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Thursday, October 31, 2013 6:07 AM
Meindert Zylstra and his wife, Wilma, stand with Sen. Carla Nelson at J.W.'s Silver Grille on Saturday, Oct. 19, where Nelson hosted "Conversations with Carla," an opportunity for her constituents to share their concerns. GRETCHEN MENSINK LOVEJOY/CHATFIELD NEWS
Sen. Carla Nelson was all ears over her salad.
"I've found it important for constituents across the district to have the ability to contact their senators and representatives," said Nelson as she enjoyed a salad at J.W.'s Silver Grille in Chatfield on Saturday, Oct. 19. This was the first of three "Conversations with Carla" events she has chosen to host at the restaurant in order to make herself available to the people who live in her legislative district, Minnesota Senate District 26.
"That's why we've been going to towns in the area - we started in Rochester, then went to Stewartville, we're here in Chatfield and we'll finish our day in Eyota," Nelson continued. "It's a chance for anybody who wants to show up and tell what's on their minds, whether they have any constituent issues, ideas for us, or if there's any legislation or laws that aren't working as they're intended to."
Nelson explained that she had just finished a tour of southwestern Minnesota with the Senate bonding committee, and now she is making stops to listen to people throughout southeastern Minnesota to find out if they have any issues with state services or any questions.
"It will help me prepare for the new session at the end of February," she added.
Nelson spoke specifically on Chatfield's economic development and the transformation of the Chatfield Center for the Arts from a vintage school building to an art consortium.
"It's exciting to see new development and enterprises coming to Chatfield," she said. "I'm a fan of the Chatfield Center for the Arts and I will continue to work for funding for it. I love the volunteers' 'get 'er done' attitude and that they're working so hard to make it happen. It's interesting to see how the members of the community use the center. Southeast Minnesota is the fastest-growing economic area in the state."
Transportation safety is one of Nelson's concerns, as she related that at her next stop in Eyota, there would be discussion regarding the intersection of Highways 14 and 42, where numerous accidents have taken place and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has had to take a hard look at what can be done.
"Highway issues...I've met with the MnDOT District 6 engineer two weeks ago. After the Jech fatality this spring and a meeting in April, MnDOT has worked with me to find more permanent solutions," she said. "They've assured me that it's a high priority on their list, and they're looking for the very best solution - they think a roundabout would work - but that means acquiring right of way."
The project, at first, didn't meet the guidelines for a state highway improvement plan, but after second examination, it might.
"We're hoping to get a more accurate view of how dangerous the intersection is, and we're also hoping to get more funding," Nelson added.
The implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act has troubled her, she noted, because while she supports the legislation, she has heard from constituents and staff that the online exchange, MNSure, has glitches that prevent citizens from finding the insurance information they're seeking.
"My concern is that the people of southeast Minnesota are paying double premiums because there's not enough competition. I'm hoping there will be more insurance providers soon," Nelson said. "Also, as people go online to search for insurance, the drop-down menu of medical providers is not working, so they can't find out how to keep their doctors. It's a real issue if they can't pick their doctors."
Nelson is on the Senate tax committee and she spoke about how a budget surplus might return revenues to the schools after the state borrowed from its education budget in a tax shift that left districts receiving only a portion of what they were promised.
"The Republican-majority budget closed out on Sept. 30, and they finished their accounting and found that additional dollars came in and that expenses were less than they'd expected, so there's a surplus that's allowing them to send checks back to the schools," Nelson explained. "It's allowed them to pay back the schools from the budget shift - 40 percent of the state's budget goes toward education, and the state borrowed from it - right or wrong - so it's good that there's a surplus there and it's being sent back to the schools."
Issues that Nelson will be working on for the coming session include repealing a warehouse tax that was meant to raise 7 percent revenue for the state but instead has had the effect of sending goods to other states where there is no warehouse tax. "If someone has something they're moving to a warehouse, they're going to keep rolling through Minnesota and right on to La Crosse or Iowa" before stopping in Minnesota, she said. "I don't think any other states have a warehouse tax, because the other states found that the industries that it taxed dried up."
A bill that's in the Senate would provide $400 million for low-income daycare participants to have preschool education as part of their daycare experiences.
"I think they should be prepared for kindergarten...there's no quality measure there right now, but they should be learning instead of just being babysat," Nelson said. "I think any childcare should get them ready for kindergarten."
Nelson is going to return to the Silver Grille again on Saturday, Nov. 9, and Saturday, Dec. 14, and she asked constituents to be sure to make a list of their concerns and bring them to her table.
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Our prayers have been answered! He-Man, the hunky half-naked animated hero, is getting a new live-action feature film,Gray Skull: The Masters of The Universe. The script is finally done, but now who can fill He-Man's loincloth? We have some casting ideas:
HE-MAN Amelia thinks Matthew McConaughey can step into the fur boots — lord knows Matthew likes sporting a girlie mane and no shirt. But I'm all for this year's award winning hottie, Javier Bardem, who can really rock a bowl cut (even if it's blonde!).
SHE-RA As for his butt-kickin' sister, She-Ra Princess of Power, I think the role could only be filled by Uma Thurman. As an alternative, I'd like to see Scarlett Johansson wield a sword. You know that ho is dying to slash someone after her Tom Waits cover album got so many bad reviews.
SKELETOR To fill the shoes of the evil villain — and maybe I'm just saying this because Michael K. from Dlisted calls him by the nickname — I think Marc Anthony has got the look. He has attempted to act (in last year's El Cantante) and this would obvi be a perfect comeback role for him.
BATTLE-CAT Last but not least, is He-Man's trusty pet, Battle Cat. Bret Michaels, your phone is blowin' up! You know the Poison frontman would do it for the cash, his plastic surgery is a bit cat-like, he's also from the 80's, he has enough hair extensions, and I'm sure he's worn a leash before.
So, with our casting suggestions and fan boy Joel Silver running the show, this He-Man movie is well on its way to becoming a cinematic classic. Well, you had my $10 at "He-Man". [Ain't It Cool via Latino Review]


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The idea of yet another Asian horror remake, especially from a French director, doesn't exactly thrill anyone. But it's a different story when the man pulling the strings is Alexandre Aja. The director of High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes has been one of the few to successfully make the leap to Hollywood without compromising his work and he's invited Dread Central down to his editing bay to show off scenes from his latest creation.
"I'm not sure if you've talked to the people who made The Eye or One Missed Call – all these other French directors who came here and had a very bad experience," says Aja "We feel like we're the lucky ones. If you don't like the movie, it's because of us not because of the studio. We're not going to have a director's cut because that's the movie we're going to release."
Loosely based on the 2003 Korean film Into the Mirror, Aja's version – simply titled Mirrors – does what all the best remakes do: It completely abandons the original.
"We didn't know anything about the Korean movie," Aja explains "We read the script and we didn't connect at all with the story or the scares. But there was something… that simple idea of using the mirrors. We all have relationships with mirrors. Some people are obsessed with their image, some cannot stand their image. Some religions believe that you have to cover all the mirrors when someone dies so their soul doesn't become trapped on the other side. These are universal concepts that are waiting to be explored. We looked at the Korean movie and besides the opening and a couple of scenes; we didn't connect with it either. It wasn't very interesting. We convinced [New Regency] to let us throw away the script, not use the Korean movie, and use our own story based on the concept of the mirrors. So basically it's not a remake."
After years of torturing terrorists for CTU, Kiefer Sutherland has been demoted to security guard status, taking the unappealing job as night-watchmen of an abandoned department store in New York City. The building's edifice has been ravaged by fires that claimed the lives of dozens of people and Sutherland's boss gives him the grand tour of his creepy new office. Imagine a Macy's in Silent Hill.
"I really wanted for a long time to explore the other side of the genre," says Aja, "If The Hills Have Eyes, High Tension, and P2 represent that kind've survival/slasher movie, the other side would be the supernatural. The Shining for me is a great example of a supernatural movie that also deals with very shocking violence that punches you in the face."
We're treated to the opening scene of Mirrors, where the building's previous security guard (Josh Cole) flees on foot through the subways from an unseen force. Aja's eye-popping visuals are instantly recognizable as the camera bolts through every corner of the underground tunnels. Eventually the guard encounters a bathroom mirror and meets a nasty end with an incredibly graphic throat slash – the only thing carried over from the original film.
Aja skips ahead to one of the early ghost encounters. It's late-night at the department store and high-pitched screams suddenly echo through the building. Kiefer yells his signature "Dammit! " and grabs a flashlight, bolting from room-to-room in search of the cries. Tracing the screams to an empty dressing room, Sutherland catches the reflection of an extended hand in a nearby mirror. He hauls the mirror over to the stall and looks at the full gruesome image: A half-naked woman writhes and screams on the floor. Her body smokes as her face and breasts crack and peel away from her body. This is, of course only a sample of the hell unleashed upon Sutherland's character. "He basically starts with a breakdown and he's trying to get back on his feet," Aja explains " He's going to refuse what the mirrors are requesting from him and some bad things are going to happen to his family."
With that, Aja shows us one such scene. The clip is too spoiler-heavy to report, but even in its unfinished stage, it's one of the single most insane gore effects to hit the screen in a very long time. The lights go up and the entire editing room cheers. To our shock, Aja tells us that Mirrors just escaped through the MPAA with an R-rating. "I'm still in shock of what they let us do. We have the movie we want. I don't think I even have enough footage to do an Unrated one."
What about the studio? Aja insists that there were struggles, but that they were kept to a minimum. "We had some fights," he recounts, "There's a very huge twisted action-packed finale. The studio wanted to keep it more like the Sixth Sense with a big twist at the end. We fought against that. They didn't want to go as far as we wanted to with the end, so we had to test the movie with two different cuts. The numbers were like night and day and we got the victory."
Of course, the director insists that having a huge A-list star on his side was a huge plus. "Kiefer helped us a lot. He's not just taking any movie because he's so overwhelmed by 24 every year. He fell in love with the script and was always on our side." And if Aja ever loses creative control, there's always his native country to fall back on. "That's a great argument that we have," he laughs "When things get ugly, we say 'You know what? We can leave, you finish the movie. We'll go back to France and will have final cut on our movies.'"
After watching a handful of scenes, its clear that Mirrors is the antidote to every watered-down remake we've had to endure over the years. In the end, Aja's words ring true: His version exists as its own entity, while easily surpassing the original film.
The young director hopes to do the same with his remake of Pirahna which prepares to roll before cameras in glorious 3-D. "We received the script five years ago with the idea of an earthquake under a lake releasing prehistoric piranha that hit some stupid drunk kids during spring break. That was really fun! We couldn't do that movie because of The Hills Have Eyes, but right after the script came back around to us with a different draft, another movie. We went to the Weinsteins and said, 'We really liked the previous draft which you guys never read.' So we convinced them to take the spring break plot and do whatever we wanted to do with it." As with Mirrors, Aja insists that this film isn't a remake either. "There is not one thing similar to the Joe Dante movie. It's completely different. It's the blue-print of a rollercoaster!"
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you sold it already? how much?
I sold it for 1,000 to a close friend. sorry again guys.
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Greenwich Village is decked with snow and mistletoe in December of 1920. Olivia Brown is once again drawn into intrigue when a nanny, employed by one of her friends, is found murdered. Olivias investigation reveals not only some dark family secrets, but a criminal organization called the Black Hand. Did the young woman die at the hands of thugs, or one of Olivias friends?Review:
Olivia Brown (Oliver to her friends)--bohemian poet, advocate of women's rights and free love, and connoisseur of bootleg gin--has the unpleasant habit of stumbling across dead bodies. When she finds Fordy and Kate Vaudes' demure nanny, Adelle, hanging from a tree during a country house weekend, Olivia is sure suicide is the wrong assumption. After all, why would Adelle hang herself with a man's leather belt?
Back in Greenwich Village, Oliver and her housemate, private detective Harry Melville, plunge into an investigation that takes them from Oliver's gently gin- soaked literary world to an array of nefarious dens of iniquity. Adelle, it turns out, was Adeline Zimmerman, former Pinkerton detective; Daisy, one of the guests at that country weekend, was Adeline's sister; and both Zimmerman women were having an affair with Lester Nolan, the corrupt cop ("a wax model of a hero in human clothing") who's doing the commissioner a favor by looking into the murder. What (or whom) was Adeline investigating? What has caused the sudden tension between Fordy and Kate? And who, really, is Celia, the beautiful photographer who drifts in and out of Oliver's life like a bewitching muse?
As Olivia tries to trace a path through Village society (where everyone knows everyone else, and serial alliances and misalliances are so common that "It was like putting a light to a single match in a row of matches and watching one catch fire, then another, and another until the whole parcel was ablaze"), she finds herself rubbing elbows with an assortment of picturesque characters, from mobsters to authors. One of these charming individuals is a deadly threat--but which?
The novel is refreshingly free of glaring anachronisms, and author Annette Meyers has obviously done her research on Village literary life in the '20s. But Meyers is no Fitzgerald, nor even a Michael Cunningham. Though the novel preens itself a trifle ostentatiously on its periodicity, tending toward heavy-handed references to the Great War, it fails to capture the poignantly fragile glamour of the era, with its heady whirlwind of flappers, expatriate authors, and jazz and its haunting legacy of trench warfare, poison gas, and dislocated modernity. As long as it doesn't try too hard, however, the Olivia Brown series is a perfectly pleasant diversion, as amusing as--and less rigorous than--the Charleston. --Kelly Flynn
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After attempts at delaying pay raises and implementing furloughs didn't work, Gov. David Paterson confirmed this morning he will seek layoffs in the state workforce starting Jan. 1 to achieve $250 million in budget savings.
Paterson is limited by a no-layoff pledge he made last year with unions in order to get a less generous pension tier for new state employees. But Paterson questioned whether the agreement is binding, and also vowed to put the layoff plan in place by Jan. 1 — when the no-layoff pledge would end.
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Relocation of Utah's main prison facility, a project with an estimated price tag of at least half a billion dollars, could be on a fast-track if a proposed bill which grants sweeping powers to a new authority gets the green light from lawmakers.
SB72, sponsored by Sen. Scott K. Jenkins, R-Plain City, would create a Prison Land Management Authority with power to: seek bids and select a proposal to recommend to the governor and Legislature; buy or lease a new prison site; develop the property where the prison is currently located; tap and spend sales tax revenue to pay for the project; and borrow money while also allowing the state to not include that debt incurred in its current cap.
The Senate Judiciary committee will discuss the bill Tuesday at its 4 p.m. meeting.
The 32-page proposed bill would abolish a committee set up in 2011 to study pros and cons of relocating the prison and allowing commercial development to take over the nearly 700 acres the facility now occupies along Interstate 15 in Draper.
That committee concluded in December, after months of reviewing various aspects of the prison's operation, that construction costs of a modern, efficient prison would be offset by reduced labor costs and income generated by redeveloping the existing prison site, in use since 1951. Jenkins has also said that real estate and loan costs make the project attractive now a reversal of the findings of a 2005 analysis which determined there was a huge gap between construction costs and revenue potential and that the current prison is highly efficient.
Six construction management firms provided the committee with information about feasibility of the project. Possible locations suggested so far for a new prison include Tooele, Juab and Box Elder counties.
Theproposed management authority would consist of 10 members, with six representatives appointed by the governor to represent the following stakeholders: the Utah Department of Corrections; the Governor's Office of Economic Development; two commercial construction experts; and two real estate experts.
The president of the Utah Senate would appoint a representative, as would the speaker of the Utah House. Draper City, where the prison is currently located, also would appoint two members. Terms would be set by the board once it begins operating. Board members would be paid a per diem and mileage expenses.
The bill would preclude anyone who has or is closely related to someone who has an ownership interest in, is an officer or an employee of a potential project bidder or material supplier from serving on the board. It would give an edge to bidders who are located in Utah by adding 5 percent to any bids from out-of-state firms. Project bids would have to identify all sources of anticipated funding for building a new prison and tearing down the old one, including any bonds, sales tax revenue or proceeds from sale and development of the current prison site.
The authority could select a single bidder or some combination of proposals from different bidders for various aspects of the project. The governor and Legislature would have to approve the authority's recommendation before any contracts could be awarded.
The proposed bill would allow 50 percent of every dollar of sales and use tax revenue generated by developments on the old prison site to be dedicated to the Prison Land Management Authority. The land, now owned by the state, is currently tax exempt. The authority would receive the tax increment for up to 25 years.
If the current prison site remains under state ownership,the bill proposes that the authority prepare a draft project plan for development of the current prison site and hold "at least" one public meeting to discuss that plan. The bill also addresses annual budget and audit requirements.
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They've been something of an oddity for the last few years - either too expensive or too impractical. Not to mention the fact that early versions like the GM EV 1 incorporated the sort of design quirkiness that wasn't exactly everyone's cup of tea. But in the last 12 months it's become clear that hybrid vehicles are about to go from curiosity to the mainstream. This year will see a watershed moment for the technology when the first Australian-built hybrid, the Toyota Hybrid Camry, goes onto the local car market. The car has a 2.4 litre four-cylinder petrol engine and an electric motor generator, plus a hybrid battery that stores electrical energy. Like other hybrids, the car can switch off the petrol engine while stopped at lights or at low speeds, switching to electric power to save fuel. It's claimed that the car could take petrol usage from around 9 litres per 100km to 6 litres.And that's just the start. Not only will Toyota follow-up with other hybrids, but Holden is reportedly planning a hybrid version of an Australian icon - the Commodore.Fuel economy isn't the only thing that's raising eyebrows about the new generation of hybrid cars. The Toyota's third generation Prius, launched last year, has innovations like steering wheel mounted touch controls for radio, air conditioning and to check energy consumption. A Head Up Display (HUD) shows speed and navigation information on the windscreen (on the i-Tech model), and a button on your keychain lets you activate the air conditioning system before you get into the car (without the engine running).The only sticking point now is the price. You'll still pay a premium for a hybrid vehicle, with a new Toyota Prius setting you back more than $30,000 at the time of writing. Still, these cars are getting harder to ignore.
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