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Posted on 03/18/2005 7:26:14 AM PST by Pendragon_6
The Army is baffled by a recent spate of vehicle accidents in Iraq - many of them rollovers involving armored Humvees - that have claimed more than a dozen lives this year.
One key concern: Soldiers lack the skills to handle the heavier Humvees and are losing control as they speed through ambush areas before insurgents detonate roadside bombs.
"An individual feels that if he goes faster he can avoid that threat," says Lt. Col. Michael Tarutani, an Army official tracking the accidents. "But now he's exceeded, first, maybe his capabilities, and then maybe the speed for those conditions."
In the past four full months, the numbers of serious vehicle accidents and fatalities in Iraq have more than doubled from the previous four months, records provided by the Army show. In the first 10 weeks of this year, 14 soldiers were killed in accidents involving Humvees or trucks. All but one died in rollovers. If that rate continues, the number of soldiers killed in such accidents this year would be almost double the 39 soldiers killed in 2004. Detailed records involving Marines were not available.
The Army is trying to determine whether the dramatic increase in the number of Humvees in use in Iraq - or an increase in the amount of miles they are being driven - might explain the higher number of accidents. It also is questioning whether the handling and center of gravity in Humvees may have been altered by armor plating bolted on in Iraq or shields added around gun turrets.
it's the malicious SUV's at it again. what have we created?!
That would be my guess. I've never driven an armored Humvee but I have driven an ambulance and it handles much differently than a van or truck.
Probably has a lot to do with driving when you are really scared...
And could it be that, with the added weight alone (apart from any CG effects), the humvee isn't quite as responsive to the controls as it was without it?
Nah! Couldn't be that! That would mean that putting armor on the humvees wasn't a free lunch, even from a casualty-count-in-humvees perspective. And we all know that that isn't true!
Just damn.
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19 year old men behind the wheel of a V8. What is to wonder?
It's because soldiers
can't marry their Humvees. That
would solve everything!
Without beer.
I wonder if they modify the suspension for the extra weight? If not, maybe they should.
The hummer was never designed to be an armored vehicle. If the army needs armored vehicles there, they should use purpose built armor.
During the first Gulf War, another Marine and I "borrowed" a CUCV Ambulance and on a turn actually got that bad boy on two wheels. Yeah, heavy vehicles handle differently.
what have we created?!
"It also is questioning whether the handling and center of gravity in Humvees may have been altered by armor plating bolted on in Iraq or shields added around gun turrets."
This I can say from experience in driveing these things is the most likely cause of the rollovers.
I raced without beer when I was 19 all the time. 1970 Olds F85 with a 350.
Did you crash?
If you raise the center of gravity by mounting armor plating up high, it makes a vehicle prone to rollovers at speeds over 35 mph.
A few bumps.
No beer...
Either this is just a media scare or it has something to do with a change to the vehicle's stability involving the modifications.
I just watched a History Channel program on the Jeep. They tried to modify the Jeep replacing the solid axles, in the late '50s, I think. They ended up with a situation where if the Jeep became even the slightest bit airborne (hit a bump), the wheels would curl toward the center of the vehicle. If you landed even the slightest bit cockeyed, voila! - even the most experienced drivers would roll over.
Took a few deaths for them to figure it out.
Only what fit in the trunk.
"If you raise the center of gravity by mounting armor plating up high, it makes a vehicle prone to rollovers at speeds over 35 mph."
It most Certainly does.
My guess is that as the war dies down, battle hardened 19 year olds have a lot more time to play with these indestructible toys.
It seems that by inserting a blank as compensating weight it would help in realigning the center of gravity. Any reduction in acceleration, top speed, or storage/passenger capacity would likely be an acceptable trade off. Sounds like these vehicles were 'redesigned' in the field and need some more tweaking.
Also, fear leads to over-correction in steering. Happens all the time around here stateside. Someone (usually a young driver) comes upon some debris on the interstate (usually a re-tread from a semi tire that they could drive over anyway) and they drastically yank the wheel one way, then back the other way and there you have it - roll over w/ tragic deaths.
Duh! Ya think?
You cannot add thousands of pounds of armor plate to the upper surfaces of any vehicle without effecting the handling characteristics. The Humvee is s fine vehicle, as designed, but it is not a Stryker. Dressing them up like Strykers is going to increase the rate of rollovers.
Hopefully the lives saved by the armor will more than make up for the accidental deaths. The Army needs to train the drivers that these up-armored Humvees are not the same animal they trained on back in the States.
No brainer. Take a vehicle with relitively low CG, bolt on 4500 pounds of armour plate above its CG and you get an underpowered overweight POS that rolls over if you pass gas next to it.
Next question?
The up-armored HMMWV weighs just over 10,000 lbs without ammo, armament, etc.
Both have four tires, either bias or radial.
Nah, that wouldn't have a thing to do with the additional accidnets. </sarcasm>
The media attacks against the Pentagon and Rumsfield are directly responsible for these deaths. If it wasn't for their repeated screams for Armor, the soldiers wouldn't be driving vehicles they are not familiar with!
They are diesels.
Ok they still go fairly fast over ruff roads.
" They tried to modify the Jeep replacing the solid axles, in the late '50s, I think. They ended up with a situation where if the Jeep became even the slightest bit airborne (hit a bump), the wheels would curl toward the center of the vehicle. If you landed even the slightest bit cockeyed, voila! - even the most experienced drivers would roll over."
That's when the M-38A1 Jeep was replaced by the M-151 which was a totally different vehicle. The M-151 had unit-body construction and, as you noted, had independent rear suspension that allowed the rear wheels to tuck under during heavy braking and when turning. It was particulary tricky when you got into a turn at excessive speed and tried to brake in the turn. I was fortunate to have covered several thousand miles in an M-151 without incident - it was a great little vehicle.
If surrounding air bags and the panic button on the new civilian hummers would be added onto all hummers in Iraq, maybe it would have contributed to less casualties.
A key missing element leaves this issue impossible to analyze; what are the topographies of the accident locations?
We need a lot more information about what is happening in Iraq before we can jump to conclusions. As with 'Nam, are there factors being withheld for PR reasons? Or more likely, are the factors ignored because people in the government tend to have a blind spot and not consider unintended consequences.
Yes, the same government that would muck up a socialized health care system can muck up a military operation also.
Topography, the inclines, valleys, lumps, bumps in the road.
They do.
I used to get into lots of discussions about this. Check out the keywords if you're interested.
Military vehicles are meant to traverse rough terrain, not corner like a Porsche racing car or NASCAR stocker or Indy car on a smooth banked racing track.
They are not driving on a 6-lane concrete thruway either.
The suspensions are designed for maximum wheel travel and the chassis and body must be high enough to clear obstacles.
Stiffer spring rates and massive roll control bars do not work on rough surfaces -
Armored Humvees are being manufactured with beefed up suspensions now and retro-fit kits are being installed on many in service but they can never have the speed and handling of unarmored Humvees.
Recall the massive Super-Tigers Hitler had built near the end of WWII.
It big, to heavy, too slow - it was a flop in the field.
My old Jeep has zero armor when I was on active duty in the US Army yet I knew well if I took a red clay or sand road at higher (in a Jeep? LOL!)
speeds that the narrow track (center of tires width between wheels) and height and stiff suspension was going to get me on my head if I did not drive with skill and caution.
Same on the streets with my sports cars - I actually really learned to drive my Triumph fast on curves on the red clay back roads at Fort Benning, Georgia -
That is why you see so many top Indy and NASCAR drivers that were once dirt-track race drivers - AJ Foyt, Parnelli Jones, on up to todays drivers.
Using your brain and slowly learning how to "toss" a vehicle in a "drift" (really a "controlled" 4-wheel "slide"!) on dirt or clay can teach you how to apply those lessons on hardtop roads and stay safe and alive.
This is something that takes time and talent and instinct.
The US military cannot reteach every soldier how to drive overweight modified Humvees like a Corvette or an Indy Car.
I never have seen comparisons of our US troops killed in rollovers in combat areas to civilians killed in modern street vehicles that are lower, lighter, handle much better than older street cars.
My suspicions are that the %/100,000 drivers killed in civilian accidents far exceeds out %/100,000 of military accidents in combat zones.
What are the numbers of deaths per 10,000 vehicles :
USA on the hardtop roads :
US troops in combat rough terrain :
I could be wrong.
I doubt that I am wrong.
A Humvee is not a tank
A Humvee is not a sports car
The stupid thing had a high center of gravity to begin with. Then they added armor it wasn't designed to have, adding additional weight it wasn't designed to support as well as raising the CG. The rollovers surprise them? Now I'm surprised.
If that rate continues, the number of soldiers killed in such accidents this year would be almost double the 39 soldiers killed in 2004. Detailed records involving Marines were not available. Um, clearly the difference between Army types and Marines
Just exactly it. Nice driving!
I knew that somebody here would actually be familiar with the modification. That makes two of you guys so far. Check Ben Hecks' post. He actually drove the darn things well enough to be here to tell the tale.
What a body of knowledge we have here!
Me too, but you had to drive the thing like you knew it was out to kill you.
"Me too, but you had to drive the thing like you knew it was out to kill you."
As you probably remember, the M-151 speedometer read from 0 to 60 in an arc approximating 240 degrees; at the bottom of the gauge, it said "miles per hour". My Jeep in 'Nam would do "per" which was about 15 mph past the 60 mark. I'll have to admit that I pushed it a few times driving between Long Binh and Saigon but that was a nice smooth highway with only a few gentle curves. But that was a long time ago when I was young........
Found On Road, Dead. Fix Or Repair Daily.
I buy Toyota, now. At least they ACT like they're interested if you've got a problem - unlike the Wilkinson Double Sword Bird that you get from Ford.
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CTV (ended 1990)
This was a sketch comedy show for young adults that was very popular in the 1980s. The series began life
as a live variety show in Ottawa, Canada in 1979, which featured comedy sketches, music videos, and call-in contests. After the first season, the series was given a massive retooling and became a videotaped sketch comedy series. Its biggest success came when the series found its way south to the United States and became one of the trademark shows of Nickelodeon, a new cable channel aimed at children, where it aired until 1992. YCDTOTV may be long gone, but one of the shows trademarks, people getting covered in green slime (usually when they said "I don't know?"), has become a Nickelodeon staple.
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Galaxy High School
CBS (ended 1987)
An animated series developed by writer/director/producer Chris Columbus about two students chosen from Earth to attend school at Galaxy High, the universe's first intergalactic high school on the asteroid Flutor.
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Sherlock Hound
YouTube (ended 1985)
Meitantei Holmes (Sherlock Hound) is, as of 12/31/04, the last TV series to be made by Hayao Miyazaki (Kiki's Delivery
Service, Spirited Away). The shows plot centers around Sherlock Holmes, along with the help of Doctor Watson, figuring out and stopping the evil schemes of Professor Moriarty and his henchmen Todd and Smiley. Miyazaki wrote the scripts for all 26 episodes, but he actually only directed 6 of them. The easiest way to tell these episode apart is to look at Professor Moriarty's henchman, Smiley; in a Miyazaki directed episode, he has green fur. Two of these episodes were theatrically released along with Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind in 1984. ("Blue Ruby" and "Treasure Under the Sea".)
Opening Theme
: "Sora kara koboreta Story" ("The Story That Fell From the Sky") by Da Capo
Ending Theme
: "Thames gawa no Dance" ("Dance of the River Thames") by Da Capo
Show's Title in Other Countries
: Sherlock Hound (English) Sherlock Holmes (French and Spanish) Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes (German) Il fiuto di Sherlock Holmes (Italian)
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Pole Position
CBS (ended 1985)
Pole Position was a Saturday-morning animated action/mystery series loosely based on a popular 1980s racecar video game. It followed the
adventures of three children, teenagers Dan and Tess Darrett and their younger sister Daisy, who worked for a secret crimefighting organization called Pole Position, run by their uncle, Dr. Zachary Darrett. With their computerized talking cars Roadie and Wheels, and their squeaky mascot Kuma, the children travelled around the country on missions, using a racing stunt show as their cover. Picture Speed Racer crossed with Inspector Gadget, with a few elements of Knight Rider and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? thrown in for good measure. The show premiered on CBS in the fall of 1984 and ran for 13 episodes, which were rebroadcast until the end of August 1985, and again on other networks such as USA through the remainder of the decade. It was also on the Family Channel (now ABC Family) in 1991 - 1992.
The Cast
Tess Darrett:
Tess is Dan's slightly older sister and definitely the more mature and levelheaded of the pair. She drives Wheels, the red Pole Position car. (Trivia: In the show's development, Tess was originally named "Tase" -- rhymes with "ace", short for Anastasia -- because the creators wanted a slightly unusual name for their female lead.)
Dan Darrett:
Dan is the middle child of the Darrett siblings. He tends to be a bit stubborn and arrogant, especially about his driving. He often says and does things without thinking. Often that gets him into hot water. Dan drives Roadie, the blue Pole Position car.
Daisy Darrett:
Daisy is the youngest of the three Darrett children, looking to be about ten. She dreams of being a racer like her big brother and sister, but has a tendency to sneak off and get herself nabbed by the bad guys. Daisy likes video games and playing with Kuma and the car computers. She seems to have a special bond with Wheels in particular.
Roadie is the computer module for the blue Pole Position car, a more modern 1980's hot-rod than Wheels (with some resemblance to a DeLorean, complete with gull-wing doors). Roadie loves to race and exchange banter with Dan, while trying to keep him out of trouble.
Wheels is the computer module for the red Pole Position car, based on the classic muscle cars of the 1960's (particularly a Mustang convertible). Wheels is something of a worry-wart, often voicing concerns that he's getting too old and run-down for crimefighting work. (Trivia: Wheels' voice was provided by Mel Franklin of the Temptations, who passed away in 1995.)
Kuma is the Pole Position team's squeaky-voiced mascot, a hybrid of several different kinds of animal. His antics provide much of the show's comic relief. (Trivia: "Kuma" is Japanese for "bear", and was the name of Michael Reaves' dog at the time he developed the show.)
Dr. Zachary Darrett
("Uncle Zach"): Dr. Zachary is the head of Pole Position, gives the kids their missions, and serves as a source of information, though he rarely tells them the full story until it's over.
Questions and Answers
Q: Where can I get episodes of Pole Position on tape?
In North America, four commercial Pole Position tapes were produced by Karl-Lorimar / Kideo Video. Two compilation tapes,
Racing to Adventure
(#138) and
Road Fever
(#190), were released in 1986/1987.
contains the episodes "The Code", "The Canine Vanishes", "The Chicken Who Knew Too Much", "Strangers on the Ice", and "The Race".
Road Fever
contains the episodes "The Thirty-Nine Stripes", "The Thirty-One Cent Mystery", "Dial M for Magic", "The Bear Affair", and "To Clutch a Thief". There is also a mislabelled copy of
Road Fever
that was packaged in the
Racing to Adventure
box, hence some possible confusion about both compilations being identical; they're not. In 1989 two single-episode tapes, "The Secret" (#485) and "The Trouble with Kuma" (#486), were released. All of these are relatively available online, though you may have to look a bit. Good places to start are eBay, Half, and Amazon, or you can search the web for used or out-of-print video dealers. Expect to pay around $15 - $25 apiece for the compilations, but the single-episode tapes can usually be had for about $5 - $8. If the condition of the outer packaging is important to you, be warned: A lot of video stores cut the oversized compilation boxes to fit a standard VHS plastic case. Uncut boxes can be difficult to find. Unfortunately only 12 of the 13 episodes were made commercially available. The only way to get "Shadow of a Trout" is to find someone who recorded and kept the shows when the networks aired them. (That's a shame, as this episode contains one of the best moments of the entire series.) Try a Google search on "Pole Position cartoon". There are plenty of fans out there who will share their episodes. (Legality and quality cannot be verified) In the U.K., Pole Position was sold commercially on PAL-format tapes containing two episodes each. Not for certain which episodes were released, but one tape (#LR 2223) with "The Code" and "The Canine Vanishes" has been confirmed. In Australia, "Racing to Adventure" (Roadshow-Lorimar, #2668) was also released with 5 episodes, so it's possible "Road Fever" and the single-episode tapes were too. Others likely exist as well, including versions in other languages. The series was also aired in France and Brazil, and possibly Italy, Spain and Germany. If you would like to help petition DIC Enterprises to release the entire series on DVD, you can write to them at the address below. ATTN: K.R. Hartlove Home Entertainment Coordinator DIC Enterprises 4100 West Alameda Avenue Burbank, CA 91505 You can also vote online to express your interest in purchasing the series on DVD.
Q: What are the lyrics to the theme song?
(UNCLE ZACH: From now on, like your parents were, you are the secret force of Pole Position.) They're movin' real fast They're the only ones who can get there on time (TESS: Let's go, Dan!) (DAN: O-kay, sis!) And never too far behind They are always fighting crime (ROADIE: Step on it, Dan!) (DAN: Ready when you are, Roadie!) Round the turn they will face an adventure In the danger zone Pretty soon they'll be off on a mission Come and watch them go! (DAN: Hydrofoil mode, Roadie!) (ROADIE: Hydrofoil engaged, Dan.) Pole Position! What's behind their stunt show? (TESS: Wheels, hovercraft, quick!) (WHEELS: Anything you say, Tess.) Pole Position! What's behind their stunt show? (Kuma squeaks, Daisy giggles) Pole Position! Only their Uncle knows! Pole Position! Sit back and watch them go-ooo-oh! Hey-Oh! Hey-Oh! Hey-Oh! Hey-Oh! Hey-Oh!
Q: How do you know the episode titles?
Episode titles for Pole Position were never given in the actual shows. During the initial CBS run they were revealed in a brief "coming up next" snippet immediately prior to each episode. Reruns on other networks omitted these, so they are hard to come by nowadays, though a couple of the commercial tapes give the title of the episode on them.
Q: What kind of creature is Kuma, exactly?
Writer Marc Scott Zicree says that the original concept was for an "intelligent raccoon", but Kuma has also exhibited characteristics of a cat, a monkey, a dog, and possibly a koala. The show never says specifically.
Q: What happened to the kids' parents?
The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons
by Jeff Lenburg states that the Darrett parents "disappear in an unexplained explosion during a stunt race", and the show never elaborates. Uncle Zachary seems to believe they're dead, or at least never hints otherwise to the kids. Co-developer and writer Michael Reaves tells me that the original plan was for the kids to eventually come across clues about their spy parents. Unfortunately the series didn't last past the first season, and no specific planning was ever done for a second. The episodes were written as stand-alones, with no extended formats or "mythology", to allow them to be run in any order and still make sense. Given the show's nature for surprise twists ("Shadow of a Trout"), it wouldn't be too surprising to learn that the Darrett parents were still alive (possibly in an episode titled "Mr. and Mrs. Darrett"?)
Q: Who is the older sibling, Dan or Tess?
The show never specifically says, but Michael Reaves tells me that Dan is older.
Q: Why do so many Pole Position pages, including the Internet Movie Database, list Helen Minniear in the role of "Teacher"?
Not sure - Jeff Lenburg's
has it too, but there is no teacher character in any of the episodes, and the name Helen Minniear does not appear anywhere in the show's credits. In fact, Pole Position is the only credit the IMDB gives for her! Michael Reaves had no idea either. Maybe it's an error, possibly a credit from another show, that got entered by mistake on one site and has propogated across the Net ever since.
Q: I heard this show was actually a dubbing of a Japanese cartoon that was renamed Pole Position for the U.S. distribution. Is this true?
This is a persistent rumor, but it is not correct. Itseems to stem from the fact that the show's animation style has a Japanese appearance to it, and the inevitable comparisons to Speed Racer. Head writers Marc Scott Zicree and Michael Reaves, the latter of whom co-developed the series with Jean Chalopin have stated that, although the animation was done by a Japanese studio known then as Anime International Company- in conjunction with studios KK C&D Asia and Visual 80 (hence the look and feel), the series itself was conceived and created in the good old U.S. of A.
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Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers
Disney Channel (ended 1990)
Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers
was mainly about Chip and Dale's adventures in fighting crimes that the police think are
too small to handle. Together, with the help of Gadget Hackwrench, the inventive and industrious girl mouse, a blue fly named Zipper, and Monterey Jack, a husky, strong mouse with a killer addiction for cheese, they match wits with evil scientists like Professor Nimbul and crooked cat underworld leader Fat Cat and his gang. This series first began on the Disney Channel in the spring of 1989, and then it had a long life on The Disney Afternoon block of shows.
Main Characters
The brave leader of the Rescue Rangers, resembles a pint-sized Indiana Jones. He is by far the most practical member of the team and his loyalty to the others never wavers, even if Dale does try his patience at times.
He is much more excitable than Chip, a fact reflected in his fondness for garish red-and-yellow Hawaiian shirts. Has a fondness for comic books, science fiction and tall stories in general.
Gadget Hackwrench:
The only female Rescue Ranger is a brilliant inventor and created all the teams vehicles. The daughter of one of Monty's old friends, she is more than just a pretty face.
Monteray Jack:
Known to his friends as Monty, he is the eldest of the Rescue Rangers and was an explorer before he joined up with Chip and Dale. Has an addiction to cheese, which sometimes lands himself and the others in trouble.
A fly who hung round with Monty on his travels, he is the smallest Rescue Ranger. But what he lacks in size he more than makes up for in courage.
As his name suggests, he is an overweight cat who used to belong to the first human villain the Rangers ever put behind bars. He is greedy, arrogant and short-tempered and is forever looking for some means of dominating the world.
Meps, Wart, Mole and Snout:
These are Fatcat's stooges. Meps is also a cat, while Wart, Mole and Snout are a lizard, a mole and a rat respectively.
Professor Nimnul:
A crazed human professor who is forever coming up with new devices with which to dominate the world.
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Double Dare
Nickelodeon (ended 2000)
Double dare is undoubtedly the phenomenon that made Nickelodeon what it is today. The rules go something like this:Each round
starts off with a toss-up physical challenge. Whoever wins gets $10 and control of the game. Host Marc Summers (Jason Harris in Double Dare 2000) asks the winning team a question. If they don't know the answer or think the other team doesn't have a clue, they can dare them to answer it for double the dollars. But they have to be careful because they can double dare the first team back for 4 times the amount. Then, they either have to answer the question or take a physical challenge. In round 2, dollar values are doubled. The winner of the game moves on to the obstacle course, where they navigate through 8 obstacles and they win a prize for each obstacle. If they make it through all 8 obstacles, they win the grand prize.
Double Dare history
On October 6, 1986, the first episode of Double Dare was taped at WHYY studios in Philadelphia. In 1987, Nickelodeon decided to create a short-lived weekend edition called Super Sloppy Double Dare, which was cancelled after about 20 episodes. One year later, in 1988, Fox bought syndication rights from Nickelodeon, so they created another short-lived edition called Family Double Dare. Because Fox wanted more adult material on their network, Family Double Dare was canned after 13 episodes. But the good news: the original Double Dare was still in production.
Later, in 1989, other kids game shows came into play, thus causing Double Dare's ratings to drop a little. So Nickelodeon reincarnated Super Sloppy Double Dare and dusted it off to incorporate the "super sloppiness". This version of Super Sloppy Double Dare lasted about one season, but it had 100 episodes, plus a bunch of special episodes. Then, in 1990, Nickelodeon reincarnated Family Double Dare, redesigning the Fox version. A year later, in 1991, because of these new spin-offs, the original Double Dare was cancelled, but its spin-offs remain. In 1992, a two-episode spin-off called Super Special Double Dare was created. In Super Special Double Dare, Nickelodeon celebrities played against each other (usually boys against girls). In the first episode of Super Special Double Dare, the cast of Clarissa Explains It All played against the cast of Welcome Freshmen. The second episode was the NBA All-star special. In 1993, the last season was shown. Harvey had to quit his job of announcer because of the birth of his son Caleb. So Doc Holiday took over. The final episode was the hour-long Family Double Dare Tournament of Cahmpions, which pitted the smartest and fastest teams against each other. After that, Double Dare was officially cancelled, but Family Double Dare played reruns until 1999. Like Marc Summers said in his autobiography, Everything In Its Place, "We had enough episodes on tape to do reruns forever".
That could have been the end of Double Dare...until January 22, 2000! Double Dare was reincarnated as Double Dare 2000. Jason Harris was the new host of this short-lived revival of Double Dare. The preview Snick episode of Double Dare 2000 pitted the cast of the Amanda Show and the cast of 100 Deeds For Eddie McDowd against each other. The show was cancelled in December of 2000, but, just like the other Double Dare spin-offs, reruns are shown on Nickelodeon GAS
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The Mysterious Cities of Gold
In the year 1532, Mendoza, a Spanish Navigator, Estaban, a young orphan, Zia, a young Incan girl, and a band
of Spanish sailors set sail from Barcelona in search of El Dorado, the Mysterious City of Gold. Each is on a personal quest of discovery, heritage, and wealth.
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Degrassi High
CBC (ended 1992)
Degrassi High is a realistic look at high school life.
Lyrics to the theme song:
Wake up in the morning,
got to shake the feeling. I've gotta face a day at school. What's to be afraid of I can ask a question, and maybe even bend the rules.
I'm seaching for a place where I fit in, there's a way, if I look that I can win. Yeah I can see I'm not alone. I can face the unknown.
Everybody can succeed, in yourself you must believe. Give it a try. At Degrassi High!
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The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
NBC (ended 1989)
Welcome to
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
guide at TV.com.
Cartoon Summary
The Mario Bros.; Mario and Luigi, were
two plumbers from Brooklyn. On one of their plumbing jobs, they were in the middle of unclogging a bathtub drainpipe. Without any warning, the drain suddenly pulled the brothers in, and warped them to the Mushroom Kingdom. Upon their arrival, they rescued Princess Peach Toadstool and Toad from King Bowser Koopa and his army. Although Princess Toadstool and Toad are now safe, the Koopas are still at large. On top of that, the warp zone leading to Brooklyn had closed. It's up to Mario and Luigi to not only liberate the Mushroom World from King Koopa, but to find a way back to Brooklyn.
Live Action Summary
Set after the events of the Donkey Kong games, but prior to the events of the cartoon, this portion of the show shows us how Mario and Luigi used to live, running their plumbing shop in Brooklyn. Their friends include Radigator and Edison the Electrician, not to mention the many guest stars that come to visit.
The Theme Song:
Plumber's Rap
Hey paisanos! It's the Super Mario Brothers Super Show! We're the Mario Brothers, and plumbing's our game We're not like the others who get all the fame If your sink is in trouble, you can call us on the double We're faster than the others, you'll be hooked on the Brothers Unh! H-hooked on the Brothers Gimme gimme, gimme gimme Yo, you're in for a treat, so hang on to your seat Get ready for adventure and remarkable feats You'll meet Koopas, the Troopas, the Princess, and the others Hangin' with the plumbers, you'll be hooked on the brothers To the brink! Unh! Unh! I say a h-h-h-h-hooked on the brothers! [echo and fade out]
Plumber's Rap Part 2
Yo, yo! It's the Mario Brothers And plumbin's their game Found the secret warp zone While working on the drain Lend the princess a hand In the Mushroom Land Comin' atcha with the plumbers, You'll be hooked on the brothers! Nowww Evil Koopa and his Troopas Are up to misbehavin' They kidnapped the princess; Mushroom Land needs savin' Abusin' and confusin' Everybody he discovers They can't help but Be hooked on the brothers! Unh!
Do the Mario
Do the Mario! Swing your arms from side to side Come on it's time to go Do the Mario! Take one step And then again Let's do the Mario All together now! You got it! It's the Mario! Do the Mario! Swing your arms from side to side Come on it's time to go Do the Mario! Take one step And then again Let's do the Mario All together now! Come on now! Just like that!
Character Guide
Mario Mario
The main character, and unofficial leader of the heroes. Being a plumber, he can can do just about anything that involves plumbing,
he can use plumbing tools for a lot more than just plumbing! Mario also has a huge taste for Italian food. On this show, he and Luigi got sucked down a drain in Brookyln which took them to the Mushroom Kingdom, and now they have to find their way home.
Luigi Mario
Mario's younger brother. Although he tends to have a more cowardly attitude towards danger than Mario, he's probably the saner of the two. Unfortunately for Luigi, the others tend to treat him like a fall boy, causing him to end up doing a lot of dirty work. Like his bro, he's a plumbing pro, and he has a fondness for Italian cuisine.
Princess Peach Toadstool
She's the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, which has been taken over by the Koopas. She's also the most reasonable thinker of the group. She and the Marios have to find a way to stop the Koopas so she can reclaim her kingdom.
On the cartoons, she was never called Peach, so the guide will usually refer to her as Princess or sometimes Princess Toadstool for continuity's sake. Please refer to her as Princess in your submissions.
Princess' assistant. Toad often has a lot to say, and usually cracks jokes here and there. Though he doesn't look like he's capable of much, he's proven he can pull through when things get tough, and is often fairly resourceful.
King Bowser Koopa
The leader of the Koopa Troop is big, bad, and proud of it. He's friends with no one, and even his henchmen are treated poorly by him. However, he does have a sense of humor, and it shows. His goal in life is to conquer the Mushroom World, one land at a time. He usually hangs out with either Mouser, Triclyde, a Troopa, or sometimes all three of them. In many episodes, he will don a costume and go by a different name, usually just for the heck of it.
On this show, he was never called Bowser, so the guide will usually refer to him as Koopa for continuity's sake. Please refer to him as Koopa in your submissions.
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E-Commerce Report; Crime is soaring in cyberspace, but many companies keep it quiet.
Published: January 27, 2003
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Corporations, meanwhile, are struggling to keep pace. With budgets and personnel stretched thin, companies that added many new technologies to their computer systems during the dot-com build-up now find themselves lacking the resources to secure those systems against break-ins.
Part of the problem is that cybercrime is much harder to detect than crime in the actual world.
''The vast, vast majority of virtual crimes right now never get caught or prosecuted, where you have some chance in the real world,'' said Dan Farmer, chief technology officer of Elemental Security, a computer security firm in Silicon Valley. ''It is extraordinarily hard to prove anything using digital evidence,'' Mr. Farmer said.
Law enforcement authorities acknowledge the difficulty of catching electronic thieves. ''The crime is much easier because you have anonymity,'' said Tim Caddigan, deputy special agent in charge of the Secret Service's financial crimes division. And often, he said, ''It's much more profitable for criminals to use the computer,'' than to steal through more traditional means.
Adding to the difficulty of catching wired thieves is the fact that the authorities are outnumbered and, in many cases, outsmarted by criminals with better computing skills -- although the F.B.I. and the Secret Service are increasing their ranks of investigators with sophisticated computer skills. The number of investigators in the F.B.I.'s cyber division will roughly double in the coming months, to 700, for example, while Mr. Caddigan of the Secret Service said 200 of the Service's 3,000 agents had completed training and more would follow.
Electronic crime is also difficult to detect because it is so often an inside job. Security experts say the fastest-growing type of cybercrime involves the theft of intellectual property -- the pilfering of a company's plans for major projects, for instance, or marketing schedules and budgets stolen by an employee and sold to a competitor.
John Pescatore, an analyst with Gartner, a technology consulting firm, estimates that in 70 percent of computer systems intrusions that resulted in a loss, an employee was the culprit. In many cases, he said, those employees knew the company was headed for difficult times and possible layoffs, and sold information to competitors ''either to make sure they got a good job at another place, or just to give themselves a golden parachute.''
In other industries, losses have become so widespread that accounting experts are starting to call for fuller disclosure of cybercrimes by corporate victims, saying that customers and shareholders should know more about the losses and risks.
Mr. Ponemon, the consultant, said companies often conceal the losses in their balance sheets. ''It'll be recorded in different accounts that wouldn't have the same level of scrutiny as a loss,'' he said. ''It could be classified as a cost of sale, or a product cost, or in shipping or billing disputes and errors, and so on.''
Such cover-ups, do not allow for ''a clean picture about how expensive it is to have to deal with fraudulent or criminal activities,'' Mr. Ponemon said. ''This is becoming a very material part of the business model, so it deserves its own disclosure. That way, people can make better business decisions -- whether to demand better controls or better technology or different precautions.''
Securities and Exchange Commission rules say companies must disclose information that ''a reasonable investor needs to know in order to make an informed decision about an investment.'' Regulators and securities lawyers interpret that rule using various thresholds, as when a loss equals 2 cents a share or 5 percent of net income.
A securities lawyer cautioned against holding companies to a higher standard for disclosing cybersecurity breaches in all cases, lest they attract copycat attacks. ''Sometimes it's more socially responsible not to disclose, because it could multiply a company's losses by 20,'' he said.
But Jay Ehrenreich, senior manager of the cybercrime prevention and response group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said requiring broader disclosure of cybercrimes ''makes a lot of sense, and is something shareholders should demand.''
But he does not expect corporations to easily give in to such demands. ''A lot of times companies don't want to know what was taken,'' Mr. Ehrenreich said. ''They just want us to find what the problem was and close the door, because there's a cost to finding out what was actually taken.''
Photo: Jay Ehrenreich, a cybercrime investigator with PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York, says broader disclosure of Internet crime is something shareholders should demand. (Librado Romero/The New York Times) Chart: ''Crime Wave'' The weak economy, the increasing electronic flow of money and the growing sophistication of cybercriminals have led to a sharp increase in computer break-ins and network attacks. WORLDWIDE SECURITY VIOLATIONS Graph tracks the number of worldwide security violations from 1990-2002. REPORTED DIGITAL ATTACKS IN 2002 United States: 26,792 Brazil: 5,568 Britain: 4,950 Germany: 4,621 Italy: 2,652 (Sources: CERT Coordination Center; mi2g, a London-based technology security firm)


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By PEGGY MCCARTHY
Published: November 9, 1997
AN advocate for children with learning disabilities, Ann W. Seigel, of West Hartford, said she gets an upset stomach every time she hears talk of reducing the number of children being diagnosed with learning problems. Ms. Seigel says she worries that if educational services are cut for these children, the risk of their dropping out of school will rise sharply and they could become unemployable, or even commit crimes. Ms. Seigel said she gets sicker with fears that parents of other children will rally to support cuts in special education programs.
''There've been a lot of bad vibes across the country'' about learning disabled students, said Ms. Seigel, whose grown son has learning disabilities. ''There's been bashing that they're not truly disabled, that the parents are buying the labels. When you live with a youngster and you know he has a disabling condition that you can't see, it's very disturbing.''
But the Bridgeport Superintendent of Schools, James Connelly, sees a need for streamlining the special education process and program. He said he has seen children from, say, Honduras or El Salvador being inappropriately labeled as learning disabled because they had missed years of school in their own countries.
''There's a tendency if you don't know what to do with them, put a special education label on them,'' he said, explaining that such misidentification helps drive special education costs up when a good language program would be more effective. He maintained that a ''one-size-fits-all'' philosophy of addressing learning problems has put more children in special education programs than need to have been there.
Lumped together as special education students are children with mental retardation, blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder and a variety of other problems, such as difficulties in learning how to read and write.
The focus of most of the state's attention is on children classified as learning disabled, a broad label that generally describes people with at least average intelligence who have trouble understanding spoken or written language. They may have problems listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, spelling or doing math. The Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner who grew up in Newtown, for example, has dyslexia, which means he might see a letter like b as a d. He has said that it was easier to participate in the Olympics than it was to be called on to read in school.
Nearly 14 percent of public school students have been identified as needing special education and some 48 percent of those have been classified as learning disabled, according to figures compiled by the State Department of Education. ''We're not trying to throw out special education. We're not trying to take away services,'' said Thomas Murphy, a spokesman for the Education Department. ''But,'' he added, ''we have to question whether 14 percent of our students are special education students.''
In Connecticut, more than two-thirds of special education students spend most of their time in regular classrooms, and receive fewer than 10 hours a week in supplemental instruction, according to a draft report on special education written by the department. About 8 percent have been placed in private schools, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars a year. This is paid for by the school district where the child lives -- or lived, in instances where the state has removed children from their homes.
The report cites an increase in special education students from 3 percent in 1992-93 to 13.9 percent in 1995-96, a 4 percent exit rate from special education programs, and suggests that too many students are being identified as learning disabled.
Recommendations in the report that have prompted considerable debate include:
* Increasing the placement of special education students in the regular classroom (the educational jargon is ''mainstreaming'').
* Reducing what is called the ''prevalence rate'' of children needing special education.
* Increasing the number of students who leave special education programs during their school career.
* Decreasing the use of the label ''special education'' or ''learning disabled,'' which the report states places a stigma on children, resulting in low expectations.
A recommendation to place more focus on the teaching of reading, and to retrain and better prepare teachers to tailor reading lessons to individual needs has received more widespread support. The report states that research shows a ''direct linkage between the label of learning disabilities and the inability of children to acquire reading skills.''
But the Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, has a different point of view, said Daria M. Plummer, association president.
''I know for a fact teachers know how to teach reading,'' she said, adding ''it's incomprehensible to think you can put children of all abilities, including children with learning disabilities, in one classroom and simply say the teacher can teach each one totally.'' Children with learning problems, she said, often need extra help from specially trained teachers.


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Male nurse Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is all set to propose to his girlfriend, Pam (Teri Polo), during a weekend at her parents' home. But there's a catch: Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), Pam's intimidating, cat-loving, ex-CIA father, takes an immediate dislike to his daughter's truth-bending beau. Soon, a hilarious string of outrageous mishaps turns Greg into a master of relative disaster. Meet the Parents is an uproarious comedy smash that bombards you with one laugh after another!
Randy Newman's opening song, "A Fool in Love," perfectly sets up the movie that follows. The lyrics begin, "Show me a man who is gentle and kind, and I'll show you a loser," before praising the man who takes what he wants. Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is the fool in love in Meet the Parents. Just as he's about to propose to his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo), he learns that her sister's fiancé asked their father, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), for permission to marry. Now he feels the need to do the same thing. When Greg meets Jack, he is so desperate to be liked that he makes up stories and kisses ass rather than having the courage of his convictions. It doesn't take an elite member of the CIA to see right through Greg, but that's precisely what Jack is. Directed by Jay Roach (the Austin Powers movies), Meet the Parents is an incredibly well-crafted comedy that stands in nice opposition to, say, the sloppy extremes of the Farrelly brothers. Stiller is great at playing up the uncomfortable comedy of errors, balancing just the right amount of selfishness and self-deprecating humor, while De Niro's Jack is funny as the hard-ass father who just wants a few straight answers from the kid. What makes the Jack character all the funnier is Blythe Danner as his wife, the Gracie to his George Burns, who is the true heart of the movie. Oh, and Owen Wilson turns in yet another terrific comic performance as Pam's ex-fiancé. --Andy Spletzer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Ben Stiller plays Greg Focker, a name which leads to countless jokes throughout the film, a male nurse who has somehow won the affections of a certain Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo); his elaborate plan to propose to Pam is stymied when he learns Pam's sister is getting married in two weeks and - shudder - he is about to meet Pam's parents. Naturally, he's nervous and tries tremendously hard to make a good impression. Unfortunately, dear old Dad (Robert De Niro) is very hard to please and Greg, being the naturally ill-fated nincompoop he is, manages to mess up time and time again - big-time; I'm talking 100 times worse than Steve Urkel here. I won't go into any details, so as not to take away from the hilarity that ensues - well, it's good for a few laughs, anyway.
The film actually has a great cast. De Niro more than makes up for Stiller's faults, and Owen Wilson is a great addition as Pam's smarmy ex-fiance. If you like There's Something About Mary, you are sure to enjoy Meeting the Parents, as it is really just more of the same type of comedy.Read more ›
This isn't one of them.
In fact, this is the best movie I've seen him in by a good margin. Owing much to brilliant support from DeNiro (who plays the Father in Law to be), as well as Owen Wilson (his fiance's ex-boyfriend).
Just thinking about the scene where Stiller (who plays a Jewish city dweller) is charged with saying grace at DeNiro's devoutely Christian table, the popping of the Champagne, Jinxy running away...brings a laugh everytime.
If you're one of the few who haven't seen this film, get it, odds are you'll enjoy immensely. If, like me, you've seen it before and are curios about buying it, I recommend you do. This is one of the few DVD's in my collection that I frequently watch and enjoy.
Cult status 'round here.
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Gaylord 'Greg' Focker (just you try and say that last name without smiling), played to the max by the comic talents of Stiller, is head-over-heels in love with his girlfriend, Pam (Teri Polo). After a failed attempt at proposing marriage, Greg learns that if he intends to marry Pam, it is important to first OK the proposition with her father, Jack (De Niro). Pam's sister's wedding seems a perfect time to talk with Jack, so he accompanies Pam back to her parent's house. What ensues is a fantastically funny film, basically about the trouble and misunderstandings Greg endures for his love for Pam.
The awkward dynamics between De Niro and Stiller's characters make for the most side-splitting moments of the film. Upon having first viewed this movie several years ago, I can still clearly remember Greg's notions of milking cats, Jack's "poetry reading", the urn, the polygraph, Greg's prayer, the Speedo, Focker... Those who have already seen "Meet the Parents", (and who hasn't?) are probably fondly reminiscing upon these positively hysterical scenes right now.
"Meet the Parents" certainly isn't cinematic art, folks. The screenplay is predictable, at best. And maybe some of the jokes didn't strike a chord with every audience member. However, this film greatly succeeds at what it is; a comedy. I will most certainly be first in line to see "Meet the Fockers", slated for release in December of 2004.
But it's just too bad that a major running joke in the movie is based on the most obvious of sophomoric gutter humor. See, Stiller's character has the last name of "Focker." I'll let you guess where the writers go from there. Truly crass, immature humor that has more in common with lowball flicks like Porky's than with the rest of this film.
Now, the sequel to this movie is coming out, and of course it's called -- you guessed it -- "Meet The Fockers." I'm sorry, but that's just going too darn far. I don't want to see, and I don't want my little kids to see, that plastered on billboards, marquees, buses, and TV ads everywhere. Yes, I know there's an "o" in the name instead of a "u." It doesn't matter. We all know what was intended here. And I think it's tasteless.
This is just about as bad, or maybe worse, as "Austin Powers: Goldmember," which is another movie title that pushes the boundaries of decency way too far. Yep, the previews might have been rated as acceptable for all audiences (just barely), but the movie title itself sure wasn't. And to top it off, it dragged the good name of the classic "Goldfinger" through its crass sewer.
I'm really wondering when audiences (and society in general) will stop getting such a kick out of, "Oooh, he said the F-word!" or "Ahaha, that word *sounds* like the F-word! So it's funny!" Judging by the reviewers like the one here who titled his review "FOCKER!," I guess the answer is, "not anytime soon." Too bad. I'm no prude, but still...too bad.
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I dont know how to begin with my dislike for this movie. If i could give it zero stars i would. This movie is labelled as a comedy, but all the jokes made in this film is not one... Read morePublished on Jan. 3 2006 by JC
"Meet the Parents" is funny, outrageous, and full of fun. Pratfalls and pitfalls await our comic star Ben Stiller as he pursues his love and ingratiates himself with his... Read morePublished on July 18 2004 by Jeffrey E Ellis
This movie is not funny, just dumb. Is saying "focker" over and over and over again really that funny? Read morePublished on June 10 2004 by John Candy
I wanted to leave the theater halfway through this garbage but I already ponied up my $8. Predictable gag after predictable gag after predictable gag, this movie made me hate Ben... Read morePublished on June 8 2004 by Kindle Customer
Meet The Parents is an amusing slapstick comedy that describes the struggles of meeting one's potential in-laws. Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller both give commanding performances. Read morePublished on May 9 2004 by G. J Wiener
One of the funniest movies ive ever seen.
No need to talk about the movie.
Anything Ben Stiller does is funny.
The same could be said about Robert DeNiro .


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