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I'm not sure it was worth having a 5-foot probe stuck up my butt in order to find this out, however.
I'm at the age, however, where colonoscopy is a regular part of medical care.
"Have it done this year," advised my doctor, "That way, you won't have to have another one for ten years."
Um, yeah, okay. I made an appointment back in January and pretty much forgot about it.
The prep was not a lot of fun, although I admired the way the drugs brought on a mild bout of dysentery that cleaned me out without much discomfort. Drinking the cleaning solution chilled me clear through, as if I were drinking a refrigerant.
I don't like pain meds. I don't like the way they make me feel, not just during the time when they're supposed to work, but also for the next several days. I don't like the feeling of being numbed. I don't like feeling woozy and disconnected.
Pain meds, I learned during my first pregnancy, can interfere with labor. They take weeks to clear out of the newborn's system. As a breastfeeding counselor, the difference between drugged and undrugged babies is striking. A normal newborn, whose mother received no pain meds during labor, is active and alert. A baby whose mom had pain meds is in infant la-la land, not quite in her body, not really paying attention to the hard work a newborn needs to do.
After giving birth naturally, I looked at drugs with a different eye. What do these medications do? Are they actually fixing something or are they merely masking symptoms? If they're masking symptoms, what else are they doing? Are they making things better or worse?
In a lot of cases, I decided, the drugs actually make things worse. Suppressing fever, for example, can lead to a longer bout of illness and more secondary infections. Antihistamines and decongestants can also lead to secondary infections. It's better, I think, to use such drugs sparingly and to focus on supporting the body so it can do its healing.
While breastfeeding, I started having my teeth drilled without being numbed. To my amazement, I discovered that having cavities filled isn't all that painful. (My dentist deserves a lot of credit for this; she's slow and gentle and careful.) In many cases, it's a toss-up whether the pain from the injection is worse than the pain from the drilling. Even when the fillings are a little deeper, the pain is often manageable and is a clear win over being numb for several hours.
When I told the gastroenterologist that I didn't want pain meds, he was skeptical. I told him I'd given birth four times without pain meds, and that a colonoscopy couldn't possibly be worse than transition. He wasn't convinced until I told him I had my teeth drilled without meds, and even then he wanted to be sure I had an IV in so they could drug me if I changed my mind.
I knew then that I'd have to stay focused to keep from having drugs slipped to me. I told everyone that I wanted no pain meds and I wrote the refusal on my consent form. Everyone asked me why I didn't want the pain meds. I tried to explain, but I don't think they understood.
I don't think pain is all that important. There are other things, like having a clear mind, that matter more to me.
My body, my science experiment.
Okay, so they have me in there, on my side, with an IV in my right arm, a blood pressure cuff on my left arm, a pulse monitor on my finger, and a saturation monitor on my chest. I felt like a real patient then. All the gadgets seemed like overkill to me. I'd had my babies without them; the midwives had looked at me to see how I was doing, not at a bunch of monitors.
I flashed on my eldest when she was hospitalized as a newborn, how the nurses spent all their time focused on the monitors instead of on the babies. I remembered my dad's repeated hospitalizations during his long bout with cancer, how often it seemed like he was lost in the machines and monitors, held under by the sea of drugs they kept feeding him.
I am so not ready for being a patient. I have spent my entire adult life avoiding anything resembling this.
The gastroenterologist and his two nurses (both men) are so not ready for an undrugged patient whose experience of medical care is primarily with homebirth midwives.
The gastroenterologist switches on the video monitor in front of me, giving me a fetching view of my curvy, creamy ass. I'm startled by this at first, at the same time interested to see my body at an angle ordinarily reserved for my husband. I'm irrelevantly grateful for all the dancing I do. If my ass is going to be featured on a video monitor, I'm glad that it looks good. I briefly imagine what it would be like to see a flabby or pimply ass on that screen and know it was yours.
The probe goes in the first bit painlessly. I'm startled again, seeing that the inside of the rectum is not what I imagined.
"Oh, it looks like a mucus membrane."
The doctor gives me a friendly enough "duh" response, remarking that mucus membranes are pretty much of a muchness. He points out the liver as we go by, and I ask about a couple of other internal organs that he can't identify.
The skin of the colon is thin and translucent, showing a delicate tracery of veins. Rather beautiful in its own way. Sometimes it's ribbed and arched, but mostly it's amazingly smooth and pink and pulsing and alive.
The switchbacks are wicked, though.
I would have been better able to focus if my body hadn't been having this visceral reaction to the probe.
"Just kick that guy," my gut urged me, "and get that thing OUT OF HERE."
Judging from the cramping in my abdomen, that was good advice. The colonoscopy wasn't too bad, for the most part, although it was definitely painful going around the bends. The hard part was controlling the visceral reaction, willing myself not to fight the probe, trying to keep my abdominal muscles from clamping down on the thing, trying not to give the biggest push I've ever given in my life to GET THAT FOREIGN OBJECT OUT OF ME.
After the first few bends, I wished I'd brought a doula. I asked the nurse who was monitoring my monitors to let me grab his hand during the worst bend. He said okay, but told me not to squeeze too hard or I'd interfere with the blood pressure cuff. I wondered briefly what drugs he was on, but remembered he was used to drugged patients and had no clue how to support a person through this.
I really appreciated how very much emotional support had helped during labor. It's wonderful to be told how well you're doing, how much progress you're making, that you can do this.
I didn't get that with the colonoscopy. The gastroenterologist repeatedly offered me drugs to ease his discomfort. (I was moaning low to try to control the urge to push the probe out. The nurse kept telling me to breathe and I controlled myself long enough not to tell him to stuff it. Really, I was admirable throughout the whole thing. I didn't kick anyone, threaten to stuff the probe up their butts, or snap at anyone. I didn't even make the scatological jokes that kept popping into my head.)
These guys were nice enough and they were trying, but they clearly had no clue about how to support someone through a colonoscopy without drugs. I didn't get any encouragement for hanging in there for a little longer. I didn't get any of the atta-girls that make it so much easier to bear the pain. They clearly thought I was foolish and stubborn to refuse the drugs, and I could tell that the gastroenterologist didn't like causing pain.
The gastroenterologist remarked that I had an especially twisty colon. It was at that point that I thought I ought to devote the next ten years of my life developing a robotic probe that could navigate the twists and turns by remote control instead of by almost-blind ramming against the obstacle of my body. I started imagining the little vehicle fondly, how it could take the hairpin turns slowly and easily and without causing the least bit of discomfort.
I imagined hanging out my shingle as a colonoscopy doula, someone who would help people through medical procedures like this without drugs. Someone who would do the work of supporting the patient emotionally.
No one offered me drugs during labor. When the colonoscopy probe was almost all the way in me, the doctor offered me drugs again. He seemed almost desperate to have me accept. I felt a wave of pure hatred at that moment. We were almost done; there was no point in doing drugs now. It was a tough bend, but surely we could get around it.
It was a painful bend. A short while later, I was moaning and writhing and trying to get myself together.
"Okay," I said, meaning "Okay, I've got to get myself together here."
It was the kind of "okay" that midwives and my husband understand as meaning "I'm just getting my focus back here, and then I'll be good for the next section."
The gastroenterologist, however, seemed a little unhinged by it.
"Okay, WHAT?" he demanded a little wildly, "Okay you want drugs?"
I don't remember what I said, but I managed to communicate that no, I didn't want drugs, and let's just get this over with, shall we? I am quite certain I didn't call him any mean names, either, although I was plenty annoyed with him right then. Why did he keep offering me drugs when he knew I didn't want them? That struck me as disrespectful, and the last thing you need when some guy has a 5-foot probe up your butt is for him to treat you disrespectfully.
A short while later, we were at the cecum. The gastroenterologist told me it would be easier on the way out (and my gut informed me that we could make the trip out really fast if I just gave the word). I had kind of figured that, and was able to relax and enjoy the view on the monitor.
All along, I felt kind of bad for the gastroenterologist and his nurses. They were doing their job, and they were doing their best, and here I was, an intractable patient refusing the drugs they were offering me for my own comfort. Instead, I was choosing the pain, and inflicting it on them, and for what?
So I could be clear-headed for the rest of the day, and the following weekend. So I could spend the afternoon and evening working on my open-source project, totally focused on coding and debugging. So I could be in my body during the colonoscopy. So I could feel what was happening. So I wouldn't be cut off or disconnected from my own experience.


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Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President celebrated his fourth St Patrick's Day in the White House and hosted the Irish Prime Minister, marked Nowruz with a video address, then embarked on a four state energy tour.
Presedintele Obama discutand despre productia domestica de petrol.
Domestic oil and gas production, which has increased each year President
Obama has been in office, is part of his all-of-the-above strategy to
develop every available source of American energy.
President Obama announces an order to expedite a pipeline project that
will help move oil more quickly and efficiently from Cushing, Oklahoma
to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. Encouraging oil development and
infrastructure in a way that protects the health and safety of the
American people is part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy
strategy to develop every available source of American energy.
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Pierce became something more than a big-time scorer; he's now a big-time defender as well. While he had been doing an admirable job on Kobe throughout the first 3 games, last night's performance was remarkable. He held Bryant to just 19 points on 6-19 shooting. Even as LA was romping through the first half with an 18-point lead, Bryant was without a field goal. At the time, that stat was meant to show how balanced LA was and what a great distributor Bryant was. Yet, looking back, it's telling that Pierce was shutting Bryant down for an entire half. By the time Boston's offense got hot, and Bryant had to start shooting, it was too late to get a rhythm. Pierce used his size to trap and corral Bryant into difficult shots the entire game. Rarely was Bryant able to shoot cleanly. Too often, he had to pump fake or shoot fadeaways to get off a shot.
Combined with the record-setting comeback, Pierce's performance will undoubtedly vault him into the pantheon of Celtics' greats. In his 10th year with the team, Pierce has been a rock of consistency. He came back from multiple stab wounds and never missed a beat. He's played with great supporting casts and some downright awful ones. Yet, through it all, he never stopped putting up 20 a game. But, unlike past Celtics' stars, he had been unable to get his team to the Finals. They lost to the Nets in the 2002 E. Conference Finals but that would be as far as they'd get until this year.
Now up 3-1, a lead no team has ever relinquished in Finals history, the Celtics and Paul Pierce should establish a new legacy in Boston. It's been 20 years since the heyday of Larry Bird and Kevin McHale, but Pierce finally has Boston back on top. You can now put the former Kansas star right up there along with Parish, Johnson, Havlicek, White, Cowens, Russell, etc. I know he doesn't have the number of rings that those guys do, but he also didn't have Hall of Famers surrounding him like they did. Until this year. Too often, an epic defensive performance will be glossed over in favor of the flashy shot. However, Pierce's play on defense in Game 4 should not be forgotten. He shut down the reigning MVP on the road in a game that LA should have won easily.
While Pierce's legacy just went up, Bryant's has just taken a major hit. Look at this scenario for a second. Up 24 in the first half, at home, about to tie the series at 2-2, the next game is at home, you have the reigning MVP, ... and they lose??? How does that happen?
This has to be on Kobe. His bench didn't do much, but Odom and Gasol combined for 36 points on 14-24 and 20 rebounds. That's more than enough.
It's Game 4 of the NBA Finals. You have a chance to tie the series with another home game looming on Sunday. The Lakers had an easy opportunity to go back to Boston up 3-2. If this is the league's MVP, I want to know why he let that slip away. If you want to be better than Jordan, or even Shaq, you have to be able to win a game like this.
As Boston was furiously storming back in the 3rd quarter, and continuing to outplay LA in the 4th, Kobe seemed powerless to stop it. He couldn't get off a clean shot and when he did, there wasn't any rhythm to it. Too often, it looked forced. But, against a defense as strong as Boston's, Kobe found it difficult to do much.
You know how often we talk about MJ's 'flu game' or his GW shot against Utah, I think this game may have the same effect on Kobe. He completely bombed in a game that LA had to have, and basically did have for half the game. His golden opportunity to bring LA back in the series was for naught. An MVP shouldn't be doing this at home in the playoffs (well unless you're Dirk Nowitzki).
Bryant is still a no-doubt Hall of Famer, and at age 29, still has plenty left in the tank. But, I'm wondering what his legacy will be if he never wins another title. Is it the 3 titles he won with Shaq? Or will it be Game 4 of the 2008 NBA Finals where he played horribly and let Boston erase a record-setting deficit?


text: (The Day Ahead is an email and PDF publication that includes the day's major stories and events, analyses and other features. To receive The Day Ahead, Eikon users can register at . Thomson One users can register at RT/DAY/US. All times in ET/GMT) Discount retailer Dollar General Corp reports fourth-quarter results. The company recently lost out on its bid for Family Dollar to smaller rival Dollar Tree. Analysts expect Dollar General to make smaller acquisitions and accelerate its store rollout in an attempt to compete more aggressively. Investors will look for comments on increasing private label offerings, expense reduction efforts, global sourcing initiatives and shrink management to support margins. The Congressional Budget Office releases its analysis of President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget proposal, showing how much his tax and spending proposals would increase or decrease U.S. deficits compared to current-law estimates. The forecasts will feed into a contentious budget debate in Washington as Republicans, who now fully control Congress, try to push through spending cuts to federal benefits programs and shift more resources to the military. Obama, a Democrat, has proposed significant spending increases on education and infrastructure, financed largely by tax increases on the wealthy. The U.S. Commerce Department releases the retail sales report for February. The gauge of consumer spending is expected to have increased 0.3 percent after a 0.8 percent decline in January. (0830/1330) Separately, analysts expect initial claims for state unemployment benefits to fall to a seasonally adjusted 305,000 for the week in comparison to the prior week's 320,000. (0830/1330) Shares of cement company Summit Materials Inc, controlled by Blackstone Group LP, are expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The initial public offering is expected to be priced at $17-$19 per share, valuing the company at about $1.8 billion at the high end of the range. The offering of 22.2 million shares is expected to raise up to $422.2 million. Summit Materials supplies aggregates and produces cement, ready-mixed concrete and asphalt paving mix. Blackstone's voting power will fall to 59.5 percent from 79.5 percent after the offering. Penn West Petroleum Ltd reports fourth-quarter results. The company has struggled to cut costs and sell off assets as it seeks to survive the fall in oil prices. Struggling teen apparel retailer Aeropostale Inc is expected to report fourth-quarter revenue above the average analyst estimate, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine. The retailer said last month that it might return to profit after two years of losses due to higher traffic, better margins and lower costs during the holiday shopping season. To fight a persistent slump in sales, Aeropostale has begun offering newer styles in dresses, tops and jeans, and has lowered price points and is controlling inventory to be able to discount less. Investors will look for comments on strategy and the company's initial forecast for 2015. JA Solar Holdings Co is expected to report a higher fourth-quarter profit, helped by strong demand for panels, mainly from China. The Chinese solar panel maker said last year that it would set up plants in North America, among other regions, to avoid U.S. trade duties. Investors will want details about the plan and how the company will be affected by slowing growth in Japan. Media company Walt Disney Co holds its annual meeting of shareholders. Investors will vote on whether to separate the chairman and CEO position held by Bob Iger. The move has failed in previous attempts. United Technologies Corp hosts its annual meeting for investors in New York, the first broad business review led by CEO Greg Hayes since he was elevated from finance chief to the top job in November. Hayes has shaken up his top management ranks and spoken of becoming more aggressive in seeking deals. Wall Street is keen to see whether the new chief will reshape the U.S. conglomerate's portfolio of businesses that serve the aerospace and commercial building industries. Bank of Canada official Rhys Mendes will testify to the House of Commons finance committee on the impact of oil prices on the economy. Mendes, deputy chief of the Canadian Economic Analysis Department at the central bank, will be one of five different panelists appearing at the committee's request. It is part of a series of meetings on the impact of cheap oil. The central bank's view on how serious an impact the plunge in oil prices will have is critical to gauging where it will head on monetary policy. Statistics Canada releases fourth-quarter capacity utilization rate. Analysts expect the rate to be marginally higher at 83.6 percent after rising 83.4 percent in the third quarter. (0830/1330) Meanwhile, Canada's new housing price index is expected to have risen 0.1 percent in January. (0830/1330) Brazil's central bank will publish the minutes of its last rate-setting meeting, providing markets some clues on whether officials will keep the aggressive pace of rate hikes or ease the cycle to avoid a deeper economic recession. A sharply weaker local currency is increasing inflationary pressures, raising the stakes for the central bank that has promised to bring inflation to 4.5 percent by late 2016. (Compiled by Astha Rawat in Bengaluru; Editing by Simon Jennings)


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The 1990 session of the Virginia General Assembly came down to the wire on Saturday and the citizen legislators of the Commonwealth have gone back home to live with the laws they have created.


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A place to watch the world go by, mull the issues, and catch up with friends.
Monday, August 23, 2010
It's the most dangerous time of the year....
The highest crash rate for bicyclists in Madison is late August and the month of September. This is due in part to all the new bicyclists showing up each year. Many undergraduates have heard that the best way to get around town is by bike. "Don't bring your car!" is written in very large letter - three times - in the materials on transportation given to all new students coming to the UW.
The problem is that many 18 year-olds, and even older bicyclists that are riding around Madison for the first time, haven't learned to do it right. American teenagers often give up riding a bike when they are about 13 - about the age when they can really start to understand how to negotiate traffic safely. It's not cool to ride a bike around town when you are in high school, and you start to have friends with a drivers license. So the Freshmen coming to Madison haven't been on a bike, except maybe on a trail or in a group, since they were truly kids.
And there are also many people moving to Madison that aren't used to a real city. Although Madison is still considered only a mid-sized city in population, our downtown and campus area operates much more like a bigger city because of density, urban design, and traffic congestion. So even if the new bicyclists are used to riding in the street, they may not know how to ride in urban traffic.
These two factors - no adult experience on a bike and no experience in urban riding - cause new Madison bicyclists to make all sorts of mistakes: riding the wrong way, riding without lights, riding on the sidewalk, riding unpredictably, turning without looking for cars or signaling, etc. After awhile, they either learn to ride correctly (more or less) or they give up on biking in Madison. The crash rate goes down either way.
But there is another factor that may contribute to the crash rate. And it certainly makes biking harder and more stressful for those of us used to Madison's patterns: There are a whole bunch of new drivers in town.
Parents are dropping off the kids at the dorms, trying to find a parking spot or just generally lost. Late summer tourists looking for the Farmers Market or Monona Terrace are confused by the one-way streets and inner and outer loops of the Capitol. New faculty, graduate students, or staff trying to find their way around their new home. And then those new students: young, excited to be on their own, impulsive, and completely clueless that driving is sort of a pain in the ass in Madison. None of these groups are used to the many bicyclists, pedestrians, moped drivers, buses, and general confusion and congestion of our downtown and campus.
We veterans of the Isthmus know that W. Dayton ends at both Camp Randall and the Overture Center, that you can't drive a private car on State St, that there is both a King St and Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, that the diagonal streets to the Square are one way, that bicyclists are likely to be sneaking up on the right side where there is a bike lane and riding on the sidewalk everywhere, and when traveling west on E Johnson from First St, the name of the street changes to Gorham -> University Ave -> Campus Dr -> University Ave.
We also know that there is construction everywhere, and the Isthmus makes both driving and parking a dicey and slow process.
But many of the newbies and visitors don't know any of these things, and they are lost, confused, stressed out and distracted by all the activity. That makes for lots of mistakes on their part, and a dangerous situation for those of us using less protected modes of travel.
To the veteran bicyclists and walkers, I urge patience and caution. You can tell when a driver is not a local. There's car "body language" as surely as there is human body language. Be especially careful when someone is going slow, drifting about in their lane, or the car is filled with furniture and luggage. These people are about to make a sudden turn without signaling or turn the wrong way on a one-way street. Try to wave with all your fingers and smile instead of yelling.
The visitors are probably not going to see this post, but in case it gets passed along to new residents, my advice is to park the car as soon as you can and walk. Really, it's faster than looking for a parking spot. Please remember that you must yield to pedestrian in the crosswalk, and bicyclists both have a right to the road and also are likely going as fast as you are in traffic. No matter where you lived before, Madison has a different traffic rhythm, and a different mix of road users. It's slow going in the car, and it's sort of confusing as well. Did I mention that walking might be easier?
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Only until you have to cross one of those roads populated by all the new and clueless drivers and cyclists you described here!
Madison will only be safe for walking once the crosswalk laws are enforced. Since moving here two years ago, I've been shocked at how pedestrian-unfriendly this town can be.
"riding the wrong way, riding without lights, riding on the sidewalk, riding unpredictably, turning without looking for cars or signaling, etc"ReplyDelete
Those aren't mistakes, they're willful violations of common sense, to say nothing of obvious laws. I really don't think it's a lack of education or urban riding experience that causes people to bike the wrong way down one way streets here. It's a sense of entitlement shared by incoming suburbanite freshman and our provincial resident hipsters. They're not city people, but they're living in an increasingly urban environment and they're not cut out for it, or even willing to try, evidently.
And I don't think it's fair to put the jump in accidents on the students. I believe you that the number goes up in the fall (though I'm not seeing where you get that data in the Crash Report). You're adding 30-40,000 residents to the city, increasing the population by about 20%, which is going to have an impact even if only a fraction of them bike. Most of those 30-40,000 turn around and leave shortly after "normal" biking season starts up again in late spring, so the effect of this population infusion on the accident rate is largely limited to two or three fall months. But I doubt that the bad behavior rises disproportionately when students arrive. It's always bad, it just gets more pronounced when there are more people of a particular mindset around to engage in it, and it's a mindset that's surprisingly common among post-college aged adults in Madison.


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braveSaintSaturn Interview
We will be interviewing the band braveSaintSaturn about their brand-new third album, Anti-Meridian. The interview will be held this Wednesday (Oct 15) at 4 pm and will be aired regularly after that. So. If you have questions you would like to ask the band, post them here, and we will select the best ones to ask the guys.
Thanks, and take time to listen.
10-9-08: Theme Night #1: Vehicles
Tonight's show playlist is built around the theme of vehicles. Any form of transportation. Cars. Trains. Planes. Bulldozers. Saddled monkeys. Anything. If you have a request, post it below.
Blue Comb '78 – Five Iron Frenzy
Getaway Car – TobyMac
Chevette – Audio Adrenaline
K Car – Relient K
There Is A Treason At Sea – DC Talk
Airplane – Bethany Dillon
Lawnscaping with Musketball Clive
Love Train – Beyond the Blue (special thanks to Marty Funderburk)
Jury Duty – The OC Supertones
Company Car – Switchfoot
A Beautiful Collision – David Crowder Band
Student Driver – Stellar Kart
When I Go Out – Five Iron Frenzy
The Change – Steven Curtis Chapman
Student Driver – Stellar Kart
Southbound Train – John Foreman
Always Just Beneath the Dawn – Brave Saint Saturn
Somewhere Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, by The W's (super-rare track from their unreleased, unfinished third album)
Also, look for our Mike Huckabee bumper, and the long-awaited return of Musketball Clive.
We talked way, way, way too long tonight, but we had fun, and we were wearing costumes. So. Anyway:
Also, please let us know what you thought of the costumes if you were watching on tv. So. Alright. Good night.


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A budget blow-up may occur on Friday when the Cook County Board reconvenes for budget talks.Now let's get to the point where Beavers cried racism at what exactly the Cook County Board cut on Wednesday...
Board President Todd Stroger wants his $3 billion budget passed on Friday. But there is still a $239 million shortfall, and the board has not agreed on Stroger's proposed tax hikes to plug what remains of that shortfall. About $1 million was cut at a nine-hour meeting Tuesday.
Beavers accused the wider board of racism, too, saying they cut the budgets of two black county officials – Court Clerk Dorothy Brown and Recorder Eugene Moore – while leaving white office-holders untouched.
"If you're going to cut, cut across the board," Beavers said.
When commissioners voted to make cuts to county Moore's office, cuts Moore said he supports, Beavers implied Moore wasn't smart enough to understand the cuts and Republican commissioners must have used racial intimidation to get him to agree.
Peraica says he offered an amendment to do just that, cut the budget by 2 percent across the board; it did not pass.
Now here's Stroger's proposed budget that for some reason he can't get approved by the larger board:
In his budget proposal, Stroger asked the board to pass a sales tax hike, which would raise the sales tax in the county to 11 percent – the highest of all major U.S. cities.It's a mess isn't it? One man clamining racism when the man who he represents on the County Board has proven himself not very able in the political realm. And certain members of the county board are at each other's throats. Yeah I'm looking at you Liz Gorman and Tony Peraica. You two seem almost as bad as Blagojevich and Madigan except at least that they keep their unbridled animosity behind closed doors, save for a sound bite or press release at times. Something's wrong!
The plan also calls for doubling the county gasoline tax from 6 to 12 cents a gallon, and doubling the county parking tax. A monthly parker paying $30 in taxes would pay $60.
Stroger's proposed tax hikes would actually bring in more revenue than is needed to balance the budget. The sales tax increase, if enacted, would bring in $142.2 million during 2008, and $460 million a year after that.
As proposed, the budget would not increase the county's share of property taxes.
The budget eliminates 735 jobs, reduces overtime and streamlines hospital administrative services. But it also provides for more than 1,100 new positions. Stroger said the majority, 690, are in health services, and were staffing changes recommended by consultants.


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Monday, October 4, 2010
Purchased: Private dealer. $10 a gram.
Genetics: Colombian X Mexican X Thai X Afghani
Smell: Beautiful
Taste: Deliciously smooth
Type: Hybrid
Buzz: Silly field, ak-47 always always always relieves pains, helps sleep, or good for stimulation. -Top shelf
Overall: From the very second the smoke touched my lips I fell in love with this strain. ++Buzz, amazingly high in the best of ways. If you've never had the chance to try this strain, I suggest you search for it.
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The Vietnam vets looked just like ours in the States and brought back too many memories of post-traumatic stress disorder. But I think these guys looked a bit less stressed than ours?
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(And yes, that left front man really was a giant!)
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SSRN-Do Managers Withhold Bad News? by S.P. Kothari, Susan Shu, Peter Wysocki:
"In this study, we examine whether managers delay disclosure of bad news relative to good news. If managers accumulate and withhold bad news up to a certain threshold, but leak and immediately reveal good news to investors, then we expect the magnitude of the negative stock price reaction to bad news disclosures to be greater than the magnitude of the positive stock price reaction to good news disclosures. We present evidence consistent with this prediction. Our analysis suggests that management, on average, delays the release of bad news to investors."While several potential explanations are given to the larger price drop (including agency cost stories), it is possible that the more pronounced stock price declines might be caused by non-symmetry in investor utility curves.
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I am a silent person; I talk less; gives me a load of gravity, as a friend of mine likes to call seemingly serious and thinking people (note the stress on seemingly, please); but that also often makes people assume that I am a good listener, a silent observer.
And observe, I do (Oh yes…!). My most recent observation has been about the frequency of certain words in our day-to-day language. The current Gen X or Gen Y or Gen whatever is very prolific in the use of words like "cool" (sounding more like kyool), "amazing" and ofcourse "like".
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Himesh Reshammiya
This is a man who has aroused so much interest that I need to write a separate piece about him. But for now, just look at the trailers from his movie "Aap Kaa Surroor". The man's eyes have so much passion and hope that when he talks to the camera about his "super-duper-hit" debut movie that even movie critics are calling him 'brave' because he knows he will be mocked at. He is making a fool out of himself in the movie but a man like this cannot be called foolish. After all, you do tap to his catchy beats and swing to his nasal 'ooooooooooo'. So what do you call a man who seems to be doing a movie just because he is in love with his own passion – ofcourse cute! 🙂
Shilpa Shetty
Now who on earth calls our hamari pyaaree Shilpa cute when they talk about her? Before she won Big Brother, we did not even talk about her, forget calling her "our hamari pyaaree "! Anyhow, now that we do talk of her, we (as in those who like her) call her sexy, beautiful, raapchik, maal, mast figure, amazing energy dancer (that's my personal addition), etc etc etc (oh that was another thing we called her before Big Brother 🙂
Those who don't like her so much would call the entire country of India crazy for going bonkers over winning a stupid gameshow which she got paid to enter! (something to the tune of Rs. 3 Crores!; if that were crazy, India's poverty problems wouldn't be on the list of every Finance Minister). These people would also call her a lucky Be-otch or some rather unprintable adjectives (&^*@&#^$&*#^$@).
But have you ever heard someone call her "cute"? No, because cute is for people who have nothing else to be spoken about. It is the best description for a LOSER! (Himesh, are you listening?) This ought to be in big letters with sparkling lights all around it (Las Vegas style).
Sunil Shetty
Another Shetty here but, unlike our hamari pyaaree Shilpa, Sunil hasn't had many accomplishments. I was about to say – unlike Shilpa he hasn't been lucky – but then I paused, and thought, how else would you explain a person of his drop dead (I mean literally) looks, acting skills comparable to Shah Rukh Khan, and a disarming (pun intended) charm becoming a Bollywood hero? Anyway, back to the point, if you were to meet Sunil and say something about him, you would say he is a very strong macho man.
But if you imagine him without his macho body (I will make it easy for you – imagine him with Abhishek Bachchan's body ), what would you call him? Handsome? …ahem …sexy? hmmm …naah …how about ..umm..ahem …cUTE? BINGO! With eyes as deep as a dried up well and a singular expression policy (look at him in Herapheri and Mohra without volume – you can't tell that he played a macho hero in the first and a comedian in the second….lovely …o wait ..was it the other way around? Hehe … you see what I mean). It happens with Sunil – he is so cute! 🙂
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What do you feel when you look at this girl? Now before you answer that, just wait. There are some rules. You can't call her macho, muscular, manly, nor can you say she doesn't know good classical dance. You also cannot say that she has a wooden face when it comes to acting, that she does not have the oomph her mother had in her acting, that she does not have the humour that her father had, that her brother Bobby Deol has better hair than her, that she is lucky not to have too much in common with her other brother Sunny Deol and that she reminds you of Amelie Mauresmo. So you follow the rules and say that you respect her as she is, that her acting is nice, and ofcourse, that she looks really "cute"; especially when she dances in Tauba Tauba song from the movie Kaal.
Preity Zinta
She is a very beautiful girl (let's call her a lady now that she celebrated her 30 something b'day recently), very sweet dimples, bubbly acting – overall very cute! This is probably an exception rather than the rule. I say that because no matter what she does, she does not look sexy. Remember the song Jiya Jale from Dil Se – she tried to look hot and sensuous in that song but what she looked could most appropriately be described as cute. So, you see, in a way, cute still goes with failure – for she was failing at what she was trying to do! She's tried it all, short skirts, ultra short skirts, towel scenes and what have you. Even Yash Chopra, the king when it comes to making the sexiest scenes with actresses, could not do that for her in (what was that movie) Veer Zaara. At least that's what I can tell from the trailers of that movie; 'cos I could not go through more than 3 minutes of that movie. And believe me, I can see Yash Chopra and Karan Johar kind movies, but that one, well, as they say, no one is perfect. Not even Yash Uncle – but at least he tried, that's cute! 🙂
Vivek Oberoi
Every man must have this question – what did Aishwarya Rai like in Vivek Oberoi? This cannot even be a multiple choice question. This can, at best, be a radio button question! With choices like his stupid acting or his narration skills (how he narrated how Salman threatened him to the journos). And remember one recent movie that won a large number of awards and critical acclaim least year – Omkaara! The movie is remembered for all kinds of roles – Saif's role ofcourse, then Om bhaiyya, Kareena's beautiful acting and even Sarju's role (the guy with Saif in the first scene). But does Mr. V figure in all this? Nopes. So, probably that is why all girls who like him (I have bever heard of a guy saying he likes Vivek Oberoi – am representing the straight guys :). OK, maybe I am being too mean – he may not be a total zero at acting. And he might be a sensitive guy to have impressed Ash. He must have told her how he tries so hard to act and make an impression; and how he will protect her from Salman (now even he would know he is lying there …); and how they will make a cute pair. So, what would you call such a guy? Cute, eh? 🙂
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It's the Nth Filmfare Awards night and Karan Johar steps up on the stage to present a special feature on his movie "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham" and ends it with tears in his eyes and these words on his lips "It's all about loving your parents". Ravi Chopra made a bigger parents tear-jerker in Baghbaan. More parents asked their kids to watch Baghbaan than K3G and yet Ravi Chopra didn't come up crying on stage for a movie he made. Karan Johar looks more comfortable in an interview with Kareena and Rani rather than when he has Sunny and Bobby Deol as his guests. He admits that he can make only the same kind of movies because that's all he knows – human relationships. And I guess most of his relationships start and end with Shah Rukh Khan. So, what do you call him? A cute guy?
Abhishek Bachchan
In the pre-Yuva days, there was absolutely nothing that this guy could prove to the normal everyday guys. Girls ofcourse did like him a lot – they called him cute but then they had a lof of, so to say, evidence to prove their claim. "His eyes are so deep, so lovely … hee hee hee …his smile is ..oh so sweet …and the way he dances … ooooh" and so on and so whatever they went. While I find little logic in what was said about him, there is a difference here in the cute. It comes out naturally and there are more things to talk about. So this guy wasn't a total loser; well, anyway, when your father is "like" the biggest super star the country has ever seen, it takes more than just cute to screw things up!


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Reinforcements from the Yeerk Empire arrived shortly after we returned to the Ifhara village. Despite our resounding failure, I was hailed as a hero by the Nahara, and Visser Thirty-Five, who'd been sent to head the expedition, was incredibly impressed when he heard a (highly abridged) version of our tale.
My pool-brother, Elit, was killed in a tragic accident on the journey home. He fell in the ship's waste incinerator. Headfirst. We may never know exactly what happened, because the security cameras malfunctioned a few minutes after he entered the room, but it appears that he made the mistake of getting too close to the maintenance chute.
A mystery for the ages.
I brought a few Nahara back to the Homeworld with me to show the Council. They promoted me to Visser Forty and put me in charge of overseeing the Nahara Homeworld, which consisted of a lot of burning of Roson cities. They put up a good fight, and I witnessed firsthand their talent for deception. But that's another story.
I also managed to force through a sustainability initiative—instead of simply draining the planet of natural resources, I argued that the native Nahara would care for it and ensure a steady supply of water and other materials for years to come. In the end, not many Yeerks took Nahara hosts. They were a rarity as it was, and most were needed to care for the planet, a job which required no supervision. Those who volunteered for infestation were given to my most trusted soldiers and advisors.
The sustainability initiative was even more successful than I could have hoped, and I was promoted again to Visser Sixteen, and then to Visser Five. By that time, the Nahara homeworld was a peaceful place, and I turned my attention to repairing their DNA.
I never expected we would fail.
* * *
A year after my request for more resources to save the Nahara was denied by the Council of Thirteen, Osa Ren's legs stopped working. We simply awoke one day to find ourselves paralyzed. It took half an hour for us to start moving again, but that didn't detract from my horror in any way.
We'd watched Ela Ren and countless others go through this, and had an idea of what to expect. Osa Ren's body was simply…finished. The Roson were gone, but their cruelty lived on. She had days, if that, to live.
The medics had told me that it would be best to take a new host. I had politely declined. They'd brought me an uninfested Nahara. I'd threatened to feed them all to Taxxons. I don't think they believed me (especially since I didn't have any Taxxons under my command), but it got the message across.
We spent those last few days in my rooms, gazing out the windows. We could see hatchlings playing in the trees. We had visitors, of course, mostly free Nahara. And Sia Ren (now fully grown) was with us more often than not.
I remember our last conversation. It's something I will never forget. We were alone, for once. Everything hurt. Death was reaching for Osa Ren, and she was reaching back. Welcoming. Eager.
"You don't have to stay," Osa Ren murmured to me. "Go. The medics are worrying."
<I'm not going anywhere,> I said.
I felt the sorrow in her mind. It hurt far worse than the pain in our body.
"Emiki Two-Five-Five," she whispered to me, "I am very glad I met you."
"I am too," I said. I did not care how pathetic I sounded.
<Perhaps we'll meet again,> said Osa Ren, too tired for words now. <If we all wind up in the same place together.>
"I would like that," I whispered. I did not believe in an afterlife but in that moment, I thought I might single-handedly bring it into existence through sheer willpower.
<And maybe when you get there, you'll be able to fly on your own.> Osa Ren closed her eyes.
"I don't want to fly on my own," I said.
<Well then,> Osa Ren was drifting off into sleep now. <Perhaps they'll make an exception for us.>
We lapsed into silence. Osa Ren was daydreaming about treetops now, flying…on the Nahara world, on the Homeworld, under the gigantic glass dome of an Andalite Dome ship that I had intercepted and captured specifically because I knew she'd love it…
<Osa Ren?>
<I'm sorry.>
Osa Ren smiled at the ceiling.
"I'm not," she whispered.
* * *
I didn't leave the pool for a few days. I might not have ever left, but eventually a pair of hands—familiar Nahara hands—fished me out.
I reluctantly made my way into the nearest ear canal, and was surprised to find myself in Sia Ren's body.
<Sia Ren, I said no,> I said disapprovingly. <We wanted you to be free.>
<I am free,> said Sia Ren. <Now come on, we have a call from the council.>
<Am I in trouble?> I asked. It would be grossly unfair if I was. Esplin regularly did far worse than sulking in a pool for a few days.
<I don't know,> said Sia Ren. <But you will be if you don't take your call.>
There was no arguing with that, so I dragged myself back to my office.
I recognized the Hork-Bajir-Controller who was waiting on the viewscreen for me. It was one of the Councilmembers. Probably not the Emperor, but who knew?
"Emiki 255," he said.
"I apologize for my slowness, Councilmember," I said, doing my best impression of a normal person. "I was in the pool."
"Hm," he said. I wondered how much he knew. How much he suspected. "You have spent much time on the Nahara homeworld, have you not?"
"I suppose I have," I said cautiously.
"The Council believes that you have become too close to the Nahara species," said the Councilmember, "and it is clouding your judgment. You will be reassigned to another world. We have need of your skills elsewhere."
<What?> cried Sia Ren.
"I do not understand," I said. The world—my world—blurring. I thought I might start screaming.
"The Andalite Homeworld," said the Councilmember. "You will secure it for us."
<They cannot be serious,> said Sia Ren. She was already running different scenarios through her mind—a trick, a test, an ambush. All seemed equally likely. I was otherwise occupied by trying not to let the Councilmember see how his orders had affected me.
"Have I not done well on the Nahara world?" I asked at last.
"You have. That is why you are being given this assignment. Do you understand, Emiki 255?"
"I…understand…" I said, hating myself for the uncertainty in my voice.
"Good. You will report to your new post immediately."
And he cut the call, leaving me staring at a blank screen.
<I was not expecting that,> said Sia Ren. <The Andalite Homeworld? Have they gone mad?>
Mad or not, there was no refusing the orders. I spent about an hour hyperventilating on the floor, and my preparations took up a few more days. I will admit that the distraction was actually quite nice. I appointed someone I trusted to watch over the Nahara world in my absence and triple-checked that everything would run smoothly in my absence.
I would miss it terribly, this tiny pale world. It was more familiar to me than my true home.
But the universe was bigger than my broken heart. And I had work to do. Love and hatred and insanity spiraled in my head and I knew, in a sudden moment of clarity, that conquering the Andalite homeworld was going to be just a side project.
I was going to end the war, or die trying.
I'll come back, I told the planet, silently, as Sia Ren and I watched a few children chase each other from tree to tree. Soon. You'll see. I'll fix everything that was broken.
Almost everything.
* * *
The day before I was set to leave for the Andalite world, an Ongachic-Controller came to my office. I didn't recognize her at all, and I was certain that she was nobody of importance. I gave her a warning emerald glare, but she did not leave.
"Visser, a moment?" she asked.
"Make an appointment," I snapped.
<Emiki,> scolded Sia Ren, appalled at my rudeness.
But the Ongachic was not deterred.
"My name is Lannit 882," she said. "I am Sub-Visser Ninety-Three's personal assistant. I work down in filing, and I oversee much of the—"
"Are you making a list of things I don't care about?" I drawled. I moved away from my terminal and started to leave the office. Lannit stepped in front of me, blocking my way. I could not stop my eyes from turning a shocked grey-green. Sia Ren flared her wings instinctively.
"Visser," said Lannit, doing an admittedly admirable job of maintaining her composure, "I'd like to talk to you about the Yeerk Peace Movement."
the end


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Police allege Kevin J. Jackson, 31, tried to take an 18-pack of Budweiser from the Scotchman on Third Avenue in the ocean side community without paying on Saturday morning.
An employee of the store says he confronted Jackson after spotting a large bulge in the front of his pants. Jackson left the scene, but police soon caught up to him and took him to the Myrtle Beach Jail.
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Ai to Iu Takaramono / 愛という宝物: "A Treasure Called Love"
- ai / 愛
- "love"
- to / と
- A particle used as a quotation
- iu / いう
- "to call" (a name), "to say". Also written as 言う.
- takaramono / 宝物
- "treasure"
Oku Hanako's new double A-side single, Omoide ni Nare/Ai to Iu Takaramono / 思い出になれ/愛という宝物 has been released!
Today, I have for you the only song that I could find out of the three songs on the single: the second of the two A-sides, Ai to Iu Takaramono / 愛という宝物. It's the CM song for the "2016 cross fm official GREEN campaign".
愛という宝物 by yasutaka [Nico Nico Douga]
At first when I found a video for the song, I thought it was going to be one of those useless fan announcement videos (if you're going to announce something by a music artist, at least use her music!); I was about to skip it when I heard her voice come in.
This song has a style that I've never heard before in any of her other songs, and yet I think it's still distinctly hers. One of the things I notice about this song is all the voice layering: it's not a new technique for her, but it seems to be done a lot more in this song; usually it's restricted to just a certain section like the bridge or interlude. Sure I miss her old style, but I'm not complaining about this one. Overall, I think the style sounds very refined.
I can't wait to hear the rest of the single!


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This Is Your Captain Speaking, my novel, opens with what appears to be a miracle - a plane crash-lands in the Hudson River, and all 162 people on board survive. The crash, however, is no miracle; it was staged by a failing airline to boost its publicity. And while many of the passengers on board are actors and actresses hired so the post-crash pictures will look beautiful, there are several zany characters fitting of the plot: the alcoholic heroic pilot, a professional domino tumbler, an undercover FBI agent, a celebrity semen trafficker and a television journalist who wears a puppet on her arm at all times.
The TV journalist, Lucy Springer, has just gone through a nasty divorce, part of which involved her shooting up her ex-husband's prized aquarium. As part of the settlement, and to keep her out of prison, her ex-husband insisted she wear the puppet for one year. Lucy is not permitted to remove it in public - whether she is on an airplane, or even on air doing her job, she cannot take it off. It becomes so ingrained in her daily routine that the puppet develops its own personality, making it an unofficial character in the novel.
Could this be the birth of a new literary genre? And if so, what would it be called: Pup-lit, Puppantic, Puppiction? There are puppets on Sesame Street and puppets in the theater, but rarely do they find their way into novels. Stephen King would be an excellent novelist to cast a puppet character, one that came to life to haunt the local orphanage. And Danielle Steel has written book after book about humans having sex with other humans; what about humans having sex with puppets? Toni Morrison, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Salman Rushdie - most likely when this genre takes off, each will cast puppet characters in their next projects.
Well, maybe not, but just for the fun of it, here are a few books in which literary puppets might have come in handy.


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The prize table had jewelry vignettes too.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Vintage Jewelry Tea
The prize table had jewelry vignettes too.
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That looks like a good time and the food looks and sound delicious!ReplyDelete
I enjoyed seeing all your photos. Vintage jewelry is an interesting topic for the program.ReplyDelete
You always find the most interesting teas to attend! What fun!ReplyDelete
That sounds delightful! I do like vintage jewelry and it made for a very pretty setting for the tables and displays.ReplyDelete
This was an amazingly clever tea! Who wouldn't love this and the food looks delicious!ReplyDelete
Now THAT would have been right up my alley since I am writing a mystery whose heroine makes new jewelry out of vintage jewelry. LOVE that jeweled mirror with the teapot in the corner and may have to copy that idea!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2016 at 3:16 PM
What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. Perhaps you learned something about vintage jewelry too. JillReplyDelete


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La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet) (1973)
FRANCE --- science fiction
Dir: René Laloux
Many films have juxtaposed a subjugated human race under the heels of some alien (or other creatures) rule to stress some social commentary about slavery, religion, or just simply social class systems in general. We've seen this conceit in a myriad of forms such as Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", Edgar Rice Burrough's "John Carter of Mars" series of books, L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth", or "Planet of the Apes". In the film "La Planète Sauvage" (Fantastic Planet) we are shown a similar visionary nightmare in the package of a science fiction tale on these dark aspects of humanity's greatest failings.
Based on the 1957 book "Oms en série" by French science fiction novelist Stefan Wul, the film follows a young human boy called an "Om" (french word "Hommes" that means "man") who is left orphaned after alien children accidentally kill his mother while playing with her. The aliens are called Draags, who are giant red-eyed blue-skinned beings with webbed ears, yet are highly civilized. Immediately after the boy is left alone crying, a Draag dignitary's young daughter, Tiva, finds him and adopts him as her personal pet. She eventually names him Terr. He observes the strange alien landscape, as he grows up confined to a specially created collar complete with a wristband controller belonging to Tiva. Tiva truly treats Terr as a favored pet, and even has him with her during her learning sessions through the use of an encyclopedic computerized headband which trains her by feeding information directly into her mind. When her parents begin to notice that Terr has been using the headband with and without Tiva, they ban her allowing him to be present while she is learning with it. However, as she begins to grow out of adolescence, Terr becomes more dependent on educating himself from the computer headband and ultimately escapes out on his own.
Terr drags the headband with him as he is out in the alien wilderness. He eventually meets up with an Om woman of the "savage" Oms. When Tiva tries to recall Terr through the collar, the woman help him get set free from it. She takes Terr to her tribe located in a tree and they instantly label him as a domesticated Om. When he observes that they too could use the information from the learning headband, some of the tribe of course outright disdain Terr's gift of Draag knowledge. Eventually learning of a "fantastic planet". They force him into a combat ritual, in which he prevails as the victor. The tribal elders allow Terr to join their tribe. Terr observes the Oms living condition and how they have adapted to life in Draag world. He even is introduced to a band of evil Om bandits who live in their own tree and steal of the Om tribe he has befriended.
Later some of the educated Oms uncovers the Draag plan to "de-Omised" their local village based on seeing some graffiti they were able to interpret. Terr takes it upon himself to warn the tribe of Om bandits, but they do not heed his warning, and their leader, an old woman, has him locked away. Soon after, the Draags do strike using gas pellets, killing a high majority of Oms. The old woman frees Terr, as they all narrowly escape with a remnant of the people. One of the Draags witness them escaping and goes after them crushing them like insects. The Oms fight back as they actually take down and kill the Draag. The old woman leads the remnant group out to a safe haven, namely an old rocket depot, and eventually Terr leads the very large tribe on a mission to the fantastic planet. After the death of one of their own, the Draags have another council meeting, and they are not far behind the Oms, as they discover the secret behind just what the fantastic planet is.
Although I certainly wouldn't recommend "Fantastic Planet" to just anyone, it is something interesting to watch. The film is animated in a slightly strange cutout animation style reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's interstitials in "Monty Python". There is also the unavoidable phallic and organic imagery throughout the film of the alien landscape, successfully creating an uneasy surreal atmosphere. Laloux collaborated with famed French artist/ writer Roland Topor for this feature length film. Personally, this film is far overdue for a live-action adaptation with the right director.


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Every diesel truck on the road today has a differential and ring and pinion gear set in the rear axle. Four-wheel-drive trucks add a second set of gears and another differential to the front axle to transmit engine torque to all four wheels. Yet differential modification and repair is one of the most feared and least understood aspects of diesel trucks.
The truth is, setting up ring and pinion gears and installing traction-adding differentials isn't hard-but it is a pain and requires special tools that can mean a big investment of cash. To see how difficult installing new gears and a differential would be at home, we chose a Dana 50 front differential from a Ford F-250 to use as a guinea pig.
In order to do the job, we used the following tools and resources: Auburn Ected differential installation guide, vernier caliper, gear-marking compound, 3/8-inch-drive torque wrench (calibrated in inch-pounds), 1/2-inch-drive torque wrench (calibrated in foot-pounds), three-jaw puller, Dana 50 Spicer axle service manual, Differentials by Randy Lyman and Jim Allen, a piece of reduction exhaust tubing, a bearing and race driver, and a Starrett dial indicator.
We ordered a 4.88 Yukon ring and pinion gear set, a master install kit (bearings, seals, ring gear bolts, and shims), a new Spicer pinion yoke, and Timken setup bearings from Randy's Ring and Pinion. We also called Auburn Gear to order an Ected locking differential to install with our new gears and bearings. Then we set up a workspace on a small table in our kitchen and spent the weekend setting up our differential. Here's what we learned.


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Kiyan P Foundation Production
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Audience Feedback (after final changes)
This is feedback recieved after we made the changes to our opening sequence. From this audience feedback, we have got a positive response and the man fits within our target audience.
Saturday, 21 April 2012
Evaluation Question 7
Answered in directors chair.
Evaluation Question 6
With out technologies, we would not have been able to complete this task. A vital use of technology was editing on the macbook pro which our school provided. This allowed us to create the opening sequence we have created. On the macbook pro, we could create our sound along with edit together our opening squence and so made it efficient for use.
Friday, 20 April 2012
Evaluation Question 5
From our target audience we found that they were interested in films like:
Although our film is aimed at males, the use of male protagonist could increase our female audience.
- Batman the Dark Knight
- Inception
- L.A.Confidential
- Sin City
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Evaluation Question 4
As said in my directors chair, we are mainly aiming our film for males between 15-30. The main portion of those who come to watch our film will probably have had some sort of loss in family and friendship and so will be able to connect with our protagonist. Our film is mainly aimed at middle to lower class people as it is a low budget film which contains public landmarks which won't attract a higher class of people.
From our audience reasearch survey we found that males and females around this age generally liked films like:
- Batman the Dark Knight
- Inception
- L.A.Confidential
- Sin City
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Evaluation Question 3
Other ways in which we could get media institutes to distribute our product is by putting our product in a film festival. This will not only tell us if our product is good but who will also want to distribute our product. Only way for a real distributor is if we had a big production company already producing us like 20th century fox. 20th century fox is owned by News Cooperation which is a very big production company which has many different labels in different areas. This allows films made by 20th century fox to have a sort of security when making the film as it knows the film will have a distributor right away due to the companys vertical intergration in the film industry. This is not similar for films like 'Shifty'. Shifty is a low budget british film produced by BBC Films. When this film was made, they didn't have the security a film by 20th century fox would have like 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'. This film would have had a bigger finacial backing and the film would have already had a distributor. Shifty would have had to showcase their film before getting any sort of distribution company apart from BBC behind them.
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N.K. Newsletter
Vantage Point
North Korea
NORTH KOREA NEWSLETTER NO. 27 (October 30, 2008)
*** NEWS IN BRIEF (Part 2)
N. Korea Nervous about Seoul-Washington Military Consultation Meeting
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- North Korea warned South Korea and the U.S. of the recent military consultation meeting between two countries, and was notably sensitive about a possible scenario between the two countries should a sudden change occur in the North's Kim Jong-il regime.
The warning came in response to the annual military consultation meeting between South Korea and the U.S. on Oct. 17 in Washington, where the two allies discussed countermeasures in case of a change in the North's regime and how to strengthen their joint defense position.
A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, which deals with the South under the North's ruling Workers' Party, on Oct. 24 condemned "the U.S. and the South Korean puppets' open war confab" for allegedly stifling the DPRK (North Korea) by armed force.
"The Lee Myung-bak government's alleged military confrontation against the North on the back of the U.S. will bring nothing but a nuclear war," the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency quoted the spokesman as saying.
The North's mouthpieces, such as Rodong Sinmun and Minju Joson, also have consecutively pointed out that the Lee government is making anti-DPRK moves, such as denying the previous inter-Korean summit declarations while distorting history to confront the North.
They also said the South's military is introducing state-of-the-art war equipment from the U.S. in preparation for a preemptive attack against the North, adding they will harden their war-deterrent power.
The North's spokesman for inter-Korean military talks also on Oct. 27 said the North's military will not sit idly by while the South makes "provocations," such as air-dropping leaflets carrying speculation about Kim Jong-il's failed health.
N. Korea to Offer Aid to Hurricane Victims in Cuba: Report
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- North Korea, which has suffered from chronic economic difficulties, will send an unspecified amount of aid to help hurricane victims in Cuba, the North's official news service said on Oct. 25.
North Korea has "decided to send aid materials to the Cuban government in order to help the Cuban people eradicate the aftermath of the damage and bring their lives back to normal as soon as possible," the North's Korean Central News Agency said in a brief report.
Hurricanes Ike and Gustav battered the island nation in late August and early September, causing an estimated US$5 billion in damage, according to news reports.
Earlier on Sept. 12, North Korea's No. 2 leader Kim Yong-nam sent a message of condolence to Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz over damage from Hurricane Ike.
In his message, Kim said that he sends profound sympathy and condolences to the Cuban leader and its government, as well as the people and residents of the damaged areas, according to the North's news outlets.
N. Korea Slams S. Korean Air Force Chief
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- North Korea denounced a comment from the head of the South Korean air force on Oct. 26 stressing high-tech military coordination to maintain effective strike capability as "a declaration of war."
North Korea routinely uses its official media to criticize South Korea and its ranking officials. But the statement by the North's Korean Central Television Broadcasting Station, monitored in Seoul, comes as relations between the two countries have degraded to their lowest point in recent history.
South Korean Air Force Commander Lee Kae-hoon said at a parliamentary hearing earlier this month that his military is seeking to obtain "an effective ability to strike core targets by networking" related units and armed forces.
Citing a recent combined exercise between South Korea and U.S. forces and a high-tech central monitoring system used by the South Korean command, the North's broadcaster said Lee "revealed an attitude prone to a preemptive strike."
"It amounts to little more than a declaration of war," it said.
Inter-Korean relations eroded considerably this year after the inauguration of hardline South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who has drawn a string of bitter criticisms from Pyongyang.
The North regularly condemns President Lee, calling him a traitor, and recently threatened to sever all ties with the South through its official media.
Myanmar's Foreign Minister Visits North Korea
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- Myanmar's foreign minister arrived in Pyongyang on Oct. 27 and met the top diplomatic official there, more than a year after the two countries resumed diplomatic ties, the North's official news agency reported.
Foreign Minister Nyan Win met his North Korean counterpart, Pak Ui-Chun, in Pyongyang earlier in the day, a report by the North's Korean Central News Agency, monitored in Seoul, said. The report, however, did not provide details.
The following day the KCNA reported that the two foreign ministers held a meeting to discuss mutual concerns and ways to enhance friendly cooperation between their countries.
Diplomatic ties between the two countries were severed in 1983 following a bombing in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, by North Korean secret agents targeting South Korea's then President Chun Doo-hwan. Chun was uninjured in the blast, though 21 people were killed, including four South Korean Cabinet ministers.
The two countries have worked to normalize relations over the past few years, and agreed to resume diplomatic ties last year.
The KCNA also reported that on Oct 23 a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in sports between the Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission of the DPRK and the Ministry of Sports of Myanmar was signed at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang.
N.K. Threatens 'Preemptive Strike' More Powerful Than Nuclear Weapon
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Oct. 28 threatened South Korea with a strike "more powerful than nuclear weapons" should Seoul show any sign of launching a preemptive strike against the communist nation.
The threat came one day after Pyongyang, in a brief military dialogue with the South, accused the Seoul government of ignoring, if not actively promoting, the spread of what it called anti-communist propaganda leaflets by South Korean civic organizations.
"We clarify our stand that should the South Korean puppet authorities continue scattering leaflets and conducting a smear campaign with sheer fabrications, our army will take a resolute practical action as we have already warned," the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted an unidentified spokesman for the country's delegation to inter-Korean military talks as saying.
The spokesman went on to claim that South Korean officials, including Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee, have officially chosen a preemptive strike as their primary strategy in case conflict erupts with the North and warned such an attempt will be countered with North Korea's own, more powerful and advanced preemptive strike.
"Our advanced preemptive strike... will be beyond imagination and will rely on means more powerful than a nuclear weapon," he was quoted as saying.
North Korea set off a nuclear device in 2006 in its first-ever nuclear weapons test. It is believed to have some 40 kilograms of plutonium, enough to produce six to eight nuclear bombs, according to South Korean officials.
The spokesman nonetheless urged the South Korean government to resume talks with his nation, saying "practical actions are more important than lip-service."
Pyongyang cut off most of its official dialogue channels with Seoul after South Korea's Lee Myung-bak was inaugurated in February with a pledge to take a tougher stance than his two liberal predecessors, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, against the communist North. Both Kim and Roh held historic summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in the North Korean capital Pyongyang during their administrations.