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Prior to becoming an acupuncturist I use to be an environmental educator in another life. And after that life I became a high school science teacher. Regardless of the grade or the "classroom" I always tried to teach a sense of wonder to those young minds that were opening to the world I was showing them. The world of insects and plants, trees and birds, lichens, moss and single cells. Rachel Carson had instilled in me the importance of "not knowing"; the importance of simply seeing something and feeling awed by it. The importance of a sense of wonder.
"It is not half so important to know as to feel"
Rachel Carson
I still nurture this in myself. I am awed whenever I hear the Loons talking on the pond with that wailing, octave jumping song that echoes across the valley, calling to a mate. Hearing that song always stops me in my tracks, as I stand silent and listening and feeling as it stirs the wild child in me. Trillium, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Mayflowers and bright green moss has me taking a moment on the trail to look closer and to simply notice and feel the joy in their being there. Rejoice in their ... being.
Last week Dave came and gently woke me from a deep sleep. I glanced at the clock, it was 1:30a.m.
He took my hand and said, "come outside, you have to see this."
I pulled a warmer shirt over my pj's, stumbled to the living room and slipped my feet into a pair of boots that sit by the sliding door that opens to our deck. As I stepped outside I literally gasped. The air, the fields, the lawn, the trees, and the entire sky was filled with thousands of twinkling lights; winking, blinking, tiny yellow beams of light.
I felt like I had walked back into my childhood on Scarborough beach where on those hot August nights someone would suggest a swim in the surf. On those very special nights, running into the waves there might be an explosion of tiny, white lights! Sparklers, shimmering and twinkling as they dripped down our hair, disappearing back into the water. Fireworks bursting beneath my fingertips as I twirled in place, trailing my spread fingers behind me through the water to ignite the phosphorescence; an arch of brilliant light beneath my fingers. Diving into the water I was a Mermaid with a glittering trail before and behind me. The foam of every wave illuminated with bright, white, tiny lights.
In that very early morning standing on our deck Dave and I just held each other in awe as the night sparkled all around us with the mating "calls" of the Firefly. There was joy in being part of this amazing, extravagant display, feeling
so lucky that I was there to witness it. Thirty minutes later a thunderstorm hit and all those tiny lights went out.
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
Rachel Carson
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A Graduation Gift
Camp Wellstone alumna, Megan Arsenault, first caught our attention on Twitter. Just a few days before we were kicking off our annual Madison training, Megan tweeted her excitement to be headed to the cheese head state to attend the campaign track. Thanks to Twitter, we learned that Megan's attendance at the camp was her college graduation gift from her aunt and cousin. So after graduation, she flew to Wisconsin to attend our camp and hone her campaigner chops.
Although Megan graduated with a degree in Graphic Design and Media Arts, politics was always a passion and interest for her. She wanted to cut her teeth on campaigns, so she got involved with the Manchester City Democrats while a student at Southern New Hampshire University.
Along with her work with local campaigns in Manchester, Megan also got involved with the national presidential campaign in 2012. After meeting the regional Organizing for America field director, she learned about their internship program. "I did a lot of campus organizing through OFA," Megan told us. "I volunteered during winter break and went back for the primary. The internship program began in January, and I volunteered all the way through the election."
Beyond the Obama campaign, the main way Megan was active and involved in the Wellstone goal of "improving people's lives" was on her own campus; her peers weren't as politically active before Megan began to mobilize them. "We created a bi-partisan politics club. I really wanted to make sure that people got involved because it was such an important election. We wrote a constitution and got a lot of students involved. We did a lot with Get Out the Vote and other organizing events to make sure that students knew what was going on. I wanted to make sure that students that wanted to be politically active could be."
With her passion and drive, Megan is living up to what Paul Wellstone used to say, ""The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." With her work on progressive campaigns, and the experience she gained at Camp Wellstone, Megan is sure to have a big role in shaping the future of her community.
Megan described her experience at Camp Wellstone as "fantastic!" She took away a lot from the training, including learning about the components and skills of other staffers on campaigns. She found it most interesting to learn more about field organizing and some of the financial aspects that she was not previously focused on during her emphasis on direct voter contact efforts.
Megan has her eyes set on working on a campaign for the upcoming governor's election in her home state of Maine:
"I just took away so much from Camp Wellstone," she shared, "I would love to do campus organizing or digital media or work on field on an upcoming campaign. Camp Wellstone helped me refine my skills to make sure I know how to work on campaigns effectively."
Good luck, Megan! We can't wait to hear more about your campaign work ahead.

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I don't know what happened. I have found the whole thing to be confusing. Not as confusing as Sheila Copps, but confusing. Parliamentarians are supposed to be powerful people in theory. They're people trusted by tens of thousands of others to represent them. Once in Parliament, they're supposed to be colleagues.
But all this theory was designed when parliamentarians were all rich, white men. Poor people were dirt. People of colour were animals. And women were "a temple built over a sewer." Sexual harassment wasn't even a concept for these guys. The last thing they'd do would be to set up policies for how to deal with it.
Here's my idle speculation: It all happened just as the female NDP MP said it did. She found herself with the opportunity to speak with Liberal leader Justin Trudeau about something that was bothering her. She honestly (for whatever reasons) did not want to destroy this guy's career. But she didn't want to stay silent and contribute to a career like Ghomeshi's or Cosby's (alleged) serial assaults.
But Trudeau called a spade a spade. Now that he was made aware of these accusations, he couldn't be seen as contributing to a cover-up. He named and suspended the MP. I don't think he knew what else to do. The NDP MP complained somehow and Mulcair heard about it. He didn't know what to do either. His MP was upset. Certainly, Mulcair doesn't like Trudeau, and any chance to criticize him is going to be seen in a positive light.
But I think the non-existence of sexual harassment policies in Parliament is the root of the problem. These sorts of allegations are going to continue, not because female politicians are going to start "crawling out of the woodwork" as some Facebook strangers described the process of Ghomeshi's accusers coming forward. They're going to continue because we men do this shit all the fucking time. Especially the type-A ego-maniacs who go into politics.
John Turner used to pat women on the ass. He thought nothing of it because that's what you did in those days. (At least sexist Bay Street executives thought so.) It's probably still a joke (for guys) to "cop a feel." It's only been a couple of years really since women have insisted that they have the right to be walking down the street hammered, with a t-shirt saying "I am really asking for it!" and not be raped.
Times are changing.
Is it possible that this guy thought he had consent? Maybe. Is it possible that this whole thing is a partisan dirty-trick orchestrated by Mulcair and his army of nubile Quebec honey-pot assassin squad? Maybe. (But I doubt it.) (Even if some Liberals think "sex without explicit consent" is a string of weasel-words to accuse a guy of rape without necessarily saying so. Me, personally, I think she didn't say "rape" because she honestly thinks the guy made a mistake. That she actually wants the guy to get help and stop what he's doing. That's why she's refrained from calling him a rapist.)
About "explicit consent," ... this young lady has been doing these blogs for a while and they're very popular. If things went down the way the female MP described it, the man in question could use it.


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What is a gene and how to define it?
Even scientists define 'a gene' in different ways, so it comes as little surprise that the media also have various ways of framing the concept of a gene, according to a new study appearing in the October 2008 issue of EMBO reports.
The study, Frame that gene, is based on the analysis of 300 articles in British and Norwegian newspapers: The Guardian, The Sun and The Daily Mail from the UK; and Aftenposten, Dagbladet, and VG from Norway.
The researchers — a molecular biologist, a media expert and a PhD student in science communication from the University of Oslo, Norway — identified five main 'gene frames' in different types of media. For example, the "deterministic" frame, which was particularly evident in tabloid media, involves one-dimensional conclusions along the lines of "Drunk? It's in your genes". According to the authors of the study, this may be related to the desire of journalists to sell a story by keeping it simple and accessible. In contrast, the "evolutionary" frame, commonly used by scientists, gives more insight, but may be difficult to communicate. Moreover, the study also found that the gene has become a playful metaphor, for example by stating that "Mazda has many Ford genes".
The analysis in EMBO reports shows that journalists present the term 'gene' — either consciously or subconsciously — using a number of different frames that may invoke various prejudiced images in the reader's mind. "Such a diversity of meanings presents a key challenge to science communications, so both scientists and journalists could benefit from a clear classification of the polysemy," the paper argues.
The authors hope that their novel approach will be a useful tool for journalists and scientists to improve their explanations of genetics for a broader audience and better understand how scientific topics are framed in the mass media.
"The common understanding of scientific topics is increasingly important because the public is more and more able to influence policy-making on scientific issues and thus the funding and even the nature of research itself", explained Rebecca Carver from the Institute of Basic Medical Science at the University of Oslo and the first author of the study. Ferocious debates on genetically modified crops or stem cell research illustrate the importance that genetics and molecular biology have gained in everyday life.


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Garrett touts divisive Gonski plan to school
LEICHHARDT State School stands to be a big winner if the recommendations of the Gonski Review are passed into legislation this year.
School Education Minister Peter Garrett visited the school on Wednesday where he outlined to students, teachers and Aboriginal elders the benefits of his government's National Plan for School Improvement.
The school has already benefited from $723,000 under the Low SES Schools National Partnership, but there is $6.5 billion a year in nationwide school funding on the table if the recommendations of the Gonski review get up.
School principal Lee Gerchow said the partnership had seen more staff employed and greater student literacy and numeracy, better student support and better access to skills that gave them a quality education. He said implementing Gonski would "be a massive boost and make a huge difference in the confidence of the community in us being able to continue to provide that quality educational experience".
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As Mr Garrett spoke to children in the classroom about the benefits of the national plan for school improvement, planes from the Amberley Air Force Base thundered overhead. An onlooker was heard to quote a line from one of Mr Garrett's Midnight Oil songs, that maybe it was "US forces giving the nod" to Gonski.
While Federal Labor has nodded its own approval to the recommendations of the Gonski review, the Liberals want nothing to do with it. Federal and state education ministers will meet in April to chew the fat over Gonski and that will be the first hurdle for Mr Garrett to overcome. Then the government must get the legislation passed before the September 14 election for it to begin in 2014.
"Final details of the model will be settled in coming weeks, then there will be earnest discussions with both the states and the non-government school sector," the minister said.
"We have always said we want state governments to co-operate and contribute to a new education funding model because it is in the interest of all students in every state.
"... I've had meetings with my education minister counterparts, including John-Paul Langbroek, and the ministers have agreed on the reform direction and components of a new model.
"Now we need to get to the most important phase of agreeing to detail and looking at funding offers."
The big question for Mr Garrett is: Will Gonski's recommendations be legislated by September 14?
"Yes," he said.


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When Beer Really Took Off
In the fall of 2002, the five-year-old Oskar Blues Brewery out of tiny Lyons, CO, decided to can rather than bottle its beers for retail sale. It became, then, America's first independently owned, smaller-scale brewery to can its beers in-house. (Others had done it under contract at other breweries, starting as far back as the early 1990s.)
Shortly before Christmas that same year, Denver-based Frontier Airlines, itself dating from the mid-1990s (1994, to be exact), announced that it would be selling Oskar Blues on its flights, particularly the brewery's beloved Dale's Pale Ale, which founder Dale Katechis had devised in part through homebrewed batches in his bathtub.
This partnership opened up an ongoing trend of choice for consumers, something to be grateful for this vacation season.
Dale's Pale Ale can still be found on Frontier Airlines as can Fat Tire Amber Ale from New Belgium Brewing Co., another Colorado-based concern and one of myriad smaller brands to follow the moves of Oskar Blues and others into the friendly skies.
Continental Airlines once carried Pete's Summer Ale from the old Pete's Brewing Co. in the late 1990s, and Northwest Airlines, now a part of Delta, carried beers from the James Page Brewing Co., the defunct contract operation, around the same time. Currently, Virgin America carries beers from 21st Amendment Brewery; Hawaiian Airlines serves beers from Maui Brewing Co.; and Alaska Airlines offers beers from Alaskan Brewing Co.. New Belgium is also on Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airlines; and Delta Air Lines carries SweetWater Brewing Co., a move announced only this spring. (If I'm missing any, let me know.)
Also, while the canning of beers from smaller breweries certainly helped this aeronautical trend along (cans are lighter than glass bottles and easier to store), it was not essential.
Take the Boston Beer Co. In mid-2008, the Delta Shuttle between New York and—where else?—Boston started offering Samuel Adams Boston Lager in good, old-fashioned bottles. In the summer of 2013, Boston Beer and JetBlue announced a partnership to bring the newly canned Sam Adams on board.
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Tom Acitelli is the author of The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution. Reach him on Twitter @tomacitelli.
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Good article. One possibility to add, and perhaps it was not craft beer, is that Northwest Airlines had canned Augsberger in 1994 (http://www.thefreelibrary.com/AUGSBURGER+SEASONALS+BECOME+FIRST+OFFERED+ON+NORTHWEST+AIRLINES-a015269607). I enjoyed the double bock.
Alaska Airlines doesn't just serve beers from Alaskan Brewing Co. They rotate beers from all over the NW and Alaska. One of the reason it's hands down my favorite airline.


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With Apple's newest operating system, Mountain Lion, coming to consumers mighty soon, Google is updating its Chrome browser to get ready.
In addition, the latest stable build of Chrome also has a new version of the Flash player (11.3) included:
The Stable channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.56 for Mac. This build contains a new version of Flash Player (11.3), in addition to more patches to support transitioning to OSX Mountain Lion.
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[Open Letter To President Obama]
It was with great pride that I and millions of other Americans witnessed your historical ascension to the most powerful governmental seat in the free world. Your election sent a powerful message, especially to young children of African descent, that with discipline, education, self-respect and perseverance, nothing is out of bounds.
The country's economy was dangling precariously on the precipice of collapse when you took office, but you brought back some semblance of sanity to financial management, and another Great Depression was staved off. You gave hope to groups of people that their needs for adequate health care would be met, a future where our environment would be preserved for future generations, that the wealthy would carry a fair share of the income tax burden, that our homes would not be taken by unscrupulous, greedy lenders and lastly, end the war in Iraq. These were indeed ambitious goals.
However, not all of goals have been achieved, and the ones which have are watered down so much that they are no longer recognizable. I realize that bipartisanship was also one of your campaign promises, and I have seen you compromise on the health care reform bill which is of primary importance to many of your supporters. In its present version, there is no public option. The insurance companies are still allowed to set the cost of coverage, and for the low income and persons with pre-existing conditions, this population is still left out in the cold - if I'm understanding the present healthreform bill correctly.
David R. Jones, president and CEO of the Community Service Society and columnist of "The Urban Agenda" for the New York Amsterdam News, reported on a bill introduced by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (H.R. 2497), entitled the Transportation Job Corps Act, which would create a career-ladder grant program within the Federal Transit Administration to help existing workers retain jobs in the public transportation industry and prepare young people for jobs in the transportation industry. A transportation corps would also lay the foundation for many disadvantaged inner-city youth to secure permanent employment.
Additionally, Congressman Charles Rangel amended the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) to include low-skill youth, aged 16 through 24, who have been out of work and school for the past six months and lack sufficient basic skills for employment. This was made part of the 2009 Stimulus package, but must be authorized by the next Congress.
New York Governor Elect Andrew Cuomo has threatened large scale state employee lay-offs, while the African-American and Latino male rate of unemployment is at a record level. The Federal government is the only public institution able to assist in this crisis. The programs outlined herein could serve as an example for the entire nation, especially to our inner-city population and I urge you to do your best to secure their passage.
I was extremely proud when I heard a reporter ask you about your decreasing possibilities for reelection to a second term. Here I'm paraphrasing your reply, "I'm concerned with fulfilling the promises I made for the term I have been elected to serve." This clearly reflects your high degree of uncompromising integrity. I would love to see more of this "in your face boldness".
So in conclusion I would like to see you use your legislative power to "veto" any attempts to repel the already watered down version of the health care bill and other pending legislation which would benefit your core supporters who were largely responsible for putting you in office.
Our voices may be small, but our numbers are many, despite what the popular media may be reporting. Stand firm and strong. We are here to support you for this presidency or the next. But please stop trying to appease these anti-Obamanics and listen for our small, but many, voices of support for you and your policies.
May God watch over you, your family and our nation.
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The depth and beauty of the Feast we celebrate this evening is well expressed in the phrases of the opening prayer. The moment which we live again in this liturgy is described there as Christ giving to us, the Church, 'a sacrifice new for all eternity, the banquet of his love.'
This is the single reality we celebrate tonight: the gift of the total love of Jesus for us, His Body and His Blood, a love flowing from the deepest reality, from the very being of God, which Jesus, the Son of God, makes visible in our midst.
There are two great manifestations of his love in which we participate in this Mass. The first is his washing of the disciples' feet. The second is his handing over to them His Precious Body and Blood in the supper they share in anticipation of his sacrifice on the cross. St John tells us about the first, in the Gospel. St Paul's gives clear witness to the second, in the reading from the First Letter to the Corinthians.
Both these actions of Jesus are immersed in the things of the body. In the first, he washes the feet, the flesh and blood, of his disciples. In the second, he gives himself entirely. He gives his flesh and blood, his bodily reality, in death on the cross, in the sacrament of the altar. In this way, Jesus transforms our way of understanding our bodily reality.
Our bodies are precious; they are the work of God's hands; they are the temples of the Holy Spirit. Yet we often experience our bodies as a source of trouble, of temptation, of pain and of suffering. Indeed at times we, as a people, have been tempted to distrust and even hate our bodily reality. In fact, in these days, it has been suggested to us that a large majority of young people in this country are dismayed and preoccupied by the shape of their bodies, struggling to accept themselves under the pressure of social conformity. Such thoughts and feelings can easily become lodged in our hearts and flow from there into our attitudes and actions. But to follow this pathway, to harbour such feelings in our hearts, is to fail to see the work of God and the gifts Christ brings.
During these days of Holy Week, I am suggesting that the wonderful work of our redemption, accomplished by Christ in his passion and death, can be understood through the image of Moses striking the rock of Massah in the desert, and bringing forth from that rock great streams of water which quenched the thirst of both the people and their animals.
Tonight we can see in that rock the hardness and waywardness of our hearts, which in turn makes our bodies to be like stone. Instead of being central to loving God and one another, our bodies become barriers. Only when Christ strikes our hearts with the rod of his grace does that hardness break open, and our bodies become what God created them to be: channels of life-giving compassion and love.
What is that hardness of our hearts?
Think of the store of past offences that we often harbour within our hearts. This is their hardness. How often we return to that store to refresh within us a sense of resentment and bitterness.
Think of the energy we can put into pondering our desire for revenge against those we believe have belittled us. We want to equal up the score and that desire coarsens and hardens our hearts.
Think of our habit of turning away from those in need, of averting our eyes least their need touch our hearts and we have to respond.
Think of the weariness of heart that we so often feel, saying to ourselves that we have done enough already and there is nothing more to be given.
Think, again, of the ways in which, from time to time, we view ourselves with disgust and literally lose heart about our own worthiness.
Think of all the other ways, which each of us knows well, in which are hearts have become hard, as hard as rock, and from which we are not really ready to depart.
This feast of the Lord's love for us is the moment when we cry out to the Lord that he take away the heart of stone from within our bodies and give us a heart of flesh instead.
And that is what the Lord does.
In washing his disciples' feet he washes away our selfishness, our self-centredness. At first we are like St Peter, saying 'Never, Lord, you shall never wash my feet.' We are too proud, too attached to the comfort of our negativity. Yet the Lord insists. So let us welcome him like Peter: 'Then Lord, not only my feet but my hands and my head as well!'
In offering us his Body and Blood, Jesus renews in us the flow of generous self-giving, inviting us to imitate him in our tireless service of others, especially of those closest by in whom we know every failure and every weakness.
In these ways we pray: 'Lord, strike the rock of my heart with the rod of your love that living water may flow within me and that I may truly be your disciple.'
This he can do, both today and every day, through the power of his sacrifice which is, as the prayer made so clear, 'a sacrifice new for all eternity.' This sacrifice of Christ, the offering of His Body and Blood, never ceases. It is always available to us. Every time we find within ourselves a hardness of heart, we can return to him, open our hearts to him and allow him to restore in us the great gift of love.
Tonight's Mass is such a moment of great grace because it is, like every Mass a moment of this 'sacrifice new for all eternity, the banquet of love.' May we draw from so great a mystery the fullness of love and know the lightness of a loving heart. May we draw from this mystery the fullness of life expressed and finding fulfilment in the generous service of all around us. Amen


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- 1 15-ounce can pure pumpkin
- 1/2 cup milk
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 7-ounce jar marshmallow creme
- 2 teaspoons maple syrup
1. Sift the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, soda, salt, nutmeg and cloves together in a large bowl.
2. Using electric mixer, beat butter and both sugars together on medium until well blended blended, about 2 minutes.
3. Gradually beat in oil. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating between each addition. Beat in pumpkin.
4. Add dry ingredients in 2 additions alternately with milk in 1 addition, beating to blend between additions and occasionally scraping down sides of bowl. Cover and chill batter 1 hour.
5. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment; spray lightly with nonstick spray.
6. Scoop batter onto baking sheets, 12 per sheet. Let stand 10 minutes.
7. Bake cakes until tester inserted into centers comes out clean, about 20 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through baking.
8. Cool cakes completely on baking sheets. Using metal spatula, remove cakes from parchment. Repeat with remaining batter.
9. To make the filling: Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add marshmallow creme and maple syrup; beat until blended and smooth.
10. Spoon filling on flat side of 1 cake. Top with another cake, flat side down. Repeat with remaining cakes and filling. Store in single layer in airtight container at room temperature.
Source: adapted from Bon Appetit


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Due to my being a complete bonehead and thinking that yesterday was the 7th (and today being the 8th), I have no good post for today. But tomorrow's – well, at least tomorrow's is done.
No picture today, but I can tell you a little story about Delsym cough syrup. Did you know that one of the side effects of it is a rash? I've been taking it since Sunday, and wondered why my back was getting so itchy. Around 2 p.m. yesterday it became unbearable, and when I got home – I had some sort of lacy rash. (Of course, I didn't read about the side effect until after I had already taken another dose. It was an itchy night.) So this morning, no rash, but the cough is back. So for the memory archives: Lauren, don't take Delsym.
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Are you Ready, Player One?
Test your knowledge of the 1980's in this tribute game to the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Flashback to the glory days of computing and video games. Don't worry, for those that haven't read the book or seen the movie, no spoilers were revealed in the making (or playing) of this Breakout EDU Digital Game!


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Apostrophe is a Content Management Systems that's designed to build content-driven web sites. Because of their ease of use, Apostrophe is built upon MongoDB and Node.js.
This post explains why MongoDB Atlas is an ideal choice for Apostrophe and then goes on to show how to configure Apostrophe to use it.
Why MongoDB Atlas is the Ideal Database for Apostrophe
MongoDB delivers flexible schemas, rich queries, an idiomatic Node.js driver, and simple to use high availability and scaling. This makes it the go-to database for anyone looking to build applications on Node.js.
MongoDB Atlas provides all of the features of MongoDB, without the operational heavy lifting required for any new application. MongoDB Atlas is available on demand through a pay-as-you-go model and billed on an hourly basis, letting you focus on what you do best.
It's easy to get started – use a simple GUI to select the instance size, region, and features you need. MongoDB Atlas provides:
- Security features to protect access to your data
- Built in replication for always-on availability, tolerating complete data center failure
- Backups and point in time recovery to protect against data corruption
- Fine-grained monitoring to let you know when to scale. Additional instances can be provisioned with the push of a button
- Automated patching and one-click upgrades for new major versions of the database, enabling you to take advantage of the latest and greatest MongoDB features
- A choice of cloud providers, regions, and billing options
Like Apostrophe, MongoDB Atlas is a natural fit for users looking to simplify their development and operations work, letting them focus on what makes their application unique rather than commodity (albeit essential) plumbing.
Installing Apostrophe and Setting it up to Use MongoDB Atlas
Before starting with Apostrophe, you should launch your MongoDB cluster using MongoDB Atlas and then (optionally) create a user with read and write privileges for just the database that will be used for this project, as shown in Figure 1. You must also add the IP address of your application server to the IP Whitelist in the MongoDB Atlas security tab.
If it isn't already installed on your system, download and install Node.js:
You should then add the
bin sub-folder to your
.bash_profile file and then install ImageMagick (used by Apostrophe to handle image files); clone the Apostrophe Sandbox project; and then install its dependencies:
Before starting Apostrophe you need to configure it with details on how to connect to your specific MongoDB Atlas cluster. This is done by cloning the configuration file to
You should then edit the
data/local.js file and set the
uri parameter using the specific connection information provided for your MongoDB Atlas group:
The URI contains these components:
apostrophe_useris the name of the user you created in the MongoDB Atlas UI
my_passwordis the password you chose when creating the user in MongoDB Atlas
cluster0-shard-00-01-qfovx.mongodb.net, &
cluster0-shard-00-02-qfovx.mongodb.netare the hostnames of the instances in your MongoDB Atlas replica set (click on the "CONNECT" button in the MongoDB Atlas UI if you don't have these)
27017is the standard MongoDB port number
clusterdbis the name of the database (schema) that Apostrophe will use (note that this must match the project name used when installing Apostrophe as well as the database you granted the user access to
- To enforce security, MongoDB Atlas mandates that the
ssloption is used
adminis the database that's being used to store the credentials for
Clients connect to Apostrophe through port 3000 and so you must open that port in your firewall.
You can then create the database and start Apostrophe:
Testing the Application
Browse to the application at
http://address-of-app-server:3000 as shown in Figure 2 and then login using the username
admin and the password
Now, go ahead and add some content (Figure 3).
Upload some images as shown in Figure 4.
Optionally, to confirm that, MongoDB Atlas really is being used by Apostrophe, you can connect using the MongoDB shell:
To visually navigate through the schema and data created by Apostrophe, download and install MongoDB Compass. Use your MongoDB Atlas credentials to connect Compass to your MongoDB database – Figure 5.
Navigate through the structure of the data in the
clusterdb database (Figure 6) and view the JSON documents (Figure 7).
What Next?
While MongoDB Atlas radically simplifies the operation of MongoDB there are still some decisions to take to ensure the best performance and reliability for your application. The MongoDB Atlas Best Practices white paper provides guidance on best practices for deploying, managing, and optimizing the performance of your database with MongoDB Atlas.
The guide outlines considerations for achieving performance at scale with MongoDB Atlas across a number of key dimensions, including instance size selection, application patterns, schema design and indexing, and disk I/O. While this guide is broad in scope, it is not exhaustive. Following the recommendations in the guide will provide a solid foundation for ensuring optimal application performance.


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Empowering athletes with real-time, data-driven decision support
Split-second decisions are the essence of any activity in constant motion. If it's a rigorously timed athletic competition, you can't stop to reconsider your strategy. If there are any analytics to guide you toward your goal, they need to be dynamically inline to the activity itself.
Auto racing isn't just about how fast a souped-up car can go when you press pedal to metal. It's very much a team sport in which the driver coordinates tightly with the pit crew throughout the duration of the event. If you're unfamiliar with professional racing, you might think pit crews only serve a maintenance function: pumping gas, changing tires and hydrating the sweat-soaked driver at regular intervals. But, in fact, pit stops play a key strategic role in winning races. Specifically, tire changes are absolutely essential at key points in the race, because they enable the cars to run on brand-new treads that grip the track as well as possible. The very act of racing at 200+ miles per hour wears out treads in no time, effectively preventing vehicles from reaching their maximum potential velocities.
But there's an obvious trade-off in any in-race tire change decision: the pit stop consumes precious seconds and hurts the vehicle's rank position in a fast-moving pack. So, for each racing car's crew, the core analysis concerns how many pit stops can they afford to take before they become counterproductive.
This recent article illuminates the complex challenges that a data scientist might face in statistically modeling this decision-support scenario. The authors, Theja Tulabandhula and Cynthia Rudin of MIT, spell out the myriad variables and metrics that would be relevant to any such exercise. And they preface their discussion by mentioning that, essentially, nobody in the auto racing industry is currently doing pit crew analytics of any formal nature. Under the direction of a team captain, all professional pit crews still rely largely on gut feel and traditional rules of thumb.
Where decision support is concerned, the pit crew analytic model would need to combine all-time horizons. In other words, it would need to be real time (for obvious reasons), predictive (of the cumulative impact of pit crew decisions on race outcomes) and historical (considering only the within-race "history" that commenced with someone exclaiming "Start your engines!").
Though not averse to season-level historical analysis, the authors have constructed a statistical model on the assumption that races are won or lost based primarily on within-race decisions (especially tire changes) regardless of how well a specific team may have fared in prior races.
In addition, the authors note that the within-game "history" of a pro auto race cannot be easily modeled as a sequence of distinct "plays." They use this latter term in a more abstract sense than the average sports fan. In building their statistical model, they discuss the concept of "plays" within the notion of different "evolutions of the game." What they're calling a "play" is any segment of the action that begins and ends with distinct stoppages, followed either by resumption or completion of the game. Consistent with their parlance, a "play" might be defined by any or all of the following (depending on the sport): distinct periods (baseball's nine innings), possessions (football's four downs), timeouts (hockey's penalty calls) and moves (tennis serves). By the way, all of these latter terms have been coined by me now to call out the underlying conceptual model in a more abstract, sport-agnostic fashion than the article's authors do.
Where "plays" are concerned, pro racing's game evolution can be modeled as specific periods, timeouts and moves that take place within the real-time closed loop of a motor speedway. The chief periods consist of laps; most of these are full-tilt high-velocity "green" laps when cars are racing as fast as possible. The chief timeouts are "yellow" laps, when all the racers are required to slow down, as well as follow a safety car, and pit stops, which each team takes at their discretion. The chief moves involve accelerating, passing and pit stopping. The chief outcomes are rank positions.
Looked at this way, it's clear that auto racing is more continuously flowing than, say, basketball, hockey or soccer. That's because racing's periods (laps) flow continuously from one to the next, its timeouts are ad-hoc and discretionary and its moves are real time and dynamic. The objective outcome (first rank-position) depends on the efficacy of the seamless stream of actions and decisions from the race's start to its finish.
According to the authors' discussion: "At each point in time of a race, the entire history of the race determines the racer's current rank position. On the other hand, in basketball, the game is restarted at the beginning of each play and the team's current state does not heavily depend on their state before the restart. One can reasonably approximate a basketball game to be a sequence of independent plays and even model them as independent observations drawn from a distribution. These long-standing correlations of decisions within the race make racing inherently much more difficult to model."
What's fascinating is how the authors boil down the strategic in-game decisions to just a handful involving the pit crew. It all comes down to: how many pit stops, at what times in the race and involving how many tires per change-outs. There is always a trade-off between the number of fresh tires changed out per pit stop (all things considered, a car with four fresh ones will race faster than a vehicle with two new tires) and loss of rank position during the pit stop (changing out four tires takes longer than just two, or none at all).
Clearly, there are other factors determining the race's outcome, and the authors have built those into their predictive model as well, leveraging detailed data. Some non-obvious, non-linear racing dynamics come into play. For example, they observe that racers with high rank-position tend to go faster than those farther back; the higher velocity causes the leaders' tires to wear out faster, hence decelerate more quickly than cars back in the pack. This sets up a non-linear dynamic: pit stopping for tire-changes has a corresponding adverse impact on rank-position.
The paper is worth reading for any data scientist who wants to dabble in the "moneyball" arena. The bottom line, as the authors make explicit, is that each sport needs to be modeled on its own terms. A within-game decision-support predictive model for one sport cannot be applied directly to other sports, even ones that share a common ancestor or many surface similarities (baseball vs. cricket, tennis vs. badminton). No two sports have exact same "game evolution" structure, embody the exact same rules, play on the same surface, use the same equipment or generate the same types of performance data.
If they did, big data analysis would reveal that the seemingly different sports are in fact identical twins in different uniforms.


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Course in Media Economics: Commercial communication and advertising in a digital age
This course is part of the Media Economics Programme, a new programme at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel that is organized by SMIT. The programme combines facts and figures of state of the art scientific research with interesting and sometimes conflicting insights from industry experts.
You can participate in the course through:
- the full Postgraduate programme organized by the VUB or
- the Training programme in Media Economics via SMIT.
Commercial communication and advertising in a digital age (course 6)
Course 6 sheds light on the new developments and trends in commercial communication and advertising in the digital era. Participants will get acquainted with new formats, will get insight in the different workflows and will also develop an understanding of user perspectives on advertising in the digital age, business related aspects and privacy issues.
Course 6 is an elective course for participants of the full Postgraduate programme.
Key Objectives
- Acquire knowledge on current trends in commercial communication and advertising and the advertising process.
- Understand the different challenges linked to these trends, including privacy aspects.
- Critical evaluation of new advertising formats and buying and selling tools.
Cases and Topics
- Advertising
- Personalized advertising
- Cross-media audience measurement
- Programmatic ad buying and selling
- Big data analytics
- Workplan for personalized media campaigns
- Prof. Dr. Wendy Van den Broeck – Senior Researcher, imec-SMIT-VUB
- Dr. Daniel Knapp – Executive Director TMT, IHS Markit
- Iris Jennes – Researcher, imec-SMIT-VUB
- Kimon Zorbas, Senior Vice President Government Relation & Public Policy, Nielsen
- Jeroen Coeymans – Director Business Intelligence, SBS Belgium
- Dr. Ionel Naftanaila – Programme Development Director, EDAA
Date13 Mar 2019 — 15 Mar 2019
9:30 to 18:30
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Mar 13 2019, 09:00-09:30Registration
Mar 13 2019, 09:30-17:30Academic Lectures
Mar 14 2019, 09:30-17:30Industry Lectures
Mar 15 2019, 09:30-17:30Exercises
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Default funds in U.K. defined-contribution plans
Byrne, A. and Blake, D. and Cairns, A. and Dowd, K. (2007) Default funds in U.K. defined-contribution plans. Financial Analysts Journal, 63 (4). pp. 40-51. ISSN 0015-198XFull text not available in this repository.Request a copy from the Strathclyde author
Most defined-contribution (DC) pension plans give members a degree of choice as to the investment strategy for their contributions. For members unable or unwilling to choose their own investment strategies, many plans also offer a default fund. This article analyzes the U.K. "stakeholder" DC plans, which must by law offer a default fund. The default funds are typically risky but vary substantially among the providers in their strategic asset allocation and in their use of life-cycle plans that reduce risk as planned retirement approaches. A stochastic simulation model demonstrates that the differences can have a significant effect on the distribution of potential pension outcomes.
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Holbury, looking towards Fawley refinery
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Holbury is a village in Hampshire, England. It is part of the parish of Fawley.
Historically a small and scarcely populated village, Holbury and the adjoining hamlet of Hardley now has a sizeable population and a considerable number of shops and businesses.[1] This growth has been principally due to the influence of the Esso oil refinery at Fawley and the area's proximity to the city of Southampton.[1]
It is served by a number of schools, including Manor Infant School for children aged 4 to 8,[2] Cadland Primary School (formerly Holbury Infant School and Holbury Junior School) for children aged 4 to 11,[3] and New Forest Academy for students aged 11 to 16.[4] The school also has an incorporated sixth form college for students aged 16 to 18. Many pupils of New Forest Academy also go on to Brockenhurst College, Totton College or Southampton City College.
The name Holbury apparently means "hollow fortification", although it is not clear what feature in the landscape this name refers to.[5] The first trace of Holbury Manor is in 1312, when Roger Bernerall and Gilbert de Shupton obtained licence of the king to "grant land in Holebury to the abbey of King's Beaulieu."[6] Holbury remained in the hands of the abbots of Beaulieu until the dissolution of that monastery in 1538.[6] Four years later Henry VIII granted it to Robert Whyte in exchange for a manor and lands in Middlesex.[6] Some time before 1560 the manor fell into the hands of Thomas Pace. After the death of Thomas Pace, Holbury Manor was combined with the estates of Cadlands (now beneath Fawley Refinery) and Langley.[6] In 1641 Peter Cardonell, a Norman merchant from Caen, leased the estates from Nicholas Pescod, and Holbury is mentioned as a whole manor when Nicholas Pescod granted a lease of the site to Adam de Cardonell, probably the son of Peter.[6] Henceforth the combined estates were divided, and that part which corresponds to Holbury Farm passed into the Stanley family in 1693.[6]
Holbury manor house is a 17th/18th century recasing in red brick of an earlier building, originally a Tudor mansion.[7] Next to it is a moated site, perhaps the site of the monastic manor and associated buildings.[8] The earthwork contains sites of three buildings within the moated area and others outside.[8]
- ^ a b Holbury Virtual High Street
- ^ Manor Infant School Archived 2011-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cadland Primary School
- ^ New Forest Academy
- ^ Holbury, Old Hampshire Gazetteer
- ^ a b c d e f Victoria County History, (1912), A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5, Fawley
- ^ Hampshire Treasures, Volume 5 (New Forest), Page 125 Archived 2012-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Hampshire Treasures, Volume 5 (New Forest), Page 124". Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
External links[edit]
Media related to Holbury, Hampshire at Wikimedia Commons


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The Community Technology Empowerment Project (CTEP) AmeriCorps bridges the "digital divide" for new Immigrants and low-income communities in Minneapolis and St. Paul. CTEP AmeriCorps members help youth and adults use technology to better access social, civic, educational and economic opportunities.
CTEP AmeriCorps Members:
- Teach technology literacy at non-profits, community centers, and libraries
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Two of the most common reasons to evacuate your home, workplace, or any other safe area are flood and fire. In the Los Angeles area, nearly 90,000 people were evacuated due to the Blue Cut wildfire that is virtually out of control, still. Where do ... Read More
Disaster Declared: How Authorities Respond
We're all familiar with how Police and Fire Departments respond to a car accident here, or a house fire there. Police Officers and Firefighters go through months of training as emergency responders, and they do it day in and day out. Cops are good at ... Read More
If You Just Moved Here: Hurricane Preparation
A few years ago I read about a woman who moved from the Southwest to New York City, and a hurricane hit two days later. She had no idea what to do. Why would she? She was used to droughts and brush fires, not preparing for a hurricane with its ... Read More
Worst Case Scenario: Taking Back Your Home From Intruders, Part 1
Those of us in the preparedness game spend lots of hours and lots of dollars preparing for any likely disaster. Food, water, power, communications, and many other topics fill our minds and fuel our plans. We all consider our well-prepared homes as ... Read More
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BOSTON - Gov. Charlie Baker has agreed to three televised debates against Democrat Jay Gonzalez between now and the general election in November, according to a spokesman for the Republican's campaign, who said the dates and times for those debates are still being negotiated.
Gonzalez, who won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, had said earlier in the day that he had accepted invitations from five media outlets and consortiums looking to sponsor events and would be open to more. His campaign manager called Baker's decision to participate in three "disappointing."
Baker spokesman Terry MacCormack said the governor had accepted invitations from WBZ-TV, WGBH, and a media consortium that includes the Boston Globe, WBUR, WCVB, UMass, and the ABC and CBS affiliates in Springfield.
"The Baker-Polito campaign has accepted invitations for three debates and looks forward to productive conversations about Governor Baker's strong record of bipartisan results, including 180,000 new jobs, historic funding for education and nation-leading reforms to curb the opioid epidemic," MacCormack said in a statement.
Gonzalez, who trailed Baker significantly in pre-primary polls and could use every chance he can get to introduce himself to voters, had hoped that Baker would commit to more face-to-face meetings in geographically diverse areas of the state.
"Since the very beginning of this campaign, we've pledged to offer more engaging and transparent leadership. More debates, not fewer, is the most open and transparent way we can ensure voters have a clear understanding of the choice they'll be asked to make in November for the future of our state," Gonzalez said in a statement early Thursday.
The Democrat's campaign manager Kevin Ready said the other two debates Gonzalez had agreed to were proposed by consortiums. One invitation for a debate that would have been held in Worcester came from NBC-10 Boston, Telemundo, New England Cable News and the Telegram and Gazette. Another was proposed by a group that included the Republican of Springfield, MassLive, New England Public Radio, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, UMass Amherst, WWLP 22 News and others.
"To use Charlie Baker's favorite phrase, we're 'disappointed' by his decision," Ready said. "People across this state deserve to hear directly from those who want to serve as Governor. Charlie Baker's decision to reject debates hosted by media outlets in Worcester and Springfield is an insult to communities outside of the Boston area and a slap in the face to the Hispanic community served by Telemundo Boston."
A Baker campaign official confirmed to the News Service that the campaign is not currently considering any other invitations to debate.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who found out Tuesday that she will face Republican Geoff Diehl in the general election, similarly committed this week to three debates against her opponent.


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Barbara Branca, Communications, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, Office: 631.632.6956, Cell: 631.839.1763STONY BROOK, NY, February 5, 2009 - The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University will once again host 80 students from 16 high schools across the region as they compete in the 8th Annual Bay Scallop Bowl on Saturday, February 7, 2009 at the Student Activities Center at Stony Brook University. The all-day competition includes Q&A "buzzer" rounds and team challenge questions that test student knowledge of oceanography and related sciences. The Bay Scallop Bowl is New York's regional competition in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl.
"The Bay Scallop Bowl is an innovative way to attract the brightest young minds to a career in oceanography," said Dr. David Conover, Dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. By increasing awareness among high school students about the plight of our coastal environment, the Bay Scallop Bowl nurtures the next generation of scientists and citizens that will help find solutions to the decline in health of our marine environment."
Among the 16 teams competing in the 2009 Bay Scallop Bowl will be the 2008 winner, Churchville-Chili High School from upstate Monroe County. This team represented the Bay Scallop Bowl in last year's national finals held in Seward, Alaska. The other teams competing in the 2009 Bay Scallop Bowl are Deer Park High Sool, Elwood John H. Glenn High School, Half Hollow Hills High School East, Jericho High School, Locust Valley High School, Longwood High School, MacArthur High School, Mount Sinai High School, North Babylon High School, Ossining High School, Regis High School, Saint Ann's School, South Side High School, The Stony Brook School, and Woodlands High School.
Each student on the winning team will receive a $1000 cash prize and a trip to Washington D.C. to represent New York in the 2009 National Ocean Science Bowl Finals.
New York State Senator John J. Flanagan, New York State Assemblyman Steven Englebright, New York State Assemblyman Robert Sweeney, and Suffolk County Legislator Vivian Viloria-Fisher plan to attend the event.
SoMAS's Associate Director William Wise and Staff Assistant Kim Knoll organized the Bay Scallop Bowl, which is supported this year in part by financial contributions from the Alfred and Jane Ross Foundation, Battelle Memorial Institute, New York Sea Grant, and the Blue Ocean Institute.
"New York Sea Grant is pleased to provide support for the Bay Scallop Bowl," said Ms. Cornelia Schlenk, Assistant Director of New York Sea Grant. "It's a fun and exciting competition that exposes young students to the wonders of our water world and draws these energetic, bright minds to the vital fields of oceanography that are so important to society today."
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Avatar Pilot - Commentary
Commentators: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
Transcriber: dragonofthewest
(Title sequence of pilot begins rolling as Mike and Bryan start talking)
Mike: Hi! This is Mike DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar.
Bryan: And this is Bryan Konietzko, the other co-creator. This is the first time Mike and I have watched this pilot, which was the test animation we made when we developed the series...I think the first time in a couple of years since we've seen this.
Mike: Yeah, so this was kind of the precursor to the main title we have now, where you see the four elements -
Bryan: And I actually just remembered that I animated these scenes.
Mike: Oh yeah! That's right, you did.
Bryan: I did the full animation, all the in-betweens.
Mike: Yeah, so this is kinda, this is the low-budget version of (laughs) the main titles...Katara's dialogue is kind of similar.
(still frame of Avatar Roku prototype bending the four elements, riding a waterwhip)
Bryan: And that sort of became Pakku, on the watersnake in the finale of...
Mike: So, you'll see a lot of differences in this animation, from -
Bryan: Design -
Mike: Yeah, design, costume -
Bryan: Names Katara's name is "Kya" in this.
Mike: Oh, that's right! That's right. We had to change her name. But you know, all the basics are there.
Bryan: Yeah, it had to be, it couldn't be an origin story, the network wanted it to just kind of be a sample of what the series would be like, so, it's kind of a more basic...
(shot of Aang, from behind, standing on a mountaintop surveying the landscape)
Mike: Even that shot's pretty similar to the last one of the main title.
Bryan: Mm-hm, yeah.
(Title sequence ends and pilot proper begins. Mike and Bryan interrupt each other. A brief pause and then Mike plunges ahead.)
Mike: Oh, I was just gonna say the theme, the actual Avatar theme that Ben [Wynn] and Jeremy [Zuckerman, aka The Track Team] did is similar too.
Bryan: Yeah. On this pilot, Ben and Jeremy both did sound design and music. Now, with the intense schedule of the series, they split it up. So that was some early
animation from Yu Jae Myeong, who does a lot of the episodes now. (Bryan seems to be referring to the opening scene of the kids flying on Appa.) He does really funny Sokka stuff.
(Zuko appears, dressed in the original Fire Nation armor.)
Bryan: (laughing) Wow! Look at that.
Mike: Yeah, I saw that. Obviously the firebender costumes are a lot different...even the voices are a little different, now that I hear them.
Bryan: Oh, I did that scene too. (He seems to mean a shot of Zuko and his men firebending in tandem.) So, Mike and I, when we got the approval to do this pilot, we went to Korea, and interviewed a lot of different studios, and we ended up going with Tin House and JM Media, which were two really small studios that had just done a really cool feature film, and...I don't know, they just had a cool attitude and, weren't trying to impress us, they just, they, really talented, and...so, ended up getting an apartment in Seoul, South Korea, and lived there for...actually I was there almost four months, 2003, for the production of this pilot, and Mike came over for several weeks, and did a lot of layout.
(The opening chase scene is over. The kids have taken refuge on an island where Katara is practicing waterbending.)
Mike: So there was a lot to accomplish in this pilot, which was, you know, get a sense of all the characters' personalities -
Bryan: A really short amount of time -
Mike: Yeah, get a sense of the bending that we wanted to do, and the action.
Bryan: So even back then we were working with Sifu Kisu on the martial arts consultation.
(Katara, attempting to maneuver some water into a bag Aang is holding, accidentally drenches Aang.)
Aang: I said keep it up.
Bryan: It's a different voice.
Mike: On Aang, yeah.
Bryan: Mitchell Musso.
Mike: Yeah, we recast Aang later.
Katara: (replying to Sokka, and referring to Aang) And he's not my boyfriend. (Aang is chagrined.)
Mike: Ooo, even in there, we see a little Aang/Katara shipping in the pilot.
Bryan: (laughing) "Ship". Oh, Aang's costume is a little different, he had this asymmetrical fold in his wind pants, that no one could draw. That was the first change I made. And, going into the pilot, I knew that a lot of the designs would need to be refined, but, it gave us an opportunity to test out some stuff. You know, obviously some stuff worked well, and some things didn't. Speaking of the designs, I should mention, Yoo Young Ki is a good friend of ours, and he was the animation director on this pilot. An amazing animator...he and I kind of brainstormed on these designs when I first got to Korea. He had some good advice. Actually, Katara's, like, hair loops
Mike: The hair loopies
Bryan: They used to hang down, just loosely, and Young Ki thought that would be too hard to animate, and thought they'd be moving around too much, so, he had the idea to tie them back, which actually ended up being an authentic Inuit hair style. There's some great Young Ki animation there. (He seems to refer to a shot of Sokka running greedily towards a berry bush.) And despite that, that we tied them back, to make the animation easier, everybody keeps animating wind in all the scenes. (laughs)
Mike: Yeah, that's true.
Bryan: So they keep blowing in the wind. I think I did this scene too.
(He refers to Sokka's encounter with the Rough Rhinos.)
Mike: Yeah, that one came out great.
(Katara and Aang are lounging on top of Appa's head, waiting for Sokka to return with food. A bird is perched on Aang's head and he is chewing a flower stem, somewhat a la Jet.)
Mike: Momo's eating bugs off Appa right there.
Bryan: (laughing) That's right.
Mike: We never did - we should do that more on this series. (laughing)
Bryan: That took a lot of retakes, I remember.
Mike: Yes.
(Momo jumps up, alarmed by something, and perches anxiously on one of Appa's horns.)
Aang: Whaddya hear, Momo
Bryan: And this is Momo as "Lassie".
Mike: Yes - hearing trouble -
Bryan: (presumably mimicking Tommy Rettig from the original "Lassie" TV show) Whaddya hear, boy
(Aang grabs his glider and he and Katara fly off in search of Sokka.)
Mike: Oh, so when Aang opens his glider, that's kind of a more detailed thing than we normally show. He's actually using airbending to kind of open it.
(The Fire Nation compound comes into view around a cliff as Aang and Katara soar towards it.)
Mike: Eh, so there's a cool CG shot. (laughs) Or somethin'.
Bryan: Ehhh...not so cool. (laughing) I think we had the idea early on that there would be more CG. Actually, you'll see coming up the most CG shot that we've never tried to replicate...I think because I had to hand-animate all the fire. That was really difficult. (Katara is seen sliding down a rock path towards the compound.) I love that animation of Katara...sliding down there. That rock hill. (Momo scratches his ear with his foot while Aang and Katara argue.) This is a great moment where Momo is not paying attention to what people are saying, because he just doesn't understand -
Mike: Being an animal.
(Katara heads off alone to rescue Sokka, having convinced Aang that the Avatar's life is too valuable to be risked on such a mission. Aang gives her some parting advice.)
Aang: Kya! Remember - it's all in the legs.
Bryan: So he's giving her some...kung fu basics.
(The interior of the compound. A gang of Fire Nation soldiers are seen wheeling in, on a giant cart, the decapitated head of the sea serpent that attacked Zuko in the opening chase sequence.)
Mike: So here we see the serpent's head. (laughing) The controversial serpent's head on the cart.
Bryan: A lot of adults thought this was a "dragon car". Didn't make the connection that this was the serpent from the beginning of the episode - it's only like three minutes earlier but -
Mike: Eh, we learned a lot. (Zuko walks into the compound behind the serpent's head, a hawk perched on his shoulder.) Oh, there we have Zuko's hawk! Which was supposed to be, like, his pet but never really made it into the series. (laughing)
Bryan: I just want to point out that my three year old nephew knew where that dragon head came from. Now here's another scene I did the - I animated these scenes.
(Aang, waiting for Katara to return, is debating whether or not to follow her. As he ponders, he airbends a small rock up and down, in and out of Momo's reach, while the lemur gamely leaps after it.)
Bryan: That was pretty fun. Kind of based on my cat. It was kind of the - oh, that was a fun scene to animate. (laughs)
Mike: Yeah, that's a great scene.
Bryan: I remember just looking on the Internet for - I think I searched like "cats pawing at things" and studied -
(Zuko is standing on the wall of the compound, looking towards the sunset, arms crossed.)
Mike: This is a cool shot of Zuko just like, looking out.
Bryan: Great layout by Young Ki. He's really great at posing characters. (close-up of Zuko's face in side profile) I really like that detail shot of Zuko's scar. I remember spending a lot of time on that.
(Katara has been captured. Two guards escort her towards Zuko.)
Guard: Prince Zuko! We caught her trying to climb over the wall.
Bryan: I think that's Dee's voice - the voice of Dee Baker did the - so this idea - (Aang, on his glider, zips between Zuko and the guards holding Katara. A brief still frame as he passes between the camera and our view of Zuko's face; in the still frame, Aang is grinning maniacally.) - I love - and we tried to replicate in a later episode but - it came from this hilarious layout that Young Ki did where Aang just had this demonic, happy expression on his face and we were like, oh, we have to do a freeze frame. (Aang, having landed, is immediately encircled by Fire Nation spearmen.) I like those spears. Why didn't I use those spears in the series? Those are nice.
(The guards holding Katara [and Sokka now as well] throw the two down into a metal hole.)
Mike: So they fall like fifty feet into this -
Bryan: (laughing) Face first -
Mike: (laughing) Into the metal...metal hole.
(Aang has flown off into the scaffolding that surrounds the giant statue in the middle of the compound.)
Bryan: This scaffolding came out really cool.
(Fire Soldiers are climbing the scaffolding. Momo leaps down on them and twists their helmets around so that they can't see. They fall off the scaffolding.)
Mike: No, this is great...I always love this action sequence. Some good Momo...stuff...
Bryan: That was one of our earliest ideas...Momo flippin' guys...(Zuko's hawk flies in from off screen and attacks Momo) ...oh right, and then Momo's nemesis! The hawk. (Zuko firebends at Aang, who leaps up higher into the scaffolding) Some tan tui. That's one of the basic Northern Shaolin forms.
(A Fire Soldier runs up to Zuko. A section of the scaffolding is burning from Zuko's attack.)
Soldier: Sir! The scaffolding -
(Zuko pushes him out of the way and runs after Aang.)
Bryan: Oh, that was some...um...forget it.
Mike: (laughing) That [the soldier] was Bryan's voice.
Bryan: (laughing) Some horrible voice acting.
Mike: Yeah, it's probably, little pieces of the pilot have made it into the series in various ways, so, ideas...
(Aang is standing on some planks at the top of the scaffolding, catching his breath. Zuko bursts up through the planking.)
Bryan: You'll see some stuff like this later in Season 2...[episode] 203.
Mike: But yeah, I love the idea of them just fighting on this...on top of this...
Bryan: (Zuko is firebending at Aang) I like the way the fire came right from camera. Great animation by Young Ki there. (pause) It's almost like I'm seeing this for the first time.
Mike: I know, I forgot about -
Bryan: Alright! Here is some crazy...(Zuko's hawk is chasing Momo through and around the burning scaffolding) ...so yeah, and all that fire I had to kind of animate by hand over the top of this 3D animation.
Mike: Yeah. We don't - I don't think we've ever done a shot like this (laughing) in the actual series. Probably 'cause we learned our lesson from this.
Bryan: We thought - yeah.
(Momo flies between the uprights of a cooking rack, snagging the crosspole with his tail and swinging round it. As he swings upward, the hawk, right behind him, continues forward through empty space and crashes into a wall. He falls to the ground, stunned. Momo, hanging complacently from the crossbeam, scents food below. Characteristically, he begins helping himself.)
Bryan: This is pretty funny.
Mike: Yeah, this is classic...early Momo. Chowin' down.
Bryan: I like how he's just drinking...a little soup at the end. Washin' it down.
Mike: But yeah, even in this early pilot we tried to balance the action and the comedy stuff and find moments for both.
(Cut to Aang and Zuko, who are still going at it atop the scaffolding. As the scaffolding collapses, the fight moves to the top of the giant statue.)
Bryan: So, the fight we did in three stages. It was sort of on the scaffolding, and then, on this dilapidated scaffolding where they had nowhere to stand, and then the third stage is up on the head of this huge Avatar statue. Which, the concept is that they are retrofitting it to become Zuko's father, the Fire Lord. (Zuko bends fire daggers) It's the fire daggers, which don't show up that much in the series but...pretty prevalent here.
(Cut to Sokka and Katara, who are trying to escape from the metal hole. Sokka has tied what appears to be a forked stick to the end of a rope and he now throws it upward, hoping it will catch on something. An odd sound effect is heard.)
Mike: (laughs) What was that?
Bryan: (commenting on the music) I think that waterbending theme might have made it into the series.
Mike: Yeah! We hear that in the first episode, I think.
Bryan: Jeremy's, uh, theme there.
(Water is dripping from above into the hole and Katara is attempting to bend it, in the hope, apparently, that she can somehow use it to help them escape. Sokka cannot see the sense of this and is haranguing her.)
Bryan: This is one of the first times Jack DeSena just went off, improvising, and now we know we can just trust him to come up with some funny stuff.
(The water turns out to have been dripping from two tall storage tanks on either side of the hole. Katara's bending breaks them and the hole is flooded with water, propelling Katara and Sokka to ground level. Cut to the face of a nearby Fire Soldier as he looks upward and sees the water from the tanks cascading down upon him. A funny "bloop" sound effect is heard just before the deluge hits. Both Mike and Bryan laugh.)
Bryan: It's Ben's voice. That funny little "bloop"...is Ben's voice. (Cut to Aang and Zuko, still fighting.) So yeah, this was fun. I spent a lot of time on this when I was in Korea, doing the layout for this sequence. Aang kind of using his Ba Gua, more spiraling, circular footwork. Zuko does a dragon's tail kick here, I like this, to close him off. He realizes he has to box him in. That was a fun layout. (Zuko has cornered Aang at the edge of the statue's forehead. He bends the fire daggers again and their light reflects in his eyes.) I like the little fire highlights in his eyes. (The sunset is visible behind Aang, glittering on the water of the ocean beyond.) I love those sparkles, those came out really good. (Aang throws himself off the statue, inducing the Avatar state. In a burst of airbending, he runs back to the top of the statue and sends Zuko flying to the ground.) So this was something we did not really do in the series, where Aang (incredulous tone of voice) throws himself into danger to put himself into the Avatar state
Mike: Well, definitely the Avatar state became a much more complex device in the show and it was not just a simple power-up thing that he did here.
Bryan: Yeah. I like this though. (Aang grabs his glider and rushes after Zuko, intercepting his fall and carrying him to safety.) I like the timing on that kick, that, like, arc of wind that he sends out. That's a cool power. So, Aang's nice enough to save his foe and...(Aang sees that Katara and Sokka are still in danger and lets Zuko fall the short distance left to the ground. Zuko crashes into a wall and falls backward onto his poor hawk, who is still dazed from the earlier fall. Mike and Bryan laugh.) ...he just drops him.
Mike: Maybe he killed his hawk there, that's why he didn't make it into the show. (They both laugh.)
Bryan: I think it's alive. It shows up in episode thirteen. I think the idea we had in the series is that they were more like homing pigeons. They weren't so much specific pets. They were more like... (Aang has managed to rescue Katara, Sokka, and Momo, and they fly off) ...that was straight from some of the development work...that shot.
(It's unclear exactly what he is referring to; the shot just prior is of Sokka, clinging to the end of a rope attached to Aang's glider, and toting Momo's food basket, which he crashed into during the flight out. Katara, clinging to Aang's neck, cries out; she seems to have acquired a sudden fear of flying.)
Bryan: I never know why, but people laugh at that...Katara slipping there. (Cut to a disgruntled Zuko being helped to his feet by his men. His battered hawk wheels falteringly through the air behind him. Mike and Bryan both laugh.) Ah, he's alive. (referring to the hawk)
Mike: Forgot about that...yeah, he is alive.
Bryan: I like that - alive and well. (The gaang, on Appa, are flying away through the moonlit sky.) This shot's cool. That was another shot straight out of our development work.
Mike: This little calimba music makes it into the main series too.
Bryan: Appa's head's really small. (The show ends. Credits begin to roll.) There ya go, wow. Blast from the past!
Mike: Yeah. So, that's a never...never...never-before-seen-on-DVD, I guess.
Bryan: Yeah. We showed it at a convention...couple conventions I think. But, you know, different as it is, and a little rough around the edges, there's still a lot of great moments, and a lot of people worked really hard. I mean, the crew is so small on a pilot that it's almost just as much work as doing the series.
Mike: Oh, we did that over almost a year, and, you know, we do a whole season now in a little over a year, so...
Bryan: It's crazy. Thanks Eric [Coleman, executive in charge for Nickelodeon, whose name finishes out the list of credits]!
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