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A few years ago, I was having a particularly hard time of things. I was coming up on a year of living in Georgia, and even though I was happy that I had made the leap to move to a completely new state with lots of opportunity, everything seemed to be falling down around me.
The past month had thrown me for a loop, and while I pride myself as being pretty "with-it" all the time, I realized that I was heading to crazytown and needed some quiet time. Brokenhearted, broke, and alone for the weekend, I made the decision to go on a solo camping trip in North Carolina to do some introspective thinking / writing, and generally get myself back together.
I took a half-day at the office on Friday, picked up a few essentials like snacks and a water bottle at the store, and drove to Asheville. Spotty storms rolled through the mountains as I drove through the windy roads to Black Balsam Knob, and when I got to the parking area, I found that I was truly completely alone.
Dusk was setting in, and a heavy fog was rolling over the mountaintops. Despite the fact that it was late May, it was only about fifty-five degrees and I changed into a sweatshirt and loaded up my gear. I've since been back to Black Balsam and as I write about my trek, I'm amazed that I managed to pick the most badass spot even with such low visibility. I headed straight down from the parking area to Laurel Creek and set up my campsite a few feet away from a relaxing bend in the water, right near a little bridge with a good view of Sam Knob. I pulled out a notepad to do some writing, and realized that I had completely forgotten to bring my flashlight with me. I put my sneakers on, and rushed as quickly as I could up the steep hillside back to the trail through the meadow and back up to the parking area. By the time I got back to my car to get the flashlight, it had become pretty dark, and the rolling fog was completely creepy. I made my way back through the muddy trail in the meadow and down the steep decline to the creek.
In my haste, I slipped on a slick rock or a slimy piece of wood – still not sure – and ended up flat on my back, my jeans completely soaked in rainwater and mud. I was literally twenty yards from my tent at this point and I cursed myself for how careless I had been in planning this whole endeavor. As I looked through my backpack, I realized that I had neglected to bring an extra pair of pants. The temperature kept dropping, and I decided that hanging my jeans on a tree branch to dry was probably the best course of action. I settled into my sleeping bag which was NOT lined with fleece as I had originally thought, so my exposed legs were freezing all night against the polyester lining. I actually used the arms of my lightweight sweatshirt as "pants" and as the night went on, I kept thinking about how I probably should have just taken a spa day instead.
Around two in the morning, I woke up (how I even managed to get to sleep, I don't know) to the sound of something scratching against my tent. I thought I was going to have a heart attack, I was freaking out so much. While I realize now that it was probably just a raccoon, the sound of far-off animals in the woods in addition to the realization that the sound of the creek would mask any incoming footsteps pumped up my paranoia and I clutched the small hatchet I had brought for firewood in fear. I realized that I hadn't let anybody know where I was going, that there was only one person – ME – in the entire area, that I was pantsless with only a small, dull hatchet and a switchblade for protection. Not the best situation.
Several sleepless hours went by as I shivered in my tent. I looked at the weather when I got back to the internet and it turns out that it was 38 degrees that night in the mountains. When dawn broke, I felt a sense of overwhelming relief, and I put on my half-dry pants, packed all of my shit up, and rushed back to my car. I was about to give up and head home, but I ended up going to the closet Wal-Mart right outside of the entrance to Pisgah National Forest, bought a decent sleeping bag, quick-dry pants, and a headlamp. I texted a friend to let her know where I was, came back to the campsite, and spent another full day and a half relaxing and writing.
These images were taken with my crappy camera at the time, and really don't capture how beautiful the area is. I really recommend checking it out. Chad and I went back a few years ago and checked out the summit of Black Balsam which looks even more amazing. I also recommend bringing an extra pair of pants. Haha.
Long story short, as horrible as the experience was when I was going through it, it turned out to be exactly what I needed that weekend. It gave me some perspective, allowed me to laugh at myself, provided some essential quiet time and allowed me to feel like (even though I messed up on a lot of things) that I could do something reckless and independent in a positive light. It's also a great story to tell when people think that I'm so adept at being "outdoorsy" and I tell them that no…not really, I've just learned from a lot of mistakes.


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Cardiac cachexia is unintentional severe weight loss caused by heart disease. The weight loss might be life-threatening.
It can happen to people who have severe heart failure. Even with a very good appetite and high calorie intake, some people lose muscle mass.
Cardiac cachexia can require supplemental nutrition.
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Original Title:
Alternative Title(s):
|2019 I Nuovi Barbari
(Alternative Italian Title)
The New Barbarians (UK and Europe [direct translation])
Warroirs of the Wasteland (USA)
Guerreiros do Futuro (Brazil ) - Warriors of the Future
Metropolis 2000 (Germany)
Helvete år 2019 (Norway VHS) Hell in 2019
Year of Release:
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Review and screenshots by Nathan DeckerJuly 2007
originally published here
2007: Congress
passes a law demanding
that all new cars must resemble home-built dune buggies or retro-piece
of shit
1978 Monte Carlos. The auto industry collapses almost immediately.
We open with the standard pan-across-the-wastelands to set the scene. This is fairly effective here (as it is in most of these movies before the wheels fall off) in showing us the vast Kansas-like emptiness and the wreckage of society's once-glorious creations. The camera tracks across a few skeletons in weather-beaten radiation suits (including one that has transparent boobs!) before zooming in on an isolated group of survivors.
This survivor group is your typical PA movie lot, with about a baker's dozen ragged men and women encamped in a circle of old rusty cars. As we see trees and mountains in the background, we wonder why they are here on the open plains, totally exposed to the elements and potential threats. They have some firearms but no one seems to have made any effort to secure a perimeter or set up defensive positions within the camp.
Did I say "potential" threats? I meant "here they come!" threats. Roaring in from the distance is a motorized column of your typical post-apocalyptic wasteland raiders. These are the "Templars", and they are up to no good. Let's step aside from the review for a minute to examine these guys, ok?
As the movie goes on, we get to learn a lot more about the Templars and their ways, which I will just condense here and now (hey, just thought I'd try something different this review). In the first crazy days after the War, the Templars coalesced around a violent strongman who came up with a tragic view of humanity's role in the end of the world. The Templars' stated goal is the total elimination of the human race, pure and simple. They believe that the world was "meant" to die in the War, and they are the instruments to carry this "divine judgment" out. To this end, they ruthlessly hunt down and kill every survivor they can find. Men, women and children all fall before their weapons, victims of their insane crusade to finish what the War started. Once all the survivors are dead, they plan on killing themselves to complete the quest. They are an utterly nihilistic and kill-crazy cult/gang of murders bent on destruction (Doomriders of Darwin's World, anyone?)
The Templars are armed with a variety of small arms, including exploding-bullet pistols and sharp pointy knife-thingies. They occasionally use nets and ropes to catch their prey, but usually just run them down in their cars or blow them up with cannon fire. Not very sporting, of course, but effective.
The Templars are highly mobile and drive a large number and variety of vehicles, both two-wheeled and four-wheeled, about 13 cars and four motorcycles. The cars are mostly chopped-down rear-engined Volkswagen Bugs, with welded-on armor plate and tubular-frames to make them look like dune buggies. A few of the cars are sedans, Chevys and Fords, with modifications to make them look futuristic. The motorcycles seem to be standard 1970s Yamaha dirt bikes, though they have green circles painted on them for some reason. Weapons are limited to crew-carried firearms for the most part, though one car has a front-mounted autocanon and another has a skeet-shooter sort of thing that launches exploding mines. And yes, that all sounds like a bad version of Steve Jackson's Car Wars game.
As far as the Templar personal dress code, it's clear that early on they settled on a "uniform" of sorts to set them apart from other post-war groups. Big-ass shoulder pads and puffy sleeves were a must, as were motorcycle helmets and strap-on knee pads and codpieces. The outfits are bright white (perhaps a sign of "purity") and are made of a dirt and stain-resistance fabric, as they are always spotless regardless of the circumstances. They look like low-rent Imperial Stormtroopers, but I'm sure they have a sense of pride and unity in their matching get-ups. Since everyone's outfit fits him perfectly, I assume that they have a large supply of different sizes, or maybe they only take new members who are a comfortable 42 long.
There's only one "base camp", called "the garage" here. This is a mobile group by nature, so the base has surely moved over the years from place to place as the "hunting" has thinned out in each area. There are some corrugated sheet metal Quonset hut sort of jobs, and some canvas and nylon tents, but for the most part the garage looks like it could be torn down and transported with relative ease.
An accurate head count is difficult, but close watching of all scenes with a notepad shows that there are just about 35 total Templars, counting officers. There are really only three Templars who have enough depth to them to take the time to get to know.
The leader of this death-cult is and always has been "The-One", a tall, older man who looks like an ultra-violent version of Michael Gross from Family Ties, with graying floppish zebra hair and a cheesy beard. He leads through sheer force of will and a nasty sadistic streak, which he uncoils on both hapless victims and disobedient followers with equal ferocity. His favorite weapons are his explosive-bullet pistol and his penis, both of which he uses to torture captives (more later). The-One has been in control of the group since the beginning, though he's getting old and he knows it.
second-in-command is named "Shadow". He's a bit shorter and
rather like
The heir apparent is named "Mako", a young warrior that The-One is grooming to take his place eventually. This has caused some friction with Shadow, obviously, though The-One has the final say. Mako has a ridiculous moussed-up New Wave pompadour that makes him look like a psychotic killer version of Fabian. He's mostly seen behind the wheel of his custom dune buggy, armed with spinning head-cutters (more later).
The rank and file footsoldier of the Templars is a silent, loyal and expendable Joe Stormtrooper-type of guy. Like their Star Wars namesakes, they are brutally efficient against lightly-armed civilians but are cut down like wheat by a "hero" or anyone with even a remote concept of weapons proficiency and small unit tactics. They rarely have any dialogue, never seem to have an independent thought, and don't care that they are seen as murderous thugs.
Ok, back to the action, namely the Templars attacking the survivor camp. This assault is a horrible rip-off of the similar attack in The Road Warrior, which was the benchmark for this sort of thing, and follows the same formula. The bad guys circle around at high speed, trading shots with the hapless defenders, until one of their number peels off to hit a conveniently hidden ramp and fly into the compound to open the breach.
There are grenades, autocannon fire, pistol shots, bodies flying everywhere, blood and guts spraying liberally into the air, M-16s making "pwing!" sounds when they fire, women screeching and men laughing at their plight. The defenders get in a few good hits, killing three Templars, but they are clearly both outclassed and outgunned and the end result is not a surprise to anyone.
The defenses broken, a few survivors make a run for it across the muddy, broken ground. Some of the Templar cars veer off and give chase, giving us some lame chase shots as the survivors are cut down by flamethrowers and spinning head-cutters, all shown via squib-filled mannequins and editing cuts of varying effectiveness. In the end, all the survivors are dead...making them not survivors, I assume.
Ok, lets leave the Templars for a minute. This is a wide-open wasteland, and it's no surprise that there are a few independent wandering warriors in the area. One in particular is known far and wide as the most dangerous and the most conflicted of them all. His name is "Scorpion". Lets look in detail at this nomadic fighter.
Scorpion (Why can't anybody have normal names? This guy was born way before the War in the 1980s so surely he had a nice normal name like Luigi or Enzo at one time. How does one get such a cool nickname, anyway? Can I have one?) was once a Templar. We get a few lines to tell us (hint to us, really, there's a lot of conjecture here) that he left the fold for some unknown reason, though apparently just because he "wants to live", and became the wandering vigilante of justice that he is now. Since then he has hung around the area, trying to save the innocents from the Templars when he can. As such, he's number one on The-One's hit list.
Scorpion sports a nifty perm, which is always well-poofed, and favors sheepskin and suede vests and parkas. He's not really that big, not really that buff, and even seems a bit pansy at times, making me wonder how he got this gig to begin with. He uses the same explosive-bullet-shooting pistol that many others have, though he doesn't use it that often and isn't really that good a shot.
Scorpion's main weapon is his car (much like Max), an awesome tricked-out 1968 Pontiac Firebird, painted black and gray (remember that muscle cars were legally exempt from the Silver Paint Law of 2008). Unlike the sissy electric buggies with their high-pitched whine that most everyone else drives, Scorpion's Firebird roars with studly authority as he burns rubber around every corner. Some questionable modifications have been made to this car, most obviously the installation of a big clear internally-lit plastic observation bubble dome on the roof, which seems to serve no purpose at all other than giving away his position at night due to the big glowing green dome. Other modifications include a joystick for the driver that has three unmarked buttons that serve multiple purposes, including opening the doors. Why he would bother with a powered door when it would be quicker to just open it manually is not known, but I'm sure he knows what he's doing. As well, another button allows the doors to be blown off with explosive bolts, a James Bond-esque thing which doesn't seem to have much value other than for rapid escape. As far as weaponry, there are two machineguns mounted in the front grill and two small anti-vehicular missiles in a pop-up carriage in the truck. Oddly, the same unmarked button that opens the door also fires the missiles, perhaps there's some foot pedal action going on that we can't see. Some of the more cosmetic alterations include a light-up metal skull on the hood, some odd vacuum hoses on the front fenders, and a lame-ass square spoiler on the trunk lid, which looks worse than anything a spoiled rich kid would bolt on the back of his Honda.
We first meet Scorpion some night as he's out driving his awesome car around aimlessly. He happens upon a trashed survivor camp, a collection of smoldering burnt-out cars and still-fresh dead bodies. This is not the same survivor camp from above, as in the very near background is a vertical rocky wall (certainly of a quarry) while the first survivor camp was clearly out in the open. A group of seven badly-clothed scavengers is poking through the wrecks as Scorpion arrives, and they all dash for cover.
These scavengers are meant to be radiation-poisoned mutants, a time-worn PA cliche that's almost never done right. These mutants shamble along like simians and are dressed in strips of plastic sheeting and toilet paper. One wonders how they have the intelligence to dress themselves, handle their tools and work together when they drag their knuckles around in the dirt and hoot like gorillas.
Scorpion wanders around the camp, stumbles upon the mutants and, after they charge him, shoots all seven of them dead with his explosive-bullet pistol (using only seven shots, he's an ace). He then happens upon a survivor in one of the wrecked cars, an old man clearly left for dead by their attackers. The old man begs Scorpion to put him out of his misery, which he reluctantly does.
Scorpion has buggered up his transmission at some point off screen (probably because everywhere he goes he does so with his foot mashed down on the accelerator, the man's a lousy driver) so he has to get it repaired. Since all the Midas repair shops were nuked, and he himself doesn't have the skills or tools to do it, he must rely on his own personal mechanic.
Hidden out in the wastes is a big silver panel van that's been converted into a mobile high-tech workshop, and only Scorpion seems to know about it. Here he can get his car fixed, his weapons upgraded and find a place to rest and recoup. Most oddly, the workshop's only resident is a single nine-year old boy! Called "the Kid" by Scorpion, this golden-haired and silver-tongued ragamuffin child can build or repair anything mechanical with astounding skill, all the while looking like one of the Hanson brothers. Perhaps his impressive mental prowess comes from some effect of radiation exposure during the War, or perhaps he's just an idiot savant, but he would be invaluable to the rebuilding of man's technology if he we're out here alone hiding in the wastelands. The downside is that he's a fucking little brat and needs to get his butt beat for being so smarmy and arrogant. Still, Scorpion has a tendency to break his fancy toys, so he needs the genius kid to fix them.
So the Kid fixes his tranny and then takes the car for a test spin, coming back to fishtail it around the yard in a cool display of superior driving skill. All of that was designed to show up Scorpion, who dutifully takes his medicine and meekly thanks the Kid for his work. Seriously, why is Scorpion the "hero" of this movie?
Ok, lets leave Scorpion for a minute to meet a new character. In the wastelands is also another small band of survivors traveling the roads in an armored van. Oddly, though probably because the van isn't really suited for off-roading, they seem to be driving along a stretch of perfectly flat and clean pavement, which must have survived the January 2011 law against paved roads.
Up from behind come roaring two Templar buggies, driven by Mako and Shadow, with some Stormtroopers along for extra firepower. Seeing a chance at killing off some more survivors, they rapidly close on the van, which is slower, though heavily armored. One of the buggies has this extendable spear tip that's used to poke a hole in the armor plate of the van, through which a jet of flaming liquid is shot (!).
The van afire, the two occupants jump out and roll to safety. The driver is chased down and killed, but the passenger, a young woman, makes it off the road and into some familiar-looking muddy fields. The Templars give chase, and it looks like she's going to get slashed up by the head-cutter thingie.
Scorpion arrives just then, forcing his car in between the fleeing girl and the Templars. There's some tire spinning, some revving engines, and some dudes with Kid and Play hair grimacing madly. Intimidated by Scorpion's rugged good-looks and his Firebird's mufflers, the Templars do little to stop him. Seeing her chance at survival, the woman jumps into Scorpion's car without delay and they spin off to safety. Lets meet this girl.
young girl will prove
to be named
drive along in silence
for a while, the tension in the car thick as fog, before
that fall out of the
burning van seems to have broken
comes and they
stop. Scorpion has this weird transparent blow-up tent that they sleep
Accompanied by some annoying synthesizer music and quick editing cuts,
it seems
that he and Alma make sweet love. It's artfully blurry, but you can see
rolling around in there and really getting into it, which is a problem
I thought
The next day, Scorpion and Alma are out driving around, going...somewhere. He doesn't really have a home that we see, so I wonder if he just drives around all day until time to sleep. He has to eat and take a bath every now and then, right? Anyway, they end up in an ambush, as half a dozen or so Templar cars converge on him, purple-haired Mako in the lead. There are some words exchanged, a lot of squealing tires and flying mud, and revving engines before the chase beings in earnest.
too long Scorpion is
forced to bail out of his car and continue the fight on foot, while
once Mako is dead,
the other Templars just stop fighting. Scorpion limps up to one of them
and tells
him to take Mako's dead body back to The-One with the warning
to stop trying to
kill him or end up like his dead deputy. He then gets in his car with
I'll sideslip a scene ahead here to tell of when they bring Mako's body back to the Templar garage. It seems that The-One is mighty pissed with them for violating the Templar rules by going out hunting Scorpion without The-One's orders. Mako's body is ceremonially burned as the assembled Templars watch in reverence, and the surviving attackers are also put to death for disobedience. Following rules is job number one for the Templar Stormtroopers, and things like this only reinforce that.
Ok, back to our hero. Wounded in the hand during the fight with Mako, Scorpion drives down to a nearby lake to wash off his injury. Yes, that's right, he finds a seemingly uncontaminated lake in the middle of the nuclear wasteland. But, to be fair, perhaps Scorpion has some sort of high-tech purification thingie. Maybe everyone has those, because throughout this entire movie not one reference is made to radioactive fallout or contamination, everyone seems to have more than enough water and even foodstuffs are plentiful, to judge by the rather portly physiques of even the most desperate wandering survivors.
While lakeside, they are approached by a solitary figure, who is known to Scorpion. His name is Nadir.
Nadir is also a lone wanderer in the wastes, a hulking black man with an awesome '70s porn star mustache and a penchant for shoulder pads and Cherokee-style headbands. Nadir's relationship to Scorpion is vague, they at one time were clearly friends, if not closer. Recently, though, Scorpion is a bit mad at him, and doesn't want much to do with him. Still, Nadir keeps close to Scorpion, always lurking in the area keeping an eye on him. When Scorpion gets into trouble he can't handle, the Rambo-like Nadir seems to always swoop in to save him in the nick of time. Why Nadir does this is not clear, but perhaps he sees something in Scorpion that he can relate to, or maybe just realizes that his own best chance for survival is to team up with the best fighter in the land.
Nadir unabashedly wears a lot of black leather with brass buckles and studs, and only his impressive physical presence allows him to pull it off without looking silly. His weapon of choice is a big compound bow with an optical scope, an old-school throwback weapon to be sure, but one that proves to be deadly in ranged combat. He has a variety of explosive tips that he can screw onto the shafts, making them very effective against soft and even armored targets. He keeps the color-coded tips in little loops on his wrist band. Nadir's vehicle is a one-seat four-wheeled dude buggy with a big perspex windscreen and the most annoying electric motor whine you will ever hear outside of a Toyota Prius dealership.
has recently come
across yet another wandering group of survivors who were passing
through this
area and have stopped to rest and refit nearby. He believes that
someone there
could have the medical knowledge to help
They head off to where he last saw them, encamped in (surprise!) an abandoned rock quarry down the road a bit. This group is a caravan of religious people, survivors of a sect that hid from the nuclear war underground. I think I'll call them the "Frozen Chosen" (a buck if you get that...). Lets once more step out of the review to examine this group more closely.
the end of the world
approached and far-thinking people began to realize that global
destruction was
inevitable, some groups started planning for survival. One of these was
Christian sect in the
These being dangerous times, the group does possess a small number of M-16 rifles for protection, though not nearly enough to mount a serious defense against a determined attacker. Like all survivor groups in this movie, they lack even the basics of combat skills and can put up almost zero fight if attacked.
They do have a large number of vehicles, from cars and trucks to a big tour bus, all painted in regulation NASA silver and many modified with add-on armor.
This sect seems to all dress like wannabe Communists or Bohemian poetry majors, with a lot of functional drab wool overcoats, skinny earthtone scarves and those round Julian Lennon glasses that all the pretentious beatnik kids who hang out in Starbucks and read Coleridge and Kerouac wear. That said, some of the women in the group have been know to dress vampy in private, and that's not all bad.
There are about 30 total people in the group, give or take a few. The spiritual leader of the Frozen Chosen is an older man rather uninventively named "Father Moses", a distinguished patrician who, like his namesake, has so far managed to keep them all alive during two years of wandering in the desert. Moses favors beaten leather fedora hats and late '70s NATO-pattern camouflage rain parkas, and his teeth are atrociously misaligned and yellowing.
only other character of
note is "The Whizz", short for "The
Wizard", the group's combination
medic/mechanic/technician/all around smartyhead. He's dressed like a
philosophy professor who reads too much Tolstoy and speaks like a
kindly old
A broken collar bone is not an easy thing to treat even in a modern hospital, so expecting him to do anything about it in the field with no medicine or x-ray machine or anything is a stretch. Perhaps he has some sort of cool Doctor McCoy-esque analyzer thingie that he can just wave over her shoulder and fix it.
Nadir's eye
quickly catches sight of what appears to be the sole black woman left
There Nadir is nearly bursting at the seams with sexual frustration as the girl slowly teases him by talking way too much. She blabs on about the weather, about religion, about the future, about some dumbass radio signal they're chasing, about everything but why are they not naked yet.
Jonesing for some booty, Nadir asks her about the "de-concentration ceremony", which he has heard religious people do. She says "oh yes" and lays down on the bed immediately. I'm guessing that de-concentration means mad monkey lovin'. Why is it in these futuristic movies that the basic act of sex always has some funky New Age name? I can assure you that in 2019 people will still be doing it the same way they do in 2007.
Scorpion says
good-bye to
Scorpion now leaves, but he first goes to say good-bye to Nadir, who is snuggled up with his girl enjoying the afterglow. In the best bit of the entire movie, Nadir nearly tosses Scorpion out of the room for ruining the mood. His bug-eyed ticked-off look is priceless.
Later, Scorpion is out driving around in his cool car again, not really going anywhere that I can tell, just cruising, maybe looking for more babes to rescue. He gets ambushed by the Templars (again), who somehow knew he was out on this lonely stretch of dirt road. Actually, they always seem to know where Scorpion is, making me wonder how he's survived this long. A gaggle of cars and cycles lead by Shadow roars up and gives chase.
Hemmed in and getting desperate, Scorpion sideswipes two cycles who unwisely get to close, causing their riders to plunge off the road down into a steep ravine. He then hits a button and the trunk opens, exposing the missile launcher. He fires twice, causing one pursuing car to careen off the road into a ditch and another to swerve off into the bush.
Before he can launch anymore, however, Shadow starts shooting back with his car's autocannon, doing 2d6 +1 damage, and one hit smashes the missile launcher in a puff of smoke and sparks. Scorpion hits the gas to escape. The rest of them chase him to a flat piece of pavement, where The-One and a bunch of Templars block his path and pin him in. Not surprisingly, Scorpion gives up, parking his car and getting out to exchange glowering stares with The-One. The-One shoots his car, disabling it, and they take Scorpion away back to their garage base.
Scorpion is now subjected to the ultimate indignity, publicly anal raped by The-One. Yes, that's right, publicly anal raped by The-One. What the hell kind of movie is this? One of the strangest and most disturbing aspects of Templar culture is the "all-male bonding ritual". By that I mean strapping male captives down and sodomizing them while everyone watches. They don't seem to be gay (I guess, maybe they all are) and the anal rape is probably more a dominance thing than anything directly sexual. Still, they need to stop that. I must say that this one scene sets this movie apart from every other PA wasteland rip-off ever made, and that's probably what the director was going for. Got to give points for original thinking.
That unpleasantness over, The-One is about to kill Scorpion when word comes from scouts that the Frozen Chosen camp has been spotted. They must attack them now before they get organized, so The-One leaves Scorpion to three Stormtroopers and rolls out with all the rest of the Templars for the attack.
Left with orders to kill Scorpion any way they want, the three Stormtroopers decide to have a little fun first. One drags him behind a car through the mud, which can't be good for his skin, while the other two ride beside on motorcycles taunting him.
Nadir appears on a ridgeline now, as he always does when Scorpion is in mortal danger, and lines up his bow. Two well-placed arrows drop the bike riders, and when the car stops to check it out, a third arrow blows the driver up in a gory puff of fake blood and mannequin stuffing.
Nadir drags Scorpion out of the mud and gets him cleaned up a bit. The forced rape seems to have unbalanced Scorpion (as it would most men) and he's now a skittish, emotionally wounded shell of his former self. Since it's clear that Nadir is going to need Scorpion to help defeat the Templars and save the Frozen Chosen, he takes him back to the genius kid mechanic. There the Kid fixes Scorpion's damaged car while Nadir works on his damaged psyche. This involves mostly tough love drill sergeant stuff, and maybe some hugging. In the end it works, and the three of them make plans to end the Templar threat once and for all.
While that was going on, the Templars assault the Frozen Chosen camp, utterly routing it. Due to budget constraints, we don't actually see this attack, just the aftermath. We rejoin the Templars as they are still congregated in the flaming ruins of the Frozen Chosen camp, rooting for salvage and scaring the dozen or so survivors. The-One is tired of this now and orders the survivors lined up against a wall and shot. But first he rails against them for being alive (against the Templar creed) and lets them know that their deaths will be for the better and they should be ashamed for violating the Master Plan by not dying nine years ago in the nuclear war. Before the triggers are pulled, however, Scorpion, Nadir and the Kid begin their attack on the Templars.
The Templars, never really known for their sterling infantry tactics, completely fall apart. They stand up and make easy targets of themselves, hide behind flimsy walls waiting to be blow up, and generally forget they have firearms. Like Rambo and Robin Hood, Nadir uses his bow to devastating effect, pounding and exploding everything sight as mangled Templars are tossed in the air like badly-clothed mannequins or stunt men on trampolines. The Kid is also on scene, whipping his sling shot around like mad, seemingly never missing an exposed throat or eye with his ball bearings. In the end, a whopping 23 Templars are killed by a Nadir and the Kid, presumably all the remaining Stormtroopers.
While all that is going on, Scorpion, channeling Clint Eastwood now, appears through the smoky haze, his torso strangely covered in a dark canvas poncho.
The-One, not really that surprised to see him still alive, confronts him, tossing a few insults in with a few rounds from his pistol. Though hit twice in the chest, Scorpion amazingly stays on his feet, much to the Templars' amazement. Scorpion now rips away the bullet-shredded poncho to reveal he's wearing a transparent multi-part bullet-proof plastic breastplate! The Kid made this, and it does look spiffy in a gay roller-disco sort of way, but we wonder why the bad guys just don't shoot him in this exposed face or lower body. And why just a set for Scorpion, why not one for Nadir?
The battle is quickly turning against the Templars, and The-One, looking around at the dying remnants of his once indefatigable gang, wisely pulls the ripcord. Jumping into a dune buggy, he hightails it out of there, leaving his deputy Shadow to handle Scorpion.
Shadow has now had just about enough of Scorpion and takes the initiative. Holding his gun on the Frozen Chosen survivors, he tells Scorpion to give himself up or he'll start shooting the prisoners one by one. Things get ugly and he shoots three, including Father Moses, before Scorpion manages to peg him in the head with a pistol shot. Shadow goes down hard, his burnt flesh sizzling.
Ok, now all that's left of the Templars is The-One, fleeing in his car down the road. Scorpion jumps in his Firebird and gives chase, catching up quickly due to his nifty flaming jet afterburners, activated by an unmarked switch.
They bump and grind for a bit, and then Scorpion gets in behind him and turns on this long drill bit that extends out of the nose of his car. The-One's death is dripping with ironic symbolism, as he's...impaled from behind on Scorpion's shaft. An exploding car wreck later, and the threat of the Templars has been eradicated from the planet.
ending is typically
sappy, with Scorpion coming back to exchange thanks with Nadir and the
Kid. A
lot of meaningful looks between Alma and Scorpion suggest that a happy
is in their future. Does Scorpion give up with wandering ways and
settle down
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1 bedroom Avignon apartment rental. This delightful ground floor holiday apartment is peacefully located, yet only 400m from the fortified historical centre of Avignon
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Avignon holiday apartment rental with 1 bedroom and use of owners swimming pool.
This delightful ground floor holiday apartment is peacefully located, yet only 400m from the fortified historical centre of Avignon. Its swimming pool is shared with only the discreet owners.
Avignon, stretching in all its beauty along the banks of the River Rhone, with its famous July arts festival is a superb base for discovering some of the jewels Provence is famous for.
Discover and explore Nimes, Uzés, the Pont du Gard, Saint Remy de Provence, Arles, Aix-en-Provence, the Luberon Mountain Range, Lourmarin, Marseille, La Camargue or some of the lovely resorts along the Mediterranean coastline.
All on ground floor: Lounge/kitchen/diner, utility room, shower room with toilet and basin, 1 double bedroom.
Electric heating, all fuel and power included in rent May to Sep, €30 supplement Oct to Apr, bed linen and towels included in rent, cot, highchair, colour TV (French channels only), DVD player, radio/cassette/CD player, washing machine, dishwasher, freezer, microwave, shared, enclosed terrace, outdoor furniture, barbecue, off road parking for 1 car. Sorry, no pets.
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Wow. A bartender wrote "fat girls" at the top of a bill to remember who the bill went to. When the customers asked the manager about it, he snickered over it. According to MailOnline, "The friends had dined out at the Stockton, Calif., restaurant, which is a part of the Cameo Casino Restaurant, on Thursday. The bill lists charges for three tri-tips with fries and three sodas, for a total of $25.50. A bartender named Jeff had apparently typed in "Fat Girls" to keep track of their bill.When Duran asked a manager for an explanation, he "had like a smirk on his face, like it was funny but trying not to laugh," she said." more
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Blue Skies and Sunlight Hint Spring
Anyone bored with weather reports? It's so much lighter for the morning drive to school.
I actually saw a robin in a tree down on East Liberty Boulevard. He was shivering.
I think.
This tree is in my front yard.
Today it climbed to 48 degrees. I promise a new topic soon. Very soon.
Photographed on Tuesday. I swear I heard bird song.
Old cat damage on the arm of the couch and
Sunlight through lace curtain onto hardwood.
Feral Cat Face and Collective Nouns
I'd gotten home from school, opened the door, put my school bag down. When I went back to close the door, there was this face- asking. Asking to eat! This is one of the two feral cats who were my neighbor's kittens, one of the two we were able to capture and release after having them neutered and given a rabies shot at Animal Rescue League- four years ago now.
Remember my neighbor Ann P. had a clutter, clowder, pounce of cats. I had to look that up as I was thinking "colony" not herd or gaggle. (click here to see what other animal groups are named under collectives.) Ann P (90+) passed away and we were able to get two of the four young cats taken care of and those two are still coming around. Don't know what happened to the other two.
This one has a particularly expressive face. (iPhone shot) I call it Long Tail. The other one has no tail and I call it Bunny Boy but granddaughter Anna calls him Bob which works as he was born without a tail.
Maybe you saw an earlier photo of this same cat- in the catnip with the matching green eyes, in the major snow storm or just in my driveway.
Lucy, the Last of the Litter- RIP
Whether you're a dog person, a cat person, or none of the above, you know how painful loss can be. Even when a living thing comes to the end of its life, the inevitable is difficult. There they are, with you. And then they aren't anymore. Ever. And no matter how old or how sick, you just miss them. They entertain you, cheer you, greet you and provide companionship. You care for them, feed them, talk to them and teach them a trick or two.
First there was Eloise, a cat someone dumped in the park across the street where we live. 1992. We took her in. Laura was in second grade.
In the Spring of 1993, Eloise gave birth to Fred, Tommie and Lucy.
Lucy- the last of the litter- the only one with long hair, big green eyes- a pretty cat and sweet.
She was the loudest purrer and a docile cat. She was the most vocal and would talk back as your called her name.
My one friend thinks Steve needs a kitten. NOT! We're not getting any more cats.
Steve said maybe a hypoallergenic dog? Down the road a bit. A little terrier? No! We just can't have any more pets. It's too hard to lose them. The last couple months seemed to be a cat hospice situation around here with Steve so vigilant and trying everything to make her life nice. She really was confined to one room and didn't climb the stairs anymore.
Her being in the one room allowed the family to come this summer and sleep overnight as they suffer from cat allergies. Oh how the grandkids loved seeing Lucy. Steve would take them in and they were so happy seeing her, asking about her. I know they'll be sad to hear she's gone.
Earlier in the summer, Michael gave me his pet rock he'd made in day camp "for when Lucy dies".
I think about how Mark, Erika and both of her parents and now even Laura all suffer from cat allergies. So do a couple of my good friends and it has impacted their ability to come and enjoy being in my home. Oh dear. But when Laura was growing up, she used to have cute Lucy crawl under the covers. Now she can't be near cats without an allergic reaction.
Nineteen and a half years is a full life for a cat. Or as Mark says, she had nine wonderful lives thanks to Steve. Steve has been caring for her so tenderly. Sips of Cat Milk, special food for the thyroid. You name it. Steve was practically chewing up shrimp like a penguin mother. Now it's hard to handle and dispose of her bowl and her drinking fountain, her pan, all the things she used.
Three weeks ago at the vet they said she was doing well for her age.
Hmmm, I thought. She didn't look too good to me but her eyes had life and she was still using the litter pan and eating a little.
I knew she was coming down the home stretch. We talked about knowing it was time to put her down. But we hadn't.
And so the night before the first day of school, Steve came in around 1:30 AM and said that he was petting her and she didn't wake up. That she was gone. Friday he took her to be cremated while I started my new job. I was sorry he had to go alone. It still doesn't seem real that she passed and isn't coming back.
We'll miss you Lucy.
Rusty the Long Hair Dachshund Chases a Spot of Light
While in the middle of a friend's photo shoot of vintage clothing, her mother's long haired dachshund started following my watch reflection and chased it all around. I've never seen a dog exhibit this behavior. Trying to capture it was spontaneous and difficult as the watch was on my left wrist and the camera in my right hand. No chance to focus. It was just happening. Stop action seemed the best way to try and show the motion. Min Pin Tigger makes a cameo appearance.Wish I had a real video to show it better.
Einstein in the Flower Shop on the Corner
The sign in the window says, BEWARE OF DOG! I've driven by this place for almost six years as I go back and forth to school everyday. Sometimes there are balloons tied to the signboard outside. It's on the corner at Brownsville Road- PLANTS & FLOWERS by Lisa .
Today I pulled over to the curb, ignored the meter, got out and went inside. I was headed to Bridgeville to visit a friend. Einstein used to have two white tufts of hair that stuck out, hence his name. The two women were really helpful to me and I asked if I might photograph him and they agreed. I thought about the flower shop as I left and drove in traffic, finding my way to Bridgeville. I'd heard that photographing animals with a black fur coat is difficult and looking at the shots now (available light) I concur. But those eyes were really checking me out! Einstein was friendly and wanted to communicate. Must be used to new customers off the street.
My grandmother worked in a flower shop in Lincoln, Illinois, and when I was small I would visit her there. I remember the spools of ribbon, the sticky green tape, the wire stands and styrofoam base, that green squishy foam and of course the smell of the place but the thing that sticks with me the most was her can of spinach and a hard boiled egg she kept in the cooler for lunch.
Cat Out of the Bag at Panza Gallery
The other day I took this watercolor painting to be matted and framed. I painted it at least twenty years ago. I found it in a closet and thought I would frame it to remind myself why I use photography to express myself instead of painting. But I like the way the bag looked in the light. So did Panza's cat in residence at the Gallery. Oh my. Maybe she thought it was a 3-D bag and not a 2-D bag. She really went for it. Knocked it on the floor twice and I am sure if it had been a precious artwork it would have been a concern but it was pretty funny. Just liked the painting of the bag so much. Art critic feline? It definitely spoke to her. You know how cats love it when you introduce something new in the house and they think it is for them.
Tommie (declared male at birth by our neighbor): A Sweet Girl Cat Remembered
The winter of pet loss. Tommie and Fred were of the same litter, brother and sister. They both suffered from hyperthyroid condition and despite medication couldn't quite make it to what would have been their 18th birthdays on March 7th. Tommie would rub up against you and your hand and pet herself if you stopped petting her. She was feisty and funny. We will miss her.
Fred: A Faithful Feline Companion
Born March 6, 1993. Passed December 22, 2010. He will be sorely missed. Found a site to help cope with pet loss
Feral Cat in Catnip- Study of Greens
Yesterday's flowering pears prompted me to go out in the backyard this evening, see how the Redbud tree is coming along. Maybe continue with a theme. Lots of tiny buds but not quite open. Ginny planted the tree in memory of my parents a couple of years ago. The tree made it through all the snow and is flourishing. And I look over in the raggedy herb garden and see the feral cat from next door, chewing on some catnip, a perennial that returned without tending. Took a shot but too far away to be interesting. Edged over to the backporch steps and caught the green eyes looking right at me, catnip in front. Some of you may remember a post of the cat from the snowstorm(2-16-10).
Feral Cat in the Snow
Braving the snowstorm to look for food. This is one we caught, had fixed and returned to wild.


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Wedgwood, Josiah (1783) Some Experiments upon the Ochra Friabilis Nigro Fusca of Da Costa... and called by the Miners of Derbyshire, Black Wadd, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, p. 284-287.
Otley, Jonathan (1819) Account of the Black-Lead Mine in Borrowdale Cumberland, Memoirs of the Literary & Philosophical Society Manchester, v. 3 series 2, p. 168-175.
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LG just added one more reason to get one of their web-enabled products. The company just announced that they now have MOG available on select LG devices.
The streaming music service can be accessed through LG's Smart TV platform on select Blu-ray players and home theater systems. Once you select the MOG app, you can browse and play millions of songs, all from your remote control.
"MOG remains focused on ensuring our users have the best listening experience wherever they are, and thanks to LG's Smart TV platform, consumers can now enjoy high-quality, on-demand streaming of music in the living room," said David Hyman, CEO of MOG. "We designed this app specifically for the living room and can't wait for people to experience the gorgeous graphics, simplicity of the app, and high quality audio."
A few key MOG features include unlimited, ad-free listening; charts, editors' picks and new releases; MOG radio; and music streams at 320kbps.
Another key feature: the price. That's right; MOG isn't free. The MOG Basic service delivers MOG access on LG's Blu-ray players and home theater systems, as well as on MOG.com for $4.99 per month. To add in iPhone and Android access, expect to pay $9.99 per month. If you want to try before you buy, MOG does offer a free 14-day trial.
For now, MOG is only available on LG's BD650, BD670, BD690 Blu-ray players, and LG's LHB336, LHB536, LHB976 home theater systems. It's also available through LG's new Smart TV Upgrader set-top box. LG expects to add the service to Smart TV Enabled HDTVs soon.
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There are a lot of composite door facts out there that a lot of homeowners do not know. Did you know that composite doors can be just as energy efficient as your aluminum awning windows? That's right, composite doors can give you as much benefits as aluminum awning windows. At interior door replacement Redondo Beach, door replacing contractors can't keep up with the demand for composite doors. The following are a number of key factors as to why composite doors are becoming more popular with door replacing contractors.
For one, door replacing contractors say that composite doors will automatically add value to your home. The reason that they are energy efficient is because, unlike wooden doors, composite doors will not warp over time. The doors are even up to six times thermally efficient than that of wooden doors. They will keep the cold air out and the warm air in and because of this, it will lower your energy bills. They are also affordable, they are not cheap but they certainly are not expensive. For the median price of composite doors, you will get a door that is secure and that are also low maintenance. Composite doors do not require to be sanded down or repainted to maintain its look or its security.
Composite doors come in a different array of colors and styles. You won't have to worry about guessing the measurements of the door as they are made to measure therefore your door is completely custom made. They will also stand up to the harshest of elements as they are weather resistant. Not only is it resistant to the harsh weather elements but composite doors are also resistant to fading, scratching and rotting. They are also very attractive and that is why they upgrade your home. Simply by installing a composite door, your home will have an instant facelift. Composite doors are just as unique as each and every homeowner that purchases them. There is composite door out there for you that will be suitable to your own personal style and the style of your home.


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my tiburon is VERY short on power all the sudden and fuel enjector fluid doesnt work. im not sure wat i need to replace?
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did you have it checked at a shop?? is the check engine light on?? there are a lot of reasons for power loss and a good diag tech can tell you at a shop.
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get someone to ck fuel injector plug for power it does not have constut power it pultses
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Turn your PC/Laptop into the ultimate snowboarding experience with the new Pro Riders Snowboard Extreme Edition. Use your computer's webcam to control the game with your body. Swish and move as if you were on the real slopes. Use touchscreen controls for your Xbox controller for those more relaxed moments. No matter how you play, you can be sure you'll always feel like You're in the Game!
Realistic settings bring you the fun of international competition while enabling exhilarating gameplay for the most hardened snowboarding veterans and newcomers alike. This family-friendly sports game is as intuitive as it is fun with some of the simplest controls ever designed. Pro Riders Snowboard features real-world physics electrifying gamers with tricks, jumps and grinds like you've never seen before. Show off your talents by unlocking achievements. Play with family and friends in a race to the bottom of the hill or to see who can do the fanciest footwork. Experience the most intense ride of your life in this winter's most anticipated snowboarding game. Pick up your copy today.
- Realistic 3D Graphics, Environment and Physics
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I feel this game just needs a little polishing and it will be great. There aren't much snowboarding sports game in the market now. Even if there are they aren't up to expectations.
Snowboarding sports game are not really HOT in the market but i will say this. Snowboarding games are when you have time to chill from other games like action games or puzzles game. Pro riders snowboard extreme is just great because it cuts off lots of stress it's easy to do stunts but difficult to get all the achievements. Graphics are fine and gameplay is not too bad i must say. Definitely a worth to buy when on sale.


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Producing Content for Tablets and Apps
The process, so far, is relatively easy, but metrics will be key.
The growing swell of e-reader and tablet devices has reached deluge proportions—and if the population at large didn't know it, Apple's iPad debut will help mainstream the concept. Yet the platform is still very young, not yet driven by consumer preferences. Manufacturers and publishers alike are testing the waters even as the technology rapidly develops beyond what has already been released. In the meantime, publishers are working with whatever they can get their hands on—as long as content production complexities don't get out of control—all while keeping a close eye on usage metrics.
The driving factor for early-adopter publishers is if these devices catch on with consumers they want to be there when it happens. Again, it's all about keeping up with the anywhere/anytime consumption privileges readers expect in a fractured media environment. "We're fundamentally trying to make sure we're on all the devices that people use to consume this content," said Scott Havens, vice president of digital strategy and operations at The Atlantic. "We don't want to guess who's going to win or lose, we want to make sure you can read The Atlantic everywhere."
The Atlantic, which, said Havens, has about 10,000 readers of the magazine on the Kindle, recently started selling short fiction on the device as well. The magazine will also begin testing a paid model for blog content, too. Havens has also done deals with Plastic Logic, developer of the Que, Barnes & Noble's Nook and the Sony Reader.
How the Content Gets Produced
Infrastructure is a potential pain point for publishers. Right now, the process of feeding content to e-reader and tablets involves setting up a feed to the provider. Havens set up an RSS XML feed for Amazon that's built according to the retailer's specifications and files get pulled directly out of The Atlantic's CMS.
Other manufactures use a middleman to reformat PDFs into a proprietary format. Sony and Barnes & Noble, for example, use an outfit called LibreDigital for file conversion. There is no fee to the publisher, said Havens. The device manufactures pick up the tab.
While this might sound straightforward, there is no common file format among the devices, which makes publishers nervous—even as they're eager to sign up with whatever device comes their way. For now, this is solved by shipping hi-res PDFs. "Most of the partners we deal with use a third-party that does the more challenging production work," said Stephan Scherzer, EVP and GM for IDG's PCWorld and Macworld group, who relies on his print production team to traffic the files. "I send them a hi-res version and they turn it into whatever format they need. As long as we just need to send out PDFs I'll adopt as many platforms as possible. This could scale, but it will only make sense if we don't have to do a lot of customization."
Gil Fuchsberg, president of Skiff, which has developed its own platform and device technology, said that well-formed XML will put the publisher ahead of the game, but PDFs work well too. The company works directly with the publisher to create a format and layout that can range from a straight rip from a PDF to a more hands-on approach. "We're marrying the digital assets with a set of design goals that are agreed on and driven by the publisher. So, there's some flexibility. We want to make it easy to participate, so we have a turnkey approach and there are others where they can get more involved."
There's an App for That
In the meantime, publishers have also been porting a growing supply of content as apps to Apple's iPhone platform, all of which will be readable on the company's new iPad tablet. Publishers will nevertheless be working to upgrade their content to take advantage of the iPad's larger 9.7-inch touch screen and interactivity.
Conde Nast is a bit ahead of the game after debuting a full issue of GQ last November. The December issue was downloaded just over 6,000 times, and the January issue was double that. The apps cost $2.99, but usage metrics appear very promising.
A Conde Nast spokesperson said readers averaged 83 minutes with the apps, which is remarkably high—higher even than the 73 minutes MRI measures for the print edition.
A spokesperson said the 83-minute average was pulled from actual metrics, not from a survey-based method.
Yet digital edition providers such as Nxtbook Media, which have already had iPhone reader applications available, are seeing much different usage metrics.
Marcus Grimm, marketing director for Nxtbook, said iPhone users spend the most time with digital editions—more than three and a half minutes. "Blackberry readers were next a just over two and a half minutes," he said in an email to FOLIO:.
From there, the number of pages viewed varies widely, said Grimm. Factors that influence those metrics include how often the publisher markets the content and what percentage of its audience is on one of these devices. "The single best performing title I found was one that has received seven percent of their page views from mobile devices since November of last year," he said. "This is a publisher who receives about 3,000-5,000 digital magazine readers per issue. We would expect this number to grow quite a bit in the [coming] months."


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Get a PS3 Free With This Holiday Sony Bravia 3DTV Deal
A 3D TV may not be on everyone's Christmas list. Not because they don't want one, but because they can't afford one. It's just too expensive. Thanks to a special pre-holiday sale, it doesn't have to be. A free PS3 added to the mix sure doesn't hurt it any either.
Right now on Amazon.com, if you buy one of two select Sony Bravia Full HD 1080p 240Hz 3DTVs (both priced below $3000) you'll get a free 160GB PS3. But what about those super expensive 3D Active Shutter glasses? Just like the PS3, those are free too. And a 3D transmitter. And a copy of (Tim Burton's) Alice in Wonderland on 3D Blu-ray. Everything you need to get started watching movies and gaming in full 3D, right from the comfort of your own home.
You have your choice between the 46″ and 55″ Sony Bravia NX810 LED 3D HDTV, both of which feature built-in wireless N, Bravia internet videos and widgets (Hulu Plus just added), 240Hz Motionflow tech, and 4 HDMI inputs. Basically, this is one beast of a 3DTV. The NX810 model is listed at "3D Ready", which means it still needs a 3D Transmitter, Active Shutter 3D Glasses, and a 3D video source, all of which are included for free as part of this amazing deal.
The Sony 3D Deluxe Starter kit, which normally retails for $399.99, includes the 3D Transmitter, 2 pairs of Sony's Active Shutter 3D Glasses, a copy of Alice in Wonderland in 3D Blu-ray (the movie in 3D isn't available in stores), and an HDMI cable for good measure. The 3D video source is the free PS3, ever since a couple of the most recent firmware update enabled both 3D gaming and 3D Blu-ray video playback.
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November 5, 2014 - Legal Notice: Notice of Public Hearing on Budget and O&M for 2015
September 9, 2014 - Current tax information is now available at http://www.egov.basgov.com.
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The next Town Board meeting is scheduled for Monday, December 22 at 7:30 pm.
Town Hall is closed December 25 and December 26. Merry Christmas!!
The snow ordinance is in effect. No parking on Town roads from midnight to 8:00 am, November 1 through April 1. Please observe this ordinance even if it is not snowing!
Effective immediately, the speed limit on Spook Hill Road is 30 mph! As a result of resident complaints and phone calls, the Town Board petitioned NYS DOT. NYS DOT has authorized the Town to reduce the speed limit from 40 mph to 30 mph. Please obey the new signs!
Effective July 1, 2014, the Town Recycle Center will no longer accept the older-style CRT television sets. Please do not bring these sets into the Recycle Center. You will be turned away. We apologize for the inconvenience, but new regulations are making municipal disposal of old CRT televisions too costly.
Best Buy at the Poughkeepsie Galleria will accept these TV's with screens up to 32" for free disposal. Simply drive up to Best Buy and go to Customer Service for assistance. For further information, call Best Buy at 298-8077.
Thanks to all the volunteers from Rebuilding Together for their excellent work on a home in the Wappinger area. Their unselfishness and willingness to give up a Saturday to help someone in need is remarkable!
Rebuilding Together is currently accepting applications on a year-round basis for their no cost Handyman Programs as well as Rebuilding Day.
Among the general criteria for application eligibility are:
Applications are available online at www.rebuildingtogetherdutchess.org or by calling (845) 454-7310.
Because they accomplish their work through the generosity of volunteers, they are unable to offer services on an emergency basis.
Should you need to speak to the Supervisor or your Town Councilman, please call Town Hall and we will set up a time to meet! Main #: 297-4158 Supervisor: 297-2744
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Watch Vince Staples' new video for "Nate" featuring James Fauntleroy.
YG's My Krazy Life and ScHoolboy Q's Oxymoron, aren't the only new projects putting the West Coast back on the map. Vince Staples' Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2 is another one that is gaining its much deserved respect and shifting power back to the West.
Today, the Long Beach lyricist decided to drop off a new video for his James Fauntleroy-featured record "Nate", which lives on his recent Shyne Coldchain series. Track produced by the great Scoop DeVille. Check it out above, and let us know what ya think. This record nice!
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RT: What is Harvest Automation doing?
JJ: We found this very cool and very apropos application for robots. If you go to a garden store, you will find many potted plants sitting around. All those plants came from container farms scattered around the country. The largest ones are hundreds of acres.
At a trade show we discovered that there is an operation everyone in this market performs a spacing operation. When you first put the seedling in a pot, it is okay for them to be next to each other. But after a while, the plants start to grow and if you do not move them, they damage each other.
[The growers] might move them from a greenhouse to a field or from one field to another, but [the plants] go from being close together to being spaced apart. For 50 or more years, the industry has been doing this manually. We thought this was an ideal application for robots.
RT: Where are you at in development of the product?
JJ: We do not have a product on the market yet. We have some prototypes, and we hope to develop the product and get it to market in the next couple of years.
We have knocked down many of the largest areas of technical risk; but we have a few more to go. After that, we will enter the development phase where we hope to build products reliable enough to work for customers.
RT: Can you describe any of the technical hurdles you have overcome?
JJ: When you put pots down in the field, they are supposed to be spaced in a particular way, so you have a nice pattern, either a grid pattern or hexagonal pattern for instance. The pots need to be within an inch or two of proper placement.
We believe we have resolved that in a cost effective way, with our system called 'marked boundary' and [by] dead reckoning. Errors can grow as the robot moves around, so we reference the robot to this boundary. It is a mark that the robot is able to detect. We have patents are pending on it.
RT: Can you describe an area of technical risk you have yet to overcome?
JJ: The robot has to find the pot, pick it up and put it down somewhere else. The thing we are working on now is to give the robot an accurate idea of where the pot is.
We have a way to do it now, but we are not satisfied with it. We are using discrete components designed for something else. So we will either redesign those or use a camera system designed to our specifications. All this is classified as industrial automation.