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Doug Hull, MathWorks
(Originally posted on Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials blog.)
The new release of MATLAB R2014b brings a new graphics engine. This allows for some new capabilities such as rotating tick labels and using dot notation in referencing graphics properties. These are a couple of small but very useful parts of this release.
Recorded: 5 Nov 2014

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Ask Glen!
Q. Belly fat hasn't always been my problem — I have worried more about my hips and thighs. Now my midsection's making up for lost time. What's up?
A.Whether it's because of heredity, hormonal changes or aging-related weight gain, many women notice an increase in belly fat as they grow older — and especially after menopause. Gaining fat in your abdomen is particularly unhealthy when compared to other locations in your body. Excess belly fat increases your risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain types of cancers. The good news is that a few lifestyle changes and some targeted abdominal exercises can help you battle your belly bulge.
When fat gathers in your abdomen
As you age and your metabolism slows down, the amount of fat in your body slowly increases. Women experience an even greater fat percentage increase than men do. Then after menopause, your body fat distribution tends to shift — less in your arms, legs and hips, and more in your abdomen.
You may think belly fat is limited to the stuff out front that you can grab with your hand — but it's the fat you can't see that's really a cause for concern. Visceral fat lies deeper inside the abdomen, surrounding the abdominal organs. Gaining this type of fat has been linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other health problems. Subcutaneous fat, located between the skin and the abdominal wall, is more visible but also less likely to be a health risk.
While a slowing metabolism and decreased physical activity contribute to overall weight gain as you age, those factors don't influence visceral fat accumulation directly. Heredity may be the culprit — you may simply have inherited a tendency to gain weight in your midsection. Hormones also play a role. Hormonal changes after menopause may change the way that your body breaks down and stores fat, leading to more fat accumulating in your belly.
Some women even experience a widening waist without gaining any weight. Although you may not be gaining extra fat, your abdominal fat is increasing as limb and hip fat decreases. Even in women of a normal weight, too much fat concentrated in the midsection is unhealthy.
The midsection matters
Gaining weight in your abdomen does more harm than simply making your waistband too tight. While putting on weight in general can have negative effects on your health, abdominal weight gain is particularly unhealthy. Too much belly fat increases your risk of:
- Heart disease
- Breast cancer
- Diabetes
- Metabolic syndrome
- Gallbladder problems
- High blood pressure
- Colorectal cancer
Researchers also have found that abdominal fat cells aren't just dormant energy waiting to be burned up. The cells are active, producing hormones and other substances that can affect your health. For example, some fat-cell-produced hormones can promote insulin resistance, a precursor to type II diabetes; others can produce estrogen after menopause, which may increase your breast cancer risk. Researchers are still sorting out how the excess hormones affect overall health, but they do know that too much visceral fat can disrupt the body's normal hormonal balance.
Measuring your middle
You know you've gained some inches around your torso, but how can you know whether it's an unhealthy amount? You can calculate your body-mass index (BMI) or waist-hip ratio, but researchers have found that simply measuring your waist can tell you whether you have an unhealthy amount of belly fat. In fact, BMI may not be an accurate measure of body fat percentage or fat distribution, particularly after menopause.
To measure your waist, run a tape measure around your midsection at about the level of your navel. Breathe normally, don't hold your tummy in, and don't pull the tape so tight that it presses your skin down. In a woman of healthy weight, a waist measurement of 35 inches or more indicates an unhealthy concentration of abdominal fat. Some research has shown that a measurement of 33 inches or more, no matter what your weight, increases your health risks.
Fight back the bulge
|Belly fat exercises
Since visceral fat is buried deep in your abdomen, it may seem like a difficult target for spot reduction. As it turns out, visceral fat responds well to a regular exercise routine and a healthy diet. Targeted tummy exercises can help to firm the abdominal muscles and flatten the belly.
Exercise. Daily, moderate-intensity exercise is the best way to lose belly fat — when you lose weight and tone your muscles, your belly fat begins shrinking, too. In fact, you may notice that your tummy bulge is the first area to shrink when you start exercising. The amount and type of exercise you should get varies depending on your current activity level and your health goals. Talk to your doctor about the right exercise program to promote good health and specifically combat abdominal fat.
Strength training. Some research has shown that exercising with weights is effective in trimming tummy fat. Talk to your doctor about how to incorporate strength training in your exercise routine.
Healthy diet. Changing unhealthy eating habits can help fight belly fat. Read nutrition labels, and replace saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats. Increase portions of complex carbohydrates like fruits and vegetables, and reduce simple carbohydrates like white bread and refined pasta. If you need to lose weight, reduce your portion sizes and daily calorie intake.
Tone your tummy. While you can't "spot-burn" belly fat, you can firm up your abdominal muscles and get a flatter belly. Traditional sit-ups aren't the most effective way to firm your tummy, however. Instead, use these exercises to target both deeper and lower abdominal muscles:
- Deeper abdominal muscles. Target deeper abdominal muscles by doing "abdominal hollowing" or "drawing in the belly button." First, get down on all fours. Let your tummy hang down as you take a deep breath. Let your breath out, and at the end of your exhalation, gently draw your belly button inward and upward toward your spine. You should feel a slight tightening around your waist — think of it as trying to squeeze through a partially closed door. Hold for 10 seconds, then rest for 10 seconds. Work up to 10 repetitions. During each effort, your spine position shouldn't change and you should breathe freely. Eventually, you'll be able to do this exercise standing up. It's so subtle, no one should be able to tell you're doing it.
Lower abdominal muscles. Tone your lower abdomen by doing pelvic tilts and pelvic lifts. To do a pelvic tilt, lie on your back on the floor with your knees bent. Flatten your back against the floor by tightening your abdominal muscles and bending your pelvis up slightly. Hold for 5 to 10 seconds. Repeat five times and work up to 10 to 20 repetitions.
For pelvic lifts, lie on your back with your knees bent up toward your chest and your arms relaxed by your sides. Tighten your lower abdomen and lift your buttocks up off the floor, with your knees aimed toward the ceiling. Hold for 5 to 10 seconds. Repeat five times and work up to 10 to 20 repetitions.
Hormone therapy. Although there are good reasons for some women to try hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause, fending off belly fat isn't one of them. It's true that some studies have demonstrated that postmenopausal women who take HRT are less likely to accumulate abdominal fat than are postmenopausal women who forgo HRT. Other studies, however, found no difference. Meanwhile, questions about the risks and benefits of HRT persist. Talk to your doctor in detail about the risks and potential benefits of hormone therapy before trying it.
Any personal health questions or problems mental or physical. Please consult your physician !
Wishing You Great Health,
Glen Edward Mitchell
Got a question? Ask Glen!


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- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Used as setup for some Rule of Funny. The Baron has decided to save Sally's village but to do that he must first find his old trusty companions. The first one encountered is Berthold who was trapped in a parrot cage by the King of the Moon over a rather long span of time and has consequently come down with a rather bad case of Trauma-Induced Amnesia.... It wears off a little later however and:Berthold: Hang on. Hang on! It's all coming back. I've-I've been stuck here for over twenty years, ever since you were last here on the moon. You abandoned me here! You swine! You toddled off with that old queen of tarts and left me to rot in that parrot cage, didn't you? And now you come back here, just because it suits you, after wasting half my life and expect me to follow you to the ends of the earth!
Baron: Yes.
Berthold: Oh, all right.
- American Gangster:
Mama Lucas: You don't shoot cops. Even I know that. Eva knows it. The only one who DOESN'T seem to know is you.Frank Lucas: [ignores her pleas as he escorts her outside] All right, Mama. I'm not going to, I promise you. I'm not going to shoot anyone.Mama Lucas: I never asked you where all this stuff came from, because I didn't want to hear you lie to me. Please...Frank Lucas: [talking over her] Ma, I understand. I don't want you to worry about it. Now come on, I have to go...Mama Lucas: Don't LIE to me! [slaps Frank roughly] Don't... don't do that. Do you want to make things so bad for your family that they'll leave you? Because they will.Frank Lucas: [dismissively] No. No, Ma, I understand...Mama Lucas: [points towards his wife] She will leave you. I will LEAVE you!
- Villain Protagonist Frank Lucas, normally Affably Evil Neighbourhood Friendly Gangster completely lose his shit when the cops raid his mansion, and one of them slaps his wife. He starts to leave, clearly with murder on his mind when his frail, elderly mother steps in front of him:
- It wasn't just the slap. The corrupt cop shot his dog for no good reason.
- American Meltdown: Tom Shea, twice. The first time he calls out Sands, telling him that his overall motivation led to rioting in the streets, and even though he didn't plan on harming any innocents, dozens of people died during the riots. Later, a member of the CAG team kills one of the engineers trying to stop the meltdown, and Shea wastes no time calling the man out, especially since Shea clearly said he was a hostage.
- Avatar: Immediately after Jake learns he's "bonded" with Neytiri for life the camera cuts to his pod, with his voiceover saying, "What the hell are you doing Jake?"
- The Avengers: This is the reaction Captain America has towards Nick Fury upon learning that SHIELD had been reverse-engineering weapons and tech from confiscated HYDRA weaponry.
- Babylon A.D.: In one scene, when the protagonists are attacked, a wrestler (motivated mostly because of an attraction to Aurora) steps in and helps them. Right after the thugs are taken out, Toorop savagely beats and murders the wrestler for no reason other than to be a dick. Aurora calls him out on it, "He was trying to protect me!" However, Toorop did it because he was trapped in a cage with a punch-drunk boxer.
- Bad Education (2004): This is Enrique's reaction in learning that Juan helped Father Manolo to murder his brother Ignacio.
- The Bad News Bears: Team manager Buttermaker gets a couple of the these. The first comes from the bulk of the team when he revealed that he told star player Kelly to catch every ball he could get to (even if it should have been someone else's play) in order to make the championship. During the championship game, he gets it from team nerd Oglevie about allowing Amanda to continue pitching with a tired arm.
- The Bank: The protagonist Jim Doyle lies in his testimony for the bank when it's being sued by two parents for contributory negligence in the death of their son. Up to that point, Stephen had worshipped Jim for his genius. In the car on the way back from court, Stephen excoriates Jim, telling him that for all his own considerable intelligence and academic achievements, he could never do a thing like that. At the end of the film, we find out that Jim has been working against the bank all along. When Jim does essentially the opposite of what he did before - activate his program that he claimed can predict the stock marker, but is actually designed to bankrupt the bank - Stephen has another brief What the Hell, Hero? moment before desperately trying to reverse the damage.
- Batman Begins:
Alfred Pennyworth: When you told me your grand plan for saving Gotham, the only thing that stopped me from calling the men in white coats was when you said that it wasn't about thrill-seeking.
- After Rachel is poisoned by Crane's toxin, Batman loads her into the Tumbler, and then quickly rushes her back to Wayne Manor where he can administer an antidote, leading the police on a very spectacular chase, in which numerous police cars are destroyed - multiple ones taken out with caltrops, a few taken out by running into barriers, and few being crushed by the Tumbler. After Bruce sedates her in the Batcave, he takes the secret elevator up to Wayne Manor, where Alfred immediately delivers him this as Bruce is changing so he can look formal for his birthday party:
Bruce Wayne: It's not.
Alfred Pennyworth: What would you call that?
[points to a breaking news report showing a helicopter shot of the Tumbler being chased down the freeway by police cars]
Bruce Wayne: Damn good television.
Alfred Pennyworth: It's a miracle no one was killed.
Bruce Wayne: Didn't have time to observe the rules of the road, Alfred.
Rachel Dawes: [slaps Bruce] Your father would be ashamed.
- Bruce got one earlier in the movie from Rachel, when he reveals that he had intended to kill his parents' murderer:
- In Blade, as our titular hero is trying to stop a vampire which recently revived from being char-broiled, a couple of cops confront him and start shooting at him. He turns to them, very annoyed and shouts "Mother fucker, are you out of your damn mind?!"
- In Black Panther (2018), during his second sojourn into the spirit world, T'Challa tells off his father, T'Chaka, for killing his brother and leaving his nephew behind in poverty in America when he could have and should have been raised in Wakanda as a member of the royal family, and to the other assembled Kings of Wakanda - his ancestors - for isolating themselves from the world when Wakandan technology could have helped Black people all over the planet.
- Captain America: Civil War:
- Tony gets a minor one when the other heroes realize just how young Spider-Man is, since Tony's the one who dragged him into a fight between the most dangerous people on the planet.Rhodey: Jesus, Tony, how old is this guy?
Tony: I don't know, I didn't carbon date him! He's on the young side!
- It's revealed just before the final fight that Steve knew (for over two years) that Hydra was responsible for the murder of Tony's parents, had every reason to think that the Winter Soldier was the triggerman, and never told him about it. This is a huge lie of omission on Steve's part and Tony views it as a devastating betrayal to their friendship, especially since he had to find out about it through a graphic video of his parents being beaten and strangled to death by Bucky, who is standing right in front of him.Tony: (looking at Bucky) You killed my mom.
- After this, having lost the fight, Tony has some parting words for Cap, chewing him out for defending the man who murdered Tony's parents and using the shield Tony's father made to do it.Tony: That shield doesn't belong to you. You don't deserve it. My father made that shield!
- Tony gets a minor one when the other heroes realize just how young Spider-Man is, since Tony's the one who dragged him into a fight between the most dangerous people on the planet.
- M's reaction to Bond shooting up an embassy in Casino Royale amounts to this trope.
- Contagion: Everybody jumps on Cheever for alerting his wife to get out of Chicago before the quarantine goes into effect, even though if she was sick, she'd have infected a lot of others.
- The Dark Knight:Joker: I wanted to see what you'd do, and you didn't disappoint. You let five people die. Then you let Dent take your place. Even to a guy like me, that's cold.
Gordon: What have you done with him (Harvey Dent)?The Joker: Me? I was right here (Shakes handcuffs). Who did you leave him with? Hmm? Your people?
- He does it to Commissioner Gordon as well, although subtly:
- In the same way, during the Joker's "social experiment", the Scary Black Man calls The Leader of the prison ferry boat on not throwing away the detonator immediately:"Give it to me, and I'll do what you should have done ten minutes ago."
- Prior to this, Batman pulls this on Harvey Dent after Dent hijacks an ambulance where one of the Joker's thugs is awaiting to be taken to the hospital after being shot in the leg, ties him up in a chair, and threatens to shoot him if he refuses to talk. Dent's coin turns out to have two heads, but he still abducted and threatened at gunpoint a mentally ill man—and no matter whether or not you intend to shoot someone with it, no gun is 100% safe unless it's not loaded (Even then, are you sure it's not loaded?). Batman calls him out on this breach of ethics, saying that Gotham deserves better from its "White Knight", and asks him what would happen if it got out.
- Later on, the Joker brainwashes Dent into becoming Two-Face.
- Batman himself receives one of these from Lucius Fox concerning the sonar technology he secretly circumvents into a mass-spying device designed to catch the Joker.
- While the hero part is debatable, Dent, as Two-Face, does this to Ramirez after she delivers Rachel to the Joker:Harvey Dent: (interrupting Ramirez in her excuse) "You didn't know what they were going to do to me." You're the second cop to say that to me. What exactly did you think they were going to do?
- Deewaar: The mother of the young bread thief Ravi shot in the leg calls him out on it. She goes on to accuse the police force of only targeting poor people who break the law.
- Dirty Harry: Got called out on the tactics that he used to bring Scorpio in, including his full-on torture of Scorpio on the football field. Granted, Harry was absolutely furious after Scorpio revealed himself as a complete sociopath (who didn't feel like revealing the location of his hostage after all), but it still qualified as What the Hell, Hero? in the eyes of Harry's superiors, who outright used the term "police torture" to describe what he put Scorpio through.
- Enemy at the Gates has Danilov delivering a brief one to Vassili for wavering dedication. (While this would seem minor in other circumstances, it merits a 'what the hell' for a sharpshooter during the siege at Stalingrad.)
- Ever After: After Prince Henry denounces Danielle in front of the entire court for lying to him about her true identity - in spite of being hopelessly in love with her - he gets an incredible What the Hell, Hero? speech from none less than Leonardo da Vinci.
- The Expert: In this B-rated movie, the main character, disappointed by the justice system, decides to break in a maximum security prison and kill a convicted felon. His partner calls him out on this when he decides to share and go through with it, but the hero immobilizes him quickly.
- The Fifth Element: We don't know exactly what Leeloo was saying to Vito Cornelius after he used a trophy to knock out Korben Dallas and steal his tickets to Fhloston Paradise, but it sounded like she was not terribly pleased with his conduct. His response (in English) would seem to confirm it, he says he's not proud of it, but He Did What He Had To Do.
- In Forty Guns, Griff refuses to help when Marshal Chisolm (supposedly an old friend) asks for aid in standing up to The Gunfighter Wannabe Brockie Drummond: instead suggesting that he leave town. Several characters call Griff out about this, but he never provides a satisfactory explanation for his decision. Even after Chisolm is shot, Griff only gets involved after his brother Wes goes to defend the townsfolk from Brockie's cronies who are shooting up the town.
- Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives: Tommy Jarvis demands to know why the sheriff didn't incinerate Jason when they recovered his remains. The sheriff gives him this reply in a very curt manner toward Elias Voorhees:Sheriff: Well, we were gonna, but some asshole paid to give him and his mother a proper burial.
- Ghostbusters (1984): Ray Stantz for accidentally summoning the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.Venkman: What did you do, Ray?
- The Godfather Part II: Though not exactly a Hero, Michael Corleone is called out by Tom Hagen when he plans to assassinate Hyman Roth - despite the fact that Roth knows his plots have failed, he's run out of places to run to, is implied to be terminally ill, and killing him is an unnecessary risk to business.
- Grace of My Heart: Record producer Joel calls out songwriter Edna when she's living in a hippy commune having turned her back on music in the wake of her husband's death, telling her that she's wasting her talent and is spending too much time grieving. She explodes with rage and gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, in which she accuses him of exploiting her talent and tells him that without her, he'd be nobody. Instead of defending himself, Joel agrees with her, which has the effect on her of an Armor-Piercing Response.
- The Great Muppet Caper: Fozzie delivers one to all the Muppets when they all try to back out of Kermit's plan to catch the thieves who framed Miss Piggy red-handed:Fozzie: Shame on you! I thought we were in this thing together. I'm just as scared as you are, but this has to be done! We don't want the bad guys to win. We gotta do this...f-f-f-for justice! For freedom! For honesty!
- The Guns of Navarone:
- Miller blasted Mallory for giving Franklin false info about the mission which he hoped he would feed to the Nazis in case they torture him.
- Of course Mallory blasts back by pointing out that someone has to take responsibility and make tough choices and Miller's outrage is really about his refusal to accept that responsibility.
- Halloween II (2009): Loomis himself realizes what an asshole he's become in this Rob Zombie film.
- Hancock: Hancock gets this treatment from the entire city of L.A. for the first half of the movie because of the massive amounts of property damage he causes while stopping dangerous criminals. He finally gets to dish this out for himself to to Ray's wife Mary, who is apparently an immortal being just like himself that weaken when they're together. She eventually reveals that she's technically Hancock's wife, and admits to abandoning him after Hancock suffers an amnesia-inducing injury so that he could heal and stay immortal. She states that she "didn't think [he'd] miss what he didn't remember". Ultimately, her abandonment had led Hancock to believe that he was completely alone and unloved, kick-starting his drunken and destructive tendencies.
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle:
- Neil Patrick Harris attempts to avert this at the end of the first movie by approaching Harold and Kumar, apologising for his role in the previous night's events, and offering to pay for their breakfast. They then launch into this trope anyway, leaving him to irritably point out that he's aware of the dick move he pulled, hence the apology-and-offer-to-buy-their-breakfast.
- Also $200 for Harold's car. He made some "love stains" in the back.
- Hellboy: Tom Manning accuses Hellboy of causing several BPRD redshirt deaths with his poor field leadership, and hits Red's Berserk Button by calling him a monster.
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Prince Nuada tells Hellboy that the nature elemental is the last of its kind; should Hellboy kill it, the world will never see its like again. (Then again, the elemental is only in danger because Nuada used it as a weapon in a crowded city. What the hell, villain?)
- A History of Violence: Tom Stahl and his son Jack call each other out on their violent acts after Jack curb stomps two bullies:Tom: In this family we don't hit people!Jack: No, in this family we shoot them!
- In Hot Tub Time Machine, after being beaten up by Blane and his friends, Lou emotionally chastises Nick and especially Adam for being piss-poor friends who are never around when he needs them. Adam argues at first, but eventually has to admit that Lou is right.
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
Elsa: You came back for the book? Why?
- Played for Laughs with Henry and Indy. When the two first reunite, they are quickly caught by Nazis. To escape, Indy snatches a machine gun from one of the soldiers and guns them all down. Henry is left shocked by his son's actions.
- Played straight near the end of the film, when Jones Sr. gets free in the Nazis' tank, then takes control of one of its cannons and blows up a pursuing Jeep full of Nazis. Brody is horrified at this, but Jones Sr. curtly replies that "this is war".
- Also, an instance of "What The Hell, Anti-Villain?" when Indy confronts Elsa in Berlin:
Indy: My father didn't want it incinerated.
Elsa: Is that what you think? I believe in the Grail, not the swastika.
Indy: And yet you stood up to be counted with the enemy of everything the Grail stands for. Who gives a DAMN what you think?!
Elsa: You do!
- Iron Man: A variation, as Tony calls Pepper out for walking out now that he wants to protect everyone he's put in danger, whereas before she had no problem with his reaping the benefits of destruction.
- Iron Man 2: Rhodey loses all his patience with Tony after Tony parties while wearing his Iron Man armor and using the suit's weaponry to amuse the guests. He decides Tony doesn't deserve the suit and hijacks the Mk.II suit to prove his point. Depending on how you look at it, there's Stern and all the people who aren't happy that Tony isn't sharing the Iron Man tech with the military.
- James Bond:
- James Bond in the reboot often catches a lot of flak from M and MI6 for using his License to Kill a little too liberally. In Casino Royale (2006), he is nearly suspended for the unnecessary killing of a terrorist in a foreign embassy (or more accurately, being caught on tape doing it). In Quantum of Solace, M nearly arrests Bond when his reckless actions results in the death of Mathis and another MI6 agent, Agent Fields. Spectre has 007 being admonished and suspended for his unauthorized mission in Mexico, which resulted in another diplomatic snafu.
- Vesper Lynd also asks Bond at one point if he was ever disturbed by the fact he'd had to kill a number of people to complete his mission. Earlier, Bond comforts her when she is greatly disturbed following the brutal killing of a warlord and his minions by Bond.
- In Dr. No, Honey all but says the trope name after witnessing Bond (again somewhat unnecessarily) knifing a guard. This moment actually stands as the only time in the original film series (and the last until the Vesper moment described above) that someone is shown being upset at witnessing Bond using his license to kill.
- In Licence to Kill, M calls out Bond for his Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Big Bad Franz Sanchez and revokes his license to kill.
- James Bond in the reboot often catches a lot of flak from M and MI6 for using his License to Kill a little too liberally. In Casino Royale (2006), he is nearly suspended for the unnecessary killing of a terrorist in a foreign embassy (or more accurately, being caught on tape doing it). In Quantum of Solace, M nearly arrests Bond when his reckless actions results in the death of Mathis and another MI6 agent, Agent Fields. Spectre has 007 being admonished and suspended for his unauthorized mission in Mexico, which resulted in another diplomatic snafu.
- Jaws: Mrs. Kintner, whose son was killed earlier in the film, proceeds to slap Martin Brody in the face and call him out for already knowing that there was a shark roaming the waters prior to the attack. Brody, who feels he should done more to try and convince the mayor to keep the beaches closed, doesn't even try to defend himself.Mrs. Kintner:: I just found out...that a girl got killed here last week...and you knew it! You knew there was a shark out there! You knew it was dangerous, but you let people go swimming anyway? You knew all those things. But still my boy is dead now. And there's nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead. I wanted you to know that.Mayor Vaughn: I'm sorry, Martin. She's wrong.Brody: No, she's not.
- Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax: Kengo gets one from the Kamen Rider Club when he willingly calls up Foundation X to give away the SOLU that had taken the form of Nadeshiko Misaki...whom Gentarou had fallen in love with.
- Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen: Daiki Kaito gives one to Tsukasa Kadoya and Captain Marvelous over their plan to stop Dai Zangyack and Dai Shocker's union attempts... by creating the group's ultimate weapon, Big Machine, and using it to try to tear everyone a new one.
- Kicking & Screaming: In this 2005 Will Ferrell movie, Phil Weston (played by Ferrell) starts employing draconian measures in the training of his Little League soccer team in order to get them into the finals, including sending his own son Sam onto the bench and preventing him from contributing (an act his own father pulled on him in his childhood). Weston's wife Barbara finally gets fed up and calls him out on his newly-acquired Jerkass behavior:Phil: (Sam) can play if he wants to...Barbara: He'd love to play for you! But every time he tries, you end up putting him on the bench. (gives Phil a look) Sound familiar?Phil: But I just wanted to get us into the finals.Barbara: Well, congratulations. You made it. (walks away in disgust)
- Happens in Maleficent when the titular character's servant, Diaval, calls her out on giving up on breaking Aurora's curse, even though he knows she cares about her.
- Mean Girls 2: When Abby finds out that Jo accepted money to be her friend, she takes it about as well as one would expect.
- Meet the Parents:
- Greg thinks Jack is still in the CIA and is planning an operation. He plays that card when the entire Burns family has turned against him, hoping to make Jack the bad guy. It turns out it was a honeymoon for Pam's sister and her husband.
- Jack gets a taste of this himself a few scenes later from Pam and his own wife over his unreasonably over-protective and over-controlling nature and refusal to cut Greg any slack whatsoever, as evidenced by the fact that, having learnt that his efforts to prove that Greg couldn't have been a doctor if he wanted to were wrong because he wasn't looking under Greg's real name, Jack immediately — and hypocritically, given how much sheer effort he went to to prove Greg wrong — comes up with another reason to not like Greg, proving that he's just determined not to give him any quarter at this point:Jack: Oh, honey, what does it matter? Look at this place! He almost ruined the wedding because he lied!
Pam: I love you, Dad, but you can be a real jerk sometimes. [storms off]
Jack: [Taken aback] So what if he took the MCATs? He's still not good enough for Pam.
Dina: [Fed up] Who is, Jack? Nobody has ever been good enough for your Pam. I mean, do you realize that you never even warmed up to Kevin until she broke up with him? Maybe it's time you think about what Pam wants.
- And then a few scenes after that, Greg gets the opportunity to put Jack in his place as well.
- In The Muppets this is Kermit's reaction when he learns Piggy has convinced the rest of the gang to kidnap a guest star for the show.
- Mystery Team: Jason is given this treatment on several occasions by his friends.
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend: When the citizens find out the real reason why G-Girl has been tormenting Matt (he broke up with her) they are much less forgiving for her antics after thinking Matt was a criminal.
- Necessary Roughness: After the hapless Armadillos managed a tie against Kansas, a group of boosters reward the team with sportsjackets as a token of appreciation and a sign of "Keep it up and this is only the start." Coach Generro stumbles onto the proceedings, then forces the team to line up and give the gifts back on the spot (Generro had bad experiences with boosters in his previous job). When the team has left, Coach Riggendorf lets Generro have it for turning what should've been a moment of awesome (it was the team's first taste of any sort of success) into a Humiliation Conga.
- Orgazmo: The whole plot involves Elder Joe Young, the protagonist and a Mormon missionary, getting involved with porn acting to make enough money to pay for a temple wedding for himself and his painfully wholesome fiancee, Lisa, as well as get them a nice place when they're married. Lisa herself unfortunately finds out about his acting in pornos when she decides to pay him a surprise visit. She is not happy about it and tells him so.
- The Other Guys: A reporter asks Highsmith and Danson if it was worth the remarkable amount of property damage to capture a few men who, after a spectacular car chase, turned out to only have committed the crime of possession of a very small amount of marijuana.
- In Pan's Labyrinth, the Faun chastizes Ofelia after she causes the deaths of two of the fairies he gave her. He tells her that she has failed the tests she needed to pass to get back to the Underworld, but gives her the third and final test during the finale.
- The Patriot: The scene when Martin and some of his old war buddies slaughter a group of surrendering redcoats. The rest of the group is scandalized, making Martin realize the brutality of their actions.
- The Purge: James Sandin doesn't hesitate to yell at his kid for letting a stranger into their house, because they don't even know who's after him. It turns out that he has a point when the psychopathic gang turns up on their doorstep....
- Revolution (1985): Daisy accuses Tom of cowardice for quitting the Continental Army when the British drove them out of New York City. Tom retorts that the entire army fled.
- In Run Wild, Run Free, Diana and her uncle Reg both yell at Philip after he tries to run after the white horse with the falcon Lady tied to his wrist, breaking her wing.
- Serenity: Zoe calls Mal out near the beginning after he kicks a colonist off the mule during the Reaver attack on Lilac. She agrees that he had good reason, but that there were alternatives and it wasn't something they would have done back when they were in the war... to which he replies, "Maybe that's why we lost."
- Spider-Man 3: Eddie Brock calls Spidey when Spidey destroys his camera.
- Starsky & Hutch: Starsky gets called out for chasing a purse-snatcher halfway across town, through rooftops, and landing on the roof of a car.
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture:
- Kirk gets a big one when McCoy calls him out—forcefully—for forgetting the fact that it's been two-some years since he commanded a starship, and that his unfamiliarity with the Enterprise's refitted systems is putting the whole ship in jeopardy. Surprisingly, Kirk actually listens. Apparently, even the greatest captain in Starfleet history isn't immune to hubris.
- Of course Kirk didn't relinquish command and instead assigned Decker, the rightful captain of the ship, to an advisory role. Decker remains rather bitter about it throughout the rest of the film.
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock:
Saavik: How many have paid the price for your impatience? How many have died? How much damage have you done, and what is yet to come?
- This is pretty much Saavik's reaction to David, when he tells her the reason for the Genesis planet's instability is his use of protomatter in the torpedo:
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country:
- Kirk blazes with Ahabesque fury, "Let them die!" when told by Spock the Klingons will be extinct in 50 years; Spock's reaction is one of such grave incredulity that it even forces Kirk to collect himself and change the subject. William Shatner was disturbed by Kirk's FaceHeel Turn, and had Meyer shoot the scene again with Kirk being more reasonable. Meyer went to the original take in the final cut.
- Spock gets this from Kirk and most of the crew when he "volunteers" them to meet for the first peace talks with the Klingons. This seems exceptionally stupid considering the Klingons had earlier accused Kirk of developing the Genesis device as a superweapon and had killed his son. The conspirators have no problem leveraging Kirk's reputation to derail the peace process.
- Kirk gets this again later from McCoy after Marta helps them escape from a Klingon prison and once free, he decks her. After hearing McCoy thought he had gone crazy, he theorized that their escape was too easy and that Marta had betrayed them.
- Star Trek: First Contact:
- Lily confronts Picard over his fight with the Borg, asking how many people had to die for him to save the ship? She invoked Moby-Dick, comparing him to Captain Ahab...though when he did finally come to his senses, she admitted she never actually read the entire book.
- There's also the scene where he gets called out after killing a Borg revealed to have been a crewmember.
- Star Trek (2009): McCoy calls out Spock for tossing Kirk off the Enterprise and onto a frozen wasteland of a planet.
- Star Trek Into Darkness: Kirk gets called out by Pike for falsifying his report regarding his mission to Nibiru in the opening.
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture:
- Maverick from Top Gun spends most of the movie flying unpredictably and/or recklessly, putting himself, his wingmen, and his aircraft at risk. Consequently, he ends up on the receiving end of these from his commanders, his peers, his girlfriend, and even Goose.
Stinger: Maverick, you just did an incredibly brave thing. WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE WAS LAND YOUR PLANE. You dont own that plane, the taxpayers do! Son, your ego is writing checks your body cant cash. Youve been busted and lost your qualifications as section leader THREE TIMES, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high-speed passes over five air-control towers, and one admirals daughter! Now dont kid yourself, your family name aint the best in the Navy. You need to be doing it better and cleaner than the other guy.
- First, Stinger gives him an earful after he risks his aircraft to rescue Cougar and Merlin.
Viper: You took [the shot] AND BROKE A MAJOR RULE OF ENGAGEMENT. Then you broke another one with that circus stunt fly-by. Gentlemen, TOPGUN safety rules exist for your safety and that of your team. They are not flexible, nor am I. Either obey them or you are history. Is that clear?
- Iceman tells Mav off in the locker room for his cowboy tendencies in the air on two separate occasions.Iceman: You guys really are cowboys. Youre everyones problem. Every time you fly, youre unsafe. I dont like you because youre dangerous.
Iceman: Maverick, its not your flying, its your attitude. The enemys dangerous, but right now youre worse than the enemy youre dangerous and foolish. You may not like the guys flying with you, and they may not like you. But whose side are you on?
- Later, after Maverick leaves him to chase after Viper, resulting in both of them being shot down in the exercise
- Viper after Mav breaks the hard deck in the first TOPGUN exercise (and then buzzes the tower on the way back in).
Goose: When I realized we were off to TOPGUN, all I could think about was that trophy. Ive got to be straight with you, Mav right now, I just hope we graduate. Ive got a family to think about, I cant afford to blow this. I know the Academy rejected you because youre Duke Mitchells kid and you have to live with that reputation. But its like youre flying against a ghost. It makes me nervous.
- Goose expresses his concerns in their quarters after their trip to Vipers office.
Sundown: What do you mean, It doesnt look good? It doesnt GET to look any better than that!
- Sundown gets on Mavericks case when he refuses to take an easy shot at Jester after Gooses death.
[After landing] Sundown: Hey, we could have had him we could have HAD him, Mav!
Maverick: [grabs Sundown] I will fire when I'm goddamn good and ready! You got that?!
Charlie: So Im too late. Youve already left. You didnt learn a damn thing, did you except to quit. Well, youve got that maneuver down real good. So long, Pete Mitchell.
- Charlie confronts him in the airport lounge after he apparently quits TOPGUN.
Merlin: Cmon, Mav, get back to the fight! Ice is in trouble, what the hell are you doing??? He wont last down there alone!
- While Mav is having his Talk to me, Goose moment during the climactic dogfight, Merlin is yelling at him in the background.
- David gets a couple of these near the end of We're the Millers when he begins to slide into Jerkass territory.
- Watchmen has Rorschach calling out Doctor Manhattan:Rorschach: Now you rediscover humanity. How convenient. If you had cared from the start, none of this would have happened.
- The World's End: Delivered to Gary a few times, mostly by Andy.
- X-Men Film Series:
- X-Men: The Last Stand: Logan calls Xavier out for putting mental blocks in Jean's head, and possibly altering her (and his) memories. But the Professor had good reason to, which becomes quickly evident.
- X-Men: Days of Future Past:
Erik: Angel, Azazel, Emma, Banshee. Mutant brothers and sisters, all dead! Countless others, experimented on! Butchered! Where were you, Charles?! We were supposed to protect them! Where were you when your own people needed you?! Hiding! You and Hank! Pretending to be something you're not! You abandoned us all!
- Young Magneto goes into an outburst about how fellow mutants were being killed left and right while Young Charles has been in hiding with Hank.
- Before that, Logan calls Charles a little shit for his cavalier attitude about the future.
- Yamato:
- Uchida gets mad when his superior nearly breaks his leg while doling out corporal punishment.
- One of Yamato's officers voices his displeasure that the head of the IJN is cowering in a bunker in far-off Kyushu rather than joining them on the mission to Okinawa.
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Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as
Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention or Wetlands
Convention) was adopted in Ramsar, Iran in February 1971
and came into force in December 1975. The Convention covers all
aspects of wetland conservation and wise use. The Convention has
three main 'pillars' of activity: the designation of wetlands of
international importance as Ramsar sites; the promotion of
wise-use of all wetlands in the territory of each country; and
international co-operation with other countries to further the
wise-use of wetlands and their resources. The Convention's
Contracting Parties have assumed a wide range of related
obligations. Current details of
Contracting Parties to the Convention, and the number and
extent of Ramsar sites designated globally, are available on the
Ramsar website.
The UK ratified the Convention in 1976. The UK
has generally chosen to underpin the designation of its Ramsar
sites through prior notification of these areas as Sites of Special
Scientific Interest (SSSIs) (or Areas of Special Scientific
Interest (ASSIs) in Northern Ireland). Accordingly, these receive
statutory protection under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981(as amended),
the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act
2004 (as amended) and the Nature
Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order
1985 (as amended). Government have issued policy
statements relating to the special status of Ramsar sites. This
extends the same protection at a policy level to listed Ramsar
sites in respect of new development as that afforded to sites which
have been designated under the EC Birds and Habitats Directives as
part of the EU Natura 2000 network. Summary details of designated
Ramsar sites in the UK are available here.
A National Ramsar Committee acts in an
advisory capacity to assist government in the implementation of the
Convention. The Committee a rolling three-year work plan linked to
Convention's Strategic Plan. A range of other activities also
support the Convention's implementation. These include the UK
Biodiversity Action Plan, involving action on a wide range of
wetland habitats and species, and UK implementation of the EC Water
Framework Directive (2000/60/EEC) which requires all inland and
coastal waters to reach 'good status' by 2015; the EC Directive on
the conservation of wild birds (79/409/EEC); the EC Habitats and
Species Directive (92/43/EEC) and the African-Eurasian Waterbirds
Agreement under the Bonn Convention.
The UK's ratification also extends to its
Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. Details of Ramsar
sites in UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies are
available here. Throughout the UK's Overseas Territories
and Crown Dependencies, Ramsar provides the only international
mechanism for protecting sites of global importance and is thus of
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On Bharat Bandh day, LIC cheer for customers: A Diamond Jubilee bonus
Mumbai, Sep 2: Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) today announced a special one-time bonus ranging from Rs 5 to Rs 60 per thousand rupees of sum assured to policyholders as part of its Diamond Jubilee celebrations this year.
The move will benefit over 29 crore individual policyholders of the national insurer as well as over 12 lakh group policyholders.
This converts into Rs 500 for a policyholder with an assured sum of Rs 1,00,000, or Rs 6,000, depending on the duration of the policy, meaning older the policy or closer to the maturity date, maximum the bonus.
"We are happy to announce a special one-time bonus to our policyholders as we begin the Diamond Jubilee of our foundation," outgoing LIC Chairman S K Roy said here at a function presided over by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The bonus will be eligible for policies in force as of March 31, 2016, and existing on or after September 1, 2016.
Even policies which have lapsed as of March 31, 2016 will be eligible provided they are subsequently revived, he said.
The Corporation has set a cut-off date of March 31, 1986 for the maximum benefit of Rs 6,000 per Rs 1 lakh of assured sum and March 31, 2015 for minimum amount of Rs 500 per Rs 1 lakh of assured sum.
The bonus amount will increase by Rs 500 each for every older policy with a five-year gap. For example, a policy that started in April 2011 will get Rs 1,000 for every Rs 1 lakh of assured sum between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2016, which will keep increasing by Rs 500 each every five year.
The state-run insurance behemoth also said even policies which have lapsed will get the bonus provided they are revived in the year.
As per the LIC Act, the Corporation has to share as much as 95 per cent of its profit, which in LIC's parlance is called 'surplus' with the policyholders. The rest goes to the government as its owner. Accordingly, in 2014-15, LIC paid Rs 34,283 crore as regular annual bonus to the policyholders.
Meanwhile, today LIC handed over a cheque of Rs 2,502 crore to the government as part of its surpluses for the past fiscal year. In 2014-15, it had paid Rs 1,803 crore.
The function was also attended by junior Union Finance Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, Financial Services Secretary Anjuly Chibb Duggal, LIC Managing Directors VK Sharma and Usha Sangwan and other board members of the Corporation.


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Supreme Court Voids $3.4 Million Restitution Award To Child Pornography Victim
The Court gets the result right, but their reasoning will make things much more difficult for courts, defendants, and victims.
There were two more decisions handed down by the Supreme Court today, and while neither of them were quite as compelling as either the Michigan Affirmative Action case or the 4th Amendment decision I wrote about this morning, one of them touches on an issue we've discussed here before. In that case, Paroline v. United States, the Court voided a $3.4 million restitution order granted to a woman who had been depicted in child pornography from a person who had been convicted of possessing some of the images but otherwise had no connection to the woman's abuse:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside a $3.4 million award to a victim of child pornography who had sought restitution from a man convicted of viewing images of her. That figure was too much, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for a five-justice majority, returning the case to the lower courts to apply a new and vague legal standard to find a lower amount that was neither nominal nor too severe.
The victim in the case said the majority's approach was confusing and meant that she might never be compensated for her losses.
The two dissents to the majority opinion would have taken more categorical approaches. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, said that restitution was a worthy goal, but that the federal law at issue did not allow awards when many people had viewed the images.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the opposite view, saying that each viewer could be held liable for the full amount of the victims' losses.
The case arose from the prosecution of Doyle R. Paroline, who was convicted in 2009 of possessing 280 images of child pornography. Two of them were of a woman known in court papers as Amy.
Images of Amy being sexually assaulted by her uncle as a child have been widely circulated and have figured in thousands of criminal cases. Amy has often sought restitution for her losses under a 1994 federal law. Every viewing of child pornography, Congress found, "represents a renewed violation of the privacy of the victims and repetition of their abuse."
Amy's lawyers say her losses — for lost income, therapy and legal fees — amount to $3.4 million. She has been granted restitution in about 180 cases and has recovered about 40 percent of what she seeks.
The 1994 law allows victims of child pornography to seek the "full amount" of their losses from people convicted of producing, distributing or possessing it, and Amy asked the United States District Court in Tyler, Tex., to order Mr. Paroline to pay her the full $3.4 million.
Mr. Paroline said he owed Amy nothing, arguing that her problems did not stem from learning that he had looked at images of her. Amy's uncle, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his crimes, bore the brunt of the blame, Mr. Paroline said, but was ordered to pay Amy just $6,325.
Mr. Paroline was sentenced to two years in prison, but the trial judge said Amy was not entitled to restitution, saying the link between Amy's losses and what Mr. Paroline did was too remote.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, disagreed and awarded Amy the $3.4 million she sought. Mr. Paroline should pay what he could and seek contributions from his fellow wrongdoers if he thought it was too much, the court said, relying on the legal doctrine of "joint and several" liability.
The Supreme Court adopted neither of the lower courts' approaches. Acknowledging that he was employing "a kind of legal fiction," Justice Kennedy said the only sensible method of apportionment was for courts to require "reasonable and circumscribed" restitution "in an amount that comports with the defendant's relative role."
"This cannot be a precise mathematical inquiry and involves the use of discretion and sound judgment," Justice Kennedy wrote. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Elena Kagan joined the majority opinion.
Lyle Denniston has also summarized the opinion:
The decision clearly will spare a Tyler, Texas, man, Doyle Randall Paroline, from paying all of the nearly $3.4 million that lawyers for a young woman identified only as "Amy" had demanded from him. Paroline had two images of her being photographed as her uncle sexually abused her when she was eight years old. Now a young woman, she had testified that "My life and my feelings are worse now because the crime has never really stopped and will never really stop."
The Court ruled that a federal district court judge must calculate how much to assess against Paroline personally. There is no doubt, Justice Kennedy wrote, that Paroline "was part of the overall phenomenon" of distributing and keeping images of the abuse of Amy. He should have to pay his share and, Kennedy said, it must be enough to send the message that his part in the crime was not victimless.
Lawyers for "Amy" had insisted that Paroline, like everyone who has her images and looks at them, contributes to her continuing injury, so each of them should be required to pay the full amount for her losses, in whatever multiples of individuals are found and prosecuted for having the pictures.
The pictures of "Amy" being abused are among the most widely circulated child pornography images in this country and, apparently, around the world. The number of individuals possessing them — according to the Court — reaches into the thousands.
Only one Justice — Sonia Sotomayor — agreed with the demand for full restitution, but Sotomayor did so in dissent. Three other Justices, also in dissent, said that calculating each possessor's share of the overall harm to "Amy" would necessarily be "arbitrary," so there should be no restitution to her because Congress had "provided no mechanism" for calculating shares of the cause of her injury.
Justice Kennedy's opinion took a position in the middle. It was joined by Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., wrote the dissent arguing that there was no valid formula for restitution in the child pornography law. That dissenting opinion was joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
Justice Sotomayor's dissent spoke only for herself, arguing that Congress had specified that restitution for the "full amount" of losses was mandatory, as part of the punishment for each one convicted of possessing child pornography involving the victim.
While the Kennedy opinion said that each defendant convicted of having images of "Amy" should be assessed for the degree to which his individual crime was the "proximate cause" of her injury, the Justice stressed that no mathematical formula could be devised for it.
While I haven't had an opportunity to review the opinion in depth, it appears to me that the majority opinion has only made the job of future courts more difficult. How, exactly, is a judge or jury supposed to determine the relative degree of financial responsibility that a person possessing, say, a single image of child pornography has in the overall abuse that the child depicted therein has suffered? Given that we live in an age when such material can be easily, and surreptitiously traded online there would arguably be an incalculable numbers of copies of that file, so does that mean we have to divide the total amount of damages claimed by the victim by the number copies out there, assuming we can even determine what that number might be? And how do we factor the financial responsibility of the people who actually produced the child pornography into all of this? Shouldn't they be held more responsible than the consumers of the product they produced since they are the ones who actually abused the child in question?
Given all of these uncertainties, it seems to me that the Roberts, Scalia, Thomas dissent is correct. The fact that we cannot come up with an objective determination of how restitution is to be apportioned means that no restitution should be awarded, at least not when it comes to the people who are merely viewing the images rather than producing or actually participating in them. Indeed, it's easy to see how the majority's approach here is going to cause nothing but problems for future courts, criminal defendants, and child pornography victims.
On some level, I agree with James Joyner's assessment of this case in January when he suggested that the primary party that should be looked for when it comes to finanicial responsibility in this situation is the person who produced the child pornography. Indeed, it would arguably be a violation of due process to impose all of the financial burden for restitution on a person who only viewed images while the producer of the images is not held liable at all. However, there are arguably good policy reasons for imposing at least some level of responsibility for compensating victims on the people who view the images, especially given the fact that it is these viewers who end up paying the people who produce and traffic in the child pornography. If you are going to hold the viewers responsible though, due process would seem to require that there be an objective way to calculate the amount of restitution to be paid. The Court's decision does the exact opposite and, as a result, virtually guarantees that this issue will be back before it in the future. Maybe in that future case, they'll get it right.
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With the winter solstice having taken place over the weekend, the days are gradually lengthening again. Although the vines at Creation are still enjoying the seasonal rest of their dormancy, the vineyards are abuzz with activity as pruning commences according to the strict maintenance schedule.
The simple task of removing parts of a plant to shape and control its architecture has far-reaching implications as one would imagine. The most obvious result is that by pruning there is greater control over fruit producing parts of vines, but it is also a significant tool for balancing vegetative growth with fruiting – a healthy canopy is essential for the development of the fruit and the pruning of young vineyards has a direct influence on the root mass that develops. Vineyards are also pruned to suit the training system that is deemed optimal for a specific cultivar on a specific site – the most economical way to establish and maintain a vineyard that is efficient and sustainable, optimising the use of available sunlight and promoting productivity.
Another important aspect of pruning, particularly at Creation, is the virus-free status of the grafting material that we supply to Vititec, to establish new vineyard sites across the country. Leaf roll virus in particular is spread through infected material, and is a huge problem in South Africa. The virus is more noticeable in red cultivars, and is characterised by green veined, bright red leaves that curl up at the edges while the fruit is still ripening. The affected canopy produces fruit which is noticeably less ripe, and while the virus can be managed, often vineyards will have to be replanted.
The advantages of having virus-free plants at Creation are visible not only in the healthy vineyards where there is minimal intervention, but also in the quality of the perfectly ripe fruit that produce wines of rare elegance, balance, distinction and finesse.
In celebrating Merlot Month, Creation's talented chef Warwick Taylor suggests the ideal foil: GRILLED FILLET OF
BEEF, SHIITAKE GNOCCHI, CARAMELISED ROOT VEGETABLES AND PORCINI CREAM. An enthusiastic Warwick
explains: "With the 2012 Creation Merlot's soft, fleshy and juicy characteristics, it is the perfect wine to pair with a variety of mushrooms. For this recipe I have chosen the rich meaty-flavoured porcini and shiitake mushrooms. The
wine's good acid levels make for a great balance to the rich porcini sauce and because of the wine's inherent
sweetness it beautifully complements the caramelised root veggies. Last but not least the grilled beef with a bit
of cracked fresh pepper is fantastic with the spicy bouquet of the wine."


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Wikileaks Cables Show US Pressured Saudi Arabia to Back Copenhagen Accord, and More
photo: Al Jazeera English/Creative Commons
So far the classified US cables released by Wikileaks have mostly dealt with issues of only tangental environmental concern, but now the New York Times (which, along with The Guardian is the only news outlet to already have the entire batch of 200,000+ documents) reports that, in the weeks after COP15 last year, the US exerted considerable pressure on Saudi Arabia to back the Copenhagen Accord. Attempt to Head Off Climate Change Clash With Saudis
NYT says the US "put climate change at the center of it foreign policy relationship with the oil-producing giant."
"You have the opportunity to head off a serious clash over climate change," James Smith, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she prepared for a February visit to the kingdom.
"Saudi officials are very concerned that a climate change treaty would significantly reduce their income just as they face significant costs to diversify their economy," Smith wrote. "The King is particularly sensitive to avoid Saudi Arabia being singled out as the bad actor, particularly on environmental issues."
And in a memo summarizing the trip of Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman to Saudi Arabia in January, Smith wrote that Feltman urged the country to send a formal notice to the United Nations indicating its acceptance of the climate pact.
All of which is historically interesting, but nothing revelatory. It was public knowledge at the time that Saudi Arabia was very much concerned (and no doubt still is) about efforts to get off fossil fuels reducing their national income. And we also know that the US exerted pressure on other nations as well, with US envoy Todd Stern saying in effect that nations which opposed the Accord would be cut off from any climate mitigation and adaptation aid.
Climate Was Front-Burner Issue for Obama Administration
Other interesting (if not revelatory, then or now) info coming to light:
- According to NYT analysis "the handful of time that climate change is raised, it appears to be a front-burner Obama administration issue."
- France was divided on how to respond to the climate bill then being worked on in Congress, which offered emission reductions viewed as being "pitifully low".
- Germany wanted strong US leadership going into COP15, but nearly a month ahead of time was already had "lowered their expectations for the possibility of reaching a legally-binding agreement...they have begun to describe the summit as one step in a larger process--a politically binding framework--and may be preparing the German public for a less ambitious outcome.
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More on the Copenhagen Accord:
Copenhagen Accord Commitments Mean 4.2°C Temperature Rise & No More Coral Reefs by 2100
India Backs Copenhagen Accord - Last Major Emitter To Do So
What's Missing From the Copenhagen Accord?
RAN Names the Copenhagen Accord Its Greenwash of the Week (Video)


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Rovio, the developer behind the smash hit Angry Birds games, has announced its acquisition of Futuremark's Games Studio. It's an unusual tie-up: a developer that has made millions selling 2D mobile games purchasing a studio best known for its 3D tools and games. But digging a little deeper it starts to make more sense.
Futuremark is focused on state of the art 3D graphics. As well as producing the 3DMark, PCMark, and Powermark benchmark tools, the company has an established and experienced game development studio as part of its 60-strong team. Its most recent game releases include 3D titles Unstoppable Gorg and Shattered Horizon, but also 2D title Hungribles, which appeared on all Apple mobile platforms.
While Futuremark will remain a separate company, it will now focus on the 3DMark benchmarking tool. Rovio gets an established team of developers who have many years experience working on 3D games. The perfect team to help Rovio make the jump to 3D titles, perhaps?
It's unlikely we'll see an Angry Birds 3D title appearing due to this tie-up, but we should definitely see the games output from Rovio increase. With the iPad becoming ever more powerful with each iteration, and Rovio supporting an increasing number of platforms, it makes a lot of sense to embrace 3D as well as bolster their team with experience. Futuremark Games Studio has shown it's no slouch in the 2D department with the release of Hungribles, so it's possible the focus will remain on 2D games.
From Futuremark's point of view, it is losing part of its team so it will be leaner, while in return getting an injection of cash. With a new focus on benchmarking it should allow for 3DMark to remain one of the most popular tools available as well as improving significantly for the next major release later this year.
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In SI (International system of units) the derived energy and work unit is joule (J). In US and imperial system, the common energy and work units are pound force foot, British thermal unit (Btu) and horsepower hour.
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What is Energy ? Energy is a measure of how long we can sustain the output of power, or how much work we can do. There are two kinds of energy: potential and kinetic.
Potential energy is the energy waiting to be converted into power. Gasoline in a fuel tank as an example.
Kinetic energy is the energy a body possesses because it is in motion. The more the object weighs, and
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By Bob Schaller//Contributor | Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Chris Plumb has coached his Carmel Swim Club to incredible heights. But that's only half the story, as he has taken the Carmel High School team to the top. It's a win-win situation for the student-athletes and club swimmers who get the best of both worlds. Speaking of worlds, Plumb also helped the U.S. Junior Team to an incredible performance at the FINA World Junior Championships last summer in Indianapolis as an assistant coach on a staff that seemed perfectly matched to the incredible challenge. He talks about that, and what he's learned along the way, in this week's 20 Question Tuesday.
1. Do you ever look back on the accomplishments or are you always looking forward?
Chris: I do a lot of both. I certainly had the opportunity to reflect on where we started -- that was with zero national qualifiers, to today where we earned third in club excellence, and that made us feel really good because a lot of people did a lot of hard work.
2. So it's an inspiration, but also motivation?
Chris: I will tell you in the same breath, we're still thinking, "How do we get better? How do we improve? While we look at far we've come, how far can we take it?"
3. You have National teamers and junior teamers, but also a lot of great swimmers on college scholarship -- the numbers are getting to be mind-blowing, aren't they?
Chris: Certainly we have our top notch swimmers but we also have a lot of good athletes who have not gone on national team trips but are quality Division I swimmers whose time is still coming. And our elite swimmers are pulling up the younger ones to their level. We always instill in them part of their jobs in being one of the best is taking what they learn from those trips and sharing it with their teammates.
4. You went to college at Indiana but not with the goal of being a coach, correct?
Chris: I majored in Biology and my goal was to be a doctor like my father. So I was planning to go to medical school. But I ended up helping out at the university, coaching. I think, always in the back of my mind, coaching was there. Somehow, I fell in love with it, and decided to see where I could take it. And it's led me to where I am today.
5. Were you one of those who sort of coached when you were still a swimmer?
Chris: When I did swim, I helped those around me. I really enjoyed helping people on their turns or techniques. But the fact that I've turned it into career, and to be a CEO, is not something I ever dreamed of, really.
6. The dual roles with the club and high school, how rewarding has that been?
Chris: I'm still the coach of Carmel High School and it is such a great relationship with the high school and the club. Our girls are going for their 32nd state championship -- the record they broke had been set by Barack Obama's school in Hawaii. So it was quite a feet for our team, and something special to be a part of. They had a parade for our team when they broke the record.
7. How does it work having the two teams under one program?
Chris: It works really well. We're both Carmel, so basically the same team but with a different uniform. The only thing that changes for us is we wear blue and gold instead of the red, white and blue of our club. We have tremendous support from our athletic department. Now our AD follows all the swim websites on Twitter, so it's really part of the community. Our kids walk about the community and Carmel knows who they are -- they have a deep respect for what our young people are working toward and accomplishing.
8. How cool is it to see your swimmers reach their goals?
Chris: Our goal is always to help our athletes become great people, not just great swimmers. We have a holistic approach. So great swimmers are great students as well. From that work in the pool, they know what hard work is, and that transfers to school. So these student-athletes who go to swim in college, it's not just about about the scholarship -- which is nice -- but it gives them some opportunities to reach for goals they might not have had without swimming. The clubs send a lot of swimmers to Ivy League schools, which is always fun to see.
9. It's amazing to see the Ivy League swimmers coming from the club programs, isn't it?
Chris: It is, and some of those are recruited for swimming and they get in, in part, because of their swimming accomplishments, though of course their academics are at a high level. But you see them at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, and you know that in some cases swimming helped them get into an Ivy league school where they are set to pursue their dreams the rest of their lives. So you know you are impacting lives when you read those stories.
10. I still can't wrap my mind around 32 years of state titles in a row, how is that even possible?
Chris: A lot of great people and a lot of hard work. One of the neat things is when our girls broke the record, which had been 31, the school invited the alumni back. We had an excellent brunch and had a speaker from the 80s, the 90s, and the 2000s, and they talked about where they have been and what they are doing now. One who is a college athletic director talked about her time swimming and how it taught her so much and impacts her job to this day. Swimming teaches you to take on challenges and not be afraid. So those messages were very inspiring, and all the alums talked with our current team about how they'd always be connected for the rest of their lives. It was pretty special.
11. The other coaches I talked to from the World Junior Champs staff were so impressed with you, I imagine that was a great time for you?
Chris: The coaches there were amazing. I am honored that they included me in their comments. It takes me back to our first select camp at Indiana University. That's where I hired Ian Murray -- I met him at that camp for the first time. So those camps and National Team events and training sessions serve to build lifelong friendships as well as a great opportunity for us as coaches to share what we have learned and what we are thinking. There's a tremendous value in that connectedness in the coaching community.
12. Was it like that right after U.S. Junior Team Director Mitch Dalton brought you all together as a staff or did it take some time?
Chris: I think we knew right when we went to camp together. There was so much we all wanted to do together to help the team. And it wasn't just the coaches who were so special but the group of athletes who were there. We all had the ability to learn from each other. I love any opportunity to learn in an environment like that. And to get to represent the USA is just incredible.
13. What was your first trip and team?
Chris: I think my first one was Junior Pan Pacs. I remember (Carmel swimmer) Amy Bilquist (now at Cal) and Claire Adams (now at Texas) had made the team. I was so elated for them, and they got the USA Swimming gear with the flag on everything. When we got to the meet, and they played the National Anthem the first night, I thought, "Man, this is the greatest thing in the world." It was just so surreal, how hard everyone had worked to get there, all the great values that had shaped them, and all the ideas that had come together. I get goosebumps thinking about hearing the National Anthem on that trip every time I think about it. I came back and thought, "Now, how do I do more? How do I continue to improve? You take that first step, and it makes you hungry for more.
14. How do you ask your swimmers to ask of themselves to do what it takes to reach the potential you see in them?
Chris: We could spend hours on this topic. It's so hard to really and truly understand. If you can teach them one thing, it is that your swimming career as a competitor is finite. There are only a certain number of swims, and times that you will have this opportunity, so you want to make the most of it. And that's hard because as a swimmer, certainly you don't think that way -- you just think it will go on forever, or as long as you want. I was that way too, I didn't appreciate what I had in my career as a swimmer until it was over. So as a coach, I know there are opportunities where I can do more to help swimmers reach their potential -- their dreams and goals. Your competitive years are short in terms of your lifespan, so you want to give it all you can -- put everything you have into it and see where it takes you.
15. How fun is it coaching with Ray Looze nearby at Indiana University and the great things he is doing there, and as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic team as well?
Chris: Absolutely, it is inspiring and I have the deepest respect for Ray and what he's done with the program. He's always willing to share ideas. The pulley system we used is (from Indiana). He's done a great job returning that program to the high level it belongs at, and the whole country has been able to see and respect what he's done along the way. My friends from college, who I swam with, get together every year, and we are always amazed at how good Indiana is and how fast they are now.
16. You have taken several swimmers to the highest level on U.S. teams, what is a key that maybe not everyone thinks of that goes into that?
Chris: The first one might be a little obvious, that it takes everyone -- everyone in the village of Carmel Swim Club, the parents, the people who administer the program, and all the teammates working with a great attitude. You get this really good athlete at age 12 or 13, and think, "OK, what is my plan and vision?" In the case of Claire Adams, I was able to learn from Todd Schmitz -- so I knew there was a model there with what he had done with Missy Franklin as a backstroker. You do a lot of smart work with dryland, and see what works best. It's a constant process and you always want to do what's best for the athlete also a person and keep that balance..
17. Drew Kibler is such a pleasure to talk to -- the National Junior teamer is headed to Texas this fall -- how has he impacted you?
Chris: Drew, he always keeps it fun and unique. He's got so many talents and abilities. It's just so fun how he's into a lot of different things. That's what I can say about our best athletes -- that they have always made me better. So I need to stay ahead of that so they don't outgrow me as a resource, so I have to work just as hard for my swimmers as they do for us as coaches. Drew counts his strokes every single lap, so he had really good questions and perspective. That challenges you as a coach when you have a swimmer who loves a challenge. It's a wonderful back and forth with your top swimmers as they start to figure things out and have more input into their program.
18. Back to World Juniors for a second, it seemed unique how the coaching staff worked together and the overlap of boys and girls as one team training events together -- how did that work so well?
Chris: I loved being on the coaching staff. I thought what really worked well was that they were all great coaches in their own right, but everyone brought something different to the group, and we were all right realizing someone was better than us at something and excited to learn how they could make us better. You'd see something in a different group that you knew something about and you could jump in, or if you saw something you wanted to learn more about you could, again, go over and be part of it and soak it all in and ask questions. We loved helping athletes in different groups, and going around and picking each coach's brain. I think what made it special was everyone's willingness to share and get along. The walks to the pool and hanging out together were some of the best moments. I wanted to know what made their program better and they wanted to know about my program, so there was a lot of learning from each other. No one put themselves first so we were able to lead as a group. There were just so many great ideas and great people. Give credit to Mitch Dalton for leading the way he does -- an amazing job. His growth over the two years is incredible and it's not like he started out bad or anything. He just knows how to handle things and with people. (Former Junior Team Director) Jack Roach was incredible and I know he mentored Mitch especially at first, but I think Jack's probably the most happy of all to see how Mitch has taken this role and done such great work shaping it into something even more amazing.
19. Who is upcoming in the world in terms of countries?
Chris: I think you have to look at Team Canada because their girls are swimming really fast right now and their relays are so strong. I also think Russia and Hungary are two teams to watch. The relays are just so tight at the top now, everything is so close. We shared a hotel with the Germans, and everyone on the team, boys and girls, were 6-feet tall, just really impressive -- and they could not have been nicer people. All the countries there were so impressive to meet. But competitively, we as a country need to keep getting better if we are going to remain a powerful team.
20. How have you grown from this past year or 18 months or so?
Chris: I always try to pause and reflect. The deeper I get into this, the more I realize that I have to be in the right state of mind every time I get onto the pool deck. Every relationship, every interaction, I have to be in the best place I can be mentally and physically. That's what I've challenged myself with. Because your relationship with your athletes is so important that you need to always be your best. You can't, as a coach, carry an emotion from a phone call or an event with you out to that deck and let it creep into the works. So I've tried to be more of a leader in our program and challenge everyone when I need to, but let go when I need to. You have to get your mind in the right place so you can be the coach they need and deserve every single time.


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Imagery can reveal information about climactic conditions and vegetation type, which can aid in predicting animal movements. Dense colonies like emperor penguins in the Antarctic, can also be tracked and mapped with satellites.
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We're not just talking about GPS tracking, 'Smart' collars collect almost the same amount of data that our wearable fitness bracelets do.
This technology allows wildlife managers to remotely monitor an animal's movement patterns, when they're sleeping or how they're hunting. These collars can tell you practically anything about an animal's activities.
Researchers anticipate that by visualising and knowing exactly what a species does in a day, they can further understand them, potentially predict behaviour and in turn reduce human conflict.
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Now that we've got smart collars and smart maps, what would happen if we were to integrate this collected data into our smart phones?
Mobile technologies have been introduced to make viewing, collecting and sharing data when out in the field to be seamless, efficient and integrated.
Mobile mapping and GIS app, Mappt, is an example of a downloadable phone app that allows users to view satellite imagery or animal movement patterns or GPS tracking, layer by layer.
Mappt allows users to collect new data and add to the mapping visualisation tool. Users can add geotagged photos and create geofences to prevent people out in the field from entering exclusion zones.
This app can be assimilated into any GIS software, importing and exporting any kind of data to your desktop computer. Mappt has been used to map and track cheetah populations in Iran.
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Digital location based technology is changing wildlife conservation in more and more profound ways.
Geographical information and the ability to view data anywhere and anytime is a valuable tool for conservationists and wildlife ecologists saving the animals, one location at a time.


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