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On Monday SP/RHP Joe Ross took the mound against the Kansas City Royals Low-A team and looked every bit as good as advertised. Over three innings Ross' fastball sat between 91-94 MPH and touched 96.
Ross struck out the Royals' Bubba Starling, one of the top picks in the 2011 draft twice; once on a slider and the other going up the ladder with a four-seam fastball.
Right now he looks like the top pitcher going to Fort Wayne.
Despite Kevin Goldstein's draft day assessment, 2B Casey McElroy, may be the best hitter going to the TinCaps. The former Auburn Tiger has a unique ability to put the barrel of the bat consistently on the ball and drive it.In the three games that I saw he rarely missed driving the ball hard somewhere
He doesn't have great range, but can catch about anything that he can get his hands on to go along with the ability to fill-in at shortstop.
This off-season the organization toyed with idea of making him into a catcher, even sending McElroy to the Dominican Republic to learn the position. But with top pick Austin Hedges headed to Fort Wayne and a good battle for the back-up position between Matt Colantonio and Robert Kral for the back-up, there is more room at second than behind the plate.
MLB.com's Corey Brock is reporting that the organization will start Keyvius Sampson in AA San Antonio, as opposed to High-A Lake Elsinore.
This is going to come as a surprise to Sampson who on Monday was talking about trying to stay away from the In-N-Out Burger just off of the exit to the Diamond, but Brock has pretty good connections and is an accurate reporter.
The move up of Sampson is reflective of the Padres' strength in pitching at the AAA and low-A levels but also of the paucity of talent at the AA and High-A levels. Last season the Storm and TinCaps staff had a few good starters but their success relied upon strong bullpens as opposed to dominant starting staffs.
In the same piece it's mentioned that Erlin may start the year in San Antonio, instead of Tucson, and a few starters from the Eugene team last season should toe the rubber for the Storm in 2012. SP/RHP Matt Andriese, who was the MadFriars' Pitcher of the Year in Eugene, is one of the candidates to fill one of those spots.
Skipping High-A is rare and in recent years the only two top prospects that they have moved in this manner have had so-so results.
The success story is with Will Venable, the Padres' starting right fielder. In 2007, after a big year in Fort Wayne, the Padres promoted Will Venable to San Antonio partly to accelerate the development process because of his age, he was 24 at the time, where he hit .278/.337/.373.
While Venable did struggle in AA it paid off the next year as he had his best year in AAA Portland hitting .292/.361/.464 before being called up to San Diego.
The one that didn't work was with pitcher Travis Chick, whom after going 5-0 with a 2.13 ERA in Fort Wayne in 2004 the Padres took a gamble and sent him to their then AA Southern League affiliate Mobile where he was shelled [2-9 5.27 ERA in a pitcher's league] before being traded with Justin Germano for Joe Randa.
Chick, a lanky 6'3" righty, had a big fastball but his change-up wasn't consistent and he couldn't throw his slider for strikes. In the Midwest Leagues batters would chase his slider, at AA they made him throw it for strikes which he couldn't.
The result was a one pitch pitcher and that doesn't work at higher levels.
The difference between Sampson and Chick is that Sampson has probably as good a fastball as Chick, with a little more deception, and a much better change-up which was the reason for his stellar performance last year.
This spring Smith and the rest of his staff must have seen the improvement of Sampson's curve, which Keyvius believes will be on par with his fastball and change, or they wouldn't be sending him to AA.
Still, it is a very big jump.
Edison Rincon's bat is punching his ticket to AA San Antonio; the real question is wether his glove will come along for the ride. The organization has worked with him extensively in left field as a way to get both him and Jedd Gyorko in the lineup everyday in a league where most teams don't use the DH. [When two National League affiliates play each other the DH is not in use].
Rincon is one of the harder working and more intelligent prospects in the system but the swirling winds of Nelson Wolff Stadium is not the best place in the world to learn how to play the outfield.
However he hit .329 in Lake Elsinore in 2011 and has looked very good this spring at the plate. If he can find a defensive position, he's someone to watch.
1b/DH Cody Decker who looked like he was going to set the Texas League record for home runs in April before injuries slowed him down is back and looks better than ever. The Padres have been working Decker at third and left in addition to first.
Decker, one of the few baseball players who openly express his love for performing in musical theatre, is not only one of the better power prospects in the organization but also puts out an entertaining blog.
1b/3b Connor Powers legged out a triple in the High-A Game and looks like he is going to pick up where he left off last year in Fort Wayne where he hit .338 with power. He came to camp in great shape and, like Cody Decker, can also play third and left.
Editor's Note
My colleague Ben Davey pointed out that the Padres also skipped Simon Castro from Fort Wayne to San Antonio in 2010.
While the results for Simon were pretty good that year - a 2.92 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 129.2 innings - he obviously didn't develop into the pitcher that they thought he would be by falling flat in 2011 and eventually traded this off-season.
Did skipping a level hurt him? It's hard to say because Castro's problem were more mechanical after being injured early in the season. When his mechanics were off in Tucson, he couldn't throw his slider or change and became a one pitch pitcher.
In a nutshell, it is a big jump for Sampson but right now he has two plus pitches; his four-seam fastball and changeup, which is much more than Chick had in 2005 or Castro in 2011.


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High school roundup: No. 2 Hempfield softball team betters top-ranked Canon-McMillan
In a rematch of the 2012 WPIAL Class AAAA softball title game, Hempfield gained a little revenge over defending champion and top-ranked Canon-McMillan with a 17-6 nonsection victory Friday night.
The Big Macs (2-1) jumped out to a 6-0 lead, but No. 2-ranked Hempfield scored 14 runs on 13 hits in the bottom of the third to take control. Kasey Kolick was 3 for 4, including a grand slam in the third, for Hempfield (3-1). Taylor Bartlow threw a complete game to earn the win and also had a three-run home run in the fifth to seal the mercy-rule victory.
Penn-Trafford 4, Connellsville 2 — Jess Zavolta had three hits, and Frankie Ponziani threw a complete game with five strikeouts to guide Penn-Trafford (3-2, 2-1) to a Section 1-AAAA victory.
Plum 11, Woodland Hills 6 — Jordan Seneca and Ryle Handyside each homered, and Jess Bitsura earned the win as Plum (2-0, 2-0) rolled in Section 2-AAAA play.
Fox Chapel 4, North Hills 3 — Kaylee Pistorius homered, and Isabella Bungo scattered four hits in a complete game for Fox Chapel (1-2, 1-2) in Section 3-AAAA.
Shaler 10, North Allegheny 0 (6 inn.) — Hayley Stedeford had three hits, and Brianna Dobson allowed just two hits in a complete-game victory for Shaler (4-0, 4-0) in Section 3-AAAA.
West Allegheny 8, Ringgold 0 — Brianna Lach struck out six in a complete-game win for West Allegheny (2-1, 2-1) in Section 2-AAA.
Southmoreland 7, Elizabeth Forward 4 — Rikki Brown had three hits, and Briana Bunner homered to lead Southmoreland (3-2, 2-2) to a Section 3-AAA win. Portia McBride took the loss for No. 2 Elizabeth Forward (5-1, 2-1).
South Park 9, Thomas Jefferson 0 — Dana Achille hit three home runs and allowed just two hits in a complete-game victory for South Park (4-1, 4-1) in Section 3-AAA.
Trinity 8, Montour 7 — Olivia Gray had two doubles and three RBI, including a fifth-inning hit that knocked in the game-winning run, as Trinity (1-0, 1-0) won in Section 4-AAA. Stephanie Seibert homered for No. 3 Montour (4-3, 3-1).
Seton-La Salle 10, Avonworth 0 (5 inn.) — Lauren Zola struck out 12 batters and allowed two hits as No. 4 Seton-La Salle (3-0, 3-0) won in Section 1-AA.
Serra Catholic 5, West Greene 4 — Hailey Havrilla had three hits, including a walk-off single in the seventh to lead Serra Catholic (4-1, 3-1) to a Section 2-A win.
Monessen 17, Mapletown 0 (4 inn.) — Shelby Minardi struck out eight en route to a no-hitter for Monessen (3-2, 1-2). She also had three RBI in the Section 2-A win.
Sto-Rox 15, Avella 0 (4 inn.) — Aimee Miller struck out three en route to a no-hitter in leading Sto-Rox (2-1, 1-0) to a Section 1-A win. Kiona Banks homered for the No. 3 Vikings.
Riverview 10, Jeannette 2 — Ashley Bruni and Nikki Anderson each had four hits, and Hannah Larkin threw a complete game to lead Riverview (2-1, 2-0) to a Section 3-A win.
Springdale 20, Ellis School 4 — Shannon Franks had four hits and drove in four runs as Springdale (1-2, 1-2) broke a 34-game losing streak dating to 2010 with a Section 3-A win.
Neshannock 17, Rochester 0 (3 inn.) — Madison Shaffer struck out all nine batters she faced as No. 1 Neshannock (3-0, 3-0) won a Section 4-A contest.
Hempfield 10, Kiski Area 0 — The No. 2 Spartans (3-0, 2-0) got a home run from Luke Fox and a complete-game two-hitter from Greg Martin in a Section 2-AAAA win. Martin also had four RBI.
Thomas Jefferson 12, Ringgold 4 — In Section 4-AAA, Jared Carranza and Eric Fairman hit grand slams, and Joe McHugh also homered to lead the Jaguars (3-3, 1-1) to victory.
Seton-La Salle 15, Avonworth 13 — In Section 1-AA, David Boehme homered twice, Matt Wilke had a home run and Sam Kostyak had four hits to lead Seton-La Salle (2-2, 2-0).
Riverside 4, Beaver Falls 2 — Ross Maietta hit a go-ahead home run in the sixth to give No. 1 Riverside (4-2, 1-1) a win in Section 5-AA.
Hopewell 10, New Castle 0 (5 inn.) — Tim Hughes hit a grand slam, and Mitch Bufalini allowed just one hit as No. 2 Hopewell (6-0) won a nonsection game.
South Park 7, Franklin Regional 4 — Nick Yobbi struck out nine batters and scattered four hits in six innings to lead the No. 5 Eagles (8-0) to a nonsection win. Shane Fetsko homered and doubled for South Park.
Moon 4, Ambridge 0 — Andy Grace allowed just one hit and struck out two in a complete-game, nonsection victory for Moon (3-1). Mason Prickett hit a two-run single in the third for the Tigers.

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Jordany Valdespin, one of the Las Vegas 51s top players the past three weeks since being demoted to Triple-A from the New York Mets, was one of 12 players Monday reportedly accepting 50-game penalties from Major League Baseball for their connections to Biogenesis.
Valdespin hadn't previously been linked to the Biogenesis drug investigation for performance enhancing drugs, reports The Star-Ledger. Cesar Puello, a Mets system slugger in Double-A, also accepted a suspension.
The 25-year-old Valdespin is batting .463 with three home runs and 24 RBIs in 16 games with the 51s. He has 27 hits, 14 runs scored and has a .759 slugging percentage, helping the 51s (61-53) climb into first place of the Pacific Southern Division.
He was optioned to Las Vegas July 13 after batting .188 in 144 at-bats with the Mets, immediately impacting the Las Vegas lineup. On July 26 against Sacramento, he went 4-for-4 with three RBIs, then went 3-for-3 with three runs scored the following day in helping Las Vegas move past Sacramento into first place.
On July 29, Valdespin was named the Pacific Coast League's Player of the Week. He batted .550 with 10 RBIs in six games, scoring seven runs and totaling 19 bases.
This won't be his first suspension with the 51s. He recently served a three-game suspension for his role in a benches-clearing brawl.
The Associated Press reports other players accepting suspension are: New York Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli and outfielder Fernando Martinez; Philadelphia pitcher Antonio Bastardo; Seattle catcher Jesus Montero; Houston pitcher Sergio Escalona; San Diego pitcher Fautino De Los Santos; and free agent pitcher Jordan Norberto.
Ray Brewer can be reached at 990-2662 or [email protected]. Follow Ray on Twitter at twitter.com/raybrewer21.


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Naya Rivera Wears Short Shorts & Bares Midriff in NYC (PHOTOS)
Glee star Naya Rivera did just that as she grabbed lunch in the Big Apple during a break from filming the hit FOX show.
Ms. Rivera was looking particularly sexy as she rocked some teeny denim shorts and a tied up little shirt that showed her toned abs. If she can still eat from a food cart and have a body like that, we want to know her secret!Naya is just the latest Glee star to be seen out and about in NYC as the cast is busy filming their Nationals episode.
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Autodesk Sketchbook
- drawing
- painting
- design
- imagination
- making new creations
- digital creation
- Productivity
- Creating Media
ProsImpressive brush selections, professional tools on an easily accessible tablet screen.
ConsThere's a learning curve for kids not already familiar with professional-level digital art tools.
Bottom LineGives students easy access to professional tools for creating digital art.
Free trial; full version $4.99
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Classroom teacher
The tools are fun to play around with, but serious artists will be drawn to their versatility and quality when it comes to making digital art.
Teens can learn through exploration in this user-driven experience. The vast array of tools allows artists to delve deep into digital creation.
A basic written tutorial introduces teens to the tools available. The Sketchbook.com site includes a great blog with news and tips about the app, as well as topics like storyboarding and drawing tutorials.
There are lots of ways to add this quality drawing app into your curriculum of choice. It may make the most sense for art teachers, giving kids a head start as many college art programs feature digital creation -- but anywhere there's an opportunity to insert some creativity into an otherwise dry subject, Sketchbook Pro could be a fun option. Since teens can save their works-in-progress to the gallery, multiple students in different classes can use the same device if necessary.Read more Read less
Sketchbook Pro is a full-featured design and creation app with an arsenal of tools for creating digital art, offering tools available in the desktop version with the ease of a sketchbook on an iPad or other tablet. Teens can choose brushes and colors, draw using mirror image, move and rotate and arrange objects, and work with layers. They can choose the resolution size to save creations. It's possible to store works-in-progress and complete them later, as well as export works (including PSD export) or share them over email or social media. There are some differences in features across platforms; for example, the iOS version of the app has a smudge tool, while the Android version does not (at the time of this review).
The app does offer an option for pen only, which lets artists use the stylus without hand pressure registering on the screen, so they can draw with precision. Additionally, students can pin their most-used tools to their canvas and reset them easily in the settings.Read more Read less
Students familiar with the desktop version of Sketchbook Pro will pick up the tablet version with no problems, but others will require some instruction and exploration to get comfortable. The controls are exhaustive and intuitive, and the ability to maneuver with both fingers and a stylus offers some ease in creation.
The options for tools, pens, and stamps are outstanding. It would be nice to see a few improvements (such as a select tool and, for the Android version, a smudge tool), but all in all, it's excellent. It includes more tools than Procreate, another professional-level creation tool, though not as many options for canvas-size and resolution. Sketchbook Pro is a serious digital art tool not to be mistaken for the many simple drawing apps available for kids. It's a professional-caliber tool designed by Autodesk, developers with a history of well-regarded apps for designers, engineers, and architects.Read more Read less
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- Good App to create digital art that feels like the real thing15October 29, 2013
- Great product for alternative was to get students to create (draw) digitally!Jim P.
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- Easy to use art application that has the feel of expensive photo editing tools.Julie Y.
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When something claims to be 'jack of all' that often translates to 'compromise'; it does everything well, but doesn't excel.
Luckily, that's not the case with Scott's Crusade skis. This is a pair of planks that will reward you whether you're safely whizzing down a groomed run on you way to a lunch date on the sun deck or bashing your way through waist deep powder.
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Crusade skis work because Scott has employed a straight-forward but effective formula: shaping, construction and testing.
The shape combines the needs of both off piste and on. The construction ensures they can cope with mixed conditions. And the hours under the feet of the god-like elite of big mountain skiing and mere mortals who enjoy bashing through powder fields confirms these skis work.
Short radius, fat waist
To work off piste a ski needs to be fat. The buxom vital statistics of the Crusades give them the buoyancy to float through the soft, deep powder.
Traditionally, wide skis have a long radius, but not the Crusade. Despite a podgy 92mm waist they have a short radius and this side cut means they can turn more quickly.
Fat skis don't usually perform particularly well on piste but the Crusades do. This is partly due to the way that the radius dimensions and width have been balanced, but is also due to the metal used in their construction, which adds stability.
The combination is a ski that feels powerful coming out of the turn, grips well and turns easily.
Best of both
The end result is a ski that is mellow in difficult conditions and direct and responsive on hard, fast pistes.
There's no point buying them if you never venture off piste, but if you do want to leave the groomed runs behind, there's no better ski on the market for indulging in some back-country carving too.


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Bedphones Work With Your Android to Lull You to Sleep
I like to fall asleep to Coltrane. I don't like falling asleep with headphones on. You can't adjust the volume to a more soothing level as you doze. But with Bedphones and its accompanying app, you can drift off more comfortably.


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*URGENT NOTICE* Until further notice please be aware that the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation is in the process of moving all of the data from one database to a new database and because of this some of the reasons of disciplinary actions may temporarily not be available. The department is working diligently on moving this information and thank you for your patience and understanding during this time.
Reprimand - A reprimand is an official record that the license has been disciplined but typically does not affect the status of the license or the licensee's ability to practice. In some instances the Department will specify conditions the licensee must follow which would not require any ongoing monitoring by DPR.
Probation - Professionals whose licenses are placed on probation are allowed to continue practicing subject to certain terms and conditions. The conditions imposed as part of an order of probation will vary depending on the circumstances of the case.
Orders of probation will also vary in length, but can be imposed indefinitely. In most cases, the disciplined professional would have to petition the Director of DPR to have an indefinite probation lifted.
During the period of probation, the professional is monitored by the Department's Probation Compliance Unit to ensure all terms and conditions are met.
Suspension - Professionals whose licenses have been suspended cannot practice during the period of suspension. The term of suspension can range from one day to indefinite. In many instances, the period of suspension is followed by probation.
Indefinite suspensions generally specify conditions the disciplined professional must meet in order to petition for reinstatement. Like indefinite probation, the professional must petition the Director of DPR to have an indefinite suspension lifted.
Revocation - Professionals cannot practice with a revoked license. A petition must be filed with the Director of DPRto have a revocation lifted.
Temporary Suspension - Several Illinois practice acts including medical, dental and pharmacy) give the Director of DPR authority to temporarily suspend a professional's license pending a hearing before the appropriate board or committee where the Director finds that a professional licensee's continuation in practice would constitute an immediate danger to the public. A hearing must be held within 15 days of the suspension. Professionals may not practice while temporarily suspended.
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Gedney Glows
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Explore Gedney House by the glow of lantern light and see why this is not your typical historic house tour. See the architecture of a seventeenth-century Salem shipbuilder's home in a new light. Stand inside the chimney, explore dark nooks and crannies, and see original paint treatments from the late 1600s. There will be two sessions of Gedney Glows on Thursday, October 24, 2013. The first tour is from 5:15-6:00 p.m. and the second from 6:00-6:45 p.m. The cost is $10 for the public and $5 for Historic New England members. This program has sold out on an annual basis, so advance registration is strongly suggested. Please call 978-744-0440 or visit www.historicnewengland.org to reserve. The Gedney House is located at 21 High Street in Salem, Mass.
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Round 1:
1. Kansas City Chiefs - Luke Joeckel, OT
If the Chiefs can't trade this pick, Joeckel will be taken.
2. Jacksonville Jaguars - Dion Jordan, DE
Geno is a possibility here but Gus Bradley just came from being a defensive coordinator in a place where they had success with a third round QB. I don't think he will take a QB at #2 overall when he still needs important pieces to build his defense with. He has said the one thing he learned from Pete Carroll was to build the defense around speed, so he may look for a speedy pass rusher with this pick.
3. Oakland Raiders - Eric Fisher, OT
I think the Raiders will like Eric Fisher for several reasons. While OT isn't their biggest need it is a need. Taking Fisher and moving Veldheer to RT would upgrade two positions on the o-line. They have already addressed a lot of defensive needs in free agency.
4. Philadelphia Eagles - Star Lotulelei, NT/DT/DE
The Eagles could be looking for defensive line help. Star is also one of the best players available so this pick would make sense.
5. Detroit Lions - Ezekiel Ansah, DE
Ansah is probably the best player available, which makes him the pick for Detroit. He also fills a need.
6. Cleveland Browns - Geno Smith, QB
I wouldn't be shocked if the Browns took Geno Smith if he fell to them. Chud just came from an organization where they drafted Cam Newton one year after drafting Jimmy Clausen, and they experienced success with it. I don't think he would be afraid to try the same thing this year with Geno one year after drafting Weeden.
7. Arizona Cardinals - Lane Johnson, OT
It's not secret the Cardinals need offensive line help. They may be jumped for Lane Johnson, but if they aren't they will probably take him.
8. Buffalo Bills - Ryan Nassib, QB
I had Nassib to the Bills months ago and now I'm bringing him back here. The Bills are looking for a new QB and if Nassib is their guy, they may need to take him with this pick to guarantee they will get him.
9. New York Jets - Barkevious Mingo, DE/OLB
The Jets will be looking for a pass rusher early and Mingo is one of the BPA. With two first round picks they have some flexibility in how they address their needs but if they want to guarantee that they will get one of the top pass rushers they should take him with this pick.
10. Tennessee Titans - Dee Milliner, CB
The Titans will be looking for a cornerback at some point in the draft. I think they could take Milliner if he falls to them.
11. San Diego Chargers - Xavier Rhodes, CB
If the top offensive tackles are off the board, they may look for defensive help. They could look for a new cornerback in this draft so if Rhodes is on the board he may be considered. Warmack and/or Cooper are options but even the most hyped guards don't go as high as many predict before the draft.
12. Miami Dolphins - Jarvis Jones, DE/OLB
I think the Dolphins will be interested in Jarvis Jones. They could use another pass rusher to compliment Cameron Wake.
13. New York Jets
(From Tampa Bay)
- Kenny Vaccaro, S
The Jets can fill two of their big needs with top 15 picks. Vaccaro is one of the BPA and fills a need so he may be considered.
14. Carolina Panthers - Sharrif Floyd, DT
The Panthers need a defensive tackle and at one point it wasn't clear if any of the top DTs would be available. Now it looks like they may have their choice of at least two of the top three.
15. New Orleans Saints - Sheldon Richardson, DT/DE
The Saints may be looking for an upgrade at DE opposite Cam Jordan in their new 3/4. Richardson is also one of the BPA.
16. St. Louis Rams - Tavon Austin, WR
Tavon Austin could go higher than this, so the Rams would be happy if he fell to them. They need a WR after clearing house at the position.
17. Pittsburgh Steelers - Cordarrelle Patterson, WR
The Steelers could surprise and take someone like Patterson. After losing Mike Wallace, they will be looking for a new WR at some point in the draft.
18. Dallas Cowboys - Chance Warmack, OG
The Cowboys need interior offensive line help. If Warmack or Cooper is available they should consider taking them.
19. New York Giants - Bjoern Werner, DE
The Giants may look to take a pass rusher in the draft. It could be in the first round if someone like Werner were to fall to them.
20. Chicago Bears - Jonathan Cooper, OG
The Bears take another offensive line upgrade. They made some moves to upgrade the o-line but they could use at least one more.
21. Cincinnati Bengals - DJ Fluker, OL
The Bengals still don't have Andre Smith back so if that remains true, they may just take Fluker in the draft and forget about Smith.
22. St. Louis Rams
(From Washington)
- Alec Ogletree, LB
The Rams could be looking for a linebacking upgrade in this draft. Ogletree fits the range and Jeff Fisher likes defense so this pick makes sense.
23. Minnesota Vikings - Arthur Brown, LB
The Vikings may be looking for an inside linebacker, so someone like Brown may be looked at with one of their two first round picks.
24. Indianapolis Colts - Jamie Collins, DE/OLB
I think Jamie Collins will end up in the first round. The Colts have brought in some pass rushers to try to replace Dwight Freeney but they may draft another one just in case. They are big shoes to fill after all. Also Robert Mathis is growing older as well so another pass rusher wouldn't hurt for those purposes either.
25. Minnesota Vikings
(From Seattle)
- Keenan Allen, WR
Despite acquiring Greg Jennings, the Vikings could still be looking for more WR help. Pairing Allen with Jennings and having Wright in the slot would do a lot to upgrade their WR corps.
26. Green Bay Packers - Tyler Eifert, TE
Jermichael Finley will be back for this year, but this may be his last in Green Bay since he has fallen off recently and the Packers may look for his replacement in this draft rather than waiting until its a big need next year.
27. Houston Texans - Justin Hunter, WR
The Texans may be looking for a WR with this pick. They need someone to compliment Andre Johnson.
28. Denver Broncos - David Amerson, CB/S
Despite acquiring DRC the Broncos could look for a CB in the draft. Champ Bailey is nearing the end of his career and DRC wasn't very good in Philly last year. If Amerson doesn't work out at CB he could also possibly move to safety. His stock has fallen, but similar to Stephon Gilmore from last year, I think he could boomerang back into the first round due to his athleticism.
29. New England Patriots - Robert Woods, WR
The Patriots may be looking for a wide receiver in this draft. They went after Emmanuel Sanders but missed out on him. They like taking players that were once projected to very high but have fallen for various reasons. Since Robert Woods fits into that category he could be considered here by New England, although they will probably trade up and down 4-5 times before finally taking him.
30. Atlanta Falcons - Damontre Moore, DE
Even though they got Osi, the Falcons need another pass rusher. They may look at someone like Moore in the bottom of the first round. Defensive tackle was also considered but its easier to find DT's later in the draft than it is pass rushers.
31. San Francisco 49ers - Jonathan Cyprien, S
The 49ers will be looking for a new safety in this draft. If Cyprien is available at pick 31 they may take him.
32. Baltimore Ravens - Manti Te'o, LB
Te'o just sneaks into the end of the first round. The Ravens need to get their replacement for Ray Lewis.
Round 2:
33. Jacksonville Jaguars - Matt Barkley, QB
I think a team will trade back into the first round to get Matt Barkley, but in this version of my mock, I have decided not to predict trades. If Barkley somehow makes it out of the first round, a team will trade up to this pick to take him or the Jags will take him themselves.
34. San Francisco 49ers
(From Kansas City)
- Sylvester Williams, NT/DT/DE
The 49ers may be looking for defensive line help in this draft. Williams could go higher so this pick is good value.
35. Philadelphia Eagles - EJ Manuel, QB
The Eagles could be looking for a QB in the first few rounds. I think Chip Kelly would want Geno or Manuel out of the available quarterbacks, so if they pass on Geno in the first, they may look at Manuel here or with a trade back into the first round.
36. Detroit Lions - Menelik Watson, OT
The Lions will be looking for an offensive tackle at some point in the draft. Watson is one of the BPA so he may be considered by them.
37. Cincinnati Bengals
(From Oakland)
- Matt Elam, S
The Bengals will most likely take a safety in this draft. Elam could go higher than this so this pick would be good value. The Bengals have three picks in the first two rounds and with a decent number of prospects projected to be available at their picks, they have a few options of which combinations of players to take.
38. Arizona Cardinals - Tank Carradine, DE/OLB
The Cardinals could be looking for another pass rusher in this draft. Carradine is one of the BPA so he may be looked at.
39. New York Jets - Desmond Trufant, CB
Now that Revis is gone the Jets could be looking for another corner at some point in the draft. Trufant being one of the BPA means this pick makes sense.
40. Tennessee Titans - Alex Okafor, DE
The Titans could look for a pass rusher in this draft. They need to upgrade the second worst pass rushing unit from last year.
41. Buffalo Bills - DeAndre Hopkins, WR
The Bills may be looking for another WR to pair with Stevie Johnson. They also get a new weapon for their new QB with this pick.
42. Miami Dolphins - Justin Pugh, OT
The Dolphins will be looking for an offensive tackle in this draft and if they don't get it in round 1 they will probably take one with one of their round 2 picks.
43. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Zach Ertz, TE
The Buccaneers will most likely be looking for a new tight end in this draft. If Ertz is available, which me may not be, they may take him with this pick.
44. Carolina Panthers - Terron Armstead, OT
The Panthers could look for an OT in this draft. I wouldn't be surprised if they take one with one of their first two picks.
45. San Diego Chargers - Jesse Williams, NT
The Chargers have done a lot to upgrade the offensive line this offseason, but they may draft another o-lineman to ensure they will have enough pieces going into next year. Pugh offers some flexibility being able to play tackle or guard, so he may be looked at.
46. St. Louis Rams - Eric Reid, S
Safety may be the Rams biggest need so they may consider someone like Reid here if they don't take one in round 1.
47. Dallas Cowboys - Jonathan Hankins, DT
The Cowboys need another defensive tackle for their transition to the 4/3. Hankins could go much higher than this, so this pick is good value.
48. Pittsburgh Steelers - Kevin Minter, LB
The Steelers could be looking for linebacker help in this draft. Minter could go much higher than this so this pick would be good value.
49. New York Giants - Larry Warford, OG
The Giants may be looking for offensive line help in tho draft. Warford may be the BPA at this point which puts him on the Giants radar.
50. Chicago Bears - Khaseem Greene, LB
The Bears will possibly be looking for a linebacker in this draft. It could be in round one but in this version of my mock they wait until now.
51. Washington Redskins - DJ Swearinger, S
The Redskins need secondary help. They could look for a safety in this draft. Swearinger may be the best available so he might be considered.
52. Minnesota Vikings - DJ Hayden, CB
The Vikings need cornerback help and if someone like Hayden makes it to them in round 2 they should take him.
53. Cincinnati Bengals - Eddie Lacy, RB
The Bengals will most likely be looking for a RB to compliment BJGE at some point in the draft. With two 2nd round picks it could be there.
54. Miami Dolphins
(From Indianapolis)
- Jamar Taylor, CB
The Dolphins will most likely look for a cornerback in this draft. If they miss out on Milliner and Rhodes in round 1 or take an OT with their first pick, they could wait till round 2 for a CB.
55. Seattle Seahawks - Margus Hunt, DT/DE
The Seahawks like having speed on defense and they need to upgrade the interior pass rush. Hunt satisfies both of those things so if he's on the board when they pick, I wouldn't be surprised if they took him.
56. Green Bay Packers - Marcus Lattimore, RB
The Packers should consider taking a RB so they don't have to keep recycling RBs like Ryan Grant. Since they don't rely heavily on the running back, taking someone like Lattimore might not be a terrible idea for them since he has a lot of talent. They could use him sparingly and in the playoffs and reap the benefits of preserving his talents.
57. Houston Texans - Barrett Jones, OL
The Texans will probably be looking for o-line depth in the draft. Jones offers a lot of versatility.
58. Denver Broncos - Datone Jones, DE/DT
The Broncos could be looking to upgrade the defensive line in the draft. Jones could go higher than this so this pick is good value.
59. New England Patriots - Tyrann Mathieu, CB/S
This is a typical Patriots pick in my opinion. They like to take players that have fallen from their original high draft pick projections. They could use depth in the secondary and if Mathieu doesn't work out at CB he could be moved to safety.
60. Atlanta Falcons - Johnthan Banks, CB
Cornerback has become a big need for the Faclons. They could consider one in the early rounds of the draft.
61. San Francisco 49ers - Sam Montgomery, DE/OLB
The 49ers could be looking for another pass rusher in this draft. Montgomery is also one of the BPA.
62. Baltimore Ravens - Terrance Williams, WR
After losing Anquan Boldin the Ravens may look for another WR in this draft. A wide receiver has been drafted in this spot the past two years so I wouldn't be surprised if the Ravens continued the trend this year. Also the Ravens like taking players that have fallen due to off the field concerns.
Round 3:
63. Kansas City Chiefs - Phillip Thomas, S
The Chiefs could look for an upgrade at safety next to Berry.
64. Jacksonville Jaguars - Darius Slay, CB
The Jags need secondary help. They could consider taking a cornerback and/or a safety in the draft.
65. Detroit Lions - Kyle Long, OL
The Lions may be looking for multiple offensive lineman and Kyle Long being one of the BPA makes this pick a possibility. Long offers some flexibility being able to play tackle or guard lets them use a few different combinations on the o-line with Reiff also having some flexibility.
66. Oakland Raiders - Kawann Short, DT
One of the Raiders' biggest needs is DT. Short will most likely go higher than this so this pick is good value.
67. Philadelphia Eagles - David Bakhtiari, OL
The Eagles may be looking for offensive line help in the draft. It could be as early as round one if Fisher is available for them. In this version of my mock they wait until now.
68. Cleveland Browns - Dwayne Gratz, CB
Teams that take a QB usually take a weapon or an offensive lineman to compliment their new QB, but the Browns basically did that in last year's supplemental draft with Josh Gordon, in which they used this year's 2nd round pick to obtain. One of their biggest needs is a cornerback opposite of Joe Haden. They should be able to find a CB2 in round 3 of this year's draft.
69. Arizona Cardinals - Mike Glennon, QB
The Cardinals could look to bring in a QB from the draft in addition to Cason Palmer.
70. Tennessee Titans - Johnathan Jenkins, DT
The Titans may be looking for a defensive tackle in the draft.
71. Buffalo Bills - Brian Winters, OL
The Bills could be looking for another offensive lineman in this draft. Winters offers some flexibility being able to play guard or tackle.
72. New York Jets - Travis Kelce, TE
Tight end is a pretty big need for the Jets after losing Keller and not replacing him with anyone in free agency. They could take a tight end earlier than this, but in this version of my mock other players make more sense at previous picks.
73. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Logan Ryan, CB
Even though they acquired Revis they may look for another CB in the draft. Revis' health is not 100% clear and even it is I'm not convinced Eric Wright has locked down the other starting CB spot. Ryan may be selected by TB because he was highly recruited by Schiano to play at Rutgers.
74. San Francisco 49ers
(From Carolina)
- Blidi Wreh-Wilson, CB
The 49ers could look for another cornerback in this draft. There's a lot of CBs that could go in rounds 2-4 so they could have their pick of a few that fit the range.
75. New Orleans Saints - Corey Lemonier, DE/OLB
The Saints will most likely be looking for a pass rusher in this draft to help ease the transition to a 3/4.
76. San Diego Chargers - Jonathan Franklin, RB
I think the Chargers could be looking for a running back this year. Ryan Mathews has been an injury concern since he came into the league and even though they have a few other RBs on the depth chart, none of them have #1 RB potential if anything serious happened to Mathews.
77. Miami Dolphins - JJ Wilcox, S
The Dolphins could look for a safety for depth purposes. They have a lot of picks and have already addressed most of their needs this offseason.
78. St. Louis Rams - Dallas Thomas, OL
Taking a player like Thomas would make a lot of sense for the Rams. If they lose Saffold, Thomas could play right tackle. But if they are able to keep him, Thomas can play guard. His versatility should be attractive to the Rams in their unique situation.
79. Pittsburgh Steelers - Chase Thomas, DE/OLB
The Steelers could be looking for a pass rushing linebacker in addition to an ILB.
80. Dallas Cowboys - Travis Frederick, C/G
This pick wouldn't be bad since they could use two interior offensive lineman from this draft.
81. New York Giants - Jordan Poyer, CB
Even though the Giants just took Prince Amukamara they could be looking for another cornerback this year.
82. Miami Dolphins
(From Chicago)
- Andre Ellington, RB
The Dolphins may look to replace Reggie Bush's touches on the offense through the draft.
83. Minnesota Vikings - Brandon Williams, DT
The VIkings will most likely be looking for a defensive tackle in this draft. While its not a huge need if a player fits the range when they are picking they may take him, as is the case here with Williams.
84. Cincinnati Bengals - Robert Alford, CB
Like many other teams, another cornerback could be taken. Since teams need four cornerbacks, there are always a lot of corners taken every year.
85. Washington Redskins - Kiko Alonso, LB
London Fletcher is nearing the end of his career so they should look to find his replacement before he retires.
86. Indianapolis Colts - Brian Schwenke, C/G
The Colts need to protect Andrew Luck. They may still need at least one more upgrade on the o-line.
87. Seattle Seahawks - Zaviar Gooden, LB
The Seahawks could be looking for one more linebacker in this draft. They get it here with Gooden.
88. Green Bay Packers - Shamarko Thomas, S
The Packers could be looking for a safety relatively early in the draft. In previous updates I've had them taking one in round 1 but in this version of my mock they wait until this pick.
89. Houston Texans - Leon McFadden, CB
The Texans could be looking for another cornerback in this draft. Teams understand the importance of having multiple quality cornerbacks.
90. Denver Broncos - Trevardo Williams, DE/OLB
The Broncos could be looking for a pass rusher in this draft. They need to try to replace Dumervil if they can this year.
91. New England Patriots - John Simon, DE/DT/LB
Simon seems like another typical Pats pick to me. He offers a lot of versatility on the defense and could play multiple positions for the Patriots. Also BB likes taking Urban Meyers' players so we could see an increase in OSU players drafted by the Patriots in the future.
92. Atlanta Falcons - David Quessenberry, OT
After losing Tyson Clabo they are in need of a new right tackle.
93. San Francisco 49ers - Da'Rick Rogers, WR
Even though they acquired Anquan Boldin they could be looking for a wide receiver in the draft. They struggled last year to get much from anyone besides Crabtree.
94. Baltimore Ravens - Bacarri Rambo, S
The Ravens need another safety and if they haven't gotten it yet they will in the middle rounds.
95. Houston Texans - TJ McDonald, S
The Texans may be looking for a safety in this draft despite adding Ed Reed to the roster. Reed is old and nearing the end of his career.
96. Kansas City Chiefs - AJ Klein, LB
The Chiefs need an inside linebacker and even though Andy Reid doesn't like drafting linebackers early, they need to to improve the defense.
97. Tennessee Titans - Hugh Thornton, OG
The Titans may be looking for an interior offensive line upgrade at some point in the draft. They get it here with Thornton.
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Very solid Vikings draft, I'd like that result.
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Very solid Vikings draft, I'd like that result.
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Love it for the Bears although I'd prefer Hayden over Greene.
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The Jets don't need a CB.
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Want nothing to do with the overrated Milliner. Richardson or Werner should be the pick.
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I could live with this draft for the niners. May prefer going with a corner with the third pick rather than another d-line player, but won't argue that montgomery is potentially the bpa there and he's got good value. Plus, I don't think Williams offers a ton of pass rush ability (though he has more than most prospects availabe at his position this year), so it may not be a bad idea.
Stupid NFL coaches and their need to reach for quarterbacks....
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Third round added.
Comments and feedback appreciated.
Rest of the rounds to come shortly.
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Excellent first round pick for the Texans. In the second round, give us Datone Jones and in the third, give us Sean Porter.
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First two picks are OK, third makes no sense for the Eagles. I'd rather have a DB or Travis Kelce.
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The Gnat wrote:
Very solid Vikings draft, I'd like that result.
I personally no longer like Allen in RD1..if its a WR I'd rather see Woods or Hunter.
RD2 id rather see Taylor over Hayden as I feel he fits our D better. Just nitpicking
RD3 is great.
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Quessenberry in the third for Atlanta is meh, but when you have them landing Moore and Banks in round one and two respectively does it really matter? Not really.
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Bills like Barkley more then Nassib from what I have seen/heard. Also O-line isn't really a need for the Bills but rather a luxury. TE, CB, and LB are better options on the 3rd.
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Not bad. Ansah is great. I love Watson, but Carradine would be better. I like Long, but Rambo and Rogers are better
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WARNING THE FOLLOWING PAGE SPOILERS on the upcoming movie or television show, which is set to air. Please don't read any further, if you don't wish to be exposed to these spoilers, that will be posted in later future. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! View Spoiler Policy
There is a Flowers in the Attic remake based off the original book being made by Lifetime, which aired on January 18, 2014. It stars Kiernan Shipka as Cathy, Mason Dye as Chris, Heather Graham as Corinne, and Ellen Burstyn as the grandmother. Unlike the 1987 original film, the remake closely follows the content of the novel, including the incestuous relationship between the two eldest siblings.
In the year 1957, 12-year-old Cathy Dollanganger lives an idyllic life with her family, which consists of her older teenage brother (Christopher), 5-year-old twins (Carrie and Cory), and her parents (Corrine and Christopher, Sr.) in Pennsylvania. The family is well-known and loved for their blonde hair, blue eyes, and fair complexion which everyone compares them to the Dresden Dolls.
On the day of her father's 36th birthday party, however, her young life changes forever. Christopher Sr is killed in a car accident which devastates the entire family. Because their father was the only one financially supporting them and due to overwhelming debt, Corrine writes to her mother in Virginia, asking for shelter. After four months, Corrine receives her mother's blessing to come live at the family mansion, Foxworth Hall.
She then explains to Cathy and Chris that she has been distant with her family due to a disagreement, but with their father dead and them losing their home, her family, who is wealthy, will be able to provide for them. Also due to living on credit, the house, the cars and many of their possessions were not fully paid for and are going to be seized by the bank. She also tells them that their true last name is Foxworth.
That night, the family take the train and arrive in Virginia in the early morning hours, and walk a long way to Foxworth Hall, where they meet with Corrine's mother, Olivia, at the door. She escorts them into a small room that is connected to the attic, and tells them they will be residing in the room so that their grandfather, who is dying from heart disease, will not find out about them. Corrine explains that she did something when she was 18 years old that her parents didn't approve of, so she was disinherited, but she intends on winning his love back and then will introduce the children to them.
The following morning, Olivia gives them a list of strict rules, such as keeping the room and themselves clean, eat all their meals, hide away in the attic when the maids clean the room every last Friday of every month, stay quiet so no one will hear them (except for in the attic), never mention their father, and forbids them from even looking at each other.
The children explore the attic and begin turning it into a garden so that the twins will not be afraid of it. Olivia expresses suspicion that the children are doing things she considers sinful, such as questioning Cathy what she does with Chris, which scares and confuses them.
When Corrine visits with them, the twins demand to be released, but Olivia violently pushes them away to quiet them down and makes Corrine show the children what punishment they will get for disobeying her; Corrine has been horse-whipped by her mother a total 38 times (18 for each year she "charmed" her father and 20 for each year she was married to her husband).
The next day, Corrine tells them that her husband was actually her half-uncle; he had been her father's half-brother and when they eloped, they were both were banished and cursed by her parents. She promises to them that she will convince her father to forgive her and bring them to meet him. The children, particularly Chris, believe her, even though Cathy has a little bit of skepticism.
A month goes by as Corrine's visits decrease and the children try to pass the time by playing in the attic and taking care of the twins. Corrine begins to enjoy her new found wealth and begins a relationship with her father's attorney, Bart Winslow, although she, at first, tells the children he is helping her get her father write her back in his will.
Eventually, Cathy becomes convinced that their mother is losing interest in them, although Chris continues to defend her and Corrine makes excuses for her absence, such that she is too busy caring for her father. She later tells them she can never introduce them to him because he forgave her on the condition that she never had any children with their father, which means they have to stay in the attic until he dies.
On their first Christmas at Foxworth Hall, Corrine showers the children with expensive gifts and announces that her father is giving her a large Christmas party. Cathy and Chris beg to attend with the promise they will hide away so no one will see them. Corrine gives in and hides them in a space above the staircase. There, Cathy and Chris see their grandfather, Malcolm for the first time. She witnesses their mother share an intimate moment with Bart, who expresses a desire to be with Corrine forever, just the two of them. Cathy is troubled by this, although Chris tries to shrug it off. He decides to explore more of the mansion and finds his mother's Swan Room. Corrine goes to the children's room and awakens Cathy, demanding to know where her brother is. She proceeds to slap Chris and threatens to whip him for risking of him being caught. The next day, however, she apologizes and offers to leave Foxworth Hall with them if they like, but the children decide to stay, still wanting to trust their mother.
A year passes, and Corrine's visits with them has become almost less to non-existent. By now, the children have grown, except for the twins, who have stopped growing due to the lack of sunlight and fresh air. Cathy and Chris enter puberty and Cathy catches Chris reading an adult magazine, which confuses her about him wanting to look at girls. Corrine explains the physical changes of becoming young adults, and gives Cathy her first bra. As Cathy is trying it on, Chris accidentally walks in on her and finds himself enchanted. Olivia catches them and calls them sinners for looking at each other when Cathy was almost naked. Olivia tries to cut off Cathy's long, blonde hair as punishment, but when Chris tells her not to, she threatens to have the four of them starve for a week and orders Chris to cut her hair off. The resulting starvation leads Cathy and Chris to leave their remaining food to the twins while they rely on mostly water and Chris suggests they eat mice in order to survive. Then, Olivia leaves them a basket of food. Later that night, Cathy awakens to find tar in her hair and asks Chris to cut her hair off. As he does so, he tells her that he couldn't resist looking at her because she is beautiful, but he knows it is wrong to think that way about her.
After another year passes, Corrine hasn't visited with them in several months, leading the children to suspect their mother no longer cares about them. Cathy and Chris have become parents to the twins, who no longer trust or know who Corrine is anymore. Finally, Cathy and Chris begin contemplating an escape due to the twins' declining health.
One night, they use a rope to climb from the attic window and explore the lake, and talk about where their mother is and why she has not visited with them. When Corrine finally returns after six months, she happily announces she has remarried to Bart and was away on her honeymoon in Europe. This angers Cathy and Chris that she was away on vacation while they have been suffering in the attic, but Corrine fails to understand why they are angry at them. Olivia starts to bring them sugar-powdered doughnuts which she says are from their mother, but attempts to refrain the children from eating them. When Olivia discovers Chris looking out the window, he orders her to call him by his name and not "boy." She then beats him with a leather belt for talking back at her while Cathy comforts the twins in the attack. As she tends to his wounds, Cathy expresses her fear of losing him and he assures her nothing will happen to him, and this leads them to share a kiss. Cathy appears to be mesmerized by the kiss and tells Chris that although she knows it was wrong, she thinks it was wonderful. Chris appears disturbed by it.
The next day, when Olivia comes in to deliver them their food, Chris says she was right about them being the "devil's spawn" and pleads for her forgiveness. She tells him only the Lord, not her, will forgive him before walking out of the room. Chris reveals the whole thing was a scheme to get an impression of the key in soap and he carves a wooden copy. He explains they need money in order to escape on a train and get out of Virginia.
At night, while the twins sleep, Cathy and Chris begin stealing money from their mother's room. During one expedition, they discover a graphic exotic book, which makes them curious. On another night, they separate and Cathy encounters Bart sleeping in the Swan bed. Being curious, she kisses him. Chris later sees his mother and Bart talking about taking a vacation to get away from Olivia, and Bart mentions that he had a dream of a young, blonde-haired girl kissing him. Chris realizes that it was Cathy who kissed their stepfather. Enraged and jealous, Chris berates her for doing something so risky and is angry that she kissed another man as he violently grips her arms. When Cathy cries that he's hurting her, he moves away from her and she says the kiss meant nothing to her. She then kisses Chris, leading to them sharing a more passionate kiss and they make love.
The next morning, Cathy suggests they move to Florida and they will have to forget what they have done. Chris, however, says he loves her and can never love anyone else but her for the rest of his life. Carrie comes in and tells them that Cory is sick. Olivia and Corrine come in to see Cory, and when their mother hesitates to help him, Cathy demands that Cory be taken to a hospital and asks her mother if she cares whether Cory lives or dies. Corrine angrily smacks her and Cathy smacks her back, threatening to get revenge on her mother if she doesn't help Cory. Olivia agrees with Cathy that Cory needs to go to the hospital and they take him away. The next day, Corrine comes in to tell them that Cory had pneumonia and died which devastates the three other children.
Fearing that they will die next, Cathy tells Chris they need to take whatever money and valuables he can find, and leave as soon as possible. Cathy and Chris go that night to steal values, however, they find that their mother and Bart have left Foxworth Hall, leaving behind a framed photo of Christopher Sr, the necklace he gave her before he died and Cathy's promise ring (confiscated by Olivia upon their arrival at the mansion).
On their final night at Foxworth Hall, they come up with an escape plan and Chris is becoming sick. During a last minute search for values, Chris hides in the study to avoid being caught by the butler, John Amos, and a maid. He overhears them talking about 'mice' in the attic and how Olivia has been leaving poison to kill them off and the grandfather's death seven months ago.
Shocked by these facts, Chris tries to get back to the room when he finds the grandmother in her room and is shocked to see that she wears a wig to cover her nearly bald head with long, white hair. She sees him running away and he tells Cathy they need to leave now because he suspects their grandmother has been poisoning them. Cathy shows him Cory's pet mouse, Mickey which has died after eating a piece of doughnut. Chris realizes that the poison was on the doughnuts and Olivia comes in to take their key. Chris is too sick to fight back and Cathy is unable to bring herself to strike the old woman. Olivia promises to show them mercy if they give her the key, but Chris tricks her into getting close enough so he can restrain her and give Cathy and Carrie enough time to run to the attic. Olivia chases after them, but reveals her fear of the attic when Chris shuts the door and turns the lights off. Cathy says it is her punishment for what she did to them and Cory, but Olivia insists that it was their mother who poisoned them. Not caring who was responsible for the poisoning, the three siblings climb out of the window and flee on foot. They run into John Amos, who mistakes them as intruders and Cathy reveals that they are Corrine's children. Shocked, he tells them to run while he will cut off the electric fence.
They manage to board a train to Florida and Chris assures her it is over; however, Cathy knows they will have to confront their mother again and vows revenge against her. The film ends with Olivia looking out the attic window before walking away.
- Kiernan Shipka - Cathy
- Mason Dye - Chris
- Heather Graham - Corrine
- Ellen Burstyn - Olivia
- Ava Telek - Carry
- Maxwell Kovach - Corie
Differences Between the Book and Movie Edit
- Cathy wears a heart shaped promise ring given to her by her father. In the book, she receives it when she is seven and eventually wears it on a thin chain after she outgrows it. In the movie, Cathy receives the ring before her father is killed in the car crash, but the grandmother confiscates it the moment the Dollangangers arrive at Foxworth Hall. Two years later, Cathy later reclaims it after Cory dies and they escape the next day.
- In the book, the Grandmother gives the Dollanganger Children a total of twenty-two written rules (i.e. standing at attention when she enters a room, not make eye contact nor speak to her, etc) and forbids them from bringing up Christopher Sr's name. In the movie, she only tells them to be fully clothed and clean at all times.
- Corrine shows some grief in the book over Cory's death (evidenced by red-rimmed eyes and makeup smudges). The movie however shows her as less sympathetic and shrugs off the children's' grief stricken reactions.
- Although the tarring happens in both the book and movie, Cathy does not cut off all her hair. Chris is able to spend a day's time using chemicals to get the tar out (although it thinned her hair considerably), but Cathy shaved the front of her head and covered the rest in a scarf to fool the Grandmother into feeding them again. In the movie, Cathy has Chris cut her hair when the treatment fails and it is cut into a spiky bob.
- The codicil is not mentioned in the movie, leading some to believe that Corrine did indeed lose interest in her children and really tried to kill them with arsenic coated doughnuts. In the movie, Corrine tells them that she would have been disowned had her father discovered them. In the book, Chris brings this up to his sisters when they aboard the bus to Sarasota, mentioning that any children produced by either of Corrine's two marriages would cost her the family inheritance.
- The attic appears to be much smaller in the movie. The book depicts the attic as a maze so big one could get lost in it. There are no armories showed in the movie, but the ones in the book are described as being very heavy and full of old clothes.
- The book takes place over a period of over three years; the movie depicts two.
- In the book, the Grandmother beats both Chris and Cathy for back talking. In the movie, Chris is whipped with a belt buckle for asking to be called by his name instead of "Boy." Cathy later treats his wounds.
- In the conclusion, the surviving Dollanganger Children (Cathy, Christopher, and Carrie) simply walk out with luggage using the wooden key they made and make their way to the train station, with their Grandmother looking out from a distance as they travel to Charlottesville. The movie shows that the Grandmother caught Chris as he is out to steal valuables and she discovers they have a key. There is a brief fight, they trap her in the attic stairwell, leaving her to her claustrophobia as they escape through the window with only the money in their pockets and the clothes on their backs before making their way out of town by train.
- Cathy and Chris, although knowing their feelings for each other are wrong, are more opened with each other about their feelings, and the sex is consensual in the movie. In the book, they are deeply ashamed, but the growing tension between them leads Chris to rape her, but they later reconcile and admit their feelings for each other.
- In the movie, the sexual encounter between Cathy and Chris leads to a pregnancy and miscarriage when Cathy is just 14. In the book, Cathy feared that she had become pregnant and was constantly horrified at the idea of giving birth to a deformed baby, but she later learns she never conceived with Chris.
The new Lifetime film promises to go there. Yes, there. "The script is faithful to the book," says director Deborah Chow. Or, to put it more bluntly: "Will there be incest? Yes," says Mason Dye, who plays elder brother Chris. "We stay very true to the book."
We'll have to wait till January to see just how dark this thing gets, but Ellen Burstyn, for one, says she was surprised at how exhausting it is to play a woman as evil as her character. "I've been completely drained by the end of the day," the Oscar winner says. "I've been sleeping 11 hours a day. My psyche must be trying to clear it."
Lifetime has already posted the trailer on Facebook.
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So the legend of the street is that this classic Maze featuring Frankie Beverly sing-along was made that way by Kid (gonna eat you out) Capri's extensive play. If you're a self-respecting hip hop dj like myself, this was one of the first non-hip hop records you bought. If you're late and not up on shit like the guys who run Turntable Lab, here's your chance to make good. I could beat it into your head how "classic" and must-have this record is, but by now you've listened to the sound clip and have already added it to your shopping cart. Still not sold? Ok, the b-side has the electro stomper "Time Warp" by Eddy Grant (Couch House Rhythm Section, the same guy that did "Electric Avenue") in both vocal and instrumental versions. If you know it, you know what's up. "Time Warp" is the shit, and no Woodman, it's not that Rocky Horror song you homo, it's a house/garage/disco classic. If you've been to the Shelter, you know the power of "Time Warp." When Timmy puts the acapella of "Smooth Criminal" over it you know in your heart how crappy all the mash up stuff of late is. You need this boot. I forgot to mention the extended intro on "Before I Let Go;" yea you could call it a re-edit cause that's what you want right? A re-edit, maybe by Mr. K?
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While celebrating his victory over Humbaba, the god Ishtar asks Gilgamesh to become her husband. Gilgamesh turns her down. Humiliated, Ishtar goes to her father, the god Anu, and asks for the Bull of Heaven to kill Gilgamesh. After some discussion, Anu agrees. Ishtar releases the bull on Uruk where it begins to do extensive damage. Enkidu grabs the bull by the horns, and Gilgamesh stabs it in the neck. When Ishtar arrives, she is angry that they have ruined her plans. Enkidu throws the bull's leg at her. Gilgamesh marches through the village celebrating.
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Enkidu has a dream that the gods Shamash, Enlil, and Anu are discussing Gilgamesh and Enkidu. They think one of the two men should die for the deaths of the Bull of Heaven and Humbaba, as well as the cutting down of the largest cedar tree in the forest. The gods, despite Shamash's words in support of the two boys, decide Enkidu should die. When Enkidu tells this to Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh promises to build a gold statue in his likeness. However, Enkidu is frightened, and he begins to curse Shamhat and the trapper who first met him in the forest. Shamash comes to Enkidu and reminds him of all Shamhat did to help him, so Enkidu stops cursing her and prays for good things to happen to her instead. Enkidu tells Gilgamesh about another dream in which he is taken to the underworld where there are people who were once great rulers, but they are now servants to the gods. A short time later, Enkidu becomes ill and dies.
Gilgamesh humiliates a goddess by refusing to marry her. This causes the goddess to send the Bull of Heaven to destroy Uruk and kill Gilgamesh, but she underestimates Enkidu. Enkidu holds down the bull while Gilgamesh kills it. Full of pride, Gilgamesh brags, causing the gods to become angry. They decide one of them needs to die. Enkidu is the one who is chosen to die.
Gilgamesh adores his friend, who is the first person he has known that he can consider an equal. When Gilgamesh learns that Enkidu is dying, he becomes very upset. If not for Enkidu, Gilgamesh might not have killed Humbaba or been able to kill the Bull of Heaven. For this reason, the reader wonders what will happen to Gilgamesh once Enkidu is gone.
Discussion Question 1
Who is Ishtar? Why does she want to marry Gilgamesh? Why does he refuse her?
Discussion Question 2
Why does Ishtar send the Bull of Heaven to Uruk? What does she expect it to do? What happens?
Discussion Question 3
Why do the gods want either Gilgamesh or Enkidu to die? Whom do they choose? For what reason?
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Transfers or Gifting of Assets
The $13,000 Annual Exclusion Gift: Many people have heard that there is a limit of $10,000 or some such limit on annual gifts. This is a rule from Federal Gift Tax law, sometimes called the annual exclusion rule. This rule says that a person can give up to $13,000 to any number of people each year. (The amount was $10,000 per year for many years.) It is a "freebie" because the donor does not have to file a Gift Tax Return and the amount does not count against a person's lifetime gift tax exemption or against the person's estate tax exemption. For people whose estates are subject to the federal estate tax, this is an extremely useful way to avoid estate and gift tax on property given away under this rule. For people whose estates are not subject to estate tax, the annual exclusion gift rule avoids unnecessary paperwork on small gifts because there is no need to file a Gift Tax Return.
Gifts Greater than $13,000: There are occasions when people wish to make gifts larger than $13,000 per person. This is not prohibited. If a gift greater than $13,000 is given to any one person, the donor must file a Gift Tax Return and the amount over $13,000 counts against the person's $1,000,000 lifetime gift tax exemption and their $3,500,000 estate tax exemption. However, even though Gift Tax Return must be filed, no tax will be owed unless the total amount given away exceeds $1,000,000. Example: Mom gives $52,000 to her four grown children. These gifts fall under the $13,000 exclusion. Mom does not need to file a Gift Tax Return. The gifts don't count against her lifetime gift tax exemption or her estate tax exemption. Example: Mom gives $52,000 to her only daughter. She will need to file a Gift Tax Return (Form 709) by April 15th of the year following the gift; however, she will not owe any tax as long as her lifetime gifts that she has reported on the Gift Tax Returns do not exceed $1,000,000.
Do the People Receiving a Gift Owe Tax on its Value? No. The gift does not need to be reported to the IRS by the donee (gift recipient). [The exception would be that rare case where a person gives all of his money away, the amount is greater than $1,000,000, and the person (donor) did not pay the tax. In that case, the IRS will seek to recoup the taxes from the people who received the gifts.]
Gifts or Uncompensated Transfers under Medicaid Rules: Medicaid has its own rules which vary somewhat between States. This is written from the perspective of Texas Medicaid Rules. The Medicaid is "means tested." A person will be disqualified if he or she has too much income or too many resources. Therefore, it only makes sense that these rules would limit or penalize gifts or uncompensated transfers when people try to impoverish themselves to qualify for Medicaid. In many cases it will take the experience of an Elder Law Attorney to wicker through multiple transfers and to determine when the penalty clock begins or what it will require to undo the penalty.
Example: Dad who is 85 and a widower is in need of nursing home care. He has $100,000 in countable resources, so he gives $99,000 away to his grown children to reduce his countable resources below Medicaids limit of $2,000. He then applies for Medicaid, but Medicaid asks whether there have been any gifts or uncompensated transfers in the last five years. (This is the five year look-back rule.) If there have been transfers, Medicaid says it costs $130.88 per day to provide care for a Medicaid recipient in a nursing home. Medicaid then divides the gift by $130.88 to come up with 764 days of penalty. The penalty does not begin until Dad is in a nursing home, applies for Medicaid, and would have qualified (this included Medical Necessity) but for the gift. Thus, Medicaid seeks to penalize gifts or uncompensated transfers with the idea of forcing the gift recipients to pay for Dads care.
Example: Dad sells his $100,000 home to his son for $1.00. Is this legal? It's a gift of $99,999.
Example: Dad sells his $100,000 home to his son who signs a note or mortgage, but never makes any payments. Is this legal? It's a gift of $100,000 plus IRS would say that Dad owes interest on the loan.
Gifts or Transfers in VA Planning: The Veterans Administration does not penalize transfers as of yet even though the VA has limits on the amount of assets that a veteran or veterans widow can have and qualify for VA benefits. Thus, transfers may be useful in planning for VA qualification.
Gifting Issues the "Step-up in basis": Sometimes gifting an asset can create an income disadvantage for the recipient compared to inheriting the same asset. How does this happen?
Example: Let's say that Mom owns Exxon stock that she paid $10 per share for or that she owns land that she paid $10 per acre for. If she gives the land or stock away to her daughter, the daughter's basis in the property will be $10. If the stock or land is now worth $100 and the daughter sells it, she will owe capital gains tax on the difference between the sale price and her basis. If the tax on long-term capital gains is 15%, then she will owe $13.50 in tax when she sells the property (100 minus 10 equals 90 times .15 equals $13.50). On the other hand, if Mom dies owning the stock or the acre when those assets are valued at $100, the asset will "step-up" in value to $100 at her death. After Mom's death, when the daughter sells the stock or the acre, her basis will be $100. So, if the daughter sells the stock or the acre for $100, there will be no capital gains tax. (Currently, this law is in flux, but the "step-up" is expected to be renewed under the new estate and gift tax law which is expected in the next few months.)
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Dromkeen looks like just a house - albeit one with a beautiful garden and history oozing from its timbers - but it is something much more.
The colonial homestead at Riddells Creek, north-west of Melbourne, houses the Australian Children's Literature Collection, a priceless exhibition of original artwork and manuscripts.
Each year, Dromkeen is host to thousands of children, teachers and overseas visitors. On the day The Sunday Age visited, pupils from the nearby Riddells Creek Primary School were having classes in the building and enjoying the gardens.
Dromkeen has welcomed many school groups participating in the Premier's Reading Challenge, a State Government initiative supported by the The Age. It requires students from grades three to nine to read 12 books, including 10 from a list on the official website. At least 115,000 students are participating. Those who reach the target by August 12 will receive a certificate signed by the Premier.
Dromkeen was built in 1889 by a judge who named it after his mother's family home in Tipperary. In 1973, it was bought by Joyce and Court Oldmeadow who used it as a home and freight centre for their educational bookshop. The couple had a love of Australian children's literature. They dedicated their lives to preserving artwork and manuscripts and created a collection that showcases Australia's heritage.
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Britain in the Seventies
by Andy Beckett
The thirtieth anniversary of the day that the Seventies ended - at least in Britain, with the coming to power of Margaret Thatcher - is an appropriate time to take stock of that pivotal, but awful, decade. The 1970s remain garish in memory and imagination, grungy, delapidated, politically polarised and with an ominous undertow of barely-suppressed violence. An era of extremes, teetering on the brink of something inchoate but troubling, it was the most Gothic decade since the 1890s.
We know what happened next. At least, we thought we did: until a year or so ago, the inevitable triumph of Thatcherism and the free market made the strikes, power-cuts, demarcation disputes and shambling public-sector inefficiencies of the Seventies appear like an enveloping cocoon from which Britain - the "sick man of Europe" - was not yet able to free itself. It was a different, alien world - Life on Mars, indeed - that some could revisit with nostalgia but which seemed increasingly irrelevant.
But not any more. The Seventies are back. The concerns of the period - global economic meltdown, environmental collapse, rising unemployment, widespread disillusionment with conventional politics and politicians, a sense of insecurity - are back with a vengeance. Now, as then, apocalyptic visions about; talk of irreversible national decline, banished since the mid-Eighties, is once more in fashion. What lessons, then, does the era have to teach us?
Andy Beckett's new book, When the Lights Went Out, sheds new light on the decade from the perspective of those who lived through its most memorable events. Beckett has interviewed politicians and thinkers, trade unionists and activists, eco-warriors and pioneering feminists, the famous and the unknown, in pursuit of a more rounded portrait of the era: one that while examining what went wrong also attempts to demonstrate that not everything did go wrong, and that there were many people who actually enjoyed the Seventies. He has a novelist's eye for the telling detail, and the book abounds in striking vignettes. Free-market guru Lord Harris of High Cross picks the author up from Barnet station in a brand-new hatchback and "a moustache straight from the forties". In Shetland, temporarily rich from North Sea oil, gleaming leisure centres sit unused; one of them now provides shelter to sheep. An elderly Edward Heath is helped into his chair, landing with a thump: "his glacial blue eyes showed not a trace of embarrassment". A year later, his funeral in Salisbury cathedral was "a hushed museum of pinstripe suits and mid-twentieth century haircuts"; Beckett sees "not a single damp eye".
In such breezy style, Beckett takes the reader through the key events of the decade, some of which seemed more important at the time than they probably were: Arthur Scargill's victory in closing down Saltley coke depot in 1972, for example, retold here like some heroic incident from the Trojan war. Other set-pieces include a government sponsored free pop festival at a disused airfield, the first issue of Spare Rib, Harold Wilson's incipient paranoia, Ted Heath's doomed scheme to build a giant airport in the Thames estuary and, of course, the IMF loan crisis and the ensuing Winter of Discontent that finally did for the Labour government. Beckett reminds us that many trends that are now mainstream - the gay rights movement, feminism, environmentalism - first came to public prominence during the early 1970s, a period he calls "the real Sixties".
The author's sympathies are clear. He empathises with aging hippies and even more aging trade union leaders, and seems content to take Tony Benn's loaded accounts of history at face value, while eloquently dispatching free-market Tories. He tells Jim Callaghan's grandson that Mrs Thatcher's successes were largely due to luck. As one might expect from a Guardian journalist, his sentimentality about past struggles and their colourful, engaging leaders sometimes trumps more rigorous judgement. He is simply unable to fathom, it seems to me, why the country needed (and indeed wanted) a radical change of direction in 1979. But this is a fantastic read. And in entering with such sympathy into the minds of those who, often innocently and from the highest motives, made such a comprehensive mess of things more than thirty years ago Beckett also, despite himself, serves a warning about our current leadership's rediscovery of state-centred solutions.
As Mark Twain said (or is supposed to have said), history may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Today's political and social climate rhymes with the Seventies as much as, or more than, it rhymes with the Thirties. Yet just as the recession of the Seventies was not nearly so bad as the Great Depression, so too our current woes - despite lazy talk of unprecedented economic trouble - pale into insignificance beside those of thirty years ago. They really do. Beckett makes a good effort at shifting perceptions of the decade, and in some respects - lower house-prices, for example, or the freedom enjoyed by children to play (and fight) free from adult supervision - the decade really does represent a lost Eden. But there was also misogyny, racism, casual prejudice, hooliganism, concealed horrors of child-abuse and domestic violence that are unimaginable today, as well as a widespread cultural nihilism reflected in the overloud, discordant un-music known as Punk.
Perhaps it was more exciting: there was an edge to life that makes our present society seems somnambulent by comparison. But even this book's eloquent prose can't, ultimately, disguise the fact that Britain in the 1970s was a nation that had lost its way.
When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett (RRP £20) is published by Faber and Faber
Monday, 4 May 2009
Review: When the Lights Went Out
Britain in the Seventies
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- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
I remember the 3-day week and the power cuts most vividly. Being young at the time it was something of an adventure when the TV went off and the house was plunged into darkness forcing us to light candles to see by. These days the impact of power cuts on the 1970s scale would be horrendous.
While it is true that poor risk assessment has made parents overly protective and clogged the streets with kids in cars instead of walking / cycling / bussing themselves as my generation did there isn't that much Golden Era from the 70s excepting the music in the first half when 'progressive' meant something not unlike 'indie' did in the 80s when 'indie' actually meant something!
As for punk, well it was a commercial untalented artschool shadow of what Hawkwind had been doing for years. Now there was a true rebellion - splendidly anarchist and utterly bonkers.
- 6 May 2009 at 15:49
You surprise me. I remember Hawkwind very well, they did a lot of benefit gigs and being at benefit, I remember particularly well a gig at Exeter University and underground magazines and mescaline and the Space Ritual in its full glory and thunder. They were the first, well the Druids probably did something similar, rave band - Hawkwind were for dancing to. Up, up and away. I know you like to deride us hippies, but at least we had a leap about. Hippie 'punk' like the Deviants and the Fairies, may have been more influencial especially on my fave rave anarcho punk outfit, Crass.
I'm feeling like a bit of anarchy myself. Have you seen the CiF eviction hall of fame? NemesistheWarlock is the latest to join you in the afterlife. It looks to me now very much like a change of management policy and, if so, it should have been announced prior to any action being taken. It's like a Stalinist purge, emails instead of icepicks and profiles being disappeared in the middle of the night. I did allude to the remote possibility of a strike but I'm waiting on a statement from the management about reincarnation first.
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Prime Minster Tony Abbott has lashed the ''absolutely shambolic'' situation at the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, as he dispatched former defence force chief Angus Houston as his personal envoy in Kiev and began the sombre task of speaking to the families of the 37 Australian dead.
Mr Abbott also confirmed the federal government was considering declaring the MH17 disaster a terrorist attack, which would trigger payments of up to $75,000 to the families of Australian victims.
The United Nations Security Council was headed towards a crunch vote overnight on a resolution that is expected to call for immediate access to the crash site and demand an independent investigation into the tragedy, which killed 298 people.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is in New York leading Australian lobbying efforts before the vote. Mr Abbott joined world leaders in ratcheting up pressure on Russia.
Australia would view a Russian veto of the Australian-sponsored United Nations resolution to secure the crash site ''very badly'', he said.
''We want to retrieve the bodies, we want to investigate the site, and we want to punish the guilty,'' Mr Abbott said.
''At the moment the site is under the control of the Russian-backed rebels and given the almost certain culpability of the Russian-backed rebels in the downing of the aircraft, having those people in control of the site is a little like leaving criminals in control of a crime scene.
''My sense is that all of the leaders that I have spoken to were in a much firmer and sterner mood now than they were 48 hours ago … it does look more like a garden clean-up than a forensic investigation.''
Russia, for its part, signalled late on Monday that it would agree to the resolution, subject to the wording.
Reuters news agency reported the debate centred on whether the resolution referred to the ''downing'' of the Malaysia Airlines flight or its ''shooting down''.
Mr Abbott spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the early hours of Monday and he had said ''all the right things'' - but ''the challenge now is to hold the President to his word,'' Mr Abbott said.
In his first public comments on the tragedy, Mr Putin said no country should use the tragedy for its own ends or ''to achieve their 'narrowly selfish' political goals''.
Mr Putin called for a group of experts to work at the site under the guidance of the International Civil Aviation Authority, which governs the standards of crash-site investigations.
In addition to reaching out to the families of Australians who died, the Prime Minister made a series of calls to world leaders including US President Barack Obama, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Australia has deployed 45 officials to help the efforts, including 20 from the Department of Foreign Affairs, 20 AFP officers, three Defence officials and two Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators.
A C-17 military transport plane is on standby to bring back the bodies of the dead Australians, some of whom may currently be on a train in rebel-occupied Ukraine that is being prevented from leaving.
In Washington, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will say on Tuesday that the shooting down of MH17 is an event that has ''touched every corner of our world'', in a speech that describes Australia and the United States as ''unwavering partners in peace''.


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As part of a settlement to a federal antitrust suit, the NCAA agreed Tuesday to make available $10 million that will provide supplemental money above the standard athletic grant-in-aid to athletes who have competed in Division I-A football and in 16 Division I men's basketball conferences between Feb. 17, 2002, and the present.
The agreement, subject to approval by a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, is in response to a class-action suit filed in February 2006 on behalf of former football players Jason White of Stanford and Brian Polak of UCLA, former San Francisco basketball player Jovan Harris and Chris Craig, a former Texas-El Paso basketball player.
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The suit argued that restricting a scholarship to the cost of tuition, books, housing and meals was an unlawful restraint of trade because of the billions of dollars the NCAA earned through broadcast and licensing deals. NCAA general counsel Elsa Cole said she expects the court to approve the agreement.
The settlement says the $10 million will be made available over a period of three years to qualifying student-athletes — which the NCAA says could number 12,000 — to reimburse them for "bona fide educational expenses hereafter incurred, such as tuition, fees, books, supplies and equipment."
An NCAA study estimated athletes on full scholarships averaged $2,500 a year in out-of-pocket expenses. The settlement allows athletes to apply for as much as $2,500 a year for up to three years.
Cole said the $10 million will come from the NCAA's reserve fund. "That's money that's been set aside for emergency uses or unanticipated contingencies … maybe something like this," she said.
Stephen Morrissey, who represented White in the case said, "We think $2,500 is a significant chunk of the educational cost.
"We wanted terms defined as broadly as we could so even a kid who didn't graduate could pursue something like culinary school if he wants to, and this can allow him to get reimbursed. And teachers can pursue continuing education."
Morrissey said the case got within "a couple of months" of trial.
"This was a hard-fought case," he said. "They have really good lawyers, and a lot of them, and they were fighting every step of the way."
Athletes also will have easier access to another $218 million of existing funds with the settlement.
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