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NCDOT begins Powell Bill Funds distribution
The North Carolina Department of Transportation has begun distributing nearly $132.7 million in State Street Aid to Municipalities, also known as Powell Bill funds, to 508 municipalities across the state.
The initial allocation, half of the overall total, is going out today. The other half will be paid by January 1. The number of recipients who applied to be considered for funds is the same as 2019.
The Powell Bill requires municipalities to use the money primarily for street resurfacing, but it can also be used for the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, drainage systems, sidewalks and greenways.
"The Powell Bill funding helps local governments improve transportation systems within their communities," said state Transportation Secretary Eric Boyette. "These funds help complete critical projects like repairing roads and supporting local projects such as bikeways and sidewalks."
The amount each municipality receives is based on a formula set by the N.C. General Assembly, with 75 percent of the funds based on population, and 25 percent based on the number of locally maintained street miles.
According to the chart which can be found at this link in a PDF, the breakdown for Halifax County is as follows:
Enfield — a total allocation of $71,185 with $35,592 being distributed next month
Halifax — a total allocation of $8,257 with $4,128 being distributed next month
Hobgood — a total allocation of $13,133 with $6,566 being distributed next month
Littleton — a total allocation of $21,629 with $10,814 being distributed next month
Roanoke Rapids — a total allocation of $404,090 with $202,045 being distributed next month
Scotland Neck — a total allocation of $57,721 with $28,586 being distributed next month
Weldon — a total allocation of $42,939 with $21,469 being distributed next month
Twenty-three cities are receiving at least $1 million, led by Charlotte at $13.7 million based on its population of 863,985 and 2,537 miles of maintained roads. Raleigh will receive $7.1 million, followed by Greensboro ($7 million), Durham ($6.1 million), Winston Salem ($6 million) and Fayetteville ($4.9 million).
The fund is named for Junius K. Powell, a former state senator and mayor of Whiteville who was a primary sponsor of the 1951 bill to help the state's cities with urban road problems.
The first allocation of Powell Bill funds was for $4.5 million and was distributed to 386 cities and towns.
Including this week's allocations, municipalities have received more than $4.8 billion in street aid funding since the program started.
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Hayti Heritage Film Festival 2019 Call for Submissions
Posted by Maya Jackson on November 20, 2018
Hayti Heritage Film Festival 2019 Call for Entries
Contact: Lana Garland film@hayti.org
Durham, NC, November 19, 2018 – Submissions are currently open for the Hayti Heritage Film Festival. The 25th Annual African American Film Festival is presented by the Hayti Heritage Cultural Center through St. Joseph's Historic Foundation, is one of the nation's longest-running Black film festivals. The 2019 festival takes place February 14-16, at the St. Joseph's Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center at 804 Old Fayetteville Rd in Durham, NC. Interested filmmakers should submit to: https://filmfreeway.com/HaytiHeritageFilmFest through Friday, December 7.
For the second consecutive year filmmaker Lana Garland will serve as festival director and curator. Garland is the Executive Producer of production company Insibah Media, and a Fulbright educator in film. "We are creating a robust program that includes some of the most innovative Black films of the past few years, films from the local community, and an opening night that celebrates the proud history of Black Durham through film and photographs," shares Garland.
"We believe in the power of images and image-makers to transform communities by curating artistic, informative, and innovative films by African American filmmakers, and by providing a platform for exhibition for these artists who oftentimes struggle to get film distribution." Say Hayti Center Director, Angela Lee.
The festival opens on Thursday, February 14th with a screening of the documentary, Mr. Soul! All-access passes go on sale, December 15th.
About Hayti Heritage Center and Hayti Heritage Film Festival: Hayti, under the guidance of the St. Joseph's Historic Foundation, presents The Hayti Heritage Film Festival as a signature event each year to keep Black film alive. New and veteran artists screen films before a diverse crowd of film enthusiasts while vendors provide great food, beverages, arts and crafts. The Center preserves and advances the heritage and culture of the historic Hayti community in Durham, NC and the African American experience through programs that benefit the broader community locally, nationally and globally.

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Jeb Bush Praises Mitt Romney, Says He Has 'Common Ground' With Obama
By Shushannah Walshe June 21, 2012
Mitt Romney may have encountered a tough crowd addressing a group of Latinos Thursday, but former Florida Governor Jeb Bush transitioned easily from Spanish to English and drew loud applause on the issue of education reform and school choice - and complimented the presumptive Republican nominee's rival, President Obama.
At the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials or NALEO in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Bush began by giving Romney a nod.
"We heard an excellent speech, I thought, from Mitt Romney, who is a supporter of education reform and of school choice," Bush said.
However, in his next breath he aligned himself with Romney's rival and repeated what has gained him headlines over the last few weeks, but he deeply believes in: Working across party lines works as well as having a more open debate.
"I am proud of the fact that as a former governor I was asked by [Education] Secretary [Arne] Duncan to introduce our current president of the United States in a high school in Miami because we share common ground," Bush said to cheers from the crowd. "And I don't know about you, but when we find common ground we shouldn't fight anymore, we should move on and build on that success. Apparently one can get in trouble when they say these kinds of things, but I happen to believe it's the American way. There is enough to fight about … to me it's important that we begin to focus on how do we build capacity for the next generation to maintain the greatness of our country."
Get more pure politics at ABC News.com/Politics and a lighter take on the news at OTUSNews.com
In an interview with CBS News earlier this month, Bush was open about the direction of the Republican Party, saying he worries that it's "shortsighted" when it comes to opening the party to Hispanics.
"In terms of the tone of the debate, it sends a signal," Bush told Charlie Rose. "'We want your support but you really can't join our team.' … Hispanic voters are going to be important in this election but going forward even more so. Politically, I think it's short sighted. I think there needs to be a lot more intense efforts to recognize the demographics of the country are changing and … how we message our views need to change as well."
Bush has wholeheartedly endorsed Romney's candidacy, but he has also argued that Republicans need to work harder to bring Latinos into their party. Romney has struggled to articulate a clear position on President Obama's decision last week not to deport most children of illegal immigrants.
During the presumptive GOP nominee's speech today he said he would replace the president's executive order with his own plan, which includes giving a pathway to citizenship to those immigrants serving in the military or who have pursued advanced degrees. But he did not go into detail.
Bush has criticized Obama for not doing enough to work toward immigration reform during his first term, but he has consistently praised Duncan and found some agreement with the president on education reform.
Today, Bush said Americans have a moral imperative to give students from all walks of life the best possible education in order to improve society, which is where he believes school choice comes in.
"The expansion of choices in states has made public education more vital, more robust," Bush said. "It has created a more competitive atmosphere and parents being empowered are much more engaged in their students learning. And for those who say you're taking money away from public schools because you are offering choices, there is not a single school choice program, public or private who spends more than what the per student allocation is in any jurisdiction in this country."
Getting laughs from the audience he said choice, as in school choice, "is as American as apple pie or as American as tacos al carbon." To the uninitiated, that's beef marinated and grilled and served up in a taco. It's a specialty of northern Mexico - and now, many restaurants in South Florida and beyond.


This section contains resources related to the curriculum, catalogue, and assessment. Below you will find PDF files to help you navigate the curriculum requirements, student learning outcomes, and course offerings in University Studies, as well as previous reports about University Studies and other resources.
Michael Wentworth, " "Only Connect": The Continuing Value and Relevance of the Liberal Arts," Best Practices in University Teaching, 2nd edition, edited by Diana Ashe and Caroline Clements. Wilmington: University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2006.


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Police investigation continues in Nadi deaths
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Nirmal Kumar, Usha Devi [top, left], Nileshni Kajal and her two daughters aged 11 and 8
Police investigation continues in the in relation to the deaths of the five members of a Nadi family.
The bodies of a 63-year-old carpenter, Nirmal Kumar, his 54-year-old wife Usha Devi, their 34-year-old daughter, Nileshni Kajal and her two daughters aged Sana, 11, and Samara, 8 were found in the Nausori Highlands on Monday.
A one-year-old also found crawling at the scene.
A second person of interest who was being spoken to by Police in relation to the deaths was earlier today released.
The woman is believed to be the wife of the man, who was released yesterday after 48 hours of questioning and was the first person of interest in the case.
The Lautoka Court yesterday afternoon dismissed an application made by the state for Police to hold the first person of interest for longer than 48 hours.
A miscellaneous application was made for the respondent to be held further after having been questioned without any charges laid for the past two days.
As reported by FBC News on Tuesday that a man was taken in for questioning, the 48-hour time period lapsed without charges being laid.
Authorities say a stop departure order has also been issued for the two as they reside in Christchurch and they both are reportedly still in the country and are believed to be at an undisclosed location in the West.
Medical tests have indicated that the five people died after ingesting a substance as yet unrevealed by police.
Police confirm the findings of the post mortem examination yesterday are consistent with an alleged substance ingested by all five victims which resulted in their deaths.
Further tests will now be carried out by the Fiji Police Force to obtain more information.
The Chemistry Scientific Lab in Nasova, Suva is now carrying out these tests.


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I have a love/hate relationship with M. Night Shyamalan and his movies. Some of them I love… some of them I hated… (Avatar anyone?) This post is about some of the movies I loved. After a few movies, he became known for his twist endings. His movies were some of the first that I watched… and they all took my by surprise. When I am writing, my mind doesn't work in the way of twist endings… so I was enthralled with the stories. In most cases, like that of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable… many clues are given to you about the ending beforehand. Got to love that foreshadowing. So I will talk about the films that I really enjoyed. So let's get to it. As always, a spoiler alert is in effect… but honestly some of these are 20 years old and Split is about to be 4 years old and Glass is about to be 2 or 3.
My sister calls him the creepy kid. lol
The Sixth Sense – Now everyone knows this story. It came out in 1999 and by now it is about 23 years old. My sister and I were talking about it the other day and I realized that there were things in the movie that I want to blurt about. There are a few moments in the movie that always stand out to me. One of the things that I have learned since watching this movie… is remember the thing that you are shown that is not explained right away. (Something that I perfected while watching anime… One Piece anyone?) What I enjoy about this movie was that on the face of it… it is a family drama before the secondary aspect of what becomes a scary movie. Cole (Haley Joel Osment) is having what his mother thinks are behavioral issues. She decides to get him a therapist to help. We all know what the issue really is but it was nice to see her try and get her son her some help.
In the first few minutes of the movie… we see that a patient broke into Dr. Malcolm Crowe's (Bruce Willis) home. His therapist. Ironically, it is after Dr. Crowe is awarded for all of his work in the field. His patient (Vincent) claims that the doctor didn't help him. We see that he shoots the doctor, and then himself. As is the way with M. Night, he moved on from that with little explanation… and it should have been my first red flag. I was probably 20 at the time that I watched this movie. But we get a time shift… the story that Dr. Crowe's marriage is on the rocks, since his wife seems distant (another red flag) and we meet Cole Sear whose mother is worried about him. So we get the relationship between Dr. Crowe and Cole. But here are a few moments that stood out to me.
The Kitchen Cabinet Scene – At some point, Cole's mother had to know that something was up more than him just needing better social skills. One morning, she is trying to get Cole ready for school. She removes his tie and heads into the washroom to get him another one. She is only gone a few seconds. When she returns, he is sitting at the table… obviously not having moved but almost all of the cabinets and drawers are open. She asks him what he was looking for… and he knows she won't believe him even if he tells her the truth… So he says he was looking for Pop tarts…. He even asks her what she is thinking because he doesn't want to believe that his mother thinks he is a weirdo. But honestly, she had to know that there was something else going on. I mean she was only in the other room… and you don't hear any noise from the kitchen. But it stands out to me because you see how Cole doesn't want his mom to believe he is strange and she is struggling to understand her kid. He tells Malcolm that he doesn't share things with his mom… but she still knows something is going on with him.
Stuttering Stanley – During a history lesson, Cole's teacher asks a question to the class. Cole takes it upon himself to answer… "What did they use this building for 100 years ago?" Cole's response is that they used to hang people here. (A bit heavy for the class.) And when the teacher tries to correct him… and causes the class to gape at him basically weirded out by him… Cole yells that he doesn't like being stared at. When the teacher continues… Cole blurts out that the teacher used to stutter when he attended school… all the way up to high school in fact. (Something a 9 year old could not have known but the original theory I had was that since he was teaching in the same school he used to go to… many parents would have been classmates… maybe one of them let it slip in front of Cole.) Cole starts taunting the teacher… calling him stuttering Stanley… obviously a name he had in middle school…. The teachers stutter returns.. he finally slams his hand on the desk telling Cole to shut up… and calls him a freak. Really dude? Rewatching the scene with the context of the ending… creepy. Was it a possession?
Ghosts at the School – So of course, Cole's school is haunted. Poor Cole can't escape it for a minute. Gift? or Curse? When leaving a school play, Cole stops dead in his tracks. In the distance, you can see 3 bodies hanging from the rafters. His answer to the teacher makes sense. Dr. Crowe tries to talk Cole through it. But Cole tells him that the feeling he gets on the back of his neck or that when it gets cold… is them. Haley's delivery is flawless which only adds to that layer of creepy. Later on in the film, Cole is preparing for his part in the play. He is seated with a woman who looks like she is doing his make up. But when she walks away, you see that she is horribly disfigured. When his teacher "stuttering Stanley" comes to get him… he tells Cole that this part of the school burned down years ago… to which Cole responds with "Yeah, I know." These scenes get me because there is an obvious difference in where he is at both points in the story. You see the growth by the time he gets to the play. He is stronger and no longer afraid.
Vomiting Ghost Girl – (This had to be the seen that stayed with me all that time.) We see her pull down Cole's tent in the middle of the night. By this point, Cole has been told by Malcolm that the ghosts are appearing to him because they want his help. So even though he is freaked out… he returns to help her. Asking her if she has something to tell him. The next scene is that of Cole traveling to a funeral. You realize that it is the vomiting girls funeral. So she had just died. Cole rides the bus a long way to attend her funeral. Oddly enough, no one at the funeral notices Cole there by himself. From the chatter at the funeral, you learn that her younger sister is getting sick also by some unnamed illness. Presumably, the same illness that vomiting girl has died from. Cole visits ghost girl's bedroom… Looking around when she appears again and gives him a box with a VHS tape in it. He gives the tape to her father and it reveals that her mother (Stepmother?) was poisoning her food and drink. Like just pouring the lysol all in the girls drink. The father and those at the funeral are flabbergasted by what they just saw. By showing up, and handing over the tape… he helped save her sister.
"She's standing next to my window." – This scene was epic to me because his mother is really trying to understand what is happening with her son throughout the movie. And when he finally tells her what is going on, her reaction is what I thought it would be. They are sitting in a traffic jam… there is an accident up ahead, his mother makes the comment that she hopes everyone is alright… He tells her everyone isn't… that a cyclist died. When asked how he knows that, he replies that "She's standing outside my window."(There is a scene early on in the movie… before even the 'I see dead people' scene, where she is looking at pictures of Cole in various stages of life and she can see these orbs and doesn't know what to make of them. I'm pretty sure Cole knows what was happening in those moments and can actually see what exactly was captured in those pictures.) His mother doesn't want to think that Cole is a freak… but she needs time to process what he is telling her. Cole goes onto say that he is visited by his grandmother frequently. He goes on to describe how the two had gotten into an argument before her dance recital… He tells his mother that his grandmother did watch her in a dance performance when she was a child, giving details he could not have known. His mother excepts him unconditionally.
"I see dead people / The big reveal – Would any countdown be complete without this one? (Keep in mind that the vomiting girl is still my favorite thing about this movie.) What I thought was great about it, is that M. Night preyed on our preconceptions that everything you see is what it is at face value. We aren't giving any concrete information that Dr. Crowe survived the shooting in his house. Actually, we are given plenty of foreshadowing to the contrary. We never see Dr. Crowe actually interact with anyone other than Cole. The initial scene after Malcolm gets shot, he watches as Cole leaves his house. Cole spots him and speeds off down the road. (You find out later that Cole is initially freaked out by the ghosts that come to him.) He heads off into a church… (Church being a place where you would ward of evil spirits.) When Cole returns from school, it looks as though Dr. Crowe and Cole's mother are sitting in the living room chatting. However, when Cole comes in… Dr. Crowe is not introduced to Cole… there is no acknowledgment from Cole or his mother about Dr. Crowe sitting there. In Cole's case, he isn't talking to his mother about Dr. Crowe because there is no point. She can't see him anyway. One could argue that there is no reason to introduce Malcolm… because Cole has met him already. But it doesn't explain why he is not acknowledged at all.
Later on… Cole makes the comment… "You're nice… but you can't help me." Well he can't help because he is the problem. Cole knows that he is actually a ghost. When Dr. Crowe visits Cole in the hospital, again neither Cole's mother or the doctor (M. Night himself) acknowledge him. Cole tells him… he sees dead people.
Cole Sear: I see dead people.
Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams? [Shakes head]
Malcolm Crowe: While you're awake? [Cole nods]
Malcolm Crowe: Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?
Cole Sear: Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.
Of course, this is the explanation ties into what we see at the end of the movie…. when Crowe realizes he is dead. What struck me is the line that they see what they want to see. For Cole, he sees the effects of their death. The little boy earlier in the movie tries to show Cole his father's gun… he turns and we see his head wound. We see the woman in the kitchen who Cole mistakes as his mother… she is beaten and bloody. The idea is that Cole can see the bullet wound that Dr. Crowe doesn't seem to notice. It is how he has always seen Dr. Crowe. A man with a horrible gunshot wound who doesn't know he is dead. It all makes sense as to why Cole ran from Dr. Crowe the first meeting. Most of the scenes between Malcolm and his wife… are where he does all of the talking and she doesn't respond. Viewers think that it is because their marriage is on the outs… but no…
It has been parodied millions of times, that doesn't make Haley's delivery any less chilling.
The Sixth Sense will probably always be one of my favorite movies. I have said before in other posts that the lens of age has changed a lot of shows, movies and things that I used to enjoy. I watched this movie again in preparation for this post and it is still as entertaining as it was when I first watched it years ago.
UNBREAKABLE – I wonder how many of you guys went back and rewatched this movie once Split and Glass came out. I know I did. But I rewatched it a bunch over the years. So this came out in 2000… We meet David Dunn who for some unknown reason is the lone survivor of train crash that kills 130 people. But not only does he survive the train accident but he doesn't have a scratch on him. (This is about as much information as I had and decided to see the movie.) much I mean the train wreck is horrific and no one can figure out how he survived it. But an eccentric old comic book store owner may have the key. Now there are a few scenes here that I really enjoyed.
David Dunn boards the Eastrail 177 train home but is later caught in a crash. David is recovered and examined by doctors, who reveal he was the only survivor of 132 passengers and hasn't broken a single bone. After a memorial service for the victims he finds a note on his car windshield asking if he has ever been ill and inviting him to Elijah's art gallery, "Limited Edition". David realizes that he has indeed never been ill. David tries to ignore him, but Elijah stalks him and his wife, trying to get his attention. To relieve his family from further distress, David finally agrees to hear Elijah out, and begins to test himself. While lifting weights with Joseph, they discover that his physical strength is far beyond what he previously thought and Joseph begins to idolize his father and believe he is a superhero.
Elijah Price, a comic-book art dealer with brittle bone disease, develops a theory based on comic book stories that there must be someone "unbreakable" at the opposite extreme. It is an interesting premise, but not one that is far fetched. I had no idea what brittle bone disease was before this. I will say… It was an interesting read. (Apparently, it also effects the whites of the eye, short height, loose joints, hearing loss, breathing problems and problems with the teeth. The severity may be mild to severe. In real life, a person suffering from Osteogenesis imperfecta would almost never grow to be as tall as Elijah is.) Elijah is kind of weird. He proposes his theory of real-life superheroes… David D and I are a bit skeptical. What is great is the acting of Samuel L. Jackson… he straddles the line between fantasy and reality pretty well. But Elijah's love for comics books makes sense given that it was probably the safest thing they could do.
The Orange Man – In this movie as in most of M. Night's movies, color always has meaning. So see that Elijah wears a lot of purple and that is not by accident. This is because purple is Samuel L. Jackson's favorite color, and it is a color often associated with famous comic book supervillains (The Joker, Lex Luthor, just to name a few). In this scene, David Dunn finally leans into Elijah's theory and becomes a superhero. He is complete with a power to see things people have done when he touches them… Frailty anyone? He collected visions at the stadium workplace, and after seeing clues relating to a serial killer, he tracks the criminal down. But our hero is new at this… and it shows. He is thrown into his weakness ( a pool of water. That Elijah helps him figure out.) and at one point you wonder if he is going to make it… Someone doesn't make it and it leaves us feeling that even in the superhero world everything can't be accounted for. I love that David didn't get everything 100 percent right on his first go round. Would have been odd to me if he had.
Bench Pressing – Having been talking to Elijah, and thinking that he was just a nut job… (more on that later) David puts off self introspection. He takes the things that happened in his life at face value. David finally decides to test his limits for the first time in the movie, wondering if Elijah's claims are true. As his son looks on, David adds more and more weight and is able to successfully bench press it. We are David's son in this scene. We want it to be true… we will it to be true. We need answers. The great thing is that discovers truth using an everyday exercise we can actually do for ourselves.
Joseph pulls a gun on David – When I tell you that my jaw dropped… That would be an understatement. But kids are young and impressionable. With all this talk about Dad being a superhero (which I believe kids think naturally), that leads Joseph to believe that he too is invincible. (Naturally.) Joseph confronts some bullies but ends up beat up. David tries to console his son by saying that Elijah is wrong and that he's just as normal as everyone else. Joseph takes it upon himself to prove his father wrong. Joseph decides to take David's loaded pistol and point it at him saying that if shot, his father would not die. David manages to talk him out of the deed. But it is sad commentary. Mostly because it is easy to see how this could happen in real life and end in tragedy. David deescalates the situation by threatening to pack up and leave for New York. Which still seemed odd to me. The marriage is hanging in the balance… and threatening to leave him seemed damaging but the flip side was letting the son shoot and possibly kill you. I would imagine shooting and killing your father would be pretty scarring.
David develops extra sensory perception – David can glimpse immoral acts committed by people he touches. At Elijah's suggestion, he walks through a crowd in a Philadelphia train station/and later at his job at the stadium, and senses crimes perpetrated by strangers who brush past him: a jewel thief, a racist hate crime perpetrator, and a rapist. The worst offender is a sadistic janitor holding a family hostage and torturing them inside their home. It definitely had an old comic book feeling. Here is out hero coming into his own and learning more and more about himself. It was interesting to see who he decided to help. The issue being that as one man… there is no way he could save everyone. There was a flashback of the car accident he and Audrey were in, it is revealed not only that he was unharmed, but that he had ripped a door off the car in order to save Audrey, a memory he had long repressed. It was interesting to see David and Elijah hone David's skills together. Even though David doesn't seem too happy to be an other. David's dawning realization that he isn't like other people doesn't fill him with confidence, but with sadness and dread. David behaves as if his differences are an unbearable burden that will separate him from the rest of humanity and change his life in ways that aren't necessarily positive. I didn't see this take again until watching Man of Steel… Having always known the story of Superman… I don't think I put much stock in how being an outsider or different effected Clark at a young age… or his parents for that matter. When I saw Clark have to keep moving on after showing his strength…. I immediately thought of David Dunn.
The only man to survive – This scene (more or less) was in the trailer… it is what drove me to watch the movie in the first place. The scene is masterfully shot… and from the trailer and the hospital scene, where the story goes is nowhere near what I was thinking. Remember this came out just after The Sixth Sense… so I was definitely not prepared for the direction that the movie took. In the scene… You see Joseph watching television… and you hear the news talking about a train crash and derailment. You hear the commentators talk about how there is debris strewn all over and some of the rail cars are still on fire. When they announce that the trail was Eastrail 177, Joseph hops up and runs to the kitchen where the note on the fridge shows that Dad was on that train. In the hospital, you see David sitting up on the stretcher and he is having a hard time finding out why the doctor is looking strangely at him and why he is being asked where he was sitting on the train. David finally asks "Where are the other passengers?" The doctor lets him and us know what is going on. David was aboard the derailed train… him and another person are the only two to have survived. The other gentlemen has been crushed, has several broken bones and probably will also pass away. This leads the doctor to his other startling revelation. David has not suffered any broken bones or any injuries that they can see and they don't understand why. Especially since everyone else perished. David has no answers himself. The weirdness is palpable as he is greeted by his family in front of press camera and families of those who lost loved ones on the train. The scene is shot where David and the doctor are having conversation in the background but in the foreground. You see hospital staff fighting the losing battle of trying to save the only other gentleman that has not died right away from his injuries. You can hear the heart monitor as it finally flatlines throughout the scene. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfDOmCLf0bQ)
It was Mr. Glass all along – After the battle with the man in Orange, David is reconciled with Audrey and the following morning, secretly shows the newspaper article of his anonymous heroic act to his son. David attends an exhibition at Elijah's comic book art gallery and meets Elijah's mother, Mrs. Price. One of the things that we hear in this movie is that the train wreck wasn't the only tragic event where scores of people died. There are mentions of a fire that killed hundreds of people in a hotel. There was also the bomb that exploded on the airplane. Elijah and David have at this point become friends with Elijah taking David under his wing. Elijah is the one that points out what David's weakness might be (water). Elijah's mother explains to David the difference between villains who fight heroes with physical strength versus those who use their intelligence. David shakes Elijah's hand when Elijah congratulates David on his success. That is when all hell breaks loose. David sees visions of Elijah orchestrating several terrorist disasters, including David's recent train accident, causing hundreds of deaths. David is horrified, but Elijah insists the deaths were justified as a means to find him. The movie quote from Elijah stands out to me. "Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you're here. That's… that's just an awful feeling. I almost gave up hope. There were so many times I questioned myself. But I found you. So many sacrifices… just to find you. Now that we know who you are… I know who I am. I'm not a mistake. It all makes sense. In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero, and most times, they're friends, like you and me. I should've known way back when. You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr. Glass." Elijah theorized that, if he represented the frailest a human being could be, then there had to be someone in the world who stood at the opposite end of the scale – someone who couldn't be injured like most humans. This was to form a lifelong obsession, beginning simply with him studying the newspapers for stories of people who'd survived catastrophic disasters without being harmed; however, this gradually grew to dangerous extremes. He would make bombs, plan future acts of sabotage, and chart the patterns of survival in catastrophes throughout the world – some of them planned by him, some entirely accidental. He killed hundreds of people and David turns him in. Elijah explains that his own purpose in life is to be the villain to David's hero. Elijah was convicted of murder and terrorism and committed to an institution for the criminally insane. So here was another thing that M. Night spoon-fed me, that I missed the big twist at the end. I was lulled into the superhero story and forgot all about Mr. twist ended. It blew my mind to know that David's mentor… was the villain, who had killed hundreds of people. Even though he was trying to find his place…. there is not a justification. Samuel L. Jackson played a great villain. I loved him way too much to see the bad in it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10TK19duC3s)
Split came out in 2016. It is an American psychological horror thriller film and the second installment in the Unbreakable trilogy written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan. The film is a man with 24 different personalities who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility. Can I just say how great James McAvoy was in this movie? I mean he usually is but this was great. He did a fantastic job. FANTASTIC.
Casey Cooke is attending the birthday party of her classmate Claire Benoit at the King of Prussia Mall. Maybe it was me, but I didn't get having a party at the mall. Probably the restaurants. Claire tells her father that she only invited Casey because she was inviting the entire class and didn't want to leave one person out; Claire reveals Casey is a loner in school and always acts out in class. Well, I will say it would have been best if Casey had sat this one out. Casey accepts a ride home from Claire's father, who also takes Claire's friend Marcia. As the girls wait in the car, a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder (DID) knocks Claire's father unconscious and enters the car, spraying the girls with an unknown chemical knocking them out and kidnapping them. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK5QIZgbfZQ) So a few scenes stand out to me… Let's jump to it.
Dr. Karen Fletcher has been had – Dr. Fletcher has been Kevin Crumb's therapist for a bit. She is the one that has diagnosed the 23 personalities. Poor Kevin. I don't think I could take anymore flashbacks of his childhood. The dominant personality, "Barry", controls when and which of the others can manifest. But recently, it isn't Barry who has been coming to the sessions, but Dennis… For Doctor Fletcher…. Dennis appearing wouldn't have been a big deal… but the fact that he is pretending to be Barry is. When she tries to get to the bottom of why he is there and what he is up to, he keeps the front up. She tells Dennis all of the things he did to give away that he was not Barry. Starting with the fact that she keeps receiving emails from Barry begging for her help. "Dennis" and Fletcher talk about Kevin's father, who abandoned Kevin as a child. The personalities began manifesting to help Kevin cope with the abuse he was subjected to by his mother, who suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder. "Dennis" doesn't tell her what he has been up though… which only leaves her more suspicious. But there is little she can do. She struck me as not necessarily wanting to help but trying to preserve her test subject. Dr. Fletcher had been studying, and giving speeches about what physiological changes can occur with patients with DID. One of which being that one of the personalities can have diabetes and need insulin even though the other personalities do not.
Patricia has entered the chat – Within his mind, all of his personalities sit in chairs in a room, waiting for their turn "in the light", i.e. controlling the body, while "Barry" controls who gets to go in the light. Two personalities, "Dennis" and "Patricia", are kept out because of Dennis's voyeuristic tendencies and obsessive–compulsive disorder, and both personalities' worshiping of "The Beast", a rumored 24th personality. The girls find an opening to a vent in the ceiling, and Claire escapes through the vents, before being discovered hiding in a locker. She is locked in a storage room separate from Casey and Marcia. Casey and Marcia hear who they believe is "Dennis" coming but are startled when Kevin appears wearing a turtleneck, skirt and heels. "Patricia" has taken over…. (a matronly Englishwoman), another one of Kevin's alters. This bewilders and invokes fear within the girls. Patricia prepares food for Casey and Marcia, she forbids them from having Claire join them. (Who makes sandwiches with such sharp knives….? Spreading mayonnaise threateningly…) Maybe Marcia thought this personality was a push over but even as Casey warns her not to… Marcia takes the chair and hits Patricia over the head and tries to escape. She is cornered quickly and locked in another isolated cell. Now after seeing what happened to Claire…. why Marcia would want to do this is beyond me, especially since she didn't know where she was. It was an epic failure. I was counting on her too.
"Hedwig" the window and the walkie talkie – Never trust M. Night. I should have known better. It would never be that easy to find a window out of there. "Hedwig" shows up and he reveals that he is 9 years old… and is wondering why the girls can't seem to get that. It is Hedwig who lets the girls know that the girls will be sacrificed to "The Beast". (The Beast being the all powerful 24th personality that only some of the personalities believe in.) He says that he stole control over the light from "Barry" and was persuaded to help "Dennis" and "Patricia". Casey tries to use Hedwig to get out of the underground. He mentions having a window in his room… which seems odd. There is nothing about the place where they are that would suggest to me that there was a window, but she convinces Hedwig that she wants to see his room and see him dance. He likes Kanye West. However, when she gets there… there is only a picture of a window drawn by Hedwig. Casey does find a walkie talkie… and when she starts calling for help the person on the other end thinks she's playing. I was so annoyed about that. People don't help for shit. Insert Eyeroll. This girl is telling you she is being held against her will…. you tell her to stop playing and asking how she got on this channel. Man if you don't get help. UGH. Casey is subdued when Patricia takes over again. Dennis chastises her for taking advantage of a kid.
The Beast and Dr. Fletcher cross paths – Fletcher suspects Kevin is responsible for the kidnappings. After reviewing some security footage… and continuously receiving emails from Barry, Dr. Fletcher comes to believe that Kevin (more likely Dennis) is responsible for the disappearances of these girls. She takes it upon herself to go after him… What I didn't get was if you thought that your patient is kidnapping people… why didn't you call for back up? She goes to where she thinks Kevin may be and has a discussion with Dennis. He reveals that he has met "The Beast", in reality a yet-to-manifest 24th personality. Fletcher realizes that there is an internal conflict between the personalities and becomes concerned that "Dennis" kidnapped the girls in order to sacrifice them to "the Beast". She fakes going to the bathroom and finds Claire locked in the storage room. Dennis sprays her with chloroform and carries her into the living room. Dennis then buys flowers and Patricia visits a train car (presumably the same train Kevin's father left him at.) Dennis then becomes 'the Beast', exhibiting physical changes such as increased muscle mass and several inches added to his already tall height. When she recovers, Dr. Fletcher writes down Kevin's full name, knowing that the resulting awakening of his original personality will be enough to subdue him. "The Beast" arrives and kills her by crushing her torso. Poor Dr. Fetcher… and she could have saved herself and the girls if she had just called someone beforehand. But that is just me. He then proceeds to rip apart and eat both Marcia and Claire.
Claire vs The Beast – Casey escapes from her cell, only to find that "The Beast" has already killed and eaten some of Marcia and sees him attack Claire too. Casey finds Fletcher's body and the piece of paper. Casey sees that the note instructs her to call out Kevin's full name, a tactic which would call Kevin to the light and throw the Horde (other personalities) into chaos. . When the Beast closes in on her, demonstrating the ability to climb up walls, Casey uses Kevin's real name to call him to the light. The actual Kevin (who has been restrained for years by the other personalities, and has no memory of what he has done between then and now) emerges. Upon learning of the situation and realizing that he has not been in control for two years, a horrified Kevin begs Casey to kill him with a shotgun he has hidden. She takes the gun but hesitates. Another thing I didn't get…. Kevin hasn't been in control for a long while and 3 people have been killed, but she doesn't pull the trigger which made me want to pull out my hair. Kevin's request to be shot prompts all 24 personalities to fight for control in a desperate attempt to and "Patricia" is the victor. Casey is told that "Kevin" has been made to sleep far away, and he will not awaken now even if his name is called. They once again let "The Beast" take hold. So Casey is on the run… Casey retrieves the shotgun and cartridges before escaping into a tunnel… The Beast chases her to the in the basement of where she's been held captive in a cell. She manages to load the shotgun and shoot the beast twice as he tries to bend the bars displaying superhuman strength, but he is not harmed. "The Beast" voices his plans to rid the world of the "untouched", those whose hearts are impure because they have never suffered in their lives. Casey doesn't fit this bill because she is being raised by her uncle who has been molesting her for years.(That flashback was quite disturbing.) "The Beast" begins to bend apart the bars of the cage in which Casey has locked herself, but then notices numerous old, faded scars on her shoulders and lower torso. He then rejoices in the fact that she is "pure". Concluding that troubled people are exceptional, "The Beast" spares Casey's life and leaves. Casey is rescued by one of Kevin's coworkers (finally!) and learns she was being held underneath the Philadelphia Zoo, where Kevin worked and lived. In another hideout, "Dennis", "Patricia", and "Hedwig" discuss the power of "The Beast" and their plans to change the world.
Now Glass was the movie that I was waiting for since Unbreakable. It didn't know that I would actually get it. I wanted to know what happened with Elijah Price and then I saw the trailer. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ghQs5AmNk). David Dunn made an appearance at the end of Split… so you couldn't wait to see how that turns out. At least, I couldn't. Glass is a 2019 American psychological superhero thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film is a crossover and sequel to Shyamalan's previous films Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016) and the third and final installment in the Unbreakable trilogy a.k.a. Eastrail 177 Trilogy. The premise of the movie being that the security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, who has kidnapped several more teenage girls to sacrifice to the beast. After pursuing Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities that reside within, David Dunn finds himself locked in a mental hospital alongside his archenemy, Elijah Price. The woman that oversees the three of them is annoying… and that is her job to be annoying and in the way… But I was so Patricia from the trailer. "I specialize in delusions of grandeur…particularly those who believe they are superheroes…" "Good for you." As you can imagine… things get a bit interesting.
The Overseer vs The Beast – Early on in the movie, we see David Dunn and learn that he has been trying to sniff out Kevin Wendell Crumb/the Beast from Split alongside his son Joseph. There is a group of girls that have disappeared again. I knew it was too soon for there to be a battle between them. Three weeks after the "Horde" incident, the Dunn's track down Kevin Wendell Crumb, the "Horde", at an abandoned factory where he holds four cheerleaders hostage. I would like to point out that sometimes young people are right… Joseph didn't want his father to go out that day. Saying that the police presence is too strong… and he was right… but to David's point… the kidnapped girls were running out of time. After seeing Hedwig on the street, David manages to use his powers to see the girls trapped in an underground warehouse. The Beast is surprised that David has strength to match him. Before the fight could totally get going, armed forces led by Dr. Ellie Staple intervene and imprison them at the Raven Hill Memorial Mental Institute. Also being kept there is David's "destined" foe and global terrorist Elijah Price, a.k.a. Mr. Glass, who is kept under sedation and is considered completely harmless.
Dr. Ellie Staple tries to "help" – David and Kevin are placed in separate rooms that contain unique security measures based on their weaknesses of water and light flashes respectively. (James McAvoy shines again…. it was so odd to see the lights flash and seeing him don another persona. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tOW8j5RtUE) Elijah's mother Mrs. Price, Joseph Dunn, and Casey Cooke, a victim who survived Kevin/the Horde's captivity, try and fail to convince Staple superhumans are real. David, Kevin and Elijah are brought out of their cell and into a meeting together where Dr. Staple explains she believes they suffer from delusions of grandeur (which is her area of expertise and trying to convince them that they do not have superpowers.) David seems to have a crisis… we saw him have a hard time believing he had powers… now 19 years later after he has settled into and accepted his powers…. now someone is voicing some of his insecurities. In the conversation, she asks them to explain their superpower… and then uses that explanation to point out how the characteristics that describe aren't extraordinary. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i71zp2X4XDw) David and several of Kevin's personalities become confused and distraught while Elijah remains catatonic. I wondered what having Elijah there if he was catatonic was supposed to do. Unless Dr. Staple thought that he wasn't really catatonic. I really enjoyed Casey's scene with Kevin. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BukBIgMvCc) Dr. Staple talks the family members and Casey into trying to enlist their help to break David, Kevin and Elijah from their delusions.
Mr. Glass and the Beast team up – Elijah has revealed that he has faked his catatonic state. He escapes his room (the idea being that in the night, he scampers around the mental hospital like he owns it. Dr. Stapler at one point tells him that if they have installed cameras all over… and will be able to see if he leaves his cell…. Clearly they already know this is going on. The ending result would be a lobotomy.) Elijah escapes his cell to conduct research on Kevin before visiting him and telling him he feigned his sedated state and plans to escape the institute but requires one of Kevin's personalities—the Beast—to help him. Elijah meets "Patricia" first… he asks her permission to meet the beast. She is happy about his manners… but issues him a warning…"For your sake, I hope he likes you." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noakeL8pCX8) Staple discovers Elijah's escape plan and proceeds to do a prefrontal lobotomy to silence him. Upon returning to his cell, Elijah reveals he sabotaged the surgical laser and kills his caretaker Daryl before freeing Kevin. Elijah then manipulates David into fighting the Beast by revealing his plan to destroy a chemical lab inside a new skyscraper, the Osaka Tower in Philadelphia that would kill thousands. David breaks free from his cell and pursues The Beast.
The Overseer vs the Beast & Mr. Glass – There is so much that happens here. Earlier in the movie, Hedwig asked who was the guy in the cell that is as strong as the beast. The trio spills out into the parking lot and reinforcements are called in. Interestingly enough… Joseph Dunn, Casey and Elijah's mom all show up to witness the carnage. David and the Beast go at it as Elijah looks on. Elijah does tell the beast that David's weakness is water… and in true comic book fashion David tries to help the reinforcements… (Ugh they were so in the way. I get it was their job but…. with The Beast breaking through these shields… they couldn't pay me enough.) It is Joseph who points out what Elijah learned when looking into Kevin's past… Kevin's father died in the train wreck caused by Elijah Price nineteen years earlier. The implication being that had Kevin's father not died… Kevin may not have developed DID and the Beast might not have existed…. (Here is another twist that I was not ready for. I should have known better but I didn't.) But being the villain in his purple… Elijah doesn't seem as though he is remorseful. He gives off the end justifies the means feeling. Despite thanking him for his creation, the Beast mortally wounds Elijah out of distrust for him. He then throws David into a water storage tank that drenches the area when he gets out. Casey manages to bring Kevin's dormant original personality out, inadvertently allowing the police to fatally shoot him. (I figure that had to be sad for her… but he killed a lot of people. And it was his wish….) Staple's men drown David in a flooded pothole (so… he made it out of the large water tub only to be while Staple reveals that she is part of a clandestine organization that has been suppressing the existence of superhumans for millennia to keep people from knowing about them and killing those with superhuman abilities as they see them as a threat to the balance of the world order.
I would feel bad if I didn't mention that these movies caught a lot of flack from the medical community for it's depiction of DID (dissociative identity disorder) and its perceived stigmatization of mental illness. In contrast with McAvoy's character, Deckel said, people with DID, who may represent over 1% of Americans, are rarely violent. Research has shown that they are far more likely to hurt themselves than to hurt others. But movies tend to portray only "the most extreme aspects" of the disorder, she said. Movies like Psycho and Identity that also contain violent characters with multiple personalities. This can misrepresent a form of mental health that is not well understood by the lay public, and even some psychiatrists, she said.
While I really enjoyed these movies, generally when I hear something has been directed/written by M. Night… I am not sure I am going to watch it. I think the edge he had in the beginning is lost now that people (me) go into it waiting for the plot twist. I watched Avatar… and I was as disappointed as everyone else. But it is what it is. The thrills that I allowed myself to get were fun… and I cannot stress enough how great James McAvoy was in his role. (I would love to see the bloopers or behind the scenes at some point.) But here are my top moments. Definitely drop a comment and tell me your favorites… if you have seen these movies… jump to it. That is all for now.


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Long Island Doctor Charged in Drug Case
Anand Persaud is accused of selling prescriptions for oxycodone without providing medical documentation or a medical exam
A New York physician has been arrested on charges of illegally selling painkiller prescriptions to two patients.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says Anand Persaud was arrested at his Baldwin, Long Island, office, on Tuesday. He was arraigned in Nassau County Court on two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance.
Persaud, who also has an office in Queens, is accused of selling prescriptions for oxycodone without providing medical documentation or a medical exam. He allegedly charged $250 or more for each painkiller prescription, and prosecutors said he took in almost $1.5 million in two years.
"He had hundreds of people who were hooked on prescription pain relievers, and he was dishing it out like candy," said Schneiderman.
The sales allegedly happened in November 2012 and March 2013. The year-long investigation into Persaud began when Rockville Centre police arrested one of his patients. Later, undercover investigators bought prescriptions while posing as patients, said Schneiderman.
Oxycodone is one of a number of highly addictive opiates.
His attorney told reporters Persaud was a "very respectable doctor and he's helped a lot of people."
"The charges are shocking, and we're going to work our way through the criminal court system," said Todd Greenberg.
The father of three could get 15 years in prison if convicted.
Several New York area physicians have been arrested in the past two years as part of an ongoing crackdown on painkiller abuse.
-- Greg Cergol contributed to this report.


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In a joint program with Bush, Northwest, Rainier Scholars, Seattle Academy, and University Prep, parents/guardians and students team with 56 college admissions counselors in small groups to review student case studies and serve as mock admissions committees.
8th Grade Class Going Camping!
UPrep's 8th grade class is headed to the Lazy F Dude Ranch in Ellensburg for its annual camping trip.
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WE Club Participates in WE Day Today!
Twenty-two 8th grade students traveled to the Tacoma Dome today to participate in the annual WE Day, a charity event that celebrates young people changing the world for the better.
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Hon. Gerry Weiner – Pace Immigration: Among the news stories that received prominent coverage in 2012 were the decisive steps the Harper Government has launched to reform Canada's immigration system and the critical need to finance the repair and modernization of the deteriorating local infrastructure in Canada. While these stories may seem unconnected, using innovative strategies to achieve the former may actually help solve the latter.
From falling pieces off the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, to broken water mains and collapsing roads in Ottawa, to the collapse of the Ville Marie Tunnel in Montreal, to blunt warnings from the Premier of Alberta, the need for infrastructure renewal is a situation that must be addressed. While all levels of Government and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) have acknowledged the critical need for action, what's lacking is a funding strategy to address what FCM has estimated as a $170B funding deficit required over the next 30 years.
Current federal contributions to local infrastructure are insufficient to meet this daunting challenge. To its credit, Infrastructure Canada has launched stakeholder consultations to try and design solutions that don't cripple local municipalities and burden Canadians with unprecedented local tax increases to ensure their community infrastructure doesn't crumble around them. Finding a long term, non tax funding source is clearly a desirable strategy and the good news is that it may be available through reforms to the immigration system.
Immigration reform is a multi-faceted, complex issue but, fortunately, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has clearly immersed himself in the myriad details of how our system works and how…and why…it doesn't. The Department has launched extensive public consultations and the result has been a host of much needed changes with more on the way.
The announced reforms also include a deliberate effort to increase the economic benefit to Canadians arising from immigration. This will be done through a variety of reforms including a modernized skilled worker selection so that the people approved possess the workplace skills required by the Canadian marketplace and that they are proactively matched with Canadian employers.
Another area of intended reform is an overhaul of the entire immigrant investor program where the goal is to maximize the economic benefit to Canadians. Canada is not alone in this modernization as other Western countries, such as the U.S. and Australia, are taking similar steps for like reasons.
Hopefully, the reforms will include a targeted investment program with enhanced investor screening that supports defined Canadian economic priorities like financing infrastructure modernization. The Program could also help finance new infrastructure projects like the announced Detroit-Windsor Bridge or the contemplated twinning of Highway 63 to Alberta's oil sands.
Such a program could see foreign high net worth individuals invest $ 5 million each into designated municipal infrastructure projects put forward by Canadian municipalities and pre-approved by Infrastructure Canada. The funds would be secured by a municipal bond carrying a competitive rate of interest and guaranteed over a 30-year life span, both in terms of interest and principal, by the federal government.
There should be defined rules and timelines for processing, citizenship acquisition, private sale and redemption of the bonds as well as forfeiture upon breach of conditions. The entire program should also be self financed and transparent.
There is clearly an unprecedented need for a non tax funding strategy to address the infrastructure deficit in Canada. Fortunately, there is an equally unprecedented opportunity to achieve this goal through the modernization of the current immigrant investor program.
These kind of "win-win" situations are relatively rare in public policy involving expenditures so hopefully, 2013 will see Minister Kenney announcing such a specialized infrastructure investment program. Canadians will be well served if he does.
Gerry Weiner is a former Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration who introduced the investor immigrant program and who now works as a Special Advisor to Pace Law Firm in Toronto.


We went to a cute little cocktail bar which recently opened inside the shopping centre in Newcastle called 'Popolos'.
Beautiful food, a couple of sneaky mojitos and lovely conversation.
I also found out they do 'macaroons' waaaaah! cappucino and a couple of those beauties to finish off with...perfect.


I feel blessed when I have a chance to work side by side with my friends. With the invitation from Martin Kleinfelder from Roter Baum Berlin I was given an opportunity to work on the front wall of the Youth Center JFE "Anna Landsberger" in Marzahn neighborhood, with my friends,Dejan Mijatović aka Redži and Đurađ Stevanović.
The youth center is near the field where people came every day to fly their kites. In Bosnian language we use the same term for kites and dragons, and the Great Wave, having dragon elements in itself, found its connection.


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1925 NFL Championship controversy
Title: 1925 NFL Championship controversy
Subject: Herb Stein, List of Arizona Cardinals head coaches, Frankford Yellow Jackets, Wilfred Smith (American football), 1947 NFL Championship Game
The Maroons' self-made trophy (carved out of anthracite coal) now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
The 1925 National Football League Championship, claimed by the Chicago Cardinals, has long been the subject of controversy. The controversy centers on the suspension of the Pottsville Maroons by NFL commissioner Joseph Carr, which prevented them from taking the title.
The Maroons were one of the dominant teams of the 1925 season, and after defeating the Chicago Cardinals on December 6, came away with the best record in the league. However, Carr suspended and removed the team from the NFL after they played an unauthorized exhibition game in Philadelphia, on the grounds that they had violated the territorial rights of the Frankford Yellow Jackets. Chicago played and won two more games against weak NFL opponents, but were sanctioned because a Chicago player, Art Folz, hired four Chicago high school football players to play for the Milwaukee Badgers under assumed names to ensure a Cardinals victory.
Pottsville supporters argue that the suspension was illegitimate because the League did not then grant exclusive territory rights and that- in any event- they had verbal League approval to play the game in Philadelphia. Further, they argue that the Maroons, who were reinstated the next year, would have had the best record had they not been suspended. Others claim that Chicago were the legitimate champions based on the rules of the time. In 1963, the NFL investigated and rejected Pottsville's case, and in 2003 refused to reopen the case. Both the NFL and the Pro Football Hall of Fame continue to list the Cardinals as the 1925 NFL champion.[1][2]
Under the league rules during that time, the NFL title was automatically given to the team with the best record at the end of the season instead of having the winner be determined by a playoff tournament. There was an open-ended schedule during that season; although the final listed league games ended on December 6, teams could still schedule contests against each other through December 20 to make more money.[3]
Pottsville vs. Chicago (1925)
Pottsville Maroons
Chicago Cardinals
(10-2-0) (11-2-1)
Dick Rauch Head coach:
Norman Barry
POT 0 14 0 7 21
CHIC 0 7 0 0 7
Stadium Comiskey Park
Location Chicago, Illinois
Pottsville vs. Notre Dame All-Stars (1925)
(Unknown) (10-2-0)
Harry Stuhldreher Head coach:
Dick Rauch
ND 7 0 0 0 0 7
POT 0 0 6 3 0 9
Stadium Shibe Park
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Referee Bill Hollenback
Attendance 10,000
On December 6, Pottsville defeated Chicago, 21-7, to establish the best record in the league and seemed to all but officially clinch the NFL championship.[4] Before they were awarded the championship, however, they were suspended by NFL commissioner Joseph Carr for playing a team called the University of Notre Dame All-Stars in Philadelphia (winning 9-7), on the grounds that the game violated the territorial franchise rights of the Frankford Yellow Jackets.[3]
The game against the Notre Dame All-Stars had been originally devised by Frankford. It was planned as non-league exhibition game between former Notre Dame stars and the top NFL team in the east; after defeating the Maroons 20-0, Frankford had believed they would indeed be the NFL's top eastern team. However, when they were later defeated by the Maroons in a second contest, they lost the right to play the game. Instead, Pottsville would host the All-Stars at Minersville Park, while Frankford scheduled another league game against the Cleveland Bulldogs.[3] Pottsville was excited to host Notre Dame, hoping it would be a huge financial windfall for the team. However, they felt that Minersville Park, a high school field with a low capacity, was too small for such a big event. Instead, they scheduled the game in Philadelphia, in the Yellow Jackets' territory. Frankford protested to commissioner Carr, who warned the Maroons in writing that they faced suspension if they played in Philadelphia. However, the Maroons claimed that the league office verbally approved the game during a telephone call.[4]
As a result of the suspension, Pottsville was prohibited from playing a scheduled game against the Providence Steam Roller or from completing its season. Ironically, Frankford was hurriedly substituted for the game at Providence. Meanwhile, Chicago scheduled and won two hastily arranged games against teams that had already disbanded for the season. This was within the NFL's rules at the time; teams were required to play eight league games, after which point they could either wrap up for the season, or schedule additional games to make more money. Hoping for some more cash, the Cardinals arranged to play the Milwaukee Badgers and the Hammond Pros, both of whom had already dispersed. Indeed, the Badgers were unable to bring back their full roster and resorted to substitute four high school players, which was in violation of NFL rules. The NFL heavily sanctioned both Chicago and Milwaukee following their game, going so far as to force the Badgers owner to sell the team. Carr said they would consider the game for removal from the standings; however, this never happened.[3]
Because of the controversies involving both teams, the League did not award a Championship in 1925.[3]
Cardinals owner Chris O'Brien was later offered- but refused to accept- the Championship title for his team. At the owners' meeting after the end of the season, he argued that his team did not deserve to take the title over a team which had beaten them fairly.[5] It appears that his reasons for scheduling the Milwaukee and Hammond games had been not to take the title, but rather to convince the Chicago Bears to play his team again – the Bears, with Red Grange in their roster, were a very lucrative draw.[3] The NFL said it would revisit the issue later, but never did. It was only after the Bidwell family purchased the team in 1933 that the Cardinals began claiming the championship title.[4]
It is sometimes stated that Pottsville played a fairly easy schedule prior to their suspension, often facing teams that were less than full strength from playing the day before in Frankford, making Pottsville's case less sympathetic.[3] However, the Maroons' final three games were against the Green Bay Packers, who finished the year at 8-5-1, the Yellow Jackets, who had beaten them earlier in the year and finished 13-8, and the Cardinals.[6] Furthermore, Pottsville had beaten Chicago, proving they were definitely a premier team.
By 1963, the NFL appointed a special commission to examine the case, but voted 12-2 in favor of continuing to recognize the Cardinals as champions. The lone dissenters were Pittsburgh Steelers and the Chicago Bears, respectively.[3] In 2003, the issue was brought up again during the league's October owners meeting. However, the NFL voted 30-2 not to reopen the case, with the lone supporters being the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, the league's two Pennsylvania teams.[7] Ironically, Philadelphia's franchise is the direct successor to and is the same franchise (although, in league records, not the same team) as the Frankford Yellow Jackets, the very team that filed the protest that resulted in the ruling in the first place; the Eagles replaced the Yellow Jackets after the latter went bankrupt and ceased operations.
One of the strongest opponents of a reversal has been the family of Charles Bidwill and his son Bill Bidwill, who have controlled the Cardinals since 1933, and began to claim the 1925 title as their own.[8] Because the now-Arizona Cardinals franchise currently holds the NFL record for the longest championship drought (and second only to the Chicago Cubs within the four major professional sports leagues), having won only one title since 1925 (in 1947) and only five playoff games (three of those in one postseason) in sixty years, this futility has been attributed to a sports-related curse placed on the team by Pottsville.[8][9]
The controversy involving territorial rights also led to the founding of the . The rival league folded after the 1926 season.[10]
1920 season championship dispute
Staley Swindle (discusses an earlier NFL championship controversy)
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^ "Arizona Cardinals: Team Facts". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 10, 2014. NFL Championships: 1925, 1947
^ "Chronology of Professional Football". NFL Record & Fact Book 2014. NFL. p. 355.
^ a b c d e f g h "1925 Pottsville Maroons".
^ a b c "Ghosts of the Gridiron: The Pottsville Maroons". Retrieved October 4, 2006.
^ "Ghosts of the Gridiron: Cardinals Refuse Title Shared With Pottsville". Retrieved October 4, 2006.
^ "1925 Pottsville Maroons". Pro Football Reference.com. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
^ Ditrani, Vinny (October 31, 2003). "Pottsville fails to get back title". The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey). p. S06.
^ a b Fleming, David. "The NFL's forgotten legend".
^ Nelson, Robert (January 11, 2007). "The Curse: Here's why the Cardinals have sucked forever, and why they might never suck again".
^ David S. Neft, Richard M. Cohen, and Rick Korch, The Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of Professional Football, From 1892 to the Present (St. Martin's Press 1994), ISBN 0-312-11435-4
Fleming, David (January 30, 2008). "Pottsville, Pa. and Cardinals each claim rights to 1925 NFL title".
Fleming, David (2007). Breaker Boys: The NFL's Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship.
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Former BR Class 04 D2231 at Lissone, Lombardy, Italy on 29th June 1973. It was then owned by Attilio Rossi and used for shunting track materials in connection with the relaying of the Milano to Como line. Alberto Perego
Despite looking rather different to the way it did in 1973 this is D2231 seen at Verona Depot on 31st May 1986 Sergio Vigano
This locomotive has been persistently recorded as being D2232 but when observed in 1973 at Lissone it carried a works plate confirming it to be D2231.
Photographic evidence exists of D2232 awaiting entry into the scrap yard of G. Cohen, South Bank, Middlesbrough which is fairly conclusive as to its fate. This photograph was taken by Martin Brown on 1st March 1969. If anyone knows Martin could they please make contact, we would very much like to make contact with him.
D2231 was sold to R. E Trem, Finningley in 1969 from Derby. It remained at Derby until March/April 1970 when it moved to the Chesterfield Yard of Steelbreaking & Dismantling. This being one of the companies contracted to break and store locomotives on behalf of R. E. Trem.
D2231 was last noted at Chesterfield on 14th June 1970 and was not present when the yard was visited a fortnight later. It is believed to have been exported to Attilio Rossi, Rome, Italy, sometime between then and the end of the following year. It is reported to have been disused by 1984, but the above photograph would suggest otherwise, and scrapped by May 1997. The exact date it moved to Italy is not known, thus any Great Britain observations after 14th June 1970 would be particular apreciated.
We can be sure D2231 was in use with Attilio Rossi by 1973 although its actual arrival date was prior to that. Enquiries made by Mark Jones in 2017 to GCF Generale Construzione Ferrovarrie Spa resulted in this response from Edoardo Rossi.
"First of all I would like to congratulate you on your long research; it seems you are passionately fond of old locomotives . We went through our files and, although we are not fully sure, we should have bought this loco on 1977 and it appears that it has been sold in 1983 to IPE Locomotori. IPE is in Verona. Good luck."
Although 1977 is some years after D2231 was first seen in Italy this may be the date Attilio Rossi became GEFER - Rossi Group.
During a LCGB visit to Italy of 4th - 15th September 1981 this locomotive was observed. Apparently it was somewhere in the suburbs of Venice and the observation was made in failing light so it may not have been photographed by the party. If anyone can provide the precise location or a photograph that would be very much appreciated.
The picture of the locomotive in Verona in 1986 is after GCF had sold the locomotive to IPE. However, it may well have been sold on by IPE, possibly after overhaul, as careful examination of the photograph by David Gregory resulted in these comments. "Interesting to note that, in all probability, the locomotive appears to have been re-engined by 1986 (the work required appears to have necessitated rerouting of the exhaust on the bonnet-top and additional access/cooling openings to the body-side). Also of possible interest from this image, is the writing on the cab-side of the locomotive - "No. 8001" is clear enough; underneath, I decipher "DITTA ANTONINI ... VERONA". Antonini S.p.A was a firm ("ditta") specialising in civil and industrial construction, based in Verona; it was taken over by "Atel Installationstechnik SA (AIT)" in 2008 who are now known as the "Alpiq InTec Group".
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As for airlines in general, most of their duties are regulated and the policies change from company to company. However, here are some things that I think would be reasonable to expect of airline staff when travelling.
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2) Announcement– I think it is a pretty reasonable request for airline staff to make an announcement informing passengers to refrain from eating your allergen. Although it is hard to expect that everyone on board will abide by the request; but it definitely helps raise awareness among the aircraft passengers and reduces the chances of you coming into contact with your allergens.
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Now I realize 'just saying no' is much more easily said than done. One of the best examples I can think of is saying no to foods that 'may contain' different allergens. Personally, I have peanut, tree nut, wheat, and egg allergies. I commonly find that many different food labels will 'may contain' one of these allergens. And, I will admit, at times I feeling frustrated with how this can limit food choices. It's important to take a step back when contemplating trying these 'may contain' items. One must evaluate if the risk is actually worth the severe reaction that could be brought on. I also find it helpful to determine if there are any other safe alternatives to what food I was looking to buy or any better safe food replacements. One way of doing this is seeking out options at health food stores which have a lot of different great food alternatives for people with dietary restrictions; however, it still is important to make sure whatever item you are looking at is still safe—many may still contain various allergens.
I personally find eating out can be another situation when it can be difficult to 'just say no' to different foods. When eating out with large groups, it can be easy to find yourself in a situation where friends might want to share and sample various dishes at the table. But this can be risky if you have food allergies. When ordering your own meal, it's important to inform the kitchen of your allergies and the importance of avoiding cross contamination. The same precautions, however, will not be taken with any of the other meals being served to that table aside from your own. It may be tempting to try someone else's meal. Yet I find it best to always reevaluate the risk and acknowledge how having an allergic reaction during a night out would be a lot worst than missing out on a sample of food.
I find that always comparing the risks and (for lack of a better word) inconveniences of having an allergic reaction are helpful in making the decision to say 'no' to risky food choices. A specific example I have of this includes when I was travelling to Europe for the first time. My first day was in London, England. I will admit, while I was enjoying all the sight seeing and normal joys of travelling, when it came to find a place for lunch I found myself being overly cautious picking a safe food to eat. The last thing I wanted was to have an allergic reaction on my first day of holidays in a foreign country. I also found it hard since I was travelling with friends and they were very interested in experimenting with new foods at foreign restaurants I wasn't familiar with. I have travelled abroad since and each time I make sure to do research ahead of time on safe food choices abroad. I also never run short of safe snacks, which I bring along, that make it easier to avoid risky foods without having to go hungry! In the end, while it may be tempting at the time to experiment with different foods, it's also important to take a very careful look at the risks that are involved and realize it's okay to 'just say no'.


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