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CINCINNATI, Ohio – Here are some quick hits from manager Terry Francona's pre-game press conference Wednesday at Great American Ball Park.
Don't forget Charlie Hustle: The Reds unveiled the logo for the 2015 All-Star Game before Wednesday night's game against the Indians. Francona played for the Reds and manager Pete Rose in 1987 and loves Cincinnati as a baseball town.
"Opening day here is like no other," said Francona. "The kids used to get out of school. They have a parade. These people love their team and they love baseball."
Francona inferred that the one thing that would make it even better is if MLB would make a move toward lifting its lifetime ban on Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader.
"It's not my area, but it would be a nice coming-out party," said Francona. "I'm biased, but everybody who knows Pete knows how he feels about the game. I think that would be really special."
Rose in 1989 agreed to permanent ineligibility from baseball amidst growing allegations that he gambled on baseball and the Reds as a player and manager. In 2004, Rose finally admitted that he did gamble on baseball.
With Commissioner Bud Selig retiring after this season, Francona was asked if that could improve Rose's chances, "I really don't know. I don't know the ins and outs of it. I can't speak to it because I'm not privy to that."
Another change: Francona said struggling starter Josh Tomlin has been placed in the bullpen and that Carlos Carrasco is a candidate to make Tomlin's next start Sunday against the Yankees.
Carrasco threw four innings Tuesday night in relief of Tomlin in a 9-2 loss to the Reds.
New left fielder: Nick Swisher started in left field Wednesday night for the first time since Sept. 1, 2009 with the Yankees.
"I went out early Tuesday to take some ground balls," said Swisher. "It was the first day I could get outside because of my (sprained right) wrist. I was going to take some fly balls in right and then I saw Handsome Mike (Mike Aviles) in left field and I said, "I'm going to go hang out with him for a while.'
"It's the complete opposite from what I've done over the last five or six years in right field. For me, I've just got to make some little adjustments. Get some fly balls, get some good reads in the outfield during BP and in the game go run around like your hair is on fire."
Francona was looking for a way to keep Swisher's bat in the lineup.
"Whatever he gets to, he gets to," said Francona, "but I don't think it will be because of the angle. He came up as a center fielder."
No.2: David Murphy made his first start of the season in the No.2 spot Wednesday night.
"We don't have a DH," said Francona. "Asdrubal Cabrera is not here and Mike (Aviles) isn't playing.
"It was either Swish, Murphy or Jose (Ramirez). I like Jose in the eighth hole. I would rather let Swish hit where he's hitting (sixth) and Murph is really good at hitting the ball through the hole."
The Indians have six left-handed hitters, including two switch-hitters, in the first six spots in the lineup against right-hander Matt Latos.
"We're running a lot a lot of lefties in a row out there, but their starters go so deep in the game that we wanted to put a lineup out there that had the best chance to beat Latos," said Francona. "If we have to pinch hit later, we will."
Day of rest: Michael Bourn went 0-for-3 with a strikeout in his first rehab game Tuesday at Class AA Akron. He'll have the day off Wednesday and play seven innings on Thursday.
Bourn is recovering from a strained left hamstring.
Walking man: Carlos Santana entered Wednesday's game averaging an MLB-high one walk in every 5.61 at-bats. ... The Indians have hit 36 homers since July 1, tying Baltimore and Houston for the most in the big leagues.


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James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky said that BP's restrictive culture may have
discouraged engineers from delivering bad news about the company's blowout
prevention measures prior to the accident. "Management
played a key role in the way they handled quality and safety," said Truchard,
who serves as president and CEO of NI, a maker of automated test equipment.
"When the environment is constrained, you can run into trouble, and I think
that's what happened there.""The BP
crisis reminded me of the (Space Shuttle) Challenger explosion in that the
engineers knew what was going on, but the relationship between them and
management was dysfunctional," added Kodosky, who is a Business and Technology
Fellow for NI. The
comments by Truchard and Kodosky mirror those from numerous news agencies that
have examined BP's corporate culture. In June, The
Wall Street Journal reported that BP's in-house magazine actually tried
to make a case for the bright side of the oil spill. "Much
of the region's (nonfishing boat) businesses - particularly the hotels - have
been prospering because so many people have come here from BP and other oil
emergency response teams," the in-house magazine wrote. Other news stories have
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Northwest Cinemas
Posted by Pablo Kjolseth on September 26, 2010
I'm visiting Portland for the weekend and was originally planning on interviewing the TCM V.P. of New Media about his erotic fantasies involving Joe Eszterhas, but he decided to stay in Atlanta instead. (Something about a wife, a birth, and a child – but I bet what he's really doing is hiding out in his man-cave playing Halo 3 instead.) To be fair to him, it's not so much Eszterhas as Showgirls which gets him excited. In his words, Showgirls is "a brilliant political commentary on the moral bankruptcy and depravity of American culture. It's film negative should dipped in gold and displayed next to the Constitution on Capital Hill with a permanent 24hr angel choir stationed nearby." His words, not mine. Me? I'm in Portland enjoying the offerings of a vibrant film community that honors both the past and the present – no angel choirs needed, just some good beers to accentuate the good cheer. [...MORE]
Children of Invention: 'Home Alone' for a New Economy
Posted by Susan Doll on July 19, 2010
Movie-goers are bemoaning the lack of decent Hollywood movies in the cineplexes this summer. Not only are the studios releasing fewer films than in past years, but most of those that end up on the big screen have sacrificed good storytelling and craftsmanship for expensive gimmicks like 3-D, CGI, and Michael Bay-style hyper-editing that assaults the senses and insults intelligence. Fortunately, in Chicago, movie-lovers can rely on several venues that show independent films, classics, or other alternative fare to satisfy their cinematic urges, from the Golden Age movies at the Bank of America Theater to the Chicago Silent Film Society's Silent Summer Festival to the indie films at Facets and the Music Box Theater.
Among my favorite indie movies so far this year is a modest drama titled Children of Invention, which played at Facets in late May. Because of the problems plaguing the distribution and marketing of independent films, many indies shown at Facets rarely exhibit outside the major urban markets and therefore suffer as DVD or home-viewing releases because renters don't recognize their titles. Yet, the way the producers have handled the distribution and exhibition of Children of Invention has made it an exception, and perhaps a model for future indie releases.
The Cinema In-Between: The Anchorage and Agrarian Utopia
Posted by R. Emmet Sweeney on March 2, 2010
"He [D.W. Griffith] missed a certain beauty he thought had disappeared from film, from the way people saw life — 'the beauty of the moving wind in the trees, the little movement in a beautiful blowing on the blossoms in the trees. That they have forgotten entirely. . . We have lost beauty.' On that note, Griffith fell silent." -Richard Schickel, D.W. GRIFFITH: AN AMERICAN LIFE
Griffith's deathbed lament has turned into something of a mission statement for a disparate group of filmmakers on the experimental side of documentary practice, who combine anthropological impulses (recording "the wind in the trees") with a rigorously constructed visual formalism (regaining its "beauty"), blurring the boundary between fiction and non. The great French avant-gardist Jean-Marie Straub is a main influence, and seems to have popularized the quote, as recounted by director John Gianvito and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. Griffith's words have exerted almost as much influence as Straub and late partner Daniele Huillet's austere long-take style. I've never found the original 1947 interview from which Griffith's words were taken, so any help on this front would be much obliged.
I was led to three of these hybrid films: Sweetgrass (which I discussed here), The Anchorage, and Agrarian Utopia, by Robert Koehler in his Cinema Scope essay, "Agrarian Utopias/Dystopias". Here he introduces his concept of a "cinema of in-between-ness", which is not a movement as much as a tendency, where "a zone of a cinema free of, or perhaps more precisely in between, hardened fact and invented fiction permits all manner of wild possibilities." Most of these possibilites, he finds, are focused on "subjects about humans working on the surface of the earth."
Shirin: Keep Your Eyes on the Screen
Posted by R. Emmet Sweeney on November 17, 2009
Abbas Kiarostami has retreated from the international scene for most of this past decade, working on a variety of museum installations and digital video experiments that received little to no distribution in the U.S. These pursuits, which include the installation Looking at Taziyeh, the long-take landscape film Five Dedicated to Ozu, and his latest, Shirin, extend his interest in off-screen space and ways of seeing. Taziyeh is a mixed-multimedia work, with Kiarostami directing a live stage performance of a Shiite passion play (Ta'ziyeh is a folk theater form that re-enacts the murder of Hussein, the grandson of Muhammad), while giant monitors near the stage depict Iranian audience members reacting to a previous version of the play.
Kiarostami told The Guardian that "Ta'ziyeh is strictly linked to its audience – the event is actually created by the rapport between actors and spectators." Five Dedicated to Ozu, available on DVD from Kino (full disclosure: a company I work for), is a series of fixed-camera long takes of a beach on the Caspian Sea that capture ducks, dogs, shorelines, and reflections of the moon. It is an academic exercise imbued with Kiarostami's wry humor and keen compositional eye. It asks for a patient, involved viewer, as it unveils split-second narratives and fugitive plastic beauties. While watching it, one can be emotionally involved in a duck's fate, then pull back to enjoy the framing of driftwood on the horizon, or simply leave it on as an impossibly hip screen-saver.
I Can See You
Posted by Pablo Kjolseth on October 25, 2009
"So much about this movie and its characters should be annoying, but the sensory disorientation climaxes in a freakout that wipes all troubles away, as well as anything else in your head." (The Village Voice)
"…without a doubt one of the most intriguing and well-crafted low-budget horror films in recent memory." (Fangoria)
"It's akin to an acid trip, actually. Take a hit right as the movie starts up, and chances are as soon as the acid kicks in, the movie starts twisting at the same time." (DreadCentral.com)
"I Can See You heralds a splendid new filmmaker with one eye on genre mechanics, one eye on avant-garde conceits and a third eye for transcendental weirdness." (The New York Times) [...MORE]
Unearthed Japanese Craziness from 1977 – Hausu
Posted by Pablo Kjolseth on October 11, 2009
Janus Films, the distributor of high-brow and classic arthouse films such as Rashomon, Rules of the Game, and Pierrot le fou, has struck out in an entirely unexpected direction by picking up the rights to a very bizarre and overlooked Japanese horror film by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Originally released over thirty years ago, Hausu (aka: House) is currently making the rounds again, nation-wide, at very select theaters (It airs on TCM Underground this Friday night – Jan. 13, 2012 at 2 am ET). This movie about a young girl who takes some friends with her to her grandmother's house out in the country, only to discover it's haunted and ready to eat some victims. The film is – to use the words of film critic J. Seaver – "batshit crazy from start to finish." [...MORE]
Science Fiction + Westerns + Music = Fun
Posted by Pablo Kjolseth on September 27, 2009
Last weekend my film series was privileged to host the Colorado premiere of Stingray Sam – the latest creation by talented director/musician/writer/artist/actor Cory McAbee. Although it's tempting to draw parallels between this film and Cory's other sci-fi/western/musical, The American Astronaut (2001), they are two very different creatures. For one thing; Stingray Sam was designed "for screens of all sizes" and was meant to be distributed as six downloadable webisodes, with each episode being about ten minutes in length. Also; each episode has a song and cliffhanger. And although both feature planet-hopping around from a seedy interstellar space saloon to other planets with serious gender issues and onward, Stingray Sam has a different cast of characters, a different rhythm, a different style, and zips along at a nice clip with more material condensed into shorter bits. [...MORE]
Highlights from the Telluride Film Festival
Posted by Pablo Kjolseth on September 13, 2009
Last week I talked about the exceptional Red Riding trilogy the debuted at the 36th annual Telluride Film Festival. Now that the festival can be seen receding in my rear view mirror, it's time to reflect on some of the other films that were also screened there. Let's start with The Road. [...MORE]
Further Adventures in VOD
Posted by R. Emmet Sweeney on August 18, 2009
After exploring Hulu for cinematic surprises two weeks back, I discovered the nifty search engine SpeedCine [Speed-Sinny], which claims to make "it easy to find legal feature-length movies on your computer". Founded by film publicist Reid Rosefelt, it trawls the web for films that can be viewed on VOD for free or through rental, purchase, or subscription. It's very simple to use, and with a quick click on the FREE button, and a leisurely scroll through its large A-Z library, I uncovered a wide variety of oddities and masterpieces that won't cost you a dime (the FAQ informs us that not all titles are listed in the index, that some can only be found through the search function. Mysterious! Let me know if you find any hidden nuggets through this feature). These free titles are all ad-supported on various sites, with commercials popping up at different intervals. Most sites offer their "top" titles as rentals or purchases only (without ads), while shuffling their lesser known material into the "free", ad-supported category.
Searching for free titles filters out the Herculean efforts of The Auteurs to bring a cinematheque to your computer (at a reasonable $5 a film, with a few titles gratis), but I discussed them earlier this year. They're the most forward thinking VOD operators around, with the best content, so by all means check them out. But this week I'm focusing on the questionably curated free VOD sites that SpeedCine introduced me to, like Crackle, Jaman, Fancast, and EZ Takes, all of which vary wildly in quality. I'll profile each of these sites on various arbitrary categories (streaming quality, commercial interruptions, etc.) and offer some viewing recommendations on each. In any case, SpeedCine is a remarkably useful tool for those interested in excavating the vast trove of cinema available on these here tubes.
Francis Ford Coppola's TETRO
Posted by Pablo Kjolseth on August 2, 2009
I'm not of much use when the heat gets above 90 degrees. That's one of the reasons I wanted to fly to Portland last week – I figured it'd be a reasonable temperature while my homestead here in the Rockies baked under summer sun. And what happens? Boulder got hit with rain and weather in the 50′s while Portland was scorched under record-breaking temperatures that reached 107 degrees. And there I was on the second floor of the Hawthorne Youth Hostel, with no air-conditioning, reeling about in buckets of sweat like Martin Sheen on the tail-end of a drinking binge about to go mad in the opening scene of Apocalypse Now. As many people do who look for a reprieve from extreme heat, I sought my refuge in the cool halls of a movie theater. And with Coppola and madness in mind, I found his latest film, Tetro, playing at the Living Room Theaters. [...MORE]
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Spreading the Love, Minor League Style
Welcome to the much-anticipated 267th installment of Ben's Biz Blog. For today's episode, we'll take a look back at a few Valentine's Day events that took place around the Minor Leagues last week.
Consider this post a follow-up to last Friday's "Minoring in Business" article. That's an order.
Let's start in Lake County, Ohio, where Captains mascot Skipper delivered Valentines to both homes and businesses. I particularly like this picture, primarily because of the pink-shirted individual standing forlornly in the background:
The Captains were also the beneficiaries of some sweet media coverage. Click here to check out the video piece that ran on the website of the local News-Herald. And click here to see additional V-Day pics.
(thanks to Captains promotions director Jonathan Levey for the pictures and link)
Now, let us travel in a northwesterly direction, until we end up in the magical town of Vancouver. There, Canadians mascot Bob Brown Bear made the rounds. Let's take a look at what he was up to:
Now, in my aforementioned "Minoring in Business" article, I quoted Canadians GM Andrew Seymour as saying the following:
"One of the people we're delivering to this year has a mascot phobia.
So Bob is going to have to stay in the car for that one. I don't even
think he'll be allowed in the lobby."
Well, here's a picture of Seymour delivering a Valentine, sans Bob Brown Bear. I don't know if Bob's absence in this shot can be attributed to a mascot phobia, or if other factors were involved.
Finally, let us head back east to Lowell, MA. There, the Spinners staged their annual "Spread the Love" winter caravan. The following pictures are from the team's enthusiastically-received visit to a local elementary school. Reports Spinners media relations manager Jon Boswell:
When the principal introduced the members of the caravan,
even the Spinners front office was received like members of the Red Sox.
Hopefully 30 years down the road when some kid goes to show off his autograph
collection and points to a Micky Ward or Jonathan Papelbon autograph he isn't
too upset to see a Spinners Head Groundskeeper Jeff Paolino autograph
underneath his!
So, there you have it. Another Valentine's Day in the books, and the Minor Leagues did it up right. I considered asking teams to send in more V-Day's photos, but, really, it's time to move on now. To the future!
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Is it because the dude in the pink shirt looks like a lot like one of fellas from D6?


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HOLLEY, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a nun faces grand larceny charges after more than $100,000 was stolen from two western New York churches where she worked.
Orleans County District Attorney Joseph Cardone tells The Buffalo News that Sister Mary Anne Rapp is scheduled to appear in Kendall Town Court on Monday night to answer to the charges.
The newspaper reports that the money was stolen from Catholic churches in Holley and Kendall, rural parishes between Buffalo and Rochester.
No other details have been released.
The nun's attorney, James Harrington, told the newspaper he couldn't comment on the case.
The attorney for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo says Sister Mary Anne was placed on administrative leave more than a year ago after an audit conducted by the diocese turned up irregularities.
In other news:
» The fascinating history of the garbage truck and the Knoxville mayor behind it [Jalopnik]
» How to make the perfect cup of tea [The Telegraph]
» 22 of your childhood style icons, revisited [Buzzfeed]
» War on Women, Waged in Postcards: Memes from the Suffragist Era [Collectors' Weekly]


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Even though Intel slashed its Q4 forecast yesterday by as much as $2 billion yesterday afternoon, its stock is up slightly today.
In part, that's because everyone already believed that Intel wasn't going to meet its targets. And in part it's because folks are hoping Intel's poor results might signal a bottom in what could be a relatively brief downturn for the industry.
Citigroup's Glen Yeung says today that Intel may represent a buying opportunity for investors:
...We nonetheless upgraded the semiconductor sector last week, reflecting our view that it is time to buy the dips in semis, versus selling the rallies. We note that Intel has only posted 2 quarters with greater than 12% sequential decline in the last 20 years. We suspect the worst q/q decline may therefore already be in (and model as such), and apply this buy-the-dip theory to Intel.
FBR's Craig Berger, who had already cut his Intel forecast, wrote that Intel's numbers could represent a "trough" for the industry. But he's not urging investors to run out and buy shares:
We respect Intel's stellar execution and strong product roadmap. That said, we remain on the sidelines given: (1) international PC demand could drive additional consensus revenue estimate reductions; (2) major restructuring actions completed, leaving few incremental opportunities; (3) Intel's new Atom processors could drive customers to mix parts, negating any unit demand goodness; and (4) we believe more attractive upside can be found elsewhere.


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Lady Gaga, Kris Allen, The Backstreet Boys And Tokio Hotel: This Week's Deep Cuts
The chill in the air is enough to convince us that fall is actually here. So rather than hitting the backyard barbecue, it's time for leaf peeping, pumpkin carving and watching college football. But before you wrap up the last of your work for the week and hit the nearest hay ride, be sure to check out everything you might have missed this week on the MTV Newsroom blog, from the deep dirt on Lady Gaga to some pre-emptively rejected Kris Allen album titles.
» Before Lady Gaga was a fashion-forward hit machine, she was just a New York University student desperately trying to eat a salad without hurting anybody.
» Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell forced the group to bow out of a bunch of promotional dates because he caught swine flu, but that didn't stop us from celbrating the release of the group's new album This Is Us.
» On "Dancing with the Stars," Debi Mazar and Tom DeLay both did the loser shuffle. Meanwhile, Chuck Liddell is gaining some serious skills, but the competition is still Mya's to lose.
» Kris Allen's debut album doesn't have a title yet, and MTV News' Jim Cantiello wants him to know what not to do.
» In other correspondent news, James Montgomery wrote some lovely things about Pink — so lovely, in fact, that she tweeted her gratitude.
» Phish announced more tour dates and started teasing their Halloween show, which will unfortunately not feature a performance of Primus' Sailing the Seas of Cheese.
» Dirty-minded pop songstress Katy Perry and potty-mouthed VMA host Russell Brand have been spotted together in Paris. We're not going to take credit for getting them together, but we're sort of taking credit for getting them together.
» We had a contest to celebrate the release of Tokio Hotel's new album Humanoid, and the winner will receive an autographed T-shirt and a personalized video message from the band!
» Slim Thug felt the heat of the recession. Luckily, "The Daily Show" was there to help.
» Superstar boxer Floyd "Money" Mayweather stopped by the Newsroom to talk some smack about "Sugar" Shane Mosley, big up some rappers and spar with MTV News' Tim Kash. (OK, not that third thing.)
» Selena Gomez loves Fefe Dobson so much that she covered one of her songs, all because she always dreamed about being a blonde.
» You know what the United States did this morning? We killed the moon! Take that, you guys!
» And finally, just remember: The only horrorcore you should trust was made by RZA and Prince Paul.


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The Hackettstown girl's soccer team remained undefeated (9-0-1) through the weekend, as the Tigers knocked off the Kittatinny Cougars 2-0 in their first round Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex game.
Emily Slama and Elizabeth Dieteman scored the goals, both assisted by senior playmaker Katie Hutton. Goalkeeper Prescilla Acuria turned away seven shots in handling the shutout.
Belvidere's girls had a six-game win streak stopped in their first H/W/S match, a 2-1 defeat to Lenape Valley.
The team started slowly, 0-2-1, but then caught fire. They got a measure of redemption for one of their earlier setbacks, when they whitewashed Gill St.Bernard's 2-0 on Thursday afternoon in Gladstone. Erin Catterson scored the Belvidere goals, both assisted by senior sparkplug Jessie Sharr. Taylor Pryslak handled the shutout in goal.
The Saints edged Belvidere 3-2 in overtime earlier this fall.
Like President Obama in his debate, Elvis did not have his "A-game" performance in picking last week's games involving Warren County football teams, but is determined to bounce back strongly. Elvis went 3-2, so as a result he is all shook up. For the season Elvis is now 19-6.
Elvis missed by picking Belvidere to beat Jonathan Dayton and Bridgewater to beat Phillipsburg. Just like Mitt Romney regarding his comments about the 47 percent, if Elvis is looking for any sympathy, he isn't getting any. His letter of apology to the Stateliners' coaching staff came back marked Return to Sender.
Elvis correctly picked the Dodgers from Morris County to do the Madison at Hackettstown, Montgomery to outscore Warren Hills and Mountain Lakes to defeat North Warren, as unpleasant as it was to go against the home teams. Don't be cruel, Elvis, to a heart that's true.
Belvidere lost at home to a team that was 1-3. You're killing me, Belvidere, killing me, Elvis lamented. As long as nobody steps on his blue suede shoes, Elvis will fire away with his pigskin prophecies for week six.
Belvidere at Manville
Big Red (2-3) travels down Route 31 and 22 to Manville to face the Mustangs (0-4) in a Friday night shindig.
Why do they even bother turning the lights on at Manville? The usual family and friends who go to see them could just as easily attend Saturday afternoon games which would be more energy saving and cost effective, Elvis declared. "Like gross me out, gag me with a spoon," Moon Unit Zappa added.
Belvidere 38-7.
Hunterdon Central at Phillipsburg
The Red Devils with a deceiving 2-3 record come up to Maloney Stadium to take on the revenge-minded Stateliners on Friday evening.
After a good 21-13 win over the Bridgewater Panthers, the Stateliners have their mojo back, but they now face a talented Hunterdon Central team that played Elizabeth very tough and pounded Westfield.
The Red Devils have had the Liners' number the last few years, home or away.
Hunterdon Central 22-21.
Hackettstown at Dover
Elvis consulted with his trucker friend Road Rover, coming down Route 46 in a convoy, concerning Friday's battle of the Tigers between the 3-2 Hackettstown Tigers and 1-4 Dover Tigers, who beat Kittatinny and lost to some tough teams. Elvis was not sure who to pick since Hackettstown is going on the road.
"Road Rover, Road Rover, come over, come over," Elvis said, "what's your copy on Friday night's game between Hackettstown and Dover?"
"Hackettstown will roll over Dover."
That's a big 10-4 good buddy. Hackettstown 24-7.
Rahway at Warren Hills
The Rahway Indians bring a 3-2 record and balanced offense to 2-3 Warren Hills Friday night. If Travis Hepworth is good to go, the Blue Streaks could send their homeys home happy.
Rahway hammered Hillside and Governor Livingston and played Delaware Valley, an offensive machine, very tough.
Rahway 28-21.
North Warren at Boonton
The Patriots travel east on I-80 to take on the Bombers in Rootin-Tootin Boonton (pronounced Bootin by the natives) on Friday evening.
The 2-3 Bombers, who have lost to teams that 3-2 North Warren has beaten, will probably be "bootin" a lot of punts to the Patriots. North Warren will probably launch a few Patriot Missiles.
North Warren 35-13.
Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building.


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June 6, 2012
E-Blast highlights upcoming activities, legal information and links to the Bar's website at www.scbar.org.
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Government Law Section Mid-Year Update
Each year, the Government Law Section strives to present information that is both timely and useful for local government attorneys. This year's update offers several thought-provoking topics, including a segment on substance abuse issues in the legal profession. This segment has been approved by the S.C. Supreme Court Commission on CLE for one hour of instruction devoted to substance abuse/mental health, required at least once every three years for practicing attorneys. Don't miss out on this informative and entertaining seminar. Register now!
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The Alimony Calculator 2011, Version 1.0 includes the 2006 DSS Guidelines, the 2010 S.C. tax rates and the 2011 Federal tax rates for easy reference. It calculates each spouse's net disposable income after factoring in child support, income taxes, FICA/Medicare taxes and other obligations of the parties so that the practitioner or judge will know how much each party will have to live on each month. How else could you possibly know what is a fair amount of alimony?
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S.C. Bar Real Estate Workshop
Family Court Mediation Training
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Clarence Darrow: Crimes, Causes and the Courtroom, June 13
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A View From the Bench featuring Chief Justice Jean H. Toal
DUI: Reflections From 35 Years and Where We're Headed featuring Ronnie Cole
Case Law Update featuring Amie Clifford and Joseph McCulloch Jr.
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Regions Bank v. Covington featuring Daryl G. Hawkins
Applying the New Joint and Several Liability Statute--The Charleston Nine Litigation featuring David Whittington
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The S.C. Bankruptcy Practice Manual, Updated Second Edition by Janice M. Baker, C. Jennalyn Dalrymple and Lydia A. Eloff
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Info on bikeways, trails to be presented at open housesJuly 8th, 2014 at 10:34 am by manettenewbold under Latest Posts
The following public information sessions for the Bikeways & Trails Facility Plan will take place as a series of open house events:
- Tuesday, July 8, 2014: 5-7 p.m. at the Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors NW
- Wednesday, July 9, 2014: 5-7 p.m. at the Jerry Cline Tennis Complex, Louisiana and Constitution
- Friday, July 11, 2014: 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Special Collections Library, 423 Central Ave NE
The ideas and recommendations that have been developed throughout the planning process will be on display and members of the planning team will be on-hand to answer questions from the community. A brief presentation will begin at 5:30 p.m. during the evening sessions.
Everyone with an interest in the future development of trails and bikeways is encouraged to come to the open house, view the recommendations and proposed trails, bike lanes, and routes and ask questions or offer comments in anticipation of submitting the plan for adoption this summer.


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To the editor,
In regard to Canada Post, obviously we need someone in charge who would improve service, not destroy it – find a replacement.
There seems to be lots of mail to deliver. I see carriers with two full mail bags and see them stopping at drop-off boxes for more.
In this country there are many seniors and many handicapped people who would find it difficult to walk for their mail.
The present government is out of touch with the ordinary people in this country. You can't buy land, install and service and maintain drop-off boxes for nothing. I would have thought a practical approach would have been to deliver mail on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
It was the fault of the post office for letting strikes go on for extended periods that gave rise to many couriers and lost business. After the next election, one of the present opposition parties will run the government and try to correct the mistakes of the present regime.
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KALAMAZOO — When Bob Medema became acquainted with the Reed family in the mid-1980s as they frequented his antique shop, he hadn't a clue that more than 20 years later he'd be receiving Christmas cards with the news that all three Reed children would compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The Reed children — Cathy, 22, Chris, 20, and Allison, 15 — will all compete in the ice dancing competition in Vancouver.
Cathy and Chris were born in Kalamazoo and some locals remember their parents, Robert and Noriko, as kind people with an eye for architecture and antiques.
"To think that she still keeps contact…" Medema said of Noriko while holding the card with photos of the siblings in full costume, gliding on the ice.
"Even their grandma from Japan's been here," Medema said.
The Reed siblings, whose father is American and mother is Japanese, have dual citizenship, allowing Chris and Cathy to skate for Japan.
Allison will represent the former Soviet republic of Georgia, the home country of her partner Otar Japaridze.
The family now lives in Warren, N.J.
Noriko sends Medema the updates every holiday, not an uncommon thing for the owner of Emporium, a shop that has operated in Kalamazoo for 42 years.
"We get to know most of our customers. We're not just clerks that take your money," said Dave Cretsinger, Medema's employee of 38 years.
Medema said he met Robert, or "Bob," when he first moved to Kalamazoo in 1986. Bob was a salesman for The Upjohn Co., which is now Pfizer, but was also a savvy buyer, Medema said.
"They caught on quick to the better furniture. Everything they bought was the best you could buy," Medema said, looking at old sales records.
Medema called the Reeds a "very well respected" family. They lived in Kalamazoo from 1986 to 1989, according to his sales records. After living in Japan and Australia, Medema said they returned to Kalamazoo for two years in 1996, at which time they rented a unit at Candlewyck Apartments.
In the 1980s, the Reeds lived at 219 Rose Place, in a Queen Anne Victorian home.
Their landlords, Rodger Parzyck, now the owner of The Heritage Co., and Lia Gaggino, a local pediatrician, remember the couple.
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To the Editor of THE EAGLE:
I was greatly disappointed in Ruth Bass' column ("Tough going in hearing prize novel," July 7) regarding Donna Tartt's beautifully written novel ... which she never actually mentions by name.
"The Goldfinch" was a very special reading experience for me, as a sometime writer -- fabulous use of language, unique plot to build this story around, and compelling twists to keep in moving along.
Unlike Ms. Bass, who seems distracted by having to go disc-by-disc, I was reading it on my Kindle and couldn't wait to buy the hard copy so I could go back over some wonderful passages. The Pulitzer Prize said it all!


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3 p.m. Sat. St. Johns Booksellers, 8622 N. Lombard St.; free; 503-283-0032
Joe McCray reads from, discusses and signs copies of his recently published novels: "Murder at the Thorn Tree Hotel," "Elusive Wisdom" and "The Wisdom of Rain."
10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat. TaborSpace, 5441 S.E. Belmont St.; free admission; http://taborspace.org or 503-238-3904
The third annual open house begins at 10 a.m. with kids activities and continues with live music, square dancing, wellness activities and more. A barbecue will be available (for donations).
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat. Portland Community College Sylvania campus, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave.; $5 donation for admission, free parking in Lots 9 and 11; araboregon.org
Arab cuisine, arts and crafts are highlighted at this family festival. Also henna painting, music, dance, a bazaar and children's activities. In the Performing Arts Center Lobby and Courtyard.
2 p.m. Sun. Annie Bloom's Books, 7834 S.W. Capitol Highway; free; annieblooms.com or 503-246-0053
The store celebrates the book "The Hobbit" on it's 75th anniversary of publication. Take part in crafts, trivia and Hobbity treats.
5:30 p.m. Sun. Lloyd Center Ice Rink, 953 Lloyd Center; free for spectators; evergreencurling.org or 503-288-6073
Evergreen Curling Club takes a trip in the way-back machine for a look at the history of curling in Portland. Watch as teams at all levels take part in a team skills competition. After the games is a '60s-themed potluck with casseroles and Jell-O salads. Dress in '60s clothing to really get in the spirit. Space is limited for players; see website.
6:30 p.m. Tue. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 S.W. Halsey St., Troutdale; free; oregonencyclopedia.org or 503-725-3990
"Along the Sandy: Our Nikkei Neighbors." The history of Japanese American families living in east Multnomah County prior to WWII, their internment during the war years, and those who served in the armed forces. Presented by Clarence Mershon, past president of the Crown Point Country Historical Society. All ages welcome. Bring a canned good to donate to SnowCap Community Charities.
7 p.m. Thu. McMenamins Kennedy School, 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave.; free; mcmenamins.com or 503-249-3983
Rich West Blatt & the Once in a While Sky will join WhistlePunk for a night of free Americana rock music. All ages welcome. In the Gymnasium


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The Haas School of Business and the School of Public Health offer a 2 1/2-year MBA/MPH concurrent degree program. In this highly rated program, students take courses in both schools and receive a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) and a Master's in Public Health (MPH). In 2010, the Berkeley MBA was ranked #7, while the MPH program was ranked #9 by US News & World Report.
The MPH gives students an excellent background in statistics, epidemiology, health systems, and policy/regulatory environments. The MBA provides background in accounting, finance, economics, and other fields essential to management. The combination of the two degrees ensures that students are truly prepared for a long and successful career in health management. The program is unique in that the integration between the two degrees is real and not just on paper. The Graduate Program in Health Management (GPHM) works closely with students and faculty from both schools to assure a relatively seamless, integrated program of study.
Students come to the program with an average of five years of health-related work experience, and have made a substantial commitment to the industry by entering the 2 1/2-year program. Leveraging the specialized curriculum and the opportunity to do two summer internships, graduates of the dual degree program are prepared for leadership roles. During the dual degree program's 27-year history, graduates have gone on to hold senior management positions in biotechnology, health technology and medical device firms, pharmaceuticals, managed care and insurance companies, consulting firms, healthcare delivery systems, and international development agencies. Some have gone on to start their own firms. The breadth of the program enables students to pursue a myriad of career opportunities across the healthcare spectrum.
GPHM believes that a well-rounded, holistic education in management and policy issues in the health industry is the best training for tomorrow's leaders. Consequently, the MBA/MPH dual degree is designed to provide students with a holistic view of health and healthcare. The program's curriculum is in sync with the broader global debate on how national and private health systems should be designed, paid for, and delivered. Health management classes encourage discussion by comparing diverse and often contradictory perspectives across the health industry.
Students pursue their specific interests within the broader health industry by taking targeted classes and participating in extracurricular activities, for example:
- Students interested in learning how biotechnology innovation succeeds in the marketplace chose the Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology class at Haas. This interdisciplinary class brings together students from diverse graduate programs and uses a project-based approach to learning the tools of launching a biotech/medical device company.
- Students interested in learning about the management challenges experienced by senior leaders of a healthcare firm have the opportunity to do so in a small group setting. Many leading Bay Area healthcare organizations are members of the GPHM's Corporate Advisory Board, and students have access to the senior leadership via biannual small group roundtables.
This is just two of the many classroom and extracurricular activities offered to MBA/MPH students towards enriching their time at Berkeley.
- Small class size: On average, 15 students enroll in the MBA/MPH program each year. The small class size both facilitates a collaborative and discussion-oriented classroom atmosphere and strengthens relationships between the peer group.
- Career advice: Students can make use of career resources and counselors for general MBA and MPH students at the Haas School and the School of Public Health.
- Strength and diversity of MPH program: The MPH program at Berkeley is one of the oldest in the country and is a consistent top-ten national program. The program is structured to provide an interdisciplinary and broad-based perspective on health and is composed of seven divisions: biostatistics, community health and human development, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health policy and management, and infectious diseases. Dual degree students can take a broad array of MPH classes from those divisions that fit with their personal and professional interests.
- Interaction with healthcare experts: Dual degree students have a high level of interaction with Berkeley's foremost health experts. For instance, MBA/MPH students are required to take a class with Dr. Stephen Shortell, the former dean of the School of Public Health called Strategic Management of Health Services. Dr. Shortell is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor on Health Policy and Management and a Professor of Organizational Behavior. He is an expert on organized health delivery systems in the United States. He has done extensive research on institutional incentives for improving quality of care and health outcomes, particularly when related to the management of patients with chronic illness. He is also an expert on health industry mergers, acquisitions and consolidations. He has received numerous awards including the Gold Medal from the American College of Healthcare Executives in 1998.
- Strength and depth of alumni network: With the dual degree program moving past its 30th year, MBA/MPH alumni occupy leadership positions with some of foremost health industry employers. In addition, due to the intentionally-small class size, many alumni feel strongly about their relationship with subsequent classes of MBA/MPH students. With a number of events structured around networking with alumni, MBA/MPH students have many opportunities to engage with program alumni.
UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Kim MacPherson
Associate Director, Graduate Program in Health Management
Haas School of Business
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It's a plodding, derivative gothic potboiler: The Shining meets Coraline, with a touch of Gremlins played (boringly) straight.
Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
What they're after is clear from the film's gruesome prologue; what they look like is withheld until long after we have ceased to care.
Jeannette Catsoulis - New York Times
Don't worry about fearing darkness, but beware horror flicks that trot out every hoary cliche.
Claudia Puig - USA Today
While there are moments of eldritch atmosphere and a few pro forma jolts, nothing here justifies our attention, let alone the film's inexplicable R rating.
Ty Burr - Boston Globe
If the grand finale isn't as resonantly scary as the original's, maybe that's just because, try though we might, we're no longer impressionable kids.
Chuck Wilson - Village Voice
If you flinch at "boo," you'll find plenty to jump at here. Just don't expect striking originality, or even genuinely memorable eeriness.
Elizabeth Weitzman - New York Daily News
Mr. Nixey is doing an Alfred Hitchcock homage within a movie lacking anything as subversive, or skilled, as Hitchcock.
John Anderson - Wall Street Journal
The film looks good, it sounds great (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders' score is full of darkly murmuring woodwinds), and Madison is a pip of a lead.
Amy Biancolli - Houston Chronicle
...the moviemakers are refurbishing an older, shabbier piece of workmanship -- and it's a welcome enough place to stay for a few hours.
James Rocchi - MSN Movies
This is a very good haunted house film. It milks our frustration deliciously.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
While director Nixey has talent, his indiscriminately roving camera tends to diffuse the tension, not heighten it.
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
The remake plays like a shallower, more cliched variation on his masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, but its mix of gory effects and deliciously old-fashioned visuals make for a classy, scary horror show.
Michael Wilmington - Chicago Reader
Joltingly graphic and atmospheric (Nixey and his crew at least know how to set up a few good shocks), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark fails to involve us in any meaningful way with its characters.
Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
As a horror film should be, it's gruesome, tension-filled and you can't tear your eyes from the screen. But it's also cruel, quite depressing and utterly sad.
Colin Covert - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Nixey does a nice job of creating a weird, menacing world.
Bill Goodykoontz - Arizona Republic
After announcing he was no longer directing The Hobbit, Mr. Del Toro sustained a blow to his post-Pan's Labyrinth armor, and this washout brings him one step closer to full career rupture.
Melissa Lafsky - New York Observer
A suspenseful yet markedly less insidious update.
Peter Debruge - Variety
"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" will turn your nerve endings to Popsicles.
Kyle Smith - New York Post
The new version of "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" is entirely too literal, but it still manages to be a literally hair-raising piece of modern-style old school Gothic horror.
Roger Moore - Orlando Sentinel
This artless film even approaches child abuse, in the way it crassly reconfigures the protagonist from the besieged adult woman of the original into a neglected and terrified tot.
Peter Howell - Toronto Star
A welcome alternative to the current genre offerings, steeped in old-fashioned atmosphere and faithful to haunted house routine, albeit to a fault.
William Goss - Film.com
This is still a seriously entertaining horror movie, one that will please newcomers as well as fans of the original oddity.
Matthew Hays - Globe and Mail
This is an above-average horror flick by any measure, nicely directed by del Toro protege Troy Nixey in an atmospheric, unshowy style that recalls cheapo '70s cinema without mimicking it.
Andrew O'Hehir - Salon.com
Nixey steeps everything in a surfeit of atmosphere. It overflows. It suffuses every frame. It seeps off the screen and into the auditorium.
James Berardinelli - ReelViews
A scary film where the scares peter out far too quickly.
Kirk Honeycutt - Hollywood Reporter
The tension del Toro and Nixey create promises much more than it delivers.
David Germain - Associated Press
The film never takes hold emotionally, despite strong work from Holmes and young Madison. With Del Toro's name in the credits, standard chills aren't enough.
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," expands upon the creepy and effective TV movie from 1973.
Richard Roeper - Richard Roeper.com
I do hope that "Don't" doesn't do Nixey in, as he has a real knack for staging high anxiety. For Del Toro, the question is, what happened?
Betsy Sharkey - Los Angeles Times
The thoroughly unsympathetic protagonist aside, "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" just isn't that frightening.
Martin Tsai - Critic's Notebook
There's a simple sense of old-fashioned restraint that makes Sally's dark journey a little bit quiet, but also subtly satisfying.
Scott Weinberg
Straddled uncomfortably between its modest premise and reckless CGI abandon.
Sean Burns - Philadelphia Weekly
If the scares aren't all quite as effective as the rest of the film, then there's still plenty to tickle the nerves of a less jaded horror fan.
Glenn Dunks - Trespass
Completists of del Toro will want to check it out as a curio but it's hard to imagine general audiences or even horror fans finding anything here they haven't seen before.
Cory Everett - The Playlist
Guillermo del Toro's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is as murky and ill-conceived as its multitude of dimly-lit corners,
Amy Curtis - We Got This Covered
Brent Simon - Shared Darkness
Richard Roeper - ReelzChannel.com
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark might not play as well for adults, but younger audiences (namely preteens) will likely enjoy the hell out of this one.
R. L. Shaffer - IGN DVD
With the exception of the opening segment this remake can't hold a candle to its chintzy but decidedly more satisfying forebear.
Richard Knight - Knight at the Movies
In this hyperactive digital age, "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" is almost antiquated in its approach to horror. And that is its greatest strength.
Greg Maki - Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
Every week, it seems, I watch a remake, or a 'reimagining,' of a feature film that didn't need to be remade. Now here's a remake of, I swear, a made-for-TV movie (starring Kim Darby, incidentally) from the 1970s.
Linda Cook - KWQC-TV (Iowa)
ola exoyne mia safh epirroh apo Spielberg thn opoia o Nixey denei sxedon arista me to gotthiko, zwntano arxontiko poy eixe sto myalo toy, asxeta an parallhla se aifnidiazei me th.. mh Del Toro-ikothta toy
Joseph Proimakis - Movies for the Masses
It's not a question of whether the dark is something worth being afraid of, but whether or not it will actually put you to sleep.
Tom Clift - Moviedex
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is horror by-the-numbers. Parts of it are effectively chilling, and the performances are fine, but there's no sense of reality.
Paul Byrnes - Sydney Morning Herald
A remake of a film del Toro says frightened him as a child, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark suffers from a very grown-up need to answer all the questions and the result is more Gremlins than Grimm.
Dale Rolfe - MovieFIX
The notion that cliches become cliches because they work every time is writ large in Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, a film that does everything right but nothing new.
Simon Foster - sbs.com.au
The formula is all too predictably followed
Andrew L. Urban - Urban Cinefile
There are a few genuine scares in this fantasy horror movie produced and co-written by Guillermo del Toro, although it smacks of melodrama and manipulation
Louise Keller - Urban Cinefile
Dont Be Afraid Of The Dark will remind viewers to tuck their feet in at night but is unlikely to terrify any hardcore horror fans.
- Film4
The irony, of course, is that you should be afraid of the dark. And you will be, after watching this scary horror film.
Roz Laws - Birmingham Post
A film that'll give you second thoughts about relocating to that country pile.
Calvin Baxter - SFX Magazine
It's watchable enough and elegantly staged, but it's an Amityville Horror with delusions of grandeur.
Philip French - Observer [UK]
Del Toro's influence is apparent in the CGI of the bulbous-headed goblins, but the story has none of the shiver-inducing otherness of Pan's Labyrinth.
Anthony Quinn - Independent
Decently produced and acted, and the demons are creepy - but this is no Pan's Labyrinth and ends up a mite predictable.
Derek Malcolm - This is London
The old dark house is exactly the sort of place where you'd expect scary things to happen. The only trouble is that the monsters are cute rather than scary.
David Edwards - Daily Mirror [UK]
Though artfully shot, the set up never threatens to develop any real tension.
Graham Young - Birmingham Mail
You'll never think of the Tooth Fairy in the same way again after seeing this.
Christopher Tookey - Daily Mail [UK]
A minor Del Toro, perhaps, but a must for his fans.
Peter Bradshaw
All told, it's about as scary as The Tigger Movie.
Tim Robey - Daily Telegraph
It's more silly than scary with not enough plot and surprise but the cast are good.
Henry Fitzherbert - Daily Express
Firmly old school in its feel, this has plenty of hide-behind-your-hands moments...
Tim Evans - Digital Spy
Boasting some impressive visual effects, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is nicely acted, atmospheric and genuinely creepy in places, but it's ultimately let down by some weak plotting and the fact that it plays its hand too early...
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark is all-encapsulatingly scary, but not perhaps in the way you might have expected.
Sam Bathe - Fan The Fire
There is so much here that one admires, one wishes that there was more to love.
Nigel Floyd - Time Out
A satisfying, well-crafted supernatural horror movie, refreshingly retro in its Gothic trappings. It won't traumatise a generation, but it certainly delivers the shivers.
- Empire Magazine
Well-crafted and ambitious, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark doesn't quite click.
Robert Denerstein - Movie Habit
An intimate ankle biter vs. ankle biters battle of flashbulbs, sharp things, and suspense.
Kevin A. Ranson - MovieCrypt.com
The design is key here. The huge house, as well as some haunting artwork, adds character and a slightly otherworldly mood.
Jeffrey M. Anderson - Common Sense Media
If you like creepy movies that are a bit grisly, this is better than most films of this ilk. All the talent that went into this does show.
Robert Roten - Laramie Movie Scope
A rather yawning exercise in genre literalism; the general feeling that emerges is that something much more interesting could have been done with the same concept.
Brent Simon - Screen International
Del Toro rounded out and deepened the backstory from the original, but it's still a pretty simple horror movie...spooky atmosphere is just right -- even if he does give away too much of the creatures too soon.
Eric Melin - Scene-Stealers.com
The monsters show a definite affection for knives and razors and scissors, all the better to slash and penetrate their victims.
Cynthia Fuchs - PopMatters
More interested in creeping you out than it is in making you jump or wince.
Ken Hanke - Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The surroundings made the movie and gave it an eerie effect, but overall the storyline lacked substance to be a true horror film.
Jolene Mendez - Entertainment Spectrum
A movie painted in oils but written in crayon.
Ed Whitfield - The Ooh Tray
The plot plays like a humorless remix of Coraline and Gremlins, with the predictable human interactions dragging the story down. But that doesn't mean it isn't creepy.
Jeff Meyers - Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
With Nixey directing and Del Toro writing/producing, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark drips with fiendish fun from creators who adore things that go bump in the night.
Sean Edgar - Paste Magazine
... more laughable than scary ...
Jim Lane - Sacramento News & Review
There's a lot more territory here that could have been mined but wasn't, which is a shame. But for those just looking to be scared the old fashioned way, Dark delivers.
Brett McCracken - Christianity Today
The entire picture has a perfect balance, and is a great way to usher in the fall.
Grae Drake - Movies.com
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark doesn't fully exploit its R rating and leaves you a bit frustrated. But there is enough promise and lush style on display to make me seek out Nixey's next film.
Beth Accomando - KPBS.org
Forget the Freudian analysis ... All you want to know: Is it scary? Yes, especially when Sally ducks under the sheets and comes nose-to-nose with the gnome leader. Think "Sixth Sense" scary ...
Glenn Lovell - CinemaDope
It's like a kitchen that smells amazing, but every time you take a bite of food, it's completely flavorless.
Jeff Bayer - The Scorecard Review
'How many quarts of Haagen-Dazs can I throw up into that bottomless hole?' Katie asked.
Mark Ramsey - MovieJuice!
the best scenes are those that rely entirely on suggestion, giving us the impression of presence without actually showing us anything, and they become unfortunately less and less frequent as the film moves along
James Kendrick - Q Network Film Desk
The finale doesn't live up to the first act, but still a nice old-fashioned horror story with plenty of atmosphere.
Scott Nash - Three Movie Buffs
It's as creepy as it needs to be, and not even remotely as creepy as its asinine R-rating would indicate, and it's pretty shallow beyond that.
Tim Brayton - Antagony & Ecstasy
The three main characters are gloomy and brooding and that affects the movie. There's too much brooding and not enough fear.
Jackie K. Cooper - jackiekcooper.com
Does an admirable job maintaining an ominous tone, and young Bailee Madison gives a natural, unaffected central performance.
Eric D. Snider - EricDSnider.com
...a lot of the scares are basically Horror Movie 101. I would LOVE to have seen what del Toro would do with it.
Michael A. Smith - MediaMikes
By the end of the film, the impressively realized creatures have been revealed in so much detail that we recognize them to be assignments from an artist's workshop and computer, not escapees from a nightmare.
John Beifuss - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark might not make viewers forget the television original they grew up with, but has enough under the skin creepiness to entertain those simply looking for a good fright at the movie theatre.
Diva Velez - TheDivaReview.com
In the 99 very slow minutes an expected jump or two is about all you get. And they're not even that good.
Gary Wolcott - Tri-City Herald
The muted photography, which already looks as if it's been blown up for a drive-in screen, joins together with the loud bass-violin score to produce something amusingly retro.
Rob Gonsalves - eFilmCritic.com
a considerable achievement for a first-time director - but while [Nixey] makes a convincing mimic of the del Toro style, he fails to import the sort of political allegory that gives the Mexican director's other works their real substance.
Anton Bitel - Little White Lies
Suspenseful and scary, this remake is filled with spooky, supernatural terror.
Susan Granger - SSG Syndicate
Blends together a psychological fairy tale with a horror story that has aesthetic value but never hits one in the guts to make you wince.
Dennis Schwartz - Ozus' World Movie Reviews
craftily pushes the audience's emotional buttons in visceral ways that deftly heighten the supernatural embellishments
Andrea Chase - Killer Movie Reviews
It's got some good performances, stylish set design and piecemeal treats, but they never add up to a cumulative chill. Honestly, the most horrifying thing about it is its use of Comic Sans in the end credits.
Nick Rogers - Suite101.com
Fine performances, a wonderful gothic look, and frightening creatures contribute to the scare factor of this quality horror movie.
Betty Jo Tucker - ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Horror fans can look past a whole lot of stupidity in their favorite genre. But Don't Be Afraid of the Dark simply asks too much of us.
Christian Toto - What Would Toto Watch?
There's scary to be found in this premise, but there's none to be found in the film itself.
Matthew Razak - Flixist.com
There are Gothic elements that work, but the story simply isn't strong enough to support a remake and lackluster direction fails to iron out the flaws in this potential horror hit.
Brian Tallerico - The Deadbolt
Much like its pedestrian title, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark fails to really scare.
Jane Stevenson - Jam! Movies
Occasional visitors into the haunted house fray may want to peek their head in, if only to see how quickly they peek out.
Erik Childress - eFilmCritic.com
The key decision in a film like this is how soon to reveal the monsters, and how clearly to show them. Usually the more you see them the less terrifying they get to be, although these rodent-like creatures remain pretty fearsome...
Leonard Maltin - Leonard Maltin's Picks
It relies on cliche, but director Troy Nixey gives us enough teases and frights.
Willie Waffle - WaffleMovies.com
'Dark' falls into many trappings that ruin a horror movie: Characters who stupidly refuse to leave a haunted house? Check! All gloss and no scares? Check! A spooky brunette child? Check! Previews that are better than the movie? Check!
Clay Cane - BET.com
Despite a handful of hiccups and a smattering of cliches, it does exactly what it sets out to do: It ratchets up the tension, then sustains it for an hour and a half.
Mike Scott - Times-Picayune
Decent, but not consistently strong and -- at least in the case of our screening -- ruined by an obnoxious audience that didn't fully understand what sort of pic they were really seeing. (Full Content Parental Review also available)
Jim Judy - Screen It!
One creepy little movie.
Jonathan W. Hickman - Daily Film Fix
Maybe it's not one of his very best haunted house stories, but it's del Toro, so it's still entertaining.
Eric Goldman - IGN Movies
Be 'Afraid' Be Very Afraid
James Verniere - Boston Herald
The scariest aspect might be Guy Pearce's black hair dye, which appears to have been sprayed on a la one of those old TV after-midnight infomercials.
Brandon Judell - CultureCatch
"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" quickly loses steam when the creatures are fully visible and make frequent appearances.
David Kaplan - Kaplan vs. Kaplan
Despite all the care that has been put into it, the film doesn't transcend its dime-store horror roots.
Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald
It's all very good-looking and you don't need gore to sell a good horror flick, but you do need something in its place, like suspense. You won't be afraid of this film.
Shaun Munro - What Culture
A delightfully spooky funhouse, more than up to the challenge of ushering the summer of 2011 to a close.
Rob Vaux - Mania.com
It effectively exploits our primal suspicions that there might be something under the bed and that our houses do not go to sleep when we do.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
Heavy on atmosphere but light on scares.
Thomas Leupp - Hollywood.com
The season's scariest horror film - and, depending on what the next few months bring, perhaps the year's.
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
Provides some old-school scares that may well leave you listening for skittering sounds every night for the rest of your life.
Will Harris - Bullz-Eye.com
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark is a lyrical, stunning-looking film, that's entertaining, with a sense of fun, a rich mythology and a few great moments but essentially it's nothing you haven't seen before.
- Total Film
A little creepy, a little goofy, and a lot like Gremlins.
Tricia Olszewski - Washington City Paper
In its best moments, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark resembles a modern version of an original Grimm's fairy tale.
Ethan Alter - Television Without Pity
It's not awful, this Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, but the world is already full-to-bursting with not-awful.
Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central
Works its way under the skin with a sophistication not often seen anymore in today's horror pictures.
Dustin Putman
Lush and creepy, this traditional haunted-house film becomes repetitive during its second half.
Sarah Sluis - Film Journal International
While not as instantly white-knuckle scary as one might hope, director Troy Nixey's monsters deliver a creepiness that lingers in the mind.
Luke Y. Thompson - E! Online
If Gollum and the Tooth Fairy got together and spawned a horde of young'uns, they might resemble the terrible little creatures here...
Josh Larsen - LarsenOnFilm
There's no denying that his latest monsters are imaginative and detailed creations, but the haunted house-style story is hampered by his desire to show them off.
Ian Buckwalter - NPR
Provides more than enough dread, accentuated by the chilling clickety-clack of little beasts waiting to strike, to turn nonsense into nightmares.
Matt Pais - RedEye
Just when you thought the housing market couldn't get more frightening, along comes Guillermo del Toro to shiver more timbers.
Randy Myers - Contra Costa Times
This old school monster movie from producer Guillermo del Toro is well-shot and well-acted, but its creatures, like its title, are frightfully innocuous.
Joe Lozito - Big Picture Big Sound
If there's one big flaw with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, it's that in 2011, there's only so long that we can watch movie characters face the perils of a haunted house without thinking, "GET OUT ALREADY!"
Alonso Duralde
This inventive horror film plays to our deepest childhood fears. It's like a demented variation on The Borrowers, and first-rate acting and effects work combine to thoroughly creep us out.
Rich Cline - Shadows on the Wall
It's the sort of movie that leaves you more impressed with artistry than moved to poop by the proceedings.
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
Though Nixey carries it across with some style, some intensity, and some graphic imagination, the whole isn't quite the sum of its somes.
Scott Tobias - AV Club
Looming mansions, dour little girls, and things that go bump in the night... what's not to love?
Marc Savlov - Austin Chronicle
The fun kind of horror movie - scary, and violent, and dark as you like, but not mean, if you get me.
Eugene Novikov - Film Blather
While the end of "Don't Be Afraid" is creepy, it's far from emotionally satisfying.
Tom Keogh - Seattle Times
Far from scary, these little nasties move between unintentionally funny and obnoxious.
Mark Dujsik - Mark Reviews Movies
reverent, respectful...and relatively unnecessary
Bill Gibron - Filmcritic.com
It does a very good job of what it sets out to do, which is to send enough chills down the spines of viewers to make air conditioning in the multiplex superfluous.
Peter Sobczynski - eFilmCritic.com
Del Toro loves his creatures. Maybe he loves them too much: He always wants us to get a good look at them, and that's one of the things that saps the spookiness from this Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
Stephanie Zacharek - Movieline
There's a serious disconnect between the highfalutin atmospherics and the nitty gritty sloppiness of the premise.
Robert Levin - Film School Rejects
If you aren't generally scared by CGI goblins who whisper a lot, the title's warning is sadly unneeded - you won't be afraid of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
Brian Juergens - CampBlood.org
Aimed directly at the classy end of the horror spectrum, Dark derives its R-rated chills less from its occasional bursts of violence than it does from an overriding atmosphere of terror.
Geoff Berkshire - Metromix.com
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark never gets you jumping out of your seat.
Pete Hammond - Boxoffice Magazine
Del Toro's DNA is in here, and fans of his work will feel like they're getting what they want from the movie. It's a nice director/producer relationship, and the result is very strong.
Drew McWeeny - HitFix
What this film really needs is a good exterminator, or a better director.
Alexandra Cavallo - Boston Phoenix
The creatures look and sound completely silly, and instead of scary and dangerous, they just seem goofy.
Josh Bell - Las Vegas Weekly
Lukewarm late-summer horror flick. Too tame to please hardcore horror fans, and too ham-fisted to please anyone else.
Chris Bumbray - JoBlo's Movie Emporium
That creaking sound during Don't Be Afraid of the Dark isn't a door opening ghostly; it's the groaning cliche of a haunted house and stupid people who don't know when to leave.
Steve Persall - Tampa Bay Times
Classic horror fanatics will find plenty to love here, but those suffering from frightfully short attention spans should exercise caution. Dark isn't a thrill ride.
Brian Orndorf - BrianOrndorf.com
Has a certain hokey, old-fashioned charm but otherwise proves pretty bland in today's horror climate.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
Bound to get lodged somewhere deep in your mind as "oh, heck, what was the name of that movie with the girl and the monsters? That one wasn't half bad."
Jordan Hoffman - UGO
When they finally unleash their full power, it's like watching footage of the tsunami: The wave keeps building in intensity and danger beyond what you thought was possible.
Marshall Fine - Hollywood & Fine
Pity that the mythology of the homunculi's existence is as arbitrary as the story's lazy, asinine plotting.
Ed Gonzalez - Slant Magazine
It's always good to watch Katie Holmes, but she can't scare me.
Harvey S. Karten - Compuserve
[VIDEO] "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" is a nuanced horror movie modulated to incur just the right quality of nightmare. You might want to sleep with the light on for a few nights after seeing it.
Cole Smithey - ColeSmithey.com
Though he is the producer and not the director, this supremely mounted if old-fashioned horror movie bears the unmistakable signature of Guillermo del Toro.
Emanuel Levy - EmanuelLevy.Com
'Dark 'is an engaging, well-paced and scary horror film... it's a gateway horror flick, one that will push the younger generation into our sick and twisted world.
Brad Miska - Bloody Disgusting
You definitely get your money's worth in several scenes of full on little armies stabbing and grabbing.
Fred Topel - Screen Junkies


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WEST SPRINGFIELD -- In a precautionary measure, emergency personnel are conducting a mandatory evacuation of homes on Railroad, Bridge and Globe streets this morning as crews prepare to remove a pair of railroad tankers involved in a derailment Thursday evening.
Deputy fire chief Daniel Culver said residents will be asked to temporarily leave their homes in case a problem develops as the tankers are righted. Culver said a hazardous materials team has been monitoring the air and has not detected any signs of leaks.
Around 10 a.m., firefighters were going to houses telling residents a school bus would arrive and take them to West Side Middle School.
As many as 25 to 30 buildings are being evacuated in a section of the city where blue tarps on rooftops still serve as a reminder of the June, 2011 tornado that tore through the neighborhood.
Railroad Street resident Louise Jahr said she had no problem with leaving her home.
"They says it's flammable. That means it's explosive," she said.
Jahr said she and others were told the evacuation would last three or four hours. "They will take care of us," she said.
One of the cars involved in the accident was empty but most recently contained a chemical called ethyl acetate, which is a product used in nail polish remover.
The other car was full of a substance called butyraldehyde that is used in the production of plastics and rubber projects. It is odorless, colorless and flammable.
Officials have no timetable for when the tankers will be righted and removed. "Basically, we are just getting things ready," Culver said Friday morning.
"We are expecting maybe by the end of the day they will have this taken care of, but it's very slow and deliberate," West Springfield mayor Gregory Neffinger said Friday morning.
Emergency personnel working with CSX are still formulating a plan to deal with the tankers, Neffinger said. The two options include lifting the tankers and placing them back on the tracks, or offloading the chemical it into a new tanker.
The tankers are double-walled, and extra precautions are being taken in case an inner wall has ruptured. Neffinger said, however, there is no evidence that has occurred, and there is no evidence of a leak.
CSX is flying in an expert from out of state to conduct an evaluation, Neffinger said.
Emergency personnel plan to set up a command center off Chapin Street.
In the map above, the red line shows the section of Route 5 closed to traffic. The blue lines show streets where homes have been evacuated. View Route 5 closed, West Springfield in a larger map


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