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There's been quite a visceral reaction to Gearbox Software's latest release, Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Visceral in the sense of strongly worded, rather than relating to the bits of viscera which fly out under the pressure of an alien's claws. Generally, the critical response has been an enthusiastic demonstration of the principle that bad reviews are a lot more fun to write than good reviews, leading to some tour de force eviscerations. That's evisceration in the sense of a savage review, not what happens when… oh, you get the drift.
The problem of Aliens
Plenty of technical reasons have been given for the review scores the game is getting, but it seems to me that there is a fundamental issue at the heart of the project. Despite its apparent aesthetic compatibility, Aliens is not a world which lends itself to a modern big-name FPS treatment.
The modern big-name FPS is primarily about creating a fairly linear path through a narrative, and then using that drop in flexibility to add polish and spectacle – layer upon layer of polish and spectacle. That often leads to the description of franchises like Call of Duty as "cinematic" – with positive and negative implications. However, it is actually more accurately "action movie-esque" – informed and inspired by a particular kind of cinema, in which a hero protagonist fights his (or her, but usually his) way through waves of enemies to reach a final confrontation with the antagonist. The odds against the hero escalate as he reaches his goal, and the force of his responses escalates in turn.
There is what my colleague Erik Kain identifies as a ludonarrative dissonance at times in the presentation of these games: the narrative may tell you that your character is on the back foot (often as a result of a crash-landed spaceship or drop-pod, which also explains why, despite being part of a mass military force, your space marine often finds himself acting alone or with a small group of companions), but the gameplay is still resolutely progressive: your character kills his way from objective to objective.
This is the rough model for a number of action films – in particular, it's a style that works very well with an Arnold Schwarzenegger type in the central role. The traditional FPS is actually a lot like The Terminator, but from the terminator's perspective – a single, incredibly durable hero cutting through numerous but weak enemies in pursuit of a single significant kill.
Aliens, also a James Cameron film, is a great action movie. But it isn't that great action movie. The heroes do not use their superior skills and durability to kill their way through waves of aliens. The heroes die, and run, and die.
The ends of empire
James Cameron has listed among the inspirations for Aliens the Vietnam war – in which an overconfident, technologically superior force is caught unawares by assymetric warfare.
Leaving aside the disquieting implications there, this is somewhat true, but also somewhat limited. The marines are not being sent in to prevent the expansion of an ideology, except in a very abstract sense. An outpost of Weyland-Yutani's holdings has stopped reporting and the marines are explicitly being sent in to resolve this administrative and financial issue – although we discover that the corporation has a darker purpose, as sci-fi corporations always do.
The marines are explicitly identified as colonial - and it is also made clear that they are in an uncomfortable relationship with the Weyland-Yutani corporation which, not unlike the East India Company, protects and mercantilizes the colonies, and seeks to profit from the raw materials they produce – including perfectly-constructed biological weapons. The US Colonial Marine corps are a nation-state's military serving the interests of a corporation.
These marines are well-equipped, and they are confident – the reference to "another bug hunt" suggests that they have exterminated infestations before. However, the aliens they encounter on Hadley's Hope rapidly and totally subvert their expectations. In the first encounter their command structure is dismantled, cadre discipline breaks down completely and most of their advanced technology is lost or shown to be inadequate. Subsequent encounters whittle down their numbers further, while never doing more than lightly trimming the alien horde. Rather than advancing towards a goal, they are falling back towards a retreat, and are frustrated at every turn, infiltrated at every redoubt.
Meanwhile, the embodiments of their military virtues (Master Sergeant Apone and Lieutenant Gorman) and the corporate interests which built the colony (Carter Burke) are shown to be unprepared, inadequate or just downright evil. Gorman redeems himself after his catastrophic but inevitable failure first by shedding his unearned authority ("I just want to help"), and then by defying the rules of engagement by becoming a suicide bomber. By doing that, he wins the grudging (and very brief) respect of the hard-nosed Vasquez – the marine who has survived the longest through an unswerving commitment to being totally kick-ass.
If you want to keep surviving, you need to get out from under your colonial marine expectations very quickly. Corporal Hicks makes it to the finishing post primarily because he understands that standard-issue badassery is not an appropriate response to the situation, and calmly adjusts his parameters, falling in line with Ripley. Newt and Bishop survive because they are pacifists – she is wily, he is calm, but neither fights. And Ripley survives because she's Ripley - and because she is consistently suspicious of both the military and the corporate/colonial authorities. The final battle involves blue-collar technology – technology used to build rather than destroy – going up against the Alien Queen to protect the helpless Newt, Hicks and Bishop.
See the problem?
If you are trying to make a modern FPS set in the world of Aliens, this is going to cause immediate problems – and if it's squad-based, to paraphrase Morrissey, that makes it even worse. Modern FPSes are, somewhat predictably, based around the gun – the focus of the player's interaction with the world. You, the player, see the world through crosshairs. When you are deprived of a weapon, as in one section of Aliens: Colonial Marines, at the beginning of Half-Life 2 and during a harrowing in-game sequence in Quake 4, it is for a specific purpose – to create a temporary sense of helplessness.
This is not exactly rocket surgery. But it is a problem, because one thing we realise pretty early on in Aliens the movie is that the shiniest technology is not very much use against an enemy that emerges from the walls, or pulls you down through the floor.
So, to make that work the Aliens have to be nerfed a little. To make it worth the player's while to shoot, they have to become easier targets, and less numerous. To make melee work they have to be less acidic, and also less deadly at close quarters, where no marine stood against them unscathed. At a certain point, the sense of dread – the sense that nothing you have been equipped or trained to do works – is going to be diluted.
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An Evening with Ishmael Beah '04
At 13, Ishmael Beah was recruited as a child soldier in Sierra Leone's civil war. He was removed from the army by UNICEF and later became an advocate for children affected by war. His 2007 memoir, A Long Way Gone, was published to popular and critical acclaim. Read more
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Twenty-two years after the release of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, Art Spiegelman presents Wordless!, an innovative hybrid of slides, talk, and musical performance created with acclaimed jazz composer Phillip Johnston. Read more
Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
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One of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty, Jeffrey Sachs also is director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of health policy and management at Columbia University. He has authored three New York Times best sellers and advised governments on economic strategy in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for more than two decades. Read more
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BridesmaidsTuesday, March 8th, 2011
Release date: Friday May 13, 2011 (Wide)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Feig
Studio: Universal Pictures
Producer(s): Barry Mendel, Judd Apatow
Screenplay: Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
Cast: Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph, Matt Lucas, Dianne Wiest, Melissa McCarthy
Official Site: bridesmaidsmovie.com
Rating: R
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This spring, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Superbad) and director Paul Feig (creator of Freaks and Geeks) invite you to experience Bridesmaids. Kristen Wiig leads the cast as Annie, a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) on a wild ride down the road to matrimony. Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she'll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you'll go for someone you love.


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Course summary for international students
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|Doctor of Philosophy
|Offered at Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Waterfront (Geelong)
|Cloud (online)
|3-4 years full time
|Next available intake
Applications will be considered at any time.
|Indicative annual fee 2015
|No fees defined
|Higher Degree Research
|CRICOS course code
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Course overviewPhD research in exercise science/sport and physical activity and nutrition, include epidemiological, behavioural and social science analyses of activity in whole populations and special groups such as older adults; studies of muscle and bone metabolism and physiology of muscle, particularly as these relate to sporting performance and other forms of physical performance and endurance, and to precursors of chronic disease; and movement analysis and sport performance relating particularly to motor skill acquisition, perception and action, movement economy, and gait and falls in older adults. Research in the discipline of nutrition also includes measurement and evaluation of food sources, sports nutrition, and diet and disease with particular interest in cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and osteoporosis.
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Deakin offers many courses which can be studied by distance education overseas.
However, international students living in Australia must, in each compulsory trimester (that is, Trimesters 1 and 2), enrol in at least one unit that is offered as a Campus located unit and can, in addition enrol in units offered via Cloud (online). International students are not permitted to do more than 25% of their total course via Cloud (online) learning. Best practice is to enrol in mostly Campus located units in each compulsory trimester.
In a non-compulsory trimester (Trimester 3), international students may study Cloud (online) units only.
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Fee paying place - International (IFP)
A fee paying place is one for which the University does not receive any government funding. As such, students enrolled in these places are required to contribute the full cost of their course.
Fees for international students apply to persons living in Australia with Temporary Resident status, provided that there is no limitation on study and persons living abroad who are not Australian citizens and do not have Permanent Resident status in Australia.
Equivalent Full Time Student Load (EFTSL)
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A Toledo-based organization raised $43,000 for Shared Lives Studio at its annual Chicks Mix fundraiser on July 8 at the Toledo Botanical Garden.
Chicks for Charity is a grassroots movement comprised of more than 1,900 women who donate funds to local "under-the-radar" charities. It has no overhead costs, regular meetings, age requirements or fundraising quotas, and 100 percent of the proceeds its members raise go directly to that year's charity of choice.
"Many people don't have large sums of money but want to do something to help their community," Chicks for Charity Founder Martha Vetter said. "Chicks are welcome to raise money in whatever creative capacity they wish and give back however they can. It's so easy. Just do what you're already doing and have fun. Our main goal is to help by having good times together."
Members have discovered innovative ways to raise money, including hosting dinner parties and Euchre competitions, attending golf outings or each pitching in a few dollars after grabbing coffee together.
In addition, members 20 years old or younger, dubbed "junior chicks," have participated by raising donations from lemonade stands and birthday parties.
"As a mom I would recommend this as a great way to get your kids involved in easy and fun activities and teach them the importance of giving back," said Emily Barry, who coordinates Chicks for Charity's public relations efforts. "We're all just doing activities that we would already otherwise be doing. It's honestly so much fun and we're helping serve at the same time."
Chicks for Charity members gather once every two years to hear presentations from three local nonprofit organizations. Each member in attendance has one vote and the charity that tallies the most votes becomes the organization's designated charity for the following two years.
Its 2013-14 sponsored charity is Shared Lives Studio, an arts center that allows adults with development disabilities to become working artists with opportunities to showcase their artwork in the community.
"The chicks have been an incredible blessing for us. I don't know what else to say – they're just amazing," said Lori Schoen, art director at Shared Lives Studio. "Chicks for Charity is such a wonderful thing and Martha is an incredible visionary. I'm a chick myself, of course. They're not asking anything except for the community to help one organization for two years. It's kind of a new way to fundraise and it really does make a difference."
Since its founding in 2006, Chicks for Charity has raised a total of more than $420,000 for various nonprofit groups, including the Beach House Family Shelter, Assistance Dogs of America and International Boxing Club.
More than 400 people attended Chicks Mix '14, which featured a cash bar, eight silent auction items, 25 raffle baskets and a complimentary live performance by Glass City Steel, Toledo School for the Arts' steel drum band.
"We definitely need support from the community to help keep us going," Schoen said. "What chicks has allowed us to do is focus on our mission. It's freed us up to not have to worry so much. They have offered us two years of peace of mind and just the ability to really focus on highlighting how capable, amazing and upbeat our artists are."
Chicks for Charity will host its next large-scale event, the fifth annual Becky Zibbel Golf Scramble, at 9 a.m. Aug. 16. Players will meet at Chippewa Golf Course in Curtice and can register online at chicksforcharity.net. The cost will be $70 per player and $280 per team.
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Spring has sprung, so lawns are growing and flowers are blooming. But if your plants aren't thriving, the Aiken Master Gardener Association is ready to help.
The organization's members will be spreading their knowledge during two events this month at the Aiken County Farmers Market. The Meet a Master Gardener program will take place Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon. Then, on April 20, Spring Education Day will be held from 8 a.m. until noon.
Meet a Master Gardener programs are scheduled for the first Saturday of each month, from March until October, at the Farmers Market, which is located at 115 Williamsburg St. between Richland and Park Avenues. Planned for April 6 is a demonstration on plant propagation, according to Master Gardener Richard Mark.
"We'll also have grass samples there so that people who are considering what kind of lawn they want to put in can look at the four varieties of southern turf grass that work very well in this area," Mark said. "We'll have common weeds for them to look at, too, if they want to be able to identify something that is growing in their lawn. We'll tell them about the typical weeds they will encounter and the best way to treat them given the lawn that they have."
Six to 10 Master Gardeners are expected to participate in the program and they will be available to answer questions.
"The most important thing we are there for is to help people who are having difficulty with gardening," Mark said. "They can discuss problem plants with us, and they can bring us samples. We'll answer any questions they have. This time of year, we get a lot of questions about lawns and flowers and starting vegetable gardens."
The Meet a Master Gardener program's location at the Farmers Market can change from month to month "because the manager moves us around," Mark said. But, he added: "It's easy to find us. We have a large tablecloth with 'Meet a Master Gardener' on it and all of us have on purple shirts with the Master Gardener Association logo on them."
There will be a variety of speakers and booths at Spring Education Day on April 20. Participants in addition to the Master Gardener Association will include the Aiken Beekeepers Association and Aiken Camellia Society, according to Mark. A plant sale and swap will be held.
"You'll be able to learn how to use horticulture to encourage birds to come to your yard and bees to pollinate your fruit trees," he said.
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During the past several years, I have written many letters to the editor in which I was critical of the Republican Party. I believe my criticisms were valid at the time, and I believe the following criticisms are valid now.
I find it really abhorrent that the leaders of the Republican Party are always scheming to try to get some type of political advantage. Their schemes are deceitful and void of honor.
One of their latest schemes is their effort to extract some type of scandal out of the tragedy of Benghazi. The loss of the lives of the four diplomatic personnel in the embassy consulate attack on Sept. 11, was terrible, but to suggest that President Obama should be impeached, is ridiculous.
Republicans attempted to use Benghazi as a wedge issue in the weeks leading up to the 2012 election, but after Obama thoroughly embarrassed Mitt Romney during their second or third debate, I thought they had concluded that it was not worth pursuing anymore. I was wrong. You see, as I said earlier, they are always scheming.
Their scheme this time around is to do a pre-emptive strike on Hillary Clinton as a possible 2016 democratic presidential candidate. Clinton has not said that she will be a candidate, but that is not stopping the Republican leaders. If Clinton can be weakened with their dishonorable accusations, in their mind, the advantage goes to them.
With all of their feigned outrage on the lack of security for the diplomats in Libya, they fail to acknowledge that when the State Department asked for $300 million in additional funding to beef up embassy security, the Republicans blocked the funding request.
This is typical of their leadership. Obstructionism is the order of the day for them.
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Look at all this loot! Of course, the chocolate frogs were the first to go, although he did share one with Andrew. The rest he said is his, all his. Even the Harry sweater. Darn!
Thanks a million Felicia! You really made our day!
Look at all this loot! Of course, the chocolate frogs were the first to go, although he did share one with Andrew. The rest he said is his, all his. Even the Harry sweater. Darn!
Thanks a million Felicia! You really made our day!
Wow! Both of those packages were really nice and so sweet too!
That little HP sweater is killing me--and I'm not even a fan!
Hooray! What luck! I love love love the little sweater.
Oh my what goodies you have there... the sweater is beyond adorable.
It's always so much fun to open surprises. I love the little Harry sweater.
what great packages! that little sweater is SO cute!! lucky ducks! 12:01 tonite..FINALLY!
you have got to love good mail!
I love packages! I could use a good mail day over here, I am still waiting for my Kauni yarn. I fear it is lost.
You two are so lucky. I never win anything. Its a great day when packages show up on your doorstep.
I think you should start making those little HP sweaters.
Looks like a fantastic mail day!
We can't wait to pick up our copy of the final book tonight. I'll be buying two copies and my girls plan to stay up all night reading! Tell Charlie I said to enjoy his package and reading the last book.
So glad you both enjoyed the HP prize and hanging out at my blog this week with me. :)
I've tracked my Harry Potter book via UPS & it's in Pittsburgh, & will be at my house tomorrow! Yippee!
I love the HP jumper - I watched three Potter films on holiday and I'm hooked :)
Good job on winning a couple of contests - good fun! That sweater is too cute!
that is a great mail day! charlie is so lucky! after reading your post, i headed right to felicia's to enter today's contest myself! today is total harry mania for me!
Oh Leslie, I am so glad you enjoyed your gifty! Thanks for your pics and nice words!
That sweater is fit for a cute little mousey or something!
I LOVE when the postman brings packages! Such a stash you received!! After reading Kaet's blog I feel left out. I'll be sure to participate in Felicia's next contest.
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What great packages! I love mail! I love seeing what mail everyone else gets just as much I think. So fun.
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The packages are very nice.So sweetie of pink.
I am officially done book 7 and felt a pang looking at Charlie's HP package. How is he coping with the 'end'?
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This thing is amazing. I have had dishwashers all of my life and have never had one that I didn't have to prewash all of my dishes before loading them. For the price, it can not be beat. This thing cleans anything I throw at it including dried, baked on food with NO NEED to rinse or scrub the dishes before loading. Not only does it do a fantastic job cleaning the dishes, it does so quite quietly compared to the other dishwashers I have had. If you are looking for a good dishwasher without a huge price tag, this is the way to go.
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First I would like to say that the machine itself works fine and cleans dishes well, except for a couple of issues that have to do with the racks. Second I would like to say that I thought I had put a lot of research into this purchase, and had even taken a box of my dishes to the store to make sure they would fit nicely. I made the mistake of taking large items to make sure there was room for them, but not taking small items. So my main complaint with this dishwasher is that it is not user friendly as far as loading items. More on this later. I am happy with the cycle options and how the dishwasher works, except for the length of time it takes to run a load and that it lacks a quick rinse cycle. That would be helpful because due to the placement of the silverware rack, sometimes the soap dispenser cup doesn't open all the way, and half the soap is left in the cup. Then there is un-rinsed soap left on all the dishes. Without a quick rinse, I am forced to re-run the dishwasher on the light cycle, and I feel it is a waste of time, water and electricity. (And even the light cycle takes a very long time.) But the soap dispenser is more of a silverware rack placement flaw then a cleaning problem. The manual tells you not to place tall items in front of the dispenser door, but apparently "tall" is relative, and even less tall items can block it if you aren't careful. Other problems with the silverware baskets are the flimsy way they are attached to the racks and the large size "mesh" they are made of. Both the top and bottom rack have a silverware basket attached to the front of them. But the hooks that hold them on are very small, and we have had to learn not to pull on the baskets when rolling the racks forward. They pull right off. It's quite annoying, because they have a pull handle on them, and it is more intuitive to pull that handle than to reach in farther and pull the actual rack. I'm sure that with training and repeated basket falling, we will learn not to automatically reach for the handle. I mentioned mesh on the silverware baskets. For some reason, they felt having wide horizontal bars was a good idea. But they make great slots for your forks and spoons to slide right through and fall to the bottom when you are dropping them in. If they don't fall all the way through, then they just get stuck and jam up. I've never had this problem in the past with baskets whose "mesh" was just small squares. But hey, this way looks more stylish, so who cares if it's inconvenient and troublesome. Now on to my main complaint about this dishwasher. The tines in the racks are spaced too far apart. And the wires that make up the "floor" of the bottom rack are too far apart. That's not a problem for big items, but I have found that there are very few places where I can load my small items. And I wish I had thought to bring small items along when I tested models in the store. In the top rack, when I place small saucers between the tines, the "floor" of the rack does not hold them in place and they roll to the side and leave the tine area. In the bottom rack, there is one front row of tines where I can place small saucers, but there is a lot of competition for that row. In the bottom rack, the row of tines on the back half is so far apart, that I can only fit large plates in a row there. Or I can put large pots and bowls. But for medium pots, plates and bowls, they roll all around until I have placed in enough items so that the items themselves hold each other still. Forget about putting anything small there, because the wide spaces of the floor wires allow small things to fall part way through. Then they tilt and rattle. The net result of all this inconvenience is that I run out of places where small things can fit, so I have to leave a stack of the dirty small dishes out for the next load. And if I don't happen to have enough large items, then I have to run a load where half of the bottom rack is empty! How frustrating is that, to have things that won't fit in, yet still have huge empty spaces. I'm washing air, while half my dishes have to wait hours and hours until the next load. At first I thought that it was just myself being too picky, and being unused to the new dishwasher. I thought that if I gave it a few months, I would get used to the quirks of where things fit and don't fit, and work out a more efficient way to load the dishes. But after working with it, I now believe that the fault lies with the spacing of the tines and wires. And that is something you just can't always find out when doing on line research and examining many models in stores.
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We had a GE dishwasher for almost 10 years that worked great. After a kitchen remodel, we replaced our old GE dishwasher with this model. I love the stainless steel door and the sleek design. It's a beautiful dishwasher - and so quiet! We are very happy with this dishwasher.
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I bought the dishwasher back in November. I am very satisfied with the product. We had a minor problem but it was corrected very fast by GE.
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Logan City Police Chief E. K. Harper said a 14-year-old boy who was fishing and swimming down by the river pulled the body of a man to the shore and then ran to McDonalds to get help.
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- The genetic code, the primary manifestation of life, and, on the other hand, language, the universal endowment of humanity and its momentous leap from genetics to civilization, are the two fundamental stores of information transmissible from the ancestry to the progeny, the molecular succession, which ensures the transfer of hereditary messages from the cells of one generation to the next generation, and the verbal legacy as a necessary prerequisite of cultural tradition. Divergent terminologies direct attention to different pattemings; and finding a logically convincing test, acceptable all around, that can determine whether one such system of terms is superior to its rivals, is often impossible. Yet the slow processes of evolution presumably apply to human societies and their symbolic systems as much as to human bodies, so that when logic cannot decide, survival eventually will.


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Friday, February 15, 2013
We finally had some rain and I can see the "spring fever" picking up. I have noticed several people planting new plants, pruning and cleaning up their yards.
Still the most asked question I get is about that little furry guy (or gal) - the mole. As popular (or problematic) as the mole is, the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition should dedicate an area for the mole. Realize hunting moles is a war not a battle.
I'm sticking with the three pronged approach:
1. Kill the mole. Trap it. Poison it. Dig it up. Have your dog dig it up. Kill it.
2. Manage the food source. If you thought Michael Phelps burned a lot of calories swimming in a pool, think of a mole swimming through the soil. The mole eats constantly. If you jump to step 2 before doing step 1, the mole tunnels around even more looking for food and tearing up your yard.
3. Create a repellent border to keep new moles from moving into your yard to occupy the previous mole's tunnels. Again if you skip step 1, you might trap a mole in your yard with the repellent.
If you have a dog fence and the dog escapes, then the dog cannot get back into the yard because the barrier will not let him back in. Similar idea. When using snake repellents or mole repellents you want to be sure your yard is free of the undesirables first.
With all the cardboard boxes associated with the holiday season and the cooler weather, roaches seemed to hit a population spike. Treating the perimeter of your house (outside) and using growth regulators and baits inside your house, should go a long way to tackle (leftover Super Bowl lingo) this issue.
We have been seeing some very effective "green" products introduced on this side of our business. When commercial pest management professionals are willing to use them in their business, you know they are effective.
Rose pruning and sanitation is beginning. Remember to spray lime sulfur on the ground around the plants to kill overwintering fungus spores.
If you have other plants that get leaf spot diseases, consider using lime sulfur spray around them as well. Blueberries, hydrangeas and figs could also benefit from this ground spray.
Oh yeah, one other small thing that should be applied to your landscape beds and lawn areas right now – preemergent products. Kill some weeds, proactively.
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United Way screens 'American Teacher'Written by Brigitta Burks | News Editor | email@example.com
About 75 Toledoans gathered Nov. 3 at the Maumee Valley Country Day School to view a documentary about the lives of teachers today and discuss the state of education.
The "American Teacher" movie screening and discussion was put on by the area's Women's Initiative of United Way. The nonpartisan Women's Initiative "motivates women to become leaders and advocates" in their community, said Elaine Jansen, director of the Women's Initiative. Jansen added that the turnout was more than anticipated.
One of the United Way's major focuses this year is education. The Women's Initiative is developing a creative-writing program, focusing on the last "R" of reading, arithmetic and writing, said Susan McHugh, who also delivered the opening speech.
"American Teacher" was co-produced by Nínive Calegari, the keynote speaker at the Women's Initiative Spring Event, author and former teacher. The film profiled several teachers, including a Harvard-educated New Jersey teacher, a San Francisco instructor turned realtor, a Texan middle school educator and a pregnant first-grade teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y. The teachers struggled with issues like low salaries, little family time and a lack of respect for their profession. The film, narrated by Matt Damon, is part of The Teacher Salary Series, a campaign examining the education system in America.
After the film, Lissa Guyton of abc13 led the discussion of the film. Many in the audience were teachers or students studying education.
Some lamented that education isn't valued enough. "If you're getting an 'A,' it should be as valued as if you're the start of football or basketball," said Melissa Snively, a Bowling Green University student.
Dr. Richard Ruppert, another audience member, echoed her statement. "There are only two things that are important to the growth of a community: jobs and education," he said.
Regina Carter, membership manager for the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, recalled that several of her friends were education majors who started out in the Toledo area. "I feel they were the best of the best," she said. However, all have since left the area.
Many audience members also agreed that the way to improve the country's future is through education. "We can create our own history in this community if we have the chutzpah to move forward in a collaborative way," said Dr. Libby Ruppert.
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NEW YORK — The only man to hold both jobs says in a Discovery documentary that airs today that the White House chief of staff generally has more power than the vice president.
"I was speaking from an historical perspective," Dick Cheney is quick to clarify in an interview. Cheney, chief of staff under President Gerald Ford, was widely perceived as an involved and influential vice president under George W. Bush.
Discovery's film, "The Presidents' Gatekeepers," airs for two hours each today and Thursday. Dozens of little-known stories about historical events big and small are told while outlining the duties of the appointed official most responsible for seeing whether a president's agenda succeeds or fails.
Joshua Bolten and Rahm Emanuel discuss the terrorist threat that kept them in the White House situation room as Barack Obama was inaugurated to replace Bush. Assistant chief Larry Higby reveals that the voice-activated tape recorder that led to Richard Nixon's downfall was installed because the president was too clumsy to figure out a manual one. Lyndon Johnson's fear that he wouldn't survive a second term because of his health was a big factor in his decision not to run in 1968, Marvin Watson explains; Johnson died two days after a second term would have ended.
All 20 of the presidential aides sought for interviews agreed to participate, along with former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, said filmmaker Gedeon Naudet, who made the documentary with his brother Jules and executive producer Chris Whipple.
They enlisted former Ford aide David Hume Kennerly to win the cooperation of Cheney, who sat for seven hours of interviews, and his one-time boss Donald Rumsfeld. When former Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush aide James Baker, considered the "gold standard" of modern chiefs, became the third interview, the rest fell into place.
"The chiefs love the fact that for the first time, it's about them and not about their presidents," Naudet said.
To a man, they agreed it was a meat grinder of a job, with constant pressure and endless hours. The typical chief lasts less than two years. It's miserable to go through, Emanuel concludes, but every chief would do it again if asked.
Before being brought down like his boss in Watergate, H.R. Haldeman set the modern standard for a strong, centralized authority at the White House, said Cheney, a low-level Nixon aide then in his 20s.
"He spent a lot of time thinking about it," Cheney said, "and quite frankly I think most of us subsequently, without ever saying that's what we were doing, sort of gravitated to (his) model."
Ford initially supported a "spokes in a wheel" management theory where several aides report directly to the president. That may have worked in a congressional office, but not in the White House, Cheney said. Somebody needs to set the president's schedule, make certain he sees all the necessary correspondence and has everything on hand when a decision is to be made.
"You have to have somebody disciplined running the calendar because the president's time is the most valuable thing there is," Cheney said. "If you don't have anybody in charge, none of that happens."
Then there are the duties no one can anticipate: When Ford lost his voice in the last days of the 1976 campaign, it was Cheney who had to read the president's concession over the phone to Carter the morning after the election.
"It was sort of the nadir of my career," he said.
Ford later poked fun at Cheney for accepting the vice presidential nomination, saying his time in that job under Nixon was the worst eight months of his life. Cheney said that Bush promised "that he wanted me to be an important part of the team, not just doing funerals and fundraisers. He kept his word."
The chiefs share a bond that often transcends politics. Bolten invited many of the former chiefs, including Cheney, to an advisory lunch with Emanuel shortly before Obama took office.
The documentary does not follow chronological order and darts between serious stories like Andrew Card's recollections of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and George H.W. Bush's mock "award" to aides who fell asleep in meetings. The idea was to reach beyond political junkies, said Whipple, a former ABC News producer who interviewed each chief.
"What we planned to do from the very beginning was to imagine that the chiefs of staff were there with you, sharing a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and telling you their stories," Naudet said. "We didn't want it to feel like a traditional documentary."
The Naudet brothers are known best for "9/11," the gripping documentary they made after unexpectedly finding themselves in the center of the attacks while filming a piece on firefighters that morning. It feels a little odd to them that "The Presidents' Gatekeepers" premieres exactly 12 years after that awful day.
"I feel like I'm always brought back to that date," he said. "It always follows us around."
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