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LOS ANGELES — The Giants learned Wednesday that they will open the postseason with a home game against the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night.
But before shifting into postseason mode, there was one more celebration to be had for the National League West champions. Buster Posey was 0 for 2 in a 5-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers but still ran away with the N.L. batting title. Posey finished the season with a .336 average, easily outdistancing Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen, who finished at .327.
Posey is the first catcher to lead the N.L. in hitting since Ernie Lombardi in 1942.
"I don't think it's something I ever thought about doing," Posey said. "It's such a long season, and from Day 1 you grind out at-bats. You have a lot of responsibility on defense (as a catcher) and you're going to get nicked up. It's a grind. You have to realize you're going to play uncomfortable and sometimes even a little hurt."
Posey's teammates watched him play through pain all season long as he fought to distance himself from a devastating leg injury. The rest of the Giants knew Posey would try to downplay the significance of his accomplishment, but they wouldn't let him. Hunter Pence led a brief postgame celebration, and the team presented Posey an unidentified gift to honor his batting title.
"This was pretty special to have been a part of," Pence said. "He's humble, and he doesn't want any recognition. He told us he's just looking forward to the playoffs and that 'Little League' feeling that you get.
"But we got him something special. He's the best hitter in the National League — the numbers don't lie."
Posey finished the season with a .408 on-base percentage, hit 24 home runs and drove in 103 runs.
Melky Cabrera hit in front of Posey for much of the season and was hitting .346 when he was suspended for use of a banned substance. Cabrera pulled his name out of consideration for the batting title, setting up a battle between Posey and McCutchen. The Giants catcher ran away with the crown, hitting .385 after the All-Star break as the Giants cruised to a division title.
Posey is the seventh Giant to win a batting title and first since Barry Bonds in 2004. After leading the Giants through a tumultuous season, Posey has become a front-runner for the MVP award.
If Posey's teammates had a vote, his next ceremony would be a lot more public.
"Absolutely, he's the MVP," Pence said. "One of the biggest reasons we are where we are is because of him."
The next stop is the postseason for the Giants (94-68), who open against the Reds on Saturday night at 6:37 p.m. Cincinnati won 97 games and dominated the National League Central with a consistent blend of power, speed, steady defense and strong pitching.
"That's a very, very good ballclub," manager Bruce Bochy said. "The thing that stands out is how well-balanced they are. They execute well. They're not a team that's going to beat themselves."
To beat the Reds in the best-of-five Division Series, the Giants will need a strong series from Game 1 starter Matt Cain, who was 0-2 with a 5.54 ERA in two starts against Cincinnati this season.
"You can't worry about that," Cain said. "It's totally different from the season to the playoffs."
Cain piled up plenty of outs during the 2010 run to a World Series title, pitching 211/3 innings without an earned run. He pointed out that while the Giants lost four of seven games with the Reds this season, they're now a much different team. The Giants lost Cabrera, who was 9 for 27 against the Reds, but added Marco Scutaro and Pence. Led by Posey and Angel Pagan, the lineup scored 717 runs, soaring past last season's total of 570.
The Giants will need all hands on deck to keep up with the Reds, who boast a slugging lineup led by Joey Votto (.474 on-base percentage), Jay Bruce (34 homers, 99 RBIs) and Ryan Ludwick (26 homers).
The Reds will send Cy Young Award candidate Johnny Cueto (19-9, 2.78 ERA) to the mound for Game 1, followed by Bronson Arroyo (12-10, 3.74) and longtime Giants foe Mat Latos (14-4, 3.48). Flamethrower Aroldis Chapman struck out 122 batters in 712/3 innings and leads a strong bullpen.
Bochy said he likely would announce the rest of his playoff rotation on Thursday, and Ryan Vogelsong complicated the decision with another strong outing. The right-hander slumped for much of August and September but allowed just one earned run in his final three starts.
He was pulled after a predetermined pitch count Wednesday, just as Cain was on Monday night. That allowed the Dodgers to pull away behind Clayton Kershaw, who gave up one run and struck out eight in the Dodgers' final game of the season. The Giants had just three hits, but one came from Marco Scutaro, who became the third Giant this season to have a 20-game hitting streak. Scutaro, Pablo Sandoval and Angel Pagan are the first Giants trio since 1918 to each have 20-game hitting streaks in one season.
Vogelsong allowed plenty of hits during a seven-start skid, but before that he was the National League leader in ERA. Bochy said his postseason role is still undecided, but Vogelsong, 35, is guaranteed of making his first postseason roster.
"Personally, I would love to have the opportunity to start a playoff game, but at this point it's not about me, it's about us," Vogelsong said. "If the decision is that I'm going to the bullpen and that's best for us, that's what I'm going to do."

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If you've been paying attention at all, then you know the undying and slightly disturbing passion that the Duke and I have for the movies of Paul Naschy, the charismatic and tireless actor/writer/director born Jacinto Molina and called "The Lon Chaney of Spain." His Waldemar Daninsky Werewolf saga is rightly hailed as one of the most entertaining series of films in the Mad Mad Mad Mad Movie canon, and anyone who loves both the ridiculous and the sublime has no reason not to be a full-fledged Naschy fanatic. The character of Waldemar Daninsky--a good man cursed with both La Marca del Hombre-Lobo and sexual irresistability to women--is one of the most admirable tragic heroes in movies, for my money.
But Jacinto is not without his dark side, oh no. It's not all tragic curses and noble quests against villainous vampire women and witches. In 1972's Horror Rises from the Tomb, Naschy shows us his dark side and then some, but without sacrificing the outrageousness and fun that are his trademark.
In Horror Rises from the Tomb we witness the origin of Alaric de Marnac: the vile, Satan-worshipping, witchcraft-practicing, blood-drinking, flesh-eating, knight-killing, baby-sacrificing, booty-slapping MACHINE that Naschy created as the dark yin to Waldemar Daninsky's formidable yang. Everything that makes Daninsky so great and tragic--his nobility, his kindness, his emotional depth, his cursed remorse--finds its opposite in de Marnac. In fact the only things de Marnac and Daninsky share is the incredible and irresistible manliness that any character played by Paul Naschy must indeed possess. That, and the fact that the babes just can't stay away.
We open the movie, as we so often do, with a procession of armored knights on horseback, as seen through a close of bushes and tree branches. It is winter, and the plants have lost their leaves, giving us a better view through their barren, bone-like limbs. In the rear of the procession is an ox-drawn cart containing the shackled magnificence of the Nasch. His glower, glare, and maleficent defiance of his captors is chilling, even from our hiding spot in the bushes. It makes the viewer glad he's chained, though still a little nervous, for what shackles could possibly contain such evil?
They're on their way to the Hangin' Tree, where a sentence of death against de Marnac and his partner in crime Mabille is about to be carried out. The reading of the charges is just fantastic, as all those I listed above and more are trotted out--what a laundry-list of crimes!-- while de Marnac sneers pridefully at his "accomplishments." Of course before they get around to carrying out the sentence the foolish kniggits give the unrepentant warlock a chance to spew a vitriolic curse at them, their anscestors, and his own twin brother, who grins down from one of the horses, scarred on one side of his face. This is reminiscent of the brothers from Vengeance of the Zombies, except in this case the scarred one is not the villain (though to be fair, we've nothing to convince us the brother isn't ALSO a bastard). Alas, that's all we'll see of the Marnac twin, as Jacinto probably rightly concluded that 3 Naschys in one film was just too much for the world to bear.
The whole execution scene is very well-executed (ha!) as de Marnac is beheaded and we get to see a particularly nice head-roll using one of the better prosthetic heads I've seen in movies of this era. Then they strip Mabille buck nekkid and hang her upside down from the tree, tarot-card style, to whip and torture her a bit before her own execution. Of course this allows HER to spew curses for a good five minutes as well. You'd think the inquisitor would say, "Hey! Somebody shut her up, for God's sake!" But they just never learn.
After some great organ music over low-rent opening credits, we flash forward to modern day Paris, or at least stock-footage thereof. In what is undoubtedly the same office used by the doctor in the sequel Panic Beats (watch for a future review!), a painter is working on his latest creation. He is interrupted by a friend, the beefy and swaggering Jacinto Molina himself, who invites him out to drinks. When the arrive at the drinkin' place the painter is reunited with his old flame, and immediately (I mean IMMEDIATELY) tries to suck her ribs up her neck. Get a room, you two! In the intro scene we learn that Paul is a witty but womanizing cad--a really great role for him.
On a lark they go to a seance (always a good idea), where the spirit of Alaric de Marnac is summoned and tells them the location of his and Mabille's tombs on Paul's ancestral estate. Of course that sort of thing can't go uninvestigated, so the friends agree to take a long weekend to check it out.
The seance scene is GREAT, lots of good camera angles and trickery, and some fine acting by the medium and Paul as the spirit of evil. Later, back in his studio, the painter starts working in a hypnotic frenzy, unaware of what he's painting until he stops to see it's a headless body holding the bloody head of de Marnac in its fist. In a truly creepy moment, Alaric appears as a floating head above the painting, dripping blood onto the picture and laughing evilly. Of course the painter dismisses it all as a dream, and tells no one.
On the road to Paul's estate, the friends are waylaid by highwaymen, naturally.* The painter proves himself useless in a scrap, but Paul kicks enough ass for the both of them. Just as he's got things under control, a mob of villagers shows up and summarily executes one of the robbers with a shotgun! This is really a showstopper sequence, as Paul and Co. negotiate renting a car with the head villager while the rest of the posse goes about getting ready to hang the other robber, and another takes the fallen criminal's ear as a souvenir for his girlfriend! A more sadistic mob you will not see in the annals of cinema.
* (The attack by highwaymen is a recurring motif in Naschy's films, and one wonders whether some event in his past led him to keep revisiting it in film after film. Sadly no mention of it is made in his excellent autobiography, Memoirs of a Wolf Man, leaving Naschy scholars to guess and conjecture.)
From there things play out predictably but satsfyingly. They arrive at the estate and quickly find the remains of de Marnac and Mabille. Just as quickly one of the villagers is enslaved by black magic and brings both evildoers back to life, so they can rise horrifically from the tomb. Another great scene ensues as they take de Marnac's disembodied head and reattach it to his body--a recapitation, if you will--again, with some of the best use of a prosthetic head I've seen, cutting it back and forth with the real head of Naschy almost seamlessly. They sacrifice a Eurobabe to bring Mabille back in a fantastic and chilling ritual, and then Mabille and Alaric go on a romp for 7 full moons, seducing and murdering villagers and being as evil as possible until the painter and Paul discover the amulet of Thor's Hammers (?) that is needed to overcome the black magic of de Marnac. But will they prevail?
I loved this movie, of course. Paul's look is great throughout as de Marnac--very pale skin and dark stylized evil beard, with his crazy eyes workin' overtime. There's plenty of Euroflesh on display too, and one scene where de Marnac disrobes that will have you aghast and Paul's washerboard-style abs, not to mention the Hairy Pecs of Doom. The gore is great as well, with beheadings, lashings, slashings, and more than one chest-ripping heart-extraction. There's even a chilling zombie attack late in the movie, as de Marnac's victims now serve his evil wishes.
There are some great shots as always from director Carlos Aured, including a beautiful death scene with bright red blood flowing down a bank into a running stream. Add some real sadism and preversity going on and it's enough to keep any fan happy.
But what's really great is the way that you're never sure who the protagonist is--for a while it's the painter, then Paul, then the daughter of the caretaker of the estate, then the painter again, until you really don't know who to follow. Several scenes where you are conditioned to expect a rescue (one of the main chicks is captured by the witches and held for quite a while in preparation for a Black Mass), let's just say you don't get what you are led to expect. Evil triumphs when you expect good to intervene, and keeps you guessing as to what exactly will transpire. The disorientation is delicious, and one of the best things about the flick.
Other good things:
Best Use of Nightgown in the Movie: the obligatory nighttime walk through the castle, with see-thru nightie over black undies. Zang!
Undeniable sign you're watching a 70s Euro Horror flick: a grief stricken teen wears a miniskirt to her father's funeral. I LOVE EUROPE!
So another Mmmmmasterpiece from the filmography of Paul Naschy. DeimosDVD has put out a fantastic special edition (with commentary from the Man Himself!), and it should really be on every horror fan's shelf. 6 thumbs, easily. Surrender to de Marnac, and may God have mercy on us all!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Horror Rises from the Tomb (1972): or, How to Get A Head in Life
If you've been paying attention at all, then you know the undying and slightly disturbing passion that the Duke and I have for the movies of Paul Naschy, the charismatic and tireless actor/writer/director born Jacinto Molina and called "The Lon Chaney of Spain." His Waldemar Daninsky Werewolf saga is rightly hailed as one of the most entertaining series of films in the Mad Mad Mad Mad Movie canon, and anyone who loves both the ridiculous and the sublime has no reason not to be a full-fledged Naschy fanatic. The character of Waldemar Daninsky--a good man cursed with both La Marca del Hombre-Lobo and sexual irresistability to women--is one of the most admirable tragic heroes in movies, for my money.
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 9:46 AM
Labels: '70s, 3+ Thumbs, Cursed from the Pyre, Devil Worship, Helga Liné, Paul Naschy, Witchcraft, Zombies
6 comments:
OK. I'm going to hang my head in shame and admit to not knowing a whole hell of a lot about Naschy. Seen a few films, but couldn't tell you which ones they were. I'm interested though. What are some good starting points, and what should be avoided?
- December 31, 2007 at 11:02 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
I really don't think you can go wrong with any Naschy selection, but then I'm a fanatic. Horror Rises... is a fairly good starting point, though if you want to jump into the saga that made Naschy famous (the Waldemar Daninsky Werewolf Chronicles) I suggest either The Werewolf versus the Vampire Women (aka Werewolf Shadow), Curse of the Devil, or Night of the Werewolf (which just got a great Deimos DVD release).
Of course if you want the acid test you could start where the Duke and I did, with Vengeance of the Zombies (also a great Deimos DVD)--it's got all the goofiness and terror you can take. But it might be better to hit that after you know whether you like him or not.
And be watching MMMMMovies for further Naschy reviews...I've got several just waiting to be posted, and tons more yet to review. Use the category tags to explore. And let me know if you like what you watch!
- January 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM
Alright, tonight I bought Vengeance Of The Zombies and Night Of The Werewolf. I've got a stack of screeners and other DVDs I have to wade through this weekend, but I'll definitely let you know what I think after (eventually) watching them. Can't wait though!!
- January 4, 2008 at 7:39 PM
- Decadesman said...
Horror Rises from the Tomb(uncut version), imho, is one of his best.
Great blog here. I just joined.
- December 2, 2008 at 3:43 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Hi Decadesman--
You certainly won't get much argument with that assessment, from fanatics nor from casual Naschy watchers. I've got a soft spot for WWvVW, but then I love me a Monster Mash.
Still, HRftT is definitely something special. And Paul is never eviller than when he's with the stunning Helga Line, imo.
Thanks for commenting!
- December 3, 2008 at 8:16 AM
- kochillt said...
Pittsburgh's CHILLER THEATER introduced me to the delirious works of Paul Naschy in 1978. Avco Embassy imported many Euro titles to the US, and THE FURY OF THE WOLF MAN, COUNT DRACULA'S GREAT LOVE, THE MUMMY'S REVENGE, and HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB were all part of the TV package. I believe it is perhaps Naschy's finest achievement overall, featuring a character he would return to many times, that of a human monster whose evil is so total and far reaching that no one is safe. And at age 40, usually topless throughout the 70's, luscious Helga Line gets to display her unique Germanic beauty completely nude (only BLACK CANDLES can compare). The incredible DVD includes all the clothed scenes as well; no wonder I couldn't recall all those fabulous see-through nighties! HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB is full of surprises, a joy from start to finish, with all the ingredients (beauty and blood) that make for the ultimate Naschy experience.
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Letter, C. G. Dick to Brother Samuel Adair
Author: Dick, Campbell Graham
Date: April 21, 1857
Dick was Adair's brother-in-law and wrote from his home in Marshall, Highland County, Ohio. He wrote that he supported the American Missionary Association as it promoted Christianity but he was pessimistic about the chances for Kansas entering the Union as a free state. He wrote that the Democratic party was controlled by the south. He asked Adair to inform him if free state men intended to vote in the elections called by the Bogus Legislature.
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Twenty years ago, wreath company owner Morrill Worcester and a dozen other people laid 5,000 wreaths on headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. It was Worcester's way of giving thanks to the nation's veterans with leftover unsold wreaths.
This year, Worcester has arranged for up to 100,000 wreaths to be placed on graves at the military cemetery Dec. 10 in his biggest wreath-laying undertaking yet.
A convoy of more than 20 trucks left Worcester Wreath Co. in the eastern Maine town of Harrington on Sunday to begin the six-day journey to the cemetery in Arlington, Va., outside Washington, the final resting place for hundreds of thousands of veterans and a tourist site that draws 4 million visitors a year.
Along the way, ceremonies will take place at schools, veterans' homes and in communities in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.
Worcester never expected the wreath-laying effort to grow from a single tractor-trailer carrying a few thousand wreaths to 84 big rigs delivering wreaths to Arlington and hundreds of locations. Besides the Arlington ceremony, his Wreaths Across America organization has organized more than 700 other ceremonies at veterans' cemeteries and monuments across the country and overseas involving 225,000 wreaths.
"We haven't really tried to push it; it's really just grown on its own," Worcester said. "We have a hard time keeping up with it."
Worcester, who has never served in the military, came up with the idea of a wreath-laying ceremony 20 years ago when he found himself with an extra 5,000 wreaths in December, too late to bring to market. He decided upon Arlington National Cemetery, which he had visited as a child.
After that first year, Worcester continued donating wreaths and holding ceremonies at the cemetery. The event remained relatively small with little fanfare until a photo, showing thousands of green wreaths with red ribbons nestled against headstone on a snow-covered ground, made its way around the Internet about five years ago.
After that, Worcester got thousands of emails and letters from people wanting to donate, and inquiries from others asking how they could hold wreath-laying ceremonies of their own to pay tribute to those who have served in the military. So he and his wife founded the nonprofit Wreaths Across America to take in donations and organize hundreds of wreath-laying ceremonies at veterans' cemeteries.
Wreaths Across America put 24,000 wreaths on Arlington headstones last year and initially hoped to put them on virtually all 220,000 headstones this year. That initiative fell short, but Worcester said he's still pleased that they'll be able to put out 100,000 of the laurels.
Of the 325,000 wreaths in all of this year's ceremonies, Worcester is donating 25,000. His company makes the rest, but they are paid for through donations from groups and individuals and through corporate sponsorships.
The growth of the event doesn't surprise Joanne Patton of Hamilton, Mass., daughter-in-law of World War II Gen. George S. Patton and the widow of Patton's son, Maj. Gen. George S. Patton IV, who is buried in Arlington.
On Monday, Patton was to receive one of Worcester's wreaths in a ceremony in Topsfield, Mass., which she will then lay on a tank in Patton Park in Hamilton. She has participated in past Wreaths Across America events as well.
"It's an amazing expression of honoring the spirit of service," she said.
Figuring out the logistics of resting so many wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery was complex enough when there were only 5,000 to worry about, said Wayne Hanson, who is in charge of coordinating the ceremony at Arlington. If the weather is nice, Hanson expects more than 10,000 people to participate in Saturday's event.
Hanson is optimistic that some year soon all the Arlington headstones will have wreaths placed on them for the ceremony.
"We can work toward doing the whole cemetery for our 25th anniversary," he said.
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A macro lens made from a Pringles can? Someone's been there, done that. A pinhole camera made from an airplane hanger? Sorry–beaten to the punch. So how's an enterprising photo geek to distinguish himself? How about taking photos through a lens made of ice? Evidently unimpressed with Scientific American's challenge to light a fire with a lens made entirely of ice, photographer Matthew Wheeler fashioned his own very cold lenses and has posted a gallery of images. I couldn't find a demonstration or other info on the gear used, but some googling did turn up an article and video depicting the "excruciatingly painful" lens-making process. [Via]
That's really fascinating. Some of the effects are surprising.
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There's just no quit in the zombie genre. Here's a flash game whose object is to corral a horde of infected, lest one wander off the screen and kill a human.
I had no idea zombies could be considered livestock. Anyhow, this short, to-the-point timekiller just went up this weekend. You can challenge others to beat your scores via Facebook.
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It was payback time Tuesday in the newly liberated town of Gao in Mali, with residents hunting down and beating suspected Islamist extremists who had not fled with their brothers-in-arms as Malian and French military forces closed in and retook the town.
Malian troops bundled the men into an army truck, their hands bound behind their backs. For the better part of a year, the al-Qaida-linked extremists had banned music, insisted women cover themselves and began carrying out public executions and amputations in the towns of northern Mali that they controlled.
Now the Islamists' control of the cities has slipped, with the provincial capitals of Gao and Timbuktu coming back under government authority in quick succession with the arrival of French and Malian troops. They also may have lost control of a third key city, Kidal.
France, the former colonial ruler, began sending in troops, helicopters and warplanes on Jan. 11 to turn the tide after the armed Islamists began encroaching on the south, toward the capital. French and Malian troops seized Gao during the weekend, welcomed by joyous crowds. They took Timbuktu on Monday. The Islamists gave up both cities and retreated into the desert.
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Members of a youth militia, the Gao Patrolmen, went house to house hunting down suspected Islamic extremists in Gao. Abdul Karim Samba, spokesman for the group, said men were scouring the town for remnants of the extremist Islamist group known as the Movement for Unity and Oneness of the Jihad, or MUJAO.
"They are the Islamists who have gone into their homes to hide, so we've been rounding them up to hand them to the military," he told The Associated Press. Troops from Chad, one of the African nations sending soldiers to help restore Malian government control over the whole country, patrolled the streets, and French soldiers joined…


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Some people find much more than just cache containers when they're introduced to geocaching. Geocachers may discover parks they never knew existed, the hidden history of their community or even the sting of stepping in poison ivy. But some geocachers wander into something else. They're lucky enough to find the person they'll marry.
It happens. It happened to one of the founders of Geocaching.com. Bryan Roth attended a geocaching event ten years ago today. Fellow founder Jeremy Irish encouraged Bryan to attend.
Bryan says, "This was the first of 41 total geocaching events that I've attended so far. Jeremy had suggested that I attend and I figured it'd be a great opportunity to meet some members of the local geocaching community. I really didn't know what to expect but, of course, that day has changed my life forever."
What happened next may have been one of first cases of geo-love. The event's name was innocent enough. It was called Washington Geocaching Potluck & Quilting Bee.
Bryan's "will attend" log read, "I will be there (with chocolates)." Bryan says he wasn't fishing for love with those chocolates, "Not at all. At the time, I don't think I was even looking for a date. I was only thinking about meeting geocachers and getting more involved with the local community."
But Bryan says he soon met a geocacher named Hydee and her son Dylan. He remembers his first thought, "Yeah [my first thought was] – she looks like trouble. I was right, of course. ;)"
She later told Bryan the chocolates helped cement her intuitions that he was the right person for her. She loves chocolate.
Jon Stanley, Moun10Bike, hosted the event where Hydee and Bryan first met. Jon says, "That event is actually where I first met Bryan. I didn't know that the spark had been lit at that time, but I soon found out. Hydee and her friend CameraThyme kept referring to "AFM," which stood for "Action Figure Man." After a while I discovered that this was their code name for Bryan. Then all became clear!"
Hydee's friend CameraThyme also played a key role. Bryan says, "Thanks to CameraThyme for letting me know that Heidi was single."
Bryan and Hydee would marry. Today they're co -hosting a "10 Years Since They Met!" event in the Seattle area with Moun10Bike and Avroair. Nearly a hundred people are expected to attend.
Bryan says, "I feel so fortunate to have met Hydee and adopted Dylan. Our youngest son Nicholas is almost six and I can't believe what a wonderful ten years it has been for all of us. A really cool aspect of it is that many of the people at the event ten years ago will be there today, so it's really an anniversary for all of us. We've built some wonderful friendships along the way and we have geocaching to thank for it."
Jon says Bryan and Hydee are lucky, geo-love can be a rare commodity, "I attend a fair amount of events, though, and while I've heard of people meeting through them, Bryan and Hydee are the only ones I personally can name who linked up as the result of an event, let alone stayed together happily for ten years!"
Still want more love? Watch this video about others who met through geocaching.
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Every week, Food52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.
Today: The simplest possible technique for a succulent turkey. It will forgive you if you overcook it. You can do it while you're defrosting the bird, if you so choose. And best of all, it tastes like turkey.
- KristenFive years ago, the L.A. Times Food Section held a turkey taste test that changed the way they (and a lot of others) talk about Thanksgiving. Under the vigilant eye of Russ Parsons -- longtime Food Editor at the paper and author of How to Read a French Fry -- four birds came to the table, and a simple new technique had the panel smitten.
The bird had been dry-brined (though the term "dry-brining" wasn't being tossed around much yet). In less-fancy words, a few tablespoons of salt had been sprinkled on it a few days ahead.
Because of this, the turkey was well-seasoned through and through, and had all the juiciness of your average wet-brined turkey, without its sometimes off-putting texture (we'll come back to that later). It tasted like turkey, but turkey having a very good day.Parsons has written about the salting technique every Thanksgiving since, testing new variations each year and slashing steps he decides aren't important. The response has been glowing. By his count, he's received over 1,000 emails from happy cooks, and some of the most genius hacks have come from their suggestions.
So where had this turkey been all our lives? To find out, I had to get the story from the two clever cooks we have to thank for the recipe: one an editor, the other a chef. Without both parties, the world might never have known the wonder that is the Judy Bird.
Here's how it all went down: Since the late 1980s, Judy Rodgers (you remember Judy) has dry-brined the famous roast chicken -- and just about everything else -- at Zuni Café in San Francisco. She learned the technique while cooking in Southwestern France and perfected it back in the States, meticulously trying it on everything from fish fillets to hamburgers to roasts, even some vegetables -- but never a turkey.
Salting early doesn't dry these things out -- if timed and measured right, moisture is pulled out and back in again, and the process magically realigns the proteins so that they'll hold on tighter next time. For a much more scientific explanation, see Rodgers or McGee. But I can tell you what this means to your mouth: juicy, tender food. As a bonus, it's salted all the way to its middle, not just on the surface.This juice-retaining action is the same as with a wet brine, with one big difference: the wet version also draws in some of the surrounding water and makes everything vaguely ham-like. Juicy yes, and flavorful, but springy and tight in a way that doesn't smack of fresh meat. Not to mention the space concerns: wet brines are greedy things. Not only are you storing something in your fridge for several days, you're storing it in a vat of liquid.Enter Parsons, circa 2006, who had quizzed Rodgers on her relationship with salt for various stories over the years. "I was casting about for Thanksgiving ideas and I wondered if something that worked for chicken might work for turkey." Parsons wrote to me in an email, "I called her and asked if she's ever tried it and she said no."
In fact, Rodgers had recommended a wet brine for turkey in the Zuni Café Cookbook in 2002, a recipe she's been using on pork chops since her days at Chez Panisse in the 1980s and had scaled up successfully for the big unwieldy bird. Though she has dry-brined plenty of geese and ducks (and more chickens than probably anyone on earth), the reason she never pursued turkey is simple."I'm just not a big turkey, Thanksgiving girl," Rodgers says. "A lot of chefs feel this way. At Zuni we still change the menu every day, and sometimes I taste 75 things in the course of a day, from oysters to desserts. So for me, Thanksgiving is a holiday from cooking and eating. If I don't have to plan a menu, I think, 'It would be really nice to just scramble some eggs'."
So Rodgers consulted and Parsons (a serious turkey fan) got testing. "I tried it first with a 12-pounder and it worked great. Then I worked my way up," Parsons wrote. "When I talked to Judy, I think she was a little surprised … and maybe a little amused that I was so excited about it. I can get a little geeky." Geeky like a fox. Since then, he's figured out grilling the brined turkey, and the right herbs and spices to add to the salt -- but his most amazing discovery is that you can brine a frozen bird as it defrosts in your refrigerator. And why wouldn't you? Once you taste your very own Judy Bird, you can thank them both: the chef who'd rather not think about Thanksgiving at all, and the food editor whose job depends on it.
Russ Parsons' Dry-Brined Turkey (a.k.a. The Judy Bird)
Adapted slightly from The L.A. Times Food Section
Serves 11 to 15One 12- to 16-pound turkey (frozen is fine)Kosher saltHerbs and/or spices to flavor the salt (optional -- see suggestions in step 1)Melted butter for basting (optional)
See a slideshow and the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
Want more genius? TryJudy Rodgers' Roasted Applesauce
Got a genius recipe to share -- from a classic cookbook, an online source, or anywhere, really? Please send it my way (and tell me what's so smart about it) at [email protected].
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The Genius Desserts cookbook is here! With more than 100 of the most beloved and talked-about desserts of our time (and the hidden gems soon to join their ranks) this book will make you a local legend, and a smarter baker to boot.
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Butterfly Anatomy: Wings and Scales
A butterfly starts its life as a caterpillar, which hatches from an egg, eats voraciously and eventually sheds its skin to reveal a chrysalis. The chrysalis is a protective shell in which the caterpillar becomes a butterfly. By the time the butterfly emerges, or ecloses, it doesn't look much like it did when it formed the chrysalis. Its body has the same basic parts -- a head, a thorax and an abdomen -- but most of the similarities end there.
Along with its proboscis, a long, straw-like tube used for drinking, many of a butterfly's sensory organs are on its head. These include:
- Compound eyes, which are good at detecting color and nearby movement
- Moveable, segmented antennae, which have organs for detecting smells at the tips and structures for sensing the butterfly's direction and position at the base
- Labial palps at the base of the mouth parts, which help the butterfly decide what is and isn't food
Not all of a butterfly's sensory organs are located on its head, though. At the end of each of its six legs, all of which attach to its thorax, are taste organs that the butterfly uses to find food. When a butterfly's leg touches a good food source, a reflex causes its proboscis to uncoil. This lets the butterfly retrieve and swallow the food, which is digested in organs in the butterfly's abdomen. A butterfly's reproductive organs are located in its abdomen as well.
A butterfly's most dramatic anatomical features are its wings. They're made of an extremely thin, transparent material called chitin stretched over a series of vein-like structures. The forewings are closer to the butterfly's head and are roughly triangular. The hindwings are closer to the tail and are shaped like fans or seashells.
The colors and patterns come from layers of tiny scales. It's easy to think of these as similar to fish scales, but they're structured more like short, tiny hairs. These scales protect the wings and provide insulation. Typically, the scales on the top of a butterfly's wings are brightly colored, while the scales and the underside are patterned for camouflage.
At first, the wings are wet and wrinkled. The butterfly has to expand and dry them as soon as it emerges from the chrysalis. To do this, it uses its body as a pump and forces fluid through a series of tube-like veins. It's a little like inflating a balloon -- as the veins fill with fluid, they slowly stretch the surface of the wings.
This is just one of the things a butterfly has to do as soon as it emerges to prepare for its life of flight. The butterfly also must also get rid of the waste produced during its transformation and the remains of its last meal as a caterpillar. This waste is known as meconium, and it has a bright red, often bloody appearance. Then, the butterfly has to thoroughly clean all its sensory organs so it can find food. Finally, it has to get its proboscis in working order. When the butterfly emerges, its proboscis is in two separate pieces that join together with tiny hooks and fringes. The butterfly has to curl and twist the two halves of its proboscis to create one drinking tube.
All this work takes place before the butterfly even takes flight, and it doesn't end there. Next, we'll look at what it takes to keep moving and why cold temperatures can paralyze butterflies.


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Has it really been a year since I first started grousing about Warner Bros' meddling with the first cut of Where the Wild Things Are and puzzling over how anyone could possibly not be crazy about blueberry pie? A big thank you to Visualingual, Engineer's Daughter, Catherine Clark Gallery, Invisible Venue, San Francisco is Sexy, artist Jon Clary, Intersection for the Arts, Iceberger Gallery (please, please come back) and the Chinese Culture Center for linking to my posts. Go visit them! Thanks also to Marina Cain of Cain Schulte Contemporary Art, johnny0 of Burrito Justice, Resonant Eye, Beverly Kaye of ArtBrut, and DJ from Eighth Art for their comments. Props to Mark McLaren of McBuzz for helping me out with tips to get my sidebar widgets to do what I wanted. And thanks to artist Rie Kawakami for just being awesome overall.
Before I go on, I'd like to invite anyone out there reading to attend the vigil for Laura Ling and Euna Lee that will be held on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco tomorrow evening, Thursday July 9th at 6:30pm. Laura's husband Ian Clayton has set up a post office box, and we'll have pre-addressed post cards available for you to send a message to the women, who have since our last vigil been sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp. The postcards from our last vigil were delivered to Laura and Euna and I'd imagine are a great comfort to them since access even to their family members is limited. There will also be a group photo so you can show your solidarity in a request of amnesty for the two reporters.
Okay, back to the farewell.
If there was anything disconcerting about visiting galleries in the past year, it was arriving to find them empty. From the start, I decided I would only attend shows that were reachable by public transportation and that were open on a weekend day or had extended evening hours (none of this by appointment only). I tended to choose SF venues since I could cram several stops into a Saturday (meaning I missed a wealth of amazing things going on in the East Bay) and to emphasize just how much good stuff was happening locally. I hope that something I posted encouraged someone who would normally feel intimidated by the idea to try a smaller venue rather than making a trip to the museum.
My friend Dave asked me to list the words and phrases I vowed never to utter in a post, so here they are (as near as I can remember):
"What does it mean to say…?"
"notions of"
"in a sense…"
"challenges the very nature of…"
"calls into question"
So if you saw any of them here, it was because I was being lazy or not paying attention or both.
To all the visitors who arrived via a Google image search for James Jean, I apologize that there wasn't more here for you. Maybe an SF gallery would like to host a showing of his work (hint, hint)?
Since today is shaping up to be the most visited on my blog since I started, I can only assume that this means that you're all on your way to check out the Present Tense show. Just tracking down all the window displays is an adventure in itself, so be sure to pick up a flyer with locations, available right inside the doorway. I self consciously chose the Chinese Culture Center for my last post since it was the site of the first exhibit I wrote about (and Beili Liu's artwork still sticks in my head to this day). I thought it would bring a nice kind of closure to the blog. I needn't have bothered trying so hard. Fate has a way of working these things out for you.
After CCC, I walked down to Meridian and then hoped on BART to catch the final day of the Trace Elements show that was in its last week. I walk inside the Herbst Theatre, head to SFAC's room and give the door a tug. Locked.
Despite the fact that there's a sign right next to me that says it should be open.
Furious. A guy in a suit approaches, bangs loudly on the door and gives up. I'm reminded that my very first blog post was actually about standing outside Fecal Face with my face pressed up against the glass trying to make out all the wonderful things I could see inside. This happened to me so many times over the past year that I stopped writing about it.
But one thing at least was different this time around…
…this time, I had my camera.
Take that Time, you son of a bitch.


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Yet shocking as this may be, an estimated 1 out of 3 people still do not wash their hands after visiting the restroom, one of the easiest ways to prevent the spread of these infectious diseases. Although you can't control people like these and other factors that cause germs to spread, finally you can do something to protect yourself and your environment. With flu season hitting hard, SaniGuard kills the Influenza A virus and is a must-have for your home, office, business, or school!
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The video above was released by the Philadelphia police department tonight. It depicts what the police say is three men getting into an argument on the SEPTA El train about the Bulls-76ers game that took place in Philly on Wednesday night. The two men by the door of the train can be seen arguing with another man who is off camera at the start of the video, but eventually comes into frame just before the train stops. After exiting the train, one of the men who was by the door turns around and shoots the man he was arguing with in the stomach.
Philadelphia police are currently looking for the shooter.


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Fossil Links
Creationist Perspectives on Fossils
- A Whale of a Tale? (Ambulocetus) by Don Batten, Creation Ex NihiloTechnical Journal 8(1):23, 1994
- Anomalously Occurring Fossils - Compiled by John Woodmorappe
- Archaeopteryx: The Trump Card of Evolution, by Jon Covey
- Before the Cambrian Explosion, by Jon Covey
- Bell found in Coal
- Cretaceous Hammer
- Does Fossilization Require Millions of Years?, By Rick Balogh, M.S.
- Evidence for Creation: FOSSIL RECORD
- Fossils by the Biblical Creation Society
- Fossils available from Creation Research - Possess your own fossil evidence against evolution.
- Fossil Replicas - from Creation Science Evangelism
- Fossil Record and Fossilization from "Creation vs Evolution" by Garth D. Wiebe
- How long does it take for something to fossilize? - Noahs flood rapid fossilization
- Information on Archaeopteryx by David Buckna
- 'Instant' Petrified Wood by Andrew Snelling Creation Ex Nihilo 17(4):3840 1995
- Michigan's Fossil Whales
- Paleontology (Fossils!)/Paleoanthropology - Subjects from Creation Science perspective
- Problems with Evolutionary Explanations of the Fossil Record...from the IDEA Club
- Rapid formation of coal: Iron Pot found is coal is proof that strata form rapidly
- Rapid Fossilization 40 Million year old Cowboy boot found! By Craig M. McClarren
- Rapid Petrifaction Fossilized hat found
- Sedimentary Rocks, Fossils, and Noah's Flood. NOT! showing that Noah's flood could not have possibly produced all the sedimentary rocks and fossils in the earth.
- Tarawera's Night of Terror Rapid fossilization of villages by volcanic mud and ash
- The Boneyards by Ooparts & Ancient High Technology - Evidence of Noah's Flood
- The extinction of the woolly mammoth: was it a quick freeze? PDF File by AIG
- The Fact Of Evolution Is Supported By A Rather Well Formed Sequence Of Intermediate Stages In The Fossil Record by David Menton
- The Fossil Collection pictures and info of the Creation Truth Foundation's field collection of fossils
- The Fossil Record, by Jon Covey
- The Fossil Record - Papers by the Earth History Research Center
- The Fossil Record in the Light of the Flood by Amazing Discoveries
- The Fossil Record Refutes Evolution from the Muslim online book Evolution Deceit
- The Fossil Record Questions - Creation SuperLibrary
- The Origin of Stasis: Part I, by Art Battson
- The Origin of Stasis: Part II, by Art Battson
- The Origin of Stasis: Part III, by Art Battson
- The Origin of Stasis: Part IV, by Art Battson
- The Overselling of Whale Evolution by Ashby Camp
- Vermont's Fossil Whale
- What Do the Fossils Say? by David Menton
- What does the fossil record teach us about - by Christian Answers Net
Fossil News
- Ancient High Arctic camel offers climate change clues The most northerly spot to ever yield camel bones is raising important questions about the future of the warming Arctic. CTV News, Mar. 5, 2013
- Dr. Richard Dawkins Missing Link Goes Missing says AVC Films Producer Dr. Carl Werner New analysis indicates famous evolution scientist was misled by Nature Magazine article. PRWeB, February 06, 2013.
- Radiocarbon in dino bones: International conference result censored A team of researchers gave a presentation at the 2012 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting in Singapore, at which they gave C-14 dating results from many bone samples from eight dinosaur specimens ranging from 22,000 to 39,000 years. Creation Ministries International, January 22, 2013.
- Stampeding Dinosaurs Were Actually Swimming Findings, published in the January issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, upends the traditional interpretation of the world's only dinosaur stampede. Yahoo! - ABC News Network, January 18, 2013.
- Fossil find challenges tree of life Organisms long thought to have been the ancestors of early marine creatures may in fact have lived on land. News24, December 12, 2012.
- DNA and bone cells found in dinosaur bone But under measured rates of decomposition, they could not have lasted for the presumed 65 million years. Creation Ministries International, December 11, 2012.
- Australopithecus Was a Well-Adapted Tree Climber New research has confirmed that an extinct type of ape called Australopithecus afarensis was a well-adapted tree climber. ICR Daily Science Updates, November 12, 2012.
- Dinosaur Bone Tissue Study Refutes Critics Researchers confirm morphological, microscopic, and chemical evidence that altered remnants of original dinosaur cells have been discovered. ICR Daily Science Updates, November 5, 2012.
- Huge dinosaurs flee rising waters of Noah's Flood in Australia Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Catalyst program reports dinosaur footprints. Creation Ministries International, October 30, 2012.
- Eight Spears found in German Coal Mine The earliest direct evidence of tools shows every indication of human-like expertise in manufacturing. ICR Daily Science Updates, October 8, 2012.
- Pristine Wood Found in Diamond Crater A kimberlite crater in Canada, said to be 53 million years old, yielded exquisitely preserved unfossilized wood. Creation Evolution Headlines, September 19, 2012.
- More 'dino' sightings in Papua New Guinea Expedition reports conversations with eyewitnesses—local people who claimed to have recently seen dinosaur-like creatures. Creation Ministries International, August 23, 2012.
- Huge dinosaur fossil found near Drumheller, Alberta Curator of dinosaur palaeoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, said it looked like a huge "log jam" of bones in the dirt. CBC News, Aug 17, 2012.
- New African Fossil Confirms Early Human Variations Three new human-like fossils from Africa have given evolutionists another opportunity to reiterate their confusing philosophy, but the data don't match their story very well. ICR Daily Science Updates, August 13, 2012.
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Neanderthal? Neanderthals were thought to be incapable of Paleolithic cave art, but new work coming from sophisticated dating techniques suggests otherwise: Neanderthals may have been artists. Archaeology, Volume 65 Number 5, September/October 2012.
- A. sediba: Another Human "Ancestor" Bites the Dust Bark Nature reports that the creatures had a very notable characteristic in common with chimps, not humans. Evolution News and Views, June 29, 2012.
- Turtles fossilized while mating! The fossil-filled shale deposits at the Messel Pit in Germany have yielded nine pair of turtles. Creation Ministries International, June 21, 2012.
- Neanderthals smarter than previously believed New dating method shows famous paintings were created at the time of the cavemen, not Homo sapiens. The Vancouver Sun, June 15, 2012.
- Neanderthal-Heidelberg Distinction Blurs "Heidelberg Man" fossils appear to overlap with Neanderthals. Creation Evolution Headlines, June 14, 2012.
- Scientists Late to Recognize Human and Giant Mammal Coexistence Vero Beach human fossils finally acknowledged in Nature to have lived side-by-side with mammoths, mastodons, and giant ground sloths, contrary to conventional Evolutionary theory. ICR Daily Science Updates, May 30, 2012.
- Dinosaurs 'gassed' themselves into extinction, British scientists say Another desperate theory attempts an explanation. FoxNews May 07, 2012
- Chinese human fossils unlike any known species Recent fossils in China, which are being termed 'Red Deer Cave People', are being considered a new species, yet are "anatomically unique among all members of the human evolutionary tree", and lived until recent times - like many other recent finds they do not fit neatly into conventional evolutionary theory. New Scientist, March 14, 2012.
- First Neanderthal cave paintings discovered in Spain Cave paintings in Malaga, Spain, could be the oldest yet found. New Scientist February 10, 2012.
- 80 whales buried mysteriously in Chilean desert Marine graveyard recently discovered by researchers from the USA and Chile provides evidence for Noah's Flood. Creation Ministries International. December 1, 2011.
- Hominid fossils may shake up the human family tree Anthropologists say two Australopithecus sediba specimens have a curious mix of primitive and modern features that could indicate the species was a direct ancestor of modern humans. Los Angeles Times, September 08, 2011.
- Australia edges ahead of SA in oldest fossil showdown Dated at 3.4 billion years old, chemotrophic bacteria could have the oldest dates assigned so far. Daily Maverick, August 22, 2011.
- 'Living Fossil' Discovered in Pacific Ocean A species of ancient eel has recently been discovered living in a reef off the coast of the Republic of Palau in the Pacific Ocean. The Christian Post, Aug. 18, 2011.
- Oldest Known Wood Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed. The Scientist, August 12, 2011
- Archaeopteryx Reclassification Raises Fear of Creationists Creation Evolution Headlines, July 28, 2011.
- Fossil 'is first pregnant lizard' Live birth in lizards developed earlier than thought. BBC Nature, July 21 2011.
- Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch as first bird Evolutionists used to think that Archaeopteryx was a transitional form to birds, but recent discoveries show that it is instead a dinosaur.New Scientist, July 27, 2011.
- Green Fossil Leaves Point to Recent Catastrophe Pieces of wood buried in an Ice Age clay formation looks as though you could put a match to it and it might still burn. Daily Science Update, July 19, 2011.
- Ancient trees found buried in clay a Maine mystery 13,500 years in the making Tree that were carbon dated to 10,000 years old still had needles on them that were green. WCSH Portland. Jun 25, 2011.
- World's oldest complex eye found in Australian fossil Eyes just like those of modern insects and crustaceans, with thousands of individual lenses were recently discovered in Cambrian strata, although previously thought not to have evolved for at least another 40 million years, Herald Sun, June 30, 2011.
- Come On In, the Water's Fresh Newly discovered fossils left by creatures burrowing in the sediments of an ancient riverbed push back the beginning of freshwater ecosystems by at least 85 million years. Science NOW May 17 2011.
- 'Proof Of Creation' Dino Drawing Just A Mud Stain Creationists have claimed this petroglyph was proof that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Discovery News, Mar 25, 2011.
- Where did they go? Debate rages over the fate of the Neanderthals. World Magazine, October 23, 2010.
- Gondwana Supercontinent Underwent Massive Shift During Cambrian Explosion Team suggest that the rates of Gondwana's motion exceed those of "normal" plate tectonics. ScienceDaily, Aug. 11, 2010.
- Giant Whale-Eating Whale Found The skull of the 12–13 million-year-old sperm whale fossil found off the coast of Peru measures an astounding 10 feet long. DiscoveryNews, Jun 30, 2010.
- Archaeopteryx Fossil Shows 'Striking' Tissue Preservation Actual remnants of original bones and feathers still present argues for recent deposition. Daily Science Update, May 19, 2010.
- Soft tissue remnants discovered in Archaeopteryx fossil New Scientist, May 10, 2010.
- Neanderthals, Humans Interbred—First Solid DNA Evidence Most of us have some Neanderthal genes, study finds. National Geographic News, May 6, 2010.
- New Hominid Species Not A Missing Link, Scientists Say Doubt over claims that we descended from new species and disagreement about how close a cousin it was. Inside Science News Service Apr 8, 2010.
- "Key" Human Ancestor Found: Fossils Link Apes, First Humans? Australopithecus sediba had human-like face and could walk well upright but was apelike in other ways. National Geographic News, April 8, 2010.
- Fossil Skeletons May Be Human Ancestor Newly discovered australopithecine discovered in a cave in Africa. LiveScience, April 8 2010.
- Archaeologists discover saber-toothed vegetarian The enormous canines were likely used by the plant-eating animals to fight each other or protect against predators, said research leader Juan Carlos Cisneros of the University of Piaui in northeastern Brazil. March 24, 2010.
- Dinosaur Soft Tissue Finally Makes News Although creation-based organizations have reported for over a decade CBS's 60 Minutes finally broke the news to a broader audience. Daily Science Updates, Institute for Creation Research, December 2, 2009
- Fossil hailed as Man's ancestor is 'not even close relative' The fossilized lemur Darwinius masillae is not an ancestor of man and, even by evolutionary paradigms, appears to have left no modern descendants. The Times (London, UK). Oct 23, 2009.
- The Angry Evolutionist Richard Dawkins criticizes creationists who challenge evolution due to the absence of transitional forms, asserting they are not needed to demonstrate that evolution is a fact. Newsweek. Sep 25, 2009.
- Weak Link: Fossil Darwinius Has Its Fifteen Minutes Outside experts now reject the claim that the lemur fossil, "Ida," represents a missing link between man and simian. Scientific American. July 22, 2009.
- Predator X was the most fearsome animal ever to swim the oceans A recently discovered candidate for the Biblical leviathan is described as the most fearsome animal ever to swim in the oceans. The Times. March 17, 2009.
- Hadrosaur Soft Tissues Another Blow to Long-Ages Myth Daily Science Updates, Institute for Creation Research, May 12, 2009.
- DNA of Ice Age's Woolly Mammoth's Mapped Their groundbreaking achievement has them contemplating a once unimaginable future when certain prehistoric species might one day be resurrected. by Seth Borenstein, Discovery News. Nov. 19, 2008
- Dinosaur "Log jam" Discovered in the Morrison Formation of Utah Team uncovered a "log jam", a series of fossils that represent the aftermath of a single flood event (or perhaps numerous floods), with drowned animals being washed down stream and ending up in part of a river system. Everything Dinosaur, June 18, 2008
- "Dinosaur Mummy" Found; Has Intact Skin, Tissue Scientists today announced the discovery of an extraordinarily preserved "dinosaur mummy" with much of its tissues and bones still encased in an uncollapsed envelope of skin. National Geographic News. December 3, 2007
- Mummified Dinosaur May Have Outrun T Rex A whole fossilized duckbilled dinosaur was unearthed, allowing more detailed research than ever had been possible. Associated Press. December 3, 2007.
- Dinosaur graveyard may unearth new reasons for their extinction Spanish scientists have unearthed what could be Europe's largest dinosaur boneyard, finding the remains of 65-foot plant-eaters never before discovered on the continent. Times Online. November 29th, 2007.
- Discovery of giant bird-like dinosaur leads to major questions for evolution surprising discovery indicates a more complicated evolutionary process for birds than originally thought. June 14, 2007
- In Startling Advance, Study Identifies Dinosaur Protein Findings offered as new evidence for dino-bird evolution. New York Times. April 13, 2007
- Rediscovering the Dinosaurs The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is revamping their entire dinosaur exhibit to account for new understandings of dinosaur evolution. ABC, April 10, 2007
- China's Earliest Modern Human Found human from China dated to about 40,000 years ago adds to evidence that Homo sapiens sapiens and Neandertals are the same species. National Geographic News. April 3, 2007
- Find raises doubts on key theory of human evolution A 40,000-YEAR-OLD skeleton found in China has raised questions about the "out of Africa" hypothesis on how early modern humans populated the planet. The Scotsman, April 3 2007
- Man's earliest direct ancestors looked more apelike than previously believed "Dr. Leakey produced a biased reconstruction based on erroneous preconceived expectations of early human appearance that violated principles of craniofacial development." EurekAlert, March 24, 2007
- Dinosaurs' den unearths new theory on extinction The find also casts doubt on the theory that a giant asteroid from space that crashed into the earth wiped out the dinosaurs. The Scotsman, March 21, 2007
- Fossil Meat Found in 380-Million-Year-Old Fish National Geographic, February 12, 2007
- Ancient skeleton focus of modern debate The national museum of Kenya prepares to exhibit the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found. Associated Press/MSNBC, Feb 07, 2007, 19:33 UTC
- RATE Book available Online! Available now for FREE download: the 676-page book Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth.
- Vatican archaeologists unearth St. Paul's tomb Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul. International Herald Tribune. December 6, 2006.
- Flood of claims for 'Noah's Ark': Legendary vessel of Genesis story goes from nowhere to everywhere numerous claims about the final resting place and modern technology being utilized in the hunt. WorldNetDaily. July 16, 2006.
- "Living fossil" discovered in SW China Experts recently discovered a type of amphibian species that once used to live in the dinosaur period. People's Daily Online. July 21, 2006
- Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran? A team of Christian archaeologists says rock outcrop could be the remains of Noah's ark. National Geographic News. July 5, 2006
- Earliest hominid: Not a hominid at all? The earliest known hominid fossil is actually some kind of ape. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. June 19, 2006
- Jurassic "Beaver" Found; Rewrites History of Mammals It looks a lot like a beaver—hairy body, flat tail, limbs and webbed feet adapted for swimming—but it lived 164 million years ago. National Geographic News. February 23, 2006.
- First Chimp Fossils Found; Humans Were Neighbors National Geographic News. August 31, 2005.


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does any one know how bronze age castings were cleaned because im assuming that they had to get any waste from the mould off (excess clay ect) and also how did they clean up any spare bronze e.g where the mould doesn't touch perfectly and where the liquid metal is poured in
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Any mould debris can just be washed out with water. Cleaning up casting sprue marks and flash is done firstly by breaking them off whilst the bronze is still warm, then grinding down with stone. Grinding and polishing is then done with stone followed by sand.
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ok cheers I thought it would be something similar to that Thanks
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Peter Maroney, a veteran general manager who guided KDVR-Channel 31 and KWGN-Channel 2 to stability after a particularly rough period, will retire effective June 26.
"I have decided to do some other things in my life," Maroney said. Among them: think back on his 48-year broadcast career and do some writing about it, also possibly filmmaking. He won't leave Denver or his Stapleton neighborhood.
"I have lots of things to figure out before I go, not the least of which is May sweeps. It's been a great run here (five years) and in the career," for the last 15 years of which he has been managing stations.


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The First Steps: The Basics Of Exercise
January 13, 2011 - Dalia Jakubauskas
By: Dalia Jakubauskas
Another New Year has burst upon you and, along with it, a bucket full of New Year's resolutions that you probably won't keep. One, of them of course, is the easily made and easily forgotten promise to exercise. How many years have you talked yourself out of fulfilling this promise and how many excuses have you come up with not to do it? If one of them is, "well, I just don't know where to begin or what I should do," then let me make it harder to claim ignorance on this one. Starting or improving an exercise program is not rocket science, and only takes a nominal amount of effort and desire. There is a flood of easily accessible information out there including the Internet, print, television and video that either, a) simplifies your exercise regimen, or b) confuses the heck out of you. For most people, it is the latter. So lets keep it simple and start with the basics. Like say, how often and how long should you work out? Well, the Center For Disease Control and Prevention has put together some easy to follow guidelines for adults ages 18 and older with no physical disabilities. Plan to get at least 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic activity like brisk walking. Or do 75 minutes of vigorous or intense exercise like jogging or running. Or equal combinations of the two are also recommended. The CDC also recommends 2 or more days of some sort of strength training. What this means is engaging in any weight-bearing exercises including, but not limited to, light weight training using rubber bands or free weights, exercises that use your body weight like squats or push ups. Yoga or Pilates also fits into the weight-bearing exercise category. You don't even need a gym for these things, although a gym provides a lot of the equipment and classes that can help. This and more helpful information on exercise can be found on the CDC's website at cdc.gov. Now, these recommendations don't seem time consuming or difficult to follow. Yet, shockingly, 80% of us don't meet these goals according to the latest government surveys. That means the vast majority of us can't seem to carve out of our busy schedules what amounts to less than 4 hours of exercise per week. Maybe 4 hours sounds just too daunting, or maybe extra time is so scarce that you forgot to include you in a long list of priorities. Newsflash: if you don't make your health a priority, no one else will. So, rather than look at these hours as a marathon, break it down into manageable pieces. Alternating days of aerobic activity with days of light resistance training, your week of exercise might look something like this:
Monday: Take a 40-minute walk at a moderate pace, meaning, a pace fast enough to break a light sweat but not get so winded that you couldn't draw a breath to speak. If you can, do this on your favorite beach or walking trail.
Tuesday: Do 30 minutes of light resistance training using light free weights and body weight. Exercises like squats and push-ups fall into the latter category.
Wednesday: Swim for 40 minutes (preferably using a stroke more challenging than a doggie paddle).
Thursday: Try a gentle yoga or body sculpting class at your local gym or recreation center. These normally last about an hour.
Friday: Take a long bike ride on Sanibel's bike paths peddling hard enough that you break a sweat. Shoot for an hour or 10 miles whichever comes first.
Saturday: End your week with an active recovery day. Kayak or canoe Tarpon Bay or one of the area's other breathtaking waterways. Stroll the beach with your family just before sunset. These are as much soothing mental exercises as they are physical. So, there you have it –a little less than 4 hours of exercise and it actually resembled something fun. Of course you can pick any activity that moves your body at least once a day for, ideally, 5 days per week. Even if you don't at first have the time, or are too de-conditioned to make it for 30 minutes or and hour of exercise, start with shorter increments. Each week, add a few minutes more to your workout sessions until you've met your goals. No matter your age, the more you can move, the stronger you'll get. We'll explore the particulars of cardio vascular exercise and strength training in more detail in subsequent columns. But, right now, it's time to get moving.
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