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Inside Director's Message___________________________ 2 $15.6 Million Innovation Center Underway______ 3 Students Develop Shuttle Bus Tracker_________ 4 Molding Dreams into Reality_________________ 9 Supermileage Team No. 1 Again!______________ 10 Faculty and Staff News______________________ 11 Alumnus Leaves $1.1 Million Gift____________ 12
Engineering News PENN STATE ERIE, THE BEHREND COLLEGE
Open Lab Realized You may have heard the term "open lab," but do you know what it actually is? It's not just a buzzword or vague concept. It's a formal partnership between industry and academia in which faculty members and students work with engineers, scientists, and technical personnel on applied research projects sponsored and, ultimately owned, by the companies involved. "Open lab is a true win-win," said Dr. Ralph Ford, director of the School of Engineering and associate dean for industry and external relations. "Our students and faculty members benefit from the expertise and knowledge of industry partners. At the same time, their work advances the technology that supports companies."
Open lab Exhibit A The SKF North America Aerospace Innovation Center, a 1,400-square foot research and development space in Knowledge Park, is a great example of a successful open lab partnership. Having graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Technology program himself, Greg Zimmerman '02, manager of product development for SKF USA, knew collaborating with the School of Engineering could benefit SKF. He championed the innovation center,
Greg Zimmerman '02, center, manager of product development for SKF USA, has been working on a polymer project with Dr. Alicyn Rhoades '01, assistant professor of engineering, second from left, and engineering students, from left, Ryan Gillon, Anne Musgrave '13, and Jeremy Weigand.
which opened in January 2013. "Behrend offered a package with three key elements: a flexible intellectual property policy, shared research space close to the college, and a business-minded team structure already in place to support open lab development," Zimmerman said. Currently, more than a dozen students and faculty members are working on four long-term research projects, collaborating with SKF Aerospace teams
in the United States and Europe to offer highly engineered customized solutions for aircraft, helicopter, engine, and system manufacturers. With success comes growth Dr. Alicyn Rhoades '01, assistant professor of engineering, has been working on a polymer technology project for SKF Aerospace for more than a year. Early Continued on page 10
Director's Message
Ralph M. Ford, Ph.D.
What is the value of a university education? What's the return on investment for earning a college degree? What might be lost if students take all of their courses online? What are universities doing to support economic development in their communities?
These are the big questions of the day. While we don't profess to have all of the answers, the activities our students and faculty members are engaged in through our open lab strategy provide some insight and demonstrate the power of a university education when blended with initiative, innovation, and collaboration with business and industry partners. Two sophomore engineering students, Austin Kelleher and Dan Hankewycz, envisioned and created a real-time campus shuttle bus tracking system, which enhanced the lives of their fellow students. A Plastics Engineering Technology senior helped a local inventor and entrepreneur realize her dreams and bring the "Santi a pennello" brush to market. With the opening of the SKF Innovation Center in our Knowledge Park, our students and faculty members are engaged in applied research projects with a global industry partner. And, last but not least, our students built another winning supermileage vehicle that took top honors at the SAE International Supermileage competition in Marshall, Michigan, in 2013. These are all examples of the School of Engineering's vision of being a place where making things matters—integrating the fundamentals of science and engineering with practical experiences. It is why our alumni are highly sought after and it is testament to the importance and value of a Penn State Behrend degree.
New Interdisciplinary Master's Degree Offered
The School of Engineering is now offering its first master's degree. The 32-credit Master of Manufacturing Management will provide a unique set of engineering, business, quality-control, and communication skills that are considered to be essential to management success in an increasingly global marketplace. Classes will begin in July. Within the Penn State system, the program is offered exclusively at Behrend. It is being administered by the college's School of Engineering in collaboration with the Sam and Irene Black School of Business. Graduates of the program will learn the fundamentals of materials, processes, and product design, as well as the critical skills that are required to communicate effectively at all levels of an organization. They will develop leadership and team-building techniques and process-improvement methods that focus on lean manufacturing and Six Sigma standards. The initial courses for the Master of Manufacturing Management program are designed for working professionals, with small classes meeting in evening sessions. Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree in an engineering, engineering technology, business, or science discipline and have a solid background in calculus, statistics, and computing. For more information, contact the School of Engineering at 814-898-6153 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
60,000 Square Feet of Opportunity As the School of Engineering's reputation for excellence grows, so does its student enrollment, roster of industry partners, and facility needs. To accommodate the rapidly expanding school and provide space for students, faculty members, and business and industry associates to work together, the college will soon break ground on a $15.6 million Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center on the south side of Technology Drive, near the Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center. The two-story building will add 60,000 square feet of space to Knowledge Park, a partnership of the college and DevelopErie. More than 500 people already work in the park's five buildings, which are fully occupied.
The new building will contain eight classrooms and twenty-five faculty offices. Industrial tenants will occupy nearly half of the new building, where shared research space will support collaboration with students and faculty members. The center will advance the college's "open lab" initiative in which students, faculty members, and business leaders engage in research and development as teams. Corporate tenants at the center will have access to the school's engineering labs and equipment. Those resources, combined with a new relaxed Penn State intellectual property policy that allows companies to own the results of the research they fund, are drawing technology companies to Knowledge Park.
The center will advance the college's "open lab" initiative.
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Students Drive Change
Austin Kelleher, left, and Daniel Hankewycz built a tracking system for the campus shuttle bus. Students can now use their smartphones to see exactly when the bus will arrive at stops on campus.
On a campus with 1,400 budding engineers, maintaining the status quo is unlikely. Engineers, by nature, change the world around them—rethinking products, enhancing operations, and finding ways to do things more cost effectively. Someone is always working to improve something. Case in point: The free campus shuttle bus, the "e," which loops through the college from University Gates to Knowledge Park, now can be tracked online in real time. If you're a student standing in the cold and wondering when the next bus is coming, you can whip out your smartphone and visit bus.bd.psu.edu to watch the vehicles' progress. You can even click on the stop to get an estimated time of arrival at each location. The project was student-driven, from concept to application. "The original idea was suggested to me by one of our stu-
dents, Jeffrey Knapp, but time constraints made it impossible for him to work on it," said Dr. Chris Coulston, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Coulston presented the project as an independent research experience to Computer Engineering sophomore Daniel Hankewycz and Computer Science sophomore Austin Kelleher. "They had buckets of enthusiasm, and they have lots of talent," Coulston said. The students worked closely with Coulston over the summer to build, install, and test the shuttle tracker system. "Daniel worked next to me in the office and built several printed circuit boards and did a lot of the programming," Coulston said. "Austin worked on the web development from his home in New York. The three of us had conference calls nearly every day to discuss accomplishments and plans."
The free campus bus now can be tracked online in real time.
A mobile tracking device installed on the bus determines the bus' position using GPS satellite.
The GPS satellite communicates this information to base stations.
The base stations located in Burke Center and Knowledge Park communicate this information using special radios.
INTERNET A software program translates the location information into an easy-to-follow "e" logo superimposed on a campus map.
The bus' location can be viewed in real time via an app on your smartphone.
The system works like this: A mobile tracking device, built by Hankewycz and installed on the bus, determines its position using GPS satellite, then communicates this to base stations in Burke Center and Knowledge Park using special radios. Then, a software program written by Kelleher translates the location information into an easy-to-follow "e" logo superimposed on a campus map. While it sounds simple, there were, of course, many challenges along the way. "The radio we started with wasn't powerful enough so we had to upgrade that," Hankewycz said, "and we had to figure out how to compensate for momentary loss of the bus' signal," Kelleher said. "So, at times, the software has to predict where the bus is based on its speed and where it was last." The project has been well received. On average, it is visited 100 times a day. There's no doubt that Hankewycz and Kelleher's summer project made life a little easier for their fellow students, particularly during what turned out to be an unusually brutal winter.
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Governor Touts Partnership
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett toured FMC Technologies Measurement Solutions in Erie and was impressed by the partnership the company has forged with the college. "At the FMC Technologies Engineering Design Center, engineering students from Penn State Behrend work on company projects while at the same time training for jobs," Corbett said. "It's a clear example of how, by partnering with the energy industry, we have made it possible for technology firms to expand in Pennsylvania, while spinning off thousands of other jobs up and down the supply chain." 6
Student-Created App Available on Android Market "The Mind's Lie," a cell-phone game designed by 2013 Software Engineering graduates Stephen Chalker, Kit Torrelli, and Joe Grise was put on Android Market in February and has already been downloaded nearly 100 times. It is the first game designed by Penn State Behrend students to be sold in a public app store. "It is extremely rewarding," said Chalker. "This was the first project I worked on that was not just for a grade, but for the public to download and play." The game was designed to be used in classes taught by Kristan Wheaton, an associate professor of intelligence studies at Mercyhurst University, but now it can be played anywhere by anyone. In "The Mind's Lie," players are given a scenario and asked to identify one of six kinds of bias that might be present. They earn points for voting with the majority or convincing others that a different answer is correct. Chalker said the game is played by individuals in the intelligence field, and
downloads have grown steadily. "It is the crown jewel of my resume, and people are fascinated whenever I bring it up," Chalker said. "I really have to thank the folks at Penn State Behrend for having a senior design program where students can get real-world experience." "The Mind's Lie" may have been the first game, but Dr. Matthew White, lecturer in game development, believes it will not be the last. "For us, the most important thing about this is that it's proved a concept," White said. "From beginning to end, our students can build a game and launch it on a public store."
FMC Technologies Donates 3D Printer Engineering students have a new tool in their design belt—a 3D printer that can produce in real form virtually any shape students can create with computer-aided design software. The printer, which was donated by FMC Technologies, is worth more than $40,000. 3D printers allow product designers to create functional, lightweight prototypes and parts in a fraction of the time and cost of using traditional tool-and-die methods. The gift of the machine enhances an existing partnership between the college and FMC Technologies Measurement Solutions, an Erie-based manufacturer of precision metering products for the oil and gas industry. More than twenty Penn State Behrend engineering students are currently employed at the company's $500,000 engineering design center, which opened in 2012.
Pictured with the new 3D printer are, from left, Dr. Greg Dillon, associate director for research/technology transfer; Jim Ertl, vice president and general manager of FMC Technologies' Erie operations; Edward Saffron, FMC's Erie operations manager, and Dr. Ralph Ford, director of the School of Engineering and associate dean for industry and external relations.
" Never in a million years did I dream that I'd be an inventor. If it weren't for Penn State Behrend, I wouldn't be." — F R A N C E S C A D I S A N T I , E R I E I N V E N TO R
Senior Project Molds Hairdresser Into Entrepreneur Francesca DiSanti has been styling hair for nearly forty years. For thirty of them, she has been lamenting the loss of a special tool—a flexible plastic brush/comb combo—that made unsnarling curly or tangled hair easy and painless. DiSanti lost the tool early in her career and was never able to find another like it. She mentioned her dilemma to a client who suggested that DiSanti make her own tool. "I laughed and said, 'Me? How would I ever do that?'" she said. The client, Kathy Dahlkemper, Erie's county executive and a former U.S. Congresswoman, told DiSanti she should call Penn State Behrend's School of Engineering for help. The next day, DiSanti mentioned to a friend what Dahlkemper had suggested. The friend knew a Behrend engineering professor, who in turn put DiSanti in contact with Jason Williams, a lecturer in engineering. Williams thought DiSanti's tool would make a good senior capstone project and included it on a list of thirty assignments that students could pick from at the start of the next academic year. "The brush was my first choice because I was very interested in making new products," said Chad McDonough, then an upperlevel Plastics Engineering Technology student. "I found the whole process of turning a simple idea into a real product exciting." McDonough jumped in, interviewing local hair stylists and compiling a list of their needs that fit the outline of DiSanti's old brush. From the moment DiSanti met McDonough, she was impressed. "He was truly interested in my idea, and he asked great questions," she said. "He was very enthusiastic." McDonough worked on the tool over three semesters, spending nearly 400 hours fine-tuning the design, experimenting with various handles, testing bristles, and creating C.A.D. drawings and 3-D models.
" It was very rewarding to work on this project with Fran, and it gave me a lot of experience that I have used and will continue to use in the plastics industry,"
"I did a little extra work with the tooling because I figured if it was easy to get tooling made, the brush had a better chance of actually being manufactured," he said. "The final model was sent to mold builders and plastics production companies. With each price and method of production, a customer package was put together that gave DiSanti molding cost, production cost, and unit cost," McDonough said. By the end of the academic year, DiSanti held her dream in her hand—the "Santi a pennello" brush. "Santi" is a nod to her surname and "a pennello" is Italian for "fits like a glove." DiSanti sought Erie-area companies to manufacture the tool, choosing a mold maker in North East and a manufacturer in Girard. It was important to her that the tool be as American-made as possible. She has received nothing but positive feedback. "I've had people ask, 'What's so special about it?' Then they try it and they understand," she said. The Santi a pennello brush, $25, is sold at various salons in the Erie area, but DiSanti hopes soon to distribute the brush through salons in California and Florida. She has sold about 500 brushes so far. "It's expensive when compared to brushes you can buy at the big box stores, but you can't buy this tool there, and there is nothing else like it," DiSanti said. "I know. I looked for thirty years." For more information or to learn where to buy the Santi a pennello brush, email email@example.com. 9
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success has allowed the project to blossom. Now, a half-dozen faculty members and students are working on various aspects of the project. "It started small, but it's grown all these legs," Rhoades said with a laugh. "None of us thought that project would grow so quickly," Zimmerman said, "but the growth is based on performance. They've done some impressive work." Jeremy Weigand, a junior Plastics Engineering Technology major who is working with Rhoades on the polymer project, said doing applied research at the undergraduate level has been a valuable experience. "I've learned a lot about setting realistic goals and expectations for research and development," Weigand said. "Sometimes, things that look easy to accomplish on paper aren't that way in practical application." Weigand will have much more time to learn as he's been offered a summer internship at SKF's primary research and development facility in the Netherlands. Eye on the end product Zimmerman is quick to point out that the research and development projects that SKF Aerospace is engaged in with Behrend have timelines and objectives. "These are product-focused, application-driven projects that are expected to be realized in one to three years," he said. The fact that many of Behrend's engineering faculty have industry experience has been beneficial, Zimmerman said. Rhoades worked at Bayer Material Sciences before accepting a position at Behrend. "After graduate school, I could have spent my time doing sponsored research, but working in the industry gave me a whole new skill set. With the SKF project, there's an end-user that expects regular updates and progress. It keep us all on our toes." "The fact that the projects we are working on now have continued, and in some cases grown larger, just goes to show that we did our due diligence in choosing projects—and the people to work on them," Zimmerman said. "Clearly, we came to the right place." If your company is interested in partnering with Behrend, contact Amy Bridger at email@example.com. 10
No. 1 … Again!
The Supermileage Team took first place in the SAE International Supermileage Competition for the second year in a row! The team's carbon-fiber test car got 1,290 miles from a single gallon of gas during the competition, which was held in June at Eaton Corporation's test track in Marshall, Michigan. The team edged out Brigham Young University for the win. This year's car was twenty pounds lighter. Students added a leaf-spring suspension and a rotary-valve engine. They installed a trip computer, which automatically idled the engine at 20 miles per hour. Any faster, and the car would have been less efficient. The Supermileage Team is already hard at work on this year's vehicle.
Join the Engineering Alumni Network Stay connected with former classmates and faculty members and register for the School of Engineering Alumni Network. We like to stay in contact with former students and we'd like to invite you to participate in alumni surveys for accreditation and faculty review purposes. As an alumnus, once you register and log in, you'll be able to view the contact information of other alumni. Nearly 400 are already registered. Visit behrend.psu.edu/engineering and click on "Alumni" in the menu bar on the left.
Faculty and Staff News New Faculty and Staff
Celebrating Twenty Years of Innovation
Every graduate of the School of Engineering is required to complete a capstone design experience—an intensive, year-long, hands-on design project in which they work with a faculty adviser and industry sponsor to develop solutions to real-world challenges. Each spring, the students showcase their work at the Fasenmyer Engineering Design Conference at the Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center. This year marked the twentieth anniversary of the conference, which is named for the late Richard J. Fasenmyer '69, a longtime supporter of the School of Engineering. A native of Erie, Fasenmyer began his Penn State education at Behrend and earned a degree in Accounting in 1969. He subsequently founded RJF International Corp., a world leader in the manufacture and distribution of interior wall coverings, industrial matting products, and specialty films. The first alumnus to donate $1 million to the college, Fasenmyer died in 2002 at the age of 55. Three years later, the annual conference was named for him as a tribute to his legacy. On the subject of impressive alumni, this year's keynote speaker, George Dodworth '99, put on quite a show. Dodworth, owner of Lightwave International Inc., is an Electrical Engineering and Physics graduate who began experimenting with laser light in his residence hall at Behrend. His hobby grew into a multi-talented production house specializing in dazzling laser light shows and special effects for film, touring, corporate, and civic events. His Pittsburgh-based company is internationally known for creating the world's largest full-color entertainment lasers. Lightwave, which has accompanied such major artists as Madonna, Rihanna, Shakira, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Katy Perry, Skrillex, and Tom Petty on multi-year tours, presented four laser demonstrations during the conference. It was a fanfare celebration befitting two decades of remarkable and innovative work by talented students in the School of Engineering. Here's to another twenty years of industry partnerships and innovative engineering solutions.
The school welcomes eight new faculty members: Dr. Omar Ashour, assistant professor of industrial engineering; Dr. Adam Hollinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Dr. Yuan-Han Huang, assistant professor of industrial engineering; Mr. Robin Panda, instructor of electrical and computer engineering; Dr. Mohammad Rasouli, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Dr. Shraddha Sangelkar, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Dr. Liyong Sun, assistant professor of engineering; and Dr. Zhefeng Xiao, assistant professor of computer science and software. Read more about each of them at behrend.psu. edu/engineeringnews. Kristy Bunce is the new office manager in the School of Engineering. Lynn Lewis has also joined the staff as a receptionist. Caitlyn Catalfu is the new scheduling officer for the school.
Award Recipients Three faculty and staff members were recognized with School of Engineering awards in 2013: Dr. John T. Roth, professor of mechanical engineering, Excellence in Research Award; Stacey McCoy, administrative support assistant, Excellence in Service Award; and Lucy Lenhardt, plastics lab research assistant, Excellence in Outreach Award.
School Leadership Dr. Xiaocong Fan was promoted to associate professor of computer science and software engineering.
Silver Service Anniversaries Three faculty and staff members celebrated twenty-five years of service: David Forsman, lecturer in engineering; David Loker, chair of electrical and computer engineering technology and associate professor of engineering; and Sherry Cooley-Johnson, administrative support assistant.
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SIGN OF EXCELLENCE: A monument signifying Penn State Behrend as an official chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, has been installed on Technology Drive near the Burke parking ramp. It is a watch key in the shape of the bent of a trestle, the load-bearing part of a bridge, meant to represent Tau Beta Pi's principles of integrity and excellence in engineering.
Alumnus' $1.1 Million Gift Creates New Scholarships We'd love to ask Frank S. Palkovic '68 why he chose to leave his estate, worth more than $1 million, to Penn State Behrend's School of Engineering, but his gift was a surprise, bequeathed to the college after his October 2012 death. Palkovic earned an associate degree in Drafting Design and Technology at Penn State Behrend. He went on to earn a bachelor of science in Engineering at Penn State Harrisburg, and worked as a civil engineer for Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engineers in Erie before retiring to Florida.
His gift will provide more than fifty new trustee scholarships for engineering students every year. "Trustee scholarships are awarded to students who have the highest financial need," said Ralph Ford, director of the School of Engineering and associate dean for industry and external relations. "We are grateful to Mr. Palkovic for his generosity, which will make an engineering education accessible for many qualified students." While we can't ask Palkovic for a quote, his final gift speaks volumes.
His gift will provide more than fifty new trustee scholarships for engineering students every year.
Frank S. Palkovic '68
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North American Housing & HIV/AIDS Research Summit VII
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"Closing the Housing Gap in the HIV Treatment Cascade"
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About the Summit Series
Launched in 2005, the Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Series is a unique interdisciplinary forum for consideration of research findings and policy initiatives that focus on the role of housing, poverty and other structural determinants of HIV prevention and care outcomes. Summit meetings support knowledge transfer and evidence-based skill building among people with HIV/AIDS, health and housing researchers, service providers, and policy makers at the global, national and local levels. The Summit Series has become the primary venue for informing HIV/AIDS housing policy in North America, and is an influential forum for broader discussion of the role of housing in disease prevention and management.
A strong evidence base identifies housing status as a key social driver of HIV vulnerability and health outcomes, and shows that receipt of housing assistance has an independent, direct impact on HIV care, health status and mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS. Participants in Summit Series meetings share and discuss new research findings, and then work together to translate the evolving evidence on housing and health into concrete action strategies to inform policy, practice and ongoing research.
The North American Summit Series and International AIDS Conference satellite meetings have enabled partners to:
~ Build a platform that invites the development of germane research;
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~ Develop new partners and enhanced support for structural HIV prevention and care interventions; and
~ Create policy change on the national and local levels by means of evidence-based strategies.
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NAHC will provide a limited number of scholarships for individuals to attend Summit VII who are, or have been, consumers of HIV/AIDS housing and related services. Scholarship recipients are encouraged to be active Summit participants. To prepare recipients for discussions, relevant research materials and background information will be made available prior to the Summit.
To apply click here or visit our website at www.hivhousingsummit.org.
Scholarships will cover the Summit VII registration fee, travel costs, three nights at a conference hotel, and the cost of meals not covered by the registration fee. However, applicants are encouraged to seek support from local programs to cover all or part of accommodations and travel. This will enable more consumers to participate. Please contact NAHC if you need a letter of support to provide to a potential sponsor.
Interested consumers are asked to complete the attached application form and return it to NAHC by e-mail or mail on or before June 15, 2013. Notice of acceptance will be provided not later than July 26, 2013.
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Media prank
A media prank is a type of media event, perpetrated by staged speeches, activities, or press releases, designed to trick legitimate journalists into publishing erroneous or misleading articles. The term may also refer to such stories if planted by fake journalists, as well as the false story thereby published. A media prank is a form of culture jamming generally done as performance art or a practical joke for purposes of a humorous critique of mass media.
Notable instances[edit]
In May 1927, Jean-Paul Sartre, who was known as one of the fiercest pranksters at the École Normale Superieure[1][2] organized with his comrades Nizan, Larroutis, Baillou and Herland,[3] a media prank following Charles Lindbergh's successful New York-Paris flight. Sartre & Co. called newspapers telling them that Lindbergh would be awarded an honorary degree by the École. Many newspapers including Le Petit Parisien announced the event on May 25 and thousands showed up, unaware that they were witnessing a stunt with a look-alike.[4][5][6] A scandal followed resulting in the resignation of the École director Gustave Lanson.[5][7]
One well-known 1967 prank, orchestrated by Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg and chronicled in Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, involved a mock gathering protesting the Vietnam War (that many media took as a serious but misguided effort) intended to levitate the Pentagon.[8]
Joey Skaggs is one of the most prolific creators of media pranks in the United States, often using actors to stage outlandish public events that are then covered by news media as real stories.[9] Among his many pranks, he convinced United Press International to report that cockroach hormones had been identified as a cure for arthritis,[9] and tricked WABC-TV in New York city to create a news segment (which was nominated for an Emmy Award despite being untrue) about a supposed "cathouse for dogs".[9]
The band Negativland is (according to Time Magazine) "better known for media pranks than records". The band, as an excuse for cancelling an upcoming tour, issued a press release claiming that a teenager who had committed a multiple ax murder did so after arguing with his parents over the meaning of its song, Christianity Is Stupid. The story was picked up and reprinted as true by mass media, and the band wrote later songs about having perpetrated the hoax.[10] In 2003 the band issued a series of press releases accusing Seattle, Washington radio station KJR-FM of playing 1980s music despite claiming it only played "the best of the 60s and 70s" then, after the radio station changed its format, issued more press releases announcing that it had all been a prank.[11]
Beginning in 1999 with the fake campaign-oriented website gwbush.com, the Yes Men have impersonated famous celebrities, politicians, and business officials at appearances, interviews, websites, and other media to make political points.[12]
In December, 2009 an Argentina news station fell victim to a media prank. Acting on a Facebook link, an investigative reporter believed that the latest trend in underage drinking was tied to a new cocktail mix called Grog XD. Unbeknown to the reporter, the recipe was from the video game The Secret of Monkey Island.[13][14]
Although media pranks may serve as legitimate criticism of the press, and artistic creations in their own right, they are often criticized not only for the disruption they cause but as simple publicity stunts that take advantage of the very failures of mass media that they ostensibly oppose.[9] Skaggs has criticized the Flash mob movement, as being frivolous and lacking the countercultural element of more serious protest art.[8]
See also[edit]
- ^ Jean-Pierre Boulé Sartre, self-formation, and masculinities p.53
- ^ Cohen-Solal, Annie (1988) Sartre: A Life pp.61-2 quote:
During his first years at the Ecole, Sartre was the fearsome instigator of all the revues, all the jokes, all the scandals.
- ^ Godo, Emmanuel (2005) Sartre en diable p.41
- ^ Hayman, Ronald (1987) Sartre: a life pp.69, 318
- ^ a b John Gerassi (1989) Jean-Paul Sartre: Protestant or protester? pp.76-7
- ^ Jean-Paul Sartre - philosopher, social advocate
- ^ Sartre By David Drake p.26
- ^ a b Ellen Gamerman (2008-09-12). "The New Pranksters". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ a b c d Mark Dery (1990-12-23). "The Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax". New York Times.
- ^ Neil Strauss (1994-12-19). "A Reluctant Success". New York Times.Chris Dahlen (2004-12-03). "Negativ energy:Hosler hits the road". Boston Phoenix.
- ^ "Negativland Uses Mosquito Fleet To Bite Clear Channel and the NAB". Infoshop news. 2002-09-13.
- ^ John McMurtrie (2004-10-03). "Pulling Pranks on Those in Power". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ "Reporter Uncovers the Dangers of Drinking Grog XD". Asylum.com. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ "" (2009-08-29). "C5N - La irresponsabilidad de un noticiero". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
External links[edit]
- artoftheprank.com - website devoted, among other things, to covering media pranks


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Solid product, however it won't fit into a 32oz Ball jar, which is what we were attempting to do, stomping down sauerkraut. If we can find somebody with a wood lathe we may have them shave down a 1/4 or so so it will fit because it is so close to fitting. It wouldn't take much shaved off.


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For the first time since 1998 and only the sixth time in school history, the University of Tennessee women's cross country team will compete in the NCAA Championship race. The Lady Vols, under the direction of first-year Head Coach J.J. Clark, are among a list of 31 schools that will vie for a national title Monday at the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind.
UT, which qualified automatically for the event by winning the NCAA South Regional on Nov. 16 at Lambert Acres Golf Club in Maryville, Tenn., will run on the 6,000-meter home course of Indiana State University at noon on Monday. In the field of teams, the Big Orange will see SEC foe No. 8 Arkansas as well as six other schools Clark's squad ran against during the 2002 campaign. Top-ranked Brigham Young, No. 2 Stanford and No. 3 Colorado are considered the favorites.
Tennessee enters the meet receiving a season-high 35 points in the FinishLynx/NCAA Division I Women's Cross Country Poll to rate one spot outside the nation's top 30. Clark's goal since the beginning of the season has been to qualify for the meet and pilot his team toward a top-20 finish. That accomplishment would seem to be a reach if freshman Felicia Guliford is unable to go after suffering severe hip pain following last weekend's regional meet. The Gallup, N.M., product was on crutches early in the week to keep pressure off the injury but has progressed to the point where she will make the trip.
"It's exciting to be going to the NCAA Championships, because this is what we've worked so hard for all season long," Clark said. "We earned this trip through our performance, so we want to go there and run competitively with the top teams in the country.
"We will still run hard regardless of whether Felicia is able to go. If she can't go, we will obviously miss her greatly. Everyone else will just have to give it their best, and we'll let the chips fall where they may."
The modus operandi of the 2002 edition has been for someone different to step into the gap each week and pick up the slack. That kind of team chemistry can be attributed to the expectations Clark has for the squad as well as the example senior leader Sharon Dickie sets.
"It's good to have the kind of leadership that Sharon provides," Clark said. "She knows what needs to be done and gets everyone on the same page. She's a team player who gets others involved, and that attitude has rubbed off on the rest of the team. I have seen Brooke Novak respond to that, and she will benefit from it not only on Monday but next year as well."
All Dickie has done throughout her career is get things done. She enters the NCAA gathering with a streak of 18 consecutive races where she has been Tennessee's top finisher, dating back to the national championship meet of her freshman year on Nov. 23, 1998. As a senior, the Grand Blanc, Mich., native has led her squad to four team victories and a 57-7 record, not to mention the regional title and NCAA appearance.
For her efforts, and for persevering through a career fraught with injuries, Dickie has accomplished several Lady Vol cross country firsts. This season, she became the school's only four-time All-SEC performer, the only four-time All-South Region selection and the sole four-time NCAA Championships qualifier. She could add to the awards cache on Monday by earning All-America distinction for the second time and joining a list of only two others at UT to be honored more than once.
Joining Guliford and Dickie on the trip to Indiana will be juniors Erin Anderson (Kent, Ohio), Christy Baird (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Jessica Southers (Ashland, Ky.), sophomores Elizabeth McCalley (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Brooke Novak (Kaukauna, Wis.) and freshman Megan Cauble (Knoxville, Tenn.). Only seven people can race, so someone will serve as the alternate come race day.
A week ago, Novak and Cauble joined Dickie (second) and Guliford (14th) on the All-South Region team with fourth and 20th-place finishes. Both also ran strong at the SEC meet, with Novak earning all-conference for the second-straight season and Cauble posting the best race of her young career to score third for Tennessee.
While the previously mentioned quartet usually occupies the one through four slots, the number five position has been by committee. Southers came through at the region meet with a 36th-place effort and scored in the fifth spot for UT at the PSU National Invitational. Anderson, meanwhile, has been the fifth orange-clad runner to cross the line at three meets, while McCalley contributed to the scoring cause at two meets, including fifth at the Tennessee Invitational. Baird has run in only one meet this season while working her way back into shape after an injury, but she is capable of filling that role as well.
Clark will need all hands on deck for this assignment. Though the meet is one of great magnitude, the first-year skipper is trying to keep things simple. He appears to be pleased with the way his charges are approaching the task at hand.
"Even though the field is larger in this meet, the concept is the same we've had all year long," Clark said. "Get out early to avoid getting caught in the back and keep our group as close together as possible. I've liked what I've seen in the last couple days of practice."


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Developer Wayne Paffhausen of Butte said that construction of the golf course could begin within two weeks, but declined to comment on anything else, including plans to build a 270-unit subdivision.
Paffhausen's comment, relayed by a reporter, caught city planners by surprise; they had been under the impression that the proposal remained stalled due to financial woes, as it has been for several years. Planners say that no final plats have been approved.
"There is more work to do before they can start construction," said David Loomis, a senior planner with Missoula's Office of Planning and Grants. "We haven't approved any plans yet. Nobody has come down and given us a comprehensive view of what they want in the project."
Loomis did acknowledge that approval could occur soon, but he also said that no housing plans have been approved for the site.
When the OPG last saw the proposal, it called for 270 dwellings, an 18-hole golf course, a driving range and construction of ponds on 392 acres, with a connection to the Kim Williams trail.
The physical location of the proposed development is Bandmann Flats, a chunk of abandoned farmland just east of East Missoula on the south side of the Clark Fork River. The grassy benches of the property currently serve as open space and a travel route for every type of large mammal in the region.
Zoned for one dwelling unit per acre, the project meets land use plans only if you look at the density on the entire chunk of land. The proposal calls for 270 houses clustered on 70 acres of land, while the golf course will account for the rest of the land use, according to OPG's Nancy Heil.
"Overall, it meets the density of the zoning," Heil said. Construction plans for the golf course call for several holes to be built at river side, while the homes will be set back a bit, in the area of Deer Creek Road. Developers will also tie three looped roadways into Deer Creek Road.
A country-club atmosphere will be a change for East Missoula, where the main entertainment venue is down-home Reno's Casino. The area remains a relatively affordable location, close to the University and town, with a core group of working-class residents. But that, too, could change as more upscale subdivisions go in, raising property taxes. The removal of the Milltown Dam and the proposed construction of the Two Rivers whitewater park are predicted to drive property values up, as well, and attract a more affluent crowd.
Then, there's the Canyon River Golf Course.
"We can only grow so close to the airport and the mill with comfort," said Brent Wahlberg, a real estate agent with RE/MAX Realty Consultants. "We have to look to the east sooner or later. When that golf course goes in, there will be more desirability in that area. It will be a good thing for East Missoula. You might be seeing more money in that area."
Year-to-date sales in East Missoula, including the Easy Street neighborhood across I-90 from East Missoula proper, averaged $138,200 in 2003 and crept up to $152,500 during the first quarter of 2004, according to the Missoula County Association of Realtors.
In comparison, golf course homes on the west side of Missoula at Phantom Hills tend to run closer to $300,000, Wahlberg said.
Before golfers hit the green in East Missoula, and potentially drive property values up, the golf course needs to mitigate a number of concerns. First it has to comply with the OPG to get off the ground. Then there are neighborhood concerns about affordable housing, water quality, wildlife corridors and traffic.
Currently, the only access to the proposed golf course is the narrow Deer Creek bridge. And the only way to the narrow bridge is through the neighborhood without sidewalks, East Missoula. With an additional 270 families and golf recreationists driving that route, some residents would like to see a Deer Creek connection to Interstate 90.
Neighbor Jack Brown, who lives near the bridge, doesn't see anything wrong with the development itself, but he's livid about transportation planning for the project.
"If they would [connect Deer Creek to I-90] I would be for it 100 percent," Brown said. "Right now I don't like it at all. They said they would do something with this road before they started."
Fish, Wildlife & Parks wrote four pages of comment on the proposal in August of 2000. They wanted to make sure that no fish would be stocked in Canyon River ponds, and that the golf course took as many steps as possible to prevent polluting the Clark Fork with pesticides.
"A golf course bordering the Clark Fork River seems ill conceived, considering that local governments and corporations in the Missoula area have spent millions of dollars in the last decade to reduce nutrient and pollutant inputs into the river," FW&P's Mack Long wrote. "Golf courses are notorious sources of non-point pollution because of fertilizers and herbicides that are typically applied in high concentrations."
In other written comments on the proposal, East Missoula's Crystal Buck said that the land would be perfect for a conservation easement, given its capacity as a migratory route for bears and lions, among other species, between the Rattlesnake and the Sapphires (the only one, according to FW&P).
"I think you will agree this is not the place for an upscale subdivision," Buck wrote in her comments.


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Today my Couch (1.0.1) took a turn for the worse. Couchdb seemed to be stuck in some sort of error loop which rendered all databases useless. I managed to isolate the problem to a specific database which was causing the following error. [Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:26:02 GMT] [error] [<0.595.0>] ** Generic server <0.595.0> terminating ** Last message in was {pread_iolist,170475046269} ** When Server state == {file,{file_descriptor,prim_file,{#Port<0.2136>,23}}, 0,170475073648} ** Reason for termination == ** {{badmatch,{ok,<<99,111,109,104,2,110,5,0,186,181,74,98,39,104,2,98,0,0 ....SNIP... 106,97,0,100,0,3,110,105,108,100,0,3,110,105,108,98,0,0, 3,232>>}}, [{couch_file,read_raw_iolist_int,3}, {couch_file,handle_call,3}, {gen_server,handle_msg,5}, {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]} I stopped couchdb and moved the entire .couch file out of the database directory and then started couchdb. After that couchdb appeared to be normal with the other databases. The database in questions is ~159GB with ~9M documents and each document has 2-10 attachments. I have recently been running up against some system_limit errors which may have something to do with this although I have not seen any of these errors today. I'm also trying to track down what system_limit I'm hitting. If it was open files wouldn't it be a emfile error? ** {{badmatch,{error,system_limit}}, [{couch_file,sync,1}, {couch_db_updater,commit_data,2}, {couch_db_updater,update_docs_int,5}, {couch_db_updater,handle_info,2}, {gen_server,handle_msg,5}, {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]} Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. -Jason
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The author writes: The state is their favorite tool for all the good they aspire to Doug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-18185551829339900732017-03-17T13:19:00.000-04:002017-03-17T13:19:06.561-04:00Health Insurance Negation Plan (re-post) If you have a "pre-existing" car problem, would anyone sell you car insurance...? It's not like I wrote this in 2009 or anythingDoug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-76144825609499754512016-06-13T11:29:00.002-04:002016-06-13T11:38:44.911-04:00Is Islam a Religion? [author's note: the below is a summary of several posts I published in 2010] During World War II, if the Emperor of Japan or Adolph Hitler had attempted to set up a recruitment office in the center of New York, the U.S. government would have had every right to shut it down. Whether the recruiters were motivated by Shinto or Nazism would not have made a difference, i.e., free speech was not an Doug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-57999768468095932192015-09-24T10:37:00.003-04:002015-09-24T10:37:48.376-04:00The Pope and the Religious LeftIn the wake of the Papal visit to America and his support for left wing causes, I am linking to an article I wrote in 2008 titled, "The Religious Left." Doug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-28849795047042099242015-08-28T01:50:00.002-04:002015-08-31T11:42:48.222-04:00Principles of Immigration in a Free SocietyThe issue of immigration is a hot button issue in the U.S. and has even caused a rift among Objectivist and libertarian minded activists who typically agree on a great many things. There are disparate views ranging from those who argue for open borders, with nothing but a welcome sign, to others who advocate more restrictive policies. When many generally reasonable, thoughtful people disagreeDoug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-18507918510580633492015-03-26T17:57:00.003-04:002015-09-09T14:12:12.001-04:00Meet the Left's Newest Capitalist Straw Man: The Shareholder as Mafia BossIn a recent Washington Post op-ed, Harold Meyerson, an avowed socialist, compares corporations who buy back their own shares to Las Vegas mafia bosses who used to skim casino profits. The basis for his smear is "a recent paper by J.W. Mason, an economist at the City University of New York and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, [who] documents the great shift in what U.S. corporations have doneDoug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-9329749989120246092015-03-09T14:52:00.001-04:002015-03-09T14:53:29.656-04:00The Deception of Central Banking - A Parable Let's say a guy is about to counterfeit millions of dollars and spend it in his town (he's been empowered by secret government commission) with the goal of producing a perceived economic boom. To have the greatest effect, would he be better off publicly announcing his intention to counterfeit with the proviso that if prices go up too much he will stop, or would he be better off spending the Doug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-61288392239141495872015-03-05T18:07:00.001-05:002015-03-06T10:32:58.721-05:00The Real Problem is Strong Central Banks - Not Strong Currencies One myth driving the irrational policies of central planners is the idea that a depreciating currency is good for a domestic economy. Presently, this myth is fueling a so-called "currency war" in which each country attempts to depreciate its own currency relative to others. 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For example, many of the same people who fight for repealing marijuana prohibition, based on the correct premise that people have a right to their own body, at the same time support draconian government regulation of drug companies by the FDA or support laws giving bureaucrats power to control what health Doug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-72004221970874180462014-02-12T17:12:00.003-05:002014-02-13T10:28:41.557-05:00To the Offended Generation, With No ApologyWhen MSNBC host, Martin Bashir, declared that "someone should defecate and urinate in [Sarah] Palin's mouth, a punishment delivered to some slaves," he immediately issued an on-air apology declaring: "My words were wholly unacceptable. They were neither accurate, nor fair. They were unworthy of anyone who would claim to have an interest in politics." Then, a few weeks ago, "MSNBC host Melissa Doug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-41402314686883444642014-01-30T12:18:00.001-05:002014-01-30T12:18:58.587-05:00Krugman Claims Mises Couldn't Explain the Great Depression - Joseph T. Salerno - Mises DailyKrugman Claims Mises Couldn't Explain the Great Depression - Joseph T. Salerno - Mises DailyDoug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-77928020705354055142014-01-27T20:42:00.001-05:002014-01-27T20:43:20.935-05:00More on Bitcoin: Why It Cannot Replace Money There has been much debate amongst economists over the nature and usage of bitcoins. I recently wrote a post in which I briefly summarized the facts that give rise to the need for exchange and the necessary attributes of money, concluding that bitcoins will one day "go to zero" in terms of the gold price. In the wake of many good comments, this post is a follow-up to that post and elaborates Doug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-61949920576896650212014-01-24T11:53:00.001-05:002014-01-24T16:12:25.394-05:00Why Bitcoins Will Go To Zero, but Gold Will NotIf you lived in a simple civil society, how would you survive? First, you'd have to do something - like make a tool, cut some wood, harvest some food, catch some fish, etc. Otherwise, you would just lay there and die. If you wanted something from someone else, you would not go up to them and say "give me your stuff!" without starting a fight – remember, this is civil society. You would offerDoug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-88875480282990997482014-01-02T19:07:00.001-05:002015-03-06T12:18:00.837-05:00Milbank and the Flawed Philosophy of the Left: Why His "Weakest Generation" Is Actually the "Offended Generation"There is certainly a profound political rift dividing the culture. However, the state of modern politics is so anti-intellectual and unprincipled that the essential philosophical premises giving rise to the differences (and similarities) are rarely discussed much less understood. In a seemingly innocuous op-ed characterizing the "weakest generation" and disparaging the Tea Party, Washington Post Doug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-68803989444093627482013-11-03T10:15:00.001-05:002013-11-03T10:15:36.988-05:00The Mistake of Thinking that Obamacare's Failure is Just a Technology ProblemThe rollout of Obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster. From a website that doesn't work to skyrocketing premiums, Americans are finding out "what's in it." The administration and its lackeys have now begun characterizing the problems as due to nothing more than technical problems or so called "glitches" that will be fixed in due time with perhaps another billion dollars of funding. According Doug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-43498727303089007492013-10-09T12:21:00.000-04:002013-10-09T12:21:00.748-04:00Is Stealing Good For the Economy? If I steal a toaster, is that good for the economy? Hmmm. Well, stealing is the act of taking something from someone without their consent. In other words, the thief receives a value and offers nothing in return. Obviously, if everyone was allowed to steal toasters it would be a disaster. A lot of people would work to make the toasters while others simply took them without producing or Doug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-41594031394819114662013-09-18T16:10:00.002-04:002013-09-18T18:12:36.210-04:00Obama Brings Back the Carter Malaise"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill This quote captures the essence of an important psychological fact: most people can suffer through difficulty or tragedy if they regard it as temporary. On the other hand, when one adopts the view that the future is hopeless, either psychologically or philosophically, it leads to a much deeper existential level crisis or Doug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-27454756297749336562013-09-11T15:58:00.001-04:002013-09-11T16:06:08.838-04:00The Reason Why Obama is Stumbling on SyriaAn "enemy" is one who seeks to destroy that which you value. Therefore, to identify an enemy you must first identify your own values. The question of what one fundamentally values is a moral question. The reason why Obama is stumbling on Syria is that he has no firm moral convictions. Without moral convictions, he doesn't know who to befriend or who to attack or why. Should we consider Doug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-78707469815401328872013-06-19T10:38:00.000-04:002013-06-19T10:38:12.462-04:00Regarding the NSA Spying Scandal: "Thwarting Terrorism" is Not a Valid Justification for Violating RightsThe most popular justification for the NSA spying scandal is that such efforts have thwarted "terrorism." The Washington Post reports on testimony to the House Intelligence Committee: Intelligence officials said Tuesday that the government's sweeping surveillance efforts have helped thwart "potential terrorist events" more than 50 times since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and the officials Doug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-89199396954568342312013-05-31T10:41:00.000-04:002013-05-31T10:43:44.153-04:00I'm shocked that anyone is shocked by Obamacare's "rate shock" If car insurance companies were forced to offer insurance on broken cars (or cars with "pre-existing conditions"), would you expect rates to go up? How can you "mandate" more services for more people and expect costs to go down? Does anyone think that if you get enough "policy" eggheads with calculators that you can defeat reality? Is 2+2 still equal to 4? Not surprisingly, Forbes's Avik Roy Doug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-24567171195552086822013-05-28T13:25:00.001-04:002013-05-28T14:01:08.373-04:00Blame the Government, Not Apple, for the "Double Irish Dutch Sandwich"Say you work your ass off, invent a product that everyone loves, and sell it to millions of people who voluntarily pay you lots of money. Then, your business gets so big that you hire thousands of people to help meet the demand and distribute your product around the world. You stay constantly aware of the competition and invest billions in research to develop even more products to sell to your Doug Reichhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-25282630543696283762013-05-23T15:46:00.000-04:002013-05-23T21:05:53.216-04:00Obamacare: Free and Worth Every PennyWriting for PJ Media, Paul Hsieh details how support for Obamacare is waning as the country, to quote Nance Pelosi, "finds out what's in it." In fact, he notes, the federal government is planning on spending billions of your tax dollars in a PR effort to "promote Obamacare to the public." The Hill reports that even a variety of pro-Obama unions are breaking ranks publicly warning "that unless Doug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-16577000337600579522013-05-17T17:45:00.000-04:002013-05-20T16:42:11.640-04:00Lesson of the Scandal: Tyranny is an Essential Feature of SocialismI recently heard a television pundit lament the likely outcome of his own prediction that the liberally biased media, after a temporary fit of outrage over the egregious scandals engulfing the Obama administration, will return to its sycophantic posture just in time for the next election cycle. While I agree with this prediction, the more important question is why? Why is it unlikely that theseDoug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-84684915202723187542013-05-01T11:04:00.000-04:002013-05-01T17:17:43.928-04:00Dems Warn Climate Change Could Drive Women to Prostitution According to The Hill: "Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to 'transactional sex' for survival." But, actually, that's good. Recall the shortage of prostitutes in Bulgarian brothels that was blamed on climate change. If these Democrats are right, climate change could help alleviate itDoug Reichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635740344417627429.post-15655897717108441062013-04-23T11:46:00.003-04:002013-04-23T11:49:30.949-04:00Bloomberg: Give Up Freedom To Protect Us From Those Who Would Take Our Freedom Mayor Bloomberg says that the interpretation of the Constitution will 'have to change' after Boston bombing: "But we live in a complex word where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change." "...Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there Doug Reichhttp://email@example.com


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Well, guys, I'll start a topic regarding shed hunting... where do most of you find your sheds (and don't say next to your house!)
feeding areas
bedding areas
fence lines
wood lines
middle of woods
random places
I haven't been shed hunting very long, so any help would be appreciated. Funny story, I told my Mother about a year ago that deer lose their antlers every year and grow new ones back. She looked at me and said "now, you are lying about that". She still doesn't believe me! hahaha
I've only found 1 shed antler before and it was a spike antler. I almost sat right on it while spring turkey hunting. It was sticking straight up too. Ouch!!!!!
I find most of mine on field edges and open fields , But were ever the deer walk they can drop off . If you find one side keep looking for the other side i have found the second side 3/4 mi away . And once both sides laying together right next to my Honda when i got back to it..
Look for the small ones and the big ones will jump out at you even across the field
Keep a eye on your game camera for a deer with one horn then you know its time to be on the look out
These are ideas that I have not thought about .The Trail Cam one especially . GREAT IDEA ! ! !!
Every year i hunt my uncles woods in wisconsin and for the last three years i have found a 2 sheds while acculy looking and 1 accidently and all these sheds have been found in the same exact spot no lie i dont know if it's a fluke or what but this year he told me the nieghbors shot it one their land and i was dumb founded cause i thought i knew him better than to go over there but while i was turkey hunting i got sick of it cause they hung up way way out of range so i put my stuff away and went for a jog/shed hunt and i found my massive tens antler in thesame spot as the other ones! His woods is like a forestery thing where the lumber people are gonna come back and cut down the pines and they come out and selectivly harvest it if you know what that is so ya
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''End of Watch'' is a late summer 2012 release, directed by Creator/DavidAyer and starring Creator/JakeGyllenhaal and [[{{Creator/MichaelPena}} Michael Peña]].
Brian Taylor (Gyllenhaal) and Mike "Z" Zavala (Peña) are two LAPD police officers of [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Unit 13]], their district handling the infamous crime ridden [[{{Gangsterland}} South Central]] Los Angeles. The film follows the two both on the job and in their private lives. Things turn sour when the two unknowingly start sticking their noses into [[TheCartel the Mexican Drug Cartel]] activities that eventually puts a hit on their head when they discover something they shouldn't have.
The film is shot mostly with a video look to it, including many shots that are, InUniverse, taken by handheld camcorder's, squad car cameras or the officers lapel cams.
* AbusiveParents: Shown when Taylor and Z get a call about "missing children" - a worried mother is freaking out about her missing children, while her partner is pretending to be asleep on the couch and consistently tells her to say they're at her grandmother's place. [[spoiler:Z and Taylor find them duct-taped in the closet, because the father couldn't stand their crying.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: When La La starts hitting on Orozzco, the latter becomes very, very hostile and vehemently insists she wouldn't touch La La if she was the last woman on Earth, and the two appear to be familiar with each other.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Z's wife and Taylor's lady-friend both have a turn yelling at their respective significant others sometime after the house fire. While they displayed great bravery, Z and Taylor did charge inside a burning house when neither of them were trained for that job and could have died in there. Z's wife was especially worried, because she's pregnant at the time.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Zavala.]]
* AtomicFBomb: [[TheCavalryArrivesLate When the Sergeant arrives with Davis and Orozco to respond to Z and Taylor's call for backup]], a snarky quip from La La prompts him to shout, '''''"FUCK YOU!"''''' before emptying his magazine into Big Evil's crew.
* BaldOfAwesome: Taylor
** Apparently the captain. He seems to be a very respected ReasonableAuthorityFigure and Taylor is a bit of a fanboy.
* BigBad: Appropriately named "Big Evil."
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Big Evil and his gang won't be reppin' the Cartels anymore, or shooting up the neighborhoods, not with several hundred bullets sent through their chests.]]
* BlingBlingBANG: One of the cartel runners carried a chromed and gold plated, diamond encrusted [=M1911=] and a gold plated AKM.
-->''"Check it out: Liberace's AK!"''
* CameraAbuse: The camera generally gets shaken about, but [[spoiler:the big one comes when Taylor gets shot through the camera in the ending.]]
* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:A gangbanger that Z had fought before warns the pair that there's a hit out on them. They immediately dismiss it.]]
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Happens a few times. [[spoiler:Most notably at the end where Brian and Z have already been shot. Z doesn't survive.]]
* CerebusRollercoaster: The format of the movie. Scenes switch back and forth between the hard life of an LAPD officer in a crime ridden area to joking conversations between Taylor and Z. It eventually culminates to a really hard MoodWhiplash.
* ChekhovsGun: The Sureño gang uses a silver MPV in a drive-by shooting at the beginning of the film. When its torched wreck is discovered, Taylor suspects it's been used in a shooting and explains why gangs prefer to use these as they do not attract attention and can carry a lot of people (and guns). [[spoiler: When another one appears behind the patrol car after a hit is placed on Z on Taylor, you know something bad is about to happen]].
* ChekhovsGunman: The black guy Z has a brawl with earlier later informs the two that TheCartel put a hit on them.
* ClusterFBomb: There's a whole lot of swearing, but the Curbside Crew drop obscenities between every word.
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, that AK is never used by either of them.
* DaChief: Taylor looks up to him and he has no issues with the main characters. The pair's sergeant occasionally barks at them, however.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After trading insults with a suspect, Zavala agrees to fight him. Zavala's victory, combined with his decision to only arrest the suspect on the original charge of disorderly conduct (as opposed to assault on a police officer) wins the gangbanger's grudging respect. He is later shown speaking well of Zavala, and eventually warns the protagonists of [[spoiler: the hit that was placed on them.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Taylor. He passes out wounded, seemingly dead, as Z stays at his side, before The Crew catches up to him and shoots him fatally, leaving both men lifeless in the middle of the alley. In the next scene, Taylor is shown injured yet alive at Z's funeral.]]
* {{Documentary}}: In-universe. Taylor is filming his day for a "school project". Action scenes switch between what those cameras are seeing and regular angles.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Taylor and Z are ambushed, and Z dies, while Taylor is left a broken man with grief and, uh, broken bones that will most likely force him off the force, like Van Hauser.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Inverted, early scenes establish Taylor and Z as borderline [[SociopathicHero Sociopathic Heroes]], they enjoy the action of the cop life and seem to have enjoyed the shootout at the beginning of the movie. But as the film goes on, you see them as being exceptionally good cops who are more than willing to put their life on the line. After they rescue a family from a burning house, earning a medal of valor, they notably start acting less bloodthirsty and more professional and focused on their job.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Van Hauser's right eyeball is split in half by a knife, causing his retirement from the force]].
* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler:Family seems to be brought up quite often by the two officers. Especially Z. Taylor reveals that Janet is pregnant just before the climax, which leads to the fake-out where it seems like both died, when Taylor survived because Z took the brunt of the last attack]].
* FightScene: Z and a repeat offender go at it to settle their differences. After losing the fight, the offender agrees to come quietly, while Taylor and Zavala don't charge him with Assaulting an Officer.
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Taylor got his radio shot out of his hand during the initial ambush, the actual injury was unknown (actual bullet through the hand or shrapnel from the shattered radio)]].
* FoundFootage: Both the cops and the Curbside Crew are recording themselves.
* GoodIsNotNice: Both our protagonists. See Jerkass below.
-->'''Zavela:''' ''(to Taylor)'' You know you're a piece of shit, right?
* GreaterScopeVillain: The Cartel leader who orders the hit from south of the border through Big Evil.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Taylor and Z say that they're brothers, and the whole film is basically scene after scene reinforcing it.
* ImNotAHeroIm: Z and Taylor have a moment like this after they receive their medals for saving the kids from the house fire, partially because of the AngerBornOfWorry they received from the ladies in their respective lives.
-->'''Zavela:''' You feel like a hero?\\
'''Taylor:''' ''(thinks for a moment)'' No.\\
'''Zavela:''' Man, me neither. What's a hero feel like?\\
'''Taylor:''' I dunno, man.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The criminals in the film don't aim their weapons well, which doesn't help when using the notoriously inaccurate AKM. [[spoiler:A team of five of them fire on Z and Taylor late in the film, from an elevated position where Z and Taylor have no cover from, and only end up landing one shot.]] It's even lampshaded by the lesbian gangbanger right after.
* {{Jerkass}}: Van Hauser, in a very stoic, cold, and passive-aggressive way - it's explained he's like this, due to getting repeatedly fucked over by the LAPD for a promotion and placed on shit duties.
-->'''Taylor:''' Oh, you mean the USS Van Hauser? [=LAPD's=] stealthiest submarine? Only surfaces at [[TitleDrop End of Watch]]?
** Taylor and Z touch it at times, such as pulling juvenile pranks on their fellow officers, talking shit to van Hauser's face, annoying the ICE, repeatedly cursing and roughing up suspects, and engaging in very fratboy-like antics (not that the rest of the department, "Boot" and van Hauser notwithstanding, are much better).
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Probably thanks to shock, [[spoiler: Van Hauser is remarkably calm as he explains what happened to the main characters that led to him getting a knife wedged in his eye.]]
* {{Mockumentary}}: Much of the film is shot from Taylor's handheld camera as part of his class documentary project, as well as apparently recovered footage from the Curbside gang, who are constantly filming themselves.
* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: After Z's funeral, the film flashes back to a humorous story that Z tells about having to hide from his wife's parents the first night they had, which is funny as well as tragic given the information we know about his future]].
* MundaneUtility: Taylor carries around a camera to film his police lifestyle. While raiding a house, he uses it to peek around corners.
* NewMeat: The young, pretty, fresh-from-the-academy officer assigned as Van Hauser's partner. The two protagonists don't even know her name. [[spoiler:She quits after a criminal severely beats her face in.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: One member of the Cartel catches a patrol squad, leaving a knife in the eye of one and beating the hell out of a rookie until Taylor and Z show up.
* OhCrap: Taylor and Z know something is really bad when ICE in para-military gear show up.
* PetTheDog: After being cavalier with the shootout in the beginning of the film, they show significant restraint when dealing with a thug who viciously attacked two fellow officers. Their Sergeant even said they would have easily been exonerated if they killed the guy, but Taylor just said he didn't feel like shooting someone today.
* PoliceProcedural: A good portion of the film is FoundFootage-style examination of a ghetto cop's day-to-day life. The bad aspects of the job are often highlighted.
* PsychoLesbian: Big Evil has one in his crew. Aside from her threatening and flirting with a female cop and making out with a dancer at a ghetto party, her depravity and sexuality are independent.
* RecklessGunUsage: Almost happens with Janet, as she uses Taylor's camera to leave him a message after their first night together and she holds up a snub nose revolver he has in his bedroom and asks him to take her to the shooting range sometime. She handles it like someone who doesn't know how to hold a gun, but doesn't make any significant mistakes (ie. finger on the trigger, ignorant of where the barrel is pointing).
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: In the beginning, a black gang is shown complaining about the shifting demographics of their neighborhood, then getting gunned down by the invading Sureño gang.
* ShapedLikeItself: Why is the BigBad called "Big Evil"? "'Cause my evil is big."
* ShellShockedVeteran: The sergeant reveals that he's still suffering from a partner taking a fatal bullet for him, back when he was in the military.
* SirSwearsALot: A good chunk of the characters would qualify to some extent, but Big Evil and his followers particularly stand out in this regard (and among them, Big Evil himself and La La are easily the worst), which is especially notable in a film with as much foul language as this one.
* SpoilerTitle: "End of Watch" is a term that refers to the end of a police officer's duty shift. It is also formally used when [[spoiler:police officers are killed in the line of duty]].
* TakingTheBullet: At Brian's wedding their Captain mentions, after drinking a lot, that during a tour of duty in the military a buddy of his took a bullet for him. He still feels guilty, thinking he was the one who deserved to die. [[spoiler: It's implied that the reason Brian survived the final ambush is because Z's body, including his bulletproof vest, was able to shield him from the worst of it. It was likely unintentional because it just happened to be the right angle, but works the same way]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: Officers Orozco and Davis, the female pair, always seem to be the second on the scene.
* TurnInYourBadge: The rookie hands her sergeant her badge while being carted off to a hospital, indicating her resignation.
* WorthyOpponent: The repeat offender speaks of Z and Taylor like this to his underlings after the fight scene, with obvious respect in his voice, because he notes that they could've double-teamed him but instead Z gave him a straight up one-on-one fight and told Taylor to stay out of it. He also notes that they ''could'' have given him a third felony charge for their fight with him, but instead booked him for disorderly conduct and let him go free.


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Rockies down Brewers
The Colorado Rockies scored five runs late in the game to seal a 10-6 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday night.
Colorado won the game as -200 favorites, and the 16 runs sailed OVER the posted over/under (10).
Carlos Gonzalez belted a two-run homer for the Rockies. Jason Hammel went five innings on the mound for the win, allowing seven hits and four runs.
Jason Kendall went 3-for-5 at the plate with a pair of RBIs for the Brewers. Jeff Suppan gave up 10 hits and eight runs over six innings.


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Until his wife tells him no. I don't picture the type of guy you described (1) marrying the type of woman who would see the need to own a gun (2) having the guts to stand up to her.Originally Posted by Euclidean
"Umm, honey. I think I may want to get a gun."
"Umm...I don't know. We may need one."
"You are not bringing a gun into my house."
"Yes, dear."


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7/2/13 Ask-A-Vet
Published July 2nd, 2013
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Doctor Tecla Myrick from the Alachua County Animal Services talks to us about 4th of July pet safety.
You should keep your pets indoors and away from fireworks to prevent burns, wounds or scaring the animal.
Also, make sure you aren't giving your pet harmful table scraps like corn on the cob, ribs or chicken bones.
Alcoholic beverages are also harmful to pets.
It is also important to beware of the heat, since dogs don't sweat and get overheated faster than humans.
If you keep your pets at home for the fireworks display, and supervise them during festivities, then everyone should have a great time.
If you have any questions contact your veterinarian, or call Dr. Myrick at 352-264-6870