| 'Vantage Point' (president assassination drama, starring Dennis Quaid)
Each time "Vantage Point" loops back to high noon, we learn a little more about the shooting and the bombings from a different character's perspective. We also learn a little more about how tricky the thriller game has become in the late Bush era. A movie such as this, full of barely contained "24"-inspired rage (though its multiple perspectives owe more to the short-lived TV series "Boomtown") has it in for everybody. Its high body count and repeated shots of bombing victims wandering, bloody, amid smoke and carnage encourages a kind of sour acceptance of the way things are.
Once the conspiracy reveals itself, the film throws up its hands and plunks Quaid behind the wheel of a borrowed automobile, and director Pete Travis' film finally throws the stick shift out of reverse.
Travels With the Bear
The values include seeking knowledge and finding answers; thinking ahead; planning and organizing; setting and achieving goals; having the courage to try news things; appreciating those around us; having a positive attitude; and having a winning attitude by seeking out guidance and positive role models. For example, in "Traveling Bear and the Search for Treasure," Traveling Bear and his grandparents head into a cave to search for treasure. Throughout the venture into the cave, T-Bear faces challenges that require him to sustain courage and perseverance in order to achieve the goal of reaching the treasure chest of gems. In "Traveling Bear and the Yellow Flipper Roller Coaster," T-Bear gets a lesson in thinking ahead as he and his friends Mookie and Chuga spend a day at the Big Top Amusement Park.
Ex-cop faces death for pregnant woman's slaying
Davis was nine months pregnant when she disappeared in June 2007. Her body was found in a northeastern Ohio park after a 10-day search that brought national media attention He is Blake's father, as well as the father of the unborn girl, Chloe. According to testimony, Cutts, 30, rolled Davis' body in a comforter and dumped it in a park, leaving toddler son Blake in the house alone at the crime scene in a soiled diaper. "Mommy's in the rug," Blake told police, according to testimony. During the guilt phase of the trial, Cutts sobbed on the witness stand as he admitted killing Davis and Chloe. But Cutts insisted that their deaths were an accident. "I didn't mean to hurt her," Cutts testified, clasping a handful of tissues.
University takes tough stand on student drinking
That program is on the record and has been provided to surrounding mayors, police chiefs, local state legislators, county Prosecutor Luis Valentin and to the Press. We seek ways to improve that program by interacting with and surveying best practices at other colleges. It must be, and is, an evolving and improving program. Despite best efforts, sometimes citizens, even student citizens, make mistakes. And sometimes they get caught. The newspapers are replete with stories of all kinds of people who have strayed beyond the boundaries of the law. When that happens at Monmouth, the citizen student "faces the music" within the municipal legal system. Unlike others, however, when a police report finds its way to the university, the citizen student faces a second round of judicial proceedings governed by the student code of conduct.
Harrington: Alcoa pair to peddle 'high-tech' bicycles
Over the last couple of years, Douglas Benton made a point to carry a rubber glove in a pouch on his Trek bicycle because the chain often would come off. Those days are over for the Alcoa resident, who recently bought a chainless bicycle that sells for about $500. Calling the bike "amazing" and hoping to get people "moving," Benton plans to begin selling it and other "high-tech" bikes when he and his wife, Trysh, open in a few weeks Wheels 4 Tomorrow at 215 Aluminum Ave., along a stretch of greenway that runs 11 miles in Blount County. "We've got some of the best food in the world in the South, but we also have a lot of overweight people. We just kind of decided that more people needed some exercise. What we will offer is an opportunity to get outside with these cool bikes on an underutilized greenway," said Benton, a 1980 University of Tennessee graduate who grew up in Northeast Knoxville.
Cyclo-cross news & racing roundup for October 25
With Italy's Giro di Lombardia bringing the European road season to a close, the cyclo-cross circus is ready to take centre stage this weekend as the action moves from Flanders to the Czech Republic for the second World Cup event in Tabor. Last Sunday heralded the season's first World Cup in Kalmthout, Belgium and from now on the important 'crosses follow one after another at a ferocious pace. After a tremendous effort in Kalmthout, there's no doubt Fidea's Zdenek Stybar will be the man to watch. The young Czech professional, a surprise winner of last weekend's World Cup, expects to have significant boost in motivation this weekend when racing at home. "I lived in Kalmthout for two years so that's a special race for me," said Stybar. "Racing in Tabor is very special too because it's one of the few imes that the Czech people who follow me can actually see me racing.
Durston hopes second time is the charm
Because of what he has termed a "virtual lockstep with the Bush administration," Dr. Bill Durston is ready to take another run at incumbent Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Gold River) for California's 3rd Congressional District.
This will be the second congressional campaign for the Democrat and political neophyte, who said he wants to end the "career politician's" chokehold on the district and bring a change to the voters. "Politics were never in my game plan," Durston said during an interview with the Ledger Dispatch. "People kept asking me (to run) and I kept asking others to run. I tried to find someone else but they wouldn't, so now it's up to me."
Durston, who has had a long career as an emergency room physician and still pulls six 10-hour days, said he was initially skeptical about running for Congress.
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