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Poetry goes to the backwater to refresh itself as often as it goes to the mainstream, a fact that partly explains the appeal of Les Murray, the celebrated "bush bard" of Bunyah, New South Wales, Australia. The son of a poor farmer, Murray, who was not schooled formally until he was nine, is now routinely mentioned among the three or four leading English-language poets. Because in Murray's poetry you learn, for example, that there exists such a thing as the "creamy shitwood tree," he has been mistaken for a neutral cartographer of far-flung places. But the key to Murray, what makes him so exasperating to read one minute and thrilling the next, is not landscape but rage. "How naturally random recording edges into contempt," Murray writes, identifying the poles of his own combustible poetic temperament.
Murray's poems, never exactly intimate and often patrolled by details and place-names nearly indecipherable to an outsider, reflect a life lived self-consciously and rather flamboyantly off the beaten track. Murray has always been associated with the land in and around Bunyah, where Aborigines harvested wild yams before Murray's own people, "bounty migrants" from Scotland, displaced them in 1848. His childhood was marked by "lank poverty, dank poverty," a condition enforced by his grandfather, who kept Murray's parents in a brutal, resentful tenancy—sharecroppers, in essence, on their own ancestral lands. Murray's biographer, Peter Alexander, describes a slab house with a shingle roof and a floor of stamped earth covered by linoleum, sunlight streaking "through the generous gaps in the walls." Perhaps no major English poet since John Clare grew up in such destitution, and, like Clare, Murray enjoys the "hard names" associated with being poor: "rag and toejam, feed and paw."
We associate the depiction of rural life with pastoral, a mode that was shaped by city sensibilities for city audiences. Pastoral is a sophisticated game pitting poets against earlier poets, like a chess match played across time. No poet writing about the natural world entirely opts out of the game, but Murray's poetry of elk and emus, bougainvillea and turmeric dust, comes close. For the sheer scarcity of its flora and fauna, this pastoral feels pretty far off the Virgilian grid. No poet who was "kept poor," as Murray believes he and his parents were, sees "nature"—droughts and floods, the relentless summer heat on an uninsulated iron roof—in celebratory terms. Indeed, since the poverty that Murray suffered was an enforced poverty, it is hard even to see "nature" in natural terms. Nature, for him, is the field where human motives, often sinister, play out.
If you've been as poor as Murray was, "fate" can come to be synonymous with "what people do to you." The great struggle in his work is therefore between what Whitman calls the "Me myself" and what Murray calls the "Them and He." Murray's poems tell an old story—the indignity that a small person and those he loved suffered at the hands of big, corrupt people, a long time ago—but they tell it with a ferocity that sharpens the farther away from the source the poet travels. You need to be a little bit of a lunatic to bear the specific, outsized grudges Murray has borne through his sixties, when all kinds of attention—including Alexander's fine biography (published in 2000), hundreds of articles and favorable reviews, and an invitation to write a new preamble to the Australian constitution—have come his way. And, indeed, there is always something demented about Murray's poems: even at their most painstakingly rational, it is as though, to quote Dickinson, "a plank in Reason, broke."
Rant-poems crop up everywhere in Murray: graffiti by other means, these blunt, scrawled mottoes are abandoned, like graffiti, the minute they get made. Murray has the habit of comparing people and things he dislikes to Nazis—including, most famously, in a poem called "Rock Music," sex:
Sex is a Nazi. The students all knew
this at your school. To it, everyone's
for parts of their lives. Some are all
their lives.
You'll be one of those if these
things worry you.
This poem is "misunderstood," Alexander claims, but then he quotes Murray's less than reassuring clarification: bullied by girls in high school, he came to view himself as the target of "a kind of attempted psychic castration of people who are out of fashion in some way." (The girls from Taree High School, Taree, N.S.W., might be forgiven for whatever ambivalence they now feel about being compared to castrating Nazis by their nation's preëminent poet.)
One way a child has of fortifying himself against the torments, real and imagined, of the outside world is to become an inveterate reader. Murray was aware of words at an early age, taking special delight, when he was three, in the phrase, from the Lord's Prayer, "trespass against us." (He is a faithful Catholic, dedicating his books "to the glory of God.") He read Hopkins and Eliot early on and, the biography tells us, devoured the poetry of John Milton in a single weekend. Those three authors govern Murray's entire career. You hear Hopkins in the homemade compounds and heavy consonants ("Nests of golden porridge shattered in the silky-oak trees, / cobs and crusts of it, their glory box"); you sense Milton behind Murray's larger-scale works, notably his 1998 verse novel, "Fredy Neptune"; but most of all you detect the presence of Eliot, whose self-monitoring Christianity suggests an inner untidiness too vast to be tamed by ordinary secular means. Murray, who met his wife in a Passion play (they were both students at the University of Sydney; he played Satan, and she was in charge of his wardrobe), seems permanently shaped by a small archive of adolescent mortifications and slights. Flinch-prone and skittish, Murray (again, like Eliot) finds his defense in caricature, generalizing about people from a few details or remarks. His temperament allows for only a beat or two between data and conclusion (synonymous too often for Murray with "condemnation").
This bluntness can be off-putting; Murray often lacks a middle register of feeling. When he writes a poem about AIDS, for example, he seems almost sinister in his concision. Nobody who reads "Aphrodite Street" (1987) feels exactly comfortable with the tone, and yet that discomfort makes the poem, alongside works by Thom Gunn and James Merrill, one of the best ever written about AIDS. These are the opening stanzas:
So it's back to window shopping
on Aphrodite Street
for the apples are stacked and juicy
but some are death to eat.
For just one generation
the plateglass turned to air—
when you look for that generation
half of it isn't there.
Surely there are more intimate and heartbroken stances toward one's subject matter (Gunn's great poems in "The Man with Night Sweats" come to mind), and surely the very best poem imaginable would find a way to represent those stances, too. But never has the span between elation and tragedy—between plate glass "turned to air" and the annihilation of half a generation—been depicted with such awful, chiming smoothness.
"Aphrodite Street" was roundly condemned. (In a letter to the London Review of Books, the Australian poet Alan Wearne called it kicking a group "when they're down; or worse still, a poet attempting to play God, cheering on the kickers.") Indeed, Murray is often condemned, particularly inside Australia, where his antiliberal views—anathema to a country trying rapidly to shake its old, bad mood—were nearly enshrined in law. In 1998, Murray was commissioned by Prime Minister John Howard to collaborate with him on a new preamble to the Australian constitution. (Howard, the son of a gas-station owner and, like Murray, the descendant of Scottish settlers, seems to have recognized himself in Murray's "Subhuman Redneck" act.) The preamble (presented in a form much watered down from Murray's original draft) was put up for a vote and rejected when people detected, behind the official redaction, Murray's infamous grumpiness toward immigrants and indigenes. (Murray's positions are by no means simple: fascinated by the possibility that he has Aboriginal ancestry, he has asked about having his blood tested; he has advocated a "Creole" Australia, free of identity politics.) Murray's homemade politics sometimes comes out leftist but, at its heart, carries the claims of the "poor whites," who "must be suppressed, for modernity, / for youth, for speed, for sexual fun."
Reckless, cantankerous, emboldened by a world view based on sexual resentment, Murray is (as he is the first to acknowledge) a cartoon hick in an overplayed idiom. Yet the perversities of his own position (both "redneck" and élite, settler and indigene, "English" poet and Bunyah farmer) make him seem to many of his countrymen all the more authentically "Australian." And Murray's real constitutional work has been to articulate a code true to the "whipcrack country of white cedar / and ruined tennis courts," home to "passionflower and beige-bellied wonga vine." This go-for-broke bush ethos, part Zen and part sprezzatura, is what Murray calls "sprawl":
Sprawl is doing your farming by
aeroplane, roughly,
or driving a hitchhiker that extra
hundred miles home.
It is the rococo of being your own
still centre.
It is never lighting cigars with ten-
dollar notes:
that's idiot ostentation and murder
of starving people.
Nor can it be bought with the ash of
million-dollar deeds.
Murray nearly died in 1996 when some object, perhaps a chicken bone, punctured his gut and released deadly bacteria into his body. He spent twenty days in a coma. "Conscious and verbal" once again (that phrase, borrowed from a press release issued by the hospital, became the title of a 1999 poetry collection), Murray redoubled his efforts (as he puts it) to "learn human," banishing "the black dog" of depression that, in his view, had sponsored much of his imaginative work. Murray's new book, "The Biplane Houses" (Farrar, Straus; $23), like everything he has done since the coma, seems to be the work of a person poured back into sentience the way molten copper is poured into a mold. Like the Mars spacecraft that came close enough to the planet to "sniff and scan it / for life's irrefutable scent," Murray's new poetry travels a long distance to get up close to life but spends much of its time airborne, en route.
All of Murray's recent work has been written under the protection of a fictional alter ego, the hero of his verse novel, "Fredy Neptune." (According to Alexander, "Fred" was Murray's wife's code name for his depressive side; only when he reclaimed his genial spirits did she again call him Les.) "Fredy Neptune" has little competition aside from Anne Carson's "Autobiography of Red" for the claim to being the best verse novel of our time. It is the story of a German-Australian sailor in the First World War who, pressed into service by the German Navy, witnesses the death by burning of a group of Armenian women. Fredy then loses all feeling in his body; like Murray, he gets it back only when he realizes that "you have to pray with a whole heart."
If "Fredy Neptune" is about what Murray earlier called "my old theme of lack of communication," "The Biplane Houses" is about trying to communicate across the chasm of moods, persons, and cultures, or, at the very least, about the desire, often thwarted, to do so. This poet of elaborate language and affect-codes opens the new volume, tellingly, by decoding himself:
The one whose eyes
do not meet yours
is alone at heart
and looks where the dead look
for an ally in his cause.
As talk of "allies" and "the dead" might suggest, Murray's new work encompasses the psychologically charged discourses of world politics. (Elsewhere in the book, Murray writes a poem in the voice of a suicide bomber: "I implode. And laughter cascades in, / flooding those who suddenly abhor me.") But the first set of eyes we meet, or, in this case, do not meet, when we open the book are the author's. Murray won't look us in the eye, but he will, eyes averted, address us. "Alone at heart," this voice nevertheless seems newly interested in showing, for its readers and for itself, a modicum of empathy.
Always a riddle poet, Murray now likes to give the answers to his ingenious riddles; yet those answers inevitably pose their own riddles, like links in a chain. "Twelve Poems" is such a chain-link riddle poem—among the best such poems to be written, it seems to me, since Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Following a poem in part about a horse and carriage, "Twelve Poems" opens by correcting the reader's last sense impression:
That wasn't horses: that was
rain yawning to life in the night
on metal roofs.
Even the corrected, "accurate" perception—not horses but rain—carries within it a figural evasion of fact, "yawning." And so the riddle chain begins, linking an "ampersand" ("smugly / phallic . . . / in the deskchair of itself"), a bucket of fish (waving "their helpless fan feet"), a spider (which, like Murray, walks "in circles . . . celebrating / the birthday of logic"). In the last link in the chain, a "simple man" (who, like Murray in the act of writing this poem, is "filling in a form") looks up at his mother and asks, heartbreakingly, "Mum, what sex are we?"
Murray has long been a master of depicting Murray-like creatures, greedily eager to introduce themselves as less-than-pleased-to-meet-you. The first-person bestiary of his 1992 sequence "Presence: Translations from the Natural World" forces us to picture Murray now in terms of an ornery cat ("I permit myself to be / neither ignored nor understood"), now in terms of a pig, misty-eyed in recalling his wild days and speaking a pungent idiolect ("Us all fuckers then. And Big, huh? Tusked / the balls-biting dog and gutsed him wet"). The animals in "The Biplane Houses" share some Murray traits, to be sure (an octopus that lives, like a poet, in the "pencilling of dark soil"), but by and large these animals represent impediments and counterclaims that Murray morally cannot but acknowledge. In "The Mare Out on the Road," a horse grows "in moist astonishment" as a car hurtles toward it:
Sliding fast, with the brakes shoaling
Five metres down, and would the
car capsize?
The moment was crammed with just
two choices.
One of two accidents would have to
Though the "poor horse" is a "beautiful innocent," the real choice the driver must make is between dying in the ditch and living a life of local infamy ("No court case, just family slurs for life"). Village life—one might as well say "poetry," since this poem feels so adroit in reading its own symbols—involves learning one's right of way. The choice made in the moment—the car veers into the ditch, but nobody is hurt—depends on the speaker's determination to abide by codes other than his own.
Murray has raised a son, Alexander, who has autism, a simple fact that seems to me more central to his work than all the "milk lorries" in Bunyah. Many of his new poems are haunted by the fear of social life, but Murray has learned to diagnose and correct that fear, perhaps for his son's sake. Or for his own. In "The Tune on Your Mind," Murray, mishearing the Latin of Psalm 51 ("asperges me hyssopo," "thou sprinklest me with hyssop"), sings, instead, "Asperger, mais. Asperg is me." Characteristically for a poet so committed to self-portraiture, Murray has diagnosed Alexander's symptoms in himself. "The coin took years to drop," he writes:
Lectures instead of chat. The want
of people skills. The need for Rules.
Never towing a line from the Ship
of Fools.
The most impressive thing about the new poems is their capacity, writing "with a whole heart," to find the pathos in unlikely subjects. Keats once imagined that a billiard ball gets "a sense of delight" from its own "roundness, smoothness, volubility & the rapidity of its motion," and there is something Keatsian about Murray's ability to locate the precise affect in image after image. "Lateral Dimensions" might have been called "Afterlives," since the poem imagines a series of alternatives, most of them bad, for a poet's posthumous fate. Which of these two sorry creatures would you rather be?:
rodeo bull
he wins every time
then back on the truck
only one car
of your amber necklace
holds a once-living passenger.
The destiny of poets is to be, like the rodeo bull, triumphant over and over at the same rote act (Matthew Arnold is always a winner when we read "Dover Beach"!) and, like the insect in amber, a primal speck, once alive, now merely a "passenger" in the history of culture. The alternatives in Murray are not pleasing—but perhaps you would prefer to be like the "newspapers soaked in rain / before they are read"?
Because, like all mature poets, Murray knows and represents his own imaginative limitations, his best poems show empathy lagging a little behind the imagination. The thrill of reading Murray is seeing how the heart that feels will catch up with the eye that sees. ("One might have thought of sight," Stevens writes, "but who could think / Of what it sees, for all the ill it sees?") "Photographing Aspiration" is a boy's motorcycle accident in two takes. Take one:
. . . here's the youth swimming in space
above his whiplash motorcycle:
quadriplegia shows him its propped face—
and here, a moment later, is the same scene with empathy inserted:
after, he begged video scenes
not display his soaking jeans,
urine that leathers would have hidden.
Stanza one is full of emotional redactions, seeing the spectacle entirely from the outside, even going so far as to attribute to it a ghoulish beauty (and projecting pain onto the "whiplash motorcycle" and the "propped face" of always looming "quadriplegia"). That's how the boy of stanza two might like his accident to have been depicted; the old Les Murray, before he looked at his own "propped face" face-to-face, might have been an ally in the boy's cause. A photograph shows a moment in time, the boy "swimming above" his motorcycle; a "video scene" can display the entire arc of the crash, including, to the boy's dismay, the soiling of his jeans; but only a poem (Murray's previous volume was called "Poems the Size of Photographs") can show the begging boy's terror at seeing his fear represented. This new Les Murray, a poet equally of emotional obduracy and heartbreak, has learned what begging sounds like. ♦


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julymorning wrote:Was it just my computer or did the video aspect get shut off and only audio recorded? Prophet song went black a third through, which is alright because I had my eyes closed anyway.
Stunning how clean and tight they sounded. As close to perfection as a musician can get.
YAFF wrote::shock: This has got to be the first time a rock band promoted and sold an album performed by 100% by their own tribute band. And get this, before releasing anything by the current configuration claiming to be Queen. Don't mistake me I sure in the hell don't want to witness any QAL live albums or DVDs. As far as QEX. Martel is such a wooden performer. Great voice but I find him boring.And people claim he sounds the "closest to Freddie". I don't buy it. Here's why:
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julymorning wrote:Yaff, I really respect you in many ways, but OMG, please don't post Gary Mullen videos on QE threads. This is the second time someone has done that and I cannot STAND GM's performances. He gives me the creeps big time!
I never could stand him..I caught videos of him on youtube parading around mimicking Freddie's mannerisms and every move before the assembling of QE and before I knew of this forum.
Please? State your opinion, lord knows everyone has one, but no more showing Mullen off here. Make him his own thread.
I positively feel the need to go rip my skin off and bleach my eyes.
ICK, now Rog, you had to quote it.
Masonic wrote:If you blended Marc Martels voice with Adam Lamberts flamboyance. That would probably be as close to Freddie as you could get. I like em both, there both talented singers.
Another_Roger wrote:But seriously! I want to see AdamMethos back on this forum. Any sign of her lately?
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julymorning wrote:Another_Roger wrote:But seriously! I want to see AdamMethos back on this forum. Any sign of her lately?
She's on vacation...I won't say where, but I will say I wouldn't be thinking about this place if I was in her flip flops.
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julymorning wrote:I doubt it, I just don't think, as a fb friend, I should give details of her whereabouts. As a member here, she can do that herself if she wishes.
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The most violent game of football is set to return to the PC as Blood Bowl 2 prepares for an opening drive into retail sometime in the coming months. To help tide would be gridiron warriors over until they can finally get their hands on the game, though, the developers have released a pair of screenshots showing off the first playable team, "fully modelled and animated," the humans' Reikland Reavers.
Based on the Warhammer universe, the original Blood Bowl asked the question: What would these Space Marines and Orcs do to keep themselves busy in the absence of a centuries-old, blood-soaked intergalactic war? The answer, of course, is play football.
With Blood Bowl 2 well underway in development at Cyanide Studio, the team has now unleashed the first official screenshots from the upcoming game, showing off the fan-favorite Reavers.
"As you can see, the human players have the honor of entering the pitch first and will also be the stars of the massive solo campaign in Blood Bowl 2 as you lead the legendary Reikland Reavers and experience an epic saga packed with risk, dangers and spectacular matches on the way to winning the Blood Bowl," reads the announcement from Cyanide. "These two screenshots (seen above and below) show the human, Blitzer, one of the most versatile players on the human teams, in action and ready to face whatever the opposing team can throw at him."
I'm not one to get too excited over promotional images, but the series has a good underground following, so I'm sure getting a gander at these shiny warriors of the pitch is making someone's day out there. I mean, check out all of those spikes on their uniforms. Nifty, right? Hell, even the ball is covered in three-inch bits of pointy death. I'm not sure how that guy is even kicking the ball. Wouldn't it just, you know, stick to his foot and cause immense pain? But I guess that's the risk you take when you're playing a game as deadly as Blood Bowl.
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"The stunning and ambitious Solo campaign puts players at the head of one of the most famous teams in Blood Bowl's universe, who will compete in some original and truly unique matches to take their team to the top," said Cyanide. "League mode allows players to manage their own team, club and even stadium, as all of these features are fully modular."
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Ben Ruffell
C i n e m a t o g r a p h e r
Music Video
2nd Unit DP
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
Tue, Sep 22 2015 09:02
I was honoured to be asked to film this global commercial for Mitsubishi Motors for the terrific new Outlander PHEV 2016. I had previously shot the Japanese release commercial for the 2014 model.
Masaki Yamazaki was the Director, and I really enjoyed working with him again.
We filmed in Melbourne, Australia, and it was a two day shoot. I was already in Sydney with my Grip, Josh Dunn, so we flew to Melbourne with the camera equipment and worked in with the local crew.
For the close ups of the talent I used a low loader and the MoVI M15. This gave me control over the lighting, and I was able to achieve a controlled camera position easily.
The tracking shots were filmed from an open tracking vehicle and I used a Flight Head 5. It was a really great option on the streets of Melbourne as we had a rolling traffic block, with trams and cars doing hook turns to dodge.
Melbourne was a great place to work. I really enjoyed the city and the local crew were excellent. Hopefully I get to film there again one day!
(Thanks very much to 2nd AC Michelle Marchant for the photos).
Ben Ruffell
Subaru Legacy Outback
Sun, Aug 23 2015 09:12
I travelled to Brisbane, Australia recently to film this campaign for Subaru Japan. Ryo Inoue was the Director.
We shot a TV Commercial, and two content pieces that are screening on Discovery Channel Japan.
I travelled with 1st AC Roger Feenstra and Grip Josh Dunn. This allowed me to bring my two Red Dragon cameras, Cooke and Angenieux lenses, and MoVI M15.
It was really terrific working with Darren. As a gifted photographer, he was a pleasure to work with. I really enjoyed the opportunity of having a glimpse into his world.
We filmed the tracking shots on the beach with the MoVI, along with some of the shots in the city.
We had a Drone for one day at the beach, operated by Rotor Works. There was also an underwater day filmed by Toby De Jong.
It was a great job with an excellent crew. It was a real pleasure to be able to travel with my key crew, and work with the locals in Brisbane.
Great Behind the Scenes Photos from Skippy Donovan
Ben Ruffell
Thu, Jun 25 2015 06:59
I was the Aerial DP for the new BMW 7 Series Launch Film.
Ottar Gudnason was the DP, and Knut Burgdorf was the Director.
Alfie Speight was my Pilot and I used the Shotover System. We filmed Air to Air, Air to Car, and also Air to Car with the plane timed to go through the shot.
I also worked on this BMW X1 Launch Film as an Additional DP.
Peter Refle was the Director, and Ottar Gudnasson was the main DP.
I was responsible for some of the tripod sequences. Shot near Wellington, New Zealand.
Ben Ruffell
Mon, Apr 27 2015 03:50
I was the DOP on this commercial for Denso. Masashi Muto was the Director.
The commercial was showcasing both athletes in nature, and cars.
We filmed in New Zealand, at Mount Cook and in Queenstown.
There was a lot of tracking involved. To achieve this, I used a MoVI M15.
I like to use the MoVI with a two man team. My Grip, Josh Dunn carries it using an Easyrig and Serene arm. We communicate with intercoms and I adjust the framing using the joystick.
This setup also works well with a small tracking buggy, and in this commercial I used the MoVI on the mountain runner, the swimmers (from a tracking boat), the cyclists, and the jogging couple.
The client requested a Go Pro to be mounted on the bike. I did not want to drop quality by using a Go Pro, so Grip Sam Strain rigged a Dragon for me. I really like the small size of these cameras. They are so versatile.
It was a great shoot with lots of locations, and a lot of set-ups. We had some challenging weather which really added to the images. I worked with my Queenstown based crew and we had a lot of fun with the Japanese crew.
Here is a wonderful Behind the Scenes video filmed by Emi Arai.
Ben Ruffell
'Love from Land Rover'
Sat, Feb 21 2015 02:02
I was the Director / DP for this Land Rover Commercial.
The Commercial was part of a viral campaign:
Four university friends from New Zealand had listed their beaten and broken 1957 Series I Land Rover, christened 'The Landy', for sale on an auction site, following 15 years of ownership. The listing told the story of their many adventures and their sorrow at parting with their beloved Land Rover.
Fate intervened when the team at Land Rover New Zealand read the ad and hatched a covert operation with Will's wife, Claire, to give 'The Landy' a painstaking ground-up mechanical restoration.
And now, for Valentine's Day, the four friends have been reunited with their Series I thanks to Land Rover.
I worked closely with the agency
, and Location Scout
Phil Turner
. We established the elements of the journey that the Land Rover would undertake. (We wanted to include an iconic river crossing, the journey through a forest, and the climbing of a mountain).
We had a very small crew, which was an asset for us. It enabled me to work quickly and use several locations that are off the beaten track.
I filmed all of the tracking shots with the MoVI M15.
My second Dragon was in Production Mode and this let us move quickly between the various set-ups.
It was a terrific shoot for such an iconic vehicle. I really enjoyed working with the crew, agency and client. It was a fitting tribute to mark the end of production of a motoring legend.
Ben Ruffell
Mitsubishi 'Triton'
Sun, Feb 1 2015 02:16
Director Masaki Yamazaki asked me to DP this car commercial in Western Australia.
The creative was very exciting.
We started with the truck flying through the air. I shot this sequence on a Phantom Flex 4K.
We then have a series of tracking shots in the desert. (No fancy tracking vehicles here... we made it work with a local buggy).
I travelled with two of my Red Dragon cameras and my Cooke lenses. I also bought a MoVI M10 and my Grip Josh Dunn with me.
We picked up additional local crew and equipment out of Adelaide and Brisbane.
The filming was mostly on location at Parachilna. A terrific place to film... but so many flies!
We finished off the advert with city tracking in Adelaide.
It was a great shoot with a good crew and it was fun to be filming in the outback again.
Ben Ruffell
Cam Scott 'Somethin bout a Girl'
Sun, Nov 9 2014 05:56
My old friend
Josh Wallace
asked me to DP this music video for him. Josh and I used to work together over ten years ago, when we had a small production company and released a couple of
Snowboarding films.
Josh had a great concept, and the song was good. I was happy to come on board.
We filmed for three days, in and around Queenstown.
I used my Red Epic Dragon cameras, and I was assisted by my local crew. Cam Stoltz Camera Assist, Josh Dunn Grip, and John Hogan Gaffer.
I filmed the first part of the clip as a bit of a road movie, prodominently with a handheld camera, and an organic feel.
There was a flashback component. I didn't want to go the usual cheesy post treatment for this, so I achieved the effect in camera. I used a custom made lens, and shot right on sundown.
The performance was one of my favourite setups. I always like creating an environment with light. We chose a small Church Hall as the location, and I had a great time lighting it to look like a small town pub concert.
We didn't have the budget for a Dolly or a Jib... but, luckily I own a MoVI, and my Grip Josh Dunn was happy to haul it around the concert. I operated remotely from a 17" monitor.
We continued using the MoVI on some of the Jetboat shots, and we also used a Quadcopter with a GoPro4 on it for the aerials of the boat.
It was a very ambitious shoot, with lots of locations and components. But, it was a great opportunity to make something we could be proud of, and I really enjoyed working with Josh again.
Stills Photography by:
Paul Green
Holly Wallace
, Cam Stoltz
Ben Ruffell
Bridgestone 'Blizzak VRX'
Sat, Nov 1 2014 03:28
Director Toshihisa Koike asked me to film these two commercials for him in New Zealand. The agency was
, the Production Company
Dentsy Creative Cross
, with
AJ Films
working as the New Zealand Line Production Company.
The two commercials were both very different, and very technical. We had to shot the Tyres performing on very specific road conditions.
To achieve this, we filmed at SHPG near Queenstown, New Zealand. They had the facilities that we needed to make various road conditions. Varying from pure ice, solid snow and slushy snow with road surface below. Art Director Ken Turner did a great job liaising between the various teams to deliver the surface that the client needed.
We experienced some extreme weather on the first day. A storm came through and we experienced wind chill of minus 18 degrees celsius. We achieved a few shots before the weather forced us to wrap early. Thankfully, it cleared and we had good weather for the remaining two shoot days.
I used two Red Epic Dragon cameras. I always prefer to work with two cameras when shooting car commercials. It saves a lot of time, and lets me move from one set up to the next with no delays.
We had a mixture of rig shots, built by the great grip team of Sam Strain, Josh Dunn and Chris Thomson.
We also shot a variety of tracking shots, where I used the MoVI M10 on a small tracking buggy.
The second spot involved a few stock shots from Japan and also several VFX shots, where the background was composited in to match with the foreground elements that I shot in New Zealand.
With 15 second spots, so much of what you shoot on the day does not make the final broadcast edit. There is also an online web version.
It was a great shoot, and the client is very happy.
Ben Ruffell
Smile 'Pyaw Aung Nay'
Sun, Sep 7 2014 06:51
I travelled to Myanmar, (formerly known as Burma) back in 2013 to shoot and direct this music video for the pop star 'Smile'.
I bought one of my Red Epic cameras and a set of lenses. I picked up local crew and basic lighting and grip equipment.
I took advantage of a local nightclub for the dance scenes. We had a great group of enthusiastic extras. Communication was challenging, but I managed to control the club's lighting fixtures. I also supplemented the disco lights with beauty lighting on Smile and her onscreen partner.
The bulk of the performance was at the beautiful park location, that I shot past dusk... until we were ordered out by the security guards.
For the second performance scene I had the lighting team make up festoons of lightbulbs in a semi covered location. We only had the location during the day, so I blacked out two sides, used the ambient daylight for fill and keyed with HMI's.
It was a challenging shoot. We had limited access to locations, and no art department. The local crew that I had were a great bunch. We had very limited resources, but everyone was there to help and solutions were always found.
Ben Ruffell
Mini Cooper 'Goodbye Pork Pie' Scene Remake
Sun, Jul 6 2014 02:47
I was lucky enough to be asked to DP the Mini Cooper 2014 'Goodbye Pork Pie' scene remake.
The original film '
Goodbye Pork Pie
' is an iconic New Zealand film from the 1980's, directed by
Geoff Murphy
. It's a very popular movie, still to this day. I remember watching it when I was younger, and the film made quite an impact on me.
Matt Murphy
(son of Geoff Murphy) asked me to shoot the project for
Mini New Zealand
, and Production Company
Goodoil Films
We filmed at Lake Hawea, near Wanaka. We had to keep the shooting day within 10 hours, including travel time and meal breaks. This left us with 6 hours and 15 minutes to shoot the job.
Fortunately, Matt was very organised, and he knew exactly what shots were needed to tell the story. We wrapped onetime, and I even managed to sneak in a couple of extra setups.
I decided to shoot on Red Epic cameras. I used two, and kept one in production mode for the tripod shots and the handheld in the back of the Mini.
The second Epic started the day in the MoVI M10 on the back of the tracking ute, after we go these shots it became the rig camera.
Aerials were provided by Peter Thompson with his Cineflex.
With such a short shooting day, and so many stunts the pace was non stop. Fortunately all of my crew were very focussed. With a good plan, and good management, we moved from one setup to the next smoothly. It was a great day, and a really fun variation on the traditional car commercial.
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Baltimore crabs: America's best regional food?
The blue crab population of the Chesapeake Bay was recently estimated at 300 million. Many years, it's double that figure. Meanwhile, the human population of the greater Baltimore area is a mere 2.7 million. With this imbalance, it's little wonder that steamed blue crabs have been Baltimore's favorite dish for generations.
With its location on the shores of the Chesapeake, Baltimore became a major hub for the crab industry. Restaurants and taverns appeared along the docks and wharfs, specializing in steamed blue crabs and ice-cold beer. In fact, the famous Baltimore-based crab seasoning known as Old Bay was developed, in part, as a way to keep customers thirsty and ordering more beer.
Eating blue crabs in the traditional Baltimore manner is not for the faint of heart or those who prefer dining off white linen tablecloths. Rather, the steamed blue crabs are often served piled in the middle of a table covered in paper. Diners use small mallets, knives, and even their bare hands to break open the hard shells and extract the tender meat inside. It's a messy experience, but a lot of fun, too, and quintessential Maryland (crab cakes are also a regional specialty, but they can't quite match the unique fresh-from-the-sea flavor).
There are dozens of famous and not-so-famous places serving Chesapeake Bay blue crab around Baltimore, including Captain James Crab House, Nick's Fish House and L.P. Steamers. Or head down the road to nearby Annapolis and take in an iconic Maryland meal of steamed blue crab at the beloved Jimmy Cantler's Riverside Inn.
The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab season runs roughly from May to October. Still, you'll find steamed crab on the menu year-around at some establishments. That's because crabs are sometimes flown in from Texas, Louisiana and elsewhere -- something Baltimore natives like to keep quiet.
One last tip before you get cracking: feel free to wear a bib while digging into your steaming pile of blue crab. Just be aware that you'll be marked as a tourist, because no self-respecting Baltimorean would ever be caught dead in a crab bib.
Are you a fan of Baltimore's crabs? Vote for them here, as your favorite iconic American food on the 10Best Readers' Choice Awards contest.
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Political Fact Check's Jackson should check the facts when discussing advocacy ads
On June 22, Brooks Jackson, executive director of Annenberg Political Fact Check -- a project of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center that "aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics" -- appeared on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, where he engaged in a one-sided assessment and selective presentation of the facts in reviewing political advertisements put out by various advocacy groups. Following is a look at the ads featured on NewsHour and discussed by Jackson and by moderator Terrence Smith (though not in the order presented on the program).
The Media Fund (TMF) ad:
AD VOICEOVER: Instead of protecting pensions, George Bush supported a bill giving Enron huge new tax breaks. Instead of giving seniors more prescription drug benefits, Bush gave drug companies billions in his Medicare bill. Instead of fighting corporate corruption, George Bush gave no-bid contracts to Halliburton, a company caught overcharging for fuel and food for our soldiers in Iraq. George Bush: He's turned the White House into corporate headquarters.
About this ad, Jackson had much to say:
Now, that, of course, is run by a group headed by Harold Ickes, who ought to know about the White House and corporate influence. He was the guy in charge of the White House sleepovers during the Clinton administration when he was deputy chief of staff. ... This ad is -- really, it's hard to cram this much distortion into a 30-second ad, but they do it.
After attacking the ad's credibility by going after Ickes, Jackson then cited actions the Bush administration has taken, which do not in any way refute the ad's assertions (1) that Bush supported tax breaks for Enron; (2) that drug companies benefited significantly from the Medicare bill, pushed through by congressional Republicans and highly touted by the president; and (3) that Halliburton, formerly Vice President Dick Cheney's employer, received no-bid contracts from the administration.
Contrast his comments about the TMF ad with comments he made about an ad put out by Citizens United, a group headed by longtime Clinton-basher David N. Bossie.
Citizens United ad:
MAN IN AD: On September 11, terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, including 346 firefighters -- one of which was my son, Michael. I lost my son. I spoke to him that day. He went to work that morning and he died for a reason, because somebody hates America. And that day, George Bush became a leader, a war president. I feel very comfortable with him as president. We want a guy that's going to lead us to victory in this war.
If viewers were listening at this moment for Jackson to point out that Citizens United's Bossie has just published a book blaming former President Bill Clinton for the September 11 terrorist attacks -- or that, as Media Matters for America has previously noted, Bossie was fired in 1998 from his job as chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight for his role in releasing selectively edited transcripts -- they would have been disappointed. If they were waiting to hear Jackson acknowledge that another Citizens United ad explicitly blames Clinton for September 11, saying that Clinton is "responsible" for "leaving us vulnerable to terrorists," they would have rewound their TiVos in vain.
Instead, Jackson's analysis of this ad consisted simply of pointing out that, while Bush was criticized for ads featuring footage of the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, "an independent group can do things that the candidate himself can't do." And Jackson claimed that conservative advocacy groups are significantly underfunded compared to TMF and other liberal groups: "Another remarkable thing about this is how few people saw it. Only about $100,000 spent behind that ad. Liberals really have the advantage in this independent spending war so far."
Because Jackson failed to mention the Citizens United ad blaming Clinton for the September 11 attacks, he also neglected to note that the ad received at least one free airing, on the June 21 edition of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes.
AD VOICEOVER: The Bush administration gave Dick Cheney's old company no-bid contracts for Iraq on a silver platter. Then, the Pentagon caught Halliburton overcharging $61 million for gasoline. Worse, they billed over $100 million for meals for our troops that they never delivered. And George Bush is still doing business with them. George Bush, a failure of leadership. MoveOn PAC is responsible for the content of this advertisement.
After describing the ad as "unfair in some ways," Jackson made the following leap: "If all you knew about Halliburton is what you saw in ads like this one, you would think they had been officially charged with wrongdoing, and they haven't." But the MoveOn.org ad does not even suggest that Halliburton has actually been charged -- though one might reasonably infer that MoveOn.org thinks charges might be warranted.
Jackson then undertook a defense of Halliburton that fell far short of exoneration:
Their auditors are questioning expenditures for gasoline, it's true, and for meals served to troops, it's true. Nothing's been finally settled. These billing disputes arise all the time. The idea that the contracts were given on a silver platter with all these wads of cash, independent congressional General Accounting Office ruled that the contracts were legal and while there were some discrepancies in some of the add-ons, they probably could have been justified if they filled in the right blanks in the paperwork.
One might have thought, given that Ickes was never charged with -- much less found guilty of -- any crime related to fund-raising during the Clinton years, that Jackson would apply the same standard to himself that he apparently thinks MoveOn.org should have invoked. But apparently he did not.
Club for Growth ad:
AD VOICEOVER: The World Trade Center Towers were more than just buildings. They were symbols of hard-working people, economic freedom, and opportunity, the American way of life. That's why the terrorists attacked them. Our enemies want to destroy America's freedoms. President Bush is fighting terrorism to save lives and protect liberty. George W. Bush, the vision to promote freedom and the courage to defend it.
Jackson's analysis:
[The ad uses September 11 images] in a way, again, that the candidate himself probably doesn't want to do right now, and doesn't have to do if groups like these supporting him. Now, you have to note here that so far liberal groups have been overwhelmingly on the attack with these ads. There's been very few conservative ads of the kind we've been showing here. They've had very little money behind them comparatively so far. That may even up as we proceed because conservative groups are trying the [sic] raise more money.
Contrary to Jackson's pleas of poverty on behalf of conservative groups, The Washington Post reported on May 23, that the Club for Growth had raised $8 million this year "[f]or Senate and House races" and that the club's president, Stephen Moore, projected that it would raise a total of between $12 million and $15 million by the end of the year.
Jackson's analysis invites the question of whether, if a mirror-image ad been put out by a progressive organization accusing Bush of undertaking a war under false pretenses and dishonestly characterizing it as part of the war on terror, Jackson would have argued that the ad is unfair because Bush has not been charged with any crime.
League of Conservation Voters ad:
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: As you can see there is no ambiguity in my position on drilling off the coast of Florida
AD VOICEOVER: There sure isn't. President Bush opened up Florida's coast to offshore drilling and he supported an energy bill that could lead to even more. Well, what would you expect from a Texas oilman? Just one accident can destroy a coastline.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I put programs in place that help Mother Nature.
AD VOICEOVER: Mr. President, your oil drilling off Florida's coast isn't one of them.
Jackson's analysis: "The truth is, the Bush administration allowed drilling 100 miles off Florida's coast. I think anybody watching this ad would probably get the wrong idea."
But the truth is, in fact, more complicated. According to a May 30, 2002, article in The Tampa Tribune, the Bush administration announced an arrangement -- that "gives a significant boost to [the president's] brother [Governor] Jeb [Bush]'s campaign" -- whereby "[a] handful of influential oil and gas interests has agreed to receive $235 million in cash [or credits to submit bids to drill elsewhere] from the federal government to give up rights to explore and drill in environmentally sensitive areas near the Everglades and Florida's coast." However, while one agreement precluded the drilling of sites that happened to be less than 100 hundred miles from the Florida coast, according to the Tribune, the Everglades agreement's "fine print ... allows Collier Resources [a Florida company] to receive 'either cash or bidding credits that can be used for bids or royalties on future Outer Continental Shelf sales' by the federal government of licenses to drill between 3 to 100 miles from the U.S. coastline." Or, as unnamed Interior Department officials acknowledged, "such lease sales could allow drilling in the Gulf from Alabama to Florida, and a few places near California."
Citizens United's second ad:
AD VOICEOVER: Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Hairstyle by Christophe's: $75. Designer shirts: $250. 42-foot luxury yacht: $1 million. Four lavish mansions and beach-front estate: Over $30 million. Another rich liberal elitist from Massachusetts who claims he's a "man of the people" : Priceless.
While Jackson did point out that Kerry does not in fact claim to be a "man of the people," he also defended the ad: "Of course, the wealth that's portrayed here, all pretty much accurate." He also noted in an aside: "Most of those houses are in his wife's name, of course."
We can only imagine Jackson's analysis of an ad by a liberal group noting the extent of President Bush's wealth, along with the widely reported family and political connections he tapped in expanding that wealth. Jackson would at least cite that as an example of how, "so far, liberal groups have been overwhelmingly on the attack with these ads." Perhaps he would also note that it is no crime to be rich.
Finally, Jackson said, "John Kerry is running mostly positive ads while liberal groups are busy attacking Bush with tens of millions of ads like the ones we just saw."
"Tens of millions" of attack ads from liberal groups? Maybe it just seems that way to Jackson.
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The Chinese Embassy in New Delhi also asked the Indian government to "seriously" deal with the incident and assure the safety, legal rights and privacy of the victim.
"On February 7th, Indian local news reported that a Chinese woman was raped in New Delhi. Right after noticing this incident, the Chinese Embassy in India immediately verified with the relevant Indian authority and made representation to the Indian side, pointing out that the Chinese Embassy pays great attention to this case," Chinese embassy said in New Delhi.
China "requests the Indian side to take it seriously, assure the safety, legal rights and privacy of the victim, appropriately handle with the case and enhance the protection of Chinese citizens in India to prevent similar incidents from happening again," the embassy said.
On its part, Ministry of External Affairs said they have asked the police authorities to strictly deal with the case.
The Chinese national, who was working as a trainee at a Gurgaon firm, alleged in her complaint that the man called her to his home on January 30 where he raped her.
In her complaint, the girl said she met Tariq Sheikh, 28, at a party sometime back. The girl alleged that she was raped by Sheikh on that night (January 30) but approached police only on Tuesday after which the accused was arrested.
Sheikh, a party organiser, was produced before a local court which sent him to 14-day judicial custody.
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New radiology machines to come to St. Luke
Staff writer
St. Luke Hospital is looking to add two upgraded machines two their radiology wing: ultrasound and mammography machines.
"What we have now is pretty outdated," CEO Jeremy Armstrong said. "It's a dinosaur. We want to be able to give people the best care possible — and, in today's society, that means we need to have upgraded technology."
Armstrong said he currently is trying to decide which model is best for the Marion hospital.
While he said he's looked at several options — all in different price ranges — he said he believes it's more important right now to spend money wisely, rather than miserly.
"We don't want to buy these machines and have them be outdated in a year," he said.
"So, no matter what we buy, it will have the option to be upgradeable with all the latest technology that comes out in the future."
Armstrong said there have been many advances in 3-D imaging technology — and that it would be a shame to jump ship too early.
In preparation for the upgraded systems, the imaging technicians have been taking advanced courses, which give them the knowledge necessary to operate the equipment.
Armstrong is impressed with their skill and said they will be a great resource in the near future.
"They've really invested in learning all they can about the subject," Armstrong said.
The auxiliary has already agreed to give $25,000 toward the project.
Many members are excited the hospital is replacing the old machines, hoping that it will allow the local physicians to be able to make a proper diagnosis.
With the auxiliary's assistance and the hospital's above-budget finances, Armstrong said little should stand in the project's way.
He believes the hospital should have the new machines by August.
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Armada Music Presents Own Stage at Ultra Music Festival Argentina & Chile, 2/23
South-America awaits a mind-thrilling party experience, as the world's biggest electronic music festival lands in Buenos Aires and Santiago in February 2013. Ultra Music Festival, known for its massive and legendary Miami events, has gone global. And guess who's going to be part of it? Armada Music, 4 times winner of the International Dance Music Award for 'Best Global Record Label'! On Saturday February 23rd, the Armada stage and its league of DJ's will land in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile.
Next to Armin van Buuren and Dash Berlin, who will headline both editions with sets at the massive Main Stage, Armada Music also serves its own portion of must-see names. In ULTRA Buenos Aires, with the beautiful Puerto Madero as the scenic location to a promising day, Armada Music presents no one less than Markus Schulz, Aly & Fila, Heatbeat, Omnia, Tenishia, Antillas and Marcelo Fratini. Flying in from the US, Egypt, Ukraine, Malta, Italy, this will be one big international affair.
But no worries for the Chile fans, cause during ULTRA Chile Armada Music's bringing Shogun, Alex M.O.R.P.H., Chris Schweizer, Tomas Heredia , Soul & Senses and singer Betsie Larkin, for an unforgettable performance or DJ set at the Espacio Broadway. Time to call in the festival season in style.
Tickets are on sale via www.ticketek.com.ar / www.ticketek.cl and more information can be found on www.ultrabuenosaires.com or www.ultrachile.com. For more information on the Armada artists, check out www.armadamusic.com.


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Next week is looking mostly dry but make sure to wrap up warm.
Tommorow (Monday, December 18), will be a cold and frosty start, with dry and fine conditions throughout the day with light winds and some sunshine.
It is likely to become misty and foggy overnight across many parts.
Tuesday to Thursday is looking dry but grey, with morning fog.
We may see some rain overnight on Wednesday but this will clear by Thursday.


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Nokia has published an update to the Windows Phone Store for its Smart Cam app. Debuting on the Lumia 925, Nokia's camera suite is the next step in photography while on the move, enabling consumers to set the app as the default camera lens and then edit the snaps taken by the impressive Pureview shooter.
Here's what's reported as new in version 184.108.40.206:
- New effect: Motion Focus
- The last edit session for each of the five effects are saved
- Speed improvements
- Updated with support for more hardware
You can download Nokia Smart Cam from the Windows Phone Store. Note that you need to be running the Amber update from Nokia. Thanks, Martin, for the heads up!


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NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository API - SDKs
The service provides access to source citations and other metadata about publications logged in the repository. The library provides this machine-readable access to extend and connect the repository's information to formats other than those currently provided. The API supports submission of search queries as HTTP requests that specify CGI variables. Methods return a response in XML that other applications may transform or format as needed.


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Preacher re-discovers calling
Staff writer
Jeff Lee learned he had a heart for ministry when, at age 22, he became the youth leader in a small Wesleyan church in Lansing, Mich.
The church was in a rough neighborhood. Lee and his wife, Dawn, reached out and opened their home to area youth. In time, the youth group grew from four to 40. When the church meeting room filled, meetings spread to the church lawn.
Several youths were gang members. They experienced things they otherwise would not have, such as attending camp.
"You had to show respect to them and still show strength," Lee said.
That was the beginning of a ministry that led to Lee's ordination in the Wesleyan Church.
Lee, 51, became pastor of Florence and Aulne United Methodist churches July 8. He calls himself a country preacher who is a cowboy at heart. He shies from formality and focuses on personal relationships as the basis of his ministry.
A pivotal time in Lee's life occurred when the couple took a group of young people to Marion College, now Indiana Wesleyan University, to spend time with college students. An associate professor of religion there was impressed with Lee's desire and ability to minister to people and convinced him to return as a student and enter full-time ministry.
Lee received a bachelor's degree in Christian ministry, graduating in 1990 at age 28. He went on to pursue graduate work.
For the next 16 years, Lee was involved in full-time ministry, serving churches in Indiana, Michigan, Kansas, Colorado, and Iowa. From 2003 to 2006, he was a pastor in a Friends church in Iowa.
Health problems forced Lee to leave the ministry for a time. He became a church consultant and earned a master's degree in U.S. military history.
After his health problems were alleviated, Lee became restless to return to the ministry.
With the urging of his wife and four grown children, he sent out resumes and considered invitations.
His son, Ryan Lee, had become youth coordinator for the First United Methodist Church in Salina.
The minister at the time was the Rev. Troy Bowers, son of Vernon and Arlene Bowers of Marion. He told Ryan about a pastorate that was open at the Aulne and Florence churches.
Ryan encouraged his father to consider a ministry there.
Lee sent a resume to the district superintendent, met with him, and surreptitiously checked out the two churches. He decided he was interested, but he found himself having to make a difficult decision.
"Driving home to Iowa, I was choked up about it," he said. "We had never had our own home. After all those years of ministry, we finally had a dream home that we built in 2006. And it would be hard to leave the two grandsons and granddaughter we had in Iowa."
He and his wife prayed about it and felt led to answer the call.
"It's been good," he said. "The Aulne and Florence people are great people. Both churches have a real heart for their communities. We are still learning how to be Methodists.
"We're Kansans at heart. My kids liked living at Lakin. Kansans are unique individuals. They are friendly. I don't think there is a place we've been in Kansas where we didn't like living or visiting."
Lee said his ministry has seen growth. Five or six families have joined the Aulne church. However, he does not take the credit for it.
"I have to give credit to the Lord," he said.
The response he has received from congregation members has been good.
"I get a sense from what I'm hearing that it's a good match," he said. "From my perspective, I think it's going well."
He wants people to feel as comfortable at church as they would be at home.
"If we want to experience grace, mercy, and love, we have to be willing to disperse it to others," he said.


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San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
Where Independence Was Won
In 1836, Texian troops surprised the Mexican army camped here. Shouting "Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Goliad," the rebels routed the larger force in only 18 minutes. Walk in their footsteps, explore the museum, and enjoy a bird's-eye view from the top of the monument. We're just a short drive from Houston.
Things to Do
Spend a few hours or an entire day exploring the San Jacinto Battleground complex, including Battleship Texas. Bring a group or come on your own.
Plan a picnic; we have picnic tables and grills, and a picnic pavilion for your group. You can also hike, geocache, and nature watch.
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San Jacinto Monument
Tour the San Jacinto Museum of History, in the base of the San Jacinto Monument. Exhibits chronicle more than 400 years of early Texas history.
Ride the elevator 489 feet above the battleground to the monument's observation floor. Marvel at views of the battleground, the city of Houston, and one of the busiest seaports in the world.
Watch the documentary film Texas Forever!! The Battle of San Jacinto in our state of the art theatre.
Shop the museum store for books and souvenirs.
Admission to the monument and museum is free. You must pay admission for the observation floor, the movie, and special museum exhibits.
San Jacinto Battleground
Follow in the footsteps of Texas heroes. Remember the sacrifices made on both sides of this epic struggle.
Battleship Texas
Battleship Texas took part in some of the most significant naval battles of the 20th century during both world wars. Now berthed here, she serves as a memorial to those turbulent times. Walk her decks and imagine life as a sailor!
Marsh Trail
Stroll through the native prairie, tidal marsh and bottomland forest on the 1,210-foot long trail and boardwalk. See what the Texians saw as they crossed this terrain, preparing for battle.
- Read online or print out the Marsh Trail Guide: Habitats of the Upper Texas Coast.
- Alligators live in the park; read our alligator safety tips.
Become a Junior Ranger!
- Borrow a Junior Ranger Explorer Pack and explore the park.
- Pick up a free Junior Ranger Activity Journal. Complete tasks to earn a badge.
Become a Discovery Agent! Download the app at home, then use it to move and learn at the park.
Call the park to schedule a field trip.
- This is a Texas Aquatic Science Certified Field Site.
- The Junior Ranger Activity Journal is TEKS-aligned.
Area Attractions
San Jacinto Battleground is a short drive from downtown Houston and the Gulf of Mexico.


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Poor dressy
After this I cut the button holes from the waist ties:
I sewed them together at the smallest end.
Then I ironed interfacing in it that is specially made for waist bands.
See, there is a nice waist band ^^
Then I gathered the fabric of the skirt so it was the same measurement as the waist band. And then pinned the it to the skirt, and sewed it on.
All ready for sewing
After that it was time to put the zipper in place.
When that was all finished, I folded and ironed the waist band in place and sewed it secure to the skirt. Now this is always a little tricky, because this type of waist bands tends to get messy. But when you use enough pins all around, it should not be a problem.
And that was it.
There, all finished
Now there is one more problem, I have to do something with the left overs. I am thinking of using the bows from the bodice for hair clips, or some other accessory that needs a bow on it. There is also some left over fabric from the waist ties and of course the lace from the bodice. Maybe I just keep everything intact in case I want it to be a dress again. Who knows..
Thank you for reading, see you next time


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On 13 July 2016 the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a major company law reform, which is (i) modernizing the Luxembourg corporate law, (ii) granting legal certainty for certain practices that were previously subject to legal practices, (iii) introducing a new corporate entity, and (iv) introducing added flexibility in the mostly used form of companies. The two underlying principles to this reform are enhancement of the contractual freedom and the promotion of a business friendly environment. This reform adapts the legal framework to the economic realities and improves the consistency of Luxembourg corporate law and the competitiveness of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Existing companies have 24 months to comply with the mandatory provisions of the revised company law, after which the provisions become directly applicable.
The key points of the reform are:
- The creation of a simplified company limited by shares (S.A.S. - société par actions simplifiée). The main characteristic of this legal entity is the contractual freedom granted to its shareholders, particularly regarding the governance of the company which could in many respects be freely determined by the articles of association.
- The private limited liability company (S.à r.l. - société à responsabilité limitée), one of the most widely used corporate form in Luxembourg, is becoming even more attractive and flexible, particularly for joint ventures and private equity investments. The main changes relate to:
- The introduction of authorized share capital, allowing the board of managers to issue shares within the limit of the authorization;
- The issuance of beneficiary shares and redeemable shares;
- The introduction of a day-to-day management function;
- The simplification of majority thresholds for shareholders meetings; and
- The increase of the maximum number of shareholders to 100.
- The legal requirements for a public limited liability company (S.A. - société anonyme) are lowered and the introduction of new features makes it more attractive, notably for management participation plans and special purpose vehicles. The main changes relate to:
- The possibility to issue shares below par value, subject to certain requirements;
- The possibility for the board of directors to allocate free shares to employees and corporate officers of related companies, subject to certain requirements;
- An enhanced regime for non-voting shares;
- The suppression of the audit report for debt to equity conversion;
- The possibility to create executive committees and chief executive; and
- The simplification of the convening procedures.
- The reform has also formalized a number of mechanisms which are already in practice, dealing with matters such as:
- Voting agreements;
- The ability for a company to issue so-called 'tracking' shares;
- Provisions aiming to suspend voting rights of a shareholder defaulting on a financial or non-financial undertaking or obligation;
- Lock-up provisions, i.e. contractual restrictions on the transfer of shares; and
- Simplified liquidation (i.e. dissolution without liquidation) for companies with a sole shareholder.
- Finally, the law implements changes applicable to all form of companies regarding:
- The possibility to issue public bonds and convertible instruments;
- The creation of an usufruct regime;
- The enhancement of the conversion possibilities between the various form of companies; and
- The implementation of a nullity regime regarding certain shareholders resolutions.
Please note that this update only summarizes some of the main changes introduced in the Luxembourg company law.


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The growing economies of both Mexico and Brazil herald a growing need for energy. Latin America has a broad political commitment to environmental protection, and the international spotlight being shone on Mexico and Brazil through the hosting of global environmental and financial events (COP16, G20, Rio+2012), not to mention upcoming sporting events (football World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympics), must play some role in a desire to boost their green credentials. This can only be good news for businesses looking south for new opportunities as markets in the US and Europe falter.
In 2011, half of the region's installed capacity came from Brazil. And after adding nearly 1GW in the past 12 months, supported by a growing local supply chain and local service providers, Brazil is about to hit the 2GW milestone, according to the country's wind energy association. With the end of the government's Proinfa scheme of power purchase agreements, wind-energy investment is driven by competitive auctions. With these and low global prices of wind turbines, wind power is now the second cheapest source of energy in Brazil after large hydropower.
But continued development needs a new regulatory framework, legal security for project development and a support system to enhance competitiveness. A lack of grid infrastructure is causing delays for some projects, particularly in the north-east of the country, where 50% of installed capacity is located. Despite a healthy pipeline of projects, Brazil currently has no long term energy policy that outlines a path for wind power's growth or ensures grid connectivity.
Mexico is finally harnessing its great wind-power potential and this year is set to install over 500MW. The 230MW capacity that has come online so far this year is part of Oaxaca's first "open season" tender, under which developers commit to renting grid space. Another 2GW is expected in 2016 following the second open season, which is currently being discussed.
High output
Mexico's major task is to increase development in many of its windy states, where over half of the proposed 20GW of projects are expected to achieve a high 35% output of the turbines' rated capacity. The national energy strategy document for 2012-26 supports this with policy and regulatory recommendations to reach the country's target of 35% non-fossil fuel generation by 2024.
In other markets in Latin America, private-sector developments are taking place. Across Chile, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and some of the Andean markets, such as Peru, 120MW is under construction. Uruguay, with a clear renewable-energy policy, is another bright spot, but competitive wind-power prices will be needed to continue growth there. Further investments in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile might be spurred on by a regional electricity-integration initiative recently undertaken between Brazil and Uruguay.
Ramon Fiestas chairs the Latin America Committee at the Global Wind Energy Council.


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October is National Sensory Awareness Month. If you have a typically developing child, the idea of daily problems caused by itchy clothing tags, mushy green veggies and annoying fluorescent lights may sound unreasonable, but that's the reality for thousands of families.
October is National Sensory Awareness Month. If you have a typically developing child, the idea of daily problems caused by itchy clothing tags, mushy green veggies and annoying fluorescent lights may sound unreasonable, but that's the reality for thousands of families.
The Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation hopes that events held across the country this month will raise awareness about sensory challenges, as well as boost funding and support.
Problems with sensory overload or lack of stimulation may not be obvious at home, but can become more apparent when kids get to preschool — particularly in boys, says Michael Gurian, author of "The Minds of Boys" with Kathy Stevens (Jossey-Bass, 2007). Gurian is also the co-founder of the Gurian Institute, which trains and provides resources for parents and teachers.
Here are some things teachers should keep in mind when working with boys who may have sensory processing issues, Gurian writes:
Boys do not hear as well as girls, so consider adjusting your tone of voice to make sure the boys are hearing your instructions. You might also ask the boys to repeat instructions back to you. A light touch on the arm might not be enough to get a boy's attention. You might need a three-point approach to get your point across: make eye contact, give a light touch on the arm and speak to him. At the same time, bear in mind that boys, by nature, tend to use less eye contact when verbally interacting. In some cases, expecting a boy to look you in the eye during a conversation might cause stress, resulting in increased cortisol levels in the brain and thus an inability to stay on task with learning.
Whether helping boys or girls with sensory issues, teachers need to look at their classrooms to determine which areas are creating useful sensory stimulation and which areas are distracting to learning, suggests Gurian. Try this assessment: Sit on a children's chair in the entrance to your classroom. Take notice of the following:
What catches your attention first? What might distract you from learning? Is there a predominant color that jumps out at you? What about a secondary color? How busy is the room? Measure it with all of your senses. Identify each of the noises you hear in your classroom. Notice how many sounds you hear. Your children generally are even more auditory than you are. How are the areas of the room seen from the entrance? Are there tables and spaces a small child can reach?
Check out your list. What changes do you need to make to your classroom?
If you're unsure whether your child or student has sensory processing issues, check out this list from the Sensory Processing Disorder Blogger Network of "red flag" behaviors or symptoms. Consult an occupational therapist if you have concerns.
Infants and toddlers: Problems eating or sleeping; refuses to go to anyone but the parent; irritable when being dressed; uncomfortable in clothes; rarely plays with toys; resists cuddling, arches away when held; cannot calm self; floppy or stiff body; or motor delays.
Preschoolers: Oversensitive to touch, noises, smells and other people; difficulty making friends; difficulty dressing, eating, sleeping and/or toilet training; clumsy; poor motor skills; weak; in constant motion; in everyone else's face and space; frequent or long temper tantrums.
Grade-schoolers: Over-sensitive to touch, noises, smells and other people; easily distracted, fidgety, craves movement; aggressive; easily overwhelmed; difficulty with handwriting or motor activities; difficulty making friends; unaware of pain and/or other people.
The website for nonprofit group pathways.org offers more than 25 free videos in multiple languages to help parents and health care professionals see the subtle differences between typical and atypical development in infants and toddlers. The website also provides resources to help recognize early warning signs of sensory disorders.
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Fox, which once had the renegade TV network market pretty much to itself — "Married With Children" was transgressive in its time — has become semi-respectable as it grays and sprightly basic-cable channels, bound by looser rules, crowd in to occupy the edge.
To get a little of its own back, the network is establishing a beachhead in youth-oriented late night. That is to say, it is going up against Adult Swim (indeed, Nick Weidenfeld, who is leading this charge, is late of Adult Swim) with a programming bloc it calls Animation Domination High-Def, or ADHD — the signature generational diagnosis of the target demographic. The bloc has as a mascot a smiling pizza slice, because eating pizza is a thing people do late at night, not necessarily because they're stoned.
In the vanguard of this colonization are the cartoons "Axe Cop," a science-fiction series with a twist, and "High School USA!," which, in simplest terms, perverts the "Archie" ideal to its own twisted ends. Fifteen minutes each, they will have a prime-time preview Sunday before taking up their late-night post July 27.
The superheroic "Axe Cop" is based on a popular Web comic by brothers Ethan and Malachai Nicolle; it first appeared in 2010, when Ethan, who draws the pictures, was 29, and Malachai, who makes up the stories, was 5. The comic, which moves with dizzying dispatch, is a wonderful thing, a serious translation of a child's mind through the practiced hand of an adult. There is very little irony involved in the presentation.
Some of this quality survives into the Fox cartoon, though there is an extra layer of adult knowingness interposed, which dissipates the magic of the original and makes one question the source of any idea or line of dialogue. (A low-budget YouTube version, which minimally animates the comic frames, better preserves its flavor.)
The first episode, in which Axe Cop (played with more than a hint of Ron Swanson by Nick Offerman) and his sidekick Flute Cop (Ken Marino), help Bat Warthog Man find his missing friends, does more or less follow one of the Nicolles' existing comics. But interpolated lines like "This jump leads to space and that's really high" or (of a villain), "He's asleep because it's past his bedtime," are an adult's impression of a child's voice. And a line like "All right, bro, we don't have time for your back story" is just grown-ups talking to grown-ups.
"High School USA!" is from Konstantinos Stamatopoulos (the stop-motion "Moral Orel" but also "Mr. Show" and "Community") The look is pretty much Riverdale High, with an Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Moose in place (no Reggie), except the Archie analog (Vincent Kartheiser, who also voices Bat Warthog Man on "Axe Cop") has dysmorphia, the Veronica (Asian) makes out with the Betty, the Jughead is named Blackstein (because he's black and Jewish, I guess) and the Moose is a sensitive bully with a fat, abusive mother.
Of the two "Axe Cop" is the less predictable — I like it, though I would like to love it a little more. Each is sometimes funny, and neither will do you any lasting harm. Pass the pizza.
'Axe Cop'
Where: Fox
When: 11 p.m. Next Saturday
Rating: TV-14-DLSV (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 14 with advisories for suggestive dialogue, coarse language, sex and violence)
'High School USA!'
Where: Fox
When: 11:15 p.m. Saturday
Rating: TV-14-DLSV (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 14 with advisories for suggestive dialogue, coarse language, sex and violence)


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I stopped by the Seven-Eleven on P street in Georgetown for few minutes and while I was returning to my cab, this woman came out of no where and said "Excuse me, are you the driver of this cab?".
She was dressed in all black, long skirt and a funny looking hat, pretty much she looked like a witch. She has to be the whitest person I have ever seen in my life. I can see through her pale skin every bit of her blood vessels on her arms. She wanted to go few blocks to the CVS store on DuPont Circle pick up stuff and driven back to 27th street in Georgetown where I picked her up from. She sat on the front seat and started digging in to her bag for over two minutes and I was like "what's up with this freak! Is she looking for her gun and smoke my ass?"
Cab drivers, especially those of us who drive at night are the most paranoid creatures you will ever encounter with. I don't care if Mother Teressa is in my back seat, I wouldn't trust that old bag at all, I here about those nuns with guns all the time! Finally she found the NyQuil coupons she was looking for and she said. "Now we are in business, it's going to be ten minutes or less and I will be right back and please don't leave me!"
I pulled up right at the circle to wait for her and started to stare at my windshield like I always do.While I was waiting for the witch, a cop pulls up behind me and I thought he was going to harass my ass. It turned out to be an officer I know that used to be one of the retards that I went to middle school with. We chatted for a while and he gave me his wife's Mary Kay business card, he was pretty much begging me to order some shit from the catalog he was carrying around. DC cops are getting desperate man! Someone needs to start paying those cats.
The witch returned twenty minutes later with a bag full of night time NyQuil! Isn't that in middle school you try get high on that shit? Maybe she got the mother of all flu or something, I don't know man. All I know is after she paid me for the ride, she also hooked me up with one of the NyQuils and said "you never know when you're gonna need one of these!"
It's going to be party time at Mr. Mad Cabbie's apartment.
Please don't forget the homeless,
Mad Cabbie.


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Dental decay is the most common chronic childhood disease with more than 16 million kids suffering from untreated tooth decay in the U.S. Launched in August 2012, the English and Spanish-language multimedia campaign jokes about the silly things children spend their time doing when they could take 2 minutes, twice a day to brush their teeth.
"Not only can poor dental health affect children's overall health, it also can lead to significant school hours missed," said Gary Price of the Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Health Lives. "We are so pleased to have Laila on board to help elevate the importance of kids' oral health among parents and caregivers so that we can get more kids brushing properly, resulting in fewer cavities and oral pain."
Through a series of social media and public relations efforts, Laila Ali will extend our "Tooth To-Dos" to parents nationwide. These oral health tips include the following:
1. Make sure your kids brush with fluoride toothpaste for 2 minutes, twice a day.
2. Teach your kids to floss between their teeth once a day, every day, to remove plaque and food where a brush can't reach. Kids' teeth can be flossed as soon as two of their teeth touch each other.
3. Start taking your child to the dentist regularly no later than age 1.
"As a mother, I know what it's like to try to wrangle your kids into brushing their teeth. But through my involvement with theKids' Healthy Mouths campaign, I have also been reminded how important it is," said campaign spokesperson, Laila Ali . "I am looking forward to spreading the message that brushing for 2 minutes twice a day is essential for good oral health and that it can actually be fun and easy with the videos and tools available online."
The mouth is the gateway to a person's overall health, and an unhealthy mouth can be associated with obesity, diabetes and even heart disease. Additionally, oral disease disproportionately affects minority children and those from low-income families; these children have almost twice the amount of untreated tooth decay than others in the general population.
"Our research shows that less than half (44 percent) of parents report that their child brushes his or her teeth twice a day," said Peggy Conlon , president and CEO of the Ad Council. "Laila's role as a mother of young children and her commitment to healthy living make her the perfect partner for our Kids' Healthy Mouths campaign."
Created pro bono by ad agencies Grey Group and Wing in New York, the new Kids' Healthy Mouths public service campaign is the first in the Ad Council's 71 year history to address oral health.
For more information about the Kids' Healthy Mouths campaign visit 2min2x.org.
About Laila Ali
Laila Ali is a world-class athlete, fitness & wellness expert, cooking enthusiast, founder of the Laila Ali Lifestyle Brand and mother of two toddler-aged children. In addition to her latest work as a cast member of NBC's highly touted reality program "Stars Earn Stripes" where she competed to raise money for a charity that supports veterans and their children, Laila is currently the host of "Everyday Health" airing nationwide on ABC, and former co-host of "American Gladiators." Laila also authored and published a motivational book for young women titled "Reach!" (Hyperion, 2003). She has appeared in various cooking segments on Rachael Ray , as well as Food Network's "Emeril," "Paula Dean " and "Chopped All-Stars" with tasty recipes geared towards a healthy, active lifestyle. In 2007 she captured the hearts of millions and made it to the final round of the fourth season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." She's also appeared as a guest-star on popular fitness show, "Biggest Loser" and tickled America's funny-bone with a hilarious role opposite Kevin Hart on the hit comedic series, "Real Husbands Of Hollywood."
About the Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives
The Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives (www.healthymouthshealthylives.org) is a coalition of the leading organizations in the field of oral health. The Partnership is committed to improve children's oral health so that they can develop into healthy, productive adults. The Coalition shares the view that no child should be in pain and suffer broader health issues or endure the social stigma and lack of opportunity resulting from untreated dental diseases and conditions. The Coalition's primary mission is to teach parents and caregivers, as well as the children themselves, to take control of their own health through oral disease prevention.
Members of the Partnership include: Academy of General Dentistry, Alliance of the American Dental Association, American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Periodontology, American Association for Dental Research, American Association of Endodontists, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, American Association of Orthodontists, American Association of Public Health Dentistry, American Association of Women Dentists, American College of Prosthodontists, American Dental Assistants Association, American Dental Association, American Dental Education Association, American Dental Hygienists Association, America's Dentists Care Foundation, Association of State & Territorial Dental Directors, California Dental Association, Children's Dental Health Project, Connecticut Coalition for Oral Health, Dental Trade Alliance Foundation, DentaQuest Foundation, Hispanic Dental Association, Maine Dental Access Coalition, Medicaid/SCHIP Dental Association, National Association of Dental Laboratories, National Children's Oral Health Foundation, National Dental Association, National Network for Oral Health Access, Oral Health America, Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention, Santa Fe Group and the Society of American Indian Dentists.
About the Ad Council
The Ad Council (www.adcouncil.org) is a private, non-profit organization with a rich history of marshaling volunteer talent from the advertising and media industries to deliver critical messages to the American public. Having produced literally thousands of PSA campaigns addressing the most pressing social issues of the day, the Ad Council has effected, and continues to effect, tremendous positive change by raising awareness, inspiring action and saving lives. For more information, please visitwww.adcouncil.org. You can also visit www.facebook.com/adcouncil or follow the Ad Council on Twitter @AdCouncil.
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I continue to lament the lack of the 'published high' I get from journalism while I work on my MPhil. However I'm emerging from this academic fugue for two conferences next month.
Firstly I'm heading to Canberra to present at the Australian Science Communicators conference, among other things. One of those other things is an interview – in Spanish – at the Chilean consulate, to get a working holiday visa for my move there at the end of April. You can keep up to date with that on my travel blog.
After Canberra I'll return to Adelaide to volunteer at the Australian International Documentary Conference, following my fantastic adventure at WCSFP (the subject of my previous post). I wrote a roundup of my highlights from the WCSFP on my Nature blog, which has been woefully neglected since.
In Canberra I'll be talking about how to avoid preaching to the converted in science engagement, as well as being part of a panel discussion on "Tools for Democracy and Dialogue". This is the summary of my presentation:
Events aimed at public engagement with science often attract the same crowd.
They're sometimes planned with little consideration for who will participate, beyond sheer numbers. So rather than representing a broad public, outcomes may represent people with above average interest in science and, studies suggest, socioeconomic status and education to match.
This raises issues of equality, and can limit the value of feedback from such events. As part of my research, I've looked at different ways participants have been recruited and what implications this has for outcomes of public engagement with science.
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I have always been curious how other folks are storing their spatial data.
Outside of an enterprise environment where much data is stored in enterprise geodatabases, is it better to store data per project in project folders, (The data may be important for other projects too, or maybe for a stand alone project) OR is it better to file everything in specific geodatabases or main folders - with shapefiles (accessible for many projects)?
How do you manage data accessability?
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Fall-Arrest System Safety Guidelines
With an adult present, practice adjusting and using your FAS, including the suspension relief strap, at ground level before hunting from an elevated stand.
To protect yourself if you fall, always wear your FAS full-body harness, attaching it to the tree at ground level and keeping it attached throughout your hunt.
- Attach one end of the FAS lineman's-style belt to one side of the FAS full-body harness, wrap the belt around the tree, and attach the other end of the belt to the other side of the harness.
- Use the FAS lineman's-style belt with your FAS full-body harness when you are installing or uninstalling the stand or the climbing aids for a hang-on tree stand. Also use the belt with your full-body harness when you are climbing into or out of a hang-on stand.
When you are in any tree stand, including a ladder stand, use the FAS tree strap and tether to attach your FAS full-body harness to the tree. Attach the tree strap to the tree so that the strap is at, or above, head level when you are standing. After attaching the tether, adjust both the tree strap and tether so that you have no slack in the tether while seated in your stand. If you fall, you do not want to drop below a level that would keep you from returning to the platform.
If you should fall while in your stand:
- Do not panic. Your FAS will hold you.
- Signal for help.
- Climb back onto the platform as quickly as possible.
- Take actions to avoid suspension trauma if you must wait for rescue. If you do not have a suspension relief strap, keep moving your legs.
Discard any FAS that shows signs of wear and tear or has been worn during a fall. Also adhere to the expiration date sewn into the FAS by the manufacturer.
Due to the risks of injuries or death, hunters who choose not to wear and use their FAS properly should stay on the ground to hunt.


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