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Translated by Dalya Yohai I was one those who found refuge in the forests, after the destruction of the Butshatch Ghetto. This saved my life. I would like now to share more details about this period.
I myself am from Chernelitza, but had close contacts with the people of Horodenka because of my activity in Gordonia-Hit'achdut. My father and I used to lease the forests in the Chernelitza area and use it for cutting and selling wood. In Kopachintsy, a small village near Chernelitza, my family owned and cultivated a forest. So I became a forest specialist and knew the paths in the forests. I also had maps, especially of forests around Potok-Zloti. After the destruction of the Butshatch Ghetto, I joined the young people who fled into the forests. There were four from Horodenka and I was the fifth from Chernelitza. There were also others from other cities in the area. The Horodenkans were: Yehoshua Vermot; Israel Zilber; and the brothers Yakov and Yochanan Bernstein, Pini Bernstein's sons.
During the destruction of the Ghetto I was gone. I was working for the Germans as a forest specialist. (I still have a certificate with a formal German seal.) One day I got an invitation to come to Butshatch with my tools. On the road I met a dentist from there and he told me it was a trap; that the Germans had once invited a doctor and dentist in this manner and had then killed them. I left the carriage, telling the Germans I need to get another paper, and fled to the forests.
When I met the other hiding in the forest, they asked me to join them and be their leader since I knew all the paths so well. Even before this, I had helped other Jews to hide in the forests, but they were all discovered and killed before they got to their hiding places. I was glad to join the Horodenka group and to work together to save our lives.
This was in October 1943 and so we needed to last through the hard winter months. And we did. I can say with no arrogance that it was thanks to my knowledge of the forests and the people who supplied us with food, helped us with laundry, hid each of us for a couple of days, and treated us very respectfully. I also managed to get some weapons.
I want to relate here about a battle we had with a German and Ukrainian troops. It was February 28, 1944. The day before we had been hiding with the Domkevitz family who lived in a forest on the banks of the Dniester in the area of Chernelitza and four kilometers from Kopachintsy. It had snowed hard that night and we decided to stay one more day and to move during the night. Somehow the police discovered we were there and a whole troop came to look for us. When we saw them, we locked the door and hid in the house. They called for us to come out and when we didn't respond they started to fire. We answered with gunfire and a battle ensued for an hour. Luckily we had enough ammunition we had 100 bullets and could hold out for a while. At the end we decided to run out of the house. But we tricked them. Five of us continued to fire and the other five, including me, we behind the troops and opened fire from the back. When they fired at us, the other five left the house. In the battle one of the German soldiers was hurt and they decided to retreat and leave us alone. Their plan was to come back with more people. We took advantage of that truce and quickly left. We even managed to take our belongings. The daughter of the house, Marsia joined us. The parents were not home at that time, so they were not accused of hiding Jews.
A couple of hours later, the troops returned but couldn't find us. They took the other children out of the house and burned it to the ground.
After this incident it was harder to hide anywhere because the troops knew about us looked hard for us. We moved to the other side of the river and continued to hide and move in the forest. We stayed in Potok Kloti a couple of weeks until the Russians liberated the whole area.
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Translated by Dalya Yohai When the war broke out between Germany and Russia, I was in Lvov. The first or second day of July, I went back to my mother's place in Kolyanki, 15 kilometers away from Horodenka. The same day, the Hungarian army captured Horodenka and as a reaction, a Ukrainian militia that began attacking Jews was created. In another village, Nezvisko, they killed all the local Jews 60 of them and threw them into the river. More than once you would see whole families floating in the water; often they were bound together with barbed wire.
Two weeks later, around July 15, 1941, Hungarian Jews started coming to Horodenka on the way to Ukraine. Many of them stayed in town or in neighboring villages. The Germans in Ukraine killed some of them; many who stayed were murdered by the Ukrainians along with the local Jews.
In Horodenka, the Jews were forced to wear yellow stars and they were forbidden to leave town.
The first Action was on the 4th and 5th of December, 1941. The Ukrainian militia herded all the Jews into the big synagogue and from there they were taken to the village of Mikolayuvka where they prepared a big pit next to the Dniester, not far from the Pension. They put a wooden board on the pit. Five people at a time were ordered on it. Then they were all shot and fell into the pit. The German Gestapo did the killings and the Ukrainian militia stood guard. Some fell into the pit still alive and then ran away at night. I myself saw a child coming out of the pit and running away. This was on the first day of the Action. The same day they killed Edward Greenberg in the street when he tried to run away from the militia.
On the night between the 4th and the 5th they started to do the professional selections. They needed welders, carpenters, and other occupations. My brother Yehuda-Chaim saved himself by registering as an egg packer. On the 5th, in the morning, they rounded up 600 remaining Jews and walked them to Mikolayuvka. The Ukrainian militia again was responsible.
On these two days, 2400 Jews perished. Before the killings they were asked to get undressed down to their underwear. The clothes were taken to the Pension. Among the dead was Dr. Shneyder. After the Action, the Gestapo came to the Judenrat and asked for a confirmation of the number of the dead and also asked for 10,000 marksto pay for the bullets that they had used.
After the first Action a ghetto was established in Horodenka. There was an order that all the Jews from the neighboring villages move into the ghetto. The ghetto lasted until April 1942. It was guarded by the Jewish militia.
I was sent to build a bridge on the Dniester. A German company, Gustav Raga, Tiff und Huchbau, ran the project. Fifty Jews worked for them. We lived in a house in the forest (which belonged to Fizik, the son-in-law of Prishling). We were paid with lunch (usually burgul) and minimum wages. Every day I had to pass by the communal grave because the Germans now lived in the Pension. Sometimes I'd find documents, such as graduation certificates from high school, which belonged to the dead. Some of the Jewish workers got better jobs as welders or cooks.
A Hungarian Jew was responsible for the storage room. The others worked as haulers of the pillars, which were sunk into the river and secured with stones to create the base for the bridge. Some of the stones we brought from a nearby mountain and some came from headstones taken from the Jewish cemetery in Uscieczko.
To tell the truth, the German workers under the engineer Weher treated us O.K. Once during a storm, we were pulling a raft on the river. I was extremely tired, as I hadn't slept all night. There were 200 people in one room including woman and children. When the engineer Weher saw me like that he said, mercifully, This one is ripe to be killed .
In April 1942, there was a second, smaller Action in Horodenka. 140 Jews were killed, among them Avraham Ziedman from Kotikuvka, who was in the hospital. He was shot in his bed.
In July 1942, they started to liquidate the ghetto in Horodenka and all the Jews were ordered to move to the Ghetto in Kolomyja. This was a terrible ghetto. People were dying in the streets from hunger and every morning a cart passed to collect the bodies. The ones that stayed alive were finally removed to Belzitz.
Some of the Horodenkan Jews ran away to Tluste, instead of going to Kolomyja and some of them were able to survive. Only a small group stayed in Horodenka. These were the sorters of stuff that was left behind.
September 6, 1942, they started the complete destruction of the Jewish quarter. They put everybody in one of the yards and also took 25 day-workers from the bridge. They told them to come for registration; I was at the time a night laborer and that's how I stayed alive. In the morning on the way back from work I saw the 25 people being taken away in carts, my brother Binyamim included. Engineer Weher saw us coming back and ordered us to go behind the building so we could remain safe.
In Horodenka they put the Jews in the storage shed of the yard and left them with no food or water for two days. When women and children asked for some water they threw them some beets (meant for animal consumption). That's what the people had to suck on. A couple of times the Germans came with bags and asked for gold and valuables. Some preferred to give them money.
After two days they took the Jews out and asked them to line up by fours or eights holding hands. They then took them to the train station. There they put the youth together in one group and the old, the women, and the children together in another. The youth were given a loaf of bread and taken to the Yanovska camp in Lvov; the others went to Belzitz, the death camp. They were taken in wagons with barbed wire on the windows. When it got dark somebody took the wire down and some of the passengers started to escape. The guards shot in the air, but couldn't do anything else. This how my brother Binyamim and his wife got away. They wandered two days in the fields and then went back to Kolyanki and hid at the place of a neighbor, Kazimersh Yashtshur.
After this happened, I worked two more months at the bridge. After our friends were taken away, the Germans treated us like we were non-existent. I think that they felt responsible for this crime. Other than that, as I noted before, they treated us quite fairly.
From time to time, I would go to Kolyanki to get something to eat and to visit my brother. On October 6, 1942, I was on my way as usual to Kolyanki and when I came back I noticed that there was no smoke coming from the chimney in the camp's kitchen, as was usual at this time of the day. I also saw some disorder in front of the camp. So I hid in the forest and a farmer collecting mushrooms told me that they took my friends in carts to Horodenka. I went immediately back to Kolyanki and started hiding. A Ukrainian named Hanet Osadtchuk took me to his house. In the day I hid in the cellar and by night I slept in the hut near the stove. This man had only one room that was both the kitchen and bedroom. He treated me like an angel especially in light of the fact that I coun't pay him. I repaid him with some stuff that was not worth much. They brought me food in the basket they used to bring potatoes from the cellar, so nobody would have any suspicions. Usually a four year-old boy brought my food and it is worth noting that he was able to keep the secret.
Once they told me that my older brother, Yehuda-Haim, was sick and hiding in one of the fields with his wife and three children and that he wanted to see me. My brother Binyamim went to see him and slept there one night. Some days later Binyamim got sick and the goy sheltering him asked him to leave because as he was sick he would not be able to run away if need be. The goy would then be found out and killed.
Binyamim came to me and my good goy accepted him, but only temporarily. I brught him to a women neighbor, but she too was scared. Another neighbor sent his dog against him. The day after he came back to me, I asked Hanet to let him stay and I promised him wood. He agreed. He was in the barn during the day and in the house at night. Hanet sent his son to a Jewish doctor that lived in Siemakowce with his wife and small child. He was young and originally from Stanislvov. I wrote him a letter describing my brother's symptoms and he sent back some medicine, saying it was typhus.
In the meantime, Hanet's oldest son also became sick, followed by his wife and the young child; the whole house became a hospital. Eventually Hanet himself got sick and we had to leave his home. We went to the forest. This was the 23rd of January 1943. Outside there was the big frost. My brother started getting better and the goy named Ivan Sanduk took him home for some days. I got a high fever too but didn't succumb. Another Ivan Sanduk took me to his house and I stayed there five days and then I went to other houses. Altogether I hid for three weeks. Then I had no place to go. In the meantime I learned that Hanet died; I blame myself to this day. Then Ivan Sanduk and his family died too. I mourned them like they were my relatives.
My brother Binyamim was also roofless at that time. One day I went to a desolate barn and I found him there. We decided to go to the forest. This was February 13th, 1943. In the day we hid behind the rocks in the forest and at night we found a desolate hut and slept there. After two weeks we noticed that we were seen and began sleeping in the forest again.
We ate mainly potatoes that we stole from farmers' cellars. In the summer it was easier. We ate fruits and vegetables from the fields. The biggest problem was the mushroom season when all the villagers came to pick. We had to move from one place to another at that time.
In Kolyanki there were other Jews in hiding. Among them were Rachel and Avraham Guttman, Naftali and Josef Esnfeld and Rivka Eider. Naftali died of hunger and cold. The Guttmans hid at one of their neighbors. However, another neighbor went to the militia to report them. They found Rachel in the barn but didn't find Avraham. She had one foot paralyzed and couldn't walk. They took a cart and brought her to a mountain called Okopi, where horses were buried. They finished their bottle of wine, then shot, killed her, and buried her there. Somebody said that although she was crippled, she tried to escape, but they didn't let her.
In the fall, Avraham Guttman came to the forest. The same day it snowed and we couldn't stay under the trees. But we didn't have another alternative. So we went to the rocks. This was quite close to the road and the guard noticed us and went to the militia. We ran away and left everything behind including shoes and coats. We ran shoeless in the snow and managed to disappear. We slept that night under another rock and the day after we dug a hole like a bunker.
This was a simple hole in the ground; it was so small that we couldn't even manage to lie or sit in it together. We covered it with branches and leaves. Again, in the summer we managed with food and then started stealing potatoes again. Because of the lack of vitamins, my brother became blind at night. I had to guide him. I have to confess that I was trembling in a strange cellar, stealing potatoes. But my brother was more secure. Looking for a hiding place, I always took into consideration the security element. That's why the bunker was located in the middle of the forest on a hill. It proved to be a good decision. We saw often from our hiding place how the obvious places were searched for hiding Jews; but nobody would think that we were in the depth of the hill.
In the summer of 43-44, we started hearing rumors that the Russians were close. In December 1943, Avraham Guttman visited us again. He was hiding with a neighbor who was supplying him with food as well. We told him to give up the comfort and come stay with us. He had some sheepskins and he promised to bring them for us to cover ourselves with. We planned to enlarge the bunker, but he went back and never returned. Later, we heard that he was found in the barn. They took him to Horodenka and shot him in the cemetery.
As I mentioned before, Yehuda, my brother, had typhus. When he recovered he ran away with his wife and three children to Tluste. There, his oldest daughter Luci was killed in an Action. They returned to the forest and hid behind the rocks in the field between Horodenka and Kolyanki.
I was told that he used to come at night to one Peuter Yashtochok to get some cooked potatoes. At the end, somebody told the German police and they went, in January 1944 (two months before the liberation) and caught and killed them on the spot. The bodies were taken to Horodenka.
Of all the people hiding in Kolyanki, only Yosef Ensfled and Rivka Eider suvived. But they ran away and the militia was looking for them. They found Yosef at night in the Dalshow forest and killed him on the spot. Rivka was younger and stronger and managed to survive until the end of the war.
In February 1944 there was a deep snow and it was dangerous to go to the village to get food because we would leave footprints in the snow. We still had two kilograms of wheat, so we made flour by grinding it between two stones. We were able to make a soup everyday with one tablespoon. This is how we ate for six weeks. When the snow melted and we dared to go to the village, we almost couldn't walk.
This was the last time we went to the village and this time we were not lucky. Binyamim went down to the cellar to get potatoes and a dog came and started barking violently. The farmer's son came, but when he saw us he retreated. This time we had gone earlier than usual, around 9 o'clock, something we never dared to do before. But since we felt the presence of the Soviet army we became more daring. We left the yard immediately, but managed to get some potatoes. The day after we saw the guard looking for us behind the rocks.
We felt the Soviet Army getting closer and indeed on March 23rd, 1944, we heard an engine and saw a plane with a red star fly very low along the Dniester. We were ecstatic. But still we didn't dare to go to the village until two days later when the Soviets were already there. I was long-haired, I hadn't shaved the whole year. The whole winter I wore one shirt and didn't have the chance to wash it. We were covered with lice and all the villagers came to stare at us.
But this was not the end. A couple of days later, a German troop came to the village. There was a battle between the Germans and the Soviets. We hid in a cellar and the battle was 100 meters from our hiding place. That same night the Germans left. The next day we went to Horodenka and found there a couple of Jews who had managed to hide there or come back from Tluste.
I ran away to Czernovitz. My brother Binyamim was drafted by the Soviet Army and they sent him to the front. That same year he died of a German bullet.
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Someone recently asked a question about whether reactor.callLater could be used to precisely schedule events in the very distant future. The person gave an example of scheduling now - December, 2012 - an event to run at a particular time in December 2014 - a date two years in the future.
One thing to keep in mind about scheduled events (actually, any events) in a Twisted-using application is that the whole system is cooperative and single-threaded. So an event scheduled to run at a specific time - Twisted uses Python floats to represent a time (seconds since the epoch) at which to run scheduled events - cannot run at that time if something else happens to be running when that time comes around. For example, if you have a prime calculator and you're busy calculating a 10,000 digit prime number on December 30, 2014 at 15:30:00 then your event scheduled for that time is not going to run. Instead, it'll run sometime after the prime calculation is finished.
The asker knew this, though, and was only curious about whether there were any intrinsic scheduling limitations related to very distant times. The answer is that there is a limitation, and I've already alluded to it in the paragraph above.
Twisted uses Python floats to represent time. The precision available to floating points declines as the values themselves get larger (this is why they're called "floating points"! The decimal point can move around).
At 2 ** 51, values that differ by less than 0.5 cannot be represented. At 2 ** 52, the range grows to 1.0, and above 2 ** 53, the representation only supports even integers (you can probably see a pattern here - add a bit to the magnitude, subtract a bit from the precision). As Twisted is treating this value as a number of seconds since an arbitrary starting point, this means that 2 ** 53 seconds after that starting point, scheduling granularity has dropped to 2 seconds; ie, there is only one point in time out of every two second interval at which an event can be scheduled. Try to schedule it for a different time and it will silently be adjusted to the time in that interval which can be represented. As a specific example, if you tried to schedule an event to run at 9007199254740993 seconds after the epoch, it would most likely run at 9007199254740992 seconds after the epoch instead.
What does this mean in practical terms? Perhaps not a lot. Assuming our current system of marking the passage of time continues in use until then, 9007199254740992 seconds after the epoch falls about 25 minutes before midnight on November 11th (a Sunday), in the year 285,428,751.

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General Description
The Bombay is a sleek muscular cat with great big copper penny eyes and a shiny midnight-black coat that resembles black patent leather. The combination is spectacular and resembles the mini-panther that the late Nikki Horner had in mind when she began developing the breed in 1953. The Bombay is a man-made breed developed from crossing a black American Shorthair with a sable Burmese. These purring bundles of love want to be with you all the time and as close to you as possible, reveling in your company.
Nikki Horner had in mind a cat that resembled the black leopard of India and named the breed she developed from combining black American Shorthairs with Burmese the Bombay after the Indian city. She wanted a cat with the sleek, short tight coat of the Burmese in the darkest black from the American Shorthair lit up with eyes like new copper pennies. Her early efforts were unsuccessful but undeterred she kept trying to create her vision and the combinations she used beginning in 1965 led to success. Horner had been breeding cats since she was 16 and in the 1970s, when her creation was finally accepted for championship competition, she stopped breeding. Other breeders had fallen in love with the stunning breed with the fabulous personality and worked to keep the breed going.
Major influencers in the breed's progression and popularity were Herb and Suzanne Zwecker. They also developed new lines with new combinations of the Burmese with the American Shorthair. Shawnee and Road To Fame are found behind many of today's Bombays. TICA accepted the Bombay for championship competition in June 1979.
The Bombay combines the easy-going nature of the American Shorthair with the inquisitive, loving personality of the social Burmese. They love to be in your company and will greet you joyously at the door-and they will greet visitors with the same loving enthusiasm. Expect your Bombay to be as close to you as possible whether it is perched on your soldier as you walk around, rubbing round your ankles purring while you make supper, cuddled into your lap while you watch TV or read a book, or snuggling up against you under the covers in bed like a hot water bottle. The Bombay loves the entire family and is particularly good with children since it is always ready to play. It also gets on well with other family pets given the proper introduction. Their craving for company means they are unhappy if let alone for long periods so consider getting another cat if you will be gone most of the day.
The Bombay comes in one color-black; but the deepest, densest black imaginable and with a high gloss sheen. The large eyes are anywhere from a deep, rich gold to copper - just like new copper pennies. The gleaming coat is tight and short and hugs the muscular body so you can watch the muscles ripple as this mini-panther stalks an imaginary prey in the living room. They are a medium-sized cat with a robust bone structure to support the powerful muscular body and are surprisingly heavy for their size. The head is rounded with no sharp angles and the large eyes are wide-set giving the face a sweet expression. The ears are medium sized, set well apart and sit tilted forward.
The short coat is very tight and sheds very little so it does not need much maintenance. An occasional bath will help keep the coat sharp and list any loose dirt while a quick rubdown with a rubber brush will remove any loose hairs. The palm of your hand as you lovingly stroke your mini-panther imparts a little natural oil that will help the sheen of the coat. For tip-top shine, a quick polish with a chamois is all that is needed.
Bombay Breed |
Accepted For Championship in TICA in 1979
- Bombay Breed At A Glance
- Breed Introduction
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Be really attractive. Your acne is gone, your face has matured without having wrinkles and everything on your body is lifted naturally. Eat bagels seven days a week, binge-drink and do drugs: you'll still look like a babe. When you turn thirty, it'll become a different story but that's, like, not for a really long time.
Reestablish a relationship with your parents. You don't live with them anymore (hopefully) so start to appreciate them as human beings with thoughts, flaws and feelings rather than soulless life ruiners who won't let you borrow their car.
Go from eating delicious food at your parents' house to eating Ragu tomato sauce over Barilla noodles. Develop an eating disorder to save money.
Move into an apartment on the corner of Overpriced and Dangerous. Sleep on a bare mattress with an Ikea comforter. Your mother talks to you about buying a top sheet and a duvet cover but feel like you're not mature enough to own something called "duvet."
Read the New York Times piece, "What Is It About 20-Somethings?" Feel exposed and humiliated. Share it on your Facebook with the caption: "Um…." Your friends will comment "Too real" and that will be the end of that.
Work at a coffee shop but feel hopeful about your career in advertising, writing, whatever. Remember that you're young and that the world is your oyster. Everything is possible, you still have so much to see and hear. You went to a good school and did good things. Figure if you're not going to be successful, who the hell is?
Date people who you know you'll never be able to love. See someone for three months for no other reason than because it's winter and you want to keep warm by holding another body. Date a Republican just so you can say you dated a Republican.
Eventually all these nobodies will make you crave a somebody. Have a real relationship with someone. Go on vacations together, exchange house keys, cry in their arms after a demoralizing day at work. Think about marrying them and maybe even get engaged. Regardless of the outcome, feel proud of yourself for being able to love someone in a healthy way.
Start your twenties with a lot of friends and leave with a few good ones. What happened? People faded away into their careers and relationships. Fights were had and never resolved. Shit happens.
Think of yourself at twenty and hanging out with people who didn't mean a thing to you. Think about writing papers, about being promiscuous, about trying new things. Think of yourself now and your face looking different and your body feeling different and how everything is just different.
Form the habits that will stick with you forever. Drink your coffee with two sugars and skim milk every morning. Buy a magazine every Friday. Enjoy spending money on candles, smoke pot on Saturdays, watch the television before bed.
Move into a bigger apartment on the corner of Mature and Gentrification and finally buy a duvet cover. Limit your drug-use. If you find yourself unable to do so, start to wonder if you have a problem.
Have your parents come to your place for Christmas. Set the table, make the ham, wear a sophisticated outfit, This will all mean so much at the time.
Think about having children when you stop acting like a child. This may not ever happen.
Maybe this is assuming too much. Maybe this is generalizing. Maybe society uses age as an unrealistic marker for growth. Maybe. Still feel the anxiety on your 30th birthday and think to yourself, "Oh shit, I'm no longer a 20-something."


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Reviewed by
Andrew Borntreger
on 2 May 2012
The Characters:
Will McKenna - He must have spent a lot of time playing "Mouse Trap" as a child, because his plan to kill the monster is ridiculously complicated.
Carly McKenna - Will's daughter who is scared of pirates.
Danny - His sordid weekend in a secluded cabin with his girlfriend turns out to be everything except sordid. He spends every waking moment collecting firewood, cooking meals, and doing other chores until the monster puts him out of his sexually deprived misery.
Arden - Nine out of ten female marine biologists are natural blondes. Yes she is, but no she's not.
Ben - Easily mistaken for Quint in a pinch if you squint.
Sheriff Jay McKenna - Will's brother. His death leaves a big pair of shoes to fill, largely on account of that being all that the monster left of him.
Drew - You are the only black man in the entire town. Of course you are going to die.
Erin - Drew's girlfriend and similarly doomed.
Roy - Such a jerk that the monster, which universally paralyzes its victims with venom before eating them, decides to choke him to death instead.
The Sea Beast - "It" is obviously a "she" but we never see a Mr. Sea Beast, meaning that she is a single mother with ten thousand eggs. Good luck with that, girlfriend.
The Sea Beast's Babies - Little creatures about the size of medium dogs.
The Plot:
This film is one of the cookie-cutter monster movies produced by SyFy so it can claim to be something other than a delivery channel for "Ghost Hunters" and late night infomercials. All of these movies involve some sort of dangerous animal or legendary creature, and they often borrow ideas from genere classics such as "Jaws," "Alien," "Jurassic Park," "The Fly," and "Predator" (to name but a few of many borrowed from). This film is no exception to that rule, though for some unexplainable reason I do not find it as painful as many other SyFy movies.
No, really. I don't know why "Sea Beast" is any better than "Sand Serpents" to me. It would be like asking me which I like better, gonorrhea or chlamydia. If I have to pick between the two, I guess I'd have to say chlamydia. Why? I don't know! Both of them sound unpleasant, but I guess that chlamydia has a nice ring to it.
"Sea Beast" starts out with Will's fishing boat caught by a sudden storm. The crew struggles to pull in the last of the nets as heavy waves toss the boat. Our protagonist, the captain of his vessel, leaves his post at the wheel to help the men on the deck. That is the most irresponsible thing we see Mr. McKenna do in the entire film, and the result is exactly what anyone with nautical experience would expect. The boat hits a wave badly and everybody is thrown across the deck like ragdolls. Will smacks his big hunk of stupid (his head) hard, causing him to mistrust what he sees next. Will watches dazed as something emerges from the water and grabs one of the crew. What everybody decides must have happened is that a wave swept the poor man overboard. The boat returns to port one man short, but with an aquatic monster trailing along.
Once it arrives at the small fishing community, the Sea Beast goes on an eating binge. First, it surprises Drew while he is preparing the boat for its next fishing expedition. Distracted from his work by the sound of something splashing beside the dock, the young man discovers that amphibious troglodytes immobilize their prey with paralyzing spit. Yep, the Sea Beast hawks a big wet loogie into Drew's face and then waits for him to fall down.
Another trick that the Sea Beast employs is that it can turn invisible. Not entirely, mind you, more like the chameleon distortion employed by the alien in "Predator," but executed with less skillful effects artists. The scene with Drew is a perfect example of this, because the creature drags itself out of the water right in front of him. Standing on the dock, the Sea Beast is supposed to be invisible, but it is easy to see almost all of its features. What it looks like is a CGI wireframe set at 20% opacity. You and I can see the Sea Beast clearly, but Drew peers right at it without any recognition of what it could be. It's plain as day! Mr. Magoo isn't even that blind! Some of the later scenes look better, and the result is almost exactly like "Predator," but when the CGI bubbas get it wrong it makes the monster appear translucent instead of invisible.
Look, Marvel is never going to create a superhero whose power is the ability to become hard to see. Nobody wants to read about a man who can
turn invisible. Although, that would allow the writers to burden Translucent Man with an inferiority complex. Geeks love protagonists with angst, so maybe if Translucent Man made a mistake that contributed to his father losing his job, it might be viable for four or five issues.
Even better, for the final issue Translucent Man could team up with Aquaman to stop an evil scientist who wants to use remote control hermit crabs to ruin the US Open. Ooooooh, that would be good.
When what is left of Drew is discovered the next morning, it causes quite a stir in the little fishing community. It also provides Will with another piece of the puzzle; he notices the puddles of slime that the creature left behind on the dock. In an older movie, the slime could be relatively effective in tantalizing the viewers about the monster's exact nature. Here it's just a waste. Nobody cares about the mysterious puddles of slime that the main character discovered. We, the audience, already know what the Sea Beast looks like. We're hoping that Will will see it soon, too, because us knowing more than Will is aggravating. Human instinct makes us want to tell Mr. McKenna that what killed Drew is a bipedal, venom-spitting monster that swam up from the ocean floor. Not being able to tell him is maddeningly frustrating.
Meanwhile, Carly, Danny, and Erin sneak off to Will's private cabin on a nearby island. Drew promised Erin that he would catch up with them in the morning, but by then he is rather dead. Erin does not know this, so she spends her morning on the beach, fluctuating between anger and despair over being stood up. The Sea Beast comes ashore with some babies in tow and eats Erin, saving the poor girl from her relationship-inspired misery.
You know, "Romeo and Juliet" would be more interesting with a giant man-eating frog.
Will finally encounters the Sea Beast when it kills a smooching couple in a minivan about ten yards away from where he and Arden are talking. He gets a good look at the thing before it turns almost invisible. Then the creature jumps into the trees, leaping from branch to branch like some sort of translucent lemur all the way to the water. McKenna shoots at it with his pistol, but all he manages to achieve is to scare the crap out of a pair of fisherman.
The Sea Beast swinging through the branches like a primate causes my ability to suspend belief to stop working. The creature probably weighs 250 lbs. It consistently jumps onto branches that are so small that if my eight year-old were climbing on them my wife would say "Jenna, that branch is not thick enough to hold your weight. You're going to break an arm or kill yourself. Come down." Meanwhile, my two boys are under the tree, throwing soccer balls and wiffle ball bats up into the branches and laughing like they don't have good sense.
I just channeled my wife channeling my grandmother. Scary.
At the cabin, Carly and Danny find themselves under siege by a whole herd (pack, flock, school?) of baby horrors. Since there are not any firearms at the cabin, the only weapons to be found are among fishing gear. The result is a ridiculous "arming up" montage as the pair grab every fillet knife and fishing gig they can find. The Sea Beast babies are not impressed by all the scary fillet knives and continue their attacks. If defending the cabin was left to Danny and his unsatisfied libido, then all would be lost. Carly saves the day by turning into a freaked out, blood-splattered, woman on a rampage. The resulting carnage surprises Danny, probably causing him to reconsider his relationship with such a dangerous girl.
Carly's Sea Beast baby-gutting rampage might explain why she rebuffed all of Danny's romantic advances. See, this light went on in my head. Maybe Carly is not playing impossible to get. What if she is menstruating? That would explain a lot.
The Sheriff, Roy, and a random local chase the Sea Beast into a section of forest. The creature's ability to turn invisible gives it a competitive edge over the humans, especially since none of them is carrying a gatling gun capable of saturating several hundred meters of forest with projectiles. Heck, I doubt that even Sea Beast-seeking missiles would help, because the humans are all idiots. They split up to chase the monster through the trees. By the time Will arrives, all that is left of his brother and the others is bloody body parts.
Back at town, Ben loses his mind. He welds together a cage and locks himself inside with a speargun. OK, that might not sound too crazy, but he also strips down to his skivvies and smears fish guts all over himself. Surely that is not the sign of a healthy mind. The crackpot scheme is not successful. When the creature appears it initially ignores the cage to bite the head off of the female harbor master. It's only after Ben manages to shoot a spear into the Sea Beast that it pays any attention to him. Since it cannot get into the cage, it spits venom all over the half-naked man and leaves him to die in slow agony. Cage = good idea. Half-naked = bad idea. What Ben should have done, instead of stripping down to his boxers, is cover himself up in raingear. A high-power rifle would have been a better choice than that stupid little speargun, too.
Without any way to contact the mainland, Carly and Danny leave the cabin behind. They trek across the island to an old ferry where they hope to find a radio. As soon as those two mentioned the ferry, I knew that the monster's nest was going to be inside. In fact, no matter where Danny and Carly decided to go from the cabin, it would be where the Sea Beast laid her eggs. I don't care if they were going to the abandoned Starbucks on the island, in hopes that the free WiFi was still running, that's where all of the eggs would be.
The good news is that Carly finds a flare pistol aboard the old ferry. While she locks herself in the ship's kitchen, Danny fires off a flare in the hope that someone will come to their rescue. Will and Arden see the flare; they get to the ferry just in time to see Danny eaten by the Sea Beast. They quickly run away. When they open the locked kitchen, they discover a gore-soaked Carly surrounded by a multitude of little babies that squirmed in through a duct only to be hacked to pieces by the young lady.
The money that Will had set aside for Carly's college is going to end up paying for her counseling instead.
As they attempt to disembark from the rusting old ferry, Will and the two women discover the nest. The mama creature hovers nearby, ready to attack if they try to escape or threaten the eggs, so Will sets an intricate trap that will destroy the eggs, kill the Sea Beast, and allow them to escape. It works, somehow. Even more incredible, Will survives the explosion that incinerates the Sea Beast and all of her eggs. I know that he can't lose, but Mr. McKenna should have woken up on a cloud with wings and a harp.
Like I mentioned in the beginning, "Sea Beast" is like almost every other SyFy original picture. It does turn out to be more enjoyable than others. Perhaps the characters, though sometimes being obvious copies from other, better films, are not as obnoxious. The special effects are also slightly above the normal level as well. Well, except for the hand puppet used in some scenes. The CGI beasts look a lot better than the hand puppets. I don't know whether I should congratulate the CGI artist or denounce the person responsible for those awful latex props.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Hip waders can be just as sexy as chaps.
Courage works best in concentrations of .12 and higher.
The average eighteen year-old boy thinks that sex is more important than first aid.
The average eighteen year-old girl thinks that puss is a total turn-off.
Old fishermen are living museums for extinct styles of beards.
A fish can play possum.
Electric chairs are made out of tin.
Blinking is a telltale sign of rigormortis.
Stuff To Watch For:
31 mins - That is nothing strange, just an Irish Setter with the mange.
43 mins - Haven't you ever seen "Predator?" It's an invisible monster in a tree.
43 mins - For crying out loud, just shoot it!
45 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST FOLIAGE!
52 mins - I'm really digging the white pegboard motif that Barbara used to decorate her office.
63 mins - Why does it have to be all or nothing with you?
66 mins - And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why they call it the "chicken of the sea."
79 mins - Everything else on the old ferry has been ransacked, but nobody stole the valuable welding equipment. Really?
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Starving actors speak out
Will: "Listen to me! Whatever that thing is, it left some kind of disgusting slime on the dock right where it attacked Drew. I found the same stuff on my boat where it took Joey. I think this thing followed me back to town."
Will: "So, did you figure out what that slime was from the dock."
Arden: "It's a toxin. Some form of venom, highly concentrated."
Will: "Venom, like from a sea snake?"
Arden: "More like what you find in an ambush predator, like a sea devil."
Roy: "You guys want to grab your rods and your reels, go look for the Loch Ness Monster, you have your fun. I'm going hunting."
Sheriff: "Just hold on, Roy. Let's be smart about this."
Roy: "And what? You want to wait until more people die, Sheriff?"
Sheriff: "No, but we're going to do this together."
Barbara: "Will, I need you to get back down here. Ben has gone over the deep end. He's building some kind of cage on the dock; he's setting himself up as bait."
Will: "I'm on my way."
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CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) - Maybe the next royal wedding will be keeping it in the family.
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Your contractor can help you make the right decisions regarding materials, particularly as they relate to your buildings style and climate. A contractor can also make sure the roof you install will not only meet your personal requirements but also those of the roofing manufacturer and local building codes. Use this guide to select a qualified roofing contractor that is right for your home or business.
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One of the best ways to find any contractor is to check with people you know. Have any of your neighbors, friends, or colleagues had their roof replaced? If so, were they happy with the job and, most importantly, would they work with that contractor again — a sure sign that the experience was a good one? Likewise, if you know of a home in your area that just had a roof installed, ask the owners if they have a recommendation. Smaller lumber yards and hardware stores are also good sources for leads, as are any roofing distributors in your area.
No. 2: Do your research
Once you've identified a couple of qualified roofing contractors — ideally three — do some sleuthing. Verify their business address, phone number and email, make sure they are insured and licensed, and even run a credit check. How long have they been in business? Do they have a professional website that includes previous work, customer comments and references? Check with your local Better Business Bureau or chamber of commerce, as well as contractor review sites like Angie's List, to see if they report any complaints.
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Once you've narrowed the field, have each prospective contractor visit your home to discuss roofing materials, the extent of work to be done, and the amount of time and manpower that will be required to complete the project. Does the contractor seem enthusiastic, knowledgeable and professional? Those qualities will be your assurance of a good find. Contractors have insights on best roofing materials and installation techniques, but it is your house — so be sure to ask questions and participate in the decision-making. Remember to get references and check them.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
associate black men with drug dealers
Bill O'Reilly: "Let's say you're a cocaine dealer -- and you kind of look like one a little bit."
Marc Lamont Hill: "As do you . . . you know, you actually look like a cocaine user."
This example of ignorant white aggression reminds me of another, bitterly iconic scenario, Professor Cornel West's struggle to catch a taxi (as described in his book Race Matters):
I dropped my wife off for an appointment on 60th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues. I left my car -- a rather elegant one -- and stood on the corner of 60th Street and Park Avenue to catch a taxi. I felt quite relaxed since I had an hour until my next engagement. At 5:00 P.M. I had to meet a photographer who would take the picture for the cover of this book on the roof of an apartment building in Harlem on 115th Street and 1st Avenue. I waited and waited and waited. After the ninth taxi refused me, my blood began to boil. The tenth taxi refused me and stopped for a kind, well-dressed smiling female citizen of European descent. As she stepped into the cab, she said, "This is really ridiculous, is it not?"
Ugly racial memories of the past flashed through my mind. Years ago, while driving from New York to teach at Williams College, I was stopped on fake charges of trafficking cocaine. When I told the police officer I was a professor of religion, he replied "Yeh, and I'm the Flying Nun. Let's go, nigger!" I was stopped three times in my first ten days in Princeton for driving too slowly on a residential street with a speed limit of twenty-five miles per hour. (And my son, Clifton, already has similar memories at the tender age of fifteen.) Needless to say, these memories are dwarfed by those like Rodney King's beating or the abuse of black targets of the FBI's COINTEL-PRO efforts in the 1960s and 1970s. Yet the memories cut like a merciless knife at my soul as I waited on that godforsaken corner.
Since the day West is describing here is the day that he was photographed for the cover of his book, you can see what he was wearing -- a formal, thoroughly professional looking suit, complete with tie, and vest. I can't tell if Marc Lamont Hill was also wearing a vest, but the rest of the "professional" uniform is there. And yet, looking as educated, professional, well-heeled, well-monied and so on often doesn't matter, does it? For Bill O'Reilly, as for many white people, the image of a drug dealer as a black man persists in the "darker" recesses of our minds.
So that's a fairly obvious common white tendency exemplified by that clip, and I hope that electronic cards and letters of complaint are pouring into Fox Studios as I write this post.* However, another, less obvious white tendency (less obvious to white people like me, that is) also seems to emerge here. As Zuky notes,
Bill O'Loofah started worrying that this sharp dude (Marc Lamont Hill) might be on the verge of taking him down intellectually, so he threw in some gratuitous gut-rot racism as a degrading distraction. White folks do this all the time.
Yes, gratuitous derailing gut-rot racism. It works every time. Or, almost every time.
And half the time, or more, we don't even know we're doing it.
* You can complain by writing to askfox AT fox DOT com
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That's the kind of thing that's striking to me; why, in the middle of a discussion about Obama, does O'Reilley feel the need to interject that "drug dealer" comment? You can argue it's for the sake of whatever analogy he was going for, bit it's racist and extremely unnecessary...and Hill handled it much better than I would have. Hell, I'd have started open-mouthed at his racist ass, like, "Really, guy?"
ReplyDelete- WillowMay 27, 2010 at 9:32 AM
(In which I completely ignore the post title)
>> "However, another, less obvious white tendency also seems to emerge here."
Less obvious?
WP's fear that a POC--any POC--might be smarter than us is one of the most prevalent swpds, as is all the flak we throw to try to disguise it.
RVCBard hit on this on another thread recently--WP's tendency to assume that we understand everything POC say because it's 'simple' and 'straightforward', whereas what characterizes Explaining is that the person doing the Explaining (in this case, white) feels a topic to be complex. My roommate, reading over my shoulder, suggests the stereotype of the 'straight-talking Black woman' or the Black/Latina woman who "tells it like it is" comes from this particular tendency as well.
And I wonder if the Magical Negro/Magical Native American tropes also come into play here? Like, setting up a distinction between 'intelligence' and 'wisdom', in which Wisdom is something Deep and Earthy, but magical and not really due to the person zirself being awesome--yet can be neatly packaged for white consumption. Intelligence, on the other hand, is typically considered solely due to the awesomeness of the person considered 'smart.' Thus a white quality.
Dr. Hill's comeback is awesome. [Macon, on his website bio he refers to himself as Dr. Hill, not Professor; you might want to change that.] - AugustMay 27, 2010 at 9:33 AM
"Bill O'Loofah started worrying that this sharp dude (Marc Lamont Hill) might be on the verge of taking him down intellectually, so he threw in some gratuitous gut-rot racism as a degrading distraction. White folks do this all the time."
This reminds me of a time that I was debating a white man about something, and I was pretty much owning his ass. Randomly out of nowhere he asks me, "Here's a joke, why is there cotton in pill bottles?"
If you don't know the answer, you can Google it. I can't remember the last time I even watched O'Reilly. He's way different from his Inside Edition days (minus that viral meltdown). Of course, that can be said with many of these current talking heads (Geraldo, Maury, Springer, etc.). That said, the sneaky comment directed at Hill was childish, but I like the response by Hill...
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that Dr. Hill came right back, but O'Reilley did not deserve to be placated with "so we're even." What amazing strength of character to forgo that sort of insult with a smile. I wish he didn't need to demonstrate that superhuman strength of character to be on white-dominated TV.
Fox has my disgruntled e-mail.Thank you for pointing that out, Willow and Rochelle -- didn't realize I was wearing my Universalizing White glasses at that point. I've added a parenthetical element to that part of the post that I hope corrects that.
(I also changed "Professor Hill" in the first paragraph to "Dr. Hill.")I usually don't watch these clips, because they annoy me and I gotta get through my whole workday with white people.
But this one was a short clip, so I checked it out. I noted Dr. Hill's face when O'Reilly made that comment. I knew exactly what he was thinking and all of it happened in less than 3 seconds.
I'm inclined to go thought by thought, but because I know somebody will take it out of context, I won't. Let me just say that it shows how often he has probably been in such situations that he was able to come back with a very good response in such a short amount of time.
Makes me think of another swpd... "always feel like they need to remind you of who (they think) you are..."- BelkinMay 27, 2010 at 11:38 AM
This happened to me many times over when I had an intellucal conversation or debate with a white person. I use to always wonder why did the person resort to my race or some ethnic joke in hopes of making my position on an issue irrelevant. And, like Macon stated in the article, it WORKS EVERY SINGLE TIME and is a perfect distractor.
ReplyDelete - Umbrella TodayMay 27, 2010 at 12:47 PM
This is a variation / example of the "see a potential criminal in every black person" post from 3/30/10. That Bill O the Clown would use this tactic to try "put a black man in his place" surprises me not at all. What does amaze me is that black people are willing to engage in conversation with him at all. I couldn't do it without shaking / screaming / cursing / crying. I'm glad there are some who can.
ReplyDelete I think one of the most telling parts of this segment was O'Reilly's line at the end "You're going to find another way to do it [come across the border]." Because most undocumented workers don't walk across the border. That is such a small percentage of how people end up in the US (largely visa overstays). What I don't understand is how someone can advocate sending 10,000 troops to the US/Mexican border, when they know that people will "find another way" to get here.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousMay 27, 2010 at 4:07 PM
"What I don't understand is how someone can advocate sending 10,000 troops to the US/Mexican border, when they know that people will "find another way" to get here."
Oh that's simple, by being a moron.
I love when John Stewart owns him on a regular basis.
DR. Hill's comeback is great though I wish he hadn't been laughing when he said it. This is why I do not belive white people when they try to blame everything else on race when they say a POC is more likely a criminal "he was wearing gang clothing so that's why" oh please.
My little 10 year old brother was accused of starting a gang with a group of his friends who are mostly black and a group of black boys together automatically mean gang members/criminals to them.
MY brother was 8 at the time and he would be the first person to laugh at somebody's aspiration to be a gangsta that they see on TV.
I mentioned my brother on another blog and somebody commented that it is how my brother is dressed that they may think that but no. In the UK every single primary school and high school wears school uniform. He is wearing what everyone else is wearing yet he and his friends who were hanging out together becasue that is what kids do were still seen as potential criminals."A good comeback would have been, "Really, Bill? I wouldn't know what a cocaine dealer looks like as I am not a cocaine user. I'll have to take your word on that one then. You must know what you're talking about.""
That's a good one, but I think it would be difficult to come up with that in the three seconds Dr. Hill had. Really, it isn't fair that he had to come up with a response to such an ugly comment in such a short amount of time."I think we're missing a big racist implication here. While it's humorous to say O'Reilly must be thinking of what his own dealer looks like, the real issue is the white assumption that if a black man doesn't look poor, he must be making his living as a drug dealer."
This is something I've heard people say a lot; the instance I am thinking of specifically was regarding one of my high school teachers. "A black man living on a teacher's salary and dressing like that? [he was always well-dressed] Must be selling drugs or something." My response was usually some form of "Think about how fucking stupid that sounds for a minute. What the hell is wrong with you..."
For the record, Bill O'Reilly has embarrassed himself and decent human beings in general too many times, and he just needs to get off the air. I'm sure he would claim not to be a racist, but it's obvious that he has a deep-seated fear/mistrust of everyone who is not white and/or doesn't subscribe to his brand of conservatism.- cuesqueMay 30, 2010 at 12:01 PM
To what extent this is relevant, each individual will have to decide on his/her own. However, I think it is relevant to note that Hill appears regularly on O'Reilley's show. They often exchange "barbs."
ReplyDelete August: Jaw drop. Did you know that joke? If so, did you just walk away?
Cuesque: Yes. Maybe it's more choreographed outrage theater for the masses. Gets the team fans through to the McDonald's & BP ads, & our performing heroes go home with the fat paychecks. Kind of like we're all played chumps, racing in our old hamster wheel.
If not, Hill is quick, practice or no.I have had similar experiences to Mr. West. Let me relate one to you....
Years ago I went back home to Charlotte,NC while on a 2 week leave from the military. My friend had just brought a new Jeep Cherokee and we decided to floss around town a little bit. We picked up 2 girls that we were trying to impress and we hit the town. We proceeded to drive through the Uptown area and we got blue-lighted by the cops. We wondered why we were pulled over since traffic was heavy and we were not speeding. The first thing the pig said when he came up to the window was and I quote, "What is 4 niggers doing in a jeep this nice. I know you have something in here I should know about. Get out and sit on the sidewalk." I tried to show the cop my military ID, but he wasn't having it. He called for back up, made us sit on the hot ass side walk, it was the middle of August, while we waited for the dogs and 3 more pigs to show up. They ripped my boys Jeep apart right there on the street and when they were finished and did not find anything, we did not even get an apology. We had to call a tow truck because they took out all the seats and they did not put them back. This is one of the many reasons I hardly ever tell people I am from NC and why I will never live there again. I claim MD and that is where I probably will end up once I decide to leave TX. I can definitely feel Mr. West's pain on this.
Good post.Yes, it is that thing again where some white people hate to see a successful and educated black person who has made great achievements and feels the need to bring the person down a peg or two.
Also, is it me, or does Bill O'Reilly have that tone of superiority in his voice.
I am so glad that Lamont Hill flipped it on him and told him that he looked like a drug user. Funny how a number of white celebrities and aristocratic white people are busted for drug possession but nothing comes of it. They always seem to have a get out of jail free card to get away with just about anything imaginable.
I've had this myself from an ex-Manager telling me that I was over-confident.
There appears to be this constant need to bash black people at every opportunity and for no reason whatsoever?
Off topic: I think Marc Lamont Hill is just so lovely.I'm white and I covet any time I meet a person of color who is smarter than me. I went to a mostly black Jr high and elementary school. I was always accused of being a "wanna be" by a lot of kids. But the few white kids who went to my school literally lived on the other side of the tracks, they came from two parent homes and their parents were mostly doctors and lawyers. I could not relate to them at all. When I moved on toJr high, which was a magnet school in the hood, to which rich kids were bussed in from other neighborhoods, I was told by both white and black administrators to stop associating with the bad black kids or I would be sent back to my home school, they failed to realize that was my home school. In Jr high I dated a black boy and his cousins would always come to my house and try to fight me. Now 16 years later a lot of my friends have left the hood mentality behind and I still find myself trying to relate to the ones who haven't but theyre still interested in the Game, fighting, disrespecting other women, and generally being shitty. I love when I meet a person of color who has escaped or ignored the cultural expectation to adhere to what the media defines as black America. Because I'm white but you can't define me by that and the same is true for every race.


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Today is Flag Day and instead of sitting inside and crafting stars and stripes we are running and searching all over our yard for them. This Flag Day activity for kids is as simple as it gets but fits perfectly with the special day. After playing we talked about the flag, it's evolution and what flags are for. I plan on repeating this many times leading up to 4th of July as well.
- Gather your materials. You will need a container and some flags. We got everything at the dollar spot at Target and as far as I know it's all still there! We have 8 flags and a tin bucket.
- Hide the flags around your yard. I just pushed mine right into the ground.
- Gather your search party. I explained it was not a race that they are working together against the clock. This turns my super competitive 6 year old into a supportive team player and gives my daughter a chance to participate at a more equal level.
- Go! I used my phone to time although really they didn't care about the time they just liked the hunt.
- I spaced the flags out a lot. I wanted them to run as much as possible .
- As they returned the flags to the bucket I had them count and my son figure out how many more we needed to find. See what I did there? Throwing in a little bit of math.
- All in all it took three minutes and 43 seconds to find all 8 flags. Clearly I need to hide them better …. or give fewer hints.
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Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal Publication Acceptance Date: 1/14/2013 Publication Date: 4/1/2013 Citation: Swisher, K.D., Munyaneza, J.E., Crosslin, J. 2013. Temporal analysis of potato psyllid haplotypes in the United States. Environmental Entomology. 42:381-393. Interpretive Summary: Potato zebra chip disease (ZC) is caused by a bacterium transmitted to potatoes by the potato psyllid. The disease has caused severe economic damage in Mexico, Central America, New Zealand, the south-central United States. The ZC disease first appeared in the major potato producing region of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in 2011. Since the ZC bacterium is transmitted by the potato psyllid, understanding the population dynamics of this insect is vital for understanding of the disease epidemiology. Work conducted in California in 2006 suggested there were two biotypes of the potato psyllid in the United States. Our earlier work suggested there are at least three biotypes of this insect in the US. In this paper we examined the genetic make up of archived potato psyllid samples dating from 1998 to 2010. Results indicate that the novel "northwestern" haplotype we previously identified was present in the Pacific northwest as early as 1998. This finding may have implications for the occurrence and spread of ZC disease in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere in the US. Technical Abstract: The potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc) (Hemiptera: Triozidae), is an economically devastating pest of potato crops across the United States, as it is known to cause psyllid yellows disease and to transmit the bacterium that causes zebra chip disease. A recent genotyping study of B. cockerelli collected during the 2011 potato growing season identified three psyllid haplotypes within the western and central United States according to their geographical regions: Northwestern, Western, and Central. To understand potato psyllid population dynamics prior to the year 2011, high resolution melting analysis of the B. cockerelli mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I-like gene was used to identify the haplotypes of over 450 archived individual psyllids collected in the western and central United States between the years 1998 and 2010. Results show that the Northwestern haplotype was present in Washington State as early as 1998 and has persisted in this region since that time. Likewise, psyllids of the Western haplotype have also been present in Washington and Oregon prior to 2011, showing fluctuations in 2009 and 2010. These results were supported by DNA sequencing analyses. |


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Caused chiefly due to faults which recalled millions of American Toyota vehicles, the United States House Energy and Commerce Committee devised an Act which could bring some sweeping changes not only to the issue of unattended vehicle acceleration but to the whole recall process.
Not yet law, the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 contains provisions aimed at tightly regulate electronic vehicle control features as well as deepening the authority of the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Receiving a 31-21 vote in favor of the Act within its first hurtle (the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee) the major component to this proposed legislation would legally require all vehicles sold in the United States to be equipped with brake override systems. Rising to notoriety through the events of the sticking throttles of various Toyota products, brake override would assist drivers in countering the effects of unintended acceleration.
On the day of the congress vote, one auto company was quick to issue a statement in anticipation of the revised government mandates. Honda's American arm in a press release Wednesday expressed their commitment to have brake override systems installed in some vehicles starting in August with the safety going fleet-wide for Honda and Acura after 2011. An important announcement made by the Japanese auto maker, other automakers have also pledged to install brake override systems. In early April, General Motors made a worldwide initiate to have brake override installed in all their vehicles equipped with automatic gearboxes and electronic throttle control.
Beyond pressuring all automobiles to install the emergency braking aid, the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 also wants automakers to add automotive event data recorders or black boxes into new vehicles. What may surprise some is that some vehicles, including most General Motors and Ford products, built in the past decade have been equipped already integrated black boxes into a vehicle's ECU (Electronic Control Unit). While event data recorders have led to some landmark convictions in recent years, some drivers feel uneasy about their privacy. If the Act enters law, there will likely be some standard serving as a middle ground between privacy and collecting relevant car accident data. Who knows, we might need more than just a car accident lawyer in the future. Privacy law is very serious and should be maintained.
As a final effort placed forth in the U.S. House's Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 is increased funding and power to the NHTSA. Requesting increased authority in detecting potential vehicle problems, the NHTSA is to be provided greater resources at a price common American motorists will undoubtedly feel. Certain to be a cost passed down to the consumers, the plan is to acquire a fee from each auto manufacturer.
While passing the House committee, this bill needs next to pass a vote by the United States Congress on route to become law. This could take the final vote on the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 into the fall.
With the automobile existing as one of the most complex consumer products sold, stringent safety standard are ultimately a necessary evil. However, it seems only prudent to suggest from the voice of a car enthusiast that the automobile itself isn't an evil.
Information Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Toyota, Honda, General Motors
Photo Source: Chris Nagy


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I'm excited to welcome Guest Reviewer Holly Burtchaell from Random Cravings Blog with a fun review of treats found at this year's Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at Walt Disney World! Warning: This read is sugar-sweet!
Although Mr. Random and I have clocked too many trips to Disney World to count, somehow, neither of us has ever experienced Christmas at the Happiest Place on Earth. Luckily, that all changed last week, when we spent an entire week immersed in Disney Christmas happiness. In fact, this year's very first Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party (MVMCP) was also our very first time at that event!
I quickly learned that in addition to being about the Christmas parade, the special fireworks, and the rare character appearances, Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party is also filled with yummy holiday treats!
Free Eats at MVMCP
Included with your ticket to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party are complimentary cookies and hot cocoa, along with healthier options of apple slices and apple juice. These treats were handed out at several locations around the Magic Kingdom…just follow the signs!
This year's cookies were big, soft, delicious snickerdoodles. The apple slices were the packaged kind you find in kids' school lunches, which I happen to enjoy –- they are crisp and juicy, and tasted relatively fresh.
The hot chocolate and apple juice were served in the same holiday to-go cups and were both perfectly enjoyable options.
Holiday Goodies at the Main Street Confectionery
Now…no trip to the Magic Kingdom is truly delicious until you experience the bakery counter at the Main Street Confectionery.
Home to gigantic caramel apples, cupcakes with mountains of frosting, huge decorated cookies and so many other insanely decadent treats, I just had to find out what yummy Christmas options were waiting for me in that bakery case!
I stared at that bakery case, my eyes glazing over in dreamy delight, trying to choose which yummy treats I would bring back to our room to sample. Remember, many of these items are available throughout the holiday season — not just at Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party!
Being a sucker for caramel apples, the Christmas-decorated Mickey, Minnie and snowman apples were calling my name! The beautifully iced Christmas cookies and Mickey gingerbread men were huge temptations – just their aroma made it truly feel like Christmas!
Which holiday delights did I end up enjoying, you ask? Never being one who could make up her mind, I brought two treats back to our room to enjoy!
The snowman caramel apple was, in a word, DECADENT. A huge granny smith apple, covered first in caramel, then in white chocolate, was decorated with chocolate candies, sour belts and a marshmallow head topped with sugar Mickey ears.
Needless to say, this is a gigantic treat best shared with a few people –- which makes it even more fun!
The gingerbread Mickeys were my favorite holiday treat –- aromatic, soft, spiced cookies happily iced in red and green to celebrate the holidays!
I have to tell you –- I had a few of these cookies during our stay at Walt Disney World, and every time they brought me back to sitting in front of the fireplace wrapped in a cozy blanket on Christmas Eve.
Next time we visit the Magic Kingdom during the holiday season, I will be sure to pack some zipper-top bags to bring some of these happy little treats back home with me to keep the magic going!
Leaving Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party
Now I have to tell you about another tasty surprise during Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party!
After a ridiculously fun evening of fireworks, parades, characters and delicious holiday treats, one more surprise was waiting for us as we left the party.
As we exited the Magic Kingdom, cast members dressed in their Christmas party best were handing out Ghirardelli peppermint squares to everyone! This sweet holiday treat held us over while we walked back to our room at Bay Lake Tower clutching our purchases from the Main Street Confectionery.
As far as I know, the snickerdoodles and apple slices are the only holiday treats exclusive to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, and all of the treats at the Confectionery are available during the entire holiday season.
Which are your favorites? Just chime in below in the comments section to let us know what Christmassy treats you'd pick up at the party!
Holly Burtchaell has an all-consuming passion for food and cooking. She is mostly self-taught when it comes to her culinary knowledge and ability. Chefs are her rock stars, whether they are famous Food Network chefs, or chefs at a favorite local restaurant. They are true superstars to her. She's also crazy about cookbooks, all things Disney, and the New Jersey Devils.


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Saving for the future can be one of the most frustrating things you've ever done—for as many great ways there to budget and plan for your financial future, in the end saving money means you'll have to give up something now to be better off—or to survive—later. Over at The Simple Dollar, there's an excellent post about dealing with that financial frustration, and how to avoid giving in to the "ugh, is this really worth it?" mentality and giving up entirely.
Instant gratification is a strong force, and not everyone has the financial discipline to just not spend and save instead. Sometimes that means you'll have to skip the fancy dinners you and your partner are accustomed to, or you'll have to deny yourself a shiny new gadget you've been wanting to buy. It sounds easy when it's someone else, but when it's actually you, it's a tough sell.
Instead, The Simple Dollar suggests finding a way to keep you financial goals right in front of you at all times. Develop an obsessive habit of checking (but not modifying) your retirement funds to watch them grow. Put up a photo of your dream home—the one you're saving for—next to your monitor so you see it every single day. Make it your desktop wallpaper. If you're saving up to buy your next car cash, make your wallpaper a picture of your dream car. If you want to travel the world when you retire, set your home page to the cruise line you want to take. All of these options keep your financial goals right in front of your face so you're less likely to give in to instant gratification. They also suggest making sure to spend as much time with your family and loved ones as possible. Doing so offsets the notion that you're somehow missing out on time with them by not spending money to do things together.
How do you keep your savings goals and financial plans square in the front of your mind? What methods do you use to bolster your financial discipline? Share your tips in the comments below.
Breaking Through the Frustration Barrier | The Simple Dollar
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Teens Road-Tripping to Watch Gillibrand Play in Softball Game
The Congressional Women's Softball Game has a bit of a fanatic following this year beyond the dedicated members of Congress, female journalists of the Capitol press corps and their long-suffering families and friends.
Two passionate young women — Eve Zhurbinskiy, 17, and Lauren Waksman, 19 — will be traveling from states away to cheer on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., one of their political heros. The close friends will also be meeting in person for the first time.
Waksman, a freshman at Philadelphia's Temple University, is originally from Bucks County, Pa. She is a pretty passionate Democrat. Her Twitter handle is @MovesLikeBiden. She live-tweeted, with much capitalization and references to tears, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania.
Waksman's parents are both Republicans, though her father is the more passionate conservative of the couple. In fact, he took his daughter to the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference.
It was during that trip, Waksman said, that father and daughter met, and were sort of disappointed by, Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., after they ran into her at the Woodley Park Chipotle. Noem's office says the congresswoman wasn't at the fast-food restaurant. But Waksman remembers it differently.
"[My dad] was really excited about her speech," Waksman told CQ Roll Call. She says her dad approached the congresswoman, but maybe Noem was having a bad day, Waksman posits. The lawmaker blew them off and the incident still comes up in @MovesLikeBiden tweets.
Waksman and Zhurbinskiy, a high-school senior from Scotch Plains, N.J., discovered each other on Tumblr during the inauguration. The young women connected over their deep knowledge of Congress, particularly their love of Democratic politicians.
"Quite a while ago, me and my friends decided to learn about Joe Biden for whatever reason," Zhurbinskiy said. "And we were reading about his life. We learned about how he overcame so much and how he had lost his wife and his daughter. How he had gone on to achieve so much with the Violence Against Women Act, like how he got to the Obama administration and implemented the stimulus bill and oversaw the Iraq pullout and all of that and we were like: 'Wow. What a great guy!'"
From there, she said, "It kind of snowballed into this whole thing. [Biden] overcame so much … me and my friends were like, 'Wow, if he could overcome all of that, like, we can really do whatever we want to do as well.'"
It was the Violence Against Women Act that turned the two women on to Gillibrand.
"Basically, we were like, 'Wow, [female politicians] are really cool, and especially Kirsten Gillibrand, too. She's a really strong role model for women to get into politics and to encourage young women leaders," Zhurbinskiy said.
Zhurbinskiy is also a chess champion — she's ranked 36th for females under 18 and 73rd overall for U.S. women — and said her experiences with the game have fed her interest in politics.
"All of this isn't as impressive as it may sound, because sadly the ratio of men to women in American chess is about 15:1. That's really what taught me a lot about sexism when I was younger, and how it's so important to get more women involved — which is something that carried over to me wanting to pursue a future in politics," she said.
"Gillibrand … she's just like an iconic woman that I want as a president," Waksman told CQ Roll Call "She's just … I agree with her on about everything."
Waksman and Zhurbinskiy both plan to pursue careers in politics, on the campaign and the governing side. Both plan to eventually run for office. Zhurbinskiy has her sights set on the Senate and then perhaps the presidency, while Waksman would be content with stopping at the Senate.
Waksman has promised to be Zhurbinskiy's vice presidential running mate when and if her candidacy gets off the ground.
Waksman is also responsible for drawing up a petition on Change.org to encourage her parents to let her go to the Congressional Women's Softball Game and cheer on her idol.
"They barely know about the petition," she told us. "I posted it on Facebook and then my dad yelled at me and told me to take it down. I don't know. We're supposed to go on vacation [to Ocean City, Md.,] that week. Now he's letting me go apparently. … I don't know. They think I'm crazy."
The elder Waksman will gamely accompany his daughter when she meets her friend Zhurbinskiy and another friend, Shannon Aber, 16, in D.C. for the first time.
The girls are stoked and have drawn signs supporting Gillibrand (their pick for the 2016 presidential race), as well as Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., (their dream 2024 presidential ticket).


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Bad weather delays US space station shipment, 1st in months
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Wet and cloudy weather prevented NASA from resuming commercial space station deliveries Thursday. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft will be configured to launch on Friday at 5:33 p.m. EST, the opening of a 30-minute window. The forecast tomorrow calls for a 30 percent chance of acceptable conditions at launch time.
The space agency was looking to get back on track with the first U.S. shipment to the International Space station in nearly eight months, but thick clouds and rain prevented an unmanned Atlas rocket from lifting off at dusk with 7,400 pounds of critical supplies.
With 14 minutes left, and no better weather in sight, launch director Bill Cullen halted the countdown, praising his team for "great discipline."
Two of the last four commercial supply runs, contracted by NASA, have failed. The first launch accident occurred in Virginia in October 2014, the second at Cape Canaveral in June. Add in a lost Russian cargo ship in April, and the cupboards in orbit have suffered.
NASA's space station program manager, Kirk Shireman, said earlier this week that without another delivery, the six astronauts' food would run out in April. A Russian supply run planned for later this month, if successful, would buy more time. Even with the resumption of American shipments, it will take a year for the 250-mile-high pantry to be as full as it was before the string of accidents, he told reporters.
Orbital ATK is using another company's rocket to launch this shipment because its own rocket, the Antares, remains grounded. The last time Orbital launched, its rocket exploded seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia, destroying the Cygnus cargo carrier and damaging the pad.
The other private company hired by NASA to deliver supplies, SpaceX, also remains stuck on Earth, at least until next month. The company's Falcon rocket ended up in the Atlantic at the end of June, along with a new docking port and everything else destined for the space station. It was the company's first failure since making the first commercial space station shipment in 2012.
The United Launch Alliance's Atlas V — a mighty successor of the rocket used to put John Glenn in orbit in 1962 — has never been used before on a space station mission. A second Atlas will make a supply run for Orbital in March, before the Antares is back in business.
The Antares carried out three station shipments before trouble with the old Russian-built rocket engines doomed the fourth flight. SpaceX stumbled on its eighth trip.
Orbital's newest Cygnus capsule — named after the swan constellation — holds food, clothes, Christmas presents, spacewalking gear, high-pressure nitrogen and oxygen tanks for the air supply, and science experiments.
The station-bound research includes mini satellites to be released in the weeks ahead by the astronauts. One was designed, tested and built by students at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, Virginia — the first such effort by elementary-age children.
The 4-inch cube houses a camera for Earth picture-taking, as well as a crucifix and religious medal blessed by Pope Francis.
Also accompanying the flight: "Lots of prayers," said Principal Eleanor McCormack.
Orbital ATK: https://www.orbitalatk.com/
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html


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Backing the Big Bang
In breakthrough, astronomers find evidence of speedy 'cosmic inflation' of universe
A telescope in the South Pole observing traces of the Big Bang that created the universe has turned up the first evidence of a key moment in that process: the blink-of-an-eye expansion of the universe from a dot into a vast soup of energy and particles.
The discovery, using the BICEP2 telescope at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, provided the first strong evidence of "cosmic inflation," which scientists say occurred in a fraction of the first second of the universe's existence, when it expanded billions of times over. The process was first proposed by MIT scientist Alan Guth in 1981.
Evidence of cosmic inflation came through identifying the effects of gravitational waves for the first time. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time believed to have been created by the enormous forces at work during cosmic inflation. The finding emerged from a collaborative effort led by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the University of Minnesota.
The waves' discovery had been "one of the most important goals in cosmology," according to John Kovac, Harvard associate professor of astronomy and the BICEP2 project leader. Their existence had been theorized and sought by astronomers, but not confirmed until now.
"Theorists speak about them with confidence, but still it's a wild story," Kovac said. "The amazing thing is it has a testable consequence that we can build a machine and go out and [look for]. The signature that we've measured with our telescope … is not expected to be there except for this prediction of inflation."
Cosmology is a branch of astronomy that seeks to understand the universe's broad structure and its evolution since the Big Bang. One of cosmology's most important tools is a distant echo of the Big Bang, extremely faint background radiation called the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
Astronomers analyzing data from BICEP2, which scanned the clear polar skies for three years through 2012, searched for a polarization pattern in the CMB called "B-modes," believed to have been created by gravitational waves.
Though researchers found the pattern they were seeking, they were surprised at the strength of the signal and spent three years analyzing data to be sure they were correct in their findings.
Kovac, who credited the work of the dozen people in his laboratory and those at the collaborating labs, has been trying to confirm the gravitational waves for the last 12 years. When he saw them revealed in the data, he said he felt a "mixture of awe and elation," quickly followed by a determination to ensure they hadn't been produced by an error somewhere.
"We are extremely cautious scientists, and detecting this signal, honestly, produced a mixture of … awe and elation, and intense stress. We want to get this right," Kovac said. "And that's been our state for quite a long time. We've been extremely cautious in our approach to analyzing this data."
While Kovac said the results are "strong evidence" that cosmic inflation occurred, he stopped short of saying they were proof of inflation. Theoretical astrophysicist Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and Harvard Astronomy Department chair, said the findings offer new insights into some of the most basic questions about the universe.
"These results are not only a smoking gun for inflation; they also tell us when inflation took place and how powerful the process was," Loeb said.
The BICEP2 telescope was operated as part of a broader collaboration involving about a dozen institutions and led by Kovac, Clement Pryke from the University of Minnesota, Jamie Bock from Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Chao-Lin Kuo from Stanford's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
The four appeared at a news conference Monday at the CfA's offices in Cambridge to announce the discovery, which generated worldwide media attention and immense excitement in the scientific community.
Marc Kamionkowski, a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins who was not part of BICEP2 but who attended the CfA news conference, said the discovery was "cosmology's missing link" that has been sought for 20 years. The findings, he said, will require "new physics" beyond the currently understood Standard Model.
Several teams of astronomers have been searching for the same signal, but the BICEP team was the first to do so, starting work in 2001, which gave them a head start, Bock said. BICEP 2 is one of three telescopes the collaborators operate at the South Pole, where the clear, dry air makes it easier to detect the faint signal from the cosmic microwave background.
"It's a fantastic place to do science," said Kovac, who has traveled to the South Pole 23 times. "The South Pole is paradise if you're a CMB experimentalist … It's the closest you can get to operating a telescope in space for microwave observation and yet still be on the ground."
According to theory, the universe's first second was a busy one. Among other things, the four fundamental forces of the universe separated into gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces that work at the atomic scale. The first particles were formed, including the recently discovered Higgs boson, and the universe became much larger.
The expansion occurred during the inflationary epoch, which saw the fabric of space time itself grow in volume 1078 times in a process so rapid and energetic that it sent gravity waves rippling through the fabric of space time, to be detected by the BICEP2 team almost 14 billion years later.
Though the announcement was the culmination of years of work, researchers said that the findings pose more questions about conditions in the early universe, providing new avenues of exploration.
"This is not the end; this is the beginning," Pryke said. "It's mind-boggling to go looking for something like this and actually find it."


text: During the 2011 uprisings in the Arab world, protesters demanded the ouster of authoritarian forms of rule and an end to the influence of ruling families on politics, society, and the economy. These upheavals revealed that patrimonial power in its diverse forms is still a dynamic force in global politics, able to shape world events. This volume brings the study of patrimonialism back to center stage and presents the concept as a useful tool to analyze how nations, global developments, and international relations are influenced and transformed. Leading scholars show that patrimonial practices, present throughout history, are important features of global capitalist modernity. The authors analyze patrimonial politics in regions throughout the world, including in the United States, Tunisia, Chile, France, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Poland, and Russia. This volume will appeal to students of politics and policy and to a multidisciplinary scholarly audience in political sociology, historical social science, history, and social theory.


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