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Since the 1990s, energy drinks have gone from being the latest craze and fad to a permanent fixture in our culture. Given the various seemingly exotic ingredients, here's a general introduction to the various energy drink dangers and advantages. I won't go into great biological detail since you could probably write a book about the energy drink craze. Instead I'll provide you with some information that should let you be a more informed consumer when it comes to energy drinks.
What are Energy Drinks?
An energy drink is a beverage that contains some form of legal stimulant and/or vitamins which are meant to give consumers a short term boost in energy.
The "Magical" Ingredients
In general, these drinks have one thing in common: They all contain a lot of sugar and/or caffeine. These could be considered the "active ingredients." So before you go bragging about how powerful a certain drink was and how its natural ingredients helped you wake up in the morning or dance all night, consider that you probably got more of a sugar rush than anything else.
Energy Drinks & Marketing
The "thing" about energy drinks is that they are marketed as being all-natural energy boosters loaded with exotic ingredients that popular culture believes to be healthy. Energy drinks are generally marketed towards younger crowds, especially those who go to raves. People are buying energy drinks in record numbers, even at an incredible $2-3 for a can smaller than an average soft drink can. Just FYI, the energy drink industry is worth over a billion dollars in sales annually. Note that Red Bull energy drink leads the way. While Red Bull may have lame TV commercials, energy drinks tend to have cool logo colors and fonts, modern can or bottle shapes, and a "high energy" feel surrounding them. It's a marketing company's dream come true!
The Dangers of Energy Drinks: Side Effects & Long-term Effects
I'm just scratching the surface with what I have written here so let me give you some food for thought. When you are considering consuming energy drinks:
- Make a mental note that while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing companies to sell and market their energy drink products, there is still very little research that has been done on them. I suspect the FDA allows them to be added simply because they do not pose any immediate danger to energy drink consumers.
- The long-term effects of energy drink ingredients, if any, are still not known meaning that drinking a lot of these drinks on a consistent basis may or may not harm you in ways that have yet to be researched.
- Energy drink labels are frequently misleading or at least they are so ambiguous that when you buy them you simply believe what you want to believe. Remember that in most cases, the claims being made have not been proven.
- It remains unknown as to whether any medical conditions and related prescription medication will interact with energy drinks. If you try an energy drink and react poorly to it, consult a physician.
Body Chemistry
Energy drinks all try to stimulate something in your body that leads to your awakening and feeling as though you have more energy. One big mistake that most people make is that energy drinks will have the same effect on them, regardless of the choice of drink, and ignoring an individual's unique body chemical make-up.
Think about it this way: We know that alcohol has a unique effect on everyone who consumes it (some people get drunk faster, have different allergic reactions to alcohol, etc), so there is no reason to believe that these drinks will have a different result among various consumers.
Many raves don't sell alcohol but in fact focus on water and energy drink sales. While gaining energy from sugar in and of itself is not such a bad thing, be warned that drinking lots of sugar can make you feel full. Carbonation, which can come from soft drinks as well, also makes you feel full. Ravers who become ill frequently keep dancing or remain active, and fail to re-hydrate as they should, in part because they think they're full. What ends up happening is that their body shuts down due to the lack of fluids, and they collapse.
Are Energy Drinks Addictive?
Since consumption of energy drinks is so prevalent among youth and frequently associated with raves and the nightclub scene, many wonder about their addictive properties. In fact, the only truly addictive part of energy drink ingredients appears to be caffeine. So if you drink enough cans, you may become addicted to caffeine and ultimately suffer from the effects of the addiction.
Energy Drinks, Alcohol & Death
Bars around the world mix vodka with energy drinks, especially Red Bull. This is mixing a depressant (alcohol) with a stimulant (the energy drink). This can have an effect on your heart and claims have been made that this combination has led to death. As such, some countries in Europe have banned Red Bull and other energy drinks.
SoBe is a popular drink. It contains creatine in such minute amounts that it probably doesn't have any effect. Same with Ginko.
The peculiar thing about taurine is that nobody really knows what it does! There is apparently no evidence that it has any major influence but it is possible that it does indeed have some effect on the body which leads to the feeling of having more energy.
Taurine & Caffeine are Key
One must also account for the mixed effects of the different energy drink ingredients. Consider that drinking different types of alcohol during a night of partying can leave you with an awful hangover. (Of course, you could try the anti-hangover pill). In an energy drink such as Guru for example, it is possible that the taurine enhances the effects of caffeine, giving you a slightly larger boost than if you had drank only one of the ingredients. This is just a theory however since it has yet to be scientifically tested.
Some energy drinks offer a variety of vitamins. It's important to note that your body will take what it needs and pee off the extra vitamins. So this isn't a major health booster.
Popular Terms
The most popular energy drinks include Red Bull, Monster, XS (get it – excess), Boost, Crunk, Rockstar, Crunk Juice, Full Throttle, Spark, Amp , Rush, SoBe, Pimp Juice, Shark, Piranha, Red Line, Bookoo, Socko, Fuze, Hype, Guru, and Atomic X.
This Citynet Magazine exclusive article was published in 2004 and since then, a lot of email has come in, mostly from parents who were desperate to get information on energy drinks. In most cases, their children were in the hospital or at least at home with severe issues related to energy drinks. Based on these emails, it would appear that the actual number of people suffering from the adverse effects of these drinks is larger than might be gathered from hospital reports.
Comments? Feedback?
If you have any insight into energy drinks, their ingredients, and the validity of studies related to the various ingredients, I'd love to hear them. The beauty of the Internet is that knowledge can grow right here as new info comes in.


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Cheney To Speak At Republican Convention From Section 109, Row 56, Seat 3
WASHINGTON—Vice President Dick Cheney's office announced today that he will speak at the upcoming Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN, offering farewell wishes and personal observations about John McCain to anyone in the vicinity of his seat in the upper balcony. "The vice president has prepared a number of remarks to mutter angrily during Sen. Tom Coburn's speech," Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said. "We cannot divulge the specifics of his address at this time, although I imagine it will begin shortly after he spots [Sen. Joseph] Lieberman." Although no advance copy of the speech has been provided, Cheney is expected to cover a variety of hot-button issues, including the war in Iraq, Barack Obama, the conflict in Georgia, the idiots they have speaking at these things, legroom, the workers at the concession stand, the heat in this frigging place, and President Bush's tie.
Cheney may also indulge his surrounding audience by engaging in a brief but loud debate with his wife on the issue of why he had to come in the first place and delivering an inspiring set of closing remarks to convention security on the benefits of fucking yourself.


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We're accustomed to pouring fine wines and champagnes from sleekly tapered green bottles with foil and corks. On the other hand, everyday food items—tomato paste, evaporated milk, chili—we scoop out of metal cylinders.
Maybe that's why the beer can gets no respect. It's our favorite container for sipping suds out of… Americans emptied about 35 billion of them last year. But mention the beer can, and what comes to mind? Maybe Homer Simpson passed out on his couch, surrounded by drained Duff cans, or John Belushi crushing the empties against his forehead in Animal House.
Eight years ago, in researching an article for a trade magazine, I asked several leading craft brewers about the possibility of their canning beer. "Cans are for baked beans and soups, not fine beverages," sniffed one. "I mean, barley wine in a can?!" asked another in disbelief.
Dale Katechis was once a scoffer. Katechis is the owner of Oskar Blues, a brewpub in Lyons, CO. "It initially started as a joke," he said of his venture into canning. "Our brewer and I laughed about it. We called beer in cans 'pusillanimous beer.'"
"One day I decided to make a phone call and start doing research. Our goal was to do something that was pretty zany at the time and kind of fun."
Katechis decided to invest in a manual canner and seamer manufactured by a Canadian business called Cask Brewing Systems. In late 2002, Dale's Pale Ale appeared in multi-hued aluminum containers. "Big, eh?" reads the slogan on the rim of the can. Indeed, Dale's Pale Ale, measuring over 60 IBUs and vigorously dry-hopped with Cascades, is probably the most aggressively flavored beer ever canned in America. With an annual capacity, at the time, of about 800 barrels, Oskar Blues became possibly the smallest U.S. brewer ever to operate its own canning line.
The initial product was such a success that Katechis followed up by canning his Old Chub Scottish-Style Ale, a roasty, 8%-alcohol-by-volume winter warmer of a beer. In the 2-1/2 years since then, he's built a new $2 million brewery, allowing Oskar Blues to triple its output. And if demand ever warrants, he has, waiting in the wings, a used Angelus filler purchased from an RC Cola plant in Columbus, GA. This "beast of a machine," as Katechis calls it, can turn out up to 1,000 cans a minute.
Katechis ticks off the advantages of the can. Unlike a bottle, it won't shatter into a hundred pieces when dropped, so it's welcome on beaches, golf course and campsites where bottles are forbidden. It's lighter than glass and more compact, so it's preferred aboard airlines, where space is at a premium. (Katechis' beers are served aboard Frontier Airlines). The can is completely opaque, so the beer won't get lightstruck. Oxygen pick-up levels are as low or lower as with bottled beer. Once you've drained the can, you can easily stomp it flat and haul it to the nearest recycling center.
Some connoisseurs complain about a "tinny" taste in canned beer, but it's all in their head, asserts Jim Fisher, vice president of packaging industry affairs for the Ball Corporation, the largest manufacturer of cans in North America. He notes that with modern aluminum cans, not only the insides but the lids are coated with a water-based epoxy, so that your lips never touch metal even when you drink directly from the can. "Any perception of metal is a perception as opposed to reality," he insists.
"We've dispelled the myth of what cans have and don't have to offer," says Katechis. Partly due to his proselytizing, over a dozen U.S. microbreweries and brewpubs have added canning equipment. Micro-canners are popping up in the most unlikely places.
Can-vassing the Nation
Like Krebs, OK, where Pete's Place has been producing the nation's first can-conditioned beer. Pete's Place may be the oldest brewpub in the U.S. When he opened his restaurant in 1925, founder Pete Prichard supplied a bootleg brew called "Choc" to the thirsty coalminers who formed his clientele. The beer was named after local Choctaw Indians who shared their recipe with Italian immigrants. In 1995, grandson Joe Prichard decided to go legitimate and got the place licensed as a brewpub. He invested in a manual canner after seeing Katechis' machine in action. "Dale canned some of our beer for us, and sent it back to us," says brewer Michael Lalli.
Lalli says of Choc, "There's no filtration, so there is still yeast in the beer. I prime it with dextrose in the brite tank before canning. As far as I know, nobody's ever done it before, but we think something magic happens when you do it that way." Choc won a bronze medal in the American wheat beer category at the 2000 Great American Beer Festival. Now you can buy the cans over the bar at Pete's Place or in select outlets throughout Oklahoma for $7 a six-pack.
Half a continent away in Ukiah, CA, Bret Cooperrider has just released what's probably the country's first organic beer in a can. Cooperrider is the general manager and brewmaster for Ukiah Brewing Co., a brewpub that's one of only two eating establishments in the U.S. to be certified organic. With a few exceptions, all of the 700 food and beverage items on his menu are produced without the use of artificial fertilizers or pesticides, and in keeping with sustainable agricultural practices.
Cooperrider says of his Pilsner Ukiah, "I had never brewed a lager before, but I'm a huge fan of Pilsner Urquell. This is a little bigger in body, and more heavily hopped." He admits the Czech Saaz hops are not organic, but since they make up such a small percentage of the beer's weight, he was still able to get his certification. Why get into cans? "A lot of our clientele are very outdoorsy: they're into kayaking, river rafting, etc. I also appreciate the ease of recycling aluminum cans."
In Houghton, a college town of about 10,000 on Michigan's upper peninsula, Dick Gray of Keweenah Brewing Co. has decided to sidestep bottling and go directly into canning. Local drinkers can buy the brewery's Pick Axe Blonde in cans, and a second product, Red Jacket Amber, is expected in the near future. Owner Gray is actually based in Denver, CO, where he runs an oil and gas exploration company. But he hails from Michigan, and knows the territory well. "You've got to like the outdoors, you've got to like winter," he says of life in northern Michigan, where hunting and snowmobiling are major pastimes. Sportsmen like to tote around the lighter, more compact container. And students of legal age, adds Gray, appreciate the cans because they're not allowed to have bottles at their parties.
Micro-canning is gaining a toehold in nearly every corner of the nation, from Anchorage, Alaska, where Sleeping Lady Brewing Co. is offering Urban Wilderness Pale Ale in cans, to Top of the Hill Brewing Co. in Chapel Hill, NC, where company president Scott Maitland was about to begin canning a lager and an IPA. New England is a hotbed, with at least five microbreweries now canning. "We sell a lot of beer along the coastline… glass doesn't travel on beaches or on boats," says Brent Ryan of Coastal Extreme Brewing Co. in Middletown, RI, whose Hurricane Amber Ale is available in aluminum.
Meanwhile, Big Sky Brewing Co. in Missoula, Montana has taken a different approach, opting for sleek, shiny 14.5-oz aluminum bottles. The bottles, manufactured by the Cebal Corporation of Europe, are so light that the breeze from an idling fan can tip over an empty container. In 2003, Big Sky introduced two brands—Moose Drool Brown Ale and Scape Goat Pale Ale—in the new package. The first depicted a motorcycle-riding moose, the second a tartan-clad goat lugging golf clubs. Big Sky has changed the design periodically, much to the delight of can collectors.
The advantage of the aluminum bottles, asserts Big Sky's Bjorn Nabonzney, is that you can run them through a regular bottling line with minor adjustments. The down side is that they're more expensive than glass. Individual bottles are retailing for about $2 a bottle, according to Nabonzney. He expects the price to come down as more breweries invest in the package.
And that's exactly what's happening. Last summer, Pittsburgh Brewing Co, released its flagship Iron City beer in aluminum bottles manufactured at a plant in Mercer County, PA. The bottles feature an IC logo from the 1940s, and the slogan "Save Our City" on the back. It's not clear how buying aluminum beer bottles will save a city whose fortunes have risen and fallen with the steel industry. But the package is helping a struggling regional brewery win back some market share from the national breweries.
Of course, the big boys didn't get that way by letting the grass grow under the feet, so it's hardly surprising that Anheuser-Busch has premiered its own version of this new container. Currently being test-marketed in 14 cities nationwide are 16-oz aluminum bottles of Michelob, Michelob Light and Anheuser Select. The Michelob bottles are interesting in that they eschew the usual logo in favor of a large stylized letter "M' and splashes of royal blue and gold. "They're a little more cutting edge, more sophisticated, upscale…'" says Rick Leininger, director of Michelob brands.
And if any brewers still have doubts about the image of the can, consider this: the Niebaum-Coppola Winery in Rutherford, CA. has reportedly launched the Sofia Mini, a pink can containing sparkling white wine, with a straw attached. The package is named after owner Francis Ford Coppola's daughter Sofia, and sells for $20 a four-pack.
A Whirlwind History of the Beer Can
In many ways, the current revolution in canning mirrors what happened almost 70 years ago to the day as I'm writing this. The first patents for canning food were granted in the early nineteenth century, but more than a century elapsed before beer appeared in cans. That's because beer, as a carbonated, alcoholic beverage, presented special challenges. Canning beer requires a pressure of 80-90 pounds per square inch, three times that of most other foodstuffs. Additionally, the alcohol tends to react with metal to form foul-tasting salts.
In 1934, the American Can Company in Greenwich, Conn. trademarked the name "Keglined" for a flat-top, steel-and-tin can with an inert plastic liner called "Vinylite." It took months of negotiations to convince the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co. of Newark, NJ,to be its guinea pig. American Can Company had to offer them a sweetheart deal: it would install the equipment for free, and remove it if the cans proved a flop. To protect its reputation, the brewery elected to lead with its Krueger Cream Ale (rather than its flagship lager), and to test-market the container in Richmond, VA, a small, outlying market.
On January 24, 1935, the first beer cans went on sale. Krueger's jitters turned out to be groundless; by June, the brewery's production was up 550% over the previous year.
An early ad for the Keglined cans touts their advantages over the bottle: "Imagine buying Beer or Ale for your home without paying a bottle deposit, without the trouble and effort of making bottle returns! Imagine being able to get twice as much in the same space in your ice-box!"
One disadvantage was that you needed a can opener to punch through the steel lid. Liquor stores gave away openers by the thousands, and early cans were printed with instructions for perforating the top.
In September 1935, Continental Can Company introduced a different type of package officially called the "cap-sealed" can and informally known as the "cone-top." Unlike today's seamless aluminum bottles, this steel container consisted of three parts soldered together and resembled a modern brake fluid container. Schlitz, a large national company, was the first to use cone-tops. But the container held the most appeal for small breweries, because you could fill it on a standard bottling line, without an expensive investment in new equipment.
The cone-top, however, lacked several of the advantages of the flat-top can: it was less compact, and took longer to fill. As small breweries fell by the wayside, the demand for cone-tops declined, and the package was phased out entirely in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Today, cone-tops are highly prized by collectors.
During the 1950s, Coors took the bold step of switching to aluminum. After five years of R&D and a $10 million investment, the brewery filled its first aluminum can—a 7-oz pony—in 1959. Today, aluminum is the industry standard.
In 1962, Alcoa and the Pittsburgh Brewing Co. debuted the pull-tab (or "snap top") on cans of Iron City, freeing beer consumers from the drudgery of toting a can opener. A ring was later added to the tab to make it easier to grasp. Most pull tabs were casually discarded, where they could lacerate feet or be swallowed by wildlife. Environmentalists squawked, and the industry replaced them with the non-detachable push-tabs in use today.
Another watershed year was 1991, when Guinness released Pub Draught Stout in the United States in a 14.9-oz can with an internal device called the "smoothifier" or "widget." This plastic cartridge contained a small amount of beer and nitrogen gas under intense pressure. When the tab was pressed in, the fluid gushed out of the smoothifier, roiling the beer and producing the thick, billowy head you'd expect from a draft pour. For many, the widget can was the first inkling that you could get quality beer from a can.
During the 1990s, a few older regional breweries released better beers in cans, including Yuengling with its Black and Tan and Lord Chesterfield Ale, and the Leinenkugel Brewing Co with its Honey Weiss and Berry Weiss. A few smaller craft breweries experimented with 5-liter German "mini-kegs" or contracted out a canned version of their product to larger breweries. Portland Brewing Co. in Portland, OR, for example, produces cans of its McTarnahan's Amber Ale and Highlander Pale Ale at the August Schell Brewing Co. in New Ulm, MN.
Besides their blue-collar image, a problem with cans is that the packaging equipment, until recently, was prohibitively expensive for a small operation. A high-speed canner and seamer capable of churning out 500-1,000 cans a minute might cost a quarter of a million dollars and upwards. In addition, can manufacturers sold their product in bulk; a customer might have to commit to buying 4 million units at a time.
"The high-speed systems were intimidating from a financial and production standpoint," comments Jim Fisher of the Ball Corporation. "Until Cask Brewing Systems came along, there was no way for a microbrewer to make the transition."
The Calgary-headquartered company began selling its manual canners in the late 1990s. The basic model, minus the bells and whistles, costs under $10,000 and is small enough that you can transport it in the back of a car. The device, according to Cask Brewing sales rep Kersten Kloss, consists of a filler, seamer and six-packer, and requires two people to operate. "The empty can is like a cup," elaborates Kloss. "You load them two at a time into the machine, then trip a switch to start the filling process." Once the can is filled, the seamer operator places the lid on top of the foaming beer, pulls another lever and the machine rolls the lid over the rim of the can, crimping and tightening it.
Cask Brewing also scored a breakthrough when it persuaded several large can manufacturers to sell cans by the truckload, in minimum lots of around 150,000 about 450 barrels worth of beer. "We convinced them that the image of the can was being improved by all these high-end beers," says Kloss.
A disadvantage of the manual canner is that it's labor intensive. Rob Leonard of New England Brewing Co. in Woodbridge, CT. says he's happy with his Atlantic City Amber and Elm City Lager in cans. But he grouses, "It's painful to go through 80 cases in four hours. It's monotonous monkey work. You start hallucinating after a while." For this reason, Cask Brewing introduced a higher-speed, automated canner which is now in use at breweries like Oskar Blues and Stone Coast Brewing Co. in Portland, ME.
Today, Cask Brewing Systems is an international firm, with clients in such far-flung areas as Jamaica, South Africa, Nigeria and Finland.
The Can of the Future
Today's featherweight aluminum cylinders are a far cry from the clunky steel cans that debuted in 1935. Undoubtedly, the beer can will continue to evolve. A few years ago, a Bradenton, Fla. Firm called Tempra Technology titillated the beer world by announcing that it was developing a can with a built-in refrigerator. Twisting the can's lid causes the rapid evaporation of a water-based gel inside, which drops the temperature of the contents by 30 degrees in three minutes.
Fisher thought it unlikely that this self-cooling can would ever be more than a novelty. Refrigeration is widely available in all developed countries, he notes. And drinkers in underdeveloped countries would probably not be able to afford such a premium-priced package. Instead, Fisher believes that the next big breakthrough in the can world will be an aluminum bottle with a twist-off cap. "Reclosable cans are already very popular in Japan," he adds.
For craft beer aficionados, the contents may be of more importance than the container. Although there is a greater variety of beer available in cans than ever before, the selection is still paltry compared to bottles. Most micro-canners have opted for balanced, middle-of-the-road styles like golden ale, amber ale and lager. You won't find an American brewer canning an imperial IPA, a dubbel or a triple, or a porter or stout of any kind.
There's an obvious reason for this. Cans come pre-printed with the brand name on them. If you're ordering a truckload of cans at a time, you'd better be sure you can sell all that beer!
European brewers have been more adventurous. Wittekerke, a Belgian white ale, has been spotted in this country in a sky-blue can. Young' Double Chocolate Stout, a unique British brew made with Cadbury bars, has also been packaged in aluminum. A fellow beer writer, Gregg Wiggins, returned from an Australian vacation with some Gold Label Very Strong Special Beer, a barley wine packaged in a 9.5-oz can by Interbrew (now InBev) of Luton, UK.
"I would say it's only a matter of time," says Kloss regarding the canning of more assertive, "beer geeky" styles. He also claims he's had "extensive conversations" with some of the larger craft breweries about canning beer.
Someday soon we might overhear the following conversation:
"Hello, Ajax Liquors, do you have any good Belgians in a can?"
"Why, of course we do."
"Then you better let them out before they suffocate!"
Greg Kitsock
Greg Kitsock is editor of Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, a long-time resident of Wahington, DC, and a frequent contributor to beer-related publications.
I have a 300 can beer can collection for sale. It is from the early to late 1970s. I would like to get $2/can. My cp is 9196756861. I look forward to hearing from you.
Mark O'Day


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Too Big for the Pouch, but Perfect as a Backpack
January 19, 2011
Too big for mom's pouch, Baby Koala Owen has finally emerged for visitiors at the Koala Knockabout exhibit at the Riverbanks Zoo. Born to mom Lottie back in May, Owen started out as a jellybean-sized joey nestled deep within mom's pouch, but has since grown to a perfect Koala-sized backpack. For the most part, Australian animals in non-Australian zoos are rare and the Riverbanks Zoo was lucky to receive Lottie from South Carolina's sister Australian state of Queensland in 2003. In the early 20th Century, Koalas were almost hunted to extinction for their fur, which was exported to Europe and North America. Today, anyone who even thinks of buying a Koala fur jacket should probably be slapped, or at the very least, de-friended on Facebook.


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What, you expected a pet sim?
Tapping into the band's deep love for video games (like Diablo) and working in elements of their signature (Diablo-ish), Avenged Sevenfold has teamed with developer Subscience Studios to create a mobile dungeon crawler that hearkens back to the ... Diablo. It's called Hail to the King: Deathbat.
From the official announcement, here's lead singer M. Shadows.
"We've been fans of games since we were kids, and we thought it would be fun to create one of our own inspired by our favorites. There are so many cool and innovative indie games being developed today, and we realized we could design and build the kind of game we'd love to play on our own. It is coming together amazingly well, and we can't wait to share it."
So the kind of game they'd love to play is Diablo. Millions of people out there agree with that. Not nearly as many think Deathbat is a good subtitle.
Hail to the King: DiabloBat will be coming soon to some sort of mobile gaming platform.


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After a solid spring break vacation, I'm back in action. Welcome to the April 3, 2018 edition of BCHL Today, a (near) daily look at what's going on around the league and the junior A world.
Miss a week and miss a lot in the BCHL where Penticton, Vernon, Victoria and Surrey are gone and playoffs are down to the final four.
Monday night saw Powell River claw back into their series against Prince George with a 3-2 overtime win at the Hap Parker Arena. It took double overtime to do it, with Ben Berard scoring on the 55th shot of the game by the Kings.
Berard's goal came on a power play, which was a rare thing in this game. Dustin Manz was given a minor and misconduct at 12:48 of the second OT session after delivering a blow to the head of a Powell River player. In 92 minutes and 48 seconds leading up to that call, referees Steve Brown and Dex Rasmussen were in full 'let 'em play' mode, dealing out just three power plays.
Prince George had just one chance the entire game.
Neal Samanski and Kevin Obssuth had the Kings up 2-0 through 20 minutes in this one, with PG battling back on a second period goal by Jay Keranen and a third period goal by Kyle Johnson. The Spruce Kings have proven surprisingly adept at overcoming deficits in these playoffs, something you wouldn't expect from a team that plays the stifling style that they do.
Another interesting note about Prince George is their wild swing between home and road success, something that is coming into play in this series.
PG is 8-2-0-0 at the Rolling Mix Concrete Arena, including 2-1 and 5-1 wins over Powell River. Only Wenatchee, unbeaten at 7-0-0-0, has a better home record in the postseason.
But the Spruce Kings have struggled to a 2-5-0-0 record on the road, worst by far among the teams that made it to the second round. The team with the best road record in the playoffs, so far, is Powell River at 5-3-0-0, which gives them hope against PG.
Win game four and six at home and find a way to get one in Prince George and they're through to the league final.
Sounds easy right?
The BCHL has handed the latest Player of the Week award to Wenatchee's Jasper Weatherby.
The reigning league MVP has his Wild up 2-0 on Trail in the Interior division final, picking up two goals and six points in the wins.
|Wenatchee Wild's Jasper Weatherby looks for the handle in Game 2 action of the Interior Division final against the Trail Smoke Eaters on Saturday in Wenatchee. The Wild beat the Smokies 4-2 and take a 2-0 series lead. Russ Alman photo.
He was named the first star in both matches.
Weatherby led the BCHL in regular season scoring with 37 goals and 74 points in 58 games and now leads the playoff parade with 10 goals and 23 points in 12 outings.
Weatherby's Wild teammate, defenceman Zak Galambos (2-2-1-3) was one of the honourable mentions along with a pair of Prince George Spruce Kings, forward Ben Brar (2-2-2-4) and goaltender Evan DeBrouwer (two wins, .949 save percentage, 1.00 goals-against average).
Three BCHLers secured NCAA scholarships last week.
We'll start with West Kelowna captain Jared Marino, who is heading to Colgate U next season. The Ontario native has just finished his third BCHL campaign, all with the Warriors, including the team's Fred Page Cup championship season of 2015-16.
A seldom-scoring role player until this year, Marino posted six goals and 29 points in 99 games between 2015 and 2017, then exploded for 21 goals and 53 points in 57 games as a 20 year old, adding a physical element as a banging crashing six-foot-three and 205 pound forward.
|Jared Marino in action with the West Kelowna Warriors.
"Jared has meant so much to the program," said Warriors head coach and general manager Rylan Ferster in a team press release. "He's been here for three years and it's been a pleasure to watch him grow into a great player and leader. He's very deserving of this."
Colgate plays in the East Coast Athletic Conference, a 12 team Ivy-League circuit that includes Cornell, Union, Clarkson, Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Quinnipiac, Brown, Rensselaer and St. Lawrence.
Jared's brother Kyle also played for the Warriors (2014-16) and is now at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
Congrats also to Simon Chen, the graduating Cowichan Caps defenceman who has secured a scholarship with the University of Alabama-Huntsville.
Chen is a rarity as a player who claims Beijing, China as his place of birth. Andong Song, a late round draft pick of the New York Islanders in 2015, is the only other active player who comes to mind. The first-ever Chinese-born player selected in the National Hockey League entry draft, Song spent this season with the USHL's Madison Capitols and has committed to Colgate U for 2018-19.
But back to Chen, who has just finished his second season in the BCHL.
In 108 regular season and playoff outings for Cowichan, the 20 year old posted three goals, 14 points and 41 penalty minutes.
|Simon Chen helps kill a penalty during a game between the Cowichan Valley Capitals and Alberni Valley Bulldogs in January. Kevin Rothbauer photo
"This has been a goal for Simon and he has worked very hard to accomplish this," said Caps coach Brian Passmore in a team press release. "Simon worked hard both on and off the ice to improve his game. He is a very smart kid and excellent student. This past season he was able to play in all situations and gain valuable experience. Simon is a team player and we wish him all the best with his collegiate academics and athletics."
Alabama-Huntsville plays in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, a 10 team circuit that includes Minnesota State, Northern Michigan, Bowling Green, Bemidji State, Michigan Tech, Ferris State, Alaska, Lake Superior and Alaska-Anchorage.
Sticking with WCHA schools, Bemidji State has inked graduating Victoria forward Ethan Nother for 2018-19.
The 20 year old is one and done with the Grizzlies, but it was a fine season for the Ontario native, who produced 26 goals and 59 points in 58 regular season games, and five goals and 10 points in 12 playoff outings. Nother is a small forward at five-foot-eight and 150 pounds, but with hockey shifting to a more wide-open style, players with his blend of speed and skill are now in demand.
"Ethan was a great addition to our hockey club this season," said Grizzlies head coach/general manager Craig Didmon in a team press release. "Not only was he a great contributor offensively, but also a great teammate. He came to the BCHL to garner a division one scholarship and he was able to accomplish that. This honour is very well deserved."
And finally, a BCHL grad has been nominated for a prestigious NHL trophy.
Las Vegas Golden Knights defenceman Brad Hunt is his team's pick for the Bill Masterton Trophy, given to the player who 'best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.'
Hunt is a Maple Ridge native who spent two seasons (2006-08) with the Coquitlam Express. Standing just five-foot-nine, the blueliner has had it tough trying to make it in the pro ranks, logging just 33 games over six seasons with Edmonton, St. Louis and Nashville prior to this year.
Given a new lease on life with the expansion Golden Knights, easily the NHL's story of the year, the 29 year old has seen action in 43 matches, producing three goals and 18 points.
Hunt is proof that a dream can come true if you're willing to stick with it and put in the work.
He is also proof you can have your name dropped on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for the strangest reason.
Eric Welsh is the sports editor at the Chilliwack Progress and has been covering junior A hockey in B.C. and Alberta since 2003.
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Consider sending layoff warnings, law firm tells federal contractors
Delayed sequestration renews concerns about WARN Act compliance.
With sequestration delayed until early March, contractors should consider issuing sequestration-related layoff notices despite an absence of guidance from the Obama administration, according to a law firm.
In an analysis by Littler Mendelson, a labor and employment law firm, government contractors could face lawsuits if they do not issue layoff notices to comply with the 1988 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
The law requires any company with more than 100 employees to issue layoff notices 60 days in advance of any mass layoff or plant closure. With sequestration delayed by the major budget agreement signed by President Obama on Tuesday, the briefing says, companies may need to act fast to avoid falling afoul of federal or state versions of the WARN Act.
"In light of the additional two months of sequestration breathing room provided by the tax bill, employers potentially affected by sequestration who have not previously provided contingent WARN notices may now wish to consider doing so," the briefing said. "Employers who gave contingent WARN notice in October, effective Jan. 2, will generally wish to issue new contingent notices effective in early March."
The largest federal contractors did not issue WARN notices last fall and await further information now.
Boeing Co. spokesman Dan Beck told Government Executive his firm would wait until guidance was issued by "defense and government customers" before issuing notices. Lockheed Martin in a statement on Tuesday said that the specter of sequestration "stifles investment in plant, equipment, people and future research."
In September, the Office of Management and Budget told contractors to follow guidance issued by the Labor Department and hold off on WARN Act notices. OMB also said that the government would cover the costs of litigation resulting from delayed layoff notices.
But Littler Mendelson said companies may still face costs from legal battles in court. "It is also not clear what degree of deference courts will give to the DOL's guidance letter, and employers may still find themselves subject to a court's individualized assessment of WARN compliance," the briefing said.
The White House has encouraged agencies to continue normal spending and operations, and an OMB spokesman told Government Executive the agency would provide further guidance and close coordination as time progresses.
Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel of the Professional Services Council, a contractor trade group, said many companies will have spent a significant amount of resources understanding the legal obligations if sequestration occurs, but will be biding their time until more details are released.
Companies "will wait until sequestration occurs and the federal agency directs how that sequestration would affect specific contracts that a company has," Chvotkin said.
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Kerry Washington Marries in Secret Ceremony
Turns out Kerry Washington is just as good at keeping a secret as her Scandal character Olivia Pope!
Related: 'Scandal' Cast Talks Father of All Shockers!
According to wedding documents obtained by ET, Washington, 36, tied the knot with San Francisco 49ers cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, five years her junior, on June 24 in Hailey, Idaho.
Washington's mother Valerie and father Earl served as witnesses in the low-key ceremony.
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This is the first marriage for the notoriously private Scandal star who was last linked to ex-fiancé David Moscow. The two parted ways in 2007.


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Former Napalm Death guitarist Jesse Pintado (pictured), most recently of the reformed Terrorizer, has died at the age of 37.
Pintado, who was born in Mexico and lived in Holland, was a member of the Birmingham-spawned grindcore legends from 1989 until 2004. He died of liver failure on August 27, but news of his passing has only this morning filtered through to DiS.
Mark 'Barney' Greenway, vocalist with Napalm Death, told Kerrang! magazine:
"Jesse was another in a line of hugely underrated Napalm guitarists who gave me fourteen years of laughs and – when on top of his game – mental riffs. He was always a friend, even after the rather awkward split, and I will miss him for sure. RIP, amigo."
The band's Mitch Harris added: "Jesse was like a brother to me and we were very close for many years. For now, I feel the most sadness and compassion for his family. All that I can do is to try and remember the great times we shared together, and hope that Jesse has somehow found peace in his own mind and soul."
Terrorizer's label, Century Media, released a statement calling Pintado a "pioneer in our musical genre".


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VICTORIA – Jobs, Tourism and Innovation Minister Pat Bell has asked his ministry staff to investigate how a B.C. government brochure on marketing in China came to include an erroneous warning against promotion of gambling and gay tourism in the country.
Speaking to reporters by phone from Beijing Tuesday, Bell offered an apology to anyone who is offended by the reference to gay tourism in the brochure, which is being rewritten.
Entitled "How to Market Your Business in China," the brochure was released by his ministry days before Bell and Premier Christy Clark left for B.C.'s largest-ever trade mission to China.
It said B.C. tourism partners must "prohibit the promotion of casinos, gambling and gay tourism, per the China National Tourism Association."
When the issue was raised Monday, Bell initially said the restriction was a result of Canada's negotiations with China for "approved destination status," which allows Chinese tourists to visit Canada without visas.
After further checking by ministry staff, Bell said no such restrictions exist in Canada's tourism agreement with China.
"It is still unclear to me how that passage was inserted into the document," Bell said. "We can not find any direction either from the [approved destination status] agreement signed with the Chinese or any other place. We are still researching that and I've asked my deputy to find out exactly how that happened."
The Chinese government has struggled with acceptance of homosexuality, which was removed in 2001 from the country's official list of mental disorders. The state-run China Daily has run several articles in recent years signalling acceptance or discussing moderating public attitudes towards gay marriage.
Tourism Vancouver promotes the city as a gay-friendly place to visit, with the largest gay population in Western Canada and the host city for the North American Outgames in July.
Since the trip began last week, Clark and Bell have highlighted the signing of an agreement with Sichuan Airlines to begin three flights a week to Vancouver starting next year.


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Christmas Comes Early: Blue Jays Acquire Colby Rasmus
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Colby Rasmus is the kind of player that virtually all General Managers would love to have; he's young, controllable, and his best years are arguably still to come. He's the kind of player that folks might have on their wish list, but have no hope of ever acquiring.
While Colby Rasmus may have been on Alex Anthopoulos' radar for a long time, it just seemed like a pipe dream that the Blue Jays would ever get him from the Cardinals. It was a proverbial Hail Mary pass with zero time left on the clock … but this Hail Mary actually connected.
This is the kind of trade that you dream about, but that you don't actually expect in a million years to happen, and yet somehow, Alex Anthopoulos and the Toronto Blue Jays managed to pry Colby Rasmus out of St. Louis.
My initial thoughts on this trade was how this situation hearkens back to the Yunel Escobar deal and how similar the situation was. Both the Braves and Cardinals had troubles with their young stars, and the Blue Jays swoop in to pick up the pieces and end up smelling like roses.
I have to tip my cap to AA for finding a very creative way to acquire the player he so keenly desired in Colby Rasmus. As I've stated before, when Alex Anthopoulos has the blinders on, he's willing to do anything to get the player he wants.
In this instance, it took a trade with the Chicago White Sox to get an integral piece in Edwin Jackson to make the trade happen. I admire AA's determination to acquire the asset he so desperately sought, and hopefully it won't be his undoing down the road.
I'll have a more in depth post tomorrow dealing with all the ramifications of the roster moves and some farewells to former Blue Jays, but for the time being let's bask in the moment: Colby Rasmus is coming to the Toronto Blue Jays … and they didn't have to give up the farm to get him, either.


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Winterhawks edge Chiefs, 4-3
Portland scored midway through the third period and held off a late charge from Spokane as they defeated the Chiefs 4-3 in front of 4,619 fans at the Spokane Arena Tuesday Night. Todd Fiddler scored his team-leading 24th goal as the Chiefs fell to 13-4-0-0 at home and 23-10-1-0 overall.
Spokane struggled to keep the puck out of their zone in the first period and it cost the Chiefs as they spotted Portland a pair of early goals. The Winterhawks got on the board first at 6:29 as Taylor Peters grabbed a rebound and fired it past Eric Williams for the score. Portland added their second goal at 10:14 with Nicolas Petan beating Williams glove-side on a backhand.Winterhawks edge Chiefs, 4-3
The Chiefs notched their first score at the 14:31 mark on a one-timer from Fiddler off assists from Blake Gal and Tyler King. Mitch Holmberg notched the equalizer at 18:17 as he snuck a shot through the five-hole of Mac Carruth with assists from Mike Aviani and Reid Gow. Spokane and Portland each recorded 11 shots in the period.
Portland's Petan struck again at 11:50, scooting a shot through the legs of Williams to give the Winterhawks a 3-2 lead. The Chiefs responded with a goal of their own at the 16:35 mark with Blake Gal converting off a superb centering pass from Fiddler. Spokane outshot the Portland 15-8 in the period.
Portland's Adam DeChamplain scored the eventual game-winner at 10:40. Carruth stopped all 14 shots he faced in the third.
Williams was 22 of 26 on save opportunities while Carruth finished 37 of 40 for Portland. Spokane went 0 for 3 on the power play and 3 for 3 on the penalty kill.
The Chiefs play a home-and-home series against the Kootenay Ice starting on the road Friday, December 28th before returning to the Spokane Arena to host the ice on December 29th.


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Five ways Windows 8 overhauls the PC
Windows 8 makes numerous and substantial changes to how we use computers. Here are the most important ones that you'll have to get used to.
In 2009, J.J. Abrams rebooted the fictional Star Trek chronology and franchise. In 2011, DC Comics did the same with its superheroes. But now Microsoft is about to reboot the very real Windows operating system, and it will forever change how we use computers.
Windows 8 is Microsoft's answer to the question of how to integrate mobile and desktop computing. For the most part, it succeeds, but it's an ambitious answer that will be best understood only when many people to stop thinking of desktop and mobile as discrete entities.
Touch will drive Windows 8's buzz, but it's so much more. The biggest change in Windows 8 is that it is designed for touch screens, but that doesn't mean that the keyboard and mouse are dead. In fact, to see that the opposite is true you have to look no further than the iPad. Apple's dominating and innovative tablet owns its market, but it drives a booming business in third-party keyboard solutions.
Instead of being confined to a mouse, Microsoft is saying that personal computers -- and mobile devices, for that matter -- are moving toward a variety of control solutions. Touch is one of these, as is voice, but so are the traditional keyboard for lengthy document writing and the pointer. The two-button mouse as we know it may be dying, but it is hard to imagine a scenario where you'll never want the precise control that one provides.
Smartphones and tablets have driven touch popularization, and Microsoft is taking a big risk bringing it so forcefully to desktops and laptops, common wisdom says. And yet, the very first thing I did when I got a first-generation Chromebook was swipe at the screen. It was a subconscious reaction to the new device, and of course it resulted in nothing happening because Chromebooks don't have touch screens.
And this morning, I pointed a colleague's 10-year-old daughter visiting the CNET offices at my Toshiba DX1215 running Windows 8 RTM and asked her to use it. I gave no instructions or hints to her about the edges and Charms bar. As someone who has spent a decade on Apple products, she looked at it for a second, swiped the screen once, and tapped the Cut the Rope tile.
On her way to blasting through the first five levels, she said, "It's like a giant iPad." Touch will no longer be the purview of devices sized 10.1 inches or smaller, and touch is how many young people will grow up using computers. Do not underestimate touch, you computing curmudgeons.
Windows 8 kills chrome. No doubt that Internet Explorer 10 is the best version of that much-maligned browser so far, but we're not talking about Google Chrome competitors. Lowercase "chrome" refers to an app's interface, the static visual elements that anchor an app's features. Microsoft's default apps hide most of an app's chrome, and other app developers already are taking their cues from Redmond's guidelines and lead.
Basically, Windows 8 apps do a great job of getting out of the way of the content they're meant to show you. From one edge of the screen to the other, all you see is content because the chrome has been hidden under the four edges of the screen.
Windows' lessons from the edges go beyond app chrome. The steepest part of the Windows 8 learning curve will be figuring out which app and operating system controls are hidden under which edges. The rule of thumb is that the left and right edges belong to Windows 8, while the top and bottom edges belong to apps, although this isn't strictly true. (App settings are often accessible only from the Settings charm on the right edge.)
The important lesson here is that the swipe gesture can be applied in ways we haven't yet seen in Android or iOS, which allows the content to shine through. Microsoft's engineering on the concept of hiding chrome and controls under the edge has made it accessible to touch pads, traditional mice, and hot keys.
Windows 8 kills your icons, too. For the entirety of its existence, the icon has been a static, stale program identifier. It's occasionally gotten little pop-up indicators, but basically it's been small and unchanging. Windows 8's tiles create a unique and innovative method to reveal real-time content on screen, without forcing you to dive into the world of the app.
It sounds minor, but tiles will change your workflow on PCs because you won't be immersing yourself in an app every time you want an update. The implications of this for app-usage could be huge. It won't be good for organizations that measure how much time you spend using a particular app, but it does make sense for how we use computers.
Windows 8 introduces the lapdesktabbooktop. Whatever you want to call it, Windows 8 makes desktop computing portable by unifying the operating system across devices. Not much is known about the coming shape, style, and price of Windows 8 hardware, but we've already seen some touch screen laptops (mostly at Computex) that come close to the thinness of a tablet.
The unification will make it easy to connect the necessities of desk work peripherals, and then disconnect and take the tablet or laptop on the go. This is where the overall features and functionality of the operating system have a chance to revolutionize the devices we use.
Core to this idea will be attractive form factors and affordable price points, but Windows 8's combination of touch and robust productivity tools could herald the maturation of portable computing. With "Windows 8-lite" Windows RT running Office 2013, Windows 8 will be demonstrating that mobile doesn't mean underpowered.
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[UPDATED] The Blogcall is now posted for posterity in the archives at WhiteRoseSociety.org for your listening pleasure anytime in the future.
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Kiss frontman gives file-sharers tongue-lashing
'Even the poop they poop out is the food I bought them'
Kiss frontman Gene Simmons is a strict dad and it seems he has applied his "now school" approach to illegal file-sharers on the web, for whom he reserves zero mercy.
Simmons gave his stark views of P2P pirates at the MIPCOM shindig in Cannes.
"Make sure your brand is protected. Make sure there are no incursions. Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don't let anybody cross that line," he said.
The bass guitarist also hit out at record labels for not taking control of their own rosters of work at the right moment.
"The music industry was asleep at the wheel and didn't have the balls to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material. And so now we're left with hundreds of thousands of people without jobs. There's no industry," said Simmons.
But the ageing rocker's tough love approach doesn't just apply to pesky file-sharers on the interwebs.
Simmons told Scottish rag The Daily Record that his two grown up kids weren't "allowed to go off the rails".
"If I catch them getting drunk once, if they don't tell me they are going to do it, they are going to find their Beverly Hills butts in the middle of a work camp in the desert," he told the paper.
"It is not 'old school', it is 'now school', the same rules. The phrase 'wait until your father gets home' is good. Parents should never act like a friend to their children.
"I am not their friend, I am their parent and they are going to do as I say. There is no running to their room and slamming the door. That's my room. That's my door. Even the poop they poop out is the food I bought them. The air they breathe is my air.
"They're allowed to rebel once I kick them out of the house and they earn their own living."
Presumably, however, Simmons won't be encouraging his offspring to visit BitTorrent tracker sites and get hold of ancient rock music by some band called Kiss. Perish the thought. ®
For the record, the 70s tongue-wielder made very similar comments in 2007. Seems he's stuck on repeat.


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The Good Earth is held up as a Hollywood classic, the kind of picture they don't make any more and the apex of the Golden Era. It's also known as one of the final productions of Irving Thalberg, the MGM wunderkind head of production who took no screen credit but personally oversaw every detail of the studio's output. An MGM pictures were re-written, reshot and sometimes shelved, but nothing left the studio without his personal approval
The studio system of the 1930s could create grandiose works, what with a favorable job market and a formidable studio staff on call six days a week with no standard quitting time. There are plenty of pictures that feature tremendous sets and reconstructions of earlier eras. For The Good Earth Thalberg traded for a top Warners star, Paul Muni, and set about converting several acres in Chatsworth to serve as Chinese farmland.
Going into the 21st century, The Good Earth remains the standard picture of China as it was once imagined, a land of peasants, odd customs, "teeming masses" and political upheaval. Pearl Buck's novels popularized the idea of the Chinese as having completely different values and thinking differently than Westerners, even though their basic dreams and needs are the same. In WW2 this immensely popular and prestigious movie had a lot to do with popaganda images, helping Americans distinguish between our allies (good, salt-of-the-Earth Chinese) and the enemy (the demonized Japanese).
The Good Earth succeeds and sustains because its story is universal. Every culture retains memories of ancestors who worshipped the land, feared God and were grateful for every turn of fate that did not end in famine or pestilence. Wang Lung and O-Lan have dignity and an Earthy Nobility that signifies good in any culture; Chinese who saw the film were reportedly flattered by their portrayal, even with Anglos playing the lead Chinese roles.
MGM tried the same gambit during WW2 with Dragon Seed, a dramatically non-functioning draw-dropper that puts Katharine Hepburn in Asian eye makeup. Luise Rainer and Paul Muni were much less familiar chameleon actors, a different kind of star. Neither looks particularly Chinese but they successfully compensate with stylized acting -- with Hepburn we still see the Yankee smile and expect her to start talking about Calla-Lilies. By the time we've accepted the conventions of Chinese speaking English, with their constant protests of unworthiness, we're ready to believe Wang Lung's wide-eyed innocence and O-Lan's ingrained humility.
A lot of writers worked on the script; we're told that Frances Marion and Marc Connolly helped out as well as the credited names. The story takes huge leaps in time, ellipsing big pieces of the book, but the aging of the characters is fairly credible, as is the growing of the second generation, all played by Chinese Americans like Keye Luke. All of the set-pieces are memorable, with Wang Lung creeping shyly into a rich woman's compound that he will someday own, and being mesmerized by the dancer Lotus (Tilly Losch, of Garden of Allah and Duel in the Sun. Karl Freund uses some clever lighting tricks during one extended shot of Lotus, dimming the image for an erotic effect.
There's also an economical but effective city revolution sequence with rioting and looting. Probably to retain good relations with the Chinese government, the troops executing looters are shown to be doing a necessary job of dispensing justice. Louis B. Mayer gets things his way when one Communist inciting the revolution is pictured being shot on the street.
But the big scene in The Good Earth, the one that made it a must-see picture, is a special effects sequence designed to out-do the earthquake in San Francisco. Film theorist Slavko Vorkapich was again in charge, assembling a ferocious montage from special effects (by James Basevi, Dave Friedman and James Havens), frenzied closeups of locusts eating and Wang Lung's men trying to ward them off with fire, water and their bare hands. It provides an upbeat finale for a mostly anxious series of episodes.
Vorkapich's work is actually more strongly felt in seven or eight restrained montages placed through the film to show the passage of time. They're all quite imaginative and free of cliché content. Good times and a growing family are shown in images of Wang Lung's first-born son playing in the harvested wheat as it is being milled. More famous montages in other pictures used symbols like giant stacks of coins toppling to represent the Stock Market Crash; but the rapid impressions here integrate into the show beautifully, making us feel we're seeing much more.
The Good Earth is a good picture to toss up at PC folk who can't stand seeing anything portrayed in terms unacceptable to modern attitudes. The world in China is grossly unfair, with female children considered less than desirable. O-Lan's daughter might be brain-damaged from starvation, and we barely see her. O-Lan is of course the eternal suffering woman, forever beaten down and humble. Wang Lung succumbs to the temptations of pride, wealth and sex but is forgiven all of his sins, even when he minimizes the fact that everything good that ever happened to him is a direct result of labor or risk taken by O-Lan -- he even asks her to return the two little pearls she coveted. This of course makes for an emotional knockout of an ending, when Wang Lung grasps his wife's peach tree (which didn't get consumed, roots and all, during the famine) and proclaims that O-Lan and the Earth he loves are one and the same. A beautiful thought, and it's too bad it didn't cross Wang Lung's mind a few decades earlier.
Readers of the book will be quick to add that Pearl Buck's original story was much more harsh and pessimistic. Wang Lung gets his troublesome Aunt and Uncle off his back by introducing them to opium. At the end, Wang Lung is something of an addled dotard, and as he dreams of his lost O-Lan, his ungrateful sons conspire to take possession of his properties and shunt him aside. The Good Earth doesn't exactly end in laughter but it does shift the tone of the story -- the locust battle not only brings Wang Lung back "down to Earth," it inspires him to heal his differences with his sons and his old friend Ching (Ching Wah Lee).
Warners' DVD of The Good Earth is a welcome title. The picture is unbroken and the audio is good, but the transfer is far from perfect, undoubtedly due to the lack of prime source materials. Much of the film is scratched and overall it looks a bit contrasty, with some patches looking better than others. It appears to be a case of an original negative lost or worn out, with a poor selection of dupes remaining to work with.
Special effects shots, opticals and shots with lots of detail seem to have a coarser "digital grain" structure, indicating that the movie could have been more carefully encoded. This seems to happen a lot during the locust attack, when the clarity changes shot-by shot. It's all probably the result of trying to get a good encoding from a contrasty source. Luckily, the majority of the film looks fine, with Karl Freund's camerawork standing out in special scenes like Tilly Losch's exotic stage performance.
The amusing extra is a two-reel featurette in gaudy 3-Strip Technicolor called Hollywood Party. Filmed outdoors (to get enough light, surely), it's a forgettable variety show with Elissa Landi introducing a few acts, some of which are "Chinese" flavored in a more stereotypical way. But it does give us a glimpse of Clark Gable, Joe E. Brown and a few other stars in the new color system. The highlight is seeing the legendary Anna May Wong for a couple of minutes. She models a pair of dresses "she bought on a trip to China" and makes a deft joke of her rusty Mandarin when the girl she talks to only understands Cantonese. It looks as if the underused Wong could have handled any kind of role.
A 'now at popular prices' trailer is included, as well as an odd Oscars-themed newsreel blip called Supreme Court of FIlms Picks the Champions.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
The Good Earth rates:
Movie: Excellent
Video: Good but uneven
Sound: Very Good
Supplements: Musical short Hollywood Party, Newsreel Supreme Court of Films Picks the Champions, trailer
Packaging: Keep case
Reviewed: February 19 , 2006
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Newswise — Ann Arbor, Mich. — Taking part in an educational sleep program resulted in a 30-minute average increase in sleep duration at a one-month follow-up for preschoolers, according to a new study from the University of Michigan.
In the study, published in the journal SLEEP, families in two Head Start programs participated in the Sweet Dreamzzz Early Childhood Sleep Education Program™. The Detroit-area nonprofit organization, Sweet Dreamzzz, Inc. developed the program and offers it for free when funding allows. Head Start programs aim to give preschool opportunities to low-income families, in part to improve readiness for elementary school.
Researchers found that among 152 preschool children and their families, the sleep education program produced a 30-minute increase in sleep duration among the kids, says lead author Katherine (Wilson) DeRue, M.D., M.S., who conducted the study while a postgraduate fellow at the University of Michigan Sleep Disorders Center and Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics.
"We know that an increase in sleep duration of that magnitude is associated with better function for kids during the day" says DeRue, who is now a pediatrician and sleep physician at IHA Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Consultants in Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Parents often underestimate how much sleep their kids require, so an educational program like this, directed at parents when they have more control over their kids' sleep schedules, can have great impact."
The study also found that parents' awareness and knowledge of good sleep behaviors also improved after program participation, but this effect was not sustained when parents were retested one month later.
The educational program included a one-time, 45-minute sleep education program for parents, and two weeks of classroom sleep education for the preschoolers. Parents were asked to keep diaries for assessment of their children's sleep habits.
"So we found that a two-week program of daily exposure to sleep education in the preschool classroom, along with an initial presentation for parents, can be an effective strategy," says Ronald D. Chervin, M.D., M.S., the study's senior author, director of the U-M Sleep Disorders Center, and a volunteer on Sweet Dreamzzz's Advisory Board.
"But repeated exposure or reminders about the sleep information may be necessary to maintain the effects for kids and especially parents over time."This is believed to be the first study to examine the effect of a sleep education program on the sleep of preschool age children.
The Head Start programs were located in greater Lansing, Mich. and Detroit, Mich.
The lessons taught in school seemed to stick with the children. Among the lessons were recognizing 8 p.m. as the desirable bedtime; learning that an apple is a better snack before bedtime than a candy bar; and identifying reading rather than watching TV as a relaxing activity before bedtime.
"We are pleased to see that the University of Michigan researchers have been able to measure the impact of our sleep program. We know a proper sleep environment, regular bedtime routine, and the right amount of sleep hours each night can impact the future of our children," says Nancy Maxwell, executive director of the non-profit Sweet Dreamzzz, Inc.
Sweet Dreamzzz provides educational programs on sleep, along with free sleep essentials– such as sleeping bags, toothbrushes, and books about sleep -- to schoolchildren in low-income areas. Sweet Dreamzzz's main aims are to encourage better sleep – and thereby better health and learning -- at the earliest ages.
Most evidence indicates that children commonly obtain insufficient sleep, says DeRue, and this study provides a critical demonstration that minimal, relatively inexpensive interventions can make a difference.
"Family sleep education during early childhood years, when the sleep habits are being established, could prove to be a cost-effective but impactful strategy to improve children's overall health," says DeRue.
"Nutrition and exercise are commonly the focus of educational efforts to improve children's health," adds Chervin. "Good sleep – in quality and quantity -- is no less vital to our kids' future, yet it's rarely if ever discussed. Our new findings suggest that a small amount of effort to promote better sleep could have substantial benefit now, and conceivably for years to come as these youngsters grow older."
Additional authors: Julie C. Lumeng, M.D. and Allison L. Miller, Ph.D. of the University of Michigan; Karen Bonuck, Ph.D., of Albert Einstein College of Medicine.Journal reference: http://dx.doi.org/10.5665/sleep.3774
Funding: This study was funded by the Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (P60 MD002249); a Humanitarian Award from the American Sleep Medicine Foundation to Sweet Dreamzzz, Inc; a Physician Scientist Training Award to K.E.W. from the American Sleep Medicine Foundation; and by a training grant from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (5T32 NS007222). About the U-M Sleep Disorders Center: The University of Michigan Sleep Disorders Center diagnoses and treats patients who have problems with their sleep or level of alertness. The Center is among the largest academic facilities of its kind in the country and includes several parts: a number of general and more specialized Sleep Disorders Clinics; the Michael S. Aldrich Sleep Disorders Laboratory; the University of Michigan Sleep Disorders Laboratory – South State Street; active training programs; and productive research projects. http://www.uofmhealth.org/medical-services/sleepmedicine
About U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital: C.S. Mott moved to a new home in December 2011. The $754 million hospital features a 1.1 million square foot, 348-bed facility that is home to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, the Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, and adult and pediatric blood and marrow transplant programs. The new hospital features a 12-story inpatient tower and nine-story clinic tower, a dedicated pediatric emergency department, an on-site Ronald McDonald House, and private rooms. The hospital also offers a new and larger home for specialty services not offered anywhere else in Michigan for newborns, children and pregnant women.
To learn more about C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, visit www.mottchildren.org
About Sweet Dreamzzz, Inc.: Sweet Dreamzzz, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI. The organization is committed to improving children's health, well-being, and academic performance by providing sleep education and bedtime essentials to economically disadvantaged students and their families. Over 42,000 children ranging from preschool to 8th grade and their families have been given Sweet Dreamzzz sleep programs.
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67%????? what did i miss.lolReplyDelete
Cool idea,Thx Lori for the fun game!
What a cool post! I only got 50%, I though for sure I was getting a perfect score.....I think it must have been the dog questions.ReplyDelete
Hmmm....and I thought I knew you at least a little bit. Either I need to pay more attention or start taking memory pills. Neat quiz.ReplyDelete
OK, just 50% (you need to add about 5 more questions with some gimme ones like what is the capital of BC) - missed on the dog and on the vacation (well, I know you went to SF - when last fall?) and regarding yor past life as a vegetarian, well I simply didn't know about that. Now the morning coffee group - I know you do this! Anyway, that was fun.ReplyDelete
Crap! I missed two! I was thinking about the SF trip and when you used to meet for coffee!ReplyDelete
I wanted to do the quiz, but it only let me answer one question...so did I win or fail? That was fun though.ReplyDelete
I thought I was taking a chance with the vegan thing...I figured why would you ask... And I missed the vacation thing, thinking "short", it would be close to home. 67%! Thought I knew you better!ReplyDelete
Did you ever do the spring cleaning post? I might have missed it!
WHoot whooot got 100% must have been a fluke...LOL.ReplyDelete
Love this idea.
Almost lost it on the veggie one though, but then I thought, hmmm she mentions buying large roasts at Costco, and I thought hmmmm. No vegetarian for her.
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Another 100% here, Lucy!! You shoulda asked what other name you went by- ha ha.....ReplyDelete
I need to create my own little quiz! :-)
come on. Lori. There are days when I don't remember my own name, never mind all these details. I promise I will read more carefully and pay attention to what I read. Now if you had asked what your favorite Christmas decorations are, I could answer that.ReplyDelete
Oh, I did BAD! If I'd gone with my gut, I'd have only missed one! This was fun!ReplyDelete
Not so hot for a perfectionist like me, 83%. Booger...I'm kinda a 100% gal.ReplyDelete
This was fun!!!
God bless ya and have a fantastic day sweetie!!! :o)
What a fun idea! I recently wrote a series of posts that "revealed" who I am. Love this.ReplyDelete
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