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John Hajicek Independence, MOFeb. 7, 2012 8:50 a.m.
I do not yet have Matt Bowmanâs book to review it, but I saw his FIRST PARAGRAPH so I decided to review that much:
âOn a Monday morning in November 1835 a slender man in his middle forties, curiously dressed in a sea-green coat and pants and sporting a curling grey beard, picked his way into the muddy frontier town of Kirtland, Ohio, twenty miles northeast of Cleveland along the Chagrin River. He had come from New York City to visit Joseph Smith, Jr.: a national curiosity, twenty-nine years old, a self-declared prophet of God and leader of a people most often called the Mormons. Shortly after ten in the morning, Josephâs visitor found the prophet in his home in a row of cabins that lined a dirt road for perhaps a mile as it wound up a hillside from the river and toward an impressively large, if still incomplete, sandstone and lumber hall. The Mormons were building a temple, and the man, who rather evasively identified himself only as âJoshua the Jewish minister,â must have gazed on it with awe and perhaps a little bit of envy.â
What really makes me uncomfortable is that he begins his story too similarly to the FIRST PARAGRAPH and opening of a biography of Matthias by another author:
âEarly in November 1835 the Prophet Matthias . . . traveled the roads of Ohioâs Western Reserve, headed for the pioneer Mormon settlement at Kirtland. . . . Now he journeyed by himself to the banks of the Chagrin River, looking for his fellow prophet, Joseph Smith. Kirtland, about twenty miles northeast of what is today the city of Cleveland, turned out to be a colony of rude buildings scattered on a hill that led down to the riverâhalf-formed, like the Mormon Church itself . . . workmen were braving cold weather to plaster the outside walls of a structure that the Mormon Prophet Smith called his chapel. . . . Matthias was almost certainly unimpressed; Smithâs chapel was no match for the great gold temple that he had long contemplated, and that he still expected to build when his luck returned. Matthias sought out the Mormon Prophet and announced himself as Joshua, the Jewish Minister.â Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias (Oxford University Press, 1994).
I do understand the concept of synthesis, but is this not the type of âcopy someone else but put it into your own wordsâ that we expect from middle school, not a recent Georgetown doctoral graduate? Allowing for this elsewhere in the book, should an author at least write his own opening paragraph freshly?
Getting back to Bowmanâs version: Kirtland was not a âfrontier townâ at all, it was a populous âpost townshipâ, to use the nomenclature of that state. Nor was it even on the frontierâKirtland had a thousand citizens before the first one was Mormon, and Ohio statehood was older than Joseph Smith. Detroit was a frontier town in 1701 and had been incorporated 20 years before 1835. Chicago was already incorporated. Cleveland and Cincinnati were major cities west of Kirtland, and Indianapolis had been a state capital for ten years. The frontier in 1835 was anything west of Missouri and the Missouri River. Independence, the Mormon village a thousand miles to the west, was scarcely on the frontier in 1835. Why does this matter? Because it shows that Bowman does not understand America in the time and place where his story took place. If you do not âgetâ that, how can you understand if the Book of Mormon is anachronistic or discover who wrote it or why?
We know the exact date, it was 9 November. Joseph was less than a month from 30, Matthias was about 47 (born in 1788). I would like to know if Kirtland really was distinctively muddy on 9 November, perhaps from a citation in the Cleveland Herald, Painesville Telegraph, or a diary with weather information. Maybe Bowman is visualizing the memorable 1870s stereoview depicting the hill road as muddy. Local diaries indicate cold and cloudy skies on November 9 and 10. No weather was noteworthy to Joseph Smith himself on 9 November. On 11 November, falling snow was enough to be notable to Joseph Smith; on 12 November, though, it was rain mixed with snow but it still accumulated an inch and prevented work on the temple, suggesting the ground was cold, not muddy. Kirtland had drainage ditches paralleling the road to the temple. The year 1835 was a dry summer followed by a rainy winter. But as Kirtland was a post township, we cannot suppose the post township was muddier than any other township Matthias might have âpicked his way intoâ or that there was no other way to differentiate it from any other place in America besides describing it as âmuddyâ and ârude.â I will have to look into his characterization of the Smith home as a cabin in 1835; I would have thought it to be a frame house.
Matthiasâ beard was only 3 inches longâit curled in published woodcuts but not on 9 November 1835. Matthias was not wearing simply a green coat, it was a green frock trimmed with pink silk and gold braid, over a brown cloth coatâand even that is a simplification. Bowman loses the point of âcuriousâ costuming altogether by oversimplifying the contemporary descriptions to rename an elaborate frock as a plain coat. Yet he wastes words to tell us it all happened on a Monday.
Joseph Smith was not simply âa self-declared prophet,â any more than all prophets are self-declared. The phrase is cliche. Followers believe he was declared to be a prophet by Christ, or angels; critics believe he was declared a prophet by Sally Chase, Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery, or by his family. Either way, âself-declaredâ is too dismissive of a complex calling. I thought âsporting a beardâ was a little cliche, too, and a bit out-of-place for a nineteenth century narrative.
I hope the second paragraph gets better. I might review the whole book.
Bill in Nebraska Maryville, MOFeb. 5, 2012 5:03 p.m.
What I find interesting is that when one says one apologists book is no different from another is that their minds are just as closed minded as the minds of the membership. They say the same thing about General Conference. It is the same thing, nothing new has been revealed or said. Yet, others will cite things to them and they disregard what is being said.
Have any of them actually read ROUGH STONE ROLLING.a biography about Joseph Smith. The fact it is written by a faithful Latter Day Saint means it holds no water. Yet, many saints counts it as controversial and should not have been written because of what it actually says about Joseph Smith. In many ways it sheds a light on Joseph Smith many critics would love to see said. Yet, those same critics discount it.
These same critics purport to know more about Church History than many Church Historians.Yet, when given THE LIGHT as said by these historians it is false, it is a cover-up. I wonder how many of these have actual eyewitness testimony of Hauns Mill and other controversial history they purport different from the LDS Church's version.
Brahmabull sandy, utFeb. 2, 2012 3:40 p.m.
Another apologist version of mormonism and its history?? Uh no thanks. They all sound the same to me. Why not just reprint another apologist book from earlier?
scotchipman Lehi, UTFeb. 2, 2012 2:31 p.m.
I doubt that this is a fresh look considering Matthew Bowman appears to be an apologist and he mentor and friend is Bushman who is a know apologist. You will likely not get a true account of Mormon history from this book but rather a smoothed over history that does not talk about some of the real problems that are always ignored.
BYUalum South Jordan, UTFeb. 1, 2012 7:40 p.m.
Sounds great! I can hardly wait to read it.
Jemezblue Albuquerque, NMFeb. 1, 2012 4:43 p.m.
Aside from Mitt Romney's rising popularity making this book possible, as a grad student of U.S. West History, historians are either ignoring the Mormons' trek and colony in Utah or they focus on the Mountain Meadows Massacre and polygamy. As a student who has taken a class from Sally Denton, author of "American Massacre, the Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1957," I know that some historians try to be fair to the Mormons, but books like this one from this author are unfair and very hateful, full of finger pointing at Church officials. I would like to see a fair and accurate accounting of the Mountain Meadows Massacre as well as an accurate history of the rest of the Mormons in the early Utah period. Also, I would like to see a historical account concerning Native Americans and the Mormons as well, because books are coming out about the unfair treatment that the Utes and Paiutes have been given by the Mormons as well.
All I can say about this book is "Good Luck" and keep it as historical accurate as possible or the critics will tear it apart.
Commonman HENDERSON, NVFeb. 1, 2012 2:06 p.m.
Dear Gemimi,
Why is it that you believe that someone inside a religion cannot be "objective"? Why is it that anything from an inside source you consider to be "spin" or "introspection"?
This would certainly result in an uneven way of looking at any subject. I don't know what your beliefs are, but by your definition, I am automatically qualified to be more objective about your beliefs than you are since I am not in "insider." Thanks, but if I want to know about any subject I will want to consult someone who believes in, supports or practices it.
JKayDS EULESS, TXFeb. 1, 2012 11:17 a.m.
I may be reading this column wrong, but it was my understanding that RANDOM HOUSE wanted this book written and approached two authors to write it. One declined and the other said he would. It has NOTHING to do with the Prophet.
I am glad that they chose an LDS to write it, and I look forward to reading it.
J-TX Allen, TXFeb. 1, 2012 10:37 a.m.
A "practicing Mormon" states that we watch the same TV shows as everyone else, and subtitles his book "The making of an American Faith"? maybe he needs more practice....
Gemimi Bakersfield, CAFeb. 1, 2012 9:16 a.m.
Oh please. Not more spin and introspection. Can't you ever just employ an objective party?
So the Vatican scrutinizes the Pope, the FBI vetts its own, and the fox oversees the henhouse. Just once, can the prophets be concerned about appearances and public impressions? It "looks" like an in-house job because it always is. And then when outsiders scrutinize, the insiders complain, squirm and spin.
Just once, be happy with openness.


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IT was always going to be an almost impossible mission to outdo Ebenezer-Tiri Munyasha, a track which became a "national anthem" in music circles last year.
But Togarepi Chivaviro is a bold man. Before the hype stirred by this blockbuster song — featuring gospel gurus Mechanic Manyeruke, Charles Charamba, Noel Zembe, Lawrence Haisa, Bethen Pasinawako Ngolomi, Rumbi Zvirikuzhe and Kudzi Nyakudya — had settled, he was back in the studio crafting its successor.
Mhepo Inoperekedza — Tiri Munyasha 2 was launched at a colourful ceremony attended by several parliamentarians including Deputy Speaker, Mabel Chinomona and Nelson Chamisa in Harare on Wednesday night.
National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) director, Elvas Mari, guest of honour, Philip Chiyangwa, Open University vice-chancellor, Primrose Kurasha and her husband Jameson, worshippers Josh Kays and Takesure Zama, as well as Mathias Mhere were also in attendance.
The seven songs on the new eight-track album, which includes an instrumental, may not knock down the record set by Ebenezer — Tiri Munyasha, but they are proof Chivaviro has set a new trajectory in a music career that — even 10 albums later — had been fledgling, according to his executive producer, Allen Dzobo.
Music expert, Fred Zindi told the gathering that when he first heard the song last year, it "knocked me out" and he felt it was "an incredible tune".
The professor also said music piracy could only be countered by a watertight marketing strategy including launching albums and making them more available to the market.
"I told Jah Prayzah and his manager to continue launching albums because that's the only way to market music and curb piracy," he said.
Mari, the Nacz director, implored legislators, who attended the launch, to help the council fight the scourge of piracy, through which musicians were being ripped off.
He called on the government to facilitate the setting up of a copyright tribunal as provided for in the Copyright Act to specifically deal with issues of piracy, which has become the bane of many an artiste.
"The problem with the current system is that sometimes even the magistrates don't even understand why they have to try someone for 'burning' because they are also probably listening to music copied illegally," Mari said.
He said it was these same artistes to which legislators appealed for votes during elections and the least they could do in return was to ensure that their work was protected from pirates and they could earn something substantial from their labour.
"When you get these votes, may you please support these people. They don't need your money, but they need facilities where they can work — not stadiums, but facilities where they can have their works recorded and produced," Mari said.
He said it was time that music was viewed as an income generating project and called for the setting up of cultural centres in Harare and other cities that can be used by artistes.
The Chiyangwa factor
Chiyangwa, the Zimbabwe Football Association president, said he had tried his hand at everything — from boxing to music and now football.
He said most of the things he did — including music promotion — were sacrifices that did not bring him much financial benefit, but he did it then for the love of music.
"I have a history in music, from rhumba, you remember Soukous, even in wrestling and boxing.
"It was a sacrifice. It didn't pay, but if you look at a good musician, you realise that music brings peace to you," Chiyangwa said.
"We have heard good music from Chivaviro, and some of the songs (from the album) are going to be hits, as they are sing along songs."
He said musicians rarely made money from their work, but often did it out of passion.
The highlight of the event was when Chiyangwa pledged a stand to Chivaviro, who had told the businessman he wanted a church stand.
Long journey
For Chivaviro, the journey had been long. After producing nine albums, it appeared as if he would never break the jinx that appeared to have barred him from crème de la crème of gospel music.
It took a collaborative effort in Ebenezer to break the spell — and after the song went viral, people started taking notice.
The song has set him up for a new high in his career, as the latest album, Mhepo Inoperekedza, seemed to have taken off from where its predecessor left.
Speaking at the launch, the producer Dzobo spoke of the long journey of sweat, heartbreak and getting peanuts that they travelled together with Chivaviro, stressing that their determination finally paid off when they started doing collaborations and creating a new style — a departure from their traditional hymnal approach. Ebenezer was one of those collaborations.
"It was only in 2010 when things started to break for us and nominations for awards started. In 2015, we released Ebenezer, a song in which we were saying thank you, despite all the past hardships and that song was the game changer," he said.

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Not to worry. Director Rob Marshall will screw this one up, just like he ruined NINE and CHICAGO and MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA and single-handedly killed the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN franchise. Doesn't matter the cast - he can't direct traffic, let alone a big-budget film.
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- In 2012 more than 2.6 million children ages 19 and under were seen in emergency departments for injuries related to sports and recreation. This includes sports, such as football and basketball, as well as activities, such as playing on a playground, scooter riding and trampolining.
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- Safety Toolkit: National PTA and Safe Kids Worldwide created this downloadable toolkit for families that includes lesson plans on poison, fire, playground and bike safety, as well as a take-home tip sheet.
- Back to Sports: The National Football League (NFL) and National PTA have partnered to educate communities on wellness—from concussion education to NFL PLAY 60 tips on nutrition and staying active.
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- Start Safe: Fire Resources for Educators (Safe Kids Worldwide). Fire and burn safety lessons for preschoolers, videos for educators and tips for working with parents and caregivers.
- Sports safety tips (Safe Kids Worldwide). Includes a sports safety checklist, concussion guide and information about preparticipation physical exams, hydration and more.
- Preventing Bicycle, Skateboard and Other Wheeled-Sport Injuries (Safe Kids Worldwide). Tips for how to protect children from injury while bicycling, skateboarding or participating in other wheeled sports.
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By Brad D. Bates
Posted March 15, 2013
A politician changing his or her mind is hardly unusual, but when Utica Mayor Jacqueline Noonan says she is rethinking her retirement plans, people are going to listen.
Noonan, who said her 13th term as mayor would be her last after winning election unopposed in 2011, told the Utica City Council March 12 that she is rethinking whether or not to walk away from her post atop the city's government because of continued fiscal obstacles facing the city.
"While I did announce I would not run again, I am literally in the process of rethinking that," Noonan said March 15. "I would be surprised if we have anyone run, because it's a very difficult job right now.
"I am not saying I am completely decided in my course of action," Noonan added. "But right now I'm not as committed to being gone as I was a month ago."
The deadline for Noonan, who as recently as the Jan. 23 Sterling Heights Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry Heritage Luncheon said she was not going to run again, to declare her intentions for the 2013 election is Aug. 14, when she must file with the Macomb County Clerk's office.
Noonan cited issues such as contract negotiations with four of the city's labor unions and the continually shrinking general fund balance as primary reasons why it would be hard to walk away at this time.
"I'm looking at all the alternatives and it has to do with all the difficult situations communities are in," Noonan said in reference to issues such as decreases in revenue from sources including the personal property tax.
"And I'm not looking to move out of Utica when I leave, and with that in mind, I'm trying to make a final decision."
While Noonan hasn't fully committed to running for re-election Nov. 5, at least one local business leader would welcome her return with open arms.
"If that's being talked about by the mayor, I would fully encourage that," said Joseph Mayernik, who owns the Shamrock Pub and is president of the city's Downtown Development Authority. "I have always supported Jackie Noonan. I think she has always been a tremendous influence for not just the city, but the entire surrounding area.
"She gets it, and she has the background and education," Mayernik added. "She's like a sponge with knowledge, facts and figures, and she knows what's going on. She's one of the brightest politicians that any small city or any city would be happy to have."
Mayernik said he understands the trials facing Noonan and the rest of Utica's government and how that might be a deterrent for a would-be first-time mayoral candidate.
"The real reason you might not have more people put their hat in the ring is because of the real strict economic times," Mayernik said. "So many places are strapped that it's very, very difficult to jump into that situation without knowing everything and how it works.
"(Noonan) knows how to go about what to do and how to pull the right strings to keep the city going. It's quite possible that everyone is afraid (to run for mayor) because they know how tough the job is these days."
Noonan has said that if there is someone else interested in running for mayor, she would be open to serving as a mentor for the individual, if she does decide against returning for a 14th term in office.
Of course, finding someone willing to take on the challenges of the job and follow Noonan's popular tenure in Utica could be easier said than done.
"Utica mayor, Shelby Township supervisor or Sterling Heights mayor, those are tough jobs, and I commend anyone that wants to get off their couch and try," Mayernik said. "People think these are not really difficult positions, but they are.
"Everyone wants to complain, but there are few people that get out there and try to govern, and you've got to commend anyone that gets off their couch and does it. You can argue with and debate with them, but those people that do it should be given a round of applause."
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Texas A&M keeps the momentum going by landing 4-star WR Kemah Siverand
Just a day after landing five-star Allen quarterback Kyler Murray, Texas A&M reeled in another big fish.
On Thursday afternoon, four-star Cypress Ridge wide receiver Kemah Siverand gave his verbal pledge to the Aggies. He picked Texas A&M over offers from LSU, Texas, Texas Tech and an array of other suitors.
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Siverand's commitment should boost Texas A&M into possibly the top-3 in overall team rankings for the 2015 class. Siverand is ranked as the No. 36 wide receiver in the nation and No. 36 overall prospect in the state.
As a junior, Siverand caught 25 passes for 611 yards- an impressive average of 24 yards per reception - and seven touchdowns.
The 6-foot-1, 190-pounder is the first wide receiver to commit to Texas A&M this year.
EJ Holland is the Associate Editor at Dave Campbell's Texas Football. You can follow him on Twitter @EJSports4.
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By Los Angeles News Group editorial board
The three new San Bernardino County Teachers of the Year took interesting paths to make them top-notch educators.
Ben Cavanaugh, who teaches U.S. history and AP government at Rancho Cucamonga High School, majored in political science at UC Berkeley and then attended a seminary. But he did some substitute teaching while he was in seminary, and realized, "This is where I need to be."
Michelle Caroccia, a fifth-grade teacher at Dona Merced Elementary School in Rancho Cucamonga, always wanted to be a teacher but switched to criminal justice in college. She was sidetracked for a few years, but eventually figured out she needed to follow her heart into teaching.
Diane Bonjour, a science teacher at Serrano Middle School in Highland, knew what she "was going to be from the get-go." She found it a bit too easy to teach science at a private school in Redlands, though, so she switched to a low-performing school in San Bernardino for the challenge of helping less-advantaged children learn. After five years she followed the principal who hired her for that job to Serrano Middle School in Highland, where she teaches today.
Passion and enthusiasm are hallmarks of all three of this year's teaching honorees, to no one's surprise. It just could be that they all became better teachers in part because of the detours and abrupt changes they've made to get to where they are today.


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The Trinity County Library is a member of the North State Cooperative Library System, the 12 northernmost counties in California. The Council of Librarians, Directors of the member public libraries, provide the leadership for NSCLS. The North State Cooperative is a member of NorthNet, a group of cooperatives comprised of the North State, NorthBay, and Mountain Valley Cooperatives. NorthNet is administered by the Executive Director of Peninsula Library System headquartered in San Mateo. Membership in the cooperative provides guidance and direction in library services and funding for various resources that cannot be funded by libraries individually. Other valuable services also include purchases of databases and assistance with grants.


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The Dark Knight's Aaron Eckhart plays a European-based ex-CIA agent who is forced to go on the run with his estranged daughter (Liana Liberato) when Halgate Corp - the evil multinational security company that employs him - marks them both for termination as part of a wide-reaching international conspiracy. Hot off her rave reviews for To The Wonder, former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko plays a fellow agent (and lover) who may - or may not - be on his side. Think Taken with a corporate twist.
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Powell Middle Advisory Council meets today
The Powell Middle School Performing Arts Center's School Advisory Council will meet at 6:15 p.m. today in the media center. The school is at 4100 Barclay Ave. For information, call (352) 797-7095.
Kindergarten roundup for Winding Waters
Kindergarten roundup for the new Winding Waters K-8 School will be conducted from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at Weeki Wachee High School, off U.S. 19 north of Weeki Wachee.
The new K-8 school is under construction at 12240 Vespa Way, adjacent to the high school, and will open in August.
High school to have garage sale Saturday
Weeki Wachee High School will have a garage sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the north side parking lot (bus loop). The school is at 12150 Vespa Way, at Commercial Way. For information, call (352) 797-7029.
AARP Drive Safety classes coming in June
The following AARP Driver Safety Program classes will be offered in June. This is a six-hour class that costs $12 for AARP members and $14 for nonmembers (members must bring their AARP cards):
• 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. June 1 and 8, Brooksville Enrichment Center at Brooksville Regional Hospital, 17222 Hospital Blvd. Call (352) 688-2486 to register.
• Noon to 3 p.m. June 7 and 9, Forest Oaks Lutheran Church, 8555 Forest Oaks Blvd., Spring Hill. Call (352) 797-7497 to register.
• 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 15 and 22, Brooksville Enrichment Center at Brooksville Regional Hospital, 17222 Hospital Blvd. Call (352) 684-6348 to register.
• 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 18 (one-day class), Brookridge Clubhouse, 8150 Hampton St., west of Brooksville. Call (352) 666-2246 to register.
Kindergarten breakfast Tuesday at Westside
A Kindergarten Orientation Breakfast will be from 8 to 9 a.m. Tuesday in the cafeteria at Westside Elementary School, 5400 Applegate Drive.
Parents and guardians of all incoming kindergarteners for the 2011-12 school year will have an opportunity to find out what a school day in kindergarten will be like. School information will be provided as well. For information, call Mrs. Wharton at (352) 797-7080.
Learn how to use rain barrels in landscaping
A Rain Barrel Workshop will be offered at 10 a.m. May 26 at the Hernando County Utilities Department, 21030 Cortez Blvd.
The workshop will be presented by John Korycki of the Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Program. He will discuss how using rain barrels in the landscape can reduce dependence on irrigation and supplemental rainfall.
Participants will receive a completed rain barrel, along with instructions on its proper use and set up.
The cost is $30 for the completed rain barrel. Advance registration is required. Call Korycki at (352) 540-6230.
Hernando Jazz Society to play concert May 29
The Hernando Jazz Society will perform in concert at 2 p.m. May 29 at Stage West Community Playhouse, 8390 Forest Oaks Blvd.
Special guests include Norm Bernard, Janet Breithaupt, Kim Evans, Lorri Hafer, Eddie Lawrence and Barry Titone.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Tickets are available at the Stage West Box office, which is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, as well as one hour before showtime. Call the box office at (352) 683-5113.
For information on the show, call Bill McLoughlin at (352) 799-9690.


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Melbourne, Feb 7 : Josh Brolin is likely to join Christian Bale for the fourth instalment of Terminator franchise.
McG, who has signed on to direct the fourth instalment: 'Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins,' confirmed to IF Magazine that Bale will play the role of John Connor, adding that Brolin is up for the role of the film's terminator.
''It's a decidedly masculine role and we live in a time, where a lot of actors are very effeminate and there's a masculine component to the role and there are guys out there like Russell Crowe and Eric Bana who bring a good physicality and do what they do, but I don't know if they're exactly right at the end of the day. Josh Brolin is a very exciting actor, so we'll see,'' Moviehole quoted McG, as saying.
As for whether Robert Patrick will reprise his role from 'Terminator 2' for 'Terminator 4,' McG said: "There will be a suggestion of the liquid metal development and a suggestion of the T-800 development.
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Perhaps it's time to give Spidey a breather
When it was revealed that Spider-Man was headed to the reboot factory after only a decade since the previous reboot (and a mere four years since the last trilogy ended), "unnecessary" was the word that immediately sprung to mind.
The 2004 film, after all, was a labor of love from an accomplished filmmaker and pretty much covered all that needed to be said about the origin (spider gets radio-activated, boy gets bitten by it, much web-slinging ensues). The latest version was a serviceable summertime seat-filler, but aside from a more hipster-friendly dialogue and updated fashion trends, there was literally zip that made it feel like more than a campaign from Sony to cash in on its most prized franchise.
With the inevitable sequel, it provided director Marc Webb a chance to swing into other directions with our hero, setting it apart from the earlier versions. This was not to be the case with "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," an under-written, overwrought slice of prepackaged spectacle that does not create one beat that we couldn't familiarly tap along with. It also suffers from "Spider-Man 3's" overstuffed villain syndrome that provides more false "endings" than a "Lord of the Rings" flick.
We join Peter Parker (played by Andrew Garfield) loving his Spider-Man duties but witness the effect it has on his relationship with gal-pal Gwen Stacey (played by Emma Stone). When his home city of New York begins to question his necessity, he plunges head-first into Spidey mode, putting him at odds with all around him personally. Old buddy Harry Osborn (played by Dean DeHaan) pops back into Peter's life to show support, but that's interrupted by the emergence of the latest villainous challenge, Electro (played by Jamie Foxx).
You can enter the rest of this film blindfolded and predict the results. Worse still, it's filled to thee brim with rather pedestrian CGI-enhanced battle sequences that look more at home on an X-Box screen than a fully realized motion picture.
Garfield is perfectly likeable in a handsomely gawky kind of way, and his delivery seems at home with this more cartoonish appproach to the super hero film canon. Stone is equally feather-light and frothily forgettable as Gwen.
Faring far worse is Foxx, who never gets a grip on his character, reducing him to a series of nerdish, nervous tics found only in the movies.
It helps none that when he emerges as Electro, his character design is as threatening as Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze in the cinematic boil known as "Batman & Robin." DeHaan also suffers, as he's about as threatening as a Care Bear, so when he makes the transformation to full-on bad guy, it's more laughable than threatening.
Add to all this the stench of familiarity that plagued the first flick and you have just another bloated "spectacle" that we feel obliged to see rather than want to. There is little left that qualifies its "Amazing" moniker and perhaps it's time to give Spidey a breather to let him (and Sony) invest their wealth more wisely.
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From a War Zone Veteran
As a veteran from the front lines of that war zone, I can tell you it's not even close.
As ugly and as insulting as Maier could be toward those of us covering him in those days, I've told people over the years I honestly believe it made for good journalism.
Unlike the brazenly biased coverage we see today from Fox News and bloggers pretending to be reporters, a common sin of journalism back then was reporters becoming too close to public officials they covered.
No danger of that with Maier. He regularly refused to take questions from anyone working for the Journal Co. and would use live televised news conferences to vilify us personally instead of answering legitimate questions.
The challenge to a young reporter was to remain calm and professional in the face of infuriatingly dishonest attacks. If I had responded with biased, unfair coverage, the terrorists would win.
Exaggerated Claims
The situation today between Chief Flynn and the Journal Sentinel is not the finest moment for either.
Flynn is wrong to retaliate against the newspaper by trying to charge it $10,000 to examine public records. And the newspaper steadfastly refuses to acknowledge its own erroneous assumptions in investigating Flynn's department.
The newspaper shouted challenges at the chief at a press conference and then exaggerated his exit as a major storm. It was more like partly cloudy.
The conflict started with the Journal Sentinel's valid concern about the police department under-reporting violent assaults to the FBI. Perhaps, the newspaper speculated, the errors might even be great enough to make the city's violent crime rate appear to be going down when it actually was going up.
That's a pretty big "perhaps." People don't care about the precise numbers, but if crime were increasing when city officials claimed it was falling, they would care plenty.
And the newspaper didn't stop there. Besides raising the specter of rising crime—which it couldn't really prove based on its limited investigation—it took another huge leap by suggesting the misreporting might be intentional to fraudulently improve Flynn's image.
Notice how words like "perhaps" and "maybe" keep cropping up. A smart editor once told me any story using the word "May" in the headline would evaporate if you substituted the words "May Not."
To make an unsubstantiated accusation sound more authoritative, the Journal Sentinel went far afield to find outside experts willing to comment on what the newspaper claimed it had found.
"Misreporting is cheating the public," said Michael Maltz, a criminology professor at Ohio State University. He gratuitously speculated the newspaper's findings could be just "the tip of the iceberg."
Sam Walker, a criminology professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, said of the department and chief he probably knew little about personally: "That clearly indicates a systemic problem in the department. There has to be a failure of leadership."
Those are pretty harsh judgments to make based on secondhand information.
Especially since Flynn himself previously questioned the reliability of Milwaukee's crime statistics, asked for an FBI audit of the department's numbers and criticized crime-coding errors by the Tiburon software system that manages records for Milwaukee and hundreds of other police departments.
But the newspaper raised enough questions that Flynn had to present the results of his own investigation to a Common Council committee.
That's when the Journal Sentinel's suggestions of intentional misreporting under Flynn completely fell apart. But you would never know it from reading the newspaper.
According to the Journal Sentinel, Flynn supported the findings of the newspaper by acknowledging more than 5,300 violent assaults (major crimes) had been misreported as simple assaults (lesser crimes).
You had to read well into the story to learn he also found nearly 1,200 errors in the other direction—reporting lesser assaults as major violent assaults, exaggerating violent crime rather than minimizing it.
You had to get really deep into the story before you found out Flynn actually reduced the error rate from 23% under his predecessor, Nan Hegerty, to 19% since he took over in 2008.
And nowhere in the Journal Sentinel report did you explicitly find that the original premise of the newspaper's investigation—that Milwaukee's violent crime rate was going up instead of down—wasn't true.
According to Flynn's corrected figures, the violent crime rate, originally reported as falling 2.3% from 2010 to 2011, actually fell 2.4%.
Nine of the city's 15 aldermen issued a joint statement criticizing the Journal Sentinel's failure to correct its own false premise and erroneous assumptions.
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Business analysts are indeed the greatest assets to any PMO (Programme Management Office), as they are the foundation to any project.
But unfortunately they can also be one of the largest expenses, especially when incorrect BAs are assigned to a project.
So it is critical that a PMO ensures these BA are properly utilised before going ahead and allocating them to the project, or worse, hiring more.
Resource inefficiency can be greatly reduced if right choices are made upfront.
Here are typical steps to plan and allocate BA resource across the projects:
1. Determine current and future supply
2. Determine current and future demand
3. Match demand with supply
4. Plan to bridge the gap between demand and supply
Determine current and future supply
This should be the first step in any BA resource planning. It is very important to have a PMO-wide visibility over the quantity and quality of the entire pool of employed BA, both permanent and contractors.
For each individual take an inventory of:
• Capabilities and domain knowledge
• Experience and areas of interest
• Working relationships with the stakeholders/business units
• Working hours including planned and unplanned leave
Determine the current and future demand
This step requires a good understanding of your current resource allocations and the impact of those resources on new projects coming your way. A typical PMO will have a variety of projects that require a different BA with different skills at different times. A quick way forward is to develop a 'shirt- size' resource plan for different projects. This information is crucial in order to calculate the total resources demanded.
Match demand with supply
It may sound simple that once the supply and demand of BA have been determined accurately, they need to be matched, but it is important to ensure that the right BA for the project is identified, based on the required skill, role, availability and area of interest.
Create a resource planning process that provides cost-effective and timely visibility into current and future resource demands. Also make sure you design a resource planning structure that fits your business.
Plan to bridge the gap between demand and supply
No matter how much effort is used to re/ allocate available BA resources, there will be times you will end up with resourcing gaps where you have too many BA, or sometimes don't have enough.
The important thing is being able to identify this in advance and plan accordingly to ensure that the project runs smoothly.
By creating the ability to optimise resources using a robust resource planning process, your PMO will be able to:
• Improve time-to-market for your most important projects
• Enable you to know at any point in time where your BA resources are deployed
• Understand the impact of assigning additional projects to your BA pool
• Make fact-based decisions on project scheduling and prioritisation
Maximising the utilisation of BA is much easier said than done and, unfortunately, the poor allocation adversely affects the bottom line as they are often the greatest overhead. On a final note sometimes resource plans are useless but planning is indispensible.
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A 23-month-old who died after being hit by a vehicle in the driveway of his South Auckland home may have been running to greet his father.
Te Manawa Whetuki Renata, known as Whetuki, suffered critical injuries when he was hit by a vehicle reversing up his Wentworth Ave,
Papatoetoe, driveway at 6.30pm on Wednesday.
His mother, Emma Renata, was nearby and rushed him to Middlemore Hospital in her car. The little boy's injuries were not survivable and doctors pronounced him dead at 7pm.
It is understood Whetuki was rushing to meet his father, who was arriving home and backing up the driveway towards the house on a back section. Police would not be drawn on the incident details, saying it was too early to speculate about what happened.
"It will take some time for us to form a clear picture of how this tragedy occurred and we aren't able to comment further on the investigation at this time," said Counties Manukau road policing manager Inspector Neil Fisher.
"Police are in the process of interviewing family members and neighbours to determine exactly what happened. It's a distressing and deeply regrettable situation for everyone involved."
It is understood Whetuki's parents are yet to be interviewed.
A Wentworth Ave resident, who did not want to be named, saw Ms Renata holding Whetuki in the driveway near the father's vehicle.
"I heard it ... there was a huge commotion. I was cooking and the television was on but the noise came through over the top of all of that," she told the Herald. "I ran out and leaned over the fence and that's when I saw the little fella ... his mum was holding him ... he was very quiet.
"She was organising somebody to get her car so she could get the wee kid to hospital. It was all over in a couple of minutes, she was gone. As she drove off she screamed at me "look after him", meaning the dad.
"I sat with him ... he was in shock, he just adored that kid. He was holding their little baby. He wouldn't let her go."
The woman was tearful when speaking to the Herald. "I was absolutely devastated. When is this going to stop ... they are just little babies."
Whetuki's family did not want to speak about the tragedy yesterday.
He is the fourth child to die after being hit by a car in a driveway since November.
Child deaths
Four children have died as a result of being hit by vehicles in driveways since November.
Every two weeks a child is hospitalised with serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle in a private driveway in NZ.
A further five children are killed a year, on average, in the same way.
Most children injured in driveway incidents are toddlers, aged about 2.
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Little league basketball coach Vince Thrasher, right, gives a timeout pep talk to his "Oconee County Heat" team of 9-10 year olds during a recent game at Malcom Bridge Elementary School. Thrasher also coaches two other little league teams. Dot Paul/Staff
Many hard-working people, after a long days work, crave some relaxation. This is not the case for Oconee County resident Vince Thrasher.
When Thrasher is through with his job at Village Apartments, it is time for him to become ''Coach Vince.'' For the last three years Thrasher has been coaching basketball for the Oconee County Recreational Department.
The coach admits, ''I love it. I do. I love every bit of it.''
Most little league basketball coaches find themselves coaching when their son or daughter joins a league. This was not exactly the way Thrasher found himself coaching. It was his nephew who joined the league.
Thrasher's brother knew very little about basketball so he asked his brother to coach the team. Thrasher felt honored. Now into his fourth year of coaching, Thrasher could not fathom the idea of not coaching.
''I will do this until God will not let me do it anymore,'' he said.
The first year he just coached his nephew's 7- and 8-year-old team. When the next season rolled around, some of his players wanted him coaching them in the 9-and 10-year-old league. So the coach then had two teams. And now this year, Coach Vince once again was asked to move up a league and coach the eleven- and twelve-year-olds.
The love for coaching in the two younger leagues never has left him. And now the coach has a team in all three leagues.
So what is it that gets this guy so committed to coaching? Thrasher didn't have to think long about the question.
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''The look on the kids faces after they score their first baskets,'' Thrasher responded with a smile while replaying some of those baskets in his head.
At a recent game, Thrasher appeared composed, dedicated and positive with the kids. He explained John Gentry, Jone Taylor and Eric Jenkins, who oversee the Oconee County Recreational Department, make it a requirement of their coaches to ''learn from the high school coach and a psychologist how we could be hurting and helping the kids through things we do, that we may not see that we do. (So) they're looking so far ahead, even at that aspect, to help the kids, when a lot of the surrounding counties don't.''
But with Thrasher, one can tell he is a born natural for the position. The kids seem excited when they first see their coach on game day. Thrasher tries to pump them up by giving out high-fives and asking them, ''Are you ready, ready to play tonight?''
Thrasher's team plays polished ball. A lot of little league teams use a handful of designed plays. Not with Thrasher's teams.
His kids know 15 plays. They play hard-nose defense, make crisp passes and take good shots. Winning, however, does not seem all that important to Thrasher.
''I always said a perfect season is four and four,'' he said. ''You teach them how to win, you teach them how to lose and if you could teach them how to do both gracefully, then I think you have accomplished a lot more than going 10 and 0.''
Thrasher helps the players more than on the court. There have been times when some of the players could not make it to a particular game or practice due to the busy schedules of their parents. Thrasher saw no problem with that, he simply picked up those players and dropped them off after the game.
When the coach's car pool began to become an every practice and every game deed, Thrasher did not shy away, instead he continued providing the children with transportation.
With sacrifice comes reward. When asked what the funniest moment he has witnessed while coaching, Thrasher had to take a couple minutes hopping in and out of his own laughter.
Finally the coach said, ''Jeremy Clemons, a kid actually on my 7- and 8-year-old team this year, made a basket and did four cartwheels down the court - beautiful, perfect cartwheels down the court. That is something I have never seen.''
And with Thrasher, having fun on the court is part of the game.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, February 19, 2003.
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Prior to 2010, there was a push within the US Census Bureau to get rid of the term "negro" as a racial identifier choice on all upcoming surveys. At the time, many thought the decision was an obvious formality, but after much debate, the powers that be actually decided to keep it in. The thought process was that rural residents of color in the South might actually still self-identify with the term more than any other choices they may have been given.
Three years later, the matter has once again come up, but now, it seems the Bureau is going to make a different decision. According to ABC News, the agency announced this week that "negro" has officially been stricken from all future surveys. Respondents will be allowed to choose either "African-American" or "black" under race. The upcoming 2013 American Community Surey will reflect the change in language, as will all future items.
The term "negro" was first added to the US Census in 1900. Over the past two decades or so, many petitioned the US Census Bureau to do research on whether the African-American community was offended by such language, but nothing ever got accomplished. So, we still have no idea whether the initial theorem that some people might prefer "negro" has some validity to it or is completely off base.
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The latest chapter in the battle against marijuana farms in national parks led to the closure of Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park while rangers swooped in on a growing operation with an estimated street value of $20 million.
The operation was within a half-mile of the cave, according to park officials. Situated in a steep area of Sequoia, one rife with rattlesnakes and black bears, the pot farm is just the latest to be found within the National Park System. While Sequoia used to be the only park with such growing operations, in recent years they've been spotted in Yosemite, Kings Canyon, North Cascades, Redwoods, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, and Golden Gate National Recreation Area, said Scott Wanek, chief ranger for the National Park Service's Pacific West Region.
"Every year we seem to be adding parks that are used for this activity," he said Thursday.
As the operations have sprouted in more and more areas, they've also become more sophisticated, the chief ranger said. No longer restricted to lower altitudes in chaparral, growing operations now can be found in conifer forests in the parks, he said. Plus, from the horticultural side advances have enabled the growers to produce not one but two crops a year, said Chief Ranger Wanek.
The associated impacts on the parks' landscape can be tremendous, he said. Often a one-acre growing plot will translate to 10 acres of disturbance when the growers' camps are taken into consideration, the trails they cut through the landscape, the dumpsites they create, and the intricate irrigation lines they install.
"Now it's not a big deal to route water miles away from the source to a growing location," said Chief Ranger Wanek. "You can run a lot of that lightweight irrigation tubing in a very short time."
Then, too, there's the impact on the wildlife. Chemicals and fertilizers used in the operations contaminate streams and enter the food chain by poisoning animals that are they fed upon by scavengers. Small mammals and rodents are targeted by the growers so they don't eat the marijuana plants. Larger animals are killed for food.
"We've found piles of deer hooves and bear paws. I've gotten photos off of these guys posing with dead bears," said the chief ranger. "It's the worst of everything we'd expect to see in the backcountry all happening in one area here."
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They were speaking at the seminar titled 'Access to Information for Development: Role of ICTs' in Dhaka. D.Net, a development research network, organised the seminar to mark its fifth founding anniversary.
Presided over by economist Hossain Zillur Rahman, the seminar was also attended by Shaheen Anam, team leader of Manusher Jonno, an NGO.
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Blast! Every now and then, no matter how hard you try, an end-of-the-year award gets lost in the shuffle of logistics and production. That happened this year with my Brutus Awards, part 2, in the recording companies section. Somehow my notes on the brilliant Norwegian recording operation, 2L, were misplaced in the tsunami.
So let me right the wrong! Morten Lindberg sent a batch of review SACDs in the fall that I spent quite a time listening to throughout that season. Additionally, I had received some of their combination-pack SACD/Blu Ray titles in the spring, which also came into consideration. I have loved the recording A&R of 2L from the beginning, with its focus on Scandinavian composers and artists, as well as lesser-known compositions, composers, and performers. They have made a name for themselves in the crystalline quality of their work, and the meticulous production values that are embodied in their catalog. They've been nominated for several Grammies, and rightly so.
This latest batch of SACDs confirmed for me the incredibly creative, world-class quality of their recordings, as well as their advanced understanding and implementation of cutting-edge audio technology. So I must once again recognize the fine folks at 2L for the excellence of their work. I therefore award 2L a PFO Brutus Award for their SACDs and Blu Rays, and do so with great enthusiasm!
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