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Decision : CONF 003 XI
Inscription: Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) (Australia)
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte)
N (i) (ii)
The Bureau had recommended the inscription of the site as Riversleigh/Naracoorte Fossil site, excluding the site of Murgon until its significance can be more convincingly demonstrated. The Committee noted that Riversleigh provides outstanding examples of middle to late Tertiary mammal assemblages and one of the world's richest Oligo-Miocene mammal records in a continent whose mammalian history has been most isolated and distinctive, whereas Naracoorte preserves an outstanding variety of terrestrial vertebrates and illustrates faunal change spanning two ice ages. Moreover, the Committee underlined that the inscription of the fossil sites is a new challenge, as there are only very few sites with fossil values on the List and that this inscription is a major precedent for the work of the Committee.
As suggested by the Australian authorities, the Committee decided that this site shall be inscribed on the World Heritage List as Australian Fossil Mammal sites (Riversleigh, Naracoorte).
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Viral infection spreads through Rockies clubhouse
DENVER - The hitting bug isn't the only contagious thing in the Colorado Rockies' lineup these days.
A viral infection has broken out in the clubhouse, sending catcher Wilin Rosario and infielder Josh Rutledge to the 15-day disabled list with high fevers and headaches.
To prevent the virus from spreading any further, manager Walt Weiss is telling his team to wash their hands again and again. Because high-fiving after big hits - such as Charlie Culberson's walk-off homer on Saturday - could spread the infection.
"When you get a nasty bug like this, it tends to go through the clubhouse," Weiss said Sunday before his team closed out a four-game series with the New York Mets. "We have some guys feeling under the weather, not necessarily at the level of Wilin and Josh. We've got a few different bugs running around in that clubhouse."
As for the hitting bug, that's one the Rockies would like to keep going. The Rockies lead the major leagues in homers (43), RBIs (178) and average (.300).
Rosario was placed went on the disabled list Sunday in a move that made room for to activate right-hander Jhoulys Chacin, who began the season on the DL with a shoulder strain. Chacin was 1-3 with a 5.00 ERA in four rehab starts, two at High-A Modesto and two at Triple-A Colorado Springs.
So far this season, Rosario is hitting .239 with three home runs and 15 RBIs in 24 games. He also recently hurt his hand, but Weiss said that wasn't a factor in him going on the DL.
"Strictly because of the virus," Weiss said.
Rutledge was placed on the disabled list Friday, with the same sort of symptoms as Rosario.
"Those guys are running very high fevers with (the virus)," Weiss said.
Catcher Jordan Pacheco said he's been taking vitamins, drinking plenty of fluids, getting lots of sleep and repeatedly washing his hands to ward off the possibility of catching the sickness.
"You know, pretty much the stuff you learn in elementary school," Pacheco said. "We got a lecture about that the other day, to make sure you wash your hands because we're high-fiving each other. Hopefully all the time."

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Sept. 22, 2008
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Maggie Westfal, who scored four goals in three games last week, was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Monday. Westfal had her first career hat trick in last Tuesday's 6-0 victory over Sacred Heart and then scored the first goal of the game against sixth-ranked Stanford.
Westfal, a senior from New Canaan, Conn., has started all eight games this season and leads the Ivy League in goals (5) and points (15) and is third in assists (5).
Westfal is the second Yale player honored this season. Goalkeeper Ayana Sumiyasu was selected as the Player of the Week on Sept. 8.
Yale (4-3-1) opens Ivy League play on Saturday, hosting Princeton at 7 p.m. at Reese Stadium.
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Bus crash closes I-95 near Maryland/Delaware border
All lanes of I-95 were closed in Maryland on Monday morning after a commuter bus overturned.
The crash was reported around 9:30 a.m. near Cecil County, which is northeast of Baltimore, on the Delaware/Maryland border.
There is no word on how many people were on the bus or the extent of the injuries of those on board. However, the Susquehanna Hose Company said 25 to 30 people were being treated from injuries.
At least two victims suffered injuries that required them to be flown to the hospital. Maryland State Police flew one victim with critical injuries to Shock Trauma in Baltimore. Delaware State Police flew another victim to A.I. DuPont Hospital.
The University of Maryland Medical System officials said Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air and Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace accepted patients by ambulance.
Authorities were putting up crime scene tape near the site of the crash and southbound I-95 will likely be closed for several hours. The northbound lanes were reopened by 10:45, state transportation officials said.
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The EJB protocol is designed to give the container the flexibility to select the disposition of the instance state at the time a transaction is committed. This allows the container to best manage caching an entity object's state and associating an entity object identity with the EJB instances.
There are three commit-time options:
Option A – The container caches a ready instance between transactions. The container ensures that the instance has exclusive access to the state of the object in persistent storage.
In this case, the container does not have to synchronize the instance's state from the persistent storage at the beginning of the next transaction.
Commit option A is not supported for this GlassFish Server release.
Option B – The container caches a ready instance between transactions, but the container does not ensure that the instance has exclusive access to the state of the object in persistent storage. This is the default.
In this case, the container must synchronize the instance's state by invoking ejbLoad from persistent storage at the beginning of the next transaction.
Option C – The container does not cache a ready instance between transactions, but instead returns the instance to the pool of available instances after a transaction has completed.
The life cycle for every business method invocation under commit option C looks like this.
ejbActivate ejbLoad business method ejbStore ejbPassivate
If there is more than one transactional client concurrently accessing the same entity, the first client gets the ready instance and subsequent concurrent clients get new instances from the pool.
The GlassFish Server deployment descriptor has an element, commit-option, that specifies the commit option to be used. Based on the specified commit option, the appropriate handler is instantiated.


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Hope College for the first time in its athletic history is close to owning its own football stadium.
The Holland City Council on Wednesday (Dec. 19) gave its final stamp of approval of the sale of Holland Municipal Stadium to the college. All that remains is the signing of documents by city and college officials in the coming days.
The stadium, which adjoins the college's outdoor athletic complex on the city's southeast side, has been the home of the Hope football team since 1979. Faced with the need for a significant stadium upgrade, discussions on how that could be accomplished involving city, college and local school officials were initiated a year ago.
The outcome was an agreement whereby the college would upgrade and purchase the stadium. A new artificial playing surface was installed in time for the 2012 season and the lights for night games were upgraded. The stadium was purchased by the college from the city based on an appraisal for $952,350. In addition, the college invested approximately $1 million in stadium improvement prior to the 2012 season.
" We are very grateful for the time and effort by the City to enable this sale," said Hope College President James E. Bultman. "The college has already invested substantially in obvious improvements and will continue to maintain a facility that is conducive to the high standards of the college and the community. As a tangible expression of our commitment to the City and Holland Public Schools, with whom we have shared this field for the past 33 years, the college will allow its use to both organizations without rental costs."
Hope College and Holland High School have played their home football games on the same field since 1932. The teams played at the city-owned Riverview Park, 6th Street and Columbia Avenue, through the 1978 season and have shared Holland Municipal Stadium since 1979. College games in the early years (1901-31) were played in open college-owned space where the DeWitt Center is currently located at 12th Street and Columbia Avenue.


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Dec. 15, 2008
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. -
Former Cal State Northridge softball coach Gary Torgeson was enshrined in the NFCA Hall of Fame this past weekend in Marco Islands, Fla. In his 13 seasons at the helm of the Matadors, Torgeson guided the program to four NCAA Division II titles and national runners-up at the 1994 NCAA Division I Women's College World Series.
"It was an outstanding event and a tremendous honor," said Torgeson. "This award is about more than just me, it's about a lot of different people who contributed to Northridge softball over the years. To me, it was all about Northridge."
One of Torgeson's former players and current Northridge softball head coach, Barbara Jordan, gave the induction speech for her former skipper.
"It was truly an honor to induct Coach Torgeson in the Hall of Fame," said Jordan. "To be chosen among all the great people who worked with Coach Torgeson for this ceremony was a humbling experience."
Joining Torgeson as part of the 2008 NFCA Hall of Fame Class were Mississippi State head coach Jay Miller, DePaul Head Coach Eugene Lenti, Muskingum College Head Coach Donna Newberry, Wayne State (Mich.) Head Coach Gary Bryce and former Oklahoma State Head Coach Sandy Fischer.
Below is a feature story written about Torgeson's tenure at Northridge by CSUN assistant media relations director Geoff Herberg for the NFCA Hall of Fame Festivities.
The saying goes that a person who started and built an athletics program into a perennial power is to say they did so "with their bare hands." For Gary Torgeson, the 13-year head coach of the Cal State Northridge softball team and 2008 NFCA Hall of Fame Inductee, it is the actual truth.
Having dug, lined and manicured Matador Diamond through hard work, sweat and just a little beer, Torgeson not only built a program that produced four NCAA Division II titles in a six year span and a .676 career winning percentage, he did so with an earnest appreciation to level the playing field for women's athletics.
"The truth was the girls were not getting what the guys were and that frustrated me," Torgeson said. "I went to my administration and told them I wanted to do something about it. These girls could do just as well as the guys, but they weren't getting their fare share."
Except the truth was there was no field. So Torgeson and a hardy crew of Northridge staff took it upon themselves to build the stadium. Literally.
"We managed to get some funds, though not much, to get a permanent field built," Torgeson added. "The Northridge staff was phenomenal in getting the field ready, from removing all the gopher holes to raising the fence."
No longer needing the duties of his tractor, Torgeson then moved onto instilling a doctrine for his softball team that promoted dedication, determination and perseverance.
The hard work paid off. In Torgeson's first season, the Matadors finished 34-17-1 and finished as national runners-up. The next year, the Matadors grabbed their first of three straight and four in five years. To this day, Torgeson rattles off the names of his players as if their dynamic performances just happened.
"Like baseball, softball requires great pitching and we had that," Torgeson stated. "I always felt that once we got to the World Series, everyone had a chance. It was amazing not only to watch players excel in order to have that opportunity, but to also to witness their skill and athleticism in winning it all."
In all, Torgeson finished his stint with a 636-216-8 record, an astounding .744 winning percentage in which he never lost a regular season conference title. His players earned 24 All-American honors and numerous region and conference honors. All with Torgeson standing right behind them, leading them in the fight on the diamond and in the fight in as female student-athletes.
"When I think of Coach Torgeson, I think of three things: strength, commitment and determination," Barbara Jordan said, a three-time All-American from 1984-1987. "He would always talk to us at the end of practice, pacing in the dugout. It was inspiring. He was the biggest warrior of us all and there was no way we ever wanted to let him down."
And oh how success came. In 1985, the Matadors successfully defended their first national championship, doing so in front of the home crowd at Northridge
"I think that was the most nervous I saw him," Jordan added.
By 1990, Torgeson had amassed a record of 406-119 and four national championships at the Division II level. Players like Kathy Slaten, Lisa Ericson, Debbie Dickman and Michelle McAnany had etched their names into the records books with marks that still stand to this day.
A great note that speaks to Torgeson's Matadors is that they never finished worse than a tie for first in their respective conference standings during his entire 13-year tenure.
When 1991 rolled around, Torgeson had a new challenge to undertake: moving up to Division I. With the promotion came consistent competition against the top programs in the country. Except for one thing, nobody told Torgeson or the Matadors that it wasn't supposed to be so seamless.
"I think that is his greatest achievement, the way he and that team made the move to Division I," Jordan said. "People work their whole careers to get to the World Series and here he was taking them to the big dance in their third year of eligibility."
New names emerged for Torgeson in 1993, his first season at the College World Series and a 48-9-1 record. Kathy Blake, Vicky Rios, Beth Calcante and Tamara Ivie were among the new Matadors to hoist the mantle, taking the team to its first of three consecutive Western Athletic Conference championships and a fifth place finish in Oklahoma City.
Then, in 1994, the earthquake hit. On the first day of double-days.
With the campus and community sorting through the rubble of the devastating earthquake, Torgeson knew that the best way to rally his team was to get them back on the field.
"I remember hearing that two of my girls had to jump out of a building that was collapsing," Torgeson said. "They didn't want us to practice because the field was a mess, but I wouldn't of hear it. We were not going to let anything get in our way that year."
No doubt still pacing along the dugout after every practice with his trademark pencil in is ear, Torgeson watched CSUN finish 52-10 overall and clinch the WAC with a 21-3 mark. At the World Series, the Matadors rallied to defeat Oklahoma State in the semifinals to set-up a meeting with Arizona for the national championship.
Janet Pinneau, now an associate athletics director at Cal State Northridge, was one of Torgeson's assistant coaches during the team's transition to Division I and took over the program following Torgeson's retirement. She recalls never feeling any tentativeness during the season despite all the distractions, a belief she largely credits to Torgeson.
"Nothing phased us during that time and we had riots, earthquakes, floods and fires happening all around us and that was due to Coach Torgeson," Pinneau said. "We practiced for every situation that could arise in a game and that helped us stay focused and determined. Coach Torgeson always preached flexibility and during those times, we did what we had to do get through."
Although the end result was a 3-1 Arizona victory, Torgeson secured a place in history with the Matadors, especially as the game was the first women's softball national championship game to be televised on ESPN2.
He retired following the 1994 season and was immediately elected to the school's athletic Hall of Fame. To this day, he can still rattle off the names and plays that defined his extended stretch of success, and does so with a piercing clarity that makes you think he could still be patrolling the third base box with a pencil in his ear.
Still, when he looks back, when he collectively recalls all the championships and all the players and all the memories, it's the knowledge that he had an impact on the beginning of women's intercollegiate athletics.
"I am proud to have been a part of the beginning and enactment of Title IX," Torgeson added. "For all the success we had through all the years, having the opportunity to be part of history and work with a group of outstanding, big-hearted individuals was the best part."


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OpenConnect is an excellent replacement for Cisco's AnyConnect VPN client. After a lot of frustration trying to get AnyConnect to work on SliTaz, I finally jumped ship and got OpenConnect working with SliTaz Cooking in no time.
First, open a terminal, switch to root, download OpenConnect from the Debian repository and install it:
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openconnect/openconnect_3.02-2_i386.deb
tazpkg convert ./openconnect_3.02-2_i386.deb
tazpkg install ./openconnect-3.02-2.tazpkg
OpenConnect requires VPNC which is found in the SliTaz repository:
tazpkg get-install vpnc
This VPNC script works right out of the box:
wget http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/vpnc-scripts.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/vpnc-script
mv ./vpnc-script /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script
Now that OpenConnect and VPNC is installed, you can create a script to connect to your VPN. I named it vpnconnect. My script resembles the following. You may find that you need to add or remove some of the options I've shown here. Read the documentation for OpenConnect's option list. Change the stuff in caps to fit your needs.
openconnect REMOTE.HOST.COM \
--no-dtls \
--auth-group=GROUP_NAME \
-u USERNAME \
--no-cert-check \
-s /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script \
Now run the script, still as root:
At this point, you'll be prompted for your password on the remote system. Once the VPN connection is established it will background itself (the -b option in the script above).
All done!
One note: I originally tried doing all of this on SliTaz 3.0. OpenConnect complained that libssl.so.1.0.0 and libcrypto.so.1.0.0 were not found. I created symlinks to libssl.so.0.9.8 and lib.so.0.9.8 and OpenConnect carried on happily but this isn't a recommended solution.


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Trial date set in cyberattack on Koch Industries
A federal judge has scheduled a summer trial for a Wisconsin man accused of joining a cyberattack on Wichita-based Koch Industries.
The scheduling order handed down Friday in the case of 37-year-old Erick J. Rosol of Black Creek, Wis., sets his trial for June 25 in U.S. District Court in Wichita.
Rosol was indicted on one count each of damaging a computer and conspiracy to damage a computer.
Prosecutors allege the computer hacking group Anonymous asked conspirators in February 2011 to send a high volume of repeated requests to Koch's website, crashing the site. Rosol is also accused of sending a code that damaged Koch's computer.
Defense lawyer Kurt Kerns says his client is innocent. Kerns says nothing was hacked and no information was lost.


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It seemed like any other day on a large commercial hog farm. Workers went about their daily chores one summer day, tending to the hogs as usual and leaving the farm around 5:30 p.m. At this time, everything appeared to be in order with the 1,800 hogs housed in the finishing building — where hogs are kept and fed prior to delivery to the slaughter house. Bright and early the next morning, however, the same workers arrived as usual — only to find a gruesome discovery. All of the hogs in the finishing building had died overnight as a result of asphyxiation due to carbon dioxide poisoning.
What had led to the untimely death of these poor little pigs? It soon became obvious that the problem stemmed from a failed ventilation system. Because the hogs were kept in pens — unable to move about freely — mechanical ventilation was required to prevent a buildup of carbon dioxide. Overnight, an electrical malfunction had caused loss of power to the finishing building, which led to the failure of the ventilation system and subsequent buildup of carbon dioxide in the space — a lethal combination that ultimately led to the swine's demise. In the investigation that followed, experts were charged with determining what was behind this sudden power loss, which prompted the accident.
The system
To answer this question, a comprehensive analysis of the electrical service was necessary. Electric service to the premises was 120/240V, single-phase, 3-wire from a pad-mounted transformer, owned by the electric utility company. The primary feeder to this transformer was underground, as was the 120/240V secondary feeder to the service entrance equipment of the farm. The secondary service feed from the transformer entered a current transformer cabinet and was then distributed to two fusible disconnect switches that served as the main disconnect devices for the entire farm. Two 3/0 copper cables with PVC insulation in the housing of a safety switch were connected using compression connectors.
The lawsuit
The farm's insurance company subrogated against the electrical contractor that installed the fused disconnect switch, asking for reimbursement of the cost of the lost hogs. The insurance company alleged that the electrical contractor, having installed the fused disconnect that ultimately failed, was responsible for the installation and suitability of the equipment; therefore, it was liable for the accident.
The farm's insurance company hired a forensic engineer (plaintiff's expert) to investigate the cause of the loss of power to the finishing building. I was retained by the defense counsel (representing the electrical contractor) to determine if the plaintiff's findings were correct.
The investigation
Electrical repairs had been completed prior to the arrival of the plaintiff's investigator; therefore, the electrical system was operating normally. The plaintiff's expert found that the left splice on the load side of the wiring leading out of the fused disconnect switch (and providing power to the finishing building) had faulted to ground, prompting loss of 240V to the finishing building and causing the ventilation fans, which operated on 240V, to stop working. The location of the fault is shown in the Figure (sketch made by plaintiff's expert).
The fusible disconnect switch that served the finishing building is seen in Photo 1 on page 20 after the repairs were made. Note the arc mark on the left side of the cover. Photo 2 shows a section of copper cable that was a part of the splice in the left side of the disconnect switch. The corrosion appears white in some places and green in others. Without having a sample analyzed, possible corrosion products included copper chloride (white) and copper chlorate (green). The evidence gathered by the plaintiff's expert indicated some corrosion had occurred before failure of the splice.
Based on my examination of the plaintiff's photos, I found that the right splice (Photo 3 on page 22) exhibited evidence that the connection (splice) was overheating. Photo 4 on page 23 shows the corrosion found on the splice on the right. Photo 5 on page 23 illustrates a close-up of the copper cable that was clamped in the right splice. The wire insulation was examined and observed to be PVC.
The splices and their attached pieces of wire were sent to a materials laboratory for examination. A series of tests were run on the corrosion stains found on the uninsulated portion of the copper electrical cable. The results of these tests indicated that the corrosive agent was most probably chlorine that outgassed from the PVC insulation and formed hydrochloric acid in the presence of humid air. Hydrochloric acid rapidly corrodes copper.
In order to evaluate the corrosion that was observed in the plaintiff's photographs, I needed to examine the physical evidence. As a result, the defendant's attorney demanded that the plaintiff produce the cable section shown in Photo 2. Neither the plaintiff's expert nor the plaintiff's attorney could produce such evidence.
Although the missing link was not available, certain facts were still clear to me. As a result of my work, I determined that chlorine gas appeared to attach to and corrode the copper wires, resulting in the deterioration of the splices. One of the plaintiff's photos indicated that the cause of the failure was the corrosion of the copper wiring by the chlorine gas. I demanded to examine the piece of evidence that the plaintiff's expert had gathered. Once again, the plaintiff could not accommodate this request. As a result, my client moved for summary judgment against the plaintiff. The court granted my client's motion, and dismissed the case on the basis of spoliation of evidence.
Lessons learned
Based on my investigation in this case, I drew several conclusions. First of all, I believe the incident occurred as a result of outgassing of chlorine from the PVC cable, which, in turn, combined with moisture in the damp finishing building to produce hydrochloric acid that corroded the copper cable and splice connector. These conditions combined eventually caused the resistance of the splice to increase, causing the plastic tape covering the splice to deteriorate.
The electrical tape covering the splice would have exhibited signs of heat damage before the failure and the fault to the grounded enclosure housing occurred. Had regular inspections of the electrical equipment been conducted, deterioration of the tape would have been detected, and corrective action could have been taken before the incident occurred.
While this conclusion could not be proved without access to the cable section shown in Photo 2, it is my conclusion that the copper 3/0 cable, a typical product choice of this type of application, was improperly manufactured — in that the copper conductor strands of the cable were not protected against chemical attack by the chlorine present in the PVC insulation. In my opinion, this was the proximate cause of the failure of the splice connector and the resultant loss of power in the finishing building at the hog farm.
An expected selection for the electrical cable in the environment of the finishing building would be THW cable, which is thermoplastic insulation designed for use in areas of heat and moisture (wet). Study of the compression splice that I was able to examine indicated that the compression splice was properly assembled and was suitable for the application.
If the 3/0 electrical cable involved in the incident was improperly manufactured and allowed chlorine to outgas, the electrical contractor would not have been aware of such a defect and would have no way to test for such a condition. The electrical contractor would make his cable selection based on the application and rating of the cable. Therefore, he would have no reason not to trust that the labeling of the cable by the manufacturer was correct.
Peserik is founder of James E. Peserik Associate, Inc., a consulting forensic engineering and fire and accident investigation firm based in Coopersburg, Pa.


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Garvey (The Chosen One) - Spend It All [Unsigned Hype]
"The peoples choice from Washington, D.C. Garvey "The Chosen One" drops another club banger "Spend It All" by super producer Lo-Key. Hit www.tripleteamentertainment.com for more info or follow him at www.twitter.com/garveythechosen" - B
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In honor of today's playoff matchup between the Packers and the Cardinals, here's a game photo of the two teams from the 1940s, when the Cards were still in Chicago and the Packers played their Milwaukee games at State Fair Park.
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On, you Blue and Gold, to glory!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Packers v. Cardinals, way back when
Posted by Chance Michaels at 9:07 AM
Labels: 1940s
2 comments:
- Sean said...
Do know wear, if it is possible at all, that you could buy a 1924 Packers Jersey? My grandfather played on that team and I'd love to buy one each for my dad, brother, and myself.
- January 10, 2010 at 3:26 PM
- Chance Michaels said...
I don't know of any company which makes them, unfortunately. But you might try HR Derby - you may be able to custom-order one through them.
If you don't mind, I'd love to talk to you about your grandfather's experiences - stories from the period are rare beyond measure.
- January 12, 2010 at 3:48 PM
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The Tech of "The Amazing Spider-Man"
As the film and its new Peter Parker swings into theaters, we take a look at the great gadgets Spider-Man has been carrying since his debut.
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So, why the redo? Explaining to people why this superhero movie franchise has been rebooted is now a hobby of mine. (Sony Pictures doesn't want the rights to revert back to Disney quite yet, and it had to get a movie out fast to prevent that from happening.) When I say this, I hide the joy in my voice, for I am a huge fan of the Amazing Spider-Man. And this reboot is looking good.
One thing that has always drawn me and so many others to the story is Spider-Man's alter ego, Peter Parker. (This time around, Andrew Garfield, last seen in The Social Network, will don the red-and-blue spandex.) He's an everyman, bullied and pushed around, mostly because he's the socially-inept smart kid that everyone wanted to cheat off in class. Give him the proportional strength and speed, plus the agility of an arachnid, and not only does he become super-heroic, but he also becomes super-sarcastic (something woefully missing in the previousSpidey films). Best of all, Peter gets an excuse to show off his technological genius. That kid—he was just a teen when he got bit by that radioactive/genetically-altered spider—makes some great gadgets.
Now, let's take a look at the gizmos and science breakthroughs Peter Parker has created or used in the years since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created Spider-Man. Some of this tech could have changed the world. Some of it was thrust upon him by others. All of it has helped make the ol' Web-head an icon.
(All images are copyright of Marvel or Sony Pictures.)
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2 Web Fluid
3 Spider-Tracers
4 Utility Belt
5 Spider-Signal
6 Camera
7 Spider-Mobile
8 Black Costume/Symbiote
9 Iron Spider
10 Future Foundation Unstable Molecules Uniform
11 Stealth Suit
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp with Five-Spice and Kaffir Lime Whipped Cream
- Written by Recipes courtesy of Laura Pyles
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp with Five-Spice and Kaffir Lime Whipped Cream
Recipes courtesy of Laura Pyles
For filling:
4 cups rinsed, hulled and quartered strawberries
4 cups rinsed and diced rhubarb
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup tapioca starch
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 Tbs yuzu juice*
For streusel topping:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cubed
1 cup all purpose flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1 cup rolled oats
Pinch salt
2 Tbsp. Chinese Five-Spice*
Kafir Lime Whipped Cream, recipe follows
For the filling: add all ingredients to a large bowl and using your hands, toss lightly until the sugar and starch are evenly distributed. Lightly oil a baking dish that will comfortably fit all your fruit and pour your strawberry rhubarb mixture into the dish. Set aside.
For the topping: Place all the topping ingredients into the mixing bowl of a stand mixer.
Start the mixer on stir to avoid kicking half of the ingredients out and move it up to low when it starts to mix together. For a really great streusel, leave it alone at this stage and let the mixer do its job.
Wait until the butter starts to crumb in nicely but before it becomes one big dough clump, about 5 minutes of mixing. Spoon topping mixture generously over top of prepared fruit filling and bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
Serve topped with Kaffir Lime Whipped Cream or vanilla ice cream.
Kaffir Lime Whipped Cream
2 cups cream
2 large kaffir lime leaves*
1 cup powdered sugar
Lime zest
Add cream and lime leaves to a pot and scald; let sit at room temperature for about 15 minutes, strain out the leaves and chill steeped cream until very cold. (Note: This can be done one day before using.) Whip cold cream with the powdered sugar to stiff peaks, spoon a big dollop on top of the crisp and top with a sprinkling of fresh lime zest.
* Yuzu juice, Chinese Five-Spice, and kaffir lime leaves can be found at Asian markets and some supermarkets. Yuzu juice has a tangerine taste, but lemon juice or lime juice can be substituted if necessary.


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It's no secret that the digital innovations we love come at a price. The Internet and all its convenience, mobile devices containing a wealth of personal information, and global real-time communication have become indispensable to most of us. Yet the digital revolution has created enormous opportunities for the perpetrators of fraud and other financial crime, affecting consumers and corporations alike.
Estimates of losses to cyber-crime range from a few hundred million up to a trillion dollars1. Security and data breaches can result in multi-million-dollar losses.
The increasingly sophisticated techniques used by cyber-criminals have led insurers to pursue new approaches to preventing and detecting such activities. New technologies and solutions can make it easier for insurers not only to assemble the integrated data they need to combat crime, but to bring sophisticated analytics to bear, generating useful insights to help them detect and prevent the efforts of fraudsters and other digital criminals.
There are three major elements needed to make this happen:
Enhancing the Quality of Data.The quality of insights gained will depend on the quality of data provided. Insurers use a variety of internal and external data sources to fight fraud and financial crime, but many struggle with data quality. To address this they need to define the right data-quality metrics, and then establish central data screening and reconciliation. Another step is to improve data governance, which may require the appointment of a chief data officer.
Transforming Data into Information into Insight. A lack of data is usually not the problem; it's the lack of the right data. Transforming data into insight is a three-step challenge, involving 1) identifying the data required; 2) using technology to collect the right data; and 3) analyzing the information to transform it into actionable insight. There are tactical changes which insurers can make to obtain more information from data, including use of analytics techniques such as text mining. Ultimately, though, information is only useful if it can be acted upon. This requires alignment of processes and people, along with coordination and empowerment to make use of the information.
Applying Data Visualization Techniques. As the volume and complexity of data increase, key software providers are adopting data visualization techniques allowing complex data to be viewed by business experts through a visual interface. This helps them look for visual patterns and identify inconsistencies.
Insurers are seeking to ensure cyber-security and to move toward new global standards as established by regulators. Data provides the greatest challenges and the most significant opportunities for insurers to transform their financial crime capabilities, but using data to drive a more integrated approach requires centralization of data.
By using big data technologies to provide centralized access to data – rather than centralized storage – insurance companies can employ analytics to obtain valuable insights and make informed decisions quickly and flexibly. Insurers and other financial services firms need this kind of agility and adaptability more than ever, given the rapid evolution of fraud and financial crime and the ever-increasing stringency of regulatory requirements.
1The Economic Impact of Cybercrime and Cyber Espionage, Centre for Strategic and International Studies," McAfee, July 2013.


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Audio specialists beyerdynamic celebrates 85 years in the audio business
Since 1924 the audio specialists at beyerdynamic have stood for technological leadership in the areas of headphones, microphones and conferencing technology. Originally founded in Berlin and with its headquarters now in Heilbronn, the company's roughly 300 employees are hard at work carrying on the legacy of company founder Eugen Beyer: the development and manufacture of products and solutions for audiophiles, demanding musicians and secure communication. The company remains as innovative as ever. Even while celebrative its 85th year of existence, beyerdynamic is introducing three forward-looking technologies intended to open up an even larger segment of the market.
Digital Adaptive Noise Reduction (DANR)
The HS 600 DANR 2.0 pilot headset with adaptive noise reduction is the latest premium product for the Aviation division. Active elimination of ambient noise is at this point a familiar feature. The HS 600 DANR is a different beast entirely: the world's only aviation headset with intelligent digital – not analogue – noise reduction, making it possible to orient the acoustic countermeasures to a specific target. That allows the wearer to filter out specific disruptive noises without affecting the overall sound. An intensive test phase and the experiences from years of research work flowed into the development of this new product. The success in implementing DANR technology into items like headphones means that it will also see application in other divisions as well.
EarPatron is a patented hearing protection technology for headphones intended to help safeguard customer's health. Unlike devices that simply limit the maximum volume, this technology focuses on the equivalent continuous sound pressure level, known as LEQ. It is the sum of sound waves in terms of duration and intensity to which the user is exposed, consciously or unconsciously. The "Patron" displays the "sound dose" to which the user has been exposed during the measurement period, preventing an overloading and damage of the hearing. EarPatron is currently being used in the SIS interpreting system and for the Headzone Pro XT surround headphone system. An application of the technology in the consumer headphone market is planned for the near future.
Tesla T 1 headphones
The T1 is the first model in a new generation of headphones, known as the Tesla headphones. The completely re-engineered sound transducers achieve values of over one Tesla—an extremely high power output. That is roughly double the strength of normal headphone transducer systems. The result: The membrane coil can be designed to be extremely filigree and nevertheless achieve a high degree of efficiency. That helps the T1, the new top model in the beyerdynamic Premium Line, reproduce each nuance with extreme precision, with a sound that is absolutely transparent, spatially realistic and distortion-free.
"The company's capacity for innovation is a significant factor in how we expect to thrive in the market down the road," notes Wolfgang Luckhardt, the managing director at beyerdynamic. "Our years of know-how and experience in the daily application of our products among professions users form the foundation of our constant improvement of the technical properties, as well as our understanding of precisely what our customers want."
Back in 2003 beyerdynamic announced MANUFAKTUR, the world's first headphones build to reflect each user's individual combination of product characteristics like colour, materials and technical components. This concept was expanded in 2009 to include the Microphone MANUFACTUR and in-ear headphones tailored to the user's specific ear.
The company has also been active in the area of conference technology, turning heads in 2006 with the development of the Revoluto technology, a patented conference system using a row of carefully aligned microphones. That same year beyerdynamic expanded its product portfolio to include the Headzone products, surround sound headphones with excellent sound quality for music and TV production, home theatres and PC gaming.
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DOVER - According to local electricity companies, over 100,000 people in the state are without power tonight, and they expect more will come.
At around 6 p.m. Public Service of New Hampshire reported 71,766 customers affected, Unitil reported 17,072 in the Seacoast, N.H. and 6,459 in central N.H., and New Hampshire Electric Co-op reports 13,574 customers affected.
"Thus far, the storm's track and intensity has matched our forecasts," Unitil media relations manager Alec O'Meara said. "We continue to work closely with first responders to address any wires down issues reported in order to help keep roads clear and customers safe, and we urge customers to stay inside and stay safe during the late afternoon and overnight hours."
Due to the severity of the forecast Unitil anticipates the impact to the electrical system in the region could be severe and may result in a multiple-day restoration. Unitil will restore power as long as conditions allow for safe restoration; bucket trucks cannot operate safely in winds in excess of 35 mph.
At 4:50 p.m., PSNH served 500,000 customers in the state, of which a total of 54,994 customers were reportedly "affected."
In a press release sent out at noon Monday, PSNH was reporting approximately 2,400 customers were without power. In anticipation of the storm's arrival, the company has opened its emergency operations center and staffed its regional work centers across the state with 100 PSNH and local contractors line crews and 100 tree trimming crews.
PSNH has requested an additional over 500 additional line and tree crews, in addition to its own crews and local contractors. Crews from as far away as Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas were expected in to New Hampshire this afternoon.
PSNH's call center is fully staffed and ready to field customer calls. If a customer loses power, it is important they report their outage to PSNH. Customers can report outages by calling 1-800-662-7764 or through www.psnh.com.
Customers are reminded to never touch a downed wire and always assume any downed line is live and dangerous. Downed lines should be reported to PSNH immediately.
Customers using generators should make sure they are installed correctly-for their own safety, as well as that of line workers. A generator should only be attached to the house wiring and completely isolated from the utility supply. Without proper isolation, power that is being generated through the home could also feed into the PSNH electrical system, causing an unsafe situation for both line workers and neighbors. Please take care when installing a portable generator. For more generator safety tips, visit http://www.psnh.com/stormsafety/.
"With anticipated high winds and heavy rain we are asking people to stay off the roads this afternoon, particularly after 3:00," Governor Lynch said this morning. "Water in the roadways, flying debris and downed power lines are all possible because of the severity of this storm, which is why we are urging people stay off the roads unless absolutely necessary."
According to the National Weather Service, the main impact of the storm would reach New Hampshire around mid-afternoon today, and continue through the early morning hours of Tuesday. The Weather Service predicts wind gusts of up to 70 mph, rainfall ranging from 1 to 4 inches, and coastal flooding as a result of the storm surge.
WMUR reports gusts reached over 100 mph on top of Mount Washington in N.H. today.
Governor Lynch directed the National Guard to place 100 soldiers on state active duty, with an additional 100 on standby, to assist with the storm response.
"This will be significant storm for New Hampshire, and we are urging all citizens to exercise common sense and extreme caution," Governor Lynch said.
View Unitil's power outage map here: http://www.unitil.com/outage-center/electric-outage-map
View PSNH's outage map here: http://www.psnh.com/outage/outagemap.aspx
View NHEC's outage map here: http://www.nhec.com/oms.php
Over 100,000 power outages reported in N.H.
DOVER - According to local electricity companies, over 100,000 people in the state are without power tonight, and they expect more will come.


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I had planned to do a fairly big post of things I've used up recently but I didn't expect the last little bit of my foundation to last for ages and my lip balm to twist up forever (I think part of this is I love it so much and I'm not going to replace it till I use up some others since I'm swimming in lip balm and a part of me doesn't want to finish it!).
Anyway, onward.
* Murad Skin Perfecting Lotion - I was introduced to Murad when I worked at ULTA. No matter who sat down in my chair to get their makeup done, I would invariably pick a Murad moisturizer (usually pomegranate) to prep the skin. Everyone's skin seemed to love this moisturizer and it wasn't long before I picked it up myself, which was unfortunate only because my skin really likes it. I've gone through several tubes of this stuff and try to find a cheaper brand only to come back to Murad. Right now I'm using the Essential-C Day Moisture SPF 30 cream (smells like citrus) which is a jaw dropping $60 and I see that they've recently increased the price of their moisturizers from $30 to $33 for an itty bitty amount of 1.7oz. I hate you Murad! But I will continue to buy your products because they unfortunately work for me. Would I repurchase? Have and will continue to do so even though my wallet cries each time.
* Christian Dior DiorShow mascara - This is one of those deluxe sample sizes that I think I received from Sephora's Beauty Insider program. I am so happy to be finished with this little tube. I think the rose smell only increased the amount of tearing that my eyes do on their own. It did elongate and thicken my lashes with 1 coat but considering the price - $24 - and the
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Bad Gobi! *gives hard stare*
What: Supermarket
Why: Gotta keep the kids fed
Last hard: 14.12
Last rest: This is it
Lyrics: I shall give up and go away again
What's the fitness test for Gobi?
Wabo - glad your run picked you up.
When do you find out about the super six thing Bridget?
What: maybe a very easy run?
Why: think I may be up to it if I take it easy, will see after I've been to the dentist.
Last hard: not doing anything this week has been very hard.
Last rest: all week.
Lyrics - no.
morning all
ice and a light covering of snow here - it looks like someone has sprinkled icing sugar over the pavements
A bit slippery in places but by and large it was possible to avoid the black ice and stick to the crisp white stuff. I did get some odd looks from commuters though.
I'm in a right dither about whether to attempt to get to Bournemouth tomorrow. Forecasts have bad snow coming in from the west so I will have to drive right into it. And I've never run a marathon in a blizzard before
What: 4 miles slooowly on the ice
Why: not running is not an option
Last hard: saturday
Last rest: 6 April
Have a good day
Morning all. Rest day Friday here. I must admit sometimes to rest is hard but its one of my principles that seems to be working regarding ovrall progress.
Tipp - sorry about the bit of shitty news. As someone says above - do what you enjoy when you can!!.
Cold here but i'm hoping we will escape the worst of the snow here in our little corner!!.
Good luck!!!!!!
Morning all,
What: 240 m pool, alternating front crawl and backstroke
Why: I still can't run but am trying to get back into exercise slowly
Last rest: Yesterday
Last hard: All this rest
Lyrics: No idea
Mava: Good luck in the marathon if you make it
Good luck to any other racers this weekend, though looking at the forecast, I wonder how many will actually happen!
Have a good day all
Don't think I'll read back since I last posted!
What: 5m easy
Why: I've been overdoing it.
Last rest: Sunday
Last hard: A while ago.
Hope the weather isn't interrupting training too much.
Nice to have you back Moraghan.
And talking of being back - 7 miles easy in the cold but gloriously sunny weather. Bliss.
A'noon peeps
Yesterdays lyrics: 'I want it all' by Queen.
What : Nothing.
Why; Got a sickness bug. 'No well, no well !'
Moraghan: Good to have you back posting mate.
Hi all -
Good to see you Moraghan - doing any cross country?
Birkmyre - get well soon ...
LMUH - glad you are feeling better
What - 75 min easy
Why - aerobic fitness
Lyrics - - no as per usual .......
Gobi - as an asthmatic I thank you.
Oh dear birkmyre - hope it's just a 24hr thing.
CB - I certainly did today having been denied for a whole five days!
Evening. Have to read back later as the husband is starving.
What: 1 mile easy, 2 miles tempo pace (9:00-9:15), 1 mile easy
Why: schedule says so, though it was was supposed to be 2-2-2 but, given the cold and snow, I figured 1-2-1 was just as good!
Last rest: yesterday
Last hard: tonight.
Brrrr it's freaking freezing!! Later!
Greetings all,
My job is safe... and will continue as normal
Ran yesterday, but having a rest day today
Take care
15 miles in the biting cold, well it felt like it. My hands and feet were numb. Running with pins and needles in your toes is most strange.
Ran oop north again and it started to snow. came back down south for some respite but it snowed here too, knocking out my power and phone line so I lit a fire in the bedroom and curled up with the cats.
LMUH - glad that you are feeling better.
RFJ - good news then.
B - hope you feel better tomorrow.
Good news RFJ.
BMM - I am so liking the sound of 'lighting a fire in the bedroom' hope you're not too inconvenienced by the weather.
evening all.
great news RFJ, specially just before christmas.
Hope you feel better soon Birkmyre. The girl who works for me has it.
my marathon is looking unlikely judging by the weather forecast, although I've still put together the stuff I'll need. Gutted I'll be to miss it. Plus I ate rather a lot of christmas type goodies today at work.
Of course, tomorrow I may feel different as I seem to have started sneezing and dripping from the nose
Bromley Parkrun isn't completely out of the question tomorrow if I can dig the car out and leave early enough. Getting over the North Downs might be tricky though.


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Sleeping Beauties
A.A. Knopf, 1993 - Fiction - 231 pages
Susanna Moore's two previous novels have been met with the highest praise. My Old Sweetheart published in 1982, received both the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. And when The Whiteness of Bones appeared in 1989, Jonathan Yardley, writing in the Washington Post, hailed it as "magic...magic that lures the reader with the seductions of passion and wit and then rewards him with the surprises that can only come when the home truths of human existence are disclosed through the eyes of a writer with a large and understanding heart". Now, with Sleeping Beauties, Moore gives us her most vividly drawn and emotionally charged novel yet. It is the story of Clio, a thirteen-year-old runaway - from an indifferent father and cruel stepmother - who shows up, "unexpected and uninvited", at the Honolulu home of her eccentric aunt Emma: "Clio hoped only that the mysterious ties of blood...would wrap their strong tendrils around her". Emma takes her in - and, in exchange, Clio agrees to "talk-story" and to learn the past. Emma is a collector of the legends, myths, and rites of their native Hawaii. Weaving together the history of the islands and the rich, convoluted legacy of their mixed white-and-Hawaiian family, Emma teaches Clio what it means to "swim out of the currents of time", helping her to exchange her "small past" for a grand one. But as she enters adulthood, that same past begins to take on a crushing weight: "If she could leave the islands...perhaps she'd be able to figure out just what she was meant to do with all of the secrets, all of the chants, and songs, and legends that so filled her head that she could no longer distinguish what was realfrom what was myth". An impulsive marriage to a well-known Hollywood actor finally provides Clio with a reason to leave the entanglements of island life and her family. But when her new life in California begins to reveal its own increasingly violent entanglements, Clio is forced to return home. Now she must find a way to embrace the difficulties of her past without forfeiting her future, and without denying her profound attachment to the extraordinary world that is her heritage.
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The Game Is Called 'Fumpkin'
People getting seriously into PC games in the last few years might not have any idea why I speak the name Peter Molyneux with reverence. You might have picked up Black and White, accidentally touched your animal's genitals and then uninstalled it in shame, not really feeling its flavor. It would take a very long time to go over with you the Bullfrog era of computer gaming, when having access to an Amiga meant having access to some of the most inventive games ever stored on physical media. These days, the things I play associated with his name rarely feel like complete games anymore - they're more like half-finished models he used to be really enamored with until he caught the glint of some new fascination. I got a little of the old feeling watching an extended preview of The Movies at E3, but I don't know if I can let myself be hurt again by that man. He's secured quite a bit of new money recently, though God only knows what he'll do with it.
I know that I said I would be done with the Pikmin contest at least a week ago, if not more than that - and I would like to pretend that I'm sorry, that would be the right thing, but for a host of reasons I can't even mimic contrition. There are a few main hurdles, not so much hurdles as giant dams, that have impeded the process.
Someone sent me a picture of their shit
I found that pretty vile. I don't know what universe you hair-coated mongrels dwell in, but the one I live in - and you should really check it out - is one where when a person tries to give you a videogame, you do not send him a picture of your shit. Or send me a naked picture of a young man. Or, and I am not joking, photographs or drawings of your "Flesh Pikmin." When I come across something like that, I seriously considered pawning these copies of Pikmin and putting the proceeds toward a firearm I could use to make myself die.
Fikmin is the scourge of man
When I said Text Description, I did not mean Pikmin Fan Fiction, or "Fikmin," written from the perspective of Olimar or Louie or a Bulborb or whatever the fuck else. Multipage treatises where you hold forth on Pikmin culture are one thing, and I did not disqualify you for doing so. One some ridiculous level, I'm honored that you would expose yourselves to this degree. Next time, don't expose so Goddamn much.
I understand that your green Pikmin is meant to represent marijuana
You don't have to beat me about the head and shoulders with it. I must have gotten three hundred of these. I can see the leaf you have drawn, I'm familiar with the plant you're obliquely "reefering" to. Without going into too much detail, I know why the quick cash option at an ATM automatically dispenses forty dollars.
That isn't to say that absolutely every entry was an affront, far from it. But imagine eating a cookie where every other bite contains a human tooth. Even if you really like cookies, you might wait a bit before returning to it.
In Sculpture, there are some very noteworthy entries. We have Pikmin of perhaps questionable political views. We have adorable, petite Pikmin. We have Nemesis Pikmin, who stalk their foes relentlessly. There are also the monstrous, alien Pikmin observed on LV-426, as well as slavering undead Pikmin whose hunger is eternal. Especially compelling was Eyes Five's alluring but deadly medusa Pikmin. There's also this, the only carved entry, but since it is carved from a human femur bonus points have been awarded. Simon Fraser attempts to appeal to my affection for Warhammer, but is rebuffed! That leaves us with Scott Richard's devastating Wickmin composition and Sara Black's mechanized horror, which I can't decide between, so they both win.
There are some quality entries in Images, too. Behold the unstable Prikmin, or the delicious Cocoa Pikmin. The Akira-inspired Supreme Being Pikmin devastates foes - and you will one day learn to fear Tan Pikmin. There are Zombie Pikmin, as well as Dark Pikmin who growl and shudder in the night while Necromancer Pikmin raise a dead legion in the service of dark gods. There are Pikmin who you could rightly call "juicy." There are Bondi Blue Pikmin with impeccable taste, Covert Pikmin entrusted with the survival of the free world, and Pikmin whose buds know only hunger. Consider, for a moment, legendary vampire slaying Pikmin, or Pikmin refugees from other games. There's also just some Pikmin who don't have much to offer, I'm afraid - and that's sad, nearly as sad as the loneliest Pikmin of all, come to think of it. Michael Firman covers virtually every other type. He turned in an excellent performance, and he will win a copy. However…
One fellow sent me a series of Pikmin, which I call "The Derek Jensen Collection," that consists of no less than six discrete species. He's got some cool ideas for how they'd play out in-game as well, and that's something I would like to recognize.
In the text department, as I've told you, there was much in the way of storytelling within the strict confines of the Pikmin universe. Before, I might not have thought there was really room for it. I loved Nick Kloiber's take on Green Pikmin which could be thrown into stacks and used as bridges and ladders - motherfucker gets a copy for that. On the other hand, Trevor Bab's brooding prose on the topic of Dark Pikmin is so ridiculous that I have no choice but to reward it as well. I want to live in a world where immediately upon writing a short story about baby plants that hum with ancient evil, you are richly rewarded by a man in a distant city you have never met.
(CW)TB out.
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