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Seve Ballesteros, the dashing, audacious force of golfing nature who zoomed from a fishing village in northern Spain to five major titles, No. 1 in the world and a pioneer's role in golf's European surge of the 1980s, died early Saturday. He was 54.
Ballesteros, who enjoyed such renown for his vivid shot-making that fellow pro Nick Faldo called him "golf's Cirque du Soleil," died of complications from brain cancer at his home in Pedrena, the town where he was born, his family announced on his website.
Since suffering dizziness and brief unconsciousness at the Madrid airport in October 2008, Ballesteros had undergone four operations to remove a malignant brain tumor. In announcing his condition that month, he cheerfully alluded to his latest, gravest need to play escapist.
He had shone at that art during a career that often saw him stray into golf course peril and, almost as often, craft some daring shot that mocked it. The knack drew him such raves as "the most imaginative player in golf" from two-time Masters champion Ben Crenshaw, who also said of Ballesteros, "You may think he's in trouble, but he's never in trouble."
Most famously, Ballesteros won the 1979 British Open at age 22 with a birdie he crafted on No. 16 despite teeing off into a temporary parking lot, where the ball landed 2 feet from a car.
From there, through two more British Open titles, two Masters victories and Ryder Cup supremacy, Ballesteros' name often turned up beside the adjective "swashbuckling." With his inarguable handsomeness, jet-black hair, dapper attire and unusual rations of verve and panache, he proved very popular, especially among British fans, who loved his expressive fearlessness. As the late Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray wrote, "He went after a golf course the way a lion goes after a zebra."
Such boldness arose from a childhood on the Bay of Biscay along Spain's north coast, where Ballesteros would obsessively practice on the beach or sneak onto the local course to hit shots amid trees beneath full moons.
Severiano Ballesteros was born April 9, 1957, the fourth son of a noted Spanish oarsman-turned-farmer and an adoring mother, and the nephew of the golfer Ramon Sota, who finished tied for sixth at the 1965 Masters. Three older brothers would play golf professionally.
At age 8, Ballesteros received a three-iron that nearly became an appendage. In his youth he would learn every shot using that club alone, and by the time he turned professional at 17 in 1974, his unusual arsenal overrode the leanness of his amateur experience, which included only five annual local caddies' tournaments.
In a whoosh of precocity at 19, he won the Order of Merit as the European tour's top golfer in 1976 and said hello to the planet during a single weekend in July. That's when he turned up at the British Open at Royal Birkdale speaking no English, staying at a bed-and-breakfast, finding a police officer for a caddie and starting off 69-69 to play the weekend paired with eventual champion Johnny Miller and finishing second alongside Jack Nicklaus.
Ballesteros won the 1979 British Open by shooting a 70 to U.S. Open champion Hale Irwin's 78 despite zigzagging the course with a torrent of getaways from rough, sand, spectator areas and that earthen car park. By 1980, he'd become the then-youngest Masters champion at 23, the first European Masters champion and the pathfinder from a then-belittled continent that would claim 10 of the next 19 green jackets. He'd led by 10, watched his advantage shrink to two, won by four and said, "I think I must have a very big heart."
Ballesteros won the Masters again in 1983, deflating the field by starting the final round birdie-eagle-par-birdie. Afterward he smilingly bristled at Americans who had pooh-poohed his abilities by saying, "One year I will come over here full time, to see how good I am."
He never became a regular on the U.S. PGA Tour, trying it once but feeling lonely, winning nine PGA titles all told.
In 1984, he won the British Open again, and epically. He defeated Tom Watson at St. Andrews with a yeoman par from the rough on the Road Hole, No. 17, plus a 15-foot birdie on No. 18 and a protracted fist pump that probably rates as his most durable image.
"The most excited I have ever been on a golf course," Ballesteros told Golf Digest in 2000.
And after his worst golf nightmare, a four-iron foray into the water on No. 15 that wrecked a two-shot lead during Nicklaus' golden 1986 Masters, he won the 1988 British Open, again at the Royal Lytham & St. Annes, where his all-grown-up 65 included only three missed fairways and won praise from Faldo as "the greatest round of golf I've ever seen."
Even at the promising golfing age of 31, Ballesteros had climbed his last major peak as a player.
But he was still to build his Ryder Cup legacy by captaining Europe to triumph in 1997 at Valderrama, Spain. It was jokingly said he had the only Formula One golf cart, seemingly managing to get to every crucial shot his players faced, offering advice, criticism and encouragement. Spanish player Ignacio Garrido said: "Seve wasn't just a captain. He was a father for us. Our hands held the clubs, but he played the shots."
Ballesteros' last major top-10 finish came at the 1991 British Open (ninth). The last time he made the cut in a major was at the 1996 Masters (43rd), and he stopped playing the U.S. Open and PGA Championship, where his best finishes had been third and fifth, respectively.
As the century turned, arthritis had assailed his long-troublesome back, and his game had declined such that he continually sought diagnosis, with some opining that all the searching had blurred his natural and self-made ingenuity. In 2004, he told Observer Sport magazine of London, "I will continue to play golf for as long as I can walk, but I've been bad for so long now that I don't remember how it feels to be good."
After turning 50, Ballesteros played one senior event but stopped there. He retired after the 2007 British Open, where Tiger Woods called him "a genius" and "probably the most creative player who's ever played the game."
Childhood inspiration Gary Player called him "the Arnold Palmer, charisma-wise, of Europe."
Colin Montgomerie said, "The club just looked right in his hands, always."
Faldo went for "Cirque du Soleil," citing the "passion, artistry, skill, drama."
Upon learning of Ballesteros' deteriorating condition, and only hours before his death, Spanish golfers Jose Maria Olazabal and Miguel Angel Jimenez — good friends of his — were in tears as they came off the El Prat golf course during second-round play at the Spanish Open on Friday. Olazabal and Ballesteros combined to form one of the greatest Ryder Cup pairs in history.
After he retired from playing, Ballesteros concentrated on his various business ventures, including golf course design. In his last year, his few appearances or public statements were usually in connection with his Seve Ballesteros Foundation to fight cancer.
In 2007, a girlfriend died in a car accident. In addition to his brothers, survivors include two sons and a daughter from his marriage to his former wife, Carmen Botin. The elder son, Baldomero, named for his paternal grandfather, at age 16 caddied for Ballesteros during his last appearance at a British Open (Hoylake, 2006), where he missed the cut but played creditably (74-77) and exposed his son to the adoration British fans had long held for "Seve."
The Associated Press was used in compiling this report.


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Buzzer Beaters: Major NFL Personnel Moves, Howard Returns to Orlando and More
Today's top sports stories:
A flurry of activity kicked off the NFL free-agency period, with the Eagles releasing cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, the big prize of the 2011 off-season, and the Bills releasing their quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick. [USA Today]
Dwight Howard, who forced his way out of Orlando this past off-season, will return to his former home of eight years Tuesday night, as his Lakers face the Magic. Howard claims he isn't nervous, but his teammate, Steve Nash, thinks otherwise. [ESPN L.A.]
The Dominican Republic roared back from a 4-0 deficit to beat Italy, 5-4, and maintain their perfect record at the World Baseball Classic. [HuffPo]
Penn State coughed up $8.1 million for the so-called Freeh Report, which detailed exactly what happened during the Jerry Sandusky scandal. That figure is part of a total of $41 the university has spent so far on related costs. [Deadspin]
A golfer in Illinois was just minding his own business, standing in the middle of the fairway, when a giant, 18-foot sinkhole opened up beneath him, swallowing him whole. "Then, all of a sudden, before I knew it, I was underground," he said. [Yahoo]

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Everyone is down on Tannenbaum and so am I. But given the fact that in most pro football organizations, the head coach tells the GM what he needs, I have to hold the Mouth equally responsible for the present condition of the Jets. Mouth says to Bean Counter--more defensive players. Bean counter listens (remember he is not a pro-personal guy, he was a contract guy) and acts accordingly.
The offense the Jets will put on the field this year will be mediocre at best. When you are all wringing your hands come December, remember that it takes a Bean Counter and a Mouth to Tango!
We get it dude, you hate this front office and coaching staff with a passion.
No need to keep making threads about it. Your point has been made.
Damn did I miss half the season already.
Mouth and Bean Counter, eh.
We couldn't do much in free agency as the budget is kind of tight. Hunter is here for that very reason. Eric Winston and the likes cost alot of money.
The success of this offense all rides on Sanchez. Either he steps up and shows that he's capable of being the player we drafted him to be, or he stays where he's at and we continue to have one of the worst offenses in the league until we find a legitimate QB.
Simple, really.
I Take a Wait and See Approach to the Offense . no one knows if Hill or Powell come out and are Super Stars or Duds or Sanchez and the Switch comes on. But i know the Offense will be more Efficent take more shots down the Field and Provide better scheme Protection for the Qb ...
expect 17-10 Games ... Pre-season is time for Optimism


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TRENTON�The Jones County Board of Commissioners and Jones County Board of Education appear to have reached an agreement on 2013-14 school funding in time to avoid a lawsuit.
TRENTON�The Jones County Board of Commissioners and Jones County Board of Education appear to have reached an agreement on 2013-14 school funding in time to avoid a lawsuit.
A compromise agreement on school funding offered by commissioners Monday was accepted by the board of education at a noonTuesday meeting. The deal will give the schools another $56,000 for operation in the 2013-14 fiscal year, said Jim Hicks, attorney for JonesCountycommissioners.
�In exchange, the school board has agreed not to pursue a budget challenge for the next fiscal year,� Hicks said. �The documents are still circulating at this time, but both boards have approved the settlement.�
Signatures from Jones Board of Education Chairman Billy Griffin and Jones Board of Commissioners Chairman Frank Emory were expected as soon as that process is complete, but a staff member for the Jones school board�s lawyer, Kathleen Tanner Kennedy of Raleigh, said the school board would have no comment until it received the final signed document.
Speaking for the school board, Griffinwrote a letter last week notifying commissioners that it was invoking the state�s school budget dispute mechanism for formal mediation.
He said, �The board of education does not wish to file suit to obtain additional funding for the schools. We hope you will work with us in the statutory dispute resolution process to avoid the necessity for litigation.�
Griffinsaid the county appropriated $1.4 million for current expenses and $50,000 for capital outlay in the budget passed June 18. However, the school board had requested $1,494,659 for current expense and $100,000 for capital outlay.
The total appropriation is $65,000 greater than the current year, but 5.7 percent less for current expense and 50 percent less for capital outlay than requested.
�The cut in funds requested will make it difficult to operate and maintain adequate and competitive schools,� Griffinsaid, particularly since the school system already expects to return $291,188 in funds reduction to the state.
Griffinsaid the money appropriated by the county �is not sufficient to support a system of free public schools in JonesCounty� and asked for a joint meeting of the two boards.
A July 11 meeting of both boards was set to attempt resolution. With an agreement reached, that meeting is now canceled, Hicks said.
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text: You're familiar with Hobo With a Shotgun by now, aren't you? What started as a joke trailer in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse was later turned into a real movie that should be hitting theaters next month. Until then, you're strongly encouraged to get your homeless vigilante on with the 8-bit HWaS iOS game. The three dollar price tag is kind of a bummer, but can you really quantify justice? [iTunes]


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. -- The Coker women's basketball team beat the formally undefeated Trojans of Mount Olive on Saturday (Dec. 15) afternoon, 78-64 in a Conference Carolinas matchup. With the win the Cobras improve to 5-2 on the year, while the Trojans fall to 6-1.
The first half proved to be an even competition, as both teams exchanged points closely. The Cobras however, could not take the lead and went into the locker room down 35-30.
It was not until late in the second half that the Cobras were able to take their second lead of the game since the scoreboard read 2-0 in favor of the home team. A 12-0 offensive surge from the Cobras allowed them to take a 54-53 lead with just seven minutes remaining in the game.
From there the Cobras never looked back as the defense held the Trojan offense to only 11-points for the remaining seven minutes.
In her season debut, junior forward Autumn Lau dropped a game high 24-points to lead both teams in scoring. Alongside Lau was her sister Amber, who tallied 19-points and Angie Lawrence who contributed 16.
The Trojans were lead by forward Tamara Nesmith with 21-points, and Kirksten Mitchell who tallied 11. Also reaching double-digit scoring was Alyssa Leub with 10.
Coker has little time to celebrate the victory, with their next game coming on Sunday (Dec. 16) against the visiting Knights of St. Andrews. Tip-off is scheduled for a 2 p.m. start time.
McDonalds Player of the Game: Autumn Lau.


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Service Fabric Predictive Backend Sample
This sample has been archived and is no longer recommended/supported for use in production environments. This repository will be deleted on 6/20/2019.
This repository contains a sample project for Azure Service Fabric, the next-generation platform as a service offering from Microsoft.
This document walks you through how to deploy a the Predict Backend application, which demonstrates how to integrate the real time flow of orders from an e-commerce site and leverage Service Fabric to provide Stock Trend predictions. The following key concepts are demonstrated in this sample:
- Event streams: ingestion of data streams with ingress point exposed through Web Sockets.
- High-throughput service-to-service communication (using web sockets)
- Machine learning on real-time data streams
Visual Studio 2015
Before starting, make sure you have the Service Fabric development environment setup on your machine. Detailed instructions on how to setup the development environment can be found here https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/service-fabric-get-started/
This solution is built against Service Fabric 184.108.40.20694 (install using web platform installer by searching for "Service Fabric") Note - For full end to end run you will need to set up the Azure ML dependency, but the sample runs with "random" data generated to improve the F5 experience. Please see "Setting up the Azure ML Dependency" if you want to deploy the full version including the back end Azure ML Service.
Download and building the source
Download the source and verify that you can build it in your local development environment by right clicking the DataStreaming solution and selecting Rebuild Solution. The solution uses the NuGet package manager to download and install its dependencies automatically.
Deploying the Solution to a Service Fabric Cluster - Right click on the PredictiveBackend Service Fabric application and select Publish - Select either your local cluster or your cloud deployment (requires that you have access to an Azure based Service fabric cluster). For the purposes of these instructions we'll assume you are deploying to a local dev box Service Fabric cluster - Click Publish and validate the application deploys successfully. - Open Service Fabric Explorer and validate that the cluster and the PrectiveBackendType application and all sub-services are healthy
Run The Test Client
Open DataStreaming\Tests\PublicGateway.Test\bin\x64\Debug and run PublicGateway.Test.exe. If you run it with no command line argument parameters in a command prompt window it provides instructions on how to run it in one of 3 modes
Purchase: place orders over the Web API Controller
Reorder: reorder specified stock
Stream: Uses web sockets to place orders
Run The Web Page
Once the solution is deployed we provide two views implemented using Angular and hosted in the PublicGateway stateless service
- Products in stock - Real time updates http://localhost:3251/ - Aggregated view of stock trend predictions http://localhost:3251/StockAggregator.html note there is a link to this from the main page
Setting Up Azure ML
The default implementation of the AzureML client is a mocked out implementation that generates a random value. This setting is determined by the file: src\DataStreaming\StockTrendPredictionActor\PackageRoot\Config\Settings.xml
if you open this file you should see a section AzureML, which contains Parameter Client with value "Mocked". If you change this value to "Azure" then you will also need to update the following two values AzureMlApiUrl AzureMlKey
This section will talk you through how to set up the fully functioning Azure ML model that this sample can integrate with
Azure Machine Learning – Stock Re-order Prediction
Azure Machine Learning is a useful tool to make predictions from your data. It provides a managed cloud based solution for predictive analytics solutions that is both easy to use and incredibly powerful. We have provided a sample experiment to use as part of this E-Commerce example that will make predictions on whether stock should be re-ordered based on historical consumption rates and stock levels amongst other features. To set this up perform the following steps
- In a browser navigate to ? http://manage.windowsazure.com
- Select an appropriate subscription
- Select New
- Select Data Services -> Machine Learning -> Quick Create
- Enter a name for the workspace, select an appropriate Location and Subscription and create a new storage account that the workspace will use to store its resources
- Click Create An ML Workspace to complete this step
- In a Browser navigate to the URI: http://gallery.azureml.net/Details/8c0cef5b004b4e23b2b7fd2b34c474c8
- Select Open In Studio, this will open a new dialogue, select the Region in which you created the workspace and the newly created workspace itself, Click Ok
- The experiment will be imported into your workspace
- Click Run to run the experiment
- The experiment should run successfully without error
- Once the experiment has been run click the Set Up Web Service button
- This will generate two new objects in the experiment, a web service input and output
- Reconnect the input element to the second input of the Score Model object
- Reconnect the output element to the output of the Score Model object
- Re-run the experiment and once completed click the Deploy Web Service button
- The web service will then be deployed and a new view shown
- To test the web service click the "Test" button
- A new dialogue will open, enter some values and click Ok (For example Choose Item 742, Set Consumption Rate to 4.1, Set Average Time Between Purchases to 54000, Average Purchase Size to 3.1, Stock Level to 25 and Total Orders to 110). Click Ok
- Once the test has completed you can view the results, in this case the experiment predicted stock will need to be replenished with 62% certainty
- Copy the ML API Key for the Web Service to the Service Fabric Solution in the location described at the beginning of this section (settings file in Stock Trend Prediction Actor)
- Copy the web service Request URI click Request/Response under Default Endpoint on the Dashboard for the Service in ML Studio. Importantly remember to delete "&details=true" from the string you copy. Example URI shown below. https://europewest.services.azureml.net/workspaces/f5bffed8193647de88b3f1123da21a2a/services/b76e4b0cf7fc49a69b81619e9eadedc0/execute?api-version=2.0&details=true Note reminder delete from &details=true before pasting in settings.xml


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When you have 10 draft picks, i trust Pete and Schneider to find some gems in the 4th and 5th round but they are absolute money in the top 2 draft rounds getting players like Earl, Okung, Bobby Wager, and Carpenter (if he can stay healthy). Im still not quiet sold on Irvin though.
Or would you like to see some 6th and 7th rounders being traded up for some 3rd -5th rounders where they have had alot of success also.


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(Quincy, IL) – The importance of successfully transitioning dairy cows from pregnancy to lactation has been well documented. With more than 50 percent of periparturient cows experiencing hypocalcemia, dairy experts remind producers about the importance of diet management to optimize health and lactation performance.
David Beede, Ph.D., professor of dairy nutrition and management, Department of Animal Science at Michigan State University, discussed the benefits of using a diet before calving with low or negative dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) to increase blood calcium after calving. Dr. Beede made his comments during the Pre-Conference Symposium in February at the Southwest Nutrition and Management Conference at the University of Arizona in Tempe, Ariz.
"If we don't take preventive measures to manage blood calcium around parturition, a cascade of metabolic problems can lead to secondary health issues, impaired immune function, reduced milk production and poor reproductive performance," Dr. Beede said. He noted that subclinical hypocalcemia is a particular threat because cows do not display obvious signs of milk fever. As a possible strategy, he recommended more routine monitoring to identify subclinical hypocalcemia (blood calcium concentration ranging from 8.6 to 5.5 mg/dl) in herds with unacceptable incidences of transition health disorders.
Dr. Beede noted that the use of commercial anion supplements, rather than anionic salts, is more popular now than in the past due to their ease of use and improved palatability over pure anionic salt sources. He also pointed out that supplementing vitamin D during the close-up period (three weeks prior to calving) decreased the incidence of hypocalcemia in dairy cows with greater susceptibility.
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May 21: Colorado Parks and Wildlife rangers killed a 2-year-old male bear in Eben G. Fine Park after it reportedly broke into two homes in search of food. The bear was tranquilized and removed from a tree in the park, then euthanized. Some neighbors questioned whether wildlife officials killed the correct bear.
Sept. 6: Colorado Parks and Wildlife rangers killed a previously tagged bear in Columbia Cemetery. The 180- to 200-pound bear's presence had caused nearby Flatirons Elementary School to go on lockdown earlier in the day. When the bear did not head toward the foothills in the evening, rangers put down the bear.
Sept. 9: A massive 590-pound male bear was killed near Flatirons Elementary around 10:30 a.m. Wildlife officials said the bear had a long history of going through trash, including knocking down fences to get at food. He had been relocated to near the Wyoming border several years ago but quickly returned to Boulder.
Sept. 30: Wildlife officials killed a mother bear who had been tagged in 2011 and had been seen with her two cubs numerous times in Boulder's University Hill and Chautauqua neighborhoods this summer. The sow bear swiped at a dog in a yard near Cascade Avenue and 14th Street on Sept. 18. Wildlife officials believe she was bedding in the yard of that residence and had become territorial. The two cubs were relocated to the Granby area.
A recent spate of bear deaths — including, most recently, a mother bear killed in the Chautauqua neighborhood Monday night — has led some City Council members to ask that Boulder expedite consideration of requiring bear-resistant trash cans in some neighborhoods.
Boulder officials have considered requiring the cans before, but many residents have objected to the increased cost, particularly those on fixed incomes or who already take measures to prevent bears from getting into trash.
The city scrapped a plan last year to do a pilot program with bear-resistant trash cans because they cost too much. The program's budget would have covered cans for just a few blocks, not enough to make a measurable difference.
Instead, Boulder officials have been conducting education campaigns about bears and trash and doing increased monitoring and ticketing in an area south of Pleasant Street, north of Baseline Road, west of Ninth Street to the city limits.
The city's urban wildlife conservation staff had planned to make recommendations on policy changes sometime in 2014.
However, after the killing Monday of a mother bear who had become a bit of a Boulder wildlife celebrity this summer, several residents asked the City Council to take stronger action to stop people from putting trash out in alleys.
Several council members, including Lisa Morzel and Macon Cowles, said they want the council to take action sooner.
"I cannot tolerate one more bear being killed, and I intend to bring this up," Morzel said. "It's so sad. These bears are here because we have displaced them, and we are inviting them (with available trash)."
Cowles said the killing of the sow bear "has pushed me over the top."
Residents with curbside trash pickup can't put their cans out until the morning of pickup, but there are no similar restrictions on alleyways in Boulder.
Residents are supposed to take precautions so that wildlife cannot get into their trash. Code enforcement officers have issued more than 600 notices of violation this year alone.
City Manager Jane Brautigam said it can be difficult to know to which home a tipped trash can belongs, and code enforcement officers need to respond to other complaints as well.
Brenda Lee, who started the Boulder Bear Coalition, said the killing of the sow bear hits an emotional note because it orphaned two cubs, but every bear death hits hard.
Lee said requiring bear-resistant trash cans would make enforcement easier.
"Education works some, but it's just not effective, and if you look at other cities that have tried education alone, it's not enough for people to make a change," she said.
She noted that University Hill has high turnover among the student population, so education efforts have limited impact.
Councilman Ken Wilson said it will take more than locking trash cans to fix the trash problem in a neighborhood where many landlords don't pay for enough trash capacity for their residents and bins are often overflowing days before pickup.
"This will not be easy," he said.
Now, residents can request a bear-resistant trash can from Western Disposal. That costs $10 more a month. The fee covers the extra work to manually open the trash can and Western's capital cost of buying and replacing the cans.
Western Disposal President Frank Bruno said the company is open to working with the city and met with wildlife conservation officials Monday, before the most recent bear was killed.
If the cans were required for a large number of households — some people have suggested requiring the cans west of Broadway — Bruno said it's likely there would be economies of scale that would lower the cost.
In a survey of residents in western Boulder neighborhoods, they were nearly evenly divided on whether they would willingly pay more for trash service to have bear-resistant cans.
Lee said people in Boulder have an option of trash haulers and should research their options. She bought her own bear-resistant cans and doesn't pay an additional fee to her hauler.
Lee sells bear-resistant cans at cost through her group's website, boulderbearcoalition.org.
Bruno said the advantage of using Western is that the company will replace a damaged can at no extra charge.
Bear-resistant cans cost around $200.
Some Boulder residents have suggested that people should not call wildlife officials about the presence of bears to avoid them being put down.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said it's always at the discretion of the person who sees the bear to decide whether to call.
However, bears in urban areas can present a public safety concern, she said.
"If I were in that neighborhood, and people didn't call, and someone in my family were hurt …" Churchill said. "I don't want to overstate that because I don't want people to be scared of bears, but there is a public safety issue."
There have been three fatal bear attacks in Colorado since 1960. The most recent, near Ouray in 2009, involved a woman who had been feeding bears for years.
There have been more than 60 attacks resulting in injuries during that time period. Those range from wounded bears who attacked the hunters who shot them to bears who attacked sleeping campers in their tent, even though those campers took precautions like hanging their food away from the tent.
"I don't think we have evolved to the point where we can have predators living in our backyards," Churchill said, stressing that she didn't mean Boulder's figurative backyard of the nearby mountains but rather the individual backyards of city residents. "It's not appropriate habitat. It's not good bear habitat. They get territorial."
Lee said she would like the state to find alternatives to killing bears, but she agrees they can't stay in town.
"We don't want a 600-pound bear wandering around a neighborhood with an elementary school," she said. "I'm not saying the bear should be killed, but that's not a healthy situation."


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Game On! Sports Schedule for February 22-24, 2013
It's not often the NHL can take center stage in the middle of an otherwise dreary February weekend, but the Chicago Blackhawks are making sure that's exactly the case.
Tonight, the Blackhawks will try to set the NHL record for most games with at least one point to start a season. Chicago (13-0-3) currently shares ownership of the record with the 2006-07 Anaheim Ducks, which went on to win the Stanley Cup. Standing in the Blackhawks' way: the San Jose Sharks, who are playing some decent hockey themselves.
Here's the entire weekend sports schedule. All times Eastern:
Friday, February 22
New York at Toronto 7 p.m.
Denver at Washington 7 p.m.
Chicago at Charlotte 7 p.m.
Detroit at Indiana 7 p.m.
Houston at Brooklyn 7:30 p.m.
Sacramento at Atlanta 7:30 p.m.
Orlando at Memphis 8 p.m.
Dallas at New Orleans 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Oklahoma City 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Boston at Phoenix 9 p.m.
Portland at Los Angeles Lakers 10:30 p.m.
San Antonio at Golden State 10:30 p.m. (ESPN)
NCAA Men's Basketball Top 25
Saint Louis at (15) Butler 7 p.m. (ESPNU)
Florida at Pittsburgh 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Nashville 8 p.m.
San Jose at Chicago 8:30 p.m.
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Denver at Charlotte 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Orlando 7 p.m.
Miami at Philadelphia 7:30 p.m.
Indiana at Detroit 7:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Milwaukee 8:30 p.m.
Utah at Los Angeles Clippers 10:30 p.m.
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(2) Miami (FL) at Wake Forest 1 p.m.
San Diego at (3) Gonzaga 7 p.m.
Arkansas at (5) Florida 7 p.m. (ESPNU)
(11) Georgetown at (8) Syracuse 4 p.m. (CBS)
TCU at (9) Kansas 4 p.m.
Seton Hall at (10) Louisville 12 p.m.
Washington State at (12) Arizona 3 p.m. (Fox Sports Net)
(13) Kansas State at Texas 8 p.m.
(14) Oklahoma State at West Virginia 2 p.m. (ESPN2)
(16) New Mexico at (22) Colorado State 4 p.m. (NBC Sports Network)
(17) Marquette at Villanova 6 p.m. (ESPN, ESPN2)
Southern Miss at (21) Memphis 1 p.m. (Fox Sports Net)
Stanford at (23) Oregon 8 p.m.
(24) Virginia Commonwealth at Xavier 2 p.m. (CBS Sports Network)
New Jersey at Washington 12 p.m.
Winnipeg at Philadelphia 1 p.m.
Phoenix at Edmonton 3:30 p.m.
Colorado at Los Angeles 4 p.m.
New York Islanders at Buffalo 7 p.m.
New York Rangers at Montreal 7 p.m.
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Columbus at St. Louis 8 p.m.
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Minnesota at Calgary10 p.m.
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Cleveland at Miami 6 p.m.
Sacramento at New Orleans 6 p.m.
Memphis at Brooklyn 7 p.m. (ESPN)
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San Antonio at Phoenix 8 p.m.
Boston at Portland 9 p.m.
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(4) Michigan State at (18) Ohio State 4 p.m. (CBS)
Boston College at (6) Duke 2 p.m.
Illinois at (7) Michigan 1 p.m. (ESPN)
(20) Pittsburgh at St. John's 12 p.m.
Cincinnati at (25) Notre Dame 2 p.m. (CBS)
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Winnipeg at New Jersey 5 p.m.
Vancouver at Detroit 5 p.m.
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A Brief History of Antrim
The following history of the James A. Tuttle Library is excerpted from
A Stroll Through Antrim's Changing Landscape, South Village
, written in 2000 by the fifth-graders of Great Brook School.
The library is a Colonial Revival style building with a wooden double door in the front and a low-pitched hip roof. The walls are brick and the foundation is stone. It has had no major changes since it was built in 1908. The building was designed by Edwin R. Clark of Lowell, Massachusetts, and payment vouchers indicate it was probably built by James Whitlet.
When James A. Tuttle died, he gave the $12,000 to the town for a new library. After a lot of fighting about whether or not building and maintaining a library would be too expensive, the town decided to add $1000 to Tuttle's money to establish a free public library. Previously, people had to pay $1.50 a year to use the library maintained by "The Antrim Library Association."
The library maintained a Bible. Whenever someone in the town was born, married, or died, they put the names in the Bible.
Children at one time could not talk in the library. All children's books were on shelves under the windows. In the 1930s, Nancy Drew and similar series were popular.
The Antrim Woman's Club met upstairs. the women had to wear fancy hats which were adorned with feathers, glitters, and other decorations.
The second floor now houses the Antrim Historical Society.
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The $900 billion tax package negotiated by the White House and Republican leaders has passed a lame-duck Congress. The bill's passage came with a generous dose of rancor.
Many House Democrats were unhappy when it was revealed the deal included another two years of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans along with generous estate tax revisions (providing a $5 million exemption and maximum rate of 35 percent). An amendment to pull the estate tax portion of the legislation failed on a 233 to 194 vote.
On the Republican side, legislators anxious to cut government spending, and goaded by the Tea Party, were displeased with the bill's Obama-pushed stimulus spending. In the end, the bill passed the House 277 to148.
"The tax packages signed by President Obama will reauthorize ethanol tax credits and reinstate the biodiesel tax credit, which will help bolster efforts to transition our country to a clean energy economy," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "Ethanol and biodiesel production is critical to continuing the growth of our domestic fuel industry that is reducing our dependence on foreign oil while creating green jobs from renewable sources and adding opportunities for people in rural communities throughout the country.
"The tax package will also extend tax incentives through 2011 for farmers, ranchers and forest owners who voluntarily conserve their lands through donation of a conservation easement. Providing this tax incentive will increase conservation of our working lands and, in so doing, support our rural economy. As part of the President's America's Great Outdoors Initiative, USDA, the Department of Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality held listening sessions across the country to hear Americans ideas on what we could do to advance conservation in this country. Providing tax incentives for working lands conservation was one of the ideas we heard repeatedly from landowners and conservationists during those listening sessions."
For many agriculture groups, passage of the "Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010" was welcome. Besides the aforementioned estate tax changes, the bill also provided extensions of biofuel tax incentives (lobbied for heavily by corn, soybean and ethanol interests) and included lower capital gains and income taxes.
Significant achievement
"Retroactive extension of the biodiesel tax credit through Dec. 31, 2011, represents a significant legislative achievement on a key ASA priority," said Alan Kemper, American Soybean Association (ASA) President and soybean farmer from Lafayette, Ind. With the biodiesel tax credit defunct for 349 days along with the resulting loss of some 40,000 jobs, "soybean farmers greatly appreciate the work of Congress and the (Obama) Administration to get this legislation passed before the end of the year."
In a statement, the ASA claims the $1 per-gallon biodiesel tax incentive "is structured in a manner that makes biodiesel more competitive with petroleum diesel fuel in the market place. Absent the tax incentive, biodiesel is more expensive than conventional diesel fuel."
2010 biodiesel production decreased over 35 percent from 2009 levels. Further "the biodiesel tax credit has a direct impact on jobs and is critical to supporting the biodiesel industry, a major market for U.S. soybean oil and a key factor in supporting domestic soybean prices" recently.
"It's been a long process and ASA has worked tirelessly since the tax credit's expiration to get it reinstated," Kemper said. "ASA farmer-leaders have met with members of Congress on numerous occasions, supported by ASA members, the National Biodiesel Board, and supporters who have responded … by calling and emailing their representatives in an effort to get a retroactive extension of the biodiesel tax credit passed."
There is little fence-straddling regarding the legislation. Calling the tax bill "fundamentally unjust," Kate McMahon of Friends of the Earth charged Congress had "slipped a wasteful $6 billion giveaway to the dirty corn ethanol industry into this bill.
"An unprecedented coalition of taxpayer, libertarian, environmental, humanitarian, industry, agricultural, faith and progressive advocates united to oppose the extension of corn ethanol subsidies, but Congress lavished this gift on the corn ethanol industry anyway. This wasted money will line the pockets of polluting corporations while American families can barely afford to put food on the table."
Unsurprisingly, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) – which has long said extension of the ethanol blender's credit and estate tax reform was at the top of its agenda — was unmoved by environmentalists' arguments. Failure to renew the tax breaks "would have done much to harm our nation's rural economy and the future of America's farms," said Bart Schott, NCGA president and North Dakota corn farmer.
"The estate tax reform will allow greater flexibility when planning for the future and farmers won't have to worry about losing their land to pay an inheritance tax," Schott said. "Farmers now have a better ability to pass their land onto the next generation and we can keep America's farms in our families."


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Eight-Year-Old Dies Following Construciton Site Crash
According to reports, an eight-year-old girl that was involved in an auto accident Thursday night in Sioux Falls has died.
Police told the Argus Leader an unknown medical condition caused Michelle Lee of Sioux Falls to black out and drive her 2009 Toyota Camry into a construction site. The car then struck a construction trailer.
Lieutenant Jerome Miller told KSFY-TV:
An off-duty police officer witnessed the accident. Miller said a 2009 Toyota Camry was westbound on 26th Street. After it proceeded past Sertoma Avenue it veered off the roadway, driving through a chain link fence before it struck a gooseneck trailer in a construction site. Miller said the crash ended several hundred feet away from the road.
The child, whose name has not been released, died from injuries sustained in the crash.
The accident happened just before 8 PM at the Prairie west Branch Library construction site at 26th Street and Discovery Avenue.
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A partnership between real estate investment companies from Denver and Atlanta has closed on another industrial purchase in Oakhaven.
Operating as 3884 Crowfarn Drive LLC, Denver-based Amstar and Atlanta-based Huntington Industrial Partners bought a 158,175-square-foot industrial facility at 3810 Crowfarn Drive for $1.2 million.
The entity bought the Class B warehouse in a Feb. 21 limited warranty deed from Crowfarn Drive LP, which had acquired the property in 2006 for $4 million.
Built in 1974, the warehouse sits on 7.1 acres along the north side of Crowfarn Drive, east of Getwell Drive near Memphis International Airport. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2012 appraisal was $2.3 million.
Amstar and Huntington Industrial Partners also closed recently on an industrial portfolio whose seven parcels include 400,000 square feet of warehouse space on 28 acres along Outland Center Drive in Oakhaven.
Operating as Outland Center Drive LLC, the companies bought the properties Feb. 21 for $11.8 million from Outland Center Drive LP.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
– Daily News staff
Dewanna Lofton has accepted Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s appointment to public information officer for the city of Memphis.
Lofton's resignation of her position as director of communications and alumni engagement at Leadership Memphis is effective March 15. She started with the nonprofit in September.
Lofton's past work experience includes being a business writer for The Commercial Appeal; senior account supervisor for McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations; manager of internal communications for Smith & Nephew; PR/communication consultant for Medtronic Spine & Biologics; and certified life and career coach for InnerScope Life & Career Coaching.
Leadership Memphis now has four communications positions available for new hires.
– Sarah Baker
Memphis City Council members delayed Tuesday, March 5, final votes on an ordinance to put a half-percent sales tax hike to Memphis voters sometime before Sept. 30 and a resolution outlining how the estimated $47 million in revenue from the tax hike would be used.
The delay comes as details are worked out on how to provide the pre-kindergarten access that $27 million of the revenue would be used to provide. The remaining $20 million would be used to roll back the city property tax rate by 20 cents in the new fiscal year. Final votes are scheduled for the April 2 council meeting.
In other action, the council approved on third and final readings two long-delayed ordinances that allow the city to impound or put a parking boot on vehicles whose drivers dump tires illegally. The ordinances also provide for a $50 fine for violating several different parts of the city code that forbid tire dumping. The delay in final consideration came as attorneys for the city reviewed and fine tuned some of the specific provisions.
The council also gave final approval Tuesday to an ordinance creating a Memphis Tree Board, an advisory board of citizens serving without pay who will advise the city on trees in public spaces including city parks.
And the council approved the reappointment of Jerry Collins as Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division president.
– Bill Dries
Launch Tennessee, a public-private group focused on supporting the development of high-growth companies in Tennessee, has tapped a new commercialization director.
Jim Stefansic will be responsible for overseeing all of Launch Tennessee's commercialization efforts and strengthening the state's tech-focused new venture creation. His predecessor stepped down from the role full-time in September 2011 to join a Nashville diagnostics startup.
Prior to joining Launch Tennessee, Stefansic co-founded Pathfinder Therapeutics Inc., a spinoff of his research at Vanderbilt University.
– Andy Meek
FAA Federal Credit Union is moving its retail branch at 3920 Whitebrook Drive to its existing Centennial Drive location in Southeast Memphis.
The credit union's operations department will remain on Whitebrook. The change is effective April 8.
FAA Federal Credit Union CEO R. Todd Vanderpool said a recent evaluation of the credit union's branch locations and member banking preferences led to the decision to move the retail banking center.
House Speaker Beth Harwell has rescued a bill to allow supermarket wine sales by casting the deciding vote in a subcommittee where the measure faced defeat.
Harwell, a Nashville Republican, is allowed to cast a vote in any committee, but rarely does so. But she sat in on the House Local Government Subcommittee on Wednesday and angered liquor store owners gathered in the hallway by casting a deciding vote against an attempt to put the bill off until July 2014.
The bill sponsored by Rep. Jon Lundberg of Bristol would allow cities and counties to hold referendums on whether to allow wine to be sold in supermarkets and convenience stores.
The companion bill last week also cleared its first Senate committee last week by a single vote.
– The Associated Press
The Mississippi County Planning and Development Committee has signed off on $14.5 million in funding for the proposed $1.1 billion Big River Steel mill to be built near Osceola, Ark.
The committee approved a resolution Tuesday to appropriate the money from the county's economic development tax. The measure still needs approval from the county's finance committee and the full quorum court.
Mill developers say 2,000 construction workers would be needed to build the mill, which promises to employ more than 500 people.
The project is contingent on the legislature's approval of $125 million in bonds to help finance the project.
The Jonesboro Sun reports that the Mississippi County Quorum Court plans to vote on the proposal at its March 26 meeting.
Republican state lawmakers are proposing legislation to create an inspector who would examine operations within Tennessee's higher education systems.
The legislation scheduled in the House State Government Subcommittee on Wednesday would create the Office of Higher Education Ombudsman within the office of the state Comptroller of the Treasury. It also would establish the position of Higher Education Inspector General within the ombudsman's office, which is estimated to cost $504,300, according to a legislative summary of the bill.
The salary and benefits alone for the inspector general's position is expected to cost $123,000.
The person's job would be to "examine financial and policy compliance" within the University of Tennessee and state Board of Regents systems and annually report to the chairs of the education committees in the House and Senate.
The ombudsman could function as the inspector general, "unless the comptroller finds that responsibilities would be handled more efficiently by two separate individuals," according to the summary.
In this case, sponsors of the ombudsman legislation say such a position is needed because of recent things that have happened within higher education, even though they declined to specify.
The Board of Regents oversees six universities, including the University of Memphis. It also oversees 13 community colleges and 27 technology centers.
The University of Tennessee system has campuses in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Martin; the Health Science Center in Memphis; state Institutes of Agriculture and Public Service; and the Space Institute in Tullahoma.
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Antiques Roadshow has finally caught its "Great White Whale," a dusty family heirloom worth $1 million.
The PBS show, which goes from town to town encouraging locals to bring in musty collectibles for appraisal, had its first piece ever appraised at seven figures. While the show was being taped in Raleigh, N.C., a woman brought in a Chinese carved jade piece passed down from her father. Experts said it could garner as much as $1.7 million.
"For 13 years, we've been hoping to feature a million-dollar appraisal on 'Antiques Roadshow;' it's been our 'Great White Whale,'" said the show's executive producer, Marsha Bemko.
The million dollar antique was four pieces of jade and celadon from the Chien Lung Dynasty, which was in power from 1736 to 1795. The set includes a large bowl that was crafted for the emperor. It was passed down to her from her father, who brought the items while stationed in China during the 1930's and 1940's as a military liaison.
Asian arts appraiser James Callahan said the pieces were not made for tourists, as indicated by the fine quality and a mark at the bottom of the jade bowl that translates to "by Imperial Order."
While this is the first million dollar appraisal for the American version of the show, the BBC's version of the show turned one up last November. That piece was a scale model of Anthony Gormley's artwork, "The Angel of the North," and was appraised at $1.66 million.
The highest appraisal before the million dollar find was a 1937 painting by American Abstract Expressionist artist Clyfford Still, found in Palm Springs, California, in 2008, estimated at $500,000.
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The 2012 Presidential Debate Awards (Boca Edition)
Who delivered the night's best zinger? Best pander to Israel? Best use of a strange statistic? Slate hands out the honors.
Monday night Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had their final presidential debate showdown. Each candidate landed some punches. To score the evening, Slate brings you the Presidential Debate Awards—the Oscars of the Oval Office. The envelope please:
The Best Zinger: The trophy goes to Barack Obama: "We also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed … the question is not a game of Battleship."
The Most Awkward Zinger: But sometimes the president tried too hard: "It's the 1980s, they're now calling to ask for their foreign policy back."
The Worst Rationale for a Foreign Policy Decision: Sure, it was risky, but that little girl now has closure: "And she said to me, "You know, by finally getting Bin Laden, that brought some closure to me."
The Best "I Love Israel" Moment: I love Israel. No, no, I love Israel more: "And when I went to Israel as a candidate, I didn't take donors. I didn't attend fundraisers. I went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum there, to remind myself the nature of evil and why our bond with Israel will be unbreakable."
The Best Use of a Strange Statistic: Romney has a very specific number of allies in mind: "We're the great nation that has allies, 42 allies and friends around the world."
The Best Mispronunciation of a Foreign Leader's Name: To be fair, we have all tripped on it one time or another: "When the—when the president of Iraq—excuse me, of Iran, Ahmadinejad, says that our debt makes us not a great country, that's a frightening thing."
The Best Domestic Policy Dodge in a Foreign Policy Debate: Sometimes it got hard to spot the foreign policy in this foreign policy debate:
The Best Suck Up to Bob Schieffer: Mitt Romney was more than happy to have Schieffer call him out: "Well, that's probably true … ha, ha."


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Directed – Susi Ganesan
Produced – Kalaipuli S Dhanu
Starring – Vikram, Shriya Saran, Vivek,
Starring – Santhanam, Raghuvaran
Music – Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography – Ekambaram
Distributed – Kalaipuli
International Release date(s) August 21, 2009
Language – Tamil
Budget – 25 crores
Chiyaan Vikram has a winner in Kandasamy. It is pure commercial masala entertainer that strikes a fine balance between style and substance, and also has a neat message. Susi Ganeshan has constructed an engrossing action driven adventure with panache.
The film has all the trademark superhero-movie elements like flashy action scenes and eye-popping special effects. But in many ways, it is not the typical super-hero film that one imagines it to be. Well, that's the twist in the tale which we will not reveal as it will be a spoiler.
Kandasamy opens with scenes showing ordinary people flocking to a Murugan temple which has become famous as all your wishes can be fulfilled at the temple. All those who submit their woes as petitions to Kandasamy (another name for Lord Muruga) on a piece of paper and tie it to a tree in the temple, their problems mainly financial are solved.
Soon Kandasamy (Vikram) becomes a phenomenon, a caped crusader dressed as a rooster, takes up letters of ordinary folks from the petition tree, and in a Robin Hood way provides cash and succor. The local DIG of Police (Prabhu) suspects that there is something unnatural about it and starts investigating.
Meanwhile there is this brave and daring CBI officer Kandasamy (Vikram), who is on a mission to uncover black money and illegal wealth of rich and corrupt Indians stashed in foreign banks, which he believes is responsible for all the crime in our society. And our hero has the IQ of a genius, the strength of a bull and the speed of a cheetah.
Soon he crosses swords with Pallur Paramajyoti Ponnusamy or PPP (Ashish Vidyarti), the man with a golden tooth and conducts a raid in his palatial bungalow and finds unaccounted cash and documents of various foreign deals worth over Rs 1000 crore! PPP is devastated after the raid and his only daughter Subbalakshmi (Shriya Saran) swears revenge and pretends to fall in love with the dashing IPS officer.
What is the connection between masked crusader Kandasamy and the CBI officer Kandasamy? Why is the CBI Joint Director Krishna Rao (Telugu actor Krishna) protecting Mr. Kandasamy? Can the villains- PPP, Rajmohan of RMG group, and Mexican Pitchumani (Alex) expose and bring Kandasamy to trial? Will the DIG succeed in proving that Kandasamy is no God? The underlining message in the film is, "Money (read black) is the root cause of all evil".
Don't ask the answers to all these questions, the idea is to have a chill out time. Watch the action which is fast paced even though slightly long ( 3 hours 12 minutes), chew on your popcorn as the adrenaline goes pumping. The rooster Kandasamy introduction scene where he comes crashing through the dome of a police station, and plays around with the bad comic cop (Mansoor Ali Khan) is terrific.
But the highlight is Kandasamy dressed as a woman, a la Aishwarya Rai and teaching Charly and Mayilsamy a fitting lesson is hilarious. The verbal foreplay between the quarrelsome Kandasamy and Subbalakshmi is quite ticklish, and Kandasamy's blindfolded action scenes in Mexico are stunning.
Technically the film is chic with slick production values. The innovative camera angles and lighting of cinematographer NK Ekambaram makes the film visually stunning. He has given a different colour tone to the Mexico episode of the film. Thotta Tharini's set designs are fabulous, the luxury bedroom of the heroine and the interior of the plush bus used as villain's hide out is fantastic. The VFX work of Movinstilz makes it picture perfect, the night effect scenes especially the fight scene in the corn field.
Music of Devi Sri Prasad blends with the mood of the film. Two of the six songs, Excuse me Mr.Kandasamy… and Yen Peru Meenakumari have been well picturised and lavishly shot. There is grandeur and richness in every shot in the film, no wonder it took two years to complete. Susy Ganeshan who does a cameo in the film joins the big league of directors in Tamil for directing an adventurous film with an underlying message.
But the film indubitably belongs to Vikram and he rocks. He is mesmerizing and has given an extra dimension to the characters he plays in the film and steers it to the winning post. There are very few people in Indian cinema who can do the larger-than-life fantasy character as easily as Vikram.
Shriya sizzles throughout and carries the glamorous role with élan and the attitude. Prabhu fits the role of an investigative cop, while the villains are a bit clichéd. Some of the film's most enjoyable moments are Vadivel's comedy track as Thengakadai Thenappan. The scene where Prabhu takes him to the police station for questioning and uses water cannon is a scream!
In short, Kandasamy is a roller coaster ride of pure unadulterated masala. So go ahead, make your matinee.
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