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Detoxification - Day 1
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When I checked out yesterday afternoon, the cashier at the grocery story probably thought I was crazy. Who comes in and buys low fat chicken broth and tomato soup, organic cranberry juice and carrot juice, detox tea, and nothing else? She looked at me like she wanted to say something. Maybe she thought I was bulimic or something... I don't know. Luckily I didn't have to explain that I was only buying the items on the list that an ancient Sidhe lord had given me.
Today, I begin detoxification. Again. This should be about seven different shades of fun and exciting.
Looking at my immortal mentor, I ask: "Nodens, is this really necessary?"
"You are not permitted to question me. That was our agreement."
I sigh. "Right. So, nothing but liquids for the next four days? Are you sure... I mean, I'm sure that you already know that is healthy for humans."
He gives me his patented Nodens-is-not-happy-look-- an expression that is one half "are you really sure you want to try me?" and one half "the only reason I haven't crushed you like a bug is that you are not worth my time."
"I am a god of healing as well as the founder of the Wild Hunt," he reminds me. "I assure you that I know what is healthy--"
"Right, of course. I forgot. I'm sorry, I--"
"--Do not interrupt. I was saying: detoxifying is perfectly safe, even for humans, if it is done correctly. I will never ask you to do something that will damage you."
"Thanks. That actually makes me feel better."
"If I ever wish to harm you, I will not be so... subtle about it."
Yikes. "That, on the other hand, does NOT make me feel so good."
He only smiles-- a slight quirk of his lips.
Perhaps I should leave it there, but, as strange and frightening as he can be, I rather like Nodens. There aren't many people left in the world who take honor and justice as seriously as he does. Besides, I need him... If I can barely lose weight even with his incentives, I will be completely hopeless without him. I want to smooth things over if I can. "Are you still angry? About the almost-question-thing, I mean? I really am sorry if I offended you."
He quirks his lips and tilts his head slightly, vaguely amused. "I assure you, I am not so arrogant as to be insulted by a human forgetting one of my powers. If I were, I would have a vendetta against nearly the entire human race. We Ancient Ones have, after all, been mostly forgotten. Nonetheless I accept your apology." He studies me for a moment. It's disconcertingly like a wild cat studying its prey, and I clench my fists to avoid fidgeting. At last he speaks again: "Let us move forward. If you were an aspiring Huntsman, I would recommend two days of fasting along with a mild natural laxative. However, as you have proven yourself to be exceedingly... weak," I get another dose of the Look, "I will recommend four days of only liquids along with two daily doses of detoxifying tea. Did you purchase all of the ingredients?"
"I... Ah..."
He arches an eyebrow in an eloquent warning. "Well?"
"I couldn't find all of the ingredients at the grocery store, and I knew we didn't have time to order them." I speak quickly, trying to get all of the words out before I lose my nerve; Nodens' expression is becoming more cold and hard with every syllable. "I bought this instead," I produce a box from my grocery bags. "It's Yogi Detox Tea."
Nodens' face remains stern and terribly calm, but quiet rage simmers in his eyes. I catch quick, indistinct glimpses of a dark, bluish-purple shimmer. At first I think my eyes are playing tricks on me, but I'm not that lucky. Nodens-Nuatha's jet-colored skin is glowing faintly, like a distant black-light. His anger is bringing his stormy power closer to the surface. I swallow hard. My mentor is usually Mr. Stoicism-- unemotional and calm like the ultimate Zen master. It isn't easy to piss him off this badly. I get the sudden idea that I might be proud of my achievement if I weren't so concerned about my life being cut short.
When he speaks, there's a hard edge to his voice, and something else... power trembles through his voice like a low growl reverberating through a tuning fork.
"Have you forgotten that you are to obey me without failure or question?" he purrs dangerously.
Oh yeah. He's pissed.
"Look! Just read the back! If you don't feel that these ingredients will do, I will order what you prescribed." I hand over the box. "Most of what you listed is in here any way."
He takes the tea from me, calming swiftly, and even nodding slightly in approval.
"Well, Well. It appears you are capable of doing something right after all."
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You have no clue just how....enthralled...I was to see your comment on my page. When I "found" you before I was captured by you, and by Nodens.
Thanks for stopping by and letting me know you were back. Like I said before, I WILL be watching, I am fascinated to know if you will actually survive this!
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What do you get when two high school teachers get together and make a movie about the "front lines†of teaching?
The answer is Chalk, the mocumentary that kicked off the Wisconsin Film Festival Thursday.
Stating that 50 percent of teachers quit within their first three years, the film follows three teachers and an assistant principal through a year at Harrison High.
Each teacher has different styles and ambitions. Mr. Lowrey is a first year history teacher who is struggling to learn the ropes after working as an engineer. Mr. Stroope is a third year history teacher who is intimidated by his smarter students and openly campaigning for Teacher of the Year. Coach Webb is in her second year, and her assertive demeanor rubs some colleagues the wrong way. Mrs. Reddell is struggling in her new role as assistant principal after teaching the past five years.
Chalk provides insight into the teacher's professional and personal life. Mr. Stroope enjoys target shooting, and compares it to teaching. Mrs. Reddell agonizes that she will be home late again, stating her and her husband have not had sex in weeks. Mr. Lowrey visits the mother of a student and gains knowledge on how to talk to his class. The math teacher comments, "I wish I had the guts to leave.â€Â
Mike Akel and Chris Mass wrote the movie while teaching in Austin, TX. The students in the movie are student from their class that excelled, or at least showed up. Mass states that about 95 percent of the film is improvised.
The sold-out show at Wisconsin Union Theater was attended by a large number of area teachers. After watching the film, one commented the film "really captures what high school is really like.â€Â
Chalk is very funny and kept the crowd laughing for close to 90 minutes. I gave this movie a 4 on my Steep & Brew ballot. It's the best movie of the Wisconsin Film Festival so far, but there is a long way to go.
To find out more about this movie, go to Chalkthefilm.com.
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i confirm the same phenonomon as you mentioned: when making new Rules in Mail, if I use the command "Copy to" then the GUI has a kind of wrinkle effect as per yr screen shot.
i also confirm that as a work around, until apple fixes the "Move to" x folder command to be used, doing a Copy to then a "Delete Message" does work, in order to get Sent messages from the Sent box into folders.
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Kingoftypos Nov 7, 2013 11:27 PM
in response to mustdent
I have over 25 rules and none of them look like that. Most were made during Mt Lion, and some were edited or added after Mavericks.
Also with yesterday's update. I noticed that the rules stopped working. But when I arrived back home and selected the messages that didn't do what they were suppose to do. And selected "Apply Rules". Everything else worked after that. Could it worked if I restarted Mail, perhaps.
azamino Nov 8, 2013 7:10 AM
in response to mustdent
i also confirm that my Rules dont have that overlapping GUI problem.
still, neither the rules created under Mountain Lion, nor new Rules created under Mavericks will move messages out of the Sent box into the appropriate folder. i was always able to do a Message/Apply Rules to Sent messages before, and it stopped working under Mavericks.
for Incoming messages however, all of my Rules do work on Incoming messages, before and even now, under Mavericks. Only have the problem with applying it to Sent messages.
Kingoftypos Nov 8, 2013 9:06 AM
in response to mustdent
With azamino's reply. I was able to verify that my Rules does work. I've had all Apple Support Discussions moved into a folder. Had it since Mt Lion and it still works under Mavericks, even with the Mail app update from yesterday.
I also have rules on my out going emails. Not to move them, but to change the back ground color so I know what email address I used. However, I made those rules after installing Mavericks and it does work. Haven't sent any email since yesterday though.
azamino Nov 9, 2013 6:53 AM
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i confirm the same phenonomon as you mentioned: when making new Rules in Mail, if I use the command "Copy to" then the GUI has a kind of wrinkle effect as per yr screen shot.
i also confirm that as a work around, until apple fixes the "Move to" x folder command to be used, doing a Copy to then a "Delete Message" does work, in order to get Sent messages from the Sent box into folders.
ΙΚΑΡΟΣ Dec 5, 2013 12:55 AM
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I do have the same problems with you since Mavericks installation which didn't vanish even after the Mail Update. Apple sure takes its time to fix this.
Dr.MORO Dec 19, 2013 1:23 PM
in response to mustdent
I have the same problem with Mavericks' Mail rules.
I mainly use rules for incoming messages to be sorted to appropriate folders. 50+ rules worked perfectly in Mt Lion until my upgrade... I just upgraded from Mt Lion to Mavericks a few days ago, and it has been a very unpleasant whirlwind.
Only the newly received messages get moved properly by the rules.
None of the read messages already on the server with be moved by the rules manually, as it used to in Mt Lion.
There is another thread: "Mail rules in OS Mavericks 10.9 don't apply to Sent Messages" .
Seems like a rules to 'Play Sound' works even manually, but just not 'Move to' function.
I will try the Copy and then Deleted rules method, and see if I can 'move' messages around, until Apple fixes this issue.
Apple, please fix this immediately!!!
BG29 Dec 22, 2013 2:03 PM
in response to Dr.MORO
I waited patiently for Mavericks update 10.9.1 to appear but the problem with Rules has not been fixed. Very disappointing.
As many others have found, if you want to move messages from the Inbox to another folder, and Edit an existing rule to add a new address to be Moved to another folder, and then Apply the rule to that new address, Mail is determined to Copy the message rather Move it.
It's easy to miss that Copy is what's happening - at first nothing seems to happen because the message you want to move remains stubbornly in the InBox, but check the destination folder and you may find the message now also appears where you intended.
Fortunately for me at least, Move rules seem to work okay after that, but Applying a rule to a new address does not work as it should.
This seems a pretty simple thing - disappointed it's still not been fixed.
Harald Brandt Jan 5, 2014 7:13 AM
in response to mustdent
My rules look just as bad as yours [referring to your screen shot].
In addition, I would like to add the following important thing:
I also have coloring of the the mail (Set Color of Message) as a rule in between the Move and the Stop Evaluating rules. Each time the rule is opened, the rule gets a bit more obscured and overlapping, and after a few times, the Set Color rule is completely hidden! Even in cases where I have the coloring rule at the end, it will finally disappear! So it it does not even looks corrupt -- it looks like that rule is completely gone!
But the rules still work though.
If I quit Mail and reopen it again, I can once again see the Set Color rule, but again it gets obscured after a while.
Mavericks = Junk!
I waited long with this "upgrade" to Mavericks simply because I hate such obnoxiousness. I regret that I did not wait another half a year or so, or perhaps even a year or two... This Mavericks "upgrade" was said to be free, but it has so far cost me about 10 hours of wasted time (and counting), because it also screwed up the mail import completely so that many dates of old mails were reset to today! Priceless...
Laurent Seroude Feb 8, 2014 12:24 PM
in response to mustdent
The rules "News from Apple" (added with 10.9) have a "after performing" rule "Stop evaluating rules" included that should not be there and prevent all other rules from working. Removed this action and all rules work again (Apple needs to update Mail to remove this).
photopulse Feb 19, 2014 2:06 AM
in response to mustdent
I have Mavericks 10.9.1. The rules interface looks good but I have the same problem:
When setting a rule that would copy my inbox IMAP mails to a local mailbox (inbox 2014) on my Mac Pro
and an other rule that would copy my sent IMAP mails to a local mailbox (sent 2014)
The mails are mixed up in the local mailboxes or the rule doesn't apply at all! or weired things happens!?
I tried this as well on my macbook pro (also 10.9.1), same problems!
Talked on the phone with the Apple support about this and I should have a feedback within one week...
Dr.MORO Feb 25, 2014 11:53 AM
in response to mustdent
Hi all!
Well, the latest Mavericks update 10.9.2 seems to have fixed the rule issue in Mail, I think.
Mine is now Mail version 7.2 (1874), and applying the 'Move to' rules even to the emails left on the server, now correctly get moved to the appropriate folders on my Mac.
I haven't tested intensively yet, but will try once again tomorrow.
andersab Feb 27, 2014 1:31 AM
in response to photopulse
I have the same problem as you, I want to move automatically after 30 days my IMAP mail into a local archive and it does not work at all...
Let's see what you get..
By the way I have 10.9.2
Harald Brandt Feb 28, 2014 12:41 AM
in response to Harald Brandt
Mail.app in 10.9.2 is as bad and lousy as before! No improvement concerning the problems that have plagued me:
(1) Rules look just as bad as before. Each time the rule is opened, the rule gets a bit more obscured and overlapping.
(2) Many old mails have the wrong text encoding, and there is still no way to change that!
Mail.app in Mavericks: the worst mail application I have used in the last 20+ years!
Mavericks = Catastrophy!
photopulse Feb 28, 2014 2:49 AM
in response to andersab
I got a very unsatisfying answer from AppleCare Engineering basicly saying that rules setting is not planned to work with the sent mailbox (even if there is a tab "sent" in the rules setting !!!?). What ever that means!
They apparently know about the rules problem and as I can read in the apple forum these issues are known for long. So hopefully they will do something soon. I have also problems with rules on the inbox and there is unfortunatly several other bugs in Mail.
I am thinking like Harald. I am so far happy with Mavericks but Mail is really a catastrophy!! I have also 10.9.2. and if all these issues are not solve with 10.9.3 I will for sure go back to Outlook for Mac.


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Radiology Research and Practice
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 724129, 4 pages
High-Pitch Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography—A New Dose-Saving Algorithm: Estimation of Radiation Exposure
1Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
2Department of Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Luxemburger Straße 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany
3Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
4Division of Computed Tomography, Siemens Medical Solutions, An der Lände 1, 91301 Forchheim, Germany
Received 2 March 2012; Accepted 4 April 2012
Academic Editor: Andreas H. Mahnken
Copyright © 2012 Dominik Ketelsen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Purpose. To estimate effective dose and organ equivalent doses of prospective ECG-triggered high-pitch CTCA. Materials and Methods. For dose measurements, an Alderson-Rando phantom equipped with thermoluminescent dosimeters was used. The effective dose was calculated according to ICRP 103. Exposure was performed on a second-generation dual-source scanner (SOMATOM Definition Flash, Siemens Medical Solutions, Germany). The following scan parameters were used: 320 mAs per rotation, 100 and 120 kV, pitch 3.4 for prospectively ECG-triggered high-pitch CTCA, scan range of 13.5 cm, collimation mm with z-flying focal spot, gantry rotation time 280 ms, and simulated heart rate of 60 beats per minute. Results. Depending on the applied tube potential, the effective whole-body dose of the cardiac scan ranged from 1.1 mSv to 1.6 mSv and from 1.2 to 1.8 mSv for males and females, respectively. The radiosensitive breast tissue in the range of the primary beam caused an increased female-specific effective dose of % compared to males. Decreasing the tube potential, a significant reduction of the effective dose of 35.8% and 36.0% can be achieved for males and females, respectively (). Conclusion. The radiologist and the CT technician should be aware of this new dose-saving strategy to keep the radiation exposure as low as reasonablly achievable.
1. Introduction
At present, computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) is an important, widely accepted diagnostic tool for the assessment of coronary artery disease. Several studies have shown the potential of different dose-saving strategies to keep the radiation exposure as low as reasonablly achievable. Hausleiter et al. reported in an international multicenter trial (PROTECTION I) a mean effective dose of 12 mSv in CTCA, ranging from 5 to 30 mSv [1]. Radiation exposure can be reduced substantially by currently available strategies, but these possibilities are used infrequently [1].
Since the introduction of a second-generation dual-source scanner system, a new scanning mode with increased table feed is available. Compared to retrospective ECG-gated and prospective ECG-triggered CTCA, this high-pitch, prospective triggered scanning mode has the potential for drastic dose reduction due to a gapless imaging of the heart within one heartbeat with no overlapping data acquisition.
The aim of the study was to estimate effective whole-body dose and organ equivalent doses of prospective ECG-triggered high-pitch CTCA.
2. Material and Methods
2.1. Dosimetry
The experiments were performed by using an anthropomorphic, hermaphrodite male phantom with breast phantom attachments (Alderson-Rando phantom; Alderson Research Laboratories Inc., Stanford, CT, USA). The phantom was equipped with 117 thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) with dimension of mm (TLD-100H, Bicon-Harshow, Radiation Measurement Products, Cleveland, OH, USA) to perform radiation exposure measurements [2–4].
By using a Philips Optimus 65 (Philips Medical Systems, PC Best, The Netherlands), a calibration of the 117 was calculated, which was defined by means of parallel exposure of 33 TLDs with a known radiation dose using 102 kV and 10 mA for 100 ms at a source-skin distance (SSD) of 100 cm. To minimize the Heel effect, wire markers in the field were avoided and all expositions were done in the same position with respect to the orientation of the X-ray tube. Crosschecked by an ionization dosimeter positioned in the same phantom depths, the reference TLDs were exposed with a dose of 1.081 mGy. No further correction factors were used as the calibration voltage is close to the CT tube voltage.
The evaluation of the irradiated TLDs was performed using a TLD reader (Model 5500 TLD Reader, Bicron Radiation Measurement Products, Solon, OH, USA) within 24 h after radiation exposure. The readout TLD values in nanocoulombs were multiplied by an individual calibration factor.
Dependent on the anatomical position of each organ 39 different positions in the Alderson-Rando Phantom were used to assess the organ doses. Due to measurement deviation, three TLDs were placed at each point of dose measurement to minimize bias. The number of TLDs allocated to different organ positions were as follows: 3 at the brain, thyroid gland, esophagus, thymus, heart, breast, stomach, upper colon, spleen, kidneys, adrenal glands, pancreas, small intestine, lower colon, urinary bladder, muscle tissue, red bone marrow, skin, ovaries, and testicles, 42 at the lung, and 15 at the liver.
The effective dose was calculated by summarizing the weighted organ doses according to the guidelines of ICRP 103 [5]. Radiation doses of simulated small organs (i.e., thyroid gland) were directly rated into the calculation. Doses of larger organs (i.e., lung) were determined by assessing the mean of measured TLDs from the entire organ.
To assess gender-specific differences, the testicles were used to measure the male-specific gonadal dose while radiation dose of the breast and the ovaries accounted to the female-specific radiation exposure. The breast phantom attachments could influence the calculation of the male-specific effective dose by increased soft tissue in the scan range. Nevertheless, evaluated values of effective dose using a hermaphrodite phantom are sufficiently precise for application in radiological radiation protection [5, 6].
2.2. Scan Protocols
Scans were performed on a second-generation dual-source CT scanner (SOMATOM Definition Flash, Siemens Medical Solutions, Forchheim, Germany). The following parameters were used: 320 mAs per rotation, 100 and 120 kV, pitch 3.4 for prospectively ECG-triggered CTCA (table feed 450 mm/s), scan range of 13.5 cm (four blocks of sequential detector coverage), collimation 64 × 2 × 0.6 mm with z-flying focal spot, and gantry rotation time 280 ms. The scanner software simulated a heart rate of 60 beats per minute. 60% of the RR-interval was set to trigger the scan. In high-pitch CTCA, the heart is scanned within one heartbeat. Data acquisition with two X-ray tubes and detectors allows a gapless imaging of the heart despite a high pitch of 3.4. Gaps in the data from the first measurement system resulting from the high pitch are filled completely with the data from the second measurement system that acquires the data a quarter rotation later [7].
2.3. Statistical Analysis
Normal distribution of measured organ-specific dose values of each scan protocol was assessed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Statistical significance between different scan protocols was evaluated using the two-tailed paired Student's -test comparing the measured organ-specific dose values. A value <0.05 was considered to be significant.
3. Results
Effective, gender-specific doses of scan protocols with 100 kV and 120 kV and reported CT dose index and dose length product are shown in Table 1.
Depending on the applied tube potential, the effective whole-body dose of the cardiac scan ranged from 1.1 mSv to 1.6 mSv and from 1.2 to 1.8 mSv for males and females, respectively.
Directly irradiated organs within the scan range received organ equivalent doses of up to 0.33 mSv to the lung and up to 0.13 mSv to the breast. The radiosensitive breast tissue in the range of the primary beam caused an increased female-specific effective dose of compared to males. The gonadal doses were <0.02 mSv in both scan protocols. Details about organ equivalent doses are displayed in Table 2.
A reduction of the tube potential from 120 kV to 100 kV significantly reduces the radiation exposure by 35.8% for males and 36.0% for females, respectively ().
4. Discussion
Several studies described the correlation between the pitch value and the radiation exposure in computed tomography coronary artery (CTCA). Typically, the pitch is less than 1, usually between 0.2 and 0.5 in first-generation dual-source CTCA resulting in relevant overlaps by advancing the table much less than one detector width during one scanner rotation [3, 7]. Thus, repeated exposure of the same heart region during several consecutive rotations causes an increase of radiation exposure.
The evaluated, prospective ECG-triggered high-pitch CTCA uses a pitch value of 3.4 resulting in a table feed of 450 mm/s with no overlapping data acquisition by filling the gaps in the data of the spiral acquisition of the first measurement system with the data from the second measurement system one-quarter rotation later. The whole heart is completely scanned within one heart cycle, that is, the topmost image will be acquired at the set trigger point and subsequent images display the heart in later phases of the heart cycle [8–11].
In this study, we determined the effective radiation exposure of prospective ECG-triggered high-pitch CTCA depending on the gender and the used tube voltage. The results are concordant to recently reported dose values from Goetti et al. [8]. The radiation exposure is substantially lower than other reported dose values of retrospective ECG-gated or prospective ECG-triggered CTCA. A comparative study of different dose-saving techniques reports effective dose values of 5.8 mSv to 16.0 mSv for retrospective ECG-gated protocols without ECG-pulsing, and 4.2 mSv to 9.8 mSv for protocols with different ECG-pulsing techniques and 2.8 mSv to 4.3 mSv for prospective ECG-triggered, the so-called step-and-shoot, CTCA [12].
A further radiation protective effect comprises the acquisition of less overlapping data. This results in reduction of the organ equivalent dose of the extremely radiosensitive female breast tissue, which is always in the scan range, but rarely organ of interest. In high-pitch CTCA, the female-specific effective dose is higher compared to male effective dose measurements by an average of up to 8.6%. In conventional overlapping CTCA data acquisition, however, females received increased effective dose values of up to 70% [6, 12–14].
By decreasing the tube voltage, the effective dose can be further reduced by up to 36.0% in high-pitch CTCA. However, changes in tube voltage are complex and affect image noise as well as tissue contrast. Nevertheless, several studies confirmed a sufficient image quality of 100 kV CTCA protocols in slender patients with a body mass index lower than 30 kg/m2 [15].
A possible limitation of the study is the lack to determine image quality as an additional parameter of the technique. However, initial feasibility studies reported an excellent image quality in a selected patient population [9, 15]. High-pitch CTCA shows equivalent image quality in patients with low and stable heart rates up to 60 bpm compared to prospective ECG-triggered and retrospective ECG-gated CTCA. A diagnostic image quality can be achieved in 97% of coronary segments with high-pitch CTCA [16–18]. These studies recommend this prospective, R-wave triggered, high-pitch scanning mode for patients with low and regular heart rates (<55–60 beats per minute) to acquire the complete dataset before the onset of atrial contraction [7, 9, 10].
5. Conclusion
In conclusion, the prospective ECG-triggered high-pitch CTCA has the potential to scan the heart with an effective dose between 1 mSv and 2 mSv, which is substantially lower than previously described CTCA scanning modes. The radiologist and the CT technician should be aware of this new dose-saving strategy to keep the radiation exposure as low as reasonablly achievable.
B. Schmidt and T. G. Flohr are employees of Siemens Medical Solutions.
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Alba Consort explores cultural blend in Early Music Now program
Once upon a time, we all got along better than we do today.
The Alba Consort, an American early music ensemble, gave a musical testament to that fact on Saturday, presented by Early Music Now in Schwan Hall at Wisconsin Lutheran College. »Read Full Article
Alchemist Theatre's 'King Lear' reigns as family drama
Early in Friday's opening-night performance of Alchemist Theatre's "King Lear," Bo Johnson's aged king called for the map demonstrating his intended division of Britain among his three daughters. Lear's attendants dutifully unfurled it — with the bottom at the top and the top at the bottom. When they tried to hang the map up, it kept falling down.
Director Leda Hoffmann confirmed during intermission that this sequence wasn't planned. But such a topsy-turvy world aptly illustrates the disorder that descends on Britain once the hot-tempered Lear banishes his beloved Cordelia, counting on his remaining two daughters to keep him and Britain safe. »Read Full Article
Check out interactive map of southeast Wisconsin farmers markets
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OpenText Solutions Help UK National Press Photographers Showcase Visual Story Of The Olympics
LONDON, Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) today announced that its Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions are the driving technology behind a unique collaborative effort involving newspaper publishers and sports news photography at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Images taken by national press photographers that are part of the National Olympic Photo Pool (NOPP) are being distributed through OpenText's Content Hub for Publishers (CHP) to dozens of news media outlets within minutes of the action.Using OpenText's CHP solution hosted in the cloud, more than 50 top sports and news photographers capturing key moments of the 2012 London Olympic Games are able to transmit pictures from their privileged vantage points at Olympic venues to a single distribution point. These images are then reviewed and edited by a team of skilled photo editors located in the main press centre in the Olympic park. OpenText CHP generates extended semantic metadata using text mining technology, adding valuable search tagging terms. Images are then released for publication, simultaneously being delivered not only to the contributing members of the NOPP, but also to a web portal which allows the 1,100 titles published by members of the Newspaper Society to access the content in real time. More than 700 images were distributed in this way during the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. On average, 650 images per day have been added since, and the total number is expected to top 15,000 by the end of the Games. Mark Finch, Vice President, Customer Experience Management at OpenText said: "The National Olympic Photo Pool is a very worthwhile initiative to encourage British sporting and journalistic talents and we are thrilled to be part of it. London 2012 is an exciting time for everyone across Britain and we are glad to be able to bring together communities of photographers and publishers with our unique technology offerings." The NOPP was established, with OpenText support, in response to an initiative from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which was keen to see sports photography of the national newspapers made available more widely throughout the UK. The offer was taken up by the national newspaper members of the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) trade body which has been coordinating a number of Olympic photography projects.
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Nothing much to share except I had a chance at supporting and helping a mod develop, for which I am proud of. (Half Life 2 Mod - Stargate Legacy: Original Tau'ri Voice Actor.) Other than that I am a proud Canadian gamer.
One of the first 2 models I have made. This was made using Googles Sketchup Model program.


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The report found that 85 per cent of the Australian architects, engineers, contractors and building owners surveyed have been involved in green building projects to date.The report surveyed over 1,200 architects, contractors, building developers and owners in Australia, Southeast Asia and China, and found the key driver of sustainable design across all countries surveyed is 'being part of an industry that values the environment'.
Autodesk Business Unit Manager Michael Beer said the industry is responding to demand for sustainable design but observed that its adoption is an evolutionary process. "If you think of five years ago, sustainable design was on the radar and I would say the mood of the current climate is that it is becoming a more mainstream, more quickly," he explained.
A highlight of this year's FuturArc event was the inaugural FuturArc prize, the first green building design competition in Asia Pacific, created to demonstrate the capabilities of sustainable design. The competition, sought green design solutions for three pre-selected sites, including Brisbane, Australia.
Edy Lim, who studied architecture at the University of New South Wales, submitted the winning design for Brisbane.


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Edgewood's Gothard, Dettmar to play football at Bethel CollegePublished 10:39am Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Edgewood All-State football players Trey Gothard and Alex Dettmar signed to play at Bethel College (Kan.) next fall on Monday.
Coming to coach Bobby Carr's program at the same time last year, both players are excited to start their next journey together.
"I'm really excited right now," kicker Dettmar said. "I know it's going to be a little hard once I go off leaving home, but you know, I'm ready to go get the job done and keep rolling with it.
"It's going to be a good experience. I'm going to meet a lot of new people. But that's why I'm glad I'm going to have my teammate with me because I'll know somebody and it's going to be easier to make friends."
"It's always fun to go into a new program, like Edgewood, or go to college with somebody that you know, somebody that you've played with all your life," lineman Gothard said. "So it's definitely going to be a great experience."
The lone year at Edgewood around the winning culture has better prepared them, both players said, for the next level.
"To play in Troy this year was a great experience, it's unforgettable," Gothard said. "To win a state championships was always one of my dreams and to play college ball was also one of those dreams. It's just a dream come true just to be here, be a part of this program and where it's taking me."
"Coach Carr's got a good thing going here," Dettmar added. "He gets everybody ready for the next level. I really wish I had been here all my four years, but that one year was good enough."
Bethel College competes in the NAIA where it went 2-9 last season. The Threshers have 72 incoming freshmen and 20 junior college transfers invading the program this summer and fall. Dettmar and Gothard know that they'll need to separate themselves from the competition to see the field once they arrive on campus.
"They're getting a hard worker," Dettmar said. "Somebody that doesn't take no for an answer, that doesn't give up. I'm willing to put my nose to the grindstone and do whatever it takes."
Gothard said to earn his spot, he'll need to spend most of his time in the weight room. But that's not what's going to make him stand out.
"One thing I've always thought about myself that I had an advantage over everybody else is that I have a love for the game and I have respect for the game like no other," he said. "I love the game of football, I've played it all my life and I really know what it takes, on the field and off the field, to be a successful athlete."


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We are hurting as much as you ya ukhti, Allahumma rud al muslimeena ila deenihum maraddan jameelan. Allah yisli7 af3al al ummah. Ameen.It seems as if one fails to conceive
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In a dream I am walking together with someone new
it's too late to wake
She isn't you, I am lost inside
Where are you? I look all around for you.
In my hand her touch is warm and new.
She calls me by the name you have for me,
I stood there calling out for you.
Her voice trying to calm me.
She holds me saying "I am here I am here"
I wake up in your arms, you see
The sadness in my eyes, as you say:
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that would go against everything that i say about what good music is, and what most music should be!
it should portray an emotion fairly well at the least, and i feel like this one gives an intense "happy" aura.
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A couple years ago, I conducted a phone interview with John Oates which featured the following exchange:
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A couple years ago, I conducted a phone interview with John Oates which featured the following exchange:
Seely: Why'd you shave off that fabulous moustache, and have you caught shit from your fans in the law-enforcement community for doing so?
Oates: I shaved the moustache because I am no longer the guy who had the moustache.
Seely: Who was that guy, then?
Oates: He was a guy playing rock star and not paying attention to more important things, like real life. In terms of law enforcement, I'm too short to be a cop.
Last night, the guy who used to have the moustache took the stage alongside Daryl Hall in front of a very enthusiastic McCaw Hall crowd. Had you told me at the time I conducted that interview that Hall & Oates would play two encores before a nearly-full concert hall, I'd have bet my life savings against you. But now that it's again become culturallly acceptable to dig the Philly duo's unique brand of Caucasian-soul-meets-synth-pop-meets-ass-rock (some prefer to refer to this multi-dimensional package as yacht rock, I call it versatility), there H&O were, throwing used guitar picks to screaming middle-aged female fans, never out of touch, never out of time if the crowd screamed for one more ditty.
While what looks to be a few too many Botox injections has frozen his pretty face, and he can't pull off all the vocal acrobatics he once could live, the tall, skinny Hall still has a gorgeous head of hair, moves like a white James Brown, and croons like a white Usher. It's hard to imagine Robin Thicke or Justin Timberlake being possible without him. He is the center of attention to the point where you wonder why the band isn't simply called "Hall."
Now stop to consider Oates. Hall threw him a scrap of meat early by letting him sing lead on one tune, but other than that, Oates was in the background, vocally and instrumentally. One could argue that he is, at best, the fourth most important member of Hall & Oates, as his rhythm guitar is constantly outshined by the duo's Neil Young-disciple lead guitarist and a flamboyant, silver-maned sax man whom Hall introduced as "Mr. Casual."
Throughout the performance, 'Lil Oates seemed content to focus on his frets, to chip in with precise backing vocals, and to show as little emotion as possible onstage. He is, in this capacity, the anti-Hall, which, if you stop to think about it, could be exactly why he's so essential to the duo's success. If Hall were allowed to indulge his every diva-like theatrical impulse throughout the course of any given show unchecked, it might send things over the top. The only counterbalance balance for such a queen is the epitome of bland: Oatesmeal.


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Model, Rocket, Delta B
This is a model of unknown scale of the Delta B, a three-stage liquid-fuel rocket developed by Douglas Aircraft for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), using as its first stage a modified first stage from the Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile. NASA used the rocket to launch mostly meteorological satellites beginning in December 1962.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars have signed former Seattle Seahawks veteran defensive end Red Bryant to a four-year contract worth $17 million, according to a source.
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Bryant was cut recently by the Seahawks.
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The last weeks have been pretty exciting down in the fish room. It's interesting how a weather front and a few good water changes can change the behavior of fish!
First off, noticed free swimming fry of the Nanochromis transvestitus. I knew they had spawned, but wasn't expecting this kind of success.
You can a few of the fry just above the mother there in this pic; the white specks.
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Secondly, this morning, noticed barely free swimming fry of what was sold to me as Congochromis sabinae "super red", but I've been told somewhere else that these may be Congochromis dimidiatus. I'm leaning towards the sabinae, but not entirely sure. Anyway, can't get a pic of the fry, they are way back in the corner of a clay flower pot, but I'm sure they'll come out soon for their time to shine.
Mommy guarding fry in clay flowerpot in a 10 gallon breeding setup
The happy couple before they were moved to a breeding setup.
Male before he chose a mate.
Two males squaring eachother up.
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ENTERPRISE — When the Building Healthy Families board went looking for a new executive director, it went "outside the box" and hired Tammy Dennee, a former lobbyist and consultant for agriculture and energy.
Dennee worked in the wheat industry for 17 years. Most recently, she ran her own business, helping organizations with strategic planning and leadership development, skills she brings to the Building Healthy Families organization, a program she was unfamiliar with before she interviewed.
Her community and government affairs involvement with Greater Oregon Behavioral Health was the link between working as a private industry advocate to an advocate for social programs in Northeast Oregon.
"This gives me an opportunity to work with a board of directors of an organization I didn't realize existed. I think this it's a good time for me to focus my energies on this type of service," Dennee said.
Building Healthy Families has been without a director for five months. Dennee said she put her strategic planning skills to work right away at her first board meeting earlier this month when they discussed the organization's vision past surviving day-to-day operations.
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"I have the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of those who were here before me, and I don't take that lightly. The rapid growth and what has taken place the last few years — what a bright shining light and model for other communities," Dennee said.
Building Healthy Families provides what it calls wrap-around services — programs for expecting parents to home visits with newborns, preschool and kindergarten readiness to housing the county's alternative high school.
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Enthusiasm about her new role carries over to the programs she oversees.
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The harrowing drama 12 Years a Slave, considered the Oscar front-runner because of its hard-hitting subject matter and lavish production values, indeed snagged the Oscar for best picture at the 86th Academy Awards, as well as taking home the honours for best supporting actress (Lupita Nyong'o) and best adapted screenplay (John Ridley). The film awed critics and audiences alike with its sui generis depiction of the horrific system of slavery in the antebellum South. Based on the narrative (1853) of Solomon Northup, the film unflinchingly chronicles the grueling experiences of one victim of slavery, casting light on the ethical contradictions of human bondage in general. The gorgeously shot film contrasts the ethereal beauty of the Louisiana bayous with tortuous close-ups of slaves as they endure the privations of their condition and struggle to maintain their dignity.
Born a free man in New York, Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is duped by a pair of men who drug him and sell him to slave traders. He is transported to Louisiana and there is sold to a plantation owner (Benedict Cumberbatch) who, though sympathetic, cannot shield him from the brutality of his overseer. Northup is later sold again, this time to a sadistic alcoholic (Michael Fassbender; AAN) who constantly abuses him and other slaves. He is ultimately freed after enlisting the help of a white labourer in contacting his family in New York.
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Best Supporting Actress, 2013Lupita Nyong'o won best supporting actress at the 86th Academy Awards for her feature film debut in 12 Years a Slave (AA). The striking Nyong'o enraptured audiences with her subtle, anguished take on a young slave woman who is repeatedly raped by her owner (Michael Fassbender; AAN) and denigrated by his wife (Sarah Paulson). Whether stoically hauling cotton in the...
discussed in biography...Shame, in 2011. Its somewhat transgressive subject was the story of a man's sex addiction. Again McQueen used Fassbender as his lead actor. In 2013 McQueen's film 12 Years a Slave was released. It starred Chiwetel Ejiofor in the role of Solomon Northup, who wrote the book of the same name about his own experience as an American free black man who was...
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Nyong'oKenyan actress who won an Academy Award for her film debut in 12 Years a Slave (2013).
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Solomon Northup DayIn 2013, in advance of the release of director Steve McQueen's film 12 Years a Slave, actress Lupita Nyong'o attended a screening of the film at the Solomon Northup Day celebration and addressed the crowd. Skidmore College officially assumed responsibility for the program in 2014.


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When writer-director Duncan Jones visited town for SIFF recently, we didn't want to ask about his famous father, David Bowie, or how the song "Space Oddity" might bear upon Moon (review), which opens Friday at the Harvard Exit and Metro. With an accent that's not entirely British or American, educated in the U.S. and abroad, Jones resembles a friendly, scruffy grad student--as he once was at Vanderbilt University. Subsequent work in the U.K. film industry, generally in commercials (for "beer and ketsup"), honed his longstanding interest in sci-fi, he explained. Blade Runner remains his touchstone, but his influences extend back to Silent Running and other space movies of the pre-Star Wars era. Read our Q&A, which includes potential spoilers, after the jump....
Seattle Weekly: It's refreshing to see a sci-fi picture that's not space opera--cowboys and Indians in space. Was that an obstacle or a hindrance in getting the film made today? As opposed to 30 or 40 years ago?
Duncan Jones: Well it's funny that you say cowboys and Indians in space, because one of the films that was definitely [an influence] was Outlander, which was basically High Moon in space. But there was a certain periods in films in the late '70s and early '80s that I think maybe treated the subject matter a little more seriously. Dealt with the human being as opposed to the special effects and the whiz-bang of it all. As an independent film, that makes sense--for the sensibilities that I had, and also Sam Rockwell had. We wanted to focus on the guy as opposed to the craziness of it all.
SW: Is that difficult to achieve now, when people want space monsters and ray-guns?
Jones: At my budget, the subject matter wasn't a challenge. Because it was an independent film, I actually had the freedom on the subject matter. The nerves came in when producers were like, "Yeah that's great, but how're you going to do it for $5 million?" So it was almost the antithesis as far as what our problems were. We made a good case though: There were going to be special effects, and visually it was going to be engaging and keep the audience watching.
SW: Moon's prologue, about the environmental problems back on Earth, is a reminder of how the sci-fi and ecology movements overlapped in the '70s--Soylent Green and all that. And also the first fuel crisis.
Jones: It was very tongue-in-cheek that the villain company, the bad guy if you will, Lunar Industries, is a green energy company. I thought that was kind of a nice little dig there. Even companies with the best of intentions, if they're running for a profit, they're always going to find places to try and cut corners. And Sam [Rockwell]'s character was going to be one of those corners. The opening promotional [a fake advertisement] is very much based on those kinds of commercials that those big petroleum companies are making to try and prove that they use Earth friendly strategies. Chevron was definitely an inspiration.
SW: Is Sam Rockwell's character made more paranoid or mentally unstable by the solitary confinement within his lunar mining station? Like on a submarine?
Jones: We kind of went against that in some ways, because the base is quite light and airy. It's not an incredibly claustrophobic environment. Although it feels that way because, it's so empty. And I think that's almost what gives you the same vibe--these these big, wide-open rectangular spaces. And you have this one little guy all on his own in there. It creates a sense of loneliness, which is really what we wanted to achieve. And the fact that this space is on the far side of the moon. I think it adds to him just being out of touch. But it was really important, beyond the title, that it actually took place on the moon. Because I wanted it to be somewhere close enough that people could actually really relate to it. You can look up to the moon every night ... and you can imagine it what's going on up there. And even though we may have been there for the Apollo missions, people don't really know much about it. It is science fiction to me, looking at the moon, and imagining what it would be like to be there.
SW: Yet we know it from the moon landings on TV and NASA archives of the '60s, not long after all the sci-fi stories and movies on the subject.
Jones: Yeah, absolutely. But I think it's like a lot of fiction that was written when it was still difficult to travel around the world [in the 19th and early 20th centuries]. And you would hear stories about guys going out to India, or even just traveling across the United States, before it became so easy to do. That kind of idea of getting away, of going out into foreign climes--that's what the movie is in some ways.
SW: What else did you look at for sources? Not meaning other movies...
Jones: There was a particular book by Robert Zubrin called Entering Space. It was all about the practical ways that you could actually go about colonizing the solar system, doing it in a way that would be fiscally viable. And that's really what the key was in his book: No one's going to pay for this just out of the goodness of their hearts; the Cold War didn't exist anymore to make it happen. So how do you actually colonize the solar system? You do it because it becomes profitable. And step one is make fusion power work. Then you will need to go to the moon, because there is a really, really valuable resource there called Helium 3. So that was the hard science behind it, which gave me the inspiration for the structure of the film. How you go about mining it is also incorporated in the film. You'd concentrate the gasses into a liquid form, and then you'd send that back to Earth. It would be an incredibly valuable resource for the petroleum companies.
SW: What about the self-awareness on Sam's part that he's a clone? Does that come from Philip K. Dick or other reading of yours?
Jones: To be honest, it was a very, very personal approach. I had been to graduate school for three years in Nashville, Tennessee. And it's no coincidence that the three-year contract that [Sam] has was the same amount of time I spent at graduate school. It was quite a lonely place, and I wasn't happy to be there. When I was writing and talking to Sam about this story, and the long-distance relationship that he was going through, that whole kind of alienation and paranoia that you go through during long distance relationships, feeling out of touch with everything... you feel like being on the far side of the moon. So that kind of already fit in from a very personal level.
SW: We're seeing Sam at two stages of development as well...
Jones: I had a really hard time when I was growing up, as an adolescent, and even in my 20s trying to work out what it is I wanted to do with my life. I was quite an angry person, very frustrated. I went through that thing most people go through, where you ask yourself the question, "Well if I could go back now and talk to myself then..." I'd probably give myself a slap, or give myself a hug, and tell myself not to be so hard on myself. And that was kind of what Sam [Rockwell] and I had talked about: This same guy from two different periods in their life, both being forced to meet each other, made to realize what was actually good about themselves. So that was the root of the question: What would it be like if you met yourself in person?
SW: Is Moon somewhat a therapy movie in that regard?
Jones: Oh yeah, I think so. I think it's optimistic in some ways, because [both Sams] are kind of down on themselves. And it's not until they meet that... they realize what they're really like as people. They realize that they are good guys. Sam Bell is a good person, but he's just had issues that he needed to deal with, and he dealt with them. It took three years for Sam 1.0 and just a couple of days for Sam 2.0 to get to that point.
SW: What was the challenge of getting that duality out of one performer?
Jones: It was very complicated. Sam Rockwell is a phenomenal actor. He's hugely underrated, and I hope that changes. We had the chance, and it's unusual for an independent film, but we had the chance to do rehearsals for about a week in New York, with one of his acting buddies. We really worked through the script and broke it down, and tried out some improv on some things, and started talking about the character Sam and how we could differentiate between Sam 1.0 and Sam 2.0, these two different personalities. And the fact that one of them had had these three years of experience of living on his own, and what that had done to him.
When it came to the actual shoot, there were huge amounts of technical issue that needed to be addressed. We'd have different solutions depending on what the shot was. We were constantly working out with the post-production guys what the budget was, where I could afford to have these more expensive money shots, and basically trying to make sure that there was a development of shots over the course of the film, so that as the film unfolds, you actually see more and more spectacular affects, even though they play quite subtly. Most people hopefully are so sucked into the story at that point that they don't realize what they're seeing has actually never been done in a film before. That kind of two-shot with the physical interaction [between the same actor] is something we did that Spike Jones stayed away from in Adaptation and Cronenberg certainly stayed away from in Dead Ringers. It's something we're very proud of.
And I'm quite familiar with effects anyways. I come from commercials. But we were able to work out if I don't use the special effect now, will I be able to use that money for this shot later on? It was kind of bartering throughout the filmmaking process, which is unusual, very stressful.
SW: At the same time, there's the rather charming, old-school use of models--just like in the '70s and '80s. Which lend their own texture to the film.
Jones: Yes! Absolutely... paying homage to films of the past and the way they had done the effects. Its kind of interesting because the techniques, and the ability to do those effects, was really reaching a real zenith, a high point in practical effects [in '70s and '80s]. And then there was the introduction of the CG monsters, like the Jurassic Park movies, where all of a sudden this whole skill set just disappears. And you don't have that many guys who have the [practical effects] expertise they had reached at that point, but we had a couple of them. They don't get to do whole lot films anymore. For them it was like a return to their youth, so it was very exciting for them.
We had this creative hybrid where we would shoot as much in-camera as we possibly could, and then [the computer-effects team] would be able to beautify it, and clean it up, take out all the fishing lines, digitally extend the lunar landscapes, and just give it that extra bit of polish audiences really need now to feel convinced that they're seeing something that is a proper future film.
SW: Do you think filmgoers are a little tired of the expensive, perfectly burnished CG image? There's a lot of dust and detritus on your moon base.
Jones: It was supposed to look gritty and real, but ...it had to look like it was real and not a mistake. We designed and built it, but not in the way a traditional commercials director would--where everything looks so photographically perfect. But there are directors I think who are able to use special effects; Ridley Scott knows how to use special effects. Maybe some of the other guys who are making the summer blockbusters are not utilizing them to the best of what you can do with them.
SW: Do you think that, as in your film, corporations will be leading future expeditions into space? Instead of for purely national or scientific purposes?
Jones: Absolutely. I think those nations like China that have this strange hybrid of capitalism and government spending are going to have an advantage in some ways. If they decide that getting to the moon is important for their national energy needs, for their security, they'll make it happen. They'll put in the money that's necessary to do it. Whereas I think in the West we're ...going to have to find ways to make each incremental step to fiscally pay for itself or be profitable. And I think something like Virgin Galactic is a good first step. It's going to move things forward, to improve our ability to do that for a cheaper cost.
SW: Will you continue in the sci-fi genre?
Jones: I know that my next project, should I be fortunate enough to make it, is something that feels like it fits in the Blade Runner genre. Mainly because I'm such a huge fan of that film. I think Blade Runner was one of a kind. I don't think anyone has every captured the vividness of that world and believability of that world the way that Ridley Scott did in Blade Runner.
SW: That was a big, costly film, of course. Is it possible to find a middle ground between the older, cheaper sci-films and the blockbusters of today?
Jones: We're moving in very small, independent steps to do smarter sci-fi. But at the same time, I enjoy big popcorn movies just as much as anyone. So I would hope there would maybe be a spectrum of science-fiction movies, and it won't be kind of limited to one sort of science fiction. I don't want to see a Transformers film every year; I hope that there are going to be other kinds of science fiction out there.


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