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By the time the shelter was opened, more than 50 people were awaiting entry, but many others had no transportation. Several makeshift bus stops were established and buses were called in from the Dothan City Schools and the Wiregrass Transit Authority (the municipal bus service) to make continuous passenger pickups. One Dothan school bus manager is a Salvation Army volunteer. The needed buses were ready quickly under the direction of Morris Bates, who is assigned a fire department pager and works regularly under the department's command system.
Many of the evacuees were showing signs and symptoms of exposure to the leaking ammonia. Others had pre-existing medical conditions that required medications that had been left behind. The shelter soon took on the look of a small triage, treatment and transportation area. About 30 people were transported to one of our two hospitals. More than 100 others needed a wide array of emergency medical support.
Six paramedics were dispatched to the shelters to keep up with the EMS demands and provide general assistance. Williams (the shelter liaison) is the fire department's EMS manager, so the extra duties of supervising this unfolding mass-casualty incident fit with his experience. A small warehouse of medical supplies (oxygen, monitors, blankets, etc.) had to be sent to the shelters. The shelter kept in contact by telephone with the two hospitals to determine which patients would be transported to which facilities. This action removed a lot of stress from the command team and made a more sense than trying to relay information through too many people.
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The next strategic benchmark was to make entry into the huge (and ever-growing) gas cloud and stop the flow of hazardous product. Battalion Chief Mose Saliba was given the nod to head the hazmat branch, assisted by Battalion Chief Philip Prince as the incident safety officer. Three paramedic engines, one hazmat unit, one ambulance, an air support unit and six called-back technicians were needed to mount an effective attack.
Safety suggested and the incident commander confirmed that "Level A" encapsulated clothing was required for personnel entering the "hot zone." Decontamination was established and backup and entry teams were identified, medically screened, hydrated and stuffed into those "body bags with a view."
It took a while to gather the resources and make the first entry into the vapor cloud. The pressure being exerted on the responders by plant workers was intense - they wanted us to jump in and close the valve immediately, without regard for the proper procedures or regulations. Understandably, they were anxious to eliminate the problem, but so were we.
The first entry began well, but the entry team soon became disoriented and lost in the dense, white vapor cloud. After a few tense minutes, the hazmat officer was able to help the entry team find its way back to the "warm zone," to safety and to go through decontamination.
As the initial team found its way out, the hazmat branch ordered a 600-foot lifeline rope, which is carried by the heavy and tactical rescue team. The second entry team used the rope to serve as a quick way back to safety. Further, this team made its way to the leaking tank and tied off the rope, which then served as a "road map" for the third entry team. Knowing that we were getting close to locating the leak in the piping, a 13/4-inch hoseline was carried into the cloud. Team 3 used the fog water spray to move and absorb some of the leaking anhydrous ammonia. Under the protection of the flowing nozzle, the team located the leak and closed a handle wheel "upstream" to stop the flow of dangerous product.
It took about five hours to complete these actions. Considering the conditions, the time to assemble the needed resources and the temperature, the under-control time was outstanding. To insure that the hazmat branch had the appropriate resources ready to go, the U.S. Army were called in to help. The Fort Rucker, AL, Fire Department was called and sent 10 hazmat technicians and a hazmat unit under the command of Fire Chief Ken Klien. Although we did not need to use this resource, it was great knowing that it was on location awaiting assignment.
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Judith Freer, 76th Maintenance Support Squadron senior materials engineering technician, reviews data fed from the nearby MIRA-X scanning electron microscope. The 125-cubic-foot chamber makes it the largest SEM in the world and allows parts to be scanned whole instead of cutting them up, saving thousands of dollars when a new part is found to be service-able and can meet Tinker's strict requirements. This non-destructive approach saves money on parts and helped pay for the $2.2 million microscope within three years.(U.S. Air Force photo/Margo Wright)
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-- Four-and-a-half years ago, the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center purchased the largest-known scanning electron microscope in the world. It had been estimated the $2.2-million Ellcie, formerly Visitec, Microtechnik GmbH Mira-X large-chamber scanning electron microscope would save the Air Force approximately $1 million per year. To date, it has achieved that and then some.
"The return of investment to the Air Force exceeded expectations because we have been able to salvage components that previously would have been condemned," said Scot Roswurm, 76th Maintenance Support Squadron Metallurgical Analysis Section chief. "Now we're able to return them for use and the value lies not only in the cost of the part, but saving and salvaging strategic alloys and in sparing the supply chain the disruption of having components that are not always readily available returned to service."
Designed by a German company, the microscope stands 9 feet by 10 feet by 12 feet with an operating volume of 5 feet by 5 feet by 5 feet. The actual volume inside is 6 feet by 7 feet by 8 feet.
The chamber's generous size allows technicians to view objects and study them in ways that were previously impossible. Formerly, components were cut to 6 inches or less so they could fit in the chamber.
"What really sets it apart from the three other scanning electron microscopes we have is the size of the chamber and what we can achieve," said Karl Koch, 76 MXSS Metallurgical Analysis Section materials engineer. "In the standard chamber size you'd be lucky to fit an apple in there. Here, we can put in anything from the plane and we have the capability of looking at a large case or a spool or a complete disc from the engine, without having to cut it up and destroy it; that is the key factor."
Technicians using the large scanning-electron microscope can take a whole component, polish it and magnify it up to 100,000 times and rotate its stage 360 degrees. When finished, the component is taken out of the chamber and can be put right back on the aircraft or engine.
"We refer to it as 'inspect and fly,'" Roswurm said. "...I think it will be the future of the Air Force, to do as much as possible non-destructively."
Large-chamber scanning electron microscope operators are performing, pioneering and perfecting several non-destructive techniques. Roswurm said in the cases when an engine shows indications that it has experienced temperatures higher than its limits, technical orders have stated the item should be analyzed or scrapped. Instead of scrapping the items, the lab team can create a non-destructive replica and perform the necessary tests. By sparing the real parts, the team can save the customer thousands of dollars and determine the root of the problem. Previously, the method had only been used with certain components and certain alloy metals.
"What we sought to do is improve the turn time to evaluate these components and minimize the requirements for destructive analysis," Roswurm said. "This resource isn't just languishing on an island. It's in the context of a very well-equipped metallurgical lab with a number of instruments and a lot of educated talent that can stretch its applications even more."
Judith Freer, 76 MXSS Metallurgical Analysis Section senior engineering technician, said the microscope is here for Tinker's benefit and personnel should take advantage of its abilities.
"Tinker needs to think outside of their box and think of what we can do for them with this instrument," she said.
The 76 MXSS Metallurgical Analysis Section has analyzed compressor rotors, damaged fan blades, shafts, spacers and air seals, fan frames, nozzle segments and thermal sprayed parts. While several groups and shops use the microscope's abilities, technicians said the F100 and F101 shops are their biggest customers.
The microscope operates using a vacuum. After a component is cleaned of any excess oils or dirt, it is put in the chamber where a vacuum will pull out any moisture to minimize the interaction with air molecules. Technicians said it takes approximately 30 to 35 minutes to create the vacuum and 20 minutes to break it.
Koch said the vacuum isn't as strong as the infinite vacuum of space, but close to it. In fact, if a marshmallow were placed in the chamber, it could theoretically expand to fill the entire container.
"Air pressure at Tinker is around 14 pounds per square inch, but the air pressure inside the chamber is only 0.0000000065 PSI," Koch said. "I should point out that it really couldn't stretch that far. It's like stretching gum too far; the marshmallow would break before it reached about 2 feet tall."
On average, it takes approximately eight hours to complete a component interrogation, which does not include part cleaning, part set-up, creating or breaking the vacuum, or other preliminary procedures.
Despite its strength, the microscope is a fragile and delicate piece of equipment and must be properly cleaned. Operators must abide by the strictest of protocol procedures because even loose hair, lint or a string off of someone's coat can contaminate the machine and findings.
"We're very conscious of touching it," Freer said. "When we have it open and have a tour in here, that's our biggest fear; everyone wants to touch it. They're like kids in the candy store. It's so pretty and shiny in there and their natural instinct is to touch it, but it is a serious instrument."
Roswurm agreed.
"The instrument is constantly in use and continuously adding value to the Air Force," he said. "It has already proven to be a game changer and we anticipate it will do more as time goes on."
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Someone musta threatened her or knocked some sense to her.June 17, 2010 at 11:40 p.m.
People... go and see the uniform tonight. I saw it and it is very cute. No it is not red like the vdores old uniform. It is very stylish and the hat does not resemble the old vdores hat at all (eventhough I wish it did). I wish people would get the facts before dragging everybody into the pot to stir with their spoon.June 17, 2010 at 9:25 a.m.
And you are right, the plot thickens. Big brother is watching and we will all see who uses the right address to be on which teams. There is a possee of folks interested in seeing the rules followed to the letter including VISD not allowing them to participate for one year if they lied.June 16, 2010 at 10:37 p.m.
Edith, I understand that the dingle balls have been discontinued by the manufacturer. Secondly, the propoed costumes will be on display at the school board meetinf tomorrow night so why dont we all go take a peep. then we can gripe to the horses mou th.June 16, 2010 at 10:35 p.m.
Well, the plot thickens...June 16, 2010 at 9:55 p.m.
I am quite sure we will see that the new VHS/MHS/WSH dance and drill team costume will greatly remain unchanged as to past style, and the colors will revert back to the red of the VHS days. Wait and see.
Fear not, you will recognize the new uniforms, dingle-ball fringe and all.June 16, 2010 at 9:53 p.m.
anxious: U have NO Idea!!! I also received a letter in the mail today; from the VISD's Attorney. Someone is requesting to see the Drill Team books & TKB books from 2008-2010. So what does that tell you?June 16, 2010 at 9:46 p.m.
REDRAGE: How can she use the old uniforms? She sold them, for $50 bucks a pop! There ALL gone.June 16, 2010 at 9:39 p.m.
And just for the record about the tuition, any kid who occupies a seat brings federal money to the district. With the problems that out schools have and drop out rate l ike it is, VISD needs regular students anywhere they can get them.June 16, 2010 at 9:11 p.m.
Anxious, I just know you are right and I bet she doesnt "retire". I'd just bet she gets fired for wrong doing. you can only mistreat people and students for so long and they finally get a belly full and speak upJune 16, 2010 at 9:09 p.m.
Red Rage, that word is FLUFF, not fat!June 16, 2010 at 9:05 p.m.
I hope DJ keeps the VHS/MHS Victoriadore uniform :)June 16, 2010 at 2:43 p.m.
It never fails. It just never fails. You moms who had daughters on DJ's squads and are irate always start it. I promise when DJ Jaynes retires, ya'll will throw a party.June 16, 2010 at 12:07 p.m.
Yep! She refers those girls to having Extra "Fluff".June 16, 2010 at 11:30 a.m.
I think that most schools get to claim the state attendance $s for students that transfer in...therefore, I think that tuition is above and beyond what they get for other students in the district.June 16, 2010 at 10:45 a.m.
I see where you're coming from with the issue about having a child in VISD schools, but not living in the district. However, they are not getting a "free" education. If you live in Goliad and send you child to Victoria, you still pay GISD taxes. If you live in VISD and don't have kids, you still pay VISD taxes.
RedRage, I don't know about you but there were a few hefty girls on the Victoriadores squad when I was in school.June 16, 2010 at 10:35 a.m.
Wow! How foolish we have been. We can move out of Victoria, quit paying the taxes, then sign our kids up for free. What a deal. Then at least the sorry education the kids will get would be justified. Hey, and why not rename the schools mentioned above to East and West.June 16, 2010 at 9:33 a.m.
superDAD, I doubt DJ would let fat chicks on her team lolJune 16, 2010 at 9:32 a.m.
you think maybe the West waistline is bigger than East girls since they are spending bout $500 more for their uniforms? lol (=June 16, 2010 at 9:26 a.m.
Familyman - the Cuero buses run in Victoria county to pick up the student in Nursery school district. Nursery area students attend junior high and high school in Cuero ~ unless they ask for a transfer to VISD and then those students/parents provide the transportation.June 16, 2010 at 8:39 a.m.
I want to know why Cuero school busses run into Victoria county to pick up students. The busses come as close as Oliver Rd. (3 miles from the loop 463.) Would Vic Ad do a story on this subject? Please.June 16, 2010 at 7:19 a.m.
HOPE AND CHANGE !!!June 15, 2010 at 11:51 p.m.
Was the stimulus money used for anything worthwhile as far as education materials, etc? Just find it curious that the money is being used for drill team uniforms.What else was stimulus money used for? Anyone know?June 15, 2010 at 11:47 p.m.
Okay, someone please explain this to me: VISD doesn't charge students who want to go to a VISD school? So, if someone doesn't like EAST or WEST, then they move to Cuero, Goliad, etc. and pick their school?
We don't have enough teachers, teachers' aides, and other staff members, but we educate out of district students for FREE?? Really?
What did I misunderstand about the last couple of paragraphs? Please help me understand that the School Board isn't wasting tax payers money.June 15, 2010 at 8:22 p.m.
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CATEGORIES MoviesHow To Network At Cannes: 5 Musts for Aspiring Filmmakers By Dan Mecca
As someone who's been there before and learned a whole lot from the experience, I decided to put together some simple tips for networking at the world's premiere film festival.
Call it a blueprint for what to do when you are here in France, hoping to make an impression on anyone and everyone you meet.
1. Be Ready to Be Disappointed
Wait, don't close-tab me yet -- this is actually a good thing. It is easy to spend a lot of money to fly over to France, put yourself up somewhere 20 minutes away from the Croisette and then leave the festival shaking your head in anger after your lofty expectations are thoroughly dashed.
It's important to go in knowing that this feeling is going to happen to you, without a doubt. The cure is not letting it get to you while you are here. The most common mistake made by aspiring artists is to not prepare for the failures that are in store for them on the long road to success.
Remind yourself, constantly, that you are here, at Cannes, walking amongst the big-wigs, and that is why you are here. You are taking a risk by even showing up, so pat yourself on the back, wipe yourself off and hand out some business cards!
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It sounds silly. It's not. When you are in line for one of the many films you will attend/try to attend, talk to people. Start conversations. Be friendly. If they don't speak English and you don't speak French, no big deal. Life goes on. Cannes is the kind of networking opportunity that doesn't come along too often for young people looking to be considered "up-and-comers."
That said, it is also important to know when to keep you mouth shut. If you are interning at a company in Cannes, for example, and you see some important so-and-so at a table in the middle of a conversation, resist the urge to barge in and deliver your spiel.
Be smart about the talking you do. Know your movies -- who directed them and why they matter. Educate yourself. And don't sweat it. At the end of the day, whatever else happens, you got to enjoy two weeks on the Mediterranean. 3. "What have you seen?"
Perhaps the most frequently-asked question at the festival -- for obvious reasons. This comes back to No. 2. Educate yourself! Going to a film festival and not knowing anything about the films is like going to a wine-tasting event and asking for a beer. The majority of the relationships you make will start from this question and proceed based on their/your responses to it. If you didn't like the new Haneke film, know why! If you did like the new Haneke, know why! One little debate about some auteur could get you the business card of the guy who produced next year's award-winning this-or-that.
Read the trades and the reviews and know who people are and what they look like. And if you're in a conversation that turns into a discussion about some film you haven't seen, the reviews and such will help you...
4. Lie
Not a lot. This should not be a Pinocchio situation. Bend facts, create little fictions. If you've got a friend whose name is somewhat recognizable in the company of producers and artists here at Cannes, feel free to make that relationship seem a bit stronger than it might be. Don't say something stupid like, "I'm writing his next project." That's called talking yourself into a hole. Just tease people with names and companies and things that you know.
Choose what words you use in chats like this. Think of it like flirting with a girl. If you're talking, both parties are at least somewhat interested. Trying to get a laugh is an old stand-by. Many people open conversations by casually handing out their business cards. This is not a bad practice. Find a rhythm for these moments and stick to it when you can.
5. Know Thyself
Who are you? What are you good at? Are you somebody who talks to girls/guys at a bar? Waits to get talked to? Maybe a wallflower?
Knowing where your comfort level stands before coming here is important. You will, with any luck, find yourself at a party where you do not know many people. This can be a very good thing, if handled the right way. Be present and available. Be friendly. Buy a drink or two; take your time with them. Walk around and get a feel for the place. And, of course, it is always easier when you have a partner in crime for these kinds of nights.
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Bilancino is an Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) open air site located in the Mugallo region of central Italy. The site includes an area of at least 120 square meters and, on the basis of paleoecological data, appears to have been occupied during the summer near a marsh or wetland some 25,000 years ago.
The site is remarkable for its large lithic component, including nearly 15,000 artifacts, 1600 of which are burins of the Noialles facies, a type of stone tool associated with Gravettian occupations. Also included in the site assemblage is a grinding stone and grinder. Starch grains discovered on the surface of these artifacts suggest to researchers that Bilancino's residents were grinding cattails (Typha spp) into flour.
Bilancino was discovered in the early 1990s during the construction of an artificial lake; it was excavated under the direction of Biancamaria Aranguren and Anna Revedin at the Archaeology Department of Tuscany.
Aranguren, Biancamaria, Roberto Becattini, Marta Mariotti Lippi, and Anna Revedin 2007 Grinding flour in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (25 000 years bp). Antiquity 81:845–855.
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Dana White was on Fox 11 Los Angeles with James Koh the other day where they engaged in a 20 minute sit-down interview and discussion on all things UFC.
Part of the discussion focused on the coaches of this season's The Ultimate Fighter Fridays which premièred last night on FX. Koh pointed out the differences in image and personality Shane Carwin and Roy Nelson exhibit, and White was quick to comment on the man known as 'Big Country'
Dana White: I call him 'The Ultimate Underachiever', that's what he is, OK? This guy ... you know, he'll come to me and he'll say 'I want more sponsors, I got this, that ...', he's got a mullet down to the middle of his back ...
James Koh: (interrupting) ... And a huge belly!
Dana White: And a huge beard! A beard that almost covers the belly, and that's saying something. And I always tell him, 'Seriously? Who would want to put their ... somebody's going to want to put their company logo on that!?'.
Come on, the guy is just ... he won his season of The Ultimate Fighter, he's fought the best of the best ... Junior Dos Santos said he's the toughest fight he's ever had ... if the guy took his career this seriously -- (motions a tiny amount) -- what would he be able to do, what could he accomplish?
On a much more interesting subject, James Koh looks at the payouts for Boxing's Manny Pacquiao versus Timothy Bradley, and compared what they made to what Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen made in disclosed pay for their most recent fight at UFC 148, asking why the difference and why UFC don't fully disclose fighter pay.
After the jump, transcription of Dana White's comments on Fighter Pay, my closing thoughts and the full interview.
James Koh: This Manny Pacquiao / Timothy Bradley fight ... brought in about $9 million at the gate ... people bought about 900,000 Pay Per View buys, Manny's guaranteed about $26 million, Bradley guaranteed about $5 million. But when we look at UFC 148, Silva vs Sonnen, one of the most popular fights in UFC history, you guys brought in $7million at the gate, you guys sold about a million Pay Per View buys ...
Dana White: (interrupting) ... allegedly
James Koh: Allegedly (laughs) ... when we look at the Nevada State Athletic Commission, and we look at what Anderson Silva made, $200,000, Chael Sonnen made 50 grand -- 50 grand! -- So people say, 'This is crazy!', so I gotta ask you, why don't you guys disclose guaranteed amounts?
Dana White: Well we do, that is the guaranteed amount. That's the guaranteed amount. So here's the way that this really works ... you hear about Manny and Floyd, those are the two guys that are getting paid the Big Money ... the reality is if you look at this Dawson / Ward fight that just happened last weekend ... I think (Ward) made about $1.6 million and Dawson made about $600,000 ... that's a big fight outside of a Pacquiao / Floy fight, and if you look at the UFC numbers compared to Boxing now, we smoke (them) ... then when you look down their (fight) card, the numbers (salaries) drop big time. When you look at a UFC card, the numbers are consistent all the way through.
I'm not running around your question here, the answer to your question is , these guys obviously get paid a lot more money than what you're seeing on things (commission fight purse reports), they (fighters) come in, negotiate a contract, and there's other ways that these guys get paid through bonuses and incentives. And in no way, shape or form is there anywhere in their contract that says they couldn't come out and tell you what they make.
If Georges St. Pierre was sitting in this chair, or Anderson Silva, and they wanted to tell you what their last pay day was, they absolutely, positively have the right to do that, there's no gag order on them or anything; they don't want you to know ...
When we first did this deal with Fox, right? The Fox guys says ... 'What do these guys get paid?', we started telling them what some of the guys get paid and they were like, 'Oh my god! You guys should be screaming this from the roof tops ... don't you remember when (Mike) Tyson used to fight, and they'd put in the thing that he was making $30 million for that fight?' and I said to them, 'Yeah, and look what happened to Mike Tyson', you know what I mean?
When your money gets published and you're making big, big money ...
James Koh: (interrupting) ... the scavengers come out.
Dana White: They come out of the woodwork, man, and they're all over you. You know, we don't disclose what the fighters make and it kills the media, and it kills the fans, they want to know so bad ...
James Koh: (interrupting) ... because we see it in every other sport, Dana!
Dana White: (interrupting) ... in every other sport, I agree. No I agree with you, 100%.
James Koh: How did you get to that conclusion that you're not going to disclose that?
Dana White: It just started to happen, I mean we never disclosed our Pay Per View numbers because we don''t have to, we're not a public company, we never ... it's not about the money, 'cause no matter what in the media, because you don't know 'Oh these guys are getting screwed, they're not getting paid enough money', if it was out there on how much these guys really were making, (it becomes) 'Oh this guy was making $10 million for this fight, and that's how he fought, it becomes this, that ...' (interview clip fades out)
While not the most coherent of Dana White's interviews he makes some interesting points, but plenty of flawed ones too.
Regarding Roy Nelson, image is absolutely important in attracting sponsorship and endorsement, since you're representing that company while under the sponsorship agreement. You're essentially an ambassador for their brand, and how you look can reflect on how the general public perceive that company. If Nelson wants to keep the 'Big Country' personality, the big belly, big mullet and big beard, he shouldn't be surprised if his options are limited regarding companies that feel his image is something they want to associate their brand with.
Regarding the many aspects of fighter pay White touched on, if GSP and Anderson Silva did want to disclose what they made in public, they're in a position within the company where consequences of doing so are nil or at least extremely limited. Sure, there's no gag order according to White, but if a mid or low tier fighter -- someone that's ultimately more expendable than GSP or Silva -- disclosed his pay and the revelation happened to paint the UFC in a less than positive light, it wouldn't surprise me to see a vindictive response or reaction from Dana White and the UFC.
Let's not forget that Dana White wanted to cut the whole of the American Kickboxing Academy UFC fighters from the roster over Jon Fitch's initial questioning and rejection of the surrendering of fighter likeness rights when it came to negotiating a new contract with the company. Just recently Dana White went out of his way to publicly bury his Light Heavyweight champion Jon Jones, when he now has to try and sell his fight with Vitor Belfort coming up next Saturday.
As for the comment about scavengers coming out if they knew what these fighters were making, maybe it's good that Dana White and the UFC looks out for their fighters this way, but it's also not their responsibility to nanny and coddle them either. They're grown men who are ultimately responsible for their own lives, and while they can be recommended financial advisers and maybe even psychological counsellors by the UFC, they don't need to be protected in this area especially when the UFC's energy is better served in areas of a fighter's life where they genuinely need the help.
The biggest issue of the UFC not fully disclosing fighter pay is their long term goal of attracting the better and more elite athlete to the sport of MMA. Dana White has claimed in the past that they're going to start attracting the athletes who might have otherwise gone into Football or Basketball as the UFC gets bigger, but how is this possible when these potential blue chippers only have the salaries the State Athletic Commissions and Boards release to go on, and see the huge discrepancy in earnings between UFC fighters and NFL or NBA players? If they do some digging and find the UFC purposely hides how much their fighters are really making, that's going to be a red flag for any athlete, agent and manager with a modicum of sense.
Instead if any of these athletes do get into MMA, it'll likely be because they washed out of the NFL or NBA due to injury or a skill handicap, instead of a raw talent that's dedicated to MMA from the get go. The thought of the UFC being a secondary option for athletes that can't make it in their primary sport -- for whatever reason -- creates the image of the UFC being a home for sport's desperate failures, when the UFC should aim to be seen as viable alternative on equal ground.
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Among 26 vetoes, Gov. David Paterson again sank a proposal to create a commission that would promote commemorations of the often forgotten, but critical, War of 1812 against Great Britain on its 200th anniversary.
In vetoing yet another bill on the War of 1812 commission, Paterson rejected a proposal he had criticized in previous versions as too expensive, redundant and a task that advocates and existing historic preservation and tourism agencies could handle.
After his 2009 veto of the bill, sponsors worked with the governor's office to revise it and were told it met the office's specifications, said Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, a Westchester Democrat and a sponsor of the bill.
He called the veto "mystifying and hurtful to taxpayers statewide, and especially upstate New Yorkers, who would have benefited economically from the increase in tourism this bill would provide."
Plattsburgh, Sackets Harbor on Lake Ontario and the Buffalo-Niagara region were among sites upstate that saw heavy fighting during the War of 1812, which pitted the United States against the British Empire, including Canada. The war began in June 1812 and lasted almost three years.
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This has perhaps been covered elsewhere but OPS is flawed. I like the idea of a metric that combines a hitter's ability to get on base with his power but OPS is skewed towards OBP and dilutes slugging in a way that doesn't make sense.
Why don't we use instead:
total bases + walks/plate appearances? This would essentially be slugging percentage but counting a walk like a single in the numerator and the plate appearance when the walk occurred in the denominator. The only weakness there being it counts walks and singles as equal but a single can advance a runner two bases and a walk cannot.
I'm guessing there is a metric already out there either exactly like or very similar to the one I'm thinking of. Wondering if anyone has seen it/used it. I haven't thought about sabermetrics since 1986 so I'm sure I missed something.


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Ruichu Cai, Anthony K.H. Tung, Zhenjie Zhang, Zhifeng Hao, "What is Unequal among the Equals? Ranking Equivalent Rules from Gene Expression Data," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1735-1747, November, 2011.
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The amount of baby photos of little Maria makes me go all soft inside and I dug out the albums of the times when my two were this little. I was thinking and thinking where to put them and then decided to start a Theme, so others can also search through their albums and find photos of their little ones from between 0 days to about 4 weeks of age, or so...
My little Prince on the day he was born (with a much thinner husband with lots more hair than today, over 16 1/2 years later):
10 days old (blurry photo, sorry, cr***y camera and my attempt to photograph with the window light only)
4 weeks old, taken by my sister on our dad's birthday, and my little "prince" is resting on my left shoulder
And my little "princess" on the day she was born (and we already were back home, for we returned home only some three hours after she was born) (Photo taken by my sister)
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And the following two were taken by my sister again on my son's birthday, he turned 4 years old when his baby sister was 2 1/2 weeks old:
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I don't have kids of my own yet, but I have quite a few photos of others' children . I'll try to find them soon...
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soooooooo cool LaFoto!! here is one from yesterday! I hope we get some more in here!
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I'm going to post pictures of my boys. I don't want to freak anyone out with the pictures of my oldest boy, Blake (4 years). He was born with cataracts and then developed glychoma and now has a glass eye. My youngest boy's name is Skyler (21 months)
^^ Blake at 1 month old^^
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^^ Blake at 8 months with the glychoma showing^^
^^Blake at 11 months. The docs had removed his left eye for preperation of his glass eye^^
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^^Here he is at 18 months
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Yes, I'm looking at the ending of "Source Code" again, because while I was thinking relatively positive in my interpretation, others are focusing on a darker possibility. Actually, it's not just the theories of moviegoers, but the filmmaker himself. Duncan Jones has been pretty public about his views on the ending of the film, which was initially scripted by Ben Ripley and reworked some by the director upon his hire. Apparently he even mentioned the dark, morally questionable factor when I saw his Q&A at the Museum of the Moving Image, but I failed to record that part.
So credit goes to /Film's David Chen for getting the quote from a similar event up in Boston. From last week's /Filmcast and excerpted by IFC's Matt Singer, the bit from the director can be read after the jump, due to the fact that it's obviously a big spoiler.
"So Colter Stevens, at the end of the film, begs Goodwin to let him take one more shot at sorting out this disaster on the train, stopping the bomb from going off. So he gets sent, he gets on the train, in what he discovers to be a parallel reality, stops the bomb going off, which means Sean Fentress is now dead although he shouldn't be... Colter has basically forfeited Sean Fentress' life just so he, Colter Stevens, can have a happy ending. I like that, because immediately although we have a happy ending, it's ethically a little bit more ambiguous.
And Singer has some issue with this ethically ambiguous ending, not because it's ethically ambiguous but because it's hard to tell without these interviews with Jones that he intended such a dark concept. As it plays, he says in his original review, this "darker angle" is "kind of ignored," while it still "suggests Stevens' behavior isn't quite as heroic as it's made out to be." In his follow-up last week, he details the spoiler more clearly, calling Jake Gyllenhaal's character a "murderer," but one the film "doesn't announce...very loudly." He ponders this cloudiness:
So what's more important: the director's intent or the evidence on the screen? Jones wants those questions about Stevens' actions to be present, but are they present enough? I'm not saying we need a shot of Stevens looking at Cloud Gate and crying "Oh no! What have I done?" But a little bit of a clue, in the editing or the music, could have made a big difference to the way we feel after the film is over.
Ultimately, though, Singer sees the work the viewer must do in the end as positive and fitting to the way Stevens' mission turns out. Go read the final paragraph of his post for what he sees as a rewarding effort.
Singer isn't the only person who felt the ending was a little wrong, moral-wise, though. One Spout reader claimed he "got screwed." Here are a few other views from around the blogosphere:
Maryann Johanson at Flick Filosopher:
we have to believe that that means that in order for Stevens to be alive, Sean Fentress, the man whose body he's been borrowing for his eight-minute quantum leaps, is now dead, erased by the overwriting of Steven's consciousness.
Is that right? Is that moral? Is the life of one innocent man who was given no choice in the matter a fair price to pay for the lives of many other innocents... and who gets to decide if it is or not?
He's snatching another guy's body. That means that Colter Stevens' happily ever after is Sean Fentress' unhappy early death. Not only does he die, but his murderer goes on impersonating him in order to steal his girl!
How does this work exactly? What does Colter say to Sean's family? Does he take over his teaching job? Rather than resolving the movie, this ending, while feel-good, creates a whole new set of questions that go unanswered.
Remington Smith at The Filmsmith:
But what about the real Sean Fentress? Since the Source Code machine is thought to just tap into the memory of someone already dead, there's not a lot of moral consideration for Fentress considering the mission (which is also Stevens' situation). But since Sean Fentress doesn't die on the train due to Stevens' intervention, what happens to his consciousness? [...]
Would that mean that Fentress' consciousness is floating around somewhere forever, or is he simply killed when pushed out of his mind? It's even more final if they merely swap bodies, with Stevens running off with Fentress' gal while he dies with Stevens' veggie body.
Now there's something I hadn't thought of: that, like in either "Quantum Leap" or body swap movies, Fentress' mind is switched with Stevens', so it's actually him that's in the coma back in the lab at the end. And any sequel, or just any future Source Code project will involve a very confused Fentress as the hero.
But I still prefer my theory that Stevens is dead and playing out a desired scenario in his afterlife (even if he does still see Fentress' face every time he looks in the mirror. I know, Jones has directly stated the "true" interpretation, but filmmakers like him are always open to audiences seeing things their own way. If I did go with that darker identity theft idea, though, I don't see a lot of problem with it since Fentress has always died in all these situations anyway.
It's like that nutty "Quantum Leap" episode where Sam is shifted all around different people associated with the JFK assassination and in the end the President isn't saved but Jackie is (it's explained that the first time around she had been killed, too). At least one or more of those people who had originally died was saved, and while it's too bad Kennedy didn't survive he never had anyway. Oh, but I guess for it to be the same, Sam would have had to ultimately end up in Kennedy's body, which did survive, and then lead America as a kind of impostor, "Face/Off" meets "Dave" style.
Actually, there's the sequel: a presidential assassination. Only, will similar identity theft controversy remind too many viewers of "Hitman"? I haven't seen it, so I can't say. But I think the repetitious looping narrative could be too reminiscent of "Vantage Point," which I already unfortunately kept thinking of with the original.
But anyway now we're on to the next "Source Code" discussion, pertaining to ideas for the next mission. Given that the first film kind of combines "12 Monkeys," "Die Hard," "Surrogates," "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable," we should start by looking at other Bruce Willis movies. How about "The Siege" meets "Hudson Hawk" meets "The Kid"?
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ML | October 8, 2011 5:27 AM
Late to the game here, just watched the movie on DVD.
The 'kind' interpretation might be that Sean Fentress has to die in every possible universe before Colter Stevens can be send to his brain - he was said to be the best match, but what if he actually was the only possible match precisely because he didn't survive in any of the alternative universes? It seems the scientists on the project didn't quite understand what was going on, but they did seem to think they were able to access only the mind of a recently deceased person during the last 8 minutes of his life - so maybe what happened when they did that actually involved time travel, they didn't send Colter to a different reality but to the past, where his actions created new timelines, but he'd still need a host who'd die in the near future?
The other alternative of course gives one possible way for the sequel to go: Colter realizes that his choice murdered Sean Fentress and becomes guilt ridden with the knowledge. He is also doubled in this timeline, being both in the body of Fentress and in his own, damaged body in the castle.
And he figures that everything has possibly already happened countless times, that there has to be several alternative universes where he is doubled and some innocent man died because of his actions.
So he tries to get into contact with either Goodwin or his own alternative self in the castle in order to warn them not to make that same choice again - so that if Goodwin, once again, terminates his comatose self she does it only after his consciousness is back in that body.
I'm feeling bad for both Fentress and Goodwin, by the way. He died, and nobody mourned him in the last timeline because nobody except Colter knew, and he didn't seem to give a damn (or maybe he just hadn't quite realize yet). Goodwin in the seed universe gave in to Colter's pleas, and presumably had at least her career, possibly her whole life ruined because of that - and again he didn't seem to give much thought to her fate. Colter did come out as bit of an asshole, here, even if his actions were understandable for somebody in his position.
Charles | June 23, 2011 11:37 AM
I really enjoyed this movie; it is a hell of a movie Mr.Jones…..
This is my interpretation of the movie,
1) ok! first things first, the source code indeed creates alternate realities/parallel universe…....here is the proof, in the scene where Stevens finds the bomber and get shot, the time duration inside the source code exceeds 8 minutes, 8.34 minutes to be precise, this is a clear indication that source code indeed creates alternate reality….....now if u think it is a major plot hole coz Goodwin and Rutledge should have known if he is more than 8 minutes in source code. But in other sense, they both deliberately misinformed Stevens that it is only valid for 8 minutes to prevent Stevens from doing anything irrelevant to the mission. This proves that the only way Stevens will come back to the castle is that he have to die..
2) At the end, when the scene is frozen, it is a psychological thing. Stevens think the source code will exists only 8 minutes, the frozen scene was just a manifestation of Stevens just like being in a capsule. But Stevens didn't experience the same when he get shot which is clearly exceeds 8 minutes, this is coz his concentration was completely on finding the bomber and he didn't notice the time, hence it is purely psychological.
3) As for the ending is concerned, it is not a paradox, Stevens caught the bomber, make everyone happy in the train, saved the explosions, lived happily ever after(sort of). Stevens lives in Sean's body with his consciousness and also he is also awaiting his first source code mission in beleaguered castle. But remember, even in lab, the narrative reality, Stevens brain is activated only artificially, so there won't be a paradox like two consciousness in same world. Even if Stevens in lab sent to mission, it won't affect Stevens in Sean's body since the events which is going to happen in the future will not affect the present.
4) In the meantime, they have created several parallel universe in which every time thousands of people died coz of train and Chicago explosions, except for the last time. The worst part is, in every parallel universe created, Stevens will be send in the source code to create several parallel universe again….......
Rolando Garcia | April 17, 2011 11:09 AM
Great flick, great ending. I had the same thoughts about the fate of poor Sean when I left. In all fairness to Colter, he didn't really expect to live beyond those 8 minutes. So, assuming you agree with Jones' interpretation, Colter isn't exactly choosing between himself and Sean. He's choosing to save those people and let whatever happens to him when he's unplugged, happen. I also like your interpretation in which the alternate reality is created but in which Sean "leaps" back into his body at the 8 minute mark and everything Colter experiences after the freeze frame is his own afterlife.
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