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American 19th century charcoal on paper portrait of a man signed with initials
Charcoal on paper portrait of a middle aged bearded man, circa 1880, 20" by 16", simply framed, signed at lower right with initials "M.J.H.". Thinking this was a work by the major artist Martin Johnson Heade, I sent images to Theodore Stebbins, the Heade expert, who said this was not the work of that artist. So, I offer it here as a decorative work of the nineteenth century. There are some creases in the forehead, in the field on both sides of the head, and a few in the lapel area, and some light paper abrasions at left. Guaranteed an original drawing and not a print. The back side of the paper has a sort of thin canvas look, almost as if the drawing were laid onto a very thin canvas. .
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4 May 2010
Photo of a man born in 1746
5 comments:
- Dick said...
I am fascinated by 19th century photographs. If this photo was taken in 1848, 22 years after the commonly accepted ""first" (the Parisian having his boots cleaned), it is incredible that both subjects managed to remain so still for the very long time exposure required. He looks like a jolly and youthful 102 year-old.
- Tue May 04, 02:13:00 pm GMT+1
- Roger G3XBM said...
Clearly I have no idea if this information is correct but he was certainly VERY old when the photo was taken. I think the picture was either in The Times or the Telegraph some time in the 1980s?
- Tue May 04, 02:21:00 pm GMT+1
- K2DSL - David said...
My in-laws have old photos on the walls at their house. No one is ever smiling in the pictures so it is interesting to see the elderly man smiling in this one. At least that is what he appears to be doing. In the older pictures, young boys often wore what we'd call skirts today. Interesting pic though - thanks for sharing.
- Tue May 04, 04:13:00 pm GMT+1
- Dick said...
Hi David. The reason they didn't smile was the exposure time factor. Easier to maintain a serouis demeanor than a wide grin. Also, subjects had a neck brace to keep their heads from moving. Exposure time again.
- Tue May 04, 10:28:00 pm GMT+1
- John AE5X said...
What timing...I recently found a book I'd been searching for for ages, "Last Men of the Revolution". In 1864, the writer/photographer went on a search of those few American veterans still alive in order to photograph and interview them. They are all in the book with full page photos of the men now in their 80's and 90's. Probably only a dozen or so of them. At this time, the Civil War was in full swing and the old vets freely expresed their opinion of it.
Here's another copy for sale of this awesome piece of history:
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Sixth grade students in Ericker Jacksons and Karen Naquins Social Studies classes participated in a mock Ancient Greek Olympics.
Students studied the Ancient Greeks and did research on the contributions that the Greeks made to the world. Students also learned about the origin of the Olympics in Greece. The two teams were divided into Athens and Sparta (large city-states in ancient Greece). The events were patterned after actual events that took place in Athens.
The events were broomstick javelin, running sideways and the discuss toss. Scores were kept and tallied. Sparta was known for its brawn but in the end the Athenians, known for their brains, won. Winners were awarded candy gold coins.
|These students were rooting for team Athens. (Front row) Camryn Frangella, Ian Carbo, Gracie Smith and Harold Blood. (Second row) Bryant Fletcher, Max Jacobs, Alberto Moreno, Nate Ryder, Dwayne Kimble, Brooke Sarro, Tyler DeVaney , amd Kinyson Voges. (Thi


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The death toll of Sirte liberation war has risen to 715, the spokesperson of Misrata Central Hospital told The Libya Observer on Monday.Read more
The Misrata-led forces have advanced into IS-controlled 600 Buildings neighborhood in Sirte to close in on IS militants, who are still hiding out in parts of the neighborhood, military sources from the city reported.Read more
Sabratha announced Tuesday the formation of a joint force and a common operations room that includes military and police officers who were fighting IS militias lately in the city.
An uneasy calm settled on Sabratha after IS militants withdrew from all of the positions they controlled Tuesday night and retreated to unknown areas, security sources from Sabratha reported.
Fresh skirmishes between the Petroleum Facilities Guard, Ibrahim Jodran's de facto armed groups and IS militants broke out Thursday around Ras Lanouf terminal in eastern Libya.Read more
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HERE'S a plan: I'm going to see if I can drink a different beer every day this year. Unlike most brilliant ideas involving alcohol, this one — when it came from a mate late last year — wasn't the last thought of a long night out.
He says that last year, a couple of American beer lovers attempted to drink 365 beers in 365 days. They failed. Surely in Australia, where beer drinking is part of our DNA, we could do it? There must be hundreds of beers out there. It's a matter of national pride!
Fair enough, I say. And so with very little thought beyond, "Beer! Good!", six months ago fellow beer-lover Shane Maguire and I set out on our "Yeer in Beer".
We set some basic rules — no ginger beer, no home brews, and the different beer must be drunk on the day, no building up a bank in a bender. We also discover we would need 366 beers for the year — it's a leap year after all.
On day one we open a Facebook page and try the first bottles.
I drink a Coopers Pale Ale, Shane has a Little Creatures Bright Ale, and the list starts.
For a while it's as easy as we imagine. Australian pubs and bottle shops are, at first glance, filled with a multitude of brews. A quick call to a helpful executive at Lion Nathan provides us with a list of more than 500 mainstream and craft beers that should, theoretically, be available.
No problem! Go to the pub, drink a schooner of New, write it on the list. Head to the bottle shop, lash out on a Grolsch, add that to the list and so on. Less than two months later, I realise I have drunk everything in every pub and bottle shop within five kilometres of my house. Despite the alleged hundreds of beers out there, less than 40 make up almost everything you can find without making a major effort. And let's face it, "major effort" and "beer drinkers" don't mix.
The hotel closest to where I'm writing this, for example, boasts "19 beers on tap". But three are ciders and most of what's left are pretty much available anywhere (Carlton, VB etc). The only "exotic" on the list is Sapporo, and it isn't really rare.
To find a new beer every day fast becomes a real challenge and one that changes the way I look at the most basic aspects of life.
A friend asks me over for a beer, I ask what sort. My parents fly in for my son's birthday, I ask them to bring me cans of Southwark, West End and Dr Tim's (the elusive Coopers only available in Adelaide).Even booking a trip to the US involves checking which airline had a beer not yet on my list to avoid the complications of crossing a dateline in midair. For the record, it's Virgin. They rotate through a range of craft beers that got me out of trouble in both directions. The drinks list is the first thing we read at a restaurant.
The importer addresses on the back of beer labels? We know them all. Which breweries offer which beers exclusively to which bars? We're on it. And we get better as it goes on.
After 182 beers — one for every day of the year so far and with surprisingly little overlap in our two lists — Shane now sources Scottish beers even the Scots haven't heard of (Brewdog's Punk IPA?), and I find Green Star Lager, a vegan-friendly blonde beer delivered to a limited number of pubs.
Friends and family join in — one colleague generously donates a bottle of Oakham Ales Jeffrey Hudson Bitter he brought from England. Another raided his German dad's stash of Hacker-Pschorr Munchner Kellerbier.
The downside is every person you meet is sure they've got the beer you've never tried (they're usually wrong) or suggests something that only comes in a case or from 15 hours' drive away, or is astounded you didn't like their favourite brew.
We're in constant battle with the drink snobs as we try to explain what we like and don't like without resorting to the meaningless phrases wine and beer aficionados often use.
"Promising yet diminishing lacing", "fills the nose with over-hopping" and "stifling on the top palate" are fine for some, but we prefer speaking English.
Shane (now known as El Presidente to the "100 Yeer in Beer" Facebook members) and I start with "tastes good" or "rubbish!" as our two main descriptors and haven't really strayed too far.Sierra Nevada's insanely bitter Torpedo IPA, for example, is "like chewing two Panadols while drinking", said El Presidente on day 35.
Carlsberg Elephant Lager has an aftertaste "like sniffing Tarzan's Grip glue", I wrote on day 146. If something smells like wet leather or the head foams like cheap shaving cream, we're writing it. And this is how we have realised why so few beers make up the bulk of what Australians drink.
It's not that we're parochial or simple folk, it's just that Australians have a bullshit detector when it comes to most things, beer included. Compared with some of the overpriced, overhyped imports out there, a schooner of Coopers Sparkling Ale (for example) is in every way superior to some cloudy dross with a picture of a grimacing German on the label and a ceramic stopper.
Mountain Goat's Crossbreed — a brilliant project between a Melbourne brewery and Danish brewer Mikkeller — is as good as anything in the world. So too is the limited-edition Little Creatures Quiet American from Perth, or its regular Pale Ale. These are three examples of why our beers win so many prizes overseas as opposed to the myriad imports nobody in their home countries has ever heard of. It's not local pride, it's just a fact.
Which brings us to day 182, six months down.
I've got a case of assorted brews still in the fridge — at least half from various Australian breweries — and about a dozen friends and family keeping an eye out for anything new. I also have new respect for the beers I once threw down with no thought past, "Is there another?"
Shane and I are planning a road trip to a Newcastle bottle shop that boasts 1000 beers — which in reality means there should be about a couple of dozen we haven't tried.
Will we make it through the "Yeer"? Who knows? At the halfway point we're starting to worry, but there are still a few importers left to try, bier cafes to plunder and favours to call in. We're far from last drinks.The enthusiasm of those who found us online has been staggering.
"Yeer in Beer is the most successful idea I have ever had in my life," an emotional El Presidente commented recently when I posted a picture of the 35 new beers I'd sourced after a particularly fruitful shopping expedition, and another Yeer in Beer member living in Italy drove to Germany to source more than 20 none of us had heard of.
"This is like looking at a newborn child and saying, 'I did that'," he says. That's not just the beer talking.
See the updated Year in Beer drink list at theage.com.au or follow them on Facebook


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Erlang DC R13B
Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM (EST)
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San Francisco, California
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ErlangDC R13B
February's ErlangDC 2013 Epic One-Day Erlang Conference was so awesome, we just couldn't wait for 2014 to do it again!
In the morning...
This time around, we have two wonderful options in the morning to choose from...
- "Intro to Elixir" bootcamp
Are you interested in Elixir, the hot new programming language created by Jose Valim, member of the Ruby on Rails Core Team? ("This is good shit," says no less than Joe Armstrong, one of the Fathers of Erlang.) Then register via an "Intro to Elixir" morning bootcamp ticket, and spend the morning learning how to easily build highly-reliable, highly-scalable server systems using Elixir, and why it (and Erlang/OTP) should be in your programmer's toolkit.
- Advanced Topics workshops
But, what if you are an experienced Erlang/OTP developer? We haven't forgotten you! Register via an Advanced Topics workshops ticket, and spend the morning learning cutting-edge techniques: a session on practical property-based testing using PropEr, and Hacking Riak via custom WebMachine endpoints.
And in the afternoon, the conference...
After the lunch break, all attendees be treated to presentations by some of the most expert Erlanguatans from around the world, on how and why they use Erlang and OTP in the real world to solve complex problems.
Details are on the ErlangDC site, but the highlights are:
- building highly scalable, highly reliable gaming platforms
- interconnecting Java & Erlang
- two presentations on using Erlang in embeddable systems
- a distributed Elixir mini-hackathon
Come to ErlangDC R13B. Meet fellow Erlang (and Elixir) enthusiasts from DC, the nation, and the world. Learn Elixir and advanced Erlang/OTP practices. Hear inspirational tales of prodigious feats of programming, swap war stories of your own, and make lifelong friends over pints at the post-conference social.
And, just one more thing...
Did we mention that, as a present to YOU, all tickets are at a special low holiday price. Yup, it's true. If we could wrap it in a bow, we would.
(And, if you don't know, December is an especially nice time of year to visit Washington DC.)
ErlangDC R13B. Reliably awesome. Just like Erlang.
When & Where
Georgetown University: McCarthy Hall -McShain Lounge
37th & O St NW
Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM (EST)
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Dori is one of three dwarf brothers (the other two are Nori and Ori) who befriend Bilbo and travel with him in search of Smaug's treasure caverns.
It fell to Dori to carry Bilbo in the tunnels of the Misty Mountains during the escape from the goblins, but Dori dropped Bilbo and the other dwarves blamed him for "losing their burglar."
During the escape from the Wargs, Bilbo grabbed Dori's legs as they scrambled up into the trees.
Dori, fought in and survived the Battle of Five Armies. He likely also fought in the Battle of Dale during the War of the Ring.
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Join Jan Kabili for an in-depth discussion in this video What are layer masks used for?, part of Photoshop CS4: Layer Masks in Depth.
Layer masks really are among the most powerful features in Photoshop. They really expand the range of designs and special effects that you can create in this program. Before we get started learning all about layer masks, I wanted to show you some examples of the kinds of things that you can accomplish using layer masks, and you are going to learn how to do all of these things during this course. One area in which layer masks shine is when you are trying to put together multiple images to create an image composite. Layer masks are often used to hide content on one layer so that content on another layer shows through.
So for example in this case, there is a layer mask on a photograph of a geisha. Let me show you the original photograph my making the layer mask temporarily inactive, by holding the Shift key as I click on the thumbnail that represents the layer mask in the Layers panel. So there is the original photograph, and with the layer mask I'm hiding part of the original photograph, so that part of the content on the incense layer below is showing through. Another use for layer masks in compositing is to create a gradual blend between the content of one layer and another.
So here I'll show you the original photograph on the carnival layer by making the layer mask that I have added to that layer temporarily invisible by holding the Shift key as I click on the layer mask thumbnail. So there is the content of the carnival layer, and with the layer mask we can see down through part of that content gradually blending the carnival layer with the photograph on the canal layer below it in the layer stack. Another way to use layer masks when you are compositing images is to make the content of one layer appear to be inside of a pot or some other kind of container on another layer.
So here I'm going to turn off a couple of layers by clicking their Eye icons to show you the photograph on the background layer. Then I added a couple of copies of a photograph of a garden, which I'll show you now by making the layer mask that I added to the garden temporarily invisible. So there is the content that's on the center layer. I'll make the layer mask visible again by clicking on the layer thumbnail to show you how I was able to mask that content, so it appears to be growing out of this pot. I did the same thing again on this top layer, using a layer mask to make the content of a garden photograph appear to be growing out of a pot.
Moving away from image compositing for a second, another area in which layer masks are really important is enhancing photographs. You can use a layer mask to combine two different exposures of the same scene, taking the best part of each photograph. Here for example, I have two photographs, this dark photograph on one layer, and I'll make the layer mask invisible to show you the light version of the photograph on the top layer. Then I'll make the layer mask visible again so that you can see that I use that mask to combine parts of the light and the dark exposure.
Perhaps the most frequent use of layer masking is to limit the areas of a photo to which an adjustment layer applies. You can use adjustment layers to fix the exposure, the contrast, the color, and more in your photographs, and often, you don't want an adjustment to affect all parts of an image. So you can use the layer mask that comes with every adjustment layer, like this layer mask here on this Levels adjustment layer, to limit the areas affected by the adjustment. I will show you this mask by holding the Option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the PC and clicking on the layer mask thumbnail on the Levels layer.
This mask is hiding a Levels adjustment from all areas where there are black pixels on the mask, and it's allowing the Levels adjustment to be revealed or to show only where there are white and light gray pixels on this Levels adjustment layer. I'm going to Option or Alt click again on that layer mask thumbnail to go back to the original photograph. Similarly, if you add a fill layer, which acts much like an adjustment layer to an image, you can use a layer mask to limit the areas affected by that fill layer.
In this case, I have a blue fill layer that I added above the photograph, and then I added a layer mask to limit the area where that blue fill appears to adjust the tabletop around the objects. I will show you that layer mask by holding down the Option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the PC, and as you can see where there is black on this layer mask, that blue color fill is hidden when I go back to the original photograph. Layer masking is also important when you are doing portrait retouching.
Here I have applied a couple of adjustment layers, a Levels adjustment layer, and a Hue Saturation layer above the background photograph to try to reduce the amount of red and brighten the white of this subject's eye. If I make the layer masks inactive on these two adjustment layers, you can see how the image would look if these adjustments affected the entire image. But I have used these masks to limit the effect of both the Levels and the Hue Saturation adjustment to just the eye, with no effect on the rest of the image.
Adjustment layers and fill layers aren't the only Photoshop features that come with their own layer masks. If you apply filters as Smart Filters, you also get a layer mask automatically on the Smart Filter sublayer and you can add pixels to that layer mask to limit the areas to which the filter applies. In this case, I have applied a Blur filter. Without the layer mask, that blur would affect the entire image like this. But the black and gray pixels that I have added to this Smart Filter layer mask limit this blur to the area around the model, simulating a shallow depth of field effect.
Also of interest to photographers is the fact that you can use layer masks to creatively frame your images. For example, here I have added a layer mask to a photograph, filled that layer mask with black to hide most of the photograph, and then painted in with white paint the areas where I want the photograph to appear, resulting in this rather creative framing effect. So that's just a taste of the kinds of things that you can make using layer masks. I hope you are looking forward to learning how to make all of these effects and more as you work with me through the rest of this course.
- Adding grayscale pixels to layer masks to hide and show layer content
- Refining the edges of layer masks in the Refine Mask dialog box
- Using filters and adjustments to manipulate layer masks
- Blending photographs into composites by applying gradients to layer masks
- Using layer masks with Smart Objects and Adobe Camera Raw to combine different adjustments of the same photo
- Simulating shallow depth of field and targeting sharpening with Smart Filter masks


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Alex Grove and Simon Danielli grabbed the other tries before a late Youngdae Kim try got Japan on the scoreboard, and Barclay knows they need to up their game before they face the Pumas on June 12.
He said: "When we got the ball, we gave it away too cheaply. And, against a side like Argentina in two weeks' time, if we do that, we will be in a lot of bother.
"It was scrappy, but we came up against a really tenacious and aggressive Japanese team.
"At the break down, they were more aggressive than us and it made life really difficult for us.
"We got lessons learned as we know it is going to be like that in Argentina.
"So, a few issues to be looked at and resolved, but nothing that can't be fixed."


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Buffalo-Kokuyo announced this morning in Japan the BSKBB01, a new compact (266x21x124mm for 283g) Bluetooth 2.0 Class2 universal keyboard made to work with pretty much any PC (Windows, Mac Linux) or Bluetooth Capable Tablets and smartphones including Apple's one and even your PS3.
This new keyboard will be sold in Japan around March 2011 at around 4,400 Yen.
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Explosions kill 4 in northern Iraq
BAGHDAD — A trio of bombs exploded on Sunday in the northwest Iraq city of Mosul, killing four security officers and wounding seven other people, officials said.
The violence began with a car bomb that killed two soldiers and wounded another five, police officials said. A second bomb, which was placed under a vehicle, exploded, wounding two people. Later, a roadside bomb killed a police officer and a soldier.
A health official confirmed the casualties in an industrial area of the city, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.
A surge in violence is expected in Iraq in the lead- up to provincial elections on April 20.
Mosul is the capital of Ninevah province. The Iraqi government has delayed elections throughout the province because of violence.
Elections also have been delayed in the Sunni-dominated Anbar province in western Iraq.


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Hempfield accident injures motorcyclist
A Trafford man was seriously injured Friday after an accident on Route 30 in Hempfield, police said.
Daniel J. Brink, 24, was taken to UPMC hospital in Pittsburgh for what state police at Greensburg described as a "major injury."
Information about his condition could not be obtained Saturday from the hospital.
Brink was traveling east in the left lane of travel on Route 30 about 5:50 p.m. near Philip Lane when his Harley-Davidson collided with a 2013 Honda Accord driven by Melinda Jones, 51, of Somerset, police said.
The front wheel separated from the motorcycle and struck a westbound 2010 Dodge Avenger driven by Julie Buffalini, 48, of North Huntingdon, police said.
The motorcycle then collided with a westbound 2012 Subaru Forester driven by Steven Parker, 47, of Greensburg, police said.
Jones, Buffalini and Parker were not injured, police said.


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During an interview session at Shooting Star Chase charity fundraiser, the 'X Factor (US)' judge admits that marriage will 'probably not going to happen' with him.
Simon Cowell believes he won't end up being a married man. The 52-year-old TV personality attended a Shooting Star Chase charity fundraiser at The Dorchester hotel in London last Tuesday, February 21, and revealed during a Q&A session that he had made "65 marriage proposals" with no luck.
When asked about marriage by 16-year-old Sian Tolfree at the event hosted by publicist Max Clifford, the current judge of "The X Factor (US)" answered, "The truth is no-one will marry me." He went on to confess, "I must have made 65 marriage proposals and no-one's said yes so it's probably not going to happen."
Less than a month earlier, the former "American Idol" judge has also shared his doubt that he'd ever get married. "I don't know if I will ever get married, but I am happy," he said as he confirmed that he and his fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy "have had a break from each other." Of the break-up, he said, "I'm vulnerable. It's not on, it's not off, it's somewhere in the middle."


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The role of myosin phosphorylation in the contraction-relaxation cycle of smooth muscle
Considerable evidence from a variety of experimental procedures indicates that the phosphorylation of myosin is involved in the regulation of contractile activity in smooth muscle. Phosphorylation of the 20,000-dalton myosin light chains is required to initiate crossbridge cycling and this is consistent with the observation that the actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity of myosin is phosphorylation-dependent. In the simplest interpretation of this process it may be proposed that phosphorylation acts as an 'on-off' switch. Clearly this cannot explain the observed complexity of smooth muscle contractile behavior and such may imply either that additional mechanisms are involved or that the role of myosin phosphorylation is not fully appreciated. Recently it has been shown that monomeric smooth muscle myosin can exist in a 'folded' and an 'extended' conformation and that each form is characterized by distinct enzymatic properties. Under appropriate solvent conditions phosphorylation of myosin favors the extended conformation. It is tentatively suggest that this, or an analogous, transition might be involved in the regulation of the smooth muscle contractile apparatus, and this possibility is discussed.
Key wordsSmooth muscle regulation phosphorylation myosin conformation myosin light chain kinase
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Monday, January 14, 2013
STEVENTON—An excavation in Hampshire, England, has uncovered the brick foundations of Jane Austen's birthplace. She was born in the isolated village in 1775, and lived there until she was 25, when the family moved and the house was demolished. Pottery, china, storage jars, wine glass stems, and clay pipes recovered from the site indicate that the family was not wealthy. "You get the impression they were a hard-working family—they were into the good life," said project director Debbie Charlton.
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Basically there are two clear ways to gain admission into the electrical market. To being with we have the older apprentice course and then secondly we have the option for those who wish to make a career change to join the industry. To begin with we have the 'Junior Entrants' and then we have the 'Mature Entrants'.
Primarily, those who join the industry later on, (the Mature Entrants,) generally do so with the aim of becoming self-employed at some point, or to work on their own building projects etc. without having to pay wages to external electricians. On the other hand, to gain further credentials and experience 'Junior Entrants' tend to work for a recognised electrical firm. To be fair, young apprentices leaving school will have a lot of supplementary skills to learn during their early years as a working adult.
The two different ways into the industry have two separate methods of preparation. In essence, the Junior Entrants follow an NVQ syllabus, or SVQ syllabus in Scotland. As part of the training program an NVQ would be a requirement to attain. This means that work programs or apprenticeships have to be sought in order to arrange the necessary course work and testing phases of work.
By working independently and without the need for NVQ assessments, many Mature Entrants can concentrate on those areas that provide the biggest profit and offer the largest practical solutions for themselves. Having said that, the mature student does aim to gain the necessary skills to do the job, whilst at the same time reducing their training costs at all times. This system, although appearing to reduce the attributes laid out, does allow for a faster and more solid entry into the domestic market.
We should differentiate the prospective earnings into the two categories of employed and self-employed. With self-employment a person may be working on a part-time or full time basis -to that end we will assume they are working full time. The aptitude and talent for getting things done can affect the levels of salary as well as any experience or knowledge gained.
Wages for 'Junior Entrants' can become as high as 30,000 or more per annum with the right experience, although starting salaries are around 12,000. Mature Entrants are more difficult to assess, and incomes up to and above 70k are regularly reported within the UK Press. Irrespective of this salary level many self-employed people also need to manage extra business costs such as tools, clothes and vans. In addition to this they will also have to allow for items such as accountancy and personal/professional insurance. Whilst there is lots of available work, a severe skills shortage means electricians are very much in demand. Working 7 days a week is totally achievable for most people if they want it. Although by working very long hours and having assistants to help, the figures of 70-100 thousand advertised in newspapers might be achieved, it wouldn't be easy.
There is often a considerable differential between the working expectations of Mature or Junior Entrants. For a 'Junior Entrant', most work is on a simple working week basis. Whereas the Mature market can be more dependent on the domestic market for some - i.e. weekend and evening work, when their clients are available and back from work. This alters quite a bit, with lots of self employed electricians gaining much of their income from small office work, which is predominantly Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
If a Junior Electrician chooses an electrical career, then the main business actions of their company often dictate the type of expertise that they gain. But by securing work within the fields of gas or plumbing many mature entrants can gain knowledge outside of their chosen path. Certainly if they are employed within the domestic sector this makes it easier to take on work without having to rely upon other people.
An up to the minute angle - involving a new level of skills - is that of the so called 'Green Engineer'. The chance to win some big employment and business advantages within the governmental as well as the traditional growth sector means that this area could be attractive to both Junior and Mature Entrants alike. - 33376
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Rams 56, Pine Bluffs 52
SHERIDAN — The Big Horn Rams boys basketball team took down Pine Bluffs Saturday morning 56-52.
Leading scorer Colter Carzoli put up 23 points and took down nine rebounds. Devon Ibach scored 20 points and had nine rebounds. Max Lube had nine rebounds.
Coach Ryan Alley said though the team played well, defensive intensity was lacking.
"We've got a pretty tough weekend coming up in Wright in the Coal Miner's Classic," he said. "This weekend was all about figuring out what we need to fix and there are a lot of things we can work on this week like being more consistent throughout the games and sheering up defense."
The team opens a tournament next weekend in Glenrock, facing the 3A school, and then will take on Thermopolis, who had a good weekend this past weekend, and finally will face Greybull, who according to coach Alley, is going to be one of the top teams in the 2A West conference.
Lady Rams start 0-3
SHERIDAN — The Big Horn Lady Rams basketball team fell to the Lusk Lady Tigers Saturday afternoon in the Tiger Jamboree, closing out their opening weekend 0-3.
They fell to Lusk 42-57. Leading scorers Bailey Bard and Hanneah Puckett contributed 16 and 12 points respectively. Coach Mike Daley said the young team will go through some rough spots early in the year, but just needs to keep playing.
"We're going to have to get them some playing time to get some experience," he said of the newcomers. "As long as we can keep that in perspective and keep practicing, we'll be fine at the end of the year, but we've got some tough growing pains ahead."
From Friday, Burns defeated Big Horn 55-43.
Big Horn fell twice Friday, but saw good things in getting experience on the floor for the first time this year, Daley said.
Against Burns, Bard scored 20 points and Puckett scored 13.
Pine Bluffs beat the Lady Rams 59-57 in their nightcap.
Daley said that the result was probably more than anything attributed to conditioning as they were outscored in fourth quarter.
"We certainly need to work on our free throws," he said after his team shot 4-9 and Pine Bluffs went 10-12.
"We can build on and get better at a lot of things," Daley added. "Another good game with getting a lot of kids experience."
Puckett scored 30 points and Emily Blaney added seven.
Eagles off to 1-3 start
SHERIDAN — Tongue River won one of three games this weekend at the Thermopolis Invitational.
The Eagles fell to Shoshoni Friday night 57-67.
Wyatt Main led the team with 24 points, with Lane Dockery the only other player to score double digits with 10 of his own. Austin Scammon was top rebounder with seven.
In game one on Saturday, the Eagles fell to Thermopolis 37-52. Scammon was top rebounder again with eight. Matt Yellowtail was the top scorer putting up 13.
"We started off slow, they built up a pretty sizable lead and we were down by 25, but got it to seven. We couldn't come all the way back," head coach Robert Griffin said.
"I thought we played better," he said of the second game, "but we just didn't have some shots fall or make some key passes that we needed to make."
The men closed out the weekend tournament with a victory against St. Stephens, 96-60.
"We moved the ball really well all weekend," Griffin said. "We just have to get a little more fine tuned. I felt pretty good about a lot of things."
Main, Scammon, Yellowtail and Chase Linhart all put up double-digits for the team who scored 54 points in the fourth quarter alone. Scammon and Yellowtail had four rebounds each.
The TR boys face Rocky Mountain at home on Friday before heading to Lovell on Saturday.
Lady Eagles push win-streak to 31 games
SHERIDAN — Tongue River girls basketball pushed their winning streak to 31 games, starting 3-0 on the year at the Thermopolis Invitational.
Tongue River defeated Thermopolis 37-24 in their first game Saturday.
Leading scorers were Shiloh Blumel with 10 points, Amanda Buller with nine points and Erin Aksamit with eight points. Aksamit also led the team in rebounds along with Kortni Sharp, the two bringing down nine apiece.
Coach Dianne Moser attributed the win to decent defense, more balanced scoring and cutting down the number of turnovers from Friday's game.
After an hour and a half break the ladies beat St. Stephens 61-45.
With a rough start to the game, TR went in to the half down 20-31 after several 3-point shots from St. Stephens.
"In the second half we came out and switched to man-to-man and put some full court pressure on them," Moser said. "We scored 22 points in the third to break the game open and take home the win."
Looking ahead, TR has two tough non-conference games this week facing Rocky Mountain at home on Friday and then heading to Lovell on Saturday.


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This is a list of List of characters in the Killzone franchise.
Main charactersEdit
Tomas "Sev" Sevchenko Edit
SFC. Tomas Sevchenko is the main protagonist in Killzone 2 and Killzone 3 and voiced by Demetri Goritsas in Killzone 2. [1] Sev strongly believes it is his patriotic duty to defend his Vektan homeland from Helghast aggression. He is a natural born leader and displays a responsible, by-the-book approach to his duties. Sev was drafted into Alpha Squad when his service record attracted the attention of Commander Templar, who saw something of himself in the promising young soldier. In Killzone 3, he and the rest of the surviving ISA Troops are trying to escape from the planet Helghan, but the Helghast make this task seemingly impossible for them.
His character is based on Jake Gyllenhaal, whom he resembles, with a faux hawk. His name is also a reference to a character in Tears of the Sun, Kelly Lake (Johnny Messner), who screams "SEVCHENKO" every time on screen.
Jan Templar Edit
Captain Jan Templer is the main protagonist of Killzone and Killzone: Liberation. He is a Special Forces Captain, and a born leader. He is called into the fight by General Vaughton. He and Luger used to be in an intimate relationship, but after seeing how much Luger had changed, she now is a colder, more calculated person. ("Trained to think, not feel. Act, instead of reflect," as Hakha puts it.) Just before the events of Killzone, it is revealed that an attempt was made on his life in the manual, although it does not specify why or by whom. According to the manual, the assassination attempt was made with an ISA sniper rifle "stolen recently from an SD Platform reserve munitions store". This has led some players to believe that General Adams (or someone under his command) was the culprit. He can handle almost all situations, and can handle all forms of ISA weaponry well. He can use Helghast weaponry fairly well too, these attributes makes him a versatile soldier capable of adapting to different situations.
He highlights his vital importance to holding a besieged Vekta's defences with an epic display during the invasion of his homdland, perhaps most stirringly when tensions between in his new unit escalate after a brutal battle at the docks between Hakha and Rico where Templar furiously yells that for them to survive the slim odds, they need to work as a team, and is constantly keeping the unit bonded together.
He has a habit of quoting movies and TV shows during battle (i.e. "You feel lucky?" "I love it when a plan comes together!" from the Dirty Harry movies and the A-team, respectively).
He returns (non-playable) as a Colonel in Killzone 2 and the commander of the ISA Cruiser New Sun from which the ISA will commence the Operation Archangel, which is seizing control of Helgan and arresting Scolar Visari.
Templar has been ordered to coordinate the ISA assault on Helghan and to capture Visari alive. Privately, after all he has been through, he has doubts about how prepared the ISA is for a prolonged offensive, but Templar has become the poster boy for the war and must toe the political line. He would rather be fighting with his men on the front line.
Templar is killed by Colonel Radec on the bridge of the New Sun, but before he dies he successfully crashes the New Sun into Tharsis Refinery, cutting off power in Pyrrhus and the arc tower there.
Templar has had a militaristic lineage; his father was an ISA soldier (K.I.A) while his godfather was General Vaughan (K.I.A) who recruited him early and Templar exceeded his blistering potential as an extremely sophisticated soldier.
Dante Garza Edit
Cpl. Dante Garza is a loyal, optimistic and likable character- an effective team player. A close companion of Sev, the pair have served together in several campaigns before being assigned to Alpha. Dante Garza is a complex soldier, full of contradictions and complications. Initially born into wealth and privilege, he rejected his upbringing and refused to comply with the demands that his elite status placed upon him. After being sent in desperation to a military academy, he found the thing his life had been missing in the company of his fellow cadets. During the events of Killzone 2, Garza was mortally wounded and K.I.A.
Rico Velasquez Edit
SSG/MSG. Rico Velasquez, born in the slums of Vekta city, is the toughest, slowest, and biggest Helghast-hating character in the original Killzone, swearing almost constantly. He apparently went crazy and sought revenge after the Helghast wiped out his entire platoon, leaving him the lone survivor. He has tried to get Hakha killed or restrained from the moment they met, and the two often make jokes at one another (with Hakha usually getting the last laugh, because Rico doesn't understand what he's saying). By the end of the game, Rico and Hakha seem to respect each other. Rico's unique skills: since he's not very mobile, he cannot build or climb like the others. However, he has the most constitution out of all the characters, capable of taking surprising amounts of damage. He is also the most proficient with heavy weaponry, and can carry more ammo for such weapons. Plus, he carries the most destructive of all weapons in the game, a Chaingun/Rocket launcher that can shred infantry and tank alike. He is depicted as the stereotypical hoodlum, and frequently uses street slang.
He returns in Killzone 2. A battle-hardened veteran of the war on Vekta and a superbly effective soldier, although dangerously overly emotional, Rico now heads up Alpha Squad. Harbouring deep resentment towards Helghast for the massacre of his original unit, he is often involved in the ISA's more 'rough and tumble' assignments. He is responsible for the death of Visari. Despite his intense hatred of the Helghast, he appeared to spare the life of a Helghan engineer during the events of Tharsis Refinery.
He also appears in Killzone 3 in which he and the rest of the ISA soldiers try to escape the Helghan Planet. It is quite noticeable that Rico swears a lot less this time around, though he still does it from time to time. He is only playable in the single player campaign of the original Killzone, and playable in Killzone: Liberation's multiplayer mode. Killzone 3 was his last appearance and he is not referenced in any games after it.
Gregor Hakha Edit
A half-human, half Helghast who works for the Colonial Intelligence Service in the ISA as a secret agent. He was General Lente's former chief of staff; who is responsible for the invasion plans on Vekta. Holding the rank of Colonel, Hakha was rescued from Helghast besieging his position by Captain Templar, Sergeant Rico and Shadow Marshal Luger and worked with them in defeating General Lente. It is later revealed Lente killed his brother on Helghan for his opposition to Scolar Visari. He is the expert in Helghast weaponry and technology and also possesses a knife. Since he is half Helghast, Hakha is able to bypass sensors and traps that would normally be activated if one were not Helghast (i.e. laser tripwires). He also regenerates faster than an ordinary human. He seems to be quite intelligent, judging by his vocabulary, and sometimes quotes philosophers and writers, such as Shakespeare. He often clashes with Rico because of his Helghan heritage. Hakha usually manages to have the last word, often due to Rico's inability to understand his replies.
It is implied by Lente that Hakha's Helgan ancestry is maternal but this is never confirmed or explicitly stated. Lente comments on Hakha's mother believes him to be dead, thereby implying that she resides on Helghan and is most likely a Helghast.
Hakha only appears in Killzone and Killzone: Liberation. He speaks no lines in Liberation, but speaks quite a lot in Killzone. He is not referenced in any games after Liberation.
He was voiced by British actor Sean Pertwee, who also voiced Radec in Killzone 2.
Shawn Natko Edit
Cpl. Shawn Natko is an experienced soldier of the same generation as Rico, Natko made a steady rise through ISA ranks before joining Alpha Squad. On occasion he can be somewhat cynical and pessimistic. He has no great ideological drive to fight; he's not motivated by love of Vekta, love of the Army or a love of freedom. Despite his lack of higher ideals, and despite the constant griping and cynicism for which he is famous, he possesses a seemingly indestructible spirit. After the death of Dante Garza, he feels mad now that his teammates treat him as if he was Garza (telling him to hack a door etc.). Natko is last seen entering Visari's throne room alongside Narville at the end of Killzone 2.
Though he does not have a role in Killzone 3, if playing the co-op campaign, Natko is used as the second player's character.
Shadow Marshal Luger Edit
A Shadow Marshal within the ISA, Luger is an assassin who excels in stealth based operations. She is skilled in the use of hand-to-hand combat as well as infiltration missions. Possessing a ruthless personality that shows no mercy in combat, Luger has an "ice queen" disposition. In battle, she prefers to get close to her opponents in order to make the killing blow. Attractive but unapproachable, she is a cold and calculating person who puts the mission ahead of anything else. She noted that she graduated from the academy six weeks early and it appears that her and Jan were lovers at one point.
Her last appearance was in Killzone: Liberation as Templar's information and intelligence officer. She is not referenced in any games after Liberation.
Evelyn Batton Edit
A scientist and part of the crew General Stratson assigned to develop the nuclear weapons to bomb Vekta to rid Vekta of the Helghast menace. In Killzone: Liberation she was a VIP that Templar needed to save in Rayhoven and later on in a Helghast base where she was tortured for the ID codes needed to activate the nuclear weapons the Helghast stole. Despite being part of the crew creating the weapons, she was completely against Stratson's plan of bombing Vekta. In Killzone 2, she accompanies Templar on the New Sun as mission support, but is killed by Radec when he assaults the ship.
Formerly the ISA's lead weapons researcher, Batton was responsible for developing the nuclear weapons which have now fallen into Helghast hands. Rescued from captivity by Templar during the Helghast invasion of Vekta, she was tasked with locating and neutralizing the stolen nuclear weapons. She was killed in Killzone 2 when Radec shoots her after seeing her attempting to delete the launch codes from the New Sun's database.
Jason Narville Edit
Captain Jason Narville is a career soldier and amongst the best leaders in the ISA Marines who first appeared in Killzone 2. Captain Jason Narville was actually secondment to the UCA on Earth when the Helghast invasion struck. Incensed by the attack on his home-world, Narville made it back barely in time for the mopping up of the remaining Helghast invaders on the southern continent. Feeling ashamed at having not been there when his world needed him, Narville is determined to show the worth of his training during the invasion of Helghast itself. During the invasion, he was the commander of convoy Avenger. With determination, good planning, and the help of his men, he successfully led the assault to gain control of Visari Square. His orders in Killzone 3 results in the almost total destruction of the remaining ISA forces on Helghan.[2] His last appearance was in Killzone 3, and he is not referenced in any games after it.
Arran Danner Edit
Arran Danner is a mercenary, who worked with the Phantom Talon Corp from 2352 to 2359. He is the main protagonist of "Killzone: Mercenary".
Lucas Kellan Edit
Shadow Marshal Lucas Kellan is the main protagonist of Killzone Shadow Fall. Lucas is an orphan whose dad was killed by a Helghast in the beginning of the game (with a young Kellan watching). Lucas was taken in by Shadow Marshal Thomas Sinclair (who eventually became the director of the Vektan Security Agency). Lucas and his father met Sinclair on their attempted escape. Years later, Lucas has become a fully and highly decorated officer of the Shadow Marshal clan and is working under Sinclair as Sinclair's most trusted agent. As the game progresses, Kellan sees the hardship the Helghast people endure on New Helghan and begins questioning if what he is doing is right with the help of Echo (a half-Helghast, half-Vektan female soldier). Kellan sides with Echo to try and prevent another war, which Sinclair does not agree with. At the game's climax, Kellan finally reaches Stahl on Helghan. Stahl congratulates Kellan on reaching him before being killed by Sinclair. Expressing his disappointment in Kellan as he was his most trusted agent, Sinclair also kills Kellan.
Minor charactersEdit
Original trilogy / Liberation Edit
Bradley Vaughton Edit
General Bradley Vaughton was a General in the ISA Army on Vekta and father figure to Cpt. Templer. When the Helghast invaded, he ordered Templer to meet up with agent Luger in a rescue mission. He willingly went to the SD Platform shortly afterwards to hand control of the Platform to General Adams. Shortly afterwards, he discovered that the SD Platform was under the control of the Helghast. Soon after the revelation, he was killed by a Helghan trooper on the orders of General Adams.
Billinghurst Edit
Pvt/Cpl. Billinghurst first appears in the original Killzone to help guide Cpt. Templar through a burning section of a bombed out ISA HQ. In Killzone 2, he appears on the ISA Cruiser New Sun while it is being attacked by Helghast Leech Pods. Sgt. Tomas "Sev" Sevchenko becomes trapped with Pvt/Cpl. Billinghurst in a security airlock, which leads to the cruiser's AA-guns. Because the security camera system on the New Sun is down, the frightened crew refuses to let anyone pass through the airlock without matching their identity against the Cruiser's personnel database. After Corporal Billinghurst provides his name, rank and serial number, the crew promptly opens the doors so that Sev can proceed to the AA-guns.[3][1]
Heff Milcher Edit
Heff Milcher was the Minister for War for the ISA Government on Vekta. He planned to support General Stratson's plan to use nuclear weapons at a secret meeting at the Rayhoven Base. When the Helghast during the attack on Rayhoven Island, he escaped on board with other high-ranking officials on an attack helicopter which shortly afterwards was shot down. Captured by the Helghast, he was killed by Colonel Cobar (and \ or Dwight Stratson) shortly afterwards. His death was witnessed by Captain Templar.
Jammer Edit
A female ISA soldier introduced in Killzone 3. She is one of the survivors of the Vektan invasion fleet marooned on Helghan following the death of the Helghast Autarch Scolar Visari and the annihilation of the ISA armada sent to pacify the planet.
A young woman with a Hispanic appearance, Jammer serves alongside Rico and his Raider unit as they seek a way off the planet. She appears to possess some technical skill, including knowledge of Helghast mechanical and computer systems. She is voiced by La'Myia Good. Killzone 3 is her only appearance and she is not referenced in any games following it.
Mercenary Edit
Damian Ivanov Edit
Damian Ivanov is a former soldier in the UCN Army and a native of Vekta. After leaving the UCN, he became a mercenary with Anders Benoit's Phantom Talon Corps along with Arran Danner, also a former UCN soldier. The two of them work together on several missions for the ISA during the Helghast invasion of Vekta in the Second Extrasolar War, including rescuing ISA Admiral Alex Grey from Helghast Colonel Vyktor Kratek. During one assignment, in which he and Danner are tasked to scuttle a downed Helghast cruiser, Ivanoff finds himself trapped by the ship's security systems and perishes in the blast after urging Danner to flee. In contrast to the other mercenaries, Ivanoff is ideologically committed to defeating the Helghast following their invasion of his homeworld. He thus serves as a stark foil to Benoit, who is chiefly concerned with profiting from the war.
Anders Benoit Edit
Anders Benoit was a well-informed, well-connected and totally money-oriented mercenary. He was also the commander and co-founder of the Phantom Talon Corp private military company.
Sepp Harkin Edit
Sepp Harkin is the Vektan ambassador on Helgan. His moral philosophy is "A man shows his best when things are worst". In the beginning of Killzone: Mercenary, he leaks intel about Admiral Grey still being alive, as she is good friends with him. Later on in the game, the Vektan Embassy on Helgan is attacked by Kratek, as he's been declared an enemy of the state. He's killed in the subsequent crossfire next to his wife.
Justus Harkin Edit
Justus Harkin is the son of the Vektan ambassador Sepp Harkin, and a Helghast woman, Valeria Harkin. He is therefore half human and half Helghast.
Alex Grey Edit
Admiral Alex Gray commands naval forces in Killzone: Mercenary for the ISA. In the beginning of the game, she's captured by Kratek and interrogated. She is wounded during interrogation but survives. She is a strict, no-nonsense commander. After being wounded however, she becomes more determined to exact her revenge, bordering on insanity. She is killed by Arran Danner.
Blackjack Edit
Blackjack is a mysterious arms dealer with a Russian accent. He describes himself as "like shadow, you can see but cannot touch". He supplies Arran Danner with all the weapons he needs, and assists him if profit comes from his survival. When Danner gets involved in a bioweapon crisis, Blackjack convinces him to destroy it in order to prolong the war, and thus make him more money.
Shadow Fall Edit
Thomas Sinclair Edit
Once a Shadow Marshal, Thomas Sinclair quickly rose through the ranks and became the director of the Vektan Security Agency (VSA).
Michael Kellan Edit
Michael is the father of Lucas Kellan, the main protagonist of Killzone Shadow Fall. He was only seen in the beginning of the game where he was murdered by a patrol Helghast who he accidentally alarmed.
Helghast Empire Edit
Imperial Family Edit
Scolar Visari Edit
Autarch Scolar Visari is one of the main antagonists in the Killzone series and was voiced by Brian Cox.[4] He was the ruler of the Helghast Empire and was responsible for the re-militarization of the Helghan troops after their defeat following the First Helghan War. He succeeded in launching an invasion of one of ISA's colonial planets, Vekta, to avenge what he saw as the abandonment and abuse of the Helghast.
Scolar Visari did not interact with any character within the first game outside of the introductory cinematic, but he was commonly referred to by various individuals other than the Helghast soldiers. He also can be heard at the end of Killzone: Liberation stating that the Helghast now have nuclear weapons and will be expecting the ISA assault on Helghan.
Born to a wealthy family of Helghan nationalists, Visari forged the militaristic Helghast state and made himself its absolute ruler. A visionary leader, gifted orator, and master tactician, his audacious attacks on Vekta led the Helghast to the brink of victory, in his eyes, avenging centuries of perceived wrongs. He was descended from one of the original families that colonized Helghan and is the heir to the Visari Corporation, one of the largest corporations on the planet and Helghans second largest weapons maker after Stahl Arms.
During the events of Killzone 2, the ISA's main objective was the capture and arrest of Visari for his crimes. When Sev and Rico finally reached Visari to capture him, Visari warned them that he was the only thing that keeps the Helghans under control, and his capture or death would cause the entire Helghan nation to fall into chaos, causing untold numbers of casualties for both sides. Rico, unable to keep his emotions in check, killed Visari. It is then after Visari is lying in his throne room that he muttered his last words, "The madness begins".
Within the game, he is described as being 51 years old. In the introductory cutscene of Killzone 3 (depicting a flashback of Visari's last address to his people, seconds before he launches the nuclear devastation of his own capitol, Phyrrus) it is shown that he has a never-before mentioned daughter (wearing a royal, princess-like dress) who greets him with respect. On New Helghan (the portion of Vekta that Helghast now live on), there is statue memorializing Visari. This is seen in Killzone Shadow Fall.
Hera Visari Edit
The daughter of Scolari Visari, she is the Chancellor of New Helghan in Killzone Shadow Fall.
"Echo" Edit
Echo is said to be a half-breed hooded assassin. Echo may or may not be a love interest for Lucas Kellan in Killzone Shadow Fall. Her real name is Maya Visari and she is the daughter of Hera Visari.
Military commanders Edit
Joseph Lente Edit
General Joseph Lente is the Commander-in-Chief of the Helghan Third Army, directly under the command of Scolar Visari in Killzone. Lente led the Helghan First Assault Division onto Planet Vekta, establishing several beachheads from which to conduct further operations. Lente is extremely devoted to leading the Helghan Army in the right direction, and despises humanity. When he is finally defeated by the ISA squad led by Templar, he tells Hakha of how he had personally killed his brother for his pro-human beliefs. Upon hearing this, Hakha kills him. He is voiced by Steven Berkoff.
Armin Metrac Edit
Armin Metrac has his only appearance in Killzone: Liberation where he is the main antagonist. Visari personally ordered Metrac to conquer Vekta. He is a sadist who will stop at nothing to achieve his goal. Metrac is different from other Helghast males; he has hair and an athletic build. He is also charismatic and is known by his cruel interrogation techniques and committing massacres against human soldiers and civilians. He was killed while engaging Captain Jan Templar in combat at his secret mountaintop fortress. It had been debated that he is not technically Helghast, and that he's really a human that has gained favor from Scolar Visari. It was recently revealed on the unlockable content (accessible only on the game contents) that he is a Helghast of Polish descent who has evolved to the point that he can breathe in both Helghan and Earth-like atmospheres.
Admiral Orlock Edit
Admiral Orlock is the secondary antagonist of Killzone 3. He is the Commander in Chief of the Helghan military and, following Visari's death, takes complete command of Helghan Nation along with the High Council. Jorhan Stahl persistently challenged his leadership, trying to take over command of Helghan. When Stahl attempted to sway the Senate by broadcasting the assassination of ISA Captain Narville to the entire planet and was humiliated at the hands of Sev and Rico, who rescued Narville, the Senators made Orlock the heir to Visari's throne and their new Autarch. In a final confrontation with Stahl, however, Orlock is killed with one of Stahl Arms' manufactured weapons, the Arc Cannon. He is voiced by Ray Winstone.
Military personnel Edit
Tendon Cobar Edit
Colonel Tendon Cobar is Metrac's loyal friend and a sociopathic officer in the Helghan military in Killzone: Liberation. Known as "White death" due to the number of people he has killed, he is feared even by his own troops. Metrac himself had personally recruited him in the final months of the Vektan invasion due to his loyalty and high kill count. He killed Heff Milcher on the orders of his superiors. Shortly afterwards, he engaged Templar at the Helghast Firebird Base in his personal tank. Despite overwhelming odds, Templar manages to disable his tank and question him regarding the whereabouts of Evelyn Batton and General Stratson. Cobar instead rebuffs the questions claiming that the Vektan Government had another traitor. When he suddenly draws his pistol, and prepares to kill Templar, he is shot and killed by the recently escaped Stratson.
Mael Radec Edit
Colonel Mael Radec, known as the "Hound of Visari," is the commander of Visari's personal guard and the main antagonist of Killzone 2. Formerly an Academy Commandant, he is highly evolved for his function. Radec is utterly focused on his duties and maintaining order and discipline - in Killzone 2 he had two Helghast grunts executed for "uniform violations." While a gifted tactician, he is merely a competent strategist. His genius lies not in the planning, but in the fighting of battles. Radec is noted for leading from the front in battle. He combines situational awareness with a near-perfect assessment of the capabilities of both his own men and the opposing force. In personal combat he is ruthless, vicious and overwhelming. During the battle for Helghan, Radec manages to board the ISA cruiser New Sun and kills both Templar and Evelyn in an attempt to steal the ISA's nuclear launch codes. He is later defeated by Sev and Rico during their assault on Visari's palace. Rather than be captured, Radec commits suicide. He is voiced by British actor Sean Pertwee, who had voiced Hakha in Killzone. He is seen during the flashblack in Killzone 3. Radec is a playable character in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
Vyktor Kratek Edit
Colonel Vyktor Kratek appears as an antagonist in Killzone: Mercenary. The player character, mercenary Arran Danner, first encounters him after his forces have captured the ISA research facility at Diortem and its commander, Admiral Alex Grey. He returns to Helghan after the ISA manages to thwart the invasion of Vekta, upon which he resumes research into a bioweapon developed by Dr. Mandor Savic based on an ISA viral agent. Savic foils Kratek's plans to unleash the weapon on Vekta by injecting the virus's trigger into Justus Harkin, the son of the Vektan ambassador on Helghan. Danner manages to secure both the boy and Dr. Savic, turning them over to Admiral Grey.
Following a mission to destroy one of the petrusite refineries under Kratek's control, Danner is betrayed by his employer, Anders Benoit, and left to die as the refinery explodes. Sensing an opportunity, Kratek sends a dropship to rescue Danner and forces him to cooperate in re-capturing Savic from Admiral Grey.
Kratek informs Danner that Grey intends to develop the bioweapon further and use it to exterminate the Helghast, and enlists his aid in freeing Savic and killing Grey. While promising Danner a reward, Kratek secretly intends to kill him once he recovers the virus. Danner succeeds in rescuing Savic, and the doctor provides him with information on Grey and the virus's location. However, on Savic's warning, Danner turns off his communicator, thus keeping this information secret from Kratek and prolonging his usefulness to the Helghast.
Danner then joins a contingent of Kratek's troops in assaulting a mobile research facility to recover the virus. Danner manages to recover a sample and kill Grey, at which point Kratek's forces turn on him. Danner succeeds in fighting his way to the upper decks where Kratek is waiting for him. Before he can kill Danner, however, Kratek himself is killed after Benoit shoots him.
C. Borischek Edit
C. Borischek, often just called "Boris," is a Helghast heavy trooper and bodyguard protecting the family of Ambassador Sepp Harkin, the Vektan envoy to Helghan during the Second Extrasolar War. He has grown attached to the family over the years, in particular Harkin's son, Justus, though he still seems to regard Vektans in general with some disdain. When Kratek's troops assault the embassy, Boris seeks to protect them. Despite his efforts, the Ambassador and his wife are killed. Boris is angered by the killing of civilians, condemning the Helghast soldiers who would resort to such tactics. In fulfilling the Ambassador's last request, Boris assists Danner in rescuing Justus. He stays behind in the embassy to hold off Kratek's men, sacrificing himself in the process.
During the game, Boris can be killed prior to the player's escape from the embassy, leaving the player to fend for him or herself for the remainder of the level. There is also an unresolved discrepancy regarding his service to the Harkins. It is indicated that Boris has served as the Harkins' bodyguard for five years, but Boris himself later states that he did "a tour on Vekta," suggesting that he participated in the invasion of Vekta two years prior. It is unclear whether he was temporarily relieved from his bodyguard duties for a time or if this was an oversight by the game developers.
Jorhan Brimve Stahl Edit
Jorhan Brimve Stahl is the main antagonist of Killzone 3. He appears to be in his 50s or 60s with white hair. His father was the founder of the Stahl Arms Corporation and he is the current Chairman of the company. Stahl Arms is the largest arms manufacturer on Helghan in intense competition with Visari Corporation. He also is never seen with a re-breather like all other Helghast (with the exception of Visari, Orlock, Lente, Metrac, Hakha, and the Helghan counsel). For a civilian he holds extraordinary sway over Helghan politics and the military industrial complex. He competes with Admiral Orlock to become the heir to Visari's throne. Due to circumstance based on a decision by the Helghan High Counsel, Orlock is made the heir and replaces Visari as Autarch. In a final confrontation with Orlock, Stahl uses his manufactured Arc Cannon and kills Orlock. His plans were to completely destroy all of Earth's inhabitants, but his plan is thwarted by Sev, Rico, and Jammer when they stop his ship and nuke it, which subsequently nukes the planet of Helghan. His fate was previously unknown; in a mid-credit scene, two HAZMAT Troopers scanning the irradiated surface approach a landed vessel, which subsequently opens. The occupant inside is not revealed, but the troops bow and one of them says "Welcome home, sir." While unclear at the time, most speculation posited that this survivor was Stahl.
With the release of Killzone Shadow Fall (set 30 years after Killzone 3), it was revealed that Stahl had indeed survived and has been working behind the scenes with Vladko Tyran's Black Hand organization. Shadow Marshal Lucas Kellan uncovers Stahl's plans to use a bioweapon created by ISA defector Dr. Hillary Massar to wipe out the Vektans and half-breeds (half-human, half-Helghast), thus paving the way for the Helghast to reclaim Vekta. After traveling to Helghan and later joining forces with the Helghast agent Echo in an effort to prevent a new war, Kellan discovers a massive armada within the ruins of the planet, revealing that Stahl has been working to rebuild the Helghan Empire in the years since the Terracide (when Helghan was nuked with petrusite at the end of Killzone 3). Stahl unleashes his forces on the Vektan fleet, including Massar's weapon, as it assaults Stahl's fortress. Kellan manages to fight his way through Stahl's troops and finds the once would-be Autarch on life-support in a chamber at the apex of the base. Stahl congratulates Kellan on reaching him and tells him that the Vektans are weak because, unlike the Helghast, they lack a unifying belief. He also argues that the Terracide was necessary to destroy the weak and that Vekta must undergo the same process, presumably by means of Massar's bioweapon. At that moment, however, Thomas Sinclair, Director of the Vektan Security Agency and Kellan's commanding officer who had been leading the attack, appears and kills Stahl and then Kellan, who Sinclair says he can no longer trust.
He is voiced by Malcolm McDowell in Killzone 3 and by Gideon Emery in Killzone Shadow Fall. He is seen smoking a cigarette twice throughout Killzone 3. He claims Orlock predictable because Orlock follows in Visari's footsteps after his death in Killzone 2, and also believes that the Terracide was a good thing from an evolutionary standpoint.
High Council Edit
Gunsteling Edit
Senator Gunsteling is a member of the Helghast Senate, also known as the High Council. He is described as being the oldest and most decrepit Senator who was strongly disliked by Jorhan Stahl, a feeling which appeared to be mutual. Gunsteling is notable for having the most speaking roles of all the Senators, appearing to be a rather influential member who directs the Senate's meetings and sat with Orlock and Stahl at Visari's memorial service. He was a strong supporter of Admiral Orlock to succeed Visari as Autarch, only furthering his negative relationship with Stahl. By the end of Killzone 3 his fate is unknown, leaving it to question whether or not he survived the irradiation of Helghan that appeared to kill off most of the population. He is easily recognizable due to his use of a nasal cannula placed into his nostrils, in addition to a small white mustache partially concealed by the hose of the cannula. Although the use of a nasal cannula is usually to provide oxygen to its user, the tube does not appear to be attached to anything that resembles an oxygen tank. He is never referred to by name in Killzone 3, instead being one of the only two named Senator's in the Killzone 3 Collector's Guide.
Kuisma Edit
Senator Kuisma is a member of the Helghast Senate, also known as the High Council. An old and seemingly benign white haired man, Senator Kuisma had a rather obsessive infatuation with young boys. Due to his recklessness in pursuing this desire, his secret was discovered by Jorhan Stahl who promptly black mailed him by threatening to reveal his secret to the entire Helghast Empire unless he used his membership in the Senate to convince the other members to give Stahl complete control over the military over Orlock. Kuisma feared potential publicity and humiliation, and so complied with Stahl's wishes. In the end, his motion to hand Stahl complete military control was denied with no other Senators casting support to the idea. Kuisma appeared to have no reservations about electing Orlock as Autarch over Stahl, seen to sit idly by as Orlock and Gunsteling demanded Stahl surrender his assets to them. His fate after the events of Killzone 3 are unknown, the possibility remaining that he was killed when Helghan's atmosphere became irradiated. Like Gunsteling, he is never directly named in Killzone 3, but is one of the only two Senators named in the Killzone 3 Collector's Guide.
Allies Edit
Stuart Adams Edit
General Stuart Adams was the Supreme Commander of the Vekta SD Platform. In the first Killzone, he is the main antagonist and is voiced by Ronny Cox.
Adams first appeared in the title's introduction when the Helghast fleet begins its invasion of Vekta. He orders the Space Defense Platforms to fire in defense, but a weapons malfunction is detected and the fleet passes by unhindered (presumably, Adams disarmed them himself). In the middle of the fifth level of the game, the player discovers that Adams is a traitor who is cooperating with General Lente, the commander of the 3rd Helghan Army, and is planning to use the SD Platform to destroy the soon-to-arrive Earth Fleet which has been sent to assist Vekta.
It is unclear why Adams had betrayed the ISA, although he obviously wants to be looked upon favorably by Scolar Visari, the leader of the Helghast. Near the end of the game he speaks of "the visions Visari has shown him". He kills General Vaughton, one of the commanders of the ISA army defending Vekta, after retrieving his key which is necessary to gain control of the SD Platform weapons. After the player's team, an elite ISA squad led by Cpt. Jan Templar, discovers Adams' betrayal, getting aboard the SD platform in order to stop him becomes their main objective.
Adams' continuing failure to kill Templar's squad forces General Lente to take over the assignment although he is no more successful. At the end of the game, when Templar manages to breach and destroy the SD Platform, Adams tells him in defeat that his death will not solve anything and that the Helghast will never surrender. He is then crushed by falling debris from the crumbling platform while Templar and his crew manage to escape.
Dwight Stratson Edit
General Dwight Stratson was a General in the ISA army appearing in Killzone: Liberation. He betrayed the ISA and was key to the Helghast invasion of Vekta. He is first seen during a rescue mission into Rayhoven Base. After rescuing the General, Heff Milcher and Evelyn Batton have their aircraft shot down over enemy territory in the swamps. After a second rescue mission resulted in Heff Milcher's death by Colonel Cobar and the subsequent assassination of the Helghan Colonel by the now rescued General, Stratson immediately places himself in command of the war effort. Upon discovery of Metrac's hidden fortress, he orders it to be destroyed through an air strike. In Chapter 5, it is revealed that Stratson has since secretly taken control of the Helghast invasion force following Metrac's death. Framing Rico for treason and secretly handing the majority of the "Rayhoven Nukes" to the Helghan Emperor, he then proceeds to capture Sedah City with his Elite Guard and the remaining Helghan ground troops by giving them uniforms and codes to access the city via the sewers. During the Battle of Sedah City, it is also revealed that he was behind a number of high-profile assassinations involving key generals and politicians that were running the war. After the initial invasion force is repelled, he is forced to retreat into the Royal Palace with his Elite Guard and all remaining Helghan troops. Templar fights his way to him and confronts Stratson who admits to betraying the ISA. After a fight with his troops, he openly engages Templar wearing an advanced Mecha suit. Upon his defeat, he is arrested by security troops on charges of treason.
Dr. Hillary Massar Edit
Hillary Massar is a scientist with the ISA who later defects to New Helghan. Her research focuses on the biological distinction between human and Helghast. With this expertise, she is able to develop bioweapons that target one race or the other. When she joins the Helghast, she begins working on a version that will destroy the human population of Vekta, thus allowing the Helghast to reclaim the planet. Shadow Marshal Kellan and ISA forces manage to recapture her from a Helghast facility. However, the Helghast agent Echo appears and convinces Kellan to join her in preventing renewed war. Kellan thus stands down, allowing Echo to kill Massar. However, her weapon is completed, and Jorhan Stahl uses it against the ISA fleet gathering near Helghan, devastating the attack force.
Dr. Massar regards the Helghast as the next stage of human evolution and believes that Vektan humans as well as half-breeds must die out to allow them to flourish. When first encountered, she has been conducting experiments on Helghast civilians. Echo hates her for this and seeks to kill her to prevent the spread of her research. The object of her research, i.e. creating a biological agent that will kill only one race, is identical to that of Dr. Savic from Killzone: Mercenary. There is no direct indication of the relation between Savic's research, which was completely destroyed at the end of Mercenary, and Massar's.
Others Edit
Dr. Mador Savic Edit
Mador Savic is a Helghast scientist under the command of Colonel Vyktor Kratek during the Second Extrasolar War. Using Savic's family as leverage, Kratek forces Savic to develop a bioweapon based on a viral agent stolen from the ISA. Savic agrees, believing that Kratek means to use the weapon as a deterrent. However, once it becomes clear that Kratek means to use the weapon to eliminate the human population of Vekta, Savic approaches Vektan ambassador Sepp Harkin in order to defect to the ISA. During this time, he develops a trigger for the weapon and injects it into the ambassador's son, Justus. He hopes that, by giving control of the trigger to the ISA, he can force a stalemate between Kratek and ISA Admiral Grey by preventing either side from having the ability to deploy the weapon. Mercenary Arran Danner, under orders from Grey, manages to rescue both Justus and Savic from the Helghast. However, Grey plans to use Savic's research to develop a similar weapon that will exterminate the Helghast. Danner once again rescues Savic, who provides him with information regarding Grey's plan.
His fate after this point is unknown. As the Helghast manage to re-take the embassy shortly after Danner saves him for the second time, it seems likely that he remained on Helghan. If so, he was possibly executed as a traitor or perished during the Terracide.
Anton Saric Edit
Anton Saric is the head of security in New Helghan, the half of the world, Vekta, that was given to Helghast refugees and survivors of the Terricide, which destroyed their home world, Helghan with petrusite missiles. He has a profound distrust, fear, and hatred for Vektans. He appears in Killzone: Shadow Fall.
Vladko Tyran Edit
Vladko Tyran is the leader of the faction "The Black Hand", who are a group of Helghast radicals and former Helghast soldiers seeking to reignite the war between Vektans and the Helghast. He is the secondary antagonist of Killzone: Shadow Fall and only appears in Killzone: Shadow Fall.
- ↑ http://www.ign.com/stars/demetri-goritsas
- ↑ Brady. Killzone 3 Signature Series Guide.. Future Press. ISBN 0-7440-1294-5.
- ↑ Killzone.com: The Story of Corporal Billinghurst, (Mar 26, 2009)
- ↑ "Hands-on Previw: Killzone 2," PlayStation: The Official Magazine (January 2009): 39.


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"There are two factors – the base effect from 2012 and the optimism about China and the new leadership coming through."
Mr Pervan said Chinese steelmakers were buying more Australian coking coal to take advantage of relatively low prices and to make up for difficulties in obtaining supply from Mongolia due to political issues.
"I would expect, particularly with this recent weather event in Queensland, to see [coal] prices rise," Mr Lawson told The Australian Financial Review. "There seems to be more positivity coming out from analysts and so forth regarding the market. We are optimistic about the future."
Mr Lawson said demand from traditional markets like Japan and Korea had remained relatively flat but China, the key swing buyer in the coking coal market, had resumed purchases after a major destocking in September.
UBS analyst Tom Price expects the price of hard coking coal will rise by 6 per cent to $US175 a tonne in the June quarter, but acknowledges there is risk to the upside as a result of the wet weather in Queensland.
Mitsubishi chief financial officer Ryoichi Ueda last week told reporters it "appears the prices have bottomed out", while Peabody Energy chief financial officer Michael Crews told analysts the company was hopeful the current quarterly pricing was "a trough".
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