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Piper was adopted back in 2012, and began working at the Cherry Capital Airport in 2015.
He doesn't get an actual paycheck for his services, but he is rewarded with plenty of treats.
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Three bat-shaped weapons known as batarangs were confiscated at Charlotte Douglas International Airport this week, according to the Transportation Security Administration. A batarang is a throwing weapon used by comic book vigilante Batman. It gets its name from looking like it's half bat and half boomerang. In addition to the batarangs, the TSA seized nationally 57 firearms and other contraband at airports.
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WOBURN -- A 35-year-old Townsend man is being held without bail after he allegedly claimed God told him to stab his 69-year-old female neighbor three times last April after she asked him to lower the noise.
In Middlesex Superior Court last week, Christopher Polakowski, formerly of 5 Turnpike Road, Apt. 335, Townsend, was ordered held without bail pending a Nov. 14 dangerousness hearing.
Polakowski pleaded not guilty to charges of: armed assault to murder someone over 60, assault and battery on someone over 60 causing serious bodily injury, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on someone over 60.
According to court documents, Townsend police responded at 12:35 a.m. on April 8 to Country Estates at 5 Turnpike Road for a report of a woman screaming. Police then received a call from the victim saying she needed help.
The victim, who was bleeding profusely, told police that Polakowski, her neighbor, had been acting strangely for the past several days, according to court documents.
That morning, she had knocked on his door to ask him to be quiet, but when he opened the door, he stabbed her, she told police.
When she returned to her apartment, she saw what appeared to be a stab wound to her left breast and two stab wounds to her abdomen.
After the victim was transported to the hospital, officers knocked on Polakowski's apartment door, according to court documents. When there was no response, Sgt. Randy Girard authorized forced entry into the apartment.
Polakowski appeared from the bedroom, according to police, and he was handcuffed.
Polakowski allegedly told police, "God told me to stab her," and then said they could find the knife on the bathroom sink.
During the booking process at the police station, Polakowski was asked if he would like to provide a statement. He declined. When asked if he heard voices, he allegedly responded, "Jesus is telling me to be silent."
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optimization: a technical overview
This article is a technical overview of optimization algorithms, as they apply to real life problems, by Dr. Narayan Venkatasubramanyan, a guru in the field. This is the fourth of a series of articles on the use of optimization in real life scenarios, and gives a quick overview of the different major approaches, and how to choose the right approach.
Optimization and Organizational Readiness for Change
Before implementing an optimization project, it is very important to ensure that the organization in which the change is implemented is receptive to the change. In the third article of PuneTech's series on optimization, Dr. Narayan Venkatasubramanyan takes us through the steps needed to ensure that an organization, like the receiver of an organ donation, is ready to accept the change.
Architecture of a decision-support system
Application of optimization in real life situations is often defeated by "real-life" issues that have nothing to do with the optimization algorithm, and more to do with how well (or how badly) the model being optimized fits reality. This is the second in the series of articles on optimization by "real life optimization guru" Dr. Narayan Venkatasubramanian. In the first article, he presented a case study and this article analyzes how a layered architecture to tackling this problem would have surfaced the problems much earlier and many of the surprises that caused them to swing wildly between jubilation and depression would have been avoided.
Optimization: A case study
An overview of the dark art of optimization by Dr. Narayan Venkatasubramanyan, an optimization guru, and one of the original pioneers of applying optimization to Supply Chain Management. Intended for a technically savvy audience who might not be aware of the application of optimization in real world situations.
Inside a Retail Supply Chain: How did 'Maha' DeshMart Survive the Economic Slowdown and Thrive
Image via Wikipedia 'Maha' DeshMart is a large (fictional) supermarket chain with a pan-India presence. Amit Paranjape, our resident expert on Supply Chain Management, discusses some of their management strategies and best practices. Special emphasis is put on the importance of 'Information Technology' and how it enables 'Maha' DeshMart to run one of the most […]
Supply Chain Management in Consumer Goods – An In-Depth Look
Amit Paranjape, a regular contributor and primary adviser to PuneTech, had earlier written an article giving an overview of Supply Chain Management, and companies in Pune that develop software products in this area. This article, the next in the series, goes into details of the problems that SCM software products need to tackle in a […]
Supply Chain Management (SCM) Overview and SCM Development in Pune
by Amit Paranjape Have you ever wondered how much planning and co-ordination it takes to roll out Indicas smoothly off the Tata Motors assembly line? Consider this – A typical automobile consists of thousands of parts sourced from hundreds of suppliers, and a manufacturing and assembly process that consists of dozens of steps. All these […]


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Eight hours a week seems like a small amount of time, but Kentucky's coordinators are hopeful that those extra minutes will be a big benefit to their inexperienced team.
An amended NCAA bylaw allows for coaches to require players to participate in eight hours of work per week for eight weeks during the summer, which for UK has meant more instruction and teaching time.
"The extra hours have been huge — hugely beneficial — especially I think where we really utilized them was early when our kids first got here, especially the newcomers," offensive coordinator Neal Brown told the Herald-Leader. "We were able to actually teach stuff."
Under the previous guidelines, all organized team workouts in the summer were supposed to be voluntary. Coaches weren't allowed to put together an activity, watch workouts or have contact with players during specific times in the summer.
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But now it can be more than "here's some info, see you in a couple of months." Coaches can meet with players.
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Once UK got into summer seven-on-sevens, the players had "a much better working knowledge of what needed to be done," Brown said.
Kentucky will install its entire offense — which usually eats up three full days to start fall camp — in the extra time allotted.
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It's the same on the other side of the ball, too.
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The Unexpected Step That Led Us to Transparent Salaries
We've decided to create a completely transparent salary system. It's the last piece of the transparency-puzzle needed to complete our company transformation, and alas we're almost there!
Note: This post originally was written by Kristóf Bárdos, the CEO of Digital Natives. In it he tells the story of how our company became fully transparent, with making the salaries transparent. I wanted to share the story with you, as I think it can be valuable for those, who planning to do the same. I hope you'll like it. Enjoy!
We admit this was a hard one, with more than a couple of bumps in the road. Once again we realised that there is nothing harder — and fruitful at the same time — than changing the mindset and behaviour of an existing organisation.
For the last couple of years all of our financial data and contracts have been available for viewing across the company. I know I can trust my colleagues and didn't feel that they needed to be kept confidential. So why then are salaries kept secret?
My default answer was because of historical reasons. But once we got talking about this as a company it seemed that the problem was more complicated than that. Many of us started to speculate "what if I earn too much and others believe I'm overpaid?" "Will they want to reduce my salary?" OR "What if it turns out the guy next to me earns more but is less experienced?"
So when society has worked this way for so long, why would we want to shake things up and risk tensions in the workplace?
Well, I had to realise making available our company financial reports to everyone is a totally different animal than publishing wages. The latter is attached to the person's ego and for many expresses the value of that person (which is actually not true, but that's a longer story). The long story short of it is that salary is connected to the lowest level in the Maslow pyramid, and this elementary level triggers the inner fears that ensures our life-surveillance system. Without a trustful environment it doesn't make sense to play with these triggers, since we can easily lose more than we gain.
So why did we decided to move forward?
Recently, we were hiring a couple of new team members, and we've realised that the salary expectations have been pushed up in the last two years (20.000 IT professionals are missing only from Hungary — we work hard to solve this with Green Fox Academy). It's easy to figure out what this means to for our company; we have to offer more to the newcomers than to our loyal talents on the same experience level — which is obviously unsustainable for many reasons.
This created a wage pressure tension in the organisation, so we wanted to prepare a fair salary system to overcome the issue.
What are the attributes of a fair system?
- Based on more or less measurable factors: skills, experience, loyalty (years in the company)
- Independent from the personal negotiation / political skills
- Transparent, both the salary policy and the actual wages are available to everyone
Many of us agreed on the first two points, but not the 3rd one, see the mainly emotional reasons above.
So, me personally I didn't want to get into a war at this point, so Balo (a respected tech lead guy from the team) and me accepted the challenge, and committed ourselves to researching this topic, which included interviewing people to come up with a new salary solution — without touching the transparency itself.
The first obstacle to overcome was this: how can we model a new method of salary calculation without having the current data of salaries?
There were only three people who had access to these numbers and Balo wasn't one of them. Despite my desire for a transparent system, even I as the CEO didn't want to give him access without the permission of the DiNa community. So how did we get around this? Well, we decided to create a voluntary Salary Group, where individuals could put forth their salary details for use exclusively with the salary modelling process — it was quite successful and we collected ten data points from 25 members of staff. (Yes, it was a bit of a weird process, and immediately highlighted some possible tensions).
In the working group, we've researched a couple of models and we came up with a formula, that incorporates proficiency level of the major skills, relevant work experience and loyalty — the number of years that one had spent in the company. We used the Buffer salary formula as a major guideline.
At the beginning it seemed like we were making good progress and interviewed ten people to ask their opinion about our formula ideas — everyone seemed accept these parameters as key drivers of the salary calculation.
The next step was to put our theory into practice activating our salary formula with the voluntary data and it still worked well. So we gave ourselves a pat on the back and agreed to publish our formula-proposal in the next regular all staff meeting.
24 hours before the All staff meeting I couldn't really sleep, I woke up in the middle of the night and started to use this model for the entire company — doing it by myself meant I could apply it to salaries outside of the voluntary data, across a wider variety of positions, from junior and intermediate to higher level salaries.
The results were shocking, our formula may have worked well for ten people, but it didn't work for 25! I discussed it with Balo and he and I agreed that the out-coming numbers are even less fair than the existing ones — our formula had failed and we needed to start from scratch. We were more than disappointed.
Everyone in the meeting shared our disappointment when we explained that despite our good progress, our formula didn't work.
The team began to challenge us:
· What went wrong, everyone who volunteered their data thought your formula was a good idea?
- Correct, but when we put it into practice we realised it was flawed
- Who say it's not working, Kristóf and Balo?
- Yes, because we're the ones with access to the salary data and since we don't have permission to publish the salaries, we can't really tell you why it hasn't worked!
Insane, isn't it?
We were stuck between a rock and a hard place. The lack of transparency in salaries meant we couldn't adequately explain the issue with our formula. We couldn't ask for help or promote belief if the idea of a new salary system.
Just as we were ready to give up, there was a dramatic twist… Just like in a fictional story, when a community faces a serious challenge, a hero shows up with a "crazy" solution.
In our case Amr showed up, one of our developers who is super committed to transparency, pluralism and non-hierarchical organisations. He sent a message to the entire organisation on Slack that night to declare that he doesn't accept this situation, and he really wants to move forward to solve this tension.
He suggested that the only way of realistically moving forward was for the entire company to publish our salaries so that we could all work together to solve the issue.
So, in a brave and psychologically well placed move, Amr published a spreadsheet, where we could all enter our current salaries, or declare if we still didn't want to participate.
The result? In less than 24 hours every single team member had filled in the spreadsheet with their salary.
If I, as the CEO had told everyone to publish their salaries in this way, it wouldn't have worked, but because one of the team did it, there was just enough positive peer-pressure to encourage others to follow suit.
Next, another member of the team, Pepusz put forward the idea of voluntarily putting ourselves into seniority and work-experience 'baskets', which would help us test our salary system.
We're still not quite there with our new salary system, but we're certainly making progress. We have learnt so far that whatever difficulties we face as a community, there is enough trust and power in the organisation to get us over it.
As the process goes by we will share our further experiences, so stay tuned for the results.
If you're interested in implementing a transparent salary structure, we recommend reading these:
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When Truth Clashes With Traditon
What happens when an immovable object clashes with an unstoppable force? One might imagine a speeding, out-of-control train coming into a station with no hope of stopping. Or imagine an immense asteroid hurtling toward earth and all efforts to change its course or destroy it have been unsuccessful. You know a calamity is going to occur and mass destruction is going to result.
There's an analogy in there somewhere when it comes to truth versus tradition. This isn't to suggest all traditions collide with truth. Traditions, when they align with truth, are a beautiful thing. But traditions become problematic when they clash with the truth.
To some, the truth is relative; a subjective thing determined by the individual or state. To others, truth is set in stone and authored by God, Himself; and those who believe that would most likely refer to the Fourth Gospel, the book of John, chapter 17:17, which says, "Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth." For most believers, this is the final word when it comes to determining what, in fact, is the truth.
For the believer, the Word of God, that is, the Bible, is the gold standard for truth. It's not a "living document." The Bible isn't malleable to suit people's desires. It's immutable. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
Tradition might be likened to an immovable object, and the truth could be likened to the proverbial unstoppable force. You can't stop the truth. You can ignore it for awhile, but you can never stop it or prevent it from being true.
Tradition? Well, traditions are the things of which entire ideologies, philosophies, religions, and even civilizations are made. You think they're not immovable objects? Think again. So what happens when those well established traditions are challenged by the truth?
When traditions are not rooted in truth and the truth somehow presents itself to one who embraces those traditions, there's going to be a clash. Often it's a startling and uncomfortable clash. A clash between the truth and traditions not founded in truth can seem to be catastrophic at first because of the potential upheaval it can cause in the way one lives his life from that point on.
If that person is a truth seeker and desires to do the right thing, he has to decide what he's going to do regarding the tradition. Does he continue keeping that tradition, which may seem wonderful in every way, or does he do the right thing based upon eternal truth?
One very important thing to keep in mind is the possibility that if the truth is revealed to you and you choose to disregard that truth, God may decide to withhold further truth from you in the future. That might be tantamount to closing a door on God. It's something to consider.
The concept of truth clashing with tradition is timely because December is steeped in traditional celebrations. But are they all based on truth?
The person who cares about the truth and desires to do right in the eyes of God will want to ask himself if these traditions are of God or of some other origin which may not have God's stamp of approval.
It's that time of year: what do Christmas and all the trimmings really have to do with the birth of Jesus? It's a question every Christian needs to ask. Is Christmas authorized by the Word of God, or is it a celebration of dubious origins?
Here are a few Bible verses that you might want to consider:
Deuteronomy 4:2(NIV) "Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you."
Matthew 15:8-9 "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men."
Mark 7:8 "You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.
The truth is out there and readily available. Google "origins of Christmas." If you've never done that, you might be surprised at what you find. Will it matter to you what you find out about Christmas, or is the truth unimportant to you? How you answer that question will have consequences either way.
The truth can be difficult. Doing the right thing can be difficult. Still, difficulty shouldn't be the determining factor whether or not we come down on the side of truth. If you're uncomfortably caught between the truth and a tradition that doesn't meet God's approval, ask God for help. He knows what you might be going through and He'll help you do the right thing.
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Cedar Falls, IA – Dr. Thomas J. Horak, a Cedar Falls dentist, says that while some patients will specifically complain about jaw or jaw joint (Temporomandibular Joint or TMJ) pain, many of his patients do not realize they are suffering from Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD). Patients will arrive at his practice with complaints of headaches, sore muscles, and excessive tiredness in the mornings without knowing why. Dr. Horak checks his patients for possible symptoms of TMD during his routine dental evaluations to determine whether further tests should be administered.
When examining a patient for TMD, Dr. Horak conducts a comprehensive muscle and temporomandibular joint evaluation. The evaluation includes checking the range of motion of the jaw, palpating the facial muscles to test for soreness, and observing the function and fit of the teeth for instability or wear. He also checks the jaw joints for clicking or popping (crepitus) along with the teeth to determine if the problem is an internal joint issue with the cartilage between the jawbone and the skull out of place or damaged, or if the problem is a muscle issue related to a patient's clenching and grinding habits. In both cases, a patient can find relief by wearing a small flat plastic appliance that covers the lower teeth. Dr. Horak says patients can experience significant improvement by faithfully and routinely wearing the device at night. This dental appliance relaxes the facial muscles and allows teeth to function in an ideal way that allows the jaw joint itself to heal. In addition to reducing the stress on the jaw joint with a dental appliance, Dr. Horak occasionally recommends physical therapy, anti-inflammatories, or muscle relaxers for severe cases.
After a successful TMD treatment, many patients will experience better sleep and often notice a reduction in headaches. Their overall quality of life improves as they have an increased range of motion and function in the jaw and teeth that allow them to more comfortably eat, chew, and speak. Dr. Horak says many patients of his Cedar Falls dentistry practice report that TMD treatments have changed their lives—that his patients never realized that they did not need to live with headaches, muscle pains, uncomfortable jaw pain, and tense or sore facial muscles. He says after treatment many of his patients feel like a younger version of themselves.
About Thomas J. Horak,
Dr. Bryan Horak earned his BS from the University of Iowa and his from the University of Iowa School of Dentistry. Immediately following graduation, he established a fee-for-service dental practice in Albert Lea, Minnesota. In 1996, he decided to move back to Iowa to take over the dental practice he grew up in from his mentor, Dr. Jim McCutcheon. Dr. Horak has volunteered on 15 different dental mission trips to Honduras, Panama, the Himalayan Mountains in India, and a mission trip with Habitat for Humanity in Jamaica. He has also been involved in local mission work including the Iowa Mission of Mercy in Waterloo, Give Kids a Smile, and has participated in the Donated Dental Services Program. Dr. Horak offers a wide variety of procedures, from porcelain veneers to dental implants.
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Area residents are invited to join the Manchester College community for a cultural celebration, Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), on Sunday, Oct. 31.
"The purpose is to celebrate the life of friends and family members who are no longer living," said Arturo Yañez, assistant professor of Spanish.
The free program begins at 1 p.m. with the Unveiling of the Altar, honoring those "no longer with us." Participants are encouraged to bring photos in picture frames of family members, friends and treasured pets who have died.
Keynote speaker is Fernando Zapari, publisher of El Mexicano newspaper in Fort Wayne, who will talk about customs and traditions of Día de Los Muertos. A Mariachi band and dancers from Ecuador and Mexico also are on the program, which concludes at 6 p.m. All activities are in the upper College Union. Refreshments include pan de muerto, "bread of the dead."
The event is sponsored by Hispanos Unidos campus club, the Department of Modern Languages, the College Office of Admissions and other MC organizations.
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A/N: Welp, this idea was bound to show up, might as well give it a go. I had the idea stuck in my head ever since finishing the game so I figured I might as well write it down. Depending on how I feel about it, it may end up being just a one shot.
Borderlands 2 – New-U
Chapter 0 – Rerouting
How long had she been like this? She had stopped counting long ago. Caught somewhere between life and death, she often wondered if she was still human. Trapped within the cold steel walls of the confinement chamber, she had spent countless hours by herself. The constant hum of the machines pulling energy from her had made her question her humanity more and more with each passing day. Through her powers, she found comfort in watching the wild world of Pandora from one of Hyperion's surveillance satellites. The time she had spent with her consciousness in that satellite would often exceed the time she spent in her real body, so much that she eventually considered her a kind of sentient AI.
And then one day, they had come to Pandora.
Vault Hunters, they had been called. She had been ordered to watch them and to guide them to the Vault. They called her the Guardian Angel, which she found funny for how close to her name it ended up being. Everything had gone downhill from there. Once Atlas had been pushed off the planet by the Vault Hunters, Hyperion had immediately come and started mining operations for eridium. The four Vault Hunters had been forced to deal with the army, who had lead a mass genocide across Pandora, killing anyone who they deemed to be "bandits". It became her job to lead the new Vault Hunters Hyperion had hired towards bringing down Sanctuary, the last bastion of the Pandoran resistance.
And she had. Slowly manipulating their actions, she had led the new Vault Hunters to Wilhelm and to the corrupted power core. Lieutenant Davis had been so happy when they brought that core to him. It would mean that Sanctuary would be safe from Hyperion bombardments for good. His elation turned to horror as the core brought down the shields. He would be vaporized within seconds by the awaiting bombardment.
The Vault Hunters had lost all trust in her at that moment. She could almost feel their disgust through the ECHOnet. Though the city of Sanctuary survived the lunar bombardment thanks to Lilith, it had not been without casualties. And the individuals whom she had come to consider her friends, who trusted her, albeit hesitantly, no matter how distant she was to them, had hated her with every fiber of their beings. Though she blamed herself for doing this to them, she also blamed the one who forced her into doing it.
Handsome Jack.
She no longer considered him her father. When she had stopped calling him that, she had no idea, but it didn't seem like he had noticed either. She used formal terms like 'sir' or simply referred to him by his strange nickname. She had come to care little for the man. But no matter how she tried, she could not shake the memories of how she ended up in this prison-like space.
A nine year old girl sat in the living room of the quaint little house belonging to John and Mary Xanders. John was a hard working engineer for the massive Hyperion Corporation and Mary was a lawyer for the same company. For a nine year old, Angel Xanders was rather skinny, deathly pale, her hair never seemed to lay flat, and her eyes glowed with a strange blue light. As a kid she had hated her appearance. Other children at school made fun of her looks, especially the marks that wound around her left arm and leg, calling her names like monster and freak. Unknown to her, since her birth, her parents had toiled away, trying to figure out what medical condition might have induced these marks. They always distanced themselves, for fear it was somehow contagious. A young looking lady approached the small girl who was playing with her toys in this quiet living room.
"Come, Angel. It's time to see the doctor."
The child frowned, pouting up at the lady.
"But mommy, I don't wanna. He's mean!"
Her mother gave an exasperated sigh, closing her eyes and rubbing them with her fingers in a slow and practiced motion.
"Honey, the doctors need to figure out what's wrong with you."
The girl continued to pout.
"I'm not sick! I feel fine!"
Mary let out a harsh breath. It had been a long day at work fighting with weapon design rights that the Maliwan Corporation claimed they owned. Those damned hippies and their incessant nagging did not improve her mood. She did not have time for such childish complaints.
"Young lady, you will do as your told. The doctor is waiting."
She grabbed Angel's arm, perhaps a bit harder than necessary, and began dragging the girl towards the door. The nine year old girl screamed and protested, struggling against her mother's grasp. Mary couldn't keep her temper anymore. She turned on the girl.
"Look at your arm! Your leg! You think that's normal? Your father and I have done everything, EVERYTHING we could to fix this! Now MOVE!"
She yanked on Angel's arm and there was a faint, almost inaudible popping noise. The young girl screamed in pain as her arm was dislocated from the force of the pull. Thinking the child was becoming belligerent, Mary whirled and smacked the girl across the face, leaving a bright red mark.
"I have HAD IT with you! MOVE!"
Mary tugged harder on the dislocated arm, causing the girl to scream out again. The young lawyer was about to turn around again when she felt a small hand against her side.
A shove, stronger than Mary had thought possible from the frail looking girl. Mary tumbled backwards out the front door and landed on the porch. Angel kneeled just inside the doorway, grasping her shoulder and sobbing, a faint blue-purple light radiating from her body. Mary staggered to her feet.
"You little…"
Angel's left arm glowed brightly, nearly blinding the lawyer. Then the door shut. Mary tried to unlock the electronic door but found that her home key didn't work. She pounded on the door.
"What did you do?! Let me in this instant!"
There was no reply, just the continued crying from inside. Her anger exploded
She gave the door a harsh kick that shook its very frame. There was a small scream from inside. The next moment, two turrets, the house's automated security system, rose from the floorboards of the porch. Their chambers spun, warming up as they issued a warning.
*Intruder detected. Please leave the premise.*
Mary froze.
"Angel… honey? I'm sorry… let me in okay?"
*Open fire in 3…*
The turrets fired. Thousands of bullets tore through Mary's body in a matter of seconds, thanks to Hyperion's accelerator technology. The sudden noise caused quite the commotion. A elderly neighbor had screamed when she saw the carnage. The ambulances came too late. It was later said that they only arrived to attempt to pick up the remains. There wasn't even enough genetic material left to attempt a reconstruction through the experimental New-U station, a highly unpredictable cloning technology still in development by Hyperion. John would come running, screaming something about his wife. He would then attempt to enter his house, only to be stopped by the police officers near the scene. The turrets were, after all, still active. John ended up breaking down not ten meters from where the remains of his wife lay, spattered across the concrete walkway. But Angel heard none of it, for she had passed out from shock after the turrets had issued their first warning.
The brutal death of the Hyperion lawyer was written off as an accident. An error in the security's programming, coupled with her dismissal of the turret's warning, had resulted in the turrets acting accordingly. It was said that the reports drove John to insanity, for it was he who had personally programmed his home's security. Secretly, he was later approached by Hyperion scientists who proposed a theory.
Angel was not sick. She was a Siren. One with the apparent ability to control electronics.
It was an unfounded guess that ended up being true. John didn't care though. He only heard one thing from the scientists: his little girl had killed his wife. He had the scientists build a chamber lined with every insulator Hyperion could get its hands on, in what would later prove to be a useless effort to seal her power. And in that cold isolated space, he placed his daughter. Afraid and unsure of her power, he could only do just that. That moment had haunted Angel ever since.
"Look, it's just like your own little castle! You'll be like a princess!"
Her father had smiled, smiled with those dead looking eyes.
"You'll have everything you want! Go on in."
She shook her head.
"I don't wanna! Where's mommy."
That had caused a change in John's eyes. They brightened with a fierce, insane light.
"M…mommy's gone far away, pumpkin. Now get in the chamber!"
And into that cold space she had been shoved. She had stopped asking about her mother on that day. And she stopped calling John father.
She had come to call it Phaseshift. As she spent the years sitting in that containment sphere, she gradually came to terms with her power. She likened it to hacking, but in reality, it allowed her to project her consciousness into other beings. She had tried to go into the mind of a nearby scientist once, but the constant noise of jumbled thoughts being sorted by the brain's higher processes had nearly made her pass out. And so, she stayed with the more organized programming of machines.
She found that she couldn't Phaseshift for long periods of time either. While she used it freely before the Vault on Pandora had been opened, she found she wasn't able to use it as much once Jack had forced her to start charging the key. She had guessed it had to do with interference from the pure eridium flowing through her system.
Angel knew the key was close to completion. After being connected to it for so many years, she could sense it reaching a maximum capacity. Frankly, it made her feel like vomiting. A process that normally took two hundred years being forced to completion in only five had caused the key to be highly unstable throughout the entire process.
And so, she had led the Vault Hunters to her very chambers and told them to destroy it all. Though hesitant at first, her desperate pleas had driven them to act. She refused to be a slave any longer. If she had to die to gain her freedom, then so be it. Anything to spite her former father.
The battle had been a fierce one. Jack did everything he could to kill the Vault Hunters right then and there. He had expended a large amount of company resources in that battle and eventually resorted to false pleas of mercy on his daughter. Angel had told them to ignore him as she pushed her mental limits, resupplying the Vault Hunters as they fought tooth and claw for their very lives.
And then, as suddenly as it had started, it was done.
She felt the charged energy of pure eridium leaving her body. Exhausted from the years of charging the Vault key, she fell from her platform. Roland rushed over, worry written all over his face. Lilith was yelling something, but her ears didn't seem to be working anymore. It touched her, that the very people she had betrayed could still show such concern for a person like her. Her breath felt dry as she spoke.
"Dad… I have to tell you something."
Surprised, Jack stopped raving in the background. Even the vault hunters paused, unsure of what was happening. Angel struggled as she felt her breath slipping away.
"You're an asshole."
A small triumph, but a triumph nonetheless. Unable to muster any more strength, she fell back against the raised platform of her containment chamber. Roland looked deeply troubled as he kneeled near her. Lilith hung back, tears forming in her eyes. The other four vault hunters stayed back as well, wary of more Hyperion loaders. She gave them a cheeky grin, one that she hadn't used since she was a child. She then closed her eyes and let the darkness overtake her.
She knew she would die ever since she started helping the vault hunters break down the various shields around chambers. But even so, she couldn't help wish that she had got to live like a normal girl. Her head felt clouded and her limbs like lead. She could do nothing but drift away into the blackness.
Then, somewhere in the empty space in her mind, a programmed voice echoed.
*Connecting to Hyperion New-U Station*
*Error: Terminal Damaged*
*Error: Terminal Not Found*
*Rerouting to nearest available terminal*
*Error: Backup Terminal Disabled*
*Terminal found, resuming process*
The young girl waited on baited breath, eyes closed and unsure what was happening. A minute passed. Then another. She was suddenly aware of an uncomfortable roughness against her bare arms. It was grainy and warm, it didn't take long for her to deduce that she was laying on the sands of Pandora. Carefully, she cracked her eyes open. She was in the shade of some building, the sun was overhead judging by the pinpricks of light shining through the makeshift metal roof. She blinked slowly.
"You alright there, missy?"
A young, male sounding voice came from above her. Suddenly, a face obscured by a fighter pilot's oxygen mask appeared in her line of sight, uncomfortably close. Startled, Angel let out a shriek as she pushed herself backwards, away from this strange creature. Her arms throbbed from disuse but the adrenaline drove away the pain. The figure had stumbled backwards from her reaction and fell, clumsily, onto his butt.
"Loggins! You givin' someone trouble again?"
A shrill cry came from inside the building. The person got off the ground and dusted himself off. His masked head turned towards the building.
"No, ma'am! I thought this person was dead or something!"
The voice called out again, closer this time.
"Well course she's alive! Tha's the New-U Station ain't it? Now git back to work before I kick yer skinny ass!"
"Yes, ma'am!"
The man named Loggins ran off. The ground vibrated slightly as another person approached. Angel turned to face the largest woman she had ever seen. She was wearing overalls with metal plated straps over a bright orange T-shirt that looked as big as Angel was tall.
"You alrigh' girly? Name's Ellie and this here's my shop. I see you've met my useless helper."
Angel simply nodded, still looking startled. Her breath still came in ragged gasps as she tried to calm her racing heart.
"Looks like you've never used one of these before."
The girl gradually found her voice.
"I… No I haven't."
Ellie chucked.
"Yer lucky. Most folks around here can't afford these stations. Those Hyperion bastards probably set all of them up as a joke. Only people I see usin' them are them Vault Hunters."
The young Siren nodded.
"Yeah… I guess."
Ellie frowned. The small girl was staring just past her head, eyes out of focus.
"What's the matter with you? You hit yer head or somethin'?"
Angel shook her head. All this was happening so fast, she hadn't quite come to terms with it just yet.
"I… I was supposed to die…"
The big woman suddenly scowled.
"Don't tell me you killed yerself for kicks? What do you take money fer anyway?"
Angel waved her arms and shook her head vigorously. The action made her head spin a bit.
"N-no! I was killed… I wasn't even aware I had my DNA in this system!"
She held her head in pain as she squeezed her eyes shut. Ellie smiled in a sudden mood change.
"Well, looks like someone cared enough fer you to do so"
Still confused, Angel tried to make sense of the situation.
"But… I don't have any money on me."
Equally confused, Ellie offered an answer.
"Maybe yer folks paid for it?"
The contemplating Siren looked down, face darkening.
"I doubt it. They'd sooner have me killed."
Ellie chuckled.
"Man, that sounds like them Hodunk pissants. They tried to do that to my ma. Well anyway, let's git you inside. Don't wanna stay out here too long, it's friggin' hot!"
She reached down to help the girl up. As she did, she caught sight of Angel's left arm.
"Hey…! Yer one of them Siren's ain'tcha?"
Angel suddenly snatched her hand back, causing her to fall back onto the sand. She grabbed her arm defensively. Ellie looked amused.
"Woah there, honey! No need to be afraid. I was just sayin'"
The Siren remained wary. Her eyes darted towards the desert, calculating how far she could go before dying of thirst. She looked back at Ellie.
"You're not going to turn me in to Hyperion are you?"
Ellie snorted.
"Do I look like I have any love for them pricks?"
Angel got to her feet shakily.
Ellie smiled.
"For yer information, you're the third Siren I've seen now. Most folks don't even get to see one! Man, I must be pretty lucky!"
Angel perked up at this. She spoke hesitantly.
"Other Sirens?"
Ellie shifted slightly, causing her enormous bosom to sway.
"Well sure! That Maya chick came through here with those other three ruffians a while back. Then there's this Lilith girl, comes around every once in a while to check up on me for Moxxi."
Upon hearing those names, Angel stepped forward, almost bumping into Ellie.
"You know them? Where are they? Are they safe?"
Ellie laughed, a loud barking laugh that echoed slightly in the vast desert.
"Hold yer horses, missy! They're alive, 's far as I know. But I don't even know yer name, why should I tell you where they are?"
The young girl looked slightly relieved.
"They made it out then…"
Ellie frowned slightly.
"They yer friends?"
Angel paused, unsure of the answer. Though she had tried to redeem herself in their eyes, she still couldn't bring herself to call them that. She gave a hesitant response.
"I… don't know."
Ellie bent down, as far as she could, and stared closely at Angel, making her feel extremely uncomfortable.
The large woman let out a long sigh.
"You seem alright. I'll tell ya, 's not like you can get there in one piece anyway."
Angel cocked her head slightly in confusion. The woman continued.
"Last I heard they was heading off to some Hyperion place. Somethin' about the Vault key and whatnot? I hear they got that Zer0 person to dress up like Jack, voice and all! Man, I wish I coulda seen that. That Zer0 always seemed way too uptight…"
Ellie trailed off. She peered at the girl again. The skinny girl looked sad and a bit worried.
"Oh… I just came from there…"
Ellie looked a bit puzzled but chose not to press the issue. She walked over to the Fast Travel. She scrolled through the menu.
"Well, if you know them, you might as well wait for them in Sanctuary. No way they're gonna git themselves killed. Here, put yer hand on the panel, it should take you to Sanctuary."
Angel touched the panel hesitantly.
*Access Denied.*
Ellie turned to Angel, a suspicious look on her face.
"You sure you know them?"
Angel nodded.
"I've never used one of these before…"
Ellie scoffed.
"Nonsense. You didn't walk everywhere did you? Here, let's try a nearby Travel point."
Several minutes of trying to use the Fast Travel exhausted every outpost option. Even that silly robot's place seemed to be inaccessible to the girl.
"Well, shoot. Looks like yer gonna have to walk there… I can lend you a car, but that will only take you so far."
Angel looked at the Fast Travel teleporter.
"Maybe I can hack it."
She placed a hand on the machine and concentrated, trying to enter the meditative trance that allowed her to transfer her consciousness. The symbols on her arm glowed as she activated her power. She suddenly pulled back, a pained expression on her face. Ellie gave her a concerned look.
"You alright? What happened?"
Angel took several breaths before speaking again.
"Too much traffic, it's too noisy in there."
The large woman laughed.
"Well, yeah, people use that thing all the time! It IS a network you know?"
Angel sighed, discouraged.
"Guess I'll take that offer on the car then."
The woman nodded. She gestured at Angel.
"You don't look like you had much with you huh?"
Angel shook her head sadly.
"I thought I was dead for good."
There was a pregnant pause as the girl stared at her shoes. Here she was, in the middle of nowhere, with absolutely nothing. She had no idea if the Vault Hunters had made it out alive, nor if she could even make it to Sanctuary on her own. Ellie suddenly scooped the skinny girl into a massive bear hug, shocking her out of her misery.
"Aw, honey, I don't know what kind of life you had, but it'll git better soon. Roland and his friends are gonna set this straight."
Though she was suffocating, Angel smiled. And though she smelled like sweat and motor oil, it was a comforting feeling, one she never had in her life. After being set down, she followed Ellie into the shop. Ellie grabbed a backpack and started tossing in some meal bars, a blanket, and some other supplies. Loggins had wandered over as this was happening. He watched as Ellie grabbed an ECHO communicator and toss it into the pack.
"Hey! Those are mine!"
Ellie snorted.
"Yeah, well just think of it as compensation for being paid to stand around all the time!"
Loggins gave up the argument pretty quickly. Ellie handed the backpack to Angel, who accepted it quietly. She the tossed her a roll of bandages. Angel looked questioningly at the woman.
"You's best keep that hidden. Plenty of bandits still lookin' for Sirens for that bounty."
As she spoke, Ellie gestured at the markings on Angel's arm. Complying, Angel covered up the markings. Then Ellie rummaged around in a nearby trunk and pulled out a beat-up Jakobs rifle. She tried to give this to the girl.
"I can't… don't you need it?"
Ellie frowned.
"Girly, I don't know what kind of sheltered life you musta lived without seeing bandits, but if you go out there unarmed, yer gonna git yerself killed."
Ellie laughed.
"I'll be fine! I've got others. Worst case, I throw Loggins at them and use a car turret. And besides, that gruff guy, what's his name, the crazy one with the mohawk…"
The woman nodded.
"Yeah, that's the one. He got drunk here while the others were taking a break. I think he forgot about it. This is actually his."
Angel nodded and gripped the barrel of the rifle.
"Now yer gonna want to head south, towards the Highlands. Sanctuary's still floating around there. Once you get there, ECHO me and I'll give them a call to let you in."
The girl nodded again, shouldering the pack. Her eyes felt slightly moist. She sniffed slightly, rubbing at her eyes.
"Thanks for everything, Ellie."
Ellie smiled and patted the girl on the head.
"Take care of yourself out there, girly."
A thought came to Angel and she addressed Ellie again.
"It's Angel. My name is Angel."
Ellie grinned and walked over to the Catch-a-Ride system.
"A pleasure to meet you, Angel. Say hi to Scooter for me will ya?"
Angel nodded before staring out into the Dust. What awaited her in this vast and brutal land? Sure she had seen it all before from the satellite feeds, but it always felt artificial, a mere image projected in front of her eyes of some fantastical land far away. Now it lay before her, foreboding yet alluring. She adjusted the backpack on her shoulders and gripped the weathered rifle in her bandaged hands. Without hesitating, she stepped into the driver's seat and drove out into this new world.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed it, leave a review and let me know how my writing is. Also, let me know if you by any chance would like to read more. Like I said, this is likely to be a one shot, but may become more depending on my time and inspiration. After all, there are a couple loose ends I can cover.
A couple notes. I'm unsure if it was mentioned specifically, but through the game, it seemed to me that Jack either didn't fully know or didn't care about Angel's Phaseshift ability, nor is it explained in any great detail, so I took a few liberties with how her ability was used in the game.
Oh and… Brat. Mary was definitely gonna say brat.


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A different landscape
A hot race is shaping up for the Sept. 18 election for the Zone 2 seat on the Little Rock School Board. Incumbent Michael Daugherty faces three challengers — Anna Swaim, Michael Nellums and Drew Pritt.
The election will decide the balance of power on the School Board, currently held by a four-member majority including Daugherty. Swaim has already said she disagrees with the desegregation lawsuit mediation favored by the current majority. Nellums, a principal in the Pulaski County School District, has indicated he'd likely part with Daugherty on his opposition to merit pay programs and support for the Classroom Teachers Association.
Can Daugherty, a 12-year incumbent, be beaten? His electoral track record holds scant clues. He won his first term in 1995 with a 376-255 win over Robert Willingham. He had no opposition the next three outings. Daugherty, who is black, enjoyed a demographic advantage in a district that is about two-thirds black until Nellums, who also is black, filed at the last minute. But predicting turnouts in School Board elections is no science. Daugherty and Swaim will have get-out-the-vote efforts and all believe the vote will be far higher than that 1995 election. Nellums has already been going door-to-door, too.
Better than who?
The Pulaski County School District has invested $50,000 in a print and TV ad campaign anchored by the slogan, "Better Scores. Greater Stability." The PR man who devised the campaign, Craig Douglass, insists the campaign isn't designed to score points off recent controversy in the school district, merely to emphasize the district's return to fiscal stability and its higher scores than Little Rock and North Little Rock schools on most standardized tests.
Well, yes, but … Pulaski County, first of all, fell behind the state average on benchmark tests in 2006 at every grade level. Second of all, the district is majority white. The other districts in Pulaski County are majority black and the achievement gap between white and black students nationwide is well-documented, making straight comparisons misleading. Finally, broken down by race, Pulaski County lags substantially behind Little Rock and the state in white students' scores, though it tends to be higher in black students' scores. An example is the percentages of white and black students scoring proficient or better on 8th grade literacy:
Blacks statewide 44
Whites statewide 73
Blacks LR 47
Whites LR 85
Blacks Pulaski 49.5
Whites Pulaski 68.8
Yes, but ….
Pulaski County ACORN, the grassroots group, has endorsed the two proposals on a special election ballot Aug. 14 in Little Rock. The measures would make the job of mayor full-time and enhance the job's power, with a veto and power to hire the city manager and city attorney, among others.
ACORN said this was a "positive first step," but added that it does not address the need for "fair representation in city government." ACORN wants to eliminate the three at-large seats on the city board of directors because they dilute the voting strength of poorer neighborhoods. Johnnie Pugh, a former city director, notes that Little Rock is more than 40 percent black, but blacks have had less than 30 percent of the seats on the 11-member board. Since 1957, she noted, only five blacks and seven women had been elected to at-large seats. She promised a new petition drive in the fall to change to ward elections.
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I was just reading Stan Lee's brother in court explaining how he got a page of Kirby art, Jack stormed in furious and ripped a page in two and threw it in the garbage, then Stan Lee's brother snuck over and took the art and taped it back together to study it.
So I got interested in reading more from the court case. I love Stan Lee's bro, Larry Lieber,'s explanation of the Marvel Style.
haw hahaQ: What's your understanding of what Marvel style was?
LARRY LIEBER: The Marvel style is what Stan did, or I think I said in the interview it began around the time of the super-heroes and with Jack Kirby, perhaps with others, I don't know. Jack might have been — I think Jack was the first. And where he would discuss a story or a plot with the artist and the artist would write it — not write, I'm sorry. The artist would lay it out and draw it with enough knowledge about what the story is and leave room for dialogue to come later.
nyeah not write it. He didn't write it, shee? mYeah, he "laid it out". That's th' ticket, shee?


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When you sell a vehicle to someone, the bill of sale and the car title are given to the buyer. Before giving over the car title to the new owner, you have to fill out the title. Filling out the car title serves as an official transfer of ownership from the current owner to a new owner. It is important for the title to be filled out properly as the buyer uses the title to get the car registered in his name.
Flip over the car title to view the areas that need to be filled out when the car is sold.
Enter in the name and address of both the seller and the new buyer in the appropriately labelled fields.
Include the odometer reading from the car on the sell date if there is a space for it. Not all states require an odometer reading, so there may not be a place for it.
List the sales price of the car in the price field.
Sign the back of the title in the "seller's signature" section before giving the title to the buyer.


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Advertisements are Brain-Rape.
I'm not speaking with hyperbole. I am speaking in the most accurate literal term as I can manage. Rape is a crime against humanity. The act of consentless sexual penetration or sexual assault of another person is the definition of rape. The forcing of another to view an advertisement without their consent is equivalent of rape to their brain.
When consuming media, be it internet or video, radio or television, movies or billboards, popups or banners on websites, ads are rape. They rob you of control, and force information that is neither desired or beneficial into your brain. Our society has evolved to permit these assaults on the human consciousness, to take it in stride, but that does not make it right.
When a commercial interrupts television programming, one is still glued to the screen. One still views it with rapt attention. That commercial then pours its poisonous message into the brain, without ever asking or receiving permission from the viewer to do so. One can just look away, but that is no more comfort to me than it is to a victim of sexual assault. "Close your eyes and pretend it is not happening" is not a functional solution.
When browsing content on the internet, a banner ad will rob the user of screen real estate, forcing its way into the window through which one would otherwise consume the desired content. One can sometimes, with some effort, manipulate the shape of the browser window so as not to view the ads, but that is like plugging your ears while a rape happens in the adjacent room. You know it is there, happening, just past the boundary.
When listening to the radio, it overrides the only sense which was consuming the media, and there is not any other indication when its over but to listen to it. One cannot mute the radio and wait it out, as one could with TV. One cannot resize the browser window and disregard the message. One must change channels or turn off the device, and hope when one returns that one has not missed much of what one wanted to hear.
Time is precious. Tomorrow is not guaranteed for anyone. No amount of money or power can take one man's lifetime and bestow it to another. Time is immutable. Everyone moves through it the same. Yet advertisers rob us of time, by interrupting the 22 minutes of a television show with 8 minutes of commercials. For some programs, its even worse. If those were the last 8 minutes of your life, would you want them spent watching ads?


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There was a brief period when I'd seen more films by the French director Pierre Etaix than by almost any other foreign director, because they were shown on UK Channel Four (i.e. the fourth of the four existing channels) in the early eighties – and in the early evening yet! I have an indelible memory of talking to one of my friends about them, which might make us sound like highbrows, but that really wasn't it – in matters of TV viewing (as in just about everything else) you took what you could get, and because the poles of art and entertainment hadn't yet diverged as hopelessly as they have now, it sometimes happened that you got something really good! But after that I didn't think about Etaix again for years – and, sadly, there wouldn't have been much point to it if I had: his films were unavailable for decades due to legal issues
Happy Anniversary
It's all become available again in the last few years though, and Criterion recently issued a boxed set of Etaix's entire oeuvre, consisting of just five features and three shorts. If not necessarily the most culturally or aesthetically significant release of the year, it must be among the most purely appealing and pleasurable, and with one of the most peculiar underlying biographies. Etaix was born in 1928, and performed as a clown in his early years; he met Jacques Tati, and was an assistant director on his 1958 film Mon Oncle. A few years later he started making his own films – and won a short subject Oscar in 1962 for the second, Happy Anniversary. In 1971 he joined a touring circus company and never directed again, except for some TV work in the late eighties (I'm not sure if Etaix ever made a serious attempt to return to the cinema – in a recent documentary included in the Criterion release, he talks about his hope of directing again, even in his 80's). He acted here and there though, most intriguingly in Jerry Lewis' unseen The Day the Clown Cried; the two have been friends ever since they met in the mid-60's.
One of the most remarkable things about viewing Etaix's work is how he hit the ground running – from the start, the films are impeccably considered, paced and designed. Happy Anniversary cuts between a wife preparing a special dinner, and her husband (Etaix) rushing round to buy a gift and flowers before heading home, foiled at every turn by the horror of modern traffic and its inconsiderate drivers. The film crams a happy amount of chaos and property damage into its twelve minutes, but always feels entirely contained and unstrained: Etaix's general stone face recalls Buster Keaton, while the chronicling of modern woes brings to mind most of the films Tati would make in subsequent years.
Le grand amour
But equally as astonishing is how rapidly Etaix evolved over his short career. Yoyo, probably his most formally ambitious work, starts with a highly stylized depiction of a rich man's existence, before he loses everything and joins the circus; the film's second half follows his son (also played by Etaix) as he builds the empire again. The film contains his most Keatonesque sequence, involving acrobatics around a moving vehicle, while reinventing itself over and over, almost beyond what you can keep track with. Yoyo might be the film you'd choose to persuade the uninitiated of the director's immense facility, proud of its "low-comedy" origins, but in no way constrained by them.
My own favourite though is his last full-length narrative work, Le grand amour. It's more conventional in its outline – a man preoccupied by the idea that he married too soon and went in the wrong direction, becoming obsessed with a younger woman who he fantasizes about as an opportunity for renewal. The comic invention is ceaseless, and again breathtakingly varied, but the undertone of pain and regret, and the swipe at the small-minded busybodies who provide the restrictive glue of society, is serious. Etaix plays his most fully developed character – he generally uses dialogue sparingly in his work, but Le grand amour may contain almost as much of it as all his other films put together – and comes closer than before to an adult engagement with sexuality. It's a beautifully conceived and executed work in all respects.
As with Tati, notions of dehumanization occur quite often in Etaix's work – a segment in the anthology film As long as you've got your health sets out how visiting the cinema has become a joyless battle with fellow patrons and unwelcoming infrastructure, before morphing into a reflection on how new-fangled consumer products threaten to turn household rituals into a farce; the following sequence depicts a population beset with stress, hopelessly dependent on medication (which circumstances then conspire to prevent people from adequately consuming). But Etaix's films don't generally feel like Tati's: for instance, whereas you can almost go through a whole Tati film without ever getting a close-up, Etaix is more interested in showcasing his people (many of them the same core group of recurring performers) and the engineering of the situations. There's a great sense of humanity in his work, which Le grand amour suggests might easily have developed and deepened further.
Land of Milk and Honey
Etaix's last film Land of Milk and Honey was a radical change of direction though. He spent months traveling round, interviewing people about the state of things and capturing footage of various events, and then almost a year editing it into some kind of shape. He only appears at the start, in a sequence comically emphasizing the magnitude of this task; afterwards he's only heard off-camera. The film doesn't show the French in a very favourable light – he dwells mostly on how little people know, on their inane habits and practices, conveying a deep sense of fracture and uncertainty. The film isn't mean-spirited (at least, not primarily) - it emphasizes how life is hard and getting harder, and it's easy enough to view its subjects sympathetically, as individuals; collectively though, one wonders what kind of country can result from all this in the long run. As such, it seems prophetic now about the state of Europe, but it's still less compelling viewing than his previous films.
"By some magnificent accident," writes David Cairns in the booklet accompanying the Criterion set, "for ten years Pierre Etaix…was able to make a small suite of unique, enchanting and beautiful films. It' s of course tempting to wish he had made more, particularly building on the fresh achievements of Le grand amour. But the message of that film, surely, is that sometimes we have to be content with what we've got – and what we've got is plenty." Well, almost plenty anyway. I wish the films might again have the prominence where kids would talk about them at school, but I guess that only ever happened because of another magnificent, short-lived accident.


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I'm an infectiously enthusiastic worker that will put my heart into anything that I believe in. I'm a designer by trade and self taught illustrator. I design because I love to solve problems. There is never one right answer, but there is always a best. Every problem has multiple solutions, and the hunt to find the right solution is what excites me.
I like to wear a lot of hats, so on top of design I am also a podcaster, community manager, event planner, and social media marketer. Although I am always an artist first, I have a love for meeting new people and connecting with them about what they love.
Below are some of my social accounts which features a lot of my smaller projects, thoughts, and sketches that haven't quite made it onto the site yet. Feel free to explore the rest of my site for more of my work!


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Steep Canyon Rangers are a young Chapel Hill-based bluegrass band that's starting to turn heads with their fine pickin' and powerful harmonies. They even recently won the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival band competition. In the Triangle, they helped start Tuesday "bluegrass night" at the Mellow Mushroom eatery in Chapel Hill, and they've released a debut album, Old Dreams and New Dreams, produced by founding New Grass Revival member Curtis Burch. The core of the band, originally from the mountains of Western Carolina, all met while attending UNC-Chapel Hill (the band members are all 25 or younger). While they've got a traditional old-time sound, they've got a high-energy performance style. They'll be at the Carrboro ArtsCenter this Friday, Nov. 2. Also on the bill are The Grass Cats, a five-piece playing bluegrass classics from the '50s and '60s and bluegrass versions of contemporary music.
On Saturday, Nov. 3, the ArtsCenter hosts the 4th Annual N.C. Songwriters' Co-op Finals. The not-for-profit organization (past performers include alternative folk artists Andy Kuncl and eclectic singer-songwriter Jonathon Byrd) sponsors mini-tours where they send groups of artists to play local venues, as well as a Web page and music workshops. Winners will receive cash and studio time. Call 929-2787 for details about the above events.
Sloan Wainwright, the youngest sister of Loudon Wainwright III and Rufus' aunt, is a powerful singer in her own right, with a warm alto voice (she boasts a five-octave range) and a truly unique style of enunciation. You've really heard nothing quite like it. Her songs are journeys of self-discovery, accompanied by keyboard, guitar and drums: classic folk with a jazzy sway that sometimes ventures into folk-rock. See her Saturday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. at the Community Church Coffeehouse in Chapel Hill. Call 621-1919 or visit www.communitychurchcoffeehouse.org for details. --Angie Carlson


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Financial Times 6/26/2011
- Source:Financial Times
- Title:Libyans look back fondly to monarchy before Gaddafi coup By Neil MacDonald in Tobruk
- Author:Neil MacDonald in Tobruk
- Date & Time:June 26, 2011 6:56 pm
Above the facades around Tubruq's harbour, the flag of the Kingdom of Libya flutters again. Portraits of Idris I, the king ousted nearly 42 years ago, sit in shop windows next to those of Omar al-Mukhtar, an earlier anti-colonial warrior.
"Every Libyan loves King Idris. Every Libyan loves Omar al-Mukhtar. And every Libyan hates Muammer Gaddafi," says Adel Aroud, a watchman in the eastern port town.
Affection for the king is more a rejection of the detour the country took under Colonel Gaddafi, the leader still clinging to power in central and western Libya, than a sign that Libyans pine for a return to monarchical rule. "We remember the king as good. Having a king again now is not important," says Moussa Saad, a tourist policeman who grew up on a British base 25km south of Tubruq, near King Idris's favourite palace.
Eastern Libya showed anti-regime leanings long before this year's uprising. In the 1990s a militant Islamist movement, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, battled the regime from a base in the eastern mountains and demonstrators protesting in 2006 about cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed were gunned down by regime forces.
The angry crowds who drove Col Gaddafi's forces out of Benghazi, Tubruq and other eastern towns in February adopted the red, black and green banner with the white crescent and star of Cyrenaica, that attested to the monarchy's roots in the eastern region, as its centrepiece.
More than nostalgia for the royals, the flag stands for undoing perceived wrongs – starting with the September 1969 coup when the ailing king was abroad and about to hand power to his nephew.
Wrapped in the flag of the old kingdom: a man wears his opposition to the Gaddafi regime round his shoulders
The coup ringleader, then Captain Gaddafi, vowed to free Libya from foreign manipulation.
King Idris, who came to the throne upon independence from Italy in 1951, was liked but produced no sons. Palace insiders were seen to have pandered to US and UK military interests and failed to share oil wealth with the population.
But the Gaddafi regime turned out incomparably worse, eastern Libyans say.
"His coup may have been bloodless, but he started murdering his opponents the very same night," says Majdy Mujaja, a bank official.
"We had no reason to change our government 42 years ago, but we desperately need to now."
Col Gaddafi surrounded himself with sycophants and dragged the country into economic isolation. Everything before him, including Italian colonial rule, was preferable, Mr Mujaja says.
In Tubruq's main square, the colonial-era Catholic church, as well as the former king's mosque, stir up nostalgia. "These fine buildings are all from the king's time," says a man sipping tea under a neo-Romanesque arch. "Gaddafi built nothing good, especially here in the east."
Libya's pre-Gaddafi constitution vested considerable power with the monarch. Under Idris's rule, the country grew from desert backwater to influential oil exporter.
The provisional government in Benghazi says it hopes to hold a constitutional referendum and free elections within a year of the moment Mr Gaddafi leaves.
Muhammed al-Sennusi, Libya's crown prince and great-nephew of King Idris, has endorsed the revolt from his London-based exile. The 48-year-old heir-apparent depends on funds from the Libyan diaspora – some of the same wealthy dissidents who now back the rebel ruling council – but says he does not presume to reclaim the throne. "I see myself as a servant of the Libyan people," he said recently. "They will decide what they want." He is heartened by the rebel flag. "This flag has become the symbol of the young people," he says. "That makes me very, very happy. Because this flag is for freedom."


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From ABC: On Tuesday, in Portland, Oregon, the president told supporters that the U.S. was not built from the top down, but rather from the bottom up. "It was built because we invested in great schools and great universities, and we put rules of the road in place to make sure that everybody was being treated fairly," the president said. "Let me just point out that the approach that I'm talking about has also been tested. Just like their theories have been tested and didn't work, my theories have been tested. The last time they were tried was by a guy named Bill Clinton. And we created 23 million new jobs, went from deficits to surplus, and we created a lot of millionaires to boot.
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Using information passed on by others can greatly improve individual fitness, and has been the fundamental mechanism underlying the evolution of social insects such as bees, wasps, ants and termites. However in some situations it is better to ignore social information and for an individual to use its own prior knowledge and experience. So how do these colony-forming insects tailor their reliance on social information for the benefit of the 'superorganism'? Scientists have recently reviewed the literature and made theories as to the nature of decision making in insects.
Social information is relatively 'cheap' to obtain for hymenopteran foragers, because they can bypass the costs associated with exploration and food sources obtained socially are likely to be better quality. In the truly eusocial western honeybee, Apis mellifera, generations overlap so information passed on by the 'waggle dance' (movements conveying location and quality of food sources) increases the fitness of that colony. Foraging choice are further refined by chemical cues (pheromone trails) and simply presence of other foragers.
Relying on social information may also incur costs and may not lend an evolutionary advantage. In the case of the ant forager, if she ignores social information she may find a novel food source that will benefit the colony as a whole, whilst a well-used food source is depleted (I.e. exploration produces more up-to-date information). Honeybees that rely on dance information may take time to find a dancer and may need multiple viewing and excursions to find the communicated food source.
A trade-off between these advantages and disadvantages will adjust how often (and what proportion of) social insects rely on social information. All animals tend to display the most profitable information they know, so relying on social information may be more profitable than exploration. For example honeybees only communicate their dance after finding high quality food sources. 'Social learning strategies' in animals are genetically determined in response to environmental and social cues. One such approach is the 'copy if dissatisfied' strategy, where animals will use social information if their current information is below a fitness 'threshold'. These optimum social learning strategies can also be acquired (ironically) through social learning.
Grüter, C., & Leadbeater, E. (2014). Insights from insects about adaptive social information use. Trends in ecology & evolution, 29(3), 177-184.


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Longtime Star Trek writer, author, publisher, and historian; Larry Nemecek talks about his first documentary about the legendary 1982 Houston Star Trek convention that devolved into quite the fiasco. He interviews several of the cast and production crew who were involved including the last interview ever given by the late Harve Bennett.
What would a new version Standard Orbit be without our famous tangents? We review the size and origins of Star Trek conventions right up to the current day. Prepare yourselves for the influx of Trek fandom we receive when Dr. Trek explores this universe like no else.
Originally published as Standard Orbit 164: The Con of Wrath.
For more about the Con of Wrath, listen to Larry on Matter Stream 4, also available in this special collection.


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Merrionette Park police working at the scene of a multiple shooting at an apartment building in the 11800 block of Kedzie. (Photo for the Chicago Tribune by Warren Skalski)
A 53-year-old man has been taken into custody after a high-speed chase in northwest Indiana in connection with a shooting this morning in south suburban Merrionette Park.
The Chicago Tribune is not naming the man because he has not been charged with the shootings.
Police received a call at 6:30 a.m. for a man with a gun in the 11800 block of South Kedzie Avenue in Merrionette Park, police said in a news release.


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It was certainly an eventful Labor Day weekend for Elisha Cuthbert, who accepted boyfriend Dion Phaneuf's marriage proposal.
"Happily, happily, happily engaged!! This has been the most amazing weekend ever," the Happy Endings star tweeted on Sunday.
Will there be a Happy Endings and Apartment 23 crossover?
Cuthbert and Phaneuf, who plays for the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, began dating in 2008 and held an engagement party Sunday at the New Glasgow Lobster house in Prince Edward Island, Canada, with about 40 guests in attendance, according to Us Weekly.
"Elisha looked very happy and pleased," a restaurant source told the magazine. "She was showing off her ring to her family and the wait staff. The female wait staff were gushing about the ring saying it was 'quite impressive' and 'huge.' At one point, Dion and Elisha both got up and gave a speech and thanked everyone for being there and celebrating this exciting time with them."


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Kofi Annan Quotes About AgeQuotes about: Age
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.
Kofi Annan
- Born: April 8, 1938
- Occupation: Diplomat
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Wilee
Michael Shannon as Bobby Monday
Dania Ramirez as Vanessa
Jamie Chung as Nima
Wolé Parks as Manny
Christopher Place as Bike Cop
Aasif Mandvi as Raj
Kymberly Perfetto as Polo
Anthony Chisholm as Tito
Kevin Bolger as Squid
Lauren Ashley Carter as Phoebe
Charles Borland as Campus Guard
Sebastian La Cause as Detective
Nick Damici as Detective
Kelvin Whui as Dealer
Henry Kwan as Lin's Pai Gow Player
Keenan Leung as Lin's Pai Gow Player
Wally Ng as Lin's Pai Gow Player
Nancy Eng as Lin's Pai Gow Player
Brian Koppelman as Loan Shark
Hoon Lee as Floor Manager
Jimmy P. Wong as Enormous Asian Man
Kenny Wong as Second Asian Man
Ruth Zhang as Nima's Mom
Bojun Wang as Nima's Son
Directed by David Koepp
Rebellious bike messenger Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is having a rough day, compounded by problems with his girlfriend Vanessa (Dania Ramirez). When he's given the job to deliver an urgent letter downtown, he's stopped by a guy named Bobby Monday (Michael Shannon) who wants the envelope for his own reasons, sending Wilee on a race through the city to make his deadline as the situation gets more intense.
Once you get past the shock that someone would finance an action-thriller based around New York bicycle messengers, you can gear yourself up for exactly what's advertised from this rather odd departure for filmmaker David Koepp, who has written many big action blockbusters but never directed an action movie himself. Not that you can tell since "Premium Rush" is a serviceable high concept action-thriller that wins bonus points for originality.
We're introduced to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Wilee, a sharp-tongued rebel amongst the city's thousands of bike messengers, as he's having a worse-than-normal day. In fact, when we meet him, he's flying through the air after being hit by a car but the movie quickly goes back in time to earlier in the day when he was only having problems with his girlfriend Vanessa (Dania Ramirez), another bike messenger that's being pursued by Wilee's irrepressible competition Manny (Wolé Parks). When Wilee's offered a late-shift "premium rush" delivery, he bikes up to Columbia to pick up an envelope he has to deliver down to Chinatown, but he's soon stopped by a large man played by Michael Shannon who wants the envelope.
From the beginning, we're given the sense of camaraderie between New York's thousands of bike messengers and that creates a great environment for the likable character of Wilee, who is always doing his own thing, even sporting some sort of "cyclist sense" to determine the best path in which to travel whenever he shoots out into traffic.
As a New Yorker, it's hard not to be impressed by the way Koepp's cameras follow the cyclists speeding through packed New York streets, and in order to keep it interesting, Koepp uses lots of cool visuals and graphics to show Wilee's path through the streets, but rather than showing him on his bike for 90 minutes, the movie uses flashbacks to slowly reveal information about the contents of the envelope and show why everyone wants to get their hands on it. Since these scenes cut away from Wilee, they're also not as interesting except to provide much-needed background information.
A lot of the movie involves Gordon-Levitt riding around on his bike communicating with other bike messengers using hands-free devices, which looks and feels sort of awkward, but that's just a minor issue. The stunts are fun if you like that sort of thing, but there's really only so many times you can watch Wilee and his fellow bike messengers and others slamming onto the hoods of oncoming cars in traffic.
On the other hand, "Premium Rush" gives Joseph Gordon-Levitt a chance to prove he can ground a studio action-thriller as the lead and he certainly handles the material (and his bicycle) in a credible way that bolsters the film's balance of tension and humor. The make or break for most people who watch the movie will be Michael Shannon's performance as the primary baddie Bobby Monday who is hot in pursuit of Wilee, as he really takes his normal scenery chewing to another level. To some, that might add to the humor and entertainment factor, but to others, it will just seem like Koepp let a strong actor like Shannon go a bit overboard. Another problem is Jamie Chung's performance as Nima, the Asian girl who calls upon Wilee for help, and her fake broken English is so bad it's verging on racism.
You can tell Koepp and co-writer John Kamps did their research when it comes not only to the lifestyle of bike messengers but also to the underlying subplot involving illegal Chinese immigration, which is why the envelope is in such demand, but there are just too many coincidences with how things come together. The big one is the fact that the girl who needs help also happens to be Vanessa's roommate who just gave her the boot earlier in the day. In a flashback we see her ask specifically for Wilee but earlier we saw Wilee had to fight to get that assignment, and that's not the only time the flashback doesn't connect with what happened earlier. It's also never quite clear how Monday or the Chinese bookies he owes money to can use what's in the envelope to get $50,000 (or how Nima could ever scrounge together that sort of money).
Questions like that tend to kill some of the good will some may feel towards the filmmakers' attempts at authenticity; the extremely cheesy way the movie is resolved may kill the rest of it.
The Bottom Line:
"Premium Rush" is entertaining enough with some impressive stuns and speedy camerawork, but some of its inherent silliness might guarantee its place as a cult hit that finds more fans once it hits cable.