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Gamera vs Jiger (1970)
Mike Matei / October 17th, 2013
October 17, 2013 at 3:39 am
Maybe first, maybe second, i dont care. Greetings from Athens, Greece and happy halloween to all
Robert McNutt
October 17, 2013 at 5:09 pm
yay, someone who got first and had something to say other than first!fata_morgana_pseudonym
October 18, 2013 at 1:35 am
If you really didn't care, you wouldn't have mentioned it at all, you know.
October 22, 2013 at 5:32 am
It's not about getting first, it's about sending a message
October 17, 2013 at 3:44 am
Great as always, can't wait to see what the rest of the month brings!Daniel Weir
October 17, 2013 at 3:55 am
Great vid james!mofi
October 17, 2013 at 4:00 am
i want to see the elephant larva clip damnit! anyway,great monster madness. i watch every episode every time this year,1video per day isn´t enough to satisfy my needs 😉
October 17, 2013 at 4:38 am
October 17, 2013 at 10:59 am
That's fucking gross.
October 17, 2013 at 8:48 pm
I thought the elephant video was gonna be way more gross
October 17, 2013 at 11:50 pm
Same, thought it would be more gross. But given this day in age of our technology for special effects in movies and TV we have seen a lot worse, hell even during the 1980's era of movie effects were just as graphical.
Guess James didn't show it because he wanted us to go find and watch it ourselves.scythedd7
October 18, 2013 at 1:11 am
That's pretty clearly fake, you can see that it's something they a slide some sort of rubber thing onto an elephant's trunk. Look below the lump and it's pretty obvious were the rubber or whatever meets the real trunk. And the guy is rubbing the top of were the fake lump is to hide the line (his hand is over it the entire time) It hides well because it's in B/W. When they cut into it, it looks like a the whole shown trunk is fake. The 'larvae' aren't moving, and really just look like spaghetti in sauce or other viscous fluid. So in fact, I think this is an incredibly awesome practical effect that's looks way better then some crap we see today!
October 20, 2013 at 6:09 pm
The reaction of the people in the movie when watching the surgery clip is hilarious. James could have spliced that in right after he said that it was gross.NCfanboy1
October 21, 2013 at 9:31 pm
Thanks!Jaden Vincent
July 24, 2014 at 8:06 am
compared to stuff like 2 girls 1 cup or 1 man 1 screwdriver, its pretty tame
October 17, 2013 at 4:01 am
These MONSTER FIGHTS get better and better.Super castlevania 1994
October 17, 2013 at 4:29 am
Great video!
October 18, 2013 at 7:44 pm
What's funny is that the death ray you mentioned was pretty much copied by Toho for Hedorah the next year.SilverShadow333
October 17, 2013 at 4:54 am
Yeah I agree with you in cutting out the segment with the elephant getting its trunk slit open. I don't need to see that. X_X But man, I love the ending of this year's Monster Madness: A Haunted House, a Jack-O-Lantern, and a Skull. Badass Halloween 101. =D
October 17, 2013 at 5:10 am
man, another monster with a similar connection with Pacific Rim. while this monster is called Jiger, Pacific Rim has giant robots called Jaeger's. yeah, this one doesn't seem all that interesting. I think this is the first of the Gamera films that doesn't seem all that interesting. overall, nicely done James. I can't wait to see more.Ace
October 17, 2013 at 7:00 am
Thanks guys, looking forward to Big G vs. Zigra to finish out the series!
October 17, 2013 at 7:24 am
James, THANK YOU for not showing the larvae spilling out of the elephant's trunk. I was eating breakfast while watching this review, and thanks to your good judgement, I won't be puking it back up this morning. 😀Charles Cumberland
October 17, 2013 at 8:55 am
What about the Gamera fun scene :0)TheKingdom
October 17, 2013 at 9:38 am
mrehDr. Breakfastmachine
October 17, 2013 at 10:30 am
"All we need now is to see a monster take a shit!"
James hasn't seen Pacific Rim yet I take it…
October 17, 2013 at 2:16 pm
I know. it's strange that a guy who loves to watch monster movies somehow didn't see this years biggest monster movie. I don't think the AVGN film is an excuse because he's been active on the site at his own pace. and if his movie was really that important, then he wouldn't be posting any recent videos on his site. it's not like Rob Bottin who actually worked on The Thing 24/7 for almost a year and had to be hospitalized. that's why Stan Winston came in to help at the last minute. I appreciate James wanting to post videos, but he needs to focus his attention on his film and not get distracted if he intends to get his movie done. as for Pacific Rim, it's on dvd & blu-ray now James so I strongly recommend you check it out and see what you've been missing. Godzilla is coming out next year, so I hope to god that you don't miss out on that movie too. either way, I wish you luck with the final weeks of Monster Madness 2013.
Lukas Sprehn
October 18, 2013 at 7:28 am
He did actually see it. Want proof? You got it, https://twitter.com/cinemassacre/status/356836308494192642
He probably just forgot about the shit part. Or maybe he thought the movie was actally underwhelming. From what I have seen on Mike's Twitter profile, Mike enjoyed the film but thought that he would probably forget it again soon… and I think working on the AVGN Movie and having a baby is a good enough excuse for not having talked much about the movie yet, or done a review of some kind. He will eventally do it, I'm sure of it 🙂 You'll see…
October 17, 2013 at 11:05 am
I've seen that kinda tiny mustache a lot in various anime. I guess it's just a Japanese thing. It's a shame that one insane German guy had to screw things up and make us forever associate the mustache style with him.Kieran St James
October 17, 2013 at 11:26 am
Good video….
But damn, I wanted to see some elephant gore! Lol.
October 17, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Thanks for not showing the larva scene, I was eating while watching the video.
And the army plane was useful once while dealing with a giant monster, the Super X 3 annihilated destroyah. So the score is Giant Monster: 35212 Army plane: 1Jack Woolf
October 17, 2013 at 12:29 pm
As a young kid, seeing this film was actually quite terrifying. The monster itself has an scary roar, the Devil's Whistle is a cool idea, and the idea of being impregnated with a little Jiger all added up to memorable monster movie for me. Easily my favorite Gamera film.
October 17, 2013 at 1:26 pm
I just watched this one yesterday! Off of the War of the Monsters collection. Which is basically the crappy VHS transfer, and that whole scene with the parasites in the elephant trunk is there!handsome pete
October 17, 2013 at 1:45 pm
It looks like Jiger is only pissed because she just woke up and everyone's trying to kill her.fackya
October 17, 2013 at 2:13 pm
I love Gamera. Great reviewsHastaj00
October 17, 2013 at 2:15 pm
poop. that larva in the elephants tusk is already disgusting, but they had to slit it open ON CAMERA (for a film .0000000000% of the world will ever see). goodness. like james' said, disgusting. but I have an answer for his rhetorical question; who would want to see this? THE JAPANESE. all I know is (by word of mouth mostly, but I've seen a 'few' clips) they've got the weirdest, nastiest porn of any nation in our species' history. PROBABLY (won't say it's a fact, could be tho'z). and so I share a link to counter that deep sickness that has lie within a part of the collective Japanese psyche for many a decade now (maybe we can blame the atomic bombings for their fetishes..). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW3MvrC2YcY glorious (yah that ain't a link too many people on this forum will probably like all that much).Hastaj00
October 17, 2013 at 2:17 pm
ooops meant .0000000001(3?)%Hastaj00
October 17, 2013 at 2:18 pm
holy shit I posted the wrong link. 8a0wefhja08hw0ehjfg[aw0ehg0awegh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQIQxkW9r-0 (best? band from Japan)
October 17, 2013 at 6:10 pm
Whats so bizzare about orchestrated music?M H
October 17, 2013 at 3:05 pm
I would be interested to know what is happening around 02:50 and just beyond, 'Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.'
October 18, 2013 at 12:43 am
It's the Gamera theme song.Aaron1375
October 17, 2013 at 4:31 pm
Another one not featured on MST3K, seems like they would have had plenty of fodder in this one what with Gamera shoving telephone polls in his head. This one is kind of basic, no aliens or anything, just people removing the wrong statue. The monster just looks like a modified triceratops. Still, it looks a bit interesting and I sort of do want to see that scene with the elephant out of morbid curiosity.
October 17, 2013 at 4:46 pm
Nice video James! I'm loving Monster Madness this year!
October 17, 2013 at 5:55 pm
lol the timing on these are perfect for me, I workout during the evening and when I come back home, make my coffee and sit down. There's a new Monster Madness! Shame it has to end, these are awesome to watch!punkbikerdude
October 17, 2013 at 8:21 pm
I think it's funny how the King of poopy-sauce actually thought something was so gross that he wouldn't show it in the review. That must have been one nasty scene!
October 18, 2013 at 2:42 am
Not really.BladeRunner
October 17, 2013 at 8:36 pm
that elephant part sounds nasty so glad you didn't show it. Great review and awesome Monster Madness.
October 18, 2013 at 2:09 am
I'm actually rather disappointed. I wish you guys would have done another sequel-a-thon with more variety. It's nice that you're exploring each series so deeply, but I often use Monster Madness as a catalyst for movies that I will watch during October, and I'm someone who likes variety (and I don't like giant monster movies, so this entire week has been a waiting game for me).fcabanski
October 18, 2013 at 2:42 am
Did you know, the role of Gamera was originally to go to Mumm-Ra? He was fired on the first day of shooting, when he attacked the producer's cat.Rattrap007
October 19, 2013 at 7:09 am
Wait was the dad with the Hitler stache Officer Cornjob from Gamera vs Guirion?penpan
October 20, 2013 at 9:42 pm
I love your commentary. Love to see that monster take a sh** 😛penpan
October 20, 2013 at 9:43 pm
Are you going to do the Friday the 13th series for this year?? That would be freaking sweet, especially since you did all the Halloweens and Nightmare on Elm Street in 2011 😛PureSmoke
October 21, 2013 at 10:03 pm
These videos are great, reminds of the "Cinemassacre Monster Madness: Godzillathon". I loved that series! Lol. I know the video are probably already made, but I would love for them to be longer :D! It would be great if you could make the vids longer, thanks :D!
October 22, 2013 at 12:12 pm
I want to see the Elephant trunk getting sliced openBen_from_G-town
October 22, 2013 at 8:51 pm
Nice review. It's too bad that the movie seems to be your typical kaiji film, but it is what it is. And thank you for not showing us the elephant trunk surgery. That's just weird and gross! I think the film makers just wanted to brag that they knew of this strange documentary that covered this really weird case. I know I've never heard of such a thing until now.lotusclown
October 24, 2013 at 9:47 pm
it always pissed me off when an americanized version of one of these great classics changed the fuckin name.. i mean if you can't even remember the name of the film why even bring it to the states? its an insult to the original producer..
October 30, 2013 at 9:05 am
Good lord, THE. MONSTER. X. IN. GODZILLA. FINAL. WARS. WAS. CALLED. KEISER. CHIDORAH!!!!!nammm3
November 7, 2013 at 12:51 am
I forgot to include into my comment on the last Gamera video about how funny it was when you mentioned Gamera grabbing ice and icing down his wounds. Friggin awesome!
The video reviews for the Gamera series have been so crazy! The Frankenstein series started to feel like they were all the same but this Gamera series involves him shoving telephone poles into his ears, an actual elephant's trunk getting severed, and a monster's epic awakening ruined by him naturally drinking water- CRAZY 😀 Keep up the great work James! [i'm still waiting on a 'Pacific Rim' movie review]
November 11, 2013 at 4:46 am
They just killed a baby…eh, who cares? No that was not intended to sound evil…or was it?Sean Ewing
October 7, 2015 at 3:12 pm
This is easily the worst of the classic Gamera series. The rival monster's not very interesting, too much science explanation stuff, and it's just disgustingly gory.Deathbringer
November 5, 2015 at 4:39 am
Why are there so many horrible US/English localization choices in the horror/monster movie genre, especially Godzilla/Gamera? They literally make it WORSE almost every time consistently instead of their intended goal of making it better or more palatable to western audiences. I just imagine some arrogantly idiotic executive every time making these decisions, unable to be questioned by people "below" him who actually do know better, but he can't admit that for his own business reputation/pride/ego. It happens.
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Angara, Escudero, Casiño for the Senate
If you ask senatorial candidates if they are for or against political dynasties, many of them, including those who are actual members of dynasties, will say they will vote for bills abolishing dynasties, no doubt knowing the strong opposition of the general populace to them. Dynasty members will add, however, "but first we must define what is a political dynasty."
Such was the answer of Rep. Sonny Angara to the question at the Kapihan sa Manila at the Diamond Hotel last Monday. "Should it be parents, children and siblings only?" he asked. "I think including uncles and aunts and cousins is too much already." One of the candidates in the Team PNoy senatorial ticket, Angara is the son of Sen. Edgardo Angara whose sixth term in the Senate will end in June. His aunt, the sister of Senator Angara, is running for the position that Sonny will vacate in the House of Representatives. He said, though, that if a bill banning political dynasties comes to a vote in the Senate, he would vote for its approval—if he becomes a senator.
Angara and the two other guests at the Kapihan—Rep. Teddy Casiño who is now running for a Senate seat and former Rep. Annie Rosa Susano who wants to go back to the House to represent Novaliches—said they would also vote for the abolition of the pork barrel but admitted that they collected their pork barrel allocations "because it was already there." In fact, added Casiño, he had authored a bill in the House that would abolish the pork barrel system but it got nowhere because most of the congressmen are fattening themselves on it.
Would they miss the pork if it is abolished?
Answer: No! Somebody remarked that a few senators, like Panfilo Lacson, do not collect their pork barrel allocations but it has not affected their work or efficiency. In fact, Lacson is better than most senators who collect their pork.
Speaking of pork, Susano said that each Quezon City councilor has a pork barrel allocation of P48 million a year. Each of them also has a payroll for 100 or more employees, many of whom may be ghost employees. Two of the QC councilors have been charged for the offense by former Sen. Aquilino Pimentel and are now undergoing trial. There are others, not just the two of them, Susano said.
So what are you going to do about it, she was asked.
Surely, the others must be subjected to the same process, she answered. Even QC barangay captains get pork, she added. Yet we do not see any improvement in the decaying parts of the city. Where is all that money going? Is it being audited by the Commission on Audit?
As an aside, I daresay that too much money may be fueling graft in QC. The city has the highest real estate tax rate in the country. And the city treasurer and city administrator are quick to auction off property assets belonging to people who may be behind in their realty tax payments, and the same are usually bought at bargain prices by a syndicate close to City Hall.
QC has billions of pesos deposited in the banks—Susano said P13 billion—but little of that goes to the service of the people. QC can afford to build medium-rise housing for the squatters but does not do that. It can afford to free lots squatted upon so that the law-abiding taxpaying owners can use them, but the city government does not do that either. In fact, it is collecting additional real estate taxes, allegedly to be used for constructing homes for the homeless, but no such homes are being constructed. Where is the money going?
The billions of taxpayers' money in the banks give city officials with itchy fingers ideas on how to get hold of some of them, such as the pork barrel and ghost employees. Will the Commission on Audit and the Department of the Interior and Local Government please look into the abuses of QC officials?
Back to the Kapihan and the candidates. Last Monday was the first time I interviewed Angara at the Kapihan and I was glad to know that among his advocacies are education, healthcare, job creation and helping the youth find employment, developing agriculture and tourism, transparency and accountability in governance, and promoting women empowerment and family relations.
I also learned that he has excellent academic credentials: He is a law graduate of the University of the Philippines, of the Harvard Law School, and of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In Congress, he has authored more than 50 laws, and has filed over 200 bills still pending in Congress. He would be a good addition to the Senate.
The same goes for Teddy Casiño. He is not a trapo, has no dynasty, is sincere in his advocacies for the masses, and is against the pork barrel, constitutional change and political dynasties.
Also against political dynasties is Ricardo Penson, independent candidate for senator. In fact, he is the "original antidynasty man" and is a patriot.
And let us not forget Sen. Chiz Escudero who is seeking reelection in the Team PNoy ticket. Chiz has been consistently number 2 (next to Loren Legarda) in the poll ratings, but his affairs of the "Heart" (surnamed Evangelista) may have affected his standing lately. But so what? All the world loves a lover, 'di ba?
Joking aside, Chiz had a good record in the Senate and deserves to return there. This talented young man can conquer many more mountains.
Before I run out of space, I would like to make a pitch for Mitos Magsaysay. The Senate needs an oppositionist like her. If only Team PNoy senators are there, the Senate would be a rubber stamp. Besides Mitos is against the pork barrel, political dynasties and Cha-cha.
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In a turn of a events that will not help our fair city's reputation as bookish and snobby, The Other Boleyn Girl (no. 1), based on the best-selling tome of the same name, handily beat out the Will Ferrell comedy Semi-Pro (no. 3), despite playing at two fewer theaters. Nationally, however, Boleyn's buxom stars, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, and their shana punims were no match for the near-ubiquitous ad campaign for Semi-Pro, with Ferrell appearing in everything from Old Spice commercials to ESPN's Sportscenter, counting down the top ten sports hair-dos. The comedy captured the top spot, while the drama ranked fourth behind Vantage Point (no. 2) and The Spiderwick Chronicles.
For the second week in a row, a famed comedian has felt the harsh sting of apathy; there are just not that many people going to movies. Last week, Be Kind Rewind (no. 7), featuring Jack Black, failed to help many to overcome their Seasonal Affective Disorder. Semi-Pro only managed to gross roughly $15 million on 3,100 screens (incidentally, nearly three times as many as Boleyn). While nearly triple the gross of the Michel Gondry comedy, it averaged roughly the same, with $20,000 at 10 theaters. Sure, everyone's getting tired of the chilly weather, but can't anyone take a joke?
Well, maybe it has less to do with senses of humor, than with dreams of enjoying a fireside romp with Ms. Johansson or Eric Bana (still in full costume and with role play, of course). The steamy scene, prominently displayed in the film's trailer, must have had something to do with its strong $36,000 average. Talk about hot flashes!
No Country for Old Men, winner of the best picture Oscar (for those of who live under a rock), experienced the vaunted bump, maintaining an above-$100,000 gross, while expanding onto 11 screens, here in the city. It easily leapfrogged over Juno (no. 6) and There Will Be Blood (no. 9), which experienced a rather steep 43 percent decline after failing to beat out No Country. It must be done drinking America's milkshake.
List of theaters: Paris, Zeigfeld, Oprheum, East 85th St., 86th St. East, 84th St., Lincoln Plaza, 62nd and Broadway, Lincoln Square, Magic Johnson, 72nd St East, Cinemas 1, 2 &3rd Ave, 64th and 2nd , Imaginasian, Manhattan Twin, First and 62nd St., Angelika Film Center, Quad, IFC Center, Film Forum, Village East, Village Seven, Cinema Village, Union Square, Essex, Battery Park 11, Sunshine, 34th Street, Empire, E-Walk, Chelsea, 19th Street East, and Kips Bay.
Manhattan Weekend Box Office: How moviegoers in the multiplexes of middle America choose to spend their ten-spot is probably a big deal in Hollywood. But here in Manhattan, the hottest movies aren't always the ones making the big bucks nationwide. Using Nielsen numbers for Manhattan theaters alone and comparing them to the performance of the national weekend box office can tell you a lot about our Blue State sensibilities. Or nothing at all! Each Monday afternoon, we will bring you the results.


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Although the correct result is returned from the method, it would be much better if there was a simple check for the 204 status to return false straight away.
This caused issues with our system as our sending method which uses the WebServiceTemplate took 20 seconds to finish even though the HTTP 204 was received within a few ms (the 20 seconds was configured on the client's server).
The first if statement in the current method could be adapted (with a new STATUS_NO_CONTENT added to the HttpTransportConstants representing 204):
protected final boolean hasResponse() throws IOException { if (HttpTransportConstants.STATUS_ACCEPTED == getResponseCode()) { return false; } long contentLength = getResponseContentLength(); if (contentLength < 0) { if (responseBuffer == null) { responseBuffer = FileCopyUtils.copyToByteArray(getRawResponseInputStream()); } contentLength = responseBuffer.length; } return contentLength > 0; }


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Trump Is Very Unpopular And Can Be Made Even Less PopularComments
Based on some comments — as well as royal stenographers declaring that Trump WON THE WEEK, which I might return to later — I think it might be useful to go back to Yglesias's typology of Trump voters:
Roughly speaking, vague references to "Trump voters" tend to end up falling into one of three buckets:
- Trump's primary voters: These are the true Donald Trump fans. The people who decided to throw tradition to the wind and turn out and vote to nominate a person who didn't have the basic attributes of a traditional presidential nominee. That amounts to about 14 million people who voted for him — only 45 percent of Republican Party primary voters.
- The typical Trump voter: This is a very boring but numerically large group of people — basically Republicans. Most Republicans didn't vote in the 2016 GOP primary, and most 2016 GOP primary voters didn't vote for Trump. But most of these Republicans who weren't especially enthusiastic about Trump did what they do every four years and voted for the GOP nominee, just as Hillary Clinton coasted to easy wins in states like Vermont and Washington where the primaries showed her to have few enthusiasts.
- The marginal Trump voters: Typical Republican Party voters are a much larger group of people than swing voters who defected from the Democrats to vote for Trump. But winning the votes of people who always vote GOP isn't enough to make you president. The converts were small in number, but they made the difference between winning and losing.
Indeed, exit polls show that a staggering 60 percent of voters said they had an unfavorable view of Trump on Election Day. Clinton's problem was that she only got 77 percent of the votes of Trump-disapprovers, likely because her own favorable ratings were also terrible.
Trump pulled off the impressive feat of crushing Clinton among voters who disapproved of both candidates, while another large chunk of them opted to vote for a third-party candidate.
The marginal Trump voter — and the median American — already doesn't like him. He was able to win in 2016 thanks to a combination of third-party voting, Clinton's unpopularity, and the quirks of the Electoral College. Under the circumstances, keeping up a drumbeat of criticism that "Trump supporters don't care about" is actually a perfectly reasonable strategy.
There's no particular need to find a magic formula to lift the scales from the eyes of Trump's biggest supporters or to shatter his stranglehold and Republican Party loyalists. Democrats don't necessarily need to convince a single Trump fan to stop liking him. What they need to do is find a way to convince the people who don't like Trump to support their nominee instead.
It is, of course, true that even as disgusting and poorly implemented a plan as Trump's racist immigration ban won't damage and might even mobilize support among his base. But those voters are permanently beyond reach anyway. Some ordinary Republican voters might find it distasteful but will always pull the GOP lever anyway, and Trump has proved that these voters are also largely unreachable. But the key are the smaller but crucial number of voters who didn't like Trump and considered not voting for him but decided they liked Clinton even less. How exactly to apportion the blame between Clinton herself and the influential media members who relentlessly hyped inane bullshit about Hillary Clinton — in many cases, despite being well aware that a Donald Trump presidency would a political, constitutional, and moral crisis — and opened up the field for the FBI to throw the election isn't important — what matters is that Trump got a crucial number of marginal voters who didn't like him even when they voted for him.
So what matters going forward is how actions like the racist immigration ban affect group #3 — and, as Dave says here the reaction is likely to be overwhelmingly negative. Another thing that matters gong forward is mobilizing potential Clinton voters who stayed home, and Trump's actions are also likely to mobilize these voters for the same reason that John Kerry was the one Democratic candidate of the millennium Cornel West decided to endorse.
And, finally, remember that groups 1, 2 and 3 still weren't a majority coalition — he still needed to draw an inside straight in the undemocratic mechanism that selects the president. One of the favorite factoids of the don't-bother-nothing-matters left is the fact that Sam Brownback won re-election despite being an unmitigated disaster. Well, yes, but in his first election Brownback won by won by 29 points and in his second he won by less than 4, despite the advantages of incumbency. Trump, to put it mildly, doesn't have that kind of margin of error to work with. He's already unpopular, and can be made more unpopular. And while nothing will stop the Republicans from passing upper-class tax cuts, the more unpopular Trump is the harder it will be for the clown car to proceed with ACA repeal. Trump is very unpopular, and despite this is marginal support is very soft. This matters, and not only for 2018 and 2020. That Trump's base will like what he does is beside the point.


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Okay. Here is me, as of two minutes ago, with the second Clown Rings sock:
I know. No appreciable difference since last night. Now, that would be because I have not in fact knitted a stitch on it today. In my defense, I slept all day, because it is Saturday and that is what I do on Saturdays.
…that's not the greatest defense, is it.
Whatever! I am headed out the door to a party (surprise, I might have more of a life than I thought). I am who I am, so I can guarantee you that there will be some knitting done on the sock at this party (this crowd is used to me knitting at their parties, I have done it at the last two parties of theirs I attended just this past month). And therefore, so far, I am managing to knit a sock and write blog entries. Not that two days in a row is any sort of record or anything, I realize. But little things! Give me the little things, damn it.
And please pardon my hair. I followed a Fashion Tip, which historically is something that is always disastrous for me, and today is no exception. Moreso because I desperately need a haircut, but since my last haircut in January was a touch traumatic, I have been afraid of getting back on that particular horse. Needs must…but tonight, I think I will just find a hair clip.
I will be back tomorrow with another blog entry, and with a few more rounds on the sock. And possibly a hangover, since before I go to the party, I am headed to the package store to buy the sort of wine only I drink, being an absolute infant when it comes to wine. It's a step or two up from that Arbor Mist stuff, but that's not saying a whole lot.
So bad at adulting.
Tomorrow, then!


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Huddled in a cramped pharmacy in the back of an East End CVS Pharmacy as customers filled their prescriptions, local officials touted the drugstore chain's installation of time-delay safes across its 77 Kentucky locations — including 21 Louisville stores — as a means to deter drug robberies.
On hand were Kentucky state senator Julie Raque Adams, R-36, and Sgt. Tom Schardein, head of the Louisville Metro Police Department's narcotics division.
Both discussed the potential for the new mechanism to prevent potential criminals from access to the store's safe, which now contains sought-after opiates like oxycodone and hydrocodone. Placards and signs around the store also mentioned the new safes to further the deterrence effect.
CVS said the safes can be locked by a pharmacist who enters a special code into the locking mechanism, and will not respond to override attempts until after a set amount of time has elapsed.
A spokeswoman declined to provide details regarding the model. The company first implemented the technology in some of its Indianapolis stores in 2015, which resulted in a 70 percent decrease in pharmacy robberies, the company said.
Speaking before a clear plastic podium mere feet from the busy pharmacy counter, Sen. Adams said that she regularly patronizes this CVS in her district, located just off Shelbyville Road at Moser Road, was "proud" to participate in the announcement.
"I'm very grateful to our business partners like CVS who have stepped up and created innovative ways that we can divert this crime from happening," Adams said.
Sgt. Schardein said that while that particular CVS hadn't experienced any robberies, he said a few in the area had, but would not specify which ones, citing safety reasons. He added that, aside from deterrence, the LMPD, CVS and other drug providers in the city are working in concert to conduct drug diversion operations, targeting both prescribers and abusers.
Adams' preferred CVS is located in the LMPD's 8th patrol division, which has the lowest rate of robberies among all divisions between January and October 2018, at 34 reported robberies, according to the most recent crime statistics released by the department. In that same time frame, the highest rates of robbery — 217 reports — were in the 4th division, which appears to have just one CVS pharmacy located on the 5300 block of South 3rd Street.
The company said it had also begun disposing of drugs in nine "safe medication disposal units" at its pharmacies in Kentucky and has already disposed of over half a million pounds of expired or otherwise erstwhile medications to date.
Competing pharmacy chain Walgreens has been using a similar deterrent system, as well. According to the National Institute of Justice, "Research shows clearly that the chance of being caught is a vastly more effective deterrent than even draconian punishment."
Both CVS and Walgreens have found themselves on the defensive in the wake of accusations that the companies played a role in the over-prescription of opioids. The state of Florida has sued both companies, asserting that as drug distributors, they "played a role in creating the opioid crisis." Both companies' websites say that they are committed to fighting opioid abuse.


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I've spent this whole weekend eating and drinking all sorts of crap and I'm bloated and gross to prove it. So tomorrow marks the start of the ole Paleo thang again. I'm ready to eat all these wonderful things shown above again, and feel healthy, energetic and happy. (In just the 3 days I've spent eating non-paleo I've started breaking out and having majorly increased stomach pains) I'm going to try to not cheat at all for 30 days, but it will be slightly less strict than the Whole30 in that I will still eat honey, agave nectar, the occasional soy and some pseudo desserts as well (I also want to be stricter on myself about only eating meat and fish sources that are grass-fed, hormone-free, free range, etc.). I plan on eating these things sparingly though, and I also hope to stick to a pretty strict fitness plan where I get some form of exercise every single day of the 30 days even if it's just walking my sausage-pup for 30 minutes or riding my bike around town. I'm running a half marathon in November too, so I definitely need to be training hard for that as well. So this is my plan starting tomorrow. For now I will go chomp down on some Pepto Bismol and try not to forget how crappy this feels when I'm craving brownies this time tomorrow night. ;)
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Good luck!ReplyDelete
I've eaten out a few times in the last week and it just makes me feel awful. I'm not going paleo (yet), but I have to get back on my eating schedule.
Let's do this, buddy. P.s. I'm gonna need some recipe advice asap. Please teach me your ways.ReplyDelete
You can do it!ReplyDelete
doing it again... you're a rockstar, mackensie!ReplyDelete
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- Magneto (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
- Earth
Synopsis for "Discos and Dungeons!"
In order to take the Thing's mind off of Alicia Masters, Johnny Storm takes Ben out to a disco to dance it up, however, Ben is not in the mood for doing so. Returning to the bar they run into Warren Worthington III, aka the Angel, and Johnny leaves Ben with the X-Man while he dances Candy Southern. When Warren drinks a bad drink, Ben takes him to the men's room, unaware that they are walking into a trap and find themselves gassed and secreted out of the dance club.
When Ben revives, he finds that he and the Angel are inside a castle and have been suspended over a vat of acid. When Angel revives the two use teamwork to get out of their trap and are greeted by a robot designed to resemble Magneto. The robot advises them that they have been brought to the castle by his master to see if they can get out of his castle which has been rigged with deathtraps.
Fighting their way through the castle and breaking through all the traps, Thing and the Angel soon enter the throne room and find that it's been designed to look like a mechanical swamp. Greeting them is Toad, who advises them that he has gotten into the business of assassinations and that he sought to use it against one of his old X-Men foes to test it out. Attacking the Toad, the two heroes are once more forced to go on the defenses against the various devices and death traps in the castle.
During the battle, Toad gets a call from his mysterious benefactor, Mr. A, who demands payment for all the devices as soon as possible and becomes mortified because he doesn't have the money. Fighting off the death traps and seeing the pathetic Toad crumpled up in a sobbing ball, Angel feels sorry for Toad's plight and offers to pay off his debts, and in return, the Toad would have to agree to work for the Angel. A few weeks later, Angel takes Thing and Candy back to the castle which Warren has converted into an amusement park called Toadland, which he hopes will encourage the Toad to turn his life around.
Continuity Notes
- The Thing is out at a bar trying to pick up women because he and Alicia Masters in Marvel Two-In-One #64, he believes Alicia has moved on and started dating another man after seeing her from afar last issue. However, that turns out to be a misunderstanding and the couple get back together in Marvel Two-In-One #70.
- At the time of this story, everyone knows that Warren Worthington is the Angel because he publicly revealed his identity in Champions #1. This story takes place during his returning stint with the X-Men between X-Men #135-148.
- Implied this issue it is confirmed that the Toad was set up by the assassin known as Arcade in Uncanny X-Men #145.
- The Toad's hideout is actually Doctor Doom's castle located in Upstate New York. Doom eventually evicts the Toad and restores his castle to normal, using it as grounds to battle the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #145-147. Ben recognizes it from his first visit in Fantastic Four #5 during the Fantastic Four's first clash with Doctor Doom.
- Toad's robots are based on his fellow members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants: Magneto and the Scarlet Witch. Toad was a founding member of that group since X-Men #4. Toad was always seen as a lackey and abused by Magneto during his entire tenure with the group. He also developed an unrequited infatuation with the Scarlet Witch.
- The Thing and the Angel are involved in other events between page 17 and 18 of this story:
- The Thing is involved in the events of next issue where he helps the Guardians of the Galaxy recover their teammate Vance Astro.
- While the Angel and the X-Men thwarted the new Brotherhood's attempt to assassinate Senator Robert Kelly in X-Men #141-142.
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The NUC Market & Co-op is located at 506 First Street North in the historic downtown area. It is venue number 19 on the GnomeMade Market arts and crafts fair route.
The NUC Market & Co-op's goal is to offer a broad range of products such as fresh artisanal bread, vintage and re-purposed furniture, honey, jams, handcrafted cutting boards, carved walking sticks, bread and dip mixes, quilts, paintings, soap, holiday decor and much more. All from a colorful and fun group of creative and caring artisans.
All crafts and artisan food products are made within a radius of 50 miles from the market location, thereby guaranteeing freshness, originality and fostering a sense of pride in the local economy.
"In this area, we have such a wealth of creative people and farmers who are passionate about the way food has been grown. It was an easy decision for our board to approve the NUC Market & Co-op as a new venue on the GnomeMade Market route. It's always exciting to help maximize the opportunity to help others launch their own creative businesses as well as help current businesses grow," commented the GnomeMade Market Director.
Artisans Market & Co-op
Address: 506 First Street North
New Ulm, Mn 56073
Market Venue #19
Thursday, November 1: 2 pm to 7 pm
Friday, November 2: 8 am to 5:30 pm
Saturday, November 3: 8 am to 5:30 pm
Sunday, November 4: 11 am to 3 pm
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When I was thinking of what to discuss this afternoon I decided I would test people's great knowledge of films. In particular I wanted to test people's knowledge of films with you guessed it BATHROOMS.
At first I was thinking to myself surely there is not that many films that feature a bathroom or a toilet in it. Then I looked down at my list of films and was staggered by how many film that feature a great bathroom scene in their respective films. I was also staggered to see that there was such a diverse range of films and subject matter that featured a bathroom scene. Ranging from laugh out loud comedy moments to outrageous violence scenes and everything in between it seems the bathroom is a backdrop that is utilised in the film industry to great effect.
So with all these memorable film scenes taking place in a bathroom I though I'd share my top 5. I will unfortunately assume you have seen the films listed if not then I highly suggest you watch them not just for the bathroom scenes mentioned but also because they are great films.
Austin Powers – "Who does number 2 work for"
When I first saw this film as a teenager I fell over myself laughing at this scene and I still chuckle now. Yes call me crude but even now as a grown man I enjoy toilet humour and this bathroom scene is one of the best. Some classic lines of support from the American in the next cubical is sheer brilliant.
Lethal Weapon 2 -"Do we go on 3 or 1 2 3 and then go"
For me the Lethal Weapon films are brilliant. The blend of action and comedy combined with the fantastic chemistry between Riggs and Murtaugh aka Mel Gibson and Danny Glover is superb. This scene in particular when Murtaugh is on the toilet with a bomb attached to it is a scene that highlights the friendship between the two of them.
Jurassic Park -"When you gotta go you gotta go"
This scene is Steven Spielberg at his very best with this outstandingly funny yet pretty grizzily death scene. I hope you can remember the scene which I am referring to where the somewhat annoying lawyer runs to the toilet shed to escape from the dinosaurs. Only to be confronted with the mamma of all dinosaurs T-Rex who enjoys the lawyer as a taste snack.
Psycho -"Ahhh Ahhh Ahhh"
This is a scene from one the best suspense, horror and thriller directors of all time Alfred Hitchcock, the scene is from arguably his most famous film Psycho. Hopefully you have all seen this film if not then don't carry on reading this blog, stop whatever your doing and go watch it now. The scene is fantastically directed and edited seeing as all the violence is imagined by you the viewer. At no time do you see the knife piece or cut Marion Crane who unfortunately stopped at the wrong motel. It is an ultimately nasty violent scene yet no big blood splats or close up brutality horror at its best by being imagined by the viewer. Modern horror movies should take note that you don't need to show blood and guts for viewers to experience feelings of dred.
Last but not least is
There's Something About Marry –"I got IT stuck….."
If there was ever a bathroom scene that has every male who watches it grimace and slowly fold their legs carefully it's this film. The scene as you should all know involves Ben Stiller as Ted Stoehmann who has a quite remarkable trouser zip malfunction. This malfunction is enough to bring a tear to my eye. Luckily it all worked out in the end.
Hope you have enjoyed my little list of bathroom scenes. As I stated there is plenty more scenes out there and I have included the rest of my list below. As always please comment as I love to hear from you all and please let me know if I've missed out any other great bathroom scenes.
More Bathroom Scene Films
The Shinning
American Psycho
The Big Lebowski
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Fly
Scar Face
James Bond Casino Royal
Naked Gun
Pulp Fiction


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A new report from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab says a major cyber-espionage campaign has hundreds of targets around the world.
The campaign has "a strong Russian nexus" and it uses techniques that single out consumer gadgets and digital devices, including iPhones.
Cyber-hackers often aim at government, military and political targets, but the Citizen Lab report says our wider civil society is also in the cross-hairs. The targets include journalists, academics, lawyers, human rights researchers and cyber-investigators.
As a result, says Ronald Deibert, the Director at Citizen Lab, "[W]e have to start thinking broadly as citizens of this planet … how we engage in stewardship over cyberspace collectively." In discussing Citizen Lab activities with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, Deibert said of the challenge civil society faces: "Unfortunately, it's an uphill battle, and it's getting steeper."
In its report, titled Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing with a Russian Nexus, Citizen Lab clearly states that the cyber-espionage campaign targets people from at least 39 countries and international organizations.
The campaign uses sophisticated phishing techniques as well as the planting of disinformation in leaked stolen materials, designed to achieve a propaganda end or disrupt human rights campaigns and social justice activities.
Phishing campaigns try to trick a user into entering personal credentials into a carefully disguised form or fake application. Emails have personal or emotional subject lines, or even promises of important information about personal online security, to draw a victim in. They also try to get recipients to click on an otherwise innocent-looking link which leads to a file that then infects or otherwise compromises their device, making it controllable by unknown third parties.
Citizen Lab, based at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, has been working for many years to expose cyber-espionage campaigns, find major security flaws in digital devices, and identify the myriad of threats emerging from the intersection of Big Data and Big Brother. Its experience in uncovering global cyber-espionage campaigns dates back to 2009's Tracking Ghostnet report.
Deibert says civil society worldwide is now facing an epidemic of targeted digital espionage, yet little information about it comes into the public domain, partly he says due to government inaction or unwillingness, but also due in part to the existence of private sector proprietary products that represent significant commercial value when used by paying clients.
Software hacking tools are a hot commodity: if you can't write the code yourself, you can buy off-the-shelf tools to invade pretty much anything.
A million dollars will get you every keystroke, sound, message and GPS location reading possible from multiple iPhone users once you buy the software that's available out there. (Remember the iPhone/FBI case involving the San Bernadino terrorists? The FBI wanted Apple to provide a back door hack, but without that company's cooperation, the agency then went "rogue" and bought some software for itself.)
Citizen Lab has previously investigated and reported on how similar software, developed by an Israeli company, was used by the Mexican government to target a groups of international investigators digging into human rights violations in Mexico, for example.
In analyzing the technical details associated with the Russia-aligned campaign and its identifiable modus operandi, the Citizen Lab research team illustrated how the twin strategies of phishing and tainted leaks can be used to penetrate civil society targets, and to sow mistrust and disinformation, say, during an election campaign or national referendum.
"Tainted leaks plant fakes in a forest of facts in an attempt to make them credible by association with genuine, stolen documents," noted senior researcher John Scott-Railton.
The Citizen Lab researchers have not conclusively linked the identified cyber-campaign with a particular Russian government entity, but they say many elements of the campaign overlap with groups previously identified as Russia-affiliated by other reports. This overlap includes operations associated with the successful breach in 2016 of the email account of John Podesta, the former chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
In one way or another, that breach influenced the Presidential election.
"There's no doubt in my mind that actors affiliated with the Russian government tried to influence the U.S. election process," Deibert stated confidently. "They are the ones that were responsible for breaching the computer systems of the DNC, John Podesta's emails, as well as many other groups that we identified in our report, groups and individuals."
Looking beyond cyber-crime for profit, although that is clearly still a good motivator, we are seeing how the Internet is being controlled and manipulated by governments in order to censor, monitor, and influence their citizens, thanks to the work done at Citizen Lab.


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I once read about a bride who was raving about a wedding gift her grandmother had given her. Over the years, I've created my own, and created others for family and friends, and I can tell you firsthand that it not only has worked for all of us, but it has been an invaluable and time-tested resource.
The bride had received an address book, but it wasn't just any blank address book. The grandmother had filled the book with information from all the businesses she had used and recommended over the years such as doctors, painters, insurance agents, craft stores, bookstores, etc.. The grandmother annotated each listing with the name of the contact person, when and why that business was used and why that business was so great.
Now my grandmother didn't live in my area, and my husband and I at the time were both brand new to the area with no family and no friends yet, so I immediately saw the value of such a great resource. I started my own by keeping my ears wide open for when people raved about someone, and I also asked lots of people lots of questions.
For example, when you casually poll 100 neighbors, co-workers, etc. on where to get the best pizza in town, you quickly get a top 2 or 3. And I found that many people would also volunteer more information like where to get the best Chinese food.
Pretty soon, some of these people would also become favorite resources because their recommendations were always right on the mark. Likewise, a few people were no longer asked because their advice was not valuable to us.
We learned by trial and error, but over the years we've collected excellent resources which I also keep in a separate household address book with business cards tucked in when available.
I also cross-reference to find things easily. For example, Joe's Roofing is recorded under Joe, but it's also recorded under Roofing. Like the grandmother had done, I also annotate to help my husband if he's looking through the book and to jog my own memory if I'm the one recommending the business to someone.
It's become a very valuable address book for us, as it had for that granddaughter, and I'm sure it would work for you or your children. For more participants in this week's Works For Me Wednesday, be sure to visit Shannon at Rocks In My Dryer.
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My girls are nearly two years old, which means it's time for them to molt. For those not familiar with the life cycle of the Gallus gallus, that means they lose their feathers and grow new ones, although not neatly or in a timely fashion. So several of the girls have been losing a feather here, a couple there.
I had to shut the chickens into the henhouse for a few days and let them fend for themselves during our ice storm a couple of weeks ago. I loaded them up with food and water, fluffed their bedding, turned on some lights, and closed up the henhouse to wait out the ice storm.
When I was able to get back out there a couple of days later, I was horrified to find that one of the girls looked like she had developed mange. She was missing feathers from her tail (notice the pathetic space in tail above), and had lost so many feathers on her back that I thought the other girls had passed the ice storm ripping into Bernice, Mean Girls-style.
In this other photo, you get a better idea of the sticking-out-like-post-electrocution number the feathers have been doing as they grow back in. And I'd like to emphasize: she actually looks better than she did. Apparently, however, this is normal, and Bernice is just going through the chicken version of my terrible junior high acne-glasses-and-frizzy-perm stage.
In other fun chicken-related news, we have a galloping case of poopy butt in the henhouse. Chickens normally sleep on a roost. Most chickens notice the sun going down, file into the henhouse, jump on the roost with their butts hanging freely over empty space, and settle in for the night. My girls, however, have never gotten the hang of timing the roost jumping so that they have enough light to see. When this happens, they cram themselves into the nest box instead, settling down on their haunches and creating mounds of poo.
The result is a fairly nasty mass of dried chicken poo hanging like a rock from the girls' rear ends. It's not blocking their vents (the hole the egg comes out of) so it's not dangerous, but it sure is gross. I'm going to put some apple cider vinegar in their water and see if that helps. Regardless, come spring, I'm going to have to corral all of them and either clip the poo off (not fun) or try to bathe them and soak the poo off (really, really not fun).
Egg laying drops way off in winter and picks up with longer days. Chickens also lay less when they're molting; they need to put their energy into growing new feathers. I suppose it's just as well we're getting few eggs, since I can't keep the nest boxes clean, which in turn leads to slightly poopy eggs.
To sum up: my girls are dumb, they look terrible, and they're not laying much now. But I love them anyway.


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Part two: Nutrition
I could dive deep into the tedious details about nutrition and how it effects our body and mental health. Honestly while I was in class I would just sit there and read through the slides with my eyes half closed. In the meantime our teacher was having the same amount of fun, reading those slides with the most monotonous voice I had ever heard. I don't want my post to be the product of that.
Nutrition is a very interesting and important topic and I will do my best at presenting it to you in that light. Let's first be aware of the fact that our brain is always working. It is responsible for all of your thoughts, reactions and movements. It is the reason you are breathing while reading this post. You reading this post are another one of the brains credit. You can even thank your brain for those lovely dreams you had because the brain works hard even while you're asleep.
Like a car
Now imagine that hard working brain of yours as a beautiful car. Like every car it means your brain requires a constant supply of fuel. For us humans that fuel comes from the foods you eat. What's in that fuel is what makes the difference. That fuel is what is responsible for your cars function. What you eat directly affects the function of your brain therefor your mood aswell.
Like a shiny expensive car, your brain functions best when it gets only high- quality fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals are what get our brain in its best condition. Therefore it protects the brain from oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is a mischievous group of free radicals that are produced when the body uses oxygen. Our body doesn't need them. In fact, they can be extremely harmful for us.
Your brain can be damaged if you take bad, fatty foods just like a car when you put anything other than premium fuel in it.
Most important hormone for mental health
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is extremely important for our mental state. It helps regulate mood, appetite and sleep. About 95% of your serotonin is produced in your gastrointestinal tract and your gastrointestinal tract is filled with a hundred million nerve cells, or neurons. Therefor it makes sense that the inner workings of your digestive system are not here just to digest food but also to guide and regulate your emotions.
Listen to your body
Start paying attention to how you feel depending on the food you ate that day. Change up your diet and write down how you felt during that period of time. Try eating raw and clean foods like fruits, steamed and cooked vegetables. You also might want to try going dairy-free. In fact, the milk we drink as infants is the amount of milk we need for the rest of our life. Then again a lot of people said that they feel better when their diets are grain-free. It is all individual, see how you feel. Then slowly introduce foods back into your diet, write down your feelings again.
Mood boosters:
Tryptophan-Rich Foods
Tryptophan can have a positive effect on stress. This amino acid helps your brain produce feel-good chemicals. Tryptophan is a precursor to serotonin, and serotonin, as a neurotransmitter, helps you feel calm.
Where to find it: sesame seeds, milk, turkey, chicken, bananas, milk, oats, and cheese, soy, nuts, peanut butter, and sesame seeds.
Vitamin B
Deficiency in B vitamins such as folic acid and B12 can cause depression.
Where to find it: leafy greens, legumes, oranges and other citrus fruits, rice, nuts, and eggs.
Whole Wheat
Carbohydrates increase production of serotonin in the brain. When you are craving carbs choose whole grains, such as whole wheat bread or brown rice, rather than processed food such as sugar, candy, or even white bread.
Grains take longer for the body to break down, and release sugar into the bloodstream slowly. Therefor it has a long-lasting effect. Processed carbs will give you an immediate energy boost but will be followed by an insulin rush, which rapidly drops blood sugar levels, leaving you feeling more tired and weary than before.
High-Protein Foods
Protein helps stimulate the production of the brain chemicals norepinephrine and dopamine. Dopamine like serotonin, are neurotransmitters and they carry impulses between nerve cells. Higher levels of norepinephrine and dopamine have been shown to improve mental energy.
Where to find it: Greek yogurt, cheese, fish, eggs, beans, soy, lentils and nuts.
Ideal potion for mood-boosting is to combine complex carbohydrates with protein, and to spread your meals throughout the day. Little bites and healthy snack get your metabolism constantly working which helps your body digests food quicker and gets all the goodies through your brain faster.
Food to Avoid:
Caffeinated Drinks
People like to drink coffee and other beverages that contain caffeine such as: tea, hot chocolate etc. to help boost their energy levels. But the problem is that caffeine has been shown to inhibit levels of serotonin in the brain. When serotonin levels are suppressed, you can become depressed and feel irritable. Caffeine also can keep you awake, leading to stress and anxiety. Remember that you need to sleep well to be in a positive mood.
Well let's be honest we all need sweets, and they do make us feel better but again it's a temporary lift. Why? Sugar is absorbed quickly into the bloodstream. The absorption causes a high surge of energy. But that surge wears off as the body increases its insulin production to remove the sugar from your bloodstream. As a result: You then feel tired and low.
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Last Thursday the boys had their final cross country meet, which was Sectionals at Blue Earth. Only one USC runner, a member of the Girl's team, will be advancing to State. All our runners did well, but the Waseca and Fairmont teams are pretty tough competition.
Brett and Adam did well this year, both showing great improvement in their running times and meet experience. Running, like most sports, is exhausting both mentally and physically. You can see on both of them that while physically they are in good shape, mentally they're ready for a break.
Saturday night the boy's team was over at our house for an end of the season party. What continually impresses me about the cross country team is how well all the age groups interact. I participated in sports in high school and I've seen how rivalry can develop between grades but in the case of our team, everyone, not matter what grade, seems to genuinely support each other.
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Dale and I both noticed how one of our 8th grade girls is running with a more confident look on her face. Last year, she ran like she wasn't certain she could make it. But this year, even running at varsity level and a longer distance, she has the look of "I can do this". It's great to watch kids progress not just physically, but mentally.
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Project N.E.O.N. Final Submission
We are finally done! Check out the final video and screenshots below. If you would like to see how this video was made, just scroll down and check our production logs. Of course there is so much more we'd like to fix but time is pretty much up. The video was rendered directly out of the engine (2017.3) with no editing in Premiere or AfterEffects, in 4k resolution.
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Here are a couple of screenshots from the final video.
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If the above screenshots don't have enough pixels for you, you can download them in 4k resolution as well. The 4k shots contain lots and lots of good looking pixels! Simply click here.
Our Team
We are a small indie team over here at MetalPop Games, with only four guys. Most of us spent our early years working on various big games over at Crytek before we quit our job to start making smaller and more personal games. When we are not crunching on Unity challenges, we are building mobile games or keep ourselves busy with contract work. Come on, meet the team! And feel free to check out our CVs:
Michelle Martin: Michelle is not only a great coder, but she also animates and does most of the tech art setup in our team. Also, check out her personal blog: I code like a girl!
Sascha Gundlach: Level design, UI, cutscenes, gameplay coding, you name it. In a small team such as ours, we all wear many hats, and Sascha has a whole collection of them!
Berker Siino: If polygons were the Force, Berker would be a Jedi Master. He built all the assets you see in the video. In addition to being very handsome he also has a keen eye for lighting and shader setup.
Nick Dragonas: Nick is the one on the team who makes everything sound great. He is not only an awesomely talented musician but also takes care of all sound effects and audio tasks.
Check out our daily updates to see how things are looking and how we are doing!
Day 8: Sunday is tweak day! Final render incoming!
This is going to be our final update, since we are pretty close to wrapping everything up. We made no big changes today, but many, many small ones. We polished and tweaked the squence in a million different places. The effects in the post processing stack got another polish pass and things do look really nice now. Unity's new stack based post processing approach is a lot nicer to work with. And it is crazy how much it improves the scene.
We also added a couple more sounds and adjusted volume and reverb in lots of places. The video now has a much more balanced soundtrack. If you take a close look and compare to the previous videos you can also see small improvements to the lighting in various locations. The explosion which takes down the shield in the beginning now also lights the bridge properly. A lot of small things, really hard to notice, but they are worth the work.
Plugins and Asset Store content
We also updated the list of used Asset Store packages. You can find it at the bottom of this page. Take a look and see which packages were utilized in the making of this video.
Day 7: Music and sound effects !
We finally have some sound effects in the scene now. An explosion, shields going up and down, doors slamming, and many more. It really adds to the atmosphere and even N.E.O.N is making some beeping sounds (as every cute robot should).
Even better: Nick finally emerged from his studio in which he had locked himself up for the past couple of days and finished up the soundtrack for our video. It came out really great and accents the action on the screen perfectly.
Keeping it real(time) with the Recorder
Remember we said we want to build everything so we can always run it in realtime? That means we cannot just render a video and slap some sound on in Premiere. All the sound effects and the music are set up in specific audio tracks and played by Timeline. This means you can just jump into playmode and get the full experience.
In order to record audio from Unity, all you really need to do is set the
'Capture Audio'
checkbox in the recorder and you will have all sound effects and music in your final video. We do actually save a lot of time by not always having to render the content again in Premiere. All the videos we have uploaded so far came directly from Unity.
Since the '
Sync framerate'
option allows you to render out at stable 60fps we might even go crazy later and try some 4k renderings and see if we can melt our PC this way :)
Now put your headphones on and check out the latest video with the new sounds an music:
Day 6: Polish, polish, polish!
Today brought lots and lots of improvements. We worked on the lights, added more particles and tweaked the cameras and cuts. Timeline does make it relatively easy to manage complex sequences and it is a lot of fun building a video this way. Our sequence has gotten pretty big and we are trying to make to keep it as organized as possible. We are using the track sub-groups to keep a better overview of everything in the Timeline window. We have three main groups which hold the tracks for the individual locations.
The best thing about all this that the rendering is so easy. The Unity recorder really does a good job and the fact that we do not have to capture with third party software saves us a ton of time.
We finally got around to adding lots and lots of decals in our environment. We placed lots of dirt, rust and paint marks all over the place. Especially the corridor location has benefited a lot from the treament and the whole area looks more alive now. We are still making changes to the decals and nothing is baked yet. Once we are all done we will bake them down for better performance. After all our goal still is to run this baby in realtime :) Check out the corridor with and without decals.
Watch it all come together in the latest render of our sequence.
Day 5: Animation marathon, post processing and more lights!
What is that sound? Yes, that is us crunching :) We got so much done in the last two days, it is crazy. Michelle threw herself into a two day animation marathon to get our drone looking nice and interesting. At the same time we had a lot of fun tweaking the camera animations in Cinemachine. There was no need to do much individual keyframing really since Cinemachine pretty much allows you to script your camera movement. We also added a second character: Hubert, the sleepy space pilot! Since we didn't have time for more animation work and the model wasn't fully rigged we can only show parts of his body but the shot still works very well. Check out this screenhot:
Post Processing Effects
This is where the magic happens! We added the post processing stack and did a first pass on the effects. Things look much, much better now. There is some more work to obviously but we are pretty happy with the first results. No depth of field yet, volumtric lights, particles, etc. We'll get to that tomorrow. At least we hope we will :)
A new work-in-progress video
Rendering times are getting higher as we crank up the effects but so do the visuals. We still have some polish to do, especially at the end but overall things look pretty good. Check out the updated video with more lights, new post and hugely improved animations.
Day 4: Let there be light!
Quite a big step forward! We spent the whole day lighting our three locations. Overall we placed over 60 lights in addition to reflection probes. Our goal is to work smartly so we can light everything dynamically without the need to bake. This will save us a lot of time and on a semi-decent machine we should still be running 30fps. So, if everything works out we can keep the lighting as it is right now and still run our demo in realtime with a good frame-rate. Fingers crossed! Check the newly lit locations:
Luckily we decided to keep our environment small. Especially when working with lights this has many advantages. It allows us to keep the shadow draw distance as well as the overall view distance rather low. This limits how much (expensive stuff) we can see per frame and allows us to polish the things we actually see a bit more.
Even with the light, some areas still look a bit empty and we'll need more particles and decals to enhance the mood of the shots. The corridor location below for example looks much nice than yesterday but is still missing details.
Reflection Probes
We went all out and cranked up the quality of all the reflection probes. Realtime, all the time, baby! This really made some areas nice and shiny. Especially the glass ring in the middle of the engine room looks nice and glass like now.
The goal for tomorrow is to render out an updated video with smoother animations and the new lighting.
Day 3: Timeline, Cinemachine and the first render
The day was really packed and we made some tremendous progress on the prep work for the video. We now have a basic fly-through of our sequence. The environment is more or less complete but still rather bland looking. The next days should bring proper lighting, decals, post processing and other improvements but for now we want to focus on nailing down the timeline of the video.
Cinemachine & Timeline
What a powerful tool! We set up ~15 cameras for our sequence and still managed to keep thing easy to manage. This is the first time we have really worked with Cinemachine/Timeline in a production environment and we are really happy with the result.
We set up a couple of dolly cameras and track and started animating the cameras. Where Cinemachine really saves you a lot of time is when animating cameras! Especially the follow and aim options combines with a dolly track are pure magic. The camera animations are still rough around the edges but we have a good feeling about the whole process.
Check out the first super-duper early work-in-progress version of our video:
Unity Recorder
We used the Unity Recorder to render the video directly from the engine. What can we say? Goodbye Camtasia! The recorder seems to have all the features you can wish for and the ability to synch the framerate so that we can render at 60fps even on our old PCs is really awesome. Our goal for this submission is to keep everything within Timline and then render the final video with the Unity Recorder. No Premiere, no After Effects. Let's see if we can do that :)
Day 2: Building the environment
Today we made great progress on the level environment and we basically have the rough layout of our scene complete. When we built our assets for our game back in the day, we created them to be quite modular so that we can adjust things quickly if necessary. Luckily we are able to use the models we made back in the day for our game and don't need to build any new assets. With our super short deadline we can't afford to get too crazy and rebuild everything.
We have floor plates, wall pieces and ceiling segments in many shapes and forms. Those together with a couple of unique elements made it super easy to come up with a great looking environment. We have built the three main locations we will need for our video:
The bridge of our space ship
A corridor segment
The engine room where the hyperdrive is located.
N.E.O.N., the hero of our story, will have to make his way from the bridge to the engine room to power up the shield generator. We tried to keep each location as small as possible to limit the amount of polish work we have to do.
Obviously things still look pretty ugly, since there is no proper light setup yet. We will get to that once the we have set up a rough and basic cutscene. The three locations are not directly connected but we can use Cinemachine and Timeline to cut our video in such a way that it all looks like we are in one big location.
Our scene looks with the complete environment now looks like this:
The plan for tomorrow is to create the main timeline sequence and set up the first basic fly-through. This way we will know how long our video will be and which areas we need to focus on.
Day 1: Scene Setup, Importing Assets and Plugins
We got the basic scene set up and started adding the essential plugins that we know we will need for sure. We also started bringing in all assets and started looking for additional material in the asset store to cover the things we are missing.
There are a couple of assets we know we will need in order to really crank out content fast enough. There is a detailed list of all plugins/asset packages used for this project at the bottom of this page.
ProCore Bundle
: This really is a set of must have tools. We need to get the environment up and running fast, so ProGrids and ProBuilder will be super useful here.
Cinemachine and PostProcessing Stack
: We need to deliver a kickass video. Cinemachine is an extremely powerful compositing tool and the post processing stack will allow us to add this extra bit of movie look and feel we want.
Decal System Pro:
A great plugin for decal creation.
Space Graphics Toolkit:
THE package for anything which has to do with space/sci-fiscenes. This will make sure out space background looks nice spacy.
Our biggest worry was that Unity would spit out lots of errors when we throw all our old Unity 5.0 assets into a 2017.2 build. The import process turned out to be a walk in the park however, and we ended up getting all the assets into the engine and ready to use within a couple of hours. There were a few materials and shaders we needed to update but nothing major.
We got most of the environment assets covered now but we are still missing some things. After all, the story of our video is about N.E.O.N, a brave little emergency drone. With no time to custom model it we had to take to the asset store.
Find and download main character model. Check! Next up are some unique elements such as a star ship and force field effects. Turns out the
Force Field
package from FORGE3D does not only contain cool force field shaders but also comes with a space ship model we can repurpose.
Initial Scene Setup
With the build up and running and all plugins and assets in place we can start setting up the scene. There is not much to see since the level building hasn't really started yet.
With the scene set up and ready to go we should have the basic layout of the environment done rather soon. We can hopefully show a few work-in-progress screenshots soon. Stay tuned!
Day 0: Getting things ready: Concepts, Assets, Script
A Unity challenge! And we almost missed it... We are pretty late to the party with only 10 days left. But hey, it wouldn't be game development if there weren't a tight deadline, right? Yes, this is day 0. Our coder insisted we should start counting at 0 because it wouldn't feel right otherwise... We had a great kickoff meeting yesterday with lots of Pabst Blue Ribbon and even more crazy ideas. What we still remember is the following:
Let's keep asset creation to a minimum. Use what we have and raid the asset store for the rest.
Tell a short story in our video. Focus on a character. Let her/him have an adventure.
Make it pretty. Account enough time for tweaking the lights and post processing
Working smart
With 10 days left we can't go out and create a bunch of new assets or build huge locations. Extensive scripting work or big animations are also out of the question. We need to build a small environment, get it lit and polished quickly so we can start creating usable video content.
Luckily this is where Unity flexes its muscles: Getting great looking content up and running quickly. Quick iterations and fast turnaround times.
The assets: Recycle, its good for the environment!
The biggest challenge obviously. Lucky for us we have some old environment assets still laying around, ready to be used. Well.. kind of. Many moons ago (2015 to be more specific) we were working on a sci-fi adventure game (www.rick-future.com). We build a great pitch and went around trying to get funding. Ultimately we had to give up and shelve the game since we didn't get any funding. However, we still have the assets we built back then and since we never got to use them in a game, now it is the perfect opportunity to bring them back to life. Let's see what Unity says if we throw a bunch of 5.0 assets into a 2017.2 build...
Story: Meet N.E.O.N. your friendly neighborhood emergency drone
The hero of our little story will be a brave little drone. The drone is called N.E.O.N. because it is a catchy name and everybody loves acronyms. We sketched out a script for a short 2 minutes video, in which we follow N.E.O.N. on its little quest to save a spaceship. Stay tuned for more info on the story!
Concepts and Inspiration
We are using some of our old concepts which we created for our game, way back in the day. We will be trying to rebuild the locations in Unity trying to match a good looking sci-fi vibe.
Asset Store Packages Used:
No asset store packages were harmed in the production of this project. But the following packages were used:
Sci Fi Drone Pack
ProCore Bundle
PostProceesing Stack
Force Field
Space Graphics Toolkit
Decal System Pro
Light Shafts
Camera Shake
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Sascha Gundlach
Indie Dev - Designer
Michelle Martin
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Omar K. Hishma
3 years ago
Individual Game Developer
This is my first comment, You are the only one who deserves best of luck ...
Sipos Tamás
3 years ago
It's fantastic! :)
August Sönnergren
3 years ago
Level Designer
Impressive result for 9 days! Beautiful animations. Makes my own neon feel like a mockup still
Sascha Laumen
3 years ago
Great work!
3 years ago
Nice one!
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This board has total assembled dimensions of 100x40cm (approx 40"x16"). it's 40mm thick.
This board is intended to be CNC cut out of Divinycell H80 foam. This comprises the two main chunks of the board in the CAD drawing. The inserts are all 6061 aluminum. The five inserts in the joint between the two. halves of the board are threaded for flat-head M6 screws, which screw in flush from the bottom of the board and should end up with the end of the screws just flush with the deck.
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