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If you are looking for all the bells and whistles of a moderate or deluxe Disney resort but without the hefty price tag, Disney's All Star Resorts—part of the value category—may be the right solution for you!
Each of these three motel-style resorts has its own larger-than-life theme: Music, Movies and Sports. Though they're very different, the All Star resorts share many amenities, including these awesome freebies for guests:
Get Wet
All-Star guests are welcome to use any of the six pools, including three quiet pools. Each of the three feature pools includes squirting statues for extra fun: the Three Caballeros welcome guests to Music's guitar-shaped Calypso Pool; Sorcerer Mickey makes magic for guests in Movies' Fantasia Pool; and over at Sports, Goofy pitches water at guests in the Grand Slam Pool. Beginning at 2 p.m., the Calypso pool is the place to be for trivia, bingo and dance parties.
Watch Big
What's better than a movie by the pool? How about three different movies to choose from every night! Each of the main feature pools offers a different movie every night of the week. So will you watch Lilo and Stitch or Lady and the Tramp? The choice is yours!
Say Cheese
Each resort features 40-foot icons representing the theme: musical instruments (including a juke box and xylophone bridge), athletic equipment (think megaphones and football helmets) and our favorite movie stars (Herbie the Love Bug and Woody are representing). Walk through each resort with your camera at the ready and prepare for some hilarious photo ops.
Find out how the FREE services of a Disney World travel agent can make planning your Disney vacation simple and STRESS FREE!
Melissa Sue works in higher education communications in upstate New York, where she lives with her husband Robert, a secondary school teacher, and her cavapoo George (as in King George). Melissa began visiting Disney World when she was six and today owns a piece of the magic at Bay Lake Tower. She blogs at Mouse on the Mind and tweets @msorrellsgalley.
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33 seconds ago, Maddus Mattus wrote
You can never ever prove Glass-Steagall would have prevented the crisis, never. You can only look at the factors that created the crisis.
Banks were forced to grant mortgages to the non credit worthy because of the community reinvestment act. That's what started this ball rolling back in 1992. Not because of the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999.
Stop conjuring up this red herring, it does not exist.
Yes, I can. There was more to the 'crisis' than just the big banks' potiential to fail. Here is a list of bank failures since 2008:
Banks fail every year, but there was an excess of this happening during the recession because these banks were able to do things that weren't legal in Glass Steagall.


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Crouching Striker, Hidden Talent
Proving once and for all that size doesn't really matter ( but it sure helps !), it looks like Blues are happy with the signing of Greek international striker Georgious Samaras, even though City previously had an opportunity to buy lanky forward Peter Crouch, whose family have strong City connections.
Our web-poll asked:
Should we have signed Crouch instead of Samaras ?
YES: He's a few inches biggerr 36%
NO : Size isn't everything 50%
Don't know: It's all Greek to me 14%
'Rodney' (Trotter) is proving his doubters wrong with his recent Liverpool and England performances and hopefully will knock in a hatfull in Germany.
Samaras however, by his own admission has had a disappointing start to his City career and has promised that City fans will see the best of him next season, and boy do we need it.
Hopefully Big Sam won't do a Cisse and pick up a bad injury during the World Cup and the experience of playing in the world's biggest sporting tournament should sharpen him up and make him a much better and tougher prospect for the next Premier League campaign.
I wonder what a Crouch / Samaras partnership would have been like? We'd need a couple of decent wingers who could cross a ball though..... Oh Shaunie, come back - all is forgiven.
Oooops...well spotted wymbox , I'm getting so carried away with my coverage of Mexico on the Vital Football site, that I completely forgot Greece didn't make it. Anyway, if they had qualified, my article would be spot on ;-)


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Kamal Ahmed asks how far the Bank of England will need to change under its new governor.
The role of Governor of the Bank of England is one of the most important in the financial world. Mark Carney, whose appointment was announced in November by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, will have vast oversight of everything from the level of mortgage finance to the way the British financial system functions. The role is unique in its power, scope and influence.
So what should the new Governor's plan for Britain's economic future be? In this programme, Kamal Ahmed considers the prospects for jobs, growth and economic well-being under the new Governor. And he examines what will be the likely impact on the value of everyone's debts, borrowings and savings.
For some observers, the Bank of England failed to see the approach of the financial crisis and, when it did arrive, did not act decisively to mitigate its effects. Responsible for targeting inflation at 2%, managing monetary policy and smoothing the economic cycle, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street - as the Bank is known in the City of London - has, they claim, consistently disappointed. And we have all paid the price.
Yet others argue that it has done no worse than other major central banks. Ministers seem to agree: the government is making the Bank responsible for more of the UK's financial system.
Talking to former Bank insiders, prominent politicians, business leaders, economists and bankers, Kamal Ahmed asks what lessons the Bank needs to draw from its role in the crisis. Given its new responsibilities, what and how does it need to change about how it is currently run and managed? Can it be made more effective - while also being properly accountable for its actions? And should it emulate how other central banks do their job or do its own thing?
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L'Abattoir prepares for launch near Blood Alley in Gastown
July 14th, 2010
New restaurant L'Abattoir had its grand opening party this week, which means the public opening is imminent. The newly renovated space at 217 Carrall, which seats 80, is co-owned by chef Lee Cooper and Paul Grunberg, both familiar names to the Vancouver food scene. Congratulations to both! For updated information on opening day, visit labattoir.ca.


text: > > In writing my cryptographic file system, marutukku, I developed a > > fast scatter-gather userland block device. Initially this was simply <snip> > I asked as Linux has a Network Block Driver, which one of my coworkers > ported to the Linux kernel (it had been only userland). As it's not GPL'd, > we were looking at making an in-kernel NetBSD driver. :-) *shudder* RVD all over again *shudder*. - Nathan


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Wendy marvels at the wealth of hung shingles in America: On a split billboard, an "ad was spray painted, home-made, cobbled together with plywood and corrugated cardboard. It read: 'We buy junk cars.'"Read More
More installments in the annals of good times, bad behavior and public image making.Read More
The study, conducted by researchers at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, concluded that drivers looked at digital billboards significantly longer than they did at other signs on the same stretch of road,Read More
I have noticed the closer you get to downtown in big cities, the number of DUI attorney billboards grows exponentially.Read More


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February 5, 2009
The Hit PC Game from Sandlot
Games, Cake Mania 3, Arrives on iPhone and iPod touch.
Hudson Entertainment, the North
American publishing arm for HUDSON SOFT, released Cake Mania 3 on iPhone and
iPod touch today. Retaining many of the classic features that fans of the hit
Sandlot Games series have come to love, Cake Mania 3 incorporates exciting new
gameplay elements, including six new bakery environments and touch screen
Over the past few years, we've
watched as Jill Evans grew from a fresh-out-of-baking-school student into a
world-class culinary celebrity. Now, help Jill as she confronts her greatest
challenge yet- planning her dream wedding – in Cake Mania 3! As Jill nervously
prepares for her wedding day, disaster strikes when a mysterious, long-forgotten
time-bender crashes to the ground and shatters into pieces. As Jill's family and
friends rush to pick up the scattered shards, they are suddenly sent hurtling
through time. Now, to ensure her wedding goes off without a hitch, Jill herself
must travel to remote periods in time – from Ancient Egypt, Revolutionary France
and Medieval England, to a strange and distant future – and work her cake-making
magic in order to get everyone back before the ceremony begins!
"Sandlot Games' Cake Mania franchise
has developed a strong heritage over the past years," said Sabine Duvall, Vice
President of Product Development at Hudson Entertainment. "Cake Mania is one of
the most popular casual games of all time. We believe that both new and devoted
players alike will absolutely love having the ability to play Cake Mania 3 on
their iPhones and iPod touch devices."
Cake Mania 3 features over 350
possible level combinations, more than 30 hilarious historically-themed
customers, all-new kitchen upgrades, customizable bakeries, and unique
level-altering power-ups to help players in their quest.
Cake Mania 3 is rated E for Everyone
by the Entertainment Software Rating Board and is available now through the App
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Broken pipe sends brown water to Scituate homes
Some Scituate residents are going into Day 2 of brown water, after work on a 40B condo complex off Stenbeck Place again burst a water main.
"Residents may again experience brown water," Scituate officials said in an email to residents. "The Scituate Water Division is working on repairing the main and expects to complete the repair by late afternoon."
Residents had to deal with brown water Monday after the developer hit a water main, jostling sediment inside the pipes and causing brown water throughout town.
"The people in the harbor area will get it the worst, but it's floating all the way up Country Way and could easily make it to the west end," water department officials said Monday.
Developer Paul Marrocco said the breaks were unavoidable.
On Monday, the pipe was marked in town records in the wrong place and at the wrong depth, Marrocco said. Although crews had marked the pipe's location nearly five feet away, they came into contact with the main.
On Tuesday, crews were going under the old main to connect residents to a new water main, yet the 60-year-old pipe was so fragile that when dirt was moved around the pipe, it burst.
"We did the job to the best of our ability, but we cannot control when a pipe splits on its own," he said.
Marrocco said there won't be any future problems. Residents in that area have all been connected to a new pipe, and the old one will be abandoned.
"It's completely shut off right now, and it will be abandoned and never turned on again, and [residents] will be on the new line," he said.
The old pipe would have been shut off sooner; however, Marrocco said residents still weren't entirely switched over to the new pipe, and he didn't want to interrupt their water service.
Utility work for the Walden Woods development, which is building 21 condominium unit and seven below-market condos, has been ongoing since early August.
Marrocco said he spent $800,000 putting in all new water mains extending from Tilden Road and Stenbeck Place, approximately 1,400 feet of line.
Though there have been some disruptions, Marrocco said the town would be well served by the new pipe, which not only is free of sediment, but is less likely to break and also is bigger, giving nearby residents better water pressure.


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clarification please your routine immuno includes ? looking for human cells in mouse? your primary antibody is made against human tumor cells, what animal is the antibody made in? what do you use as a secondary antibody? anita wen eng
To Sent by: histonet histonet-bounces@ lists.utsouthwest cc ern.edu Subject [Histonet] human Ab on human tumor 10/26/2004 02:00 PM Hi histonetters, Currently I am doing IHC using human Ab on human tumor. I know it would cause "messy" background. But this tumor was developed by injection human tumor cell to nude mice. The results came out pretty good. I didn't use conjugated primary Ab, but just traditional method. I think it's because the tumor was developed in mice, the tissue would not contain endogenous human serum that causes the "messy background", although the tumor is human tumor. Am I right on this? Or my stain result just "fake"? Hope I said it clearly. Could any expert give me help? Thanks in advance! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list email@example.com http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet


text: On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:35:42 -0400 Michael <macallan1888%gmail.com@localhost> wrote: > Most drivers do not depend on wsdisplay, and those which do are > things like crime ( which can't be probed through some sort of bus so > it uses /dev/ttyE0 to talk to the kernel driver ) and wsfb > ( obviously ) Ok. So we could theoretically port an Xorg driver before wsdisplay exists? Nice. > The mouse and keyboard drivers pretty much require > wscons though. Which means wskbd and wsmouse is required? Those drivers already exist for amiga, but as I understand wskbd only works with a wsdisplay. When there is an ite driver running, then the keyboard events are fed to it instead (according to amiga/dev/kbd.c). So the ite must be closed when starting an Xorg driver to make wskbd connect it...? Sounds complicated. > If you have a mappable framebuffer then attaching a wsdisplay on top > of it is pretty much trivial. Great! That's what I hoped. So I still think we should do the new wsdisplays first, as it would also solve the confusion mentioned above. I'm only unsure about the screen modes. Currently we are loading a screen mode definitions file using grfconfig(8) into the grf driver, which contains the exact timings and dimensions for the modes. Maybe we should just include some fixed VESA modes in wsdisplay instead? > The only problem I see is with the > Amiga's built-in graphics hardware which doesn't give us packed > pixels as far as I know. True. But IMHO this is not extremely important to support. I doubt that many people want to run X in flickering 640x400 interlaced at 30Hz. > > A typical NetBSD/amiga user will have a special Amiga graphics card > > (usually CirrusLogic or S3 based) in a Zorro3 slot. > > Xorg has drivers for both, adding support for Z3 on top of PCI would > not be that hard. Or one could do what I did with the ag10e driver - > take the chip-specific part and stick it in a new driver that knows > about the new bus, maps stuff etc. so the rest of the driver can > work. Sounds good. I only wonder why this hadn't been done in the past. The X drivers for these chips certainly existed before the Amiga drivers were written. > I suspect the Cirrus and S3 chips mentioned above will be VLB > or PCI variants with some Z3-specific glue logic. Exactly. -- Frank Wille


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When you have a theatrical release as large as Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens was, you can be sure that it's going to spawn a few memes. As GTA V and Star Wars have a bit of a history in terms of fan-made cross-over content, its also a fair bet that those memes will make it into the game in some way too. In the months leading up to the premier of The Force Awakens, countless Rockstar Editor videos and mods were created for GTA V with a Star Wars theme. Even now after the big hype died down, the Star Wars fever is still burning.
One of the more recognized marks episode 7 has left on popular culture is the scene where a Stormtrooper loyal to the First Order over-dramatizes Finn's betrayal of the regime. Service number TR-8R (see that?) has become a celebrity due to his exclamation of "TRAITOR" and the brutal fight that followed.
One of the most popular GTA V fan video creators, Adam Pinkman, has decided to marry this iconic scene with the Rockstar Editor. The Editor has its limits and the iconic spin which makes the scene so memorable is absent from the library of animations. Instead, Pinkman decided to make his video stand out in other ways.
The animations in this are crisp and smooth, the Stormtrooper armor high quality and the twist at the end unexpected. Of course, even so the Rockstar Editor couldn't have done all this. Pinkman himself has said that there is a ton of additional editing in this video using software other than the Editor. Based on what Pinkman said in his interview, considering all the custom work required to put this video together, it most likely took the longest to make.
What TV or movie related GTA V crossover would you like to see Pinkman make next?


text: Gwendal Grignou wrote:> About ata1:0 problem, as reported in the bugzilla bug: I would try to> disable NCQ to see if it helps. Your disks firmware might not fully> support it.>> You can either add the parameter "libata.force=noncq" when loading> your kernel, or set queue_depth to 1 for all the Seagate drives behind> the Marvell MV88SX6081 controller.>> About ata5:0 , someone - in user space probably - is trying to do a> SMART ENABLE operation, but the device ignores it. I don't know which> device you are using, but I assume it does not support ATA SMART> feature set. Timeout is an acceptable but not a nice way to answer, a> cancel would have been better; check if there is a firmware upgrade> for your device.> You certainly called the SMART issue, I was wondering why a new distribution install on some older hardware was getting all the errors, clearly the Fedora "smartd" doesn't check SMART capability before trying to enable the feature. Oddly the drive on which I see this does reply to SMART requests, so the firmware must be "semi-functional." Not a problem, in my case the drive is just used for testing handling of hot swap, and has no data of any value.-- Bill Davidsen <firstname.lastname@example.com> "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark


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Nigerian President Calls For an End To War in Africa
The Nigerian President, President Muhammadu Buhari has called for the end of fighting in the continent. While speaking in Addis Ababa at the 26th AU summit, President Muahmmadu Buhari decried the use of scarce resources in the continent on armed conflicts rather than the economic and social development of the continent.
According to a statement issued by his special adviser on media and publicity , Mr Femi Adesina, Buhari challenged fellow African leaders to engage decisively with the people and government of South Sudan and Burundi to bring the conflicts they face to a speedy end.
He added that African leaders must also forge a united front to rid the continent of the scourge of terrorism and face together with determination, the noble goals of Agenda 2063, as espoused by the AU.
Buhari said, "We have all shed blood for Africa to be free, but the irony is that, today, we are now killing each other. Rather than facing the developmental challenges confronting us, we are spending our scarce resources killing our children and inflicting unspeakable horrors and unimaginable hardship on our brothers and sisters.
"That is truly a tragedy and it must stop. Enough is Enough!
"Within the framework of the African Union, we have to, as a matter of urgency, reach a consensus on how to silence the guns. Not by 2020 but now. Why must we wait? We must say "No" to wars and conflicts on our continent."
Emphasizing Nigeria's determination to wholly defeat terrorism and bring the war against Boko Haram to an end, Buhari said Nigeria would continue to partner with other member states of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, and Republic of Benin, through the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF).
He reaffirmed that Nigeria will soon fully redeem its pledge of $100million to enhance the operations of the Task Force, having released $21million to the task force in June last year.


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Prime Focus World is proud of its long association with director David Yates, having delivered 3D Conversion services for the director's last three films – 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2', and 'The Legend of Tarzan'. PFW also has a great working relationship with studio stereographer Chris Parks, with whom it has previously worked on titles such as 'Edge Of Tomorrow', 'In The Heart of the Sea' and 'Gravity'; so the team was delighted to be brought on board by Warner Bros. to team up with Chris for 'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them'.
'Fantastic Beasts' is the first in a series of prequels to the Harry Potter series, produced and written by J.K. Rowling in her screenwriting debut. The film follows the adventures of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a magizoologist who has stopped briefly in 1926 New York as he nears the end of a global excursion to research and rescue magical creatures, some of which he has safeguarded in the hidden dimensions of his deceptively nondescript leather suitcase. When one of his magical beasts escapes and starts to run amok through the city, Newt is drawn into an adventure that puts on him on a collision course with dark forces that are pushing the wizarding and No-Maj (Muggle) worlds to the brink of war.
PFW was the lead stereo vendor on the movie, delivering most of the main action sequences and the stereo conversion of Double Negative's VFX work, which included the creation of the 'Obscurus', an ominous dark cloud creature that grows and moves in unexpected and violent ways. PFW's stereographer for 'Fantastic Beasts' was Barry O'Brien, who supervised the conversion from PFW's London facility.
"Chris [Parks] wanted to develop a 3D look for the Obscurus, knowing that these shots were going to be some of the main action scenes in the movie," said Barry. "When the Obscurus was contained he wanted a more compressed fall-off to the shots. Then, when we see it released, destroying everything in its path, we opened the depth up and made it more linear. The effect is subtle, but it has a nice effect and allowed us to really play with the depth in the climactic scenes."
The Prime Focus team also took stereo renders of the Obscurus from Double Negative and manipulated the depth in these shots, as Barry explained. "The Obscurus had a very erratic quality to its movement – spiking and generally feeling very unstable. Taking Dneg's stereo renders we used our proprietary tools to manipulate the depth to enhance and accentuate this movement, making the Obscurus pulsate while staying in position – a hard thing to do with a stereo render. This made the Obscurus sequences even more interesting and unsettling."
Another sequence for which PFW took full advantage of its close relationship with Dneg was the shot of Frank, the colossal Thunderbird, flying through the sky to repair the city, as Prime Focus World stereo producer Richard Edwards explained.
"We originally planned for Dneg to provide a full stereo render for this shot, as its pretty much all CG," explained Richard. "However, there is a live-action element in the form of an Auror – a specialist wizard who investigates Dark Arts crimes. Working closely with Dneg, we pre-converted the live action element and passed this on to them to incorporate into their stereo render for delivery to Chris Parks. Chris reviewed and required a tweak to the 3D, so the stereo render came back to us and we manipulated the depth and sent it back as a final. This was only possible because of our unique relationship with Dneg."
The PFW team also augmented shots with stereo VFX to further enhance the 3D version of the movie. Rain, rubble, sparks and other VFX augmentation elements were added during the stereo conversion, and special versions of these shots were created for the IMAX 3D version which saw these extra elements coming out over the crop to intensify the effect even further.
Perhaps the stand-out sequence that PFW delivered was the subway fight towards the end of the film, in which the protagonists take on the Obscurus in the tunnels and stations of the New York subway. Again, this involved close collaboration with Dneg, as Barry O'Brien explains.
"These climactic scenes are very dramatic, and there's a lot of interaction between the creature, the protagonists and the environment," said Barry. "We wanted to get as many stereo renders as possible of the Obscurus, so we set-up stereo cameras and supplied them to Dneg to allow them to match our converted environments in depth. When we received their stereo renders and comped them into our scenes the results were perfect – it really was a seamless workflow, and because the VFX is being completed in the same building, if we did need a small adjustment it was very easy to get a re-render."
The team used a similar technique with Framestore, another VFX vendor on the show, taking stereo renders of the 'Niffler' beast that had been created using stereo cameras set up by Chris Parks, and stereo converting the backgrounds to match the stereo character.
Summing up his thoughts on 'Fantastic Beasts', Barry said: "It was a pleasure to work on a David Yates film, and with Chris Parks again. The lens choices David made on set meant that the movie looked amazing already - add to this the experience of Chris Parks and his direction of the stereo conversion, and the show looks aesthetically very beautiful in 3D. The whole film came together really well, thanks largely to the hard work of our fantastic stereo crews across London, Vancouver and Mumbai."
'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them' released in cinemas on November 18, 2016 to rave reviews and record-breaking box offices receipts.
RELEASE: November 18, 2016 (US & UK)
Director: David Yates
Studios / Distributors: Warner Bros.
Studio Stereographer: Chris Parks
PFW Credits:
Stereo Supervisor - Barry O'Brien
Stereo Producer - Richard Edwards
Elements Coordinator - Rameez Mukaddam
Senior Production Coordinator - Dan Hogg
Production Coordinators - Carolina Karlson, Nicole Karlson
Stereo Artists - Vishal Patel, Naresh Rawat
Editorial - James Noorani, Vikram Dharankar
TD - Laszlo Rikker
Systems / Data Support - Esriq Hidil, Dhruv Uppal
Global Head Of Pipeline - Eoin Greenham
Associate Stereo Supervisor - Marc Brzezicki
Stereo Producer - Yi Yang
Production Managers - Jon Warne, Reshma Jhangimal
Production Coordinators - Tylor Maurer, Stephanie Chan
Editorial - Shenyan Liu, Richard Pring
Stereo Artists - Kat Kelly, Ivanna Mikhaylova, Heather Hughson, Rio Harrington, Rob Maisonet, Jason Negreiff, Joanna Johnson, Emmanuel Guevarra, Brendan llave, Nishant Narang, Nicole Nagata, Matthew Lutes, Steven Kong, Ricky Lu, Jamie Moggach, Jimi Clark, Meagan Byrt, Pablo Wang, Owen Catagena, Karen Parker
Data Support - Gregory Koutrakos, Danny Lu, Jahan Zeb, Lucas Baker
Pipeline - Isaac Guenard, Luke Grey, Charlie Luce
Head of View-D™ - Rohan Desai
Executive Producer - View-D™ - Gaurav Jain
Show Stereographer - View-D™ - Jimmy Philip
View-D™ Producer - Parminder Goyal, Ravi Shetty
View-D™ Pipeline TD - Piyush Jain
View-D™ Assitant Production Manager - Ravinder Singh Bishnoi, Akshay Ravi
Show Supervisor - Manu Jain
View-D™ Project Coordinator - Seerat Bawa
View-D™ Creative Supervisors - Dhiraj S Sukheja, Himanshu Ajmera, Rohan Tirkey, Varion Pereira, Gourav Gupta, Omkar Rahate, Salil Dattaram Devji, Rakhee Ghosh, Deepali Shivaji Katekar, Dixa Hemant Desai
View-D™ Creative Leads & SMEs - Kiran Parmar, Rahul Singh, Prabir Bera, Harshad Masurkar, Vikas Joginder, Sandhya Anandrao Chavan, Vinay Pratap Singh, Kuldeep Thakur, Chetan Rathod, Vinod Mahelwanshi, Prateek Sharma, Narendra Singh, Umakant Pandey, Keshav Parab, Biswaranjan Mohanty, Devesh Neema, Mayank Mishra, Subham Ghosh, Rajendra Ahire, Rahul Kumar Singh


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My understanding is that if tossed into a fire, it's generally the shell casings that become the projectile, due to having less mass than the bullet.
When small arms ammunition is burned, cartridge cases may burst open and bits of brass may fly about, but not with any great velocity, and usually not with force enough to be dangerous to life. The bullets generally have even less velocity than the brass cartridge cases, and it is necessary for the powder to be rather strongly confined to develop any velocity in a bullet. The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufactures Institute (SAMMI) reported a demonstration made by taking a large quantity of metallic cartridges and shotgun shells and burning them in a fire of oil soaked wood. The cartridges and shells exploded from time to time, but there was no general explosion of throwing off of bullets or shot to any distance. The test showed that small arms ammunition when subjected to fire will not explode simultaneously but piece by piece, and then the material of which the cartridge and shells are composed will usually not fly more than a few feet.
Subsequently, NRA staff conducted similar tests and surrounded the fire with cardboard. They found that neither the cases nor the bullets that flew any distance had enough energy to penetrate the cardboard.


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Reviewed by Henry B. Rosenbush
Updated and Edited, 3.20.2010; Reviews contain Spoilers and Profanity
With Mr. Brooks, Kevin Costner expands his range to include serial killer in clever, well-acted and thrilling movie from director Bruce A. Evans. It's a serious piece of work leavened with sardonic humor between a few horrific murders, although thankfully, most occur off camera. Costner's second strong perf since 2006 in The Guardian it is good to see him back in top form.
Discriminating adult audiences will enjoy it as its DVD premiere comes closer. The early June release only netted $28 million in domestic box-office receipts and is currently only playing on 78 screens. As luck would have it the $1 Carmike Theater in Hoover, which shows second run features, was the only place in Alabama where it was still playing; I had to see how the double character monologue worked. Boy does it, with Costner portraying Portland's "Man of the Year," Earl Brooks whose alter ego, Marshall, urges him to kill as "a treat," is menacingly inked by William Hurt. After two years of avoiding his "addiction," Brooks shoots two lovers in the head, poses them and returns home where he destroys all evidence of his crime.
Both Oscar winning actors bring plenty of juicy dialogue and the technique of having both actors in scenes conversely verbally while other characters are oblivious to the conscience driven discourse is a briilliant plot device.
This is not the first time this technique has been used; Luis Buñuel did it to perfection in The Obscure Object of Desire (1977) with Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina portraying the same woman with a third performer speaking their dialogue, Fight Club (1999) David Fincher cast Edward Norton and Brad Pitt as the same character with cataclysmic results, and The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski utilized Irene Jacob as a woman leading two distinctly different lives and how the death of one alters the other.
It's an intellectual exercise that, like an on-screen narration, only works if it propels the plot meaningfully and with context. Before the highpoints, a few necessary low ones must be addressed. Brooks could be your next door neighbor and Costner infuses believability in the duality of a regular fellow on one level and a cold-blooded murderer on another.
Supporting actress Marg Helgenberger as Brook's gorgeous wife, Emma, is cast in an under-written role and thus underused. Her role is merely an extended cameo and shows none of her range as criminalist Catherine Willows on the hit CBS TV Series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She is however always pleasing to look at. As the college aged daughter, Jane, the enigmatic Danielle Panabaker, seen as James Wood's daughter in CBS's Shark, which followed CSI this past season, brings an oddly perverse streak to her role. It is clear early on she has possibly inherited her father's murderous genes and this is brought shockingly to life in a nightmarish twist ending that while not totally surprising is nonetheless effective.
Jane has come home unexpectedly; she has dropped out of school and advises she is pregnant. Her return will spark some late reel red herrings and propel an interesting decision by her dad to visit the college for an extracurricular activity after he learns she may have murdered someone.
Stand-up comedian, Dane Cook, as "Mr. Smith," is more of a plot contrivance as a voyeuristic photographer who captures Brook's murdering the couple in the throes of lovemaking blackmails him into taking him on the next killing spree. It's a disturbing role and Cook has good moments, but is a bit naive to not realize his purpose is to serve as the expected scapegoat.
A creepy scene sees Brooks, Smith and Marshall (seated in the back seat) stalk potential victims, mostly couples, as they drive around in the rain past car washes and car dealerships is superb and unnerving. After a truck driver cuts them off, Brooks suggests killing the driver. Smith replies: "Yes! I've always wanted to fucking kill somebody who fucked with me in traffic."
Best support comes from Demi Moore in a role that could have easily been played for laughs but the actress throws a serious reading, with plenty of R-rated salty dialogue as a millionaire's daughter who has become a cop and is obsessed with catching Brook's "Thumbprint killer." Another subplot has her detective character enduring an ugly divorce from greed-motivated pretty boy Jesse Vialo (Jason Lewis) that leads to a nasty surprise for the ex-husband and his femme attorney (Reiko Aylesworth) who are romantically involved, at the hands of Brooks. Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as Atwood's partner, Hawkins, has a few juicy moments and Lindsey Crouse as her superior has less to do.
Another subplot involving an escaped serial killer that Moore's Tracy Atwood put away provides a final act shootout, while Smith's well-deserved fate in a cemetery allows for a neat twist that is profound in its simplicity.
The real show is watching Costner and Hurt interact, "I love what you are thinking," Marshall says with Earl answering, "You have no idea what I am thinking." The reply from Marshall has a surreal quality, "Yes, I do, and it's wonderfully twisted." As far as internal monologues go you cannot do better.
Their scenes have menace, humor (as when seen both laughing), pathos and danger and are both worthy of Oscar contention in 2008. The two Oscar winners are perfectly cast and complement one another in all their scenes. By sharing the screen together with other actors, but only seen and heard by the audience, creates a wonderful dichotomy wherein we see how the killer's mind works and actually feel empathy for Brooks as he prays for forgiveness after the opening reel murders.
This is a serial killer flick that goes deeper into the mind of the criminal than usual for this sub-genre presenting layers of regret and repentance. John Lindley's cinematography works well with Jeffrey Beecroft's production design. The score by Miklos Wright is a nice mixture of the eerie and requisite action pieces and at times reminds Clint Mansell's compositions for the 1998 Darren Aronofsky film Pi. Shreveport, Louisiana doubles nicely for Portland, Oregon.
I'll admit that since The Untouchables and Dances With Wolves to not been impressed with Costner's movies, although I believe him to be a superb actor, but in the right perf; with Waterworld, The Postman and that wretched Elvis robbery film with Kurt Russell, 3,000 Miles to Graceland, were not much of a challenge.
During an early scene we learn of Brook's addiction to killing when he attends AA meetings because "I'm an addict." There is a sad sincerity to his wish to stay clean that is unusual for this kind of film, but delivered in a believable manner. While we cannot condone murder there is poignancy in his battles with Marshall, i.e. himself, over the addiction.
Expect plenty of violence, nudity and profanity.
After seeing Mr. Brooks I'm addicted to Costner's acting again and while this is not sequel material it does leave open the possibility that his twisted "cure" may be genuine.
The DVD was released October 23rd and offers deleted scenes, a crisp commentary from writer director Evans and one of the producers and screenwriter Raynold Gideon and several featurettes on the making of the film and trailers from other FOX Films.
An MGM release of an Element Films and Relativity Media presentation, in association with Eden Rock Media, of a TIG production. Produced by Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, Raynold Gideon. Executive producers, Sam Nazarian, Adam Rosenfelt, Marc Shaberg, Thomas Augsberger. Co-executive producer, Malcolm Petal. Directed by Bruce A. Evans. Screenplay, Evans, Raynold Gideon. Camera (color), John Lindley; editor, Miklos Wright; music, Ramin Djawadi; production designer, Jeffrey Beecroft; art director, William Ladd Skinner; set decorator, Ann Kuljian; costume designer, Judianna Makovsky; sound (Dolby Digital/SDDS/DTS), Steve C. Aaron; sound designer, Emile Razpopov; supervising sound editor, Dessie Markovsky; visual effects supervisor, Patrick McClung; visual effects, Sway Studios; stunt coordinator, Norman Howell; associate producer, Robin Jonas; assistant director, Eric Hays; second unit director, Howell; casting, Mindy Marin.
Reviewed at Carmike Ten, Hoover, Alabama July 30, 2007. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 2:00 Rated R for Violence, sexual situations including nudity, profanity and adult themes.
Mr. Brooks – Kevin Costner
Tracy Atwood – Demi Moore
Mr. Smith – Dane Cook
Marshall – William Hurt
Emma Brooks – Marg Helgenberger
Hawkins – Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Jane Brooks – Danielle Panabaker
Theatrical Trailer for Mr. Brooks
High concept film technically amazing until final reel as "Sunshine" Consumes Itself
Like a star consuming itself before reaching a Super Nova climax, Sunshine burns brightly before it too is devoured by a storyline that is confusing and indifferently acted.
Immediately similar to countless films concerning the apocalyptic end of mankind with a dash of existentialism thrown in; The Core, Event Horizon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, Alien, Lifeforce and Supernova are modified in equal measures.
Sunshine is not a bad movie; it has superb visuals, scoring, sound effects and editing and the awesome visualizations of the sun in its death throes are remarkable. Production designer Mark Tildesley's futuristic sets have an almost retro quality and credit also goes to the countless model makers who designed the ships. Each time we view Icarus II, like most science fiction films, we are given a variety of whips and pans to display the enormity of the craft and the large shield containing the nuclear device. The sound design is deafening but believable.
As the film opens, we are in the year 2057, and Icarus II, with a crew of eight, is 36 million miles from our dying sun carrying a nuclear payload described as the size of Manhattan. Seven years earlier the first craft, Icarus, disappeared with its crew and herein are parallels to Event Horizon when the ship is found near the orbit of Mercury, mostly intact, but devoid of human life. Or is it?
The multicultural actors and crew are a mixture of Asian, Brit and Yank: Captain Kaneda, played by Japan's Hiroyuki Sanada, biologist Corazon (Malaysia's Michelle Yeoh) and navigator Trey (British-Chinese thesp Benedict Wong). Rounding out the multicultural crew is toplined Cillian Murphy, so good in Boyle's "28 Days Later", as Capa, pilot Cassie (Aussie Rose Byrne), medical officer Searle (Kiwi Cliff Curtis) and two Yanks played respectively by, Chris Evans (Fantastic Four's human torch, whose death scene ironically involves heroically freezing to death) as the engineer and Troy Garity as communications officer Harvey.
With The Core, earth scientists prepared to restart the earth's core with nuclear weapons with a group piloting a special ship to the center of the earth. As expected, they succeed after losing most of the crew. Event Horizon, Solaris and 2001 all utilized the more esoteric approach of an existential of spirituality, rebirth and sacrifice. Peter Hyam's sequel to 2001, 2010 can be correctly viewed as the closest film in structure and characterization to Sunshine.
It's a high concept film and the digital soundtrack adds to its pedigree. Where the film loses steam occurs when the crew finds the lost Icarus ship orbiting Mercury and decides to investigate. The logic is undeniable; two nuclear weapons are better than one, but before they arrive shield damage forces the captain and Capa to effect repairs. As in all science fiction space operas, the minute the captain opts to leave the ship or lead a heroic mission he becomes expendable (think Alien). Capa survives to return as Captain Kaneda learns firsthand what a microwave dinner goes through as he disintegrates.
Icarus docks with the first vessel and with nod to Event Horizon's existential ghost ship motif finds the crew all dead, save for Pinbacker (Mark Strong) who has somehow remained alive but badly burned and certifiably insane. He has been conversing with "God" and has somehow determined earth does not deserve to survive and sabotaged the first ship and will now attempt to irreparably damage Icarus II.
Acting is uneven with Murphy a charismatic lead and Byrne underused as the possible love interest. Weakest of the bunch is Strong who spends his limited screen time spouting unintelligible dialogue. Yeoh (The World in Not Enough) has the largest role among the Asians while Evans (so good in Cellular and the first Fantastic Four) provides late reel heroism to restore the damaged cooling system. Remaining cast is there mainly for their death scenes, most gruesome of them the off-camera suicide of Trey after his miscalculations lead to the captain's death.
Technically, the set pieces are all amazing; from the opening scene with Searle (Curtis) viewing the sun from an observation deck, through the shield and a docking sequence between the two ships that leads to a dramatic transfer back to the ship. The climax is certainly not a surprise; an earlier scene showing Capa sending a message home telling his parents they will know if the Icarus was successful by an unusually bright sunny day.
Music by John Murphy is fresh and avoids the usual science fiction space movie clichés, lensing by Alwin Kuchler is superb and until the final reel plot machinations, the scenario penned by 28 Days Later scribe, Alex Garland, offers many religious, scientific and humanistic touches in a believable concept. It is with the introduction of Pinbacker that much of story goes awry but the imagery never disappoints.
Sunshine. (U.K.-U.S.) A 20th Century Fox (in U.K.)/Fox Searchlight (in U.S.) release of a Fox Searchlight Pictures (U.S.)/DNA Films (U.K.) presentation, in association with U.K. Film Council, Ingenious Film Partners, of a DNA Films production, in association with Dune Entertainment, Major Studio Partners. Produced by Andrew Macdonald. Co-producer, Bernard Bellew. Directed by Danny Boyle. Screenplay, Alex Garland. Camera (Deluxe color, widescreen), Alwin Kuchler; editor, Chris Gill; music, John Murphy, Underworld; production designer, Mark Tildesley; supervising art director, David Warren; art directors, Gary Freeman, Stephen Morahan, Denis Schnegg; costume designer, Suttirat Anne Larlarb; makeup designer, Mark Coulier; makeup and hair designer, Christine Blundell; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS Digital/SDDS), Tim Fraser, Tom Sayers, John Hayward; sound designer, Glenn Freemantle; second unit camera, Peter Talbot; model unit camera, Stuart Galloway; visual effects supervisor, Tom Wood; special effects supervisor, Richard Conway; stunt coordinator, Julian Spencer; assistant director, Richard Styles; casting, Donna Isaacson, Gail Stevens.
Reviewed at Rave Theater, Birmingham, AL July 30, 2007. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 1:47 Rated R for Violence, profanity and adult themes.
Capa – Cillian Murphy
Mace – Chris Evans
Cassie – Rose Byrne
Corazon – Michelle Yeoh
Kaneda – Hiroyuki Sanada
Searle – Cliff Curtis
Harvey – Troy Garity
Trey – Benedict Wong
Pinbacker – Mark Strong
Voice of Icarus – Chipo Chung
Capa's Sister – Paloma Baeza
Children – Archie Macdonald, Sylvie Macdonald
Theatrical Trailer for Sunshine


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Now, the humble stealth team has been talked about before but I would like to provide some in - depth tactics on the uses I have found for them. Hopefully these ideas are still new, and will help all who utilize one of the best units at our disposal.
Lone Wolves:
The Stealth Teams in the codex are described as being the "Lone Wolves," ranging ahead of the Tau army to sow disruption in the enemy. This can be done on the table top as well, in various ways. I will detail a few of the most effective uses I have found for stealth teams, since I started playing. Since the update to the new Tau codex, there have been a number of changes, most notably the XV-25's ability to mount alternate weapons, and support systems.
This is the simplest way to use a Stealth team. You usually infiltrate them towards a area of the opponents army containing a threat to your army, e.g. a Devestator Squad with Lascannons (if you are mech) or Heavy Bolters (static).
You opponent will see the team coming and will either ignore them, allowing them to neutralize the target, saving your army, or attack them with some of his men, which will therefore have taken a unit out of battle, while they deal with the resilient Stealths. What? T3 troops are resilient? Well, they can be. Thanks to the Stealth armor, J-S-J, and judicious use of cover, it can be hard to neutralize them, therefore meaning anything sent to deal with them is not touching the rest of your army. Now, our stealth suits have the ability to mount a fusion blaster, at a ratio of 1 in 3. This means, that they now have the ability to hit tanks a lot harder than they could in the past. Picture the scenario - your opponent has a land raider full of terminators. He deploys in the middle of the board, set to crash into your lines in 2 turns and do vast damage to your army. You infiltrate your stealths behind cover, and either wait for it to approach, or move towards it. If he doesn't wipe out your suits, you have now got 2 fusion shots into his big nasty at close range. Outcome - Tank destroyed, terminators pinned, ready for the rest of your army to shoot them.
No, I don't mean send them after JFK, but Stealth Teams mount considerable firepower for a unit so small. Pick a enemy unit that is a threat, be it Devestators, a Leman Russ or an Ork Dreadnaught. Use cover to keep them out of sight and charge, and when the time is right, have them jump into fireing range, against the rear armour, or the Devestators. I won't reprint the maths, as others have done that better than I could, but it is safe to say, against a 5 man Devestator unit they can swiftly damage it, if not kill them all. Against a tank, 18 S5 shots on the rear armour of a russ is not going to leave much left, even if you only stop it from shooting for a turn, they can then repeat it next turn. Again, now we have the ability to mount fusion blasters, we do not have to worry as much about going against the rear armour, as our stealths are able to hit hard against any facing.
Drawing fire:
Under the new rules, a unit that tries to engage the stealths, and fails the night fight roll, cannot shoot that turn. Try taking a small team of 3, and using them to "bait" the enemy into wasting shots on them. The more shots that try and fail to hit your stealths, the less shots coming in to the rest of your army!
Assault Distraction:
A variation on Distraction, this tactic can mean the death of your Stealths. If the enemy does get close enough to your army to assault you men, making the Stealths a tantalising target will save the men, and by keeping your distances right, the men can then kill the enemy that charged the Stealths next turn. The stealths may even take down some of the enemy, as they count as in cover, and have S4. Or you can charge them, if the situation is desperate enough. What? Charge with Tau? Well yes, actually. I'm not going to lie to you, even Stealths are naff in CC, but with multiple attacks, and an assault weapon, and a S4, they can do some damage. If your fire warriors are already in CC, a charge by a Stealth team may save them. Although, I don't advise this against Terminators.
This is another of the Stealth Teams missions. Thanks to their multiple shot weapon, and the high strength of 5, there is very few transports they can't damage. If, for example, your opponent is sending a Rhino down a flank that you have a Stealth team on, then you can riddle it with burst fire, stopping if not destroying it, and leaving the men inside pinned, and walking for the rest of the game. They can also shoot against a pair of units readying for a combined assault, or by drawing a unit's attention away from your more squishy Fire Warriors.
If you are playing Imperial Guard, or Space Marines, or Orks et al, there is a chance of facing artillery. This ranges from the humble Lobba/Mortar to the devestating Basilisk. Now, most of the time, these will be deployed behind terrain, making it hard to stop the incessant rain of fire. This is where Stealth Teams come in. Thanks to infiltrate and jetpacks, they can get next to the artillery and open fire, usually annihialating them, thus disrupting their artillery. Yet again the use of fusion blasters mounted on the stealths can mean we can hit the transports a lot harder than before. Not many rhino's can withstand the massive hit of 2 fusion blasters into a side, and should, dice gods willing, stop the transport and the men inside, leaving them vulnerable to your other guns.
Take and Hold!
I realised this tactic the other week at our mega battle. On my side of the field, there was an objective halfway up the table that had to be captured. I was able to deploy my Stealth Team out of site, and in turn one, capture the objective, and hold it long enough for the rest of my army to roll up.
This tactic works best with multiple small objectives, as Stealths, good as they are, cannot hold off an entire army. Infiltrate them, preferably in cover, near the objective, and then simply roll up to capture it. With luck and skill, they can hold the objective long enough for you to get more support to them. In our game, in one turn I was able to claim 200 Vp's and hold them til the end thanks to this.
They can also perform a variant on this tactic to take a table quarter. They infiltrate in, and, with the support of some of your army kill every enemy in it then hold it til the end.
New options and the old ones I happened to miss......
Well, the humble XV-25, being a mass class higher than the good 'ole 15's, can now mount a number of different support options.
Fusion Blaster: This thing is dirt cheap, and a full squad can take up to two of them. While it detracts from the stealths formidable firepower, if you specifically want your teams to be tank hunters, this can be a useful upgrade, as well as allowing us to instagib most enemy characters. However, some say, my self included, that quantity is better than quality for stealths, so I prefer not to have a fusion blaster. I would suggest, unless you want your stealths to engage tanks as a primary, you leave the fusion blaster back at cadre command.
Targetting Array: This is probably the next most common upgrade used for stealth suits. Increasing the BS, it means more shots on target, so is useful in some situations. However, again, I think it is highly overrated, as you can get the same, and better result by using markerlights, which do not add to the cost of the stealths. Taking the TA increases the base cost of your stealth by 33%, not worth it in my opinion. If you wish your stealth suits to be dedicated Tank hunters, then it might be worth while to ensure those fusion shots are on target.
Drone Controller: The third most common upgrade for stealths, this allows you to equip each suit with up to 2 drone types. Marker drones, I think, are far to expensive a way to take amounts of markerlights, and ruin the stealths ability to J-S-J. Shield drones, are, to be honest pointless. Gun drones allow the deployment of the "super Stealth Team!" Fielding a unit of 18 models, you get 18 burst cannon shots, and 12 pinning pulse carbine shots. The beauty of this is you also get stealth shielded drones! Problem is, this increases the base cost of the stealths by 66%, each! Not worth it in my opinion, as this is too much to be paying for a unit.
Target Lock: Short of having one stealth with fusion, or a Shas'Vre with a markerlight, this is not really worth it, as you will not often have the option of an ideal split fire situation.
Shas'Vre Markerlight: Not a bad upgrade, if you rely on a lot of guided fire, but when it is used it will stop your ability to J-S-J, and a stationary stealth is a dead stealth.
Blacksun filter: Not worth it, with such close range weapons, there is very little need for this.
Just thought I'd add this section as well...
Right, cover for your stealths can mean life or death. With the ability to infiltrate, you don't always have to get as close to the enemy as possible - we're not Kroot you know! Try going up a lightly defended side, and attacking or harrying the flanks.
You should make the best use of cover available. The best, being area terrain. Jump over, open fire, then jump back to your nice untouchable position. Use of cover can also deny the enemy shots at your team, and the less shots coming in, the less chance of breaching the stealth armour and scoring kills. The more suits that survive into range, the more damage you can do to the enemy.
Lone Wolves:
As I said at the start, Stealths are the Lone Wolves of the army. While everything else must work in conjunction to bring about victory, with the Stealth Team you are better assigning a mission (like the examples given above) and allowing them to follow only that mission, with minimal support. Used correctly, they can easily earn their points back, hold a mission objective, or assasinate an enemy squad. Used incorrectly, and they will die quickly. They are an independant element in an army of unity, go on, give them a go and see what they can do for you. They have never let me down, and will always have a place in my army. I run with 2 units on most occasions, overkill I know, but I have found them to be worth their weight in gold. So go on, give our humble 15's and 25's a chance.


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The reason is simple enough. Czechoslovakia did its bit for socialism by mining uranium; and the methods used left something to be desired from an ecological point of view.
It is hard to imagine it now, but many of the people involved in Soviet-bloc heavy industry lived under conditions that have not existed in the West for a century; unbreathable air, devastated, tree-less landscapes, headache causing concrete, chemical dust and soot over everything, the sky brown or purple at noon… and the level of industrial pollution was correspondingly high.
This was Uncle Joe Stalin's special personal brand; increase heavy industrial production at all costs, concentrating on production with a high military value. In Siberia, say, they probably thought they could do as much damage to the environment as they wanted, since the largest and filthiest complex would still seem like a tiny dot in a measureless wasteland.
But even on this huge Soviet scale they succeeded in seriously disrupting the balance of nature. With a vast expenditure of time and money, and with an awe-inspiring display of the superiority of Soviet scientific methods, The Aral Sea was poisoned and drained. Poisoned first, that is, and drained afterwards.
The result has been the creation of a gigantic poisoned swamp where nothing can grow; whereas the rather pleasant sea-side towns that had grown up while the water was still there are left perched on crumbling cliffs, from where they can survey the cracked and sterile and sterile bed of the former sea. It was done to improve the local agricultural conditions, of course, and is a development feat worthy of the World Bank itself.
The radioactive beer is a sort of minor Bohemian Aral Sea situation. One of the methods used to produce uranium went like this: First, drill a long hole. Then pump millions of gallons of sulphuric acid down the hole. Count to ten. Pump the now radioactive sulphuric acid out of the hole again, and use chemical processes to extract the uranium that is now dissolved in the acid.
This means that you can et uranium salts out of the ground without having to dig actual mines, and it's a much cheaper and quicker option. But you are left with the small problem of what to do about the radioactive sulphuric acid sludge that is left behind.
In Czechoslovakia though, the answer was simple; just pump it into the fields and the rivers and forget about it. For mining uranium was a high-priority task, and no one was going to start asking questions.
The main ingredient of beer is water.
With similar standards of industrial technique applied to public sanitation and the water supply system, people are, well, rather careful about drinking tap water, especially now that a more health conscious ideal has been imported from the West; and breweries have long taken similar precautions, getting their water fresh from country springs. Indeed, with brewing so long established in the Czech lands, some of them have had the same sources for centuries.
Well, it is alleged that the water from these springs has become slightly radioactive, and that this is being passed to the beer. The whole water table has been contaminated with the uranium salts by the decades long dumping of acidic sludge, that is, and even the springs that have slaked the thirst of Czech beer drinkers for five hundred years are not immune.
The half-life of Uranium-238 is 4,500,000,000 years, and so it doesn't look like a problem that's going to be solved overnight. The beer companies deny it, of course.
But then they would, wouldn't they?
Are some brands worse affected than others? No one seems able to produce reliable tests results to settle it one way or the other. The many dedicated beer drinkers in the country are on the whole trying to ignore it, apart from a few inevitable jokes about Cerveny Chernobyl and the like; but what the effect will be on exports is quite another question.
It looks as if the buck will get passed to the Ministry of Agriculture, which is ultimately responsible for beer production, but whether they will want to fuel the fire by issuing an official statement remains to be seen.


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Newberg girls lacrosse continue fight for conference playoff bid
The Tigers win a thriller 17-16 over Century and hang on to beat Tualatin 13-11 to move into a tie for fourth place
2014 has become a season of firsts for the Newberg girls lacrosse team, beginning with the Tigers first-ever win over Glencoe April 3.
Head coach Terry Pasketts team then turned around to beat West Salem a day later to record back-to-back wins for the first time in program history.
After suffering a setback against state-title contender Wilsonville and a tough 7-6 loss to Sherwood, Newberg set about recording firsts last week. The Tigers added another notch to their belt April 15, knocking off Century for the first time 17-16 in overtime.
If that wasnt enough, Newberg then bested Tualatin 13-11 April 17 to earn consecutive wins for the second time this season, which also moved the Tigers into a tie for fourth place for the final birth to the state playoffs from the Northwest League.
Were still young, still freshmen and sophomores, Paskett said. But were learning quick.
The victory over Century was a back-and-forth affair from the start and neither team led by more than two goals at any time in the game.
Newberg led 9-7 at the half, but the host Jaguars rallied to take a 14-12 lead late before the Tigers made a frantic rally, scoring twice in the final minute to force overtime.
The game-tying goal came from Marta Burchett, an unlikely source considering it is her first season in the sport. While shes been a solid defender and is lightning quick on clears, the senior is still developing her stick skills.
The multi-sport athlete earned a free position (essentially a free shot on net from a restart) with 19 seconds remaining and didnt blink at her chance to force the two three-minute overtime periods.
She just blew it by the goalie, Paskett said. Thats the hardest shot Ive ever seen her take.
Century scored once in the first overtime, but it was all Newberg in the second, as Christian Bryan scored two of her seven goals and Sydney Kosmicki notched her third to go along with three assists.
In all, eight different players scored in the win.
Our passing and catching is getting to the point where they have confidence and can make six or seven passes back and forth, Paskett said. The confidence level is really up.
The Tigers were in complete control in the first half at home versus Tualatin, controlling possession and scoring with ease en route to a 9-2 lead.
The two teams traded goals early in the second stanza to make it 12-5 with 16:30 to play, but at that point the momentum swung completely behind the Timberwolves, who went on a 4-0 run over the next five and a half minutes.
The game slowed down over the next seven minutes and after a Newberg goal was called off for a crease violation, Tualatin scored with 3:10 remaining to make it 12-10.
Newberg finally responded, as Bryan won the ensuring draw control, raced up the middle and scored to make it 13-10 and break the Tigers 13-minute scoreless drought.
Tualatin wasnt going to let us run away with it, Paskett said. They decided to come to play in the second half and we knew they had the firepower to come back.
Newberg (5-5, 3-3 league) played at sixth-place Liberty Tuesday (results unavailable at press time) and will host Glencoe at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Austin Sports complex.


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Leadership class will visit Austin
Published 8:24 am, Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The Plainview Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors approved a request from Shane Harrell to take Leadership Plainview to Austin for a state government day during their monthly meeting this morning.
The trip will include a visit to the Capitol as well as approved sites in Austin. While there, participants would be able to visit with representatives from the area while they are in session.
Harrell came up with the idea after going on a similar trip with Leadership Lubbock. The trip will be optional to the participants in Leadership Plainview since expenses will be covered by individuals.
Board member Sandra Aven suggested asking the businesses that sponsor each "leader" to pay for the trip or cover some expenses.
The board recognized Carolyn Baker for her work with the financial reports and named her Volunteer of the Month. Receiving Businesses of the Month were Jim Mock with Panhandle Popcorn and Johnny Rose with Epic Computer Solutions. (See related photos on Page 3A.)
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I remember reading about this technology, the disc is sealed in an airtight envelope and upon exposure to air, it degrades over several hours.
I think these may work differently, since it says you can buy recordable discs and even specify how long before self-destruction, though how they can do that is truly amazing. The disc has to physically change, somehow. The biggest problem I see, is preventing the contents from being copied first. I, also, wonder if the destruction generates smoke, like the tapes on the old Mission Impossible series, remember?
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Agree with so many points above.
As another out-of-towner, I appreciate the notion of starting on time (as an event organizer, this is very difficult sometimes, even with technical difficulties exempted), and can give a '+1' to the new format. I have always positioned my registration as to run in the morning when at Fresno FG.
Will there be a 'max' number to this format that then reverts the event to four (or even a three, rotating in-out, a'la SFR) run groups for the event that happens to have many registered?
Please, 'no' vote on morning practice/fun runs, with competition runs in the afternoon. The new format proposed still avails the afternoon for 'chores' for those in need of a Sunday afternoon.
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Since he's theming his campaign around hope, I'm going to hope that he's only dancing this stiff on Ellen because he doesn't want to scare folks away — though rhythm didn't seem to hurt Michael Jackson's sales.
After watching this clip, can you guess which old head paid more attention to Soul Train? Lucky for Obama, I've already voted. I keed. Even if he just made Tom Cruise look like Chris Brown, I wouldn't hold that against him.
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I think Mariah Carey has found a dance partner.