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The Dark Knight
Movie Review
Sometimes folks look for trouble. And sometimes trouble comes a callin', all on its own.
For a while, it seemed as though life in Gotham City was looking up. Gotham's finest, led by straight-arrow Lt. Gordon, was squeezing the city's crime syndicates. Harvey Dent, a new and fearless district attorney, stalked the courtrooms. Batman prowled the city's darkest alleys. Mob bosses stopped meeting at night, afraid they'd be pinched.
What? A city where crime kingpins are afraid of the dark?
Then—like the flu, like a hailstorm, like a crowbar to the side of the head—comes the Joker. No baggage. No backstory. No greedy motive. Just a leering, cackling demon of chaos. He crashes a high-level mob meeting and offers his services as the city's very own bat exterminator. What does he want? Nothing. Everything. What does he ask for? Half the mob's money.
"If you're good at something," the Joker wheezes, "you never do it for free."
So begins perhaps the deepest, bleakest summer blockbuster ever, an explosion-riddled saga about order and anarchy, about good and evil, and about the line we draw between the two.
[Note: To explore this film's philosophical and spiritual underpinnings, the following sections contain plot spoilers.]
Positive Elements
The Dark Knight is a complex film with a myriad of messages. But at its most basic, the question it poses is this: To what lengths do good people go in order to conquer the worst sort of evil? Must they become a little evil themselves along the way?
"You got rules!" a broken mob boss tells Batman. "The Joker—he's got no rules!"
It's a pesky truism our heroes struggle with from the get-go. None of them escape unsullied. "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain," says Dent. But it's when they refuse to compromise that the movie soars.
Dent starts as a bright knight—a blond, bold DA who aims to clean up Gotham's streets for good. Though there are ever-so-slight indications that he's not altogether wonderful (the boys at the station call him "Two Face"), he's sincere about his crime-fighting calling—a sincerity that wins over even billionaire-celebutant Bruce Wayne. "Gotham needs a hero with a face," Wayne says. One might say Dent and Batman are two sides of the same coin, Dent the unsullied face of incorruptibility and Batman the black-caped heavy. Dent even sacrifices his career and good name at one point to keep Batman out on the streets—a favor Batman returns.
Lt. Gordon, once Gotham's only honest police officer, has a wee bit of company nowadays, but he's still arguably the film's finest, prepared to sacrifice his own life for both his city and family.
Lucius Fox, head honcho at Wayne Enterprises, continues to play Q to Batman's Bond, keeping him supplied with a host of critical gizmos and gadgets. But while he's willing to cook the books to keep Batman's identity a secret, there are ethical places he won't go—at least not for very long. When the Dark Knight creates a gigantic sonar net by tapping into all of Gotham's cell phones (a hefty invasion of privacy), Fox tells him that either the machine goes or he does. "Spying on 30 million people isn't in my job description," he says—though he acquiesces to use it for one specialized mission.
The most heroic guy of the bunch (go figure) is Batman himself, willing to sacrifice everything that's precious to him for the sake of the city. He never, ever kills, and he rigidly keeps this special vow even when the Joker more than deserves death.
The citizens of Gotham also show a bit of gumption. When the Joker pits average Joes and Janes against convicted killers and thieves in a deathmatch of sorts, they manage to resist their selfish urges and risk everything to do the right thing. Humanity and its higher conscience survives even as the world burns down around it—much to the Joker's dismay.
Spiritual Content
The Dark Knight is loaded with pseudo-spiritual themes and philosophical musings (which I'll explore in my conclusion), but it's devoid of overt references to faith.
Sexual Content
Bruce Wayne lives up to his pampered playboy rep. Groupies wear low-cut evening gowns, and ballet dancers wear bikinis when Wayne spirits away the entire Russian Ballet to his private yacht. We see a couple straightening their clothes when they're startled during a secret tryst.
The Joker leers at Rachel—who is, incidentally, a former paramour of Bruce Wayne and current main squeeze of Harvey Dent. This love triangle adds a bit of sexual tension to the film, but only a bit.
Violent Content
Harvey Dent loses half of his pretty face just as the action climaxes. What remains is a charred, horrific visage of sinew and bone: His left eye is lidless and the left side of his mouth is lipless, exposing the teeth beneath.
This is the film's most overt display of graphic ickiness. Truth be told, The Dark Knight is not gory, though. The carnage here is felt, not seen.
But oh, how we feel it.
The Joker is as horrific a villain as I've ever seen onscreen—an embodiment of nihilism, a manifestation of pure, unapologetic evil. The camera may blink, but your mind's eye doesn't. The Joker forces us to imagine every cut and tear. He makes Jigsaw from the torture-porn Saw flicks look positively ethical, and frankly, I think I squirmed more through Knight than through the splatter-happy Saw IV. Why? The violence here feels more real, visceral ... painful.
We watch as the Joker impales a man's face with a pencil, as he burns a sky-high pyramid of cash with a financier imprisoned at the apex, as he shoots and stabs and burns his way through the movie. He plants a bomb in the stomach of one of his imprisoned henchmen, setting it off to escape from jail. He joyfully blows up a hospital, poisons a police officer, bazookas a police vehicle and guns down his own henchmen.
Forget the big bangs, though. This Joker's weapon of choice is the knife: He carries several, one of which he sticks in his victims' mouths as he tells them stories (all, apparently, lies) of how he got his own "smiling" scars before slicing their faces open. We never see him cut, but the stories—the brutal, mesmerizing stories—are enough. They are more than enough.
That said, I'm not going to detail every bit of violence seen onscreen in this not-really PG-13 movie. Batman pummels dozens of folks, but you knew that would be the case before you started reading. There are car chases, crashes and explosions aplenty, but you knew that, too.
What you might not know is that the Joker kills scores of folks, and all the death that surrounds him only seems to brighten his mood. Counting casualties doesn't convey how you might feel as you watch, and how you'll feel walking out when it's over. So I'll put things this way: The Dark Knight is not Iron Man, not Hancock, not even Hellboy II. This is a movie about a cartoon hero. But there's nothing cartoonish about it.
Crude or Profane Language
Characters abuse Jesus' name three times, God's name a half-dozen times (once, pairing it with "d--n"). They lob a handful of other curses, including "h---" and "a--."
Drug and Alcohol Content
Bruce's party guests drink champagne. Alfred offers Harvey a glass, calling it "liquid courage." A cop sips a drink in a bar. Whiskey is downed.
Other Negative Elements
The Dark Knight refers, of course, to Batman. But all of the film's good guys dabble in the gray areas of life, and none (well, maybe one) escape(s) this film with a clean ethical bill of health.
Batman purposefully breaks the legs of a would-be informant to make him talk. And he pummels the Joker in a police holding cell—going so far as to bar the door with a chair so the police won't interfere. Gordon is reticent to communicate with his supervisors and deceives even his own family. Fox develops all of Batman's cool weaponry off the books, circumventing financial transparency at every turn. Dent, even before he goes bad, flips a coin to determine a course of action. Turns out it's a two-headed coin—an act of duplicity that foreshadows his fall.
None of these actions are directly lauded by the film, though its makers do take pains to show why these less-than-ethical dealings could be justified. Instead, these scenarios are designed to stir questions in the audience, not provide it with answers. In this Dark Knight, evil is absolute. Good? Not so much.
The Dark Knight poses and plays with ethical conundrums, most of which seem designed to push Batman, his allies and all of Gotham over the brink. "Madness, as you know, is like gravity," the Joker says. "All it takes is a little push."
The Joker succeeds in transforming Dent into a vicious villain with (quite literally) a two-sided face, and then sits back as his pet project flips that coin (one side now charred and scarred) to determine who dies and who lives. "The only morality in an amoral world is chance," Dent says.
Batman argues that the world's not governed by chance, but by choices. And when Dent dies, Batman makes the movie's most interesting choice of all: He takes the blame for the people Dent killed. He becomes, unjustly, a fugitive hated by the very people he's protecting.
"Sometimes, truth isn't good enough," Batman says. "Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded."
The decision, like Dent himself, shows us two faces.
On one side of it, Batman creates a lie—a flat-out fabrication that patronizingly presumes he knows what's best for Gotham's citizens, and that they're too fragile or shortsighted to accept the truth. In an age when we are all wary of lies, deceptions and governmental cover-ups, this kind of fabrication (well-meaning though it may be) feels especially wrong and, in any case, always violates one of God's core commandments: Don't lie.
On the other, Batman takes Dent's sin on his own shoulders, leaving the DA, in Gotham's eyes, pure and spotless and clean. Sound familiar? It can be read, at some level, as an echo of the sacrifice Christ—utterly innocent, yet humiliated and judged on our behalf—made for us.
One more thing to chew on: Batman, in Bruce Wayne's mind, is not a hero, but an ideal—a symbol for something greater. People, he muses in Batman Begins, are corruptible. Ideals are not. It stands to reason, then, that he would want to push Dent from corruptible man to incorruptible ideal—a symbol of something greater. "Gotham needs a hero with a face," Wayne says. And so he gives that hero to the city, willingly destroying his own reputation in the process.
Without a doubt, then, The Dark Knight is mesmerizing and thought-provoking. It's guaranteed to become a critical darling while scooping up a bazillion dollars at the box office. But its dark side cannot be ignored. The Chicago Tribune leads its review with this warning: "Sensational, grandly sinister and not for the kids." The New York Daily News tells us, "The PG-13 rating seems tame; this sucker is rough." You're seeing it advertised on everything from cereal boxes to candy bars, but that doesn't make Knight's violence, it's aura of menace, any more digestible. It's not just kids who'll walk out of the film shaken.
When you see Harvey Dent's new look for the first time, you barely notice his still pretty-boy right side. The left side—charred, unblinking, horrific—seems to fill the screen. And the same could be said for this movie. Yes, it's undeniably well-crafted. But it's a harsh creation, and by all rights shouldn't have been named after the good guy. The Dark Knight is the Joker's court, and he's not looking for a laugh.
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Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman; Heath Ledger as The Joker; Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent; Michael Caine as Alfred; Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes; Gary Oldman as Lt. James Gordon; Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
Christopher Nolan ( Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Insomnia)
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 26, 2009) – The Eighth Women's Pan American Cup schedule has been released and includes several quality matches throughout pool play leading into the classification rounds. The Pan American Cup, a 12-country event played over nine days, is being hosted by USA Volleyball and the Miami-Dade Sports Commission in Miami from June 26 to July 4 at the University of Miami and Florida International University.
Each country will play five pool matches in a round-robin format from June 26 to July June 30, followed by an off-day on July 1. The winner of each pool advances to the semifinals on July 3, while the second- and third-place pool finishers play cross-pool quarterfinal matches on July 2. The championship match is schedule for July 4. All match times and pool schedules will be announced at a later time.
The U.S. Women's National Team, part of Pool A at University of Miami's Bank United Center, starts competition on June 26 versus No. 30 Costa Rica. The Americans face No. 48 Guatemala on June 27, followed by a June 28 contest versus No. 26 Mexico. Team USA hosts No. 17 Peru on June 29 before concluding pool play on June 29 versus No. 19 Puerto Rico. The U.S. captured the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games and is currently ranked second in the world.
Brazil, the 2008 Olympic Games gold medalist and leader of the FIVB world ranking, headlines Pool B at Florida International (U.S. Century Bank Arena) where it will be part of a round-robin group of No. 13 Dominican Republic, No. 23 Canada, No. 31 Argentina, No. 43 Colombia and No. 53 Trinidad & Tobago. Full schedule for both pools can be found at the end of this release.
Cuba, a 2008 Olympic Games semifinalist and currently ranked third in the world, Venezuela and Uruguay were eligible for the Pan American Cup but elected to withdraw from the event.
Quick capsules on each of the 12 participating teams can be found by clicking here.
Pool matches at each site will be played at 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. (all Eastern Time). The U.S. Women's National Team will play at 8 p.m. each night during the pool phase.
A Pan American Cup tournament pass, good for all matches at both venues, is $75 for adults and $60 for children. Tickets for each date of competition at the specific venue (either University of Miami or Florida International University) are $20 for reserved general admission, $12 for adult general admission and $10 for child general admission. Tickets can be purchased online at www.miamisports.org.
Pan American Cup quarterfinal and classification matches are set for July 2, followed by semifinal matches and additional classification matches on July 3. The championship match and final classification round matches are scheduled for July 4. All non-pool matches will be played at University of Miami.
Classification round matches will be played on July 2 and July 3 at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. (all Eastern Time). The final classification matches on July 4 will be played at noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. (all Eastern Time).
The Pan American Cup serves as a qualification event into the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix, the premier annual international women's volleyball tournament. The Pan American Cup's top three teams from NORCECA and the top team from South America earn berths into the World Grand Prix.
USA Volleyball has never hosted the Women's Pan American Cup in the seven previous years of the event's history. The 2009 Women's Pan American Cup is the largest international volleyball event hosted by USA Volleyball in terms of country participation.
Miami will be a busy location for volleyball the last week of June and first week of July. The 2009 USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships will be played June 26-July 5 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Typically, the tournament attracts 788 teams and approximately 9,500 athletes in addition to parents and relatives. A total of 19 championships are contested in age groups ranging from 12 to 18.
Women's Pan American Cup Schedule (all times Eastern Time)
Pool A
June 26: Puerto Rico vs. Guatemala, 3 p.m.
June 26: Peru vs. Mexico, 5:30 p.m.
June 26: United States vs. Costa Rica, 8 p.m.
June 27: Costa Rica vs. Peru, 3 p.m.
June 27: Mexico vs. Puerto Rico, 5:30 p.m.
June 27: United States vs. Guatemala, 8 p.m.
June 28: Costa Rica vs. Guatemala, 3 p.m.
June 28: Puerto Rico vs. Peru, 5:30 p.m.
June 28: United States vs. Mexico, 8 p.m.
June 29: Mexico vs. Guatemala, 3 p.m.
June 29: Costa Rica vs. Puerto Rico, 5:30 p.m.
June 29: United States vs. Peru, 8 p.m.
June 30: Guatemala vs. Peru, 3 p.m.
June 30: Mexico vs. Costa Rica, 5:30 p.m.
June 30: United States vs. Puerto Rico, 8 p.m.
Pool B
June 26: Colombia vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 3 p.m.
June 26: Dominican Republic vs. Argentina, 5:30 p.m.
June 26: Brazil vs. Canada, 8 p.m.
June 27: Argentina vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 3 p.m.
June 27: Colombia vs. Brazil, 5:30 p.m.
June 27: Canada vs. Dominican Republic, 8 p.m.
June 28: Colombia vs. Canada, 3 p.m.
June 28: Trinidad & Tobago vs. Dominican Republic, 5:30 p.m.
June 28: Brazil vs. Argentina, 8 p.m.
June 29: Brazil vs. Trinidad & Tobago 3 p.m.
June 29: Argentina vs. Canada, 5:30 p.m.
June 29: Dominican Republic vs. Colombia, 8 p.m.
June 30: Colombia vs. Argentina, 3 p.m.
June 30: Canada vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 5:30 p.m.
June 30: Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, 8 p.m.
July 1: Off Day
Classification Rounds
July 2: #31 Pool A 6th vs. Pool B 6th, 11 a.m. (class 11-12)
July 2: #32 Pool B 4th vs. Pool A 5th, 1 p.m. (class 5-10)
July 2: #33 Pool A 4th vs. Pool B 5th, 3 p.m. (class 5-10)
July 2: #34 Pool B 2nd vs. Pool A 3rd, 5:30 p.m. (quarterfinals)
July 2: #35 Pool A 2nd vs. Pool B 3rd, 8 p.m. (quarterfinals)
July 3: #36 Loser #32 vs. Loser #33, 11 a.m. (class 9-10)
July 3: #37 Winner #32 or #33 vs. Loser #34 or #35, 1 p.m. (class 5-8)
July 3: #38 Winner #32 or #33 vs. Loser #34 or #35, 3 p.m. (class 5-8)
July 3: #39 Pool B Winner vs. Winner #34 or #35, 5:30 p.m. (semifinals)
July 3: #40 Pool A Winner vs. Winner #34 or #35, 8 p.m. (semifinals)
July 4: #41 Loser #37 vs. Loser #38, Noon (class 7-8)
July 4: #42 Winner #37 vs. Winner #38, 2 p.m. (class 5-6)
July 4: #43 Loser #39 vs. Loser #40, 4 p.m. (class 3-4)
July 4: #44 Winner #39 vs. Winner #40, 6 p.m. (Final)


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Nvidia Corp. this week quietly unveiled a new entry-level graphics card that it positions as an alternative to integrated graphics solutions. The GeForce GT 520 costs starting from $60 and is not exactly designed for traditional PC gaming, but rather for casual gaming as well as multimedia applications.
Powered by the GF119 graphics processor - which is based on the company's latest Fermi architecture - the novelty sports 48 stream processing units, 8 texture units, 4 raster operation units, 64-bit memory controller and so on. Nvidia's recommended clock-speeds for the GeForce GT 520 are 810MHz for the chip, 1620MHz for stream processors and 1800MHz for DDR3 memory. The board consumes up to 29W of power.
The GeForce GT 520 fully supports all the modern technologies, including DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, OpenCL 1.1 and can playback all modern high-definition video formats, including Blu-ray 3D, with hardware acceleration. The graphics card can be used for acceleration of PhysX effects or CUDA-exclusive programs.
Given its technical specifications, the GeForce GT 520 will hardly provide decent performance in DirectX 11 games with high-quality graphics settings and therefore those, who want to play new titles should pick up something more advanced. Nonetheless, the graphics board will offer better video quality than Intel Corp.'s integrated graphics engines, playback stereo-3D content, better compatibility with games as well as will be able to accelerate compute intensive OpenCL, DirectCompute or CUDA applications.
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Star trails over the European Souther Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope, which hosts the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, one of the world's foremost exoplanet hunters. (Source: A. Santerne/ESO)
Erick T. Styles (@etstyles), a former Jesuit scholastic now living in Minnesota, reached out to Krista on Twitter with the following request:
Please do a show on #BenedictXVI & theology and reality of papacy. Show is so well done. We need your contribution.
We want to add to the coverage, not contribute to the pollution. But how can we contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way in light of Pope Benedict XVI's departure and the upcoming election of a new pontiff? The scenario echoes a similar quandry we had in 2008, when Pope Benedict visited the U.S. for the first time. It's also a chance to revisit the show we produced as a result.
"What do you take solace in and find beautiful about this faith? What anchors and unsettles you in and beyond current headlines about the Church? What hopes, questions, and concerns are on your mind as you ponder the state of the Church and its future?"
Rather than dwelling on the problems of the Church, we asked these questions of our listeners and readers. The response was remarkable. And, we responded with a format-breaking production in which a rich array of people reflected on the force of this vast and ancient tradition in their lives. Some struggled with it while others were finding new sources of their love for it. Even to be a lapsed Catholic, we heard, was a complex state of being.
Well, we're having the same reaction now.
Is this a time of change for the Church? If you are (or were) Roman Catholic, I ask you, what are your hopes and dreams for the future of this 2,000-year-old tradition? Please, send me your thoughts — long or short — at email@example.com or even via Twitter (@TrentGilliss).
Carolyn Silveira (@carothecmonster) shared the video of our "truly civil conversation about abortion":
"This respectful and deeply intelligent conversation about abortion feels like a miracle. If you want to change the way we handle our differences in this country, watch even one minute of this video and share it now."
Check out her copious recommended highlights. They're good, and wonderfully instructive.
Did you see our latest sketchnote from Doug Neill? I think he did a wonderful job of picking up on Vincent Harding's ideas about the hard work of building the "beloved community" brick by brick, the sharing of stories of our elders, darkness as the milieu of light, and how a new majority is forming out of the many-splendored composition of our nation's minorities.
But, as Lori Hughes pointed out on our Facebook page, not everything is captured:
My favorite didn't make the sketch notes: "Love trumps doctrine every time."
Thanks for reminding us, Lori.
How about this joyful tweet from the great writer and filmmaker dream hampton (@dreamhampton):
Heeeyyyyy, I didn't know @kristatippett was on Twitter! Your interview with geophysicist Xavier Le Pichon changed my life! Thank you.
This is so much of what I love about working on this show — delighting in the fresh discovery of past interviews. Krista too:
@dreamhampton What a great one to be changed by. Love knowing this.
@kristatippett His idea of circling the most vulnerable in intentional communities...so beautiful. Thank you.
@dreamhampton Yes and that vulnerability is at the essence of vitality even in geophysical systems.
Each Friday night, the author and journalist Lisa Napoli (recognize her name from KCRW or Marketplace?) opens her door and throws a "party" in her LA abode. As Ms. Napoli says in this video:
"Even if you like living alone, that doesn't always mean you want to be alone."
Anybody can come and socialize. It's such a lovely idea and seems like a great way to build relationships and foster community in one's own way.
There are other ways to commune too. How about this lovely passage from naturalist John Muir, written more than a century ago? His words are more relevant than ever to our modern lives:
"The tendency nowadays to wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
Reminds me of Gordon Hempton's mantra that we need outer silence to have inner silence. Just love Krista's interview with him!
And how about this sterling advice from the great author and thinker W.E.B. Du Bois:
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin — the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
We've posted a fuller excerpt of his letter to his daughter Yolande, and a larger version of Matteo Mazzadri's photo on our Tumblr.
The most retweeted quotation from Krista's interview with fairytale scholar Maria Tatar?
"There is a storytelling instinct that from the get-go we need to communicate to tell things that makes sense of what happened."
"I remember sitting through sermons as utter torture, and maybe that's why I was attracted to fairytales."
Look for this show in mid-March. Can't wait to produce it!
This week's Tuesday evening melody is a fun one. The Daredevil Christopher Wright, a folk indie rock band from Wisconsin, draws from the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber's classic text, I & Thou, as inspiration:
"I love exploring my own doubt, and how people have wrestled with the idea of understanding human motivation, purpose."
Have a listen. It's quite good.
To close, we remember Rabbi David Hartman, who died this week. He was an exuberant, challenging thinker. He lived with passion. It was an honor to meet him and be with him, if only for a few hours. Krista interviewed him in Jerusalem in 2011. We ended the show with him reflecting on his own spiritual evolution and how his sense of who God is has changed over time:
"I don't know what God is, the being of God, but I know it's a shattering experience. It opens you to the world. It takes you out of your narcissistic ego trip and says, look, see the other. Show strength through compassion, through love, not through violence. And to be reminded each day of those achievements. Not simple, but I'm still hoping. I'm still hoping. It's not easy to be a religious man. It's hard to be an awakened human being."


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Casey Eichfeld (Drums, Pa.) and Devin McEwan (Salisbury, Conn.) finished 14th in men's double canoe with a penalty-free semifinal time of 129.08, which was +12.20 seconds behind the round's first place finisher.
In women's kayak, Ashley Nee (Bethesda, Md.) missed a gate en route to a 28th place finish in the semifinal. Her time of 179.53 was +61.56 behind the round's first place finisher.
WHAT: 2013 ICF Slalom World Cup No. 4
WHERE: Ljubljana-Tacen, Slovenia
WHEN: August 16-18
WHO: U.S. Senior National Team
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The weekend was highlighted by Fabien Lefevre's 4th place finish in C-1 and Eichfeld's hot start in the C-1 heats. Team USA is already in Bratislava, Slovakia, site of the World Cup Final.
"We have made it to Bratislava where the 5th and final World Cup of the season will take place," Eichfeld said via Facebook. "We already snuck in a session this evening. Let me tell you, it was a blast! It always feels great to hop in the boat after a few hours in the car."
Fabien Lefevre (Bethesda, Md.) nearly earned his 2nd World Cup medal of the 2013 season, this time in canoe. The two-time Olympic medalist for France finished fourth in the C1 final with a penalty-free time of 110.14, which was +1.86 seconds behind the first place finisher. He finished a fifth of a second away from the Bronze medal. He reached the final with a 7th place semifinal time of 111.79, which was +6.03 seconds behind the round's first place finisher.
Lefevre, who won Bronze at the 2013 World Cup No. 1 in kayak, also finished 12th in the K1 semifinal Saturday with a penalty-free time of 106.45. He finished +3.56 seconds behind the round's first place finisher and less than half a second outside of the Top 10 and a spot in the final.
Also competing in men's canoe, Casey Eichfeld (Drums, Pa.) and Zach Lokken (Durango, Colo.) placed 27th and 30th in the semifinal, respectively. Eichfeld started the day ranked 1st overall in C-1 after Friday's heats. The two-time Olympian incurred 6 penalty seconds en route to a time of 123.78, which was +18.02 seconds behind the round's first place finisher. Lokken missed 3 gates en route to a time of 294.04.
"My semi-final run was pretty disappointing this morning," Eichfeld said via Facebook. "Today I had trouble connecting with the water and that didn't lead to a great time. Yesterday was great to see how well I can compete. Now I am looking to make that more consistent! It is coming along."
Also competing in men's kayak, Richard Powell (Parkesburg, Penn.) finished 18th in the K1 semifinal with a time of 108.09, which was +5.20 seconds behind the round's first place finisher.
Micki Reeves (Denver, Colo.) missed a gate en route to a 13th place finish in the women's C1 semifinal with a time of 220.22.
In the men's team canoe event, Lefevre, Eichfeld and Lokken finished 9th with a time of 184.21, including one missed gate penalty. Racing in his fifth race of the day, Lefevre was joined by Powell and Michal Smolen (Gastonia, N.C.) to place 10th in the team kayak event with a time of 129.97.
Left to compete on Sunday are Ashley Nee (Bethesda, Md.) in the women's kayak semifinal and Eichfeld and Devin McEwan (Salisbury, Conn.) in the C-2 semifinal.
"I was pretty down, but getting in the boat worked wonders," Eichfeld said. "Our team run wasn't exactly what we wanted, but it felt really good to be on the course again. Now I'm pumped for C-2 tomorrow!"
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Eight of nine U.S. boats advanced past the heats Friday and into the semifinals. After a World Cup season admittedly below his expectations, two-time Olympian Casey Eichfeld (Drums, Pa.) burst past the field to rank 1st after heats in men's single canoe. His penalty-free 2nd run time of 101.25 was +0.81 seconds ahead of the heats' second place finisher – Matej Benus of Slovakia, a 2011 World Championship bronze medalist.
"Well, [I] finished the day for C-1 in 1st," said Eichfeld, via Facebook. "It is an amazing confidence booster, but it is only a ticket into the next round. I will paddle hard again tomorrow and do what I do! Thank you everyone for your support for the team and I."
Also advancing to Saturday's semifinal in men's C-1 were Zach Lokken (Durango, Colo.) and Fabien Lefevre (Bethesda, Md.), who rank 20th and 26th, respectively, through heats. Lokken's 2nd run time of 107.69 was +6.44 seconds behind Eichfeld. Lefevre's 2nd run time of 110.25 included one gate touch penalty.
Lefevre fared better in men's kayak, where he ranks 4th through heats to qualify for Saturday's semifinal. His penalty-free 1st run time of 99.23 was +2.10 seconds behind the first place finisher through heats.
Richard Powell (Parkesburg, Penn.) also advanced with a 38th place rank, thanks to a first run time of 103.56, including two seconds of penalty time. Michal Smolen (Gastonia, N.C.) missed the cut, finished 53rd with a time of 16.86.
In women's canoe, Micki Reeves (Denver, Colo.) ranks 8th place through heats and advances to Saturday's semifinal. Her penalty-free 2nd run time of 141.68 was +24.87 seconds behind the first place finisher through heats.
Women's kayak Ashley Nee (Bethesda, Md.) advanced to Sunday's semifinal ranked 29th after a 2nd run time of 122.24, which was +14.04 seconds behind the first place finisher through heats.
Eichfeld also advanced in doubles canoe with partner Devin McEwan (Salisbury, Conn.). The duo will head into Sunday's semifinal ranked 19th after a penalty-free 1st run time of 119.11, which was +13.27 seconds behind the first place finisher through heats.
"What can I say? Today is a day that went my way," Eichfeld said. "Tomorrow is a fresh day with a clean slate. I earned my ticket into the semis in C-1 and in C-2 with my awesome partner Devin McEwan who battled some unfortunate conditions. I am excited to move on and to paddle with all the best in our race to the finals!"
After a month-long break from World Cups and Junior World Championships, Team USA is ready to return to the whitewater this weekend for Slalom World Cup No. 4 in Slovenia. Next weekend is the World Cup Final and then the Slalom World Championships on Sept. 11-15.
Competing in both men's C-1 and K-1, Fabien Lefevre (Bethesda, Md.) will look to continue his strong and busy World Cup series. The two-time Olympic medalist for France has recorded two top five finishes in K-1 and placed as high as 14th in C-1.
Joining him in men's canoe are two-time Olympian Casey Eichfeld (Drums, Pa.) and Zach Lokken (Durango, Colo.). Eichfeld has finished as high as 11th at a 2013 World Cup event, while the 19-year-old Lokken placed 9th at the 2013 Under-23 World Championships.
Eichfeld team up with Devin McEwan (Salisbury, Conn.) in C-2, where the duo finished as high as 13th so far this World Cup series.
Joining Lefevre in men's kayak are Michal Smolen (Gastonia, N.C.) and Richard Powell (Parkesburg, Penn.). Smolen finished 14th at World Cup No. 1, while Powell has topped out at 43rd on the year.
In women's kayak, Ashley Nee (Bethesda, Md.) hopes to reach her first World Cup semifinal on the 2013 season, while women's canoeist Micki Reeves (Denver, Colo.) will be eying her first 2013 World Cup final.
Casey Eichfeld, Men's Canoe: "It is very exciting to be back in Europe for the remaining World Cups and World Championships. We had a month long break from travel that I filed with work and training, and now I am ready to be back in the start gate. The past few World Cups did not go entirely as I would have liked. I am really looking to paddle my way into the top ten for these remaining races. I am feeling strong in C-1 and am ready to get out there with Devin in the C-2. The C-2 is still a work in progress, but I feel that we get stronger each time on the water. I am really happy to be racing both boats."
Fabien Lefevre, Men's Canoe and Kayak: "My last month has been pretty intense. I had to concentrate on training and decided to spend a bit more than three weeks in Prague for working hard in both classes, K1 and C1. I got the chance to paddle with many different nations and paddlers. That was also truly interesting to see the Czech National Team daily on this course. We always learn a lot from the locals. My camp there ended up last weekend with the Czech Championships where I had good runs generally despite a strong neck ache. Since then I had a few sessions with different physiotherapists and got better. Let's say that going down the big drop in Tacen, Slovenia since the beginning of the week was probably helpful to fix this problem."
Headquartered in Oklahoma City, USA Canoe/Kayak is a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Canoe Federation. It governs the Olympic disciplines of Flatwater Sprint, Whitewater Slalom, the Paralympic discipline of Paracanoe and sanctions Freestyle, Marathon, Outrigger, Wildwater, Stand Up Paddle Board, Kayak Polo, Dragon Boat and Canoe Sailing in the United States. For more information about USA Canoe/Kayak, please visit us on the web at www.usack.org, on Twitter at @usacanoekayak and Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/USACanoeKayak.


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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
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Cupertino, CA — May 14, 2012 — SugarCRM, the world's fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM) company, announced today that TMC, an integrated media company, has honored the company with a Customer Interaction Solutions 2012 CRM Excellence Award. Customer Interaction Solutions has been the premier publication in the CRM, contact center and teleservices industries since 1982.
The Sugar platform offers full sales, marketing and support automation capabilities allowing organizations to easily organize and track people, companies, and sales opportunities. SugarCRM has seen many customers achieve success, including USAFact, an Internet-based employment background & drug screening provider specializing in technology and web integrated workflows, that teamed up with Epicom, a SugarCRM channel partner, on its implementation.
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KIPP charter schools receive more public and private dollars than other public schools, according to What Makes KIPP Work? A Study of Student Characteristics, Attrition and School Finance, (pdf) by Western Michigan Professor Gary Miron and colleagues. KIPP also has higher student attrition than other public schools, the study found.
KIPP officials say the numbers are inaccurate, notes the New York Times.
A network of 99 schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia, KIPP has been shown to raise the academic achievement of low-income students, especially blacks. Researchers said they wanted to see if that success could be replicated.
The KIPP network received $12,731 in taxpayer money per student, compared with $11,960 at the average traditional public school and $9,579, on average, at charter schools nationwide, the study found. In addition, KIPP generated $5,760 per student from private donors.
KIPP's per student funding averages between $9,000 and $10,000, according to a KIPP financial official, Mike Wright. The study excluded KIPP's California schools, which receive less public funding.
Donations for operating expenses in the 2007-8 year were about $2,500 per student, less than half the study's estimate, Wright said.
The study mixed donations earmarked for school construction with money for operating expenses, Wright said. Schools usually count capital spending separately. A KIPP reporting error also inflated private revenues.
KIPP schools use a long school day, a longer school year and Saturday classes to give students more learning time. That costs an extra $1,200 to $1,600 per student. However, the charter network tends to hire young teachers, who cost less, and does not offer small classes.
"As wealthy donors have invested in KIPP, they have helped to demonstrate how a well-endowed, inspirationally run charter school can lift poor children," (Berkeley Education Professor Bruce) Fuller said. "The question raised by this study is whether the model could be replicated if wealthy donors were to walk away."
Brookings fellow Grover Whitehurst praised the financial analysis, but not the findings on student attrition, which he said, "use questionable data sources and analytic techniques to push a position that is antagonistic to KIPP."
Another study of attrition carried out last year by Mathematica Policy Research, he said, used far more sophisticated research techniques to conclude that, on average, KIPP schools did not have significantly higher or lower numbers of students leaving before completion than nearby public schools.
A new Mathematica study on KIPP attrition will be out next week, notes the Hechinger Report.
Update: In response to comments, the 2010 Mathematica study looked at achievement over three years for all students who enrolled in 22 KIPP middle schools, including those who left after a year or two. If weaker students were more likely to leave, that would have no effect since the scores of those who left were counted. Three-year gains were very significant, even with this method.
Some KIPP schools replace students who leave with transfers. Others do not. The new study will look at that issue.


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Posted 25 April 2009 - 04:49 AM
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I live in Redmond, about 30 mins away. Guns: Gameface Vexor, Tippmann 98C, and a Vulcan V5000(pump). I don't have a job yet, but hoping for one soon. I don't know if this interests you or not, but pm me back to tell me or not. Thanks!
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Posted 24 October 2010 - 08:06 PM
I live in eugene, We have a 5 person roster so far, Either of you guys want to join?
Posted 25 March 2011 - 02:23 AM
Hey i'm moving to Eugene next year for school. Are there any good fields in the area?
Posted 25 March 2011 - 07:53 PM
Diamond hill in harrisburg, The palace in eugene has an okay field for some reball.
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- jason said...
Haven't seen this one yet, based on your take I'll definitely grab a bottle when I do. The only other bottling I've had from the region was Grenache/Tempranillo (80/20), not that it solves the mystery but thought I would share. BTW, I'm hearing good things about the Trader Joe's branded Albarino as well...
- April 22, 2010 at 12:23 AM
- Jeff said...
Thanks for the tip on the Albarino. I'll check that out if I see it.
I wonder what grape(s) are in this wine? It's fairly earthy, which makes me think Tempranillo, but it could also be Garnacha, or Carinena (Carignan). Those are the main grapes for the region. And of course, they're growing international stuff too, so who knows? It might be Merlot or something also. My bet is that it's something more traditional though.
- April 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM
- jason said...
grabbed this one tonight but it is the '05 version. I'll let you know what I think when I give it a go!
- April 29, 2010 at 11:45 PM
- jason said...
Finally got around to drinking (and posting) this one and wanted to share two things: 1) I found this was a blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha and Cabernet Sauvignon and 2) re. Latitude Wines: They only handle import and logistics for Trader Joe's. There not picking any of these wines. I know from trying to request tasting notes for previous posts.
- May 27, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- Jeff said...
Interesting about Latitude. I had a couple Bordeaux that I got at Costco from them? http://www.vivalawino.com/2010/03/chateau-laroque-saint-emilion-grand-cru.html
I think your 12th bottle assessment is spot on. I don't know that I'll buy another bottle just because it's not that interesting. But it is a good value.
- May 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- Bri said...
Hi, nice to read the review. I was intrigued to see if Monte Ducay wines are available outside Spain (I live in Southern Spain, on the Mediterranean). I occasionally buy the Reserva, it's 2.65€ ($3.50) at the moment, but that's pushing the boat out!!! Our 'daily' wine is the Monte Ducay Crianza at 1.75€ ($2.31), just very, very nice, smooth wine (is that acceptable terminology?), at an incredible price! Cheers, Brian.
- December 11, 2010 at 1:52 AM
- Jeff said...
Dang, I'm jealous of you. We definitely have a dearth of affordable wines that are decent to drink in the states. Certainly nothing for the equivalent of 2$...
- December 13, 2010 at 10:59 AM


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Grants spotlight Saranac Lake
ALBANY – New York state will kick in $7 million for two hotel projects in Saranac Lake, part of an $81.3 million haul in state economic development funds for the North Country.
The money was announced Wednesday to a packed crowd at the Hart Theater at the Egg Center for Performing Arts on the Empire State Plaza. The state is doling out $715 million for 824 projects across New York in the third round of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Regional Economic Development Council initiative.
"Day of celebration"
The North Country's take includes $5 million requested by the new owners of the Hotel Saranac to buy and renovate the iconic building in the heart of the village's downtown. The Roedel family, based in New Hampshire but with longtime ties to Saranac Lake, bought the hotel Friday for $1.4 million from the Arora family, which owned it for the last seven years.
Also, developers of a proposed 90-room, upscale resort hotel on Lake Flower received $2 million of the $2.2 million they had sought from the state. Chris LaBarge of Malone is leading that project, which is expected to cost between $15 million and $18 million, through the process of getting approvals from the village and the state Adirondack Park Agency.
The hotel funding was hailed by Saranac Lake Mayor Clyde Rabideau, who attended the ceremony and sat with the North Country contingent.
"I am the happiest mayor in New York state," Rabideau told the Enterprise. "It's a tremendous feeling to know that New York state and the governor have put so much faith, confidence and money into the future of Saranac Lake. What we have at hand is a new epoch of progress and prosperity in the capital of the Adirondacks."
To celebrate, the village shined a pair of large spotlights into the sky Wednesday night from the site of each hotel project.
"This is a day of celebration," the mayor said. "We got a $35 million award with Clarkson and Trudeau Institute just a couple weeks ago – today, $7.1 million for two vitally needed resort hotel projects. We're going to celebrate by shining these great lights, one from each site, across the winter skies."
Hotel developers react
Developers of the two hotel projects attended Wednesday's ceremony in person. Fred Roedel III, a principal in Roedel Companies and head of its construction wing, ROK Builders, traveled to Albany from New Hampshire with his father, Fred Roedel, a senior advisor for Roedel Companies.
Fred Roedel III said the $5 million from the state "shows great confidence in our company, the hotel, the village and the project overall.
"To get (the hotel) where it needs to be takes a lot more than it would be able to support just through its own business venture," Roedel said. "So this was critical to get this money and get this back on track."
LaBarge was also in Albany for the awards; he told the Enterprise later that he was excited about the state's $2 million commitment.
"We want to thank the regional council for acknowledging our project, making it a priority project, and the award we were recognized with today, which gives us the opportunity to continue to move through the planning process," LaBarge said.
Asked about the $200,000 difference between what he sought from the state and what was awarded, LaBarge said there are tax breaks and other economic incentives that his company can pursue to close that gap.
Other projects
Also in the Tri-Lakes area, Bionique Testing Laboratories in Lake Clear was awarded $650,000 of the $700,0000 it had sought for a 10,000-square-foot expansion that will include laboratory, storage and conference space.
The state gave Tupper Lake's Wild Center museum $250,000 of the $464,000 it had requested for the second phase of building the Wild Walk, an elevated walkway through the forest canopy. Construction began shortly after the state pledged $1 million in October.
"This funding is for the exhibits and interpretation on (the) Wild Walk," Executive Director Stephanie Ratcliffe said in a press release. "To continue to be recognized and supported as a priority project by our peers underscores the economic and social impact of The Wild Center."
The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake received $1.4 million for renovations and exhibit upgrades. The museum had asked for $2.9 million.
Cycle Adirondacks got the $211,750 requested for it, but through the Mohawk Valley region rather than the North Country. This new, $970,000 initiative proposed by the Wildlife Conservation Society would be a cross-park ride for up to 600 cyclists from all over the country.
Other big awards in the region included $4.5 million for an expansion of the terminal at Plattsburgh International Airport, $2.1 million to redevelop the former Mercy Health Center site in Watertown and $750,000 to restore the Inn on Schroon Lake.
Throughout the North Country, the state is giving $6 million to expand the access to affordable high-speed broadband Internet service, $1 million to create a revolving loan fund for agribusiness and $1 million to draw Canadian visitors to recreate in the North Country. The Adirondack North Country Association was awarded $100,000 for a North Country product branding initiative and $59,200 to develop an Adirondack Regional Art Trail.
There were also numerous smaller grants, including $30,000 for a sewer system study in the Payeville Lane area of Saranac Lake, $30,000 for a Main Street sewer system study in Lake Placid, $3,360 for Saranac Lake's Pendragon Theatre to hire an intern, $54,460 for improvements to Grove Road Park in Jay, $55,000 for North Country Community College to study turning the former Lowe's building in Ticonderoga into an applied technology center, and a combined $157,000 for digital conversion at the Indian Lake, AuSable Forks and Schroon Lake movie theaters.
This is the third year of the region-by-region economic development contest, a Cuomo administration initiative that replaces grants awarded directly through state agencies and legislators.
Cuomo said the system is working, citing the state's improved credit rating and job-creation record.
"We have created more private-sector jobs in the state of New York then ever existed before in the history of the state of New York," he told the crowd. "That's what you've accomplished.
"You travel across the state, you can see it, you can feel it," he said. "You go to the North Country and there's a positiveness, there's a cohesiveness in the North Country. They're developing tourism. They have a vision for biotech. The Trudeau Institute, what it did for this state and this country, and what it's going to do going forward as an engine for biotech working with Clarkson you feel that it's different. It's not just numbers on a piece of paper. And I believe we haven't even hit our stride yet."
The North Country is the only region to be among the five "top performer" regions each of the contest's three years. Last year it won $90.2 million, and in 2011 it received $103.2 million.
Its $81.3 million this year is the fifth-most money of the state's 10 regions, slightly behind Long Island, the Capital Region, the Mohawk Valley and the Southern Tier – with Long Island topping out at $83 million.
Assemblywoman Janet Duprey, R-Peru, said the North Country's success is a testament to co-chairmen Garry Douglas and Tony Collins and other members of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council.
"They worked hard, and they put so much time and effort into it," agreed state Sen. Betty Little, R-Queensbury. "One of the biggest characteristics of our plan is we always show how we implemented the previous years, and that gives us a lot of points going forward."
"We're just so elated for the region," Collins said. "This is a regional win. The entire region has come together. The report reflects that. The effort reflects that, and the state recognizes that and invests in the region."
"It's so satisfying, particularly on behalf of all the volunteers we have the privilege of working with," Douglas said. "It's an exciting affirmation of all their time and effort."
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