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Posted 26 November 2009 - 09:33 AM
The recorder also should have adequate shielding against RF or EM Fields to prevent false positives. Beyond that hard to say without knowing the specs on a particular make / model you may be interested in.
And forget the little digital voice recorders. I have not seen one yet that meets minimum specs. (Zoom H2 is the cheapest digital I've seen to date.)
Posted 26 November 2009 - 12:13 PM
I've heard audio from a Zoom left out over night and you can literally hear everything. Bugs buzzing by, leaves rustling in the wind.
What would you recommend for a good digital audio recorder for use in the outdoors? Without spending a 1000 dollars of course.
Posted 26 November 2009 - 05:16 PM
And another I have tested and found satisfactory is the Fostex FR2, but it's a bit more money, listing at $1,199.
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Wow ! You guys must be rich ! The most expensive recorder I have was about 50 dollars, and I'll put my evps up against anything. Have you ever read AA-EVP's ( and yes I know the name's been changed) recommendations for a beginner in evp ? They recommend a cheap digital recorder. The stereo digitals are great, but pretty much overkill. The Olympus vn-3200-pc is a great little recorder, and has some of the best quality I've heard. This includes the stereo recorders that record on disc or internal memory. What type of standards are you referring to, and who sets these standards ? I'm not trying to argue with anyone, but most people can't afford a 1000 dollar recorder, me included. I have a 40 dollar Olympus that time after time, captures more evps than it's expensive cousins. A little cleaning may have to be done to the recordings, but then they stand up to the best. The 50 dollar vn-3200-pc doesn't even need cleaning of the recordings, to compete with the best. Check out totalrecall63 evp videos on youtube, and see what a cheap digital recorder will do. I'm planning on adding many more to my channel, and I sure haven't heard anything better. I have evps posted almost everywhere, and they stand up to the best. I haven't heard anything on this site, that remotely compares. Have you ever heard what Raudive had to say about recording evps ? He said that the person doing the recording, was half of the equation for capturing quality evps. He was absolutely correct. I can't remember the last time that I turned a recorder on, and didn't capture evps. My wife and I can record anywhere, and get good results. I even record in places that most people wouldn't even think about recording in. I record in busy shopping malls or hospitals, and get good results. I know that I could never use these as evidence, because of possible contamination, but it's darn good research. I'm not afraid to try new approaches or methods, and strive to find better results. If you can show me better results from spending more money, then I'll be happy to admit it, but until then......
Now to address the points in the above posting
First I am aware of AA-EVP. They have changed their name but not their standards. I won't go into it here, but I have crossed them on several occassions and can show engineering flaws in many of their ideas regarding various techniques they use. Just because they claim certain things does not make it so, especially since some run contrary to proven scientific facts. But to each his own. If they choose to beleive in fantasy, so be it. Rather than argue against them I will however throw a few things out here regarding cheap recorders.
You WILL get more EVPs with a cheap recorder, exactly as Adventureseeker says. Trouble is cheap recorders are also prone to everything else as well, and as such it is impossible to separate the valid EVP from the false artifact that the recorder creates. In the end if you captured something that sounds like a classA EVP, but due to inadequate shielding inside ther ecorder, you can't say with absolute certainty it isn't stray RF interference, what have you gained? Under those conditions how reliable is your evidence? Sure you can get EVPs on cheap recorders, but relaiable performance requires at least a step above simple voice recorders intended for taking notes or dictation.
Standards? These have been set by engineers and technicians who understand the methods of digital recording. I personally conducted a series of tests using audio analysis equipment to arrive at what I have found to be the minimum levels needed to avoid possible problems from alaising, intermodulation distortion, conversion errors, and other artifacts that are present to some degree in all digital recordings. This is the type of work I do. The equipment used for this type of evaluation is expensive, and not needed for paranormal research so I doubt many people here access to it. What I have done is put some common recorders under tests to see how they perform and their immunity to problems that could cause false positives. The standards are based on the results of those tests. I wonder if AA-EVP has ever attempted anything like that?
The standards:
1 - 96 KBPS sample rate. This is high enough that aliasing is minimized across the audio spectrum. True you can use 48 KBPS, however using a spectrum analyzer at the higher frequencies above 10 kHz some distortion can be detected. Thus I recommend 96 KBPS or higher.
2 - 24 Bit wide A to D conversion. That is the number of bits used in the recording process. Most cheap recorders use 16, better recorders use 24. It allows for finer definition in the conversion process. Without going into all the math, an analogy can be made to digital cameras. Many cell phone cameras use a 1.3 mpix CCD imager. Most decent digital cameras these days are 6 mpix or more. Both take pictures, but compare the clarity of the higher pixel count to the lower. Same applies to A to D conversion. More bits are better, resulting in a more accurate conversion process.
3 - Stereo recording. We have two ears, that allows us to hear depth. We can determine direction and the dual sound paths provide a clearer sound, easier to understand. To maintain that ability two channels are needed. That means two mics, two tracks, and stereo headphones. Sure you can use mono, but again why handicap yourself? Plus the dual channels serve as a redundency check. If you get an EVP it should appear in both channels. If it only appears in one, it is a red flag that maybe wht you got is a false artifact.
4 - Non-lossy recording. That means a recorder using an uncompressed WAV or similar format. MP3 or those recorders based on Linear Predictive Coding codecs are lossy. Without going into how they work, suffice it to say that in order to compress the audio certain "Uneeded" elements are discarded. But since we don't know what EXACTLY an EVP is and how it is generated, how can we say what is uneeded? Answer, we can't. So we keep everything, and for that you need a non-lossy format. Cheap voice recorders lossy formnats to save memory and keep costs down.
You are right regarding "cleaning" Digitral cleaning alters the original and should NEVER be done. Again, the way around that is a clean high gain input on your recorder in the record opertaion. That pushes the S/N ratio higher resulting in a clearer sound from the beginning. One can get high gain even in some cheap recorders, but keep in mind that the use of low impedence differential input can give you much better common mode rejection thus lowering the possibility of outside interference. Trouble is differential input generally has lower gain. This is remedied by additional amplification stages which increases cost. Thus once again you get what you pay for.
Finally you mention spending thousands. Yes you can do that if you demand the absolute best available. But it's not necessary. You can meet the specs above with the H2 or comparable recorder. Those can be had online for around $160, That is more, but not a lot more than the $50 spent on something that doesn't meet specs. It's just a matter of the quality and reliability of the evidence you want to obtain.
This is a short summary of a few issues, I have outlined things in more detail on my website if anyone cares to read a more indepth report covering equipment selection. Click my sig below.
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Homecoming 2012: Flames victory highlights Saturday's events
Excitement at Liberty University escalated as Homecoming Weekend continued on Saturday.
A record turnout of alumni from all over the country made this the largest Homecoming Weekend in Liberty's history by a landslide. By Friday night, campus had seen as many alumni as the entire weekend last year, and crowds continued to pour in as events went on.
Activities began early on Liberty Mountain with the Deep Hollow Marathon and 5K at Camp Hydaway. Participants who took on the challenge of running through Liberty's rough mountain terrain were rewarded with the breathtaking views, including a stunning horizon painted by the Blue Ridge Mountains.
As morning transitioned to afternoon, energy intensified across campus as tailgaters littered the sidewalks and parking lots surrounding Williams Stadium. People from all walks of life enjoyed grilled food, conversation, lawn games, and an atmosphere rich in history and excitement. Grill smoke cleared enough on University Boulevard for the crowds to witness the annual Homecoming Parade, presented by Student Activities.
Children were showered with candy as floats passed, and onlookers saw everything from horseback riders representing Reba Farm Inn to presidential hopeful impersonators on the College Republican's float. Liberty's Marching Band, accompanied by Flames cheerleaders, led the procession, followed by Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. and his wife, Becki, waving, smiling, and tossing treats as they passed by in a stylish convertible.
Student Activities presented cash prizes to the top three floats, as voted in a Facebook poll. Winners will be announced Monday.
The weekend's events culminated inside Williams Stadium as more than 18,000 fans (fifth-largest crowd in stadium history) gathered to watch the Flames football team take on Gardner-Webb in its first Big South Conference showdown of the season. Children enjoyed inflatables and games just inside the stadium, and in the stands everyone was seeing red as screaming fans supported the home team.
Though Liberty got off to a slow start and found itself in a 28-10 hole early in the third quarter, the Flames rallied to a 42-35 victory, the first for Head Coach Turner Gill. Read the full story on the Flames website.
Before and after the game a carnival on the back lawn of the Hancock Welcome Center provided an array of rides, games, and other activities for the entire family to enjoy.
It was a special weekend for Jerry and Becki Falwell, as they recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. The couple enjoyed a special surprise reception in the Welcome Center with nearly 200 friends, family, alumni, and staff.
"This year has been a rock-solid event, we are seeing more engagement, more socializing … it has been a family-friendly event, and so many are seeing campus for the first time, or feel like they are," said Tyler Falwell, director of Alumni Relations. "This is the biggest Homecoming we have had by far, it has been a great opportunity to see people connect."
He said many have expressed their appreciation for what Alumni Relations has done to make them feel connected to the university throughout the year, utilizing social media like Twitter and Facebook. For more information visit the Alumni Relations website.
Homecoming 2012: Traditions celebrate unique heritage
A throng of Liberty University alumni spanning generations joined together on Liberty Mountain for Homecoming Weekend 2012, celebrating the tremendous blessings instrumental in Liberty's success and fondly remembering times past, how their alma mater has influenced so many Champions for Christ.
With several construction projects under way (more than ever in Liberty's history), visiting alumni may have found the campus to be almost unrecognizable from before — beginning with check-in at the new Hancock Welcome Center, which opened this summer. Tours provided by the Welcome Center were one of the greatest attractions at Homecoming Weekend, with record signups.
The weekend activities got under way at a packed Vines Center for Convocation on Friday morning, featuring actor/producer Kirk Cameron as its guest speaker — whom many alumni remember watching on television years ago in the 1980s/early '90s sitcom "Growing Pains."
Various academic departments, such aviation, communications, and seminary, held special events throughout the day to welcome alumni from their unique programs.
Flames fans sported their red threads and cheered on several Athletics teams at events, including men's and women's soccer, men's Division II hockey, and women's volleyball. Visit the Flames website and Club Sports website for the latest news and scores.
Homecoming excitement was evident all across campus, with the Alumni Relations Office reporting more people returning to their alma mater than ever before — traveling from all over the country, California to South Florida, the Midwest to the East Coast.
Alumni Director Tyler Falwell said this year's events were designed to promote community, allowing conversation between old friends and current students, people who have never met but are joined by a bond created through Liberty's commitment to Training Champions for Christ.
"You don't know where you are going unless you know where you have been," he said. "History is a vital part of Liberty; it is a vital part of everything we do. While we are young, our history is rich. At Alumni Relations, we try to do everything we can to remember Liberty's heritage. It is educational for our students and our newer alumni."
The Alumni Relations Office decided to celebrate Liberty's heritage, as well as its stunning architectural advancements, with "Then and Now" signs all across campus. These signs display a picture of what campus used to look like in that location.
Falwell said this year he is meeting more alumni than ever before whose children were with them to scout out their parents' alma mater as they make college plans themselves.
On Friday, a cookout also united the Liberty family on the lawn of the Welcome Center and a family carnival with games and rides was held on the field behind it.
Student Activities presented the traditional Homecoming Bonfire to end the night, this year held near the tennis courts at Green Hall. Liberty cheerleaders, football players and head coach Turner Gill rallied the crowd before lighting the fire.


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Coulter, Fubara, and Geno earn regional recognition
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Dec. 11, 2013) – Following one of the most successful seasons in ETSU Men's Soccer history, seniors Ryan Coulter (Dublin, Ireland) and Itode Fubara (Ogbema, Nigeria) were named to the NSCAA/Continental Tire All-South Region First Team, while fellow senior David Geno (Kingsport, Tenn.) earned a spot on the All-Region Second Team. This year marks the fourth consecutive season ETSU has seen at least one player receive regional recognition.
This season, Coulter, Fubara, and Geno helped the Bucs clinch the program's second NCAA Tournament berth in four years by winning the Atlantic Sun Tournament Championship.
Coulter, ETSU's all-time leader for wins (30), shutouts (25), and saves (179), was named Atlantic Sun Goalkeeper of the Year for the second consecutive season. Earning 10 shutouts on the year, the senior co-captain became the A-Sun's all-time leader for career shutouts, breaking a record that previously stood for nearly two decades.
Fubara, who ranks among the Top 5 in program history for career goals (8), assists (13), and minutes played (6,525), joined Geno in becoming the first ETSU players to be named to the Atlantic Sun All-First Team three times. The Ogbema, Nigeria, native became the first ever ETSU student-athlete to be named a finalist for the prestigious Senior CLASS Award, for which a winner will be announced during next week's NCAA College Cup finals.
Geno, ETSU's all-time leader for goals (26), assists (19), and points (71), has earned a spot on the All-South Region First Team the past two seasons. The senior co-captain tied Emmanuel Wilson as the team's leading point-scorer this season, scoring 10 points in 16 games (three goals, four assists).
ETSU All-Region Recipients
2013 – Ryan Coulter, Itode Fubara (First Team); David Geno (Second Team)
2012 – David Geno (First Team); Itode Fubara (Second Team); Alesi Osorio (Third Team)
2011 – Aaron Schoenfeld (First Team)
2010 – Guilherme Reis, Aaron Schoenfeld (Second Team)
Coulter, Fubara, and Geno will graduate as members of ETSU's all-time winningest class. The outgoing Class of 2013 helped the Bucs compile a record of 45-25-12 over the past four seasons.
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Over the past months, we've been showing you what the new BlackBerry 10 platform is all about and how easy it is to create rich and astonishing-looking apps for BlackBerry 10 using the Cascades UI framework. Not only does BlackBerry 10 offer an awesome platform and an extensive set of tools to choose from, but BlackBerry World is the most profitable mobile application store for app developers to submit their apps. According to the Evans Data Corporation, 13% of vendors using BlackBerry World are making over $100,000, which is more than Apple, Android and Windows Mobile. With BlackBerry 10, you have the option to integrate your application with BBM functionality, thus increasing the engagement and discoverability of your app. It is reported that BBM connected apps make up 20% of the app downloads from BlackBerry World. Also, the Built for BlackBerry Program and the $10K Developer Commitment programs are offering amazing incentives to bring your app to BlackBerry 10. I'd say that is a pretty convincing motivation to start developing apps on BlackBerry 10. So let's get started!
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First, a brief history about prior attempts to decipher who is the real author of Mekore Minhagim is in order. As I noted in my original post, the first edition of the sefer to come out was published in Berlin in 1846 with the author listed as R. Avrohom Lewysohn (1805-1861). That edition contained 100 questions and explanation about various customs. Then, in 1851, R. Yosef Finkelstein published under the same title a work with the very same information, but that contained only 41 of the 100 questions and explanations from the work published in 1846. Almost immediately, it was claimed that Finkelstein had plagiarized his work from Lewysohn. And if one had to guess – absent any additional information –it would appear that this is the case simply because Lewysohn's work came out first; that is, unless Lewysohn could have read Finkelstein's mind, the latter must be the plagiarizer.
But, this is not a simple case. Instead, the appearance of the plagiarism claims in a German periodical did not settle the issue. Thus, R. Lewysohn's brother, Yehudah Leib Lewysohn, a Rabbi in Stockholm, after seeing Finkelstein's name mentioned in a different capacity in the journal ha-Maggid, again pointed out that Finkelstein had plagiarized Mekore Minhagim from Lewysohn. R. Y.L. Lewysohn gave a run down of the controversy and included the fact that, eventually, the dispute was taken to court, which ultimately concluded that Finkelstein had plagiarized from Lewysohn. But, it seems that Finkelstein had someone swear on his behalf that he was indeed the author.
After R. Y.L. Lewysohn published that account, including the court case coverage, Finkelstein himself answered the charge in a later issue of ha-Maggid. Finkelstein claimed that he was indeed the author and Lewysohn had stolen from him. But, how to account for the fact his sefer came out later? Finkelstein claimed that as he was traveling through Germany, he stayed with Lewysohn and eventually showed him his (Finkelstein's) manuscript of Mekore Minhagim. Lewysohn was extremely taken by this book. According to Finkelstein, Lewysohn must have copied his version and published it before Finkelstein was able to.
R. Y.L. Lewysohn responded – with a point by point rebuttal – that Finkelstein's account was all untrue and challenged Finkelstein to go in front of a court again - but this never happened.
That is more or less a summary of the written record with respect to the controversy. So it seems there remains the possibility that Lewysohn did copy Finkelstein's manuscript when they met in Berlin. And, in fact, many have come to Finkelstein's defense. For instance, R. Tzvi Efraim Babad in Der Yid has an article where he uses the ha-Maggid article to show that Finkelstein was indeed the author. In particular, it seems that R. Babad didn't like Lewysohn, as he was a German Rabbi and university educated, while Finkelstein was from a distinguished rabbinic Hungarian family. There is also an article in the latest Or Yisrael about this incident of plagiarism.
I think, however, that I can prove who the real author is. I can do so by using Finkelstein's own defense from ha-Maggid to demonstrate that he, in fact, is the plagiarizer. As is many times the case, he created the noose by which to hang himself.
Finkelstein, in his defense, states as follows:
When I was in Prague I wrote the work "Rivid ha-Zahav" which discusses the laws of ritual slaughter and checking for imperfection of the lungs. Many great Rabbis praised this work amongst them the famous Gaon R. [Shlomo] Yehuda Leib Rapoport and, because so many people liked it, the book sold out and I had to publish it again. After this I published another book "Tzafnas Panach" on blemishes in the lungs [of an animal].He then continues and discusses the "Mekore Minhagim" and how Lewysohn got it:
When I traveled to Germany to sell my book I stayed with [R. Lewysohn] . . . when he saw my work the 'Mekore Minhagim,' which I wrote in 1839, he asked to look at it.From there Finkelstein posits that Lewysohn eventually copied it and printed it as his own.
So, now, in order to see who is actually right, we need to see if R. Finkelstein's story works. The way to do this is to check the books that Finkelstein actually was selling. First, it is important to know that Finkelstein published three books aside from Mekore Minhagim. As mentioned above, he wrote Rivid ha-Zahav and Tzofnas Panach. In addition he published a book his father- in–law, R. Meir Avraham Csaba, wrote - Pri Tzadik. Pri Tzadik was published in 1839, Finkelstein's first published work. Now, according to Finkelstein, in his response in ha-Maggid, he published Tzofnas Panach after he published Rivid ha-Zahav for the second time. So, that would make Tzofnas Panach the last book published. Also, according to Finkelstein there were two editions of Rivid ha-Zahav (these are the only editions of Rivid ha-Zahav) but when was Rivid ha-Zahav published? According to the title pages, one was published in Prague (1846) and the other in Ofen (1845). But, according to Finkelstein's own testimony, these dates must be wrong -- or at least one. The reason being, if you recall, is that Finkelstein said Rivid ha-Zahav was written in Prague and was praised by R. Rapoport -which you can see as there is an approbation from R. Rapoport. In particular, the first edition of Rivid ha-Zahav has this approbation according to Finkelstein's own words. But, the only edition which has this approbation is the one with 1846 on the title page and the approbation itself is even dated the 6th of Av 5606 (1846). That means that, although the other edition of Rivid ha-Zahav states was published in 1845, in fact, it was published after the 6th of Av 5606. Which also means that Tzofnas Panach was also published sometime after the second edition of Rivid ha-Zahav was published.[1]
Now, for Finkelstein's story to be true, he states that he was selling "his books" -"ספרי" that means his personal books. That means we can rule out Pri Tzadik as that was his father-in-law's book and Finkelstein wouldn't have called it "his." So when did he travel to Germany to sell his books and to which books did he refer? Well, let's take the earliest of his books - which according to what we have figured out - is the first edition of his Rivid ha-Zahav. That edition of the Rivid ha-Zahav had to have been published sometime after the 6th of Av, the time of the approbation. That doesn't leave that much time in the year 5606, being that Av is the second to last month in the Jewish calendar. But, let's say he had Rivid ha-Zahav published really fast and during the month of Av he was able to publish it and was already in Germany meeting up with Lewysohn. Well, and here comes the funny part, Lewysohn's introduction to Mekore Minhagim (which is copied in Finkelstein's as well) is dated 16th of Kislev 5606, which would be around December 1845. This, of course, means that if our calculations are correct and we take all of Finkelstein's story as true, Lewysohn wrote the introduction at least ten months before Finkelstein ever came to town to sell his then, unpublished, Rivid ha-Zahav. Which means Finkelstein is a liar.
Thus, it would appear that we can now conclude who is the plagiarizer – Finkelstein. And, the fact is that Lewysohn is the real author of Mekore Minhagim.
[1] There is another reason the Tzafnas Panach must be the final book published although again according to the title page there is an earlier date. According to the title page it was printed in 1845, but now that we know the 1845 edition of Rivid ha-Zahav was in fact published after 1846 the Tzafnas Panach must also be published after that. This is so, because in the Rivid ha-Zahav with the title page which claims 1845 it also says the approbations for this will be published in my future work Tzafnas Panach (which in fact Tzafnas Panach includes). Thus, Tzafnas Panach must be after this second edition and thus must be after 1846 even though it claims an earlier date.
Sources: ha-Maggid No. 24 June 17, 1863 p. 192; No. 27, July 8, 1863, pp. 211-12; No. 36, September 9, 1863 pp. 283-84; No. 40, October 14, 1863, p. 316 (which are all available online here); R. Tzvi Ephraim Babad, "Printers, Copiers, Shasin, and Censor," Der Yid 25 (Friday, September 22, 2000), section 2.


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Big Pharma Firms Seeking .pharmacy Domain To Crowd Out Legitimate Foreign Pharmacies
from the killing-the-grey-market dept
However, there's an interesting tidbit coming out in the ongoing battles over new top level domains. It appears that the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy is seeking a .pharmacy domain, which (obviously) they would then only bestow upon pharmacies that they like. That could be a big issue, because it's likely they wouldn't allow that for certain Canadian pharmacies and other foreign legitimate pharmacies that may offer cheaper drugs. Both Demand Progress and Public Citizen recently filed comments with ICANN about why NABP should not be allowed to control .pharmacy.
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Granting the .pharmacy domain to NABP would confer legitimacy on pharmacies sanctioned by NABP, to the detriment of those that are not.And, from Demand Progress's filing:
NABP has proposed an unfair standard that would bar online pharmacies that serve US consumers but are located outside of the United States from using the domain (see NABP's application at Section 18(a) IV*). This would exclude many licensed pharmacies which offer American consumers low-cost medicines of quality.
Whether a pharmacy is located in the United States does not determine whether a pharmacy is licensed and provides medicines of quality.
Consumer access to medicines depends in significant part on price and competition. It would be inappropriate to allow NABP to control such an important gTLD while it maintains exclusionary plans for the domain, which work against the consumer interest in a robust market of quality affordable pharmaceuticals.
The pharmaceutical industry has prioritized trying to shut down legitimate pharmacies selling safe Canadian drugs to U.S. consumers (as currently allowed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration). But their tactics to achieve these anti-consumer goals involve censorship regimes allowing government seizure of domains, blacklists of sites, or suspended hosting services for legitimate competitors.The Demand Progress comment also points out how the big pharmaceutical companies supported SOPA and PIPA, since they knew that it, too, would be useful to use as a sledgehammer against foreign online pharmacies that sold legitimate drugs back into the US.
NABP supporters have justified their actions by preying on consumer fear of counterfeiters, when their real goals include shutting down sites providing cheaper legitimate drugs. Pfizer joined the assault on the Net in 2011, testifying to Congress that: "The major threat to patients in the U.S., however, is the Internet..." ...
NABP's supporters define "fake pharmacies" as those not registered with VIPPS, rather than only those selling actual counterfeit goods.


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At approximately 5:27pm on April 11th 2013, Waterloo Police responded to 703 W. Mullan Avenue, Apartment #3, on the report of a stabbing. When Officer's arrived, they found a male victim. The male victim got into an altercation with at least one other male and received a non-life threatening wound.
The victim was transported to Covenant Medical Center and this incident is currently being investigated. No other information is being released at this time.
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If you've ever visited Old Faithful and the other geysers at Yellowstone National Park, you've likely come away with two reactions. First, it's one of the most captivating sights in all of nature. Second, the place stinks like rotting eggs.
That noxious smell is because of the small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas given off by the geysers. Sulfur and its compounds are notorious for their stinky odor — the ancients even designated sulfur the "Smell of Hell", though that may have also had something to with sulfur's association with fiery volcanoes. Sulfur is also what makes skunk spray stink so horrendously. All mammals seem to have a natural distaste for the smell of sulfur, and now we know why. Weirdly enough, it's all about copper.
Scientists at Duke and the University of Albany examined why mammals, humans very much included, are so good at detecting even the tiniest trace amounts of sulfur, particularly when we're so repulsed by it. Duke researcher Hiroaki Matsunami explains:
"While we were doing our experiments, on even very dilute specimens of [the sulfur-based compound] MTMT, our neighbors on the lab hallway complained. We learned that copper was the metal that allowed for detection of all the sulfur-containing compounds we tested, and it was [fellow researcher] Eric Block's idea that metal ions must be involved. Further, I see no reason why the mouse receptor activity would be different from human receptors, because we have the same kind of olfactory receptors."
Basically, one our odor receptors is being supercharged by copper, so that it's really good at detecting sulfur. When the researchers decreased the amount of copper in the mice's noses, they suddenly struggled to pick up on the sulfur in MTMT. It's the first time that scientists have ever seen a metal play such a role in the functioning of the senses. The real question now is which genius is going to come up with some sort of anti-copper nose plug, so that we can all enjoy Yellowstone and skunks alike, without having to worry about the smell. Actually, I think I better get to work on that myself. I'll see you all when I'm a billionaire!
Via Duke Medical Center. Image by redeo on Flickr.


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Tight lines!


text: Eight-year-old Susie Gardner's Granny Ella comes to visit and help her granddaughter celebrate her birthday. Granny Ella brings Susie a very special birthday present ... glittery, sequined red shoes that have magical powers. They allow Susie to travel back in time to learn important life lessons that will make it possible for this socially conscious young girl to solve present-day social problems. As you travel along with Susie, you will meet inspirational women who have helped shape our country's destiny. On your journey, you will fly in a 1948 airplane to a foreign country, visit a real palace, and free yourself from kidnappers who are trying to disrupt a meeting of the United Nations. At every turn, adventure, mystery, and a yummy chocolate cake await you.


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Remembering to forget
We're publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Today, Ravi Das on how new understanding of memory may help us treat drug addiction.
Welcome to the game. The rules of this game are simple: Forget about the game. Forget I ever mentioned it. If ever you remember the game, you lose. If you lose, you must say aloud that you have done so. If this causes others to remember the game, they also lose.
Now that you are playing the game, you probably realise that there is no real way to win, nor will your participation ever end (sorry). You may 'forget' about playing for weeks, even years, but at some point, there will be a trigger that will cause you to remember, and to lose. The memory of the game will not disappear, but will lay dormant, etched into your neurons, waiting to emerge from the recesses of your mind.
The game highlights something that has been historically definitive in the neuroscience of memory: once something is learned, it is hard, if not impossible, to unlearn. However, emerging research suggests that there might be a way to win the game after all and that this same technique might hold the key to 'curing' drug addiction.
Our memories form a highly adaptive system that is involved in virtually every aspect of our behaviour, constantly working to steer us towards rewards and allowing us to make predictions in an uncertain world. We are seamlessly guided around our environment, told what to pay attention to and what actions are appropriate in a given situation by our memories. We would hope, then, that they are serving our best interests. This is true most of the time. However, in addiction these very processes are hijacked by drugs, causing a vicious cycle of compulsive drug use at the expense of quality of life.
Physical withdrawal symptoms from drugs last a relatively short time, a few days at most, yet addicts often relapse after months, sometimes years, of abstinence. Addictive drugs, much like food or sex, are highly rewarding, causing releases of dopamine in the brain's motivational pathways. The brain is fine-tuned to learn about stimuli that predict such rewards. When taking drugs, associative memories are formed between drug-related stimuli and drugs themselves. Over time, these stimuli come to trigger cravings, drug seeking and relapse when they are encountered. This is the same mechanism that makes us salivate at the smell of food and will almost certainly make you lose the game in the future. An ability to change or erase memories could potentially solve the problem of relapse in addicts, although historically this possibility has existed only in the realms of science fiction, as it has long been known that, once well learned, memories are virtually impossible to destroy.
The key to forgetting, however, might be as simple as remembering. In 2000, Karim Nader and colleagues found that if rats were reminded of a well-learned memory and injected with a chemical that prevents the brain from making new proteins, the memory seemed to disappear. This startling finding suggested that, like a house of cards, memories are constantly rebuilt when recalled.
This window of memory fragility, a process dubbed 'reconsolidation', offers a ray of hope for treating addiction. By interfering with reconsolidation, we may be able to make the house collapse, erasing memories altogether. Subsequent studies have shown that various neurotransmitters, genes, proteins and an enzyme called PKM-zeta are vital for memory reconsolidation. If we can block these processes, we might be able to destroy the maladaptive memories responsible for drug addiction.
While the drugs used by Nader et al, are not safe for use in humans, it may be possible to block reconsolidation with a common beta-blocker called propranolol or an Alzheimer's drug called memantine. This is a crude approach to memory interference, but still opens the dizzying possibility of erasing memories with nothing more than a pill.
Promisingly, drugs might not even be needed at all. Earlier this year, Lin Lu and colleagues reported that showing heroin addicts a short video of heroin use to cause drug memory reconsolidation meant that subsequent training to reduce craving 'updated' the memory trace. When tested later, the addicts experienced markedly decreased drug cravings when shown heroin-related stimuli, with the effect appearing robust and long lasting.
Research is ongoing and it remains to be seen whether blocking reconsolidation can actually 'cure' addiction in humans – there are of course a multitude of social and economic factors involved. However, we will no doubt be hearing a lot more about the ethics of erasing memories and new techniques for doing so in the near future. This means the first truly effective treatments for addiction may be on the horizon. It also means to ever truly win the game, you will have to lose it first.
- Nader, K., Schafe, G.E. & LeDoux, J.E. (2000) Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval. Nature, 406, 722-726
- Xue, Y.X. et al (2012) A Memory Retrieval-Extinction Procedure to Prevent Drug Craving and Relapse. Science, 336: 241:245.
Ravi Das
This is an edited version of Ravi's original essay. Views expressed are the author's own.
Find out more about the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the Observer and read our 'How I write about science' series of tips for aspiring science writers.
Over the next couple of months, we're publishing the shortlisted essays from the 2012 competition. Read all, and the 2011 essays, in our archive.
Image credits: Neil Webb / Wellcome Images (top); Wellcome Images (Ravi)


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Postgraduate studies, whether master's degrees, MBAs or short courses, are becoming increasingly common in our modern economy characterized by specialization and globalization. In fact, the growth of postgraduate degrees, diplomas and certificates in some countries is now higher than the growth in undergraduate degrees. Master's degrees, PhDs and courses are available in just about every academic discipline imaginable and with thousands of universities around the world to choose from, everyone pursuing postgraduate studies can find a school and program that is perfect for their needs.
There are many different types of universities and other higher education institutions around the world. Although the details vary by country, most fall into one of several categories, such as:
General universities that focus on both research and coursework and offer a wide variety of academic disciplines; Business schools that focus on MBAs and other business-related graduate degrees; Technical institutions that focus on academic disciplines related to science, technology, engineering and math; Art institutions that focus on art-related disciplines such as sculpture, painting, theater and dance; Education institutions that focus on degrees for professionals who teach at the primary and secondary education levels. Students who enroll in a master's degree program from a research-oriented university can usually expect to conduct a research project or write a thesis in addition to coursework. Master's programs taught by other institutions may also require some sort of project, but generally tend to focus more on coursework or practical experience. Nearly all PhD programs require original research and a dissertation.
Potential students may also want to consider studying abroad, particularly if they are interested in highly specialized academic disciplines such as international business of Middle East studies. Students are increasingly studying across borders for all levels of tertiary education (college or university-level studies). According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics (UIS), the number of students studying abroad is approaching 4 million per year, nearly double the 2 million studying abroad in 2000. Students from East Asia and the Pacific make up 28 percent of this total, while students from North America and Europe account for about 15 percent. The countries that send the most students abroad are China, India and the Republic of Korea. About 6 percent of students from Central Asia and about 5 percent of students from sub-Saharan Africa study abroad, making students from those regions the most mobile in the world. The current top destinations for international students are the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany and Japan.
Many students are also enrolled in online or distance learning graduate-level programs taught in countries other than their country of residence. These students are not included in the UIS numbers, so the total number of international students is somewhat higher, likely more than 4 million.
Students may want to consider studying abroad for a variety of reasons, including:
Being able to select from the world's top programs for a given academic discipline. In addition, some academic disciplines are only available in a handful of countries, or the best programs are available in only certain regions. For example, someone interested in Buddhist studies will find the best programs in Thailand. Studying in a different culture. Students pursuing master's degrees, PhDs or courses in regional studies should consider a program taught in that region to obtain a full cultural immersion. In addition, students planning careers in international business will gain invaluable experience from living in another culture. Increased language skills if the program is taught in a different language than the student's native tongue. In addition, although many international master's and PhD programs are now taught in English even in non-English speaking countries, students may have the opportunity to increase their language skills through extra studies or assimilation with the local population. Students considering pursuing a postgraduate degree may want to consider the following factors when deciding whether to study at a university in their home country or abroad:
The cost of the program, including living expenses. Some countries offer inexpensive or even free tuition, but high living expenses may offset those savings. However, many countries and individual universities offer scholarships and other types of financial aid, and some of these are targeted at international students. Countries also vary widely regarding how much international students are allowed to work, and some countries do not allow international students to work at all. Health insurance costs also vary widely from one country to another. The quality of the education gained, relative to the expense and intangible factors of studying abroad, such as cultural immersion and language skills. Although all accredited master's programs meet a high level of standards, teaching methods vary widely across different schools, programs and cultures. In addition, some students may find that they learn less when studying in a non-native language. Language skills required. Students not proficient in the language of instruction for a particular course of study may need to spend an additional year or so gaining that proficiency. Sometimes the students can gain this proficiency through studies in their native country, but in other cases they may need to spend additional time abroad. Type of studies offered, such as part-time versus full-time, online and distance learning. Most countries require international students residing in the country on a student visa to study on a full-time basis. However, students already living in another country on a work permit may be able to pursue studies on a part-time basis. In addition, online and distance learning programs offer great flexibility. Impact on family members, for students with families. Family members may need language skills as well, and some countries do not allow spouses to work even if the student can work. Take the time now to check out universities from around the world. If you already know what you're looking for, you can click directly to that country or to specific programs. Or take some time to browse and read about the exciting programs available worldwide.


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With a bunch of us living in the Spokane area, including myself, i thought i'd get everyone's opinions on snow and the lovely several inches we got last night in the area i live.
Personally i have a love hate relationship with it. I hate everything about it but the atmosphere it gives around the holidays but love it when it means there's no way out to work.


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New IT is dramatically changing how applications are built, maintained and run. It's pushing every digital business to reinvent its testing strategy.
Accenture collaborated with Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) to explore the strategies, challenges and success metrics around Digital Testing in Europe. Our survey of 200 senior testing and IT executives reveals how the proliferation of digital technologies are forcing testing organizations to re-orient their processes, tools and resources. Businesses that understand the implications and proactively transform their testing strategies for New IT will be best positioned to deliver a seamless customer experience and thrive in the digital era.
Watch the replay of the Accenture and Worksoft Digital Testing Strategy webinar in Europe and North America
Companies today should ask three important questions:
Does our testing strategy prepare us for the digital disruption to our business?
Do we have the right level of investment in digital testing processes, tools and resources?
Is our testing strategy designed for application resiliency and managing security vulnerabilities in this highly-connected world?
Testing organizations can use the research findings to provoke discussions with their business leadership to define a comprehensive digital testing strategy.


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For many of us, today is the first day back at work after the Christmas break. It's the time for fresh starts, clean pages, and resolutions. The clichés tell us that the New Year is an opportunity to put some distance between ourselves and last year's bad habits, ill-advised decisions and unhealthy obsessions.
The Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, speaking on the Today programme's Thought for the Day this morning, spoke of his childhood pleasure at receiving a new exercise book at the start of a new term. He used this as a platform to go on to talk about the importance of forgiveness, but his mention of the new exercise book took me back to the first day back at middle school after the Christmas holidays.
The pristine, yellow exercise books would be waiting in a crisp pile on the teacher's desk at the front of the classroom. The first task was to write my name, class number, teacher's name and subject in the lined box on the front cover. I would do this carefully, first in pencil, to make sure my script was as neat and elegant as possible, and then, once satisfied, I'd go over it, allowing the ink to flow from the freshly inserted cartridge in my fountain pen. Finally, once the ink had dried, I would select my cleanest, softest, pencil eraser and rub out the spidery shadow of my pencil-drafted name.
I distinctly remember admiring the look of the newly titled and personalised exercise book, flicking through the clean, empty pages, and promising myself that I would fill it with only the most careful, accurate and neatest work. Compared to the dog-eared, mistake-filled book from last term, it really did seem to represent an invigorating and exciting chance to do things differently.
So, this morning, when I switched on my computer and Google Chrome flashed up a message offering to restore the tabs I had open on the last working day before Christmas, I paused for a moment before declining the offer. And then, when faced with a blank search page, I felt a bit sad that there is no pristine, empty exercise book for me to flick through, internally promising that it will be filled with more thoughtful, careful and considered work than last year's. Somehow, a clean sweep of tabs on my browser just doesn't hold the same power to make me feel filled the promise of a new year.
In the digital age, more and more of us are pretty much permanently plugged in to cyber communication of one sort or another. I didn't look at my Twitter feed for several days over Christmas, but I'm fairly sure it didn't dry up. With our smart-phones permanently by our sides, for many of us it's rare that we really create distance between the world 'out there' and our inner selves.
Perhaps it's an odd symbol, but for me the fresh exercise book at the start of a new school term really did offer an opportunity for something akin to a reflective moment, perhaps even a spiritual one. In the absence of fresh new stationery to bring in the New Year, I'm wondering what are our equivalent modern symbols – what small rituals do you have that allow for moments of reflection?


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From Forbes, via the Computing Research Policy blog (emphasis added):
Meanwhile, another even more serious threat to the U.S.' competitive position in supercomputing is lurking in the shadows. Tucked away into the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which passed in May, is Section 1404, which would classify any computer using a Pentium 3 processor or stronger as a 'militarily critical' machine to the Department of Defense--or, a weapon--and make it subject to tightened export regulations. While high-performance computers are already regulated separately as part of a 1991 agreement with Japan, called the Supercomputer Control Regime, the new restrictions would arguably affect certain systems components developers need for supercomputers.
If a Pentium III can be classified as military weaponry, suddenly I don't feel so safe anymore.


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Yongary, Monster of the deep
Rated: G (I think)
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Copyright Company and Date: American International TV, 1967
Submitted by Stephanie
Astronaut- has no name in the American dub. I know he has one, but since the Korean copy no longer exists, i will never know...
Astronauts wife-nameless and not important
Ihlu (No, I'm too sure on that spelling there)-scientist. Responsible for killing Yongary.
Icho-annoying brat. Walks around in the sewers wearing shorts for a while, ends up helping save the world from the monster
Suna-another one I'm not to sure about. Wears a pink dress for half the film, then a floral print one.
People in the city, soldiers, ect-trampled, burned or crushed. One is thrown.
Yongary- a giant monster with tusks, a nose horn, a spiky tail, back frill and glowing eyes. Breaths fire and has a laser attack. Bleeds to death out of his anus after having a seizure.
Honeymooning couples do not have sex, but rather talk.
The sky is a sheet of blue fabric.
Giant monsters eat gasoline and oil.
1:30 TV production...that's not right...
2:11 that looks like a miniature set, and their driving in the middle of the road...
3:20 Did anyone else see someone run past in that building? Where are they anyways, an office buildings parking lot? What?
7:47 Wow, what a beautiful, blue night! Looks kinda like a sheet of fabric!
9:47 wow, a 1967 cell phone!
10:55 that miniature looks cool.
15:09 is that the model of the capsule behind them?
15:33 They are just showing the same piece of toilet paper with writing on it again and again...
22:42 Random space!
25:25 Holy crap, what is that?
26:08 it skids as it falls down the cliff? And how did that happen?
34:11 They don't use cutlery in Korea, apparently.
38:26 but there's nothing in his hand...? Did i miss something?
40:53 it sound like they made the road out of Styrofoam.
43:06 note the pipe sticking out of his throat.
46:45 "was that my tail that went and did that?"
50:27 that sounded like Gorge.
1:03:14 He's dancing? Why? How? And where did that music come from?
1:06:09 Gah! That green screen was so bad it scared me!
1:08:06 obvious cardboard bridge is obvious.
Icho: You should have seen him, he was dancing and playing!
The film starts with a shot of the earth and moon, hovering in space, something unusual for a kaiju film. It says monster from the deep but one should note Yongary comes from the earth.
Everyone in this movie sounds like a robot. The dubbing's okay but it sure sounds like their just reading off a script.
2 of the important characters, well, important for now, are on a honey moon, nothing happens that would be considered titillating, except a bratty kid named Icho shooting the itchy-ray at them as they drive off from the building they were married at.
The camera work is cool at times, but it feels like a sound set way to often.
I suspect she wants some, but he falls asleep on the balcony. SHE NAGS HIM ABOUT SEX ON THE HONEYMOON. Also,did he just say whenever i get married? What? Well, they try to do something and the phone beeps, and he looses intrest.
This movie uses a lot of random miniature sets in it, and some look impressive but some seems cheap, and the giant carboard buildings show the fact they stopped caring after a while. This movie could have been great and they lost interest.Some effects are Godzilla quality (well, high quality) some are more Gamera like, not looking quite right and others are downright cheap. The space scenes look cool even though space is now blue, and it starts out as a good sci-fi film, but it won't last.
It's hard to review this without talking about individual scenes, but the basic plot is this: A giant monster emerges from the ground to bash South Korea to pieces, while they try to find a way to stop it. There's some space stuff, some romance and a heroic little brat.
They send the husband into space to watch the middle east who are doing some nuclear testing, which causes an earthquake, which somehow damages communications between earth and the capsule. I don't understand it either but at least i see
the importance of the testing-it awoke Yongary (or so i can assume).The earthquakes epicenter moves, something that happens in Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidrah, Giant monsters all out attack when Baragon appears..
Strange coincidence. The earthquake become the main concern after they recontact the capsule and it comes back to earth. They want to stop it before something bad happens. They don't think science can help...whatever. They know its dangerous and declare a state of emergency.The arrow that marks its path moves really fast. That's one quick earthquake. It continues to progress, causes tremors at the lab and the earth splits open! Something is moving inside the earthquake, and it sinks down after emerging for a second. Well, Yongary is not from the deep unless they meant depths of the earth.I like how the earthquake reminds one man of a story he was told as a kid about a monster named Yongary who made earthquakes and then instantly name the monster that after only a small bit of information about it.They plan on using the army against him, something which by now we know won't work.
The monster looks like something out of Gamera, and its great. There's some really neat detailing on the suit I've noticed over the years i really like too. The glowing eyes, huge tusks and back spines are all reminiscent of other monsters, yes, but he still looks original to me. One issue with him is the fact the sets he destroys have very flat backrounds, like a diorama.
His roar sounds very mechanical, although towards the end he makes a barugon hissing sound. The Army can't stop him as he rampages about, no suprise there.From head on he looks like a demon, but from the side he reminds me of a crocodile. He can breath fire as a main attack, and it's pretty effective.
The music is like something that you'd expect from Toho and i like it, but there's no audio record for this movie so i can't listen to it without watching the film. I've seen a few diffrent cuts, and one has a big blank area of black in it, and that's not in the MGM release. Ugh. I got off topic.
Back to the story. The scientist wants to see the monster, but as he runs off, Icho follows, and the story starts becoming more like Gamera.We see the dance club scene, where the stupid teenagers ignore warning and are then killed by the giant monster.As Yongary trashes the city, everything spews dust. The buildings look okay and its fun watching them get trashed. Yongary uses his fists and feet, as well as his tail to smash everything in his way. Sometimes he doesn't even bother to fully wreck a building, he just smacks it and continues on. Fires erupt as he marches through the city, while Icho and Ihlu run after him to see. Bricks fly everywhere and knock over Ihlu as he trys to save the girl in pink, whose name eludes me. They loose Icho and go hunting for him while Yongary wanders about. At one point he picks up a soldier and i think he
ate him, I'm not sure.To stop him they plan on using missiles, but fear destroying the historic parts of Korea by mistake. Icho hides from Yongary in the sewer(note he's in shorts) and almost gets stepped on by the big brute, protected by the manhole cover. He still follows him though, like the stupid kid he is.The army prepares to fires missiles at him. They note he's moving slower, and returning towards his point of surfacing. While surveying him from a helicopter, he shoots fire at them, and well, this is where the cheap feeling comes in.The pipe that allows his to breath fire is clearly visible. It looks like they tried to hide it at first and forgot to cut the scene where you can see it.Icho runs about in sewage and gets various bodily wastes all over himself. Yongary walks on top of a road made of celery, or at least, it sounds like it. We see the government officials watching the chaos on a TV, and i wonder where the cameras are, and why they haven't been destroyed yet. Icho ends up in a processing plant for raw natural gas, something i didn't know Korea had. We see Yongary feast on oil in a very Gamera-esque way, then hear his other, more sinister roars. These ones signify pain, caused by a chemical agent that hurts his skin.
This is a neat theory, considering he's been living underground so long, it makes sense his skin would be a bit sensitive to stuff like that.
Yongary flails around in pain while the kid watches. Icho somehow gets home, covered in smoke and sewage, and tells them of his discovery.They head down to get a look but the army tells them against it, and they repeat what they said, either that of Youtube skipped. They manage to travel from any point on the map in mere seconds, confusing but it makes the film shorter. Since There's about 20 minutes missing from it, that could have been some of what they trimmed. Yongary consumes energy, and hitting him with missiles will only make him stronger, but the government won't believe, claiming the kid's story to be false, a change of pace from the norm. Don't they normally trust kids? They decide to try and lure him away before launching the missiles.
It turns out Yongary's weakness is a precipitate of Ammonia, which is cold and so it hurts him. It's neat seeing a normal weapon, well, more normal, used against a monster.
Back to the monster, he's still coated in the ammonia dust and they're luring him away to shoot at him. It doesn't work though, and they send a helicopter over to investigate. Ihlo and the gang are heading off, and left Icho behind, who found the itchy-ray from the beginning of the movie. Icho starts firing the ray at Yongary, making his horn glow. This makes Yongary approach him.
Now, i would run away from a giant, fire breathing monster, but the rather filthy kid stands his ground. He lures Yongary to the refinery, where he proceeds to eat fire. Yep, another Gamera thing. I feel bad for the guy in that costume. They were known for being hot and uncomfortable, but with fire? Not good. He can't see either, so it must have been really unpleasant. But when he eats the fire, it looks like a plastic toy or something breathing fire, the film shown in reverse.
Ihlu comes over in a helicopter to watch Yongary. They dump more of the ammonia dust on him and well, the effect is the same. At the same time the army shoots the missiles, and they miss a few shots (so much for guided missiles) and a few seem to hit home.Yongary screams in rage and a miracle happens: it rains!The water rinses off the ammonia precipitate, but it still seems to be affecting him. He collapses, but Ihlu doubts its permanent, and they return to perfect it. The government thinks it was the missiles, most of which missed.We get some lab scenes of Ihlu mixing chemicals which go from brown to yellow, while a now clean Icho steals the itchy-ray again.
Yongary is passed out at the top of a hill when Icho appears. He shouts at the monster but he doesn't wake up. He then shoots the itchy-ray beam at him and wakes up Yongary.Yongary then breaks out in a dance, happy to be alive.
I don't know who dances worse, the giant monster of that kid. Now, this movie would be fine if this scene wasn't in it, it could have been a serious monster movie that was more like gojira than a later gamera film, but nope, the kids got the film instead.
The army grab Icho and drag him away from Yongary. The sun rises (yes, most of this happened over the course of a singe day) and the army is at edge. He smashes stuff and they shoot him, but it doesn't work. We see him walk forwards, biting his tongue (it got caught in his teeth), some panicy soldiers and then pow, jump cut to a horrible green screen scene.Then we get to see his new weapon, activated by the itchy-ray, or so we can assume, the nose horn beam!I've heard people complain it come in too late in the story but godzilla only gets atomic breath later on in gojira, or rather, we only see it later on. Also note the fact the car he splits in half has a 5th wheel on the bottom. Ihlu and company get a new helicopter to attack him with while Yongary heads towards a bridge thats on a sandy riverbank.I bet there was something cut from the bad green screen sequence too, but it's hard to tell. I like the fact his tongue wags in the air when he roars. Looks silly.Some jets fly in and shoot at him, the shots of the pilots look really good. Yongary slices the planes with his horn beam, paws them from the air and breaths fire.When they shoot at him, you can see chunks of something fly off the body. It looks like little squares, possibly detonation pads of something. The plane slicing is fair. Ihlu shows up and dumps the ammonia dust on Yongary. This is still effective and he falls over, trying to get the dust off. Everyone is super happy that they're killing him, a bit creepy but its not the strangest thing that happens. Yongary roars with that weird sounding bellow again, the one that sound more like an animal, and flails about, before making the Barugon cry and collapsing on the bridge, falling into the water.Yongary slows down as the ammonia slowly kills him, although i can't tell how it does. He falls and dies in one of the most suprising and child-unfriendly scenes in the movie: he seizures then bleeds to death out of his anus. Yeah, i don't understand that, and its fairly graphic, not saying there hasn't already been blood in this movie. The main thing about it that bothers me is that it looks painful, and is among the more shocking giant monster deaths that I've seen. To top it off, everyone is so happy that he's convulsing and dying it just makes it seem out of place. Its almost sickening seeing the blood pool out of him like that, and i think it was cut on most of the TV showings of the movie. Icho wants them to stop but its pointless, the monster is already dead. He doesn't think Yongary was a bad monster, forgetting all the death and destruction he caused. The adults make a lack luster Temp to comfort him, Icho forgetting that they were laughing about the death of the monster, and the movie wraps up with another shot of Yongary bleeding out in the water while his tail and legs convulse and then a press conference about the death of Yongary.
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Yongary alternates between love and hatred. Hatred is when the monster is there. Love is every other scene.
Anyway, really in depth story explanation.
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You would have thought this movie had any meaning.
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"This is incredible," a young woman commented as she saw the San Juan High School gymnasium dance floor full of teenagers. "When I used to attend high school dances, we mostly sat or stood along the walls for an hour or two and then went home."
It was often that way in Blanding too, until Alton and Darcie Chamberlain came back to town.
Alton graduated from San Juan High School, where his older sisters Alyson and Alyn had some experience with empty-floor dances. They were the ones who taught him how to dance.
At first they had to force the issue, assuring him that he would be grateful for their tutelage. After a few lessons in the front room and some actual experience at a New Year's Eve dance, 14-year-old Alton decided he liked dancing.
He started watching dance movies, paying attention to the steps. Pretty soon his friends were gathering for dance parties and swing dance competitions, and he was teaching them.
The big pay-off for Alton came when he was a student at Southern Utah University and met his future wife — at a dance.
The first two things he noticed about her was that "she was really cute and a very good dancer". Alton adds he was also impressed with her great personality, but one wonders how well she would have held his interest had she not known how to dance.
Darcie grew up in St. George, UT, taking tap, jazz, and ballet classes, but where she really learned to dance was in her friend's basement rec room. She knew that a lot of young men get to college not knowing the social skills that go along with dancing; Alton was obviously ahead of the pack. It is no surprise to hear they danced at their wedding reception.
As a couple, the Chamberlains have shared their love for dance. In their years away from Blanding, they worked with troubled teens in New York and Nevada and found dance to be very therapeutic. One young man told them, "I've never had so much fun while being sober!"
"Dancing can be a wonderful social activity," Alton says, "an activity that kids need to learn. We teach them, so they can have a good experience in a good environment."
"So many of the current dances aren't healthy," Darcie observes. "We want to restore the health. We don't go for the club atmosphere and the mainstream electronic dance music. There is some fun hip hop music, but it's hard to dance to. Kids need more than the bong bong beat of techno."
"The songs need to be good," Alton says, "if the dance is going to be good. A bad song kills the spirit." He's talking about the spirit of fun that permeates their dances: everyone has an enjoyable time when the music is pleasant.
The Chamberlains ask the youth for suggestions, and they take requests, but then they screen the songs before adding them to their playlist. Darcie reads through the lyrics and if there is anything sexually suggestive, macabre, or offensive, the song gets scratched off the list.
For the past six years, the Chamberlains have taught a free youth dance workshop each Wednesday night during the month of January. At their workshops, the Chamberlains teach the waltz, the swing, and line dances. The youth love the line dances, where they don't have to worry about having a partner or stepping on someone else's feet.
The line dances are not only just plain fun, they are good exercise. There's not much of the "freshman shuffle" going on. Knowing what to do gives the youth confidence, and that is why the dances in Blanding have become so successful.
Last year, the Chamberlains sponsored a successful Fourth of July community dance. They have also been DJs for other dances, such as the prom and special prom. The Chamberlains want to see more family dances, and more married couples at the Gold and Green Ball, as well as the return of sock hops at the high school.
When asked how involved they want to become — whether they want to do more than they are presently doing — they looked at each other and then responded, "In the future."
Alton is presently in an USU master's business program. Darcie is just finishing her RN degree and plans to get a bachelor's in nursing. They also are very involved in the lives of their five children.
Though they lead busy lives, they are very passionate about teaching and sharing the virtues of dance. This is demonstrated by the fact that Darcie was "out of commission" for six months during 2011, battling a rare form of leukemia, but she didn't stop dancing. Indeed, dance may well have been an important part of her therapy.
If you think you don't like dancing, or you've given it up because dances "aren't what they used to be," perhaps you should attend the next dance the Chamberlains are the DJs for. I'm guessing you'll be pleasantly surprised.
It has been written that Socrates learned to dance when he was 70, as he "felt an essential part of himself had been neglected." If he had had Alton and Darcie Chamberlain for his teachers, he would have been fortunate indeed.