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Rolls-Royce must be running out of stereotypically British things to pay tribute to, because now they've designed a line of cars celebrating a cross between Grand Prix racing and Duck Tales, the Schneider Trophy.
The Schneider Trophy ran through the '20s and the early '30s, back when rich aristocrats from Europe would go get themselves killed doing extreme sports. It was mainly because they didn't have any World Wars to fight with each other. Each country would design a superfast seaplane and every year they'd race each other. Britain won the last few years with Supermarine planes (the predecessors to the Spitfire) with Rolls-Royce engines.
So now Rolls-Royce has an excuse to cram more old-school Britishness into the Phantom Coupé Aviator Collection. You order a car that gets matte trim on the hood and in the cockpit, along with some extremely expensive-looking black gauges. You also get a Thommen clock, a mahogany dash, and leather floor mats, just like those great airmen who killed themselves in fast planes because they had nothing better to do.
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I'm Hugh Fisher, or Hugo Fisher if you speak French.
I started on the 'Net back in the early 1990s, when it was common to use an online handle instead of your real name. (Blame cyberpunk.) Laranzu is from the Darkover book series by Marion Zimmer Bradley and means a psionic sorceror (male). The laranzu and leroni in Darkover build imaginary towers in an overworld only they can enter and manipulate, which seemed pretty close to what I did as a computer system administrator and 3D graphics programmer.
Welcome to my web page. Here are displayed various things I've created: drawings, computer programs, and a bit of fiction. You're free to down load them, and I'd love to hear from you what you think of each.
The Full Thrust pages are various ships, rules, and odds and ends for the excellent GZG game of that name.
Stuff About Sheep will introduce you to the little-known world of strange and diabolical sheep, also inspired by GZG.
The 3D Graphics and Virtual Reality has short reports, guides, and lecture notes about, well, 3D graphics and VR.
Under pictures you will find various drawings, photos, and combinations thereof.
The writings page has reviews, fiction, and opinions.
After a few years break, I'm starting to write roleplaying adventures and background material again.
The ATXF page is historical now. You remember a TV series called the X Files? The Australian aus.tv.x-files newsgroup was quite an active online community, and I'm still friends with some of the people I met through it. Back in those days, I wrote X Files fan fiction and the occasional book or episode review.

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At the opening of the American Museum of Natural History's Brain exhibition, we caught up with curator Rob DeSalle and asked him about evolution.
First he told us what an evolutionary biologist does. In DeSalle's case, he uses computers to compare really long genome sequences and figure out where evolutionary change has occurred over time.
Then he explained that his biggest frustration with explaining evolution to people is the fact that they misunderstand the idea of "common ancestry." As he says here, in an interview conducted by Gaby Darbyshire for io9, people assume that evolution means we are descended from chimps. But that's not true - we are descended from a common ancestor we share with chimps. In other words, we have an ancestor in common with chimps, but we didn't evolve from chimps.
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When I first picked up Sony's new NEX-F3, I could only wonder whether its sensors would be dynamic enough to capture the giant chip on my shoulder.
Sony Alpha NEX-F3
Lightweight. Excellent manual capabilities and good lenses that lead to sharp pictures. Surprisingly good for a 0 camera.
Flimsy-feeling plastic body does not inspire confidence. Anemic hand grip. Touchy joystick interface can get in the way of the camera's best performance. No external battery charger, so you have to plug the camera into the wall.
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- 1/10A complete failure in every way
- 2/10Sad, really
- 3/10Serious flaws; proceed with caution
- 4/10Downsides outweigh upsides
- 5/10Recommended with reservations
- 6/10Solid with some issues
- 7/10Very good, but not quite great
- 8/10Excellent, with room to kvetch
- 9/10Nearly flawless
- 10/10Metaphysical perfection
The camera is aimed squarely at what I think of as the purgatory market; "compact" with interchangeable lenses and mirrorless shutter. That's all code for not big enough to perform like an SLR, but too big to conveniently tuck into a pocket. In other words, what's the point?
However, after taking the NEX-F3 on a weekend hiking trip the Big Sur, my snobbish dismissiveness shifted to pleasant surprise. The pictures were sharp, balanced and colorful, and were captured with little effort. The light meter was sensitive and on the mark, and the lens and sensor proved capable of balancing a surprisingly wide range of contrasts, capturing the deep shadows of a redwood forest without blowing out its sun-drenched hot spots.
1080p HD video isn't exactly rare, but the NEX-F3's manual control of zoom and exposure while recording live footage turn it into a powerful, palm-sized legitimate movie camera. The swappable lenses — and their fully functional manual focus rings — were enough to quench the thirst left by even the best pocket-camera zooms.
I shouldn't have been so surprised — on paper, the NEX-F3 has all the right credentials. It boasts a 16.1 megapixel APS-C sensor, which means you can order vacation prints wide enough to span your dining room wall and still get a decent sense of detail and sharpness. The ISO range maxes out at 16000 — more than you need unless you like to replicate the look of a closed-circuit security camera in a dimly lit hallway — and the digital shutter will close at a zippy 1/4000th of a second. It will shoots up to six frames per second, supports RAW files and weighs less than 14 ounces with the included 27-83mm-equivalent E-mount zoom lens.
Its pictures are sharp, balanced and colorful, and are captured with little effort.
As long as the basic parameters for an up-to-date, technologically capable camera are met, though — and they certainly are — none of that spec sheet stuff matters more than what the camera feels like to handle and to shoot with. Out of the box, the NEX-F3 was lighter than I expected, but a little awkward to hold. It's got an articulated grip that's too small to rest in my palm and yet too heavy to pinch between my thumb and fingers, especially when I mounted a longer, 80-200mm barrel zoom. When I found the right hand position, my thumb banged belligerently all over the array of controls on the camera's back.
On the trail, this gave me trouble. I couldn't stop hitting the sensitive joystick-like button, or forgetting which way I wanted to tap it for the desired effect. To go one step down in shutter speed, do I click to the right, or down? Oops. Suddenly, I was changing the shooting mode or trying to exit the auto-bracketed self-timer mode I had inadvertently selected. That's the double-edged sword of having one unavoidably positioned button do everything, and it would have been prohibitively annoying if the pictures themselves hadn't turned out so well.
Compared side by side with photos from my favorite semi-pro point-and-shoot, the Sony's output was crisper and more saturated. When I used the flash — or automatic exposure — the NEX-F3 balanced color and tone better than any camera of its class. My preferred mode for capturing natural light, and for judging any camera's true potential, is to shoot manually. The Sony's manual mode was impressive not just for stills, but for the full control it offers when shooting movies, too.
I like the barrel lenses. They give a little of a feel of a solid semi-pro camera. But I found myself wishing I could adjust the aperture on the lens barrel, too, instead of flipping into the electronic menu on the joystick. Again, awkwardly straddling two worlds of photography. And though the generous LCD screen is great for previewing manual exposure experiments, in the brightness of day, it was virtually impossible to see. The electronic viewfinder — sold separately — proved essential.
Compared side by side with photos from my favorite semi-pro point-and-shoot, the Sony's output was crisper and more saturated.
I had the most fun with this camera's bells and whistles. The flip-up adjustable display screen can be moved a full 180 degrees until it's facing right back at you. When in this position, the camera automatically flips your image right side up, so it's like looking in the mirror: easy for self portraits, which is why it's been fondly dubbed the "narcissist effect." The pop-up flash is also hinged, so with a little dexterity, I could redirect it for softer lighting or bounce-flash effects.
That said, other features of the NEX-F3 proved useless, or were downright goofy.
There's an auto-panorama mode that should be cool, but it annoyingly makes repeated shutter sounds as if you're running a motor drive. Also, I kept getting error messages warning me to pan the camera faster… er, wait, slower. Fail.
A series of funny filters can process images in camera. There's a retro filter aimed at the Instagram crowd, and even a skin-softening air brush effect to remove pimples and skin creases like a Cosmopolitan touch-up job. I tried it on my abs, but still no six-pack. Another fail.
The bottom line is that the NEX-F3 is a superb entry-level camera for photographers looking to break out of point-and-shoot mode but who aren't quite ready to splurge on — or shoulder the weight of — a more robust camera.
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I have an Aunt who lives in an assisted living facility a few blocks from the downtown area. Though she was not directly affected, she had to relocate when the city's drinking water was a concern. She's currently staying with her daughter in a city north of Cedar Rapids. And, our son-in-law & Hailey live in a town not far from Parkersburg, the town that was destroyed recently by a tornado and lives were lost. Iowa has been dealt a devastating blow with recent weather events. Truly a heartbreaking situation, and our thoughts and prayers are with everyone.
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In Cedar Rapids 25,000 people were evacuated, 1400 sqaure blocks were under water, our flood stage is 12 feet, the worst flood in recorded history was in 1925 at 19 feet, the floods of 1993 got up to 18 feet. We were forcasted to get upto 22 feet of water, but last friday the river crested at 32 feet 20 feet above flood stage. I worked downtown, 5 blocks and up a hill from the river, right now we are all working out of hotels. One of our main hospitals had to be totally evacuated. City officals anounced that the Dump the city was supposed to use for the next 25 years is alomost completely full from the flood damage. Our home is fine, but we have many friends and family who lost everything. Just keep us in your thoughts and prayers. FEMA and charites have been amazing, I you have cloths, gift certificates, baby stuff, I know their is a great need, I will try to post an address of phone number, to were these can be sent. Thank you everyone for your support, in this and in everything else to.
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Oh how awful. ((hugs))
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I have a manufacturing plant on the river in Iowa City. They were lucky as they are on the higher bank and all the water went the other direction. Still the water was right at the edge of the parking lot. We were at 50% of our staff for a few days because all the bridges were closed.
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I'm sure Wendy will be along later...
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My mom's office is in Cedar Rapids. A bunch of co-workers drove trucks down to help out the wife of a fellow employee who was out of the country on business. She has three little girls at home and they were being evacuated. The co-workers got them and a lot of their "stuff" out of the house. I know a lot of people moved everything to the attic and upper floors, but water came up over the roof tops. I grew up in Iowa, and remember the Mississippi flooding almost every year. Some years worse than others.
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Have been thinking of you all as my family is from Iowa (Waterloo/Cedar Falls and Tama/Toledo) and my brother now lives in Des Moines but my niece and her mom, stepdad and grandparents lives near Cedar Rapids. Let us know if there is anything we can do--I know virtual hugs isn't a lot of help right now but just know we're thinking of you.
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Just wondering if anyone has been affected by the Floods of 2008. We are in Cedar Rapids, and entire neighbor hoods were wiped out. Our downtown is very devistated. Just wondering if anyone else was effected.
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FACETIME- Writing life: Kendra Hamilton renews her poetic license
Kendra Hamilton is an award-winning poet and journalist, but in Charlottesville she's better known as Madam Vice Mayor.
"In a way, Charlottesville is divorced from the rest of my life before," says Hamilton, 48. "I was always known as a writer. If you enter Charlottesville as a grad student, your entire previous history is erased."
And who knew that the city councilor has written sensuous poems like "In My Mother's Garden, I Remember Your Touch"? Or that she's been published in literary journals like Callaloo and Shenandoah?
Hamilton has plans to reclaim her identity as a writer and focus on poetry rather than politics. She's not seeking a second term on council and has quit her job as editor of Black Issues in Higher Education to spend the summer finishing her dissertation on Gullah, the language and culture of low country South Carolina, from whence she hails. Last fall, she published a collection of spicy poetry called The Goddess of Gumbo.
"The poems go back to a period of my life when I was younger, surrounded by all these women in the meat market that is Houston," she says. Her own marriage had broken up, and she was learning to be single again while working for the Houston Chronicle.
Hamilton's research into her family history– her great-great-great-grandmother was a slave who was kept as a concubine– led to another thread in her poetry: "I explore sex and violence in the past and in my friends and in my own life," she explains.
One achievement for Hamilton in the Goddess of Gumbo is her crown of sonnets– seven interlocking poems in which the last line of the first sonnet is the first line of the next. When she finished "Ariadne auf Naxos, Alabama," she says, "I knew I had a manuscript."
"Her poems are effective in taking an everyday scene, opening it up, and delving into it," says Word Press senior editor Kevin Walzer.
A family history of public service influenced her decision to run for City Council. "I love it, I learned from it, but I don't want to do this the rest of my life," she says.
And she has a suggestion for encouraging participation: increase the salaries. "People complain about raising salaries, but it takes about 30 hours a week. That works out to $6.40 an hour, or with the raise, $8.90 an hour– still below the living wage. If you want people from different walks of life, you really need to think about compensation."
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The beta is out. Blaze and I played for a little bit.
It's pretty neat - you should check it out!
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Posted 31 August 2016 - 03:16 PM
The beta is out. Blaze and I played for a little bit.
It's pretty neat - you should check it out!
Posted 31 August 2016 - 04:29 PM
Posted 01 September 2016 - 11:31 AM
Game runs suspiciously well on my little GTX 760. I don't understand how that's possible.
My guess is they ported the optimization work that was done on Battlefront straight through. Battlefront was optimized incredibly well, and this certainly follows suit - it's also very similar aesthetically.
Certainly a feat of engineering, with how much shit is going on. The physics in particular are better than ever, and combine that with the dynamic weather system and 100% dynamic lighting... DICE are wizards.
Posted 01 September 2016 - 03:10 PM
Downloaded on PS4, played for 5 minutes, turned it off. Not a fan.
Posted 02 September 2016 - 01:41 PM
Same. Decidedly not fun. No thank you.
Posted 02 September 2016 - 11:05 PM
Just played for about an hour. It's fun, but not the kind of fun I'd pay money for.
Posted 06 September 2016 - 07:46 AM
Deftech/Cuse, what's wrong with it?
Posted 06 September 2016 - 11:06 AM
Deftech/Cuse, what's wrong with it?
Yeah, wondering what your issues are. I've played it for a couple of hours and really liked it. Feels like a Battlefield game to me. Which is good.
Posted 06 September 2016 - 03:58 PM
Maybe I'm just not that into the formula then (although I do remember enjoying Battlefield 3).
I... felt like a cog/grunt instead of a badass. There are so. many. people. running around everywhere (so good job on the sense of scale I guess), but it just boiled down to run-run-run-die for me. I'm used to the Halo/Destiny formula where you have lengthy, frequent stretches of feeling like an unstoppable badass. This felt more like lengthy, frequent stretches of feeling like cannon fodder for vehicles, snipers, etc. Also lengthy, frequent stretches of not seeing an enemy for what felt like minutes at a time.
Posted 09 September 2016 - 05:22 PM
Battlefield 3 was very compact compared to some of the older entries in the series. (See: Metro, et al.)
BF1 definitely feels more like BF2 than any of the other recent entries. Whether that's a good thing or not is for you to decide (for me, who's been playing since 1942, it's a great thing).
One thing I'm not a fan of is the current balance of vehicles (tanks in particular) against infantry. The "light" tank being as durable as it is now is rather unfortunate - the anti-vehicle grenade for non-assault classes is too weak right now when compared to the health pool of most vehicles.
The horse and the light jeep are great fun, and I'm confident that the tanks will get there too. DICE can balance it, even if it takes them some time. The game will likely be a mess immediately after launch, as most Battlefield titles are. It will undoubtedly be a bargain in a year or so, and chock full of content.
I'll play it on launch anyway, because I hate myself.
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Posted 18 October 2016 - 11:55 AM
Getting dis on xbone.
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Posted 22 October 2016 - 03:35 AM
This game is the best shooter I've played in years.
At least on PC, Operations are the bees knees. The basic Assault gun is arguably just a little too strong, I feel it's gonna get nerfed before long.
Posted 23 October 2016 - 08:57 PM
Posted 29 October 2016 - 02:56 AM
The Rank 10 SMG for Assault is ridiculous. 60 rounds per magazine, great damage and range, and stellar accuracy even from the hip.
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February is a busy month at the presidential library and museum.
Lincoln's birthday is Feb. 12, and the museum plans a celebratory
concert on Feb. 10 and a symposium Feb. 11-12.
The president's famed stovepipe hat is on display in the museum's
Treasures Gallery, alongside a signed copy of the Emancipation
Proclamation and a handwritten note on Lincoln's definition of
In addition, an afternoon of Oscar-themed fun is planned for the
last Sunday of the month, Feb. 24, when the movie "Lincoln" will
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own Oscar ballot, take a look at props from the movie and much more.
The museum also welcomes the U.S. poet laureate, Natasha
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soldiers in the Civil War, and the "To Kill and To Heal" exhibit on
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Another museum exhibit showcases Benito Juarez, known as "the
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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum combines
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figures and scenes, special effects, riveting presentations and
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In her first ever Paralympics at the age of 22, Natasha Baker could not have asked for a better introduction to the equestrian events at this level. She broke Paralympic records and took home Team GB's first equestrian gold medal of the games.
Natasha has been inspired by watching now team-mate Lee Pearson and his horse at the Sydney games on television with her mother. She contracted transverse myletis, an inflammation of the spine which affects nerve endings, when she was 14 months old leaving her with limited use of her legs. She started Riding For the Disabled classes as a therapy aged nine and was talent spotted aged 11.
She rides by using her seat and voice and she gave up using stirrups — upon which able- bodied riders are so reliant – after being unable to extricate her feet when unseated and being dragged a couple of times.
Going early in her class on her 11-year-old Polish-bred gelding Cabral, Natasha scored a Paralympic record mark of 76.857 per cent for the individual grade II championship test but she then had to watch on as two German riders came desperately close to that incredible score.
First Angelika Trabert, a rider with no legs but incredible balance, scored 76.000 per cent before the reigning Paralympic champion, Britta Napel, a rider who has had paralysis in her legs and torso since being poisoned by insecticide in 1998, came in determined not to let go without a fight. She scored marginally higher than her compatriot, 76.048 per cent, to take silver.
"It's the most incredible feeling," said Baker clasping her medal and wrapped in a Union Jack. "It's my first games, it's at home and to come back with a gold medal is amazing," she said. "When I got on the podium and saw all the flags and people cheering it was just wow. It means everything. Since I was 10 I said I'd come to the Paralympics and win gold."


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By almost any measure, Drupal, an open source content management system/Web platform, should be a poster child for open source success. The PHP-based CMS, the first version of which was released by Dries Buytaert in 2001, powers the Web presence of a number of major organisations, including, since 2009, Whitehouse.gov.
When it comes what other open source projects can learn from Drupal's success, Buytaert, who is now chief technology officer of Acquia and remains Drupal's project lead, says that although he doesn't have all the answers #8212; and that "there's no one right way" to do things #8212; there are some lessons to be learned.
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"If you say no, well then the person has only so many options. They could either choose to fork or they could they could sort of suck it up and do nothing. But if you have a modular architecture and you have a framework, such as a contributed module repository like we have, then people can go off on their own and still add value to the project [as a whole]."
Another lesson is to make sure that your audience #8212; which in Drupal's case includes not merely end users but a large number of developers #8212; has access to appropriate tools. For members of the Drupal community, Drupal itself functions as their key tool: "We use Drupal as our tool and it provides us all of the things we need to effectively work together; to share knowledge; to write documentation; to review patches and all these things."
Chief among the lessons to take away from the Drupal experience are importance of creating a strong vibrant community and the right kind of culture around a project, Buytaert says: "Let's face it: I may have started the project but today Drupal is successful because there's a large community of thousands active contributors and tens of thousands of developers.
"Building a community is something that I think everybody should attempt to do in the open source community and to do so you need to get a few things right."
He says that Drupal has "succeeded in building a culture where people are good followers, they follow other people, but at the same time it's also a culture where everybody can be a leader #8212; meaning it's not just me that leads the project.
"We have many, many great leaders. And I think our best leaders in the community are those that don't get in the way of the community; they basically let them run but they provide guidance and they inspire. I think that kind of model again lends to a community being created versus more of a top down approach, with strict roadmaps and all of those things. Drupal has always been a little bit open ended and chaotic in a way, in that people can bring forward ideas and every idea is considered…"
The growth of the community around the project means that it can sometimes take more effort to get consensus about Drupal development. "As we get bigger and as more people get involved, obviously there are going to be more voices, and there are more people raising ideas or sharing suggestions or bringing up things that they don't like…
"It doesn't mean we become less effective; it just feels like there are more people having opinions. At the same time we also have more people doing really great work… That's also why we evolve the way we work we have to right. We've always used consensus building as our primary decision-making process. So what that means is that five years it may have taken minutes or hours to build consensus because there were fewer people involved.
"Today on big topics it can take weeks to build consensus… It doesn't mean it's worse; in fact the fact that more people do give their input probably avoids us making mistakes."
After the release of Drupal 7 in early 2011, Buytaert says that the team "did a retrospective". "We looked back and said what worked well and what didn't work well with the goal to keep doing the things that worked well but then to try to fix the things that the community of developers thought we could do better."
One of the things to come out of this process was the idea of having a system of "initiatives", each lead by an "initiative owner". "It's a way for me to empower more people in the community and to delegate responsibility to other people." Leaders of these initiates "are kind of like project leaders responsible for a subsystem or some sort of chunk of the work".
"People complain about is they felt like we needed to have better priorities and so the initiates, and I've launched six or seven now, are very clear statements about what I think our priorities should be as a community. And so basically the idea of these initiatives is to help us fix a few of [the] perceived challenges [faced by Drupal]."
Buytaert says that open source projects need to "get it right at the technical level… and then also get it right at the social level. And I think especially the latter the social elements are hard. But it helps to have the right tools for your community and to build the right culture. I think you sort of need to check all of these check boxes."
Dries Buytaert will be speaking at Drupal Downunder in Melbourne, January 13-15 2012.
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You really have to hand it to San Francisco for taking low-impact living seriously. Whether it's enacting ironclad recycling laws, banning plastic shopping bags, making it financially less cumbersome for home owners to embark on energy-saving home improvement projects or, as I mentioned yesterday, permitting the non-potable indoor use of captured rainwater, the City by the Bay has long been ahead of the eco-curve.
Home and business owners around San Francisco have also been proactive in installing low-flow toilets (a city-funded rebate program has certainly helped things along) to help conserve water. According to Tyrone Jue, a spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission, SanFran's low-flow toilet boom has cut the city's annual water consumption by 20 million gallons.
But as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, not all is well in low-flow toilet land. The profusion of water-saving potties in Frisco has resulted in a "multimillion-dollar plumbing stink" with sludge backing up inside sewer pipes and emitting a "rotten egg stench" in certain areas of the city. Ahhh … there's nothing like the delightful smell of human waste on a warm summer day.
Over the past five years, the city has spent a whopping $10 million in sewer system and sewage plant upgrades to tame the stink. And, according to the Chronicle, the city has just spent even more, investing in a $14 million, three-year supply of a certain odor-combating chemical: bleach. The city plans to use highly concentrated sodium hypochlorite to alleviate the stench and disinfect the city's treated water before it's pumped into the San Francisco Bay. The Chronicle does the math: "That translates into 8.5 million pounds of bleach either being poured down city drains or into the drinking water supply every year."
While I applaud San Francisco's efforts in looking out for health of both Mother Nature and its residents, this is one instance of the city's somewhat aggressive tactics backfiring in a big way.
Adam Lowry, eco-blogger, chemical engineer, and co-founder/"Chief Greenskeeper" of green cleaning product line Method and Michael Braungart, a chemist and co-author of "Cradle to Cradle/Remaking the Way We Make Things," suggest an alternative to bleach in an op-ed piece published in the Chronicle:
Hydrogen peroxide, that common chemical used in your home to disinfect cuts and scrapes or put to work when you add 'oxy' powder to your laundry to whiten whites, is equally effective and produces none of the downstream issues of chlorine bleach. It is being used cost effectively today to treat sewage odor in many places in the United States, such as Boston and Miami, as well as internationally in Germany and France.
An even better choice would to use a pro-biotic solution, that is, enzymes or bacteria that would simply 'eat' the smell then degrade harmlessly. Used correctly, they could even be used to prevent the problem from occurring again by restoring the healthy balance of microbes in our sewer system.
Using sodium hypochlorite, commonly known as bleach, is the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack an egg; it's the wrong tool, and it will cause irreversible collateral damage.
Lowry and Braungart go on to write:
Officials claim that the stink has been made worse by the increase in the number of installed low-flow toilets, which reduce the amount of water in the sewage system that otherwise would dilute the smell. It is a tragic irony that the city's plan to address a nuisance created by positive conservation efforts is to pollute our water system with toxic chemicals.
Such a toxic shock to our system would render our sewage eternally dependent on chemicals to treat this problem, not to mention damage our system by corroding our sewage pipes. A redesign of our system is needed.
Why are we using 19th century chemistry to combat a 21st century problem? Is San Francisco not in the cradle of clean tech innovation? Other cities are already using better solutions today, and they are simple and cost effective.
San Francisco residents: what are your thoughts? Do you, like Lowry and Braungart, think there's a better way to combat the smell caused by the city's water-saving toilets? Have you even noticed the stench during the summer?
For those of you interested in signing a Don't Bleach Our Bay petition, head on over to the Method website.
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If you're an American citizen, and are used to antiquated things like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, you may start thinking that the story on your screen is taking place in Saudi Arabia, or some other a-democratic feudal society. So I want to reassure you that it's taking place in Israel, where the box cover declares a democracy, but the inside is Bolshevik through and through.
Israeli Interior Minister Gideom Sa'ar is expected to disseminate next week a memorandum of law that would make it possible for a committee appointed by the Interior Ministry to suspend for a year the heads of municipalities facing serious criminal charges, Israel Radio reports.
According to the memorandum, should the accused survive his or her trial, they could return to their elected office.
The appointed committee, comprised, presumably, of civil servants, employees of the Interior Ministry, will be empowered to extend the suspensions should the accused mayor's trial not be over.
The memorandum is based on a bill proposed by Labor MK Moshe Mizrachi earlier this year, supported by pillars of democracy like MK Dov Lipman of Yeash Atid and MK Eliezer Stern of the Tzipi Livni Movement.
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The "legal void" those three democrats are referring to is the archaic principle of "Innocent until proven guilty." Apparently, that idea gets in the way of good government, which will hence be defined as "government not yet charged with a crime."
What you see here is a blatant attempt on the part of these three MKs, Interior Minister Sa'ar and the band of clerks collecting a paycheck at the Interior Ministry, to subvert the will of the voters and to make for them better choices than they, the voters, could have made with their limited intelligence and very busy lives.
I would venture that such a law could be planted anywhere in the Iranian legal system and blend right in. There is no difference, in principle, between Minister Gideon Sa'ar picking the most fitting candidate for a given municipality – and the Supreme Leader dropping Ahmadinejad and choosing Rouhani. In both cases, there is no real play for the will of the voter.
According to the law today, a mayor must resign his post only after he or she have been convicted for a crime that "bears shame." Such a crime, incidentally, is entirely up to the taste and preference of the presiding judge, and can stretch from embezzling to blocking an intersection during a demonstration.
Also, according to the law as it stands today, the elected city council may decide to impeach a sitting mayor for improper behavior.
Our Supreme Court, which is more Alice in Wonderland red Queen's court any given day, recently decided that the decision by the city councils of Natzrat Illit and Ramat Hasharon not to impeach their respective mayors despite the fact that said mayors had been charged with crimes – is unacceptable.
You're getting this? The law says the city council must use its judgment whether or not to impeach its mayor over the fact that there are charges pending against him or her – but the Supreme Court sees that exercise as having to result only one way: in impeachment. Nothing else will do.
These people won't recognize a democracy if it landed in their shrimp cocktail and caused the shpritzed juice to spell out Habeas Corpus on their white tablecloth.
Nevertheless, the high court did not decide against the criminally charged mayors' right to run for office again – and they both ran and they both won, by hefty margins.
The court wrote in its decision: "It is a well known judicial principal that as long as a person has not been convicted, he is considered innocent (Pheew, they are familiar with the concept!). However, we must be more severe in our treatment of elected officials, and as soon as they have been charged they must suspend themselves immediately."
I believe this is the precise definition of tyranny: an appointed government prosecutor decides to charge an elected mayor – and that, by itself, regardless of the chances of the charges to be proven, the mere fact that the clerk sent papers to the court saying the mayor is accused of a crime – that should subvert, at once, the will of the people.


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Rumors have swirled in recent weeks among business and political leaders that the mall's owners, Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc., had fallen behind on mortgage payments and into foreclosure, casting doubt on the future of what was once among the East Bay's most prominent malls.
"We want to be clear that Hilltop mall remains open and ready for business," said Brooke Houghton, spokeswoman for Jones Lang LaSalle, which specializes in commercial real estate management. "There is not going to be any interruptions to business. The mall is not closing."
Houghton said Jones Lang LaSalle took over the mall in July. Meanwhile, she said, Simon Property Group Inc. and the undisclosed bank that owns its mortgage are "trying to come to an amicable solution," Houghton said.
Houghton said Jones Lang and LaSalle have overseen some minor repairs and maintenance work and are working with current tenants on lease renewals.
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City Manager Bill Lindsay said Thursday he had only recently learned of instability with the mall's ownership, when he heard concerns from local executives of a nearby hotel.
"Stability of ownership is always a good thing in terms of long-term management of a retail facility," Lindsay said. "We want to meet with reps from Jones Lang LaSalle to see how we can collaborate to make the mall more successful."
Police Chief Chris Magnus said crime data have shown upticks in car burglaries in the Hilltop area, and the department has responded with increased patrols. He added that it was a priority to maintain safety at the high-volume shopping area during the holidays.
"We have given them more in the way of policing services in recent months," Magnus said. "I'm not sure if (the uptick in crime is) directly related to the receivership or just the time of year, but it is an ongoing concern."
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- Classic Battle Tech: Catalyst Game Labs' very-much alive official website
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- Master Unit List: As referred to as the MUL, this is a database of all BattleTech units of any kind ever mentioned in a (canonical) source. More information here.
- Catalyst Game Labs: The official site for CBT's licensed publisher, which details their various gaming lines. Its most advantageous use is for retailers who stock CBT products.
- Official Dutch CBT website: Aims at the small Dutch CBT community.
- CamoSpecs Online: The official site for unit paint schemes featuring hand painted miniatures displaying your favorite unit's battelfield colors. Open to submissions from the fans and regularly updated with new schemes most every week.
- Catalyst Demonstration Team: Whether looking for a game for fun or looking to help determine Battletech history, the Catalyst Demonstration Team is the official CBT players group. From small scale games to full blown officially sanctioned campaigns, the Demonstration Team is there to help you experience the CBT universe firsthand. With a listing of local team members and locations as well as a calender with upcomming events, this is the place to find your fellow players. Veteran players can also sign up to become members of this elite group and help spread the word of Classic Battletech.
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- BattleTech Fanon Wiki : For all your fan-created content.
- ComStar Historical Archives : Another encyclopedic effort that has an interesting layout. As a resource, it is still a bit undeveloped, but articles with some substance can be found occasionally. Initial appearances suggest that it hasn't been updated for about two years.
- Inner Sphere Atlas: an encyclopedia of BattleTech planets, with coordinates sometimes from canon sources, sometimes extrapolated from printed (canon) maps. Does not appear to have been updated in years, but provides quoted material about the planets and the information is still relevant.
- MechForce.US: A fan-based BattleTech resource site. Has some great materials for the CBT board-game, and has recently started a "BattleTech Player Database" ware players can try to find and contact other CBT/MW-RPG players near them.
- Pryde Rock Industries: This site, operated by 'Medron Pryde,' is a large depository of accumulated data, including programs and fan-created material. He seeks out any aid for CBT use, often providing several different fan-created spreadsheets, rules and graphics. His editorials are often insightful. A good first start for someone first entering the CBT world, as well as the old MechWarriors.
- Solaris 7: A community of CBT fans with online TRO's, both custom and canon, with a vast array of resources such as mech editors, a planetary database, an image gallery and active forums that hold regular design contests. Design and post your own custom BattleMechs, Aerospace Fighters, Vehicles or even Warships and get feedback from fellow designers. A large group of veterans are on hand to help new players get acustom to the design process and to understand the CBT universe as a whole.
- Wayne's Books FASA Battletech Reference: Descriptions, content lists and pictures of the original Battletech and Mechwarrior games sets and books published by FASA Corporation in the 80s and 90s.
- MekCity - Fan site for Battletech games Reference: Join our BattletechMUX server at mekcity.com:3067 Compete against other players and bots as well.
- BattleTech Engineer: A blog supporting various BattleTech computer applications, including the BattleTech Encyclopedia at http://goodsects.gotdns.com/bte which contains a full database of every single BattleTech unit, and will generate record sheets for each of them.
- Unit Color Compendium: A database and search engine for BattleTech unit color palettes and paint schemes.
Fan Sites: BoardsEdit
- Battletech-Mercenaries - An online RPG based on the Battletech Universe. Methods of play include PBF and PbEM. If you always wanted to write your fan-fic of a ruthless mercenary trying to make out his living in a Merc Unit, this is the place for you.
- Battletech Universe - A CBT fansite discussing miniatures, fanfic, games, contests and more.
- Lords of the Battlefield - An online BattleTech community specializing in miniatures, 'Mech design and tactical superiority in gaming.
- Our BattleTech - An online community hosting several alternate universes and BattleTech fiction.
Online BattleTech StoresEdit
- BattleCorps: InMediaRes' store for Catalyst Game Labs' material, including Shadowrun and other game lines' products.
- Exodus Road: Run by BattleTech fan and BTW Editor Jherbert2, this online store has been up for years and sells products (primarily books and miniatures) from 15 different producers, including Catalyst Game Labs and Iron Wind Metals.
- HeavyMetal Software: The official software for Classic BattleTech. The site provides updates on available and forthcoming software, as well as a few downloads provided free by creator Rick Raisley.
- HeavyMetal forums board: In its second incarnation (as of September 2001), these forums are pretty active as far as CBT boards go, though generally centered around fans of the software. As of July 2009, the forums have almost 18,000 topics and 1,600 members.
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Valentine's Day might be over, but it's never too late to be serenaded. Especially if it's by Brad Pitt and Edward Norton doing the Penis Song from the set of Fight Club.
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When historians look back on our generation's most prolific writers of fiction, names like Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, and Kurt Vonnegut will be at the top. But another name for that list is our own Chuck Palahniuk. Where I believe Chuck has those other names beat, is in the many different...more
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When I was little I was asked to get something from my parents closet, a pair of shoes or something. And I came away with these books that were...more
In a recent email exchange, Chuck casually dropped me this update about the upcoming Fight Club graphic novel sequel:
The graphic novel "script" for the Fight Club sequel has gone off to the writer Matt Fraction and to an unnamed publisher for review. Matt writes his...more
This is one of those things where I wonder why it took someone so long to do it. And now that I see it, it's pretty awesome. This video was edited by Richard Trammell who initially posted it on Reddit. Commentors there are now begging Richard to re-edit the entire film like this. There's even...more
Peter Rugh from VICE meets up with Chuck Palahniuk to sit down for a great interview, discussing how the town has changed since the release of Fugitives & Refugees.
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Update: You can now read Chuck Palahniuk's introduction to Burnt Tongues.
It's been a loooooooong time coming, but today I can happily and proudly announce that Burnt Tongues: Stories is currently available for pre-order. Burnt Tongues is the...more
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As if he wasn't prolific enough with writing novels, Chuck gave us a slew of new short stories and fiction in 2013. First we had 'Phoenix,' an Amazon Kindle Single which dropped in February. Then in May, he gave us his modern/female answer to 'Guts' with 'Cannibal,' for Playboy Magazine. And...more
I say 'new' on this one, but 'recent' is probably the more appropriate term. 'Cannibal' was featured in the May 2013 issue of Playboy. In Chuck's words, this was the story intended to out-do 'Guts' in the ick factor (you'll see why). So read it on an empty stomach.
Playboy subleased...more
Don't normally do this, but shit, sometimes you are your fuckin' khakis, and this deal is too good to pass up. Fight Club on Blu-ray is currently only $3.99 on Amazon (at the time of this post). That's sort of nuts. So if you don't own the blu-ray yet, now's the time to get it....more
If you were lucky enough to be at San Diego Comic-Con this past summer, you might have been present when Chuck dropped a bomb and announced he was working on a graphic novel sequel to Fight Club. The story broke all over the web and was picked up by everyone from Rolling Stone to USA...more
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Yep, first Playboy this month, now Hustler. Chuck gets around. Check out this amazing feature interview conducted by Kyle Downing (@dowling_kyle). Chuck discusses his 2014 novel Beautiful You, talks at length about the upcoming Fight Club graphic novel sequel, and even takes...more
The US, Canadian, and UK portions of Chuck's Doomed Pajama Party Tour have now ended. Please check our Twitter and Facebook for tons of photos and fan recaps. And keep an eye on this page for any random dates that pop up in-between now and the release of Chuck's 2014 novel, ...more
While Chuck already has his next two books lined up; Beautiful You in 2014 and Make Something Up, a book of short stories scheduled for 2015, a question he still gets asked regularly is, when the hell is he going to finally write the long anticipated sequel to Rant? ...more
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