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Location is fabulous. The hotel look, inside & out is stunning and extravagant. My only wish would be that they could have the same wonderful beds as the Sheraton across the street!
the hotels nearness to the city's amenities and tourist facilities ; also the views of the mountains no safety deposit box in the room and no mini-bar
close to downtown
Very easy to find one's way about. Excellently designed for a small convention Nothing to complain of, but the restaurant prices were rather expensive, and not much variety for a senior like me.
Hotel room had a great view of the river and the staff was very professional at check in. The reservation was lost and we spent several minutes at check in.
The building is gorgeous, the staff are friendly, and the surroundings are very pretty as well. I had been in Saskatoon before for school and always dreamed of getting to stay at the Bessborough. I finally did this time, and I'm so glad. Very highly recommended! Nothing to say really.
Good check in and pool facilities. Our room was fairly basic for the price paid but pleasant. Not really other than the price per night.
I liked a lot - quite luxury and location I left some items in the room was dismayed that the hotel does not attempt to contact the last room occupant when housekeeping finds the items. I am still waiting for a return callto housekeeping for my call inquiry re missing item......
cleanliness, good room size, view!! pillows were to puffy. My neck was angled too high and got a sore neck
Free Internet, Restaurant facilities available late at night. Narrow doorways.
The staff was very warm and friendly. The hot tub was very dirty
good location, nice lounge and food wasvery good. comfortable rooms I had booked a king size reservation and upon arrivao the hotel changed the room to two queen. the sleep number beds are noit comfortable at all.
They did not have a room reserved for us, they could not find anything with our confirmation number - they did end up giving us anoth3er room but were going to charge us more since it was a suite until I spoke up....The parking lot at this hotel is horrible!!
Very nice, clean rooms A little on the pricey side.
The parking was horrible due to all the parking slots were full and then trying to turn around then to find out no spots so had to park across the street.
We chose a corner single queen room. When we checked in our flight was very late. We never got in until 2AM. We were then told it was a $15 charge for parking even though we were so late and when we drove underground there was ample parking. We then went up to our room and discovered they gave us a double queen room. I called down to the front desk and they said they couldn't do anything until 5AM. (Really after being stuck in Toronto airport of over 9 hrs due to delays and a 4 hr flight you want me to go to sleep for 3 hrs then wake up to deal with this.) I rav on and on to everyone I know how great of a stay it is at the radisson. The best pizza around and by far the best Caesar salads EVER, great location and great staff. We always stay in this hotel when I'm the city and around our anniversary. Last year the waiter even brought tears to my eyes when we came back to our room and had brought up a small plate with a not with strawberries wishing us a happy Anniversary from himself and the staff. But after this stay. My view point has totally changed the staff has totally gone down hill. I find that a stay is the best when the staff go above and beyond to make each person feel like they are a VIP stay. I felt like I was treated more like trailer trash.
The view from our room was amazing. Had to pay almost $12 a day for parking. Should be complimentary for hotel guests.
The room was decorated in a newer fashion and was a good use of space. Free internet was also appreciated. The hotel was under renovation which unfortunately did not allow us to enjoy the hotel facilities. The restuarant was very nice but the pounding and beeping from backing up of machines during the renovation was very distrubing. We did not enjoy the hotel at all except to sleep.
It is in the downtown area close to the business that we have there and I can walk to work.
location was good, Web site should have stated that hotel was under construction and no pool available. Front desk could not even answer my questions because of noise very frustrating experience not happy customer!!!
the staff was wonderful the room was lovely there was no cold water. even the water in the toilet was hot. maintenance said they fixed it and left me chocolates. but the water remained hot.
We sure liked the restaurant and its staff. Erran and Andrea went way above our expectations in dealing with our two 10 yr old grandchildren. They made our stay a whole lot more enjoyable. Also, of course, the swimming and the waterslides were a big hit, not to mention the close access to shopping!!
They were able to take care of us even though they never received our reservation from booking.com Pool/waterslide was closed for renos.
Good price It took a long time to get air mattress and the sheets never did come . Mattress was dirty on plush side. Good thing we had a sleeping bag I didn't like the clear glass door on the bathroom. When one person was up In the night to bathroom the whole room woke up due to light and banging lock.
The bed was very comfortable and they did give us a price break for the hassle we received. (See below) The checkout time was good. When I reserved, I added a note that we would be there very late and that I expected a non smoking room with two beds to be reserved for us. When we got there, they did not have a standard room with 2 queens as I had reserved and in fact booked me into a smoking suite with only one bed and a hide a bed. I was really not impressed! We did get there late (2 am) because of the bad roads, etc. and then I found out they had not held our room for us. They did finally find a non smoking suite with one queen bed and a hide a bed. We requested a lower price. They told me that the reason they didn't have the kind of room I reserved was because I used a third party to reserve.
nice hotel and in a good location for what we were there for
The restaurant staff were very nice and helpful. The food was very good. Check in was painful. The desk clerk was not quickly helpful and excuses relating to booking on line versus booking directly with the hotel eliminated any "guarantee" of room availability. Beds were very bad, they need replacing.
Coming from Saskatoon, I know that the Saskatoon Inn has been around forever, it was surprisingly modern and extremely clean. We only stayed one night but it was a great stay!
We stayed for 4 nights and the pigeon who liked to sit outside our window was the only thing we heard. There was no hotel or hallway noise. The restaurant staff were wonderful with our kids. The kids really liked the bridge at the pool.
The stay was very comfortable and the satff were friendly and helpful There was a roll away bed in teh room and we did not order that. I was asked to push it into the hall rather than a satff person arriving and doing it. If I would have been incapacitated in any way, that would not have been good.
Nothing, the bed was uncomfortable the room stank of smoke although we requested on smoking and it was grossly over priced see above
The staff were very cordial and friendly as well as being very helpful. The room was nice with ample heating and cooling. Meals at Botanica were excellent. There was a bit of a problem getting hot water, but they responded quickly with a serviceman who advised us as to how to get around the situation.
the service was excellent, the restaurant had excellent food, loved the atrium and the pool, a great little gym. n/a
Staff were pleasant and helpful. It was close to the airport as we were flying out of the city.
All the staff were very friendly and helpful no complaints
It was overall good! It was clean, staff was friendly and helpful. I booked 3 rooms with Hotels.com and then later had to cancel one room, it was fast and easy and no complications. I liked that there was a restaurant and a bar attached. The restaurant was too full the next day. It would have been a long wait to get seated for breakfast. So we went elsewhere.
Very tired hotel...HVAC and shower didn't work....room smelled.... Needs a serious upgrade!!
The swimming pool was great. Breakfast was excellent. The view from the window was lovely. NA
I liked the fact that our room was awesome and very clean. It was confusing to get into the hotel if you didn't know the city; but our second try we found the entrance.
The location was close to the University and the walking trail along the river. We appreciated the lovely view of the river and the University bridge. Perhaps we should have chosen a more economical establishment.
The front desk / reservations service was great. All the service was very good. the lobby entrance too close to bar and smokers
Location is great..easy to get too..not too big and everyone was very friendly..will stay again..Thank-you, Teresa Aikens
Reasonable food prices and quality of rooms.
It is conveniently located, clean and quiet. The restaurant is not "fine dining," but is certainly good. The rates are very competitive. The free wifi didn't work and it took a while to get the ethernet hookup working (it had been pushed back into the wall).
we stay at hotels probably at least 21 days a year. We aren't necessarily loyal to one brand, we weren't anyways. For some reason we had never stayed at a Hampton before but now we will now be Hampton Inn regulars. Clean spacious room with everything you need. Huge shower. Pool area open late. Amazing breakfast that I would have easily paid at least $40 to feed my family going to a restaurant. Great selection and tastes wonderful. Late checkout. Friendly staff. Whole hotel in general was clean and had everything you'd need for a comfortable stay. AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME
Even though the hotel was very busy with weddings and a folk festival, I found the atmosphere to be calm and peaceful. The noise level was always reasonable and on the floors where the guest rooms were was very quiet. The staff were all friendly and knowledgable.
I like that is clean, and staff are friendly and helpful, also is such a great location The only thing I didn't like was the paper coffee cups
It was quiet and very charming.The staff was very accomadating and it was a relaxing stay.
Location difficult to control temperature of room. Room was very small and expensive
The rooms were clean and the service was very professional, and the fact that there was Starbucks in the hotel. That the lounge closed early on the last evening of our stay. 5:00pm?
Comfy bed... Booked and spent a pretty good chunk of money to enjoy the waterpark and have a wonderful night out in Saskatoon. Once we had arrived and checked in we were told the water park would be closed for the week. No advance knowledge of this prior... For what we spent we could have stayed at the Bes across the street and stayed in full luxury, instead we chose to stay here where we basically just hung out...
Walls not soundproof in room. Very noisy.
Location The tv did not work and the shower head fell off while being used and the hot/cold indicator in the shower was installed backwards.
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Nothing hotel is old and dirty. Room bedding had old blood on pillow case they did nothing about it Tub base was rusty door hinges in bathroom all rusty Water slide is old and very dirty Room bedding had old blood on pillow case. Tub was rusty. Door hinges in bathroom were rusty. Waterside is old and very duirty and rough and cut kids skin.Booked online and never again. Was on Canadian site and billed us funds which was very upsetting.
staff was very accommodating Did not include breakfast
The staff are super friendly and helpful! We had some people next to us smoking recreationaly. Ended up having to move rooms because of it. Not the hotels fault but sure made the overall experience less enjoyable. Would be nice to know they are also under renovations.
They upgradded us to a large suite in order to accommodate the 5 families in our group who had small children. This gave us a place where they could play and eat to keep them on a child friendly schedule. no continental breakfast.
Accessibility There was a little noise from adjacent rooms - not enough to call the desk about but enough to keep me awake
Clean and quiet room on a security floor
Location, availability of transportation, restaurant was very good
Location was good We chose it for the pool and water slide but part of the pool was closed and the water slide closed part of the time we were there As well the rooms smelt like stale smoke even though they were non smoking rooms.
Staff were very helpful, and our grandkids loved the waterslides and pools. Our room was very roomy and comfortable. Getting a little dated.
Well located,clean and comfortable
Great location for all downtown activities. Very convenient for TCU Place conventions and banquets.
location and price very good
Fantastically friendly staff... decent room and bed Not a luxury hotel, location just a bit outside core
Very close to everything including a shopping mall. I was surprised there was not a complimentary breakfast like I've had at other Hilton hotels.
The hotel staff were all very friendly and helpful. Breakfast was great and the location was within walking distance of many shops/restaurants.
Pet friendly and they had a pet care package! Free toiletries and great breakfast! Very happy with our stay!
The room and facilities were great The breakfast was quite lacking.
The staff was friendly and it was quiet. The bed was very comfortable.
I booked a room and got a booking confirmation. I got to the hotel and they had no rooms and had to find a different hotel late at night when everyone was booked up. Terrible experience.
Room was very nice, clean, great location to the mall There was lots of outside noise ( traffic, sirens) 15/day for parking. Food wasn't that great at breakfast ( mind you we did eat near the end of breakfast service)
Great Location across from TCU (site of the meetings) Great food, fast and high quality TV at your breakfast booth for the morning news small but cool bar friendly staff
Very enjoyable stay with friendly staff who were very helpful.
Access to the Quality Inn was excellent and the rooms were clean and quiet, with a good selection of pillow densities. Staff were attentive and accommodating. The breakfast facilities were excellent. Some work could be done on the water temperature management, as the morning shower alternated between cool and scalding. My only other gripe would be that the fans in the exercise room were the equivalent of small aircraft engines -- I couldn't hear conversation with another person in the room over them.
The staff were great and security were top knotch.Slept very well knowing. Nil.
staff was very helpful and pleasant. /room was well cleaned
Room was clean, quiet and comfortable. Tried to upgrade for more money, but at first (until manager became involved) was told I couldn't because I booked online.
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clean quiet excellent breakfast the quilt on the bed the duvet was too heavy
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Location - north side Toilet temperamental !
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The staff were great, waterslide was fun.the kids really enjoyed it. The staff was very accomodating as well. The room is clean and has everything we need. A little bit away from city center but not too too bad
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The water slide is only open when have a staff available to be in there. Therefore it was closed when we stayed which was one of the reasons we booked at this hotel was for the water slide
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Modern and clean, newer hotel. Located close to the Sasktel Centre if going to an event. Not much choice of restaurants nearby.
Main floor where reception area, lounge and restaurant are located is musty smelling and has an "old, run down" feeling. However, the room I was booked into appeared to be brand new as well as the hallway for the floor my room was on. Clean smelling and refreshing. I did not like the main floor where the reception area, lounge and restaurant were located as they smelled musty and old and run down.
Very neat and clean. Above all the staffs were very pleasing and accommodating this includes the assistant manager. This made you feel at home. Very helpful in clearing certain issues with my ECO discount card for choice hotels. The breakfast lounge was congested to cater the customers. This could be improved with more space and better sitting arrangements.
Not very much. I was very discouraged with our stay. Yes, we were given room 117 right beside the front desk/breakfast area (in spite of me booking 2+ months ahead of time). We were not able to sleep all night for noise of people talking, constantly getting ice or walking down the hall...then early morning breakfast people chatting and doors opening and closing constantly. The bed was very uncomfortable as you could feel the springs in your back. And given this experience, the price was totally overpriced for the value of the stay. We would not come back or recommend this hotel.
The hotel was comfortable and quiet (except early morning). The hallways and stairwells had a bad smell in them. The doors of other rooms clicking & slamming early in the AM was too loud.
I had booked 2 double beds and was told on our arrival that they had overbooked those rooms, but they did have a double bed and a hideaway. Unfortunately my son slept on the hideaway which was very uncomfortable.
Clean, comfortable, easy to get to, good parking The hallway smelled strongly of stale cigarette smoke
The hotel needs some renovations to make one's stay more comfortable. Also, there was no restaurant forcing one to walk or drive across a very busy street.
The staff was friendly, there was a variety for breakfast, and it was a good location for us.
Staff were good room did not match what was booked. beds were horrible, especailly fold out. room was not clean. lots of work crews so very load late and early. food did not match website


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Arrive at any time.
Included Activities:
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Enjoy a klong boat tour of Bangkok including a visit to Wat Po. Travel to Kanchanaburi and head to your floating rafthouse accommodation. Enjoy free time to explore.
Included Activities:
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Wat Po Visit
Overnight Rafthouse Excursion
Private Vehicle (2.00-3.00 hours, 129km)
Enjoy a day of sightseeing at Erawan Falls and the Bridge on the River Kwai. Explore the Allied War Cemetery, the Thai-Burmese Railway Centre and the JEATH War Museum to learn more about the area's history.
Included Activities:
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Thai/Burma Railway Centre and Allied War Cemetery Visit
Enjoy a short drive to view the beautiful Erawan Waterfalls. (1-2 hours per direction)
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Travel to Ayutthaya and visit the historical sites of the old capital city. Opt to visit Chan Kasem National Museum and Chao Sam Phraya Museum.
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Spend a full day exploring Ayutthaya before boarding an overnight train to Chiang Mai.
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Chiang Mai is a vibrant city with heaps to see and do. Famous for its night market, cooking classes, and Muay Thai, it's a feat to fit it all in.
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Here, go for a swim and help the local guides make a friction fire and prepare lunch. Continue another hour and a half to the jungle Buddhist temple outside the second village. Spend the night in the Karen village learn about wood carving, weaving and cooking. Opt to learn about medicine from a shaman or play football with the locals.
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After breakfast, leave the village and continue on, stopping at other villages along the way. Arrive at Tham Lod, a 1666m deep cave. Enter by bamboo raft and move to different chambers - a truly unique experience. After lunch, drive back to Chiang Mai for some free time to explore.
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The Nepal Stock Exchange enters the second decade of the 21st century amidst serious challenges for survival and growth in an economy which has been victimized by prolonged political instability and not friendly investment policies. A flash-back at NEPSE would be in order for putting stock trade in perspective as it opens the first trading day of 2011 on Monday January 3.
The one factor highly essential for smooth running of stock market - STABILITY - may also be simply missing in the New Year as in the past. The secondary market has no option but to learn investment techniques amidst instability. Various factors leading to disturbance in the country's economy cannot be wished away that easily in short term.
A number of issues capable of troubling economy are about to emerge through the window of politics. Some examples could be found in the vacuum to be created by UNMIN-departure in a fortnight, subsequent complications for integrating Maoist combatants, misunderstanding about picking up new Premier and sharing power and the road-map to follow when the Constituent Assembly completes extra-tenure on May 28 with job of finalizing Constitution unfinished.
The art of investment in instability
Financial experts might dismiss in theory the possibility of making stock trade survive in unstable atmosphere. But the experience of NEPSE stores a lesson for them. Stock dealers made it survive through several ups and downs over the past two years when NEPSE saw a decline from promising state - 1175.38 points of August-end 2008 - to dismal performance - 404.06 points - of December 29, 2010. Market capitalization also went down to Rs. 350.28 billion - a great fall from 2008 capitalization of Rs. 612.54 billion.
Very recently, as the capital market closed the final year of the first decade it recorded loss for the second year to the tune of 142.82 points. None of the 227 days in which NEPSE yard witnessed activities in 2010 appeared comfortable for investors.
There was always either one or the other non-investment factor actively engaged to disturb their stock decisions. The secondary market witnessed a six-day-stoppage towards end of February when investors had to put political pressure on government not to neglect stock trade. It remained completely locked-up during May 2-7 Maoist general strike.
Financial measures have also been hitting the market on occasions. It was the hiking of capital gain tax by government that punched it unnecessarily some two years ago. Banks and financial institutions made upward revision of interest rate on loans which stole the source of investors' finance. Both measures affected the sensitivity of stock trade very badly.
As a result, stock-friendly policies followed later could not respond properly to boost investment in NEPSE. Provisions such as Central
Depository Services, Mutual Fund Regulations, portfolio guidelines and opening gates of NEPSE for nonresident Nepalis (NRNs) have been worked out rightly and professionally. Their impact, however, does not look encouraging.
Had they been effective, NEPSE performance in 2010 would not have been this disappointing. Its yard had opened business for the year with 546.88 points on January 3, 2010 and ended it with 404.06 points on December-end. Nepalnews.com Jan 2, 2011
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Thanks for your question.
The bumps on the scrotum is caused by the deposited keratin in the hair follicles.
This is a common finding and not concerning.
Since your doctor thinks these are not warts, do not worry about them.
You can try topical salicylic acid 1-2% solution --apply over them daily--may help over 2-3 weeks.
Please avoid burning your skin --so dilute with water if you get stinging feeling on application of salicylic acid.
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yes try salicylic acid 1-2% solution.
You do not need to go to the doctor now as this is not any disease.
you can see a dermatologist if you develop soreness or itching.
but there are quite a few bumps they seem to get bigger then smaller
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that is due to the clogging of the follicles
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You can get them checked by the dermatologist.
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Ghostbusters 2
1989 (1999) - Columbia TriStar
review by Greg Suarez of
The Digital Bits
Film Rating: B
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B/B+/D-
Specs and Features
108 mins, PG, letterboxed widescreen (2.35:1), 16x9 enhanced, full frame (1.33:1), dual-sided, single-layered, Amaray keep case packaging, talent biographies & filmographies, theatrical trailers (for
Ghostbusters 2
Groundhog Day
), film themed menu screens, scene access (28 chapters), languages: English (DD 5.1 and 2.0), Spanish and Portuguese (DD mono), subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Thai, Closed Captioned
"Why am I dripping with goo?"
What can be more fun than watching Bill Murray be a wisecracking smart-ass for almost two hours? Well, if you add the brilliant straight-laced comedy of Harold Ramis and the loveable scientific mumbo jumbo only Dan Aykroyd can mutter, you make a good thing even better. I'm sure this is what Columbia was banking on back in 1989 when
Ghostbusters 2
premiered, but unfortunately the film smacked into the premiere of the superior and ultimate summer movie - Tim Burton's
. This isn't to say that
Ghostbusters 2
tanked at the box office. On the contrary, it did very well. But the big news of the summer of 1989 was definitely the Dark Knight. The Ghostbusters' second outing is not as inspired as 1984's first look at America's spook catching cops, but it stands as better than average summer movie fare.
Five years after the Ghostbusters saved New York City from Gozar the Destructor (remember the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man?), the boys have gone out of business due to lawsuits for the millions of dollars in damages they caused. When new mother Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and her baby Oscar ("Named after a hot dog, you poor, poor little man!") start getting supernaturally terrorized, Dana enlists the help of her old friends, the Ghostbusters, to solve her dilemma.
Our heroes discover that a powerful ancient sorcerer, Prince Vigo (The Scourge of Carpathia and The Sorrow of Moldavia) wishes to enter the present world and take over, but he must find a human vessel to do so (i.e., Dana's baby). Vigo draws his strength from the contempt and mean spirit New York citizens have for each other (try finding that today). But until he finds the human vessel, the ancient tyrant is trapped inside of a painting in the Manhattan Museum of Art. Uh, oh! Here it comes I can't help myself Who are you going to call?
I enjoyed
Ghostbusters 2
, simply because I'm huge fan of comedy and this film was the fruit of the reunion of comedic geniuses Murray, Ramis, Aykroyd and director Ivan Reitman. The story was good enough to keep me interested and the script contained plenty of fertile ground for Murray's wise cracks. Just check out chapter 2, "The World of The Psychic," to discover what has become of Dr. Venkman since 1984 - this scene is classic Murray, from his never-take-anything-seriously attitude, to a hilarious glare right into the camera as if to say, "This woman is a nut!" Murray's brand of humor is terribly difficult to describe, but I'm sure many of you know what I'm talking about. Rest assured that if you dig Murray, you'll dig this flick.
A great addition to the original cast - all of whom are back for the sequel - is
Ally McBeal
's Peter MacNicol as Dr. Janosz Poha. Dr. Poha works at the Manhattan Museum as the director of restoration for the museum's collection and becomes Vigo's unwilling slave. MacNicol portrays Dr. Poha with a truly inspired amalgamated quasi east European accent, much like Martin Short's character Franck in
Father of the Bride
. Using this clever tick to accentuate the bizarreness of his character, MacNicol seems to be tipping his hat to Dwight Frye's classic performances as Renfield and Fritz in 1931's
, respectively. Like the character of Dr. Poha, Frye's roles were strange manservants to dark characters.
The 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation on this disc is pleasing, but contains some flaws. First, occasional white blemishes appear that prove that Columbia did not strike a perfect print to master this disc. Second, the overall presentation is somewhat harsh, with instances of grain and edge enhancement. These imperfections notwithstanding, the video has nice color fidelity and close-up shots contain a wonderful level of fine detail. Dark interior scenes never appear muddy and black level is nicely rendered. There is a pan and scan version of the film on the reverse side, but I strongly recommend against viewing it. Director Ivan Reitman and director of photography Michael Chapman use every inch of the wide, Panavision framing to tell the story and a highly unacceptable amount of visual information and visual cues by the characters are lost in the pan and scan process. Of course, I never recommend viewing bastardized pan and scan or full frame versions of films, but in the case of
Ghostbusters 2
(and even the original
), I guarantee that you will be losing out on some jokes.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is generally very acceptable, but not as creatively used as I would have expected. The majority of the action is confined to the front soundstage, but the rear channels are occasionally used to convey music and ambient spatiality. The soundtrack occasionally boasts aggressive low frequency cues and dialog sounds natural and never strained. Plus, where else would you be able to hear a Bobby Brown song in 5.1? This film does a wonderful job of dating itself with stomach churning late 80s pop music.
The only extras on this disc are trailers for both
movies, and two other Columbia TriStar Bill Murray flicks,
Groundhog Day
. Talent biographies/filmographies are included yawn. The packaging promises production notes, but I couldn't locate them. With the absolute premium treatment Columbia bestowed upon the first
flick, the least they could do is afford this release a documentary or a commentary track. Or maybe a Bobby Brown music video?
Ghostbusters 2
a film for the ages? Nope. Is it a great popcorn movie? Yeah. Is it a lot of fun? Definitely. Murray, Reitman and company produced a decent, crowd-pleasing comedy... and I imagine that's all they set out to accomplish. The audio and video qualities of this release are acceptable, but a slight step below Columbia's usual high caliber work, and the absolute lack of extras is incredibly disappointing. Are you ready to believe me?
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Superstorm Sandy left the New York Red Bulls without electricity in their arena days before their planned match against D.C. United in New Jersey. Rather than move the game to a neutral field, the decision was made to switch home dates, with United hosting Red Bulls on Saturday instead of next Wednesday. As a result, United was giving up home-field advantage, and it meant that a front office that thought it had a week to prepare for such an event now had three days.
"We always try and think, 'What's the right thing to do?' Whether it's our work in the community or whatever," said Doug Hicks, United's senior vice president of marketing communications. "That human element was a factor in this decision."
The first order of business was to do everything they could to let the fans know about the change. All of their previous advertising and marketing efforts promoting the original dates would have to be scrapped. New print, television and radio ads were implemented immediately, and MLS agreed to supplement United's advertising budget to defray the costs incurred as a result of the switch.
One of the casualties of the process was the match-day program. Planned as a 28-page booklet, it has been abbreviated to two pages.
The team's partners sped up their process and rushed their own promotions, and the city's other professional teams jumped in, tweeting about the change and promoting Saturday's game. Kyle Sheldon, United's director of marketing communications, said that sense of urgency was much appreciated.
"The other sports teams in town have been incredibly supportive," Sheldon told me. "I've gotten e-mails from just about every one of the different teams saying, 'What can we do? How can we help?' The teams are really supportive of each other, and there's a camaraderie that exists. That has been really cool to see."
The biggest effect, however, was on the fans. Work shifts had to be rescheduled, social plans canceled and some had to make a decision between the United match and the Wizards' home opener. It was too late for supporters like Nick Orban, who had scheduled a surgery around what was originally a mid-week home game.
"Because the time between surgery and the game moved from nine days to two, I am unable to attend the first playoff game in DC in 5 years," he told me via e-mail.
The announcement was met with immediate disappointment by some fans, who took to Facebook fan pages and Twitter to vent their frustrations. Small differences, like having to work a half-day before getting on a bus, and returning to the District after the Metro closes, also make Wednesday a much less convenient day for traveling, especially on short notice.
"A lot of us feel like we had something taken away from us. People were wondering if they can play the Giants game and hold the marathon, why can't they host a match?" said Jorge Gadala-Maria, a member of United fan group Barra Brava. "When the marathon got canceled, it helped calm [United fans] down a bit."
In an effort to make things right, United, in partnership with MLS and the Red Bulls, is providing buses and tickets for supporters who want to make the trip to New Jersey on Wednesday. Tickets are on a first-come, first-serve basis.
"I think it put the people who were still deciding over the edge," said Gadala-Maria of the free transportation and match entry. "We're going to have a lot more supporters now."
The team is trying to make the situation on Saturday as easy as possible for the fans. Tickets dated November 7th will be accepted at the gate on Saturday. Anyone who can't attend on Saturday can get a refund on their ticket. Food trucks will be on site, and it will be business as usual at RFK Stadium.
"It's a dire situation up [in New Jersey], and it just needed to be done," United midfielder Chris Pontius said of the switch. "But we were always going to play on Saturday, and for us it doesn't matter where that is. We just need to them to be as boisterous as they were at the last home game. We thought that was fantastic, and we need that support tomorrow again."


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You see, Boehner, along with former GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan and other Republicans, have recently lamented to the media that President Obama hasn't proposed a plan to stave off the impending sequester. Except that's not true. In fact, as was pointed out on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" on Friday, all they had to do to find the plan was Google the terms "White House sequestration plan" (or something similar) and they would have discovered it.
So either Republicans were playing fast and loose with the facts, or they genuinely do not know how to Google things. To make searching easier for those in the GOP who are Google-challenged, Obama's plan to avert the sequester cuts can be found by clicking here.
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Hours later, Palestinian sources said Israeli troops killed an unarmed teenager in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said a Palestinian woman carrying hidden explosives on her body attempted to blow up Gaza's main crossing point.
It comes a day before the Israeli and Palestinian leaders are due to meet to discuss Israel's withdrawal from Gaza.
An Israeli army spokesman said the Israelis were in a car that was ambushed near the Jewish settlement of Hermesh in the West Bank.
The militant Islamic Jihad group said it carried out the attack to retaliate for what it called the desecration of the Koran at a prison in Israel.
The Israeli authorities have denied allegations that prison guards ripped pages of the Islamic holy book.
Fragile truce
Witnesses quoted by AFP news agency said two Palestinian teenagers were hit by Israeli fire as they were apparently trying to cross a border fence from northern Gaza to search for work in Israel. It is not known how badly wounded the second teenager is.
Later, Israeli troops stopped a 21-year-old woman from the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza who they said was carrying 10 kg (22 pounds) of explosives at the Erez check-point.
She had been given permission to cross into Israel to have burns on her face seen to by hospital doctors, army spokeswoman Major Sharon Feingold said.
When asked to put up her hands by suspicious soldiers, she attempted to detonate the bomb, Maj Feingold added.
Overnight, Palestinian militants fired five mortar shells at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, but no injuries were reported, the Israeli army also said.
The violence comes as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are due to meet at Mr Sharon's Jerusalem residence.
It is their first meeting since a fragile ceasefire was agreed in February in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Correspondents say the latest violence puts further strain on the truce, which is seen as a crucial element in the effort to restart the Middle East peace process.
Although the talks are likely to be dominated by the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, planned for August, Mr Sharon is expected to demand a greater crackdown on militants while Mr Abbas will seek a number of guarantees for Gaza residents after the withdrawal.


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There has only been one other August federal election since federation and, like this poll, it was held on August 21.
It was 1943. The world was at war and John Curtin, the Labor prime minister, was the incumbent, facing off against the Country Party's Arthur Fadden in coalition with Billy Hughes's United Australia Party.
The Parliament consisted of 74 seats, just under half the 150 being contested this time. That's population growth for you.
Curtin won the election and the result remains federal Labor's greatest victory in terms of the size of the win. It picked up an extra 17 seats, or 22 per cent of the total number of electorates, and received a record two-party-preferred swing of 9.8 per cent.
While August 21 may be a good omen for the ALP, nobody is counting on anything like a repeat performance of 1943. In fact, in each election since the war ended, every first-term government has won its subsequent poll, but gone backwards.
There were few examples more stark than 1998, when John Howard's Coalition suffered a two-party-preferred swing against it of 4.6 per cent, losing 18 seats. Howard was saved only by the large buffer created by his crushing election win over Paul Keating's Labor government in 1996.
This time, Julia Gillard's government has no such buffer. It holds 83 seats, or 88 if you count the net five seats it gained notionally following the redistribution of seats by the Australian Electoral Commission. A party needs 76 seats to govern in its own right. A uniform swing against Labor of 1.7 per cent will see it swept from office.
No one on either side is expecting a uniform swing. Strategists on both sides say this will be 150 byelections. The two most recent published polls - Herald/Nielsen and Galaxy - have identical results. Labor leads on a two-party preferred basis by 52 per cent to 48 per cent but trails on the primary vote by 39 per cent to 42 per cent. Gillard is well ahead as preferred prime minister and in terms of approval rating.
The start to this campaign has been lacklustre. Gillard and Tony Abbott have continued to trundle out the themes and slogans they have been road-testing for the past three weeks.
Neither had a new pitch on Saturday when the election was called, just a reinforcement of their existing messages. Gillard wants to ''move forward'' from both Rudd and Howard, while Abbott's approach has been generally negative, dwelling on his opponents.
Labor starts the favourite, but this election, more so than recent elections, will be heavily influenced by the campaign.
Both leaders are new, both are untested and each knifed somebody else in the back to get the job. Gillard has taken an enormous risk rushing to the polls after only 24 days as Prime Minister. Some old stagers in Labor thought waiting a bit and putting her own stamp on things might have been a good idea. There was no rush.
With only a narrow lead, she has called an election for winter, a time when people are generally miserable and where everything, including the weather, is the government's fault. This is the first winter campaign since 1987, when Bob Hawke called a double dissolution. In that election, Labor suffered a two-party swing against it of 1 per cent but still picked up four seats from John Howard's Coalition.
Gillard has decided the need to rush to an election, draw a line under all that has gone before and seek her own mandate outranks any danger a winter poll may hold. As one strategist suggested, Gillard decided all the fundamentals were in place and it wasn't going to get any better while waiting.
If Labor loses this election, it will be a disaster for the party. In less than three years, it would have toppled the mighty Howard, lost Kevin Rudd, its most popular prime minister alongside Hawke, and blown up the next-best option, Gillard. The consequences would be enormous.
Ameliorating any potential impact of winter is the fact this election will be largely decided in the more temperate Queensland, Sydney and the NSW north coast.
But anyone who hails from a parochial state knows the hostility of Queenslanders towards what happened to Rudd is not a perception. Forget the fact that Queenslanders had turned off Rudd and his government by the time he was deposed. Only Queenslanders can bag Queenslanders.
If history is to be any guide, then a narrow Labor victory may not guarantee Gillard a long-term future either. It has already been noted that this election is the first since Keating faced John Hewson in 1993 when neither leader led their party at the previous election.
And a keen-eyed Herald reader, Michael Wilson, points to October 1969, when the Liberals' John Gorton, who took over after Harold Holt drowned, staved off Labor's Gough Whitlam. Gorton won, but 17 months later he was deposed by his own party.


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Bart Fargo
I find it hard to believe that addiction researchers could claim this as an "unanticipated outcome" while keeping a straight face. Sadly, law enforcement is unable to grasp such obvious logic, and seems intent on running this drug war like a game of whac-a-mole until there is either no one left to imprison or they provoke an American intifada..
I quote - "While the abuse-deterrent OxyContin successfully reduced the abuse of a specific drug," the researchers wrote, it also "generated an unanticipated outcome:" that users simply switch to other opioids." Unanticipated ? Really ?? I am totally amazed that otherwise intelligent professionals did not have the reasoning powers to predict the side-stepping of access problems by addicted drug abusers - really and truly amazed ! To be quite honest, it makes me wonder at the suitability and dangers to public health these "Unanticipating" researchers present when allowed in close contact with members of the Drud Addicted Brigade ! A "Reality Check" is perhaps called for ?.
Humans are very ingenious, especially when it comes to tool making. Ban one tool, and the people who want it (or are dependent on it) that tool will switch to another and modify it to their purposes. Failure to recognize this is the fundamental false assumption underpinning the "war on drugs," and other attempts to solve individual and public health problems..
Fair N Square
This really shouldn't be surprising to anyone. The basic economic law of supply and demand anticipates this result. As long as the demand remains unchanged, reducing the supply of one form of the object in demand simply causes people to change to another form of the same object. That is why our 40-year War on Drugs is an utter failure. It has focused on controlling the supply of drugs, and essentially ignored the demand side of the equation. As long as we continue to do that, all we do is to squeeze the balloon, and it will bulge out somewhere else. You solve that problem by letting the air out of the balloon--i.e., reducing demand by providing effective treatment to people with addictions. This is also why the DEA's current war on opioids in Florida is an utter failure. They have artificially reduced the supply of prescription opioids to such an extent that people with pain can't get their medications, and just driven the addicts right into the arms of the heroin dealers. That is why treating physicians in Florida like Colombian or Mexican drug lords (as the DEA administrator recently admitted) is the absolute wrong way to go. Treatment is the key to solving this problem..
m t cicero
I totally agree with DD, Fair and Bart. What world are the drug makers and government living in? Wait a minute--- we already know: a world in which the clueless are the ones who determine when, where,and how we practice medicine..
So far - we have a consensus of opinion. The methodology and concept of governmental anti-drug wars is a nonsense and patently contra-productive. Consequences - far from being "unanticipated" - are in fact totally predictable when more than one brain cell is applied to the "problem". The "researchers" submitting this paper should anticipate somewhat frosty "Peer Reviews" !.
I fail to understand how this outcome is in any way "unanticipated". I anticipated it, and any thinking person (not "health professional"-one needn't be a health professional to figure this out,; J. Random Citizen can manage it just fine) could have done so had they thought about it for more than a minute or two. Addiction will not simply stop because a specific medication is reformulated, and OxyContin, for all of my distaste for the drug, is not the cause of the explosion in drug use, particularly opioid use, we've been seeing. I have my own theories about the causes, but until we address those meaningfully, and until we begin to be serious about addiction treatment and stop pretending that addiction is a moral failure, or a personal weakness, or anything other than a public health problem to be dealt with using tried-and-true public health methods, we are not going to make any kind of dent in the issue, and technological fixes for specific agents, while useful for the companies which make the agents, are going to produce exactly this result..
steven brenner, md
The drug was reformulated to prevent abuse to protect the manufacturer from liability. At least they made a reasonable attempt to reduce the chances of abuse so I certainly applaud their efforts. With reference to people switching to other more lethal drugs, there is little chance they can reduce availability, considering the drug cartels have essentially taken over parts of other countries such as Mexico to keep the supply line open, it is becoming an international issue or incident. Do we have the right to destabilize a friendly government, or make it likely that such a government will be destabilized and be taken over by crime syndicates to supply the lucrative US black market for drugs. If we can't control the drugs, we should at least make it less likely that crime syndicates will destabilize friendly governments such as Mexico. Legalizing and regulating drugs may be the only practical, long term solution. We really can not afford to either offend or destabilize friendly nations through our failure to control the illegitimate drug trade. The alternative probably will eventually be an out of control drug trade with increasingly lethal drugs and a lot of needless overdose deaths..
Who did not see this coming? Unanticipated effect??? It was totally predictable. Outlaw oxycontin and legitimate prescribers will begin to prescribe another medication in the same medication Class so that their legitimate patients in pain can continue to have relief from their daily pain. Change the formulation so that it will be difficult to abuse and the abusers will turn to another drug to abuse. this is NOT rocket science. Ban All opioids or all potentially addicting medications and you will see a rise in the abuse of street drugs. If they (the drug abusers) want them they will find them. BUT Legitimate patients in pain will have to suffer or find themselves looking to the street for relief. What is wrong with this picture? Get a grip FDA - DEA your war on drugs is failing miserably because you are attacking the wrong problem..
People always have and always will take substances to alter their reality. Trying to stop this by locking them up or by trying to make the substance unabusable is utter foolishness. The answer is to legalize and regulate the substances. Treat addiction as a medical problem and not a criminal one. Things must change before we poison, incarcerate, or tax ourselves to death; all in the name of a foolish war on drugs..


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Rupert Everett made his breakthrough playing Julia Roberts' gay friend in My Best Friend's Wedding, a role so beloved by test audiences that Everett was given more scenes. Since then, he's gone on to star in the heralded Oscar Wilde adaptation An Ideal Husband, as well as last summer's inexcusable Inspector Gadget. Now he's back playing the gay best friend, of Madonna this time, in the new The Next Best Thing. The Onion A.V. Club recently spoke to Everett about his real-life friendship with Madonna, his writing, and the mysterious Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The Onion: I read an interview with you recently. It started out with a cursory little introductory paragraph, and it said, "There are many reasons to envy Rupert Everett: He's handsome, a good actor, and friends with Madonna." Now, handsome, okay. Good actor, that's okay. But should you envy somebody because he's friends with Madonna?
Rupert Everett: They said I was...
O: In an enviable position.
RE: I suppose it's just one's mental perspective. I don't know. Umm... I guess that's interesting.
O: It almost belittles your position. You're second to her celebrity.
RE: Yeah. One's position is always being belittled in show business at some point or other. I suppose, you know, I hadn't thought about it that way. I suppose it could seem like that.
O: It just makes you seem like a pet, almost.
RE: Madonna's pooch. The thing is, she's a very, very famous person, so she's bound to... I'm bound to take part, be on her coattails. And, yes, there's some humor about it. If you started getting nit-picky about things like that...
O: I understand. But it's interesting. Celebrity is what it is, but it's odd to say that you envy somebody, not because you're famousbecause you, by definition, are famousbut because you're friends with someone who's more famous. That's really bizarre. Envy is a strong word, and in the grand scheme of things, it's not, "I envy you because you're friends with Nelson Mandela" or, "I envy you because you were friends with Gandhi or Martin Luther King." I mean, this is Madonna.
RE: I agree with you, but from my point of view, life's too short to worry about that. Plus, I'm very proud to be friends with Madonna.
O: There's no reason not to be.
RE: She's someone I admire a lot.
O: And you both have mild British accents.
RE: And we've got mild British accents. There you go.
O: Can you explain that? Just objectively speaking, is her accent a kind of affectation? Is it a product of her voice training, or her speech training for Evita?
RE: First of all, being English, I don't notice her English accent. It doesn't sound remotely English to me. But I think if you're noticing something different in her, it's that I think she's learned to use what we call in the business our diaphragm. When you do singing lessons, most people normally have their voices in the wrong part of their vocal cords. There's the nasal one, the mouth one, and the chest one, and they're all controlled by your stomach. I think that when she started out, her voice was [a nasal tone creeps into his voice] very locked up in the top of her noselike that.
O: Detroit.
RE: Detroit. So [drops the nasal tone] as soon as it came down into her main resonatorI'm blinding you with science here; it's fantasticmaybe it sort of changed. I don't know. It's not something I noticed.
O: Really?
RE: Of course, yes. I don't notice it very much.
O: On this new film, you don't get credited as rewriting the script.
RE: No.
O: How extensive were your rewrites?
RE: Not extensive enough for the arbitrating committee to come down on our side, to have a credit.
O: Did you fight for a credit?
RE: We wanted a credit, but the original writer went into arbitration against us, which he had the choice whether to do or not. He won the arbitration, so we didn't get the credit. But we worked pretty extensively on the screenplay. That kind of thing happens a lot. It would have been nice for us to have credit on it, but those arbitrations are very difficult. You have to go in there and fight so hard.
O: Were you surprised at all the acclaim you've gotten for An Ideal Husband?
RE: No, I just knew when I heard the film was being made that I had to be in it, because I could really score in it. Not by necessarily being a good actor, just through having had that whole life experience doing that. And also, the humor's geniusit's Oscar Wildeso it was very good. It seemed to be something I'd really like to do.
O: You did get the Golden Globe nomination.
RE: Yes, the Hollywood Foreign Press was watching.
O: Who are they?
RE: I know all of them. They're fantastic.
O: They're like the Illuminati.
RE: They're all... Quite a lot of them are older: women from Poland, journalists from Israel. They're all nutty, but they're funny. They have these things called the Hollywood Foreign Press Luncheons. They're gruesome, but they're very important.
O: Do you think Hollywood is moving closer to true portrayals of how people interact in the world? How everything isn't necessarily didactic and obvious?
RE: Slightly. They're certainly moving. [Pauses.] I think it's not so much Hollywood, but the obsession with political correctness in America. Drama isn't really allowed to happen anymore, because no one's allowed to be bad enough or good enough or wrong enough in a situation. If someone does something that's dramatically incisive in a screenplay, you're going to get someone saying, [adopts whiny voice] "I just don't think that character there... We can't allow him to be so negative." I think it's not always political correctness, but it's really stronger than anything else. It doesn't allow for drama.
O: How pervasive do you think it is? I wouldn't go so far as to call it active censorship, but certainly stuff is cut out of a script due to sensitivity.
RE: Well, it's kind of professional conscience, I think. It's sometimes like censorship, but it isn't seen that way: It's what you can do with white characters, what you can do with black characters, what you can do with gay characters, what you can do with kids. In the end, you can't do anything.
O: You're writing a third book, aren't you?
RE: Not really. I kind of gave up.
O: You gave up? This was called Guilt Without Sex?
RE: Mm-hmm.
O: Was it fiction?
RE: Yes.
O: Is it harder to write when you're at the peak of your acting popularity?
RE: Um, it's hard for me to write anyway, and I write much better with a writing partner. I'm converting what I could do as an actor into writing, and I think I do have a kind of expertise as a trash writer. Definitely trashy, which isn't bad, but not necessarily good trashy.
O: Is it something you'd want to work on more in the future?
RE: Way in the future.
O: When you've affected an American accent.
RE: When I've affected an American accent. Oh, right, because of my reverse voice exercises.


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This report documents the findings of a questionnaire survey of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) policies and practices at universities and technikons in South Africa in the first half of 2003 and compares them with a similar study in 2000. It also discusses the nature of the current policies and practices in the light of international categorizations of the perspectives and models of RPL. The research is the first part of a longer term project designed to develop a conceptual map of RPL policies and practices in education. The report begins with background to this study. In chapter two the trends identified in 2000 are recalled and the many policy developments since then that impact on RPL are discussed. The findings of the study are presented in the remaining chapters. Chapter 3 is concerned with the universities and chapter four deals with the technikons. General issues arising out of the findings are discussed in chapter five and there are tentative explorations of the conceptual underpinnings of the study in chapter six. Conclusions are drawn in the final chapter seven.
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|The implementation of recognition of prior learning at universities and technikons in South Africa 2003
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|Teaching and Learning
|South Africa
|Recognition of prior learning RPL, Universities, Technikons, South Africa, Survey, Access to Higher Education, Institutional Policy, Academic Staff, Implementation, Non-formal Education
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The 227 seniors who graduated from Princeton High School June 6 might have found the words of wisdom in speeches there that evening even more valuable than the scholarships that some of the students had been awarded days earlier.
The speakers were the five co-valedictorians (Ryan Derrick, Gino Fraboni, Nicholas Langenfeld, Joseph Stenslie and Sophie Wagman), salutatorian Samantha Glauvitz, PHS English teacher Shellyn Ash and Superintendent Julia Espe. Espe's speech included the seven lessons she gave her children when they "left the nest": –Struggling to achieve is a gift, and the grads should take the initiative in life, create opportunity, and not assume a door is closed but to push on it.
The lesson also included the advice to never stop learning or to stop improving the mind. –Set thoughtful goals and work quietly and systematically toward them, while resisting quick fixes or easy gains. –"Assign yourself" tasks or goals and don't wait around for directions from a boss, friend or spouse. –Don't be afraid of taking risks, being criticized or failing. What matters most is not how many times a person falls but how many times they get back up. –Take parenting and family life seriously. –"Listen for the genuine within yourself." –"Never think that life is not worth living or that you cannot make a difference." Ash, who has taught English for 14 years, was animated in her delivery and even sang a few times. Among her lyrics were: "Everything is cool when you're part of a team. Everything is awesome when you're living the dream. That's what your T-shirts say … 'Living the dream – 2014.'"
The first letter of each of the five main parts in her speech together spelled "brave," which she advised the graduates to be as they leave PHS. –B: Be better tomorrow than you are today. –R: Remember where you come from. –A: Awesome, which she used while singing, "Everything is awesome." –V: voice – find your voice and make sure your voice is heard, to speak up for those you love, and for those you can't. –E: enthusiasm.
"Take enthusiasm into this big world," Ash suggested. "Be the first one to smile. Look for the positive side. Enthusiasm is contagious – share it."She added: "So quite simply, be brave. You've all got it in you. Live the dream and as you walk out into this big unknown, exciting world, I want to see you be brave."
Langenfeld said he did not end up as a co-valedictorian because of intelligence but because he chose opportunities that allowed him to focus on school.
"Only you know what is truly best for you, and now more than ever, you have the right to choose your own destiny," he said. Wagman also used the "be brave" theme. She said the graduates can either choose to view their future as a "scary, formidable place" or as an "adventure," Wagman said.
Part of being courageous, Wagman said, is to "let go of things that don't make you happy and fearlessly go after your dreams, even if no one else understands." She advised her fellow seniors to "go far, do good … be nice to people," and live with a "sense of adventure, a brave heart and a creative mind."
Fraboni suggested that his fellow students: "Don't look back; you aren't going that way" and stated that the rest of their lives can, and will, be anything they make it. "My suggestion to you," Fraboni continued, "is to go through every situation with an open mind and open expectations of what is to come. "
"Really high expectations can be a setup for some major disappointments. And low expectation usually have negativity that can drag you down even further. Having open expectations means that you are up to adapt to any situation and will try to make the best out of it. You can choose to be happy. And since happiness is a choice, I don't know why you would choose anything different."
Derrick said he didn't feel qualified to advise his fellow graduates and that he didn't know what it takes to be successful. "The best think I can say," Derrick said, "is to live life how you want to live it, with no regrets, not even a single letter."
Stenslie quoted hockey great Wayne Gretzky, saying: "You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." Stenslie then added: "You'll never know your abilities if you never show up."
Stenslie next gave quotes from an unknown source: "Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment."
Stenslie's last piece of advice was to never trust someone that bites their ice cream. "
That's just unnatural," Stenslie explained. Glauvitz recalled how her parents were "never wealthy or rich" and "often lived paycheck to paycheck, yet were always able to get her what she needed one way or another.
"They did everything in their power to set me up for success and, well, here I am now," Glauvitz said Glauvitz continued that no matter how many times her parents wanted to give up on some things and no matter how many times people told them they couldn't do it, they never once gave up.
"Life can be tough and sometimes you just want to throw in the towel, but just try one more time," Glauvitz said. "Dare to dream just a little bigger. 'Cause you know things might just work out better than you ever could've imagined."
Senior class president Hannah Osborn led the assembly in the Pledge of Allegiance. PHS Principal Barb Muckenhirn presented the PHS Class of 2014 and gave a comment after speeches and musical performances. Muckenhirn, along with Espe, Assistant Principals Emorie Colby and Darin Laabs, and School Board Members Craig Johnson, Chuck Nagle, Deb Ulm and Howard Vaillancourt presented the diplomas to the graduates. Following graduation, 184 of the graduates went to the middle school for the all-night graduation party put on by volunteers. This year's theme was Race For Your Dream and had a car-racing theme. One of the activities was a scale model car racing track to run remote control cars around.


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