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Cell Count Movie Poster
For Cell Count I wanted to crate a modern illustrated montage poster. A lot times of this type of work can get labelled as 'retro' but i really wanted to show that this type of art is still as fresh, fun and relevant for today's movie market in 2012 as it was back in 1972.
Cell Count is also the type of movie which can benefits from this school of poster art as there s some much going on, so while you could just depict one isolated character or image to promote the film, it wouldn't really tell you the whole story! and my main aim for the design was to capture all the rich nuances, characters, plot twists and atmosphere of the movie to build this static trailer.
I took a lot of influence from the Thai posters of the 70s, as they always had such a great flair for balancing out a broad spectrum of elements but still tying them together in a composition that looks unified as a whole.
2 comments:
- JRey/L.A. said...
Dude, I love your work. It is very stylized, however, and does not necessarily translate to blockbuster movie. What I love: the approach; the style; the mood. Very fun!
It seems like the studio execs and the 'powers that be' are not the big risk-takers they would have you believe them to be. Much of the larger studios will choose a campaign based on a focus group of the general public.
Once an indie film-maker gets their first 100-million dollars to create their vision, it's no longer just their vision. It belongs to everyone who put up the cash and the resources. Unless, the 100-million is coming out of their own pocket. But, how many indie film-makers do you know with 100-million dollars lying around?
Great stuff. Keep up the good work.
- Joseph
- 9 March 2012 at 22:30
- The Dude Designs said...
Yeah that's what im trying to show though, that you can still have 'classic' poster art which people respect and it will generate more interest that just some tick the boxes generic photoshop poster.
Especially with budgets and the economy the way it is these days, you want to be getting a good bang for your buck and as we see from even the more independent titles this sort of art still grabs people and gets a lot of attention/coverage, at a quater of what you would pay to produce the trash they do at the moment.
Hopefully i eventually turn some studios on, look at the success of Hobo and all the knock on promotional tools built around the success of the key art alone.
Finally these days you don't just need one poster any more so hopefully more 'special' release artwork will start to come into play more, put something out there which the news sites and blogs can get behind, not just some banal focus group coverage as you say.
Thanks for digging the stuff though man
I live in hope and work hard!!!
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J. Juanita Bryant
J. Juanita Bryant, 84, of Big Spring, Texas, went to be with the Lord on Dec. 4, 2012. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel with Doris Haynes officiating. Interment will follow at Trinity Memorial Park.She was born in Loraine, Texas, on Dec. 1, 1928, to Clem and Cora Wilkerson. She married the love of her life, J. Weldon Bryant, on Aug. 9, 1974, and both were faithful members of First Baptist Church in Big Spring, where she sang in the senior adult choir.Juanita worked at First National Bank until retirement. She was the picture of love, generosity and kindness and could light up a room with her presence.Juanita was preceded in death by her siblings, Agnes Altom, Herman Wilkerson, Fred and Ed Wilkerson and Opal Mealer, all of Big Spring, Leonard (Tutor) Wilkerson of San Angelo and Dorothy Miller of Dickinson, Texas; and her husband, J. Weldon Bryant.She is survived by two loving sons, David Shortes of Odessa and Rickey Shortes of San Antonio; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and many other beloved friends and family members.In lieu of flowers, please send donations to The Alzheimer's Association at www.alz.org.Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.comPaid obituary

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"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
^He is being paid $1.5m more than Monahan or Gaudreau (although he sure doesn't look 1.5m better right now), that indicates he should be able to drive his own line and perform.
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"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
^don't worry, Ottawa is unlikely to make the trade, trading away Karlson would be nuts (but stranger things have happened). I like Draisaitl, but it almost always backfires in the NHL when you give a young guy more than their comparable's. The same basically happened with Nuge - he went on a multi year holiday, now his contract will be up in a few years time, he is performing again.
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One could say McD at 12.5M should be able to carry two fill players but I wouldn't ever want that for him, or any talented Center to have to work with two players that are not established wingers simultaneously. Maybe in a year or two McD and Drai could handle tweener wingers. They can't now.
"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
Thought this was a pretty good breakdown (please do your best to ignore Steve Simmons in the video, though. Is there a dumber sports "journalist" in Canada?): https://www.tsn.ca/talent/oilers-ham...-wing-1.963104
It would be very interesting to see a compilation of all of the assets PC has traded out and received back, and total up their games played, goals, points etc. It would be very enlightening to see that done in aggregate, and not on a trade by trade basis. I have a feeling that the totals would be absolutely horrendous for the assets brought in vs sent out. I mean, just take Hall, Eberle and Barzal's numbers and put them up against uh, Larsson, Strome and Reinhart. And that's honestly how those three trades boil down.
1. Overpaying players in the offseason (which probably ****** off other players) - aka Russel and Draisaitil
2. Coaching - the PK is horrendous.
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Interesting review on where the problems lie currently on this team and lineup, i.e. wingers;
"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
I like Hall, but a guy like Larsson was what the team needed.
Chiarelli got Talbot, his most important acquisition, for picks that turned out to be Jonas Siegenthaler, Sergey Zborovskly, and Adam Huska. He took advantage of a situation in Montreal to get Kassian for Scrivens.
Trading Eberle was different - another case of getting rid of someone, rather than looking for some help. With the way the fans and media turned on the guy it was a mercy trade.
Draisaitl forced his hand with a great year and a better playoffs.
aka Jim Good; "The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up." - Steven Wright
Close in Nashville, but no cigar.
I feel for the Oilers, and for the refs, in that situation.
The Oilers played pretty well. Especially McDavid. Talbot looked sharp, and kept them in it.
Didn't sag and get away from their game after flukey second goal.
They played a tight game. I thought Khaira was outstanding. Very strong. Strome was good too.
A game they could have won. Could've. should've, would've.
Either way, overall, I saw a lot of encouraging signs. Playoffs nearly impossible, but if the Oilers pick it up from here we could still see some great entertaining hockey for the rest of the season.
aka Jim Good; "The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up." - Steven Wright
Perhaps the one bright spot on the wing is the performance of Puljujarvi.
"Talk minus action equals zero." - Joe Keithley, D. O. A.
Last night was a decent game. Bad luck on the goal off Larsson's face and Khaira's tippy toe offside. If they played that way every night and got some better puck luck (saw a mention that the Oilers have the most posts/crossbars in the league this year), they'd be in the mix for the playoffs.
Originally Posted by Jimbo
To be clear, I still don't necessarily have a big problem with the Larsson trade, although I was certainly more positive about it last year as compared to this year. His regression this season is concerning, and it's becoming apparent that he is at best a good second pairing option. And when you see what other teams gave up to get guys like Hamonic and Hamilton (in both cases, basically what we gave up for Reinhart, which is just depressing) who are both right shots by the way and arguably better players, the trade looks that much worse for having been 1 for 1. Even if the throw in was a later pick or so-so prospect, it would have looked better in hindsight.
But again, I was talking about looking at Chiarelli's trades in aggregate. Yes, you can talk till you're blue in the face about goal differential and how good Larsson is defensively or how soft Eberle was in the playoffs, but the fact is that you win hockey games by outscoring the opposition. If your GM is continually sending players out who can score and receiving back players who can't score and/or can't even play in the NHL, you are soon going to find yourself with a problem.
Sure, PC made a couple good deals for Kassian, Maroon and Talbot and didn't give up much to get them. Talbot aside, those are bit players that get moved in deals like that all the time. The only trade that PC has won that moved the needle was the Talbot deal. Otherwise every major trade he's made as GM has been a net loss for the organization, and we're seeing the results on the ice this year. They've ****** away the ELC years of both McDavid and Draisatl, along with Nurse and soon PoolParty. It will be that much harder to build a consistent contender after this year because of the extensions kicking in.
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It's so dumb that it's offside of your foot is off the ice. It should just be whether or not you cross the line. Either that, or make it so that all goals also have to be scored along the ice and they don't count if they are lifted.
The Oilers have scored 4 goals in their last 6 games.
Also, the refs have a double-standard with the Oilers: the slightest (or non-existent) infraction by the Oil gets called every time. And infractions by the opposition have to be flagrant to be called. Or in some cases not, as Maroon found out last night.
Yeah, the non-call on Subban for hooking on McDavid's breakaway was total garbage. NHL officials seem to have a totally different standard when it comes to what it takes to get a stick infraction or holding call on McDavid, and it's completely ridiculous. It's like the NHL sent out a memo to the refs saying "this kid is way too good, and he might get 150 points if we don't slow him down. Take him down a notch, please." I don't know why the NHL has such a hard time establishing consistency in it's officiating, but it's infuriating.
^^I can't blame anybody who gives up on the NHL at this point.
Son, one day this will be an iconic structure shaping Edmontons skyline.
^its messed up. Its becoming clear the best way to win in regular season is have a smaller faster team as often penalties are called (but not always, e.g. if its on CMD), but in playoffs you need a bigger rougher team, because nothing is called then. There needs to be way more consistency both during the regular season and between regular season and playoffs.
Last edited by moahunter; 10-01-2018 at 11:41 AM.
I enjoyed the game last night, but not the final score.
Just like that, Oilers fans are back to celebrating the "moral" victories.
Well, that's a further condemnation of the trade for Larsson then. PC traded one of the top LW in the game for a RD that apparently needs sheltering and/or the perfect partner to achieve decent results. Meanwhile, 300 km's south, they got 2 better defensemen for the same or similar assets (in each case, not in total) that PC sent out for a D-man who has played 37 NHL games and is unlikely to have a significant NHL career. And it seemed everyone in the NHL, save for PC and Bob Green.Originally Posted by moahunter
That's another thing to talk about, in terms of management. Bob Green was previously the Oil Kings GM, and is now director of player personnel for the Oilers. He took that position in January of 2015, before PC came on board and before those bad trades. Given his previous position with the Oil Kings, there's no much question that he would have been heavily involved in the Reinhart trade. He'd have seen him play as much as anybody. That is a huge condemnation on his competence, as well.
Last edited by Marcel Petrin; 10-01-2018 at 02:39 PM.
Flames beat Tampa 5-1.
On a five game winning streak.
And have a playoff spot.
It's looking like we will have to cheer for the Flames this playoffs in our quest to bring the cup back to Alberta.
That is comedy gold!
I liked it. Lol
I'm cheering for Vegas. Go Golden Knights!
They're going to park their car over there. You're going to park your car over here. Get it?
Giving up on Slepy? What is PC smoking?
Mom said I should not talk to cretins!
Okay, I'll play - why would you keep him around?
They're going to park their car over there. You're going to park your car over here. Get it?
Both teams improved with the Larsson trade. He's a solid defenceman that hits like a truck, I think he's been hurt off and on this year. the team wasn't getting it done in this division with that defence. A 77 goal swing in differential.
Chiarelli should have got an experienced backup in the offseason. It was a mistake to think this team could ride out half the season without Sekera and without a solid 1B option in goal.
aka Jim Good; "The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up." - Steven Wright
Lots of posters in the comments here agree that Oilers should keep Slepy:
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Montoya impact is being overstated. He's an average goalie in a new spot and playing well as he always does because its a way to stay in the league a while. Montoya's best games have always been his earlier games with a club. After that nobody will be stating too much positive about his play. he's a stopgap, not a solution as #2. Not for a contending team anyway which we aren't now.
yesterday was a classic version of one team not showing up and the home team starting with all kinds of jam. Past the first 5 mins the Oilers shored things up and involving a lot more than who was in net. From the look of the game I really thought the Yotes saw a fleeting opportunity to bury the Oilers early. They were being very aggressive in offensive end.
"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
Nurse!!! 3 G in 2 G.
If there's any saving grace, it's that the Oilers are 7-2 against the Pacific Division, and that there are 20 more games to play. If the Oilers go 15-5, it means 30 more points for the Oilers in the standings.
"Talk minus action equals zero." - Joe Keithley, D. O. A.
I'm curious to hear how the Vegas barn compares to ours, as a facility.
I am in no way entitled to your opinion...
WTG guys, and Happy Birthday Conner..!
Top_Dawg loves it.
Emmonton ambassadors.
At least no reports of public urination, defecation, and vomiting.
The inside concourse area of T. Mobile arena is similar to Rogers Place Arena, with its high pillars. Looks good. Can't say much for the gold accents on the outside. Otherwise, nice looking arena. I'd love a weekend in Vegas (like who wouldn't?) and able to attend an Oilers game there.
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I went to the game in Vegas, but we were up in the Hyde club, so I didn't see much of the rest of the arena. The in-game experience absolutely blows Rogers away; it's not even close, in terms of music, things going on in the seats, contests etc. It's on a whole other level. From what I recall (which admittedly has some gaps), the concourse decor looked far more finished than Rogers, which in my opinion still looks barren in a lot of places. Honestly, T-Mobile seemed to be a significant step up from Rogers in most respects. But that being said, I find that's the case for just about the entire food/liquor/service/entertainment industry in Edmonton, whether OEG is involved or not. We just don't do a very good job of that kind of thing, for whatever reason, although perhaps it's been improving over the past few years.
I was chatting with some friends who had various involvement with the building of Rogers, and there were some pretty eye opening anecdotes of how last minute many aspects of it were. I'm not even sure I'm comfortable relating some of them because they're rumors, but some dealt with actual life safety issues (fire/smoke alarm systems, etc), occupancy permits, and the like. It seems local authorities may well have bent rules to the point of breaking in some respects. None of it was particularly surprising, given how ridiculous the construction schedule was.
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Just b/c things aren't bad enough, Nuge placed on injured reserve: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...erve-1.4493684
... gobsmacked
Thankfully just a bruised sternum. My first impression of the hit was that his shoulder had been hurt, so that's good news.
^yup, thought the same.
Time to book some golf for May.
Now it's cracked ribs, 5-6 weeks. At least it probably makes him less desirable to trade? I'm having trouble being positive these days.
I really doubt we see much of RNH the remainder of this season. Maybe half a dozen games.
Oh well, we get Pacman called up now instead of a Paccioretti trade.
But I don't doubt Chia will pull trigger in offseason. Especially if McLellan ends up getting canned.
"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
Cracked ribs? Yeesh, he really is made of glass. It was a hard hit, but didn't seem that hard. I'm having flashbacks of his toe pick and light collision with the boards wrecking a shoulder. Feel bad for the guy, he just can't stay healthy. If he doesn't play again this season, or only a few games at the end, he'll only be at about 80% of possible games played since he started.
Last edited by Marcel Petrin; 19-01-2018 at 04:16 PM.
^Two games in a row Nuge got nailed with a hit. Both times he tried to evade the hit which is often times a mistake. 2 games ago he tries to sidestep a hit and gets spun around and lucky not to injure himself. Last game he turns around sideways instead of absorbing the hit straight on. He arguably made himself increasingly vulnerable by going sideways. he even ran the risk of concussion as taking the hit sideways flew his head back and forth and I think also resulted in some head contact.
I don't know how things are now but we used to be told not to try to avoid the hit and that you instead prepare for the hit and just take it. In both instances Nuge didn't do that. Smyth on either play would go right into the hit with his lumber up. Sends a message to opponents as well.
McNabb is a solid hitter but you are right this is a routine "got all of him" kind of hit. Smyth in prime would be seeing half a dozen of these any time we played the Dallas Stars.
"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
Better comparison in physique and player type is Hemsky, and we all know what Regehr and Co. did to his health over the years. It's actually amazing Hemsky survived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGBam_rB1Wg
Hemsky needed to pick his spots a bit better though. He would hang around and stand up when Regehr was charging him. In those instances Hemsky had time to get out of the way and easily avoid the hit. On any of the above Hemsky could just peel off rather than get killed along the boards.
credit though, Hemsky backed off very little, even when he should
"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
Oilers beat the Canucks 5-2! I like Puljujarvi's performance tonight!
"Talk minus action equals zero." - Joe Keithley, D. O. A.
I think the rink-rats Puljujarvi was playing with over the break showed him some new moves.
I am in no way entitled to your opinion...
What a great game, loved it.
Mom said I should not talk to cretins!
Strangely Lucic not too good on the night and even Khaira on the one shift looked better with them.
"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
"Talk minus action equals zero." - Joe Keithley, D. O. A.
for the oilers, maybe there should also be a maximum number of ex-players the team should be allowed to have under contract as well as an overall salary cap for them.
in this case, if paul is coming in then a full welcome should be accorded but maybe there should be at least two others cut to make room...
"If you did not want much, there was plenty." Harper Lee
Great game by Jesse, Patty and Juj.
It would be embarrassing for the Oilers to lose to the alumni.
"Talk minus action equals zero." - Joe Keithley, D. O. A.
Of course the Coffey hire reeks of cronyism by Katz and Gretzky (a HHOF Oiler with only bantam AAA coaching experience), however I don't think the skills coaches are in any decision-making capacity that I'm aware of, Coffey is not replacing anyone, plus this looks like an attempt to develop a PP QB in-house instead of trading for one (especially with Darnell Nurse upping his offence). Time will tell how this pans out.
You have to dream big. If we want to be a little city, we dream small. If we want to be a big city, we dream big, and this is a big idea. - Mayor Stephen Mandel, 02/22/2012
Puljujarvi's time in Bakersfield really helped his game this season.
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Win and hopefully keep winning despite losing our leading goal scorer, RNH, to injury. It's bringing out some new line combinations that seem to be working, so far.
Seriously though, nothing against Coffey, but what the hell is this supposed to accomplish? The organization already has a serious public image problem of hiring from the Old Boy's club to it's detriment. So their solution in a shockingly disappointing season is to add another Old Boy? Is Chiarelli now also drinking the Kool-Aid? Nicholson? Or is the owner actively interfering in hiring again? The optics of this are terrible, but I don't think the organization has the first clue how bad this looks from the outside.
It's almost become like the life of a politician. Get in for a couple terms and you have a pension/income for life.
Win a couple cups with the Oilers (or even not a la Buchberger) and get a random, ill-suited job for life once you call up Katz.
As much as anyone, I'm leary of yet another old boys club hire.
This one though, I like. The actual title though I think is, the Oscar Klefbom mentor. Coffey was a measured risk taker. So is Klef - just not measuring very good this year.
Think Coffey will do a world of good for Klef. And that'll do a world of good for the Oilers.
... gobsmacked
^ I'm kind of like you on this. But PC won 4 Stanley's, PC knows what he's talking about.
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I can't help but think either that the players, if they were able to be honest about it, would be distracted by the prior greats and have a bit of a difficulty trying to compare to that. In the 90's a player like Jason Arnott and others spoke about it, spoke about Oilers life in the shadow of giants. Why is the org doing this to another generation of players? It was already a mistake decades earlier.
So here we have the oilers playing in front of old hawkeyes in the stands analyzing what they do with no clearly set or defined role descriptions and whats a player to think about that? I can see one on one work, unit work, of some type and assisting players but its the watched nature of this team that just makes it more difficult. In any game recently even on roadtrips the Oilers have Gretzky, Chia, management in the stands watching. its not always a good thing. Players develop the uncomfortable feel that their every shift could be their undoing. This adds to playing scared.
Finally, its arrogance of any of the OBC to think that they have result altering impacts on the game of hockey in this time frame. Gretz himself was a poor coach, McT, Lowe not particularly good coaches or GM's. Just because you were a great decades ago doesn't mean you have much to offer other than encouragement now. If it was just that it could be done on a consultancy occasional basis, not as hires.
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"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
It would be far better to rid ourselves of the PK and PP coaches and get real ones.
If they wanted a skills coach who was also a phenomenal player and happened to briefly play with the Oilers, then hire someone like Adam Oates. You know, a guy who's actually been working in a professional capacity in hockey, has actual NHL coaching experience, and so on (see here: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/a...-new-frontier/). What's next? Are they going to pull Fuhr off the golf course to get him to show Talbot how to be a stand-up goaltender? I see no reason whatsoever to hire Coffey, other than he played for the team in the glory years. His resume outside of that is non-existent.
"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
But yeah, Top_Dawg hears ya.
He wouldn't drop a dime on a NHL game when you can basically watch it for free.
In the comfort of home or at a bar.
And not have to sit through three hours, crammed in with a bunch of drunken chalupa heads, many of whom haven't showered in days.
And even some devotees that Top_Dawg knows who have season tickets have told him that the in game experience at Roger's is awful.
Every stoppage of play sees the music immediately blared to the point that one can't even talk to a friend seated right beside.
They hate it.
Yes the way things are heading people will be missing the good old days at Northlands
"if god exists and he allowed that to happen, then its better that he doesn't exist"
Halfway through this Buffalo game and the Oilers are sucking big time. 3-0 Buffalo. It seems like they are out of sync and a bit lethargic. I'm hoping for things to turn around.
5-0 I think hard to keep track.
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity,-Marshall McLuhan
Calgarys Nancy Southern must smile when she sees those adds for Atco being proud to be the energy supplier for COE owned Rogers Place with Capital Power and Epcor being in the neighborhood.
It seems like the oilers are on drugs tonight, or maybe they need some.
5 zilch at the end of the second vs Buffalo. Just friggin' wow.
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Sure glad I didn't pay for that turd...
I am in no way entitled to your opinion...
Total lack if performance. Coaching staff useless to motivate or hold accountable, what's the point of having them? Players just coasting around listless.
How does that song go again... "Blinded by the light...." Geese guys, the Oilers are playing possum for Calgary. When Calgary gets here, it'll be a different game.
Most of you have written the Oilers off around Christmas. Me? I'm in denial
Mom said I should not talk to cretins!
Don't ya mean, Oil-garchs?I'm fully aware of my Tier 2 fan status and won't likely be visiting the Plaza of the Oligarchs for a game anytime soon so my opinion is of no value. But I have to echo Replacement here. What is with people dropping major coin on a good seat straggling in 3 minutes into a period because they needed more cheese sauce for the nacho's? The mind whirls.
5 zilch at the end of the second vs Buffalo. Just friggin' wow.
Seriously though guys and gals. This soap-opera isn't worth anyone's time. The quicker you get off that wagon and go find new hobbies and activities, the quicker you'll feel better.
There was no need to change that plaque. We are the City of Champions.
The Oilers sent out a season seat satisfaction survey yesterday afternoon. They're going to get some interesting responses.
maybe there's some secret trophy somewhere for the team that ends the season with the largest negative goals for/against for an entire season or for the greatest number of large negative goals for/against games in a season that we're not aware of.
maybe it's time to put the entire current team in the press box for one game and ice the boys on the bus instead and see how well they do against the las vegas golden knights or the winnipeg jets. at the end of 60 minutes maybe the current team and current management/ownership will realize it's now up to the current team to win - or not win - on their own because that 80's team simply can't carry things any more on or off the ice regardless of how many reunions and "special nights" they host.
it's one thing to have an on-going legacy and expectation of winning to live up to. it's quite another when, other than for two fluke seasons a decade apart, there hasn't been a legacy of winning for a very long time.
it's one thing to go through regular re-building when you are regularly re-building a winner. it's becoming pretty apparent that regular re-building when you're regularly re-building a non-winner doesn't generate the same kind of results. i don't think the problems are in the dressing room with players and middle management. this appears to be more of a senior management/ownership corporate culture issue.
i've been one of those "tier 2" fans since the team played in the whl with orange pucks and have been a big supporter of the importance of the team to our civic culture and identity. i've also been - and continue to be - a big supporter of the new arena coming downtown. some days however, it just seems so much like a one-way street it's simply tiring.
i don't have any real world magic bullet answers other than above tongue in cheek suggestion but whatever it turns out to be it's pretty clear that it has to be something drastically different than what they've been doing for far too long.
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"If you did not want much, there was plenty." Harper Lee
Maybe we can swap teams with another town? Ownership and all. It is quite obvious there is a senior leadership problem in Edmonton.
Man, that was a sad game. Maroon had already given up after the first goal. Got beat to easy pucks several times throughout the game and I haven't seen anyone mention it. I guess it is because everyone else on the team was doing the same thing. Sad that people will show up to the next game and cheer this tire fire on.
Top_Dawg giggled when he read ol' Jonesy this morning.
That was inexcusable, and it's getting to the point where some people are going to have to get excused around here.
You should know that there is an Oilers season seat holder breakfast with Oilers Entertainment Group CEO Bob Nicholson and Chiarelli scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Absolutely perfect timing.
interestingly enough, pocklington and ballard almost completed a deal to do exactly that in 1980... the oilers would have ended up in the old maple leaf gardens and the leafs playing in the "new" coliseum. each of them would have retained their ownership so it would have been a swap, ownership and all.
"If you did not want much, there was plenty." Harper Lee
It comes from the very top, which is Daryl Katz. He just can't help himself from meddling with the team. The slavish regard for the glory years is ridiculous. We're talking almost 30 years ago, now! Even the fact that he brings his son up on stage during the NHL draft is tacky and distasteful, in my opinion. I'm sure he's a nice kid/guy, but he has no business being up there. Just like Lowe, MacTavish, and Howson have no business still collecting a pay cheque for the organization, given that they're directly responsible for the last 15+ years of abject failure. As I've said before, I've met the latter 2 and they're good enough people, and Lowe probably is too. But what does it say to everyone else in the organization that they continue to be employed by it? And from what I gather, PC's brother is a scout for the team, as well as several other relations of other management/executives. Keith Gretzky is the assistant GM. It's nepotism from top to bottom.


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The Golden Egg Fashion Innovation Awards ( www.goldenegg.ie ) were on in Galway last week. My old school friend Susannagh Grogan, who I used to smoke Sobranie cocktail cigarettes with in the nun's orchard, had her scarves nominated for the accessories award.
We were pretty excited on the way in to the Radisson as the scarves have done very well in the last year, but it quickly became clear that the standard was exceptional and the competition no walkover.
Your attitude changed to 'let's just enjoy the evening', which we did, a lot, slipping back easily into our teenage relationship. There were three milliners and two handbag designers in her category. Hats had won the previous year so they may have been at a disadvantage, but it is hard to compete against a nice handbag.
I asked Susannagh what had pushed her to strike out on her own after twenty years of international freelance design.
She said one day she was listening to a chat show on the radio and she sent in a text about a broken extractor fan in her bathroom. They rang her back to ask her to talk live on air and she said she couldn't possibly do that- too embarrassing. When she put down the phone she berated herself for being so wet, and decided the next time someone asked her to do something, whether she liked the idea or not, she would face the fear and say yes, you only live once and all that… The phone rang and she was asked if she would like to go on a reality TV programme '5 women go back to work'. The format was that 5 women, who had taken a career break to have children, would work in a publishing house in different capacities for a few weeks and one would win a job.
Susannagh was taken on as graphic designer and was the first victim, on the very first episode, to be emotionally targeted. The project for the week was a mood board for a fashion feature. Her two bosses, one male, one female, proceeded to rip her ideas to pieces and suggest she was useless. I expect she was meant to cry (great TV) however she did not crack. Having studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design and worked as senior designer for prints in London and New York, she quickly recovered with:
'I think that is completely unfair…'
She came away with her dignity intact and the two arrogant Celtic tiger bosses looked like bullies. After the show she realised that she could compete with any of the high fliers she had met and with a small dose of assertiveness, in 2009, she launched her own label. This was her second scarf collection.
She did win:
'Accessory designer of the year 2011' and €1000.00 worth of advertising.
She held her 2 ft high bronze lady aloft on the catwalk and shouted 'THANK YOU' into the microphone and everyone turned to admire the beautiful scarf I was wearing.
I am now the proud owner of 'Floral Happiness' an exquisite, huge, 100% silk twill, 4ftsq fringed scarf. (www.scarf.ie)


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On April 21, ASCD will be releasing a new book by Jeff C. Marshall entitled, The Highly Effective Teacher: 7 Classroom-Tested Practices that Foster Student Success. On this same day, a webinar will be held to highlight the teacher practices that help to unlock student success. The webinar will be archived on ASCD.org for future viewing.
A candid look into the hearts and minds of many of today's struggling learners. This book moves beyond "they just don't care" by focusing on solutions that help to eradicate this nemesis to learning. Visit Amazon.com or www.rowman.com to get your copy today.
Succeeding with Inquiry in Science and Math Classrooms has just been released for purchase. The book seeks to assist teachers in the transformation of practice toward greater effectiveness with inquiry-based instruction in K-12 science and math classrooms.
Data from professional development with over 100 middle school science teachers and over 10,000 students have shown that the students of teachers who effectively implement inquiry-based instruction outperform similar students on average by about 3-6 months of academic achievement.
Tuesday, October 29 from 2:00-3:00 EST, Jeff Marshall will be facilitating a webinar entitled, Succeeding with Inquiry in Science and Math Classrooms, that is free to all ASCD members. For those who missed the webinar, it will be archived on the ASCD website at www.ASCD.org.
The EQUIP (Electronic Quality of Inquiry Protocol) app is now available as a free download from the Apple Store. This app will allow teachers and leaders measure the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction occurring in classrooms. See Research and Evaluation for more details.
Three new webinars have been posted to the site that provide an overview of: 1) 4Ex2 Instructional Model 2) EQUIP (observation protocol for inquiry-based instruction) and 3) WebTool (a dynamic web tool for teacher to build, share, and edit inquiry-based math and science lessons).
Because of our focus on inquiry-based instruction, Casio America, Inc. has determined that they will organize their nationwide professional development for math teachers on some of the ideas developed through the Inquiry in Motion Institute and the Center of Excellence for Inquiry in Mathematics and Science. Of particular interest is the 4E x 2 Instructional Model, which will be used to frame lessons used in the professional development, and the use of the Inquiry in Motion website to develop and house these lessons. Casio's professional development is designed to enrich the mathematics classroom, using graphing calculator technology to foster investigations and deeper understanding of important mathematical concepts.
In 2010, Dr. Marshall was awarded an NSF CAREER grant entitled: Creating Effective, Sustainable Inquiry-Based Instruction in Middle School Science Classrooms. This work expands existing Inquiry in Motion work and allows Professional Development Experiences to continue for second year participants. The research will measure the effectiveness in improving teacher performance and student achievement. Initial results are promising with improvements in student achievement in content knowledge and process knowledge evidenced. Funding supports this effort through 2015.


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Contact: Fay Garner, Public Affairs Specialist
Auburn, Ala., May 15, 2013 - Congresswoman Terri Sewell, 7th Congressional District, joined USDA agency leaders and others at a meeting of the StrikeForce for Rural Growth and Opportunity in Alabama. Over 90 people from around the state participated in the event held at the Central Alabama Farmers Cooperative in Selma, Alabama. The kickoff for the Initiative was held at Al Hooks' Produce Farm in Macon County, Alabama, on May 2.
Currently, 90 percent of America's persistent poverty counties are in rural America. The primary goal of the StrikeForce initiative is to partner with local and state governments and community organizations on projects that promote economic development and job creation.
Congresswoman Sewell said that her office is proud to be a partner in this Initiative to help elevate poverty. She encouraged everyone to use the resources available to help in the 23 persistent poverty counties in the StrikeForce Initiative. Eleven of these counties are in her District.
"We want the success of your organizations to really reflect on the success of our State and this District," Sewell said. "What I love about the StrikeForce Initiative is its primary focus is leveraging public-private dollars which gives us a lot of opportunities to seek grants for public-private land, conservation, and many different sectors."
Dr. Tammy Gray-Steele, Executive Director of the Oklahoma based National Women in Ag Association, spoke to the group about the importance of partnering with agricultural and community-based groups to provide vital opportunities for rural and urban communities. She said it was important to make investments within communities to help move toward an authentic and sustainable future.
USDA leaders of the Alabama StrikeForce Initiative include the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Rural Development, the Farm Service Agency, the Food and Nutrition Service, and other USDA offices and state agencies. At the meeting, representatives spoke about the investment in the Initiative and the need for involvement of community-based organizations to make it work.
The goals of the Alabama StrikeForce Initiative are:
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· Promote food security
· Expand program education
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Their thinking was that deep plowing was necessary to bury old crop residue and any insects, weed seed or disease that could use organic matter as habitat until another crop came along.
Disking smoothed out the fields so farmers could throw up beds easily and cultivation kept the crop free of weeds until peanuts developed a canopy that shaded them out.
The idea of leaving crop debris on top of the ground and actually planting into it was near sacrilege.
It's an idea that's taking hold, though slowly, across the peanut belt.
"For the most part, our farmers are still clean-tilling," says Todd Baughman, Texas Extension agronomist at Vernon, "but we find a lot of differing opinions about what constitutes conservation tillage."
He says few peanut farmers have switched to a cover crop system, in which they plant into old-crop residue or stubble.
"But they may not be doing a lot of moldboard plowing, either."
Baughman says West Texas peanut farmers may have some advantages over producers in the Southeast who worry about heavy soils and reduced tillage systems. "Some farmers in the Carolinas and Georgia have tight soils that may pose harvest difficulties in reduced tillage systems," he says. "Most of the West Texas soils are sandier, so that's not as big a concern."
Baughman says more farmers are likely to begin looking at reduced tillage systems as they try to cut production expenses and conserve moisture. He's seen growers work a modified conservation tillage system as part of a three-crop rotation.
"They'll plant one-third of a pivot in cotton, one-third in wheat and one-third in peanuts. Cotton usually follows wheat, planted in the stubble as protection against blowing sand in the spring."
He says peanuts follow cotton and can be planted into the cotton stalks or growers can clean till and start over.
"I think farmers who have used stubble planting and reduced tillage systems in cotton will begin testing the system on peanuts as they add them to rotation," Baughman says.
"I've seen a few farmers in several areas experiment with planting peanuts in a cover crop. Most have been pleased, especially in windy springs where blowing sand can cause severe injury to seedlings."
Baughman says conservation tillage likely will take off first in West Texas, where farmers often fight blowing sand just after planting.
David Jordan, A North Carolina State University Extension agronomist, discussed reduced tillage in peanuts at the Cotton and Rice Conservation Tillage Conference held in Houston last January.
He said North Carolina farmers plant mostly Virginia-type peanuts, which are bigger than runner-types and inherently more difficult to dig. Conservation tillage may exacerbate the problem, especially in dry autumns.
"Peanut farmers remain cautious about tillage systems," Jordan says, "but they have several choices and compromises between straight no-till and traditional clean-tillage.
"No-till, strip-till and stale seedbed offer alternatives to traditional methods. In strip-till, growers prepare a narrow band for planting. That helps with stand establishment."
He says the stale seedbed may be a good compromise between conventional and no-till.
"Growers need to produce peanuts on a bed. That makes them easier to dig," he says.
"With no-till or strip-till, if they get a dry fall, they lose a lot of peanuts at digging.
"We still see reluctance to try no-till peanuts. Southeast growers are planting only 15 percent to 20 percent of their peanut acreage in reduced tillage systems, although moldboard plow use has dropped significantly. Field cultivation also is dropping. But 100 percent or close to it, bed or rip and bed peanut land."
Jordan said farmers could use a stale seedbed system and get the advantages of planting on a bed with significantly less tillage. "They throw up a bed in the fall, in cotton or corn rows, and then strip-till peanuts in the spring."
Costs, he says, are significantly lower with the stale seedbed. "To disk, moldboard plow, field cultivate, and bed farmers will spend about $43 per acre," he says. "Preparing a stale seedbed and strip-tilling into stubble costs about $10 per acre. They still have to add back additional herbicide costs," he says.
Reduced tillage will cost some yield. Jordan says conventional tillage has produced consistently higher yields, about 165 pounds per acre higher than strip till, nearly 215 pounds per acre better than stale seedbed and 380 pounds more than stubble planting.
Jordan says a 5 percent reduction may be justified in some cases.
Soils make the difference, he explains. Those heavy soils may prevent farmers from harvesting the entire crop they've made. "They need to be careful about the fields they select for conservation tillage," he says.
He also notes that wind damage can be significant for Southeast producers. "A wheat cover crop will minimize injury in sandy soils."
He recommends that farmers who fumigate for black root rot and CBR should wait two weeks to plant. "With rough soils, we can lose the fumigant."
Jordan says some diseases show up more often in conservation tillage and some less often. "Leafspot, schlerotinia, and pod rot are more common in reduced tillage. Tomato spotted wilt virus and nematodes show up less frequently with less tillage."
Insect populations vary as well. "Populations of thrips, southern corn rootworm, and corn earworms likely will be less in reduced tillage systems. Fall armyworm and spider mite populations are the same with either system, but burrowing bug and cutworms populations likely will be higher with reduced tillage."
Jordan and Baughman believe farmers will increase acreage in reduced tillage systems as they refine techniques and, perhaps more importantly, as they look for ways to reduce production costs.
The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 eliminated the old peanut support program and may have reduced the value of peanuts, at least for the short term. Economics, as much as conservation issues, may prompt more peanut farmers to try conservation tillage systems.


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The white paper euphemistically referring to liberating the NHS has made everything clear. The NHS as we know it is to be dismantled. In England anyway. Governments no longer want to be responsible for things. Career politicians want to be politicians. They want to give speeches and spin stories about their achievements. But they do not want to be responsible for running anything. When the NHS fails in some way they want it to be somebody else's fault. Governments have always been like this. They want to distance themselves from trouble. They want to blame others.
Looked at in this light Lansley's white paper is a master stroke. The health service will be delivered not by employees of the NHS but by employees of social enterprises. Lansley will create the largest social enterprise sector in the world. These organisations will deliver healthcare. They will do it for money. And they will make a profit. They will have the imprimatur of the NHS but they won't really be the NHS. Not, anyway, the NHS as it is now. That might sound pretty bad but you may not notice. Most people probably think their GP is an NHS doctor. The reality is that GPs are independent contractors. Patients don't notice so it clearly doesn't matter. It almost certainly has some advantages. GPs can actually be quite innovative and quick to respond to change.
In case it has escaped you, general practices are already social enterprises. They are independent. They work for money. They make a profit. Despite this anomaly many would say they are the jewels in the crown of the NHS. GPs are advocates for their patients. Patients trust them. They still provide the backbone of a cradle to the grave service. GPs know more than most about what their patients need. They have a sense of the sort of quality they want from organisations supplying those needs. They understand the crucial difference between needs and wants. And they have a good feel for the reputation of the suppliers of those needs.
The problem, of course, is that GPs are really just small businessman. They are small businessmen whose main interest is not in the business aspects of their social enterprise but in the good practice of medicine for the well-being of their patients. As things stand most of them have neither the time nor the inclination to commission NHS services on behalf of Andrew Lansley. Those in the know, an example would be Sir Richard Sykes, say they don't have the expertise either. But, frankly, neither did the previous incumbents.
Lansley's main aim has been met. Handing £70 billion of taxpayers' money to a bunch of independent commissioning amateurs distances the Con-Dem government from the NHS. It puts doctors in the driving seat which has been seen as being essential if change is to be effected. And it puts the blame for when things go wrong onto GPs.


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2008 has been good year for this blog. Due to more frequent posting, the popular morning links feature I added in January, guest blogging at The Agitator, and various publications elsewhere, traffic has nearly doubled from this time last year. In personal life I finally escaped the East Coast and moved west to Portland. Though I'm not completely settled here yet — a regular income would sure be nice — things are off to a great start, thanks in large part to the friends I've made through writing and tending bar.
Looking back at the end of a year, I'm always amazed at the many random things that have happened. Here's the annual highlight reel:
January — Disappointment with Ron Paul, Tom Firey and I write against smoking bans for The Washington Post, the Virginia ABC bans sangria, and a few friends and I taste the newly available absinthe.
February — I get snarky in the Washington Times, Grape and Bean opens in Alexandria, and I play around with a Sazerac.
March — Magicians get no respect, Starbucks gets sued for distributing tips, I talk about secular sabbaths with the AP, and why I like tipping.
April — The BBC broadcasts a miracle fruit party from my apartment, I mix up a Massa Mojito, and the Blue Beetle cocktail gets blogged.
May — Baltimore says no cigars for poor people, libertarians suck at being corrupt, I visit a raw milk dairy, Starbucks pushes "scooped on" dates, and I make enemies in Detroit.
June — NYC pushes fruit carts, Paul Roberts and I have a friendly debate in the LA Times, my friend Amy's mom gets a cocktail named after her, I go on a rant about cocktail shakers, and a discussion of menthol racism.
July — Why McCain's health plan would be good for service industry workers, Flash websites bad for restaurants, precious coffee policies, I make a Hothouse Fizz with the new Plymouth sloe gin, and sampling miracle fruit tablets.
August — Bashing the bartender, my 10 desert island bottles, what's wrong with mandatory calorie counts, how to baconify your bourbon, and I begin my journey west.
September — Conservatives and coffee, organizational tweeting, Thorfinn for president, why we need a magicians lobby, I get vermouthy, and why prices are better than information.
October — The McCain that could have been, Oregon neglects the pipe smokers, LEED hates tobacco, everybody loves an Irish car bomb, Rocky Mountain oysters get eaten, and my trip west comes to an end in Portland.
November — Advantages of a secular Christmas, the Arthur Kaler award, recounts of no significance, and overcoming blend bias.
December — Hello to my new Oregon neighbors, an Oregon smoking ban prediction, stocking your home bar parts one and two, smoking ban stupidity, an ode to Repeal Day in the American Spectator, Doublethinking about Starbucks, and my most missed places in DC.
I'm hoping to keep the momentum going to make 2009 even better. Tonight I'll be celebrating with my last legal cigar at my favorite pub in Portland, the legendary Horse Brass. Thanks for reading, and have a happy new year!


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Ian and Steve will be attending Dragonmeet at Kensington Town Hall, London again this year on Saturday 7th December 2013.
They will be giving a talk followed by a signing at the Arion Games stand with Graham Bottley. Fighting Fantasy books will be for sale.
Tickets available from Cubicle 7. Times to be confirmed.
Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson will be in attendance at Dragonmeet 2012 this year on Saturday 1st December. Dragonmeet is held every year in Kensington Town Hall, London between 10am and 6pm. Ian will be giving a talk at 12pm on Fighting Fantasy and Blood of the Zombies. Fighting Fantasy will be having a table this year, manned by The Warlock, selling books and somewhere for both authors to sign books and meet fans alike. See you all there.
Ian will be signing exclusive copies of his new zombie-slaying adventure at Forbidden Planet London Megastore, Shaftesbury Avenue on 4 August 2012, 3-4pm:
Ian Livingstone will be opening Games Britannia and also giving a Fighting Fantasy workshop on 2nd July.
Ian Livingstone will be giving the opening keynote at Games Horizon
Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson will be attending UK Games Expo on Saturday (only) to talk about the launch of the new book 'Blood of the Zombies'. In attendance at the event will also be Leo Hartas, one of the original Fighting Fantasy artists.
Students studying Train2Game courses are launching four new development studios in 2012 as part of 'Make Something Unreal Live,' a competitive process designed to accelerate their careers by giving them the tools and resources needed to release games for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch this spring. The first titles released by the studios will be based on the Fighting Fantasy series of books created by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson.
Train2Game and Epic Games have created the 'Make Something Unreal Live' competition where students are challenged to create their own studios and develop games for the iOS platform using Epic Games' Unreal Development Kit (UDK). The winning studio will receive a full source, commercial Unreal Engine 3 licence for iOS as well as gain invaluable professional experience in the game.
Welcome Adventurers' to another event news update on the world's greatest Fighting Fantasy website.
Wizard authors and artists are not just reclusive stay-homes who do nothing but write books or paint all day! They love to get out and meet you – their readers! Check out this page regularly for all Wizard-related fun events: author signings, talks and more. If you want to come but need tickets, directions or anything else, please get in touch at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ian Livingstone OBE will be attending DRAGONMEET 2011 on Saturday 26th November 2011 at Kensington Town Hall. He will be interviewed between 11am and 12pm in an open question and answer session by James Wallis. Afterwards he will be signing Fighting Fantasy books at the Arion Games stand. The prolific and esteemed Fighting Fantasy author Jonathan Green will also be present on the day.
Fighting Fantasy was signed up to go to the 3rd UK Games Expo on 5/6 June in Birmingham. We was there were you? Lookout for great images from the event soon.
The UK Games Expo is an exhibition of games of all types including Board Games, Card Games, Role- playing Games , Miniatures and Computer gaming for the general public, family groups as well as gaming enthusiasts. It is the UKs biggest Multi-genre games show (exhibiting games of all types) with 100 exhibitors, over 2000 attendees and many dozens of games to play.
Wizard Books, Steve Jackson, and Ian Livingstone will be attending on Sat 5th to exhibit their books and visitors can meet, chat and get their books signed.
As well as numerous trade stands there are also many tournaments and organised play sessions as well as costumed groups and children's competitions.
On Friday 4th there will be open gaming rooms and role-playing sessions as part of Friday Games day. These are held in the adjacent Strathallan Hotel.
The main trade show and public event is on Saturday and Sunday 5th and 6th of June at the Clarendon Suites. UK Games Expo hosts the release of a number of new games from across the genres. We also host National tournaments including the Mayfair Games Settlers of Catan Tournament, the UK Carcassonne Tournament, the Privateer Press UK Masters and a special Schools games tournament.
The UK Games Expo and is held on the weekend of 4th to 6th June Friday 4th (Open Gaming and RPG sessions only – no trade) 12.00 Noon till late Saturday 5th June 10 am till 5 pm (with open gaming continuing in the Strathallan till late) Sunday 6th June 10am till 4pm at the Clarendon Suites Stirling Road (off Hagley Road) Edgbaston Birmingham B16 9SB www.clarendon-suites.co.uk. Website: www.UKGamesexpo.co.uk
Contact Richard Denning for more information on Games Expo itself: Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: 07777670259
Very exciting for Fighting Fantasy fans is that Les Edwards and Dave Carson (Artist Guests of Honour) will be attending the World Horror Convention, which for the first time will be held in Europe. Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, World Horror Convention 2010 will be held in the historic Regency seaside city of Brighton, Sussex, on the picturesque south coast of England.
Checkout the Convention website and out of interest do you recognise the poster?
The theme is "BRIGHTON SHOCK!—A CELEBRATION OF THE EUROPEAN HORROR TRADITION FROM VICTORIAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY", and the convention will host numerous panels, talks, presentations, readings, signings, launches, workshops and displays devoted to horror, macabre, mystery and thriller fiction and art in all its varied and fearsome forms. There will also be a Dealers' Room and an Art Show.
The Bradford Animation Festival (BAF) is the UK's biggest and longest-running annual animation festival and a project of the National Media Museum. It is host to masterclasses, seminars, workshops, screenings and special events led by some of the animation industry's top names, the festival's high point is the annual BAF Awards, which celebrate the very best in new animation from around the world.
Good news for Fighting Fantasy fans! was that are very own Ian Livingstone OBE was attending the event to give a talk about his fascinating career, Fighting Fantasy and the struggles of being an entrepreneur and the value of intellectual property in a digital age at 4:30pm.
If you went and took some pictures send them to is and we'll post them here.
The BAF Game, the gaming strand to the Bradford Animation Festival. Running over two days from Tuesday 10th to Wednesday 11th November, BAF Game focuses on the creative world of video games. So if you're looking to get your foot in the door of the industry, or just curious about the world of Fighting Fantasy or gaming, make sure you book your pass as soon as possible.
To find out all the details, including information on tickets, directions and parking at the BAF website and be there on the Tuesday November 10th at the Bradford Museum.
An exhibition of dinosaur of art by the leading natural history artist John Sibbick is currently being exhibited at Dinosaur Isle, Sandown between 20 July - 31 Oct 2009. Call (01983) 404344 or visit Dinosaur Isle for more information.
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Is this project still accepting donations? I just tried and the transaction did not go through. Also, apparently, the kids these days are using Telegram and communities are setting up groups in Telegram. Is there a chance that the Korora project community will start a Telegram group?
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by t3kg33k
The donations issue has been reported to our site admin. As far as I know we are still accepting donations as we are, e.g. still paying hosting for this site.
I'm not aware of anyone asking about a Korora group on Telegram. If there is interest we could set one up but I don't know if any of our team has an account there. I know there is a group on Riot and an unofficial one on Reddit. These are in addition to our main social media outlets on Twitter, Google + and Facebook.
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Last year was not a good year for the elderly relatives in my family, we seemed to have lost more than usual in one year. I ended up having to go to a lot of funerals. That got me thinking about what do I want for a funeral. I certainly don't want a Catholic Church funeral, so what do I want people to do when I die. I didn't come to any clear conclusions, except that I want someone to play the Rolling Stones-Gimme Shelter which happens to be my favorite RS song, I also like Sympathy for the Devil so why not play that one too and finally Knocking on Heaven Door by Bob Dylan. What are your thoughts???
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Progress ~ LUNAR not quite ready LUNAR Walking School
# Posted on December 5th, 2009 01:56 AM by Gideon ZhiI´ve edited Chapter 9 and am a good way through 10 (just done with the townie text), but 11 and 12 are going to be long ones. However, I have been posting brief updates to Twitter when they´re available. I´m working hard on it, but LUNAR has a very particular flavor to it, and getting that across while still maintaining textual accuracy can be very tiring.
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Progress ~ LUNAR: No promises, but... LUNAR Walking School
# Posted on November 30th, 2009 02:44 AM by Gideon ZhiNo promises, but if I can manage to edit even one chapter each day this week, LUNAR: Walking School might just be available by the weekend. I finished editing Chapter 7 (of 12) today, and as a bonus plowed through 8. Four left...
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Major Release ~ Holy Umbrella is done. Holy Umbrella: Dondera´s Wild!!
# Posted on November 3rd, 2009 03:40 AM by Gideon ZhiEnjoy!
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Progress ~ Holy Umbrella enters beta testing. Holy Umbrella: Dondera´s Wild!!
# Posted on October 29th, 2009 02:40 PM by Gideon ZhiBetatesting on Holy Umbrella started last night. Should be a pretty quick deal, all told; the game is not very long and is a *lot* more stable than Mystic Ark was. It DOES have a lot of text, though! A surprising amount of text.
I´ve completely replaced the snapshot gallery with up-to-date material - 22 brand new screenshots, two of which you can see here.
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Release ~ Mystic Ark v1.01 Mystic Ark
# Posted on September 26th, 2009 06:37 AM by Gideon ZhiThis is a small (big) fix for a small (big) bug which caused random battles to stop completely just before fighting the last boss in world 3. I´m looking for a code to manually re-enable them, but in the meantime a patch which fixes the bug is up.
The nutjobs who programmed this crap need to be beaten with a tire iron. For those who are interested, the bug was caused by an extremely unlikely combination of factors, including (1) the location of one particular string in the rom, and (2) the particular method by which the string was accessed. The simple probability of any string starting at this address is one in 65535...
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Major Release ~ Mystic Ark´s out. Mystic Ark
# Posted on September 22nd, 2009 07:33 AM by Gideon ZhiAfter ten days of extreme beta testing and ten more(ish) of extreme midnight oil burning, Mystic Ark is finally available for public consumption. Do please be sure to read the readme, as it contains several notes about the translation itself.
And yes, this should work on your SNES, should you have a copier.
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Progress ~ Mystic Ark Beta Test Progressing Smoothly Mystic Ark
# Posted on September 16th, 2009 12:03 PM by Gideon ZhiMystic Ark entered playtesting on Sunday afternoon, and the tests have been progressing smoothly. We´ve been moving at a quick pace (but are not sacrificing accuracy for speed) and are up to the fifth world on our initial playthrough. Second playthrough should go pretty quickly, faster than the initial one anyway. I´ve replaced the old screenshots on the project´s page with 28 new ones showcasing the current work on the game.
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Progress ~ Moving Forward (Mystic Ark, etc) Mystic Ark
# Posted on September 11th, 2009 12:04 PM by Gideon ZhiSo, since Dynamic Designs posted an update on their Mystic Ark project, I figured I should post an update on mine. As of about 5AM on Thursday, the script has been completely inserted. It´s not entirely stable; I was able to play for about ten minutes last night before encountering a bug on the Bloodhook which wouldn´t let me leave an item shop, but that´s since been fixed. Due to the way the script is stored there are probably a lot of these minor little instabilities, all of which are easily fixed provided they´re found in the first place. A fully proportional font has been implemented, as you can see in the screenshots below; in the event that the text needs to be centered, a command for that has been programmed as well. Further, a linebreak command has been added not only to menus but also to equipment displays, and it works better than I could have hoped. I´m writing this from work so I don´t have a lot of time, but over the next few days (Monday, probably) I´ll be updating the project page with completely new snapshots.
I´m also resolving to work on several games in order, as they´re all fairly close to being done and pretty much require either further editing or minor hacking tasks. After Mystic Ark these are, in order, Holy Umbrella, LUNAR: Walking School, Megami Tensei, and Laplace´s Demon. I may squeeze Hourai High in there somewhere, get the script ready for satsu to do the extra editing he wanted. But that´s what my schedule looks like, at least for now.
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Progress ~ *whistle* Super Robot Wars EX
# Posted on August 22nd, 2009 05:39 PM by Gideon ZhiIt´s far from perfect, but it´s getting there!
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Progress ~ At long last, an update Holy Umbrella: Dondera´s Wild!!,
# Posted on July 27th, 2009 11:08 PM by Gideon ZhiBefore I launch into the update proper, let me first express regret at the silence on the front page lately. Marathonning Alpha Gaiden like I did was taxing and tiring, and my state of exhaustion is/was not helped by a rigorous work schedule; I do 38 hours over three days, and by the time I come home after that I barely have the energy to do ANYTHING. I´m lucky if I get that energy back by 9PM the night before I have to go back to work. That said, in the last several weeks (not to mention the last several months) I´ve made quite a lot of progress on several of my projects.
To begin with, I´ve reinserted the majority of Holy Umbrella´s text, and it´s gone through an initial alpha test phase. There are still several issues and a couple of untranslated text boxes, but nothing that a few days hopefully won´t fix. See the first of the accompanying screenshots for an example of inserted text.
Similarly, some fairly major strides have been made in Majin Tensei recently. The last of the technical issues surrounding font replacement have finally been resolved, and some theoretical assembly workarounds for text expansion that I´d been thinking about have proven to operate flawlessly in practice. The result is that, at least for now, I can insert roughly 3/4s of the "main" script with no issue, and that the rest shouldn´t be far behind. Meanwhile the demon dialogue has been fully dumped and translated, and is ready for insertion as well, but I want to get the rest of the text into the game before I futz with that any further. Again, see the other accompanying screenshot for a sample of inserted text actually working correctly in-game.
I´m not sure if it´s been mentioned on the front page or not, but Romancing SaGa 2´s script has finally been translated, thanks to Eien ni Hen, translatress extraordinaire. I´ve outsourced script formatting to local forum and IRC junkie Arle, who has already completed a good chunk of the work. Screenshots will be posted as soon as they´re available, but I have no idea how long that´ll be.
The last game I´m going to mention in detail is LUNAR Walking School. As I´m sure I´ve probably mentioned before, the entire game has been hacked and translated, and has been "sort of" ready to go for a while; however, I´d wanted to give its script another going-over before releasing it. Well, I´ve gone through the first of the main plot arcs and done all the edits I´ve wanted. This, if I recall correctly, comprises chapters 1-7, or about half the game. It takes about three to four hours to edit a chapter, so call it fifteen to twenty hours of hard work on my part before this is ready to go. That said, I can only work on one thing at a time, and there are a lot of other things vying for my hours, so don´t expect LUNAR immediately.
All that said, I´d like to remind everyone, myself included, of the loooooooong list of games with translated scripts that are also vying for my time. These are all in varying states of completion, so remember, just because the script is translated doesn´t mean that the game is anywhere near ready for release. So, without further ado, the list, excluding the four games mentioned above: Adventures of Hourai High, Ancient Magic, Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, Ganbare Goemon 2, Ladystalker, Lagrange Point, Laplace´s Demon, Madara 2, Makaitoushi SaGa, Megami Tensei, Mystic Ark, Rejoice, Slime Morimori Dragon Quest, Solid Runner, Super Puzzle Puyo 2, Super Robot Wars 4, Super Robot Wars EX, Super Robot Wars Gaiden, Tactics Ogre, and Ys 5. I have not forgotten about ANY of these. It´s a question of time and motivation, both of which have been at an unfortunate premium these days.
Hopefully I´ll have a release coming in the next few weeks, but I´m not going to make any promises. Again, sorry for the silence. I´ve just been extremely tired of late.
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Big Spender: The $1,600 Pumpkin Seed
In recent years, America has become obsessed with plus-sized pumpkins, making the pumpkin circuit more competitive than ever. Growers are paying a premium for the seeds from prize-winning pumpkins. But $1,600 for one seed? Charles Passy reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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Trout already setting the bar at young age
Mike Trout is the best baseball player on earth. In the end, it's not one bit more complicated than that.
There are other players in the conversation. Andrew McCutchen absolutely is one of them. Miguel Cabrera is on the short list as well. Carlos Gomez, Robinson Cano, Josh Donaldson and Evan Longoria are incredibly talented.
Mike Trout is the best baseball player on earth. In the end, it's not one bit more complicated than that.
There are other players in the conversation. Andrew McCutchen absolutely is one of them. Miguel Cabrera is on the short list as well. Carlos Gomez, Robinson Cano, Josh Donaldson and Evan Longoria are incredibly talented.
All of them do things that take your breath away, that make you say, "Let me see that one again." Just when you think you've seen them make the ultimate play, they do something else. Isn't greatness a wonderful thing?
As terrific as those guys are, they're simply not capable of doing all the things Trout can do. He's so good that if you broke him down by skill set, if you just looked at one part of his talent -- power, speed, defense, you name it -- you'd have a star.
Here's the other part of the deal. Trout is only 22 years old and will continue to get better. That's maybe the most amazing part. His career is just getting going. He has had such a dazzling two seasons, it's sometimes hard to remember he's about to begin just his second full season in the big leagues.
He has played 336 games, with fewer than 1,500 plate appearances. So as pitchers continue to work on things to use against him, Trout will continue to adjust to them and refine his game.
And this might be the season the Angels had in mind when they first envisioned having Trout in a lineup with Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton.
Pujols is healthy again. He's confident, too, and driven to reestablish himself as the player every other is measured against. He hasn't been that Pujols for a couple of seasons.
Hamilton may do the same thing. He has added 30 pounds and looks more like the player who at times made the game look easy during five seasons with the Rangers.
No lineup in recent memory has had a trio this good, three players capable of dominating games and carrying a team right into October. If that happens, plenty of fans who have caught only glimpses of Trout are going to realize how good he is.
To hear people talk about him is one thing. To examine the numbers is another thing. None of it comes close to the pleasure of watching him night in and night out.
One game, he's sprinting toward the gap to bring a ball sailing over the fence back. Another game, he's lining a ball and flying around the bases for a triple. Or he's stealing a base or hitting a home run or getting on base in front of the big boys.
In short, Trout is the whole package. Last season, he got on base 309 times, tops in the Major Leagues. He was in the top three in the American League in runs, triples, walks, batting average, on-base percentage and on-base-plus-slugging.
He was on the leaderboard in other places -- seventh in triples, 14th in home runs, eighth in stolen bases. He's also an above-average defender, one capable of making breathtaking plays.
There's also the way Trout goes about it. He plays with such grace and control -- it's easy for him. There's something else about him that's special. That's his personality, his approachable nature.
He's seems genuinely thankful for everything that has happened to him. There's a humility about Trout, an everyman quality, and he appears to understand and accept that kids are watching him and emulating him.
If he's going to be the best player in the game, he's going to do things right. That is, he's going to show up early, take care of his business and then play every game as if it might be his last.
Pujols is a great role model for someone like that. He's a workaholic, someone who shows up early and spends hours in the cage and the weight room. He takes his craft seriously.
When Trout sees someone beginning his 14th season with the intensity of a rookie just called up from Double-A, there has to be some benefit, some reassurance he's doing things right.
The Angels appear to be in a good place. General manager Jerry Dipoto has upgraded the rotation and back of the bullpen. If Pujols and Hamilton can stay on the field, this could be a great baseball summer for the Angels.
Some of the people who know Trout best say that he burns to win, that he's driven to play October baseball. Maybe this will be the season. Maybe he'll make October his personal showcase. First, though, there's the regular season, which means more chances for Trout to amaze and thrill and entertain us.
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Have you heard about The Scout Guide? Considering today is Small Business Saturday I thought the timing for this post was perfect. Created by Charlottesville VA blogger Susie Matheson and Christy Ford, owner of And George, it's all about "capturing the best of local." First starting with a guide for Charlottesville, they've expanded all across the country with local editors bringing you the best of their area. Here in DC we're lucking to have guides for Washington, DC, Alexandria-Arlington-Mclean, Hunt Country VA and Richmond. The Scout Guide's are small works of art and the photography and print quality is just gorgeous. When they came in the mail, my 13 year old daughter remarked, "These are really beautiful." Here's just a few of the businesses featured:
Here's just a few of the businesses featured. Washington DC - dalton pratt in Georgetown
Northern VA - Mystique, Custom Design and Jewelry, Alexandria VA
Charlottesville, VA - Rockpile Construction. Isn't this an amazing space?! Don't you get the feeling that this builder would understand a design blogger?
Here's a listing of current and future guides. Maybe there's one near you?