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Two streams, two stories: How Humans Alter Floods and Streams
In this class activity, students determine the discharge of a 100-year flood for two human-impacted streams. This activity supports the quantitative concepts of recurrence intervals, floods and flooding, and probability. It is appropriate for a class of under 40 students. This assignment uses real data, asks students to graph and interpret data, examines the errors associated with that data and its analysis, and requires the students to look at societal impacts. Learning goals, context for use,
Oyez. Oyez. Oyez.: Supreme Court Resource
The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. The Project also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality 'tour' of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some of the justices.
Introduction to Theory of Literature
This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?
Balls in a Box Model
The Balls in a Box model shows a system of particles is very sensitive to its initial conditions. In general, an isolated system of many particles that is prepared in a nonrandom configuration will change in time so as to approach its most random configuration where it is in equilibrium. What happens if we choose the initial conditions in a very special way? The default initial condition corresponds to eight stationary particles perfectly aligned on the x-axis. Two particles approach from the l
Inertial Oscillation Model
The EJS Inertial Oscillation model displays the motion of a particle moving over the surface of an oblate spheroid. The spheroid is flattened to an ellipsoid of revolution because it is rotating, just as the Earth is flattened because it is rotating. The particle is confined to motion along the surface by the spheroid's gravity; the motion parallel to the surface is treated as frictionless. The simulation shows simultaneously the motion with respect to the inertial coordinate system, and the mot
Great Circles Model
The EJS Great Circles model displays the frictionless motion of a particle that is constrained to follow the surface of a perfect sphere. The sphere rotates underneath the particle, but since there is no friction, and the sphere is perfectly spherical, the motion of the particle is not influenced by the sphere. The simulation shows simultaneously the trajectory with respect to the inertial coordinate system, and the trajectory as seen from a point of view that is co-rotating with the sphere. The
Circumnavigating Pendulum Model
The EJS Circumnavigating Pendulum model displays the dynamics of a mechanical oscillator in uniform circular motion. The mechanical oscillator is free to move in two directions. This 2-dimensional simulation displays all the dynamical features of the Foucault pendulum, except for the dependency of the Foucault pendulum precession on latitude. The simulation shows simultaneously the motion with respect to the inertial coordinate system, and the motion as seen from a co-rotating point of view.
Foucault Pendulum Model
The EJS Foucault Pendulum model displays the dynamics of a Foucault pendulum. The simulation is designed to show the dynamical explanation of why precession of the Foucault pendulum is slower at lower latitudes. The simulation shows simultaneously the motion with respect to the inertial coordinate system, and the motion as seen from a co-rotating point of view.
Renal, Fall 2007
The major objective of this sequence is for the students to obtain integrated information regarding the structure and function of the renal system, mainly the kidney, by attending lectures and participating in laboratory exercises. By the end of the sequence, we hope that the students will have acquired a working knowledge of: 1) how the various structural components in the kidney are specialized for processing the filtrate and producing urine, 2) what homeostatic mechanisms are involved in the
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Island Arc Magamatism
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New Zealand Warriors beat Penrith Panthers 30-16 in NRL Round 14 clash
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- June 12, 2012
- Fulltime - Warriors 30 Panthers 16
IVAN Cleary mentored young star Shaun Johnson. He told him how to compete in the NRL, taught him how to play smart wet-weather football.
That was when Cleary was coach of the New Zealand Warriors.
Last night at Centrebet Stadium, the advice of Cleary - who now coaches Penrith - came back to bite him.
Johnson produced a stellar wet-weather kicking game to guide his side to victory over the Panthers.
He has always been flashy, with electric footwork, but Johnson showed last night that he can now be shrewd, patient and mature.
Johnson kicked Penrith to death. In a strange way, Cleary must almost have been proud of Johnson's performance.
See how we covered the game at our match centre
"Both he and Jimmy Maloney (Warriors five-eighth) kicked really well," Cleary said.
"(Shaun) is a huge talent. Tonight was a mature performance really."
Warriors skipper Simon Mannering said Johnson was learning how to play smart.
"I enjoy it when he does the basics well," Mannering said. "He has that flashy side from his touch footy background but I like it when he gets us into the grind and kicks well. He played smart tonight."
Warriors coach Brian McClennan added: "Shaun played really tough tonight. He is a fine young talent.
"I thought he was really threatening.
"He put pressure on them with his kicking game."
Penrith might have lost, but they certainly dug in.
Without their three Origin stars - Luke Lewis, Michael Jennings and Tim Grant - the Panthers scored three tries in nine minutes during the first half to lead 16-12 at the break.
But in the second half, Penrith couldn't get out of their own half.
The Warriors' superior kicking game won through and Penrith were never really allowed to mount any pressure.New Zealand scored 18 unanswered points in the second half to secure an important win.
Panthers five-eighth Travis Burns was coughing up blood after the game and expected to be taken to hospital. Showing significant courage, though, Burns stayed on the field until fulltime.
Try as they did, Penrith are now equal last and struggling.
The club certainly needs an injection of players but that could be difficult given salary cap pressures.
No doubt the turning point came in the 53rd minute when fullback Lachlan Coote attempted a tap-on pass which was scooped up by Warriors centre Konrad Hurrell. He then raced away to score and give his side a lead they did not relinquish.
"We had no field position in the second half and they kicked better than we did," Cleary said. "They built pressure on us."
Panthers skipper Kevin Kingston praised his team's effort. "We hung in there," he said. "We couldn't get out of our half. They choked us."
Aside from Johnson, Maloney and fullback Kevin Locke had strong games.
The Warriors haven't risen to any great heights this year but you get the feeling the best is yet to come.
They showed last year what they can achieve with a bit of momentum.
Asked where he thought his side's season stood at present, Mannering said: "We are behind where we would like to be but it was nice to get the two points tonight."
WARRIORS 30 (M Vatuvei 2 K Hurrell K Locke J Maloney tries J Maloney 5 goals) PENRITH 16 (G Daniela K Kingston J Mansour tries L Walsh 2 goals) at Centrebet Stadium. Referees: Steve Lyons, Brett Suttor. Crowd: 5,778.
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In the digital tech space, we're already seeing radical changes in television as it begins to converge more and more with the online world. Think about the massive transformation that TV has already gone through – starting with the humble video recorder to the range of connected satellite / cables boxes and gaming consoles – […]
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Slammers FC, one of the top girls programs in Southern California, has added Mia Hamm to its coaching staff. Hamm will work with older age teams whose athletes are approaching college. She will work on state, regional, national, and international championship preparations.
The Slammers' directors of coaching are brothers Ziad and Walid Khoury.
"To have a player of Mia's caliber and integrity training our players is an opportunity which will touch these kids forever," said Ziad. "Mia is truly a special person."
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Export prices in June 2007
July 17, 2007
Export prices increased 0.3 percent in June following a 0.2-percent rise in May and a 0.4-percent advance in April.
The June rise was mostly led by a 2.9-percent increase in agricultural prices, which resumed an upward trend after declining 1.4 percent in April and recording little movement in May.
A sharp rise in soybean prices led the June advance, although higher prices for corn, meat, and agricultural industrial supplies and materials contributed as well. Prices for agricultural exports rose 18.5 percent over the past year.
Nonagricultural prices increased in June by 0.1 percent. For the June 2006-2007 period, nonagricultural prices rose 2.9 percent while overall export prices increased 4.1 percent.
The June advance in nonagricultural prices was driven mostly by a 0.3-percent rise in the price index for nonagricultural industrial supplies and materials. Higher chemicals and fuel prices were the largest contributors to the increase.
These data are from the BLS International Price program. Import and export price data are subject to revision. Learn more in "U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes -- June 2007," (PDF) (TXT) news release USDL 07-1033.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Export prices in June 2007 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2007/jul/wk3/art02.htm (visited September 26, 2016).
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Skip to comments.Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres
Posted on 06/02/2010 7:02:32 AM PDT by CloudsofFlight
(Memphis 6/1/2010) A mystery is unfolding across MidSouth farms.
Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why.
Farmers are scratching their heads and some are worried their crops may be lost to the mysterious plague.
It's happening along a large swath of land near the Shelby and Tipton county border along Herring Hill Road and elsewhere near the Mississippi River bottoms.
Tiny dots appear to have burned onto leaves of all types of plants, and they appear different depending on the plant.
On corn stalks, the dots seem to turn white in the center.
On other plants, a white dust speckles the leaves and then destroys the green life underneath.
"We found it all in the herbs, in the flowers, in the plum tree, in the weeds," said organic farmer Toni Holt. "It's apparently in everything."
Holt grows organic produce that she sells at area farmers' markets.
As she and other farmers inspect the new growth covered in the perplexing plague, they fear their entire crop may be lost.
Less than ten miles from Holt's crops, the damage could possibly hit hundreds of acres of corn at Wilder Farms.
It appears to have hit everything in its path.
There does not seem to be anything in common with the affected plants.
The Holts raise organic crops, so they don't spray pesticides on any of their fruits and vegetables.
The first thought among some was a new parasite or insect caused the damage, but Wilder farms sprays pesticides and the damage there is exactly the same.
Farmers first noticed the damaging dots over the weekend.
Then Holt came home to find baby birds dead in their nests.
"There are two dead birds hanging out of two different bird houses, so we're concerned about that. We don't know if it's related, but it's alarming," said Holt. "We've got horses, we're concerned about the horses on the grass. We've got chickens. We sell our eggs at the market."
Farmers we spoke with are convinced something in the air caused this damage.
They're asking the USDA and other experts to look into the problem, and so are we.
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Don't worry, it has nothing to do with toxic dispersants being sprayed by the tons in the Gulf of Mexico, evaporating, and coming back down as rain
"We found it all in the herbs, in the flowers, in the plum tree, in the weeds," said organic farmer Toni Holt. "It's apparently in everything."
Bio-weapons testing? ( and no, I do not mean it's done by the US gov)
Have there been any crop-dusting planes seen?
The terrorists who perpetrated the 9-11 attacks were interested in crop dusting planes.
Sounds like several different things hitting at once. Maybe weather conditions have allow all to burst forth at once.
Fungus, virus, bacterial infection, etc.
Or it could be some weird crap from a shipping container from China or something.
Dense cosmic ray shower. Everyone put on a cap.
Has to be a fungus, imho.
Far more fun to blame it on an international conspiracy among British Petroleum, Red China and Monsanto.
"Farmers first noticed the damaging dots over the weekend.
Then Holt came home to find baby birds dead in their nests. "
Fungus kills birds?
Read THE BLASTED HEATH by H P lovecraft.
No Blade of Grass...I saw that movie 39 years ago! What a date! Garnett Theater, Tulsa, OK. Now closed.
The book was ...interesting. I have been a fan of post-apocalytic fiction for years.
Alas Babylon
Lucifer's Hammer
Some of the recent Jonny Ringo books in the Looking Glass series
Some writers do have a very. .. let's say 'vivid' imagination.
You are right....it is from the oil in the atmosphere ending up in the rain.
I don't think the birds are connected with the plant deaths.
It hasn't rained around here in a while. That's not it.
Just received and started to re-read "Lucifer's Hammer." I forgot how good it was. I read it the first and second times many years ago, and loved it.
No chemtrails around here either. It just came outta nowhere.
Thanks hennie pennie.
Hmmm...it will be interesting to find out what is going on....
Also read some of the comments under the original video link I posted. Someone was saying they were outside and it started sprinkling. They had to go in because the rain seemed to be burning her skin?
Here's the kicker below.
On May 25th, the Lucite facility next to Dupont on Hwy 51 and Fite Road in Millington had a chemical leak of sulfur trioxide. The chemical could easily have evaporated in our local atmosphere then recondensed as acid rain on nearby plants. Chemical burns can cause that kind of spotty damage. Sulfur trioxide combined with H2O results in sulfuric acid (SO3 + H2O = H2SO4) Wikipedia defines Acid Rain as ... "caused by emissions of compounds of ammonium, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids..."
Survivalist fiction at it's best
"Fallen Angels" is also a very good read.
More likely a by product of the flooding we've had. 2 weeks ago Tipton Co had 40,000 acres still under flood water.
Yes certain molds and fungus spores can kill. Mushrooms are a fungus, and certain ones can kill.
Thanks to HP for the ping to this thread.
Someone really needs to check crop dusting planes rented or used in the last week or so.
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Big Victory in Atlantic v. Howell: Court Rejects RIAA "Making Available" Theory
The district court in Atlantic v. Howell today denied the recording industry's motion for summary judgment against Mr. and Mrs. Howell, two lawyer-less defendants caught up in RIAA's litigation campaign against file-sharers. EFF filed an amicus brief on their behalf in the case and participated in oral argument.
In its order, the court delivers the most decisive rejection yet of the recording industry's "making available" theory of infringement (i.e., if someone could have downloaded it from you, you've violated copyright, even if no one ever did). Citing to the recent ruling in London-Sire v. Doe 1, the court concludes that "[t]he general rule, supported by the great weight of authority, is that infringement of the distribution right requires an actual dissemination of either copies or phonorecords." The court goes on to conclude that downloads by the recording industry's own investigator, MediaSentry, are not enough to establish distribution, at least based on the facts of this case (Mr. Howell maintains that, unbeknowst to him, the Kazaa software was sharing his entire hard drive). Finally, the court also suggests that P2P file-sharing may not implicate the distribution right at all, reasoning that what is really going on is a series of reproductions.
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Washington, 27 July (Argus) — The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused a Hong Kong firm and traders in Singapore of engaging in insider trading ahead of Chinese state-owned oil firm CNOOC's $17.9bn bid for Canadian independent Nexen.
The SEC obtained an emergency court order to seize the assets of Hong Kong-based Well Advantage and other, unknown traders in Singapore the agency alleges used insider information to reap more than $13mn by stockpiling Nexen shares ahead of the 23 July announcement.
Well Advantage is owned by Hong Kong businessman Zhang Zhi Rong, who the SEC said controls China Rongsheng Heavy Industries. Rongsheng is believed to have a "strategic cooperative agreement" with CNOOC.
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Gladys Cox, the organist at Unity ARP Church, seems to have perfect timing, in music and in life.
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The only occasion her timing seemed a little off was in 1972 when she was surprised by a third pregnancy. Her two sons, David and Phil, were 11 and 10.
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mouse>>>>Wiimote>>>>>>>>>>dual analog sticksOriginally Posted by Meesterjoj
There probably wouldn't be a FPS as good as halo 3...Seeing as what games the gamecube had, the wii probably wouldn't have a good FPS...people think the target market for wii is kids seeing as nintendo has pokemon, mario, and all that
mouse>>>>Wiimote>>>>>>>>>>dual analog sticksOriginally Posted by Meesterjoj
Wii games: Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Resident Evil 4, Zelda TP, SSX: Blur, Excite Truck, The Godfather, and Mario Kart Wii
PC games: Call of Duty 4, Halo 1, UT3, F.E.A.R., and The Orange Box.
PS3 games: Ratchet and Clank F.T.O.D., Resistance 2, Wipeout HD, and MGS4.
Game makers aren't that stupid, they know that most Wii owners are younger people, but they also know they is a good amount that aren't and craving a good FPS, however your point does make sense and they would make more money selling shooters to the other consoles, however with more shooters coming out for the other consoles would bring out clear winners and losers leaving losers to bring there business else where, AKA the Nintendo Wii.Originally Posted by IgotEm
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^actually the average age of Wii owners is 29 so developers have no excuse.
Wii games: Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Resident Evil 4, Zelda TP, SSX: Blur, Excite Truck, The Godfather, and Mario Kart Wii
PC games: Call of Duty 4, Halo 1, UT3, F.E.A.R., and The Orange Box.
PS3 games: Ratchet and Clank F.T.O.D., Resistance 2, Wipeout HD, and MGS4.
The Wii is marketed as an all-around console. A great FPS targets the 'hardcore' gamers that like intense gameplay AND superb graphics. A FPS game for the Wii could deliver the gameplay aspect, but the graphics requirement cannot.
The xbox 360 dominates FPS. It's unlikely that a game company would want to spend money for a Wii FPS when the xbox 360 is a sure thing (as long as the game doesn't suck, lol).
There is one other thing. I'm not sure how the xbox live membership works as far as who gets the money (exclusive to ms, % shared, etc?), but online play for the Wii does not generate any additional money. It may get more sales for the initial purchase of the game, but that's it.
IMO it's all about minimizing risk and maximizing profit, the Wii cannot offer that for a Halo-like FPS.
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i agree. if any game can do FPS perfect (and better than halo IMO) on wii, its timesplitters 4Originally Posted by JAKE196
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that is true. the problem is "hardcore" FPS shooter gamers wont wanna take the time to actually master a more advanced control scheme.Originally Posted by killik119
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Exactly. And that guy hasn't posted again because he knows that he just got owned.Originally Posted by JAKE196
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Hmmm Great question!
To me halo plays like a quake 3 mod with console controls. Actually if you ever played the console version of UT on the old xbox you start to see what I'm talking about. Out of all of the FPSs ,geared to be on the fantasy side with online being big, halo seems to be the slowest moving game. I think gears has them beat though.
About dumbing or slowing the controls down?
I don't know I've played metroid prime and you would be hard pressed to beat those bosses with the controls Halo has or it's controller. Really the only thing lacking is online play and a head set I guess.
Some one could easily make a better game because halo relies on sand box maps mostly. Most of the halo community has not really been put into the the type of maps that actually made UT and some of the other FPSs what they where in the past. The whole thing(halo) moves way slower than the UT series and the quake series. Also too the level design is closer to what you would want in a rocket arena design which is actually a quake 3 mod. All I have to say is if you want to make a name for your self just go to ID's web site and D/L the source for quake 3 and port it to the Wii! Then people could use their old quake cd codes to play the game on the Wii! I mean the network code is already in there!
Also too Quake 3 has a possible port about to happen on the DS. Could this happen on the Wii sure but really once Wii ware hits you may see way more halo killers pop up because most mods guys may opt for a chance to try their hand at actually making some money rather than just giving away their hard work.
Like the guys above me said^^
Look out for for timesplitters since these are the guys that made golden eye a hit on the inferior N64. Yet for some reason it still has way more game play due to level design and engine tweaking. Ubisoft has some face to save with red steel 2 but I'm not betting on that one.
I guess you have to ask your self how you feel about halo 1 and 2? Since those are xbox 1 games and the Wii could do those games right now if you look at res evil and metroid and SSB.
On another note it was mainly hardcore FPS fans that where the most excited over the Wii mote aiming as a solution for console FPSs. Also too there are a lot of people complaining about accuracy yet all the Wii would have to do is do a firmware update to track 3 to 4 IR sources and a new IR bar that had those lights in it so the Wii could get exact references for the pointer in relation to the screen. Yet the controls work pretty good right now. You should rent and play these game in this order ok.
Red steel, COD, metroid, BWii, res evil 4, and then test out the online by way of EAs games since most of them don't really use friend codes.
Seriously the friend code thing is some thing to keep nintendo safe yet other are free to do as they will.
What is funny is I'm a lot more excited in the Wii mixing over head squad based play with FPS play.
I'm playing UT3, crysis, BWii, ET:QW right now. Yep BWii is in there also because it is what halo was about to be with more realism! Just look up an old fan site for halo and you will see why it truely was called halo before MS bought them.
What no call of duty? nope not yet! Sorry to turn the whole thing into why I don't like Halo but really most of the enjoyment you are getting from it can be found in a lot of other games. Halo is great but it just doesn't give me the FPS fix I'm looking for. Hey but halo has done more for online console play than any other game! We do need more of those type of games on the Wii!
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What is funny is I wish you where right about the Wii gamers being younger since that would stop the complaints about too many mini games and kiddy games being made. This would also stop the My Wii is dusty guys from posting LOL.
Epic and bungie along with some other FPS kinds will absolutely crush all comers on the HD systems leaving the console developers to stick to a machine not dominated by the UT3 engine.
Just remember the xbox had nothing till halo. Hell I had hardly any thing to play on the N64 till golden eye. Things can change really quick. The key is marketing and answering the hardcore sans graphics maniacs. You will get ok stuff on the Wii but normal maps every where are still up in the air.
If any thing Halo actually shows that gamers that can't afford a FPS machine or PC will want to get the next best thing an xbox. I'm sure there are lots of people who still can't afford a HDtv and an xbox 360. Then on top of that they already have a Wii.
I though about the idea of nintendo making a new Wii mote or adding some thing to it so it lives up to the hardcore online gamer and really that could come in the form of a hardcore gamer update package!
A HD( hard drive)!
A heads set!-of course all the needed updates would be on the harddrive.
A new 4 point sensor bar! The Wii mote can already track a load of IR points right now.
The Wii already has key board support! i think I may just try out my n52nostromo for kicks today on the Wii!
and games like you know doom1-3 all the way up to quake would be cool!
We all know nintendo is behind users making their own content! since thats what the N64DD was all about.


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Hugh Masekela
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Hugh Ramopolo Masekela is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. He is the father of American television host Sal Masekela.
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Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Hugh Masekela.
1939 Birth Born on April 4, 1939.
1958 19 Years Old Following a Manhattan Brothers tour of South Africa in 1958, Masekela wound up in the orchestra of the musical King Kong, written by Todd Matshikiza. … Read More
1960 21 Years Old Following the March 21, 1960, Sharpeville Massacre – where 69 peacefully protesting Africans were shot dead in Sharpeville, and the South African government banned gatherings of ten or more people – and the increased brutality of the Apartheid state, Masekela left the country. … Read More
1967 28 Years Old He also appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and was subsequently featured in the film Monterey Pop by D. A. Pennebaker. … Read More
1980 41 Years Old A renewed interest in his African roots led Masekela to collaborate with West and Central African musicians, and finally to reconnect with Southern African players when he set up with the help of Jive Records a mobile studio in Botswana, just over the South African border, from 1980 to 1984. … Read More
2003 64 Years Old In 2003, he was featured in the documentary film Amandla!
2004 65 Years Old In 2004, he released his autobiography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela, co-authored with journalist D. Michael Cheers, which thoughtfully detailed Masekela's struggles against apartheid in his homeland, as well as his personal struggles against alcoholism from the late 1970s through to the 1990s. … Read More
2010 71 Years Old In 2010, Hugh Masekela was featured, with his son Salema, in a series of videos on ESPN. … Read More
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Danielle, Mienfoo, and Ozzy exited the Pokemon Mart together after a few moments shopping for items. Danielle did came out with a small brown bag. It had two TM's and three Super Potions. She stopped in the middle of the empty pathway, taking out a TM disc from the bag. "Flash" it read. She opened the disc and shows it to Ozzy.
"Ok, Ozzy." Danielle said, "You're going to learn a new move, ok? This is Flash. It's going to have your tail light up in dark places so you can let us lead the way."
"Pachi Pachii?" Ozzy was a bit confused, as he never used a TM before.
"I'm quite excited that TM's are unlimited. I can use them whenever." Danielle said to herself and hands the disc to Ozzy. "Here. Take your time learning it."
Ozzy got the disc and held it tight. He closed his eyes, his cheeks start to spark a bit. A tiny spark fell on Mienfoo's head, tingling it a little. "Fooooo!"
A few moments later, he opened his eyes. Holding the TM disc still, he stepped ahead to try out his new move. His tail starts to illuminate bright white light, like a light bulb. It became so bright that Danielle had to take out her sunglasses to cover her eyes. She then noticed a pathway that leads to a forest. But there was something else from afar...there was a lone Vulpix walking by inside the forest. It was sniffing the ground, but it was interrupted by the light from Ozzy. It looked up, glancing at the trainer and her Pokemon. Suddenly, the Vulpix threw spots of fire at them, becoming a bit cranky of the bright light.
"Ah!" Danielle screamed and tried to cover herself from the Ember. Mienfoo jumps ahead and pushes Danielle away. Ozzy, however, was taken a hit from the attack. Danielle fell on the ground, recovering quick by getting up. She thanked Mienfoo quick, but afterwards he decides to storm off once again. "Mienfoo! Where are you going?"
"Mien!" Mienfoo roared and runs off. Ozzy decides to run off with Mienfoo as well. The glow was starting to fade away slowly, as Danielle tried to catch up to it by standing up and running away.
"Guys!!! Get back here!!" Danielle yelled. She took out a Pokeball and released Sector.
"Yaaaaanma!" Sector cried, flying next to Danielle.
"Sector. Let's go. We gotta find Mienfoo and Ozzy, as well as that pesky little Vulpix!" Danielle shouted. It was only a matter of time to find them. Danielle was very grateful that Mienfoo pushed her away from the Ember. Now who knows if Ozzy is severely hurt from the Ember.
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Halo Movie 'Entirely Dead' Says Would-Be Director
Film's death due to disagreements between studios.
Blomkamp gives the bad news in an interview with Creativity Online. "The film is entirely dead," he said. "Whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration. It's not so much me as the entire vessel sank."
The movie was being produced in a partnership between Universal and Fox, and according to Blomkamp, disagreements between the studios is what ultimately killed it. "That kind of stuff happens, it's a fragile industry," he said. "So the film collapsed at the end of last year, and it's been dead, ever since then. I'll be curious to see what happens."
It's too bad, because the vision Blomkamp had for the Halo movie does sound pretty sweet. "I wanted it to feel like the most brutal, real version of science fiction in a war environment that you've seen in a while," he said. "And Universal was on board with that. I don't really remember what Fox thought about it, but Universal seemed down with it. It would have been cool, it would have been a unique take on things, science fiction in a dirty, organic way."
As for those shorts? "This is the first I've really spoken about those pieces. There's such a massive misconception about what those are," Blomkamp said. "In essence, those pieces have zero to do with the film. Like less than zero...It's basically, I guess, viral advertising for Halo 3, it's one of the many different promotional pieces you find out there."
In other potentially disappointing game-to-film news, movie site IESB (via Kotaku) reported the Gears of War adaptation was running into problems as well -- due to concerns over the ballooning budget -- and New Line may not move forward with it at all. Why? Why must we be perpetually doomed to Resident Evil movies and Uwe Boll?
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rather have the movie die of neglectPosted: Oct 14, 2007 12:00AM PST by Angrymeatpuppet
than murder at the hands of Uwe.
wow chaos cloudPosted: Oct 10, 2007 12:00AM PST by papajason5
you are probably the most retarted and ignorant fanboy ever, next to murderdolls
NO!!!Posted: Oct 10, 2007 12:00AM PST by Sqkuidward
They have to get the movie down i have been waiting for them to make i just hope they will figure something cause i think its going to be a sick ass movie
Directors IdeaPosted: Oct 09, 2007 12:00AM PST by FracturedEgo
It would be cool to see Halo done as a gritty Sci-Fi Movie... Damn, gonna have to wait for a while for it.. if It ever gets made... On another note.. I did love those shorts even if they had nothing to do with the film.
Not now...Posted: Oct 09, 2007 12:00AM PST by TEH_BANNED_REBEL
But Later there WILL be a Halo film. No one can ignore the success of the halo franchise for much longer. The way i see it, this only gives another studio the ability to snatch the idea up. This would have been a good movie to, i mean, c'mon how do you PHU** UP halo? Its a game based on wars. Something Hollywood excels at. And for those of you who thought the above was movie footage. Your ignorent, because its a commercial for halo 3, it even says so at the end. Halo would have looked a little different. The one thing i want to know is how much the warthogs they made are going for. They DID make one or more.
There will be a Halo moviePosted: Oct 09, 2007 12:00AM PST by tehturtle
Come on, a franchise that outsells every major Hollywood blockbuster in ONE day is not going to just be dropped. There will be a Halo movie, maybe not from Neil, not from Fox or Universal, but trust me, something that makes this much money will not be left for dead
What?Posted: Oct 09, 2007 12:00AM PST by Lunderosa
What million movies have you seen with the same story as Halo? It's so easy to just blurt that kind of blase critique out isn't it? "oh it's so derivative..." And to Solid Soldier - didn't the above story/quotes just say that those "trailers" had absolutely nothing to do with the actual movie?
PoopPosted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by Spartan300
Thats so damn lame. I hate greedy movie companies. Why can't Microsoft just finance the film themselves. They could easily shell out 200 million for the film's budget and make twice as much in the box office if not more. This is so lame, I was really looking forward to the Halo movie. Damn you Fox and Universal!
HMMMMPosted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by SolidSoldier
This the first time i've seen the trailer and I hate to say but it looks to much like the aliens movie with the way the armor and weapons look...Dont get me wromg It might have been a good movie but almost every game based movie never really sticks to the game(RE,Doom, MK, DOA) Of course making a movie that is completely like the game would be a snoore too so I guess you have to meet somewere in the middle...
Thank the LordPosted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by ghettogamer1216
This is the best news all damn day. Knowing How hollywood works, This movie would have sucked guavo melons. You know it I know it. We only want a Halo movie to see if they could pull it off. But If they do, and if it sucks, theres gonna be constant b***hing over the net. So the Lord Jesus Christ prevented this by smyting this movie with his powerful hand. -Khori-
people are dumbPosted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by hal_9000
If you read the press release for the MS/bungie split, you'll see MS still owns all rights to halo, bungie will still publish exclusively with Microsoft Game Studios. The only reason for the split was that bungie wanted to go out and do some new things and break out as an independent studio.
Probably for the betterPosted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by joeyatog
The Halo storyline isn't all that compelling. It's the gameplay and the multiplayer stuff that makes the game so popular. Do we really think that this is going to make for an great movie experience? It's pretty standard issue sci-fi stuff if you think about it.
Well, that's the end of that then.Posted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by TheBleakCorner
Although by no means a fanboy, I do realize that the end of this movie by no means will be the end of either Microsoft or the 360. Seeing the ridiculous concepts studios force directors and writers to accept in order to make certain movies, it comes as no surprise that two studios would end up in argument regarding this movie of a game. I personally don't think it would have made such a strong movie to begin with. This is game material, meant to be interactive... not something you want to sit back and view as one large cut scene.
If Microsoft dumped it.......Posted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by warstar_Xbox_PS2_GC
then it must have really sucked so far. I mean come on. The name Halo alone is worth millions now, and even a somewhat good movie would of made money, so its must have been an absolute turd of a movie to get dropped. lol
as far as vision for the moviePosted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by Vangerdahast
sounded good and knowing MS and Bungie with their Halo bible, you could be certain that it wouldn't be a typical Hollywood trashing of a beloved franchise. a Pitch Black/Alien/Aliens/Bladerunner speedball would work for me
@chaoscloudPosted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by Vangerdahast
your trolling ways aren't really accepted in this community, thank god. so get it all out now knowing even Sony fanboys think you're a latch-key child w/ no supervision
yeah!!!Posted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by ChaosCloud
Yeah and being out a 1-2 more than your competitors does wonders. If the 360 came out around the Ps3/wii launch you'd see the 360 putting up early ps3 type numbers. Faulty hardware, average launch games like PDZ and Kameo, etc. but yeah they're not even leading right now, the wii is and the Ps3 is catching up pretty fast.
In response to Cloud...Posted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by IMTHEONEKILLINU
You're a freakin retard. That is the most ignorant comment I've ever read.
are you serious?Posted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by mafakka
in response to the first comment, what are you on? just because the halo movie is having issues and that bungie is no longer bound to MS, that does not make them in trouble. if you think for a second that they are going to crash and burn because they let a formerly independent developer go back to being independent, you've got a lot to learn. MS, whether you like it or not, is on top of the console "wars" right now.
You knowPosted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by slightly_wiitarded
I'm not the biggest fan of Halo, but I think a movie would be the shit. Running and shooting and fragging aliens on an IMAX screen would be heaven. So it's depressing to hear of such a thing. Hollywood fragile? So Starsky and Hutch makes it through, but this gets killed without so much as a fight? Bogus, man.
bad news for MSPosted: Oct 08, 2007 12:00AM PST by ChaosCloud
MS-Bungie split, Halo movie dies, looks like Microsoft is in even more trouble. The company as a whole is going to crash and burn just because of the xbox360, i bet they wish they didn't enter the console wars to compete with Nintendo/Sony now.


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"Meno's tender, hip, funny, and imaginative portrayal of two Chicago misfits...dramatizes that anguished and awkward passage between legal age and actual adulthood." --Booklist, "Core Collection: New Adult Fiction" Named "Best New Novel by a Chicagoan" and "Best Book for the Disillusioned Artist in All of Us" by the "Chicago Reader" Selected by "The Believer"'s readers as a favorite fiction work of 2012 One of DailyCandy's Best Books of 2012 "An off-kilter romance doubles as an art movement in Joe Meno's novel. The novel reads as a parody of art-school types...and as a tribute to their devil-may-care spirit. Meno impressively captures post-adolescent female angst and insecurity. Fresh and funny, the images also encapsulate the mortification, confusion and excitement that define so many 20-something existences." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Wonderful storytelling panache...Odile is a brash, moody, likable young woman navigating the obstacles of caddish boyfriends and lousy jobs, embarking on the sort of sentimental journey that literary heroines have been making since Fanny Burney's "Evelina" in the 1770s. Tenderhearted Jack is the awkward, quiet sort that the women in Jane Austen's novels overlook until book's end. He is obsessed with tape-recording Chicago's ambient noises so that he can simulate the city in the safety of his bedroom, 'a single town he has invented made of nothing but sound.' Mr. Meno excels at capturing the way that budding love can make two people feel brave and freshly alive to their surroundings...the story of the relationship has a sweet simplicity." --"The Wall Street Journal" "In Joe Meno's new novel, set in the last year of the 20th century, art school dropout Odile Neff and amateur sound artist Jack Blevins work deadening office jobs; gush about indie rock, French film, and obscure comic book artists; and gradually start a relationship that doubles as an art movement. They are, in other words, the 20-something doyens of pop culture and their tale of promiscuous roommates, on-again/off-again exes, and awkward sex is punctuated on the page by cute little doodles, black and white photographs (of, say, a topless woman in a Stormtrooper mask), and monologues that could easily pass for Belle & Sebastian lyrics ("It doesn t pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you to do is answer the phone")." --"Publishers Weekly" (Pick of the Week) "Meno has constructed a snowflake-delicate inquiry into alienation and longing. Illustrated with drawings and photographs and shaped by tender empathy, buoyant imagination, and bittersweet wit, this wistful, provocative, off-kilter love story affirms the bonds forged by art and story." --Booklist (starred review) No one dies in "Office Girl." Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Nothing takes place during a World War. Instead, this novel is about young people doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set in February 1999just before the end of one world and the beginning of another"Office Girl" is the story of two people caught between the uncertainty of their futures and the all-too-brief moments of modern life. Joe Meno's latest novel also features black-and-white illustrations by renowned artist Cody Hudson and photographs by visionary photographer Todd Baxter. "show more
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- 03 Jul 2012
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"The talented Chicago-based Meno has composed a gorgeous little indie romance, circa 1999...When things Get Weird as things do when we're young, Meno is refreshingly honest in portraying lowest lows and not just the innocent highs. A sweetheart of a novel, complete with a hazy ending." --"Kirkus Reviews" "Along with PBRs, flannels, and thick-framed glasses, this Millennial "Franny and Zooey" is an instant hipster staple. Plot notes: It's 1999 and Odile and Jack are partying like it was...well, you know. Meno's alternative titles help give the gist: Bohemians or Young People on Bicycles Doing Troubling Things. Cross-media: Drawings and Polaroids provide a playful, quirky element." --"Marie Claire" "Odile and Jack are...two characters in search of authentic emotion...their "pas de deux" is...dynamic. Meno's plain style seems appropriate for these characters and their occasions, and the low-key drawings and amateur photographs that punctuate the narrative lend a home-video feel to this story of slacker bohemia, the temp jobs, odd jobs and hand jobs." --"Chicago Tribune" "Meno's book is an honest look at the isolation of being a creative person in your twenties living in a city...Cody Hudson's hand-drawn illustrations, which relate to the text only laterally, add a charm akin to the small doodles that break up long "New Yorker" articles. The photos by Todd Baxter add a third level to the package, helping to make Meno's book feel more like an artwork." --"The Daily Beast," "3 Must-Read Offbeat Novels" "A beguiling and slyly disquieting storyteller, Meno forges surprising connections between deep emotion and edgy absurdity, self-conscious hipness and timeless metaphysics. In this geeky-elegant novel, Meno transforms wintery Chicago into a wondrous crystallization of countless dreams and tragedies, while telling the stories of two derailed young artists, two wounded souls, in cinematic vignettes that range from lushly atmospheric visions to crack-shot volleys of poignant and funny dialogue. With bicycles in the snow emblematic of both precariousness and determination, Meno's charming, melancholy, frank and droll love story wrapped around an art manifesto both celebrates those who question and protest the established order and contemplates the dilemmas that make family, creativity, ambition and love perpetually confounding and essential." --"Kansas City Star" "A wispy, bittersweet (emphasis on the bitter, not the sweet) romance, "Office Girl" is the story of Odile and Jack, a pair of alienated twentysomething bohemians whose artistic ambitions are being worn away by one soul-killing call-center job after another in Chicago." --"Chicago Sun-Times" ""Office Girl" is a bittersweet little love story framed by Bill Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial and the turn of the millennium...By letting his characters be emotionally vulnerable, even shallow or tritewhich is to say...real--Meno supplies an off-kilter, slightly inappropriate answer to the Hollywood rom-com. Meno is a deft writer. The dialogue in "Office Girl" is often funny, the pacing quirky, and some of its quick, affecting similes remind me of Lorrie Moore." --"Chicago Reader" "Meno's books have become increasingly liminal and idiosyncratic. In this latest, it feels as if Meno has written the book he's been wanting to write for years, combining all of those classic elements of his previous work: the stop-and-start of youthful inertia, the painful purity of romance, the way childhood informs (i.e. wrecks) us as adults and a direct prose cut into vignettes and montage. He also works with longtime collaborators photographer Todd Baxter and painter Cody Hudson...Gorgeously packaged, it's like a Meno box set 15 years in the making." --"Time Out Chicago" "It might be a standard boy-meets-girl tale, if not for the fact that the boy likes to record the sounds of gloves abandoned in snowdrifts, while the girl has a penchant for filling elevators with silver balloons. It's 1999. Odile has left grad school while Jack's wife has recently left him; after both stumble into jobs at the same telemarketing firm, they meet, and it isn't long before he is supporting her attempt to create a whimsical, anti-establishment art movement." --"Time Out New York" ""Office Girl" might be Joe Meno's breakthrough novel. Set in 1999, "Office Girl" tells the story of a pair of young, intelligent drifters who decide to start their own art movement. It's a stripped-down experience of a novel which means Meno's crystalline prose has a chance to shine." --"The Stranger" ""Office Girl" is a relatively simple love story: You know most of the beats and understand from the beginning how the story needs to end; the pleasure comes from the way Meno hits those beats, how he manages his characters and moments. And some of those moments are really excellent: Jack and Odile's drift toward a first kiss, for instance, or their lovers' conspiracy, mirrored in Cody Hudson's naive drawings. And the heavier ideas that Meno stuffs into the corners around his self-consciously slight characters--like an ongoing struggle with sound and music that's part of the last-act climax--give the book more weight." --"Philadelphia City Paper" "A lithe, winking take on the boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl cliche, Meno's newest novel is like "Perks of Being a Wallflower" for the 20-something set--and just like that iconic novel of creatives-in-crisis, this one is quirky, clever, and full of bitten tongues and youthful dreaming. Add bicycles, fingerless gloves, and one of the most twee art projects we could have ever imagined, and you've got a charming and unpretentious hipster love story destined to be the next cult classic." --"Flavorwire" ""Office Girl" shelves neatly into the anti-establishment, punk-rock canon Meno created with books like his breakthrough, "Hairstyles of the Damned."" --Onion A.V. Club "Mr. Meno approaches his title character's potentially depressing combination of disadvantageous circumstances and poor choices with sufficient aesthetic distance to find levity amid the angst. And while "Office Girl" is a quick and easy read, it is not insubstantial." --"New York Journal of Books" "While "Office Girl" features illustrations by artist Cody Hudson and photographs by Todd Baxter, its real substance lies in the story itself. Set in Chicago right before the new millennium, Meno, a Chicagoan, explores the start of an art movement through the eyes of two twenty-something dreamers in this novel." --"Michigan Avenue Magazine" "Joe Meno's newest novel "Office Girl," isn't some end-of-the-Millennium gloomy read. Rather it's an unconventional call to action encapsulating the lives of two 'creative souls' set adrift in urban Chicago at the end of the twentieth century...Don't be fooled by its lack of chapters and intermittent doodles, there are sections that you will likely have to reread before you can truly grasp Jack and Odile's motivations. At times it can even be a bit disheartening, but that is actually what makes "Office Girl" brilliant. Whether you are 13 or 30, it's the perfect book to pick up when that nagging feeling of unrest captures you over your current condition." --"Revel Rouse Magazine" "I was completely charmed by its boy-meets-quirky girl romance. "Office Girl" is unabashedly earnest. It's so sweet and sincere...The most important detail is the year: 1999, a moment of uncertainty in the world and the lives of the novel's couple...Today, when it seems that most media is hellbent on constantly reflecting on and reinventing our childhood and adolescence, it's refreshing to read a novel that can be nostalgic without being ironic." --"Grantland" ""Office Girl" is packed with whimsy and soft terror. It's emotionally affective and its scenes are sometimes too familiar, as if you have once been here yourself, in this same office, in that same bedroom, on that same street. It's the tale of a weeklong romance that cuts to the heart. At times you remember it like it was your own. Both Jack and Odile suffer from their own inability to translate their thoughts into words, and they possess a certain innocent, curious sexuality. There's nothing graphic here, but the feelings are laid bare. And, as if in a dream, you can watch those feelings winding themselves through Jack and Odile's increasingly complex layers of consciousness...It's a specific book about general rite of passage; an investigation of that strange, dream-like transition between youth and adulthood, where everything seems possible and terrifying and wonderful all at once. Meno does good here." --"Anobium" "Joe Meno's "Office Girl" draws the awkward love story of two twenty-somethings with grace and empathy in this exceptional novel." --Largehearted Boy "Wistful, heartbreaking, and melancholy, a sneakily tight manuscript that gets better and better the farther you read." --Chicago Center for Literature and Photography "With a format reminiscent of J.D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," "Office Girl" lets the reader develop his own ideas about each of the two characters...There is a spark. There is momentum." --"The Wichita Eagle" "The book is a love story but one with a different twist on your typical boy-meets-girl, then boy-loses-girl story..."Office Girl" by Joe Meno has an indie feel...Meno captures perfectly the fleeting thoughts of fancy of young people...Set in the whimsical, uncertain time of young adult life when you don't know what you are doing yet...What happens next is just like love...unpredictable. Joe Meno has done a remarkable job of capturing an age old story, in a brand new way. This is a bright read." --"California Literary Review" "The writing in this novel is crisp and clever. It's art that's at times beautiful without getting in the way of the story. Chicago becomes a character in the novel the way it does in the works of Nelson Algren and Saul Bellow, but it's Chicago that is between Algren's gritty streets and Bellow's upscale avenues...It's the kind of book that makes you blow off what you're supposed to be doing so you can keep reading." --"Razorcake" "Young love. Bicycles. Art school. Joe Meno's hipster romance about a couple going against the grain bubbles with funny dialogue and the charm of a French new wave movie (chalk it up to the whole defiant-youth-run-wild thing). Black-and-white illustrations by artist Cody Hudson and photos by up-and-comer Todd Baxter set the mood." --DailyCandy "Fresh and sharply observed, "Office Girl" is a love story on bicycles, capturing the beauty of individual moments and the magic hidden in everyday objects and people. Joe Meno will make you stop and notice the world. And he will make you wonder." --Hannah Tinti, author of "The Good Thief" "I'm terrible, I bail on most books. Recent ones that delighted me the whole way through were..."Office Girl" by Joe Meno." --Maria Semple, author of "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," in the "New York Times Book Review"'s "By the Book" feature"show more
About Joe Meno
Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. He is a winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and was a finalist for the Story Prize. He is the author of five novels and two short story collections including "The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, Demons in the Spring, " and "Hairstyles of the Damned." His short fiction has been published in "One Story, McSweeney's, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, Gulf Coast," and broadcast on NPR. His nonfiction has appeared in the "New York Times" and "Chicago Magazine." His stage plays have been produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Charville, France. He is an associate professor in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago.show more


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