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They didn't invite the city fathers of Ferrol, the birthplace of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the bloody tyrant who ruled Spain from 1938 to 1973, so the conference can't just have been about fascist dictators. They didn't invite the mayor of Tokyo, hometown of General Hideki Tojo, who led Japan into the Second World War, so it wasn't just about bad men who were leaders in that war. So what WAS it about?
According to Johannes Waidbacher, mayor of the Austrian city of Braunau that hosted the "Contemporary History Days" conference, it has always been about how to deal with the legacy of living in the city where Adolf Hitler was born and grew up. This is the 20th year that Braunau has held the conference, and they still don't have a good answer. But this year, at least, they came up with a different way of asking the question.
In addition to academics reading papers like "From the burden to the place of learning: Dachau and contemporary history," they invited notables to represent the hometowns of Mussolini and Stalin: Mayor Giorgio Frassinetti of the central Italian town of Predappio and Dr. Lasha Bakradze, Head of the Literature Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia. The idea was that they could all commiserate about the moral burden of living in a town that nurtured a tyrant.
By the way, if you are about to protest that the only Lasha Bakradze you've ever heard of is a Georgian actor known for such fine films as "The Aviatrix of Kazbek" (2010), don't come to me for help. Maybe there are two of them. It doesn't matter. The point is that neither the Lasha Bakradze we all know and love nor Dr Lasha Bakradze, head of the Literature Museum in Tbilisi, actually comes from Gori, where Stalin grew up.
Unfortunately, they couldn't get any official from Gori to come. The good burghers of Braunau may writhe with guilt about their city's heritage ---- "If, like me, you live in a town which is synonymous with Hitler, it becomes unbearable," said local historian Florian Kotanko ---- but the citizens of Gori are not in the least embarrassed about having unleashed Stalin (born Ioseb Jughashvili) on the world. In fact, they're proud of it.
The Stalin Museum in the center of town is the main tourist attraction, and until last year a very large statue of the Soviet dictator and mass murderer stood in front of the City Hall. (It has now been moved to the museum.) You can visit Stalin's armoured railway carriage, see the wooden hut where he was born, spend hours immersed in Stalin memorabilia. Stalin is doing more for the city in death than he ever did in life.
As for Predappio, the left-wing mayor of that town did go to Braunau, declaring that places where dictators were born should be "on the front line of democracy," but most of his fellow-citizens don't seem to agree. In fact they have turned Predappio into an open-air memorial to Benito Mussolini.


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1. Miserlou - Dick Dale & His Del-Tones ~ Various Artists
2. Memphis - Lonnie Mack ~ Various Artists
3. Bongo Rock - Preston Epps ~ Various Artists
4. Tall Cool One - The Wailers ~ Various Artists
5. Raunchy - Bill Justis ~ Various Artists
6. Soul Twist - King Curtis & The Noble Knights ~ Various Artists
7. Rebel Rouser - Duane Eddy ~ Various Artists
8. Rumble - Link Wray ~ Various Artists
9. Happy Organ, The - Dave "Baby" Cortez ~ Various Artists
10. Wheels - The String-A-Longs ~ Various Artists
11. Teen Beat - Sandy Nelson ~ Various Artists
12. Tequila - The Champs ~ Various Artists
13. Asia Minor - Kokomo ~ Various Artists
14. Honky Tonk - Bill Doggett ~ Various Artists
15. Penetration - The Pyramids ~ Various Artists
16. Bust Out - The Busters ~ Various Artists
17. Time Is Tight - Booker T. & The MG's ~ Various Artists
18. Percolator (Twist) - Billy Joe & The Checkmates ~ Various Artists
19. Red River Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes ~ Various Artists
20. Wild Weekend - Rockin' Rebels ~ Various Artists
21. Drums A-Go-Go - The Hollywood Persuaders ~ Various Artists
22. Guitar Boogie Shuffle - Virtues ~ Various Artists
23. Bumble Boogie - B. Bumble & The Stingers ~ Various Artists
24. Torquay - The Fireballs ~ Various Artists
25. Walk-Don't Run - The Ventures ~ Various Artists
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|Compilation producers: Cary E. Mansfield, Steve Massie, Marty Wesker.
|Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl.
|This is part of Varese Sarabande's "Vintage" series.
|Personnel: Dave "Baby" Cortez (vocals, piano); Dave Burgess, Frank Virtue, Duane Eddy, Jimmy Spurill, Skip Mercer, George Tomsco, Don Wilson , Jim Kipler, Dave Yorko, Jimmy Bruno, Link Wray, Lonnie Mack, Richard Podolor, Sid Manker, Tommy Tedesco , Billy Butler, Bob Bogle (guitar); Clifford Scott, Bill Bernal, Mick Kipler, Danny Flores, Johnny Paris, King Curtis (saxophone); Bill Justis (alto saxophone); Ernie Freeman Combo, Kent Morrill, Bruce Johnston (piano); Paul Tesluk, Bill Doggett (organ); Nokie Edwards (electric bass); Earl Palmer , Fran Parda, Sandy Nelson (drums); Preston Epps (bongos); Art Laboe (percussion); The Sharps (background vocals).
|Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
|Director: Bill Justis.
|Arranger: Rene Hall.
|Perhaps the selection, running order, and packaging aren't perfect. But this is a very good compilation of 25 early instrumental rock & roll hits, all but one originating between the mid-'50s and mid-'60s, containing most of the key hits and performers in the genre. Bill Doggett's "Honky Tonk," Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser," Lonnie Mack's "Memphis," Dick Dale's "Misirlou," Bill Justis' "Raunchy," the Champs' "Tequila," the Ventures' "Walk Don't Run," and the Pyramids' "Penetration" are all here, and are all undisputed classics of the style. There are also numerous slightly lesser-known hits that nonetheless deserve a spot on anyone's list of the most exciting and influential instrumentals of the time, like Preston Epps' "Bongo Rock" and Sandy Nelson's "Teen Beat." And for variety if not as top-notch quality, there's B. Bumble & the Stingers' novelty "Bumble Boogie B" and the not-quite-rock of Kokomo's orchestra-with-a-beat "Asia Minor." There's nothing in the way of total obscurities, but it's worth noting that the Busters' pretty tough 1963 number 25 single, "Bust Out," is rarely heard on oldies radio or placed on this kind of anthology; the same goes for the far less exciting Billy Joe & the Checkmates' "Percolator (Twist)," even though the latter tune actually made number ten in 1962. What's to complain about? Just minor things -- Booker T. & the MG's' "Green Onions" would have fit better chronologically than their admittedly excellent 1969 hit "Time Is Tight," and some notable artists and songs (the Surfaris' "Wipe Out," the Chantays' "Pipeline," Santo & Johnny's "Sleep Walk," the Shadows' "Apache") aren't here. But it's a generous scoop of much of the best that early instrumental rock had to offer. ~ Richie Unterberger
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|Release Date : 08/19/2003
|Original Release Date : 2003
|Catalog ID : 066484
|Label : Var?se Sarabande (USA)
|Number of Discs : 1
|Studio/Live : Studio
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By James Slater: Fans may have read on various boxing web sites how Jameel Big Time McCline, 39-10-3(23) is coming back to fight Polish hero Tomasz Adamek. This news has created something of a buzz, and yesterday the 41-year-old confirmed for me that, yes, he is coming back to face Adamek.
McCline, a former four-time heavyweight title challenger (Jameel holds the distinction as the only man to challenge for all four - IBF, WBC, WBA, WBO - recognized belts) has been back in training for some weeks now, and he is excited to be coming back.
Very kindly taking the time to speak with me, McCline, who last boxed in early 2009, had the following things to say:
James Slater: Its a great pleasure to be able to speak with you, Jameel. If you recall, I have interviewed you before - before the Chris Arreola fight?
Jameel McCline: Yeah, I sort of remember your voice!
J.S: Well, youve created quite a buzz on the boxing web sites, with news that you are coming back and a fight with Tomasz Adamek is in the works! Did you offer him the fight deal, or did they offer it to you?
J.M: Well, Im not in a position to be able to offer anyone a deal, seeing as how I lost my last fight, in very poor fashion against Chris Arreola, and seeing as Ive been off for so long. So they offered it to me; theyre [Team Adamek] in the position of power. Tomasz Adamek is a great fighter, who is coming off a brave, brave loss to one of the best, most strong and dominant heavyweights ever.
J.S: Youve been in the gym, Jameel?
J.M: Yes, Ive been back in training for two months now. I was getting ready to come back in early 2012 and this fight [with Adamek] came up. So its all very exciting. Heres where I am right now: All I know is boxing. Ive been fighting for seventeen years. Vitali, he came back himself after three-and-a-half years off. He was supposed to fight me, but he fought someone else instead, I think it was Sam Peter. Anyway, he went on to become champion all over again. So you never know what can happen. Im older now, Im more calm in the ring. Also, I believe that if Im given the proper time to train, I can be a danger to anyone. I had just five weeks for the Arreola fight, when Im typically a 10 to 12 week guy. But I couldnt turn that fight down. But right now, Im not coming back for money, not at all. Im getting back in there because of the reason that I can become world champion. I have so much unfinished business. I cant wait until Im 55 and think what could I have achieved?
Also, I started my career late - at age 25; after NO amateur career. Youve never seen me in wars, getting beaten down. As I say, I simply have too much unfinished business. And Im so much more confident a person now; as a fighter and as a father. Imagine if I had Sam Peter down three times today! (as McCline did in that Oct. 2007 fight) No way would I let him get back up. No way!
J.S: Will you have a tune-up ahead of the Adamek fight?
J.M: Yes, I will definitely have a tune-up; in December, in America. It will be a ten-rounder. Adamek is a very smart, accomplished fighter, so no way would I enter the fight thinking it will be a walk in the park. Im working very, very hard in the gym. I have a full team around me: doctors, consultants, specialists. They are putting me through what I need to become world champion. Im losing weight and adding muscle. Im gaining speed. Make no mistake, this serious offer from Adamek has been just what I wanted, just what I thought would happen. Im excited because Im going to be back in with the big boys. My goal my whole career has been to fight the best guys out there.
J.S: Can I ask you, what is your weight now?
J.M: I started training two months ago at 304-pounds. This morning I weighed 285. Im looking to come into the fight at around 268, 270.
J.S: Looking at it on paper, you will have a height, reach and weight advantage over Adamek. This could be a hard fight for him to come back with.
J.M: I have to work hard and make sure I use all my advantages; Like Klitschko did when he fought Adamek. I know that a good big man always beats a good little man. They may think Im old, but Im nobodys stepping stone, nobodys comeback opponent. Im not coming back to be a sideshow and Im not coming back for the money. Ive made some smart financial business deals and Ive made good money. I always said Id come back when I didnt have to fight for money. Everything is falling into place now. The division is weak - its strong in Europe but its weak in America - and I have so much confidence. You know, before; my success almost seemed to come by mistake. No-one has ever gone as far as me without a single amateur fight, after starting out so late. And now I understand, and I know how good I am. Ive made sure I havent shown up [in public] yet, not until Im in top shape - visually and everything else. No-one wants to see fat heavyweights any longer. Im working hard, believe me.
J.S: Where will you fight Adamek?
J.M: Ill fight anywhere in the world. Ive already fought in China, Mexico, Switzerland - all over. So I dont care where I fight him. I actually have a bigger fans base outside of the U.S - they have a different respect for boxers in Europe.
J.S: And who is your trainer now, Jameel?
J.M: Im working with Anthony Hamm right now. We made the start back in the gym two months ago. Hes a very accomplished trainer, he worked with Ray Mercer, Cory Spinks Arturo Gatti and hes now working with Joel Julio. I have a great team around me.
J.S: Well, I wish you all the best with your comeback, Jameel. There is nothing more intriguing in sport than a comeback! Thanks so much for talking to me about it.
J.M: Youre welcome. But can you put this out; this is very important: You can hate, doubt, vilify me all you want, but this will only give me more power. There are a lot of haters out there, but I have as much right as anyone to come back. I will prove all the doubters wrong!
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By now, we've heard plenty about how Quentin Tarantino is using his new film, Inglourious Basterds, to undo decades of Jewish victimization in Holocaust movies, by casting his renegade crew of Nazi scalp-hunters as angry American Jews. We've heard relatively less about the man who made it all possible: Tarantino's longtime producer, Lawrence Bender, who told the Jewish Journal that he was thrilled not just to avenge Jews killed in the Holocaust, but to re-direct his lingering anger at the kids who taunted him as "Bender kike" in high school.
"As a fan, I thank you; as your producer, I thank you; as a member of the Jewish tribe, I thank you," Bender recounted telling Tarantino after reading the first draft of the script. (He said something similar, though saltier, to The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg in the magazine's September issue: "As your producing partner, I thank you, and as a member of the Jewish tribe, I thank you, motherfucker, because this movie is a fucking Jewish wet dream.") The 51-year-old bachelor, who put together financing for Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, also helped finance the relatively more wholesome Good Will Hunting, which led to an audience at Camp David with Bill Clinton, and, in turn, a second career as a Democratic fundraiser and Israel activist (he's involved both with AIPAC and the left-leaning Israel Policy Forum). While German critics have lauded Basterds—they do, after all, sort of have to—Bender told the Journal he's more interested to see how it plays in Israel: "I feel it's like a little pin in the hay, like, 'Hey guys, go to Israel.' I think it's such a great place, and Hollywood does need to focus on it more."
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Friday November 7, 2014 from 11:00am to 12:00pm
The main goal of this talk is to share thoughts and perspectives on key opportunities and challenges in engineering research; education and broadening participation, and innovation ecosystem as seen from my perspective at the National Science Foundation. I will begin with a discussion of the overall context, drivers, and trends that are driving our strategies. I will then give a high level overview of some of the key priorities and initiatives in the Engineering Directorate (ENG) at NSF. The talk will conclude with a brief discussion of certain overarching issues including broader impacts, grand challenges, and new models for interdisciplinary research.
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Pramod Khargonekar received B. Tech. Degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1977, and M.S. degree in mathematics and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida in 1980 and 1981, respectively.
Khargonekar was an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida from 1981 to 1984; associate professor from 1984 to 1988 and professor from 1988 to 1989 of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota; and professor of electrical engineering and computer science from 1989 to 2001 at The University of Michigan. He was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1997 to 2001 and also held the position of Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Science at The University of Michigan. From 2001 to 2009, he was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida. He has held the Eckis Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering the University of Florida from 2001. He served as Deputy Director of Technology at ARPA-E, U. S. Department of Energy in 2012-13. From March 2013, he has been serving as Assistant Director of the U. S. National Science Foundation leading its Engineering Directorate.
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Alone in the house and sleeping in after a late night of studying, she did not hear the lightning strike the gas line. But Sam was abruptly awoken by an anxious large dog. My poodle, Jett, had sensed something was not right.
Had a note awhile back from the folks at Valencell, a biometric screening sensor (which I hope I've correctly identified). To be honest, I've never heard of this product, but I'm sure there are more products I haven't heard of than those I have.
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"Find something you love to do and it doesn't feel like exercise."


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The Montana Stockgrowers Association is seeking a student intern for the summer of 2014. The internship will focus on involvement in the beef cattle community of Montana and will include work with MSGA Policy, Communications, and Marketing and Membership staff members. Students should be at least college juniors, majoring in a field related to agriculture, and preferably have a background in (or working knowledge of) the cattle or beef industry. Go to bit.ly/MSGAIntern2014 or call the MSGA office in Helena at (406) 442-3420.
Application packets must be completed by April 1.
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In case you missed it, there has been an interesting discussion about genetically modified food over at Grist.org. It began with a series of posts by Nathaneal Johnson in which he dissected, in impressively neutral and skeptical fashion, most of the arguments for or against GM food that you've ever heard.
Johnson's posts managed to draw attention and respect from voices on all sides of the issue. By way of his quest to take no side, he managed to get on a lot of people's good sides. The comment section was, at times, somewhat civil and well-behaved, no minor feat among GMO pundits, and there were even examples of constructive debate.
After six months of researching and posting, Johnson came to the conclusion that GMOs are neither as scary as many GM food haters claim, nor as world-saving as claimed by supporters of GM food. In an attempt to put the discussion to bed, he wrote, in what he thought was the series' capstone, "The most astonishing thing about the vicious public brawl over GMOs is that the stakes are so low."
All of the sudden, folks respectfully had beef with Johnson. Two responses were published at Grist, one by Mother Jones food columnist (and former Grist food writer) Tom Philpott, a longtime critic of GM food, and one by Ramez Naam, author of "The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet."
Philpott argued that GMOs do matter, because they are a load-bearing pillar of a misguided agriculture system, while Naam wrote that GMOs matter because they can, and already do, benefit people and the environment, not just corporations and factory farms. According to Philpott, most GMOs have been used to sell pesticides and herbicides. He called the vast majority of GMOs currently on the market "an appendage of the pesticide industry, which has dominated the technology from the start."
Naam, who supports GM food, and also a proponent of "sensible labeling," wrote that GM crops have more impact in poor countries than rich ones. He discussed genetically modified Bt cotton in India as an example of how GM crops can help boost the income of small farmers.
While Philpott and Naam inhabit opposing camps on the GMO issue, their arguments are not mutually exclusive. If Naam is right and GM crops can be a force for good, it does not derail Philpott's assessment of how GMOs have impacted agriculture to date. If Philpott is right, and GMOs have done little more than boost yields of corn and soy while selling more chemicals, it doesn't mean that the technology shows no promise.
If they're both right, their arguments could define an important chunk of common ground between both sides, on the playing field that Johnson leveled.
My take on all this is that the conversation can continue, respectfully and productively, if some basic compromises are made among people on both sides of the issue.
Skeptics of GM food should come to grips with the fact that the act of genetic manipulation is itself not unholy. As it is, few GMO haters would refuse medicine made with assistance from GM bacteria, like insulin, or a blood clot thinner used to treat a stroke. As GMOs have proven useful in medicine, they could also be useful in agriculture.
By the same token, proponents of GM foods should remember that for most skeptics of GM food, the bare act of genetic manipulation isn't even the issue. It's the process by which the technology has been rolled out that's pissing them off. In many ways, the script is playing out according to old fears, and there seems little public recourse available.
The epitome of this power imbalance, of course, is Monsanto, which is simultaneously the world's largest biotech corporation, seed company, organic seed company, and is one of the world's largest pesticide companies. That's a ridiculous concentration of power. A profitable concentration, if you're on board, as genetically modified corn and soy covers about half of all U.S. cropland. But given we already grow way more corn and soy than we should, how is this a good thing?
The Rainbow papaya in Hawaii is an example of a GM food that resulted from a more confidence-inspiring process: a collaboration between farmers and a university, to solve a serious problem. An outbreak of ringspot virus was destroying Hawaii's small papaya industry. A resistant papaya was engineered, and the problem appears to have been solved with little evident downside.
There is now an effort under way to use genetic modification to save Florida's orange orchards, which are threatened by the greening virus. Bananas and chocolate, as well as other beloved and economically important crops, are susceptible to viruses as well, with many agricultural regions having already lost their ability to produce these crops. GMO haters might want to do a gut check by asking themselves if they would forgo GM chocolate if it was the last chocolate on earth.
And those who believe that all GM skeptics are being paranoid should remember that there is nothing inherently safe about introducing GM plants into people and the environment. If not tested and regulated appropriately, there will be problems. As the way has been paved by a corporate-led rush to create and perfect the most profitable biotech seeds, this process has led to a suspect product.
The rollout of GM foods has been awkward and wrong-footed since it began, in 1994, with the first GMO food ever to be commercially licensed: the slow-ripening Flavr Savr tomato. Its creators at Calgene had sought to use a process called antisense knockdown to shut down certain genes, and the Flavr Savr was approved according to this understanding. The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, meanwhile, was awarded to a team that figured out that in addition to the antisense knockdown, something entirely different was happening in that tomato as well, a process that is now known as RNA interference.
The Flavr Savr was pulled from the market, not because it was operating via a previously unknown pathway, but because it was too mushy. It turns out the world didn't need another sucky supermarket tomato, yet we all took a risk, in a sense, on a tomato that was approved before anyone knew what was going on. That's a horrible risk vs. return.
Red flags and all, skeptics need to face the fact that our species' walk down the GMO trail is inevitable. And Naam is likely correct when he argues that biotech could prove a valuable tool to have in the chest when dealing with some important human and environmental problems.
After Philpott's and Naam's rebukes of his "GMOs don't matter" conclusion, Johnson posted a response of his own, beneath the headline: "OK, GMOs matter, but the noisy fight over them is a distraction."
He acknowledges that there are problems with GM foods, but thinks they have been overblown, and are solvable. He believes they have potential, though it's barely been proven.
"There's an entire industry pushing the argument that GMOs are the solution. I agree with the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development that GMOs could be part of the solution, but we shouldn't let the hype distract us from all the other ideas out there."
The battle over GM food has become a proxy for a philosophical debate about the appropriate places of science and capitalism, and their powerful union, in our lives. This is an important, ongoing discussion to be having. But it's a separate discussion, even if GM crops offer many cases in point.
The potential benefits and risks of GM food lie in the processes by which this neutral technology is deployed. So let's focus on these processes, as part of focusing on how best to solve the problems that most need solving.
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Endangered animals are "vicious," "chicken-sized," "unlikable," and/or "insignificant." Their genetic authenticity is questionable — subspecies? what's a subspecies? — and their fitness debatable: Manatees, bison and pronghorns come to mind — all beasts that have not adapted to the trappings of contemporary man.
To read many popular accounts about the animals that form a growing cadre of the officially vanishing, you might conclude that it is their fault. Moreover, you would discover that these antediluvian critters attract numerous radicals and lawyers seeking to foist their continued presence upon us, stalling the entire economic regime of the United States.
What's a country to do?
One proposal is to weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a 41-year-old law signed by that liberal environmentalist president, Richard Millhouse Nixon. The ESA, it has been alleged, is invoked by nominal allies of the desert pupfish, Karner blue butterfly, and spotted owl simply to quash all development because ... well, because.
Compared to a new coalbed methane field, an agribusiness plot, or a tract housing development, of what use is, say, an Amargosa vole? Most people probably don't even know what a vole is, let alone what its use might be. And, anyway, aren't there other voles? Why should we care about the Amargosa one? Even by vole standards, its body is stubby, its ears embarrassingly small. When it was thought to be extinct, no one missed it much.
Naturally, radicals do not fret just about mammals (some of which are, to be honest, cute and furry). They also support birds. Lots of Hawaiian species you've never seen or heard of demand notice along with two sorts of eiders and two types of cranes. Wouldn't one eider and one crane be plenty for any nation?
Here in Montana we are fighting to keep the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) off the endangered list, a cause that our own Steve Daines has championed to stop "federal overreach" and "abuse" that "fringe groups" use to severely restrict energy extraction, agriculture and the "outdoor recreation industry" — this according to Congressman Daines' website. It is odd that a bird whose presence is a marvel of adaptation, whose spring displays are amazing spectacles that draw photographers and other outdoor enthusiasts, and whose worth as a source of food has been recognized for thousands of years should somehow be a grave threat now. Hmm. Are humans themselves just less adaptable these days?
Clams, crustaceans, insects and plants are all protected by the ESA. It is, of course, very unlikely that fringe groups have a soft spot in their hearts for the purple catspaw mussel. They undoubtedly simply exploit it to stop economic progress. In fact, these fringe groups, as Congressman Daines calls them, have managed, according to the Forest Service, to halt 34 development projects (out of 100,000) in the past 15 years alone.
As people like Congressman Daines continue their push to weaken or reform the ESA, species continue to become extinct. In its present form, the law seems unable, then, to fulfill its purpose. Even if most animals on the list boast continued existence, it has been unable to stop the tide of extinction. Millions of dollars later, and what do we have to show for it? An extinct Caribbean monk seal no one really needed anyway.
Scientists (a fringe group?) claim that humans are causing the "Sixth Great Extinction." This means that animals and plants are succumbing at a rate much greater than has been normal (excepting five other extinction episodes) in earth's history. If this is true, then, according to the Center for Biological Diversity (another one of those notorious "fringe" groups), 30 percent to 50 percent of all species will be extinct by 2050.
Of course, we don't just have 30 percent to 50 percent of species living in isolation. Keystone species, as they have been called, maintain the health and diversity of entire ecosystems. Some creatures are important pollinators, and their worth is, thus, quantifiable. Some plants and animals contribute to the cleanliness of our marshes and rivers. Others hold the keys to pharmaceutical innovation. A few are, admittedly, simply unique.
There is no guarantee, of course, that we ourselves will squeak through among the 50-70 percent to survive past 2050, is there?
So let's put things in perspective. Thirty-six years from now, when we look up from our new super-intelligent phones, we may notice that the Bakken is long played out and that food and water are rather scarce as fisheries collapse and aquifers shrink or become contaminated. Air? Who knows? And what of the sage grouse?
"Throwing money at problems" like education, science, and preserving the earth's biomes never works — or so we're told. The only people who really flourish from those cash bombardments are coal, oil and gas companies. Still, it just may be that people like Congressman Daines will wish they had actually strengthened the ESA and shoveled billions toward putting the brakes on species extinctions. They may regret not listing as threatened both Centrocercus urophasianus and Homo sapiens sapiens.
Cara Chamberlain teaches English at Rocky Mountain College.
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Montana's congressional delegation earned some of the highest and lowest numbers on a new annual scorecard from the League of Conservation Voters.
Members of Congress were rated on their 2013 votes in the House and Senate on bills connected to clean energy, wildlife issues and land conservation. Former Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., earned 85 percent; Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., earned 92 percent; and Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., earned 4 percent, said Theresa Keaveny, executive director of Montana Conservation Voters.
"We are hoping," she said, "that in the next year, Congressman Daines gets more in step with Montana voters, who in poll after poll show their support for our clean and healthful environment, for clean water and our open spaces."
Keaveny said Daines has voted to side with oil companies over protecting water, air and Montana's outdoor heritage. Montana Conservation Voters and League of Conservation Voters are nonpartisan groups that focus on conservation issues and public health protections.
Keaveny said climate change, which science shows is caused by fossil-fuel pollution, is one of her group's priorities, impacting family farm and ranch agriculture, fish and wildlife and Montana's outdoor economy.
"We are very concerned that the impacts of climate change are ones that aren't going to go away," she said, "and we need to see action in Congress to move us towards a clean, renewable energy future."
The average score nationwide was 58 percent for the Senate and 43 percent for the House. The National Environmental Scorecard has been issued annually for more than 40 years.
The scorecard is online at scorecard.lcv.org.
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A Government Accountability Office report on the federal Bureau of Land Management's coal-management program has outlined a number of problems related to competition, and oversight in determining fair market value of federal coal leases.
In 90 percent of leases reviewed, there was only one bidder, the report found - and almost every time, that bid was accepted even though federal law requires competitive bidding.
Steve Charter, chairman of the Northern Plains Resource Council, said the bottom line is that Montana isn't seeing the money it should from coal leases.
"We've been following it for a long time and nobody's paid much attention," he said, "and here just in the last year, it has finally been scrutinized."
Another criticism was aimed at not valuing coal accurately under the new model of demand - which is coal for export. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., is calling for a halt to new sales until changes are made. He estimated that recent sales across the nation have been undervalued by around $200 million.
The timing is right to stop new leases and revamp policies, Charter said, noting that would not stop existing leases or production.
"There's kind of questionable demand for coal right now," he said. "Generally, it would be a good time to pause, step back and examine the whole program."
In addition, the GAO report found that the Interior Department is not providing full information to the public about leases. The report is online at gao.gov.
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While recent Supreme Court rulings on voting rights and same-sex marriage have held the nation's attention, another decision slipped quietly under radar. In late June, the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's program to raise the ethanol content of gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent, thus clearing the way for more ethanol in gasoline.
The new draft Farm Bill included more than a billion dollars' worth of support for all things ethanol. While this action at the federal level is bullish for ethanol, many states are calling bullshit.
The fact that most ethanol is made from corn means that an increase in the ethanol content of gas could create, or exacerbate, a variety of problems, like higher food prices and elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Ethanol production has also been linked to the spread of a dangerous form of E. Coli.
But while federal support for ethanol appears to be as unstoppable as it is misguided, some individual states have shown the kind of horsepower that could turn around this dead-end policy. In June, Florida repealed its Renewable Fuel Standard, and that standard's mandate that gasoline contain 10 percent ethanol. And in May, Maine lawmakers approved a bill banning ethanol in gas, and asked the federal government to do the same.
The Maine House Republicans posted the following on Maine.gov:
"Evidence is mounting that ethanol is a failure in virtually every way. It takes more energy to produce it than the fuel provides. Food supplies around the world have been disrupted because so much of the corn crop now goes to ethanol. It costs taxpayers billions of dollars in subsidies at a time when our nation is already $12 trillion in debt. Even environmentalists have turned against it; research shows that ethanol production increases the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere."
Maine's Democrats have voted and spoken against ethanol as well. Indeed, "bipartisan" doesn't begin to describe the diversity of opposition to ethanol. Ethanol fuel's many problems have drawn together an opposing orgy of strange bedfellows, including the petroleum lobby, environmentalists, foodies, food processors, auto enthusiasts (cars don't like ethanol, either) and citizens of all political bents-basically everyone outside of the corn belt and D.C.'s beltway. Only corn growers or the politicians they support stand to gain from ethanol, while all the rest of us get are the consequences.
Currently, 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop is used to make ethanol. Raising the allowable amount of ethanol in gasoline, as the Supreme Court's recent decision greenlights, will likely increase demand for corn, drive up its price, and collaterally make food more expensive.
Already, increased corn demand created by ethanol policy in recent years has led to more land being cleared for agriculture. This activity, and the intensive tillage and monoculture-style farming system that produces most corn, has resulted in widespread loss of topsoil: 80 to 100 billion tons lost annually by some estimates. The vast and expanding monocultures of corn that blanket the Midwest are part of this problem.
Topsoil sequesters carbon dioxide. The more topsoil that's lost, the less carbon dioxide is sequestered, yielding essentially the same result as adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Because of agriculture's impact on soil loss, Allan Savory, a renowned rangeland and desertification specialist, considers agriculture one of global warming's worst culprits, and has compared its effects to those of coal mining. Thick, healthy soils also absorb and hold water, while thin soil is less able to retain rainfall and irrigation, which increases the amount of water used in agriculture, which washes away even more topsoil.
When the energy costs of production, processing and transport are added up, ethanol is a net loss, according to T.J. Rogers, CEO of solar panel maker SunPower Corp. "Ethanol is a total waste," Rogers told Watchdog.org, echoing the words of the Maine Republicans. "The bottom line is that it takes between one and 1.3 gallons of gasoline-equivalent energy to produce one gallon of ethanol."
Meanwhile, on the food-safety front, a byproduct of ethanol production called distillers grains, widely used in cattle feed, turns out to be a rich source of E. coli 0157, the pathogen behind several recent recalls of E. coli-tainted beef. Though links between distillers grains and specific cases of food-borne illness have yet to be established, it has been demonstrated that the higher the percentage of distillers grains in cows' diets, the higher the level of E. coli 0157 in those cows.
It's frustrating to see ethanol policy, which is clearly destructive and unproductive on so many fronts, being pushed for such transparent reasons. And one has to wonder if the level of federal support for ethanol would be any different if, instead of the Iowa caucus in the heart of corn country, the New Hampshire primary was the first event of the presidential election season.
But the recent rebuffs to ethanol in Florida and Maine are hopeful signs that fighting it out at the state level can be an effective means of change.
Again, the Maine House Republicans:
"We're not so naïve as to think a resolution from the Maine Legislature will light a fire under Congress. Ideally, Congress should repeal the ethanol laws because they are doing more harm than good. Our objectives are more modest but will still encounter opposition; the Midwest ethanol lobby has powerful advocates on Capitol Hill and billions of subsidy dollars are at stake.
But if Maine sparks other states to act, we could coerce Congress to stand up to the special interests."
As the Farm Bill bobs and weaves its way through the halls of Congress, it's probably too much to hope that the dollars allocated to ethanol support will suddenly dry up. But given the broad opposition to ethanol policy – owing to the fact that it's basically insane – I like the states' chances to defeat it, step by step. As we've just witnessed with same-sex marriage, sometimes when the states lead, the federal government follows.
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Rocky Mountain College students will benefit from research study opportunities thanks to efforts of two RMC professors closely working with the Geological Society of America and ExxonMobil.
Dr. Thomas J. Kalakay, RMC associate professor, geology, and Dr. Derek Sjostrom, RMC assistant professor, geology, recently received the GSA/ExxonMobil Bighorn Basin Field Award. The award included a one-week field seminar where participants were "exposed to some of the industry's latest techniques and concepts in petroleum systems analysis," Dr. Kalakay said. "Through our participation we will be able to integrate cutting edge industry concepts into our geology classes."
Establishing collaborative relationships with professional geoscientists at ExxonMobil, the world's largest privately owned oil and gas company, will lead to exceptional research study opportunities for faculty and students at RMC, according to Dr. Sjosrom.
"I plan on having a series of undergraduates work on research projects in collaboration with ExxonMobil geoscientists," said Dr. Sjostrom. "The first projects will focus on Mesozoic rocks exposed in the southern Pryors and into the Bighorn Basin proper."
According to Sjostrom, RMC is located in a world-class hydrocarbon-producing region. The location, combined with new industry connections and an already strong relationship with local oil industry experts, sets RMC apart from all other schools in the region, he noted.
In a unique collaboration of academic and industry professionals, the GSA and ExxonMobil seminars focus on the Wyoming basin that has been explored and studied for more than 100 years by geoscientists.
The seminars are taught by four ExxonMobil professionals, who between them, have more than 100 combined years of research in integrated basin analysis, with specific skills in tectonics, geochemistry, structure, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, hydrocarbon systems analysis, and integrated play analysis.
Through the exchange of ideas and development of projects the program will benefit students, academic professionals and the oil and gas industry. It also supports ExxonMobil's efforts to hire high-caliber geoscientists, according to Jennifer Nocerino, a program officer with the non-profit GSA.
"ExxonMobil has veteran geoscientists with broad backgrounds and terrific experience. We were pleased when they approached the GSA to propose the creation of a hands-on experience for faculty and students," Nocerino said.
ExxonMobil funds the Bighorn Basin Field Award program with GSA organizing and administering it. Nocerino said for students it is a rare opportunity and for all participants it is prestigious to be selected. Only 20 college students (15 undergrads and five graduate students) and five college faculty are chosen from more than 300 applicants.
"The program involves five teams, with each one making field trips in order to study the rocks," Nocerino said. "Each team does their own research and interpretation then the information is shared. It's a meeting of talented minds from academia and industry."
GSA manages the lodging and meals, all funded by the ExxonMobil grant.
The Geological Society of America, founded in 1888, is a scientific society with more than 25,000 members.
from academia, government, and industry in more than 100 countries. Through its meetings, publications, and programs, GSA enhances the professional growth of its members and promotes the geosciences in the service of humankind. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, GSA encourages cooperative research among earth, life, planetary, and social scientists, fosters public dialogue on geoscience issues, and supports all levels of earth science education.
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South central Montana is experiencing a widespread outbreak of hemorrhagic diseases that are killing white-tailed deer, antelope and possibly elk.
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wildlife biologists say the naturally occurring diseases are more widespread than they have seen before, but are not particularly intense in any one area.
Bluetongue disease has been confirmed in both an antelope and a white-tailed deer in the area between Hardin and Custer.
FWP has fielded reports of dead elk in that area, but have not been able to collect a carcass that is fresh enough to test.
Biologists also suspect that epizootic hemorrhagic disease, or EHD, may be responsible for some white-tailed deer deaths.
Reports of dead white-tailed deer and antelope are widespread across the region, including farther west and south than have been seen before. Biologists have fielded reports of dead animals along the Yellowstone River as far upstream as Springdale, along Rock Creek as high as Boyd, along the Stillwater River to Absarokee and along the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone to the Wyoming state line.
Bluetongue and EHD generally infect less than a quarter of local deer and antelope populations. Biologists do not know how many animals have died from hemorrhagic diseases this fall in south central Montana.
But they do not believe the mortalities are intense in any particular area.
Both EHD and bluetongue are naturally occurring viruses spread by tiny biting midges. The virus causes bleeding that kills the infected animal within a day or two. Dead animals frequently are found near water, where they go to alleviate a high fever caused by the disease.
Symptoms of EHD and bluetongue are identical, so laboratory tests on tissue from fresh carcasses are needed to differentiate between them.
The biting midges, also called sand gnats or no-see-ums, reproduce in wet sand or mud. Their numbers peak from mid-August through October, which accounts for the season appearance of hemorrhagic diseases.
The first frost of the fall stops the midges and brings a sudden end to outbreaks of bluetongue and EHD.
Other parts of Montana, including the eastern half of the state and the Missoula Valley, have reported outbreaks of EHD this late summer.
Humans are not at risk of contracting the disease by handling or eating deer or antelope or being bitten by midges. Animals that develop infections secondary to the hemorrhagic diseases may not be suitable for consumption, however.
A brochure of additional scientific information about hemorrhagic diseases is available online from the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study at http://vet.uga.edu/population_health_files/HD-brochure-web.pdf.
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Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game wardens are offering a reward for information about an elk that was killed illegally in the Pryor Mountains south of Billings last month.
Game warden Courtney Tyree said someone killed the elk illegally and left all but the head and small amount of meat to waste.
The Pryor Mountain portion of hunting district 510 is closed to elk hunting because the herd there is struggling. "It is acts like this that are keeping the population from growing," Tyree said. Also, it is illegal to leave elk meat to rot.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call Tyree at (406) 247-2940 or 1-800-TIP-MONT (1-800-847-6668). FWP is offering a reward of as much as $1,000 to anyone with information that leads to a conviction in the case.
The 1-800-TIP-MONT program is a toll-free number.
where people can report violations of fish, wildlife or park regulations. Callers may remain anonymous. It is similar to the well-known Crimestoppers program and offers rewards for information resulting in conviction of persons who abuse Montana's natural, historic or cultural resources.
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A kitchen garden is as much an act of self-expression as a means of growing food. But not all of a garden's expressiveness is intentional. In the same way that pets and their owners can grow to resemble one another, gardens can reflect their gardeners' personality, including how fastidious, lazy and greedy they are.
It would be a stretch to accuse me of being overly tidy, and the same can be said for my garden. But lazy and greedy? Guilty as charged. And when I allow these tendencies to play out in the garden, the target result is high output with minimal input, to indulge both my great expectations and my, shall we say, hands-off approach. My garden isn't the most organized patch of dirt on the block, but it's the only garden I can grow. And it does what I ask.
At the core of my low-effort, high-return gardening style is a practice I call throwing seeds at the garden. This technique is exactly what it sounds like: After preparing the soil and deciding what I'm going to plant in a given plot, I blanket the area with seeds cast by the handful. These seeds are not for my intended crops, but for a blanket of leafy plants to cover the space between them.
The seeds, usually a mixture of leafy greens and carrots, grow into an edible, living mulch. I look at it as a bonus crop, as it grows in space that isn't normally planted. And it fills an important function in the garden as a ground cover.
I often toss seeds at the garden multiple times in a season. This year's first tossing, just the other week, was a mix of curly and flat-leafed endive, tall and round radicchio, escarole, lettuce, cilantro, spinach, chard, basil, and whatever else I could scrounge together in the old seed bag. I even threw in sunflowers, nasturtiums, and beets. I simply dumped all my old seeds from last year's garden in a bag, walked outside, and tossed my seeds at the empty brown garden by the handful, like I was seeding grass.
The garden had been put to bed last winter with early season seed tossing in mind, so it was ready. I raked the ground before and after seeding, and then watered in the seeds really well. Already the ground is dusted with green confetti.
My garden is basically one big garlic patch, which works well for my practice. Garlic is a great crop to scatter seeds at for several reasons. Garlic plants grow vertically, both above and below ground, so there is no conflict with other leaves or roots. Garlic doesn't need much tending in general, so you won't be stepping much on your greens and carrots. Also, garlic likes mulch, and if I wasn't using this edible living mulch I'd have to mulch it with something else, like straw. After the garlic is harvested in July, it's off to the races for the scattered carrots and greens, which suddenly have the place to themselves.
Other crops that work well intercropped with edible mulch are similarly lanky, non-spreading plants like corn, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, to name a few. Tomatoes, strawberries, and other slow-spreading plants can work as well. After all, tomatoes don't really fill in until July. You can grow a lot of greenery in the space between in the meantime. You can also train tomatoes vertically to allow more salad space between plants.
Even if you don't know what main crop you want to plant yet, you can start your garden as soon as the ground has thawed enough to be worked, by throwing seed mix at your blank garden now, and planting into it when the occasion arises. Say you're at the farmers market and see some beautiful eggplant or pepper transplants to buy. You just take them home, clear a space in the salad and carrot patch, and pop them in. While the transplants are still small you may have to "weed" the neighboring mulch plants to make sure the new starts don't get smothered by salad. By the same token, now would be a great time to place a seed order for some leaves and carrots.
It's well-known that eating green leafy vegetables offers multiple health benefits. In addition to the dietary advantages of edible green mulch, it's also a basic part of my zero-tolerance policy toward exposed earth, Any piece of ground that I can glimpse between plants is a place where sunlight is being wasted. Every wasted photon is a missed opportunity for edible plant growth, and actually does damage when it strikes the earth. Sun and wind both allow moisture to escape the ground, and wind can blow topsoil away.
My edible mulch discourages such damage by forming a thick green mat that captures the sunlight and shields the ground from the elements. It also tempers the daily extremes of hot and cold, and fosters an active bacterial presence in the soil, which can make a big difference in the garden's yield.
And, anytime you want to have a salad or a stir fry, tear into that green mulch. It will eagerly grow back, which means that unless you're a total salad addict you can harvest as much as you like. When the garden has finally run its course come fall, make sure to dig up the carrots before the tops die in the frost. After that, the carrots will still remain happy and delicious in the ground-if you can find them. Without the tops to flag them, you won't know where to dig.
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The country's foreign minister told the UN chief that humanitarian aid won't be allowed even as rebel forces clash with the Lebanese Hezbollah.
Syria's State-run news agency said the country's foreign minister has told U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon that humanitarian aid won't be allowed into an embattled rebel-held Syrian town until the fighting there is over.
The SANA news agency said Mr. Ban called Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem on Sunday to express concern over the situation in the town of Qusair. On Saturday, the International Committee of the Red Cross and U.N. humanitarian agencies called for a cease-fire, expressing alarm over the fate of thousands of civilians believed to be trapped there, including many wounded.
Mr. al-Moallem told Mr. Ban the Red Cross and others will be able to enter Qusair "after the end of military operations there".
The regime launched an offensive against Qusair three weeks ago and has gained ground, though rebels have defended some positions.
Meanwhile, Syrian rebels fought with gunmen from Lebanon's Hezbollah militia in a deadly clash on Lebanese soil overnight, a security official and local media said, in the latest sign that Syria's civil war is spilling over the country's borders.
In the night from Saturday to Sunday, Hezbollah apparently encircled and ambushed a group of Syrian rebels and allied Lebanese fighters whom they suspected of rocketing Baalbek a day earlier, said the Lebanese security official.
The Lebanese TV station Al-Mayadeen, seen as sympathetic to the Syrian regime, quoted Lebanese security officials as saying 17 fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, a rebel group linked to the global al-Qaeda terror network, were killed in the fighting.
It was the worst clash on Lebanese territory since the outbreak of the conflict more than two years ago.
Rebel fighters have threatened to attack Hezbollah bases in Lebanon, and on Saturday 18 rockets and mortar rounds hit Lebanon's eastern Baalbek region, a Hezbollah stronghold.
The growing tensions between Hezbollah and rebels trying to oust Assad are linked to a regime offensive against the rebel-held town of Qusair in western Syria. Hezbollah's involvement in the battle for control of the strategic town has exposed its growing role in the Syria conflict, prompting rebel threats to target Hezbollah's bases in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, low-flying Israeli warplanes again violated Lebanese airspace, overflying the capital Beirut, the eastern Bekaa Valley and the city of Baalbek, Lebanese security officials and the state-run news agency said.
Israeli warplanes regularly enter Lebanese airspace. A security official confirmed the Sunday over-flights and said they were among the most intense recently.
There was no immediate comment from Israel. The flights come amid heightened regional tensions because of the civil war in Syria. Israel is believed to have carried out three airstrikes inside Syria this year said to be aimed at weapons meant for Hezbollah.
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- Chryssalids are super-fast, heavily armoured aliens (looking very much like a Xenomorph) who sprint across the battlefield at an impossible rate, and in the earlier parts of the game can take the concentrated firepower of an eight-strong squad to bring down (sometimes even that barely hurts them). If they attack one of your team, they will kill them. Then the fun starts. Anyone "killed" by a Chryssalid becomes a CPU-controlled zombie enemy. They hit hard, but they're slow, and easy to kill. Except... when you kill them, a brand-new, fully-grown Chryssalid bursts out of the corpse. If you're still using the starting weaponry, you might not have even killed the first one when it happens. Some players will go as far as have their troops carry primed grenades in their off-hands when going into a terror site with Chryssalids — if they get zombified, they'll drop the grenade and kill themselves, and maybe soften up the Chryssalid. And if you're playing at Superhuman, you know that anyone below Captain runs with a zero-primed high-explosive. If you're doing alien base missions, then you have it doubled, or an alien grenade or two.
- The Tentaculats. For one, you only encounter them at Alien Colonies, Artefact Sites and large Submarines. There's a good chance you'll be fighting them in the dark, which adds to the creepy atmosphere all to well. Second, they look like giant tentacled brains with huge octopus-like beaks. They do the same thing as Chryssalids, except they can float.
- In between turns, you can hear the pitter-patter and slithering of aliens walking around, the occasional weapon blasts, the screams of dying civilians, the opening and closing of doors, the fear that if the game switches to the main view then you will watch a Chryssalid or other enemy suddenly jump out and kill your troopers, the creepy music, and sometimes, total silence. And it doesn't help that the "Alien Turn" image is of a wounded soldier in a picture that is mostly black-and-white except for the red of his blood. Right behind him is what looks like a Muton about to tear him apart with his bare hands.
- Discovering the effectiveness of alien grenades and blaster bombs. The hard way. And then trying to organize some kind of retreat with at least half of your whole squad dead in one turn.
- Aliens with psionic control, with a squad of troops who have low psi-strength.
- Night missions, before you figure out effective night fighting tactics. Your troops get sniped from dark corners, and when you have your troops approach them, they just get cut down by reaction fire.
- Terror From the Deep didn't get its name for nothing. Essentially, it's UFO Defense mixed with H.P. Lovecraft. The aliens you fight are the stuff of nightmares, especially the Tentaculats and Lobstermen. To clarify on the latter, the Lobstermen are giant crustaceans that can shrug off any attack that isn't a melee weapon, while tearing your own troops to pieces if you are not prepared.
- Many of the aliens in this game indulge in Body Horror. The Deep Ones are humans that were grafted with Aquatoid DNA in the most gruesome way. Bio-Drones are piloted by brains that were butchered into submission, and use a sonic beam based on their original vocal cords to scream their enemies to death.
- Chamber of Ultimate Alien is surprisingly creepy. Alien itself resembles huge aquatoid with Cthulhu tentacle face and its in coffin shaped "bath". However, creepies part is that its reanimating process is powered by 8 alien fetuses/babies in glass jar. Which then wriggle in pain while getting electrified after you shoot the glass, which you need to do to kill the Alien.
- Also from the reboot, the Thin Men, a modernized version of the Snakemen. Faster, more mobile, and they both spit poison and explode into poison when killed. Oh, and they look almost human. Good hunting!
- Sometimes, due to a glitch in Enemy Unknown, an enemy unit may spontaneously appear next to one of your soldiers as if they teleported from out of nowhere. Bad enough when it is a Muton or Cyberdisk, maybe even a Sectoid, but this can also happen with a Sectopod.
- The tutorial mission of the reboot is pretty creepy too. You come across German soldiers, one that's been killed with conventional (for the aliens) weaponry, and one that's been somehow eviscerated when, to use Dr. Vahlen's words, tore its way out of his chest. Then there's a German soldier from inside a building calling "Hilfe..." What does that mean? "Help me."
- Floaters and Heavy Floaters from the remake. Several times more horrific than the original game's counterparts, and very, very dangerous in the early game.
- Let's think about this from the alien mooks' perspective, shall we? So your leaders tell you to forcibly uplift a primitive race known as humans. Pah, easy you say. These primitive apes are still using ballistics weaponry and they haven't even figured out practical spaceflight yet. So you send out the Sectoids to start abducting. And then, out of nowhere, a squad of four of these humans shows up and slaughters your advance guard (assuming you didn't play the tutorial). Okay, you think. We'll send in the Thin Men, Floaters, Mutons, and Chryssalids. They get slaughtered. Then, your spacecraft start getting shot down by this same mysterious group of humans. Now, the rumors have started among the rank and file of a horrific creature known only as "Doctor Vahlen," who will capture you, place you in a glass pod, and stick probes into your brain to gain information on you! And THEN, this same group of humans, having turned your own weapons against you, breaches your base and utterly slaughters everyone inside. They never leave any survivors, and they always take the corpses to their horrific underground base to be dissected and used as weapons. So you start bringing out the bigger guns: Sectoid Commanders, Muton Berserkers, Muton Elites, Sectopods, Cyberdisks, more powerful spacecraft, the works. They're all slaughtered. And those psionics that gave you a massive edge early in the invasion? The humans have them too, and they'll use them, chortling horrifically while they do it. You think you have it bad? Try being a platoon of Thin Men or Sectoids on a Council mssion going up against a squad of Colonels and Majors.
- To make matters worse, in the original game all of the above takes place to the pulsing, unsettling Battlescape theme; the DOS version of the track makes every mission a nightmare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i72Q1jXnhOQ
- One early, but mercifully Dummied Out feature was to sic a Titan on you if you hung around an investigation scene too long. Considering its firepower (a massive beam able to obliterate cover), it could make everyone haul ass at lightspeed.
- In the first trailer, one of the slithering black blobs killed an XCOM agent by forcing itself down the agent's throat. Luckily, in the game they're relegated to the role of Goddamned Bats.
- The Sleepwalker Virus. It makes people repeat the same short moment from just before the infection, and even the most strong-willed ones can resist it only for a limited time. And I Must Scream.


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We have a fab new Baby Crofter DK leaflet to bring to you, leaflet 4573 is sure to be a winner with both boys and girls of all ages! This great new leaflet has a scarf design that has an adorable little doggy face and one end and a floppy tail at the other, and four dangly paws that are trimmed in Snowflake DK. It also has a pattern for a little doggy toy that matches the scarf! We have designed this leaflet in two new Baby Crofter Shades, Brodie and Logan. Brodie is a trendy mix of dark blues, greens, a biscuit colour and cream, perfect for boys, whilst Logan is a mix of blues, orange and cream, ideal for both boys and girls.
Snuggly Spots DK has the incredible softness of Snuggly DK, with a pretty spot pattern. This adorable spotty yarn comes in a range of six softly patterned shades that are perfect for both little boys and girls, shades include Baby Betsy, Chalky Chappie and Little Willow…how cute! We also have eight new leaflets and the Snuggly Spots book, full of classic designs for boys and girls, the little chap on the front cover looks delighted in his hooded cardie! As well as classic cardies and sweaters there are the cutest little bootees and the snuggliest blankets too.
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Snuggly just got seriously fun in the shape of two new nursery books for babies from birth to 3 years, we have one for boys and one for the girls! Nursery Knits for Boys book 487 has the new Snugglyosaurus family, a collection of the cutest dinosaur knits you have ever seen! There are toys, mobiles, a squishy play matt, spiky hats, hoodies, bootees and even a onesie so little boys can be dinosaurs too! If that wasn't enough there are colourful car designs, we have toys, mobiles, cot bumpers, car bootees and a matt with a knitted road, fields and ponds!
In the Nursery Knits for Girls book 486, we have used the prettiest palette of pinks, purples, mint and yellow in Snuggly DK to create a huggable doll, gorgeous knitted outfits and a beautiful baby onesie, hat, sweater and cot bumper set all decorated with pretty little birds. The cosy dolly comforter uses the fabulously soft Snowflake DK yarn making the perfect toy for your little ones to snuggle.
Kasha is our incredibly beautiful new textured yarn, with a mohair blend. It comes in a fabulous 300g ball, meaning you have plenty of yarn to knit sumptuous wraps, generous scarves and the softest of throws to cosy up with on a cold winters night. Kasha comes in five luxurious colours – Sasha Red, a deep red and claret, Faithful, a rich anthracite green, Smoke on the Water, a soft grey mix, Kashmir, a mix of nutty browns and Florence pink. Each shade comes with a free pattern on the ball band for a beautiful throw, meaning that you get a complete project in every ball!
Beachcomber DK is a beautiful 100% cotton yarn, it has an incredible softness and slub texture. This lovely yarn comes in a range of colours that evoke everything for a perfect summer's day, there are breath-taking space-dyed colours and bold, saturated shades. The Beachcomber DK design collection has designs for women and girls that will create a casual, carefree summer style, there are 8 leaflets and the 'One Day in Summer' book 484. Designs include summer tops which use a variety of stitches and knitting techniques to create beautiful patterns and detailing. Then for when that sea air turns slightly more brisk, there are pretty cardigan designs. As you knit with Beachcomber DK let yourself drift away to a secluded beach, where you can smell the fresh sea air.
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Cotton Rich Aran is a contemporary take on a classic Aran yarn. It is a light weight summer yarn with a soft, matt appearance and comes in a range of classic, modern shades, including Strawbs red, Herb green and Marin blue. The are 8 leaflets and the 'Cotton Rich Aran' book 481 with designs for each member of the family, whatever their age and style. There are sporty knits such as the family of sailor yoke sweaters and the deep vee tank and sweater for women. If sporty knits aren't quite your thing then there are knits for women and girls with the most beautiful detailing. Cotton Rich Aran - redefining beautiful cotton.
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Sparky yarns are always in fashion and we have an amazingly pretty new one in our Hayfield Essentials range – Hayfield Baby Sparkle DK. Hayfield Baby Sparkle comes in a range of seven glittery, girly colours that your little princess is sure to love. There are also four new leaflets with traditional little knits, pretty cabled hoodies and lacey cardies, perfect to wear with party dresses!
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Be ahead of the fash pack this summer with our brand new Hayfield Essentials yarn, Hayfield Fiesta DK! Hayfield Fiesta DK is our fabulous colour pop yarn, it comes in 8 mouth-watering shades, 5 zingy brights and the essential white, beige and cream. There are six colourful leaflets for women and girls, with trendy sweaters, tops and cardigans. Fiesta DK is the essential way to colour your summer! For marketing purposes Hayfield Fiesta DK will be known as Hayfield Siesta DK in the USA and Canada.
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Be ahead of the fash pack this summer with our brand new Hayfield Essentials yarn, Hayfield Siesta DK! Hayfield Siesta DK is our fabulous colour pop yarn, it comes in 8 mouth-watering shades, 5 zingy brights and the essential white, beige and cream. There are six colourful leaflets for women and girls, with trendy sweaters, tops and cardigans. Siesta DK is the essential way to colour your summer! For marketing purposes Hayfield Siesta DK will be known as Hayfield Fiesta DK in the UK and ROW.
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January is the perfect time for an Aran knit, luckily for you we have a range of fab new colours and Aran designs in our Hayfield Bonus Aran range. The new shades are trendy and modern, with Lilac Dawn, Peppermint and Light Stone. Our new design collection has great Aran knits for all the family, there are 6 new leaflets and the 'Hayfield Arans' book 480.
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Bonus Buzz DK is a wonderfully colourful yarn, we have two new shades to add to this fun range, Rustle, a mix of greens and Purrfect, a mix of tawny brown.
Bonus DK is our fantastic value yarn that comes in an extraordinary range of colours, for spring summer we have two fantastic new shades to add to the range – Spearmint and Punchy Pink.
Sirdar Cotton DK is our stunning mercerised double knit cotton, it has a subtle sheen and creates the most incredible stitch definition. We have added 4 fresh new colours to the range, Dusted Lilac, Cool Aqua, Grey Dawn and Cobalt Blue. These modern shades are perfect summer knits and we have 4 new leaflets with crochet designs for women and girls, there are long sleeve cover ups and pretty tops embellished with crochet flowers – perfect for the poolside.
The New Year is the perfect time to freshen up your home with a new look. Our new homeware book 484, 'Cotton Home' is the perfect book for doing just that. It is full of 32 fabulously chic designs for your home, including cushions, trinket boxes, a lampshade cover and bunting. It has been designed in our beautiful Cotton 4 Ply yarn which comes in a range of glorious colours, you are sure to find something that suites you and your home.
A truly classic hand knit never goes out of fashion, this season we have three new Country Style 4 Ply designs for women that we hope you will have in your wardrobe for many a year to come. There is a patterned round neck cardigan in our new Cobalt blue and a t-shirt style sweater in our new shade of Rose Garden, there is also a long sleeve crochet sweater.
We have two pretty new shades for spring summer in Country Style DK, Summer Blossom, a soft pale yellow and the beautiful Dove Grey. There are also four new leaflets with traditional, yet stylish designs for women and girls. There is a crochet waistcoat and simple cardigan design. For those of us who enjoy a smile with our tea there is a leaflet with four fabulously British tea cosy designs!
Crofter DK is the only way to achieve a fabulous Fair Isle effect knit without all the hard work! This season we have three new Crofter shades, Kilda, Lewis and Alfie, these new shades are beautifully strong for spring summer. There are also four new leaflets with designs for women and girls, including a kimono cardie and a fan and feather edge cardie, as well as some colourful cushion designs.
Every girl loves just a glimmer of sparkle, which is what makes Ella DK the perfect metallic yarn. This fashionable yarn has just a touch of sparkle running throughout, our two new shades are Night Sky, which is a pretty blue with a hint of silver and South Pacific, a soft teal with silver thread. We have two new leaflets for women, a trendy waterfall jacket and pretty lace edge cardie.
Hayfield Baby Chunky has a fantastic range of bright, trendy baby shades, and we have two more – Turquoise Blue and Plucky Purple. Hayfield Baby Chunky is perfect for knitted jackets, cardies, sweaters and blankets. This season we have three new leaflets, a cabled A-line coat for girls, classic cabled cardies for boys and cosy, easy knit sleep sacks.
Hayfield Double Knitting is a fantastic yarn for those that want trendy designs and shades at affordable prices, it is great for the less experienced knitter! This season we have two new colours and four new leaflets with designs for all the family and the home. There is a stylish butterfly motif sweater for women and girls, casual hoodie designs, bright throws and four cushion designs.
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Hayfield Baby Aran is a brilliant baby yarn and we have added two bright shades to the existing range of classics, Applebob and Lola, a bright pink. There are also three new leaflets with a mixture of knit and crochet designs, we have trendy cabled hoodies for boys, a pink bobbled cardie and a series of colourful blankets.
Baby Bamboo DK is our much loved 100% natural fibre Snuggly yarn, it is wonderfully bright and gives amazing stitch definition. This season we have two new shades that are great for girls and boys, Bluebell and Hush a Bye grey. There are also five new leaflets with designs for boys and girls, there is a stripey sailor sweater for boys, an adorable bobble sweater for girls and the cutest little tank for little chaps.
Snuggly Pearls DK is a classic Snuggly yarn with a pretty pearlescent thread running through it. We have added 3 stronger shades to the existing range of soft pastels, Pearly Turquoise, Pearly Purple and Pearly Pudding. There are also four new leaflets with designs in both these new stronger shades and the classics, there are pretty girlie cardies, sparkly blankets and the cutest bonnets too.
Snuggly Snowflake Chunky is the cuddliest yarn around and we have three super cosy new designs in our two new colours, Soft Jade and Clover Crush. We have an easy knit sweater for boys, that comes in a tank top version too, a pretty double breasted coat and blanket set for girls and four of the fluffiest little shoe designs. Many of the Snowflake Chunky shades match perfectly to Snuggly DK ones for perfectly coordinated trims and borders.
Soukie DK is spattered with the tiniest of sequins, it creates glamorous hand knits for all of those glittering parties and holiday evenings, the tiny sequins will catch the light and make you sparkle. We have two bright new colours, Cactus green and Desert Sky, a pretty purple. There are three new party perfect leaflets for women, a striped cardie to show off several colours, a stylish fringed kimono and a beautiful leaf motif sweater.
Supersoft Aran is a fantastically soft Aran yarn designed for babies and toddlers, this season we have two great new colours – Sugarsnap, a versatile green and golden Peanut. We also have three fab new leaflets with cabled cardigans, sweaters and waistcoats for boys and girls from 2 to 13 years.
Pretty, sugary colours are ever so on trend this spring summer and we have added two of the prettiest to our range of Wash 'n' Wear, Palest Peach and Pretty Coral. We also have three new designs for women, a diamond patterned kimono, a cable cardie and a stunning crochet top, each of these designs is perfect for layering so you can get knitting these pretty knits straight away!
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