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Dominic Cristini stands outside the Packard Plant on Jan. 26, 1999. / AP Photo/Carlos Osorio
An aerial view of the Packard Plant in Detroit on June 14, 2012. / Romain Blanquart/Detroit Free Press
Fernando Palazuelo, new owner of the Packard Plant, talks about his plans for the property's bridge over East Grand Blvd. on January 12, 2014. / Brian Kaufman/Detroit Free Press
Dominic Cristini, former owner of Detroits old Packard Plant, has threatened to hold up redevelopment efforts for the desolate site unless new owner Fernando Palazuelo pays him money for a piece of the land that Cristini says he still technically owns.
As well, Cristini, 54, claims Wayne County botched the foreclosure of the plant site last year and believes he could make a claim of ownership over most of the parcels that make up the 40-acre site. In a face-to-face meeting last week, Cristini told Palazuelo that for a price he would drop his claims.
Cristinis real estate adviser on the Packard property, David Wax, said there are others who also can lay claim to some of the parcels, but he would not provide their identities or say how many.
■ Special report: The Packard Plant: Why it has to go
■ The Packard Plant: Then and now -- interactive comparison photos
Palazuelo told the Free Press that Cristini is after $3.5 million and recalled how he told Cristini and Wax in a Feb. 24 meeting that he would not pay that amount. Palazuelo returned to his home of Lima, Peru, during the weekend.
This is typical blackmail, Palazuelo said in a phone interview from Peru. We are lawful owners of the Packard Plant. ... I told David Wax and Dominic Cristini that Christmas is over.
Palazuelo said his efforts to attract tenants for his redevelopment project have been on hold as he resolves the issues Cristini is raising.
Palazuelos attorney, Joe Kopietz of Clark Hill, said Tuesday that the developer may be open to paying a smaller amount in order to avoid litigation.
■ Related: Packard Plant deed transfers to Peru-based developer
■ John Carlisle: Odd couple bonds amid the Packard ruins
We are looking to evaluate what would be obtained for any payment to Mr. Cristini, Kopietz said. Before you know what youre going to pay, you need to know what youre going to get.
According to Wax, the countys March 2013 foreclosure failed to clear various liens on many of the 42 parcels that make up the Packard site including rights that are still controlled by Cristinis company, Bioresource.
For Cristini, this means Palazuelo, who won the Packard parcels for $405,000 in last falls county Treasurer foreclosure auction, did not actually get the auto plant land free and clear.
Lacking clear title, Palazuelo would likely have difficulty securing financing to make his $300-million to $400-million redevelopment vision for the Packard Plant site a reality.
■ Related: Freep Film Festival opens March 20 with Packard Plant documentary
■ Video: 'Packard: The Last Shift'
Last March, Wayne County foreclosed on the 42 Packard Plant parcels that were in Bioresources name and packaged them together in the Treasurers annual tax foreclosure auction. Cristini contends that the county did not give proper notice of the foreclosure.
But Wayne County says it followed proper procedure by publicizing the tax foreclosure, conducting title searches and sending notice by certified mail.
The simple fact is that we did provide notice. For Dominic Cristini to say, Oh, I didnt have any notice that they were foreclosing is a difficult argument to make, said David Szymanski, Wayne County chief deputy treasurer.
Another wrinkle in the auction sale to Palazuelo is the title on a single parcel on the plant site.
Palazuelo did not technically buy that parcel, which the city says it still owns.
■ Photo gallery: Historical photos of the Packard Plant
■ Photo gallery: Packard Plant present day
Wax, a senior sales associate with Burger and Company in Farmington Hills, said Cristini also would make a claim to that 4.5-acre parcel that includes half of the iconic brick bridge spanning East Grand Boulevard.
Palazuelo was disappointed to learn that that parcel wasnt included in last years auction sale and is in talks with city officials to obtain ownership of it.
John Roach, a spokesman for Mayor Mike Duggan, said late Tuesday that the city is willing to work with Palazuelo.
'A financial proposal'
Last week, Cristini and Wax laid out the situation for Palazuelo and lawyer Kopietz during a meeting in the attorneys Detroit office.
In Free Press interviews this week, Palazuelo and Kopietz recalled how during the meeting Cristini sought $3.5 million in exchange for all land ownership questions to go away.
Wax confirmed for the Free Press that such an offer was made, but wouldnt specify the amount. He said most of the money would go to other individuals whom Cristini knows who have claims to the jumble of parcels.
Its almost a direct pass-through where Dominic is ending up with very little money for Dominic, Wax said. Hes just saying morally and ethically, I want to help these people out.
Fernando cant do anything with that property because he really doesnt own it, Wax said. We gave him a financial proposal that if he put up X, Dominic would see that all of these liens which Dominic knows how to make go away would be signed off on; they would no longer exist.
Cristini has been involved with the old Packard Plant since the 1990s. He bought Bioresource and hence most of the plant from the widow of an electrician named Edward Portwood, who died in 1998.
The city had foreclosed in 1993 for nonpayment of taxes and, in 1998, had police officers raid the property in attempt to evict Cristini, who holed up for months in his office. The city and state wanted to raze the massive factory complex and redevelop the land.
Cristini and his lawyers successfully sued the city for failing to give notice to mortgage holders during the foreclosure process. A Wayne County Circuit Court judge determined that the city indeed botched the foreclosure by not notifying a New York partnership that had a mortgage interest on the property.
In late 2006, Cristini was sentenced to 70 months in prison on a conviction of dealing the drug ecstasy from a now-demolished schoolhouse across from the Packard Plant. He was released early after four years.
In 2007, the city ultimately lost the foreclosure case when the Michigan Supreme Court denied its appeal.
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April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse of Hazel Park are raising three adopted children and want to be legally recognized as one family. The kids, from left, Nolan, Jacob and Ryanne. / 2013 photo by Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press
Protesters march outside U.S. District Court in Detroit on Tuesday, the first day of the trial. It is scheduled to last up to eight days, and the state is expected to start calling witnesses Monday. / Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press
When a parent in a same-sex relationship dies, the surviving partner faces a quagmire of legal hurdles to gain custody of any kids, an expert testified Wednesday in a trial that could bring gay marriage to Michigan.
Existing options cause instability for the children and are expensive and time-consuming, University of Michigan law professor Vivek Sankaran testified Wednesday.
Sankaran was the third witness plaintiffs called in the trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit.
April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, both nurses, are fighting to overturn the state�s ban on same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. They�re raising three adopted children in their Hazel Park home, and they want to be legally recognized as one family.
■ Related story: Parenting to be focus as Michigan judge begins same-sex marriage trial Tuesday
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A constitutional amendment banning gay marriage was approved by Michigan voters in 2004. The state Attorney General�s Office says Judge Bernard Friedman should respect the will of voters.
Sankaran, who founded the Detroit Center for Family Advocacy, said that organization aims to keep kids out of foster care. About 14,000 children are in Michigan�s system, including about 3,500 legal orphans. The number of kids aging out of the foster system has climbed in recent years to about 800, he said.
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"Micah: Battle of the Mind" will be performed at Stained Glass Theatre in Ozark, playing Thursday through May 19 under the direction of Dick and Renee Marchand. Musical direction is by Gary Norcross, and choreography is by Denise Schriver. The script and music were written by the late Pat Edmonds, co-founder and former managing director of the theater. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and 2:30 p.m. Saturdays.
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On July 11, 2012, a condemned prisoner in Belfast, Northern Ireland was put to death.
He had languished on death row, lonely and frightened, for two years as appeals were filed and ultimately rejected. Pleas for clemency from social media, various petitions and even the First Minister of Northern Ireland went unanswered.
All this occurred even though the condemned had committed no crime, much less been convicted of one.
Lennox the dog was "humanely put to sleep" because, in the opinion of the Belfast City Council, he too closely resembled a pit bull.
Pit bulls are an outlawed breed in the U.K. Lennox, a bulldog-Labrador mix, was taken from his home in 2010 after city officials measured his legs and snout and declared him to be "an illegal pit-bull terrier type."
The Belfast City Council declared Lennox to be "one of the most unpredictable and dangerous dogs" that its appointed expert had ever encountered, although the expert's examination and subsequent pronouncement were made after Lennox had been taken into custody, away from his familiar surroundings and the people he loved and trusted.
His owner, Caroline Barnes, acknowledged that Lennox could be somewhat aggressive with strangers, but testified that he had never bitten anyone, and that she kept him muzzled if there was a chance that he might become agitated.
Victoria Stilwell, the host of the Animal Planet show "It's Me or the Dog," offered to pay all the costs of rehoming Lennox in a country with less restrictive breed laws. Her offer was rejected.
Maybe the members of the Belfast City Council truly believed that they were protecting the public and doing the right thing. More likely, it's a case of bureaucrats making a hasty, poorly considered ruling and then refusing to reconsider or negotiate for fear of seeming weak or indecisive.
Or possibly, in a city that has seen so much horror and heartbreak, there simply wasn't enough compassion left for one insignificant family and their beloved pet.
This would probably be a good time to mention that my son and his fiancée have a rescued American Staffordshire terrier, a pit bull relative.
Sampson is gentle with the 1-year-old boy who lives down the street. He begs for peanut butter and loves to be chased at the dog park. He hides under the bed during thunderstorms. He is, in every way, a wonderful companion.
Over the years, I've told a number of stories about another wonderful companion - my quirky cocker spaniel, Dexter. One I haven't previously told involves a trip, several years ago, to a new groomer. Less than an hour after I dropped Dexter off, I got a call telling me I needed to pick him up right away.
When I arrived, Dexter was calm. He had been bathed but not yet shorn, so he was fluffy and very full-bodied, like a black-and-white Chia Pet. They told me that something - probably a vacuum, though we'll never really know - had set him off, and he had begun to snarl and snap at the groomer. He lost control of his bodily functions.
Fortunately, the groomers recognized that Dexter's behavior was an aberration, a one-time event completely out of character for such a gentle dog. He has never behaved like that before, or since. But in that moment, my sweet little spaniel displayed more viciousness than many pit bulls ever do.
I'm not saying that city officials don't have the right, and the responsibility, to protect the public from dangerous animals and/or irresponsible owners. They do, and they should. But when that right is used unwisely or unfairly due to prejudice or fear or simple indifference, no one wins. We are not safer. We are merely poorer.
Zero-tolerance policies, of which breed bans are just one example, are a politically expedient notion that can sound reassuringly tough while avoiding the inconvenience and effort of dealing with the nuances of individual cases.
There are those who say that people who care deeply about animal welfare should spend more time caring about their fellow humans, as though the two were mutually exclusive.
They are not. Compassion for all, and especially for the weakest and most vulnerable among us, human and otherwise, should be welcomed and not criticized.
There are many problems in this world, but I think it's safe to say that too much empathy is not one of them.
Society benefits from every act of kindness, regardless of the recipient. Also, we would do well to remember that violence and cruelty toward animals has been shown to be a major red flag as a predictor of future crimes against humans.
And then there's this. Here in Wisconsin, a man is accused of using his dog (initially, and incorrectly, identified as a pit bull) as a weapon against a young man he suspected of stealing from him.
He allegedly used the dog's leash to string the boy upside down - with help from the boy's own father - and then commanded the dog to attack him.
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The DC flicks, I think, have much better animation, with only Marvel's HULK VS. WOLVERINE being the pinnacle in this department. To me a successful DC or Marvel animated movie hinges on whether the action animation is smooth and dynamic, and for the most part all DC's flicks have fallen into this category.
I didn't like BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT because they created an anthology tale out of an already too short feature, and just when I was getting into one of the interconnected stories, it was already over and on to the next. GREEN LANTERN; FIRST FLIGHT, I saw on pay-per-view and the only complaint I had was with the story, couldn't get invested in it.
Here's a trailer I found for DC's next animated movie, ALL-STAR SUPERMAN. It's supposed to hit DVD this Winter.


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|Association between somatostatin receptor 5 gene polymorphisms and pancreatic cancer risk and survival.
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|BACKGROUND:: Somatostatin (SST) inhibited cell proliferation and negatively regulated the release of growth hormones by means of specific receptors (SSTR). Genetic variation in SSTR had been associated with risk of human cancers but had never been investigated in pancreatic cancer. METHODS:: In this retrospective study the SSTR5 gene in paired tumor and blood samples from 33 pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients using the Sanger method were sequenced. Three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in samples from 863 patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and 876 healthy controls using the TaqMan method were analyzed. The associations between gene polymorphisms and pancreatic cancer risk and survival were analyzed by multivariate logistic regression and Cox proportional hazard models, respectively. RESULTS:: No somatic mutations were identified, but 3 nonsynonymous SSTR5 SNPs (P109S, L48M, and P335L) in pancreatic tumors were identified. The SSTR5 P109S variant allele was associated with a 1.62-fold increased risk of pancreatic cancer (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.08-2.43, P = 0.019). Furthermore, the SSTR5 L48M AC variant and smoking had a joint effect on pancreatic cancer risk (p(interaction) = 0.035). The odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) were 0.58 (0.34-0.97), 1.49 (1.18-1.89), and 2.27 (1.35-3.83) for the variant genotype alone, smoking alone, and both factors, respectively, compared with no factors. Finally, SSTR5 P335L CC and P109S CC combined were associated with lower overall survival durations in patients with resectable disease. CONCLUSIONS:: These data suggest that SSTR5 genetic variants play a role in pancreatic cancer development and progression. Cancer 2011. © 2011 American Cancer Society.
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It's easy to say the Lalla Ward is great and she really is...as Romana in the next season. In this story, however, she, or rather this episode she tends to over do things, overact or overemphasize. She doesn't really impress me here and possibly not in the whole story. The man playing the Marshall plays it completely straight against Tom's tom foolery (and here he's not really funny in most of his jokes, for once although I do like the "is this your final word?" and Tom saying No, I hope not to Romana's YES). The actor playing Shapp is pretty good and Merek is satisfactorilly pleasant, young, and good looking. THe threat of the Black Guardian has no lingered over this season, well, all season and without any real bites.
The mystery of the war...we know something else is going on. We don't see any Zeons. The Marshall is up to something and it might have to do with the Black Guardian. Who is the mysterious black robed figure that captures Astra? The being ---was it meant to be wearing a face mask or a was the fake looking mask meant to be a real monster? either way it's impressively creepy looking. Thankfully we don't focus too much in one place at any one time and things move a bit faster than expected...but still a bit slow, too.
The TARDIS is gone? Hasn't that happened once too many times or something? A nice cliffhanger just the same. Mary and Tom have a great rapport going now and with K9 they are unbeatable...or so it seems. The idea of a nuclear war between twin planets is not new but still interesting. Frankly it was better depicted visually on SPACE: 1999 at least once and maybe twice (THE LAST ENEMY). Here, from a more human stand point (as the aliens here are quite human in all ways) things are ...sad and strange at the same time.
There's enough mystery to keep at least me watching some more and not tuning out. Oh and there's a great TARDIS appearance in space scene. The Marshall and Shapp are watching a screen of outer space with stars. The TARDIS lights all appear first and then the rest of the TARDIS, first as a black object, then as the TARDIS. Very atmospheric and different from what we've seen for...forever maybe going back...although I tend to recall a Second Doctor story where the TARDIS appears in space but not quite this way...I don't think. It is possibly WEB OF FEAR and stock footage from that in WAR GAMES.
Nothing much happens in this ep and yet...it does. It stays in pretty much the same place as all of ep1 and Lalla Ward only appears briefly...thank goodness...as a captured Astra on a screen telling everyone to turn over the Marshall. Not sure how that figures into the Shadow's plans but at this point we don't even know who's pulling the strings and haven't met the Shadow yet anyway.
There is the K9 furnace scene and of course I didn't expect he'd be fried but as this is the end of the season story perhaps they were trying to fool people into thinking he'd die...funny thing is it seemed as if behind the scenes people were always thinking of getting rid of K9. Truth is: he's brilliant. And contrary to what everyone always thinks...he doesn't get the Doctor out of every scrap of problems all the time and in fact if you watch Peter Davison's full range of stories (bless you), you'll notice how K9 would have got him out of several boring scenes that he got Tom out of having to do, like being captured, caught, imprisoned, escaping, reescaping, getting menaced by guards, re...you get the idea. It happens sometimes with K9 around and the more he's around the more you have to invent things to slow him down or stop him from helping too much but in hindsight maybe...oh, heck, I just like K9 and glad he didn't go that way.
Another thing is: I happened to put on Tom's commentary and still find the man funny and intelligent, brimming with good ideas most of the time (although his idea to put John Leeson in a hairy costume and be K9 full life form is HORRIBLE!). It makes me want to actually watch or rather rewatch any of his DVD stories with the commentary on as long as he's doing the commentary--without him they're frankly boring! At one point he says the Armageddon Factor is a wonderful title...it's what he calls his wife when she's coming down the stairs screaming one thing or another! He also says (after the actor who plays Merak says he loves Astra) that "It will pass!" In another bit he calls the actor who plays Merek pretty, "He's very pretty, isn't he?" Likewise, Mary is quite brilliant in the commentary/ies when Tom is there. She seems very nice if a bit posh, calling Tom and John Leeson darling alot. Tom and she drink beer and eat something or other during the commentary.
This episode has the Doctor run from the Marshall, figure out things, get purposely recaptured by the Marshall, bluff his way around the Marshall, and have Romana and Merak find out about the two way mirror but too late...the Doctor is taken. Oh and he saves K9. Tom's jokes are kept down a bit but are quite good in this one, better than the first ep. One is, "Was Columbus sure? Never mind about that."
Anyway a watchable ep and one that furthers the story and keeps the mystery going and has good performances from all round...and isn't boring!
In the previous ep (2), The Doctor says, "K9's covering our rear."
An interesting episode even if it is just run around, capture, release...made interesting by dialog and delivery. And...the fact that there are no Zeons on Zeos. Who really saw that coming? Tell the truth now! This is why DW is so good, it could go either way, have a bold war between two alien worlds bringing the houses down on each other.. ala SPACE: 1999-THE LAST ENEMY but it could also go the other way: there are no real Zeons any more! The Doctor gets caught and bluffs his way out of the Shadow's clutches...not really a logical thing for the Shadow to let him go...btw was the Doctor telling the truth about the limbo room thing or was that just a bluff?
Anyway, what other show except maybe LOST IN SPACE (and any show that clones Dr. Smith like STARGATE ATLANTIS's resident genius who's name escapes me, funny that, I can't recall the more recent show character but I can recall the more memorable 40 plus year old show's character!)...what other show can have a guest star (or a main character) lost in a hall on a strange place, not knowing how he got there and report in to his leader but starting out in a hoarse girlie voice and then correcting himself after rolling his eyes at himself! Really, only DW and LOST IN SPACE. And DW goes right back to seriousness after that!
I saw a mike shadow on the ceiling at one point. Also of note is Romana was once thought of before inception, of having karate or self defense skills. This was never really added to her character except maybe here when she choke holds Merak, who stole the tracer from her. It's amazing the tracer's not been stolen before, it's been lost (KROLL) but not stolen.
Things do slow down a bit and will do so more as the Marshall prepares to attack and he gets stuck in some kind of time repeat loop...rather like Sci Fi Channel used to be...but anyway...
another good ep with some surprises...love how the Doctor just takes the Shadow's little box off his neck...
On commentary mode, Mary Tamm, on the second commentary (thre were TWO for all the Key To Time season; one was done for the USA first and for a long time not released in the UK until recently --2007 I think---and most of the ones or maybe all of the USA ones didn't have Tom's commentaries at all; the UK versions have Tom's commentaries). Mary Tamm tells of of having her hair in rollers on the Xmas tape that they did and a scene that John Leeson wrote part of with the Doctor's birthday cake and of another scene John might have helped write as well...where the Doctor gets rude with Romana or says something rude of both!
Too bad they can't put THAT on the dvd!
Oh yes, one more thing: the last few shots are GOOD SPECIAL EFFECTS for this show and for this budget. The window of the Marshall's spacehip shows a pretty decent outgoing view of the stars and the model work is rather good.
It's difficult to say if the orignal idea of there being Zeons on Zeos would have been better but it's starting to get very slow moving now. Still, the effect of Zeon showing up across the window of the Marshall's ship is just about as good as but not as good as the stuff Irwin Allen was doing from 1964 to 1970 (and better if I didn't make that clear). Still, it's 1979 and effects in DW might not get any better than this (ENLIGHTENMENT might come close).
One of the small Tardis window panes is very visibly cracked.
The actor playing Shapp mistakes a Mute for Merak!? Then he very over the top yells as he's shot but it seemed to miss over his shoulder or hit it just and he delays his yell and falls backward in Abbott and Costello fashion, yelling, "Merak" in a very comedic (but unfunny) way. Tom, Mary, and John thought this very funny on the commentary but it's really not. It's stupid. The Shadow's plans are equally stupid in a way.
I must say Lalla comes into her own in this ep as she's much better when playing scary and menacing as she was in VAMPIRE CIRCUS (where she sucks the blood from a pre teen boy!). Here, she's taken over by the Shadow and even though the Doctor suspects her, he lets into the TARDIS...he seems to even know what she is. His plan of fashioning a fake piece built around the other five pieces of the Key to Time is brilliant. In the original storyline Romana knows more about the Key and tells the Doctor. How? While on that subject, who built the key and why? The Guardians? that was what was implied...
I had forgotten much about the first part of this ep with Merak falling down some black hole like pit and Astra passing through him illusion style...reminding me of some of the early Dark Shadows stuff (with similar effects in the 1960s and early 70s).
Okay this is not terribly bad but not as good as the first three eps and with some flaws and slow bits but the Doctor vs Mentalis is interesting anyway and having K9 taken over leads to the story's first really chilling cliffhanger...well, kind of. The Shadow talks to himself it seems or maybe he's talking to K9 who's been taken over...for the first time ever I think.
Some general sloppiness going on here. The Doctor acts as if it's a secret to the Shadow that he knows about the box that goes on the neck but the Shadow already tried to use one on the Doctor already and the Doctor took it off in front of the Shadow and told him he knew what it was in an earlier episode. There was a bat monster filmed for this story but it was cut out. Maybe that's the red eyes in the rock stalls but the Doctor talks to them as if those are the Shadow's eyes.
Drax makes a pleasant addition to the story and with a lack of guest stars here (Shapp and Merak do not appear and the Marshall is still in the time loop and the Shadow and his mutes do not really speak much and when they do...or rather the Shadow does, the mutes do not speak, it is typical villainry and dull. Drax adds a layer of depth even if most of what he says is supposed to be funny and/or give us a view of his days with the Doctor and how he came to be here on the Third Planet, which by the way looks pretty creepy within a great set.
Romana is tortued. Hmmm, too bad this doesn't lead into her regeneration but apparently they were still hoping Mary Tamm would stay. SO was I. She's very pretty and has a firm handle on Romana and Time Lords and the show. Everything she says is either very Time Lady/Lord like, posh (the same thing as Time Lord like) which I think Tamm herself is---charmingly so, seriously dramatic, or like Baker himself, funny. She just seems to get the show in its entirety. Still Lalla is a good choice for her replacement. But a bit too trad companion in some ways, not in others. I just think Romana One gave the Doctor as good as he got and was formidable for him.
What else? Weak scenes of the Doctor being illusionized again, this time having more Romanas around (must have been scary for Tom and the Doc) and a falling black hole pit. Not scary, not funny, and just stuff we've seen here and in DEADLY ASSASIN. Enlivening the whole thing is K9's possession which in a way maybe should have lasted longer but would have been scary for young kids who liked K9. Interesting that K9 never calls him Doctor until he's taken over.
All in all, this story is perhaps too long and this ep shows that. It's not terrible or totally dull but it's okay. We do get learn the Doctor's name or nickname from Drax and the year ending that he graduated...92. Lalla is better in this ep so that's something, too.
Onto the GRAND finale...I guess it's grand...
I guessed wrong. This is not very grand at all, is it? I mean at least things work out and we don't get a morbid ending. Still one only has to glance at ABOUT TIME's Things that Don't Make Sense for this story to see how strange everyone was acting: Merak, the Shadow, Drax...nothing really makes much sense or holds up under scrutiny and this is not really just the end episode, the whole backstory of Drax is suspect, the Shadow's plans are...crap really. He lets the Doctor go at least once. The sixth segement being a human being or a person is an interesting idea and yet...this makes the show fall squarely into the realm of fantasy...how can the segment be a person? Who made it that way? Merak says the computer tells him that someone there's a genetic abnormality or something passed from generation to generation. What? Were the people all the sixth segment and every cell of their bodies, what if they get a hair cut? Or lose skin cells? And just how does the computer know that?
The ending with the Guardian is poor also: did the Black disquise himself as the White from the beginning of THE RIBOS OPERATION? The crew didn't see it that way and I don't think the writer did either. Yet...that's how it seems. Let's look at the whole theme more closely: the White Guardian asks the Doctor to gather the Key to Time to effect some kind of balance in the Universe...or else...the Doc gets it all. He puts it together. The White one doesn't show up but the black one does. He can't get into the TARDIS. Perhaps they are both one and the same or parts of each other.
Thing is none of this is explained properly and the story isn't the worst but certianly it is the worst of this season as it does not properly end the great five stories before it, nor does it seem as exciting as any of the other parts, nor does it set up a grand story really. Cheapness is on display in the reduced guest stars, the reused but effective sets, and the guest stars sitting out an ep or two (Shapp and Merek don't appear in ep5). Yes, then the Doctor gets the Key to Time and then...he disperses it which is there it was at the start of RIBOS. Was the Doc tricked by the Black to get the Key? Or was the Shadow the helper of the Black, like the Doctor was the White?
If the White was the Black then for an entire season, the Doctor was fooled by the Black to go on a quest he really didn't have to go on in the first place, which makes the whole season...rather pointless and yet the point of the whole quest theme was to give the Doctor a point in the beginning of the season to hold it all together. It fails to do that in this story. Or maybe it was to prove the Doctor couldn't be saddled with a theme for at the end of this, we get the randomizer which will be just the opposite of knowing where you are going and a mission: more random wanderings as Ian once said to the Doctor (I think in THE CHASE or THE RESCUE, not sure).
Still, Drax is reasonably fun...at times. The best scenes come at the very end. The Doctor now has the Key To Time. Everyone is safely safe. The Marshall, we don't really see him back on Atrios but we hear he is. We also hear Merak is safe. Drax is improbably going to make a deal with the Marshall.
The Doctor used a forcefield of the TARDIS to save a planet. So why doesn't he do this more often?
The Shadow is dead, the Black Guardian is not yet duped but soon will be. The Doctor muses over the Key to Time to have absolute control over every particles in the universe and he rages against Romana's not listening to him which she is listening to him. His eyes go fluttery into the back of his head and in GREAT Tom Baker fashion he goes off on her and on how he can make her listen, how he can make her do anything and his voice goes strange ...when she asks him if he is all right, he comes out of it---he's been joking. She play hits him.
Then after the Black G is duped and gone...some powers HE has...Romana rages against the Doctor, pinning him against the wall as she calls him names, arrogant, capricous, with no sense of responsibility...and then he tells her about the randomizer. He seems happy he's not going to know where they are going...
Another thing: why anyone would pick Lalla Ward for Romana after seeing her in this is beyond me. Perhaps Mary's suggestion was taken seriously and Lalla seemed to function well among the rigors of DW shooting. I love her as Romana, as I've already written, but really...as Astra she's poor. I shall miss the great, posh, beautiful Mary, who gave the Doctor as good as he gave. What this could have been if Romana had been so badly injured by the Shadow or the Black Guardian to leave us on edge until the show reappears...would have been mean but...on second thought maybe not.
Coming up: possibly one of the best, if not the best season of DW...season 17
[QUOTE BY= Chase]Coming up: possibly one of the best, if not the best season of DW...season 17 [/QUOTE]
Before I go ahead and make a fool of myself - you're being sarcastic, right?
[QUOTE BY= sgb1975] [QUOTE BY= Chase]Coming up: possibly one of the best, if not the best season of DW...season 17 [/QUOTE]
Before I go ahead and make a fool of myself - you're being sarcastic, right?[/QUOTE]
I hope so too. After all that season garnered us "The Horns of Nimon" and "The Nightmare of Eden". I still shudder with distaste when I think of them.
NO, I'm not. I love the team of this Romana and this Fourth Doctor and K9 whirling through space and time and being flippant and sarcastic and goofy with some plots that are different (a story about drugs? On DW? a small scale planetary problem? On DW?) and dare to be funny. Yes, I like CITY OF DEATH a great deal, I like CREATURE FROM THE PIT, HORNS OF NIMON, and NIGHTMARE OF EDEN (especially CITY and EDEN). MOre on those when I get to them I guess but really what show would dare combine the plots that EDEN does? What show would put the female secondary character in charge while the male lead gets lost in a maze (and using those stickers IS a rip off of BATMAN's first CATWOMAN episode but never mind). I find these breezy, light jokey Doctor and Romana far superior to the "seriousness" of some of the early Sarah Jane's, all of the invasion of Earth stories ever, and a few of Leela's stories. I like it when Tom does whatever he wants. True, we do get some goofery that goes far over the top and crashes down (mostly the EDEN scene where he yells, "Oh my everything." But yeah, I love seasons 16,17,18, and 19 probably more than any other Classic Who, arguably I also like almost all the First and Second (and Third if I'm being truthful bar CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS and CLAWS OF AXOS and even THEY have some good stuff) Doctor stories too. Pity about when we get to ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN, THE TWO DOCTORS, TIME AND THE RANI, TRIAL OF A TIME LORD...those are the stinkers. IMO of course.
[QUOTE BY= Chase]It's easy to say the Lalla Ward is great and she really is...as Romana in the next season[/QUOTE]Mary Tamm is certainly no Brando, but Lalla Ward is worse imho. Not sure why they replaced her after TKTT season, but I wished they kept her after seeing LW. I'd pick Romana I over Romana II any day. II's acting just feels so forced, especially any intensely dramatic scenes. But I will grant you that her comedic quips with TB are better than I.
[QUOTE BY= Chase]Coming up: possibly one of the best, if not the best season of DW...season 17 [/QUOTE]Oh dear lord, you really were serious. I was really hoping this was part of the Chase-sarcasm we've come to know.
Destiny: Predictable, but watchable. Also features the first in a series of wobbling Davros'.
City: Overrated. It's not terrible, but it's not as great as many make it out to be. I think the guest-stars and French setting get people all giddy. Slightly above average at best.
Creature: Vastly underrated (imho) - the one true gem from this season. People probably scared away by the lame title.
Eden: Quite possibly the worst story from the classic Who era (and yes, I'm aware of the CBaker and McCoy seasons). Could even give Love & Monsters a run for the title of all-time worst. Voted the worst of the TB era in the recent hurt/heal thread, whose ranking I wholeheartedly agree with.
Nimon: Often-quoted-from, and worth a one-time viewing, but nothing to write home about. Not coincidentally voted 2nd worst in the hurt/heal poll.
Shada: Tough to say, as it was never completed, and I'm no fan of narration filler. I bought a VHS copy years ago and sat through it once, but don't remember being blown away. If completed, probably still would've been ranked near the bottom of the TB era. Slightly below average. Average at the extreme best.
IMO, after The Key to Time season, there's 2 maybe 3 stories worth watching in the TB era. The rest are forgettable. And even if this season included Genesis, Pyramids, and Talons, it'd still be a stretch to be the best simply because of the 2 clunkers (and very big clunkers at that) at the end.
[QUOTE BY= sgb1975] [QUOTE BY= Chase]It's easy to say the Lalla Ward is great and she really is...as Romana in the next season[/QUOTE]Mary Tamm is certainly no Brando, but Lalla Ward is worse imho. Not sure why they replaced her after TKTT season, but I wished they kept her after seeing LW. I'd pick Romana I over Romana II any day. II's acting just feels so forced, especially any intensely dramatic scenes. But I will grant you that her comedic quips with TB are better than I.
At the time Tom Baker had a lot of power at the time(some say too much). Since he and Lalla Ward were dating at the time he used his influence to get her on the show. We all know what happend then (I hope), they later married (December 1980) and then after 16 months - divorced.
Yeah I knew they had been married, but wasn't aware of the strings he pulled to get her on the show. So were they together before Armageddon Factor, or was that when they first met?
I think Mary possibly the only one after Liz Sladen and Ian Marter, got on with Tom the best but one can tell she wanted out from her comments on the dvds and from what she says she reocmmended Lalla as the next Romana somewhat as a joke. I don't thnk it was Tom pushing Mary out but one never does know what the real stories are, does one?
For the record, though, I think the comedic interplay was GREAT between Tom and Mary AND Tom and Lalla both.
You'll see (or not) what I think of these stories whenI do them separately. Frankly, I hate to pit stories against each other but I often do. If I had to choose between the inconsistencies of GENESIS and the blandness at times of PYRAMIDS and the lame ending on PYRAMIDS or the awful ANDROID INVASION or the ripoffedness of BRAIN OF MORBIUS and PLANET OF EVIL, all from what people often say are great Tom Baker's...and I like them...I'd pick the entire range of seasons 16 to 19 over those any day of the week.
Why? Well, for a start, even if they ripped off stuff, such as PRISONER OF ZENDA, it wasn't as often and they tended as each season progressed to do that less and less and anything left over from the past eras such a STATE OF DECAY tended to twist the left over ripoffedness of that into something creative...yes, if I had to choose the "we've been turned into something from generations ago" storylines I guess I'd pick FULL CIRCLE and STATE OF DECAY over FACE OF EVIL and UNDERWORLD and others, not to say that I didn't enjoy them all. I've said time and time again there are only about two poor Tom Baker stories, sometimes I count others and make it four but I now since the rewatching UNDERWORLD bit, don't count UNDERWORLD as poor. I even like REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN, how's that for being positive.
Anyway what the hell was I on about? OH yeah, the later Tom's have more humor but I like that. They also have ...in what you suggest is the worst story, NIGHTMARE OF EDEN, some of the best presentation of sci fi ideas ever, two ships interlocked via hyper space in hyper space or not, while trying to jump out of it WHILE at the same time a drug runner is using some method to run drugs. Hands up whoever knew it was in the Mandrels? You liars! ") Innovative, mysterious, and plot wise very very good EDEN is hands down better than many "classic" stories from Tom and Pertwee's eras and is full heads IMO above so many other later classics such as ANDROZANI (which to me has a far overblown rep than CITY OF DEATH). But never mind, then we get SHADA about a man trying to make his own mind THE universe and then we get LEISURE HIVE and MEGLOS (don't hold it against the show though, both tried new things but MEGLOS falls really flat).
Hinchcliffe's era, great as it was, would never have tried to age the Doctor or make him a cactus, nor would they have had the gumption to do real sci fi like KEEPER OF TRAKEN and LOGOPOLIS, both with great new ideas for TV. Chris Bidmead should have been kept on. For me everything from FULL CIRCLE to EARTHSHOCK is just great (except Black Orchid: BLACK ORCHID could have been better however so I exempt it frm that list) but even BO tried to do something new and fresh.
For me too, it's Tom Baker. The man in his first few years was held back and some feel that was a good thing. I think he's a genius and his imput made the stories better and better and the more involved he got, the better and more sensible and relatable the stories and characters got. Without him, CITY OF DEATH could have been a mess. The more outrageous he got, the more I loved him (although even I admit he went a far field away too far with the "oh my everything" bit in EDEN). I find much of pre Tom DW a bit too slow moving, dull, and humorless and much of Tom's first two or three years similarly a tad too blunt and not outrageous enough. Tom changed all that slowly at first but by the 17th season, he was just as he should be: a funny, humor filled Time Lord whirling through space and time with energy unbound and it so shows. THAT otherworldliness and his humor and energy along with the science of Chris Bidmead and a good script editor could do nothing wrong with this show. And JNT's first season or two were just marvelous. Then JNT got...changed somehow and he also had Eric Saward around in a large role...that was not a good thing. But I digress: the 17th season is as DW should always be (or course more historicals could have been nice but we even get a bit of that in CITY): here one moment, gone the next, on a giant spaceship beset by monsters and criminals in the future, on a planet of Daleks, in Paris the next, and on a mythological type world the next facing swarming monsters and an over the top king...saving the universe, young teens, and old people alike...all with a quip and a sneeze at the danger...
and oh yes, let's not forget the companion: for the first time we get a companion who is like the Doctor in almost every way and she turns her nose up at authority perhaps even more than he does, makes saracastic, almost conceited remarks, puts down the villains, and acts haughty. She and the Doctor are either child like (such as when she hides and listens to the policeman blame friendly Della for being the drug runner in EDEN, putting her feet up on the table in CITY) or against authority (again in EDEN, "Della indeed") and sort of college like in demeanor, academics who have either dropped out or realized the caution in being mean bullies! Of course, Romana isn't the first alien, Leela was and she was just a great contrast to Tom's Doctor, then Romana 1 with her extreme know it all ness and finally Romana 2 with her Doctor like behavior and quips, too. I won't go into this long debate here...it's long enough...but then we got what is perhaps the best idea for a companion ever, Adric, and one that had extreme dramatic potential Nyssa (almost never reached). And Matthew's performance, nervous at best, only further enhanched Adric's unstable personality but more on that in future.
of course it all went back to Earth girls are easy: Tegan, Peri, Mel, and Ace were all rather dull, boring Earth girls again. Ace picked up on the end and Tegan was only likeable thanks to Janet Fielding and some strong scenes in some stories but for the most part the show played it safe again but Romana 2...now there's a funny and intelligent companion....otherworldly...
[QUOTE BY= sgb1975]Mary Tamm is certainly no Brando, but Lalla Ward is worse imho. Not sure why they replaced her after TKTT season, but I wished they kept her after seeing LW. [/QUOTE]
I believe you will find that Mary was preggers, that why she got replaced.
-Edit- For the record, I refuse to read TRIPPLE post ever again. For the love of Rassilon man learn to use the edit key. -End Edit-
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Paul Clapham wrote:But if the tutorial is the same as when I went through it (a few years ago) then it has sample code. I would suggest downloading and running that code, and then fiddling with it until it turns into the code which you need. That would have been what I did at the time.
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The Afghan War Diary (AWD for short) consists of messages from several important US military communications systems. The messaging systems have changed over time; as such reporting standards and message format have changed as well. This reading guide tries to provide some helpful hints on interpretation and understanding of the messages contained in the AWD.
Most of the messages follow a pre-set structure that is designed to make automated processing of the contents easier. It is best to think of the messages in the terms of an overall collective logbook of the Afghan war. The AWD contains the relevant events, occurrences and intelligence experiences of the military, shared among many recipients. The basic idea is that all the messages taken together should provide a full picture of a days important events, intelligence, warnings, and other statistics. Each unit, outpost, convoy, or other military action generates report about relevant daily events. The range of topics is rather wide: Improvised Explosives Devices encountered, offensive operations, taking enemy fire, engagement with possible hostile forces, talking with village elders, numbers of wounded, dead, and detained, kidnappings, broader intelligence information and explicit threat warnings from intercepted radio communications, local informers or the afghan police. It also includes day to day complaints about lack of equipment and supplies.
The description of events in the messages is often rather short and terse. To grasp the reporting style, it is helpful to understand the conditions under which the messages are composed and sent. Often they come from field units who have been under fire or under other stressful conditions all day and see the report-writing as nasty paperwork, that needs to be completed with little apparent benefit to expect. So the reporting is kept to the necessary minimum, with as little type-work as possible. The field units also need to expect questions from higher up or disciplinary measures for events recorded in the messages, so they will tend to gloss over violations of rules of engagement and other problematic behavior; the reports are often detailed when discussing actions or interactions by enemy forces. Once it is in the AWD messages, it is officially part of the record - it is subject to analysis and scrutiny. The truthfulness and completeness especially of descriptions of events must always be carefully considered. Circumstances that completely change the meaning of an reported event may have been omitted.
The reports need to answer the critical questions: Who, When, Where, What, With whom, by what Means and Why. The AWD messages are not addressed to individuals but to groups of recipients that are fulfilling certain functions, such as duty officers in a certain region. The systems where the messages originate perform distribution based on criteria like region, classification level and other information. The goal of distribution is to provide those with access and the need to know, all of the information that relevant to their duties. In practice, this seems to be working imperfectly. The messages contain geo-location information in the forms of latitude-longitude, military grid coordinates and region.
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An especially helpful reference to names of military units and task-forces and their respective responsibilities can be found at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/enduring-freedom.htm
The site also contains a list of bases, airfields http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/afghanistan.htm Location names are also often shortened to three-character acronyms.
Messages may contain date and time information. Dates are mostly presented in either US numeric form (Year-Month-Day, e.g. 2009-09-04) or various Euro-style shorthands (Day-Month-Year, e.g. 2 Jan 04 or 02-Jan-04 or 2jan04 etc.).
Times are frequently noted with a time-zone identifier behind the time, e.g. "09:32Z". Most common are Z (Zulu Time, aka. UTC time zone), D (Delta Time, aka. UTC + 4 hours) and B (Bravo Time, aka UTC + 2 hours). A full list off time zones can be found here: http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/military/
Other times are noted without any time zone identifier at all. The Afghanistan time zone is AFT (UTC + 4:30), which may complicate things further if you are looking up messages based on local time.
Finding messages relating to known events may be complicated by date and time zone shifting; if the event is in the night or early morning, it may cause a report to appear to be be misfiled. It is advisable to always look through messages before and on the proceeding day for any event.
David Leigh, the Guardian's investigations editor, explains the online tools they have created to help you understand the secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/video/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-video-tutorial
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TO: CHOPS, Battle Captain, Cat 2
Size and Composition of Patrol: 76x US, 2x Cat 1 TERPS, 30x ANA
A.Type of patrol:Mounted
B.Task and Purpose of Patrol: Conduct mounted patrol to link-up point VIC WB 3159 4324 IOT deliver UA vehicles to A16.
C.Time of Return: 221600ZMAR2007
D.Routes used and Approximate times from point A to B:
From Grid/FOB To Grid/FOB Route Travel
FOB OE WB 1508 4181 RTE Honda 25 km/h
WB 1508 4181 WB 2550 4057 RTE Nissan 15 km/h
WB 2550 4057 WB 3159 4324 RTE Ferrari 15 km/h
E.Disposition of routes used: RTE Honda was dry and trafficable, with some standing water on rare occasions. RTE Nissan was trafficable even with recent road construction and rain. The wadi crossing at WB 19853 47775 was approximately 1 foot deep. RTE Yukon was not passable due to the water depth. RTE Ferrari was very trafficable. There was a rut approximately 1 foot deep where the road is heavily trafficked due to wet weather over the past couple of weeks.
F.Enemy encountered: none
G.Actions on Contact: none
H.Casualties: none
I.Enemy BDA: none
J.BOS systems employed: none
K.Final Disposition of friendly/enemy forces: none
L.Equipment status: no equipment damaged
M.Intelligence: (HUMINT/PROPHET/OBSERVATION): nothing significant to report.
N.Local Nationals encountered:
Name: Sader Gul
Position: Elder
Location: Sheykhan
Name: Ahmed Khan
Position: OE Shura member
Location: Sheykhan
General Information:
Leaders were engaged while elements of the patrol were conducting vehicle recovery operations. They offered assistance and brought tea and food out to the patrol. They provided a list of the poorest people in the village for future HCA distro targeting. They had begun discussing ACC projects in the shura, but had not completed a list of projects yet. HCA items were given to Ahmed Khan to distribute among the people.
O.Disposition of local security: Pir Kowti valley is largely unpatrolled by ANSF. Security is kept by a loosely organized Arbukai consisting of about 60 villagers. Once we passed the MK pass, there were several groups of ASG in hiluxes on the road, but none in the mountains.
P.HCA Products Distributed: 20 bags of beans, 20 bags of rice, 10 prayer rugs in Sheykhan village
Q.PSYOP Products Distributed: none
R.Atmospherics: (reception of HCA, reactions to ANSF and Coalition forces, etc): All villagers encountered in Sheykhan, with approximately 100 people coming out to greet the patrol. Locals offered tea and food while we were fixing the Rough Terrain vehicle.
S.Reconstruction Projects QA/QC: none assessed.
T.Afghan Conservation Corps nominations/Status: nothing to report.
U.Conclusion and Recommendation (Patrol Leader): (Include to what extent the mission was accomplished and recommendations as to patrol equipment and tactics.)
The patrol was a success vehicles were delivered to TM Apache with no incidents. The MK pass was well patrolled by ASG elements and had regular civilian traffic (14 hiluxes both directions) moving through it. The route was in good condition with road construction actively progressing. Dismounting at the saddle VIC WB 283 484 is the best place to clear the pass traveling from OE to Tillman, in the event that movement is not supported by CAS, CCA or an RCP
Report key: 3CD60FFA-FFFA-483E-982B-F299AF3323D7
Tracking number: 2007-082-013544-0471
Attack on: NEUTRAL
Complex atack: FALSE
Reporting unit: TF CATAMOUNT (2-87)
Unit name: 2-87 IR /ORGUN-E
Type of unit: None Selected
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Grimes Chosen for National Committee on Ocean
Policy Review
HATTIESBURG – Dr. Jay Grimes, provost of the University of
Southern Mississippi, has been selected to serve on a National
Research Council (NRC) committee reviewing a plan under development
by the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST).
JSOST is one of two subcommittees under the cabinet-level Committee
on Ocean Policy, a new organization created according to the
Bush administration's Ocean Action Plan.
Comprised of experts in ocean science and related fields, the
NRC committee will review both the draft and final plans of
the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy.
The plan seeks advice from the ocean research community as it
aims to enhance collaboration and identify gaps and deficiencies,
along with related infrastructure needs.
In 1987, Dr. Grimes was appointed director of the Institute
of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering and of the Sea Grant
College Program, University of New Hampshire, where he was also
a professor of microbiology. Grimes received his doctorate in
microbiology from Colorado State University in 1971.
University of Southern Mississippi Educational Leadership and
Research Department Hosts First Eagle Institute Conference
HATTIESBURG -- The University of Southern Mississippi is partnering
with the Mississippi Department of Education to host a two-day
conference, "Katrina and the Schools—Insights Into Weathering
the Storm." The conference, which is the inaugural event of
the USM Eagle Institute, will be held April 3-4, 2006, at the
Hattiesburg Lake Terrace Convention Center. The event is open
to policy makers, superintendents, school district administrators,
principals, government agency leaders and emergency preparedness
The conference will be convened by Mississippi State Superintendent
Hank Bounds and Southern Miss President Shelby Thames. This
event is part of a series of two-day "policy and action" meetings
in which practitioners will meet with the researchers to focus
on current school leadership issues, highly relevant research
and steps to address these issues. At the April conference,
participants will focus on three key topics: crisis planning
for schools and school districts; the impact of Hurricane Katrina
upon students, school districts and school personnel; and the
role of schools as community organizations in emergency response
and disaster relief. Participants will interact with state and
national leaders in identifying effective policies and procedures
for handling catastrophic events. The conference will generate
a proceedings document that can serve as a resource for crisis
management planning and policy development.
The Eagle Institute is sponsored by Southern Miss' Department
of Educational Leadership and Research. For more information
on the April conference or the Eagle Institute, contact Dr.
Ron Styron at firstname.lastname@example.com (phone: 601.266.4580) or
Dr. Mike Ward at email@example.com (phone: 601.266.5832).
Accounting Executive Set to Give Final Executive-on-Campus
in College of Business
HATTIESBURG – Sarah P. Clark, senior vice president of strategic
planning and investor relations for Parkway Properties in Jackson,
will be the final speaker this semester in the College of Business'
Executive-on-Campus Series. Clark will speak on the topic of
leadership at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 6 in Joseph Greene Hall,
Room 116.
Clark, a 1981 Southern Miss graduate, is a certified public
accountant with 23 years of accounting experience and 19 years
with Parkway. Before her present position, Clark served as chief
financial officer, senior vice president and secretary from
January 1995 to November 2000. She holds memberships in the
American Institute of CPAs, the Mississippi Society of Certified
Public Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants.
In 1999, Clark completed the 10-week Professional Management
Development program at Harvard Business School.
Parkway Properties Inc. is a self-administered real estate
investment trust specializing in operations, acquisition, ownership,
management and leasing of office properties. The company is
geographically focused on the southeastern and southwestern
United States and Chicago. Parkway owns or has an interest in
65 office properties located in 11 states with an aggregate
of approximately 12.1 million square feet of leasable space
as of Nov. 1, 2005.
The public is invited to the lecture. For more information,
contact Jana Bryant at 601.266.5854.
Contact: Angela Kilcrease
Southern Chorale Gives Fall Concert
HATTIESBURG -- The Southern Chorale, the premiere touring choral
ensemble at the University of Southern Mississippi, will present
its fall concert at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6 at Parkway Heights United
Methodist Church in Hattiesburg.
The concert will feature the choir's program from its Nov.
25 appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York City, a charity concert
event organized by the 1st Reformed Church of Bronxville, N.Y.,
for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Chorale, under the baton
of Dr. Gregory Fuller, will perform two sets of varied repertoire.
Also on the program will be the newly formed vocal jazz ensemble,
led by assistant director of choral activities Lauren Brandon.
The ensemble will perform a mix of vocal jazz and seasonal selections.
Admission is free. For more information, call the Southern
Miss Choral Activities office at 601.266.4092.
Faculty Brass Quintet Presents Concert
HATTIESBURG -- The Southern Arts Brass Quintet, a faculty ensemble
at The University of Southern Mississippi, will present a concert
at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Hattiesburg.
Formed in 1968, the ensemble includes Reese Land, visiting assistant
professor of trumpet; Ken Ortlepp, assistant professor of horn;
Bruce Tychinski, assistant professor of trombone; Richard Perry,
associate professor of tuba; and graduate teaching assistant
Michael Ellzey, performing on trumpet.
The program includes Samuel Schiedt's "Canzona Bergamasca,"
John Stevens' "Seasons" (1986), and John O'Reilly's Metropolitan
Fitting for the season, the concert will conclude with John
Harbison's Little Fantasy on "The Twelve Days of Christmas,"
a Tychinski arrangement of "Still, Still, Still," and a David
Baldwin arrangement of "Jingle Bells."
Admission is free. For more information, call 601.266.6441.
Guitar Gala Presented at Southern Miss
HATTIESBURG -- The University of Southern Mississippi's School
of Music presents its first-ever "Guitar Gala" Dec. 11 at Marsh
Auditorium. Two back-to-back concerts will feature students
from sophomore to doctoral level of the Southern Miss guitar
studio, under the direction of new faculty member Nicholas Ciraldo.
The end-of-the-semester performance will showcase nine solo
classical guitar performances of an eclectic selection of guitar
music, ranging from the 1700s to present day.
The second concert will feature the classical guitar in various
chamber music settings. Two guitar duos will open the concert,
performing classical composer Fernando Sor's "The Encouragement"
and Cuban guitarist/composer Leo Brouwer's "Micro Pieces."
Following the duos, the USM Guitar Orchestra, directed by Jay
Erp, will perform two pieces by the composer Von Cahl. Rounding
out the program, the USM Chamber Guitarists, under Ciraldo's
direction, will perform Brouwer's evocative work, "Cuban Landscape
with Rain," as well as Bach's famous "Little Fugue."
The solo performance begins at 6 p.m., followed by the chamber
music groups at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information,
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Khloe Kardashian has admitted that step-father Bruce Jenner was against her marriage to basketball player Lamar Odom.
The couple became engaged after only one month after meeting in the summer of 2009 and the Olympic star was dead against it.
Speaking in an interview with the whole family by Oprah Winfrey for Oprah's Next Chapter the star said it had been a crazy move.
"I knew that was the right thought, but in my heart…" she said according to HollywoodLife. When asked if she thought getting married so quickly was "crazy" the 27 year-old agreed.
"Yes, I did. But in the moment you couldn't have told me otherwise," she explained.
The couple, who celebrate their third wedding anniversary this September have one of the strongest relationships in the Kardashian clan, so must have made the right decision.
Speaking of their three-year marriage the star said that she doesn't feel pressure from the public to succeed in the relationship.
"I don't feel the pressure from outsiders. I'm not someone who is easily influenced by the public. This is my marriage this is my real life I feel the pressure from me, from myself to be a great wife."
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Interested in shell collecting? The Malacology Department sponsors the Pacific Conchological Club (PCC), which meets at NHM usually on the second Sunday of each month from January through May and October and November. The PCC resulted from a 2003 merger of two historic clubs, the Conchological Club of Southern California and the Pacific Shell Club. For details and further club information visit the PCC website.
At the discretion of the Malacology Department, shell specimens or collections may be accepted as donations from individuals and/or institutions provided complete locality information is available at the time of donation. The department also accepts donations of cash, books, and/or equipment. All donations are tax deductible, however, it is the responsibility of the donor to obtain a collection appraisal prior to donation.
Malacology is the study of mollusks (snails, clams, octopods, etc.). The Malacology Department promotes the scientific study, conservation, and acquisition of extant mollusk species including gastropods (marine, terrestrial, and freshwater snails and slugs), bivalves (marine and freshwater clams), cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus), polyplacophorans (chitons), scaphopods (tusk shells), aplacophorans (wormlike mollusks), and monoplacophorans ('primitive' limpetlike snails). The collection is worldwide in scope with an emphasis on the eastern Pacific Ocean (arctic Alaska to southern Chile) and includes an estimated 500,000 lots containing approximately 4.5 million specimens.
Malacology staff, associates, and volunteers sort, identify and verify specimen identifications, curate, rehouse, database, and incorporate specimens into the research collection. These tasks represent a huge undertaking in terms of the number of specimens incorporated into the collection annually. Malacology is active in Museum programs, offering hands-on experiences with both extinct and extant mollusks and local geology. Learn more about what is happening in malacology here.
Jann studies the evolutionary biology and systematics of marine whelks in the gastropod family Buccinidae, marine sea slugs called sacoglossans, and (more recently) terrestrial gastropods of Southern California.
Lindsey has been supervising the upgrading and databasing of the collections since 1988. His research interests are extant and extinct cypraeoideans (cowries and their kin) of the Western Hemisphere as well as extinct abalone.
Jim retired in 2001 but remains active with his research. He is currently preparing two major volumes for publication, one on the shelled gastropods of the North Pacific, which will include descriptions of several hundred species new to science, and the other on the family Liotiidae.