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The Dec. 11, 2017 edition of The Korea Herald carried an article titled "Why Koreans want to leave 'Hell Joseon'." According to the article, 62.7 percent of people polled in December last year regarded South Korea as "Hell Joseon." Fifty-six percent were willing to give up their nationality.
The desire to leave Korea is more prevalent among the young generation, many of whom struggle to find employment. The main reasons for the Hell Joseon mentality are that Korean society is unfair and corrupt.
Korean society is unfair mainly because the privileged and their children and relatives enjoy better jobs and more wealth. Koreans are less concerned about the income gap between rich and poor than income, or job, insecurity. In terms of income inequality, South Korea ranks approximately between European welfare states on the one hand and East European and Latin American states on the other. According to a 2015 survey conducted by Statistics Korea, more than 61 percent of respondents felt insecure about their job status. In terms of the Gini coefficient 2015 as a measure of income gap, South Korea ranked No. 24 and the US No. 4 among 37 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member states.
This means that wealth inequality is much greater in America than in Korea.
But South Koreans feel much less happy than Americans in general. Why? Americans have not, for the most part, abandoned the "American dream" -- a belief that everybody has an equal chance to become rich and succeed -- but Koreans have no "Korean dream." Most people here do not believe that everybody has equal chance to success mainly because Korean society is corrupt and equal opportunity is nonexistent. To make matters worse, Koreans suffer constant competition to get admitted into a prestigious university and obtain a well-paid, secure and quickly promoting job. The social atmosphere itself is so stressful that it pushes people to compare themselves to others and compete for better pay, a better house and better education for their children. According to a poll by Macromill Embrai in 2015, 76.6 percent of Koreans wanted to live in a country where they could be more relaxed, while 61.7 percent wanted to get out of the fiercely competitive society.
This anxiety of the people has resulted into two unfortunate outcomes: suicide and depression.
According to OECD Health Data from 2015, South Korea had the highest rate of suicide (33.5 people per 100,000) and Greece the lowest rate (3.2 per 100,000) among OECD members. In another survey conducted by the Korean Center for Disease Control in 2015, 5.35 million (13 percent) of 41.2 million adults suffer depression here. Of course, the causes of depression include both mental and physical ones. But if we consider that a majority of the patients of depression are found in the young (20s) and old (80s), and mental causes are more prevalent than physical as far as South Korea is concerned, we can conclude that the characteristics of Korean society and culture are more relevant to the high suicide and depression rates in Korea.
We have found the causes of unhappiness and mental diseases lie in the characteristics of Korean society. Why are Koreans unhappy about their society?
Korean society is in transition from a typical authoritarian Confucian society to a rapidly modernizing and westernizing society. Newly developed non-Western countries go through a painful process of cultural transformation. Oriental civilization sharply contrasts agaisnt Western civilization. In Korea, traditional cultural values such as authoritarianism, collectivism and what Talcott Parsons called pattern variables such as ascription and affectivity values are being challenged and replaced by individualism, freedom, equality, achievement and affectivity neutrality. Young people are more willing to accommodate these values. This is one of the reasons the young generation is more liberal and the old more conservative. Those of older generations who are conservative are still in control of Korean society and consciously and unconsciously try to preserve old cultural values.
Regionalism, factionalism, the spoils system, authoritarian behavior and bribery are products of old Korean culture. In this sense, Korean society is going through a period of anomie. The phenomenon of anomie exists in a society that is going through a lack of established norms. Until a new cultural system is firmly established in Korea, Koreans will have to endure "Hell Joseon."
Unfortunately, the North Korea factor hinders the cultural renaissance of South Korea. Older Koreans who are conservative and extremely hostile to North Korea tend to prefer old cultural values to new ones.
How can we accelerate the transformation of old Korean behavioral patterns into new ones? The successive governments committed themselves to a rapid and smooth transformation of Korean society into a civilized one. However, their "moral rearmament movements" did not go beyond mere oral sloganeering.
Actually, the British Moral Rearmament Movement was not a moral rearmament movement. It was an anti-war movement on the eve of World War II. The Korean people, not the Korean government, should start a civilizing movement. This civilizing movement is a kind of cultural movement. One important meaning of culture is "an ideal state of human culture characterized by a complete absence of irrationality or barbarism."
Koreans should start a nationwide movement to transform Korean society into a civilized society and escape an anomic society as soon as possible, as they have succeeded in building a democratic political system through blood and tears. Democracy cannot be rooted firmly in an anomic society, and can last long only in a civilized society.
Park Sang-seek
Park Sang-seek is a former head of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (now Diplomatic Academy), Foreign Ministry and a former rector at the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University. He is the author of "Globalized Korea and Localized Globe." -- Ed.

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'Expect lots of energy @ 2017 Summer Sizzle BVI'- Alva L. Page
The annual event is spearheaded by Mr Terry T. Donovan, Summer Sizzle BVI founder, and will kick off on Thursday, July 20, 2017 and runs through to Sunday, July 23, 2017 at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex in Road Town.
The show will feature designers such as Aqua Couture by Roger Gary, Nikini Resortwear and local designers: The Islander by Andrea Wilson and Duo Collection by Nadia Winter and Natalya Thomas.
Expect lots of energy- Page
In an exclusive interview with Virgin Islands News Online, International Model Coach, Alva L. Page explained that patrons can expect a lot of energy from the models.
"A lot of the local models will strut the catwalk just like professional models because I am their runway coach. You can expect beautiful collections from local designers, emerging designers as well as some of our international designers. You will get to see a lot of colour, what to wear for swimwear and resort wear."
Mr page, who is no stranger to Summer Sizzle BVI, further stated that the preparation for the 2017 Summer Sizzle BVI has been a very easy task for him because he has worked with some of the Virgin Islands models on previous shows and the new model were quick learners.
"They really caught on to the training and the lessons. They attended practice and the models were very punctual and on time and they were serious. So, whenever you have a model that is serious about getting the teaching, it makes my job easier. The attitudes are there. The confidence is there and people from the Virgin Islands are really in for a treat," said Mr Page.
Meet Roger Gary
Virgin Islands News Online also caught up with Roger Gary, a Guyanese Designer, who stated that he has been participating in fashion shows for some 20 years as well as assisting with production. He noted that his swimwear collection, Aqua Couture was inspired by a dream that gave birth to a Southeast Asia collection.
"I had a dream one night that I was on a beautiful beach some place texting my friends and I'm saying hi guys I'm in Phuket. I woke up and I was like Phuket and it never really registered where Phuket was, so I went and I googled it and it was in Thailand. I dreamt about it twice, so I had to go to Phuket."
Mr Gary points out that he prays that he does not "become jaded about being in the industry" adding that he does not want to get "burnt out".
To date his collections have been showcased at numerous prestigious events worldwide, including during New York Fashion Week, Brooklyn Fashion Week End, Caribbean Fashion Week, Style Week Jamaica, Barbados Fashion Week, St. Kitt's Fashion Week, Virgin Islands Fashion Week, Summer Sizzle BVI, Guyana Fashion Xpo, The International Designer's Show, Cayman Island Fashion Week and Kingston Bridal Week.
Mr Gary was presented with the Caribbean Style and Culture Award in 2011 for his contribution to the Caribbean Fashion Industry.
He disclosed to Virgin Islands News Online that he enjoys the work that he does. "I don't think I could live a proper life without being able to design. It was a part of what my hobby was made up of as a child and probably even before I was born. I was meant to do this and I embrace and love it."
"I got teased a lot about it because when I was a little kid, there were not many male designers, so at that time, it was seen as a female occupation but I was a very confident kid and it didn't really bother me," said Mr Gary.
4 Responses to "'Expect lots of energy @ 2017 Summer Sizzle BVI'- Alva L. Page"
ann (20/07/2017, 20:24) Like (6) Dislike (0) Replyoh yea it's going be hot hot hot
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Looking forward to the runway shows. Attended the Welcome Party last night at Myett's despite the weather earlier in the evening it was really great. And the food was bomb. Also enjoyed dance troupe and the band that performed.


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Friends Of Chaulden Junior School
Friends of Chaulden Junior School is a registered charity set up to raise funds for the children at Chaulden Junior School, to enhance their learning and enrich their experience at school.
In the past we have secured funds to enable us to build some play equipment within the grounds for the children. We have also organised and funded whole school trips, author visits, a new school stage and much, much more.
To enable us to raise these gratefully appreciated funds we put on exciting events throughout the year such as school discos, film nights, our joint Christmas fair with the Infant School and the children's favourite…Prom night!
Meetings are held once or twice a term and all dates are set in advance and available on the school newsletter. Everyone is welcome to come to meetings; as we are a 'Friends of…', all family members and carers are welcome to come and support us. Please do come along and find out more about us, without feeling obliged to give up huge amounts of time.
We have lots of events planned this year. Our next big fundraiser is the Christmas Fair on Friday 1st December where we will have lots of activities for the children to do, raffle prizes, wine tombola, wine advent, chocolate tombola and not forgetting Santa himself…. come and have your photo taken with him in his grotto.
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Fort Lauderdale Fashion Director named Hispanic Woman of Distinction
May 12, 2016
Sheila Walden, Academic Director of Fashion at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, was recently named among the winners of the 2016 Hispanic Women of Distinction Award.
The Hispanic Women of Distinction awards bring to the forefront the contributions of Hispanic women from South Florida. It's been presented annually since 2001 by Bank of America in partnership with Latina Style Magazine. Co-sponsors include Latin Business Today and Sylvester Cancer Center.
Walden has been with The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale since 2004 and has served in her current role as Academic Director of Fashion since 2012. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Fashion Design from the school in 2010. She went on to earn a Master of Art in Design & Media Management from Miami International University of Art & Design in 2012.
Walden is one of 12 women earning the award in 2016. The list of winners includes Marielena DeSanctis, Vice President of Student and Academic Affairs at Broward College; Victoria Saldala, Director of ESOL programs at Broward County Schools, and Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney for Miami-Dade County.
The 15th anniversary of the Hispanic Women of Distinction Charity luncheon will be held on August 12, 2016 at Signature Grand in Davie, Florida. The celebration will be attended by philanthropists, business leaders, elected officials, and socialites. The event pays tribute to Latina professionals who are strengthening the social fabric of this country and making inroads in the leadership pipeline. The event benefits the Light of the World Clinic, a free healthcare facility founded by the late Dr. Erwin Vasquez in 1989.
For more information on the 2016 Hispanic Women of Distinction Award, visit: http://www.hispanicwomenofdistinction.com/.
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OVERCOME with grief at a murder committed by his brother, Brenton McLean wept as he hugged the murder victim's son and apologised to him yesterday.
Saying the victim, businesswoman Haniffa 'Miss Lucky' Bedassie was like a mother to him, McLean begged Bedassie's son Torrance to accept his apology after McLean's brother Leon Jordan was seen fleeing Bedassie's shop when her body was discovered. Jordan was subsequently cornered and killed in a shoot-out with police.
Tears streaming down his face, Mc Lean embraced Bedassie, the younger son of Haniffa, 55, who was a mother of two, at the murder scene in St Thomas Village, Chaguanas.
McLean's brother Leon, 29, was shot dead at the nearby Connector Road. McLean is the eldest of five boys. "I came to apologise for what my brother did. Ms Lucky was like a mother to us. She was my mother too. We are brothers," Mclean told Bedassie. "Leon was a police officer so he supposed to know better. My mother did not bring us up so," McLean cried. The weeping man journeyed all the way from his home in Carenage on learning that Bedassie was found dead.
Speaking later with Newsday, Mc- Lean said his mother is in England and as the eldest sibling he felt it was his duty to visit the Bedassie family and apologise for his brother's action. He said his mother used to rent from Bedassie when they were growing up and he and his four siblings grew up with Torrance and his older brother Terrance.
"We were very close. We lived like family. My mother and Ms Lucky were very close as well. These boys (points at Torrance and Terrence) mother come like my own mother.
If he (Jordan) could kill Ms Lucky, then he could kill his own mother too," McLean sobbed. He said his brother's actions had brought shame to the family and their mother is taking it very hard.
A close friend of the Bedassie family, Barbara Duncan Harris and Bedassie's son Torrance were the ones who discovered her body shortly after 11 am, in a bedroom of her home at the back of her businessplace, Lucky's Mini Mart. The woman's hands were tied behind her back and she was gagged. There were clear marks of violence to her face and neck. Police believe she may have been beaten to death, but are awaiting the results of an autopsy to be done today at the Forensic Science Centre.
Police said that at the time of the discovery, Jordan was still inside the mini mart and fled when he heard Harris' screams. Jordan jumped over a fence into the yard of the nearby Redemption Worship Centre.
Police who were on patrol, were alerted and gave chase after Jordan who was killed in a shoot-out with the police. "This is the worst thing I have ever experienced in my life," Torrance said as he was hugged by Harris. As undertakers removed his mother's body, Torrance shouted out, "Ma, ma, ma" before fainting.
As news of the murder of their beloved shopkeeper spread, residents of St Thomas Village lined the roadway, many in tears, as they recounted what a kind and friendly person she was.
Bedassie's younger brother Hosein Ali said he did not know how to tell his 94-year-old mother, who lives with him, that her daughter was murdered. Sgt John, WPC Charles and Cpl Bobb are investigating.


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A few months ago I decided to test clay cookware (aka earthenware). And here is what happened. In the light of concerns about lead and cadmium in ceramic dishware and cookware, I was delighted to find Miriam's Earthen Cookware. On her website, Miriam features a report confirming that there is zero lead and cadmium in her clay cookware. After talking to Miriam in person for almost an hour, I felt confident enough to give Miriam's Earthen Cookware a try. So I bought her large clay pot for a hefty price.
It took awhile for the pot to show up but it arrived well packed and in good order. I studied the detailed instructions on how to season Miriam's Earthen Cookware pot and followed them. I was extra careful to follow all the instructions so I did not damage such an expensive clay pot.
After seasoning the pot, the first thing I cooked in it was beef bone broth, which was not very convenient because the water evaporated even faster than from a stainless steel pot. I had to set up an alarm in the middle of the night to add water. The aroma of the broth mixed with the scent of clay remained in the house for a few days. I was willing to overlook these minor difficulties because the broth was delicious. However, I could not help but taste a subtle hint of clay.
The taste of clay became more prominent when I cooked beans in the pot. Actually, after I ate the beans I continued having a clay aftertaste in my mouth – for four days. I also felt tired. I thought that maybe something else gave me the weird aftertaste. I had recently started taking probiotics and an herb, and stopped taking them in case they were the culprit. Finally, the aftertaste was gone and I was not quite sure whether it was caused by Miriam's clay cookware, especially because my husband did not experience the same problems.
So a week later I cooked something else in Miriam's clay cookware. This time, it was a chicken broth-based soup. The broth had been cooked previously in another pot I had used for a long time. The clay aftertaste came back and I felt really run down. It took me about a week to fully get rid of the haunting clay aftertaste. As for the energy, I felt a lot better after a few doses of N-Acetyl Cysteine, which helps detoxify heavy metals.
When I talked to Miriam, she suggested that my condition might have been caused by the fact that food made in her clay cookware is so nutritious and my body simply was not used to handling the extra nutrition. She said that I might stop taking my multi-vitamins and give the clay cookware another try.
I expressed my curiosity about the composition of the clay she uses. I had learned clays have a variety of ingredients, from nutritious things like calcium and magnesium to potentially harmful things like aluminum and antimony. Here is an example of clay composition. On her website, Miriam has a full list of nutrients and micro nutrients found in the clay. This is different from a full list of ingredients that make up the clay. Miriam said that she has the full of list of the ingredients she uses, but it is proprietary information. When I am asking tough questions of manufacturers, I hear this "proprietary information" phrase very often so I am well prepared for it. What I was not prepared for was what came next. Miriam suggested that I call the lab and ask for the test results directly from them. I did, but as you can imagine, the lab did not release any information to me as I was not their customer.
So, we do not know what is in the clay, which is important. Why? Because the clay pot has no glaze that creates a barrier so whatever is in the clay can leach into food. This study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment (vol. 409 (15) – Jul 1, 2011) detailed the results of testing of glazed and unglazed clay cookware. The study focused on arsenic and it was found that arsenic leached up to 10 times more from unglazed earthenware. The scientists concluded that the risk of arsenic poisoning is high enough to be of concern and warrant regulation. By the way, arsenic is not so uncommon in clay as it was detailed by the UK's Foods Standards Agency.
Please do not get me wrong. I am not suggesting that I was poisoned by something that leached out of the clay. The purpose of this write up is to share my experience with Miriam's Earthen Cookware, educate others of possible downfalls of clay cookware, and provide a platform for sharing experiences with clay cookware. Please let me know if you have used clay cookware and what you thought. Please forward this blog to whoever you think might be interested. And if you'd like, please come by our house and take this clay pot from us because we do not know what to do with it. Unfortunately, Miriam's return policy is no return.
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It's hard to beat north shore weddings near Boston in late May before the heat sets in for the scenery and views. I photographed Rene and Jeff's Danversport Marina wedding in Danvers, Massachusetts in early spring. Turns out Jeff is a pretty good singer-he serenaded his new wife and got the crowd of guests whipped into a frenzy. ....Read More
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There are all kinds of Steve Ott stories out there, but the craziest one probably comes from his stint with Team Canada at the 2001 World Junior Championships in Moscow.
As he has for everything in his hockey career, Ott prepared relentlessly for that tournament. He was 18 years old and a first-round pick of the Dallas Stars, but on this team that featured big names such as Jason Spezza, Dany Heatley, Mike Cammalleri, Dan Hamhuis and Jay Bouwmeester, he was a grinder.
Ott's prep didn't just include ordinary workouts in the weight room or on the ice. His need for linguistics cramming was paramount. There was French, German, Czech, Swedish and Finnish. And, of course, Russian.
When you're trash-talking the opponent, what better way to do it than to cut them down in their own language?
"Oh no," a laughing Ott said when the tale was brought up in the Buffalo Sabres' locker room in First Niagara Center. "It was more or less the heat of the battle when you're young. You're playing a different style, and that was my role. I was the energy guy. Against high-output teams, you grab a role any way you can. And that's the role I grabbed."
In hockey parlance, Ott is a classic chirper. He has a mouth that roars – and never quiets down. On the ice, on the bench, in the penalty box. He never stops. He's one of the most hated players in the NHL, as even his Twitter profile says: "Loved by many, Hated by many. … MORE."
He's a guy only a teammate or family member can love. But, oh, how both of those groups love him. The fans in Buffalo took to him pretty fast last year, too.
"It's unbelievable. You can chirp him about anything and not even a half-second goes by and he's got something to say," said Ott's best friend, Sabres defenseman Mike Weber. "Anything he can find to chop a guy down – emotionally or physically – he's going to find it to get an edge. It's something to see."
"It would be funny to see what his Google searches are, that's for sure," cracked fellow Sabres winger Patrick Kaleta. "He does his job perfectly."
Otter is a new-age Rat
Fans of some great old Sabres rivals see a guy like Ott – whom teammates call "Otter" – and conjure up memories of Ken Linseman, who played for the Flyers, Oilers and Bruins in the '80s and was nicknamed "The Rat."
Ott enters this season having played 614 NHL games, with all but the last 48 coming in nine years with the Dallas Stars before he was traded to the Sabres for Derek Roy in July 2012. He has 94 goals, 244 points – and 1,263 penalty minutes.
Ott's career high is 22 goals and the Sabres need him to approach that number this year, which would boost his offense from his nine-goal debut in Buffalo. He can play on the power play and kill penalties and was a plus-3 last year on a bad Buffalo team.
Still, he's most known for getting under his opponents' skin. Prior to a faceoff last year, a close-up camera shot showed Ott trying to lick the visor of Montreal's Jeff Halpern. Yes, lick it. He blew kisses at Toronto captain Dion Phaneuf in another priceless exchange.
When he was in Dallas, the HBO show "24/7" showed him jawing in the faceoff circle with Philadelphia's Claude Giroux and in the dressing room tunnel with Flyers coach Peter Laviolette during a 2011 game.
During a particularly nasty 2008 game in Boston during which Ott was ejected after a huge brawl, NESN Bruins play-by-play man Jack Edwards ripped him with a "Slap Shot" reference.
"Steve Ott is safely underneath, out of harm's way, protected by cinderblock walls and his 10-minute misconduct," Edwards said on the air. "He started it but he wasn't around at the end, was he? The difference was the Hanson Brothers were funny."
What's the secret to driving the opponents crazy?
"It's compete, first off," Ott said. "Agitation comes off guys that don't want to compete. Personally, I think if I can outbattle a guy, I think that drives people more crazier than any words you say.
"Keep making a guy work for his chances, particularly if it's a high-end guy you're getting ice time against. You want to make it hard for them to play against you every night out, not giving them a night off. That's what makes you an antagonist to play against."
While that may be true, eventually you can get Ott to admit it's not all pure physical skill. There's a mental side to things. You do your research before the opening faceoff, especially if a big blemish on your own career is no playoff games since 2008.
"You always look at the stat pack, figure how guys are doing lately," he said. "Are they struggling, slumping? Have they been dropped to the fourth line? There's certain ways, soft spots of guys. The main thing over the career is just staying on that fine line where you're not costing your team."
A military life
Ott was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, but lived a vagabond childhood as part of a military family. His father, Butch, and his mother, Deb, met in basic training for the Canadian Armed Forces in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, when they were both 18 in 1974. Steve was born in 1982 and had a gift for gab basically out of the womb.
"He was born with it, I kid you not," Butch Ott said by phone from his retirement retreat in Cape Coral, Fla. "He's been that way since I can ever remember."
"I think his smart mouth goes to 'Mrs. Otter,' to Deb," Weber said. "That's where his smart mouth comes from, the quickness with his responses. Now he's played in the league so long, and he knows everyone on every team. But he's a smart guy, knows exactly what a guy's stats are, how he's doing on faceoffs, whatever."
Butch Ott said he and his wife moved 19 times in 21 years, with Steve around for nine of the moves. They finally settled in Windsor, Ont., in 1996 when Steve was 14, and that's where he thrived in junior hockey.
"The kids he grew up with were tough, the way military families are," Butch Ott said. "It's a challenge to kids. You're always gone somewhere it seems. They teach these kids in schools to step up to the plate and teach them how to be leaders. They're taught by the country's leaders.
"You have to survive by going from school to school and from hockey team to hockey team. That's what you did."
Butch Ott drove Steve hard about school and hockey. Steve was skating at 2 and Butch was his coach through much of his childhood.
"Pops' being in the military for 27 years, things weren't easy at home, let's be honest," Ott said. "He made you work for it, and there was only one way and that was through hard work. That's something both my mom and dad instilled in me is work ethic."
Friend and teammate
In addition to the military, Butch Ott has a huge hockey background. He coached Steve for many years and was coaching in Junior A and B leagues in Ontario after Steve turned pro. He served a few years as an amateur scout for Dallas.
"He always wanted me to be successful," Ott said. "In hockey, he cared about doing it points-wise, but to this day the biggest thing is if my work ethic wasn't there, I'd be hearing about it."
Weber was one of the players Butch Ott helped groom, bringing the then 14-year-old from Pittsburgh to his Windsor home. Weber and Steve Ott, more than five years older, became workout partners and fast friends.
"When I think of Butch Ott, I think of a father," Weber said. "He's a guy who saw a talent in me and a willingness to get better at 14 years old when no one else really saw that. He went to bat for me to make the Windsor Spitfires draft me.
"He's the guy who woke me up at 6 a.m. every morning for three summers in a row to run three miles to get my weight and body fat down. He really showed me what it takes to be a professional."
The basement workouts in the Ott family home became core work for two NHL players and gave Weber a glimpse at how his friend was brought up in a tough-love environment that demanded excellence.
"I was scared to death of his dad. I'm still a little intimidated by Butchie now," Weber said with a laugh. "His big saying was, 'If I ever find myself working at this harder than you, it's time to cut you loose.' I never wanted to disappoint him, let him down. He put so much time and effort and his name on the line for me."
Butch Ott chuckled when Weber's story was relayed to him.
"It's true. I think back on it, and I was actually tougher on Mike," Butch Ott said. "I'm just happy to sit back and enjoy it now and reap the rewards of a lot of hard work put in by a lot of people. It was far from just me. It was my wife and so many other coaches. We did basically the same for Mike, too.
"They're so competitive with each other whether it's on the golf course, playing cards, anything. That's just the way they're built, but they're still best friends."
Fresh outlook
Dallas was going younger in 2012, and Ott figured his time there might be up. He heard rumors the Bruins might be interested until the Stars finally pulled the trigger with the Sabres. Ott and Weber had been at the gym in Windsor, but Weber had returned to the family home to make lunch when his phone rang. The conversation was short and sweet because Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier rang into Ott's phone.
"We were joking that there were rumors about Boston and how I couldn't wait to play him more because that's a big rivalry for us," Weber said. "He calls me at like 2:30 and said, 'Bro, we're teammates. Gotta go. Click.' I thought he was pulling my chain. The conversation was interrupted because Darcy was calling him."
Last season was a tough year for the Sabres. Lindy Ruff was fired, and the locker room was at times a minefield that new coach Ron Rolston had to wade through. Ott was surprised at the surliness of First Niagara Center crowds and famously criticized fans for booing. He sparred with reporters at times.
"The best way to put it was that it was a tired team," he said. "The routines were similar to the previous couple years, almost too similar. It's not just about Lindy at all, but since the change to Ron, having new, fresh air continues on our process, and you saw some success against good teams.
"We saw cohesiveness coming back. You saw guys getting respect from Ron, guys earning their jobs and competing again. We think it's carried on from the end of last year. Guys are upbeat. They want to be successful."
Ott is engaging and brutally honest. He says what's on his mind on the ice, and he does likewise off of it.
"It's a brotherhood in here. We go to war together every single night we play," he said. "We go out there to compete, and we're there for each other, not anybody else. Anyone picks on your brother, who's coming? In here, that's a teammate. It's really important. There's no cracks, no holes in the armor."
Kaleta's locker is next to Ott's in what they joke is the most hated corner in the NHL.
"Being around a leader like him is a blessing, and being able to sit next to him and learn from him is great," Kaleta said. "As a leader, off the ice you have to be a good guy so guys learn they can trust you, and when push comes to shove, he can tell you that you need to gear up or do something different. He does a tremendous job of doing it."
Building a new life
Ott insists he's low-key at home and really isn't running his mouth nonstop. He married his second wife, Erica, over the summer in Mexico, and they dote over his 6-year-old daughter, Layna. His French mastiff named Tattoo and bulldog named Bella are photo stars on Twitter. Weber was Ott's best man, just like Ott was for Weber and his wife, Janine, in 2011.
"I go home, and I park everything. I never bring hockey home, never even talk about it," Ott said. "It's basically, 'How did your day go?' It's playing daddy to your daughter and being a husband."
"He's got new challenges in hockey and in life," Butch Ott said. "It's a great time for him. Erica is a good girl, and he's just a phenomenal dad with his daughter."
The family agrees with the notion that Ott, whose contract expires after this year, wants to sign long term with the Sabres and become a team leader.
"My wife bought into the whole Buffalo Sabres thing as soon as we got traded," Ott said. "She's born in Las Vegas, raised in Dallas, and we got traded to Buffalo and we came together and she saw the respect that Terry and Kim Pegula have given us. She bought into it all."
"Buffalo has been great for him. He's extremely excited about being there and staying," Butch Ott said. "He said, 'Pops, I'm in an 'A' market where everybody understands the game.' In Dallas, hockey isn't really their apple pie. It was kind of like a third sister down there, so this is great for him."
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The Second Battle of Geonosis took place around 22 BBY during the Clone Wars when the Jedi Order and Galactic Republic launched a full-scale planetary invasion of Geonosis to shut down several Separatist battle droid foundries that Archduke Poggle the Lesser had built there with funding from the InterGalactic Banking Clan and Trade Federation. Following Senator Padmé Amidala's discovery of the droid factories, the Jedi High Council dispatched a massive Jedi-led detachment of the Grand Army of the Republic to retake Geonosis and halt the facilities' production of battle droids. Tasked with the challenge of landing on the planet and establishing a staging area, the Jedi mounted a three-pronged attack on the Geonosian defenses, with Jedi Generals Ki-Adi-Mundi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Anakin Skywalker each leading an assault force. After rendezvousing at a site a short ways from the ray shield protecting the droid factories, the Republic army regrouped and eliminated the shield generator, making way for the rest of the troops to safely land.
In order to destroy Poggle the Lesser's main droid foundry, Generals Skywalker and Luminara Unduli engaged the battle droids outside the factory in open warfare while their respective Padawans, Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee, sneaked into the facility via the catacombs beneath it. As their Masters battled the Separatist droid forces and newly-designed super tanks on the bridge leading to the factory, the Padawans' infiltration of the foundry was cut short when they were intercepted by Poggle the Lesser and his tactical droid, TX-21. With their explosive charges stolen, Tano and Offee sacrificed themselves by using a super tank to destroy the facility's reactor and collapse the factory from the inside. Tano and Offee were rescued by Skywalker and Unduli from the factory's remains once the droid foundry had fallen. Despite the Republic's costly destruction of several other key factories, Poggle the Lesser remained at large, having escaped his primary foundry before its fall.
As the Jedi undertook the cleanup of Geonosis, they launched a campaign to find Poggle the Lesser. General Unduli spearheaded the search and followed Poggle the Lesser to the abandoned Progate Temple, where she was captured by the Archduke and taken to the lair of Geonosian Queen Karina the Great in the catacombs below. Tracking Unduli's last known location, Kenobi and Skywalker set out with a clone platoon to rescue her. Battling hordes of "undead" Geonosian warriors that were being reanimated by the Queen's brain worm parasites, the Jedi and their troops found Unduli in Queen Karina's lair. Although Queen Karina wished to induct Unduli and her comrades into her ranks of mind-controlled warriors, Skywalker, Kenobi, and their men managed to save Unduli and took Poggle the Lesser into custody. The Jedi and their troops destroyed much of the Queen's lair during their escape, burying Karina the Great and her warriors beneath the Temple.
After the opening battle of the Clone Wars on the planet Geonosis,[3] the Confederacy of Independent Systems built a series of new battle droid foundries on the Outer Rim world to expand its Droid Army. As the new factories began to manufacture thousands of droid troops for further combat against the Galactic Republic,[1] the facilities were kept secret to protect them from the Republic.[9] Archduke Poggle the Lesser himself oversaw the foundries' construction, particularly the rebuilding[10] of the primary droid foundry, as he had been humiliated during the Battle of Geonosis and saw the factory as his redemption.[11] Both the InterGalactic Banking Clan and Trade Federation conglomerates of the Confederacy made investments in the primary foundry to profit from its war earnings, with the Trade Federation signing its holdings off to the Banking Clan and thereby becoming indebted to its fellow Separatist-allied corporation.[9]
As Republic Senators Lott Dod of the Trade Federation and Rush Clovis of the Banking Clan delegation prepared to meet on Cato Neimoidia, where Dod resided, to discuss their investments in the foundry, the Jedi High Council—correctly suspecting Clovis of involvement in a Separatist conspiracy—recruited Senator Padmé Amidala to spy on Clovis. Amidala, who had previously been romantically involved with Clovis, agreed to the mission and was able to secure a personal invitation to accompany Clovis to Cato Neimoidia. With her secret husband, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, as her bodyguard, Amidala went with Clovis on his trip.[9]
Arriving at Dod's palace, Clovis met in secret with Dod and Poggle the Lesser, who had also arrived to participate in the deliberations. Dod and Poggle the Lesser both attempted to negotiate for greater shares in the investment, but Clovis refused to change the terms of the agreement. However, Dod, witnessing Clovis's affection for Amidala, secretly poisoned the latter to force the Banking Clan Senator to change his mind. Shortly after stealing a disc containing the droid foundry's tactical coordinates from a hologram projector in the palace's library, Amidala fainted from the effects of the poison. Threatening Dod with a blaster, Clovis secured the antidote to the poison and gave it to Skywalker. Helping Amidala to her J-type star skiff and administering the medicine, Skywalker departed Cato Neimoidia with Amidala and the disc, leaving the stranded Clovis to face Dod, Poggle the Lesser, and a squad of B1 battle droids.[9]
Following Skywalker's and Amidala's return to the galactic capital of Coruscant and the report of their findings to the Jedi Council, Clone Captain CC-7567, nicknamed "Rex," was dispatched with a contingent of the Grand Army of the Republic's 501st Legion to perform a reconnaissance of Geonosis. Upon arrival in orbit of the world, Captain Rex and his men were unable to establish contact with the clone troopers on the planet's surface but confirmed from preliminary scans that droid foundries were being constructed in the planet's northern and southern hemispheres. Rex sent his report back to the Jedi Temple with the advisement that a full-scale invasion would be required to retake Geonosis. Receiving the report, the Jedi Council decided to send Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Luminara Unduli to lead the Grand Army's attack on the droid foundries. Generals Plo Koon and Skywalker and the latter's Padawan, Commander Ahsoka Tano, were meanwhile assigned to reinforce the planet Dorin, which had been attacked by a Separatist fleet led by Confederate General Grievous in an effort to keep the Jedi's attention away from Geonosis.[12]
Mundi, Kenobi, and Unduli departed Coruscant alongside Admiral Wullf Yularen with a massive invasion fleet comprised of Venator-class Star Destroyers and Acclamator I-class assault ships. After the invasion force had arrived in Geonosian space and entered the planet's orbit, Skywalker and Tano, who had met with success in their intervention at Dorin, joined Mundi and Kenobi on the bridge of a Star Destroyer at the head of the fleet. With their ships in position, the four Jedi opened a communication to the Outer Rim Command and conferred with Jedi Generals Unduli, Yoda, and Mace Windu, and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Based on intelligence they had received, Mundi and Kenobi concluded that Poggle the Lesser was holed up within his primary droid factory, which was being protected by a massive ray shield.[1]
With their primary target being the shield generator, the Jedi planned to execute a three-pronged attack on the Geonosian defenses. Mundi and Clone Commander Jet would lead the northern advance, while Kenobi and Clone Commander CC-2224, nicknamed "Cody," commenced the central push. Skywalker, Tano, and Captain Rex, meanwhile, would execute the southern assault with their forces. The troops would rendezvous at a point a short distance away from the shield, where they would establish a staging area, and then converge on the generator to eliminate the threat and establish a defensive perimeter to their temporary base. Although Tano noted that the defenses were heavily fortified, pointing out a large wall armored with artillery emplacements, Skywalker believed that their approach would not lead them to the barricade. With their planning complete, the four Jedi split up to mobilize their forces for the coming battle.[1]
The Republic's capital ships descended upon Geonosis and began disgorging BTL-B Y-wing starfighters, LAAT/i gunships, and LAAT carriers ferrying All Terrain Tactical Enforcers to the surface in heavy numbers. Kenobi's assault force was the first to take flight,[1] with Kenobi leading the way in his gunship, Bad Kitty.[8] Kenobi and his gunships were met with heavy resistance from Geonosian proton and LR1K gun emplacements below as well as Nantex-class territorial defense starfighters from above. The Republic Y-wing starfighters provided covering fire, initiating an attack run on the Separatist gunners. With Kenobi's forces underway, Skywalker's detachment—including Captain Rex and Commander Tano—departed shortly afterward, followed by the assault group led by General Mundi and Commander Jet. The gunship carrying Skywalker, Tano, and Rex was one of the first to be shot down, but the group managed to break free from the wreckage and used the fallen craft as cover from the nearby Geonosian gunners and blaster cannons. Mundi, meanwhile, ordered Commander Cody to land the AT-TE walkers shortly before Mundi's own gunship,[1] Separatist Nightmare,[8] fell from heavy fire as well.[1]
Cody landed with his troops and AT-TEs to be greeted by incoming Geonosian fighters. Although Cody told Kenobi not to land because of the Separatists' imposing danger, Kenobi and his gunship were forced down when Bad Kitty was targeted by the Geonosians. The gunship hit the surface and skidded across the ground before coming to a stop, leaving only Kenobi and trooper Trapper to survive the crash. An injured Mundi and Commander Jet pulled themselves out of the remains of their gunship, which was just one of many to have been shot down in the area. Jet reported that Kenobi's forces had been the only ones to reach the landing zone, while Skywalker's AT-TE walkers had been decimated in his ongoing firefight with the Geonosians. Skywalker would continue to press on to the rendezvous point to meet with Kenobi. Mundi ordered the injured men among his own forces to be loaded onto the AT-TE walkers with the objective of pressing on to make for a nearby bridge and join the rest of the troops at the rendezvous site.[1]
In the midst of the ongoing fight against the Geonosians, Captain Rex contacted Commander Cody to request reinforcements for Skywalker but found that Kenobi would be unable to give support, as Kenobi's gunship had been shot down. Left on their own, Skywalker and Tano provided cover for Rex and the rest of their troops to rush the Separatist blaster cannons. In the meantime, Cody organized his LAAT/i gunships and AT-TE walkers in a circular defensive formation. In the midst of exchanging heavy fire with the attacking sonic blaster–wielding Geonosians and their Armored Assault Tanks, Cody ordered troopers Waxer and Boil to search Kenobi's gunship[1]—which had been located five kilometers away[8]—for survivors. The two Advanced Recon Force trooper scouts raced across the battlefield, finding and rescuing the wounded Kenobi and Trapper from the gunship's wreckage. As Waxer and Boil helped the injured pair back to the landing zone, Cody had his men and AT-TE walkers provide the group covering fire from the advancing Separatist tanks and Flitknot speeder–mounted Geonosians. Upon his arrival, Kenobi was treated by a medic and updated on the situation by Cody. Surrounded by the Geonosians, Kenobi noted that they simply had to hold out until Generals Skywalker and Mundi arrived for support.[1]
Mundi himself was in the process of cutting through a massive caltrop field[8] so that his AT-TE walkers could move through the obstacles. Commander Jet conferred with Admiral Yularen via comlink to request air support, but the starfighter forces were engaged in the planetary invasion elsewhere. Yularen was only able to offer his vantage point as a resource to locate Skywalker, whom he found to be pressing toward the eastern barrier—the site of the Geonosians' armored barricade. Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and their men arrived at the massive gun emplacement fortress and were forced to take cover from the assailing B1 battle droids and B2 super battle droids high above. With the large amounts of incoming laser barrages, Skywalker and Tano each took a backpack filled with thermal detonators and ran toward the adjacent cliff, using grappling hooks to scale the face in order to set their charges to topple the wall. With the rest of the troops continuing to exchange fire with the battle droids, Captain Rex joined Skywalker and Tano on the top of the barrier, helping them to sever a pair of droidekas that was soon deployed from hatches along the barrier. After Skywalker and Tano had tossed their primed detonator–full backpacks into the hatches, they and Rex jumped off the wall shortly before it exploded. The Jedi used the Force to slow their fall and that of Rex while holding back the rubble.[1]
With the wall destroyed, Skywalker, Tano, and their forces pressed toward Kenobi's position. Meanwhile, Mundi split up his own troops, sending his AT-TE walkers to take a longer route to the rendezvous point while he himself went with a squad to examine a shortcut through a clifftop cave. There, Mundi and his men were besieged by groups of winged Geonosian warriors that depleted the clones' numbers by attacking them and carrying them into the grotto's depths. Although his men sustained heavy casualties and losses from the Geonosians, Mundi was able to cut through the cave. At the other side, Mundi had his flamethrower-wielding clone troopers fire their weapons at the Geonosians, killing most of them and unblocking the path out of the cave. Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and their detachment, who were making their way to the rendezvous point far below, sighted the nearby clifftop cave and the smoldering Geonosians falling out of it. Joining forces with Mundi, Skywalker contacted Admiral Yularen to request air support.[1]
Having spent the time reallocating resources since Commander Jet's previous request,[8] Yularen dispatched an available Y-wing squadron to the rendezvous point for extra support. At the staging area, Kenobi and Cody were suffering numerous casualties at the hands of the Geonosians initiating flying attacks from the sky and speeder assaults on the ground. With his men pushed on all sides, Kenobi prepared to take up arms alongside his men[1] in what he believed would be a final stand against the Geonosians.[8] However, at that moment, the Y-wing bombers arrived, dropping their munitions on the advancing Separatist tanks and halting the Geonosians' advance. With the rest of his troops pressing on, Kenobi was greeted by the arrival of Skywalker, Tano, Mundi, and the rest of the forces. The Jedi and their clone officers convened on the task still at hand: destroying the shield generator. It was decided that Skywalker would lead a small squad into the shield and jam the Geonosians' scanners, rendering them unable to target the incoming AT-TE walkers. Once the walkers had taken out the shield, Mundi would then bring the rest of the troops in with the gunships.[1]
After all of the Republic forces were in position, Skywalker and Tano initiated their attack and charged through the shield with their men. Though pressed with heavy fire from the Geonosians, the Jedi and troopers pushed through the generator's defenses and took cover in an outcrop close to the generator. Skywalker, Tano, and their men threw EMP grenades at the proton and LR1K cannons, temporarily disabling the Separatist guns. Unopposed by heavy fire,[1] Cody led the AT-TE walkers in their march through the shield[8] and concentrated the walker's fire on the artillery stations and shield generator. As the shield was deactivated, Mundi and his gunships landed with additional reinforcements. All of the Geonosians in the area were forced to surrender, and the injured Generals Kenobi and Mundi were taken away in the gunships for treatment with the fleet.[1]
Skywalker's forces combined with Mundi's remaining troops and formed a staging area a short way from the only bridge that crossed the deep canyon isolating Poggle the Lesser's near-completed primary foundry. Anticipating stiff resistance from the factory's Geonosian defenders, Republic commanders dispatched General Luminara Unduli and her Padawan, Barriss Offee, with reinforcements. Leading the way in their gunship,[4] Dooku Boot,[7] Unduli and Offee arrived with more troops and gunships and met with Skywalker and Tano to discuss the impending attack on the droid foundry. Although Skywalker had been preparing for a direct assault on the factory via the bridge, Unduli offered an alternative plan that would minimize their casualties. The catacombs under the facility provided a means to infiltrate the building and plant explosives at the main reactor, effectively destroying the foundry from the inside. As Unduli had already had her Padawan memorize all 200 of the labyrinth's internal junctions, the mission to sneak into and destroy the droid factory fell to Tano and Offee. Unduli and Skywalker, meanwhile, would launch a forward assault on the facility's main entrance to provide the Padawans with a distraction.[4]
The four Jedi set their plan into motion, synchronizing chronometers in order to monitor the Padawans' progress. While Tano and Offee began to descend the chasm between the Republic forces and the droid factory to reach the entry point to the catacombs at the bottom of the canyon, Skywalker, Unduli, and Captain Rex mobilized their men and marched their troops and AT-TE walkers toward the bridge parade-style. Despite the Republic's risky lack of cover, Skywalker and Unduli intended to make their attack tempting enough to draw the battle droids out of the factory and into a fight. Poggle the Lesser and his T-series tactical droid,[4] TX-21,[7] rose to the bait and deployed a large force of B1 and B2 battle droids to defend the foundry. As Skywalker and Unduli led their men to charge the droids, they found themselves confronted by groups of flying Geonosians launching a surprise attack from several spires behind them and were caught in a crossfire. In the canyon, Tano and Offee made it to the other side of the trough, where Offee cut a hole in the canyon wall and opened the entrance to the catacombs. The two Padawans made their way through the dense labyrinth and through a room of sleeping Geonosian warriors, remaining unaware that they were being followed by a Geonosian that they had accidentally awoken.[4]
Skywalker and Unduli continued to cut through the opposing battle droids, and a clone trooper used a Z-6 rotary blaster cannon to take out the airborne Geonosian insurgents. With the appearance of several droideka squads, Rex sent a trooper forward with a rocket launcher, and the clone quickly destroyed the droids. The Geonosians' advance forces were further depleted by heavy fire from the Republic's AT-TE walkers. In response, Poggle the Lesser authorized TX-21 to send out twenty units of their newly-developed super tanks. The massive vehicles were deployed from the foundry, and despite the Republic forces' attempt to halt the tanks' advance with AV-7 Antivehicle Cannons manned by clone tank gunners, Skywalker, Unduli, and their men were unable to stop the shielded tanks' approach. Tano and Offee, meanwhile, arrived at the control room and planted their thermal detonator charges around the large main generator. Learning of the two Jedi's presence from the Geonosian spy, Poggle the Lesser and TX-21 personally took a squad of Geonosian warriors and a super tank to greet the intruders. After activating their explosives, the Padawans' escape was cut short by the arrival of Poggle the Lesser and his defense forces.[4]
Outside the foundry, Skywalker and Unduli learned from their chronometers that Tano and Offee had placed and activated the bombs. Immediately thereafter, the Separatist tanks released a barrage of fire that annihilated the Republic's artillery line and AT-TE walkers, causing heavy casualties all the while. While the Geonosians and their super tank kept Tano and Offee occupied in the control room, other Geonosian warriors collected the primed explosives. Poggle the Lesser entrusted his troops to halt the Jedi's plan while he himself departed. Tano threw an explosive charge at the tank, destroying TX-21 but barely putting a scratch on the massive vehicle. Although Tano attempted to retrieve the bombs from the Geonosians, jumping and hanging onto two of the flying warriors, the Geonosians knocked her against the reactor, temporarily rendering her unconscious. Forced to defend the fallen Tano from the super tank's laser fire, Offee was unable to prevent the Geonosians from escaping into a hatch with the bombs. In the meantime, Skywalker and Unduli ordered Rex and his men to fall back in order to lure the tanks onto the bridge, which the two Jedi Generals intended to collapse and thereby eliminate the tanks. The clone troopers' retreat baited the tanks onto the pass, and Skywalker and Unduli swung hand-over-hand under the bridge and across its underbelly,[4] planting explosives at key points along its length.[7]
Reaching the other side, Skywalker and Unduli detonated the charges, collapsing the bridge and sending the tanks tumbling into the abyss below. Even with the arrival of evacuation ships, Skywalker refused to leave without his Padawan, who was unresponsive to his transmissions. The two Jedi Generals' refusal to retreat forced them to face the lines of B1 battle droids deployed from the foundry. Inside the control room, Offee cut her way into the super tank and disabled its battle droid operators, commandeering the vehicle and saving Tano from being killed by the weapon. A revived Tano joined Offee inside the tank, where the pair contemplated their dilemma: without the bombs, they would be unable to destroy the foundry and complete their mission. However, Tano and Offee chose to instead employ the alternative of using the tank to fire at the generator, despite knowing that they would be unable to escape the explosion. Once Tano had relayed the decision to Skywalker and Unduli, who were battling the droids outside, she and Offee opened fire on the reactor, causing a massive chain of explosions to bring the foundry down.[4]
Unable to help their Padawans, Skywalker and Unduli took cover as their droid adversaries were crushed by debris and watched in shock as the droid foundry collapsed, burying Tano and Offee underneath layers of rubble. Once the dust had settled and the smoke cleared, Skywalker desperately tried to contact Tano with his comlink, to no avail. Determined to rescue the Padawans, Skywalker ordered the Republic's LAAT carriers to begin lifting the debris to search for Tano and Offee. Trapped with Offee in the super tank deep below the surface with a limited supply of air, Tano used a power cell to boost her communicator's reception and signal Skywalker to their position. Receiving the pulse on his Padawan's comlink channel, Skywalker led Unduli and the clones to the site of the trapped pair. With time running out, Skywalker and Unduli chose not to wait for the Republic's heavy machinery to move the debris and instead used the Force to levitate it themselves. Tano and Offee emerged from the wreckage, coughing and grimy but alive, and were reunited with their Masters.[4] Following their success and ordeal in destroying the primary foundry, Tano and Offee were sent back to the fleet for a much-needed rest and accompanied a convoy of LAAT/i gunships ferrying the Republic's wounded troops back for treatment.[5]
With several key droid factories destroyed—albeit at a heavy cost to Republic troops—the Jedi began a cleanup of Geonosis and also mounted an intense campaign to find Poggle the Lesser, who had escaped his primary foundry's destruction and was evading the Republic's efforts to locate and apprehend him. The Jedi sent their clone scouts into the desert, but without any initial leads on Poggle the Lesser's location, General Unduli decided to personally spearhead the search. She and trooper Buzz set out on BARC speeders and picked up the trail of the fleeing Geonosian Archduke, who was headed for the Progate Temple,[5] the lair of the Geonosian Queen Karina the Great,[6] with a squad of battle droids[5] and royal Geonosian guards aboard an Armored Assault Tank towing several crates of munitions.[6] Unduli and Buzz tracked Poggle the Lesser to the western desert, where they found a munitions crate that fell from the tank. Unduli reported back to Masters Kenobi and Mundi—who had recovered from their earlier injuries in battle—and concluded that Poggle the Lesser was headed for the Progate Temple, a site that had been hit by heavy bombardment during the Republic's initial siege. Despite General Skywalker's warning that a sandstorm was approaching her position, Unduli was intent on completing her mission and was unwilling to let Poggle the Lesser escape.[5]
Unduli and Buzz followed Poggle the Lesser through the sandstorm and into the Temple, where the pair reported back to Kenobi, Mundi, and Skywalker, who were back with the fleet. Before Unduli and Buzz could return to the Republic base, however, they were attacked, and their transmission was cut short. Buzz was killed, and Unduli was knocked out and taken hostage by Poggle the Lesser and several of Queen Karina's "undead" Geonosian warriors that were being reanimated by the Queen's brain worm parasites. Once the sandstorm had lifted, Skywalker, Kenobi, and Commander Cody took a platoon of clone troops in the LAAT/i gunship The Bug Stomper to the Progate Temple to find and rescue Unduli. Cody found Buzz's dead body, and Kenobi chanced upon Unduli's lightsaber. Believing that Poggle the Lesser could not have defeated a Jedi, Skywalker noticed a statue of a "bizarre Geonosian," which Kenobi speculated to be of the long-rumored Geonosian Queen. Intent on finding Unduli, Skywalker, Kenobi, Cody, and their men entered the caverns through the Temple's entrance, using their lightsabers and headlamps to light the way.[5] Cody's wrist-mounted trackers led the platoon into a tunnel that penetrated deepest into the planet's crust.[6]
Unduli, who had been placed in binders and was being dragged through the catacombs by a group of Geonosian drones led by Poggle the Lesser, regained consciousness and managed to break free of her captors. Fighting the Geonosian warriors in close combat, Unduli was unable to defeat the already-dead guards. Unduli used her imagecaster holoprojector to hail General Kenobi, urging him to abandon his search for her and flee while he could with the rest of his troops before she was subdued once more. Instead of taking Unduli's advice, Kenobi and Skywalker led their men deeper into the caverns and pressed on, only to encounter and be surrounded by a horde of the Geonosian zombie warriors themselves. The Jedi and clones opened fire on their adversaries but were unable to stop the insectoids. With his men outnumbered and taking losses, Kenobi ordered the clone troopers to take out the tunnel's supports and retreat, seeing it as the only way to halt the Geonosians' advance. The Jedi and their troops escaped from the zombie warriors for the time being. Skywalker and Kenobi grimly noted the drone warriors' apparent immunity to all of their attacks and resolved to request reinforcements from General Mundi. Because the group was too deep underground to get a comlink signal, Kenobi sent trooper Gearshift and another clone to backtrack to the surface and contact Mundi.[5]
The two clone troopers did not get far before being killed by the Geonosian zombies. Hearing the pair's screams, Skywalker, Kenobi, Cody, and the rest of the platoon ran to help their comrades but arrived too late to save them, instead finding their slain bodies. Although Skywalker wanted to go to the surface himself to alert General Mundi, Kenobi believed that they could not divide their troops again and noted that time was running out for Unduli. The captive Unduli, meanwhile, woke up to find herself suspended in a Geonosian containment field next to the throne of Queen Karina the Great, who was in the process of reproducing more Geonosian drones from her undulating and large egg sac, aided to by her reanimated warriors. Skywalker, Kenobi, and Cody finally found the royal chamber and spied on the proceedings from the shadows. Using his infrared headlamp in the dark room, Cody located Unduli next to the throne and Poggle the Lesser in conversation with the Queen. Skywalker was set to mount a full-on attack on the Geonosians, but Kenobi, who was after the reasons behind the Queen's abduction of Unduli, devised a different plan. The Jedi set up their clone troopers around the room's perimeter, intending to have the troopers use their headlamps to temporarily blind the dark-dwelling Geonosians and create enough confusion to rescue Unduli when the time came.[5]
While Commander Cody stealthily moved the men into place, Skywalker and Kenobi marched straight through the throne room and the lines of Geonosians zombies to speak with Karina the Great. Kenobi spoke with the Queen and told her that her rule was at an end, but the shrieking Queen refused to recognized the Jedi's authority. The Queen's subordinates took the Jedi's lightsabers from them, and Karina the Great then revealed her intentions: instead of seeking the Jedi's elimination, she wished to possess them using her brain worms, as the Jedi would make valuable warriors. As Poggle the Lesser placed one of the parasites on Unduli, Kenobi signaled Cody and the clones to attack. The troopers blasted their headlamps on the Geonosians and temporarily blinded them, allowing Skywalker and Kenobi to retrieve their lightsabers from the drones with the Force. While Kenobi himself took Unduli's brain worm as a sample for study, Skywalker freed Unduli and gave her back her lightsaber. Skywalker then shackled Poggle the Lesser and brought him along before knocking Kenobi's worm sample out of his hand and crushing it beneath his boot.[5]
Once the three Jedi had fled the cave with Poggle the Lesser, the clone troopers provided cover for them and blasted the chamber's supports, trapping the Geonosians there and burying Queen Karina the Great and her zombie force under layers of rubble. The warrior drones continued to follow the group, and as the clones continued to provide covering fire, the Jedi headed to escape the catacombs to the surface. The Republic platoon climbed an air shaft out of the caverns, and the Geonosians pursing the squad were knocked back down and crushed under falling rocks. A geyser of dust billowed through the vertical passage and spewed Skywalker, Kenobi, Unduli, Poggle the Lesser, Cody, and the remaining clone troopers out of the catacombs. The group fled the Temple shortly before it collapsed. With the ordeal over and Archduke Poggle the Lesser in Republic custody, the Jedi hoped that the Queen's deadly brain worms had been buried with her under the Temple.[5]
The massive assault on Geonosis finally resulted in success, and the Republic was able to recapture the Separatist-allied world and ensure that its droid factories would no longer fortify the Separatist Droid Army's troop lines.[2] The Jedi's encounter with the brain worm–reanimated Geonosian zombies prompted the Galactic Senate and Coruscant Health Administration to issue a warning for the supposed "mysterious infection" that was plaguing the Geonosians to the citizens of the Republic, urging caution for all inter-planetary travel.[13] While the Jedi ushered Poggle the Lesser onto a Nu-class attack shuttle at a landing area on Geonosis in preparation to take him to Coruscant for trial, General Mundi received word that Master Mace Windu's defenses on the planet Dantooine had been able to hold out, albeit at a great cost to his men. Windu immediately required medical supplies that were waiting to be delivered from a medical station near the planet Ord Cestus. Skywalker and Unduli both stated that it was also of immediate importance to transport Poggle the Lesser to Coruscant, as the Republic had to begin debriefing the Geonosian Archduke if any useful Separatist intelligence was to be gained from him.[2]
In order to allow himself and the other Jedi Generals to continue with the impending task of transporting Poggle the Lesser to Coruscant, Skywalker proposed that Tano and Offee handle the supply mission, and the other Jedi Generals agreed. Kenobi assigned the Padawans to take a medical frigate to the medcenter, planning to rendezvous with them alongside Mundi, Unduli, and Skywalker for the voyage to Dantooine after delivering Poggle the Lesser to Coruscant.[2] After Tano and Offee departed for the Ord Cestus facility with the Pelta-class frigate TB-73 and clone troopers of Tango Company as their embarked troops,[14] the four Jedi Generals and Captain Rex left with Poggle the Lesser under heavy guard aboard a Venator-class Star Destroyer, bound for Coruscant.[2] The Padawans' routine mission, however, suddenly became a dire fight for survival[15] when Geonosian brain worms—having infected Tango Company trooper Scythe at the remains of the Progate Temple—attempted to take control of their supply ship.[2]
The Second Battle of Geonosis[16] was the first major battle of the 2009 second season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series,[10] following the Battle of Ryloth featured in the first season.[17] It marked the Galactic Republic's and Jedi Order's return to Geonosis after the historic opening battle of the Clone Wars on the planet and was featured across three chapters of a five-part story arc in the season[18]—"Landing at Point Rain," "Weapons Factory," and "Legacy of Terror," which began airing on November 4, 2009[8] and continued until November 20.[6] The three episodes were followed by the conclusion of the saga, "Brain Invaders," and were preceded by the episode "Senate Spy," which acted as a lead-in to the battle.
The battle's span over several episodes allowed for various pre-existing characters to be introduced into the television series, notably Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi[8] and Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee.[7] The first episode in the story arc was added within the second season's production schedule at Series Producer George Lucas's request for the conflict to begin with a D-day attack storyline plot, with inspiration from World War II.[19] The battle itself was meant to recall the visual sense from classic war films such as The Longest Day, Blackhawk Down, and Saving Private Ryan.[18] The battle's multiple chapters themselves visually showcased the depth and detail to which the series' production team was able to reach in modeling the animation in Season Two.[10]
A preview article published on StarWars.com for the episode "Brain Invaders" introduced difficulties with the naming of the battle. The article in question refers to the battle as the "Battle of Geonosis,"[15] a title already adopted for the opening battle of the Clone Wars. However, another article later published on StarWars.com cleared the conflict up, officially giving the battle the "Second Battle of Geonosis" name.[16]
The Second Battle of Geonosis was a quick skirmish over Geonosis during the Galactic Civil War. Just over one year before the Battle of Yavin, a small Imperial fleet was patrolling the space above Geonosis when they encountered a small fleet of Alliance ships. During the insuing skirmish, the Alliance fleet took casualties, but the Imperials retreated. After reporting to their station, the Alliance space station began evacuating and couldn't draw on any space reinforcements, so they ordered Rear Admiral Neregski to guard the evacuation transports from any attacking Imperial forces. After they were evacuated, the Imperial invaders, encountering several carcasses of small ships and a recently abandoned space station, went down to the planet to annihilate the Rebel forces there and take control of the planet.


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In collaboration with the University of Riau, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has established permanent plots in Tanjung Leban village, Bengkalis regency, Riau province. The site, which is owned by the local community, is about 50 km east of the city of Dumai and easily accessed by car.
Establishing the plots will result in long-term monitoring of the dynamics of carbon (C) cycling in restored (revegetated and re-wetted) peatlands. The observed parameters include C stocks, peat depth, water table fluctuation, net primary production (NPP) and surface elevation change. The activities involve faculty members and students from the University of Riau and members of the local community.
The science behind peatlands
- Permanent research plots in Bengkalis, Riau: Carbon dynamics and water regimes of re-wetted peatlands (English, 1.4 MB) (Indonesian, 1.4 MB)
- Measuring subsidence: Detected from surface elevation change (English, 1.8 MB) (Indonesian, 1.8 MB)
- Assessing peatlands productivity (English, 1.4 MB) (Indonesian, 1.4 MB)
- Carbon stocks (English, 1.3 MB) (Indonesian, 1.4 MB)
- Re-wetting peatlands (English, 1.1 MB) (Indonesian, 1.1 MB)
- Using ground penetrating radar: Assessing the depth of tropical peatlands (English, 1.6 MB) (Indonesian, 1.6 MB)
Topic: peatlands, wetlands, emissions, carbon sinks, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases
Geographic: Indonesia,Riau
Series: The science behind peatlands
Pages: 2p
Publisher: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia
Publication Year: 2017Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Cheesy Broccoli, Cauliflower & Mushroom Cream Sauce Soup
5 cups cooked cauliflower and broccoli with cheese sauce
1 C homemade mushroom cream sauce
1 TBL saffron
1 TBL turmeric
2-3 tsp salt
4 solid dashes of hot sauce
1 vegan not-chicken/ chicken cube
10 +/- C water
Combine all ingredients. Bring to boil. Remove from heat and reduce to simmer. Use hand emulsifier or blender to smooth consistency.
I made a gourmet green bean casserole this year for Thanksgiving. To a basic white sauce I added ¼ tsp nutmeg and 10 drops of hot sauce, salt – no pepper. I sautéed mushrooms till BARELY cooked, not turning them so as not to lose their texture or "tooth feel". Added the mushrooms to the sauce after they'd both cooled. I boiled one package of fresh organic, prepared green beans from Trader Joe's, for about 7 minutes, drained and put them into a casserole bowl. I covered them with about 2 cups of homemade mushroom cream sauce. Additionally, I sliced a red onion using a mandolin and deep fried them in my counter-top pot until crispy. Added them to the top of the gourmet green bean casserole and baked it on 425 for 15 minutes. Oh, it was so good. I got raves from the crowd!! Make this any time of year. Lucky I had enough crispy onions, since Tom was home and snaking on them while I made them. Gotta love it.
I had 2 pounds of fresh organic green beans left over so I par-cooked and froze them. Cheers until next time!


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How to keep your home warm this winter
With the Met Office recently predicting a chilly winter for 2017, we've been looking at how to keep your home warm this winter.
Temperatures are apparently set to plummet as we move towards Christmas with air blasting in from the arctic instead of the milder weather of recent years carried to our shores by the jet stream. With arctic air dominating, the chances of snow and ice lingering are far higher this year than in previous winters.
According to government statistics, heating your home between October and April accounts for over 70% of household energy consumption. So what can you do to ensure your home is snug and warm without spending a fortune on energy bills?
Follow our 10 top tips over the next few weeks to get yourselves prepared.
1. Get your boiler serviced
Before the cold blast hits, make sure your boiler is working as efficiently as it can. If you're a tenant, contact your landlord or letting agent to get a Gas Safe Registered engineer to come and check all is in good working order. If you own your home, get ahead of the curve and get it booked early. Gas engineers get very busy when the cold strikes!
2. Bleed your radiators
This is one of those boring but crucial jobs that need doing once a year. If your radiators aren't heating right to the top, they won't be getting as hot as they can.
Bleeding radiators simply means releasing any trapped air that has made its way into the system. Just use a radiator bleed key (cheaply available at DIY stores) to open the valve at the top of each radiator in your home. You will hear air hiss out and then when you feel water – have a flannel handy to catch any drips – close the valve.
3. Put foil insulation behind your radiators
You can ensure your radiators are heating the room rather than the wall behind but putting foil insulation behind them. You can do this yourself by covering a sheet of card with tinfoil and slotting it behind the radiator. If you cut a T-shape, it will sit nicely on the radiator brackets! If you don't fancy doing it yourself, you can buy ready-made radiator reflector panels at DIY shops or online.
4. Move furniture away from radiators
It may feel cosy to have the sofa in front of the radiator but its just absorbing vital heat. Move any furniture away from your radiators in winter to let them do their job properly.
5. Lag your hot water pipes
Putting foam pipe lagging on your hot water pipes means the water stays hotter for longer, making the heating and hot water more efficient. It's a simple job that's quick and easy to do. Pipe lagging is available at any DIY stop so get down there pronto!
6. Eliminate draughts
We all know where those sneaky draughts are in our homes. Now is the time to do something about them. Filling in gaps around draughty windows and doors can save you money on your heating bills and more importantly make your home cosier. Simply buy some draught excluding tape from a DIY shop and ensure if fits snugly around the frame. You can also buy draught excluders for the bottom of doors and rubber seals for window frames.
7. Use rugs on hard floors
Floors account for as much as 10% of heat loss if they're not insulated, according to the National Energy Foundation (NEF). If you have hard floors, invest in some winter rugs to keep the floor – and your toes- snug.
8. Close your curtains as it gets dark
Much of the heat in your home escapes from windows so if you've got curtains, make sure you close them before it gets dark to keep heat in your home as the temperature drops outside. You can also invest in thermal curtains, which have an extra layer of thermal lining. If it's a sunny day, make sure the curtains are open to make the most of the winter sun!
9. Use timers on your central heating
The Centre for Sustainable Energy advises that programming your boiler to turn the heating on a little earlier – such as 30 minutes before you get up in the morning – but at a lower temperature is cheaper than turning it on just as you need it at a higher temperature. Don't make the mistake of leaving your heating on low all day – because you're just paying for heat when you don't need it.
Most energy suppliers now advocate the use of smart thermostats such as Nest, which can be controlled by your mobile phone. This means you can switch the heating on before you get home and turn it off if not required.
10 . Turn down your thermostat
This may sound counter-intuitive but whacking the heating up high when it's cold isn't the best way of heating your home. Public Health England recommends a minimum of 18°C in your living room. If you turn your thermostat down by by 1°C could cut your heating bill by up to 10%. So keep the dial at 18°C, save money and avoid the negative impacts a cold home.
There is a huge amount of advice available online on how to make your home energy efficient whilst keeping yourself cosy. A good place to start is the Energy Saving Trust.
Even if your home is rented, there is a lot you can do yourself to make it more energy efficient. Just a few hours of time invested in the next few weeks can make a big difference in the coming months.
Good luck!
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