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By André Coleman 11/29/2012
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is set to release some of its findings in a preliminary investigation of a Nov. 17 crash between two Pasadena Police Department helicopters that left five police officers with minor injuries.
According to the city's Web site, the federal safety board — which has been named the lead investigatory agency in the crash — will release Friday the results of its preliminary probe. In addition, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating the incident. Officials with both agencies have already interviewed Pasadena Police Chief Philip Sanchez and Deputy Chief Darryl Qualls, according to Lt. Phlunte Riddle. The department has turned over surveillance video of the crash to the NTSB, according to Riddle.
Meanwhile, residents in one middle-class residential neighborhood frustrated by the copters hovering nearby in the middle of the night say they are now afraid the next crash could happen over their homes.
"The City Council has basically given the [Pasadena Police Department] carte blanche to use helicopters when and where they choose," wrote Lorraine Montgomery in a letter to the Weekly. "It has gotten to the point where I often feel like I am living in a war zone. We have had enough and hope to work toward collecting signatures to put this issue to a ballot."
The rotors of the two OH-58 aircrafts crashed into one another shortly after 4 p.m. Nov. 17 during landing maneuvers at the city's heliport in Northwest Pasadena. One copter — the city has four helicopters — was taking off to perform neighborhood patrols. The other one was returning from patrols around the Rose Bowl during the annual USC-UCLA game.
Lt. Michael Ingram, Lt. Randell Taylor and Officers Carol Eldridge, Markus Mendenhall and Ryan Smith suffered minor cuts and bruises and were transported to Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. Eldridge and Mendenhall were the pilots of the two crafts.
A civilian contractor not identified by police was on board during the crash, which caused extensive damage to both vessels.
While the NTSB is expected to release preliminary findings Friday, the agency will only release its factual findings in one year. A final report will not be posted for three years, in accordance with the NTSB guidelines.
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posted by Vivavilla on 11/30/12 @ 06:12 a.m.
Seriously, why does Pasadena need 4 helicopters. They have more than most cities with over a million people. During the summer the east side does feel like a war zone.
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First off-- Godaddy has said its Danica's decisions to choose what she wants to do and they will stay out of the racing side of things and rely on her judgment regarding those choices. Believe it-- IF she didnt want this--it wouldnt have happenned. Iam sure though that she trusts Tonys judgement in this to do the right thing for her so she is Ok with it, but I dont like it, course my opinion doesnt matter.
On the second matter of it wont hurt her image--yes it is taking a hit on most all sites and some media. "The first female in yrs to start the Daytona 500 is Danica and they bought her way in the race"--how does that sound? Its certainly not credible and this is crap as i said earlier. However, now i'll knock Tony and say he sold her out to a moreso S&P team, so he wouldnt have to be bothered as he is "old school" and should know most of all how important it is for a driver to earn their spot, rather then buy their way in? On Race Hub tonight and the interview with Balwin he commented it is his car now and she is racing with HIS team so Tony and Ryan can concentrate on themselves winning races & the championship etc. Nice going Tony you just lost some of my respect, for what it matters? Wait till when the car is crap and slow and she has 30 second pit stops and other issues, then who takes the blame? Oh well guess we'll see how it goes as miracles could happen and she could do OK, and its only for 10 races and if she does poorly SHR can kiss a 2013+ Cup contract with her goodbye.
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Barre board sides with zoning official on motel fightMark Collier / Staff Photo
The Budget Inn on North Main Street in Barre is the subject of a zoning dispute over how part of the motel is used.
BARRE A motel that Richard J. Wobby Sr. opened under a different name in 1957 was the subject of a potentially precedent-setting ruling by the citys Development Review Board late last week.
Theirs probably wont be the last word on the subject, but board members came down squarely on the side of their zoning administrator, who earlier this year cited Budget Inn owner David Singh for violating a never-enforced provision of the citys zoning ordinance.
In what is being trumpeted as a test case, Mike Miller, the citys director of planning, zoning and inspection services, claims a three-year-old provision of the citys zoning ordinance prohibits Singh from turning motel rooms into what he views as undersized and ill-equipped apartments.
After listening to 45 minutes of testimony and briefly deliberating behind closed doors late last week, the board affirmed Millers finding.
In doing so, members flatly rejected the arguments offered by Singh and his lawyer, Paul Gillies, and set the stage for an anticipated appeal to the states Environmental Court.
If the argument advanced by Gillies last week is any indication, the appeal if there is one wont focus on the definitions of words like primarily and transient as city officials expected.
In his written notice of appeal, Singh took issue with Millers interpretation of an ordinance that defines a motel as a structure that contains sleeping and living accommodations used primarily for transient occupancy to the general public on a daily basis for compensation.
Singh argued that primarily doesnt mean exclusively and transient isnt defined anywhere in an ordinance that created a new classification and regulations for extended stay hotels and motels.
On Thursday Gillies said while there is a case to be made for that semantic debate, he doesnt believe it is necessary because the citys new rules dont apply to the motel that Wobby opened as the Heiress in 1957 and Singh bought several owners and two name changes later six years ago.
I dont think you reach that if you stop at the door marked nonconforming use, Gillies said, arguing that the Budget Inns practice of renting rooms to some patrons on an extended basis is a pre-existing non-conforming use.
The city cannot begin to enforce this kind of regulation until either theres an abandonment of a year some enlargement, or a change of use, he said, suggesting that simply isnt the case with regard to the Budget Inn.
Asked whether a change in names, owners, and even patrons over the years would affect his opinion, Gillies said it would not.
That would be like saying the grocery store changes every time they run out of tomatoes, Gillies said. This is the nature of a motel. People come in. They check out. Some people stay longer. Some people, who have no other place to go, (stay) because they are in town for three months or six weeks (and) theyre not going to be able to get an apartment.
Gillies urged board members to focus on what they were told was an uninterrupted use that dates back decades.
Uses, as with structures, have a special advantage in being allowed to remain until something happens that triggers the jurisdiction of the city, he said, suggesting that hadnt happened
Whats in place stays in place, he said.
Not according to Miller, who argued the ordinance that was on the books before the 2010 change, while admittedly ambiguous, was in his view more restrictive.
Under that decade-old version of the ordinance, motels and hotels were defined as: A use of land for the provision of temporary sleeping for travelers.
Miller maintained some of the rooms Singh rents, including one that has been occupied by the same person for seven years, is not temporary.
The previous illegal use of the property would not validate the current illegal use of the property, he said. The grandfathered status applies only to legal non-conforming uses.
Miller based his analysis on the definition that was included in an ordinance that was adopted in 2003 and replaced one that had been on the books since 1973.
Barres first zoning ordinance was adopted in 1950 seven years before the Heiress Motel opened. That ordinance was first amended in 1968, overhauled in 1973 and again in 2003. It has been amended twice since then. The board heard no testimony about how, or even if, motels were defined in the earliest versions of the ordinance, though Rob Halpert the lawyer the city hired to pinch-hit for City Attorney Oliver Twombly told the board that could be a factor if the decision is appealed.
In order for this use to qualify as a non-conforming use it had to be a valid use under the old regulations, Halpert said, without publicly specifying which version of the regulations the board should focus on to make that determination, given the vintage of the motel and the citys history with zoning.
Halpert was hired to advise the board due to a potential conflict of interest stemming from Twomblys interest in the former Central Hotel, now Downtown Rentals. Miller has said that pending the outcome of Singhs appeal, Twombly is among those who could face a similar enforcement action.
Board members were told by Singh that renting some motel rooms on an extended basis is a common business practice in Barre and elsewhere.
Singh, who was never cited under the earlier version of the ordinance, said it was also a practice employed by the inns two previous owners and objected to what he characterized as the citys attempt to force him to comply with an ordinance that didnt exist when he bought the property.
Youre forcing a change of use on me when I dont want to have an extended stay motel, he said, referring to new regulations that require the installation of kitchenettes in motel rooms continuously occupied by the same person for more than 30 days.
Gillies argued the North Main Street inn qualified as a pre-existing nonconforming use, but said even if it didnt, the long-standing nature of the operation barred the city from pursuing an enforcement action against his client.
If it has been that way and inconsistent with your zoning for more than 15 years, the city is foreclosed from enforcing it, he said.
Gillies and Singh left the hearing while the board was deliberating and attempts to reach him for comment were unsuccessful.
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Home List of Titles Ultra-high vacuum surface analysis study of rhodopsin incorporation into supported lipid bilayers
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- Ultra-high vacuum surface analysis study of rhodopsin incorporation into supported lipid bilayers
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- Michel, Roger; Subramaniam, Varuni; McArthur, Sally L.; Bondurant, Bruce; D'Ambruoso, Gemma D.; Hall Jr, Henry K.; Brown, Michael F.; Ross, Eric E.; Saavedra, S. Scott; Castner, David G.
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- Planar supported lipid bilayers that are stable under ambient atmospheric and ultra-high-vacuum conditions were prepared by cross-linking polymerization of bis-sorbylphosphatidylcholine (bis-SorbPC). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) were employed to investigate bilayers that were cross-linked using either redox-initiated radical polymerization or ultraviolet photopolymerization. The redox method yields a more structurally intact bilayer; however, the UV method is more compatible with incorporation of transmembrane proteins. UV polymerization was therefore used to prepare cross-linked bilayers with incorporated bovine rhodopsin, a light-activated, G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). A previous study (Subramaniam, V.; Alves, I. D.; Salgado, G. F. J.; Lau, P. W.; Wysocki, R. J.; Salamon, Z.; Tollin, G.; Hruby, V. J.; Brown, M. F.; Saavedra, S. S. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 5320-5321) showed that rhodopsin retains photoactivity after incorporation into UV-polymerized bis-SorbPC, but did not address how the protein is associated with the bilayer. In this study, we show that rhodopsin is retained in supported bilayers of poly(bis-SorbPC) under ultra-high-vacuum conditions, on the basis of the increase in the XPS nitrogen concentration and the presence of characteristic amino acid peaks in the ToF-SIMS data. Angle-resolved XPS data show that the protein is inserted into the bilayer, rather than adsorbed on the bilayer surface. This is the first study to demonstrate the use of ultra-high-vacuum techniques for structural studies of supported proteolipid bilayers.
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- Langmuir, Vol. 24, no. 9 (May 2008), pp. 4901-4906
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- 2008
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- Bilayer surface; Bis-SorbPC; Bis-sorbylphosphatidylcholine; Crosslinking; G-protein-coupled receptor; GPCR; Lipid bilayers; Mass spectrometry; Oxidation reduction reaction; Phosphatidylcholines; Photopolymerisation; Pigments; Polymers; Redox reactions; Rhodopsin; Secondary ion mass spectrometry; Spectrophotometry; Surface analysis; Surface properties; Vacuum; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy; XPS
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- American Chemical Society
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- Copyright © 2008 American Chemical Society. Publisher does not officially support author/institution self-archiving of either the post-print (final, revised accepted draft) and/or published version of full text.
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Directed by Jack Arnold
John Agar – Dr. Matt Hastings
Mara Corday – Stephanie (Steve) Canyon
Leo G. Carroll – Prof. Gerald Deemer
Nestor Paiva - Sheriff Jack Andrews
This is another "big bug" classic, directed by Jack Arnold at the very summit of atomic-age sci-fi; and the great director wastes no time establishing a nature-run-amok theme: In the opening shot we see the desert; harsh, hard, and threatening in its isolation. The camera pans slowly as if time is never rushed out here. Wind is making a high, parched howl and stirs the dead clumps of sage.
A man is seen from a distance stumbling around the rocky landscape. He is shuffling so noticeably we hear his foot falls mixing with the sound of wind. He staggers, pauses, continues as if blinded, clearly in trouble. And we see, even from a distance, something is wrong with him. He appears swollen, oddly shaped. The camera comes in close and we see the extent of the dehumanizing grotesqueries : His chest and shoulders are covered with bulbous growths, his face and hands, all outsized, are blackened and deformed. His brow is so overhung his eyes are black pits, and his teeth and jaw jut out just beyond his thick lips. He pauses, looks sky ward, and falls over with a thump onto the parched ground. We see now another oddity: He's wearing slippers and pajamas.
He paws at the rocky earth once with his bloated, veined claw and stops moving. We see a sky filling with vultures.
What makes this classic Jack Arnold is the gripping sense of dialogue-free drama, and more, the imaginative and unique way the director builds tension (always within the confines of a cripplingly lean budget). Consider: Throughout this odd beginning, there is no music; no swelling strings to illicit our sympathy, no thumping bass or otherworld Theremin warble (so prevalent in vintage sci-fi) to let us know how odd this is, or sad, or frightening. Nothing. Just the wind and the shuffling slippers, and the awful suffering and lonely death under the sun. Perhaps this rough scene is normal in some depraved, new, and dying world. Even the vultures make a sound like wind. The silence and empty air, more than the terrific makeup or snappy words, have wound the tension. Finally the camera pans back to the bleak land, a timpani roll gathers like thunder, and dramatic horns blast theme music over the title credits. "Tarantula!"
Tarantula? Judging by the opening, it might be assumed we had ventured into a Beast of Yucca Flats type picture (except for the already evident skillful film making), or maybe The Hideous Sun Demon. Hang tough, dear viewer; all things will be made clear by Arnold's wonderful storytelling style.
I'll cut to the chase. The lowdown is: a scientist, Professor Gerald Deemer (played with regal nonchalance by Leo G. Carroll), is working feverishly in his isolated, desert laboratory on a "non-organic food concentrate." The professor has developed a cheap, man-made food source using a "radioactive isotope" as a binding agent. With this food source, the professor hopes to feed the world's future population. No more hunger! The benevolent professor has a few kinks to work out first, however. First, the stuff is so toxic it has to be handled in a small radiation chamber with fireman's gloves, tongs, and face shields; and second, it makes rats grow to the size of pigs or sometimes just kills them outright. Deemer's lab is lousy with cages of experimental animals, some of them already made gigantic: guinea-pigs, rabbits, monkeys, rats, and (ahem) tarantulas. Once Professor Deemer irons out these troublesome wrinkles, it's the Nobel Prize for sure.
Well, there is a third side effect that will require a bit more study: When a human is used for experimentation, it results in a rampaging, greatly accelerated case of acromegaly (a condition involving the pituitary gland and overgrowth and swelling of bones and soft tissue) resulting in death within days. This explains the unfortunate we saw stumbling and dying under the sun in the opening shots – he was one of the professor's lab assistants, Eric Jacobs, that tested the stuff on himself (anything for science). Okay, three hurdles; the good professor has three hurdles to clear before he puts that Nobel on his mantelpiece.
A bloated, hairy, misshapen corpse dressed in pajamas and house slippers found dead in the middle of nowhere raises a few eyebrows in this sleepy, desert town; and local sheriff Andrews (character actor Nestor Paiva uses a dry twang and a stiff-legged strut for the roll. Paiva was a reliable regular in B movies, usually playing ethnic parts) calls in the local doc just to be on the safe side. Enter Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar – ever smooth and B movie handsome). In prepping him about the case, Sherriff Andrews has explained that "there is something about the face" that possibly suggests the corpse is Eric Jacobs. What do you mean "suggests" Dr. Hastings wants to know. Well, um, I can show you better than I can tell you; and the two stroll on over the funeral parlor.
Hastings looks over the body with the sheriff and the local undertaker, Barney, who is completely out of his league on this one and man enough to admit it. Agar does a nice bit of underplayed acting as he pulls back the sheet, letting Arnold's masterful staging and pace carry the scene's horror. That can't be Jacobs, he concludes, his face grim. The features suggest acromegaly, but this kind of distortion and death takes years. Jacobs was just seen last month and he was fine. The sheriff and doctor are allowed only a moment of two of confusion before the professor, who is clearly the established medical/scientific authority in town, breezes into the parlor and puts them right (Doctor Hastings, handsome and friendly, is clearly the young Turk in town, running his new practice from a hotel room; while the professor is set up in a huge, rambling colonial and has the added plus of a light, British accent).
Yes, says Professor Deemer, that's Jacobs. No ifs ands or buts. "He was my dear friend for thirty years," concludes Deemer, ending the discussion despite Hastings clearly trouble stare. The principals exit viewing room to talk a bit out in the main parlor. The sheriff comes on tough. "Professor," he says, "I'm going to have to know all about it." The sheriff wants to know what the hell happened to Jacobs' face, assuming it is Jacobs. How the heck did he wind up in the middle of the desert? In pajamas? Dead?
"Sherriff," answers the Professor in dignified exhaustion, plopping into on of the parlor's overstuffed chairs, "have you ever watched a friend dying before your eyes and not been able to help? That's the worst of it. Being helpless" The professor continues on for a bit, delivering an effective and classy snow job which the Sherriff is only to happy to play along with. After all, a local sheriff that bucks the wrong people in this tiny, isolated community could be sweeping out the barber shop after the fall elections. Dr. Hastings, not able to sink much lower that a hotel store front, presses the case a bit further: How could it be Jacobs? It looks like acromegaly, but that's impossible. "It is acromegaly," clarifies the doctor. The disease completely overtook him in four days. Any more questions? What about an autopsy, inquires the sheriff politely. No need, I'm a medical doctor (and an established one unlike snot-nosed young Hastings here) and I'll sign the death certificate. A good day to you, Sir.
After the professor's exit, Dr. Hastings and the sheriff spend an embarrassing moment trying to reestablish some dignity. Sheriff Andrews, who has just been all but bitch-slapped by the professor for his impertinence, decides on a little payback with the young sprat doctor (the open contempt these two characters develop for one another is one of the hidden pleasures of the movie): "Well, you heard the man," snaps the Sheriff, puffing himself up. "A young fella like you can't stack what he knows against the professor! The trouble is, Doc, you hate to admit your wrong!"
Following his trip to town, the professor returns home, slips on his lab apron, and gets back to work. But trouble is waiting. A second overly-dedicated but terribly misshapen lab assistant, Paul Lund, has taken the stuff as well. Lund lurches into the laboratory, (how many assistants do isolated desert crackpots get?) goes berserk, and tries to kill the professor who he blames for his lumpy fate. He manages to set the professor's lab on fire and knocks Deemer cold. While the old fellow lies unconscious, Lund injects the professor with some of the "nutrient" and then dies. When the professor wakes up, his lab is on fire but he manages to save the lab with a fire extinguisher. He doesn't notice it, but one of his test specimens has escaped via a broken cage. Yep, the tarantula made his extremely slow exit from the lab during the battle royal. If the giant bunny had escaped, we would have had an entirely different picture.
At this point in the movie, two significant things happen: first, biologist Stephanie (Steve) Canyon comes to town to work for the professor, arriving by bus from Phoenix. The part of Steve Canyon is played by the Mara Corday, a legend of Radiation Cinema as well as being one of the few humans who ever lived that can make bus travel look glamorous. The other crucial plot development is that several of the locals begin to report livestock trouble; as in dead-and-eaten-livestock-reduced-to-skeletal-remains-soaked-in-an-odd-slime-that-turns-out-to-be-venom trouble. It's the escaped Tarantula, all right, growing by leaps and bounds.
Things progress and local ranchers are soon found dead along with more livestock remians; until finally a car is found, destroyed (not exactly "crashed" but more torn up and ripped apart) with piles of human bones and bloody gore found near patches of the same white slime that has turned up at all the killings. The viewer's imagination is led expertly by the director in this scene to thought pictures of the creature cracking the car open like a walnut, mandibles clacking to get at the soft stuff inside. When Dr. Hastings shows up at this scene, he looks around and says, "anyone survive?" "Are you kidding?" answers the local newsman stonily.
While the tarantula plot thickens, Steve Canyon has gone to work for the Professor while in her spare time developing a pleasant flirtation with Dr. Hastings (Actress Mara Corday could develop a pleasant, believable chemistry with any male actor cast opposite her without a hint of falseness. Even mono-browed Jeff Marrow, clearly several rungs beneath her station and who flirted like a caveman when cast opposite Corday in The Giant Claw, was handled with cordial interest). The effects of the nutrient injection are starting to take effect, though, and his features are becoming progressively distorted (tremendous makeup!). At first a sort of heaviness can be detected, as though perhaps the professor were very tired; until finally, he is a distorted atrocity. Canyon in one scene calls for Dr. Hastings help, as the professor's acromegaly has progressed to an advanced stage and he is having trouble breathing. Once Hastings arrives, a much disfigured professor spills the beans first about his assistants; how they both became impatient with animal testing and injected themselves with the radiation rich nutrient.; and then the professor describes his own injection at the hands of the deranged and dying Lund, and how all his test animals all burned to death in the lab fire. Oh, how beautiful they were, says the professor, all of them living on nothing but his super food, growing so huge; rats, rabbits, tarantulas . . . Dr. Hastings suddenly snaps to attention. Hey, what a minute. did you say tarantulas?
Hastings has begun to put the pieces together, and he dashes off with a slime sample to the Arizona Agricultural Institute where it's confirmed that the slime is indeed tarantula venom. The doctor in this scene is played by Raymond Bailey who is best remembered as Mr. Drysdale in the television's The Beverly Hillbillies. During the 1950's, though, he was often cast as the medical lab coat in any film requiring a scene of medical explanation (Jack Arnold liked him so much in this roll, he used him again similarly a couple of years later in The Incredible Shrinking Man). Also typical of this era, the scientist in a lab coat always seems to have a reel of footage handy and all cued up to accompany any needed scientific exposition, be the subject slugs, ants, spiders – what-have-you. After Dr. Townsend's summery, Hastings is certain a huge, very huge, tarantula is liquefying his neighbors (the way that a tarantula eats, Dr. Townsend has helpfully explained, is by the injection of the slime/venom into its victims, which liquefies the tissue for an easy slurp and quick digestion. "That explains the piles of bones!" says Hastings somewhat obviously, just in case we haven't got the revolting image front and center).
Dr. Hastings is eager to call back to Desert Rock with his discovery, but Townsend's secretary explains that all lines are down between phoenix and Desert Rock. "How did that happen?" snaps Hasting at the harassed secretary, though it's clear with all his new information about a tarantula big enough to secret gallons of venom, he has a good guess. He dashes out of the scene in a hurry.
Cut to the reason all communications are down as we get our first view of the tarantula. The hairy thing is seen lumbering through the desert night, plowing over telephone and electrical lines with accompanying fireworks. The beast comes quickly to it's next meal, two hobos/prospectors sitting around a campfire. One of the two can't run worth a damn, stumbling repeatedly (I'm sorry, I might have gone back to help once, but twice as the incredibly brave partner did here? I don't know. I might have just considered it fate and kept running for all I was worth).
The effects in this movie are all very good, and the tarantula, who will dominate the remainder of the film, is beautiful. It makes the kind of high-pitched, electrical chattering all huge movie insects make, established in the earlier Them!. The creation does indeed seem huge and powerful – believably scary, particularly when joined in memory with the brutal realism depicted at the earlier scenes of carnage (the piles of bones, it bares repeating, are not of the dried variety, as seen in Them! No, these scatterings of skeleton are covered in bloody carrion).
Next the huge beast makes a b-line for the professor's house and smashes it to rubble, eating the enormously deformed (the final stage of great makeup!) and near-dead professor into the bargain. Assistant Steve tries to save him, bravely making her way to his room through the rocking floor and tumbling debris of a collapsing house, but manages to make it to his room just in time to see the mammoth mandibles smash through the roof and take him. She issues a great scream and makes her escape running down the long driveway as the house is crushed flat behind her. This is the best scene in the movie and probably ate up half the meager budget, but it was worth it. The giant arachnid has to work for this one, it's legs actually spinning like the tires of a monster truck as it works through the house; while the main timbers and foundations of the building grind and crack under its force. What a scene!
Dr. Hastings arrives at the scene in time to whisk her away in his car, but the thing lurches rather quickly after them. They are met by the sheriff and state police (Hastings meets them, leaps out of his car, and begs them to turn around but is too panicked to explain why and half-crying only manages, "I'll tell you later!"). All concerned are frozen in terror as the thing crawls over a hill into view, long legs eating up ground. It is very, very quickly decided to run like hell and make a last stand near town. The insect, now big as a three story building, has caught the scent of the main entrée, Desert Rock, and is headed down the highway straight for it. In a perfect Radiation Cinema moment, the chief of the state police orders two of his officers to stay behind with machine guns in an effort to "slow it down," despite the fact that only moments earlier the sheriff has shouted in hysteria that their weapons won't stop it. Yessir, yessir, snap the two obviously doomed policemen and hop to. As their fellow officers, Dr. Hastings, and Steve burn rubber fleeing, the two gallant, overly dedicated cops manage to squeeze off a short burst each before the thing overtakes and devours them. Personally, I would have put the chief before a board of inquire on this one.
The rest of the picture is about killing the spider before it reaches town and is as sturdy a piece of Radiation Cinema as you will ever see. The town has been evacuated of citizens. Every stick of dynamite is loaded into a truck and the highway approaching the town is mined. The creature doesn't even break stride as it crawls through the blast. Finally, the air force is called in just as the thing is in view of the town, and a cheer goes up as the fighter jets scream overhead (the military was nearly always the saving, heroic force in 1950's sci-fi, and why not? We had just won WWII in grand fashion. Hell, we even elected a general for president!). The first missiles fired from the fighters are ineffective, as the mammoth insect crawls through these strikes as it did the dynamite. Finally the squadron leader (played with increasing concern nicely by a very young Clint Eastwood) calls in the big guns: Napalm. Finally, at the very border of Desert Rock, the thing is roasted alive as napalm engulfs it. Here, as in many other sci-fi movies from this era, the world must be cleansed with a purifying fire. The final shot is the tarantula being reduced to ashes as all concerned watch with a mixture of horror and perhaps sympathy on their faces.
This film, along with Them!, represent the best of the big bug films. In fact, this film was made in the wake of the unexpected success of Them! and was the best of the breed. Several things make this so; first and foremost the craft and care that director Jack Arnold took with the picture. Arnold knew that drama came from a sense of reality, and reality was built detail by realistic detail. It is the small strokes, like having the ravishing Mara Corday look distinctly un-ravishing from the house destroying scene until the end of the picture. Her face is pale and dirty for the remainder of the picture, and her hair never again is in place. The town of Desert Rock feels like a real town, with store windows painted with appropriate names and occupations. The small town doctor who runs his practice from a hotel room is a nice touch, and the local sheriff, though not particularly likeable, is not a complete boob either. Sets, people, local (goodness, how Arnold loved the desert) – all seem cut from real life – thus, when the spider comes, it is given a realism by proxy. Classic Arnold.
Also, the cast is excellent throughout. Agar, who could go a little over-smooth on you if you weren't careful, seems well focused here and very involved. Leo G, Carroll, an Alfred Hitchcock favorite, gives a very measured and sympathetic performance, providing the movie with a solid, professional center. And then, of course, there is Mara Corday.
If Carroll gives Tarantula the stamp of an old pro, Corday gives the movie its emotional resonance. Corday, who starred in three of the classic big bug movies of the era (this one plus The Black Scorpion and The Giant Claw), was always, at the least, very sympathetic and natural in front of a camera. This was her best movie because Arnold recognized better than any other director her strengths as an actress. Despite a beauty that never failed to impress (she was, among other accomplishments, a model and a playmate of the month in October, 1958), Corday was able to project a lively intelligence and a gentle kindness into a part, as she did here. When she assists Professor Deemer in the lab, clearly enjoying the scientific work, we believe it. When she struggles valiantly in this movie to save the doomed professor, risking her own life, we believe it as well. She never looked stiff or bored at any time in her film career, and always brought a certain depth and commitment to a roll. Everyone saw her beauty. Google her image now and you will be flooded with examples of prime, 1950 cheesecake; but Arnold was one of the few directors in her career that saw the actress underneath.
This is film to be loved and one that holds up well to repeated viewings. How's the popcorn holding up? Can I get you a soda? Let's watch another.


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The Justice Department may seek as much as $5 billion from Standard and Poor's. In a lawsuit filed Monday night, prosecutors accuse the firm of misleading investors with fraudulent credit ratings on dozens of different mortgage bonds. It's not yet clear whether federal officials plan to file a similar suit against the other big rating firms, Moody's and Fitch. Regulators would like to see the industry be more competitive and less dependent on the firms whose securities they are rating.


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Freedom New Mexico: Mickey Winfield Portales High School senior Jacob Sambrano looks over a military brochure Friday afternoon at Portales High School.
By Mickey Winfield: Freedom New Mexico
The future is theirs but the clock is ticking.
Just like high school students around the country, Roosevelt and Curry County high school seniors approaching graduation are looking at a variety of options — among those choices a career in the military.
"It's that time of year where folks are making decisions like if they can pay for college," Clovis Air Force recruiter Technical Sgt. Ernest Castillo said. "They're also thinking about joining the military — it's crunch time right now."
Each of the four branches of military have a recruiting office in the Clovis mall — and that serves as their headquarters for contacting area high school seniors and others who want to enlist. Along with the other branches of the United States military, Castillo said one draw to joining the Air Force is higher education.
"With the Air Force, we try and focus more on the educational side of it," Castillo said. "Once you're done with your time in the Air Force, you can hit the ground running because you have work experience and college credits as well."
According to the U.S. State Department, military recruitment numbers are up because of the nation's economic troubles.
Sgt. E.E. Neal, Clovis' Marine Corps recruiter, has been in the position for seven months.
"I've spoken to several local high school seniors who are interested," Neal said. "The Marine Corps covers 100 percent of their college education while they're enlisted and at the same time, the Marines offer self discipline and leadership."
One such recruit is Portales senior Jacob Sambrano.
Sambrano enlisted in the Marine Corps several months ago.
"They contacted me," Sambrano said. "I wasn't thinking about it. I was wondering how I was going to pay for college. All of the sudden (the Marine recruiter) called me."
He could think of only one aspect of military life that he's anxious about.
"I really haven't thought of any (negatives)," Sambrano said. "The only negative I can think of is not getting to see your family for awhile, because you can be gone for years without seeing anybody … you know."
The Portales cross country and track athlete also has a girlfriend who may not be so hot about his decision.
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His mother also has concerns.
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with everything from joe.s.mom. She knows her OS/OALD!
with everything from joe.s.mom. She knows her OS/OALD!
Haha, I totally stole my description of foremilk/hindmilk from Mommal. I love how symbiotic these forums are that way.
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Mom to baby boy Joe, born 5/4/09 and breastfed for more than two and a half years, and baby girl Maggie, born 7/9/12.
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Mom to baby boy Joe, born 5/4/09 and breastfed for more than two and a half years, and baby girl Maggie, born 7/9/12.
Thank you thank you all. I've had some mildly successful and not so successful feedings on the OALD side. I've tried the sitting up football position and the cradle reclined. I will definitely be checking out the website. It's been such a rough day. My OALD side gets engorged like when my milk came in; I've been hand expressed a little between feedings and before but I'm trying not to do that so that I don't inadvertently increased supply...? It's getting a little better I think? DD was verrry unhappy at the breast this evening, but my breast at least felt a little better afterward and she fell asleep.
Stools are still yellow. Shew. I swear every other feed has been my last today. Thank you for your responses and encouragement. Merry Christmas. Thanks again.
Just be patient! OS/OALD does subside in time. I found it to be a two-steps-forward, one-step-back process... I'd have it under control (or so I thought) only to have it come back again, just not quite as bad as before. The key is just to keep working on positioning and block feeding.
If you're seeing yellow poopies then things are going well!
I tend to have severe OALD and OS, and I would NOT recommend EPing for those problems. Why.... pumping makes OS WORSE. You feel full, you pump until you're empty, your breast makes more milk, and you're doing it again. Before you know it...you're producing 8 oz of milk per side every 1-2 hours!! BTDT.
NO. DON'T go there!! It's really uncomfortable, and it will make your return to work worse. Just let it go until you have to start pumping. Your body might stop doing this here really soon.
Stay with the breast.
How I cope...I get the milk going myself, either with expressing or a pump or baby, and when the milk starts spraying (or baby starts choking), take baby off or stop the pumping/expressing, and burp baby while waiting for the spray to stop. That can take a couple minutes. Don't get worked up or upset. It will let up. Catch it in a towel or something. When it slows, put baby back on and let her nurse.
I personally never found the back laying position comfortable or effective. But... sidelying worked because baby could let the excess run out of his mouth. Keep experimenting with positions. And as long as the stools are the right color, things are OK, even if baby is coughing and sputtering a bit when nursing.
And it won't be long before your baby LOVES that OS. Really. My boys all could just hold their mouths open and be fed and it would take me like 5 minutes. It actually frustrated DH more than it did me in the end. He would want to go look at something while I was NIPing and I would make him wait because it wouldn't take me very long to feed the baby and I'd have to call him to find out where he was.
It will be OK. I have BTDT with three babies and will be here any moment with a fourth, and I can promise you that this will not last forever.
ETA: How I block feed. I don't feed with one breast for a certain amount of time, or until I'm rather uncomfortable on that side. For example, I make lots more milk on my left than on my right, a consequence of two lumpectomies on that breast as a 20-something. I might use the right for a couple feedings, which does help to ensure my baby got plenty of hindmilk (my babies have tended to want to nurse every 1-2 hours on average), then the left is really quite full by then. So then, when baby is ready to nurse again, I use the left, after getting the milk going. I might then go back to the right for the next couple of feedings. I play it by ear and by how full I am and how bad the OS is and how hungry baby is; if baby is still hungry, I might go ahead and use that left side early. I discovered it totally by accident actually, and just do what seems natural and keeps me as comfortable as possible yet makes sure baby is fed. Make sense?
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Thanks again for the replies--did I mention that? I was in a panic mode but stuck with the breast and block feeding (I just do one at a time and switch and that's three hours there) and things are actually better! The enforcement on the left is almost totally gone, so no hand expressing or lumpy bowling balls in between and baby is doing well enough with the letdown. The choking and so forth is more traumatic for me it seems.
I've been switching up the positions....I think she likes the reclined cradle best. As far as work and pumping I've definitely put that off another week
ETA: plenty of pee and yellow curdy poop
You can call me JoMo!
Mom to baby boy Joe, born 5/4/09 and breastfed for more than two and a half years, and baby girl Maggie, born 7/9/12.


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Pregnant wife lost baby after fatal fire
An additional homicide charge has been filed against the Argyle man accused of killing his three young sons and trying to kill his wife and daughter by setting fire to their home.
Armin Wand, 32, and his brother Jeremy Wand, 18, each face a charge of first degree homicide of an unborn child. Armin now faces a total of seven homicide charges. Jeremy is charged with six.
Armin's wife, Sharon Wand, was pregnant at the time of the fire and later lost the baby. She remains hospitalized at University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Doctors at University of Wisconsin Hospital recently said Sharon Wand is recovering remarkably, considering the condition she was in when she was admitted in early September.
Prosecutors said Armin and Jeremy Wand set fire to the house Sept. 7 to collect life insurance on Sharon, and their children. Allen, 7, Jeffrey, 5, and Joseph, 3, died in the fire. Sharon rescued the couple's daughter, Jessica, 2, from the fire.
Jeremy Wand was found competent to stand trial during a hearing Nov. 1.
Green County Judge Thomas Vale this week was appointed to replace a Lafayette County judge at the request of the Wand brothers' defense.
The defense is also asking for a change of venue.
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To view the full article, please visit athenahealth and Mashery team up for health developer-friendly API initiative.
Electronic health records (EHRs) companies allow access to patients sensitive health data and sensitive information about physicians' practices so technology companies can develop applications.
Applications have the potential to be useful to physicians and patients but at what cost to privacy? Will EHR "apps" secretly collect and sell people's information the way Smartphone apps collect and sell contact, GPS data and more? We now know the business model for many technologies is selling intimate personal data.
- ·athenahealth will open "access to doctors' appointment data, patient's medical history (anonymized) , billing information and more",
- ·"the company hopes developers will be able to create an ecosystem of apps on top of athenahealth's EMR service"
- ·"Other EMR providers, including Allscripts and Greenway, have also opened up their APIs to developers and created app marketplaces."
The press release on this athenahealth project stated, "We're providing the data and knowledge from our cloud-based network, a captive audience for developers to innovate for, and an online sandbox to do it all in."
- ·Who are the "captives"? athenahealth's 40,000 physicians and their 100's of thousands of patients
- ·When were the "captive" patients asked for consent for strangers who want to use and monetize their health records?
- ·When were "captive" physicians asked consent for strangers to use information about their practices, what they charge, who they treat, how they treat patients, how they are paid by whom, and much more?
- ·Why does athenahealth claim that patient data is "anonymized"—-when its impossible to prevent "anonymized" patient records from easy re-identification?
- -See top computer scientists explain why "de-identification" and "anonymization" don't work: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_cacm10.pdf
Many electronic health record (EHR) companies allow access/or sell sensitive patient data to technology developers and other companies.
- ·Another example: Practice Fusion has been opening patient records for application developers and also sells patient data (citation page 104 in the book "Free" by Chris Anderson, Hyperion, 2009).
- ·When did the public learn about, debate, or agree to the use of their sensitive patient data by technology companies to build products?
- ·Why do technology companies claim that "anonymization" and "de-identification" of health data works, when computer science has clearly proved them wrong?
- ·How is the identifiable health data of hundreds of thousands of patients protected from any OTHER uses the technology developers decide to use it for?
- ·How can the public weigh the risks and harms vs. benefits of using EHRs when there is no 'chain of custody' for our health data and no data map that tracks the thousands of HIDDEN users of our personal health information?
- See Harvard Prof Latanya Sweeney explain the need for a data map at: http://tiny.cc/5pjqvw
- -Attend or watch via live-streaming video the 2103 International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy in Washington DC June 5-6 to see the first data map Prof Sweeney's team has built. Registration to attend or watch is free at: www.healthprivacytsummit.org


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buying new 4wt advice
I am looking to upgrade my 4wt fly rod and would appreciate some advice not from a sales rep. I currently am using entry level package rods from basspro.I cast well with them but am interested in a faster action. Winston offers a vsl in my price range but have not been able to find reviews.Also tfo has a few models. I'm thinking 9' 4pc any recommendations?
4 wt. upgrade
I have some Winston sticks and while I do not have the one your looking at I have fished that #4 9ft. It would in my opinion a good all around rod for many areas and stream types. All Winston sticks are very well built and the warranty is great. You also may want consider a 5 wt. as it may be a little more of an all around rod.
I have atfo 5wt that I use for dropper rigs and light bass fishing wanted to go a little lighter for dry
I can't speak to any rods except TFO, because that's all I fish.
I have a 7.5 foot 3wt pro series for smaller streams and 8.5 foot 4 wt BVK for larger streams.
I love them both, but as I stated above, I can not compare them to any other rods.
Wild troutin, blue linin, fly flingin, camo wearin, redneckin elitist.
The Sage SP and the Sage Z-Axis can't be beat IMO. They have enough back bone to be castable at longer distances, yet are soft enough to be enjoyable and easy of light tippets.
I have cast a bunch of different brands/models over the years and none of them even compare to the Sage's in this category.
If you want a 4 wt that is usable on the tailwaters, even with the wind blowing then the choice is very obvious.
I'm with ifish as well and mostly fish TFO because it fits my budget and does what I need it to do. Just FYI but some of those BPS rods are not all that bad. Can't remember which ones but a buddy loved fishing his and he has other high end rods as well. It seems you are looking for an "upgrade" and that doesn't necessarily come with a higher price rod. Winston and Sage are both great rods if you want to spend the money on them. Get out and cast as many as you can. Check out LRO if you haven't already. They have a great selection of top end 4wts.
I really like 4wts. and actually have four of them so far. Three are TFO and one is an Orvis Superfine. As far as a faster rod, that isn't my thing but you might want to try out a TFO Ticr or Ticrx as both are actually pretty close to 5wts in reality. I use my 8'9" Finesse in the mountains and like it a lot. However it is a much softer rod closer to the classic Sage LL.
Tight Lines,
First I would recommend going and casting some of the 4 weight rods at Little River Outfitters, and give them the business if you can.
That said, although I buy waders, boots, flies, etc from LRO; most of my rods in recent years have come from Sierra Trading Post. If you get on their email list and get their DealFlyer coupons, you can save money on top of their closeout prices.
Today, I have a 35% off coupon from my DealFlyer, which makes a:
Powell SSL, 4 Piece, 9', 4# - $71.47
Redington RS4, 4 Piece, 8'6", 4# - $87.72
Ross Essance FW, 3 Piece, 9', 4# - $111.47
thanks for the advice, the winston I am looking at is from cabelas and they bundle it with one of their mid level reels and a sa gpx line for 400 ,thats my limit. I called LRO but they do not bundle rod, reel, line packages outside of a brands already pre packaged set. I live in florida and can not get to LRO to test cast. I will be making a trip to bass pro this weekend to see what they carry and cast their rods in my price range. They also carry the TFO and bundle with their own reels and s/a lines at a very good discount. I was taught that the rod and line are the most important part of a fly fishing set up and the reel was mostly to hold the line when not in use, especially in lighter weight outfits. So I feel the reels offered with these would be sufficient for the job at hand
Surfdog I have and use several different 4 wgt rods. Before you buy anything I would recommend you cast as many different ones as you can. If you are not concerned with price and can afford a high end rod the choices are numerous. For a small stream or medium stream rod with small dry flies the Winston Tom Morgan favorite is a top choice. But is kind of specialized in my opinion. For a general 4 wgt that will do almost anything the Hardy Zenith 9 ft makes a great rod. It is delicate enough but will cast any reasonable fly. The Winston BIIIx in a 8 1/2 ft if also a great rod especially for dry flies and is more delicate then the Hardy. The Winston Passport is close to the BIIIx and sells for a fraction of the price. If price is a concern this one sells for about $199.00. You mentioned Cabelas and they stock this rod. While I don't own one I have used one and think the Sage ZXL in 4 wgt. is a great rod. Get out to several different fly shops and don't be afraid to cast these rods. Don't rush. After all anticipation and planning is half the fun!
TFO BVK and Lince Choice
I too am doing the same thing. I am 90% sold on a new TFO BVK 8'6" 4WT for my money I dont see anything similar. It is a fast action 4 piece rod. My question to the board is: does the BVK (fast action) need to be set up with over weighted line? I have heard several people say that you should "overline" the setup i.e. run a 5 wt line. I know this will help load the rod faster but other than less false cast what is the real benifiet? distance? accuracy? There are lines out there designed for the modern fast action rods such as the SA GPX, Rio Grand, and I have even heard Cortland 333ProTrout is good. These lines all seem to be 4.5 wt lines. This rod is intended for my "everyday" rod which mostly consist of dry/dropper in the GSM or double nymph on the clinch. Does anybody have any ideas or thoughts about line choice? The a fore mentioned lines are on the more expensive side, are they really worth it? Many thanks before I pony up and head up to LRO soon I hope
there is a reason they dont call it "catching"
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Taxi driver attacked, robbed in La Crosse
Police: No suspects in custody at this time
La Crosse police say a Bee Cab driver was attacked and robbed by two men in an alley behind the 900 block of Vine Street on Thursday at about 7:30 p.m.
Police say when the cab driver arrived at the dispatched location, one of the suspects talked to him through the passenger side window. That's when the second suspect entered the back seat and choked the cab driver and then hit him in the face, according to police.
The driver gave the suspects money from the cab and the two men left the scene. Police say the cab driver drove himself to the hospital for treatment for minor facial injuries.
Police do not have any suspects in custody at this time. The victim described the two suspects as black men in their mid-20s wearing all dark colored clothing. The first suspect was described as about 6 feet 2 inches tall and about 200 pounds. The second suspect was described as about 5 foot 7 inches and weighed about 175 pounds.
If you have any information about this incident, you're asked to call the La Crosse Police Department at (608) 785-5962 or Crimestoppers at (608) 784-8477.
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