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When American forces attempted to drive the Japanese from the Aleutian island of Kiska in August 1943, they found an unexpected enemy.
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As Robert Parker departed from San Francisco Bay aboard the troop ship Zeilin in July 1943, the 22-year-old soldier felt the weight of his family's military heritage. General Artemas Ward, his eighth great-grandfather, had once served as General George Washington's second-in-command during the American Revolution. Captain John Parker, an ancestor on his father's side, had led minutemen at Lexington, Massachusetts, in the first battle of the Revolutionary War. Most recently, Parker's great-uncle, General Oliver Otis Howard, had commanded Union Army troops during the Civil War.
Equally determined to serve his country, the young Parker had dropped out of St. Lawrence University in 1941 to join the United States Army's new ski unit, the 10th Mountain Division. After two years of training on the glacial slopes of Washington's Mount Rainier, on Colorado's towering snowscapes, and on California's beaches, he was now a bona fide mountain soldier, assigned to the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment. Parker had also qualified for the new intelligence and reconnaisance (I&R) platoon attached to his unit. Although eager for the opportunity to fight, Parker knew that his service might require the most fundamental kind of sacrifice.
After meeting their troop ship in San Francisco, the young and eager GIs of Parker's unit had tried to figure out where they were going. The best guesses seemed to be enemy-occupied Burma, or perhaps the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Some thought they were bound for the Aleutians, the island chain that trailed away toward Asia from the southwestern tip of Alaska. As Zeilin steamed westward across the Pacific Ocean on July 29, 1943, it made a sudden and decided turn to the north, and the soldiers suddenly had their answer. Apparently they were the last to know. As they listened to the reassuring voices of the Andrews Sisters on short-wave radio, Japanese propaganda voice "Tokyo Rose" periodically interrupted the music to chillingly warn "all you boys on the Zeilin headed for Kiska Island" that a big surprise awaited them.
Kiska Island, Alaska Territory, was little more than a 4,000-foot volcanic mountain surrounded by a steep succession of hills, but it was American property under Japanese control. Japanese infantry had seized it, and the nearby island of Attu, a year earlier. Just two months before Robert Parker set sail with the 87th, 11,000 poorly prepared American troops had sustained heavy casualties while recapturing tiny Attu. They had been hampered by atrocious weather typical of the north Pacific–dense, pea soup-like fog punctuated by periods of high wind and cold, heavy rain. Shrouded in the mist covering the steep ridges of the 15-mile-wide outcrop, the hidden Japanese soldiers would open fire on the American troops slowly making their way inland, then silently slip away. It was nightmarish combat that ended only after the Americans wiped out the entire 2,500-man Japanese force.
With Attu cleared of any Japanese presence, American intelligence expected fierce resistance from the thousands of Japanese soldiers on Kiska. For 10 months United States warships and bombers had harassed the intruders with a steady rain of shells and bombs in preparation for an eventual amphibious assault. That invasion was now coming in the form of a joint army-navy task force made up of a large part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and about 34,000 menincluding the 87th Mountain Regiment, U.S. Army infantry, American Marines, and 5,300 Canadian troops. The 87th would have no use for their skis on the island's muddy, rocky terrain. As Zeilin pitched its way toward Alaska, the soldiers learned that the attack would depend heavily on the element of surprise. Tokyo Rose's apparent knowledge of their destination, however, made surprise seem unlikely.
Early in the 2,000-mile trek to the Aleutians, Parker managed to get himself selected for regular deck watch. Army enlisted men on deck watch shared meals with the navy men, whose food actually seemed palatable, and welcomed such small pleasures as hot, round-the-clock coffee and a night's escape from the sardine-can sleeping conditions below deck. Parker slept on deck as often as he could manage it–quietly pulling back a lifeboat cover and crawling beneath it with his sleeping bag, to be lulled to sleep by the drone of the ship's engines.
Corporal Leo "Oley" Kohlman, at age 32 an old man compared to most of the soldiers, had to endure the cramped conditions below Zeilin's deck. He shared a cabin with 11 other soldiers, and his narrow bunk with all of his heavy gear and his cold M-1 rifle. Kohlman, a raconteur and practical joker, was the supplier of everything from underwear to ammunition for the 87th's Company K. His additional duties as company armorer and artificer included overseeing, maintaining, and giving instruction on all the unit's weapons.
During the long journey to the Aleutians, Kohlman spent much of his time issuing special gear such as gas masks and blanket-lined pants, and inserting rounds into the many hundreds of automatic rifle magazines awaiting use. He and his subordinates spent more time screwing fuses onto the thousands of hand grenades stored in wooden crates like so many bottles of soda pop.
The men did find time for more leisurely activities, such as playing pinochle, telling stories, or just thinking about what lay ahead. The army was expecting heavy casualties on Kiska–estimates ran as high as 90 percent–and Kohlman knew that his first campaign might be his last. "But I didn't really sweat it," he remembers. "I wasn't religious. I wasn't a Catholic any more. But I thought, well, if I come back alive or if I don't, I've had a good life. I've done what I wanted to for 10 or 11 years. I just never dwelt on it, I don't guess."
Like Parker, Kohlman had been more than willing to register for the military draft. Having been a trapper, cowboy, and skier in Colorado, he responded enthusiastically to the formation of the mountain units. While the 87th was still in training, Kohlman had been detailed to familiarize himself with Japanese weapons—pistols, rifles, machine guns, and even rocket launchers and grenades—so that if they were picked up on the battlefield they might be put to good use. Samples of each weapon were aboard Zeilin, and Kohlman continued his studies whenever he could. He couldn't help thinking that if the fighting proved as fierce as most of the men feared it would, he just might get the chance to use the weapons himself.
On August 9, after more than 10 days at sea, Zeilin and the rest of the fleet stopped off at Adak Island, 200 miles east of Kiska. For three days the soldiers made final preparations for the invasion and hoped for a miraculous improvement in the weather. Back aboard their ships for the final leg of their journey, many of the men grew jittery and nervous. Regular army-issue crew cuts were modified to suit the coming conflict. Many soldiers had Mohawk-style stripes shaved onto their naked scalps; others left only bold "X"s or jagged lightning bolts. The ceaseless card games seemed to have lost their allure, while the horseplay and the bickering ebbed. Letters addressed to sweethearts, parents, and friends now took on special urgency.
With the squadron of ships anchored in the Bering Sea off the northwest coast of Kiska on the night of August 14, the thousands of soldiers consumed their last meals before they stormed ashore. Oley Kohlman ate heartily but many men only picked distractedly at their food. Platoon and company commanders urged their men to get as much rest as they could. With their nerves taut and minds worriedly focused on the coming task, however, the soldiers found sleeping just about impossible. They could do little more than lie on their bunks and think, until sometime in the middle of the night when the loudspeakers began to blare. D-day on Kiska had officially arrived.
The first phase of the attack plan called for a three-battalion formation of mountain troops to follow a smaller scouting party ashore at a protected cove on the northwest side of the island. Additional landings would be made in the following days. These lead commandos were to scale the steep slopes and "seek out and contact the enemy" on the ridgelines where the Japanese soldiers were believed to be entrenched. After the balance of the infantry had disembarked on the island, the entire force would "prepare to launch a coordinated attack for the complete destruction of the enemy."
From the outset, the invasion plan's flaws proved frighteningly obvious. An advance party of rangers slipped onto the island in the early morning darkness, but did not immediately report its findings. Meanwhile, simply getting the first wave of mountain soldiers and their gear loaded into assault boats took far too long. As searchlights skittered across the choppy surface of the sea, army officers cursed their navy comrades through megaphones, and soldiers struggled to climb down from the ships on nets and squeeze into the bobbing landing craft. The various boats began to back up, and soon the tiny cove was snarled with dozens of landing craft that couldn't reach the cramped beach. Amid much shouting, the transports finally began to bump past one another to let their heavy ramps thud down on the wet sand, and the impatient soldiers inside them stumbled out into knee-deep water and lunged for solid ground.
As Leo Kohlman recalls, it was nearly noon before he and the rest of K Company waded ashore on Kiska Island, six long, edgy hours after the first disorganized wave of soldiers stormed up the mud-slicked, green sod slopes. Fortunately, they encountered no resistance. Yet as the members of the small supply contingent made their way with their heavy packs across the beach toward the imposing hills, they met four stunned soldiers carrying a dead man back toward the water, his body bloodied and soaked. No one spoke, not even the normally garrulous Kohlman. This grim welcome to combat washed away any remaining visions of glory the young troops might still have harbored.
On the island's ridge-tops, soldiers worked desperately to dig foxholes in the matted, root-gnarled tundra. Messengers circulated among platoons with word that abandoned enemy bunkers had been encountered up ahead, some still containing caches of food and ammunition; one rumor held that the Japanese had even abandoned a hot container of tea. Shells fired from the supporting warships steadily exploded in the distance, and sometimes very close at hand. Radio communication was faulty, and platoon and company leaders couldn't be sure how to proceed as long as the enemy continued its apparent retreat.
With nightfall came rain, and heavy fog off the Bering Sea rolled across the island like a thick, icy blanket. Gunfire suddenly began ringing out, and soldiers dove into their shallow foxholes which were already filling with water. Rifle shots cracked in the heavy rain; tracer bullets whistled overhead, ricocheting off rocks and scudding into the soil and mud; machine guns rattled incessantly, while loud, angry artillery fire continued to boom out of the blackness. Kohlman remembers, "What I learned that night was that your first night in combat you just dig a deep hole and occupy the very bottom of it."
Fear and dread permeated the dark, misty air of Kiska. The young soldiers had been imbued by their officers with intense fear of the mysterious Japanese soldiers, and in the darkness and fog they expected to be bayoneted at any moment. A second lieutenant named Roger Eddy remembered that they "were all scared stiff; we were green; and everybody expected to die." Death seemed to be lurking everywhere. Eventually, as Eddy later recalled, a machine gunner spotted some figures approaching and opened up, and "then everyone started shooting."
As the gray sky brightened over the bleak landscape the next morning, Eddy and the men around him awoke to the realization of what had happened. In the confusion of the previous night, American and Canadian soldiers had fired at each other. "We were exhausted, disgusted, and ashamed. And we knew we'd done all the killing ourselves," Eddy recalled. Light rain continued to fall, but one by one, the soldiers eased themselves out of their holes to stretch their legs in a kind of exhausted daze before taking cover again. Radios broadcast static-filled casualty reports, and soldiers began to shout from hole to hole to see if friends had survived the night. Kohlman, meanwhile, sought out a nearby officer and told him that he had not heard any Japanese weapons. "He told me I couldn't tell the difference," Kohlman remembers. Kohlman explained to the lieutenant that he knew those weapons well, and he was certain none had been fired during the night. The frustrated corporal returned to his cold, muddy foxhole, convinced that neither the army nor navy brass knew who or what they were fighting.
Robert Parker came within a whisper of adding to the death count during that sober second day on Kiska. As part of the 87th's I&R platoon, he had been constantly on the move in the 30 hours since he had waded ashore. Walking alone through the blanketing fog to rejoin his unit after escorting an infantry company to a new position, Parker was startled when the figure of a single soldier suddenly materialized out of the mist. Equally taken aback, the other man immediately pointed his gun in Parker's direction. "Paul," Parker managed to call through his terror. He had nearly shot it out with company mate Paul Dunn. Their nerves remained shaken by the close call for the rest of the day, a condition not helped by the renewed shooting that filled the second night.
By the morning of August 17, 48 hours after the start of the invasion, bodies of fallen soldiers had been wrapped in their ponchos and laid aside until they could be carried back down to the beach. In the welcome sunshine of that morning, troops on the island's high volcanic ground began to crawl out of their holes to search for friends, rations, or personal effects abandoned or lost during the fighting in the disorienting mist. The exhausted men began to mutter disgustedly that the Japanese had somehow figured out a way to make themselves invisible. As far as the task force command was concerned, however, the Japanese forces had probably anticipated the invasion and moved to the island's southern side. They had to be routed, and before mounting another assault, the Allied forces needed to know precisely where the enemy was.
Robert Parker and his I&R unit comrades received orders to troop across the island and find the enemy. "We thought we were going into the jaws of death," Parker recalls. "None of us was sure whether we'd ever climb back up those hills." Half expecting an ambush, the small group nervously hiked their way over the barren landscape. All that was visible was a new batch of dense fog; the soldiers' tension built, and they fought "the urge to fire every bit of ammunition [they] had out into the fog, just in case there was someone out there." Finally, the reconnaissance party came across a Japanese artillery installation. It was deserted.
After thoroughly searching the area for signs of life and hidden booby traps, the unit reported their findings, or the lack of them, by radio. At this point the group began "to wonder out loud about the possibility that had been gnawing at the backs of our minds, I think, since very early on," Parker recalls. "Maybe there weren't any [Japanese] at all on Kiska Island."
The men had good reason for their doubts. More than two weeks before the invasion, Japanese ships had daringly slipped through the navy's blockade and evacuated the last of the island's 5,600-man garrison. In retrospect, all the signs had been there. Japanese radio on Kiska had gone off the air on July 28, and American bomber pilots flying over the island since then had not received a single round of antiaircraft fire. Four 11th Air Force P-40 pilots had even landed on Kiska's bombed-out runway to confirm their own suspicions that the island was deserted. Still, Rear Admiral Thomas Kinkaid had ordered the invasion to go on as planned. Even if the enemy had left, he had concluded, the assault would be a "super dress rehearsal, good for training purposes."
For the troops on the ground, confirmation of the shocking truth came as a kind of final blow after witnessing the miserable conditions and the loss of at least 20 fellow soldiers. The lone enemy casualty was a Japanese soldier found dead of natural causes. The massive effort had been unnecessary, diverting essential funds, ships, and soldiers from other fronts where the war truly raged.
For the men of the 87th, the introduction to combat had been disastrous in every respect. Although considered an elite fighting force, they had been humiliated in their initial foray, not by the enemy but by themselves. As the spent and shaken men wandered aimlessly about, they seemed sick at heart. All that remained to do was await their own evacuation from an island they hadn't needed to capture.
Down on the beach at Kiska Harbor, still on their own and feeling more relieved than broken, the I&R patrol made camp. Certain now that they weren't in any danger, the soldiers built a large fire and tried to dry out. Three men waded into the cold water and emerged holding fat and flopping salmon. At the end of that very odd and unsettling day, the small group ate a glorious salmon supper and sat around the fire long into the night, talking about what had happened and how it had gone so wrong, imagining the next fight and whether they might be lucky enough to be on skis when it came.
The following morning, a special unit of engineers wound its way down from the hilltops to the harbor to begin sweeping the shoreline with metal detectors, searching for Japanese mines and booby traps. "We were still hanging around there, waiting for orders," Robert Parker recalls, "and the engineers were moving along the beach, and then right where we had built our fire, they began to get a loud beep, beep, beep."
What the engineers uncovered after an hour of slow, painstaking probing with bayonets was a pressure-activated platter mine, designed to explode when a heavy vehicle crossed it. Neither the piled wood nor the troopers' collective weight had been enough to detonate the mine, and it seemed likely that the fine shingle on the beach had dissipated the fire's heat, surely saving many lives.
In the end, the United States had achieved its objective; it had driven the Japanese out of American territory. Although the Kiska campaign may have helped with planning for future island invasions, it was an incomprehensible waste of life and resources to the GIs who went ashore. Parker shakes his head with that final memory of Kiska–his first glimpse at the freakish vagaries of war. "Twice I'd already come very close to getting killed," he says, "and not in a way I'd ever imagined I might. I really began to wonder whether I, or any of us, had much of what you could call a future."
Colorado resident Russell Martin is the author of one novel and numerous non-fiction books.
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My son has been a long time Minecraft fan. I love that he plays it honestly. It's amazing the skills that he has at the game. I can't even for the life of me figure it out. Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles. Play in Creative Mode with unlimited resources or mine deep in Survival Mode, crafting weapons and armor to fend off dangerous mobs. Do all this alone or with friends.
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Tinea cream is used to treat fungal infections associated with the presence of the ringworm fungi. The term ringworm was originally used due to the misconception that the infection was caused by worm, though the actual cause of tinea is attributed to a group of fungi called dermatophytes. These fungi are traditionally treated using a wide range of topical creams designed to kill the infection and eliminate the appearance of the round, ring rash and other common symptoms of tinea. Ringworm ointment is applied to the areas affected by the dermatophytes infection and is usually effective over a short period of time, generally about two weeks.
Ringworm infections can appear on many different locations on the body, including the scalp, soles of the feet, and trunk of the body. The location of the infection has very little to do with the effectiveness of the tinea cream, and the different types are often prescribed interchangeably. The tinea fungi can only live in the top layers of the skin and feed from the keratin cells located there. Fortunately, the ringworm infection very rarely spreads any deeper in the body. The mucous membranes of the body are also resistant to this type of infection, which is one of the reasons antifungal ointment is so effective in treating this condition.
Most cases of ringworm are easily treated with over-the-counter or prescription preparations in the form of tinea cream. The doctor prescribing the medication will determine which one to use based on criteria including location of the infection, severity of the condition, and any potential skin allergies of the patient. Some of the most common tinea creams include terbinafine, ketoconazole, and clotrimazole. Miconazole and naftifine are used for the treatment of ringworm as well and yield excellent results for most patients in the average two-week period. These types of antifungal creams are often successfully used on infections affecting most regions of the body.
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Welcome the the Assistive Technology Training Center!This website is the new home for our AT information, including training materials, FAQs, video tutorials, district-wide procedures, and more!For a quick overview of Assistive Technology, watch this fun video from the folks at Simply Said:
AT BackgroundIDEA defines assistive technology devices as:
any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability.
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text: Cape Town - Indira Tsengiwe is the founder of Youngpreneur Media and an advocate for the cultivation of entrepreneurial mindsets across Africa. Fin24 asked her about her journey as an entrepreneur.Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background?I am the founder of Youngpreneur Media. As an advocate for the cultivation of entrepreneurial mindsets across the continent, I am passionate about youth entrepreneurship.I spend most of my days actively converting the ideas of the Youngpreneur Media team into reality.Our purpose is to be at the forefront of entrepreneurial content creation targeted for young people. As a Bachelor of Business Science: Management Studies (Finance) graduate from the University of Cape Town (UCT) it is quite odd that I found myself in media.Earlier this year I would often question myself as to whether I made the right decision by not following the traditional route of my university career.But I believe that passion is perhaps what got me here. There is a social economic wave that has the potential to change South Africa and the rest of Africa as a whole.We have seen the positive effects of it in various booming economies, including Nigeria and Chile.My entrepreneurial journey started at 19. In the past six years I have come to know success, I have also experienced great failures.These failures have allowed me to travel, write a book and, most importantly, be able to understand the range of challenges and opportunities experienced by other young entrepreneurs so that I may be able to communicate effectively with them.How and when did you become an entrepreneur?I had the opportunity to travel with a mentor to Egypt for an entrepreneurship boot camp hosted by the US and Danish governments, in Egypt in 2011.In Cairo I saw entrepreneurship in a different light. It wasn't survivalist.The entrepreneurs from all three countries (US, Denmark and Egypt) were very successful.None of them were entrepreneurs because they had to be, they were entrepreneurs because they wanted to be financially secure. I realised that (at least at that point) entrepreneurship in South Africa had been painted very differently.To most people, being an entrepreneur meant that you owned a "spaza shop", or had a small business.It wasn't about innovation and certainly not about being rich.I believe that entrepreneurship provides solutions to many of the social and economic issues we face as an economy, but I don't believe that its prospects are being told in a way that encourages young people in this country to become entrepreneurs. I wanted to be part of a system that taught people that they could achieve greatness.What is the Youngpreneur Media concept?The flagship brand of Youngpreneur Media is iamyoungpreneur. The iamyoungpreneur platform is an online stage where young entrepreneurs tell their own stories.Through this camaraderie inspiration is cultivated, as young entrepreneurs from around the world speak to other young entrepreneurs about their journeys (lessons learnt, opportunities found, challenges experienced) in entrepreneurship. What success have you had in the company so far?We are currently finalising a television production, three online shows and the distribution of iamyoungpreneur in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana.We also just finalised a contract with a leading airline. Soon, you will be able to watch iamyoungpreneur shows while travelling - which is very exciting for us. What are the challenges?Our biggest challenge was finding our purpose, identity and position as a brand.There's a need to create something that is not easy for competitors to copy. How do you handle challenges?We had to be honest with ourselves as a team: By asking and answering questions that would help us define who we are.There is a cardboard cut-out of the Youngpreneur consumer in our offices. The consumer represents the person that this specific brand, with this specific identity, targets.Every now and then as entrepreneurs we need to experience our companies from the perspective of the consumer.It is not good enough to sit in your office and dream. You have to step outside and ask the right people (customers) the right questions.How did/do you fund your business?From experience, I don't necessarily believe that every business needs funding to get started.I believe that with passion and purpose almost anything can be achieved, if one is willing to look at other options to achieve certain tasks.Youngpreneur Media was funded through making strategic decisions. The decisions we made in the early days of the business carried us till we were able to generate revenue. What lessons did you learn?A common lesson I have gained from my own experience and that of other young entrepreneurs is that of self belief.Until you can get all of the issues of doubt and second guessing yourself out of the way, there is nothing much that you can achieve. What advice would you have for other entrepreneurs?Our success as entrepreneurs is dependent on the journey we decide within our imagination.The limits of our entrepreneurial dreams are the limits of what we could achieve entrepreneurially. Everything else stems from that vision.The team we choose / work with are the people who are sold to that journey.It is important to be completely honest with yourself (as an entrepreneur) as to what you want to achieve.If you want to achieve the impossible, then think the impossible. If you want to achieve the possible, then think the possible. Put South Africa and Africa in context as far as your business and opportunities for entrepreneurs are concerned? South Africa is one of the world's most privileged economies in terms of growth potential.We have the unusual merge of third world problems and first world infrastructure.If as a society we could cultivate the spirit of entrepreneurship to resolve such problems, the economy would have the ability grow at a higher growth rate.It is upsetting to see the dependency on government or the existing corporate landscape on job creation.In other African economies (countries which face similar or worse unemployment, economic and social issues) it is rare to find a beggar. The problems we have in South Africa and the rest of Africa indicate the range of opportunities for entrepreneurship - not just in terms of survivalist entrepreneurship, but innovative entrepreneurship.In South Africa, as long as the focus is on the fruits of early day entrepreneurship (that is established companies today, which were start-ups years ago) to provide job opportunities, instead of the effective development and support of current entrepreneurs the growth of the economy will be very slow. South Africa has the second lowest youth entrepreneurial activity in the world! What are your future plans?The vision of Youngpreneur is to be the louder voice of inspiration to young entrepreneurs across the African continent.It is important to us to create a multi-media experience of Youngpreneur Media brands. We are currently working on converting the "iamyoungpreneur" experience from online, to television and even live events. * Share your experience of setting up a business or simply ask a question. Our business panel can put you on the right path.


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To help promote the recent release of Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray, I got to speak with Richard Taylor. If you're a fan of the LOTR trilogy, you already know who Richard Taylor is and his amazing work. But for the newbie's, Taylor is the co-founder and co-director of the Weta companies in Wellington, New Zealand, and he's the Creative Director of Weta Workshop. He's also won four BAFTAs, five Oscars, and numerous other awards for Weta's success in makeup, costume and visual effects.
As a huge fan of Taylor's work and the LOTR trilogy, I could have spoken to him for hours. But due to only having 15 minutes on the phone (he was in New Zealand), I asked his thoughts on LOTR on Blu-ray, we talked about how The Hobbit would look different than LOTR as Middle Earth was more peaceful back then, what did he do on Avatar, and is he working with Neill Blomkamp on his new sci-fi film as he worked on District 9.
If you're a fan of Taylor's work, you'll love the interview. Hit the jump to check it out:
As always, I've provided a transcript and here's the audio. Just know the reception was not perfect on the call.
Finally, during the interview we talked about my recent interview with Hugo Weaving and how he said The Hobbit would look different from Lord of the Rings as it's a different time in Middle Earth. Here's that interview.
And for fans of Neill Blomkamp and District 9, while Taylor doesn't confirm he's working on Blomkamp's next sci-fi film…it's pretty obvious he is.
Collider: How are you doing today, sir?
Richard Taylor: Hey, good day Steve. I'm good thank you and appreciate the interest.
Yeah, just to be honest, I'm a huge fan of your work and I absolutely adore the "Lord of the Rings" movies.
Taylor: Oh thank you. I enjoyed working on them. And it's 1/3 of my total working career, so it's lovely to know it was a pleasurable experience at every level.
Actually, what must it be like for you? Because I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who when you say who you are and what you did on those movies, they must want to talk to you everywhere.
Taylor: There is an amazing community of enthusiasts for the film. You imagine going into the movies knowing that already a huge part of the population of the world respect and hold the books with such a level of respect. And so you do carry a certain anxiety that you're going to ultimately be able to fulfill that expectation, so we you get people coming up and saying how pleased that they were with the imagery and what you did with the world. That means a huge amount because in some way it endorses and suppresses some of your anxiety around that.
What aspect of the production like the visual design really leaps out at you when you're watching the film on Blu-ray?
Taylor: Well, unfortunately I can't comment on that because we haven't had the pleasure of seeing it yet. It hasn't gotten here yet, but we are incredibly keen to see what it looks like. Obviously the anticipation in the workshop is huge and we're actually going to screen it in our cinema for the team when it actually arrives. But what causes me some thought is now that the technology, you know your home viewing experiences now at a greater fidelity and clarity than even at the cinema in some cases and it changes the way you've got to think about making your part of the craft. Because if you could once hide behind film technique, today the camera sees everything and therefore the audience through the clarity of things like Blu-ray, can also see everything. That makes for a huge challenge at an artistic level. A wonderful wonder, you know, it's one that you want to rise to.
Looking back on the movies, is there anything in the design that you wish you could have done differently but you couldn't at the time because of the technology or time?
Taylor: I do reflect on that and ultimately at some level it would be disingenuous to the team to think "oh God if only we had…" because you work with the skills and the knowledge and the capabilities you have at that moment in time. You try and work with them to the limit of your capabilities. But it doesn't stop. Occasionally reflecting, "gosh if we'd had the effects," but I think rather than reflecting on a single thing, I think it's interesting to note what the…what we've seen today is a more and more immersive experience. And there's no doubt that James Cameron has taken the world audience to a level of cinema going that has not really been seen before. And what that suggests in the future is that these epic movies, rather than being partially immersive, will be fully and completely emotionally absorbing and you'll feel like you're rather a spectator sitting outside of the cinema experience, you're actually part of the experience and just sitting within the world. And you know for a movie like "Lord of the Rings" of the future, that is extremely exciting.
Something I wanted to ask you about is I recently interviewed Hugo Weaving, and he made a very astute observation that I think that you're probably in the position to answer. He said to me that while on "Lord of the Rings" the film, you know was a different time in Middle Earth. When you talk about The Hobbit, that's a completely different time zone where things were a lot different. The energy in the land, there wasn't the evil. I'm definitely curious, how is that affecting perhaps a design or an artist like yourself when you're thinking about future things?
Taylor: Yeah, that's actually extremely astute as you say because we are definitely reflecting on it. The plausibility of the landscape on middle earth is the chess board on which the characters play out this role and therefore the landscape, the backdrop if you like, has to communicate the intent of Tolkin's writing as much as the performers would communicate it. And it's therefore critical that that is acknowledged through the design process. And it's something that Guillermo (del Toro) is hyper aware of when he is working with us and with the production designer and so on, because the audience that come from the love of the books and will be coming from the love of the Hobbit story see the Hobbit as sitting in a completely different time, a completely different historical moment. Almost like literally if we were sitting in the 16th century compared to the 18th century. You'd communicate the world in a very different way in our own time. So that is very prevalent in our collective thinking.
Well, I'm definitely curious, I've been on a lot of film shoots and for example on "Clash of the Titans", they reused a lot of stuff from "Troy," and on many movies they reuse things from other films, but talking as we were just talking about, the fact that it's a completely different time in Middle Earth does that mean that it's harder to reuse things from the original trilogy and you'll have to create everything from scratch or can you reuse?
Taylor: Well, that's a tricky question to answer of course, but I think simply it would be inappropriate to just reuse things because the world, as you say, it would be…the audience would see through that. They would know that we've tried to make efficiencies. I think it's so appropriate that we try and focus on making something fresh and yeah, so it's a dicey one to answer of course under the confidentialities I'm under, so I have to be a bit illusive on that one.
As a huge fan of yours and of the "Lord of the Rings" movies, what was it like for you when you first found out that you know you're most likely going to be making "The Hobbit"? I mean obviously it's not official yet, but assuming it all comes through, which I'm sure it will, what was it like for you when you first found out that you were going back into that world?
Taylor: Oh well, euphoria, of course. We could never have imagined that, you know to even think that we were offered the original chance to work on "Lord of the Rings" as precious as those books are to so many of us was beyond your wildest imagining. And then knowing the complexities of the rights over the last 10 years, we had resigned to the fact that it was probably unlikely we could be involved on "The Hobbit", and then, suddenly, it's unfolding and it's a tribute to Peter's just dogged determination and Ken Kamins, Peter's manager, that works with Peter to see this opportunity realized so that we as an audience around the world get to see this incredible prequel and you know we feel incredibly fortunate. There's no describing actually how fortunate you feel when something like this happens in your life. So yeah, yeah. Good question. Thank you.
You were very involved in "Avatar" as well. You were right?
Taylor: Yes. Yeah, we were on it for a long time. We looked after…we did complimentary designs what the American design department…the main military hardware. We did all the Na'vi culture costumes. Some of the vehicle work and guns and so on and so on.
You had me nervous there for a second when I started saying that. I'm like oh my God did I just screw up?
Taylor: No, thank you. It was an incredible journey working alongside, we were doing "District 9" at the same time, so you've got two science fiction movies of such different vision of the future. And getting ultimately to work with James Cameron, who we obviously respected our whole professional lives as a filmmaker, to be offered that opportunity was just phenomenal.
I consider Guillermo, Peter and James Cameron to be visionaries and just amazing artists. What do you find, since you've worked with all three, the common denominator or the common theme in all three of them that makes them such amazing artists?
Taylor: Yes, that's a very good question. Well, my simple answer to it is, what I see as the link between all visionary directors and filmmakers is this unique driving passion to tell unique stories. And I see in James Cameron this visionary director that has this burning, completely unfaltering, desire to show unique and incredible worlds and stories and you think about his previous films how original and unique his work has been. And I see exactly the same in both Peter and Guillermo. They want to take an audience and surprise them and give them an experience that they otherwise would never witness if they weren't fortunate enough to go see one of their films. I love being an audience member viewing their work, but I of course also have had a great fortune of working with them and that's something I hold dear of course.
You worked with Neill Blomkamp on "District 9" and I'm curious are you going to work with him on his next sci-fi movie?
Taylor: (laughter) I'm not sure I can say that yet, but by being elusive… Neill is truly one of the most unique and talented filmmakers we've had the pleasure of working with and we certainly are enjoying an ongoing relationship with him at the creative level. How's that for diplomatic? We're just thrilled by the possibility of making films with him in the future.
My last thing, are you coming to Comic-Con this summer?
Taylor: Yes, most definitely. It'll be my 9th year, so I definitely will be there.


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Manitowoc Foodservice, Inc. (NYSE: MFS) (which is changing its name to Welbilt, Inc. on March 6, 2017) and Halton Group Americas have entered into a strategic alliance to facilitate the integration of Halton ventilation solutions into a wide range of Welbilt's equipment to better meet the needs of their customers.
Restaurant chain businesses play an important role in both of their futures and this alliance provides a framework to combine the best from both companies' innovation teams to develop system solutions with specific focus on the following areas:
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"We believe there is significant growth potential in mobile cooking globally. Partnering with Welbilt can help us expand our Mobi-Chef solution by including an electric cooking suite, complete with refrigeration and have the combined products UL Listed for rapid customer adoption," said Mika Halttunen, Chairman of Halton.
About Manitowoc Foodservice, Inc./Welbilt, Inc.
Manitowoc Foodservice, Inc./Welbilt, Inc. provides the world's top chefs and premier chain operators or growing independents with industry-leading equipment and solutions. Our innovative products and solutions are powered by our deep knowledge, operator insights, and culinary expertise. We offer fully-integrated kitchen systems and our products are backed by KitchenCare® – our aftermarket, repair, and parts service. Headquartered in the Tampa Bay area, Florida, and operating 18 manufacturing facilities throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, the company sells through a global network of over 3,000 distributors and dealers in over 100 countries. The company has approximately 5,500 employees and generated sales of $1.57 billion in 2015. Its portfolio of award-winning brands includes Cleveland™, Convotherm®, Delfield®, fitkitchenSM, Frymaster®, Garland®, Kolpak®, Lincoln™, Manitowoc® Ice, Merco®, Merrychef® and Multiplex®. For more information, visit www.welbilt.com.
About Halton Group
Halton specializes in indoor air and indoor environment systems, services and solutions for commercial and public premises, healthcare institutions and laboratories, professional kitchens and restaurants. Halton is also one of the best known providers of ventilation and air distribution products for sea vessels and oil platforms.
The company was founded in 1969. Today, Halton has production units in ten and R&D units in eight countries. Licensed production is carried out in four countries. Halton Group employs over 1400 people in over 30 countries. The company's turnover in 2016 was over 200 million euros. www.halton.com.
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Welcome to my first blog series – it's Valentine's week! This week I'll be sharing four guest posts and a new short story from me plus my favourite romantic movies and songs. I hope you enjoy the series!
To kick us off, I'm pleased to welcome Dazzle Rebel to the blog. Dazzle is an independent musician and future rock God plus has a pretty great blog of his own. Here's the man in action ….
Over to you Daz!
Being born a few hours shy of Valentines Day the 14th February has always been a prominent time in my calendar but I never thought much about it until I met my first love.
It was a bright September morning when my hazel eyes first met her bright blues. Her luscious blond locks spiralled down her pink cheeks and emphasised her cherry red lips and she took the seat opposite mine at the table. Could this be love at first sight? Possibly, my stomach was filled with butterflies and I suddenly felt very self-conscious as my ears and cheeks began to glow. Yep this was definitely it I was in love.
"Hi, do you mind if I sit here?" She asked with a voice that angels would envy. After a moments hesitation that seemed to last for eons I nodded in approval, language momentarily escaping me. "I'm Lauren, what's your name?"
"D,D,D, Dan…" I replied trying to find my voice but my throat had quickly filled with Sahara sand. Not only had I developed a stammer but I'd gone and told her my name was Dan when I meant to say Daz.
"So Dan, what are you up to?" Lauren enquired.
"Erm, er, well, I'm reading this book about Pirates at the moment" I replied shyly.
"Pirates huh?" strangely she looked impressed "I like pirates, have you ever read Treasure Island?"
"No but I've seen the film Treasure Island in Space" I felt stupid as the words ran away with themselves.
"Ah I've seen that one too. It's good because it mixes pirates and space my two favourite subjects" I began to wonder if she was flirting with me. I may have been reading a book about pirates but that didn't mean I liked pirates but I did find space and sci-fi fascinating.
As the conversation continued I began to loosen up as she made me feel comfortable with myself. It was the first time a girl as naturally beautiful as Lauren had given me the time of day. Usually those girls went for the funny guy or the hard nut, not Lauren she liked me for being a little bit nerdy.
As the morning continued we discussed music, books, TV and films. We even shared a favourite Star Wars character, R2 D2. We spent ages talking but all too soon she had to leave. I asked if I would see her again and she promised that she'd be there the following morning and that she would love to hear me read to her. For the rest of the day I couldn't think of anything else but Lauren, she was amazing more beautiful than any actress and she was actually a real person. Kind and caring and unbelievably pretty she gave me Goosebumps just thinking about her.
The following morning I was up bright and breezy and with a huge smile on my face, I was seeing Lauren again and that filled me with more sunshine than you could bottle. I groomed my hair, put on my best trousers and best shirt and even polished my shoes. I was looking proper dapper for my second date with Lauren.
Sitting at the same table I waited eagerly for Lauren. I had my pirate book open but I wasn't reading, my eyes where fixed on the door waiting for that gorgeous silhouette to appear. I waited and waited but as the minutes ticked by I started to become despondent and glum, maybe she wasn't coming after all? But just as I hit my lowest ebb Lauren came rushing in looking flustered.
"Sorry the traffic was terrible" she said apologetically but it didn't matter to me, she was here now and my face beamed.
Wonders of what we would discuss today bombarded my thoughts and I felt my legs kicking with excitement.
"Yesterday was a great day and today is going to be even better." I thought to myself.
Alas my perfect day was soon shattered as Lauren walked straight passed my table and took a seat two row behind. She didn't even smile or acknowledge me as she walked passed. I turned around and met her eye with a perplexed glare.
"Morning Dan" she said with a smile before turning to talk to Gary the nutcase.
"Hi Lauren?"
"Hi Dan" was all she could muster in reply before turning brutally away and back into conversation with the meathead.
"Lauren?" my voice now audibly upset. This time I got no reply just a quick look and a smile "Lauren, Lauren, Lauren?"
My persistence was met with silence. What had I done wrong?
"Darren turn around and get on with your reading," demanded Mrs Cook.
"But miss Lauren said I could read to her today" I replied.
"Not today Darren, Lauren is sitting with Gary today but you can stand up in front of the class if you like?" was the spiteful reply from my portly teacher.
"No, it's ok miss," I replied as I slumped into my chair, my crush on Lauren the year 4 classroom assistant fading quicker than a tear drop in the Atacama Desert.
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You may experience some or none of the Ritalin side effects listed in this article. Unfortunately, there is no way for your healthcare provider to know beforehand if you will have side effects from a medicine that you have never tried. Therefore, be sure to let your healthcare provider know if you develop any side effects while taking the drug. Also, let your healthcare provider know if you develop something that "just does not seem right." While it may not be a side effect, he or she will be able to diagnose and treat the problem.


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It was not like a shipwreck, one survivor explains. Rather, it was somehow closer to being lost at sea, the snow being just as unruly, oppressive and deadly a force. At first, some wondered if they'd awoken to find themselves in the hereafter, the vastness and blankness of their surroundings evoking some realm of heavenly purity, of desolate, austere beauty, and it was only the cries of agony, the tremendous, unimaginable suffering endured by all those who didn't instantly perish that convinced them otherwise. This place they found themselves in was indeed very much of this world, but to listen to their testimonies you'd think they'd returned from a distant planet.
Watching Gonzalo Arijón's Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains is an exhausting experience. And after you've seen it, the idea of telling this story in any other way, at least cinematically, starts to feel vulgar or insufficient in comparison. While there are well-staged and evocative re-enactments to help us visualize their narratives, so much of the film is comprised of now middle-aged men simply sitting, remembering, speaking—yet it's absolutely riveting. Each of its subjects, articulate, vivid storytellers the lot, talk us through their memories of the incident, the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes. Of the 45 people on board only 16 lived to see rescue some grueling 72 days later. Yet the fact that 16 survived, that any survived, is about as close to a true miracle as most of us will ever know of.
The plane carried the Old Christians, a rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, en route to a match in Santiago, Chile. They did not reach their ostensible destination, but the situation in which they found themselves would prove to be a defining moment in each of their lives. They shared numerous traits that one can't help but interpret in retrospect as somehow essential to their survival: youth, nationality, physical fitness, education, class, an ethic of teamwork, and varying degrees of religious conviction. To this day they all live within a short distance of one another. The durability of their faith and sense of brotherhood would come to lend heightened meaning to their team's moniker, seeing them through the most horrific and despairing depths of their 72-day trail. They had no outdoors training and were unfamiliar with the mountain conditions. One survivor describes how the crash gave him his very first contact with snow—which he immediately waded in up to his chest. They had little food, poor clothing, nothing to create heat with, and, despite there being two medical students among them, no medical supplies. They would eventually be forced to resort to cannibalism. Yet here, most of all, they took comfort in their religious beliefs, citing Christ's offering of his flesh during the Last Supper as precedent and permission for the carnal communion they came to partake in. For all their lack of supplies, they did have a functioning radio—which meant that they were able to listen to broadcasts announcing that the search for them was called off due to weather conditions. The assumption was that they were surely all dead.
Many of us already know this story, through news reports of the day, through journalist Piers Paul Read's 1974 bestseller Alive, Frank Marshall's 1993 adaptation of Read's book starring Ethan Hawke, or the recent memoir by Fernando Parrado, the survivor played by Hawke. But you haven't heard the story in a way that even approximates the power and intimacy of Arijón's documentary. There is a scene in which a man describes speaking lovingly to his wife's corpse as it lay in the snow, which eventually swallowed her up altogether. Parrado and Roberto Canessa eventually set out to find help, despite having no idea where they were or in which direction they should venture. After 12 days, from across a river, they finally encountered a Chilean huaso named Sergio Catalan, who they could only communicate with by writing a note in lipstick, attaching it to a rock, and tossing it across the water. There is a scene in which Catalan describes Parrado and Canessa as literally smelling of the grave. No animal would approach them, he says. These are things you can't invent.
Arijón's task of having to work all these incredible stories into a two-hour whole itself must have been arduous. Zeitgeist's new DVD supplying us with scenes left out of the final cut, some of which are so rich its difficult to imagine how Arijón could bear to lose them. But I think Arijón, who grew up with some of these men, was wise to focus on making the train of disparate memories as fluid as possible, emphasizing the collective experience, since what is finally perhaps most remarkable about this story is how utterly devoid of infighting conflict it is, how unlike any of the number of ruthless tales of survival we know from novels and movies. For all its appalling, infernal details, what we're left with by the end of Stranded is, strangely enough, a testament to optimism, love, interdependence and grace in some of the worst possible circumstances.


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Why Keep a Medical History?
You may have a new doctor because you moved or changed health plans. You may have a new health condition that needs a specialist's care. Any doctor you see, especially if it's a new one, needs to know about your medical history, including your family medical history.
The information you provide can help you:
- Work with your doctor to stay healthy or diagnose an illness.
- Avoid drugs that could hurt you. For example, your doctor needs to know if you have drug allergies and what medicines you're taking to help you avoid potentially bad drug interactions.
- Make it easier and faster to handle paperwork like filing an insurance claim, appealing a claims decision or disputing billing errors.
What to Track in Your Medical History
Be sure to track:
- Illnesses and injuries, including dates, symptoms and doctor visits.
- Treatments and therapies you've had and if they helped or not.
- Health tests you've taken, including results and any side effects. For example, include any information you have on X-rays, lab work and other test results, surgery reports and immunization records.
- Current weight.
- Allergies, including drug allergies.
You may also want to track:
- Blood pressure.
- Cholesterol levels.
- Any test result that was not normal in the past and that may need follow-up testing.
- Changes in habits, weight, energy level or bodily functions. You can note your current exercise and diet habits, your sleep patterns, and any new or significant stresses in your life.
And even if you don't have access to family medical records, just knowing family members have had certain diseases can help your doctor watch for risks.
You can give your doctor your history on paper, on a flash drive or even with your smartphone. Some provider networks offer tools (websites, smartphone apps) to track your medical history.
Don't Have Your Records? Just Ask for Them.
If you never kept any information before, you can still get it. Federal law says doctors have to share your files with you. Even if you don't remember a doctor's name, look up the practice and call. Then moving forward, remember to ask for copies of notes and results at each visit.
Keep Your Information Handy and Safe
When you have collected your medical records, it is a good idea to organize them and keep them in a single, secure location, just as you do your passport and other important documents.
Medical issues are sometimes unexpected, so imagine needing to grab your records in a hurry on your way out the door, or even having to ask a family member or friend to find your records for you if you go straight to a doctor or hospital.
If everything is organized and in one spot, you should be in good shape to find them and share them if you need to.
If you prefer paper, consider a trip to your office supply store for various options for folders and labels, self-contained accordion files, or binders and tabs for family files.
If you choose to maintain your records electronically, whether you choose website services or simple folders on your personal computer, be sure to put the same security and privacy protections in place that you would use for any of your most sensitive personal information, like bank records.
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German investor Woehrl submits 500 million euro takeover of Air Berlin
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German aviation investor Hans Rudolf Woehrl late on Sunday said a company controlled by his INTRO Group had submitted a 500 million euro (455.27 million pounds) offer to buy insolvent Air Berlin.
Air Berlin, Germany's second-largest airline, filed for bankruptcy protection in August, spurring interest from several buyers seeking to snap up about 140 leased aircraft and valuable take-off and landing slots in Germany.
Woehrl, who bought German airline Deutsche BA from British Airways for a nominal 1 euro in 2003, said Air Berlin's insolvency administrator had been shown a letter of credit for 50 million euros, to guarantee an initial payment for his bid.
The full offer was for 500 million euros, INTRO Verwaltungs GmbH said. "It is a bid for the whole of Air Berlin," Woehrl's INTRO-Verwaltungs GmbH said in a statement on Sunday, adding that it planned to pay a further 450 million euros in instalments.
Airlines Lufthansa, Condor, and Germania as well as travel firm TUI, and investor Niki Lauda had been informed about an opportunity to "participate" in the Woehrl bid, INTRO said in the statement.
In late August, Woehrl said he planned to bid together with partners, although Lufthansa had turned down his offer to team up as bidders.
INTRO said Airlines were now being invited to offer to charter Air Berlin's aircraft.
"If there is no participation by other airlines, INTRO and its investors are in a position to turn around Air Berlin by themselves, they have repeatedly proven their ability to do this in the past," INTRO said.


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Woman faces manslaughter charge over baby found in freezer
A South Florida woman has been charged over the death of her baby son found dead in a freezer at her home.
Paola Vargas-Ortiz, 37, has spent the past month in a mental health care centre, but Miami-Dade police took her into custody on Thursday and charged her with manslaughter, the Miami Herald said.
Authorities say Vargas-Ortiz was poised to jump from the Seven Mile Bridge in the Dlorida Keys on January 17 when she told them she had thrown her four-month-old son Hugo in first.
But after Monroe County deputies took Vargas-Ortiz into custody, she told them the child was actually dead in a freezer. Police went to the woman's home in Homestead and found the child's body.
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In the latest trailer for Hyrule Warriors, Impa is back! The Sheikah warrior and captain of the guard has traded her big sword in for something a little more reasonable.
Wait, did I say reasonable? This is a Musou game! The weapons are as OTT as the action.
Zelda Musou is out in Japan in two weeks time, and there's a Hyrule Warriors Direct coming next week. I'm still hoping for Malon, Groose and Nabooru.
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Blitz is a clipping of blitzkrieg, the German word meaning lightning war, which referred to the high-speed, offensive tactics used by the German army in the opening months of World War II. In English, blitz originally referred to a sudden, violent military attack, especially one by air, or as a verb to conduct such an attack. And the blitz refers to the German air raids on London during 1940.
Blitzkrieg makes its English debut about a month after the German invasion of Poland that started WWII, in the magazine The War Illustrated on 7 October 1939:
In the opening stage of the war all eyes were turned on Poland, where the German military machine was engaged in Blitz-Krieg—lightning war—with a view to ending as soon as possible.
The German word caught on quickly in English usage, as evidenced by this metaphorical use by newspaper columnist Walter Winchell only a week later on 14 October 1939:
The next job, six months later, consumed four weeks of rehearsals and closed the next day after the critics blitzkrieged it.
The first known use of the clipped blitz in English appears a few weeks later, this time as a verb in the 1 November 1939 issue of The Spectator, Columbia University's daily paper:
Formal committee chairmen must have known how the poor Poles felt when the German blitzkrieg suddenly started "blitzing" around their ears yesterday noon.
The word was quickly co-opted as slang for any sudden dash or movement in or out of a place. Such slang uses are recorded as early as 1940.
Following the war, blitz began to be used in a variety of senses, all related to metaphorical attacks or overwhelming some type of competition with speed and power. Perhaps the most famous of these is the word's use in American football, where a blitz is a play where defensive backs charge the opposing quarterback in an effort to disrupt a pass play. It appears in print in New York Giants' linebacker Sam Huff's 1963 book, Defensive Football:
Sometimes the blitz works. Linemen are bowled over.
So while the meaning of blitz has evolved somewhat over the years, it still remains close to its violent roots.
"blitz, n.," blitz, v.," and "Blitzkrieg, n.," Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989.
"blitz, v.2," Green's Dictionary of Slang, 2011.
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Okay, this whole Doctor Who movie nonsense is starting to make my head hurt. First the news came that Harry Potter director David Yates was in the process of developing a bigscreen Doctor Who movie which would break off from the cult hit TV series and "start from scratch." That made Who fans begin gathering torches and pitchforks. Then the official BBC Twitter feed downplayed the rumor. To quote BBC executive director Edward Russell, "Maybe one day. But not right now!" The original story said Yates was working with the L.A.-based BBC Worldwide Productions. So maybe one hand didn't know what the other was doing? Maybe it was just a case of a director talking out of school and things getting blown out of proportion?
Well, here's the problem. The BBC may not think David Yates is making a Doctor Who movie, but damned if David Yates doesn't think David Yates is making a Doctor Who movie. The director has continued to talk about the project in interviews, so he at least seems pretty convinced that he did not conjure this story out of whole cloth.
So what does current Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat have to say about this? Moffat took to Twitter last night to address the subject in a pair of posts:
Moffat reiterated his statements -- that there were no plans for a Doctor Who movie, and if there were it wouldn't be Hollywood and David Yates making it -- in an interview with The Register today:
If, and when, the movie happens it will need to star television's Doctor Who -- and there's only ever one of those at a time. And it would need to come out of the same production operation that makes the series ... Doctor Who is a vitally important BBC brand with a huge international audience and not even Hollywood can start this one from scratch. So sorry if there's been any confusion, but on the plus side it has reminded us all what an exciting prospect this could be.
Great, that's settled then. But wait...which red carpet is Moffat talking about? Comic Book Resources suggests it might have been this MTV report. But...that interview was posted yesterday, whereas the story first appeared in Variety on November 14th. So even if Yates was speaking "off the cuff" to MTV, that doesn't explain the original story that precipitated this mess, nor the interviews Yates has given since then where he continues to talk about the movie. So either one of them is wrong, one of them is lying, or various parts of the BBC are making plans without telling the other parts. Or, and this is just me throwing something out there, they're both right, but they're describing different Doctors from different points on the timeline and/or alternate realities. Maybe this new Doctor Who movie is like The Silence and you forget all about it when you aren't looking directly at it?
Stay tuned for more news on the possibly nonexistent Doctor Who movie as we learn it.


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Mathematical Understanding
• Place value (0-10,000), partitioning, ordering and rounding 4 digit numbers.
• Mental addition and subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers.
• Multiplying and dividing numbers by 10 and 100 and identifying doubles of 2-digit numbers.
• Solving one step and two step problems involving money and measures.
Data Handling
• Collecting, organising, presenting, analysing and interpreting data in tables, tally charts, pictograms and bar charts.
Shape and Space and Measures
• Drawing and classifying polygons and visualising 3D objects and 2D drawings.
• Measuring length and weight using standard units of measure, including the reading of scales.
Understanding English, communication and language
Information Texts - linked to our topic on the rainforest.
We will be creating images and looking at the use of figurative language in poetry.
This term we will be revising the high frequency words and distinguishing between the spelling and meaning of homophones.
Reviewing work from the previous year to recap and to enhance and encourage confidence and conversational skills.
New themes are pets, numbers to 40 and telling the time.
Understanding the Arts
Exploring rhythmic patterns.
Different styles e.g. lullaby, chants, jazz and rap.
Art and D.T.
Rainforest 3D decoupage pictures.
Understanding physical development, health and well being
• Invasion games, such as netball, hockey and handball.
• Dance linked to our Rainforest theme.
PE will take place on Mondays and Tuesdays. Please make sure your child has a PE kit in school at all times (PE days may change) including plimsolls for indoors and trainers for outdoor lessons. A warm jumper and tracksuit bottoms are also necessary during the colder months.
This term's theme is "New Beginnings".
Scientific and technological understanding
• Habitat
• Organisms - all living things.
• Identify different habitats and the animals and plants that live there and how they are suited to their habitats.
• Identification using keys.
• Food chains.
• Collecting, presenting and analysing data.
• Sorting and classifying, using tree diagrams.
Historical, geographical and social understanding
• Identifying and locating the world's rainforest.
• Climate and the different layers of the rainforest.
• Flora and fauna of the rainforest.
• Environmental issues.
• Indigenous tribes of the rainforest.