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Skip to comments.Pace: Ongoing Probes Will Yield Facts About Haditha Incident
Posted on 05/29/2006 11:22:01 AM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2006 No good can come of speculation surrounding a Nov. 19 incident in Haditha, Iraq, in which 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, were killed in the aftermath of a roadside bomb attack, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today. Marine Gen. Peter Pace also stressed that investigations into alleged misconduct by U.S. Marines in the incident are not yet complete.
Appearing on CNN's "American Morning" for what was to have been an interview focusing on the nation's Memorial Day observance today, Pace told Miles O'Brien that two investigations are still in progress: one to find out what happened, and another to find out why senior officials were not aware of the misconduct allegations until February.
"We will find out what happened, and we'll make it public," Pace said. "But to speculate right now wouldn't do anybody any good."
Army Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, commander of Multinational Corps Iraq, initiated a preliminary investigation Feb. 14 when reporters told U.S. officials about allegations of possible violations of the rules of engagement by Marines. In a March 17 news conference, the general said he had ordered further investigation based on the results of the initial probe.
"I understand it's going to be a couple of more weeks before those investigations are complete, and we should not prejudge the outcome," Pace said today. "But we should, in fact, as leaders, take on the responsibility to get out and talk to our troops and make sure that they understand that what 99.9 percent of them are doing, which is fighting with honor and courage, is exactly what we expect of them."
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Michael W. Hagee is in Iraq doing just that, the chairman said, "because regardless of where this investigation goes, we want to ensure that our troops understand what's expected of them in combat."
Asked if he suspects that a cover-up at lower levels of command caused the delay between the incident and senior officials becoming aware of possible misconduct, Pace said he doesn't suspect anything, but rather is waiting for the investigation to yield the facts.
"If the allegations, as they're being portrayed in the newspaper, turn out to be valid, then of course there will be charges," he said. "But we don't know yet what the outcome will be. It'll take its course. It will be made public, and we'll all be able to make our own judgments."
"No good can come of speculation surrounding a Nov. 19 incident in Haditha, Iraq..."
Which is probably why Rep. Murtha is flying around the country crowing about war crimes to anyone who will listen. He means no good.
Unlike lowlife Jack Murtha, General Pace not only is giving our military the presumption of innocence, but understands the basic principle of American law.
May God bless all our military on this Memorial Day.
I'd like to draw his Marine Saber from it's scabbard as Mush-Mouth Murtha stood at attention, snap the blade across my knee, hold the two pieces in my left hand spit on them and toss both pieces away. That's the insult I'd like to give Mush-Mouth Murtha.
May you continue to be so blessed.
Ping for General Pace.
Support Diana Irey for Congress
Make a repeat on Monte-Casino of it you say????
How about that?
Don't listen to ol' "Nuke Mecca" Tommy.
It's a shame we can't find a few politicians, besides Ms. Irey, to make similar statements.
God bless your son for his service, and your family for your sacrifices. Thank you for the details on this tragedy.
His opinion, Coop, and he is entitled to it. For the record, I HAVE NOT speculated anything-only reported accounts as I have read them for discussion. This is my last reply to you--you certainly have a bee in your bonnet WRT my comments. Here's an idea, don't read them.
Thanks for the picture...and thank you son for his service to our country..
I will pray that he comes home safe to you, soon.
Yours is the first post that I have seen about this that says that the Marines supposedly involved in this didn't even KNOW about it until much later???
A lot of this is not making sense...if you are going to believe Murtha, that is.
Gen. PETER PACE is THE Greatest.
Transcript: Gen. PETER PACE on *Fox News Sunday*
I just finished reading a piece by Victor Davis Hansen about what America has accomplished since 9/11...which was refreshing after seeing McCain's mug on TV...
He went on and on about how Rummy had screwed up by not sending in enough troops to Iraq..and how many mistakes he has made, and is continuing to make...blah, blah, blah.
It should be noted that Mr. Murtha publicly accused Gen. Pace of lying. Brave accusation knowing the general cannot publicly criticize a member of Congress. But I imagine he was thinking about Jackie when making these comments.
Saddly it happens to the Cops on the beat as well.
Those who've never heard the buzz of the lead bee, go past their ears or felt it's sting are always the first to cry foul because they know not of that which they speak.
In the day's of hand-wringing sob-sisters (past, present and I'm sad to say in the days yet to come), many elected Representatives of the Republic (notice I didn't say leaders) and Officers of the Republic (pampered, perfumed political, princes instead of Laurel Wreathed Commanders of the Legions) give way to the cries of the host from the Circus-Maximus instead of following Honor.
President Bush has more guts than you and me combined.
Thank God each generation has its heroes willing to step into uniform!
Somehow, I don't think the more than usual killing in Iraq, on OUR Memorial Day, is a coincidence.
Oh, and thanks for letting us know your son is home...I am so very glad to hear that...please thank him for me.
When an E3 infantryman returns fire or is forced to make a split second life or death decision and there is collateral damage we bring in the media, the military lawyers and the antiwar crowd crying for their scalps. This is because our leaders (Bush included) do not have the guts or judgment that we expect from 19 year old soldiers.
If Marines were set up by insurgents, they could be holding the survivors/neighbors 'hostage' Threatening them with some of their jolly little treats.
Of course, the Marines could be guilty...
of trying to save their own lives.
LOL--fine my friend. God Bless our troops--and you.
Needless to say, I don't know what happened in Haditha.
But I'm inclined to give the Marines the benefit of the doubt until something solid appears.
I remember last year when the media tried to nail a Lt. Pantano on similar charges, before he was ultimately exonerated. I would think that the same result is likely here.
My guess as to what happened? They failed in their efforts against Pantano, they're coming back with something else against different men.
Not sure what to make of it yet as haven't found the DOD reply yet.
1) We have already been there longer than WWII.
2) There is no real De-Baathification program. Saddam and his henchmen are still alive.
3) We tolerate, and even promote the religious fanatics and militias that are killing our GIs. Muktada al Sadr is still alive and causing problems
5) I can count of at least 5 public incidents were front line soldiers have had legal actions initiated for combat related incidents.
Peter Pace is awesome.
President Bush does NOT control the rules under which the military operates on the field of battle. There are military codes and military lawyers and the like...you must know that.
The decision WAS made at the highest level, no doubt, to work with the Iraqis that we could work with, as soon as we could do so. It was their country, not ours. We ousted Saddam and killed his sons. Yes, a lot of troubling stuff has happened and will. Like the Ayatollah Sistani for instance, Mr. Big of the Shias, does not want us to Kill Sadr. He believes it would go much worse for us to make him a martyr. So we have listened to his advice, as he has actually done MUCH to help us otherwise.
I am one who agrees with the judgement of the President that we should not have tried to lock down that country under the hammerlock of American force and power. Many people disagree with me and blame the President because we did not go in there and virtually destroy the place and what was left run it like a dictatorship. Fine. Disagree.
But Coop is right. The President has ten times the guts he even needs. You are drawing an unsupported conclusion that his judgement and decisions were due to lack of guts. Really, you just disagree with them.
Nobody is gutless in this little dustup here. But it's too easy to say so from your typewriter on the internet, even when so much about this man absolutely proves otherwise.
Unfortunately, if they are found innocent the real outrage and cries of massive cover-up will start, louder than ever.
That is the wrongness of the media trying what they wish to in the public eye as they are doing.
They have condemned the Marines before anyone actually knows for sure what happened.
You leave out many details. Our troops are allowed to defend themselves, especially when fired upon. Your blanket implication is pretty lame.
I'm sorry you feel betrayed from Vietnam, but I thank you for your service.
The liberals cry about "tainting the jury pool" when it comes to a dubious accusation of rape. However, when it comes to Marines being accused of murder, there is no such concern. Hypocrits is an understatement.
Thanks for reminding me of their previous tangles. :-)
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Women's College World Series: Shelby Pendley has supplied effort, production for Sooners
In the first inning Thursday night, Oklahoma's Shelby Pendley launched her team-leading 18th home run of the season. A couple innings later, she tumbled head-first into the Alabama dugout trying to catch a foul popup.
And in the fifth inning, with Alabama's bats torching the Sooners, Pendley moved from third base to the pitcher's circle and didn't allow a hit the rest of the game.
Effort and production have been the cornerstones of Pendley's All-American season for the seventh-seeded Sooners, who need to embrace the attitude of their leader as they face elimination at the Women's College World Series.
"She's a competitor," OU coach Patty Gasso said. "The fact that she can play a great third base, I can bring her in to pitch… She can run well. She is a complete player."
Pendley has a 1.73 earned-run average in 22 pitching appearances, which isn't quite as impressive as her team-leading .429 batting average. And she was named to the Big 12 Conference All-Defensive team for her play at third base.
OU will take on Louisiana-Lafayette at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Hall of Fame Stadium, with the loser heading home. The winner advances to an 8:30 elimination game against top-seeded Oregon, which fell 4-0 to Florida on Friday night.
A junior, Pendley hadn't pitched since high school, but with the Sooners in need of a secondary option behind starter Kelsey Stevens, Pendley volunteered.
"In high school, I didn't really like pitching at all," Pendley said. "We needed a pitcher and I brought it up, and Coach Gasso thought it was kind of funny. Then she had me doing a little tryout."
Pendley made her pitching debut on a road trip to Lafayette, where the Sooners lost two of three games against the Ragin' Cajuns in March.
Pendley struggled at the WCWS last year, but she has looked far more comfortable the second time around. And the Sooners need her to keep it up if they're going to survive past Saturday at the WCWS.
"She loves that opportunity to compete," Gasso said. "She is one of the better ones I've seen in a long time."

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You'll never believe what SF Pride CEO Earl Plante tells KTVU-2 News. Plus I love the chants.
Court Martial or Grand Marshal? Why did SF Pride Ban Bradley Manning? 7 May 2013
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YouTube info: "Well, there's a couple of reasons for that!" What ARE the reasons Bradley Manning was barred from becoming Grand Marshal of San Francisco Pride 2013? You'll be happy to know they're very simple.
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Chanting: "Shame, shame, shame on Pride! Shame, shame, shame on Pride! ..."
KTVU-2 Heather Holmes: This hallway is as far as these protesters got in delivering a message to the San Francisco Pride Board of Directors.
KTVU-2 Heather Holmes: No cameras at a public meeting?
Guy barring entrance: That's the request of --
KTVU-2 Heather Holmes: The request of who?
Guy barring entrance: The board.
KTVU-2 Heather Holmes: The board was meeting upstairs. SF Pride's CEO tells me it was in an effort to quell the recent uproar stemming from the decision to uninvite First Class Bradley Manning as a Grand Marshal for next month's Pride parade. Manning is the gay man who leaked 700,000 classified government documents to WikiLeaks.
Earl Plante, SF Pride CEO: Part of the reason why we wanted to have this meeting tonight is to really listen to the community, hear their concerns, and try to move forward in a proactive way.
Chanting outside in the hallway: "Let the press in! Let the press in!"
KTVU-2 Heather Holmes: But if you really wanted to listen, why block people and block the press from covering the meeting?
Earl Plante: Well, there's a couple of reasons for that.
Chanting: "We say Grand Marshal!" "They say court martial!" "We say Grand Marshal!" "They say court martial!" …
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(With the exception of the ending, most of this is a clip from KTVU Channel 2 News segment here, which reports that the board decided to reschedule the meeting in a larger venue this week).
UPDATE: They lied! Meeting will not be rescheduled. See Kevin Gosztola's post tonight on Firedoglake and the Pride Board's announcement on Facebook. What a piece of work! Meeting postponed to find better accommodations to hear everyone, and the Bradley Manning decision is closed. In the same breath! The fuckers!
SF Pride's decision concerning the election process of Bradley Manning as Grand Marshal being consistent with SF Pride's long standing Grand Marshal election policy is firm. Thus, the discussion of that matter is closed for this year.
A meeting in a larger venue after the 2013 Celebration and Parade will allow people from all sides of that issue and others to fully air and hear one another's viewpoints, without jeopardizing the production of this year's event and the safety and security of the attendees. We ask everyone in the community to come together in Pride this June, recognizing that we can embrace difference without violence and hate.
|Let the press in!
|Earl Plante really listen
|Well, there's a couple of reasons
|Shame on Pride!
|No cameras allowed
|Bradley Manning Grand Marshal
"... hear one another's viewpoints, without jeopardizing the production of this year's event and the safety and security of the attendees... "
Dear Lord.
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I am off by 30 lbs.
I just renewed my license by mail, and realized that my license says that I weigh 125. I weigh 155 right now. My goal weight is about 140, so that's what I should have changed it to
I am off by 30 lbs.
I just renewed my license by mail, and realized that my license says that I weigh 125. I weigh 155 right now. My goal weight is about 140, so that's what I should have changed it to
Twelve pounds. Though it also says I'm 5'3" when I'm really 5'4", so it's probably a wash.
A working person voting Republican is like a chicken voting Col. Sanders.
My weight is not listed on my DL. Only height, eye color.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
LOL, mine still says 160, just like in high school. But, uh no, not so accurate! This past year on my b-day when I renewed, they asked if my height & weight was the same and I said "Sure, let's just pretend they are"! Ha ha! My goal weight is 150 and I'm slowly but surely creeping closer. I'll not give away my actuals though
Proud Mommy to Noah (3/5/99), Autumn (10/24/02) and Lyla (8/28/07)
te he he... mine is like 60-65 lbs off. I gained a lot of weight when I moved to Arizona and then I had my DD and the weight hasn't come off from having her either.
Angel Baby @ 7weeks 9/05
DD Hailey 10/07
Angel Baby @ 10 weeks 3/16
Dude, if I had to put my weight on my DL I think I'd just take the bus! ;) Thankfully we don't do that in PA!
Thankfully, I'm pretty sure my weight isn't even on my driver's license. God bless New Hampshire!! LOL
~ The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~Washington Irving
Gina, Mommy to Parker
mine still has my pre-baby weight on it since i got it renewed like two weeks after my b-day (and a week after i found out i was pg). it's now off by probably 40-50 lbs that i just can't seem to lose
Alissa mom to:
Viktoria Rose 8/30/06, Angel baby Jayden 9/12, Aiden Alexander 3/10/14
Happily (most of the time) married since 9-3-12
They ask for my weight, but it doesn't get printed on the license.
I'll tell you that whenever I'm asked, I give 170 lbs and I'm not even close to that in reality. (I like to think that I don't look like the biggest liar who gave their weight that day.) No one even blinks an eye.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm about 7 pounds less than what my license says I am. I was 130 back then.
Karyn ~♥~ heart transplant (1.7.06) ~♥~ mama to DS (5.26.03) and DS (4.2.05, born at 33 weeks due to complications with my cardiomyopathy)
parrothead ... did you write my post? My license says 125, my actual weight is 150, and my goal is 140.
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-- Increase small business income-tax reductions to 75 percent from 50 percent for tax year 2014.
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The ranks of those who have weighed in on last week's disappointing E3 is both long and distinguished.
Add Entertainment Consumers Association president Hal Halpin to the list, but with a unique twist.
In his analysis of the show for GameDaily, Hal reveals much of the backstory as to the origins of E3:
[E3] was conceived as a standalone show… as [the game biz] matured back in the early nineties. Game publishers were members of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and showed their wares at… (CES) – a gargantuan event, which is still held in the Las Vegas Convention Center…. As the sector grew and the confines of the LVCC did not… Game publishers complained to each other about their second-class treatment and talked of their own show.
…the publishers approached the CES staff and CEA about a CEA-owned and run dedicated gaming event. The CEA board passed, likely thinking that the up-and-coming business was a fad [and] led the disenfranchised games folks to launch the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA), the predecessor of the ESA… the brand new trade association… created a joint venture with IDG, the publishers of GamePro magazine and a formidable event marketing and publishing business… E3 was born.
There's more history in the GD article. If that kind of thing interests you, check it out. Going forward, Hal believes E3 will surive and suggests a less cavernous venue than the LACC as well as offering public admission during the show's final days, as per the Tokyo Games Show:
…the fate of E3 is far from set in stone… I'd have to respectfully disagree that the show is either the raving success that one outlet described or that it is dead, as many have stated. E3 is standing upon the precipice. There are no easy decisions here…
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The Source CodeThere is only one class in this foo library plus a
file which means that the build system used will be qmake based.
Save the files below in a directory called libfoo. Be aware that this directory will be referenced by the binding Makefile presented in a later section of this tutorial. If you want to use other names or paths, remember to change the binding Makefile accordingly. Blind copy'n'paste shortens your life.
#ifndef FOO_H #define FOO_H #include <QtCore> class Math : public QObject { Q_OBJECT public: Math() {} virtual ~Math() {} int squared(int x); }; #endif // FOO_H
#include "foo.h" int Math::squared(int x) { return x * x; }
TEMPLATE = lib TARGET = foo DEPENDPATH += . INCLUDEPATH+= . HEADERS += foo.h SOURCES+= foo.cpp
To build the lib:
$ cd libfoo $ qmake $ make


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Tutorial: How to Implement In-app Billing in Android – Part 2
Part 1 of this article was my guide on how to get started with in-app purchases in Android. It was published in July 2014. Finally, here is part 2. …
Part 1 covered the operational side of things: defining in-app products, application keys, etc. In this article, I will offer some suggestions on how to adapt the TrivialDrive code for your own app. The code provided with TrivialDrive is very well structured and we all can learn a lot from it. Most of the hard work is done in classes inside the util package of TrivialDrive. Without that package, the MainActivity would be much more difficult. The changes I suggest below are refinements on what is in the MainActivity provided by the Google team.
For my own work, I made the transition from the in-app purchases of the TrivialDrive sample app (Figure 1, left) to the purchases of my space war app (Figure 2, right). Continue reading
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… Download. If you'd like to download the presentation, the link is in the full article.
Continue reading
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In an earlier article, I wrote about in-app billing inside an Android game app I am working on. This is the first of two follow-up articles in which I explain how to add in-app billing to your game or other app. In this article I will walk you through the steps for the TrivialDrive example program from the Android Developers website. That website provides a sample in-app billing (IAB) app. It shows you how to do simple in-app purchases and subscriptions. … The focus on this article has been on getting a working example going. That is a really important step. The TrivialDrive app will be your reference app as you move ahead with your own app. I do not recommend skipping the TrivialDrive example. There are too many things that can go wrong if you are learning the basics of in-app billing at the same time as you are adding items to your own app. Continue reading
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In-app Billing in an Android Space War Game
I am writing a series of articles about how to implement in-app billing for an Android game app. I will get that started by telling you something about the game app I am working on and how in-app purchases tie in to upgrades within the game. …
Starship is a turn-based, single player, space war game. You command a very powerful starship. Your mission is to find and destroy alien starships that have invaded the galaxy. … As you play the game, you earn gold coins. The coins can be used to purchase items that improve your capabilities. …
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Android Rotate and Scale Bitmap Example
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Guillermo Del Toro is the original fan boy. The director who has been behind an amazing variation of creatively powerful work, from
Pan's Labyrinth
, Del Toro is passionately engaged in the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi. So much so that he acknowledged his own obsession by dubbing his latest effort,
Pacific Rim
, "robot porn."
Robot porn it is. The terrifying Kaiju -- huge monsters from the depth of the ocean, each with its own physiognomy and personality -- meet the 250-foot high Jaegers, man-made and man-directed battleship-like robots. The immensity of these main characters (who play alongside a cast of human actors with their human dramas) can't be over-stated. Perhaps it's no surprise that
Industrial Light & Magic
(ILM), a pioneer in all VFX, brought this all to life.
ILM hard surface modeler David Fogler enumerates some of the stats: The Jaeger 'Gipsy Danger' is so large that the Statue of Liberty would only reach its knees. It is 10 times taller than King Kong and its feet are as long as two city buses. She (in the tradition that battleships are referred to as females) takes only two steps to cross a football field.
(L-r) The United States' Gipsy Danger and Australia's Striker Eureka.
ILM created 21 variations of Gipsy Danger, accounting for its two major upgrades and all the battle damage. "We had to compensate for all those different versions of Gipsy," says co-VFX supervisor Eddie Pasquarello. "Multiple artists actively worked on the Gipsy Danger model for a full year."
The Kaiju (Japanese for "strange creature") had its own challenges. Their power is classified, like hurricanes, on a scale of 1 through 5, 4 and 5 being the most destructive to the Jaegers. Kaiju are organic; they're not born, however, but grown. And their blood is a corrosive glowing liquid called Kaiju Blue. Onibaba is a Category 2 Kaiju; Knifehead is Category 3; and Category 4 Kaiju include Leatherback, Otachi, Raiju, Scunner and Sydney.
"The Jaegers and the Kaijus are central to the film -- not more important than the actors of course, but if they don't work, the film won't work," says ILM Animation Supervisor Hal Hickel. "Normally on a project, we go out and look at whatever we can to provide references. We did that for
Jurassic Park
, when we went to the zoo and looked at giraffes and ostriches among other animals. But with 250-foot machines, there's nothing that will help you with that. We had to use our imaginations."
ILM Animation Supervisor Hal Hickel
ILM VFX Supervisor
Eddie Pasquarello
The shot count for
Pacific Rim
was 1566, and ILM split the work up among its San Francisco (432 shots), Singapore (163 shots) and Vancouver (190 shots) facilities. ILM's John Knoll was the overall VFX supervisor; Pasquarello and Lindy DeQuattro were co-VFX supervisors; and Nigel Sumner was the VFX Supervisor at ILM's Singapore facility. Although the lion's share of the VFX were done by ILM, Pasquarello reports that some work was also done by
Base FX
Rodeo FX
Ghost VFX
"I was a very nice mix of companies and workers," says Pasquarello. "I feel like we cast it well, to everyone's strength. No company just did rotoscoping; everyone did their shots from start to finish, so everyone shared in the full finalling process. We're super proud of everyone who worked on it.
Rodeo does gorgeous environments, including some of the establishing shots flying into the Shatterdome in Hong Kong; Base FX worked on Shatterdome interiors using ILM assets and also did work on placing Jaegers inside the Shatterdome; Ghost FX did some interior work as well as a sequence where you see buildings constructed around the fallen Kaijus; and Hybride did all the phenomenal heads-up displays and graphics."
"All these companies took on unique challenges and did very well," he concludes. ILM also supervised all these far-flung companies: Base FX is in Beijing; Rodeo FX and Hybride in Montreal; and Ghost VFX in Copenhagen. "We had lots of
sessions together," says Pasquarello. "We share a pipeline with Vancouver and Singapore mirrors our pipeline. Lindy and I covered all the third party work together and we'd have our own dailies and CineSync sessions as well as online reviews."
ILM got the
Pacific Rim
job by completing a test; along with several other contenders, they completed a sequence that was part of the Hong Kong battle between Kaiju and Jaegers. "I read that Guillermo was privately hoping it would be ILM," says Pasquarello. "Fortunately, our test impressed him, Legendary and Warner Bros."
From the beginning, Del Toro told ILM that he wanted a look that was gritty and dirty. "He wanted you to see the oil, the dirt," says Pasquarello. "He didn't want unrealistic camera moves and shaky cam. He wanted you to feel that you could actually put a camera in that position as opposed to something you couldn't believe."
One of the first things Del Toro told the ILM group was that they had to assume that some of the shooting -- to be realistic -- would have to be from a helicopter. " He wanted to see the rotor wash in the water below, from the off-frame camera shooting it," Pasquarello says. "You see flaring and splashing on the lens that isn't stylistic. He wanted it all grounded in actuality across the board."
China's Crimson Typhoon.
The goal of creating realism with such un-real creatures hit its first bump when it came to the push-pull between scale and speed in animating them. "The first thing you do to suggest huge scale is to slow things down," says Hickel. "But the sequences are action-sequences so you can't slow it down. We had to figure out how fast we could go and still have it feel as big as we wanted it to feel. Part of it was taking into consideration that they wouldn't be fighting in an open space but a big chunk in Hong Kong and another chunk in the ocean, so there would be fluid simulations of the ocean reacting to them. We have very sophisticated software to do that to make water and its reactions as realistic as possible. But if we were to animate the characters too fast, it wouldn't mesh with the realistic water motion."
(L-r) China's Crimson Typhoon and Russia's Cherno Alpha.
"The same with the Kaijus and Jaegers crashing through the city," he adds. "If they're trashing through too quickly, it won't look realistic. We had to figure out how fast we could go, and then it became a challenge to design of the sequence, how to cut from one shot to the next. Guillermo has an awesome sense of rhythm, when to speed up and slow down, when to add the lightning flash. On our end, we contributed ideas."
The United States' Gipsy Danger.
"In one scene, Gipsy Danger is throwing a roundhouse punch and if we showed the punch wide, it would feel like slow motion," he says. "A little of that is nice to give it scale and grandeur, but the way it actually plays in the scene we start on the live actors and we see the Jaegers throwing the punch, then we see Gipsy mid-way through the punch. Then we added a shot that looks like we mounted the camera on the fist of the Jaeger, which creates a visceral exciting shot. Figuring out interesting angles to shoot things and using the standard time-honored editorial tricks of when to cut on the impact and what angle to use worked with what we were doing in animation to make it look fast."
Pasquarello agrees that ILM was "constantly trying to find weight and show proper scale." "I think we achieved it better than we could have imagined and at the same time to Guillermo's aesthetic," he says. "He knows better than anyone the Toho movies he's paying tribute to. When you combine that aesthetic with the scale of the movie, it's unique, something you haven't seen before. And Guillermo pushed us to that."
Differentiating the Kaijus from the Jaegers was important. "I had a conversation with Guillermo early on," says Hickel. "I said, the Jaegers are bipeds controlled by people, so do you want to use motion capture? He said, no, I want to have very intentionally stylized motion so that you can really feel that there is machinery inside, that the Jaeger is doing what the pilots inside do, but it's machine parts that make this 250-foot machine go forward."
Director GUILLERMO DEL TORO on the set.
They rejected the idea of a lurching stop-start mechanical look. "We couldn't go there, partly because it starts looking goofy and not capable of defeating a monster," says Hickel. "If you imagine all that weight, once you get it up to speed, the idea you'll get it to stop and then bring it up to speed doesn't make sense. We had to respect the mass moving. It can't come to a sharp stop, but we had to find ways within the motion, such as the arm motion, to put in little hard stops and mechanical recoils that was almost a layer on top of the motion that tells the audience it's a big machines."
Just as Del Toro was interested in a larger realism with regard to the movie's look, he also wanted the realism of seeing as many small details as possible. "The Jaegers are pretty simple forms, covered with armored plating," says Hickel. "He wanted them to feel like walking battleships. But between the plates, he wanted to make sure the audience sensed that it was packed full of machinery, and we see the pistons and gears moving. This thing is enormous, complex and mechanical."
A walking battleship. The United States' Gipsy Danger moves a crab fishing boat out of danger.
As Pasquarello notes, Del Toro wanted to see "the small against the large." "You see the little pistons moving in this 250-foot creature," he says. "You see the levels of scale that the Jaeger effects when it walks through the ocean. The result is layered and complex, and it all adds up to a very believable war environment."
"This is just good filmmaking," he adds. "When you see this large Jaeger, you have nothing to measure against it unless you put something against it scale-wise. Guillermo is a master of the way he composes the shots so, for example, putting a piece of the Shatterdome behind a Jaeger. A lot of our shots were designed to push the envelope of selling the scale of the movie."
The challenge of creating the Kaijus was different than that of the Jaegers. "We had to make them look organic," says Hickel. "And that is more familiar to us, since we've done so much creature work throughout the years. The design of the creatures guided the animation. Leatherback is reminiscent of a gorilla, so you want to move him like a gorilla. Otachi, who is this smart, wily, mean-looking Kaiju, needed to look like he was thinking and calculating, and he looked more like a dragon with that movement."
A Kaiju, code name Leatherback.
"Guillermo would give us info about the personalities of the different Kaijus, and, for the animators, that's the fun part," he says. "You get a cool creature and some words about the inner life of the creature and then you go to town on it...with the same scale challenges as the rest of the film. But that was less of a discover process than the mechanical language for the Jaegers. The tricky part for us with the Kaijus is that Guillermo loves his monsters and thinks a lot about them. If we were ever vamping with a monster -- having it stand there and not do anything with a purpose -- Guillermo always pushed us to make the characters always look engaged, never just sitting around waiting for the next punch to come. He wanted them to feel like they're present in the scene, otherwise it's bad acting."
"It's good to be pushed that way," Hickel adds. "Guillermo is very literate about animation of all kinds and he really speaks our language and we can have really great conversations with him, which is a lot of fun."
Russia's Cherno Alpha
Hickel says another big challenge in the film was the simulations such as the water and destruction. "It was so complex and intense on this show," he says. "CG water is hard to do and we've been doing it on and off since
Perfect Storm
. And it never gets any easier. We're getting better at it, but we're always asking our artists for more. We did some good work with the maelstrom in
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
as well as in
. But in
Pacific Rim
, many scenes take place in or under the water. Or, if not, it's raining, and dripping off the creatures. All that work is worth noting."
Pacific Rim
's pipeline was similar to that of an animated feature. "We wanted to get the animation right before we started simulating, and we tried not to do too many things simultaneously," says Pasquarello. "When Gipsy Danger is walking through the sea, he's displacing lots of water, but then there's the second and third sim of how it splashes back, hits Gipsy and rolls back off. With our pipeline, similar to the way you'd do an animation feature, we'd lock up the animation up front." ILM used
for animation; its main renderer was
were also used. For environments, ILM artists used
3ds Max
and V-Ray,
for compositing, The Foundry's
for paint, and a proprietary rotoscoping tool.
(L-r) The United States' Gipsy Danger and Australia's Striker Eureka.
In looking back at the work on
Pacific Rim
, Pasquarello says that scale was perhaps the biggest challenge. "The Shatterdome, where the Jaegers are housed and serviced, was very difficult in the sense that it needed to feel like a little city so there are all kinds of scale issues there," he says. "You believe it is a city of its own and that proves just as challenging as anything else. Guillermo doesn't take anything lightly. He's the perfect client in that sense because everyone here likes to take things to the max, and he pushed us to do that."
Pacific Rim
, in fact, was the first time that Del Toro worked with ILM, and the collaboration was both unique and especially rewarding for all the fanboy-artists at ILM.
"The collaboration with Guillermo wasn't typical," says Pasquarello. "He was here on the ground, with us and aware of what everything took he used every effort for the maximum effect on the screen. Having him be such an integral part of the team as opposed to being elsewhere and having us show him shots drove us to new heights."
Japan's Coyote Tango.
Then there's the synergy between Del Toro and the kind of people who are drawn to careers in visual effects. "ILM is full of fan boys exactly like Guillermo," says Hickel. "People can sense his love for the material, the fun of making monsters which is part of what we do here. He loves that and we love him."
"It's a geeky group," admits Pasquarello. "I keep trying to tell myself I'm not one of them but I have the Kaiju toys behind me on my desk. Guillermo was here a lot and called the whole crew together several times. He wanted everyone here to understand his decisions and what they were doing and to believe in it. So people got more invested because he was passionate. We felt his heart in this and we all bought into it."
That love of the genre clearly translates to the screen, and critics and audiences are responding to it. It seems a bit surprising that
Pacific Rim
is the first time that fantasy-loving Del Toro worked with the masters of illusion ILM. Clearly, it was a good marriage.
Pacific Rim Trailer - "Resistance" from Warner Bros. Pictures
Photo Credits in order of appearance:
(L-R) The United States' Gipsy Danger and Australia's Striker Eureka in a scene from the sci-fi action adventure "Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM," a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
ILM Animation Supervisor Hal Hickel
Industrial Light & Magic VFX supervisor Eddie Pasquarello
China's Crimson Typhoon in a scene from the sci-fi action adventure Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
(L-r) Russia's Cherno Alpha and China's Crimson Typhoon in a scene from the sci-fi action adventure "Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM," a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
The United States' Gipsy Danger in a scene from the sci-fi action adventure Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
Director GUILLERMO DEL TORO on the set of the sci-fi action adventure Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: KERRY HAYES. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
The United States' Gipsy Danger moves a crab fishing boat out of danger in a scene from the sci-fi action adventure Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Pacific Rim, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
A Kaiju, code name Leatherback, in a scene from the sci-fi action adventure "Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM," a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
Russia's Cherno Alpha in a scene from the sci-fi action adventure Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
(L-r) The United States' Gipsy Danger and Australia's Striker Eureka in a scene from the sci-fi action adventure Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
Japan's Coyote Tango in a scene from the sci-fi action adventure Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. © 2013 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND LEGENDARY PICTURES FUNDING, LLC.
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Pacific Rim Animated by Industrial Light & Magic
Matthew Gleason
Wow, great article. Visually very well done.
Re: Pacific Rim Animated by Industrial Light & Magic
Mark Suszko
Just for fun, I wanted to read about the animator/compositor assigned the inglorious job of modeling and rendering the mountain of kaiju "poop" in one of the film's early establishing scenes. I'm just trying to imagine that editor coming home to brag about his or her work on Del Toro's masterpiece, then, when asked what part they animated, has to say what part they actually worked on. It's like the old joke about the priest hitting a hole in one ion a Sunday. Well, maybe that will come up in some session at Comicon:-)
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Jim Hines
Tragic all that talent went into bringing those now tired old generic/cliche scifi elements, robots and monsters to life.
Somebody tell me I'm wrong. Tell me we haven't seen these creations many times on screen in the past decade or so. It's just tragic producers and studios aren't daring enough to turn the creatives loose to make something unique and original. The tools and talented artists are there waiting to create them.
I know why they're afraid to take a chance at the box office. All that money involved. But they are killing the genre and wasting a generation of phenomenally creative artists. Just a shame.
Rock on!
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Steve Sayer
Jim, you asked me to tell you that you're wrong... so, with all due respect: I think you're wrong!
I'm very excited to see this film, specifically
it does seem to be a devoted love-letter to a classic (and admittedly often schlocky) genre. We've seen it before with rubber suits, with stop-motion miniatures, with hand-drawn animation... but never before with all the might and sophistication of modern-day cutting-edge VFX. Far from being a tired remake of something that's been done to death, this film promises to be a culmination, a long-awaited realization of something that we've always had in our imaginations but have never been able to see photorealistically on the big screen. The genre has grown up alongside its fans.
Far from being a waste of talent, I think this is a singularly appropriate
of talent. The article itself makes that point: people drawn to VFX careers tend to be exactly the kind of people who are excited by this kind of project. I'm an effects artist myself, and I would have given my right arm to be able to work on this film (well... except then I wouldn't be able to use my mouse!).
In no way does this imply that I'm not also, like you, looking forward to this level of sheer VFX horsepower
being applied to other, different, more unusual genres.
All that being said, I'm just going by the trailers... will be seeing the full film tonight, so my fingers are crossed!
@Steve Sayer
Jim Hines
Very well rebuted Steve. Nicely stated. And for the record my son (15) is on your side of this disagreement.
Just to be sure we're on the same page my beef is not with the subject matter but rather the conceptualization of the Mecha, Reptilian Monsters and the assorted HUD and random Sci Fi elements. It would seem to me that we've seen these designs before, e.g., Transformers, Cloverfield, Battleship, Ironman, are some that come to mind. My desire is to see a 'unique' take on this CG Elements.
I fully understand wanting to be a purist when it comes to representing a genre. Just as I'm sure there are some who might feel there is only one way to portray Frankenstein, Dracula, Werewolf, etc. But I feel there is not only room but a need to offer the movie goer a fresh version from time to time.
So to be clear and to reiterate it is not the subject matter or the execution that I'm at odds with. It is the artistic direction that I feel is "cliche".
Rock on!
@Jim Hine
Jim Hines
I should proofread before posting
"rebutted" "these" "goers" "cliché"
Re: @Steve Sayer
Steve Sayer
Thanks Jim--I see now I took slightly the wrong angle on your original post.
Still, there's something to be said, again, for taking designs that don't really break the mold too much, and simply translating them faithfully and spectacularly to the new level of scale and detail possible with today's effects technology. Maybe now that that's been done, we will see new ground being broken and different directions being tried. I share your anticipation!
There are some
of Del Toro talking
, which might interest you. Now, I don't know if I'm quite ready to believe him when he claims the Jaegers don't look like anything that's ever been done before. That being said, given the extremely long history of robot design and monster design... I find myself wondering if it's really possible for there to be something truly new under the sun? I sure wouldn't want to be the artist who had to come up with something totally new and fresh while still keeping to the needs of the film (clear silhouette, 'readable' mostly-bipedal motion and fighting styles, etc.).
For the record, I was
happier with the design and direction of the Jaegers than I have been with the recent Transformers. Those giant CG Transformers
represent a departure from tradition, a creative re-imagining of the robot motif... and I personally think it made for a terrible end product. Watching the first film (I've avoided the sequels!), I absolutely felt that
film was the 'waste of talent,' since all the incredible modeling, rigging, and animating efforts of hardworking artists ended up being so totally obscured by the chaotic, fragmented look of the characters, and especially the fights. As others have observed, in the midst of combat, you often couldn't even tell where an Autobot ended and a Decepticon began!
That certainly doesn't mean that
innovation is to be avoided... just that innovation for it's own sake doesn't automatically guarantee success.
So, for me, if the Jaegers look like the Iron Giant's Hollywood brothers and the kaiju look like Cloverfield's cousins, I don't mind that so much, so long as we get more readable interactions out of them. (If anything, I found the omnipresent water effects a little too obscuring/distracting in that regard.)
Thanks for your take! I found the film breathtaking as an effects vehicle, and was tremendously entertained. I hope you and your son will be (were?) as well!
(Oh, and it's worth mentioning that there's room even in such a massive effects film for some nice subtleties... have a look at
this article
, if you haven't already.)
@Steve Sayer
Jim Hines
Thanks for the links Steve. Good stuff. The discussion contrasting visual cues with verbal ones was thought provoking.
We saw the movie last evening. Wow!. ILM has every reason to crow and be proud. The 'scale' - they really pulled it off. So enormous. Everything was beautifully executed. And I did see some "unique" takes on some stock sci fi elements. My kids loved it (15, 11). My wife was mildly amused and I had a good time. We've come a long way from "Mechagodzilla". Favorite fight was when the Rodan style Kaiju carries Gypsy Danger up into the sky.
Rock on!
Re: @Steve Sayer
Mark Suszko
So, wait; you critiqued this movie BEFORE you went to see it?
@Mark Suszko
Jim Hines
I didn't critique the movie at all - before or after. I'm talking about the art direction which can be easily ascertained from still images and trailers.
The movie (story) was mediocre, if you want a review. Nothing new on an old framework. No Oscar winning performances (special merit for Mana Ashida - Young Mako) - no remarkable writing - missed on the Richard 2 "St. Crispin's Day" homage. Some welcome attempts at humor - But, no big surprises. You could tell all that from the trailers as well. It's not quantum physics. It was a nice distraction and I had fun. But not anymore fun than I did when I watched Godzilla back in the day.
So in conclusion, ILM and Del Toro did a bang up job with some tried and true formulas but in the end - a good well written story - trumps all.
Rock on!
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Lantron, Michael A., Sea Classics
Although women had served the Navy since the Revolutionary War, 1908 saw the formal introduction of the Navy Nurse Corps
Throughout March 2008, Sailors celebrated the many contributions of women to our Navy and nation during the 21st annual observance of Women's History Month.
Women have been officially serving as an integral part of the Navy since the establishment of the Nurse Corps in 1908.
Nine-years later, when America declared war on Germany in 1917, the Navy authorized the enlistment of women as "Yeomanettes" who primarily performed clerical and administrative functions. The Yeomanettes were disbanded with the cessation of hostilities. Meanwhile, the Navy Nurse Corps continued to function as part of the US Medical Corps.
In 1919, a small group of women served with the United States Navy as nurses, answering to male officers. Twenty-three-years later, in early August 1942, female officer Naval Reserve L/Cmdr. Mildred McAfee was commissioned into the US Navy amidst World War II to head up the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service program (WAVES). The use of the word "emergency," however, signified that the US Navy's top brass thought female service would cease when the emergency, or the war, came to and end. The reason for that was due to political resistance from many who did not believe women had a place in the US Navy, and for the program to take place, creative intrigue had to be used. A major force advocating women's place in the US military was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Despite the resistance from conservative officers, however, the demand was clearly there; for example, as early as January 1942, the Office of Naval Intelligence was recruiting female college students. Even as President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Navy Women's Reserve Act into law on 30 July 1942, few could predict that female service in the US Navy would become something that would last far beyond the "emergency."
By mid-1943, 27,000 American women served in the WAVES program. While their WWI counterparts served only as nurses and secretaries, these WWII-era women took up far more responsibilities. Secretarial and clerical jobs still made up a large portion of WAVES positions, but thousands of WAVES personnel performed other jobs such as aviation mechanics, photographers, control tower operators, and intelligence personnel. In late 1944, the WAVES program began accepting African American women at the ratio of one black woman for every 36 white women enlisted in the WAVES program. By the end of the war, over 84,000 women served in WAVES with 8000 female officers, which constituted 2.5-percent of the US Navy's personnel strength. …


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Feldman (6-11, 5.01 ERA): He is scheduled to make his 200th career appearance and 99th career start. He will be trying to snap a drought in which he has lost in his last five starts. Feldman hopes that September will be as productive for him as July. He was the Rangers' Player of the Month for July when he went 3-0 with a 1.96 earned run average. ... Feldman defeated the Royals 4-2 on Aug. 4 for his sixth straight win, but hasn't been able to break through in the victory column since. In that outing against the Royals, he went 7 2/3 innings and allowed six hits and two runs.
Hochevar (7-13, 5.34 ERA): He is coming off the shortest stint of his career last Saturday against Minnesota. Hochevar lasted just 1 2/3 innnings after allowing a three-run homer by Chris Parmelee in the first and a grand slam by Joe Mauer in the second. Prior to that disappointment, Hochevar had turned in three starts of at least seven innings. He worked eight shutout innings in a 1-0 victory over Tampa Bay on Aug. 21. ... Hochevar is 2-0 with a 2.78 ERA in five career starts against Texas.
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About 130 new students enrolled at Center Grove schools this year, the most growth the school district has had in five years, and now one elementary is getting new classrooms to prepare for future growth.
The school district will spend more than $1 million to add four classrooms to Center Grove Elementary School, which should be enough room for about 100 more students. The new classrooms are part of a larger construction project that includes moving the elementary school's gymnasium to the exterior of the building and creating a larger lunch room.
School officials had considered adding more classrooms when they started planning the project but weren't sure they would have enough money and moving the gymnasiums and renovating the cafeterias at Center Grove Elementary and North Grove Elementary schools were the top priorities.
After bids for the projects came in less than expected, the school district had enough to add the four new classrooms at Center Grove Elementary, Superintendent Richard Arkanoff said.
School districts don't have to ask voters to approve elementary school construction projects that cost $10 million or less.
"So with the lower cost savings we're able to move ahead with what we probably would have done two or three years out," Arkanoff said. "We're able to do it now."
Center Grove could add more students over the next several years as families with small children move into existing homes, and as new ones are built within the school district, Arkanoff said. While school officials can't know for sure where growth will happen, they have seen new homes and neighborhoods being built around the central and southern parts of the school district, around the intersection of Smith Valley Road and State Road 135.
Center Grove Elementary is in the center of the school district, so adding the four classrooms there will ensure there's room for more students who move into the area, Arkanoff said.
The school district also is moving a preschool for special education students out of Pleasant Grove Elementary and into the Professional Resource Center, which will open up two more classrooms at Pleasant Grove Elementary, Arkanoff and assistant superintendent Bill Long said.
New classrooms can't be added to North Grove Elementary, where work also is being done on the gymnasium and cafeteria, because the building is hemmed in by development, Arkanoff said.
Center Grove also is preparing to start a $20 million renovation project at Center Grove High School, which will include widening hallways and expanding the school district's media center. And as more students take online courses and classes at the Central Nine Career Center, classrooms at the high school should have plenty of room for students, Arkanoff said.
Right now Center Grove's two middle schools each have room for about 200 more students, or a total of about 400 more, although both Center Grove Middle School Central and Center Grove Middle School North have some classes with more than 30 students. That makes it difficult for teachers to provide individual help and extra instruction to students who are in danger of falling behind.
The large class sizes at the two middle schools aren't because of a shortage of space, but because the funding formula Indiana uses to pay for schools doesn't provide enough for the school district to hire more teachers, Arkanoff said. Schools receive money that pays for employee salaries and benefits based on the number of students they have enrolled.
Center Grove did add about 30 new positions at the start of the school year, including a kindergarten and a middle school world languages teacher. The school district also hired four middle school aides, several elementary school aides and eight positions outside of the classroom.
Center Grove Middle School Central teachers had asked their principal to encourage administrators to hire more teachers. Arkanoff said earlier this year that adding a teacher at the middle school would complicate the teams of three to four teachers who teach the same sets of students throughout the school year. United Teachers Association of Center Grove president Katie Hoffmann disagreed, and said that at Center Grove Middle School Central could convert a three-person team to a four-person team.