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Obviously, since they do not own a pool company, an outside contractor installed it. What idiot contractor would do this; knowing (supposedly) full well what permits are required? And, why aren't they ALSO on the hook for this?
Anyone else remember when cops were fit, handsome and hot?
How ironic this happened in the town of Fruitland...
"Officers from the Portland Police Bureau's Traffic Division are investigating the circumstances of the crash."
Quite certain no one will be found at fault. Unless, maybe the station wagon's owner.
MaLai Thai in Tigard (99W near King City) deserves a mention. The food here is fresh and innovative. Located in what appears to be an old fast food building.
He wasn't master of his domain...
BUT, BUT, BUT... I thought NO businesses wanted to move to Portland or anywhere in Oregon due to our liberal policies, union acceptance, high taxes and unfavorable government view towards them. I thought ALL businesses were moving OUT... to Vancouver, Idaho or Texas.
"She fled the home, investigators said, but ran back in to get her purse."
Must have been where her cigarettes were.
He wasn't master of his domain...
I like how she called it a "joint." Very 1970's Mod Squad.
You're not in Kansas any more, mom.
"Subaru recalling more than 275,000 Foresters"
Of which 274,999 are in Portland!
If marijuana use gets legalized in WA there will be more Taco Bells than Starbucks in Seattle.
Will snacks be served?
The real victim here is the child. The child these two "parents" chose to create, then "kept" only to be raised in a life of chaos. The dead man is who she chose to father her child. The killer's daughter is who he chose to be the mother of his child. I wish breeders would be more careful and think about these things before they succumb to their sexual desires.
Some people prefer to live in small spaces. Some people take temporary job assignments in another city and it's all they need. For some, it's all they can afford, and they're glad to be able to have it.
Just to be clear... I have no problem with "shacking up." I just think it's funny to say. I do it myself, actually; as the Federal Government doesn't recognize MY marriage. So much for all men are created equal, huh? But anyway, I seized the opportunity to make a joke about "shacking up," Dr. Laura's favorite topic. I think this is a great story about a pretty cool person.
Like Kim Kardashian, Calista Gringrich, the "Real" Houswives of...?
"Blue has been shacking up in Mahonia Hall since last week." She, as well as the other occupants!
"More than 400 people jammed into a Portland hotel ballroom Wednesday night to hear a panel of global warming skeptics assert that manmade increases in greenhouse gases are not driving climate change. "
This reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once. It said "Keep Portland Weird."


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Marshall Theater Alliance announces 2013-14 season
HUNTINGTON -- The Marshall Theater Alliance is gearing up for the 2013-14 season.
The Theater Alliance is planning four plays for the school year as well as the annual "aMused Dance Concert" in October and collaboration with the Lunar Stratagem entitled "Can You Forgive Her?" in December. "Can You Forgive Her?" is an original piece written and directed by nationally recognized director Mathew Earnest.
All performances will have a curtain time of 7:30 p.m. and guests will be invited for coffee and conversation in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center Lobby at 6:30 p.m.
From now until Sept. 30 there is an Early Bird Special available for $62 featuring tickets to all four shows, aMused, and "Can You Forgive Her." For faculty, staff and seniors the tickets are available for $52. For more information, contact the Marshall Theater box office at 304-696-2787.
The four plays for the season are "Anna in the Tropics" (Oct. 2-5), "Monster" (Nov. 13-16 and 21-33), "Dead Man's Cell Phone" (Feb. 19-22 and 27-March 1) and "The Taming of the Shrew" (April 23-26).
In February there will be the Birke Fine Arts Festival.
"Preparing for the season is a fairly lengthy process begun fairly early in the academic year," said Jack Cirillo, director of Theater at the College of Arts and Media. "Directors begin reading pieces that they think support the kind of teaching we do with our students. We want our students to be involved in a variety of different theater pieces. "We want them to work on plays of language. We want them to work on contemporary material but also have a sense of history. There is a long culling process where we narrow down which plays are practical and what we want to do. Typically we find one show we want to anchor the season around and everything kind of falls around it. Once the season is whittled down to some choices those choices are presented before the entire faculty and people get to vote their opinions before we finalize things in February. By March I begin working with someone to develop our promotional materials so everything is in place by the end of the school year. "
The first is "Anne in the Tropics" by Nilo Cruz.
"It's a Pulitzer Prize winning play that focuses on a Cuban American family in the 1920s who work in a cigar factory. One of the unique sidebars of the piece is that at that time the company hired a 'lector' who would read to the workers as they did their work," Cirillo said. "This factory worker chooses Tolstoy's novel 'Anna Karenina' as the novel to be read. The mirror of the Russian Revolution works the Cuban Revolution and there are a lot of parallels of the two."
The Theater Alliance will return to the Francis-Booth Experimental Theater in November with "Monster" by Neal Bell. The play is a new theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."
"I'm very excited about this new adaptation," Cirillo said. "It's very theatrical in the sense that it's a true theater piece and true theater storytelling experience. It is a very exciting piece of drama that very closely resonates with the original novel. You won't be seeing a guy in platform shoes with green makeup on his face. The great thing about the Francis Booth Experimental theater is that you're really up close and personal. There isn't a bad seat in the house."
The first play of the spring semester is in February with "Dead Man's Cell Phone" by Sarah Rhul.
"Dead Man's Cell Phone is a contemporary 'comedy,'" Cirillo said. "I say that in quotes because there's a great deal of drama involved as well. It's about a woman in a New York diner who discovers a ringing cell phone belonging to a dead man. She for better or for worse answers the phone and everything that happens is a direct result of that. What it explores is our infatuation and commitment with communication through electronic means. It's a very interesting piece we will present in part with the Birke Fine Arts festival, a multi-disciplined event that involves music, art, and our English program."
Finally the play year will wind down with a modern production of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" in April.
"While 'The Taming of the Shrew' is a considered a classic Shakespearian comedy, it's also a difficult comedy to do because Shakespeare wrote in the late 1500s early 1600s. The roles that men and women played then were a bit different then than they are today. Just to challenge us further we are trying to adapt the play to a more modern era. It's a very contemporary telling of how Petrucio and Kate find love and commitment through adversity."
For more information on auditions and how to volunteer to be involved in the theater, contact Cirillo at 304-696-2511. The Marshall Theater Alliance can be visited online at http://muwww-new.marshall.edu/music/marshall-university-theatre-alliance/ .
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Today, Ai Squared stands as a leader in software products for the visually impaired. ZoomText is the most popular screen magnifier in the world and is sold in 45 countries.
sitecues, an assistive technology that builds magnification and reading capabilities right into websites is launched at the ATIA conference. Designed to help organizations reach more users, this turnkey SaaS (Software as a Service) solution is easily integrated into existing websites. With a very simple implementation, website owners can make their sites easier to read, hear and consume content thus making their sites more inclusive and enjoyable to visit.
ZoomText 10.1 for Windows 8 is released, making ZoomText the first product on the market to fully support the Windows 8 platform. Our patented xFont magnification displays crystal clear text at all magnification levels - and that's whether you're on the start screen, on the web using Internet Explorer 10, typing documents in Microsoft Office 2013, etc.
ZoomText ImageReader is released - a software and camera solution that makes printed text accessible to people who are visually impaired including books, magazines business documents and more.
ZoomText Mac is released - the world's best magnification software for the visually impaired is now available on the Mac. A combination of font smoothing, image sharpening, smooth enhancements to colors, pointers, and cursors make the Mac computer more accessible than ever before.
Support was added in ZoomReader for the iPad (with retina display), iPad Mini, and iPod Touch (5th generation), providing mobile OCR on a wider range of devices.
ZoomText 10 is released, jam packed of new productivity features that bring it all together… with integrated support for HD webcams as CCTVs, recording text to audio, background reading, and new standards in web navigation, ZoomText 10 is a true game-changer.
The ZoomContacts app is released, the perfect "Large Print" contact application for iPad users who have difficulty seeing the small text on their screen.
The ZoomReader app is released, letting you magnify and read text by first taking a picture of an object like a book or menu on your iPhone, then converting the image into text using state of the art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.
ZoomWare 1.0 is released, providing high quality xFont magnification at a reduced cost. ZoomWare replaces BigShot.
ZoomText 9.1 is released, featuring support for dual monitors and Windows Vista.
ZoomText 9.0 is released, featuring high-definition text enlargement (patent-pending xFont technology) and human-quality speech (NeoSpeech).
ZoomText 8.0 is released, setting a new standard in magnification and screen reading software.
ZoomText Xtra 7.1 and BigShot 2.1 were released, the first screen magnifiers to support Windows XP.
Ai Squared's first mass-market product BigShot magnifier was released.
ZoomText 7.0 was released, the first accessibility product to support all Windows operating systems in a single package.
Ai Squared released ZoomText Xtra 6.0 with integrated magnification and screen reading. This product opened up new markets and blurred the line between low-vision and blindness products.
ZoomText 5.0 was released, featuring support for Windows 95.
VisAbility, the first software product for enlarging printed material was released.
Ai Squared moved to southern Vermont.
ZoomText Plus, the first product to bring screen magnification to the Windows operating system was released.
The company's flagship product ZoomText was released. As the popularity of ZoomText grew, the company focus shifted exclusively to the development and marketing of software for the visually impaired.
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Duke conference discusses future of African diaspora dance
In the "Afro-Future," a dance instructor named Telebrea doesn't hold in-person dance classes, but rather connects to the latest generation of mixed-gender, mixed-race students through neural implants, guiding their movements using tiny electrical charges.
Traditional black social dance is still taught in the home, but rare. Dances such as "The Running Man" are ancient.
This is Duke University professor Thomas DeFrantz's humorous take on black dance a century from now. He read this story Saturday afternoon in Duke's White Lecture Hall, which was filled with scholars, educators and dancers who tried to imagine what form black dance would take in the future.
The panel discussion was part of a three-day "Dancing the African Diaspora" conference at Duke that welcomed theories on black performance and introduced workshops ranging from Haitian choreography to definitions of black/queer dance.
Duke professor Mark Anthony Neal said by the year 2064, the question will be how society archives "blackness" in the digital realm.
Younger generations are now learning their dance moves through YouTube videos rather than through the learned traditions of parents or grandparents. Music labels are more concerned about making profits than preserving the history of black dance movement, Neal said, and, for example, connections between historic black dances and Beyonce's choreography aren't deemed that important.
"This is not the genius of one, individual person," Neal said of celebrity dance moves. "... Every time I hear Miley Cyrus described as the Queen of Twerk, I think, 'Where the hell did that come from?'"
Also part of the panel was choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, who in 1984 founded the Brooklyn-based dance ensemble Urban Bush Women, which brings under-told stories of oppressed people to the stage through dance. The Urban Bush Women performed at Duke Friday and Saturday as part of the group's 30th-anniversary tour.
She said black performance in the future will still carry on stories of the disenfranchised or enslaved.
Black dance will still "carve out an identity, a language, a culture in the face of oppression," Zollar said. "... What is so much a part of our spirit, and how that spirit is transformed, I don't know, but it will be there."
She said even if family dance traditions don't get passed down through the generations, the dances may remain relevant outside of the nuclear family, such as within the friend or gang dynamic.
Zollar added that youth always push boundaries and project the new movements of black dance forward.
"You thought you were rebelling until you found out your parents have done the same thing," she said.


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Kodak creditors have approved the company's reorganization plan.
Kodak announced on Wednesday the group of men who will make up its Board of Directors after the company emerges from bankruptcy.
Kodak is reporting a $157 million loss in its latest earnings report.
Kodak CEO Antonio Perez will step down from his post after the company gets out of bankruptcy. But who will replace him?
The departing Kodak CEO has a new employment agreement that spells out salary, bonuses and stock options.
Financial Analyst Doug Hendee of Brighton Securities discussed the Kodak announcement that CEO Antonio Perez will leave his position after the company emerges from bankruptcy Wednesday morning on News 8 at Sunrise.
CEO Antonio Perez will continue to lead Kodak after it emerges from bankuptcy, but for a limited time.
Another business will soon call Eastman Business Park home.
The Eastman Kodak Retiree Association has reached an agreement with the company over its unfunded pension plan.
Kodak is starting salary reviews and in a memo to employees it says executives will not be getting raises.
A bankruptcy judge will hear a motion from Kodak shareholders on August 5th.
Kodak is preparing to emerge from bankruptcy by September 3rd, but the company has to get many of its creditors to agree with its plan.
The plan put forth for Kodak to help clean up Eastman Business park is going through.
A couple hundred more jobs are expected to be added to the Eastman Business Park to make touch screen sensors. It is part of a deal between the local Kingsbury Corporation and Kodak.
In just over a month, Kodak is expected to emerge from bankruptcy. It has been a tumultuous road for the imaging company that will have a new focus. On Tuesday in New York City, significant progress was made towards the newly-reorganized Kodak.
Financial analyst George Conboy weighs in on the happenings in U.S. bankruptcy court with Eastman Kodak.
Eastman Kodak is steps away from bankruptcy emergence. If the judge approves several key issues Monday, it will mean creditors can vote on Kodak's emergence plan.
Kodak announced an agreement is in place for debt financing of $895 million.
Eastman Kodak Company and the state of the New York have agree on a partnership they believe will create jobs at Eastman Business Park.
Eastman Kodak says it has received court approval to sell $406 million worth of stock when it emerges from bankruptcy.


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Last night, determined to show his number one draft pick status rivalling the performance of Pat Pacillo and Pat Osburn
Last night, determined to show his number one draft pick status rivalling the performance of Pat Pacillo and Pat Osburn
how much did he get from the mets?
Championships for MY teams in my lifetime:
Cincinnati Reds - 75, 76, 90
Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13, 15
University of Kentucky - 78, 96, 98, 12
Chicago Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
speaking of the mets, I REALLY WISH we could of kept Scott Schoeneweis!
Are you serious?
With all of our lefties, I'm pretty dang happy with the 53rd pick in the draft. Especially if this years draft is as deep as its supposed to be.
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It's interesting when you ask this question to managers, many respond with "I am so and so" <fill-in-your-title>. At best, that might be a good start to answering the question. I guess, the answer – in some sense depends on the setting in which the question is asked (in some situations, spitting out your title might be good-enough).
Most importantly, to me – as a leader, one needs to ask this question to oneself, every so often. So I asked myself "How will I really define what I do". And, it was NOT easy to answer this question satisfactorily. I started with – well, I manage people. I go to boss's staff. I run all these meetings. Those are tasks-that-you-do to fullfill some higher level goals. So I set on a mission to try to answer this question more crisply. I read blogs, read leadership books and listened to some talks etc (am still doing that). I quite liked the talk given by Arun Sarin (ex-CEO of Vodafone) at the Haas School of Business, Berkeley. The talk is on youtube here. Arun is a fascinating speaker. I wanted to map the things-that-I-do into some set of Categories to derive a big-picture. And his talk helped with that a lot. So, in essence, according to Arun – leadership has the following 3 high level facets:
- People
- Strategic
- Operational
Depending on your role in the organization and your organizational structure, different weight-age may be assigned to each one of the above. How much time you spend focusing on each of these areas – also depends on the day of the week, the week of the year and really – on what's going on. But great leaders need to be strong in all 3 of the above areas. Anyway, I started to observe my day and tried to map my day to these 3 categories. There are items that straddle these categories for sure. E.g. Communication – some is about people, other is strategic and other is more operational (this day, this week etc). Hiring – is about people, but also requires strategic thinking and operational execution. So, many tasks that you do require expertise in all 3 areas.
Its obvious that people form the basis of all other things. If you are in a leadership role, you are not doing most things yourself. You need people to do them. So, without people, there is NOTHING. Next, Strategic: you have the people and you believe they are exceptional and talented, but if the efforts and focus is not in the right direction strategically, you will not WIN. So, I place Strategy ahead of Operations. And finally, Operational Excellence is what makes-things-happen, what keeps you competitive in the marketplace, what keeps people happy, motivated and productive, in summary: what moves the needle forward.
None of this is groundbreaking or even new – but it's something to remember at the back of your mind as you wade through your days and weeks and try to understand "What is it that you do". This understanding helps provide a big picture and helped me with self-introspection.


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Seasoned musicians demonstrate their musical skills at the free organ concerts, featuring "Goldie", Proctors Mighty Wurlitzer Organ, typically before movie showings or special events on the Mainstage. Various noontime organ concerts are often scheduled as well (typically one Tuesday every month, please check our schedule).
Constructed in 1931 and originally housed at the Paramount Theatre (Aurora, Illionois), Proctors Mighty Wurlitzer has been an instrument of beautiful music since it was first installed on the Mainstage in 1983. This three-manual, 18-rank organ has 1,400 pipes, a full set of percussion instruments, and a grand piano that can be played from the organ console.
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It took just a day and a half for law enforcement to catch up with a fugitive wanted on drug and child pornography charges after information on the case was sent out via Immigration and Customs Enforcement's inaugural Operation Predator smartphone app.
FBI and ICE Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) agents arrested Mark Robert Austin on Sept. 13. ICE made him a poster child for its new agency-developed app for iPhones, developed to help find and prosecute child predators.
The app was the brainchild of Brian Hale, ICE'S assistant director of the Office of Public Affairs. Kevin Downey, web content manager in the office, did the development work. It has been a huge hit on iTunes. ICE HSI officials said it has been downloaded 60,000 times since it was introduced Sept. 12.
Austin had the bad luck of being one of eight fugitives outlined in the initial alert sent out via the app.
The calls came into the tip line, said ICE, after national and regional publicity generated by the app's announcement. ICE officials said "several members of the public" phoned in information about areas Austin was said to have frequented.
The swift success didn't come with a high price tag, though. The app was produced by ICE HSI public affairs IT personnel.
Downey developed the app on his own time, with the help of special agents from HSI's Cyber Crimes Center and field offices across the country. It cost all of $99 to put together, primarily for the Apple development software, Downey said, adding that he taught himself to develop in his spare time. The whole development and deployment process took about three months. Downey said he is working on an Android version and has to teach himself development for that platform.
The Operation Predator App enables those who download it to receive alerts about wanted predators, to share the information with friends via email and social media tools, and to provide information to HSI by calling or submitting an online tip. Additionally, the app enables users to view news about arrests and prosecutions of child predators and additional resources about ICE and its global partners in the fight against child exploitation.
Although the app draws most of its content, such as news and investigation updates, from ICE HSI's mobile web site, it does one critical thing that the mobile site can't do — push alerts out on demand, said Downey. That capability is crucial to distributing immediate information that may jar a case loose and lead to an arrest.
Federal agents had been looking for Austin since a federal court in Michigan issued an arrest warrant for him in August. At the time, HSI said it had little information about his exact whereabouts, but believed he was living in the southeastern part of the state. He was arrested without incident by HSI and FBI special agents along with officers from the Michigan State Police in the Flint, Mich., area after numerous tips from the public were called in to the ICE tip line.
He had been charged with allegedly downloading more than 100 images and nearly a dozen videos of child pornography. He is currently being held on state charges of distribution of marijuana, according to ICE. Additional details about the arrest are being withheld pending his initial appearance in federal court to answer to the child pornography charges, it said.
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VERY NICE!!! Not every worthwhile project has to have a 2 year acquisition cycle, have a 5-year O&M plan and cost millions of dollars! Congratulations Kevin!
While I applaud Mr. Hale and Mr. Downey for their initiative, I have to question the very public relationship this app has with ICE. To say that it only cost $99 is not entirely true, as there were undoubtedly hours spent by ICE IT employees to stage and place the app into production. ICE IT resources are being used and will continue to be used. So the question then becomes, under what mandate does ICE involve itself with this. Abducting child predators is the job of the FBI and state and local law enforcement. ICE is only concerned with our border protection and things related to that. Under our Constitution, Departments do not have the blanket authority to whatever it is they please, even if it is for good purposes. ICE is clearly outside the scope of its authority. Why was this not handed over to the FBI for release?
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Work & Education > Schools & Kids > Guide to Private Schools
Academy for Ideal Education, elementary/middle school campus, 1501 Gallatin St., NW 20011; 202-726-0313; K-8th grade; $7,500; 60 students.
Academy for Ideal Education, high school campus, 2600 12th St., NE 20018; 202-399-0707; $7,500; 9th-12th grade; $7,500; 60 students.
Aidan Montessori School, 2700 27th St., NW 20008; 202-387-2700; ages 1½–12; $13,500-19,000; 180 students; www.aidanschool.org.
Amazing Life Games Preschool, 4300 16th St., NW 20011; 202-265-0114; ages 2½–5; $329-$1,481 a month; 40 students (only 30 in the school at any given time; different children come on different days); www.amazinglifegames.org.
What's new: A gardening class.
Recent accomplishment: A fence has been placed around the outdoor area so that children can learn about planting and raising a garden while also using the woods for creative play.
Archbishop Carroll High School, 4300 Harewood Rd., NE 20017; 202-529-0900; 9th–12th grades; $9260; 670 students; www.archbishopcarroll.org.
What's new: Digital design classes now use laptops and the school introduced a robotics class.
Recent accomplishment: The school is in the preliminary phase for an IB program.
Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School, 3500 Woodley Rd., NW 20016; 202-537-6493; pre-K–3rd grade; $25,970; 386 students; www.beauvoirschool.org.
Blessed Sacrament School, 5841 Chevy Chase Pkwy., NW 20015; 202-966-6682; K–8th grades; $7,450 (parishioners), $11,200 (nonparishioners); 500 students; www.bsstoday.org.
What's new: An after-school program, Tiny Chefs, that teaches children to cook.
British School of Washington, 2001 Wisconsin Ave., NW 20007; 202-829-3700; ages 3–18; $10,440 (morning nursery school), $18,975–$22,475; 370 students; www.britishschool.org.
What's new: Drama classes at the IGCSE level (International General Certificate of Secondary Education).
Recent accomplishment: Last year a student became the first-ever four-time state representative for the National Geographic Geography Bee. Also, the school moved into a new building.
Colleges where the greatest number of 2008 graduates enrolled: Nottingham Trent University and the University of Maryland.
Capitol Hill Day School, 210 South Carolina Ave., SE 20003; 202-547-2244; pre-K–8th grades; $19,660 (partial-day pre-K, K), $22,220 (full-day pre-K–5th grade), $23,350 (6th–8th grades); 225 students; www.chds.org.
What's new: A jazz ensemble and an after-school program in which kids do various activities including tae kwon do, art, Chinese for pre-K, yoga for children, instrument lessons, and chess club. The program is open to students as well as the public. The school also added a program that provides children with an average of one field trip per week tied to what they're studying.
Children's House of Washington (a Montessori School), 3133 Dumbarton St., NW 20007; 202-342-2551; ages 2 3/4 to 6; $7,500-$8,500; 27 students; www.thechildrenshouseofwashington.com.
Dupont Park Adventist School, 3942 Alabama Ave., SE 20020; 202-583-8500; pre-K–10th grade; $5,100-$5,700; 300 students; www.dupontparkschool.org.
What's new: Spanish classes.
Edmund Burke School, 4101 Connecticut Ave., NW 20008; 202-362-8882; 6th–12th grades; $28,110 including books; 315 students; www.eburke.org.
Recent accomplishments: Last spring, the school held its first high school film festival, which was open to the public. Also, three Burke students were accepted into the 2008 Folger Shakespeare Program.
Colleges where the greatest number of 2008 graduates enrolled: New York University, George Washington University, Wesleyan University, and Hampshire College.
Emerson Preparatory School, 1324 18th St., NW 20036; 202-785-2877; 9th–12th grades; $10,000 a semester; 60 students; www.emersonprep.net.
What's new: Several courses, including "Capitalism, Socialism, Communism and Fascism," "Media Semiotics," and "Cognition."
Colleges where the greatest number of 2008 graduates enrolled: University of Maryland and George Washington University.
Field School, 2301 Foxhall Rd., NW 20007; 202-295-5800; 7th–12th grades; $30,150; 320 students; www.fieldschool.org.
What's new: Senior electives in philosophy, law, art history, and creative writing. The music program has also expanded to include a class called "Studio Band and Audio Engineering."
College where the greatest number of 2008 graduates enrolled: Pitzer College.
Georgetown Day School, lower/middle-school campus, 4530 MacArthur Blvd., NW 20007; 202-295-6200; pre-K–8th grade; $25,685-$28,550; 575 students; www.gds.org.
Georgetown Day School, high school campus, 4200 Davenport St., NW 20016; 202-274-3200; 9th–12th grades; $29,395; 465 students; www.gds.org.
Georgetown Montessori School, 1041 Wisconsin Ave., NW 20007; 202-337-8058; ages 2–6; $6,600-$10,800; 50 students; georgetownmontessori.com.
Holy Trinity School, 1325 36th St., NW 20007; 202-337-2339; nursery–8th grade; $12,305 (parishioners nursery–K), $14,835 (nonparishioners nursery–K), $9,680 (parishioners 1st–8th), $13,095 (nonparishioners 1st–8th); 330 students; www.htsdc.org.
Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital, 6045 16th St., NW 20011; 202-291-5737; pre-K–6th grade; $17,515; 244 students; www.jpds.org.
KinderHaus of Chevy Chase, 5307 Connecticut Ave., NW 20015; 202-244-0719; ages 2 months–5 years; $1,040-$1,560 a month; 25 students; www.kinderhaus.org.
KinderHaus of Cleveland Park, 3400 Lowell St., NW 20016; 202-686-3570; ages 2 months–5 years; $1,040-$1,560 a month; 48 students; www.kinderhaus.org.
What's new: An all-day pre-K program with no more than eight children in the classroom.
Little Flower Montessori School, 3029 16th St., NW 20009; 202-667-6803; ages 2-6; $1200-$1400 month; 20 students; www.littleflowermontessori.com.
What's new: New classes include creative movement, yoga, and art.
Lowell School, 1640 Kalmia Rd., NW 20012; 202-577-2000; pre-K–6th grade; $14,990-$25,120; 312 students; www.lowellschool.org.
What's new: A junior kindergarten program for children who do not meet kindergarten age cutoff but have had pre-nursery experience.
Maret School, 3000 Cathedral Ave., NW 20008; 202-939-8800; K–12th grade; $24,695-$28,430; 600 students; www.maret.org.
Montessori School of Chevy Chase, 5312 Connecticut Ave., NW 20015; 202-362-6212; ages 2–6; $10,450-$14,950; 67 students; www.chevychasemontessori.com.
Montessori School of Washington, 4380 MacArthur Blvd., NW 20007; 202-338-1557; ages 2-6; $8,000-$11,000; 35 students; www.montessoriwashington.org.
Nannie Helen Burroughs School, 601 50th St., NE 20019; 202-398-5266; nursery (2 ½)–6th grade; $4,940 to $5,225; 135 students; www.nhburroughs.org.


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Harriet S. Freddie Pazik and Frank V. Pazik are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on April 25. The couple was married at St. Marys Roman Catholic Church in Reading, Pa., on April 25, 1964.
Mr. Pazik graduated from St. Josephs College in Philadelphia. After college, he went through officer training school at Lackland Air Force Base in the U.S. Air Force. After being commissioned, he was assigned to Strategic Air Command as a security officer for the B47 Bomber Force at Forbes Air Fore Base in Topeka, Kansas. He was then assigned to security, law enforcement and corrections. Shortly after their marriage, Mr. Pazik was transferred to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas. As a captain, he then served as a Titan II ICBM missile combat crew commander and instructor. After leaving the U.S. Air Force, he worked for 12 years in management with Sears Roebuck & Company in Delaware and Pennsylvania. He moved the family to South Carolina in 1980 and worked as an independent tool dealer with Snap-On Tools. Mr. Pazik retired in 2001.
Mrs. Pazik is the former Harriet S. Ustaszewski of Reading, Pa. She graduated from Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing in Allentown, Pa. She worked as a hemodialysis RN, as a staff nurse and then facility director at RAI in Summerville. After nearly 30 years in the hemodialysis field, she retired from RAI in 2008.
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After 34 years, the Paziks continue to reside in Summerville where they enjoy sailing, traveling, working out at the YMCA, reading, metal detecting and visiting and vacationing with family. They are members of St. John the Beloved Catholic Church in Summerville.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Why Did I Read This?
I am absolutly stunned. Why do I like this book so much? How did I manage to finish it? I am a 21 year old man living in a modern city and I somehow related to this book. I have nothing in common with the characters or the author or the story or the setting. I had to read this book for college but dropped out before reading it. Several months later I picked it up and gave...
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing
I was expecting something in the vein of Jane Eyre when I began to read this book. I was sorely disappointed. True, the violent love between Heathcliff and Catherine is heartwrenching; however, the most difficult part of this novel for me was that there was no character that was lovable, or sympathetic. Just when I started to think that Heathcliff was not so bad after...
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Why Did I Read This?,
"toxicomaniac" (Leuven, Belgium) - See all my reviews
I am absolutly stunned. Why do I like this book so much? How did I manage to finish it? I am a 21 year old man living in a modern city and I somehow related to this book. I have nothing in common with the characters or the author or the story or the setting. I had to read this book for college but dropped out before reading it. Several months later I picked it up and gave it a try. I'm not sorry I did. Thinking about it now I start to realize what is so good about the book: it's author's compassion for humanity. All characters in this novel suffer a great deal (partly because of their own stubbornness) but retain their essential humanity: they still need to be loved. And while reading it you can feel the author's longing to be loved herself. So this is what made me read through the book: it speaks directly to your heart in a way you can not ignore.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A Twisted Tale of Obsession, Love, Class, Hate and Fate,
Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 127,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews
Wuthering Heights is a surprisingly modern novel given that its authorship predates our modern understanding of psychology. Like many modern novels, Ms. Bronte has also explored the darker side of human passions and psyches more thoroughly than the sunnier side. Heathcliff will remind you of classic characters whose lives were twisted by fate like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, Erik in Phantom of the Opera, Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, and the mysterious prisoner in The Man in the Iron Mask.
If there were ever two star-crossed lovers who have captured the world's imagination since Romeo and Juliet, they must be Catherine and Heathcliff. Yet, unlike, many such pairs, their unhappiness is heavily influenced by themselves.
As you contemplate their story, you are constantly drawn to the thought, "what if" thus and such had occurred differently? That's part of the great power of the story because it has so many unexpected twistings and turnings. A reader's expectations from a love story are turned upside down, sideways and diagonal from where those expectations normally rest. As a result, you'll probably decide this isn't a love story after all . . . but a tragedy. Taken from that perspective, you'll find yourself hearing echoes of Lady Macbeth and King Lear as you contemplate what occurs when the natural order is disturbed. Few English authors since Shakespeare have captured that sense of what can happen when the universe is disarranged.
What's great about this story? It's pretty simple: Emotional intensity in the writing; deeply memorable characters; doomed lovers; and a haunting glimpse at unshakeable obsession.
What's not so great? The story development itself is pretty awkward. Much of the story is told in flashback which steals power and immediacy from the narration. If ever a story cried out for being told in the first person (by Heathcliff, Catherine, Edgar Linton, Hareton and young Catherine), it's Wuthering Heights. The transitions from one key moment to another are often very abrupt. Sometimes it is 150 pages later before you get the full sense of what Emily Bronte meant to convey in some of those transitions.
What's less than great? The characters aren't nearly as appealing as those you'll usually find in a novel dealing with these issues. In that sense, the novel is more realistic than fictional . . . which helps create some of its immense power. It's probably a worthwhile price to pay.
Whatever you think of Wuthering Heights, you owe it to yourself to read one of the most moving tales that has ever been written. Pick a time when you're feeling reasonably happy to start the book. Otherwise, you may find your mood to be more than a little darkened for a few days.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars The dark and brooding tale of Cathy & Heathcliff,
Misfit (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
What a great experience to finally reread this classic as an adult. Emily Bronte depicts a very gothic and depressing story of two star-crossed (but not terribly likeable) lovers, Cathy & Heathcliff, and the love between them that transcended the grave. Added to that a wonderful depiction of the dark English moors and the local characters with their strange dialects. This was also told in a very unusual style, like a tale within a tale within a tale, adding more layers and perspectives to the story.
How unfortunate that one's upbringing can so affect a person that their grief and bitterness turn what could have been a fine young man into such a hateful and vengeful person as Heathcliff became. And fortunate that Cathy's daughter and Hareton could overcome their dark upbringing to bring a happier light onto the dark moors of England.
I did not read this version of the book, but the Selected Works of the Bronte Sisters, which did not have all the footnotes. I think I enjoyed that better as I wasn't constantly distracted by looking to the back for the notes and just allowed myself to become engrossed with the story. It's one book you have to read at least twice in your life -- of course in school as required reading and then again as an adult to add that perspective of age and experience in life so that one can more fully appreciate a such a classic tale.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book.,
J. Botha "claude777" (Melbourne, Australia.) - See all my reviews
Wuthering Heights is on of the greatest classics in literature and one I had never read until recently. I found this story of obsessive and destructive relationships very compelling and difficult to put down. It's a romance but by no means is it a happy one. Things don't go well for these people.
Wuthering Heights is the story of two families the Earnshaws and Lintons, who really should never had gotten together. It's the romance between Heathcliff and Catherine that underlies the whole book. Heathcliff is defiantly the ultimate anti-hero, he's obsessive, abusive and just plain evil, but still you feel yourself drawn into his dark world and hoping that redemption comes to him. He seems beyond it however and his destructive behaviour forms the basis of this gothic tale.
Emily Bronte's skills as a writer are amazing, her language is poetic and deep and the story is truly unique. My only criticism is concerning the way she wrote dialogue for the character Joseph, it's often illegible and I found it most difficult understanding what he was saying. That aside I really enjoyed this book and recommend it wholeheartedly as a study of human nature as it is without the influence of a Divine being.
Thanks for reading my review and enjoy this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Passionate in the Most Primordial Sense,
David Kimel (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
Not to be hyperbolic, but Wuthering Heights is one of the most well known and critically acclaimed novels in the English language, and there is precious little that I can add to the volumes already written on it. It is the story of two British households inhabiting the wilds of the Yorkshire moors, and illuminates the destructive undercurrents that come to uproot and ultimately destroy both clans. At the center of the tale stand the headstrong Catherine Earnshaw and the brooding Heathcliff, one of the most celebrated romantic pairings in world literature. Treated abominably in his youth at the hands of both households and having lost his love to another man, Heathcliff descends into a horrifying abyss of brutality and revenge still harrowing to encounter nearly two centuries after publication. Although the novel progresses at a leisurely pace compared to modern works, it presents the most complete and thrilling portrait of passion ever set forth in the English language. Passion is not a synonym for love in Wuthering Heights-it is an unbridled conflagration consuming all rationality and rendering its victims ravenous beasts, terrifying and magnificent in their hunger. When Catherine declares that her soul will roam the moors forever after her death, even the most confirmed atheist will find himself believing her- passion is such a billowing force in Wuthering Heights that the human body is convincingly rendered a prison of something altogether greater. At the same time, the primordial forces the book presents never become exhausting, contained as they are within a highly unique narrative framework channeling them through characters secondary to the main line of action. For those patient and courageous enough to immerse themselves in its richly textured reality, Wuthering Heights presents a world boarding on the mythic, and it comes highly recommended to the imaginative reader.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Hey, where's my pillow?!,
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The book is written wonderfully, you may call it gothic romance, but the book's really got a style and genre of its own. Now, I only say this for GREAT romance novels, like the Brontes. The language greatly affects the way the story is expressed. It is told in a subtle and bumpy manner, going way ahead of the reader, its many pauses for the narrator gives the reader time to think the thing over, like the guest. Basically, the style and format is a fascinating one, it truly does intrigue the reader to a certain level. Now, it is hard to say if Heathcliff is the kind of man a girl would want( not that I'm a girl ), he is, if you want someone who truly loves you, he's not if you don't want someone to go CRAZY over you. It is--I think--clever of Emily Bronte, to leave this question for readers to consider as they sit comfortably in their beds reading this romance. But if you read it carefully, you will see that the narrator does not form a very high opinion of Heathcliff, yet the latter did deserve the revenge he got. Now, here we have another controversial point for us readers. Thus the novel is a quick one, without all the slow( at least very slow )descriptions and it forms different points of interest as it moves along just pulling the reader in. As the reader gets to the end he/she will feel a shocking yet not surprising end. The ending is a satisfactory one after chapters after chapters of points pointing toward the end. After all, the end is a slope for the way the novel is going. All in all, the book is satisfactory, and something that will--in a way--haunt the reader in later times. It is a masterpiece with all those interesting formats which I will never forget.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A Novel Quite Unlike Any Other,
One of the most endearing, original and innovative novels to ever exist, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte exposes the rawness of a passionate love that transcends time, life and even death. Emily designs her main character with such intricate layers that Heathcliff melts into both his juxtaposed roles of romantic hero and villain, whose venomous hate inspired by the concept of lost love, sends him in a downward spiral of vengeance. Such oxymorons are embedded into all dominating themes of this novel: artificiality and authenticity, love and hate, nature and culture. Her novel delves deep into the social conflicts, prejudice and discrimination that existed in the Victorian Era. It criticizes the art of cultivation for suffocating the human spirit and tainting the purity of a love that could not exist in our physical world. A novel of furious passion, Wuthering Heights defines the battle within each human being as the choice between humanity and society. Wuthering Heights manages to shatter all existing archetypes of conventional Victorian literature and truly defines the fallibilities, beauty, and strength of the human heart.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Bizarre, cracklingly brilliant, a moment in literary history,
Anne Rice (Palm Desert, California) - See all my reviews
Is there anybody out there who hasn't heard of Heathcliff, the dark villian/hero of this high pitched and utterly committed work of madness? Oh, I love it. It was difficult for me at first. I'm a writer, but not a natural reader. But once I was into this book, once I stopped asking questions of the narrative and just entered the shadowy world of Catherine and her doomed household, I was quite literally spellbound. Bronte died believing this book was a failure. What a dreadful irony that this quiet, disciplined woman who lived out her life in a cold parsons' house with her brilliant sisters, her drunken brother and her eccentric father (The man memorized Paradise Lost: imagine. And outlived all his children!) never even had an inkling that this outpouring of her heart and soul would become a classic, overshadowing even her sister's highly successful Jane Eyre. Both Bronte sisters had the capacity to create archetypes -- to imprint upon the culture seminal patterns that endure to the present time. One last point: the father was Irish. Madness and genius in the blood, indeed. Enjoy it. I read it over every year or so, sometimes twice in a row. I study it; I watch all the film versions. I just love it, the way it works, its strange cruelty and enchantment.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Quite a different experience for an adult...,
J. Marren "jtm497" (Glen Ridge, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
I picked this book up again some 35 years after reading it in high school, and what I found was quite different from what I remembered. Our "cultural" memory of this great English novel is that it is a story of romantic, wild passion, and unrequited love. No doubt our preconceptions are heavily influenced by the famous film made many years ago. The reality is quite different. Catherine is a rather vain and willful girl who rejects Heathcliff because of differences in their class and upbringing. Heathcliff is full of hatred and resentment despite the great kindness shown him by his master in adopting him literally off the street. There is nothing romantic about the relationship between these two--they hurt each other constantly despite their almost spiritual bond. After Catherine's death, which occurs only halfway through the book, things turn bleaker still, as Heathcliff wreaks revenge on all around him. The wild, harsh countryside and climate, beautifully evoked by Bronte, echo the violent emotions that drive the lives of the characters. How cruel these people are to each other--how hard is Heathcliff's heart that he hates Catherine's daughter most of all. I confess that I found the unrelieved bleakness hard to take at times, and the redemptive conclusion a bit contrived, but it's a great work of English literature nonetheless--and to imagine this book was written by a young woman with virtually no experience of the world!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing,
wonderment (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wuthering Heights (Hardcover)
I was expecting something in the vein of Jane Eyre when I began to read this book. I was sorely disappointed. True, the violent love between Heathcliff and Catherine is heartwrenching; however, the most difficult part of this novel for me was that there was no character that was lovable, or sympathetic. Just when I started to think that Heathcliff was not so bad after all, he would commit another shocking deed of horrific cruelty. Catherine was just annoying. I also found the plot hard to follow, what with a third person telling the story, and then swinging back to first person narrative. If you want a really powerful, uplifting love story, read Jane Eyre, or The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery.
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The three major colleges in the state will start the upcoming season ranked in Baseball America's top 25 poll. Mississippi State leads the way at No. 5, the Bulldogs' highest preseason ranking since starting the 1989 season at No. 1.
"This is a nice recognition and pat on the back," said MSU coach John Cohen, a player on that 1989 team that won 54 games but lost in an NCAA regional. "What does it mean? It won't mean anything unless they go out and earn it." ...


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Visual Pun: Wine Bin Numbers Given New Meaning
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COLUMBIA - The Democrat running for governor launched a new statewide television ad Thursday, hitting Gov. Nikki Haley on the 2012 hacking of the Department of Revenue.
The Haley administration waited 16 days to tell taxpayers that their private information may have been exposed, a frequent theme for the campaign of Democratic Sen. Vincent Sheheen. "When it comes to protecting us we just can't trust Nikki Haley," the ad says. The campaign said the advertisement, called "Protect," will start running as part of a six-figure advertising buy across the state.
At the time, Gov. Haley and other state officials said that law enforcement officials requested time before making the hacking public. "Even a politically desperate trial lawyer like Vince Sheheen should know better than to obstruct a criminal investigation," said campaign spokesman Rob Godfrey, in a statement. It's shocking that Vince, as governor, would disregard the request of SLED and the Secret Service and compromise the effort to arrest the criminal hacker."
Democrats see it as a transparency issue.
"Nikki Haley has proven time and again that she cannot be trusted to do the job of governor well or to be honest and open with the public when things go wrong," said Andrew Whalen, Sheheen's campaign manager, in a statement.
The gubernatorial race's primary candidates, including Haley and independent Tom Ervin, have all launched advertisements recently.
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On the one hand, you've got the sort of race-to-the-bottom developers that attempt to copy whatever's successful to a note, never bringing anything of their own to the equation. But the really exciting thing is seeing smart devs take a page from a game that works and build on it, while never directly copying.
Phosphor Games' The Dark Meadow is firmly in the second camp, taking its lead from Infinity Blade, but inventing a few new steps of its own.
It's a classic video game setup: Our hero wakes up in an abandoned hospital with no memory of how he got there. His only friend is the disembodied voice of a demented old man, who may not be quite as helpless as he seems.
Oh, and there are monsters. Lots of them.
Presented in first person, The Dark Meadow doesn't give direct control over your movement, instead letting you tap specific points in hallways and rooms to move to them. You can also tap objects like cupboards and drawers in each room to search for gold and supplies. You'll also peel gold off the monsters roaming the hallway.
When you stumble on a creature, your first line of defense is your crossbow, which wears them down as they approach. When you're finally face to face, you'll switch to your sword, swiping the screen to strike while tapping either side of the device to dodge attacks.
Much like Infinity Blade, The Dark Meadow is built on repetition. When an enemy brings you down (be it a hallway-dweller or the ghostly witch the old man has you hunting) you wake again in your starting room. All the gold and loot in the hospital have replenished, but so have the now-even-deadlier enemies.
Exploring the same environments may not be to everyone's liking, but the Unreal-generated hospital was so gorgeous I didn't much mind. It helps that your relationship to the old man is always evolving, even if the floorplan isn't.
It's a surprisingly funny, gorgeous game that's an easy recommendation, especially for those who loved Infinity Blade. Though the two have some key differences, they both ram home the truth that mobile games are getting surprisingly good at creating big worlds on tiny screens.
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Topshop and JW Anderson to Collaborate
Topshop has announced a collaboration with young British designer JW Anderson.
"I am very excited to collaborate with Topshop," Anderson said. "It gives me the opportunity to reach a much wider audience with my designs. It has always been very important to me that my collections are made accessible to anyone interested in fashion and design." Anderson said.
They will create a capsule collection including jersey, denim, knitwear and outerwear pieces as well as items such as pencils, memory sticks, rubik's cubes, vintage magazines and photography books.
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Jeff Bridges Saves Crazy Heart With His Unflinching Portrayal of a Washed-Up Country Singer
Does it seem a little odd to you that folks are already touting his work in Crazy Heart as the role for which Jeff Bridges will be remembered? First of all, the guy's only 60; his dad's name was showing up on call sheets well into his 80s. Barring calamity, he has a good many years of what will surely be terrific work ahead of him. Second, he's one of the most shamefully underrated actors around. He's already delivered several Oscar-nominated and Oscar-worthy, if not Oscar-winning, performances—the Dude, anyone?—so let's stop acting like Crazy Heart is some sort of who-knew-he-had-it-in-him revelation a la The Wrestler. It's Bridges doing what he does exceedingly well, and what he's been doing for several decades now.
Granted, he rarely gets a chance to showcase his talents as prominently as he does in this low-key drama about a used-up country singer who has finally arrived at a crossroads. Bad Blake was once one of the top country stars in the business, but his past glory can only take him so far. Oft-divorced, largely forgotten by the younger generation of radio-country fans, and addicted to self-destruction in general and alcohol in particular, Bad now earns a meager living crisscrossing the country in his rusted '78 Suburban, playing for gas money in music stores and bowling alleys. He's still a legend, mind you—young superstar Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell), who has Bad to thank for his skyrocketing career, wants nothing more than for the aging musician to write a few new songs for him—but Bad can't get himself sober enough to crank out any new tunes. He's determined to simply stay drunk and keep playing the old songs that earned him his reputation so many years ago.
If there's one thing country music has taught us, though, it's that misery is buoyant in booze. No matter how desperately Bad tries to shove his problems to the bottom of a bottle of McClure's whiskey, they inevitably bob right back up to the top. He's broke, his health is failing, and he can no longer get a solo record deal. When he meets an ambitious young reporter named Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the budding romance between them dangles redemption in front of him like a carrot on a really long stick; will Bad opt for salvation in the form of his neglected songwriting talent and the love of a decent woman, or will he simply drink himself to death in an endless blur of sweat-sour bars and seedy motels? Hanging its narrative on a series of surprisingly good musical performances (Bridges and Farrell both do their own singing), Crazy Heart follows Bad on a journey that will either lead to a second chance or an early grave.
Sounds pretty clichéd, huh? In all honesty, it is. Crazy Heart lacks the subtleties and nuance of Tender Mercies, to which it will inevitably be compared. First-time director Scott Cooper's script, based on Thomas Cobb's 1987 novel of the same name, often seems hesitant to go the distance. The film's solutions are a little too easy, its relationships a bit too contrived. In spite of its often dazzling photography, Crazy Heart has a tendency to feel a little too much like a TV movie. (Incidentally, it was produced by CMT and saved from a direct-to-DVD release by Fox Searchlight after its original distributor, Paramount Vantage, folded.)
If the script pulls a few punches, though, Bridges never does. His unglamorous, often devastating portrayal of a deeply flawed but essentially sympathetic character elevates the material to something that shouldn't be missed. He holds nothing back. Whether he's on his knees in front of a toilet or crooning on an embarrassingly small stage, Bridges inhabits the character so completely that little of the actor is left. Sometimes he's a smooth-talking charmer and sometimes he's almost unbearably pitiful, but for better or worse, he's all Bad. Thanks to Bridges' performance, we become so emotionally invested in Bad's journey that we can overlook Crazy Heart's shortcomings, and appreciate it for the gentle, big-hearted film that it is.
Or you could ignore all that and just see it for T-Bone Burnett's outstanding soundtrack of bluesy, vintage-sounding country tunes inspired by the likes of George Jones and Peggy Lee. It's easy to see why Bridges passed on the film until Burnett's involvement was confirmed. The legendary music producer, who was also the man behind the soundtracks of O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Walk the Line, has come up with an impressive lineup of the kind of country songs you wish they still played on the radio. Up-and-comer Ryan Bingham, with his Golden Globe win for "The Weary Kind," might be the face that people will associate with Crazy Heart's songs, but it's Burnett who is Bridges' real co-star.


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Will Ayotzinapa Case Become Mexico's Political Firestorm or Will It Be Forgotten?
If a mass grave turns out to contain Ayotzinapa's missing students, the tension now in the air might be enough to cause a large-scale political firestorm.
15 October 2014
Bolivian Voters Give President Evo Morales a Landslide Third-Term Win
According to unofficial election results in Bolivia, Evo Morales obtained 60 percent of the votes and has been reelected as president of Bolivia until the year 2020.
11 October 2014
Is History Repeating Itself in Mexico with the Ayotzinapa Tragedy?
Just last September, local police in Iguala attacked a group of students from the Rural School in Ayotzinapa, killing six and wounding seventeen. Another 25 people—perhaps more—simply vanished.
7 March 2014
Documentary Highlights Resilience of Puerto Ricans Living in New York
A new documentary, "Toñita's," exposes the crossroads at which the Caribbean community, and the Puerto Rican community in particular, finds itself, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York...
18 December 2013
"We Are More Alive Than Ever:" Coral Herrera and the Struggle for Gender Equality
In this second part of an interview with scholar and blogger Coral Herrera we discuss the struggle for gender equality in Latin America and the road that remains before us.
3 December 2013
'Proyecto Arcoiris' Advocates for Coloring Cuba with the Rainbow of the LGBT Community
The Project began when activist Yasmin Silvia Portales shared her dissatisfaction with the absence, at the time, of spaces for meeting the social demands of sexually diverse persons and for...
9 October 2013
Saying Good-bye to Baseballer Mariano Rivera
Panamanian pitcher Mariano Rivera retires from professional baseball, leaving behind a series of records that will be hard to break. The media and social networks paid their respects.
30 September 2013
Doctors in Panama Launch Strike Over Foreign Recruitment Law
Law 611 has put local doctors on the warpath, while the government assures that foreign doctors will not pose a problem for national workers.
29 August 2013
Ecuador Rallies in Defense of Yasuni National Park
Demonstrators demand that Yasuni National Park remain untouched nearly two weeks after President Correa announced the end of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, which sought to avoid oil drilling in the park.


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When Hillary Clinton was running for President she often spoke about how, as President, she would stand up for those who are invisible to the Republican party. In many ways, the word "invisible," is a perfect way to describe how many of us are overlooked and ignored by the Republican party.
If you are a woman, minority, single-parent, LGBT or not a member of the top 1%, you are invisible to the Republican party. So for all the flaws the Democratic party has, I firmly believe that Democrats tend to stand up for those who lack a voice within our society.
Because as a society, we are only as strong as the weakest among us. That is why I believe in a society that seeks ways to help those who marginalized and hurting. I don't believe in a society that blames people for their struggles because blaming the victim is often shortsighted and is an easy way to escape taking responsibility for failing the most vulnerable members within our society.
I hope Hillary Clinton will run for President again because she has shown that even through the many years of the Republicans trying to stop and destroy her, she is resilient and has continued fighting for all of us that are invisible to the Republican party.
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Royal River restoration in Yarmouth begins with small 'stepping stone'
YARMOUTH — Using a 4-ton grip hoist and a pulley system positioned between two trees, five people from four different agencies started work Tuesday on a small, but significant project to restore fish passages on the Royal River.
About two dozen granite blocks – some more than 4 feet long and about 2 feet thick – jam up the water flow near Elm Street, the remains of a small, old bridge that collapsed a few years ago.
Matt Craig, of Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, part of the team hoisting the blocks out of the water, said removing the blocks wouldn't have any immediate impact, but it will help with future habitat restoration on the river.
"We're not providing any new access right now, but it's a good stepping stone," he said. "We hope to eventually re-establish the connection between Casco Bay and the Royal River."
The blocks were originally part of a small walking bridge that connected Yarmouth to Factory Island, where a paper mill operated.
Although much larger projects involving two town-owned dams would have to be completed before fish are able to return, this is one of the first physical, albeit small, restoration projects on the river.
"It's a small piece, but it's not just symbolic," Town Manager Nat Tupper said. "It's kind of low-hanging fruit we could get down."
The comprehensive river restoration project hopes to restore native fish like the American shad, river herring, white sucker and brook trout. One of the only fish swimming the Royal River now is the American eel, Tupper said.
This $5,000 project, mostly funded through a grant from the Estuary Partnership, is a step forward in the river restoration project, something former large grant issuers like the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration like to see, Tupper said.
Most of the questions surrounding the town dams focus on the Elm Street dam, which the council has aesthetic, historic and environmental concerns about, Tupper said.
The town did not qualify for a grant from the NOAA this year, which would have helped pay for studies to answer those concerns, he said.
Landis Hudson, executive director of Maine Rivers, who is also working to pull the blocks out of the river, said right now is an exciting time for rivers in Maine.
She pointed to the June decommissioning and demolition of the Penobscot river's Great Works dam in Bradley, which blocked the river for almost two centuries, as an enormous success for river restoration advocates in the state.
She said she hopes the Royal River can be restored not only for the fish, but for Yarmouth.
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Citizen, officer heroes honored for their actions
It was Thanksgiving Day last year when Kathryn Barrona, 24, and her sister Samantha were visiting Point Mugu beach.
That afternoon, the sisters noticed some young men on a bluff at Mugu Rock motioning toward the area where a rogue wave had just swept three other men into the water.
When the sisters went to see what the commotion was about, they saw one man in the water struggling for his life.
It was then that Kathryn Barrona, a swimming standout at Camarillo High School who later served in the U.S. Navy, immediately dove into the rough, chilly water to rescue the drowning man. After managing to bring him back to shore against the current and crashing waves, she administered CPR before emergency responders arrived.
The young man and the two other victims, ages 17, 19, and 21, all died, but Barrona was commended for risking her own life that day to save another.
Her act of heroism was recognized Friday night at the Peace Officers Association of Ventura County's 36th annual Medal of Valor Awards Ceremony. Barrona received a Citizen's Medal of Merit.
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The ceremony, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, honored law enforcement personnel and other individuals who performed noteworthy and heroic acts throughout the past year.
"These are the real-life heroes that live and work among us. They all acted courageously and with the belief that the safety and well-being of others was more important than their own," said Ventura County Superior Court Judge Patrica Murphy, who handed out the medals.
Kathryn Barrona's parents, Keith and Anna Barrona, of Camarillo accepted a plaque and a medal for their daughter, who lives in Texas and was unable to attend.
"We're just so proud of her," Anna Barrona said.
Another Medal of Merit recipient was Janet Harris of Ojai, who said she credits her children, Greg, 19, John, 9, Mary, 8, and James, 5, for wanting to stop and help after seeing a car accident on the side of the road.
"We might not have stopped if it wasn't for them," said Janet Harris, who was praised for administering CPR that saved the life of the woman, a young mother.
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California Highway Patrol Officer Deanna Brummett received the Medal of Valor for responding to an off-duty incident last year while visiting her mother, Roberta Brummett, at a mobile home park in Santa Paula.
Deanna and her mother, who received a Medal of Merit, were honored for saving the occupants of another mobile home after it was set on fire by an arsonist. Deanna, whose hair was singed during the rescue, was also credited for identifying the suspected arsonist, who was seen lurking around the mobile home park earlier that day.
"I think they did one heck of a job. They are a hero team," said Ted Brummett about his wife and daughter.
Oxnard Police Department Officers Eric Alinaya, Rocky Marquez, Ricky Marquez and Robert Shank, and Santa Paula Police Department Officer Jeremy Watson all received Officer's Medals of Merit.
Other recipients of the Citizen's Medals of Merit include Gabriel Garber and Evan Davis of Camarillo; Luis Yanez and Saul Ramos of Port Hueneme; Scot Olsen of Ventura; and Jesus Solis and Christina Cordero of Santa Paula.
Sheriff's Detectives Mike Powers and Scott Peterson were honored as Detectives of the Year for their investigative work that helped dismantle the Black Mafia gang last year in Ventura County.
The medal of valor is the highest award given to an officer for heroism and courage. The medal of merit is awarded to both officers and others for acts of extraordinary heroism and meritorious achievement.
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