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FBN's Lou Dobbs on the perks former Presidents continue to receive, paid for by taxpayers.
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Following tonight's flip side new calls to do away with what some consider unnecessary presidential perks and very expensive -- arm.
A new report pointing out that each year we taxpayers shell out millions of dollars to pick up the bills.
For our former presidents we paid 151000 dollars for example just 151000.
For Jimmy Carter's postage.
Among these numbers for Bill Clinton's office -- 80000 -- hence.
-- -- George W Bush's telephone bills there's no limit on what our former presidents can expense.
I mean did you notice.
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Politics for a very long time had no idea.
That these bills were being run through the GSA there is set at.
In 2010 along President Carter expense.
Half a million dollars.
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Dollars so.
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George W.
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More than three million dollars by the way.
The entitlements created in 1958 because Harry Truman then couldn't afford to pay his bills as a former president.
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Million dollars in speaking fees just last year I get ready for this George W.
Bush netted fifteen million for his speeches.
Congressman Jason -- -- says now leading a bipartisan effort to come up taxpayer expenses.
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By Henry Cuningham Military editor
A military jury begins deliberations today in the case of Sgt. Jeffrey T. Hurst, who is accused of hazing, maltreatment and dereliction of duty in the suicide of Pvt. Danny Chen in Afghanistan.
On Thursday afternoon, the defense and prosecution made closing arguments to the eight-member panel of officers and senior noncommissioned officers at Fort Bragg. At least six must concur for a guilty verdict, Col. David Robertson, the military judge, told the panel.
Chen, 19, arrived for duty with the unit in Afghanistan shortly after basic training, and other soldiers questioned his fitness to be in a combat zone. One soldier dragged him over rocks. Chen was punished by having to do pushups with a sandbag on his back and walk around with sandbags tied to his wrists. At one point, Chen was made to wear a green construction helmet and speak Chinese.
The prosecution and defense debated whether harsh treatment was "permissible for corrective training," intended to remedy his shortcomings and make him a better soldier.
"He was the smallest, youngest kid out there," Maj. Joshua M. Toman, the lead prosecutor, told panel members in his closing statement. "They used him as their plaything."
As a leader, Hurst should have been setting the example, Toman said. Instead, the message was that "Chen was fair game," he said.
Haytham Faraj, Hurst's civilian lawyer, described the soldiers who have been tried as "heroes offered for sacrifice on a political altar." He blamed Army criminal investigators for "rushing to judgment" and called one CID agent "a liar.
"He told this hero, 'You are not worthy of being in the Army. You are a piece of (expletive),' " Faraj said.
Hurst, Chen's team leader, is the sixth of eight soldiers facing charges related to the Chinese-American soldier's suicide in October 2011. The soldiers are from the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division in Alaska. The case is at Fort Bragg because the unit was attached in Afghanistan to the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg.
Hurst is charged with negligently failing to prevent Sgts. Travis F. Carden and Adam M. Holcomb and Spcs. Ryan J. Offutt and Thomas P. Curtis from hazing Chen "as it was his duty to do."
The soldiers were weary and combat-fatigued from constant patrols where the odds were high that they would be shot or blown up, Faraj said.
They saw an explosion blow off a good friend's leg and witnessed a buddy hit in the face by an explosion, the Faraj said. Hurst dragged a wounded soldier 400 meters to safety, he said.
On Thursday morning, Dr. Thomas Grieger, a forensic psychiatrist, testified that Hurst "clearly was exhibiting symptoms" of post-traumatic stress disorder, which may have taken a toll on his some of his ability to function.
Faraj said there is not enough evidence to show Hurst knew of or was involved in bullying. He said the prosecutor "talked about everybody but Sgt. Hurst" in his descriptions of Chen's hazing.
"Why would a soldier who is doing so well day in and day out become such a dirt bag, according to the prosecutor?" Faraj asked.
Hurst is charged with maltreating Chen by calling him "zipperhead" and "dragon lady."
"They brought some dark humor into their lives," Faraj said, adding that nicknames have been around the Army for a long time.
"It's not about suicide," Toman, the prosecutor said in his rebuttal to the defense's closing argument. "It's not about nicknames. It's about duty."
Hurst took the stand Wednesday and denied hazing Chen.
His parents sat in the courtroom behind him.
"Please give him back to his parents and find him not guilty," Faraj told the jury. "Thank you."
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Forecasters say Hurricane Sandy is a rare hybrid superstorm created by an Arctic jet stream from the north wrapping itself around a tropical storm from the south. Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at the Weather Underground, warns that such a "Frankenstorm," as it is called, is an outgrowth of the extreme weather changes caused by global warming. "When you do heat the oceans up more, you extend the length of hurricane season,"...Oct 29, 2012 | Story
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has acknowledged the massive Sandy storm could impact both coastal and inland nuclear power plants. At least 16 reactors are in the storm's projected path, including North Anna and Surry in Virginia; Calvert Cliffs in Maryland; Oyster Creek, Hope Creek and Salem in New Jersey; Indian Point in New York; Millstone in Connecticut; and Vermont Yankee. So far, there have been no reports of reactors shutting down,...Oct 29, 2012 | Story
Superstorm Sandy has pounded the East Coast, bringing massive flooding and damage that's left at least 16 people dead in the United States, killed more than 60 in the Carribean, and left more than seven million without power from North Carolina to Massachusetts. Parts of New York City were submerged under water as high as 13 feet, flooding a number of subway stations and causing blackouts. Sandy made landfall in New Jersey Monday night near...Oct 30, 2012 | Story
Climate author and activists Mike Tidwell argues "we are all New Orleanians up and down the East Coast," as he relates the devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy to the experience of those in the past of similar storms that hit the Gulf Coast. "The fingerprints of climate change are all over this storm" and others, says Tidwell as he joins us from Takoma, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., where the federal government...Oct 30, 2012 | Story
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I wouldn't have pegged this as a musician's home but the Real Estalker Mama found out that this restored colonial belongs to Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates. The estate known as Flint Hill is near the town of Amenia, New York and spans over 245 acres with views of the Catksills.
Hall created one massive home by combining two homes, one from 1770 and one from 1786 (the 1786 Oliver Hanchett House from Suffield, Connecticut and the nearby 1770 Bates Tavern of East Granby, Connecticut) which were disassembled, moved from their original locations and combined on the home. The homes are joined by a huge great room that features a catwalk. The large home has over 24 rooms including a huge country kitchen, numerous parlors, sitting rooms and libraries and the original tavern room. The decor keeps fairly strictly to the Colonial aesthetic which is gently augmented with treats like an Aga range in the kitchen. But overall the home reminds me of the ones in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, too perfect to feel authentic. In fact there's room enough for a whole village here should you want to escape from the modern world entirely. The property includes several guest houses, a music studio and an indoor pool as well as woods, meadows, farm roads, stone walls and walks, terraces, old apple orchards, a neolithic fire pit and a pond. It is listed at $16 million with Klemm Real Estate.
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OGDEN — Maybe Lindquist Field was built on the hallowed ground of some secret, ancient burial site of the Ute or Paiute Indian tribes.
Or perhaps the Ogden Raptors' home field, which boasts one of the best views in all of professional baseball, was once the final resting place of prehistoric dinosaurs, thousands of years ago. Thus, by having the audacity to construct a baseball stadium there, and then naming the team that plays there the "Raptors" — a ferocious (and, thanks to the "Jurassic Park" films, somewhat fictionalized) carnivore that roamed the earth way, way, way back in the day — the Ogden franchise incurred some sort of dreadful "Curse of the Creature" that has prevented them from winning a Pioneer League championship.
OK, so it's not nearly as glamorous as the famed "Curse of the Bambino" which befuddled the Boston Red Sox for nearly 90 years, or the "Curse of the Billy Goat" which continues to plague the Chicago Cubs, who haven't reached the World Series since 1945 and haven't won Major League Baseball's annual Fall Classic for more than a century.
But, come on now, how else would you explain Ogden's futility when it comes to claiming a league crown? After all, the Raptors — the baseball team, not those vicious critters that continually terrorized cast members in the "Jurassic Park" movies — have reached the Pioneer League championship series in each of the last three years, and four times in all since the franchise was founded in 1994.
And how many league titles do they have to show for it? Precisely the same number of World Series championships the Cubs have won over the last 100 years.
Yep, none.
"I feel bad for the kids and, more importantly, I feel bad for the fans because they've been behind us for 19 years," said Raptors founder, team president and part-owner Dave Baggott, whose team has led the league in home attendance every year since moving into Lindquist Field in 1997.
"Hopefully, they'd get a title for themselves, for the kids and for the city of Ogden.
"They're great fans and they'll be back again next year and, hopefully, we can tighten the shoes and go back out and try it again.
"To just fall short at the end, it's a bitter pill to swallow," he said.
"But that's what's great about baseball. You wake up the next day and do it all over again."
Meanwhile, their in-state rivals down south, the Orem Owlz, have captured four Pioneer League titles since their inception in 2001 — 2004 (as the Provo Angels), '05, '07 and '09 — under longtime manager Tom Kotchman.
Ogden's latest Pioneer League finale failure occurred Friday night, when the Raptors were shelled by the Missoula Osprey, 10-0, in their league championship showdown at Lindquist Field.
The Raptors, who sent the title series to a decisive third game by slapping the Osprey 13-7 on Thursday night, fell behind 5-0 after Friday's first inning and never recovered.
It marked Ogden's third straight losing trip to the league finals, where they have now compiled a dismal 1-8 overall record in their four failed attempts to bring home that elusive championship.
Ogden manager Damon Berryhill knows a little bit about the disappointment of coming so close to winning it all, only to be denied. He spent 10 seasons at the major league level, including the 1989 campaign with the division-winning Cubs' ballclub that lost in the National League playoffs, and the 1991-93 seasons with the Atlanta Braves' ballclub that swept three straight division titles, only to lose in the World Series in 1991-92 and in the National League Championship Series in '93.
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If the stars had aligned differently, both figuratively and literally, actor Ryan Gosling might have been a Backstreet Boy.
He and singer A.J. McLean lived in the same apartment complex when the boy band was first getting together, TMZ.com reported.
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The fiscal cliff is the biggest near term threat to the global economy.
So says Fitch ratings -- a new report our next guest believes that the fiscal cliff is gonna hurt the US economy through the rest of this year Jeremy Lawson is being.
Thanks for what -- I'm sort of lead and I gave here but Jerry can I just hope that because the consequences of fiscal cliff are so bad.
That they're -- gonna fix it.
-- -- -- -- You don't succeed by the end of the -- the problem is over the next few months there's a lot of uncertainty about exactly what would happen.
Yeah I think you need your business at the mine and even though confidence about what tax write to get a look like next -- how regulatory policies going to look what the excuse.
So is this is sort of in bargaining going to be increasing capital spending knows what we sees things.
Really pulling back on the capital expenditure plans and the economy started to suffer for -- Now I believe that -- the report today they basically argued that the cleft goes over the cliff -- GDP growth -- employing thirteen.
Gets cut in half.
Does that mean basically -- government spending is now going to be responsible for half of our GDP growth.
Well what it means is saying anything about the saws of the fiscal clear if the tightening fiscal policy next year.
Would be worth 4% of GDP if everything was legislated took actually -- Sony.
If you apply even a relatively small multiplier of about a half to that.
That would reduce growth by two percentage points.
Now the economy at the moment is probably -- growing at about one an opportunity -- so that's enough to generate a recession for accelerate signal.
-- don't -- at the moment isn't directly contributing strongly to -- But he cut back on.
On spending aggressively in particularly if you raise taxes most of the fiscal -- his tax increases.
If you do that didn't -- it very shops longing -- makes you wish they could intersection.
You have -- which is the bigger bad impact on the US economy global economy that tax increases or the government spending cuts that I -- government spending cuts are good thing.
We'll know it depends on how it because I'd say in the long term it's necessary before Citi.
US to get spending under control.
In the question is how how quickly do you make that progress what you want to do is Ichi might moderate -- probably progress so good fiscal policy put on a more sustainable footing.
What you don't want is very shot corrections in the single year -- GDP issues taxes.
You get 3% of GDP in talking fiscal policy just from the tax increases this year due to -- Canada.
And that would be very bad for the economy.
Yes now do you think that consumers got a consumer level that this fiscal cliff stuff actually.
Takes away their confidence or do you think consumers are thinking more about their own paycheck and whether they're neighbor next are getting fired.
Nothing -- the money in the.
The -- is probably not playing on consumers as much as it is weighing on businesses.
And we -- to see that in the consumer confidence -- consumer spending is still it's still progressing optically rapidly it is still is still increasing.
Maybe as we get closer to the end of the year -- the looks like actually you might be facing significant increases taxes.
And you could see shot correction -- so we just horrified that that congress can do deal.
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The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint in federal district court in Atlanta, Georgia charging Georgia-based Preferred Alliance, Inc. and its principal Bruno Faillace, who did business as VacantSun Travel Discounts and GenesisCard, with a range of illegal activities related to the company's sale of buying club memberships through third-party telemarketers. According to the FTC's complaint, in pitching their supposedly "free" no obligation trial offers to consumers nationwide, the defendants' telemarketers failed to tell consumers that the offer was actually a "negative option" plan, under which the defendants would automatically charge the purchasers a $99.95 annual fee if the purchasers did not cancel by the end of the trial period and in a prescribed manner. In addition, the FTC's complaint alleges that the defendants received consumers' billing information from the telemarketers without the consumers' consent, used the information to illegally bill the consumers, and then either refused to provide refunds or did not do so in a timely manner.
"Telemarketers need to be sure that consumers agree to be charged, and what account will be charged -- even if they have an account number from another transaction," said Howard Beales, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "If you charge consumers without their permission, we'll charge you with committing a fraud."
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The FTC's complaint alleges that Preferred Alliance solicited prospective customers using deceptive telemarketing, followed-up by misleading direct mail. Employing the corporate names VacantSun Travel Discounts and GenesisCard, the defendants allegedly used third-party telemarketers whom consumers had contacted directly to purchase a variety of advertised products, including vitamins and diet aids. In some instances, the third-party telemarketers called consumers directly to pitch their products and services. The FTC alleges that after the telemarketers made a sale, they sometimes offered Preferred Alliance's discount travel or discount family health care plans through an "up-sell" - a marketing technique in which a vendor sells its products or services through a telemarketing call, then attempts to sell additional products or services after the consumer already has provided his or her payment information for the initial sale.
During the up-sell, the defendants' telemarketers allegedly told consumers that the Preferred Alliance promotion was a "trial gift," "risk-free package," or provided at "no charge to you." According to the FTC, they did not disclose, however, that Preferred Alliance would automatically enroll the consumers as GenesisCard or VacantSun members or that they would automatically charge the debit or credit cards the customers had used to make the initial purchase unless the consumers cancelled the membership. In addition, the defendants allegedly failed to disclose the requirements for cancellation. Further, according to the complaint, after obtaining the consumers' credit or debit card information for the initial product sale, the third-party telemarketers transferred the consumers' billing information to Preferred Alliance.
Preferred Alliance then sent two pieces of direct mail to consumers - a "membership kit" and a "courtesy notice of automatic billing." Consumers simply discarded many of these items because they thought they were junk mail, the FTC's complaint said. Preferred Alliance then began billing consumers in one of two ways. They either began immediate billing, despite representations that such billing would occur only after a specified free-trial period, or double-billed consumers' debit or credit cards for their "membership enrollment."
The defendants allegedly never told consumers that they already had their debit or credit card information. When consumers later complained about the unauthorized billing, the FTC's complaint contends, Preferred Alliance failed to issue promised refunds or failed to do so in a timely manner.
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According to the Commission's complaint, the defendants violated Section 5 of the FTC Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, Truth in Lending Act, and Regulation Z in the following ways. First, either directly or through third-partly telemarketers, defendants allegedly failed to disclose material information to consumers, including the negative-option aspects of the upsell. Second, they allegedly unfairly billed consumers without their knowledge or authorization. Third, they allegedly failed to promptly credit consumers for money they were owed.
In filing its complaint, the Commission is seeking injunctive relief to stop permanently the allegedly illegal practices, as well as any other ancillary relief, including consumer redress, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, and restitution as deemed appropriate by the court to remedy injury caused by the defendants' actions.
The Commission vote authorizing the staff to file the complaint in federal district court was 5-0. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division on February 12, 2003.
NOTE: The Commission authorizes the filing of a complaint when it has "reason to believe" that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. The complaint is not a finding or ruling that the defendant actually has violated the law. The case will be decided by the court.
Copies of the complaint are available from the FTC's Web site at http://www.ftc.gov and also from the FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580. The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint, or to get free information on any of 150 consumer topics, call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357), or use the complaint form at http://www.ftc.gov. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.
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Riverside Brookfield's football opener at St. Francis was called off Friday night due to lightning and moved to Saturday morning. More lightning Saturday morning moved the game to Sunday afternoon, when the host Spartans won 35-9.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. - Brian Elser and Josh McQuade each had a goal and an assist to lead Fayetteville to a 3-1 win over Columbus on Friday night in the SPHL.
The FireAntz (20-11) took a 2-0 lead in the second period and held on.
Elser scored in the first period on an assist from goalie Marc Emond. Anthony Bergin scored in the second period on assists from McQuade and Ben Contini for a 2-0 lead.
Columbus cut the deficit to 2-1 on an unassisted goal by Matt Gingera.
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Emond stopped 24 shots for the FireAntz.
Fayetteville plays at Columbus again tonight.
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AKC™ Skin and Coat Nutritionally Enhanced Dog Treat
Dogs love salmon and will love the AKC™ Skin and Coat Dog Treats. They are made with real salmon and are nutritionally enhanced. Great for teaching dogs new tricks or for behavior reinforcement. AKC™ Skin and Coat Dog Treats are made in the USA.
Item Specifications:
Size: 6 oz.
Flavor: Salmon
Feeding Guidelines:
Recommend one Treat per 10 lbs of your dog's weight per day
Salmon, Water sufficient for processing, Barley Flour, Pregelatinized Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Propylene Glycol, Chicken Meal, Poultry Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid), Minerals (Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Cobalt Proteinate), Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Vitamin E Supplement, Dried Egg Product, Natural Smoke Flavor, Salt, Sunflower Oil, Flax Seeds, Phosphoric Acid, Potassium Sorbate (a preservative), Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite.
Crude Protein (min.).................................12.0%
Crude Fat (min.).........................................8.0%
Crude Fiber (max)......................................2.0%
Moisture (max)........................................30.0%
Zinc (min.).....................................2100 mg/kg
Omega 6 Fatty Acids (min.)........................0.7%
*Omega 3 Fatty Acids (min.)......................0.2%
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO (Association of American Feed Control Officials) Dog Food Nutrient Profile
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NEW YORK - A conservative Lutheran group is reprimanding its pastor in Newtown, Conn., for participating in an interfaith vigil after the Sandy Hook massacre.
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod says the Rev. Rob Morris inadvertently gave the impression that he was involved in joint worship with clergy from other religions.
The denomination bars clergy from praying with representatives from other religions, including some other Lutheran groups, for fear of giving the appearance that theological differences about salvation and other doctrines don't matter.
The church says Morris has apologized for taking part in the Dec. 16th event, which included Christian, Jewish, Muslim and other leaders. President Barack Obama and Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy attended.
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod reprimanded another pastor in 2001 who took part in an interfaith vigil after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Jeffco Schools' plan to store student data in the inBloom cloud-based system continues to cultivate controversy and doubt among some Jeffco parents.
Nearly 50 people gathered to discuss inBloom at a town hall meeting Saturday at The Peak Community Center in Littleton. Jeffco school board members Paula Noonan and Laura Boggs sponsored the event.
"A group of parents had asked Paula and me to see if we could schedule a meeting like this to discuss these issues," Boggs said. "There was a great deal of info tonight."
Editor's note: With numerous forums scheduled for the six school board candidates, the Columbine Courier will focus each story on one single issue that arises in each debate. Visit www.columbinecourier.com and click on "Politics" under the "News" tab for candidate profiles and for coverage of the candidate forums.
Jeffco school board candidates shared their views on whether arming teachers with firearms would make classrooms and schools safer at a candidate forum on Sept. 24.
Julie Williams, a Colorado native and a product of Jeffco schools, is running for school board.
Williams, who is making her first bid for public office, is vying with Tonya Aultman-Bettridge in District 1, which covers the northern part of the county. Robin Johnson, who had held the District 1 seat since 2009, resigned in August after moving out of the county.
Education funding and voucher programs were at the center of the discussion at last Friday's Jeffco school board candidate forum in Arvada.
Six candidates are vying for three open seats on the Jeffco school board in the Nov. 5 election. Tonya Aultman-Bettridge and Julie Williams (District 1), John Newkirk and Jeff Lamontagne (District 2), and Ken Witt and Gordon "Spud" Van de Water (District 5) discussed why they're running and their future plans for Jeffco's public schools.
Parents of students in Jeffco Public Schools will now be able to opt out of the controversial inBloom system for storing student data.
That announcement came at a school board meeting Sept. 19, after months of controversy related to parental concerns about the security of the cloud-based data storage system, and about the student information that will be collected.
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The 11-member Science, Technology, Engineering and Math team won first place in the Great Plains Regional on Jan. 26 in Manhattan, Kan., and went to D.C. over Presidents Day Weekend to compete against the winners of 36 other regions. At the Washington competition, the Deer Creek STEM team won a special award for Best Fire Protection Plan.


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Lola Montès [DVD]
Director : Max Ophuls
Screenplay : Max Ophuls (based on the book La Vie Extraordinaire de Lola Montès by Cécil Saint-Laurent; adaptation by Annette Wademant and Max Ophuls; dialogue by Jacques Natanson)
MPAA Rating : NR
Year of Release : 1955
Stars : Martine Carol (Lola Montès), Peter Ustinov (Circus Master), Anton Walbrook (Ludwig I, King of Bavaria), Henri Guisol (Horseman Maurice), Lise Delamare (Mrs. Craigie, Lola's mother), Paulette Dubost (Josephine, the maid), Oskar Werner (Student), Jean Galland (Private Secretary), Will Quadflieg (Franz Liszt), Héléna Manson (Lieutenant James' Sister), Germaine Delbat (Stewardess), Carl Esmond (Doctor), Jacques Fayet (Steward), Friedrich Domin (Circus Manager), Werner Finck (Wisböck)
As a swan song for the great German director Max Ophuls, Lola Montès is a fitting testament to the enormity of his vision even as it proved to be a controversial punctuation mark on the end of his impressive career, which spanned three decades and two continents. After his triumphant return to Europe after spending several years making films in Hollywood, the expensive international coproduction Lola Montès should have been his crowning achievement, a glorious, full-color, CinemaScope romantic spectacle to cap off the five-year run he had with La ronde (1950), Le plaisir (1952), and The Earrings of Madame de… (1953). Instead, it was a commercial and critical disaster that was unceremoniously butchered by its producers to try to recoup their money, with the only result being the possible destruction of Ophuls' final film. Thankfully, Lola Montès has been reconstructed and restored over the years, bringing it as close as possible to the director's original vision, and even if the film doesn't work nearly as well as his greatest achievements, it is still a compelling testament to his artistry.
Like La ronde, the narrative in Lola Montès is structured with a highly theatrical and imminently self-conscious device, in this case a grandiose American circus directed by Peter Ustinov's grandstanding Circus Master (a completely fictional conceit). The center of the show is the title character, Lola Montès (Martine Carol), the infamous real-life 19th-century cabaret dancer and courtesan who scandalized Bavaria with her marriage to King Ludwig I (Anton Walbrook), who made her a countess much to the disgust of the Bavarian people. The circus recreates her exploits "in pantomime, acrobatics, tableaux vivants, with music and dance and with the entire orchestra," although we see most of her life unfold in a nonlinear series of flashbacks structured in concert with both Lola's subjectivity and the ballyhoo of the fantasy circus. Given Ophuls' tendency to romanticize the darker, contentious corners of European society (some of his most memorable characters are prostitutes), it is little surprise that he was drawn to Lola's story, which plays as a sly undercutting of the heights of decorum in favor of passion and emotion.
The film's central problem, however, is with its casting of French "sex siren" Martine Carol as Lola, a woman who should compel our attention, but instead merely toys with it. Carol, who was chosen by the producers for her box-office appeal, rather than her appropriateness for the role, is striking and has a definite screen presence, but she never truly captivates or convinces us that men as varied as Ludwig I and the great composer Franz Liszt (Will Quadflieg) would be drawn into her spell. Her best moments, in fact, take place in the circus framing device, which is presented as a genuine event, but feels dreamlike and unreal. In these sequences, Lola is an object to be scrutinized and questioned by the largely unseen audience, reduced from her once glorious heights in royalty to a sideshow attraction, a living doll in a dollhouse of someone else's making. With her generally vacant stare, Carol conveys a woman not inhabiting her own skin, playing the role for the crowds in a way that is more tragic than titillating (the fact that the audience doesn't seem to recognize this makes it all the more poignant). However, in the flashback sequences that comprise the bulk of the film, Carol never quite manages to convince us of her character's appeal, which cuts out the center of the film and makes it difficult to fully engage.
Ophuls does his best to fill that gap with his elegant sense of style, which adorns the first-rate costume and production design with fluid, sweeping camera movements that pull us into each moment with grace and beauty. The extreme widescreen aspect ratio (CinemaScope at this time was a full 2.55:1) gives his compositions an added sense of spaciousness, and the Eastmancolor imbues each moment with a feverishness that grayscale can never quite convey. Yet, the intensified style that comes with widescreen and color almost feels like too much; it is as if Ophuls had perfected his approach in the realm of black and white and the Academy aspect ratio, and by adding to it the style becomes imbalanced, which weighs too heavily on the story and characters and keeps them from becoming anything more than narrative conceits.
Lola Montès Criterion Collection Two-Disc DVD Set | |
Lola Montès is also available from the Criterion Collection on Blu-Ray. | |
Aspect Ratio | 2.55:1 |
Audio | French Dolby Digital 3.0 stereo |
Subtitles | English |
Supplements | |
Distributor | The Criterion Collection |
Release Date | February 16, 2010 |
You may not know it just by watching the film, but getting Lola Montès on video in this condition has been a long and winding road. The insert booklet for Criterion's DVD contains a comprehensive discussion of the film's history and its various versions and restorations. The version seen on this disc is the final restoration begun in 2006, which utilized a wide range of elements including the incomplete original negative, a rough cut, the original YCM black-and-white color separations, and an incomplete exhibition print. All of these sources were digitized and reconfigured to approximate as closely as possible the version of the film that debuted in December 1955 and was subsequently hacked apart by the producers into various shortened versions. The high-definition image presented here is generally outstanding, especially given the varied sources from which it was constructed. Colors are solid and generally constant, and detail is good throughout. Various digital clean-up software has ensured a consistently clean image free of dirt, debris, and marks. The clean, digitally restored three-channel soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit and edited together from the original 4-track magnetic tracks of two original CinemaScope prints (a later monaural soundtrack was used to fill in one small gap). | |
Film scholar Susan White, author of The Cinema of Max Ophuls (1995), contributes an exceptionally informative screen-specific audio commentary that helps situate the film aesthetically and within its various social and institutional contexts. "Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner" (53 min.) is a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps that features interviews with many of Ophuls' collaborators, including Danielle Darrieux and Simone Simon. Max by Marcel is a new 33-minute documentary by Ophuls' son Marcel Ophuls about his father and the making of Lola Montès, on which he worked as an assistant director. Finally, the disc includes silent film footage of Martine Carol briefly demonstrating the various glamorous hairstyles seen in the film and Rialto Pictures' theatrical re-release trailer. |
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The Rowdies are back!
Citrus Sports Group, LLC, the ownership group of FC Tampa Bay, today announced that the team name will be changed from FC Tampa Bay to the Tampa Bay Rowdies starting immediately for the 2012 season and beyond.
Citrus Sports Group reached an agreement with Texas-based Classic Ink, Inc. giving Citrus Sports Group immediate exclusive rights and future ownership of the Rowdies trademark.
"The Rowdies name has been synonymous with the highest level of professional soccer in the Tampa Bay area for decades," said Citrus Sports Group President Andrew Nestor. "We are thrilled to bring it back for soccer fans in Tampa Bay, around the country and around the globe. The Rowdies were Tampa's first ever pro sports franchise and claimed Tampa Bay's first pro championship in 1975 winning the NASL Championship. We are appreciative of Classic Ink and their willingness to work with us on this agreement."
The club unveiled today a new primary team logo, which prominently features the word Rowdies and is a direct link to the original Rowdies logo. The team's new website will be located at RowdiesSoccer.com. The team will unveil new uniforms and secondary branding leading up to the 2012 season.
The Rowdies are a men's professional soccer team who enter their third season of play next April as part of the North American Soccer League (NASL). The original Tampa Bay Rowdies came to Tampa in 1975 as an expansion team in the North American Soccer League (NASL). From 1975-1984, the Rowdies were one of the most successful teams in the NASL – winning the Soccer Bowl Championship in 1975 and reaching the finals in 1978 and 1979.
"At the NASL we are very proud of the heritage we have inherited from the old NASL," said NASL Commissioner David Downs. "We're eager to bring back those great memories wherever we can and this is a great example of doing that. I am absolutely certain that bringing back the Rowdies name is going to ensure continued success."
On June 19, 2008, a group of investors led by Nestor, David Laxer, and Hinds Howard purchased the rights to a professional soccer franchise and officially brought pro soccer back to Tampa Bay. The new team began play in April 2010, promising to honor the history of the original Rowdies, while at the same time establish their own history and traditions.
The Tampa Bay Rowdies will begin their 2012 North American Soccer League (NASL) season on Saturday, April 7, 2012 at Puerto Rico. The Rowdies host FC Edmonton in the 2012 home opener on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg.
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