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I prefer a Light Music Club. Rikka as vocalist/lead guitar, Kumin in keyboard, Morri Summer in bass, and Dekomori in drum. Oh, and Yuuta could wear cat-ears and hold another guitar. Wait...
|2012-11-23, 14:13
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|2012-11-23, 14:23
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|2012-12-08, 21:56
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For a couple months, I was pretty busy, and hence had to cut back a lot on anime shows. So I stalled this one, planning to eventually get back to it later. I just recently did.
I have to say - Episodes 4 through 10 were just full of great plot twists and surprises.
It's honestly amazing how dramatic and serious this show began. I recall a long time ago saying this show made me think a little of Key, but I never imagined it would be this much like Key. The Rikka/Yuuta romance honestly makes me think of a very well-executed Key romance. And this show has this same transition from lighthearted slapstick comedy to (mostly) very serious and heartwarming show about family, friends, and romance.
Along the way some major reveals were made (I was pleasantly surprised by what they did with Shinka's character in Episode 4, the Makoto/Kumin romance was a nice secondary romance that fits pretty well, the core reason behind Rikka's chuunibyou was startling and just filled my heart with sympathy, Yuuta had a great transition moment in Episode 5 where he started to truly care about Rikka leaving his past overly insecure self behind, etc...). And Episodes 4 through 10 were certainly fun to marathon.
My only major criticism of the show is that there are some clunkier elements to the transitions made in this anime (though, in fairness, they were perhaps inevitable). 90% of the time it's easy to differentiate comedic scenes from serious/dramatic scenes, but sometimes you get disconcerting bleed-over. Generally, this isn't a huge deal, but it can impact how you view the characters.
For example, "Mori Summer" is a true enigma to me now. In my view, her character did a major transition not once, but twice, and in only 10 episodes. She went from the perfectly sweet "everybody loves her and for good reason" school girl, to someone who's actually rather abrasive and puts on quite a mask, to someone who deep down inside really is kind of caring.
Given Shinka's Episode 4 through 8 characterization, I'm at a loss to understand why she'd even care about Rikka and Yuuta, let alone try to play matchmaker for them and provide them moral support.
But in fairness to Shinka's character, I think this largely comes down to that comedy to serious transition.
However, in the most important area - the Rikka/Yuuta dynamic - I think the anime handled the comedy to drama/romance transition as well as possible. It was honestly impressive. I can honestly say that, barring some last minute disaster, Rikka/Yuuta is one of the best anime romances of the year.
|2012-12-09, 05:24
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|2012-12-09, 07:18
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But then, it's probably good to have fascinating, hard-to-figure-out characters.
|2012-12-09, 09:39
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|2012-12-09, 09:52
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Still, after thinking about it a lot, I have a theory on Shinka. I'm going to share it in her character thread in a bit.
I do think you're right about how Shinka's politeness in this scene wasn't entirely an act, though.
|2012-12-19, 18:49
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So, now that the main series is finished, I guess this is the appropriate thread to talk about impressions of the whole thing.
The first that came to mind after finishing episode 12 was that Chuunibyou would have benefited from being a 2-cour series. As it is now, the side characters are not explored enough, some not even a little like Kumin and Makoto. Dekomori's supposed character arc was shoehorned in these last two eps and felt like a cop out more than anything, and Shinka, while she was adressed more thoroughly, could have been explored much more. None of the side cast has a personality developed enough, and many comedic scenes fell flat because they relied on these characters' charm, and they had too little to relate to at the time.
With 24 episodes, they would have been able to develop not only the whole cast including tertiary characters, but go much deeper on Yuuta and Rikka's relationship and flesh out the themes of the show at a pace that would flow much better. Particularly, Touka's character arc was non-existent, and that is a pretty big flaw I find with the show, since there were a lot of hints and little foreshadowing scenes that ultimately amounted to nothing.
For me, the peak of the show was the first half, focused on comedic interactions with a relaxed pace that allowed to know the whole club at once. Episode 5 in particular was really good at doing this, Hiroko Utsumi is someone to pay attention to.
I was expecting the drama and romance to kick in around the time it did, but something about the execution of it all was lacking. Episodes 7-9, 11-12 didn't manage to do anything for me, only Takemoto's 10 stepped up from these and tried to bring the show back to its highest points. I think this has a lot to do with the pacing of the show too. The developments felt too quick and rushed, and while particular emotional scenes were well done (except for that horrid camera thing they did at the end of 9 :P ), the narrative flow was too wacky and clumsy.
As for the technical side of the show, it's Kyoani, what more can I say? Well, in this case I think I can say a bit more. This was a step back from Hyouka, which had some of the best color design, photography and BG art in recent anime, if not the best. Chuunibyou was just Kyoani's standard fare, having standard color choices for the most part, and going back to the typical slapstick animation of Nichijou and the exaggerated expressions of K-On!. While this is not bad per-se, Hyouka's (and Disappearance) approach to acting and movement seems more suited for current Kyoani and it just strikes my fancy more.
The animation started to falter around the halfway point too, just by a bit, but thankfully it was saved by awesome color choices in the key scenes (episode 10's confession scene and the finale's "BANISHMENT THIS WORLD+Ethereal horizon" scene come to mind) and some nice sakuga from time to time (like, again, this episode 12's scene with all those superb FX and impact. I think it was Ishidate who did that, but he wasn't credited so I wouldn't know for sure).
So, all in all, the series was good and enjoyable, especially for the first 5~6 episodes, but failed to make itself memorable when it got serious. My biggest complaint with the writing is the lack of thorough characterization and thematic exploration, and it seems like it was a direct consequence of having to work so many characters and situations in only 12 episodes. A 2-cour Chuunibyou show would have had just so much more impact and investment from me, especially if a studio like Kyoani is making it; they have shown me with K-On! and Hyouka that it's impossible not to get attached to their shows and characters after enough exposure to them, no matter what inconsequential plot may they be executing.
So whatever, this confirms Ishihara as my least favourite supervisor in the studio. His episodes are always a joy to watch, but when he takes on a whole show I always find myself having gripes and issues with it. I certainly have enjoyed K-On! and Hyouka much more than Chuunibyou and most of Haruhi (except Disappearance). I won't count Nichijou because I'm too biased for its animation to make a fair judgement of its directorial and comedic merits.
All that's left now is to wait for nice eye-candy in the form of BD shorts, and maybe a good dose of the comedy and interplay that made early Chuunibyou great in episode 13.
|2012-12-23, 08:44
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|2012-12-26, 08:32
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From Tatsuya Ishihara's interview in Nyantype:
The new episode on volume 7 will take place after episode 12 and be centered around a certain winter event (that's coming up in real life) with a gag theme. All the club members will show up and it'll be more like episode 4/5 in tone.
|2012-12-28, 06:27
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So apparently Chuunibyou sold 14k-ish
Pretty good! Much better than Hyouka's 8.9k start.
|2012-12-29, 06:47
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Looks like we are getting kiss later
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Local police seeking donations to help New York hurricane victimsBy Jason Schreiber
Union Leader Correspondent
November 08. 2012 10:51AM
Grassroots efforts are under way in New Hampshire to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy while teams of fire and rescue personnel from around the state are gearing up to respond to coastal areas of New Jersey ravaged by last week's epic storm.
The New Hampshire Chiefs of Police Secretaries Association is scrambling to collect donations of items to be delivered to neighborhoods on New York's Staten Island, where residents lost everything in the massive storm.
The collection is being spearheaded by Jessica Miehle, the chief's administrative assistant at the North Hampton Police Department, whose family in Staten Island is among the many struggling in the wake of the disaster.
Anyone who would like to donate can drop items off at police departments in Bristol, Fremont, New Hampton, North Hampton and Rochester through tomorrow (Friday). The items are expected to be brought to Staten Island on Saturday morning.
Items needed include clothing, especially larger sizes and men's and children's, shoes, coats, blankets, cleaning supplies, toiletries (toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, soap, shampoo), toilet paper, diapers, baby wipes, paper plates, Band Aids, children's toys, sheets, rubber gloves, food, detergent, and bleach wipes.
The Raymond Area Rotary Club is also holding its own hurricane relief drive and will be collecting items until Nov. 13 at the Epping and Raymond fire departments. For more information and a list of items needed, visit the rotary's website, www.raymondarearotary.org.
Meanwhile, the New Jersey Emergency Management recently sent a request to an interstate mutual aid network seeking medical teams and ambulances to assist in the wake of Sandy. As many as 20 ambulances with teams of EMTs and paramedics from around New Hampshire have agreed to travel to the areas affected, said Dave Danielson, public information officer for the New Hampshire Division of Fire Standards and Training and Emergency Medical Services.
Danielson said New Jersey requested four so-called 'strike teams.' Each team includes four basic life support ambulances with two EMTs and one advanced life support ambulance with one EMT and paramedic.
The teams are waiting to hear back from New Jersey officials on whether they will be needed.

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Wax Experiments and Lava Tubes
DOEI Project Funded: 2006We need to answer the following questions:
- Is there is a minimum flow rate, which would result in a
frozen channel if reduced? No minimum is reported yet, but one would
think that a very sufficiently small flow would not supply enough heat
to counteract conductive cooling. We plan to conduct two or three runs
to establish a minimum flow rate instead of the five to ten originally
- What is the nature of a theory
predicting the width of this channel? The theory must be developed. See
below for details. Probably we will be unable to develop the theory.
- What
is the 3-d lava tube analog of this experiment? We have a hollow
cylinder with cooled walls. Wax inside this flowing along the axis
might form a melt tube. We want to try and inject wax at one end of the
tube and try and for a circular tube of melt. This experiment is a
priority and will be conducted.
- Is there are theoretical limit to the distance lava can travel? As outlined above the tentative theory exists which we need to confirm, improve or discard. We may not be able to develop this theory.
Specifically, we propose to continue these experiments and not continue with theory. We will vary the flow rate of the peg wax and temperature of the cold bath. In addition, a new tank is desired with flow of wax through a hollow pipe that is cooled from the outside. Money for materials (wax, metal, plastic, tubing and containers, $3000) is included in the budget. Fabrication will be done by a Research Associate, (1 month) and the experiment will be conducted by the PI (about a week) We predict that the hot wax will adopt a flow channel with a circular cross-section inside of a solid rim of wax as a model of a lava tube within the earth. The shape and width of this channel can be measured through a broad range of parameter space, which then allows scaling up to full sized lava flows.
On my own time, I will continue to develop simplified analytical descriptions of reactive and solidifying flow processes in order to characterize the essential physics of flow localization.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
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A rock outcrop on Lake Champlain has two adjacent rock sections: one horizontal, one vertical. Keith Klepeis investigates a potential cause. View Video
Keith Klepeis looks for possible sources of heat and pressure that could have deformed the outcropping at Clay Point in this continuing investigation. View Video
Minerals are made of elements, as is all matter. View Video
How do geoscientists determine the approximate age of a rock? (example: Uranimum-235) View Video
One type of sedimentary rock is formed when materials such as gravel, sand, silt, and clay are deposited in new locations. View Video
The formation of two types of fossils are shown and discussed: an imprint in a rock and minerals replacing the shells of dead organisms. View Video


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340B Drug Pricing Program Changes under PPACA
By Amanda Swanson, J.D., LL.M., Chicago, IL1
The 340B Drug Pricing Program enables eligible Medicaid participating facilities to purchase outpatient drugs at discounted prices, below those typically available to other buyers. This results in significant savings for safety-net providers, generally between 20-50 percent of the drug's cost.2 In furtherance of its goals of containing rising healthcare costs, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA") expanded the types of facilities eligible to participate in the program, and thereby enabled more providers to take advantage of the discounted drug prices.
For more information related this topic, the Health Law Section is hosting a webinarHow to Structure 340B Contract Pharmacy Arrangementson September 6, 2012.
The Medicaid drug programs are designed and administered by the states under broad federal guidelines,4 and each state's Medicaid agency must submit a plan to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") which describes each agency's drug program payment methodology.5 Federal regulations limit each state's reimbursement for a drug to the lower of (1) the drug's estimated acquisition cost plus a reasonable dispensing fee6 or (2) the pharmacy's usual and customary charge to the public for the drug.7 Each drug manufacturer must enter into a rebate agreement with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") for Medicaid to cover of most of the manufacturer's drugs. Currently, about 600 manufacturers participate in the Medicaid program.8
Program Overview
The Veterans Health Service Act enacted section 340B of the Public Health Service Act implementing the "Limitation on Prices of Drugs Purchased by Covered Entities."9 This program, known as the 340B Drug Pricing Program, requires participating manufacturers to enter into an additional agreement with HHS which establishes an upper limit on the prices of covered outpatient drugs sold to particular covered entities. The method of calculating the price limit is explained in the statute, and amounts to the average manufacturer price ("AMP") for the drug in the preceding quarter less a rebate percentage.10 The rebate percentage equals the average total rebate required during the preceding quarter11 divided by the AMP for the drug during the quarter.12
The covered entities eligible to participate in the 340B program are listed in the statute. These include federally qualified health centers,13 disproportionate share hospitals,14 children's hospitals, and federal grantees under specified programs.15 Covered entities must ensure that the drugs purchased through this program are used for outpatients only; this program does not apply to inpatient drugs. Additionally, covered entities are prohibited from transferring or reselling 340B drugs to individuals who are not patients of the facility, and from seeking a Medicaid rebate for a drug purchased through the 340B program. They are also responsible for implementing systems to prevent these practices and document their compliance.
The program is managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration's ("HRSA") Office of Pharmacy Affairs ("OPA").16 In order to participate in the program, covered entities must first register for the program through the OPA.17 Participation begins on the first day of each quarter (January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1), and the deadline to register with the OPA is the first of the month preceding each quarter (December 1, March 1, June 1, and September 1, respectively).18
Changes Implemented by PPACA
PPACA expanded the types of entities eligible to participate in this program to include children's hospitals,19 critical access hospitals, free standing cancer hospitals, rural referral centers, and sole community hospitals.20 The HRSA has estimated that this expansion enables up to 1,500 new facilities to become eligible to participate in the 340B program.21
The existing requirements for participation in the program apply to these newly-eligible entities. However, PPACA also made changes to some of the requirements which apply only to the newly-eligible facilities. Newly-eligible entities must exceed the Disproportionate Share Hospital percentages for their specific type of facility (11.75 percent for children's hospitals and free standing cancer hospitals; eight percent for rural referral centers and sole community hospitals).22 Additionally, children's hospitals and freestanding cancer hospitals must meet CMS's criteria for exclusion from the Medicare Prospective Payment System to be eligible for the 340B discount,23 and neither can obtain covered drugs through a group purchasing organization (although critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals and rural referral centers may continue to do so).24
These expansions to 340B eligibility became effective January 1, 2010. The same quarterly registration deadlines apply to the newly eligible facilities. Furthermore, guidance specific to each type of newly eligible facility is available on the OPA website.25 Manufacturers are not required to provide 340B discounts to newly eligible entities until the entities are fully enrolled in the program and listed in the OPA's 340B database.
Eligibility of Accountable Care Organizations
PPACA also established a Medicare Shared Savings Program through which groups of doctors, providers, and facilities may join together and collaborate to provide coordinated, high-quality healthcare for certain beneficiaries through Accountable Care Organizations ("ACOs").26 ACOs aim to ensure that patients receive the proper care at the right time, while also reducing unnecessary care and preventing medical errors through incentivizing the redesign of healthcare processes, investment in improvements in infrastructure, and the promotion of accountability for the care of Medicare beneficiaries. Through the Shared Savings Program, ACOs which are successful in achieving cost savings through their coordinated healthcare delivery can share in the savings experienced by the Medicare program.
For purposes of the 340B program, inclusion of a 340B covered entity as a part of an ACO does not make the entire ACO eligible for participation in the program. Specifically, the statutory text provides: "[i]n the case of a covered entity that is a distinct part of a hospital, the hospital shall not be considered a covered entity [under the 340B program] unless the hospital is otherwise a covered entity under this subsection."27 The final ACO rules reiterate that the ACO itself is not a 340B covered entity.28 Furthermore, 340B participating providers which are members of an ACO are still obligated to comply with the requirements of ensuring that 340B drugs are not diverted to non-patients (including other ACO member providers and their patients) and that Medicaid rebates are not sought for these drugs.29 In the Final Rule HHS also expressed an intention to consult with the HRSA regarding the risks of fraud and abuse in the 340B program that are posed by ACOs, and to determine if additional monitoring will be needed for ACOs participating in the program.30
The 340B Drug Pricing Program enables many safety net providers across the country to purchase outpatient drugs at discounted prices, facilitating their ability to provide healthcare to low-income and medically underserved populations. As of October 2011, over 16,869 facilities may benefit from these reduced drug prices.31
Amanda Swanson is an Illinois licensed attorney and received her J.D. and LL.M. in health law from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Jean Hearne, Congressional Research Service, Prescription Drug Coverage Under Medicaid, at 1 (2008), available athttp://aging.senate.gov/crs/medicaid16.pdf.
Dep't Health & Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, A Comparison of Medicaid Federal Upper Limit Amounts to Acquisition Costs, Medicare Payment Amounts, and Retail Prices, 1 (2009), available athttp://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-03-08-00490.pdf.
Id. Dispensing fees implemented by states have ranged from $2.00 to $5.60 per prescription.
Id. CMS allows states flexibility in defining and determining their estimated acquisition costs for drugs.
Medicaid.gov, Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, http://www.medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-Program-Information/By-Topics/Benefits/Prescription-Drugs/Medicaid-Drug-Rebate-Program.html.
Veterans Health Service Act, Pub. L. 102-585, 106 Stat. 4971 (Nov. 4, 1992).
42 U.S.C. §256b(a)(1).
42 U.S.C. § 256b(a)(2).
A federally qualified health center is an entity which receives a grant under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, receives funding through a contract with a recipient of such grant, was determined by the Secretary of HHS to meet the requirements of such grant or be treated as such, or is an outpatient facility or program operated under the Indian Self-Determination Act or receiving certain funds under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. 42 U.S.C. §1395x(aa)(4).
42 U.S.C. § 256b(a)(4). The eligible programs include family planning projects, early HIV intervention services, native Hawaiian organization or urban Indian organizations, state-operated AIDS drug assistance programs, black lung clinics, comprehensive hemophilia diagnostic treatment centers, and others. Id.
Intro, supra note 1.
Office of Pharmacy Affairs, HRSA, Register a Covered Entity, http://opanet.hrsa.gov/opa/CERegister.aspx?isnew=true.
Although listed in PPACA, children's hospitals were already eligible. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 first made children's hospitals eligible to participate in the 340B drug pricing program. S. 1932, 109th Cong. § 6004 (2006), available athttp://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-109s1932enr/pdf/BILLS-109s1932enr.pdf.
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Basketball players earn all-conference honors
Three Swede boys and two girls have earned post-season basketball honors from coaches of the seven Southwest Conference schools.
All-conference selections were made during a meeting of winter coaches in Broken Bow on March 16.
Minden dominated both the girls and boys teams earning the highest number of selections on both.
Four Minden boys and six girls received recognition including three boys and four girls on the first team.
For the Swedes, junior post player Korey Ahlenstorf was named to the boys all-conference second team.
Ahlenstorf finished the 2010-11 season with 8.8 points per game and was the Swedes' leading rebounder with 144 for the season, or 7.2 per game. He also dished out the most assists with 55.
Swede senior Cody Ostergard and sophomore Logan Koehler earned third-team recognition.
Ostergard was Gothenburg's leading scorer with 220 points or 10.5 per game. He also earned honorable mention from the Lincoln Journal Star for the newspaper's Class C-1 all-state teams.
Koehler finished the year with 130 rebounds and 38 blocked shots.
On the girls side, Swede seniors Shelby Eggleston and Karen Franzen were named to the SWC all-conference third team.
Eggleston found her way into the Swedes all-time Top 10 chart this year with 72 steals in the season.
She was also the team's second leading scorer with 120 points. The guard also had 84 rebounds and 20 assists.
Franzen, a post player, was Gothenburg's second leading rebounder with 95 boards and scored 69 points with 12 blocked shots.
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Eagles quarterback Kevin Kolb and linebacker Stewart Bradley are out for Sunday's game at the Detroit Lions, coach Andy Reid said.
Both players suffered concussions Sunday against the Packers and did not practice all week. Reid said that they passed the written part of an exam and will next be examined William Welch, an independent doctor at the University of Penn. There are still several stages that Kolb and Bradley have to pass before they are cleared to return to practice.
Both players were at the NovaCare Complex Friday morning, but left before practice, Reid said. The coach said that Bradley was slightly ahead of Kolb in their recoveries.
With Kolb out, Michael Vick will get his first start under center since Dec. 31, 2006.
"It's a surreal moment," Vick said. "I didn't think it was going to happen this early. As a backup you kind of get into a mode of thinking that you're not going to play."
Vick took every first team snap this week. Mike Kafka moves up to No. 2 on the depth chart. Reid said that he thought about adding another quarterback, but that he'll dress just Vick and Kafka. Reid said that he had several emergency third quarterbacks, but that he's rather keep those names to himself.
With Bradley out, Omar Gaither gets the nod at middle linebacker. Gaither has started 34 games in the NFL, 19 at middle linebacker.
The following players are listed as probable for Sunday: WR Jason Avant (back), DE Antwan Barnes (wrist), RB Mike Bell (toe), G Nick Cole (knee), G Todd Herremans (ankle), T Austin Howard (back), LB Akeem Jordan (groin), DT Trevor Laws (oblique) and P Sav Rocca (left hamstring).
Tackle Winston Justice was selected to be the Eagles' union representative after a vote was held Thursday. He succeeds safety Quintin Mikell. Justice said that the team voted to authorize NFLPA decertification if the union decides that is a necessary step when the collective bargaining agreement expires next March.


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Review: Renault Duster AWD
Driven September 2014
Finally, the wait is over. Renault has confirmed that in the next couple of months, you could actually walk into their showrooms and write off that cheque for a Duster 4x4. It's called the Duster AWD and in essence, that's what it is – an all-wheel drive version of the regular Duster that can send power to all four wheels when the situation demands.
Is it worth the wait? Oh yes it is. In fact, this is the best thing that could have happened to the compact SUV, apart from an auto variant, which the company is tight lipped about. So for now, it's only the new Duster AWD that will go on sale at the onset of the festive season and we were the lucky ones to try out the tools that make this Duster stop at nothing.
First up, the AWD. Unlike the traditional 4x4 mechanism, there isn't an option of engaging the 6-speed gearbox into low-range, instead, you get an electronically controlled AWD system that could be engaged on-the-fly with the help of a knob. You could slot it in permanent 2WD mode for your regular urban commute where it works like an ordinary front-wheel driven Duster, or switch to Lock mode, wherein the torque is equally distributed to all four wheels for better traction on tricky situations. This mode can be accessed till the speed of 60kph, after which it automatically switches to Auto mode. Renault has full faith in its AWD system and suggests we switch to Auto when venturing out in the wild as the electronics, when left alone, can do a better job on its own.
We took Renault's word on that and during our six hour off-road exercise, the Duster AWD, at many occasions, did manage to get itself out of trouble without any sort of assistance. The Auto mode worked surprisingly well, sending power to the rear wheels whenever it sensed a loss of traction at the front wheels. There are those occasional wheel spins, but never did things go out of control and that's quite commendable for an AWD system.
Steep climbs, slush pits, water wading (good for Mumbai streets) or driving down a steep mountain road, the Duster AWD is up for such challenges. What also makes the AWD system work even better is the addition of independent suspension at all four corners, traction control and minor tweaks to the ECU that make it an impressive package. Renault has shortened the gear ratios for the AWD variant, especially the first gear, which further helps the Duster crawl down a steep slope without even the need of feathering the brake pedal. And then the lighter clutch which, in general, makes driving the Duster AWD so much more fun and stress-free in all conditions.
Talking about driving, the Duster AWD is driven by the much-appreciated 1.5 dCi K9k diesel motor that dispenses 108.6bhp and 248Nm of torque, teamed with a 6-speed manual gearbox. Renault has made a few minor but significant changes to the ECU and it shows in the manner the AWD variant performs on the road. There is better torque distribution across the power-band, making it easier to drive at lower rpms too. So you don't really need to downshift every time you want to overtake those annoyingly slow moving auto rickshaws. Plus, there's the lighter clutch that adds to the improved driving experience.
What's also remarkable about the AWD variant is the ride comfort. It feels amazing to drive over bad roads as the independent suspension does an unbelievable job of dampening road irregularities and offer greater ride comfort. The feedback from the steering wheel too has been softened a bit so it doesn't kick you back the way it does in the older Duster variants. But it continues to be precise and turns the SUV in the direction you want it to.
Renault hasn't revealed its pricing strategy yet, but we are sure the Duster AWD will set you back by Rs 70,000 to a lakh for the RxL and RxZ variants it will be available in. However, to sweeten the deal, the French carmaker will offer a better cabin and slightly distinct looking SUV here. The exterior design includes black inserts for the headlamps, darkened alloy wheels and AWD badge and stickers on the bootlid and door respectively. The cabin, however, manages to look better. The plastics used are of better quality and the black and grey dual-tone interior doesn't look as cheap as before. There is a new instrument cluster and a sporty three-spoke steering wheel and dual-tone seats that add extra bit of sportiness.
Space has never been an issue for the Duster and the AWD variant offers ample of passenger legroom and luggage space. The rear aircon, however, is missing from the AWD variants, but it isn't sorely missed. Renault claims the Duster AWD can run over 19km to a litre of diesel and helping it achieve that figure is a new Eco mode that improves overall efficiency by 10 per cent. We didn't really bother testing that claim as we were too busy throwing the Duster around slush fields, over green grass, wading through streams and getting to hill top without landing ourselves into any sort of trouble. And the AWD fared surprisingly well out there.
It may not be as potent as a Mahindra Thar, Force Gurkha or the Maruti Gypsy, but it's more in the league of the Skoda Yeti and Mahindra XUV wherein the SUV will be used more in the corporate jungle rather than out in the wild. And for those roles, the Duster AWD makes for a strong case. The only thing that remains to be seen is pricing, which will be made public in the next couple of months. Till then, enjoy the Duster AWD out in its elements in our detailed photogallery.
The numbers
4cyl, 1461cc, turbo-diesel, 108.6bhp, 248Nm, 6M, AWD, ground clearance: 210mm, boot space: 475 litres, Overall kpl: 19.72 (claimed), RxL: Rs 13.3 lakh, RxZ: Rs 14.5 lakh (est. on-road, Mumbai)
The verdict
New off-road tools add to the Duster's overall character. The AWD mechanism works well in most situations and allows you to have some fun out in the wild. However, don't get too carried away, it's not going to win you those hardcore challenges off the tarmac.
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No. 84,930
1. Absent an objection at trial, a defendant cannot claim as error that the trial court held a Jackson v. Denno hearing, deciding the voluntariness of his or her confession, simultaneously with his or her trial.
2. Under the facts of this case, by ruling that a subsequent enactment of the legislature reducing the penalties for similar conduct is an insufficient reason to depart from a guidelines sentence, the trial court did not adopt a "procedure" that prevented the defendant from presenting his mitigation argument.
3. An appellate court is prevented by law from determining in a direct appeal whether a presumptive guidelines sentence amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. To do otherwise would nullify the statute, K.S.A. 21-4721, that bars appeals from guidelines sentences.
4. No party may assign as error the giving or failure to give an instruction unless he or she objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he or she objects and the grounds of his or her objection, unless the instruction or the failure to give the instruction is clearly erroneous.
Appeal from the Sedgwick District Court; DAVID W. KENNEDY, judge. Opinion filed July 27, 2001. Affirmed.
Debra J. Wilson, assistant appellate defender, and Jessica R. Kunen, chief appellate defender, for the appellant.
Richard A. Olhmstead and Elizabeth Reimer, assistant district attorneys, Nola Foulston, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for the appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., LEWIS, J., and STEPHEN D. HILL, District Judge, assigned.
HILL, J.: Anthony C. Blackshire appeals his convictions for two counts of rape and five counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Blackshire is currently serving a 325-month sentence in the custody of the Secretary of Corrections. He argues that the trial court should not have held the hearing to determine the voluntariness of his confessions simultaneously with his trial, that the sentencing court adopted a procedure that prevented it from considering his mitigating evidence, that his sentence is unconstitutionally excessive, and that the trial court erroneously instructed the jury to "work out justice for the parties." We affirm.
On February 9, 2000, Blackshire, who was charged with multiple counts of rape and aggravated indecent liberties, was convicted on seven counts and acquitted on one. All five victims, A.W., A.C., C.A., H.C., and D.T., were too young to consent to sexual intercourse or lewd fondling and touching. A brief review of Blackshire's charges, evidence, and sentences is helpful in deciding the issues raised in this appeal.
Blackshire was charged in counts I and II with raping A.W. in February 1997. She was 13 and Blackshire was 17 years old at the time of the intercourse. A.W. did not testify at trial; however, Blackshire had admitted to the police that he had consensual sexual intercourse with A.W. on two occasions.
The jury convicted Blackshire on both counts. At sentencing, the court designated count I as the primary offense. Blackshire's sentencing guidelines category and criminal history level were 1-E, and he was sentenced to a guidelines term of imprisonment of 276 months. For count II, he was sentenced to a concurrent 206-month term. The sentencing court used criminal history category I to classify all of his nonbase sentences.
In count III, Blackshire was charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a minor based on an incident of lewd fondling in July 1997 involving A.C. She was 15 and Blackshire was 17 at the time. A.C. testified at trial about the incident, and Blackshire had confessed to the police that the incident occurred, but was consensual. Blackshire was convicted. He was sentenced to a guidelines term of 49 months for this crime, concurrent with the sentence for count I.
Blackshire was charged in count IV with raping C.A. C.A., who was 13 at the time, testified that their sexual intercourse was consensual. Blackshire denied having sex with her. On this count he had not confessed to the police and was acquitted.
Counts V, VI, and VII charged Blackshire with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties involving H.C. These incidents occurred May 20 through May 27, 1999, when H.C. was 15 and Blackshire was 19. H.C. testified about the incidents and Blackshire confessed and indicated their conduct was consensual. The jury convicted him. For these crimes, Blackshire received three 49-month terms, concurrent with each other and concurrent with count I.
Finally, in count VIII, Blackshire was charged and convicted of aggravated indecent liberties with D.T. This charge was based upon allegations of lewd fondling or touching on May 27, 1999. At the time of the alleged touching, D.T. was 11 and Blackshire was 19. Blackshire confessed to a certain amount of this conduct. The jury found him guilty. For this offense, he was sentenced to 49 months, but the sentencing court ordered this sentence to be served consecutive to count I, thus creating an aggregate sentence of 325 months.
During the course of their investigation, the police interviewed Blackshire. After being advised of his Miranda rights, he made several inculpatory statements. Because Blackshire raised the issue about the voluntariness of his statements, the court held a Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368, 12 L. Ed. 2d 908, 84 S. Ct. 1774 (1964), hearing. For the sake of expediency, the court decided to hold the hearing during the course of the trial itself.
On July 1, 1999, K.S.A. 21-3522 went into effect. That statute is popularly known as the "Romeo and Juliet law" and it defines the crime of unlawful, voluntary sexual relations. All of the crimes committed by Blackshire occurred prior to the effective date of the Romeo and Juliet enactments.
The trial court gave the following instruction without objection from the State or the defendant:
"A juror is an officer of the Court, and it is the duty of the jury to work out justice for the parties within the law and the evidence. You must do this without being influenced by likes, dislikes, sympathy or prejudice.
"In your deliberations, you should lay aside mere pride of opinion, and should bear in mind that the jury room is no place for adopting or maintaining support for either side of the case. The aim to be kept in view by the jury is, the truth as you find it to be from the evidence, considered with the instructions of the Court.
"It is the duty of the jury to consider the evidence and the instructions together, and to listen to the arguments of each other with an open mindedness and a disposition to be convinced by them. If at any time such consideration of the evidence and the instructions, a juror is convinced that his or her vote is wrong, it then becomes the duty of such juror to change his or her vote."
Jackson v. Denno Hearing
Blackshire filed a motion in limine precluding the State from introducing his confessions unless "the statements are produced prior to trial and the Court, pursuant to [the statutes] and Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368 (1964), finds them to be voluntary, with a knowing and intelligent waiver of his constitutional rights." At the hearing on the pretrial motions, the trial court heard argument on the motion in limine and ruled that it would hold a Jackson v. Denno hearing during the trial. The State agreed and the defense counsel did not object. The trial court, elaborating on the procedure, ruled that instead of having a separate hearing on Monday and not having a jury, it would conduct the hearing simultaneously with the trial. Again, the State agreed and the defense counsel did not object. All remaining matters in the motion in limine were ultimately granted by the court.
During its case, the State called Detective Jackson to testify about his investigation. The officer indicated that he interviewed Blackshire, and the prosecutor asked several questions about the voluntariness of Blackshire's statements and his waiver of constitutional rights. Defense counsel did not object to any of those questions.
While the police officer was giving the details of the confessions, the defense counsel objected twice on hearsay grounds. The next day of trial, outside the jury's presence, the trial court ruled: "Yesterday afternoon, during Detective Jackson's testimony, we were also having a Jackson-Denno hearing, and I find that Mr. Blackshire's statements were made freely, voluntarily and understandably." Defense counsel did not object. The court then asked if anything else needed to go on the record, and defense counsel was silent.
Two other officers testified at trial about their interviews with Blackshire. Questions concerning the voluntariness of his statements and his demeanor during the interviews were answered without objection. Defense counsel cross-examined both witnesses. At the close of the State's case, again outside the presence of the jury, the prosecutor asked the court to make a Jackson v. Denno finding on the record. Defense counsel did not object to either the request or the trial court's findings that the statements to both officers were "freely and voluntarily made." Defense counsel did take the opportunity to place another unrelated issue on the record.
On appeal, Blackshire does not challenge the findings of the trial court concerning the voluntariness of his confessions. Rather, he claims that the trial court's method of conducting the Jackson v. Denno proceeding simultaneously with his jury trial violated his right to procedural due process.
Despite the obvious fact that the better procedure would be to hold a separate hearing to determine the voluntariness of the confessions (had the trial court found the statements involuntary, a mistrial would have resulted since the jury would have already heard the statements), we do not think that this issue is properly before this court. Since there was no contemporaneous objection to the procedure adopted by the trial court of holding the Jackson v. Denno hearing simultaneously with the trial, this issue has not been properly preserved for appellate review. See State v. Mason, 268 Kan. 37, 39, 986 P.2d 387 (1999).
Previously, in a case similar to Blackshire's, our Supreme Court reaffirmed the rule that the record must show a timely and specific objection in order to preserve or raise the admissibility of evidence as an issue on appeal. The court in State v. Bornholdt, 261 Kan. 644, 651, 932 P.2d 964 (1997), was asked to review whether the trial court committed reversible error when it admitted the defendant's statements to officers without holding a voluntariness hearing. As in Blackshire's case, there was no objection at trial. The Bornholdt court stated: "If this were not a case where a hard 40 sentence had been imposed, this issue would fail because of our rule that in order to raise the admissibility of evidence as an issue on appeal, the record must show a timely and specific objection. [Citations omitted.]" 261 Kan. at 651.
The only reason the Bornholdt court reviewed the matter was due to the legislative mandate in K.S.A. 21-4627 requiring review of all hard 40 sentence cases. Blackshire's case does not fit within that legislative mandate. The issue is not properly before us.
Romeo and Juliet enactment as mitigation
Turning to the next issue raised by Blackshire, his counsel contends that Blackshire was not given a proper hearing on his motion for a downward departure when the sentencing court "refused to consider relevant evidence" in support of his request. We believe that this argument is nothing more than a careful attempt to avoid K.S.A. 21-4721, which bars review of a presumptive guidelines sentence. The sentences imposed on Blackshire are within the presumptive ranges provided by law, and we lack jurisdiction to review them.
Even so, our Supreme Court has held that "the legislature would appear to have implicitly allowed a defendant to appeal from the procedurally inadequate denial of a motion for departure." State v. Koehn, 266 Kan. 10, 14, 966 P.2d 63 (1998). The "procedural defect" Blackshire complains about is the fact that the sentencing court ruled as a matter of law that the Romeo and Juliet statute was not a basis for departure. Potentially, K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 21-3522 would have covered Blackshire's crimes involving H.C. and A.C. had he committed his offenses after July 1, 1999. The statute lowered the severity level of consensual sexual relations between opposite sex teens as young as 14 meeting certain criteria. Blackshire claims the court's ruling equates to a failure to consider relevant evidence.
During the hearing on the downward departure motion, the sentencing court asked Blackshire if he had any evidence to present in mitigation. Blackshire responded, "No." The court concluded as a matter of law that the issue raised in the departure motion was not a basis for departing. By ruling that a subsequent enactment of the legislature reducing the penalties for some conduct is an insufficient reason to depart from a guidelines sentence, the trial court did not adopt a "procedure" that prevented the defendant from presenting his mitigation argument. It appears to us that the court considered Blackshire's mitigation argument, was unmoved, and denied it. We see no procedural defect that creates a need for a new sentencing hearing.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Blackshire challenges his sentences for counts I and II. He argues that his presumptive sentences of 276 months and 206 months for consensual sex with a 13-year-old girl is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and § 9 of the Bill of Rights of the Kansas Constitution. At sentencing, neither the State nor the defendant disputed the severity levels of any of the convictions, nor did they dispute Blackshire's criminal history. Blackshire received guidelines sentences.
We believe that this court lacks jurisdiction to review this matter because of K.S.A. 21-4721. Another panel of this court in State v. Lewis, 27 Kan. App. 2d 134, Syl. ¶ 6, 998 P.2d 1141, rev. denied 269 Kan. 938 (2000), held that the challenge that a presumptive guidelines sentence is cruel and unusual is statutorily barred from review on direct appeal but can be raised in a collateral attack under K.S.A. 60-1507. Pursuant to K.S.A. 21-4721, "there can be no appeal from a presumptive sentence." 27 Kan. App. 2d at 140. We find that reasoning persuasive. We cannot review whether Blackshire's sentence is cruel and unusual punishment, for to do so would nullify the statute barring appeals of presumptive guidelines sentences.
Allen Instruction
Finally, Blackshire contends that the trial court erred when it gave a non-PIK, Allen type instruction. See Allen v. United States, 164 U.S. 492, 501-02, 41 L. Ed. 528, 17 S. Ct. 154 (1896). Blackshire admits that defense counsel failed to object to the instruction. He cannot seek appellate review now unless the instruction was clearly wrong.
Our rule is clear:
"[N]o party may assign as error the giving or failure to give an instruction unless he or she objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he or she objects and the grounds of his or her objection, unless the instruction or the failure to give the instruction is clearly erroneous. K.S.A. 22-3414. Instructions are clearly erroneous only if the reviewing court is firmly convinced that there is a real possibility the jury would have rendered a different verdict if the trial error had not occurred." State v. Henry, 263 Kan. 118, 131, 947 P.2d 1020 (1997).
See State v. Humphery, 267 Kan. 45, 62, 978 P.2d 264 (1999).
Besides, similar instructions have been upheld in State v. Dias, 263 Kan. 331, 334-35, 949 P.2d 1093 (1997); State v. Whitaker, 255 Kan. 118, 872 P.2d 278 (1994); and State v. Giles, 27 Kan. App. 2d 340, 4 P.3d 630, rev. denied 269 Kan. 936 (2000). We find no real possibility that the jury in this case would have rendered a different verdict if the instruction had not been given.


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Kris Wilkinson and Thomas Coombes were among the Buccaneers that were able to get quality looks inside the box but both teams played resistant defense and the match remained even after regulation.
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'Two and a Half Men' actor 'seeing show for 1st time' finds it 'filth'
Update: In a statement to Deadline Hollywood released by Insignia PR, Jones expresses his gratitude to Two And A Half Men, co-creator Chuck Lorre, CBS, series producer Warner Bros TV and studio chief Peter Roth for "what has been one of the most significant experiences in my life to date."
Here is Jones' statement in its entirety:
I have been the subject of much discussion, speculation and commentary over the past 24 hours. While I cannot address everything that has been said or right every misstatement or misunderstanding, there is one thing I want to make clear.
Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on Two and Half Men with whom I have worked over the past ten years and who have become an extension of my family.
Chuck Lorre, Peter Roth and many others at Warner Bros. and CBS are responsible for what has been one of the most significant experiences in my life to date. I thank them for the opportunity they have given and continue to give me and the help and guidance I have and expect to continue to receive from them.
I also want all of the crew and cast on our show to know how much I personally care for them and appreciate their support, guidance and love over the years. I grew up around them and know that the time they spent with me was in many instances more than with their own families. I learned life lessons from so many of them and will never forget how much positive impact they have had on my life.
I apologize if my remarks reflect me showing indifference to and disrespect of my colleagues and a lack of appreciation of the extraordinary opportunity of which I have been blessed. I never intended that.
A spokesman for the influential American Family Association says that actor Angus T. Jones' stunning recommendation that viewers should not watch the "Two and a Half Men" show in which he stars reveals a man who finally is seeing the truth.
Jones, 19, rocked the entertainment world and made a ton of headlines when a video of an interview in which he condemns his own show was posted this week.
"God is great," he said. "Jake, from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is nonexistent character. He's … If you watch 'Two and a Half Men' please don't watch. I'm on 'Two and a Half Men' and I don't want to be on it.
"Please stop filling your head with filth," he continued. "People say it's just entertainment. The fact that it's entertainment. … Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television."
AFA spokesman Ed Vitagliano told WND that the statements are getting so much attention because it's the opposite of what people would expect.
"It's an anomaly simply because this is a young man, Angus T. Jones, who has had apparently a very recent Christian awakening and is for the first time [beginning] to see what the program actually is."
Vitagliano said Jones' assessment of the program is spot on.
The series, he said, "is filled with sexual innuendo and very frank discussions of sex obviously from the point of embracing the sexual revolution."
He said the production lacks any "sexual morality or anything that even vaguely resembles a traditional, biblical Christian view."
"So I think this is what caught everyone off guard, is the fact this young guy basically says 'I'm sorry I'm on it.' It's the opposite from what people expect."
He said in Hollywood, even when someone is displeased with his role or other parts in a production, the most he ever say is that he doesn't care whether people watch it.
The suddenness and completeness of the switch also surprised many, including those who blasted Jones for his perspective.
ABC speculated, "If we wants to stay in Hollywood, he may have some problems."
The network quoted Matt Webb Mitovich of TVLine.com: "Some may admire his strong opinion and indication of taste, while other prospective employers might worry that he'll sound off on their project if he deems it not up to snuff. Plus, his viewpoint is inevitable tainted by the fact that the has shown no problem collecting $300,000 for his role in disseminating what he has called 'filth.'"
Christopher Hudson, on whose ForeRunner Chronicles Jones' testimony was posted, said that a relationship with Jesus Christ "is not something you can leave at home or pack in your purse or put in your book bag. It's your life."
He said Jones will have a choice, telling ABC, "No man can serve two masters. It's one or the other."
Vitagliano said there are many other Christians in Hollywood, and they typically move into a project with their eyes open about what it means. Jones, however, started his work on the show as a child.
"It is a bit of an anomaly," he said. "I can't remember a case of someone who comes out and says, 'I'm on a show and it's filth.'"
He said when Jones was 9 or 10 years old, at the beginning of his work there, he probably didn't even understand some of the double meanings and innuendo.
Now it's different.
"Let's say he is seeing the show for the very first time with eyes that have been opened by the Holy Spirit," he said.
Jones, who has been reported attending a Seventh Day Adventist church, said many Christians "don't like to think about how deceptive the enemy is. He's been doing this for a lot longer than any of us have been around."
He continued, "There's no playing around when it comes to eternity."
The show's former star, Charlie Sheen, has been the focus of a number of show-related controversies, including in 2006 when his character belted out boasts of his sexual exploits to the tune of the Christmas carol "Joy to the World."


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NATICK - Police and firefighters are on the scene of a car crash on Rte. 9 eastbound near Boston Scientific in which a man was seriously injured.
First responders called for a medical rescue helicopter that was to land in the parking lot of the Kingdom Hall on Bacon Street shortly before midnight, according to radio transmissions. The man was ejected from the car, radio reports said.
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Hidden Disney Details - Buena Vista Street Mailboxes
There are dozens of Disney Details to discover along Buena Vista Street, Disney California Adventure Park's newly remodeled main thoroughfare. Hidden in a private entryway next to the Los Feliz Five & Dime is an apartment-style mailbox.
The nameplates on the personal mailboxes feature a few familiar names with Disney ties. From left to right the names read; S. Yoshiwara, E. Valiant, T. Ogelvie and P. Peabody.
The S. Yoshiwara mailbox is a tribute to Staci Rei Yoshiwara, a Disney fan and former cast member who passed away before Buena Vista Street's completion.
"This name is dedicated to a good friend and former Disney cast member who passed away during the creation of Buena Vista Street. Being a fan of Disney and knowing she'd never get to see Buena Vista Street, I felt it was only fitting she'd always be able to call it home."
- Brandon Kleyla, WDI Set Decorator
E. Valiant - Eddie Valiant from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). Valiant was the circus clown turned heroic cop, who then turned into a drunken detective after an evil cartoon dropped a safe on his brother. Eddie was played by real life actor Bob Hoskins, who starred alongside the animated Roger Rabbit. A bit too sexy and risque to be a traditional Disney feature, the Academy Award-winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit was released under Disney's Touchstone Pictures.
T. Ogelvie - Theodore Ogelvie, was Don Knotts' hapless character from Walt Disney Productions' The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) and its sequel, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1982). In the 1975 box office hit, Knotts teamed with comic actor Tim Conway, who co-starred as the dimwitted Amos Tucker. Together, Theodore and Amos were a pair of inept outlaws, bumbling their way through the Wild West.
P. Peabody - Officer Percival P. Peabody, one of the eccentric citizens from Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Officer Peabody is entrusted with Keeping the streets of Hollywood safe, one star at a time. (Percival P. Peabody photo courtesy of StudioCentral.com.)
The Walt Disney Pictures - Touchstone Pictures production, The Rocketeer (1991) is set in pre-World-War II Los Angeles. Looking to acquire advanced weaponry, Nazi spies steal a prototype jet pack from aviation mogul Howard Hughes. Despite the FBI, Nazi agents and local mobsters vying for the rocketpack, it ends up with stunt pilot Cliff Seacord. With technical help (and trepidation) from his best friend and mechanic, A. "Peevy" Peabody, Seacord straps the jet pack on to become the heroic Rocketeer.
Instead of a Florida based cop, the P. Peabody mailbox could belong to the Southern California-based mechanic from Bigelow's Air Circus. The Rocketeer is set in 1938, during Hollywood's Golden Age, so Cliff and Peevy would fit right into Buena Vista Street's 1920's & 30's theming. It would also explain who's been posting all of the Bigelow's flyers up and down Buena Vista Street.


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Metallica Rock 'Enter Sandman' for Mariano Rivera During Yankee Stadium Ceremony
The day after rocking New York City's famed Apollo Theater, Metallica made their way to another historic Big Apple venue when they showed up Sunday (Sept. 22) at Yankee Stadium to rock 'Enter Sandman' in honor of New York Yankees great Mariano Rivera, who is retiring at the end of this season.
Between the Apollo gig the night before and an elaborate retirement extravaganza set to honor the Yankees dominant pitcher on Sunday, there was buzz in the air that Metallica might play the Rivera ceremony — although it was never officially announced.
But after a bevy of Rivera's old teammates and family members were introduced near the pitcher's mound, Metallica appeared on a stage in center field and ripped their way through 'Enter Sandman' as Rivera walked from the outfield fence to the pitching mound. The live performance was more than fitting, as Rivera's entrance music has been 'Enter Sandman' since 1999.
After the their performance, which whipped the Yankee Stadium crowd into a frenzy, Metallica made their way down to home plate, where they presented Mariano Rivera with a custom amplifier that reads "Metallica 42 Sandman" in honor of the pitcher's uniform number. In addition, the San Francisco Giants, who played against the Yankees on Sunday, gave Rivera a custom guitar designed by Kirk Hammett and signed by baseball great Willie Mays.
Check out fan-filmed video of the Yankee Stadium performance below, followed by a link to our full recap of Metallica's Apollo Theater the night before.
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The audience for the Jamestown Community Piano Association's March 27 piano concert looked forward with great anticipation to hearing acclaimed Italian pianist Alessandra Tiraterra. Instead, the listeners were thrilled by a performance by the electrifying Russian pianist, Constantine Finehouse.
The scheduled performer for the piano association's March concert canceled two days before the event due to a sudden illness in her family. According to Janet Grant, the association quickly got on the Internet and found Finehouse, who was performing that night at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He e-mailed after midnight and said that he would be pleased to perform that Sunday. "And wow," Janet said, "what a performance! He got a standing ovation. The audience was buzzing with excitement throughout the reception following the concert."
The association's next concert is a Jamestown first—it is right after school so that students can easily attend. The concert is on Monday, April 11, at 3 p.m. at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church. Scheduled is the dynamic piano duo of Svetlana Belsky and Jennifer Maxwell. "The association wants to encourage more young people to attend live piano performances and to bring along their parents," Janet said. "Come see and hear what two women can do with one piano."
As always, these concerts are free.
Actors with the Jamestown Community Theatre are having a ball reenacting three old radio scripts that aired during the mid-1900s.
The three former broadcasts that the group is re-creating are "Baby Snooks and Daddy: Halloween Show," which was heard on Nov. 1, 1946; "I Saw Myself Running," which was from a weekly radio suspense show titled "Escape" with William Conrad as the announcer. That was broadcast on Nov. 22, 1953. Also, a comedy from the popular weekly series "Easy Aces Show" titled "Jane Thinks Mink" that aired Nov. 30, 1939.
Mary Wright, artistic director of the theatre, said, "We are having fun reading the scripts that are chock full of commercials, making sound effects and listening to original radio broadcasts such as 'The War of the Worlds.' Our laughter resounds throughout rehearsals as we mimic the dramatic and humorous lines in the scripts."
Robb Roach will be carrying a cargo of 1,000 ducks aboard his 18- foot Outlaw duck boat aptly named "Just Ducky" to Mackerel Cove on April 30. Assisted by Christopher Varrecchione, Robb will release the ducks and they will "swim" toward the beach where they will drop down a chute and their numbers recorded. The first 25 ducks to finish will win a prize.
It will all be part of the Great Duck Derby to raise funds to send the Lawn Avenues School's eighth graders on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Duck-numbered tickets are being sold by individual students or in groups outside local businesses on weekends. If you've missed them, e-mail email@example.com and she'll get the tickets to you.
Donations to the class have come in from Churchill and Banks, the Jamestown Fire Department, TCC, Nardolillo Funeral Home, Lila Delman, the Jamestown Parent-Teacher Organization, the Jamestown Education Foundation, Morneau & Murphy Attorneys, Rhode Island Novelty, Eric Archer and Trattoria Simpatico.
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The March 24 poser drew correct responses from Andrea von Hohenleiten, Elizabeth Mancini, Cheryl Fernstrom and Carol Baldwin, who said it is Sonny and Cher's "I Got You, Babe."
Kudos to Cameron Toppa who has been accepted to attend the University of Mississippi and its school of engineering in the fall. Ole Miss is his first choice of several schools to which he applied and was accepted. Cameron will be in the school's JumpStart program this summer to earn extra course credits before the semester begins on Aug. 22.
There'll be one island family rooting for the Ole Miss football team this fall.
John A. Murphy writes, "I nominate these country songs as most likely to generate a sing-along: 'Idaho Home' by Ronee Blakely, 'Wagon Wheel' by Old Crow Medicine Show and 'Lucille' by Kenny Rogers.
A close show-business friend told me that CBS is begging Charlie Sheen to return to the show.
Our March 17 poser prompted this note from Matt Bolles: "As an old remnant of the 'folkie' music generation, I offer a couple of points of interest about the St. Patrick's Day poser, one of my favorite songs to sing. The song is indeed often referred to as 'Will Ye Go Lassie Go' as that is the refrain, but I have always known it as 'Wild Mountain Thyme.'
"It was indeed recorded by the Clancy Brothers as well the Mc- Peake family of Belfast, and has since been recorded by many others, but it is a very old tune which many historians consider to be of Scottish origin, rather than Irish. Another note of interest is that the lyric quoted 'I will build my love a tower,' while very often sung that way, is found in older versions to be 'I will build my love a bower.'
"The bower is being built of tree boughs and vines and then covered with flowers as the lyric goes on to say. I do not offer this as a correction, but rather as evidence of the ongoing 'folk process' by which songs are always evolving and in the hope that others will find that process as fascinating as I do!"
Our apologies to Kath O'Neill who had e-mailed on March 25 that "Will Ye Go Lassie Go" is the refrain line from "Wild Mountain Thyme."
"'Wild Mountain Thyme' is the correct name of the song," she wrote.
The Jamestown Community Theatre, in collaboration with the Jamestown Historical Society's "Jamestown and the Silver Screen," will present the film "Rose Marie," starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, next Wednesday, April 13, at 6:45 p.m. in the meeting hall of the Jamestown library.
"Jamestown and the Silver Screen" is a yearlong event featuring actors, films and film industry associations that have had close relationships with the island. Many local organizations and businesses will sponsor the activities.
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NH's cooking: A lot of meth
December 16. 2012 5:59PM
The New Hampshire National Guard has a Civil Support Team. Its purpose is respond to calls involving weapons of mass destruction. It does that, in a way. It is most often called to handle meth labs, one of its members told this newspaper back in October.
The Lakes Region, where "On Golden Pond" was set, has its own drug task force. It is active.
Last Wednesday, police in Tilton arrested seven adults at a meth lab there. One of the adults was holding a 3-1/2-year-old boy in her lap just feet away from a highly explosive mix of chemicals that were being "cooked" to make the addictive drug. It was a familiar sight to the police. In Thornton a few weeks before, the drug task force found "the same kind of situation with a youth involved," Tilton Police Chief Robert Cormier said. That meth cooker was positioned four feet from a crib, police said.
In Bristol in September police found a meth lab in a small apartment building. In February a meth lab was discovered in a West Merrimack Street townhouse in Manchester. All of these labs were one-pot, or "shake and bake," operations. The process is so simple - a few ingredients shaken up, carefully, in a large soda bottle - that just about any idiot can do it. And many do. The process has led to a huge increase in the number of meth labs in the United States in the last few years.
In New Hampshire, these labs have become a serious problem in small towns. No longer do drug dealers need connections to drug cartels, gangs or big-city crime organizations. Videos online show how to make the stuff, and the ingredients can be found in any town with a drug store and hardware store.
Six years ago the U.N. World Drug Report crowned meth the most abused drug in the world, with 26 million users - equal to users of cocaine and heroin combined, as a PBS "Frontline" report noted. It is cheap, highly addictive, and spreading across New Hampshire. And this is just the beginning.
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Weaver, who had spent the first four seasons of his NFL career with the Seattle Seahawks, received a one-year deal. Lewis said the deal could be worth as much as $2.5 million.
"I looked at Philly as a great opportunity to play for a team that really needed somebody at my position," Weaver said during a conference call today.
Though Weaver had targeted Philadelphia as the place he wanted to be even before the start of free agency, it took three weeks for him to sign and there was a time period where it looked as if he might go elsewhere.
"We had several teams after us, but my agent called me last night and said Philadelphia was ready to do it, so now I'm here and I'm excited about it," Weaver said.
Lewis said Weaver had also received interest and even multi-year offers from other teams. Minnesota, Tampa Bay, Houston and Seattle had all expressed interest, Lewis said, but the agent and Weaver decided the Eagles were the best fit.
"When you look at the Eagles' fullback situation, they haven't had a true fullback since Jon Ritchie," Lewis said. "Leonard is not a one-dimensional fullback. He's a guy who can catch the ball, run the ball and block. He's a perfect fit for that offense. This is a team that was one game away from playing in the Super Bowl and a guy like Leonard might make the difference. That's why he chose Philadelphia."
Lewis said the hope is that Weaver, 26, will perform so well that the Eagles will want to extend his contract by the middle of next season.
"Once they see what they have, I think they'll want the opportunity to sign him to a long-term deal and, if not, he'll be a free agent again," Lewis said. "But I believe he'll be buying a home in Philadelphia. He's a solid, solid football player."
Lewis had 80 career carries 356 yards and one touchdowns in three seasons with the Seahawks. He missed the 2006 season because of injury. He also has 60 career catches for 547 yards and two touchdowns.
"I felt like ever since I came into the league I was an offensive weapon," Weaver said. "I pride myself on being versatile."
Weaver said he felt that versatility may have hurt him on the free-agent market because teams didn't know whether the 6-foot, 242-pounder was a fullback or a running back.
"I call myself a fullback," Weaver said. "I'm a guy who can block. I can go into a hole and hit people and I can go into a hole and run the football. I'm going to come in and do what they ask me to do. I'm looking to come in and lead block and open up some holes for (Brian) Westbrook. If they decide to give me the ball, that's a blessing. If not, you won't hear a word come out of my mouth."


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Lucasfilm executives expect retail sales of $1.5 billion or more for all kinds of merchandise from the coming movie, compared with $2 billion for "Episode I - The Phantom Menace," released in 1999, and $1.2 billion in retail sales three years later for "Episode II - Attack of the Clones." Believing they may have lost potential sales as a result of too little "Attack of the Clones" merchandise, they plan to ship more goods this time around, says Mr. Roffman.
My own midnight madness and the ensuing weekend's experiences do go against the grain of what's been discussed here. I actually ran across a number of parents with their kids in the stores picking out not only lightsabers, but new figures. And a lot of the kids knew exactly what they were looking for. Additionally, I've seen a semi-new class of collector: parents who are collectors who have gotten their kids into it as well. I saw at least half a dozen or more of these parent-child teams at Toys R Us that night. Things like that are definitely a welcome sight.
In fact, just this past Saturday I saw a little boy and his sister go "Wow, Chewbacca" then ask their mother if they could get it, and she just told them to put it back and off they went. I almost wanted to just buy it for them even though I had no idea who they were. Maybe I was just spoiled, but if I was being a "good boy", I think I could have talked my parents into one action figure on a shopping trip. I usually had enough allowance money on my own to pick one up, and can remember saving up for particular figures in the vintage days (Trenchcoat Han, Jedi Luke)....but as much as we will always take lower prices, I guess I don't think $5 is that much to give some joy to a child with a toy...especially when you aren't a collector and you're buying 20-50 of them
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Update – Lafayette Crash Victim Identified In I-10 Fatal Crash
Update: Lafayette police have released the identity of the man killed when he crashed Sunday while driving on I-10. 22-year-old Leonardo Andres of Henderson died after he lost control of his SUV, crashed into a guardrail, and rolled. A 20-year-old male passenger, whose name has not been released, remains hospitalized in stable condition.
The crash remains under investigation.
A Sunday afternoon crash leaves one male dead and another in the hospital in serious condition.
Lafayette Police Corporal Paul Mouton says police responded to the accident around 12:15 p.m. on I-10 at the I-49 interchange. Traffic investigators say, for unknown reasons, the person driving a red Ford Explorer lost control as he was driving east on I-10, struck a guardrail and rolled multiple times before landing between the east and westbound lanes.
Lafayette Police say the person who died was ejected from the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.
This caused police to close down the westbound lanes of I-10 (and the left lane of I-10 eastbound) and to divert traffic north on I-49. State Police cleared everything about two and a half hours after Lafayette Police arrived on the scene.


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The heart scan can tell if you're at higher risk of a heart attack or other problems long before you have any outward symptoms of disease. A heart scan is able to measure the amount of calcium in the walls of your coronary arteries, this information in combination with your health information, can help your doctor to assess your risk of coronary artery disease.
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An Engagement and An Opportunity
Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz – they're engaged, she confirmed it online ending weeks of speculation. Oh and by the way, she's launching her own clothing line… it comes out on April 22nd.
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Why are these f*ckers SO transparent??? How long can a marriage/engagement really last if it's exploited for professional purposes right off the get?
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NEW ORLEANS (WBRC) - For Morris Clairborne, there are very few surprises about the Alabama Crimson Tide.
"We pretty much know what they're going to do and they pretty much know what we're going to do."
The cornerback spoke Thursday to reporters in New Orleans as the undefeated Tigers prepare to play the Crimson Tide on Monday for the BCS National Championship game. LSU defeated LSU 9-6 during the regular season, Alabama's only loss.
Clairborne says the game will be good, but predictable.
"It's going to be a good game," Clairborne said. "I know they're going to try to get the ball to their playmaker, (Trent) Richardson, and going to try to run the ball, and we'll try to do the same. And we'll see the outcome."
Clairborne says the defensive line is very important to his success.
"They impact the games a lot for us," Clairborne said. "We kind of complement for each other on the back end, but all the credit goes to those guys for getting back there, making the quarterback do things that he doesn't want to do with the ball. We try to hold our man down as long as we can."
Defensive tackle Michael Brockers says defensive coordinator John Chavis does a great job preparing the team, but it's the players who have to execute.
"He motivates us to do what we have to do and he tells us it's a good scheme, but it's the players that are in the scheme that makes the defense what it is," Brockers said. "He tells us we're great players and we're playmakers also. I mean, just giving us that free reign over the defense to make plays, I feel that's a big part of our defense."
Chavis says he is very proud of his defense.
"These guys have worked so hard, and to watch them and be out there with them every day, you know, it's an emotional deal when they have great success," Chavis said. "I couldn't think of a better group of young men to be with. And certainly when you look at the LSU program and what they've done over the course of the last 12 years, I mean, it's amazing to see the kind of success."
Chavis knows the Crimson Tide will not be easily defeated again.
"They've got a great offensive line," Chavis said. "They've got a quarterback that runs their system well, and they're good enough to gain all the yardage that they need."
Chavis, however, knows the speed of his defense has been a key to success... and he looks forward to ending the season the same way they started it against Oregon.
"I love what I'm doing and love where I'm doing it, and being part of this program and with this group of young men we have this year is special," Chavis said.
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In January, Eran Ben-Joseph took over as the head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, succeeding Amy Glasmeier, who is stepping down after four years in the post to focus on teaching and research.
A professor of landscape architecture and planning, and most recently head of the Joint Program in City Design and Development in the School of Architecture + Planning, Ben-Joseph brings extensive experience as a city planner, urban designer and landscape architect in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States. He has led multi-disciplinary projects in Singapore, Barcelona, Santiago, Tokyo and Washington D.C.
He is the author of numerous articles, monographs and book chapters and has authored or co-authored five books including "Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities," "The Code of the City," "RENEW Town" and "Regulating Place." His most recent book, "ReThinking a Lot," exploring the history and potential future of the parking lot, was enthusiastically received by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, NPR and the BBC, among many others.
He is the recipient of the Wade Award for his work on Representation of Places — a collaborative project with the Media Lab — and the Milka Bliznakov Prize for his historical work on Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture. His current research focuses on the role of the built environment in the travel behavior of older adults, as well as its role in causing and/or exacerbating obesity, and the development of a model for community and housing design that strives for zero net energy, carbon neutrality and reduced ecological impacts.
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All things must evolve if they want to find a place in the future and in this distance skill game that is no different for the Robot Unicorn. Jump and Dash through the levels with Z and X catching butterflies that will plant huge stars in your path that you need to dash through and break. Once you have destroyed three stars you will evolve into another creature: the first one being a Robot Panda. Each time you evolve you will be transported into another environment fitting of that creatures original habitat. How many times can you evolve and keep up with evolution? Can you make it to the dragon which funny enough did not evolve well enough to make it to present day.. Komodo's do not count!
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