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Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. Today's Behind the Scenes Pics are in honor of Irvin Kershner.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today's Behind the Scenes pic… or pics in this case!
This is the second day in a row the evil movie gods have taken a geek icon from us and the second day in a row I've altered the course of the BTS column in order to pay tribute to a lost master.
It saddened me to wake up and find Irvin Kershner had passed. I missed out on seeing him speak at UT a good 6 or 7 years ago and I always hoped I'd get another chance. From all I've heard, Kershner was full of good humor and just a sweet-heart of a guy.
So, I've pulled together some of my remaining Empire Strikes Back Behind the Scenes pics, featuring Mr. Kershner, as my way of paying tribute to the man.
Hope you guys enjoy the pics!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I'm looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow I'll bring up the cult movie pic I promised yesterday, barring another sudden, sad death of a geek icon.
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King's IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong ('33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter's The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Godzilla
- The Empire Strikes Back (Bald Vader)
- Mary Poppins
- Alien 3
- Total Recall
- The Pink Panther
- Fawlty Towers
- The Trouble With Harry
- Beetlejuice
- The Shining
- Thriller
- An American Werewolf In London
- The Gate
- The Fly (1958)
- Halloween
- Army of Darkness
- Frankenstein
- Seed of Chucky
- Psycho
- John Carpenter's The Thing (Bottin)
- Creature From the Black Lagoon
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
- Creepshow
- Night of the Living Dead ('68)
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- Silence of the Lambs- The Exorcist
- Alien (crouching alien)
- Alfred Hitchcock being awesome
- Son of Frankenstein
- The Mummy (1932)
- Re-Animator
- Nosferatu (1979)
- Nosferatu (1922)
- War of the Worlds
- Vincent (Tim Burton)
- Evil Dead II
- The Evil Dead
- The Shining (Kubrick Self Portrait)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- Casablanca
- Sahara (1943)
- Pumpkinhead
- Back to the Future
- Inception
- MacBeth (1948)
- Superman
- Twilight Zone (Nightmare at 20,000 Feet)
- The Public Enemy
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Barbarella
- Ghostbusters II
- The Thin Man
- Faust
- Batman TV Show
- The Adventures of Superman
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- The Gold Rush
- Empire of the Sun
- Sunset Blvd.
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- The Seven Year Itch
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Dr. No
- Forbidden Planet
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Nov. 29, 2010, 7:11 p.m. CST
I'd kiss Vader
by talk2megoose
with my tongue
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:15 p.m. CST
The carbon freezing room pic is fantastic
by Jared
RIP Mr. Kershner
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:15 p.m. CST
That last pic should be the shot they use in
by Cheif Brody
the "In Memorium" segment of next year's Oscars.
 Also... "Kissing Vadar"...Good band name.
 RIP Irvin.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:15 p.m. CST
No that's oddly enough supposed to be a battle
by UltraTron
droid who once fought in the clone wars. Seems pretty heavily modified to me considering he doesn't look remotely like a battle droid.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:16 p.m. CST
UT=university of Tennessee?
by krod
Cool I don't remember him in knoxville
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:16 p.m. CST
I also like the carbon freezing pic
by HansBubi
That pic and one of the other ones give a really pleasant vibe of being on set in scenes that required a lot of people.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:19 p.m. CST
Awesome pics!
by bubcus
Thanks Quint!
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:19 p.m. CST
Great pics!
by Zardoz
Seems like a very nice man in the photos. Thanks for the memories!
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:20 p.m. CST
Apparently, they filmed a shot where Carrie had to slap Billy De
by Fa_Tass_DinoMolester
and she kept hitting him REALLY hard, and he had to get Irv to jump in and referee so Carrie didn't hurt him...from the old "Making of ESB" book. Bet Irv loved shooting THAT scene...
 In Carrie's defense, she was probably stoned off her ass at the time.
 Anyhoo, nice pics. BTW, Irv looks a bit like Yoda...
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:23 p.m. CST
My Old High School English Teacher Knew Him
by Crow3711
He happens to be close friends with Ray Bradbury, and Bradbury, in turn, is good friends with Kershner. They had dinner together multiple times from what I understand. He posted a picture of the two of them together on facebook. Couldn't say enough nice things about him, how generous and sweet and funny he was. I'm proud enough to be "six degrees of seperation" from Mr Kersher through my teacher. I, like many, have been kinda bummed out about this all day. And so, I'm off to watch The Empire Strikes Back. Rest well Irvin.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:28 p.m. CST
Last shot is the best.
by Fievel
Thanks Quint.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:30 p.m. CST
I sent around the kissy picture as well
by chifforobe
it's a great one
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:31 p.m. CST
Well done, Quint! I knew Kersh was 4-LOM!
by vic twenty
Thanks for the great pics. My Making of ESB book is on its way, a Christmas gift to myself I bought upon hearing of Kersh's death. I really love that film and the heart this director put into it.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:31 p.m. CST
by Yourbigpalal83
So long man. Now the two directors who actually made good star wars films, are gone. Not to wish death on anyone, but idk if ill feel this sad when lucas goes. Why? Idk, then maby the star wars franchise can be put in capable hands once again. Note how all the good star wars films, even the tv series, is not directly in lucas's hands? and Dam eather Kershner was tiny in real life or darth vader has a huge fucking head!
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:33 p.m. CST
krod....well actually
by marvelfett11
I live in Knoxville and he did come here about 3 years ago to AdventureCon. I got to meet him and he was a true gentleman.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:33 p.m. CST
UT = Texas as this site is based out of Asstin, TX.
by vic twenty
Despite that, I still enjoy it!
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:34 p.m. CST
Luv Ya Irv!
by drdoom_v
You are sorely missed. You were our only chance of having 7 8 and 9 directed by someone who knew what they were doing! RIP to one of the greatest!
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:47 p.m. CST
by Tigger Tales
Irvin really knew how to surround himself with great company!
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:50 p.m. CST
He made the best "Star Wars" film.
by Fah-Cue
George should've let him make Jedi as well.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:51 p.m. CST
by Tigger Tales
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:52 p.m. CST
If he had done nothing else...
by Carolinamaestro
The Empire Strikes Back makes Irvin Kershner very special. Everything in that movies holds up better than all the other Star Wars films. What a great accomplishment. RIP Kersh... you've earned your peaceful sleep.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:52 p.m. CST
Lando's mug ...
... is pretty ugly! hahahahahahahaahahahahaha
by Tigger Tales
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:57 p.m. CST
Don't ever try to direct a Wookie, kid.
by ReportAbuse
They can phone up their agent so fast it'll make your head spin. And when a wookie says he wants his cappucino extra hot, you better make sure it shows up extra hot.
Nov. 29, 2010, 7:59 p.m. CST
I think he figured it out
by Fa_Tass_DinoMolester
by the end of the shoot. If I recall correctly, Carrie and Richard Dreyfuss ended up in the same rehab clinic.
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:05 p.m. CST
Kissing Vader
by TheUltimateMathTeacher
That's an awesome shot! My five year old liked the one with the bounty hunters. Go figure. I always loved Boba Fett, et al when I was growing up.
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:09 p.m. CST
by BringingSexyBack
He has that wizard look down pat.
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:12 p.m. CST
Wow great pics
by Rebel Scumb
I'd never seen any of these before. IK really did seem like the a true gent, and all around great guy. His commentary for ESB was a lot of fun. I remember the part with R2 in the rain in dagobah looking in Yoda's window and he just starts shouting "tippy toes! tippy toes! I was obsessed with trying to get R2 to stand on his tippy toes, drove the prop guys mad and nobody thought it was essential but me!" or something like that, and he was completely right, its one of those little touches that just worked so well, like ever other inch of that movie. I wish Kershner and Nicholas Meyer could of colaborated on something, they seem like they'd have similar attitudes, and both made some of the best and most heartfelt scifi films of all time.
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:13 p.m. CST
by BringingSexyBack
For real, I checked Facebook and he's the only one. There are a lot of Kevin Kershners, though.
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:23 p.m. CST
the only Star Wars DVD commentary
by sith_rising
that was worth a shit. Lucas, Ben Burtt and Rick McCallum fucking suck. Kershner's TESB commentary was, like the film itself, the best.
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:25 p.m. CST
by TheUltimateMathTeacher
Is Facebook the one source for checking everyone's names? I'm not on there, but I also have the same name as a pro quarterback, so it really doesn't matter. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to steal his identity yet and cash some of those checks.
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:26 p.m. CST
It's IG-88
by Ben_Richards_Bomb_Collar
And people spelling Vader with two a's? Am I on aintitcool or some yahoo site for 12 year old girls? Anyway, it's not everyday that someone who directed a perfect movie passes away. Rest in peace Mr Kershner.
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:31 p.m. CST
by BringingSexyBack
How can you not be on Facebook? Get in the game, man!
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:36 p.m. CST
A good laugh on a sad day
by Screentext
I just told my girlfriend that the director of the Empire Strikes Back died today. She looked at me, really confused and said: "Leslie Neilson directed the Empire Strikes Back?!"
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:42 p.m. CST
Lando's mug
by Nem_Wan
Works every time.
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:45 p.m. CST
That's IG-88, fucktards
by pushthebuttonmax
although I got a good laugh out of "R2-D2's penis"
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:50 p.m. CST
IG-88 man!
by MurderMostFowl
Hell IG-88 is even in the newest "Star Wars" ABC's book I just got for my 4 year old daughter.

 RIP Irven Kirshner, you're the only appropriate letter 'I' entry in the Star wars ABC book for me.
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:06 p.m. CST
Star Wars is something special that will never happen again
by DioxholsterImperium
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:12 p.m. CST
by dukeroberts
I got his 12 inch action figure for Christmas in 1980. Flippin' sweet!
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:14 p.m. CST
Mmm... this fresh coffee works every time....
by BigTwinkie
Probably figured ol' Harrison was already bangin' the princess in the coat room between takes anyway.
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:17 p.m. CST
Irvin Kershner, Gary Kurtz and Leigh Brackett
by The_Credible_Hulk
are the ones who truly elevated Star Wars to another level. After Ep. IV; the more Lucas put his hands on the franchise, the more it sucked. BTW... I'm going to have to go back and see if Robocop 2 is as good as I remember. Haven't seen it since it was in theaters.
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:26 p.m. CST
IG-88 is one cool robot
by DioxholsterImperium
he does his own thing. i remember trying to destroy the hell out of him in that 1996 game shadows of the empire.
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:32 p.m. CST
what is this facebook
by DioxholsterImperium
im not on it either. coz i aint a whore.
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:36 p.m. CST
by Tigger Tales
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:38 p.m. CST
Why B&W? Did Annie Leibovitz shoot these?
by scallywagthedog
RIP Mr.Kershner! (One thing I don't get with a lot of modern "BTS" pics is that they're in black and white. Color film has been around for over 100 years. I'm sure there's some f*ck'd up geeky reason for it but IMO it doesn't do justice in documenting the historic and often unseen sides of incredible works-in-progress.) Soapbox power: DE-ACTIVATE!
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:47 p.m. CST
RIP Sir.thank you for making the best SW movie ever.
by KilliK
Nov. 29, 2010, 9:48 p.m. CST
by scallywagthedog
His model type "Assassin droid" is seen in both incarnations of the animated "Clone Wars" series. In the "cartoon" (before ROTS) a squad of them on speeder bikes backed up the bounty hunter "Durge" in a fight against Obi-Wan and in the current CGI series, they've been seen alongside Cad Bane and attacking Anakin & Ashoka on board that scavenger ship while they searched for R2.
Nov. 29, 2010, 11 p.m. CST
The Vader kiss pic is a classic!!
by ATARI
Nov. 29, 2010, 11:05 p.m. CST
The last one is pure gold
by moviemaniac-7
And one of the best and most candid in this series so far. RIP.
Nov. 29, 2010, 11:13 p.m. CST
The Vader kiss pic is absolutely brilliant.
by Hint_of_Smegma
What a terrible week for cinema greats. Neilsen and Kirshner were big parts of my growing up to be the geek I am. I never knew them, but I'll miss them.
Nov. 29, 2010, 11:21 p.m. CST
wishing lucas would die
by jameskpolk
Is a low, despicable thing to do 8n an obit. Why does every topic eventually come around to bashing on gl? Disrespectful to say the least. Sorry about these jerks kersh.
Nov. 29, 2010, 11:35 p.m. CST
Very,Very cool.
by SobchakSecurity
My favorite is the one with Vader and The Bounty Hunters. Also, I know Leslie Nielsen has passed on, equally bummed about that, but there seems to have been more press coverage on him than Kershner. WTF?!?! Media People!!! Anyways, lots of props to you guys for giving more recognition than other outlets.
Nov. 30, 2010, 12:06 a.m. CST
I was 6 (almost 7), and 'Empire' was a religious experience.
by highfunctioningsociopath
Sadly, it was all downhill from there. Jedi was dissasisfying, and the prequels just induced nausea. May The Force be with you, Irvin Kershner.
Nov. 30, 2010, 12:24 a.m. CST
Robocop 2 wasnt that bad either
by Seth Brundle
i actually find it quite decent, thanks to kershner too
Nov. 30, 2010, 12:38 a.m. CST
Thanks Kirsh
by disfigurehead
Nov. 30, 2010, 12:57 a.m. CST
Wow. These are fantastic!
by Count3D
Love the last one. Thank you so much for posting these, Quint. RIP Irvin Kershner.
Nov. 30, 2010, 1:15 a.m. CST
References to Prequels and Expanded Universe
by ApneicMonkey
do not exist in Kershner's Dojo. The Kenner figure from 1980 called him IG-88 and he didn't need some dumb 'Clone Wars' backstory to make him cool.
Nov. 30, 2010, 1:44 a.m. CST
We luv ya Kirsh... you're the Man
by Flexfill
Godspeed my friend. You made the best Star Wars film that will ever be. You are legend, now and always.
Nov. 30, 2010, 1:51 a.m. CST
magic...simply magic
by mr
Nov. 30, 2010, 1:55 a.m. CST
Magic moments captured on photographs...
by Motoko Kusanagi
I wish I still could do some Q&A with Kershner about his ROBOCOP movie...
I tip my hat at you, sir!
Nov. 30, 2010, 3:04 a.m. CST
Great pics Quint.
by Ecto-1
Nov. 30, 2010, 3:13 a.m. CST
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree Credible Hulk
by Righteous Brother
Leigh Bracketts draft of TESB is truly dreadful. Worse than the prequels. Lawrence Kasdan was the man that made that script zing along with help from Kersh.
Nov. 30, 2010, 3:26 a.m. CST
I Still Remember When Empire Was New
by Autodidact
Well, newish. I have a strong memory of being in the 3rd grade and some idiot spoiling the end of Empire when I was just about to watch it on video at my birthday party that weekend. I can still see his stupid face!
Nov. 30, 2010, 3:26 a.m. CST
by batmans_pants
a winter of discontent. Very sad news. RIP.
Nov. 30, 2010, 3:50 a.m. CST
No Chewbacca, your line is "Graaaawrarrur" Get it right!
by KongMonkey
Nov. 30, 2010, 4 a.m. CST
by IG_89
IG-89: I'm just like IG-88 but with that extra something. Great pics, btw
Nov. 30, 2010, 4:55 a.m. CST
Kershner - the Anti-Lucas
by GCH888
Looks like a much more friendly and warm atmosphere at the TESB production than ANH. I mean ... would George have allowed such a great mug to be used by Lando or would he have insisted on a more appropriate copyrighted logo officially sanctioned cup be used? That mug is something my mum used in the 1970s ... which is just achingly cool.
Nov. 30, 2010, 5 a.m. CST
I wonder how the Lucas obituary talkback will be like
by ricarleite2
75% of praise (with 25% of it for American Graffitti and THX1138 specifically), 10% of respect but no praise, 15% of "good riddance!"
Nov. 30, 2010, 5:03 a.m. CST
This is a much classier way to pay tribute
by moorE12
Rather than acting like some blowhard who was a personal friend of the man.
Nov. 30, 2010, 5:04 a.m. CST
Imagine having Kershner as your grandpa
by ricarleite2
And having him by the fireplace, drinking cocoa and telling stories about ESB and Robocop 2.
Nov. 30, 2010, 5:04 a.m. CST
RIP Irvin
by Baryonyx
But surely Gary Kurtz should be getting a lot of credit for the way Empire turned out? After all, the films really turned to shite once he stopped being involved.
Nov. 30, 2010, 5:10 a.m. CST
What a day. Nielsen, Kershner, and Monicelli
by ricarleite2
Although I'm the only one who knew about Monicelli
Nov. 30, 2010, 5:18 a.m. CST
Gary Kurtz' post Star Wars career...
by Righteous Brother
speaks for itself.
Nov. 30, 2010, 6:31 a.m. CST
Lando's cuppa
by johnny_alpha
I bet Lando is drinking pure funk out of that mug.
Nov. 30, 2010, 6:51 a.m. CST
Lando enjoying some Colt 45
by Red Diver
Straight from his old school crunk cup.
Nov. 30, 2010, 6:51 a.m. CST
Lando enjoying some Colt 45
by Red Diver
Straight from his old school crunk cup.
Nov. 30, 2010, 7:28 a.m. CST
I like Harrison's expression...
by cameron1975willi
...you can tell he's thinking "Jesus Carrie, could you give it a rest with the sexual inuendos?! We get the irony that you're not really a Princess because you like coke and fucking too much!"
Nov. 30, 2010, 7:39 a.m. CST
Luminosity does not exist in this dojo
by Cobra--Kai
"Luminous beings are we" when I heard Yoda say that I thought he meant 'all of us'. A lovely, deep sentiment about humanity and life.
 Turns out in Prequel 3 he was only referring to that throwaway bollocks at the end of the film "Qui Gonn has invented a way to return from the dead he has! So now us three Jedi can go glowy! It's very complicated and I won't bother explaining it but just you wait till I die in movie 6 - you'll see - glow I will."
 I preferred it Kersh's way best.
IG-88 stick a metal skull on his head and you've got the T-800. Pimp that droid!
Nov. 30, 2010, 7:49 a.m. CST
Kirshner did come to Knoxville in 2007
by ryderdvs
for Adventure Con. Cool guy.
Nov. 30, 2010, 8:44 a.m. CST
My God!
by BizarroJerry
Someone show George Lucas these photos. Apparently, you actually CAN speak to your actors during filming!
Nov. 30, 2010, 8:53 a.m. CST
The lines of Yoda in this movie are poetry
by RedLeaderStandingBy
Really. Every single line of Yoda in the trainning part of the movie is magical. The metaphors are sublime and the way he explains the Force it's just philosophical. I think it was the lack of this kind of writing that made the prequels so generic.
Nov. 30, 2010, 9:10 a.m. CST
B & W publicity photos
by Sonny_Williams
from this era were still the norm. Don't know why, except maybe tradition and the fact that most pros still preferred to shoot in B&W in those days.
Nov. 30, 2010, 9:34 a.m. CST
Kershner looks like Nosferatu in that pic with Chewie
by THAT_SAID_THE_CHOPPAH
Nov. 30, 2010, 10:40 a.m. CST
Boba Fett doesn't fuck around
by smackfu
The robot and Vader both look kind of silly in that picture but Boba Fett still looks business. I bet he's got an epic mullet stuffed up in that helmet.
Nov. 30, 2010, 10:42 a.m. CST
by TheSpaceHerpe
It's cheaper and easier to shoot and print in B&W. There is also something about B&W that just makes things so much better. Turd_Has_Risen_From_The_Gravy you're an idiot.
Nov. 30, 2010, 12:41 p.m. CST
He made the deepest SW film
by Shaner Jedi
not just because of the philosophical explorations but also because of the subtle touches he brought to the characters. He took Lucas' archetypes and deepened them as living breathing characters. RIP Kersh.
Nov. 30, 2010, 12:50 p.m. CST
great pics
by fat_rancor_keeper
great man - RIP
Nov. 30, 2010, 1:12 p.m. CST
Those are pretty awesome. I love the pic of...
by Royston Lodge
...Irvin giving direction to Chewbacca.
 There should be a caption: "I'd be careful if I were you. Wookies don't like getting notes on their line delivery."
Nov. 30, 2010, 1:13 p.m. CST
I always wished IG-88 had been used more.
by Royston Lodge
He looks so fucking sinister in the bounty hunter briefing scene, even though he didn't move.
 He'd probably look really shitty if he was shown in motion, of course. Sigh...
Nov. 30, 2010, 1:15 p.m. CST
Anakin never met Jango's son, right?
by Royston Lodge
Like, did he know Boba Fett was a clone of the Clone Army's progenitor?
Nov. 30, 2010, 1:33 p.m. CST
The greatest...
by I AM ROCKO
...movie ever made The Empire Strikes Back. Kersh- you are responsible for some of the greatest memories of my life. This film means so much to me and you were a big part of it. One thing I would like to mention that Kersh's visuals, use of light and shadow and effects and the performances inspired John Williams to also create one of the best soundtracks of all time. Imagain what Kersh could have done with Revenge of the Sith...RIP big guy. Legend.
Nov. 30, 2010, 2:04 p.m. CST
Great photos.
by moonlightdrive
Nov. 30, 2010, 2:19 p.m. CST
by RowKseat25
When Lucas left Directing to Directors and writing to writers... and Special Effects were special. RIP Kersh, you gave us the best of what could've been a great saga.
Nov. 30, 2010, 3:22 p.m. CST
Great pics, all of them, too bad it was due to Kersh's death
by JT Kirk
Man was a brilliant director on ESB, and his face in shots with actors just explains perfectly what differentiates him from Lucas' style.
Nov. 30, 2010, 3:39 p.m. CST
Loving the Darth
by AsimovLives
I love the last picture. And was he a short guy, or the dudes who played the characters in the first photo, Vader and Bob Fett, were giants?
Nov. 30, 2010, 3:41 p.m. CST
The 3rd phto, there's a Nosferatu quality about it
by AsimovLives
The dude who took the black and white photos of the production of the movie is a one hell of a photographer.
Nov. 30, 2010, 3:42 p.m. CST
by AsimovLives
I though the same thing! Fancy that! Man, i'm loving everything you are posting. Keep it up, friend.
Nov. 30, 2010, 6:17 p.m. CST
Ok then, so Vader really just doesn't give a fuck.
by Royston Lodge
Fair enough. He was a Sith after all.
Dec. 1, 2010, 12:25 p.m. CST
A note on IG-88's backstory...
by Rendell
Theres a short story about him in the Tales of the Bounty Hunters anthology which I'd recommend if you're interested. Quite chilling and will make you look at the finale of ROTJ in a whole new way...

Of course, your mileage may vary.
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"Being a restaurateur is my passion, my journey, my legend," says Jay. "We get tremendous satisfaction creating memories and memorable meals for our guests. Life is good when you share bountiful things."
Jay and Jacki are proud of their commitment to the community. Jay's involvement has included chairing SOS's Taste of the Nation ("The Taste") which now infuses over $100,000 into the community each year, involvement in the Downtown Business Association as well as commitments to organizations such as Hospice and Respite Care, Project Self Sufficiency, CASA, the Mission, United Way and more. Jacki's contributions to the arts include the Symphony, Opera Fort Collins, Openstage Theatre, Bas Bleu Theatre and Fort Collins Children's Theatre. Their passions have given them great satisfaction over the years.
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While I love the map I don't whether its the font or the colour but the label for Seaguard is a bit hard to make, looks a bit too bright and "squiggly" if that makes sense.
Fiddled with the details/coloring on the hills. Hopefully they are a little more appealing. I suppose I might go back in and make them smaller, but I kind of like the wacky disregard for scale that I've got going...
Added some more hills to fill out the terrain and the Tripartite's flagship. I think I'll probably label and name it.. any suggestions?
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While I love the map I don't whether its the font or the colour but the label for Seaguard is a bit hard to make, looks a bit too bright and "squiggly" if that makes sense.
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All the town names are a bit hard to read. Given the size of those scrolls, couldn't you at least spread the letters out a little so there's space between them? Not terribly fond of those letters anyway, but I think they'd be a lot better if they weren't right on top of each other.
The hills I'm okay with. As noted, the whole thing is obviously not to scale anyway.
A name for the ship? Triceratops, after the heraldic emblem of the Tripartite?
Sounds like good advice! Triceratops it is, unless anyone can think of something better!
Is this font an improvement?
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those castles look awesome! As for the fonts I'm not sure, i think the capital T of this font looks odd, and you have some labels starting with a T... Also they look a little too 'bold' to me. Maybe a little more handdrawn/script font will fit better with this style... but hey, I suck at labelling, so maybe this is poor advise cheers, DJ
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This is so great. (Although the little girl would have voted for "The Ava Grace" as the name of the ship.. )
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I *really* love this map. It has originality written all over it. Bit more working on the style and it will be pure gold.
I hope you don't mind if I try and imitate this?
Emulate away, evile. And thanks for the advice, guys. I don't really have any more time to work on this this month, so I'll post my final version, mostly the same as the last with the slightly harder lines reinstated. Hopefully I'll get a chance to revisit this style in the future!
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- DiningDiva Sep 2, 2013 09:26 AM
Those folks up on Convoy St. are paying attention to the farmer's market craze and melding it with their hertage to create the first Asian Night Market on Sept. 28th.
I read about it here - http://www.sdnightmarket.com/about/
This could be very, very cool...
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Me too. I really like the idea
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I read on Eater there will be a beer garden sponsored by Societe, Mission and Helms Brewing at this event. Bout time - looking forward to checking it out.
While this maybe slightly O/T, I thought/hoped this would be the type of event the SD Public Market would be hosting in their Barrio Logan space (instead of what seemed like a series of exclusively $55+ per head events). I noticed the other day they shuttered their Sunday farmers market - anyone have the scoop on what's going on there?
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Re: SD Public Market- From Facebook: 'We'll be focusing on building our first commercial kitchen, then shop spaces, and hosting community and private events. Farmers' markets will be back as icing on the cake when there's more activity there, maybe different days.'
They will be hosting the TEDxAmerica'sFinestCity event on October 5 (a prior TED event was at Anthology just before it closed)
Re: SD Night Market: I saw a tweet asking for vendors 12 days before the Night Market is to happen. Sounds a bit unorganized.
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As long as the sponsoring organization has the right permits (which have to be in place at least 60-days out) and the vendors have the correct health permits, it's still probably doable. The regulation on something like this event is pretty extensive, not to mention daunting.
I agree 12 days seems like cutting it close, but it could be some original vendors couldn't secure the proper permits (temporary food facility permit), perhaps cancelled, or they decided they had more space than they originally thought.
The 626 Night Market had it's last gathering of 2013 this weekend. Crazy crowds-held on the Santa Anita racetrack parking area. We were there very early (3 pm) on the Saturday in early August and there was such a variety of booths and planned events for that weekend. (I saw ramen burgers but did not try).
If San Diego has half as many booths, it will be great.
I just hope that they have all the logistics worked out, incl. parking.
The night market up in LA (Pasadena to be exact) is a clusterfuck of a traffic nightmare.
tried to go to this last night around 6:45pm. Traffic was a mess on CMB and the surrounding streets, parking lot was a mess. We were going to park on Convoy and walk but we saw a lot of people walking so decided to skip it and wait for the next one. Glad there was a massive turnout at least.
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Briefly went there and it is a nice idea but the lines were already so long at 5:30 that we decided to just look through Zion Market
We stopped by around 7. It was very busy and energetic, but the food offerings didn't look interesting enough to justify a long wait in line (the vendors didn't seem that different from what you would see at a typical street fair).
We ended up having dinner at Tofu House instead.
We went. Arrived just after 6. It took 45 minutes to get to the front of the line where we were told the fried squid was offered. They had run out. 30 minutes for Supernatural fish sandwiches, tasty. Every single food vendor had an enormous line. I think one challenge was that all the food appeared to be made to order, so nothing except popcorn was done quickly. The beer garden had only one choice by 7.30pm and was closed by 8:15pm. The OTA music was loud, loud loud. We left hungry and thirsty, not sure if we would return.
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The one thing this experiment demonstrated, I think, is that there's a substantial demand for a night market of this kind in San Diego. The demand greatly exceeded the organizers' expectations, it seems. Many people who went -- or tried to go -- undoubtedly feel like you do and might pass the next time it's offered. The parking lot at Zion is the biggest in that area, but it's not big enough for this kind of event, as it turns out. The number of vendors was too small and, as you said, those vendors who were there were apparently ill-prepared for the number of visitors. I'm pretty sure the organizers won't want to move the event away from the "Convoy District", so they'll have to re-think things if they're going to try again. They'll be on a steep learning curve, or else this will be both the first and last time it happens. I didn't go, but I don't think I've heard anyone who did say they had a really good time.
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I think you nailed it DC. I went and the crowd clearly exceeded their expectations.
Poor lady at a food booth I got to told me that they had prepped for a small catering event and got hammered running out of stuff.
Best analogy was it was like the crowds at the Del Mar fair.
I hope they are working on logistics for a future date where they now know the demand is huge.


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Qualtrics Labs Inc. is a Provo-based company that . . .
A. Produces Web-based software for surveys.
B. Has had triple-digit growth for the past five years.
C. Has an old VW bus parked in the middle of its offices.
D. All of the above.
If you picked D, you're beginning to understand the charm of one of the state's most successful companies of late, what Forbes recently called "tech's hidden gem in Utah."
Qualtrics produces three Web-based products — its Research Suite, which helps companies and schools conduct their own custom-made surveys and data analysis; Site Intercept, which allows websites to get feedback from visitors; and 360, a tool to help human resource operations assess employee performance.
The 200-employee firm, which is housed in the old Dynix building nestled near the Wasatch Mountains on the northern tip of Provo, has seen a rocket-like trajectory of success since it set up stakes in Utah County in 2002.
Now, Qualtrics is ready for the big time. It turned down an offer to be bought for $500 million and instead accepted $70 million funding from renowned Silicon Valley venture capitalists Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, which funded the launches of Apple and Facebook. Qualtrics executives claim it is the biggest first-round infusion of capital in Utah's history.
Today, Qualtrics' clients include names such as Microsoft, Prudential, Toyota, HP, Motorola and colleges that include Cambridge, UCLA and Columbia. It boasts a more than 99 percent renewal rate from its academic clients.
"We're ready now," said company founder Scott Smith, who also is a Brigham Young University marketing professor. "We're ready to go out and let the world know that Qualtrics exists."
"Easy enough for an intern" • As a professor, Smith, 63, always understood the value of conducting surveys to grasp what customers think.
The problem has always been inventing tools easy enough to use. There also had to be a faster way to analyze that data. Smith realized the solution was through the Web.
"We just came to the awareness very quickly that [using the Web] is a great way to collect data. It was very quick, it was very easy. It was not painful the way collecting either personal interviews or mail surveys were," he said. "You could have a complete survey, and the data collected and tabulated, in 48 hours as opposed to literally multiple weeks or even months. We looked at that and said there's got to be some value here. Everyone would do data collection this way."
With the help of MBA students and some of his own programming background in Web development, Smith started to create the tools that would make all of this data collection easy. Qualtrics was born.
The company's anchor product, Research Suite, now services more than 4,700 clients, including 600 universities and more than 90 of the top 100 business schools in the country as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.
Qualtrics has many competitors, such as SurveyMonkey. But the motto for Research Suite is, "Easy enough for an intern, sophisticated enough for a Ph.D." That's how clients such as the University of Utah's business school see the service.
"[Before], we were using an internal product that was horrible, to say the least," said U. Web developer Mark Benton, who trains business school employees on Research Suite. "Support has been great. It works. The options in it were far and above what we were using."
Smith and his company also stress prompt customer service and support. If a call in the office isn't answered by someone within 20 seconds, a gong goes off, and anyone can pick it up.
From the basement up • Qualtrics wasn't launched 10 years ago in an office building. Instead it sprang from Smith's Provo home, with up to 22 people and a slew of computers crammed in his basement.
"We were dragging wires and doing everything ourselves — literally from laying sheetrock to wiring and putting on the ends of Internet cables. It was baling wire and chewing gum," Smith said.
About that time, Smith's son, Ryan, now 33, came home from an internship at Hewlett-Packard to help his father, who had been diagnosed with throat cancer (Scott Smith is now 10 years cancer free, he says). Ryan Smith, today the company's CEO, began helping secure clients. Stuart Orgill, 34, an accounting graduate from BYU and company co-founder, was helping run Qualtrics, while Scott Smith was in charge of the product development.
"It was kind of, 'We ate what we killed,' " Orgill said about those early days in the basement. "I made $8,000 the first year and $12,000 the second year. My family thought I was crazy. But it was a lot of fun."
A few years later, the basement was packed. So many employees' cars were parked up and down Scott Smith's street, the neighbors were getting annoyed. Qualtrics was making $100,000 a month, but Orgill and Ryan Smith realized the company had to move to a real office.
While his father was serving a Fulbright scholarship in the Eastern European country of Moldova, Ryan Smith and Orgill decided to move into a Provo space that was only 3,500 square feet. Although Qualtrics targeted colleges, namely business schools early on, businesses also had a need for their Web-based survey software, especially when the recession hit in 2008.
"A lot of companies had it easy and were doing a lot of guess work [before the recession], but when budgets were getting tight ... they wanted to know exactly what was going on," said Ryan Smith about why businesses began to turn to Qualtrics' survey software.
Opportunity calling • Several years ago, venture capitalists started approaching Qualtrics "on a daily basis," Scott Smith said. But since the beginning, he was never really interested in accepting money from investors.
"As a business professor, I've been exposed to horror stories one after another, that once you bring in an investor, all of a sudden they're your boss," he said. "I didn't want to have to report to anyone. I didn't want to be financially accountable to anyone."
But his son discovered that "the quality of the investors started to get higher and higher," he said. "I thought, 'Let's at least take a lunch or a call.' "
The Smiths always dreamt of keeping their company. Then one day they were thrown a curve ball — an offer from a company (they won't say which) to purchase Qualtrics for $500 million. The Smiths were finding it hard to say no.
But one night last February, Ryan Smith was having dinner in Silicon Valley with Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital, the venture capitalist whose early investments included Google, YouTube and Yahoo.
Smith asked him for his thoughts about the offer. Instead, Moritz gave him the vision that Qualtrics could be its own billion-dollar company with the right growth.
Moritz wasn't the only one impressed by Qualtrics. "It's a great product." said Accel general partner Ryan Sweeney. "First and foremost we look for great teams and great products. They're all top class." Accel talks to about 5,000 companies a year but only invests in four to six of Qualtrics' size, he said.
After that dinner conversation with Sequoia, Ryan Smith was hooked on the future vision of Qualtrics. He thought of their potential success as "a magic pony ride."
"We're on a magic pony, which means it's one of those horses that can be game-changing forever, and that's what he [Moritz] saw in Qualtrics," Ryan Smith said. "That's what we wanted, and that's what helped sway the decision."
In the end, Scott Smith relented. "We view these two companies that have invested in us as partners," he said. "We need partners of their type to help us to grow."
An open culture • Qualtrics no longer is in that cramped 3,500-square-foot building, having moved into the bigger Dynix Drive space, which is about to double with the occupation of a second floor. The company also is building an office in Europe.
Ryan Smith successfully begged his brother, Jared, who used to work at Google, to come back to help run Qualtrics' product development and engineering team (which works in an area of the office dubbed the Death Star). And Qualtrics is operated with a Google-esque office culture, Scott Smith said. Instead of cubicles, the space features small desks to keep clutter to a minimum. There are Qualtrics bicycles inside for employees to ride, a pingpong table and chess table, and two arcade basketball machines. Ryan Smith paid $800 for an old VW bus that the company moved into the office and turned into a snack station.
Now that Qualtrics is taking over a second floor, the team is hoping to build a slide to connect them, as well as a mock 7-Eleven store on the new floor, complete with a Slurpee machine.
The company stresses transparency. From one end of the office to the other, you can see through all the small meeting rooms and glass conference areas given cartoon names such as "Bam Bam" and "Pebbles." Employees can even write notes on the windowed walls with whiteboard markers.
Every Friday, the office stages its "TGIF" meetings where employees get free lunch, discuss employee achievements and get to ask the executives any questions they like.
"We believe in radical transparency," Ryan Smith said. "It's an open book. But it's that way with everything."
With that $70 million from Accel and Sequoia, Qualtrics plans to expand its international market, produce more products and hire another 250 employees by the end of the year, maybe more.
"We can do this," Scott Smith said. "We can turn this into a billion- or multibillion-dollar company. We've got everything in line. It works, and we are having too much fun. And we're not done yet."
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Don't wear anything new. "Part of the training is figuring out your gear ahead of time," says Leff. "All your equipment should be comfy, tried and true."
Also, get thee to the expo! "Load up on gear from the race! The jacket and mug are your hard-earned bragging rights," says Leff. Most importantly, take a pee break 20 minutes before the start of the race, so you can travel light. "The lines for the porta-potties are usually really long. If the potty doesn't cut it, go into the woods and pretend you have a bathing suit on," says Leff.
At the starting line:
Start in the mid-back of the pack and aim toward the side for safety reasons. Most half marathons hold several thousand people, and an inexperienced marathon runner can easily get overtaken and hurt. Besides, this places you in a prime position to take advantage of the water stations. Slow to a walk when sipping. Leff says, "It only takes about 20 seconds, and running while drinking can bring on a stitch."
Finally, Leff says, when you hit the starting line, take a moment to look around and congratulate yourself. Soak it all in. Because after the race, you'll be too damn tired.
Thanks to RunnerMom, you're off!
For a training log, tips like this, and more, order Vickie's book, RunnerMom: Your Practical Guide to Women's Walking and Running, on Leff's website. And be sure to write in with your marathon tales!
|Vivian Manning-Schaffel has written for Babble, Parenting, The Advocate, The New York Post, Business Week and a variety of other publications and lives and works in the heart of breeder Brooklyn with her husband and two kids. She authors two pop culture blogs: The Mad Mom and A Hag Supreme, and is on the web at vivianmanningschaffel.com.
I think I may just have to find a half marathon to sign up for!
Thanks for the great tips! I'm hoping to run the Kiawah Island half marathon, so this will really help!
Such great tips. A friend of mine and I are preparing to run a half marathon for the first time. We bought Leff's book RunnerMom and it is awesome. Very practical and provides great ideas.
Thank you MomLogic and Vicki Leff for your inspiration and guidance.
Great tips! Thanks!
My sister and I are training for anohter half marathon. I ran a full one before my baby so it has been fun training wiht her now…baby stroller and all. It promotes a healthy life at a young age, right? I can't wait to get this book and read it. Thanks
Marathon is really good but its not for everyone, you really need to watch your health carefully if you dont want to fall ill.
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Pith Gallery is pleased to announce "everything that rises / temporal drawings", a solo exhibition by Lethbridge based artist Annie Martin. The exhibition finds Martin, who usually creates very minimal work, exploring a much more material, gaudy, narrative, and humorous aesthetic. The show will feature a collection of ad hoc structures that float in the space, accompanied by the sound of cacophonic radio noise. Also on display will be a set of drawings tangentially related to the sculptural works, made up of an accumulation of marks over a specific period of time. The works explore concerns around material accumulation, collection, decoration, cultural and spiritual aspiration, and forms of social isolation, abjection and survival.


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As mentioned above, this is all due to your self-esteem issues. There is no such thing as objectivity in human behaviour, but I know what you mean; people would scale her higher on the attractive chart than they would you. Okay, even so, the fact that she's into you suggests that you have some sort of attractiveness to her that outweighs your acne. She was able to look past your acne and look at your qualities. These are the kinds of people you want in your life.
If she's into you that's all that should matter, its between you and her; not you, her and the rest of the world.


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Methyl ethyl ketone
|Substance name:
|Methyl ethyl ketone
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|Molecular formula:
|2-Butanone; MEK; ethyl methyl ketone; butanone; methyl acetone; butan-2-one;
Physical and chemical properties
Methyl ethyl ketone is a colourless liquid with a faint sweet odour.
Melting point: -86.3°C
Boiling point: 79.6°C
Vapour density: 2.5
Specific gravity: 0.805
Flashpoint: -6°C
Methyl ethyl ketone is a flammable liquid. It is partially soluble in water, and soluble in most other organic solvents. It will float on water while it rapidly dissolves in it.
Common uses
Methyl ethyl ketone is used as a solvent for lacquers, adhesives; for cleaning materials to be electroplated; for degreasing; in rubber and rubber cement, printing inks, paints, wood stains, varnishes and paint removers and in cleaning solutions; as a catalyst; and as a carrier.
Sources of emissions
Point sources
The primary sources of methyl ethyl ketone emissions are the industries that either manufacture it or use it in production, such as the chemical industry, rubber manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry, the semiconductor industry, heavy equipment manufacturing, manufacturers of millwork, veneer and plywood, and manufacturers of paints, inks, varnishes and lacquers. These are emissions to the air unless there is a spill.
Diffuse sources, and point sources included in aggregated emissions data
Other possible emitters of methyl ethyl ketone are commercial and household painting and paint, varnish and lacquer removal, tobacco smoke, and consumer products containing methyl ethyl ketone. These are emissions to the air unless there is a spill.
Natural sources
Methyl ethyl ketone occurs naturally in volcanoes, forest fires and bushfires, products of biological degradation, and in some foods.
Mobile sources
Methyl ethyl ketone is found in motor vehicle exhaust.
Consumer products that may contain methyl ethyl ketone
Aerosol paints, architectural coatings, automobile and machinery paints and primers, household hard surface cleaners, household dyes and tints, inks, insecticides for yard and garden, laundry starches, lubricating greases and oils, automotive chemicals, markers, nail polish and polish remover, paints and varnish, paint and varnish removers and thinners, shoe polish, interior clear finishes, undercoats, and primers, waterproofing compounds, particleboard, and wood office furniture.
Health effects
How might I be exposed to methyl ethyl ketone?
Workers in the industries that use or produce methyl ethyl ketone are at risk of exposure. Consumers can be exposed to methyl ethyl ketone by exposure to air from production and processing facilities using methyl ethyl ketone, or by drinking water from contaminated bores. Consumers may also be exposed to methyl ethyl ketone when using consumer products containing the substance, especially if there is not good ventilation, or by skin contact. Smoking tobacco products and sniffing glues can also expose people to methyl ethyl ketone.
By what pathways might methyl ethyl ketone enter my body?
Methyl ethyl ketone will enter the body if we breathe in contaminated air, or consume food or water that has been contaminated. It can also pass through the skin.
Health guidelines
National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (NOHSC):
- TWA (eight-hour time weighted average) exposure limit in the workplace: 150 ppm (445 mg/m³)
- STEL (short-term exposure limit) (15 minutes): 300 ppm (890 mg/m³).
What effect might methyl ethyl ketone have on my health?
Breathing methyl ethyl ketone for short periods of time (ie painting in a poorly ventilated area) can affect the nervous system. Effects include headaches, dizziness, fatigue, narcosis (acts like a narcotic), nausea, vomiting, and passing out. Methyl ethyl ketone vapour irritates the eyes, nose, and throat. Prolonged contact with the skin causes irritation. Contact with the eyes can permanently damage them. Repeated exposure may damage the nervous system and may affect the brain.
Environmental effects
Environmental fate
Methyl ethyl ketone enters the air during production, use and its transportation. In the air, sunlight breaks it down into other chemicals in one day or less. Methyl ethyl ketone dissolves when mixed with water. In water it is broken down into other chemicals in about two weeks. In soil and water, bacteria break it down. It does not deposit on the bottom of rivers or lakes.
Environmental transport
Industrial emissions of methyl ethyl ketone can produce elevated, but still low-level, concentrations in the atmosphere around the source. Because of its short life-expectancy in the atmosphere, methyl ethyl ketone is expected to be confined to the local area within which it is emitted. Since it does not bind to soil well, methyl ethyl ketone that makes its way into the ground may move through the ground and enter groundwater (bore water). Because methyl ethyl ketone is used in many consumer products, including tobacco smoke, short-term indoor concentrations may be elevated above the levels considered safe for workers.
Environmental guidelines
There are no national guidelines.
What effect might methyl ethyl ketone have on the environment?
Methyl ethyl ketone exists as a gas if released to the atmosphere and quickly reacts to form other chemicals. It dissolves when mixed with water. In water and soil, bacteria break it down. It has slight acute (short-term) and chronic (long-term) toxicity to aquatic life. Chronic and acute effects on plants, birds or land animals have not been determined. Methyl ethyl ketone is not expected to bioaccumulate.
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An elite DEA task force deals with the world's deadliest drug cartels. Specializing in complex mobile operations, the team executes a tactical raid on a cartel safe house. What looks to be a typical raid turns out to be an elaborate theft operation, pre-planned by the DEA squad. After hiding $10 million in stolen cash, the team believes their secret is safe - until someone begins assassinating them one by one. As the body count rises, everyone is suspect, including members of the team itself.
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The Youngsters: Danny K
HowzitMSN spoke to Mandy Weiner last week, who edited the new book series, The Youngsters, written by talented youngsters of South Africa. In the second interview in the series, we talk to Danny K about his contribution.
The Youngsters
Some love to hate him, but nobody can deny the hard work and ambition that brought Danny K his success. In his book, Take It From Me, the star explores the local music industry, fame in South Africa and his disastrous tour with Usher.
Why write a book? Did you always want to write a book?
No, I actually really didn't. When I heard about the concept behind it, I thought it was really something that could be potentially interesting. I was a bit scared, to be honest, because most of the things I write are three to four minutes in duration and they normally rhyme! So this was an opportunity for me to challenge myself. I think that was what this book was about. It was saying: can I reflect on what I have learned in my life over the past fifteen years in the entertainment industry? It was a chance to create a help guide for young musicians who want to get into the business, who've seen me there and wondered: "How did he do it?"
Is it very biographical in nature?
I feel I'm largely misunderstood - people have a perception of me based on seeing me in the media for many years. I'm largely governed by a journalist's interpretation of me. So this is my first opportunity to speak about myself, unedited. Apart from Mandy correcting my spelling, which is really bad, I could really tell my story in the way I wanted to. So it is totally about my life. I open up about things privately, professionally, and everything in between. It was actually fun for me. I'm not a guy who takes stock very well. So this book allowed me to reflect over my whole life. Especially when I put the photographs in the book - funnily enough my book is the only one with photographs in it. I had to beg the publisher to let me do that! And when I went into my early articles - things people wrote about me and photos, like me signing my first record deal and my first tour, with Usher, which went horribly wrong... I speak about that in the book. It was fun for me to reflect on that, because I haven't done that for many years.
How did that feel to take such stock? Did you sit back and think "Wow" or was it on to the next thing?
I'm not very good with patting myself on the back. Even now I feel there are a lot of musicians who could have potentially written a more interesting book than me. But my story is unique in its own way. Any creative person out there has made a plethora of mistakes to get where they are. I've got some interesting mistakes, which I speak quite candidly of in the book. I also know that when I began in the music business, I read a book called How To Succeed In The Music Business, which was written by a UK author. It was quite foreign to me as a South African youngster, as a guide or an insight into the business in SA. I've been one of those guys who have been part of the modern music industry since its inception. So I've been around post-94, songwriting and such. My first album came out in '99. So I have been a part of this new transition and seen how our music and the business had changed. That's what I focused on. People today who want to learn about the last fifteen years can read my book and see how you do things now. Every chapter ends with a couple of short bullet points - some things to consider if you want to be a musician. I've had to leverage off that because it's kind of the only thing I've known.
Books like yours are often the most interesting to read, as there is a lot going on that nobody sees.
You know, they say it takes a lifetime to be an overnight sensation and in everything you have to slave away. You have to put in your ten thousand hours to just get to the line. The tough thing about the entertainment industry is once you are there, the sustainability is so hard. To do one hit song is hard enough. To continuously try and do it again and again, album after album, to stay relevant and current - it's treading water all the time. If you don't tread hard enough, you drown. After being in this business for so long, to be selected as one of the authors is a big honour. It's great for me.
Those interested in the music industry, your fans and maybe even your detractors would get this book. But why should anyone else?
I think it's an interesting story about my personal journey. I've had some funny things that have happened to me, sort of at my detriment in the business. There are some stories about the wild side of the music business in South Africa and seeing some of my friends fall victim to it. There is a serious side to it about the loss of my brother, so there are very personal and sad moments... I hope it gives the reader a little bit of everything. An insight on what it's like to be famous in South Africa, what it's like to deal with fame and try keep your head. And there are some cool pictures!
Find Danny K on Twitter: @dannykmusic
Read our interview with Mandy Weiner here.
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Chocolate-Truffle Souffles
Photo: Becky Luigart-Stayner
Crème de cacao is a dark, chocolate-flavored liqueur. But any fruit, nut, or coffee-flavored liqueur will work. If you prefer to leave out the liqueur, replace it with an equal amount of chocolate syrup.
Yield: 8 servings
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 172
- Calories from fat: 19%
- Fat: 3.6g
- Saturated fat: 1.8g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.2g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.3g
- Protein: 5.4g
- Carbohydrate: 30.3g
- Fiber: 0.1g
- Cholesterol: 56mg
- Iron: 1.3mg
- Sodium: 120mg
- Calcium: 55mg
- Cooking spray
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 cup 1% low-fat milk
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 ounce semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 3 tablespoons crème de cacao (chocolate-flavored liqueur) or chocolate syrup
- 2 large egg yolks
- 4 large egg whites
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
- Coat 8 (6-ounce) ramekins with cooking spray; sprinkle with granulated sugar. Place on a baking sheet; set aside.
- Combine the milk, 3/4 cup powdered sugar, cocoa, flour, and salt in a medium, heavy saucepan, and cook 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly with a whisk until mixture thickens and comes to a boil. Remove from heat; add chocolate, stirring until melted. Stir in liqueur. Gradually add chocolate mixture to egg yolks in a bowl, stirring well. Return mixture to pan. Cook 1 minute over medium heat, stirring constantly. Spoon mixture into a large bowl; cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally.
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Beat the egg whites and cream of tartar at high speed of a mixer until foamy. Add 1/3 cup powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Gently stir one-fourth of the egg white mixture into the chocolate mixture; gently fold in remaining egg white mixture. Spoon the batter evenly into prepared ramekins. Bake at 375° for 23 minutes or until puffy and set. Sprinkle the souffles with 1 tablespoon powdered sugar. Serve immediately.
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Blog Post: Thinking Digitally...If You Do Digital or Not
Click here if you would rather listen to this blog entry (8:16).
Marketing firms have been understandably concerned about how digital they must be in order to remain sufficiently central to the marketing mix. We've lost something, though, by framing this discussion around whether we should actually develop digital properties instead of around the broader question of how we should learn from digital thinking. In other words, we might need to approach our work—digital or not—with a more digital mindset. I want to talk about that, but I also want to talk about how you might go about deciding the degree to which you do digital, too.
At the outset of this movement, there were so few firms developing digital properties that it was actually difficult to make a poor positioning decision. The tools were rudimentary, no one knew what good digital really was, and that world was there for the taking.
Developing digital properties, though, now shows more signs of being a mature market, meaning that there are few gaps to arbitrage. Strong tools are widespread, we have nearly twenty years of experience to inform our work, and suddenly kids in the garage don't seem to own this anymore. (They have gotten bored and moved on to social media.)
The last two decades have ushered in a new medium, but the true impact of digital is barely felt. Worst of all, even digital firms aren't thinking digitally. But—and this is so exciting to say—the promise of digital impact is at your doorstep. If you miss the promise of digital thinking, you'll suffer far more than missing digital itself. I'd like you to consider thinking digitally....Read More
Blog Post: Getting to "Know"
I owned a pedestrian marketing firm for six years (this doesn't mean I sold pedestrians, but that it was very average). I had never worked at a firm, knew not a single soul in the industry, and had no role models to mimic. Average financial performance (I paid myself $60,000 in 1988), below average ability to manage people (with employees teaching me how I could do better), and above average effectiveness of the work. One thing for sure: I had no special methods or research that I could build into a twenty-year consulting firm known around the world. Shoot, for the first few years I was drinking water from a waterfall.
I started ReCourses through an odd and fortunate series of events where someone else suggested I do it, and gave me a platform with plenty of opportunity. It never would have happened otherwise, and I will always be grateful to Cam Foote.
I felt like I didn't have much to lose, really. At least I thought so, until the first firm...Read More
Position Paper: Impact of Internal Culture
What is culture? What defines culture in an organization? One thing we know for sure is that it's not strongly connected to the "vision," "mission," and "culture" signs hanging in the lobby. Heck, the most evil companies in history said all the right things, and they said them in engraved marble in the lobby! No, culture isn't what you say.
Culture is what you do. Period. Even bigger than that, culture is the sum total of all your actions. You know that very talented employee who is selfish and territorial? Keeping that employee around speaks to the real culture at your firm. It says that you value output pretty much regardless of what comes with it.Read More
Blog Post: What Success Looks Like at Your Firm
A great client recently asked me to outline my definition of success for their firm. I really enjoyed doing that, and below is a version that you can adapt to your own situation, putting your own stamp on it:
- Partner compensation equals or exceeds industry benchmarks.
- After that is achieved, you still 20% net profit.
- The more entrepreneurial employees are satisfied that their contribution to your gain is recognized and accounted for.
- Partners and employees in key roles will have already tasted competence in the area of your focus, or they will experience it within nine months of joining the firm.
- There will be few or no young employees who value variety over expertise.
- When employees talk about your firm, while still employed, their private comments will be complimentary.
- When partners and employees head out the door to work for the day, they look forward to the challenges, the companionship, and their participation in the overall culture.
- As a firm you will not require extraordinary people....
Position Paper: Aversion to Process in Marketing Field
The marketing field is probably less process-oriented than any other among the professional services. Why do you think that is? Working in the field for many years and advising the same field for many more, I've come to that realization after noting several reasons why.
Why We Shun Process
First, you crave a freedom to explore, free of the "restrictions" you perceive in process. Second, there's a need to identify personally with the work—it must stem from inside you rather than emerge from a more external process. You want to create the solution and own it. Third, your role is replaceable enough that you perceive an added value in keeping part of it mysterious. You want to be a magician or shaman or rain dancer. Fourth, there's a thrill in diving into an empty pool and inventing water on the way down. It's a drug high to face a blank sheet of paper with each project and, with as little help as possible, make something out of nothing, once again emerging as the hero. Fifth, it's clear to me that the typical generalist, "full service" positioning that so many of you employ prevents and even promotes lack of process, since each new situation really is new. In other words, the solutions you arrive at are not benefiting from experience like they could, but are instead plagued by the experimental where those who pay your bills could be more victims than clients...Read More
Blog Post: More Transparent Client Relationships
I've had a hand in shaping four of the software products out there, including the two with the largest installed base. And for ten years I've been clamoring for more transparency, enabled primarily by allowing a client to log into your project management software (that's not BaseCamp, by the way) and seeing the status of things. For one thing, why make the AE do that? Every client is different, and this would let them interact with the data on their own terms, with selectable update options to boot.
Why hasn't this caught on? Two reasons:
- Firms say something will take three weeks of work but they don't even start it until four days before the deadline, and this way the client would know that.
- Firms are afraid of interferance in the creative process, where I think it should be more collaborative and with no "big reveals" as we call them.
Anyway, I was chatting about this with a client of mine, Greg Daake, who has a firm in Omaha. He has been thinking the same thing, and so I asked him to write some thoughts on this. Here's Greg...Read More
Blog Post: Managing People is Counter-Intuitive
I was sitting down last week, thinking about how much difference it makes when you have a good boss. I realized, though, that much of good management is counter-intuitive. So I thought I'd take a few minutes to record a few observations while they were top of mind.
Before I do, though, remember the survey on the last email? It asked whether you were better or worse than average as a manager. A full 68% of you said better! You can interpret that one.
Here are the things I've learned interviewing nearly 14,000 people for the book I reference at the end:
- Any non-evil person can be a manager.
- Management does not make you special.
- Managers shouldn't always make more money than those they manage.
- There should be two career paths so that we don't saddle technicians (craft people) w/ management.
- Nearly all important information should come from an employee's direct manager.
- Why you were promoted, or why you promoted a certain person, tells a huge story.
- The biggest danger to your company is a very skilled employee who doesn't fit the culture.
Blog Post: Storytelling and Real Storytelling
Bill Baker (no relation) is nicer than I am, so don't pin any of my introduction on him. I recently spoke to an auditorium of C-level executives, and the title of my presentation was long but revealing: "The Happy Death of Branding, the Next Fad of Storytelling, and the Hopeful Rise of Alignment."
I guess that expresses my view of branding: there are a few firms really doing it, and the rest (and majority) aren't doing anything differently than they did before, but now they are calling it branding because it sounds upstream. There was no training in marketing, no classes, books, or even real processes. The typical four circles with the ubiquitous use of alliteration doesn't count and should be taken off your website.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with my view of branding, it clearly is yesterday's news, and storytelling comes up frequently. Rather than being marginalized even more, I think we ought to jump on this one early so that we don't relieve the word of even more meaning.
Bill (disclosure: a client) is one of the very few people really doing story telling. While the concept has been around since people wrote on cave walls, modern storytelling was really maximized by E+S (Envisioning and Storytelling) in Vancouver roughly three decades ago, a place where Bill was Chief Strategic Officer. Now, under BillBaker&Co he continues that great work with clients like GE, Relais & Chateaux, Johnson & Johnson, The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, etc. Here are some of his thoughts on the difference between faux storytelling and real storytelling. Real storytelling is a very complex skill, and I can sit for days listening to Bill point out the subtleties involved. This is just the outer layer.
Here's Bill:Read More
Position Paper: Top Ten Characteristics of Project Managers
Good project managers are hard enough to find, and great project managers are rarer still. Thanks to Andy Crowe (Alpha Project Managers), though, we now have a peek inside the top 2% of project managers, based on a study of 5,000 of them as rated by their peers/clients. Not surprisingly, great project management requires a lot more than the ability to move a milestone.
Here are the top ten traits of project managers who are really making ideas happen:
Qualities of a Great Project Manager
- Command authority naturally. In other words, they don't need borrowed power to enlist the help of others--they just know how to do it. They are optimistic leaders who are viewed in a favorable light and are valued by the organization.
Position Paper: Three Common Struggles
Using a database of hundreds of firms in about 90 different metropolitan areas across North America, what are the three things that principals struggle with the most? You might recognize yourself.Read More


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A slim paperback that covers the history of the Vancouver Canucks captaincy, Hockey Play-by-Play ought to be a welcome gift to anyone hanging a team-themed stocking on their mantle in the next little while.
Distributed through London Drugs outlets in British Columbia until Christmas and with a chunk of the proceeds going to Canuck Place Children's Hospice, it covers the men who have worn the C for the Canucks, from rugged survivor of "Original Six" era, Orland Kurtenbach, to the present day captain, Roberto Luongo, packing a remarkable amount of information into only 30 pages.
Interviews with players and executives, largely centering on the role and nature of captaincy provide first-hand reminiscences of the time they spent wearing the C. Trips back in time to relive pivotal games during the tenure of each captain, from the first home game against the Canadiens to the spring, 2009, sweep of the St. Louis Blues, with eight stops along the way, provide the bulk of the text.
Also included are game notes scribbled by Jim Robson during each of the detailed matches that were presented during his tenure as the Voice of the Canucks, and those put together by his successor, John Shorthouse for more recent games and photos of memorabilia through the past four decades.
Complementing the text are reproductions of tickets, action shots, hockey cards, programs and publications, flat metal players from vintage table hockey games and even records but what stands out in this readers mind are the fashion mistakes that the team wore for several years in the orange, black and yellow era. And the sticks.
Each man who served as Canuck captain is represented by some of his lumber. Interestingly, they all appear to be made of wood, none sport an exaggerated hook and eight of the ten were turned out by a Canadian manufacturer.
A great gift for the Canuck fan on your list, this little volume might also be informative for hockey fans in other time zones, where the reasons for hanging Stan Smyl's number from the rafters might not be fully appreciated. It's worth picking up if only to read former GM Brian Burke's reason for allowing then-junior prospect Trevor Linden skip the battery of physical and psychological tests that his team was running on all the youngsters it had an eye on drafting in the spring of 1988.
Hockey Play-By-Play – Canucks Captains with Jim Robson
Author – Jason Farris
Publisher – Stellar Press, Vancouver BC
Now Available at CanucksCaptains.com


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Spicy Stuffed Peppers
Yield: Makes 4 to 6 servings
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Broil: 6 Minutes
Stand: 10 Minutes
- 8 Anaheim peppers, divided
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 1 (15-oz.) can stewed tomatoes, drained
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 (15.5-oz.) can whole kernel corn, drained
- 1 1/2 cups (6 oz.) shredded Cheddar cheese
- Garnish: chopped green onions
- 1. Remove and discard seeds and membranes from 2 peppers. Chop peppers.
- 2. Broil remaining 6 peppers on an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet 5 inches from heat 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until peppers look blistered. Place peppers in a large zip-top plastic freezer bag; seal and let stand 10 minutes. Cut peppers lengthwise down 1 side, leaving other side intact; remove and discard seeds and membranes. Keep peppers warm.
- 3. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add green onions, and sauté 1 minute. (Do not brown.) Stir in chopped peppers, tomatoes, and 1/2 tsp. salt; cook 4 to 5 minutes or until tender. Add corn, and cook, stirring occasionally, 6 minutes.
- 4. Remove from heat. Stir in cheese until melted. Spoon mixture evenly into cavity of each broiled pepper. Garnish, if desired, and serve immediately.
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- COURSE: Side Dishes/Vegetables
- CUISINE: American, Southwest
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Vegetables
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Meatless
- COOKING METHOD: Bake, Broil
- OCCASION: Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter
- PUBLICATION: Southern Living
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Reputed Mexican drug cartel member accused of distributing cocaine and meth in the Lehigh Valley enters guilty plea
HARRISBURG - Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today announced that a Lehigh Valley man entered an open guilty plea following allegations that he sold large quantities of cocaine and crystal methamphetamine throughout Allentown and the Lehigh Valley.
Luis Gonzalez-Contreras, a Mexican national and purported cartel associate, entered the plea before Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas Judge Robert L Steinberg. Gonzalez-Contreras is scheduled to be sentenced on May 29, 2014.
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