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Gabe Powers checks out yet another high art Roger Corman Alien rip-off...
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On planet Xarbia, an experimental life form, Subject 20, has been created by an elite group of researchers in hopes of preventing a galactic food crisis. When Subject 20 becomes deadly, the best troubleshooter in the Galaxy, Mike Colby (Jesse Vent) is called on to investigate. Much sex and violence ensues.
As you may or may not know, in the wake of his success directing lavish versions of Edgar Allen Poe stories, Roger Corman became a producer best know for not so original horror and sci-fi productions. Ridley Scott's Alien was a hit (as were George Lucas' Star Wars films) so Corman and his company were more than happy to produce Sci-Fi-action-horror hybrids throughout the early '80s. The general consensus seems to be that Galaxy of Terror, with it's young James Cameron set design work is Corman's ne plus ultra (that's right, I used it again) Alien rip off. It's a tough call, but I'm thinking for pure cheese and exploitation, Forbidden World (aka: Mutant) gets my vote.
Galaxy of Terror only works when in exploitation/rip off mode, and falls apart a bit when trying to be something deeper. Forbidden World gets down to business the second the xenomorphing mutant appears. There's enough blood, guts, prosthetics, cheap sets, and T & A to please even the most jaded bad film lover. Though the opening space battle (an obvious attempt at a quick Star Wars cash-in, and probably shot for the trailer alone) is pretty weak, and really belongs in another film all together (I'd recommend Starcrash), but by the time our hero and his robot assistant actually land on the troubled planet, the Corman machine moves into overdrive.
Colby makes short work of the female crew, getting one in bed within hours, and the other naked the next morning, not to mention the fact that the two lovely ladies share a shower a few scenes later, all ensuring the adolescent boys in the audience are satisfied. The monster itself, which evolves through-out the film, looks a whole hell of a lot like a Giger knock-off, and disposes of the crew of bad actors in variously vile ways. Gorehounds should love the fact that the creature doesn't simply eat its victims, but breaks down their molecules to pure protein with its saliva, which causes them to melt into pools of grue. The Mystery Science Theater crowd will revel in the space station sets, which are literally cardboard, and the use of Star Trek landmarks.
So then, a very good, very bad film. But there is something to be said for the sound and film editing. Corman's studio, American International (Later New World), was an ingenious operation in that it was a profitable way for young filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Dante, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and John Sayles all worked for the studio at one time or another) to hone their craft. Editors Allan Holzman (also credited director) and Martin Nicholson were experiment with subliminal edited techniques, which doesn't work in some scenes, but in others, it takes the film a smidgen beyond smoked Gouda. The best such scene is one where a sex scene is interspliced with the grisly death of a peeping Tom video technetium.
Apparently this is the only way to see Forbidden World on DVD, so we should be happy for getting anything. Unfortunately, this happiness comes hard, as the movie doesn't look very good. The DVD is presented in what I'm assuming is the film's original l.33:1 aspect ratio, as compositions seem purposefully square, and there's no obvious side information missing. Colours are often too vibrant, causing quite a bit of bleeding, and bright bits often flare out. Darkness creates noise, making dark scenes hard to discern in parts, and edge enhancement is very, very prevalent. It's never impossible to watch, though. I'd equate it to a decent VHS copy of any obscure film.
The mono audio isn't bad. There is some minor dialogue muddling and effects distortion, but I got pretty much every word, and the silly but effective soundtrack came through clearly enough. The film's budget limitations are pretty clear, as B-Movie fans will recognize a collection of reused genre sound effects throughout. One tends to not expect much out of such a release, and one will not be surprised here. Passable but entirely unremarkable.
We've got the usual trailer and brief biographies (in German), but the surprise on this disc is a playable version of the entire original soundtrack. It's great cheesy electro-pop for your next Halloween party. The sound mix is pretty solid, and the track selection interface is easily navigated by English only speakers.
Only 77 minutes in length, there are worse ways to waste your time, but b-movie fans should be in hog heaven. There's nothing worse than a boring bad movie, and Forbidden World cannot be accused of languishing on any one scene or issue too long. Like junk food, unprotected sex, and heroine, you know it's really bad for you, but it feels so damned good. I recommend this disc to those with the correct pallets, but take no responsibility for damaged brain cells. The A/V quality is pretty sub-par, but kind of adds to the whole stupid experience.
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Great review, Gabe. Smidgen and ne plus ultra in the same review... it doesn't get any better than that!
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Next Xploited cinema review will also carry 'b***hin', and if you're lucky baroque.
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Gabe Powers: Much sex and violence ensues
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Disc Details
Release Date: 22nd August 2002
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English, Dolby Digital Mono German
Subtitles: None
Extras: Trailers, Original Soundtrack
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Allan Holzman
Cast: Jesse Vint, June Chadwick, Dawn Dunlap
Genre: Horror and Sci-Fi
Length: 77 minutes
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A patriot dreams of freedom. And so do the people who came to the Shamrock Bowl on Independence Evening to honor America. They were Indian Americans, African Americans, Columbian Americans and Anglo Americans. But they were most of all, Americans united in the spirit of freedom, love of country and pride in just being an American.
Beneath a hazy nearly full moon on a warm dry summer evening, a small crowd of the young and old, veterans with scars and babies holding flags, boys scouts and girl scouts, new and old, gathered for a salute to what America means.
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It is hard, if not impossible, for me to believe that it has been forty years since man first walked on the moon. If you are over the age of forty-five, you can remember the night when Neil Armstong took a giant leap for mankind. I do. I remember it as if it were yesterday. And it was yesterday, but that was four decades ago.
It was way back in the late 1950s, when I went outside one night to see something in the sky. To this day, I don't remember exactly what it was, but I wasn't alone. As my parents, my sister and I came outside on a warm clear evening, there were many people standing in front of their homes on Stonewall Street. I believe it was some kind of satellite, American or Russian, I really don't know. Judging by what I remember of the number of people looking toward the heavens, I will assume they were patriotically looking for an American object orbiting the earth. Someone spotted the white light as it crossed the sky and yelled "there it is!"
I began to look more at the sky, the stars, the planets, and the Moon. I remember watching Alan Shepard and his rocket on our little black and white television. I remember John Glenn as he orbited the earth. The significance of these flights and the competition with the Russians was lost on me. I was only five to six years old. I had a hard time riding a bicycle, let alone ever thinking about climbing in a capsule and being blasted into space.
It was about 1963 when I came in contact with the space program. Well, not really, but it was close. I was with my family on vacation at Jekyll Island when I had heard my mother and grandmother talking about the fact that Dr. Werner Von Braun and his family were staying at the Buccaneer Motel where we were staying. I only knew he had something to do with the space rockets. I was playing in the kiddie pool with a blonde haired kid I didn't know. He told me that his name was Peter. After having a great time playing with Peter, we heard someone calling his name. We looked up to the penthouse apartment. It was his parents calling him to come up to their room. It never dawned on me until later that I was playing in the pool with the son of the man who practically invented space rocketry. That was the same trip, 46 years ago yesterday, when the moon covered the sun completely across the northern United States. I remember seeing my first eclipse on television. I wanted to go out to the beach and watch it, but my mother said that the sun would burn my eyes. I went outside anyway and squinted to get a quick view of a partial eclipse before my eyes, or at least one of them, got fried.
Every chance I got, I watched the space flights on television. I watched Walter Cronkite on CBS tell me and the rest of the country what the astronauts were doing way up there in the heavens. I read the newspaper articles about the Gemini space flights. I never read anything else in the newspaper unless it was a story about the Dublin Irish football game, the Braves score, or if my name was in the paper. On one of his trips to Washington, D.C., my daddy brought me a N.A.S.A. book showing photographs taken by Gemini astronauts of the earth below. That was it. I was hooked and I wanted to go into space.
The moon has also been a special place to me. Just call me a lunaphile. I never get tired of looking at it as it changes its face every day. I was a teenager when I learned that when the moon was full that the waves at the beach were the best late in the afternoon. There is something special, almost spiritual, about seeing the reflection of the moon shimmering in the water or seeing it peaking out from behind the buttermilk clouds of the night.
As our country was being torn apart by political strife at home and across the world in 1968, it came together if only for a moment on Christmas Eve. My family was making our annual visit to my Thompson grandparents that evening when we walked into the living room. In the corner, I saw that the television was on, tuned to the flight of Apollo 8. I knew what was going on. I had been a space geek since the flight of Apollo 7, when I began to make scrapbooks of each of the Apollo flights, cutting my clippings from newspapers and magazines.
I was only twelve, but I was deeply moved as I listened to Commander Frank Borman read from the first verses of the Book of Genesis. I wanted to be there. I still want to be there. That night, my grandmother presented me with a present. It wasn't in a box, but it came in an envelope. She told me she got it on a trip to Florida, where she and my grandfather once lived and worked to make it through the Great Depression. It was only a piece of paper, but my oh my, what a piece of paper it was. It was a deed. My lawyer daddy told me that a deed meant that you owned land. My eyes bugged. It was deed to a piece of the moon. Though it wasn't a real deed - a fact that I knew - it did say that I, Scott Thompson, owned an acre on the moon. Wow! It would be some thirty-five years later when I actually bought a small speck of lunar dust taken from the equipment brought back by the Apollo 12 astronauts at a much higher cost than what my grandmother paid for my pretend deed.
Then, the big event came. It was a time I had been waiting for a decade. It was an event that man had been waiting for since Adam took a walk on his first evening on the earth. I had seen the launch, recording it on my father's tape recorder so I could listen to it over and over again. A few weeks later that my mother would pick up a souvenir 45 rpm record at Winn Dixie with special audio moments of the entire mission. Later that next year, I built a capsule from a dishwasher box (my mother's first), complete with a tape recorder, television, periscope, and lighted panels fashioned from my mother's blinking Christmas tree lights.
It was a Sunday evening, July 20, 1969. My mother had planned one of her famous theme parties. Guess what the theme was that night. The lunar module Eagle landed just after 3:15 that afternoon. The moon walk was scheduled for later that evening just before 10:00 p.m. I don't remember what I ate that night, just going in and out the door to see what I could see in the sky. It was my mission to watch the moon landing on television and at the same time watch the moon as well. I had enough engineering skills to accomplish my objective for the night, but I still tested my equipment a few times before the company came. This was no easy task since we had only two televisions and only one cable outlet in the family room, too far away from the sliding glass doors to see the moon and the tv at the same time. So, I got some regular electrical cord, stripped the wires on one end and wrapped them around the screws on the back of the main television and peeled back the covering of the other end of the wire and hooked it to the upstairs tv, which I set in a strategic place on the patio just at the spot where the moon peeked through the oaks of Hunger and Hardship Creek swamp.
As long as I live, I will never forget the sight of Neil Armstrong coming down the ladder of the LEM and stepping onto the surface of the moon. I watched astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin late into the night as they walked and hopped around and planted the flag, our American flag, on the surface. I kept on watching the astronauts on the moon until the last lunar flight of Apollo 17. I felt closest to the Apollo 13. Jim Lovell, the commander, was and still is, my favorite astronaut and a true American hero. This was the Saturn V rocket I saw on my first trip to Cape Kennedy on a church choir trip during spring vacation in 1970, just weeks before the fateful flight almost ended in disaster. I spent that weekend with a man who was on the ground crew. He took me back out near the cape to see the illuminated rocket, shining like a beacon in the night.
I never have lost sight of the moon. Every day I see it in my kitchen, perhaps the only kitchen in the country decorated with the "the man in the moon." I did meet moonwalker Buzz Aldrin in Atlanta when I opened the door for him and gave one of my heroes the directions to the autograph show. I could have met John Young when he spoke to the Dublin Rotary Club, but my darling brother didn't invite me as his guest.
On this 40th anniversary of the first landing on the moon, I am anxious to walk on the moon and right now! I know my heart wouldn't hold up to the grueling gravitational forces necessary to escape the Earth's gravity. But, I am ready, so fly me to the moon, please!
P.S. Walter, when I get there, I'll see you at Tranquility Base at the third crater on the left.
The Day The Words Died
Words were the music of Vince Mahoney's life. He brilliantly composed them, thoughtfully analyzed them, and wove them into stories of the most glamorous movie stars of the early sound motion pictures to analyses of the most complex political issues of his day. Sixty years ago this Sunday, Vincent Mahoney, a widely recognized journalist, and a dozen of his distinguished colleagues were returning from a fact-finding mission in Indonesia. The pilot of their airliner fought desperately against a torrential monsoon to no avail. The plane crashed. There were no survivors. It was "The Day The Words Died."
Michael Vincent Mahoney, Jr. was born in Dublin on July 1, 1902. His father was a railroad man, working many a decade as a freight and passenger agent of the Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad. His mother, the former Miss Lynette Hightower, kept the family household on South Calhoun Street, a home which was razed a baker's dozen years ago to make room for the parking lot of Capital City Bank.
Of all of Vince's friends, and he had many of them, Don Joiner was perhaps his closest and dearest friend, especially in their younger years in Dublin. Joiner described his friend as "a hard drinking Irishman who loved life." "He had more personality than anyone I have ever known and he was liked by everyone," Joiner recalled.
Don remembered the good times when Vince came to his house to visit. There were the wonderful times when the duo joined together to form a dance band, which played on Saturday nights in the club house of the original Dublin Country Club, which was located
on Hillcrest Parkway between Brookhaven and Claxton Dairy Road.
When his parents thought Vince was having a little too much fun, they sent him off to a Catholic school near New Orleans. After a year of expulsion from his home, Vince entered college at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. Though some say he graduated from the prestigious institution, Don Joiner recalled that Vince never finished his education at Georgetown. He did add, "Vince could do more with words than any other journalist I have ever known or read."
Mahoney's journalistic skills led to stints with the Associated Press, New York News, United Press, The Los Angeles News and Time Magazine before the onset of World War II.
In the mid 1930s, Vince reported stories for the AP and UPI in Hollywood, California at the beginning of its glorious era of talking pictures and iconic movie stars, all the time the earth shaking underneath him at any minute. It was in Los Angles where Vince met and married his wife, Virginia Nissen of Glendale, California.
During the war, Vince took a job as Chief of the Bureau of Intelligence in the War Information Office supervising the Pacific Theater of Operations.
Vince Mahoney loved the Pacific and California. In April 1945 as the war was climaxing, he took a job as a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle as an editorial writer. Mahoney began to develop a keen interest in the politics of Southeast Asia, and in Indonesia in particular.
Fifteen of America's leading journalists, including Vince and two Pulitzer Prize awardees, were invited by the government of the Netherlands to investigate the political upheavals in the southeastern Asia country of Indonesia in the spring of 1949. The Dutch government promised the reporters freedom from censorship and unrestricted access to interview Republican officials, who were leading a political war against the colonial Dutch controlled government.
On July 12, 1949, after a six week long stay, tour director Lynn Mahan gathered the writers together for the long flight home. William Matthews and Dorothy Brandon chose to stay behind. Matthews decided simply to return home on his own. Brandon feared the plane might be sabotaged by insurgents. After all, the same type of plane on which they were boarding had crashed some three weeks earlier.
Although Indian Prime Minister Nehru, in a move of sympathy toward his neighboring country's plight against a European colonial government, banned the landing of Dutch planes on Indian soil, special permission to land in India on the return flight was granted by Indian air controllers.
The pilot of the Dutch KLM struggled to keep his craft in a circular orbit around the Bombay Airport. A blinding monsoon made his task more difficult, if not impossible. No one saw the 800-foot high peak of Ghatkopar Hill, four miles east from a safe landing, until it was too late. The four engine Constellation slammed into the mound, incinerating all of the Americans, Britons, Dutch, and Chinese aboard.
Strewn and scattered over the muddy ground, were broken pieces of typewriters, cans of food, packs of cigarettes ( some smoked and others not), and torn luggage filled with uncleaned laundry. Not a living soul was found among the disintegrated remnants of the aircraft.
The people of the Netherlands honored the memory of the unlucky thirteen journalists who perished in the crash with the establishment of the "William the Silent Award." A plaque bearing the names of the fallen was placed in the American embassy in Amsterdam to "those who gave their lives for a free press." A permanent national memorial to all fallen journalists was established in 2001 on the campus of Cal State at Northridge. Mahoney was honored a third time by the Freedom Forums Newseum Journalists Memorial.
In the early fall of 1949, Vince's ashes were returned to New York City. From there, they were sent home to the family, who buried them in the family plot in Northview Cemetery.
The typewriters were all broken. And the thirteen admired most, their phrases spoke to the ghosts, to the fallen we drink a rousing toast, the day the words died.
A Fighter For Freedoms
This is a story of a Laurens County man who fought for the freedom of his country and the freedom of his people. Herndon Cummings was a member of what has collectively been called the "Tuskegee Airmen." Though he was not a part of the highly acclaimed circle of fighter pilots, Cummings served as a pilot in a bomber group which trained in the United States during World War II. In the waning moths of the war, Cummings found himself embroiled in one of the war's most controversial, yet unpublicized, instances, the first major attempt to integrate an all-white officer's club.
Herndon M. Cummings was born on April 25, 1919. The son of Joseph and Mollie Hill Cummings, Don grew up in the Burgamy District in the Old Macon Road area of northwestern Laurens County. Don was a grandson of Rev. Daniel D. Cummings, who saw to it that all of his children were educated. Many of his children excelled beyond their high school training to become professionals in a day when few blacks did.
Cummings said his interest in aviation was sparked on Christmas Day in 1928 when his father gave him a toy German zeppelin. His interest in flying was forever sealed in 1936 when Don and his brother took a five-dollar ride in a Ford Tri-Motor plane. As the plane soared in the skies west of Dublin, Don underwent a life-altering experience. "By the time the plane landed, I knew what I wanted to do," he recalled.
Like many other teenagers of his day, Don Cummings wanted to fly. The problem was that there were only a scant number of black pilots who had the means or were given a chance to fly. The United States Army Air Force instituted what was deemed "The Tuskegee Experiment." It was a program, thought by many to be designed to fail, to train black pilots to serve in Europe during World War II. Don Cummings enlisted in the Air Corps on June 25, 1942. He listed his occupation as a carpenter.
For nearly two years, Lt. Cummings trained in the B-25 bomber at Tuskegee and later at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus, Ohio, where he would later make his home. Of the nine hundred to a thousand men who successfully completed their training at Tuskegee, most trained as fighter pilots in the P-51 fighter and other fighters. These men, who have been immortalized in books and films, were assigned to the 332nd Fighter Squadron and saw action in the skies of Europe during the last months of the war escorting long range bombers. These brave young men were credited with losing none, or only a very few, of the fighters they escorted.
Lt. Cummings was assigned to the 477th Bomber Group. The 477th was organized at Selfridge Army Air Field, Michigan in 1944. Many of the members of the group were commanded by white officers, who according to some, favored white officers over the black officers. Concerns over racial troubles in Detroit forced the group to move to Godman Field near Fort Knox, Kentucky. By March 1945, the 477th was uprooted again and moved to Freemen Army Field at Seymour, Indiana.
In 1940, the Army published a regulation that any officer's club must be open to any officer, three years before the Tuskegee Airmen received their commission and long before the government officially ended segregation in the armed forces. The field at Freeman maintained two clubs, one for supervisors and one for trainees, but were defacto separated between blacks and whites. In the early days of April 1945, the relationships between the commanding officers and the black pilots began to deteriorate rapidly. Some five dozen were placed under house arrest. The men were released, but field commander Selway determined that all of the black pilots were to be designated as "trainees" and were assigned to their own club building. It so happened that all of the trainees were black and the white officers had their own building.
On April 9th, all pilots were asked to sign a pledge to comply with Selway's directive. Lt. Cummings joined one hundred of his fellow pilots and refused to sign. They were arrested on the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt died. "The regulations said we could go in but the commanding officer said we couldn't," Cummings said. He added, "we just wanted a beer, why else would we go there?" The men, known as the Freeman Field 101, were taken back to a jail at Godman Field. They remained in jail for twelve days. Cummings gave new president Harry S. Truman credit for their release. "We thought it was the end of the line, but President Truman did the right thing," Cummings said.
"We fought on both sides of the ocean. We fought on this side for civil rights," Cummings told an interviewer. "I am sure we did the right thing. To me and a lot of other people, it was the beginning of the civil rights movement," Cummings said. He also credited Eleanor Roosevelt and Thurgood Marshall, lead counsel for the NAACP and a future Supreme Court justice, for the effort to drop the charges of mutiny. It would be five decades later when the official letters of reprimand were purged from the personnel files of the Freeman Field 101.
Just weeks after they were freed, General Hap Arnold replaced all of the white officers in the 477th with black officers. Lt. Cummings was promoted to captain to command a bomber. The unit was temporarily assigned to Godman under the command of Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the former commander at Tuskegee and a graduate of West Point. Col. Davis was given the task of preparing the 477th for deployment to the Pacific theater where it would participate in the impending invasion of Japan. The dropping of the atomic bomb ended the war and the 477th never saw combat outside of the United States. After completing his four-year stint in the Army Air Corps, Cummings served in the Air Force Reserve and attained the rank of major before retiring after twenty years of service.
Cummings earned a commercial pilot's license, but never utilized it because there were virtually no opportunities for employment of black pilots. He went to work laying bricks in order to support his family and send his two daughters to college. Cummings and his second wife Mildred lived in their South Wayne Street home in Columbus until she died in 1988.
When he is able, Major Cummings appears at reunions and programs to honor the Tuskegee Airmen or to support aviation in general. He has never been bitter about his experiences in the military, stating instead that it wasn't too bad and nothing could keep a good man down.
On January 20, 2009, Major Cummings was a honored guest of President Barack Obama and invited to watch the historic inauguration of the first African-American President of the United States.
After a long and faithful life, Major Herndon Cummings died on July 2, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio.


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Ile A Vache, Haiti
Using a halyard to load a generator into the smaller boat. We did the same for the roto-tiller also in the boat.
A boy riding his horse into the water from the beach in La Hatte, Ile A Vache, Haiti.
Everyone took a part in cleaning the school once we got back into it, even the little ones.
Some of these children don't even have access to a mirror to see what they look like, so it's quite a novelty when someone with a camera comes through.
Children enjoy some pops during their health assessment in La Hatte.
Shy children at the La Hatte school.
Parents get to see their childrens' progress during distribution of report cards at the temporary school in La Hatte.
Children come in for their health assessment and are asked how old they are, how many siblings they have, and if they have both parents. Many of them couldn't answer.
Children gathered in front of the school for the national anthem at the start of the day.
Children waiting for class to start at the La Hatte school.
Our "security" crew. They've spent the past few nights at the school making sure that the classrooms stayed out of the wrong hands.
Janel, one of my translators during a candid moment at the school in La Hatte.
This small house is partitioned into a kindergarten and the sleeping quarters for this boy's family, until the main school in La Hatte becomes operational.
One of our masons laying brick around the perimeter of the hen house.
One of the local construction crew responsible for hauling cement at the hen house site. He was the first person here to ask me to take a picture of him - almost all of the islanders are really shy around cameras (mostly because no one has ever seen a camera).
Workers climbing on the rafters to install the battens on the hen house in La Hatte.
Anous inspects the demonstration garden near his house in La Hatte, Ile A Vache, Haiti.
An orphaned girl watches one of the fishermen tending to one of the donated sails.
A Haitian sail loft.
Phelix grabbing on to the standing rigging of "Fufei", which is made up of webbing and rusty stranded steel.
Late afternoon at Pierre La Lanterne.
Boys playing a pickup soccer game. The goal posts are different each day I walk past the field.
Barbara spotting the turtles; they're chased a short while until they're tired at which point they're netted or captured by hand
Steve taking the turtle out of the net and laying it in the boat
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CIOs Harbor Mixed Sentiments About Q2 2013
There's much for CIOs to feel optimistic about, and far more of them are planning to expand IT staff, compared to those who anticipate a reduction in their tech department headcount, according to the latest Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report. Still, the vast majority of CIOs intend to either put any hiring initiatives "on hold" or stick with filling only currently open tech positions. Overall, the results are encouraging. CIOs remain highly confident of their companies' growth potential, as well as their leadership's support of IT project investment. As for the staffing? Expect this to eventually ramp up, as it becomes clear that strategic recruitment will emerge as key to maintaining a competitive advantage. "We continue to see strong demand for IT workers as companies increase their investment in technology initiatives, including security, data mining and mobile," says John Reed, senior executive director of Robert Half Technology. "Companies are finding it most challenging to recruit technology professionals in specialties such as network administration and database management." More than 2,300 U.S. CIOs took part in the research.


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North Texas Tornado Leaves 6 Dead + Dozens Injured [VIDEO]
Officials say at least six people were killed following a tornado in North Texas. Authorities in Granbury say the fatalities occurred Wednesday as the twister tore through two neighborhoods. Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds also says dozens were injured.
The worst-hit city Wednesday was Granbury, where authorities say the fatalities occurred as the deadly tornado tore through two neighborhoods.
The same storm spawned another tornado that storm spotters told the National Weather Service was a mile wide. That twister tore through part of Cleburne, about 25 miles southeast of Granbury.


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January 20, 1933 - July 27, 2013
Prince George, VA
Our Lord called His servant, Florence L. Pedersen, to His home in glory on Saturday, July 27, 2013.
Florence was born in New York on January 20, 1933 and moved to Prince George, VA in January 2003.
Preceded in His eternal home, is her beloved husband of 60 years of marriage, John Pedersen. Also, left behind to cherish her memories, are her daughter, Karen Donivan and her husband, Jim; and sons: Charles and his wife, Paula, John and his wife, Laura, and Wayne and his wife, Laura. Preceding her in His eternal home is her 12 year old son, Mark Pedersen; one sister and one brother preceded her in death also. Florence was blessed with twelve grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one sister, Marilyn Demas.
Additionally, her love for the Lord included serving at her church, Salem United Methodist Church in Burrowsville, and helping others. Florence enjoyed Bible studies, crafts and quilting as some of her favorite past-time activities.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31st, at the Hopewell Chapel of J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home. A Service of Celebration will be held on Thursday, August 1st, at 10 a.m. at Salem United Methodist Church in Burrowsville, with the Pastor Gilbert Elder officiating. A Graveside Service will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 3rd, in Bruynswick Rural Cemetery in Shawangunk, NY.
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The Canadians released one of 2012's most consistent albums, "Michigan Left."
Chance the Rapper
The local MC's rising fast, and Lolla's a perfect place to showcase why.
The Delta Saints
Badass blues from Nashville, which didn't stop them from titling a song "Chicago."
Paloma Faith
The pop-soul singer's huge in Britain. She deserves to be big here.
The Knife
The Swedish electronic act returns this year with "Shaking the Habitual."
Laura Marling
The upcoming "Once I Was An Eagle" will likely be her fourth exceptional folk record. Before turning 24.
The R&B crooner justifiably broke out in 2012 thanks to "Kaleidoscope Dream."
Caitlin Rose
Sweet, twangy pop that's kinda like Zooey Deschanel—except Rose's songs don't threaten to float away.
Born in Chicago, based in Michigan, fronted by Ultramark. Electro-pop excellence.
Surfer Blood
It's been a long three years since the Florida group's "Astro Coast." "Pythons" arrives in June.
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Q: I've been reading all the recent blog posts here about how some index keys can lead to fragmentation (and we have some that are GUIDs unfortunately). I'd like to reduce the amount of fragmentation that occurs but I can't change the database schema at all. Should I set a default fill factor for the instance?
A: This answer ties in nicely with my previous blog post on Fragmentation from using snapshot isolation where one of the workarounds is to use an index fill factor.
You are right that making use of index fill factors is a great way to avoid fragmentation if you're unable to change the indexes themselves, but I would strongly advise against setting an instance-wide fill factor using sp_configure.
As background for other readers, an index fill factor instructs the Storage Engine to leave some free space in leaf-level index pages during index build or rebuild operations (note that the fill factor is NOT maintained during regular insert/update/delete operations).
The default fill factor is 100, which instructs the Storage Engine to make the index leaf level pages 100% full – in other words leaving no space. This means that pages do not have space to allow random record inserts (or records increasing in size) and so page splits can occur, causing fragmentation.
The tricky part about setting a fill factor is determining what number to use for each index. If you set an instance-wide fill factor there will likely be many indexes that do not need a fill factor set and so they will contain a lot of wasted, empty space. This can be especially true of clustered indexes where the clustering key and access pattern do not cause fragmentation.
For those indexes where fragmentation is a problem, and your only recourse is to use a fill factor combined with regular index maintenance, you need to find a balance between how low to set the fill factor and how often you can rebuild the index to reset the free space in the index leaf-level pages. So what's the secret?
The unfortunate answer is that there isn't a secret to which number to pick, but there is a pretty simple methodology you can use to help you set an appropriate fill factor for each of your problem indexes.
I usually recommend picking a fill factor value and putting it in production – and I often pick 70% as the starting value. Monitor the fragmentation over a period of a week or two and then decide whether to tweak the fill factor value up or down, or increase/decrease the frequency of index maintenance.
You can monitor the fragmentation using the sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats DMV which from SQL Server 2005 onwards replaces DBCC SHOWCONTIG (that I wrote for SQL Server 2000). Just be careful how you run the DMV as it can be really expensive – see my blog post Inside sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats for a *really* in-depth look at the DMV and how it works.
For some of my clients, I've helped them set index fill factors as low as 50%, as the extra space usage is preferable to the run-time cost of performing page splits.
Your mileage will vary – just don't fall into the trap of setting a default fill factor for the whole instance – this invariably leads to far too much wasted space.


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Organizations Taking Risky Approach to BYOD
While the bring your own device (BYOD) trend only continues to gain momentum, the implementation of effective policies to establish best practices for the use of personal devices on the job remains a work in progress. And the lack of an accelerated timetable could leave organizations exposed to regulatory penalties and network breaches, according to a recent survey of IT leaders and professionals from TEKsystems. For starters, an alarming number of corporations don't even have an active, updated policy, findings show. In addition to the increase in risks, an overwhelming number of CIOs say their policies (if they exist at all) fail to deliver on BYOD's potential to cut IT costs and boost employee productivity. On the positive side, CIOs are noticing a clear increase in employee satisfaction due to BYOD. And, of course, those workers are more readily available to their teams thanks to the increased connectivity. More than 1,500 IT leaders, including CIOs, as well as IT directors, VPs and hiring managers, and 2,000 IT tech pros in the U.S. and Canada took part in the research. For more about the survey, click here.


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Darkfire wrote:Just about 2 years, so I voted 2-3 years.
DanishPastry wrote:Darkfire wrote:Just about 2 years, so I voted 2-3 years.
Dude, when you've been playing for close to two years why didn't you vote 1-2 years? That sure seems to be the correct option, yes?
I've been playing for 2½ years so I voted 3-4 years... (just kidding)
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Daly, Reick Named To Academic All-League Team
ELMHURST, IL -- South Dakota's Allie Daly and South Dakota State's Devon Reick have been named to The Summit League Softball Academic All-League Team.
Daly 3.727 GPA, majoring in psychology and is enrolled in USD's pre-physical therapy program. The sophomore catcher from Sioux Falls led The Summit League with 13 home runs, 16 doubles and 52 RBI while hitting .301 with 47 hits and 32 runs scored. Daly tied for the fifth-most home runs in Summit League single-season history. Her RBI total tied for ninth.
Reick -- an Omaha, Neb. senior -- posted a 3.33 GPA as a nursing major and earned second team all-league after the season as an outfielder. Reick led the Jackrabbits with 52 hits, which ranked fourth in The Summit League. She finished the season with a .361 batting average with 25 runs scored.
The All-Academic team is made up of 10 players that posted at least a 3.0 grade point average and played in at least 50 percent of her team's games.
Allie Daly, South Dakota
Devon Reick, South Dakota State
Ashleigh Bousquet, Fort Wayne
Dana Elsasser, Nebraska-Omaha
Larissa Franklin, IPFW
Presley Glaser, North Dakota State
Sammy Marshall, Western Illinois
Krista Menke, North Dakota State
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by Mike Potter, Extension Entomologist
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture
Carpet beetles, as their name implies, are capable of damaging carpets. These pests will also feed upon many other materials besides carpets and will attack any item composed of animal fibers such as wool, furs, silk, feathers, felt and leather. Serious infestations of carpet beetles can develop undetected in a home, causing significant damage to clothing, bedding, floor coverings and other articles.
Identification and Habits
Although there are many different species of carpet beetles, the adults of all species are small, oval-shaped beetles about 1/8 inch long. The black carpet beetle (the most common species) is shiny black. Adults of other common species are brightly colored in various patterns of white, brown, yellow and orange.
The larvae or immature stages of carpet beetles are about 1/4 inch long and densely covered with hairs or bristles. Only the larval stage feeds on fabric and causes damage. The adults feed on flowers, but are often seen indoors around light fixtures and windows, indicating that a larval infestation is present somewhere within the home.
Carpet beetles feed on a variety of animal-based materials including wool, fur, silk, feathers and leather. Items commonly infested include wool sweaters, coats, blankets, carpets, down pillows and comforters, and upholstered furniture. Synthetic fabrics such as polyester and rayon are rarely attacked unless they are heavily soiled with food stains or body oils.
They prefer to feed in dark, undisturbed areas such as closets, attics, within boxes where woolens and furs are stored, along and under the edges of carpeting, underneath upholstered furniture, and in air ducts where they feed on lint, pet hair and other bits of debris.
Carpet beetle infestations may also originate from bird or animal nests or an animal carcass present in an attic, chimney or wall void. They also occasionally feed on seeds, pet food or cereal products in the kitchen or pantry.
The best way to avoid carpet beetle problems is through prevention. Woolens and other susceptible fabrics should be dry cleaned or laundered before being stored for long periods. Cleaning not only removes perspiration odors that are attractive to the beetles, but also kills any eggs or larvae that may be present. Articles to be stored should then be packed with moth balls or flakes in tight-fitting containers. Insecticides should not be used to treat clothing. However, mothproofing solutions may be applied to susceptible clothing by professional dry cleaners.
Routine vacuuming effectively removes carpet beetles which are already present, as well as hair and lint which could support future infestations. Particular attention while vacuuming should be paid to the edges of carpets, along baseboards, underneath furniture and similar "quiet" areas where carpet beetles prefer to feed.
Insecticide applications directed into infested areas are often useful as a supplement to good housekeeping. Products containing active ingredients such as chlorpyrifos, permethrin, bendiocarb and allethrin are effective against carpet beetles. Sprays may be applied to carpets (especially beneath and along the edge adjacent to the baseboard), underneath furniture and other likely areas of infestation where prolonged contact with humans is unlikely. Clothing and bedding should not be sprayed and should be removed before treatment.
Control of carpet beetles requires patience and a thorough inspection to locate all sources of infestation. Elimination of widespread, ongoing infestations may require the services of a professional pest control operator.
Issued: 9/92
Revised: 11/97
CAUTION! Pesticide recommendations in this publication are registered for use in Kentucky, USA ONLY! The use of some products may not be legal in your state or country. Please check with your local county agent or regulatory official before using any pesticide mentioned in this publication.
Of course, ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW LABEL DIRECTIONS FOR SAFE USE OF ANY PESTICIDE!


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Written by Lee Hoffman
On August 8th of 2016 the IRS issued Rev. Proc. 2016-42. Until August 7, 2016, every charitable remainder annuity trust (CRAT) paying a life income interest (not for a term of year), had to meet two tests: first, the remainder value at the date of gift had to be at minimum 10% of the total value of the property transferred to the trust, and second, it also had to meet "the probability test".
Treasury Regulation 1.170A-1(e) provides that no charitable deduction is allowed unless the possibility that the charitable transfer will not become effective is "so remote as to be negligible."
In Rev. Rul. 70-452, this rule was made applicable to a split-interest transfers such as CRTs. If there is greater than a 5% chance that the payment to beneficiaries would exhaust the trust by the end of the trust term, there could be no deduction and therefore the CRAT would fail to meet the requirements of the governing section 664. This concept was made specific to CRATs in Rev. Rul. 77-374, and is based on two factors—first, the AFR rate (section 7520 rate) in relation to the annuity payout rate, and second, the mortality table used to determine the probability (Mortality Table 2000CM).
Rev. Proc. 2016-42 changes this picture beginning August 8, 2016 because at the current AFR rate, CRATs become almost useless as most of them fail the probability test. The Rev. Proc. gives planners a way out of this mess. But should you actually use what it offers as a solution?
This Rev. Proc. will change the required analysis and potential use of the charitable remainder annuity trust (CRAT).
The answers to the above questions must be understood so you and your clients/donors can make the right choice.
Simply stated, it is a new Rev. Proc. that allows the drafter of the CRAT to insert a specific qualified contingency into the trust document that eliminates the need to meet the 5% probability test. Obviously, this is a very good thing because when the 7520 rates are as low as they are at the time of this writing many donors are excluded from establishing a CRAT because of their younger age, even though their risk tolerance is low and they would feel more secure with the level payments of the CRAT.
The mathematical answer to this question is simple. In all cases, if the deduction calculation for a CRAT for lives (regardless of the number of lives) passes the 10% remainder test the Rev. Proc. 2016-42 formula can be used to allow younger donors who would otherwise not be able to establish a CRAT to be able to do so. How much younger? That just depends on the 10% remainder test. You need to apply the 10% test at the creation of the trust. If it passes then you can use the qualified contingency.
The annuity payout rate and the 7520 rate are the starting points for the calculation. As you can see in the following chart, while the 5% annuity payout rate would pass the 10% test at age 60 and allow for the inclusion of the qualified contingency clause, at 5.25% and higher it would fail. The older the beneficiaries the higher the annuity payout rate that will pass the 10% remainder test. But as you will see, the higher the 7520 rate the more likely the trust may terminate when the qualified contingency is used.
So rule number 1 is that the calculation of the remainder interest is critical as to whether you can even use the qualified contingency for a certain client. If the calculation does not yield a deduction factor of at least 10% of the assets transferred to the trust all bets are off. The new qualified contingency cannot be used for that client. But as we see in the above chart, it can be used at age 60 with a single life and a 7520 rate of 1.8%. Two lives would require higher ages.
Unlike the charitable remainder unitrust, the CRAT is highly sensitive to the 7520 rate. The chart below, shows that the higher the 7520 rate the higher the charitable deduction and the more likely the 5% probability test will pass. In this case the 5% probability test passes when the 7520 rate is 2.6%. This is one reason you should always select the highest of the current months or prior two month's 7520 rates. So at age 60 with a 2.6% 7520 rate there would be an option as to how you would want to draft the trust. While this is not important at today's low rates it's important for the advisor to know that as rates climb the possibility that the 60 year old (in this case) could pass the 5% probability test and eliminate the need for the Rev. Proc. 2016-42 qualified contingency. This is obviously true at all ages.
Let's take a look at fact pattern but change the ages. The following chart illustrates the ten percent remainder interest test and the five percent probability test at various ages in five year increments. The annuity payout rate used was 5%, the payment frequency quarterly end of period, and the 7520 rate used 1.8%. The fair market value of the asset transferred to the trusts was $1,000,000.
By using the qualified contingency, the CRAT would pass at age 60 a full fifteen years earlier than would otherwise be possible. How long the trust would last is an unknown. That depends on the actual earnings of the trust, the annuity payout rate, and the 7520 rate used on the date the assets are transferred to the trust.
NOTE: Had the payment frequency been annual at the end of period the deduction for the 60 year old would have been $143,250, so keep that in mind if your deduction calculation fails using a quarterly payment frequency, an annual end of period payment frequency will always produce a higher deduction in a CRAT.
Up to this point we've only discussed the importance of the 7520 rate. Now we'll get into an example of the actual calculation. The following is the example given in the Rev. Proc.
It looks much more complex than it is. Let's break it down.
Line 1 – Gift *10% =$100,000
Lines 2, 3 and 4 are just provided to give clarity to the results of each portion of the calculation. The following is an excel formula that places the answer into a single cell.
Excel Formula "=ROUND((C9-E9)*(1/(1+$J$14))^B9,0)"
Excel Formula with Variables "=ROUND((TrustValue – NextAnnuityPayment) *(1/(1+StartingDiscountRate))^FractionalYears , Rounded to the dollar)"
The end result is that the qualified contingency formula, in this case, yields an answer of $93,984 in year 18. It is the number you need to worry about. When the formula (calculated prior to the trust's next payment) is less than 10%, the trust is terminated, payments cease, and the trust corpus is distributed to the charity or charities named in the trust.
While the trust is earning 5% and the annuity payout rate is 5% you would think that this trust could never terminate. But as you see in column 6 the trust value is being discounted each year by the 7520 rate. In this case the trust would terminate in year 127, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
In this chart we've assumed the same 5% earnings rate but have increased the annuity to close to the maximum that will pass the 10% test for a 75 year old on the date the trust is created and funded, 8.8%. The trust will terminate at the end of year 16 (assuming an annual payment frequency).
Had the trust earned a higher rate of return it would increase the number of years before it terminated. If it had earned 8.8% equal to the annuity payout rate the results would have been the same as in Example 1.
Now let's go back to our 5% annuity payout rate and 5% earnings rate in Example 1 and make one change. We're going to change the 7520 rate to 8%.
The 5 and 5 trust in Example 1 terminated in year 127. This same trust with an 8% 7520 rate terminates in year 30. Why? Because the trust value is being discounted by 8% each year, not 1.8%
NOTE: We're doing this for educational purposes. If the applicable federal midterm rate (the 7520 rate) increases to 8% our country probably can't pay the interest on our debt, but you'll understand the impact of the 7520 rate better.
Black Monday – Remember that the annuity payment from a CRUT is level based on the FMV of the assets that originally funded the trust. Don't forget Black Monday where the DJIA dropped over 22 percent. The following chart assumes that this occurred in year 4 of the trust and then resumed its 5% earnings rate. Again, this is for educational purposes. The market actually regained it losses by about 1989. But would the trustee have the crystal ball to stay in the market. The trust in Example 1 that terminated in year 127 now terminates in year 27 even through $170,687 in trust assets in that year. The point is that declines in asset values in a CRAT can be very difficult to make up because the annuity payment is level unlike a CRUT where the payment fluctuates with the value of the trust.
Trust fails in year 27
As we've seen, when the 7520 rate goes up, the Rev. Proc. 2016-42 calculation will cause the qualified contingency to terminate the trust faster because of the accelerated discounting of the trust value in any given year. But keep in mind that the 7520 rate used in the calculation for a given trust is the rate at the original funding of the trust. So increasing 7520 rates will not affect existing trusts.
As the 7520 rate goes up, the 5% probability test can be passed at lower and lower ages and the new qualified contingency will not be necessary. In effect, one cancels out the other. As rates go up and down one method of qualification will allow younger income beneficiaries to qualify. And that I believe was the entire purpose of the new Rev. Proc, wasn't it?
So which method to use? If the CRAT passes the 5% probability test personally I would NOT include the qualified contingency. The reason is simple, the CRAT passed the 5% probability test. If you include the qualified contingency you run the risk that the trust would at some point fail the test and be terminated, and here was no reason to include the qualified contingency in the first place. The bottom line is use it when you need to.
Another thought for the attorneys reading this article. I'd like your thoughts on this one. In the case of a testamentary CRAT we have no way of knowing what the 7520 rate will be. Give me your thoughts on how you'll draft language that will allow either method (5% probability or 2016-42) to be used to assure the most likely positive outcome for the qualification of the trust at creation.
Now that we're all totally confused I'd like to give you yet another option to think about. A CRAT whose term is based on a term of years is NOT subject to the 5% probability test of Revenue Ruling 77-374! A CRAT for a 20 year term and a 1.8% 7520 rate with generate a 10% remainder interest with an annuity payout rate of 5.362533%
You use a CRAT when your client absolutely wants the security of level payments. Here is the comparison of the CRUT and CRAT charitable deductions.
Since the CRUT deduction is barely affected by the fluctuations of the 7520 rate it will, at the current rate of 1.8% always produce a higher charitable deduction. It need only pass the 10% remainder interest test.
As you can see, there are now more ways to skin a CRAT. This is why your clients need you. Please leave a comment below and share this article with others so we can all advance in our understanding of charitable estate planning.
There is now more than one way to skin a CRAT - A look at the mathematics of Rev. Proc. 2016-42


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2 Cups Rolled Oats
1 Large Apple, Finely-Diced
3/4 Cup of Raisins or Currants
1 Cup of Nut Butter (Your Choice)
1/4-1/2 Lb. Whole Pecans
1/2 Stick of Butter or Non-Hydrogenated Margarine
1/2 Cup Carob Chips (Optional)
2 Whole Eggs
1 Cup of Spring or Filtered Water
2 tsp. STEVIA Herbal Powder or l/2 tsp STEVIA Powdered Extract
Combine rolled oats, eggs, water and butter in a mixing bowl. Stir in nut butter and remaining ingredients (except the pecans). Form into balls and place onto an oiled cookie sheet. Place a whole pecan on top of each ball. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
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CINCINNATI (AP) Kris Negron waited a long time for his first major league home run. When it came, he was in a hurry to celebrate with his teammates.
Negron hit a three-run homer, All-Star Todd Frazier added a two-run shot and the Cincinnati Reds rolled into the break with a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.
Called up from Triple-A Louisville on Thursday for his first appearance in the majors since playing four games in 2012, Negron hit an opposite-field homer to right off Francisco Liriano in the second inning.
The RBIs were the first of his career, and the hit was his second.
''Negron is a tempo guy,'' Reds manager Bryan Price said. ''You could tell it was a surreal moment for him because he was flying around the bases. It was a lifetime achievement.
Negron has been in professional baseball for nine years. He was promoted from the minors when second baseman Brandon Phillips was put on the disabled list with torn ligaments in his left thumb.
''I was so amped up that I was around the bases as quickly as I could be,'' Negron said. ''I love playing this game. You have your ups and downs but you have to keep playing. I'm not thinking about how long I'm going to be here. I'm just blessed with the opportunity and I'm going to keep playing whenever my number is called.''
The game was delayed by rain for 56 minutes with Pittsburgh batting in the top of the fifth.
Frazier lined a drive just inside the right-field foul pole on the first pitch from Vance Worley in the sixth to help the Pirates finish 2-5 on their road trip.
''They got two good swings,'' Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said. ''We came in and looked at Frazier's home run. That was a good piece of hitting. We had something going after the rain delay. We were one pitch away from popping it. We weren't able to get that big swing.''
The Reds went 8-3 on their 11-game homestand against Milwaukee, the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh to finish the first half 10-0-1 in series against those Central Division-opponents. They are 0-3 in series against St. Louis.
Johnny Cueto, another Reds All-Star, overcame Neil Walker's home run and the rain delay to last six innings.
Cueto (10-6) allowed five hits and three runs with two walks and seven strikeouts. He also hit a batter.
''It was muggy and he was on base a couple times,'' Price said. ''He took advantage of the rain delay. He got out of the heat.''
Cueto rushed off to Minnesota for the All-Star game.
Jumbo Diaz pitched the seventh, and Jonathan Broxton worked the eighth before Aroldis Chapman struck out the side in the ninth for his 21st save.
Diaz is another player added to the roster after a lengthy stint of 10 years in the minor leagues. He was invited to spring training for the first time in his career this spring and dropped 70 pounds to give him his first shot at the big leagues.
''He's throwing the ball over,'' said Price of his 274-pound reliever. ''A lot of guys will try to miss the bat, but he comes right at the hitter with a 94 mile an hour fastball and a good slider.''
Chapman's fanning of leadoff batter Pedro Alvarez extended his record strikeout streak to 41 straight appearances.
Liriano's start was his first since June 10 against the Chicago Cubs, when he strained his left oblique strain. He tied his season high by issuing six walks for the second time in three starts.
Liriano (1-7) lasted four innings, allowing three hits and three runs with four strikeouts and a wild pitch. He left the bases loaded in two of his four innings.
''I was a little excited going out to pitch,'' Liriano said. ''I tried to do too much.''
Devin Mesoraco drove in Jay Bruce from first base with a double off the left-center field wall in the fifth.
NOTES: Reds IF Ramon Santiago was available but his left shoulder was sore after his attempt at a diving backhand stop of Travis Snider's grounder on Saturday. ... Reds RHP Alfredo Simon was added to the NL All-Star team.


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Re: How Much Is Too Much (on one line of code)?by adrianh (Chancellor)
|on Jun 19, 2007 at 04:15 UTC ( #621932=note: print w/replies, xml )
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How do you feel about that code snippet?
Too much :-) Mostly because if the trailing if means I have to re-evaluate a fairly complex LHS after I've read it.
I'd also wonder about the hard-coded 'gbr'. Mostly I'd wonder if some other part of the system should "know" what the default country was. However, if this was the only place it was used I'd probably leave it inlined for the moment.
I'd probably re-write it as something like:
with appropriate tweaks if the coercion of a false country to under/() in scalar/list was inappropriate in context.
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What should I watch for?
Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. They will need to check the level of testosterone in your blood.
This medicine is only approved for use in men who have low levels of testosterone related to certain medical conditions. Heart attacks and strokes have been reported with the use of this medicine. Notify your doctor or health care professional and seek emergency treatment if you develop breathing problems; changes in vision; confusion; chest pain or chest tightness; sudden arm pain; severe, sudden headache; trouble speaking or understanding; sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg; loss of balance or coordination. Talk to your doctor about the risks and benefits of this medicine.
This medicine may affect blood sugar levels. If you have diabetes, check with your doctor or health care professional before you change your diet or the dose of your diabetic medicine.
Testosterone injections are not commonly used in women. Women should inform their doctor if they wish to become pregnant or think they might be pregnant. There is a potential for serious side effects to an unborn child. Talk to your health care professional or pharmacist for more information. Talk with your doctor or health care professional about your birth control options while taking this medicine.
This drug is banned from use in athletes by most athletic organizations.
Common and Rare Side Effects
Discuss these possible effects with your doctor:
Tumors of the liver, liver cancer, or peliosis hepatis (a form of liver disease) have occurred during long-term, high-dose therapy with androgens. Although these effects are rare, they can be very serious and may cause death.
Androgens can stimulate existing prostate cancer in men who already have it but have not yet been diagnosed. Also, the prostate (a male gland) may become enlarged. Enlargement of the prostate does not mean that cancer will develop. If enlargement occurs and you have difficulty in urinating, it is a good idea to be checked by your doctor.
When androgens are used in women, especially in high doses, male-like changes may occur, such as hoarseness or deepening of the voice, unnatural hair growth, or unusual hair loss. Most of these changes will go away if the medicine is stopped as soon as the changes are noticed. However, some changes, such as voice changes or enlarged clitoris, may not go away.
When androgens are used in high doses in males, they interfere with the production of sperm. This effect is usually temporary and only happens during the time you are taking the medicine. However, discuss this possible effect with your doctor if you are planning on having children.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
More common
For females only
Acne or oily skin
decreased breast size
irregular menstrual cycles
hoarseness or deepening of voice
increase in size of female genitals
increase in unnatural hair growth or male pattern baldness
These symptoms may occur in females whose male sexual partner uses a scrotal patch.
For males only
Blistering of skin under patch (especially when the nonscrotal patch is applied to bony areas of the skin)
breast soreness or enlargement
frequent or continuing erection of penis lasting up to 4 hours or painful penile erections lasting longer than 4 hours
frequent urge to urinate
itching or redness of skin under patch (less likely with nonscrotal patch) or at site of implants, mild to severe
For prepubertal boys only
early growth of pubic hair
enlargement of penis
frequent or continuing erections
Less common
For males or females
frequent or continuing headache
lack or loss of strength
overall body flushing, redness, or itching of skin
rapidly changing moods, such as depersonalization, dysphoria, euphoria, depression, paranoia, and quick to react or overreact emotionally
swelling of feet or lower legs
unusual bleeding
unusual tiredness
yellow skin or eyes (occurring with fluoxymesterone or methyltestosterone more often than with testosterone)
For females with breast cancer or bedridden males or females—in addition to the side effects listed above
Confusion or mental depression
increased thirst
increased urge to urinate or increased amount of urine
For males only
Black, tarry stools
burning sensation or hardening or thickening of skin under patch
continuing pain at site of implants
difficulty in urinating
itching, skin redness, or rash under patch, severe (less likely with nonscrotal patch)
pain in scrotum or groin
vomiting of blood or material that looks like coffee grounds
For males or females—more likely with oral androgens or long-term or high doses of androgens
Abdominal or stomach pain, continuing
bad breath odor, continuing
black, tarry or light-colored stools or dark urine
loss of appetite, continuing
mood or mental changes
purple or red spots on body or inside the mouth or nose
swelling, pain, or tenderness of abdomen
vomiting of blood
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Less common
For males and females
Acne, mild
decrease or increase in sexual desire or drive
hair loss or thinning of hair
increase in pubic hair growth
infection, pain, redness, or other irritation at site of injection
stomach pain
trouble in sleeping
For males only
Decrease in testicle size
infection, pain, redness, swelling, sores, or other skin irritation underneath patch
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.


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Rajasthan – A Land Where History Meets the Present in a Colorful Tone
Rajasthan, also known as 'the land of kings' or 'the land of colors', can amaze anyone visiting it. Let's find out what this beautiful region is all about.
The Indian Union is formed out of 28 states and 7 union territories, and this state is the largest by area, with the capital in Jaipur. Situated in the north-west of India, it is bordered by Pakistan in the west and northwest, and the states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana in the north and northeast.
Even though Rajasthan encompasses much of the Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert), its landscape offers more diversity than that. The Aravalli Range, which literally means 'line of peaks', is a long chain of fold mountains that splits the geography of the state in two: desert on one side and forest vegetation, representing just 9.36% of the surface of this state, on the other.
Culture and Mysticism
The great cultural diversity, legacy of the many clans that fought for supremacy in ancient times, the beautiful landscape and the rich reserves of flora and fauna, all these are the perfect basis for a highly developed Rajasthan tourism. It was only in 2009-2010 that the country attracted 14% of the total foreign tourists, which represents the fourth highest percentage in all states of India.
Anyone who has never visited this part of the world would be amazed to learn how Indian deities, people and animals live in great harmony. Rajasthan makes no exception. An example would be the Karni Mata temple in Deshnoke, where people worship the Hindu sage (Karni Mata) who is believed to be the incarnation of the goddess Durga. She is represented only by a foot print, which symbolizes her visiting that place – hence the tradition of walking barefoot in the temple. The sacred place is also famous for the rats inhabiting it, which are given protection, and are being fed plenty of bread, sugar and milk. They are thought to be the reincarnated ancestors of Karni Mata as a result of the curse of Yama, the god of death.
Education in Rajasthan
The educational standard is significantly being improved in Rajasthan, thanks to the sustained efforts of the government. With a percentage of literacy going up from 38.55% in 1991, to 60.41% in 2001, the state recorded the highest leap of literacy percentage in the history of India. The state has nine universities, 23 polytechnics and 152 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs). The Rajasthan university is the oldest university in the region, founded on the 8th of January 1947, initially called the University of Rajputana until 1956. It attracts students from all over India and overseas.
So it is obvious that the charm of the region is not only given by the locals, but also by foreigners who choose to study, live, work, visit this northwestern state. Should you ever consider visiting this place, it is indicated to do it between July and September, when temperatures are pleasant. However, Rajasthan will surely make for an unforgettable destination no matter the time of the year.