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SECRETARY NOTE: This meeting is NOT recorded due to either a dead battery or full memory.
Call to order: 5:02
Rainbow Alliance
Cory Bullocks
Adam Spivey
Catherine Lambrechts
18 on floor, quorum met
Missing office hours: Bradford Ermel (No speaking or voting rights)
Rainbow Alliance no longer has an org seat due to absences
Motion to approve agenda: Amanda Barber
Second: Matt Smanski
Motion to seat Catherine Lambrechts: Garfield Davis
Second: Ben Holmes
Catherine Lambrechts seated, 19 on floor
Motion to approve minutes: Amanda Barber
Second: Matt Smanski
1 open senate seat, Nominations:
Marcus Bouterse (accepted)
Michael Pincikowski (accepted)
Kyle Koenen (accepted)
Motion to seat Bradford Ermel: Danny Fitzgerald
Second: Kevin Croswhite
Bradford Ermel seated
Motion to seat Cory Bullocks: Amanda Barber
Second: Ben Holmes
Quorum called: 21 on floor
Motion to seat Adam Spivey: Amanda Barber
Second: Ben Holmes
Adam Spivey seated
Top 2 candidates out of 3 will win preliminary, with a run-off between top two for senate seat
Candidate interviews:
Marcus: thinks it's important for student body to be aware of PSG, sits on SUFAC
Michael: represent entire body, would like to work on communication, no real government experience
Kyle: help represent students' views
Motion to censor Jeff House: Adam Spivey
Second: SK vote:
41% yes, motion fails
Votes for open senate seat
Motion to table vote: Garfield Davis
Second: Kevin Croswhite
Unanimous Approval
VP: SLC meets Mon at 11, Maple room
Some stipends cut, SUFAC recommends them being upped slightly recommended for secretary due to workload (information via Marley)
Should be worked out via job description, not individual person's work ethic
Byron: minutes should be word-for-word, hence recommendation for salary increase for secretary
Byron: Motion to recommend to Secretary salary increase due to time needed Second: House
DISCUSSION: there ARE programs available for transcription, will need further looking into
Motion fails
Motion to un-table voting: Adam Spivey
Second: Kevin Croswhite
results: Marcus Bouterse gets seat through unanimous vote
Motion to seat Marcus Bouterse: Amanda Barber
Second: Garfield Davis
Marcus Bouterse seated
Chancellor's office report (given by Jisha, Dr. Steve unavailable today):
-Health insurance committee: recommendations for student health insurance
Dr. Steve is available for questions regarding issue
Amanda Barber: Resolution Supporting Conscionable and Reasonable Housing Contracts
Amanda shared Wisconsin Statute 704, regarding the definitions of "Lease", "Real Property", and "Tenancy".
UW-P's housing/dining contract is in violation of Wis. Stat. 704.
On-Campus housing is considered "real property"
"Be it resolved that UW-P ResLife review their policies and make them in accordance with the state statutes and be submitted to Senate for approval, as well as with their other policies and handbooks"
Wisconsin Administrative Code: exemption regarding tenancy and leases
36.09(5) gives us opportunity to review the policies regardless of exemptions--an exemption means you can CHOOSE to not comply, not that you DON'T have to
Consensus of Senate is that the 24-hour eviction policy is outrageous and unfair to international or out-of-state students, especially.
The Cease-and-Desist for the eviction policy is to take effect immediately, with recommendations for ResLife to bring their revised contract to Senate by a specified time, since signup for 2011-2012 housing is quickly approaching
CND for vacate policy takes effect immediately
Adam Spivey moves to amend the legislation with a "due date" for revised contracts of February 9th, by 4pm
Second: Garfield Davis
Vote: Amendment approved
Catherine Lambrechts inquired about housing contracts at other universities? There are a few that are immediate evictions, but most have a 24-hour policy like UW-P.
Adam Spivey: Just because other universities do it doesn't mean we have to
System Legal gave no reasoning as to why UW schools are exempted from Wis. Stat. 704
Motion to approve the document as amended: Adam Spivey
Second: SK
VOTE: 86% approval
-Goal Setting was supposed to be removed from agenda, was not removed -Should thank Amanda for the CND resolution--LOTS OF TIME PUT INTO THIS -All senators are capable of doing things like what Amanda did,
-Athletic presentation from previous meeting is NOT a voting item, just informational, if Senate wanted to approve it, they would have to write a resolution
-Thank you to SUFAC for their hard work during Budget Hearings! -Read the NYT, but DO NOT throw them out! We get reimbursed for the unread papers.
-Spivey is working on projects, such as the Student Health and Counseling Center: currently the SHCC has one Nurse Practitioner who also doubles as the director. They have one part-time RN, three full time counselors, and one psychiatrist who comes in every other week.
Spivey would like to find a closer space to house SHCC, but currently finances are a big issue, as well as privacy
Current Student Health and Counseling Center staffing:
1 Nurse Practitioner / Director
1 Part time RN
3 Full Time counselors
1 Psychiatrist every other week
1 Nurse Practitioner position that they are hoping to fill soon
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A round-up of the top climate and energy news.
The size of rainstorms hitting Los Angeles has been getting bigger over the past 60 years, according to a new report released today by the Environment California Research and Policy Center. The environmental advocacy group measured rainfall in the Los Angeles metro area since 1948 and found that a storm large enough to occur only once a year decades ago is now happening every 8.8 months. [Contra Costa Times]
Similar trends were seen throughout much of California and nationwide. Overall, California experienced a 13 percent increase in extreme rainstorms and snowstorms between 1948 and 2011, one of 43 states to see statistically significant increases.
The report "When It Rains, It Pours" attributed the nationwide rise in extreme storms to global warming, although some experts are still hesitant to link climate change to relatively short-term weather patterns. It's also unclear what an increase in extreme storms means for Los Angeles' water supply.
Travis Madsen, one of the report's lead authors and a policy analyst at the Frontier Group, an environmental think tank, called extreme rainfall frequency "one of the clearest ways in which we can see the impact of the change in climate."
The Obama administration was urged on Monday to stop diverting grain to gas amid warnings of an "imminent food crisis" caused by America's drought.US government forecasts of a 4% rise in food prices for US consumers because of the drought have sharpened criticism of supports for producing fuel from corn-based ethanol. [Gaurdian]
The latest oil spill from Enbridge Inc.'s Mainline pipeline system is bad timing for Canadian pipeline companies, which are trying to gain public support for new oil projects in Canada and the U.S.The spill of some 1,200 barrels of oil in Wisconsin Friday occurred almost two years to the day after Enbridge spilled 20,000 barrels of oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in the most costly onshore spill in U.S. history. [Wall Street Journal]
President Barack Obama on Monday signed a bill designed to expedite home building and energy development on tribal lands.The law, sponsored by Rep. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., enables tribes to approve trust land leases directly, rather than waiting for approval from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Navajo Nation already has that authority. [Washington Post]
As polar bears become rarer, they may be forced to mate with brown bears, which this new study suggests has happened before in the distant past. Modern polar and brown bears can and do produce fertile offspring, but biologists classify them separate species because geographical distance usually prevents the two from ever meeting. Climate change is erasing the distance between the two species. Brown bears are moving north into polar bear territory, and polar bears are being forced off melting ice to spend more time on land, where they're more likely to encounter brown bears. A Canadian hunter in 2006 shot a white bear with patches of brown fur and the humped claws of a grizzly—DNA tests confirmed this first modern report of a hybrid. [Mother Jones]
As the temperature keeps rising, so does the price of natural gas. Natural gas futures in New York have surged 69 percent since hitting a 10-year low this spring. Power plants are burning more natural gas for electricity as homes and businesses crank up the air conditioning. And natural gas companies are finally cutting back after a production boom that pushed supplies this winter to the highest level on record. [Washington Post]
Massachusetts lawmakers have approved a bill that would require utilities to purchase more of their electricity from renewable sources. The measure approved in the Senate and House on Monday would also require competitive bidding for long-term renewable energy contracts and reduce from 4 percent to 2.75 percent the guaranteed annual return that utilities would receive from those investments. [Boston]
General Electric scientists have developed a prototype electric motor designed to improve the performance and efficiency of hybrid and electric vehicles.The Interior Permanent Magnet traction motor improves on existing designs in several key areas, and would result in hybrids and electric vehicles with greater range, better performance and better cooling characteristics. [Boston]
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker will today cut the ribbon on Scotland's first designated zone for the development of marine energy, delivering a major boost to the fledgling sector. [Gaurdian]
-Max Frankel
21 Responses to July 31 News: Thanks To Climate Change, The Size Of Storms Has Dramatically Increased
"Scientists at Harvard University have discovered yet another unexpected — not to mention unintended — consequence of climate change. Thunderstorms on steroids — supercharged by the increased heat energy trapped in the atmosphere — are, as it were, punching massive holes in the ozone layer."
Would be much appreciated if someone in the know could comment on this study
Those whose comments we value most need the original citation of the article available by subscription or with a fee at sciencemag.org
Published Online July 26 2012
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1222978Report
UV Dosage Levels in Summer: Increased Risk of Ozone Loss from Convectively Injected Water Vapor
James G. Anderson,
David M. Wilmouth,
Jessica B. Smith,
David S. Sayres -
"The team's calculations suggest that the havoc wreaked by water vapor could continue for days after a storm, as humidity levels slowly fall. As much as 25 to 35 percent of ozone, over a horizontal distance of 100 kilometers, could be annihilated in a week.
"I was surprised that so much ozone could be removed in such a short time," says Dale Hurst, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
For now, the danger exists only on paper. Actual measurements tracking chlorine compounds in the stratosphere would help to confirm whether the damage is taking place and, if so, how widespread the problem may be. And while many climate simulations do call for more strong storms as temperatures continue to rise, the future is still somewhat fuzzy. A warmer atmosphere would hold more moisture but would also weaken the wind shear that whips up extreme weather. "
Anderson is saying his group has observed that more water vapour than previously thought possible is in parts of the stratosphere over the US.
"This problem now is of deep concern to me" he is quoted in the NYTimes as saying. Also: "I never would have suspected this".
The concern is that if climate change is driving more water into the stratosphere it will cause more ozone depletion.
Anderson knows what he is talking about. It was his experiment that NASA flew right into the ozone hole over Antarctica in 1987 that resulted in the proof that forced industry to admit they could produce substitute chemicals. Anderson's result was called the "smoking gun". It was what negotiators required before they could beef up the Montreal Protocol over the years until it could be said that CFCs are practically banned.
If significant ozone loss occurs over the regions of the planet where most people live, the skin cancer rate will increase. Crop losses will increase. Almost all life on the planet depends on the life that must directly face the sun.
Although CFC concentration peaked and is gently declining as a result of the Montreal Protocol the concentration is still near its peak. CFCs act to transport chlorine to the stratosphere. Because the CFC chlorine transport mechanism did not exist prior to industrial civilization and their concentration is still near the peak, the net effect is there is about 3x as much chlorine in the stratosphere as before humans evolved. This is expected to decline back to normal over many decades but it is there now and climate change is happening now.
There always was a worry about what would happen as GHGs accumulated. Ozone depletion alters where the stratosphere is and what temperature it is and the stratosphere is a fundamental part of the atmosphere. Therefore it was felt ozone depletion must have an effect on climate. "Way back when" it just used to be mentioned, then discussion would move to other topics as the issue was too poorly understood for anyone to have a good idea. Reports now that ozone and climate have been completely separate issues until Anderson's announcement are mistaken: Joellen Russell at U of Arizona says the colder stratosphere over Antarctica due to ozone depletion there means an increased temperature gradient between the tropics and the South Pole which is adding to the forces driving the southern hemisphere westerlies further south which she says is having profound effects on the climate system.
It was always feared that climate change would cause more ozone depletion, contrary to the reports I'm reading now. Climate change was going to cause the troposphere to warm and the stratosphere to cool it was thought way back when. The reason the ozone hole appeared over Antarctica and ozone loss was at its worst in that particular spot was because the stratosphere is colder there than anywhere else on Earth. If the stratosphere was cooled globally, more ozone loss must occur, it was thought.
Anderson's saying there is evidence Earth, and hence life, has experienced high water vapour levels in the stratosphere in the paleo record, I'm not sure how he confirms this. It has not simultaneously experienced higher water vapour in the stratosphere along with the artificially higher concentrations of chlorine in the stratosphere the CFCs have produced.
They've observed that the water is there in some places over the US now. They don't actually know if this is something that they just missed all these years, or what. "we don't have measurements of this deep convective injection of water into the stratosphere that go back in time". They don't buy that they missed this in the past. It also looks like they've observed that in the presence of this water that catalytic reactions involving the artificially high levels of chlorine can increase the rate of ozone loss by 100x, i.e. in the places in the stratosphere where this water is, ozone loss increases by 100x. "we understand this chemistry".
Ralph Cicerone, who was recognized on Rowland, Molina, and Crutzen's Nobel citation for his contribution to understanding ozone depletion, is now President of the NAS. He is calling for action: "the thing to do is do field work now – measure moisture amounts and whether there is any impact around it". They've only got a limited number of observations.
Its another head of the hydra: Anderson: "the best guide for the evolution of this is to look at the research that connects climate change with severe storm intensity and frequency… it's clear that there is a developing scientific case that the addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is increasing climate change, and in turn driving severe storm intensity and frequency".
Chomsky: The Most Powerful Country in History Is Destroying the Earth and Human Rights as We Know Them.
"It should be unnecessary to dwell on the extreme dangers posed by one central element of the predatory obsessions that are producing calamities all over the world: the reliance on fossil fuels, which courts global disaster, perhaps in the not-too-distant future. Details may be debated, but there is little serious doubt that the problems are serious, if not awesome, and that the longer we delay in addressing them, the more awful will be the legacy left to generations to come. There are some efforts to face reality, but they are far too minimal. The recent Rio+20 Conference opened with meager aspirations and derisory outcomes.
Meanwhile, power concentrations are charging in the opposite direction, led by the richest and most powerful country in world history. Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene. The major business lobbies openly announce their propaganda campaigns to convince the public that there is no need for undue concern — with some effect, as polls show.
The media cooperate by not even reporting the increasingly dire forecasts of international agencies and even the U.S. Department of Energy. The standard presentation is a debate between alarmists and skeptics: on one side virtually all qualified scientists, on the other a few holdouts. Not part of the debate are a very large number of experts, including the climate change program at MIT among others, who criticize the scientific consensus because it is too conservative and cautious, arguing that the truth when it comes to climate change is far more dire. Not surprisingly, the public is confused.
In his State of the Union speech in January, President Obama hailed the bright prospects of a century of energy self-sufficiency, thanks to new technologies that permit extraction of hydrocarbons from Canadian tar sands, shale, and other previously inaccessible sources. Others agree. The Financial Timesforecasts a century of energy independence for the U.S. The report does mention the destructive local impact of the new methods. Unasked in these optimistic forecasts is the question what kind of a world will survive the rapacious onslaught."
I saw Chomsky once, when he visited Sydney, and he spoke out for the still imprisoned East Timorese, for which he was viciously abused by the denizens of the local Murdoch abomination. Later, when the Timorese were liberated, he was forgotten, as the Rightwing MSM had the gall to congratulate themselves and the Howard regime for the miracle. He's dead right here, of course. Nixon would be harried daily on FoxNews, and any of scores of notable Republicans from that era purged by the Mad Hatters. Come to think of it, perhaps that explains their love of coal. Maybe they've ingested so much mercury that they have not just gone troppo, but they've also become addicted to the wretched stuff.
Storm size also tied to soil erosion, weathering rates,
Soil erosion and climate change
The warmer atmospheric temperatures observed over the past decades are expected to lead to a more vigorous hydrological cycle, including more extreme rainfall events.In 1998 Karl and Knight reported that from 1910 to 1996 total precipitation over the contiguous U.S. increased, and that 53% of the increase came from the upper 10% of precipitation events (the most intense precipitation). The percent of precipitation coming from days of precipitation in excess of 50 mm has also increased significantly.
Studies on soil erosion suggest that increased rainfall amounts and intensities will lead to greater rates of erosion. Thus, if rainfall amounts and intensities increase in many parts of the world as expected, erosion will also increase, unless amelioration measures are taken. http://climateforce.net/2011/07/09/pedology-erosion-weathering-during-the-petm/
That is a nice little report but it is a totally inadequate picture of what is going on in Los Angeles:
"Downtown Los Angeles (USC) will end the 2011-2012 water year (July 1 to June 30) having recorded 8.69 inches of rain. This is about 58% of the 1981-2010 normal of 14.93 inches."
The Southwest is in a drought. The drought is not letting up. It may change with the coming El Nino later this year and if it develops Los Angeles could see some intense rainstorms.
New Zealand: The big wet continues for South Canterbury
Rain and floods cause mayhemTorrential rain caused flooding across South Canterbury yesterday and by 10pm last night the Te Ngawai had reached a 50-year flood level, flowing at 1000 cumecs.
Wet conditions are forecast for the rest of the week.
Much of the region experienced more than 90 millimetres of rain – significantly more than the 75mm average total rainfall for the month. Rainfall of 180mm was recorded in some areas. Most rivers experienced flows of 10- to 20-year return periods. http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/7388312/The-big-wet-continues-for-South-Canterbury
Jackson and The Hobbit crew escape floods
The filmmaker has posted footage of the storms in his latest behind-the-scenes video blog from the set of the top secret movie, which has been shot across his native New Zealand for the past eight months.
Jackson explains he was shooting scenes of dwarves floating down the Pelorus River for the second sequel when blue skies clouded over and the weather took a change for the worse.
In the taped video footage, he says, ""Our location shooting came to a pretty dramatic end because the police arrived and said they were about to issue a severe weather warning. I've never seen a crew pack up their gear so quickly.
""The very next day, everywhere where we were standing… was under floodwater. That was incredibly dramatic. The rise of the river level was, like, 20 or 30 feet."" http://wsau.com/news/articles/2012/jul/08/jackson-and-the-hobbit-crew-escape-floods/
This article kind of buried the lead.
The report actually includes data nationwide, and the really startling factoid coming out of this is what's going on in New England where the incidence of extreme storms has shot up 85%.
Professor Muller's greatest contribution is not his actual findings, but the role model he provides for other climate change sceptics to change camp. As usual it is the storyline that is more important than the libretto.
Wind Turbine Capacity: 50% is the New Normal
Anyone who hangs around in the comments section of sites covering wind energy knows one thing — clean energy haters love to talk about wind turbine capacity factor. In particular, they love to chant the now quite
http://climatecrocks.com/2012/07/30/wind-turbine-capacity-50-is-the-new-normal/ -
When this summer's drought turned her prized lawn brown, Terri LoPrimo fought back, but not with sprinklers: She had it painted green, making her suddenly lush-appearing yard the envy of her neighborhood.
The Staten Island, N.Y., resident and her husband, Ronnie, hired a local entrepreneur to spruce up their yard by spraying it with a deep-green organic dye. By Monday, the couple's property was aglow with newly green blades of grass and no watering needed to sustain it.
"It looks just like a spring lawn, the way it looks after a rain. It's really gorgeous," said LoPrimo, a 62-year-old retiree. http://climatecrocks.com/2012/07/30/going-green-in-the-big-dry/
We have the technology… :)
Humans and early "first-step" technological evolution..
You can hold [one of the] ancient artefacts in your left hand and a modern artefact in your right and they're exactly the same" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19069560
12 Diseases Climate Change May Worsen
The Wildlife Conservation Society has identified some of the illnesses that global warming may exacerbateBird flu, cholera, Ebola, plague and tuberculosis are just a few of the diseases likely to spread and get worse as a result of climate change http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=twelve-diseases-climate-change-may-make-worse
Western Wildfire Recovery Likely to Take Years
A once-thriving Colorado neighborhood of homes and healthy trees has been reduced to a barren expanse of ash and debris. Across the state, a river prized for its trout, rapids and pristine water instead flows as an oily, black brew every time rain falls on nearby slopes charred by wildfire.
In New Mexico, the Santa Clara Pueblo is seeking volunteers to fill sandbags for fear the American Indian village of 3,100 will be washed away by runoff from mountainsides left denuded by a blaze last year.
Wildfires across the West are burning homes, businesses, bridges and other infrastructure necessary for everyday life — and the disaster isn't over when the wildfire is snuffed out and the firefighters go home.
Erosion from seared hillsides buries roads in mud and pollutes rivers that supply tap water. The point was driven home earlier this week when a mudslide following heavy rain in Colorado's Waldo Canyon burn area temporarily closed U.S. 24 near Manitou Springs.
Electricity, water and gas lines have to be repaired and recharged. Debris from burned-out homes has to be hauled away and new houses must be built. Even if the work starts while the fire is still burning, experts say recovery can take years and untold millions of dollars simply to make conditions livable again. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/western-wildfire-recovery-years-16897231#.UBg5Wo5M718
All the synergies, one, two or more nasties acting together in exacerbating disasters in surprising ways. Stability may be boring, but instability is far worse. Perhaps the elite are simply making us enjoy the thrills of 'risk' in every facet of existence.
It rained twice this month in Los Angeles, mid-July, from monsoon rains. Monsoon is not unknown in LA but they normally appear in late August/early September.
As strange as the weather was the air smelled great and the skies were clear for a couple of days. However, there isn't anything that could keep me in LA.
The title of this piece states, "July 31 News: Thanks To Climate Change, The Size Of Storms Has Dramatically Increased." Looking at the link in the lead story, I find:
Bill Patzert, a climatologist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, called the report a comprehensive study that correctly identifies an increase in extreme storms in California.
But Patzert questioned whether that trend has been caused by global warming.
Data for Los Angeles and Sacramento going back to 1878, Patzert said, shows that the overall amount of rainfall in California has stayed roughly flat. To look for global warming trends, he said, "you need a much longer record."
"If you only use 50 years of data, which they did, they're right. The rainfall is increasing, both in LA and Sacramento," he said. "But that's because from 1948 to 1975, it was generally dry in California, and the '80s and '90s were generally wet. And that had nothing to do with global warming."
The climatologist who is the actual expert in this area that was interviewed in that link seems to think that if you include all of the data for California , going back to 1878, not 1948, the trend in storms is actually flat. But looking only as far back as 1948 you get what looks like a trend towards more powerful storms because that was the beginning of a dry period and currently we are in a wet period.
Not sure that the headline you used is justified by the story on the other end of the link.
PS I love the daily news summaries with links. Its what I start my day with, downloading the stories that you link to and reading them on the bus on the way to work each day.

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With the Bat-signal still hanging high over the horizon, it's a foregone conclusion that "The Dark Knight Rises" will repeat as box office champion this weekend after its boisterous $160 million debut. The question really is: how much will "Rises" fall? If it's anything like "The Dark Knight" it should see a hold in the 50%-range, or around $80 million Bat-bucks.
There is a chance, however, we could see a drop in the 40%-range. The tragedy in Colorado was extremely unprecedented, but draws us in to an interesting discussion--did it affect the box office? We may never know that answer, but just looking at the overall decline of movies across the board last weekend, it certainly seems that way. Although there is no way to truly quantify the monetary losses, I think it's safe to say "The Dark Knight Rises" was affected financially, possibly upwards of $15 million or so. And I think that was likely most evident in the family demographic or the casual fan department…most of which should return this weekend.
What happened in Aurora certainly cannot be overlooked or placated. The violence inherent to the "Dark Knight" trilogy may have just been too much for people looking for simple escapism last weekend, considering the reality of what happened. And for potential movie-goers that were on the fence about seeing it in the first place, they may have just skipped it all-together.
This was a tragedy, one that will no doubt send dark ripples down the aisles of every movie theatre from coast to coast, and the world. Sadly, because of this event, a dark cloud will hang over "The Dark Knight Rises" throughout its release; however the mending has already begun with outpouring support from community leaders and even our Commander in Chief. Oh, and Batman himself—Christian Bale— showed up to visit victims and their families in what was probably one of the most moving tributes by a movie star in a long time.
Movies are a reflection of our life and times, and hopefully, the fear and sadness this unfortunate event created will not override the joy we take out of watching movies and living our lives. If it does, those that harbor and create violence will win, and in the end isn't that what Batman always fights for…to stomp out fear in every dark corner he encounters. Batman, we need you now more than ever.
This has already caused much reflection throughout the theatrical community and beyond, but hopefully the actions of one scared, demented individual will not bring ridiculous repercussions like metal-detectors in every theatre, however, it certainly should lead to tighter security (door alarms, security cameras) and making sure multiplexes and movie houses are locked down appropriately.
In light of what happened, everyone could use a bit of laughter in their lives, so it's a bit of serendipity that Fox's R-rated sci-fi comedy "The Watch" lands in 3,000+ theatres this weekend. Written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, directed by Lonely Planet and SNL alum Akiva Schaffer, and starring comedy heavyweights Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill, there is no reason this shouldn't see upwards of $30 million. We haven't seen a comedy outside of "Ted" approach $100 million this summer, so this may be just the ticket.
It's doubtful "The Watch" will see the massive numbers "Ted" did throughout its run; however, it probably has the best shot of any comedy left on the summer schedule of breaking out. Sorry, "The Campaign," your political schtick already looks like Mitt Romney's offshore accounts: suspect at best.
Also arriving in multiplexes this weekend is Summit's fourquel, "Step Up: Revolution." Is it really considered a revolution just because it's set in Florida this time? I remember when "Revenge of the Nerds" went to Fort Lauderdale for their sequel, "Nerds in Paradise," and also when "Police Academy" decided to travel to the sunshine state for their fifth flick, "Assignment: Miami Beach," and those were both pretty much the low point of their respective franchises. I mean, except for Booger meeting his zen master. That in itself was a classic moment in cinematic history.
Nasal notoriety aside, "Step Up 4" has even been referred to with the subtitle, "Miami Heat," but I assure you LeBron and the rest of the NBA champs do not appear in this film, and neither does Channing Tatum, who had a break out performance in the first one that jumpstarted his career.
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10/18/2010 05:13
According to Rabbi, the lives of non-Jews in Israel are safeguarded by divinity, to prevent losses to Jews.
The sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews, according to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the head of Shas's Council of Torah Sages and a senior Sephardi adjudicator.
"Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,†he said in his weekly Saturday night sermon on the laws regarding the actions non-Jews are permitted to perform on Shabbat.
According to Yosef, the lives of non-Jews in Israel are safeguarded by divinity, to prevent losses to Jews.
"In Israel, death has no dominion over them... With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one's donkey would die, they'd lose their money.
This is his servant... That's why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew,†Yosef said.
"Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat.
That is why gentiles were created,†he added.
Yosef's Saturday night sermons have seen many controversial statements from the 90-year-old rabbi. In August, Yosef caused a diplomatic uproar when he wished a plague upon the Palestinian people and their leaders, a curse he retracted a few weeks later, when he blessed them along with all of Israel's other peace-seeking neighbors.
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Alright. Let me explain this as best I can. Darren Staley lives in North Carolina. I live in Los Angeles. My neighbor's couch, on which he lives, does not exist. The people who join him on the couch are on their way to my home, where they never arrive and have no reason to go. Darren and I became friends before we met in Indianapolis, where neither of us lives. My dog, Lord Buckley Sweetlips, Greatest of All Dane Mutts (The Dinosaur Slaying Dog), whom Darren loves and wears around as a stole when it's chilly at night, has never met Darren and is far too large to be worn as a stole. The nude photo, Darren in Repose, taken by Cat Gwynn, which hangs over my fireplace is purely fictitious. Darren is allowed to shower any time he likes, in North Carolina, where he lives. I do not feed anyone my leftovers except for Lord Buckley Sweetlips and Sir Corwin the the Beautiful Dog-faced Dog, Brindled Beast of Sylmar. Perhaps I can explain it better by telling a story. I'm good at that. I hope.
When I joined twitter, I quickly found myself falling in with a small circle of comics and writers who spent time playing loosely structured games of top-that-line. One member of that group was @crobama, a very funny man whom I'd never met but who was as capable of writing pithy and funny as the rest of us, although he tended to do two or three genuinely funny jokes and then slip into shock-value vulgarity. Nothing wrong with that, really. Just not always my thing.
He sent me a private message at one point asking if he could send me an e-mail. I gave him the address. He sent me about a page of fairly funny, deeply dirty stand-up material and asked for my opinion. I gave it. I suggested that he was writing some funny stuff but that it would serve him to write clean to start with, learn to structure good jokes first and then begin to play with the potential of shock value. I told him that vulgarity can easily become a comedic crutch and can retard the process of learning how actual jokes work. Understand, readers, that I am not morally or ethically opposed to vulgarity or shock comedy on principle. I just think it's good to know how jokes and comedic structures function before one begins to explore such devices.
Much to my surprise and delight, the following day Darren sent me another page of material. This batch did not rely on vulgarity. Not only had he taken the note and worked with it, he had come back to me with more material for review. I was sort of impressed. I told him so. I complimented him on the new work. I suggested that he begin getting out and performing.
Next day he sent another page of material. I informed him that I could not review a page of material for him every day. I reiterated the idea that he would need to start getting out in front of an audience to hone the material and find out what worked for him and what did not. The response was a long, personal e-mail, telling me that he had not left the house in ten years, that he is agoraphobic, that there was little chance of him taking the material out and performing it. He asked me to share the e-mail with a couple of others in our twitter circle as he had begun to feel very close to us all. I did so. One of those others is a friend whom I also know to have suffered from agoraphobia. I sent him the manuscript of a humor book I've written about my own struggles with depression.
So, what started with the trading of one-liners at one-hundred-forty characters or fewer began to become an oddly intimate long-distance friendship.
He tweeted, "I'm going to California. @dylanbrody invited me to stay on his neighbor's couch."
It struck me as funny. I replied, "If he didn't want me inviting people to stay on his couch he shouldn't have left it out so enticingly on the curb."
He sent me a private message: "That's really funny. I think there's a podcast in that."
I responded: "I have no idea what that means."
He explained what a podcast is to me. I told him I was not an idiot. I knew what a podcast was. I did not know what the idea was that he was imagining.
He sent me a page-long pitch. In the world within the podcast, he had come to L.A. thinking he had a place to stay on my neighbor's couch only to find out that it is outdoors awaiting trash pickup. He interviews people on their way in to my home. Everybody feels that I'm doing him a favor by letting him stay on the couch. He's the only one who seems to realize that he's essentially homeless.
He explained, in the pitch, that he can do all the interviews by phone and then, at the end, I can show up and plug gigs and stuff and tell him to stop harassing my guests.
I asked Darren what this was going to cost me. "Nothing," he said. "And I can plug your CDs at the end of every show."
I try to say "yes" to as much as I can and "no" only when I can see a real detriment. So I said, "Sure. Give it a shot."
He started out with a plan to script all the interviews to be comedic and inept. Then he realized that it's easier and, frankly, better, to actually interview his guests and let the interaction develop organically. The commitment to the premise became very haphazard. Some guests play it as though they're on the couch, others acknowledge that it's on the phone, some vacillate between the two takes on the circumstance. Darren and I try to maintain the conceit – playing it as though I call him from the phone in my house, but he's out there on the couch . . . most of the time. Even we aren't all that strict about it. Running jokes have developed. I make him plug the CDs or he won't be allowed to come in and take a shower. He watches me and my wife through the windows and envies our life indoors. He and Lord Buckley have developed a strange and intimate relationship and the dog finds the nude photo of Darren -- which was given to me as a gift after Cat Gwynn's visit -- oddly hypnotic. My wife insists that I give Darren our leftovers. Darren sneaks into our home when we're out, raids the refrigerator, tries on our clothes.
A couple of months into doing the show, Darren e-mailed me that he'd left his house. He'd gone shopping at a grocery store. Then he was going to a comedy show. He wrote some material for himself and went to an open mic night.
I'm not quite sure how it happened, but in pretending to be living on a couch outside my home, Darren gave himself some critical tool that he needed in order to start fighting the agoraphobia that had kept him housebound for ten years.
A few months ago I had a headlining gig at Morty's Comedy Joint in Indianapolis. Darren, along with his stepson and a close friend, drove ten hours from North Carolina, stayed in a hotel room and came to shows two consecutive nights. We had drinks after the shows. We hung out like close friends who hadn't seen each other in a long while, which, technically, was sort of the fact. We hadn't seen each other ever.
Darren and some of the others who are close to him seem to think that I was instrumental in his healing process, but I think that premise is clearly absurd. He had an idea, implemented it, found his way through a troubled time and effected his own rehabilitation. He put together a project that has allowed him to interview top-notch comics and performers, show-runners to whom I could only hope to gain access in Hollywood, artists, celebrities and a host of other high-profile guests. He's had Paul Provenza, Kelly Carlin, Suzanne Whang, Greg Fitzimmons, Wendy Liebman, Ken Plume, Mike Royce, Evan Kessler, Johnny Argent, Jackie Kashian, Fred Stoller, Alice Radley, Rick Shapiro and Rain Pryor on the couch. He conducted the very last interview with Joe Bodoloai before he committed suicide and was lost to us all. Darren has made an extraordinary thing happen for himself.
I, on the other hand, did nothing but say, "Sure. You can pretend to live on a couch outside my home on the internet," and in doing so, I got a fan who will drive ten hours to see me work, a friend who made me feel less than entirely alone in a strange city when I was there to perform and a weekly promotional opportunity that helps me sell some CDs and get my name out there in the world.
I just sort of wish I hadn't first asked if it was going to cost me anything so that I could come out of the whole thing looking a little less like a self-serving ass. Now if you'll excuse me, my wife says I have to take some of this endive salad outside and offer it to Darren.


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Bee flowers, open in the daytime, attract their insect visitors primarily by bright colours; at close range, special patterns and fragrances come into play. Many bee flowers provide their visitors with a landing platform in the form of a broad lower lip on which the bee sits down before pushing its way into the flower's interior, which usually contains both stamens and pistils. The hermaphroditism of most bee flowers makes for efficiency, because the flower both delivers and receives a load of pollen during a single visit of the pollinator, and the pollinator never travels from one flower to another without a full load of pollen. Indeed, the floral mechanism of many bee flowers permits only one pollination visit. The pollen grains of most bee flowers are sticky, spiny, or highly sculptured, ensuring their adherence to the bodies of the bees. Since one load of pollen contains enough pollen grains to initiate fertilization of many ovules, most individual bee flowers produce many seeds.
Examples of flowers that depend heavily on bees are larkspur, monkshood, bleeding heart, and Scotch broom. Alkali bees (Nomia) and leaf-cutter bees (Megachile) are both efficient pollinators of alfalfa; unlike honeybees, they are not afraid to trigger the explosive mechanism that liberates a cloud of pollen in alfalfa flowers. Certain Ecuadorian orchids (Oncidium) are pollinated by male bees of the genus Centris; vibrating in the breeze, the beelike flowers are attacked headlong by the strongly territorial males, who mistake them for competitors. Other South American orchids, nectarless but very fragrant, are visited by male bees (Euglossa species) who, for reasons not yet understood, collect from the surface of the flowers an odour substance, which they store in the inflated parts of their hindlegs.
Few wasps feed their young pollen or nectar. Yellow jackets, however, occurring occasionally in large numbers and visiting flowers for nectar for their own consumption, may assume local importance as pollinators. These insects prefer brownish-purple flowers with easily accessible nectar, such as those of figwort. The flowers of some Mediterranean and Australian orchids mimic the females of certain wasps (of the families Scoliidae and Ichneumonidae) so successfully that the males of these species attempt copulation and receive the pollen masses on their bodies. In figs, it is not the pollinator's sexual drive that is harnessed by the plant but the instinct to take care of the young; tiny gall wasps (Blastophaga) use the diminutive flowers (within their fleshy receptacles) as incubators.
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The evolution of moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) was made possible only by the development of the modern flower, which provides their food. Nearly all species of Lepidoptera have a tongue, or proboscis, especially adapted for sucking. The proboscis is coiled at rest and extended in feeding. Hawkmoths hover while they feed, whereas butterflies alight on the flower. Significantly, some butterflies can taste sugar solutions with their feet. Although moths, in general, are nocturnal and butterflies are diurnal, a colour sense has been demonstrated in representatives of both. Generally, the colour sense in Lepidoptera is similar to that of bees, but swallowtails and certain other butterflies also respond to red colours. Typically, colour and fragrance cooperate in guiding Lepidoptera to flowers, but in some cases there is a strong emphasis on just one attractant; for example, certain hawkmoths can find fragrant honeysuckles hidden from sight.
Typical moth flowers—e.g., jimsonweed, stephanotis, and honeysuckle—are light-coloured, often long and narrow, without landing platforms. The petals are sometimes fringed; the copious nectar is often in a spur. They are open and overwhelmingly fragrant at night. Butterfly flowers—e.g., those of butterfly bush, milkweed, and verbena—are conspicuously coloured, often red, generally smaller than moth flowers, but grouped together in erect, flat-topped inflorescences that provide landing space for the butterflies.
Important pollinating moths are the various species of the genus Plusia, sometimes occurring in enormous numbers, and the hummingbird hawkmoth (Macroglossa), which is active in daylight. A small moth, Tegeticula maculata, presents an interesting case. It is totally dependent on yucca flowers, in whose ovules its larvae develop. Before depositing their eggs, the females pollinate the flowers, following an almost unbelievable pattern of specialized behaviour, which includes preparing a ball of pollen grains and carrying it to the stigma of the plant they are about to use for egg laying.


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A CTF level using the MEZ03a tileset.
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Nice designed level, sort of small though for a ctf level. Well check for yourself… a eight from me.
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Ceil and his evily good CTF levels
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Yet another nice CTF level from CelL using the Mez03 tileset. Nice job, CelL.
Download recommendation.
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Yep, nice niciose. Just using the Mez03 tileset very good. (wow, my CelL collection is being heavy…)
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Cell, as a betatester, you should've told me! Look how late I am because of this! :-P
Oh well, nm.
Alrighty then…
Galactic Hollow is a not so hollow lvl made with a Mez tileset, or rather Mez03a tileset (yeah, the name is really crap).
There's nothing great about the eyecandy but I like the way the big, blue, round..er…things are placed (they're transparent, of course, or else I would've taken 2 points off the rating ;-P) in the foreground. They look really cool, especially when you run around real fast. However, you need some time to adjust to it.
Gameplay is good. Real good. Nothing special though. Nice placement of springs. Not too many secrets. Good suckertube positions. The thing I like most, though are the one ways. Just when you hit a spring at fly towards the ceiling at 5000mph, you find that the tiles have one ways on them. Mmm… one ways. A big, fat +1 for that. ;-)
Anyway, an 8.
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"Galactic Hollow" is another very well designed CTF map from Mr. Cell's level factory. It uses our beloved Mez03a tileset and is only 80*60 tiles small, but that's a good idea in times like these i guess (not too many people playing online anymore).
The layout of the level, as i said, is very good, open and easy to play. Ammo and event placement is good, too. The bases are pretty close to each other, but i don't think that will spoil the fun. Sometimes you need an easy CTF map with a lot of shooting and scoring in my opinion. CTF experts may complain about that.
The eyecandy is neat as well, not too much of it, but well done by Cell.
For the background music, the author chose a FT tune called "galactic" by darkhalo, which most of you probably remember from HappyCTF. Well, i love it and therefore, i won't complain about the horrible filesize of 1678 KB this time. It's worth every byte, really.
Well, i really don't have much too add here. Just a very good level. DOWNLOAD NOW!
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