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When mid-July hits, a tradition on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas arrives.
Musical numbers show tunes, and young kids in bright shirts fill the halls of the campus and bring new life and raised brows from the summer school students. Since 1992, the tradition of choral extravagance has found it's way to UCA. Now in it's 23rd year, Arkansas Choral Connection (ACC) Choir Camp brings present the Magic Singdom, a Disney themed camp experience.
Students are given a taste of independence in a safe and contained environment. Dormitories are used to ensure the campers are together and have all the amenities of a true counselor.
Lifelong camper turned camp counselor, Ashley Zirkle said, "Choir Camp brings kids together to attain a common goal. It introduces students to new directors and different styles of teaching, as well as students from all over the state. It is a good opportunity for them to make new friends. They learn a lot of music throughout the week and is a ton of fun."
Zirkle's job is to wear many hats and have an endless supply of energy. "I do everything from waking them up, keeping them in line, and resolving conflicts. I also have to dance and entertain them at mail call. Pretty much, we do every job that needs to be done," said Zirkle.
The students at ACC Choir Camp experience music in a fun and extremely interactive manner. Events and classes are spread throughout the week to ensure student engagement and camp-connection. One of the largest events is the track and field night, where teams (pre-determined at day one of camp) compete for the gold and bragging rights until the following year's camp. Courses allow students to test the vocal waters under the direction of an array of talented and innovative choral directors.
"The different courses and activities allow students to diversify their learning experiences with different directors and different voices to sing with," said Zirkle, "It also offers opportunities for social growth. They are pulled out of their regular lives and into choir camp world. Campers are encouraged to get out of their box and meet new people and make new friends."
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Autonomous Cars and the Environment: What You Need To Know
By Guest Blogger Scott Huntington
Ever since Henry Ford introduced the Model T in the early 1900s, the automobile industry changed forever. Transportation via car was no longer a luxury of the affluent, but a mainstay in American culture accessible to virtually everyone.
Much has changed over the last century; the automotive industry has blossomed into a multibillion-dollar enterprise featuring competitors from around the world. In 2000, amid a push for alternative fuel sources, Toyota released the Prius to the American market. This vehicle was the first hybrid car in the United States. As environmental concerns over the future of cars continue to grow, many are looking to driverless cars as the answer to curbing carbon emissions.
No, this isn't something out of a science fiction movie; autonomous cars are real and they are coming faster than you think. In fact, Google has a working prototype of a driverless car and Delphi Automotive recently attempted the world's first cross-country road trip in one of these vehicles.
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Self-driving cars have many social and economic benefits, but can they really be helpful from an environmental perspective? One major concern is the vehicle's fuel source. Driverless cars are still cars, and further reliance on fossil fuels aren't exactly helping the environment. Automotive engineers have to figure out the most eco-friendly way of streamlining this method of transport. While it is difficult to determine the long-term environmental benefits without a larger sample size, you can find some speculative points below:
- Fuel efficiency: Researchers at KPMG believe that driverless cars will be considerably more fuel-efficient than vehicles that use human drivers. If every car is driving at the same speed, the cars could, theoretically, bunch together, effectively cutting gas usage by at least 30 percent.
- Lighter vehicles: The hope is that automated vehicles will lessen the amount of car accidents per year. Considering the fact that 81 percent all car accidents are due to human error, driverless cars should be met with widespread support. With less emphasis placed on accident prevention, cars will likely be more durable and use less material.
- Ridesharing increase: Recent data from the International Parking Institute suggests that cars remain parked 90 percent of the time. Services like Uber and Lyft are beginning to mitigate the stigma associated with ridesharing. Autonomous vehicles have the potential to turn ridesharing into a normal occurrence. Fewer cars on the road translates to increased environmental stability.
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Driverless cars open up a realm of new possibilities for people who are unable to drive, such as minors, disabled, elderly, intoxicated or medically unable. Ridesharing is already causing significant tensions between taxi companies and other sources of public transportation; what happens if autonomous vehicles become the preferred method of transport among Americans? Other mediums would quickly become obsolete.
Despite the prospect of a less-stressful work commute, the increased number of driverless cars on the road will outweigh any proposed environmental benefits. Experts foresee a 160 percent jump in people's need to travel by car. Autonomous vehicles may be the next step in the automobile industry, and their effects on the environment remain will be seen soon.
About the Author
Scott Huntington is a writer and auto enthusiast. Check out his site, offthethrottle.com for more.
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This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald 5 July 2003.
Counsellors are supposed to help couples save their marriages. But is their main goal to fix the relationship or to rescue the individuals in it?
"They sit and judge you. You get the feeling it's not a big deal if you stay together or if you don't. The counsellors never seems to be pushing you to hang in there. I don't think they treat as precious the history you have together or care that this man is the father of your children. It's like it's all a bit too hard. Why don't you just leave?"
This is Linda Boswell*, 49, a Mosman physiotherapist married to a man prone to negativity and depression but still "a good, loving husband". In their 19 years together, they have seen a number of marriage counsellors, particularly during the difficult early years, when they were struggling to conceive using IVF. While some counselling has been helpful, sometimes she's emerged outraged at the failure of the counsellors to value her marriage.
She mentions one counsellor, who announced soon after they walked in that he was recently divorced. "I had the overwhelming feeling he wanted everyone else to end up in the same boat. He never said anything positive. If I mentioned my husband was being unsupportive, the counsellor would come back with: 'Oh, that's only going to get worse.'
Boswell feels her marriage has survived despite, rather than because of, the marriage counselling. It's a sentiment also felt by people on the other side of the counselling room. Professor William Doherty, the director of the marriage and family therapy program at the University of Minnesota, says: "If you talk to a therapist about problems in your marriage, I believe you stand a good risk of harming your marriage. Doherty has just toured Australia, promoting his two latest books, A Strong Marriage and Confident Parenting (Finch Publishing).
Doherty says therapy can be "enormously helpful in the right hands" ("I do this for a living. My job is to train therapists"). But he also believes therapists and marriage counsellors can undermine marriages, through incompetence and by promoting individual fulfilment, rather than supporting commitment to the marriage. ("Counsellors", in theory, are trained to deal with day-to-day problems, while "therapists" tackle more complex, diagnosable complaints. But, in practice, there's little difference between the two. Unqualified people are able to use either label.)
Doherty takes issue with therapists who claim to be neutral, who see their job as simply helping each person decide on their best option. Being neutral is an undermining stance, he says, arguing that the therapist who uses the language of individual self-interest "I have needs, I have a right to happiness" tends to side with the more self-oriented spouse, colluding to undermine the marital relationship.
Certainly, judging the success rate of marriage counselling is complex. For a start, couples commonly wait until relationship problems are severe before seeking help to decide whether to stay in a marriage. By this time, says Kim Halford, the professor of psychology at Griffith University in Brisbane, counselling is less likely to be keep the marriage together.
But, first, to the question of competency. Doherty says the "dirty little secret" in the therapy field is that couples therapy may be "the hardest form of therapy and most therapists are not good at it". As he explains, very few people who offer couples therapy or marriage counselling whether they trained as psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers or professional counsellors have had any systematic training in couples therapy. This claim is echoed by Australian counterparts. Most learn on the job, acquiring varying degrees of competence along the way.
Fumbling therapists can put marriages at risk, as a Sydney doctor, Karen Brown, recently discovered. She's used to referring couples for marital counselling, who often report they find it helpful. But that wasn't her experience when she went with her husband to a psychiatrist to sort out some minor marital issues. Looking back, she sees their problems as minor such as squabbles over the importance of family meals but enough to eat at their 20 years of contentment. The counselling was a fiasco.
"It was divisive, an utter waste of time. There was so much of he said/she said, picking up on the minutiae. He just let us talk, go round and round. In an argument, we all behave badly, we all say terrible, hurtful things. But if you then bring them up in a counselling session, you just get angry and bitter. We were given no strategies, there was no attempt to look at the positives what works in the marriage, rather than what doesn't work. It made things worse for us," she says.
Allowing clients to simply fight the fight is a disaster, says Doherty. "The most common mistake made by inexperienced couples therapists is providing too little structure for the sessions. These therapists watch and observe, and spouses speak for each other and read each other's minds, making attacks and counterattacks . . . The therapist may end the session with something blandly reassuring, like "well, we have got a number of the issues on the table", but the couple leaves demoralised.
Sometimes dangerously demoralised, says the Canberra University psychology professor Bob Montgomery, who mentions that some time ago it became fashionable for clinics to video-tape marriage counselling sessions and play them back to clients. The experiment came to a halt when a number of clients committed suicide.
"All many so-called 'marriage counsellors' are doing is encouraging distressed couples to practise their problem. They are already pretty good at conflict by the time they come in they don't need practice," says Montgomery. He believes much marriage counselling is "lightweight" and bears no resemblance to the couples therapy that research has shown to be effective. He agrees with Doherty that most counsellors have not have the systematic training needed for effective couples therapy.
Kim Halford, an adviser to the Federal Government on marriage and family policy, agrees there are real concerns about the competency of people offering marriage counselling. "People tend not to do in routine counselling what's been shown to actually work," he says, explaining the specific forms of couples therapy shown to be effective namely insight-oriented couples therapy, emotion-focus therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy.
But most counsellors are not using these approaches. Even with these carefully evaluated, "state-of-the-art" forms of couples therapy (used mainly by clinical psychologists), Halford says there's only about 50-50 chance of real improvement after counselling, and within a few years this drops back to about a third reporting that their marriages are in good shape.
The issue is further complicated by the fact that often one spouse also seeks individual therapy. While individual therapy can add to problems when individual growth threatens the relationship, it can also help people gain insights and develop new strategies for dealing with relationship problems.For Mary Lewis, a journalist working for a Melbourne newspaper, individual therapy proved more helpful than couples counselling. "My husband felt he could never win when we went to counsellors together," she says. Her 16-year marriage went through a rocky period, including a separation, but is back on track.
Her husband's reaction to separation made a big difference. "He so hated being on his own and vowed to change his behaviour. Somehow, the anger, the rages, just disappeared." But Lewis found regular sessions with a clinical psychologist allowed her to find ways of working on her own behaviour, avoiding some of the nasty habits she'd learnt from her parents.
Yet marital problems have pretty good odds of turning themselves around, says Halford, referring to recent research by Linda Waite, a psychology professor at the University of Chicago. Her team followed a group of 645 people who described themselves as unhappily married. After about five years, 176 of them had divorced or separated and, of these, about half were happy. About two-thirds of those who stuck it out were happy.
Most couples in the study who reported improvement in their marriages said it was a question of endurance they didn't resolve their problems, they outlasted them. Other couples reported success through "working on" their marriages, pursuing strategies for changing behaviour, improving communication and solving conflicts. And a third group found their marriages became more rewarding when they found ways of lifting their own happiness by personal change.
Rarely was marital counselling given credit for turning the marriage around. A third of Waite's participants had seen counsellors. "Most reported it was helpful, but relatively few saw it as the key to turning their marriages around or avoiding divorce," reported Waite, who also found a large number of husbands saw counselling as a threat to their marriages.
Indeed, it isn't hard to find men who believe counselling gave the final push. David Phillips had a number of sessions with different marriage counsellors before separating from his wife early this year. He found the process painful. "I had the sense the counsellor was being used as a third party to try to convince me I was wrong. The kind of language I use is different from the way my wife and the counsellor wanted to talk. When I'd try to point out what I saw as the facts of the matter, my approach was devalued. It left me with a sense of not being heard or respected," says Phillips, who works in the computer industry and describes himself as an analytical "techno" type.
Peter Llewellyn-Smith, the men's services co-ordinator for Interrelate Australia, a government-funded counselling organisation, acknowledges there's new recognition that couples counselling has failed to engage men. "There's concern in the industry about whether therapists are skilled at working with men. New research is showing that a key to successful couples counselling is engaging men up front, exploring where their resistance is coming from and how to overcome it," he says, explaining that the feelings-based language used in counselling favours women, who are more likely to be verbally expressive.
Brad Hawthorn is a Sydney actor who credits a Relationships Australia counsellor with giving his relationship new hope. His five-year relationship broke down last year after he had an affair. When the couple decided to get back together, they struggled. "She had real difficulty trusting me again and went through a lot of pain," says Hawthorn, adding they also had sexual problems.They are now seeing the counsellor twice a month. "The counsellor is wonderful. She's helped us learn a lot about ourselves. She doesn't take sides, she levelled the playing field and allowed us to really start to hear each other. It's made a huge difference."
Llewelyn-Smith points out that often couples come in for counselling only as a last-ditch measure, when they are deciding whether to split up. In about 70 per cent of marriage break-ups, the wife decides to end the relationship and often her mind is pretty much made up by the time they reach the counsellor. "Sometimes, the best outcome is for the relationships to end and the role of the counsellor is to help the couple with that process."
But, for the man who seeks counselling to try to save his marriage, it feels like a betrayal when a counsellor supports his wife in her decision to leave. Tim Bonner, a Sydney company executive, went with his wife to marriage counselling, hoping to shore up a struggling relationship. "Her agenda was to get me through it, to get the counsellor to help me accept it. From the start, I was given no hope of saving the situation. The counselling was all about where I was going to go, how I was going to see my child."
Yet therapists, including Doherty, unite in arguing it can simply be too late. "Some marriages, of course, are dead on arrival in the therapist's office, in which case the therapist's job is to help with the healthiest possible untangling for all involved parties, especially the children." Doherty's real concern is with marriages that are teetering, in need of help, but end up on the rocks as a result of counselling.
His view is that the risk of such counselling has greatly increased as a result of a shift in therapeutic goals. Whereas marital counsellors once saw their task as "saving" marriages, this was replaced during the 1970s by a so-called "neutral stance" towards whether or not the marriage would survive.
According to the head of Relationships Australia, Anne Hollonds , counsellors at that time were swept up in an "exuberance" about divorce offering a solution to unhappy marriages by allowing people to "get in and out of marriage as they pleased".
The result was that the focus of counselling shifted to what the individuals stand to gain or lose by staying married or getting divorced. Doherty argues that far from being "neutral", promoting individualistic self-interest works against the commitment the partners have made to the marriage. So, asking "If you are not happy, why do you stay?" undermines the couple in a troubled marriage, implying there's something wrong with valuing the marriage ahead of personal fulfilment.
"It takes extraordinary conviction to weather such 'help' from a therapist," says Doherty.
Hollonds believes there's been a recent shift away from the neutral stance. Experienced counsellors are now making their clients aware of the "horrendous consequences, the collateral damage of divorce, particularly on children", and endeavouring to negotiate with couples for a period of time in which both commit to fight for the marriage. But she acknowledges Doherty's criticisms do strike home and, with so many counsellors still in the system who were trained to believe in neutrality, couples are advised to be careful about who they choose.
Dr Jake Brown, who directs the counselling psychology programs at Macquarie University, disagrees with Doherty's attack on counsellor neutrality. "I don't agree there's anything wrong with counsellors taking a neutral stance. I don't have a vested interest in couples staying together. That's for the couple to decide. As a therapist, I try to point out as many of the pros and cons as I can, but I can't make the decision for them."
Brown believes the counsellor has a moral obligation to do the least damage. "You can't really say you do the least damage by keeping two destructive adults together."
Wendy Harris is a Melbourne schoolteacher who feels her marriage was a casualty of cost-benefit analysis counselling. "My husband left because he was told by the counsellor that there was a nirvana out there that if he left me he would be in heaven. Apparently, the counsellor said the only reason he was experiencing agony and pain was me." After 10 years of a marriage she describes as "glorious", the couple hit a tough patch, her husband started an affair and he ended up in the hands of a therapist, who advised him to leave the marriage.
Evelyn Krieger is a psychologist working in Sydney's eastern suburbs and believes couples sometimes have to be restrained from making precipitous choices they might regret. "One partner can run out of the marriage because they feel helpless and overwhelmed and don't know how to resolve issues." A veteran of a 38-year marriage, Krieger is concerned that young or inexperienced counsellors often feel helpless when confronted with warring couples and fail to understand that marriages can survive periods of bitter conflict.
Krieger was recently talking to a therapist's supervision group about her difficulty getting through to a very aggressive young husband whose marriage was floundering. "Why are you trying so hard? Why don't you just let him walk out?" said one of her male colleagues, whose own three marriages had failed. Krieger feels this response reflects the therapist's inability to deal with couples experiencing marital conflict, partly due to his personal history.
Halford points out that when couples are really unhappy, they are often in no position to judge whether to go or stay. He compares it to asking a severely depressed woman to set ambitious life goals. A good therapist will help the couple assess their relationship, looking at strengths as well as weaknesses, and use proven strategies to work on the relationship to see whether their sense of commitment increases. Only then can the couple decide on their future.
But how to find such a counsellor? It helps to seek recommendations from couples who have found counselling helpful. But then feel free to grill counsellors about what formal training they have received in couples therapy, the approach they take and what research proves that the approach they take actually works. Also ask about their position on whether counsellors should support the marriage or be neutral.
In seeking to drive a consumer awareness movement about the risks of sharing marriage problems with a therapist or counsellor, Doherty is sounding a wake-up call for his profession to be aware of their moral responsibilities. "Most therapists are still behind the times. Like generals, they are still fighting the last war the one that freed individuals to leave unhappy marriages . . . But that war has been won. Most of us walk away from our marital commitment more easily than from any other."
It's a trend he believes therapists have the power to change.


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National Weatherization Award presented to David Hepinstall at NASCSP Annual Training Conference
For the second time this year, AEA's executive director, David Hepinstall, has been awarded a major national award for his leadership in the energy efficiency field and specifically for his significant contributions to the Weatherization Assistance Program.
David was presented with the James Gardner Service Award by the National Association for State Community Services Programs (NASCSP) at its annual training conference held on September 10-12, 2014 in Raleigh, NC.
The Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) has helped millions of low income Americans by making energy more affordable and making home a safer and more comfortable place to live, also leaving them more disposable income for other necessities. But WAP has also been the impetus and the testing ground for much of what we understand today about building science and many of the innovative testing and diagnostic tools and building materials that have enabled buildings to perform more efficiently. The program has built an industry that strengthens local communities and economies.
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In brief remarks, David stated his appreciation for receiving an award named for a leader at the US Department of Energy who had been so personally influential to him in his early years in the program. He acknowledged the extensive national network of individuals whose passion and commitment to Weatherization and the people it serves have spanned many decades or even a lifetime of work delivering this essential national program. He thanked AEA's board of directors and network of WAP subgrantees in New York for their support and their dedication to multifamily Weatherization.
In his 24 years in Weatherization, David has participated on policy advisory groups to promote and strengthen Weatherization at the local, state and federal levels. Representing both local agencies and Weatherization Training Centers, he has been a member of the NYS Policy Advisory Council, the Department of Energy's Millennium Committee, and the Weatherization Plus Committee. He has worked long hours on task forces and work groups to make Weatherization a successful program that would continue to enjoy bipartisan support in a partisan era. Dave and key AEA staff have contributed programmatic and technical expertise to the development of job task analyses, standard work specifications, technical guidelines, and more to make multifamily Weatherization a reality across the US.
"This award from NASCSP, which is a leading advocate not only for the federal Weatherization Assistance Program but also for the full range of community service programs offered across the United States – many of them by Community Action Agencies – means a great deal to me" said Hepinstall, who earlier in his career spent ten years providing research, developing programs to address issues such as homelessness and illiteracy, and oversaw the funding and performance of programs delivered by community based organizations at New York City's Community Development Agency (now DYCD). "It's kind of a full circle moment."
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The Minister's Black Veil
The Minister's Black Veil is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1836. The story is about a minister who one day starts wearing a black veil over his face, hiding it from all the townsfolk. People are disturbed by it, but the minister refuses to explain why he's wearing it, and never takes it off, even among his closest loved ones. Even though the minister is the same old man inside, people start rumors, friends never visit, and the minister becomes a fright of the town.
I own this book in a compilation and have read it.
I get it, everyone else is the freak for treating the minister so unkindly over something as simple as a little black veil. But this moral is pretty tired, and, never revealing the purpose of the veil, is kind of a middle-finger to the reader.


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Texas Law provides legal protections for service members, particularly during their absence or in the event of their injury during service.
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Texas law can give special consideration to military members with children. Possession of children can be particularly difficult when one parent lives in a town, state, or country that is any significant distance from the primary residence of the child. The child's school schedule and activities all need to be taken into account when arranging for travel between the residences of both parents. This is particularly true when airline travel is involved, as arrangements have to be made for payment of travel and arrival and departure of the child in accordance with their school schedules. When one parent is deployed to a war zone, visitation will be impossible for all intents and purposes, at least during deployment. With the advent of email and Skype, the creative family lawyer can craft a court order that will give access to the child by the military parent on a regular basis. Court orders can include very specific provisions about when the child needs to be available to Skype with their parent and about what type of computer equipment the non-military parent is required to maintain.
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The issue of jurisdiction becomes even more complicated if children are involved. Texas has interstate custody laws, more commonly known as the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA). All but two states have enacted laws similar to Texas' UCCJEA, and this law can be particularly relevant when one or both parents are members of the military. The UCCJEA is designed to prevent multiple suits in multiple states concerning the same child. It is also meant to make one state's court order enforceable in another state when one or both parents move to a different jurisdiction.
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Similarly to other nations, the Australian film industry is really good at producing a lot of shitty films that no-one goes to see.
Occasionally they'll produce a terrific film that lots of people go and see.
Last night I watched a film called Wolf Creek - an Australian film that is supposed to be a horror movie.
This film doesn't really fit into either category.
It's full of good film making and it's shot beautifully and was a great success, but it's the most repulsive film I can think of.
Anyone who reads this crappy blog regularly will be aware that I am no prude - hell, I love blood and guts horror films (anyone seen Peter Jacksons early zombie movies? They are among my favourites).
And I strongly believe that when you are creating images and you are commenting on something important then doing it in a violent visceral way can be entirely appropriate.
But the horror in this film is not the horror of blood and guts.
It's not the horror of the dark, or the unknown or monsters.
There's not even the thrill that I think is supposed to come from a horror movie.
It's the horror of torture and human suffering.
Now then - this film is about three kids who are picked up in outback Australia by a psychotic who then tortures them and does all sorts of dreadful things to them (I have no idea what happens in the end because we turned it off).
This is not a movie about civil war, or about white mans treatment of aborigines, or even a spy movie.
This is a film about torture and upset with no context beyond entertainment.
I'm sure the film makers think they are very clever - to be sure they play with some of the horror conventions but that hardly takes an expert.
And I'm sure they are pleased with the fact that they've made a film that has has such a strong reaction - you'd have to be pretty stoic to not be affected.
But again - that's all the film is about - a reaction.
And a reaction to not one single solitary important thing.
I felt sick afterwards and angry that talented people had made such repulsive stuff.
I watched it with 2 good friends and as mentioned we turned it off before the end.
And I am proud of us that we did.
We did not turn it off because we were so frightened that we couldn't cope anymore, we turned it off because we are good people who do not think the suffering of innocent people is something that should be trivialised in this way.
And after that I'll mention that today is my last day at work!
Thursday, May 11, 2006
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9 comments:
- J.a.G. said...
I've heard Hostel is very similar (along the gratuitous torture vein) and that a few people threw up at the screenings.
- Oscar Grillo said...
Cinema is taken far more seriously than it deserves.
Congratulations on your liberation...You had nothing to loose but your chains.
Long ago a friend of mine drew a cartoon of two street sweepers and one says to the other: "The problem with working is that it doesn't leave you enough time to make money"
- limbolo said...
Some years ago I saw John Walters -director of PINK FLAMINGOS, MONDO TRASHO and such - talking about a film-making project in the Baltimore prisons that he supervised. There were to be little movies made by the hardcore inmates - rapists, murderers - you name it. Walters asked them to take a few days, think it over and come up with some ideas. Eventually the desperadoes offered a selection of anodyne themes: lost puppies, springtime in the rockies etc. He told them to fuck off back to their cells and come back with what was really on their minds: mayhem, kidnap, torture and sexual violence. The idea being that if you put it into your art you might need less of it in your life. Did he help to set a few serial killers back on the road to 'normality' ?.... I don't know. But I think he had a point.
I'll look out for WOLF CREEK. I may not go to see it, but I'd like to know if the bad guy gets his come-uppance. Or are they holding that back for the sequel? What I am driving at is this: The fictional villain in this kind of movie is a contemporary edition of an age-old monster in the human psyche - the victim/scapegoat upon whom we load every vileness and depravity and then send to oblivion in order to restore peace and harmony in human affairs. Those who killed Christ with the utmost cruelty believed that he deserved every atom of his suffering.
Should movies like this be censored? Should we watch more of them? Would we be better for it?
- Elliot said...
Oscar - It takes a lot of people these days to get together and make a movie.
This movie is essentially an hour and half of torturing puppies.
What does it say that so many people got together and made it, I wonder?
I'm prepared to get wound up over that.
Neil - The villian of the piece does in fact survive, under cynical and smug circumstances.
As for censorship - no I don't think it should be censored.
But as I mention above, I'm not sure what it says about the people who made it.
This is not an important film (indeed it's not even a great film deserving of such scrutiny).
There is no commentary made about anything I can detect.
I'm not suggesting that, inmate style, films should be about lost puppies and weekends away in the mountains, but I would argue that responsible film makers should be putting this kind of visceral experience to some use other than mid level titilation.
- Oscar Grillo said...
I meant to say, cinema sucks. Since the only ticket paying public are Californian teenagers, the industry only make films for "infradotados" (Subnormals)...For a while now I decided to skip new releases...I am currently watching "Fantomas" (Louis Feuillade, 1913) and get more satisfaction from it than watching the complete filmography of John Woo (Or anybody you care to name)
- Boris Hiestand said...
I promise you my hairy friend, DECREPIT JOE will not be like this!
- Elliot said...
I'm surprised you're not into Hong Kong action flicks mate!
Boris - how are you arse farmer?
I'll believe that when I see it!
- Boris Hiestand said...
I'm all good there, cheggnut retriever, thank's!
so, you're no longer working for the man eh. What's next? Are you off soon or taking a holiday first?
- Elliot said...
I'm in Tassie for another 2 weeks, then back home to Melbourne for 3 and then heading off to the US before heading to London.


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TÄda ir ikdiena. Vari pajautÄt brÄlim cik bieži es Å¡Ä·endÄ"jos par izstrÄdÄtÄjiem, kas kaut ko ir sastrÄdÄjuÅ¡i, BET uzlabot nedrÄ«kst jo tas ir GLOBAL AGREED un bez diskusijÄm jÄpieņem :)Bet kÄ jau teici: "tas ir izaicinÄjums" Man arÄ« noder pieredzei…
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sper lucrurile se vor rezolva si ca nu este atat de grav pe cat ar putea fi, stiu cum e sa treci uneori prin perioade mai putin roz. eu am pensulele mai demult si imi plac, chiar daca nu ma machiez eu prea tare:D, crema de corp si balsamul de buze mi le-am luat si eu in ultima comanda si le ador, mai ales balsamul cu ananas si cocos. gelul de la eucerin inca nu l-am incercat, mai am din bioderma DS. uleiul acela din wishlist e super, eu l-am inceput de cateva zile. o seara faina!
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Modern drone technology is helping to find and protect one of the world's most endangered marine mammals.
Eighty kilometres south of Bar Harbor, Maine, on a raw day in December 2012, the research vessel Endeavor was surfing a storm through whale country. Thirty-five knots of wind had coaxed the sea in Jordan Basin into vast swells that rolled the 300-tonne ship from side to side, sometimes breaking in showers of icy salt water over the bow. The ocean around the boat was steely grey beneath a shower of rain and sleet. The crew of the Endeavor had come to sea to look for whales, but they couldn't see a thing.
Moira Brown, known to all as Moe, scanned the slate-coloured waves. Brown had spent the past 30 years trying to protect the North Atlantic right whale, the desperately endangered species that was supposed to live in the patch of ocean heaving around them. For most of those 30 years, staring out at the ocean was the only way to find right whales — and, in a storm like this, spotting even one would be close to impossible. Only a few years ago, this research trip might have been cancelled.
But this time, the Endeavor team had a set of ears in the water.
Somewhere in that patch of the Atlantic, a small autonomous vehicle — what most people might call a drone — called a Slocum glider was coasting below the waves. This trip was its maiden voyage, the first opportunity to see if it worked as well as its creators hoped. An underwater microphone on the bottom of its bright yellow, torpedo-shaped body was taking in every sound from the surrounding ocean and storing it on its tiny onboard computer system. When it surfaced, the glider would connect with the Endeavor to tell if it had heard the whales they were looking for.
The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered whale species in the world: whittled down by commercial whaling, slow to reproduce, and, today, threatened by the dual dangers of ship strikes and climate change. In the face of these challenges, scientists are turning to a new generation of drones, equipped to find and identify whales in the vast ocean. Capable of distinguishing between a right whale and a humpback, of staying at sea for months at a time, and of weathering wind and waves, these gliders have become a powerful new tool in studying right whales and protecting them from the dangers they face.
Down in the Endeavor's lab, illuminated in the dim by the bright glow of his computer, researcher Mark Baumgartner watched as a series of notes arrived on his screen. They started low and pitched upwards at the end, as if their singer were asking a question. The pattern was a familiar one: it was a right whale, calling out somewhere in the storm.
The right whale is a stocky creature, fat and rounded, with an m-shaped mouth that gives it the look of a comically permanent frown. Fully grown, it can weigh up to 70 tonnes and grow over 15 metres long. Its skin is slick and black, broken by patches of rough greyish-white called callosities, which form in reaction to lice that live on their skin. At the surface, right whales exhale in a distinctive spout that splits in a V, drenching anything that happens to be nearby in a fine mist smelling of salt and dead fish.
Popular legend holds that this whale's name hails from the days when they were considered the "right" whale to hunt; their school-bus-sized bodies are wrapped in a 15cm thick layer of blubber, oil-rich and perfect for fueling lamps and making candles and soap. At the surface, they move like grazing cows, much slower than any good whaler could row, leisurely straining plankton from the water. Conveniently, the right whale floats when it is killed.
Today, there are between 350 and 500 individual North Atlantic right whales left. Though it has been almost 90 years since the last commercial whale boat was launched from North American shores, the local right whale population has not yet recovered. This has more to do with biology than butchering: once they become sexually mature around age ten, females can only reproduce every three years or so — they will spend a year pregnant and then another 8-17 months weaning their calves. The near-extinction of this species by whaling may also have led to limited genetic diversity in the population, which could cause a low birth rate.
As a result, researchers are working urgently to find out more about the North Atlantic right whale, and stringent federal laws protect this species — as of 1991, as laid out in the Final Recovery Plan for the Northern Right Whale, non-research vessels face civil and criminal penalties if they come within 500 yards (roughly 450 metres) of an animal.
Unfortunately, the females needed to rebuild the right whale population are uniquely at risk in the North Atlantic. They spend long periods at the surface with calves, moving slowly, blending in with the dark ocean. When one of these animals surfaces in a shipping lane, large boats often don't see them, or can't move fast enough to avoid them. The ship jerks, its propellers tearing through the whale's blubber, leaving long parallel gashes. It's over in an instant.
Since 1975, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has recorded 292 confirmed or possible ship strikes on large whales, 38 of which were North Atlantic right whales. And of the 67 right whales reported dead between 1970 and 2007, 24 were killed by ship strikes. Though this number may seem relatively small, the removal of even a single breeding female inhibits the recovery of this fragile population.
"The only time I get to see a whole right whale is when it's dead on the beach," says Moe Brown. She is currently the senior scientist at both the Canadian Whale Institute and the New England Aquarium's Edgerton Research Laboratory, where she's been since 2004. "Compare that to studying bison, elephants, any of the big land animals. You get to see the whole animal! You can see them interacting with their own kind, with their own habitat. You're not guessing what they're doing for the other 45 minutes in an hour."
Brown is somewhat of a legend in the world of right whale research. She's best known for the decade she spent working almost single-handedly to shift Canadian shipping lanes out of right whale habitats — the first time in history that shipping lanes were amended for the sake of an endangered animal.
In all the time she has spent observing right whales, Brown's only observations of them have been from the surface, on research boats or planes. Even for someone who has spent decades studying these animals, much of their lives remain a mystery. "Once they dive below the surface, your guess is as good as mine as to what is going on, and I've been doing it for 30 years," Brown says.
Once a right whale dives, it can stay down for as long as 40 minutes and travel for kilometres underwater, making it difficult to predict where it will surface. Biologists have tried to use satellite tags to track animals, but these devices are much harder to attach to a large, moving animal, and are easily knocked off or damaged — this is particularly the case for right whales, which mate in jostling social groups that Brown compares to "dancing in a crowded discotech".
The final, and perhaps the most daunting, challenge to studying whales is finding them. In the vastness of the ocean, spotting an animal that spends most of its life underwater requires calm waves and clear skies — and the ocean is not known for coordinating its moods with the needs of biologists.
Fortunately, in the early 2000s, a computer-savvy marine biologist was inspired to create a system that is changing all that.
Mark Baumgartner decided to search for whales with drones during a poker game. Every week, Baumgartner and Dave Fratantoni, a fellow researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), sat down over cards and hashed out the details of what they were working on. One night, after talking about Baumgartner's work studying why baleen whales feed where they do, Fratantoni wondered aloud if his own expertise could help.
"Have you thought of doing marine mammal work with gliders?" he asked. Fratantoni was one of the early users of underwater Slocum gliders, which he used to collect oceanographic data like water temperature and salinity.
Baumgartner was intrigued. Slocum gliders could be a way to both listen to whales and collect the data he needed on water conditions. They could also stay at sea for three to four months at a time, supporting just the type of surveys Baumgartner wanted to conduct.
When Baumgartner started attaching hydrophones to gliders in 2004 and 2005, recording the sounds of the sea was not an entirely new venture; the US Navy had been using hydrophones to listen for submarines sneaking through the depths since the late 1940s. In the mid-1980s, biologists began using hydrophones to monitor living animals. In those early days, the microphones were often attached to units mounted on the seafloor; Baumgartner was among the first to try one of these devices on a moving platform.
"There were a lot of people who said you couldn't do it, because the flow noise was going to be too bad," Baumgartner says. Flow noise, he explains, is the whoosh that you hear when running or biking quickly, as air is pushed past your ear — or water buffets a microphone. Luckily, the Slocum glider moves "even slower than when you're out on a leisurely Sunday walk".
Even so, when Baumgartner began reviewing the recordings sent back by the gliders, he found sorting through them difficult and time-consuming. Hours of his tapes consisted of nothing but sand hissing over the bottom, waves slapping at the surface, perhaps the grumble of a ship overhead; a right whale call could be buried at the end of the recording, or difficult to distinguish from that of another species. Baumgartner needed a program that would sort through the calls for him.
With a background in mathematics and computer science, Baumgartner was able to design an algorithm that could turn hours of sound into packets of useful information. He called on WHOI engineers Mark Johnson and Tom Hurst to design a specialised monitoring instrument, and on Fratantoni to help him operate the gliders, and together the team built a new tool: the digital acoustic monitoring instrument, nicknamed the DMON.
Baumgartner's algorithm is the brains of the operation, capable of sorting whale calls by species. Installed in the system is a library of whale sounds, each species' song as distinctive as its own language. Every 15 minutes, the DMON compares its recorded calls to those in this library, matching the ones with the highest similarity. The system also produces sets of pitch tracks, visual maps of the calls written out like sheet music. The pitch tracks can be helpful for identifying species like fin whales, which repeat the same note over and over again — almost like the barking of a dog — which the system could misidentify as background noise, but which is unmistakable when written out.
Every two hours, the DMON returns to the surface, where an iridium satellite antenna on its tail beams to Baumgartner's computer any information it has gathered: pitch tracks, call identifications, and the temperature, salinity, and phytoplankton levels around it, as well a set of GPS coordinates for where it has surfaced. In the vastness of the ocean, indifferent to weather that could scrap traditional scouting methods, the DMON works like a set of MapQuest directions — drawing a line between the researcher and the place where they should start looking for whales.
Moira Brown and Mark Baumgartner met early in Baumgartner's career, when he was working on his PhD on right whale feeding ecology. The 2012 cruise to Jordan Basin was the first time these scientists worked together directly — and the first time Baumgartner tested the DMON system in the water. Two weeks prior to their cruise, Baumgartner had directed two DMON-equipped gliders towards Jordan Basin as advance scouts. Unruffled by rough seas, the drones picked up calls that led researchers to right whales within three hours of starting their first search.
However, not long after Baumgartner and Brown began using gliders, something changed.
"We started using the technology in areas where we knew right whales were going to show up, mostly trying to understand what is it about the ocean that's special there?" Baumagartner says. "Well, it turns out that not too long after we started using this technology, right whales stopped showing up in their usual habitats… in the very places we were putting our gliders."
Roseway Basin, once a major feeding and socialisation zone for right whales, has fallen mostly quiet; right whales might drop in for an hour or two before vanishing once more. Numbers in the Bay of Fundy have varied widely, dropping to 15 right whale sightings from July to December 2013, before swinging back up to 204 in 2014. Lately, right whales have been spotted more frequently than before in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, between Quebec and Newfoundland, over 640 kilometres north of the animals' usual habitats.
Scientists believe that the whales may be moving out of hunger. Samples from the Bay of Fundy last year showed an unusually low concentration of the small crustaceans that right whales eat, called copepods. It's still unclear why these tiny creatures have vanished. However, the sea surface temperature of right whale habitats has increased by 0.5–1ºC over the last century — enough that the food on which copepods rely may have been killed off or moved north, or redistributed by changing ocean circulation patterns. As their prey follows its own food into cooler waters, the right whales have no choice but to follow.
Yet even as rising temperatures reshape the North Atlantic ecosystem, drones can find whales, even when it is unclear where to start looking.
The summer of 2016 seemed poised to prove just how much the North Atlantic was changing. Temperatures spiked past 32ºC for several weeks in a row; despite arduously high humidity, New England fell into one of the worst droughts it had seen in years. Fortunately, the DMON system's four years of ground-proofing meant it was ready to tell scientists just how right whales were adapting.
Starting in late June, scientists at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and partners in the US — including Baumgartner — launched the largest survey of right whales in the North Atlantic ever attempted. DMON-equipped Slocum gliders, supported by aerial surveys and acoustic listening buoys, spent the summer collecting the information needed to establish where right whales were feeding, and why they might have moved there.
While data from this effort are still being processed — to analyse the effects of parameters like food supply, oceanographic changes, and habitat characteristics — the vocalisation data that have come in so far confirm that this summer followed the right whale's unusual trend of late. By the end of last month, the glider in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence had identified 20 confirmed right whale calls since July 24, while the glider off the coast of Nova Scotia — which was put in the water a month earlier — had only detected eight.
On 7 December 2015 — around three years after his first DMON deployment on Jordan's Bank — Mark Baumgartner stood ready on the back of the research vessel Auk, a boat hook in hand. His eyes were focused intently on what looked like a bright yellow model airplane growing closer off the ship's port side: a Slocum glider, held at the surface by an airbag inflated in its tail. The Auk was bobbing gently in the Stellwagen Marine Sanctuary off Scituate, Massachusetts, as its crew prepared to recover a glider and deploy a new one in its place.
The glider was hauled on deck, knee-high waves soaking Baumgartner's jeans. The vehicle had been at sea for five weeks, but didn't look much affected by the trip: it was faintly smudged with brown from seaweed, but was otherwise almost identical to the glider being deployed in its place. The tail of the second glider read 10 rather than 4, and a message scrawled on its side in marker pen requested that nobody disturb the vehicle unless found after 22 January 2016. Surprisingly, such messages are necessary — last year a fisherman picked up a glider during its brief surface interval, thinking it was adrift. "I tracked the GPS signals all the way to the guy's house," Baumgartner recalls. "He had just posted it on the marine salvage site when we knocked on the door."
Equipped with a suite of oceanographic tools, as well as its warning message for fisherman, the second glider was programmed to pick up where its counterpart had left off, tracking a zig-zag path between this spot outside of Scituate and the waters west of Salem. Naturally, it would be listening as it travelled.
Given the huge problems that right whales face, the bits of data that these gliders collect may seem incredibly small. Yet whale calls and GPS points, water temperatures and plankton counts are slowly painting a picture of the new world in which right whales live, making it possible for scientists and ships alike to adjust. There is hope for the right whale yet in data: in Glider 4, dripping seawater onto the Auk's deck, and in Glider 10, as the ship's crew slid it gracefully into the chilly Atlantic.
Baumgartner's vision for the DMON system extends well beyond monitoring individual habitats like Stellwagen. He imagines a network of floats installed in oceans worldwide and equipped with call-identification software, capable of listening for marine mammals and creating a global map of how species are migrating year-to-year.
"That's kind of my pie-in-the-sky idea," Baumgartner says. "If we could have a global distribution of listening devices, we'd be ready as scientists to document how the animals in the ocean are going to change their distribution, their behaviour, with the changes that we know are coming."
As Baumgartner prepared the second glider for its first dive, suddenly someone spotted an enormous splash off the ship's starboard side. It was a pair of humpback whales, the last few that had not yet begun the annual migration to warmer waters, breaching in the distance. While the drone became a fading spot of yellow beneath the water, off to go eavesdrop on whales, the crew paused a moment to watch them, seemingly jumping for the joy of it.
Edited by Andrew Katsis and Ellie Michaelides


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- There are six National Wildlife Refuges in Idaho and the Oxford Slough Wildlife Protection Area. the Tex Creek Wildlife Management area is a combination of Federal and state lands outside of Idaho Falls.
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Part 2: Spending A Couple Recovery Days In Kuala Lumpur
I arrived at KUL just after midnight, so it was necessary to take a taxi into the city rather than the ultra efficient airport train. There's a convenient taxi stand within the airport (located just past immigration,) to pre-purchase vouchers at a pre determined fare, avoiding any late night monkey business with drivers. That's the option I went with. There was no traffic at all, so I arrived at the Double Tree Kuala Lumpur just after 1am.… Read More Part 2: Spending A Couple Recovery Days In Kuala Lumpur


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Part 4: Enzysan Vs. Febreeze/
Part 4 of our series is here! We know we caught your attention when we put Enzysan in the ring with Febreeze to see how they stand up to each other.
Turi Surface Solutions Laboratory at UMASS Lowell performed a controlled Odor Elimination Testing. We've included the report below so you can see the results for yourself.
Turi concludes:
"Based on our observed results, Enzysan was better at odor elimination than Febreeze. Enzysan was able to almost completely eliminate the milk malodor with the initial 2 sprays. Enzysan completely eliminated milk malodor within 4 sprays while Febreeze was not able to do so even after 8 sprays.
On the 4th day of observations, testing showed that Enzysan was still effective at malodor elimination but Febreeze had declined in effectiveness."
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