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Hollywood studios, salivating over China's booming movie market, are falling over themselves to sew up deals on the mainland. But just days before its global launch of "Transformers: Age of Extinction," Paramount Pictures got a crash course in just how fraught such tie-ups can be.
The studio had been hit with a sudden punch: Pangu Plaza, a Beijing luxury hotel, mall and office complex, was livid over what it claimed was a product-placement deal gone sour. Pangu said last week that it was cutting off cooperation with the film, launching a lawsuit and asking Chinese regulators to postpone the movie's release.
Any delay of Friday's opening could potentially have cost Paramount millions — the first three installments of the "Transformers" franchise have done increasingly massive box office on the mainland: 2007's original grossed $45 million, the 2009 sequel took in $72 million, and the third film hauled in $172 million in 2011.
So Paramount sprang into action over the weekend.
They swiftly moved a giant replica of the Bumblebee Transformer to the entry of the dragon-shaped Pangu hotel. Paramount Vice Chairman Rob Moore, director Michael Bay, producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and star Jack Reynor jetted in to hold a news conference, and a big Beijing premiere was quickly organized.
The whirlwind of activity shows the lengths to which Hollywood is willing to go to keep its Chinese partnerships on track. The alternative is to become an L.A. studio branded by Chinese business partners as unreliable in the world's No. 2 movie market.
"It was unfortunate that we had this misunderstanding," Moore said at a news conference inside a massive ballroom at the hotel. "Pangu has been a great partner for us. We've taken steps to put this behind us, we've worked through all of the issues, and we're excited that Pangu is now excited to support us."
He and the Paramount entourage answered questions onstage in front of a giant screen reading "Celebration Before the Premiere." The local press corps ate canapes, drank wine and pocketed $50 "transportation fees" for attending the event on four hours' notice.
But the tensions were still palpable when the 13-minute ceremony ended.
In the hotel's driveway, Moore haggled over the wording of a joint English and Chinese statement that was supposed to go out to the media. Several Americans affiliated with Paramount huddled in hotel hallways making phone calls and saying things like "This is crazy" and "I don't understand what's going on."
A Pangu executive puffed on a cigarette and yelled at an interpreter that he was dissatisfied. The Beijing event came after Paramount had the film's official unveiling in Hong Kong last week, then followed that up with a big showing at the Shanghai Film Festival.
Lu Tao, chief executive of Beijing Pangu Investment Co., even called his own news conference. He told reporters that the company dropped its request to block the movie's release, but still planned on filing lawsuits over the product-placement contract.
He said Monday that the investment firm paid $1.6 million in the product-placement deal.
In exchange, Pangu was to benefit in five ways: It would appear in the film for at least 20 seconds; host an exhibit of "Transformer" props at the hotel at least eight months; be allowed to license "Transformers" imagery for consumer products and retain all income from their sales; appear in all promotional materials; and host a "VIP celebration" with cast, director and Paramount leaders ahead of a premiere.
Lu said Pangu started to get nervous about the arrangement in February, and reached out to two companies that signed the original deal — Jiaflix China and Chengxin. Lu blamed the two companies, which acted as middlemen in forging the contracts with Paramount.
Jiaflix is one of Paramount's production and marketing partners in China. It was founded by former Paramount President Sid Ganis, his cousin Marc and Kenneth Huang. Chengxin is run by Zhou Ning, a former soccer star.
At the 2013 Shanghai Film Festival, the Ganis cousins, along with Zhou, appeared alongside Paramount executive LeeAnne Stables and touted the Pangu Plaza product-placement deal. "We're thrilled to be showcasing China within the film," Stables said at the time.
But Pangu officials began to figure out that terms of the contract Jiaflix and Chengxin set up were not being honored. And during the Hong Kong premiere, they realized that the hotel never got its 20 seconds in the film.
Lu said Pangu decided that it had been "cheated" — and started pursuing litigation.
Representatives from Jiaflix and Chengxin could not be reached for comment.
Paramount's last-minute dash of diplomacy appears to have worked as far as Pangu is concerned.
Lu said the studio's response over the weekend was "positive" and "sincere" and that Pangu wants the film "to be a huge success in China."
"I think this is a very good reminder to Chinese companies seeking international cooperation not to be cheated by the middleman," Lu said.
The Pangu deal was but one of several Chinese product-placement deals for the film, which also shot in multiple locations in the country. Bay filmed scenes for "Transformers: Age of Extinction" in Hong Kong, Beijing, Tianjin and elsewhere.
Along the way, Bay faced various difficulties while making the movie in China, including being assaulted by a man in Hong Kong who attempted to extort money from the production.
But Monday, with the finish line in sight, Bay and his studio tried to put on a positive face. For now, it seems, the "Transformers" show will go on in China.
On Monday night, the Pangu hotel's lobby was advertising Transformers Juice, a green concoction reportedly favored by Bay during his stays at the hotel.
"I want to put all this misunderstanding aside and just celebrate the great movie we shot in China," Bay said. "I hope everyone enjoys it."
Tommy Yang in The Times' Beijing bureau contributed to this report.


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There's no better way to beat summer's sizzle than in the pool! Florida summers are hot, sticky and often humid To stay cool, the Lil Divas could spend all day playing in water and I can't say I blame them. So when I was contacted by BackyardOcean.com to do a review of one of their above ground swimming pools - our answer was an enthusiastic YES!
The 10x30 Easy Set Swimming Pool arrived and caused much fanfare and pleading from the Lil Divas to get it up and filled immediately. We had a few helpful friends assist us in setting it up and I was glad I had the help because this wasn't a job for this Mama to tackle on her own.
This particular pool set comes is great for smaller spaces and it's perfect for young kids. We had 4 children ranging in ages from 2 to 6 in the pool and they all had a great time playing together with room to spare.
It took us awhile to set up the pool. My only complaint is that I felt the directions could be clearer. We would have loved step by step photos to help us along. Aside from that the pool was easy to fill. The natives were restless as they waited for the water to reach the fill line (it took over an hour) because they were super excited to get in and play! Luckily, the set came with 2 beach balls so we filled them up and played catch, volleyball and soccer while we waited.
What I liked most about this set was that it includes everything you need (minus the chlorine) - pool, ladder, filter & pump, maintenance/cleaning kit, ground cloth, a repair patch, pool cover, extra filter and 2 beach balls.
The kids really had a great time in the pool. They were splashing, swimming, floating, playing and jumping. The pool was sturdy through it all & let's just say they put it through a good test. It was so hard to get them out of the pool even after a few hours! They wanted to keep playing.
Once they were out we covered the pool and found it easy to do. The cover fit well so I am confident that it will keep leaves and other debris out. I have no doubt this pool will gets lots of use this summer.
Once they were out we covered the pool and found it easy to do. The cover fit well so I am confident that it will keep leaves and other debris out. I have no doubt this pool will gets lots of use this summer.
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Bear Valley Real Estatehas earned the reputation as the finest choice for buyers and sellers seeking experienced professional real estate services in the greater Bear Valley area. As the lead agency participating in over 95% of the sales transactions in the high country since 1982, Bear Valley Real Estate is the only fulltime real estate firm in the area. As the sales leader for nearly 30 years, Bear Valley Real Estate has developed a knowledge of the high country marketplace unmatched by any other firm in the area.
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I've always loved music, and for a long time had a traditional stereo system with cassette and CD components attached. As I began ripping my CDs into iTunes and buying downloads from Apple and Amazon, the computer replaced the stereo as my hub for at-home listening. Which is a shame as the quality of a computer's speakers is anything but top-notch. And even when I connected the Mac to a 2.1-channel system, it did nothing to solve the problem of the Mac being tethered to my desk.
Interesting as they seemed, I avoided devices such as the SliMP3 and then the early Squeezebox models, even as now-Editorial Director Jason Snell talked them up. And I did so because I wasn't interested in going back to the stereo-in-the-living-room model (even with a device connected to it that brought the non-DRM portion of my music collection and Internet radio along for the ride).
It really wasn't until Squeezebox arrived in all-in-one configurations (by then owned by Logitech) that I seriously considered--and ultimately started using--a standalone streaming audio player. For the last several years, I've been enjoying Logitech's $180 UE Smart Radio and, before that, the company's Squeezebox Radio. I've found them to be good enough for what I wanted from a hardware standpoint, but I have to admit that their software and UI never thrilled me--and in fact often left me frustrated.
All this time, my colleague (and favorite grumpy old man) Chris Breen wouldn't shut up about the virtues of Sonos and its multi-room streaming audio systems. Early on, two factors kept me from giving Sonos a try: I wasn't looking for a multi-room solution and my budget couldn't accommodate the $1000 necessary to get a reasonable starter system.
That all changed with the introduction of the Sonos S:5 (later renamed the Play:5), the first player to offer integrated speakers, at a cost of $399 (plus an optional Bridge if you didn't jack it in via ethernet). And then came the Play:3 at $299, making Sonos even more affordable.
Last week I finally took the plunge and become a Sonosian. I took advantage of the Sonos Test Pack promotion, which includes a Play:3, a Bridge, and 90 days of Rhapsody Premiere, all for the $299 price of a Play:3. The promo is also valid on Amazon.com and runs until June 23.
After an initial hiccup, setup was a breeze. I plugged in the Play:3, downloaded the free Sonos Controller app on my iMac, ran through the simple setup, and pressed the Bridge's single button and then added the Play:3 through the software. Done. And when it was done I couldn't have been happier with the controller app (both desktop and mobile). In regard to functionality and ease-of-use Sonos' iOS app is light-years ahead of the Logitech app--it offers what Logitech's kludgy OS X system preference pane and website do together (and much more).
It's also more reliable. Accessing my Spotify account on the UE Smart Radio was hit or miss. Tracks would seem to play--with time elapsing on the iPhone app--but nothing came out of the speaker. I haven't had a single hiccup like this with Sonos.
Like Logitech, Sonos supports a lot of services--Spotify, Mog, Rdio, Pandora, iheartradio, Slacker, Rhapsody, Last.fm, Hearts of Space, Stitcher SmartRadio, and Songza among them. Thanks to Sonos I can stream my entire 35,000-plus track music collection that's stored in Amazon Cloud Player Premium as well. And as a fan of live music I'm happy to have access to the treasure-trove of concerts that come with my Concert Vault subscription. At the same time, however, switching away from the UE Smart Radio means I lose the ability to stream shows from the Live Music Archive.
Like Logitech's offerings, Sonos lets me play content from my iTunes library, but Sonos also lets me stream directly from an iOS device without the need for an AirPlay or Bluetooth speaker. And the sound quality on the Play:3 (which isn't even as beefy as the Play:5) puts the Smart Radio to shame.
Also, now that I live in a house with more than one floor, the idea of being able to add additional Sonos components (when I find some extra money, that is) to play the same or different things around the house is intriguing. I'm going to guess that this will be even more important when my kids are older and want to listen to their music--and I really don't.
There are some things I'll miss about the UE Smart Radio. I liked having an LCD screen that displays track info, album art, and the time; and on-device controls let me choose content without resorting to a remote control--the Play:3 has only mute and volume buttons, and no type of display. But given the fact that I always have an iPhone or iPad handy (and can use a Sonos Controller application on my Mac if need be)--and that the Sonos app is so easy to use--it's been less of a problem than I had anticipated. Another loss is that the rechargeable battery in the UE Smart Radio meant I could move it to another room when the kids were playing downstairs and wanted to listen to some music. Sonos can't help me with that--other than sell me another Play:3, of course.
My Smart Radio has a new home on my nightstand where I use it as a clock and secondary music player. But for my everyday music needs, it's now Sonos. If, like me, you've hesitated over its price or because you weren't sure how Sonos would fit into your musical life, it's time to give it a try. It's already changed the way I listen to music.
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Chemical Substitutes
The Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell unveiled a new surface cleaning online database called CleanerSolutions. The free, interactive web-based tool helps manufacturers find safer cleaning alternatives that perform as well as hazardous chemicals — without increasing risks.
Companies are able to choose the contaminant, solvent to replace, type of equipment and the material that's being cleaned from a drop-down menu. The search results list possible replacement products, performance test results, and safety information based on five environmental and health indicators. The TURI Laboratory conducts a preliminary screening to determine a chemical's potential risk based on global warming potential, ozone depletion potential, volatile organic content, flammability/reactivity and acute toxicity.
CleanerSolutions On-Line Tool for Solvent Substitution in Surface Cleaning
A simple, single solution for solvent substitution for surface cleaning is hard to come by. In attempt to address this issue, the Surface Solution Laboratory (SSL) has created this database linking performance evaluations to specific testing parameters and environmental assessments based on the testing performed at the lab. You may also want to check out these other related web tools.
SSL was designed with the capability to evaluate the effectiveness of different cleaning chemistries and equipment for a variety of substrates and contaminants. The goal of SSL is to assist industry in the search for safer cleaning processes by developing and promoting safer alternatives to hazardous solvents with a special focus on aqueous/semi-aqueous (water-based) cleaners and state-of-the-art surface cleanliness analyses.
From the testing performed at SSL, a wealth of data has been accumulated on the performances of industrial cleaning products. In order to use this information effectively, the CleanerSolutions Database was created so that access to this resource would be easy and quick. This web-based interface to the CleanerSolutions Database is field-searchable by surface contaminants, surface substrates, cleaning equipment, solvents replaced and vendor product data.
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I arrived in Los Angeles at noon on a Sunday. Less than an hour later, I was devouring an animal style burger and a batch of well-done fries at In 'N Out (Can you tell that I spent the last leg of the plane ride studying the secret menu?) And it was good. In fact, I was afraid it was too good. As I sat there shoveling grilled onions into my mouth, I started to suspect that despite my high hopes for California cuisine, dozens of dinner reservations and meticulously mapped out must-eats, the best thing I would taste the entire trip would be that fast food burger. Well, no offense to In 'N Out, but I was quite happily proven wrong just a few hours later. After spending the afternoon visiting the Getty Center, the Hollywood sign, and Julia's new house, we made our way to Lucques, where each week Suzanne Goin and her staff prepare a seasonally inspired three course Sunday Super.
We started out with almonds, green olives, and some remarkably good house made sourdough before moving on to our first course, a salad of baby gem lettuces with green beans, cherry tomatoes, mint and ginger lime vinaigrette. My salad was wonderful, but at this point, I think In 'N Out still had a slight edge (what can I say--I really love a good burger). Then came the main course. We had a choice of two entrees, and I selected the pan-roasted market fish with fennel potato gratin, green olives and lima bean yogurt. Without question, it was some of the best fish I've ever tasted. It wasn't that the flavors were anything outrageous--in fact, the dish was quite simple. However everything was executed perfectly.
Within minutes, I was licking my plate clean and In 'N Out had fallen to a distant second on my list of California culinary treasures. (And that was before I even tasted the dessert, a caramel nut tart with bittersweet chocolate, fleur de sel and coffee ice cream). Needless to say, I couldn't leave without purchasing a copy of Suzanne Goin's cookbook, Sunday Suppers at Lucques. I also decided to kick off a tradition of buying a cookbook on each leg of our California adventure (a tradition that ended with me on the floor of the San Francisco airport ten days later frantically pulling things out of my suitcase, which by that point was 17 pounds of cookbooks over the weight limit).
The cookbook is divided into seasons, and I immediately turned to summer, determined to sneak one last recipe in before fall strengthens its hold. After much deliberation, I chose this plum tarte tatin. A tarte tatin is a tarte that is prepared upside down. The fruit (traditionally apple) is caramelized in butter and sugar before being topped with puff pastry. The whole thing is baked in a cast iron skillet, and inverted just before serving. This version, made with plums instead of the traditional apples, turned out better than I'd ever imagined and reminded me of everything I loved about the restaurant. It's something simple and unpretentious elevated by the power of fresh ingredients and spot-on technique into something elegant and impressive. In other words, totally better than In 'N Out, which is saying a lot--do you really need to know more than that?
A quick note: A photo of my Blueberry Buttermilk Cake is a finalist in the Food & Wine Magazine Dessert Photo Contest. The winning photo will be featured in the January issue of the magazine! To vote, go to this link, select your favorite photo (mine is the one on the far left), and click the blue "vote for this photo" button (it takes a little while to load). You have to be logged in to Food & Wine to vote, but can log in via your Facebook or Gmail account. Thank you!
Plum Tart Tatin
From Sunday Suppers at Lucques by Suzanne Goin
3 lbs plums
1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 sheet frozen, all butter puff pastry
1 egg, lightly beaten
creme fraiche, for topping
Cut the plums in half and remove the pits. Toss the plum halves with 1/4 cup of the sugar and let them stand for at least 30 minutes.
Place a 10 inch cast iron skillet (or another heavy-bottomed pan that can be transferred from the stove to the oven) on the stove over medium heat and add the butter. Once the butter is melted and foamy, add 3/4 cup sugar and cook, swirling the pan regularly, until the caramel is a deep golden color (this should take about six minutes). Remove the pan from the heat and let the caramel cool in the pan for 20 minutes.
Drain the plums, reserving their juices for a future recipe such as a cocktail.* Arrange the plum halves, cut side down, in the skillet of caramel, overlapping them slightly in order to pack in as much fruit as possible (they will shrink when cooked). Note that I cut a few plum halves to fit them into the center of the pan. Return the pan to the heat and cook over medium-low for 20 minutes without stirring or touching the fruit at all. Let the plums and caramel cool before proceeding to the next step (Suzanne Goin recommends putting the pan in the refrigerator for two hours).
When you are ready to bake the tarte, preheat the oven to 375, and remove the puff pastry from the freezer, allowing it to thaw just to the point where it's malleable. Cut an eleven inch circle from the puff pastry and place it over the top of the plums. Pierce the pastry a few times with a fork, and brush it with the beaten egg. Sprinkle the remaining two tablespoons of sugar over the top, and bake the tarte for 45-55 minutes, until the pastry is golden and cooked through.
Just before serving, invert the tarte onto a serving platter. Serve topped with creme fraiche.
*After 30 minutes, my plums had not given off much juice. I proceeded with the recipe anyway, but wish I would have let them sit for a while longer. Plums are very juicy fruits, and when I went to invert my tart after baking, there was so much liquid in the pan that it both made a huge mess on my counter, and caused my puff pastry to get soggy. It was still delicious, but don't make the same mistake I did. Be patient.


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Credibility and the Use of Geospatial Media in Activism and Advocacy
Lane DeNicola
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
The intersection of science and activism, particularly in the environmental domain, has enjoyed substantive analysis in recent years, yet the scientific field and commercial industry of earth remote sensing has yet to be critically examined from that perspective. Earth remote sensing (ERS)—the science and craft of interpreting images of the terrestrial surface collected at high altitude—is unquestionably a premier source of information about our environment, and offers vast possibilities for improving environmental stewardship, whether by state agencies, corporations, or civil society. It has also been critiqued as a tool that can too easily shape knowledge according to dominant interests, bringing into question recent experimentation with ERS by advocacy groups. This essay begins with an observation first made by an industry pundit in 2001: that ERS is in danger of suffering from an "imagery credibility paradox," thanks in part to the recent influx of inexperienced "imagery activists" whose unorthodox priorities threaten to destabilize public confidence in ERS imagery as a source of knowledge. I explore the rhetorical dichotomization of the ERS community into "traditional" and "new" users through the lens of critical work in expertise and state-society interaction from the fields of geography, science studies, and new media. By examining the work of "imagery activists" in New York State and reframing the imagery credibility paradox as an attempt to democratize a previously exclusive technology, and to renegotiate the terms of credibility and expert authority, I support an argument for imagery activists as vital contributors to a more appropriate use of geospatial media and to a sorely needed discussion on "imagery ethics."
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Our friend, Ottawa photographer Blair Gable, is a member of CanvasPop's Pro community and will be sharing his insights and behind-the-scenes thoughts right here on our blog.
Here's his first post—let us know if there's a specific topic you want covered!
This summer I was contacted by The Official Ferrari Magazine to photograph Canadian fashioin-mogul Lawrence Stroll with five cars from his extensive Ferrari collection. I am estimating that the cars were worth between $80 to $100-million combined. I travelled with my assistant Neville Black, videographer James Park and just about every piece of equipment that the three of… Read more


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Chapter 1. Config the Oracle JDBC
Add Oracle JDBC Driver
Before do export operation from CSV(TSV, PSV) database to the Oracle database, you should assign the Oracle Database JDBC driver path and set the driver class. If you have done this operation before prior export operation, you can skip this step.
Frequent Issues
Some errors maybe happens when you do the JDBC Driver Config. The followed pictures show some common reasons for errors.


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Traditional musicians, hi there!
Fairly recently I've written some song-tunes that could be of interest to you. A couple of them have a Kintyre connection.
My website is mainly for people involved in making music, and allows free download of words, sheet music and demo audio.
The webpage http://www.musicbits.org/Celtic.html gives links to the song-tunes.
Day still will rise mentions Garvalt; Then Farewell, Tarbert has more obvious Kintyre links. Those two have words by George Campbell Hay, a poet with a Kintyre connection himself; you can find some info about him by following links on my website.
Hay occasionally wrote tunes for his own poems. He did so for the three of his poems that I've written tunes for, and my website also gives those tunes of his.
So I hope there's something there that you can enjoy performing.


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The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines. We've got a huge active community, and there are lots of projects in development that use the engine. You can find enhancements for Irrlicht all over the web, like alternative terrain renderers, portal renderers, exporters, world layers, tutorials, editors, language bindings for java, perl, ruby, basic, python, lua, and so on. And best of all: It's completely free.
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.
Some recent shots of the engine. Most of the shots are directly taken from the examples included in the SDK.


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Host Mark L. Walberg meets appraiser Bruce Shackleford at Billing's Yellowstone Art Museum to look at its impressive collection of paintings by Joseph Henry Sharp - famous for his realistic depictions of American Indians. Highlights include a beautifully preserved 1843 artillery sword and belt; a circa 1925 sequined flapper dress and gold lame coat; and a circa 1925 heirloom collection of ruby, diamond and jade rings, valued at $60,000.
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This time of year, I always think of my grandfather. He died many years ago; in fact, more time has passed since his death than the years I was able to spend with him. Yet, scarcely a day passes that I do not think of Grandpa.
He was born in Concordia, KS in 1882, the oldest of six children and, as a boy, once saw Wyatt Earp. Yet he lived to see men walk on the moon. He used to tell me he'd lived the best part of America and I think he was probably right.
Frank Montfort was not a great success; at least in the way most of us measure it these days. He never made a lot of money and he never acquired any fame. In fact, he struggled to make a living throughout much of the Depression and at one point, very briefly, when he'd hit rock bottom, could only find comfort in a bottle of whiskey. But he overcame all that, driven by his own pride and his love for his family.
For me, Frank Montfort, my grandfather, remains my personal hero. He was fair-minded without being judgmental, honest without being opinionated ...and his love was unconditional.
As a teenager, I was in and out of trouble from time to time, and my rebellious attitude was not all that well received within my family. But my grandfather's support never wavered. He would smile and put his arm on my shoulder and say, "Jim, I don't always understand you, but I love you and I'm behind you 100 percent." It's amazing how much those few words can mean. I miss my grandfather a lot.
Recently, on a trip home, I found some journals that my grandfather had kept for almost 20 years, buried in the bottom of his cedar chest. We had not known they existed.
The family read his entries cover to cover, and what struck us all was the absence, in all those years, of any unkind sentiment toward anyone – not even my crazy Aunt Elizabeth with the blue hair. He was incapable of it.
At Christmas, I remember this story about my grandparents and my mother during a particularly rough winter more than 70 years ago. Most of what follows is true...
My mother was only five years old in the cold and bitter winter of 1932. It was bitter for more reasons than the freezing temperatures and early snowfalls that fell upon the Ohio River Valley.
For 25 million Americans, one-third of the work force, there were no jobs and no prospect for work.
Families that just a few years earlier had been a part of the nation's safe and secure middle class, now found themselves homeless and hungry. My mother's father, my grandfather, was one of the unemployed.
A few weeks earlier, Franklin Roosevelt had been elected President and he had promised a New Deal for Americans. In a few weeks he would tell his fellow citizens that "the only thing they had to fear was Fear itself." For now, however, there was the basic fear of hunger and cold and hopelessness.
Sue (my mother's name) often overheard the grim conversations between her parents and it scared her. How was he going to keep food on the table, my grandfather would ask my grandmother, and she would softly reassure him, "You'll find a way, Frank."
Sue asked her father why they were poor; he smiled wanly and tried to explain, "It's the Depression," he said. "Everybody's poor."
That helped a little. At least her family wasn't alone. But the Depression? It was hard to explain to a five year old.
As the month of December and the Christmas season approached, Frank and Susan and Sue Montfort could be thankful that they still had their home, that they'd canned many vegetables from their summer garden for the winter, and that they were all healthy. But job prospects were grim and the family's savings were almost depleted.
While window shopping on Fourth Street, Sue had eyed a red checkered dress at Stewart's Dry Goods. But her mother dampened her hopes – Santa was having a bad year too, she explained. There may not be many presents under the tree. My grandfather feared there might not even be a tree. Or a turkey. Nothing. It was that tight.
One afternoon, Frank decided to take a walk. Somehow he felt better when he was moving, for when he sat, he thought. He thought about his family's dilemma and his inability to change it. So, wrapped in a worn wool overcoat, he shoved his hands deep in the coat's pockets and moved briskly up Birchwood to Frankfort Ave.
Frankfort Avenue is the commercial center of the Crescent Hills section of Louisville. Its sidewalks were lined with small shops and markets, although many of them were closed and boarded up. As he watched the lined and worried faces of the people he passed, my grandfather stifled the urge to sink into self-pity. He knew he had no right to feel victimized for he was surrounded by other victims. He was not alone.
For that reason, Frank almost felt guilty when he was suddenly confronted with a stroke of remarkable good luck. He had just passed beneath the marquee of the old Crescent Theatre when a man appeared behind the ticket window of the box office. The man was holding a small cardboard sign. In crude handwritten letters it said: HELP WANTED.
For a long moment my grandfather could scarcely believe his eyes or good fortune before he ran inside. In a few minutes, Frank Montfort was the new ticket collector at the Crescent Theatre.
He glanced through the ticket window and saw a dozen faces fall as the manager removed the "help wanted" sign. He knew that a matter of seconds could have changed everything, and he could have been on the outside looking in. But he wisely decided not to flog himself too severely for his good fortune. After all, he'd been recently plagued by nothing but bad news – he could go home today with a smile on his face.
In reality, Frank was happier than he had a right to be. The job was nothing permanent; he was hired only for a week to help out during the Christmas rush. And the job paid $20. Twenty bucks. But that amount of cash could go a long way in 1932. He could get a turkey and all the side-dishes that go with it to make a proper Christmas dinner. He could afford a tree, and maybe, if he was very careful, still have enough money left over to get that red checkered dress.
My grandfather brought the news home to his wife and daughter, and the next day he started work at the theatre. Collecting tickets at a movie matinee did not exactly challenge Frank's intellect, but it never even occurred to him to complain.
He was grateful just to be there and the days passed quickly. On the morning of Christmas Eve, the manager called him into the office, and handed him a crisp $20 bill. Whether the theatre would need additional help after Christmas depended on the crowds the manager explained, and he added – stay in touch. My grandfather nodded, shook the man's hand, and put the bill in his coat pocket.
There was an extra bounce in his step as Frank walked briskly down Frankfort Ave. His sister Louise and her husband Ham planned to stop by the house later. Ham and Louise had a car, and with their help, Frank and Susan hoped to find a turkey, a tree and that special Christmas dress for Sue.
As he prepared to cross the street to Birchwood Ave., Frank passed a man standing alone by a lamppost. His face was dirty and unshaven, his clothes were in tatters. His hands were wrapped in rags.
Clutched in his fingers was a pint of Kentucky bourbon, a cheap brand, and as my grandfather walked in front of him, the man tried to hide the bottle. My grandfather looked away; Frank knew that had the breaks gone differently, the man could just as easily have been him. Again.
Mother and daughter were waiting when Frank appeared around the corner. He was almost running when he hit the front steps. Susan lifted the hat from his head and brushed off the snow that was just beginning to fall. Frank smiled and reached into his coat pocket... "I'd better turn this over to you before ...."
He stopped short. The broad smile vanished. He reached deeper into his pocket but the bill was not there.
"Check your other pocket," my grandmother suggested, and he did. But he knew where he'd placed the $20 bill. He went back to the pocket and probed every inch of it. He felt along the seam where the threads were worn and separated and created a ragged hole just large enough for a bill to silently slip through and fall to the ground.
"It's gone," my grandfather said. "It's gone." His lips formed words again, but he made no sound. He sank down in the couch and buried his face in his hands. For a moment, no one said anything. No one moved. But my grandmother, an eternal optimist, broke the silence.
"Maybe you can find it," she said. "Maybe it's still lying on the sidewalk."
Frank looked scornfully at his wife and shook his head. She had to be kidding, he thought. That money probably never had a chance to reach the sidewalk before someone else grabbed it. Not in these times. But Susan insisted that he at least try, and for lack of a better idea, Frank agreed.
My grandfather scoured the sidewalk and gutter as he dashed up Birchwood. He walked in a sort of crouch, his eyes glued to the ground, and he must have looked very strange to the pedestrians he passed. When he reached Frankfort Avenue, he knew it was hopeless.
Before, the sidewalks were relatively empty, but here the foot traffic was heavy. There were people everywhere. But for form's sake, if nothing else, he continued onward toward the theatre.
He moved slowly along the sidewalk's edge, hoping the bill had fallen over the curb where it might not be noticed. He was still in that crouch staring intently at the concrete, when a voice spoke to him from over his shoulder. Frank spun around.
"Lookin' for something?"
It was the man with the cheap bourbon... He was still leaning against the lamp post. My grandfather shifted his weight uneasily and tried to explain, but he was embarrassed, disheartened, tired and could not speak.
"Forget it," said the man with the bottle. He took a swig, winced and wiped his mouth with his sleeve.
"Anyway," he went on, "I figured you'd be back."
He lifted one worn out leather shoe with a flapping sole from the sidewalk. There was something beneath it.
"Merry Christmas," he said. It was the $20 bill.
Darkness had chased away the last light of day, my grandmother peered through the frosted windowpanes into the blackness, but it was her daughter who first saw the two figures, dimly lit by the streetlights, trudging through the snow and slush. Out of the silence of a snowfall, came the sounds. It was the sound of two grown men singing Jingle Bells, at the very top of their lungs.
On Christmas Day, the Montforts had a guest for dinner.
(Jim Stiles is publisher of the "Canyon Country Zephyr -- Planet Earth Edition" now exclusively online. He is also the author of "Brave New West." Both can be found at www.canyoncountryzephyr.com. Stiles lives in San Juan County and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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Hasan loses another bid to dump the death penalty
FORT HOOD — An Army judge Wednesday rejected a bid by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to escape the death penalty in the November 2009 rampage here that killed 13 people and wounded 32.
At a hearing in a small Fort Hood courtroom, Col. Tara Osborn quickly swatted down a motion by Hasan's military defense team to throw out capital punishment.
She did it in a businesslike fashion after hearing arguments from both sides, and quickly moved onto other issues as the paralyzed Hasan sat silently in his wheelchair wearing a long, scruffy beard, which he grew in violation of Army regulations.
Hasan's beard has been a point of contention for months. The previous judge in the case, Col. Gregory Gross, had ordered Hasan to shave before standing trail. Osborn was appointed after an appeals court removed Gross, whom the court said didn't appear impartial.
Osborn said Wednesday the court didn't have the authority to stop the Fort Hood command from requiring Hasan to shave his beard before the trial, which could be delayed until this summer.
Hasan's lawyers have said previously that military law failed to provide constitutional protections that are given in civilian courts.
But Maj. Larry Downend, one of three prosecutors, said military defendants had more legal protections than those in civilian courts, including an evidentiary hearing that allows the defense to get a clear idea of the prosecution's case.
Hasan's hearing saw 56 witnesses take the stand over nine days in 2010.
"So the defense is cherry-picking, saying we need this and we need that," he said.
The Supreme Court in 1996 upheld the military's capital punishment process in the case of Pvt. Dwight Loving, a Fort Hood soldier sentenced to death for the Dec. 12, 1988, killing of two cabdrivers in Killeen.
Retired Army Lt. Col Geoffrey Corn, a professor at South Texas College of Law in Houston, said the defense appeared to be contending that a review of federal court and commission procedures would show that those used in the Loving case are out of date. But the judge, he said, may not have been the primary target of that argument.
"There are not many issues from this case that are going to have even the slightest potential to get before the Supreme Court," Corn said. "The constitutionality of the process for death penalty cases is one of them, just like Loving.


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The thing is that the data file (which is accessed on a sector basis with all the data to load in overlay as well as mission code) was corrupt in the last mission.
A closer look revealed a bunch of 0s in between the text strings. I examined the process of creating the dsk file up to tap2dsk. I downloaded the sources for this tool and tried to have a look.
The first thing I noticed is that it needs a sedoric3.h file, which is not included, so I had to guess its content (an byte dump of the os, I pressume).
Then I changed all the int defitions to long, as I supposed the problem was there, with no good result.
In the end, the problematic code was here:
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if (desc_off==0x100) { // Sedoric bug work-around : allocate a second descriptor when the first is full, even if not needed
No idea why, or what this means, as my knowledge about Sedoric is very limited (nearly inexistant).
I am not sure how to deal with this, without heavy modification of the program (and adding options in the command line to avoid or include this trick on a file basis), so I just added a flag, so it avoids the trick in my case for the data file.
It works, but also means that my tap2dsk is specific for building 1337
Not sure how to proceed: maybe Dbug should add this for the next release, if necessary, or maybe contact Fabrice so he fixes it... maybe with more knowledge I could try to fix it... don't know.
Just thought it would be a good idea to have this written down somewhere.


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Amnh Scientists Grace The Covers Of Both Science And Nature main content.
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In an unusual confluence of events, two comprehensive, collaborative projects that include the work of two different curators from the American Museum of Natural History will grace the covers of the journals Science and Nature this week. For the paper in Science, herpetologist and Associate Dean of Science Christopher Raxworthy and colleagues analyzed thousands of species, rather than the more typical few keystone species, to determine a conservation plan for a tropical "hotspot," a biologically rich but threatened region. The research by Ward Wheeler, Curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, also drew from analysis of many taxa: by comparing at the genetic level 77 animals from 21 different phyla, he and his colleagues have redrawn the phylogenetic tree of multicellular animals.
A new way to conserve the diverse and unique animals and plants in Madagascar was the goal of Raxworthy's contribution to Science. Madagascar is a global hotspot, with many unique species, and this tropical nation, an island the size of California, has committed to expanding its protected areas to cover 10 percent of the land. The study looked at over 2,300 species and, after finding little correlation between the distribution of ants, frogs, geckos, butterflies, plants, and other groups, used new computer methods to map the regions of the country that could efficiently harbor healthy populations of all species. A bonus was that the new multispecies approach identified regions that have been ignored to date, such as the less glamorous shoreline forests and some neglected mountains. "By analyzing multiple species, we came up with conservation recommendations that are more robust for biodiversity as a whole, and expect that by tweaking and expanding the existing reserve network, we will have a much more efficient system," explains Raxworthy. "Hopefully this study will encourage other tropical countries to try similar approaches that pool data to develop more effective conservation solutions."
Wheeler and colleagues pooled data of a different sort-samples from a diverse array of animals-to look at evolutionary relationships from sponges to humans. Genetic sampling allows researchers to see relationships among species that could be hidden from view if not reflected in morphology, or the physical characteristics that are traditionally used to determine phylogeny. This study, as reported in Nature, analyzed some 40 million base pairs of RNA from diverse phyla and used the overlap to reconstruct the family tree. But what Wheeler and colleagues found uprooted parts of the tree of life: sponges, once thought to be basal (diverging earliest from all others in the group) among animals because of their simple organization and lack of a nervous system, were found in this study to be more derived. Comb jellies, a group which includes stingless sea gooseberries, seem to have primitive shared characteristics. These results "point us in a direction for further research," explains Wheeler. "These represent animal phyla, and although their morphologies are well-characterized anatomically, they are very disparate and hard to compare. To deal with this problem, we used genetic data." Other findings that warrant further research: tardigrades (tiny, segmented "water bears" with claws that can suspend life for years in lichen and moss), initially thought to be like insects now seem to be closer to nematodes (annelids, or worms); and true, segmented worms, formerly thought to be related to arthropods may share closer ancestry with mollusks.
The analysis of plant and animal distribution in Madagascar that Raxworthy participated in was conducted by researchers from the Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, with input from the 20 additional authors, who provided biodiversity information, analytical expertise, and technical assistance. The project was facilitated by Système d'Aires ProtÃgÃes de Madagascar and funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The phylogenomic sampling by Wheeler and colleagues was primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (the Protostome Assembling the Tree of Life Project). The affiliations of other authors include the University of Hawaii, Yale University, Brown University, and Harvard University, among others.
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University Drive has reopened after a City of Bryan truck carrying more than ten tons of treated sewage overturned, spilling the product on the road.
Just before 5:00 p.m., the road was cleared after the sewage was removed and the road was thoroughly cleaned.
The driver of the truck was not injured. No other vehicles appear to have been involved.
The truck was turning off of Spring Loop onto University when it turned onto its side. Bryan has a wastewater treatment plant off Spring Loop.
Bryan and College Station crews worked to clean the site and divert traffic.


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For the first time in 50 years, Cubans will be able to freely buy and sell their homes. As news of this long-awaited and the biggest yet of Raul Castro's slow-moving but continuing, irreversible economic reform campaign in Cuba reverberated on and off the island, policymakers in Washington are increasingly – embarrassingly – out of step with what's actually happening on the island today. It's like the US embargo has become a wax feature at Madame Tussauds: questionably life-like and stuck forever in one moment in time.
As Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson appeared before a Senate committee this week that could make or break her nomination to become assistant secretary, the able career diplomat was forced further and further into the Cuban policy box the Obama administration has needlessly painted itself.
Grilled by Senator Marco Rubio (R) of Florida on the administration's policies toward the island, Ms. Jacobson repeated that the president's new, more open travel and remittance policies for Cuban Americans and other "certain, very clearly defined" travelers is intended to help foster democracy in Cuba. And, as have other administration officials in the two years since the limited US policy reforms began, she failed to forcefully and unapologetically insist that not only is exposure to Americans better for the Cuban people than is isolation, but that it's good for the American people too.
Jacobson should have been armed with a sure-footed answer like this:
"Senator, the administration believes increased interaction with Americans is inherently a positive thing that will contribute to a growing sense of openness on the island that the Cuban people already are building for themselves. But just as strongly, we believe that, unlike the Cuban government for many years now, our nation has nothing to fear in letting our citizens travel abroad. We're confident that these travelers not only bring and share our democratic values with them on their trips, but that they benefit from their studies, exchanges and worship, even and especially if they disagree with practices to which they are exposed while in Cuba."
But because the administration has never boldly sold its Cuba policies, and has instead chosen to weakly defend them on an as-needed basis, the box into which officials like Jacobson must squeeze gets ever smaller. And it emboldens an unapologetic, almost authoritarian line of questioning from Mr. Rubio, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
"But if our policy ultimately is to foster democracy, wouldn't we, shouldn't these groups be evaluated on the basis of what they would do to foster democracy? If a ballet wants to go perform in Cuba, if a sports team wants to go play – shouldn't we analyze that at least to try to figure out what this would do to try to foster democracy?
Who are you going to get to see, where are you going to get to express yourself, what are you going to do when you are there that actually fosters our foreign policy towards Cuba . . . "
Surely few Americans would feel comfortable with such a Big Brother-style inquiry into their personal and professional travels. Conducting the government's foreign policy is usually something best left to its diplomats, not private citizens. It's a painful irony that Jacobson says we hope these exchanges can take place without "the intervention of the Cuban government," precisely as the long arm of our own government is, well, intervening in these exchanges.
The smarter approach would be for the administration to finally acknowledge and encourage the biggest structural economic, social, and yes, even political changes underway in Cuba in decades, and to reframe our policy objectives and methods according to the clearly changing context on the island. Instead, we continue to be guided – and boxed in – by what we thought was inevitable in Cuba – total regime change – 20 years ago in the aftermath of the Cold War. The regime is changing, no doubt, as Raul Castro fights a corrupt and resistant bureaucracy, dialogues with the Catholic Church on human rights, and announces term limits for all high level government posts. But it's not the sort of change we can create or for which we can take any credit in fostering.
As Cuba's government forges ahead with its own necessary reforms, including, as Raul Castro himself has indicated, coming reforms to Cubans' rights to travel abroad, America's willful ignorance looks ever more dated and foolish.
--- Anya Landau French blogs for The Havana Note, a project of the "US-Cuba Policy Initiative," directed by Ms. Landau French, at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program.


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ShareLunker Program Coordinator to Retire
ATHENS—David L. Campbell, coordinator of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's ShareLunker program, will retire at the end of March.
Campbell has worked for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for 46 years. He was inducted into the Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in 2011.
As manager of the Tyler Fish Hatchery, he was instrumental in the introduction of Florida largemouth bass into Texas and has helped stock fish into almost every public reservoir in the state. He has been associated with the ShareLunker program since its beginning. He picked up the first fish entered into the program in 1986 and most of the more than 500 entered since.
Through his years of experience of caring for trophy largemouth bass, Campbell contributed a great deal to the knowledge of how best to care for big fish and communicated this information to the public through countless interviews with media from newspapers, magazines, radio and television. This emphasis on the proper way to handle big fish appeared in newspaper articles as early as 1990 and may prove to be one of Campbell's most enduring legacies. Coming as it did at the same time catch-and-release of big bass became the norm, the impact of proper fish handling on the conservation of trophy bass can hardly be overestimated.
"David Campbell and the ShareLunker program are almost synonymous," said Gary Saul, director of TPWD's Inland Fisheries Division. "He is without doubt the number one ambassador for the ShareLunker program, which is TPWD's most highly visible program, gaining more media coverage annually than all other TPWD programs combined. To hundreds of anglers and the public, Campbell is Mr. ShareLunker."
"David Campbell has been one of the most dedicated employees of TPWD I have ever worked with," said Allen Forshage, director of the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, where the ShareLunker program is headquartered. "His work ethic is legendary within TPWD. Few people have so completely and selflessly dedicated their lives to making fishing better for the anglers of Texas as David has. Every big bass caught from a Texas reservoir is part of his legacy."
Following is a synopsis of Campbell's career with TPWD.
Campbell started work in 1965 as a fish hatchery assistant at the Lewisville State Fish Hatchery and worked his way up to Hatchery Manager at the Tyler Fish Hatchery and later the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center. He has raised and stocked literally millions of fish in Texas waters including black bass, channel catfish, blue catfish, crappie, striped bass, hybrid striped bass, northern pike, walleye, peacock bass and several sunfish and forage species.
In 1973 Campbell went to Florida to collect Florida largemouth bass. The stocking of Florida largemouth bass into Texas public reservoirs elevated trophy fishing in Texas forever and earned Campbell the nickname "Godfather of Big Bass." Under the direction of former TPWD Fisheries Director Bob Kemp, Campbell began breeding and stocking pure Florida bass as an experiment to increase the size of trophy bass in Texas. By the early eighties, these efforts began to pay off as the 13.5-pound state record that had existed since 1943 was broken four times in six years. Then in November 1986, Mark Stevenson caught a 17.67-pound bass named Ethel out of Lake Fork. That fish shattered all previous records, garnered nationwide media coverage, and changed fishing in Texas forever.
Campbell spent hours every night trying to get the fish to eat until he finally nursed her back to health. The importance of the success of that effort is enormous: In part because that fish lived, a series of events took place that had a national impact on bass fishing, a huge impact on the Texas economy, and significant improvements in the TPWD hatchery system, including construction of a state-of-the-art hatchery, ShareLunker care and breeding facility, visitor center and Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame.
With Ethel the ShareLunker Program was born, and catch-and-release conservation became a way of life for trophy bass anglers. Since that time, there have been more than 500 entries into the ShareLunker program, and Campbell's research and insight into trophy bass have not only given TPWD the largest collection of data on big bass in the world, but have earned him the respect and admiration of anglers and outdoor writers alike.
In addition, Ethel proved to be a fish that changed the world of bass fishing. After Campbell nursed the fish back to health, she was put on display at Bass Pro Shops in Springfield, Missouri, where she pulled millions of visitors into the store. Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris credited Ethel with much of the success of the business, saying that she was the best thing that ever happened to Bass Pro in terms of getting people into the store. In recognition of that contribution, Morris donated $650,000 for the construction of the Richard M. Hart and Johnny Morris Conservation Center at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, which was built largely to house the ShareLunker program.
Bass Pro Shops now has more than 50 stores and donates millions annually to conservation.
As the coordinator of the ShareLunker program for most of its 26-year history, Campbell picked up most of the fish from anglers, driving 10,000 miles or more annually and working all night and many weekends to do so.
Campbell is untiringly modest about his achievements, preferring to give credit for his success to others. "What stands out more than anything else from the 26 years of the ShareLunker program is the cooperation from the anglers," he said. "Anglers have been very supportive of the program. They have learned how to care for their big fish, and they understand the objective of the program is to increase the number of trophy bass caught in Texas. If you don't have the support of the people using the sport fishery itself, you haven't accomplished anything."
David L. Campbell has accomplished a great deal.
Timeline of Campbell's Career with TPWD
- 1965 — Employed by TPWD at the Lewisville State Fish Hatchery
- 1968 — Transferred to Tyler Fish Hatchery
- 1973 — Promoted to manager of the Tyler Fish Hatchery
- 1973 — Traveled to Florida to bring back Florida largemouth bass for rearing and experimental stocking
- 1986 — Picked up ShareLunker No. 1
- 1989 — Held workshops in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana teaching how to culture Florida bass
- 1995 — Texas Black Bass Unlimited, President's Conservationist Award
- 1996 — Transferred to Ed Cox, Jr., Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens as hatchery manager and ShareLunker program coordinator
- 1999 — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Employee Recognition Award, Special Achievements
- 2005 — Office of the Governor of Texas, Certificate of Appreciation for 40 years of public service
- 2010 — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 45-year Service Award
- 2011 — Inducted into the Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame
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Controversy surrounds 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" premieres this weekend, and the film is getting a ton of buzz. It's also generating a ton of controversy around the torture scenes. Does the movie endorse torture in the context of the killing of Osama bin Laden, or does it instead reveal the horror of torture and the mistakes we made in reaction to 9/11?
Andrew Sullivan is one of the writers taking this issue on, and you can follow his blog for other reactions from around the web.
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Self-esteem and body image
Cancer can change the way you look, temporarily or permanently. Some people gain or lose weight. Chemotherapy can sometimes make your hair fall out. You may have had surgery to remove a part of your body, and you may have scars. You may now have an ostomy as part of your treatment.
These changes, even if only you can see them, can affect self-esteem – or how you feel about yourself. For many people, self-esteem is very closely tied with body image, which is how you feel about your body. At times, you may feel unattractive and negative about your body. Even though the effects of treatment may not show on the outside, body changes can still be troubling because the "old body" is lost. These feelings can be difficult to cope with.
You may be afraid to go out and be with other people. You may worry about rejection or not want to be intimate with your partner. You may be feeling angry, upset or sad.
What might help
For some changes, like hair loss from chemotherapy, it can help to remember that they are only temporary. You'll probably begin to look and feel more like your old self when treatment is over.
But some changes, such as loss of a body part or surgical scars, are permanent. You will need time to adjust to these. People often worry about how they look to a partner, children, other family members and friends. They may be afraid that body changes make them unattractive, might scare family members or get in the way of staying close.
Changes in the way you look can be difficult for you and your loved ones. It takes time to grieve the loss of your "old body" and work through feelings about the changes. It may help to talk about how you're feeling with your partner or a trusted friend. A support group with people who have had similar cancer experiences can give you a place to speak with others who are coping with the same fears and concerns you have. Your healthcare team can suggest professional counsellors who have experience in helping people cope with body changes and improve self-esteem.
Staying active, visiting with friends and doing activities you enjoy can help you feel better about your body image.
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WelcomeThe German Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy are delighted to present our Black History Month in Berlin program: A six-week series of events that will focus on the influence of the African Diaspora in Germany and around the world. The opening event of the series will take place on 20th January, the day that marks the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.
The program will then continue throughout February 2009 with a full and varied timetable of events that will explore the political, societal and cultural influences the African Diaspora has had world-wide, with a special focus on the role of the African Diaspora Community in Germany.
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Episode 089: How to Harness the Power of Disruption with Jay Samit
How Self Disruption Can Lead to Greater Success and Prosperity
What will the number 1 job be 20 years from now? Do you know? Odds are it hasn't even been thought of yet. So how do you prepare for it? In a world that is changing so rapidly how do you ensure that you will be able to make a living–let alone change the world. In today's episode we interview a man who has made a career out of adapting to our ever changing world.
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In today's episode, our guest and I talk about:
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Although often dismissed by industry veterans and novices alike as trivial, working in proximity to live 120V circuits leads to the untimely and unexpected death of many workers each year (see Lessons in Low Voltage below). What many electrical workers don't realize is that any 120V shock is potentially lethal — and surviving such an event should be viewed as a bullet dodged rather than something that simply comes with the territory. No one starts their day anticipating they will be a decedent by sunset. Unfortunately, this is the story of an electrical field technician who did not dodge the 120V bullet and paid the price with his life.
The scene
The day started like any other for this field technician, who was working for a company that routinely installed temporary electrical power systems at various construction sites.
The circuits installed were typically 2-phase, low-voltage (120/240V). Power was delivered to temporary wooden power poles using heavy extension cords, which were connected using twistlock-type connectors. The cords ran between the permanent power source that was owned by the electric utility and the first temporary pole in the series of poles. Given the need to drive multiple large loads associated with tools on construction sites, minimizing the distance from power source to load was always a concern on these sites. Shorter distances translated to lower voltage drop along the line. If the voltage at the load was too low, the tools would not perform as needed.
The accident
On the day of the incident, the victim was asked to disconnect one source from a pole (previously set up by his company) and connect a series of temporary poles to a closer power source (also set up by his company).
Upon arriving at the scene, the man and his supervisor walked through the site, inspecting the work area. First, the technician was to perform a live cutout of the more distant power source, thus de-energizing and isolating a series of poles. This task entailed placing a ladder against one pole, climbing the ladder, and cutting the two live 120V phases, the neutral, and finally cutting the ground, presumably with wire cutters. Doing this work "live" meant that any equipment connected upstream of the cutout on the live sequence of poles would not suffer a power interruption.
With the supervisor watching, the victim, who was not wearing insulated gloves, successfully cut out the live circuit. Based on testimony from his supervisor, the technician was then supposed to separate a male and female twistlock connector in a sequence of power cords, thus breaking a live connection to the closer power source and leaving a de-energized cord that was to be connected to the recently de-energized series of temporary poles. The next step was to place a ladder on the pole where the new connection was to be made and remove the insulating electrical tape on the wire-clamps from the (now de-energized) wire coming from the upstream pole (where the successful live cutout had just been completed). Finally, the victim was to connect the ground, neutral, and two phases coming from the power cord. Upon completion of the connection process, he was instructed to reconnect the twistlock and energize the sequence of poles from the closer power source.
After observing the live cutout, the supervisor went about other business for only a few minutes. Upon his return, he noticed the technician was not at the top of the pole (where he was supposed to be making the new connection). Soon thereafter, he heard moaning and quickly found the victim at the bottom of the ladder in apparent distress. Although the supervisor immediately called 911, and help arrived as soon as possible, the man died at the scene.
A lawsuit quickly ensued, with the estate/family of the decedent suing the owner of the construction site. I was retained by the plaintiff's counsel as a forensic expert to examine all of the evidence, reconstruct the accident scenario, and explain to what extent the decedent had contributed to his own death.
The investigation
Although the utility had no ownership or liability, the first technical person on the scene was a troubleman from the power company. He made several initial assessments. First, he noted that the ladder was fiberglass; therefore, it would not have provided a pathway to ground. The ground wire to the new source at the top of the pole had been properly connected. Upon inspection, he found that the insulating tape covering the wire-clamps from the line just cut out (the old source) to the pole had been removed, but the clamps were still connected to the wires leading to downstream poles.
On the new line to be connected, he noticed that the neutral (white) was cut but not stripped or connected. One phase (red) was cut and fully stripped back approximately 1 inch. The other phase (black) was cut with the insulation slid a short distance back but still intact on the wire. He measured the voltage on the exposed phases at 120V. Subsequently, per testimony by the supervisor, the twistlock that was supposed to break the live connection from the new source was still connected, thus explaining why the wires at the top of the pole were live.
Continuing the investigation, OSHA offered additional analysis, including the following clues. Pieces of electrical tape were observed on the ground at the foot of the pole. The missing piece of red insulation was not found at the base of the pole or anyplace else for that matter. A pair of insulated wire cutters was found at the base of the ladder, some distance away from the base of the pole.
The body of the decedent was found face down with his feet close to the bottom of the ladder and his head facing away from the ladder. Revealing a single burn in the middle of the decedent's chest, the autopsy also noted that there were no injuries consistent with a fall from any significant height as might be expected in a fall from a ladder.
The findings
There was no doubt that this case involved an electric shock. The question was one of contributory negligence. The defense's theory appeared to be that contrary to the supervisor's instructions the decedent had chosen to work on a live wire, had failed to test the wire with a multimeter (as would have been good practice), and had begun to make a live connection. Next, they alleged he made contact with an energized phase while using the wire cutter, received a shock, and fell from the ladder, ultimately dying from electrically induced ventricular fibrillation.
From a forensic perspective, this case remained somewhat of a mystery, based on several circumstances. The lack of wounds consistent with a fall from the height necessary to work on the wires was troubling to say the least. In addition, no one took pictures of the placement of the wires before the investigation began. The wire cutter found on the ground was not at the base of the pole, as would have been anticipated if it had been dropped immediately following the shock. The handle of the wire cutter was insulated. Although tape, (presumably removed from the wire clamps), was found at the base of the pole, the stripped insulation from the red phase was nowhere to be found. This raised the question as to whether or not the wire had been stripped previously — or if the decedent had in fact even been working on the wires at the time of the electrical contact. In my opinion, had he been the one who stripped the red wire, the red piece of insulation would have been found somewhere.
At autopsy, less than 50% of all deaths caused by low-voltage contact are found to have burn injuries. The lack of burns delineating either entry or exit points are thus not definitive unto themselves. The single burn observed could have been an entry, an exit, but given its appearance, I thought it might have even been both, caused by close proximity between entry and exit points. It was quite possible that in climbing the ladder the decedent had not yet even begun work on the wires, and that two wires had contacted his chest, thus causing the burn and fibrillating his heart. Still, there was the issue of the lack of wounds from a fall. I also felt that the placement of the decedent's body was not consistent with a fall from the top of the ladder.
Despite the fact that there were no witnesses to the actual event, after considering all of the evidence present — and considering the probability of certain unknown factors — I concluded there was no evidence to suggest that the decedent had actively been working on the wires at the time of the electrical contact. Furthermore, I concluded that immediately following the electrical contact, the decedent was conscious long enough to climb down the ladder before falling in the position he was found as if exiting the ladder. As to the wire cutter at the base of the ladder, I believe it was either dropped or fell from his tool belt as he stumbled at the bottom of the ladder. Although no one can say for sure, there is a very good probability that it was not dropped directly from the top of the ladder.
Ultimately, I felt it was impossible to demonstrate to the legal standard that the decedent had actively contributed to his own demise. Independent of my other findings, I offered no comment regarding why the wire had not been disconnected at the twistlock. That was beyond my scope.
Like so many cases, because this case did not go to trial, we will never know how a jury would have viewed the evidence or weighed the opposing input from experts, such as myself. Unfortunately, I suppose only the decedent truly knows what happened on the ladder that day.
The lesson to be learned here is that no one is immune from the dangers of 120V — and that the next contact may be lethal. Given this reality, electrical workers should never develop a complacent attitude when working on or around 120V circuits.
To help prevent future accidents, anyone doing this type of work should hold regular tailgate meetings to emphasize the need for safety around live circuits. No circuit should ever be considered de-energized until tested. More specifically, circuits should be tested, procedures followed exactly as specified, and training should never minimize the risk from 120V. All live contacts — even those made with 120V circuits — should be made using personal protective gear. Following these safety tips goes a long way toward preventing more workers from becoming a tragic statistic.
Morse is a researcher and consultant who serves as a full professor of electrical engineering at the University of San Diego.
Sidebar: Lessons in Low Voltage
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 278 workers lost their lives in 1999 as a result of on-the-job electrocutions. This number accounted for almost 5% of all job-related deaths. Among work-related electrocutions (1992 to 1999), approximately one-third were linked to high-voltage (power line) contacts. A large percentage of the remaining on-the-job electrocution deaths were from low-voltage contacts.
While almost all high-voltage contacts result in burns and hospitalization, very few low-voltage contacts result in any injury requiring treatment. Therefore, they go unreported and are lost from statistical evaluation. Ironically, the two most likely outcomes from low-voltage contact are either no injury at all or death (from electrically induced ventricular fibrillation.) What we can learn from these statistics is that no one should have a false sense of security when working in proximity to live 120V circuits.


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