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When your partner's killed, you're supposed to do something about it
First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro
The Maltese Falcon aka Dangerous Female (1931). Directed by Roy del Ruth. Written by Maude Fulton and Brown Holmes, based on the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Starring Ricardo Cortez and Bebe Daniels. 80 minutes. **
Satan Met A Lady (1936). Directed by William Dieterle. Screenplay by Henry Blanke, based on "a novel" (note formulation) by Dashiell Hammett. Starring Bette Davis, Warren William, and Arthur Treacher. 74 minutes. *
The Maltese Falcon (1941). Directed by John Huston. Screenplay by John Huston, based on the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet. 101 minutes. ****
This is it, people. This is the tops, the coliseum, the test case, one of two film franchises (the other being The Wizard Of Oz), that provide the strongest counter-argument to the facile kneejerk refrain that remakes always suck. Surprise: sometimes they're not only better than the films that came before them, but so influential, so iconic and so definitive that any previous attempts to wade in those waters are reduced to trivia-question answers.
That's literally what happened here. In the face of the classic 1941 version, the mere existence of 1931 and 1936 films based on Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon was considered so bizarre that it was once cited in an installment of Ripley's Believe Or Not!, alongside the tribes with the twelve-inch earlobes and the guy with the curving four-foot fingernails. That's where I first heard of the two previous films, years ago; and I still find them treated with the same kind of awed disbelief, most frequently on internet lists of movies that you can't possibly believe were remakes. Few people retain the information, even though one special DVD set of The Maltese Falcon (1941) includes The Maltese Falcon (1931) and Satan Met A Lady (1936) among its extras; a fine buy, though I presume that few people who spend the money on that particular set will make it through both of the two prior versions and that those who do will almost certainly not do so more than once. They're that inferior to the classic all film buffs remember.
One frequently-cited legend about the classic film's production claims that John Huston, maker of the final and definitive version, received Dashiell Hammett's novel as his first directorial assignment and, prior to writing the screenplay, told a secretary at the studio to type up all the book's dialogue for his reference. Reportedly, she finished the job and placed the stack on his desk, where it sat until a mogul spotted it, read it, and declared it one of the finest screenplays he had ever read.
The story is often used to illustrate the wisdom of "sticking with the book," instead of just making up any old thing, which the prior versions allegedly hadn't. The anecdote does have some basis in truth, but is a wild oversimplification of the reasons the 1941 film achieved immortality while the 1931 and 1936 films didn't. In fact, the 1931 version pretty much stuck to the book too, it even used much of the same dialogue, just as verbatim, for the most part departing from Hammett's text in only minor ways (as well as some that now strike us as howlers). Even the 1936 version, which improbably played the same essential plot as a screwball comedy, is still capable of startling today in the frequent places where Hammett's voice, drowning beneath all the tomfoolery, bubbles to the surface for a line or two before being dragged back under. The Huston screenplay is clearly the best, but the story is still there, in both prior cases. Other factors come into play, negatively in the case of the first two and brilliantly in the case of the third.
All three films present us with a private detective, Sam Spade in 1931 and 1941, and Ted Shane in 1936, who is so very good at manipulating the bad guys that he's never really in any danger. He has a partner that he doesn't respect very much, and might even hate, who is married to a woman with whom our hero once had a loveless affair – and who would happily resume canoodling with him, were he still at all interested. A beautiful client comes to the office with money, a man she needs tailed, and a cock-and-bull story that both detectives see through at once. Our hero's partner, intent on making time with a pretty lady, snatches the client and goes off with her, to shadow her suspicious character.
In all three films the partner is subsequently murdered, and our hero isn't all that broken up about it. He didn't like the guy. He's more concerned when he finds himself a prime suspect in the subsequent killing of the likely shooter, the man his client wanted tailed.
Even then our hero doesn't seem all that worried about being a murder suspect, or concerned that at least one of the cops working the case hates him on principle and would love to see him fry. He asks the pretty client what's up, finds her frightened and evasive, agrees to continue "helping her," and in very short order finds himself in the middle of a small crowd of her criminal associates, all of whom are vying for ownership of a legendary priceless artifact that been passed from owner to owner for centuries.
Not only the toughest man in the room but also the smartest, our hero detective plays the various bad guys against one another with nothing but the sheer force of his personality, in what (given the subsequent revelation that he's almost certainly known who killed his partner since the moment he first laid eyes on the body), amounts the same kind of sadistic pleasure a cat takes in torturing mice.
In the end, the artifact turns out to be a fake, our hero clears his name, and the lady goes to prison for murder.
This backstory is as contrived a set-up as could possibly be imagined, but that doesn't matter. As an object of legend, the Maltese Falcon could just as easily be The Lost Ark or The Holy Grail or a really really valuable signed baseball card or even the glowing briefcase from Pulp Fiction; the obsessive recounting of its backstory provides the sense that these obsessed people have lived with its legend for decades, but frankly would serve the same purpose if the story and the artifact were something else (as they indeed are in Satan Met A Lady). In story terms, it really is no more than what Alfred Hitchcock would come to call a MacGuffin, the object that is important only in that the it drives the characters in their obsession. What matters is not getting the treasure, but what the characters are willing to do in pursuit of that treasure. And how our hero detective reveals himself while foiling them.
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
This first version, which for decades was frequently shown on television as Dangerous Female, can be difficult to watch today, mostly because the performances and characterizations of the John Huston take have so completely colonized our imaginations that any line reading that differs at all from that one is difficult to not see as "off." Still, it's faithful enough, so much so that it could be played alongside Huston's for those interested in a scene-by-scene comparison.
The natural conclusion is that it didn't work as well, in no small part because it's not filmed with nearly as much imagination. This is in part because this early in the age of sound, cameras didn't glide and swoop and follow the actors around as freely as they would only a few years later; they mostly sat in one place and watched what happened, without calling special attention to the story details that merited tighter focus. (This was indeed a regression from the silents of only a couple of years earlier; cameras in those days could make noise while they moved, without anybody worrying about disturbing any important dialogue. Sound pictures had not yet figured out how to compensate.)
But that's not even the major problem.
The problem is the characterization of Sam Spade.
In the novel, and in all three movie versions, the most startling element of our tough detective's personality is his utter lack of upset at the news of his partner's murder. He didn't like the guy. He had slept with the guy's wife. He is seemingly unbothered when the guy is killed.
But he honestly doesn't have to be jolly about it.
You only have to see six seconds of Ricardo Cortez's performance to see that it's all wrong. Literally. Six seconds does it.
This Sam Spade is a grinning fool. He flashes his white teeth and projects a deep, off-putting self-satisfaction, communicating not just nonchalance but enjoyment of the events that follow. He betrays no fury. And when he turns in Ruth Wonderly (Bebe Daniels), there's no indication of any passion deeper than amusement. As a result, his story seems to reach little emotional climax, a far cry from the shattering last few minutes filmed by Huston. Nor does this Sam Spade seem to have any internal life; he recites the lines the screenplay requires of him and does the things his Sam Spade is supposed to do, but never seems to be listening to anybody else. He just meets his marks, recites his dialogue, grins a lot, and lets the film run out. The story doesn't seem to matter.
The arrest of Ruth Wonderly (who in this version never reveals that she's really named Brigid O'Shaughnessy) has such little affect on screen that another scene is added to compensate for it: Spade visiting his scheming femme fatale in prison to offer her some "good news." Now, when the private eye responsible for your conviction, who also happens to have been your lover, shows up with "good news," it just might bode well for your sentence; and the promise brightens Ruth's day for all of about ten seconds until Spade reveals that he's now working full-time for the District Attorney's office!
No wonder another term for Private Detective is "Dick."
Bogart's Spade might have done just this to Mary Astor's Brigid, but it would have been because he was capable of jaw-dropping cruelty and might have wanted to twist the knife a little more. He wouldn't have done it, as this Spade does, because he's so blind he actually thinks she might celebrate the turn in his professional fortunes. (As if not content with that cringe-worthy awfulness, the scene gives us even more; Spade leaves the sobbing in her cell and stops by the matron, telling her to make sure Ruth gets "whatever she wants" during her long prison stay – extra food, clothing, etc. – and that the District Attorney's office will pay for it. In short, he's such a dick that he makes this gesture of personal kindness…and then sends the city the bill. Eat me, Spade.)
It's no surprise that this scene takes place nowhere in Hammett's novel, which indeed ends with Spade shuddering as the widow of his murdered partner Miles Archer is ushered into his office. Many close followers of the character, who appeared in a handful of short stories and no other novel, believe that he survived this passage by a mere matter of minutes, as she was there to shoot him dead. I happen to believe it myself. An ending where Sam Spade sells out to a municipal authority he reviles and sticks the D.A.'s office with the bill for candies for his imprisoned sweetie is not any kind of poetic improvement.
Also ill-advised: a scene at the very beginning, establishing that Spade's doomed partner Miles Archer (Walter Long) has learned about his wife's infidelity and is itching to confront Spade about it. This was, I think, there because of fears that the audience might have failed to register the affair otherwise. It's a bad change. The scowling man who enters the office he shares with Spade would not then be so jolly and blithe about taking Ruth Wonderly on as client…and even if he was, he would surely wait no longer than her departure from the office to bring up what he's clearly burning to say. You could argue that there is such a confrontation, off-screen. And I can argue that if it happened, it changes the dynamic between the two men completely, and that we need to see it. Because we don't see it, I refuse to believe it happened…and that renders hideous the implication that it should. Miles Archer makes a hell of a lot more sense as a guy who has absolutely no idea that his partner Sam Spade has nothing but contempt for him, and has indeed slept with the wife who feels the same way.
What does the film have to recommend it? Recognizing as we must that none of the principal players are as good as the ones Huston later brought to the table, and that the lead is in fact much worse, a few are genuinely praiseworthy. Dudley Digges is not as formidable a Casper Gutman, in size or in gravitas, as Sydney Greenstreet, but he brings a ridiculousness to Gutman's treasure hunt that fits the story. There's a nice running gag involving his infatuation with Spade's phrase, "Fall Guy," which he repeats multiple times with awed delight, each time putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable. (He also has a hilarious comb-over.) Also notable is the era's designated supporting creep, Dwight Frye, as the "gunsel," Wilmer Cook: he doesn't get nearly enough to do in this version, but his slow burn at Spade's abuse is one of the best things in this film.
The movie was a minor hit for Warner Brothers, just before the repressive Production Code would have prohibited some of its sexual innuendo and the brief shot of Bebe Daniels in Spade's bathtub. Only a couple of years later, this mild raciness was enough to prevent the film's re-release, and pave the way for version number two.
(And, not to put too fine a point on it, we do mean "Number Two.")
Satan Met A Lady (1936)
About the greatest favor this second version did posterity is change the name of its private detective from Sam Spade to Ted Shane and the fabulously valuable object everybody wants from the Maltese Falcon to the Horn of Roland. Any resemblance to the original story is painful enough as it is, but any pretense that its hero is actually, literally, the same guy Dashiell Hammett created and Humphrey Bogart transformed into a screen icon is worse than mere irritation; it's sacrilege. The name change and the disguised MacGuffin insulates us from that, a little. Not enough, but a little.
Even the movie seems to recognize this. It is the only one of the three that doesn't trumpet its connection to Dashiell Hammett's well-regarded novel. Instead, the credits say it's based on "a novel" by Dashiell Hammett. Isn't that oddly vague? Do you think they were a little sheepish over the changes they had made, the wreckage they had wrought?
In any event, the first of the problems is that Ted Shane is not just jolly, even in the face of his partner's murder, but downright manic. This is the kind of guy who takes one woman out on a date and asks another to meet him, while in the presence of the first; he proceeds straight from the body of the man he partnered with back to a nightclub for more posh gaiety. Warren William, who plays him, was actually a well-respected actor, but his performance here is mannered, and the character he plays obnoxious beyond belief, to the point that he seems not just self-satisfied but a solipsism; he exists in his own head, with his own musical soundtrack, and his own close-ups, not giving a damn about anything else as long as he can have his fun from one second to the next. Hammett aside, a character like that can work; surely, Groucho Marx made it work. But it's hard to forget that a man Shane knew died, and he should be taking it at least a little bit seriously. He certainly shouldn't be doing what he does here, which includes, at one point, reacting to a gun in his face by grabbing a door frame and swinging from it like a monkey, while whooping like a clown.
Bette Davis, the most-remembered of the film's stars, felt the same way, writing in her autobiography, "I was so distressed by the whole tone of the script and the vapidity of my part that I marched up to Mr. Warner's office and demanded that I be given work that was commensurate with my proven ability." She was suspended because of her attitude and resentfully returned to work three days later. She needn't have worried. She did, eventually, receive more parts commensurate with her proven ability. But this film does not shine brightly in a career that continued to command memorable roles until she was a very old woman.
The most remarkable thing about her role in the film is that her character seems to recognize, throughout, just how insanely irritating Shane is, and indeed "wins," in a sense, given that that the confrontation scene takes place on a train and she is able to evade him long enough to surrender herself to a maid in order to deny him the reward. This is a happy ending for her, I guess. It's bad enough to go to prison for life, but if you have to go to prison for life and know that this putz profited from it, you might as well hang yourself in your cell.
In place of "Fat Man" Casper Gutman, Satan Met A Lady gives us a fat woman, Madame Barrabas (Alison Skipworth), who is here not a scheming art collector surrounded by a bunch of eccentrics and reprobates, but a kind of female super-villain, who Shane describes as well-known to detectives throughout the world. Golly. Shane's mutually affectionate first conversation with her is really the only time, in the entire movie, that his flirting with every woman in eyesight is as charming as intended. Madame's alleged worldwide notoriety, discussed at length while she's petting a kitten, may be the origin of the film cliché that obliges so many evil masterminds to pet their felines while discussing their vile plans. Her version of the "gunsel" Wilmer, Kenneth (Maynard Holmes) is effeminate in a manner entirely different than the character played in 1931 by Dwight Frye and in 1941 by Elisha Cook Jr.; he's deadly, but he's also infantile, and is seen at one point cooing over the same cat, utterly lost in his communion with it. Shane abuses this loser by straddling him and pulling his beret down over his face.
The Joel Cairo analogue is an affected briton played by Arthur Treacher (yes, he of the fish and chips). He has a nice bit involving trying to help Shane straighten up his apartment after a thorough search has trashed it, and indeed represents the film's finest moment as he delivers extended exposition while fussing, obsessively, over a lampshade.
Of course, it's a sign of the film's awfulness that this is a high point.
It also needs to be said that for the scene to work at all, Shane must be so incapable of taking anything at all seriously that he cannot express anger even after thugs have invaded his home and trashed all his belongings. The closest we come to feeling sympathy for him, at any point, is concurring with his frustration at just how long it takes Treacher to come to the point. Shane is in this movie, and he's bored with it.
These are not improvements.
Incidentally, all three movies share the somewhat laughable device of the story's major developments not only being reported in the newspaper, but displayed in banner headlines on the front page. However, this is the only one that gets around to suggesting that one previous victim of its priceless object's long and bloody history was, I quote, "a vampire." (There's a logical explanation; back then, it was in addition to a word meaning supernatural bloodsucker also a word that could be applied to seductive women. Too bad. An actual vampire could have only improved this mess.)
Bosley Crowther, the critic in residence at the New York Times, ultimately put it best when he wrote, "So disconnected and lunatic are the picture's incidents, so irrelevant and monstrous its people, that one lives through it in constant expectation of seeing a group of uniformed individuals appear suddenly from behind the furniture and take the entire cast into protective custody." It was, not surprisingly, a bomb.
Five years passed.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A screenwriter with no previous directing experience but with ambitions of moving into the boss's chair got his first assignment, the go-ahead to make the third version of the story in only ten years.
He was so disrespected that the first major star he approached, George Raft, turned it down rather than work with such an untested kid.
He had to go with a guy then high on the B-list, Humphrey Bogart.
But John Huston was the one that finally got it right, the one that not only cemented entire careers but also initiated an entire genre, Film Noir.
Is it just, as legend has it, that his film was made by somebody who finally trusted the story?
No. As we've seen, the 1931 version also trusted the story, for the most part; and even the 1936 version followed much of its outline, and used much of its dialogue – admittedly, under a farrago of insane characterizations and clownish behavior, but still closely enough that Hammett's story could be recognized.
Nor is it just that nebulous quantity, "star power." To be sure, everybody in the film is perfectly cast, from Bogart as the cynical Spade to Elisha Cook Jr. as the put-upon but still dangerous Wilmer, but great casts have made shitty movies before, even when trying hard. It may be that the most primal element here is simply understanding the story more. This is most true of the movie's linchpin, Bogart. This Spade may be cold and dismissive of his late partner's memory, reacting to a cop's claim that the poor guy must have had some fine qualities with a bored "I guess"…and he may not wait until after the body's cold to have the dead man's name removed from his office door…but unlike the protagonists of the first two versions, he doesn't actually laugh about it. He clearly knows it's serious business, even if he's not enough a hypocrite to pretend that he's broken up about it.
It's also worth noting that unlike Ricardo Cortez, who simply speaks his lines and seems to go dead until it's time for him to emote again, Bogart does something many actors fail to do and listens; he thinks; he pays attention to what's going around him and shows moments of dismay, of fury, of wry amusement and even – in the final confrontation with Brigid – of despairing self-recognition, even when it's not time for him to talk.
Bogart understands the character so well that when Spade comforts a sobbing Mrs. Archer with sweet talk and tells her to go home, it is possible to see not just dishonestly he's manipulating her, and just how clearly he takes satisfaction in it, but also – behind all that – a thin taste of self-loathing at his own duplicity. All of this was inherent in the story, but it was up to an actor who could inhabit it, and not simply speak the lines, to give it a depth deeper than the surface. It's the main reason I'd stake this performance against any number of complacent modern-day viewers who have told me, in recent years, that they loathe Bogart because he "couldn't act" or, at best, "always played the same character;" it's not true, and perhaps even more than Casablanca, this film is Exhibit A.
Similarly, Mary Astor's Brigid is not just a liar, but to our eyes a bad liar, somebody Spade can clearly see through and simultaneously just as clearly be intrigued by. The storytelling is so clear that when I saw it for the first time, in a packed college auditorium almost forty years later, the cynical members of my audience laughed derisively at her lame dissembling – thinking it a dated aspect of the movie – and then cheered with delighted recognition when Spade, who was just as unfooled, told her, "You're good."
Contemporary censors were concerned about intimations of homosexuality regarding both Cairo and Wilmer (and, by implication, Gutman), enough to tell Huston to play it down. (Indeed, the introduction of the Production Code may be the reason the 1936 Cairo was not an obvious homosexual, but a British twit.) It really isn't all that important a story element, even if Hammett valued it enough in his original novel to have Spade repeatedly call Wilmer a "gunsel," which many readers took to mean gun-wielding thug but actually means a younger man kept by an older one. The memo Huston received from the studio advised him to take steps to make sure that Cairo wasn't so obviously a (forgive me, it's their word) "pansy." But the element is still there in Lorre's performance, and in Elisha Cook's.
Cook, in particular (who actually shares his character's last name), inhabits the part of a not-very-formidable punk who probably spent his entire childhood being kicked around, and made himself a killer in order to compensate, but is still preternaturally sensitive to any slight or insult.
There is similar great work from Lorre, of whom no praise is sufficient, and Sydney Greenstreet, who may have been the damnedest movie star of his era. Hell, it's true of everybody. The cast has no weak links. Everybody understood the characters they were playing; nobody phoned it in.
Just as importantly, the film is brilliantly directed.
This is harder to see, mostly because John Huston's hand is so unobtrusive. The camera moves more than we notice it does, pulling in to emphasize bits of business, panning to follow characters, finding humor in places like Spade's disarming of Wilmer in the hotel corridor. It is also always positioned for the greatest possible effect. Nowhere does this present e clearer contrast than in the scene where the two homicide cops show up at Spade's apartment door and ask to come in, at a moment when Spade would prefer to hide the presence of Brigid and Cairo, inside. In the 1931 version, Spade's conversation with the cops is a medium shot, filmed from the corridor; it's just three guys talking. In the 1941 version, it's a much tighter shot filmed from over Spade's shoulder, rendering vivid the sense that he's a barrier preventing those hostile presences from coming in. He looks more threatened by them. And we feel him being more threatened by them.
This command of the film's visual language extends to often filming the massive Greenstreet from a low angle, thus accentuating his bulk and making him seem more mountain than man. It extends to a mastery of black and white cinematography that slices the screen with shadows and stresses both the precariousness of Spade's situation and the moral murkiness of the waters he must swim. It finally extends to the final shot, in which he watches Brigid in custody being shuttled down in his building's elevator, and then, inexorably, takes the stairs to follow her. She's heading for hell. So is he, only a little bit slower.
Are there flaws? Sure, there are flaws. Every time I see it, I wish that John Huston had resisted prefacing the action with that damned opening text crawl, explaining the history of the Maltese Falcon long before Gutman gets around to explicating it at greater length; it adds nothing, and in fact dilutes a key element of the mystery before we need it explained. (It's a flaw shared with many science fiction films, that have similar text crawls telling us more than we really need to know up front, for fear that we won't stick around long enough for the same information to arrive more naturally; see, for instance, Dark City.) I also deeply wish that if we had to get that opening text, it had been composed by somebody who knew what the hell a comma was for and where not to put it in a sentence. I also think it distinctly odd that Spade can lift Cairo's handkerchief to his nose and discern the precise scent, without ever taking the cigarette out of his mouth. But, you know? That's about it. Everything else is as close to magic as movies ever get.
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
1931 version, a well-meaning but largely flat adaptation. 1936 version, a jaw-dropping travesty. 1941 version, one of the greatest movies ever made, and clear rebuttal to the argument that remakes always suck.
And now, the wife stumbles into the office, carrying a tightly-wrapped bundle from Hong Kong…
Second Commentary by Judi B. Castro
The Maltese Falcon aka Dangerous Female (1931). Directed by Roy del Ruth. Written by Maude Fulton and Brown Holmes, based on the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Starring Ricardo Cortez and Bebe Daniels. 80 minutes. *
Satan Met A Lady (1936). Directed by William Dieterle. Screenplay by Henry Blanke, based on "a novel"(note formulation) by Dashiell Hammett. Starring Bette Davis and Warren William. 74 minutes. *
The Maltese Falcon (1941). Directed by John Huston. Screenplay by John Huston, based on the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet. 101 minutes. ****
Let me begin by saying I have never read anything by Dashiell Hammett. Not that I haven't wanted to, just one of those cases where the stuff just ain't on the top of my must-read pile.
That said, the 1941 Bogie Maltese Falcon is one of my top 25 films of all time. (Someday I'll share my full list, but for now content yourselves with knowing that Bogie reappears on the best list more times than any other actor including Spencer Tracy).
So, as we discussed this essay, I was kinda excited to get to see how this classic had been interpreted by two earlier film teams.
Boyyyy!!! Oyyyy! Was I ever sorry.
The first try was a valiant attempt to interpret a pretty murky story. Nothing horrible for the most part, just no umph, no feeling that anyone involved actually got it. And sin of all sins!!!!!! They had to go for a softer, gentler ending. Not altogether happy, but definitely counter to the character development up to that point. So , they blew try numero uno.
Then, some brainiac said, lets make a screwball comedy out of this property. Ummm… drink much, mister studio guy? Even I know, a great hardline detective story would be robbed of its power if you lighten it up. No amount of star power(Bette Davis) could save this shipwreck of a film. The idea of a comedy is to be funny. Ok, I get that. screwball comedy, Bringing Up Baby, His Gal Friday, I get screwball comedy, just not in Satan Met A Lady. If by screwball or comedy they meant the detective's so called antics, then these folks needed to be tied to a chair and made to watch some silent classics of comedy for the stunts and early patter for the script. Geesh guys, how wrong can ya go?!
Then, out of options, the real film got made. No one believed in the cast, director or script, so it was the perfect chance to get it right. Woo Hoo!!!! This classic fits the title of classic film noir. Lighting, staging, camera work all done to perfection. The characters acted with restraint and still very much living breathing souls. No happy clean up, no guy gets girl, no money from heaven…just a tight tale of greed and manipulation in the big city. Wow! I can't see it enough.
So, am I a bit biased in my review. Probably. Do I care? Not a whit! I just say for your own sanity. Don't be a completist in this case, just be happy with the 1941 version of this great tale and let the others drop back into the vaults of obscurity forever, never to be missed.


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The South Central Industrial Association and Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce have advised the Terrebonne Economic Development Authority to become dormant and turn over its money to Terrebonne Parish.
The South Central Industrial Association and Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce have advised the Terrebonne Economic Development Authority to become dormant and turn over its money to Terrebonne Parish.
Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet is seeking to defund the organization through next year's parish budget, which will be approved later this month. Board members said before this latest development that they planned to fight Claudet's proposal.
"As a result of recent developments, we firmly believe all funds, which include occupational license fees and entry badge fees, should be returned to Terrebonne Parish once the parish president's budget is approved," states a letter addressed to TEDA board Chairman Clarence Williams sent Wednesday.
The letter is signed by SCIA President Lori Davis, who is also a TEDA board member, and Chamber of Commerce Chairwoman Jennifer Armand.
Williams, Davis and Armand couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday.
It's unclear exactly what "recent developments" the letter refers to. Claudet has been quiet about his motivation other than saying he thinks TEDA's functions could be better served under parish administration.
TEDA's most recent CEO Steve Vassallo resigned in September after learning of Claudet's intent. A month later, TEDA's board terminated Vassallo before his resignation would take effect in an effort to move forward.
At question is TEDA's $600,000 annual take of parish occupational licensing fees. There is also the question of the organization's reserves, which total more than $700,000. Some board members have suggested the reserves could be used to operate the organization for a time even if the parish takes away its primary operating income.
"We advise TEDA to become dormant, allowing the Terrebonne Parish President and Parish Council to re-evaluate the organization under its existing form and make any necessary improvements that will promote the long-term effectiveness of the economic development authority," the letter states.
TEDA's board is scheduled to meet Friday. Discussing the organization's future is on the agenda.


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I am an entrepreneur stay at home mom launching a female empowerment site that will guide women towards living from the direction of their Inner Knowing. There is a high possibility for future work from my self as well as from the clients in my network.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Tiny House Cleaning Routine
This is a time honored tradition where every last inch of a home gets cleaned and freshened.
The Tiny Life, visited our 120 square foot home and got to watch (and help) me put everything back in the cabinets after it had all been taken out and the cabinets deep cleaned.
One of my very favorite things about living in a small space is that spring cleaning doesn't take very long. We can move the sofa, clean the base boards, scrub the floors, and wash the screens without even breaking a sweat.
In our 2700 square foot house I hated spring cleaning so much I avoided it as much as possible. I'm not sure the outside of any of those windows ever got cleaned while we lived there.
This year in the tiny house we took everything out of the cabinets and cleaned every inch inside. Then we put everything back in. We moved the sofa to sweep and scrub the floors that otherwise never gets seen. We vacuumed the carpeting in the lofts and washed all the blankets and linens. We scrubbed the counters and the shower. The screens got taken out and washed off and the windows were cleaned both inside and outside. The house is sparkly clean, at least for now.
Someone recently asked me about our cleaning routine. Well, in a nutshell, this is it. But this is just the kind of deep cleaning we do twice a year. Every day we sweep several times to keep the dirt from outside at bay. We clean up after ourselves when we cook and do all the dishes and put them away. We do our laundry once a week. We scoop the litter box whenever it needs to be scooped. Our cleaning routine isn't much different from anyone else's except that our home is a fraction of the size.
That being said we have additional chores that others who live in on-grid homes don't need to worry about. Once a week we collect and haul water up from our spring. Every day I fill the Berkey with about 2 gallons of the water we've collected. I also dump the gray water bucket into our reclamation system. Every time we leave the tiny house or when we go to sleep, we turn off the power inverter so no energy is being wasted when we don't need it.
Cleaning a tiny house is a lot like cleaning a big house. Living in a tiny house is a lot like living in a big house. As they say:
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
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I love that quote.ReplyDelete
I have been thinking about cleaning as a meditation.
Did I mention how bad I am at meditation? ;)
Just started my spring cleaning....Oh how I hate it! I try playing upbeat music while I clean or putting on an old movie musical that I can sing along to ,...but it all boils down to cleaning...yuck!ReplyDelete
Blessings, Joanne
I'm actually trying to meditate more too. Cleaning may be a good alternative option to help calm my mind actually. I was thinking of purchasing a big berkey too. Is this the one your purchased?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2014 at 12:44 PM
My partner, baby daughter, little dog and I are about to move into a 220 square foot converted truck, so I was looking here for some ideas, thanks! I think staying on top of the sweeping is a wise move (especially as my little one will be crawling pretty soon!)ReplyDelete
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I'm a little late with my spring cleaning but better late than next year I guess. I live in a flat and it's also not very big, so maybe I can relate. Thanks for sharing your guide.ReplyDelete


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Friday, September 23, 2011
Pumpkinhead Ale
This amber-colored, 5.1%-ABV wheat ale offered by Shipyard Brewing Company was an alright seasonal treat. It had very little head, and the little bit it did have was white and frothy. I was surprised that there was very little pumpkin smell - the waft that hit my nose was all ale. After the first taste, it was evident why there was little pumpkin smell - there wasn't much of a pumpkin taste either. The beer had a subtle spiced flavor with just enough bite to it. Once the aftertaste kicked in, I did notice a faint cinnamon pumpkin flavor, but still not very strong.
I've never tried any other pumpkin-flavored beers, but I'm curious to compare. Today, Iron Hill Brewery is releasing their Great Imperial Pumpkin Ale (read more about it on Bil's mybeerbuzz.com blog), so I'm gonna have to head on over to try it out. Prost!
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A revolutionary invention
Imagine America at the end of World War I. Brief notices of important events were still sent by telegraph, the fastest communication that existed.
People read newspapers and magazines to learn details about happenings in the world beyond their hometowns. In small towns, the news was often out-of-date before the publications arrived. For that matter, much of the news was old even when it was written.
A decade later, a surge of interest, development, and investment in commercial radio had transformed the nation.
Election results were broadcast by radio for the first time ever in 1920 (by KDKA in Pittsburg.) Owners of radio sets heard the news first. They didn't have to wait for printing presses to grind out an extra and newsboys to run it through the streets.
With that broadcast, radio gained a new measure of respectability. Its potential was examined and found promising; it was recognized as more than a curious hobby.
By 1927, radio frequencies were so crowded that Congress set up a regulatory agency, the Federal Radio Commission, to issue broadcast licenses.
The 1930 census inquired whether the household owned a radio set. Many people did. The wealthy purchased a commercial model, and the poor built their own crystal sets or vacuum tube radios using the plans published in hobby magazines.
Americans tuned in regularly for the news, farm reports, and weather reports, and for other favorite programs -- music, drama, quiz shows, humor, and more. The radio often became the family gathering place, assuming a role that the piano or the phonograph had previously enjoyed.
Franklin D. Roosevelt used radio to bring his "Fireside Chats" into American living rooms, starting in 1933. He employed the cutting edge of technology to speak directly to the people in an unprecedented way.
From that era, here are two interesting quotes:
I live in a strictly rural community, and people here speak of "The Radio" in the large sense, with an over-meaning. When they say "The Radio" they don't mean a cabinet, an electrical phenomenon, or a man in a studio, they refer to a pervading and somewhat godlike presence which has come into their lives and homes.
—E. B. White, 1933
God Hears Prayer
If radio's slim fingers can pluck a melody
From night -- and toss it over a continent or sea;
If the petalled white notes of a violin
Are blown across the mountains or the city's din;
If songs, like crimson roses, are culled from thin blue air --
Why should mortals wonder if God hears prayer?
-Ethel Romig Fuller (from the 1937 anthology, 1000 Quotable Poems)
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October 13, 1939 - January 30, 2013
Greenville Township, NY
Mr. Gerald R. "Jerry" Decker of Greenville Township, NY and a lifetime resident of the area, died Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at Florida Hospital of Zephyrhills, Zephyrhills, FL. He was 73.
He was born October 13, 1939 in Greenville Township, NY, the son of the late Carl and the late Mary Ellen Dubuler Decker.
Jerry married Buena Rose 53 years and 364 days prior to his death on January 31, 1959 in Port Jervis, NY.
He worked for Laborers Local #17 Newburgh, NY.
Jerry was a member of: St John's Episcopal Church of Monticello, NY; Port Jervis Hose Company No. 4, Port Jervis, NY; Greenville Sports Club and Greenville Fire Company, Greenville Township, NY.
A family statement read: "Our hearts are broken by the loss of our "Pops". We are grateful for the wise, kind and loving man who loved his family and friends, and would do anything for them. Pop's loved to be with his family and friends, travel, play cards, listening to Bluegrass music, and going to the ball park."
Surviving are: wife, Buena (Bea) Decker at home; daughter, Darlene Benzenberg and her husband, William of Ferndale, NY; daughter, Laurie Cortes and her companion, Bobby Davenport of Matamoras, PA; brother, Carl Decker, Jr. and his wife, Joyce of Greenville Township, NY; brother, Charles Shay and his wife, Judy of Matamoras, PA; sister, MaryEllen Colvin and her husband, James of Northville, NY; seven grandchildren: Brian, Kerri and her fianc, Kyle Badeau, Robert and Sharon Benzenberg, Michael Talmadge and his fianc, Melissa Leeper, Megan Hernandez and her husband, Anthony and Kylee Cortes; three great grandchildren: Bretten, Londyn and Maximus; additional family members: Heather, Adam and Jeegan Decker and Shannon Davenport. Also several nieces and nephews. He was pre deceased by a sister, Joan Storms.
A graveside funeral and burial of cremains will be Friday, February 8, 2013 at 1 p.m. at Manning Cemetery, 839 Mountain Road, Port Jervis, NY (Greenville Township). The Rev. Ninon Hutchinson will preside over services. Following the graveside service there will be a celebration of Jerry's life at 2 p.m. in the Riverview Inn, 400 Shay Lane, Matamoras, PA 18336 (570) 491-2173.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to: Matamoras Recreation Park, Box 333, Matamoras, PA 18336.
Funeral arrangements are by the Gray-Parker Funeral Home, 100 E. Main St., Port Jervis, NY 12771 845.856.5191. For additional information, directions or to send a condolence note to the family visit www.grayparkerfuneralhome.com


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— The Beatles are finally appearing at a Woodstock festival.
A restored version of the Beatles' 1967 made-for-British-TV psychedelic romp "Magical Mystery Tour" will be featured at the annual Woodstock Film Festival kicking off Wednesday. The movie and a new documentary about how it was made will be among 130 narrative and documentary films shown over five days in and around the Hudson Valley arts colony that lent its name to the 1969 music festival, which was held in Bethel in neighboring Sullivan County.
Also highlighted at the film festival this year will be "Vamps," director Amy Heckerling's comedic take on the travails of club-hopping vampires, which reunites her with "Clueless" star Alicia Silverstone.
Another film, "Dear Governor Cuomo …," chronicles a concert and political rally in Albany earlier this year featuring actor Mark Ruffalo, singer Natalie Merchant and other opponents of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."
Filmmaker Jonathan Demme, director of "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia," will be given the festival's annual Maverick Award.
"Magical Mystery Tour" is often viewed as a dented apple among the Beatles' celebrated works. The hour-long movie about a bus trip across the English countryside with the Beatles and a cast of oddball characters had no script and no plot. The band appears as wizards in some scenes and performs "I Am The Walrus" in furry suits and animal masks. John Lennon plays a waiter shoveling nauseating mounds of food to a guest and Paul McCartney cavorts through fields for "Fool on the Hill."
The movie was shown on British TV the day after Christmas 1967, and many viewers didn't know what to make of what the former mop tops were doing.
"I don't think anyone was prepared for the film they were about to see because this was no longer the Beatles they had seen in a `Hard Day's Night' and `Help,'" said Jonathan Clyde of the Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd., which produced the accompanying documentary.
The screening at Woodstock coincides with the release of a DVD package that includes cut scenes and the making-of documentary.
Defenders of the film note the surrealism and jump cuts of "Magical Mystery Tour" later became common in music videos. And the movie does provide a glimpse of the Beatles when they were at the height of their musical powers.
"In hindsight, it wasn't as bad as it was made out to be," Clyde said. "It's no cinematic masterpiece, but that wasn't the point, really."
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 14, 2010) -- Finding themselves in the midst of the race for an Atlantic Sun Conference men's basketball regular season championship, the ETSU Buccaneers will put their current three-game winning streak on the line Sunday afternoon against league foe Mercer.
The Bucs and Bears will meet at 4 p.m. inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center.
ETSU, currently 14-12 overall, 10-5 in A-Sun action, will be looking to win and secure their longest winning streak of the season. Meanwhile, Mercer will be trying to replicate their effort from earlier in the year against ETSU, when the Bears enjoyed an 83-78 victory in Macon, Ga.
For more on the game, click on the game notes above or read the game notes below.
Buc bits
Matching their season best with a three-game winning streak, the ETSU Buccaneers hope to continue their stay at the top of the Atlantic Sun Conference standings when they host Mercer Sunday inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center ... The Bucs, currently 14-12 overall, 10-5 in A-Sun play, lost to the Bears in Macon, Ga. earlier this season ... Preseason All Atlantic Sun Conference pick Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) has been out for much of the season and will applie for a medical redshirt to hopefully rejoin the Bucs in 2010-11 ... In Smith's absence, Tommy Hubbard (Boston), along with Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) and Micah Williams (Manchester) have stepped up their games. In fact, Hubbard has posted double-doubles 12 times this season. ... Currently, Hubbard and Tubbs lead the team in scoring, with Hubbard averaging 14.2 points per game, and Tubbs pitching in 12.8 a contest ... Williams is the only other ETSU player averaging double figures with 11.5 a contest.
The series against Mercer
Prior to their last meeting, the Buccaneers had enjoyed a nice stretch of perfection against the Bears ... The Bucs were 8-0 all-time against Mercer before falling to the Bears 83-78 back on Jan. 9.
Last time against Mercer
MACON, Ga. (Jan. 9, 2010) - All good things must come to an end, and Saturday afternoon against Mercer, the ETSU men's basketball team watched as its perfect 8-0 all-time record against the Bears finally suffered a blemish. ... Without the services of sophomore forward Isiah Brown (Miami), who missed the game with an ankle injury, the Buccaneers trailed 73-53 with 4:42 left in the game. However, ETSU made a spirited comeback over the final minutes only to fall short 83-78 during Atlantic Sun Conference action inside the University Center. ... The Bucs shot just 38 percent from the floor for the game, while allowing Mercer a 49 percent clip. Mercer also shot 43 percent from 3-point range, which was critical as the Bears built their lead throughout the second half. ... For ETSU, a major bright spot in the game was freshman guard Sheldon Cooley (Tampa, Fla.), who finished with a game-high 29 points and three steals. Meanwhile, junior guards Micah Williams (Manchester) and Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) finished with 18 and 12 points, respectively. ... For Mercer, preseason All A-Sun guard James Florence scored a game-high 22 points, while Jeff Smith added 17, E.J. Kusnyer pitched in 15 and Daniel Emerson had 13. ... The first half started poorly for the Bucs, who watched as Mercer pulled out to an 11-1 lead with 14:57 left before the intermission. However, ETSU finally found its offensive game and put together a 17-5 run over the next four minutes to take the lead 18-16 at the 9:10 mark. ... Mercer responded by going on a 12-6 run of its own to take a 28-22
advantage with 5:52 left, and ultimately led 35-28 at the break. In the first half, the Bucs managed just one assist and shot 34 percent from the floor. ... The Bears opened the second half on a 12-4 run to make it 47-32 by the first media timeout with 15:50 remaining in the game. That lead grew to as many as 20 with 4:42 left, but at that point the Bucs used a pair of offensive runs to get within four points on a couple of occasions. However, they were never able to get within one possession.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 12, 2010) - Sophomore forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) collected a career high 15 rebounds and scored 14 points on way to his fourth double-double performance of the season, as the ETSU men's basketball team won its third straight game by defeating Kennesaw State 66-45 in Atlantic Sun Conference action at the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center ... In front of a crowd 3,471 fans and a regional television audience on CSS, Brown also dished out four assists, grabbed four steals and blocked three shots in what was arguably the best performance of his collegiate career. Meanwhile, junior guard Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) posted a game-high 23 points, while fellow junior guard Micah Williams (Manchester) added 13 points in the winning effort ... After falling behind 2-0 early on, the Bucs went on an early 17-3 run thanks to a 3-point barrage from Tubbs and Williams. From there, the Bucs kept the pressure on as Tubbs hit each of his career high five 3-pointers in the first half, and ETSU led by as many as 20 at 31-11 with just over four minutes left in the half. Kennesaw tried to cut into that lead in the final minutes before the intermission, but ultimately trailed 37-20 at the break. ... In the second half, the Owls did rally and cut the lead to 12 at 41-29, but a quick 8-0 spurt by the Bucs made it 49-29 and from there ETSU never looked back. ... For the game, the Bucs committed just seven turnovers compared to 20 for Kennesaw, and the ETSU defense held the Owls to only 32 percent shooting from the floor. The Bucs were outrebounded 42-39, and only shot 39 percent from the floor despite winning by 21 ... Along with Brown, Tubbs and Williams, the Bucs also got an eight rebound and six-point effort from junior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston), while sophomore guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) came off the bench to score eight points and grab three steals in 20 minutes of floor time.
Brown's play coincides with ETSU move in standings
Sophomore Isiah Brown (Miami) has made major strides in his production over the last several games for the Buccaneers ... In fact, over the Bucs last six games Brown has scored in double figures, and is actually averaging 15.0 points and 9.0 rebounds a contest ... During this time, the Bucs have gone 4-2 and won their last three games, moving back into a tie for first place in the Atlantic Sun Conference race ... In fact, Brown's play went to an even higher level in his last game against Kennesaw State, as he set personal bests for rebounds (15), assists (4) and steals (4), while posting his fourth career double-double with 14 points.
Jan. 30 not a good day for Bucs
For the second year in a row, the Buccaneers dropped a critical overtime game on Jan. 30 ... One year ago, the Bucs fell 82-72 at Jacksonville, in a game that Dolphins' guard Ben Smith hit a long range 3-pointer to tie the game in regulation and force the extra period ... The Bucs again found themsevles in an overtime game on Jan. 30, losing a nine-point lead in regulation with six minutes left and ultimately giving up a five-point lead in OT to fall to Lipscomb, 85-84.
Century mark not usual for ETSU defense
Giving up 100 points in the loss to Belmont (1/23/10) was not usual for the Buccaneers ... Before that game, the Bucs had not given up 100 or more point in over two years ... The last time it happened was on Dec. 15, 2007, when the Bucs lost to Syracuse 125-75 ... This season, the most points the ETSU defense had allowed was 85, in games at Arkansas and UAB ... For the year, the ETSU defense is giving up an average of just 67.0 points per game.
Jones steps up at the point
Coming off the bench to play the point guard position in the Bucs' last game against Lipscomb, sophomore guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) answered in a big way with a career high 17 points, including the game-winning 3-pointer with .4 seconds left in regulation ... Jones played 23 minutes in the game and was 3-of-4 from 3-point range.
Williams bringing more offense to the table
Junior guard Micah Williams (Manchester) has worked his way into the starting lineup thanks to more consistent play on the offensive end ... He has scored in double figures in 12 of his last 17 games, and most recently matched his season high with 22 points against Stetson (2/6) ... He most recently scored 13 in the win over Kennesaw State (2/12) ... Currently, Williams is one of three Bucs averaging double figures scoring this year with 11.5 points per game.
Hubbard steps up game in 2009-10
Much has been written and reported about junior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston) and his efforts to improve his offensive game, and those strides have led to some solid numbers ... Already considered one of the best defenders in the A-Sun, Hubbard posted a 32-point and 10-rebound effort in the win over Arkansas and dropped in another game-high 26 in the win over UNF ... He currently leads the Bucs with 14.2 points per game and 8.6 rebounds a contest ... while he has posted 12 double doubles on the year, his efforts began to pay off on the offensive end against Chattanooga back on Nov. 17 ... Setting career bests for points (26) and rebounds (13), Hubbard collected his first career double-double against the Mocs ... In addition, he hit his first 3-point shot in three seasons with the Bucs, and didn't stop there -- ultimately finishing with four long-range bombs on the night.
Record setting night from the arc for Bucs
Hitting on 11-of-14 shots from 3-point range against Arkansas, the Bucs put their name in a multiple of record books ... First, those numbers set a new school record for 3-point field goal percentage in a game with a 78.6 percent mark, breaking the previous record of 66.7 percent which had been done three times previously ... In addition, it was the best shooting effort in the "nation" this season for teams taking more than 10 shots in a game ... And it was the best percentage by a team in the A-Sun since Nov. 28, 1999 when UCF was 11-of-14 in a game against South Carolina state.
Home Sweet Dome
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 137-44 inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 77 percent ... The Bucs had won five straight at Memorial Center during the 2006-07 season before a loss to Belmont (1/2) ... The Bucs then rattled off 10 straight at home to stand at 15-1 on the Memorial Center floor that season, but fell to Belmont in the championship of the A-Sun Tourney... In 2007-08, the Bucs were 11-2 at Memorial Center ... In 2008-09, the Bucs were 11-2 at home ... This season, ETSU has actually struggled at home, going 7-4 in the Dome and 1-0 in Brooks Gym.
Sollazzo to honor Coy with number change
When ETSU's rising sophomore forward Seth Coy (Montgomery, Ind.) was tragically killed in a car accident this summer, it left the entire Buccaneer community with a deep sense of loss ... As is often the case, those that are left to mourn have looked for ways to remember the Bucs' 6-foot-11 "Gentle Giant." ... For sophomore guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa), who was Coy's roommate, the answer was simple ... Changing his jersey number from No. 20 to Coy's No. 43, Sollazzo will play the 2009-10 season to honor his friend and have that memory with him each night.
Big questions surround Bucs entering 2009-10
With the loss of seniors Courtney Pigram and Kevin Tiggs -- one of the most dynamic offensive duos in the country -- the Bucs have had a lot of questions to answer on the offenisve end of the floor this season ... Having averaged 78.1 points a game a year ago, which ranked 21st nationally in all of Division I play -- ETSU has lost 44.0 of those points to graduation when one includes now departed senior Greg Hamlin in that trio ... In addition to the losses on offensive, the Bucs' 13-man roster includes just eight players who have experienced actual floor time in college ... The other five players are either true freshmen, redshirt freshmen or walk-ons ... So far this season, those concerns have been warranted, as the team is averaging just 69.9 points per contest, 8.2 points off their average of a year ago.


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Owner Name: Keith Jarvis
Location: Natick, MA.
Vehicle: 2005 Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor Sport Sedan
Car Club Affiliation: N/A
What Events have you competed in?
2011 Show Season-
Performance and Style Carlisle, PA; Endless Summer Cruisin' Ocean City, MD; All Chrysler Nationals Carlisle, PA; Import Evolution Worcester, MA; Recession Car Show Norwell, MA; Cars For Canines Randolph, MA
What will be your next performance modification/upgrade?
Custom Carbon Fiber Cold Air Intake
"All Show", "All Go" or Both, Why?
Midnight Kompressor is built for show with a few tasteful performance modifications. The C230 came stock with a supercharger and I have done the few items that will improve performance like a custom dual exhaust and a supercharger tune. The look of the car is what makes it a show winner and I will continue to build on that.
Any Shout Outs?
Check out www.midnightkompressor.com for a list of sponsors and partners. I would also like to thank my friends Alan and Lindsey who helped transform Midnight Kompressor into an award winning ride.


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A chest ultrasound is an imaging test that uses sound waves to look at the structures and organs in your chest. It can help your health care provider see how well your lungs and heart are working.
A chest ultrasound can look at your lungs, heart, esophagus, mid-chest area (mediastinum), space between the lungs and chest wall (pleural space), and other structures in the chest. Your health care provider may also use ultrasound to see how blood flows through the organs in your chest.
The health care provider uses a device called a transducer to make the images of your chest. The transducer sends out sound waves that bounce off your organs and other structures. The sound waves are too high-pitched for you to hear. The transducer then picks up the bounced sound waves. These are made into pictures of your organs.
Your provider can add another device called a Doppler probe to the transducer. This probe lets your provider hear the sound waves the transducer sends out. He or she can hear how fast blood is flowing through a blood vessel and in which direction it is flowing. No sound or a faint sound may mean that you have a blockage in the flow.
Ultrasound is safe to have during pregnancy because it does not use radiation. It is also safe for people who are allergic to contrast dye because it does not use dye.
You may need a chest ultrasound if your health care provider thinks you have extra fluid in your chest. This is especially true if the amount of fluid is small. The ultrasound can tell your provider if the fluid may be caused by:
A chest ultrasound can also be used to:
Chest ultrasound may be used along with other types of imaging tests to diagnose chest conditions. These other tests include CT scans, X-rays, and MRI.
Your provider may have other reasons to recommend a chest ultrasound.
A chest ultrasound has no risk from radiation. Most people have no discomfort from the transducer moving across the skin.
You may have risks depending on your specific health condition. Be sure to talk with your provider about any concerns you have before the procedure.
Certain things can make a chest ultrasound less accurate. These include:
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Any Batman game worth its salt is going to make Batman's utility belt a big part, if not the foundation, of how you play, and thankfully Batman: Arkham Asylum does not disappoint. While I've only played through the first four chapters of the game, I've already gotten my mitts on several of the Dark Knight's technical assistants, and I'm happy to say that they make Arkham Asylum the most authentic Batman experience yet.
The Batarang
Perhaps the most classic of all Batman's devices, the Batarang is not only awesome because it's essentially a glorified ninja star, but also because it serves multiple purposes. Kind of like Batman's survival knife, I found myself using it constantly during Arkham Asylum. In combat it was useful for temporary stunning or blinding enemies (a sharp blade in the face will typically do that), but it also was useful in solving puzzles that involved something hanging precariously from the ceiling. It's easy to forget about the Batarang because you start the game with it -- and it's not nearly as cool-looking as some of the other gadgets -- but it is probably the most essential of them all.
Explosive Gel (Gun)
While not as all-around useful as the Batarang, the Explosive Gel does serve many a purpose in Arkham Asylum. Batman uses it akin to how one might use a hot-glue gun, placing small bat symbols on spots where he wants to trigger an explosion. Besides using it to knock down hollow walls to gather collectibles, it's also used regularly to gain access to places where conventional entryways are jammed. My favorite use for it, though, was to set traps. For instance, when I found myself up against four armed villains who were all pointing guns at a woman, I simply placed gel on the appropriate walls and then detonated them so that all the guys were all taken out at once. This definitely made me feel like The Bat.
Ok, so it looks a helluva lot like a grappling hook, but the Bat Claw is not for swinging around. Oftentimes Batman will run into areas that seem like dead ends, only to find that there are boxes or air vents out of his reach. With a good bit of aim the Batclaw makes short work of heavy objects, allowing Batman to rip vents from the wall or pull boxes out of his way. But while it certainly helped me get through environmental puzzles, I much preferred the Batclaw for its combat uses. Quickly tapping the Right Trigger on the 360 allowed me to shoot it mid-combat, allowing me to break up my combos and pull armed enemies in close to me. Did I mention it also made me feel like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat?
Cryptographic Sequencer
While it doesn't have any combat value whatsoever, the Cryptographic Sequencer (CS) is classic Batman gadgetry. You don't have it until a few hours in, but after you obtain it secured doors and security systems are little problem, as you simply tune the CS -- much like tuning in a radio -- until you hit a frequency that causes the electrical components of the security obstruction to explode. It's easy enough when you have plenty of time, but when you have to use it under time constraints -- something I had to do more than once during my time with the game -- it really helps solidify the type of tech-savvy, brainy hero that Batman is.
Grappling Hook
If you've ever watched a Batman movie or seen the animated series then you've doubtless seem the Dark Knight catch himself mid-fall thanks to a well-placed grappling hook. In Arkham Asylum the grappling hook is not only used to save yourself when you fall down a hole or into some hazardous gas, but also to get yourself up to otherwise inaccessible places. Lots of rooms in the asylum are filled with places for Batman to swing to, and the hook really allows you to feel like a predator stalking evildoers. For instance you might enter a room on foot, quickly sneak up on an enemy, and then swing yourself up into the rafters after he cries out as you hit him. Upon hearing his cry the other enemies in the room will come to see what happened, and you can watch their terror grow from the shadows as they find his crumpled body. The grappling hook is the least-flashy of all Batman's tools, but it's hands-down the one that makes you feel the most empowered.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is, in my opinion, the truest Batman experience players have ever had. With a host of gadgets --some of which I haven't even seen yet -- the team has made a game that exemplifies how Batman is a hero who uses his brains as much as his brawn. Now if only I was a millionaire who could have crazy stuff made for me...


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Saint Leo, FL (PRWEB) March 05, 2012
It's not often that the words 'online degree' and 'study abroad' are used in the same sentence. This June, however, students in the homeland security online degree program, plus others interested in topics such as critical incident management or criminal justice, will have the opportunity to travel to Israel and study counter terrorist topics.
Saint Leo's Global Security Workshop takes place in Tel Aviv, June 22 to 30, 2012. Early registration is recommended since enrollment is limited to 40 people.
Tel Aviv, the Perfect Classroom for Security Instruction
This is the third time Saint Leo University has offered this course in Israel, a country with decades of experience protecting their citizens from various atrocities. The unnerving reality of constant terrorism threats, such as suicide bombings and car ambushes, makes tightened security in Tel Aviv the norm.
Israeli experts will present case studies teaching how to protect citizens in various locations. One of the guest lecturers includes Samuel Bashan, who served in the Israel Defense Forces and in the General Security Service (GSS) for over 20 years. An expert in bomb security and preventive countermeasures, he has trained thousands of Israeli security officers. Bashan will give a presentation on suicide terror and Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIED). Other Israeli experts will discuss Krav Maga (Israeli martial arts), protecting dignitaries against terrorism and other pertinent topics.
Itinerary Features Location Visits and Lectures
The workshop has been designed to cover five critical areas: public safety at large-scale events such as shopping and retail establishments; transportation, including ports, airports, trains and bus stations; critical infrastructure; schools and government buildings.
Visits to Ashkelon Ruttenberg Power Station, Bank Hapoalim, the Azriely Complex, Jerusalem University, the Old City and the assassination site of Prime Minster Rabin are included in the trip.
Students will also meet Mordecai Dzikansky, a retired New York Police Department detective who spent 4 years stationed in Israel, gathering intelligence and relaying key information back to the NYPD. He's the author of two books, including his memoir: Terrorist Cop: The NYPD's Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists.
Workshop Designed for Students and Working Professionals
While initially created for the students in Saint Leo's homeland security online degree program, law enforcement professionals have attended this workshop in the past – and are invited to attend this year. Given the complex and ever-changing dynamics of counter terrorism, the up-to-date knowledge is beneficial to anyone involved with homeland security.
About Saint Leo University
Saint Leo ranks as one of the top universities in the South, according to U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" list. Saint Leo's traditional liberal arts campus, located 30 miles north of Tampa, educates more than 1,900 students. Total enrollment across its campus, continuing education centers, and online programs exceeds 15,000. Among the oldest Catholic universities in Florida, Saint Leo is one of the nation's 10 leading providers of higher education to the U.S. military, and is a nationally recognized leader in online education.
To learn more about Saint Leo's homeland security online degree program, visit: http://online.saintleo.edu/academics/bachelors-programs/homeland-security-online-degree.aspx
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Scandinavian low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle announced Thursday plans for new service between Fort Lauderdale and London, Gatwick Airport starting July 4.
This will be the first London service for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport since Laker Airways pulled out in 1998, airport officials said.
"This is a huge deal. London has been on everybody's hit list since the last 15 years," said Steve Belleme, the airport's business development manager.
Norwegian plans to operate two weekly flights between the cities Mondays and Fridays and introductory fares start at $289 one way. Travelers can book tickets on the new route starting today at norwegian.com/us/.
The London service will add to Norwegian's previously announced new routes from Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen to Fort Lauderdale, which launch in November and early December.
The Copenhagen flights begin Nov. 29 and will operate Mondays and Fridays, while service from Stockholm will kick off Dec. 1 and run Thursdays and Sundays, according to Norwegian.
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A small but key group of people involved in the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System had gathered for a meeting in a Chicago office building in February 2004.
TRS Executive Director Jon Bauman and board member Stuart Levine were already there, but longtime Springfield power broker William Cellini, who had made millions of dollars from investing funds for the pension system, was running late.
When Cellini arrived, he had warm welcomes — and a hug and a kiss on the cheek for both Bauman and Levine — as well as a story to tell, according to testimony Tuesday during the third day of Cellini's federal trial on charges of fraud and attempted extortion.
Testifying for the government, Steven Loren said Cellini indicated he had met with top advisers to then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich to warn them they were "moving too fast" and were "going to get themselves in trouble." Cellini said he went on to tell the advisers, Antoin "Tony" Rezko and Christopher Kelly, that they should use "Bill Cellini as an example," according to Loren, who was a lawyer for TRS at the time. Cellini then related to them how in his 30 years in politics he had stayed "above the fray" and "out of the limelight."
Cellini is now defending himself on charges that he worked with Levine, Rezko and Kelly to try to squeeze a campaign contribution for Blagojevich's campaign from a Hollywood producer whose investment firm had substantial TRS business.
Loren testified for about five hours about how Levine and Cellini plotted with Rezko and Kelly to protect their influence with TRS.
Prosecutors hope Loren's testimony will be important corroboration for Levine, the government's key witness, whose credibility is a central issue for the defense. Levine — who like Loren has pleaded guilty in the scandal — could take the witness stand as soon as Wednesday.
Loren testified that Levine had asked him to help defeat a proposal to merge several state pension boards, a move that would have diluted the power Cellini and Levine held at TRS. Loren said Levine told him he showed Cellini a rough draft of some talking points on the issue prepared by Loren. Cellini thought the ideas looked good but for one minor tweak — the font should be changed, Loren said.
Loren also talked about how during a car ride with Levine in October 2003 — the last Friday of the month, he repeatedly recalled — he agreed to help Levine prepare a sham finder's fee for a man who did business with the state.
In that same conversation, Levine explained to Loren that Cellini, Kelly and Rezko had talked about how they would use these sham finder's fees to reward Blagojevich campaign contributors and that in return, Rezko and Kelly would not interfere with the selection of investment companies for TRS.
Loren endured a lengthy cross-examination by Cellini's attorney, Dan Webb, who prodded him about his role in the scandal, what other "acts of dishonesty" he committed and his friendship with Levine, who in testimony in Rezko's 2008 trial admitted to drug binges.
Loren testified that he considered him a close friend but realizes that Levine kept secrets from him. Webb asked Loren whether Levine shared details about "his all-night drug parties."
His head down, Loren said no.
While U.S. District Judge James Zagel blocked some of Webb's questions, Loren admitted he had fudged billing records in an unrelated case.
Webb also questioned Loren about an FBI interview in 2004 in which Loren had apparently left out Cellini — mentioning only Rezko and Levine — in connection with the sham finder's fee scheme.
Loren said he couldn't be sure if the agent took down his words correctly. But in testimony Tuesday he said he was certain about the conversation he had with Levine that Friday.
"I haven't worked since July 2005," said Loren, explaining the toll that the case has taken on him. "There are certain things you are just never going to forget. And that's one of them."


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Livay (LUCY) Ann Holmes was born in Indiana around 1847 in Jackson County. I believe her father's name was Benjimin. In the 1860 census I find her living in Dent County, Missouri; living with a Jackson family. She married George Washington Miller on the 14 Aug. 1870 in Dent County. Lucy and George had several children, one of which is my great-grandmother, Lulie Ellen Miller.
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BATON ROUGE — New details about public-private partnership agreements to manage three state-owned hospitals, including Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma, are expected to be announced during a special legislative meeting this week.
BATON ROUGE — New details about public-private partnership agreements to manage three state-owned hospitals, including Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma, are expected to be announced during a special legislative meeting this week.
The House Health and Welfare Committee will begin its hearing at 9 a.m. Thursday in the State Capitol's Committee Room 5.
The men at the epicenter of the state's redesign have been asked to give presentations, including LSU System President William Jenkins, Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein and LSU System Executive Vice President Frank Opelka.
House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, R-Lake Charles, said the informational briefing will be vital to lawmakers' understanding of the issues facing the different regions where these changes are being made.
"We need to hear all the details, so we are prepared to act in the upcoming session," Kleckly said, referring to the Legislature's regular session that convenes April 8.
In December, three public-private partnerships were announced.
Locally, Chabert Medical Center reached agreements with Ochsner Health System and Terrebonne General Medical Center.
The medical center needed private partners because of a congressional reduction in Louisiana's Federal Medical Assistance Percentage rate, which ended up being the lowest in more than 25 years.
In addition to the agreements in Houma, the Interim LSU Hospital and its successor, University Medical Center in New Orleans, have agreed to partner with Louisiana Children's Medical Center, while University Medical Center in Lafayette has formed a partnership with its neighbor, Lafayette General Medical Center.
Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, said it is an "excellent tactic" for legislative committees to maintain an interest in updates on the agreements, especially with the regular session approaching.
"There will probably be a comprehensive package proposed for all three of the hospitals for us to vote on," he said.
Such hearings not only help bring new information to the public, Chabert added, but they also keep the pressure on the officials charged with moving the deals along.
"It's important that we keep having these kind of committee meetings," said Chabert, vice chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
Chabert is also the son of the late state senator for whom the Houma medical center is named.
When the federal reductions were announced, Chabert Medical Center's share was announced at $14.3 million, enough for administrators to threaten 245 layoffs or a quarter of the staff.
State officials say the expected investment from Ochsner and Terrebonne General means they will be leasing the medical center from the state, and some of the job cuts may likely be avoided, although employees will have to re-apply for their positions.
The extent of the investment and how it will protect health care access for the indigent and uninsured has not yet been explained in detail.
Lawmakers said they also hope to hear more this coming week about accountability, agreement receivables, the layoffs avoided and the role medical education will play in the future of these regional facilities.
Thursday's public hearing will be overseen by House Health and Welfare Chairman Scott Simon, R-Abita Springs.
Rep. Lenar Whitney, R-Houma, is the only member of the Terrebonne-Lafourche delegation serving on the House Health and Welfare Committee.
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Nobody wrote:I can understand with race equipment that long-term reliability isn't part of the race equation. But it doesn't explain having the same attitude to everything they sell.
The deceptive way the warranties have been worded, which appear to feed assumptions about the way some frames used to be warranted, while actually offering little real commitment, is poor form IMO. Surly's warranty might not offer much/any more than the ones cited previously, but at least they don't appear to be pretending otherwise with clever wording.FRAMESET WARRANTY
Surly[TRADE MARK SIGN] frames and forks are guaranteed to be free from manufacturing defects for three
years from the original date of purchase. If we screwed up something in the manufacturing
process that resulted in the premature failure of the product, we'll fix or replace it at our
discretion. This warranty is for the original buyer of the product and is not transferable. It
should go without saying that we won't even consider your warranty problem without a
dated proof-of-purchase.
This warranty doesn't cover damage resulting from any sort of riding other than "normal"
riding, and the inevitable wear and tear resulting from "normal" use. Surly
products are built to be used vigorously, and we wouldn't expect you to treat them gently.
However, we can't be responsible for the inherent danger to body and property you face
each time you throw your leg over the top tube. We're hip to the "just riding along" phenomenon
- and frankly, we're just not having it.
Sorry, the paintjob isn't covered, nor is any damage that happens to you or your other
components as a result of any failure of one of our products. Lastly, if you modify or
neglect our products, we can't be responsible for them or what might happen to you while
you're using them. We hate to spell it out, but hey, it's the 21st Century. We're known to
back up our products, but we've seen too many peoples' parts come back to us that were
not defective and did not meet our warranty guidelines. Save yourself some time and
shipping money by reading this and making a decision for yourself. If you and your shop
think your Surly product is worthy of a warranty inspection, please return the
product to the original place of purchase, accompanied by a sales receipt. In the unlikely
event that this is not possible, call or email us and we'll do our best to get you riding again.
http://surlybikes.com/uploads/downloads ... rranty.pdf
Full marks to Surly for speaking in plain language and keeping the bovine poo to a minimum. As a buyer that would give me confidence that I know what to expect as far as warranty coverage goes.


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|Assistant Cubmaster
Every pack should have at least one Assistant Cubmaster. In most packs, two or three will be helpful, allowing the Cubmaster to divide responsibilities. At least one assistant Cubmaster should be able to replace the Cubmaster's position in case of an emergency. The assistant Cubmaster is recommended by the Cubmaster, approved by the pack committee and chartered organization, and registered as an adult leader of the BSA.
An assistant Cubmaster's responsibilities (as designated by the Cubmaster) are to:
- Help the Cubmaster as needed. Be ready to fill in for the Cubmaster, if necessary.
- Complete Cubmaster Fast Start Training and position-specific Basic Leader Training. Attend monthly roundtables.
- Participate in Pack Meetings.
- Supervise Den Chiefs and see that they are trained.
- Conduct the monthly den chief planning meeting for all Den Leaders, Assistant Den Leaders, and den chiefs to plan and coordinate weekly den meetings and pack meeting participation.
- Work with neighborhood troops that supply den chiefs and into which Webelos Scouts may graduate.
- Help inform pack leaders of training opportunities and arrange for them to attend training sessions.
- Work with the Pack Committee to develop and promote an ongoing plan for recruiting new boys.
- Work with the Cubmaster and pack committee on pack reregistration.
- Help with pack activities, such as dinners, derbies, bike safety workshops, service projects, etc.
- Work with the pack committee on outings to see that the pack and dens qualify for the National Summertime Pack Award.
- Participate in the annual pack program planning conference and pack leaders' meetings.
- Promote the Religious Emblems program.
- Support the policies of the BSA.
- Is at least 18 years old, subscribes to the Declaration of Religious Principle, and agrees to abide by the Scout Oath or Promise and the Scout Law. Possesses the moral, educational, and emotional qualities that the Boy Scouts of America deems necessary to afford positive leadership to youth.
See also
|Cub Scout Leader portal