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Boundary Waters Park
Contact: Peter Trent - Boundary Waters Park Manager
5000 Highway 92/166
Douglasville, Georgia 30135
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Boundary Waters is a beautiful 500-acre recreation complex located along the Chattahoochee River in Douglas County, Georgia. Much of the park is dedicated to active recreation which encompasses a state of the art Aquatic Center, Baseball, and Soccer Complexes. Amenities also include a new regulation sized Football Field completed in the Fall of 2015, children�s playground, 10 acre fishing pond, 12+ miles of multi-use trials for equestrian, mountain biking, hiking, and/or running, and a new Disc Golf Course that was completed in the fall of 2015. Boundary Waters Park also features the Douglas County segment of the C.H.C. Greenway Trail, which was completed in May of 2013. This is a � mile stretch of paved trail that connects to the current �natural� trail segment at Boundary Waters. For inquiries about Boundary Waters Park, call Peter Trent, Park Manager @ 770-489-2175 ext. 5059, or email firstname.lastname@example.com
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|Explanation of Pre & Post Technical Inspection
This outlines some of the most common issues we see in pre and post race technical inspection.
These are all issues that are the driver's responsibility.
1) The pre-tech form is to be filled out completely and your pre-tech sticker is to be installed on the kart before the kart takes the track for any warm up, practice, qualifying, or race session. Without them, you will not be allowed to enter the track. All pre-tech items are also post-tech requirements.
2) Helmets need to abide by the LAKC Rule Item 13.
3) Chest protection: Drivers in Kid Kart, Junior 1; Rookie and Cadet classes must use an approved Chest Protector (Section 18.104.22.168.6 of the IKF rule book)
5) Every kart will have their tires marked after qualifying.
6) Every kart will have their engine marked (painted) after qualifying.
7) Normally, at least the top 5 finishers in each qualifying session, heat, or final will be directed to the impound area, occasionally more will be held. If any question, ask a tech official.
8) We use a spec fuel as follows: See class structure and rules for your class. IKF rules section 601.1 provides for one courtesy fuel test. We will be happy to test fuel in your tank only. We will not test in other containers.
9) We use a variety of tests to determine fuel legality. These tests are very sensitive. Remember it takes only a small amount of non-conforming fuel to contaminate your fuel tank or storage container.
10) Occasionally we will supply fuel on the grid for a specific class. If this is the case for your class you will be instructed to come to the grid with your tank empty and you fuel line loose. It is very important that the tank be completely empty.
11) Come to the tech impound area with sufficient tools and expertise to disassemble the engine. The tech officials are not required to loan tools.
12) Be knowledgeable about the current IKF, and SKUSA Technical Manual. Be aware of any updates that are posted on www.ikfkarting.com, www.superkartusa.com and or www.lakc.org.
13)Every Kart must clear the scales each time you take the track. If you pass the scales without weighing in you will be Disqualified for the session.

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Swain murder suspects have August court dateWritten by Admin
Eight defendants charged with the 2013 murder of Calup Joe Caston in Swain County are slated for an Aug. 11 court date.
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In March 2013, the Swain SheriffŌĆÖs Office arrested eight people in connection with CastonŌĆÖs killing. The victim, age 27, was assaulted at the old 288 boat ramp in Swain, and later died as a result of his injuries after arriving at Mission Hospital in Asheville.
The eight men facing charges for CastonŌĆÖs murder all hail from Cherokee. They are Troy Floyd Boston, 25; Joshua Daniel George, 19; Marcos Anthony Cardonne, 23; Trevor Dylan George, 18; Curtis Cole Price, 19; Joshua Tyler Price, 22; Correy Hunter Price, 25; Corey Michael Jenkins, 21.
Each defendant faces four different charges: conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree murder.
Curtis Cole Price bonded out in April 2013 on $250,000. In March of this year, Jenkins also posted a $250,000 bond. Correy Hunter Price has yet to make his $500,000 bond and remains in custody.
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GREEN BAY — Bellin Health Sports Medicine and Bellin Health Family Medical Centers are offering pre-participation exams for students taking part in the upcoming 2008-09 athletics season.
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Wynstone was established in 1989 and is surrounded by one of the most prestigious communities in Lake County. Our membership includes business and community leaders that reside in luxurious homes surrounding the course, as well as people from surrounding communities. Our standards of hospitality are designed to maintain a collegial, yet sophisticated atmosphere. Our members' families enjoy the benefits of extraordinary hospitality, casual elegance and a wide array of amenities that contribute to their enjoyment of the Wynstone Lifestyle.Golf legend Jack Nicklaus crafted our breathtakingly beautiful and challenging golf course among the rolling hills and wetlands of Northern Illinois. His vision and respect for the topography generated a championship golf course that was immediately recognized among the "top one hundred" golf courses in the United States. Skillfully woven into the natural environment, the combination of the signature golf course and luxury home estate setting make Wynstone the finest gated community in the Midwest.A limited number of golf and social memberships, for residents and non-residents, are offered by invitation. Pool, tennis and dining programs afford members' families a complete recreational experience that, at the core, reflect the best golfing traditions and ensure an ambiance of exclusivity.For the latest information on the Golf Course visit ... http://www.wynstoneturf.blogspot.com For further information about living in the Wynstone Community visit ... www.wynstonepoa.com
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I wholeheartedly agree with the comments that the less the little one nurses during the day, the more he wants the boob when I'm home; as well as the "move him closer to daddy" suggestion.
Another thing I found helped was to push his afternoon nap later so that he went down around the time I got home from work. That way I lay down with him and nurse him when I get home, and I get up when he is asleep. He gets his comforting in, and when he wakes up for the evening stretch he isn't feeling mommy-starved and he ends up going to sleep much easier. The more I practiced this, the more he got used to me rolling onto my back and slowly popping the nipple out of his mouth. The first times, he woke, saw it in front of him, and grabbed it. After that, he peered up, made sure it was there, and fell back asleep. After awhile, he stopped noticing.


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Visitation was 9 a.m. until the time of the funeral service at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, at Restwood Funeral Home. Interment followed at Restwood Memorial Park.
Jose was born March 19, 1938 in Refugio County, Texas to Catarino and Abelina Gonzalez Villarreal.
Jose worked for over 30 years at Chemical Leaman. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be missed by numerous family members and friends.
He is preceded in death by both of his parents; brothers Manuel Villarreal, Jesus Villarreal, Vincent Villarreal and Jose Villarreal.
Survivors include his wife of 53 years Beatrice Villarreal; children Joseph and wife Lisa Villarreal, and Patrick Villarreal; sisters Victoria Cantu, Nicolasa Vasquez and Mary Veselka; grandchildren Staci Villarreal and boyfriend Travis and Kara Steiner and husband Brian; and one great-grandchild Colton Steiner.


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Stocks gain for fifth day; builds on record highsBy STEVE ROTHWELL
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Maureen Smaldone, a trader for Brendan E. Cryan and Company, monitors trading activity from her workstation at the New York Stock Exchange.NEW YORK The Dow pushed further into record territory Thursday, having surpassed its previous all-time high two days ago. The catalyst was the latest evidence that hiring is picking up.
Stocks started higher after the Labor Department reported that the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell by 7,000 last week, driving the four-week average to its lowest in five years. The drop is a positive sign ahead of Fridays employment report.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 33 points to 14,329 by the closing bell.
The Dow barreled through a record high Tuesday and has since added to its gains.
Investors have been buying stocks on optimism that employers are slowly starting to hire again and that the housing market is recovering. Growing company earnings are also encouraging investors to get into the market. The Dow is 9.3 percent higher this year and the broader S&P 500 is up 8.2 percent.
If you have a multi-year time horizon, equities are an attractive asset, but dont be surprised to see some volatility, especially after the big run weve had, said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial Group.
Boeing led the Dow higher Wednesday, advancing $1.85 to $80.91 following reports that U.S. regulators were poised to approve a plan within days to allow the plane maker to begin test flights of its 787 Dreamliner. The 787 fleet has been grounded since Jan. 16 because of safety concerns about the planes batteries. Twenty one stocks in the 30-member index advanced.
The Federal Reserve will release the results of its annual stress test for banks after the market closes Thursday. Financial stocks advanced amid speculation that banks will have amassed enough capital to be able to return more cash to shareholders. Bank of America was the second biggest gainer in the Dow, rising 25 cents to $12.16, with JPMorgan Chase in third spot, gaining 46 cents to $50.54.
Any decline in stocks may be short-lived, as investors who have missed out on the rally since the start of the year jump into the market, says Jeffery Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond James.
The rally is going to go higher than most people think, says Saut. This thing has caught most money managers flat-footed.
The stock markets rally this year has been helped in no small part by continuing economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve.
The U.S. central bank began buying bonds in January 2009 and is still purchasing $85 billion each month in Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities.
That has kept interest rates near historic lows, reducing borrowing costs and encouraging investors to move money out of conservative investments like bonds and into stocks.
The Nasdaq composite advanced six points, 0.2 percent, to 3,228.
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Antibiotics for Low Back Pain
Low back pain is a particularly frustrating condition that is common, poorly understood, and difficult to treat. Could a long course of antibiotics be the answer for some patients? A recent study from Denmark suggests that it might be: "Antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and vertebral bone edema (Modic type 1 changes): a double-blind randomized clinical controlled trial of efficacy" by Albert, Sorensen, Christensen and Manniche. Is this a crazy idea like long-term antibiotics for "chronic Lyme disease" or will it pan out like antibiotic eradication of H. pylori in patients with ulcers? Time will tell. This was a rigorous, well-done study, but we can never rely on the results of a single study until it is replicated or confirmed elsewhere.
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Inside the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
It's time for the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, and BFTV recently stepped behind the scenes at The Shrine to get a glimpse of what it takes to put together tonight's two-hour, star-studded broadcast.
Producer Kathy Connell spoke about what sets the SAG Awards apart from the other major ceremonies. "We are separate because this is an award that's given by actors," she explained. "It's given by the actors' union, SAG-AFTRA. There's no other voting group that's larger than ours, and they're professionals who know what it takes to give a fine performance. Everybody in this room will have gotten a ballot and a chance to vote for everybody else."
On that note, she called the spirit of the ceremony "very personal. They admire each other so greatly. We invented the concept of the cast and ensemble award, where we're acknowledging a team of actors, and that means a lot to them."
Connell also praised The Shrine, where the SAG Awards have been since their third outing, for both the main room and the venue's ability to host the official afterparty. "The fact that we can put the tent and the party thirty feet from the room, so people just go seamlessly from one to the other, is terrific for us," she said. "It's a unique feeling in this room. These actors love being in this room."
A tremendous amount of effort goes into setting up The Shrine for the evening's show - more than you might think. "We probably take about eight months," said production designer Joe Stewart. "We come up with an initial concept, I'll pitch a couple of ideas, and then we narrow it down and that becomes a guide for the rest of the room."
"This particular concept is more about kind of a theatrical space," he continued. "There's two things that I have to be aware of. The people that are going to be on this set are usually going to be very well-dressed, so you would look appropriate for that, [and] then you need a screen for playback."
"Last year's set was very gold colored," he said. "This year's set is more platinum. This year, this set is going to take on very many different aspects with lighting design. It'll become very, very colorful."
Stewart added that audiences watching from home will still be able to enjoy the presentation. "It's always fun to be here, but it's terrific to watch on television," he said, "because it is primarily designed as a television show."
Viewers will also have some help from actress Busy Philipps, who serves as the Screen Actors Guild social media ambassador for this year's awards, taking over from last year's ambassador, Regina King. "They've been doing this gig for a couple years now, and it's just supposed to be something fun," explained the actress of her role in tonight's festivities. "I feel as though no one just watches TV anymore. Everyone's on their computer as well, at the same time. I think it's fun to have both views of what's going on."
She's enjoyed the role immensely. "It's been great. SAG has been so supportive and excited to have me on board," she said. "All my tweets have been genuinely from me and what I'm excited about or looking forward to. I hope on the day of the show I get as much behind the scenes gossip and action as I can get, and maybe some fun Twitpics."
For everyone involved in the SAG Awards in any capacity, it's no small task. Even after all their hard work has paid off, it will already be time to move on to the next SAG Awards. Said Connell, "We're already starting to talk about next year, for the 20th anniversary."
The 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards air tonight at 8 PM ET/PT on both TNT and TBS.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Spin Master Toys, of Toronto, Ontario is voluntarily recalling about 137,000 Firestormer and Skyblazer toy planes. The plastic air intake chamber of the air-powered toy planes can burst, throwing plastic pieces, posing a laceration, bruise and abrasion hazard to consumers.Spin Master Toys has received seven reports of Firestormer planes bursting, including four reports of injuries to children. Injuries included one chest abrasion, a cut leg, a bruised shoulder and ringing in the ears. There have been no reports involving the Skyblazer planes.The recalled Firestormer plane is either red or blue in color with a flame graphic across the body and "Firestormer" printed on the wings of the plane. The Skyblazer plane is purple, green and white in color and has "Skyblazer" printed on the wings of the plane. These toys use a hand pump mechanism to compress air to make the plane fly. Both planes are recommended for children 8 years old and over. The planes have an 8- digit date code on the bottom of the pump. The date code reads MM/DD/YY-KS. Only planes with date codes 12/29/01-KS through 03/24/02-KS are included in the recall. "Made In China" is written on the bottom of the pump below the date code. Planes manufactured before December 29, 2001 and after March 24, 2002 are not included in this recall.Hobby shops and department stores nationwide, including Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, Target and K-mart sold these planes between January 2002 and May 20, 2002 for about $20.Consumers should stop using the planes immediately and contact Spin Master Toys at (800) 622-8339 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday to receive a free replacement plane. Consumers also can visit the firm's web site at www.spinmaster.com.
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Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has been awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize. This annual prize from the American Astronomical Society is for outstanding achievement in observational astronomy by an astronomer under the age of 36.
Kalirai, 34, received the award for his contributions to the field of stellar and galactic astrophysics, including establishing a fundamental relation of stellar astrophysics, the initial-final mass relation that maps the fraction of mass loss that stars experience over their lives.
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Home List of Titles Fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals by femtosecond laser interference
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- Title
- Fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals by femtosecond laser interference
- Author(s)
- Matsuo, Shigeki; Kondo, Toshiaki; Juodkazis, Saulius; Mizeikis, Vygantas; Misawa, Hiroaki
- Abstract
- We describe a novel microfabrication method based on interference of several coherent laser pulses in photosensitive media. The method allows to transform the periodic multidimensional interference patterns into periodic modulation of dielectric properties of the material, and is therefore potentially suitable for the photonic crystal fabrication in materials like photoresists, photosensitive glasses, and others. We have fabricated one, two, and three-dimensional photonic crystals with different lattices and sub-micrometer periods. The fabricated structures have high structural quality, as evidenced by confocal and scanning electron microscopies. Furthermore, using numerical simulations we explore the possibilities to obtain body-centered-cubic and diamond photonic crystal lattices by varying optical phases of the interfering beams. Numerical simulations are also used to reveal photonic bandgap properties of some 2D phhotonic crystals, fabricated using this technique.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Source
- Proceedings of SPIE: Photonic Bandgap Materials and Devices, San Jose, United States, 23-25 January 2002 / Ali Adibi, Axel Scherer and Shawn-Yu Lin (eds.), Vol. 4655, pp. 327-334
- Publication year
- 2002
- Keyword(s)
- Diffractive beam splitter; Femtosecond lasers; Laser interference; Multi-photon process; Photonic crystals
- Publisher
- 0277-786X (series ISSN)
- 9780819443946, 0819443948
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- Copyright © 2002 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. This paper was originally published in Proceedings of SPIE (Vol. 4655), and is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.463891. The published version of the paper is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic electronic or print reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
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Jeffords service honors his humanityBy Kevin O'Connor
Staff Writer | August 23,2014Albert J. Marro / Staff Photo
The folded flag that draped the coffin of former U.S. Sen. James M. Jeffords is presented to his children, Laura and Leonard Jeffords, during the funeral service Friday at Grace Congregational United Church of Christ in Rutland.As the children of former U.S. Sen. James Jeffords listened to speaker after speaker laud their father at his funeral Friday, they knew a few things were left unsaid.
"My dad enjoyed a lot of simple things in life," interjected his son, Leonard.
Take his tractor. His dogs. His favorite sandwich: peanut butter, lettuce and mayonnaise.
"I know," his daughter, Laura, responded to the collective groans and grimaces.
Jeffords' political career spanned four decades, including his election to the Vermont Senate in 1966, the attorney general's office in 1968, the state's lone congressional seat in 1974 and the U.S. Senate in 1988. But the man who climbed to the loftiest rungs of the political ladder was eulogized as, first and foremost, a down-to-earth father and friend.
"One of my earliest memories was when I was 5 and he was my hockey coach," Leonard Jeffords said. "He couldn't skate. But he always tried to be there for us."
U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernard Sanders and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch joined a slate of Vermont dignitaries, former congressional staffers and several hundred locals for a 1½-hour service at Grace Congregational United Church of Christ in Rutland.
The sanctuary — where James Jeffords went to Sunday school as a child — was the same place that hosted past memorials for his wife, Liz, and his predecessor in the U.S. Senate, fellow Rutlander Robert Stafford.
Although many in the crowd attended all three, Friday's program was unique from the moment the choir sang its first note to the pluck of a banjo (on folk musician Pete Seeger's "To My Old Brown Earth.")
Jeffords' children skipped repeating their father's public résumé and instead offered private remembrances.
"My father hated green bean casserole," Laura said. "Because when he married my mom, that is all she knew how to cook. My father loved to chop wood, and he thought Leonard and I did, too. My father had two left feet. And so he danced with Liz, and it was magic."
Leonard recounted how their father took time to be a dad. The family played cards, Monopoly, Risk and, every April Fool's Day, practical jokes. Take the year they faked the theft of his tractor.
"Jim, I can't talk right now," Leonard recalled his mother saying on the phone, "the state police are here."
Former classmate George Hansen said he not only had known Jeffords since age 4 but also introduced him to Liz.
"From Jimmy to Jim to Gentleman Jim to Jeezum Jim," Hansen said, "we say, 'Well done, classmate, well done, best friend, well done, good and faithful servant.'"
Former Gov. James Douglas, seated with peers including predecessor Howard Dean, noted Jeffords helped adopt the state's ban on billboards and worked with the Legislature to draft the Act 250 land-use law and bottle-deposit rules.
"I often wonder what Vermont would look like today," Douglas said, "without the efforts of Jim Jeffords."
Douglas acknowledged that, as a Republican, he disagreed with Jeffords' historic 2001 departure from the party to become an independent, which tipped control of the 50-50 U.S. Senate to the Democrats.
"But I knew as a Vermonter," Douglas said, "his commitment to us was as strong as ever."
Jeffords' former aide Mark Powden said his boss didn't have separate public and private faces.
"Lord knows on more than one occasion we wished there were two Jim Jeffords," Powden said of the man whose mix of eagerness and anxiousness often hampered him from offering clear, concise quotes.
But Jeffords could speak volumes with a smile, added his children, who savored his rejoicing over 9-year-old grandson Patton and 7-year-old granddaughter Hazel.
"That's perhaps my fondest memory of my dad," Leonard said. "That's how I will remember my father."
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Today, I was walking towards a party where I knew my cheating ex would be. I passionately rehearsed how I would have a go at him big time when I met him. Guess who was walking right behind me and heard it all. FML
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Home List of Titles Radially extended kinematics in the S0 galaxy NGC 2768 from planetary nebulae, globular clusters and starlight
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/236581
- Title
- Radially extended kinematics in the S0 galaxy NGC 2768 from planetary nebulae, globular clusters and starlight
- Author(s)
- Forbes, Duncan A.; Cortesi, Arianna; Pota, Vincenzo; Foster, Caroline; Romanowsky, Aaron J.; Merrifield, Michael R.; Brodie, Jean P.; Strader, Jay; Coccato, Lodovico; Napolitano, Nicola
- Abstract
- There are only a few tracers available to probe the kinematics of individual early-type galaxies beyond one effective radius. Here we directly compare a sample of planetary nebulae (PNe), globular clusters (GCs) and galaxy starlight velocities out to approximately four effective radii, in the S0 galaxy NGC 2768. Using a bulge-to-disc decomposition of a K-band image we assign PNe and starlight to either the disc or the bulge. We show that the bulge PNe and bulge starlight follow the same radial density distribution as the red subpopulation of GCs, whereas the disc PNe and disc starlight are distinct components. We find good kinematic agreement between the three tracers to several effective radii (and with stellar data in the inner regions). Further support for the distinct nature of the two galaxy components comes from our kinematic analysis. After separating the tracers into bulge and disc components we find the bulge to be a slowly rotating pressure-supported system, whereas the disc reveals a rapidly rising rotation curve with a declining velocity dispersion profile. The resulting Vrot/& 0963; ratio for the disc resembles that of a spiral galaxy and hints at an origin for NGC 2768 as a transformed late-type galaxy. A two-component kinematic analysis for a sample of S0s will help to elucidate the nature of this class of galaxy.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 426, no. 2 (Oct 2012), pp. 975-982
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Dynamics; Elliptical galaxies; Globular clusters; Kinematics; Lenticular galaxies; NGC 2768; Planetary nebulae; Starlight
- Publisher
- WIley-Blackwell Publishing
- 0035-8711
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 The Authors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society copyright © 2012 RAS.
- Additional information
- The authors acknowledge support from the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission (FP7-COFUND), the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (/FP7/2007-2013/) under grant agreement no 229517, and the NSF through grants AST-0808099, AST-0909237 and AST-1109878.
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They (Marathon Oil) came to us stating they wanted to lease the property, so we put it out for bid," explained KCISD business manager Teri Crawford. "We didn't go looking to lease it. It is extra income for the district, even if it never gets drilled on… because they are paying us about $8,000 just to lease the land, so we can always use the extra money."
"The oil lease bid was good for the district," added district superintendent Linda Bettin. "It allows the district to earn some income on a small piece of property that is not being used at this time."
Also during the meeting, the trustees heard and approved the annual district audit report given for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Auditor Cameron Gulley presented the audit to the board. The audit report stated in summary that the district had no material weaknesses identified, and reported no significant deficiencies in regards to internal control over financial reporting.
According to the audit findings, a "clean opinion" was issued on the general purpose financial statements. The audit showed "no non-compliance which is material to the general purpose financial statements."
"The audit was a great audit," explain Crawford after the meeting. "Our fund balance was increased by over $500,000 during the 2011-2012 school year, due to increases in property values in the district."


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29 May 2011
Cheap Phantasm was; unimaginative is emphatically was not. It looks on paper an awful lot like plenty of other films, past and future, on the model of "inquisitive kid gets in over his head"; horror films and thrillers with one foot planted firmly in bedtime story. What sets Coscarelli's picture apart from its genre cousins is the batshit crazy tone, a certain feeling of his not giving any kind of a shit whatsoever about telling a story that makes sense; it's suggested at the end that some indeterminate amount of the movie might have been a nightmare, even a recurring nightmare, complete with a shocker ending that seems to immediately invalidate that same possibility. But really, we're comfortably in the territory being so effectively mined by the Italians right around the same time Coscarelli was shooting Phantasm, the magical land in which "making sense" is completely ignored, as long as the mood and atmosphere are right, and the story follows in some way the effective logic of a dream.
This effect, which does much to set Phantasm so far apart from the bulk of American horror in the late '70s, was largely an accident: Coscarelli's assembly edit was sprawling and full of much incidental detail and let the plot warm up slowly and methodically, and it was some three hours long. Deciding that nobody in the world would sit still for a horror movie of that duration - one where the horror didn't even kick in for 90 minutes - Coscarelli mercilessly carved over half of the film out, leaving behind only the stripped-down, elemental version of the story, blitzing through its content with a pell-mell intensity that has no time for niceties like sense or coherence. Serendipity, and a director-writer-cinematographer-editor with no ego, for a multi-hyphenate; and surely one of the most appealing things about Phantasm is its tear-ass pacing. At 88 minutes, the film is not long (though it's not so very short by '70s horror standards), and it feels a good deal shorter still, a raw blast of sensory information that feels like it has barely started before it gets crazy and ends; which is also kind of dreamlike, now I think about it.
The opening scene gets things off and running, with a middle-aged man named Tommy (Bill Cone) screwing a hot blonde woman (Kathy Lester) right in the middle of a cemetery at night. Their assignation ends with her stabbing him with an oddly ceremonial dagger; the next we see of Tommy, he's being planted in the ground, with two of his closest friends, Jody Pearson (Bill Thornbury) and Reggie (Reggie Bannister) serving as pallbearers. Jody, poking around the large structure in the cemetery that seems to double as funeral home and mausoleum, starts to become aware of a peculiar scuffling sound, and out of the corner of his eye seems to keep just barely missing the movement of a small humanoid in brown robes - the editing Coscarelli uses to suggest how this figure remains just out of direct view is absolutely smashing, by the way (incidentally, the "small humanoid in brown robes" nearly derailed the movie just as it was about to start filming, when another indie director named George Lucas included similar-looking characters in his 1977 picture Star Wars, but Coscarelli elected not to change anything, on the grounds that the beings in his movie are otherwise not remotely like Jawas).
Another mourner notices the scuffling creatures: Jody's younger brother Mike (A. Michael Baldwin), though he has not been invited to the funeral proper; Jody is trying to keep him from having another episode as happened when they buried their parents the year prior. Thus, nobody is aware that he's there spying, able to watch the tall mortician (Angus Scrimm) hoist Tommy's coffin as though it weighed about ten pounds. This, plus the homunculi, is enough to convince Mike that something horrible is going on at Morningside, and he sets himself to investigating what the Tall Man is doing with the bodies he's spiriting away.
That investigation takes up virtually the entirety of the movie to follow, considerably more than an hour: Mike sneaks in to the mausoleum, finds something inexplicable and creepy, and runs back home. Meanwhile, Jody, wishing that he could move out of this crappy little town and get his life back on track and be his own man (a nostalgic musical number between Jody and Reggie is the single sour note in the movie, cutting the momentum off dead, but it's before anything has really happened, so it doesn't hurt much), like it was before his parents' deaths forced him to become a surrogate parent, pays little attention to Mike and his ravings, though to his - and Coscarelli's - immense credit, Jody pretty instantaneously comes around the moment he gets evidence of Strange Doings at the Cemetery, in the form of a dismembered but highly ambulatory finger that bleeds yellow. Phantasm mostly only boasts two locations: the cluttered, homey house that the brothers share, and the uncomfortably smooth marble halls of the mausoleum, and on paper it would sound like the film ratchets back and forth between those two spots with joyless steadiness. That this does not turn out to be the case whatsoever is largely thanks to how steadily Coscarelli continually cranks up the phantasmagoria, with every trip to the mausoleum resulting in weirder and more terrifying revelations and each return to the familiarity of the Pearson homestead showing it to be increasingly less secure, more degraded by the Tall Man and his minions and their actions.
And even that only works because the weirdness is genuinely unsettling and strange. The film's big famous moment - the only part I'd seen or even knew about before watching it - is the matter of a silver ball that ricochet's through the hallways of the mausoleum, latching onto a victims head and screwing a hole into his brain, resulting in a massive jet of blood shooting out. It's an almost ridiculous gore effect that nearly saddled Phantasm with an X-rating (simpler times, the 1970s), but in the best tradition of surrealist horror, it's not disgusting so much as it is inexplicable and disorienting; and for my money, it's not half as memorable anyway as the moment when Mike stumbles across a dimensional portal and finds the Tall Man's homeworld, a ghastly landscape of dusky reds, as good a cinematic depiction of Hell as that decade produced, though I don't know that Hell was the deliberate intent.
Even some of the moments that largely don't work - with a budget this small, Phantasm could hardly avoid some dodgy effects, with the silver sphere in particular looking rather unashamedly shitty the second time we see it - don't break the movie, so much as add to its sense of the inexplicable and the alien. What Coscarelli achieved here was a sort of exercise in disequilibrium: taking the most low-key kind of Americana (presumably, the kind celebrated by his first two films), and cutting it with exaggeratedly horrific concepts (a great early moment: the Tall Man, on the streets of town, stops for a minute, and when he walks on, we see behind him a hilariously prosaic advertisement for slushees). I cannot know if the film would have been helped or wrecked by the addition of that original opening 90 minutes: if the creation of a whole movie's worth of normalcy would have made the encroaching surrealist nightmare that much more unnerving, or if it would have been worth the sacrifice of the Phantasm we have now, one that hits the ground running.
On the whole, I wouldn't want to change it: the film is not at all perfect (it is in fact rather hokey at points, but the hokiness is borne of total sincerity), but it's so very much it's own thing, that I'd consider it a fool's errand to muck with it. For one thing, it's honestly creepy: the lengthy scenes of Mike or Jody trying to figure out where this or that noise is coming from are all of them masterpieces of slow-burning tension, and Scrimm's gaunt, unreadable face is the most terrifying thing about the Tall Man, who for the bulk of the movie is too inexplicable to register as genuinely frightening.
Better yet, Phantasm has the courage of its convictions: there's no doubt that Coscarelli made this out of love, for it's simply too strangely personal to be the kind of moviemaking-by-numbers that would come to dominate horror in the coming decade. Not least because the ultimate explanation for the Tall Man's plot is so damn bizarre - good breeding keeps me from spoiling it, but even if I wanted to, I'm not really sure that I could possibly write a review that dealt with the ending in a way that was able to tie it into any sort of argument about anything. It comes from nowhere but the fevered mind of its writer, putting ideas down because he found them compelling, and not because tradition or cliché told him to. And even if that results in a movie that gets progressively loopier over its last 20 minutes, as it switches from horror to sci-fi, it's hard to argue that Phantasm isn't memorable.
More than this steadfast attachment to its story, and more than its adherence to the chaotic structure of a hallucination or a dream, right down to the deliberate introduction of plot holes and apparent contradictions, what really marks out Phantasm as a labor of love, to me, is its protagonist: Coscarelli is invested in Mike Pearson to a simply shocking degree for an R-rated movie with a 14-year-old lead. Take out the nudity, violence, and language, and in all respects Phantasm could function as a Disney movie from the same period; it is a story in which an adolescent is depicted throughout with respect and admiration, shown to be every bit as smart, capable, and observant as the very best of the adults around him, and it helps that Baldwin's performance, though a bit too wide-eyed (there's an ineffable aura of '80s Spielbergian excess in the way Coscarelli frames the young actor, though this would hardly have been possible in 1977), is the strongest in the film.
There's something delicious about the way Phantasm thus plays with our heads: on the one hand, it cannot be mistaken for anything but a particularly outré gore picture, yet the plot never stops feeling like it's a family-friendly shocker, even more so when we recall the number of made-for-TV horror movies in the '70s that were family-friendly, and yet were also legitimately scary, in a way that no kiddie-horror film these days would even daydream about, if anybody was actually inclined to make such a thing. This combination of the adult and the adolescent is as disorienting as anything else in the fabric of this most self-consciously anti-real movie, but it also give Phantasm a curiously transgressive feeling, a sense almost that Coscarelli is getting away with something. And that, in turn, provides a genuinely sharp edge to a movie that can, in tiny patches, come across as just a tad daft, and needs that little bit of grounding if its hypnotically crazy bends are to be believed as anything other than Italian-style oddness for oddness's sake. That, plus Coscarelli's remarkable skill in his four roles behind the camera, the thick nighttime cinematography and terse editing doing so much to make the most uncanny parts of the movie that much more crawly, results in a movie that could hardly be any better, even if it's not perfect; but the shagginess about it is quite a significant part of what gives the film its charm and personality, and sets it apart as one of the great auteur pieces of '70s genre cinema.
Body Count: Between you, me, and the internet, I really don't know. 3, says my gut, but it could be up to 7, depending on whether or not we believe that characters said to be found alive offscreen are actually alive. I will not even start to wade into the matter of who "really" died vs. who died in a dream.
Reviews in this series
Phantasm (Coscarelli, 1979)
Phantasm II (Coscarelli, 1988)
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (Coscarelli, 1994)
Phantasm IV: Oblivion (Coscarelli, 1998)
5 comments:
- Mysterious F. said...
Phantasm was one of my favorites as a horror-obsesses kid back in elementary school. Such a strange, imaginative movie.
- Mike said...
Phantasm is the movie I would have made if someone had sat me down as a 14 year old and asked me to come up with a horror movie.
At that age I wrote a sequel to Gremlins that starred a 14 year old (basically me) who was every bit as smart and respectable as the adults (maybe a little bit smarter).
Watching Phantasm I couldn't help but wonder if it was all just a happy accident. Were the dream-state and plot holes really deliberate, or are you just giving him the benefit of the doubt? Could it have also been immaturity and inexperience at work?
Whatever the case it's certainly interesting and I wish there were more original, unrestrained ideas like this these days.
I say it every time I post here: I'm no film critic, but it seems to me that the sphere and the Tall Man are what carry this movie. The Tall Man is so imposing and weird, even in the way he moves. I wonder if the Coens were inspired by him when they styled Anton Chigurh's bob? The sphere is extremely effective. Is it supposed to be a sci-fi mortician's tool for draining blood/organs?
Definitely worth the watch.
- RickR said...
Yeah, I just watched it again recently, and loved it all over again.
I'm a little surprised that Tim didn't mention the score (sort of semi-famous) or how creepy the sound design is, and how unconventional.
And the symmetrical shot designs. Symmetry happens a lot in "Phantasm" and, to me anyway, is one of the defining features of its visual design. Formalism in the middle of a nightmare.
Also noteworthy is that the movie's protagonists, victims and villains are all male. The only exception is the creepy fortune teller and her daughter (who is shown running into trouble at Morningside) and "Sally and Suzy" (who Reggie rescues offscreen). That alone makes "Phantasm" different than so many horror films, past and present.
Loved "Phantasm", didn't like the first sequel at all, and have avoided the later ones. But I'm happy that Tim take that bullet if the sequels are crap. :)
- Tim said...
I realised that I hadn't said anything about the music far enough into writing the thing that I just did not want to force myself to go back and revise (the article was already a day late).
But if I had, I would have groused that it was somewhat too reminiscent of "Tubular Bells" from The Exorcist, though not therefore ineffective.
- Troy Olson said...
I think you nail what's both great and limiting about PHANTASM, it's a satisfying film that you can't help but admire simply due to Coscarelli's vision, originality, and unashamed will to just put what he wanted to on the screen.
Being forced to cut a 3-hour film down to 90 minutes seems overwhelmingly responsible for the surreal nature of the film, to the point that I almost wonder if it isn't a fantastic method for other horror filmmakers to try.
The follow-ups to the film are interesting (again, mostly for Coscarelli's wild ideas, but also for the studio interference that came along) but somewhere along the line the continuity gets so out of hand that I couldn't make heads or tails of what was happening...