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Prototype database ANDYRYALS
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THE VIDEOPAC/02 PROTOTYPE DATABASE v0.1j - PUBLIC RELEASE
LAST UPDATE 08.21am 27/6/2006
Manufacturer Item Number Name Rarity Eprom Prototype Pirate Variant Owner Picture
? 4 (Labeled zeeslag tankslag) UR ? ? ? ? Richard N
? Spanns UR Y Y Bas.K Y
Brazillian A Turma De Monica UR ? ? ? ? ? ?
BRAZILLIAN Grato e Rato UR Y (CONFIRMED) ARYALS Y
BRAZILLIAN Balao Travesso UR Y ARYALS N
Brazillian Nacht Vlacht (Commands Nocturno) UR Y Y Y ? Y
? Martian Threat UR Y? Seob Y
Imagic Atlantis UR Y Richard N
Jopac Syracuse UR Y Richard N
Jopac Defenders (Exorjet but without+)?? UR ? ? ? ? ? ?
Parker Qbert UR Y Richard N
Parker Popeye UR Y Richard N
Parker Spiderman UR Y Bas.K Y
Parker Star Wars (RUMOURED) UR+? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Parker Tutankham UR N
Philips 4 in a Row UR Y Richard N
Philips Air Battle UR Y ARYALS N
Air Battle UR Y? Seob Y
Philips Robot City (AKA Laser) UR Y
Philips Robot City UR N Y N Y? Seob Y
Philips Plantage (AKA Catch the Ball/Play Tag) UR Y
Philips Basket Ball (Basketball+) UR
Philips Billiard (Billiards+) UR
Philips Blackhole UR ? ? ? ? ? ?
Philips Catapult UR Y Richard N
Philips Clay Pigeon+ UR Y Y Richard N
Philips Clean up yer act UR N
Philips Cosmic Conflict UR Y Richard N
Philips Crazy Chase UR Y Richard N
Philips Freedom Fighters (Labelled Defender) UR Y Richard N
Philips Billiard (Billiards+ UR
Philips Gunslinger UR
Philips/GST Interpol (AKA Simulation Game) UR Y N.Sapin Y
Philips/GST Jake (AKA Martian Threat) UR Y
Philips Killer Bees v1 UR Y Richard N
Killer Bees v2 (No Sound version) UR Y Nicolas Sapin Y
Killer Bees v3 (Infinite lives) UR Y ? Y
Killer Bees v4 (Easy version) UR Y ? Y
Philips Labyrinth Game (Without Supermind) UR Y Y Richard N
Philips Loony Balloon (non + version) UR Y N
Philips Monkey Shines UR Y Richard N
Philips Night Fighter UR Y ARYALS N
? Night Fighter UR Y? Y Seob Y
Philips Phantom House (Nightmare w/no+ graphics) UR Y N
Philips Pick Axe Pete UR Y? Y ARYALS N
Pick Axe Pete (labelled H. henkic) UR Y Richard N
Philips Pick Axe Pete (3rd variant) UR N
Philips Race (Labelled Aurorace) UR Y Richard N
Philips Red Baron - Philips (59+ w/no + graphics)UR
Philips? Restaurant (Chez Maxime) UR
Philips Shark Hunter UR Y Maurice"BuckyB" N
Philips Space Monster UR Y Richard N
Philips Space Rendevous (on its own) UR Y Richard N
Philips Stonesling UR Y ARYALS Y
Philips/GST Sharkhunter UR Y
Philips Terrahawks (Labelled Zelda) UR Y Richard N
Philips The Mousing Cat (labelled Kist em Muis) UR Y Richard N
Philips The Pink Panther (RUMOURED) UR+ ? ? ? ? ? ?
Philips Tischfuball UR Y ARYALS Y
Philips Troj UR ? ? ? ?
Philips Turtles UR Y Richard N
Philips Melrep UR Y Y bas. K Y
Philips Cursus Spaans UR Y
Magnavox / Phillips? KC-Munchkin UR Y (Confirmed) BuckyB Y
Magnavox Killer Bees UR Y (Confirmed) Retroman
Magnavox He-Man and the Masters of the Universe UR++ ? ? ? ?
Magnavox Math-a-Magic UR Y ARYALS N
Magnavox Bowling / Basketball UR Y ARYALS N
Magnavox Football UR Y ARYALS N
Magnavox Play tag UR
Magnavox Powerlords UR Y ?N.Sapin Y
Magnavox Speedway / Spinout / Cryptologic UR Y ARYALS N
Magnavox Sherlock Holmes UR+ Y N. Sapin N
Magnavox Pinball (early prototype) UR+ Y
Magnavox Type n Tell UR Y N.Sapin Y
Magnavox Flashpoint+ O3 UR+ Y D. Koenig N
Magnavox Attack of the Timelord+ O3 UR+ Y D. Koenig N
Magnavox Baseball+ O3 UR+ Y D. Koenig N
Magnavox Freedom Fighters+ O3 UR+ Y D. Koenig N
Magnavox Pick Axe Pete+ O3 UR+ Y D. Koenig N
Magnavox Killer Bees+ O3 UR+ Y D. Koenig N
Magnavox Videopac+ Odyssey3 Modem Cartridge UR+ Y D. Koenig N
Is the same KC-Munchkin Prototype the one which maurice listed?
Can anyone shed light on the 3rd variant of Pickaxe Pete?
Bas kornalijnslijper - Has many many prototypes there are lots of pictures on his webpage, perhaps some of them need listing here
Nicolas Sapin - He has at least 5 prototypes and Eproms which are not listed here. Nicolas sold 5 of his prototypes off in June 2006 so what
are the other five is has his hands on?
- Is the Powerlords Prototype he owns the same as the one on BuckyB's list?
- Is the Type and Tell the same as on Bucky B's?
Nacht Vlacht - This is a alternate version of the Brazillian game Comando Nocturno according to videopac.org this is a completely
new variant and had different graphics from the 128-in-1 cart and the finished game itself.
Steel Balls - There is a very nice picture of 13 eproms, could we clear up some queries here?
This section is dedicated to the few Videopac owners which have taken the time out to help us in our quest to get all these prototypes
fully documented.
Seob / SteelBalls analysis of all of Seob's Prototypes, take it away guys :-
Air Battle proto.
After i got my eyes back in my face, we fired up a g7400 and first put in v58+ to see what the graphics where.
Since Steelballs didn't have the manual for the game we couldn't get the plain in the air. After trying a few times we decided to put in the prototype and see how that looked.
First thing we noted was that it is the non + version of the game. And since we didn't got the plain in the air we decided to move on to the next cart.
Nightfigter aka nachtvlucht proto
After a little studie and pressing different button on the keyboard and joystick we got the plain in the air. Some more pressing and we found out that a lot of keys where used. (i forgot to take the manual whit me that rene posted here) And some more studing of the instruments and chrashing we where able to find the enemy. After trying the cannons and air missiles we decided to use the bomb and shot the enemy into pieces.
But we had used to much fuel to get the plain back to the base.
Eventualy we got the enemy and returned with enough fuel to the airport but we never succed in landing the plain.
I think its a great game. It's also a game that really uses the keyboard active in the gameplay. And for the videopac limitations it's a "real" flight sim.
This game didn't have any + graphics.
Martian Threat
Allready on our second try we got our highscore into the 1000 points. It's graphical a great game. It doesn't use + graphics but it still is one of the most inpressive graphical games that uses standard g7000 hardware.
For game play, well we didn't like it to much. The only thrill is to get a higher score every time you play. It is not very hard to get into 1000 points and the game never is very tactical. What we did notice is that if you die with less then 1000 point, the end screen shows a ufo shooting at the earth, and when the earth is hit it turns red.
The first time you get 1000+ points and you die you get a differnt ending.
This time there's a shot from earth that hits the ufo. The ufo then breaks into pieces. After this the only time you see this ending again is by getting a higher highscore.
Robot city
Whit this game we had the most fun. The first level is not to easy but also not to hard. It's just right. The second level is allready a greater challenge. Sometimes it really looks as if the aliens are trying to close you in, and the futher you get it seems as if the aliens are working more and more together. We havent made it pas level 4 yet but it really is a adictive game. It also doesn't have + graphics, but it also doesn't need them to be a really great game.
This trully could be a game that is worth releasing.
Firstly thanks to Seob for taking the time to come and visit with his prototypes, unfortunately he remembered to take them with him when he left Crying or Very sad
I would also definitely agree that ROBOT CITY is worth considering as a release. Out of the three games we played it was by far the most enjoyable. On level 1 it seems like it's going to be very simple to progress quite far in the game but already in level 2 it becomes apparent that you really have to have a strategy to destroy all 4 opponents or they will eliminate you with ease.
MARTIAN THREAT does look good for a videopac game but the challenge and enjoyment is not really there, if you position yourself in the middle of the screen you only have to move up and down a fraction to target the martians in the four corners (Martians throwing what look to be beachballs in my opinion!)
NIGHTFIGHTER took a bit of getting into but seemed an okay game, I'm not a big flight sim fan but as Seob commented on, it does make good use of the keyboard. My big criticism is that you see nothing until you reach your target, you just fly through blackness (hence the name?) and on the return journey you see lights marking the landing strip of your base. If you didn't have to make as much use of the keyboard it would be really mindnumbing, but you need to keep an eye on your speed, altitude, distance to the target and fuel so it keeps you busy on the way.
- Will add a value sections
- will add collections statistics - Finish this off! This helps people hunt down proto's/eproms and make owners and offer.
V0.1 - The 1st version just a list of my own stuff and a quick scout round a few sites
v0.1a - Emailed a few people, got some photo's, and clarified the 03 variations, I suppose the first real update.
v0.1b - Gone through Richards list and added these, got some more photos for Tischfuball. Added Bas's pictures and details of some
of his many Eproms, proto's etc. Started work on Nicolas Sapin (This will be difficult)
v.01c - Gone through Videopac.net - Added Nacht Vlacht - descriptiona and grapics.
- It seems that Richard from
seems to think that Seob's prototypes are original so we now have to classify
these as prototypes/variants!
- Been through Bas's website a little more thoroughly and added pictures of all his loose eproms
- Soren's gust sits didnt seem to have any info on prototypes
- Dieter Konig's site's info regarding 03 prototypes has been added as well.
v0.1d - Added information from Seob and Steel Balls regarding Seob's prototypes - THANKS GUYS!
- Finally managed to get through Richards site and listed all the variants, lots of possible confusioning doubles.
- Been through the Odyssey2 homepage website - Nothing new here.
v0.1e - 14/6/06 Today added photos and details of 5 new prototypes Killer Bee's three different versions, Type and Tell, and Powerlords
v0.1f - 15/6/06 I had some time early morning to go through Project for Videopacs, Virtual videopac site,Packrat games, Odyssey Mania,
and Nicolas Sapins website - I have updated the details regarding Nicola's collections of protos.
v0.1g - 16/6/06 Moonbeam's videopac page appears to be down, could not check this out for prototypes.
- There is no information on Ted Foolery's page re proto's.
- Found
nothing here 8-(
- Steel Balls has 13 Eproms on a picture, could there be some new stuff here?
- Ozyr;s site has been reviewed and has thrown up more questions and queries, never mind!!!
v0.1h - 20/6/06 Went throught the QUERIES section and cleaned up another 16 duplicates. It's late and I need sleep, bye!!!
v0.1i - Gone through Richard's and Ozyr's Duplicates in the queries section.
v0.1j - Thanks to D.Koenig and Seob for noticing two errors on the list these have now been corrected.
Thanks to the following people :-
Seob - For his photo's and informing us he has some prototypes
Richard - For the best Videopac site on the net and also for supplying pics and info on his prototypes
Maurice (Buckyb)- For inspiration to comeup with list! And I still hate you for winning that prototype off me ))))!!!!!
List - For helping to keep Videopac.org open!!
Deiter Konig - For help with 03 prototypes
Steel Balls - For helping to playtest Seob's prototypes and giving his comments.
Nicolas Sapin - For selling a load of Proto's!!
Last Edit: September 02, 2007, 08:14:46 PM by Seob
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This is now very out of date and needs updating. I think that when I finish the Radiola thing I will have a crack at this.
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Quote from: Seob on September 02, 2007, 08:11:32 PM
v0.1g - 16/6/06 Moonbeam's videopac page appears to be down, could not check this out for prototypes.
My "it will probably never be updated" page moved a long time ago here :
. But I think you won't find something about protos here...
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Quote from: Moonbeam on September 27, 2012, 10:02:42 PM
Quote from: Seob on September 02, 2007, 08:11:32 PM
v0.1g - 16/6/06 Moonbeam's videopac page appears to be down, could not check this out for prototypes.
My "it will probably never be updated" page moved a long time ago here :
. But I think you won't find something about protos here...
Nice page! I didn't know the existance of your website, sorry!
Jopac Zone is very complete (maybe Western should be removed?).
A really nice work... done with an Amiga 1200.
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November 05, 2012, 09:29:32 PM »
It has been a very long time since I wrote my prototype book which contained every prototype known on the community at the time of print. Now, more exist, I just dont have time to update the prototype list. Maybe when I'm spending less time in Science research and my Audio company, and doing my MSc, and running two clinics, I'll update it
But dont hold your breath
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@kaniini There are a couple of good points in here, but this is a really cynical take on AP.
I'd agree it has some blindspots that need to be addressed, but lines such as "In an ideal world, the number of ActivityPub implementations would be zero." is pure hyperbole.
Further I would give it more deference if it presented a viable option as opposed to "this is bad, but I don't know how to do it better"
We gotta do better than this if we are to push forward.
@jalcine Aight, cool. Hopefully will get better because this isn't a great start.
There are some salient points about security that I absolutely agree with, but most of it just seems like editorializing.
I'd rather see problems identified and then explorations of possible ways to improve.
But I guess they're saving that for later. I hope.
Yeah I know. I just think that's a poor way of going about it.
The proliferation of AP is providing a real opportunity for us to not only think about how we communicate but more effective ways to do it, a couple of which you name, which is cool.
I'm so down w/ the protocol being changed in a way that makes it better, but saying we shouldn't be using it at all is step backwards.
Cool. I'll wait for that. I really want to see viable options. Especially if they work
@sean @kaniini @jalcine Yeah, I agree. And as there is so much attention on it right now, this is a great time to do so.
That part of it is always going to be what it is, but the power of the idea is self evident based on how many good people are adopting. That's a huge plus. We can work with that. There is so much space to make AP better without kicking it in the face.
Which is why I think we'd better served to improve the spec rather than demean it.
Is it perfect? Hell no. But it's a start.
@kaniini @jalcine @sean This is a much better expression of the ideas you put forth in the piece.
I think questions about security are worthwhile. And as the AP spec itself is not set in stone, there is room to make it better.
In light of this, I don't think jumping another protocol is the best way to move forward. There is plenty of room for improvement in AP.
I don't think we need to create a schism around AP just yet. There is space for collaboration and improvement.
I feel you on that. That's a fair point.
True, but it has a ways to go before it reaches the stickiness of AP.
It's a risk assessment. Where can create an environment for substantial changes without burning the whole house down.
It's something to think about, but we should give AP a chance to bake before we flip to something else and have a whole new set of issues and we go through this process again.
Let's put effort into making it work.
@kaniini @Are0h @jalcine @sean
Just noting this is a great thread to read for all #ActivityPub actors out there. I hope this is going to show up at #FOSDEM2019 in the Decentralized Internet & Privacy Devroom that "we're smart people: we can walk and chew"
@kaniini @Are0h @jalcine @sean
Quoting from the blog: "But this will require coordination between all the vendors. And with 40+ projects out there, it's not going to be easy. And do we even care about those 40+ projects anyway?"
If we were able to coordinate that many developers, we would be able to implement all services as micro-services that complement each other. There's no reason why this would not be possible... Except ego wars.
@kaniini @Are0h @jalcine @sean
I guess good coordination starts with shared understanding.
I really enjoyed reading Capabilities Myths Demolished (http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/pubs/SRL2003-02.pdf) but where to go from here?
@kaniini could #IETF be a better place to do formalization work on federated web protocols than the #W3C? Especially given the way that latter body caved to #DRM #crippleware by including #EME in the #HTML spec. Although even as I type this, it occurs to me that what we need more at this stage, while the tech is still evolving and mutating rapidly, is a standards *incubator* with wide buy-in.
@Are0h @jalcine @sean
@sean @kaniini @jalcine AP is popular because it's simple and it works. I absolutely agree the design isn't perfect because it does have some gaping holes, but as a protocol framework, it's really solid.
I say we build on that rather than lamenting the fact an imperfect idea is getting traction.
With all of these big brains floating around the fediverse, I know we can do better than 'this is bad, but I don't know the answer'.
This is such an opportunity to set a positive tone moving forward.
@jalcine @sean @kaniini I don't have a problem with taking ideas to task in terms of long term viability.
But let's not confuse personal tastes with actual progress.
I'm all for putting idea through the ringer to see if they stick. But if we're going to frame one idea as not viable moving forward, let's at the very least have another realistic option in hand rather than theoretical discourse.
We're smart people. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
@jalcine Ok, that's fair. That's what I think we need. A more holistic view of what we need open source protocols to be rather than cynical takes on why we shouldn't be using what is working right now.
There's some real heat behind AP adoption at the moment, and I don't think that's a bad thing. That means people are listening right now.
We should leverage that to improve what we have and get more folks involved, not lament it.
This. The challenge of federation is social, not technical. It's a much better situation to have an imperfect protocol that everyone uses than to endlessly iterate - every fork of the shared protocol splinters the network and gets us further away from the dream of an open, connected web.
@sean @kaniini @jalcine
Sure, but what are the chances that competing protocols will actually maintain compatibility with each other? The web is built on a stack of shared protocols - imagine if every website didn't use HTTP! ActivityPub is a 90% solution, and I think the last 10% can be built on top of it without breaking compatibility.
@jdormit @jalcine @Are0h @sean @kaniini I think AP is under-specced primarily due to constraints impose by W3C (time and otherwise) and a desire to formally pin down as much as possible while Mastodon was ploughing ahead with its implementation to minimize the risk of it rolling out too many bad ideas ad-hoc. I think Chris (Webber, co-editor of AP) is aware of the gaps and interested in seeing them filled. For example mentioning OCAP here: https://dustycloud.org/blog/spritely/
@jdormit @Are0h @jalcine @sean
I agree Mastodon itself has shown good restraint in only causing "minor damage" considering its out sized influence. That said Eugen seemed to be a bit of a catalyst in pulling such advice out of Social CG. It's good and bad in different ways.
Chris is this deep thinker and I think tried to make sure AP was flexible enough to address future concerns, but is the antithesis of Eugen who forges ahead to scratch itches. @kaniini seems to provide balance.
@msh @jdormit @jalcine @sean And just to piggy back on this comment, if it turns out that what Masto is becoming is not conducive to the changes that need to be made to AP, I will abandon it in a _heartbeat_.
Popularity shouldn't be the defining factor of the what the protocol should be. Stability and security has gotta be at the core of it. That's something I hard agree with @kaniini on
Honestly, I'm not too worried about their being different forks, because that breeds diversity and resists stagnation.
That said, we do need to come to some type of common ground that we can build from. If it's not going to be AP, I want to see a tangible option so the proliferation of the fediverse isn't stunted.
I think we're closer to it than we think. We just need to refine and streamline the many wonderful ideas we have for the protocol.
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@jdormit @Are0h @sean @kaniini That's _still_ something that can be worked around. In the #IndieWeb, there's a service that converts from different protocols (http://granary.io/) and even backfeeds and emits stuff to other platforms (http://brid.gy/ and http://fed.brid.gy/). We can push forward without leaving anyone behind.
@jalcine That's fantastic...thanks for linking to that!
I had too many thoughts about this to fit here, so I wrote them up in a blog post: https://jeremydormitzer.com/blog/activitypub-good-enough-for-jazz/
@kaniini @jdormit @jalcine @sean This is theoretical, but I understand where this thought comes from based on what we have now.
I don't understand the need to abandon the spec so early when there is an opportunity to shape it a direction that is conducive to security and safety.
If we can fix it, let's do that rather than squander all of the activity around it and start again from scratch. That's not good for the fedi. Constantly reinventing the wheel will send it back into obscurity.
@Are0h @kaniini @jdormit @jalcine @sean There is also always the option of making the weaknesses known to end users well enough, so they won't use a thing for the wrong purpose As in: No one puts anything really sensitive into a real-world postcard, because they understand postcards. So if I understand what to put into a particular social media thing and what not, I can still be reasonably safe.
But I'd prefer to have something more safe too, hence we're working on darcy.is :)
@kaniini @jdormit @Are0h @jalcine @sean
We will use Solid as a datastore, not as the networking protocol, and I think that is actually an upgrade when you want to think about data portability.
Regarding privacy and future deniability: I am in a very privileged position of not having to overly worry about these things, so yes, I personally fail at this when writing webpage blurbs. That is why we won't build anything before having talked to people who do care more about this. 1/2
@kaniini @jdormit @Are0h @jalcine @sean
We are expanding the team into exactly that direction: People who don't fail at this like I do.
Also: We don't want to supplant other solutions. Darcy is supposed to play nice with those and respect those communities that have specific needs for privacy or security. 2/2
@kaniini @jdormit @Are0h @jalcine @sean
thanks! Also, just as a clarification: We probably won't use Solid as the social layer (which timbl will probably be cross about), but as the datastore. So your content (posts, media, comments) will be stored on your Solid pod, instead of your chosen instance. Instance and Pod may be the same system, but they don't have to.
If you do separate them, you can move instance while keeping your data.
I get that, but we didn't. It's a new protocol and navel gazing doesn't really get us to where we need to be.
I don't see that as a problem, but rather as an opportunity to build. We're not always going to have the opportunity start from scratch, but we can improve. Wether people adopt or not is another thing, but this a great time to influence how people implement.
Maybe, but if the idea is good, it will play. Use proliferation instead of fighting against it.
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- Sobiegalla, F., Posegga, O., and Fischbach, K. (2016). "Connecting Disaster Volunteers and Relief Organizations: A Design Science Approach," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Dublin, Ireland.
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OMAHA (DTN) -- One day after the latest Renewable Fuel Standard volumes were made public, a federal lawmaker asked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to conduct studies on whether the RFS is harming the environment.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said in a letter to Pruitt the agency has dropped the ball on conducting RFS analyses the agency is required to complete.
"I request that you fulfill EPA's obligation to complete studies assessing the environmental impacts of the Renewable Fuel Standard under sections 211(v) of the Clean Air Act and 204 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007," Barrasso said in the letter.
"Under section 211(v) of the Clean Air Act, EPA was required, by May 19, 2009, to study whether the RFS 'will adversely impact air quality.' To date, EPA has never completed that study. Under section 204 of EISA, EPA was required to report to Congress on the RFS' impacts to the environment and resource conservation every three years. To date, EPA has issued only one report, in December 2011."
Barrasso is chairman of the U.S. Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Also this week, Reuters reported that President Donald Trump is set to grant a meeting with lawmakers and others from oil-producing states to discuss their concerns about biofuel policies.
In response to Barrasso, Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen said in a statement to DTN the industry has nothing to hide.
"It may come as a surprise, but we agree with Sen. Barrasso that updated studies and analyses of ethanol's environmental impacts are needed," Dinneen said. "We have absolutely nothing to hide, and nothing to be afraid of. We believe EPA should complete the agency's congressionally mandated studies on the environmental impacts of the RFS, and believe the results will confirm that biofuels like ethanol offer enormous environmental benefits.
"Indeed, we would go one step further. We should also be studying the environmental impacts of gasoline, which continue to worsen as multi-national oil companies are forced to dig and drill deeper to access more marginal sources of petroleum."
In the letter to Pruitt, Barrasso said his committee has heard "increasing concerns" about how ethanol affects the environment.
"Most recently, Jonathan Lewis of the Clean Air Task Force testified that, 'According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's own data, the incremental additional corn ethanol produced in response to the 2007 expansion of the Renewable Fuel Standard has higher lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline,'" Barrasso said.
"A growing body of independent academic research has also documented the RFS' impacts on air, water and land quality, wildlife habitat, and other sensitive ecosystems," Barrasso said.
EPA's inspector general issued a report on Aug. 18, 2016, calling on the EPA to conduct the studies. The agency said it would complete one study by Dec. 31, 2017, and the other on Sept. 30, 2024.
"While I ask that you adhere to the agency's timeframe for the former, EPA's completion date for the latter is unacceptable," Barrasso said in the letter. "EPA cannot ignore the will of Congress and the requirements of the Clean Air Act for 17 years. I ask that you complete this study no later than Sept. 30, 2018."
Though unsure about Barrasso's motives for the request, Dinneen said ethanol and the RFS have benefitted the environment.
"Any objective and science-based analysis would undoubtedly show that ethanol offers clear and significant environmental benefits when compared to the fossil-based fuels it replaces," Dinneen said.
He said ethanol replaces toxic gasoline components including benzene, reduces tailpipe pollutants such as carbon monoxide and particulate matter, and "slashes" greenhouse gas emissions.
USDA data shows ethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 43% compared to gasoline.
On the land-use front, EPA's release of the final RFS volumes this week included a required land-use analysis. The EPA said in 2007 that the baseline acres were 402 million in agriculture. Some studies in the past decade claim the RFS has led to expansion of plowed acres to grow feedstocks for biofuels.
However, EPA's most recent analysis shows the number of agriculture acres fell to an all-time RFS low of 376 million in 2017.
In order to meet the definition of "renewable biomass" and qualify for renewable identification numbers generation, the 2007 RFS requires renewable fuel producers to prove that feedstock used for biofuels comes from land that was actively engaged in agricultural cultivation in December 2007.
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This paragraph appears on the Guardian web-site as part of a long piece on this summer's must-watch TV (none of which I want to).
"As sedate as it was, the Open All Hours revival Still Open All Hours was such a hit that the BBC is repeating the idea across the board. Its sitcom season essentially works as a series of pilots for remakes of classic series. They're remaking Are You Being Served? They're remaking Porridge. They're remaking Up Pompeii! and Keeping Up Appearances. They're throwing everything they've got at this and, while there are bound to be a few duffers in the mix, you can bet that your mum will end up loving at least one of them."
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Woodstorks are one of Florida's wading birds. Their land is being scraped clean, wetlands and cypress swamps being filled and soon the Woodstork himself also gone. Florida is taking their land away for tax paying inhabitants. The entire beauty that was Florida is going, going then quickly gone.
I am fortunate and live near nesting Woodstorks. The guy you see is a regular visitor to our front door. Al is friendly and his gently snapping bill hasn't enough strength to bring blood. Albert or as I call him for short Al just follows me around till I close the door staring at his sad face and big black eyes.
I never know when he'll be back but you must see his feet and nails. Very Gothic. I don't want to tell too much it would ruin it.
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Lois Grandi could hardly have picked a better-named play to serve as a swan song for Playhouse West, the Walnut Creek theater company she founded and directed almost every production of the past thirteen years.
She could, however, have picked a better play than When Something Wonderful Ends, Sherry Kramer's one-woman show about Barbie accessories, 9/11, the death of her mother, the Iran Hostage Crisis, growing up Jewish in the Bible Belt, and US oil policy. That's a whole lot of ground to cover in ninety minutes without intermission, and the Kramer character does it by leaping back and forth between the three topics constantly with the thinnest of transitions: "Barbie had a little hit-and-run," she says, looking at her Barbie Dream Car. "Our country did, too."
Despite how many times the phrase "when something wonderful ends" is repeated at the beginning and end of the show, ultimately, understanding exactly what this something wonderful is that's ending gets lost amid all the leaps from subject to subject. We're told the exact date that was "the start of the end of something wonderful": March 4, 1964, when ten-year-old Kramer got her mother to buy her Barbie's Enchanted Evening dress. That same day in Iran, Kramer says, the Status of Forces Agreement was signed, making US soldiers in Iran immune from domestic prosecution for offenses such as running over Iranians, which seems to have happened with alarming frequency, giving the up-and-coming Ayatollah Khomeini ample fuel for eventual revolution. This set off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the Iran Hostage Crisis, 9/11, and the war in Iraq, and possibly the death of Kramer's mother. The connections between the geopolitical and the personal in this piece aren't at all clear.
It's not that there isn't an obvious connection to be made between American foreign oil policies and little petroleum-based Barbie and the ideal of American consumerism that she embodies, but Kramer doesn't do so with any coherence, and the stuff about her mother never really ties in at all. These things are definitely connected in Kramer's head, but she does a lousy job of explaining why.
It's tempting to think that maybe Kramer does a better job explaining these things herself, and that the script loses something without her personality in performance to back it up. In fact that may be true, but that's not how the public life of the play has been conducted. There was an actress in the Kramer role when the play debuted a year ago at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, and another one in the run at Actor's Express in Atlanta that just ended last weekend, overlapping with Playhouse West's production.
"Don't worry, I've always been this way," the Kramer character says while warming to some point she's trying to make. What way, exactly? We can tell she's trying to get through to us with a very important message, but it gets lost in the telling. Well, except the part about how the entire American economy and consumer society is built on a foundation of oil that's going to collapse entirely any day now. If she'd focused on that — if she'd focused at all — Kramer might have had something.
Although Kramer's in her childhood bedroom packing up her parents' house and putting her Barbie outfits on eBay, there's no in-story excuse for her to be talking to the audience. The style of the piece is half lecture, half standup act reeking of flop sweat.
Director Grandi and actor Janis Bergmann gamely proceed as if the play is funny and poignant and all of the things that it seems to aspire to be. It's not their fault that it's not, aside from Grandi picking the show in the first place as a last-minute replacement for the previously announced season closer, Morris Panych's Girl in the Goldfish Bowl. Jan Zimmerman's delightful set is of a little girl's very, very pink bedroom filled with nothing but old Barbies and their accessories. Above are projections of chapter titles ("The Which Then," "God 2.0") or a slideshow of cemetery bouquets.
Bergmann's an animated, likeable presence, gesturing a lot with her hands and giving a little smirk and slight cough of a laugh at what's supposed to be the funny parts, which are often written as if addressing a lively audience while the real audience sits in polite silence. Take this zinger about jihadists being rewarded with 72 virgins in the afterlife: "Has anybody else noticed that this Islamic heaven is a weekend at a pedophilia convention in Morocco? No? No one's noticed this? I guess it's just me." Yeah, Kramer, I guess it is.
If Playhouse West had to call it a day after enlivening Walnut Creek's theater landscape since 1995, it would be nice if it was going out with a better show than this. But when something wonderful ends, it can't always end wonderfully.
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Our event of the day is Stage 16 of the Tour de France. With a day's rest in their legs, riders will endure a 218-kilometre stage, the second longest of the entire tour. The peloton will go from the Medieval French town of Carcassonne, and finish with a 10-kilometre descent in to Bagnères-de-Luchon. Riders will journey through the Pyrenees for the first time on the tour. The stage also features two category one climbs. There are just six stages remaining before the tour finishes on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Sunday. Everything seems to be coming together nicely for Team Sky. Geraint Thomas currently holds the yellow jersey after consecutive wins on stages 11 and 12. Teammate Chris Froome is one minute 39 seconds behind in second place. A potential rivalry between the pair has been played down in recent days. Both have stated a win for Team Sky is all that matters, regardless of which one of them crosses the line at the Champs-Élysées in yellow. Froome has had a previous bitter rivalry with former teammate Bradley Wiggins when the duo were at the height of their road racing powers between 2012 and 2014.
However, Froome has gone on to win four Tour de France titles since then. His encouragement and support of long-term Welsh teammate Thomas has been refreshing to see this year. Team Sky general manager Dave Brailsford will be delighted with how his two stars have handled themselves. This is all the more impressive considering the abuse they have received and scrutiny that they have been under after recent doping accusations. Aiming to crash Team Sky's party are Tom Dumoulin, Primož Roglič and Romain Bardet. Dumoulin in particular is a real danger. He is hot on the heels of Chris Froome, sitting just 11 seconds behind the British rider. The Dutchman is the world time trial champion. With the penultimate stage being a 31-kilometre time trial, he will be a threat until the very end. A tantalising few days of cycling lies in wait as the direction of the yellow jersey is decided.
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Excerpt of Nigerians in Space, by Deji Bryce OlukotunBy TNB Fiction
January 14, 2015
It took four nights of heavy drinking, cajoling, and a wet kiss from Leon's girl Fadanaz for Thursday to say he would consider going into the water. Even then he never thought it would come to pass. But soon they were sitting in the Merc next to a row of strelitzia palms that wound along a dirt road to the beach in the dusk, their fronds spreading out like press-on fingernails. He would have been able to hear the pounding surf if Leon wasn't thumping his Kwaito music, and they'd both grown up near the sea so he didn't smell the seaweed any more. Thursday had resolved that this time he would be firm with Leon—he was not going in the water, there was no way he was going in.
"I can't do it, my broer," Thursday declared. "I don't know how."
"Come on, Thursday," Leon said. "I started with nothing. I was out there in the rocks all alone with the police, pulling myself on the kelp." Leon laughed, in awe of himself, reminiscing. "Should have been on the news. I can barely even swim. You've got the breather and my lank equipment. The breather is easier than a tank." He began pumping his head to the syncopated rhythms of the Kwaito.
"Can't you give me your mask?"
"I gave you my old mask, voetsak. My new one cost a thousand bucks. It's not my fault you've got a conch for a nose."
"You must be mad," Thursday said. "I'm not going out there. There's a storm coming. There's sharks."
"There hasn't been an attack in months."
Thursday was skeptical. Attacks on poachers were never reported anyway. Another diver would deliver the news to the family, and if he was polite, give over whatever money he'd made from selling his catch. That was how it worked in Hermanus.
"You sure?" Thursday asked.
Leon assured him that no poacher had been attacked in months and reminded Thursday of his victories on the swim team in Standard Eight. "You need a lookout, Thursday. That's the first rule. I would have let you be the lookout, but I'm sick." He shivered for emphasis. "I set everything up yesterday. If you don't take the perlies someone else will. Just go for the blue plastic eggs. I'm the only one who uses them. There's hundreds. Maybe five hundred. That's like two hundred thousand rand. But I'm not selfish: you just take as many as you can and bring them back." He showed him a pistol stashed beneath his seat. "Don't worry. We're protected."
You've got to be firm, Thursday thought. He reached over and turned off the stereo. "Don't listen to your music. I don't want any cops."
"Stop being such a poes. You said you need the money, right? I'm doing you a favor. The cops stop at four and it's seven o'clock. You've got the cell phone, né?"
Thursday adjusted the condom-wrapped cell phone he'd shoved next to his crotch. "You'll call if they come?"
"Of course." "No music." "Ja, no music."
They went over it one more time. He was to look for the plastic eggs, the blue ones with sand in them. Three buzzes on the cell phone or six flashes on the light meant get out of the water. Thursday took the dry suit and the fins and the surface breather. The condom was lubricated so the cell phone slipped down to his calf by the time he walked along the crescent beach and waded into the surf.
Thursday swam around for half an hour in the bay, kicking his fins quickly from fear in the darkness, and the only thing of interest he found was an old warped field hockey stick. Leon had made it sound like the visibility would be just like the television show Baywatch, and once he was underwater he'd see everything as clear as a bathtub. The blue plastic eggs would be sparkling like jewelry, and he would be able to kick leisurely down and scoop up the abalone. But fog kept covering his mask and he had to blow out hard with his nostrils to get the steam out, then there was the problem of the umbilical line of the surface breather, which must have had a leak in it, because the air had a wet taste to it that made him wheeze. He could see about a meter in front of him. In the blackness there could be anything: fish, abalone, a whale, a rock, a chest of gold doubloons.
Moonlight streaked down and he realized he was near a kelp bed; then the shafts retracted behind a cloud bank. He kicked towards the edge of the kelp bed and turned on the flashlight attached to the tip of his speargun. An octopus scowled at him from a cragged rock, but when he reached in to grab it, it disappeared in a splotch of ink. There was nothing else in the water but kelp and tiny green diatoms, things he could not eat or sell, not even a crab. He could not believe it—Leon said he'd been here only yesterday, and marked the area with a blue plastic egg. He'd said five hundred. Thursday had expected fifty.
But now everything had been picked clean and canned, or picked clean and dried, bound on a ship to the Orient. Perhaps another diver had already found the plastic eggs. There was no point in shivering in the water.
His head surfaced in a white rush of foam. In the distance, he could see the stacks of dark-churning clouds being flash-bulbed by the heavens above Old Hermanus. The storm's advance was not fast—Leon had been right about that. On shore, the soft curl of the beach spread blue in the moonlight, and dim stars shined through the mozzie net of salt spray. Leon had parked the car behind the tallest tree. Thursday lifted the flashlight from the water and beamed out a simple signal, telling him that he would be coming back on shore.
He waited for Leon's response, and it came. Four flashes, nothing else. This had no meaning other than the fact that he was there waiting and not, hopefully, listening to music.
But then there was another flashlight: moving, bobbing. A light that had come from the beach. No, two of them. Moving quickly.
He could see them bouncing up and down the sand and out towards the forest, then disappear into the dark foliage behind the beach. Then, a flash of red and blue lights from far on the other side of the beach streaking towards the foliage, right where Leon was waiting.
A raid.
Treading, he saw Leon's headlights go on and then start out through the forest, and then just as soon stop. The red lights and flashlights surrounded the car. Two more sets of red and blue lights approached on the beach and he could hear the warble of a megaphone. Some muffled dog barks. There was no way around it: Leon was caught.
"Yissus!" Thursday breathed.
He sank and rose in the rhythm of the night swells. Leon had not prepared him for this situation. Other than the flash signals, they had not developed any kind of plan for arrest. He had no idea what to do as he de-fogged his mask.
Suddenly, a wide beam of light swathed through the waves around him. He rose up in a swell and turned to see another wave about to crash, but he ducked his head under the wave with the respirator clumsily in his mouth. Shouting voices could be heard: "—one hundred meters… ident—" Then more barks, more megaphone.
The swell rose up and the beam of light came closer, and when he sank with it, the light silhouetted him briefly in his lycra-capped skull onto the approaching swell, then moved off him. But in a few seconds the beam had swung back around and steadied onto his head. They'd spotted him.
A rogue wave dropped down on Thursday hard and pushed his head below, tumbling him about. He swallowed water and surfaced and be- gan to cough, but the umbilical line was sucked into the next swell and before he could take his lips off the respirator it pulled his whole body forward as it got caught into the surf and advanced towards the beach. His mouth exploded in pain. He cut himself free with the tip of his spear gun, then finned down hard and held his breath, listening to the steady chug of the boat. The breather rumbled and gasped as the brine seeped into the battery, sending up green alkaline tufts of cloud.
Under the flotsam he could hear the engine of the police boat as it coordinated the arrest with the officers on the shore. They would be watching for air bubbles. Maybe for his flashlight, too. He could make out the boat's clothes-iron silhouette against the moonlit surface. When it passed over, he kicked up, taking a few more breaths. The police spot- light was fixed on the surface breather and already he could see a long hook being extended down into the water to pick it up. He dove down again, finning hard, until he was clear of the wave break. The police boat continued scanning the waves in the surf with its spotlight.
"This is the police!" the megaphone blared. "We know you are here! Come to the surface and identify yourself or we will shoot!"
That didn't sound like the police. The Hermanus police were soft and never shot anyone, much less put any poachers in jail. That was why half the town poached: easy money with low probability of capture. A few months of steady abalone picking and you could buy yourself a Merc. That's what Brother Leon had told him tonight, anyway, in his Merc.
Two sharp cracks rang out and Thursday could see the water splash up in the circle of the spotlight in the surf.
But he could see from the spotlight that the boat was headed in the wrong direction, towards a cove popular with the poachers. Maybe there were other divers out tonight. Hopefully there were. He caught another breath and sank down again in the black wash of the sea.
The storm clouds slowly swallowed up the moon, and he found him- self in total darkness, with no sense of up or down. His imagination went wild and he started to panic: sharks, hostile poachers, police bullets, all of them could be hurtling towards him in the water. He fumbled to hit the button on his flashlight, expecting to see a jaw full of jagged teeth about to gulp him whole, or a bullet streaking towards his brain.
But there, in the midst of the shooting and the raid and the approach- ing storm, he didn't see any sharks. No bullets, either. What Thursday saw instilled in him the deepest relief he'd had since he'd left Abalone Silver: the beacon of the blue plastic egg. He'd descended right into Leon's abalone patch.
The mollusks were healthy and active in the night, sliming along the rock in a little garden of red gracilaria. There were urchins, a couple of crayfish, and a rock lobster. He found a largish looking abalone covered with seaweed and pried it off. The abalone slid its foot onto his hand and nursed at it like a babe.
He couldn't believe its weight: enormous, much bigger than the oldest abalone at the farm. It was so big that the shell covered both his hands. Maybe thirty years old, maybe forty, and worth a few thousand bucks by itself. The flat kelp noodled up harmless to the surface, and nothing dangerous was in sight.
Above him the boat chugged off towards the cove, expecting the div- ers to flee onto the beach. Any other novice would have swum into the hands of the cops by now. But Thursday was beginning to feel comfort- able without the tangled line of the surface breather. And amongst the abalone, with their patient ways, he felt to be amongst friends. He could hold his breath longer than most people and his ears didn't bother him when he dove down deep. He just had to be careful about the spotlight.
It would be some time before the police boat stopped searching, and he might as well make the best of it. It would take maybe ten trips. He took out his pry bar and went to work.
DEJI BRYCE OLUKOTUN graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town, where he was taught by South African writers André Brink, Mike Nicol, Andre Wiesner, and Henrietta Rose-Innes. He also holds degrees from Yale College and Stanford Law School. His novel Nigerians in Space, a thriller about brain drain from Africa, was published by Unnamed Press. His work has been featured in Vice, Slate, GigaOm, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Guernica, The Millions, World Literature Today, ESPN, Chimurenga, Global Voices, Joyland, Words Without Borders, Alternet, Huffington Post, PEN America, The London Magazine, Molussus, The Beat, and Men's Health. Deji is an attorney with a background in human rights and technology. He currently works at the digital rights organization Access, where he drives campaigns on net neutrality and surveillance. Before that, he fought for free expression and the defense of writers around the world at PEN American Center with support from the Ford Foundation.
Adapted from Nigerians in Space, by Deji Bryce Olukotun, Copyright © 2014 by Deji Bryce Olukotun. With the permission of the publisher, Unnamed Press.


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2019 Parish Golf Tournament
Thank you to all of those who participated in the 23rd annual Saint Mary Parish Golf Tournament on Monday, May 13, at Tulsa Country Club. Congratulations to our winners !
Many thanks to our 2019 sponsors:
Gather your foursome and register for the 2019 Saint Mary Parish Golf Tournament. Join us for an afternoon of fun, fellowship, and some friendly competition.
- Monday, May 13
- Tulsa Country Club, 710 N. Union Avenue
- 1:00 p.m. shotgun start; 11:30 a.m. check-in and lunch buffet open
- Four-person scramble format open to women and men; sign up as a team or an individual
- Range balls, lunch, beverages, player gifts and prizes included
- Registration deadline extended to May 6
REGISTER ONLINE below or download a REGISTRATION FORM.
Become a Golf Sponsor
Show your support for the Church and School of Saint Mary with promotional signage at the Golf Tournament. For more information about becoming a sponsor, please contact one of our tournament chairs: Dave Miley, Jonathan Gabel, or Michael Duda.
Download a SPONSORSHIP FORM here or REGISTER ONLINE by selecting a sponsorship below.
$1,500 Tournament Sponsorship
Includes registration for a four-person team plus promotional signage at event and recognition in all media and advertising. Greens fee for each team member, range balls, lunch, beverages and player gifts included.
$250 Hole Sponsorship
Includes promotional signage on a hole. A great way to advertise your business and support the School of Saint Mary! (Does not include registration for golf tournament.)
$150 Individual Entry
Includes greens fee for one, range balls, lunch, beverages and player gift.
Our Cause
Thank you in advance for your continued support of this annual fundraiser. We are proud to be hosting our 23rd annual Saint Mary Parish Golf Tournament where all proceeds benefit the School of Saint Mary.
We need volunteers to help with check-in and to be witnesses on the Hole-in-One prize hole. If you are able to volunteer for all or part of the day, please contact Jennifer Wood. Lunch and beverages provided for volunteers.


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The following Preserves in Lyme will be closed Monday through Friday, 1/2 hour before sunrise to sunset, from Wednesday, November 20 through Tuesday, December 24, 2019 except to licensed hunters with valid consent forms from the Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator:
- Beebe Preserve
- Chestnut Hill Preserve
- Eno Preserve
- Hand Smith
- Jewett Preserve
- Mount Archer Woods
- Pickwick's Preserve
- Plimpton Preserve
- Slawson Preserve
These preserves, owned by the Town of Lyme or the Lyme Land Trust, will be open on Saturdays and Sundays during this hunting period as no hunting is allowed there on weekends. The hunting program is fully subscribed.
Please be aware that hunting is allowed on Nehantic State Forest and Selden Neck every day except Sunday. On some private properties hunting is allowed on Sunday, also.
Wear bright colors while walking in the woods from September 15 to January 31.