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This 'Road' trip is one grim, dark journey

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:01:32 GMT

Less “La Strada” than “Highway to Hell,” “The Road” arrives after several delays, and to paraphrase the author of “Leviathan,” it’s nasty, brutish and not quite short enough.
Source: Boston Herald

Dog laws wanted

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:59:20 GMT

Three-year-old Alorah Havern is nearly blind in one eye. A wide, curved scar mars her forehead. She will undergo mouth surgery soon to repair the damage done to her teeth.
Source: GoErie.com

Quoted in 'Economic recovery invisible to Oregon's small towns'

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:13:19 GMT

Jim Thompson said in Salem Statesman-Journal:

Those jobs aren't coming back when the recession ends ... The rural economy in Oregon is in really tough straits. The governor's electric cars aren't going to do it.

Economic recovery invisible to Oregon's small towns

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:13:19 GMT

Oregon's economy has hit bottom, and a slow recovery is under way, state lawmakers learned from forecasters Thursday. But the folks in Willamina, Dallas and countless rural towns across the state aren't celebrating.
Source: Salem Statesman-Journal

Quoted in 'Economic recovery invisible to Oregon's small towns'

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:13:19 GMT

Jim Thompson said in Salem Statesman-Journal:

Those jobs aren't coming back when the recession ends ... The rural economy in Oregon is in really tough straits. The governor's electric cars aren't going to do it.

Valerie Zehl's Neighbors: Traditional Irish musicians enjoy weekly gatherings

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:57:34 GMT

It may look like a jam session, but it's not. It may seem that a bunch of musicians converged, fiddles and bodhrans in hand, and just started playing, so you may be tempted to bring your own banjo or mandolin and join right in.
Source: Binghamton Press

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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:46:55 GMT

Third episode in Liberty Mutual Podcast Series at www.ResponsibleSports.com provides advice to coaches and parents on youth sports character building.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The 15 best color film noir movies

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:57:23 GMT

Film noir means “black movie” and, most often, it means black & white. There’s been debate about its exact origins (though obviously the term was coined by the French) for decades.
Source: True/Slant

Lobos expose more BYU weaknesses

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:48:45 GMT

what followed for the Cougars rightfully seemed less a celebration than a realization that something, a lot of things, went horribly wrong on this gray day in Albuquerque.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune

BYU football: Lobos nearly shock Cougars

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:13:53 GMT

two minutes left in the game. BYU quarterback Max Hall avoids the defense of New Mexico in the first half of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 in Albuquerque, N.M. BYU defeated New Mexico 24-19.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Aleksander Emelianenko VS James Thompson

Fri, 15 May 2009 08:54:49 GMT

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Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Scotland's Jim Thompson (C) is tackeld by Canada players during their match on March 5, 2009, the first day of the Dubai Rugby Sevens in the Gulf emirate.

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Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - FEBRUARY 24: Jim Thompson moves a pallet of peanut butter, part of a shipment of U.S. Government food awaiting pickup at the Care and Share Food Bank on February 24, 2009 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.