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Merida has done an amazing job with the EOne-Sixty 900E. It has a fun, playfully ride quality that few ebikes can match, and the price is simply unbeatable. It's also the only sub 50lb bike in this test, and that's without a single strand of carbon. It could be even better though. With a two degree slacker head angle and a little more power from the Shimano motor the EOne-Sixty would be able to keep up on the climbs, only to drop the competition on every descent. The biggest issue though, is actually getting hold of one.
Vitus' E-Sommet VR is a great introduction to the industry's leading electric mountain platforms, offering riders an all-encompassing Enduro bike that's a fraction of the cost of other high-end options. On top of the bike's great-looking hydroformed aluminum silhouette, seamless battery integration, and aggressive frame geometry, riders are treated to a robust Shimano XT and SLX groupset, DT Swiss wheels, and a selection of Nukeproof peripherals. At its core, a SHIMANO STEPS E8000 eMTB motor system provides effortless ascent capabilities, thanks to three different riding modes, a fast-charging battery architecture, and a low, centralized position that makes navigating even the harshest trails a lackadaisical affair.
The bike has a maximum range of 20 miles before needing to recharge. Keeping up with speed and battery life is a breeze with the Bafang LCD display that comes standard with this model. A durable aluminum alloy frame helps this bike take a beating and keep on going. The Stalker has an 8-speed transmission and a set of Tekro mechanical disc brakes that will give you full control over the bike. A pair of 20 inch by 4 inch tires will help you climb those steep hills and easily get down those muddy trails.
Specialized has e-bikes figured out. Its e-bikes are better looking and better sorted than almost anything else. This Turbo Levo has a clean interface: just a mode switch and a few LEDs for status. To dig deeper, you use Specialized's Misson Control app, which lets the user customize the motor's tune, and has a clever Smart Control mode. This mode lets the rider set and time or distance, and the amount of reserve they want to be left over. The app then automatically adjusts the motor's output to meet those settings, reducing battery anxiety. The custom motor is extremely smooth and quiet, with awesome torque. We found the highest mode too powerful for finesse riding, but great for flying up smooth climbs and cutting time off transfers. The e-bike tuned RockShox fork is somewhat harsh, but the rest of the parts are excellent and suit the bike's capabilities—something we can't say that about every e-bike.
Addmotor MOTAN electric mountain bike is a big bike built for big biking appetites. It goes fast, it lasts for a long time, and it means business. The thick tires can manage rough roads and tracks, making it the ultimate off-road bike. It is fully adjustable for different heights and shapes and sizes and is made with a tough frame to support anything.
Amazing bike, quick. On the flat average 21mph full power, after 3-4 miles average 18mph. A lot of hills in SoCal so this 1/3 hp motor does it's job well with pedal assist on very steep grades. With electric only mode and heavy, steep, long hills this bike does its job pushing through a 16 mile commute with some energy to spare with a 190lb load of me and my gear. This bike could do much more with flat and pedal assist modes maybe twice as far. Recommend you use smaller tires 1.75 vs the standard 1.95 to achieve my results. Continental contact travels work great!
A comfortable full suspension urban electric bike with adjustable upright body position, wider Boost hub spacing and sturdy thru-axles front and rear, high volume tires offer comfort and stability, they don't have reflective sidewalls but they do offer puncture protection. Totally blacked out aesthetic, everything matches and looks very cool, wires and cables are internally…...
…but currently offer only very few advantages, such as a cleaner design and the option to mount a bottle cage in a front triangle. If you want to take a spare battery in your backpack, you will have to struggle with the larger dimensions of the integrated batteries, or you won't have the possibility to take one with you at all. Depending on the integration, handling the integrated rechargeable battery (e.g. the on-button for Shimano-Intube) can be awkward. Also, the longer battery results in a higher centre of gravity. The fact is that there are good reasons for continuing to use a standard external battery.
Most brands list their bike's power, but avoid putting too much emphasis on the number— there is no standard for measuring this, so the performance can vary wildly. Every motor on our list is rated to a continuous, or nominal, power output of 250 watts. But even this number isn't always accurate. Instead, look for torque, which measures how much rotational force is being applied to move the motor. It's the oomph, grunt, or kick you feel when you step on the pedals. More torque means faster acceleration and increased assistance.
Addmotor HITHOT is slightly more lightweight than the Addmotor MOTAN model. The range is less but it is still impressive, and it is a bike that is built for slightly lighter riding all round. It is still a great bike, with suspension features and a strongly built frame. This bike has the added safety of front and rear brakes to make sure you can stop when you need to, even if that is at short notice.
This is a compact bike that can be assembled and reassembled quickly and easily, though it might take a few attempts to practice. It has a range when fully charged of just under 30 miles, which is at the higher end of standard when it comes to electric bikes. It has quite a powerful motor at 250W which only adds to how smooth the ride is when using this bike.
Anybody can work on electric bikes, even you: No need to learn about compression or carburetor turning, replacing parts of an engine or even mixing fuel. Anyone who can work on pedal bikes can maintain an electric hunting bike- no special licensing or degree required. If you don't know how to work on bikes, you can learn how to pretty quickly. Moreover, replacing parts like a controller or motor on an e-bike is much easier than changing the crank or cylinder on a gas-powered engine, so long-term maintenance is much easier, too.
This is fantastic and, oddly, mindblowing to me.A decade ago I was working at a local college in IT, and one of the my duties was building/maintaining and monitoring the distance learning rooms, which were equipped with queued cameras tied directly to microphones on each desk, and blah blah blah, those classes connected via hardware codec to other classroom across the state (or in some cases, country) to broadcast a live class to multiple classrooms. Our head end had 30 hardware codecs, a 128in/128out AV router, and required a central bridge to connect multiple endpoints and designate the main source and corresponding layout. Dozens of miles of copper were spread around the campus tied to hundreds of miles of fiber connecting our satellite campuses, all costing literally millions of dollars to create.Now they can do it on Twitch with a basic internet connection and free software. In HD. Holy crap, I am an old man with an onion on my belt, but the progress we have made in a short amount of time is awesome.
now whether it be motors or geometry or indeed componentry so many lessons have been learned in the world of a mountain by again since his birth back in what 2012 something like that what about the human element of it all I've learnt so much along the way so today we're gonna be showing you guys our top five lessons learned [Music] now I've heard of a lot of lessons that Chris Smith has learnt in his long bank to buy career no more so than he'd broken back broken neck broken arm broken leg broken ankle broken wrists Matt's been done it's been done for Chris but come on take us away take us to the list of your top lessons learned on an email Mike well I think when I first started out my biggest mistake was in turbo or boost mode everywhere I didn't learn about eco in the art of eco get the most out of battery after you go would you believe it yes again the most of that and doing you know riding more trails still at a good pace I'm taking that that is your number five that's number five number four add maintenance getting back after a ride maybe a night ride sticking the bike in the shed expecting it work don't just know you don't expect it to work like clockwork the next time you get on it I think if you have to do one little bit of maintenance chain maintenance degrease and a lube is the one for Evite's digital wrong kit so rat wearing the wrong kit on this big rides I didn't used to really do massive rides I wasn't a big fan of wearing shammies and short liners and things like that and even chamois butter you heard that right well I did see you had a type of chamois butter on that trip to Mont Blanc which unfortunately you got along but yeah definitely chamois on an e-bike chamois NC common and even like big waterproof jackets in those horrible weather eyes then you got you know a lot of adverse weather on the ebike and then I think the higher pressure its suspension so I can from slopestyle and freeride and we were just like 80 psi in the tires max a shock set ends you know 350 psi on the shocks and nearly they looked like a suspension fork but actually didn't do a job so getting the right tire pressures and suspensions and ask you question but you still do a huge range ride and you do still do free ride riding I still drag you around trial sections do you still have huge sigh pressures yeah I still run you like big jumps 40 psi stuff so we still don't quite like that right I think so but it's just for those big jumps you do need those bigger tire pressures but I was sometimes plus 40 psi and it's just like riding a rock down the hill come on let's have you what is your number one lesson learned I think investing in a second batch is one of my best things that I've learned it just opens up the doors to actually what an e-bike is for you can write it hundreds of kilometres you can turn up the turbo boost you name it whichever power mode you want sometimes you know you know be restricted by keeping an eco all day you can just open up the doors and let it go don't have to stick in your backpack you can put it in your car just ride your bike all day long without range anxiety range anxiety open up the doors and letting it go one thing what is this was the lesson learned there have you been stranded on any bike I have written any bike flat and it's not a lot of fun as I'm sure you have to mm-hmm now Steve you've been riding for a few years - yeah well I'm gonna give you a next to it I'm gonna give you six not sighs I think number six on the list has got to be heart rate monitor because it just keeps you honest I think you see honest on your eyes you can keep it keep track of your of your rides you've been doing and then just go out harder next time just make sure you keep you fitness up like this my number six yeah number five I think has got to be and not knowing your your range which comes back to the you range anxiety yeah but I know exactly that on a semi water of actually I can do about five thousand feet of climbing but we're all different because when I did tour Mont Blanc and if I told you at the tormal block not hurt the Fabri sorrow to me he was fifty kilograms and he he was able to do ten thousand feet of climbing on one battery so get it to know those figures is really is a key part of from the most important part of you display I think number four has got to be China well you need just discovered that this year really is the nectar of email and biking yeah and then three and two Nestle to all but numbers now sizing is very important on a mounted bike because I'm sure you've heard it a zillion times getting that balance between the weight and the front of your bike and the weighting on the rear of your bike is very critical in terms of climbing and also descending yeah and number two has got to be chain stays and geometry mm-hmm making that short back end or along back end can make big differences it's all about I think the ebike world is still like manufacturers are still kind of zoning in on a sweet spot but it's not just what the chain stays but the bond bracket and the wheel base and getting that balance between the two and you're number one Steve come on hit me with it well I have to say that I've had the pleasure of running some of the world's best man buckets Sam Hill Lika varsity peaked fobian Burrell and to ride with people who can really really righty man bikes now I know you can you're the man when it comes to jumps and stuff like that but the likes of Nico vouilloz and Fabian brow on ebikes they they really opened my eyes to think in what sport holy now that is something really special there's something really really special and and to get a chance to go and ride with a rider who is better than you will definitely progress you're riding no end so they are there are mine Chris's top five top five lessons learned what were your lessons learned which what's your most important ones since you've been a mountain biking or indeed whether you're gonna be a biking what you think other things you need to learn first and foremost let's know in the comments down below Colbert have launched a new wild fs1 60ml travel carbon-fiber trail bike 160 milk from the Basque Country and then the place in the Basque Country where they goes guys come from yeah 625 what our battery yes a full carbon boss generator for motor on there yeah so it is looking really class yeah nice cool shop on the back as well it looks like it's got full xtr on it as you as you mentioned the the Gen 4 Bosch plus a 602 a five-hour battery range called shock looks like the three sizes small large and extra-large I'll be checking out this the sizing on this bike now at 6 foot looks like I'm just on the boundary between large and extra-large so it comes with a 455 millimeter reach on the large and obvious bigger and extra so I think I probably lean more towards the XL on that bike yeah 455 isn't a Vette reach and also for the chain stays well on that bike nice nice rounded balanced off number 14 a Frenchman or a center and a little while about really looks at and Meredith marina a 160 and now they've got a little brother the e140 says 140 mill travel trail bike and this one looks amazing I think that I think the Pont decorous is why would you choose the 140 Emery dev over the 160 Marita I think maybe if you're slightly more trail based cross country style kind of ride in as opposed to maybe like you are a style like maybe if you're based in the UK if he can get away those short travel bikes like I'm below us Tyler UK sir UK stout yeah trail centres don't really require that massive big trail trail biking miles I think you get away that 130 mode trouble ok maybe I'll ride the newer on quite a lot in some of the bigger stuff that's hundred talking about travel 29-inch wheels it seems pretty capable there you go now as you might have noticed our climb of the week as certainly morphed into more of a ride and jump of the week I know you've got some gloss to action bluster in the center of the UK yeah I've got this one in from Lee they're absolutely shredding they're Canino experts over the four one seven bike park got a new big jump lineup man just look at this after you said that they look like 4050 photos yeah isn't it meanwhile up in North Wales have been real we have actually got a climb of the week thank goodness yeah this one's in from Michael on his trek path flight lt9 as well as this looks pretty tech Michael thanks very much for saving the day saving the climb of the week on EMBA never forget if you guys won't get featured use the upload service could be you on next week's show now this one in from wreck as well towing using a specialized leave up in the forested beam draggin their kids up using an elasticated cart a rope so lovely lovely long blonde hair their wreck yeah oxide or Dalia that's lovely boot seen a lot more those two kind of tow ropes as well seeing the elasticated ones obviously coming from Toey and we've got the new one is what I've tracked I think this called like an elasticated thing he praises these zip-tie on the back ec potion it retracts every time you unhook it but keep an eye out for more of Chris Smith's kids taxi rides and coming up in the future on the MV M so in the comments if we'd be able to load a call feedback on how much faster is Annie mountain bike compared to a standard mountain bike bob bobbi's said not bothered about the times it's all about being able to climb to the places I couldn't manage before and not get in there a physical wreck I stopped all the time to admire the view and listen to the forest yeah and listen from swh to on my 2017 special enduro I would do a 12 mile loop and enjoy 10% of it I'm like 2019 power flight 7 LT I'm doing a 20 mile loop at twice the pace and a hundred percent enjoyable yeah I get that then William Laura man he's saying the good thing about ebikes you can decide whether you want a workout or a nice easy ride yeah seems everybody is getting the bike in a thing we are all around in Canada Steve so this is written from Tim he's got a trek power flight effort he says he's got the bike back in May and has already put 7,000 kilometers on it use it as a commuter around Ottawa and then converted it to a touring machine and rode at 4300 k2 in venire BC respect well I might say respect when I got there I put some Max's minions on it and covered hundreds of K in the amazing Purcell mountains now back in Ontario ride every day to school and travels on the weekend no there is a man that seems to be enjoying himself this yeah just showing our versatility I'll just check the places out as well so ride slicks on their full camping gear yeah there's got snow blue tires on slams he's up in the tram sites of course Bob get on him get on here that is a classic where in the world it's a big week this week on EMB n on Friday we've got a cool video corner mistakes all this common mistakes you guys are making in the corners where you lose that flow on the trail this one should sort all these problems out what birth these guys up making mistakes on the trail Wow to watch a video and on Sunday but maybe they should watch the video to see you making the mistakes oh yeah come on out on Sunday is pedelec versus as padlocks or speed padlock now he bites come in various categories and there's the padlock which is publicist nostril assist which provides assistance up to 25 kilometers now or if you're in America 32 kilometers now now there's also a class called the speed pal acts which are assisted at 245 km dinner and what myself and Chris did last week we went to Italy to see what was the fastest in a different range of environments padlock or s padlock coming out on Sunday right well it's time to see who's got the hottest chassis and the biggest bouncers this week it's only the bike valve time okay so kicking things off this is in from micro of sorry why peak elite this is in Tiger Mountain in Issaquah Washington USA let's see too many of those on the show more and more popular what do you think they stay erect and that is super nice because it's not white smell looks good nice it's in from Rick on a specialized turbo leaver yeah and this is in Nevada it Missoula north of Lake Como in Italy not far from where we were last Sunday morning gnarly climbed it doesn't look like an amazing client yeah like the color correlation going on there a lot I'm a nice place too is it gonna be super nice whoa this is it from clay 2020 comenzó meta sx with huntsville alabama just out cruising around on my brand spanking new comment oh my dog ty oh you did see the dog stick Lippman o bless the dog has gotta be super nice that gives us a three that's a screen or a hat-trick of super nice is nice bit of vignette as well multipole plane between lens ID and a Rossa in Switzerland I mean that's only your one-way right do you ever give it four in a row this is okay things are gonna be changing on the bug fault in the weeks to come so I won't say too much frantisek giant full E + 1 sx in lake Verdun we North Wales fresh right out in the proper mountains fracture check it's cool certain actually I quite like that this could be a record Steve I'm a few no feel another one coming on she's in it you feel another one coming on yeah you ready super nice Oh Abraham here booze a bit more there's a bit more old Chris I'm sorry - nice yeah that's more the next time Petrus Scotty genius 710 plus in the guru mountains oh the gooey mountains I wonder he's 59 years old being right in three years love it won't upgrade it it says cuprous guru mountains what's the biggest battery size nice nice nice nice but oh that likes Bruce highlight fat six equals zero what speech don't see many fat backs on the bike Wow goodness for because we don't get very many on nice for super nice please a super nice sorry that's been mean I'm not a big fan of fat bikes I'll remind you I guess we're in a sandy situation yeah super nice give it the big one big banks a big one the last one isn't gonna be in west winds no snore Chiron BH Adam X is city city a place that looks like it that looks like a shark's tooth put into the sea that's nice is that BH bikes you say yeah BH yeah we think you don't see many of those in the bike fall that's pre unique I think it has to be a super nice [Music] that's it yeah let seeing all your bikes here on the bike box aim to get if you guys want to get involved hit the upload a service get the bikes into the bike vault might see your bike changes come in on the bike vault though so there you go that's it for this week's show don't forget if you guys want to get involved in any way use the upload service down below can get you featured on the show if you want to stick around and check out another video we've got ebike vs. chairlift down below so check that one out cuz thumbs up you've enjoyed it drops in the comments in the box below especially about lessons you guys have learned from your ebike starting off 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(Mandela decried loss of Africa's best brains).
Prospects are dim that the Rabat conference's plan of action to control the crippling flight of scientists, skilled people and other "undocumented" migrants from Africa to Europe will succeed.
Ultimately, the flow can't be slowed without reducing income gap between the rich north and less developed global south. Government ministers from 58 African and European countries met in Rabat, Morocco recently for the first Euro-African Conference on Migration and Development.
Critics say a significant part of the plan of action agreed at Rabat focuses on repressive measures which include a comprehensive enforcement of border control by air, naval and police forces, including those from Africa. About 9, 000 "undocumented" migrants arrive on the shores of Spain's Canary Islands after crossing dangerously in small boats.
More than 40 percent of African high level managers and professionals have left the continent for opportunities elsewhere. According to the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), some 127, 000 highly qualified African professionals left the African continent between 1960 and 1989. Africa lost another 20, 000 highly skilled professionals since 1990. To fill in the human resource gap created by brain drain, Africa employs up to 150, 000 expatriate professionals at a cost of US$4 billion a year, according to the ECA. "To this day we continue to lose the best among ourselves because the lights in the developed world shine brighter," former anti-apartheid icon, Nelson Mandela has remarked.
African countries have limited choices and with rising poverty and growing income gaps between Europe and Africa, it will be very difficult for the Rabat initiatives to succeed. Africa will be provided with Euro 2.5 billion (US$3.16 billion) annually by Europe to boost development assistance to African economies in a bid to pre-empt the need for migration by scientists and other skilled people.
The action plan calls for, among other things, the need to build Euro-African partnerships and networks to be developed between scientists and research institutions to cater for the training needs of young African professionals. Under the Rabat plan, African students will have greater access to top universities and institutions in both Africa and Europe and incentives would be put in place to encourage students to return home after their studies.
This, it is envisaged, would be done "through the creation of regional centers of excellence in the South and the support of existing centers". The plan goes further to call for simpler procedures to make it easier for certain categories of people - researchers and students to migrate. Experts at the conference said the measures must limit what they say are the "harmful effects of selective migration" on African development. Another part of the plan concerns "readmissions agreements" between target transit and source controls so as to facilitate "undocumented" Africans while another deals with the enhanced registration of African migrants.
There were also proposals to introduce temporary migrant labor schemes for Africans wishing to work in Europe which is promising to give Euro 18 billion (US$22.7 billion) to support its African partners in the coming seven years. Will this plan work to reduce the loss of Africa's scientists and other skilled personnel? How will Europe address the deliberate poaching of Africa's skilled health personnel by most western countries? Will Europe's offer be spread to all the African countries, or will it be limited to those in North Africa?
There are no easy answers to this. It is clear that Europe, just like the United States, is going to enact tough laws to prevent "undocumented" migrants. It will spend a significant chunk of the Euro 18 billion it is promising African countries on fortifying the Mediterranean "Berlin Wall" made of walls and razor wire rather than boosting developmental assistance to the country of origin.
Critics charge that Europe and the US will never support and address the critical issue of an equitable global distribution mechanism to reduce the flight of African scientists and other skilled people because this would entail serious consequences for the material privileges they enjoy.
Britain has removed general nurses from its "Skills Shortage Occupation List," a move that will affect thousands of nurses from Zimbabwe and other African countries. Of course, the Home Office will never come out in the open and say we now prefer nurses from Eastern Europe — racism being executed in subtle forms.
Britain, together with other western countries, has poached nurses, doctors, pharmacists, engineers, researchers and other skilled personnel from Zimbabwe and Africa without a significant commitment to support the country's training institutions. Zimbabwe and other African countries have benefited from the remittances that have in some countries exceeded foreign direct investment and international aid.
While rich nations poach Africa's skilled personnel, it is equally important for rich countries to support universities, colleges and other training institutions in a big way to help fill the gap for those who would have left.
Most African universities and research institutions are poorly funded and Western countries can mitigate brain drain by funding these institutions adequately to train more scientists and support Africa's scientific development. Europe and the US spend billions of dollars on enacting tough migration laws and on protecting their borders. This will not help even out the income disparities between their nations and Africa.
Poverty is the number one enemy that will make the Rabat action plan fail despite all the good intentions. Are Europe and the US prepared to offer support without imposing conditions on the weak countries to help curb migration? Are these countries prepared to support Africa's home-grown solutions to this complex problem? There is an overwhelming feeling that the Rabat plan of action will be ineffectual largely because rich countries are not yet prepared to share the material privileges they enjoy with the poor global south.
Tsiko is The Black Star News's Southern Africa correspondent based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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text: At first blush, the environs and first-person perspective of puzzle platformer Q.U.B.E. might look familiar. The game tasks you with manipulating a series of colored three-dimensional cubes that have various effects on the environment. It looks to me like living inside a Rubik's Cube and Stephen Totilo liked it when he laid eyes on it this summer. Q.U.B.E.'s the first game supported by Indie Fund—the collective of all-star independent developers—to make it out into the wild, so there's a strong chance that it'll be worth your cash.


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What Constitutes an Earth History Approach?
- The Sayings of Confucius: VII [14]
An Earth history approach focuses on the development of the Earth over time. At the simplest extreme, it's simply a litany of what happened, who did it, and when at a geologic scale. The stories include:
- "Why are the Applachian Mountains are so much smaller than the Rocky Mountains?"
- "How did Earth end up with an oxygen-rich, carbon-dioxide-poor atmosphere unlike her sister planets Mars and Venus?"
- "Why do trees on the east and west coasts of the US often belong to the same genus but different species?"
- Engage our students by telling stories of bygone worlds teeming with strange creatures (not just dinosaurs!)
- Emphasize the ideas of time and change
- More effectively teach some of the most important ideas in modern science: evolution, plate tectonics, and climate change
- The Ice Ages: mostly focusing on the Late Wisconsinan and how the ice age ended
- Volcanism: using the recent and carefully observed eruptions of Mount Saint Helens, Mt. Pinatubo and Mt. Kilauea
- Global Warming: using the IPCC report and the Keeling data
At the university level, if not earlier, instructors will want to focus on patterns and causes of change as well as on the events and actors themselves.
An Earth history approach allows instructors to:
Historical geology is an obvious course to teach with an Earth history approach, but it turns up in our classes in all kinds of contexts, from physical geology, to introductory biology, to global warming seminars, because it is a valuable tool for teaching the major ideas of science and a number of important skill groups, such as taxonomy and stratigraphy. All kinds of science courses can use one or more Earth history units and integrate them with the more usual descriptions of modern processes.
These three units give students perspectives on different causes of climate change working on different timescales, that we pull together at the end of the course, using data on both the past and the present.


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Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has outdone himself ("What if? Life under President Romney," Jan. 27). With his predictions of what would have transpired under President Mitt Romney, he has produced his funniest column yet. However, he seems to have omitted a few things that would have happened under the bumbling Mr. Romney.
To begin with, Mr. Ehrlich failed to mention Mr. Romney's plan to turn health care planning over to Prevention Magazine which, while resulting in an increase in subscriptions, did not lower the cost of health care.
Mr. Ehrlich also omitted the Martian invasion which President Romney countered by trying to mobilize the private sector into taking over, mistaking General Electric for a command officer.
Lastly, Mr. Ehrlich did not mention the appointment of himself as the new Secretary of Paranoia.
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Coal-burning utility companies and coal producers, disturbed by public acceptance of the idea that burning fossil fuels will change the climate, are deciding whether to go national this fall with an ad campaign they tried in three markets earlier this year.
The advertising effort was tried out in Flagstaff, Ariz.; Fargo, N.D., and Bowling Green, Ky. The campaign produced nearly 2,000 requests to a toll-free telephone line for more information, said Gale Klappa, a vice president of the Southern Company, a coal-using utility based in Atlanta.
The goal of the campaign, according to one planning document, is to "reposition global warming as theory" and not fact.
In Bowling Green, an ad showed a cartoon horse in earmuffs and scarf and said, "If the Earth is getting warmer, why is Kentucky getting colder?" Another, with a cartoon man bundled up and holding a snow shovel, appeared in Minnesota and substituted "Minneapolis" for "Kentucky." 'Another Viewpoint'
"Those who are predicting catastrophe have been very effective at getting their message across in national media, and in so-called 'public service' announcements," Mr. Klappa said in a telephone interview. "But there is another viewpoint, a substantial viewpoint from a body of reputable scientists, and that viewpoint has really not been made available to a large majority."
A packet of internal correspondence and other information relating to the campaign was provided to The New York Times by the Sierra Club, the San Francisco-based environmental group that favors taking steps to reduce the risk of global warming. The organization had apparently been given the materials by someone who disagreed with the campaign's goals or approach.
Many climatologists are alarmed by the rising concentration in the Earth's atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other gases that they say will trap the sun's heat, raise temperatures and change rainfall patterns around the world. But scientists differ as to the extent of climate change or the speed with which it will occur. More Punch Wanted
The three scientists who form a "science advisory panel" for the campaign said in telephone interviews that the salient element in two of the ads, that some areas might be getting cooler, did not contradict the theory of global warming. But one of the three, Robert C. Balling Jr., director of the office of Climatology at Arizona State University, said in a telephone interview that the advertising campaign designers felt that an ad that simply discussed the contradictory state of evidence for global warming would not have enough punch.
Dr. Balling and another member of the panel, Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, Virginia's climatologist and a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, have both asked to have their names removed from future mailings. Dr. Balling, who taped radio ads used in Flagstaff, said some people who heard the ads "did not like the idea that I was coming on the radio" and acting as "a mouthpiece" for a private group.
Dr. Michaels said that with only three names on the mailing, people would identify him as the source of the information, while he was not, in fact, the author, and that the size of the panel was so small that it made the position appear scientifically unpopular.
The third scientist on the panel, Dr. Sherwood B. Idso, an adjunct professor of botany and geography at Arizona State, said it was not clear whether adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere would result in global warming or cooling, but that it would probably be beneficial because it would increase plant growth.
A scientist not affiliated with the campaign, Dr. John W. Firor, a climatologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colo., said in an interview that pointing out that a single location ran against the predicted trend was "a straw man." Name Search
Preparing for the test campaign, the organizers commissioned opinion surveys by Cambridge Reports, the Massachussetts research organization, to explore public attitudes toward global warming. Among the issues explored by Cambridge Reports was a name for the group, to conform with the acronym "ICE."
A Cambridge Reports document in the packet advised the group to adopt Information Council on the Environment rather than Informed Citizens for the Environment, because the latter name was "perceived as combining the attributes of activist nd technical sources."
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Mr. Klappa said in an interview that the advice was unsolicited and had not been followed. Division Among Utilities
The utility industry is divided on the question of global warming. Two California utilities, Southern California Edison, the nation's second-largest utility after the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and the Los Angeles Water and Power Department, the largest municipal company, volunteered in May to cut their carbon-dioxide emissions by 20 percent in the next 20 years. Most of the savings, they said, would come from efficiency improvements in lighting, motors and cooling that would pay for themselves.
The Arizona Public Service Company, which serves Flagstaff, declined an invitation to participate in ICE. Mark De Michele, president and chief executive, did not reply to repeated phone calls seeking comment. But he told The Arizona Daily Sun in May, "The subject matter is far too complex and could be far more severe than the ads make of it for the subject to be dealt with in a slick ad campaign."
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The longer one lives in Davis, the longer one becomes accustomed to the local wildlife. Some are year round residents, others only can be seen at certain times of the year. Local wildlife often inhabits the town flora. Want to know the correct taxonomic classification for one of Davis' biota? Check out Wikispecies.
Domesticated animals also make up a good number of the animals in town, some of which have their own personal pages or check out Cute Animals.
Wild Campus is a UC Davis student group that promotes the conservation of Davis' native wildlife through community outreach and events, providing opportunities for student research, and habitat restoration projects.
- Coyotes
- Feral and Abandoned Cats
- Very rarely Mountain Lions
- Raccoons
- River Otters
- Skunks
- Opossums (marsupials are also mammals)
- Bats
- Rabbits
- Hares
- Avocets
- Blackbirds
- Cedar Waxwings
- Crows, Jays, Magpies
- Dowitchers
- Dabbling Ducks
- Diving Ducks
- Falcons
- Geese
- Gulls
- Hawks
- Herons & Egrets
- Mockingbirds
- Owls
- Peeps
- Pelicans
- Pheasants
- Raptors
- Stilts
- Woodpeckers
|Common Name
|Taxonomic Classification
|American Coots
|(Fulica americana)
|Barn Swallows
|(Hirundo rustica)
|California Quails
|(Callipepla californica)
|Putah Creek Picnic Area
|Double-Crested Cormorants
|(Phalacrocorax auritus)
|Putah Creek
|(Dromaius novaehollandiae)
|European Starlings
|(Dromaius novaehollandiae)
|Helmeted Guineafowls
|(Numida meleagris)
|House Finches
|(Carpodacus mexicanus)
|Anna's Hummingbirds
|(Calypte anna)
|(Charadrius vociferus)
|Indian Blue Peacocks
|(Pavo cristatus)
|Pied-Billed Grebes
|(Podilymbus podiceps)
|Wild Turkeys
|(Meleagris gallopavo)
|Turkey Vultures
|(Cathartes aura)
|Near Putah Creek
|White-Tailed Kites
|(Elanus leucurus)
|farmlands beyond city limits
See Birds Entry for more information.
Reptiles and Amphibians
|Common Name
|Taxonomic classification
|Fathead Minnow
|(Pimephales promelas)
|Arboretum Waterway
|Sacramento Blackfish
|(Pimephales promelas)
|Arboretum Waterway
|Western Mosquitofish
|(Gambusia affinis)
|Arboretum Waterway, Cache Creek, Ponds, Putah Creek, Sacramento River
|Bluegill Sunfish
|(Lepomis macrochirus)
|Cache Creek, Ponds, Putah Creek, Sacramento River
|Common Carp
|(Cyprinus carpio)
|Arboretum Waterway, Putah Creek,
|Sacramento Pikeminnow
|(Ptychocheilus grandis)
|Cache Creek, Putah Creek, Sacramento River
|Largemouth Bass
|(Micropterus salmoides)
|Cache Creek, Putah Creek, Sacramento River
|Green Sunfish
|(Lepomis cyanellus)
|Arboretum Waterway, Cache Creek, Ponds, Putah Creek, Sacramento River
|Bigscale Logperch
|(Percina macrolepida)
|Putah Creek, Sacramento River
See Fish Entry for more information.
Also see Insects. If you have a problem with any of the below, you may need to call one of the Davis-area exterminators.
- Ants
- Aphids
- Honeybees and the less domesticated Feral Bees
- Butterflies & Moths
- Carpet Beetles
- Cockroaches
- Crane Fly
- Dragonflies
- Earwigs
- Elm Leaf Beetle
- Fleas
- Flies
- Ladybugs
- Mosquitoes
- Pillbugs a.k.a. roly poly bugs
- Praying Mantis'
- Silverfish
- Scale Insects
- Spiders - spider egg sacs can be seen floating around town
- Termites
- Ticks
- Wasps
- Weevils
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sitting on my porch (University Ave, between A & B) a couple of days ago i saw a falcon attack and eat a pigeon. most exciting thing i've seen in davis in quite some time. EllenWoodall
2007-07-18 22:57:35 There's some duplication here with the Town Fauna page. —CovertProfessor
2007-10-28 21:11:22 Whatever difference there was, once, between Town Fauna and this page has gone, as CovertProfessor points out. I think it was once that Fauna included domestic animals and 'wildlife' here didn't, but that is long since gone. Anyone want to merge them, as well as adding a comment box on Fauna? There could be a * along side, or a section for domestics, if one is concerned about it. Else, one cannot find half the information that is really hidden on the other page. — NotTires —NotTires
2008-04-24 10:27:26 I will give merging a shot. I'll bring the flora info over here. Then should we delete the info there and make it a redirect to here, or vice versa? —EmilyH
2008-04-24 10:30:02 Nevermind. Looks like I'm not allowed to edit this page. —EmilyH
2009-09-21 21:54:25 Isn't that gopher in the pic above? —CarlosOverstreet
- Definitely. No moles in sight. —jmofro
2011-05-13 03:18:23 Are moles much of a problem in Davis? —CarlosOverstreet
- Don Shor would know. I know gophers are a serious problem for some folks in the outskirts. -jw
- I have never seen moles here. Pocket gophers are a problem, and some years we get reports of damage from high populations of voles. —DonShor
- Adding to the small mammal tally, I've spotted some kind of shrew in the grassy fields between Olive Drive and the train tracks. I'm comfortable identifying rodents, but moles and shrews are outside my zone of experience. -jw
2011-05-14 00:12:36 So no moles in Davis that we can confirm? —CarlosOverstreet
2013-02-21 15:34:18 Anyone know what (if any) lizards are indigenous to Davis? I wouldn't mind having some in our yard for a) looking at and b) insect control. —ScottSchiller
2013-05-08 14:38:47 Anyone seen Central Valley Red Foxes by Davis? —CarlosOverstreet


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Everyone says that to be successful in Hollywood, you have to live in Los Angeles, but several companies have proven that not so. True, they come in for events like the AFM but for the most part they are content to work their magic from their home area be that Nevada, Florida, Phoeniz or even Germany.
Sequestered in Nevada, are Robin Hood Films and R-Squared.
Christoper Robin Hood – yes, that's his real name – says of himself "I'm a newbie at distribution. As long as it's fair, I'm for it." He writes, directs and always wanted to make films. Himself burned by a distributor, Chris decided the only way was to jump in on his own. He warns young producers to get your money up front. Take the advance because that might be the only money you see. Many distributors have their caps too high. His distributor, which shall be nameless, made over a $100,000 on the movie, while Chris only got $10,000! This happened even through he did due diligence. He knew that working with this group he had to get all the money up front.
Limit the amount of time your distributor has your film. Make sure to put a cap on his expenses.
As far as the movies that he likes to distribute, he prefers action and sci fi. "Those are among the easiest to sell overseas. Comedy is hard to sell because it doesn't translate well unless it's slapstick." On occasion, he will put money into finishing films. Do you have 50% of the funds? Check out those tax credits and incentives, or soft money.
Mistakes new producers make are often choosing the wrong genre or a bad script. They often don't spend their money properly. Without a recognizable actor, you're going to have trouble. You can get someone like Val Kilmer for as little as $100,000, if he likes your script. Even at $500,000, you have to have a recognizable name. Check with Imdbpro as to their ratings. Ask the distributor if this is a good name for overseas.
Film makers are often too creative and not business people. Find a good business person to help you out so that you can do your creative thing. Art work is also crucial to the success of a film. Often the only thing people will see is your poster and maybe your tag line. If they don't like that, you're screwed. The poster is what sells. "There are so many places that the filmmaker can hit a brick wall. You have to get an MPA rating (some filmmakers think it's not necessary, but it is) and you must have a collection account and carry errors and omissions insurance. Even when your film is done, it's just the beginning of the process. It costs maybe another $20,000, at least, just to get a film out there.
His first film, IMPACT, he made mistakes. If you don't make money on your first film, you're going to have a hard time getting the investors to give you money for your second film. While you have to be passionate about your film, don't make an art film, make one that is commercial. Make product, not just great films.
Also in Nevada, but closer to Reno, is Buzz Remde and R-Squared films. R Squared works at all levels including writing, development, production and distribution. While he will act as a distributor and sales agent for some films, he prefers to be involved in the whole process. "We have a family of producers that we work with and we bring a lot of talent together. When we meet writers with an idea, we steer them toward the right producer. We like to keep things in the family.
They tend to stay away from comedy, which is so cast driven. But they like action, thriller, family and sci fi. Their budget is 1-3 million. Many of their offerings do go direct to video. They have over 150 films in their catalogue
Some of his offerings at this AFM are Bubblegum and Broken Fingers- an action film, and Firefall – a family adventure film.
Buzz often uses a number of independent theatres to view the films, test and note the reactions to them. He tells producers to do a lot of solid networking, especially on line. Do it while the film is still in production.
When ask about the difference between a sales agent and a distributor, I was told that a sales agent will often look for a distributor. NEVER PAY A SALES AGENT UP FRONT MONEY. Apparently, there are several unscrupulous companies that prey on the wishes and hopes of screenwriters and producers.
So how do you know if the distributor is being honest with you. If you have to write any checks to them, you know you're in the wrong place. There should be a limit on the recoupable expenses that they have for P and A. If they aren't willing to put some of their own money in, you have to question that. This is a discretionary income product. Look at the size of the company If they have a lot of layers to pay, they're going to give you a lot less back. A good distributor will give you an honest estimate of what they think the film is worth and what they think it wlll make. We all want our films to make in the millions, but we have to be realistic.
Not far away, the glowing city of Phoenix, Saint James Films and Tom Cat Films - one as producer and the other as distributor - co-exist. Specializing in high concept, smaller budget films they like thrillers, horror, sci fi, supernatural, and action.
In addition to their own films, Ted Chalmers of Tom Cat likes attending the various festivals, looking for genre films to pick up for their slate. The best selling of their films is a vampire tale, but zombies, with the popularity of Walking Dead, are still selling well. "People crave the escapist content." He tells producers that good box artwork and poster is crucial, as is a good trailer. "Our trailers have a reputation. It has to tell the story for the foreign market." If you go to youtoo.com you will see that Top Cat is an exclusive provider of their trailers.
Mark Newbauer of Saint James suggests that writers stick to a single high concept..like Jurassic Shark or Iris is Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy, one of their biggest hits. "We try to make it fun for our people."He tells producers to treat their cast and crew good and they'll have a good film. "Start with the branding and know what you want to say. Find out what they want to buy and then go make it." Also producing under the name Mike the Pike Productions, he's proud of having finished his seventh films, which is an accomplishment in the independent arena. That means your investors are getting their money back.
Fresh from the coconut groves of West Palm Beach, Johan Strum of AMG talks about his group of producers, generally called the Alliance Media Group, who banded together against the bigger studios. While Johan, who handles the animation side of the projects and is here selling their Biblical cartoon, The Lion of Judah and his soon to be finished An African Tale, he talked about Jena Waldron of Prelude Ltd that does projects of five million and under who is doing a series about Biblical women. "They do a lot of TV movies. Different companies do different things," he says, " one of the groups tends to do more TV series, and has a first look deal at Warner Brothers. While animation is often more expensive, in the end, there is better marketing for it with the toys and other items.
Doing their own in house distribution for their own projects, they will often take on other projects especially where they can be co-producers. They are very selective on the ones they take on. "We want to do the project well."
He found that international pre-sales were slow this year and warns young producers to due their due diligence on any distributor they hire. Who have they worked for before and find out if those people were happy. Find out if the distributor is willing to put some of his own money on the line for P &A. (The amount of P &A you put into a project will often depend if it goes straight to DVD or goes theatrical.) Ask yourself where do you want to pitch your project? Who will the market be?
Johan says that "family is coming back, big time. Fox is now doing a massive Biblical movie. " He suggests that writers and producers check out the blog movieindustry.com.
Ida Martins runs Media Luna New Films, a German based company that likes to deal with producers and writers directly. They like tackling things as a team. Often a film doesn't sell itself. You have to look at the marketing potential and trends. What is selling out there. "We like all subject and don't make judgments." She attends most festivals looking for product to add to her line. "It's difficult to get financiers if you don't have a name attached," she tells new producers. "It can be a great director or it can be a good cast." While erotic sells films, she urges producers not to put it in unless it fits the film and advises all the producers to have great trailers. "One problem is that when people talk about American films, they have a cliché in mind. Good films span the world. Films that have something to say, as in drama, also need a good audience. This is the foundation of the film. "We sell dreams. The good director must make the audience feel what he wants. The story has to be emotional. " Her partner Alessandro Lombardo, responsible for acquisitions and sales, is the one to see.


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Discussion in 'Classic Trilogy' started by Mooncake, Feb 4, 2013.
The scripts, treatments, movies?
I would imagine things like Luke's father appearing as a Force ghost in the earlier draft of ESB. The distinction he made between Vader and Luke's father when originally talking about the backstory. That sort of evidence
That's only evidence if you assume that (1) Lucas' motivation for the first draft was to create a complete blueprint for the story, and that (2) Brackett's first draft was based on a complete disclosure of Lucas' ideas for the story.
You may also reasonably assume that (1) Lucas' motivation in creating the first draft was to get something going and to get some ideas for story flow, and (2) he wanted to keep the twist secret for as long as possible including from anyone the staff so didn't inform Brackett of it but just described the general theme of temptation for her to work with.
I know of no evidence to support ether set of assumptions, except that Lucas did indeed work hard to keep the twist secret for as many people as possible for as long as possible.
If there were the only piece of evidence, you might have a point.
OK. So what other "evidence" is there?
I'm sorry but...how can you get "some ideas for story flow" if the major plot-point is omitted? This is just.....rubbish. You don't pay someone for a draft screenplay without telling them a major storyline - if you don't trust someone you are employing to keep such a secret then you wouldn't employ them.
He 'kept it secret' because he didn't know. When he talked of making prequels he spoke of how it would, of course, end with Vader killing Luke's father and then Obi-Wan and Vader's duel. Much as it might seem (from a certain pov) that Obi-Wan's lines, and acting seem to fit perfectly with the idea of Vader being Luke's father that really doesn't make much sense. Would you write Obi-Wan a line where he wistfully remembers the mass murderer Darth Vader when they were younger? Would you write Obi-Wan's words so.....unambiguously? He talks of Darth Vader being a young apprentice of his. He wasn't - that doesn't even fit with the retcon. He even calls Vader "Darth" during their duel - so Darth was clearly his name at that time.
That's goofy. There's a lot more happening in that film apart from the plot twist.
In any case, Lucas kept the twist secret for as long as possible. The reason for that is that starting with casting and preproduction, *lots* of people get to see the script.
And I'm asking for the evidence for that assertion.
You're getting off-topic. But, to answer: obviously, and obviously.
Again, you're getting off-topic. Anyway, Obi-Wan says "A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights." I don't see anything that doesn't fit with the "retcon."
Looks like people have already pointed it out in this thread.
The lengths people will go to make it seem like Lucas had it planned out all along...
Curiously, the only "evidence" I see that people bring up is the Brackett draft, and as I said accepting that as "evidence" depends on a set of assumptions I don't find remotely plausible.
Are you referring to me?
You don't find it remotely plausible that a screenwriter would be told the correct plot points of the movie he or she was writing?
Not in this case, no. The "major plot point" here is that Luke is tempted by Vader with the dark side.
Why would you assume Lucas was hiding things from Brackett? Is that really the most logical assumption?
What's 'goofy' is the idea that a first dreft is written without the input of the film-maker. There would have been discussions as to what was required within the draft. Brackett won't have introduced Luke's father without input from George Lucas. Why would you pay someone (and remember that it was his money, that's what lead to his falling out people during the making of ESB) to write an early draft and completely mislead them? The idea is nuts.
No matter how much evidence is put before you you will continue to ignore it, going as far as to suggest that Lucas would pay to have a draft script written and mislead the author...
See. Quite how it is off-topic when we are relating to how Obi-Wan talks of Darth Vader and what happened to Luke's father in a discussion about whether Lucas knew all along that they were one and the same person is a mystery to me, but let us look a little further into what he actually says....
Again, not sure how it is off-topic but, as you say, Obi-Wan says that it was a young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine.... He never had a young pupil named Darth Vader - a distinction he makes clear in his later explanation to young Luke. His apprentice was named Anakin Skywalker, and Darth Vader didn't exist until he destroyed Anakin. So, to go back to "obviously, and obviously" - if he knew from the beginning could he not have written those lines more....elegantly? Much as I will ret-con it, to save the character of Obi-Wan, the lines are very badly written if he did know from the beginning. In fact, they come across as an out and out lie, would Lucas really have devised it so?
It is done so...inelegantly it makes no sense to believe Lucas knew at that point.
Ermmm, yes. Watch the duel. "Only a master of evil, Darth" says Obi-wan, rather backing up the idea that Darth Vader was named Darth Vader - exactly as Obi-Wan says in ANH
To create a first draft and to get ideas for story flow, like I said.
Yes. Why would you assume that Lucas would divulge his secret plot twist to Brackett?
This isn't at all plausible. Lucas HIRED Brackett to write the script. Why would he PAY a person to write a script that he KNEW wouldn't be usefull?
Makes no sense at all. In essence this means that Lucas liked wasting his own money for no reason at all.
Also, when Kasdan was brought in, he was TOLD about Vader being Luke's father so your reasoning that telling the script writer means that the secret will be blown is incorrect.
FACT 1. None of the scripts of ANH have Vader as Luke's father and most of them flat out contradict it. Even the finished film does as Vader is alive while Luke's father is said to be dead.
FACT 2. The first draft of ESB, written by Brackett after she had story conferences with Lucas, also directly contradicts Vader as Luke's father.
FACT 3. Lucas own words, both with to the press and in private contradict Vader as Luke's father at this time. And Lucas would have no reason at all to lie. Many of these conversations was before ANH was released and became a huge hit. Also the conversations were sometimes private talks that would not become known to the public until many years later.
In short, based on the avaliable facts, Lucas did NOT have Vader as Luke's father when ANH was made.
Bye for now.
The Guarding Dark
Gee, I dunno, maybe because... she was writing the script?
Because he told Kasdan when Kasdan was hired to write the script?
Bye for now.
Blackboard Monitor
Because he paid her to write the first draft of the screenplay for his film? This is, I have to say, one of the most ridiculous questions I have had to answer in a long time.
If you can't even trust the screenwriter with the plot twist, who can you trust?
Where did I suggest a first draft was written without Lucas' input?
Where did I suggest there weren't?
Why make this assumption?
To create a first draft and to get ideas for story flow, like I said. Nothing "completely misleading" about that.
I haven't been provided with the additional "evidence" I asked for, so don't whine.
It's off-topic because Obi-Wan is supposed to be lying to Luke.
OK. First, Obi-Wan doesn't say he had "a young pupil named Darth Vader," he says that Darth Vader was a pupil of his before he turned to evil, which happens to be true.
Pardon? Obi-Wan is carefully twisting the truth to Luke--he's lying, basically. What's inelegant about that?
No, they are very elegantly written if he knew from the beginning.
And ZOMG, you're right, those lines do come across as an out and out lie! Perhaps because it was written as such, maybe?
No, it's done so elegantly that it makes little sense to doubt Lucas at that point.
Oh dear lord. Yes, Obi-Wan calls Darth Darth (somewhat sarcastically) because he's named Darth now.[/quote]
Who says the first draft isn't useful? Many things get changed after the first draft, and in this case, many things got changed. Lucas has often described himself as have a working style that includes creating a variety and selecting from that variety. The first draft, I assume, is to get ideas for story flow.
Well, yes, he was. And from that we may infer that...?
Here's Lucas' draft before Kasdan was brought on board (at least I assume it's Lucas' draft, but I'm not entirely sure):
Yes. So?
Yes. So?
Why assume Lucas would have no reason to lie?
What you listed isn't sufficient to make that inference.
So, you think there is nothing 'misleading' about getting the person you have PAID to write the script to your upcoming film to introduce the 'dead' father of a charcter who you know is....hee hee...actually still alive and completely superfluous to the film you are going to make? Really? And he did this in order that the script would be kept secret lest a minor member of your crew should 'leak' the big secret....and then tell the next guy you hire all about it? Be damned those minor crew members, I fear them no more..... The logic of your reasoning is revealed as terminally flawed, and yet you continue with it?
Nobody's whining, why the insults now? If you want to ignore the evidence and believe Lucas knew all along, be my guest.
It isn't off-topic given the question posed by the OP and that what you give as the reason is the exact point we are discussing. You can't restrict the discussion by simply presuming your own position to be right. And...he isn't supposed to be lying to Luke, it is ret-conned so that he is telling lUke the "truth, from a certain point of view". Its an uncomfortable scene because, at the time of ANH, it wasn't a lie, nor the truth from a certain point of view.
Well, let's cut to the chase. What he actually says is "A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned evil" - that isn't true. there was no young Jedi named Darth Vader.
You don't understand the concept? If GL had in mind that Obi-Wan was "twisting the truth", telling "the truth, from a certain point of view" why would he not make it more.... of a twist of the truth, rather than a complete untruth. As a viewer I make it fit, but.....there's a reason there are Star Wars fans who see Oboi-Wan as a liar, liar, pants on fire kinda guy. The "from a certain point of view" line is a very inelegant ret-con. "He betrayed and murdered your father" is a very direct and utterly untruthful rendition of the events we see revealed later. One could easily write such lines without being so obviously untruthful (to what we later see) and still twist the truth, still hide the truth if one knew all along. He could say that Anakin was betrayed by Darth Vader, for example. That would be enough and has the same impact. He could describe Darth Vader as a secret Sith pupil who was planted within the Jedi...no need to say that he was a young Jedi named Darth Vader (where there never was a young Jedi named Darth vader).
Aaah, i see. you don't get the concept.
Ermmm, yes. Watch the duel. "Only a master of evil, Darth" says Obi-wan, rather backing up the idea that Darth Vader was named Darth Vader - exactly as Obi-Wan says in ANH[/quote]
Oh dear lord. Yes, Obi-Wan calls Darth Darth (somewhat sarcastically) because he's named Darth now.[/quote][/quote]
There is no sarcasm, he simply says "Darth" at the end of the sentence, rather as if that is his name, a name that Obi-Wan had known him by - quite probably when he was a young Jedi named Darth Vader, a pupil of Obi-Wan's before he turned evil.


text: We've mentioned it before, but it bears repeating. Many women in Egypt report being harassed by men, even when wearing the pictured niqab or the more common hijab. Seventy-two percent of the 83 percent of Egyptian women that reported being harassed say they were harassed while veiled. Conservative groups in Egypt are encouraging women to adopt hijabs or niqabs to avoid harassment, while some women say they gave it up entirely after experiencing so much harassment — and are harassed less without. Once again, the problem is never what the woman is wearing — or what she was drinking — it's what men feel inappropriately (or illegally) entitled to do about it. [Washington Post]


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Independent MP Andrew Wilkie and Greens MP Adam Bandt speak with Chief Government Whip Joel Fitzgibbon during a division in the House of Representatives on Thursday morning. Leader of the House Anthony Albanese speaks to the crossbench MPs during the pokies reform legislation debate in the House of Representatives.
Poker machine reforms have been passed after the industry won a two-year extension to comply with the changes following days of negotiations between crossbenchers, Labor MPs who have a large clubs presence in their marginal seats, and the industry.
The amendments secured crossbenchers' support in the lower house for the bill, which requires all pokies to offer punters the option to preset how much they are willing to lose.
Officials from the pokies industry have been in Canberra all week lobbying for concessions.
Under the amendments, clubs with 11-20 machines will have until 2022 to comply, clubs with 21 or more must make the changes by 2018 and clubs with 10 or less pokies have an unlimited period and are expected to get the technology when machines are replaced.
Many Labor MPs in marginal seats, mainly from New South Wales, where clubs have a large presence and influence, were keen for the extension.
The NSW Right, led by chief government whip Joel Fitzgibbon, put pressure on both the government and the crossbenchers to extend the transition period to two years.
Suspended Labor MP Craig Thomson, who sits as an independent, was also heavily involved.
The Greens and independent Andrew Wilkie, who view a simple $1 maximum bet on pokies as the best way to curb problem gamblers, had already reluctantly agreed to the government's watered-down bill.
With the government and other rural independents keen on the extension, pressure was put on the Greens and Mr Wilkie to either support the extension or effectively kill poker machine reform.
The minor party and Mr Wilkie both voted for the legislation.
The Coalition opposed the legislation. It is likely to pass the Senate.
NSW independent Tony Windsor moved the amendments, which were seconded by the suspended Mr Thomson, who has been a big advocate of extending the timelines.
Mr Windsor said it was a tough issue and that "if I was God … I would ban poker machines".
Fellow independent Rob Oakeshott said the reforms would lift the standards of tackling problem gambling and took a swipe at those voting against the bills.
"I can only find one sound reason for voting against this legislation and that is fear," he said. "It is fear of the power and influence of vested interests that are around this topic and that is not why I vote in this chamber, nor is it why any member of Parliament should vote in this chamber."
The reforms also pave the way for a $250 ATM withdrawal limit in gaming venues, and a trial of mandatory pre-commitment – where punters are forced to preset how much they are willing to lose – in the ACT.
Laws also require machines to be able to be switched over to a system that would force punters to set limits (mandatory pre-commitment) if a trial in the ACT proved successful.
Clubs and the opposition had argued the original 2016 deadline was not enough time for venues, particularly small ones.
Pokies reform was thrust onto the national agenda after the 2010 election, when in exchange for Mr Wilkie's support the Gillard government said it would roll out a national mandatory pre-commitment scheme.
Clubs launched a massive campaign against the reforms, with MPs in marginal seats targeted. Once Labor secured an extra vote with Peter Slipper becoming speaker, the reforms were dumped in January.
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Anyone else notice something peculiar lately?
I first noticed it in Dalaran, where the Flight Master at Krasus Landing had a doppelganger standing right next to him. Or, more correctly, exactly where he was standing, noticeable only when one moved and the other didn't.
Or, as in the case of the Goblins below, one jumped out and the other stood still.
This is pretty weird. Both Flight Masters seem operational. So far I've noticed this in Dalaran and just now in Un'Goro Crater.


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Interview: Julianne Moore
When you think of Hollywood relationships you always think uh oh, it's gonna go bad. And then when it doesn't your happy about it. I don't think either one of us take it for granted. We certainly don't take our children for granted. But it's so valuable.
(Julianne Moore).
BSN: What is it like working with your husband [Bart Freundlich] again and again? And then running a large household?
Julianne Moore: That's the hardest part. He's a great director. He knew how to speak to everybody the way that they liked to be spoken too. Everybody likes to be directed in a different way. He was able to instinctively figure it out. A lot of people can't do that. The hardest part is having to get two kids that have to be to school everyday.
BSN: What was it like working on this kind of comedy together?
Julianne Moore: It was great. It was really fun for me. Bart is very funny. All of his friends have encouraged him for a long time to do a comedy.
BSN: Do you use the same excuses as your character (I have a headache)?
Julianne Moore: Come on! LOL that happens to everybody. Every relationship. Every… I have a retainer. I have girlfriends that say, 'you really put it in … in bed'? I'm like no. I wait for the lights to go out and then I put them in.
BSN: Do you feel more comfortable with your husband after you've been together for so long?
Julianne Moore: I think everybody does. We've been together for 10 years. In any relationship that is authentic there is a degree of you knowing each other. You are each others family. This movie is very romantic and it tells the most valuable thing to them is their relationship.
BSN: How do you keep the romance alive after 10 years?
Julianne Moore: I don't' know. I think we're lucky. When you think of Hollywood relationships you always think uh oh, it's gonna go bad. And then when it doesn't your happy about it. I don't think either one of us take it for granted. We certainly don't take our children for granted. But it's so valuable.
BSN: When you saw the script, did realize how close to home this was and draw a line somewhere?
Julianne Moore: No. I liked it.
BSN: How was it working with David Duchovny?
Julianne Moore: I love David. I think he's wonderful to work with. We have a nice energy together. He's very smart. And we're friends. We've been friends for along time.
BSN: How much of yourself did you put into the movie that was not in the script?
Julianne Moore: I don't know. They kind of come together at the same time. The script is there but then the script kind of goes through you so it's always your interpretation in a way. The retainer was my idea. But he had her going to bed with face cream. And I was like; no one really goes to bed with that stuff on your face. And when you think of one thing that truly disgusts you—the retainer was it.
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Some love it, some hate it: many "hit titles" for the Wii U are actually games for the PS3 or Xbox 360 that came out last year. Either they think that it's a cheap cop out, or they think it's a great way to get a complete edition of a game with enhanced controls. Here are a few games that could use a remake or reboot that could take advantage of the Wii U's unique GamePad controls.
Okami and Fatal Frame, I definitely agree with.
It would be better if the WiiU could do the same Augment reality tricks that 3DS's "Spirit Camera"(FF spin-off) could.
Don't they mean a Wiimake? Nintendo fixes games and sends em out. I rather Nintendo working on their own games. More games not last gens games.
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DHS Science and Technology (DHS S&T) is presently in a second spiral development of the GLANSER sytstem. The technology will support the first responder community to accurately locate, track and monitor personnel inside structures during an incident, visualize the location and track responders on a geospatial map and or structure map, and provide that information in a real-time standard way between deployed responders and command elements during an incident. The system helps Incident Commanders to rapidly and effectively deploy, re-deploy and direct forces to identified at-risk personnel or understand and respond to the consequences of potential threats to their responder resources in real-time during an incident. To support and protect deployed forces in potential radiological environments, this SBIR seeks to develop novel interfaces for add-on module(s) that will leverage the capabilities offered by GLANSER to 1) communicate radiation exposure ststus (RES) of first responders to include integrated gamma and neutron dose and current dose-rate and 2) support detection and characterization of radiological threats that first responders may encounter. This latter requirement would include communicating high sensitivity count-rate data and gamma radiation spectra and isotope identification in ANSI 42.42 format. The current GLANSER system under development is intended to have an extremely small form factor, requiring the developed interface modules to be extremely compact, self-powered, and have non-proprietary interfaces to enable quick integration with GLANSER. Details on GLANSER requirments are documented in the attached BAA09-02, which was released in Jan 2009, and hsould be used to help with integration of modules from this SBIR. Additional details about GLANSER, including interface requirments, will be provided once the current developmental cycle is completed in 2010.
The Department of Homeland Security Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is involved in developing new technology to detect neutrons including replacing He-3 for thermal and fast neutron detection. Helium-3 currently exists in limited quantities and these quantities are not enough to meet the competing needs of industry and government. This topic area is seeking to commercialize new high efficient thermal and/or fast neutron detectors. The performance of thermal neutron detector must be better than or equal to He-3 detector with reasonable size and weight. For fast neutron detectors, the efficiency must be better than 10% in the energy range of 0.01-10 MeV, and gamma rejection must be better than 10^5. Additional capabilities such as measuring energy spectrum and directionality will also be evaluated. The large volume fabrication cost should be equal to or less than existing comparable detectors without the He-3 gas cost. The proposal must include adequate performance justification for the system.


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