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It's clear that Kristine Sorensen loves the art of storytelling. The executive director of In Progress, Sorensen has spent her career capturing stories on film and teaching others to do the same.
Ricardo Levins Morales has no illusions that he will become wealthy from his art. His work is aimed squarely at inspiring working people, and supporting their struggle to survive — a struggle he knows first-hand.
This story about Chanida Phaengdara Potter is the latest continuing series of UpTake profiles on men and women whose names may not be widely familiar but whose leadership makes our neighborhoods, our cities and our states better places.
Veronica Mendez is a myth buster. Sadly, she says one of the biggest myths that needs busting is one of the myths Americans want to believe most about their country: The myth that if you work hard enough and long enough, you can succeed.
Ananya Dance Theatre's performances are about more than entertainment. Their purpose is to make you think … And while using dance might not bring results that can be measured in legislation or at the ballot box, it can achieve social change in different ways.
Jewish organizer and activist Vic Rosenthal works with communities in Minneapolis and beyond to help repair a broken world. He is the executive director of Jewish Community Action, an organization that mobilizes Jews to work on issues such as home foreclosures, LGBT rights and voting rights, among many others.
If Minnesota ever adopts a single-payer heath care system, the work of Dr. Elizabeth Frost will be remembered as one of the key reasons for its passage.
Daniel Yang is part of a new cohort of young leaders in the Native American community in South Minneapolis, a half-Native, half-Asian grassroots activist with a passion for public service and a special compassion for refugees. The experience of being lost, exiled and afraid is one his family knows well: Yang's father was a Hmong refugee who, along with his Ojibwe mother, instilled a commitment to social justice and community service in his son.
Tweet TweetFrom UpTake contributor Rich Neumeister, at Open Secrets Since 2005, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has paid nearly $750,000 for what they call a "cellular exploitative device." After the state's top cop agency got their new spy tool, the Hennepin County Sheriff had to get one, too. In …
It's clear that Kristine Sorensen loves the art of storytelling. The executive director of In Progress, Sorensen has spent her career capturing stories on film and teaching others to do the same.
Tweet TweetStory for The UpTake by Sheila Regan On the heels of last week's large Black Friday protests in the Twin Cities, demonstrations calling for better wages for fast-food workers were staged in three Minnesota cities Thursday: Protests demanding a living wage were held outside fast-food restaurants in Minneapolis, Lakeville …
Football fans, elected leaders and Vikings big shots assembled under a heated tent on Tuesday to celebrate the symbolic groundbreaking for a new Vikings stadium and the demolition of the old Metrodome.
Twenty-six people were arrested Friday during the "March to end Poverty Wages," the culmination of a week of Black Friday actions pressing for better pay and working conditions and the right to organize for retail, janitorial and other low-wage workers in Minnesota.
Tweet Tweet Story by Kathryn G. Nelson and Nick Coleman The Minnesota Legislature's leading proponent of tougher gun-safety measures, Rep. Michael Paymar, announced last week that he won't run for re-election next year, but he plans to go out with gun-control proposals blazing. Paymar, a nine-term DFLer from St. Paul, …
Jaymie Kelly got a surprising answer after she sent an email to President Obama describing her trials with JPMorgan Chase and Freddie Mac. Eight days later she got a call from the Office of the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency telling her that her case is under review.
People gave more and watched more of this year's Give To The Max day than ever before.
Watch The UpTake's coverage from the Mall of America, CoCo Uptown and the Triple Rock Social Club. We helped raise millions of dollars for thousands of Minnesota charities with GiveMN on Give To The Max Day.
The Captain is not going away! He is coming back to give them big hornswogglers a run for their doubloons in 2014. That's right! The Captain is putting in for what you call the governor of this godforsaken island they call Minnesota.
Watch to find out the FIRST thing Mayor Hodges plans when she takes office.
It was a dark and stormy election day that began with frost on car windshields and ended with snow and slush that got more media attention than the voting, at least on the 10 p.m. TV newscasts. But the day also brought smiles to the faces of the proponents of Ranked Choice Voting, who liked what they saw as the new voting system got its first serious tests in the Twin Cities, and to supporters of Minneapolis Mayoral candidate Betsy Hodges, who led in first-preference voting by a wide margin and seemed to be the odds-on favorite to formally claim victory Wednesday
Tweet TweetStill making up your mind about who to choose as your Top Three candidates for Mayor of Minneapolis? The UpTake is proud to present a last-minute Grab Bag of election stories going back to May, including one story on the Ward One St Paul City Council race and …
This is The UpTake's interview with Betsy Hodges, one of the DFLers in the race for mayor of Minneapolis.
This is The UpTake's interview with Cam Winton, an independent candidate in the race for mayor of Minneapolis.
This is The UpTake's interview with Mark Andrew, one of the DFLers in the race for mayor of Minneapolis.
This is The UpTake's interview with Stephanie Woodruff, the Independence Party candidate in the race.
This is The UpTake's interview with Dan Cohen, an independent candidate in the race.
This is The UpTake's interview with Jackie Cherryhomes, one of the DFL candidates in the race.
Tweet TweetStory for The UpTake by Sheila Regan Redistricting and changing demographics have put Minneapolis City Council incumbent Robert Lilligren on the defensive as he vies to keep his seat without the DFL endorsement in Ward 6. Lilligren's main challenger is Abdi Warsame, a Somali candidate who wrested the DFL's …
A few hundred people gathered in a drizzling rain Friday afternoon and into the evening to observe Dia de los Muertos — The Day of the Dead — a traditional Mexican holiday to honor those who have died .
After a protest at Riverside University High School — a public school — the Milwaukee School board has agreed to hold a public meeting to discuss a new policy requiring mandatory metal detector screenings.
As the national debate over the direction of education rages, Milwaukee appears to be ground zero for the school choice movement, cuts in public education and expansion of charter schools that many public education advocates believe are detrimental to students and schools in the city.
About 2,000 union members and their families marched in Milwaukee's annual Labor Day parade — a smaller turnout than in recent years.
Minnesota learned from Wisconsin's failure on marriage equality. Can Wisconsin now learn from Minnesota's success?
Mercenary-style guards carrying assault weapons will return to the north woods of WIsconsin after an Arizona-based security firm received proper permits to operate in Wisconsin. Last month, the heavily-armed guards, wearing camouflage and some with face coverings, startled hikers and other forest visitors when they showed up — without permits or the legally required name tags and credentials.
The Democracy Convention, billed as "nine conferences, one movement" happens in Madison, Wisconsin. The convention looks at ways to strengthen democracy from many angles including economics, defense, and yes, politics.
Wisconsin Capitol Police have arrested 120 people — arrests are continuing daily — for singing without a permit in the Capitol Rotunda. Sure, "This Land Is Your Land" — but you need a permit to sing it in Wisconsin.
John Spooner, the 76-year-old Milwaukee gun collector who shot and killed 13-year-old Darius Simmons in front of his mother last year, was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of parole for the shocking murder — captured by a security video camera — by a judge who called the killing "an evil act."
Tweet TweetBreaking News: The elderly "gun nut" convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old Milwaukee boy was found sane by a Milwaukee jury on Friday. The determination — after brief jury deliberations — that John Spooner was mentally competent when he shot 13-year-old Darius Simmons on May 31, 2012, means …
Tweet TweetI was 30 years old, a journalist with a passing knowledge of Indian history. Yet it had never occurred to me, until I came across the name of Ernest Wabasha one day, that people still lived among us who were connected to the terrible events of 1862-63, the time …
Tweet TweetEditor's note: "Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota," was the winner in the Minnesota category of the 2013 Minnesota Book Awards, which were announced Saturday. Congratulations to authors Gwen Westerman and Bruce White. — updated Sunday, April 14 at 8:07 a.m. One hundred and fifty years after …
A two-week journey from South Dakota ends in Mankato, Minnesota to mark the 150th anniversary of the largest execution in the United States where 38 Dakota (Sioux) Indian men were hanged for their involvement in the Dakota-US War of 1862.
According to tradition, "We Are Here" is what each of the 38 Dakota Indian warriors who were hanged on the day after Christmas in 1862 said as the nooses were placed around their necks. "We Are Here" is also the title of an exhibit on view at the historic James J. Hill House in St. Paul, Minnesota. Native American artists comment on the events and aftermath of the U.S-Dakota War in the form of contemporary painting, sculpture and traditional works.
Minnesota's Dakota tribe commemorates the 150th anniversary of their 150-mile "trail of tears" forced march out of their ancestral land in 1862.
After the US-Dakota War of 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged in the largest mass execution in US history. Many believe the execution was also one of the largest miscarriages of justice in the nation's history. Today, Representative Dean Urdahl hopes to "rub a little salve in the wound" by seeking a pardon for one of the executed warriors. His name was Chaska.
150 years after the Dakota War, the war remains a wound that has yet to heal. We watch a special ceremony remembering the many Dakota women and children who did not survive the winter of 1862-63 at the Fort Snelling "concentration camp".


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Several months ago I did a brief unsigned feature on Arkhum for Hails and Horns Magazine. I recall checking out the band's Myspace page, listening to some demo tracks and kicking out a few sentences about the promising Portland band and their blend of technical death metal and black metal. Now I don't exactly remember the band's sound, but based on this, their debut, it appears that there's either much more of a deathcore sound than I remember or they've added it since I last checked them out.
The logo and cover was the first sign there was something amiss, and once the super-guttural 'reeeeee' vocals kicked in, I was actually a little taken aback, considering my first exposure to the band many months ago. However, once I settled down and just started listening to Anno Universum, it became apparent that the founding brothers Parker (Kenneth - vocals and Stephen - guitars and vocals, who has also served in brutal death metalers Pathology) are very skilled, very ambitious but also very susceptible to outside influences.
My initial comparison was Scholomance (remember them? That was back when The End Records was good) meets Whitechapel, and I'll stick with it. Busy, intricate and complex black metal with some prog/experimental tangents and nary a predictable note in sight mixed with super burly and breakdown-filled death metal that, due to the vocals, tone and overall presentation, yes, could be construed as deathcore. Blackened tech deathcore? Blacktechcore? I dunno.
But don't get me wrong or let my rambling deter you from a very solid 33 minutes of music that at times is very challenging and progressive. And while the deathcore element is melded relatively seamlessly, it tends to dumb down the sometime pseudo-intellectual, cosmic elements that are intertwined with the other influences. For example, George Clooney quotes from Solaris mixed with pig squeal vocals and breakdowns just don't quite mesh fully ("Obviated Geocentrism").
After the intro "Appellation", the first real track "Grief Urchin" will let potential listeners know everything they need to know about Arkhum's anomalous sound. Squealing, burly deathcore vocals and loping injected with swirling tremolo riffs, twangy, proggy bass lines and even a brief acoustic flourish. Those that decide to stay and are intrigued by the style will be greeted by moments that awe and confound in equal parts. "Bloodgutter Encircling" seems to find the balance and blackened and proggy side dominating a little more (even a piano piece plays the song out), and the result is a more cohesive, cosmic and challenging listen that hints at something special if the band streamlines their myriad of influences. The same can be said for standout "Nilpulse" where the deathcore vocals are more backing vocals and the underlying bass work is Obscura-ish amid the blackened furor.
When Arkhum is 'on', they are an intriguing prospect with the potential and skill to make some waves across a broad fan base, but their insistence on "reeee" vocals and some rather superficial deathcore hues amid some excellently done blackened tech-death needs to be rectified (see "Expendable Biomass").

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Quarry zoning request could be postponed again
By Cindy Wojdyla Cain email@example.com January 7, 2013 7:52PM
Updated: February 9, 2013 6:15AM
JOLIET — It appears that a zoning request for a concrete crushing and recycling operation in Wheatland Township won't be decided after all at Tuesday's Will County Board land use committee meeting.
The company has asked that the case, which was postponed in November, be bumped for another month because of a family matter, said Eileen Franz, a planner with the county's land use department.
Dozens of Wheatland Township resident who are opposed to the zoning request were scheduled to attend the 9:30 a.m. meeting at the county building in downtown Joliet.
It's not clear when the issue will next be on the land use committee's agenda, Franz said. The committee normally meets on the second Tuesday of the month, but that falls on Lincoln's birthday in February and county government is closed, she explained.
It will be up to the committee to vote on a new date during Tuesday's meeting, she said.
Boughton Materials wants to add a concrete crushing and recycling unit to its limestone quarry at 22750 W. Hassert Blvd., but neighbors who live near the site fear a toxic dust will float over their homes. They also have concerns about water runoff from stored concrete contaminating the adjacent DuPage River and increased truck traffic mixing with teen drivers from Plainfield East High School.
Company officials say the concrete recycling operation will be a minuscule part of their business. The company will take precautions to prevent environmental issues for nearby residential areas and truck traffic would only increase by five to 10 trucks a day, they said during the November committee meeting.
In addition to the zoning change from agricultural to industrial, the company also would need a special use permit. The county's planning and zoning commission voted against the zoning requests, but the commission's vote is advisory.
The Will County Coalition for Responsible Industrial Activity recently submitted a letter from 13 homeowners associations that represent more than 5,000 homes and 20,000 residents opposed to zoning change and special use permit.


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NOT LONG AGO, the historian and MP Tristram Hunt wrote a piece in The Guardian waxing wistful about the news that, in a joint venture with Google, the Br itish Library plans to put 250,000 books from between 1700 and 1870 online.
He was sued by unpaid manservants, pursued by Star Chamber for more than a decade over his refusal to pay alimony to his wife, and narrowly escaped the noose after being charged with a p lo t to ki l l the Bishop of London. No respecter of the clergy, he was also the subject of a complaint by a local parson
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'When everything is down-loadable,' Hunt declared, 'the mystery of history can be lost. Why sit in an archive leafing through impenetrable prose when you can slurp frappucino while scrolling down Edmund Burke documents? … it is only with MS in hand that the real meaning of the text becomes apparent.'
I must take issue. Every few months one hears eructations from one quarter or another about the British Library being too full of undergraduates, too full of whizzy electronic nonsense, not dusty enough, etc. One need only consider how much easier scholarly or quasi-scholarly activity has become to realise how wrong these are.
I recently spent a good deal of time in the British Library researching a book about rhetoric. For several centuries rhetoric was one-third of an entire education. Before literary criticism, we had the study of rhetoric, and at the heart of it were the 'figures' (as in 'figures of speech') that jazzed up rhetorical writing: metaphor and metonym, hyperbole, chiasmus, apostrophe and so on.
So it was that I came to be digging into the story of George Puttenham (c1530–90). Puttenham, now a pretty marginal figure, was once a rather large one. Tradition attributes to him the authorship of The Arte of English Poesie, which has been described as 'the central text of Elizabethan courtly poetics'. What made him important for my purposes was his discussion of 'Ornament Poeticall', in which he made a heroic attempt to replace the Greek and Latin names for the figures with vernacular English ones.
Zeugma, for instance, where a single verb governs a number of objects ('he put out the cat, his cigar and the lamp') was rechristened 'Single Supply'; alliteration was ' L i ke Let t e r ' ; hyperbole became ' t he OverReacher'; irony became 'the Drie Mock'; sarcasm 'the Bitter Taunt'; and mycterismus – an insult with accompanying gesture – was f abulously Englished as 'the Fleering Frumpe'.
This attempt, of course, failed: we still call hyperbole hyperbole, and though Drie Mockery is all about us nobody calls it by that name. The work remains a fascinating failure. Still more fascinating, though, turned out to be Puttenham himself.
He presented himself as – and until three years ago was credited as having been – an exper ienced and urbane courtier, mannerly and well-travelled, with insight into the inner circles of Elizabethan courtly life. In fact, Puttenham was an utter bounder, whose main contact with authority was when he got his collar felt for beating up vicars, reneging on his debts or doing the dirty on his wife.
who claimed Puttenham had dispatched a team of thugs that interrupted Sunday service and 'with violence dyd pull away a great parte of ... his beard'.
His sex life did him little credit either. No fewer than seventeen witnesses testified to his indiscriminate extramarital shenanigans and physical abuse of his wife. He sired children on a whole succession of domestic servants (four maidservants and a cook, as it happens; one of them was taken to Flanders to give birth before being abandoned there 'in grete misery'). He went on to kidnap a teenager from Cheshire and keep her as a sexslave, a racket that only ended when his wife came home unexpectedly and discovered the girl. She wrote to Puttenham, crisply: 'I haue in my custodie a damsell chosen by you as she confessethe for yor owne toothe.'
In the roll call of literary wrong 'uns, in other words, George Puttenham makes Arthur Koestler look like a model of chivalry. Discovering this was one of the singular pleasures of my research – and I owe that discovery to a single essay in a journal that appears on all too few coffee tables: Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Steven W May's essay in the Summer 2008 number bears the unimprovable title 'George Puttenham's Lewd and Illicit Career'.
So, after what medieval rhetoricians would have called a digressio, and Puttenham would have called a 'Straggler', I return to the point at issue. Had I not found it through an electronic search, it is highly unlikely I would have found May's article at all. Because it came out only a few years ago, and in a journal, it would appear in few if any of the footnotes or bibliographies in the full-length books I used for most of my research. Wikipedia has by now got Puttenham's number, though at the time I came across May's essay it had not. The Dictionary of National Biography and The Oxford Companion to English Literature, of course, have not. Not only does digitisation make it easier to come across important essays, like May's, in obscure corners, it makes it easier to bring references up to date. And it makes it easier, when looking back through your A4 pads of scribble wondering where the hell you got that quote, to compile accurate endnotes: you can just Google the quote. (Ironically, this makes precise citations less and less important even as it makes them easier to provide.)
The 'mystery of history' is an odd thing to fetishise. As I understand it, you write history to dispel the mystery. Let us welcome the digital revolution and give the fleering frumpe to the manuscript fetishists. ❑
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At Saddleback Church student ministries, we are extremely blessed to have an abundance of musically talented students. Many churches struggle to find musicians, but we have so many musical students that we put multiple bands together and have to rotate them around. With all this talent has come something really awesome.
Since last summer, our student worship leaders have been putting together some original songs (several of which are written by the students themselves) and recording them in a studio to be released to the public. They call themselves Cluster of Students, and the stuff they've been putting out is UNBELIEVABLE.
Their latest song, Learn to Love, was written by a high school senior along with our student worship pastor (Taffy) and Keeley Reed, an artist and staff member on the student worship ministry team. Since I downloaded it a couple days ago, I've listened to it at least 50 times.
You can find all 4 of Cluster of Students's released songs on iTunes.


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We are currently anticipating the next contest!
In this link you'll find general info.
(Finished) The Rapture Character Cameo Contest
Here's where you can submit the best ones you've seen and made, as well as request their pictures to be made into audio diary portraits.
Let me see some of your guys' attempts, share your work and your methods! I tried to get as many elements in mine as possible, such as frontward lighting and the lighthouse stamp, but it wasn't terribly easy using an existing and unintended image of mine. I'm sure others have found better ways of doing this ^_^
I'm also welcoming the actual content of an audio diary, in written form (Thanks to AspirationRealized for bringing it up). You may post your diary content, as well as location, character name, and the image to go along with it if you please.
And if anyone likes the portrait I did, post a request and I'd be glad to try my hand at your pictures!
I'd only ask that the image I'm provided with be at least mostly cropped to the head and shoulder region. I'm not gonna turn a picture of you from your entire class photo into an audio diary
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With help of the new 3D Beauty and the Beast animated film and the exclusive officially licensed designs by Disguise Costumes, every little girl can become a Disney Princess. TotallyCostumes.com, is offering a selection of Belle costumes for girls.
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Disney's beloved modern classic is transformed to a new level of entertainment with Beauty and the Beast 3D. The first animated feature film in the history of the Oscars nominated for Best Picture, Beauty and the Beast is showing for the first time in theaters in 3D. A whole new generation can experience the magical love story with crisp Disney Digital 3D enhancements.
Disney is picking and choosing, very carefully, the classic animated movies they release in 3D. They are studying the box office sales to see if they will keep releasing these 3D movies. The first one was Lion King, which did $30 million last September. Now all eyes are on Beauty and the Beast to see if they move forward with releasing other Disney favorites like The Little Mermaid.
In this classic animated film, the pretentious and puffed-up prince falls under a spell by the wicked enchantress and turns him into an awful beast. Until he earns the love of a fair maiden looking like this beast, he will stay this way forever and ever. He falls into despair as he gives up hope until the day that the beautiful village girl walks into his castle looking for her father, who has been imprisoned by the Beast.
In celebration of the new release of the romantic classic Beauty and the Beast movie in 3D, you can find officially licensed Belle costumes for girls at TotallyCostumes.com. These beautiful costumes will delight any young girl that has ever dreamed of growing up to be a princess, especially a Disney Princess. These kid's Belle costumes are exquisite and helps every young girl to dress up and anticipate the ball with her prince.
TotallyCostumes.com offers a large variety of Belle kid's costumes so that every little Disney Princess can create her own magical adventure outside the theaters. The Belle of the ball will love the exquisite Deluxe Belle kid's costume. Disguise has the official license on Disney costumes and they concentrate on the designs that appeal to kids with a price tag that appeal to parents. Disney Princess accessories are available to compliment the Belle costume including ballet slippers, tiaras, wands and jelly shoes. Beauty and the Beast costume accessories offer additional play value to kids during dress-up play.
This magical and romantic adventure has a message for everyone, "find the beauty within all people". This is an important life's message for kids while, at the same time, the Belle Disney costume can give each little girl hours of fun playtime as a Disney Princess.
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FBI Transformation:
Human Capital Strategies May Assist the FBI in Its Commitment to Address Its Top Priorities
GAO-04-817T, Jun 3, 2004
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The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks precipitated a shift in how the FBI uses its investigative and intelligence resources to prevent future terrorist incidents. The attacks led to the FBI's commitment to transform and reorganize itself. Today's testimony discusses (1) the FBI's progress in transforming to focus on counterterrorism and intelligence-related priorities, (2) competition the FBI faces from other agencies and the private sector for intelligence staff, and (3) human capital flexibilities that may enhance the FBI's ability to address its priorities.
FBI has made significant progress in its transformation efforts since GAO last testified before this Subcommittee in June 2003. The FBI's organizational changes to enhance its intelligence capability and realigned staff resources to counterterrorism and counterintelligence priority areas, among other things, are encouraging. However, even with increased numbers of agents in the priority areas, the FBI continues to have to temporarily re-assign additional agents to meet its goal of following all counterterrorism-related leads or threats. The FBI has faced difficulties retaining--and competing with other government agencies and the private sector for--staff with intelligence knowledge, skills, and abilities. These difficulties may in part result from the fact that the FBI's career ladder for intelligence analysts is truncated compared with similar career ladders at some other federal agencies. For example, the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency maintain a career ladder for their intelligence staff that includes both senior executive (managerial) and senior level (nonmanagerial) positions. While the FBI has actively moved towards establishing a GS 15 level for intelligence staff, this would still not create a level playing field with the rest of the intelligence community given that other agencies maintain higher level positions. Should a decision be made to institute a senior executive and senior level positions, the FBI will need to develop and implement a carefully crafted plan that includes specific details on how such an intelligence career service would relate into its strategic plan and strategic human capital plan, the expectations and qualifications for positions, and how performance would be measured. GAO has found that the leaders of agencies such as the FBI can better tailor their human capital strategies to better meet their mission by identifying, assessing, and first making use of all appropriate human capital flexibilities. The FBI has used a variety of available human capital flexibilities to help them recruit and retain staff. Second, agencies then consider options that require legislative changes. In those cases, information should be gathered to appropriately demonstrate the case for change. Because the FBI is at the forefront of protecting the nation against terrorist threats, proposals to enhance its capacity from a human capital standpoint should be carefully considered.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Defense Acquisition Workforce
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Housing and Urban Development
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Acquisition Workforce
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DOJ Workforce Planning
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Right-Wing Think Tank Gets Into the News Biz
Submitted by Al Diamon on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 11:31am.Conservative approach: The Maine Heritage Policy Center, a controversial right-wing think tank that's been involved in political campaigns and has been a driving force behind much of the agenda of Republican Gov. Paul LePage, is starting its own news service to cover state government.
Lewiston Sun Journal Defends Casino Coverage
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:54am.Know when to fold 'em: I heard from a couple of angry people at the Lewiston Sun Journal about my recent postings on that paper's coverage of Question 3 on the Nov. 8 ballot that would have allowed a casino in downtown Lewiston. Neither person who contacted me by email would allow their names to be used or their comments posted. But their version of events is slightly different from that presented by others, so I think it's worth relating.
Maine's Mid-Coast Loses Weekly Papers
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 10:48am.Ink evaporates: The Midcoast Beacon is no more. The free weekly published by the Bangor Daily News called it quits with its Nov. 10 issue. In a front-page announcement, Bangor Daily editor Michael Dowd said the decision to shut down the operation was caused by "rising production and delivery costs."
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Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 4:26pm.On Nov. 10, the Audit Bureau of Circulations released the latest figures for some Maine daily newspapers. While none of the papers being audited by ABC showed an increase in circulation, the Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News both had numbers that were significantly better than last year at this time.
Sun Journal Late and Lame on Casino Story
Submitted by Al Diamon on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 9:55am.Taking the weekend off: On Thursday, Nov. 3, Maine Public Radio's Susan Sharon scooped the competition by airing a story indicating the backers of a casino in downtown Lewiston had agreed to sell a major interest in the operation to an out-of-state company called M Five Inc. for $5 million. Sharon cited documents signed by the principals in the gambling enterprise as her source.
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Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 11:19am.MaineToday Media Fails to Report on Itself
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 7:26am.The November 3 Portland Press Herald had a front-page story on a Westbrook company that appears to be in big financial trouble. So, there's no question the editors at the Portland paper recognize that such financial developments are newsworthy.
Unless, of course, the company in question is the one they work for.
When that happens, they leave the reporting to the competition.
Newspaper Circulation Decline May Not Be Over
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 10:21am.Down again: The Audit Bureau of Circulations won't publicly release its report on Maine daily newspapers for a couple of weeks, but some figures are starting to leak out. And unlike the filings with the U.S. Postal Service published last month, the early indications aren't positive.
Richard Connor's Next Move
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:56am.How can I miss you if you won't go away: MaineToday Media's soon-to-be-ex-CEO Richard Connor wrote what appears to be his last column for the Maine Sunday Telegram on Oct. 30.
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Unfortunately, no documentation exists in the BBC archives indicating precisely which two locations were used during the production of The Savages. The only surviving paperwork remaining is a brief memo relating to the final episode of The Gunfighters, stating that the image of a savage on the TARDIS scanner was filmed on Sunday 1 May at Virginia Water. Evidence from the Egham-by-Runnymede Historical Society indicates that the only existing sandpit at Virginia Water at the time was that at Callow Hill, which had been used as a filming location in 1959 during production of Hammer's The Stranglers of Bombay. (src :"On Location" © Richard Bignell)
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More than two weeks after a devastating fire killed dozens of animals at a Kentucky animal shelter, they have reopened in a temporary location are More than two weeks after a devastating fire killed dozens of animals at a Kentucky animal shelter, the shelter has found a temporary location and will start accepting stray pets next week.
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Members of the London-Laurel County Rescue Squad worked diligently to cut through the mangled metal of what once was a Pontiac Grand Prix and a Honda C-RV to remove five passengers from the vehicles.
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Special events marked the ribbon cutting for the traveling exhibition of "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" at Laurel County Public Library Monday.
Knox County Fatal Collision on US 25E
On 11/28/13 Kentucky State Police Post 10 received a Wireless 911 call of a two vehicle collision on US 25E in front of Lynn Camp High School in the Corbin community of Knox County.
Lives lost in devastating Kentucky animal shelter fire
A dog named "Sassy," mascot for the Knox Whitley Animal Shelter in Rockholds, Ky., was among the dead following a devastating fire that ripped through the facility late Friday night, reported Sunday's WBIR News.
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Traffic Crash with Injuries in Knox County
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Are you yawning yet?
Go for it: Monday is Napping Day, an unofficial holiday created in 1999 by now-retired Boston University professor William Anthony and his wife, Camille, to help people adjust to Daylight Saving Time.
After losing an hour of sleep by springing clocks forward, many in the workforce will drag through the day on Monday, hence the need for a power nap.
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NDAA 2013: Drones, Permanent War And Indefinite Detention Without Charge Or Trial For American Citizens On American Soil
While mainstream media keeps the Sheeple distracted with Christmas classics and inconsistent reporting about killings in Connecticut, Amerika's corporate fascist puppet Congress quietly hacks away at habeus corpus.
"In recent decades we have lost sight of the historic achievement that empowered the individual. The religious, legal and political roots of this great achievement are no longer reverently taught in high schools, colleges and universities or respected by our government. The voices that reach us through the millennia and connect us to our culture are being silenced by 'political correctness' and 'the war on terror.' Prayer has been driven from schools and Christian religious symbols from public life. Constitutional protections have been diminished by hegemonic political ambitions. Indefinite detention, torture, and murder are now acknowledged practices of the United States government. The historic achievement of due process has been rolled back. Tyranny has re-emerged."–Paul Craig Roberts
"Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the 'disposition matrix'… Although the matrix is a work in progress, the effort to create it reflects a reality setting in among the nation's counterterrorism ranks: The United States' conventional wars are winding down, but the government expects to continue adding names to kill or capture lists for years… The Obama administration has touted its successes against the terrorist network, formally acknowledging for the first time the United States' use of armed drones. Less visible is the extent to which Obama has institutionalized the highly classified practice of targeted killing, transforming ad-hoc elements into a counterterrorism infrastructure capable of sustaining a seemingly PERMANENT WAR."–Greg Miller
"[T]he legal foundation for U.S. counterterrorism strategy is partially based on "the Congressional authorization to use military force" (AUMF) that was passed after 9/11… Specifically it seems to be based on an interpretation of the AUMF that was "reaffirmed" by the indefinite detention clause of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)… This explains why Obama is fighting so hard to keep the indefinite detention clause in effect… In court the government argued that the indefinite detention clause is simply a "reaffirmation" of the Authorization Use Of Military Force (AUMF), which gives the president authority "to use all necessary and appropriate force against those … [who] aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 or harbored such organizations or persons." In the NDAA lawsuit, the government argued that the NDAA §1021 is simply an 'affirmation' or 'reaffirmation' of the AUMF… But the NDAA adds language to the AUMF when it says 'The President also has the authority to detain persons who were part of or substantially supported, Taliban or al-Qaida forces or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, INCLUDING ANY PERSON WHO HAS COMMITTED A BELLIGERENT ACT, or has directly supported hostilities, in the aid of such enemy forces.' That extra part is what Judge Katherine Forrest ruled unconstitutionally vague."–Michael Kelley
"It may seem like imprisoning an American citizen without charges or trial transgresses against the United States Constitution and basic norms of Western justice dating back to the Magna Carta… It may seem like reiterating the right to due process contained in the 5th Amendment would be uncontroversial… It may seem like a United States senator would be widely ridiculed for suggesting that American citizens can be imprisoned indefinitely without chargers or trial, and that if numerous U.S. senators took that position, the press would treat the issue with at least as much urgency as "the fiscal cliff" or the possibility of a new assault weapons bill or likely nominees for Cabinet posts… It may seem like the American citizens who vocally fret about the importance of adhering to the text of the Constitution would object as loudly as anyone to the prospect of indefinite detention… But it isn't so."–Conor Friedersdorf
"Lawmakers charged with merging the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act decided on Tuesday to drop a provision that would have explicitly barred the military from holding American citizens and permanent residents in indefinite detention without trial as terrorism suspects, according to Congressional staff members familiar with the negotiations."–Charlie Savage
"Over the past year I and other plaintiffs including Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg have pressed a lawsuit in the federal courts to nullify Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This egregious section, which permits the government to use the military to detain U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military detention centers, could have been easily fixed by Congress. The Senate and House had the opportunity this month to include in the 2013 version of the NDAA an unequivocal statement that all U.S. citizens would be exempt from 1021(b)(2), leaving the section to apply only to foreigners. But restoring due process for citizens was something the Republicans and the Democrats, along with the White House, refused to do. The fate of some of our most basic and important rights—ones enshrined in the Bill of Rights as well as the Fourth and Fifth amendments of the Constitution—will be decided in the next few months in the courts. If the courts fail us, a gulag state will be cemented into place."–Chris Hedges
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Trapwire: Spying On YOU. Predicting YOUR Moves.
Ignored by corporate media, Wikileaks has exposed a CIA-linked Orwellian thoughtcrime surveillance network that goes far beyond "suspicious activity reporting".
"Hacked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor shed light on a global suspicious activity surveillance system called TrapWire that is reportedly in use in locations around the world from the London Stock Exchange to the White House. The emails [released by WikiLeaks] provide information on the extent and operations of a system designed to correlate suspicious activity reports and other evidence that may indicate [a potential crime or terrorist attack]."
A TrapWire white paper describes their offering as "a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance. As such, TrapWire represents the basis for a paradigm shift in the methodologies traditionally applied to securing critical infrastructure and personnel; a paradigm shift from the currently accepted and widely adopted philosophy of damage mitigation through increased physical security to a new and proactive approach of attack prevention through the identification and disruption of pre-attack planning and surveillance activities."
In other words, TrapWire is for all intents and purposes an Orwellian thoughtcrime detection system. As their website explains, "TrapWire detects, analyzes and alerts on suspicious events as they are collected over periods of time and across multiple locations. Through the systematic capture of these pre-attack indicators, terrorist or criminal surveillance and pre-attack planning operations can be identified… There are currently three different TrapWire systems available for public and private sector clients:
- TW-CI (TrapWire Critical Infrastructure) focuses on the identification of pre-operational surveillance activities occurring around specific sites within the TrapWire Network
- TW-CM (TrapWire Community Member) supports the online reporting of suspicious behavior by community members, such as the iWatch programs in Los Angeles and Washington DC, and See Something Say Something in Las Vegas and New York</li?
- TW-LE (TrapWire Law Enforcement) provides the ability to gather, analyze and disseminate information about surveillance and logistical activities occurring across an entire geographic region, including information gathered via TW CI and TW CM deployments"
TrapWire Inc. is a subsidiary of Abraxas Corporation, which founder and CEO Richard Hollis Holms claims to be the "largest aggregate of analytical counter-terrorism capabilities outside of the U.S. Government." A former (?) company man himself, Helms may be implying here that only the CIA has more CIA operatives on the payroll than he does. TrapWire is no exception, as former (?) CIA operatives on staff there include among others:
- Robert Daniel Botsch, President
- Michael Thomas Maness, Director of Business Development
- Michael K. Chang, Director of Operations
TrapWire took down their Who We Are and Management web pages after the Wikileaks disclosures gave them apparently unwanted public attention, but here are some screenshots and supplementary information:
Speaking of being taken down, Wikileaks suffered a major DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack shortly after the TrapWire releases were posted. According to one observer:
'Now we have something new a group called AntiLeaks has popped up and managed to drop a 10GB/s + DDoS attack on WikiLeaks, their affiliate sites and mirrors. This is something pretty spectacular when you think about it. The group claims to be a group of "young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with Julian Assange and his attempt at asylum in Ecuador", but their tactics and capabilities seems to indicate something more is going on here… Some of the emails leaked indicate that Trapwire has extended beyond its original scope of threat prediction and mitigation into more intrusive areas. This is the type of information that Stratfor, the US Government and of course Abraxas would not want to be public. Some of the data the system is collecting could actually be in violation of privacy laws (as well as potentially violating a few other surveillance laws). You can imagine that with the connection to Stratfor and the US Government Abraxas has there would be some high-level interest in keeping these emails from the public eye. Again this would seem to put the attacks outside the realm of "young adults" and more into the state or corporate sponsored arena.'
I agree. I think Ben Doernberg would as well:
TrapWire and/or "unknown parties" may have taken down Wikileaks in reaction to Julian Assange's fearless and peerless team shedding the light of Truth on their dark activities, but sadly what they DIDN'T take down is the "TrapWire ThoughtCrime Detection Network" itself. If you work for one of fascist Amerika's 16 national security bureaucracies or their myriad "intelligence contractors", or if you're one of the thousands of LEOs and collaborators participating in the DHS National Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) – or "Nasi" for short – you're probably logging in right now:
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CHEF JEFF: ONE BYTE AT A TIME: Artichoke and Spinach Tacos
It's not too early to be thinking about Cinco de Mayo recipes.By: Herald Staff Report,
It's not too early to be thinking about Cinco de Mayo recipes.
Artichoke and Spinach Tacos
1 cup spinach leaves, torn into bite-size pieces
1 cup chopped romaine lettuce
1 cup chopped drained canned artichoke hearts
¼ cup thinly sliced red onion
¼ cup chopped drained canned water chestnuts
Juice of 1 lemon
4 jalapeno peppers, chopped
8 taco shells, warmed
½ cup crumbled Cotija cheese
In bowl, combine spinach, lettuce, artichoke hearts, red onion, water chestnuts. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes or longer to allow flavors to blend. Before serving, toss mixture with lemon juice and jalapenos. To build tacos, divide spinach mixture equally among taco shells. Top with cheese. Fold tortillas in half.
Yield: 8 tacos.
Tip: Rinse and dry vegetables with paper towel before chopping to prevent soggy texture.
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What great news on two Summit High seniors Diane Mastin (Summit Daily News, Dec. 22) and Christy Nichols (Summit Daily News, Jan. 27), both of whom are utilizing the local Colorado Mountain College for college credits prior to making the trip to a larger school. Our daughter did the same during her senior year in high school, her summer at home and on-line courses, amassing 16 credits or one full semester of college credits for less than $1,000 while living at home and working locally during that time. Compare this to $10,000 per semester in-state or up to $20,000 per semester for an out-of-state university. Smart kids and undoubtedly smart parents who should all be commended.
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Modular Chain Conveyor
November 11, 2013 2:12 pm | Dorner Mfg. Corp. | Product Releases | CommentsThe 2200 Series SmartFlex, from Dorner, is a flexible modular chain conveyor that can be configured to wrap around machinery and equipment in the packaging, food, medical and assembly industries.
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August 5, 2013 9:16 am | Product Releases | CommentsAUTOMATION EQUIPMENT: Designed specifically for fully automated handling and processing of highly abrasive, non free-flowing metal flake material, this National Bulk Equipment, Inc., self-contained bulk material conveying system ensures reliable, repeatable material supply to integrated feeders that meter material for introduction to an inline briquetter.
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April 30, 2013 8:12 am | by Rachel Leisemann Immel, Associate Editor, IMPO | Articles | CommentsAble to move a variety of shapes, sizes, weights, and materials, conveyor systems are evolving as automated operations demand 24/7 capabilities, more sustainable options, and expanding choices as the industrial sectors continue to grow.
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Continental- The Bicycle
Ira Ryan and Tony Pereira are unique people. Builders, thinkers, and craftsmen, they are ambassadors for the flourishing custom bicycle 'scene' of Portland, OR. In a city where there are rumored to be over 30 full time builders – and countless backyard builders – standing apart, and standing apart in the ever growing global business of hand built bicycles, cannot be guaranteed.
But what is guaranteed is that anyone who has a frame from either of these men is very, very happy. So it makes sense with their unique collaboration on the limited 'Continental' bicycle, part of the Rapha Bicycle Collection, that the rider who is looking for a year round, all purpose, all day long ride, has found their bicycle in this pairing.
Both being Rapha Continental riders and builders, we sat down with Ira and Tony in 2009 to learn more about their thoughts on riding and building. When the first batch of 'Continental' frames return from paint next month we plan to meet up with them again and talk more about how building the bicycle together is working out.
What is epic, or what does it mean to you? What makes that experience?
Epic is a 20-mile ride in the rain with three flats and lots of mud. Sometimes it's rain, gravel, climbing, or cookies and coffee in the middle of nowhere. Really it's as much about your state of mind as where you are and what you are doing. The rider makes the experience and the bike is just the ultimate accessory.
I grew-up riding 21-pound steel race machines, bikes you could ride hard and put away wet. After a race, we'd throw them into the back of a truck, not worried about paint or our carbon bars breaking. In the last 20 years it's seems like bikes and riders both are little less hard. The heroic hard-man mythology, the Euros' and their spring classics, continue to motivate me, though I think it's being diluted by plastic bits and flammable parts. I like down-tube shifters, lugged steel and riding without a helmet, but that's just me. If a carbon bike works for you, grab your 10-speed ride and let's go suffer some cobbles together.
What inspired you to build? What does the craft mean to you?
Riding a bike up one side of mountain and down the other on a bike that I made with my own two hands—using nothing but simple tools, fire and metal tubes—is my greatest achievement. I love that my craft hasn't changed much in generations. What I'm doing and the way I'm doing it, is the same way my grandfather, had he made bikes, would have done things. That feels good. It feels solid. I think the best tool in the shop is the builder's hands. I think relying too heavily on technology to support your design and technique is risky. Quality is elusive, everywhere you look and in so many aspects of our daily lives, and I think independent bicycle frame builders are doing something small to change that.
What inspires you to build? Why it, and not some other job? What's different about your product and approach? Aesthetics, technique, customer service?
Too many modern bicycles are over-designed. I strive to keep my designs simple and functional. My style is highly influenced by the innovative builders of the mid 20th century. I also find inspiration from other artisans such as watchmakers, furniture makers and luthiers in their pursuit of perfection.
What is a Rapha Continental bike?
The Continental bikes that I built were designed to be comfortable, reasonably lightweight and durable. They are meant to be ridden hard for many miles—much like race bikes, but without sacrificing comfort or durability.
Learn more about their collaboration known as the Continental Bicycle.
Note: The order window for the current offering ends July 1.
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Karloff & Lugosi - Horror Classics
Includes - The Walking Dead (1936) You'll Find Out (1940) Zombies on Broadway (1944) Frankenstein 1970 (1958) The Walking Dead In one of his most successful portrayals of a "living dead" man, Boris Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-convict who is framed by the mob for the murder of the judge who first put him away. Evidence proving Ellman's innocence arrives seconds after he is electrocuted. Officials allow Dr. Evan Beaumont (Edmund Gwenn) to experiment with putting a mechanical heart into Ellman. The device revives the dead man, but he has become a white-haired, monster-faced zombie who hangs out in graveyards and seeks revenge on the conspirators who framed him. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide You'll Find Out This film contains the one and only cinematic group appearance by Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi. Essentially a vehicle for bandleader Kay Kyser and his orchestra, the film finds Kyser hired to perform at the 21st birthday party of heiress Janis Bellacrest (Helen Parrish), the sweetheart of Kay's business manager Chuck Deems (Dennis O'Keefe). The party is held at Janis' family mansion, a spooky old joint dominated by astrology-happy Aunt Margo (Alma Kruger). Among the guests stranded in the mansion by inclement weather are mysterious mystic Prince Sallano (Bela Lugosi), family attorney Judge Mainwaring (Boris Karloff) and Professor Fenninger (Peter Lorre). Though advertised as a "mystery", the film throws the whodunit angle out the window at midway point by revealing that Saliano, Mainwaring and Fenninger are in cahoots, planning to kill Janis to get their hands on her inheritance. These sinister goings-on do not impede Kyser's ability to stage several musical numbers, including "The Bad Humor Man", which, according to studio publicity, was supposed to have been performed by Karloff, Lorre and Lugosi. Once the plot is resolved, Kyser utilizes several of Saliano's props-including the then-new "Sonovox" machine and an electronic zapping device-on his radio program, that leads to a closing gag. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Zombies on Broadway This irresistably-titled comedy is arguably the best of RKO Radio's Wally Brown-Alan Carney vehicles. The daffy duo is cast once more as Jerry Miles and Mike Strager, this time employed as Broadway press agents. Mike and Jerry's latest scheme is to hire a genuine zombie for the opening of a new nightclub. The boys head to a mysterious tropical island with cabaret singer Jean la Dance (Anne Jeffreys), where they cross swords with looney zombie expert Professor Renault (Bela Lugosi). Barely escaping with their lives, Jerry and Jean return to Manhattan with a "zombified" Mike, who is under the spell of Renault's secret formula. When Mike snaps out of his trance, the boys must face the wrath of nasty nightclub owner Ace Miller (Sheldon Leonard), who's a lot more frightening than any zombie. Zombies on Broadway turned a neat profit for RKO, encouraging the studio to reteam Brown, Carney, Anne Jeffreys and Bela Lugosi in the far less satisfying Genius at Work (1946). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Frankenstein 1970 This is one of the more off-beat entries into the Frankenstein sub-genre, in that it features the original Creature, Boris Karloff (who really hams it up) playing the disfigured grandson of the famed mad baron in a style that combines gothic horror with the awe and fear created by the newly dawned atomic age. The story begins in the title year and finds Victor the III living in the ancestral castle and strapped for the cash he needs to resurrect his grandfather's experiments. He needs a fortune because this time he wants to use atomic power to bring the monster to life. To scare up the needed cash, he lets a television crew come to his famous digs to shoot a show. He ends up getting a lot more than money from the cast and crew and eventually he succeeds in creating a brand-new Creature. Unfortunately, the monster proves to be as volatile as his predecess
High Crimes - Blu-ray Disc
Defense attorney Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) seems to have the perfect life. She has a high profile job at a big firm, a beautiful home outside San Francisco, and a husband, Tom (James Caviezel of The Thin Red Line), who loves her. Claire's biggest problem appears to be that she wants to have a baby, and she's having trouble getting pregnant. But when the police investigate a routine break-in at her home, they uncover the truth about her husband's identity, and her life is thrown into turmoil. Claire finds out that her husband's name is actually Ron Chapman, and that he's an ex-marine accused of murdering seven innocent civilians in El Salvador during a raid in the late '80s. He admits that he was there, and that he changed his identity to escape prosecution for the crimes, but he insists that he's innocent, and that the massacre was committed by another soldier under the orders of a powerful general (Bruce Davison), who is using Ron as a patsy to cover it up. Claire is eventually convinced that Ron's telling the truth. Faced with defending her husband in an unfamiliar military courtroom, Claire enlists the aid of Charles Grimes (Morgan Freeman), an ex-Army judge advocate with an axe to grind. Stonewalled by the military bureaucracy at every turn, they uncover a web of deception and disappearing witnesses, and they soon find their own lives in danger. High Crimes was adapted from Joseph Finder's novel by the husband and wife screenwriting team of Yuri Zeltser and Cary Bickley. The film was directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move), and co-stars Amanda Peet and Adam Scott. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
All in the Family - The Complete First Season
Includes - All in the Family: Meet the Bunkers (1971) All in the Family: Writing the President (1971) All in the Family: Archie Gives Blood (1971) All in the Family: Gloria Is Pregnant (1971) All in the Family: Lionel Moves Into the Neighborhood (1971) All in the Family: The First and Last Supper (1971) All in the Family: Success Story (1971) All in the Family: Gloria Discovers Women's Lib (1971) All in the Family: Archie Is Worried About His Job (1971) All in the Family: Edith Has Jury Duty (1971) All in the Family: Now That You Know the Way (1971) All in the Family: Judging Books By Covers (1971) All in the Family: Archie's Aching Back (1971) All in the Family: Meet the Bunkers The sitcom that changed the face of American television premiered on January 12, 1971, with the last of three pilot episodes filmed between 1968 and 1970 (during which time the property underwent two near-complete cast overhauls and three title changes). Written by series co-producer Norman Lear, "Meet the Bunkers" used the occasion of Archie and Edith Bunker's wedding anniversary to introduce the main characters and rapidly establish both the mood and tenor of all the episodes to come. Though virtually plotless, the episode is jam-packed with incident: Archie and Mike have a heated argument over "racial profiling," Edith tries to drag a recalcitrant Archie to church, Gloria and Mike are so hot for one another that they can barely wait until they get to the bedroom, and Lionel Jefferson (Mike Evans) uses broad African-American stereotypes to subtly needle the reactionary Archie. Especially worth noting in this inaugural episode is Jean Stapleton's portrayal of Edith, who comes off as a lot less stupid and a lot more sarcastic than she would in future episodes. While "Meet the Bunkers" seems somewhat tame when seen today, it packed enough of a wallop back in 1971 for CBS to issue a disclaimer at the beginning of the program, in which the network lauded All in the Family for its courage and daring and simultaneously begged the viewers' pardon for those qualities. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide All in the Family: Writing the President Incensed that Mike has written a stern and critical letter to President Nixon, super-patriotic Archie tries to set things right by penning his own missive to the Chief Executive. "Dear Mr. President...Your Honor...Sir..." -- and Archie even dons a clean shirt and tie for the occasion. Scripted by Paul Harrison, Lennie Weinrib, and Norman Lear from a story by Les Erwin and Fred Freiberger, "Writing the President" originally aired on January 19, 1971. Though withdrawn from CBS' daytime rerun package of All in the Family at the request of producer Lear (who felt that Archie's behavior was ridiculous even for him), the episode has since been restored to the series' syndicated package. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide All in the Family: Archie Gives Blood Archie balks at the notion of donating blood at the local Red Cross. When Mike accuses him of being chicken, Archie protests that he doesn't want to give up a precious pint of his own "pure" blood unless he can be certain that the recipient will not be a member of a minority group. Archie's ethnocentric monologues in this episode are so incredibly convoluted that one almost grudgingly admires his stubborn stupidity. Written by series coproducer Norman Lear, "Archie Gives Blood" first aired on February 2, 1971, replacing the originally scheduled episode "Judging Books by Covers." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide All in the Family: Gloria Is Pregnant When Gloria announces that she's pregnant, both Mike and Archie blanche in terror. Not only did Mike enter into matrimony with the understanding that there wouldn't be any children, but he just plain can't afford to be a father. As for Archie, he is dead set against Gloria bringing a "little Meathead" into the world. The ending of this episode is especially poignant, with Archie revealing a heretofore well-hidden tender and comp
All in the Family - The Complete Second Season
Includes - All in the Family: The Saga of Cousin Oscar (1971) All in the Family: Christmas Day at the Bunkers (1971) All in the Family: Cousin Maude's Visit (1971) All in the Family: The Man in the Street (1971) All in the Family: The Insurance Is Cancelled (1971) All in the Family: Mike's Problem (1971) All in the Family: The Blockbuster (1971) All in the Family: Edith's Accident (1971) All in the Family: The Election Story (1971) All in the Family: Flashback - Mike Meets Archie (1971) All in the Family: Gloria Poses in the Nude (1971) All in the Family: Edith Writes a Song (1971) All in the Family: Archie and the Lock-Up (1971) All in the Family: The Elevator Story (1972) All in the Family: Edith's Problem (1972) All in the Family: Mike's Mysterious Son (1972) All in the Family: Archie and Edith Alone (1972) All in the Family: Sammy's Visit (1972) All in the Family: Maude (1972) All in the Family: Archie Is Jealous (1972) All in the Family: Edith the Judge (1972) All in the Family: Edith Gets a Mink (1972) All in the Family: Archie Sees a Mugging (1972) All in the Family: Archie and the FBI (1972) All in the Family: The Saga of Cousin Oscar Season two of All in the Family commenced on September 18, 1971 with yet another taboo-banning episode. Scripted by Burt Styler and Norman Lear from a story by Styler, "The Saga of Cousin Oscar" dared to turn a subject as serious as death into a joke. No one in the Bunker family can abide freeloading cousin Oscar, least of all Archie. Thus, when Oscar has the audacity to drop dead in Archie and Edith's upstairs bedroom, poor Arch is stuck with the funeral expenses -- and the eulogy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide All in the Family: Christmas Day at the Bunkers Christmas is anything but merry in the Bunker household this year. Anticipating his usual Christmas bonus, Archie makes like a modern-day Scrooge when the bonus doesn't come through. Meanwhile, Edith, Gloria, and Mike try to make the best of things for themselves and their erstwhile dinner guests, the Jeffersons. Written by Don Nicholl, "Christmas Day at the Bunkers" was appropriately telecast on December 18, 1971 -- then inappropriately rerun in July 1972. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide All in the Family: Cousin Maude's Visit Bea Arthur makes her first-ever appearance as Maude Findlay, ultra-conservative Archie's ultra-liberal cousin. Described by Archie as "the original creeping socialist," Maude has steered clear of the Bunker household for years. But when the entire family comes down with the flu, "Maudie" arrives to take care of the household -- and, of course, to cross ideological swords with Archie. Written by Philip Mishkin, Michael Ross, and Bernie West, "Cousin Maude's Visit" was originally network-cast on December 11, 1971. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide All in the Family: The Man in the Street Interviewed by a WCBS-TV reporter about Nixon's economic plan, Archie is thrilled to learn that his interview will appear on the evening news. Alas, the Bunkers' TV set is broken and practically every other set in the neighborhood is likewise incapacitated. After numerous frustrations, Archie finally gets to see himself on the boob tube -- or does he? Neil J. Schwartz appears as Levy the repairman, who delivers the episode's funniest line. Written by Lennie Weinrib, Paul Harrison, and Don Nicholl from a story by Weinrib and Harrison (incidentally the same team responsible for the classic Saturday-morning series H.R. Pufnstuff), "The Man in the Streeet" first aired on December 4, 1971. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide All in the Family: The Insurance Is Cancelled So often the dispenser of thoughtless discrimination, Archie finds himself forced to take his own medicine. This occurs when the Bunkers' home insurance is canceled thanks to the company's new racial red-lining procedures. Archie's plight at home is contrasted with his on-the-job decision to lay off a Puerto Rican employee. Philip Proctor of Firesign Theater fame


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