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Re: Chopsticks!
Great design! Love how one is getting speared and looks all frazzled
Re: Delicious!
Would definitely buy this for my son. Maybe even for myself. Always like your take on the themes.
Re: Comfort Your Food
Welcome! Nice design, who doesn't like dark dino humor
Re: wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeee
Ten points to the person that spots the hidden mickey in this picture ^-^
Re: Chocalot
Not the first time I got chocolate on a t-shirt.
bassanimation wrote:Really great design, Ochopika! I love your kitty characters so Im glad to see one here! If I might add a bit of critique, I think there's a touch of busyness with the text. Personally, I think it would have worked super with just "Kitteh's You Can Haz Cheezeburger's". Also, the bonnet is adorable, but it might make it seem a tad feminine for the boys. Just a big ol' cute kitteh would be great.
Anyways, those are just some thoughts, I still love this design. :D You're one of my favorites to watch cause I love your cute animals <3.
I agree with everything here. It's not a gender thing, but I just don't feel like the bonnet is necessary either. Nor the "Mama" like they were saying. I think it will stay truer to the meme/joke of it all if it's just Kitteh's Cheezburgers, You Can Haz.
But yes! I love the overall idea and most of the execution and would totally buy and wear one like that!
jaaayzhu wrote:As an Asian, I fully support this one!
So what are the chances of becoming a shirt? Because I want to take it behind the middle school and buy the hell out of it.
Re: Go Bananas!
This shirt is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S
I absolutely love this shirt and I would wear the hell out of it.
Re: Salt Free
I made it to "The New Hotness!!" WhaHOOOO! I've never been over here. It's nice.
Re: Yay Meat
Fun style and I'm really digging that soft focus effect on the background elements Bass.
bassanimation wrote:This reminds me of the banana from Gumball!
My thoughts EXACTLY! I love this!
And Wences the animation in your signature area is priceless!
Great job!
Re: Out of place
This made me laugh...but it's a little too 'boob-centric' for my closet.
Re: Braaains: Nutrition Facts
You have this shirt for sale on your red bubble page. That's a violation of the rules.
Re: Cthulhu Ph'nomnomnom
Haha! I love the slippers.
everyanynot wrote:i uploaded the wrong files help me!
Why do you even HAVE those files to upload?
I absolutely adore this shirt. That has to the cutest skull ever and the lettering is great!
Re: Grilled Cheese
I love this. GMV. Hope it prints
lyonscc wrote:Ha!
Dahmer's probably still too recent to be tasteful. IN the case of the Donner Party, though, 166 years is probably enough time to get a chuckle.
I don't know what it would ever be long enough to make Dahmer jokes, considering he did a lot more to his victims than just eating them. Argh -.-
It's a clever design, but even with that amount of time passed, knowing on the crazy and shady crap that went on with that whole story, it'd be hard wearing such a shirt. But still, good work. ^^
Thanks everyone!
everyanynot wrote:since when are bananas a comfort food?
Bannanas are fatty and squishy and I ate them all the time as a kid. I find them a massively comforting food. *shrug*
This design is so awesome. I want!
bassanimation wrote:This is a really great design for a shirt. Nicely done! It's simple but understandable right away. Great use of text and graphics!
citizencoyote wrote:Cute!
Thanks, CitizenCoyote! :D
Patchitect wrote:Why do you even HAVE those files to upload?
Doesn't everyone have random photos of monkeys on their computer?
VenusAD wrote:I don't know what it would ever be long enough to make Dahmer jokes, considering he did a lot more to his victims than just eating them. Argh -.-
It's a clever design, but even with that amount of time passed, knowing on the crazy and shady crap that went on with that whole story, it'd be hard wearing such a shirt. But still, good work. ^^
Thanks (to all).
Donner Memorial State Park on the border of CA and NV is a beautiful little park with a memorial to the Donner Party. As a history buff, I've always had a place in my heart for the odd and offbeat bits of history with a little taste of the macabre, as well.
Here's a pic of the memorial there:
takoyakiyasan wrote:So what are the chances of becoming a shirt? Because I want to take it behind the middle school and buy the hell out of it.
Not make it pregnant? hurhur
And I dont know! I hope it prints! It will be our first one ever to get printed.
Our favorite giants are going to give themselves a sweet and great binge. would you like accompany them? XD
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Our favorite giants are going to give themselves a sweet and great binge. would you like accompany them?
Re: Street Food
Very Clever!
Re: Close Encounters
Love the idea, but I suspect the rejectionator may visit, as it looks like you may have used a picture or two in the design (which is a no-no...)
Re: Ultimate Burger
This fell out of the fog? NOOOOOOOO!!!
Re: Ninja AtTACO!
newnie wrote:/is carrying torch
Yeah, I came here to join the mob and was confused when no one else had showed up yet!
There is no-one interested in derbies or HMs or anything community related anymore. Scroll down and see the blog posts on the right column. Tell me how many comments you see ? 0 comments on the last 5 blog posts.
Well, that's what Woot wanted since it sold out.
neyfam2000 wrote:Woot!--going from "Deal-a-day" to "Site-a-day"
Is the rejectionator on vacation?
1. this idea is hilarious!
2. How do you get so much depth with only three colors? This is great.
Re: Sad Panda?
I really love the font color being black....
gmaof5 wrote:very cute
Thanks! (=
Mavyn wrote:You have this shirt for sale on your red bubble page. That's a violation of the rules.
Regrets, I thought I had disabled it. I appreciate the heads up.
Thanks, Bass! You give great critiques. I think that I spent too long on this design so it lost some needed simplicity. I definitely see your point with the extra words and the lady-bonnet.
Lately, I've been using Thursday to think of different ideas and just make rough sketches. I only let myself get started on the real design on Friday morning. That way, I can "give the idea some space" and see if it's really working or not. I didn't do that with this idea because I was afraid the hand-lettering would take toooo long. So, yea... I didn't get enough space away from this design to see that it was too busy!
I'll make a simplified version and post it, hey why not! Thanks for your help .
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Police Chief Rich St. John says the officer was looking for a suspect in a robbery in which a 61-year-old man was shot in the arm late Sunday. The victim had identified the shooter.
At about 11 p.m. Monday, the officer spotted a car with the suspected shooter in the back seat. He stopped the car and opened the back door to talk to the suspect.
St. John says the suspect failed to obey the officer's orders and made a threatening movement that prompted the officer to draw his weapon and fire several shots.
The suspect was taken to the hospital, where he died.
The names of the suspect and the officer have not been released.
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Julian Morris is Emeritus Professor of Process Control at Newcastle University, Visiting Professor in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, Technical Director of the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT) (www.cpact.com). He is a past CEO and Non-Executive Director Bioinnovel Ltd. He is a member of the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) Advisory Committee and has been since CPI's inception, a member of the CPI High Temperature Innovation Centre Technology Technical and Innovation Advisory Group, and a member of the NEPIC Innovation and Thrust Team.
He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Institute of Measurement and Control and a past Fellow of the IEE. He was head of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering from 1990 to 1995 and the first head of the new School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials. He has spent some time as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta in Canada. His research interests include process diagnostics and condition monitoring, process performance monitoring, Process Analytical Technologies, neural networks, and advanced process control and optimisation. His contributions to process control have been recognised by the co-receipt of a number of Paper prizes and awards. He has authored/co-authored over 200 articles in scientific journals, conferences and books, given over 100 invited lectures, and 50 Plenary and Keynote presentations. In 2003 he was elected to Fellow of Britains Royal Academy of Engineering for his contributions to Process Systems Engineering.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
1. National Nuclear Laboratory / Sellafield Sites
Predictive modelling and Process Performance Monitoring Technologies
2. The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI)
Implementation of PAT and innovative modelling technologies for faster product and process scale-up and rapid prototyping in sustainable processing
3. Johnson Matthey
Development and implementation of a Process Analytical Technology platform for measurements of key product and process attributes; sophisticated multivariate analysis, and modeling of inorganic material production
1. ECOCARB - Reduction of emissions and energy utilisation of coke oven underfiring heating systems through advanced diagnostics and controlTata Steel UK; ArcelorMittal Maizières Research France; VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH Germany; School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials Newcastle University UK
2. MULTIMOD - Multiscale Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical ProcessesCentre for Research and Technology Hellas Greece; University of Strathclyde UK; Technical University of Denmark Denmark; RTWH Germany; University Gent Belgium; Imperial College UK; Politecnico Di Milano Italy; University Claude Bernard Lyon France; Unilever UK; Bayer Technology Services Germany; Alfa Laval Denmark; Borealis; BP International UK
3. OPTICO - Model based Optimisation and Control for Process Intensification in Chemical and Biochemical SystemsCentre for Research and Technology Hellas Greece; University of Strathclyde UK; Imperial College UK; RWTH Aachen Germany; ETH Zurich Switzerland; Technical University of Denmark Denmark; Technical University of Delft Netherlands; University of Gent Belgium; BASF Germant; ARKEMA France; DSM Netherlands; Fibre Photonics UK
Morris, A.J, Invited Conference Chair and invited presentation, IQPC PAT & Quality by Design, "Efficient Use of Process Analytical Technology to Support PAT and QbD" Pharma IQ Quality by Design, London, March 2014.
Morris, A.J., Invited Conference Chair, Expert Discussion Panel leader and Presentation "Transforming Data into Knowledge to Support PAT and QbD, QMi QbD Conference London February 2014.
Morris, A.J., Invited Conference & Panel Chair Chair and Expert Discussion Panel leader "Overcoming the Challenges of Using Quality by Design in Biologics", Pharma IQ - 10th Anniversary PAT and Quality by Design, London, 19th - 20th March 2013.
Morris, A.J., Invited Keynote presentation, "Transforming data into knowledge to support PAT and QbD", and Discussion Panel Chair: Achieving cost reduction and efficiency gains through novel process and plant design, "Pharma Manufacturing Leaders Forum", Bratislava, Slovakia, February 19th - 21st, 2013.
Morris, A.J., Invited Keynote presentation, "PAT – Strengths and pitfalls in product and process development and production", The Annual Pharmaceutical Innovation & Manufacturing Strategies Leaders Summit 2013, London, 12th -13th February 2013.
Morris, A.J., Invited participant to a BP science and engineering workshop on Data Analytics for the Energy Industry. The workshop engaged a small group of internationally recognised academic experts in Data Analytics for the Energy Industry together with around 35 members of BP's R&T community. The aim of the workshop was to identify underpinning science and engineering topics that will be essential to support long term technology strength across BP's activities. London 19th to 22nd March 2012.
Morris, A.J., Invited presentation, "Using PAT Tools from Development to Production, Econique Pharma Manufacturing Excellence Dialogue , London, March 19-20 01.
Morris, A.J., Invited Chair and presentation, "Smart Process Analytical Technologies for Rapid Scale‐up and Control", IQPC 9th Annual PAT and Quality by Design, London, February 2012.
Morris, A.J., Invited presentation, "Smart process analytics for faster process scale-up and control", informa life sciences Process Validation Conference, Berlin, November 2011.
Morris, A. J. Invited Meeting Chair and presentation "Small Scale Bio-production – Beyond the Flask", Welwyn Garden City, November 2011.
Morris, A. J. and D. Littlejohn Invited presentation "Process Measurements at CPACT", NEPIC Innovation Day - Showcasing UK Excellence & Opportunity, November 15th, 2011
Morris A. J. and D. Lovett, "PAT and Quality by Design – A Process Systems View", Advances in process control – APC9, York, September 2011
Morris, A.J., Invited presentation "Rapid Prototyping and Scale-Up in Industrial Process Innovation", Scientific Update Conference on Scale-up of Chemical Processes, Boston, USA, 11th – 13th July 2011
Morris A.J., Invited Presentation "Challenges in the implementation of PAT and QbD – smart spectroscopic processing and modelling", 2nd Biannual Conference on Delivering a Potent and High Potent API Manufacturing & Handling Strategies, Munich Germany, May 2011. (Only academic on the Prestigious Speaker Panel)
Morris A.J., Invited presentation "Process Performance (Condition) Monitoring – from Data to Understanding and Know-how", Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), South Yorkshire Network Presentation 23rd February 2011
Morris, A.J., Invited presentation "Developments in Process Analysis", NEPIC Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Sector Opportuities & Developments in the NE, February 2011.
Morris, A.J., Invited presentation, "Smart Process Analytics & Process Systems Engineering Contributions to Quality by Design", IFPAC Baltimore February 2010.
Morris, A.J., Invited Short Course, "Process Control and Automation – Without Equations", IFPAC Baltimore February 2010.
Morris, A.J., Invited presentation, "Multivariate Statistical Process Control - Moving Towards Model-Based Approaches", Pharma IQ - 7th Annual PAT and Quality by Design, London January 2010.
Morris, A.J., Invited Opening Keynote presentation, "A Process Systems Engineering View of PAT, QbD and Real-Time-Release (in Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing)", Workshop on Measurements and Separation Technologies, Kristiansand Norway, February 2010.
Morris, A.J., Invited presentation, "Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) and Quality by Design - the Impact for Process Systems Engineering", Symposium on New Frontiers in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Thessaloniki, 26-28 Nov 2009
Morris, A.J. and Z-P Chen, Invited Opening presentation "PAT and Smart Chemometrics for Assured Pharma Development and Production", Protein Scale-Up & Manufacturing - Harnessing Complexity, PEGS Summit Conference, Boston USA, 6th – 10th April 2009.
Morris, A.J. and Z-P Chen, Invited presentation "From Data to Knowledge through Smart Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) and Process Systems Engineering", Process Analytical Technology in Organic Process R&D Conference, Brussels, March 2009.
Morris, A.J. Invited Conference Chair, 6th Annual PAT and Quality by Design (IQPC), London, February 24th 2009.
Morris, A.J. and Z-P Chen, Invited Keynote presentation, "Challenges for PAT and Chemometrics in Product and Process Development and Production", 6th Annual PAT and Quality by Design (IQPC), London, February 24th 2009.
Morris, A.J. and S. Coleman, Invited Pre-Conference Full Day Workshop "Increasing Process Effectiveness and Efficiency through the Collaboration of PAT, Lean Six Sigma and Data Analysis", Pharma IQ 6th Annual PAT and Quality by Design, London, February 23rd 2009.
Morris, A.J. and Z-P Chen, Invited presentation "Bioprocess Understanding through Advanced Chemometrics and PAT Data Fusion", Applikon Biotechnology Symposium, Liverpool 28th October 2008.
Morris, A.J. and Z-P Chen, Invited Keynote presentation, "PAT and its Implications for Robust Process Monitoring and Closed loop Control", EuPAT, Scientific Progress Underpinning Innovative Manufacturing Control and Quality by Design, Göteborg Sweden, 28-29 October 2008.
Morris, A.J. and Z-P Chen, Invited Keynote presentation, "Process Analytical Technologies and Quality by Design – a Process Systems Engineering View", ISPE Conference: PAT Data Management, September, Manchester, 2008.
Morris, A.J. and Z-P Chen, Invited Keynote presentation, "Process Analytical Technologies and Quality by Design – a Process Systems Engineering View", 7th European Symposium on Biochemical Engineering (ESBES 7), Faro Portugal, September 2008.
Morris, A.J. and Z-P Chen, Invited Keynote presentation, "Process Analytical Technologies and Quality by Design – a Process Systems Engineering View", Royal Statistical Society Conference, Nottingham, September 2008.
Morris, A.J. and Z-P Chen, Invited Keynote presentation, "Chemometrics and its Relation to PAT", IBC Euroforum Meeting on PAT- Process Analytical Technology, 1-2 April 2008, Copenhagen,
Process Diagnostics and Process Chemometrics
Process Performance Monitoring and Multivariate Statistical Process Control
Data Fusion - integration of spectral data with process data for enhanced product and process understanding, monitoring and control. EU Project to development of a novel probe with four spectroscopic heads and data fusion.
Robust statistical models and calibrations from small data sets- small numbers of batches / lots for faster product and process scale-up / scale-down and rapid prototyping.
Multivariate modelling - statistical, neural networks and hybrid modelling
Applications of these methodologies and technologies in pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, speciality chemicals, steel, coking and materials processing
Multivariate Data Analysis, Modeling and Multivariate Statistical Process Control
Lean Six Sigma in a Multivariate Data Environment
Process Control for Chemists, Pharmacists and Formulation Scientists


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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Dumbing Down of a Nation
Let's call this a Wednesday rant, dear readers. Maybe I'll make it a regular blog feature!
As a writer, I'm fairly picky about spelling and grammar. I'm not perfect--no one is--but at least I try my very best to avoid making simple mistakes.
My journalism instructor and mentor Donald Benham used to insist on perfect spelling for all assignments. If you spelled a single word wrong in an article, you flunked that particular assignment. If you misspelled the answer to an exam question, you were marked wrong, even if you had the right answer. Benham was tough, but there was a method to his madness. "If you spell a word wrong in a story, the reader will wonder what else you got wrong," he said. So true.
When I was in college, my greatest pet peeve was people who didn't know the difference between "their" and "they're" or "its" and "it's". But today, forget about it! (Or should that be "fuhgeddaboudit"?) I'm not sure whether or not text messaging is solely to blame, but beyond "LOL" and "OMG", don't expect anything to be spelled correctly! (And I've even seen "lol" spelled incorrectly. I kid you not.)
It's funny that, in this era of computer programs and gadgets with built-in spell checkers, we're misspelling more words than ever before. How sad is it that there's an actual website dedicated to "hilarious speaches" that spells the word speech incorrectly, even in the url? And how many times have you walked by a misspelled sign like the one above? At least the errors can have hilarious results, like an email I once received that misspelled "since" as "seance".
How about you? Any spelling/grammar pet peeves? What is the most humorous spelling mistake you've seen?
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I'm a terrible speller, so I tend to be more forgiving but I do try... especially if it is something I am publishing or if I am writing a letter to a boss or someone I have to make an impression on (job cover letter or query). I also obsess over anything I write and read and re-read a hundred times.... finding mistakes I missed irks me. But I won't spell check this comment, I tend to not worry so much about the informal as much.ReplyDelete
- kungfusingerJuly 28, 2010 at 5:15 PM
I am peeved about most textisms.ReplyDelete
"ur", "h8", "ne1"... etc. I have been known to refuse to text with friends because I figured that if they could not put in enough effort to spell "you are", then they were not worth messaging with. Needless to say, these friends and I have since parted ways.
I applaud websites which censor comments due to poor grammar and spelling. I have seen one or two. Usually they will let slide the occasional miscapitalization or obvious typo, but as soon as textisms are used, the comment is reprimanded by the mediator. Hooray for keeping the English language pure!
I couldn't agree with you more, Holli.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comments, everyone! It's good to know that there are at least a couple of like-minded souls out there. :)ReplyDelete
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I am happy to have found your blog through Laura Best...
I am also a writer with a communications background (and no published books, yet).
I totally agree with this post...I used to resent my dad for correcting my grammar growing up, but I corrected my children, and now they're correcting their friends! It continues to amaze me that there are so many "educated" people who can't spell!
I'm wondering if I can add your blog to my Blogroll...
English by its nature is a language in continual flux, subsuming the tasty bits of other tongues in its ever-widening maw. Even its own body is Protean, waxing and waning as newborn slang rises from the ashes of the old, thumps its chest for a spell, then sinks back into the morass of discarded, rotting phrases.
So much of our current 'official' lexicon is comprised of words that in earlier times were considered slang. The distaste many of us have for slang like "OMG" and "LOL" is by no means a new complaint, but we blithely use phrases today that were the textisms of previous generations.
It's worth noting as well that abbreviations have a very practical value in minimizing the time and space needed to convey a concept or idea. Though still a relative neologism, "LOL" has been granted offical status by the Oxford English Dictionary this year. In time, it may even become as socially accepted as "FYI." Or those annoying Latin abbreviations like "P.S.," "i.e." and "e.g." It's a shame that no one wants to put in the effort to write "exempli gratia" any more, isn't it?
So hooray (a wonderful English word, which likely originated as a Mongolian war cry) for the flexibility of our language! English shall no doubt live on after a multitude of more stagnant languages have kicked the bucket.
@ Wendy, welcome, welcome to my blog! And of course you can add it to your Blogroll. I'd be honored. :) It's great that you're teaching your kids to respect the English language. Abbreviations have their place, of course, but it's great if the kids can still spell "laugh out loud". And stick with your writing - if you can hang in there throughout the rejections, it will pay off, I promise.ReplyDelete
@ Chris - as I know you love to use OMG and LOL, your argument is slightly biased. ;) But I love you anyway.


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Hello. GM added another 558,000 vehicles to the Cobalt ignition switch issue which is now up to 1.37 million vehicles, 31 wrecks and 13 fatalities. I've updated your Topic to include the models of vehicles. Take Care - Dan (MGY)
Hello. Thank you for your Chevy Cobalt recall Topic. It has become a personal matter for me as explained in my postings. God Speed - Dan (MGY)
Thanks, CPG. HNY to you, too. PP.
Thanks for the wonderful wishes. Here's wishing you & yours a wonderful, happy & safe holiday season!
Thanks CoolPriusGuy....all the best to you and yours.....Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year to you and your family.........
LOL! That's hardly surprising. DF left me a longish msg on my WB defending his investment in GM & calling me a GM hater, etc. I didn't respond at all. There's little use bandying words with some people.
LOL, CPG! Yes, thanks. All's well. It's been a crazy schedule lately. Shall be traveling for a few weeks now.
I got msgs from WS & DF. LOL. They both think GM's a great investment & seemed rather miffed I don't quite agree. Based on those GM numbers you posted, it appears as though the top line gains and volume increase came at the expense of net profits, ie. discounts, promos, etc. had a starring role.
Oh well! I still recall DF arguing with me about what a wonderful investment GM was pretty much until they filed for bk. I think I'll stick with my investment thesis! :-)


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Jeep is one of the three divisions that make up Chrysler along with Dodge and the Chrysler brand itself. Jeep produces a range of sport utility vehicles and crossovers. Jeep sport utility vehicles have traditionally been known for their off-road prowess and most are Trail Rated by Jeep. The Trail Rated badge indicates the Jeep has passed traction, ground clearance, maneuverability, articulation, and water fording tests. Jeep is often credited with being one of the first to make a mass-market sport utility vehicle with its early four-wheel-drive wagons.
The used Jeep lineup includes the Jeep Commander full-size SUV, the Jeep Grand Cherokee mid-size SUV, the Jeep Patriot mid-size sport utility vehicle, the Jeep Compass crossover vehicle, the Jeep Wrangler small sport utility vehicle and the four-door Jeep Wrangler Unlimited.
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The modern Jeep was born from the US Army's need for a 1/4-ton, 4x4 light reconnaissance vehicle to serve during the ramp up to World War II. After several rounds of refinement to meet military requirements, American Bantam, Willys-Overland, and Ford collectively produced the vehicles that would earn the name Jeep. Bantam would produce the first prototypes in 1940 and go on to deliver a handful of vehicles to the military. Only one known example of the first Bantam vehicles exists to this day. The Ford entrant established the general layout for Jeeps to come, but in the end it was the more-powerful Willys Quad design that would ultimately win out. Between the three automakers, a final Jeep design was established and the military began ordering production runs from each automaker. There were numerous variations and upgrades during the early years of Jeep production by all three automakers. After World War II, only Willys would continue to produce the Jeep. Bantam ended production shortly after launching its program in 1941, and Ford ceased production in 1945.
When the war came to an end, Willys would continue building Jeeps for the commercial, military, civilian, and agriculture markets. Willys would use the notoriety it garnered from the success of the Jeep in World War II to expand into 1/2-ton and 1-ton offerings that utilized aspects of the now-famous Jeep design. In 1953, the Willys-Overland company was purchased by Henry J. Kaiser. The Jeep had such a significant influence on the success of Kaiser that the company was renamed the Kaiser-Jeep Corporation in 1963. However, shortly after renaming the company Jeep production stagnated at an average of 30,000 to 35,000 units per year.
Acquisition by AMC and Chrysler
As a result, Kaiser-Jeep was absorbed into American Motors Corporation (AMC) in 1970. AMC would transform the Jeep from a utilitarian work vehicle to a truck with more mass-market appeal. Even after a valiant effort, the Jeep could not save AMC. The early 1980's would prove to be the undoing of the company. AMC had registered its 14th consecutive quarter loss in 1983 and after a failed alliance with Renault and experiments with forming joint ventures with Chinese automakers, AMC along with it the Jeep brand was sold to the Chrysler Corporation. Through aggressive marketing and product modernization, Chrysler has restored much of the Jeep's former glory by making the vehicle more comfortable and upmarket while still retaining the rugged heritage.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.comments2012-02-16T21:07:38.287-08:00UNCW LibertariansUNCW Libertarianshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-3624252657480762712011-09-29T12:07:48.089-07:002011-09-29T12:07:48.089-07:00imperialism at it's finest, lets go celebrate ...imperialism at it's finest, lets go celebrate columbus firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-13728176564829970762011-09-29T12:06:41.366-07:002011-09-29T12:06:41.366-07:00of course climate change is a load of bullshit any...of course climate change is a load of bullshit anyone who can't see that need to put down their organic soap and look out of their "sustainable" windows and see that its just another scare tactic. down with firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-25461923305453712312011-09-21T14:12:20.959-07:002011-09-21T14:12:20.959-07:00Thanks for the link.Thanks for the link.Troy Camplinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-56558860218693730682011-08-24T02:17:25.646-07:002011-08-24T02:17:25.646-07:00I am a life long conservative who hates drugs, a...I am a life long conservative who hates drugs, and avoids alcohol. But I agree with Ron Paul.
Set the nonviolent captives free. The sooner it's
decriminalized, the safer we will all firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-19201535458903884432011-07-20T21:45:49.874-07:002011-07-20T21:45:49.874-07:00I loved this article about criminal justice and it...I loved this article about criminal justice and it brings up some really nice ideas for discussion, like a luxury prison for normal people.
I would love to go to prison for a month or so in hot summers, if they are fully air-conditioned ;)
What do you say?Criminal Justice Degrees Onlinehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-39947908743033942672011-05-31T03:02:36.543-07:002011-05-31T03:02:36.543-07:00They should stop or much better if they decrease a...They should stop or much better if they decrease agricultural and residential taxes.affordable housing bronx nyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-89151944921146653312011-04-21T13:53:53.116-07:002011-04-21T13:53:53.116-07:00I had the same difficulties. Wrote to the insuranc...I had the same difficulties. Wrote to the insurance commissioner in CA and SC along with Palmetto upper level management. Problem was resolved in a week.

http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-22487670583466110992011-04-12T09:53:44.102-07:002011-04-12T09:53:44.102-07:00i wish it will be same as in my country.i wish it will be same as in my country.Employment Geniushttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-54329214289221576332011-03-31T07:08:33.625-07:002011-03-31T07:08:33.625-07:00Why is this legal?Why is this email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-76798624870508024312010-12-18T21:46:34.617-08:002010-12-18T21:46:34.617-08:00Love the progress this country is making! Its all ...Love the progress this country is making!
Its all about visionary firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-68291104396057300932010-06-06T14:47:14.623-07:002010-06-06T14:47:14.623-07:00Fannie and Freddie were not and never have been su...Fannie and Freddie were not and never have been subject to CRA. Also, a vast majority of the loans subprime lending made by banks like Wells Fargo, were made by their non-bank subsidiaries (Wells Fargo Financial, Wells Fargo Mortgage Company) and as such not covered by firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-45981761931891421822010-05-30T00:23:42.187-07:002010-05-30T00:23:42.187-07:00Thanks for posting this. I hadn't seen this in...Thanks for posting this. I hadn't seen this interview before.Jack Conwayhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-38376231870749306612010-05-27T14:51:00.870-07:002010-05-27T14:51:00.870-07:00Nice work, man! I love it.Nice work, man! I love it.Joshhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-66009900349642216572010-05-25T11:06:29.779-07:002010-05-25T11:06:29.779-07:00Sorry about the typos my bad.Sorry about the typos my bad.Brianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-88276422694263642362010-05-15T19:32:10.917-07:002010-05-15T19:32:10.917-07:00I really, really hope more people read this. They ...I really, really hope more people read this. They need to, whether they support gun control or email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-84763751737962025222010-04-30T15:17:14.339-07:002010-04-30T15:17:14.339-07:00Scary stuff... But I'm afraid that if the Fed's tr...Scary stuff... But I'm afraid that if the Fed's try to "reform" Fannie and Freddie, they'll only screw them up more. Check this out:

http://www.housingwatch.com/2010/04/27/fannie-and-freddie-dont-you-change/Bendix Andersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-89722854591624341432010-04-30T08:37:13.811-07:002010-04-30T08:37:13.811-07:00This is a great summary of solid arguments. Not s...This is a great summary of solid arguments. Not sure how I found this site but bravo.Justinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-52031306028774751432010-04-30T01:46:09.174-07:002010-04-30T01:46:09.174-07:00Those two quotes aren't mutually exclusive. T...Those two quotes aren't mutually exclusive. The Fathers drew upon the wisdom of the general principles of Christianity to found the government without claiming to draw authority directly upon God's authority like British royalty did. That is, while individuals receive their rights from God, the government gains none of its power this email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-45341770685371557842010-04-27T14:22:43.111-07:002010-04-27T14:22:43.111-07:00I am a life long GOP, and I even think weed should...I am a life long GOP, and I even think weed should be fully legal, and all drugs should be decrimalized. I mean putting a drug addict in jail just makes them violent, even for a drug as bad as meth I would much prefere long term rehab as I just do not think using drugs is a crime, espicaly natural ones like weed. The only crime in weed is that the goverment thinks they have the right to put people in jail for something that is totaly natural, and given to us from God. Yes I am a christan too, so mabey it is time for our so called left wing president to act like it considering even GOP chirstans like myself think it should be legal. None of this is to mention the hugh help to the tax payers it would be, but hey I know our well being is the last thing on washingtons mide no matter who is in email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-32105201205429145742010-04-23T13:37:40.903-07:002010-04-23T13:37:40.903-07:00To see the 600+ pages of property the Federal Gove...To see the 600+ pages of property the Federal Government is attempting to permenantly take from its citizens see "Forfeiture.gov". As described above, your property can be seized on mere probable cause. You are not entitled to a hearing. If you have the audacity to file a claim for your property, the Gov will file a civil "in
rem" (against the property) law suit against you,
forcing you to hire an attorney. You need not ever be charged with a crime. If your innocent property is caught up in a criminal case, it can be named in the indictment and held---your only day in court will come at the END of the criminal trial at the Ancillary hearing---the Gov has held that "four years is not too long to wait" (see US v Phillips)--if you win at the ancillary, you are not entitled to atty fees you had to incur to get your property back, and if they took money, you are not entitled to interest (see US v Nalasco)--if they Gov switches back to/or pursues the civil case,
they can win on "preponderance of the evidence"
(their 51 to your 49%) and that's WHEN you even
get into court---which can be delayed and delayed (you may possibly get costs & interest
tho)
Forfeiture is becoming more and more prevalent in this country---4th, 5th and 6th amendments be
email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-47672437038700024022010-04-18T14:07:26.640-07:002010-04-18T14:07:26.640-07:00Thanks for the post. It was informative and intere...Thanks for the post. It was informative and interesting and I look forward to more in the future.Medical Career Traininghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-20317435271687700932010-04-08T12:40:44.396-07:002010-04-08T12:40:44.396-07:00Also, Repeal the 17th Amendment to the Federal Con...Also, Repeal the 17th Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which calls for direct elections of senators, and took effect May 31, 1913. This moved us from a complex Republic to a simple Republic much like the style of government of the Soviet Union. State rights were lost (North Carolina has less representation in Washington D.C. than Iran does) and we were plunged headlong into a democracy of which our forefathers warned was the vilest form of government because it always ends in oppression. Source: JURY HANDBOOK: A Palladium of Liberty and N firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-46441013742341965252010-04-04T16:17:22.556-07:002010-04-04T16:17:22.556-07:00No, I took it from the other Mises article, which ...No, I took it from the other Mises article, which was also done by Thomas Woods. It could be a transcription for all I know. It's linked to at the top.

firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-68484548790105253302010-03-24T07:08:56.770-07:002010-03-24T07:08:56.770-07:00Did you take this directly from: http://mises.org/...Did you take this directly from: http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214224431751352222.post-17027592131463650172010-03-12T10:47:46.638-08:002010-03-12T10:47:46.638-08:00Hell yeah.Hell yeah.Joshhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Luke Harangody seizes the night as his own, Celtics win 122-102
Every day, a star is born. That's what Jay-Z says, at least.
Today was Luke Harangody's turn to morph into a blazing ball of fire, in the process making Jay-Z look like a prophet. Okay, so I'm entirely hyperbolizing by saying Harangody's star was born tonight. He's far more of a fan favorite than a star, and he may head straight back to his spot on the bench immediately upon KG's return.
But Harangody's contributions raised a few eyebrows in Celtics nation, including my own. The same reasons he was successful in college allowed him to murder an admittedly porous Toronto Raptors defense this evening. He's got a motor that never stops, and a nose focused solely on sniffing out the basketball. Most likely, we'll look back at this as the best game Harangody plays all season. But let's still enjoy his breakout game and marvel how quickly he's improved from second-round afterthought to "hmm, his future's mighty intriguing."
Need another reason to cherish today, besides Harangody's unexpected double-double? How 'bout this: Kevin Garnett could return either Monday or Wednesday, and Kendrick Perkins — who has participated in three-on-three games the past two days — should return to practice next week. The Celtics are now 28-7 and still lead the Eastern Conference, and Luke Harangody is only a few months away from surpassing Blake Griffin as the top Rookie of the Year candidate.
I kid, I kid. But Harangody seized tonight as his own, and — though he's not really a star like I jokingly claimed — the prospects for his NBA future have never shone brighter.
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Did JO get hurt again? He got a DNP in the second half. Did u hear anything
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Fantastic idea of playing the rookie. Who convinced Doc of this? Hopefully, this continues so LH can offer help come the playoffs. If Luke rebounds like this then Davis better worry because 2 rebs in 33 mins. shows a lack of effort of his part. Finally the Cs don't play down to inferior talent and blow'em out. Go Cs…do the same tomorrow.
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When did scal start contributing to the team? I'm really confused.
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@Myles: LOL!!! He is the upgraded version of Scal
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Luke is getting minutes due to KG's injury…
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I need to get a life.. All I do is think about this team. All day long, I lost sleep worry about JO' s knee. I'm insane, I love basketball and the celtics but I'm the happiest when they are not playing…I love winning and having three days offl
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I always knew Luke could be a poor man's Larry Bird.
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Brows Held High - Primer
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05.05.2012 - 22:58 | Samsneeze - AAAaaaaaannnnd...Another film I'm set to watch because of one of your reviews. Sure it's going to be confusing as all get out, I'm genuinely intrigued by it.
Great review.
05.13.2012 - 07:34 | RelienaOk, I'm replying to the top comment merely because I have a question I feel needs to be answered. WTF happened to the last video of this show? I just watched the last review of Brows Held High entitled "What Is It?" last night, and then come to find that it's been taken off the site this morning. Was it too offensive because it has Down Syndrome actors? What the What?
05.19.2013 - 21:01 | SewblonI do not know for a fact why the "What Is it?" review was removed. But since the film "What Is It?" was never released publicly and Oancitizen obtained it by pirating it. I suspect that it was removed at the request of Crispin Glover, or by Blip to prevent Mr. Glover from taking legal action against them or Oancitizen.
05.05.2012 - 23:10 | KezzupI totally understand this movie!
Ha, no.
05.05.2012 - 23:22 | OrangeMilkyYay, a new review! Oh, wow, your laugh is really sexy.
...Also, this was a wonderful episode. I've never actually seen this movie, or even heard of it, honestly, but I think I'll have to check it out now. Whether it is your intention or not, you always seem to get me so interested in whatever films you review.
05.05.2012 - 23:30 | Mr.EvilHey, an actual movie of yours that I've seen. It even gave me the inspiration to study temporal mechanics and...
Edit: Wait, no, I didn't actually see that one because some guy in a mask came to my house three years ago and told me that I better not see it or he'll set all the cheese in my house on fire. Funny how I didn't remember that before. Well, maybe I'll rent it now...
2nd Edit: Wait, just found a letter on my kitchen counter saying that if I ever watch this movie all the baby ducks in the pond next to my house will mysteriously die. Normally I have no problem with mass death, but it's expensive fishing corpses out of that pond.
Sheesh, what is it about this film?
05.05.2012 - 23:50 | Ratin8torPrimer makes sense once you get the plot twist that the characters have already lived through the movie once and are, in sense, reading straight off the script. Once I got my head around the idea that they were future characters trying to play the present versions, everything becomes a lot more clear.
Not that I totally understood that while watching it though. But I like being challenged when I watch a film. I like having to be forced to think. I'd argue that turning off your brain to enjoy a film is one of the worst things you can do.
Still, great review as always.
05.05.2012 - 23:57 | panman92
05.06.2012 - 00:02 | invisiboy42293I have a friend who talks about this movie all the time. I can't wait to watch this review when I get home from school tomorrow.
05.06.2012 - 09:51 | ladydiskette
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05.06.2012 - 00:06 | saxonjf - Highly Enjoyable!Not Primer itself. It might as well have been the layer you slap onto the wall before the paint...
But the commentary is among your best work. You attempted some humor, which worked well. It had a Back to the Future cum Multiplicity schtick to it.
The exploration you made of future/past tensing of language is just one of MANY reasons I tend to hope time travel never really becomes a feasible concept. But the humor you gave to it is some of the best stuff since I watched Ninja the Mission Force. As long as your commentaries don't get to risqué, I'll keep watching...
05.06.2012 - 01:00 | HeisanevilgeniusI have to largely disagree.
The jargon was weird and confusing, but even though I didn't understand it, I could tell the characters knew what they were talking about, which gave it a great sense of realism that drew me in. Unlike Star Trek, where you can clearly tell they're talking out of their asses.
The experiments genuinely intrigued me and although they didn't spell out exactly what they were doing, I could follow along well enough. Personally I don't think that everything in a story needs to be explained down to the smallest detail. I love when a movie is mysterious and you leave with at least a few questions to ponder.
I didn't find the characters quite so bland as you did. I could get a sense of their characters, although they were both very similar to each other so it was hard to tell them apart. I have to be honest and say that I couldn't even tell which character was named which because names are so rarely dropped and the movie is so fast-paced you don't really have time to get to know anyone.
As for how time travel worked in the movie, I understood it perfectly. The diagram I found online later helped, but I understood it fine in the movie the way it was presented. It was more confusing than necessary, but I managed to follow along.
The part with Rachel's dad seemed a tad weird, but I managed to stay with it.
Now, as for how things get insanely complicated in the last twenty minutes or so... yeah, I got totally and completely lost. I think you're right on that the last fifteen minutes could have been its own movie. They could have expanded this movie and make it twice as long and then I think it would be understandable.
As for the whole thing about their moral dilemmas being boring, I really disagree. It seemed easy to relate to them. The issue wasn't that they were important dilemmas. The issue was about how they were abusing time travel in order to solve these dilemmas. Saving Rachel from her ex-boyfriend wasn't important. They just wanted to do it so the one character could impress her... okay, that part wasn't explained at all and if they did explain it it would make more sense, and you're correct that they should have at least shown it.
As for the confusing ending, after I read a synopsis afterwards, I understood completely a few minutes later. I'm not saying that makes it okay. In fact, it just shows me that they could have made the ending a lot easier to understand if they spent just a few more minutes explaining.
05.06.2012 - 01:01 | HeisanevilgeniusThe third failsafe machine was one that blond dude set up prior to telling his friend. In the event that they took things too far, he would have an opportunity to go back and prevent himself from telling his friend about the time travel machine. Which is pretty smart, both for the character and for the story. But then the friend found out about the failsafe and tried to prevent him from preventing him from knowing... ack. Brain hurts now.
Overall, I thought the movie was pretty brilliant and fascinating. The third act is where it got pretty insane. Overall I would definitely recommend it for its intended audience, and I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as you make it out to be.
05.06.2012 - 01:20 | animedude360"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." - Albert Einstein
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05.06.2012 - 01:54 | teddifunkenIf I may respond to your speech at the end:
As someone who knows a good bit of science, and one for whom education and understanding are continual life goals, I agree with your basic premise, that scientists should do their best to communicate the ideas that arise from science to non-scientists in easy to fathom ways.
However, to some degree this is a completely impossible task. For instance, most real understanding of scientific concepts arises from mathematics, and most people would require at least two additional years of math before reaching the point where they would have the required intellectual tools to explain science. Cosmos is a great series, and the good its done is immeasurable, but at the end of the day, scientific thought is an unnatural way of thinking for all people (in fact, much training in the sciences is just learning how to think like a scientist) and so it can be extremely difficult for a person to have even so great an understanding that they understand why it is that their understanding of science is incomplete.
This isn't even as a result of things one sees in other areas of academia, like 'in crowd' mentalities that produce needless jargon or what have you as a way of keeping others out (at least, it's not completely the result of those things.) A few prominent areas of science are only understood through the math because it's science which deals with things that are completely outside of any human's sensory perception and beyond any real imagining of them (here you have your quantum physics, your special relativity, and so on).
Now, I've never seen Primer, so I don't know how much this applies. However, in a movie made by a guy who obviously seems to enjoy science for its own sake, the idea that there's no way that the movie could have simply and concisely explained what the writer was trying to convey kind of rings true to me. I mean, I still have yet to encounter anyone who has explained quantum mechanics in a way that is digestible at all. One can engage in focused study of the subject for years and still struggle with its basic concepts.
Science does not, as you said, revel in mystery or multiple interpretations in order to create an aesthetic. Science necessarily is mysterious and given to multiple interpretations because much of what it deals with is often so removed from human experience, and much of what is being interpreted is not understood even by the tops of their fields. Even science education has to spend a large amount of time trying to drill into people ways of thinking that go completely against what comes natural to people.
Now, could Primer have been made simpler and easier to explain? I don't know, as I said I've never seen it. It certainly would be desirable to make it more understandable if such a thing is possible, no arguments from me. I'm not even trying to argue a point so much as attempt to communicate the diffic...
05.06.2012 - 02:56 | VismuttiI haven't seen this movie but from what I've heard I think there is a place for it, even if it means that it alienates most of the people in the world. There are people who like it and it's something different and unique and that's a value in itself because it creates something new. It doesn't have to be likable for everyone. Hell, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it but I appreciate the fact that it exists. Especially for the idea of "sci-fi realism" which is something I'd really like to see more.
Btw, seriously, I find this kind of time travel much more plausible than any other ideas for it. In my own story ideas, whenever I have time travel or dimensional travel, it has similar limits: I think of it like a sort of a railroad that you have to build before you can take a train. Thus making sense of the fact that we haven't met any people from the future; they can't come this far back since there are no time machines now to use as a sort of a "station" to target.
05.06.2012 - 04:44 | JethroQMy theory for your ending is, that there are at least a few dozen Kyles running around. The one in the kitchen is the oldest one, who has however been away from home so long he forgot where things were, but remembers his own journey, being put in the closet, putting himself in the closet, and hising under the bed to ambush himself... that one was about five, six cycles ago, when the recursions starter really taking their toll on your sanity. Despite it being a self-fulfilling prophecy. Last iteration Kyle then comes to save second iteration (stuff in the closet Kyle) to lead him to further parts down the road, and after completing his unknown objective, takes first iteration Kyle from the closet, explains the situation and takes him to the time machine so that he can travel back to stuff himself into the closet.
05.06.2012 - 07:36 | WarpedElements - Not sure if it's considered 'art house'But I liked this movie when it was called "Time Crimes" instead.
It also had charts, and the narrative was a lot easier to follow.
Spanish flick that, if I took anything away from it, explains WHY the fuck you don't do scientific experiments next to rich neighborhoods.
If you check it out, do NOT watch the trailer as it gives away some serious plot points/twists.
Dunno if it's still streaming on Netflix, but it's definitely at least worth a rental if you like time loop stuff. As I said, it's easy to follow because the scientist involved draws an easy to follow chart and explains every little thing.
05.06.2012 - 13:11 | JethroQPhil buni actually reviewed that film, and that's a very good episode. GO check it out.
I think (based on just the reviews, mind you) that Time Crimes is a bit more simple and contained in its plot. There's three timelines more or less, and here we had that, what, nine, out of which only six are seen onscreen?
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05.06.2012 - 08:53 | timotakaI have a question about the science in this film: In the end you have several parallel versions of the same person existing simultaneously and who will continue to do so indefinitely. How does that not violate the principle of conservation of energy? The method of time travel in Primer had me convinced until it decided to screw over one of the most immutable laws of nature without explanation.
05.06.2012 - 09:19 | tyrong kojyAll time travel does this. Doesn't nesesarilly mean it's in of itself impossible. Just means that, if sucessfully preformed, time travel I mean, that the law is no longer a law. But basically yeah, time travel that allows this totally violates this. Now, the show Quantum Leap however makes sure to NEVER violate this. You can't time travel to your own lifetime. the only time that happens is the last episode, and that's where he meets God, so... yeah, laws of physics be damned.
05.06.2012 - 18:27 | timotakaI disagree. In my opinion, the case could be made that time travel simply moves energy (and mass) around in time rather than create or destroy it. There are plenty of time travel stories where if a person travels back in time and then somehow prevents him/herself from leaving in the first place, one of these versions of the same person wink out of existence or something even worse happens.
05.06.2012 - 09:16 | tyrong kojyHa ha. Nice use of Melody Sheep's "Symphony Of Science" there at the end. I'm pretty sure that's what I heard. I've mirrored them to help get him out there more. Love those.
05.06.2012 - 09:23 | Shinigami
05.06.2012 - 10:14 | Carteeg_StruveAs someone with both a physics and space science degree, I had to work to follow the movie. However I did follow the general layout of some of the details going on.
Basically the guys are trying to put together a start-up company during off hours. The invention they are working on I believe is trying to do one of two things: (1) levitate items, and/or (2) reduce objects effective mass. I like to think #2, because that would be a damn cool way to save energy. Imagine being able to ship a shit-ton of items across country while using the fuel needed to just transport the vehicle, the effective-mass-reducer itself, and only a tiny fraction of the load. It's sci-fi, but it's a cool trick.
But they should had spelled that out.
The "one thing" that can be flipped to negative in that equation was "time", which was a foreshadowing of events to follow... if you had all of the physics and engineering classes required in order to recognize that.
So they should had spelled that out.
The looping between A and B chart was nice, although they should had said the two points where moments in time - meaning that those two points didn't need to be a week apart, but even just a minute or so. The item can remain in that loop for months looping over and over and over until it is plucked out on the B end and thus had months of mold growth in the span of a VERY short time. The one advantage the human trials had later is that by being a human on the inside of the loop, they can choose when to leave the loop (one half-cycle = the first time at point A) without needing to go around and around and around.
That is all the classes bought me with this film. Everything else was by paying REALLY close attention and watching multiple times.
The bleeding ears and hand shaking was simply side-effects of the time travel; and just points out the stupidity of running these experiments on yourself without extensive testing before-hand.
The Granger incident.... was awesome. Normally you see an original timeline (or you hear about it) and you see the person later go back and change the events. What happened here is that eventually Granger is told of the device (likely Abe and Aaron brought him in to sell the idea and get rich), but something bad happened that made Granger go back in time to prevent it. The 'side-effects' the others were experiencing was too much for him, possibly because he went too far back, and it sent him into unconsciousness. Unfortunately, his actions by going back in time prevented anything that caused him to want to go back in time from happening, so we never find out why he went back.
I'd like to say they should had spelled this out... except the confusion over what happened would had been damped if they did.
05.06.2012 - 10:14 | Carteeg_StruveSo many times I've seen movies that I wish didn't spell everything out to the point of thinking the audience has no brain cells. This is a movie that I think goes in the opposite direction of not spelling anything out to the point of thinking the entire audience has PhDs in physics. It's technically wrong... but a part of me REALLY enjoys seeing this done for once.
It's like when that bitch Nini-Legs-in-the-Air spills the beans to the the Duke in Moulin Rouge about the relationship going on behind his back. My first thought was "Why would she do that? It would only screw over the entire production!" And my be-to-wife, who was active in theater performance, told me: "Why wouldn't she? It's screwing over the lead actress. Anybody who was playing second fiddle in a troupe would do this, even if it was to everyone's detriment." And she absolutely loved that moment because it was so completely accurate to the world in which it was taking place, even if nobody else understood it. In fact, she would had found it UNrealistic that nobody told the Duke.
It threw me, but later when I saw Primer I experienced the same feeling. It was a moment to enjoy something that I'm certain "wasn't" made for everybody to instantly understand. I hate to say "You don't get this because the movie wasn't made FOR you," but... I think that very well might had been the case.
I don't think I'd want this habit to continue in more movies, and I COMPLETELY understand everybody else's frustrations at getting bowled over with the lack of explanations, but there is a very selfish part of me that likes the fact that I got to experience this once.
05.07.2012 - 01:53 | PlayMp1Funny enough, the second trick you mention is exactly part of what the mass effect in the Mass Effect game series does: a special unobtanium (called element zero) has an electrical charge run through it. This generates a field that either increases (positive electrical charge) or decreases (negative charge) the mass within it.
Using that technology, you can effectively raise the speed of light within an area by lowering its mass, allowing FTL (as compared to normal) travel. It also allows a bunch of other things, like hand-portable railguns with comparatively low recoil and flying cars (of course). It's actually pretty well explained in the game, from a pop-sci perspective. The explanation for the source of element zero is bunk though (matter that has been affected by the energy from a supernova - no, just no, since all elements heavier than iron are made in supernovae).
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05.06.2012 - 12:27 | FlyinyourSoup - Love this movieCarteeg, you hit the nail on the head with your comment about the movie being made for scientists. I think this is why me and all my science and engineering friends love the movie so much. The first time I watched it was with my husband (physics degree) and a good mutual friend (several degrees in chem and physics). We loved the movie, found it really interesting, and talked about it for a couple hours after it ended. We all really enjoyed figuring out the puzzle of the timelines, interpreting the science jargon to try to figure out what they were doing with their experiments, and all the other bits in the movie that weren't precisely spelled out. We had SO much fun watching and discussing it, because we hardly even get to do that with movies.
05.06.2012 - 12:30 | morphman86My 2 cents:
Primer isn't a movie for the general public, it is for us tech-heads who complain about other movies being too simple, oversimplifying things leads to Star Trek technology. Sure, Star Trek had 8 engineers working on the scripts to make the technobabble and they used actual working theories, BUT... it is also over-simplified to a level where it actually becomes unlikely, and they constantly mistook one thing for another.
Primer is a movie for all of us who actually have delved deep into the theories of time, as you see, time doesn't exist!
Time is a measurement of speed contra distance and is a human invention.
With this in mind, time is relative to how you measure it and the more you think about it, the less sense the actual concept of time makes.
HOWEVER, if you want a movie that explains this in a "dumber" way, go see Donnie Darko, BTF or Bill & Ted.
05.06.2012 - 15:42 | Carteeg_StruveI guess in the end, Primer isn't an "arthouse" movie as much as it is possibly the first "techhouse" movie.
Whereas an arthouse movie is so filled with artistic motifs that the general public just believes it all to be total bullshit, a techhouse movie is so filled with scientific motifs... that the general public just believes it all to be total bullshit.
Added note: I love the "shittiest time machine ever" part of the review. Because it is accurate. If somebody were to ever build the first time machine in their garage, it would likely be more like the Primer time machine and less like the Delorian. More importantly, because this is one of the few time machines where you can move back in time... but you can't "jump" to other moments. You actually have to spend the time going backwards.
05.06.2012 - 15:08 | FlaregunI'm not sure why Kyle felt it necessarily to get himself tangled in a Time Travel causality loop, but at least the resulting multiple copies of himself kinda helps explain why he pops up in nearly Every Frickin' Video TGWTG put up last night.
I loved the reference to All You Zombies, and I strongly second your comments about the book version of 2001. It's kind of a shame that with all the acclaim the movie's received, Clarke's in some respects very different novelization seems to get overlooked & not recognized as (IMO) a classic piece of Sci-Fi literature in its own right.
I tracked this movie down back when I first saw this review in you Blip archive, wound up liking (and *possibly* understanding) it a bit more than you, although that's no doubt largely because this review prepared me to view (and judge) it like a particularly unforgiving brain-teaser rather than as an entertaining story, per say. Also, I kinda suspected from your review (and the many convoluted Time Travel stories I've read over the years) that this would turn out to be one of these stories where what was originally assumed to be the "original" timeline at the start of the story would ultimately turn out to have been altered by time travel. (I'm not sure whether you didn't pick up on this suggestion yourself or you just deliberately didn't mention it due to your policy of leaving some elements out of your reviews so that people like me have something to discover for ourselves when we check out the movie you've led us to, but I've decided to go with the option that makes me feel smarter than you)
What also helped, not so much to understand the movie as to accept some of its incomprehensibility, was how the importance the characters put on keeping information from themselves and others in order to preserve the timeline suggested to me that (especially once multiple time travelers were involved) no one can ever really see the full picture of what's going on, and once the timeline has been changed enough times (along with the histories of the people who changed it), some of the information on how & why some changes came to be will completely disappear from the Universe forever.
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05.06.2012 - 15:42 | DutchticaI like this movie because it's the only movie I restarted at the end not because of how awesome it was (happened once or twice) but because I didn't GET IT (Even things like the Sixth Sense or the Usual Suspects had a couple of days in between).
This is... like you said confoluted.
But fuck me it's challenging to watch.
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Just ten weeks ago, the inside of PS 207's front hallway was cold, dark and enveloped in an acrid smell. The floors and walls were lined with plastic and workers in hard hats and dirty jeans.
But on Jan. 2, the students came back and the school — badly damaged in Hurricane Sandy — slowly began to return to normal.
But the ghost of Sandy still lingers in the hallways and classrooms of PS 207. Nearly every student lives in a house that suffered flood damage when the storm surge inundated the neighborhood on Oct. 29. Many had to leave their homes. A select few are still not back.
Last week, the survivors of the hurricane at PS 207 took part in a program that has connected disaster victims across the country — and even some far away parts of the world — for over a decade.
It started with a foundation called New York Says Thank You, established by Manhattan resident Jeff Parness after the 9/11 attacks. Parness lost a friend in the World Trade Center and his son decided to donate his toys to victims of wildfires in Southern California in 2003, and that was the beginning of the foundation.
In December 2006, a tornado struck the small town of Groesbeck, Texas. Patrick Samuels, assistant chief of the town's fire department, saw his family's home and neighbors' houses destroyed. Worse yet, the town was not eligible for FEMA money because it was not declared a disaster area. On the sixth anniversary of 9/11, New York Says Thank You came to Groesbeck to help build new homes for the tornado victims.
Deciding to pay it forward, Samuels reached out to the town of Greensburg, Kan., a rural town in the Great Plains wiped off the map by an F5 tornado in 2007. There, Stars of Hope was born when 220 schoolchildren painted wooden stars.
From the plains of Kansas, Stars of Hope has since made its way around the country — and the world — to communities hit hard to natural and man-made disasters including Galveston, Texas after Hurricane Ike in 2008, the tornado-ravaged cities of Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala. and Minot, ND, which was devastated by a flood in 2010. Samuels even took the project to Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami there. One star that was made in tsunami-struck Japan and another from a war-torn part of Israel now hang on a telephone pole in Howard Beach.
After Hurricane Sandy, Samuels and others brought stars that were painted in Texas, Georgia and Kansas to the Rockaways and posted them around the neighborhood to help brighten the spirits of the storm's survivors. One star caught the eye of Janine Pizzariella, a kindergarten teacher at PS 207. She looked up the project on its Facebook page and decided to reach out and see if they could come to Howard Beach.
"I really wanted to do it as soon as we came back to the school," Pizzariella said.
Because of the damage to PS 207, its students attended classes in other schools until Jan. 2. Samuels said they were considering coming to town and having the students paint stars in their host schools, but Pizzariella said she wanted to wait until the children were back in the school building.
"It's sort of a homecoming for us," she said.
Despite living in a rural Texas town, Samuels knew of Howard Beach. As part of Stars of Hope and New York Says Thank You, Samuels had met New York City Firefighter Jimmy Sands — a Howard Beach resident — who had taken part in projects in Texas, Kansas and other areas Stars of Hope has traveled to. The two connected with Pizzariella and agreed to bring the project to the school last Friday.
Class by class, students filed into the school's gymnasium. The younger children had their teachers write out the words they wanted to paint on the stars. Older kids colored their stars in bright shades of green, yellow and blue and added messages of hope. One star paid homage to one of the city's hardest hit neighborhoods with a brightly colored message reading "Breezy Point Shines."
Volunteers — including survivors of past natural disasters — carried the wooden stars, cut out in Georgia from wood donated by The Home Depot. Georgia's postal abbreviation was on the back of the stars, a message of support from that part of the country, Samuels said.
Among the volunteers helping at PS 207 was Matt Deighton, a survivor of the 2007 Greensburg, Kan. tornado. Deighton, whose hearing was damaged by the twister, said he enjoys taking part in the project, which he admitted to be dismissive of when it first came to his town.
"I didn't understand the impact at first," he said. "But now I really see the effect."
Deighton scurried around the gym, filling cups with paint and talking to the children about their stars. He said the most striking thing was when he saw the bulletin board at the main entrance to the school. Posted there are cutouts of ruby red slippers colored by students. "The Wizard of Oz"-themed "No place like home" display, representing the students' excitement to return to their school, struck the Kansas native.
"Look at that," he said pointing to the board. "I'm from Kansas!"
Hundreds of stars were painted at the school and Samuels said they will be taken to other areas hit by future disasters.
The next stop for Samuels was Newtown, Conn., the town still reeling from last month's mass shooting at an elementary school that killed 20 children and sieven adults. He brought up a number of painted stars to put up in the town last weekend. Some of the stars painted at PS 207, including one bearing the name of the school, were taken there.
PS 207 was not the only stop Stars of Hope will be making in New York. The organization hosted a community paint in Breezy Point last week, and Samuels said he is in negotiations to bring the stars to a school in Gerristen Beach, Brooklyn.


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First stop: Studentsville
Lily is 19 and from Kingston-upon-Thames. She's studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at York University. Will she survive?
Entry: 1
Blimey, this going-to-uni lark aint half stressful. With her suitcase packed and her bedroom looking frighteningly neat and empty, Lily is about to abandon family life for three years in York. But will she make it past the last hurdles to get there?
The muddled mind of a fresher
I've spent two days hurriedly repacking all the things I unpacked last weekend, when I suddenly decided I wasn't going. Sitting on my bed and looking around my room, I'm feeling a bit confused. My room's never looked so huge - or so clean. I feel bad for sitting in it because it looks so tidy. I'm certainly not neat or clean enough. So I've decided this room can't be mine, this room clearly belongs to a very neat person, or it could of course belong to someone who doesn't live here anymore.
I suddenly feel like the Jacqueline Wilson's The Suitcase Kid. Instead of my parents divorcing each other, my education and family have become divorced. From now on, I'll spend Christmases with family and live with education.
My home friends are already competing with new friends I haven't yet made: "Come home soon, Lily! We'll be up to visit you! Don't forget us - we're way cooler than any new friends you could possibly make!"
All summer, I've been a bum and a layabout, picking up the odd shift at Waitrose and watching Neighbours twice a day. Tomorrow, however, I'm going to become a special kind of bum known as a student. I'm kind of excited, but not very excited, because I don't really believe I'm going. I'm kind of scared, but not very scared, because I still don't really believe I'm going. As you can probably tell, I'm mainly a bit confused.
I've put a lot of effort into making my school-to-uni transition as smooth as possible, but recently it seems that everything has swung back to smack me in the face. While I worked pretty hard for my A-levels, doing the whole staying in and revising thing (controversial, I know), but when results day finally came I found out that my grades had slipped below what was required to get into my first choice of uni. Was it the fault of the exam board? Or did I not work hard enough? Or was I just too stressed on the day? I'm hesitant to provide excuses; so many people are screwed over by their school, parents, examiner, hay fever or broken biro that I don't like to complain too much. Nobody wants to have the 'do you still want me?' conversation with their first-choice university, but since it worked out fine for me (they do still want me), I've moved on. If anything, I'm launching into my course with a vengeance, hoping to compensate for my A-level disappointments.
"I've been a bum and a layabout, picking up the odd shift at Waitrose and watching Neighbours."
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Following that, I had various disagreements and miscommunications over whether I'd deferred my place or not, whether I'd received all the information regarding my course and finally whether I had anywhere to live. Having downloaded and sent off my accommodation application before I even received it by post, I was confident that I'd get one of my three choices. I called about once a week asking when I'd be allocated a place. Then, a week-and-a-half before I was going, someone finally checked beside my name and told me that they'd never received my application. Two days later I got a letter with an explanation that there was no accommodation for me, accompanied by a list of temporary youth hostels. I hardly read the letter - I just threw it at Mum, who saw my finely-tuned 'independent young adult' act crumble before her eyes.
I didn't want to go. I didn't want to start my student life living off-campus. After all, as my boyfriend was still going to be living at home and two of my best friends were gapping, what on Earth would be appealing about not deferring my place? There seemed no point in reasoning anymore, so I just cried.
I'm not a lazy person; I don't expect everything to fall into my lap. I understand that the university experience is about doing things for yourself. But at the heart of my upset was the fact that I suddenly didn't understand why I had to work so hard to even get there in the first place. I know that somewhere there's someone who did little to no work for a set of perfect grades and whose Mum sorted out all their paperwork. I'm pretty sure they're in the room I'm meant to have got. Fate seems to be saying to me - nay, screaming - that I should stay home and put off uni for another year.
Should she stay or should she go now?
But I'm not staying home. I've put myself firmly into my Mum's hands (which has made me realise that being 19 isn't that grown-up after all). She took the day off work, called the accommodation office over and over again until I got a staff flat. Temporarily, I'm in said flat at the end of a corridor of normal rooms. Obviously there are going to be little problems to overcome, as I'm slightly segregated from my corridor and I could be moved across campus as soon as a room becomes available, but at least I have a room. Putting off university another year with no gap year plans, not to mention gap year funding, could have easily ended up with me wasting a year earning a little and spending a lot.
I've always been one for a fresh start and it's not because I have secret social ineptitudes and physical deformities - I just enjoy the excitement. So it may have taken me what seems like an age, three boxes of tissues and a massive phone bill to get to university, but I look on tomorrow with... Anticipation?
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- Cost of Storage: When it comes to the cost of in-place information management, many organisations are caught between two prevailing trends. Although the cost of enterprise data storage per GB is going down, the ever-increasing volume of information continues to drive costs up. Information governance that manages in-place allows organisations to substantially reduce the total volume of unstructured information being stored for lower storage costs—all without impeding business.
- Infrastructure: The alternative to in-place information governance involves costly central repositories and the massive overhead associated with servers, storage, and data storage management software. By leveraging existing infrastructural environment, Proofpoint Enterprise Governance can help organisations avoid ballooning IT costs.
- Change Management: By managing information in-place, enterprises gain the advantage of simplified user adoption, minimizing the impact of change. Users won't have to change their normal work patterns of creating, editing, saving, and emailing. That translates into higher adoption rates and better compliance.