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Herbicide-resistant (Roundup Ready) alfalfa is expected to be offered for sale commercially this year.
So far it has not spawned an anti-biotech attack, but that does not mean there are no challenges associated with the herbicide resistant forage crop.
However, none seem insurmountable and researchers at the recent National Alfalfa Symposium in San Diego say the path seems clear for what one called the "landmark" movement into a new biotech crop that offers great potential to reduce weed control costs; produce cleaner alfalfa and be a possible solution to new water quality regulations facing western producers.
Roundup Ready alfalfa has not run into the opposition like herbicide-resistant wheat, a factor in Monsanto shelving Roundup Ready wheat. While Monsanto claimed officially that declining wheat acreage was the primary factor in pulling the plug on biotech wheat, it was actually opposition from countries importing U.S. wheat that postponed the introduction of herbicide-resistant wheat. Growers were concerned that world markets would be eroded for any country permitting herbicide-resistant wheat to be grown.
Japan, one of America's biggest agricultural trading partners, said it would not buy wheat — biotech or conventional — from any country that allowed biotech wheat to be grown. However, according to one of the speakers at the alfalfa symposium Japan is expected to approve the importation of biotech alfalfa. Japan is the biggest importer of U.S alfalfa, taking 75 percent of the alfalfa exported by the U.S. with a value of almost $500 million annually.
The difference is that wheat is imported primarily for human consumption and alfalfa is imported for livestock rations. Scientists said no one has documented a risk to humans consuming milk, meat or eggs from animals fed genetically modified hay.
Asked to certify
Nevertheless, Western alfalfa growers have already been asked by some foreign customers to certify that hay shipped to them is non-biotech. Easy-to-use protein-based test strips are being developed to detect the presence of the Roundup Ready gene in alfalfa hay and forage.
If herbicide resistant alfalfa is introduced commercially in 2005, it will be the fourth major U.S. biotech crop. Eighty-five percent of the 74 million acres of soybeans grown in the U.S. are herbicide-resistant; 13 percent of the 80 million acres of corn are biotech varieties; 60 percent of the 14 million acres of cotton are biotech varieties. About 60 million acres of wheat are grown in the U.S. annually, and U.S. farmers produce alfalfa from 22 million acres annually. Unlike the other crops, alfalfa is a perennial that once planted can have a harvestable lifespan from 3 to 10 years or more, depending on how often it is harvested each year.
Forage Genetics International will "likely" introduce Roundup Ready alfalfa varieties this year, according to its president Mark McCaslin.
Food and Drug Administration approval of the herbicide-resistant crop is expected to coincide with Japanese approval to import the hay, said McCaslin. Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan are expected to follow suit.
McCaslin acknowledges that some buyers of American hay will require testing to ensure that they are not getting biotech hay.
Forage Genetics, Monsanto, scientists from the University of California and the University of Washington and key alfalfa exporters are developing protein-based test strips to detect the Roundup Ready gene in hay.
First trait
McCaslin said herbicide resistance should be the first of many biotech traits in alfalfa. Others traits under development include traits to enhance yields, tolerance to other herbicides, insect resistance and stress tolerance. Output traits likely will be improved fiber digestibility and increased efficiency in protein utilization that will result in "significant increases" in milk and beef production, according to McCaslin.
This new biotech era for alfalfa could even reverse a nationwide alfalfa acreage decline trend by keeping the crop competitive, McCaslin said. "Genetic engineering offers potential breakthroughs in improving the efficiency of alfalfa forage and seed production and improving forage quality in a way not possible through conventional plant breeding," said McCaslin, adding that Forage Genetics surveying has indicated a "strong demand" for new biotech alfalfa hay products that improve animal performance.
The hay export market is primarily a concern for Western forage producers who export virtually 100 percent of the 2.9 million metric tons of U.S. hay exported to Pacific Rim countries.
According to William T. W. Woodward of Washington State University, Japan is expected to set a low tolerance level for GMO alfalfa, however, the export hay customer may want zero tolerance.
This will pose a challenge from pollinator bees which can fly several miles. However, Woodward said the most likely contamination could be in purchased seed because seed production practices that may not allow adequate isolation distances.
"Although contamination is expected to be low, tests may unexpectedly detect the Roundup Ready gene. It is difficult to certify that a non-GMO will not be contaminated if grown in an area where GMO alfalfa cultivars are produced," said Woodward.
Isolation will be critical in managing pollen flow in California as well, agreed Ron Vargas, weed control specialist and farm advisor in Madera and Merced counties in the San Joaquin Valley.
Since there are no sexually compatible food crops or weeds to alfalfa, outcross is of minimal concern. However, Vargas once again sounded the alarm about feral and volunteer herbicide-resistant plants. Volunteer alfalfa must be effectively controlled in rotational crops like cotton and corn with a herbicide other than glyphosate. Roadside and ditch bank feral alfalfa also will be a concern since Roundup has traditionally been used for weed control in those areas. Other herbicides will have to be used in those situations.
Herbicide substitutes
"Cutting schedules in hay also will have to be diligently adhered to so that the hay is cut at early bloom stage before pollen is produced," added Vargas.
Vargas said 2,4-D and dicamba were the most effective herbicides to replace Roundup in taking out old alfalfa stands. He added control was 100 percent with all non-glyphosate herbicides evaluated when followed by cultivation.
As with any widely used herbicide, resistance is an issue. With the Roundup Ready technology in several crops, it is a growing concern with glyphosate. Glyphosate-resistance has already been identified in ryegrass and horseweed and reduced control has been validated in lambsquarter and barnyardgrass. Continued use of glyphosate on hard to control weeds such as stinging nettle, cheeseweed and hairy fleabane can be the cause of weed shifts.
Vargas said development of resistance to glyphosate is "thought to be less likely" than other herbicide because it has no soil residual activity and controls weeds with a unique mode of action. Nevertheless, Vargas and other researchers said rotating herbicides to manage resistance is good stewardship. This includes rotating with herbicides with different modes of action; using recommended glyphosate rates; monitoring and controlling escape weeds; using only certified planting seed; cleaning equipment and rotating crops to prevent resistance.
Vargas said it is "probably not" a good idea to rotate Roundup Ready cotton or corn with Roundup Ready alfalfa.
"Following Roundup Ready corn with Roundup Ready cotton has (already) caused problems with the control of corn in the cotton crop. Using Roundup Ready technology in the same field too frequently may result in weed species shifts or resistance."
Still good option
Even with the challenges, Vargas and his colleagues believe Roundup Ready alfalfa will give growers a simply, broad spectrum weed control option.
It could even help in complying with California's new groundwater protection regulations which restricts the use of many herbicides. Roundup is not one of the products restricted in groundwater protection areas.
Of course, the bottom line for growers will be the economic benefits. Since no price structure or technology fee has been announced. That remains the biggest unanswered question about the new emerging biotech era for forage producers.
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|2006-10-08, 20:16
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It's episode 1 and I'm already annoyed as hell by this show. For an empire that supposedly rules the world in terms of power, the 'Britannia' sure as hell don't know how to subjugate the people, do they? Well no wonder, as their mind set is stuck on 18th centuary time frame, and the 'empire' appears to be the replica of the Imperial Japan rather than anything else.
|2006-10-08, 22:31
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|2006-10-09, 11:04
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After seeing part of the raw(still waiting for subs), I'd say that this series is pretty interesting. I don't have much of an idea of what the characters are saying, but nonetheless, it's pretty interesting. It doesn't really have the excessive-mecha-action-blasting-you-in-the-face sort of thing, but I don't think that's what the director was trying to portray in this series.
btw, does anyone know of any groups that will be subbing this series?
|2006-10-09, 12:08
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After watching episode 1, I say Code Geass is the anime to watch this season - alongside Kanon 2006.
I don't really care about the 'zomg evil gaijin empire' because hah that does not concern me at all. It's just a pretty generic imperialistic empire that's very common throughout the 19th century that happens to have the name "Britainnica" and rules over Europe and America...
What I'm enjoying is how the main character's a freaking badass. Final scene evil laugh for the win. I like the set up - evil empire oppresses people, main character gets amazing powers and start pwning the empire. Sounds good to me. It really sent the chills down in me when I was watching the last 1/4 of this episode.
Looks like this'll be my 'quality mecha fix' for this season...
|2006-10-09, 12:37
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|2006-10-09, 14:27
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You know I'm really glad, now that I think of it, that the anime production companies decided to throw me a bone here. It's like saying "We understand your not interested in Kanon or other H-Game shows Kaioshin Sama, so we've prepared a mecha series for you and some others instead." It makes me happy that companies still care about people like me who enjoy mecha anime and have provided an alternative for the non Kanon watchers, because I was really losing hope that the deluge of Lolis and Moe girls this season was unstoppable, I was this close to caving and becoming sentimental. Now everybody wins and I get to stop being bitter and shut the hell up for once. YAH!
|2006-10-09, 17:58
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|2006-10-09, 20:41
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It may also have something to do with Japan being victimized as a colony in the show. I find it highly annoying given the modern history. Well it really doesn't matter since I think I'll drop the show anyhow.
|2006-10-09, 21:58
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I don't understand why anyone would find this story annoying "given the modern history". Its a fictional work.
To say some studio in some nation can't make a work making themselves the victim in some regard because modern history records that they conquered others... Seems to suggest that the nation in question and now the people in it (some many many years) later are incapable of understanding what it means to be victimized... If such reflection... such thoughts on reversal of roles and etc. are never allowed then how is any nation with such a past ever supposed to know better? If this is so wrong... so many people... from many nations are terribly wrong... Am I not allowed to be in sorrow over the deaths of Japanese people at Hiroshima?
The reveral of roles... and the basic question above is a moot point I believe. Its a thing we do all the time because the very actions we do are not "depending" on whether or not they are good or bad, but that they are good or bad as of the result of the particular action taken. Is this understandable? Its like saying (claiming that) I can go around cheeringfully saying "Hello" to everyone on the planet and never run into anyone that reacts negatively to the greeting. Anyway... sorta off topic.. sorry ;-;
The article on him has actually changed a bit but the executive producer Takeda is well known to be against war (SEED), among other things... his JP wiki reflects this Takeda Seiji The only comment I have... and this should be an important one since people have already suggested that Lulu's Revenge is anti-americanism is... that:
If anti-american is the rebellion against the empire... Then what constitutes americanism? Being imperial? Please be careful what you imply by your "anti's" Anti is the denial of the phenomenon... not the absence (like 'a-thiest'). Perhaps some are jumping the gun on calling it anti-americanism, at best it is anti-imperialism. To think it the former seems to suggest you have your own worries about what "americanism" is being imaged into.
That concern is mine as well. No worry.
|2006-10-09, 22:53
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Stumbled upon something interesting while checking out a blog linked at 2chan...
Seiji Takeda taking about his good relations with Koreans and going on about(in relation to Geass):
- Japan in the show is based on Japan right after WWII, colonized Korea and colonized Taiwan
- Wanting to tell the truth of the world to the younger viewers
- Why America is going on starting wars and killing
- Japanese responsible for the deaths of Iraqi's
I see that quite a few of Japanese are pretty unhappy about this politicization in their animation and pretty against Takeda. While it was more silly and downright ridiculous in series like GSD and Blood+, (while oddly enough, this type of thinking was kinda the opposite of E7, unitive as opposed to divisive) I dunno waht to think if he's just going to use a show as just a shoutbox for his political opinions. And not only that, but how do the creative staff feel about this?
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|2006-10-10, 04:18
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gg fansubs is gonna do this.
|2006-10-10, 04:34
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I put a reply of my own in the comments in that page. If you can read JP your welcome to comment on it. I like to leave it here for future reflection.
Some peeps there also mentioned putting in apologizes around Youtube on media from CodeGeass... And there are some now. Honestly... its not like we would take heavy offense... lol But I do admire their concern which is what I wanted to express.
|2006-10-10, 10:47
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BTW, I've just read the two first chaps of the manga (serialized in Asuka) - and it's not drawn by CLAMP, but by someone named Majiko - and it looks like the next episode (anime) will be centered around character development (that is, if the manga follows the tv series and vice versa) and perhaps the
Spoiler for episode 2:
It should also be noted that in the manga, Karen isn't shown in the first chapter as one of the activists driving the truck where C.C. was in. And, as a matter of fact, C.C. was inside a plane that crashed inside/near Shinjuku. I still wonder how she managed to survive, completely unscathed, the crash without seatbelt and whatnot...
Here's a Nightmare Frame scan from Newtype with some information about the CGLR world:
Also, it should be noted that the scan says that Lelouch's power 'can be used to destroy or transform just about everything'...and 'it has something to do with the very existence of humankind'. I wonder if this means we'll have the 'lost civilization with psychic abilities' or some theory about people from outer space having to do with humankind's birth, evolution or history. Time will tell.
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|2006-10-10, 12:03
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Taking in interest of free speech, i don't really mind if there is some nationalist bent if any in the show. I don't see any of it to be really threatening at all (save if youre ultra-conservative or have no imagination). Probably the best arugument that one could make is that the show was exploitative, i.e. it could be using a point like Britannia's supposed location and heritage to just drum up interest in what would probably be "just another robot show". That's how i see it, as just a harmless gimmick, one that has caught my attention anyway. At any rate, unless theres any real big evidence of subliminal messaging in the story, i don't think people should dwell too much on it.
|2006-10-10, 12:30
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I don't know, I have to say I am finding it kind of funny that Japanese keeps portraying themselves as a victim and American as the big evil in anime.
Anyone who has taken Asian mordern history would know that Japan is far from a victim in WWII until the end of WWII when the neuclear bombs dropped and the consequences of their earlier actions sink in.
Yes, the US probably should not have dropped the bombs, but Japanese probably shouldn't have conquered/robbed/killed people/raped women in China, Fillipines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, now should they?
Not saying the USA is awsome and right, but the Japan has some responsibility in the incident also.
EDIT: The fact, Canada is part of the new Brittanica is also really funny. Canadians, of all people!
Even so, the main character looks interseting, so I think I will give this show a chance.
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Day: December 24, 2012
Syrian Children are Children Too
When a gunman entered the school and shot dead 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut, the breaking news was a heart-breaking news. We were all saddened by the story, parents of six year old children hugged them tighter, and people asked one question over and over again, "Why?" Why would anyone want to hurt six year old children? Innocent children who didn't understand evil until the day they experienced it firsthand that day? To find six-year-olds with multiple shot wounds was so devastating, that the Medical Examiner commented, "I've been at this for a third of a century … but this probably is the worst I have seen or the worst that I know of any of my colleagues having seen," he said.
But in Syria every news is heart-breaking news. Yesterday, dozens of people have been killed and many more wounded in a Syrian government air strike that hit a bakery where a crowd was queuing for bread. Many of the victims were women and children. Just because there aren't reporters lurking all over Syria, taking interviews about the children's favorite color, hobbies, or cartoon characters doesn't make them any less important. Their mothers suffered the back aches associated with carrying them around for nine months. Some of them watched their children say the first words, and curl their tiny fingers around an adult hand, and smile for no particular reason. And some of them watched their children die from gun wounds and disappear under the rubble of collapsed buildings, forever gone.
And it's not just Syria.
19 November 2012: one of the top stories from Gaza was , "Four children killed in single Israeli air strike."
17 December 2012: 10 Afghan children killed in bomb explosion in eastern province.
And that's just the stuff that happened in the last one and a half month.
But the thing is , in in Syria, Palestine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, th0se children are grouped into numbers to reduce airwaves and sound bytes, and any resulting shockwaves that could reverberate across the world. We don't get to hear their names, and their favorite holiday events, whether they liked to color with crayons or preferred paint. Some of them lose their parents and siblings in the same attacks, and so their names would just remain on the birth and death certificates, if those even existed.
So Syrian children are children too. They are not collateral damage. Palestinian children are children too. They are not future terrorists. In other words, Muslim children are children too. They are not a threat to anybody, especially when they're carrying their pacifiers. So let's not forget them.


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Barclays' Africa move
BARCLAYS is to combine its African business with Johannesburg-based Absa in a £1.3billion deal to create Africa's largest retail bank.
The UK company already owns a 55.5 per cent stake in Absa, though it runs its African branch networks separately. Under the deal Absa will buy Barclays' African operations in return for its stake rising to 62.3 per cent.
The enlarged Absa group will be renamed Barclays Africa with 14.4million customers and 1,300 branches in 10 countries.
It will retain the Absa name in South Africa but will use the Barclays brand in other territories including Botswana, Ghana, Kenya and Zambia.
Barclays' operations in Egypt and Zimbabwe are not included in the deal, while its offshoots in Kenya and Botswana will keep their local stock listings.
Part of Barclays' "One Africa" strategy, it aims to create a powerful force in banking and financial services in the fast-growing sub-Saharan region.
The UK company already owns a 55.5 per cent stake in Absa
Barclays chief Antony Jenkins said it would build "a platform from which we can further grow our Africa business". Barclays shares rose 4p to 250p.


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Enema bag or can
If you are self-administering an enema, you might use a hot water bottle or fountain syringe to help you manage the bag easily after it is filled. If somebody else administers an enema on you, they might use a stainless steel irrigation can. Although this is expensive equipment, it may prove easier to set up and clean. Frequent travelers might make use of a folding enema bag travel kit or disposable enema bag units as are available in hospitals. The different equipment for enemas are available at pharmacies and online drugstores.
Davol colon tube
This flexible red rubber tube attaches to the hard plastic enema tip. This is claimed to be a safe and comfortable attachment. The tubes are available in various sizes denoted by numbers which denote the inner diameter of the tube. Hence, higher numbers can allow more solution to pass at any given time. Normally, Fr. #26 to Fr. #30 is considered the size which might be used for an average adult. These tubes are available from medical supply stores.
Castile enema soap
This is mild cleansing enema soap. It is claimed to be able to bring relief in some cases of stubborn constipation. It is available in a liquid form in a box of fifty single-use packets. It is inexpensive and easily available across various surgical supply stores.
K-Y Jelly, Vaseline or Cold cream
This is a lubricant useful for easy and comfortable insertion of the rectal tube. Where to hang the enema bag You can place a hook or a nail to suspend the bag from the wall. Use a strong cord to hang the bag around eighteen inches above your rectum while you lie on your side. If you want to use an enema in the bathtub, loop a string over the shower pole or use of an 'S' hook to suspend the bag.
Pad or heavy bath towel
Place this beneath the buttocks to absorb any leakage. Placing it in the tub can be more comfortable than laying in direct contact with the cold surface of the tub.
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CRESTVIEW � "Bob Sikes Airport's proximity to the interstate, to rail transportation and highways, Mobile, Pensacola, Fort Rucker and the various regional military bases puts it in a perfect location," said Derek Lott, a former Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce president, former chamber Airport Committee chairman and a private pilot.
CRESTVIEW � "Bob Sikes Airport's proximity to the interstate, to rail transportation and highways, Mobile, Pensacola, Fort Rucker and the various regional military bases puts it in a perfect location," said Derek Lott, a former Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce president, former chamber Airport Committee chairman and a private pilot.
The county's foresight to buffer the airport against residential encroachment allows the facility's industrial tenants to grow and new tenants to come in.
L3 Crestview Aerospace, north Okaloosa County's largest private employer, BAE Systems, Qwest Air Parts, Capital Aviation and Sunshine Aero Flight Testing are among regular runway tenants.
To lure more tenants, particularly those in aircraft maintenance and modification fields, county airports staff and chamber of commerce members appear at aviation trade shows. The National Business Aviation Association's meeting, the nation's premier general aviation exposition, has generated promising leads, officials said.
A pre-permitting program expedites the bureaucratic process for qualified tenants to begin building their facilities, county Assistant Airports Director Tracy Stage said.
"It allows a company to come in and essentially begin construction on facilities instead of waiting to obtain state and local permits," he said. "It drastically reduces those time frames."
Pensacola entrepreneur Dan Gilmore, the airport's newest tenant, is refining rental-hangar construction plans by his company, RonDan CEW.
"He saw what the airport did, and the steps the airport took, and that's what encouraged him to build facilities on speculation,� Stage said.
An edge on competitors
General aviation, or individual private pilots, are served by Emerald Coast Aviation, the airport's fixed-base operator. The company soon will break ground on a planned $600,000, 5,600-square-foot terminal building.
The airport has the latest instrument-guided landing technology, according to Lott. The full Instrument Landing System is supplemented by GPS and high-frequency omni-directional radio range. The combination allows aircraft to land �in almost any weather.�
Competing airports lack comparable systems, which gives Bob Sikes Airport a distinct advantage, Lott said.
"If we ever get into repetitive traffic, such as a FedEx-type package delivery company, which I see our airport eventually having, it would be essential," Lott said.
The airport hosts North Okaloosa Fire District's main headquarters, and its two airport crash tenders are frequently on call, often hired to stand by during airport tenants� flight-testing.
Millions in improvements
In recent years, Okaloosa County has embarked on an $11 million infrastructure upgrade to Bob Sikes Airport. Improvements include repaving the runway, widening taxiways, installing runway lighting and signage, revamping the airport's storm-water drainage system, and installing utilities for future tenants.
Infrastructure improvements, funded exclusively by user fees and grants, pave the way � literally � for continued growth, officials say.
"Over the last few years, airport (staffers) have been very engaged with promoting the future development of the airport," Stage said. "In doing so, we've been able to secure a substantial amount of grant funding and construct storm water utilities and infrastructure to promote future aviation development of the airport."
"Any plane in the world can land at our airport," Airport Committee chairman Dino Sinopoli said.
The airport accommodated the arrival of an Antonov An-124, the world's third-largest aircraft, in October 2010. The plane delivered a number of Fort Rucker-bound helicopters before taking off at dawn the next morning.
In addition to demonstrating the airport's capabilities, the flight showed the county and local airport personnel�s adaptability, former County Airports Director Greg Donovan said.
Officials planned the giant airplane's arrival, mapped its overnight position at L3 Crestview Aerospace's apron, and planned its push back into take-off position the next morning.
A rental "tug," or airport tractor, maneuvered the plane into position. Widening the taxiways � which occurred after the Antonov roared into the morning sky on its return flight to Russia � has eliminated the need to rent a tug.
Hampered airport access
Okaloosa County Airports and the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce want the issue of lacking airport access addressed soon.
From the south, airport traffic must meander from U.S. Highway 90 through Shoffner City neighborhood residential streets, including Hare Street, a dirt road.
To visit L3 Crestview Aerospace and east-side airport tenants, drivers must use the two-lane Fairchild Road, which also goes through a residential neighborhood. Though paved between Highway 90 and Crestview Aerospace, south from Airport Road, Fairchild is a dirt road. The paved John Givens Road, on the airport�s west side, serves the airport and the county's Industrial Air Park from Airport Road.
The city lacks direct access from the south, but the planned Foy Shaw Industrial Parkway � a four-lane access road facilitated by the airport's land acquisition in 2011 � should complete the link between airport property and Highway 90.
While the first application for a grant to fund the road's construction was unsuccessful, airport staffers are eying other funding sources, including grants, Stage said.
Kay Rasmussen, the county Economic Development Council's interim president, has requested federal funding for Foy Shaw Parkway and paving Fairchild Road�s dirt portion.
Promising future
Recognitions, including winning the General Aviation Project of the Year for a new surfacing compound developed for the BAE Systems apron refurbishment, pique potential tenants� interest.
"That's the kind of stuff that gets our name out there," Stage said. "Companies look at it and say, 'Wow, this place is perfect for our operation.'
"The future of Bob Sikes looks extremely good. We put it in a position to do nothing but grow. Honestly, everybody wins when that kind of stuff happens � everybody from dry cleaners, to real estate agents, to businesses that support aviation."
Crestview Bob Sikes Airport � one of three aviation facilities operated by Okaloosa County Airports � descends from the city's original Savage Field. That "airport" was little more than a rough east-west airstrip built in the 1920s on the 100-acre site of Savage's turpentine still. It was near present-day Juke Hill and the Big Lots shopping center, according to "Crestview: The Forkland� by Betty Curenton and Claudia Patten.
In 1937, the Civil Aeronautics Authority constructed Crestview Municipal Airport farther north, approximately at present-day Crestview High School. It mainly provided an emergency landing strip for passenger planes between New Orleans and Jacksonville.
Today's Bob Sikes Airport started as a service field for Fairchild-Hiller, a company retrofitting and modifying Korea and Vietnam War aircraft. General aviation services were added in 1964. It was dedicated on May 22, 1965.
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Pac-12 M5: 04.05.13 EditionPosted by Connor Pelton on April 5th, 2013
- Pac-12 coordinator of officials Ed Rush resigned on Thursday after it was revealed he put a bounty on Arizona head coach Sean Miller during last month's Pac-12 Tournament. Multiple officials said that Rush offered $5,000 or a trip to Cancun if any official gave a technical to Miller during the tourney. The Wildcat coach ended up receiving his first T of the season in UA's semifinal against UCLA, a game the Wildcats lost by two points. Conference commissioner Larry Scott announced earlier in the week that Rush's comments were made "in jest" and that he wouldn't be fired because of them. But after much national scrutiny and heat, Rush took care of things himself and avoided what would have likely been a mutiny among Pac-12 referees.
- Although an official announcement will not come until Monday, former Oregon State point guard Gary Payton will be elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame this year. While in Corvallis, Payton was named the Sports Illustrated college basketball player of the year in the 1989-90 season. He also holds the Seattle SuperSonics' franchise records in points, assists, and steals, and finished his career as a nine-time NBA all-star.
- Coming as a bit of a surprise yesterday was news coming out of Los Angeles that UCLA has extended athletic director Dan Guerrero's contract through 2019. The extension comes on the heels of Guerrero's hiring of new basketball coach Steve Alford, who comes from New Mexico fresh off a 29-6 record. He will receive $734,774 in base pay, with a 5% raise each year of the contract. Bonuses tied to academic and athletic achievements will also be available.
- Speaking of Alford, he's got until April 29 to pay a $1 million buyout to New Mexico. Alford had just agreed to a new 10-year deal with the Lobos that would have been worth around $2 million a year. Under the new agreement, if Alford took another job prior to April 1, 2015, he or his new employer would owe the school $1 million. As the article states, UCLA officials said that Alford is responsible for the buyout, but that UCLA would help him work out the details.
- Jeff Goodman and CBS Sports released its initial list of postseason transfers from around the nation yesterday, and four of the 100 who were revealed will be leaving a Pac-12 institution. Junior shooting guard Jeremy Adams will be leaving Tad Boyle and Colorado, while Washington sophomore Martin Bruenig, who would have been in line for an increase in minutes in 2013-14, will also be departing. The other pair of transfers are freshmen; Kaileb Rodriguez of California and Justin Seymour of Utah.


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My name is Carlos Neves, i live in Portugal - Viana do Castelo. I was born in Angola. But my youth was passed in Rhodesia.
In the year of 1978 came to live in Portugal.
My main job was an electrician, which i practiced for 25 years.
In the early stages of my life i had a nearby lady in Rhodesia with whom i learnt to carve ostridge eggs. She carved with a sharp knife and was with a knife that i started carving. But when i came to Portugal stopped carving. This was because there were no ostridges in Portugal in those days. Coming sometimes across eggs. Carving only for friends, very rarely. Has farms started breeding ostridges eggs where more common. I started carving more and more. Evan now a days there are some eggs that are very difficult to get.
Internet became a great tool for me to restart carving eggs. New drills and burs helps me getting on. Along with some friends I have met over the internet.
Now I am a full time addicted to this Art
So here are a few of my works hope you like them.
This page has links to my other pages in Portuguese, just scroll down in the other pages.
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conscience wrote:First, your modes idea seems to be a bit awkward. The goal of any operating system is to make the computer usable, manage system resources and provide some abstraction layers between the hardware and user applications. Restricting the usage in some aspects based on such modes will force the user to switch modes constantly which is much more an annoyance than a useful feature, and additionally you'd never be able to implement it without mixing up some of these "operation mode" codebases -> going into this all makes no sense. Within your system you'll have to tend the other way: generalize system resources as much as possible. Any restrictions made to the system functions should be based on the current user, maybe a bit on workflow, but not on predestinated modes.
A root and even a simple user will eventually nned things like ping for example. Another example for your server mode is that server software is userspace (CPL3) so that any computer with a networking interface will operate as server if needed no matter whether you run other threads simultaneously or not (i.e. there are other aspects of functioning).
A (full-blown) developer will definitely need everything the machine is capable of as well as a user or a root (or anybody) could eventually need some dev tools (which should also all be userspace software as otherwise nothing could stop a buggy application crushing your kernel or even your hardware)
Also note that too much effort to make something (noobishly - sorry dude, no offense, I just didn't find a better phrase; my bad) standalone can easily drown to failure as the increasing degree of incompatibility with other systems and software inversely lowers usefulness and sometimes usability. For example, rolling your own filesystem instead of implementing a commonly used one will introduce you trouble as no system will support your one as well as yours won't support theirs rendering data exchange between your OS and common systems impossible (at least by means of a physical storage device). Adopting known-good-and-effective implementations will save you a lot of time and energy as well.
I guess you're pretty new to OSDev Whatever decision you take, good luck!
I'd recommend for you to stick to the kernel design itself (leave thing like tools, text editors, etc. shipped with your system for now as they are simply applications which need an already working OS themselves). You'll first need (assuming x86)
- A bootloader (a decision on native FS could take place) - I'd recommend experimenting on FAT12 floppies first
- A physical memory manager and memory handling design
- A virtual memory manager if you decide to use VM (make a stance of whether you use paging or not)
- A device driver interface design
- User API - System calls design
- A very stable and carefully written exception handling (You'll love your first 237 triple fault ) -- Stack Fault, Page Fault, Double Fault are critical. If you fail to handle a double fault or your system stack is corrupted, it'll triple fault, and again, and again, and again ... (the horribly slow murderer with the extremely inefficient weapon )
- A process manager (fire up, suspend, terminate, etc.)
- A scheduler if you decide to implement multitasking (what type of MT would you use and with what design?)
- And more what I don't wanna go into for now, but if you need any help, I'm always open for PMs and stuff
Don't forget that OS development is pure fun. Enjoy doing it! Love it! I do so.
Again, good luck!
centip3de wrote:Though I had a couple questions:
1. I was wondering what order I should go in? A basic kernel, bootloader, and linker are all done and ready, but I don't really know where to go from here, help?
2. Do you know any good books on Operating System Development, or Operating System Theory? I was checking out This one but I would like to have more, help?
// we got some minimal RTL
print("Kernel is loading...\n"); // print calls putch()
neuromanta wrote:...although I never tried to implement an OS myself, so I'm not so knowledgable in the field.
conscience wrote:Which ones of the components listed in my previous post do you have already in your kernel? I think you'd like to kick off an exception handling and a memory manager first. On the top of the physical memory manager you can mount your VMM which you can implement kmalloc() and kfree() for (I like to extend K&R's malloc() to an open-end, dual linked list as it makes the implementation of kfree() more comfortable -- I mean merging free blocks).
You would also like to have an executable interface (ELF/PE/Other? -- don't overload yourself, pick only one for now) so you can load drivers from disk (count flat binaries out as you cannot relocate them) a bit later.
I don't know if you've enabled the A20 address line and reprogrammed the timer and the interrupt controller already. If not, go ahead an do it as the default vector for IRQ0 (timer) line of the PIT will fire a double fault immediately after CLI or even triple fault if you have not set up exception handlers yet. Once again, talking about exception handlers, they should be set up first as there is nothing else you can use for diagnosing errors. Test on a VMware so you can debug your code if something goes wrong - not just experiencing another pathetic reboot.
BTW a bit more info on your kernel would help to see where you are now and where you can go further.
DECLARE SUB PrintString(src AS Byte Ptr, x AS LONG, y AS LONG)
DECLARE SUB main ()
SUB multiboot ()
const XALIGN = 1 shl 0
const MEMINFO = 1 shl 1
const FLAGS = XALIGN or MEMINFO
const MAGIC = &h1BADB002
const CHECKSUM = -(MAGIC + FLAGS)
const STACKSIZE = &h4000
.align 32
.comm stack, STACKSIZE
.global loader
lea esp, [stack + STACKSIZE]
push eax
push ebx
END Asm
SUB main ()
CONST s = "Well hi there"
PrintString CPtr(Byte Ptr, @s), 35, 12
SUB PrintString(src AS Byte Ptr, x AS LONG, y AS LONG)
DIM dst AS Byte Ptr
DIM counter AS LONG
dst = CPtr(Byte Ptr, &HB8000 + y * 160 + x * 2)
counter = 0
WHILE src[counter] <> 0
dst[2 * counter] = src[counter]
dst[2 * counter + 1] = 15
counter = counter + 1
ENTRY (loader)
. = 0x00100000;
.text :{
.rodata ALIGN (0x1000) : {
.data ALIGN (0x1000) : {
.bss : {
centip3de wrote:You know you need to study when you Googled essentially every word that you just said ( I currently have 56 tabs open, just to get a general gist of what you said).
db 0EAh ; FAR JMP instruction opcode
dw (offset @jump_right_after_this)
dw 08h ; Commonly, the descriptor for CS is #1 which is 08h (8 bytes increment, so #2 is 10h which is usually for DS/ES/ETC)
centip3de wrote:1. I was messing around with FreeBASIC (I coded in VB.Net for ~3 years so I can read/write it all just fine) but it occurred to me that the majority of it relies heavily on WindowsAPI's, is there anyway for me to port them to my OS, or do I just have to avoid them? In the case of my avoiding them, how can I tell which ones rely on WindowsAPI's and which don't?
2. Where do I even start? I mean, I know what a Kernel is, but I just don't know where to start? I'm the kind of person who gets absorbed in tasks, but if I don't know where to start the task, then I most likely won't get absorbed in it.
3. Any good places besides osdev/osdever/google to help?
4. What do you suggest for a starting OSDev?
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Titanic Tina Small
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Is Titanic Tina otherwise as Tina Small or Christina Jane Small-ultra top-heavy model-1980's Blond with 83 Inch Bosom .No according to Boopedia I'm not only mythical,my tits are fake and this bimbo gets listed by many of you top heavy fans over me.Somewhere I must have pissed alot of guys,because refused to go full adult.
Now I'm glad I never met some of my fans because there is a few of you that very creepy weirdoes.
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Zena Fulsom meaning woman full– born in 1975 more like born in 1994–ripping me off, is a busty hardcore model and professional stripper from London, England famous for her ginormous prosthetic fake breasts. She is the soi-dissant older sister of Cindy Fulsom. Her real name is Hannah Turlington and she retired in 1995. Her Bra/cup size: Z – original: ZZZ cup.And the manager of this site has never to leave me out and put this fake.
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A truely beautiful woman the incomparible Tina Small was and hopely still is-discovered on a British Rail,in either the mid or late 1970's,she sent to model throught the 1980's,under the guidence of photographer John Xavier..She had model good looks and body many strippers and adult film stars wish they had.Which may clue you in to why some them felt she was just too good to be true.Tina Small was not only very beautiful and boxum,but she had a brain in her head.Her words and thoughts,in her autobiography showed a woman of true intelligence,deep feeling,a very odd sense of humor and a sense of her world around her.Some ,not many think her book is a work of fiction,but to it read like a diary of a remarkable,young woman,shy,intelligent,caring,sensitive,who just also happen to possess long Rupunzell like hair and an amazing 84 inch big bust-the biggest around despite what the Guiness Book of World Records wants to think.A comic Babs was based on her,as was two others Megga Glance Queen Gazongah. Tohru Nishimaki is a big-breast fan and has produced a number of anime comes featuring really top-heavy ladies as the main characters. While he has never admitted his anime characters are modeled after any real person, he has written in his profile on his website that some of his favorite big-breast models are Chloe Vevrier, SaRenna Lee, Tiffany Towers, Letha Weapons, and Tina Small. Perhaps his most famous work is an adult oriented comic called "Blue Eyes" that has been in production with a number of issues published both in Japan and in the US. The character of "Sarah Christy Fairchild" in the comic seems to most resemble SaRenna, and IMO she was probably the inspiration for Sarah. (Tohru is a fan of Marilyn Monroe too, so it could be Sarah is a projection of a super busty Miss Monroe, not unlike our Miss Lee.) Also in Tohru's comic Sarah has a younger sister, Cecilia Christy Misono. Both women have a familial resemblance to each other which means they both appear to resemble SaRenna IMO, but to me Sarah is the one who bears the closest resemblence to SaRenna. BTW, Sarah has a teenage daughter Claire Florence Fairchild, who was some really huge (Chelsea Charms size) breasts. According to Tohru, Claire is modeled after Tina Small. He drew Claire in memory of Tina, and they share the same birthday, Sept. 10th. Some feel Tina Small was the next Chesty Morgan,while erroniously believe she just the first in a line of Zena Fulsom clones and others,the model for extra large strippers like Chelsea Charms.
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The morons see this and little tiny heads get all confused.
Date of birth:
* Sep 1959 (age 50 years)
* Pornographic actor
* , Adult model
* , Writer
View Tina Small: Professions »
Country of nationality:
* United Kingdom
Also known as:Often called by Fling as either Titanic Tina or Tina Small
* Titanic Tina,
* Christina Jane Small,
* Melonie Tipps by ignorant people.,
* confused with Vicki Little by ignorant,
* Marea Biggs,not me
* Zena Fulsom-not me
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Person 1: Who was that busty chick in that movie?
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Birth name: Christina Jane Small
Measurements: 84-22-34
Height: 5 ft 6 in (165cm)
Weight: 125 lbs
Hair color: Blonde
Natural bust: Disputed. Claimed yes, as a result of virginal hypertrophy
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Stage Name(s): Tina Small, Titanic Tina
Tina Small was the British model with the 84 inch bust, who posed for nude pictures and made a few semi science-fiction-based soft core porn movies of innocent are quality. According to some Internet sources, her real name is Christina Jane Small. Born September 10th, 1959, in the small town or village of Iping, Somerset. Southern United Kingdom, although this name is also attributed to Tina Small by other Internet sources.
Tina Small claimed to suffer from the medical condition known as virginal breast hypertrophy (VBH), also known as juvenile macromastia or juvenile gigantomastia. This condition causes excessive growth of the breasts during puberty and has a much higher frequency than the rare cases of breast hypertrophy in pregnancy.
Whether her breasts were real or not is not generally known nor is there agreement on this among fans of big-breast erotica. Many believe Tina's breasts were prosthetic. One reason for this is the lack of any photos that show her upper body without clothing or long hair obscuring the shoulders and/or torso. In addition, some photos of Tina seem to show the same breasts but a different face. This may make Tina Small the first model to pose with prosthetic breasts, a trend that was later continued by Zena Fulsom, Cindy Fulsom, Dixie Dynamite and many others.
Too large-bust-loving men everywhere, Titanic Tina was a dream come true - a very attractive blonde with long legs, a nicely shaped ass, sexy lips and hooters that made Chesty Morgan look flat. Publisher Arv Miller once commented in the pages of his magazine, printed in San Francisco, that Titanic Tina was around 11 inches bigger than Chesty Morgan's extra large bust, which had been the biggest ever found to date.
Every Inch a Lady, featuring photos of Tina Small, was printed both as a soft cover edition and a hard cover edition. EVERY INCH A LADY was a title obviously take a 1975 movie. John Xavier, who met Tina Small on a train, decided take a few test photos of this lovely woman - very shy, with an extremely huge bustline. The pictures were sent to Fling and other large bust magazines, and Fling publisher Arv Miller purchased them for publication around 1979. She quickly became a sensation and a controversy within the pages of Fling, some fans loving her and excepting her as is,while others did not, saying she was beautiful and either needed a plastic surgeon or a forklift with cups.
Titanic Tina became a feature on and off throughout 1979 to 1980. Soon the success of this phenomenon generated a special photobook called "EVERY INCH A LADY" WITH TINA SMALL pictures of this extraordinary woman. It also featured other women photographed by John Xavier, but no remembers them, just Tina. There is an article about John Xavier and friendship with Christina Jane Small, a personal letter written by Tina Small herself, some letters by fans and a cartoon or two of Tina Small. Years later, Amazon Publishing reprinted with book EVERY INCH A LADY" WITH TINA SMALL A Special Edition,in 1984/1985, eliminating much of this material. Tina Small wrote the foreward, talking about herself, her likes, thoughts and hopes. The rest was pages of her - new photos and old mixed into this new publication.
Tina Small-was an extraordinary nude model,that made her debute in Fling magazine-all adult mens magazine,that specialized in large chested women.She was an extremely pretty girl,who claimed to have lived in a small village within the southern area of the United Kingdom.Raised by her mother,who was abandoned her father ,at an early age around age five.Tina Small claimes to be a twine Fling article cited 81 or 84 inches-23-35.Often called by Fling as either Titanic Tina or Tina Small. Photos of Tina Small,photographed by John Xavier,who discovered on a train to London,in the 1970's.She debuted in Fling Magazine in 1978 or 1979. Tina Small claimed to suffer from the medical condition known as Virginal breast hypertrophy (VBH) is not a medical name, but the more known name for juvenile macromastia and juvenile gigantomastia- that causes excessive growth of the breasts during puberty and has a much higher frequency than the rare cases of breast hypertrophy in pregnancy. She quickly became a sensation and a contriversy within the pages of Fling ""some fans loving her and excepting her as is,while others not-saying she was beautiful and either needed a plastic surgeon or a forklift with cups.
Every inch a every inch a lady-a book of Photos of Tina Small.soon came after numerous features in Fling.Some pictures were also presented,with Fling editor Ave Miller,in other magazines such as Juggs,Gent and so on around this time.Tina Small,herself soon had a fan club,known as the Tina Small Appriciation League of North Texas,created by a group of fans in Texas.Soon others followed from around the globe,once this made known in the pages of Juggs and Fling magazine.Tina Small was featured in bounce plus super boob issue featuring Titanic Tina 81 special,tina small special number 2 postergram-Opens out into large 2 sided poster featuring Sally Anne Southend on half of one side and Tina Small 84 DD on the other. Poster size for Tina Small 32 X 23 inches.Tina Small special postergram magazine,
Opens out into large 2 sided poster featuring Lu Varley on half of one side and Tina Small 84 DD on the other. Poster size for Tina Small 32 X 23 inches.
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Tina Small,soon wrote her own autobiography called Big Girls Don't Cry,published by Legend Publishers,in an attempt to tell her own story in her own words.Ultra Vision Productions,came out a few very soft core Adult Films,mainly based a series of Adventures of Princess Titania-a superhero science fiction character,created by Tina Small herself,who claimed to be a big science fiction fan and would do such material if it was such.She had photo collections in various publications,Club,Gent-only once,Juggs-mostly introducing her club and advertising various video or print publications.Rumor has it Russ Meyers was interested in putting Tina Small in a film,but John Xavier,Tina Small and Russ Meyers couldn't agree on how achomplish such a project,so it never came about.
The movies were of an innocent quality and were made sort in the style of Russ Meyers-who claimed to also like to use Tina in one of his upcoming movies.Tina Small,left the adult film and modeling business,being not satified with John Xavier's handling of her career,plus a few relationship problems a man who alledged to engaged to.A few article in British Tabloids such as the Sunday Sport,featured reprints of other articles and chapters of her book.Tina Small,at the time claimed to want to retire and become a part time Buddhist nun .She soon dissappered and left a lot of controversy,that exists until this day.Obviously fakes like Zena Fulsom,Cindy Fulson,Dixie Dynimite,Mandy Mountjoy,Vicki Little,the Farang Ding Dong Girls,the Mastatia Girls and others ,who claimed be other women,with the medical condition,known as Virginal Hypertrophty ,but most were so bad,one but the extremely stupid believed them to be real.
Who ever Titantic Tina or Tina Small was no one,but herself,her personal photographer and manager,and a hand of people that actually met her,knows for sure and known of them are talking on the web anywhere.Rumors of sightings by fans come upon the net and fan clubs appear from time to time,such the Tina Small Collector and the Tina Small Roberta Pedon Fan Club show up on Yahoo.Msn or My Space,One or two profiles appear on the web,such as at My Space,but still no one really knows for sure,what is real or unreal with the legendary career of Tina Small.
Tina Small or Christina Jane Small.Rumors abound that she lives somewhere still the United Kingdom.Worked in a book store in Peterfeild.UK.Went to Plymouth Politechnic.Was seen an an air port once or in her native Iping village area.
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Titanic Tina
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Art and Photography
Titanic Tina
In Fling 94,we published a set of snapshots which one of our Canadian readers sent to us.They were of an English maiden named Tina.And Tina Small something else again.There simply aren't enough superlatives adequate to describe her.
The respond to the pictures of Tina Small was as astounding as the pictures themselves.Fling received hundreds of letters from all over the world.Our readers couldn't believe their eyes and some still don't to this day.Every single one of them wanted to see more photos of Tina.And could we blame them ?
Well,were working on it.In fact,Fling is currently renegotiating with the English photographer John Xavier for an entirely new set of pictures of this fantastically proportioned lady.In the meantime.we were able to obtain the photos on the left of some younger Tina pictures taken years before.We couldn't wait to share them with you.
[Tina Small Red Sweater ]
Fling actually knows very little about Tina at this point.But we do know her measurements-are you ready for them ? 81-23-35.Tina,we imagine has got to be the biggest chested model to appear on the pages of Fling in it's 23 year history.She's even bigger than Chesty Morgan.That's quite an accomplishment,to say the lease.
The question is--is Tina Small for real? Or could she possibly be the figment of some photographer's imaginative retouching abilities ?
[Old Fling article.Don't believe everything you read]
Well,were not making any categorical statements,because we don't know.Wish others learned to do the same,instead of blowing grandiose statements about Tina Small faker without proof.For now,we'll leave that question up to you,our readers.But we'll be back with more of Tina Small just soon as we can.We're as anxious to see her again as you are.Titanic Tina Small
Current mood: bitchy
Category: Art and Photography
Is Titanic Tina otherwise as Tina Small or Christina Jane Small-ultra top-heavy model-1980's Blond with 83 Inch Bosom .No according to Boopedia I'm not only mythical,my tits are fake and this bimbo gets listed by many of you top heavy fans over me.Somewhere I must have pissed alot of guys,because refused to go full adult.
Now I'm glad I never met some of my fans because there is a few of you that very creepy weirdo.
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Another Train vs. Car Collision at Wichita Falls Intersection Sends One to Local Hospital
Another collision between a car and a train at FM 369 and Old Iowa Park Road has sent one person to the hospital.
The accident occurred at around 9 am Thursday morning. The car was reportedly northbound on FM 369 when struck. The unidentified driver was taken to United Regional with what are described as non-life threatening injuries.
This is the second auto/train collision at that intersection in under a month. The accident three weeks ago claimed the life of an elderly woman.


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The New Year's Eve Wine Dinner Dance at The Empress was greatly enjoyed by all! The Food was delicious, the music wonderful and the company fun and interesting!
The Menu was amazing and included: Sweet Potato Vichyssoise with Peanut Noshes, Holiday Sorbet, Braised Lamb with Figs in Red Wine Demi-glaze, Sausage & Cheese Stuffed Red Onions, Asiago Apple Salad with a Creamy Honey Dill Vinagrette, Herb Bread & Butter and a finale of Glazed & Candied Chocolate Beet Cake with Vanilla Bean whipped cream and Strawberries.
Want to share some of these fabulous recipes? We have already given you instructions for our Sweet Potato Vichyssoise both on our blog and on Saturday Daybreak. Join us on our blog each day this week for another of our fabulous New Year's Eve Recipes!
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Dr. Edythe Abdullah, Mr. Justin Damiano, Ms. Carol Thompson, Mr. Kevin Twomey
Mr. Steve Halverson, Ms. Wanyonyi Kendrick
Minutes for the December 15, 2005, February 22, 2006 and March 16, 2006 meetings were approved.
There were no comments from the public.
Vice President Stone stated that there had been previous discussions about the document presented to the Committee reflecting these discussions delegating the authority to settle lawsuits to the President or his designee.
Upon further deliberations, a request was made to amend the current document, changing the threshold for reporting to the full Board from $250,000 to $500,000.
Trustee Thompson expressed concern regarding lawsuits that might require non-monetary settlements. Vice President Stone stated that personnel matters and procedural issues would be brought before the Board as appropriate.
Committee Chair Twomey asked for a motion to approve the amended delegation of authority to settle lawsuits. The motion was offered, seconded and approved unanimously.
Mr. Malcolm stated that the increases in fees for the Child Development Research Center were modest and would keep the CDRC in pace with inflation and also support NEYC accreditation.
Mr. Malcolm stated that last year the Board approved a plan to increase enrollment, stabilize the budget and enable the CDRC to move forward with accreditation. Since this plan went into effect, the CDRC was at 90 percent enrollment and had a retention rate of 98 percent.
Committee Chair Twomey asked for enrollment projections for the upcoming year. Mr. Malcolm stated that the CDRC was structured for students to have priority, then faculty and staff and then the general public. The fee structure offered students a lesser rate than faculty and staff and the general public.
Committee Chair Twomey asked if the general public was signed up for Fall 2006. Mr. Malcolm stated that the general public usually took drop-out spots created by students. Chair Twomey also suggested that unaffiliated people should pay considerably more than faculty and staff.
Trustee Abdullah asked for clarification regarding the 35 percent increase in salaries reflected on the auxiliary budget worksheet. Mr. Malcolm stated that it was the goal of the CDRC to have more full-time benefit-earning positions. Continuing accreditation would mandate that teachers have AA or BA degrees in the next few years – there was an intention to stay above the curve.
Trustee Abdullah asked if this increase would be reflected in the cost to students. Mr. Malcolm stated that this increase would not impact students.
Committee Chair Twomey asked for a motion to approve the Child Development Research Center fee increase. The motion was offered, seconded and approved unanimously.
Mr. Paul Riel stated that the request was for a housing rate increase average of 3.99 percent for 2007-08. He clarified that these rates were projected a year in advance and that the rates approved for 2006-07 were approved by the Board of Trustees in June 2005.
Mr. Riel referred to the meeting materials, stating that historically rates had increased at an average of 3.99 percent. This increase was justified by market research, including the local external housing market.
Mr. Riel stated that rate increases were reviewed by student groups, student hall residents, Student Government, the Auxiliary Oversight Committee, the President and the Board of Trustees. This increase would be based on double occupancy and would be the published rate.
Chair Taylor asked how the Florida LambdaRail affected the housing rate. Mr. Riel said that this was a direct cost to housing and provided high-speed internet access to all rooms.
Committee Chair Twomey asked if Florida LambdaRail was more expensive than Comcast. Mr. Riel stated that Florida LambdaRail was more expensive but provided higher-speed internet access.
Trustee Abdullah referred to the meeting materials and asked why Osprey Landing's rate had increased at a higher percentage that Osprey Hall. Mr. Riel stated that adjustments had been made to Osprey Landing's rate to make them more consistent with other housing rates. This would allow students to move to different buildings without significant rate changes.
Trustee Damiano stated that his constituents were comfortable with the proposed rate increases.
Committee Chair Twomey asked for a motion to approve the housing rate increase. The motion was offered, seconded and approved unanimously.
Vice President Shuman stated that the Campus Development Agreement was before the City Council for approval and would then go to the State level. The funds in the Campus Development Agreement would be used to defray costs to realign Kernan Boulevard.
Trustee Thompson asked if the additional $1 million would be paid from the University budget. Vice President Shuman stated that these funds would not come out of the budget, but from a statewide fund.
President Delaney stated that the Florida Legislature approved the purchase of the First Coast Technology Park. Vice President Shuman stated that this purchase had support from the Jacksonville City Council and the University.
Committee Chair Twomey asked for a motion to approve this draft of the Campus Development Agreement. The motion was offered, seconded and approved unanimously.
Dr. Marty Khan stated that a significant amount of work had been done on the Auditor General's recommendations from the most recent operational audit. Action was being taken on each finding and a follow-up report would be provided at the June 20th Board meeting.
Dr. Khan stated that the Office of Internal Auditing was making arrangements for a Quality Assessment Review, which was recommended by the Institute of Internal Auditors and should be completed once every five years. It would be conducted by Ms. Betsy Bowers, Associate Vice President Internal Auditing and Management Consulting, University of West Florida, sometime in the October to November 2006 timeframe. Ms. Bowers was expected to be at UNF for a few days and was planning to speak to key university officers and review audit reports and other documents in the Office of Internal Auditing. Additional information will be provided to the university community later.
This item was presented for review only. No further action was required.
Vice President Shuman referenced the meeting materials, stating that this report was a standard treasurer's report and indicated over-investing in cash. She spoke about interest rates, stating that there was a close correlation between what UNF was receiving from the State and what was being paid on variable bonds.
Vice President Shuman stated that as of April 30th, 79 percent of the budget had been expended – well below the expenditure pattern. The budget was in good order. She stated that the auxiliary budget would be further discussed at the June 16th budget workshop.
Mr. Malcolm stated that this item was intended to provide a summary of improvements to the UNF Aquatic Center. He stated that the meeting materials included a chart outlining everything that had been done from 1999 through 2005 and projections for the next five years.
Mr. Malcolm stated that these projections had been shared with Physical Facilities and Facilities Planning and as funds became available, every effort would be made to make these improvements.
Committee Chair Twomey adjourned the meeting, stating that a budget workshop would commence after a brief break.
Vice President Shuman stated that the State and UNF had a terrific year, allowing the proposed budget to fund current operations and new initiatives. She presented the proposed budget as a PowerPoint presentation, discussing the following:
Chair Taylor stated that this proposed budget should tie into the strategic plan and work should be done now to translate the existing plan into specifics. This process should be further complimented by including multiple year budgets – a three to five year window that slides.
Committee Chair Twomey asked that administration provide a presentation to the Board that included a snapshot connecting the proposed budget to the Foundation's budget. President Delaney stated that this information would be included in the June 16th budget workshop.
Chair Taylor asked for a structured formal dialogue between the Board of Trustees and the Foundation.
Trustee Thompson asked for clarification on adjunct faculty, stating that the University might need to review the previous commitment to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Provost Workman stated that the previous issue with SACS was adjunct faculty credentials – there was not an appropriate ratio between full-time and part-time faculty. Trustee Thompson asked that the University review the previous commitment to SACS.
The meeting was adjourned.
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It doesn't take a high-falutin' trained critic with his finger on the racing and changeable pulse of pop culture to see that 3-D is making a comeback. Superbowl commercials, sit-com episodes, CG kiddie fare, and even DVD releases are COMIN' RIGHT ATCHA in a 3-dimensional wave of excitement and enthusiasm. Yes, it seems like you can't stick your head out the window for a breath of fresh air without seeing SOMETHING in 3-D.
Of course this isn't the first resurgence of 3-D cinema since its heyday in the 50s and 60s. Many of my parishioners will recall a similar enthusiasm for le trois dimensionale that pushed its rebirthing head out of the screen in the early 1980s with a crop of horror films like Friday the 13th 3-D, Jaws 3-D, and and today's little-seen entry in the slasher sweepstakes, Simon Nutchern's Silent Madness. And yet unlike those other entries, Silent Madness is largely forgotten. Why?
Somewhere in Manhattan, the Cresthaven Mental Institution is feeling the crunch. Crowded and understaffed, the ship of the hospital's future will be sunk if the staff can't lighten the load. Therefore, the Evil British Poof in Residence, Dr. Kruger (Roderick Cook), has stepped up the release of some of Cresthaven's more harmless patients. Things start to look a little pear-shaped when bushy-tailed and frosty-haired go-getter Dr. Joan Gilmour (career TV guest-star Belinda Montgomery) notices that one of the five uncured-but-harmless patients Kruger claims he released is actually still living at the institution. And yet, five patients *were* released. What could it mean?
state-of-the-art computer system, Dr. Gillmore learns the shocking truth: due to a data-entry snafu, instead of releasing harmless paunchy retard John Howard, the doctors in fact cut loose convicted Sorority House Massacre perpetrator and still-dangerous psychopath Howard Johns (Solly Marx). Which, if you think about it, is totally understandable. I mean, God knows how many times I've placed an online order for Lady Fingers, expecting a delicious Italian dessert treat via post, only to end up receiving some kind of invasive vibrating sex apparatus. So often that I don't even bother sending them back anymore, at least. Same thing here, I would imagine. Honest mistake.
ANYWAY, horrified at the idea of having loosed a maniac upon an unsuspecting and perky populace, Gillmore goes to her superior, kindly supervisor-cum-Power Matron Dr. Anderson (Stanja Lowe, who looks like nothing so much as Harry Shearer in drag), begging her to call the authorities. Though Anderson seems to take the do-gooding Gillmore Girl's side, it soon becomes apparent that she sympathizes more with Dr. Evil Poof's CYA plan, which involves claiming Johns died in their custody weeks ago and thus the computer glitch did no harm. That way the hospital's reputation is preserved, the public is not needlessly panicked, and the psycho has the opportunity to return to his hometown and start hacking up co-eds again. See? Win-win-win.
Meanwhile, the footloose and sanity-free Johns is on his way to the local College For Women, just itching to make up for lost time. Along the way he happens upon a horny young couple out for a camping weekend in what has to be the MOST BITCHIN' FUCK-MACHINE ON WHEELS ever committed to film. Check it: blue Dodge van, bare mattress in the back, deeply tinted windows, and a lush interior that boasts not only a hanging plant (for that homey feel, you know), but the most luxurious long-haired blue shag it has ever been my pleasure to witness, affixed to nearly every surface: the walls, the ceiling, the dashboard, the instrument panel, EVERYTHING. Seriously, it looks like someone hit a sale on Cookie Monster at the Jim Henson Tannery Workshop.
a textbook pointless t-shirt change to provide us with our first glimpse of 3-D tech in the film (I thought she'd put my eye out!), Johns attacks, smashing the van up with a sledgehammer before going all John Henry on the van owner (of course we get Victim Hammer View, as required). He follows that by tossing a toy hatchet STRAIGHT AT THE SCREEN to finish off the shrieking girl. Moments later he arrives on campus and kidnaps a random skater grrl, dragging her into the basement of the sorority house and crushing her head in a vise. Say what you will about Johns, but he's not one to sit easy when there are victims out there just waiting to be killed.
The rest of the flick stays pretty much on the slasher-movie rails, with one or two notable exceptions. Disgusted by the stonewalling back home, Gillmore channels her inner Donald Pleasence and heads off to college to see if Johns has returned. Befriending the off-puttingly smarmy star reporter of the local newspaper, Joan decides to go undercover at the Delta Omega sorority for...some reason. There she meets the current Delta-Os, a likable if acting-ability-challenged group of girls who stayed a few days after classes were out in the hopes of getting horribly murdered.
Despite the Crazy Ralph-esque warnings of crotchety house-mother Mrs. Collins (a wonderfully warped-as-always Viveca Lindfors, of Creepshow and Exorcist III fame), Dr. Gillmore presses forward, leading to the expected body count, final confrontation/battle, and a twist that might as well have been delivered by Samuel F. B. Morse himself.
Silent Madness is no great shakes as a slasher film. It shamelessly rips off the Halloween score and half of that movie's ideas, only without the style or mystery required to make that a good thing. There are a few interesting shots and Tales from the Crypt-ish lighting set-ups, but mostly the direction and cinematography are pedestrian and unremarkable. The acting proves definitively that with a cue card and a dream, you too can be a star. And as for the 3-D effects--well, even in the surviving 2-D version of the film, you can tell they wouldn't have been much to write home about anyway.
Still, the movie *does* have a few things going for it, and those things constitute the notable exceptions I referenced earlier. For instance, in addition to the standard "killer comes home to kill again" angle, there's a frankly bizarre substrate plot centered around the asylum's mysterious "Ward L," which is where Johns had been kept until the computer error set him free. Far from being your standard "Ward for the Criminally Insane" set-up, this is a total mad science development center where patients are kept in medically induced comas and fed through tubes, their muscles kept from entropy by cutting-edge electroshock exercise. The shadowed factory-space, beeping machines, bubbling tubes, and plastic-wrapped bodies in Ward L seem to come straight out of another, creepier movie--a movie I'd frankly have preferred to see.
The flick also boasts a few bit characters that are just off-kilter enough to be interesting. The Ward L attendants are a pair of wonderfully slimy gallows-rejects, one a New Jersey-accented Igor with definite rapey tendencies and the other a skeletal Spider-man villain reject with a wonderfully overblown eeevil laugh. These two do get a little more screentime when they're sent to retrieve both Johns and the rogue Gillmore, leading to a nice mid-rape drill-press kill and a 3-D skewering that have to count as highlights.
Her collection of creepy dolls adds nothing to the proceedings, but I'm so glad it's there.) But my FAVORITE bit character has to be Sheriff Liggett, portrayed by Zelda Rubenstein's fraternal twin brother* Sydney Lassick. A lawman in the time-honored "sit on my fat ass eating burgers and discouraging anybody from investigating ANYTHING" mold, Liggett steals every scene he's in with his foul-mouthed Truman Capote delivery. (Imagine this sample dialogue spoken in a high-pitched, nasally whine: "Well well well--the Sexy Shrink returns!" "That's the best news I've had since the mayor dropped dead!" And when the reporter tries to get him to help Joan, "Just because the goddamn broad is so good-lookin' don't mean we all have to think with our dicks! Huh? Right?") He may bear an ugly neck scar from his previous run-in with Johns (a scar that makes NO sense in light of the movie-ending twist), but he's no Ahab--he'd just as soon drink cokes and scarf Big Macs and let someone ELSE handle the psycho this time. In short, he rules.
*Not really. As far as I know.
an almost imperceptible undercurrent of deviant sexuality to the whole thing that only became apparent to me on my second time through, scanning for screengrabs. For instance, we get a black-and-white flashback of the original Delta-Os having an ill-fated initiation, in which panty-clad butts are spanked repeatedly (in 3-D!) with large Greek-lettered paddles. When the younger, helmet-wigged Johns is discovered spying on them, the girls pull him from the shadows, bind him with rope, force liquor down him, and then take off their shirts and give him a sound spanking for good measure. In a word, zang.
This is meant to explain his murderous rampage, of course, but it doesn't stop there. Later Johns captures Joan in the basement and ties her up with a truly unnecessary number of knots, duct-taping her mouth for added security. Igor and the Vulture drive Johns off, and then the New Jersey Jerkinator begins to take advantage of the BDSM scenario in which he finds himself, before a power surge thwarts his plans. Add an extremely phallic cattle-prod appearance, and I think we can speed-dial Dr. Freud.
Finally, added bonuses for the reporter's tied-up, behind-the-back pistol shot miss (A for Effort), a death by upside-down hanging via gravity boots and a dumbell on a jumprope, a Dragon's Lair arcade game used as foreshadowing, and a surprisingly brutal neck-stab to wind things up.
Silent Madness has been forgotten, and I wouldn't expect a big-budget remake anytime soon. Still, if you can use the little weirdnesses to buoy yourself up through the boring and inept bits (of which there are plenty), you might not have too bad a time. Since I like a good bondage/spanking as much as the next guy (so long as the next guy is the Duke), and since Sheriff Liggett rules so much, I'm giving Silent Madness a soft 2 thumbs.
Now--does anyone know a good auto-upholsterer? I'm thinking the Vicar-mobile needs a new look...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Silent Madness (1984): or, Spank You Very Much
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 3:46 PM
Labels: '80s, 2-3 thumbs, Dolls Dummies and Puppets, Mad Science, Muppet Pelts, Psycho Killer
6 comments:
- The Duke of DVD said...
"Undercurrent of deviant sexuality" you say? Mid-rape drill press kills AND Jim Henson's Tannery? This sounds like my kind of flick.
Bravo, Vicar, on once again driving us to the trough of awesome movies and forcing our heads under the water, where we drink until we slide blissfully into the abyss of cinematic brilliance.
- February 4, 2009 at 9:10 AM
- ~Trix. said...
How is it you can be so brutally honest about a movie's mediocrity and yet still make it sound so...enticing?
In the right hands a gift such as yours could prove to be dangerous...and I think that's danger I'm sensing.
- February 4, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
@The Duke--"cinematic brilliance" is probably an overstatement, and I should reiterate that the "undercurrent of deviant sexuality" is really barely perceptible unless you're looking for it. Of course having planted that seed in the fertile field of an imagination such as yours, I suppose the point is moot now. :)
@~Trix: It's a gift, and a curse, I suppose. Above all, I go into these films looking for FUN--and dammit, I aim to *find* it, however well-hidden! ;)
- February 4, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- Soiled Sinema said...
Never heard of this and that depresses me so. Good review.
- February 12, 2009 at 11:15 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Thanks, Soiled Sinema! Don't be too depressed...the flick is findable in its 2-D form, if you know where to look.
- February 13, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- Million Dollar Video said...
I stumbled upon this movie recently. Aquired some 3D glasses.
Overall, this movie gave me a giant headache.
- March 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM


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