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Fiberglassing questions Hi, so I'm on the tailend of the hull construction for a shanty boat, and now i'm at the stage where I should be looking for fiberglass options. In another post a few people pointed out that the way I've built it will be quite heavy (although many other designs seem like they would be equally heavy) Basically its a 18ft by 7ft flat bottomed scow(ish) hull with a 2x4 frame with 3/8 exterior grade ply covering it all up. I have a couple of tubes of 3M 5200 to seal the seams of the ply, but I was told I should use epoxy so I think I'll go that way... Anyway I need to buy fibergalss cloth and epoxy soon so I thought you guys might like to help me out. I really don't understand the difference in terms of quality of say biaxal cloth vs woven roaming.... The base plans I was using suggest 10oz cloth but no mention of if I should be using multiple layers etc. Any thoughts? Thanks folks Adam p.s. I don't intend to use the boat on any waterway which isn't sheltered.... i.e. I'm basically planning on staying in the Rideau Canal and possibly a couple quick trips on the Lower Ottawa River (near Ottawa) So I'm fairly sure I'm ok in terms of hitting many underwater logs etc. Last edited by BuildingaLemmy : 05-10-2010 at 11:18 AM. Reason: more info |
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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 214012, 2 pages
Underwater Communications and Networking
1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Newcastle University, Merz Court, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
2Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
3Institut Mines-Télécom, Telecom Bretagne, UMR CNRS 6285 Lab—STICC, Université Européenne de Bretagne, Technopôle Brest Iroise, CS 83818, 29238 Brest Cedex, France
4Acoustic Research Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 12A Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119223
5Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo, 6/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
6Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MS No. 9, Bigelow 404, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Received 13 December 2012; Accepted 13 December 2012
Copyright © 2012 Charalampos C. Tsimenidis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In the last two decades, we have witnessed growing research interest in underwater communications and networks for civilian and scientific, as well as military type of applications. Despite the plethora of studies in this area, the hostile nature of the propagation medium poses many challenging issues, many of which are still to be solved. The underwater acoustic communications channel (UAC) can be characterized in most cases as a doubly spread channel. This implies that UAC exhibits both delay and Doppler spread. Delay spread leads to time dispersion and frequency selective fading effects. In contrast, time dispersion dilates the transmitted symbol duration in time and needs to be compensated prior to detection. In this special issue, five original technical contributions are addressing problems that will advance the development of next generation underwater communication technologies.
One core high data rate modulation technology that has found its way in modern underwater modem design is Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). OFDM is an efficient method to tackle delay spread induced intersymbol interference (ISI) in underwater acoustic communications. However, a long cyclic prefix is often required and therefore the bandwidth efficiency of the system is reduced. The authors in "Information-theoretic analysis of underwater acoustic OFDM systems in highly dispersive channels" quantitatively analyze the interplay between interference, namely ISI and intercarrier interference (ICI), and maximum transmission rate of the OFDM system. This is accomplished by computing the capacity of OFDM in a doubly spread channel but without relying on the commonly used assumption of the uncorrelated scattering model.
The motion induced time-selectivity of UAC manifests itself as a both frequency or Doppler shift and signal dilation. In multicarrier transmissions employing OFDM, a Doppler shift will introduce ICI to the adjacent subcarriers. Resampling of the received signal will remove both effects, however, leaving residual carrier frequency offsets that need to be compensated. The authors in "Compensation of linear multiscale doppler for OFDM-based underwater acoustic communication systems" investigate the performance of multi-scale Doppler shift compensation in OFDM UAC. It was demonstrated that the proposed algorithms employing coarse timing synchronization can deal with time-varying linear acceleration during a packet made of multiple OFDM frames. In "Performance comparison of Doppler scale estimation methods for underwater acoustic OFDM", the authors compared several Doppler scale estimation methods for zero-padded OFDM systems using a cyclic-prefixed preamble. It is demonstrated that blind approaches exploiting the underlying packet structure work very well at medium to high signal to noise ratio ranges, although full or partial knowledge of the transmitted waveform may be required.
The authors in "Underwater localization and tracking of physical systems" address the problem of localization in underwater wireless sensor networks using an OFDM-based physical layer. In many applications, whether civilian or military, the meaningful interpretation of sensed data requires location-aware sensors. This paper presents an underwater localization approach based on one-way message broadcasting from multiple surface nodes. The performance of the proposed solution is evaluated using both simulation and measured results from experiments conducted in a swimming pool and in a local lake using a mobile receiver.
The problem of routing over multihop paths with time-varying link quality is considered in "Location-aware source routing protocol for underwater acoustic networks of AUVs". The authors present the design of a location-aware source routing (LASR) protocol for underwater networks. LASR is based on the sharing of a common time reference between network nodes. Such reference is exploited both for administering multiple access, and for the timely detection of topological changes in the network. LASR is loosely inspired to the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol. With respect to DSR, LASR employs a different routing metric (cf., the expected number of transmissions before correctly delivering a packet to its destination) and relaxes the source routing approach, by letting the nodes downstream modify the route if topological changes occur. Several mechanisms are employed to improve the effectiveness of multihop communications: these include imposing time constraints over implicit or explicit acknowledging, and performing route maintenance via opportunistic overhearing of neighboring control and data traffic. Simulation results show the good performance of LASR with respect both to a baseline flooding protocol and to DSR, under several environmental and link reliability conditions.
We hope that both academic researchers and engineers working in the area of underwater communications and networking will find the papers presented in this special issue useful and that the contributions and research outcomes in these papers may act as a stepping stone to support future research in this subject.
Charalampos C. Tsimenidis
Yuriy Zakharov
Christophe Laot
Konstantinos Pelekanakis
Paolo Casari
Andrey K. Morozov


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Blue skies over George's WW2 Lancaster bomber; COVER STORY The log book of Flying Officer George Smith provides a poignant reminder of life at war.
Byline: By RICHARD McCOMBGeorge Smith recorded the bare essentials of his missions - the dates, the targets and the weight of the bombs.
On March 12, 1945, his sevenman crew hit Dortmund. Their Lancaster aircraft, attached to 90 Squadron, dropped one 4,000lb bomb and a dozen 500-pounders. It was a daytime raid and George's note records there was no enemy opposition.
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Weeks after the bombing of urban centres and industrial complexes, George and his crew found themselves facing an altogether different challenge. By May 1, they were targeting Holland, dropping emergency food supplies for the victims of war. To avoid German radar, the giant Lancaster skimmed the ground at 60ft, some feat while hurtling through the air at 250mph.
"The people were starving, eating tulip bulbs," recalls Veronica Smith, who was married to George for 58 years.
"They dropped big bags of flour on the racecourse at The Hague.
George said it was the most rewarding thing he did in the war. They were flying at only 60ft. They could see the people on the ground waving at them."
Almost 60 years later, the airman took his final flight in a Lancaster in May 2004. In a private ceremony, the ashes of Flying Officer Smith were scattered into the skies over rural Norfolk from aircraft PA474, known as Mickey the Moocher.
George had been based in the county at RAF Tuddenham, a satellite of Mildenhall, and on many occasions would have broken through the cloud cover, to the blue skies, during training exercises and on his way to and from bombing raids over Germany.
"It was a fitting end for a hero," says Veronica, who is now aged 81. During the Second World War, she worked on the production of Lancasters in Birmingham, helping to keep her husband's aircraft airborne.
Of the 7,377 Lancasters made during the war, just two remain in airworthy condition. PA474 is the sole survivor in the UK, the second aircraft being based in Canada.
For obvious reasons, Veronica always retained a special affection for Lancasters, the aircraft in which her dear late husband risked his life, like countless others, for king and country.
Her memories, however, were confined to flicking through the old black and white pictures she will always treasure, showing George lined up with his crew back in 1944-45.
She was bowled over then to discover that PA474, the aircraft from which George's mortal remains were scattered, had flown into the West Midlands to be serviced and refurbished.
The bomber, owned by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, has been undergoing a winter service and repair programme at Baginton airport in Coventry.
The work has been carried out by Air Atlantique and the aircraft, with its new paintwork and markings, will be unveiled at the golden anniversary celebrations of the BBMF at RAF Coningsby next Friday.
Learning of the maintenance and restoration of PA474 has been a cause of terrific personal excitement for Veronica and has brought back vivid memories of George's affiliation with the aircraft.
It has also brought into the public domain a remarkable memoir written by her husband in the last years of his life.
Handwritten on A4 paper when he was 85 and 86, George left behind a fascinating first account of the transformation of a 1940s Birmingham beat bobby into a wartime flying hero.
It is packed with amusing self-deprecating anecdotes, tales of drunken escapades, the minutiae of bombing raids and aircraft love for the wife he called Ve. As we chat inside her pristine flat in Stourbridge, Veronica mentions how she first met George, then a Birmingham copper, at a party in Aston. She was 17 and he was 29.
"George was playing the piano. He was playing Rhapsody in Blue. He loved that tune," she says.
Veronica sang along with George as he played some popular songs. He was smitten and later commented that "Veronica sang so sweetly you wanted to eat her".
In the background, classical music plays on a radio station in Veronica's kitchen. She pops out to make a cup of coffee. While she is out of the room, Rhapsody in Blue, starts playing. Sceptics would say it is a coincidence. I am not so sure; something of George Smith lingers on.
He was born in Leicester in 1913. George had a taste for adventure, nurtured as a child by his love of Tarzan books and he joined the police training school at Digbeth, Birmingham in 1938.
He had been in the force a year when war was declared and being in a reserved occupation he was trained to take charge in emergencies involving enemy bombing raids, backed up by the National Fire Service and the ARP (Air Raid Precautions).
In his memoir, George wrote:
"You would hear the German planes and recognise them from the throb of their engines. They sounded quite different to the British. They did not come all at once, but in waves, thus spreading the alert all night.
"It was frightening to hear a stick of bombs coming down, and hear them explode one after the other. You could tell whether they had dropped in your vicinity or not, and if they had, they were your responsibility."
George recalled attending the aftermath of a massive raid in Coventry and shortly afterwards members of the police service became entitled to join the RAF and the army.
He joined the RAF in the late summer of 1942, enrolling at Lords Cricket Ground. And so began the military career of Air Craftsman 1582409 Smith.
While he was based in Scotland with the Initial Training Wing (ITW), he received a broad technical education in "navigation, gunnery and bombing theory, aircraft recognition etc . . . and plenty of P.T." He was selected for the role of bomb aimer and supplemented his income by playing piano in the Wing Dance Band.
He married Veronica - who he described as "a vision of loveliness" - at Sacred Heart Church in Aston, Birmingham, on August 12, 1944.
George wrote: "The weather was beautiful, I had just married the most gorgeous girl in the world, and many of my friends were around me, so I had every right to claim to be the happiest, most fortunate and delirious guy ever!"
Veronica worked at Vickers Armstrong in Castle Bromwich, helping to supply the parts for the Lancasters whose role proved to be so pivotal.
By July 3, 1945, Flying Officer Smith, had completed 229 hours and 14 minutes of daytime flying - and 115 hours and 40 minutes of night flights. It was the equivalent of more than 14 days and nights' of continuous flight. Veronica's belief that the 1945 aid missions to Holland were George's greatest memory of the war is borne out by his memoirs.
He recalled the tumultuous reaction of the people on the ground as his Lancaster speed over the roof-tops, dropping food parcels: "The reception made one feel very emotional. Each village or town we flew over was filled with cheering, waving people, many sitting on the apex of the roofs of buildings waving sheets and blankets.
"I remember one chap was riding his bike along a street and waving like mad when he fell off, still waving. For the first time, I felt like I was a bit of a hero doing a good job."
On another occasion, his crew landed at an airstrip near Rheims in France and collected 24 British prisoners of war. "They were a very seedy bunch of men, thin and gaunt, but all eager to see their own country again," wrote George.
"I recall many of them cried when they saw the white cliffs of Dover again and said they had given up hope long ago of ever doing so. They had been POWs since the beginning of the war, five years. It was quite emotional at times."
George returned to the police service in Birmingham after he was demobbed, reluctantly seeing his RAF pay drop from pounds 11 a week to pounds 5 back on civvie street. In later life, he became a shopkeeper in Kings Heath while Veronica ran three hairdressing salons in Birmingham.
George died in October 2002, aged 89, his final days spent at the Mary Stevens Hospice in Stourbridge. He left behind a vivid account of his wartime service in the skies over Germany.
The clarity of those recollections surprised his wife. "He used to say he didn't have a very good memory," says Veronica.
"But he was a rock. I have never heard anyone say anything about him other than that he was even keeled and a strong character."
The memories of the RAF bomb aimer remain for Veronica, their past together irrevocably tied to her present. "I always knew when he was coming back on leave,"she says. "We used to meet under the clock at Snow Hill station in Birmingham. We used to write to each other every day. There were hundreds of letters . . ."
She adds: "I went to see the film Brief Encounter yesterday . . .all that saying goodbye on trains . . .it brought back memories."
The Lancaster was the brainchild of Avro chief designer Roy Chadwick and overcame the problems that dogged the twin-engined Manchester bomber.
The prototype made its first flight in January 1941.
Lancasters were delivered to RAF Bomber Command in early 1942 and flew into action on March 3 that year.
Six companies built the aircraft at ten factories on two continents and more personnel were involved in flying and maintaining it than any other British aircraft in history.
Lancasters took part in every major night attack on Germany and by May 1945 a total of 61 squadrons were equipped with the bomber.
They could carry a 14,000lb bomb load although special versions attached to 617 Squadron carried a single 22,000lb "Grand Slam" bomb.
One of the most famous Lancaster operations was the Dam Busters raid in May 1943, which involved 19 of the aircraft. Bouncing bombs developed by Barnes Wallis destroyed the Mohne and Ederdams.
The average age of the Lancaster's seven-man crew was 22 and on average the aircraft completed 21 missions before being lost.
Almost half of all Lancasters delivered during the war were lost on operations with the loss of more than 21,000 crew members.
I always knew when he was coming back on leave. We used to meet under the clock at Snow Hill station in Birmingham
Top, Veronica and George on their wedding day in 1944, right, on their 50th wedding anniversary. Above and left, Veronica now with her son Martin; George Smith's flight log, a treasured possession for his widow Veronica; Above and below, PA474, the aircraft from which George's remains were scattered, undergoes a winter service and repair programme at Baginton airport in Coventry. (Picture, Crown Copywright)
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Welcome to the global entertainment grid. Experience regional flavours without really understanding their particularities, complexities or contexts.
The grocer's boy, the courier guy and the presswallah have it as their ringtone; my staunch Punjabi neighbour cracked peanuts and jokes around a Lohri fire to its beats this year; and a Punjabi version of the ragingly popular Tamil song "Kolaveri Di" is top of the charts for neighbourhood DJs let loose on wedding celebrations. FM stations and TV channels air it compulsively in a world gone viral with entertainment.
There's a pattern to the way a flavour of the moment is created or marketed in a mass culture spawned by an age of convergence. Pleasure comes in a saturated blitz, creating an endless loop of repetition across media — in Kolaveri's case, released first on You (mine and ours) Tube and amplified on satellite television, radio and cell phone.
When constant repetition of a song combines with a strongly repetitive element in its structure — as in an ad jingle — compositions such as Kolaveri Di become a subconscious tattoo in the head, almost an involuntary sensation. That is, until the next sensation emerges on the horizon.
The best thing about this entertainment universe is that it is a phonetic paradise. There is no undue pressure on the listener to understand the lyrics of a catchy Kolaveri; you can mouth the sounds and feel connected to a happening global grid. This is possible because the concept of the popular itself has become the basic language of communication in our times; in its domain particularities like Tamil or Punjabi are not very integral to the sensation of enjoyment.
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At the same time, a pastiche or hodgepodge fulfils several vital functions. It gives rise to a triumphant feeling that local tongues, or bits of it, have managed to attain 'worldwide' popularity even as it satisfies the desire for novelty in each new entertainment product. The Bollywood hit song "Chhammak Chhallo" in the recent Shah Rukh Khan starrer "Ra-One", is a perfect example of this trend. Unleashed long before the film, the song created quite a stir with its 'exotic' packaging — its Hindi, Tamil and English lyrics were sung by the popular Senegalese American rapper Akon.
The inflections in the singer's voice made it amply clear that he was recreating the sounds of Tamil and Hindi words with an unselfconscious accent which in fact added to the song's entertainment quotient.
If anything, layered contextual nuances can be counterproductive for marketing strategies which increasingly look to global audiences in the realm of popular mass entertainment. In a speeding age exemplified by fleeting distractions, the transient experience holds centre stage; understanding particularities is tiresome for the time and effort it takes.
The contrast becomes clear when one compares Bollywood versions of folk originals. Take the popular Bollywood version of the Chhattisgarhi folk song "Saas gaari deve" from the film "Delhi 6" or the well-known Rajasthani "Nimbuda" from "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam". The infusion of folk vibrancy within a contained spectrum of contemporary beats and musical sounds in both songs ensures that you get a whiff of something 'new' while remaining in familiar territory. There is a clear sense of a finite song entering your space and affording you an instant enjoyment.
On the other hand, the undiluted vitality of the original folk songs reveals a flow of time as lived experience over generations. To enjoy it to the fullest you have to understand it in its own context. The delight is not linked to the folk song's rhythm alone; it emerges from the connectedness you feel to a holistic universe which expands and deepens the more you comprehend it. For a marketing wizard on the assembly line that must seem like an awful lot of unnecessary detail to deliver a short term, skin deep sensation.
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It is not a coincidence that the repetitive structure of popular songs today are similar to that of present day ad jingles and splayed across the planet in a markedly similar fashion. One takes a folk song and puts it to an ephemeral beat that resounds deafeningly for its 15 minutes of life span before vanishing; the other extracts the colour of a Kathakali actor's richly symbolic mask as a hue in a shade card for a paint company. Both come together in the marketplace on the global highway to convince the individual that becoming a consumer is to achieve the highest stage of human evolution; it enables each person to express his or her individuality by 'choosing' the momentary surge as thousands of others do without getting bogged down by specific situations or that old fashioned notion of comprehension.
As the virally marketed success of Kolaveri shows, living on the surface is an honourable existence.
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Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano answers questions during a meeting with the Free Press editorial board Thursday. / MANDI WRIGHT/Detroit Free Press
Generally, I loathe the sports analogy applied to politics.
But this is one time where it really fits.
If Wayne County government were a college sports program, my main concern right now would be about a lack of institutional control.
You know, when the NCAA determines that a school doesn't have the proper policies or procedures in place to assure that athletes and coaches comply with the rules, and doesn't have the proper mechanisms to respond to infractions.
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Doesn't that sound like the mess Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano has been in for the past six months?
An ever deepening scandal in county government has already yielded criminal complaints against two of Ficano's appointees and cost several others their jobs.
Ficano hasn't been implicated in any of the misbehavior so far (though the feds are still investigating), but the growing sense is that the county has a profound culture problem. These aren't one-off, isolated incidents. They constitute a pattern that suggests Ficano has been either permissive or negligent in the way he has managed his people.
If he were a football coach, I have no doubt he'd be gone.
But politics is not sports, and the stakes in governance are far higher. You unseat a duly elected official only after the most egregious and irreparable harm, when it's clear someone can't effectively do his or her job because of misbehavior and the distrust it has engendered.
Ficano's not in that position -- at least not yet.
On Thursday, Ficano visited the Free Press editorial board to defend his response to the scandal, tout his record as county executive, and to insist, as he did during his State of the County Address Wednesday night, that he's moving forward with critical economic development and service initiatives with the county.
Ficano has never been a smooth talker or great speaker, but he has a lot to show for the time he has been in office. He's also at the helm of southeast Michigan's most formidable political operation, which is how he has moved big projects such as the aerotropolis, the Cobo Hall restructuring and the Detroit Medical Center redevelopment forward in Lansing.
Refocusing on those kinds of things and building on the momentum are what he's trying to do now. It's a smart move that just might save his political life.
Ficano has already fired or accepted the resignations of everyone implicated in any criminal activity, and he smartly hired former U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Collins to tighten up county rules and procedures.
A new ethics policy in Ficano's office mandates disclosure of employee conflicts of interests and forbids far more entanglements than have been permitted before. The policy also forbids county employees to direct their subordinates to do political work and will make punishment for infractions mandatory.
Going back to the sports analogy, this is about creating a culture of compliance in the county: clear rules and clear consequences for breaking them. Ficano will need to be merciless in assuring that works. He may still be on the hook for someone's past transgressions, but the thing he has most control over now is what happens in the future.
Ficano is also refocusing on competent, day-to-day management of the county. He has a balanced budget, despite continuing revenue shortfalls in several areas where property values are still depressed. He has settled a long-running dispute with the county's courts over funding, which should avoid cost overruns and end a nasty lawsuit. He has also persuaded AFSCME to accept major concessions that will add to county savings.
Newly appointed economic development director Ray Byers is honing the county's development efforts, focusing, he says, on making things happen but only taking credit for things the county directly influences. Aerotropolis may be the most important Ficano development initiative, because its success is a linchpin in the effort to maximize the area's potential as a transit and logistics hub; there is statewide interest in that happening.
And ethics-wise, Byers is changing the structure of the county's economic development operation to keep contributors to the development corporation away from decision-making about contractors.
Ficano says Wayne County residents should judge him not just on the last six months of turmoil, but on his entire career, which spans 30 years in county government. No doubt, he has many accomplishments to his name, and voters won't get to decide what to do with Ficano for another 2 1/2 years anyway.
If he can demonstrate that the scandals inspired him to get control of his institution and keep it, both he and the county he oversees may eventually come out on top.
Stephen Henderson is the Free Press' editorial page editor and the host of "American Black Journal," which airs Sundays at 1 p.m. on Detroit Public Television. Contact Henderson at firstname.lastname@example.com, or at 313-222-6659.


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If you walk into "Side Effects" looking for a gritty, realistic treatment of what it's like to go on and off of psychiatric meds, you're walking into the wrong theater. If you come looking for a critique of Big Pharma's marketing practices, you'll leave perplexed. But if you see "Side Effects" to get lost in Jude Law's baby blue "trust-me" eyes and to indulge in Catherine Zeta-Jones' skillful portrayal of a hyper-sexual psychiatrist in silky business casual, you're definitely in the right place. Indeed, the film makes it easy enough to OD on psycho-thriller kitsch.
Steven Soderbergh's latest (and possibly last) film in fact begins with a keen picture of deep-seated modern malaise. Emily Taylor, played by Rooney Mara, is a graphic designer in her late 20s—an artist with dreams deferred by her marriage to Martin (Channing Tatum), who's just been let out of prison after serving time for insider trading. Emily finds herself overcome by crushing depression upon reuniting with Martin in the real world, and after a suicide attempt she finds herself in the care of Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law), a warm, sentimental psychiatrist who consults Emily's former shrink, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, about treatment. Eventually, as recommended by Zeta-Jones' character, Dr. Banks prescribes his patient Ablixa, a fictional SSRI with some very disturbing side effects. Or that's what viewers are led to believe, until the second half of the film gets sucked into a senseless plot wormhole and implodes.
There's not much more I can say about the story without revealing some "Crying Game"-grade spoilers. Effectively, though, the film accomplishes two things: It plays to the fears, stigmas, and ethical quandaries that arise with the prescription of uncertain psychiatric medications, then absolves itself of exploring whether any of them are founded.
The prime example of this failure deals with how psychiatric drugs are regulated. In one scene, Law's Dr. Banks discovers a study done about the side effects of Ablixa, of which he had not been aware before prescribing. Later, he finds out through a TV talk show that other psych meds have had serious side effects that weren't properly disclosed to docs and patients. The film even cites the real-life example of Paxil and its marketers obscuring the fact that the medication increased the risk of suicide in young people, which led to the FDA requiring a "black box" warning on the drug and other antidepressants in 2004.
But that's about where the discussion ends. It's a shame, because regulation of pharma seems as pertinent as ever: In December, a New York federal appeals court overturned a drug rep's conviction for marketing unapproved, off-label uses for Xyrem, a narcolepsy medication, justifying the drug rep's actions as free speech. As journalist Mina Kimes highlighted in a story explaining the decision, this means that pharmaceutical companies may care less about putting their products through rigorous—and costly—clinical trials.
According to Dr. Rona Hu, the medical director of Stanford Hospital's acute psychiatric inpatient program, the film presents another conundrum: Its myopic focus on ostensibly scary meds (mostly lost in the train wreck that is the film's second half) could potentially deter some people from seeking treatment for psychological problems. "I treat patients, and they come in with very serious symptoms," Hu told me. "It's often very difficult to get them to seek treatment or acknowledge the severity of the symptoms."
Ultimately, the most painful side effect of "Side Effects" is that it treats the personal and societal implications of psychiatric medications as beside the point. Its true concern, apparently, is about the greed and materialism that motivate nearly all of its characters, including the "good" guys. This is the one constant in the film—and makes for a highly effective downer, without a doubt.
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Silent Hill: Origins
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (cameo)
The Flauros is an important item in the Silent Hill series. Though first introduced in Silent Hill, chronologically the Flauros first appears in Silent Hill: Origins.
According to a memo found in Silent Hill: Origins, the first recorded use of the Flauros was in the writings of a poet named Chang Ch'ien, advisor to the early Han Dynasty of China. It was, jokingly, claimed by Ch'ien that he could trap demons in his "three-sided box". When he died, the Flauros disappeared. Later, it was said to have come into the possession of a Lutheran monk who claimed that it could control and amplify thought. He also claimed it to be of holy origin, connecting it to God, rather than being linked to a demon.
The Flauros is mentioned in occult works such as The Lesser Key of Solomon and Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. Flauros, known by other names such as Haures and Flavros, is placed as a high-ranking demon, a Great Duke in the hierarchy of Hell, where he governs 36 legions of fallen spirits. Fitting to his representation in the Silent Hill series, Flauros, in The Lesser Key of Solomon, is described as a demon capable of seeing one's past, present and future. However, he may also deceive and lie, and unless he is commanded into a magic triangle, only then will he speak the truth.
Silent Hill: Origins
Used by Dahlia Gillespie originally to amplify the rampant psychic abilities of her daughter Alessa (possibly to help in the ritual to birth her cult's god), she later uses it as a device to contain Alessa's power; once contained she separates it into its five component pieces, Past, Present, Future, Truth and Falsehood, and hides them. Shortly after rescuing Alessa from a fire in her home (which in truth had been a ritual started by Dahlia in order to bring about the revival of her cult's god), Travis Grady is forced into the overlapping realms of the Fog World and the Otherworld in an effort to recombine the pieces of the Flauros, and stop Dahlia's plans.
Facing down the ghosts of his past, and the horrific manifestations of Silent Hill, Travis is able to reconstruct the device and heads off to bring a stop to the Order's plan; a ritual that is intended to complete the revival of God and is being conducted within the hidden areas of the Green Lion Antiques shop. Michael Kaufmann, an intimate confidant of the Order, attempts to prevent Travis from interfering any further by sedating him. As Travis lays prone on the ground, he is drawn into a nightmarish confrontation with an entity that may have been imprisoned within the Flauros.
When the demonic entity is defeated, barbed wire lashes out of the Flauros and ensnares it, drawing it back into the ancient device. The Flauros then falls to the ground and the nightmare ends. As the ritual continues, the Flauros begins to levitate and it unleashes a stream of energy at Alessa. As the stream fades out, a small form is seen above her, making noise.
Piece locations
Future Piece
- Located in the Otherworld iteration of Alchemilla Hospital, on the first floor in the Doctor's Office.
- A Straightjacket must be defeated before this piece can be obtained.
Past Piece
- Located in the Otherworld iteration of the Cedar Grove Sanitarium, on the first floor in Female Seclusion.
- Momma must be defeated before this piece can be obtained.
Falsehood Piece
- Located in the Otherworld iteration of the Artaud Theater, on the cave stage.
- A Caliban must be defeated before this piece can be obtained.
Truth Piece
- Located in the Otherworld iteration of the Riverside Motel, in room 500.
- Sad Daddy must be defeated before this piece can be obtained.
Present Piece
- Located in the Storage Box Room underneath Alchemilla Hospital.
Silent Hill
Harry Mason finds this in Balkan Church; it is given to him by Dahlia Gillespie, who calls the Flauros a "cage of peace" and also claims it can "counteract the wrath of the underworld". When Harry confronts Alessa at Lakeside Amusement Park, it automatically activates, striking Alessa down, badly weakening her. Alessa's world begins to fall apart as she loses control of it after the Flauros is used on her, resulting in Lisa Garland's strange behavior and the creation of Nowhere. The Flauros disappears after its use and isn't seen again.
Silent Hill: Play Novel
The Flauros is referenced in a note in the Play Novel.
Page 4 (Flauros and key on altar)
The Flauros.
That is certainly what that woman had called this.
I try picking it up.
And then I place it back on top of the desk right away.
Page 5
It is power.
The overwhelming power of the gods rests inside this four-sided object.
It was a sensation like an electrical current passing into the palm of my hand, and then power moving throughout every nook and cranny in my body.
Page 6
I pick it up once more.
This time I calmly take it into my hand and then place it in my pocket.
For some reason I am convinced that this object will help me find Cheryl.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
The Flauros makes a cameo in the UFO Ending on Dr. Kaufmann's shelf.
- In Silent Hill 4: The Room, Jasper Gein has an Incubus T-shirt with the word "Haures" beneath it, which is another name for Flauros.
- The Flauros bears a striking resemblance to the Triforce from the Legend of Zelda series.
- In the 1987 movie Hellraiser, there is a similar item, a puzzle box called the Lament Configuration. When solved, chains come out of the box, ensnaring the solver and tearing them apart, similar to the capturing of the Demon by the Flauros.


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Osskah was the thirteenth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Snapshots. It was written by Gary Owen. It featured the Eighth Doctor.
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When the TARDIS crash-lands on a mountainside, the avian inhabitants of the planet take the Doctor to meet their elder, Wingleader Osskah Longspan. The birds choose to throw the Doctor to his death until the Doctor declares himself a god. The Doctor then realises that Osskah is dying and offers to perform surgery in an attempt to prolong his life. During the makeshift surgery, the Doctor distracts Osskah by telling him of his recent adventures. In return, Osskah tells the Doctor of a civil war amongst his people which wiped out half their race, and that he wrote a book chronicling the history of his planet in remembrance. The Doctor and Osskah realise that the Doctor's recent adventure had created a space rift that Osskah's world is being sucked into. Osskah gives his history book of his planet to the Doctor in the hope that his people will be remembered.
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- The Doctor tells Osskah that he has just been on a mission to save several sentient suns from a blight caused by colonists' visits to their solar systems.
- The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to scan Osskah.
- The Doctor's sonic screwdriver has a blue light on the top.
- Osskah's planet and its star fall through a rift into another universe.
- The Doctor is carrying out missions for the Time Lords willingly.
- The Doctor mentions that there is a "storm in heaven" and that his people are trying to stop it.
- Debris from the "storm" is landing all over Osskah's world.
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- This story was adapted for audio by Heroic Efforts Productions.
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- Osskah calls the Doctor a "lonely god". (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)


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Al-Jazeera aired only four minutes of Osama bin Laden's videotape released last week, leaving the media to guess about what the remaining 14 minutes might contain. An anonymous source sent me what purports to be a transcript of the rest of the tape. I cannot
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Here is what Osama bin Laden supposedly said:
"People of America, it does not matter whom you choose as president. Islam will prevail. We do not have to fight you; we merely have to let you destroy yourselves. The Great Satan is a monster that devours its children.
"Slanderers claim that I represent an authoritarian form of Islam. But what has the freedom of the modern world done to your Christianity? Religion has died in Europe. You have done even worse. Like everything in the Greater America of globalization, you have turned religion into a consumer goods. Americans choose among 139 major brands of Christianity. Your old churches close for lack of worshippers, and you build new churches in shopping malls where religion is sold along with sausages. [1]
"You have made a modern world, and you brand us as relics of a tenebrous past. You say that we are violent, but you have raised your children in a nightmare of violence unlike anything the world has seen before. By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, he will have seen on television 40,000 murders and 200,000 other acts of violence. [2]
"Slanderers in your midst say that Islam oppresses women. Islam protects the modesty of women with
and the veil. You turn your women into whores. You cannot turn on your television without hearing a vulgar mention of sex every three minutes. [3]
"Not only do your children incessantly observe violence and sex, but you give them the means to play at it. The most popular computer game for American children, called Grand Theft Auto, encourages the player to buy relations with a prostitute and afterward beat her to death.
"Slanderers in your midst claim that Islam promotes violence against women. Your worship of the flesh provokes women to commit violence against themselves. At American universities, two out of five female students starve themselves or vomit up their food in a perverse attempt to fit the criteria for sexual attractiveness established by your fashion industry. [4]
"Your evil will destroy your seed. It is not merely the fatherless and despised, the poor and outcast, who wither and perish in the contaminated soil of America, but the coddled offspring of your prosperous elites. You have given your young people freedom, but it has only brought them misery. You have depraved them with your false promise of freedoms and left them with nothing but terror of the world, to the point that one in six of your university students suffers a mental illness. [5]
"People of America, your leaders falsely tell you that jihadis love death rather than life. It is true that life to us means more than the material existence on this Earth, but also life everlasting - but did not your prophets tell you the same thing? If we hate life, why do we have more children than you? The population of the Arab world doubled during the 20 years between 1978 and 1998, and between 1998 and 2010 will have grown by yet another third. [6]
"It is you, not us, who foster a culture of death. Where in the Muslim world can you find a form of music such as 'death metal', which revels in the putrefaction of human flesh? Groups with names like Cannibal Corpse have sold scores of millions of records. This, O Americans, is the blessing progress which you propose in your benevolence to bestow upon Muslim youth? It would be better to learn from us how to cut a flute from a reed. [7]
"One candidate tells you that he will enlist foreign allies in your crusade against us. These supposed allies are the ones who love death. In half a century the number of Europeans will fall by 50 million, because the Europeans no longer love life enough to bring new life into this world. Three hundred and twenty years ago a Muslim army stood before the gates of Vienna, and Europe barely escaped conversion to the true faith at swordpoint. During the next half-century Muslims will wander into Europe and replenish the half-empty towns with people, and the sound of children's voices once again will be heard - but in Arabic.
"Because they hate life, your supposed allies are cowards. Half a millennium ago the Spanish empire drove Islam from its territory; this year a few bombs at a railway station panicked the pathetic remnants of Spain into retreat from Iraq. You are fools to count on them. Even the Zionist Bernard Lewis admits that Islam will prevail in Europe before the end of this century.
"People of America, your soldiers are brave but your leaders are fools. You tremble at the loss of a thousand lives in Iraq. Perhaps with another thousand, and a thousand more, you will establish the peace of the cemetery in the cities of the Mesopotamian plain for another month or another year. We do not think in terms of next month, or next year. We look with hope and resolution toward the victory of our children's children, who will dominate Europe. Their children's children will dominate America.
"Abandon the false hope of freedom and submit to Allah. You cannot go back to the traditional life of your forefathers, because the monster of globalization has plowed it under. Not an American in 20 could find his way back to the village of his great-grandfather. You cannot go forward, because your souls are too weak to find a way through the pitfalls of the modern world. Like the Europeans, you too will become weary of life, weary of raising children, weary of your mastery - and the world will belong to us.
"Have a nice day."
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. 'As Americans like going to shopping malls for all their consumer needs in one spot, so self-styled "megachurches" are the fastest growing form of service in the country. They offer a one-stop spiritual supermarket. A cafe sells food and drinks. Baptisms are conducted at a pool to one side where "warm water" is promised. There are picnic spots and walks through manicured gardens in addition to church softball and basketball teams. Parties are held for singles to meet fellow believers. The church's target market is the thirtysomethings, many now with young children, who are seeking to return to religion. Having grown up in an era of consumerism they are looking not only for God in a church, but also a variety of facilities.'
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. "The overall combined per-hour rate of sexual references, use of coarse language, and instances of violence was 21.7."
[4] Psychology Today, November/December 2004, p 62: "Anorexia or bulimia in florid or subclinical form now afflicts 40 percent of women at some time in their college career."
[5] Loc Cit. "The University of Michigan Depression Center … estimates that 15 percent of college students are suffering from that disorder alone."
[6] Middle East Economic Survey, Nov 15, 1999.
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Furuno, Shoko and Foss, Susan and Wild, Edward and Jones, Kevin C. and Semple, Kirk T. and Harms, Hauke and Wick, Lukas Y. (2012) Mycelia Promote Active Transport and Spatial Dispersion of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Environmental Science and Technology, 46 (10). pp. 5463-5470. ISSN 0013-936X
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To cope with heterogeneous subsurface environments mycelial microorganisms have developed a unique ramified growth form. By extending hyphae, they can obtain nutrients from remote places and transport them even through air gaps and in small pore spaces, repectively. To date, studies have been focusing on the role that networks play in the distribution of nutrients. Here, we investigated the role of mycelia for the translocation of nonessential substances, using polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as model compounds. We show that the hyphae of the mycelial soil oomycete Pythium ultimum function as active translocation vectors for a wide range of PAHs. Visualization by two-photon excitation microscopy (TPEM) demonstrated the uptake and accumulation of phenanthrene (PHE) in lipid vesicles and its active transport by cytoplasmic streaming of the hyphae ('hyphal pipelines'). In mycelial networks, contaminants were translocated over larger distances than by diffusion. Given their transport capacity and ubiquity, hyphae may substantially distribute remote hydrophobic contaminants in soil, thereby improving their bioavailability to bacterial degradation. Hyphal contaminant dispersal may provide an untapped potential for future bioremediation approaches.
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