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The Olympic snowboarder is treated for injuries from a reported hotel room rampage
Olympic snowboarder Shaun White was arrested for vandalism and public intoxication after going on a hotel room rampage that sent him to the hospital early Sunday morning.
White, 26, a two-time gold medalist, was in Nashville at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel when police were called after he allegedly pulled a fire alarm causing the hotel to be evacuated, according to Nashville police. The athlete then allegedly attempted to flee the scene and was pursued by a citizen, who had alerted police. The chase ended when White fell backwards and hit his head against a fence. He was then transported to a hospital for treatment and released.
Officers responding to the scene Sunday at 2 a.m. reported that White appeared to be extremely intoxicated and smelled strongly of alcohol.
RELATED: Shaun White Apologizes for 'My Poor Behavior'
White was in town to attend musician Patrick Carney s wedding in Nashville on Saturday night, PEOPLE confirms. A guest says the athlete was "friendly and nice to everyone," during the wedding reception.
He recently has been romantically linked to Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli.
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April 18th & 19th DOTCORNY will be running a TDX tracking test at Mendon Ponds Park. I'm assisting with the test and Michelle (and my wife Heidi) were gracious enough to assist as well. If anyone else in the Rochester area is free that weekend and can help lay a track your help would be much appreciated
If you can help out you will probably be needed for about an hour on Saturday and then a few hours on Sunday. After a fun weekend sitting outside in the woods maybe we can all grab a bite to eat afterwards as well

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My students loved the story so much that they begged me to read it to them once more on Friday because we had a little extra time while packing up to go home. I am sad that Owl Week has ended, but now it is on to some very fun and exciting holiday theme units!
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New Marines receive Eagle, Globe and Anchor at Camp Pendleton ceremony
The recruits are starving and exhausted by the time they crest The Reaper, the last hill at the end of a grim 72-hour stretch of basic training known as The Crucible.
By this point in their 13-week transformation from civilian to Marine, the 478 young men of Charlie Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, have been pushed to their physical and mental limits.
They have gulped for air in a gas chamber, snot streaming down their faces after removing their masks. They've fired their rifles, sending bullets 500 yards. And drawn inspiration from the likes of Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone to keep charging up the hill, long after they wanted to quit.
Now they trudge on a 12-mile hike through night and frigid rain, fueled on one MRE ration and a couple hours of sleep a day. Their drill instructors keep saying this is the last hill. But there are always more.
Suddenly, it's over. Dawn is about to break when their humped-over silhouettes loaded with heavy packs emerge from the darkness. American and Marine Corps flags fly in the distance and heroic orchestral music plays from loudspeakers.
The journey began when they stepped off the bus onto the yellow footprints at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, standing in formation as shaggy-haired civilians. Now it is complete.
On Thursday, they earned the right to call themselves United States Marines.
A public graduation ceremony for family and friends will take place Friday at the depot where they did most of their basic training. This ceremony atop The Reaper at Edson Range is a private moment between newly minted Marines and the drill instructors who led the way.
1st Sgt. Christopher Demosthenous gathers the recruits for a talk about the Battle for Iwo Jima. Those five Marines and a Navy Corpsman who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi during World War II were just like you, he said.
Men from different parts of the country, different backgrounds, united by Marine Corps values of honor, courage and commitment.
"They joined in a time of war, knowing full-well that many of them may go to combat and some may not return. Those warriors past are no different from you, except they've fought their battles, and established our legacy that is your duty to uphold.
"Together you have faced the final challenge. You now share a bond forged through hardship that cannot be broken," Demosthenous said.
"You have all proven that you deserve to be a part of the American warrior elite. You should all remember this day with pride, because you have accomplished what few even dare to try."
Sgt. Brandon Karnes, 25, senior drill instructor for Platoon 1053, moves down the line of men in formation. He says a few words to each before he places the Eagle, Globe and Anchor insignia in their trembling hands.
"Do you think your dad is going to be proud of you?" he asks Pvt. Kale Milette.
Milette, like many of the others, has tears streaking down his face smeared with dirt and camouflage paint. He clenches his jaw and presses his lips together to compose himself.
His father, Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Milette, flew in from New Orleans to see not one, but two of his sons become Marines this morning, Pvt. Milette and his stepson, Levi Haymaker, both 18.
Parents aren't usually allowed to attend the Eagle, Globe and Anchor ceremony. The family set the foundation, but the Corps built the Marine.
"It's a very intimate moment between a drill instructor or Marine," said Capt. John McNabb, a former recruit company commander working on staff with the training regiment.
Growing up in a Marine family, Pvt. Milette attended eight schools before graduating from high school.
"Active-duty life is hard, it's hard on the Marine, it's hard on the Marine's family," his father said. "The fact that they were willing to endure that, to serve their country, serve themselves, serve their brothers-in-arms, it blew me away."
Seeing them get their Eagle, Globe and Anchors, "It's very emotional. It's a deep sense of pride and honor, now that not only are they my sons, they are my brothers."
About 15,000 recruits train to be enlisted Marines annually in San Diego. The other half, including all female recruits, go to Parris Island, S.C.
The Corps added The Crucible in 1996 to make boot camp tougher. Marine basic training is the longest among the armed forces and the only to include shooting at 500 yards — five football field lengths.
The ethos "every Marine a rifleman" makes the marksmanship training at Edson Range particularly important, said Chief Warrant Officer 4 Vince Kyzer, 47, gunner for Weapons Field Training Battalion.
"We have to be able to get this kid, whether he is a clerk, jerk, or candlestick maker, to be able to persecute targets. They have to be able to master the rifle."
Some argue that other aspects of boot camp training are more important, such as drill. "But drill doesn't kill the enemy," Kyzer said.
Sgt. Dustin Martin, 26, another senior drill instructor, said everything they teach is tied to combat. "They were kids when they got here just a few weeks ago, and now they are men.
"When they leave here, they are going to a job where people live to fight, fight to kill, to serve their country. It's a pretty big responsibility."
Pvt. Brittain Schneider, 19, from Tigard, Ore., dreamed of this day for 18 years.
"It was tough. But that's what I expected. I didn't ask for anything else," he said.
The hardest part?
"Working with 82 other recruits that sometimes didn't want to listen," he said. "On the obstacles, many of them are teamwork built. If one person tried to do it alone, it would be next to impossible."
The obstacle course focuses on problem-solving under stress, like how to get your team and your gear across an enemy-mined rope bridge using only short ropes.
Pvt. Kevin Belchez, 20, from San Diego, joined after an unsatisfying stint at community college. He wanted to become a Marine, "to better yourself as a person, protect your country, and fight for those who can't fight for themselves."
The training was tougher than he expected, but so was he.
"I never thought I would make it this far," he said, not until he saw those flags waving in the distance. "Every day I was like what am I doing here? Every single day."
Capt. Juan Plancarte, the company commander, told them to remember this moment. "Some of you hesitated. Some of you wanted to go home. Look at you now."
That is what makes a Marine: "It means having passion, commitment, dedication, looking after the welfare of your fellow Marine," he said, pacing before them, "When it gets tough, we execute. ... We are the few. We are the proud."
Then as if on cue in a war movie, the sun peeks for the first time above the clouds as the Corps' newest Marines begin belting out the Marine Corps hymn.
The sunrise makes their tired, grimy faces glow.


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|2010-01-06, 13:53
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Nice site and thanks for the link.
Indeed the long distance and the limitation on amount of tonnage an ISV can carry would be a logistical nightmare for a massive scale military invasion. However I agree with Justin Strife that states the ISV is only one of the twelve ships with state of the art technology in transportation and logistic which is used for commercial purpose. What about other dozens of ships that were used for exploration as stated in the link? What about military ones? Sure itll take a while for them to reach Pandora but in the end they will reach there. The weapons load out limitation would surely be compensated with a probable huge amount of fleet the humans are bringing should a massive invasion is planned.
Also we find that the RDA held an exclusive mining rights over the unobtanium. Now that theyve been ousted, most likely theyll be back for more, maybe this time by bringing their former rivals and competitors. Seeing that unobtanium is indeed an essential requirement for humanity in order for their civilization to progress or even survive (by spacefaring explorations), funds will probably be poured in for R&Ds. And within the link even the RDA is bound to Interplanetary Commerce Administration (ICA) regulation. The ICA prohibits RDA and force them to obey a treaty prohibiting weapons of mass destruction and limitation in military power in space. Now imagine with the absence of unobtanium, a desperate humanity, such limitation is lifted!
We would probably see more R&D and alliances made for a military campaign
I doubt even Pandora could survive, especially when they let the survivors to went back to space, probably heading back to earth spreading false propagandas .
|2010-01-06, 14:54
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Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
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If Unobtanium is really so vital that humanity would be willing to glass a world for it, then they're not going to be willing to wait decades to get the supply reinstated.
As for the RDA...their involvement in this operation may turn out to be minimal aside from supplying some ships. After losing their entire mining colony and likely causing a mind blowingly horrible economic disaster, the ICA is very unlikely to let them keep their mining rights to Pandora. Losing said colony is also likely to oblitorate RDA as a mega corporation.
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|2010-01-06, 15:16
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^Honestly, I find it more likely that Jake and the other remaining humans (yes I still consider Jake a human, even if he has taken over another body) will use the mining facility to send (and receive) communications from Earth, thus starting the diplomatic process (their communications will reach Earth far faster than any of the ships from Pandora). Additionally, sicne the message could be sent to all of Earth, ti is not just a government that would be dealt with, but rather all governments and all populaces.
Worst case scenario (for the humans), the Na'vi can hold many of the deposits of unobtanium hostage. They have the data that shows where the mineral can be found, so they need only excavate a sufficient supply, and then station it in any cities the Na'vi may inhabit, making the destruction of said cities and people very cost ineffective. The only remaining course of action of part of the humans would be germ warfare, or some other non-destructive course of action, that would leave the mineral alone, but only kill the life forms, but since it is unknown (at least with the knowledge from the film) as to what a creature from Pandora's (with its toxic to humans and presumably most forms of life on Earth) atmosphere would be infected by).
|2010-01-06, 15:22
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dunno if it has been brought up, but its a private corporation using military contractors for security. they need money to bring mercenaries to pandora, and Jake said something at the beginning of the movie about bad economic times. hence why they were farming unobtanium in the first place. in all likelihood, they lost a HUGE investment when they were kicked off the planet. not only all the equipment and supplies for the mercs, but the avatar project as well. they were banking on the mining to work to cover their costs. so i doubt humans would be back any time soon, unless a government somewhere actually decides its worth it.
|2010-01-06, 15:23
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 44
But, then, we wouldn't have had much of a movie to watch...
|2010-01-06, 15:36
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Well, despite what I said before, I downloaded and watched the movie to see was it really a sob story like I predicted. In case of bad prejudice and all that.
It's not a bad movie, really, considering the available time. You can only tell so much during one session and much of the story really should had been told over several episodes. The introduction alone could had filled a book, so I'd be surprised if they didn't make a cheaply produced TV-serie about Avatar like they did with Stargate.
Okay, what's generic:
-- Evil corporation, check.
-- Ruthless military leader, check.
-- Hero/Princess romance, check.
-- Noble indians and evil invaders, check.
So yes, it was a sob story, but with a twist: the protagonist is actually a turncoat. All in all, I think what he did was a treason against all humanity, since his betrayal must had lead to the execution of all human leaders on the planet. He even abandoned his human body, so in this sense the story was different. IMO, it was like expecting to see the hero triumph only to realize that he was actually the villain and the guy in the robosuit was the true hero. I imagine that the remaining humans were also executed, since that was the first reaction when the tribals saw Jake. If not executed then kept in prison or enslaved.
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|2010-01-06, 16:09
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With the current technology guess I agree that the journey to Pandora remains militarily a logistical nightmare with conventional weaponry. The viable options is maybe by transporting WMD's using the ISVs or other capable ships and blow the planet's surface. Dunno if an RKVV is actually battle proven though…. I'd stick with nukes or H-bomb any day or other projectile weaponry. A Dragon and few Scorpions spamming hellfire missiles are enough to beat the Na'vis dry and scared Eywa…..
If a faction or government decides to pour some funds in the R&D, and the ban lifting of military technology and the use of WMDs, especially in the logistic department, then Pandora. Unobtanium is far too much value to be ignored even by the UN, nations won't just stay quite and their military as well. Afterall, few greatest achievement in technology had always been pioneered by military development. Like the Dragon air fortress was used in wars on Earth decades back…
On the unobtanium investment, I think it already paid off. Since it's stated the RDA held exclusive mining rights since the unobtanium was found, with a price tag of a whooping USD 20 million per kilos. ISV Venture Star was made mainly to transport unobtanium from Pandora to earth and vice-versa. With a capacity of 350 metric tons….. who knows how much $$ the RDA made in one delivery.
We know that there are twelve ISV available which categorized as Capital Star. What we also know is that one of them, the Venture Star, is manufactured by an RDA lead consortium, while others probably by different governments/competitors/consortium.
Each ISV carry similar purpose, mainly to transport unobtanium from the system Pandora's at to Earth. With the fact that RDA held exclusive unobtanium right, combined with the capacity of each twelve ISV could carry (around 350 mt), most probably RDA made hundreds of billions or even trillions USD in the entire one way delivery from those ISVs. So yes I think their investment really did pay off.
Also, RDA was a global mega corporation, of which core of business is originally transportation. They're pioneers in transportation. Interstellar travel is maybe only one of the main core businesses they're conducting, with other transportation businesses or line of businesses.
|2010-01-06, 16:32
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Location: The alleged home of the polar bears, Sweden...
I just have to ask... How many times have you guys seen the movie? Because there's no way I'd remember that much details about what is being said...
Or are you just reading it from some source to get the info?
|2010-01-06, 17:40
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|2010-01-06, 17:53
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Here some ideas for Avatar 2 :
Maybe "Return to Earth" can be possible .
|2010-01-06, 18:06
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Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
Nuke's are impractical in this situation, considering that they have more destructive potential as heavy inert pieces of metal than they do as fission bombs.
|2010-01-06, 18:15
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Exitus Acta Probat
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Location: Permanent retirement from raws-hunting
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|2010-01-06, 21:39
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Dango Master
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Buenos Aires Argentina
Age: 29
Whats worst.. there are currently ongoing genocides on our planet and war over resources that arent remotely near being depleted.
So why would we care about some light years away planet and some blue savages living in trees....
|2010-01-06, 22:28
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Sensei, aishite imasu
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|2010-01-06, 22:45
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
"manifest destiny" is always a convenient rationale for the aggressors and their behavior, no matter which expansionist nation we choose to discuss.
|2010-01-07, 02:00
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Feeling comfy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 44
Even if we suppose that the deported Earthlings manage to send an SOS ahead of them, that alert would still take at least 4.4 years to get to Earth, assuming that Pandora is in the Alpha Centauri system. That gives Earth a just-under two-year head start to prepare its forces before the deported miners return home.
Whichever way you look at it, the Na'vi victory is whole lot more decisive than it seem at first glance. Ten Earth years is a lot of time — and for all we know, that's time enough for Pandora life to recover from their combat losses, and then some.
(By the way, since I'm no expert, I'm curious whether time dilation would be a factor as well, since the ISVs are travelling at close to lightspeed. To the miners, it may seem as though only six years have passed since their banishment from Pandora, but to Earthlings, maybe several more years would have passed since the loss of their unobtainium source?)
So, far more than logistics, I think the lack of timely communication would pose far greater challenges to any potential counterattack. This is an age-old problem that every large empire has faced. You need only look at the history of the globe-spanning British East India Company, for example, to extrapolate the kinds of problems a space-age megacorporation might similarly face.
|2010-01-07, 08:13
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
I really doubt the humans are going to manage "massive invasion force" plus "multiple pieces of skyscraper sized mining equipment".
So the invasion force has to restart the mining operations all by themselves, which by itself will take years.
And the RDA are dealing with a native population homogeneous enough in their social/political views that employing the locals as soldiers against each other isn't viable.
|2010-01-07, 09:06
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Little debate on co-existence has taken place in Finland. Nevertheless, the government has stimulated stakeholder involvement during the setting up of the draft law on
co-existence. NGOs are the predominant catalysts for debate on GM food and GM trees, but they do not focus on co-existence matters.
Co-existence is a topic little discussed in Finland. Thus, few stakeholders have stated official positions on co-existence. When preparing the draft law, an open seminar was arranged, and a request for (written) comments was delivered to a large number of stakeholders. A seminar presenting the comments received in the process was organised for mid-September 2008.
The Finnish government has been relatively balanced in considering the possibilities of using GM plants in Finland.
The Farmers' Union MTK has no clear opinion on GMOs and co-existence. If consumers will be willing to buy GM foods, farmers will be open to growing them.
The Finnish government has been relatively balanced in considering the possibilities of using GM plants in Finland.
Seed production in Finland is dominated by Tilasiemen, a company owned by farmers. They are little interested in developing and lobbying separation distances and other co-existence measures, as there are no GM crops suitable for Finnish agriculture at the moment.
Finnish consumers have a calm approach to most things, including issues concerning food. Consequently, the Finnish Consumers' Association takes a practical view on GMOs. Since some of its members approve of genetically modified foods, the association focuses on the choices made by consumers. Therefore, the association supports the labelling of GM foods and welcomes food producers who offer alternatives – GM, conventional and organic foods. See also the opinion paper of the Finnish Consumers' Association (PDF).
A Finnish language website hosts public discussion on genetic engineering.
The organisation GMO Free Zones has also begun to be active in Finland. The municipalities of Hyvinkää, Loppi and Espoo have declared themselves GMO-free in relation to publicly managed diners (kindergartens, hospitals, schools etc.).
The Union of Organic Farmers, the Union of Organic Forestry, Friends of the Earth, and People's Biosafety Association founded an initiative for a GMO-free Finland. They encourage public discussion, but are opposed to GMOs in general and consequently show little interest in co-existence.
There has been much resistance to the use of GMOs in forestry. In June 2004, protesters destroyed a field trial with genetically modified birch trees. The perpetrators have not been identified.


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Mike's Post about his EC2 experience
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Heavy clashes erupted for the first time in months in Syria's central city of Hama on Thursday as rebels tried to relieve pressure on comrades under attack from President Bashar al-Assad's forces elsewhere, activists said.
They said at least seven people were killed and dozens wounded when fighting broke out at 4 a.m. in Hama, a historic symbol of dissent against four decades of Assad family rule. Most of the reported casualties were civilian, they said.
Assad's father, who ruled Syria for 30 years until his death in 2000, crushed a revolt in Hama in 1982, killing many thousands of people and razing parts of the city.
Video uploaded by activists showed heavy machinegun and rocket fire amid cries of "God is great" from rebel fighters in Hama. Activists said it was the first time in six months that insurgents had engaged the army there with such ferocity.
"The operation is an attempt to alleviate some pressure on fighters in the countryside of Hama as well as in nearby provinces," an activist who called himself Safi al-Hamawi told Reuters via Skype. But he questioned the utility of the effort, raising concerns it may not be extensive enough to help.
Assad's forces have made gains on the Syrian-Lebanese border and in the suburbs of Damascus recently, as well as in parts of the north where rebels hold swathes of territory.
Hama, one of the few cities that had been relatively quiet, is close to Homs, near the Lebanese border. The province is an important link between the capital Damascus and pro-Assad Alawite strongholds on the Mediterranean coast.
Videos uploaded by activists showed rebels raising a black flag over a charred and bullet-scarred school they stormed on Thursday. They said it had been used as a military base and detention centre by soldiers and pro-Assad militias.
"This was one of the worst regime sites in the city. The soldiers treated residents harshly and in a sectarian manner," said an activist using the name Abu Adnan, speaking from Hama.
At least five residential buildings were damaged in the fighting, according to Hamawi. "Residents are hiding in their homes, no one is fleeing. The fighting is still going on and very heavy, so people are too afraid to move."
Most shops in the city were shut, residents said by Skype. Telephone and mobile lines were later cut.
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ON Semi Announces RGB-IR Versions of its 2MP Sensors
BusinessWire: ON Semi announces RGB-IR versions of its 1/2.7-inch 1080p60 AR0237 and AR0238 RGB-IR CMOS sensors for home security and automated monitoring applications. These have the ability to capture daytime color and nighttime NIR image data on the same sensor without the cost and complexities (like refocusing, maintenance etc.) that can result from having a mechanical IR-cut filter mounted onto the imaging assembly. Their RGB-IR CFA arrangement has the 4x4 kernel replacing some R and B pixels with NIR-sensitive pixels and rearranges the spatial density of the remaining pixels.
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Top 10 Truly Disturbing Horror Films
- I have watched thousands of movies throughout my life and I am one of those folks who enjoys films from every single genre but in particular films that leave their mark on me long after I turn them off.Worth noting I am not a journalist, I am just an average joe who loves film and happens to write about it.
So my views ( bad grammer included ) are very much those of an average film fan just like most of you reading this.That said as much as I am not a writer or critic I do own well over 1,000 horror films and think I know the genre well. Of the films in my collection a few of them are so disturbing that they have stuck with me to this day.
It is also worth noting that I am not a fan of gore and I am not a fan of films like HOSTEL which for me are nothing but torture porn.Gore for the sake of gore does nothing for me but movies with intricate stories and truly disturbing content and messages not only resonate with me but leave me truly terrified.This list is the 10 Most Disturbing films that offer enticing stories, great characters, and most of all a truly terrifying experience.
This movie was not only highly disturbing it was a stunningly well done sci-fi experience. Starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo it tells the story of a world that comes apart as literally everyone goes blind.
As the blindness sickness spreads the blind are isolated into make shift camps to prevent the infection from spreading.
The entire film is well done but the most disturbing moments come towards the middle of the film as the infection spreads and society in the 'concentration camp' degenerates and victims turn on victims with vicious results. A shocking and fantastic film which every apocalyptic film fan should see.
Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door
: The Girl Next Door is based on a true story and apparently there was another version of the film which starred Ellen Page star of Juno and WHIP IT.
I have no idea who disturbing An American Crime was but Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door was so violent and dark it stayed with me for weeks. The tale of a young girl who is victimized not just by the neighbourhood kids but a brutal woman who lives next door and is filled with hate for her.
The Girl Next Door is graphic and violent but also done within the context of an over arcing and intense story. So where as most films of this nature I would find highly offensive the focus on story telling makes this movie disturbing and emotional and definitely one that will leave you feeling violated.
It seems for a good dark and disturbing horror film you really need to turn to the French these days. They are not afraid at all of crossing the lines of good taste and brutalizing the main characters in their films.
Frontieres tells the story of a brutal gang of bank robbers who go on the run and run into something much worse than them a sadistic and evil family that is pleased to see them.. and make them their new victims.
Very brutal its a far superior film to High Tension both in disturbing content and depth of character. Very disturbing, very believable it stays with you and certainly will have you grimacing in certain scenes.
Last House on the Left Remake:
Most remakes are very tame. When Wes Craven's Last House on the Left came out in the 70's it was considered one of the most disturbing films of its time.
When I heard that Rogue Pictures was doing a remake I really expected your typical watered down PG-13 remake but this film was anything but. Easily as brutal and violent as the original Last House on the Left is a story of pain and suffering with a final call for vengeance.
Easily one of the more brutal films to come out of mainstream studios in a very long time and one of the few remakes that truly does pay homage to the original. Directed by Dennis Iliadis, he has been tapped to direct the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and if he can do the same justice for it as he did for Last House on the Left I am sure we will be terrified!
Jack Ketchum's The Lost:
I have never read a Jack Ketchum book and was not a fan of his before I saw The Girl Next Door but having seen that film I had to see them all. Jack Ketchum's The Lost also makes my list for the same reasons that The Girl Next Door did it really left a mark.
Where The Girl Next Door left very little to the imagination and actually showed off a lot of its brutality The Lost has the 'jaws' effect where a lot of the brutality is implied off-screen which for me made this movie all that more disturbing.
There is a particular scene ripped right from the Manson murders which will surely leave its mark on you. The film tells the story of a psychopathic 20 something who sets out to do what psychotic killers do best. An extremely disturbing tale of young love, murder and brutality.
I owned Inside for over a year before I finally could muster up the strength to watch it. The film tells the story of a pregnant woman who falls victim to a psycho who wants her baby… whether its ready to come out or not.
I have two children and at the time my youngest was only a month old so I could not stomach the idea of watching this film.
Sufficed to say that when I finally did watch it about a month ago it lived up to what I expected. With the exception of an extremely flawed ending INSIDE is a very disturbing film that lacks the usual clichés in the 'deranged killer' genre that has an extremely graphic and brutal ending that much like the films above on this list stayed with me for a long time.
This movie unlike the other films on this list was actually quite humorous but its the kind of movie where one moment you are chuckling at the dark humor and the next minute you are groaning. Especially if you are a male.
Teeth tells the story of Vaginal Dentate and I will let you all google that to figure it out but in a nut shell it's a story of a young teen girl who has teeth where no girl should have teeth and how her simple and domestic life quickly falls apart.
Spiraling out of control her simple suburban life degrades into a story of violence and revenge. Dark and well written its a film you will chuckle at and wince.
Hard Candy:
Starring Ellen Page this movie much like The Lost relies on the 'jaws' effect for most of its terror but it's still one of the most disturbing films you can see. It tells the story of a young teen who is befriended by an older man with evil intentions.
Things quickly spiral out of control as the young girl played by Ellen Page decides whether she wants to be the victim or the villain. Intense and dark it's a great thrill ride that twists and turns throughout leaving you wondering who is going to end up the victim and who will survive.
Martyrs is one of two movies in my entire life that I had to use the fast forward button during. Not because the movie was bad but because the content was so disturbing I literally had to fast forward to keep from being sick.
That being said it is still one of the most intense and intelligent films I have ever seen.
A young girl who was victimized as a youngster sets out with her friend to seek revenge but what starts out as a path of vengeance quickly spirals out of control. A story of vengeance, torture and the human spirit it is easily one of the most disturbing and well done films I have ever seen. Be warned though this will not be an easy one to sit through!
Dead Girl:
Last on my list is Dead Girl but that by no means puts it at the bottom. Dead Girl is a coming of age story about a group of high school boys who discover a woman chained to a bed in an abandoned hospital.What happens next is perverted and vile and sets the course for a confrontation between friends as they try to decide what to do with the 'Dead Girl'.
Dead girl is extremely hard to watch.It is an intelligent and extremely dark film that is both disturbing and entrancing. I was sent a screener of this movie a year or so before it hit dvd and raved about it and all of my friends who have seen it loved it but agreed it is clearly not for the faint of heart.Having now read my list I encourage you to post your own.
What films scarred you and left you feeling violated while still mesmerizing you with a powerful film making experience?


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- A passport or like form of identity.
- Multiple proofs of address, probably in the form of a recent bank statement and a recent utility bill.
- If possible a letter of introduction, on official headed paper, from an academic.
- Business cards, of the and other varieties.
- A printout of a recent state of the database, covering at least the pre-WW2 vintages.
- If the printout just mentioned is double sided, some scraps of paper.
- A camera.
- It needs enough memory. If I am being assiduous about changing resolution (lowest for dates on covers of catalogues; 5 megapixels for moderate amounts of text; maximum for more text and for images), I use about a gigabyte a day. So 2G should be enough for a one-day trip; more is needed for longer. If changing resolution is too much hassle, double these numbers.
- A spare battery, and battery charger. Of course, the day should start with both batteries full, and if the batteries empty more quickly than they reload, perhaps three full batteries.
- Some archives and libraries prohibit the use of cameras (so far, the National Army Museum, King's Cantab, the library of the Frick Collection, and particularly shamefully the British Library) a prohibition that is mostly a wilful impediment to scholarship; and most archives prohibit the use of pens and of biros. So:
- Two single-H pencils;
- A pencil sharpener that can hold the sharpenings for later disposal (i.e., not one requiring pencils to be sharpened over the bin);
- An exercise book or other bound set of paper to hold the words. I use a hard-cover A5 pad from WHSmith.
- Be gentle with archival material. In a few centuries people might come to check our references, and only if the materials still exist will they be able to see that we were right.
- Most archives have snakes (mid-weight chains wrapped in soft cotton), and stands (so that materials can be held open at less than 180°). Ask for both. Use both.
- If something is really delicate then ask for help. If it falls apart whilst being held by the archivist, blame cannot be placed on the reader.
- Sometimes papers are tied together with ribbon. This seems to cut into the papers, and (I think) is bad practice. Ask the archivist to re-tie things.
- If something is out-of-order or misplaced draw it to the attention of the archivist. I have seen, within a price catalogue, a hand-written letter of very different date. Ask whether it should be separated and catalogued separately (somebody writing a biography of author or recipient might not think to look inside wrong-date price catalogues).
- And being seen to treat materials with appropriate care has another advantage. If the archivist is called away from a small archive, readers might be asked to wait outside until the archivist returns. Being seen to have handled things well has caused me to be allowed to stay a useful extension to the working day.
- Most archives have rules restricting or prohibiting the use of mobile phones. Obey!
Zoom in not out.
- So first photograph the name of the archive, so that it can be later identified. A good proxy for this might be the business card of the archivist.
- Next photograph the class mark of the volume, and the relevant part of the cover. This picture can be low resolution.
- If that volume covers multiple dates, photograph the date, again low resolution.
- Then photograph the port parts, in appropriately high resolution.
- Then date of next section, and so on.
- Sometimes an out-of-sequence error occurs, port being photographed before date. Consider deleting the picture and retaking. Or, write on one of the scraps of paper (or back of database printout) something like "this date applies to previous photo", and in one shot photograph the missing date and the words written on the scrap of paper.
- Know that these pictures might be transcribed into excel after a long and forgetful delay, and perhaps by the co-author. In the manner of the previous bullet unambiguously annotate any variations from the obvious.
- Subsequent transcription is made much easier by having the dates in order, from oldest to youngest. If the archives consist of many ill-sorted separate pieces, this might be awkward, but as much as possible, photograph in order.
- If a picture might appear in the final book, take extra care with light, the angle of the photograph, the flatness of the page, and use maximum resolution.
- If offered a business card, photograph it so that it cannot be separated from the data to which it applies.
- Soon after arriving home, separate the pictures into clearly named directories, one for each archive.
- Make a backup of the data.
- If photos are to be reproduced on or in the book, write to archivist seeking permission and the correct form of acknowledgement.
The Book
Drafts of some chapters are on PortVintages.com.


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So today I am wrapping up my virtual tour for Eternal Desire and to celebrate that and the fact that tomorrow it is Halloween I have a huge Fang-tastic Books Free Book Friday Giveaway for you today.
Everything you see above is in the prize pack: a Fang-tastic Books tote bag, Blood Ties Season One and Season 2 on DVD (thanks Eagle Rock Entertainment), a copy of The Mammoth Book of Erotic Confessions which contains two "confessions" by yours truly (it's just fiction but they sound like pretty good confessions I suppose), a copy of Blood Price by Tanya Huff (the first book in the Blood series that launched the Blood Ties TV show) and a signed copy of Eternal Desire.
Plus there are some author bookmarks and promo stuff that authors have sent my way.
So the winner will receive this whole prize pack full of goodies.


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WHEN: Saturday March 26, 2011. 9:00 am
WHERE: Smithland, KY. Livingston Central High School
WHY: 75% proceeds to purchase books. 25% proceeds to Brain Injury Support Group (local chapter of Western Kentucky).
AWARDS: Trophies to overall male and female. 1st, 2nd, 3rd place medals to male and female in age groups.
COST: $20.00 per runner.
If registered on or before March 18, 2011 guaranteed a t-shirt. Registration is open 7:00-8:30 am day of race.
Also, a "1 mile fun run" for kids all ages. $10.00 per runner. Ribbons to all participants.
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Make checks payable to: Livingston County friends of the Library, Inc.
For more information please contact Rebecca O'Neal email@example.com
Hosted by: Livingston County Friends of the Library
Timing provided by: River to River Runners Club
Curt Swinford of Castleberry, McGregor and Swinford Architects presented the Livingston County Fiscal Court with an artist rendering of the New Library and County Office Building at the joint meeting of the Fiscal Court and Library Exploratory Committee on September 1, 2009. The building should be ready for bid proposals in the spring of 2010 with Construction beginning in the summer of 2010. The Fiscal Court has already received a grant of $190,000 from Congressman Ed Whitfield to go toward the Library.
The building will be three (3) floors with each floor covering approximately 9000 square feet for a total of 27,000 square feet and it will house the Sheriff and County Clerk on the first floor; the Judge Executive, County Attorney, Child Support, and PVA Office on the second floor; and the Library on the third floor.
A new photo gallery of events, incidents and other happening of public interest has been launched on this website. Please visit the new gallery here. County residents or anyone with pictures of general interest or historical importance are invited to submit them for inclusion. Digital pictures may be emailed to the Webmaster at the "Contact Webmaster" link at the bottom of this page. Other pictures may be mailed to the Judge Executive's Office. Please include a short description of the place or event.


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Size is another important aspect to consider. You do not want a bath mat that is too small, but if you choose one that is too large, it won't fit properly on your bathroom floor. Get out your measuring tape, and put those math skills to good use by figuring out the dimensions of your bathroom as well as how much floor space is available. The mat should go directly in front of your bathtub or shower. Also, keep in mind that not all bath mats are rectangular. Some may be round or oval, or in some cases, they may be clover or kitty cat shaped like select ones from our collection.
Now, it's time for the fun part: picking out your favorite colors and patterns. We offer everything from Bohemian chic to colorful solids. If you are crazy for kittens, you can show off your feline side with the Emily & Meritt Cat Bath Mat. The mat is solid white with black detail for the nose, ears and whiskers and look great in any black and white bathroom. Another great choice is our Pom-Pom Bath mat, which comes in four colors: white, pink, gray and pool. At 22"x34", it contains a mixture of cut pile heights to make it a little fluffier than your average bath mat.
For the guys or for something more sophisticated consider a classic border bath mat. The simple natural-colored rectangular rug has a touch of blue that is subtle enough to go with practically anything. We also offer the bath mats that come in shades like white, pink, pool and navy. These 20"x 30" rectangular rugs complement any of our patterned shower curtains. Take a look at our shower caddies, bathroom storage accessories, beauty organizers and laundry bags in matching colors, too. You can even put together a bathroom accessories set that includes matching trash bins, soap or lotion dispensers, toothbrush holders, tissue box covers and water tumblers. The possibilities are nearly endless.


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20 Buffalo VA patients test positive for hepatitis
WASHINGTON – Twenty veterans treated at the Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center have tested positive for hepatitis in the wake of revelations that nurses improperly reused insulin pens on multiple patients, but all but two have cleared the virus, the hospital said Thursday.
Fourteen of the patients tested positive for hepatitis B, but those patients have cleared the infection and no longer can pass along the virus, said Evangeline E. Conley, hospital spokeswoman.
Meanwhile, six others tested positive for hepatitis C. Four of those patients have cleared the virus, while two show signs of chronic disease, Conley said.
"It's certainly possible that the infection was caused by the use of these insulin pens across multiple patients, but we'll never know for sure," said Rep. Chris Collins, R-Clarence, who was briefed on the matter Thursday.
Conley agreed. "It should be emphasized that those positives did not necessarily get infected by their exposure," she said. "We may just be detecting an infection that was acquired years ago unrelated to insulin pens."
None of the patients tested to date showed evidence of exposure to HIV, the VA said.
The statistics released by the VA are the first that identify the number of hepatitis infections following the hospital's admission, in January, that 716 of its patients could have been exposed to hepatitis or HIV because of the misuse of insulin pens on diabetic patients between Oct. 19, 2010, and Nov. 1, 2012.
Those insulin-delivery devices are designed to be used on one person each, but the hospital said some of the pens may have been used on multiple patients.
Of the 716 patients who may have been exposed to infection, 174 died before the hospital became aware of the problem involving the reuse of the insulin-delivery devices.
Some 85 percent of the living veterans who may have been exposed to infection have been tested, Conley said. The rest have tests scheduled soon, have been tested but have not yet received the results or have not responded to the VA's attempts to contact them.
The VA's release of the statistics on the reuse of the insulin pens came the same day that the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs released a report that offered more details of the incident, along with some scathing criticism of how it happened.
Investigators interviewed 37 nurses at the hospital, and five acknowledged that they had used the insulin pens on multiple patients, the report said. All the nurses worked in the same unit.
In addition, several other nurses throughout the hospital told investigators they frequently found unlabeled insulin pens on medication carts – meaning those pens also could have ended up being used on multiple patients.
Once the insulin pens were introduced at the hospital, officials there "failed to fully consider and/or mitigate the risks associated with using insulin pens," the report said. "Furthermore, once the decision was made to use the pens, former facility leaders and pharmacy and nursing officials failed to ensure proper planning and coordination, adequate and timely training, and clear and ongoing guidance on the difference between insulin pens and multi-dose vials that have traditionally been used on inpatient units."
Once the problem was discovered, though, the Buffalo hospital acted promptly to correct it and test those that might have been affected, the Inspector General's report said.
The Inspector General also recommended that the Buffalo hospital improve its training of nurses when new products are implemented and that it begin a process to make sure that hospital leadership evaluates the risks and benefits before introducing new medical products into the hospital.
Collins said he was amazed that such evaluations were not already being done.
"It's mind-boggling to me that anyone would introduce new products into a hospital without a process to evaluate the risks and the benefits," he said.


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Is that including the fact that a lot of their sacrifices were captured prisoners of war? If I remember right, one of the other things history books tend to forget was how Cortez broke the Mayans leading a small army of all the other little tribal powers the Mayans had been abusing and warring against for generations, not just his Spanish conquistadors.
I thought that was the Aztecs. The Mayans live/lived on the Yucatan peninsula, not in central Mexico. By the time Cortez showed up, the Mayan city state civilization had been dead for several hundred to a thousand years.
Yes. The Maya as a culture were still alive (and they still are, currently six million of them)
Right...I get the Maya, Aztec, and Inca confused sometimes. Cortez beat the Aztec, Pizarro beat the Inca, but the Maya beat themselves.
I think it's a bit naive to claim that one invasion was the sole cause of the empire's fall. Realistically, it had been in steady decline for a long time before the Germanic invasions. The main problem, really, seems to be rooted in the empire's resources being spread too thin. Quite simply, the Roman Empire grew so much that the central government had a very hard time defending and controlling it. The other factors already mentioned definitely didn't help matters.
It's hard to believe some people still believe this, but some people still think the Egyptians lived and did everything in pyramids.
Fun fact: More time had passed between the building of the Great Pyramids and Cleopatra's reign than have passed between Cleopatra's reign and right now. I have a hard time grasping that the pyramids would have already been ancient way back when Marc Antony was on the creep in Alexandria.
It's hard to believe some people still believe this, but some people still think the Egyptians lived and did everything in pyramids.
*laughs* I know some people (back in the 18th/19th centuries) used to believe that the great pyramids were Pharaoh's granaries, built under the supervision of Joseph during the seven fat years, but having the Egyptians living and working inside pyramids is even better!
I hadn't heard that one. It reminds me that a number of people used to believe that the indigenous peoples of the Americas were lost tribes of Israel or that there was once a theory that the Navajo and Tibetans were very direct relatives. which in some circles was widely accepted. You could probably fill a book with all the intricate and unusual bible based theories and rumors alone.
Or about 40% of the History Channel's programming.
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No one seemed to know who owned the unhealthy trees in the alley behind Rexmere Road in Baltimore, the ones growing amid the electrical lines, but there was no mystery about the cause of every power outage around there.
Meetings were organized. Baltimore City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke tracked down people with property maps. The Sisters of Saint Francis of Assisi at Clare Court, surprised to find that most of the trees were theirs, hired a contractor to trim like mad just before superstorm Sandy hit in October.
It worked. The lights stayed on.
"It was like a eureka moment, believe me," said Susann Schemm, a Rexmere Road resident who lost power for eight days after the June 29 derecho storm.
Trees and branches falling on power lines cause most bad-weather outages, including the overwhelming majority of the hundreds of thousands in Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s territory during two big storms this year. As the amount of rough weather buffeting the region mounts, officials and residents alike are taking a harder look at the part trees play in the aggravating — and dangerous — matter of days-long stretches without power.
That's a major shift.
"A decade ago, I think most people didn't want us to trim the trees," said Brian C. Daschbach Sr., vice president of BGE's integrated field services, which includes forestry. "I'd say that today, people do want us to trim the trees."
The state convened a Grid Resiliency Task Force after the June derecho windstorm caused more than 1 million outages statewide in 100-degree heat. The group recommended this fall that utilities be allowed to charge more to make improvements relating directly and indirectly to trees.
The major suggestions: Move limited portions of overhead power lines underground — away from troublesome branches — and "embrace an accelerated tree trimming schedule."
"While the task force is cognizant of the critical and positive role that Maryland's tree canopy plays throughout the state, the task force is convinced that improved vegetation management is a highly effective way to improve the resiliency of the grid," the group said in its report.
Maryland's Public Service Commission, hoping to improve reliability, required in May that utilities trim trees along their entire system every four to five years. The task force then suggested that the first cycle be done in just two years.
But consumer advocates aren't wild about the task force report because it calls for a monthly surcharge, which Gov. Martin O'Malley — speaking generally — suggested could add $1 or $2 to bills. Utility watchdogs say the companies should pay for trimming and "selective undergrounding" from the rates they already charge consumers — rates that BGE is asking permission to increase.
"Tree trimming is always just part of maintaining your system," said Paula M. Carmody, who represents residential utility customers as head of the Maryland Office of People's Counsel. "Trees have been around forever."
BGE — which spent $34.5 million on vegetation management last year, up nearly $11 million from 2007 — likes the task force recommendations. Officials at the utility say they use the suggested trimming and infrastructure strategy in communities with reliability problems.
Tree-heavy Pikesville is one example. BGE spokesman Rob Gould calls the Baltimore County community one of the hardest hit in the region during Hurricane Irene last year and the summer derecho.
After Irene, BGE put together a Pikesville to-do list: new equipment, underground cable in forests too dense for the overhead power lines, and a lot of tree trimming and removal.
Though the planning had started months earlier, BGE officials said work was still in the early stages when the derecho roared through with less than an hour's warning. The storm knocked down so many trees and did so much damage to the local grid that some Pikesville customers were without power for up to eight days.
Afterward, BGE kept working. The undergrounding and much of the new equipment will come next year, but the utility removed at least 70 trees in the most walloped part of Pikesville — on top of ones felled by the derecho — and trimmed many more.
When Sandy blew through in late October, tree damage to the community's lines was so much less severe that most residents had their power back by the next evening, according to BGE.
Power outages are such a problem for the area that the Pikesville-Greenspring Community Coalition has a committee focused on nothing but the issue. Noel Levy, the committee's chairman, said "hardly a week goes by in Pikesville, hardly a week, when somebody isn't losing power somewhere."
He suggested that decades-old equipment in dire need of replacement is more to blame than trees.
Barry Holt Blank, first vice president of the coalition, agreed. But he acknowledged that the tree work, while not a panacea, has made a difference.
"We let BGE know that we recognize that they've spent a ton in our neighborhood and things are better than they were," Blank said.
The dominant emotion about tree-trimming and removal in the Baltimore area used to be dissatisfaction, changing as it did the look of yards, streets or entire neighborhoods. Residents occasionally sought temporary restraining orders to try to protect trees on their property. Carroll County's commissioners, after fielding complaints, asked BGE in 2005 to halt work along Route 140.
Then one storm after another hit Maryland. The twin snowstorms in 2010. A January snowstorm and Hurricane Irene in 2011. The derecho and Sandy this year.
That change has brought more and louder customer complaints about reliability. It has also caused what Gould called a 180-degree turn in customer opinion on tree maintenance.
Now some homeowners are asking BGE to take down their trees, he said. In cases where property owners aren't so thrilled, community leaders have suggested to him that a little neighborly peer pressure might be applied. (When trees pose a hazard to lines but aren't growing into the utility right of way, BGE's hands are more or less tied if it can't get the owner's OK.)
And then there are the customers — like the nuns in Baltimore — who take the expense of tree trimming and removal upon themselves.
"I regret that it had to come because the lights go out so often in storms, but I'm grateful that the shift has happened, because it allows us to accomplish our mission more effectively," BGE's Daschbach said.
But for tree lovers, the change is unwelcome.
Nina Beth Cardin, a rabbi who directs the Baltimore Orchard Project, said trees are so critically important to the environment that two at a minimum ought to be planted for every one cut down. The goal should be to put wires underground, which would also cut down on visual blight, she said.
Cardin lives in Pikesville, where BGE has been cutting and trimming assiduously. She lost seven massive white pines and one locust tree in her front yard this summer. She also lost power for a week after Irene and eight days post-derecho. Her point isn't that trees are more important than energy, but that it's wrongheaded to pit the two against each other.
"It should not be either power or trees," said Cardin. "We've set up an unhealthy competition."
An overhead system is more prone to outages than one underground. About 80 percent of BGE's underground distribution lines functioned through each of the past three major storms, compared with just over half its overhead lines, according to the grid task force.
For distribution lines that are partly above and partly below, storm performance fell between the two extremes — a reminder that customers with underground lines can fall victim to tree-related outages, too.
And while proponents say the long-term savings would be substantial, large-scale "undergrounding" could come with a huge upfront tab.
The state's grid task force, citing a utility trade group, said such conversions "can cost five to ten times more than comparable overhead construction." It recommended undergrounding in select cases but suggested that aggressive tree-trimming was the most effective move.
The bottom line, as the task force saw it, is "if the branches don't fall, the lines don't break."
Daschbach said he wants people to know that the utility takes power reliability and the importance of trees seriously. There's an innate tension: It's the towering specimens that pose a problem for lines, he said, but "those mature trees are the ones that are pretty majestic."
His staff, hoping to reduce future conflicts, is talking to local governments, developers, nurseries and individual customers about what can safely be planted near power lines. Fruit trees and "profoundly" flowering trees such as the dogwood are good because they don't typically grow to problematic heights. Bad: silver maples, white pines and other fast growers with weak wood.
Many huge trees in the no-no category can be found in Pikesville. Planted decades ago, they've since "overtaken the system," Gould said.
Trimming can't prevent all power outages during a hurricane, but BGE sees it as a way to reduce their number and length.
So, too, do the property owners who have elected to trim or remove their own trees in hopes of improving electric reliability.
Sister Ellen Carr, administrative director for the Sisters of Saint Francis of Assisi at Clare Court in Baltimore, said the "volunteer" trees that sprung up years ago outside the nuns' fence — but, unbeknown to the order, on its property — have such shallow roots that they're quite precarious. Tree experts said 19 needed to come down. Others required trimming.
The discovery didn't come without pangs.
"We are Franciscan, and Franciscans are very, very concerned about nature," Carr said.
Tree removal isn't cheap, either, and the sisters wouldn't even have the satisfaction of improving their own electric reliability — Clare Court doesn't rely on the power lines near those trees. But Carr said she couldn't stand by while her neighbors were "so incredibly vulnerable."
"Obviously, it was our responsibility, and once we realized it was our responsibility, we had to take action," she said.
Clarke, the councilwoman who represents the area, said Rexmere Road always seemed to lose power in storms. The derecho knocked out desperately needed air conditioning during a heat wave.
She's delighted the tree-cutting worked.
"It made all the difference," Clarke said.