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A group of tech-savvy librarians offer up a list of their favorite education apps this year.
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A well curated list of apps and tools for teachers and students. Some new ones here with good explanations of them and suggestions for use.
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Teens set classic works to video games to create next-level theater.
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This looks amazing. A class have even translated some of Ovid's Metamorphoses from Latin into English for their own game interpretation. Who says the classics are dead?
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Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube.
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Get schools running TED clubs to improve communication skills
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A good tool to get student creating timelines of events linked to maps.
"There are many benefits to turning a Twitter list into an RSS feed, but the process can be complicated. Here's a simple but effective method."
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Ever want to follow a topic? Here's a quick how-to guide.
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Ever want to follow a topic? Here's a quick how-to guide.
" Who can now deny that, in the internet, we have the greatest educational tool ever conceived by mankind? Surely no Open Culture reader would deny it, anyway, nor could they fail to take an interest in a new startup aiming to increase the internet's educational power further still:"
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April 6th 2016 - To date, I have found Pindex very disappointing as a potential education tool. A very limited toolset, perhaps better suited for a school audience or the general public. Hopefully they will take feedback on board and add some of the features that are missing.
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MindShift has a new podcast! Take a listen.
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A good PD session on the way home.
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Schools across the country are finding that integrating arts into academic subjects can be a powerful way to help students deepen their understanding.
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Great with the increasing focus on STEAM.
" Sam Gliksman is the author of Creating Media for Learning , one of the first "augmented print" books. "
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Between self-driving cars and hoverboards, futuristic technology seems closer than ever. Nowhere is this more of a reality than in the field of robotics.
My five-year-old girl entered kindergarten this past fall, bringing me one of life's greatest experiences: watching her explore her curiosities and creativity as she desires and develops skills that will last her a lifetime.
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Sharing an interactive list (with examples) of 12 tried and true tools that support educators with creating and curating all year long.
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Sharing an interactive list (with examples) of 12 tried and true tools that support educators with creating and curating all year long.
This Is How to Create A Simple Educational Poster Using Google Drawings ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Make your own classroom posters
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4 Tools for Arts Integration are very essential.The vital opportunities to make deep connections to the content through their own projects.This tools are reallly helpfull for all.
How to Stay Positive in Challenging Times
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The Arts have a huge role to play in connecting content with learning.
The folks behind Wallace and Gromit and the digital storytelling company want to expand your idea of what interactive video can do.
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Narrative driven games are being given a new twist with Aardman.
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Staying safe online is not as easy as it could be for young people. Google has produced some video tutorials for students that may help.
Student blogging empowers students to take charge of their learning and gives their learning purpose. We asked Noelle and Sagarika, Grade 8 Students, from The Badger Rock Times to tell us in thei
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Students tell how they worked on their class blog and took responsibility for all aspects of it.
" Google is an excellent research and search tool, but there are some tips and features that a lot of people don't know about. These two inforgraphics have some great tips and information on getting more out of Google."
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Lots of new tips here. ( new to me anyway!)
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This article shares two infographics that can help anyone become a power Google user.
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Creating the perfect blog post is difficult. There's a certain art form to it. Your favorite blogger knows the secrets.
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Sometimes you been your blog for your own pleasure and you don't really mind if no one else appreciates it. If that's not you then you need to get savvy about how your blog looks and reads. This post has some great advice.
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Young children ask lots of questions, but around the time they enter school, those questions begin to fade. Author Warren Berger outlines five ways to help
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Questioning techniques are an important skill.
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In celebration of The Yarn podcast, created by SLJ blogger Travis Jonker and Colby Sharp, teen librarian Robin Brenner has curated a roundup of podcasts to recommend to young adults who are both new to and well-versed in the format.
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I was recently given the gift of an unwritten curriculum with a blank for a text. I have decided to use 'Serial' Sarah Koenig's exploration of the Adnan Syed case. As part of my research I came across this guide to podcasts for teens. Very useful and some I haven't yet listened to.
Coding has been the hot topic in education and STEM conversations for the past year. I have paid attention to the extent that I know it's important for tod
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The games described in this article are a great way to begin your coding in the classroom journey. I like that it's written by a teacher who is not a coder and who says that these games made him want to dive in and find more time for this learning in his classroom.
A student team from TU Delft in the Netherlands has designed and produced a fully functional 3D printed stainless steel bicycle. The students designed the frame of the bicycle to demonstrate the potential of a new method for 3D printing metal.
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Robots and 3D printing...doesn't get any cooler than this! ;)
" The world is an interesting place, but it's fascinating up close. Through the lens of a microscope you can find details that you would otherwise nev..."
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Create a digital microscope for your classroom.
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From March 8-10 Fitness Pros from around the country gathered in Chicago for the 2013 EMPOWER! Fusion Weekend at the Intercontinental Hotel. This year was especially exciting for me, as I was invited to teach Foot Fitness education all weekend long. Foot Fitness is my specialty – and a new exciting frontier for many in the fitness industry.
I must say, one of my most interesting sessions was sponsored by MDA / Peak Pilates. I worked with the MVe Chair in a session titled "Feet First". I'm sure that you are well aware… Mr. Pilates was a brilliant man! He trained his clients barefoot - and always began with a foot warm up. I feel that these days, some Pilates instructors tend to skip this vital portion of the workout, in lieu of calorie- burning exercises (which, of course, our clients demand). However, how can we train effectively and functionally if our feet are not fully awake, alive, and engaged?
The MVe Feet First session was filled with primarily personal trainers who had very little Pilates knowledge (how exciting!) So, for many of these Fitness Professionals, working out while barefoot was a new concept. Together we explored a sweaty, full-body workout - and these trainers had the opportunity to experience the massive versatility of the MVe Chair. With each intense exercise, I coached the group through very specific foot placement cues. AWARENESS of the feet is the "first step" of foot fitness.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – Anderson University head coach Jason Taylor has announced that Marquez Fisher (Travelers Rest High School), Maurice Howard (Saluda High School) and Alex Greisen (Elev8 Prep Academy/Grapevine (Texas) High School) have signed national letters of intent and will join the Trojan men's basketball team for the 2014-15 campaign.
"I could not be happier or more excited about this class," said Taylor. "Coach Hilburn has once again spearheaded the recruiting efforts of an outstanding recruiting class, addressing our immediate needs and increasing the quality of our depth. All of these guys come from great programs and have been extremely well coached in high school and understand what work ethic means and the importance of it."
Howard, a 5-foot-10, 185-pound point guard from Saluda, S.C., was a career 1,000-point performer for the Tigers who averaged 20.1 points, 7.1 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 4.0 steals per contest during his senior campaign. He helped lead Saluda to a 14-8 record last season, while being named the team's MVP for the last three seasons. Howard was named the 2014 Region 2-AA Player of the Year, while also earning South Carolina Basketball Coaches Association (SCBCA) Region AA All-State Team recognition in both 2013 and 2014. He was a 2014 Preseason Top 5 Region AA honoree and was named to the All-Lakelands Team as a sophomore, junior and senior.
"Maurice is a true point guard," added Taylor. "He was our guy from the beginning and I am excited about coaching him. I am going to feel good with the ball in his hands. He makes great decisions. His strength and change of pace are already impressive. Maurice was well-coached at Saluda first by Coach Stephens and then Coach Ergle his senior year. They did a great job with Maurice."
Fisher is a 6-foot-8, 200-pound power forward out of Travelers Rest, S.C., who helped lead Coach Josh Mills' Devildogs to an overall 21-5 record, including a 13-1 mark in region action. He averaged 10.6 points and 10.5 rebounds per contest during his senior campaign and was named SCBCA Region AAA All-State, while garnering All-Region accolades as a sophomore, junior and senior. Fisher was a two-time team MVP and two-time All-Greenville County honoree. He also earned 2014 Preseason Top 5 Region AAA recognition and competed in both the 2014 North-South All-Star game and 2014 FCA All-Star contest.
"Marquez is another player that we identified early that we wanted and was able to land him," noted Taylor. "Marquez has an extremely high-talent ceiling. He's been well-coached under Coach Mills and understands how to play. I am extremely excited to coach Quez. I am honestly not sure how good Quez can be but I am excited to find out."
Greisen averaged 13 points, eight rebounds and five assists at Elev8 Prep Academy in Delray, Fla. last season. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound shooting guard was named "Mr. Hustle", while demonstrating long-range accuracy from beyond the arc by shooting 48 percent from three-point range. Greisen led the squad with 83 made 3-pointers last season.
As a senior at Grapevine High School, he led the Mustangs with his 17.4 points and eight rebounds per game average. Greisen shot 48 percent from the field, including 42 percent from beyond the arc, while swiping 3.1 steals a game. He was an All-District 6-5A Offensive Player of the Year selection for two consecutive seasons and earned All-Region honors following his senior campaign, when the Mustangs posted a 22-12 record.
"Alex comes to us from Elev8 Prep where he has been mentored by some of the best coaches and skill development guys in our business in Cody Toppert and Ganon Baker," added Taylor. "His work ethic is second to none. Alex is a tough hard-nosed kid who is a gym rat and loves to compete. He is going to be a joy to coach."
"All these young men are a great fit for Anderson University," noted Taylor. "They are going to be great representatives of our program and great future ambassadors of our University. I can't wait to get all three of these guys on campus in the fall."


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Sen. Marco Rubio plans to follow his prime-time response to the president's State of the Union address with his own legislative push on education funding and help for small businesses—all part of a larger effort to build his image as a conservative leader with a bipartisan bent.
The Florida senator's star turn as GOP spokesman Tuesday night, when he will give his party's official response to the president, comes as Republicans increasingly look to the 41-year-old lawmaker to be a flag-carrier for the party after its election setbacks last year.
"There is no question that he is one of the rising stars in our party," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. He described Mr. Rubio in an interview as "arguably the best communicator we have had in decades."
Rubio advisers say the first-term senator will use his most prominent national perch to date to critique Mr. Obama's reliance on government solutions but also to lay out proposals to simplify the tax code and help the middle class, themes he has promoted in recent speeches.
The senator will then begin rolling out a series of bills in coming weeks, including one to create a new tax credit to help less-affluent families pay for private-school tuition and expenses, his advisers say. The senator's office is also drafting bills to roll back business regulations and modify some corporate tax provisions. Mr. Rubio expects to have Democratic co-sponsors for the measures, his aides said.
The bills will constitute the next steps in the artful rolling out of the Rubio political brand, as he weighs a run for president in 2016. The effort has already included a spate of interviews with conservative media outlets, a TMZ gossip video that deemed him "dreamy" and a Time magazine cover that heralded him as the "Republican savior."
The media offensive has mixed policy speeches with nods to pop culture—Mr. Rubio released his playlist of songs on the Spotify website, including the late rapper Tupac Shakur—in an attempt to round out his appeal. Next up, his aides say, will be a set of interviews focused on sports and entertainment topics.
Since the November election, Mr. Rubio has joined a number of other GOP leaders, including Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, who are working to soften the party's image and to realign its message in the eyes of voters.
The core of Mr. Rubio's pitch is that the country—and his own party—needs to find new ways to foster the creation of well-paying middle-class jobs, to build new rungs up the ladder for those in the working class.
Mr. Rubio was elected in the tea-party wave of 2010, but he is far from a conservative firebrand. While other conservative newcomers to the Senate have gone out of their way to reject compromise, Mr. Rubio has tacked the other way.
He is a leading voice in a bipartisan Senate effort to overhaul the country's immigration laws. Some proposed provisions have drawn sharp criticism from conservatives, most prominently one that could allow illegal immigrants to one day gain citizenship.
Solving the immigration problem is crucial to the country and to the GOP, Mr. Rubio said. "This is a lingering issue that continues to haunt the country," he said in a recent interview, adding that Republicans can't just oppose what the White House has put forward but must "come up with an alternative that stays true to our principles."
Mr. Rubio's first big effort in the Senate typified his pursuit of legislative harmony. Titled the Agree Act and co-sponsored with Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, the bill brought together various pro-jobs proposals—such as specialty tax credits, relaxed rules ondepreciation—that both parties had agreed to in other settings. The package intentionally avoided any contentious provisions. While only portions of the bill became law, the partnership with Mr. Coons led the two to cooperate on four other bills last year. "I have been very surprised by Marco's willingness to take political risks by working with me on things that are hard to describe in narrow ideological terms," Mr. Coons said in an interview.
Mr. Rubio isn't without critics. Democrats in Florida point out he struck a more hard-line note on the immigration front while a lawmaker there. He had to correct his own Senate biography when it was pointed out his father came to the U.S. before the rise of Cuba's Fidel Castro, and not as a political refugee. Even his own memoir is heavy on personal history and light on vision for the country.
Also, Mr. Rubio did cast a "no" vote against one of the biggest bipartisan bills in recent times: the measure to extend the Bush tax cuts for all but the wealthiest taxpayers, which passed with a vote of 89-8 on New Year's Eve. He explained his vote by saying the bill would cost thousands of jobs as companies moved to pay higher tax bills. The vote could also serve to protect Mr. Rubio from criticism from fiscal conservatives should he run for national office.
People who have known Mr. Rubio for years, going back to his days in the Florida Legislature, agree that the biggest misconception is that he's some sort of brash ideologue.
During his eight years as a state lawmaker, the last two of which were as Florida House speaker, Mr. Rubio earned a reputation as a skilled climber but also as a policy technician.
He held town-hall-style meetings across the state for two years before assuming the speakership—"idearaisers," he called them—to get input on what people wanted. He turned the top 100 ideas into a book, which then became his legislative agenda. More than half of them eventually became law, including rules to curb gang violence and sexual predators and to promote energy-efficient buildings and cars.
"Marco has always been a solutions-oriented guy," said Will Weatherford, a Republican and the current Florida House speaker. "He wants to make things happen."
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What is the definition of "too localized" for closing a question? I see several suggestions, but nothing definitive or specific.
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What is the definition of "too localized" for closing a question? I see several suggestions, but nothing definitive or specific.
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"Too localized" should be used for very tiny geographic regions or vanishingly small periods of time. It is used when a question cannot possibly be answered because nobody participating in the site is likely to know the answer, and even if it were answered, nobody else would care.
For me, the canonical "too localized" question would be:
This is too localized because:
There seems to be some knee-jerk closing of questions as "too localized" throughout Stack Exchange simply because they mention a time span or because they mention a geography. There are many questions which are limited in time or which are limited in geography, which, nevertheless, must not be closed as "too localized." For example:
I am increasingly seeing trigger-happy people who misunderstand the purpose of this close reason... yesterday someone on Meta.SO voted to close a question about Stack Overflow Dev Days 2011 on the grounds that it was "too localized." COME ON!
Shouldn't some of the questions regarding compiler errors be closed as too localized? If someone forgets to add a semicolon or close a parenthesis that is too localized; it only applies to him in a very specific point in time and will ultimately benefit no one except for him. Stack Overflow is not a crowd-sourced compiler/debugger.
Here are a few questions that fit this criteria:
The list just goes on forever. I'm not saying we should help these people out, but I also don't see the benefit to the community, as a whole.
Per Stack Exchange Podcast #02 (not Stack Overflow Podcast #02) starting at ~22:00, here are some guidelines for "too localized," mostly from Jeff:
Joel's answer to this question summarizes a lot of his thoughts from the podcast; I haven't bothered recopying them here.
The now-all-too-common "debug this code for me" or "what is wrong with my code?" falls into this category, since SO questions should be about languages and/or tools. SO is not a crowdsourced debugger, nor a discussion forum, nor simply a place to "get free help".
Those are some basic reasons off the top of my head.
I'd use that close reason when the question is written in a non-English language.
Using the following query on google: http://www.google.ca/search?q=site:stackoverflow.com+"too+localized"
Interesting. I always thought that meant that the question does not have appeal to a broad enough base of developers. It's like that guy at a company meeting with 500 people in it who will raise his hand and ask a really specific question about his project that nobody else in the room gives a damn about and won't get off of it. :) Something like ...
It's a question and it's programming related. It might be considered "not a real question," but assuming the guy is sincere in asking it, it's just too localized to be answered or interesting to anyone if I did answer it (like I'm in his company or something). That was what I thought anyway.


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For example, Em(onD) and Em(onC♯). I found these in a Japanese guitar tab book I bought.
As @NReilingh says, it's probably a Japanese alternative to "slash notation".
"C/B" for example -- often read aloud as "C over B" means a C chord played over a prominent B bass note.
The easy way to play these is to have a bassist! You play a normal C, the bassist plays the B.
Without a bassist, you need to sound the bass note yourself. For example, to play G/F# you might use the 2nd fret of the bottom E string, instead of the 3rd fret you'd normally use.
It's probably a shorthand for slash notation. Try putting the "on" note in the bass below whatever other chord is notated.
Don't let the term "slash notation" bother you. It's simply a chord that has a bass note(the lowest note) that is not normally part of the chord. You find a lot of these chords in songs by The Beatles for instance.
While you are learning and so new at guitar, I suggest using songbooks that have chord diagrams each time you need to play the chord. In time, you won't need any help remembering the chords.
In addition to slim and NReilingh's answers:
Usually when you see a chord, the lowest note played is the root note of the chord. So when you normally see a chord marked as
Normally you play the chord going up. So in the
Musicians like playing around with something called "inversions" of a chord, where you change the ordering of the notes. Normally first inversion is where the second note (which in our example is the third degree of the scale) is played first:
In the same way, we have second inversion, which is where the fifth degree of the scale is played first:
So what the others were saying follows this logic. You should probably play an
For the
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Arrested: Donald Keeton, 56, Martins Ferry, petit theft, possession of criminal tools, Thursday.
Arrested: Robert Miller Jr., 35, Lot 5 , 150 Woodcreek St., Follansbee, petit theft, possession of criminal tools, Thursday.
Arrested: Joseph Rushin, 26, 1244 Pennsylvania Ave., warrant, Thursday.
Arrested: Kimberly LeMasters, 52, 138 Preston Ave., Weirton, driving under the influence, Thursday.
Arrested: Jamie Bing, 29, 453 Linden Ave., failure to appear, Thursday.
Theft: Four tires and an air conditioner were reported taken from a residence in 100 block of North Sixth Street, Thursday.
Jefferson County sheriff
Arrested: Michael Vendetta, 33, 201 Frostview Drive, Wintersville, theft, Thursday.
Arrested: Marco Martinez, 58, 337 Winters Drive, Weirton, theft, Thursday.
Arrested: Keith Davis, 27, 104 township Road 1102, Dillionvale, aggravated assault, today.
Stolen: Samsung big screen TV was reported taken from a residence in 1000 block of Wayne Township Road 155, Dillionvale, Thursday.
Scam: Fraudulent checks cashed in amount of $510 at a business in 800 block of Kingsdale Road, Steubenville, Thursday.
Wells Township
Arrested: Heather Bensie, 36, Lot 6, 401 LaBelle St., Brilliant, possession of drug abuse instrument, Thursday.
Arrested: Dean Reed, 38, 401 LaBelle St., Lot 6, Brilliant, drug abuse, possession of drugs, Thursday.
Arrested: Bryan Nicosia, 30, 1297 county Road 17, Rayland, probation violation, Thursday.
Cross Creek Township
Cited: Kara Smith, 25, 236 Ravine St., Mingo Junction, speeding; and Larissa Gibson, 19, 214 1/2 Park Ave., Mingo Junction, speeding.
Arrested: Ryan John Cipriani, 41, 174 McKinley Drive, Follansbee, nighttime burglary, June 8.
Arrested: Tonia Ranee Garan, 50, Apartment 6, 535 Cove Road, Weirton, driving under the influence, June 3.
Arrested: David John Milantoni, 50 of 861 Donegal Drive West Follansbee, driving under the influence, June 8.
Arrested: Donald Lee Glendenning, 34, Apartment 3, 263 Main St., Follansbee, domestic battery, June 8.
Arrested: William Russell Walnoha, 31, Rear 441 Main St., Follansbee, driving while suspended for driving under the influence and reckless driving, Wednesday.


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I am not getting enough power to my pool pump outside. I have tried reseting my circuit breaker multiple times and the rest of the house is still getting plenty of power but my pool pump still won't turn on or reset. I have tried plugging in a radio to the electrical outlet connected to the pool pump to see if that will at least work but that will only work when I actually turn the pool on. The pool pump still won't turn on but the radio will. So I am getting enough power to turn the radio on when I turn the pool switch on but not enough to start the pool pump? Shouldn't the electrical outlet work withought having the pool switch turned on? And why does the radio only work when I have the pool on? Sorry if that is the same question multiple times but I am very confused as to why this would be. It feels like I am not gettting enough initial power to start the pool pump and because of that it trips everytime I turn the pool on. Is this something that I can fix on my own?


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Since I updated from iOS 4.0 to iOS 4.2.1 my iPod Touch consumes less memory but still would like to hear some more advices about how to reduce memory leak in my device?
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Commandant sets Marines on new course
Q and A with Gen. James Amos on the future of the Corps
Since Gen. James Amos became commandant of the Marine Corps two years ago, the sea service has been challenged on multiple fronts.
First the ramping up of combat in Afghanistan, as a surge of Marines flooded violent Taliban strongholds in the south. Now the drawdown and handoff to Afghan national forces, despite no sign of an enemy collapse.
On the home front, economic woes and the winding down of more than 11 years at war have pinched military budgets. The Corps is shrinking by 20,000 Marines, to 182,100 and scraping to repair or replace battle-worn equipment.
More tough trade-offs lie ahead if nearly $500 billion in defense cuts already in store are doubled under the budget control law triggering "sequestration." If Congress can't find a solution, virtually no Marine program will be untouchable, Amos said.
Amid combat and budgetary strains, the Corps is also undergoing deep social change. After navigating the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" restrictions that prevented gay troops from serving openly, the armed forces now are focused on expanding opportunities for women and reducing sexual assault.
Military reporter Gretel C. Kovach sat down with Amos this week in Yuma, where the commandant was introducing the Defense Department's first operational F-35 Joint Strike Fighter squadron. Here are excerpts.
Q: Regarding Afghanistan, poppy cultivation rose 19 percent last year in Helmand province, where the Marines are stationed, according to the United Nations, and insurgents are hitting Afghan national forces hard. Are things falling apart now that the Marines are heading home?
A: No, I don't think so. I think it's just the opposite. As I've said over the last year and a half, I am growing more confident in the ability of the Afghan National Army. While we've drawn down in Helmand province, they have drawn up. They are about to field their fourth brigade. The fact that the enemy is attacking the security forces is a sign they understand that this is probably their last chance. The poppy growth increase — in the main areas a big chunk of it is no longer poppy. They've pushed it out to the deserts, in the area that was almost uninhabited.
Q: The U.N. report confirms that, but said cultivation on the outskirts more than makes up for it. That really concerns me because you and others in the military have been telling me that money goes directly into the enemy's coffers to buy things like roadside bomb materials, and that inevitably means more wounded Marines.
A: The fact that cultivation is up doesn't talk about two things. One, our ability to actually intercept the product as they drove it in cars and tried to get it down across the desert to lonely areas where they could transfer it across the border. We intercepted a bunch of it. Second thing is they have got a new governor in Helmand. By all accounts he wants to take a stronger position with regards to poppy. Yet to be seen what his impact is going to be, but I like what I hear.
Q: Marine war zone deaths have tapered significantly. Why is that?
A: The numbers (deployed there) have gone down, from about 20,000 a year ago to 6,800. The other part of the story is the Afghan National Army (soldiers) are actually in the lead. On the patrols, planning major operations. They are doing the kinds of stuff we were doing a year ago, two years ago, three years ago. And they've suffered a lot of casualties. They've been in a lot of fighting, and they've been very, very courageous.
Q: The overall level of violence is a lot higher now in Afghanistan than it was in Iraq when the Marines were drawing down.
A: Well, yeah. We had gone through the Awakening, and the tribal chiefs had taken charge of their piece of Iraq. We haven't really had that yet (in Afghanistan). We've got district governors that have been very courageous. The one in Nawa, he's very forthright. An honest man who seems to have a lot of sway with the people. That's probably the closest example of what we saw in Iraq, but it's certainly not universal.
Q: Let's talk sequestration. What impact could this have on the Corps?
A: I think it's going to be significant. The services were told not to do the detailed planning for this thing. But we have a sense of the impact when you start talking percentages. The gross aggregate percentage is probably a 9 to 11 percent reduction in the Marine Corps budget, minus personnel. My draft budget that is on the Hill is $23.9 billion. Because my budget is small and our service is so small, it has a disproportionate effect. We buy fewer things. But because you've bought fewer quantities the price of whatever it is, it could be a weapon, it could be a vehicle, the price goes up. You just reach a point and you go I can't afford it, and you cancel programs.
Q: What can you cut?
A: Well, we haven't picked programs yet. We've had an effort underway called a force optimization review group. We start with a mission, and we say what is it that America expects of its Marine Corps? We have to be able to do this when America, when the president and the national command authorities say, send in the Marines. So we put money in those pots. Then we said OK, what's left over and how do we afford the rest of the Marine Corps — bases and equipment and reset and modernization? We are working pretty hard to figure out what is good enough to get us through the next couple of years.
Q: The Marine Corps has said the F-35B is critical. Is that on the table, possibly cutting back purchases?
A: It's not for me. But for the truth of the matter, I think everything is going to be on the table. Sequestration says you're going to take a percentage out of every single program you have. It doesn't say you have the opportunity, General Amos, to pick and choose. As the leader of the Marine Corps, I am not going to want to cut a lot of my programs and modernization, because I need them for reset. The F-35 is replacing three airplanes. These airplanes are running out of service life. It's not a matter of, I can send them back to the depot and do a service life extension. They've already had that. My amphibious combat vehicle is going to replace a vehicle that is 40 years old.
What I don't want is battalions or squadrons at 70 percent manning and 70 percent equipment and 60 percent of the training money they need and ammunition. The hollow force matter, I lived in that in the '70s, the '80s and part of the '90s. I am the product of a hollow force. That's not what we do for the nation. The world can't tolerate a hollow force today.
Q: Does the Corps plan to stop segregating female recruit training at Parris Island, S.C.?
A: No, I think we've got that right. You've got 12 weeks to change this guy and gal. And what I don't need is any distractions. Moms and dads are more apt to send their daughter to the Marine Corps, in other words to be more comfortable, with segregated female boot camp. We see that in our recruiting.
Q: It seems odd because once they are Marines, they are going to be shoulder-to-shoulder with males.
A: It's really a function of how do we get the best product? The best young man and the best young woman? It goes both ways. I want my guys focused narrowly on their training. And I want my females doing the exact same thing. When they come out the other end and walk across that grinder out there at 12 weeks, they are all Marines. From that point on, the training is all integrated. It doesn't matter whether you are going to flight training or the school of infantry.
What we are going to do, though, is we are going to bring some of our female drill instructors from Parris Island out here to San Diego and put them in positions of authority and responsibility.
Q: So the men can get used to it?
A: The males, these young recruits, they look around and go, maybe someday I can be just like my sergeant instructor. Now all of a sudden they're going to see a hat walk in the room and it's going to be a female. My female drill instructors … they look like 10 million bucks. I guarantee you if they walked in a room with a bunch of male recruits, they'd snap to. Because our female drill instructors are such terrific role models. I am pretty proud of them.


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HIV Prevention in Very High Risk Men Who Have Sex With Men (ENGAGE)
The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified May 2012 by Fenway Community Health.
Recruitment status was Active, not recruiting
Recruitment status was Active, not recruiting
Fenway Community Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard University
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Conall O'Cleirigh, Massachusetts General Hospital
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First received: February 1, 2011
Last updated: May 7, 2012
Last verified: May 2012
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to pilot test an innovative program development project in an open trial format an 8-session, individual, cognitive-behavioral therapy based, intervention on ten (10) HIV-infected men who have sex with men who report very high levels (>10 episodes) of sexual transmission risk behavior (unprotected anal intercourse with serodiscordant partners).
Risk Reduction Behavior
Behavioral: Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Phase 1
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|HIV Prevention in Very High Risk Men Who Have Sex With Men
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDSU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Decrease in self-reported sexual risk taking [ Time Frame: Measured at baseline, 3 months post baseline (12 weeks) and again at 3 months post treatment (up to 24 weeks) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The potential for an effect will determine the magnitude of the change in self-reported unprotected anal intercourse acts with HIV-uninfected and HIV-unknown status partners in the previous 3 months from baseline assessment to post treatment and follow-up.
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|September 2011
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|September 2012
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|September 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Experimental: Cognitive-behavioral counseling
Behavioral: Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Treatment will include elements from effective interventions for reducing risky sexual behaviors
Detailed Description:
This is an innovative program development project that will, over the next year, pilot test, in an open trial format an 8-session, individual, cognitive-behavioral therapy based, intervention on ten (10) HIV-infected men who have sex with men who report very high levels (>10 episodes) of sexual transmission risk behavior (unprotected anal intercourse with serodiscordant partners). That is, to pilot test a novel prevention intervention designed to effect reductions in sexual transmission risk behavior among the riskiest men in the largest HIV risk group in the US. Effecting even modest reductions in the mean number of risk acts in this group will likely have substantial public health significance through the number of averted new HIV infections. Traditional secondary HIV intervention strategies (e.g., Information, Motivation, Behavior change (IMB)) models only have modest effects for HIV-positive MSM and there is evidence to suggest that these effects tend to diminish over time.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 years old or older
- Self-reports as a man who has sex with men (MSM)
- Self-reports being HIV-infected
- Reports engaging in 10 episodes or more of unprotected anal intercourse (receptive or insertive) in the past three months with male partners who are not HIV-infected or whose serostatus is unknown.
- Is capable of completing and fully understanding the informed consent process and the study procedures and assessments in English
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01291589
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01291589
|United States, Massachusetts
|Fenway Community Health
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
Sponsors and Collaborators
Fenway Community Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard University
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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|Conall M. O'Cleirigh, PhD
|Fenway Community Health
|Study Director:
|Wade Taylor, PhD
|Fenway Community Health
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 28, 2016
|Responsible Party:
|Conall O'Cleirigh, Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Associate Director, Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital
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|NCT01291589 History of Changes
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|February 1, 2011
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HIV prevention
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Apple 16GB The new iPad with WiFi - Black. Regularly $499.00.
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In-store only. Also, note that this is the iPad 3, not the recently released iPad 4, which is pretty much the same as the iPad 3 except 1) it is twice as fast, and 2) it uses the new tiny dock connector. Given that you can get a 16GB WiFi-only iPad 4 for $499 from Apple, this doesn't seem like a great deal unless you want to stick with the old 30-pin dock connector.
@billintoo: Good point. I'll ask the admin to clarify in the heading and body.
Yeah, for those confused about this deal: "The New iPad" is the actual name of the 3rd generation iPad. The real new iPad is actually the 4th generation and is titled "iPad with Retina Display".
Should call it the Apple Obsolete 3
Wrong, the iPad 4 is the mini and its half the speed of the IPad 3. The iPad 3 or the New iPad as its called does have the retina display. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/compare
@shocker - shiranissosexy is right. The "new iPad" that came out in March was updated/refreshed when the iPad mini was released and is now called the "new iPad with Retina Display". The line that came out in March that people were calling the iPad 3 is no longer being produced - the iPads available in the link you provided are actually 4th generation iPads and are better in a few ways than the ones that came out back in March.
Apple made that update quietly with very little fanfare.


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5 Beloved Celebrities Who Were Nothing Like You Think
#2. John Wayne Hated Horses, and Clint Eastwood Writes Love Songs
More so than any actual frontier-time outlaw, two Western actors define our image of what a cowboy should be like: John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. Enter Wayne's name into Google and 19 out of 22 images will show him wearing a cowboy hat. Meanwhile, all of Eastwood's most iconic film moments involve him pointing a huge gun at someone.
He used to aim for your hat, now he aims for your balls.
Even outside of their movies, both men are known for being extremely tough and extremely Republican. When Eastwood talked to that empty chair last year, we bet Wayne's ghost shed one single, manly ghost tear.
What They Were Really Like:
If you're good at trivia, you already know that Wayne's real name was Marion Morrison, but you can't hold that against him. What is more surprising is that if there was one thing John Wayne hated more than commies, it was horses. Or at least he hated riding them. Wayne had learned to ride when he was young, so by the time he started making cowboy pictures, he was already fed up with it. In the book John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth, Wayne is quoted as saying, "I still hate riding horses. I go by truck everywhere I can."
"Can't we replace this with a truck? And maybe give me a cool baseball cap?"
Another thing Wayne hated was hippies, for ducking the Vietnam draft ... even though he himself got out of going to World War II so he could make more cowboy movies (although the studio may have had more to do with that). If those draft-dodging hippies he disliked so much had film contracts, we're sure Wayne would have understood.
There's a rumor that Eastwood hates horses, too, because he's allergic to them, but it isn't confirmed. You know what he does hate, though? Violence. Despite owing so many cinematic moments to guns, Eastwood has criticized violence in movies and supports gun control in real life. Any day now he'll pull a Spielberg and replace them with walkie-talkies in all his old movies.
"Yes, I do have a permit for this one. Punk."
But enough about the stuff he hates, here's something Eastwood loves: singing and writing romantic songs. Besides recording a "cowboy songs" album early in his career, Eastwood wrote the love theme for his movie The Bridges of Madison County, a hit song for Diana Krall, and even the final theme for Gran Torino. We advise you not to listen to the following song if you plan on being intimidated by the man ever again:
#1. Elvis Presley Liked Schoolgirls, Pajama Parties ... and Dudes
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Elvis Presley is considered the first true rock star, and as such he got the combined amount of rock star pussy accumulated over thousands of years of human civilization. The way the man shook his hips made ripples in the fabric of reality that are still causing spontaneous female orgasms to this day.
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Admit it: You just felt something in your vagina, even if you don't have one.
His deep voice, jet black hair, and aforementioned hips turned Elvis into an immortal sex icon -- men wanted to be him, women wanted to do him, and hound dogs wanted to kick his ass for dissing them (you can't win them all).
What He Was Really Like:
Elvis sure loved the ladies, but he had one very specific type: They had to be young (like, school age), and if they looked like his mom, even better.
Elvis used to creep out his friends with his obsession with young girls. In fact, his wife, Priscilla, was introduced to him when she was 14 and he was 24, and according to people who were present that day, the relationship became physical right away. The fact that Elvis was grieving his mother at the time and that Priscilla sorta looked like her makes it even creepier. There are also pictures of Elvis groping a clearly uncomfortable 17-year-old Kay Wheeler, the president of his fan club, who later said, "He should have been under freaking arrest."
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She got her revenge by telling him "You'd look really cool with huge sideburns."
But the man also had a tender side. When he wasn't trying to touch their boobs, Elvis liked to throw pajama parties with teenage girls where he would start pillow fights and teach them to style their hair and put on mascara. Elvis was pretty insecure despite being, well, Elvis, so he preferred younger girls because they didn't seem as threatening to him. He was perfectly capable of seducing older women, though ... and dudes, apparently. Or at least one particular dude. According to Elvis' stepmother, Elvis had a long affair with his good friend Nick Adams, whom he met while shooting his movie Love Me Tender in 1956.
The Rebel & The King
We're just gonna leave this here.
One Elvis biographer claims that the King's manager, Colonel Parker, knew about the affair and used it as a way to control Elvis. If he really wanted to ruin the guy, though, Parker could have just revealed that his trademark black hair was actually dyed, because Elvis was a natural blond.
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It's like we don't even know you anymore, Elvis.
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David Leonhardt
David Leonhardt is the managing editor of a new New York Times website covering politics and policy, scheduled to begin in 2014. He was previously the paper's Washington bureau chief, as well as an economics columnist. He is the author of the e-book, "Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth," published by The Times and Byliner.
Previously, Mr. Leonhardt wrote the paper's Economic Scene column, focusing on the housing bubble, the economic downturn, the budget deficit, health reform and education. In April 2011, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Mr. Leonhardt has also been a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and helped found the Economix blog. He won the Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing in 2009 for a Times Magazine article, "Obamanomics." In 2005, he was one of the reporters who produced "Class Matters," the paper's series on social class in the United States. In 2004, he founded an analytical sports column, called "Keeping Score."
Before joining The Times in 1999 as a reporter in the business section, he worked for Business Week magazine and The Washington Post's metro section.
Mr. Leonhardt studied applied mathematics at Yale. He is a third-generation native of New York.
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You have a coil over an iron hearth. There is a current in coil which creates the flux $\phi_{1}$. The flux then distributes over the wider area in the iron (using wrong word?): $\phi_{2}$ the flux over the middle and the $\phi_{3}$ over the left.
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\phi_{3} |\phi_{2}| | COIL HERE
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The flux does not disappear so
$$\phi_{1} = \phi_{2} + \phi_{3}$$
could some explain the last statement? The last statement is a bit like Kirhoff's law. But I am unsure how can you play with fluxes. Could someone elaborate on this? On which rule, is the statement based on?


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5 Unknown Schmucks Who Turned Into Superheroes in the Clutch
#2. Margaret Corbin
The "Nobody"
Wife of John Corbin, a soldier in the American Revolution. Cooked, cleaned and occasionally took care of the wounded like most camp followers.
The Clutch
Four thousand Hessian mercenaries were marching on Fort Washington. In preparation for the attack, an artilleryman named John manned his cannon atop the ridge. And, like any loving wife, Margaret helped her husband to clean and reload between shots.
Not a sexual euphemism.
The battle was fierce; the Hessian mercenaries were backed by an additional 4,000 British soldiers. It wasn't long before John was hit and killed. Her pitiful female sensibilities overcome with emotion, the dutiful wife cradled his head and sobbed for the loss of her soul mate. Or at least, she would have if she played that kind of shit.
See, Margaret didn't have what you'd call a "normal" childhood: It was more the kind where your father is killed and your mother is kidnapped (and also killed) when you were five-years old.
You know. This kind.
So she pushed aside her feelings (and her husband's useless corpse) and armed the cannon herself. She stayed at her station and gave the approaching enemy hell, even after taking gunshots in the arm, shoulder and face. The face! Ultimately, the Battle of Fort Washington was lost, but Margaret survived (a shot to the frickin' face!) and kept on serving in the military, despite injuries that basically left her crippled. She would become the first woman to receive a soldier's pension and is currently the only soldier of the Revolutionary War buried at West Point. Her giant balls are buried next to her.
#1. Lenny Skutnik
The "Nobody"
An office assistant with the U.S. Government. Surprisingly, the origin of the term "Lenny Skutnik."
The Clutch
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 struck the 14th Street Bridge, crushing several vehicles on its way into the icy Potomac River.
Many people, including Lenny, exited their cars to watch the disaster unfold. Emergency services couldn't get to the crash site due to an early rush hour and an impending storm. As a result, only a few rescuers arrived on the scene, and they weren't properly equipped for immersion in the frigid river. Inflatable boats were useless against the ice chunks floating around the downed plane. Eventually a helicopter arrived to fish the survivors out, but this took time and the frigid river was taking its toll.
When one of the crash victims, Priscilla Tirado, was given the tow line, she was too weak to hold onto it. Firefighters, soldiers and paramedics couldn't do anything but sit back and watch as she floundered about in the icy water, quickly approaching death. That's when some guy in the crowd got a brilliant idea: He'd just jump in the river (the one that was deemed too dangerous for professional rescue crews in rafts) and swim right the hell over there.
OK, so maybe "brilliant" isn't the right word, but our spell-checker keeps asking us to correct "humungoballs," so it'll have to do.
Stripping down to a short sleeved shirt, Lenny Skutnik dove into the Potomac and swam like a maniac for the drowning woman. Against freezing water, frigid air and the river current, Lenny succeeded in bringing Priscilla Tirado to shore, where she received the medical attention that saved her life.
And hey, for once the hero did not go overlooked: For his bravery Lenny had a day named after him, received several awards (among them the Carnegie Hero Fund Medal), and he was even included in the State of Union Address that Ronald Reagan gave a few weeks later. Afterward, any hero included in the State of the Union became known as a "Lenny Skutnik." What did he do with all these well-deserved rewards? Kept his job as a federal employee.
Aquaman is more of a "hobby" than a "job" for Lenny, anyway.
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6 Artists Whose Weird Fetishes Defined Pop Culture
#3. Guillermo del Toro Is All About Slime and Bugs
Prior to 2006, the Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was mostly known for Blade II and Hellboy, but he quickly gained international attention with the release of his dark, fantasy masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth. And for a man with such a sprawling imagination, it always seems to come back to two things with him.
The secret trademark:
Guillermo is all about bugs and slime. And anytime he can combine the two, del Toro's in del heaven-o.
Seriously, no one has ever used that line before. Can you believe it?
The obsession goes all the way back to his first movie, Cronos (1993), which tells the story of a scarab artifact housing a magical, slimy bug that secretes immortality juice. Because what's the point of immortality juice if it's not coming from the innards of an autonomous insect, right? You might as well find yourself a vampire and call it a day.
Four years later, del Toro took the idea of horrifying insects and injected it with a million horror steroids. In Mimic, he invented genetically modified cockroaches that evolved to sort of mimic the appearance of humans. So they could eat them.
Sweet dreams!
The movie also vastly increased the amount of on-screen slime compared with Cronos, probably because it mostly took place in the sewers.
Or was it an adult theater?
Not only did the following, non-sewer-oriented, del Toro movies continue this trend, some even utilized the exact same visuals as Mimic, specifically the "gunk on bottoms of shoes," which has appeared in both Hellboy and Hellboy II.
And it didn't end there. What del Toro's Hellboy franchise lacked in bugs, it more than made up for with buckets of slime, supplied by the slobbering demon Sammael in the first movie and a slime-bleeding plant monster in the sequel.
It all came down to a powerful if kinda gross crescendo with Pan's Labyrinth, a movie that fully delivered on all of del Toro's trademarks, notably with the stick-bug "fairies" and the slime/golden key-vomiting giant toad. By the way, the fact that that last sentence made sense to a whole lot of people will probably keep us up tonight.
Nothing confusing here, apparently.
#2. Comic Book Legend John Byrne Likes Brainwash Rape
Even if you're not intimately familiar with the name John Byrne, you are definitely familiar with his work, since he's worked on almost every major American superhero since the 70s.
And whatever was going on here.
Picture the Superman you're familiar with -- the one who never dressed in blue spandex as a kid and never owned a super dog named Krypto. That Superman is courtesy of John Byrne, whose 1986 Superman reboot The Man of Steel single-handedly erased the kiddie stuff like Superboy and his Superdog from the entire Super mythos. For a while, at least. X-Men fans can also thank Byrne for co-creating the highly acclaimed Dark Phoenix Saga and the entire world can hire him a garbage truck full of hookers for saving Wolverine from being killed off by the studio.
Via Corey Bond
"You're welcome."
The secret trademark:
John Byrne kind of has a thing for sexually exploiting brainwashed women. Sorry, correction: His characters have a thing for sexually exploiting brainwashed women.
Let's go back to the Dark Phoenix Saga for a bit. It was a 1980 X-Men storyline involving the telekinetic Jean Grey gaining godlike powers and going a little crazy. It later became the basis for the third X-Men movie, though naturally, some parts of the comic had to be cut out -- like, say, Jean Grey's rape.
Major Mutton Chops up there is the villain Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde) who used a mind-tap device to make Jean believe she was her own distant ancestor and Wyngarde's lover (later wife). Though Mastermind's ultimate goal was simply to put Jean under his control, it gets downright kinky when you see the outfit and nickname he gave Jean:
"Behold, the Black Queen! We're totally just friends!"
Byrne would revisit this theme in Action Comics No. 592-593, where the mind-controlled Superman and the superheroine Big Barda are forced to make a porno together.
Byrne claims that the above setup is a porno only if you THINK it's a porno. So, the reaction of Barda's husband after seeing her porn tape is probably just a projection of our sick minds.
"My God, her acting in this re-enactment of 'Othello' is appalling!"
Another reason we're calling bullshit on Byrne's explanation is the fact that the villain behind this sleazy scheme is a guy actually named Sleez, whom we saw earlier keeping Barda captive in the sewers as his mind-controlled stripper (and possibly something more).
Even Sue Richards (the Invisible Woman) felt the stinging tip of Byrne's pen in Fantastic Four No. 280-282, when she was brainwashed by Psycho-Man and briefly became the villainess Malice.
Who dressed like a samurai hooker.
Sue later compared the experience to having her soul raped.
In case you were wondering whether Byrne simply hates DC/Marvel superheroines, we assure you that's not the case. You can find even creepier rape scenes in Byrne's original comics, like Next Men, where the character Sathanas (Hilltop) messes with the mind of the jail-baiterrific Jasmine, making her believe they're married. And that being married somehow means you have to sleep with the other person.
#1. David Cronenberg Has Something Against Motor Vehicles
David Cronenberg's film career has spanned more than four decades and dozens of movies, each a little more disturbing than the last. Take, for example, his horror masterpiece The Fly, or the aptly titled A History of Violence, or his 1981 sci-fi horror Scanners, which the official pictorial representation of the Internet comes from:
"Wait, you said it's full of free porn?"
There's no doubt the guy knows his stuff when it comes to horror films. But there's also no doubt there's something else going on in his head when he makes his movies.
The secret trademark:
Cronenberg is straight-up obsessed with car accidents. In movie after movie, car accidents are either what propels the action forward or are awkwardly shoved into the plot somewhere, as if Cronenberg just couldn't help himself. "So what?" you're probably thinking, "Car accidents are dramatic. There are worse things to claim as a trademark." Maybe. Or maybe David Cronenberg is an accident freak and needs some help.
Yeah ... we're leaning toward the latter.
It started in 1977's Rabid, where a woman gets into a motorcycle accident and undergoes experimental surgery (which leaves her with a vampiric stinger under her armpit.) Weird, but whatever. Certainly not "obsessive weird." Next up for Cronenberg was Fast Company, one of his rare nonhorror movies about -- guess what? Race car drivers.
... who often exploded. Fair enough. We'll chalk that up to subject matter. OF COURSE a movie about race car driving is going to have some car explosions. Moving on. Next up was Scanners, the head-explodin' horror about killer telepaths, that only truly kicks off after the renegade psychic Revok escapes the people pursuing him by crashing their car with his mind:
Okaaay. In The Dead Zone (1983), Christopher Walken crashes his car and falls into a coma, developing psychic powers in the process, as coma patients often do.
Clearly, a pattern has emerged. And he's just getting started. In 1991, Cronenberg adapted William S. Burroughs' book Naked Lunch into a movie, which was all fine and good until Cronenberg injected a new piece of dialogue detailing the fatal car-related accident of a homosexual clown named Bobo. And with that, everything starts to make sense.
Finally, David Cronenberg's car crash complex came to a gushing orgasm in his 1996 movie Crash. Don't get it confused with the 2004 movie about race, urban life and disconnect in the modern world. This Crash is about people who are sexually aroused by car accidents. No, really:
A million bucks says Cronenberg had an actual visible boner while filming every one of those scenes.
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