but it's ultimately a serious and politically minded drama about the personal cost of resistance to state authority. It also contains some harrowing images of psychological and physical torture, which is surely one of the reasons it became an international sensation when it was rereleased internationally in 2006. The ending is bleak as can be.
"The Lives of Others" is set in the totalitarian German Democratic Republic circa 1984, and stars Ulrich Mühe as secret police officer Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler who's assigned by his supervisor to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch), who's on the country's "Most Favored Artists" lists. It turns out that the the party's minister of culture, Bruno Hempf (Thomas Thieme), covets the playwright's girlfriend and wants to destroy the man she loves. The plot of "The Lives of Others" is steeped in moral compromise, surveillance, manipulation and cruelty; in some ways it feels like a less violent, inverted answer to "Army of Shadows," but told mainly from the point of view of the secret police who are tormenting a country's citizens. Inspired by the filmmaker's visit to the former East Germany with his parents, who grew up there in a permanent state of fear, this is an unsettling and at times wrenching film, but not entirely without hope for humankind. Weisler, Dreyman and even Grubitz — who's pushed into a betrayal — take huge risks to appease their consciences. In the end there's an existential sense that their actions were worth doing for their own sake, not because they necessarily contributed to the fall of the government that made most of their lives so hellish. A coda set after the fall of the Berlin Wall reminds us of the immense personal costs that the surviving characters endured, but it also acknowledges that in the end they're all just faceless players on history's stage.
5. "Notorious" (1946) and "Black Book" (2006)
In movies about espionage, deception and surveillance, seduction is usually a prurient thrill, but sometimes it's more complicated than that; there are emotions and principles at stake, and complex, even fragile psyches to think about. Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" and Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" pay unusual attention to these things. The former is a twisted love triangle in which an American intelligence agent (Cary Grant) drafts the troubled young daughter (Ingrid Bergman) of a disgraced Nazi spy to make a mommy-dominated former Nazi (Claude Rains) who's now heading a cartel in Brazil fall in love with her and marry her. Things don't quite go as planned, of course; the movie is notable not just for its memorable performances and ahead-of-its-time plotline (revolving around uranium samples hidden inside wine bottles) but for its doomy romantic atmosphere and undercurrents of sick manipulation. (Grant may never have been more handsome than he is in this movie, but he's one cold, controlling bastard.)
"Black Book" is about Rachel Rosenthal (Carice van Houten), a Dutch Jewish singer who gets involved in the anti-Nazi resistance and assumes a pseudonym, Ellis de Vries. In the film's troubling but voluptuously beautiful middle section, she's drawn into a scheme that requires her to bleach her hair blond and seduce Ludwig Müntze (Sebastian Koch), the local SD commander, whom she falls in love with. This leads to a chain of compromises, misunderstandings and rock-and-a-hard-place situations, and then to a series of situations in which the heroine must prove (and in some cases fake) innocence. Verhoeven, who went through a period of big-budget Hollywood shlock art ("Robocop," "Basic Insinct"), returns to his roots in confrontational European art cinema here. The movie is a true epic, stuffed with characters and incidents, and somehow managed to balance moral horror and perversion.
4. "The Russia House" (1990) with "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" (1965)
Two films adapted from the work of John le Carré, a novelist who worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s. Martin Ritt's "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" stars Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, an administrator in "The Circus" who is relocated from West Berlin to London after the death of one of his operatives and is marked as a potential candidate to become a double agent. But his handlers' real agenda is to incriminate an East German intelligence agent who's already in bed with the Brits. As is often the case in Le Carré, everything that happens in the story is something that could actually happen (or that was drawn from real events), and there's nothing glamorous about any of it. The story climaxes not with a gunfight or car chase, but with a frightening tribunal in an ugly room.
Adapted by Tom Stoppard and directed by Fred Schepisi ("Six Degrees of Separation"), "The Russia House" is another le Carré story of defection, with Sean Connery starring as Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair, an Engllish publisher. Barley was targeted as a possible publisher of a book about the Soviet Union's true nuclear capabilities, written by a Soviet scientist (Klaus Maria Brandauer), but when the scientist's emissary Katya (Michelle Pfieffer) can't find Barley at a book fair, she delivers the manuscript to another publisher instead, who turns it over to British authorities. Thus does the book become the linchpin of an international espionage mission. Barley engages in a complicated game of deception, representing himself as someone who's interested only in the book, but actually representing the interests of the American and English military, who are looking for insight into the true strength of the Soviet military. He also falls in love with Katya, further complicating an already politically fraught story. Although it was a box office bomb on first release, and was probably already dated when it came out due to its Cold War-era stakes, this is an underrated movie, serious and engaged but relaxed and often charming.
3. "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) and "The Parallax View" (1974)
Two great paranoid movies about the recruitment and manipulation of assassins. John Frankenheimer's original, un-improvable "The Manchurian Candidate" adapts a great satirical thriller by Richard Condon, who specialized in political thrillers with a splash of twisted speculation; Lawrence Harvey is unlikable yet oddly heartbreaking as Sgt. Raymond Shaw, the war hero Marine. Raymond was secretly brainwashed into being a presidential assassin by his captors in Korea, a U.N. of 1950s geopolitical villains (there are Chinese, Russians and Cubans in the room, though he and the other soldiers think they're at a ladies' luncheon). He's supposed to kill a presidential candidate so that the man's vice-presidential candidate — the Joe McCarthy-type demagogue who married his mother and chief American controller (Angela Lansbury) — can take control of the country. It's a grimly funny movie, often shockingly so for 1962, and exceptionally bloody as well, and the paranoia is multilayered, with conspiracies behind conspiracies. Alan J. Pakula's "The Parallax View" is even bleaker, a post-1960s hangover movie set in a country shell-shocked by official malfeasance and a nonstop string of politically motivated shootings that were always attributed to nuts who acted alone. Warren Beatty plays the hot-tempered alcoholic reporter who personally witnessed such a shooting in the restaurant at the top of the space needle and has become convinced that all the American assassinations were carried out by agents of the Parallax Corporation, a private company to which the government (and possibly other parties, we can't be sure) subcontracts black ops work. This movie is so dark that it makes "The Manchurian Candidate" look like "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." The ending is such a downer that it's weirdly elating — a worst-case scenario that's psychologically and dramatically perfect for this story.
2. "The Ipcress File" (1965) and "The Quiet American" (2002)
A double shot of Michael Caine in spy mode. Voted one of the 100 greatest British films of the 20th century by the British Film Institute, "The Ipcress File" adapts Len Deighton's novel about intelligence agent Harry Palmer (Caine), who's transferred into a new, top-secret outfit investigating a mysterious string of kidnappings. Top British scientists are being mysteriously abducted — the most recent victim was snatched from a train — and returned with their brains emptied of the knowledge that once made them so sought after. Palmer is a classic example of the rebel-within-the-establishment — an insubordinate fellow with criminal tendencies who would have ended up behind bars if he hadn't agreed to enter the spy game. He's told that if he can't get the most recent abductee back, he'll be sent to prison. The title of the story comes from a piece of supposed non-evidence netted during a raid staged by Palmer: an audiotape that, when played, results in nothing but indecipherable sounds. Suffice to say that, as is often the case in tales like this, there's a lot more to the mission than it seems; and complications ensue, eventually isolating Palmer and testing the limits of his endurance and resourcefulness. Caine is at his sharp-witted best here; almost nobody listens as well as he does, or lets you in on what his character is feeling without revealing exactly what he's thinking.
Caine had a late-career triumph in Philip Noyce's "The Quiet American," based on Graham Greene's novel set in 1950s Saigon. Caine plays British journalist Thomas Fowler, who's in Vietnam as an observer but has a Vietnamese girlfriend named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen). He gets involved with an American OSS agent named Pyle (Brendan Fraser, a superb dramatic actor who for some reason rarely plays dramatic roles). Pyle is working to implement the ideals of an American political theorist who believed that a "Third Force" — in this case, the United States — could get involved in the fight between the government and the rebels. But Pyle's actions — including creating a splinter group headed by a corrupt former general and arming them with American weapons — have destructive results, and on top of all that, Pyle is involved with Phuong as well. Caine is at his tough-old-hound-dog best here; the ending wraps up his personal story while admitting that the damage inflicted by Pyle (America's stand-in) has already altered the region's politics for good, and not necessarily for the better.
1. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) and "Smiley's People" (1982) and "The Good Shepherd" (2006)
This is probably an unrealistic triple bill for anybody who actually has a life; the British TV adaptations of John Le Carre's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and its sequel, "Smiley's People," run a total of 12 hours, and Robert De Niro's CIA epic "The Good Shepherd" runs three hours and change. But they're extremely compatible productions because they're both very subdued, analytical, process-driven looks at intelligence work, and both take a very long, or broad, view of things. None of the missions are happening in sealed-off fictional universes, and almost everything that happens in the stories has some real-world equivalent. And their heroes — George Smiley (Alec Guinness) in the Le Carré miniseries, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) in "The Good Shepherd" — are plausible examples of the sorts of people who would thrive in the real-world intelligence business. "The Good Shepherd" is, I think, egregiously underrated, situating the creation of the CIA within a WASPy boarding school mentality that dovetails nicely with the milquetoast corporate style of American imperialism. Its epic scope and coldly analytical depiction of violence and terror suggest what the third "Godfather" movie might have been if, to paraphrase film critic David Thomson, the film's director had realized that all that Vatican business was a mistake, and that the Corleone family's most dogged and powerful adversaries were in Washington.
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is about the attempt to uncover a Soviet mole within British intelligence, while "Smiley's People" — based on the third Le Carré Smiley novel, the second being "The Honourable Schoolboy" — calls Smiley out of retirement to get to the bottom of a Soviet general who used to be one of his agents. Smiley has a nemesis in both tales, a Soviet spy master named Karla (Patrick Stewart), but theirs isn't a James Bond/Blofeld sort of rivalry, but one of chess masters playing each other through human proxies. (Karla has just one scene in each miniseries, and speaks not a word of dialogue.) More than anything else, though, these miniseries are great studies of a great character, George Smiley, whom Guinness plays as a dutiful public servant whose fanatical dedication to his job distracts him from his failure to advance higher in "The Circus" and his disastrous personal life (his wife cheats on him). Smiley is a quiet hedgehog type, a man who remains intensely loyal to Britain and his agency even after he's shunted off to the margins, while Damon's character — based on pioneering counterintelligence masterminds James Jesus Angleton and Richard M. Bissell Jr. — is much more successful in the office politics end of things. But you could picture talking to either of them at parties, coming away thinking they were incredibly smart but a shade bland, and having no inkling that they could order men killed with a phone call.
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