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May has been named British Invasion Month here at Broken Hearted Toy in honor of shows by Graham Nash at City Winery Chicago on May 11 and 12, and The Zombies on May 29 at The Arcada in St. Charles. Both of the Graham Nash shows have sold out; it looks like Zombies tickets are still available. Nash's new solo effort This Path Tonight, which was co-written with veteran musician Shane Fontayne, is an introspective work that feels more powerful with each listening. I'm hoping to post a review in the near future.
Gary Numan, another Brit, although from a different era, will hit town next week for a trio of shows starting on Sunday, May 15. He'll perform a different album in its entirety each night; Replicas on Sunday, The Pleasure Principle on Monday, and Telekon on Tuesday. I Speak Machine will be the opening act on all three nights.
As reported by Anthony Todd on the Chicagoist website, local publisher Curbside Splendor will open a record and book store within a major new venue called Revival Food Hall, scheduled to open at 125 S. Clark Street. The retail and the restaurants involved will be indie-centric, which means this will undoubtably be the hippest spot in downtown Chicago when it opens some time this summer. I'm already fantasizing about all my novels being on sale there.
Aimee Mann will perform next Tuesday night at The Old Town School Of Folk Music, and Patti Smith will headline Spring Awakening II, A Celebration of Poetry and Song Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15. Jackson Smith, Jesse Smith, and Tony Shanahan will be joining her.
Here's another item for British Invasion Month. All of the original members of The Beatle Bros. (Jay Goeppner, Phil Angotti, Casey McDonough, Dick Schmidt, Rich Geist, and George Krajl) will be performing their 30th Anniversary Show next Saturday, May 14 at FitzGerald's in Berwyn. Founding members Goeppner and Angotti will open with an acoustic set. Earlier in the week, Goeppner will sit down for an interview with musician/journalist Mike Vanderbilt as part of The Drinks On Monday With The Strike Team Interview series.
The Fest For Beatles Fans could be announcing the guest list and special events for its Chicago visit on the weekend of August 12 through 14 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare any day now. The website promises the details will be revealed in May.
Rick Springfield, Loverboy, and The Romantics will share the bill on July 3 at Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, as part of the venue's Summer Concert Series.


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Self-help guru Tony Robbins has apologized for critical comments he made about the #MeToo movement in a video that went viral.
In a Facebook post Sunday, Robbins said he fully supports the #MeToo movement and that he needs to "be a part of the solution.''
Robbins came under criticism for an exchange at a recent self-help event in San Jose, California. Robbins told a female attendee that he took issue with "victimhood." He said sexual harassment victims were "making themselves significant by making somebody else wrong."
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Recently, the Dallas Chapter of Men Who Fly-Fish invited me to Texas for two days of fly-fishing. It was a typical MWFF outing. There was whiskey drinking, cigar smoking, tobacco chewing, card playing and some fly-fishing.
However, unbeknownst to me, a long-forgotten friend had been invited for the first day of fishing.
Any old geezer who has been fly-fishing before the invention of float tubes, inflatable boats, kayaks and belly boats knows this friend. This long-forgotten friend is a canoe. A friend that many of us have fished with in small bass ponds to the lakes of Canada had come along.
When our guide picked us up, I recognized my old friend strapped to the top of the truck. The guide had also brought a kayak and a three-person inflatable boat. My heart skipped a beat at the sight of my old friend, and I immediately began to plot how I could be assigned to fish with a friend that I hadnt seen in such a long time.
As the canoe was being gently lifted off the truck, I realized this wasnt an old aluminum model but a restored wood-and-canvas canoe. It deserved to be treated with the kind of respect a senior statesman demands, and therefore, its bottom was never to touch anything but water. When my friend was placed in the water, I grabbed a life jacket, a wooden paddle, pointed at one of the other fly fisherman, and said, Youre with me, then bullied my way beside my old friend and claimed it for the day. The other fisherman and I gently loaded our gear into the canoe, took our places and eased away from the dock. And then all the memories of days gone by came flooding back.
Fly-fishing from a canoe is an art. Your casts have to be gentle and deliberate. A cast that is made with a minimal amount of body movement will keep the canoe stable and the fish ignorant of your presence. At all times, both fisherman have to remain balanced. Standing up in a canoe, or trying to launch a 60-foot double-hauled cast, most assuredly will result in having the big open side facing down.
Paddling also requires a coordinated effort. If the fishermen in the bow and stern are not working as one, they will go nowhere. (Maybe our congressmen and women should learn how to canoe.) When working together, the paddling effort becomes a beautiful thing to watch. It makes it possible to guide the old friend into countless little coves where big fish are hiding. And the fish will not suspect the flies being presented to them are coming from two people who have moved silently into the protected shallows.
I truly had forgotten how much fun it is to maneuver and propel my old friend. Sitting there surrounded by wood thwarts and gunwales, with my feet resting on the beautifully finished wood ribs, it was easy to remember fly-fishing days of old. Fly-fishing, that one day, with my old compadre reminded me of how much Id forgotten and how much I still have to learn about life and fly-fishing.
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(CNN) -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on a national tour to promote her new memoir, "Hard Choices." But her journey has been unusually bumpy.
Her recent gaffes about being "dead broke" or supposedly unlike the "truly well off" have made people wonder if she's really in touch with ordinary Americans.
And then there's a legal case from her past cited in her book that makes one question whether she violated the attorney's sacred oath to never betray a client's secrets.
The attorney-client privilege and its corollary duty to zealously advance the interests of even guilty clients form the very foundation of trust between lawyer and client. Clinton appeared to cavalierly toss these obligations aside in an interview she gave in the early 1980s.
In 1975, the year in which Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton, she took on the defense of 41-year-old Thomas Taylor, who was accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. In Clinton's memoir, she proudly discusses her role in the case, demonstrating impressive legal skills for a young attorney fresh out of Yale Law School.
Opinion: Why Clinton's comments matter
I was beginning my legal career as a prosecutor in New York during this time and it is clear to me that Clinton's legal tactics were quite consistent with those used by experienced and ethical defense attorneys of that era. Today's preachers of political correctness, many of whom heartily endorse the Clinton candidacy, may be shocked at the details of the future senator's forceful attack on the 12-year-old rape victim in the Taylor case, but times were different then.
For example, while seeking to compel a psychiatric examination of the sixth grade victim, Clinton submitted her own sworn affidavit saying she had: "...been informed that the complainant is emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and engage in...fantasizing ... she has in the past made false accusations about persons, claiming they had attacked her body... she exhibits an unusual stubbornness and temper when she does not get her way."
The Clinton affidavit stated that a "child psychology" expert advised her that "children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences and that adolescents with disorganized families, such as the complainant, are even more prone to such behavior." The language here would score a perfect 10 on the scale of political incorrectness in 2014.
The "disorganized families" are obviously just ordinary poor people with maybe a dash of single-mother household thrown in for good measure. And the 12-year-old girl is "stubborn" and has a "temper." Really? Is that a problem in girls?
Opinion: Petty attacks on Hillary just won't matter
In her book, Clinton describes her daring visit to a "bombed-out" (read: "African-American") Brooklyn neighborhood to obtain the services of a renowned expert in blood analysis. This expert's reputation pushed a nervous prosecutor into believing that his key piece of corroborating evidence -- blood and bodily fluids on the victim's underwear -- would be thrown out of court. Without this evidence, which would have sealed Taylor's fate, the prosecutor folded and accepted a plea to a lesser count.
The result was that the man accused of rape that Clinton defended served only about a year in prison for an offense worth, even in 1975, a 15-year state prison sentence. After one short year this "rootless" (Clinton's word) drifter was back on the street.
While all this may sound horrible to the nonlawyers of the world, in fact everything Clinton did as defense counsel at the time appears to have been ethical and proper. Clinton's defense focused on the child's lack of believability and on throwing out the physical evidence based on the boneheaded prosecutorial destruction of the remaining testable blood-stained cloth. Looks like good lawyering so far.
When looking at this case, the press has generally focused on Clinton's "inappropriate" laughter in an interview with an Arkansas journalist in the early 1980s. Demonstrating a truly tin political ear, she had consented to being tape-recorded.
In listening to the tape, it is apparent to me that Clinton was not laughing about getting a man accused of rape off the hook, but rather at the ineptness of the prosecutors. On tape, she may also have been struggling to bond with the reporter, who often initiates the laughter. This type of shoptalk and gallows humor often takes place behind closed doors among criminal lawyers and prosecutors. But nobody tape records the talk, nobody talks this way "on the record" to reporters.
Even the sleaziest of criminal lawyers don't generally brag about getting a man accused in the rape of a child off the hook. It might make attendance at local PTA meetings and "Back to School Night" more than a little uncomfortable.
Lawyers have an obligation to provide a strong defense to all whom they represent, even those who committed crimes. The Founding Fathers designed an adversarial system requiring proof beyond a reasonable doubt and the right to counsel.
Opinion: How Hillary Clinton flubbed the wealth question
Clinton performed her role as defense counsel to an unpopular, indigent client with skill and competence, affording him the constitutional rights cherished by Americans.
So it is sad really to see her throw this all away and apparently betray the secrets and interests of her client for the sake of telling a good story to a reporter. But that is exactly what she did when during a subsequent interview (also in the 1980s) she revealed that Taylor had taken and passed a polygraph test. She said on tape that she has "forever" lost her "faith" in polygraph tests. What Clinton really may have been saying here is that her client lied in claiming innocence when he took the polygraph test because he was really guilty.
In other words, she appears to have outed Taylor as a liar and a rapist. By framing the story in this way, Clinton violated not only the attorney-client privilege but also her obligation to fully represent the interests of her client as required by the attorney's "Code of Professional Responsibility."
It is utterly improper for a defense attorney to reveal a client confidence in this way. As a veteran teller of legal "war stories," my advice to Clinton is if you are going to tell one, leave out the child rapist case.
Clinton may have handled the case tactics well, but the way she talked about her client raises a serious question about her devotion to legal ethics in her early years of practice. We can only hope that the experience she has accumulated in public life has taught the former secretary of state that a devotion to ethical conduct and fidelity to the interests of those she represents are critically important character traits.
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Byron Generating Station's busy year of job creation continues this month as its Unit 2 refueling and maintenance outage began at 11 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 18. More than 1,200 additional workers have descended on the region to assist in the project.
BYRON, Ill. (September 19, 2011) - Byron Generating Station's busy year of job creation continues this month as its Unit 2 refueling and maintenance outage began at 11 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 18.
More than 1,200 additional workers have descended on the region to assist in the project - many of whom are from local union halls. More than $2 million is being spent with local vendors in support of the outage. Combined with the numbers from the completed spring outage, Byron Station has created nearly 4,000 temporary jobs and spent more than $5 million with local vendors in 2011 on its two outages.
"As the economy continues to try to rebound, we are happy that so many individuals can find temporary work at our station during our refueling outage," said Byron Station Site Vice President Tim Tulon. "We rely on the extra assistance to perform important maintenance on our unit that will ensure continued reliable performance. And the temporary employees get weeks or months of steady employment. It is a positive outcome for all involved."
Residents should be aware of the increased traffic in towns near the plant, which is a welcome challenge to have for those looking for an economic boost. Most local motels, restaurants and shops see an increase in customers during Byron Station outages.
"We recognize that the increase in traffic during the outage will cause delays for some. We appreciate everyone's patience during this time," added Tulon.
In addition to replacing about one-third of the reactor's fuel, workers will perform more than 10,000 inspections and maintenance activities on a variety of plant components and systems. Many of the activities performed during the maintenance outage cannot be done while the unit is operating.
While the unit is down, residents should be aware that one of the cooling towers will not produce any water vapor cloud. This is normal during a shutdown. Byron's Unit 1 will continue to supply clean electricity to Exelon customers during the Unit 2 outage. With both units at full power, the site produces almost 2,300 megawatts net, enough electricity for 2.3 million homes.


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Mexico's Acapulco resorts rattled by earthquake
MEXICO CITY A moderately strong earthquake struck near Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Wednesday, causing cracks in some buildings and swaying buildings in Mexico City.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake at 7:38 a.m. (8:38 a.m. Eastern) had a magnitude of 6.2. It was centered near the Pacific coast and about 60 miles east of Acapulco.
Cracks were found in the walls of a university in Acapulco and a cement entrance gate at a local military base collapsed, said Victor Torres Ruiz, the spokesman for the state government of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located.
A second, smaller quake followed 24 minutes later. The USGS calculated the magnitude of the aftershock at 5.3.
Traffic lights went out in the city, causing traffic jams, and fears of more possible aftershocks led some schools in Acapulco to send children home for the day.
Buildings swayed in Mexico City, 170 miles to the north, and some people evacuated office buildings as an earthquake alarm sounded. On the city's main boulevard, one man injured his leg as he rushed out of an office building.
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said there no reports of damages or serious injuries.
Mexico City is vulnerable even to distant earthquakes because much of it sits atop the muddy sediments of drained lake beds that quiver as quake waves hit.
The magnitude-8.1 quake in 1985 that killed at least 6,000 people and destroyed many buildings in Mexico City was centered 250 miles away on the Pacific Coast.


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Last week I remembered these flapjacks which are another favourite in our home and it was also the first ever recipe we baked at Sweet and Simple Bakes. My boys are addicted to these flapjacks, they are quick to prepare and once baked you have an oaty, fruity, chewy and delish bar. Not to forget the added bonus of the white chocolate, perfect combination with cranberries. These are great to add to pack lunches, for mornings when you're rushing out the door, or to accompany a cuppa. I have made these so many times and they fly out of the tin, but they do store well.
250g butter
100g demerara sugar
200g golden syrup
250g rolled oats
75g plain flour
100g dried cranberries ( other dried fruits can also be used, blueberries, apricots, etc)
100g white chocolate, chopped (dark or milk chocolate can be used)
Preheat the oven to 170C/Gas 3. Line a 23cm square tin with baking paper (please do not use greaseproof).Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a large pan over a low heat (stirring occasionally), until the butter and sugar have completely melted. Add the rolled oats, flour and cranberries to the pan, and stir together well. Spread the mixture evenly into the prepared tin. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until golden brown. Leave to cool for a few minutes, then mark into 12 squares – but don't cut all the way through. Allow to cool in the tin completely. Melt the white chocolate and drizzle over each bar.


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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) stressed the importance of a responsible transition of the leadership of Afghanistan to the Afghan people and expressed concern over the U.S. partnership with Pakistan in an April 6 letter from Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, New York, to National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon.
"A responsible transition will require a strengthened civilian commitment by the United States and the international community to improve citizen participation, civil society capacity, accountability and good stewardship to promote development and good governance in Afghanistan and Pakistan," wrote Bishop Hubbard, chairman of the USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace.
"While the military drawdown will significantly reduce U.S. costs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a comprehensive commitment to continued development is critical to long-term success," he added.
Bishop Hubbard emphasized the importance of civil society participation and accountability in development and noted the need to factor in the structure of Afghan society in planning.
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In the same letter, Bishop Hubbard expressed deep concern about religious freedom in Pakistan and urged the Administration to make it a major priority in U.S. policy.
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Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder staunchly defended his decision to keep the team's name on Wednesday amid a growing opposition that has gathered steam after President Obama recently weighed in on the topic.
In a letter to season-ticket holders, Snyder said that while he was cognizant of the criticism of the name — which many consider a disparaging term for Native Americans — the team's tradition and legacy is too important to consider a switch.
"I've listened carefully to the commentary and perspectives on all sides, and I respect the feelings of those who are offended by the team name," he said. "But I hope such individuals also try to respect what the name means, not only for all of us in the extended Washington Redskins family, but among Native Americans too."
Snyder, a "lifelong" Redskins fan who purchased the team from Jack Kent Cooke for $800 million in 1999, wrote in the letter of attending his first Redskins game at 6 years old with his late father. He spoke of when the franchise in 1932, then located in Boston, changed the team name to the Redskins.
"On that inaugural Redskins team, four players and our head coach were Native Americans," he said. "The name was never a label. It was, and continues to be, a badge of honor."
The issue has always been a contentious one, but has heated up in recent years as other sports teams with nicknames deemed racially insensitive toward Native Americans have changed in an era of increased political correctness.
President Obama said earlier this month that he would consider changing the name if he owned the team.
"I respect the opinions of those who disagree. I want them to know that I do hear them, and I will continue to listen and learn," Snyder said. "But we cannot ignore our 81-year history, or the strong feelings of most of our fans as well as Native Americans throughout the country. After 81 years, the team name 'Redskins' continues to hold the memories and meaning of where we came from, who we are, and who we want to be in the years to come."


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Choosing the right herbicide formuation
Experts often stress the value of proper weed identification. This makes it possible to determine the best cultural and chemical strategies for control. However, an additional step-choosing the best formulation for the intended use-receives relatively scant attention.
There are several reasons why you should consider the effects of herbicide formulation. * Formulations may vary in their effectiveness on weeds. * Formulation may affect the tolerance of turf and ornamentals to the herbicide. * Some formulations are more costly than others. * Formulation affects drift potential. * Ease of application and compatibility with your application equipment vary according to formulation.
At its most basic, formulation means an active ingredient (the chemical that actually controls the weeds) plus a carrier, such as water or oil for liquid chemicals, or clay with granular formulations. However, herbicide formulations frequently contain other additives to enhance mixing and application and improve adhesion and uptake by weeds. In addition, some formulations include not just one, but two, three or even four active ingredients combined into one product. Let's look at some of the ways that formulations vary and how this affects your choice. As you'll see, every option involves a tradeoff.
Herbicide combinations Prepackaged combinations of two or more herbicides are becoming more common. While these pre-mixed products clearly have advantages, one issue to consider is cost. You may be able to purchase the various active ingredients separately and then combine them in the spray tank for less money. Another advantage of buying active ingredients separately is that you can choose the specific rates of each component. With a prepackaged mix, you are locked into one ratio of the active ingredients.
You must balance the added flexibility of mixing ingredients yourself against the convenience of prepackaged combinations. Especially when treating small areas, it is easier to transport and measure out one product than to carry two or three products that you have to mix together.
Esters and amines With certain herbicides, manufacturers can synthesize the active ingredient with different "side groups." This can alter its weed-control properties. One example is 2,4-D, a common component of broadleaf herbicides for turf. The term "2,4-D" stands for 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid. The acid portion of the molecule can be modified by adding different chemical groups. If an isooctyl group is added to the acid, the herbicide becomes an ester. Adding a dimethylamine group converts the acid to an amine. Why is this important? Because ester formulations move more easily through the waxy cuticle covering weed leaves. This enhances herbicide uptake and provides better weed control, compared with amines.
Why, then, would you choose an amine formulation of 2,4-D if the ester controls weeds better? The major reason is safety to ornamentals near the application site. Ester forms are more volatile-they vaporize more readily. These vapors may drift and injure nearby ornamentals. Therefore, amines may be a better choice in summer when higher temperatures increase herbicide volatilization.
Ester formulations are typically a better option in winter or early spring. Temperatures are cooler and deciduous trees and shrubs have not yet leafed out. This gives you a chance to treat hard-to-kill weeds like wild garlic with the more potent ester formulations without undue danger of injury to ornamentals.
Isomers Another chemical factor that affects herbicide activity is the occurrence of different isomers. Isomers are versions of a chemical compound put together in slightly different ways. Your two hands make a good analogy-both consist of the same components, such as fingers, thumb, palm, etc., but they are put together in different ways: one is a left hand, one is a right hand. There's no way to rotate or flip a right hand to make it a left hand, and vice versa. Isomers are similar in that they consist of the same elements, but are put together in slightly different ways. Generally, one isomer of a herbicide is active in controlling weeds, while the other has little or no activity as a herbicide.
Herbicide-manufacturing processes often result in a mixture of isomers. However, Aventis, which makes fenoxaprop (Acclaim Extra), learned how to manufacture only the active form of the fenoxaprop-ethyl molecule. This allowed a nearly 50-percent decrease in fenoxaprop rates because the formulation now consists almost entirely of the active isomer. This change does not alter the spectrum of weed control; only the amount of active ingredient and application rate change.
We probably will see more of this in the manufacturing of herbicides. If a manufacturer is able to create a herbicide with more of the active isomer, it will likely phase out the old formulation and offer only the newer product.
Formulating with surfactants Manufacturers often add materials to herbicides to change their characteristics. One example is the surfactant chemistry for glyphosate. Monsanto changed the surfactant found in traditional Roundup to create Roundup Pro. The new surfactant apparently increases the absorption rate and improves rainfastness, resulting in better weed control.
These benefits come with a potential disadvantage. Along with increasing absorption in weedy species, this surfactant change may increase the potential for injury to desirable plants should drift occur.
When a post-emergence herbicide is formulated with a surfactant, it's not necessary for you to add one when you mix the product for application. However, other products lack a surfactant in the formulation. Thus, you may need to purchase the adjuvant separately.
Make sure you thoroughly read product labels to determine whether a surfactant is recommended. Whenever you compare prices of herbicides, be sure to include the additional cost of any surfactants (or any other adjuvant) that you'll need to use.
Granular vs. liquid Certain herbicides are available in both granular and sprayable form. The type you use may affect the degree of weed control.
* Volatility. Dithiopyr (Rohm and Haas's Dimension) is more volatile in the liquid form than in granular form. To compensate for volatility losses (and leaf adsorption), labeled application rates for the active ingredient are higher for the liquid than for the granular product. Rohm and Haas is planning to release a sprayable (wettable powder) formulation of dithiopyr that resolves these issues.
This phenomenon does not occur with all herbicides, however. In a study I conducted comparing granular and liquid formulations of metolachlor (Novartis's Pennant), I saw no difference in weed control between the two products when I used them at the same rates.
* Leaf absorption. Another difference between granular and sprayable forms is the extent of leaf absorption. Granular formulations exhibit relatively low foliar absorption because most of the applied granules fall through the leaf canopy to the soil below. The reason granular post-emergence herbicide labels typically state that some wetness should be present during application is so that the granules will stick better to the moist leaves. Applications when moisture is absent are generally ineffective.
By contrast, sprayed products achieve good coverage and adhere better to the foliage, providing relatively good weed control.
* Phytotoxicity. A disadvantage of sprayable formulations is increased potential for phytotoxicity. Generally, granular forms are safer for over-the-top applications than sprayable products containing the same herbicide. One example is oxadiazon (Aventis's Ronstar). You can apply Ronstar G to a wide range of cool and warm-season turfgrasses, as well as many woody ornamentals. The sprayable formulation of oxadiazon, by contrast, is used primarily on certain dormant warm-season turfgrasses and a limited number of ornamentals. This difference is due to the greater potential for burning of leaves with the sprayable type.
Oxyfluorfen is a herbicide that has both pre-emergence and post-emergence effects on weeds. Formulated as a granule, such as in Scotts's Rout and Ornamental Herbicide II or Regal's O-O, it can be applied to a range of woody ornamentals. By contrast, Rohm and Haas's Goal, a sprayable form of oxyfluorfen, is labeled for use on a much more limited number of ornamentals due to the potential for leaf injury.
A disadvantage to the granular form of oxyfluorfen is that it lacks most of the post-emergence activity that the sprayable form possesses.
* Cost. Another impact of manufacturing a herbicide as a granule can be greater cost. The granular type may be more expensive than sprayable products because it consists primarily of inert ingredients, often as much as 98 percent or more inactive components (such as clay). Therefore, the amount of formulated product required to deliver the same amount of active ingredient may be much greater with granules, resulting in higher shipping and, perhaps, packaging costs.
One advantage of granules is that there seems to be greater public acceptance of this form. Though not necessarily accurate, sprays evoke "toxic" images in many people's minds.
* Ease of application. Another benefit is that granules are fast and easy to apply, especially over large turf areas. Cleanup and package disposal is typically easier as well.
* Application uniformity. A potential advantage of sprayable forms over granular types is more-uniform application. Granules can be difficult to apply uniformly, especially those that contain a relatively high concentration of active ingredient. As the percent active ingredient of a granule increases, fewer and fewer granules per square foot are applied. Thus, for example, you'll find it easier to achieve uniform coverage with a 1-percent granule than with a 5-percent granule.
Staining One issue that relates particularly to dinitroaniline (DNA) herbicides is the potential for staining of sidewalks and other structures. The active ingredients in this class of chemistry have a yellowish or yellowish-orange color. Granular formulations often do not stain badly, whereas a liquid formulation may cause more serious staining. Plus, granules are easy to sweep or blow from concrete surfaces, whereas overspray should be washed off before it dries.
Differences exist among sprayable formulations of DNA herbicides. In my studies, an emulsifiable-concentrate formulation of pendimethalin had a more intense yellow color than a water-dispersible granule.
Variables in liquids Sprayable formulations can differ in their ease of use. Dry flowable (DF) or water-dispersible granule (WDG) formulations produce much less dust during mixing and loading than wettable powders. Another important advantage of DF and WDG formulations is their ability to quickly form a uniform suspension in the spray tank. However, dry flowables are more likely to plug spray nozzles and tips than emulsifiable concentrates.
An advantage of emulsifiable concentrates is rapid mixing in the spray tank with minimal agitation.
One final note about emulsifiable concentrates: because they contain an oil solvent, you would expect them to provide greater post-emergence weed control than a dry sprayable.
Formulations affect herbicide performance in many ways, from cost, to ease of loading, mixing and applying, to safety to effectiveness. It's impossible to generalize and conclude that one formulation is inherently better than another. Each type involves tradeoffs. The best choice depends on your specific needs.
Dr. Jeffrey F. Derr is professor of weed science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Beach, Va.).
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Posted by Manish Panchmatia on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Labels: Event Report
Every year, flower shows are organized in January (Republic Day of India) and August (Independence Day of India), at Lalbagh, Bangalore. Have a look to last year photographs click here on Independence day of India 15th August 2010.
I suggest you to attend this show, this republic day, at Lalbagh. Enjoy MAADI !
We used to have such show at my native place Mithapur. More Garden. Sometime in February, every year. Once I saw nice flower rose with water drops. I liked it so much. I observed it with full attention, from all the angles. That day, I created a Gujarati poem. "A - GULAB" (means: that rose). To read it, click here.
I wish you also get some inspiration to write some good poem from this Republic day flower show at Lalbagh, Bangalore.


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Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest.
I'm pretty passionate about organization – after all, I named David Allen's book Getting Things Done as one of the ten books that changed my life. I'm also (obviously) passionate about how information technology and the internet can change people's lives.
This book, Getting Organized in the Google Era by former CIO of Google Douglas C. Merrill, hits the joint between those two passions quite firmly. It looks at how people organize all of the information they need to maintain their life on a daily basis and talks about how recent advances in technology (particularly cloud computing – where you save your data on a web server, a la Gmail or Facebook) have potentially changed or improved how we organize ourselves.
Intriguing stuff, but is there enough meat there to fill up a whole book with ideas?
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Our brain is a strange little machine. It's pretty poor at retaining a large number of little pieces of information, but it is very good at taking lots of little pieces of information and making sense of them. That's why, over time, successful humans have developed external aids to help with storing those little pieces of external information.
Think of our schedules. Most of us who have a lot of appointments to keep maintain some sort of written schedule – I sure do. Why? Because without it, you'll have a lot of little pieces of information floating around in your brain (each appointment) and if you forget one, it's a major problem. So we get into the routine of storing it all externally and just remembering to check the schedule all the time.
2 | Summer Vacations, Suburbia & Factory Shifts
An awful lot of societal structures are woefully inefficient. Many, many people work a nine-to-five schedule (or something close), so there are resultant traffic jams, causing long commutes and tons of lost productivity – I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to be working than sitting in traffic. School students have long summer vacations during which their learning and skills get rusty. The list goes on and on – the way things were always done might have been efficient in the past compared to the alternatives, but society has changed so much that these things have become inefficient.
Instead of just forcing yourself into these inefficient structures, why not see if you can change a rule or two. Do some homeschooling during the summer. Ask if you can shift your work schedule to two hours earlier – or two hours later – so you can avoid the morning and evening rushes. Look into telecommuting if your job allows it. If something seems inefficient – and every time you're sitting idle, there's probably an inefficiency – look for ways around it so you can actually fill your time with meaning.
3 | Racecars, Basketball Shorts & Opera
All of us have constraints in life. I work at home with three young children – that certainly introduces some constraints. The big challenge is to determine which constraints are real and which ones are imagined. If you can figure out that you're just imagining a constraint, then it's no longer a constraint.
Take naptime, for example. I used to view this as a pretty long constraint on other activities, as I'd stay near the kids until they were asleep (they're good at going to sleep by themselves at night, but during naptime when the sun is shining outside, they can sometimes get antsy). What I eventually learned is that the constraint was much smaller than I imagined. Once a story is read and they're laying down, the perfect time has arrived to open my laptop and get a few things done.
What constraints in your life are real constraints?
4 | Climb That Mountain or Chill in the Barcalounger?
What is it that I want to achieve above all else? Why do I want to achieve it? What happens if I don't achieve it? What exactly do I have to do to make it happen? The more you ask yourself these questions and reflect on your answers, the more you begin to put the big things you want in life front and center.
What do I want to achieve above all else? I want to be a successful writer and a successful father. Those are my front-and-center goals – the other goals I have are almost always subordinate to those two things. Other things really don't matter in comparison. What does success mean in those areas? That's a much longer answer, but after a lot of reflection, I think I know what success is there, too.
5 | Beyond Taylorism & Trapper Keepers
Once upon a time, organizing information meant keeping it in hierarchical structures that made it easy to dig down and locate a specific piece of information – think of the Dewey Decimal System or a complex filing system.
Today, though, information technology allows us to have all of that data electronically and, more important, it's all searchable. Instead of digging for a file in a huge filing cabinet, we can just search for it if we have it stored electronically.
This gets around a lot of differences: different filing methods, different constraints, different personal quirks. Everyone simply searches for what they want.
Think about Wikipedia versus an old printed set of World Book encyclopedias, for example.
6 | Paris, France or Paris, Vegas?
In fact, the best skill one can build for managing information in the future is the ability to know how to search effectively and accurately for a specific piece of information. This means learning the nuances of various search engines, knowing how they work, and knowing how to apply them.
Using Google means more than just going to the search field and typing in what you want, for example. There's quite a lot of syntax that goes into really narrowing down what you want, from using the "site:" prefix to narrow down searches within a particular site to using "-" as a prefix to exclude terms. There's even more useful syntax within specific programs like Gmail when you're searching through old emails.
7 | Colored Markers & Filters
There is so much information out there that it's impossible to process it all. So where do we begin?
Merrill suggests starting with your goals. For example, you're probably reading The Simple Dollar because you have personal financial or personal success goals: paying off debt, building up some savings, getting a better job, or so on. This means that some posts apply to you and your situation and some do not. If it doesn't apply, filter it out immediately. Use your energy to read something else.
This is also true when it comes down to the information you save – old emails and the like. Why are you saving it? What's your goal with that information if you retain it? This often helps you figure out how to retain it.
8 | Day-Timer or Digital?
Should you have a document in digital form or in paper form? To put it bluntly, you should always have it in the form that takes the least amount of time for you to manage it once you've climbed the learning curve.
For example, I keep my schedule electronically because it takes far less time to enter repeated appointments or to share my schedule with others than it does with a written schedule. On the other hand, it's often easier to receive statements in the mail because electronic distribution of paper statements is still sometimes very poor. Paper is still also superior when it comes to jotting down quick notes, though that may change in the near future.
9 | Beyond Send & Receive
Merrill is a huge fan of Gmail for organizing email and contact information and I have to agree with him. The ability to search through mountains of email effortlessly, tag key emails easily, sort them as I wish, and retrieve email from any web browser makes Gmail an indispensable tool for me (and for others).
Much of this chapter focuses on Gmail power tips. In fact, Merrill often argues in favor of just emailing information that you need to retain to your own Gmail account because of the ease of searching it in the future.
10 | Thanks for Sharing
Similarly, Merrill makes an argument for using GCal here, for similar reasons as Gmail – accessibility and ease of searching. He rails quite a bit against the "locked system" of Outlook/Exchange and Domino, mostly because of the barrier they put between work appointments and personal appointments.
I find Gmail and Gcal to be essential tools for my work and for my personal life thanks to things like integrating weather forecasts into my personal schedule (so my calendar alone can indicate whether today is a good day for an outdoor activity).
11 | A Browser, an Operating System & Some Cool Stickers
Here, Merrill proposes moving collaborative documents online to Google Docs, enabling you to easily work together with others that have access to a web browser, as well as store all of your documents at a place easily accessible via the web and, of course, searchable. I also use this for some documents, while keeping others offline for my own privacy.
While Merrill does focus pretty heavily on the Google apps, he's right on in terms of two key points. First, the more searchable all of your emails, documents, schedules, and other information is, the more useful it is. Second, no one is putting this all together as smoothly as the Google apps do – and they're free.
12 | Avoiding Brain Strain
The best technique for avoiding brain strain is to focus on one activity at a time, because every time you switch activities, some focus and some information is lost in the process. If you're about to switch activities, take the time to note your current train of thought on your current activity so that you can pick it up easier when you return.
If your job and life seem to constantly push you to switch focus with frightening regularity, seek out spaces in which you can minimize those focus switches. Turn off your distractions (like your phone) and shut your door so you can bear down on a task.
13 | Checking Email from the Beach
It's all about "work-life balance." In other words, the more efficient you are at your required work tasks and life tasks, the more time you have free for genuine relaxation and enjoyment of life. That's why, if you have pockets of down time that don't allow for sustained relaxation, you should try to find ways to fill those pockets with some sort of useful activity.
Yes, that does mean you should do things like check your email during a fifteen minute downtime on a Saturday. Doing that, however, frees you up to spend more sustained time involved in activities you care about later. The more efficient your tools are, the easier it is to do these microbursts of tasks.
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You're going to make mistakes along the way – no one is perfect. The key is to learn from those mistakes and look for solutions so that these mistakes don't repeat themselves.
The book closes with one of the best parts – a long list of "stuff we love," web applications that solve particular personal information management concerns.
Is Getting Organized in the Google Era Worth Reading?
This is a really useful read if you are already fairly organized as it does a good job of outlining a large number of ways that you can use many recent advances in information technology to organize your personal and professional information. I fall into that category, so I found lots of interesting things in this book.
This book isn't a useful read if you're not already pretty organized. If you're in that group, the stuff in this book won't necessarily help you get organized – it's not an organization system in itself, but a bunch of tactics to help improve what it is you already do. If you're starting from scratch, I really recommend David Allen's excellent book Getting Things Done (which I'm planning to cover in detail in an upcoming series).
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Me and the Auction House now that it's brimming with pets are a bad combination. Despite still having to build a team to properly take on Major Paine, I decided I couldn't wait to pick up this particular spirit and some how, without me really thinking about it, money changed hands.
The observant amongst you might notice that she's named after a character belonging to someone we all know and love. I found myself unable to resist, after all, the spirit is clearly cat like as well as being awesome and inspirational. I still have to test how she reacts when presented with large quantities of Human males though.
So that brings my total of pets named after bloggers to five with still a huge quantity of pets to go to.
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Portland State University has continually strived to provide resources for students who are seeking professional internships and assist them through the application processes. Vacancy announcements are delivered to students through PSU Career Connect, listservs, and the PSU Advising & Career Services postings.
Many of the opportunities advertised to students are corporate and nonprofit organizations, but what about federal internships and careers? Federal internships and government careers have slowly faded from the spotlight, and their vibrancy and appeal to students has slowly diminished.
However, federal internships (for both current students and recent graduates) have a wide variety of benefits and provide students with increasing knowledge through real life business experience. In a collaborative effort between the Partnership for Public Service, the Department of Interior, and Portland State University, a unique and exciting opportunity was developed to explore the many paths available to current and graduating students. This collaborative effort is designed to provide guidance for students to explore the many opportunities and resources pertaining to federal employment, create federal resumes and provide tips to applying for positions. With the assistance of Portland State Career Services, these resources will be readily available to students.
Additionally, planning has begun to provide regular workshops for students on topics ranging from "How to Create a Federal Resume" to "What are Federal Jobs and Where Do I Find Them?" Should students need assistance beyond these workshops, individual advising can be arranged by the Federal Student Ambassador Jessica Douglas at email@example.com. Resources are also available from staff in the PSU Advising & Career Services office.
As employment becomes more competitive and even less accessible, it is vital for future generations to gain experience through reputable organizations. The staff at Portland State University are invested in the careers and lives of their students and want to provide them with every possible opportunity to succeed.
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True to the mission of RIT, the Imaging Science program emphasizes knowledge application and workforce/graduate school preparation. Undergraduate Imaging Science students undertake laboratory-intensive courses throughout their academic careers, which culminate in a year-long senior research project where students design, carry out, and analyze their own projects under the guidance of a faculty research advisor. MS students produce a research thesis or project, and PhD students complete a research-based dissertation. Through such experiential learning, ImSci students are equipped with real-world teamwork, project management, and problem solving skills in addition to traditional academic studies.
The Innovative Freshman Experience
Through our breakthrough project-based Innovative Freshman Experience class - which features no lectures, no assigned textbooks, and no tests - students get their hands dirty from day one researching, designing, and building a functional imaging system in time for RIT's annual research and creativity festival, ImagineRIT. This revolutionary approach to education has been so successful at the undergraduate level, we are proud to announce that a separate project is now undertaken by each class of incoming Ph.D. students. Watch the video below to learn more about freshmen innovation in CIS, straight from the students themselves.
Past undergraduate projects include:
Intelligent Telepresence: Immersive Living Room Capture System
"Intelligent Multi-Camera Video Chat" uses facial detection algorithms on each of four Raspberry Pi's (breadboard computers) to choose and control one of four capture cameras. If more than one camera identifies a face, then the face that is larger in the frame will be chosen. Then, based on the location of the face in the frame, our main computer can pan each camera independently using attached servo motors. Output from the selected camera is then passed through a video switcher for display. Our imaging system has many applications including surveillance, automated lighting, and more, but we chose to demonstrate its potential use in a personal and conference video calling system.
Learn more from the following video, produced by some IFE2013 students for the 2014 ImagineRIT Innovation & Creativity Festival:
"X-ray Vision" with a Multicamera Array
The focus of the 2012-2013 freshmen imaging project was "X-ray Vision" with a Multicamera Array.
A multicamera array is an advanced imaging system that utilizes multiple camera perspectives. Multicamera arrays have been applied to synthetic aperture imaging, high-resolution still imaging, and special effects for cinematography, such as the "Bullet Time" scene from the film "The Matrix."
Our class designed and built a prototype system that successfully demonstrates synthetic aperture imaging using multicamera technology. The large synthetic aperture of the prototype results in a small depth of field in the image, and the different locations of the component cameras allows users to "see through" occlusions in a manner that appears similar to "x-ray vision."
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Note how subject of interest (student on couch) is visible through obstruction (student in foreground)
Multicamera Array System Workflow
- Cameras Point Grey Chameleon cameras are set up in order to capture frames
- Arrangement Each camera views the calibration target from a unique angle
- Frame Grabbers Once frames are captured by the cameras, raw data flows to computers to be compressed
- Processor The data is then sent to a custom computer where software is run to process a single image
- Synthetic Aperture Effect The frames are combined to produce an unobstructed image of the target
An array like ours could be used in a variety of security applications. This technology can be used to track an individual or object in a crowded or highly obstructed environment. Watch our video below (originally produced for Imagine RIT) to learn more.
3D Imaging for Medical Applications Using Structured Light
The focus of the 2011 freshmen imaging project was 3D Imaging for Medical Applications Using Structured Light.
What did we do and why?
The Freshman Imaging Project class was asked by Dr. Bo Hu and Dr. Jack Wojtczak from the University of Rochester Medical Center to design a craniofacial phenotyper - a 3D scanner whose purpose is to take certain measurements along the curvatore of a person's face. Dr. Hu and Dr. Wojtczak have done research which showed that certain facial measurements can help doctors determine whether or not a physician would have difficulty inserting a breathing tube into a patient prior to surgery. The goal of the Freshman Imaging Project class was to create a craniofacial phenotyper which quickly, accurately, and inexpensively provides a physicial with the data which would enable that assessment.
What is a structured light scanner, and how does it work?
This system uses Structured Light technology in order to gather 3D data. Several patterns of alternating dark and light bars with different spatial frequencies and orientations are projected onto the subject. Two cameras take pictures of the patterns, and the system computes the deviation of the bars with respect to a flat reference to determine depth information, The system renders a 3D point cloud that is used for visualization and allows the physician to obtain specific measurements.
What is a Craniofacial Phenotyper?
Interactive Digital Images with Polynomial Texture Mapping: The Dome
The focus of the 2010 freshmen imaging project was a Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) device.
What are PTMs?
PTMs are a type of interactive digital image that allow users to view an object from an infinite number of light source angles. This allows the user to uncover hidden textures, blemishes, and other surface features not visible using traditional photographic techniques. PTMs have uses in historical document and artifact imaging, forensics, dermatology, and more. Some example PTMs can be viewed on the Hewlett-Packard Labs website.
How do you create a PTM?
PTMs are created by taking many photographs of a static object from a fixed position using varying light angles. The individual image files are then run through software which models the luminance values at each pixel in the image and generates the final interactive PTM image. While this may sound like a straighforward process, there is no such thing as an "instruction manual" or assembly kit.
What did the IFE2010 students do?
The IFE students reached a number of milestones throughout the 2010-2011 acadmic year:
- Research PTMs: how they work, how to make them, what to use them for
- Design a robust system to capture images at multiple light angles, determining:
- Structure - How to construct a dome or other setup to hold lights at different angles
- Illumination - What type of lights to use, considering brightness, temperature, color, etc.
- Capture (camera) - What type of camera, lens, and capture settings to use
- Electronics - How to wire up and control the lighting and camera systems
- Software - How to automate the system and process the imagery
- Construct the PTM system
- Demonstrate the PTM system at ImagineRIT
- Perform actual research - The PTM system and 4 IFE students traveled to the Boston Public Library just after the conclusion of the academic year. (Pictures: 5/25/11; 5/26/11)
Check out the videos below made by some IFE2010 students!


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Are practical Christmas gifts the way to go this year?
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A BLENDER, an iron or a deep fryer - is this the stuff Christmas dreams are made off?
Footprints Market Research found 74% of Queenslanders would prefer to receive practical Christmas gifts, but Hervey Bay's Stephen Haigh disagrees.
Stephen, who owns Haigh's Jewellers in Pialba, said jewellery was the type of gift that captured the spirit of Christmas.
"There is some sort of element of surprise, it's a more personalised thing," he said.
Stretan Stojikovic, owner of The Good Guys in Hervey Bay, detected a more practical approach to Christmas shopping.
He has noticed items such as coffee makers, smaller appliances and deep fryers selling well in the lead-up to Christmas.
He said he didn't know if any husband had been game enough to buy his wife an iron for Christmas, but more practical items were definitely in vogue, along with the latest technology, including iPods and iPads, and electronic games for the kids.
Smaller televisions were also a popular buy this year.
But if there are those who had romantic notions, custom-made jewellery takes the game to a whole new level, Stephen said.
While New Year drew marriage proposals, some people were choosing to pop the question at Christmas.
Stephen said wives often came into the store to brief staff in the event their husbands came strolling in later to look.
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Washington, D.C. –The DC STEM Network is one of eight groups to win the US2020's 2018 STEM Coalition Challenge. The Challenge was a nationwide competition for communities toincrease hands-on STEM mentoring and maker-centered learning to underrepresented students. The winners were announced at the Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA, last week. The DC STEM Network will receive a share of a $1 million award which will support further innovative, STEM-based learning for Washington, DC students.
The Network was selected from 92 applications from 35 states, representing more than 1,800 nonprofits, companies, school districts, and local government partners. The Network is
Washington, DC — On Saturday, March 17, middle and high school students in the nation's capital showed off their science and math skills in a full-day celebration of STEM education and innovation at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School. More than 100 local students participated in the 2018 DC STEM Fair, where they presented their own science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) projects to a group of 80 volunteer judges, including representatives from local universities, STEM professional organizations, research institutions, and STEM employer groups.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – US2020, a nationwide network of more than 350 organizations to advance the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields, chose the DC STEM Network as one of 15 finalists for the STEM Coalition Challenge. Ninety-two partner networks, working to advance STEM mentoring and learning to underrepresented students, competed. The finalists will compete for $1-million in resources to implement their innovative approaches to STEM teaching and learning.
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Washington, DC—Marlena L. Jones, Acting Director of Carnegie Academy for Science Education (CASE) and the DC STEM Network has been accepted as one of 22 fellows in the inaugural class of LEAD STEM, a new national leadership development experience designed to empower and arm individuals with high level skills to shape the future of STEM education in the U.S. Fellows are meeting in person for the first time today in Kansas City, MO as part of the STEM Learning Ecosystems National Community of Practice Convening.
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Fifty years ago, Americans led the world in math and science, claiming some of the most important inventions and technological breakthroughs of the 20th century. Today, American 15-year-olds rank 25th in math compared to their peers worldwide. Math ƒor America DC strives to reclaim America's reputation for scientific greatness by recruiting and supporting the very best secondary education math teachers.
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The world may not quite be ready for "Hung" in 3D, the HBO series' star Thomas Jane has become a major champion of the film format – as long as they're done right.
Jane – who made his directorial debut with the 3D thriller "Dark Country" in 2009 – is serving the official host of the second annual 3D Film & Music Festival in Los Angeles, which celebrates multidimensional moviemaking from Sept. 22-25 by screening major studio efforts ("A Dolphin's Tale," "Green Lantern" and "Kung Fu Panda 2") alongside short, indie and experimental cinema.
"The first festival was a big success, and I really believe in 3D as a viable emotive, artistic form of expressions," Jane tells PopcornBiz. "But I'm disheartened by the amount of 2D-to-3D conversions that the studios are using to bastardize 3D. It really cuts into the audience's appreciation of 3D, and there are a lot of 3D haters out there. I think they would be 3D lovers if they experienced 3D in the right way. So 3D Film Festival aims to bring true 3D products and an awareness to people who are interested in such a thing."
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"We really bring together so much," Jane continues. "We've got family films, we've got 3D films out of China this year, we've got 3D films out of Korea – but these are all 'native' 3D that really turn people on to the spectacle and the beauty and the awe inspiring images that you get to experience in a true 3D film. There are panels that we have for the professional this year where we talk about 3D production: there's a 3D film advertising panel, a 3D independent film panel, the Future of 3D panel where we talk about where 3D has been and where we think it's going and what the dangers are and all of that."
Jane says he thinks the future of the 3D format is both thrilling and inevitable. "Ultimately, I think we're moving into a glasses-less world where we watch 3D without glasses," he predicts. "That's true all ready on your smaller screens, on your phone or your camera, but that's coming for your flat screen TV in the house. So the 3D Film Festival is a way of promoting the growth and the evolution of 3D in the marketplace. By promoting true 3D we hope to turn people on to the fact that there is a difference between 3D conversions that the studios pump out just to capitalize on the trend of 3D films, and the real native 3D that really looks fantastic."
The actor traces his interest in the format back to his formative years in the 1980s. "When I was a kid there was a very short wave of 3D films and one of them was 'Coming At You,'" he recalls. "It was a cheesy film, but the 3D FX were actually really good in the theater that I saw it in. Then they did 3D science fiction films in the '80's, too, which I loved, and they did 'Jaws 3D' – not the greatest movies, but the 3D FX were actually really solid, really good, at least the experience that I had. I've heard that they didn't play so well in some theaters, but I guess I got lucky and saw some really good 3D when I was a kid."
It's no surprise, then, that Jane's looking to get a second 3D directorial effort off the ground. "I've just written a western and I'd love to shoot in 3D," he reveals. "I don't know if it will be possible, but everything that I work on I want to shoot in 3D because I believe in the future of 3D. I believe that when I'm an old man every movie theater in the country will be in 3D, and it'll be perfectly crystal clear, glasses-less 3D on a giant movie screen. The movies that will play best were the movies that were shot in actual 3D. So I'd like to be in a second run art house movie theater like the New Beverly Cinema and watch my movies in 3D. I think I'd get a big kick out of that."