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Tuesdays with Wilcockson: A birthday ride
May 8, 2012 by John Wilcockson
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Most cyclists set some sort of challenge each year to give them an incentive to get into shape. For many years, my challenge has been a long ride in the Rockies west of my adopted hometown of Boulder, Colorado, on my May 5 birthday. I began this now annual rite of springtime at age 50, when I mapped out a 50-mile route to ride with a couple-dozen colleagues from the office. It was a day of strong southerly winds and only half the group made it to the final loop through the foothills. I've been adding a mile to the ride every year since then, and now most of it is in the mountains rather than on the plains.
That's probably the wrong way to go about this venture. Friends say, "You should be riding on flat roads." And they ask, "What are going to do when you're in your 80s or 90s?" So I remind them of the 100-year-old French cyclist, Robert Marchand, who set a world hour record of 24.25 kilometers for his age group on the UCI Velodrome in Switzerland back in February. My sister tells me that I should switch my ride to kilometers, and that's a choice I do think about … but not for long. I grew up with miles, so miles it remains.
I did have a few concerns in the lead-up to this year's birthday ride last Saturday. Although I run three times a week to stay in shape, I didn't take my first 2012 bike ride until late March — mainly because of some hectic traveling and new work schedules. However, I did manage to get in 10 short rides before May 5, including a longest one of 30 miles that went over a climb destined for this August's USA Pro Cycling Challenge. That gave me the confidence I could again tackle my birthday ride and its 6,000 feet of climbing.
My bike, I have to admit, was in far worse shape than I was. Fortunately, I managed to get a booking with Vecchio's Bicicletteria, the iconic Boulder bike shop, whose owner Peter Chisholm worked his magic, fitting new pedals, chain, hub bearings and cone, cable housings, inner tubes, brake pads and a bar-end stop. When I took it for a spin the night before the ride, I couldn't believe how smoothly everything was working. Thanks, Peter!
So my bike was ready, I was ready, and I knew the two (younger) friends coming with me had been riding a lot. Even the weather was looking good: a forecast for partly cloudy skies, high-50s early in the day, high-60s in the high country and high-70s back in Boulder. As for the ride itself, I'd modified the course to include an initial loop on some of the dirt roads used in this year's Boulder-Roubaix race.
Because cell-phone coverage is spotty in the deep canyons of the Rockies and up on the high-altitude Peak-to-Peak Highway, I knew I wouldn't get any live coverage of Saturday's opening time trial at the Giro d'Italia — but I was looking forward to watching the Gazzetta dello Sport video of the stage when I got home. I was of course hoping that local hero Taylor Phinney, who has trained on these Colorado roads for years, would have the form to take the 2012 Giro's first pink jersey on this Cinco de Mayo.
Besides sharing a birthday with such diverse characters as "Monty Python" comic Michael Palin and singers Adele, Chris Brown and Tammy Wynette, I expect unusual things tend to happen on my birthday. When I did the May 5 ride in 2000 — already a dozen years ago! — I learned that morning that Gino Bartali had died at 85. Later in the day, I heard that Lance Armstrong, on a Tour de France scouting trip, crashed heavily descending a mountain pass in the Pyrenees. And, in the heavens that night 12 years ago, there was a very rare conjunction of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon. Some day!
This year, besides the start of the Giro in Denmark, May 5 would see a "supermoon" and a meteor shower from Halley's comet. That would come later. First, there were birthday cards to open, Facebook greetings to read and phone calls to take before I set off on another challenging ride.
My watch read 7:30 when I spotted Steve circling the road near the end of his street. We reached across to shake hands and he wished me "Happy Birthday." We were soon on our way, heading east, when we were passed (with a quick greeting) by two spin-class coaches from Steve's gym who were out training on their full triathlon rigs. Seeing dozens of other riders (and generally being passed by them!) became a pattern of the day. That's because it was a Saturday. When my birthday is on a weekday, I usually ride alone and rarely see another cyclist.
This time, I wasn't alone. Steve's a lawyer with the Native American Rights Fund and a recreational cyclist. He was wearing his Triple Bypass jersey, reminding me that every July he does the infamous 120-mile mass ride over the 11,000-foot Juniper, Loveland and Vail Passes. It helps to have a strong riding companion! And his wife Martha, who oversees my weight training most weeks, would join us where our route entered the canyons.
But first we pounded along the dirt roads through a springtime paradise of infinite green, riding past rushing creeks, open meadows and an organic farm called "Pastures of Plenty" — which seemed to sum it all up. After a brief connection with Highway 36, busy with groups of cyclists heading north in the bright sunshine, we joined Martha and started up the 16-mile climb toward the Gold Rush-era village of Ward at 9,000 feet elevation.
As my weights coach followed me up the long, long climb's culminating double-digit grade, with me feeling like a sagging Vincenzo Nibali muscling his way up the Côte de Saint-Nicolas in last month's Liège-Bastogne-Liège, I was happy to hear her tell me: "Good job!" Usually, I have the deck at the Ward village store to myself. But on this pleasantly warm Saturday morning, there was a never-ending stream of riders, most of them stopping to eat homemade cookies, pump black coffee from a Thermos and guzzle 99-cent cans of Coke. We joined them.
The three of us then climbed the last little drag up to Peak-to-Peak. I told Martha that this scenic byway was built by "unemployed" workers during the Great Depression, and it was originally planned to link Long's Peak with Pike's Peak, but only its northern half was completed before the war started. I'm glad this half was built, because riding the always-curving, roller-coaster road, with close-up views of snow-covered peaks and distant views of the plains, is always the highlight of my ride. Back in the 1980s, I saw the likes of Andy Hampsten and Greg LeMond doing battle on Peak-to-Peak in the Coors Classic, and this coming August their successors Tom Danielson, Tejay Van Garderen, Levi Leipheimer and Christian Vande Velde will be racing up and down these hills in the USA Pro Challenge.
Martha, Steve and I flew down the last long downhill into Nederland, and continued on, riding against the wind up the dead-end valley to Eldora before returning to Ned and a leisurely al-fresco lunch at the Whistler's Café. All that remained was a 20-mile dash back to base, descending 3,000 feet in the canyon alongside the fast-flowing Boulder Creek. It was an exhilarating ending to our ride, followed by the excitement of learning that, after two other onetime Boulder residents, Hampsten and Vande Velde, Boulder native Phinney had become only the third American to don the Giro's maglia rosa.
Thanks, Taylor. Thanks, Peter. Thanks, Steve. Thanks Martha. Good job!
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Tuesdays With Wilcockson #5
February 6, 2012 by John Wilcockson
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The wind beneath my wings
We all remember when we were kids discovering the joys of riding a bicycle. Sometimes, with friends, we'd whistle a tune or sing songs as we pedaled along. Later, when I got into racing, I found that music was a helpful ally. In a race called The Circuit of Glyndebourne, held on a rolling course through the Sussex countryside on a bright spring day, I found myself humming The Four Seasons hit, "Rag Doll." I began pushing my pedals to the tune's metronomic beat, which continued to pound through my head as I went on a solo break. I was pumped, and I barely felt the pain that I should have been feeling.
Music has always played a big role in European bike racing. When I first saw the Tour de France, in 1963, I was watching from a hillside in Normandy when the leading vehicle in the publicity caravan arrived. It was a box-like Peugeot van, and sitting on the roof was the iconic French accordionist, Yvette Horner, playing romantic melodies for spectators at their picnic tables — Paris café music at its best. To this Englishman, it was all so appealingly French!
Horner played her accordion at the Tour for more than a dozen years; she also presented the yellow jersey at most of the finishes before performing at evening concerts in the stage towns. I was reminded of her a few years ago at a Tour stage in the Massif Central when we watched an outdoor screening of "Les Triplettes de Belleville," the quirky animated film that features a 1950s' Tour and accordion music by Roberte Rivette, a Horner caricature.
Today, the Tour's publicity caravan is filled with piped pop music and disco dancers, while the brass band that performs on one of the custom floats is not actually using its trombones and trumpets — they're just lip-synching. But a real oom-pah band does come from the Netherlands every year, jazzing the crowds at places like Dutch Corner on L'Alpe d'Huez. That band, made up of true cycling fans, also travels to events like the road and cyclocross world championships, where they help establish the party atmosphere that plays such a defining role in this sport.
In the 1970s and '80s, opera was an integral part of cycling in Italy. RAI television used to open its Giro d'Italia coverage with an inspirational aria, perhaps Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma from Puccini's "Turandot," while showing sepia scenes of Coppi and Bartali battling over cloud-covered mountains. And the Italian version of Radio Tour would play classical music for long stretches of races when there was no real action. During quieter moments of the Tour, one of my press-car colleagues, a passionate Catalan journalist from Barcelona, Miguel Utrillo, would entertain us with his own operatic outbursts, his favorite being a made-up song about a Pyrenean stage town: "Oooo-ooh, Saint Lary!"
Another indelible memory is Sean Kelly's phenomenal time trial between his hometown of Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel that won him the 1985 Nissan Classic; the video of his record-setting ride was later set to the hit song "Wind Beneath My Wings," sung by Sheena Easton. The lyrics well described how the Irish regarded their Sean: "Did you ever know that you're my hero … I could fly higher than an eagle, 'cause you are the wind beneath my wings."
There's also something truly uplifting about the dramatic fanfare-style refrain played before every single presentation at the Tour de France, bringing pomp and dignity to those jersey-awarding ceremonies. But the Tour's most stirring moments come in Paris, when a military band regularly plays the winner's national anthem.
After listening mostly to "La Marseillaise" or "La Brabançonne" through the late-1960s, '70s and early-'80s, it was emotionally moving to hear "The Star-Spangled Banner" ring out for the first time in 1986, with Greg LeMond on the top step of the podium. Ironically, there have been no more French or Belgian winners since then, replaced by 10 victories for both the Americans and Spanish, and single breakthroughs for Ireland, Denmark, Germany and Italy. And then, last year for Cadel Evans, we heard the first rendition of "Advance Australia Fair", unusually and joyfully performed by Aussie singing star Tina Arena.
What does the near-future hold? Maybe Andy Schleck will rightfully bring us Luxembourg's "Ons Heemecht" for the first time since his countryman Charly Gaul won the Tour in 1958. Or perhaps there will be the first-ever win for a rider from eastern Europe, Africa, Asia or South America. I know that my personal collection won't be complete until I hear the noble strains of Britain's national anthem, "God Save The Queen," echoing off the cobblestones of the Champs-Élysées.
Did anyone say Bradley Wiggins?
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How much can we learn from restoring the Elwha River, after the two dams that block it are finally removed?
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Helping Hummingbirds with Citizen Science
The dedicated volunteers of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network gather field data to help conserve the birds they love.
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Navajo Monster Slayers: a tribe struggles to fight corruption
The West's largest tribe works to reform its government -- while keeping its traditions strong.
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Ganjanomics: bringing Humboldt's shadow economy into the light
Marijuana growers and government officials in California's notorious "Emerald Triangle" work towards legitimizing the local cash crop.
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The Global West: how foreign investment fuels resource extraction in western states
China's insatiable energy appetite is fueling a natural resource boom in the West.
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In search of diversity in our national parks
One man's quest to understand why people of color are underrepresented in outdoor recreation and the conservation movement.
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Rocky Mountain wolf recovery leader was not your average bureaucrat
An interview with Ed Bangs, who recently retired from heading the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's gray wolf recovery program
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Rural papers doing better than their city counterparts
In an age where the decline newspapers seems imminent, small town papers still fill a niche.
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Hydrofracked: One man's quest for answers about natural gas drilling
A Wyoming farmer battles industry and bureaucracy trying to find out whether hydraulic fracturing -- used in natural gas drilling -- polluted his drinking water.
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The key player: Elling B. Halvorson
Elling B. Halvorson, the main Grand Canyon air-tour operator, is involved in a great variety of Western businesses.
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How developers and businessmen cash in on Grand Canyon overflights
An air-tour businessman and Italian developers become deeply enmeshed in the politics of tiny Tusayan, Ariz., part of a plan to profit from the nearby Grand Canyon.
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Park Service finally drafts a solution to conflicts over canyon flights
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The proposed redevelopment of San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood worries its longtime black residents, who fear gentrification will drive them out.
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Western Folklife Center's YouTube page has something for everyone.
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The Western Folklife Center in Elko is at the axis of what could be called a Rural Renaissance. The home of the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering has created a YouTube Webpage that celebrates the ranch lifestyle so revered in the world-famous event.
I spent the better part of a morning perusing the page and viewing some of the dozens of videos available. I watched Wylie Gustafson, the voice behind the Yahoo! yodeling theme, teach an eager crowd how to yodel in Yodeling with Wylie; chuckled through a video montage of cowboys with handlebar mustaches in Handlebars and Horseshoes; learned practically everything there is to know about cowboy hats in Hats Off to Elko; and listened to a Western mixologist describe how to make the official cocktail of the gathering in Picon Punch at the Star.
In Brothers, Cindi Nash recites her poem by the same name over a montage of photos of her sons, and Corridos at the Gathering is about the Mexican vaquero tradition of storytelling. Jane Amrose Morton shares her poem of a branding trip in which urbanites traveled to her father's ranch to try their hands at cowboying in Branding. Although cowboy poetry and similar topics take center stage on the Webpage, there are plenty of videos that focus on other Western themes. Range War is a light-hearted look at a feud between rural Nevada ranchers who go so far as to advertise each others' ranch equipment for sale at ludicrously low prices. A Cow and Her Boy is about a 4-H cow named Lolly and her unusual, pet-like relationship with the boy who raised her.
If this YouTube page only whets your Western appetite, you might consider making your Elko travel arrangements now. The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering grows in popularity each year, and the 25th anniversary gathering, January 24-31, 2009, looks to be the most popular yet.
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Artnet recently launched an online art auction (still in beta mode), featuring photography, prints, works on paper, sculpture, and paintings. At a glance there were several hundred works posted, and there's info on the home page for art dealers on how to become an authorized Artnet seller. The site is straightforward and seems to work much like any online auction -- place a bid (U.S. dollars or euros) or just add to your watch list. There are starting bids, estimates, and end times. While the site is just getting started, I bet that with people shopping more and more from home (saving gas), even shopping online for art will become commonplace.


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Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans earned Great Britain their first ever gold medal at the Winter Paralympics.
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Morningside College faculty member shares her education expertise
Barbara "Cathy" Wilt, assistant professor of education at Morningside College, was one of 10 professors in the United States chosen to work recently with the assessment team at Excelsior College in Albany, N.Y., to develop standards for its Literacy Instruction in the Elementary School examination, and she was chosen to be a reviewer of proposals for the upcoming American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education annual meeting in San Diego.
Excelsior College is a distance learning institution of higher education with a student population of about 60,000 adult learners from the United States and other countries. Its elementary education majors take the Literacy Instruction in the Elementary School exam. The assessment team was working to set standards to determine the cutoff scores for each letter grade earned on the exam. The exam is approved by the American Council on Education.
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is a national alliance of educator preparation programs dedicated to the highest quality professional development of teachers and school leaders in order to enhance preschool through high school student learning. There are approximately 800 institutions of higher education that hold membership in the organization.
Wilt has a master's degree from Morningside College. She is certified as an elementary principal and teacher evaluator, and she is currently a doctoral student in educational leadership at Northcentral University. Before coming to Morningside College, she taught for 18 years in the Westwood Community School District in Sloan, Iowa, and she now serves on the school board there.


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This article lists significant steam heating systems defects, definitions, and home inspection education topics. This article series, beginning at BUILDING DEFECTS LISTS, provides lists of common building defects and basic defect knowledge that also outline recommended curriculum content for home inspector education. The building defects and inspection points listed in these articles also guide homeowners and home buyers to building areas that merit careful attention and often point areas of safety concern or important maintenance and repair tasks. Green links show where you are. © Copyright 2014 InspectApedia.com, All Rights Reserved. Home Inspection Education Curriculum - Heating, SteamReaders should see STEAM HEATING SYSTEMS and HEATING SYSTEMS for our complete list of articles on this topic. Also see HOME & BUILDING INSPECTORS & INSPECTION METHODS. Use the Search Box at the top or bottom of these pages to find in-depth information about building, energy savings, and indoor environment inspection, diagnosis and repair at this website. Watch out: these inspection lists do not list all possible defects for the systems discussed, and not all home or building inspectors will examine all of the items listed here. CONTACT us to suggest corrections or additions to articles at this website. These curriculae and building defect lists are based on smilar curriculum documents first prepared by Joe Scaduto, an ASHI member who prepared course material for Northeastern University's Building Inspection Certificate program in 1988, subsequently by DF, InspectApedia's editor, for New York University ca 1988 and later, with others, recommended to ASHI, the American Society of Home Inspectors. ASHI did not adopt this material though currently that association as well as others offer extensive HOME INSPECTOR EDUCATION material. The curriculum and lists of defects are informed by additional analysis of the process of home inspection that was developed beginning Calgary, AB for Canadian and U.S. home inspector education and certification examinations in 1997. Other early contributors to home inspection education in the U.S. and Canada include Dr. Jess Aronstein, Alan Carson, Mike Casey, Mark Cramer, John Cox, Dwight Barnett, Douglas Hansen, Rick Heyl, Larry Hoytt, Bill Merrill, Kevin O'Malley, Dennis Robitalille, Keith Peddie, Pat Porzio, Roger Robinson. 4.6 Steam Heating System Inspection Requirements & Defects List4.6.1 Knowledge Base for Steam Heating System Inspection1. Describe the function of steam heating systems. 2. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of steam heating relative to forced air and hot water heating. 3. Describe one and two pipe steam heating systems 4. Describe the materials and components of steam heating systems including the following: high and low pressure systems, one and two pipe systems, parallel flow or counter flow in one pipe systems, up feed or down feed systems, gravity return and pumped return systems, vapor systems, vacuum systems, burner, fuel delivery system, combustion air supply, vent/chimney, thermostat, distribution piping, radiator, operating controls, safety controls (including safety "pop-off" valve), pressure gauge, air vent on radiator and on pipe, Hartford loop, equalizer pipe, condensate pump, boiler feed pump, backflow preventer, zone control, tankless coils, 5. Describe the features of good installation and repair technique for a steam boiler. 6. Describe the operating cycle for steam heating system from the at rest position to shut down. 7. 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What kinds of conflict are present in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
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What kinds of conflict are present in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
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- He loves the old man, but hates the "vulture eye." Long before Sigmund Freud's theory that one can kill whom he loves, Poe creates in this story a narrator who kills the beloved old man because his heightened visual sensitivity and obsession that reduces the man to an eye when it is opened. For, it is only when the eye opens on the eighth day that the delusional narrator is capable of killing the old man: "For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye."
- After having disposed of the body, the narrator experiences a second conflict of his distorted sense of reality vs. reality when the policemen arrive. In his confidence the narrator brings the men into the very room in which the old man's body parts are hidden. While the "satisfied" officers "sat and still chatted" unaware of anything wrong, the narrator's delusional mind beset with paranoia and guilt, however,"hears" the beating of the old man's heart that grows louder and louder until the narrator feels that the chatter of the policemen mocks him and he confesses his crime:
In the interpretation of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," it is essential that the reader understand that the action is filtered through the perception of the delusional narrator, who prefaces his tale,"Nervous--very nervous, dreadfully nervous I had been and am." Therefore, while for the psychotic narrator there are external conflicts with the old man's eye and with the police who seem to mock him with their casual conversation, all the conflicts revolve around his distorted sense of reality versus reality, and are, thus, internal. These internal conflicts are psychological contradictions in the narrator:
Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die!
"Villains!" I shrieked. " Dissemble no more! I admit the deed!...."
Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart" is truly a psychological narrative that examines the pathologies of a mind that is both paranoic and ridden with guilt.
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http://now.msn.com/rachel-jeantel-offered-college-scholarship-by-radio-host-tom-joyner "After watching Piers Morgan's interview Monday with Rachel Jeantel, a key witness in George Zimmerman's trial, radio personality Tom Joyner was so moved that he decided to do something extraordinary. During his Tuesday program, Joyner called Jeantel to express his admiration for her and offer to personally help her attend a historically black college or university. "I will help you get tutors to get you out of high school, tutors to help you pass the SAT and I will give you a full-ride scholarship to any HBCU you'd like," he promised. His generous offer isn't just a random grand gesture: Joyner has a foundation that provides full rides to HBCUs" While the gesture 'may' be genuine....one has to wonder if what it takes in this country now to get a free ride to college is to be on the national stage for your 15 mins of fame, and be unable to put together a coherent sentence that most people could understand, in the hopes that someone watching has a soft enough spot to offer to pay for everything??? I guess those students who busted their arses in high school...working hard to make good enough grades... able to speak friggin English in a coherent manner---simply don't stand a chance.
Life isn't fair. She speaks English as a second language and - honestly - as a young, unlearned, black woman with an accent she's got her road cut out for her in the USA. So, someone decides to use his money to give her a great opportunity - isn't that what we conservatives preach is the beauty of our economic system? I hope she takes this horrific event and the subsequent offer and makes the most of her life.
I hope as she becomes educated she realizes how divisive words like "creepy ass cracker" can be. She's probably aware that the "N word" has all but been banished from the vocabulary of most Americans -- unless you're black, in which case you can say whatever you like. I hope she uses her opportunity to eradicate racism from American culture -- although that would put her at odds with obama, holder, sharpton, jackson and the naacp, but we can hope can't we?
That's what you took from the article? Tough crowd. And I'm sure "pass" means a score that will get a student into one of those HBCUs.
Yeah, did Joyner actually have some reason to know she wanted to go to an HBCU? Maybe she would be happy enough to go FIU, dude.
Like matt said, this is private donation, so does it really matter? She's uneducated, probably doesn't have the most advantaged background, and her best friend was just murdered. I can think of worse ways to spend money, and the act seems pretty consistent with the vision of the foundation.
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Another Hole in the Head unleashes multiple malevolent ghosts. Plus: our guide to the film fest's horror highlights
FILM Does anyone actually believe Ghost Adventures is real? Including its hosts? For the uninitiated, this is the Travel Channel show that locks a trio of doucheba — er, paranormal investigators inside an allegedly haunted location overnight, leaving them with an arsenal of high-tech gadgets to record any paranormal happenings.
Inevitably, these goings-on include supernatural "voices" captured by one of their doohickeys (the voice always sounds exactly like garbled static, but is subtitled into meaning — usually a variation of "Get out!") Main host Zak Bagans employs obnoxious tactics to goad the spirits into responding. Did you see that one where he decided he needed to bare his telegenically pumped-up chest to provoke the phantom that hated tattoos? It was fully necessary, people. For science. Also, it was 24-karat unintentional comedy gold.
Ghost Adventures and similar shows (main ingredient: shaky, sickly-green night vision) are ripe for parody, but they're also au courant. As anyone with a pair of eyes and a thirst for blood can attest, there's been a trend in "I am filming myself at all times" horror since ye olden days of The Blair Witch Project (1999), sure to be buoyed along for another decade-plus thanks to the monster success of 2007's Paranormal Activity. (Last year's The Last Exorcism being a prime example.) If these films are fake-real, then shows like Ghost Adventures, which follow regular people through actual abandoned prisons, sanitariums, and the like, are real-fake.
Which brings us to Grave Encounters, a fake-real movie that does a number on Zak Bagans types and delivers some pretty decent scares in the process. (Don't be put off by the directors' corny nom de screen, "the Vicious Brothers." Although, dudes — really?) The film, which closes out the 2011 Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, is introduced by a slick production-company type who assures us that what we are about to see is undoctored video from a ghost-hunting reality show. Seems the crew of Grave Encounters, including lead investigator Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson), have vanished from the crumbling confines of their latest filming location, a decrepit mental hospital with a sinister past.
With this Blair Witch-y setup, the found footage rolls, including outtakes that let us know Lance and company are skeptics not above manipulating circumstances to get the shots they need. The faux-show apes Ghost Adventures' title sequence, low-angle shots, and jumpy editing. There's even a slightly unhinged caretaker on hand to lock the Grave Encounters folks in for the night. And this wouldn't be a horror movie (as opposed to a highly questionable reality show) if creepy critters didn't end up coming out to play. It's not a spoiler to disclose that once doors start slamming by themselves, full-scale shit-hitting-fannage (shades of 2001's excellent Session 9) is not far behind.
In a similar vein, but with a more succinct running time and more likeable characters, is Haunted Changi, one of HoleHead's opening-night films. A group of young filmmakers (portrayed by actors who have the same names as their characters) set out to make a documentary about Singapore's Old Changi Hospital, a vacant structure troubled by the lingering fragments of World War II-era prisoners of war and their decapitation-happy Japanese captors. Plus, the occasional vampire. Old Changi Hospital is apparently a bona fide ghost-hunting hotspot, which makes the fake-real Haunted Changi a little more real than it probably ought to be.
I have been on the set of GAC and the Host Zak Bagans (former film student by the way), came in and asked if he could use some of the space in the room...to do what I thought...he was rehearsing! Everything on that show was crap...thougth it was a cool halloween gig, till I found out it was all fake. We set our cameras up and watched the smoke and mirrors show. The guys were cool, but total frauds. We were introduce to the "stunt quardinator"...why would we need him, unless ohhh that's right, the falls, jumps, runs and screams are all fake...he makes sure that they don't get hurt and the make up artist makes sure that when they do...it looks real. From start to finish its a short movie...done quick and ad-libbed I was hoping for the real deal, instead it was BS!
The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that show exists only to fuel drinking games!! Hilarious that they have a stunt guy on-set.
Are you sure he wasn't doing this for stunt work or the cheesy "re-enactment" sequences? I had a friend who was on the set on their Niagra episode (filmed on the Canadian side at an old fort) who reported literally the opposite experience as yours.
the "rehearsals" they film are for the interviews you see before they investigate and BoB T your just a jealous liar... keep hating on them cause this show is the best...dork LMAO
all you bastards hatin on Ghost Adventures including you Bob T with your little make up story abou being on the "set" of Ghost Adventures I was a guest investigator on their show and they are the MOST realistic paranormal team on TV...they have NO ONE in these locations except for them. So heres a message to all you trash talking JEALOUS haterz. They are the #1 paranormal show on televisiom that gets the best evidence of any tv shows. So do you think with all that success they would have haters???? Keep hatin folks for biggest bad asses in the paranormal. Bob T you will be cursed for makin up your stupid ass story
they DO rehearsals and stuff for the reenactments for the interviews BEFORE the lockdown...I filmed with them as guest investigator on an episode....during the "Lockdown" its just the 3 of them and they are the most authentic investigators on television....Ghost Hunters is the show that has the "scenes"....and here's a message to all....being the #1 Paranormal Show on telelvision and all their success in the spotlight...if you dont have haters like the writer of this stupid blog....then you dont have success KUDOS to Ghost Adventures and we look forward to seeing many more seasons....shit they even have movies copying them!!!!!!!
Zak had a stunt coordinator for a stunt he did for fun at Bonnie Springs Ranch....I laughed when the Bob T guy commented and made up the story funny dude.... they are super legit my friends dad owned one of the locations they filmed at and when they get locked down they actually have the owners watch the outside of the building proving they are in there by themselves... Ghost Adventures are awesome and go to their events they they will show you to your face its not a "smoke-n-mirrors" show like the loser said at the top comment
wow zak got pissed
Ghost Adventures is a compelling show and I can personally attest to the presence of paranormal entities. Articles like this are the reason I only pick up the SF Bay Guardian for the weed ads in the back!
"If these films are fake-real, then shows like Ghost Adventures, which follow regular people through actual abandoned prisons, sanitariums, and the like, are real-fake."
No. The authenticity of people's experiences and life-changing encounters with unexplained phenomena are the inspiration to many of these "fake-real" films. To the writer of this article, I suggest you enter the abandoned USS Hornet docked in Alameda. Spend the whole night there and let me know if your opinion has changed.
Ghost Adventures is a compelling show and I can personally attest to the presence of paranormal entities. Articles like this are the reason I only pick up the SF Bay Guardian for the weed ads in the back!
"If these films are fake-real, then shows like Ghost Adventures, which follow regular people through actual abandoned prisons, sanitariums, and the like, are real-fake."
No. The authenticity of people's experiences and life-changing encounters with unexplained phenomena are the inspiration to many of these "fake-real" films. To the writer of this article, I suggest you enter the abandoned USS Hornet docked in Alameda. Spend the whole night there and let me know if your opinion has changed.
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The refrigerated products are a retail version of the sauce available at the nine Café Yumm! restaurants located in Oregon. Beauchamp says the new packs will be sold in the restaurants as well as in regional grocery stores, starting in the Portland area. Available in three varieties of Original, Roasted Garlic, and Chipotle, Café Yumm! Sauce retails for around $4.29.


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Tossing out the capital murder conviction of an East Texas woman, the state's highest criminal court affirmed Wednesday that dog-scent lineups — once considered an exciting advance in crime solving — are too scientifically unreliable to form the basis of any conviction.
Without the discredited scent lineup results, the remaining circumstantial evidence presented to Megan Winfrey's jury was too weak to establish guilt, the Court of Criminal Appeals said in a 7-2 ruling that acquitted Winfrey of capital murder and conspiracy to commit capital murder.
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