text: [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GodzillaTheSeriesPerch.jpg]]''Godzilla: [[RecycledTheSeries The Series]]'' (1998-2000) was an animated television series, produced by the Adelaide Productions division of Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision, and lasted a total of 40 episodes on Creator/FoxKids.In the first episode, one of the eggs that movie-Film/{{Godzilla|1998}} laid is found, it hatches and imprints on TheHero from the movie, Dr. Nick Tatopoulos. Naturally, he subsequently forms HEAT (the '''H'''umanitarian '''E'''nvironmental '''A'''nalysis '''T'''eam) with four other humans, Drs. [[DeadpanSnarker Elsie Chapman]] and [[TheSmartGuy Mendel Craven]] (both from the movie, as well), as well as [[PlayfulHacker Randy Hernandez]] and [[ActionGirl Monique Dupre]]. With Godzilla Junior loyal to Nick, they defend the world from various {{Kaiju}} that have abruptly sprung up, crazy and/or sinister humans and, eventually, invading psychic aliens (naturally).See the earlier ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour'', which it's actually a [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] [[TheRemake remake]] of.----!!This series provides examples of:* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: Nick states this is the reason as to why the aliens were able to copy their minds into human brains.* ActionGirl: Monique.* AdaptationDyeJob: Mendel's originally a short-haired brunette in the film. Here, he's a blonde with a ponytail.* AesopAmnesia: The Movie this spun off from had Audrey somewhat harshly learning the lesson that the big scoop isn't worth screwing over your friends and/or love interests. Most of the conflict involving her in the cartoon has her conveniently forgetting this.* AlienInvasion: "Monster Wars."* AliensAreBastards: The aliens seen in the series want to invade the Earth and [[AssimilationPlot and assimilate the minds of humanity]] into their HiveMind. They do however, find human architecture aesthetically pleasing and planned to rebuild as much as they could after the invasion.* AmazonChaser: Randy after Monique.* UsefulNotes/AmericanCustomaryMeasurements[=/=]TheMetricSystemIsHereToStay: Measurements in any form tend to switch between the two at times, which isn't surprising considering the prevalence of science and the fact that the team travels all around the world.* AnimalMecha: Cameron Winter's "Cyber flies" and the JSDF's Robo-Yeti.* AnimalWrongsGroup: S.C.A.L.E. (Servants of Creatures Arriving Late to Earth) are effectively terrorists trying to "protect" mutants such as Skeetera no matter how dangerous they are. They originated as a spin-off/splinter faction from another animal rights group, but judging from Audrey's report, that one averts this trope and is in fact quite reputable. Historically, the group's tactic had been peaceful until the arrival of the fanatically insane Alexandra Springer, whose extensive military training and vast weaponized resources transformed the organization into an unpredictable band of terrorists.* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mocked in "Leviathan": --> '''Monique''': Indeed. It is almost as laughable a notion as one breathing atomic fire.** Played straight in "Deadloch": Nick doesn't believe in the [[StockNessMonster Loch Ness Monster]] despite being the adopted father of a giant fire-breathing lizard, who is the son of ''another'' radioactive monster who reproduced asexually. Oh, and said fire is radioactive.** Elise, being a fan of AlienInvasion theories and below trope, apparently forgotten about a certain event that took place a year ago. And being {{Mind Control}}led as a result.* {{Area 51}}: And the rumors of aliens are [[spoiler:a ''coverup'' for what's really going on]].* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Granted, it's a kids' show, but if Godzilla's atomic breath is as deathly radioactive as in the Japanese films, ''no one would live''. One example is when Craven picks up a recently toasted NIGEL after the Big G fried him for disturbing his sleep in ''Vision''. You'd think he'd be sick a few moments later from it.* AscendedExtra: Elsie and Craven actually appear in the 1998 movie, though you won't be blamed for not remembering them.* AsteroidsMonster: The silver monster in "Shafted."* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Take a guess.* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Godzilla's father (the one from the movie), as Cyber-Godzilla in the "Monster Wars" trilogy.]]* BadFuture: The episode "Future Shock" has the crew sent forward through time to one of these, where bio-engineered monstrosities have killed all the other {{kaiju}} ([[HeroicSacrifice Including Godzilla]]) and overrun the world.* TheBadGuyWins: An episode featured CorruptCorporateExecutive Cameron Winter breaking three criminals out of jail and giving each one of them a HumongousMecha so they could hunt down Godzilla. When the three hunters were captured, Winter got off by accusing them of stealing their mechas and the Government even [[CutLexLuthorACheck hired him to make them mechas of their own]].* BehemothBattle: Godzilla versus MonsterOfTheWeek.* BigCreepyCrawlies: Let's see - the Megapede, Fire Monster, Giant Scorpion, GiantSpider, El Gusano Gigante, the Giant Bees, Giant Termites...* BlowYouAway: The Shrewster's mutation allowed it to generate a tornado around itself, which both protected it from attack and drew food up to the Shrewster for easy consumption.* BodyHorror: The Chameleon, as well as the aliens.* {{Brainwashed}}: The majority of the monsters in "Monsters Wars", and parts of the US military, easily indicated by their [[MindControlEyes eyes being green]].* BreathWeapon: They got it right this time, except for how it's ''green''.** Funnily enough, when Cyber-Zilla attacks Tokyo, its atomic breath ''is'' the traditional light blue. And speaking of which, the atomic breaths themselves are more or less a heat ray of the original 1954-1975 ray than a solid beam of the 1984-1995 rays.* BullyingTheDragon: "Freak Show" opens up with some VERY stupid people trying to capture Godzilla as Tobias Wilson had placed a bounty on him. It goes as well as you'd expect it to.* CaptainErsatz: Reasonable facsimiles of Anguirus, [[GiantSpider Kumonga]] and many others like ''Cyber''-Zilla.* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: El Gusano, Queen Bee, Cyber-Zilla, and the Cryptocliedus die in the finale of "Monster Wars".]]* TheChewToy: Mendel's robot N.I.G.E.L. dies as often as [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Kenny]].-->''"[[AC:Aaargh--]]"''\\''"N.I.G.E.L., [[BigNo nooooo]]!"''* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Cameron Winter.* ContinuityNod: Multiple ones back to the film.** The first scene of the series is a giant one: a shortened, animated version of the climax of the cab chase from the end of the film and Godzilla, Sr.'s demise on the Brooklyn Bridge.** Nick having an aquarium tank of earthworms in the first episode, his use of "''annelid''" when referring to El Gusano in "D.O.A." [[note]]The formal name is ''Annelida'', the phylum for a lot of worms.[[/note]], and knowing how an earthworm looks like on a hot sidewalk on a sunny day. All refer back to his studying of worms.** Mendel sneezing into his hand and then offering it for a shake to Nick, which is repeated when Nick introduces him to Randy in the first episode. Obviously, Randy suggests that they [[HandshakeRefusal just wave]].** The pronunciation joke[=/=]argument on Junior's name. Randy corrects Ifukube's "Gojira" with "Hey! It's 'Godzilla', lady!" in the episode "Competition", which is the complete reverse to Caiman using "Godzilla" and Audrey correcting "It's 'Gojira', you moron!'"** Animal's afraid of Lucy hurting him. His son in "Future Shock" asks to be dismissed to go home or his mother was "gonna thrash" him.** In "Cat and Mouse," as the redneck hunters target Godzilla, he passes by a crane hoisting up a new top to the Chrysler Building which the army destroyed in the movie. The hunters accidentally hit that instead, leading to [[spoiler: their arrest at the end of the episode]].* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: A remarkable amount of people manage to not be killed during various monster fights. Sure it's technically a kids show, but still.-->'''Monique''': Would you still be cheering if there were people in those warehouses?* CryptidEpisode: Godzilla fights the Loch Ness Monster.* CurbstompBattle: There will be a rare chance Godzilla defeats an enemy kaiju unscathed. The Mutant hummingbirds in ''Vision'' is one of those cases.* CuttingTheKnot: In "Monster Wars":-->'''Mendel''': We can generate a radiopathic feedback to overload the dampers--\\''Monique blasts the console''\\'''Mendel''': --or we could just blow it up.* DarkerAndEdgier: The "''Monster Wars''" trilogy is perhaps the darkest episodes in the series with the team splitting up, the Earth under threat of the AlienInvasion by the Leviathans, all monsters are completely loose, and Godzilla meets his father... [[spoiler: in cyborg form]]. * DeadpanSnarker: Elsie's the most prodigious team snarker, Monique being a close second. Mendel Craven has his moments as well, after the other two.* DestructiveSavior: To be fair, Godzilla's the [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever size of a building]], and his main abilities involves [[TunnelKing tunneling through the ground]] and {{breath|Weapon}}ing [[KillItWithFire atomic fire]]. It's kind of unavoidable. An early episode has Godzilla causing so much damage to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity while trying to hunt down an infestation of giant mutated rats that the military believes he's simply on the attack.** "Underground Movement" had the city of Miami suing HEAT for damage caused not by Godzilla but by their own weapons. [[spoiler:Their lawyer gets them off on a technicality.]]* DownerEnding: "[[spoiler: End of the Line]]" doesn't have a happy ending for either Godzilla or Nick.* EnergyAbsorption: Several of the monsters had this type of ability, whether it be against fire or some other form of energy.* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Monique.* {{Expy}}: Hell, everything.** Case and point, Cameron Winter is most likely an expy of ComicBook/LexLuthor. A CorruptCorporateExecutive? Check. Attempt to control the most powerful creature on the planet (Superman's case, the most powerful alien on the planet)? Check. Attempt to destroy it? Check. Unlimited resources, and impossibly short prison time? Check. Hire {{Mooks}} and sometimes idiots? Checkmate.* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: A rare case of the shift to family-friendly lasers actually being part of the story. Real guns are used at first, but after "Monster Wars," where the invaders left some of their weapons behind on Earth, lasers start appearing in the military's hands.* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: All over the place. Many of the kaiju that are killed are given rather nasty demises. The most notable are probably the Chameleon's death, which is TakenForGranite and crumbles to dust, [[spoiler: Cyber-Zilla]] getting disemboweled ''on-screen'', and the multiple times Godzilla finishes off an enemy by '''burning them alive'''.* FantasticVoyagePlot: "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been". Of course, since they're going inside ''Godzilla'', no shrinking is required. The Big Guy has some massive blood vessels.* FeedItWithFire: Several times had Zilla fire his plasma breath at both the Fire Monster ("Ring of Fire") and the Crackler manifested from dreams ("What Dreams May Come"), each time causing them to grow bigger and more powerful as a result. "D.O.A." had a military force use a biological weapon against El Gusano Gigante, but it turned out to be derived from its ''natural food'', so it fed on the weapon to grow bigger, stronger and pointier.%%* FiveManBand* FragileSpeedster: The mutant hummingbirds in ''Vision'' are so fast, they're nearly impossible to spot to the naked eye unless you're traveling at the same speed as they are. Godzilla manages to land a lucky shot at one of them, knocking it out. Once the main characters give him specialized glasses, it's a full-blown CurbStompBattle to them.* FriendOrIdolDecision: Mendel briefly has this in "Leviathan" when he realizes that [[spoiler: Dr. Preloran, a xeno-biologist that he looked up to, was [[BrokenPedestal siding with the Tachyon aliens on conquering Earth]].]]** Of a sort. [[spoiler: During "Monster Wars", Godzilla is reunited with his (cybernetically reconstructed) biological father, and joins the aliens with MoreThanMindControl. In the last episode of the three-parter, he's torn between staying loyal to his adopted father or joining his biological father.]]* FungusHumongous: "Underground Movement," where an enormous fungus was sucking anything with any sort of nutrients alive dry in Michigan.* FunWithAcronyms: Randy originally intended "H.E.A.T." to mean "High-performance Environmental Attack Team". Nick wisely changes it.** S.C.A.L.E. for Servants for Creatures Arriving Late to Earth.** The Dragmas in "Future Shock" got their name from [[spoiler:Insley's website, the Democratic Resurgence Against a Global Mechanized Armageddon]].* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Monique threatened to hurt their lawyer Ray if he calls her "sweetie" in the episode "Underground Movement". He does so, and as Ray goes into details about the destruction caused, Nick has to restrain Monique from punching their lawyer from behind his back without his knowledge.* FutureBadass: [[spoiler:Craven]] in "[[BadFuture Future Shock]]".** Also N.I.G.E.L. and Hicks.* GaiasVengeance: In "The Ballad of Gens Du Marais".* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: How the Chameleon is created. ** As well as the [[HeroKiller D.R.A.G.M.A.'s]] in "Future Shock", and the DNA Mimic in "Trust No One".* GiantEqualsInvincible: Unlike the [[Film/{{Godzilla 1998}} film]], this is played straight. The only time a monster would die in this series is by fighting each other or a specialized weapon by the main character. Even when it's specially meant to kill, it could have the possibility to hurt Godzilla himself, as Nick had to be careful when the DNA creature turns into Godzilla and Elise says it could kill him. However, Godzilla is still shown to at least be able to be hurt by conventional weapons, and in "Monster Wars", when the mind control over the monsters is broken and they turn the aliens, the aliens' warships swiftly kill them.* GiantFlyer: Skeetara, Giant Bat, Quetzalcoatl, Giant Cicada, the Giant Hummingbirds, the Giant Bees and their Queen...* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Most notably, Big G Junior himself. [[spoiler: Also, any creature under the Tachyon aliens' mind control had eyes glowing a sickly green.]]* GodzillaThreshold: Somewhat the trope namer. While Godzilla comes to the human's aid by himself, H.E.A.T decides to use his computerized voice to summon him when there's a kaiju that gives them trouble.* HappilyAdopted: Interestingly enough, it was Godzilla that technically adopted Nick as his father since the giant lizard imprinted on him (Nick was the first thing he saw and was covered in egg slime). Since then, the two have formed a bizarre father/son bond and protect one another from danger.* HiveMind: The Tacyhon aliens.* HiveQueen: Queen Bee (or rather, giant radioactive volcano bee) and Termite Queen.* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Usually by the climax or the episode's end.** [[spoiler:Dr. Jonathan Insley was killed by his own genetically-created Dragmas in the BadFuture and is almost killed by the infant versions in the present in "Future Shock".]]** Maximilian Spiel in "Cash of Titans" gets his comeuppance when [[spoiler:the very Giant Water Beetle he sent to attack H.E.A.T. at the beginning gets tossed onto him in the end]].** [[spoiler:Colonel Charles Tarrington nearly gets killed by his own bio-engineered scorpions in "Where Is Thy Sting".]]** Paul Dimanche's greed for money [[spoiler: lands him in prison when Animal taped him admitting bribery in "The Ballad of Gens Du Marais"]].** Tobias Wilson in "Freak Show" [[spoiler: is hinted to have gone to prison when he [[TooDumbToLive tries to steal away a liquefied Medusa under the team's and Hick's noses despite the havoc created and obvious danger she presented]]]].** Milo Sanders's greed for fame and money [[spoiler:has him getting arrested for stealing the team's helicopter in "Tourist Trap"]].* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Sometimes, the human antagonists prove to be just as dangerous as, if not more dangerous than, the mutants. Cameron Winter, General Albondinga, the supervisor behind the petroleum-eating nanotech, the three hunters who tried to bag Godzilla, [[spoiler: Dr. Hugh Trevor]], the Antarctic expedition leader Chad Gordon, the creator of the DNA mimic, Jonathan Insley of D.R.A.G.M.A., Maximilian Spiel, S.C.A.L.E., Tobias Wilson, Paul Dimanche, [[spoiler: Colonel Charles Tarrington]]...** Not to mention the mutations only arose because of the actions of humanity in the first place.* HumongousMecha: Robo-Yeti; the "Lizard Slayer" machines.* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Many of the mutations were caused by radiation like in Godzilla's origin story. Not quite so tragic as most examples as many of them would just as soon as kill Godzilla as look at him.* HypocriticalHumor: In "Future Shock":-->'''Kid:''' [[CatchPhrase Go go go!]]\\'''Nick:''' Kid's kind of bossy, isn't he?** And in "Underground Movement".-->'''Randy:''' Dinner is served. ''*produces berries in one hand and insects in the other*''\\'''Mendel:''' Sorry, Franchise/{{Rambo}}, but I am ''not'' putting those in my mouth. ''*proceeds to drink water being filtered through a sock*''\\'''Randy:''' ''*[[{{Beat}} stares]]*'' Ditto.* ILoveNuclearPower: Quite a few mutations are the result of radiation.* {{Imprinting}}: The entire series' plot depends on Godzilla imprinting on Nick.* IndyPloy: Executed more often than plans fully thought through.* InMediasRes: The first scene of "New Family Part One" is the tail end of the cab chase from the film and the F-18s' run on Godzilla, Sr.** "S.C.A.L.E" opens with Audrey addressing the camera for her report during Godzilla's fight with MonsterOfTheWeek. The rest of the episode details HowWeGotHere.* IntrepidReporter: Nick's girlfriend Audrey. Godzilla being the biggest scoop of all, they clash often.* {{Irony}}: "What would ''Gojira'' be doing in Japan?"** Which also doubles as a MythologyGag.* IsleOfGiantHorrors: Monster Island is where the military keeps all monsters that have been captured over the course of the series (barring those that need a TailorMadePrison instead).* JerkassHasAPoint: ''multiple'' people point out to Nick that Godzilla is a major threat, and rightfully point to Zilla, Sr. as their proof - after all, he had totaled Manhattan, and that was ''without'' the ability to ''[[BreathWeapon breathe fire.]]''* JurisdictionFriction: A variation in "Competition". The Japanese SDF had Robo-Yeti and head scientist Dr. Yukiko Ifukube had assumed that Godzilla was the one who was the cause of the hikers' disappearance. They eventually work with H.E.A.T. on dealing with the real culprit, the King Cobra.* JustAStupidAccent: See {{Irony}}.* {{Kaiju}}: Of course.* KingKongClimb: See the page picture.* LegionOfDoom: "Monster Wars."* MacGyvering: His ButtMonkey status aside, Mendel's the one who usually rigs something up on short notice that saves the teams' lives. Best example is using Animal's camera and his own watch to make a tuning fork to permanently disable Spiel's high-beam spotlight that was preventing Godzilla from fighting properly in "Cash of the Titans". All of them have done some MacGyvering, but not as much as Mendel.* MadScientist: Dr. Insley in "Future Shock."* ManipulativeBastard: Cameron Winter.* MarriedToTheJob: Audrey states that between herself and Nick when Nick tries to propose to her.* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Swamp Monster and Georges of "The Ballad of Gens Du Marais". While Nick sticks with the scientific thinking of the Swamp Monster being a mutation, Georges responds back with "We all believe what we wanna believe".* MegaManning: Skeetera, the giant mosquito whom could drain other monster's powers with their blood. Including Godzilla's fire.* MonsterOfTheWeek: Although many of the most notable creatures would return in the "Monster Wars" three-parter.** The series was known for odd yet real-looking kaiju designs, so it was part of the fun to see the latest monster, and whether it was a bird or a fungus.* MonumentalDamage: In the Monster Wars trilogy, with this many kaiju and locations, it's inevitable. With a homage of ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters'' to boot.* MythologyGag: ** A good number of the Mutations pay tribute to Godzilla's foes (Nanotech monster: Hedorah, Megapede/Giant Cicada: Battra (although there is also a Giant Bat Mutation), Crackler: Gabara, Nessie: Manda, and Cyber-Zilla: Mechagodzilla, though the fact that organic flesh is visible in the creature is reminiscent of Mecha-King-Ghidora). ** When Randy is mentioning ideas about Monster Island, he does so with a hand puppet that looks very similar to the Marvel incarnation of Godzilla. ** During Godzilla's fight with the Megapede and later the Giant Cicada, both fights happen in an amusement park, kinda what happened in ''Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth''. Hell, there's even a Ferris Wheel involved.** Komodithrax and Cyber-Zilla both utilize blue flames, a reference to the fact most of the time, Godzilla's atomic ray is a neon blue. Speaking of atomic fire, Junior's flames are more akin to the more fiery look of the Showa series as opposed to the more solid and laser like blasts in later installments.** The entire episode of "Competition" is this from start to finish. First off, the Robo-Yeti is an homage to King Kong and his robot duplicate Mechanikong, the machine has electrical control powers (as Kong had in his brawl with Godzilla), the bot's creator is named Yukiko Ifukube, a huge homage to Akira Ifukube and finally there's a full scale brawl in Tokyo.* {{Nanomachines}}: The {{Nano|machines}}tech creature was originally designed to bio-degrade plastic. Naturally, it grows out-of-control and eats all the petroleum-based things it can find.* NonActionGuy: Craven wants ''so badly'' to be one of these. Unfortunately, circumstances just won't let him.* NonMaliciousMonster: The series makes a note of pointing out that most of the monsters are just acting out their natural life cycles like any other animal, such as feeding and reproducing. Unfortunately, their size means that they can no longer act out said life cycle without causing rather severe destruction. Exceptions include the aliens, and arguably the Dragma and Crackler.[[note]] The former is a genetically engineered creature that supplants humanity as the dominant species, and the latter is an id monster created by a man's suppressed rage that goes after anyone who he's angry at.[[/note]]** The Spirit of the Swamp zigzags this trope. Its primary goal is to defend the swamp (and by extension the people of said swamp) that the CorruptCorporateExecutive is pillaging, but in doing so, it has a tendency to target innocent people.* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Almost constantly; usually, Godzilla. And of course, many a MonsterOfTheWeek turned out to be NotQuiteDead come "Monster Wars."* OffModel: The show would be horribly inconsistent with the size of enemy monster King Cobra. In one scene, he would be massive enough to tower over Godzilla and completely envelope him in his coils. In another, he's small enough for Godzilla to bite down on his neck and toss around like a rag doll. It thankfully didn't happen too often, but when it did, it was jarring.** The Lizard King himself would either the size of his father, to being as big as Heisei Godzilla. There's also the coloring issues. He would be colored grayish-silver, to charcoal gray, and two shades of purple.* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In "D.O.A.," Randy and Monique break into a facility to obtain samples of the poison affecting Godzilla. Randy is made to stand guard and ends up surrounded by three armed guards. Monique steps out of the supply room, appraises the situation, and the scene cuts to a shot of the outside of the facility with the sounds of the fight cut over it. It moves back to show the three guards tied up.** In the BadFuture featured in "Future Shock," Hicks says that, to combat the Dragmas, he released all the monsters from Monster Island (which included, at least, C-Rex, King Cobra and the Giant Bat), but that they all fell in battle. None of this conflict is shown at all.* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Nick's original field is radiobiology (radiation's effects on living things, which is still in effect even if they don't always go into detail) and Elsie's a paleontologist, so it would stand that they would know biology. Elsie has also been mentioned to be the animal behavior expert a few times. While Mendel's exact field wasn't mentioned in the film, he's established as the team's roboticist (what with the repairs N.I.G.E.L. goes through) and is shown to be quite the computer programmer, biochemist, and mechanical engineer. All three have some knowledge of the various branches in chemistry, biochemistry, botany and especially zoology, considering what they're dealing with. Elsie even lampshades their scientific omnidiscipline by mentioning Mendel having two [=PhDs=] in the first episode.* OutOfOrder: The original airdates put King Cobra's debut in "Monster Wars," when it should have [[NotQuiteDead not-quite died]] in the episode aired ''right after that'', "Competition."* PairTheSpares: In the last ten seconds of the series, Monique finally admits an attraction to Randy, thus pairing off all the (human) members of HEAT.** Not really an example. There had been romantic tension between those two (or least, on Randy's end, anyway) since the moment Monique was introduced as a character.* PapaWolf: Inverted. Godzilla Jr. goes to crazy lengths to protect his adoptive father, which is often pointed out.** It is played straight fairly often too, if you are human and you do something that can harm Godzilla, Nick ''will'' cut a bitch.* PlayfulHacker: Randy.* PlotHole: The Area 51 episode, which shows people who believe that aliens are being housed at Area 51 are crazy and wrong, and Elsie is mocked for believing in such things... despite that the previous year, not only did they find an alien spaceship, but said aliens orchestrated a massive, world-wide invasion plan, subborned members of the military, took control of Elsie herself, and resurrected the original Godzilla as a cyborg.* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Kind of a strange case in the first two episodes, when Nick claims that the military was "Wrong" for trying to kill Godzilla Junior, as "He wasn't hurting anyone." This despite the fact that the ''previous'' specimen nearly leveled the city, and the ''current'' one is seen shooting atomic fire out of his mouth, even ''before'' the military showed up. In fact, Nick was previously advocating the creature's destruction, and was trying to force the military to do that exact thing. He gets a little better.* RaisedByHumans: Godzilla imprinted on Nick as his adopted father. He will save other humans if he has to. While knowing that there are [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans who are bastards]].* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Major Hicks. He does sympathize with the heroes, but at the same time he has to think of larger concerns or about the potential damage creatures such as Godzilla can cause. That being said, once it becomes clear Godzilla is on our side, he becomes increasingly accommodating to Nick and the crew calling him in, defends Godzilla from other government authorities who refuse to acknowledge his usefulness, and even coordinates the military to assist Godzilla numerous times. * [[RecurringCharacter Recurring Monsters]]: In "Monster Wars," Crustaceous Rex, King Cobra, El Gusano, Queen Bee and Cryptocleidus all made return appearances. In the later episode "S.C.A.L.E.," Crustaceous Rex and King Cobra (as well as the Giant Bat introduced in "Monster Wars"') appeared again, this time as captives on Monster Island.* RedEyesTakeWarning: Godzilla originally glows orange eyes before launching his atomic breath. It becomes red later on, indicating that his BreathWeapon is becoming stronger.* RememberTheNewGuy: Randy is introduced in the first episode of the series as Nick's 14 month long assistant, meaning he would have been present, but offscreen during the events of the film. Similarly, Nick also owns his own private research facility on Staten Island (which becomes HEAT's base) that was never mentioned in the film, which is where Randy apparently was during that time.* RidiculousFutureSequelisation: A movie marquee in "Future Shock" displays "{{Franchise/Ghostbusters}} ''10''"* RobotNames: ''Next-Millennium Intelligence Gathering Electronic Liaison'', or N.I.G.E.L.-->'''Randy''': "Wouldn't that be 'Nmigel?'"** This makes Randy's intended "High-performance Environmental Attack Team" line for their group's name a bit of HypocriticalHumor in the third episode, "Talkin' Trash".* RoleReprisal: Malcolm Danare, Kevin Dunn and Michael Lerner reprise their respective roles as Dr. Mendel Craven, Major Hicks, and Mayor Ebert from the movie.* RunningGag: You can count on N.I.G.E.L. being smashed to pieces by the MonsterOfTheWeek or Junior at least once per episode.--> '''Craven:''' ''[sigh]'' I should just order spare parts in bulk.* ScienceHero: A whole team of them, really. Even Monique has HiddenDepths like translating ancient Arabian glyphs.* ShootingSuperman: Naturally, though not as bad as the Japanese films since this is set as the same continuity where shooting a giant monster worked, and the army usually avoids it, but it still has some blatant cases like soldiers trying to shoot the C-Rex with small arms. Though even this can be forgiven to a degree, since this is the dawn of the age of Kaiju in this world, and they don't ''know'' what will or will not work against monsters. Several methods of shooting monsters with human weapons ''are'' shown to work a few times in the show.* ShoutOut: ** Several pop culture references an episode is the norm. And then, Elsie mentions a [[Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep giant lobster]] attacking the coast of Manila. Also a MythologyGag: When Nick tries to awaken Godzilla, he shouts to him if he's gonna let those "[[Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla Space]] [[Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla Monkeys]]" defeat him and take over Earth. "Competition" has one where JSDF Dr. Yukiko Ifukube is named after composer Music/AkiraIfukube, who composed many of the haunting soundtracks for the ''Godzilla'' films.** One episode had some mutated creatures in the artic that lived underground and hunted their prey by tunneling under them and pulling down. Apparently someone on the staff was a fan of Tremors. ** In "Bird of Paradise," Elsie's ex-fiancé is named Lawrence Cohen. Creator/LarryCohen wrote and directed ''Film/QTheWingedSerpent''. Both the film and the episode feature the Aztec god Quetzlcoatl - nicknamed "Q" - as an antagonist, and the episode based the monster design on the one in the film.** Outside of the MythologyGag with Robo-Yeti to the first two Mechagodzilla incarnations (not to mention "King Kong Vs. Godzilla," and the monster Mechanikong), it's skeleton appearance also serves as a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''.** Nick puns on ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' when turning on the wind turbine to negate the Shrewster's tornado.** In "The Winter of our Discontent," the signal that is driving Junior nuts sounds like the siren from [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]], but lower in pitch.* ShownTheirWork: Granted, ArtisticLicense is in force on various aspects (such as HollywoodAcid multiple times), but most of the material shown and talked about did have basis in real life science at the time of the show's airing. Other subjects not science-based is also demonstrated, such as:** Mendel uses a sock to filter water from a river for drinking purposes in "Underground Movement", a real wilderness survival technique.** Monique makes note that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan Japan's constitution]] doesn't allow their military to have offensive weapons, to which Yukiko insists that Robo-Yeti is defensive in "Competition".* SlapSlapKiss: Randy and Monique.* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "S.C.A.L.E" plays out as a found footage episode, framed as a report Audrey does on the events of the episode, comprising of footage from Animal's camera as well as interviews with the HEAT team and security footage from Monster Island.* SpikeShooter: The Giant Bees in "Hive" and the Thorny Devil in "Area 51".* SpotTheImpostor: The shapeshifting DNA Mimic began mimicking Junior at the climax of "Trust No One", and Nick had to tell them apart.** Which is actually an {{homage}} to the classic sci-fi movie ''Film/TheThing1982''.* StockScream: N.I.G.E.L.'s robotic "AAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!"* StrongFleshWeakSteel: Likely in part because of censors regarding violence, flesh and blood giant monsters are always more durable than anything mechanical, most notably shown in "Competition" Godzilla manages to stay in the fight after the King Cobra tries to crush him, but the Robo-Yeti gets knocked of the fight both times, the second time actually leading to it's head getting broken off.* TheyKilledKennyAgain: The previously-mentioned N.I.G.E.L.-smashing.** His voice actor is even named Kenny!!** This led to a perceived rivalry with said trope namesake.* ThematicThemeTune: The opening theme to the show is ''very'' serious in tone, unlike ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour'', which fits the very serious tone of the show incredibly well.* TooDumbToLive: Circus Mutant Mania ringmaster Tobias Wilson in "Freak Show", in particular regards to Medusa. Had he done some research on observing Medusa after capturing her but before debuting her, it wouldn't have led to her escaping and creating havoc throughout NYC on dehydrating anything with water.** Milo Sanders, the "tour guide" of the Manhattan Monster Line in "Tourist Trap", kept putting his passengers and himself in harm's way despite being warned multiple times to leave the area when Godzilla was fighting the Deep Dweller. It's a surprise the city hasn't shut his "tour ride" operation down before [[spoiler:his arrest at the end for stealing H.E.A.T.'s helicopter]].* TookALevelInBadass: Purposefully done with Junior. He's much tougher than his daddy and much closer to the PowerLevels of the Japanese Godzilla.** Also, Nick is much more active than he used to be when Creator/MatthewBroderick portrayed him in the movie.** Same with Craven, who gets more into the action as the show goes on.** [[spoiler: Cyborg Godzilla from "Monster Wars." Unlike Junior, this ''is'' the original monster from the film this spun off of, but now can breathe fire, shoot lasers, and fire missiles.]]* TornadoMove: "The Twister" featured the Shrewster, a shrew that had somehow fused with a tornado.* TrueCompanions: Snarking at each other aside, the team always have each others' backs, even Godzilla. Hicks as well.* TunnelKing: Godzilla, like his daddy, but even better at it than he was.* TurtlePower: The giant turtle in "End of the Line."* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: After Godzilla saves several people in a RunawayTrain (using his hands, though that probably hurt a bit for a kaiju like him), the passengers seem to not panic after he saves them, and just walks off casually.* VitriolicBestBuds: Craven and Randy.* WesternTerrorists: SCALE (Servants of Creatures Arriving Late to Earth), the AnimalWrongsGroup who frees imprisoned {{Kaiju}} to [[GaiasVengeance purge humanity]].* WeCanRebuildHim: [[spoiler: Zilla Senior]] is brought back as [[spoiler: Cyber-Godzilla]] by aliens to fight the star of the show. Also, NIGEL. A lot. No seriously, a lot.* WhamEpisode: "Monster Wars" which has an AlienInvasion, most of the kaiju being mind-controlled as weapons, [[spoiler: Cyber-Zilla]], the HEAT team facing it's DarkestHour, and more. [[spoiler: Just to top it off, several of the recurring kaiju are KilledOffForReal in the big finale.]]* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: More often than not, most authoritative figures or those with some power tend to always opt for the perspective of seeing the kaiju as simply monsters, animals at best (if that could even be considered "best", given animal cruelty cases). Examples include: the captain from Fort [=McKinley=] in "End of the Line" evoking with "a monster is a monster"; just seeing them as weapons as demonstrated in "Where Is Thy Sting"; or just "toys" tied to money, as seen in "Freak Show", "Winter of Our Discontent", and "Tourist Trap". Major Hicks is about the only authoritative person to at least consider alternative options and give the kaiju a smidgen of respect for their abilities.* WhatTheHellHero: Nick calls Georges out on this in "The Ballad of Gens Du Marais" when [[spoiler: the Swamp Monster trashes Dimanche's paddle boat during a Mardi Gras celebration. Nick points out that Georges was [[NotSoDifferent no different]] than Dimanche on not caring who gets hurt in the process during the pursuit of their goals]].* WholePlotReference: ** The "Monster Wars" three-parter was based on the Godzilla movie ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters''.** "Trust No One" is basically a PG-version of the ''Film/TheThing1982''.** "Future Shock" is ''Film/ReignOfFire'', which is impressive considering [[OlderThanTheyThink it came out three years before the movie]].* WhosLaughingNow: "What Dreams May Come." A rather literal case there, as the Crackler monster, has this weird chuckle growl when active.* WhyIsntItAttacking: The reason why Junior didn't eat Nick, in the first episode, on their second encounter? Because he imprinted on Nick not long after hatching, and sees Nick as his "dad."* {{Wormsign}}: Junior, of course.----


text: It's been 15ish years since Lion King was in theaters, but only now has Disney released a bloopers reel of the movie's famous actors goofing their lines. James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew Broderick…even Jeremy Irons as Scar screws up a line. Up next: puppet bloopers from the Broadway production.

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Dear Michael Splechta, Editor-in-Chief of GameZone
I hate you.
No, you're not a bad person or anything like that. I'm just kind of upset that I have to spend time not playing Elder Scrolls Online. There's this huge, inviting, wonderful world that's begging to be explored and I'm here, sitting at my desk, typing words into a document. Granted, this is part of my job, and if all I said was "Elder Scrolls Online is better than I ever thought it would be now go away so I can play more," then you'd probably be very upset with me. So begrudgingly, I shall complete my journalistic duties and tell you how I feel after playing ESO for a week.
In a word, I'm surprised.
See, if you'd recall back to the game's initial unveiling, the general response was a bit underwhelming. There wasn't any real reason to drop everything on your gaming plate and begin obsessing over the game. I mean, all things considered, if you know what games would release in the springtime of 2014, you'd rather play Reaper of Souls, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Titanfall. Or maybe you'd just be busy editing the reviews everyone's been posting lately; it's been a busy month or so.
Yet despite those initial feelings, I find myself completely won over by Elder Scrolls Online. Could my low expectations be playing a role? It's possible, but it's more due to the fact that the game has this feeling about how there's not really a right and wrong way to play it. Want to focus on a dual wielding melee attacker that can also use spells and wear light armor? There's nothing really stopping you. In fact, it's actually been kind of successful through the first 13 and a half levels of my existence.
Keyword: kind of. Forgetting to keep up with repairs and upgrading your gear can put you at a serious disadvantage, but that's not to say the game has proven to be hard or anything like that. Elder Scrolls veterans will feel right at home.
To further answer a question you asked me earlier today, I've yet to see my choices in quests truly matter outside the context of that very questline. Given the surprising quality of the narratives I've encountered so far, this is extremely disappointing. Sure, choosing different actions and being able to persuade or intimidate changes my course of action, but it doesn't drastically alter the events that unfold before me. It doesn't feel that way, anyway.
I guess, though, that at the end of the day, I can't hate you too much. I don't hate the fact that you've said you're too busy to spend time with the game. I wish that wasn't the case; I enjoyed being able to (incredibly briefly) play with you and other GameZone team members in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. We had fun during the livestream of Grand Theft Auto: Online. Well, everyone but I had fun; I spent the entire day trying to flat out get into the game. But for now, I feel like I've successfully completed my obligations for the week. I must now go back into Tamriel and marathon as much as I can before I leave for PAX East.
Oh hamburgers, I'm not going to be able to play for five days. I really hope I can survive.
Jake Valentine


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Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar yesterday faced a small protest from villagers in Plymouth, Tobago, when she attended a church service at the Plymouth New Testament Church of God.
Supporters of the opposition People's National Movement (PNM), with a PNM banner, gathered at the bottom of the street near the church calling on the Prime Minister to leave the village as she was not wanted there.
When the Prime Minister's entourage passed by they called on her to leave, saying the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP) was not welcome in Plymouth. The situation caused a stir and even Pastor of the Plymouth New Testament George Alexander, said he was disappointed with the display by residents, and that it was not called for. �
"And I believe it was a total disgrace for people who are supposed to be so sensible and have right thinking in their mind, knowing that somebody coming to the house of the Lord to worship, and would stand at the corner to behave unseemly."
Persad-Bissessar sat alongside Minority Leader and TOP chief Ashworth Jack, managing director of the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) Jearlean John, TOP candidate for Plymouth/Golden Lane Certica Williams-Orr and Tobago East representative Vernella Alleyne-Toppin and her husband Lenn Toppin.
She greeted the congregation reading Psalm 121 and Psalm 23, and was later prayed for by Pastor George, who invited both PNM and TOP members. Following the service she said she felt energised and really wonderful.
Asked to comment �on the Opposition's� decision to not support the Constitutional (Amendment) (Tobago) Bill 2012, she said the Opposition was being hypocritical on the matter.
"The Opposition is being very disingenuous to say that you will not support it because you want X, Y, P, Q. That's the very purpose of sending it to the Joint Select Committee," Persad- Bissessar said.
Persad-Bissessar said while the debate will continue on Wednesday as planned, everyone will be consulted on the Bill. She said Wednesday's debate was not the final step in the process of constitutional reform for Tobago, and no one will be left out of further consultations on the Bill.
"The tripartisan committee will consult with all stakeholders which will include, Tobago, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, and all such persons who wish to be consulted, that process is not going to be terminated and finalised on Wednesday," Persad- Bissessar said.
Asked for her thoughts on the TOP's chances in the upcoming THA elections, she said she sees the votes in favour of the TOP.
"I think the TOP are on top of it... they are well poised to win. At the end of the day the people of Tobago will decide. I have been here and I see a very good, positive movement towards the TOP," Persad- Bissessar said.


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The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the Dutch Referendum
On 6 April 2016, a referendum on the approval of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement will be held in the Netherlands.
This is the direct result of new legislation that entered into force on 1 July 2015. According to this legislation, citizens can initiate a referendum on most laws and treaties after these have been approved by both chambers of parliament.
To strengthen trade and economic cooperation, the EU has signed dozens of similar agreements with neighbouring and overseas countries. The EU has Association Agreements with more than 25 countries and regions all over the world including Israel, Lebanon, Georgia and Moldova, Central America and various South American countries.
All Association Agreements are usually applied provisionally before they are ratified, so that all the partners can reap the benefits of free trade right away. The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement has been provisionally applied since November 2014 and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) component since 1 January 2016.
More information on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, and its implications for both the Netherlands and Ukraine, is available by following the links below.
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2013 New Year's Resolution: Driving to Campus? Join a Car Pool!
By Christine Sportes, Associate Vice President/Chief Human Resources Officer
During the upcoming months, CUA will launch a new program, Zimride, for all members of the campus community. Why carpool or ride-share? Here are a few good reasons to consider:
- Save on gas, parking costs, and overall car upkeep
- Save on time by using the HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) and express lanes
- Reduce travel-related emissions
- Reduce traffic congestion
- Reduce dependency on oil
Personal Well-Being
- Increase your own energy level — feel less tired on those days when you do not do the driving
- Enjoy the company of others during your commute
Here are some facts on Zimride:
What is Zimride and when was it first implemented?
Zimride is a social network for ridesharing, enabling drivers and passengers to post rides and match up to share a ride and its associated cost. Schools can partner with Zimride to offer a private Zimride network, which requires a school email and password to gain access. Zimride is free to users. The driver and passenger(s) make the arrangements to split the transportation cost.
Zimride started in early 2007 and now provides rideshare communities to more than 100 universities, including several in the D.C./Maryland/Virginia region.
Who came up with the idea?
Logan Green, Zimride's CEO, grew up in Los Angeles and always had issues coordinating travel between home and school in Santa Barbara, Calif. He created Zimride after witnessing an efficient transportation system in Zimbabwe (hence the name Zimride). At the same time, John Zimmer was thinking of a similar idea, and they met after a mutual friend posted Logan's website on Facebook. They partnered with their alma maters (UC Santa Barbara and Cornell) and quickly expanded the network to schools across the country.
Who does Zimride involve? (Students, faculty, staff...?)
Zimride is useful for everyone on campus but specifically targets both commuters and people who travel long distances. Commuters can post their route to campus and the times they typically travel. Zimride will match them with other people with a similar commute.
Those who take longer trips (typically students) can post their planned trips out of town and be matched with users who need a ride to the same place or somewhere along the driver's route. These rides typically occur on the weekend, with the highest activity around holidays.
What makes Zimride so popular?
Most people try Zimride because they want to save money. Zimride users say they return to the site because they had such a great experience with the service the first time. We've heard lots of stories of meeting best friends using Zimride, even one about a wedding! The Facebook integration makes it very easy to see more information about the other users. Connecting to Facebook is not mandatory to use Zimride, but it is highly encouraged.
Sound like an interesting option for the new year? Watch for upcoming information regarding the 2013 CUA Zimride launch!


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We need a server tech person so we can get Crows Town back on line... like the good old days!! - Contact Simon.
I heard the frenchs made fun of your clown pants after the game !
Q: What is the Point of this Game??
The French were absolute rubbish. Eh, winning I suppose...The point is to score as many points as possible. The team that has the stone closest to the centre wins a point, if they have two stones closer than the other team they get two points and so on. There's a lot of tactics involved with the trying to shoot out the other teams stones, blocking each other from getting a lot of points and so on. http://www.gonzaga.k12.nf.ca/academics/physed/curling%20rules/rules_of_curling.htmI think it's fun. I don't expect you guys to get it, I for example will never be interested in sports like: cricket, baseball, golf, rugby, american football or car racing.
Curling final tonight, Norway - Canada. Can't wait! :thumbsup:
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December, 2016
China's War on Counterfeits and Fraud Busters
Making a living on counterfeit products in China has come full circle, as the counterfeiters are now feeding career counterfeit busters. The law these retail sleuths are working under was designed to protect customers who have purchased fake goods, but the self-made product [...]Read more
Rebranding Tobacco, Marlboro Style
After years of dropping market share, Marlboro is finally reclaiming its place as the crown jewel of Phillips Morris USA. From 2005 to 2011, the brand lost nine percentage points in share of the 18- to 25-year-old market, dropping to just 43 percent in a market it once dominated. [...]Read more
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Fun times on Christmas vacation! What better time to get my Emacs environment working the way I want it? I'm going too try to keep it really simple this time. I'm going to get Rope, Pymacs, and Ropemacs to start with, and maybe these will be all I need for now.
First, I create a .emacs file in my home directory. I will fill it in as I go, and will include the final version when it's complete. All that's in it now is a line that says:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~.emacs.d/"). Also create a directory called .emacs.d. I had both of these things before, but deleted them and am starting from scratch because I had issues that I couldn't solve.
1. Rope: downloaded from Sourceforge repository (Rope version 0.9.2). From terminal, ran setup.py with build, then install options. (for help, run setup.py –help-commands)
2. Pymacs: downloaded from Pymacs archives (Pymacs version 23). From terminal, ran the setup.py file with the build and install options again. I just put my .emacs.d/ directory in my emacs load-path (above), and then put the pymacs.el file in there. The Pymacs website suggests byte compiling for speed, which isn't too complicated: just open emacs, type
M-x byte-compile-file RETpymacs.el RET.
3. Ropemacs: Last time I did this, I used the source repository on Bitbucket, but this time I just downloaded from the Sourceforge site (same as Rope, just scroll down). I installed the same way as for Rope and Pymacs using the setup.py script.
Final .emacs file:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~.emacs.d/")
(autoload 'pymacs-apply "pymacs")
(autoload 'pymacs-call "pymacs")
(autoload 'pymacs-eval "pymacs" nil t)
(autoload 'pymacs-exec "pymacs" nil t)
(autoload 'pymacs-load "pymacs" nil t)
(require 'pymacs)
(pymacs-load "ropemacs" "rope-")
And that's it for now…Hopefully this will work for me. Maybe I'll add Yasnippets eventually, but I don't think I really have a need for that yet.


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As a reader, I'm almost always never happy when I read action scenes with women characters. Male writers default the action to the male characters, or they make the women like men. Women writers either make the women into victims or give them super strength and healing, ruining the suspense.
One of the workshops I attended at Ravencon was "Writing Action Scenes." The panel consisted of three men — what, no women writing action? I asked what had been a popular question at Alan Baxter's webinar last year: "How do you write action scenes for women?" The guys all got queasy and uncomfortable and started talking about not wanting to do "men are from Mars and women are from Venus."
But there are differences between the genders, which either makes a story believable or not to me.
When I was in the army, these differences were apparent on the physical training test. The original test was tailored to men and broken down by age group, but when women came in, the army had to create different standards for them, probably because of how our bodies are built and that we're shorter. Talk to any of the men, and they thought the women are getting over. Talk to someone like me, and I had problems keeping up with men with long legs on marches.
Those differences make action scenes a challenge to write. I had a scene where the heroine had to escape from a room guarded by two armed men. Even if she'd known karate or judo (Nancy Drew anyone?), she would have been outmatched and outsized by the two men, so a traditional method of escaping was out. I was surprised at how difficult it was to come up with an alternative!
Women don't have the upper body strength, and would certainly have trouble against any opponents who outweighed them by fifty pounds or more. But women do have a lot of strength in their legs and hips. Day Al-Mohamed said that women make excellent mountain climbers because of that. So the legs can be used in an action scene. Tools like guns could also be used, but again, that's not a matter of giving the character a gun without paying attention to the gender differences.
But the women would also need to be clever, think fast, and come up with unusual solutions that plays to their strengths. Does this character know chemistry, or how to swim? Maybe she's a doctor. What could be done with that? If she has a gun, why does she have it? I think it's a greater challenge to characterization itself, because all of these pieces need to be built in and developed throughout the story. Some of the best action stories I've seen have resulted from getting creative with solutions.
What's been your experience — either as a reader or a writer — with action scenes involving women? What do books get right, and what really annoys you? I'd love to hear your opinions!


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Last night the girls and I made Christmas cookies. Well apparently the elves LOVE cookies, (obviously they do they are elves lol). And while they decided to snack on some cookies they sat in the freezer. LOL Such funny elves they are!!
Rosie & Angel's Elf Adventures 2012, Day 10!
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ANCHORAGE - Transportation problems delayed two female bison meant to diversify the gene pool of the Popof Island herd, but Abigail and Kelly have arrived.
The bison had been at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage. They were selected, tested for disease and tagged at the center before making the trip from Portage to Homer in a 20-foot trailer for their planned Sept. 15 departure.
Their cruise, however, was postponed when the vehicle lift on the state ferry Tustumena malfunctioned. The bison were trucked back to Portage while the ferry awaited parts, repairs and final inspection.
Concerns about inbreeding prompted Shumagin Village Corp. to work with the conservation center to bring new blood to the island more than 500 miles southwest of Anchorage, The Dutch Harbor Fisherman newspaper reported.
"Shumagin has been working to get new bison on Popof Island for most of the summer, and it has been a goal to add to the herd for a couple of years," said Marita Gundersen, Shumagin Corp. manager. "The process has been long."
The bison, who finally made it to Popof Island this week, are semi-wild even though they've been raised in captivity. Kelly, who is pregnant, weighs roughly 1,000 pounds. Abigail weighs about 650.
"The younger one is a little less aggressive than the older one," said Dr. Jerry Nybakken, the veterinarian who accompanied the bison on the trip. "But I wouldn't open the door and step in front of either one. They're not like cows, they react as wild animals."
In the past three years, the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center has provided plains bison to start herds on Umnak Island in the Aleutians and Stevens Village in the Interior, said Mike Miller, executive director and founder of the conservation center.
Popof Island has a resident herd, believed to have arrived on the island in 1951 when one male and two female plains bison leapt off an oceangoing barge. The females made it to land, and one gave birth to a male calf the following spring, providing the tenuous start to a herd that now numbers between 150 and 180.
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What's good:8MP auto-focus cam with *bright* dual LED flash; 30 FPS wide screen video; lovely, high-contrast 2.8" AMOLED capacitive touch screen at 400 x 240; great phonebook and in-call UI; TouchWiz now has more widgets and a multi-panel home screen; accelerometer, GPS, proximity sensor.
What's bad: typing is a serious chore; browsing is WAP; unlocked GSM, but no 3G in US.
Known as Tocco Ultra Edition and Player Ultra in some markets, the Ultra Touch brings a beautiful touch screen to a smaller, slider form-factor that's only 12.7 mm thin. And Samsung knows how to show that screen off with wallpaper and a lock screen that POP. Seriously, the display is amazing.
An 8 MP cam with dual LED flash is probably the biggest draw here. You won't find messaging and social hounds coming after the Touch Ultra - this one is for semi-serious consumer photographers, though the widgets bring this device some functionality beyond its primary roles of phone and camera. The S8300 is also a competent music player. (cont.)
Sleek design and a very pocketable size make this one a sexy phone/camera combo. Send, end, back (looks like a d-pad), camera, and hold buttons, along with a volume rocker, comprise the controls you'll see when the phone is closed. You've got to remove the 880 mAh battery to get to the SIM and SD card slot - which can handle 16 Gigs. Micro USB is the only port.
The sliding mechanism feels smooth and solid, and the red, cross-hatch pattern revealed when you prepare for a snap is sophisticated and polished. The red keypad employs four shared strips of plastic for input, which work fine for dialing numbers or entering letters old-school, but fail when you're trying to hit shift and mash the * key.
The screen is capacitive and is therefore more sensitive that you'll find on a phone like the Behold, for example. Be aware, responsiveness is not at the quality of an iPhone or of HTC's capacitive screens. Then again, you can pick up an unlocked Ultra Touch for around $400, without a contract. You won't be using 3G in the States, though.
Very good 8 MP pictures can be found in low and high light situations, and the video is among the best I've seen from a phone. The camera software is easy to learn and use on the surface, but provides advanced settings for those so inclined. It's just too bad that the hold button is right next to the shutter button. That bothers me no matter which one I'm going for.
TouchWiz is progressing nicely, and Samsung has thrown in some great widgets - I'm glad to see so many available for download. This is a strong selling point. But the screen is a bit tight and space is precious. Thankfully, you can swipe the home screen up and down to reveal three different panels for planting your widgets on. This will be enough for the average user. (cont.)
The screen is not sufficient, however, for web browsing. The S8300 can handle the most basic, minimal websites, and that's about it. I was also disappointed to find that the software keyboard seems to be little more than an afterthought - an addendum to the hardware keys that makes special characters a tad bit easier to access.
There's no full QWERTY here, and typing in a password with upper and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols, is a serious task. I avoided text messages during the time I used the Ultra Touch, knowing that every typing system requires some adaptation. This, I could not acquire a taste for. Instant messaging wasn't even considered.
Sharing photos, on the other hand, is a piece of cake, and upload to Facebook, Flickr, and other sites is just a touch or three away after accounts setup - reaffirming that this phone is first and foremost, a camera.
Battery life was pretty decent, considering the monster flash this thing is packing. With light-to-moderate camera use, two full days on a single charge is not a problem. Voice quality was O.K., and while I didn't test out a bluetooth ear piece, I did send a goofy image Noah left on the phone to my Mac via BT. I love being able to do that - it really saves time and hassle over cables, swapping cards, sending an email, etc. I had a 2.2 MB photo transfered in under 20 seconds from the instant I decided to send it.
Samsung's S8300 isn't going to fulfil your needs if you are big on texts, instant messages, mobile email, and browsing the web on your phone. But if you're looking for a handsome camera phone that can handle diverse lighting environments and shoot great video, this is one solid device. It feels like it will last, and would be suitable for adults and teens who care more about capturing bits of real life than about interacting virtually.
Samsung's product page can be found here.


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