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Super Mario 64
Review by MSuskie
"This is the game that started it all."
Honestly, what is there to be said about Super Mario 64 that hasn't already been said? Not much, so I'll just go with repetition of things that beg to be repeated. Mario, as both a character and a franchise, has come a long, long way as the originator of the platformer genre and the mascot for Nintendo. He first appeared in the arcade game Donkey Kong as the hero and eventually went on to NES's 1985 Super Mario Bros., arguably the greatest 2D game of all time and the title that spawned a million sequels and imitators. The Italian plumber then went on to star in a whole set of NES and SNES platformers and spin-offs, up until 1996, when the SNES died out and a new era of gaming was born: The 3D era. And with this new age came Nintendo's new console, the Nintendo 64. And what better way to introduce the system to the public than to bring it to life with a fresh new Mario game?
With Mario 64, the little red guy did something he hadn't done since the dog days of NES he spawned a genre and turned up in a game that would be imitated countless times and give the 3D game world a new meaning. That's precisely what Mario 64 did it changed the videogame world as we know it, in more ways than you may realize. But perhaps its greatest achievement was its ability to translate the Mario universe into perfect 3D and add some new concepts into the mix, while at the same time keeping an essence of Mario in its realm. The game may have played unlike anything we'd ever seen at the time, but it was still Mario, and it deserved its name to the fullest.
Mario 64 is not structured like your standard 2D side-scrolling platformer. You see, in most 2D platformers, the object is simply to get from the beginning of the level to the end, by overcoming any obstacles that rest in between. In Mario 64, however, levels are structured in a most nonlinear way. The levels, or courses as they're called, have no beginning and no end. They have no straight path, no clear finish line, and no necessities. You do things as you like, and you do this by collecting stars. Stars are hidden throughout every level, and can be found by completing some sort of mission-like task, whether it be to defeat a certain enemy or reach a certain place. As you collect stars, more missions will become available, some even altering the face of the level completely.
The genius of Mario 64 is in how it's laid out. You're Mario (duh) on a quest to search Peach's Castle for Princess Peach herself, who's been kidnapped by Bowser. The castle acts as the central hub of the game, as you can access any of the game's fifteen courses from someplace inside. The fifteen courses are spread out evenly, but what's more, you don't have to completely clear one course to move on to the next. You simply need to collect enough stars to make it past the next door. Various doors throughout the castle have numbers on them, and can't be passed until you've managed to find that many stars. There are seven stars per level, but you don't need to find ALL of the stars in every level in fact, as a final result, you don't even need to find all of the stars in the game. You simply need to explore the levels enough, and gain enough stars to gain clearance through the game's many areas.
But what REALLY put Mario 64 on the map was its controls. The N64 era introduced the realm of 3D console gaming, and with it came the N64 controller'' analog stick. Mario 64, being a launch title to the system, was the first game to truly utilize analog to its greatest potential. Players control Mario by moving the analog stick. They can use the analog stick to move in any direction. Plus, the more pressure they put on the stick, the faster Mario would walk, or run. This mechanic alone opened up tremendous possibilities for the gaming world as a whole, and has made as much influence on how we play games today as anything else. It's truly a unique and brilliant step in the right direction.
Mario jumps with the A button, and attacks and performs actions with the B button. He also crouches with the Z button. The combinations that come with this were phenomenal for their time. If players jumped while crouching, they would perform an extra-high backflip. If a player ran fast then quickly crouched and jump, they'd do a long jump. And if players hit the B button while they were running, Mario would do a dive. To make things even better, players control the camera in (almost) full with the C buttons. C-down and C-up control the zoom, and the C-left and C-right buttons are used to spin the camera accordingly. This system works great in theory but provides one of Mario 64's only flaws, and that is camera angles. Often times, the somewhat restrictive camera-rotation feature while lock into position at a strange angle or won'' go where you want it to go. This is rarely a problem, but given Mario 64's emphasis on precision, it mars an otherwise fantastic game.
Mario 64's levels are perhaps its main attraction, and that is because, like I said, they are so nonlinear and contain so many things going on at once one simply wants to explore. In the first course, Bob-Omb Battlefield, there's an enormous mountain at one end, on which Bob-Ombs are firing water bombs at passersby, giant black balls roll down hazardously, and atop of which the king of the Bo-Ombs lies, waiting for someone to challenge him. There are also moving platforms and open fields full of enemies, as well as cannons that can be used to shoot yourself to various places. Each level also has a theme. You'll encounter a level covered almost completely by water. You'll travel across snowy, icy mountains, sandy deserts and ancient ruins, roaring volcanoes with lava flows, underground mazes filled with poison gas, and even a few levels that I can't ruin for those who haven't played this masterpiece yet. Needless to say, it's quite a journey.
+ The game that started it all.
+ Fully realized play control and gameplay.
+ Stunning, nonlinear design.
+ An enormous adventure.
+ Excellent graphics and sound.
- The camera can be VERY troublesome.
- Movement somewhat lacks traction.
Overall: 9/10
Super Mario 64 is a game that everyone must play, whether they love the little Italian plumber or not. The game is not so special by today's standards, but everyone must see how the gaming world took one of its greatest steps forward, which can be found right here. And all of the revolutions that this game brought forth really feel good for the player, even by today's standards. Its one biggest problem camera control is certainly annoying but doesn't stop this brilliant masterpiece from being hands-down one of the greatest games of all time. In the past two generations, Mario has only starred in two 3D platformers this one and Super Mario Sunshine, another GREAT platformer, on GameCube. And it's sad, because given that Mario is in so many spin-offs (racing, throwing parties and playing a wide variety of sports), he's not spending nearly enough time doing what he does best: This kind of thing.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.5 - Outstanding
Originally Posted: 08/17/05
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Water struggles in the Klamath Basin are spreading to the Trinity River. Managers at the federal Bureau of Reclamation say by releasing extra water from the Trinity into the Klamath River, they may avoid a fish kill.
Salmon fishers, conservation groups and tribes applaud the proposed water release. But California irrigators, who rely on the same water, have threatened legal action. From Jefferson Public Radio, Devan Schwartz reports.
On a good year, salmon nurture the livelihoods and cultures of fishers and tribal members in the Klamath River and the Pacific Ocean, but this year drought conditions threaten the fall salmon runs.
Glen Spain of the Institute for Fisheries Resources says poor river conditions could create disease and overcrowding, causing a major fish kill.
Spain urged the Bureau of Reclamation to release water from the Trinity River, which meets the Klamath 42 miles from the ocean.
Spain: "It helps reduce the population pressure in the lower portion of the river by getting enough fish, with enough water, to the Trinity."
Spain says the Trinity accounts for 40 percent of salmon spawning in the Klamath River system. But his argument isn't enough to convince Dan Nelson, who represents Central Valley farmers.
Nelson's group filed an intent to sue Reclamation because he says this would be the second straight year of Trinity River water being released into the Klamath without consulting Central Valley farmers -- who have equal claim to that water.
"They're sort of forcing it on us in the 13th hour when we ourselves are in a water supply crisis mode," says Nelson.
Regina Chichizola of the Hoopa Valley Tribe says the extra water would help but would only be a drop in the bucket.
Chichizola: "Putting enough water down the Klamath to make sure we have a healthy run of fish that can support the tribes and the coastal community is not a priority in the Klamath River right now."
The Bureau of Reclamation proposes to release the water in August and September during the height of the salmon run, with public comments taken through the end of July.
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The government's announcement yesterday of changes to the implementation of its housing benefit cuts has been welcomed by both Boris and London Councils. Boroughs are to have the (probably temporary) discretionary power to arrange for Local Housing Allowance payments to be made directly to landlords in return for lowering their rents. Existing claimants will be exempt from the effects of the caps and lowered LHA rates for "up to nine months" from the date of the annual review of their claim, and boroughs will be able to seek a share of £60 million allocated nationally to help local authorities deal with the extra workload.
Boris has congratulated himself for making the coalition listen, and not without some cause: direct payments to landlords and "transitional arrangements" to lessen the blow to tens of thousands of less-than-loaded Londoners are things he has been lobbying for. But while Lewisham Mayor Steve Bullock in his role as London Councils' executive member for housing, acknowledged these measures as "steps in the right direction," he rightly added, and with gigantic understatement, that they "will not solve the problem of housing supply in London."
Another part of the same package could make this worse. Initially, the caps were to come in from next April and the across-the-board "30th percentile" cut to all LHA rates from the following October. Now both will come into effect from April, which may mean that more new claimants will end up in cheaper Outer London boroughs sooner than would otherwise have been the case. The ensuing increased demand can only have the effect of pushing up rents in those areas with possible knock-on implications for the benefits bill and worsening the already chronic shortage of supply.
And even those "steps in the right direction" aren't very large. Boris says he will "continue pushing for the majority of the discretionary housing payment to be targeted at London," so that deserving cases - such as families with kids about to take exams - can delay packing their bags for a bit longer. But the adjustments do not include making that payment pot any bigger than the present £130 million over five years, which boroughs will have to apply individually to dip into. The Mayor has been asking for "the lion's share" to go London, though that would probably happen anyway given that the capital will feel the lion's share of the pain. It seems he has yet to convince the coalition of how costly that pain could be.
If so, he's in impressive company. The government's own latest impact assessment is the latest analysis to list the risks of its approach to housing benefit reform:
- increases in the number of households with rent arrears, eviction and households presenting themselves as homeless.
- disruption to children's education and reduced attainment
- disruption to support services for people with disabilities and other households with care and support needs
- an increase in the number of households living in overcrowded conditions
- a decrease in the number of and quality of private rented sector properties available to Housing Benefit tenants.
Then there's the report of the social security advisory committee, whose job is to assess government policy in this field. Its blunt message is that the reforms should not go ahead. Its more forensic ones include (at paragraph 14 of page 3):
The very high rates of benefit seen in London and the South East are driven wholly by rent levels in that area, meaning that there is very little cheap accommodation for those who are not able to access social housing – this, it was felt, was a problem of supply, with high levels of demand driving rent levels. Therefore there is little evidence to suggest that landlords will reduce their rents to reflect the resources available to people who are reliant on Housing Benefit.
This directly contradicts the line lately favoured by Boris and ministers alike that "milking landlords" will mend their ways as a result of reductions in LHA. The committee also says (pages 27/28, in paras 6.9, 6.10 and 6.11):
The impact of current economic conditions on private landlords, combined with the effects of other planned major reductions in public expenditure across the board are, we believe, unlikely to make market conditions generally more favourable to renters on low incomes or to provide a sustainable foundation for measures aimed at achieving savings on the HB budget without, as the Department's Impact Assessment acknowledges, some very negative impacts on individual claimants and potentially increasing costs elsewhere.
Nor do we think that the relatively very modest proposed extension of the Discretionary Payment scheme represents an adequate response to the scale of the potential losses and the likely numbers of competing high priority calls that will be made upon it both in the short and longer terms. We are concerned that no other consideration appears to have been given to mitigating the negative impacts of these measures.
We are also very concerned that the cost-saving measures being implemented across Government will have both disparate and unpredictable local effects (in practice, another form of postcode lottery) and knock-on impacts on spending in related areas. These proposed HB measures appear to us to risk a range of negative and perverse impacts that will resonate beyond the HB system and budget outcomes.
Could it be the government is inflicting on London a duff housing policy that won't save money and will make things worse? Surely such a thing is impossible?


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Sources tell Draft insider Tony Pauline that BYU DL Ezekiel Ansah is a "definite mid-first round choice and should be selected anywhere between picks 14-to-18."
Rutgers redshirt senior WR Janarion Grant is 100 percent healthy heading into the 2017 season.
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said DC Greg Schiano was offered two "significant" head coaching jobs this offseason.
Tennessee has requested media members who are in attendance to not report on injured players they observe during open portions of practice.
Dismissed former Oregon redshirt senior WR Darren Carrington pleaded not guilty to his DUI charge.
The Big Ten has reached agreement with ESPN and FOX on a six-year contract.
Florida received a verbal commitment from five-star 2018 QB Matt Corral.
Indiana redshirt senior ILB T.J. Simmons (knee) received a medical hardship waiver for the 2017 season.
Former LSU head coach Les Miles is "extremely interested" in the Ole Miss opening and has let the program boosters know it, according to Dan Wolken of USA Today.
FAU Owl Access' Chuck King projects FAU junior WR DeAndre McNeal to be the team's No. 1 receiver.
BetOnline lists SMU HC Chad Morris (+300) as the favorite to become the next head coach at Ole Miss.
Former New Mexico redshirt junior QB JaJuan Lawson transferred to Rhode Island as a graduate.


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Pumpkin Spiced Biscotti
Beth Colon
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am obsessed with Pumpkin, the spices that go with it AND chocolate. All of these are combined in this amazing biscotti cookie, along with almonds and macadamia nuts. This cookie is way too good to only have around the holidays! I'm down for it anytime of year!!
★★★★★ 1 vote
makes around 20 pieces
20 Min
1 Hr
- 3 1/2 c
- all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 c
- brown sugar, firmly packed, heaping
- 2 tsp
- baking powder
- 1/2 tsp
- salt
- 2 tsp
- cinnamon, heaping
- 1 tsp
- nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp
- ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp
- allspice, ground
- 2/3 c
- pumpkin, not pumpkin pie mix, heaping
- 2
- eggs, large
- 2 Tbsp
- vanilla extract
- 1 c
- almonds
- 1 c
- macadamia nuts
- 1/2 stick
- butter, unsalted
- 1/3 c
- hershey's special dark chocolate cocoa powder 100% cocao
- 2-3 Tbsp
- milk
- 1 c
- confectioners' sugar
- 1 Tbsp
- vanilla
How to Make Pumpkin Spiced Biscotti
- 1Preheat oven to 350*
Give a rough chop to macadamia nuts and almonds in food chopper. Place in skillet on stove with 2 T. butter and toast, stirring constantly. When they start to smell warm and nutty, they will be done, takes about 5 minutes. Cool in refrigerator until you are ready for them.
- 2In a large bowl, add flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and all the spices. Mix until well incorporated. If you still have little clumps of brown sugar, work them between thumb and pointer finger until they are well mixed in.
- 3In smaller bowl mix pumpkin, eggs and vanilla, wisk until smooth.
- 4Add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture. This mix will seem really dry, but get your hands in there and as you mix it will start to come together. This takes patience! lol Knead until well mixed. I promise it will happen.
Add the nuts and mix in with hands.
- 6Line pan with parchment paper, place logs on pan and bake for about 30 minutes.
Take biscotti out of oven and let cool for 20 minutes.
Reduce oven temp to 300*
Place butter in bowl and melt in microwave.
Add cocoa and mix well.
Alternate adding milk and confectioners' sugar until you get the desired consistency. Add vanilla and mix well.
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Course/Dish: Cookies, Chocolate, Other Snacks
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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Sanders, Tremaine Monee' Author's Email Address email@example.com URN etd-11142012-120234 Title Where Are The Cosbys: An African American Literacy Study Examining Recognition and Representation of African Americans in Contemporary Young Adult Literature Degree Master of Education (M.Ed.) Department Educational Theory, Policy, & Practice Advisory Committee
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- African American literature
- young adult literature
Date of Defense 2012-11-12 Availability unrestricted AbstractThe African American literacy crisis has been well documented. Many researchers have sought to find a remedy for the disparity in literacy rates between African American readers and white American. This study explores the potential role of young adult literature (YAL) in this crisis. More specifically, this study examines the recognition that African American works receive in contemporary YAL. This study also investigates the African American experiences represented in those works receiving national recognition. A list of fifty-one books was compiled from the winners (2000-present) of national awards such as Michael L. Printz award and the Coretta Scott King Book Award. This list was subsequently categorized based on such characteristics as genre and characters represented. These works were then closely scrutinized to determine the scope of the African American characters represented in these award winning novels. After completing a close examination of these works it became evident that very few African American works have received national recognition. Teachers and parents alike look to these lists for classroom worthy texts. If very few African American works receive these prestigious recognitions then it a reasonable assertion that very few African American works are being taught in the classroom. Although the current research calls for cultural relevance as a means of combating the literacy deficit for African Americans, cultural relevance is difficult to achieve because of the lack of African American YAL. Of those works recognized, the African American experiences represented in these works were overwhelmingly urban in nature. This study is a part of a growing body of research on African American literacy and YAL. Files
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Director: David Lynch. Producers: Deepak Nayar, Tom Sternberg, Mary
Sweeney. Cinematographer: Peter Deming. Editor: Mary Sweeney. Music:
Angelo Badalamenti. October Films.
The ever quotable pop artist and underground filmmaker Andy Warhol reportedly
stated that films are "better talked about than seen." With his latest film
adventure, Lost Highway, David Lynch has given audiences a complex and
perplexing Story to ponder and some astonishingly brilliant images to enjoy. Yet
the majority of critical responses to Lynch's new horror noir have denounced the
film's narrative as being interesting but impenetrably chaotic at best, and some
have even gone as far as to call the film unwatchable. Even the cinephiles who
have recognized the significant aesthetic achievements of Lynch's film have
announced that he is unconcerned with narrative logic in Lost Highway. Perhaps
part of this critical response is due to a reluctance to embrace the robust
eroticism and taste for violence displayed in Lynch's works. Lynch has ventured
beyond linear film narratives and left incredulous critics and puzzled onlookers
muttering that either his picture is obscure by accident or that he is engaged in
some frivolous form of cinematic gamesmanship. Some reviewers have
expressed their opinions in a tone of righteous indignation and used the
supposed "mess" of this film to exact some type of petty revenge upon those
who acclaimed Lynch upon the triumph of Blue Velvet.
Lost Highway may be destined to baffle devotees of traditional narrative forms in
cinema, but should filmgoers be discharged from recognizing the structure and
formal mastery of Lynch's film? Although many have suggested that Lynch has
gone too far in yielding free reign to his eccentric set of visual obsessions, the
film is contained within a formally rigorous and well-defined thematic structure.
The difficulties with Lost Highway lie with the movie's unremitting dream-like
images and Lynch's uncompromising determination to sustain an eternal sense
of mystery and wonder throughout the film. He has designed a film with an open
architecture in which equally plausible interpretations of the film can be
constructed, and which enables the audience to use its imagination to fill in the
blanks. The strategy of posing open questions is reminiscent of Antonioni in films
like L'Avventura. A large part of what has confounded spectators in Lynch's
enterprise is how to distinguish between scenes that reflect the characters'
fantasies, and those that belong to the narrative "reality." Lost Highway is a film
that would appear to have a complete disregard for differences in ontological
levels. Only a recognition that its visual language communicates a descent
deeper and deeper into madness can reveal Lost Highway's intricate conceptual
meaning. Lynch has given notice that his film takes its structure from the circular
form of the Mobius strip, and herein lies the constraint against which he weaves
his thematic concerns.
Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is living a nightmare: his mind is racked by
suspicion, paranoia, and anxieties about the fidelity of his sensuous but
emotionally cold wife, Renee (Patricia Arquette), a dark-haired sex kitten decked
out in Betty Page-styled fetish attire. Although Fred, a darkly handsome,
thirtyish alto saxman in a neo-bop jazz band, would appear on the surface to be
evenly matched with his mysterious and sexually powerful wife, he is incapable
of arousing in her any enthusiastic sexual response. Events quickly take a
sinister bend when the Madisons begin receiving unmarked videotapes on the
front steps of their ominously underdecorated modernist house. When the tapes
reveal that an intruder has invaded the Madisons' home and taped them while
they were asleep, the terrorized couple call for police help, which arrives in the
form of a comical detective duo who find no evidence of forced entry. Unsettled
by the violation of their private space, Fred falls into a twitchy, zombie-like state.
A third videotape arrives and he sits down to view it. He screams out in horror
when the picture reveals Fred looking into the camera's eye beside Renee's
savagely bloodied corpse. Although we see nothing of the crime on screen, Fred
is summarily sentenced to execution for his wife's murder, and swiftly ensconced
in a cell on death row. Isolated in a primitive 19th-century-styled prison cage,
Fred has no memory of what happened to Renee on the fatal night, and his mind
is shattered by excruciating headaches, unrelenting insomnia, and strange
hallucinations (all marvelously captured in the film's mesmerizing visual effects).
Suddenly, in Lost Highway's Kafkaesque center sequence, a prison guard
discovers a bewildered and bruised stranger in Fred Madison's cell. A brief
investigation by prison authorities determines the identity of the stranger: Pete
Dayton (Balthazar Getty), who lives in Van Nuys with his parents, and has
absolutely no recollection of how he mysteriously materialized to replace Fred
Madison in prison. Pete is enthusiastically welcomed back to normal life and his
job at Arnie's auto garage. Delighted with Pete's return, Mr. Eddy (Robert
Loggia), a notorious gangster prone to comically capricious outbursts of violence,
provides Pete with work on his vintage luxury motor cars. When Mr. Eddy brings
in his 50s model Cadillac for a routine tune-up, Pete fatally falls for Alice
Wakefield (also Patricia Arquette), Mr. Eddy's seductively carnivorous platinum
blonde bombshell, and they embark on a furtive and--for Pete at least--obsessive
affair. When the menacing Mr. Eddy's suspicions are aroused, Alice's risky and
hastily devised plan of escape takes full advantage of Pete's obsession. She
manipulates him into a classic film noir plot--reminiscent of Double Indemnity and
Body Heat--to rob one of Mr. Eddy's associates in the pornographic underworld.
As the plot unfolds and inevitably spirals down into disaster, Pete is horrified
when he discovers that the object of his desire is an unscrupulously mercenary
and debauched queen of porn.
As the film progresses, Pete descends deeper into darkness and confusion. At
an isolated desert cabin the lovers await the arrival of one of Alice's
acquaintances who is to help them escape. But at this point the two tracks of
the narrative intersect. Fred Madison reemerges from Pete, and the Mystery Man
(Robert Blake)--a kind of dark angel of vengeance--urges him to kill Mr. Eddy.
Flames engulf the cabin--or do they?
It should be acknowledged straightaway that Lost Highway is, by design,
extremely resistant to reduction into a definitive narrative account; by the film's
end, it is evident that Lynch has intentionally withheld the answers to questions
inevitably provoked by the narrative's elusive and elliptical plot. It is virtually
impossible to reconstruct a definitive and rational account of what happens in
Lost Highway.
According to the majority of its detractors, what happens in the film's prison
sequence is that Fred is transformed (think "Metamorphosis") into Pete Dayton
via some type of supernatural intervention. Throughout the second half of the film,
Pete's parents and girlfriend, Sheila (Natasha Gregson Wagner), allude
cryptically to the mysterious and ominous circumstances of the fateful night that
something strange happened to Pete. Although Pete has no recollection of that
night, we repeatedly see Pete's parents and Sheila in front of the Dayton's house
under a threatening evening sky, crying out to avert some impending catastrophic
event. Lost Highway features several visual images that give some weight to a
metamorphosis thesis. After all, for the most part, the film proceeds as if the
central narrative has shifted from Fred's "story" to Pete's "story." While Fred
agonizes in his prison cell, images of lightning flashes and horrific distortion fill
the screen with overtones of extraworldly visitation. Nevertheless, the idea that
Fred is literally morphed into a man with a new identity obscures more than it
clarifies the subject of Lost Highway.
Lynch has publicly called his film a "psychogenic fugue," a term that in this
context refers to a mental state in which a person is delusional although
seemingly fully aware, a state from which he emerges with no memory of his
actions. It also involves losing oneself and taking on an entirely new identity.
Most of what occurs during the second movement of Lost Highway can be best
understood as an elaborate journey into the hallucinations of such a state. The
early sequences of the film demonstrate that Fred's consciousness is disturbed
by suspicion, paranioa, and nightmares. He also has a pronounced tendency to
daydream. This is made most evident when he tells the police detectives, "I like
to remember things my own way.... How I remembered them. Not necessarily
the way they happened." Fred's tenuous grip on reality is undermined by his
voluntary flights into fantasy.
Lynch provides few signals that equal degrees of reality should not be attributed
to all the actions of the film. By contrast, in Bunuel's Belle dejour the viewer is
given cues, like the jingling of bells on the sound track, to distinguish fantasy
from reality. The most persuasive evidence for an interpretation of Lost Highway
as a subjective film understood primarily as Fred's hallucination occurs during the
prison sequences. During his time in jail, Fred is plagued by unrelenting
insomnia. Hints of his delusional state of mind can be gleaned from the sound of
seagulls on the sound track as he slumps in the prison exercise yard
overwhelmed by a combination of excruciating headaches and exhaustion.
Hallucinations also occur in his prison cell: Fred sees the flames of an exploding
desert cabin run backwards--an image that occurs again at the end of the film
when Fred "returns" to replace Pete. However, the key image that provides
evidence for the hallucination thesis is a distorted close up of Fred's face shaking
violently back and forth before he screams out in horror. This image occurs twice:
in prison before we are introduced to Pete, and just prior to the film's conclusion.
The flashes of lightning and out-of-focus visuals are all evidence that Fred's mind
is spinning wildly out of control. Between the parentheses, Fred creates a
parallel universe in his mind that takes on a will of its own.
The two parallel stories of Lost Highway are two manifestations of one essential
story: a man obsessed with possessing the wrong woman. Although Fred and
Pete are played by different actors and have distinct identities, they can be
understood as representing the same self. Lynch's casting of the same actress
in the roles of both Renee Madison and Alice Wakefield adds further credence to
the notion that Lost Highway contains two mythic representations of the same
couple. In Fred's tormented mind, Alice embodies his obsession with the now
dead (and maybe murdered by him) Renee. (The use of one actress in twin roles
recalls Bunuel's playful use of two actresses for the role of the tormenting
Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire, or, perhaps, Hitchcock's use of Kim
Novak as one woman impersonating another in Vertigo.) Fred's hallucination is
partly an escape into fantasy and partly a terrifying ride into a nightmare beyond
his will. By envisioning Pete's story, Fred creates a new incarnation of the object
of his obsession, but in the end his hallucinated encounter with a seductive and
compliant temptress is no less catastrophic than his earlier attempts to control
the remote and withheld body and soul of his wife.
The structure of Lost Highway is modeled on the form of the Mobius strip: a strip
twisted 180 degrees and then looped by connecting the opposing ends. In the
first image of Lost Highway we are speeding down the center of a desolate
two-lane flattop along the dashed canary-yellow center line; we hear the industrial
beat and the haunting baritone of David Bowie's "I'm Deranged" flowing over the
credits on the sound track. This image opens and closes the film. It forms a
frame, provides symmetry, and evokes both the closing of a circle and a sense of
the infinite (as if this dream or nightmare could go on forever). The circular
structure also enables Lynch to construct a world where conventional notions of
time are obliterated. In the film's first scene, a disheveled-looking Fred is at home
and roused into action when he hears a voice giving an enigmatic and unnerving
message over the intercom: "Dick Laurent is dead." When he goes to the
window, the speaker has vanished. In the closing scene of the film it is Fred
outside his own-house who delivers the same message: "Dick Laurent is dead."
In the end, we find out who Dick Laurent is and the two parallel stories are linked
together, but many of the film's mysteries remain.
Despite the accusation that the film is chaos, or that Lynch is unconcerned with
narrative logic, Lost Highway is contained within what Sontag terms (in
Bergman's "Persona": Styles of Radical Will [New York: Anchor Books, 1991], p.
135) a theme-and-variation narrative. Instead of a conventional story, chronology
or plot line, a theme-and-variation form of narration is nonlinear and uses the
subject material as a thematic resource to develop variations on the central
theme of the film: here, mirroring. The theme, which implies both duplication and
opposition, manifests itself on many levels. The primary example of mirroring is
captured in Arquette's characterization of two sides of the same woman: Renee
(who appears passive and elusive) and Alice (who determines the action). On the
superficial level of appearances, Arquette's Renee has dark hair and favors long
dark silhouettes, while Arquette's Alice is a bleached blonde with a taste for
revealing necklines and short skirts. However, they are the same in that each
evokes a luxurious sense of carnal potency--one withheld, the other flaunted--and
each wears fetishist-friendly platform high heels. The theme-and-variation
narrative form enables Lynch to use devices of duplication, opposition, repetition,
deviation, and inversion. Arquette's characters have opposing temperaments:
Renee is quiet, removed, and cool; Alice is white-hot. The notion of duplication is
explored when both Renee and Alice appear in the same photograph; of
repetition when Alice and Renee repeat the same dialogue, and when the film's
Mystery Man repeats dialogue in the two separate parallel stories of the movie.
Variations on the mirroring theme are worked throughout the film. Early on we
see Fred fervently playing his saxophone, and later Pete listens to the same
piece of music over the radio as he works on a car at Arnie's garage. However,
Pete's reaction constitutes the emotional inverse of Fred's sensibility: in a fit of
annoyance, as if he was subconsciously disturbed by the music's manic
intensity, he shuts the radio off. Lynch also employs doubling when characters
are introduced in pairs at various points of the film: the odd pair of police
detectives, the two prison guards, and the two surveillance cops who follow Pete
after his release from prison. Several of Lost Highway's key images--like the
two-lane highway, shots of long corridors, the exploding cabin shown in reverse,
the frantic scene in front of the Dayton home--are also repeated, emphasizing the
film's self-referential character and clear intention to pursue a theme-and-variation
form of narration. Together, the complex combination of the circular structure and
elliptical story line invites repeated journeys along the twisted strip of the film's
narrative in search of its closely guarded secrets.
Lost Highway's greatest success is that it deftly subsumes its experiments in
structure and form under the aesthetics of hallucination and the iconography of
horror. The primary attraction of a Lynch film' lies in his virtuosity as a visualist
and his ability to conjure up moods with disturbingly visceral impact. Although
Lost Highway starts out looking like the "real" world, it quickly becomes a
"constructed" world: an extravagant phantasmagoria with twilight-zone
metaphysics. The structure, form, and visuals all conspire to construct a
self-contained allegorical nightmare where the sense of time is eviscerated.
The first clear indication that we are within some kind of alternate universe is the
appearance of the Mystery Man. When a mysterious stranger with a mask-like
face and pancake-white makeup approaches Fred during a festive party, all the
background sounds magically recede away. The Mystery Man claims that he is
presently at the Madisons' house and challenges Fred to call him there right
now. Confused by the absurdity of the claim, Fred reluctantly dials his own
number ... to find the Mystery Man's voice answering at the other end of the line.
Frightened, bewildered, and angry over yet another invasion of his private space,
Fred asks for an explanation, but the Mystery Man only lets out a Vincent
Price-style cackle and walks away.
The establishment of a constructed world permits Lynch and cinematographer
Peter Deming to develop the film's aesthetics of hallucination. One of the film's
most visually effective scenes occurs when slow-motion photography captures
the electricity and longing in the initial gaze between Pete and Alice Wakefield.
The mythic mood of the image derives part of its considerable emotional power
from the perfect congruence between sight and sound. The slow burn of
Arquette's sultry blonde bombshell is heightened by the languid sound of roaring
electric guitars. Perhaps the aesthetic highpoint of Lost Highway is the love
scene in the desert. When Pete and Alice begin their impromptu sexual
encounter in the middle of a windswept desert night, their incandescent naked
bodies are brightly illuminated by automobile headlights, creating a mood of
intoxicating ecstasy and reverie. In the desert, the windblown golden sand and
Arquette's radiant hair and torso explain Pete's total surrender to her
overpowering sexual energy. The emotional mood shifts from dream to nightmare
with disorienting suddenness when the headlights dissolve into darkness and the
music's floating lyricism creeps into a brooding drone of synthesizers.
Throughout the film, Lynch keeps the emotional tone of the movie within a
dream-like register, and he changes keys between images that appear idyllic and
icons of the horror genre.
Lost Highway is a decidedly dark work. In the majority of the film's interior
scenes, Lynch favors murky shading and low lighting to elicit the fear of the
unknown: long, dark corridors used in a variety of ways to evoke feelings of
disorientation: a hallway where Fred is completely swallowed by darkness. Later
in the film, Pete's walk along a corridor is accompanied by flashes of lightening
and special effects that are the standard fair of the horror genre; his walk down a
hallway to find the bathroom is a frightening hallucination: lightning flashes
illuminate numbered doors, one of which Pete opens to find a woman, apparently
Alice, taunting him. Pulsating music and red filters add to the disorienting effect.
The images fittingly project Pete's turmoil in the moments just after discovering
the profoundly sordid elements of Alice's life.
Lost Highway's labyrinthine construction enables Lynch to subordinate traditional
cinematic concerns with dialogue and plot to a visual language that
communicates moods and emotions. Although the dialogue in the film is spare,
the drama of a man driven mad by his obsession with the woman he loves has an
extraordinary emotional vividness. Lost Highway is a mystery, a fable, an
allegorical nightmare. Although it can in some moments resemble our notion of
reality, Lynch has basically jettisoned the tyranny of logic to take the viewer on
an enigmatic journey beyond the limits of reason and reality--down some lost
highway. Despite denunciations of the movie as irredeemably chaotic, it
actually--with its haunting circularity and endless narrative loop--adheres to a
disciplined aesthetic formality. Like Eraserhead, the film evokes the interior world
of one man's bad dream, the mystery and confusion of a consciousness afflicted
by obsession, suspicion, and passion.
Eric Bryant Rhodes is a freelance writer whose interests include photography
and the history of European cinema.


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This is a fantastic game development environment is free on Windows PCs. We started to create a game and within minutes we had a working version.
Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.
There is a lot of information about Kodu online and youtube has lots of Kodu videos and tutorials. One of the best ways to learn it though is to download a project and just jump into the editor and have a play about. There are built in tutorials and I found these to be very helpful in learning Kodu, however, if you want to watch some videos you can do that here.
Here are some helpful links.


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The Pima County Sheriff's Department released 580 photos Tuesday that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage.
About two-thirds of the photos are of individual vehicles in the parking lot of the Safeway shopping center on the northwest side where the shooting took place in January 2011. Six people were killed in the shooting and 13 were wounded, including then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
The photos include images of the handgun and high-capacity pistol magazines that Jared Lee Loughner used to carry out the attack, as well as photos of the motel room he rented the night before the rampage and the taxi he took to the grocery store. Other routine photos that were part of the investigation as authorities gathered evidence at the scene also were released.
However, the Sheriff's Department withheld "a great number of pictures" that showed victims of the shooting, said Deputy Tom Peine, a spokesman for the department.
Another spokesman, Deputy Jesus Bañuelos, said the department's legal adviser made the final decision about which photos to released based on content.
Video from the grocery store parking lot is in the hands of the FBI and has not been released, Peine said.
The images were released nearly two months after the Sheriff's Department made public roughly 2,700 pages of investigative reports examining the shooting, marking the public's first view into documents that authorities had kept private since the attack.
Those records provided more detail about the deteriorating psychological condition of Loughner in the hours leading up to the attack and the first glimpse into Loughner's family.
News organizations seeking police records and photos from the shooting were denied access in the months after the attack and after the arrest of Loughner, who was sentenced in November to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years, after he pleaded guilty to 19 federal charges.
In late February, U.S. District Judge Larry Burns cleared the way for the release of the photos and records after the Arizona Daily Star, joined by Phoenix Newspapers Inc., which publishes The Arizona Republic, and KPNX-TV sought their release.
The judge said Lough-ner's right to a fair trial was no longer on the line now that his criminal case is resolved.


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UFC 60: Hughes vs. Gracie
Grab a ringside seat for some of the hottest mixed martial arts action around. Matt Hughes and Royce Gracie face off in the highly anticipated main event, while other battles include Brandon "the Truth" Vera vs. Assuerio Silva; Mike Swick vs. Joe Riggs; and Diego "Nightmare" Sanchez vs. John Alessio. The fight card also features a bout between Alessio Sakara and Dean "the Boogeyman" Lister. Retired legend Randy Couture offers guest commentary.


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From WXYZ – Sheriff deputies in Monroe County are investigating after a man's body was found inside his burned out car.
The Frenchtown Township Fire Department says firefighters were called to the Gravel Pit Bar on Telegraph Road near Buhl Road around 3am Saturday.
Once investigators arrived on the scene and approached the burned car, they discovered a man's body.
An Arson Investigation Task Force is looking into the case with members of the Monroe County Sheriff's Department, Michigan State Police and the Dundee Police Department.
If you have any information, call the Monroe County Sheriff's Department at (734) 240-7530.
Two teens die after a violent crash in Detroit
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I got an email this morning from the editor of Brides letting me know that they featured Liz & Eugene's Lego themed wedding! While I'm sharing this, I might as well share to you the other cool places that has featured their wedding too! I first discovered Casando Ideias when I saw them pop up on my web stats. I'm so excited to find them because they feature such great inspiration!
I then recently discovered another really cool blog, head vs. heart who had also featured Liz & Eugene's wedding!
Check out these cool sites for loads of inspiration & ideas!!
Congrats to Liz & Eugene for all these features!! 😀
Edited to add: I just got 2 more emails from bloggers who also featured their wedding! How exciting!
Their feature written by the writer of best wedding sites.
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World traveler I am not, although I was recently lucky enough to spend one month traveling throughout central Germany. Five of us traveled from south-central Pennsylvania to Deutschland for a vocational and cultural exchange. From mid-May to mid-June I traveled from villages to small towns, learning about the country's biodiversity and the myriad ways they protect it. The following is a brief account of the habitats and species I encountered along the way.
During our stay in the state of Thuringen, we hiked part of the famous Rennsteig trail through the Vessertal-Thuringen Forest Biosphere Reserve, one of 16 nature preserves in Germany designated as such by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
This reserve covers 42,000 acres of nearly contiguous
mountain spruce forest. What is so interesting about the
UNESCO Biosphere sites is how they are managed. While
recreation, agriculture and other human uses may take place in
Germany does not have a state park system like Pennsylvania.
They have 14 national parks and a system of nature reserves
called Naturschutzgebiet, established under the Federal Nature
Conservation Act. We traveled to a nature reserve outside of the
town of Jena, in search of orchids. It is believed that without the
Naturschutzgebiet, orchids would probably not exist in the wild
Fortunately for us, we discovered 10 different orchid species in just over an hour. Species included the lady orchid (Orchis purpurea), a fly orchid (Ophrys insectifera) and a spider orchid (Ophrys holoserica). All these species of orchids are very delicate looking, with individual flowers only a few centimeters in length. Colors ranged from pale purple to white to blackishred. It was like a scavenger hunt, trying to locate these small beauties among the tall grasses and other wildflowers. It truly was a magical experience to see them in such abundance and to learn that their presence there is due in large part to sheep grazing in the park, which helps keep out woody vegetation that would otherwise shade out these special plants.
I would love to say that Germany is free from the scourge of invasive species, but unfortunately that is not the case. Species that are native to Pennsylvania, like raccoons and black locust trees, are taking over in Germany due to a lack of natural predators. Raccoons, which my German hosts affectionately called Waschbären or "wash bears,' were introduced into the country in the 1930s for the fur trade. Some escaped from captivity, began breeding in the wild, and are now well established, wreaking havoc on farms and natural habitats. Hunting and trapping have been used to try and keep the population from growing, but it appears that raccoon numbers continue to swell. Now they are overflowing into neighboring European countries.
On the other hand, something that was really fascinating for
me to see was garlic mustard in its natural habitat. While garlic
mustard is an invasive plant in Pennsylvania, dominating many
forest edges and backyards, it is
native to Germany and grows in
small patches alongside other plants.
It acted like any other native wildflower because it had native insects and herbivores keeping it
These two examples of "invasiveness" impressed on me the fact
that a plant or animal is not always
invasive. It has a home range but,
due to a certain set of circumstances,
it can be uprooted and moved
somewhere else. If conditions there
are just right, these species may
become invasive pests, like raccoons
Traveling to other countries can help grow our understanding of different natural resource management practices and the unique challenges a particular area may face. Germany, just like Pennsylvania, has a wealth of native plants and animals to protect from invasive species, land use development and climate change impacts. Perhaps we can learn from each other's conservation successes and setbacks to ensure that biodiversity thrives for generations to come.


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Your teen sees a driver's license as a step toward freedom, but you might not be sure your teen is ready for the road. One thing is certain: teens aren't ready to have the same level of driving responsibility as older adults. Teen drivers have more fatal crashes, mainly because of their immaturity and lack of experience. They speed, they make mistakes, and they get distracted easily - especially if their friends are in the car. To help your teen stay safe behind the wheel, 46 States and the District of Columbia now have graduated driver licensing (GDL) programs that limit high-risk driving situations for new drivers. These programs can reduce your teen's crash risk by as much as 50 percent.
You have more influence on your teen than you may think.
NHTSA and its many highway safety partners across the country are encouraging you to get the facts and start the conversations-this week and every week-to talk it out with your teens and help keep them safe behind the wheel.
Check out our materials to help you talk it out with your teens and Set the Rules Before They Hit the Road.


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Jennifer Nettles on Sugarland's Status: 'Nobody Panic!'
Singer Jennifer Nettles recently revealed that she's working on a solo album, but does that mean it's the end of the road for country super duo Sugarland?
"Not at all — nobody panic!" Nettles quipped at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday (May 19). She tells Billboard that she and Kristian Bush are simply taking some time away from the superstar act. "We're just taking time to do things individually, personally and professionally," she says. "And we're super supportive of each other in what we do on both those fronts, personally and professionally."
Nettles recently gave birth to her first son, and Sunday marked her first awards show appearance since that momentous change. She's been working with famed rock producer Rick Rubin on an album that marks a departure for her, but she insists it's still country and will please her Sugarland fans, while allowing her to explore new musical terrain.
"With Sugarland it's been fun to write with Kristian, we go out and play the big shows, play the arenas," she observes. "I wanted to do something that was just different, you know? That was more intimate and more personal, more organic to me. And definitely speaks to my roots and to where I'm at right now in my life."
Nettles' solo album is tentatively slated for release in the fall.


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Allegations of hazing within the Jordan High wrestling program have led to misdemeanor charges.
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said a months-long investigation by police and prosecutors led to charges being filed Tuesday in 3rd District Juvenile Court. Gill, however, would not discuss the nature of the charges including what level of misdemeanor or how many individuals were charged because of privacy laws for juvenile cases.
In February, the Canyons School District began investigating the Jordan wrestling team after receiving a complaint from a parent and soon confirmed "some incidents of hazing" had occurred.
"We don't tolerate hazing in Canyons School District," said spokeswoman Jennifer Toomer-Cook.
The case was turned over to the Sandy Police Department before eventually being handed to the D.A.'s office earlier this year.
Salt Lake attorney Jerome Mooney, who represented at least one family involved early in the investigation, said he had not been informed of any charges being filed involving his clients. Still, he said he believed any filings in the case would have been "unfortunate."
"It sounded to me like it was just youthful hijinks," he said.
There have been no changes in the Jordan wrestling coaching staff as a result of any findings. But Toomer-Cook said there will now be additional anti-hazing education for coaches and students at the school.
"The principal since that time has instructed the faculty to be more vigilant and to talk about hazing, encouraging them to report any type of that behavior," she said.
Athletes will be required to sign anti-hazing agreements before being allowed to participate, and the school will hold preseason meetings to discuss hazing, Toomer-Cook said.
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State police seek suspect in Hempfield robbery attempt
State police are seeking information about a man they believe planned to hold up a Shop 'n Save supermarket in Hempfield Saturday morning but fled with no money after he was confronted by a store manager.
Trooper Stephen Limani said the manager approached the suspect, who was wearing a black ski mask, sunglasses and black gloves, after he entered the Route 136 store. The suspect pepper-sprayed the manager before fleeing in the black, late-1990s model Chevrolet Lumina that was parked next to the store.
The manager, who asked that his name not be used, said he has "second-guessed" himself since Saturday, "but I don't regret what I did."
Limani believes the manager saved other store employees and customers from potential harm.
"I had a feeling that he was up to no good and I just reacted. When I walked up to him, he cursed me a couple times and then sprayed me," the manager said. "There was another man with him in the passenger seat. ... They were all hunched over as they drove away.
"I do hope that anyone with information on this calls state police," he said.
The manager did not require medical treatment.
The suspect was about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighed about 165 pounds and wore a black hoodie, a white and gold checkered flannel shirt and tan pants, Limani said.
Anyone with information is asked to telephone police at (724) 832-3288.


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Reilly: Ace of Spies
Agent ST-1, aka Sidney Reilly (Sam Neill), tries to overthrow the Bolsheviks in this miniseries based on the real-life adventures of the daring operative who inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond. Reilly hops among countries, deftly securing classified information on a mission to bring down the power-hungry Russians and Germans. This collection includes all 12 original episodes and a bonus documentary about Reilly's mysterious final days.


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"Who I am" is something I want you to learn from actually meeting me, instead of trying to figure out based on what happened to come to mind when I wrote this information in the box.
I consider myself a country boy, but it's always fun to take a trip to a big city now and again. I've got a job that keeps me busy most of the time during the week, so when I'm finally free on weekends or vacation, I try to make the most of it. I don't like to waste time worrying about petty matters.
My personality... I like to think of myself as like a big Saint Bernard. I'm eager to please, like playing the role of the big, strong, helpful friend, and am quick to trust and perhaps too eager to forgive. I think chivalry is fun, and enjoy playing the role of the knight in shining armor when the opportunity arises.
I love a good challenge. I'll try a new sport, take you on in your favorite video game, attempt to walk that tightrope - whatever! I played the trombone for years, and looking back I think I probably picked it because it was different and I believed it would be hard to play.
I like to impress people. I don't think that's uncommon.
If you're still reading this, you should hit me up to meet up sometime. Make both our lives more interesting.
On weekends, I swordfight with the local Belegarth groups (either Clinton or Davenport). I'm working toward teaching myself more programming skills in my spare time. I've got my EIT certificate from the state of Illinois, and I'm looking to go for my P.E. license soon.
In between all that, I love it when I get the chance to be a nerd among other nerds. Or, alternatively, a jock among jocks. Really - I'm up for a wide variety of activities. The more variety I have in life experiences, the better.
I have a way of getting on the good sides of people's pets, even the ones that "don't like strangers."
I like to solve puzzles - whether they're presented in the form of an actual puzzle, or some broken code, or some complex problem in the real world people are scratching their heads over.
Music? I really care more about connecting with a message I like more than the genre. That means I can be thrilled by whatever genres you want to consider Green Day, Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel, Yoko Kanno, Linkin Park, Hoobastank, Phil Collins, etc. in.
Food - I'm adventurous. There are a few things I've tried enough times to know I simply don't like, but other than that I'll try anything. I get a craving for the vague "something spicy" once in a while. In college, a special treat for me was to haul a backpack full of homework to Jimmy John's in the middle of the night and work there for a few hours. Like most kids raised in the 90's, TMNT taught me that pizza was one of the best foods in the world. :)
-Adventure and exploration. If I'm in a new place, I want to see what's there! If I see a bunch of people standing in an open field, I've got to go up and find out what they're doing. I have friends that, when I see them, they only want to sit inside and play video games. I like video games, but I really need to get out and do something once in a while.
-A sanctuary to return to at the end of the day. A warm, safe home where, no matter what is wrong in the world outside, I can find peace. This means, also, that I make the place safe and tranquil for those whomever I'm living with. When living with my parents, it simply meant I spoke civilly, showed my love for them, and tried not to cause chaos and break lamps/windows as a kid. In college, it meant I kept my mess contained and the room somewhat clean so my roommate could relax as well. It means not greeting someone returning home with shouting, accusations, or nagging. Home is home.
-True friendships. I have them, and I seek more. What's a true friendship? If you wouldn't take a black eye to protect your friend's reputation, if you couldn't accidentally leave something behind at their place and know it would be safe, if you're afraid of what gossip they might say about you if you don't act or dress a certain way - then it's not what I consider to be a true friendship. Over time, life has opened my eyes to a whole lot of cruelty other people endure from those they call "friend." I think I've been very fortunate to find the friends I know and call my own.
-The satisfaction of improving myself. I still learn more programming, even though it will never be required at my current job. By doing this, if I someday decide to strike out on my own again and look for a different tech job, I'll be staying ready. I read a book recently that taught me how to better handle conversations that shift into arguments, and I'm hoping to use those insights in the future.
-The joy of accomplishing something I've worked hard on. LOOK AT THIS AWESOME THING I SOLDERED!! *Holds up a gizmo of wires and blinking LEDs* It might be a well-written short story, or a clever fix to a computer problem, or simply the end result of a day of hauling washed-up logs to the burn pile at my parents' place. The feeling of accomplishment is important.
-Romantic Love ~ and so, here I am, seeking someone to love and to love me.
Foam fighting
Anime, manga
Women (Hey- I'm honest!)
Electrical Engineering Stuff
How I really should be sleeping instead of doing whatever it is I'm doing...
...How I wish I had gone to sleep instead of doing whatever it is I did
Various wistful thoughts and daydreams
I live in the countryside of the Albany/Fulton/Clinton area, but I visit Davenport most Saturdays - so I might be in your area even as you read this. :)


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Hold'n On Fishing Team with a 45 lb King Mackerel (Back Left) and a 49.18 lb King Mackerel in front. (Sponsored by Alan Holden Vacations and RE/MAX at the Beach)
View a local Holden Beach Fishing Report HERE!
This license allows recreational fisherman to harvest finfish for personal consumption; finfish harvested under this license cannot be sold. Fishermen using this license are held to the state's recreational size and possession limits. The license is required to recreationally harvest finfish in the state's Coastal Fishing Waters, which include sounds, coastal rivers and their tributaries, out to three miles in the ocean. Recreational anglers who catch fish in the ocean will be required to have this license to land fish. Fishing in Joint Waters (areas managed by both the Marine Fisheries and the Wildlife Resources Commissions) will require either this or a WRC inland fishing license.
Those individuals who are under 16 years of age. Individuals who purchased any of the following WRC licenses prior to January 1, 2006:
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Takayas Custom Jewelry recently created a pair of wedding rings for two diehard Legend of Zelda fans named Megan and Jonathan. Majora's Mask was a childhood favorite, so they decided that their rings should mimic the Clock Tower. Both rings feature an incredible amount of detail—look closely and you'll spot Anju's Moon Mask and Kafei's Sun Mask on Megan's ring. Check out more pics below.
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Opera Software acquires Skyfire Labs.
The browser-maker Opera Software (PINK:OPESF) had a barnstorming quarter and is to purchase the video-compression outfit, Skyfire Labs. Skyfire's CEO (pictured) seems happy. Mind you, your humble blogwatcher didn't even know that Opera made any money at all. Like many of us, I assumed the company gave away its software for the love of it.
In IT Blogwatch, bloggers work out where all the money comes from.
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment.
Jeremy Kirk is the voice of the Enterprise: [Why must you continue to flog this dead horse? -ed.]
The deal is valued at $155 million. ... Skyfire, based in Mountain View, California...with its Rocket Optimizer...compresses video and other multimedia content for faster delivery. ... Skyfire also makes Horizon, which it describes as a mobile browser extension and toolbar that allows people to personalize their browsers [and] can be customized by operators.
...Opera also announced on Friday its results for the fourth quarter of 2012. Revenue [was] $60.7 million, up 39 percent. ... A bright spot for Opera was revenue from mobile advertising...$19.6 million, up from $4.1 million. ...the total number of Opera users on mobile devices came in at 229 million, up 30 percent. MORE
Where's all this money coming from? Stephen Shankland tells us thus:
Opera...gets paid for adapting its browser for mobile network operators and for driving searches to sites like Yandex and Google. ... Skyfire's technology can cut video bandwidth and adapt quickly to sudden drops in network capacity.
...Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck will become executive vice president of Opera's operator business. ... It's not the only big change for Opera. This week it also announced it's...moving to the open-source WebKit. MORE
So David Meyer analyses the strategic shift:
...you may have been forgiven for thinking of Opera as a worthy but dull fading player. ... No longer.
...the two companies have remarkable similarities. Opera [is] best known for using server-side compression [to reduce] data costs, and Skyfire uses server-side rendering for video [good] for those who really miss Flash. ... This is really about mobile carriers. ... The key there is the carriers' current shift to software-defined networking (SDN). ...they will over the next year roll out new products for carriers...with new ways of offering mobile web access, such as "toll-free data" and "ad-supported data." MORE
Yes, deutschephones, Skyfire's Jeff Glueck is both happy and lucky:
Skyfire will remain Skyfire, as a brand, as an independent subsidiary, and as a vision. [It's a] validation of our vision for cloud computing and network function virtualization (NFV) to solve huge problems on mobile networks.
...We have long shared an ethos with Opera, which practically invented cloud-based compression and server-side acceleration. ... Opera has tremendous reach in...places like Brazil, Russia, India, and China. ... The next billion Internet users will be mobile users. MORE
But a potty-mouthed Kurian Abraham ain't buying the Barney:
Bull**** idea. Locally installed apps and video streams directly decoded by the client are the only viable methods that give a proper UX. No one wants unresponsive bull**** UIs. MORE
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Your guy may be suffering from an Upper Respiratory Infection which is causing this. I would urge you to find a rectal thermometer and take his temperature. if this is over 104, then this is an inefction that will require antibiotics by your vet. If this were a digestive disorder, there would be vomiting and diarrhea.
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For now, all you can do is nursing care which will consist of Pedialyte, 2-3 ounces every 4 hrs to keep him hydrated and keep his electrolytes in balance and give Nutrical every 4 hrs. This is a high calorie supplement that can be purchased at the pet store and will give him the nutrients that he requires to get past this.If this is an infection, there is a chance that he can fight this off as long as his body is competent to do this. If he does not respond to this, he will require veterinary attention.
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Natural living has reached the mainstream: we are now far more concerned about the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the chemicals that surround us, and recognize that government regulaations all too often fall short of safeguarding our health. Enter Annie Berthold-Bond, whose
Better Basics for the Home
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"City Lax: An Urban Lacrosse Story," winner of the 2010 Jury Prize for Best Documentary and the coveted Audience Award at the Sonoma International Film Festival, will make its New York debut on May 25 at the SVA Theater at the School of Visual Arts in Chelsea. (Click here for ticket information and click here for Inside Lacrosse's review from the December, 2009 screening in Denver.)
The film, recently picked up by ESPN, follows an unlikely lacrosse team as teammates and coaches are faced with challenges both on and off the field. One is a poet. Another a musician. One has a dad who was murdered. One has a mother in jail. And one just got into Denver's most prestigious private school. They are all 12-years old. They are all from Denver's rough, inner city. And they have all found a hint of salvation from their violent neighborhood in a most unlikely sport.
From the moment the kids discover what a lacrosse stick is, to the heart stopping finale at the State Championships, City Lax: An Urban Lacrosse Story takes audiences on an unforgettable journey, where the undeniable spirit of a group of kids carries them to places unexpected and unbelievable.
Filmmakers Tor Myhren and Gabriela Cowperthwaite both grew up in Denver, Colorado. Tor is currently the Chief Creative Officer of Grey Advertising in New York, the 5th largest advertising agency in the world. He created the E*Trade talking baby and the Oprah car giveaway, among other pop culture hits. This is his first feature-length film.
Gabriela is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has directed, produced and written a wide variety of real life stories for ESPN, The History Channel, Animal Planet and National Geographic. She lives in LA with her husband and her 4-year-old twin sons.
"We filmed every day for 6 months" said film director and producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite, who relocated to Denver with her twin toddlers to make the film. "I thought it'd be a fun story. I told my husband I'd come back in 8 weeks. I had no idea it would turn out to be such a roller coaster ride.
City Lax: An Urban Lacrosse Story has also been hailed a winner by many in the industry and the sport.
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• ESPN acquired the film for a fast tracked summer 2010 premiere
• Jake Steinfeld, Body by Jake fitness personality, actor and founder of Major League Lacrosse, partnered as a producer on the film.
• Winner of the Audience Award at Sonoma International Film Festival
• Jury Selection for Best Documentary at the Sonoma International Film Festival
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The Tourist Encounter: Commodification of Ethnicity in Yunnan, China
Ethnic variation is an important tourist attraction in Yunnan, China. Ethnicity is an identity made relevant in interaction; it does not exist by itself. Tourist encounters have impact on how members of ethnic groups perceive themselves, how they represent themselves vis-a-vis the tourists, what economic benefits they gain, and how these experiences change the cultural content associated with their ethnic group. The tourist encounter is significantly affected by the commercial interests of the tourist industry and the politico-ideological interests of the Government. In trying to promote commercial interests tourist agencies project images of the people to be visited as radically different (the more primitive and exotic the representation, the more attraction it is to the tourists – Chinese as well as foreigners). For politico ideological reasons the Government represents ethnic variations as stages in social evolution according to ideas from Morgan, Engels, and Stalin, representations that have to be understood against the background of these evolutionary ideas in Marxist ideology. Some groups, e.g. Mosuo are described as living fossils from the transition to the stage of Barbary. Other groups are placed higher up on the evolutionary ladder. The Government's ideological use of ethnic difference and the tourist industry's commodification of ethnicity have far-reaching cultural, economic and ecologic consequenses that will be discussed with reference to empirical material from the matrilineal Mosuo, from the so-called ethnic park on Mount Jinuo, and from the mountain Khawagabo, a sacred mountain in Tibetan Buddhism. The cases illustrate different aspects of the tourist encounter, from ideas behind the Government's representation of cultural evolution of the Jinuo, to the tourist industry's play on sexual associations in the sale of visits to the Mosuo, and transformation from subsistence farming to marked dependent economy of a Tibetan village.
Keywords: Ethnic Tourism, Representing Ethnicity, commodifying Ethnicity, Economic Change, Yunnan
Prof. Gunnar Haaland
Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
In 1967 I was employed as lecturer, and from 1988 until present as Professor at Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. On leave of absence from these institutions I have been employed two years as lecturer at the University of Karthoum, Sudan, and two years as Director of the Social Sciences at The International Livestock Centre for Africa in Addis Abbeba. In connection with planning and implementation of regional agro-pastoral development projects I have worked as Socio-Economic Consultant for The World Bank, FAO, IFAD, ILO as well as NGO's, and bilateral development agencies in about 20 countries in Africa and Asia. Over the last ten years I have been heavily involved in cooperation with universities in Africa (Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda) and in Asia (Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand and China) and in Peru. Over the last six years I have travelled extensively to Yunnan, Inner Mongolia and Tibet in China, to Nepal, to Bangladesh, to Ethiopia, to Uganda, to Peru and Colombia in connection with field supervision of students from these areas.
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I grew up a pacifist. Along with an entire generation of anti-Vietnam War youth, I was devoted to and energized by the Gandhian principle of ahimsa and other ideas of nonviolence. Still true to these influences in later life, I cofounded the Give Back Yoga Foundation, which supports teachers who bring yoga and meditation to underserved populations.
But the younger me might not have predicted that part of its core mission would be to bring yoga to veterans, active-duty soldiers, and their families. Or that my son's oldest and best friend, someone very dear to me, would be serving in Afghanistan, while my youngest daughter joined the Israeli Defense Forces. Thus, now in mid-life, I find myself standing in what appears to be a contradiction: I profess to be guided by ahimsa, and yet people I love, as well as those served by Give Back, are trained not just to defend but also to attack.
At times I allow myself to wallow in the apparent contradiction and can be quite convinced of the righteousness of my confusion. Other times I understand that even the appearance of this so-called contradiction is itself based on unfair and toxic judgments that are buried deep within me and that I even nurture and protect. Sometimes I confidently paddle around in my private sea of judgment; sometimes I can clearly see the whirlpool in which my judgments have caught me.
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Recently, I joined a teleconference class called "Teaching Yoga in Military Settings." The class was offered by Warriors At Ease, an organization that trains and certifies yoga and meditation teachers to work effectively within military culture and safely with combat-related injuries and conditions. Our first homework assignment was to examine our own thoughts and opinions about serving this military population. After three weeks, I still had not completed it. I found it so difficult to overcome the contradictions I had uncovered in myself. I was holding onto old feelings based on conflicting judgments about people's choice to serve in wars. I needed to do some work on myself before I could do the homework.
I turned for help to the wisdom of Patanjali and his Yoga Sutras, in which he defines ahimsa as "nonviolence." I figured out that for me, actively practicing ahimsa means replacing the judgments I cling to with compassionate acceptance, kindness, and forbearance of thought. This task will take me this lifetime, at least.
I'd hazard a guess that I'm not the only yogi who's a prisoner of his or her judgments. Many people have an aversion to working with specific populations—whether it's the homeless, incarcerated youth and adults, people with HIV, or people trying day by day to beat alcoholism or substance abuse. The challenge of working with underserved populations is the everyday practice of looking at that aversion and finding the common humanity in us all.
The Give Back Yoga Foundation and many other nonprofit organizations are dedicated to helping yoga teachers reach such underserved populations. Two of the most important things we do may be to model how we work with our own judgments and to help others do the same. It is this inner work that can help all of us feel inspired and empowered to step up and get involved.
Note: This essay originally appeared in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy (2011; Vol. 21).


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Auschwitz Memorial Marks '45 Liberation
The last time Trudy Spira was in Auschwitz, she was 12 years old. The day of liberation "is my second birthday — I was reborn on that day," said Spira, who came from Venezuela with her son, Ernesto, 48, to show him the place that robbed her of her childhood.
Ziggy Shipper, 75, and his grandson, Elliott Stern, 16, arrived together from London.
"He will never forget till the day he dies that he came here with his grandfather," Shipper said.
Ted Lehman came from the United States, wearing the cap he was wearing when he was liberated 60 years ago.
"How does a 16-year-old boy explain that in one moment I was all of a sudden alone?" he asked.
Spira, Shipper and Lehman were among about 1,000 survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp who returned for ceremonies Jan. 27 marking the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation, in what may be the last major ceremony to include significant numbers of survivors.
Close to 40 heads of state and foreign ministers attended, together with liberators of the camp from the former Soviet army. Some 7,000 people attended the memorial — about the same number still imprisoned there when Soviet soldiers liberated the camp six decades ago.
Despite the presence of so many dignitaries, it was the survivors who took center stage.
Israeli President Moshe Katsav praised the survivors "for returning to life, for daring again to feel that you belong to the world, for finding the inner strength to again raise families, for again believing in man."
After he spoke, an unidentified woman took the microphone in an unscheduled move and spoke briefly. The woman said she was born in Poland and had been imprisoned in Auschwitz.
Taking off her jacket despite the frigid weather, she showed the number on her arm. The Nazis had taken away her name and given her a number, she said, and they had brought her to Auschwitz naked. But now she has her name back, she has a country and she has a president.
The ceremony ended with Cantor Joseph Malovany of New York singing the El Malei Rachamim prayer.
Other speakers at Auschwitz included Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski; Russian President Vladimir Putin; survivors Wladyslaw Bartoszewski of Poland, a Righteous Gentile; Simone Veil of France, president of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah; and the Jewish-born Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of France, who read an address from Pope John Paul II.
Romani Rose, chairman of the Central Council of Germany Sinti and Roma, spoke on behalf of the 220,000 to 500,000 Gypsies killed in the Holocaust.
Guests included Vice President Dick Cheney, French President Jacques Chirac, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Polish Culture Minister Waldermar Dabrowski and Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
The nearby city of Krakow was full of formal and informal conversations, press conferences and receptions dedicated to anniversary events. Education was a key theme at all events connected with the memorial.
Before the Auschwitz ceremony, an educational program for teachers on the Holocaust's lessons was launched in Krakow at the "Let My People Live!" forum organized by the Polish Ministry of Culture, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and Yad Vashem, together with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
"The fact that so many leaders of the world are gathered here today demonstrates the continued importance of keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive and offers the promise of a better tomorrow," said Moshe Kantor, chief organizer of the forum and chairman of the EJC's board of governors.
The forum included speeches by Cheney; Nobel laureate and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel; Israel Singer, World Jewish Congress governing board chairman; and Yona Metzger, Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi.
The official ceremony at the camp began with the symbolic blast of a train's horn.
"May today our common cry sound from this place," Kwasniewski said, "the cry for a world without hatred and contempt, without racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, for a world in which the word 'human' will always ring with pride."
Putin, remembering "the immortal heroic deed of the allied armies that broke the backbone of the fascist beast," turned to the memory of more than 1 million victims whose ashes were buried or scattered at the site.
"We must ensure that everything that happened here will never repeat again," he said.
By many accounts, Poland has undergone a major transformation in its view of its role in the Holocaust since 1995, when survivors gathered for the 50th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation. Today, Poles not only celebrate the heroism of citizens who risked their lives to rescue Jews but have begun to accept that some Poles participated in the killing — and that most Auschwitz victims were Jews.
Approximately 1.3 million people died in Auschwitz, about 1 million of them Jews. In 1995, however, the Polish government was still so uncomfortable about stressing Jewish suffering at the camp that at first it barred a group recitation of the Kaddish, recalled Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international affairs for the American Jewish Committee.
This year, the program was organized by Jewish groups and included prayers. Moreover, Baker said, "10 years ago, there was no Israeli president here."
He also called Kwasniewski, the Polish president, "one of the most eloquent voices on Polish-Jewish relations."
Kwasniewski publicly apologized for the events at Jedwabne, Poland, where Poles helped Germans murder the local Jewish population. The story of Jedwabne was uncovered in 2001 and threw Poland into turmoil.
"Jedwabne opened up a very bad wound in Polish society with regard to their share in the murders," Yad Vashem's Shalev told JTA. "President Kwasniewski believes that coming to terms with the truth is an essential part of building a democratic society."
From the time they arrived in Krakow from points around the world, survivors were gripped with a fever of remembering something that most had tried hard to forget.
Not all were liberated here. Some were sent on death marches to other camps, where they worked as slaves until the end of the war. But all shared a profound need to return to Auschwitz — and then to walk out again.
"How is it possible that such a maddening system like this worked so well?" asked Mel Mermelstein, 78, who was sent on a death march from Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945. Standing in front of the former crematorium, his son, David, at his side, Mermelstein said, "The civilized world should come here and see what man can do to man."
David Hermann, who had come from London with Shipper and Berek Obuchowski, 76, recalled arriving at Auschwitz when he was 16.
"The train came to a standstill," he said. "It was silent. Suddenly, I heard soldiers marching and dogs barking. They pulled the doors apart, and it was pitch black."
"The cold air hit us," Hermann continued. "And then the lights came on. I saw SS men lined up all along the platform with dogs, and guns pointing at us. Everybody was frozen. Nobody wanted to move."
A Jewish prisoner advised Hermann in Yiddish to lie about his age and to say he had a trade, so Hermann told camp doctor Joseph Mengele that he was 18 and a carpenter. Hermann and his four siblings all survived the death camp and found each other after the war.
Toward the end of the ceremony, a small elderly man stood alone, singing a mourning prayer along with Malovany. With shaking hands, he took a small prayer book from a zippered pouch.
"I am a Jew, and so I pray," said Chaim Ziderer, 86, of Bytom, Poland, whose family died at Auschwitz. He was spared their fate because he was in the Polish military. Putting the prayer book back in the pouch, he said, "Today I am alone."
"[Nazi Germany] gave prizes to scientists and engineers for finding a better way to kill people, and faster," Spira said. "It never happened before, and we hope it will never happen again."
She said people asked her "how come I was willing to come to the place where my childhood was robbed."
"I am coming of my own free will," was the answer she gave.
"I brought my son," Spira explained, "because before, no one had the chance to walk out of their own accord. And today we can."