text: [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/castaway.gif]]''Cast Away'' is a 2000 film directed by Creator/RobertZemeckis, written by William Broyles Jr. and starring Creator/TomHanks.Chuck Noland has everything: success in a high-pressure, high-paying job with [=Fed-Ex=], close friends, and a woman who loves him. The only thing he doesn't have enough of... is time. This changes when he is in a plane crash and, finding himself the sole survivor, washes up on an uninhabited tropical island where he has to figure out how to survive. Now Chuck has all the time he could ever want... and nothing else but his own wits and his two hands.In many ways, it's like an [[SettingUpdate updated version of]] ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe''. The film was a massive commercial and critical success, with Hanks being praised (and eventually nominated for the Best Actor Oscar) for his performance, which required him to undergo a drastic physical transformation and spend the majority of the film alone on screen.This was Zemeckis's second live-action film after ''Film/WhatLiesBeneath'' and his last overall to be made during the 2000s, the rest of which he spent making MotionCapture films before returning to live-action eleven years later with ''Film/{{Flight}}''.----!! This film contains examples of:* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Interestingly, [[spoiler:Kelly was fully willing to drop her new husband for Chuck, and they were seconds away from running off together, only for [[DidNotGetTheGirl Kelly to reconsider]].]] It's an interesting bit of trivia that according to the commentary that the scene [[spoiler: was the part of the movie that confused watchers between the ages of 14 and 20 in the test audience. They were either too accustomed to the idea of the protagonist [[HappilyEverAfter getting the girl in the end]] or weren't yet emotionally ready to grasp the sheer complexity of adult relationships.]]* AccidentalAdultery: Confusingly, Chuck's long-term partner Kelly says that she "always knew" he was alive, but [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder marries a dentist after everyone pressures her to move on]]. [[spoiler: She offers to divorce her new husband to get back together with Chuck, but just changes her mind about a minute later.]]* TheAloner: Chuck is the only human on that island during a four year stay.* AtTheCrossroads: Chuck finds himself at a literal crossroads at the film's end, with two possible paths to his future. It's all very symbolic.* BeardOfBarbarism: Chuck has plenty of time to grow some pretty wild facial hair during his time on the island.* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Chuck escapes the island and became a celebrity with an upcoming autobiography, but his lover Kelly is already married, and agreed to be BetterAsFriends. However, time will tell if either of them are happier about it and Chuck still feels alone.]]* BloodyHandprint: Wilson's face.* {{Bookends}}: The movie begins and ends at [[spoiler:the same rural crossroads in Texas, near the ranch that the "winged package" came from.]]* BrickJoke: At the start of the movie the female welder sends a [=Fed-Ex=] package to her husband in Moscow, who we see is cheating with a young Russian girl. At the end of the movie his name has been cut away from the sign above the entrance to her house.* BuryingASubstitute: Chuck finds that a funeral had been held for him when he was presumed dead. All sorts of little items or mementos were put in the casket by his friends and family.* ChekhovsArmoury: After a while, Chuck opens the Fed-Ex boxes that washed ashore with him, and the contents appear to be comically useless for his situation: video tapes, a volleyball, ice-skates and such. He finds a use for all of them, ''especially'' the volleyball.** In an interesting case, the writers chose these items by drawing them from dozens of others out of a hat, then asking survival experts how they could be used.** Chuck's offhand comment early in the movie about needing to go to the dentist.* ChekhovsGunman: The female welder who sends one of the packages counts as well, as Chuck runs into her during the finale scene.* ChekhovsHobby: A very subtle one: Right before the family diner scene, the audience briefly sees Chuck's sailing certification and sailing awards. No wonder then that [[spoiler: he finds the right solution to overcome the powerful wave that prevented him from leaving the island and manages to do it when the weather conditions are optimal.]]* ClockKing: Chuck Noland starts out as this, a Fed-Ex "efficiency expert". Then he's marooned on an island where he literally has nothing ''but'' time to spare.--> '''Noland''': Nicholai! Ticktockticktockticktock!* CompanionCube: Wilson the volleyball, whom Chuck talks to in order to keep from going insane due to loneliness.** Or possibly ''because'' he is beginning to [[GoMadFromTheIsolation go insane]].* CrappyHolidays: The plane crash that strands Chuck occurs on Christmas Day.* DesertedIsland: 80% of the movie.* DestroyTheProductPlacement: This film features a Fed-Ex cargo plane crashing in the Pacific ocean. Notably, the Fed-Ex execs were freaked out at possible damage to the brand name, but the film's success ensured increased brand awareness in Europe and Asia. * DeusExMachina: While Noland survives on the island - and ultimately gets off of it - by his own wits and creative scavenging skills, he's just short of dying at sea [[spoiler:when a container ship passes close to his position.* DidNotGetTheGirl: And it makes sense, too.* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:It's gradually revealed that Chuck came very close to taking his own life. Good thing he did a "dry run" first with a dummy, or else he would've just broken his legs and died a horribly prolonged death due to exposure or dehydration.]]--->[[spoiler:'''Chuck Noland''': So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I-I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to.]]** We also see [[spoiler:Chuck giving up after losing Wilson by intentionally dropping his oars into the ocean to drift aimlessly.]] Thankfully, he drifts only a while longer.* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: By this time, Wilson is Chuck's BFF and has his own "hair", while Chuck's has gone almost completely blond from bleaching in the sun.* {{Fainting}}: After Chuck removes his own tooth. ''With an ice skate and a rock.'' Also, Kelly, when she hears the news of Chuck's survival and rescue over the phone.* FatalFamilyPhoto: Subverted, as Chuck doesn't find the photo of the dead pilot's family until after he washes up.* FlyingDutchman: Chuck is left without a place in the modern world after finally escaping from the island after five years of solitude.** That said, he'd obviously become a massive celebrity, and likely a best-selling autobiographical author and sought-after motivational speaker.* {{Foreshadowing}}: The movie starts off with the song "Return to Sender". At the end of the film, a package is returned there.* GallowsHumor: With a rotten tooth Chuck mentions to Wilson, a volleyball, that his dentist back home was named Dr. Spalding. The joke gets an IronicEcho later, but when we hear the name again after [[spoiler:the man who married Kelly identifies himself as an acquaintance of Spaulding]], suffice to say, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment the joke is a lot less funny.]]* GenreSavvy: He's well aware that fictional portrayals of being on a desert island aren't realistic, and have left him unprepared.-->"Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn't take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That's something [[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan]] never told us."* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Averted. Even his relationship with Wilson is very sanely sold to the audience.* IFellForHours: Averted, from start to finish the crash sequence takes roughly two and a half minutes, a reasonable amount of time for stricken airline to drop from cruise altitude to sea level. * ImpaledPalm: Chuck Noland does this to himself, which leads to the creation of [[CompanionCube Wilson]].* IronicHell: A subtle example. As explained in the introduction, the first act of the film establishes that, as a dedicated Fed-Ex employee, Chuck is completely obsessed with punctuality and time, though it's suggested that he actually enjoys this. After he's marooned on the island, he has nothing ''but'' time.* {{Irony}}: Plenty of this when Noland returns to the abundant world of civilization. His 'welcome back' dinner consists mostly of seafood. His Swiss Army knife is attached to the keys he left with Helen. And light and fire is now available at the click of a switch.* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Chuck can't quite bring himself to come between Kelly and her new husband, although how happy this will actually make her in the long run is open to possibility.]]* KilroyWasHere: See the page illustration above. Chuck leaves a message on a rock before sailing away, as a record for someone to find if he dies at sea.* LargeHam: Chuck - after living several years in the savage jungle everyone would become this. ** Although it's averted to show the passage of time; after four years on the island Chuck is shown to exist like an animal, with no unnecessary speech or movement to waste energy. After a long period with no dialogue, he's eventually shown arguing with his CompanionCube.* LegallyDead: Chuck finds himself in this state after being stuck on the island for over four years.* LonersAreFreaks: What Chuck becomes, although he at least seems to regain his sanity once he makes it back to civilization.* MacGuffin: The one Fed-Ex box that Chuck never opens, and ultimately delivers at the end. Zemeckis jokingly stated that inside was [[{{Irony}} a waterproof solar-powered satellite phone]].** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3esvJv33M Lampshaded in a Super Bowl commercial]] for [=Fed-Ex=] that year which had his character delivering the package to find that indeed, it had the waterproof satellite phone, GPS unit, seeds, a complete tool set...** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19138_7-hotly-debated-movie-questions-that-totally-have-answers.html One deleted scene from the script]] actually has Chuck open the box. It holds... [[spoiler:two cans of salsa verde.]]*** [[spoiler:...and a rather touching note. Too bad about the BrickJoke.]]--->[[spoiler:You said our life was a prison. Dull. Boring. Empty. I can't begin to tell you how much that hurt. I don't want to lose you. I'm enclosing some salsa, the verde you like. Use it on your sticky rice and think of home. Then come home-- to me. We'll find the spice in our lives again. Together. I love you. Always. Bettina.]]* MacGyvering: How Chuck survives using various Fed-Ex boxes full of apparently useless crap. Some notable examples include using the taffeta from a party dress to make a fishing net, weaving videotape together to make rope, and making an axe out of an ice skate attached to a stick.* MeaningfulName: The shortened form of Chuck Noland's name is C. Noland: See No Land.* MrExposition: A different take on this trope; Wilson serves as a means by which Tom Hanks' character can explain things to the audience.* OceanMadness: Spiritually fits.* ProductPlacement: The best kind of product placement - neither firm paid a dime, but the movie is one great big commercial for Fed-Ex, and Wilson the volleyball is one for the company of the same name. The latter came about as the result of a Wilson ball washing up on shore in RealLife when the screenwriter was doing survival training as researching for the film.* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: While Chuck is stranded on the deserted island (the bulk of the movie), there is no background music at all. It really helps relay how quiet and noisy isolation can be.* RealityIsUnrealistic: The coconuts. Don't worry - everyone seems to get that wrong. Interestingly, the film crew found them as nigh-impossible to open as Chuck did.* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Chuck is startled to find out his friends held a funeral for him, including a casket, which prompts him to ask what was ''in'' it.* RiddleForTheAges: What was in the package Chuck never opened?* RobbingTheDead: About a week after the crash, the pilot of the FedEx plane's corpse washes up on the island. Chuck takes his shoes and flashlight, but buries him and the rest of his belongings.* {{Robinsonade}}: It's a good modern example of Robinson Crusoe and provides the page image.* RomanticRain: The film has a bittersweet romantic LastKiss in the rain. [[spoiler:After Chuck's rescued from an uninhabited island and returns home, he learns that the love of his life Kelly married somebody else. He leaves, but]] she runs after him and smooches him in the rain.* SayMyName: "WIIILLLLLLSOOOOOONNNNNNN! I'm sorry, Wilson!" If you ever want to figure out how good an actor Tom Hanks is, forget those two Oscars he won. Only Tom Hanks can yell that line, believably, at a ''volleyball'', and not make it sound stupid.* SceneryPorn: But totally necessary, so we the audience know just how alone and isolated Chuck Noland really is when he's on that island.* SettingUpdate: ''Cast Away'' is ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' [-IN THE MID-LATE 90S WITH A VOLLEYBALL AS FRIDAY!-]* ShownTheirWork: The portrayal of the island as a vaguely primordial ecosystem (very little wildlife, only a few dominant species of plants) that can barely even support a small human population is fully in line with what such small Polynesian islands look like. It was shot on one of the more remote islands of Fiji (geographic border of Melanesia/Polynesia) and it shows.* SoleSurvivor: Chuck. Only one body from the plane wreckage was ever found.* StoodUp: Chuck gives his fiancée a ring right before his flight, and promises her that "I'll be right back". Naturally, he doesn't make it back so quickly, and she ends up marrying another man.* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: [[spoiler:Chuck experiences this when he makes it back home.]]* SuddenlyShouting: "I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life talking TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL!!!!"* SurrogateSoliloquy: The writers even gave dialogue for Wilson's (imagined) half of the conversation.* TaughtByExperience: A great demonstration here. A survivalist he wasn't, at first.* TimeSkip: Four years later...* TheToothHurts: Chuck already has a bit of a toothache before he gets stranded on the island, but it only gets worse once he's there, forcing him to remove the rotten tooth. With an ice skate and a rock. Feel free to faint now.* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Seriously. Don't watch the trailer until you've seen the film. Apparently the director prefers it that way.* TheUnreveal: We never find out what's in the last [=Fed-Ex=] box. Hell, we never even find out why he didn't open it.** One popular theory is that the wings on the package were a symbol of hope for Chuck. Seemingly corroborated when he [[spoiler: paints the symbol on the makeshift sail.]]** Another is that he left one package unopened to keep himself grounded and not lose hope of ever making it back to civilization. "Isolated, in survival mode or not, I'm still a civilized human being. Someday I will deliver this package, dammit!"* UnstoppableMailman: Even after being stranded on an island for years, he still delivers the last package. (Strictly speaking, he doesn't. Like the song said, he "[[Music/ElvisPresley Return[s it] to Sender]]".)* WhamShot: When Kelly gets the call that Chuck is alive, she faints... and the camera follows her and stops [[spoiler:on her new husband and daughter.]]----


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It is known as "the murder capital of the internet" — an online crucible of hatred where an extreme fringe of white America rails against the growing diversity that is reshaping their country.
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Members of this small cohort have committed nearly 100 murders in the past five years — or one about every three weeks. The number of deaths has risen sharply since Barack Obama became the first black president, and Stormfront has become a window into the internet-fuelled…


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A week or so ago, I drove south to Missouri's boot heel to visit an inmate at the Southeast Correctional Center in Charleston. I've written before about Kenneth Carter, who killed a man when he was 14. He's almost 40 now and still incarcerated on a sentence of life with parole.
It was a food visit, so I brought pork chops, dressing, fried apples and a Sara Lee cheesecake. The regs require clear plastic containers, no fresh food, no frozen food and no knives -- not even plastic knives -- so our pork chops were finger food.
It was a good visit. I've known Kenneth since 2006, when he applied to a re-entry program I directed, hoping that a home plan would enhance his case for parole. He's had four hearings since then and been denied each time. The parole board doesn't give any reason for the denials or offer suggestions on behavior strategies. Kenneth has been in an honor wing for years and received a commendation in the winter for five years without a prison violation.
Southeast CC has instituted a program Kenneth graduated from a dozen years ago at another prison, Intensive Therapy Community. The deputy warden was the case officer when Kenneth was in the program. She wanted to bring it to this institution and invited Kenneth and a couple of other graduates to take facilitator and elder roles.
ITC is inmate-run with staff supervision. It is essentially an addiction recovery program. Kenneth was telling me that they use the "pull up" system; that is, any participant can say to you, "I'm pulling you up for cussing." The only correct response is, "I'll get right on that."
As Kenneth said to me, it doesn't matter whether you did it or not. The point is to learn that you can't change other people's worldview. You can only change yourself, in this case by being open to whatever anybody else sees in you. Kenneth is on the wing hall with the pre-participants, sharing a room with a tattooed white guy (Kenneth is black) who is in the middle of a love-hate monologue with God. Kenneth shakes his head in wonder at what might be the outcome of the argument. The program uses words like "room" and "roommate" instead of "cell" and "cellie" to try to lessen prison's permeation on their lives.
Kenneth has a small business making greeting cards for other inmates. He's sent me some, and the sister I live with, who is an artist, says he's very good. He told me he's painted three wall murals in the ITC wing. He'd never worked with paint, only pencils, but the recreation department sent over a paint set with 18 brushes (less a few that had been stolen), so Kenneth had his first chance to work with paint. He says the murals look terrific. The ITC logo has an eagle with a snake in his talons. He learned to use the paints on that eagle.
He got to talking about learning to look at pictures to see how other artists had done their work. "Where are these pictures?" I asked.
"In the library, in books," he said. So I told him about using an audio guide in a museum and he said, "I never been to a museum."
Then he asked me what skills I have besides cooking, which he agreed I could do. Can I drive a nail in straight? Yes. Operate power tools? No. But I told him I can grow a meal in my garden, teach a class of little children to multiply, and I can raise money. He laughed at that.
It was a good visit. I carried the mother of another inmate so she could visit her son. It was a three-hour drive each way. She was a blues singer in her youth, then joined a church choir and wrote some songs. So she sang to me during part of the drive.
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I've been tired of my glovebox flashlight being weaker than my cell phone 'flashlight' (flash in flashlight mode) and decided to do something about it and retrofit an LED.
A very good guide has been written before here, but it's a bit outdated. That guide uses a NiMH cell with lower capacity than a Li-Ion and goes with a conventional LED driven directly by the battery pack. This makes things easy from a charge and regulation standpoint because the battery pack is essentially connected directly to the supply through a resistor and no regulation exists for the LED (the current from the pack is low enough not to blow it).
I decided to step things up a bit.
My project uses a single 600mAh rated 10440 Li-Ion cell as a power source. This is almost double that in the previous project. The lithium cell requires special care for charging, so the 12v supply to the charging socket is stepped down to a regulated 5v by a 1.5A rated voltage regulator. This feeds a MAX1555 single cell lithium charger which controls the cell's input and cuts off the current when it's topped up. This is VERY important to avoid an explosion in your glovebox (hooking a lithium cell up to the 12v supply would be BAD).
I used a Cree XM-L LED controlled by a 350mA rated AMC7135 based driver board. At this low of a current the LED runs very cool for extended periods of time without extra heatsinking. It also ensures the light has a theoretical run time of almost two hours.
You'll see in the pictures that this first light was hacked up quite a bit as I was testing different circuit layouts and battery types to see what was the maximum I could fit. I plan on building some more since I have a whole bunch of extra parts and they'll look much nicer inside. Not that you can see from the outside. The factory switch remains completely functional in this one, though I'll be improving how it's set up in the future. It still latches on even as is.
Check out the attached pictures and I'd appreciate any feedback!
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XM-L is kind of overkill for this situation. I would have used an XP-E or G with a small heatsink around the same current.
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Tokyo (AFP) Aug 22, 2011
Japan's centre-left ruling party is set to choose a new leader next Monday to replace unpopular incumbent Naoto Kan as party president and therefore as prime minister, officials said.
Kan, Japan's fifth premier in as many years, has been expected for weeks to announce his resignation amid stinging criticism over his response to the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster and the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
Kan, 64, has since the Fukushima accident strongly advocated a nuclear-free future for Japan, a position that has put him at loggerheads with the conservative opposition and some members of his own party.
The August 29 election will be held on the condition that two bills -- one of them to promote renewable energy, which Kan has championed -- pass this week, said Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) secretary general Katsuya Okada.
Parliament would most likely confirm the new premier on August 30.
Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, 54, has been seen as the frontrunner to replace Kan, and Trade Minister Banri Kaieda, former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi and several others have also thrown their hats into the ring.
However, the focus is now on whether former foreign minister Seiji Maehara, the public's favourite according to opinion polls, will join the race.
Late Monday Kyodo news agency cited "a lawmaker close to him" saying that Maehara, 49, had decided to stand, and reported that he would make an announcement Tuesday.
Whoever wins the premier's job faces urgent challenges -- chiefly to rebuild from Japan's worst post-war disaster while keeping in check a public debt mountain that is already twice the size of the economy.
Almost six months after the quake, tens of thousands of people remain in evacuation centres because of the tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which alone forced more than 80,000 people from their homes.
Japan's post-quake economic recovery has been threatened by global financial woes, market turmoil and the strength of the yen, which last week hit a new post-war high against the dollar, hurting Japanese exports.
The DPJ's board members agreed on the date for the party meeting to allow for the timely passage of a third extra budget to finance disaster reconstruction, and for steps to tackle the strong yen, Okada said.
He also said that under the schedule the new prime minister will be able to send a new finance minister to a G7 meeting slated for early September.
The DPJ controls the powerful lower house of the Diet after winning a landslide election two years ago that ended half a century of almost unbroken conservative rule, ensuring that the new DPJ president will become Japan's next premier.
Okada said that official campaigning for the DPJ leadership election will begin Saturday, and that there are plans for a debate among candidates Sunday.
"The reason we chose August 29 as the day to elect a new party leader is that we may be able to hold the premiership vote the next day, in the tight parliament schedule," said Okada.
The current parliamentary session is due to end on August 31.
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When Japanese farmer Hisashi Tarukawa watched the local nuclear plant blow up on television, he uttered a sentence that will forever chill his family: "Oh, no. It's over." Within days, the radioactive cloud from the Fukushima plant had forced authorities to ban some farm produce in Fukushima, where the 64-year-old had been growing rice and vegetables all his life. The next morning before ... read more
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But how is this different from what happens on "reality" TV programs? And what of a film like A True Story About Love? It is being presented at the festival as a documentary, despite the fact that it was actually scripted and performed for the camera, in what the film maker describes as a "re-enactment" of events in which she'd been involved, with all the participants playing themselves.
The festival's week-long program includes a variety of local and international works and is made up of 10 features and 15 shorts. Feature-length films include:
Dark Days (81 minutes; ****): A New York story with a difference, Singer's debut is a compelling and unexpectedly uplifting account of people's resilience under the most trying of conditions. The film takes us on a journey into the underworld, into the tunnels beneath Penn Station where a small community of homeless people pursues a shanty-town existence. "It can't be as bad as it is on top," one of them explains to the camera, although the grime and garbage and noise pollution at first suggest otherwise.
Gaea Girls (104 minutes; ****): Made as part of the BBC's Under the Sun series, Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams' film is a riveting story about a Japanese girl who wants to be a championship wrestler. The challenges of the coaching program she undergoes are supposed to help her throw off the submissive demeanour of Japanese womanhood, but the brutality she experiences in the sparring ring suggests another kind of humiliation at work.
Down from the Mountain (97 minutes; ****): Recorded in May 2000 and directed by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob, this is both the story of a concert and a documentary essay about American bluegrass. The setting was Nashville, the concert brought together the musicians who appear on the soundtrack of the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and what emerges from their gathering is an affecting sense of community.
The Boot Factory (88 minutes; ***1/2): Blurring the lines between fiction and documentary, Lech Kowalski's punk documentary is the story of a boot-making collective in Krakow, presented through the troubled lives of those who make up its extended community. As their world begins to self-destruct under the influence of drugs, one gets the sense that the only thing keeping them even vaguely in line is the presence of the camera.
Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (92 minutes; ***1/2): This moving study of the life of a black Mississippi Delta great-grandmother is also a telling account of the way the oppressive past casts its shadow over the present. Co-directed by producer Susan Froemke, editor Deborah Dickson and cameraman Albert Maysles, it was a nominee for Best Documentary at this year's Oscars.
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Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventures in Plastic (59 minutes; ****1/2): Lisa Udelson's portrait of the exuberant Phranc, the self-described "all-American, Jewish, lesbian, folk-singing, surfing Tupperware lady", is a delight, both a foot-tapping celebration of the life-force that she embodies and a sometimes-cutting comedy of manners.
A True Story About Love (28 minutes; *): Melissa Kyu-Jung Lee's graduating film from the Australian Film, TV and Radio School is a technically proficient but outrageously self-indulgent exercise in navel-gazing. It's astonishing that a festival dedicated to the art of the documentary would include such a phoney.
Kim & Harley & the Kids (28 minutes; **): An episode in the forthcoming Family Foibles series, made for ABC-TV, Katrina Sawyer's harrowing verite-style portrait of a family grappling with poverty is set in outer-suburban Melbourne. The constantly bickering parents are only too happy to act out their anger for the camera, whose primary function seems to be to provoke rather than examine.
Staying Out (58 minutes; ***1/2): Despite a curiously inappropriate musical soundtrack, Sally Browning's documentary tells the story of two individuals' separate struggles to make their way in the world after their release from prison. Shot over 18 months in 1996 and 1997, it's a moving account of human fallibility and of the way inadequate support systems leave these essentially decent people and their families to fend for themselves.
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for conivin' lyin' hidin' sellin' buyin' and theivin,
The evil is bleeding from one neck slit in the evening,
listen to gorilla feel what he's speaking deep with meaning,
the ever seeing eye has unfocused our dreams,
demons no longer pulls my strings angels open their wings,
and catch a breeze they soar over the dispatched disease,
that has plagued the globe with disasterous scenes,
as cancerous teams paraiah's of society bank on basic needs,
treated like parakeets paralyzed caged... no longer sing,
generations lack modesty and honestly it harbors greed,
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life for what it be, never concede or accept complacency,
network and read, teach those we see, to connect and think free...
After the sirens came silence, no one was firin'/
dying from the wild uncontrollable violence.
Tyrants no longer was vibrant/
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known to roam cloaked so ya scopes wouldnt note me.
Low key posts chose closely not to boast/
canvas had the hand paint a 1 layered coat.
Combinations of attacks to the head, lead to his death
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Appeared his screams were muffled, air's peace troubled
Why seek the bubble, its too unstable to inhabit
Yet he shacked up in cabins, built on furs from ten rabitts
Nobody knew the victim, so it wasn't tragic, more lika small event
To the law they spent, enough time on the fallen men
Fuck that, point triggers wit no clips for fun
Deadly, i'm sick wit tons, of bricks and funds
Hot chicks get done, won't no sane man approach quick
Poor man wit that dirty itch like roach tick,
From buildings above, in the past i poached snitch
Candles handle boat wicks, Barn fire in living rooms
At the obvious, i'm sendin two, so yo, blend in dude
For bodies get tinted and pulled, into woods to decay
Greatness, slowin me is like a tiger woods delay
Who would see days, with just wack goods on replay (Wack lines)
Yo dj's, let my beat blaze, so to the brain, i can freeze'n daze
Hip hop head pleads for days, for thourough lyristsism
When it comes to me, they fear the wisdom, too ill to put near the system
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Like to cause mass hysteria, in crowds, in the air, i bust to vex
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The dealer of hope is selling me lies
Reasons to live are reasons to die, in disguise
This life was never mine, the rivers never ran
Cross your arms, its too late for helping hands
Spit your pity elsewhere, there's no sympathy needed
For one who's never alive, for one who's never completed (Bigot Hitman)
Remarkable dark-man scrolls scripted in a zone nuetral
Choose silent weaponry, sword on my back pull it out slay em' brutal
Boost souls from hell, aimin' after-life flamin' spears at demons as i bail
My life's a spell i can't break, my anger causes earthquakes
Flows rape competitions , squads stack funds for wakes
i take temple shots reach in my knot and repell them
Dragon breath smellin', cremated fire felon
Snitches retire tellin' tales, bodies found surrounded by shells
Mc turtle-back ya heard my herd of niggas thunder turf raps
Jason out-fit on, chainsaw through ya face brawl
Young guns capped, hit you crippled payback
Crazy cat head stompin' attacks, brain damage ya impact
Windmill lines spin, fuck a pen with ya blood compositions i'm writing
Spliff lighting lion, my home is a den
Players get slammed like Denver nugget games
wounded with razors, with a tub full of alcolhol to bathe-in
My evidence, my own testament, written on wood
Twelve tribes layin at the head of corners in hoods
Hell razah
the whole mutha fuckin masta plans gone wrong
i drop bombs....stomp strong like godzilla threw Hong Kong
so much game my fans shakin pom-poms
yall dont want none....like a haggard hooker hole
ya styles so bitch its equipped with a stripper pole
i gotta sicker flow my reps juss as good as gold
so give me respect or ya next in the sleeper hold
my hearts grown cold....so i laugh at all opponents
ya lifes in the grip of my fist, you dont even own it
i trapem like like rodents clampin on necks till they exploded
Concept tha gods hand picked to be the chosen
talk totin...cause my language is lethal
your compared to me is the perfect example of "all men arent created equal"
my sheeth holds a steeple steady throwin hexes when wrekkin
tie you up from my truck to a pole then drive the other direction
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cause the God can only hand out so many blessins for confessions
bury the murder weapon....stomp on all snakes walkin bare foot
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State police blatters get blattered, then splattered with nine
Lives i have 2 survived shots, only got chopped stuck em' with screws
Crews rollin' with police cruisers, get set-up by the ruler
Legend like Slick Rick, expose niggaz funny style like Redman's album skits
My evidence, my own testament, written on wood
Twelve tribes layin at the head of corners in hoods
Hell razah
The corner store koreans were screamin'/
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Hooliez fuckin shootin for jewels, life is cruel/
times come where niggas gota fight for they food.. Fight for they view,
shitzu just chewed the lace off the shoes/
poolstick skewered pooch was a fuckin kebab..
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44's helped to reward my fortune.
Saw the court doors closin n' thought soon im goin/
Mrs. Ho was a no show and the jury was frozen.
No one thought id get out alive but fuc that/
im a black rat nasty bastard lovin my wrap.
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bitch u aint at college wher the fucs my promised dollars.
Best be honest stop the bullshittin droppin illogic/
the documents report that you screwed 2 scholars.
2 doctors and a hospital warden/
not to mention the men u spent time wit in lawson.
Four non-poor niggas, wit' heads on the wall niggas/
swore we'd start chargin' no lower than 4 figures.
Accordin to the books u rich b'/
sneaky bitch tried to fuckin turned round n pimp me!!
Smacked her with the backhand swiftly/
took the bills from the bitch killed actin shifty.
Sicily livin', invisibly wit the gypsies/
hard-life pimpin chicks pickin out dixies.
Half hour slut fest, eighty til ya nuts jet/
cool g for anything else nigga nuf' said.
^^LoLz.. wtf, aight lemmi thro this 1 down.
Im known to rock loco wit the solid arm chokehold/
tokin' in the gucci coat, blowin' smoke holes.
Own the localised vocals like im mad anti-social/
fuck the most quoted ima rap for the total.
Cream thrones eventual champs, buys their mansions/
thats tha fuckin' reason why im missin in action.
Cant stand my chances so im takin, fuck askin'/
tragic circumstances from my prior expandin'.
Plainly and humanely explained, my situation pain/
depicts the friction of the perilous game.
The stageplay was virtually fact/
the blackmagic doctor had the chemical vat.
That was jam packed wit vitamins for different environments/
b,c's and x's left for less better islands.
An exodus for migrants hidin' behind disguises/
frightened by the license of the violent devices.
Spies tried ta heist my lines, bite my likeness/
fuck tryna buy time, commit suicide bitch.
uhh.. yea shit, im outies 4now. Ima postup later cos i seem to be floodin lol
flood it koncrete!! Its all good Build in the temple !!
ay thats cool b'.. aight ima go hed' n do another dedicated to the arts
The metal stripped the bark from the oak, in large doses/
monks trained daily wit' impecable focus.
Oceans had the Hooties but was missin' the Blowfish/
mos def niggas were'nt always open for showbiz.
Steel claws was holdin the door closed/
even the crane couldnt maintain the dominant horse pose.
Force flows had tapped the channels of wu shu/
sifu saw the final outcome before we knew.
It was over, the second technique broke the motor/
homies got no chance to reload the toaster.
Robes had opened up wit the swords out/
razored edge blades shaded the gathering warclouds.
Staunch, proud, commited to order, a boardwalker/
faucet pours the liquid so i'd be like water.
Taught forms imported from the depths of the lung/
peace to Bolo Yeung n' rest easy Sammo Hung.
Bruce knew the roots to the groups of wing-chun/
but death was won, death was one...
...yea, rest in peace to big fuckn Bolo, crazy nigga loco. martial law Samo wit' the heavy two eighty rolo. no doubt one love to Bruce, peace to his dojo and every muthafucca that i dont even kno yo..
media fucking performance veterans man, since 71' reading scripts on screen wit backflips n jumpkicks kid, no wires. shit was wild bac then son, these artists was heroes for a ghetto child dreamin of anutha freedom scheme to elevate himself above the bullshit son yamean.. so yea ima say thanks god, cos i guess, only the good die young tho'.
Somebody call the fire department this threads blazin'!
mentals get scarred, then charred once the ox charge
rock on the paladium, black god runnin' frauds outta dodge
Pull ya master-card, jook ya ice, know u need therapy like Sean price
i live the nocturnal life, horrific like the late vincent price explicit lyrics i write run-over you parasites
i hold the mic mighty, and body bounty hunters
found super soaked wrapped in plastic under the stairs
enemies give me crazy stares, and end up needing faces repaired
My evidence, my own testament, written on wood
Twelve tribes layin at the head of corners in hoods
Hell razah
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Chief Rocka, the vivid dream sleep watcha
The heat gotchya screaming like a cheap opera
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Bleep Bleep Knocka 2 for 3 poppas on the E Toppers
Poland Spring Water Flow Go and sing all the show
Broadway all day marauder blows you oughtta know
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You could respect my new gun or get left in 2 dumps
Seperated Appendages say I negated the evidence
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Task force to make Medicaid work in the 21st century
With more than 40 million enrollees, Medicaid is the largest health insurer in the country. Its operations are considerably more complicated than those of most insurance companies given the complexities of financing, federal and state program requirements, increasing state program flexibility via new waiver options, and the needs of the low-income population it serves. The purpose of this project is to assemble a task force of "in the trenches" Medicaid experts to review systematically the most critical and controversial program policies and structures and offer recommendations for constructive operational change. The deliverables will be a set of seven issue briefs on key topics and a final report on options for reforming Medicaid. The project will be considered successful if the task force products are disseminated and contribute to the knowledge base used by decision makers in future discussions about how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Medicaid.
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What is an Irrigation Audit? An Irrigation Audit produces detailed information about actual irrigation system performance in the field (as opposed to theoretical performance). This information is then used to prepare detailed irrigation schedules throughout the year. These procedures can be used to evaluate both new and existing irrigation systems.
Why Audit? The best irrigation efficiency is achieved when most of the water that is applied is used by the plants being irrigated. Improved efficiencies may result in:
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Studying Mobile Media : Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone
Hjorth, Larissa, Burgess, Jean E., & Richardson, Ingrid (Eds.) (2012) Studying Mobile Media : Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies. Routledge, United States of America.
The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. This book explores not only the iPhone's particular characteristics, uses and "affects," but also how the "iPhone moment" functions as a barometer for broader patterns of change. In the iPhone moment, this study considers the convergent trajectories in the evolution of digital and mobile culture, and their implications for future scholarship. Through the lens of the iPhone—as a symbol, culture and a set of material practices around contemporary convergent mobile media—the essays collected here explore the most productive theoretical and methodological approaches for grasping media practice, consumer culture and networked communication in the twenty-first century.
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Irony In A Good Man Is Hard To Find
What is the irony in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?
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O'Connor establishes the foundation of the irony very early in the story when she gives us the reason for the grandmother getting dressed up for the car ride:
In case of an accident anyone seeing the dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.
At several points in the story, the grandmother judges people as good or bad based on her very quick assessment of how they look and behave. For example, the first time we see the phrase "A good man is hard to find," the speaker is Red Sam at the roadside barbecue restaurant where the family is having lunch. Just before that, however, Red Sam has described his willingness to allow some strangers to charge gas, and he asks himself the question, "Now, why did I do that?" The grandmother's immediate response is "Because you're a good man." She makes this assessment on the the barest of information about Red Sam, not on the basis of any meaningful knowledge about his character.
After the car crash and the Misfit and his cohorts make their appearance, and the grandmother recognizes the Misfit, his politeness, which is genuine but also calculated to put the family at ease, draws out the grandmother's assessment of the Misfit:
"Listen," the grandmother almost screamed, "I know you're a good man. You don't look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people!"
Although it's quite possible that, in her desperation, she is trying to curry favor with the Misfit, the observation is also consistent with her judgment of people based on their physical appearance and outward behavior.
The great irony at this point is that the grandmother has completely mis-read the nature of the Misfit who, as we learn a short while later, is an absolute sociopath with a dash of the psychopath thrown in to the mix.
Another ironic twist occurs at the end of the story when, after talking to the Misfit about salvation and finally understanding how troubled and confused he is, the grandmother, who has been relentlessly superficial up to this point, has an epiphany and actually feels sympathy for the Misfit:
She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, "Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!" She reached out and touched him on the shoulder.
This act of compassion, however, is rewarded with three bullets to the chest. This is, perhaps, the greatest irony in the story: just when the grandmother becomes truly compassionate, finally moving past her self-absorption, she signs her own death warrant because the Misfit is not interested in compassion and understanding--his goal is survival, and the grandmother is a threat to that survival.


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Not Enough T in the DOT?
"Big housing and commercial projects are too often built without a second thought for transportation issues, even in big cities; meanwhile, transit systems are sometimes implemented with only minor consideration for associated construction. The two issues should be thought of as one.
But is the DOT putting too much thought into land use effects and not enough into transportation itself? None of the streetcar systems that were awarded funding earlier this month are likely to carry more than 5,000 daily riders, a pittance in huge metropolitan areas, and certainly fewer than cheaper improvements in buses might allow. Is each worth the $25 million Washington is planning to allocate to it, just because of the expected economic improvements that will follow?"
He proposes a philosophical crossroads for the Department of Transportation in which it decides whether it wants to focus on urban development or transporting the masses.


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2012 South Florida Parenting Magazine Best Indoor Activity in Broward County • TripAdvisor® -Certificate of Excellence 2013 n Broward Family Life - Favorite Museum • South Florida Parenting Magazine - Kids Crown Award - Best Activities & Outings /Museums in Broward• SouthFlorida.com - Best Museum 2014 n TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence • Local 10 Top 10 - Best Museum 2nd Place • Kids Crown Award - Best Activities & Outings/Museums and Theaters • New Times - Best Museum 2015 n Broward Family Life -Favorites:Museum/Camps/Place To Get Smart/Party Place • TripAdvisor® - Certificate of Excellence • Broward Palm Beach New Times Reader's Choice - Best Museum • South Florida Parenting Magazine Kids Crown Awards Judge's Choice - Best Museum/Theater (Broward) • USA Today 10 BEST Museums in Fort Lauderdale - Best Museum 2016 n Broward Family Life - Favorite Museum • TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence (5th consecutive year) • Southflorida.com- Best Museum and Best Movie Theater
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Everglades Airboat Adventure, Prehistoric Florida, Otters At Play, Storm Center, Florida Water Story,Go Green!, Powerful You, TO FLY Aviation Exhibit, Florida EcoScapes, The Coral Reef, Gizmo City, Mars Rover, The Discovery Center, KaleidoVision, Minerals Rock! Building Blocks of the Universe, Dinosaur Bone Yard, MaxFlight and 7D Simulator Rides
The Museum features national traveling exhibits three times per year.
Fall/Winter 2016 Drugs: Costs and Consequences
Spring 2017 Lost Egypt
Summer 2017 Birds of Paradise Avian Evolution
Fall 2017 Amazing Butterflies Maze Exhibit
The mission of the Museum of Discovery and Science is to provide experiential pathways to lifelong learning in science for children and adults through exhibits, programs and films.
The Museum of Discovery and Science has contributed significantly to the revitalization of the arts and sciences district in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Consisting of 85,000 square feet of interior space, the 300-seat AutoNation IMAX Theater, and an open-air grand atrium, the Museum features dynamic interactive exhibits in the natural and physical sciences and a large array of programs designed to serve diverse audiences. MODS regularly serves approximately 400,000 visitors each year and is the primary destination for school field trips in Broward County. Last year, the Museum served 90,000 students on school-sponsored field trips plus additional 60,000 school-age children visiting with friends and family. The ability of the Museum to entertain and educate children and adults through hands-on exhibits, engaging educational programming and films, and a live animal collection adds immeasurably to the regions educational resources.
The Museum began its history as a project of the Junior League of Fort Lauderdale, opening as the Discovery Center, a hands-on museum of art, science and history, in 1977 in the historic New River Inn. Over the course of the next few years, several other historic buildings became part of the Museums complex.
By 1986, community demand had far exceeded the Museums capabilities in the small complex. With an eye toward growth, the Museum aggressively sought inclusion of $8 Million in the Citys General Obligation Bond and mounted a community-wide educational campaign to assure its passage. The Bond passed successfully by a wide voter margin. Armed with this broad-based community support, the Museum then generated $13.6 Million in philanthropy and $11 Million in state funding to complete its $32.6 Million capital campaign. These investments completed funding for the new Museum of Discovery and Science and Blockbuster IMAX Theater, and funded a $3 Million permanent endowment. (The IMAX Theater was renamed the AutoNation IMAX Theater in 2007 in recognition of a major gift.)
Such strong support for the project on the local, regional, statewide and national levels resulted in the Museum being the only debt-free major cultural institution to open in greater Fort Lauderdale in the past two decades. Upon completion of the Capital Campaign, the new Museum opened on November 21, 1992, meeting the increasing demands for informal science education and cultural experiences in South Florida. Attendance topped the 1 million mark in less than two years. In 1996, major additional capital funds were invested in upgrading the IMAX Theater to include 3D projection capability.
Today, the Museum has undertaken a $25 Million campaign, Building New Pathways to Discovery, to fund the renewal and expansion necessary to guarantee its future as a vital community resource. The Museum has established a strong cooperative relationship with the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force and formed the Museum Collaboration Committee with representatives from the 29 agencies involved in the Everglades restoration. Numerous other community partners, both corporate and institutional, join with the Museum to extend its reach and effectiveness.
The exciting next phase of the Museums development has three major components:
The EcoDiscovery Center, a major new 34,000 square foot wing that effectively doubles the Museums public space. Visitors will examine the Florida environment through a lens of environmental stewardship and discover the interconnections between human actions and the environment and between human health and the health of the environment.
A Science Theater and four Playground for the Mind classrooms enhancing the Museums ability to deliver innovative programs.
Renovation of exhibits and public spaces within the Museums existing architectural footprint, creating a dramatic entry to the Florida EcoScapes exhibit, and building a new Visitor Services Pavilion.
The Museum of Discovery and Science must be as dynamic as the community it serves. This new initiative will ensure the Museums continuing success and buttress its ability to deliver meaningful learning opportunities to residents and tourists.


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No need to worry about who will be the head coach for the San Antonio Spurs for quite some time.
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With 5 NBA titles under his belt no reason to ever think about Pop walking away from the game. Plenty of tghings yet to achieve with the Spors.
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Kazakhstan, Mongolia Increased Bullion Reserves in December, IMF Data Show
Kazakhstan and Mongolia added to their gold reserves in December as the precious metal advanced for an 11th consecutive year, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Kazakhstan's bullion holdings rose 3.1 metric tons to 76.7 tons and Mongolia added 1.2 tons to take its assets to 3.5 tons, data on the IMF's website showed. Ukraine increased gold reserves by 0.1 ton, Mexico cut them by 0.2 ton and Mauritius reduced them by 0.1 ton, the data show.
Central banks are expanding reserves for the first time in a generation as holdings in exchange-traded products are within 1.9 percent of an all-time high set last month. The banks may buy 600 tons this year, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) Global holdings of the metal advanced by 66.6 tons in November from a month earlier to 30,877 tons, the IMF data show. That's equal to almost 11 years of world mine production.
"The trend of emerging countries' official sector gold buying will continue this year, which will be a price-supportive factor going forward," said Bayram Dincer, an analyst at LGT Management in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. "The desire of central banks to diversify reserves with hard-currency gold is high and a long-term process."
Gold for immediate delivery gained 10 percent last year and reached a record $1,921.15 an ounce in September. It traded at $1,660.93 by 10:19 a.m. in London today and is up 6 percent this month.
Gold accounts for about 13 percent of Kazakhstan's total reserves, and 5.2 percent of Mongolia's, according to the latest report from the London-based World Gold Council. The metal accounts for more than 70 percent of reserves of the U.S. and Germany, the biggest holders, the data show.
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For the second time in less than two years, Tampa Prep basketball standout Casey Sanders has been arrested for driving under the influence in Tampa.
According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff's online arrest report, Sanders, 33, was arrested Saturday at 3:34 a.m. at 3400 MacDill Ave. S. on misdemeanor charges of DUI and driving with a canceled or suspended license.
The state's Mr. Basketball for 1999, he remains in jail on $750 bond, the report says.
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Cologne, Germany (SPX) Mar 29, 2010
It takes some imagination - the new exhibit on display at the 'Out of this World - Wonders of the Solar System' exhibition at the Gasometer Oberhausen, does not look very spectacular at first glance. Lent to the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) by NASA, it is grey in colour, small - weighing just 92.5 grams - and encased in a Plexiglas casting.
But this small piece of rock is no lightweight in its significance and value. It originates from another celestial body and is therefore priceless.
"There is no open market for rock samples from the Apollo missions. It would therefore be impossible to establish any financial value," states Gary Lofgren, Administrator of the NASA Lunar Sample Laboratory in Houston, Texas. This is the storage location for all the samples collected during the Apollo missions. None of these lunar surface samples is available for sale. Collectors are only permitted to sell meteorite fragments found on Earth.
"Meteorites from the Moon are traded at around 2000 USD per gram." But at the end of the day, that does not become a benchmark market price for lunar samples. The NASA storage facility in Houston is home to 382 kilograms of rocks, dust and drill cores from the Moon.
By 'moon buggy' all the way to Hadley Rille
At that time, no astronaut had ever ventured as far from a landing module. Scott then collected volcanic rock from the rim of the Mare Imbrium impact crater. This lump of rock weighed 9.5 kilograms and was duly logged into the Lunar Sample Laboratory and archived as number 15555. It also became known as 'Great Scott'.
This name was a carefully chosen one: firstly, Great Scott is the largest piece of rock that returned to Earth on board Apollo 15. Secondly, it honours the work of Commander Dave Scott during his two-day stay on the Moon. To facilitate access for scientists and museums, NASA prepared various items from this large sample, one of which was this particular exhibit.
'Great Scott' is very similar to basaltic rock found here on Earth. However, things start to get really interesting when scientists get to grips with the age of this sample. Volcanic rock on Earth seldom comes close to being three billion years old. In contrast, 'Great Scott' and the small sample bearing number 15333.462 originated on the Moon 3.3 billion years ago. The oldest samples are more than four billion years old.
"With lunar rock, we are effectively looking through a window at the very distant past of Earth, when our planet was still young", says Ulrich Kohler from the DLR Institute of Planetary Research (Institut fur Planetenforschung; IPF). Back in the early days of Earth and the Moon, their surfaces were covered in oceans of molten magma over which a rocky crust eventually formed. Before this, the Moon was formed from the debris of Earth's collision with a body the size of Mars.
Researching lunar rock
"For the very first time, we were in the possession of extra-terrestrial material whose origins were known to us with absolute precision, thus contrasting sharply to meteorites found on Earth."
First, scientists tested the chemical composition and the age of these samples. Even today, lunar rocks are being researched and analysed by scientists around the globe. "We are still addressing the same questions that we had 40 years ago - it's just that now we have newer and better methods at our disposal. And that's why we keep coming up with more new results," says Kohler.
Scientific treasure of enormous significance
Workers on location in Houston handle these extra-terrestrial rocks and drill cores only with triple-thickness gloves and specially cleaned tools. "These samples are a scientific treasure of enormous significance", added Kohler.
Indeed, the lunar samples are guarded just like real treasure at their 'home' in Houston. "We have taken extensive security precautions," says Curator Gary Lofgren. No further details are forthcoming. The Lunar Sample Laboratory has even been specially prepared to withstand natural catastrophes. In case a tornado or a hurricane strikes the site, the lunar samples are stored at a height that is safe even in the event of flooding. How then, can museums protect these exhibits? "We stipulate the security criteria with which they must comply."
The lunar rock will be on show at the Gasometer Oberhausen in the 'Out of this World - Wonders of the Solar System' exhibition until 13 April 2010. This exhibition is also, incidentally, home to the 'largest Moon on Earth'.
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