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Commercial projects forge ahead, and though Washington County is not immune to the recession, its population growth will soften the blow
Symptoms of the nation's ailing economy aren't hard to spot in Washington County.
An expansion of Cedar Hills Crossing has slowed, awaiting retail tenants to sign on. Sportsman's Warehouse has dropped a plan to build in Beaverton. A parcel of land, envisioned as the future home of a grocery store and other retail, remains vacant along busy Tualatin Valley Highway in Hillsboro.
But other notable commercial projects, particularly ones that gained momentum before the recession deepened, continue to move forward. Among those are Progress Ridge Town Square in Beaverton, The Hotel and Shoppes at Bridgeport in Tualatin and Wal-Mart in Cornelius.
"A lot of the construction you're seeing now was planned years ago," said Mike Williams, an independent commercial real estate analyst who also teaches at Portland State University. In recent recessions, retail markets haven't suffered deeply. "We think this is the downturn that's really going to hit retail hard."
Vacancy rates are rising and sales are dipping locally, particularly for stores that carry non-necessities. "We're still not immune to the financial crisis that's hitting everybody," said Matthew Johnson, a research associate at Cushman & Wakefield of Oregon Inc.
Although the Portland area still ranks among the nation's best for investing in commercial office space, that side of the commercial market has been softer for a few years as businesses shrink or put off expansion, several analysts reported.
Nevertheless, Williams and other analysts said, Washington County retailers are perhaps in a better position to weather this recession than many other areas. Among factors in the county's favor: Its population is expected to grow 9.5 percent between 2008 and 2013 -- nearly twice the rate expected nationally, according to data Johnson provided.
In Sherwood, national retailers are snapping up spots along major roadways, while the former farming community's core soon could be a downtown destination with a new plaza and other developments.
Farther west, Wal-Mart is expected to break ground in Cornelius this year. While the retailer's long-delayed arrival in the county poses a risk for direct competitors, City Manager Dave Waffle hopes customer traffic will make the city a shopping destination and lure other businesses.
"This gives us a real nice chance to freshen up our image," Waffle said.
And while the recession idles some bulldozers, planners are looking toward the next boom.
"It's an opportune time to go out and prepare for the economic recovery, which will occur -- sooner rather than later, we hope," said Colin Cooper, Hillsboro's current planning supervisor. "We think the future's very bright for this area."
The following is a sampling of Washington County commercial projects or properties with local or regional significance.
1) Wal-Mart (Cornelius): A 154,000-square-foot supercenter is scheduled to open in 2010 and employ 300 to 350 people.
2) Reserve Plaza (Hillsboro): This 7-acre site, bisected by Southeast 70th Avenue, sits along Tualatin Valley Highway. It could fit a modest-sized grocery store and smaller sites such as restaurants. The economy, and perhaps questions about the area's future development, has made the sales job tougher, said Nick Stanton, a broker with Commercial Realty Advisors Northwest.
3) Kaiser Permanente hospital (Hillsboro): Construction on the long-awaited hospital will begin this year, and the facility will open its 126 beds in 2013. The hospital will bring more than 1,100 Kaiser employees to the Northwest Evergreen Parkway location. Colin Cooper, the city's current planning supervisor, expects Kaiser's $242 million project to spur additional commercial investment.
4) Progress Ridge Town Square (Beaverton): The shopping center is expected to open by next year, with key anchors New Seasons Market, Cinetopia theater, Big Al's bowling and entertainment center and Gold's Gym. The center will have more than 300,000 square feet and buildings along Southwest Barrows Road. Other likely tenants include retailers, restaurants and medical and professional offices, said Matt Grady, project coordinator for Gramor Development in Tualatin.
5) West Village (North of U.S. 26): Developer Bruce Wood said he is still fielding serious inquiries but has yet to lock in the two anchor tenants he needs to start building up to 300,000 square feet of stores and offices as the commercial center of the giant Timberland community development. The project on Northwest Barnes Road took a hit when Big Al's decided to build at Progress Ridge, but Wood is undeterred as he tries to attract the right tenant mix.
6) Peterkort Towne Square Too (North of U.S. 26): This 10-acre piece of land, owned by the Peterkort family, is between U.S. 26 and Southwest Barnes Road and across Cedar Hills Boulevard from Peterkort Towne Square. The Towne Square Too site once was sought by Wal-Mart, but that proposal died. The land could hold about 110,000 square feet of retail space.
7) Peterkort Station (North of U.S. 26): This 30-acre site between U.S. 26 and Southwest Barnes Road sits next to Sunset Transit Center on the MAX line, is visible to tens of thousands of drivers daily, is within walking distance to Providence St. Vincent Medical Center and is a quick jaunt from upscale neighborhoods. But Lois Ditmars, president of Peterkort Management Co., said her family is in no hurry to develop until the timing and tenants are perfect.
8) Cedar Hills Crossing expansion (Beaverton): C.E. John Co. of Vancouver hopes to extend the success of Cedars Hill Crossing northward along Southwest Cedar Hills Boulevard, between Jenkins and Walker roads, where largely empty office buildings will be replaced with several new retail buildings, joining Borders, Office Depot and other existing businesses. David Arredondo, C.E. John's vice president for development, said the project has "stalled a bit waiting for (potential) retail tenants to get a little bit more footing."
9) Sportsman's Warehouse (Beaverton): The national retailer won approval to build its first Washington County store at Southwest Canyon Road and 114th Avenue, then pulled out of the project. Nevertheless, Gene Sandquist, a partner with Boise-based property owner Hawkins Companies, said the roughly 4 acres remain a prime spot off Oregon 217. A hotel company and others have expressed interest; no commitments have emerged.
10) Greenwood Inn site redevelopment (Beaverton): The former hotel lies in rubble off Southwest Allen Boulevard near Oregon 217. Howard Dietrich Jr., owner of the 17-acre site, did not return telephone messages to comment for this story, and Beaverton planners say Dietrich has not recently discussed development options with them.
11) Tigard Retail Center: The next big retail development within the Tigard Triangle -- bounded by Oregon highways 99W and 217 and Interstate 5 -- will bring a new Target store and two smaller buildings to Southwest Dartmouth Street, near Costco and WinCo. The shopping center plan totals 161,900 square feet. Also, a handful of new office buildings -- some with small retail aspects -- have attained land-use approval on or near Dartmouth.
12) Triangle Pointe (Tigard): The former call center for Farmers Insurance Group, at Oregon 217 and Interstate 5, spent more than a year on the market before the development arm of West Coast construction giant S.D. Deacon bought the 109,500-square-foot property for a much-reduced $8.5 million. Deacon will renovate it for multiple tenants. Kevin VandenBrink, a broker and principal with Macadam Forbes, said he expects strong interest.
13) The Hotel and Shoppes at Bridgeport (Tualatin): This project, currently under construction near Bridgeport Village, REI and Whole Foods Market, includes a 124-room Phoenix Grand Hotel. The developer, VIPS Industries, is also building a parking garage and three other buildings with a total of 35,000 square feet of retail space. While none of the "shoppes" had been leased as of late February, VIPS President Steve Johnson said he's not concerned because of the area's appeal to retailers. Construction is expected to end in late summer.
14) Nyberg Woods (Tualatin): This shopping center opened in 2007 but won't be complete until Famous Dave's starts serving barbecued ribs and other specialties this spring at its first Oregon restaurant.
15) Sherwood Town Center: This 40-acre shopping area will be built along a future extension of Southwest Adams Avenue at Tualatin-Sherwood Road. Construction on roughly 450,000 square feet of businesses could begin as early as next year if Real Estate Investment Group signs a couple of large tenants, broker George Diamond said. Diamond expects to bring in a supermarket and other retail.
16) Cannery redevelopment (Sherwood): More than 6 acres in the fast-growing city's Old Town will include a public plaza for outdoor gatherings, a machine shop rehabilitated into a community center, a handful of new retail buildings and about 100 apartments. Capstone Partners, the Portland developer leading the $30 million-plus urban renewal district project, could start construction later this year.
Tough times don't slow savvy developers
So at first it seems odd that shopping center developer Fred Bruning would say something so bullish as: "We'd actually like to find more sites."
Bruning, chief executive officer of CenterCal Properties, developer of the Bridgeport Village and Nyberg Woods shopping centers in Tigard and Tualatin, has his eye on a few properties, including the Washington County Fair Complex, should that prime Hillsboro spot ever be redeveloped into a shopping center.
Sure, some of his high-end tenants are suffering as shoppers trim luxuries, but he said the stronger stores still look for ideal locations and will emerge primed from the recession.
The same may be true of shopping center developers, said Craig Sweitzer, who watches local retail development closely as a principal broker with Urban Works Real Estate. Those who have the means and the track records will ride out the storm, while many others won't get financing and will sink, he predicted.
"There's just no capital in the market right now," he said. "Most national retailers are on freeze. They're assessing the market before they make real commitments to move forward."
Bruning's firm has the financial backing of the California State Teachers' Retirement System to invest in new properties, allowing it to put up the 50 percent in equity that he expects banks to demand with new deals. In the past, developers had to bring a 20 percent stake into a project.
In a rough economy like this one, some developers see opportunity. Among them is Steve Johnson, president of VIPS Industries, which is building a Phoenix Grand Hotel and shops near Bridgeport Village.
"When things are very strong," he said, "everybody and their brother thinks they are a hotel developer and restaurant developer."
-- Eric Apalategui, special to The Oregonian

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The Road, for all its vivid desolation, remains a curiously unmoving experience.
Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
The most arresting aspect of The Road is just how fully the filmmakers have realized this bleak, blighted landscape of a modern society reduced to savagery.
A.O. Scott - New York Times
It is an inexpressibly painful subject and Hillcoat has brought it to the screen with great intelligence.
Peter Bradshaw - Guardian [UK]
While the film is not as resonant as the novel, it is an honorable adaptation, capturing the essence of the bond between father and son.
Claudia Puig - USA Today
The Road possesses undeniable sweep and a grim kind of grandeur, but it ultimately plays like a zombie movie with literary pretensions.
Ann Hornaday - Washington Post
In adapting this harsh, unyielding book for the screen, Hillcoat and screenwriter Joe Penhall pull their punches the slightest degree and thus too much.
Ty Burr - Boston Globe
Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning, Oprah-endorsed, post-apocalyptic survivalist prose poem... was a quick, lacerating read. John Hillcoat's literal adaptation is, by contrast, a long, dull slog.
J. Hoberman - Village Voice
This adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is intense and, yes, depressing -- and earns every minute that it rattles inside your head.
Joe Neumaier - New York Daily News
You hang on to yourself for dear life, resisting belief as best you can in the face of powerful acting, persuasive filmmaking and the perversely compelling certainty that nothing will turn out all right.
Joe Morgenstern - Wall Street Journal
My, but it's been a fine year for Armageddon.
Amy Biancolli - Houston Chronicle
This is a willfully, skillfully crafted film with insufficient heart to the task it undertakes. It never fully connects us to love amid its ruins.
Lisa Kennedy - Denver Post
... what remains of 'The Road' is an honorable failure, given there was never any real hope of translating McCarthy's style-driven novel into film.
Kathleen Murphy - MSN Movies
Evocative as it is, The Road comes up short, not because it's bleak but because it's monotonous, and because McCarthy's vision is finally as inflexible as his patriarchal hero's.
David Edelstein - New York Magazine
The Road evokes the images and the characters of Cormac McCarthy's novel. It is powerful, but for me lacks the same core of emotional feeling. I'm not sure this is any fault of the filmmakers.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
Already, Hillcoat's film has divided critics on the international festival circuit. The one constant is the praise, rightly so, for Mortensen.
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
Hillcoat gives [the postapocalypse] an unnerving solidity by focusing on the drab details of survival and linking them to the more hellish aspects of modern American life.
J. R. Jones - Chicago Reader
I cannot think of another film this year that has stayed with me, its images of dread and fear -- and yes, perhaps hope -- kicking around like such a terrible dream.
Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
John Milton described hell as "darkness visible." That is the grim, mesmerizing world that director John Hillcoat creates here.
Colin Covert - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Road -- centered by Mortensen's typically physical but tempered performance -- is hard to watch. But it could have been much harder. Hillcoat isn't doing opera here, he's doing tragedy.
Tom Long - Detroit News
The Road can be a tough slog, but the journey is a rewarding one.
Bill Goodykoontz - Arizona Republic
Viggo Mortensen gives the performance of his career in the faithfully rendered film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's heartbreaking apocalyptic novel The Road.
Rex Reed - New York Observer
Except for the physical aspects of this bleak odyssey by a father and son through a post-apocalyptic landscape, this long-delayed production falls dispiritingly short on every front.
Todd McCarthy - Variety
Zombieland was the same movie with laughs, but if you take away the comedy, what is left? Nothing, on a vast scale.
Kyle Smith - New York Post
How could anything so bleak be so promising?
Peter Howell - Toronto Star
This year's entry in the Movies You Admire and Respect but Don't Ever Want to Watch Again Sweepstakes.
Eric D. Snider - Film.com
The two principals are superb, and the direction is resonant in its very restraint.
Rick Groen - Globe and Mail
Unless you're far better at walling yourself off from identification than I am, you walk out in a state of untreated shock. Rather than thinking about the movie afterward, you wait for it to wear off.
Dana Stevens - Slate
The movie The Road is nowhere close to its literary sire, but it's probably the best one could hope for from a movie version.
James Berardinelli - ReelViews
Director John Hillcoat has performed an admirable job of bringing Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the screen as an intact and haunting tale, even at the cost of sacrificing color, big scenes and standard Hollywood imagery.
Deborah Young - Hollywood Reporter
Adapting a masterpiece such as The Road is a thankless task, but the film doesn't work on its own merits.
Jake Coyle - Associated Press
In this haunting portrait of America as no country for old men or young, Hillcoat -- through the artistry of Mortensen and Smit-McPhee -- carries the fire of our shared humanity and lets it burn bright and true.
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
Hillcoat certainly provides the requisite seriousness, but what the movie lacks is an underlying sense of innocence, a sense that, however far humanity has sunk, there is at least some chance of rising again.
Sam Adams - Los Angeles Times
What we've been given is no more than a reasonable facsimile, an honorable attempt at filming an unfilmable book.
Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times
The Road is a highly emotional, involving, palm-sweatingly tense movie that will scar you for life if you let it. Exhausting to watch but oddly exhilirating to experience, it's a film you'll watch once but will never forget.
Ali Gray - TheShiznit.co.uk
Unpleasant post-apocalyptic drama.
Dennis Schwartz - Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Hillcoat does his best, and for the most part, he succeeds. The horrifically desolate landscape and the drab greys and cobalt blues of the scarred sky pervade every shot.
Simon Miraudo - Quickflix
Una pelicula agobiante, notablemente realizada y narrada. Tan dura y desoladora como el futuro posible que describe.
Enrique Buchichio - Uruguay Total
This is a tough road to follow
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel - 3BlackChicks Review
Without watering down Cormac McCarthy's hangman prose, John Hillcoat's adaptation transcended sad, gray apocalypse tropes to become an unexpectedly uplifting parable about faith, kindness and family at world's end.
Nick Rogers - Suite101.com
...only half as traumatic as the Cormac McCarthy novel on which it's based - which of course means that it will still leave you a wreck.
Josh Larsen - LarsenOnFilm
Has an interesting thesis about morality and humanity, but lacks complexity in its approach.
Jeffrey Chen - Window to the Movies
"The images are searing, but there's little for Hillcoat to bat around besides endless agony. The Road is glacial and precise, but rarely offers the viewer something to chew on besides utter finality."
Brian Orndorf - BrianOrndorf.com
While identifying with characters in a bad situation is a movie must, drowning in their deep funk as much as they do, is a narrative no-no.
Prairie Miller - NewsBlaze
Shames most films with the audacity to consider themselves tearjerkers.
Rob Humanick - Suite101.com
Um filme dificil e angustiante. (...) Mas, talvez mais surpreendente, representa uma experiencia profundamente tocante.
Pablo Villaca - Cinema em Cena
In a post-Apocalypse world in which you can't tell the difference between good guys and bad guys, it's better to trust no one, and Man will do anything to protect Boy.
Annlee Ellingson - Moving Pictures Magazine
It's just a slow wander through wreckage, waiting for bad stuff to get worse.
Sean Burns - Philadelphia Weekly
The dull gray monotony of existence never looked as uninviting as it does in this film.
Robert Roten - Laramie Movie Scope
When the world goes Boom! I want Viggo Mortensen to be my dad. Who better to keep your spirits up in the hideous post-apocalyptic after life as pictured here?
Richard Knight - Windy City Times
The Road is a haunting portrait of what it means to be a parent.
Mark Pfeiffer - Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Avoiding all the pit falls of the bleak genre, The Road is captivating and in the end inspiring, and though not a film for everyone, a great film for any who enjoy thoughtful, artful cinema.
Giles Hardie - smh.com.au
Anyone looking for either an adventure or an engrossing rumination on life after The End will find it tough to see beyond the film's starkly rendered gloom.
Jim Schembri - The Age (Australia)
A soulful and savagely beautiful meditation on the end of the world, Australian director John Hillcoat adapts Cormac McCarthy's tale of despair and faith with great delicacy and care.
Simon Weaving - Screenwize
It's the end of the world as we know it and you won't feel fine, even though The Road is fine filmmaking.
Michael Adams - Empire Magazine Australasia
It is at its best recasting the apocalypse as an inexorably personal experience, an element long lacking in this genre and one happily found here.
Brian Duff - FILMINK (Australia)
Hillcoat wisely uses a low-key combination of location footage and CGIs to create a sad industrial wasteland that is more reminiscent of Tarkovsky's Stalker than Mad Max.
Thomas Caldwell - Cinema Autopsy
A bleak, depressing odyssey you can firmly admire and marvel at, even as it rips your heart out.
Ben McEachen - Sunday Mail (Australia)
This expertly crafted "road movie" does provide, thanks to the director's brave commitment to realism, a poetic and intentionally devastating emotional viewing experience.
Gavin Bond - Sunday Times (Australia)
It calls on all of one's powers of emotional endurance but it rewards the brave. It is relentless but beautiful, harrowing but tender.
Paul Byrnes - Sydney Morning Herald
The film is so beautiful. In this sort of stark, austere grim way it's incredibly beautiful.
David Stratton - At the Movies (Australia)
Despite the challenges of the book they have come up with a compelling film.
Margaret Pomeranz - At the Movies (Australia)
This is a film of many layers and one that champions goodness and a warm heart
Louise Keller - Urban Cinefile
Considering it's not so much what happens but how it happens, Hillcoat has made a dynamic film of great impact
Andrew L. Urban - Urban Cinefile
Hillcoat succeeds in creating his unflinching apocalypse, while quietly shepherding his film towards a faint, fading mirage of hope.
Alice Tynan - Concrete Playground
It's a grind. Each weary, rainy step is agony. Around every corner is more desolation. More destruction. More misery. On it goes until The Road finally hits a dead end.
Gary Wolcott - Tri-City Herald
It's one of that rare breed of remarkable films - like Mel Gibson's Apocalypto - that, once you've seen it, you would be quite happy never to see again. Then again, it's so good you won't need to.
Cosmo Landesman - Sunday Times (UK)
A horribly credible, chillingly beautiful and wholly uncompromising drama. It's the end of the world, all right, but no one feels in the least bit fine.
Jonathan Romney - Independent on Sunday
Fans of No Country For Old Men may find the film insufficiently quirky (do not expect humour, not even the darkest kind), the decimated world created is wholly compelling and a submersive experience.
Chris Roberts - Uncut Magazine [UK]
We come out humming the film's acting and production design, while wishing we could stop humming Nick Cave's music, which pulls out all the stops marked "Miserere mei (popcorn version)".
Nigel Andrews - Financial Times
Hillcoat's movie is a resounding triumph. Stunning landscape photography sets the melancholy mood, and Nick Cave's wrenching score reinforces it. But it is the performances that ultimately hold the film together.
Tom Huddlestone - Time Out
John Hillcoat's impressive screen version is not without its flaws but it does capture the abject bleakness of McCarthy's vision in a way that feels like the cold chill of winter invading your very bones.
Allan Hunter - Daily Express
Haunting, harrowing yet profoundly enriching. The Road is the most powerful and moving post-apocalyptic film of the twenty-first century.
Jon Fortgang - Film4
Not merely bearable, but affirmative and life-enhancing.
Philip French - Observer [UK]
Like Mad Max on Mogadon, the film is enraptured with its own depressiveness, coming on like the worst New Year hangover you've ever had.
Andrew O'Hagan - This is London
What might be the feelbad film of the year makes an early but convincing claim to be the film of 2010.
David Edwards - Daily Mirror [UK]
One of the most chillingly effective visions of the world's end ever put on screen - and a heart-rending study of parenthood, to boot.
Dan Jolin - Empire Magazine
This one-note exercise in neo-medieval moodiness eventually dissolves into that perennial and most corny of Hollywood tropes: the search for redemption. A disappointment.
Sukhdev Sandhu - Daily Telegraph
A powerful, thought-provoking and frequently uncomfortable drama, but it's also one of the best films of the year.
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
It's almost-but-not-quite as good as the 2006 classic post-disaster film Children Of Men - and that's good enough for me.
Robbie Collin - News of the World
Its high-minded, this-is-good-for-you equation of bleakness with brilliance works against it a little, serving up many of the same allegorical ideas as a George Romero film.
Alistair Harkness - Scotsman
A Trojan-horse blockbuster that promises the wham bam of apocalypse while actually delivering the quiet pain of human intimacy, The Road might just be one of the most heartfelt end-of-the-world movies yet made.
Kevin Maher - Times [UK]
The Road offers an allegory of misery and dread that is crushing, not because it denies humanistic feeling but because it defies cinemagoing pleasure. You would have to be mad - or just morbidly depressed - to recommend it to anyone.
Anthony Quinn - Independent
One of the best films this year (and last!). Bleak, painful, charged with emotion and philosophical questions about how far we have evolved from animals when our comforts are taken away. A must see.
Dean Essner - FHM [UK]
The Road isn't flawless, it isn't quite the emotional masterpiece you want it to be, but it is both a worthy companion piece to the source material and, moreover, a dramatic slice of cinematic story telling in its own right.
Matt Bochenski - Little White Lies
Drab, virtually plot-free and aridly pointless, this road doesn't get anywhere.
Christopher Tookey - Daily Mail [UK]
Hillcoat's raw and sparing approach is sympathetic to the novel. Even after it's over, it continues to burn.
Stella Papamichael - Digital Spy
This is a powerful movie that at the end packs an emotional punch to leave you reeling.
Alex Zane - Sun Online
Isolation, desolation and the odd skirmish: this is Hillcoat's apocalypse, not Hollywood's, but it lacks McCarthy's power.
Jamie Graham - Total Film
Ultimately, this bracingly austere film falls a little short of the greatness of the book, but it's still a terrifyingly effective warning that we squander the planet's resources at our peril.
Trevor Johnston - Radio Times
This is a superlative piece of film-making. Terse, raw and unadorned, there are no cheap tricks to devalue a story of unconditional love.
Tim Evans - Sky Movies
A long and winding, dark and depressing road but at the end strangely uplifting. The acting is excellent.
Jackie K. Cooper - jackiekcooper.com
Grueling Road Worth Traveling.
Charles Koplinski - Illinois Times
Instead of popcorn and soda, the concession stands ought to serve broken twigs and muddy water with this one.
Kelly Vance - East Bay Express
An overall impressive adaptation that, while tough to recommend because of its oppressive mood, stays on the right path for the duration of its run.
Sean O'Connell - Charlotte Weekly
The Road... literalizes but doesn't flinch. It is brave in the dumb way brutes sometimes seem to be, as though it knows no alternative.
Philip Martin - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The Road is a heavy load to bare for the casual movie fan. Unless of course, that movie fan likes drinking with the lights off, full-moon Russian Roulette or confuses the Sunday funnies with the obituaries.
Mike Ward - Richmond.com
Mortensen comes through with another haunting performance that mixes the cerebral with the physical.
Matt Brunson - Creative Loafing
A very fine film that somehow manages to attain only a fraction of the heart-rending power of its grim source.
John Beifuss - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Grim beyond belief and almost beyond endurance, 'The Road' is one of the most depressing "apocalypse" movies ever made.
Linda Cook - Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
The concussive soundscape rumbles like thunder in the distance. And the film's episodic terseness is the poetry of cataclysm, in a language that needs no translation.
Duane Dudek - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
What was poetic and spare on the page has become monotonous and oppressive on the screen.
William Goss - Orlando Weekly
Obviously, it's not really a pleasant cinematic experience, despite the quality of its filmmaking and performances. It's worthwhile for its character development and its examination of morality and survival behavior, though.
Jeff Vice - Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Like its protagonists, the movie is implacable and unyielding, and may very well break you down.
Josh Bell - Las Vegas Weekly
The muffled air, the rumbling tectonic murmurs, the groaning and incessant tree deaths, sounds of other humans, all these sounds sell the monochromatic but still stunning images of a completely dying world
Karina Montgomery - Cinerina
The end of civilization in The Road is ugly and terrifying, but that makes the father and son's hope and faith so much stronger.
Jeffrey Westhoff - Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Watching McCarthy's story unfold is a lot like listening to a brooding musician hold down the lowest key on a piano for two unrelenting hours.
Anders Wotzke - Cut Print Review
Anders Wotzke - Moviedex
For all the desperation and tragedy, then, the film offers a kind of heroism, set against a frankly grim but also frequently poetic backdrop.
Cynthia Fuchs - PopMatters
Hopelessly muddled narratively, with one foot trapped in a more conventional American Hollywood narrative, and the other rooted in a more esoteric European arthouse aesthetic.
Brent Simon - Shared Darkness
Filmed as if dictated by Jehovah but ultimately boasting only a fraction of the artistic value of, say, Terminator: Salvation
Fernando F. Croce - CinePassion
The Road ends up being more gloomy than harrowing. That's probably good for your constitution but not so much for your viewing experience.
Tim Grierson - The Simon
A powerful and devastating adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel.
John Wirt - Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
This film is worth seeing for the performances from Mortensen and gifted adolescent actor Smit-McPhee.
Liz Braun - Jam! Movies
It's a beautiful, harrowing story and a good film. I'm just worried it's not good enough considering its potential.
Gina Carbone - Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
One of the grimmest end-of-the-world movies in recent memory.
Tim Brayton - Antagony & Ecstasy
'The Road' is a courageous road picture and an unnerving dystopian epic, but with great moments of horror, love, and adventure.
Frank Wilkins - ReelTalk Movie Reviews
In attempting to realize McCarthy's vision of the planet in chaos, Hillcoat delves so deeply into his source material that he loses sight of the audience.
Michelle Orange - Movieline
It's fitting that The Road opens at Thanksgiving. It will thrill you, unsettle you, but mostly remind you that even in the darkest of times there is much to be thankful for.
Brett McCracken - Christianity Today
It hits a few tinny, sentimental notes. Still, I admire the craft and conviction of this film, and I was impressed enough by the look and the performances to recommend that you see it.
A.O. Scott - At the Movies
What's unnerving is that the end of the world was shot on location. Apparently, if you want to see doom, just go to New Orleans or Pittsburgh.
Amy Nicholson - I.E. Weekly
Carved almost verbatim from Cormac McCarthy's compelling novel, The Road is a depressing, gut-wrenching journey that is strangely uplifting at its core.
Kit Bowen - The Movie Kit
The Road prompts us to treat each other with kindness and to savor 'small graces.' ... Can we carry the light and heat of grace when survival demands that we carry a loaded gun? That is the question.
Jeffrey Overstreet - Looking Closer
The visions of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book I read were precisely what I saw on screen.
Danny Minton - Fort Bend Sun
Great junk like Resident Evil and passable schlock like 28 Weeks Later have more skill and integrity. Why would anyone want to make -- or watch -- this Hillcoat/McCarthy desolation except to feel fashionably cynical?
Armond White - New York Press
A nerve-wracking and emotional experience...as true to the book as it could have been without having narration the whole way through.
Eric Melin - Scene-Stealers.com
Movies like '2012' wreck the world in front of our eyes through long pageants of explosions. 'The Road,' however, deals with cataclysmic ruin in a far different and much more compelling manner.
Dan Lybarger - eFilmCritic.com
This is a dramatic, slow moving Mad Max with a kid along for the awful ride. It's a survival tale, and The Road should be seen for those who want to keep carrying the fire.
Jeff Bayer - Daily Herald (IL)
Is the film too grim? Or not grim enough? In a perverse way, I fear it's both.
Christopher Orr - New Republic
By only allowing us a peek at the characters' interior lives before we're forced to move on down that eternal Road is to deny this fascinating piece its full power. An emotional highway robbery, if you will.
Kimberly Gadette - Indie Movies Online
Christopher Orr - The New Republic
Alas, this Road is long and hard, but it leads nowhere.
Daniel M. Kimmel - New England Movies Weekly
Breathtaking in the totality of its harrowing vision, The Road is an unflinching contemplation on the astonishing duality of the human animal.
Brandon Fibbs - BrandonFibbs.com
I'm not sure if The Road could ever have worked on the big screen, but I am sure that this version could be used to make that case.
Brian Tallerico - Movie Retriever
Mortensen has proven to be one of the best actors in the business, and The Road is his masterpiece.
Willie Waffle - WaffleMovies.com
It seems a strange thing to say about one of the most depressing films ever offered as popular entertainment, but The Road is a beautiful movie.
Robert W. Butler - Kansas City Star
A powerful film adapted from Cormac McCarthy's powerful apocalyptic novel...One of the most faithful translations of a novel to cinema that I've ever seen.
Fr. Chris Carpenter - Movie Dearest
There are still some things that magnificent prose can do that a movie, for all its stars and CGI, just can't. Director John Hillcoat's movie is, however, an admirable attempt.
Matt Soergel - Florida Times-Union
Hillcoat's rendering of McCarthy's words can't be faulted for its visual replication of the author's grim picture of mankind's final days.
Marc Savlov - Austin Chronicle
It'll leave you exhausted, emotionally spent and with much to ponder.
Peter Paras - E! Online
Tedious, dull and anticlimactic despite decent performances and exquisite cinematography filled with bleak images. It's ultimately an underwhelming experience that lacks emotional resonance.
Avi Offer - NYC Movie Guru
Vividly atmospheric direction and performances that are packed with raw honesty.
Rich Cline - Shadows on the Wall
Hillcoat's noble effort ultimately falls under the category of things much better imagined than seen. Instead of The End of All That Is, this is, well, just a movie.
Andrew Wright - The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
The film has pacing issues but it should win an award for casting a brilliant young actor (Smit-McPhee) to carry this heavy drama. He steals the film.
Kevin McCarthy - BDK Reviews
Haunting, ominous and evocative, it's a cautionary, cryptic allegory about the indominable hope for survival, even in the face of unfathomable horror.
Susan Granger - SSG Syndicate
The Road immerses us so completely in its world that it's as if it is teaching us, as well as the characters, a new way to think.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
The high-minded antithesis of 2012... The Road is mired in morning-after misery, set in a world where fear of a living hell is more reasonable than hope of heaven.
Maitland McDonagh - AMCtv.com
Mortensen warms the film with his presence, creating a vivid portrait of a bereft man clinging to the one thing he has left.
Moira MacDonald - Seattle Times
I could watch my favorite stars gather supplies all day long.
Fred Topel - Can Magazine
(T)hanks to Hillcoat's reverence to the source material and his desire to visualize McCarthy's mind's eye Armageddon, we wind up with something so harsh it's almost unbearable.
Bill Gibron - PopMatters
The Road, a tremulous heartbreaker onscreen, has successfully made the leap despite an unthinkable amount of fidelity.
Joshua Rothkopf - Time Out New York
Mortensen and Smit-McPhee may deliver intense, often gut-wrenching performances, but their journey is too mysterious and soaked in one-note misery to keep you rapt.
Tricia Olszewski - Washington City Paper
Viggo Mortensen plays "The Man" (in the anonymous, Everyman sense, not in the "Stick it to the..." blaxploitation sense). Charlize Theron is "Wife." Kodi Smit-McPhee is "The Boy." And I'm The Audience, and I'm annoyed.
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
delicate and indefinable, with only a thin reed of a story.
Chris Barsanti - Filmcritic.com
It's a grueling experience that still allows for the viewer to survive with a self-centering hope. This is no Disney amusement ride.
Elias Savada - Film Threat
Oppressively, but appropriately, bleak adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's end-of-the-world novel about a father and son wandering a post-apocalyptic landscape. Points for strong performances from the two leads and the film's unyielding view of the end of day
Joe Lozito - Big Picture Big Sound
[T]ruly great in the classical sense of the word, as grand as our most terrible fears and as wild as our most outlandish hopes and as intimate as being alive can be.
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
So intent on finding the shortest route to the essence of the book that it never discovers its own soul.
Mark Dujsik - Mark Reviews Movies
It's never clear why the movie needed to be made, unless Hillcoat wanted to show that he could compete with Bela Tarr's 7 1/2 hour Satantango by having just as many endless shots of downtrodden people walking down a dirt road.
Adam Lippe - Examiner.com
It was unforgettable on the page, and it impresses equally, or at least it does so remarkably often, on screen.
Shawn Levy - Oregonian
When the most moving line in a movie is "Do you eat people?" you know you're in for a tough time.
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
The picture glimpses what it might really be like if the earth went to hell. As shattering as the sights are, turning away is out of the question.
Dustin Putman - DustinPutman.com
A grim, tedious slog that goes nowhere emotionally [and] never manages to be either viscerally affecting or intellectually insightful.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
The apocalypse probably won't have a soundtrack, yet there's a pesky score during every heavy-handed emotional moment.
Matt Pais - Metromix.com
For those who found the Coen Brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men too lighthearted, John Hillcoat's relentlessly faithful version of the author's post-apocalyptic Pulitzer-winning novel might hit the spot.
Peter Keough - Boston Phoenix
Wrenching, elegiac, but ultimately inspiring, this is a film that knows how to hold onto its own fire.
Nell Minow - Beliefnet
The ending rings false; and the overbearingly sentimental music can't compensate for the lack of even harsh lyricism.
John P. McCarthy - ReelTalk Movie Reviews
an interior novel that has been rendered on the screen with post apocalyptic drear and actors trying their damndest, but Hillcoat's episodic tale only strikes a real emotional chord once.
Laura Clifford - Reeling Reviews
Like McCarthy's book, The Road is dark, bleak and nightmarish but also stirring and beautiful and optimistic: As long as life remains, the movie argues, there is always hope.
Dean Essner - Miami Herald
The Road has the signposts of an important film, but it lacks the diversions of an inviting trip.
Joe Williams - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A film that takes a bleak, harrowing story and makes it tender and compelling...deserves to be in the Oscar hunt for the shattering performance by its star, Viggo Mortensen.
Marshall Fine - Hollywood & Fine
There is a small twinkle of hope in the end but getting there is tough, relentless going.
Robin Clifford - Reeling Reviews
Parental Content Review
Jim Judy - Screen It!
A post-apocalyptic tale that is nothing more than an ad for patriarchy and dualistic thinking.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spirituality and Practice
The Road is effective -- and interesting as a comparison for those who loved the book.
Jeffrey M. Anderson - Common Sense Media
one of the most riveting, emotionally draining, and strangely beautiful films of the decade.
Rebecca Murray - About.com
Hillcoat gives the film a remarkably evocative backdrop, but the drama lacks depth and dimension, and the scenes tend to blur together.
Scott Tobias - AV Club
Emotionally affecting enough to please fans and the uninitiated alike, even if it falls short of its source material's profound beauty.
Brett Buckalew - Hollywood.com
Let's be honest: go to see this apocalyptic drama, you're not going for a good time. This desperate and determined story of survival isn't the super effected tilt-a-whirl of, say, the hugely popular disaster epic, 2012.
Joanna Langfield - The Movie Minute
A heartbreaking and powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Mark Salisbury - Premiere Magazine
"The Road" is like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest when no human or animal is around. Whether or not it makes a sound is a moot point.
Cole Smithey - ColeSmithey.com
A cinematic adaptation at once faithful and superior to its source material.
Nick Schager - Lessons of Darkness
Hillcoat has a way of undermining the earthy performances of his cast with overly refined images and obtrusive music.
Ed Gonzalez - Slant Magazine
Hillcoat took it as far as he dared and created a beautiful suffering; a film that somehow manages to be both unwatchable and unmissable at the same time.
Chris Laverty - Clothes on Film
One of the most important and moving films to come along in a long time.
James O'Connor - IGN Movies AU
This relentlessly grim drama, which is tougher and more challenging than No Country for Old Men, deserves to be seen for the performance of Viggo Mortensen, who carries the film on his solid shoulders.
Emanuel Levy - EmanuelLevy.Com
Despite the carps, a receptiveness to this material will pay off in tension and suspense, pushing you off The Road in a state of emotional exhaustion.
Jules Brenner - Cinema Signals
And unlike the better-than-the-book No Country for Old Men, it's only as good as the book. I guess I'm saying there's enough blame to go around.
Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central
Overall, THE ROAD is a horror movie in the truest sense -- it is about the horror of humanity, the horror of our legacy, the horror of what we might become.
Luke Y. Thompson - LYTRules.com
When a movie is bleak and depressing, it had better be damned good. The Road is damned bad.
Tony Macklin - tonymacklin.net
For all of its bleak content, the final equation proves surprisingly optimistic.
Rob Vaux - Mania.com
You won't find anything entertaining in The Road but maybe you'll find something else.
Joshua Tyler - CinemaBlend.com
pure, stripped-down bleakness, both in the desaturated drabness of its appearance and in the last-days essentialism of its themes.
Anton Bitel - Eye for Film
Partly horror, partly sci-fi, mostly a family-bonding drama with stellar acting and patient action.
Harvey S. Karten - Compuserve
It's hard not to divine that The Road will be receiving near universal acclaim and a truckload of Oscar noms.
Brandon Judell - CultureCatch
Based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Road primarily transpires within a bleak, post-apocalyptic United States that's been decimated by an unnamed catastrophe -- with the bulk of the narrative following a father (Viggo Mortense
David Nusair - AskMen.com
John Hillcoat's faithful, near-perfect adaptation beautifully captures McCarthy's synthesis of all-encompassing darkness and enduring hope.
Eugene Novikov - Cinematical
A journey worth taking.
Chris Bumbray - JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Very moving.
Pete Hammond - Boxoffice Magazine
Fortunately, the rumourmongers were wrong -- Hillcoat's vision is forthright and brutal.
Wendy Ide - Times [UK]
There is so much in this picture, from dread, horror, to suspense, bitterly moving love, extraordinary, Oscar-worthy art direction and a desperate lead performance from Viggo Mortensen which perfectly illustrates the ... desperation of parental love.
Fionnuala Halligan - Screen International


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- Water, sunlight top pecan management priorities
- Water problems
- It won't be a record pecan crop in 2013 for Greg Daviet, Mesilla Valley, N.M., but last year's bin-buster was a once-a-career haul.
Water problems
With the drought continuing in this and other areas of the Southwest, he's expecting the Elephant Butte Irrigation District to deliver only 3 acre-inches of surface water for flood irrigating his pecan crop this year. That's less than 10 percent of a full district allocation. Also, it represents less than 5 percent of the total 66 inches of water that he uses each year to irrigate his fields. The rest comes from his wells.
As he and other valley growers continue to draw water from the ground, they're forced to go deeper to get it. Sixty years ago, a 100-foot well was common in the area."Today, it's not unusual for a well to go down 300 to 400 feet to get good quality water," he says. Wells 600 feet deep are not uncommon.
"Here in the central part of the valley, we easily have 1,000 feet of water below us," Daviet reports. "But, in the northern region of the Valley, some growers have no more than about 80 feet of usable aquifer. When we drill a well on our ranch, we blank out the first 150 feet to block out the salts in the soil. But, some growers don't even have 150 feet of water in total to draw from."
Making the most of every drop of water is Daviet's top management priority. "It's so critical to our success in growing pecans that it receives the lion's share of our focus and attention," he says.
Water management extends beyond such basics as matching irrigation timing and rates to the tree's water requirements. It includes such practices as amending soils to improve water holding capacity, leveling fields with lasers to improve water delivery efficiency, sinking wells deeper to improve water quality by minimizing salinity levels, replacing ditches with pipelines to reduce water losses and replacing outmoded small-port pipe gates with large, high-flow turnouts
Second in importance only to water is an aggressive pruning program. It's designed to make the most efficient use of the sunlight. He prunes them early in their life and often thereafter.
"We don't let trees grow to the point where they need to be pruned. Once we start cutting a tree to the size and shape we want, we continue pruning regularly to keep it that way. In just the 10 years we've been doing this, we've seen significant production increases."
Meeting the nutritional needs of his trees remains the most challenging aspect of Daviet's crop management. Currently, he uses a combination of urea-sulfuric acid and UAN 32, which he bands within 10 feet of the tree trunks, to provide the trees a total of 300 units of actual nitrogen per acre annually. He applies 50 units in the first of April, followed by 100 units each at the first of May and first of June. He feeds his trees the remaining 50 units in early August.
Daviet makes the first of two 25-unit applications of phosphorus each year at the first of April and the other at the first of August. His phosphorus applications include a total of 20 units of potassium a year.
"Crop nutrition needs are very site specific and depend on a lot of interactions of such factors as soil characteristics and water quality," Daviet says.
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Who would have thought their Buster or Betsy would take up dancing?
Apparently it's a growing trend in the canine culture. The idea, referred to as freestyle, developed in Canada in the 1980s and transplanted to the States in the '90s, the New York Times reports.
Dog dancing isn't sanctioned by the American Kennel Club and is unlikely to show up at Westminster Dog Show in February.
But about 7,500 Americans, many of whom are middle-aged women, are taking dance classes with their dogs. They are seeking out experts and watching videos to master the twirls and spins with their pets. A few enter competitions.
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One Friday evening night each semester, groups of about 20 Thomas Aquinas College students from all classes — seniors and freshmen, sophomores and juniors — gather in classrooms across the campus for the semi-annual All-College Seminar. Although separate, these groups engage in a single, common activity, namely, reading, analyzing, and discussing the same text, one that is not part of the College's ordinary curriculum. Two members of the teaching faculty lead each of the discussions, which are followed by a campus-wide party in St. Joseph Commons.
A semi-annual event that unites the entire community, the All-College Seminar has become a well-loved campus tradition. At this semester's seminar, which took place on February 10, students and faculty discussed St. Thomas Aquinas' Compendium Theologiae, chs. 227-240, on the Crucifixion and Resurrection.


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BATON ROUGE -- John Georges, a New Orleans area businessman, ended speculation Thursday and qualified to run for governor as an independent candidate.
Georges had been campaigning as a Republican but had not gained much traction in the polls and was in fourth place among the four major candidates.
Georges earlier Thursday changed his party affiliation from the Republican Party to an independent.
For the past week, Georges has been mulling jumping from the GOP to either the Democratic Party or becoming an independent.
Georges said he jumped from the GOP so he can work with both Democrtats and Republicans and appeal to all voters. "I have friends on both sides of the aisle,'' he said.
Saying he is "not a sound-bite politican,'' Georges said he will reveal a 30-page plan for improving the state in the next few days.
He said he was courted heavily by the state GOP to run against Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, a Democrat, for the state's No. 2 job but decided against it.
"I got more respect from the Republicans in the last three days than in the past six months,'' he said.
State GOP Chairman Roger Villere rejected Georges' claims and said the party never recruited him to run against Landrieu.
"Nobody but John Georges could have been so crazy as to think it would be a good idea for him to switch to the lieutenant governor's race at this late hour,'' party spokesman Michael DiResto said. "This was his idea alone. The Republican Party did not woo him to run that race.''
Earlier in the day Republican state Rep. Gary Beard of Baton Rouge qualified to run for lieutenant governor, promising to use Louisiana's second highest office to grow the tourism industry and usher in fiscal reforms.
Beard is the fourth challenger to sign up against Democratic incumbent Mitch Landrieu, who is seeking a second term. Also in the race: independent Norris "Spanky" Gros Jr. of Pierre Part; independent Thomas D. Kates of Bogalusa; and Republican Sammy Kershaw of Lafayette. "This is a season of change in Louisiana, and we'd like to be a part of it," said Beard, who was elected to the House in 2001.
Beard promised to help "the new administration" implement "conservative" fiscal reforms that he said are badly needed. He criticized increases in state spending and debt in recent years, and said he voted against the $30 billion budget that lawmakers approved in June for fiscal 2008, which began July 1.
Legislative records show that Beard voted against raising the state spending cap, a mostly party line vote that Democrats, joined by a few Republicans, ultimately won. But after the minority GOP Caucus lost that scrap, Beard voted "yes" on the cap-busting budget as it left the House and traveled to the Senate. When it returned from the Senate with only minor amendments, Beard voted against concurring with the upper chamber's version.
In the governor's race, meanwhile, retired hairdresser Mary Smith of Winnsboro filed paperwork today to run as a Democrat. Smith's primary goal is to win a pardon for convicted former Gov. Edwin Edwards, so the 80-year-old political icon can return to Baton Rouge as her adviser.
"I think he's been done wrong," Smith said. "The centerpiece of my campaign is to get the governor out of prison."
Georges and Smith bring to 10 the number of candidates bidding for the seat opened by Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco's decision not to seek re-election. Already on the ballot: independent Belinda Alexandrenko of Lafayette; Democrat Walter Boasso of Arabi; Democrat Foster Campbell of Elm Grove; independent Vincent Mark Castillo of St. Rose; independent Sheldon Forest of Duson; independent Anthony "Tony G" Gentile of Mandeville; Libertarian T. Lee Horne III of Franklin; and Republican Bobby Jindal of Kenner.
The biggest remaining question in the statewide elections was whether New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin would join the governor's chase. He told WWL reporters early Thursday that he had not made a final decision about the race. The interview continued the mayor's recent pattern of neither confirming nor denying rumors about his future.
Qualifying ends today at 5 p.m. Primaries are Oct. 20, with any necessary runoffs to follow Nov. 17.
Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, R-Metairie, picked up a second opponent Thursday when Jerilyn Schneider-Kneale, a Slidell Republican, filed qualifying papers. Donelon's other opponent is M.V. "Vinny'' Mendoza of Kenner.
And Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom of Zachary, a 28-year incumbent, got his third GOP opponent, Baton Rouge Metro Councilman Wayne "Spider'' Carter, also of Zachary. His other two opponents are Don Johnson, a Republican from Transylvania, and Rep. Mike Strain, R-Covington.


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Greg Mattison did the unthinkable. He left the perfect job, one in which he had a great boss and had the opportunity to tutor future Pro Football Hall of Famers Ray Lewis and Ed Reed on a daily basis.
But when Mattison stepped down as the defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens, he didn't do it to take just any job. He did it because he was offered the chance to be the defensive coordinator at Michigan, a school he had coached at before and always loved.
"In the three years that I was at Baltimore, it was a tremendous experience," said Mattison, 62, who coached the Wolverines' defensive line from 1992 to 1994 and served as defensive coordinator in 1995-96. "I had the opportunity to coach some of the greatest players in the game. And they were not only great players, they were great people.
"But I just missed the chance to take some young man that maybe is not a great football player, or people say he's not a great football player, or he doesn't believe he's a great football player, and help him to get to become as good as he can."
So far, that's precisely what Mattison has done for the Wolverines, who play Virginia Tech in the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Tuesday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Mattison's attacking system has been vital to the turnaround at Michigan, which is playing in its first BCS game since the 2007 Rose Bowl.
After being one of the nation's worst defenses a year ago, the Wolverines are having tremendous success in their first season under Mattison, who quickly changed the concepts and the culture of defensive football at Michigan.
"When he's coaching guys like Ray Lewis and Ed Reed, that demands respect right there," junior safety Jordan Kovacs said. "The defense that they have been running, the defense that they have had for the past couple years, has been pretty darn good. So we knew that he was going to be a great coach."
What the Wolverines didn't know, though, was how quickly they were going to be able to grasp the new system.
But they knew they were ready to learn.
"He is unbelievable," senior defensive lineman Ryan Van Bergen said. "When we heard his reputation, that was the first thing we said was we've got to buy into this guy, because he is doing something right. Look at the places he has been, look at the things he has done. He obviously has a very good grasp on defense, and we knew if we would just listen to him we could be a good defense."We were so motivated to be a good defense it didn't take a whole lot for us to start buying in and start doing the things that he said."
To help with the learning process, Mattison tried to pass on some of the things he gleaned from the pros. He even had his Michigan players watch video of the Ravens.
"That's all we had to watch going into the season," Van Bergen said. "You do a lot of reviews of film before the season. You want to watch yourself on film, but we didn't have that, so we watched a ton of Raven film.
"It was cool. It was cool to watch those guys. To see it at that level just made you think that if we could do this, we are going to dominate in college."
The results have been promising.
After allowing 35.2 points per game last season, including an embarrassing 52 to Mississippi State in the Gator Bowl, the Wolverines have more than cut that number in half. Michigan is yielding 17.2 points, seventh-best in the nation.
Michigan also has improved from 108th (447.9 yards per game) in total defense to 18th (317.6). The defense forced a Big Ten-best 27 turnovers, including multiple turnovers in nine of its 12 games.
Mattison said the reason for the defense's resurgence is simple.
"They started believing the package and the defense and what we're doing," he said.
That's just what Mattison wanted from his players when he decided to leave the Ravens, that great boss (Coach John Harbaugh), and an opportunity to make a Super Bowl run. He's back in college, teaching players how to improve.
"I honestly would never have done this if it was any other school but Michigan," said Mattison, whose lengthy résumé includes stops at Texas A&M, Notre Dame and Florida. "And if you aren't from Michigan, if you haven't been around the University of Michigan, what these young men have done this year is why it's Michigan.
"And it's why you come back. And it's why you leave a great job in the NFL to go coach at Michigan, and I mean I think that's the biggest reason."


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Margaret Haught
EAST LIVERPOOL Mrs. Margaret Merle Haught, formerly of 9th Avenue, LaCroft, wife, mother, grandmother and caregiver to her entire family, died Monday, March 18, 2013 at Assumption Village in North Lima following a lengthy illness. She was 93.
Born in East Liverpool, Nov. 30, 1919, she was a daughter of the late James and Rhoda C. Steele Givens. A lifetime area resident, she worked for the former Crucible Steel Restaurant in Midland and then at Isaly's in East Liverpool for 38 years. After family, her faith was an important part of her life; she was a member of New Springfield Church of God where she was active in its JOY class for senior adults as well as Tuesday Morning WCG Ladies.
Her husband, James N. Haught, preceded her in death on Nov. 16, 2000. The couple married May 6, 1945.
Survivors include two daughters, Jan Mandt and her husband Mike of Venice, Fla., and Diana Herron and her husband Don of Lisbon. There are five grandchildren: Targie Mandt and his wife Jenna, Erick Mandt and his wife Anne, Mikkelyn Adams and her husband Chad, Stephanie Kirk and her husband Michael, and Matthew Herron and his wife Caroline; along with nine great-grandchildren: Sophia, Savannah, Rachel, James and Marcus Mandt and Elijah, Eliana, Eva Adams and Isaac Herron.
Other survivors include two sisters, Anna Ruth Smith of Alliance, Ohio, and Nancy Craig and her husband Dana of Pennsylvania.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Wanda Mae Miller and Janice Jean Finney, as well as four brothers, Ralph, James, Carl and Roy Givens.
Friends may visit Friday afternoon and evening at Dawson Funeral Home where the family will be present from 3 to 8 p.m. Rev. Jim Carmany of the church will conduct a funeral service at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Burial will be at Columbiana County Memorial Park.
Following the service, family and friends will gather at Dawson Family Center for fellowship.
The family wishes to acknowledge and thank the nurses, aides and staff of Crossroads at Beaver Creek, Assumption Village and Hospice of the Valley for their wonderful and compassionate care.
Memorial tributes may take the form of contributions in care of New Springfield Church of God, 3649 East Garfield Road, New Springfield, Ohio 44443.
View Mrs. Haught's memorial webpage and send condolences online at www.dawsonfuneralhome.com.


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|This will once be a modular framework for easy creation and sharing of complete Blizzard UI replacements .. hopefully ;) In other words it should replace the original unit frames, raid frames, action bars, casting bar, bags, .. with a new harmonic UI that's completely themeable. The base idea is to have a uniform look 'n' feel instead of the usual mix and extend it with modules and other AddOns.
|Jul 19, 2016
|Mapster's Minimap brother - Retexture minimap border square or circle - hide buttons - lock/unlock Not much more ;)
|Jul 19, 2016
|Shows a money overview for your current realm in the tooltip on the money in your bags. If you have an LibDataBroker display installed it will also show the money as a data source plugin.
Memory Maker
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|Capture some epic WoW memories with memory maker. Memory maker will take automatically take a screenshot for you every hour. Simply install and check your screenshots folder in a couple of months to get them fuzzy feels. (Note: Screenshots will not be captured while in combat due to frame freeze)
Mage Biscuits
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|When some low level asks for food or drink you don't know which consumable is low enough for them to be able to eat in most cases. Also you have to go through all your spell book searching for the right rank to conjure. The purpose of this addon is to make it easy to see what leveled players can eat what rank of food.
|Jul 11, 2010
|MacroActions adds macrotext to action buttons. Instead of only being able to cast on your target, your actions will cast on your target, target'starget or tank's target (in LFG). The idea for MA is taken from Macrotexter with some changes. auto detecting hostile/helpful spells. tanks target used in random dungeons. works on bartender4. Adding /stopmacro nochanneling to channeling spells. MA has no UI/options just yet. It's plug and play. I plan on adding options soon. Helpful actions will use...
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|this addon gives you Actions Bars beside Blizzard ActionBars Designed by Omar :)
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|Addon Support Statement NEWS: I'm back in WoW. I'll try to update addons after catching up, especially if they are bugging out. Addon Description Magic Runes is a set of bars displaying rune cooldowns. It's meant as either a replacement or addition to the normal Blizzard rune display. For discussion please refer to the following forum thread: Magic Runes discussion @ WowAce forums Help localize Magic Runes Changes in 1.0.89: Now works on the 4.3 PTR. Note if you install libraries separately,...
Magic Targets 2
|Jul 22, 2016
|Addon Support Statement NEWS: I'm back in WoW. I'll try to update addons after catching up, especially if they are bugging out. Addon Description Magic Targets is a simple set of frames that shows the current targets of the members raid or party. It's meant primarily for use in raiding to keep track of all the mobs currently engaged in combat. Feature list: Optionally marks your current target and focus target with green respectively blue arrows. Lists the number of people who's currently...
|Jul 22, 2016
|Addon Support Statement Hello everyone. I'm no longer actively playing World of Warcraft (and haven't for many months). I'm looking for someone to take over maintenance of my addons. If you're interested, and have at least one released addon, send me a message at [email protected] Addon Description Magic Marker lets you easily classify and mark mobs simply by moving the mouse over them while pressing a modifier key. This allows incredibly fast marking of trash groups. Although not...
|Jul 22, 2016
|Addon Support Statement Hello everyone. I'm no longer actively playing World of Warcraft (and haven't for many months). I'm looking for someone to take over maintenance of my addons. If you're interested, and have at least one released addon, send me a message at [email protected] Addon Description Library handling communcation for Magic* addons
Mail Outbox
|Oct 15, 2014
|I often got worried if I really sent the money or some super item to whom i planned to... And since I haven't found any addon tracking sent mails, I started to write this one... Addon links sent mail info into chat frame (with item summary, subject, etc..) and keeps history which you can show by /mailoutbox history command (yeah you can open many and compare, check, sort..each separately). You can click column headers to sort view a bit. And there is a config page with a bit of settings... As...
|Jun 23, 2015
|MultiTool: A set of tools aimed at making WoW just a bit more user-friendly, and is especially useful for friends who group up and quest together. It used to also focus on MultiBoxers (people who play multiple accounts at the same time), but changes in Cataclysm (mostly involving widespread use pf so-called phasing) caused me to give up multiboxing, and realistically, many others did so as well. I still find this addon to be darn useful, so I am maintaining it. v6.0.2.000 is the current...
|Oct 19, 2014
|MountManager After looking in vain for an existing mount management solution that fit my needs, I decided to create my own instead. That became MountManager. Usage Mount Summoning MountManager creates a character specific macro to summon a random mount based on your current location and any options selected. Simply add the created macro to an action bar to use. Left-click : Summons the currently selected mount. Depending on the options selected, if you are currently mounted, this may dismount...
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|Oct 01, 2016
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|Feb 21, 2010
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Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
First the Polish gaffe, to which he offered a tepid, at best, apology.
Now the grim economic news (or, as Galen likes to say, a "humming economy") of an uptick in the unemployment numbers, a jobs estimate that is half of what everyone predicted and, according to Reuters, the jobs report for March and April were adjusted lower and there are real signs the economy is about to falter.
Personally, this stinks. The past few weeks I've watched my 401(k) go from stagnate to losing value.WARNING: This post may contain material offensive to those who lack wit, humor, common sense and/or supporting factual or anecdotal evidence. All statements and assertions contained herein may be subject to literary devices not limited to: irony, metaphor, allusion and dripping sarcasm.
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Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
I'm with you; retirement is moving further away with each new piece of bad news.
Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
If it's not the worst, it's up there.
The worst part for him is two things, yet one in the same. His biggest point to discredit Romney (Bain Capital) is not working, and even his supporters and surrogates are saying it's a bad idea.
Bill Clinton sticks another fork in Obama's Bain strategy, says Romney had 'sterling' business career
Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
Least we also forget the so called "war on women" that tanked.
He's going to be forced to talk about his record at some point. As long as Mitt keeps on point and pounds Obama on his record, this will be a very close race.WARNING: This post may contain material offensive to those who lack wit, humor, common sense and/or supporting factual or anecdotal evidence. All statements and assertions contained herein may be subject to literary devices not limited to: irony, metaphor, allusion and dripping sarcasm.
Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?"A moron, a rapist, and a Pittsburgh Steeler walk into a bar. He sits down and says, Hi Im Ben may I have a drink please?
Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
LOL - Even the WH is saying the market won't be solved over night ya know? Galen's been telling us how great it is with it going over 12,000 pts and it's still at 12,111.57 pts, so which is it. ILMAO.
Actually, it's like living in the south like my great grandmother who had a lot of money. Only it was Confederate money and she lost it all when the war
ended. It was worthless.
Same with these stocks - sort of.
Im sure DARB is being sarcastic.
He's not deporting them. Millions are leaving because of the bad economy.
They can't get jobs so they're going back to Mexico. You can say his
policies like the stimulus is deporting them but he's not doing anything
deliberate like that, not like IKE did when he deliberately deported tens of thousands of immigrants called Operation Wetback so returning Korean Vets could get jobs.
As far as the economy staying in the tank, this is the worse since the
depression so Romney should be 20 pts ahead. It shouldn't be this
even but it is because of his likeability despite the gaffes.
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Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
guy is losing billions.
Terrible jobs report is with increase in unemployment partly responsible for this drop.
World Bank says brace yourself for a market drop ala
2008. I've been preaching that on here for couple of years.
But think of the bright side. You young guys are no where near retirement anyway, so don't worry.
I posted a while back that my portfolio hasn't improved much - only by 15%
since the 08 Crash. Those of us who lost our shirts are still broke even if you left it in.
Galen likes to say the stocks went back up to over 12,000 but as I keep
saying it's because the gov't is buying the indexes via the PPT. There hasnt
been that much capital by institutions and especially individuals for it to
increase on its own.
We had an investment banker posting in here named Stealth Raven who
said I was right and that most of the industry doesn't know about the PPT
and he wanted to know how I knew about it. I read John Crudele. My
own broker didn't know about the PPT.
It was the most monstrous agency created since the IRS and Reagan
created it. Actually he was forced to by the money hitters like Mease
that put him in. They lost fortunes in the 87 crash.
The idea was for the gov't to buy indexes to keep the line over 9,000 pts.
They do this by printing money. There's so much money being printed
every day nobody knows how much. When people like Crudele try to call
their offices they can't get thru.
The printed money goes to off shore Cayman Island accounts and from
there straight to Goldman Sachs on Wall Street. They got everything back
because they know whast the line is going to do because they're setting
the prices.
The CEO was Clinton's financial Czar and expanded the PPT to include
price fixing. It has worked perfectly except in 08.
As Stealth Raven said, you have to know something about derivatives
to understand it.
Just google the PPT for more info. My broker said it would take 4 or 5
years to get back what I lost and I'm not even close. I am back but
only because of my savings per year and that on a fixed income.
I'm saving more than I'm spending and have remained debt free the
last 10 years.
Congress could learn from me-lol.
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Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
Tokyo hits 28 year low cause of global markets rout.
George Soros gives the Euro 3 months to live, blaming the Central Bank in taking
over the states. Hypocrite. We have a central bank here called the Federal Reserve
doing the same thing his liberal fore-father Woodrow Wilson installed.
And when that happens, the shit will hit the fan here big time too.
Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
In his latest gaffe OBY got Romney's name wrong.
And Galen laughed at Palin.
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Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
OBYs latest gaffe. They just keep coming and coming.
Re: Worst Week Ever for the Prez?
It's getting bad for the prez when the Don Rickles jokes come at a
Shirley MacLain bash. The place was full of liberals but the jokes came.
I'm waiting for OBY the Janitor to play the race card on him.
After getting over their shock, the blacks ended up applauding Rickles.


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Local children and parents anxiously waiting for Chuck E. Cheeses to open dont have too much longer to wait.
The CEC Entertainment Inc. company plans to open Chuck E. Cheeses on Northwest Myhre Road in Silverdale during the first week of September. Construction is currently underway on the establishment.
Brenda Holloway, CEC Entertainment Inc. spokeswoman, said the company carefully picks locations for future sites. Currently, there are 10 Chuck E. Cheeses locations in Washington with the nearest location in Tacoma.
We dont have a lot in Washington, so thatll definitely be a real nice location there (Silverdale), she said. We look for densely populated areas containing families with children ages 2-11.
Chuck E. Cheeses features animated stage shows, games and indoor rides for children. The business is a popular spot for childrens birthday parties, organizational parties and school fund-raisers.
Parents and kids of all ages can enjoy Chuck E. Cheeses one-of-a-kind animated stage show starring the magical mouse and his friends. Come for dinner and stay for lots of fun entertainment including skill and video games and skytubes, Holloway said. Cool indoor rides include a hovering helicopter, Wasteland and Mad Motion Theater.
Pizza, a variety of sandwiches, a salad bar and various desserts are just a few of the food items served at the establishment. By playing games, children can earn tickets which can be traded for various prizes.
CEC Entertainment Inc. currently employs 17,000 full- and part-time workers. Hiring for the Silverdale location began July 31. CEC Entertainment Inc. looks to hire 50-75 full- and part-time employees ranging from general manager, manager, opening coordinator and various hourly positions. Interested candidates may submit their applications online at www.cec-careers.com or at the on-site construction trailer on Northwest Myhre Road in Silverdale.
The first Chuck E. Cheeses Pizza Time Theatre opened in 1977 in San Jose, Calif. CEC Entertainment Inc. now has 531 locations throughout the United States and Canada.
Chuck E. Cheeses in Silverdale will not have a formal grand opening, but eager children and parents will happily play games and eat pizza at the 30-year-old family friendly establishment.
We hope the people in Silverdale will be happy to see us, Holloway said.
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LAKEWOOD, Ohio — Andrew Dowell and David Dowell, juniors on the St. Edward football team, announced their verbal commitments to play college football at Northwestern late Sunday night.
The twin brothers are both rated four-star prospects by Rivals.com.
Andrew, a 6-foot-1, 202 pound running back, carried 158 times for 968 yards and 13 touchdowns for the Eagles last season. He's rated the No. 25 running back in the Class of 2015 by Rivals.com
Glad to say that I am Officially committed to Northwestern University !! 😎😼 #Big10#Wildcatspic.twitter.com/oaZPMrvzY6— Andrew Dowell (@AD_All_Day) April 14, 2014
David, a 6-foot-1, 185 pound wide receiver and cornerback, caught 26 passes for 483 yards and seven TDs, while making 32 tackles and registering three interceptions on defense. He's rated the No. 25 athlete in the Class of 2015 by Rivals.com, and will play receiver at Northwestern, according to reports.
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EASTHAMPTON — A 53-year-old Easthampton man injured in Feb. 24 crash on East Street is in a coma, his wife said Friday.
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UTEP's Anthony Rotich won the race, kicking past Arizona's Lawi Lalang to cross first in 4 minutes, 2.54 seconds. Lalang, who led virtually the entire race, was second.
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Neuner was the top fundraiser in the City Council elections, raising over $25,000. She had the backing of Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, the city's progressive community and the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, which contributed $8,000 to her campaign, campaign finance reports show.
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Felon gets 14 years for selling drugs in Tukwila, Kent, Renton
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A repeat felon, who had been out of prison for less than six months when he returned to drug dealing, was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan in a press release.
Cedric Jackson, 35, was prosecuted as part of a federal "hotspot" initiative designed to target drug and gun crime in the Kent Valley region of Western Washington.
In all, 33 people were prosecuted as part of "Operation Down in the Valley," the hotspot initiative targeting gang violence, drugs, and gun sales in the Kent, Renton, and Tukwila areas. The initiative took nearly 14 pounds of methamphetamine off the street as well as cocaine, heroin, and prescription narcotics. This three-month initiative is the second hotspot initiative in the Seattle area. It followed the successful focus on White Center in 2011.
Between August and October 2012, Jackson supplied cocaine that was purchased by undercover officers on six occasions. When search warrants were executed on Jackson's home, officers found cocaine, cash, and four firearms.
At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Zilly said, "You have a long history of convictions. You have been a career criminal in the true sense of the word. But you have so much talent – you could do so many things if you stayed away from drugs and guns."
Jackson was released from federal prison in March 2012, and within months returned to manufacturing and distributing crack cocaine. When officers searched his home, they found a loaded Taurus .357 Magnum revolver under his bed, and three guns in a cooler in the garage: a Glock 9mm handgun loaded with a 30 round magazine, a loaded Intratec 9mm handgun, and a revolver.
Jackson has more than a dozen prior convictions including assault, robbery, burglary, drug possession, and bank fraud.
In asking for the 14 year prison sentence, prosecutors wrote to the court, "A significant term of imprisonment is warranted in this case to protect the public from further crimes of defendant Cedric Jackson. As the criminal history outlined above makes clear, from the time he was 18 to the present, the defendant has engaged in a repeated pattern of criminal activity, including violent crimes and unlawful firearm possession. Of most concern, the timeline above demonstrates clearly that the defendant engages in new criminal conduct as soon as he is released from custody."
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Brandywine Heights celebrated three athletes Tuesday who signed their Division I letters of intent for softball and baseball.
Softball players Taylor Brintzenhoff and Sam Sweigart were among the three athletes honored. Brintzenhoff will take her talents down south to Louisiana Tech. Sweigart is staying closer to home, heading to Lafayette.
Both players were integral in last year's state championship run by the Bullets.
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