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Written by The Shape 1973 on 25.09.2011 at 13:47
Good songs, but massively over produced.
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Written by The Shape 1973 on 25.09.2011 at 13:47
Good songs, but massively over produced.
Agreed. When I was growing up listening to it, of course I didnt notice, or care about that though... lol But definitely the main problem with the album is the pristine production, which totally strips it of any hard rock edge. Which is one of the reasons I prefer "High N Dry" and "Pyromania" over it... but still, I love most of the songs on it even today. hehe
Written by The Shape 1973 on 25.09.2011 at 20:41My guilty pleasure is liking Def Leppard. Although I don't like any of their new stuff, I see them live when they are nearby. Like you, it is one of my founding rock albums from my teenage years. along with On A Storytellers Night by Magnum, Poison by Alice Cooper, Tell No Tales by TNT and Odyssey by Yngwie Malmsteen. Pyromania is always the album I go back to however. That has classics all the way through.
I suppose that Rick's accident has formed the stereotypical Def Leppard sound since Hysteria, along with Mutt as well.
Written by R Lewis on 25.05.2013 at 16:56
Dear God, how much I love this album. Despite the fact that it doesn't give a fuck with what I usually listen. Or, maybe, just because it doesn't give a fuck with what I usually listen.
Written by tea[m]ster on 21.02.2014 at 02:55
Don't ask me why I clicked on this album. Don't ask me why I thought of it. But I am in your camp, I won't admit it to anyone that knows me, but I really like this album....wait , wah-, uhoh I just admitted it to a bunch of MSer's

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October 12, 2011: Baltimore's Maryland Science Center is going to be the "landing site" for the full-scale model of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and it's free for all to see. The Webb telescope life-sized model is as big as a tennis court, and it's coming to the Maryland Science Center at Baltimore's Inner Harbor from October 14 through 26, 2011. It's a chance for young and old to get a close-up look at the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope in the same size it will be launched into space. Experts will be on hand to discuss the Webb telescope's deep-space mission, how it will observe distant galaxies and nearby stars and planets, and the progress made to date in building the observatory. Spokespeople will also be available starting at 10 a.m. EDT and throughout the model exhibition. There will also be educational activities and an "Ask the Scientist" booth in front of the model during the daytime. Accompanying the display in the evening is a laser-art lightshow that converts Hubble data into brilliant green graphics that are projected onto the side of the Science Center. The display also accompanies the annual meeting of the Association of Science-Technology Centers that will be held in Baltimore October 15-18. The Maryland Science Center is located at 601 Light Street, Baltimore, Md. 21230. For directions and more information, call the center at 410-685-5225.
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A tourist in Australia nearly drowned after she fell off a pier while browsing Facebook on her phone.
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Police found her flailing around in the water about 65 feet from the pier.
"She was still out in the water lying on her back in a floating position because she told us later that she couldn't swim," Senior Constable Dean Kelly of the state water police told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "She still had her mobile phone in her hand and initially she apologized and said sorry."
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The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
A backward poet writes inverse.
In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
If you jumped off the bridge in Paris , you'd be in Seine.
A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger..'
Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!'
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'
Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.
There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh . . . no pun in ten did.
#203777 - 12/11/11 07:07 AM Re: Some new, some old [Re: Jackie]
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How do I feel about ridiculous puns posted to a serious language discussion site? Forum.
#203779 - 12/11/11 07:27 AM Re: Some new, some old [Re: Tromboniator]
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Originally Posted By: TromboniatorHow do I feel about ridiculous puns posted to a serious language discussion site? Forum.
Have you ever seen this happen?
#203785 - 12/11/11 02:39 PM Re: Some new, some old [Re: Faldage]
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Purely hypothetical!
#203788 - 12/11/11 05:26 PM Re: Some new, some old [Re: Jackie]
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#203794 - 12/11/11 11:03 PM Re: Some new, some old [Re: Tromboniator]
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That was great, Peter! [finger in air e]: one point to you.
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PHILADELPHIA – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers, along with colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of Toronto, have received $8 million for stem-cell research. The Penn group is one of nine research hubs awarded $170 million over the next seven years by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to develop the high-potential field of stem- and progenitor-cell tools and therapies.
The awards create the NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium, which will bring together researchers from the heart, lung, blood, and technology research fields. The consortium assembles multidisciplinary teams of principal investigators and an administrative coordinating center to focus on progenitor cell biology.
While a stem cell can renew itself indefinitely or differentiate, a progenitor cell can only divide a limited number of times and is often more limited than a stem cell in the kinds of cells it can become. Given the potential of these cells for clinical applications, the goals of the consortium are to identify and characterize progenitor cell lines, direct the differentiation of stem and progenitor cells to desired cell fates, and develop new clinical strategies to address the unique challenges presented by the transplantation of these cells.
The grant's principal investigator Edward Morrisey, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology and Scientific Director of the Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and colleagues will determine how certain signaling pathways — ordered sequences of biochemical reactions inside cells — affect cardiac and blood-forming cell development and cardiac regeneration and repair. The team will also study whether these pathways, namely Wnt and Notch, may be harnessed for therapeutic applications.
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WASHINGTON — A letter from the military base closing commission chairman to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asks whether the Pentagon considered a plan that would keep Cannon Air Force Base open.
In the letter, Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission Chairman Anthony Principi asks whether Rumsfeld considered moving the assets assigned to Moody Air Force Base in Georgia to Cannon in eastern New Mexico.
"If so, what were the driving considerations not to do so?" Principi's letter asks. Cannon "would appear to have ample space and facilities to accommodate any aircraft currently operating or planned for movement to Moody."
Principi asks Rumsfeld for a response by July 18 in time for a public hearing on base closures.
The letter also questions a number of other base realignment decisions across the country.
"It is a clear sign that the BRAC staff came to Clovis and saw first hand how valuable an asset that Cannon Air Force Base, Melrose Bombing Range, and the air space in association with those two entities is to the Department of Defense … that this commission is a truly talented and independent commission. They have looked at all this information and said 'why would you not consider an alternative scenario for this valuable, unreplaceable asset called Cannon Air Force Base,'" said Committee of Fifty member Randy Harris, who spoke on Cannon's behalf at the Clovis BRAC hearing.
"I see it as a very positive sign that someone outside of this community thinks that closing Cannon is not a good idea," Harris said.
Harris said he communicates with the BRAC staff and commissioners daily, submitting data and providing information.
"This is a scenario," Harris said, "that their (BRAC) staff came up with."
Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation along with state and local leaders in Clovis have argued intensely since the closure list was released in mid-May that Cannon has important military value to the U.S. and should remain open. They've also claimed that flawed data was used to justify its closure.
"It's evident the BRAC commission is looking at scenarios that would positively affect Cannon Air Force Base," said Chris Gallegos, spokesman for Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. "It could be very important depending on the Pentagon reaction to the letter."
Gallegos said that if the BRAC commission is asking about it, "it's evidence that the commission is looking at how the Pentagon came up with its BRAC list, and … perhaps they don't want to follow the list completely. That could be good news for Cannon Air Force Base in the future."
In the letter, Principi identified additional bases the commission may recommend closing.
Specifically, why Marine Corps Recruit Depot and the Navy Broadway Complex, both in San Diego, and the U.S. Naval Shipyard at Pearl Harbor were not slated for closure.
It also questions the Pentagon's decisions to downsize, rather than close, the Naval Air Station in Brunswick, Maine, Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, and Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.
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I was having this problem about a month ago.....see previous post:
After this post, things went back to normal.Originally Posted by NolaMomma
Now, this morning, she tried for 10 minutes and nothing! I thawed out a bag of EBM and made a bottle which she refused b/c it's been a really long time since I've left her and she hasn't needed a bottle in a while.
I tried a sippy cup, she's not interested.
I tried a regular cup, same thing.
I put her back to the breast, she sucked for about 2 minutes this time....and nothing. I can feel that milk is in there and I nursed her three times overnight w/o a problem.....what's going on?
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Amphibian drama: prey and predator in a pond
May 3, 2012 —
Along the Delaware River, there are many small ponds fed by springs or streams, or left over from floods. Also present are remnants of the D&H Canal, with many sections still holding some water. All these ponds play a role in the diversity of the riparian habitat along the shore of the river. A variety of fauna and flora are present in or near these ponds that would not otherwise be present on the river shore.
It was the courtship call of the American toad (Bufo americanus) that led me to one particular pond on the flood plain one late April day. This cricket-like call could be heard from a few hundred yards away, and several toads were calling. When I got to the edge of the pond, I watched some toads and checked to see what other frog or other species I could spot. Almost right away, I spotted the Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon).
After spotting the first one, I spotted at least four other of the same species in the pond. Most of the snakes appeared to be actively hunting, slithering across the pond and along the shore in search of prey. Water snakes are fish eaters, but frogs and other amphibians are also on the menu.
After watching for a bit, I saw a near-miss; a snake came close to a hidden frog or toad, and two quick hops later, the lucky amphibian evaded the snake with only a wet "frog print" on an otherwise dry rock to bear witness to the event. I then saw and heard an American toad next to a rock, singing away. On the other side of this rock was a water snake, stealthily approaching with just its head visible. How would this drama play out? Would the toad meet its demise singing its last song?
The toad disappeared behind the rock, and shortly reappeared on the snake's side. Surely, they see each other by now. The snake closed the distance until only a few inches away and then: nothing! The snake continued on its original heading and the toad kept singing.
American toads are a prey item of water snakes, even though these toads have paratoid glands (large glands behind the eyes) that exude a toxin as a defense against predators. Maybe the snake was hunting for green frogs, which were also present in the pond. Whatever reason for the passed meal, the toad gets to sing another day.


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Two concepts that should be instantly familiar to any supply chain and operations management professional are Just-In-Time (JIT) and the theory of constraints (TOC). JIT, of course, represents the idea of reducing waste and shrinking lot sizes to their absolute minimums to increase agility. Nearly synonymous with the Toyota Production System, JIT is an essential element of lean manufacturing. Meanwhile, TOC was developed by Eliyahu Goldratt as a way of understanding complex systems by the rate of flow of materials or information. The bottleneck, or slowest part of the system, represents the constraint, which defines the maximum throughput of the entire system.
These are robust concepts with long histories, and each has its own advocates and opponents. It was quite interesting, then, to read about these ideas compared and contrasted in the real world. Business Standard, an Indian newspaper published in both English and Hindi, recently examined the role of TOC and JIT in automotive factories across the subcontinent. Satyashri Mohanty, director of the Vector Consulting Group, says the Indian automotive sector "swears by JIT in an effort to replicate Toyota's success in Japan." However, JIT has not been successfully implemented at some of these organizations. Instead of tighter inventories and a produce-to-demand environment, "you will find a huge mismatch of inventory__one to two months' worth of stocks for some parts, while others are out of stock." The answer, Mohanty suggests, is TOC.
The article goes on to highlight some of the extensive changes that TOC is bringing at factories across the Indian automotive sector. One consequence is that the previously accepted realities of forecasting and operating at full capacity are losing ground to replenishment ordering. When a downstream partner or process runs out of a specific component, quick changeovers to different platforms must be performed at the supplier to meet demand. "Things we had produced would now lie around and we would be scrambling to make something else," says Vijay Gokhale, chief operating officer at Fleetguard, an automotive filter manufacturer. It is painful, and suppliers become caught in the same vicious cycle, he says.
Yet, some companies have realized great benefits from a TOC implementation. At Filtrum Tools and Components, manufacturing lead times are down five days, while red-zone inventory situations have gone from 5 percent to 1 percent. As Mohanty explains, manufacturing to replenishment levels has made the company far more agile. The right tool for the job
Finding the best solution to a supply chain or operations problem isn't easy. Managers need to assess all the different options available and decide which methodology is the most appropriate. In different circumstances, the right answer might be lean, six sigma, JIT, or TOC. A strong background in APICS principles guides the way.
According to the Basics of Supply Chain Management (BSCM) module of the APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) program, "TOC departs from traditional organizational thinking." While it focuses on the same goals as traditional manufacturing__to increase output and sales__it goes about it in a different way. The weakest link in the chain is the only one that demands to be strengthened: "Improving a link that is already strong will not make the whole chain stronger."
As always, we are very interested in your thoughts and opinions about this subject and the entire APICS body of knowledge. Discuss JIT, TOC, and any other manufacturing philosophy in the APICS Supply Chain Channel.
Of course, the other interesting part of the article is its focus on manufacturing in India, an area that tends to receive less attention from Westerners than China, for example. However, India is growing rapidly, and articles such as the one in Business Insider demonstrate that many Indian companies are experiencing a need for supply chain and operations management insights and strategies. To that end, APICS will host its first conference in India: APICS Asia Supply Chain & Operations 2013, April 4–5, in Mumbai. This event will feature thought leaders from around the world demonstrating proven methods of creating value and strengthening relationships across the extended supply chain.
I encourage you to save the date, and to inform your colleagues and counterparts in the region about this networking and educational event. To learn more and to sign up to receive alerts, including when to register, visit the APICS website.
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Study claims sulphur pollution responsible for decade long cooling trend
Check out this story from Reuters:
Smoke belching from Asia's rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur's cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.
The paper raised the prospect of more rapid, pent-up climate change when emerging economies eventually crack down on pollution.
World temperatures did not rise from 1998 to 2008, while manmade emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuel grew by nearly a third, various data show.
The researchers from Boston and Harvard Universities and Finland's University of Turku said pollution, and specifically sulphur emissions, from coal-fueled growth in Asia was responsible for the cooling effect.
Sulphur allows water drops or aerosols to form, creating hazy clouds which reflect sunlight back into space.
"Anthropogenic activities that warm and cool the planet largely cancel after 1998, which allows natural variables to play a more significant role," the paper said.
Natural cooling effects included a declining solar cycle after 2002, meaning the sun's output fell.
Oh, wait … "natural cooling effects included a declining solar cycle?" Yeah, much less significant that "smoke belching" from Asia.
What they're attempting to say here is it is still man who is in command of the atmosphere and climate. Really? If in fact that's true, and AGW is the most significant problem we face in our future, then it stands to reason that pollution from "coal-fueled growth" is in our best interest, no?
In fact, what they're describing is the albedo effect which is much more wide-spread than just sulfur pollution. You know – clouds? As I've mentioned many times, most of the models don't consider cloud albedo in their modeling.
Wikipedia has a fairly good description of cloud albedo:
Cloud albedo is an important factor in the global warming effect. Different types of clouds exhibit different reflectivity, theoretically ranging in albedo from a minimum of near 0 to a maximum approaching 0.8. "On any given day, about half of Earth is covered by clouds, which reflect more sunlight than land and water. Clouds keep Earth cool by reflecting sunlight, but they can also serve as blankets to trap warmth."
Albedo and climate in some areas are affected by artificial clouds, such as those created by the contrails of heavy commercial airliner traffic. A study following the burning of the Kuwaiti oil fields during Iraqi occupation showed that temperatures under the burning oil fires were as much as 10oC colder than temperatures several miles away under clear skies.
Note the final paragraph's citing of the Kuwaiti oil field fires. Note where it claims this cooling took place. Yes, that's right – only locally. What the study above is purporting is widely spread coal-fired plants in a few emerging countries are responsible for holding temperatures down globally for a decade.
Do you buy that?
Also note this from Wikipedia:
Aerosols (very fine particles/droplets in the atmosphere) have both direct and indirect effects on the Earth's radiative balance.
The direct (albedo) effect is generally to cool the planet; the indirect effect (the particles act as cloud condensation nuclei and thereby change cloud properties) is less certain. As per [27] the effects are:
- Aerosol direct effect. Aerosols directly scatter and absorb radiation. The scattering of radiation causes atmospheric cooling, whereas absorption can cause atmospheric warming.
- Aerosol indirect effect. Aerosols modify the properties of clouds through a subset of the aerosol population called cloud condensation nuclei. Increased nuclei concentrations lead to increased cloud droplet number concentrations, which in turn leads to increased cloud albedo, increased light scattering and radiative cooling (first indirect effect), but also leads to reduced precipitation efficiency and increased lifetime of the cloud (second indirect effect).
Clouds, however they're formed, are sort of like the window-shades of the world. In general, increased cloud cover has a cooling effect (clouds can also trap heat, thereby keeping it warmer at night in an area than another area that doesn't have cloud cover). In general, decreased or no cloud cover means warming. Increased evaporation of the oceans due to increased temperature has a tendency to see more clouds form as the percentage of water vapor rises. Cooler temps mean less evaporation and thus less cloud formation. It is a mechanism that is and has been studied for years, but science still doesn't completely understand the process.
But you don't have to be an atmospheric scientist to know it is a critical part of any study of the earth's climate, but one that has essentially been relegated to the sidelines in the AGW scare, at least till now.
Finally, note the "oh, yeah, by the way" moment in the article – "declining solar cycle". Tell me – which do you suppose might have more effect – pollution from a couple of emerging countries or a huge burning solar mass that can heat your day up from 69 degrees at 7am to 94 degrees by noon and now showing declining activity?
Yeah, me too.
Oh and one other question – if the AGW crowd is terrified of the increase of global temps, and if they actually believe that we must find a way to allay that, doesn't it seem that (stipulating this study is actually correct) they should be encouraging the increase in coal-fired plants to offset the effect of the rise in CO2 (again stipulating that CO2 has the effect they claim it has)?
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From a distance the sign resembles a huge disembodied eyeball elevated above a corner space toward which it gazes. Moving closer and tracing its focus — the intently "staring" peeper encourages this — your own eyes settle on handsome sculptural forms above beautiful, glittering objects placed in what could be a museum case. But you're not in an art gallery, you're in the North Market, and what you've come upon is the new Pistacia Vera shop and its ocular-like pistachio nut logo.
For the affordable and incomparable Pistacia Vera, I haul out superlatives like: the most elegant and spectacular treats from the best Columbus pastry shop ever. In fact, if you said Pistacia is better at what it does than all other food operations in town are at what they do, I couldn't argue. Pistacia's that outstanding, and now that it's expanded, I have more access to its incredible offerings.
Located in North Market's northwest corner, Pistacia's modest-sized set up stands out for many reasons; immaculate tidiness plus an apparent ban against the extraneous are just two. So there is gleaming stainless steel machinery, a lengthy and impeccably maintained butcher board plus homey cupboards. Practically everything else is near-flawless scrumptiousness — and there's plenty of it.
This edible art, which starts with doughs mixed at Pistacia's German Village home base, is formed, freshly baked and gorgeously decorated on-site here every day by talented bakers in pristine whites. So far (as gracious front-of-the-house employee Katie Petro explained), old friends have welcomed Pistacia back to the Short North, where it began in the now-Tasi location, and new friends — who for incomprehensible reasons didn't know about Pistacia — are being made daily.
So grab some smooth-yet-robust coffee ($2; it's a three-bean blend specially sourced and dark-roasted for Pistacia by Cafe Brioso) and dig in. Like all great French pastry, Pistacia's fare is delicate-yet-sensual, with textures frequently proceeding from flaky to much denser.
Perfect Parisian macarons ($1.50) helped put Pistacia on the map, and the lovely "nut meringue" cookies with evanescent shells and intense centers are still their most popular item. The pure-tasting vanilla version (Petro's favorite) is an excellent gateway nosh for Pistacia novices.
If brunchy stuff beckons, the exceptional quiches ($11 with a nifty little salad/lemony vinaigrette) feature pretty golden-brown "lids," crazy-great puff pastry crusts and dreamy, custardy curds. Try the intoxicatingly smoky Bacon, Kale and Onion or the refined-cheese-driven and diced-veggie-laden Ratatouille.
Pistacia's large and remarkable croissants ($3) crush everybody else's. Even the "healthier" (if characteristically unshy with the butter) Whole Grain — nutty, heartier and just-sweet — is insanely delicious and an unmitigated joy to eat.
Other joys are aromatic tea cakes with impossibly moist interiors (canneles, $2) and jewelry-like dessert slices of almond-paste-based Pear Cranberry Frangipane ($5) plus Pistacia's glorious Lemon Tart ($6).
Wanna have a morning-roll epiphany? That's what I had after ripping into the glazed, fruit-popping and baker-recommended Pain (it's French for bread, silly) au Raisin ($4). Sure, that crinkly-yet-chewy, dainty-yet-powerhouse whorl of many-layered lusciousness made my hands sticky, but it also made my brain grateful for simple-yet-ineffable pleasures in a sometimes tough and always complicated world.
More people deserve access to such transporting and affordable treats. Who knows? Maybe if this branch takes off, it'll spawn an army. And how great would that be, to be hungry and flustered in a distant airport when suddenly you see … a giant "eyeball" showing you the way to happiness and relief?


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It's title, for God's sake, is Piranha 3D (or actually, not: onscreen, it's just Piranha. But you know what I'm aiming at). And a tawdrier display of the possibilities of 3-D projection has not been seen anywhere in the three-year lifespan of the current phase of that fad, though the "eyeball on a pick-axe" scene in My Bloody Valentine 3D is coming from the same place. Piranha 3D is a whole feature's worth of eyeballs on pick-axes: limbs, toothy fishes, geysers of blood, and lots of naked female breasts jut straight out at the audience with mercenary abandon. "Tawdry", did I say? It's downright indecent.
Not really remaking 1978's Piranha, a horror-comedy masterpiece directed by Joe Dante and written by John Sayles, so much as agreeing with its notion that it might fun to throw a hell of a lot of carnivorous fish at a waterside resort, Piranha 3D presents us with Lake Victoria, Nevada, one of those little communities whose economy depends entirely upon one brief tourist season. The kind where e.g. if you had to shut down the local tourism site e.g. a beach, it would destroy the lives of every regular citizen.
So it's spring break, and Sheriff Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue, gamely adding a sense of character to a largely functional role) is busy dealing with the hordes of screaming college students, while she things her eldest son, Jake (Steven R. McQueen) is babysitting his siblings Laura and Zane (Brooklynn Proulx and Sage Ryan). In actuality, Jake is torn between doing his noble duty, fecklessly pursuing his old high-school crush Kelly (Jessica Szohr), and following the hypnotically sleazy producer of a Girls Gone Wild knock-off, Derrick Jones (Jerry O'Connell), on his quest to film naked drunk girls cavorting in the quieter parts of the lake. More to the point, an underlake earthquake has just opened up a cavern that has been isolated for thousands of years or more, releasing a bunch of big goddamn piranha. You have more than enough to go on - everything before "big goddamn piranha" is window dressing, and the film knows it.
The film, in fact, knows many things. Its predecessor was one of the first meta-horror films, both serious in its intent to terrify and thrill, and also a loving satire of its own kin. Funny as hell when it needed to be, but never a spoof, always a real honest-to-God killer animal movie; that was Piranha. Now, Piranha 3D attempts to do the exact same thing, and it is not as successful - trading in the writer of Lone Star for the writer of Good Luck Chuck will have that effect - but it is altogether more successful than a hard-R horror movie in 2010 has any right to be.
We get the sense at the word "go" that Piranha 3D has a certain cleverness to it when the film opens on a shot of a man sitting in a boat, singing drunkenly while he fishes. The man is played by Richard Dreyfuss, and the song is "Show Me the Way to Go Home", and the movie does not insist, at all, that we understand why this is significant. The scene could play just as easily as a random, inexplicable Richard Dreyfuss cameo that sets up the plot, but if you know that Jaws exists - and anyone seeing Piranha 3D probably knows this - it's a clear, unashamed admission by the filmmakers: "Oh, yeah, we are going to rip-off Jaws something fierce, by the way".
For every moment that follows, it's absolutely clear that Aja and his crew are making a movie that they know very well is derivative, hackish, and cheesy: they count on it. One can say anything about Aja - beginning with the fact that every one of his features suffers from some crippling flaw or another - but he's a smart director, who knows how to play the audience like nobody's business. And, as he now proves for the first time ever, a director with quite a broad sense of humor.
Piranha 3D is not, emphatically, a deconstructionist work, along the lines of Scream or (arguably) Aja's own High Tension. There is no meaningful sense in which it subverts it own existence or tries to apologise for its own wildly poor taste and leering sexism. At the same time, it's profoundly self-aware (that Jaws gag, for example), and throughout all the trashy exploitation, it feels like there are in a sense two different movies going on at once: the obvious neo-grind house picture, in which naked boobs and buckets of fake blood are thrown out just because those things are awesome, and a slightly sheepish, mostly pleased movie that keeps remarking to itself: "well, this is the kind of movie where there ought to be a lot of naked women, so here they are. Tits ahoy!" In other words, the film is fully aware that it belongs to a certain kind of extraordinarily crass genre without feeling the need to distance itself from that genre. The exact opposite, in fact: one of the most immediately notable facts about Piranha 3D is its 110% commitment to being trashy, whether it's a parasailing scene that appears to have been placed in the movie solely to afford the shot of a topless woman flying towards the camera, or an extended - very extended, long beyond what I'd have assumed remotely plausible - sequence in which seemingly hundreds of extras are killed off in ways that far outstrip anything even in Aja's notably bloody oeuvre. One could argue that the excessiveness of all these sequences is by its nature self-parody; and certainly, you'd need to be clinically dead not to understand how a scene of two women making out underwater for several minutes, set to Léo Delibes's "Flower Duet" from Lakmé is clearly meant to be a joke, even if it's not right up your alley. And certain elements, such as O'Connell's boisterously slimy performance as a Joe Francis clone (the filmmakers' game attempt to prove that they're not just interested in ogling women; they're equally anxious to punish the ultra-male chauvinist in the most humiliating gag possible), or Christopher Lloyd's showstopping cameo as a demented ichthyologist, or the deliberately stupid final shot, can only be regarded as farce. On the other hand, the most outré gore effects (which I should not even imagine giving away) are far too seriously sick to be funny, even if they are immensely delightful.
At one point, Laura humiliates her older brother by explaining, at great length, that he enjoys looking at boobs. This odd little moment, clearly motivated by the evergreen love of putting precocious little girls into films, has a double function; subsitute "the audience" for "Jake", and she is essentially mouthing Piranha 3D's manifesto. We are here to see exploitative junk, and Aja has the respect for the audience and the integrity as a horror director to give us exploitation, with none of the sadism of a Saw and none of the fainting-couch niceness of a PG-13 slasher flick.
One has the clear sense that everybody involved is very proud of Piranha 3D, right down to its damnably shoddy post-conversion to 3-D (it was always meant to be in 3-D, however, unlike other post-converted films). There is a story that, upon seeing the desperately fake-looking robin at the end of Blue Velvet, the shame of that film's effects crew, David Lynch was ecstatic almost beyond words. So it is, I suspect, with the cheap 3-D here: it adds to the sense that we're watching something too unbelievably crass to live, and wonderful because of it. So praise to you all, makers of Piranha 3D! To you, Aja, and to you, cinematographer John R. Leonetti, and to you, editor who is named only Baxter, and the wonderful make-up people at K.N.B. EFX: you have made a movie that is slick and shallow and nasty in every way, and I enjoyed it more than I would have imagined possible.
7/10, partially because I'm embarrassed to go on record with something higher
9 comments:
- KingKubrick said...
The christopher llyod cameo alone earns a seven. "This particular type of pirahana died out over two million years ago!"
- Stephen said...
You should have gone higher. God this movie was so much fun. I too was amazed that it got made in 2010.
- Kele said...
I just got back from seeing this movie, and wow, this movie is a ton of fun. I expected a bad movie with some cheesy gags but this is a great bad movie. I haven't enjoyed my visit to the theater this much in a long time.
- Danny F. said...
This review is PERFECT.
Word verification: "Wombowi," which pretty much describes how I felt about Piranha 3D.
- Jonathan said...
"Wet T-Shirt! Wet T-Shirt!" Freaking genius. Great review.
- cinewhore said...
I wasn't going to go, but your review convinced me that I have to watch it. Trash is common. Delightful trash is a rare treat.
- Daniel Silberberg said...
Any reference for that Lynch story? I'd be interested to read it. Sounds like just the kind of thing he'd do to piss me off.
- Tim said...
Daniel: It's from a special feature on the 2002 DVD of Blue Velvet. An Easter Egg, if my memory does not fail.
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It looked like business as usual Wednesday at airports across Hawaii. But it's the business part that's not usual at all.
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They're still on the job, but more than 15,000 FAA workers are not, including the inspectors who make sure the planes the public flies in are maintained.
"We provide a very important service to the flying public. It's to ensure that the compliance with the federal air regulations are adhered to by all aviation operators and air carriers, airlines, with regard to safety," said Melvin Kahalehoe, union representative for the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists and one of nearly 70 aviation safety inspectors furloughed from the FAA Flight Standards Division's Honolulu Certificate Management Office.
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The Lady of the House and I were having breakfast at a local eatery when I got to thinking about manners; manners in restaurants to be specific. It seems there are some manners everyone follows and others no one cares about.
"You know," I said, "You just don't hear anyone belch in a restaurant. You know, rip out a big ol' burp."
"It's bad manners," she said without looking up from the menu.
"Yeah, but people have bad manners in lots of other aspects of life. Driving, shopping, stuff like that but in restaurants most folks seem to be on their best behavior."
I scanned my memory. Nope, I couldn't remember a time I'd been to a restaurant where someone burped real loud.
As a child my momma taught me manners, she was really into that stuff.
Over time I suppose I forgot some of them.
I was reaching for a tissue one time while at the dinner table.
"Really?" said The Lady of the House.
"What?" I said. "I need to blow my nose."
"Then remove yourself from the table," she said.
"Really?!" I found this interesting. I mean, if you gotta blow your nose you gotta blow your nose. It seems people would be more accepting of this.
Had I forgotten this key lesson? Had I missed something?
I decided to give my momma a call and ask her about my lessons in manners.
"Mom, did you teach me it's bad manners to blow your nose at the table?" I asked across the miles from New Mexico to Florida.
"Yes I did," she said. "Are you blowing your nose at the table?"
"Well, yeah."
"So are you burping at the table too? I taught you better than that!"
"I know, Mom, but I always remember to take my hat off at the table."
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- The EVO 2010 championships wrapped up this past weekend in Las Vegas, and it was quite a show, despite what a shockingly large number of misguided and juvenile commenters had to say about it during the live streams of the various matches.
- Double Fine's Tim Schafer made some rather pointed (and not entirely off the mark) comments about Activision head Bobby Kotick this week. Here's a tip: it might have had something to with Activision giving Double Fine the shaft over Brutal Legend.
- Blizzard narrowly avoided sparking a nerd-mageddon by cancelling plans to force World of Warcraft players to reveal their true identities.
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poor, but one day all this misery will be gone. I will rise from it
Middle class. I'd be upper if it wasn't for some stupid problems.
middle class low middle
I'm personaly middle but my family is rich :x
I make 7.25 working at Mcdonalds working as Cashier/Fry Cook/Personal Slave.
High class, But I dont like it for some reason......
Im posh so high middle. You don't like it? im sorry. it wasn't really a choice, but i dont judge people from their background.
I'm middle class I suppose.
Regular would be more fitting.
My parents both have average jbos so we live well.
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Poor... my life is ****ing shit :/
Same here my friend :') It really sucks...
Lower middle class.
Middle I guess.
I don't really know, and no one really should know. I mean, you have to know how rich are others in order to tell. But, people shouldn't worry about where other people get the money from and how much is it, simply because it's non of their business.
was wealthy.
Then my father passed away (Died recently)
now middle-class until everything is sorted out.
Mid-Middle class
Growing up in my early years I had it made, upperclass for sure. But now I'm 16, and I'm leaning towards the low part of the middle class. My dad owns a construction company, and obviously the real estate market sucks so he doesn't get much business.
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Seriously, sitting here crying my eyes out. I always had the goal to nurse until 2. I said in the past that I would slowly start weaning at 18 months, but when 18 months came around I wasn't ready and neither was he. So I just kept going. Now he'll be 2 in 3 weeks. I am just so depressed about weaning him.
I'm a single mom, and I honestly have never had a problem with nursing. He's had some bad habits at times but nursing is a HUGE part of my relationship with him. I feel like weaning him will be removing a giant part of our relationship. A huge part of me and a huge part of him will just be gone..
Why am I weaning? He's supposed to start staying with his dad overnights in the summer.. and also staying over at my mother's place occasionally. He still nurses throughout the night. And I guess.. at one point I felt like I was ready to have my body back. Sometimes I feel like he owns my chest and he gets mad at me for not nursing right away or even for sleeping on my stomach..
My family has been supportive until this point. Now I am started to get a lot of comments on how it's "weird" or "creepy" to nurse past two. So it feels like if I did keep going I would have to avoid seeing my family completely. And avoid taking him out long because he asks to nurse in public and has a melt down if I say no to him.
I feel like my heart is breaking over this. How am I supposed to just get rid of something that means so much to both of us? I am not sad about him growing up at all, I'm actually excited. But I am really depressed about this...


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A-1 thread Metro. Add JLin, picked him up off of waivers for nothing and who had the hottest start of anybody in NBA history and would be the answer to our starting PG woes and didn't keep him.
I hear a lot of people talk about how the Ewing deal cursed this franchise. I won't disagree that it was a top 10(I wish I could say top 5, but theres been a lot of bad deals) worst deal of all time in Knicks history, but the Curry deal is what sinked this franchise and still affects us today.
Before the Curry deal, traded for Maurice Taylor and gave up Moochie Norris, Vin Baker and the 2006 2nd rounder which turned out to be Steve Novak for Houston. we signed Crawford to a 7 year 56 million dollar contract. Traded our cap space and Ronny Turiaf for Tim Thomas and Nazr Mohammad...even before that we traded Jamaal Tinsley for Othella Harrington. Those were some terrible deals.
The Marbury deal wasn't that bad. We did give up cap space, but at that point Isiah Thomas didn't think the cap space existed.
1/5/2004: Knicks acquire Stephon Marbury, Penny Hardaway, and Cezary Trybanski in exchange for Antonio McDyess, Howard Eisley, Maciej Lampe, Charlie Ward, the rights to Milos Vujanic, a 2004 first-rounder (Kirk Snyder) and a heavily protected first-rounder that eventually became Gordon Hayward in 2010. Plus $3 million. -
Antonio McDysess was a 10th man in the NBA, Eisley retired quickly, Lampe played in Europe, Ward retired, Milos never came to the NBA. Kirk Snyder became an NBDL reject. What did hurt us though was the protected first rounder for Utah. That pick became Gordon Haywood, Paul George was picked after Haywood, guys like Larry Sanders, Eric Bledsoe, Greivis Vasquez and Lance Stephenson were available. I think whenever you traded a protected first rounder, it will bite you in the ass. That's really the only downside of this deal. Marbury gave us a couple of good seasons until Steve Francis arrived and thats when things really began to die.
Let's take a look at the timeline of the Eddy Curry era.
10/4/2005: Knicks acquire Eddy Curry, Antonio Davis, and the right to swap 2007 first-rounders with the Bulls (ended up being Wilson Chandler) in exchange for Tim Thomas, Mike Sweetney, Jermaine Jackson, pick swaps in 2006 and 2007 that ended up being LaMarcus Aldridge and Joakim Noah, a 2007 second-rounder (Kyrylo Fesenko), and a 2009 second-rounder (Jon Brockman).
-Noah and Aldridge are top 5 Big Men in the NBA, players you could of build around and have a championship team, put together all that cap space...it would of freed us up in the 2006 season where we could of signed Ben Wallace and Peja Stojakovic for cheap.
2/3/2006: Knicks acquire Jalen Rose and a 2006 first-rounder (Renaldo Balkman) for Antonio Davis. (Rose was due like $30 million between '06 and '07.
-Isiah continues to f*ck the cap, leaving Knicks screwed until 2008 free agency. Balkman played well for us.
2/22/2006: Knicks acquire Steve Francis in exchange for Trevor Ariza and Penny Hardaway
-How much can we use Trevor Ariza now? After all his good work in Orlando, LA and now in Washington. He's developed a 3pt shot we thought he would never develop and is one of the best defensive wings in the NBA today. We let him go for a down the hill expensive score first PG(when we already had Marbury and Crawford) and we did it in exchange for one of our biggest expiring contracts in the NBA, Penny Hardaway. Theres never been a GM in NBA history that has f*cked the cap more than Isiah.
6/28/2007: Knicks acquire Zach Randolph, Fred Jones, Dan Dickau, and the rights to Demetris Nichols in exchange for Steve Francis, Channing Frye, and a 2008 second-rounder (Omer Asik).
- I don't know. We knew the Zach Randolph/Eddy Curry front court would be a fail. Randolph is still a good player, top big man currently...we traded Randolph before letting go of Currry...if you remember what we traded Randolph for you will see why this trade is so horrible and why Curry's presence in New York and Isiah's infatuation with him destroyed this franchise. Omar Asik was in this trade also(at the time no one knew he would become a good NBA player), but it's funny to look at since theres trade rumors revolving around Shumpert for Asik.
7/28/2007: Knicks acquire Taurean Green, Bobby Jones, and a 2010 second-rounder (Andy Rautins) in exchange for Renaldo Balkman.
-LOL, Isiah.
11/21/2008: Knicks acquire Al Harrington in exchange for Jamal Crawford.
Crawford was going to expire in 2011. I wasn't mad at this.
11/21/2008: Knicks acquire Tim Thomas and Cuttino Mobley in exchange for Zach Randolph and Mardy Collins.
-I forgot what Tim Thomas and Mobley's contracts looked like. But does it even matter? Tim Thomas was just a spot up shooter and Mobley didn't even play for us. Randolph is an all star NBA big man. After giving up a lot of cap space and a draft pick for his contract, we let him go for trash? Before we let Eddy Curry go? Why? Since when did Eddy Curry become more of a keeper than Randolph?
2/19/2009: Knicks acquire Larry Hughes in exchange for Tim Thomas, Jerome James, and Anthony Roberson.
2/19/2009: Knicks acquire Chris Wilcox in exchange for Malik Rose and cash considerations.
6/25/2009: Knicks acquire Darko Milicic in exchange for Quentin Richardson and cash.
2/17/2010: Knicks acquire Brian Cardinal in exchange for Darko Milicic and cash.
2/18/2010: Knicks acquire Eddie House, J.R. Giddens, Bill Walker, and a top-55 protected 2014 second-rounder in exchange for Nate Robinson and Marcus Landry.
- Hey, we got a draft pick...top 55-protected...lmao. Atleast Boston sucks and it will be a high second round draft pick. We need to do a lot of scouting into the draft this 2014 summer.
2/18/2010: Knicks acquire Tracy McGrady and Sergio Rodriguez in exchange for Jordan Hill, Jared Jeffries, and a heavily conditional pick (Royce White).
Letting Hill go was dumb. He wasn't a polished player or durable(very injury prone), but he rebounded very well and had an 18 foot jumpshot. The heavily conditional pick became White who hasn't amounted to anything in the NBA, but the 2012 draft in the later picks was lackluster...can't be too upset at this.
7/9/2010: Knicks acquire Ronny Turiaf, Kelenna Azubuike, and Anthony Randolph in exchange for David Lee.
- LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. So we trade Zach Randolph for nothing and Lee for nothing, but still have Eddy Curry on the roster? Genius.
2/22/2011: Knicks acquire Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups, Renaldo Balkman, Anthony Carter, Shelden Williams, and Corey Brewer in exchange for Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, Raymond Felton, Timofey Mozgov, Anthony Randolph, Eddy Curry's expiring pact, their 2014 first-round pick and $3 million.
-The 2014 first round pick killed us in this deal. Why we did waive Corey Brewer? He's a starting SF in the NBA.
7/11/2012: Knicks acquire Marcus Camby in exchange for Toney Douglas, Jerome Jordan, Josh Harrellson, a 2014 second-rounder, and a 2015 second-rounder.
-more second round picks gone. I know second round picks in the NBA aren't like the ones in the NFL, but still. We're giving these picks away for free. The Knicks are the most generous NBA team the past two decades.
7/15/2012: Knicks acquire Raymond Felton and Kurt Thomas in exchange for Jared Jeffries, Dan Gadzuric, the rights to Kostas Papanikolaou, the rights to Giorgios Printezis, a 2016 second-rounder, and cash considerations.
2/21/2013: Knicks acquire a 2014 second-round pick, & Cash considerations in exchange for Ronnie Brewer.
So we have two second round picks in 2014...not bad. maybe we can trade up?
7/3/2013: The Knicks acquire Andrea Bargnani for Marcus Camby, Steve Novak, Quentin Richardson (via a sign-and-trade), a first-round pick in 2016 and second-round selections in 2014 and 2017.
^ this has Eddy Curry written all over it.
2016 will hurt us.
A-1 thread Metro. Add JLin, picked him up off of waivers for nothing and who had the hottest start of anybody in NBA history and would be the answer to our starting PG woes and didn't keep him.
^ nah, we need someone like Rondo. Lin is actually a shooting guard that wouldn't mesh with Melo. Rondo is a good pass-first PG who is actually available..we just need to make the Celtics the right offer
Favorite Team: Knicks
Favorite Player: D. Rose
Favorite Position: PG
The only trade i can defend is the David Lee Trade. At the Time, Anthony Randolph had a month and a half, when Biedrens went down with injury, where he was averaging 20-10-3. Also Azubuike was a more than servicable Guard....unfortunately he was too prone.
The Ewing trade was never suppose to happen .. Stupid A -Ewing demanded to be traded when he suppose to retire a Knicks.
I dont blame Dolan for only offering Ewing a D.League coaching job.
The Marbury trade was not suppose to happen .. especially after Marbury 26 win season with the Nets.
The Nets trade Marbury for Kidd, and the Nets became a 52 Win team with a trip to the FINALS the next season.
Those are the two trades that made the Knicks into a mediocre team throughout the millenium.
Laydum & clueless Isiah
Walsh was a idiot that needed a HC with power
And Grunwald got his first GM job by a D.League Linsanity, to lose it by doing what Melo told him to do.
Lin played SG in college, learned PG in the NBA.
and how do you Rondo comes back as the same player? He'll come back better than Rose, but those type of injuries don't favor a players future. Rondo's strength is his speed and athleticism, without it he becomes Brevin Knight. Think to yourself and ask what would the Knicks look like with a broken down Rondo.
He's an upgrade over Felton no question, but I'm not sold on Rondo's durability at this point of his career.
I was so excited when we traded for Starbury, little did I know...
You think it's bad now? It will get worse. This is just the beginning.
The Knicks had so many scandals, litigations, embarrassments and loses during the Isiah/Layden era. There were protests, the garden stopped selling out and not much changed overall. All Stern could do was "force" Dolan to hire Walsh. People focus more on Walsh's basketball moves, but his main goal was to turn around the Knicks image. That wasn't really easy all things considered and he did a good job of that. But now he is long gone and Dolan was able to bring back Mills who was helping him call the shots during the Isiah/Layden era.
The Knicks are owned by the Madison Square Garden group which is a spinoff of cablevision. The Knicks are a minor pot of the MSG group which is just a very small pot of cablevision. The Knicks could lose money and the MSG group/Cablevision would still be profitable. So even if we stop going, protest, etc, it doesn't matter. Dolan will still be making lots of money and is so stubborn that he would keep the Knicks just to spite the fans. During the Isiah era a lot of fans stopped going, but there are enough tourists, celebrities, companies with corporate seats and opposing fans that the Knicks still filled the Garden up. The corporate boxes and courtside seats are where most of the revenues come in anyhow.
Knicks are just an expensive pastime for Dolan and we are screwed.
This franchise is cursed with the worst owner in sports.
Expect more Eddy Curry deals to come our way.
Lin meshes just fine with a ball-dominant player like James Harden, so why would he have a problem in NY?
he choosed easiest way to earn title sitting on bench 99% time.
The Curry trade is 5% of what Patrick Ewing did to this Knicks organization during the trip to the 1999 FINALS, and after visting the FINALS. Dolan not letting the dog that bit his children back in the state of New York is a wise move.


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Experian Automotive compiled the car registration numbers in Hawaii and found 44,830 new cars were registered in 2012. That's up from 37,086 in 2011 and 33,639 in 2010.
"We were sort of the bottom of the ocean for a long while and we're working our way back now," said Rolf. "Normal sales would be 50,000 and we'll be shy of that this coming year at 47,000."
Rolf says people held off buying new cars so they kept the cars they had wondering when the economy is going to get better. He says it's clear people are back in the showrooms.
The brands seeing more buyers include Smart Car, Acura and Chrysler.
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Keith Rosenow, 46, was sentenced to two years behind bars and three years extended supervision. Rosenow will receive credit for 350 days already spent in jail.
In November, Rosenow pleaded no contest to second-degree recklessly endangering safety and unsafe burning of own building. Other charges were dismissed.
Judge Greg Grau said Rosenow was a firefighter with the Weston Fire Department for 16 years, but left in 2001.
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Hamlin launched into the number one seed after a dominating victory in Richmond, bringing him to a season and career high six wins. He races into "The Magic Mile" just 10 points ahead of June's winner Jimmie Johnson.
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Dodgers win their 12th consecutive victory at Home! Going for lucky 13!
Jeff Weaver got his first win last night! Some might have been saying "Who is that guy on the mound?" He looked like the old Weaver that pitched for us in 2004 & 2005! Welcome guerito. I feel like singing the song "Que Onda Guero." The only run he allowed was a wild pitch. He was limited to 75 pitches for his start but he gave us a little more.
Our bullpen was fantastic with Tron (Troncoso), Belisario, Ohman and our baby bull Jonathan Broxton.
What do you think of Torre's comment about Weaver :-)?
"He said he didn't do a good job with the leadoff hitters, but that's pretty much why we felt good about sending him out there," said Torre, who replaced rookie James McDonald with Weaver. "He's done this. He's never been one to rattle."
Going for lucky !3! with 21 year old Kershaw against Cabrera. Both are 0-2.
On my way to the stadium now.
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Hola Emma, soy Ale el canario. quiero felicitarte por tu equipo, este año estan imparables. Creo que son el mejor candidato para llevarse las Series Mundiales. Lo dicho, muchas felicidades.
Well, I see they got #13 – those guys are on fire right now! Wish the Phillies could start smoldering just a little – shut out last night by the Mets – arghh!
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I hope Torre is very happy with us. and I hope that after Torre retires, Mattingly can take over!
Como estas!? Gracias por las felicitaciones. Se miran bien y esto es con Kuroda en la DL.
I always keep track of the out of town scoreboard and saw that about the shutdown. Sorry. Hey soon my boys will be in Phllie!


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Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with P. Schofield
Fall 2014, Winter 2015 and Spring 2015 quarters
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Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Scientific Inquiry. Research opportunities allow science students to work on specific projects associated with faculty members' expertise. Students typically begin by working in an apprenticeship model with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, modeling and theoretical analysis, written and oral communication, collaboration and critical thinking. These are valuable skills for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.
Paula Schofield (organic, polymer, materials chemistry) is interested in the interdisciplinary fields of biodegradable plastics and biomedical polymers. Research in the field of biodegradable plastics is becoming increasingly important to replace current petroleum-derived materials and to reduce the environmental impact of plastic wastes. Modification of starch through copolymerization and use of bacterial polyesters show promise in this endeavor. Specific projects within biomedical polymers involve the synthesis of poly (lactic acid) copolymers that have potential for use in tissue engineering. Students with a background in chemistry and biology will gain experience in the synthesis and characterization of these novel polymer materials. Students will present their work at American Chemical Society (ACS) conferences.
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