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effing the ineffable since 1977
When a lot of things are happening that would be good to blog about, there's never enough time to blog about them. And when nothing particular's happening and there's time to catch up on the stuff you didn't blog about earlier, it all seems like old news, so why bother?
I've been in my
new apartment
now for a few weeks and am settling in nicely. It's strange to have nobody to answer to but myself - I'm still getting used to that. It's even stranger to have entire days when the only criterion determining what I do is what
decide needs to be done. This entire weekend, in fact, has been like that: there were things that needed to be done, but not because anyone else said so.
On September 30th I went to see a
midnight showing of Serenity
. I'd hoped to win a Jayne hat in the trivia, but unfortunately (a) the Jayne hat turned out to be the prize for best costume, and I wasn't in costume, and (b) the only trivia question I got my hand up in time to answer, I answered completely wrong. My hand was working faster than my brain, clearly. I
the right answer, just not quickly enough. I did have the foresight to ask whether it was okay to take a plastic dinosaur - but not the foresight to take two so that I could actually enact the scene... guess I need to buy a second one for myself. Still it was a lot of fun, as expected. And hopefully contributing to making Serenity profitable so that a sequel, or better yet a new series, gets made... please?
In the meantime I'm working my way through Buffy, which appealed to me in absolutely no way whatsoever until I discovered Firefly by the same guy (Joss Whedon, for anyone living under a rock - who also wrote the script for Toy Story). After falling head over heels in love with Firefly I had to forget about my preconceptions and give Buffy a chance, and of course it turns out to be as good as you'd expect from a Joss show. Season 1 is good, but things are really picking up in Season 2, and I'm told it only gets better from there.
I wonder if my posts describing Japi progress on a regular basis were actually helping the numbers to go down as fast as they did. Work on Classpath is proceeding as enthusiastically as ever, but since around the same time I stopped giving regular Japi updates, it seems more focused on bug-fixing and polish and other "make things work right" aspects than on pure API completeness. Japiwise, progress is being made, but not as fast as it was.
The status right now is that Classpath is
API-complete for 1.1
again (it was, then the ability to mark methods as not-implemented came along; they're all now implemented). For
the status is almost identical: one class (javax.swing.text.html.HTMLWriter - work in progress, I believe) and 62/63 methods missing. (The discrepancy, for what it's worth, is the eloquently named javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit.InsertHTMLTextAction.insertAtBoundary method - just be glad I didn't include all the parameters too). The missing methods are mainly concentrated in java.awt.font, java.beans.beancontext and javax.swing.text.html. There are also a few in java.awt.datatransfer, java.awt.dnd and java.text which might be low-hanging fruit.
completeness isn't that much further away - only another 25 or so methods scattered across various packages. Amazingly, while nobody was looking the generics branch has snuck past
95% completeness against 1.5
. Not so long ago it was below 90% - that's incredible progress!
With the divorce and the moving and my own general lack of organization I've been a very lax maintainer of Japitools - and my other open source projects - lately. When I was on vacation in England back in June (!) I received two very useful contributions. Firstly, from Jaroslav Tuloch of Sun I received an Ant task for Japize, some JUnit tests, and a patch for allowing Japize to process packages non-recursively - that is, include a package but not its subpackages. This last one could be enhanced to provide something I've wanted for ages - the ability to extract lists of packages from Javadoc documentation, so that my nightly scripts would no longer need to hardcode the list of packages for each JDK version, but could pull them from Sun's docs. I finally got around tonight to actually taking this code, compiling it, checking it into cvs and doing minimal testing on it. Currently one of the ant task tests fails, but I'm not sure why. In an ideal world I'd test it more, but holding out for perfection will just lead to another 4 month delay. So it's in now, and if I broke anything, we'll see the results in the nightly runs.
The other contribution was from Andrew John Hughes - a script to go to Sun's website and identify the filename of the latest JDK1.6 beta release, and download it. I'm just looking at that for the first time tonight too, and I have a dilemma. Sun helpfully provide the JDK only in self-extracting ".bin" format. I'm sorry, but I have no intention of downloading and executing arbitrary code unsupervised from a nightly script. Especially since it's not an https server, so there's no protection against DNS spoofing. Does anyone know of a tool which can extract this "bin" format without running it? They do provide the JRE in a jar file, but the JRE generally doesn't include any indication which methods are deprecated, so the Japi results would give erroneous errors about deprecation.
Anyway I'm hoping that by shaming myself publically by admitting how terribly slow I was to respond to these great contributions, I'll be more motivated to not do that in future. Maybe.
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Do you own the land, do you have a full time job, have you farmed before? All these variables fall into the answer.
I have one that came from a large local farm and that thing really had some wear in places I've not seen to often !
Now your dilemma is time to do it. A very heated debate about what to use for sure.
I say you need to get the largest tractor you can afford and try it.
I would think about everything you can do to save time, like no till and crop selection.
The replies you get will be interesting to see...
Horsepower is by definition the amount of energy needed to lift 550 lbs, one foot, in one second. That means that 75 Horsepower will not lift as many pounds in one second as 100 horse tractor.
You mentioned that Torque and Horsepower were different terms and I'll agree that they are but they are functions of each other. Without the movement (horsepower) the torsion (torque) is simply dead weight and is not capable of any work. Things have to move to be able to perform work.
You proved your own point by saying " You can have 10,000 ft-lb of torque at zero rpm, holding up a weight. But that is zero hp because nothing is moving". If nothing is moving there is no work getting done. Tractors have to move to pull a plow.
Will a compact utility tractor rated at 50 HP do as much work as an R? Obviously it cant keep up with the R if it was unballasted with the moldboard plow attatched because it would have to pull 1/3 of the load at 3 times the speed which would cause issues with the plow being pulled at 10 MPH. It will however, do just as much work on the PTO as the R and could pull the same plow at the same speed if a guy had enough ballast to weight it down to get traction.
Yes, R tractors are neat and sound really cool but their "cool factor" does mean that they can do more work than their rated horsepower. They can only output 48 HP on the flywheel.
Horsepower is a real nuts and bolts kind of thing, meaning that there is no gray area. A horsepower rating compared to a horsepower rating is like comparing oranges to oranges. It's a scientific measurement of how much work an engine is capable of completing in a given amount of time.
Just an FYI if the R engine spun as fast as the 4230 engine it would make half the torque of the 4230 which is why it has half the HP of the 4230 and is why it pulls the same load at half the speed, or half the load at the same speed.
Slippage is simply a factor of operator error of improper ballast. Both tractors need weights in accordance with slippage.
According to Nebraska the R made 43 Drawbar HP pulling 6600 lbs in 1st gear and the 4230 made 83 Drawbar HP pulling 11,100 lbs in A2. These guys know a lot more about slippage and measuring power than either you or I.
50 horsepower is only capable of half the work of 100 horsepower. That's just the hard facts.
Suggesting that someone tie two R tractors together to farm makes no sense. If a guy wants a project that's fine but the cost/labor involved would be double the price of a nice 100 or even 150 horse tractor.
I care not one bit what kind of tractor this guy gets but hopefully he will realize from this discussion that 200 acres of row crop is beyond the scope of a single two cylinder tractor if he intends to get things done in just a few days.
On a side note, the tandem R's will still never do as much work as a single 4230 with an efficient operator and matched equipment. The 4230 will be headed back down the field with the tandem R's are still turning around. The guy on the 4230 can catch another gear on the headland to buzz on over while the guy in the tandem R's is trying to figure out how in the world he is going to change gears.
On another side note. The tandem R's together may pull more pounds on the drawbar than the sum of two singles but it should with all the added weight of the hitch. They are heavier. The tandem R's however, will never produce more than the sum of their rated HP. They will pull twice their normal load at the same speed or their normal single load at double the speed. Dont forget to deduct HP from the rating to run any hydraulics for the steering. I bet that would eat your spare 6 HP :)
The supposed "magic" of hitching tractors together and "gaining" power is simply a wives tale of the folks selling conversion kits all those years ago. If a single tractor was ballasted to exactly the same weight (properly distributed) as itself plus half the hitch, it would perform half the work of the tandem tractors. There is no magic in physics.
I'll say again that old diesel two cylinders are really neat and had an incredible place in production agriculture 60 years ago but are best suited for plowdays, parades and tractor shows now. Yes, they were fuel efficient but are limited by low pressure hydraulics, marginal charging systems, single speed engines, no rocksaft and limited variation in working speeds.
I'll ride in my soundgard body all day while you ride that really cool tandem R and we'll see who feels most chipper after a 10 hour day and we will also see who plowed the most ground. I know you and I both know the answer to these questions, but I'll never understand your desire to attempt to confuse the younger/less experienced crowd on this board with your HP/torque claims. It's all been spelled out in black and white. It's simple and elementary. It cant be refuted but yet it can be danced around by changing the subject, which is what has happened several times in this discussion.
Just one more visualization in case you honestly are confused (I think you are hard headed, not confused), lets pretend the following scenario. Lets ballast up an R tractor just up to the point that we can power out (choke out the engine) in 1st gear, now lets ballast up the 4230 to the point of being able to power out in A1. After applying all that ballast, lets hitch them drawbar to drawbar. At this point it's all about engine HP since neither tractor can spin out. The R only has 50 engine HP while the 4230 has double that amount. That means the R is going to choke and get dragged backwards. Yes, I realize that you mentioned tandems at several points but you also mentioned that a 75 HP two cylinder diesel could outwork many 100 HP tractors which is why I even entered this discussion. That statement is false and is misleading to a novice. A 75 HP tractor will never ever never be able to produce as much work as a 100 HP tractor. It might weigh more and be capable of pulling a larger plow at a low speed but it will never be capable of as much work in a given period of time. The higer HP tractor might pull a smaller draft load but at a much greater speed which will supersede the lower HP tractor. I think in your mind, more weight and more plow bottoms equals more work, which simply is not true.
The only wants to farm 200 acers, & doesn"t need 20K investment.
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Governor Scott Walker's office released this statement earlier this morning:
Title: Walker to Senate Democrats: One Day Left to Save the State $165 million
Madison-One component of Governor Walker's budget repair bill is debt refinancing, which will save taxpayers $165 million in fiscal year 2011. According to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, if Senate Democrats refuse to return to Wisconsin and cast their votes in the next day the option to refinance a portion of the state's debt will be off the table.
Along with this notice Governor Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, released the following statement:
Senate Democrats claimed they fled the state to slow down the process so the public had enough time to learn about the budget repair bill. If that was their true intention, they have been successful.
Now they have one day to return to work before the state loses out on the chance to refinance debt, saving taxpayers $165 million this fiscal year. Failure to return to work and cast their votes will lead to more painful and aggressive spending cuts in the very near future.
This is the Senate Democrats' 24 hour notice.
The Democrats fled Wisconsin to create a window of time in which the public sector unions could mobilize demonstrations and try to sway public opinion against the Governor's budget plans. That doesn't seem to have happened, and in the meantime, the Democrats looked idiotic hiding out in Illinois. Now it appears they will have to return in the next 24 hours, or be blamed for dealing yet another needless blow to Wisconsin's finances.


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Seahawks: Seattle cuts eight players, swings deal with Cincinnati
It was a busy Monday for the Seattle Seahawks, who made eight of the 10 cuts necessary to get their roster down to the mandatory 80 players.
Seattle released receivers Pat Williams, Brandon Smith and Chris Carter (Who has since been re-signed); fullback Ryan Travis; guard Zach Hurd; cornerback Jesse Hoffman; linebacker Neal Howey; and defensive tackle Teryl White.
Among the notable cuts, Williams was plagued by a few bad drops in the preseason and took a bad penalty in the third game. Smith is an injury-prone speedster and never saw the field for Seattle. Chris Carter clearly wasn't to be confused with the legendary wideout of the same name.
Hoffman saw limited duty at corner and struggled on special teams this preseason. White simply couldn't penetrate the backfield enough even though he had plenty of opportunities. Maybe the most heartbreaking cut yesterday was linebacker Neal Howey. He showed a great motor and real work ethic but he was too easily blocked. Howey just doesn't have NFL size.
The Seahawks have until Saturday to cut their roster from 80 down to 53 players.
The cuts weren't the only transactions Seattle made yesterday.
The Seahawks traded cornerback Kelly Jennings to the Cincinnati Bengals for defensive tackle Clinton McDonald.
Jennings leaves his Seattle career widely viewed as a bust; he was a first-round pick in 2006.
He wasn't big enough to match coach Pete Carroll's preference for bigger corners.
The Bengals were fine with eating Jennings' $1.835-million salary, as they needed a replacement nickel corner with Pacman Jones (neck) injured.
McDonald looks like he will be a depth/substitution guy on Seattle's defensive line.
The 6'2", 297-pound, third-year pro has been impressive so far in the preseason. (Personally I think the Seahawks would have taken Ronald McDonald for Kelly Jennings – KJR Twitter)


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Cephalorhynchus heavisidii
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Cephalorhynchus heavisidii (Gray, 1828)
Common Name(s):
Grampus heavisidii Gray, 1828
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Rice (1998) noted that the type specimen was donated by Captain Haviside (captain of an East Indiaman, not the surgeon Captain Heaviside, who sold non-cetacean anatomical specimens to the British Museum), and thus the proper common name should have been Haviside's Dolphin. However, common usage prevails and the species is generally known as Heaviside's Dolphin. A preliminary study of animals from Namibia and South Africa failed to indicate any unambiguous population structure in this species, but further studies using larger sample sizes are required to confirm this (van Vuuren et al. 2002).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Data Deficient ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Reeves, R.R., Crespo, E.A., Dans, S., Jefferson, T.A., Karczmarski, L., Laidre, K., O'Corry-Crowe, G., Pedraza, S., Rojas-Bracho, L., Secchi, E.R., Slooten, E., Smith, B.D., Wang, J.Y. & Zhou, K.
|Brownell Jr., R.L. & Cooke, J.
There is inadequate information to assess this species against the criteria and therefore it must remain listed as Data Deficient pending a credible estimate of population size and/or better information on population trend. Heaviside's Dolphins have a limited range and are not particularly common anywhere. Several threats have been identified, including entanglement in a variety of inshore fishing gear (e.g., beach seines, purse seines, trawls, and gillnets).
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Heaviside's dolphins have a limited range, restricted to southwestern Africa (Angola to South Africa), with records from about 17°S to the southwestern tip of the continent. They are commonly seen along the west coast of South Africa in the Cape Town region (Rice 1998; Dawson 2002). Records extend along the entire west coast of South Africa and Namibia, and into southern Angola (J-P Roux pers. comm.), but as the cetacean fauna of Angola is poorly known, it is uncertain how far north the species' distribution extends there (Best and Abernethy 1994).
The map shows where the species may occur based on oceanography. The species has not been recorded for all the states within the hypothetical range as shown on the map. States for which confirmed records of the species exist are included in the list of native range states.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Angola; Namibia; South Africa (Northern Cape Province, Western Cape)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – southeast
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|No range-wide survey has been conducted for this species. A published estimate of 800 -1,000 (Carwardine 2002) is not based on a survey and is only a guess. Surveys off the coast of southern Africa yielded approximate densities of 4.69 sightings per 100 nautical miles within 5nm of the coast, with relatively fewer sightings further offshore (Best 1984). Griffin and Loutit (1988) stated that Heaviside's dolphins were the cetaceans most frequently seen from the Namibian coast.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This is a coastal, shallow-water dolphin seen mainly in waters less than 100 m deep (Best and Abernethy 1994). It is generally associated with the cold, northward-flowing Benguela Current. Rice and Saayman (1984) speculated that some subpopulations may be resident in particular areas year-round, although this was questioned by Best and Abernethy (1994). Satellite-linked tagging indicated that in summer female Heaviside's dolphins occupied home ranges of up to 1,000-2,000 km² over periods of up to 54 days, with a strong onshore-offshore diurnal pattern of movement (Elwen et al., 2006). More than 85% of sightings were in water with surface temperatures of 9-15°C (Best and Abernethy 1994).
The diet of Heaviside's dolphin consists mainly of juvenile hake (individuals well below the modal length of commercially caught fish) (Sekiguchi et al., 1992). Other demersal fishes, pelagic schooling fishes, and cephalopods (including octopus) are also taken (Best and Abernethy 1994).
|Use and Trade:
|Some illegal hunting has been reported, though it is probably not at a significant level.
|Major Threat(s):
In general, Heaviside's dolphins appear to face fewer threats than other members of its genus. Although fully protected legally, some killing with hand-thrown harpoons or guns has been reported (Rice and Saayman 1984; Best and Abernethy 1994). Heaviside's dolphins are susceptible to entanglement in inshore gear such as beach seines, purse seines, trawls, and gillnets (Best and Abernethy 1994; Peddemors 1999).
Concern has been expressed about the potential effects of pollution and boat traffic (Culik 2004). However, organochlorine levels in a small sample of Heaviside's dolphins failed to indicate significant exposure to DDT in the coastal waters of South Africa's west coast, where the scarcity of arable land and low rainfall may help minimize pesticide residue inputs to the marine environment (De Kock et al. 1994). Also, low human population densities and the scarcity of large ports along most of the species' range probably help reduce the possibility of adverse effects from boat traffic (Best pers. comm.).
|Conservation Actions:
The species is listed in Appendix II of CITES.
More information is needed on the distribution of the species in Angolan waters in particular, as well as on the nature and extent of directed and incidental catches. More research emphasis should in future also be placed on possible detrimental interactions due to the overfishing of prey stocks, especially hake. Increased inshore fishing pressure will inevitably increase interactions between the fisheries and Heaviside's dolphins (Peddemors 1999).
|Reeves, R.R., Crespo, E.A., Dans, S., Jefferson, T.A., Karczmarski, L., Laidre, K., O'Corry-Crowe, G., Pedraza, S., Rojas-Bracho, L., Secchi, E.R., Slooten, E., Smith, B.D., Wang, J.Y. & Zhou, K. 2013. Cephalorhynchus heavisidii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T4161A44203645. . Downloaded on 19 September 2018.
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August 21, 2012
The geographic variation in the risk of HIV acquisition among heterosexuals has prompted extensive speculation and debate as to the underlying causes. The lack of a clear explanation has even fueled conspiracy theories, playing a prominent role in Thabo Mbeki's disastrous embrace of AIDS denialism in South Africa and driving a campaign that insists -- in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary -- that non-sexual transmission is the answer. It has not helped that much of the research on the subject has focused on behavior, with hypotheses such those based on concurrent sexual partnerships being aggressively promoted by certain individuals even though many view the evidence supporting them as slim to non-existent (for a recent critique, see "HIV, logic and sex in Africa" by Lucy Allais and Francois Venter). Relatively speaking, biological explanations have received less attention, despite the fact that it is well known that the immunological environment in which HIV finds itself has a huge impact on its ability to replicate and thrive. Only a handful of published studies have looked at how geographic location can impact levels of immune activation, finding that background levels are significantly higher in locations on the African continent compared to Europe and the US. The first such study to specifically analyze immune activation in the genital tract (comparing women in Kisumu, Kenya and San Francisco, USA) was published only two years ago.
Several new papers report data potentially relevant to this topic. Researchers involved in the CAPRISA 004 trial, an evaluation of the preventive efficacy of a gel form of the antiretroviral tenofovir, describe results from an analysis of immune activation and HIV acquisition risk among trial participants (44 who acquired HIV infection and 37 who remained HIV-negative). Elevated systemic innate immune activation was a significant risk factor for HIV infection (odds ratio 11.27, 95% CI 1.84-69.09, p=0.009) while a quiescent innate immunity profile was associated with reduced risk (odds ratio 0.06, 95%CI 0.013-0.33, p=0.001). The data echo similar findings from a study of genital tract inflammation among CAPRISA 004 participants, which were presented at CROI in 2011 and further discussed at CROI this year by Quarraisha Abdool Karim. In those analyses, women with genital track inflammation were 14 times more likely to acquire HIV infection than those without. The researchers argue that strategies for dampening immune activation and inflammation should be considered in the context of biomedical HIV prevention research.
Among the potential causes of genital tract inflammation and immune activation, sexually transmitted diseases obviously stand out, and many STDs have been reported to significantly increase HIV acquisition risk (including HSV-2, gonorrhoea, chlamydial infection, trichomoniasis, and bacterial vaginosis). A more recent addition to this list is Mycoplasma genitalium, and a study just published online by the journal Infection and Immunity suggests that, unsurprisingly, this effect is likely mediated by increased inflammation.
Unfortunately, unlike HPV, no vaccine exists for other STDs. At one time it was hoped that syndromic treatment of STDs could significantly reduce HIV acquisition risk but promising results from an initial randomized controlled trial were not confirmed by subsequent studies. Similarly, suppression of HSV-2 with acyclovir did not prove efficacious in reducing HIV incidence. More recently, compelling evidence has emerged that inflammation and immune activation are critical factors underlying these apparent disconnects. In the case of HSV-2, a detailed study revealed that numbers of CCR5-expressing CD4 T cells and DC-SIGN-expressing dendritic cells are elevated in the genital tract of infected individuals, and that acyclovir treatment does not significantly alter this environment.
In the July 1, 2012 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers in South Africa report that symptomatic vaginal discharge, a criteria for syndromic STD diagnosis, is in fact a poor predictor of inflammation and the presence of laboratory-diagnosed STDs. Furthermore, levels of inflammation were significantly elevated among women with laboratory-diagnosed STDs regardless of whether they were symptomatic or asymptomatic. The latter paper prompted a commentary from Myron Cohen entitled "Classical Sexually Transmitted Diseases Drive the Spread of HIV-1: Back to the Future." Cohen concludes: "the 'hidden epidemic' of classical STDs is squarely blocking optimal prevention of HIV-1 transmission. These STDs -- symptomatic or asymptomatic -- simply cannot be ignored. As we commit to combination HIV-1 prevention, we must redouble our efforts to think of every possible way to recognize and treat classical STDs. Surely this problem is no more impossible to attack or less important than any other part of the HIV-1 pandemic."
Richard Jefferys is the coordinator of the Michael Palm HIV Basic Science, Vaccines & Prevention Project Weblog at the Treatment Action Group (TAG). The original blog post may be viewed here.
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text: Student Profiles Lucas Delahanty '10 Lucas Delahanty '10 Major: Biology; minor: Film Studies Hometown: Cape Elizabeth, Maine Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? I originally didn't even want to consider going to Bowdoin. I have lived in Maine my entire life, and I wanted to go out into the world. I originally planned to head someplace else in New England or California. However, after visiting all the colleges that garnered my interest, Bowdoin stuck out. Every school I considered offered a stellar education, so what became more important in my decision was the environment and people I would be living with for four years. The students at Bowdoin stood out above the rest. They were by far and away the friendliest. In a way my decision was based on gut instinct. I felt that at Bowdoin I would meet a fantastic array of people who would challenge and enlighten me in their own way, all the while being the most spirited students I met at any school. Staying in Maine hasn't bothered me either—it's a great state. Lucas directing a fellow Film Society member. Why did you choose your major? A problem I had is that Bowdoin lacks a film major, the course of study I wanted to do. The College does have a film studies minor, but it covers theory only, and my particular passion is filmmaking. I toyed with the idea of designing my own major, but again, it would have lacked actual filmmaking. My first year I tried classes in seven different areas of study, hunting for a possible major, but finding none that I felt strongly about pursuing. However, I've always enjoyed science, so during my sophomore year, I decided to start the biology major and a film studies minor in addition to completing pre-med requirements. What has been a course you especially enjoyed at Bowdoin? At about the same time I was in a frantic hunt for a major sophomore year, I took the course Evolution with Professor Mike Palopoli in the biology department. Perhaps it was because I felt lost at the time, but I felt I was actually learning answers to life, the universe, and everything. I constantly found myself saying, "Wow, so that's why...." Studying the amazing process of evolution and learning about the sheer struggle of life forms to survive was immensely rewarding and helped me think in new ways about the world. The class also focused my interests in the sciences, and I have since taken Molecular Evolution and Evolutionary Developmental Biology. What professor or professors have especially inspired you during your time at Bowdoin? During my junior year, I took the course Advanced Fiction Workshop with then-Writer-in-Residence Margot Livesey. Developing one's writing is a journey lasting much longer than one semester, but looking back, we covered an extensive assortment of techniques and tools writers use to mature their voice and stories. Livesey reawakened my lost love of writing creative fiction, sharpened every implement in my writer's toolbox, and introduced me to new ones. She helped me gain new perspective on the craft that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. Listening to her wonderful Scottish accent every week was a pleasure, too. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? I've found the extracurricular opportunities at the College to be as rewarding as the classes. In fact, like many Bowdoin students, I overcommitted myself to them, and by the end of sophomore year, I dropped out of all my athletic extracurriculars—crew, JV soccer, and dodgeball—in order to prioritize what mattered most. This left time to pursue my musical and cinematic interests and work on the Entertainment Board (E-Board). However, I still enjoy the occasional soccer game and appreciate using the new Buck Center for Health and Fitness. Lucas working for the E-Board at the annual spring Ivies concert. The E-Board is responsible for booking a wide variety of entertainment for students, spending well over $100,000 throughout the course of the year. I've learned how to edit and negotiate contracts and organize and execute very large events from start to finish, providing me with excellent, real-world business experience. It's also fun to be backstage at the events and meet the performers who come through here, taking pleasure in knowing that you're partly responsible for all the smiling faces in the crowd. I have been on the E-Board for four years, serving as an officer initially and for the past two years as a co-chair or co-president. My junior year I was lucky enough to be elected E-Board representative on Bowdoin Student Government (BSG). Joining BSG allowed me to participate in discussions and acts that were highly pertinent to student life and school policy. Even though I'm no longer active in it, it's comforting to know that such an organization exists and is run by hard-working students who want to make Bowdoin an even better experience for everyone by engaging with campus issues. Lucas posing figures for a stop-motion animation film. The Bowdoin Film Society is my other major extracurricular commitment, and partially, my baby. During my first year I helped aid in the reinvigoration of the society's filmmaking component and campus initiatives. I'm currently president of the society, and I've been working hard to make the Film Society—and film in general—more of a presence on campus. We screen movies on campus or in the community every weekend, run two film festivals per year, hold multiple other events, and try to generally support everything having to do with film and filmmaking on campus. We keep growing larger, and hopefully, one day soon, we'll convince the administration that film deserves its rightful place as a major at Bowdoin. There is an awesome group of people in the society, and making films with friends is an unbelievably rewarding experience. [Watch A Drop of Water, Lucas's entry in Bowdoin's Climate Days video competition.] Finally, I've played trombone in multiple student bands. These days you can usually catch me playing it, or my bagpipes, in the Pep Band at hockey and basketball games. What have you done during your summers? Until junior year I was working at a small seafood place in my hometown called the Lobster Shack. I generally cooked, but also threw pottery occasionally for the gift shop next door. One year I got a part-time job building a large, rock wall. Lucas working in the lab on his biology honors research project. Tired of lobsters and hard labor, I investigated getting a research fellowship at Bowdoin. I was fortunate and received a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which allowed me to live on campus for 10 weeks over the summer and pursue research with a faculty member. I worked with Professor Peter Woodruff and Tamlyn Frederick '09 on a bioremediation project that Tamlyn had begun, and which I am continuing as an honors project. The research is in genetic engineering, and I'm attempting to insert a gene into the bacteria Bacillus subtilis that will allow it to produce the sugar trehalose. Trehalose makes the bacteria hardier, and the altered bacteria could become an efficient, effective, and environmentally friendly means to detoxify groundwater contaminated with hexavalent chromium. What is your best Bowdoin memory? Living with friends and enjoying my summer at Bowdoin before the start of senior year was a short, wonderful span of time. Even though it was incredibly rainy that year, the summer was immensely fulfilling. Between cookouts, going to Six Flags, constructing a giant slip-and-slide, the beach, sailing on Bar Harbor, and so many more things, it was probably the best summer ever. What are your plans for after graduation? My plans after graduation are in flux. I currently have some applications and submissions out for film grants and to film festivals—perhaps something will come of those. I will likely take any graduate tests over the summer that I may need in my future while my academic knowledge is fresh, and I plan to apply for some national scholarships as well. After that, I'm going to take some time off and backpack through Europe with friends. I've decided I need art and creativity in my life, so I'll be out doing things and working with my hands, creating things. The sciences will have to sit on the backburner while I try to break into the film industry. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? You're told it doesn't matter whether you know what you want to study, but I don't believe that. Come into Bowdoin with a serious academic plan and a backup. If you have in mind a science major and want to complete pre-med requirements, start taking the necessary classes in your very first semester. Don't try to complete requirements with classes that you're not interested in. Be patient, make a list of professors that you hear are amazing and take their classes, even if they're twice the work. Take something that fosters creativity: visual art, theater, writing, etc. Invest your time and tuition wisely. Outside of class, get out and do something every chance you get. There is way too much that takes place on campus to even keep track of, and you only have four fast years to take advantage of the College. Go to plays, concerts, pub night, the Art Museum, student films, improv shows, interesting science lectures, and Common Hour. Go polar bearing or on an Alternative Spring Break trip, lose your voice at the Colby-Bowdoin hockey game, have lunch with professors, explore Maine, mentor local schoolchildren, and listen to Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols tell a story. The rewards of a Bowdoin education are just as often found outside the classroom as in it. What quirky or fun thing do you wish you had known before you came to Bowdoin? I wish I had known my friends before I came to Bowdoin—they're all fun, fairly quirky things. (Now cue the music. Cut, print, that's a wrap.) Story posted on May 11, 2010 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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ARLINGTON, Texas - Craig Gentry drove in three runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Boston Red Sox 5-1 on Saturday at Rangers Ballpark.
Gentry knocked an infield single in the fourth inning to push two runs across the plate and capped the scoring with a two-run homer to left field in the eighth.
In the key fourth inning, two walks and a single by A.J. Pierzynski brought Gentry to the plate, and he broke a 1-1 tie by beating out the throw for an infield single. With the ball bouncing away from first baseman Mike Napoli on a bad throw by third baseman Will Middlebrooks, two Texas runners came in to score.
Texas had an opportunity to expand its lead with the bases loaded for Ian Kinsler and two out. Kinsler, who had a leadoff first-pitch homer in the first, missed out on a grand slam as his swing sent the ball tailing foul in front of the left-field foul pole. Kinsler grounded out to second two pitches later.
Eight of the nine Rangers hitters finished with hits, the second consecutive day the Rangers had hits from at least eight starters.
Alexi Ogando pitched into the seventh to pick up his third win of the season. Ogando worked around runners in scoring position and under two outs twice in the contest, leaving six Red Sox stranded on base.
The left-hander struck out four in his seventh start of the season. Ogando broke a streak of four games in which he was left with a loss or a no-decision.
Boston tied the game in the second after a double off the wall by David Ortiz and a single by Daniel Nava that scored Ortiz. The run ended a 13-inning drought for the Red Sox, who were shut out Friday.
Red Sox starter John Lackey (1-2) pitched just five innings Saturday, giving up six hits and three runs. Lackey fell to 12-15 against the Rangers.
NOTES: Ortiz moved into sole possession of fifth all-time in Red Sox history for doubles, with 382. He also extended his hitting streak to 24 games dating to 2012. ... The Red Sox and Rangers conclude their series today, with Jon Lester (4-0, 3.11 ERA) taking on Yu Darvish (5-1, 2.33) at 3 p.m. on NESN.


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- Marconi Lanna, Vision: An Alternative Compare Editor
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Everyone looks forward to the South Texas citrus harvest. "And this year the grapefruit are sweet and plentiful," says Jeannie Smith, Office Manager for Obst Family Farms in Alamo, Texas, where they annually pick more than 100 acres of citrus.
"We started picking in September and we'll keep it up until at least March," says Smith. They credit timely rains in South Texas for an early harvest and fruit that are plump, juicy and sweet.
The de-greening process the Obsts often use to color their fruit, especially on early season oranges, is not necessary this year since nature has done the job.
Prices are a little lower than last year. In mid-December, grapefruit was going for 13 cents to 15 cents per pound and oranges for 15 cents.
Development has reduced the Rio Grande Valley's citrus-producing acreage to about 40 percent of 1980. Each year a few more orchards are destroyed. Even with less acreage tonnage this year should still be about the same as 2006 because of excellent growing conditions.
Texas is the second largest state in grapefruit production and third state in oranges, claiming about 28,295 acres in commercial citrus production in the Rio Grande Valley. The citrus industry, a vital part of the agricultural economy of the valley, should bring in $150 to $200 million this year — more than $50 million to growers. The jobless rate has gone down, too, with 1,000 agricultural workers hired early in the season.
Because of the impact on the valley's economy, citrus growers and state officials take great precautions in keeping Texas citrus healthy. This year the industry is concerned with "greening disease," which produces bitter and misshapen fruit and can cause young plants to die. It is a bacterial disease spread by psyllids, a type of plant lice.
To prevent this destructive disease that has already hit parts of Florida, a state and federal quarantine was issued for citrus plants in the Rio Grande Valley and 29 counties. The quarantine prohibits shipping plants unless they have been sprayed for Asian citrus psyllids. This is strictly a preventive measure. Texas citrus is healthy and free of disease. This quarantine means to keep it that way.
The Obsts, growing citrus for nearly 40 years, have gone through hard times, including a fruit quarantine in 2003. They have weathered the drought and have replanted after numerous freezes. They haven't sold out to developers. Although they ship much of their citrus, the Obst fruit and vegetable stand is a well-known landmark in Alamo, attracting hundreds of locals and winter Texans as soon as it opens in the fall.


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Farmers Insurance Exchange, which has around 23,000 homeowner and 7,000 auto policies in Louisiana, is dropping those lines of business in Louisiana, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said Thursday.
Farmers has about 2.5 percent of the state's homeowner's market, Donelon said. The company cited substantial losses as a major reason for pulling out of Louisiana's homeowner's market, he said.
Farmers will stop renewing current policies April 27, which means it will be out of the Louisiana market by April 27, 2014.
"I am totally confident, and I told them this when we met last month, that we can readily find places for their policyholders with other companies looking for business in our homeowner's market," Donelon said.
Another insurance company has already told Donelon it would like to take over Farmers' homeowner's business, the same way that Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Co. assumed the Hanover Group's 14,000 homeowner's policies in 2010.
Farmers had failed in its last two attempts to raise homeowner's rates. In 2010, the company sought to raise rates an average of 18.3 percent statewide for its 30,728 policyholders. Last year, Farmers wanted to increase homeowner's rates an average of 39.0 percent statewide for more than 25,561 policyholders.
The Insurance Department rejected both requests.
Farmers is also dropping its auto business, Donelon said. Its 7,000 customers is a small amount of business, and Louisiana has plenty of competition for auto insurance, Donelon said.
Mark Toohey, a spokesman for Farmers and sister company Foremost Insurance Co., said Foremost will continue to sell policies in Louisiana.
However, the details on Farmers' plans for Louisiana were not available on Thursday afternoon, he said.
Jeff Albright, chief executive officer of Independent Agents and Brokers of Louisiana, said it's a little disappointing to see a company pull out of the state.
Louisiana needs more competition for insurance customers, not less, he said.
Albright said Farmers' decision will force its customers to find new insurers.
The move will also affect many independent agents, who will have to find other companies to replace the Farmers business, Albright said. Some agents may struggle with that a little.
But one of the good things about being an independent agent is they try to represent lots of companies, so they can get customers to the best spot for them, Albright said.
Albright said the Farmers move is part of some restructuring by Zurich.
In Louisiana and 10 other states, independent agents are now allowed to sell Farmers' policies, Albright said. But in the rest of the country, only agents employed by Farmers can sell Farmers coverage, the same way that only State Farm agents can sell State Farm policies.
The restructuring is designed to get independent agents out of the Farmers business, Albright said.
However, it's possible that Farmers could return to Louisiana in a few years once the company gets its house in order, Albright said.
Foremost specializes in mobile home coverage and has around 7,200 of those policies in Louisiana, according to Insurance Department records.
Foremost also has more than 5,000 auto policies.


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South Hampton man in custody following altercation with police, massive searchBy HUNTER MCGEE
Union Leader Correspondent
June 03. 2014 9:00PM
SOUTH HAMPTON — A local man who police say got into an armed confrontation with police officers and fled was captured at his home after an extensive manhunt by local, state and federal authorities Tuesday night.
State Police Maj. David Parenteau said Kensington police were called to do a welfare check at 81 Highland Ave. in neighboring South Hampton. When the two officers arrived at the home at 4:23 p.m., they encountered Anthony Reardon. Parenteau said the 44-year-old was armed with two firearms, wearing a black helmet and tactical vest.
The officers tried to get him to drop his weapons, but he refused and retreated.
"We believe that they lost sight of him," Parenteau said of the officers, who had yet to be debriefed on the incident.
At some point, Parenteau said Reardon was able to access a running Kensington cruiser. As he was trying to escape in the police vehicle, he rammed into two State Police cruisers, smashing the Kensington cruiser. He then got out of the vehicle and ran off.
Gunshots were reported in the area about 5:30 p.m.; police said they are still determining "who fired what."
No one was injured.
Parenteau said roadblocks were established at points on the major roads in the area, including Route 107, Route 150 and at both ends of Highland Avenue as police combed the area for Reardon.
Parenteau said since Reardon was armed and considered extremely dangerous, more police were called; officers from surrounding communities in New Hampshire and Massachusetts were summoned. The FBI and Secret Service also took part in the effort, he said.
The search eventually led back to the house at 81 Highland Ave., where police were able to use cameras to locate Reardon hiding inside the darkened residence.
"Obviously if we would have known he was in the house, we wouldn't have spread out as much as we did," Parenteau said.
The decision was made to enter the residence; Reardon was taken into custody without incident, Parenteau said.
He was taken to a local hospital for medical evaluation. Reardon is facing multiple charges, Parenteau said.
Some residents of the area could not reach their homes as roads were blocked off.
Laura Haase, a bookkeeper at James R. Rosencrantz & Son, a farm equipment dealer on Route 107, said four cars of Highland Avenue homeowners were parked in the business' driveway, as homeowners waited for a police go-ahead to get home.
"All of the residents in that neighborhood were safe," Parenteau said.
"Very grateful no one was hurt and for the great work of all law enforcement officers in the South Hampton area this evening," Gov. Maggie Hassan tweeted shortly after 9:30 p.m.
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Union Leader Staff Writers Tim Buckland and Mark Hayward contributed to this report.


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Performances of the Spring 2010 Dance Concert are at 8:00 p.m. daily except for Sundays, when they are at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are priced at $9.00, discounted to $7.00 for seniors 55 and over and children under 18. While supplies last, rush tickets (tickets bought at the door at the time of performance) are free for college students with current ID. For more information about the Spring Dance Concert at NCC, please call the theatre box office at 516.572.7676 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Kristen Stewart joins "Anaesthesia" cast
Kristen Stewart will film a small role in new indie drama 'Anaesthesia'.
The 'Twilight' actress has joined the cast of Tim Blake Nelson's new ensemble drama, which follows a group of university students whose philosophy professor has a profound effect on their lives.
Deadline reports Stewart will shoot her scenes over the course of a ''few days''.
The actress' latest role joins a busy schedule of movies including politically-charged thriller 'Camp X-Ray', directed by Peter Sattler, and Oliver Assayas' new drama 'Sils Maria'.
In 'Camp X-Ray', Stewart plays a young woman who joins the army in a bid to escape her small-town life, only to find herself sent to work at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Suffering from abuse from the men in her charge, she forms an unlikely bond with a man who has been incarcerated for eight years.
Stewart will then join an A-list cast including Juliette Binoche and Chloe Grace Moretz in 'Sils Maria'.
French filmmaker Assayas wrote the film about an actress suffering from a midlife crisis specifically for Binoche, who he worked with on 'Summer Hours'. Binoche's character becomes obsessed with a young actress (Moretz) who is playing the part which originally made her famous, while Stewart has been cast as Binoche's assistant.


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The daughter of a sea goddess and a strange under water scientist named Fujimoto (Liam Neeson), Brumhilda (Noah Cyrus) begins life as one of dozens of adorable little goldfish. Ignoring her father's restrictions she leaves home in search of adventure, where she meets Sosuke (Frankie Jonas), a good-natured 5-year-old who lives by the sea. Sosuke adopts the little goldfish, and re-names her Ponyo. Fujimoto uses his magic to bring Ponyo back, but her love for Sosuke, and her newly developed magical powers prove stronger than his elixirs. She transforms herself into a human girl, and returns to Sosuke, causing a massive storm at sea, which buries most of Sosuke's village in water. Ponyo's metamorphosis upsets the balance of nature, and brings the moon closer to the earth.
Miyazaki's usual themes are all hear, including some pretty ham-fisted environmental lessons, missing parents, and more importantly a sort of nonchalant treatment of the super-natural. This is likely my favourite thing Miyazaki does, outside of his overwhelming visual imagination, which was the saving grace of the rather plodding Howl's Moving Castle. This 'just-so' approach helps to deflate some of the threat that comes with the story's epic scale. There's a slightly nightmarish quality to the big storm scenes, but for the most part it's played for whimsy, not fear. The storytelling here is super-simple and aimed at a younger audience, but it's far from stupid or placating, and the kids are expected to participate in the story, rather than blindly staring at the screen. Adult audiences may pine for more conflict in the story, but they're going to need to just go with the flow this time. Ponyo is a wonderful mix of Miyazaki's Japanese tendencies and reactions, and Spielberg-esque American pop-culture. There's a lot of E.T. in this particular story, and even a little Cocoon. This is no mistake, as Spielberg's E.T. and Twilight Zone script collaborator Melissa Mathison was involved with the English language script.
The animation style is unlike anything Miyazaki has ever produced, without appearing entirely alien, or a particular re-definition of the Ghibli wheel. The backgrounds are often defined by coloured pencil elements with fine shading and blended elements. It's similar to American storybooks, rather than digitally coloured comic books (Miyazaki fans may recall that Laputa's backgrounds were often outlined in ink like an old comic book). The foreground and animated elements are rounder, blobbier, and all around more organic in their movement. There isn't as much secondary shading to the animation, and small details are left out more than in films like Spirited Away, though the sheer quantity of elements is more than enough. There will surly be viewers that dislike the mixed styles, and specifically the simplistic and fluid character animation, but I'm happy the studio is doing something different with the 2D format. This is a fully realized and delightfully original universe Miyazaki has created, and there's plenty to catch in the far corners of the frame.
I really want Disney to get a copy of Finding Nemo on the shelves, and for the time being this will be the closest I can get. Besides being exceedingly colourful this 1080p, 1.85:1 transfer is razor sharp, reveling in both hard edged moving foreground elements and the coloured pencil backgrounds, with their deep set, etched details. You can really see the texture of the paper. The foreground elements are mostly outlined in semi-thick black, which is cut sharply against the pure hues. Occasionally the clearly distinct elements of the pencil backgrounds and cell painted foregrounds mix a little strangely, and create minor edge enhancement, but for the most part the clarity is precedent, and details are consistently impressive. I caught a few instances of the fuller reds displaying some minor blocking, but it's hard to visually distinguish the textured elements from the cell elements at times, so this may have been my mistake. The brightness at first appears less than spectacular, but it turns out that Miyazaki is just saving his pallet's brightest moments, which are usually of the magical variety. The large scale of events create so much on-screen movement the included standard definition release suffers some pretty severe compression noise, so the quantity of stuff makes the Blu-ray worth the price as well.
Purists will likely be upset that Disney has only included the American dub as an uncompressed DTS-HD Master Audio track, but the Japanese track is here in a diminished Dolby Digital quality. Fortunately there isn't a whole lot of dialogue to get upset about, and the Pixar people have done a good job with the dubbing process. The flow of the English is a little awkward compared to the Japanese, but the casting is great (yes, even the tiny Cyrus and Jonas do a solid job), and the actors do well enough with some thoroughly foreign characters. The dialogue on the English track is also mixed rather naturally into the original soundtrack, maintaining even volume. The underwater scenes reveal a lot of abstract sound design that bleeds into all channels, usually of the popping bubble variety. The scene where Ponyo's 'sisters' free her from her time out bubble is especially aurally overwhelming, and followed by some pretty aggressive LFE elements. The big tsunami storm scene is another rather overwhelming aural event which works itself smoothly into the whole of the mix. The music is definitely in-keeping with the director's usual score style, though perhaps a little more theatrical than his early films. Consistently the score is the most expressive and loud element of the soundtrack.
The rather terse extras begin with 'Meet Ponyo' (3:20, HD), a very brief primer on the role of the US production crew, including casting and voice direction, which was overseen by John Lasseter. 'The World of Ghibli' selection leads to two separate menus – 'Behind the Studio' and 'Enter the Lands'. The 'Behind the Studio' menu features 'A Conversation with Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter' (3:30, HD), a fluffy pseudo-interview, 'Creating Ponyo' (4:00, HD), more fluffy visual and philosophical explorations, 'Ponyo and Fujimoto' (3:00, HD), a look at the building of the two characters, 'The Nursery' (2:00, HD), 'Producer's Perspective: Telling the Story' (2:30, HD), a discussion with Toshi Suzuki, 'The Locations of Ponyo' (9:30, HD), a selection from a larger documentary on the subject of Miyazaki, 'Scoring Miyazaki' (7:20, HD), concerning the scores to many of the director's films, 'Behind the Microphone' (6:00, HD), an exploration of the English dubbing, and the original Japanese trailers, along with previews of the new extras for My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service and Castle in the Sky (in HD, even though the SEs are only being released on DVD).
The 'Enter the Lands' menu is a collection of various Studio Ghibli images and characters. Selectable interactive entries include Ponyo (a questionnaire to decide which character most represents the viewer), Kiki's Delivery Service, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and My Neighbor Totoro (trailers, character bios, plot details and Easter eggs). The disc also features a storyboard presentation of the film, similar to the one that accompanied the 4 disc Japanese Howl's Moving Castle collection. Trailers for other Disney releases close things out. The second disc is a DVD version of the film.
Ponyo is aimed at very young children, but master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki is still glorious even at his most simplistic, and Ponyo is a better film than the generally underwhelming Howl's Moving Castle. Adult fans expecting something more along the lines of My Neighbor Totoro rather than Princess Mononoki should be pretty happy. The Blu-ray, which comes with a DVD copy, looks pretty great, with minor quibbles mixed in with all the wonderful colours, and rushing details. The audio is consistent, occasionally brilliant. The only disappoint comes in the extras, which are satisfying, but more of the EPK variety, including ads for the extras included with the new DVD releases of Kiki's Delivery Service, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and My Neighbor Totoro.
*Reviewer Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
All ages admitted
Disc Details
Release Date: 2nd March 2010
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Japanese and French
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Enter the Lands Featurettes, Behind the Studio Featurettes, Meet Ponyo, Storyboard Version, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Frankie Jonas, Cate Blanchett, Liam Neeson, Tina Fey
Genre: Adventure and Animation
Length: 103 minutes
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Many photographers smile when they hear the word "Velvia". It often sets off a discussion like which Velvia is best, the original or the 100F and etc.,
Velvia is a reversal film that FUJIFILM introduced back in 1991. Since its debut, it has gained massive popularity especially among the landscape and nature photographers, so much that the Velvia color has set a standard in the field of photography.
If "CLASSIC CHROME" is a film simulation that communicates through its tone, then "Velvia" is a film simulation that communicates through its color.
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In Japanese, photography is written as "写(Copy)真(Truth)". Some also interpret photography's meaning as "same as how it appears". But photography, in one point of view, can be thought as a medium of emotional communication. Then, the term "Copying Truth" would be inappropriate. It would also be inappropriate in terms of psychological mechanism of the photographers and the viewers.
People wouldn't condemn painter's work just because the model doesn't appear the same in the painting and in reality. This goes the same for photographs. In order for a photograph to deliver the intended emotion, essential and unessential elements need to be selected.
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Even though Velvia is based upon "Memorized Color", if too much editing has been done, then it goes far off from how the "Memorized Color" should be. So what is the recipe that link the natural color and the color in people's mind? This was the key to designing "Velvia".
"How can you understand the colors in my mind?", a philosopher may ask. And the scientists and researchers try to find the answer to that question by trial & error and by feedback.
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What are the colors that stay strong in people's memory? How are the colors altered upon the process of memorization?
Much effort have been put trying to find the answer to the question, and two key color for landscape photography have emerged at last: "Blue in the sky" and "Green in the grass".
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