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The ArchHaskell group works on providing Haskell packages to the wider ArchLinux community. The ultimate goal is to provide all of Hackage as binary packages for easy installation. We are still a long way away :-)
The main resources for the ArchHaskell community to interact and discuss are:
- #arch-haskell irc channel @ freenode.org
- Good for quick discussion and planning
- email@example.com mailing list
- Broader announcements, and automated updates
- ArchHaskell group on github
- Repositories for tools as well as the source for the binary packages (HABS).
Due to using github for the source repositories membership isn't required at all in order to contribute. Just fork the relevant repository, make some changes and file a pull request.
There are currently three people with commit rights to the ArchHaskell repos at github:
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- Peter Simons
- Rémy Oudompheng

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When you live in the shadow of the Rockies, it's almost a sin to not take in the beauty of the Bow Valley whenever you can. So when a trail is laid out in front of you, offering a new way to see Banff National Park, you simply have to take advantage of it.
That's what I was trying to do when I recently joined my friend Jenn and her daughter Ella to cruise the Legacy Trail - a paved walking and biking route that runs along the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway from the East Gates of Banff National Park to the Bow Valley Parkway.
I had no idea that I was about to cycle into a quagmire of safety and jurisdictional issues.
Opened in July 2010 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Banff National Park, the trail is a multi-use recreation pathway that encourages everyone from toddlers to seniors to get out and experience one of the most picturesque places on earth with their feet. And with more than 50,000 users between May and September last year, it's already getting a lot of use from both tourists and commuters.
"Canadians are finding a new, environmentally friendly way to enjoy and connect with our first national park," confirms Lori Bayne, Parks Canada promotion officer.
The problem is that the trail, envisaged as linking Canmore to Banff, officially only goes as far as the park's East Gate - it doesn't yet extend to Canmore.
That isn't stopping cyclists who regularly descend on the trailhead from the East Gate of Banff National Park. They're parking in the green space between the two directions of traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway, then sprinting across the eastbound lanes of traffic. This raises obvious security concerns: there's no safe starting point from either Canmore or the East Gate.
Parks Canada's Judy Glowinski explains that the Legacy Trail should only refer to what's within Banff National Park.
"The trail is not linked all the way to Canmore, and it's not safe to start it from there. You can take it from the town of Banff and go to the East Gate and back, or do it from Cascade Ponds, going either East or West. What's beyond the Park hasn't been completed," she says.
I wasn't aware of all this when I started the ride, so Jenn's husband Rob (our "crew") dropped us off at the Banff East Park Gates by pulling a U-turn so we didn't have to cross the treacherous Trans-Canada.
If we were doing the trail as Parks Canada recommends, this would be our halfway, turnaround point. From here, there's a gentle incline that gets the heart rate going, then the trail levels off to a relatively flat ride. We're quickly rewarded with a panorama of postcard-worthy peaks: Rundle Ridge to the south and Cascade Mountain jutting out dramatically in front of us.
While we slowpokes are overtaken every few minutes, the trail doesn't seem crowded. There are families out with Trail-a-Bikes, Chariots and even kids that look as young as four years old. There are also several fit senior citizens and speedy road racers of all ages.
Riding parallel to the Trans-Canada most of the way, we can hear the constant hum of vehicles. Fortunately for us, the heady scent of sweet clover overrides any exhaust fumes. We focus on the wildflowers, from wild roses to Indian paint brushes, that flank the trail. Our reward for a rainy spring is a spectrum of green, with velvety emerald moss and copses of trees, their new, lime-green leaves bursting out among the wild grasses.
There are no creatures to be seen, however - the solar-powered electric mats we pedalled over deter wildlife from the trail by emitting a low amperage charge.
About halfway to Banff (25 minutes for us dawdlers), we come upon the Valleyview Picnic Area. It's a sweet little rest stop with outhouses and tables to soak up the sweeping views of the valley. After our break, we churn up one steep, short hill, then it's smooth sailing into Banff.
Once in Banff, a patio lunch and spot of shopping are in order, but we quickly regret the latter as the skies close in. Departing at the same time as our crew, which now includes young Ella, we race towards Canmore in our highest gears. As the rain pelts down, there's no lollygagging or gazing wistfully at the mountain ranges on the ride home.
Soaked to the bone within minutes, Jenn's padded bike shorts fill with more water than a baby's diaper. With this extra motivation, it takes us 30 minutes from the Banff trailhead to reach the East Gate. Our crew sits through traffic in Banff and reaches the gate just 10 minutes before us.
It's been an excellent day - and would be even better if we could start from the Canmore end of the trail officially and safely.
Extending the Legacy Trail to Canmore: A quick guide to the issues
Q. Why doesn't the trail go to Canmore?
A. Having a multi-purpose trail from Canmore into Banff National Park was always the vision of the Bow Corridor Regional Mobility Partnership (BCRMP), comprised of the MD of Bighorn, town of Banff, town of Canmore, Parks Canada, Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation and Alberta Transportation.
When Canada's Economic Action Plan was announced, the design for the trail within Banff National Park was completed, allowing Parks Canada to build within their jurisdiction, once they received funding ($6.75 million).
But the BCRMP hadn't yet worked through how to extend the trail to the Canmore Visitor Information Centre; this route goes against the road right-of-way, which requires approval from Alberta Transportation.
Q. What's been done?
A. "We realized after seeing the demand when the trail opened that we needed to tie people into Canmore," says Andy Esarte, manager of engineering for the town of Canmore.
The gravel extension to Harvie Heights was completed in October 2011, but parking is very limited there, so it's not a good option for starting the trail. Developing the remaining 2.5 km to the Visitor Information Centre has taken longer and will be more expensive (estimated at $2.5 million) due to the challenges.
Q. What's next?
A. The BCRMP aims to complete the trail design to the Visitor Information Centre by the end of August and apply to Alberta Transportation for permission to develop beside the highway. If approved, different sources of funding will be sought. "The extension was estimated for 2014, but we're pursuing it even faster. Once the main issues are resolved, we can move ahead - ideally starting construction next summer," says Esarte.
Jody Robbins is a Calgary-based freelance writer.


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Having trouble getting your contact lens prescription from your eye care provider?
Eye care providers are required by law to give contact lens prescriptions to patients when the fitting process is complete. This requirement is generally understood, but recognize there can be bad actors in any industry. While this situation can be perplexing, the reason is simple: unlike your family doctor, most eye doctors sell what they prescribe. Therefore, some believe withholding your prescription will force you to purchase contact lenses from them. Here is some information that might help:
1. Be savvy
Know the common practices that some eye care providers use to prevent you from getting your prescription. For instance:
Giving out eyeglass prescriptions instead of contact lens prescriptions
Make sure you have a contact lens prescription, not an eyeglass prescription. A prescription for disposable contact lenses will always include the brand name of the contacts. If your prescription does not, check with your eye care professional.
The waiver
Some eye care providers will have you sign a waiver to receive your prescription. This practice is illegal and can be used as a scare tactic to make you think you are doing something wrong. Does your family doctor make you sign a waiver to get your medicine from a pharmacy? You don't have to sign anything.
"I can't release, the fitting process is not over"
Some eye care providers may tell you they can not release your prescription to you because you have not completed the fitting process. This is normal for new wearers or when getting fitted with a new type or brand of lens, but it is not normal for consumers who are wearing the same lenses as before and only need a refill. It is also not supposed to be used as a reason for withholding your prescription. Under the new federal law your prescription is good for a minimum of 1 year. Most importantly, this one year time period is from the date your eye care provider gives you a copy of your prescription – not from the date of your examination.
The one year myth
Some eye care providers tell you that they cannot issue an expiration date of more than one year. This is not true. One year is a minimum, not a maximum. You should discuss your wearing habits and eye health with your eye care provider to determine if you can have a longer prescription length.
The sales call
After receiving a prescription confirmation call from a mail order contact lens supplier, some doctors will call you. Instead of acting like a health care professional and complying with the verification request, some eye care providers will attempt to pressure you into buying your contact lenses directly from them. Some eye care providers will tell you that ordering direct by phone or Internet is illegal, or that the contacts are not as good as what the eye care provider sells. This practice is unethical and improper. These false statements are intended to discourage you from ordering through alternate retailers and could create legal liability. You have the right to get your prescription filled wherever you choose, without unnecessary or unsolicited pressure from your eye care provider.
Come pick up your Rx
You may be told that the eye care provider cannot release your prescription to you or anyone else over the phone or by fax. Not true. This is just a way to get you into their store. By law, prescriptions can be transmitted in hard copy or by any electronic means.
Already released, can't do it again
You have a right to your prescription whenever you want it.
Charging to release
Some eye care providers may attempt to charge a fee for prescription release. This illegal practice is simply a way to discourage you from going somewhere else to buy your lenses.
2. Know the law
The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act was signed by President Bush on December 6th, 2003 with an effective date of February 4th, 2004. It was written to protect you from the conflict of interest where eye doctors both prescribe and sell lenses. Here are your new rights under this law:
Right to your prescription
You have a right to your prescription automatically and unconditionally. Once your contact lens fitting is done, your eye doctor must give you a copy of your prescription — whether you ask for it or not – and without an extra fee or the need to sign a waiver or form.
You don't have to buy your initial box of lenses from your doctor
When your eye doctor prescribes new lenses, he or she will generally have you wear a trial pair to test their fit. Once the doctor determines the fitting is complete the federal law requires that you receive your prescription immediately. You are then free to buy your initial boxes of lenses, as well as your replacement lenses, from any vendor you choose whether that be your doctor or a retailer such as 1-800 Contacts.
Right to have your prescription verified
Whenever you want to buy your lenses from a retailer such as 1-800 Contacts, your doctor must cooperate. If your eye doctor does not respond to our request for verification within eight business hours, the prescription is considered verified, and you will receive your lenses.
Protection against expensive "private label" lenses
You may have been prescribed private label, or store brand, lenses available only through your eye doctor's office. Under the new law, we can provide you with identical lenses made by the same manufacturer, regardless of the brand name on your prescription.
Protection against unreasonably short prescription lengths
The law requires that your prescription be valid for at least one year. An eye doctor may only write a prescription for less than one year if justified by your medical health.
Under this new law, your ability to order lenses from 1-800 CONTACTS and other retailers will be simpler, easier and even more consumer friendly. Also, please keep in mind that no retailer, whether it is 1-800 CONTACTS or any other vendor, will be able to legally sell you contact lenses if your prescription is invalid or expired.
3. What is ethical behavior?
The American Medical Association (AMA) has written a Code of Ethics to define ethical behavior by doctors. Their position is very clear with respect to obtaining your prescription – you have a right to it. Below is the exact wording from the AMA's Code of Ethics:
E-8.06 Prescribing and dispensing drugs and devices:
"In all instances, physicians should respect the patient's freedom of choice in selecting who will fill their prescriptions as they are in the choice of a physician and, therefore, have the right to have a prescription filled wherever they wish."
"Patients have an ethically and legally recognized right to prompt access to the information contained in their individual medical records. Since a prescription is part of the patient's medical record, the patient is entitled to a copy of the physician's prescription for drugs or devices, including eyeglasses and contact lenses."
Full text can be found at the American Medical Association website.


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Who's better in the clutch: Peyton Manning or LeBron James?
Petyon Manning is America's quarterback. We like to cheer for him. That's an understatement. Heck, America would like to pile into the backseat of his Buick and go get a cold one with Manning. On the other hand, Miami Heat star LeBron James is polarizing. He wins. He offends our sensibility of fair play. He sells $180 sneakers.
But know what? James now has four MVP awards and two championships. Manning can match the four MVPs. But he only has one championship, back when he played for Indianapolis. The pressure is on Manning to win this year. In Denver. Listen here to Peter Burns of Mile High Sports Radio and I discuss what's on the line for Manning' legacy:
Is it harder to win one Super Bowl than back-to-back NBA championships? Who's your guy? Peyton? Or LeBron?
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With April marking National Donate Life Month, PennDOT reminds driver's license and identification card holders that they can easily help another person live a fuller, longer life by registering online as an organ donor.
"Potential donors considering adding the organ donor designation to their driver's license or identification card do not have to wait for their renewal notices to take action," PennDOT Secretary Barry J. Schoch said. "There are steps that you can take today to become an organ donor and potentially save a life."
To add the organ donor designation to an existing driver's license or identification card today, visit www.dmv.state.pa.us and select the "Donate Life Pennsylvania" icon at the bottom of the page. Once the designation is added, individuals will receive a designation card that they will have to carry with them to affirm organ donor status until they renew or replace their driver's license or identification card. There is no charge for adding the designation to your driver's license or identification card.
Nearly 46 percent of driver's license and identification card holders are registered organ donors – that's more than 4.4 million Pennsylvanians. More than 8,300 Pennsylvanians currently await organ transplants.
Driver's license and identification card holders, as well as registered vehicle owners, can also support organ donation programs by donating $1 to the Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund at the time of application and/or renewal. Proceeds from the fund are used to educate and promote awareness of the organ donor program through non-profit organizations like the Center for Organ Recovery and Education and the Gift of Life Donor Program. Pennsylvanians have generously donated more than $10 million to the fund to date.
As part of an ongoing effort to increase awareness of organ and tissue donation, video monitors featuring educational content were recently installed at 20 PennDOT driver's license centers.
More information on organ and tissue donation in Pennsylvania can be found at www.donatelife-pa.org.


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Jobe, industry leaders discuss policy goals at biomass conference
Leaders representing all sectors of the biomass industry met in St. Louis May 3 to discuss the future of the algae, biomass thermal, biomass power, biogas, biofuels and biochemicals industries during the opening session of the International Biomass Conference & Expo. While each sector represented in the panel features its own unique goals and challenges, the overarching message of the speakers was that members of the biomass community need to pull together to support the biomass industry as a whole—especially in the arena of federal policy.
A primary topic of discussion was near-term policy goals, with each panelist outlining the key goals of his or her industry. Mary Rosenthal, executive director of the Algal Biomass Organization, kicked off the policy discussion by noting her organization will continue to work to achieve parity for the algae industry. Algae-based fuels currently do not qualify for any of the tax credits available to other forms of biofuel, such as cellulosic ethanol. A key goal of the ABO it to ensure algae derived fuels receive parity under these programs. Rosenthal also noted her organization will continue to work to educate members of Congress about the benefits and advantages of algae, while also advocating for the continuation of renewable fuels funding through the U.S. DOE, USDA and U.S. Department of Defense.
Charlie Niebling, chairman of the Biomass Thermal Energy Council, noted parity is also a key goal of his organization. Biomass thermal energy has been entirely overlooked by federal policy, he said. According to Niebling, a primary goal of his organization is to ensure that biomass thermal energy is incorporated into whatever kind of clean energy or renewable energy policy platform that Congress pursues. "We also obviously have a challenge in educating a new crop of members [of Congress] and their staff," he said. "We still face real challenges in making sure people understand the [role thermal energy] plays in the pressing energy challenges in our country."
In addition to working towards a federal clean energy standard, Robert Cleaves, president and CEO of the Biomass Power Association, also noted that saving the USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance Program is a major goal for his organization in the near-term. "For new developers of biomass plants, getting the placed-in-service date extended [under] 1603 is important," he continued.
Parity is also a primary goal of the biogas industry, said Norma McDonald, vice chair of external affairs at the American Biogas Council. However, she noted that another goal of her organization it to discontinue policies that encourage organic waste to be disposed of in landfills rather than to be used to create renewable forms of energy. "At the federal level we are focused on incentives that will ensure that the organic fraction of municipal solid waste, for instance, receives equal treatment in terms of definitions of biomass," McDonald said. On the state level the ABC also intends to work with the generators of organic waste to divert that material from being landfilled.
While the Renewable Fuels Association also has plans to focus on educating members of Congress, President and CEO Bob Dinneen also stresses that the RFA will also work to maintain certainty in the ethanol industry. "It's not that we don't support parity—we do, but we're looking at a situation where our tax incentive expires at the end of this year," he said. "When the tax incentive was extended [last year], it was made clear by friend and foe alike that going into the future there needs to be a fairly significant and meaningful reform of that tax incentive."
Extending tax incentives is also the primary goal of the National Biodiesel Board, said NBB CEO Joe Jobe. "Our top priority is successful implementation of the RFS2 and a big part of that is extension of our tax credit in order to help buffer the cost of compliance and get this program more mature," he said. "It's going to be very difficult given the focus on debt reduction in this Congress, but we believe that we've got a good chance….Our tax credit is a quarter of a century younger than the ethanol tax credit. We just need a little bit more time to get a little bit more mature."
Although many of associations represented in the panel spoke to policy goals, Michael McAdams, president of the Advanced Biofuels Association, noted the primary goal of his industry is to get plants built. "The number one objective of the advanced and cellulosic industries is to deploy new technologies to build new plants—put steel in the ground," he said. One thing McAdams said would support this objective is to alter the procurement requirements of the U.S. military in a way that would allow them to form longer-term off-take agreements. "What we are really trying to do is deploy these technologies," he said. "If we could extend the procurement process, particularly with the Department of Defense, by extending the period of time which the military can buy renewable fuels or jet for instance, that would be enormously helpful."
The panelists also discussed the fact that recent energy disasters, such as the Gulf oil spill and nuclear disaster in Japan, have largely failed to create additional interest in safe, effective, no nontoxic renewable energy technologies. "We thought [Japan's nuclear disaster] would create additional interest in our industry," said Cleaves. I'm not sure it has…You would think that the morning after, [people] would have woken up and said maybe biomass actually is a safe and reliable solution [to our energy needs]." He also noted that major mainstream environmental groups have also generally failed to make the connection between these industrial disasters and the benefits renewable power and fuels can offer.
Regarding policy, all the panelists seem to agree that the next year is going to be a difficult one in which to get Congress to act. This is attributed to both the focus on debt reduction and the fact that lawmakers will soon gear up for the 2012 election cycle. "This is a really depressing fact, but really we have between now and the summer," said Cleaves. "Then, nothing is going to happen until the 2012 election."
McAdams closed the discussion by acknowledging how far members of the biomass industry have come in the past year regarding the need to work together cooperatively on federal policy and public perception issues, noting that last year's International Biomass Conference & Expo helped set the stage for that cooperative effort. He also made a call to action for the audience, encouraging the biomass industry to get involved in the political process and help support the objectives of their respective trade groups. "We need all of you to be engaged, and we need all of you to come to Washington and we need all of you to talk to your [Congress] members when they come home, and you need to tell them about the jobs you've created and the vision of the future for diversity of biofuels and biopower that this country needs…You can make a difference."


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These past summer months I have been struck by an insatiable appetite for experimenting with distinct forms of writing, different subjects, ideas, even props and challenges in order to diversify my pool of themes, to test my versatility and adaptability when it comes to writing and its numberless challenges, and to improve myself.
However, these past few days I have been increasingly curious about the notion of delivering a work of fiction that contains the furfandom's formula for success. (to be precise: A literary work that incorporates the elements which make it a success in the eyes of the furfandom's many members)
Thus, I ask you, and for the purpose to start a little debate as well, what elements do you think a story should have in order to be well received in the eyes of furries? What do you think a story should have in order to be popular here?
And a more personal question for you: What should a story contain in order for you to love it?


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Welcome to the Australian Liberty Calendar, a project of the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance!
This website is a comprehensive database of all pro-liberty events happening nation-wide.
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In the previous posts a simple mechanism of storing information needed for operation idempotence was introduced. A simple hash table, which state is transactionally saved with the state of object onto which the send operation was applied. How about receiving operations out of order? What if infrastructure (for instance, messaging system) will pass one operation earlier than the second, which in reality occurred earlier?
It's time to make it explicit and start calling elements in the DDD manner. So for sake of reference, the object considered as the subject of an operation is an aggregate root. The operation is of course a message. The modeling assumes using the event sourcing as a storage for aggregates' states.
Assume, that the aggregate, which the command is sent to, has a property called Version, incremented with each event applied on. Assume then, each command contains a version number, which is supposed to be equal to the aggregate's version. If, during dispatch, these two values are different, an exception is thrown and command do not change the state of the aggregate. It's a simple optimistic concurrency implementation, allowing discarding out of order commands sent to an object.
To make it more interesting, consider a sharded system, where specific aggregates are stored by different nodes (but for each aggregate there is one node where it is stored). An aggregate's events (state changes) have to be propagated across all the nodes/shards in the same idempotent manner as commands are sent to aggregates. It's easy to apply hashtable for each node and with using the very same key: aggregateId with version but it would mean storing all the pairs of aggregate identifiers with their versions, which could possibly bring down each of your nodes (or make you use GBs of memory). Can the trivial fact, that version is increased with every event on the aggregate, could be used for some optimization? You'll see in the next entry.


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The Flying Trapeze Centre
'The Flying Trapeze Centre' will be an indoor flying trapeze and circus fitness centre. This will be an expansion of an existing business, the centre however will be brand new and a very exciting offer to it's target market.
The Centre will teach flying trapeze, circus fitness and other circus skills. There are classes for kids to adults. It is a lot of fun. Flying Trapeze is a unique, different and fun way to keep fit or just do something crazy and adventurous with friends. First timers are amazed at what they achieve so quickly.
When customers set an eye on the centre their heart will start racing with excitement, once they step in the door the adrenaline will be pumping, the logo needs to reflect this anticipation.
Family run business whom value fun, honesty, friendship, wellbeing and health. All staff personalities reflect this, they have insane humour and love their job, which flows to an exceptional fun adventurous experience for each customer.
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General Public – gymnastic clubs, dance schools, rock-climbing gyms, fitness gyms, adventure clubs, martial arts - or people just bored of the tired old ways to keep fit
Adventure & adrenalin seekers looking for something new
Wide age range – 4 to 60 years
Any fitness level
Tone: Fun, exciting, vibrant, edgy whilst being professional and trustworthy
Colours: Bright colours. 2 to 3 colours. For example, lime green, sky blue and grey. Even some orange or red. We are not set on any colours - open to ideas.
White background
Logo must be clean, simple and stand out.
Will be used for large outdoor signage.
Also adaptable for small size, all marketing forms, uniforms and merchandising.
Ability to place website and tag line beneath logo in future when needed.
Option of logo with description: 'Flying Trapeze & Circus Fitness Centre'
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The Centre's differentiation to it's competitors is it's large net, we therefore want a net used within the logo. Attached is some inspiration. Also you will find more net references if you search in the 'logo store' within 99designs: search 'flying trapeze'.
Logo 1 titled 'The Blue Flying' and logo 6 'technology fly'.
We don't like these logos as they are too corporate and boring, a bit lifeless, however the use of the net is a great example.
What we don't want:
cutesy circus pictures or cartoons.
We are pretty sure we will choose a logo with a net image, however still open to logos using type only.
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Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg & layered .psd (RGB)
We will need all artwork file components
We look forward to seeing what you come up with. Good luck!
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One of the things to consider when you buy a piece of equipment is how long it should last and can that time be extended by repair. Some items are built to be used and discarded. Certainly not the Mighty Lift offering. We maintain a complete inventory of pallet jack parts for both the jack and the hydraulic pump. We also support our aluminum hand truck line with complete parts inventory. Remember they are interchangeable with Magline and B&P so you can buy your parts from us for your whole fleet.


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Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox and a former fellow at CityLab. He lives in New York.
Since 1910, building heights in Washington, D.C. have been limited by Congress, and the subject of contentious -- but not, until now, substantive -- debate in the capital. At the behest of D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and California Representative Darrell Issa, Congress has announced it will spend 10 months studying the possibility of altering D.C.'s Height Act.
As is often the case in urban design, there can be no trials or simulations, and parallels with other cities are in short supply. (That exceptionalism is one reason preservationists value the Height Act.) The debate is confined to the hypothetical, with much speculation on both sides.
But one figure that has been cited lately -- that the Height Act costs D.C. over a billion dollars each year -- stands out as misleading.
Clearly, regulation pushes building values (and rents) higher in D.C., as it does everywhere. But some opponents have been over-stating their case. In a recent post for The Economist, Ryan Avent notes that D.C. had a "shadow tax" figure of 22 percent back in 1998. Avent goes on to write that,
The average commercial rent in downtown Washington is $94 per square foot. Using the 1998 shadow-tax figure, we can guess that perhaps $21 of that rental cost is attributable to regulatory restrictions, which means that the total annual regulatory cost in downtown alone is around $1.4 billion: well above even implausibly high guesstimates of the aesthetic benefits of the height limit.
Matt Yglesias – a proponent of an all-out repeal (he wrote the book on high rents) – takes up the thread, calculating the cost of those rents to the city:
...You could allow for skyscrapers in the central business district, impose a staggering 22 percent tax on office rents, eliminate the D.C. sales tax, and still come out with cheaper after-tax office rents and more tax revenue than we have today.
But even if rents instantly dropped in the absence of land use regulation, which they wouldn't, this analysis isn't quite right. The 22 percent figure, from Edward Glaeser's 2005 paper on housing markets, is a 1998 "estimate of the regulatory tax as a percentage of average house value" -- not office rents. The two may be related, but they shouldn't be conflated.
What's more, the figure is supposed to include all regulations and restrictions that would increase the value of existing built property, of which, in a highly regulated city, the Height Act is only one. (Another is, say, the existence of Rock Creek Park.)
In other words, D.C. combines a relatively strict zoning code with arguably the country's most stringent building requirement, and its residential "shadow tax" (in '98) was still half that of San Jose. Even if 22 percent were the shadow tax figure for the office rental market, it's unclear what portion is due to the Height Limit and what's due to the hundreds of other building regulations.
No doubt the Height Act is driving up the cost of life in D.C. But by over a billion dollars?
"The Urbanist Case for Keeping D.C.'s Height Restrictions"
"6 Questions for Defenders of D.C.'s Height Limit"
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The coronavirus crisis stands to dramatically reshape cities around the world. But the biggest revolutions in urban space may have begun before the pandemic.
Now more than ever, public transportation is not just about ridership. Buses, trains, and subways make urban civilization possible.
With cities in lockdown and workplaces closed, the big drop in traffic and transit riders allows road repair and construction projects to rush forward.
What do we know so far about the types of places that are more susceptible to the spread of Covid-19? In the U.S., density is just the beginning of the story.
To help get essential workers around, cities are revising traffic patterns, suspending public transit fares, and making more room for bikes and pedestrians.


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The Dugbog is a marsh-dwelling magical creature found in Europe and North and South America. It resembles a piece of dead wood while stationary. It has finned paws and sharp teeth, and glides through marshland, feeding on small animals, and occasionally attacking the ankles of humans who venture into its habitat. Its favourite food is the Mandrake, and due to this, Mandrake-growers have found their plants nothing more than a bloody mess when they pull them out of the ground.
When Ron Weasley was to write an essay on resisting Dementors in his sixth year for Professor Snape for the Defence Against the Dark Arts, due to the Spell-Checking Quill's effects eroding from time, the term "Dementors" on the essay changed to "Dugbogs".[1]
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- Some Halloween costumes marketed to young girls are too provocative, author says
- Think comfort and safety when helping your child pick out a costume
- If you are uncomfortable with the available choices, you can always make a costume
This story was updated from an article originally published in October 2011.
(CNN)I have no idea why my 3-year-old wants to be a cowboy for Halloween this year, because she won't tell me. That's OK. I don't need to know her reasoning to make it happen.
Thanks to her outdoorsy grandparents who live in the Colorado mountains, we already have the cowboy hat and handkerchief. We found a great pair of overalls on sale for $1.69 at the local Salvation Army store. But we still needed a cowboy jacket, a flannel shirt and boots. And whatever else might make her look like a 3-foot version of a cowboy.
Entering a temporary Halloween store that popped up in our town, I headed to the kids' costume section. The little girls' costumes seemed odd to me -- so many little skirts attached to superheroes and vampires. Even if I could find a cowgirl costume among all the girly-girl stuff, my girl would probably find a cowgirl skirt pointless. How would she ride her toy horse with a skirt? Sidesaddle?
As I turned toward to the boys' section to continue the search for accessories, I saw the costume that scared me more than any vampire or ghost: the little black dress.
Posed seductively like a brown-haired version of JonBenet Ramsey, the child model on the package looked 4 or 5 years old. I couldn't imagine the photographer asking that little girl to pose that way.
Americans are expected to spend $2.5 billion on children's costumes in 2015, almost triple the $840 million they were expected to spend in 2010, according to a National Retail Federation survey. From my limited scan of Halloween costumes on sale this year, sexy costumes for younger girls are flooding the marketplace.
Many women I know have that little black dress, a somewhat slinky number that could be a cocktail dress or a basis for a suggestive black cat. But a grown woman makes a choice to dress in such a sexually suggestive outfit for Halloween or any other night of the year. She knows a sexy dress is going to garner a different reaction than Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, but she can take precautions to stay safe from the weirdos. A child has no idea what's going on.
"The message to our girls (with these costumes) is that they can't be too sexy, and they can't be sexy too soon," says Melissa Wardy, founder of Pigtail Pals, a clothing line for adventurous girls, who has blogged about sexy Halloween costumes. "It's disgusting. She just potty trained. There's nothing sexual about her."
It can also be dangerous.
"Dressing girls like grown women for Halloween communicates that they have the sexuality of adults, in the bodies of children," says Teresa Downing-Matibag, an assistant professor of sociology at Iowa State University. "While little girls themselves likely have very little awareness of adult or even adolescent sexuality, or what sex is really about, the adults who are seeing them on the streets do. We are also communicating to adults that little girls are sexually appealing, and this message has tragic implications for their vulnerability to sexual abuse."
The sexualizing of Halloween costumes for young girls is part of a larger marketing trend emphasizing girls' outsides over their insides, says Michele Yulo, founder of the Princess Free Zone, featuring superhero Super Tool Lula.
"Marketers basically decide what is 'girl' and what is 'boy,' which ultimately leads to two very distinct ways to profit as well as a blind acceptance from the consumer who, often, doesn't realize it's happening," Yulo says. "Girls are inundated from a very young age with inappropriate messaging by way of products like 'skinny' jeans for toddlers, or T-shirts that say, 'I'm too pretty to do homework, so my brother does it for me,' and sexy Halloween costumes. Kids begin to codify other kids by placing them in strict categories that they've been taught -- not born with. Inevitably, kids begin to believe that girls need to be sexy, and boys believe it, too."
What girls hear is who they are is how they look, and how they have to look is "hot," which is creating problems for girls at an ever-younger age, says Peggy Orenstein, author of "Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girly-Girl Culture."
"Girls are learning at the youngest ages that their value comes from how they look, and the definition of attractive is very narrowly defined as being sexy or sassy (for the younger girls)," Orenstein says. "Sexuality is imposed upon them inappropriately, and they are encouraged to define their bodies -- not by how their bodies feel to themselves, but by how they look to others. This creates vulnerabilities for girls to the pitfalls we worry about -- distorted body image, eating disorders, depression and unhealthy sexual behavior."
Diane Murray of Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, has given up on store-bought costumes for her kids after ordering a SpongeBob SquarePants costume that turned out to be less than she had bargained for. Although it was supposedly the correct size for her 10-year-old daughter, "the shirt was tight and the skirt was miniscule, barely covering her rear end."
"I was thinking how embarrassed I would be to have her walk around in that costume, and she was embarrassed as well," Murray says. "Dressing up as a sexpot is not part of my vision for a happy, healthy childhood. Outfits like that not only suggest a style of dress that is inappropriate but also emphasize the notion of dressing to titillate men, rather than dressing in clothes that make you feel good about yourself."
What can a parent do this Halloween to protect kids from growing up too fast?
Emphasize your child's imagination. Yulo's daughter is going to be a baseball slugger -- no skirts please. How do you slide into home plate safely in a skirt? (Even though Geena Davis had to do it in "A League of Their Own.") Murray's daughter is going as a Goth girl -- all black clothes and makeup.
Other ideas: "Girls can dress up as dragons, monsters, spies, secret agents, mummies, queens, and even Peter Pan and the Fairy Godmother," Downing-Matibag said. "They can be Captain Hook, Santa Claus, the Lone Ranger and cowgirls, as well as lion tamers, scary clowns, astronauts, firefighters, sea captains, rock stars and Indy 500 racers."
Think comfort and safety. If your daughter will be running from one house to the next, make sure she wears shoes she can run in and warm clothing that protects her from the cold. If she's bundled up, she's not likely to be wearing that little black dress.
Think cheap. My neighborhood listserv is filled with parent requests for costumes in specific sizes to borrow, rent or buy. I know someone is going to enjoy my daughter's infant ladybug costume this year. I received it a couple of years ago from another parent who had bought it first. There's also inspiration at your local thrift store, where I got part of my daughter's costume cheap.
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Ang Lee is set to be honored with a prestigious prize at the Visual Effects Awards in Los Angeles next month (Feb13).
The director has employed various techniques in a bid to bring his movies to life over the years, making stars appear as if they are sword fighting in mid-air in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and creating a life-like tiger for his new adventure movie Life of Pi.
And now the 58 year old will be feted for all his hard work with the Visionary Award on 5 February (13).
Executive Jeff Okun says, "(Lee) pushed the envelope of creation of visual effects for telling a story. In our generation, only Star Wars did that".
The inaugural trophy was handed to Inception moviemaker Christopher Nolan last year (12).
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Taylor Swift to Debut 'Begin Again' Live at the 2012 CMA Awards
Details have emerged regarding Taylor Swift's upcoming 2012 CMA Awards performance, which will air live on Thursday, Nov. 1. The singer — who is in full-on promotion mode for her fourth album 'Red' — is set to sing the new song 'Begin Again' at the ceremony, according to ABC News.
The CMAs broadcast marks the first time that Swift will perform the song, and it's certainly a wise choice for this particular event. 'Red' finds Swift showing off more of her pop side, but 'Begin Again' is a country ballad and is the sound that is most familiar to her country base. The song is the second single from her new album, which impacted on October 22.
We're certain that Swift will knock it out of the park when she debuts the ballad live. The 46th Annual CMAs are set to air from Nashville on Nov. 1 at 8PM ET on ABC.
Swift is up for several CMA Awards that night, including Female Vocalist of the Year, Entertainer of the Year (a category in which she is the reigning champ and is this year's sole female nominee) and Music Event of the Year for 'Safe and Sound,' her 'Hunger Games' duet with the Civil Wars. Tune in to see Swift premiere 'Begin Again' live and to hopefully make her adorable (and now signature) shocked and surprised face if she wins any awards!


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It improves everything else, why not this? Fox News has reported nine ways how yoga improves your sex life. Geez. Ok, it's true. Just like a disciplined practice of yoga improves your life as a whole, yoga has the effect of improving all of the individual components as well. You'll eat healthier, you will feel happier, you will be stronger and more flexible, you will manage stress more effectively, and yes you will see a noticeable improvement in your intimate relationships.
Writing about this is a challenge. Not because it isn't true, but because in some way it takes the already watered down perception of the practice and now makes it sort of, well, dirty. Don't get me wrong, sex is great! But when I committed to a yoga practice, it was not to improve upon it. It was to uncover my Self, which in many ways is beyond physical experience, though in my current incarnation it is still a part.
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With this discovery, I implore you to see the trees and the forest as one big vision. Yoga improves every aspect of our lives, but the purpose of the practice is much bigger and more profound. So enjoy the benefits, the fringe upgrades in all aspects of your life, but be cautious about entering the practice just for them or making your discipline dependent upon them. All practices will ebb and flow, and these peripheral benefits will come and go. Come to the practice for peace, and you will discover peace. Come to the practice for rewards, and you will find that like a child the day after Christmas, what you thought was the greatest thing in the world yesterday is just clutter in the background of the search for contentment today.


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- Annual Production: 8,000L per month
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Gracias a Dios is a double distilled mezcal, 100% artisanal, handmade with "piñas" from espadín agave and other organic varieties, ground and fermented our own Palenque in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, honoring fair trade with the help of maestro mezcalero Oscar Hernández Santiago. With a strong, aromatic and balanced fl avor, this spirit is the product of a 4th generation family of maestros mezcaleros, who have traditionally kept the artisan processes of making this drink.
Our Palenque is in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca and with a production capacity of up to 8,000 liters a month, the Palenque is where we elaborate and bottle our mezcales and agave gin. We have a constantly variable line of spirits and we don't guide our production on the demand but rather on what the earth has to give us. Our commitment with the earth is to keep the balance within our production, sow and harvest, this way we reward what the soil has given us over the years. For each bottle we produce, we sow 3 agave plants.


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I don't remember much, but I remember this one thing with clarity.
I was in the backyard looking up at my father; he was bent over raking leaves, explaining to me over his shoulder what it meant to be a good man--to keep your word and do the work you set out to do. I was a child then and the words were a mystery, having little conception of what kind of man I would be, what sort of work I would do or how I would set about doing it. A few years later, as all my friends were entering adolescence, I got sick. Mine was puberty with a vengeance.
In my last letter I made mention of my illness. Since then I have been asked about it often and feel I should elaborate on its significance. The illness itself offers a tempting narrative hook, but while it is romantic to dwell on the individual suffering, what matters is the universal implication: Once on the other side one finds that there are no sides, that there exists no great partition between sickness and health, only various stages of dying and various ways of surviving that death.
This discovery had on me the effect of leveling all logical binaries to be replaced by ambivalence--not only could I not tell the difference between sickness and heath, but had further difficulty telling friends from enemies, progress from regress, love from resentment, sometimes even women from men. I realized that if I were to accomplish anything it would be to recover some kind of meaning in what my friend Zach Schomburg called the Wild Meaninglessness. You can consider it one very bewildered man's attempt to explain the universe, to himself, in the language of bewilderment.
I had a lot of help. Without my friends in typhoon this music would have never reached your ears. It is thanks to them that these songs are songs and not just a bunch of quasi-apocalyptic ramblings. We recorded them on a farm in Happy Valley, OR while we lived there for a short, utopian six weeks in the spring and summer of 2012. The record is a collection of seminal life moments, in more or less chronological order, glimpsed backwards in the pale light of certain death, brought to life by a remarkable group of people who hold as I do that the work is somehow important.
When we started working on White Lighter, I had reason to believe that it would be the last thing I ever did.
It is now six months since we finished. I'm still here and there's still work to be done.
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Habitat for Humanity Gets a Green Makeover
A version of this article appears in the November/December 2004 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
November 01, 2004
From Seattle,Washington, to Westchester,New York, lowincome housing is turning a shade greener. Since 1992, the program known for building homes for lowincome families, Habitat for Humanity, has started to build with an emphasis on incorporating green and energyefficient techniques. Many Habitat for Humanity affiliates have completed or are completing projects that exemplify green and energy-efficient building. Jennifer Langton, with the Construction and Environmental Resources department at Habitat for Humanity International, says that energy-efficient building is happening nationwide at Habitat. "We have many affiliates building energy-efficient houses," says Langton." A few off the top of my head are the Seattle and also the Olympia,Washington, affiliates. HFH of Southwest Montana in Butte is another very excellent example.The affiliates in Denver, Colorado, and Tucson,Arizona, also build all Energy Star or equivalent houses. There are many smaller affiliates too that build this way." An innovative green building project has been implemented by the South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity (SPSHFH) affiliate. In January 2002, SPSHFH, in cooperation with a group of design students from Evergreen State College,worked together to design an energy- and resource-efficient ...
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You're about to get into a nearly 5000 word one sided discussion about PACIFIC RIM. I'm giving you the short, right up top. JUST GO. You don't need to read this. You must pay witness to this movie. If you're on a site like this it is because you probably love the great visual effects movies of all time. This is one of those. In addition, it has a multitude of characters that you and your family and friends will have favorites among. A whole generation will dream of giant robots as well as X-Wings and Enterprises. It's got characters out of a Howard Hawks war adventure movie. Engineers, scientists, strong leaders and a group of Jaeger pilots that I fell madly in love with. There's characters peppered into the film that you want whole movies dedicated to. Mechs and Kaiju… doing things – just amazing man. ILM OMG. Prepare to be Awed. This is Guillermo Del Toro knocking at the doors of legend and he struts his way in with a movie that turned me into a little kid in the best way possible. I can't wait to go to sleep and dream now. Now… Get ready for me to lose my geek mind. The deeper you go, the more heavy the spoilers. But friends – Just GO – come back and celebrate with me. This is the best.
For an entire generation that sees PACIFIC RIM with their families, this will be the beginning of something huge in their lives. This was a very creative and fun audience of filmgoers and families that love film together. There's a process in the film called DRIFTING. It's where the two or three pilots of the Jaegers (Mechs or Giant Robots to the less initiated) fuse their minds with the operating system of the machine. Their actions become as one – and in that space they share everything with one another. They can hide nothing and everything that person has experienced is shared. We don't have that yet. That's not a tech we can quite plug into yet, but its coming relatively soon. Instead, we have movies. These beautiful, stunning and fascinating shared realities – where after we see them – we as a whole can discuss what we just experienced together.
After watching PACIFIC RIM, one friend told me that they had an experience with a kid that have left them chatting excitedly for two hours. These two have been trying to connect, but this film gave them that common ground. I loved that story, because that's been my experience with cinema. It isn't just the movie you see, but who you see it with. Tonight, Guillermo asked me to ask the audience to watch the film with the wide eyed wonder & enthusiasm of an 11 year old kid dreaming of the most gigantic tale of monsters and robots. Can you do that? I can. Oh boy can I.
I'm not sure how I've been able to preserve my inner child, but he definitely runs my mech form. Tonight, we saw a movie that we've been dreaming of since we were growing up. My dad collected robots. It was a thing of his. He ran Sci Fi & Comic & Film Conventions. We owned a full body foam rubber GODZILLA costume and a friend of ours owned multiple Godzilla movies and GORGO in 16mm… We had King Kong. He had FORBIDDEN PLANET and we had DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. We did family & friends movie nights – ALL THE TIME as a kid. I know I did not have the normal upbringing. Movies & Comics & Geeky cool works of fiction were ingested regularly. My parents knew and entertained Science Fiction authors, Comic Artists and Actors as a boy. So for me… dreaming of what films COULD be has been something of a past time.
When I saw EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, that film launched a dreamscape that changed my life. When those WALKERS showed up, that was a fixed point in my life. ILM had done something to make my eyes open larger than they've ever felt they've opened before. BLADE RUNNER did that too. The great visual effects films enhance the language of our dreams. When I read comics, novels or watched animated tales – I dreamt of the most amazing fully produced vfx spectacles. As time has passed, we get jaded to a repetition of types of imagery. PACIFIC RIM is truly the most refreshing family suited monster sci fi adventure story told with great characters played wonderfully on the most spectacular sets. Lived in universes. Places you looked at and believed in them. Saw characters, saw their scars or felt them. This is that kind of awesome.
Tonight, ILM and Guillermo Del Toro and Spectral Motion and Wayne Barlowe and a whole host of amazing artists have presented a new shared dreamscape.
PACIFIC RIM begins with Charlie Hunnam's narration that we've heard pieces of as a history gets laid out that leads us to the present in the film… some 20 or so years from now. A dimensional rift in the Pacific opens up and belches out a giant monster. It eats San Francisco. Wanton death and destruction ensues. Then it happens again. And again. The world decides to pool its resources, technology and create something that doesn't irradiate our entire planet… It's the Jaeger program. We're introduced to the reality that forms around them. The pilots become the rock stars – and the monsters become the new toys of the world – even as they unleash death – only, the Jaegers are killing the beasts – and whole cities are being saved. But progressively – the creatures are getting stronger, faster, smarter… The world decides to build a giant wall… they begin to shy away from the giant robots – as it's probably best to just keep the monsters out. ONLY – the wall is a bad idea. And underfunding the Jaeger program… well… Folks, we need to agree to fully fund the Jaeger program with the giant monsters from another dimension start unleashing wanton death on our planet.
One. It is COOL. Flat out cool. Packed to the rim with cool! Before the film a very tiny boy came up and gave me a Gipsy Danger toy for letting him and his Dad into the screening. That is just about the sweetest thing ever. After the film, his father asked us to pose for a photo and then the kid gave me a hug. He thought the film was the best thing ever.
Actually – all the kids that came to the screening were just blown away and individually all had to tell me it was the best film they'd ever seen. I TOTALLY KNOW THE FEELING.
PACIFIC RIM can be your kids favorite film ever – and it's filled with sights like you've never seen like this before. I can absolutely guarantee that. This is just mind blowing stuff. The monsters have personalities, just like the Jaegers. They're beautiful creatures.
However – for those wondering if this film has more than the best visual effects that you've ever seen before… the answer is a resounding YES!
The film isn't about two characters. This is a story about a set of brothers, a father and a daughter, a father and son, a man and wife and a pair of chaste burgeoning almost lovers, but definite soul mates. It's a story about a little girl terrified with everything taken away from her, but finding a life that will leave her afraid of nothing ever again. It's the story about a man that had an experience so hard he never wanted to feel again. Another story is about a man who has to stand strong even as his body is failing him. And that's just the Jaeger pilots.
Charlie Hunnam has been being described as the Luke Skywalker type – but I disagree. He's not Luke. He isn't Han either. Raleigh Becket is more the Johnny Storm of the FANTASTIC FOUR type… until he isn't. After the opening credits, that changes. He's had a life experience that I can't even imagine. To be neurally linked to your brother as he dies… Hell, they made a whole movie just about that, it was called BRAINSTORM by Douglas Trumbull – and because my brain functions cinematically – Christopher Walken came to mind. It helped to inform my empathy for the character, but he isn't that character. Instead, he's become a drifter – not really wanting to ever get close to anyone or anything again. He's working on the big WALL project. He's left the Jaeger life behind. He can't imagine letting anyone in his head again. Until Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) comes to recruit him.
In the trailers and clips that you've seen. Idris Elba is always yelling. That's a front. That's the bravura of a man with a ticking clock. When he asks Raleigh how he wants to die, building a wall or in a Jaeger fighting these things… well, it's something he's asking himself too. More than that though, he has a legacy – something he's leaving behind when he goes that he wants to give the right lease on life. He never out and out says it, he isn't the kind of man who does, but Stacker is looking for the next him. In Raleigh he sees the makings of that. Not the cold unemotional commander, but who he was before he had his soul ripped out of his life. Yes, I did read the prequel comic by screenwriter Travis Beacham that Guillermo edited… So yeah, I do have additional information. You see, Stacker's copilot in Coyote Tango (his Jaeger) was his wife. It wasn't quick for her. She got a lethal toxicity that had her fade away and they adopted little Mako Mori, played as an adult by Rinko Kikuchi…
When you see Hunnam's Raleigh and Rinko's Mako "Drift" the first time – You get a lot of her story – and Mana Ashida is one of the most awesome child performances I've seen in a very long time. She instantly – from her first screams of helplessness and terror – freezes my soul. My wife and I had a conversation that occurred earlier in the day about family hopes – and when she screamed I was instantly emphatically attached. She's alone. Giant monster just tearing up the street blocks behind her. The jets overhead are basically total bullshit. They might distract the Kaiju named Onibaba, but Onibaba is eyeballing the female Jason of JASON & THE ARGONAUTS. She's got just one shoe on, though she's clutching the other in her hands, crying. Just like Jason's single sandal. Why was the Kaiju fixated on her? Well, I believe that perhaps the beings on the other side had a glimpse of what that girl's destiny was. We see the beings on the otherside of the dimensional rift – who knows how they perceive things. They seem to have a high degree of all-knowing oneness when it comes to a lot. It's like they knew to attack Hong Kong. Maybe they knew about that girl, but what they can't predict is the actions of a mechanical being driven by a dual mind. That's why the Jaegers can make a difference.
The universe that Guillermo's built for PACIFIC RIM is that of a mythic alternate future not unlike that of something like what Roddenberry gave us with STAR TREK. Only, with dimensional attacks instead of space exploration. It is a viable science fiction possibility. This is a very hopeful future for dealing with the scale of unfathomable danger and peril. In this 'verse, the entire world comes together to fight and defend the homelands. It isn't just China fighting to protect Hong Kong, but Russia, United States and Australia. With pilots from still other points. Just like Trek. I've always loved these dives into science fiction. Be they Space Battleship Yamato or Star Trek or a whole bunch of Anime.
I'm quite fond of us settling all problems and focusing on a problem at hand. Right now, there are organizations on this planet set to begin Asteroid and Moon Mining Programs. Bases built with 3D printers. The digitizing of a mind is being worked on. If you keep up with science right now – and the sort of WOW tech that's on the verge, the relative immediacy of this as a viable science fiction reality… minus the giant Kaiju threat from the anteverse. I love the idea that we could RAMP up a Giant Mech Warrior defense and assault program. Because I do believe in our collective powers to overcome any manner of problem we have before us. I'm an optimist. Sure, there's a lot to get angry about every day, but if you focus on what science is starting to bring us – a lot of those fears turn to a genuine hope for humanity, despite a whole lot of publicized stupidity in the world.
This story is about those that are dedicated to not simply ignore the very real threats to our way of life, but the engineers, the scientists, the technicians, ground teams, the folks that get the job done. Even if its on the shady side, there's a real triumph of the adventurous human spirit in this movie. It tells you that you can aspire and conquer.
Coming into the film, I knew I'd love Charlie Day's Dr Newton Geiszler. He's someone fascinated by the Kaiju. His knowledge of their biology feels so genuine and affectionate. For him to be the foremost at his field and age – he feels like the absolute Rock Star of his universe. After he mind melds with a living chunk of Kaiju brain – he's literally seen things that no person has ever seen before. He's seen the otherside. What he brings to the table is absolutely revelatory. For all this time, all that could be studied about these creatures were their cadavers and their statistical frequency and escalating size and power. When Day's Newton suddenly comes back with – There's these controllers on the other side. These are genetically printed cloned & designed monsters – controlled by malevolent terraforming masters from the otherside… That they learn from each of these Kaiju attacks and adapt. This combined with Burn Gorman's Gottlieb's more hard evidence of impending doom tells them that the problem at hand is gonna get pretty terrifying. Burn's Gottlieb really won me over when he decides to be less critical and more helpful. I love that the science geeks drift together and find the specific method to basically save the world, at least for now, because the war that is coming isn't something they can win. The world has set to building a wall that will be irrelevant. They're down to 4 Jaegers, they've had 51 in all. You see some fight and win and some fight and fall.
When a Kaiju takes out a Jaeger, there's an emotional hit, because you not only care about the people inside… but oddly enough there's a real sense of attachment to these things. By meeting the support team, the people behind these machines. Then you see them in their Shatterdome Environment – they're majestic. It kind of feels like GUNS OF NAVARONE – by way of the coolest Anime fantasy base. But when you see Jaegers lined up. The mechanics working, fixing, restoring battle damage. And those shots are real built things that just JAW DROP. I mean. IMAX 3D. Wow. And then seeing the Jaegers in the combat, that the Jaeger pilots are not wantonly destroying property. There was a moment in the film where you're on a street level shot of a Jaeger pounding down the street and you'll visually believe you'd see the Jaeger just tear through an overpass, but instead these human pilots step over it. It's isn't a huge thing, but it's an example. Most of the fights take place in the water, as the whole point of the Jaeger program is to battle these things before they can get to a city. They've got monitoring devices in the ocean to detect things coming up out of the rift. The fights are just epic things to witness, mainly because by the time we see the fights we're invested in the story because Guillermo has taken the time to do it right, but the reason I love these folks is that they've made me laugh and care. That one Aussie pilot, the one that drifts with his Pops… He's a total hotshot asshole… but his dog redeems him. He's got a really magnificent bulldog – the perfect 3D creature. In some ways, I actually think this critter is responsible for the outpouring of love I felt towards all the Mech and Kaiju. Watching in IMAX 3D – sometimes – just simple things like watching a muscular and plump Bulldog hustle himself threw these truly epic sets… It makes you notice the motion of critters. It's like those "Donatello" matches of sparring. It's fine-tuning your eye for what's to come. Now these fights are not the hateful kind, but the bond building kind of fights. It's a common physical way of exploring how a fighter fights, without being adversarial – and I love it. Mako's fight with Raleigh… You can tell that Mako kind of not only has a crush and looking up to Raleigh, but that she wants to earn his respect. With Raleigh, he's interested. Her resistance to his returning is something he wants to overcome as well.
Guillermo builds their relationship… in fact all the relationships in this film beautifully. The problem. I want more. I love these characters. We join this universe in full swing, but man, just hearing that Cherno Alpha and it's Russian pair have been fighting for years… I'd love a film, with a whole lot of English Subtitles with the Russians.
This world is incredibly rich – and it's one that I've always wanted to see done. The Mech vs Kaiju movie. And it's done for an audience that loved the TOHO classics, but it's made for a visually sophisticated audience that appreciates the immaculate attention to not just effects, but the designs, the environments, the complete vision. The attention to detail here is just unlike anything I've ever seen. I found the film awe-inspiring. My eyes were often saucers drinking in the sights that I just can not believe were made. There are moments that made the entire audience gasp & clap. Friends with kids have had theirs talking about the movie endlessly tonight. It makes me smile. For me a film that can make a kid dream and engage in something genuinely heroic. It's so cool to me.
Meanwhile with other friends we'd talk about the film being the greatest power stance with soul we've ever seen in a theater. You know when you see your favorite band just rock and you feel that energy transferred. This movie is a master artist just unleashed and the immediate reaction after the entire audience sat through the credits and the last frame passed was a voice in back saying, "AGAIN!" followed by laughter, agreement and then people stood up and turned to their friends, family and the GREAT MOVIE VIBE was beaming through the room, out into the lobby and outside. As friends and family walked back to their cars it was just one of those nights. A perfect movie. It is exactly what I hoped it'd be. For extremely advanced OTAKU fans, it may not be your favorite MECH story or your favorite KAIJU story… But it's the best filmed version of either of those genres. It's just INCREDIBLE.
I'm sitting in front of this computer with a complete beaming grin upon my face. I look at the Gipsy Danger toy I posed with it's fist up in the air, next to my old school Godzilla and Raideen toys from the Seventies – and GD's fist is posed up in the air as if to say right on… like the wolf in FANTASTIC MR FOX. Like STAR WARS, the original, the one that became A NEW HOPE, but is just STAR WARS in my mind… the story is whole and complete. This is a finished tale, but as I allow my mind to drift with the PACIFIC RIM narrative… I am positive I see the partnership of Raleigh Beckett and Mako Mori as just beginning. Because of the Drift component – we could get additional Stacker Pentecost stories. I would absolutely love to see Max Martini become the Top Man at Shatterdome. My sister came up saying she wants an ATLANTIC RIM next. Merrick's 6 year old has come up with 4 sequel titles tonight.
This film is a celebration and love of some of my favorite cinematic genres that have a pedigree that counts the magic of Willis O'Brien, Ray Harryhausen, George Pal, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Ishiro Honda… But also H.P. Lovecraft and a whole ton of anime. I'm just not sure if it's ever looked this good before. I've seen it just once, but instantly upon completion I know with absolute certainty that the second I can procure a 3D BLU RAY - I will watch it to geek out with friends… OFTEN and on REPEAT. To still frame through whole glorious sequences, but most of all – I can't wait to spend more time with the characters, the sets… I just love everything on that screen. And in the audience.
I haven't had the absolute movie glow I have right now since I seriously saw those great classics as they hit. I might see this as much or more than T2 in theaters. I spent a lot time that summer watching T2. Yoko has already signed on board for the repeat viewing wagon. I never doubted I'd love it. But then, I'd read the script, had a Kaiju Skin Bug for a year and a half. Met the actors, saw the world they built for it – and man. I love this like I did LORD OF THE RINGS and the later HARRY POTTER flicks. But it kicks more ass than those.
Man, Guillermo – you beautiful maestro. I can't wait to see the kids that grow up with this in their lives. What a fucking movie! WOW.
OH – and Ron Perlman and Santiago Segura. In this enormous gigantic summer movie… There's this sub-universe. It's an industry that has popped up by a self-made man calling himself Hannibal Chau, we don't know his real name. He's procured a exclusive license to KAIJU biological matter. He's taken the medical world by storm, and the exclusive Kaiju collector market and scientific community. Kaiju are toxic monstrosities, but they're a whole different dimension of useful parts. Ron Perlman pops up on screen and it's just an audience wide smile in the room. He instantly makes the whole place laugh, but not in an obnoxious manner – it's sheer love man. He lays into Charlie Day's Dr. Newton by stating something that the genius hadn't thought of – and it's TRUE! One of my favorite moments in the film. Then the resulting focused Kaiju attack targeting him – still psychically attached. Then you discover that Santiago Segura is Perlman's front man, and procurer rare Kaiju organs. Now this stuff isn't gross out – because the interiors of these beasts are like nothing we've ever seen before. It looked just. I do not have the words. I suppose it was gore, but gore done like the most beautiful enchanting magical space ever created. It's like going to Whoville by way of Guillermo Del Toro's mindspace.
The dreams. Ohhhh, I should stop writing and go to sleep. This is gonna be the best. Go see PACIFIC RIM with people you love to see movies with. Need an AMAZING night at the movies and a dinner afterwards? Oh hell, I have to go to London tomorrow. Man, I'll be looking down at the Atlantic expectantly, giddily. OH – I need to load GORGO up on the iPad. Hehehehe.
OH MAN – the anteverse. Can't wait to talk about the extradimensional masters. Visually, it's a whole new vocabulary. I need to watch it about 12 more times to really get a vernacular for how to accurately describe it. I need to look at it a bunch. A WHOLE LOT.
I haven't even really talked about the Kaiju, which is just freaking ridiculous. First off – way cool detail – there's a cult growing Pacific region religion that props up out of the skulls of the Kaiju, which become amazing cathederals. We don't really go into one, we see it from the outside… BUT I love to think of the Scrimshawed murals depicting the ravages of the angry Kaiju gods. I can totally imagine how amazing that'd look. But that scrimshaw stuff is just my imagination – cuz it'd be cool and all.
So we see some of the San Francisco Kaiju – well, essentially it's a trailer for the San Francisco Kaiju movie. Like, watch the trailer for BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS and IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA… but instead of a sextupus and ol Rhedo… You get this incredible Axehead. This is the first big tease of a Kaiju, but what you see is awesome. But as we shift to the mission that changed everything for our narrator Raleigh – he goes to intercept Knifehead, long before he could reach shore and in direct violation of Stacker's orders… it's. The bull goring or rhinoceros thrust of the horn… as it tears through metal… it's brutal. It's violent, yet not upsetting. You care… but it is… SAVAGE. Savage is the word. This is the mission that made Raleigh quit for five years. It is an impossibly hard fought victory, but with costs. Knifehead really almost killed him, scarred him psychically. He becomes a bit Terry Malloyish. It is a titanic fight at sea. The elements in full swirl. It's the sort of fury the likes of which I've never seen. I've been dreaming of this stuff for a life time, but it's never ever been executed like this before.
However the next full on attack is the just "one for the records" fights of all time. I will dissect these chapters of the 3D BLU frame by frame – just it's just beautiful. I want to see every frame of work. In motion, it's most impressive. You'll look at it and become Han from ENTER THE DRAGON looking at Bruce Lee very impressed. That was just exceedingly exquisite visual excitement! It involves two Kaiju – LEATHERBACK and OTACHI. Leatherback is just the most fun to animate, cuz he movies like an insane armored King Kong… but with a look… that's just a marvel to watch. Guillermo loves his to have time to reveal themselves… same with the Jaegers really… when circumstances means you have to up the battle – they have things in reserve. I want all of these Kaiju with working glow parts. That have insane life use. And I want to be able to toss it across the room and it with stand dog fighting with. The way LEATHERBACK fights is like a gorilla that knew what it was really doing. He's smart in the fight – has the best POWER weapon of all the creatures. But his big shots are so incredibly fun to watch. That fight with Gipsy Danger is wow. When LEATHERBACK and OTACHI are taking on Crimson Typhoon and Cherno Alpha – they're totally the most badass evil wrestlers ever. Except these bastards bite and rip things apart and spit horrible grotesque amounts of glowy blue acid… And it's savage. By the time Striker Eureka joins the fray… it is just AMAZING. I have wanted to see this kind of stuff this kind of way my entire life. It's the stuff ripped smack dab out of the childhood ID and I was powerless in front of it. The Battle For Hong Kong is largely not a kill porn. Much of the town has been properly evacuated. People are in shelters. But it's the wildest thing you've ever seen once you're with Gipsy Danger and LEATHERBACK, then OTACHI. This stuff is just WOW. THE MOMENT with OTACHI's big reveal. The audience gasp clapped. My jaw was like… Awestruck… then when a single word with symball appears on Mako Mori's display… An audience cheer began. We knew what was about to happen and what happened was FUCKING AWESOME! I've been trying to reign in my language – but man. MAN. This is the stuff we've never seen.
The kinds of creatures like out of those early TALES TO ASTONISH monster issues… but with KAIJU and LOVECRAFTIAN touches. There's some classic design work here. Art community is gonna dream away with this stuff.
I felt the Russian and Chinese crews were a tad undeveloped – and I'd love to see all of their mutual fights and full stories with their crews. I have a strong desire for hours of Cherno Alpha punishing Kaiju action. But most of all, I want to see the crew and know them.
The final battle – the big desperate leap into madness – legend. Took a big sack. First off – if you actually out loud repeat what all the Jaeger survived to do that leap – I bet Andy Howell's super math brain can fully articulate the "NO WAY" of it – but damn if this stuff visually is just SUPER HEROIC MECH ACTION!
It is the most different Hollywood Spectacular – that cinematically feels completely redefined. This has never been done better. Guillermo knocked it over all the fences. As for what to do know? Get tickets, perhaps multiple tickets for the same day. If you have the time. This is great SHUT UP AND WATCH stuff.
I've stayed up all night rambling about this movie, I still have the same goofy grin on my face. Intermittently I've picked up GIPSY DANGER and move him. I have the PACIFIC RIM: MAN, MACHINES, MONSTERS book and I keep flipping through it, reading up on everything. Wonderful to see ILM generate something just flabbergasting again. This stuff is just… GREAT. The model work destruction stuff is just wow. They built enormous models to create the destruction – contrary to the all CG argument. Wait till you see the sets. Wait till you fall in love with the characters, you'll pick favorites. Everyone at my screening seemed to. Lot of Charlie Day and Ron Perlman and Rinko fans, everyone seemed to love Idris, Hunnam and Clifton Collins Jr. I have a mad love for Burn Gorman's Gottlieb. That guy really cracks me up. And the DOG. LOVE THE DOG! Can't find his name.
I saw PACIFIC RIM on July 7th. I get on a plane in 11 hours. A TransAtlantic one. If anything horrible were to occur. ONE HELL OF A LAST FILM. However, if I get to London, man. What a week.


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