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Using Spring Interceptors in your MVC Webapp
I thought that it was time to take a look at Spring's MVC interceptor mechanism, which has been around for a good number of years and is a really useful tool.
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I thought that it was time to take a look at Spring's MVC interceptor mechanism, which has been around for a good number of years and is a really useful tool.
A Spring Interceptor does what it says on the tin: intercepts an incoming HTTP request before it reaches your Spring MVC controller class, or conversely, intercepts the outgoing HTTP response after it leaves your controller, but before it's fed back to the browser.
You may ask what use is this to you? The answer is that it allows you to perform tasks that are common to every request or set of requests without the need to cut 'n' paste boiler plate code into every controller class. For example, you could perform user authentication of a request before it reaches your controller and, if successful, retrieve some additional user details from a database adding them to the HttpServletRequest object before your controller is called. Your controller can then simply retrieve and use these values or leave them for display by the JSP. On the other hand, if the authentication fails, you could re-direct your user to a different page.
The demonstration code shows you how to modify the incoming HttpServletRequest object before it reaches your controller. This does nothing more than add a simple string to the request, but, as I said above, you could always make a database call to grab hold of some data that's required by every request... you could even add some kind of optimization and do some caching at this point.
public class RequestInitializeInterceptor extends HandlerInterceptorAdapter {
// Obtain a suitable logger.
private static Log logger = LogFactory
* In this case intercept the request BEFORE it reaches the controller
public boolean preHandle(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response, Object handler) throws Exception {
try {
logger.info("Intercepting: " + request.getRequestURI());
// Do some changes to the incoming request object
return true;
} catch (SystemException e) {
logger.info("request update failed");
return false;
* The data added to the request would most likely come from a database
private void updateRequest(HttpServletRequest request) {
logger.info("Updating request object");
"This string is required in every request");
/** This could be any exception */
private class SystemException extends RuntimeException {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
// Blank
In the code above, I've chosen the simplest implementation method by extending the HandlerInterceptorAdaptor class, overriding preHandle(..) method. My preHandle(...) method does the error handling, deciding what to do if an error occurs and returning false if one does. In returning false the interceptor chain is broken and your controller class is not called. The actual business of messing with the request object is delegated to updateRequest(request).
The HandlerInterceptorAdaptor class has three methods, each of which are stubbed and, if desired, can be ignored. The methods are: prehandle(...), postHandle(...) and afterCompletion(...) and more information on these can be found in the Spring API documentation. Be aware that this can be somewhat confusing as the Handler Interceptor classes documentation still refer to MVC controller classes by their Spring 2 name of handlers. This point is easily demonstrated if you look at prehandle(...)'s third parameter of type Object and called handler. If you examine this in your debugger, you'll see that it is an instance of your controller class. If you're new to this technique, just remember that controller == handler.
The next step in implementing an interceptor is, as always, to add something to the Spring XML config file:
<!-- Configures Handler Interceptors -->
<!-- This bit of XML will intercept all URLs - which is what you want in a web app -->
<bean class="marin.interceptor.RequestInitializeInterceptor" />
<!-- This bit of XML will apply certain URLs to certain interceptors -->
<mvc:mapping path="/gb/shop/**"/>
<bean class="marin.interceptor.RequestInitializeInterceptor" />
The XML above demonstrates an either/or choice of adding an interceptor to all request URLs, or if you look at the commented out section, adding an interceptor to specific request URLs, allowing you to choose which URLs are connected to your interceptor class.
The eagle eyed readers may have noticed that the interceptor classes use inheritance and XML config as its method of implementation. In these days of convention over configuration, this pattern is beginning to look a little jaded and could probably do with a good overhaul. One suggestion would be to enhance the whole lot to use annotations, applying the same techniques that have already been added to the controller mechanism. This would add extra flexibility without the complication of using all the interfaces and abstract base classes. As a suggestion, a future interceptor class implementation could look something like this:
@Intercept(value = "/gb/en/*", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public boolean myAuthenticationHandler(HttpServletRequest request,
Model model) {
// Put some code here
That concludes this look at Spring interceptors, it should be remembered that I've only demonstrated the most basic implementation - I may add extra examples another day...
From http://www.captaindebug.com/2011/09/using-spring-interceptors-in-your-mvc.html
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Also in Progress: Vintage Surplice Bodice Dress
In December, I blogged about making the pattern above in velvet. Well, I've clearly missed the velvet train so I'm making it in cotton brocade! Peacock blue cotton brocade!
tutorial on. It's different in its application in that you have to sew the entire underarm and side bodice seam first, leaving a diamond-shaped hole for the gusset. Then the gusset is inserted in one go, pivoting at each corner. It's kind of tricky, and I'm still working on sewing them a little more, um . . . effortlessly.
I used fusible stay tape to stay the neckline and top of the sleeve, both of which are cut on the bias.
P.S. Oh, I'm also doing the final check on the pattern sheets for my book. Pippi is helping.
29 comments:
That blue is breathtaking! I have never used stay tape before. . . Another notion to add to my sewing! I've always staystitched but I am really liking this stay tape idea.ReplyDelete
- Andrea L.March 1, 2012 at 11:54 AM
I am so excited for the patterns in your book! It's very cool to get a sneak peek of them under your cat :)ReplyDelete
And a millinery class? How neat!
Where did you find fusible stay tape??ReplyDelete
This may be a reason to drive to the Sew Expo after all!
Dig The pattern! Are you making View A with the extra-fun bow detail?ReplyDelete
That fabric is lovely and your dress is going to be gorgeous.ReplyDelete
A suggestion for the diamond gussets - I sew them into one seam first (either onto the sleeve or onto the bodice if there's an armhole seam or to the front side if it's a kimono sleeve) and then stitch the armhole (or side seam) as usual. It makes the "usual" seam a little more complicated but it's way easier than sewing a patch into a hole =)ReplyDelete
What a lovely colour! Almost as pretty as Pippi!ReplyDelete
Well are you not the busy girl! Love that you are knitting socks (not my favorite knitting thing!!!) LOVE the new dress, can't wait to see it!ReplyDelete
These vintage patterns can be so complex.I bought Vogue Vintage V8686ReplyDelete
and am still trying to get the courage to start!
- la curlieMarch 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM
I just want to extent a heartfelt thanks to you for doing all the inspiring things that you do and speak about in your blog. It makes me feel good to know there are so many of us sew crazy people out there! Lol!ReplyDelete
I try to keep my unfinished project to a minimum, otherwise I get overwhelmed. But somehow they just multiply every time I look away. Good on you for being on top of things!ReplyDelete
Glad there is lots of crazy happening at your place. It sounds like happy crazy so I wouldn't worry. Great to hear you are knitting socks. Socks are fun to knit.ReplyDelete
Love kitty-helpers. Pippa is so cute. The dress will be gorgeous, too.ReplyDelete
- Anne FrancesMarch 1, 2012 at 5:55 PM
That's very pretty and the fabric looks just right for the dress. But is it really brocade? From the photo I would say it's a cloque - I think a matelasse would be similar but heavier. There should be an acute accent on the last e of both words, but my machine won't let me put it in.ReplyDelete
Gussets are a pain to sew but they do make a difference to that sort of sleeve, and yours are looking good.
Wow, that dress is beautiful and the color will look stunning on you!ReplyDelete
There's also a girl with Henry... Pipi. Are they married?ReplyDelete
OMG the fabric. *swoon, swoon*ReplyDelete
Renee, I updated the post with a link to the stay tape!ReplyDelete
Robin, that's genius. Will definitely try that method out.
Anne Frances, that's an interesting question. B&J had it labeled as brocade, and they really know their stuff, but I agree with your assessment!
la curlie: thank you. :)
- AshleighMarch 2, 2012 at 11:07 AM
I have been looking for a new duvet that's just right for years. I don't know why I never thought of dyeing fabric! Thanks for the great idea.ReplyDelete
Oh ThanksYou for having a zillion projects going! I feel less alone. I shall read this to my DH who will now know that he does not suffer alone. LOLReplyDelete
Love the blue! Super fab~
I love the pattern and the dress color is just lovely!!!ReplyDelete
The color is stunning, one of my favorites, and the pattern is beautiful as well. I love the fusible for stabilizing edges-- I used strips of fusible interfacing to stay the neckline of my Crepe, and I have never had an easier time with a neckline in my life. Not only did it stabilize it perfectly, but the sweetheart line is nice and crisp from the extra "oomph" the interfacing gave it. I don't think I will ever go back to staystitching.ReplyDelete
I am all over the place with projects also. knitting a sweater and scarf, crocheting an afghan, and sewing a button up shirt. my husband idolizes his aunt for having so many hobbies, but complains that i never finish anything! inspiration comes at me different times! hahaReplyDelete
i would like to say i started sewing because of this blog. i have been following you for about a year and you have made so many beautiful pieces that made you look gorgeous (not that you needed help from your clothing to do that) that i just had to try it myself! thanks for all the hardwork you put into this blog!
love all the swing.ReplyDelete
Having made my first one-piece underarm gusset a few weeks ago, I can confirm that they are fiddly. Yours looks so amazingly neat, especially given you're using a brocade which must be thicker than what I was using...ReplyDelete
And wow, that colour is to die for!!
This is the best vintage designs in the cloths.It look so nice and colorful.Thanx to share with us.ReplyDelete
I really enjoy my time reading your post!Very interesting!Thansk for sharing!ReplyDelete
Great!I love the blue!This is awesome!ReplyDelete
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. Thanks for this wonderful post. I hope to see more posts in the future.ReplyDelete

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Awkward! Best Man Passes Out Cold During Wedding [VIDEO]
Given how emotional weddings can be, it's not unusual for a bride or even a groom to faint. But the best man? That's one we didn't see coming.
During this wedding ceremony in Ohio, the best man, whose name is Steve, suddenly keels over, bumping into the back of the groom on the way down. He quickly recovers, however, and delivers a wedding toast a half hour later.
Still, if this video is any indication, Steve might need an ambulance when it comes time for his own wedding ceremony.
Watch the best man pass out cold below.


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Dr. Eugen Jonas
Eugen Jonas claims to have a patent pending on a single natural method which does each of the following:
- Allows seemingly infertile women to conceive.
- Allows couples to choose the gender of their children before they are conceived.
- Ensures women who have had nothing but miscarriages to deliver full-term babies.
- Eliminates birth defects and mental retardation.
- Ensures couples of safe, reliable birth control without pills, contraceptives or surgery.
Yes, one completely natural method, requiring no pills or surgery, that can prevent birth or can ensure that the seemingly infertile will give birth to a healthy child of whichever gender they choose. Sound too good to be true? What is this method?
Influenced by cosmobiology, Dr. Jonas's method includes a belief that
- The time of a woman's fertility depends on the recurrence of the angle of the sun and the moon that occurred at the woman's own birth.
- The sex of the child depends on the position of the moon at conception.
- Certain planetary configurations at the time of conception can effect the viability of the embryo.
Yes, a woman's fertility correlates exactly to the phase of the moon at the time of her own birth. If the moon was full when she was born, she will be fertile during the full moon. What astrological sign (Taurus, Leo, etc.) the moon is in at the time of conception determines the gender of the child. The health of the newborn depends upon conception taking place during one of the few "Good Vitality Days" of the year. These days are determined by astrological charts (cosmograms).
Jonas claims to have copious proof of these claims, but the evidence has not been published in any reputable scientific journal. He claims that the evidence shows that his method is "99% reliable." One must take his word for it, however. How could one doubt the word of a man who dedicated his method of birth control to the Virgin Mary on August 15, 1956? That was the year he was first inspired to this line of discovery when he read an ancient Assyrian/Babylonian fragment that stated: "A woman is fertile according to the moon."
It is not hard to understand how a Catholic physician would be interested in finding a better method of birth control than the so-called "rhythm method." But why he delved into astrology rather than biology is curious. The Catholic Church, from its beginnings, has opposed astrology.* And, while modern medicine certainly has its shortcomings, they pale in comparison with those of astrology. Furthermore, the rhythm method can be 87% (Calendar Rhythm/Ogino-Knaus) to 99.8% (Sympto-Thermal method) effective. All rhythm methods have two disadvantages: they are not 100% effective and they require a lot of abstinence. However, the only 100% effective methods of birth control are castration, removal of the ovaries, and total abstinence. Jonas's method requires substantial abstinence and is "new" only in the sense that he extends the abstinence period based on the phase of the moon and other irrelevant celestial factors.
Jonas was a Slovakian psychiatrist some forty years ago, but now this Catholic fertility astrologer works out of Australia, Miami, Japan, and Korea. At least he has mailing addresses in each of those places. He used to have clinics in the former Czechoslovakia and in Hungary. Now he has Internet sites in English, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, from which he sells his four cosmobiological charts.
The Contraception Chart is $88 Au ($58 US) but comes with no guarantee. [Note: all prices listed here are subject to change.] The Gender Selection Chart is $195 AU ($127 US) and comes with a money back guarantee, the details of which are not posted. The Infertility Chart is $257 AU ($168 US) and comes with an extra six months free service if it doesn't work within a year. The Healthy Child Chart is $232 AU ($152 US) and comes with no guarantee. Of course, he has a 50/50 chance of being right about gender and the odds are greatly in his favor that a child will be born healthy. In short, he is bound to have a good percentage of "successes" and the testimonials to go with them.
One reason for doubting that any of these charts will work is that there have been several studies that have looked for a significant correlation between phases of the moon and birthrate. All have come up barren. (See "Lunar phase and birth rate: A fifty-year critical review," by R. Martens, I. Kelly, and D. H. Saklofske, Psychological Reports, 63, 923-934, "Lunar phase and birthrate: An update," by I. Kelly and R. Martens, Psychological Reports, 75, 507-511). In 1991, Benski and Gerin reported that they had analyzed birthdays of 4,256 babies born in a clinic in France and "found them equally distributed throughout the synodic (phase) lunar cycle" (Kelly, et al. 1996, 19). In 1994, Italian researchers Periti and Biagiotti reported on their study of 7,842 spontaneous deliveries over a 5-year period at a clinic in Florence. They found "no relationship between moon phase and number of spontaneous deliveries" (Kelly, et al. 1996, 19).
For a medical doctor to claim that mental retardation and other birth defects are due to heavenly bodies is a sign of lunacy. What Jonas is selling is hope packaged in scientifically sounding mumbo-jumbo.
See also astrology, full moon and lunar effects, and magical thinking.
further reading
books and articles
Kelly, I.W., James Rotton, and Roger Culver. "The Moon was Full and Nothing Happened: A Review of Studies on the Moon and Human Behavior and Human Belief," in J. Nickell, B. Karr and T. Genoni, eds., The Outer Edge (Amherst, N.Y.: CSICOP, 1996). This is an updated version of an article which originally appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer Winter 1985-86 (vol. 10, no. 2) and was reprinted in The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal, edited by Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991), pp. 222-234.
The Astrology of Fertility by Kathie Garcia
The Astrology of Healing by Dr. Ingrid Naiman
Your Lunar Fertile Cycle by Felicity Oswell
The Fertility Rhythms Lunar Conception Calendar
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Copyright 1988 A.I.P. Productions
Reviewed by
Andrew Borntreger
on 13 April 2009
The Characters:
Dave Ryder - Not since Bart Savagewoofer has there been a man the likes of him. He is every viper pilot's best buddy, every Brambleweeny 57 sub-meson brain engineer's hero, every gloating villain's nightmare, and every chunky and spunky woman's romantic dream come true. He also yells, "Son of a b***h!" quite a lot.
Lea Jansen - Aren't you a bit old to be wearing those clothes and playing with hula hoops? Another thing, why do you wear clothing that makes your breasts look like water balloons?
Cmdr. Jansen - Cameron Mitchell! Man in charge of the intergalactic colony ship
Southern Sun
. Sir, it is time that you started asking yourself some hard questions about your spaceship, like why bricks (as in hard blocks made from mud) were used in its construction.
Capt. Devers - He can make his forehead move.
Lt. Lemont - She dies but keeps coming to work (probably so that she can play "The Ancient Art of War at Sea" on her computer). Payroll is going to go nuts trying to figure out whether she should be paid or not.
Engineer Paulsen - He tries to remind everyone about The Law (not going around on four legs, not committing mutiny, etc.) but the only thing that earns him is a sharp poke in the ribs.
The Bellerians - A bunch of dancing space mystics. Their idea of religious freedom is tax-free shopping at Spencer Gifts.
Jennera - Voted "Most Likely to Rub a Plasma Lamp the Wrong Way" in high school.
MacPhearson - One of the evil conspirators who wanted to take over the
Southern Sun
. I almost cried when he finally walked without the aid of his cane. However, it was not a miracle. He was ON FIRE and suffering unbearable agony. A little knee pain was the last thing on his mind.
Kalgan - John Phillip Law! He wants to take over the ship, but giggles like a schoolgirl every time he starts gloating about his plan. I clocked this maniac going more than 5 gpm (giggles per minute) at one point.
The Plot:
You know, there are films that sound good but suck, cheap flicks that are imitations of better efforts, and plain old bad movies, and then there are movies that are so incredibly awful that you ask, "What were these idiots thinking?" The film at hand is one of that rare breed. It features gratuitous use of stock footage of ships from the original "Battlestar Galactica," but most of the action takes place in some sort of industrial facility. Yes, there are pipes and things, but it does not look like the inside of a spaceship. What it looks like is the inside of an old industrial facility.
This movie is terrible, absolutely and positively atrocious. The reason you are watching it is to laugh at it. Never forget that. Now, continue on your journey.
When we aren't trapped in the pipe-filled building or visiting the "Battlestar Galactica" film ark, the action takes place on a small set that must have been built for this movie (which makes it something of a novelty). The set is a room and a hallway. The filmmakers use that little set for multiple locations. More than once, characters have a meeting in the hallway. I swear that I am not making this up! One time it is MacPhearson and the traitorous enforcers sitting around a table placed in the middle of the passage, while later Cmdr. Jansen and his officers are seated in chairs on opposite sides of the hall.
Does the director think that viewers will not notice all of these things? Does he think that we are stupid? "Ha, ha! You are watching 'Space Mutiny.' You must be stupid. Stupid!" Well, Mr. Awful Director Man, we noticed. Screw you. You're stupid. Stupid.
Okay, now that I have gotten that off my chest, let's talk about the movie. The spaceship we keep seeing is not the
; it is the
Southern Sun
, a colony ship that is making a long trip to a new world. Several generations of crew have already been born and died aboard the massive starcraft, so they have been traveling for a while. Most of the crewmembers are dedicated to the dream of founding a new world, but Kalgan and MacPhearson are planning to hijack the ship. They want to become interstellar pirates, planetary warlords, or something like that. Unfortunately for everyone aboard the
Southern Sun
, the command deck has no idea that mischief is afoot.
Kalgan's plan requires that he isolate the
Southern Sun
from possible sources of outside help. The communications system is already under his control, so physical access is all that remains. As Dave Ryder's fighter returns to the ship, a block of clay stuck to a pipe covered with flaking paint - I mean a sophisticated explosive device expertly placed on the flight deck's guidance control system power feed - detonates. Ryder's ship loses control and crashes into the docking bay. His passenger (somebody important, at least to Lea) is killed, but Ryder is saved by the new teleportation ejection system. This explains why Lea and Ryder get off to a rocky start - she blames him for the dead fellow's demise.
The explosion and fire cause serious damage to the flight deck. The
Southern Sun
is physically cut off from the rest of the universe. I guess that the designers did not include a single external hatch anywhere else when they designed the ship.
Almost forgot to mention that, just before Ryder's viper dirtied the landing bay (no, not a euphemism), a shuttle of Bellerians arrived. The mystics are given a simple room where they can undulate over electric globes all day and all night. Bizarrely, even though the Bellerians' dance temple is located in an area of the ship that is completely under Kalgan's control, and Jennera assists Cmdr. Jansen's efforts to stop the mutineers by providing spiritual guidance, the evil enforcers never liquidate the Bellerians. All that one of Kalgan's toads had to do was open the door and toss a grenade into the room. Never happens. Even after a shipboard civil war breaks out and the Bellerians start hypnotizing Kalgan's troops, the freaky space witches are left unmolested.
I guess that Kalgan has no qualms about committing treason and near genocide, but the thought of being charged with a hate crime for killing the Bellerians while they were practicing their religion scared the space socks off the laughing jerk.
Time to rewind to a spot before the good guys know that Kalgan is a bad guy. Lea is mad at Dave because somebody died, and Ryder thinks Lea is a snooty little tart who is allowed to act that way because her daddy is the ship's commander. Both of them go to the dance club to relax. The dance club...wow. WOW. Never have so few played with hula hoops while wearing so much lame that covered so little of what needed to be covered (this could be said of most of the movie - minus the hula hoops). If that is not enough silliness to make the dance club memorable, then the fact that it is obviously just part of the industrial facility that has been festooned with party decorations and equipped with a smoke machine is notable.
Pretty soon, Lea and Ryder are done being mad at each other and are ready for make-up sex. Before that can happen (don't worry, they still do it), they accidentally discover Kalgan's plot to take over the
Southern Sun
when he assassinates Lt. Lemont outside of the dance club. Kalgan speeds off in a ridiculous security cart that looks like an armored bumper car. Dave and Lea jump into another bumper car and go after him. The bumper cars and the people driving them all have laserguns. A furious bumper car chase and firefight takes place! Lasers go every which way. "Space Mutiny" has a lot of lasergun battles. The beams do not always go straight, and I mean they are crooked enough that even an imbecile will notice. Heck, I think that I saw a laser beam jump out of the floor at one point!
Ryder and his girlfriend do not catch the traitor because Kalgan radios for reinforcements. Now Dave and Lea are the ones running away. They duck into the cryogenic deep freeze room and discover what happened to all of the honest security personnel: Kalgan took them away and made them into frozen people pops. After that revelation, they make a beeline for the bridge so that Lea can tell her dad what is going on.
There, now we are at the point where everybody knows the cat is out of the bag. Kalgan is a traitor; he must be stopped. Except, nobody does anything! Cmdr. Jansen just makes an announcement over the ship's loudspeaker, "Kalgan is a traitor. Be on the lookout." It takes Jennera appearing to the old commander in a dream to convince him to do something. What does he do? He appoints Ryder as the new flight commander in charge of security and says, "Do something!"
Meanwhile, pirates (cylon base ships) attack the
Southern Sun
. Jansen pushes a button and the pirates go away. I think that he shot them with Adobe After Effects. Defending yourself from stock footage is easy with Adobe After Effects.
The only way to resolve the conflict aboard the
Southern Sun
is for there to be a no-holds-barred laser and flamethrower battle in the engine room. Once more the entropic lords of laser special effects are set loose on an unsuspecting audience, and once more the beams go every which way imaginable, like a truckload of fake afros caught in a tornado. That's not the best part. Zapped men fall over railings, and one unfortunate soul bursts into flame, only to have Kalgan demand, "Get out of my way, you idiot!" The burning man falls over a railing.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention the prop laserguns! They are...amazing, and almost all of them are painted completely silver. Ryder is usually armed with a Desert Eagle replica that has extra barrels glued to it. The rest of the laserguns are plastic MAC-10s. I remember having one of those when I was a kid! We used them to play war. "Bang-bang! Gotcha Michael! Lie down and count to thirty!" The only difference between my plastic MAC-10 and the props in this movie is that they painted their guns silver, and they cut off the single barrel and replaced it with four barrels. Wowzers, that looks just like a lasergun is supposed to look.
There is one lasergun that is not painted silver; it's a long black weapon that looks like a rifle/crossbow, but it is still a lasergun. Why a lasergun would look like a crossbow is beyond me. It barely made sense for a Wookie in "Star Wars." Here it seems...never mind, this film has bigger issues than Wookie guns.
Do not worry about Ryder and the stalwart crew of the
Southern Sun
; the bad guys are finally defeated. Were you worried? I wasn't. I do not think that the colonists deserve to find a new planet to colonize. Let me explain why. What is weird about the
Southern Sun's
journey to colonize a new planet is that they encounter other ships and humans. The colony ship is still within the sphere of settled space, even after traveling for hundreds of years! What are they doing? Do they know where they are going? The colonists must be morons, or else no civilization wants them to settle in their section of the galactic neighborhood, or, more likely, both.
The question quickly becomes why the
Southern Sun
and her human cargo is being shunned by the rest of the known universe. I think that I have the answer. The original crew was made up of middle managers, telephone sanitizers, and hairdressers. Nobody wants that ship to land on their planet. Also worth consideration is that any sane plan to send that lot off to another planet should have involved cryogenic sleep, but while the
Southern Sun
is equipped with a cryogenic facility, the only person using it is Kalgan (to make frozen people pops). So, the ship is filled with the descendents of middle managers, telephone sanitizers, and hairdressers, all interbreeding their way in a downward spiral to the bottom of the evolutionary ladder. This situation has one ultimate outcome: a colony ship filled with mud-sucking amphibians who have big red hair, talk a lot, and never get anything done besides creating committees and writing interoffice memos.
By the way, I think that Cmdr. Jansen is the fifth generation product of middle managers marrying other middle managers.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Always keep a couple of extra Allen-Exxon 5000 drive motors on hand, just in case.
Some things can make a plumpish forty-year-old look good, but spandex and hula hoops are not two of those things.
Walt Disney's last words were "Saran Wrap."
Paintball armor can protect you from lasers.
Nothing gets a woman's juices flowing like the feeling of real authentic imitation astroturf under her back.
Lasers explode when they hit something.
Offering to shake hands with someone who is in the middle of a 'roid rage fit is not a good idea.
Lasers are bad for your teeth.
Nobody has designed a bumper car that uses hydrogen fuel cells for a very good reason.
Stuff To Watch For:
9 mins - Looks to me like it dun durn blowed up already.
10 mins - What the heck does that do?
14 mins - What the heck do those do?
21 mins - Imagine it? I don't even know what it does.
35 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST TEA!
45 mins - RANDOM GRATUITOUS BREAST SHOT!
46 mins - It is still out. Hey sister, you going to put that thing away today?
50 mins - My God, they are reusing footage, and making stock footage from their stock footage.
52 mins - These people will use anything as an excuse to drink Cosmos from giant plastic martini glasses.
54 mins - "Or else your daughter is going to choke to death on the Kalgan's Special Sauce! Hahahaha!"
63 mins - Stop talking to your weather radio.
66 mins - Operation Blind Mullet is a go! Everyone to their stations!
76 mins - That was twenty-five years ago.
Audio clips in wav format
Starving actors speak out
Kalgan: "Excellent, they no longer have a choice! Hahahahaha! It was cruel fate to be born in space, but I have vowed we will not die here. It is my destiny to set my feet upon a real world, to accumulate wealth and power beyond our wildest dreams! Hahahaha!"
MacPhearson: "Are there any other of you that wish to confuse freedom with treason?"
Enforcers: "Not me. Not me."
MacPhearson: "Report to the enforcer's bridge!"
Enforcers: "Let's go! Report! Hurry up!"
Ryder: "Listen, lady..."
Lea: "Doctor!"
Ryder: "Doctor! I don't have to justify my actions to you, but since you're asking. That explosion cut the power, and there wasn't time to go to the auxiliary backup system. I had to eject. I had no other choice. Commander, Captain, excuse me. I have to file my report."
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Link Cell Division And Oxygen Levels - 06/10/2011
Johns Hopkins Researchers Link Cell Division And Oxygen Levels
Findings also solve long-standing paradox
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Cells grow abundant when oxygen is available, and generally stop when it is scarce. Although this seems straightforward, no direct link ever has been established between the cellular machinery that senses oxygen and that which controls cell division. Now, in the June 10 issue of Molecular Cell, researchers at Johns Hopkins report that the MCM proteins, which promote cell division, also directly control the oxygen-sensing HIF-1 protein.
"It's always been a mystery why a vast excess of MCM proteins is present in cells, but now we have discovered at least one reason," says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine, director of the vascular program in Hopkins' Institute for Cell Engineering and a member of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. "Our data indicate that MCMs mediate crosstalk between the cell division machinery and proteins that help cells react to changes in their surroundings."
Since discovering HIF-1 in the 1990s, Semenza's team has been studying how it works to sense oxygen levels and turn on genes that help cells survive when oxygen is low. To find proteins that HIF-1 physically interacts with, the team went on a biochemical fishing expedition and, using HIF-1 as bait, pulled out MCM7. MCM7 is a member of a larger group of related proteins that are known to bind to DNA and start its duplication when a cell gets ready to divide. Using a different protein-binding technique, the team then found that HIF-1 also binds to MCM3.
When it senses low oxygen levels, HIF-1 turns on genes that enable cells to adapt, such as genes that stimulate the growth of new blood vessels and genes that alter a cell's metabolism to change how much oxygen it consumes for energy generation. To understand what MCM proteins do to or with HIF-1, the researchers examined how well HIF-1 turns on genes in the presence and absence of MCM3 or 7. They found when the levels of MCM proteins were increased, the activity of HIF-1 went down, while reducing the levels of MCMs, led to increased HIF-1 activity. "HIF-1 instructs cells not to divide, since more cells will consume more oxygen, making any shortage of oxygen even worse, while the role of MCMs is to trigger cell division" says Semenza. "So it's not surprising that MCMs would oppose the action of HIF-1."
The team also noticed that there seemed to be less MCM7 present when cells were exposed to low oxygen for 24 hours. To see if this had anything to do with HIF-1, they first turned up HIF-1 levels in cells -- by either exposing them to low oxygen or treating them with a drug that boosts HIF-1 production -- and found a decrease in the levels of MCM proteins 24 hours later. Separately, they removed HIF-1 from cells, then exposed the cells to low oxygen and found no change in MCM protein levels, allowing the group to conclude that HIF-1 controls MCM proteins as well, so that the MCMs and HIF-1 oppose each other's action. "It's like a tug of war," says Semenza. "When oxygen and nutrients are plentiful, MCMs win, and cells divide. When oxygen is low, HIF-1 wins and cell division is prevented. The mutual antagonism may be critical for tightly controlling cell growth based on oxygen availability."
This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering.
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ROCKWELL — Authorities say a Rockwell man may have been trying to send a message to his ex-girlfriend after he set fire to her home.
The Rowan County Sheriff's Office charged Joshua Zachary Russell, 22, of the 2400 block of Wind Swept Way, with first-degree felony arson. Lori Barnett reported to authorities that someone set fire to her home, burning a portion of the mobile home. The part that was burned was where her 17-year-old daughter's bedroom was located. The daughter was not home at the time, but had just come in following a date with her current boyfriend, a report said.
The daughter alerted her mother to the fire and Barnett was able to put the fire out with a hose before fire officials arrived. Barnett told investigators she was asleep on the other end of the home with her 5-year-old daughter.
Sheriff's investigators said there was damage to the metal and brick facade of the home as well as burned places in the grass below. Officials said it appeared some type of accelerant was poured near the home.
The home did have $8,000 worth of fire damage, a report said.
The incident occurred Sept. 11 at the mobile home, located in the 2500 block of Wind Swept Way. Russell was charged Sept. 13 and remains in the Rowan County Detention Center under a $100,000 secured bond.
Authorities said Russell was one of a few suspects they developed early in their investigation.
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Are Bioidentical Hormones Safe?
Menopausal women are increasingly using them instead of hormone replacement therapy
En español | Sharon Rosen is pushing 70, but she has the hormones of a woman half her age, assuming that woman had especially hard-working ovaries. The retired elementary school teacher from South Windsor, Conn., rubs estrogen and progesterone creams on her skin every morning and evening. At bedtime, she applies another cream of estrogen and testosterone with a progesterone pill as a topper.
The hormones, she says, have turned her into a new, younger version of herself: Her infernal head-to-toe hot flashes are gone, her libido is back and her mind isn't nearly as fuzzy as it was a few years ago. She'll still occasionally lose a train of thought, she says, "but now I'm doing better than my husband. I tell him that he should be seeing my doctor."
Rosen's pills and creams exactly match the hormones her body once made naturally. That makes them "bioidentical," a buzzword that has been making the rounds through talk shows and magazines and doctors' offices for several years now. In 2008, Endocrine Today reported that a million or more American women were taking bioidentical hormones, and demand for the treatment certainly hasn't waned since then. If anything, it's soared.
Untested, unproven, popular
Many so-called bioidentical hormones haven't been approved or tested by the Food and Drug Administration, but their appeal is obvious. Practitioners — including Rosen's doctor, Alicia Stanton, M.D. — promote them as safe, natural alternatives to traditional hormones such as Premarin, a prescription estrogen that's isolated from the urine of pregnant mares, and Provera, a synthetic version of progesterone.
Women search for safe hormone therapy
It's important to note that there are several FDA-approved hormones that are also exactly the same — molecule for molecule — as natural hormones. Examples include Estrace pills, Estrasorb topical cream and the Alora patch. "The term 'bioidentical' is really a misnomer," says Nanette Santoro, M.D., chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado in Denver and a spokesperson for the Endocrine Society. "The real issue is pharmacy-compounded hormones versus those that have been FDA approved."
Compounded hormones have been around for decades, but interest in them surged in 2002 after researchers published the startling results of the Women's Health Initiative. The study of more than 16,600 postmenopausal women found that taking a combination of estrogen and progestin increased the risk of breast cancer by about 25 percent. Surprisingly, the combination also more than doubled the risk of heart disease in the first two years. "The WHI made some doctors as well as many patients a little disenchanted and distrustful of standard hormones," Stuenkel says.
New study links hormones, breast cancer
As researchers continued to follow the women involved in the WHI, the news only got worse. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in October 2010 found that when women taking Prempro developed breast cancer, the cancer was likely to be unusually aggressive. On the whole, women on the hormones were about twice as likely as other women to die of breast cancer within eight years. "Most of the deaths occurred more than five years after starting hormone treatments," says lead researcher Rowan Chlebowski, M.D., a medical oncologist with the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. "We could be seeing a lot more of these [deaths] as time moves forward."
Doctors' advice
Although such results are alarming, they shouldn't change the current approach for hormone therapy, says study coauthor JoAnn Manson, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Manson is also the president-elect of the North American Menopause Society.
"I've been getting a lot of e-mails from patients wondering how this study applies to them," she says. As before, she says, women should take combination hormone therapy only if they have moderate-to-severe menopausal symptoms. And they should get the lowest doses for the shortest time possible. She reassures women taking estrogen by itself — a common approach for women who have had hysterectomies — that estrogen alone doesn't seem to promote breast cancer.
When patients ask about bioidentical hormones, Manson tells them they're in uncharted territory. Although there's some early evidence that the micronized progesterone Prometrium — a bioidentical hormone — may be less likely than Provera to cause breast cancer, Manson says she's still "working from the assumption that bioidentical hormones are just as dangerous until proven otherwise. And the proof just isn't there."
Promoters of compounded hormones often claim that their treatments carry none of the risks of Premarin and Provera. John Woodward, M.D., a board-certified ob-gyn practicing in Dallas, has been giving his patients compounded hormones — most often estradiol pellets injected under the skin — since the early 1970s. On his website, Woodward points to unpublished tests at the respected Cooper Clinic in Dallas in the 1990s showing that his patients tended to have stronger bones and cleaner arteries than other women of the same age.
Woodward says his patients "just feel better" on bioidentical hormones. One of his patients, Connie Hibbs, a 67-year-old artist living in Dallas, has been taking Woodward's estradiol pellets for more than 30 years. "I don't feel any different now than I did when I was 35," she says with a youthful laugh. She started taking hormones in her 30s because she was worried about her bones. "Everyone on my mother's side of the family crumpled from osteoporosis," she says. "Now my bone scans are perfect."
But even Woodward sees a downside to the bioidentical industry. "A lot of people out there don't know what they're doing," he says. For example, he says, many prescribers base their doses on saliva tests that supposedly measure their patient's hormone levels. But in his opinion — and the opinion of groups such as the Endocrine Society — such tests are unreliable and potentially misleading. He also notes that many prescribers are "naturopaths" or self-described anti-aging specialists, not board-certified endocrinologists or ob-gyns.
Risky business
The unknowns surrounding compounded bioidentical hormones make them potentially riskier than standard treatments, Stuenkel says. "At least with FDA-approved hormones, you know what's in the stuff," she says. "They have to follow manufacturing standards." Because compounded hormones are made up on the spot, there's a lot more room for error, adds Santoro. "The dosing isn't that predictable from person to person," she says. Santoro cautions that even if a woman feels terrific with her treatment, she may be getting more hormones than she really needs. That's a problem, she explains, because too much estrogen can lead to uterine cancer. Conversely, a women who is getting shortchanged on hormones could be losing bone mass and missing out on the relief that hormones can bring.
Piera Graven, a 58-year-old operations manager in a New York City medical clinic, tried compounded bioidentical hormones last year to ease her hot flashes. "I thought it would be better to try something natural," she says. But the treatments didn't work, so she turned to Santoro who was still in New York at the time. A combination of Prometrium (a prescription version of progesterone) and a Vivelle Dot estrogen patch did the trick. "I still get hot flashes, but they're nothing like what they were," she says.
Santoro says that the results of the WHI study forced doctors everywhere to take a step back and rethink their approach to hormones. She tries to find the lowest doses that will bring relief, and she'll go through as much trial and error as it takes to find the right approach for each patient. There's no buzzword for her approach, but, she says her patients don't seem to mind.
Chris Woolston is a freelance health writer whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Reader's Digest.


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NEW: West African states to meet Wednesday to prepare for troop deployment
An al Qaeda wing rooted in Mali's north has advanced, alarming many internationally
France joins Malian forces in intervening, and a French pilot is killed in a raid
France's president cheers military progress, but says "our mission is not over"
An effort to halt advancing militant Islamist forces has resulted in "many deaths" in northern Mali, a military spokesman said – with the fatalities including Malian soldiers, insurgents and a French pilot killed in a helicopter raid.
Mali is being joined by France – its former colonial ruler, which recently sent troops there – as it tries to beat back advances by forces linked to al Qaeda. Much action recently has focused in and around the key northern city of Konna, which insurgents took on Thursday only to retreat the following day after a combined air and ground assault.
"There were many deaths on both sides, both rebels and government soldiers," Malian defense ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Diara Kone said Saturday of the fighting in the northern part of the country. The government, in a statement read on state TV, said 11 of its soldiers died and about 60 were wounded in the battle for Konna.
The French pilot died while taking part Friday afternoon in an aerial operation targeting a terrorist group moving on the town of Mopti, near Konna, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
The aerial offensive – which includes strikes by French fighter jets – continued through Friday night and into Saturday, the minister added.
"Every means was used in fighting the Islamists, including two attack helicopters. They sent the Islamists fleeing," Kone told CNN. "This shows that the Malian army is capable to fight."
French President Francois Hollande also cheered after "a blow was delivered and heavy losses were inflicted," which he credited in part to the efforts of his nation's troops.
"But our mission is not over," he said Saturday.
The Islamist forces' movement in recent days from their strongholds in the deserts of northern Mali prompted France to help address what Le Drian called a "serious" and deteriorating situation, even as France has resisted efforts to get involved in curbing other rebellions in such former colonies as the Central African Republic.
Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore declared a state of emergency nationwide Friday and called for "a general mobilization" to defend against the radical Islamists' advance.
State of emergency declared in Mali
"Terrorist groups want to destabilize the country," the French minister said. "We are determined to prevent them doing so, within the strict framework of international law."
Radical Islamists make push southward
After decades of military rule, Mali held its first democratic elections in 1992. It remained stable politically until March, when a group of soldiers toppled the government, saying it had not provided adequate support for them to fight ethnic Tuareg rebels in the country's largely desert north.
Tuareg rebels, who'd sought independence for decades, took advantage of the power vacuum and seized swaths of land. A power struggle then erupted in the north between the Tuaregs and local al Qaeda-linked radicals, who themselves wound up in control of a large area as the Tuaregs retreated.
The United Nations says amputations, floggings and public executions – like the stoning of a couple in July, who'd reportedly had an affair – became common in areas controlled by radical Islamists. They applied a strict interpretation of Sharia law by banning music, smoking, drinking and watching sports on television, and damaged Timbuktu's historic tombs and shrines.
Read more: Northern Mali a 'magnet for international jihadis'
Already, the armed groups' activity – along with a pervasive drought – has led hundreds of thousands of Malians to be displaced.
And the Islamists' movement southward has raised concerns among leaders in West Africa and elsewhere, some of them calling for swift and decisive military intervention to aid Mali's government, based in Bamako.
The Economic Community of West African States plans to hold an emergency meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to prepare to send troops to Mali to help government forces, a spokesman for the organization said.
The spokesman, Sunny Ugoh, said West African troops are expected to number 3,500 and will operate in the framework of the United Nations resolutions.
The meeting will also discuss any "additional measures need to be taken," he added.
Read more: International leaders push for military intervention in Mali
Several hundred French troops have been deployed to Mali, where about 6,000 French citizens live, according to Le Drian.
"Our determination to combat terrorism is total," the French defense minister said. "France will do all it can to combat the jihadist groups who have launched this offensive in recent days."
'The terrorists' breakthrough must be stopped'
Hollande said the influx of troops from his nation and others is to "allow Mali to recover its territorial integrity in accordance with U.N. Security Council resolutions."
"France, in this operation, is not pursuing any interest … other than safeguarding a friendly country, and (France) does not have any goal other than fighting against terrorism," the French president said Saturday. "That is why its action is supported by the international community and saluted by all African countries."
Though its troops are posted in locations around Africa, French leaders earlier said they wouldn't send combat troops to Mali and that they'd scale back France's military interventions on the continent.
So its decision to get involved in Mali, an operation Hollande said "will last as long as necessary," underlies the seriousness of France's concern about the situation there. French hostages have been taken in neighboring Niger by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Paris appears intent on containing any further militant expansion in the heart of Africa.
Read more: What's behind the instability in Mali?
"The terrorists' breakthrough must be stopped," said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, justifying France's efforts "to train and reshape the Malian army." "If not, (all of) Mali falls into their hands, with a threat to the whole of Africa and Europe."
The U.N. Security Council last month authorized a one-year military peacekeeping mission in the country. ECOWAS members pledged thousands of troops, and the Security Council has urged other nations to contribute forces as well.
Hollande spoke Saturday evening with British Prime Minister David Cameron, who consented for the United Kingdom to "provide logistical military assistance to help transport foreign troops and equipment quickly to Mali" – but no "British personnel in a combat role" – a Downing Street spokesman said.
France has been in contact with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta about the situation, as well as its African and European allies, according to Le Drian.
The U.S. military is weighing its options – which could include logistical support and intelligence sharing with France – said a U.S. defense official, who declined to be named because no decisions have been made.
"This is a serious issue, and … the United States is committed to going after terrorists wherever they may be in order to protect American interests, but also those of our partners and allies around the world," Pentagon spokesman George Little said this week.
CNN's Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report


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3 Tips For Comedy Writers – with late-night television writer Dicky Eagan
When it comes to writing for late-night, Dicky Eagan knows what it takes. In this video, the head writer of "Last Call with Carson Daly," who has also written for "Lopez Tonight," "The Wayne Brady Show" and many others, gives away 3 powerful secrets to having a successful career in comedy, in writing and in any part of the entertainment field.
Tip #1) Surround yourself with people who are good at what you do.
If you want to get better, then hang around people who are even better than you are at your chosen field – they will challenge you and as a result, you will improve.
Tip #2) Get specific with your goals.
Don't just say "I want to be a writer." Imagine and envision exactly what person, project or show you want to write for. When things get hard your ability to focus on your original goal will help get you through the tough times.
Tip #3) Be great to work with.
This is a tip that all of our most successful guests seem to say. No matter how talented you are, no one wants to work with a jerk. Get your attitude and ego in check, so that you will be the one that everyone wants to work with.
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The only good news for the Republicans coming out of the seemingly endless presidential candidate "debates" is that some Republican leaders are now belatedly thinking about how they can avoid a repetition of this debacle in future elections.
What could they possibly have been thinking about, in the first place, when they agreed to a format based on short sound bites for dealing with major complex issues, and with media journalists — 90 percent of them Democrats — picking the topics?
The conduct of the candidates made things worse. In a world with a record-breaking national debt and Iran moving toward creating nuclear weapons, they bickered over earmarks and condoms. I am against earmarks, but earmarks don't rank among the first hundred most serious problems facing this country.
Mud-slinging has replaced rational discussions of differences on serious issues — not only during the debates themselves, where the moderators sic the candidates on each other, but even more so in the massive television character assassination ads in which Romney supporters seem to specialize.
Groups supporting Mitt Romney have turned character assassination almost into a science. You take something that most people, outside of politics, do not understand and twist it to sound terrible to those who are unaware of the facts.
Blanketing Florida with misleading ads attacking Newt Gingrich won that state for Romney, after Gingrich scored an upset victory in South Carolina. The ads made a big deal out of charges that the former Speaker broke tax laws — charges that the Internal Revenue Service exonerated him of, after a long investigation.
When Rick Santorum suddenly surged after his upset victories in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, the Romney character assassination machine attacked him for having voted in the Senate for various things that conservatives don't like.
But, when it comes to voting in Congress, seldom do you get a pure bill that you can agree with in all its parts. If you never voted for bills containing anything you didn't like, you might get very little voting done.
But, if it is a bill to provide American soldiers with the equipment they need to fight a war, and somebody has put into it an earmark for a federal boondoggle in his district, are you going to vote against that bill and let American soldiers go into battle without all the equipment and supplies they need?
Taking advantage of the public's lack of knowledge is something that Barack Obama already does very effectively in his political propaganda. But is that something the Republicans want to imitate?
It has worked during the primary season, when the media are perfectly happy to see Republicans destroying each other. But it will not work in the general election campaign, when even truthful criticisms of the president will have a hard time getting out through the media, which hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil when it comes to Obama.
The pettiness and mud-slinging during the Republican primary campaigns is especially irresponsible during a time when there are very serious problems, at home and abroad, that need to be addressed in a serious way.
Discussions of particular issues, one by one, often miss the larger point that goes beyond the issue at hand — namely, this administration's steady movement toward arbitrary government that circumvents the restrictions of the Constitution.
Nothing demonstrates this more starkly than the president's arbitrary power to waive the requirement that employers have to provide ObamaCare coverage for their workers. That can be the difference between paying, or not paying, millions of dollars. What does that mean for anybody's other rights?
What does freedom of speech mean if criticizing the administration can mean you get no exemption, while your competitor who keeps quiet, or who praises the administration, gets a waiver? The Constitution requires "equal protection of the laws" for a reason.
And what about nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran, the world's leading sponsor of international terrorism? Is that not worth discussing in something other than sound bites?
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.


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ILIAD: Intra-Logistics with Integrated Automatic Deployment for safe and scalable fleets in shared spaces
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Today, intralogistic services have to respond quickly to changing market needs, unforeseeable trends and shorter product life cycles. These drivers pose new demands on intralogistic systems to be highly flexible, rock-solid reliable, self-optimising, quickly deployable and safe yet efficient in environments shared with humans.
The aim of the ILIAD research project was to enable the transition to automation of intralogistic services with key stakeholders from the food distribution sector, where these challenges are particularly pressing. The particpants in ILIAD have developed robotic solutions that can integrate with current warehouse facilities, extending the state of the art to achieve self-deploying fleets of heterogeneous robots in multiple-actor systems; life-long self-optimisation; manipulation from a mobile platform; efficient and safe operation in environments shared with humans; and efficient fleet management with formal guarantees.
Scientifically, ILIAD has pursued ambitious goals for complex cognitive systems in human environments beyond a specific use-case. Goals was to overcome limitations in the state of the art in tracking and analysing humans; quantifying map quality and predicting future states depending on activity patterns inferred from long-term observations; planning of socially normative movements using learned human models; integration of task allocation, coordination and motion planning for heterogeneous robot fleets; and systematically studying human safety in mixed environments, providing a foundation for future safety standards.
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Trillium Falls Trail, Elk Meadow Day Use Area, Redwood National and State Parks, California
Trillium Falls Trail - 2.7 miles
Elk Meadow Day Use Area
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Trillium Falls Trail - 2.7 Miles Round-Trip
The Trillium Falls Loop leads through ancient redwood groves highlighted by a bridge across Trillium Falls and wildlife viewing in Elk Meadow. This family-friendly trail showcases a range of forest constituents in a relatively short space including Sitka, big leaf maple, vine maple, rhododendron, huckleberry and the namesake trillium flower.
The trail begins at Elk Meadow Picnic Area. Follow the paved path to signs for Trillium Falls and veer right for counter-clockwise travel on the loop (.1 mile). The Trillium Falls Trail rises quickly into a mature redwood forest with some notably large cathedrals.
It crests and drops to a bridge across Trillium Falls under a sprawling canopy of big leaf maple (.5 miles : 158'). Scramble down for a closer look at each tier.
Climbing resumes up the far side through a diverse collection of old growth redwoods, Douglas fir, western hemlock, Sitka spruce, salal and evergreen huckleberry.
The trail crests (390') and drops across a service road (1.3 miles : 270') into a thinner understory with a chance to examine the trees' full height (1.8 miles : 185').
It winds easily down to another service road (2.3 miles); bear right then a quick left at the Trillium Falls - Berry Glen Trail split (2.4 miles). Follow signs for Elk Meadow to complete the loop (2.6 miles), and retrace your steps back to the trailhead (2.7 miles).
Extend your day by continuing on the Berry Glen Trail, which runs 3.0 miles and climbs over 1200' to the Lady Bird Johnson Grove. Berry Glen passes through contrasting old and second growth redwood forests en route to distinct upland forests along the Lady Bird Nature Trail.
Interactive GPS Topo MapKey GPS Coordinates - DATUM WGS84
- N41 19.373 W124 02.706 — 0.0 miles : Trillium Falls Trailhead
- N41 19.292 W124 02.712 — .1 miles : Trillium Falls Trail split
- N41 19.201 W124 02.962 — .5 miles : Bridge across Trillium Falls
- N41 19.091 W124 02.769 — 1.0 miles : Steady climb thru tall groves
- N41 18.881 W124 02.877 — 1.3 miles : Cross service road
- N41 18.736 W124 02.953 — 1.8 miles : Mild descent in forest
- N41 18.997 W124 02.634 — 2.3 miles Turn down serivce road
- N41 19.075 W124 02.616 — 2.4 miles : Berry Glen Trail split
Worth Noting
- Watch for wildlife on this trail, especially along the berry-lined fringe of Elk Prairie. Avoid hiking and running alone at dusk and dawn.
- The Yurok Tribe inhabited this area for generations, and remains one of California's most populous indigenous tribes with over 5,500 members in Del Norte and Humboldt counties alone.
- Trillium Falls is an excellent choice for families and visitors with limited time or abilities.
Camping and Backpacking Information
Backcountry camping is not permitted on this trail.
There are 4 developed campgrounds in Redwood National and State Parks:
There's a $35 per-night fee to camp in developed campgrounds. Cabins at Elk Prairie and Jedediah Smith are $80 (winter) and $100 (summer) per night.
Reservations are strongly recommended from May - September in all campgrounds. Click links above to learn more about each campground and check availability through ReserveAmerica.com (1.800.444.7275).
- Permits are required for all overnight stays in the backcountry. Permits are free and issued in-person up to 24 hours in advance at the Hiouchi and Kuchel Visitor Centers.
- There are 8 designated backcountry sites. Gravel bar camping is permitted along Redwood Creek. Click here for specific site details and maps.
- Fires are permitted in the backcountry with potential seasonal and location-specific restrictions.
- Proper food storage is required (in provided lockers, bear canisters or by hanging).
- Overnight stays are limited to 5 consecutive days.
Rules and Regulations
- Dogs are not permitted on hiking and riding trails in Redwood National Park, including trails within Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.
- There is no fee to enter Redwood National Park or access trails at the Prairie Creek Visitor Center.
- A Day-Use Fee is required to access Gold Bluffs Beach and the Fern Canyon Trailhead ($8).
Directions to Trailhead
The Elk Prairie Day Use Area is located right off Highway 101, about 5 miles north of Orick.
From Highway 101, turn into the Day Use Area and travel .4 miles to the designated parking lot. Be mindful of elk crossing the access road.
Contact Information
Redwood National and State Parks
1111 Second Steet
Crescent City, CA 95531
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
127011 Newton B Drury Parkway
Orick, CA 95555
Thomas H. Kuchel Visitor Center (Orick, CA)
Jedediah Smith Visitor Center (Hiouchi, CA)
Hiouchi Visitor Center (Hiouchi, CA)
Crescent City Information Center


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Newly-introduced anti-SLAPP legislation got its first airing at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver as a former president of B.C.'s teachers' union seeks to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against him.
The case centres around comments Glen Hansman made about Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld after Neufeld criticized SOGI123, a B.C. initiative to bring understanding of gender identity and expression to classrooms.
In a Facebook post in October 2017, Neufeld said he "could no longer sit on his hands" and watch schools teach "the latest fad" that has turned into a "weapon of propaganda" for gender theories.
Hansman, president of the BC Teachers Federation at the time, was quoted in the news media as saying Neufeld's comments were "bigoted" and that he had "breached his duty as a school trustee," and thus should resign or be removed.
Neufeld filed a defamation lawsuit against Hansman in October 2018, claiming his remarks caused him "indignity, personal harassment, stress, anxiety along with mental and emotional distress."
Hansman has applied to have the lawsuit dismissed under new legislation that targets strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP. Judges can use it to stop lawsuits that seek to block criticism of issues of public interest.
This case is the first since B.C. Attorney General David Eby brought in the legislation in the spring.
On Thursday before the hearing began, Hansman said he is not misusing anti-SLAPP legislation, as Neufeld claimed.
"Both of us are public figures," Hansman told Black Press Media. "Me being able to make comments about him in his role as a trustee is fair game. If you're in public office, you need to be prepared for people to make fair comment."
Neufeld's counsel, Paul Jaffe, said the anti-SLAPP law is designed to protect the "little guy" from large organizations that wield a lot of legal power.
"It's ironic that we are here today with the BCTF, which is a union with 45,000 teachers, who are helping with hearing this case," he said. "Their lawyers are here, all their materials are compiled by the union."
As a public figure, Neufeld is open to criticism as part of Canada's protection of free speech, Jaffe said, but the courts must weigh Hansman's freedom of expression against Neufeld's right to not have his reputation destroyed, "unfoundedly."
"Is it permissible for proponents of SOGI to characterize those who disagree with them as promulgating hate speech, which is a Criminal Code offence, and as being transphobic, homophobic, bigoted and intolerant?" said Jaffe.
"Or does civil debate in a free democratic society acknowledge different opinions and embarking on a campaign to absolutely destroy someone's reputation?"
The hearing was scheduled over two days.
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The 'Smart' Money is on Anybody But Mike Myers
With the summer solstice finally arriving in our rear-view mirrors over the weekend, join us in recognizing the first real box-office hits and misses of the season:
1. Get Smart - $39.2 million
The middling-at-best TV adaptation claimed the weekend essentially by default, but it also fell almost $1 million short of the $40 million opening it needed to trigger its principals' rumored sequel clauses. Will Warner Bros. call it even and commission a script by lunch? Is Anne Hathaway renegotiating with her bad-boy paramour for further "publicity consulting" in 2010? Will Steve Carell meet Don Adams at the Get Smart 2 premiere? Only time will tell!
2. Kung Fu Panda - $21.7 million
The ursine pugilist enjoyed one last top-five weekend before Pixar's Wall-E comes along on Friday to show him what true box-office violence looks like.
3. The Incredible Hulk - $21.5 million
It might look underachieving, but don't worry! A 61% drop is exactly the kind of declining potency Bruce Banner has been searching for all these years. In a couple of weeks it'll be like none of this ever happened to him.
4. The Love Guru - $14 million
What more can we say? His karma was huge.
5. The Happening - $10 million
Manoj's Mint experienced an even steeper plunge than Hulk, driving the stroppy writer/director/profit-participant to challenge Mike Myers to a winner-take-all Bad Idea Marketplace showdown in which next weekend's lower performer flees theaters by noon Monday. We hear Paramount is said to be considering it.
Honorable Mention — 16. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl - $223,000
A few weeks after its previous release — the foreign-language epic Mongol — opened at $27K per screen, the penultimate Picturehouse film Kit Kittredge swung a staggering $44,600 per-screen average in the five cities where American Girl has retail outlets. That should hopefully make the box-packing around the office feel like it's going a little quicker.


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Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
Recorded for Workingman's Dead, but not included on the original release of that album. It was played live less than 20 times in total in 1969 and 1970. It has recently been revived by Phil Lesh & Friends, and by "The Dead".
Mason died on Monday (note 1)Notes
We bricked him in the wall
All his children grew and grew
They never grew so tall before
May they never grow so tall again
We dug him up on Tuesday
He'd hardly aged a day
Taught us all he ever knew
We never knew so much before
We may never know so much again
Mason was a mighty man
A mighty man was he
All he said, when dead and gone
Don't you weep for me
The wall collapsed on Wednesday
We chalked it up to fate
All his children ran and hid
We never hid so well before
Swore we'd never show our face again
Thursday came, then Friday
With fires tall and bright
Mason's children cooked the stew
And cleaned up when the feast was through
Swore we'd never had such times before
Take me to the Reaper Man
To pay back what was loaned
If he's in some other land
Write it off as stoned
|Grateful Dead Recordings
|20 Dec 1969
|Dave's Picks Volume 6
|21 Dec 1969
|Dave's Picks Volume 6 (Bonus disc)
|2 Jan 1970
|Fallout From The Phil Zone (note 6)
|3 Jan 1970
|Dave's Picks 2019 Bonus Disc
|10 Jan 1970
|30 Days Of The Dead (2010)
|18 Jan 1970
|Download Series Vol 2
|24 Jan 1970
|Workingman's Dead (note 1) (note 4)
|2 Feb 1970
|Dave's Picks Volume 6
|14 Feb 1970
|Dick's Picks Vol 4
|studio 1970
|So Many Roads (1965-1995)
|3 Jul 2015
|Fare Thee Well (CD and DVD)
|(Plus live recordings by The Dead, Furthur, Dead & Company, Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends etc not listed here. See Grateful Dead Family Discography for a full list.)
|Other Recordings
|Recorded By
|Living Earth
|Living Earth
|Eternity Blue
|Henry Kaiser
|Those Who Know History ...
|Henry Kaiser
|Alternate Versions
|Henry Kaiser (note 2)
|Comin' Down Fast
|Motorpsycho (note 3)
|studio 2002
|There And Back Again
|Phil Lesh & Friends (bonus CD single)
|9 Nov 2011
|Live: Bloomington, IL
|Yonder Mountain String Band (note 5)
|Demon Box


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The brown and dusty expanse of barren land next to Palo Alto's water-treatment plant looks like an unlikely setting for the next major battle in the city's Green Civil War.
It's not exactly a "dump" and it's not exactly a "park," though there are plenty of local environmentalists who would use these terms to describe the most controversial 10 acres in Palo Alto. But the argument over what to call this lumpy section of the Baylands is but a small, semantic quibble in the furious debate over the land's future -- a debate that will climax on Nov. 8 when residents walk into voting booths to consider Measure E.
The measure, which was put on the ballot by one of two competing environmental coalitions, asks a simple question with implications so complex that almost no one fully understands them: "Shall ten acres of existing parkland in Byxbee Park be undedicated for the exclusive purpose of building a processing facility for yard trimmings, food waste and other organic materials?"
The question has caused much head scratching among the local populace. Aside from the technical uncertainties surrounding the new facility -- including its costs, the technology it would employ and its impact on the environment -- the dilemma has opened up the larger question of what it means to be "green." The city's green community has split over Measure E, with former longtime allies asserting diametrically opposed viewpoints. Some of Palo Alto's greenest citizens are calling for the city to honor its promise to convert this land to parkland, while others are pointing to the 10-acre site as the perfect solution to the city's convoluted waste-management dilemma.
The latter camp, which initiated Measure E, specifically calls for the city to consider building an anaerobic digestion plant at the site -- a facility that would process local food scraps, yard trimmings and sewage sludge and convert them into energy. Opponents claim the proposed facility would sully the 126-acre Byxbee Park and set a dangerous precedent for future treatment of parkland. In addition, they say, Palo Alto's food and yard waste are already being efficiently handled in San Jose and Gilroy by the city's waste hauler.
The battle between the two different green camps is far from new, but it has taken on a particular intensity in the months leading up to the election, with each side accusing its opponent of trying to mislead the public. In one corner stand Peter Drekmeier, a former Palo Alto mayor and well-known conservationist who helped organize Palo Alto's first Earth Day two decades ago; Walt Hays, who may be the city's leading champion of sustainable living; and dozens of volunteers who submitted more than 6,000 signatures to the City Clerk in April to qualify the undedication measure for the November ballot. The environmental nonprofit Acterra, which Drekmeier formerly headed, has also endorsed Measure E, along with other organizations.
On the other side are Emily Renzel and Enid Pearson, two former council members whose conservationist bona fides are so well established that each has an open-space preserve named after her, as well as a host of park preservationists and land-use watchdogs. The Committee for Green Foothills and the Santa Clara Audubon Society have added their voices to the anti-Measure E campaign, as have former mayors Bern Beecham, Yoriko Kishimoto, Dena Mossar, Judy Kleinberg, all of whom are known for supporting green causes.
"We're all environmentalists, but we just see this a little differently," Kleinberg said in a recent interview, when asked about the split over Measure E.
Renzel has fought this battle before. For decades, she has been an outspoken critic of any city proposal that threatened to shrink or degrade the city's open space preserve. In the early 1990s, she supported the creation of a Utilities Advisory Commission to oversee the Utilities Department. According to Ward Winslow's "Palo Alto: A Centennial History," Renzel emerged as a leading critic of the Utilities Department.
"Palo Alto has been exporting huge environmental problems for years," Renzel is quoted as saying. To back up this claim, she cited such activities as "slashing through forests" to build transmission lines, sharing in a dam project and exporting garbage.
Now, ironically, she finds herself arguing in favor of the "export" options for local trash because the alternative would infringe upon Palo Alto's open space.
"Once undedicated, parkland is gone forever, and you will have little to say about how it's being used," Renzel said at an Oct. 11 debate on Measure E.
Renzel and her camp also stood firm on parkland preservation in 2005, the last time the two green camps clashed. At that time, an "Environmental Services Center" -- including in its largest proposed form services such as materials recovery, refuse transfer, composting, recycling, hazardous waste and public education -- would have occupied up to 19 acres in the Baylands.
The conservationist side prevailed, after the council voted 5-4 to defeat the proposal.
Renzel is far from the only prominent Palo Altan making the argument that parkland, in general, should not be touched, even for reasons as ostensibly "green" as a waste-to-energy facility. The anti-Measure E movement is made up of people and organizations that emerged in the middle of the 20th century to challenge Palo Alto's development boom. Chief among them is Pearson, the Palo Altan most responsible for the fact that the parkland is dedicated in the first place.
As the leader of the "residentialist" movement of the 1950s and 1960s, Pearson was the leading force behind the city's decision in 1965 to create a park-dedication ordinance (an ordinance that requires a vote of the people to convert parkland to other uses). According to Winslow's history of Palo Alto, she pursued the ordinance after "one small informal park on the old Sherman School block and part of the city's Bowden Park vanished" during the development boom of the 1950s. Her successful initiative propelled her to the council in 1965, the same year that the Audubon Society proposed creating a larger wildlife preserve in the Baylands.
Pearson's commitment to protecting the Bay from new developments remains strong. Like Renzel, she has repeatedly questioned the financial benefits of the waste-to-energy facility touted by the pro-Measure E side and argued against using the park for composting.
"Even here, in Palo Alto, some people want to destroy 10 acres of Byxbee Park," Pearson told the council on Oct. 3. "Enlightened Palo Alto ought to be doing all it can to find and save land for parks. There is no justification for grabbing park land to construct a huge factory that is based on great expectations."
Other organizations that emerged out of the mid-century conservation movement have also come out swinging against Measure E. The Committee for Green Foothills, which was founded in 1962 and which claimed the author Wallace Stegner as its first president, last month took an official stance against the proposal to undedicate the land. Jennifer Couperus, who serves on the committee's board of directors, told the council last month that the board decided to oppose the measure because it felt the loss of open space is not justified by the prospect of "unproved composting techniques."
The Santa Clara County Audubon Society, which according to Winslow's history has been eyeing the baylands for a bird sanctuary since 1923, has been even more adamant in its opposition to the measure. Shani Kleinhaus, an environmental advocate for the Audubon Society, joined Renzel in the Oct. 11 debate over the measure. Undedicating the parkland, she said, is not only a drastic measure but a premature one, given that the city hasn't fully analyzed the impacts the proposed facility would have.
Kleinhaus also rejected the argument by the proponents of Measure E that the land in question makes up only 8 percent of the park.
"If I ask you to take the nose of your face because it's a 'minute' part of your body, you'd probably say no," Kleinhaus said at the debate.
Former council members have also held fast to their specific environmental philosophies. Kleinberg, a former president of the Committee for Green Foothills who was one of the five council members to vote against the Environmental Services Center, hasn't swerved from her commitment to protecting the Bay from development.
"We've worked so hard to reclaim our bayfronts," Kleinberg said. "To undedicate parkland at the bayfronts seems to be so backwards and anachronistic, I can't believe we're not all up in arms about it."
For Renzel, the Baylands in her mind's eye will never include what she derisively terms "a factory." In July, just weeks before the landfill was scheduled to close for good, she and other nature lovers took a victory lap around a portion of the site and spoke in hopeful tones about the landfill's impending conversion to "the wonderful prairie that once existed," as Mayor Sid Espinosa put it.
From Walt Hays' point of view, opponents' fears about developments encroaching on the Baylands are both unfounded and exaggerated.
"There are some people who believe that parks are so sacred you cannot touch them," Hays told the Weekly in a recent interview. "Some people feel that when you undedicate it once, it can be an entering wedge and you can do it again."
"Frankly, if someone wanted to undedicate parkland and put, say, a fire station, I'd be on Emily's side."
For Hays, who led the Measure E drive, the issue is straightforward: The city needs to take care of its own waste, not ship it to another community. He is quick to point out that the measure would not commit the city to building anything -- merely give the council the option to consider a facility that, he says, would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Though he likes parkland as much as his opponents, the times have changed since 1965, he said, and the city has a duty to address the growing threat of global warming.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time," Hays said, referring to the 1965 dedication of parkland, including the eventual conversion and addition of the dump to Byxbee Park. "But that was before anyone has ever heard of the issue of climate change.
"Since that time, climate change is recognized as the most serious threat faced by humanity."
Hays is the leading player in Palo Alto's robust "sustainability" movement, which emerged in the 1990s and has been ballooning since. He has been talking about climate change and "zero waste" long before the City Council began adopting "environmental sustainability" as an official priority year after year.
As the co-chair of the Zero Waste Task Force in 2005, he helped formulate the city's ambitious goal of diverting almost all of its waste from landfills by 2025 through recycling and other green practices. The following year, he chaired then-Mayor Kleinberg's Green Ribbon Task Force, which was charged with finding ways to reduce the city's greenhouse-gas emissions. Proposed solutions included providing incentives for employees to carpooling and adding green-building code standards to the city's building code -- a policy Palo Alto adopted in 2008.
Hays' commitment to sustainability had pitted him against the conservationists before. In the past decade, he was a leading advocate of building the "Environmental Services Center," which created a firestorm within the green community not unlike the present argument over Measure E.
This time, Hays' side is confident it will have better luck. His coalition, the Palo Alto Green Energy Initiative, has been swelling and gathering a long list of endorsements in the months leading up to the November election. The CLEAN Coalition, the Green Party of Santa Clara County, the Silicon Valley Action Network and the Santa Clara County Democratic Party have all endorsed Measure E, as has Acterra. In its endorsement statement, Acterra noted that "balancing the goals of stopping climate change with preserving open space has put many environmental friends on different sides of this issue" but concluded that a "composting facility adjacent to the water-treatment plant could provide greater environmental benefits -- particularly reducing Palo Alto's carbon footprint -- than leaving the proposed ten-acre site as dedicated parkland."
Members of the "sustainability" camp -- which includes council members Larry Klein, Pat Burt and Gail Price and a host of former elected officials -- are quick to point out that the proposal wouldn't require the city to build anything but merely allow the city to continue evaluating its options.
"Just because it's undedicated doesn't mean they have to build it," said Ellen Fletcher, a former vice mayor who is supporting Measure E. "It'll still be up to the council and the public to go through the studies that will be commissioned and see what the alternatives are.
"If none work out, the council can still rededicate the land, so there's nothing lost."
The measure aims to settle what Drekmeier calls the city's "chicken-and-egg" dilemma. The city would have to complete an Environmental Impact Report before any major facility is constructed. But city officials would be loath to commit millions of dollars for such a study when there is no land available for the proposed facility; a much smaller "feasibility study" was approved after heavy debate and a 5-4 council vote. At the same time, opponents of Measure E insist that the land not be undedicated until there is further proof that such a facility would be feasible -- proof that could only be furbished through a full environmental analysis.
"People talk about this as a green-versus-green issue," Drekmeier said at last week's debate over Measure E. "Perhaps it is park-advocate environmentalists and sustainability environmentalists.
"I have a 2-year-old son," he added. "His life will be so different than mine. He has such huge challenges. The times have changed, and we have to address our waste."
The deep split between the two environmental camps has prompted a period of soul-searching among the city's greenest residents. Should one align oneself with Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," the traditional bible of the nature lover, or with Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat and Crowded," a manifesto that seeks to shake America out of its climate-change apathy (Drekmeier and Klein felt so strongly about the latter that they sponsored a special City Hall screening in 2009 of Friedman's talk about the book).
Though neither side in the debate is a monolithic bloc, each has common threads running through it. Not surprisingly, proponents of Measure E tend to be in the Friedman camp. They are, in most cases, more accepting toward emerging technologies and, in many cases, more tolerant of new development. The measure has received financial support and endorsements from the city's leading developers, including Jim Baer and Chop Keenan. Jonathan Foster, who chairs the city's Utilities Advisory Commission, is supporting the campaign, as is Bob Wenzlau, who pioneered the city's curbside-recycling program.
Opponents tend to be more cautious about new development. The group includes land-use watchdogs Robert Moss, Thomas Jordan and Winter Dellenbach, as well as Susan Fineberg, vice chair of the city's Planning and Transportation Commission who is known as a cautious guardian of the city's Comprehensive Plan. Councilwoman Karen Holman, a veteran of the planning commission, opposes Measure E, as do Mayor Sid Espinosa and Councilman Greg Schmid.
The tension between the two green camps probably won't end with Measure E, particularly if the measure passes. The two camps have squabbled incessantly over the feasibility study for the new facility, with each side using numbers from the study to back its point of view. If voters undedicate the land and the council proceeds with further analysis, the debate will undoubtedly escalate. If they reject Measure E, the debate will likely abate at least for a little while -- at least until someone comes up with another proposal to build something with environmental benefits in the Baylands.
"My sense is that when we go to the voters -- if they choose not to undedicate it, the discussion ends," Councilman Greg Scharff said during a meeting in April. "If they do -- that's the beginning of the discussion, frankly."
Related material:
Checking the facts on Measure E


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