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I will say it up front: the following is not an attempt at a persuasive article. I don't think you could get somebody to enjoy Captain EO who is not inclined to enjoy it with any amount of persuasion. Furthermore, I've never heard of anybody's opinion being totally changed by an article on the Internet, so I'm not here to convince you why I like Captain EO. I'm not even sure I could convince myself why I like Captain EO. So why bother writing about it? Because I'm nothing if not a sucker for Quixotian quests, and trying to write an article about the value of something so obviously commercial and ill-advised is my idea of a fun writing assignment.
Since the return of Captain EO in 2010, I've seen the film dozens of times at both Epcot and Disneyland, and if Disney allows me, I'm going to see it dozens of times more. I am always ready for more space-opera hijinx with Jackson, Hooter, Fuzzball, and whatever the other puppet characters are called. I wrote a super gushy review of it in 2010, and I still stand by that review, untold numbers of screenings later. But now I think I'm ready to put some meat on those bones I wrote three years ago, and perhaps make up for my own apparent lack of critical distance on this subject. How could I possibly enjoy something so obviously lousy, and so much?
There's a term for that reaction, and it's called "Guilty Pleasure". I feel no guilt about my love of Captain EO. Yet conversely, I do not regard the film to be camp. The film is simply too dogged in its pursuit of some kind of emotional response for me to turn it off the doorstep by laughing at it. I don't consider myself to be better than Captain EO, which is the essential attitude required to find "camp" enjoyment in unintentional comedy. There's something in the film that's better than the sum of its parts which dazzles me.
Last year, I had the pleasure of hosting a good friend of mine at Disneyland - he had never set foot in a Disney theme park before. This was a fascinating opportunity to get a fresh reaction to each attraction, and we did all of the classics. I offered no descriptive comment on each ride beforehand, nothing to set any of his expectations - he didn't even know if we were boarding a ride or theater show. At the end of the day he requested to see only two attractions over again: Pirates of the Caribbean and Captain EO.
I'm fascinated by this.
To suggest that the two are remotely comparable is laughable, but the very same person who shrugged off the Tiki Room with a deadpan "I didn't expect that" and Storybookland with a confused "Why is this here?" could not get enough of Captain EO. This, to me, was at least justification that my enjoyment of the show was more than just reheated nostalgia and the second-hand cloud of opium buzz that seems to settle over each theater it plays in. Does a film have to be good to be of value?
|"Flock of Seagulls Guy" never fails to get a laugh.
To set up my article I'm going to embark on, as is typical for me, a long winded digression. But, hey, it's my blog, right? In this case I'm finding my explanatory analogue in the unlikely source of the 1935 Warner Brothers film of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The scene in question comes near the end of this marathon-length filmed version, and represents Act 5 of Shakespeare's play - "The Tedious, Brief Scene of Pyramus and Thisbe". Those who have seen the film or read the play will recall that this scene acts as a self-contained self-parody of the proceeding four acts, as the craftsmen of Athens perform a tragic play for their royals and fail abysmally.
Coming at the end of Shakespeare's play, Pyramus and Thisbe comically inverts Midsummer Night's Dream, so that the nature spirits Oberon and Titania do not interfere with the romantic triangle in the mortal realm and the romances play out to an inevitable tragic conclusion.
Warner Brothers' Act 5 brings down the house - for Americans. It's the only part of the film that actually seems to come to life instead of just sitting there on the screen. Coming at the end of a film which is over two hours of actors stiffly posed before beautiful, expensive backdrops, the film finally breathes and flows. Despite the language, the Warner "Mechanicals" actually know how to eke a joke out of comedy that's hundreds of years old. Whether or not they perform exactly as Shakespeare intended, the result is a revelation.
Yet the sequence, as shown in the film, is gaudy, ill-conceived, awkwardly paced, and just plain weird, with Joe E. Brown stomping around in drag slapping the scenery like a refugee from a John Waters film. Cagney devours the scenery and the movie screen even when all he's doing is kicking his legs. The entire sequence is in atrocious taste, and it works perfectly.
In other words, the scene succeeds by daring to fail. By daring to depart from the tone of Shakespeare's text but not its' letter, the 1935 Midsummer Night's Dream depicts working class heroes attempting to stage high art and failing by allowing working class heroes to attempt high art and fail. It's the perfect summary of not only the folly of the enterprise of attempting a Hollywood Midsummer Night's Dream, but by extension the entire Hollywood Studio System in the 30s, an unintentional effacing self-portrait. The pleasure of the scene resides not only in what it provides, but in the context of what it provides.
How were these many terrible decisions made? Let me count the ways:
Lets start with the Granddaddy of all bad choices here, and as is usually the case in these situations, Michael Eisner is at the root of it. Eisner, on that very selfsame legendary trip to Flower Street in which Star Tours and Splash Mountain were approved, asked how long it would take to get the attractions open. Tony Baxter began to give ballpark estimates of three to five years. Eisner, who was accustomed to overseeing movie and TV production, was aghast. His solution was to green light a movie, and immediately.
In order to accommodate this, Magic Journeys at EPCOT Center would be vacated a mere four years after it opened. The seats were still warm from tourist butts when EO took over. As far as I know, this was and still is unprecedented - Magic Journeys was in no way an unpopular or poorly attended show, and Walt Disney World certainly saw fit to capitalize on their 1982 investment by installing Magic Journeys in Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom, where it ran for another seven years. At Disneyland, Magic Journeys was being shown at night in the amphitheater in front of Space Mountain... the theater would now be enclosed, rather perfunctorily, to accommodate Captain EO. When you consider that both of these decisions were made in an era when Disney was still largely building specification buildings to house new attractions and would today come under immediate Internet fire, it becomes apparent how quickly and poorly thought-out the decision to make Captain EO was.
|We'll just leave this here. (Al Huffman)
Granted, in 1984 it made a lot more sense than it does today. Lucas had just finished his initial wave of Star Wars films and generally had made more money than King Midas. In late 1983, Michael Jackson's Thriller, his fourteen-minute musical short film directed by John Landis, was changing the way the entertainment industry thought about how they could package and sell their products. Thriller was merely another hit single on a record selling a million copies a week. The "music video" was a fourteen minute stand-alone entertainment experience directed by a filmmaker coming off a string of box office successes. Rotations of the video plus the hour-long accompanying documentary put MTV and Showtime on the map. A video release of the documentary plus the short film itself finally brought a little format called VHS into homes around the country and helped put the final nails in the coffin of Betamax. Thriller was unprecedented in terms of scale, ambition, and effect, and then as now what works in Hollywood will be repeated ad nauseum.
Then there's the pairing of the supposedly unbeatable trio of George Lucas, Michael Jackson, and Francis Ford Coppola - the true rag-tag band, despite what the opening narration may say. Although Jackson throughout his body of work expressed interest in a vast array of cinema styles, by the mid-80s Lucas had settled into the comfortable role of producer, pulling together talent and overseeing the creative components of a project without actually assuming the directing duties himself. Jackson tended to put a lot of himself into his videos, his music, and his concerts while Lucas was by now accustomed to dropping teddy bears into cinemas to promote forthcoming TV specials and plush. Lucas, Jackson and Eisner are the guiding creative visions behind Captain EO and the film is perched on a razor's edge between Jackson's sincerity and the Lucasfilm whimsy-profit machine.
Coppola is marooned by his material. His only film that is anything close to a special-effects fantasy is Bram Stoker's Dracula, which would not be made for another six years and features not ILM rubber creatures and miniatures but intentionally weird and retrograde effects. Coppola brought his closest allies - cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and editor Walter Murch - along for the ride and collectively these men manage to make the best of material where they labor under the duelling obsessions of Jackson and Lucas while tugging along millions of dollars of sets and effects. It's a thankless job and perhaps most remarkable in that the contributions of Coppola, Murch and Storaro are not buried underneath the torpid bulk of the film.
Let me repeat that -Vittorio Storaro and Walter Murch, probably the most revered cinematographer and editor-sound designer currently living, made Captain EO. Their contributions, along with Coppola, and perfectly judged even while the film itself struggles towards relevance, and it's always fun to see what superior filmmakers can do with inferior material. It's the eternal myth of spinning dross into gold. Others would say it's lipstick on a pig. Either way, while you can't exactly say any of them "save" the film, they do make Captain EO the theme park 3D film with the most impeccable credentials in history - a combination only a Paramount TV executive could love.
But none of this really conveys what it's actually like to watch Captain EO, which is somehow even more bizarre than any description can suggest. Michael Jackson plays a pixieish space commander who combines the powers of The Music Man and Bugs Bunny. He possesses rainbow powers that seem to emanate from his light-up t-shirt which mainly seem to involve jumpsuits, choreographed dancing, and Greco-Roman architecture.
That's the part of the film that's played straight.
|Hurry up and fix it, Hooter!
For a short film which cost as much as a moderate budget feature film at the time (it cost nearly as much as Lucas' Howard the Duck), much of Captain EO is surprisingly sloppy. At least a third of the shots in the film required nothing from Coppola as they were obviously storyboarded, shot, and composited by Industrial Light and Magic well after the fact. Of the remaining material, the film is weirdly littered with gaps and continuity errors - especially in the opening ship battle, EO's puppet friends jump around the cabin from one shot to another almost as if Coppola were improvising from one shot to the next. Fuzzball sits in a hammock in Hooter's bunk a mere single shot after he's shown fluttering to his command post. After the ship crashes, Hooter appears to hang from the ceiling in some shots and stand at attention at others. I'm not trying to nitpick, but this short film had a bigger budget than most features - it cost over a million dollars per minute - and nobody seems to have been paying attention to some minor details that even cheap movies get right. There was almost certainly what was then still called a "Script Girl" to take note of blocking and coverage.
Once out of the ILM space battle, Coppola asserts himself more strongly, showing a greater willingness to work in and around Jackson's choreography and displaying a nice range of coverage of the big dance number which allows Murch to very nicely build the second half to three different climaxes. The two best shots in the film stage the action very simply in a center-stage proscenium arch, greatly enhancing the pleasing effect of the 3D. The film, in wide screen and 70mm, looks a great deal more carefully crafted and professional than the MTV full-frame bootlegs had made it appear.
Elsewhere, the 3D effect is used rather unimaginatively, to poke us in the eye with sticks or have Jackson punch and kick the camera. Only one shot in the film seems to demand the process, which is the opening one, with a spinning galaxy and an asteroid that sails out into the audience's lap and explodes. It's a remarkably memorable effect, but EO uses its best reason to be in 3D in it's first minute of screen time. Some of the other good effects, such as sailing up through tree branches, simply repeat imagery from Magic Journeys.
Those movies that are usually considered "The Worst" - Plan Nine From Outer Space, Manos: Hands of Fate, Troll 2 - those aren't really the bad movies. They're certainly strange and uncomfortably incompetent, but they're also compulsively watchable because they venture so far outside our realm of comfort. The truly bad movies aren't watched because they're not watchable, flailing around through mediocre cookie-cutter plots and uninspired direction to reach predictable conclusions and submerge without a trace. A truly heinous film wouldn't even be fun in the "laugh-at-the-bad-effects" way popularized by Mystery Science Theater 3000 - it wouldn't even get released. If you did see it, you'd forget it by the time the end credits came up. I've seen lots of "consensus bad" movies and generally they had something in them that encouraged me to keep watching, even if out of mere fascination or frustration.
I say this as a longtime lover of Mystery Science Theater 3000, but most of the movies shown there were at least unique or even possibly good (their final episode, Danger: Diabolik, is a brilliant movie). Anybody who's ever sat through Manos: Hands of Fate carries with them scenes and sensations not found in other films, and thus Manos succeeds - indirectly - where many films fail - it sticks with you. The creepy atmosphere, the weird acting, the music - all highly memorable. Does anybody out there remember anything specific from Superman Returns?
This is because film making requires so many people and so much money that there is no sure fire formula to success: it's less like science and more like alchemy. If Hollywood knew how to make every film be a Casablanca, we'd have a lot more of them in the world. Some films fall short, most fall in the middle, and some go shooting off into some weird parallel dimension: flukes of the system, entropy.
What do we call these movies? Cult Movies?
I place Captain EO in this tradition. I've already mentioned Robert Altman's Popeye and I think that's still a fair comparison: Popeye gets so many things wrong in so many ways that it alchemizes it's own unlikely entertainment value. While years of availability of Popeye on cable TV and home video have restored some sort of legitimacy to a project that very nearly ended the careers of everyone involved, EO has largely not undergone the same sort of reappraisal. Where EO certainly doesn't belong is in the company of films like Robot Monster and Beast of Yucca Flats, the "so-bad-it's-good" category. I would place it alongside things like Last Action Hero and Hudson Hawk: movies that may not be great but which offer their own loopy charm.
One film which may be closer to home for Disney fans is Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy, which by simply existing seems to be an act of subversion. Who would cast multi-million dollar actors then put them in makeup which makes them unrecognizable? Who would get Stephen Sondheim to write songs which are barely audible? Who would decide to make a film with only seven identical colors? The answer, of course, is the apparently unstoppable Beatty and the cinematographer of Captain EO. Dick Tracy isn't exactly good, but it's never boring.
Who is Captain EO? He's a pixieish man from another planet who dances and wants to save the universe with music played by an almost imperceptibly different pixieish man from another planet who dances and wants to save the universe with his music. EO is the ultimate Jackson role because it seems to compile and synthesize the Jackson cultural myth into a fictional character.
The effect is that Captain EO presents us with a world which is disarmingly honest even while it revels in total outlandishness. In our modern era we have no defense mechanism against this: even while we see through the commercial motives EO is engineered to evoke, we can't reconcile the completely straightforward seriousness with which it treats itself, and we laugh. But it's hard to actually say that EO is kitsch or camp: Jackson seems to so completely believe in his music and his performance that it seems impolite to not take him seriously.
The scale to which one finds success or failure in Captain EO is directly proportionate to the level of investment one is willing to have in something so obviously silly. And EO is silly, outrageously so, but the silliness is disarming and prepares us for some genuinely thrilling moments further down the line. I discussed the larger generational attitudes that feed into this in You Do Have Wings, Orange Bird and they are relevant here too: metamodernism invites us to take Jackson seriously precisely because common sense and cultural conditioning today encourages us not to. If Captain EO works for you, the effect of the film is strangely, sadly moving. Through the sea of Lucas kitsch and Disney nonsense, something genuine and strange peers out at us. EO triumphs over itself.
Captain EO records 1986 extremely accurately as a cultural moment without ever having to show us the Challenger disintegrating, Ronald Regan and Iran-Contra, without ever mentioning Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee and Ferris Beuller's Day Off, and without ever showing us a leg warmer or a Madonna cassette. Because of this, as our own contemporary life has changed, the meaning of EO has changed with it. We now know that the puppet sidekicks of EO is the creative direction Lucas would pursue, eventually bringing us to the Star Wars prequels and defacing the reputation of his great creation. We know that Coppola's amazing accomplishments in the 70s would continue to haunt his declining influence and we know that ILM and Hollywood would shortly abandon the look and feel of these special effects and miniatures in favor of hollow-looking CGI. Depicting Jackson at the height of his success and power, Captain EO has the ability to rewrite history, allowing him to save the planet and sail off into the universe in a trail of rainbow light instead of succumbing to his personal demons and living the rest of his life as a tabloid mystery locked away in his own private Disneyland. Only through a creation like Captain EO can Jackson receive the "happy ending" such a sad life desperately needed. As a popular culture icon in a pop culture creation, Jackson's exit in EO is the way we can remember him for posterity. Here cracks a noble heart.
And even if that doesn't make it a good film or excuse its many failings, it does add to its unique, one-off flavor. Whether you love or hate the film, you have to admit that the mold it popped out of is now broken. They literally do not make them them like this anymore. I believe by by nature of its origin, creation, and execution, Captain EO is both culturally and aesthetically significant, and that once it ends its run inside the theme parks I hope that it becomes available on video for posterity if nothing else. EO seems to reside in that weird limbo area that Hunter Thompson called "one of God's own prototypes - some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production."
It's a disaster of a movie. And every last, blessed frame of it is a vast, bizarre delight. I love it.


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Cron's debut helps Richards earn win over Rangers
ANAHEIM -- C.J. Cron's day began at 9:45 a.m. PT, when his flight from Salt Lake City International Airport touched down in Orange County. He took a cab to his temporary room at the nearby DoubleTree hotel, took a 90-minute nap, got up, and headed toward Angel Stadium for what would be his first day on a Major League roster.
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ANAHEIM -- C.J. Cron's day began at 9:45 a.m. PT, when his flight from Salt Lake City International Airport touched down in Orange County. He took a cab to his temporary room at the nearby DoubleTree hotel, took a 90-minute nap, got up, and headed toward Angel Stadium for what would be his first day on a Major League roster.
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It was a little after noon, for a 6:05 p.m. first pitch, and not a soul was present in the Angels' clubhouse.
"I didn't know what was going on, honestly, so I wanted to get here on time," Cron said. "I wanted to play it safe."
A couple hours later, Cron found out he'd bat fifth against Rangers lefty Matt Harrison. Ninety minutes before game time, he switched from designated hitter to first base, because Albert Pujols was feeling some tightness around his hamstrings. And by the end of it all, the 24-year-old slugger was the hero, his three hits and two RBIs pacing the Angels in a 5-3 victory.
"Every baseball player's dream is to be on this stage," Cron said after his 3-for-5 night, "and just being able to help the team win is an awesome feeling."
The first Major League pitch Cron saw went for a first-inning RBI single. The fifth went for a double to right-center field, on a ball he lined near the fence and bounced off center fielder Leonys Martin's glove. The 11th went for a broken-bat flare into shallow left field, plating what turned out to be the winning run with two outs in the sixth.
"He ambushed me swinging at the first pitch," Harrison said. "I guess he was excited. He looks like a good hitter."
"People have harped on our farm system, but from what I've seen in Spring Training and down on the farm, we have quality arms, we have some guys who can swing the bat, and we've got great defenders down there, too," Angels starter Garrett Richards said, in reference to a system that's been ranked 30th by Baseball America two years in a row. "I wouldn't read too much into whatever anybody's saying about our farm system."
Three of the Angels' starters in the second of a three-game series were all in Triple-A two days earlier.
Cron became the fourth player in franchise history -- and first since Kendrys Morales in 2006 -- to compile three hits in his Major League debut, eventually given the green light on 3-0 pitch in the eighth inning (though he fouled off Alexi Ogando's fastball).
Grant Green, called up on Friday, went 2-for-4 at the plate, made his first Major League start in left field and made a key catch to start the seventh inning, leaping up against the fence to take away a double from Adrian Beltre.
And Luis Jimenez -- called up alongside Cron as David Freese went to the disabled list and J.B. Shuck got optioned to Triple-A -- turned a 5-4-3 double play to end the game, snapping the Angels' six-game losing streak to the Rangers dating back to last season.
"These kids came up and didn't miss a beat," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said.
The Angels compiled 14 hits -- four by Howie Kendrick, three apiece by Cron and Collin Cowgill, two by Green and one RBI single from Pujols -- and Richards pitched six innings of three-run ball and struck out a career-high nine batters, moving to 3-0 with a 2.84 ERA through his first six starts of the season.
But Scioscia was most encouraged by the bullpen, with Fernando Salas, Ernesto Frieri and Joe Smith facing the minimum through three scoreless innings after Richards departed.
Frieri pitched in a setup role, signaling his first high-leverage inning since being demoted from the closer's role eight days ago. He started with three straight balls to Mitch Moreland, then came back to strike him out with a high fastball, got Donnie Murphy swinging on a slider, and induced a popup from Robinson Chirinos.
"It feels really nice to go out there and compete, knowing you're going to help the team win the game," said Frieri, who had three scoreless outings in low-leverage situations after being demoted. "But the manager and the pitching coach, they know that I'll do whatever, man. I'll pitch in any situation. I just have to do my thing, no matter what situation."
Cron did his thing, better than even he could've imagined.
His father, Chris, played in the Angels' farm system for five years, starting in 1987, and appeared in six games for them in 1991. C.J. was born right around that time, in Fullerton, Calif., about a 10-minute drive from Angel Stadium.
Twenty years later, he was drafted by the Angels in the first round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft. Then he showcased his ability with a 1.167 OPS in the Arizona Fall League last year, batted .292 in 12 Spring Training games in 2013, posted a .319/.369/.602 slash line in his first 28 games in Salt Lake, got called up -- mainly to serve as a right-handed-hitting option at DH -- and kept right on hitting.
"It's awesome," said Cron, who had about 20 friends in the stands. "My dad was drafted, played with the Angels, so just kind of following in his footsteps and being able to play for this city -- I was born right here in Fullerton. I had a bunch of family out here tonight, and it's just an awesome feeling."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez.

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Looking Up, Looking Down
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Remote Sensing, Image Analysis, and Data Visualisation
The AAO is leading a workshop to be held at the AAO on 17-18 September that will bring together presenters spanning a very broad cross-section of the Australian community, from astronomy to medical imaging, geosciences, archaeology, history, mining, forestry, marine science, and more!
We anticipate that all participants will consider and discuss how the various approaches to imaging, image-analysis, and data visualisation cross the boundaries between disciplines, and the extent to which techniques from one field might be revolutionary in the way they can be applied in others.
Organising Committee and Contacts
Kyler Kuehn (Chair) - firstname.lastname@example.com
Caroline Foster
Andrew Hopkins
Nuria P.F. Lorente
Millicent Maier
List of participants
James Allen (University of Sydney)
Janet Anstee (CSIRO)
Eric Ashcroft (American Assocation for the Advancement of Science)
Michael Ashley (University of New South Wales)
Mark Berman (CSIRO)
Michael Birchall (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
David Clarke (University of Western Sydney)
Victoria Coleman (National Measurement Institute)
Phil Connor (CSIRO)
Robert Content (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Scott Croom (University of Sydney)
Peter Edwell (Macquarie University)
Scott Findlay (Monash University)
Roland Fletcher (University of Sydney)
Andreas Fouras (Monash University)
Caroline Foster-Guanzon (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Ariell Friedman (University of Sydney)
Graham Galloway (University of Queensland)
Andy Green (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Jan Herrmann (National Measurement Institute)
John Hildebrandt (Amazon Web Services)
Andrew Hopkins (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Andrew Howard (Australian National University)
Samantha Jones (Macquarie University)
Vicki Keast (University of Newcastle)
Duncan Keenan-Jones (University of Sydney and Macquarie University)
Amy Kimball (CSIRO)
Iraklis Konstantopoulos (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Baerbel Koribalski (CSIRO)
Kyler Kuehn (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Ian Lau (CSIRO)
Ian Littler (National Measurement Institute)
Nuria P.F. Lorente (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Peter Mason (CSIRO)
Vanessa Moss (CAASTRO/University of Sydney)
Melissa Quigley (CSIRO)
Will Ryder (University of Sydney)
Ken Sheedy (Macquarie University)
Keith Shortridge (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Geoff Sims (University of New South Wales)
Richard Weinberg (University of Southern California)
Lew Whitbourn (CSIRO)
Matthew Whiting (CSIRO)
Workshop Program
Wednesday 17/9 9:20 AM: Welcome (Kyler Kuehn & Andrew Hopkins, Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Session I (Chair: Andrew Hopkins)
9:30 AM Presentation 1 - Optical and Infrared Astronomy (James Allen, University of Sydney) 10:15 AM: Presentation 2 - Digital Cinema Microscopy (Richard Weinberg, University of Southern California) * remote presentation
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Session II (Chair: Caroline Foster-Guanzon) 11:30 AM Presentation 3 - Seeing Angkor - the Role of Remote Sensing (Roland Fletcher, University of Sydney) 12:15 PM Presentation 4 - What are our images telling us? Lessons learnt from the lungs (Andreas Fouras, Monash University)
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Session III (Chair: Roland Fletcher)
2:00 PM Presentation 5 - Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging (Mark Berman, CSIRO)
2:45 PM Presentation 6 - Imaging and Spectroscopy in Electron Microscopy (Vicki Keast, University of Newcastle)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Session IV (Chair: Kyler Kuehn)
4:00 PM Presentation 7 - Aquatic Remote Sensing Applications (Janet Anstee, CSIRO)
4:45 PM Discussion of Day 1 Presentations
Thursday 18/9
Session V (Chair: Kyler Kuehn)
9:30 AM Presentation 8 - Using Remote Sensing for Human Rights Documentation (Eric Ashcroft, American Assocation for the Advancement of Science) * remote presentation
10:15 AM: Presentation 9 - Physical Metrology (Ian Littler, National Measurement Institute)
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Session VI (Chair: Andy Green)
11:30 AM: Presentation 10 - Source Finding for Radio Astronomy (Matthew Whiting, CSIRO)
12:15 PM Presentation 11 - Nondestructive 3D Exploration of Archaeological Artifacts (Samantha Jones, Macquarie University)
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Session VII (Chair: Nuria P.F. Lorente)
2:00 PM Presentation 12 - Remote Sensing in Antarctica (Michael Ashley, UNSW)
2:45 PM Presentation 13 - Image Science and Amazon Web Services (John Hildebrandt, Amazon Web Services)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Session VIII (Chair: Andrew Hopkins) 4:00 PM Presentation 14 - Biomedical Imaging: Research & Clinical Applications (Graham Galloway, University of Queensland) 4:45 PM Closing Discussion


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Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are sure they'd be major studs with all the hotties in Providence if not for being, you know, married. So their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate), tired of their guys leering at other women, give them a chance to put their bodies where their eyes are: A "hall pass" granting one week off of marriage.
The buzz: Directors/co-writers Peter and Bobby Farrelly's last movie, 2007's terrible "The Heartbreak Kid," was a long way from the raunchy success of "There's Something About Mary." The filmmakers always have been softies, though (see the underrated "Fever Pitch" and "Stuck On You"), so maybe they'll take a surprisingly honest look at marriage in "Hall Pass," which has plenty (but not enough) in common with Katie Aselton's excellent recent indie "The Freebie."
The verdict: Talk about trying to have your cake and have sex with it, too. The Farellys retreat from the hall pass notion almost immediately, giving the guys far more doubts than stamina on their way to not trying very hard to close the deal. Yet this is still a sometimes misogynistic gross-out comedy, which leads to predictably unfunny bits about pooping on a golf course or bringing home a woman who does something so disgusting you don't even want to hook up. It's a shame that "Hall Pass" doesn't take sharper comic and dramatic aim at the twisted joke it occasionally recognizes: These guys' imaginations have nothing to do with reality, and they view the opportunity to act on a fantasy as terrifying, not awesome. The movie instead goes soft and strips difficult emotions from a complicated situation to suggest that men may be sex-obsessed perverts, but deep-down everyone prefers domestic love. True or not, that's a cop out.
Did you know? Fred claims the reason he was on a porn Web site (whose name we can't print here) is because that's where he gets his weather updates. Don't even act like a dirty joke didn't just pop into your head.


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First it was Elisabeth Hasselbeck's time to say farewell, and now it's Joy Behar's. The discussion table on "The View" is starting to get sparse.
On Thursday, ABC announced her final day on "The View" would be Aug. 9. Behar's departure has long been planned, but she had not yet set an actual final date.
The special episode, titled "This Was Your Life on 'The View' Joy Behar," will be hosted by comedian Mario Cantone and feature a look back at Behar's most memorable moments from her 16 years on the show, including the time she stormed off the set after arguing with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
Other Behar friends making personal appearances on the show include "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Susie Essman, Regis Philbin, former "View" moderator Meredith Viera, Joan Rivers, Alan Alda and Tony Bennett.


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I will ask again, will the government now consider for the next report, an independent assessment on human rights in Colombia?


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I don't like Messier, but I will admit something. After the '94 run and Rick Ley took over the team, I would argue that the Canucks got 'comfortable'. The long-time players didn't have that 'hunger' after the Cup final and it showed in the standings and in the team's performance. Despite pretty talented players, the Canucks did very little after '94 and both Ley and Renney struggled getting the team to wake up. Keenan came in and realized the team had some issues and then did his 'shock and awe' thing.Soapy wrote:I hate Messier for his help in dismantling the Canucks. He broke up a fun team to watch in a short period of time. Mogilny on the other hand...I liked him for the most part. He was a floater at the end of his time here but he was surrounded with anvils. He just needed a top line center. His 55 G year he was with Ronning. Then the Canucks dumped Ronning & the G's for Molginy dropped. Strange times were about to happen to the 96-00 Canucks !
Messier came to the team and probably saw a few things about the team he didn't like, which people tend to forget.
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Millions of parents lose sleep over their concerns for their kids. It's always been so, yet America's recent economic cycles have compounded concerns and confounded parents who want to nudge their kids in a good direction. Long-term double digit unemployment is a financial plague and extending the antithesis of financial independence: adult kids living at home with their parents. Whether "kids" are Millennial, Gen X, Gen Y or other such post Baby Boomer classification, they are at a perplexing cross-road of long dependency and tremendous opportunity.
America is staring at massive transitions as millions of aging elders relinquish many of their responsibilities of the past, either purposely or due to the forces of nature. There is significant opportunity for younger generations to step up to accept the torch of responsibility in corporations, communities and families. Generally, they're not prepared, as America bypassed financial education and life skills training over the past four decades during its unparalleled economic expansion. Now, with two significant economic contractions over the past ten years, young Americans are playing catch-up to enable them to survive and position themselves for a decent long-term lifestyle, at a time of radical social and economic change. Can they do it?
The simple answer is "absolutely" - and let's give credit where credit is due. While there are many storms on the horizon, our younger generations have developed adaptive skills, technology skills and collaborative skills, which have become essential in rapidly changing work, social and economic environments. Many of our country's greatest inventions and success stories were born from difficulty as young minds struggled through tough times. How do many break through to success, when others languish on the slow road to nowhere?
- Self-sufficiency trumps spoon-feeding. A hallmark of our times is to dote on our youth, yet they'll fail to develop skills given the handouts they expect. Interestingly, the same concept applies to the corporate environment, as many of our best ideas and improvements come from hungry youthful eyes, left to wander a bit and "bump into" opportunities. Micro-managed or coddled employees fail to rise to their true potential when they are held back or artificially promoted. The human mind and its psyche are immensely powerful, when allowed to process complex variables in a natural way, particularly when working through struggles and failures.
- Motivation springs from a need and the sense that one can make a difference, rather than an inspirational presentation or lecture. As increasing media and social influence dilute the ability to precisely guide their flock, elders are best to accept this lack of control rather than battle it. To point, we need our next generation to be more adaptive, given an unthinkable pace of change that shows no sign of slowing down. Young adults saddled with the last generation's intellectual equipment are woefully unprepared to survive, let alone lead their families, communities and companies into the great unknown. Parents and leaders who relish youths' differences can learn from their experiences and grow right along with them. Such an approach provides encouragement and acceptance, which thrills and motivates. Such motivation will carry young adults through the tough times and help them prepare for the great promise on the horizon.
- Financial competency is a successful ingredient, which is sorely lacking in America. This threatens personal financial independence and stresses our nation's solvency. I encourage young Americans to take classes, read books and implement the fundamentals of money, catching up on this life essential. They can avoid the missteps of prior generations if they embrace the guiding principles of financial success:
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Elders often mischaracterize the next generation, as their lifestyles, vocabularies and attitudes create a perception gap. Gaps are natural with each generational transition, as younger people strive for distinction, while dealing with variables, which did not exist when they were born. People in their twenties and thirties will amaze us, if we let them. Embracing differences, while continuing to encourage fundamentals, is the key to family and corporate harmony and the ultimate facilitation of inter-generational success.
Paul Nourigat is a leading national consultant, advising thousands of families and corporate leaders regarding their financial management, family financial dynamics, and company succession planning. Nourigat is the author of nine financial success books for kids, teens and young adults; his newest, No Time To Wander: the financial compass for young Americans, speaks to adults in their twenties and thirties who want to accelerate their financial freedom.


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The new version of a compact for a proposed tribal casino in Taunton was still under review as of press time Thursday, according to a spokesperson from the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs' office.
The new version of a compact for a proposed tribal casino in Taunton was still under review as of press time Thursday, according to a spokesperson from the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs' office.
The compact, which was signed by Gov. Deval Patrick and Mashpee Wampanoag tribal chairman Cedric Cromwell, specifies the terms of operation for a proposed tribal casino in Taunton. The document includes a revenue sharing structure, calling for the tribe to make payments to the state in lieu of taxes — unless a commercial casino is allowed to open in southeastern Massachusetts.
Thursday was the last day of the statutory review period of the compact. Any compact that is not affirmatively approved or rejected within the review period is deemed approved to the extent that it complies with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, according to information provided by a government source familiar with the process.
Under the revenue-sharing agreement detailed in the compact, the Mashpee would pay the state 21 percent of casino revenue if there are no commercial casinos anywhere in Massachusetts, or 17 percent if the proposed tribal casino is the only gambling facility in southeastern Massachusetts. The state's share would drop to 15 percent if a slots parlor opens in the region.
If another casino opens in southeastern Massachusetts, the state would collect nothing from the proposed tribal casino.
Last year, the Department of the Interior rejected a previous version of the compact, saying the concessions the state made to the tribe did not justify a significant revenue share. The department also took issue with the state's attempt to use concessions unrelated to gambling, such as tribal fishing rights, as leverage in the first compact.
The new compact, according to state and tribal officials, was negotiated with assistance from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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chriskresser necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
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I practice what I call "21st century medicine". It's based on 7 principles:
1. Personalized. Treats the patient not the disease. Recognizes the biological uniqueness of each person and avoids cookie-cutter approaches.
2. Investigative. Addresses the underlying cause of disease (rather than just suppressing symptoms) so that lasting healing can occur.
3. Functional. Tests and treatments designed to promote optimal health and function, not just manage disease.
4. Preventative. Focused on preventing disease before it occurs.
5. Integrative. Views the body as an interconnected whole, and incorporates the best of both modern and traditional medicine.
6. Evidence-based. Tests and treatment are laboratory-guided and based on cutting-edge medical research.
7. Participatory. Educates and empowers patient to play active role in the healing process.
I'm launching a private practice in Berkeley, CA as well as an internet-based, long-distance consulting practice serving a national and international clientele.
My passion is helping those who haven't been able to find help anywhere else. I have an analytical mind and a knack for getting to the bottom of complex, difficult-to-treat conditions. I love to learn and my treatment protocols are constantly evolving to reflect the latest research.
- Well-educated about health and wellness.
- Motivated to play active role in maintaining health and well-being.
- Open to holistic medicine and willing to learn about their condition.
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- Can afford the services I provide.
- Primarily women aged 25-65, but will include men and women of all ages.
- Local (SF Bay Area), national and international (primarily U.K., Australia & Western Europe) clientele.
- Somewhat tech-savvy.
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1) Business card. Will be printed at 4by6.com on 2x3.5" cards WITH ROUNDED CORNERS and DOUBLE SIDED. Please follow the instructions here (http://4by6.com/download) for Photoshop and use the templates I have included in the attached files (BC.back.horiz.psd, BC.front.horiz.psd, etc.)
2) Stationary. 8.5x11" letter sheet, #10 size standard envelopes and return address labels.
- I am a sole proprietor. Nobody else works at my company. So you can just use my logo (which already includes my name) and the contact details.
3) Contact details (for cards and stationary) should only include: A) Phone (no fax), B) email: firstname.lastname@example.com, B) address: 2414 Ashby Ave, Suite 201, Berkeley, CA 94705, C) website: chriskresser.com, D) blog: thehealthyskeptic.org
- I often prefer vertical orientation for business cards, but either horizontal or vertical would be fine - depending on the design.
- I prefer clean, minimalist design. It should reflect the 21st century principles described above, but also be bright, warm, inviting and relaxing. Avoid high-tech, "spa" and "flowery" or overly feminine looks.
- Colors: as you can see from the logo, I especially like combinations of brown and orange/umber, but feel free to experiment.
PLEASE NOTE: For the business card and the stationary, I would like TWO versions of each:
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The Private School Primer
What makes a high school right for your young student? Great academics? A moral foundation? Terrific arts? Competitive athletics? Here are the traits that distinguish each from the other.
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With 10 to 15 students per class, Aquinas Academy offers personalized instruction that adapts the curriculum to the child's strengths and needs. The school uses the St. John Bosco educational method, which recognizes that "students are children of God with infinite value" and emphasizes character formation in the way teachers interact with students, says vice principal Marie Redfield. This year, Aquinas expanded both its Aquinas Scholars honors seminar program and its Emmaus program, which provides extra support to students with language-based learning differences.
Archmere Academy
Vice President Joe Biden might be Archmere's most famous alumnus, but Archmere is looking to another to lead the school into the future when Michael Marinelli, class of 1976, takes over next school year as the school's first non-Norbertine headmaster. Archmere bills itself as a "big small school" that offers lots of extracurricular variety along with individualized attention and an informal, intimate atmosphere in class discussions. And while the academic bar is set high, the school also places a priority on community service. A mandatory service requirement was instituted this year.
Calvary Christian Academy
Though Calvary Christian comes under the ministry of Calvary Assembly of God Church, it functions separately as an interdenominational Christian school. Teachers and administrators seek to partner with parents in raising their children, so they emphasize frequent communication and welcome parent volunteers. Bob Jones curriculum and Saxon math are used throughout the school. New this year is a distance-learning program that allows high school students to pursue advanced academic studies not regularly offered at Calvary Christian. The focus on service was strengthened this year with the institution of a community service day for all middle and high school students.
Capitol Baptist School
Capitol Baptist is a ministry of the Capitol Baptist Church in Dover. The school program "has a biblical foundation and places a strong emphasis on academic fundamentals through traditional classroom instruction," according to the school's Website. Students are expected to demonstrate good manners, high moral standards, respect for parents and authority, and patriotism.
Caravel Academy
Principal Donald Keister says that faculty and administrators take pride in fostering a family atmosphere at Caravel, something that is made easier by the wide range of ages at the school. "At our pep rallies, for example, we have everyone from first- graders to 12th-graders cheering together," he says. Caravel is now in the second year of a new character-building initiative that features age-appropriate components for lower and upper school students. The character-building focus complements the school's emphasis on service through initiatives such as its annual Relay for Life fundraiser. Thanks to a recent expansion, the school has a new cafeteria and additional classroom space.
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There's never a good time to be worried about your health. But when Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari flew to Dubai on Tuesday to undergo tests after what his spokesman called a "minor heart attack," the rumors grew thick and fast that President Zardari would be ousted in a coup.
Pakistan is a rumor-prone place, despite having a fairly independent press, and both Pakistani and US officials were quick to tamp down any rumors of a military coup. But Zardari's health problems come at a time when he is deeply unpopular with his own people, both over the usual issues of corruption and over his handling of international relations with the US, which have reached a nadir.
In theory, the US and Pakistan are allies in the fight against the same terrorist group, Al Qaeda, and supporters of a democratic regime in Afghanistan. But a spate of recent events shows how much the US-Pakistani relationship has soured.
- The US capture and killing of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, just yards away from a Pakistani military installation this year
- The arrest and release of a CIA contract Raymond Davis for killing two Pakistanis on a motorbike in late January 2011
- The continued US use of military drones over Pakistan, aimed at insurgents, but occasionally killing civilians as well
- The apparently mistaken November 2011 bombardment of Pakistani soldiers by NATO forces in Afghanistan
- And more recently, the withdrawal of Zardari's ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, after news emerged that he supported the civilian government
As the man in the position to stand up to the Americans, Zardari is blamed by many Pakistanis, including some within the Pakistani military, for failing at his job. Opinion polls show that many Pakistanis would like to break off their alliance with the US and cooperation in the war against terror groups. So, while Zardari officials discount coup rumors, the conditions are certainly favorable for one.
"President Zardari's condition is stable, he is fine, he is OK," presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar told AFP on Thursday. As for rumors of a possible coup, Mr. Babar called them "speculative, imaginary, and untrue."
Zardari appears to have taken senior members of his military staff along with him to Dubai, a move that could very well have been a measure to ensure that he was kept informed of news events back home, or that could also have been intended to ensure that Zardari would indeed be allowed to return back to the country after his treatment.
Yet one thing to keep in mind about coups d'etat in Pakistan – and indeed in any country – is that if the military is planning a coup, they generally don't give warning. When President Nawaz Sharif attempted to replace Army chief Gen. Pervez Musharraf in October 1999, and to prevent his commercial flight from landing in Karachi, there were certainly tensions between the civilian and military, but nothing in the press suggested that a coup was imminent. Pakistan's military responded by putting Sharif under arrest, taking over airports and major installations, allowing General Musharraf's plane to land. They held power for the next eight years.
At the time, Musharraf's aides seemed to be as surprised by the coup as the world was. Consider this comment by Brigadier Rashid Qureshi, quoted in the Guardian.
"You can very well understand that this is not something that one expects to happen every day and whatever was done it was a spontaneous reaction, actually by the army, to what actions, and wrong action, Mr Nawaz Sharif had taken," a military spokesman, Brigadier Rashid Qureshi, said.
One imagines that US embassy officials in Islamabad, meeting with a reasonable, moderate man such as Musharraf, would have discounted concerns that he had ambitions of ousting a civilian leader like Nawaz Sharif to impose military rule. As the Monitor's Bob Marquand reported, days after the coup, those who knew Musharraf described him as moderate in his religious beliefs, and progressive in his personal habits.
"I would call Musharraf a progressive," says Lt. Gen. Talat Masood, a retired officer. "He believes in equality of education among boys and girls. His daughter is an architect married to another architect, and the marriage was not arranged."
US military attaches and diplomats in Islamabad today must keep a running list of who is who within the Pakistani military, and one assumes they also find many of them to be moderate and progressive, if also increasingly upset at the US for what they see as US interference in Pakistan's sovereignty and national interests. Who among them has the kind of personal loyalty of brigade-level officers that Musharraf commanded in his day? Who among them would lead a coup?
US State Department spokesman Mark Toner was quick to assure reporters on Wednesday that the US has "No concerns and no reason to believe" rumors of an imminent coup in Pakistan. There is no reason to doubt this statement. But with all the ferment in Pakistan's political environment, it is no assurance that a coup won't happen.


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As previously reported by KCII, lawmakers in Iowa are looking at increasing the gas tax eight to ten cents a gallon over two years. County Engineer Jacob Thorius has been pushing for an increase in the gas tax, which hasn't been raised since 1989, in an effort to increase funding for Washington County's roads and bridges. The subject was brought up again at the third Legislative Briefing on Saturday.
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I started working with computers since I was 11 years old (now I'm 18). Started with good old XTreeGold in god-bless-it DOS *g*. Don't flame me for being a BASIC and VB-Kid but that's the way I learned to get things done. Now I'm learning C++, Delphi and Asm.
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The E'go Revolt is a Russian car built on the old Mitsubishi 3000GT platform, which sounds like the worst idea ever — until you see the first official sketches below.
Since we first heard of the new Russian ride, in addition to the changes to the design, there's also been a slight change to the company's name. Rather than E-Go, it's now E'Go, which we suspect is pronounced like the delicious but terrible-for-you toaster heated waffles.
Since the car will ride atop a Mitsubishi 3000GT with a twin turbo V6 massaged to 550 HP, there are concessions to be made for engineering and fabrication, which necessitated the changes we see here; the rear fascia takes on an entirely different look and a large intake just behind the door for some reason. The whole effect is of a car more uniform in its design but nevertheless a completely strange endeavor.
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Funnyjunk's Lawyer, Charles Carreon, Continues To Lash Out: Accuses Matt Inman Of 'Instigating Security Attacks'
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And, now, it appears that Carreon is continuing to act petulantly after the internet suggested he stop digging. Lots of people pointed out that Carreon pulled down the "contact" page on his own website after the original story went viral, but as some have noticed he's replaced it with a "temporarily unavailable" page that accuses Inman of instigating "security attacks":
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Due to security attacks instigated by Matt Inman, this function has been temporarily disabled.Really? Security attacks? And "instigated by Matt Inman"? Inman didn't instigate security attacks. He pointed out why he felt that your poorly thought out legal threat letter was, in fact, poorly thought out -- and he turned that into a force for good by setting up a fundraiser for some very popular charities (which, again, you tried to shut down). Considering how freely Carreon tossed around the threat of "defamation" claims against Inman for what he wrote about Funnyjunk, you'd think that he would be more careful before accusing Inman of instigating "security attacks" on his own website. I doubt Inman would fire back with a defamation lawsuit -- and you could argue which side of the defamation line this claim falls on -- but if we were to weigh the two, it sure seems like this statement from Carreon is a lot closer to defamation than anything that Inman said about Funnyjunk.
By the way, it's worth pointing out that the top blog post on Carreon's site is actually all about Chris Dodd's bad reaction to the internet rising up against him in the SOPA/PIPA fight. Carreon might want to read the first sentence of that post and figure out which character he's playing in this drama (or is it farce?):
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Oklahoma Christian University's three academic colleges honored distinguished alumni during Homecoming weekend.
OC's College of Arts and Sciences, led by Dean David Lowry, recognized Dr. Randel Estep ('86) – Chemistry and Physics; Jason Leger ('00) – Art and Design; Matthew Loeber ('02) – Nursing; David Jones ('94) – Communication; Dr. Travis Montgomery ('02) – Language and Literature; Leah Ries ('83) – Music; Dr. Neil Roberts ('99) – Biological Sciences; Jay Tabor ('86) – History and Political Science; and Dr. Nick Wisdom ('05) – Psychology and Family Studies.
The College of Biblical Studies, represented by Dean Alan Martin, honored Taylor Cave ('89) – Missions; Bob Herndon ('79) – Preaching/Ministry; Ryan Russell ('06) – Youth Ministry; and Ben Glover ('86) – Alumnus of the Year.
The College of Professional Studies, with Phil Lewis as dean, honored Kevin Arledge ('92) – Mathematical, Computer, and Information Sciences; Ted Norton ('84) – Business Administration; Anthony Rose ('07) – Teacher Education; Bahvahnie Smith ('00) – Mechanical Engineering; and Jim Theisen ('97) – Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Estep serves as the Medical Director of Occupational Medicine at the McBride Clinic. He also is a medical consultant for the OG&E Corporation and is Oklahoma's Delegate to the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine House of Delegates.
Leger has been involved in the recording industry, news media, banking, and healthcare. He recently accepted a position with GE's Oil and Gas division, where he is responsible for Global IT Commercial Operations.
Loeber is a charge nurse, a new hire coach, a preceptor for nursing students, and a certified ECMO technician at OU Children's Hospital.
Jones is the Manager of Broadcast Operations and Technical Services for the Oklahoma City Thunder, overseeing gameday television broadcasts and operations.
Montgomery recently left the University of Mississippi, where he received the Lawrence "Shaky" Yates Award for Teaching Freshman Composition, for a tenure track position at Fort Hays State University in Kansas.
Ries teaches music in the public school system in Mankato, Minn., and serves as Artistic Director of the Mankato Children's Chorus and director of the junior high and high school choirs.
Roberts has a private practice with the OSSO Healthcare Network as part of The Physicians Group in Oklahoma City and is Director of Endoscopy at Community Hospital in south Oklahoma City.
Tabor is a partner in the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, one of the world's largest international law firms. He has represented General Electric in many transactions, including its $20 billion joint venture with Comcast for the ownership of NBC Universal and in GE's recent $3.3 billion acquisition of Lufkin Industries.
Dr. Wisdom is a licensed Staff Neuropsychologist in the Mental Health Care Line at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He also is an Assistant Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine and serves as President-Elect of the Houston Neuropsychological Society.
Cave is the Outreach Minister at Del City Church of Christ, where he preaches on Sunday nights. Herndon is a minister at South Brooke Church of Christ in Tulsa and is involved as a docent with the Philbrook Museum of Art.
Russell works with Northwest Church of Christ in Oklahoma City. Glover is the senior minister with Oakcrest Church of Christ in south Oklahoma City.
Arledge is a Solutions Consultant with the Boston-based software company Kronos, Inc. Norton has worked in various roles for MidFirst Bank, including his current job managing the bank's Commercial Sales and Marketing group.
Rose is an Assistant Principal at Cheyenne Middle School in Edmond, and also serves as the Youth Minister at Wilshire Church of Christ.
Smith is a Senior Engineering Manager at OG&E, overseeing three groups: Maintenance Engineering, Project Engineering, and Inspection.
Theisen is the lead engineer over the F-16 Power and Controls team for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, where he was recently promoted to the title of Electrical Engineer Staff, Senior.
Oklahoma Christian, recognized as one of the best universities in the western United States by U.S. News and World Report and The Princeton Review, offers undergraduate programs in more than 60 fields of study, an undergraduate Honors Program, and graduate programs in accountancy, business administration, engineering, Christian ministry, divinity, and theological studies.
For the last three years, the cost of attendance for OC undergraduate students has stayed the same, making Oklahoma Christian the only university in the state and the only reporting member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities that did not raise its total price. More information is available at www.oc.edu/value.


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Oil prices jumped unexpectedly on Wednesday, with U.S. crude reaching its highest in more than two months as technical buying and hopes for a last-minute deal to avert a U.S. fiscal crisis fuelled an abrupt year-end rally.
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After trading about $1 a barrel higher earlier in the day, despite a UK holiday that continues to sap liquidity, oil prices jumped by another $1 just as asthe U.S. market began to pick up.
Traders attributed the rapid gain to buying at a key technical support level and possible algorithmic short-covering.
Brent crude rose 1.94 cents or 1.8 percent to $110.74 a barrel by 9:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT), its biggest one-day increase since mid-November. Prices had slipped 17 cents on Monday, the last trading day before Christmas.
U.S. crude led the gains, up $2.39 from Monday's close to $91 a barrel, but trading activity remained subdued.
Friday's intraday low for WTI crude was a major 50 percent retracement mark, and $88 a barrel was a "big level that a lot of people were watching", said Bill Baruch, senior market strategist at iitrader.com LLC in Chicago. Colder weather is also boosting demand, he said.
Financial markets showed little reaction to U.S. data that showed a slightly stronger-than-expected rise in single-family home prices, with most eyes still on Washington. U.S. stock markets rose 0.2 percent in early trade.
U.S. President Barack Obama may return to Washington from his Hawaiian holiday as early as Wednesday evening to address the unfinished "fiscal cliff" negotiations with Congress ahead of a year-end deadline, which would trigger harsh spending cuts and tax hikes.
Oil prices on Friday dropped more than 1 percent after the U.S. fiscal talks dissolved when Republican lawmakers withheld support for a proposal, but many investors doubt that lawmakers would risk tipping the fragile U.S. economy into recession again. (Editing by Dale Hudson and Jane Baird)


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Dr. Craig L. Nessler, who began his career as a research scientist at Texas A&M University 30 years ago, has returned to serve as director of Texas AgriLife Research, the state's lead agency for research in the life sciences, natural resources and agriculture.
Nessler's appointment was approved by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Friday, completing a nomination process that began in September when the board designated him as the sole finalist for the position.
"We are extremely pleased that Dr. Nessler is joining our administrative team," said Dr. Mark Hussey, vice chancellor and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "He is an outstanding scientist and a proven administrator who knows how to build a research program. He also has a strong record for building positive relationships with stakeholder groups in production agriculture and partners in corporations and government."
For the last five years, Nessler held a similar position as director of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station at Virgina Tech. Under his leadership, the research faculty produced a 10 percent increase in new grant awards every year, raising the college's national ranking from fourteenth to fifth in research expenditures in agriculture and natural resources.
Nessler started at Texas A&M in 1979 as an assistant professor of biology, later becoming a full professor, then associate head in the department of biology. He left for Virginia Tech in 2000 to head the department of plant pathology, physiology and weed science.
"The first thing I am going to do is listen," Nessler said, when asked about his initial priorities in his new position. "I want to visit all (13) of the research centers around the state, as well as all the departments within the college. I want to hear what administrators, faculty and staff have to say, and I want to also communicate with our (industry) stakeholders. Working with all of these groups, we will develop a strategic plan for research within the state."
"There's no question that our agricultural producers are under a lot of stress on the economics of their enterprises," he said. "All the more reason for our research to be in alignment with helping them succeed."
Nessler, 59, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in biology at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He earned his doctoral degree in plant science with a pharmacology minor from Indiana University in 1976.
AgriLife Research has an annual budget of more than $170 million and employs 1,700 people in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M and in the regional research centers. Some 375 doctoral-level scientists are engaged in nearly 600 research projects, with collaborations in more than 30 countries.
The agency has long supported the efforts of the state's farmers and ranchers, but its researchers are also developing fruits and vegetables with enhanced nutrition and disease-fighting compounds, leading innovative research for renewable energy sources, and implementing new methods to improve air and water quality.
A member of The Texas A&M University System, AgriLife Research collaborates with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and others to help fulfill the A&M System's land-grant mission of teaching, research, extension and service.


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In Wednesday, Dec. 5, paper the article titled "Dog owners call for action" made me very concerned. As a former Dukes Valley resident who was born and raised there and whose parents still live there, we've never had any problems with the existing dog laws. I feel that the minority in question shouldn't try to change our laws and restriction before a vote of the majority. Dukes Valley is a nice quiet area where everyone knows everybody and we like it that way. We like our little "community" and do not appreciate "outsiders" trying to change things like laws and restrictions that have worked in the past. All dog owners should be responsible for their dogs and they should not be able to "run free" without supervision from their responsible owners. The people who have a problem abiding by the existing laws are the ones who want to change them to suit their own purpose.
I clean up enough "dog waste" from my own two big dogs and I do not like or want to be cleaning up after someone else's dog, because they want it to "run free" in the "country." I keep my dogs fenced on my property and keep them on a leash when I leave my property, which is one step in being a responsible dog owner.
I would like to know if any of the dog owners in question have had a dog bite someone?
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Ethiopian Plane Hijacked to Geneva by Co-pilot
An Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked a plane bound for Rome on Monday and flew it to Geneva, where he wanted to seek asylum, officials said.
The Boeing 767-300 plane with 202 passengers and crew aboard had taken off from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, and landed in the Swiss city at about 6 a.m. (0500 GMT). Officials said no one on the flight was injured.
Geneva airport chief executive Robert Deillon told reporters that the co-pilot, an Ethiopian man born in 1983, took control of the plane when the pilot ventured outside the cockpit.
"The pilot went to the toilet and he (the co-pilot) locked himself in the cockpit," Deillon said.
The man "wanted asylum in Switzerland," he said. "That's the motivation of the hijacking."
The hijacking began over Italy, Switzerland's southern neighbor, and two Italian fighter jets were scrambled to accompany the plane, according to Deillon.
Passengers on the plane were unaware it had been hijacked, officials said.
A few minutes after landing in Geneva, the co-pilot exited the cockpit using a rope, "then he went to the police forces who were on the ground close to the aircraft," Geneva police spokesman Eric Grandjean said. "He announced that he was himself the hijacker."
It was not immediately clear why the co-pilot, whose name wasn't released, wanted asylum.
Police escorted passengers one by one, their hands over their heads, from the taxied plane to waiting vehicles.
Geneva prosecutor Olivier Jornot said Swiss federal authorities were investigating the hijacking and would press charges that could carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Geneva airport was initially closed to other flights, but operations resumed around two hours after the hijacked plane landed. "We hope everything will return to normal in the afternoon," Deillon said.
Ethiopian Airlines is owned by Ethiopia's government, which has faced persistent criticism over its rights record and alleged intolerance for political dissent.
Human Rights Watch says Ethiopia's human rights record "has sharply deteriorated" over the years. The rights group says authorities severely restrict basic rights of freedom of expression, association, and assembly.
The government has been accused of targeting journalists, opposition members, as well as the country's minority Muslim community.
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