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In the minds of many, it was the two Tim Burton- Michael Keaton Batman films that were the definitive vision of the superhero and his universe. Keaton added substantially to both the character and his surroundings. Other members of the cast who met with Burton and discussed various aspects of the picture included Jack Nicholson cast as The Joker. Here is a wonderful article from the LA Times on the making of the Burton-Keaton Batman movies by Geoff Boucher.
'Batman': Michael Keaton on 'The Dark Knight' — and a lost scene from 1989 film
We're getting a tremendous response to the lengthy feature on Michael Keaton and his reflections on life, career, "Batman," "Beetlejuice" and working with Tim Burton. There was plenty left over from the interview, however, so I went back to find more nuggets about the actor's time wearing the cape and mask of Gotham City's dark champion.
On the magnitude of "Batman" and the landmark moment it represented in Hollywood history:
"It was awesome. It was so cool. It was so much work. Now it would be done so much more efficiently; that guy [Christopher Nolan, the director of the new Batman trilogy] is great, he's really, really talented, but at the time we did ours, there was no example to follow. It was new territory. And what Tim accomplished changed everything. It was hard. It was harder on Tim than anyone and he changed the way people look at those movies. That really is the case and the reason for that is the originality of Tim and the people Tim put together – [production designer] Anton Furst was off the chart, [composer] Danny Elfman was perfect, bringing in Prince and Nicholson, all of it was just so right and so huge. The promotion of the movie was genius too. The look of the movie was a turning point, too, you still see that around in different versions. What I remember is how so much of it was an experiment while we were doing it. There was the practicality of how to get this stuff done. For a lot, well, I don't want to say we were making it up as we went along, but there were a lot of choices made to overcome difficulties as went along. This wasn't the [CG effects] era you have now."
On Bruce Wayne as a character:
"The coolest thing from the get-go is that he doesn't have superpowers, there are no magical things. He is a hero of intuition and inventiveness and discipline … I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key. The only reason to do it, really, was to come at all of this from this guy's point of view. It was risky in my approach to it but not from my point of view. It was obvious to me that there was one way to play this role. There was no other way I was going to do it. The movie was different from what had come before. The discussion from the get-go was to do a hero that was based in the psychological. Then from there we had to figure out how to make the Batman half of this thing work. The suit really just amplified everything for me. It was really claustrophobic. It was a struggle every day because I'm a claustrophobic dude. It was all such a challenge and that was perfect for me at the time. I felt it was given to me for a purpose. I took as a mental exercise. I just used the isolation of it all and the feeling of 12 and 13 hours days in this mask and trapped in the suit. "
On the challenges of creating a believable secret identity on the screen:
"The problem I had, the practical issue, is the fact that Batman is standing right there in the street light, how does the guy in front of him not know he's Bruce Wayne? Now I know that sounds obvious and silly in a movie like this and you should let that go but that's how I am. The problem with me is as an actor. That is exactly what I think about and I need to come up with something or the role is not going to work on some level. So I said to Tim, 'Look, here's what we need to do, as many times as you can shoot half-degrees off of him, he should be half behind things or at an angles where you can justify that people think he looks maybe familiar but they can't put it all together.' Tim immediately got that and started lighting in a certain way and using the angles on the suit, on that great mask, to create a distance, a literal distance and a distance in perception."
"There was another practical matter; Bruce Wayne is a man about town, a luminary, having to go to social functions and make public appearances, so people know his voice. So I came up with dropping his voice down, as Batman it comes from a lower thing that he drops down into, a place he has to reach to become a quasi-vigilante. That's where that whole voice thing came from and it's just to protect himself, it's part of the transition inside of him from one thing to another thing. And the truth is I can talk about all this stuff and maybe it comes across or it doesn't come across but I don't know another way to do it. I have to find a way to make sense of what I'm doing before I can show up and try to make the whole thing work. On one level it all sounds silly and superfluous, but it's not actually, not at all. Not for me. I don't know any other way to do it."
On a scene that didn't make it into the film:
There was a thing that never got in that was really interesting. I went to Tim and said that we should see if we could do a scene that showed the transition and Tim was really great about these things so we tried. I wanted to see and to show that transition when he goes from Bruce Wayne to Batman, the time when he's about to don the suit and go out and wreak some havoc. That's not a casual thing, obviously, it's not putting on a jacket to go out for the evening. So what is that transition like? So there was a thing we did early on that showed him going into a sort of trance and it justified this shift in him. So we did that scene and it never made it into the film but I think helped me in a way. It was part of the way he became this other thing and even if you didn't see it, it was part of the character and the way we created him. Tim was always open to that. Jack and Kim come to him, too, chipping in with ideas and it was a really creative environment."
On the Batman films that followed his departure from the role:
"I never saw the other ones [in the 1990s] but I saw most of the one that starred Heath Ledger which, if you me, is off-the-charts. Amazing stuff. The whole thing was great, everyone involved is great. That approach and that tone is exactly what I wanted to do with the third film when we first talked about it. I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema. I wanted to go back and remind people of where this character came from. I wanted to go darker with him but the people involved int he decisions weren't going to go for that. By that time, it was a huge, rolling machine and it was going to go on either with or without me. As I heard what they wanted I knew, honestly, that I just didn't know how to do that thing that they wanted. I didn't know how to do it, literally, and in the end I couldn't. I would have been horrible."
– Geoff Boucher
Afterword, SamHenry, Here is a clip that amply illustrates Keaton's vision of Batman.
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Warning: Possible spoilers for "Skyfall" follow. If seeing James Bond jump out of a helicopter alongside the Queen of England during the Olympic opening ceremonies whetted your appetite for a little more 007, get ready to tuck in, because two nice juicy full trailers for "Skyfall" have just landed (one for domestic release, one for international).
The action begins with M (Judi Dench) perusing Bond's obituary, as if for one minute the British spy could have been killed off. Sure enough, he's soon back in action, ready for another round of beautiful women, exotic destinations and danger.
Bond gadget guy Q returns in this film, and he's gotten younger, as he's now played by Ben Whishaw. It's a big role to step into, but Whishaw nails it, with a slightly nerdy, still classy take on the gadgetmaster. One of the coolest things in the trailer is when he explains that Bond's Walther PPK has been coded to the spy's own palmprint, so no one else can fire it. Oh yeah, that's going to play in to the plot in a neat way.
Javier Bardem gets yet another bad hairdo as villain Raoul Silva, and Bérénice Marlohe is a lovely Bond girl (is there any other kind?) with a chilling warning for Bond about Silva's powers. And we're looking forward to figuring out just how M managed to lose a hard drive full of secret agent details, and how she and M16 will deal with the consequences.
"Skyfall" opens in the U.S. on Nov. 9. And as TODAY's Matt Lauer told viewers Monday, the spy franchise turns 50 this year. Daniel Craig, the current Bond, notes in the clip that he's happy to maintain the character, and hopes that plenty of other actors will play 007 after him and carry on the tradition. Take your time, Mr. Craig -- we're not so eager for you to hang up your tuxedo jacket.
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|S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007)
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|Crysis 2 (2011)
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|Robinson: The Journey (2016)
|(Crytek Kiev)
|Crysis (2007)
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Chief Warlord
Proposed Canon
The Chief Warlord is the military leader of all Units of his Ruler's Side, and is subordinate to that Ruler alone. It is a military position and pinnacle of the command structure. There is only one Chief Warlord per Side. Chief Warlords are traditionally responsible for planning their sides strategy. However, this tradition is breaking down on both sides of the current conflict. Ansom, Caesar, and Duncan Scone have all recently found that their authority to plan strategy has been limited for various different reasons.
A Chief Warlord:
- commands all Units of his or her Side, excepting only the Ruler who is the highest authority of the Side and can overrule the Chief Warlord's orders.
- may end his or her Side's TurnErf-b1-p007-p5 but can be overruled by their Ruler.Erf-b1-p112-p10
- confers a Leadership Bonus to all Units in a City he or she occupies.Erf-b1-p040a
- confers a partial (30%) Leadership Bonus to all Units in the same SideErf-b1.5-p033
- confers a halved (50%) Leadership Bonus to all Units in the same Hex.Erf-b1-p113
- confers a full (100%) Leadership Bonus to all Units in the same stack.Erf-b1-p113
- can claim a city for his or her Side.Erf-b1-p078
- is subject to Duty. (See below.)
- can form Alliances.Erf-b1-p121
- can promote Garrison units to field units.
A Chief Warlord cannot:
- set production for cities.Erf-b1-p043a
- It is possible that Chief Warlords can set production but, like most of their decision making abilities, can be overruled by the Ruler.Erf-b1.5-p040
Duty, a Natural Thinkamancy, has greatest effect on the Chief Warlord. This spell-like effect causes the Chief Warlord to use his or her initiative in the service of the Ruler. This also prevents the Chief Warlord from withholding information and prevents the Chief Warlord from conspiring against the Ruler, but as with all Thinkamancies, this is not a compulsion, so a Chief Warlord could betray the Ruler with a good enough reason. (See discussion page for arguments.)
Known Chief Warlords
Active Chief Warlords:
- Parson Gotti to Gobwin Knob
- Prince Tramennis to Jetstone
- Caesar Borgata to Transylvito
- Duncan Scone to Faq
Former Chief Warlords:
- Prince Ansom to Jetstone and later Gobwin Knob (Prisoner of Faq)
- Prince Ossomer to Jetstone (Decrypted, Turned, Serving Jetstone as Warlord)
- Stanley the Plaid while in the service of King Saline IV (Now Ruler of Gobwin Knob)
- Manpower the Temporary to Gobwin Knob (Croaked, Uncroaked, destroyed)
- K.C. to Unaroyal (Decrypted, Serving Gobwin Knob as Warlord)
- Sammy to Haggar (Croaked)
It is implied that an Uncroaked unit cannot be a Chief Warlord. When Manpower is killed at the Battle of Warchalking, Stanley sends Wanda to uncroak him, and also orders her to select another unit from the ranks to be promoted into his place. That replacement would have been unnecessary if it were possible for him to remain Chief Warlord in his Uncroaked state, or if another uncroaked warlord could peform the task. It is likely that this is because a Chief Warlord needs to have the upper-level brain functions lost during the uncroaking process. The Chief Warlord needs to give orders, not take them, and uncroaked are capable of only simple tasks, reasoning not included. Either that or the zombification reduces the Leadership bonus given by a Warlord to the point where it would have been better to promote a low level unit to Chief Warlord.
Possible Previous Chief Warlords
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Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand has named Nickerson as a graduate assistant for the 2010-2011 school year. Nickerson, from Brentwood, Tenn., will work on his Masters of Business Administration degree.
"Andrew has such a good mind for the game," Forehand said. "He is the kind of guy you want to keep around and working with you. He understands our system. He understands what we want done, and how we want it executed.
"He is just a special guy. Hopefully, he will stay in coaching. He is going to be able to instruct this game. He is going to be able to manage it and coach it. He often speaks up in practice and says things I hadn't thought about, the other coaches hadn't thought about and, for sure, the other players had not thought about. He always has great ideas."
Nickerson played in 43 games this past season, starting in 42. He missed several games after injuring his shoulder. Despite the injury he was able to come back after a three-week absence. He finished the season with a .278 batting average including eight doubles and four home runs. Her also drove in 27 runs and posted a .407 slugging percentage.
Forehand stressed that Nickerson's value to the team was great than any statistical measurements. Those intangibles were the main reason that Nickerson was awarded the Ken Dugan Award, honoring the long-time Bisons' coach, which is presented each year to the player who best displays the following characteristics:
• a commitment to excellence as a baseball player
• an uncommon display of Christian character
• a burning desire to be a true champion
• outstanding leadership qualities
• an unbridled passion for the game of baseball
"Andrew is a baseball junkie," Forehand said. "He lives it, sleeps it and thinks it all the time.
"He was a good guy to have on the team. He had the experience to be a good player and he had the work ethic to go with it. He always wanted to be in the center of it all as a player."
Forehand thinks that Dugan would have admired Nickerson for his approach to the game.
"If he had for coach Dugan he would have looked at Andrew as one of the reasons his teams won games. Andrew was a steady, grunt player. He did his job. He always pre-thought the next play. He was way ahead of the game. That was what helped him have success."
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.


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Sunday, September 9, 2007
Yamazaki 10
Sniffed this after tasting the Hakushu 10, which I said had a fairly pronounced nose. Well, this one very nearly took my nose off: freshly painted rooms and antifreeze were the first thoughts but I detected some floral and smokey notes in there after the paint dried. The palate was a bit of a surprise after the hyperactive nose: quite a restrained, well rounded drink. I definitely preferred it to the Yamazaki 12. It was sweet at first, then dried off a bit with a well controlled oaky flavour hitting the back of the mouth. It was never out of control like its elder brother.
Reviews by others
Although this Yamazaki 10 is widely marteted in Japan, there is limited information about it on the Japanese or English internets.
There is one review on the Maltmaniacs.org website by Ho-cheng Yao, who gave a 79/100 ("above average") rating on a 2004 bottling.
Gavin Smith at Whisky-pages.com described it as being a good "aperitif whisky". He found its nose light and fruity, with a touch of honey. In the mouth, he said it was "medium-bodied, malty and mildly spiced, with a drying, increasingly nutty finish".
For a Japanese take on Gavin Smith's aperitif idea, this place in Tochigi prefecture is serving it with some delicious looking smoked Ayu fish. The Japanese tend to like something a little more substantial than olives and crackers with their drinks.
On their Japanese website, Suntory themselves describe Yamazaki 10 as a "refreshing" dram that is "estery (florid)" on the nose. They say it has a smooth subtlety which strengthens to something more bold in the mouth. This is a market-place description and there may be a bit of snake-oil salesmanship in there but Yamazakis do tend to be in that floral type of territory.
40 per cent
Price (September 2007)
700 ml - 4,200 yen
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Curved Trails of Small Asteroids
Astronomers Karl Stapelfeldt and Robin Evans have tracked down about 100 small asteroids by hunting through more than 28,000 archival images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Here is a sample of what they have found: four archival images that show the curved trails left by asteroids.
[Top left]: Hubble captured a bright asteroid, with a visual magnitude of 18.7, roaming in the constellation Centaurus. Background stars are shown in white, while the asteroid trail is depicted in blue at top center. The trail has a length of 19 arc seconds. This asteroid has a diameter of one and one-quarter miles (2 kilometers), and was located 87 million miles from Earth and 156 million miles from the Sun. Numerous orange and blue specks in this image and the following two images were created by cosmic rays, energetic subatomic particles that struck the camera's detector.
[Top right]: Here is an asteroid with a visual magnitude of 21.8 passing a galaxy in the constellation Leo. The trail is seen in two consecutive exposures, the first shown in blue and the second in red. This asteroid has a diameter of half a mile (0.8 kilometers), and was located 188 million miles from Earth and 233 million miles from the Sun.
[Lower left]: This asteroid in the constellation Taurus has a visual magnitude of 23, and is one of the faintest seen so far in the Hubble archive. It moves from upper right to lower left in two consecutive exposures; the first trail is shown in blue and the second in red. Because of the asteroid's relatively straight trail, astronomers could not accurately determine its distance. The estimated diameter is half a mile (0.8 kilometers) at an Earth distance of 205 million miles and a Sun distance of 298 million miles.
[Lower right]: This is a broken asteroid trail crossing the outer regions of galaxy NGC 4548 in Coma Berenices. Five trail segments (shown in white) were extracted from individual exposures and added to a cleaned color image of the galaxy. The asteroid enters the image at top center and moves down toward the lower left. Large gaps in the trail occur because the telescope is orbiting the Earth and cannot continuously observe the galaxy. This asteroid has a visual magnitude of 20.8, a diameter of one mile (1.6 kilometers), and was seen at a distance of 254 million miles from Earth and 292 million miles from the Sun.


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The Internet is built around routers, yet there has been little innovation in routing itself for decades. Early networks mainly involved just packets and flows within private networks. With the rapid expansion of the Internet in the 1990s, the first round of modifications focused on improving "speeds and feeds" through specialized hardware.
The router of yesterday was not designed to handle the mobile and cloud applications that exist today because it was originally built to send packets between a series of computers, not deliver services across both private and public networks. As a result, an entire industry has emerged around routers to deliver bolt-on functionality such as firewalls and load balancers.
What's more, controlling how packets move between endpoints and through routing devices often involves adding a new network on top of the existing network, referred to as an overlay. Overlay networks don't address the underlying issues with networking, they compound them, which can be complex and expensive. Enabling all of these technologies to work together reliably and securely is very difficult, making the Internet as we know it complex, fragile and insecure.
The router of tomorrow needs to operate differently and more intelligently to handle today's network demands, as well as the demands of the future, such as those for IoT and increased video traffic driven by collaboration, monitoring and virtual reality. That's where session-based routing comes in. A software-based router that is session-oriented and deterministic can drastically simplify the network, eliminating complexity such as middleboxes and tunneling and overlay technologies, and making it possible to deliver all the end-to-end benefits enterprises need, such as native security/encryption, policy-based routing and more.
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Kenneth Vercammen received the Municipal Court Practitioner-of-the-Year Award at the Middlesex County Bar Association Annual Awards Dinner
On March 19, 2008, the Middlesex County Bar Association held its annual awards dinner. The guest speaker was the Hon. Travis L. Francis, AJSC.
The MCBA paid tribute to notable bar members for their significant contributions to their respective practice areas.
The following awards were given:
-Pro Bono Attorney-of-the Year Henry Gurshman
-Civil Trial Practitioner-of-the-Year John Gorman
-Criminal Trial Attorney-of-the-Year Jim Nolan & Nicole Albert
-Municipal Court Practitioner-of-the-Year Kenneth Vercammen
-Young Lawyer of the Year Kimberly Yonta Aronow
-Transactional Attorney of the Year Michael Schaff
The purpose of the Awards is to recognize attorneys practicing in Middlesex County and adjacent municipalities who devote a significant portion of their law practice to their respective practice areas and exhibit one or more of the following: - Leadership in the potential candidate's field of practice; - Significant, tangible contributions to the Bar, such as participation in educational panels, Bar committees, etc, pertaining to non-litigation issues; - Significant, tangible contributions to the community and/or charitable endeavors; - A record promoting participation and involvement in the MCBA and collegiality within the Association; and - A reputation for personal and professional integrity.
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Middlesex County Assignment Judge Hon. Travis Francis presented awards. Featured in the Photo are the 2008 Award Winners: Michael Schaff (Transactional); Henry Gurshman (Pro Bono); Nicole Albert (Criminal Practice); Ken Vercammen (Municipal Court Practice); Assignment Judge Hon. Travis Francis; and John Gorman (Civil Practice). Not in the picture: Jim Nolan (Criminal Practice) and Kimberly Yonta Aronow (Young Lawyer)
Kenneth Vercammen is the 2008 Municipal Court Attorney of the Year by the Middlesex County Bar Association.
Kenneth Vercammen was selected to the 2018 Super Lawyers NJ list. The Super Lawyers list issued by Thomson Reuters which manages West Publishing USA.
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Ken Vercammen is a Certified Municipal Court Law Attorney by the NJ Supreme Court. Kenneth Vercammen was the NJ State Bar Municipal Court Attorney of the Year and past president of the Middlesex County Municipal Prosecutors Association.
Kenneth Vercammen was the NJ State Bar Municipal Court Attorney of the Year and past president of the Middlesex County Municipal Prosecutors Association. He is the past chair of the NJ State Bar Association Municipal Court Section. He is the Deputy chair of the ABA Criminal Law committee, GP Division. He was a Municipal Prosecutor for 9 years and currently is a lecturer for the NJ State Bar Association on Criminal, Municipal Court and Litigation cases.
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Roddy White has locked in on Sunday as his return date to the Atlanta Falcons' lineup.
The veteran wide receiver has missed the past three weeks with knee and hamstring issues but has made considerable progress in recent days. He practiced again Wednesday and believes he'll be on the field against the Seattle Seahawks.
"I'm pretty sure I'm going to be out there Sunday," White said, via ESPN.com. "You know, I wanted to get out there and have a full week of practice before I actually played in a game. This was the first full week that I'm going through. I'll be ready to play."
The Falcons certainly could use White's presence. Matt Ryan has thrown seven interceptions in the past two weeks, the first time the quarterback has put together back-to-back weeks of three picks or more in his career.
Some other injury news from around the NFL on Thursday:
1. Arian Foster (back, hamstring) missed practice for a second consecutive day, and interim Texans coach Wade Phillips once again said the running back is visiting doctors regarding the issue.
2. Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant returned to practice after missing Wednesday's session with a back issue. Bryant dealt with back issues at the end of last season, but he said Wednesday he'll play this week against the New Orleans Saints. "It's bothering him a little bit off and on," Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said, via ESPNDallas.com. "I don't know if it's the exact same thing, but we don't think it's a significant deal."
3. Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has been cleared by team doctors to start Sunday against the Detroit Lions. Cutler has missed the past two games with a torn groin, an injury that had been expected to cost him a month.
4. New York Giants running back David Wilson is expected to be placed on injured reserve when the team activates Andre Brown from short-term IR, according to NFL Media's Kimberly Jones. The team announced earlier this week that Wilson had made progress in his recovery from a herniated disc in his neck, but not enough to be cleared for football activities. The Giants later officially announced Wilson's season is over.
5. Green Bay linebackers Clay Matthews (thumb) and Nick Perry (foot) have been cleared to participate Thursday in full practice for the Packers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Both might play Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles, per the Journal Sentinel.
6. Colts running back Trent Richardson missed practice Thursday with an ankle injury. However, Indy's top pass rusher, Robert Mathis, was a full participant after missing Wednesday's session with a shoulder injury.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" previewed "Thursday Night Football" and "stuck a fork" in the Raiders' 2013 chances.


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DetailsIn this two-DVD set, the Auburn Network presents the original Decade of the Eighties video in high-quality digital format as well as a brand new retrospective interview with Coach Pat Dye. As shown in 1990 on the Auburn Network. The decade of the eighties will never be forgotten by Auburn fans. The reason is simple: It was the greatest decade in Auburn Football History!
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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
February 4, 2018
1. The Woman in the Window
A. J. Finn
A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.
2. City of Endless Night
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
A New York City detective and an F.B.I. special agent track down a killer who decapitates numerous victims.
3. Iron Gold
Pierce Brown
The fourth book of the Red Rising Saga. A hero of the revolution finds his fate tied up with others as the war continues.
4. Origin
Dan Brown
A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
5. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.
6. The Rooster Bar
John Grisham
Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.
7. The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
Four adolescents learn the dates of their deaths from a psychic and their lives go on different courses.
8. Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.
9. The Wife Between Us
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The connections linking a hedge fund manager, his ex-wife and his fiancée are explored from several points of view.
10. Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
A 13-year-old boy comes of age in Mississippi while his black mother takes him and his toddler sister to pick up their white father, who is getting released from the state penitentiary.
11. Munich
Robert Harris
Two former friends who attended Oxford accompany Hitler and Neville Chamberlain to a meeting in 1938 and are forced to make a consequential decision.
12. The People vs. Alex Cross
James Patterson
Detective Cross takes on a case even though he has been suspended from the department and taken to federal court to stand trial on murder charges.
13. End Game
David Baldacci
Jessica Reel and Will Robie fight a dangerous adversary in Colorado.
14. The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel
Lee Child
Jack Reacher tracks down the owner of a pawned West Point class ring and stumbles upon a large criminal enterprise.
15. Robicheaux
James Lee Burke
A bereaved detective confronts his past and works to clear his name when he becomes a suspect during an investigation into the murder of the man who killed his wife.
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Here is a video of Gary Fisher at Interbike 2009.A quick tour of Interbike:
Another Interbike wrap up video from Chris Clappe of zlogblog
INTERBIKE 09′ VEGAS SUCKAS from chris clappe on Vimeo.
Hardcourt bike polo at Interbike:
Trailer for Mountain bikes video: New World Disorder 10
Besides Interbike, there was also the Cycle Messenger World Championships in Tokyo, last weekend.
Here is a tricks contest in Meiji Park
Takeshi pt.1 at Shinjuku park from -xxxPHOENIX.xxx- on Vimeo.
cool POV riding around Tokyo from returnofdagbert.blogspot.com/
Somewhere Over Tokyo HD from dagbert on Vimeo.
SHIBA FRIDAY 9.25 from Fixy Life on Vimeo.
Goldsprints CMWC Tokyo from kymberly Perfetto on Vimeo.
CMWC'09 Tokyo Skid competition from Tomoshit on Vimeo.
Main race:
And now your daily dose of Freestyle fixed gear videos:
As seen on Lockedcog.com
not. a summer edit. from Kris *lockedcog* on Vimeo.
MKM Says from NZNZman on Vimeo.
sometimes we ride bikes at venice high from Joey on Vimeo.
Untitled from Colby Elrick on Vimeo.
BMX in Hawaii
Leilow Fall 09 from ALOHA FIXED on Vimeo.
Fixed gear documentary in German:
fixed from David Holfelder on Vimeo.
LA Critical Mass and The People's Ride from Henry Jose on Vimeo.
Wonka riding over a boob in Switzerland, seen over at johnprolly.com
Build a bike: (seen on http://www.trackosaurusrex.com/pblog)
MACAFRAMA x Hip to Help Benefit Race from C Evans on Vimeo.
VéLOrue Trailer 2 from Bill Bottriell on Vimeo.
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Professional background:
Bob's career in radio began in 1969, working as music announcer at classical music station KFML and the original KVOD in Denver. During the past three decades he has pursued two life-long loves: radio and cooking. He is a care provider and has been a volunteer for Denver Community Television, Recording for the Blind and Community Housing Services.
Bob came to Colorado Public Radio in 1981 and assumed duties as assistant music director the next year, a position he held for 10 years. He returned in 2001 to serve as host on CPR News and began hosting for CPR Classical in 2016.
In his own words ...
Why I got into radio:
I vividly remember the time before television, when radio was king. The whole universe of news and entertainment came into homes through large wooden radio sets. Even with the advent of television, nothing was as cool, or meaningful, as the transistor radio I got from Dad one Christmas.
After military service during the Vietnam War, I chose to make my home in Denver. When my wife and I lived in the Cherry Creek district in the late 1960s, our friends and neighbors reflected the wide variety of professions found there, including the arts – and radio. I got my broadcasters' license, was hired by KFML and, for a time, had the chance to work with many wonderful people there and at KVOD.
How I ended up at CPR:
I first listened to KCFR while living on Capitol Hill in Denver in the early '70s. It was my first exposure to listener-supported radio. Even though I was working in a totally different area (managing food service operations), I eventually became a weekend volunteer announcer on KCFR. I had the pleasure of being employed as assistant music director until 1992. After a 10-year hiatus I got the chance to resume my radio career on Colorado Public Radio.


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1. The power of a municipality to create special benefit or improvement districts and assess the property in the district for improvements is completely controlled by statute; a municipality has no powers except those expressly granted by statute and those necessary to make the express powers effective.
2. In order to utilize K.S.A. 12-693(b) to assess property outside city boundaries for improvements to boundary line roads located entirely within a city, a municipality is required to enter into an interlocal agreement with the affected county, township, or industrial district.
3. Under the facts of this case, the district court did not err in finding the appellee's property was not properly included within the improvement district created by the city pursuant to K.S.A. 12-693 because the city failed to enter into an interlocal agreement with the county prior to assessing property located outside city boundaries for the cost of improving a boundary line road located entirely within the city.
Appeal from Logan District Court; JACK L. BURR, judge. Opinion filed January 28, 2005. Affirmed.
Jeffery A. Mason, of Vignery & Mason, L.L.C., of Goodland, for appellant.
James C. Spencer, of Spencer & Spencer, P.A., of Wichita, for appellee.
Before, ELLIOTT, P.J., CAPLINGER, J., and WAHL, S.J.
CAPLINGER, J.: The City of Oakley, Kansas (City), appeals from the district court's decision holding that the property of J. M. Bloom, who resided outside the City, was not properly included within an improvement district created by the City pursuant to K.S.A. 12-693(b) to allocate the cost of improving a boundary line road located entirely within the City. We affirm the district court and find that because the City failed to enter into an interlocal agreement with Logan County (County) prior to assessing property located outside City boundaries, Bloom's property was not properly included within the improvement district.
The material facts were not disputed, and this case was resolved based on cross-motions for summary judgment.
On July 1, 2002, various landowners filed a petition with the City pursuant to K.S.A. 12-6a01 et seq. The petition requested a specified portion of Royal Avenue be paved and that approximately 85% of the costs of the improvement be assessed to the landowners within an identified improvement district; the City would bear the remainder of the costs. The petition was signed by various landowners within the proposed improvement district. Bloom did not sign the petition.
The portion of Royal Avenue that was subject to the proposed improvement fell entirely within the corporate limits of the City. Bloom's property ran alongside a lengthy portion of Royal Avenue, but his property lay entirely outside the city limits. The city limits terminated at the side of Royal Avenue adjacent to Bloom's property.
The same date the petition was filed, the City Council passed a resolution finding it advisable to pave Royal Avenue and to assess the cost of the improvement to landowners in the improvement district and the City as provided in the petition. The resolution proposed that the improvement district include the property identified in the petition, which included real estate located both within and outside the city limits.
The paving of Royal Avenue was completed by the City before November 28, 2002. On December 2, 2002, the City passed an ordinance assessing $36,287.80 against Bloom's property for the improvements.
On December 23, 2002, Bloom filed a petition in Logan County District Court against the City seeking to enjoin the assessment against him under K.S.A. 60-907(a). Bloom asserted that the City could not create an improvement district under K.S.A. 12-6a01 et seq. that included property outside the corporate limits of the municipality.
After a hearing on cross-motions for summary judgment, the district court held that while 1988 amendments to the pertinent statutes permitted the City to form improvement districts that include land both inside and outside the city limits, that power was restricted by K.S.A. 12-693(b). According to the district court, that provision "requires that the governing body of the City enter into an agreement with the Board of County Commissioners in order to initiate such improvements and . . . assessments therefor." Because the City failed to enter into an agreement with the County, the trial court found the City lacked the statutory authority to levy an assessment against Bloom's property. The City appealed.
The sole issue on appeal is whether the City has the power to create an improvement district that includes property both inside and outside the city limits under the facts of this case. The power of a municipality to create special benefit or improvement districts and assess the property in the district for improvements is completely controlled by statute; a municipality has no powers except those expressly granted and those necessary to make the express powers effective. Madden v. City of Lenexa, 239 Kan. 397, 400, 721 P.2d 261 (1986).
Because the interpretation of statutes involves a question of law, our review is unlimited. See In re Tax Appeal of City of Wichita, 277 Kan. 487, 490, 86 P.3d 513 (2004).
The statute at issue, K.S.A. 12-693(b), provides in relevant part:
"(b) If the area of a proposed improvement district is located partly within and partly outside the city, and the construction, reconstruction or other improvement to roads or streets which lie upon the corporate boundary limits of the city is proposed, the governing body of the city and the board of county commissioners of the county may enter into agreements whereby the city or county may initiate such improvements by the establishment of an improvement district by the city under the provisions of K.S.A. 12-6a04, and amendments thereto. Such agreement shall provide for the proportionate share of the total costs of the improvement which shall be paid by the city and by the county and the share to be paid by the levying of special assessments against the benefitting property within the improvement district." (Emphasis added.)
Before considering the application of K.S.A. 12-693(b), this court first notes that both parties agree that K.S.A. 12-693(a) is not applicable here. That section allows for improvements to be made in unincorporated areas beyond a city's corporate limits and within 3 miles thereof and for assessments to be made in "improvement districts" either partially within or wholly outside the corporate limits. While the improvement district in this case is located partially within and partially outside the city limits, the improvements are located solely within the city limits. Because K.S.A. 12-693(a) applies only when improvements are made outside the city limits, this court agrees that section need not be considered here.
Bloom contends that K.S.A. 12-693(b) does not permit the assessment the City imposed against his property because the City had no agreement with the County; he claims such an agreement is necessary when all the improvements are within the city limits but the improvement district includes property outside the city limits. The City, however, asserts such an agreement with the County is discretionary, not mandatory.
The fundamental principal of statutory interpretation is that the intent of the legislature governs if that intent can be ascertained. The legislature is presumed to have expressed its intent through the language of the statutory scheme it enacted. When a statute is plain and unambiguous, the court must give effect to the intention of the legislature as expressed. Williamson v. City of Hays, 275 Kan. 300, 305, 64 P.3d 364 (2003). In construing statutes and determining legislative intent, various provisions in an act must be construed together, in pari materia, with a view of reconciling and harmonizing the provisions, if possible. Effect must be given, if possible, to every part of the act. State ex rel. Morrison v. Oshman Sporting Goods Co. Kansas, 275 Kan. 763, 768, 69 P.3d 1087 (2003).
The scope of municipal powers under K.S.A. 12-693(b) is less than clear. The subsection clearly pertains to (1) improvement districts that include property both inside and outside the city limits, (2) where the benefit is the improvement to city streets located on the city boundary. Those are the facts of this case. Nevertheless, the meaning of the statute is much less apparent when considering the application of the phrase: "[T]he governing body of the city and the board of county commissioners of the county may enter into agreements whereby" either entity may initiate such improvements under K.S.A. 12-6a04. (Emphasis added.) K.S.A. 12-693(b).
The City argues the term "may" indicates the City is permitted, but not required, to enter into an agreement with the County to create the benefit district. The City also asserts that K.S.A. 12-693(b) was added after the Supreme Court's decision in Madden, 239 Kan. 397, in order to statutorily overrule or alter the holding of Madden. The City relies on the principle of statutory construction that when the legislature changes an existing law, it is presumed that the legislature intended to change the law as it existed prior to the amendment. See Holt v. Wesley Med. Center, 277 Kan. 536, 543, 86 P.3d 1012 (2004).
Madden, on its face, held that municipalities lacked statutory authority to create improvement districts that include properties outside the city limits for improvements made entirely within the city. 239 Kan. at 402. In Madden, the City of Lenexa had annexed some real estate that had been recently de-annexed from the City of Olathe; due to an error, however, Lenexa's annexation efforts failed to include Madden's property. Lenexa then took the steps to create a benefit district to extend water mains into the newly annexed property; the benefit improvement district included Madden's property, which was still outside the city limits. While the improvements were being made, the City annexed Madden's property. After the work was completed, Lenexa assessed the costs against the property owners in the benefit district, including Madden. The Supreme Court discussed K.S.A. 12-6a02 and K.S.A. 12-6a04 and held those statutes did not give Lenexa the statutory authority to include property outside the city limits in a benefit district. 239 Kan. at 400. The Supreme Court also rejected Lenexa's contention that K.S.A. 12-6a09 permitted the city to expand the district in order to assess property annexed into the municipality after the initial resolutions were passed. 239 Kan. 400-02.
Two years after the Madden decision, K.S.A. 12-693(b) was added to the statute in 1988. Those amendments were made through Senate Bill 485. See L. 1988, ch.270, sec. 1. While neither party cites the court to legislative history to support its arguments, the court's own research regarding the limited legislative history surrounding Senate Bill 485 contradicts the City's arguments on appeal. Where a statute is ambiguous, the court may consider the historical background of the legislation, the circumstances prompting its passage, the purpose to be accomplished, and the ultimate effect of the constructions presented by the parties to determine its intended meaning. Hartford Cas. Ins. Co. v. Credit Union 1 of Kansas, 268 Kan. 121, 124-25, 992 P.2d 800 (1999).
After Senate Bill 485 was introduced, it was referred to the Senate Local Government Committee. The minutes from this committee reflect that the bill was introduced by the Sedgwick County delegation; a representative of the City of Wichita gave the committee background information describing the need for the legislation. Minutes, Sen. Local Gov't Comm., January 27, 1988. Significantly, in this discussion, the city representative noted that "current law does not allow either the City or County to assess the property owners on the county side of the road except under certain circumstances." Minutes, Sen. Local Gov't Comm., January 27, 1988, Attach. I, p. 1. The city representative advised the committee that counties were concerned about the proposed legislation, and some amendments were developed following a joint meeting. Those amendments proposed language substantially similar to the current version of K.S.A. 12-693(b). See Minutes, Sen. Local Gov't Comm., January 27, 1988, Attach. I, pp. 2-3.
After its passage in the Senate, Senate Bill 485 was introduced in the House of Representatives and referred to the House Transportation Committee. During these meetings, the City of Wichita's representative advised the committee the bill resolved problems involving boundary roads in that it "retains the current law allowing interlocal agreements, but expands it to provide a method for special assessments of appropriate properties, whether on the side of a street within the city or the other side, where appropriate and agreed upon by the affected governmental units." (Emphasis added.) Minutes House Transp. Comm., March 17, 1988, Attach. I, p. 2. The representative also noted that the viability of the legislation would "depend on the ability and interest of the various local governing bodies in reaching an agreement." Minutes House Transp. Comm., March 17, 1988, Attach. I, p. 2. In its comments to the committee, the League of Kansas Municipalities also advised that the purpose of the bill was to "authorize cities, subject to certain agreements, to use the [K.S.A. 12-6a01 et seq.] general improvement procedure to create a special assessment district for boundary line roads covering land both within and without the city." Minutes House Transp. Comm., March 17, 1988, Attach. 3, p. 1. The League further noted that "an agreement between the city and the county would be required prior to the initiation of a special assessment project." Minutes House Transp. Comm., March 17, 1988, Attach. 3, p. 1.
Our review of the legislative history leads us to conclude that K.S.A. 12-693(b) was added to expand the authority of municipalities to assess property owners on the county side of boundary line roads for improvements to boundary line roads located entirely within a city. However, the additional authority was made contingent on interlocal agreements between municipalities and counties or other affected entities. Further, it does not appear that Senate Bill 485 was enacted in response to Madden, as there was no mention of the case in any of the committee minutes or testimony. Rather, the focus of the bill was solely on boundary line roads, a matter not at issue in Madden.
Taking into account legislative history, we find that in order to utilize K.S.A. 12-693(b) to assess property owners outside city boundaries for improvements to boundary line roads located entirely within a city, a municipality is required to enter into an interlocal agreement with the affected county, township, or industrial district. We therefore affirm the district court's interpretation of K.S.A. 12-693(b).


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Obesity and heart disease are two of the top killers among Americans today. Both of these diseases can be linked to a poor diet and lack of exercise. In today`s environment, we spend most of our time sitting at home, or at the office, and don`t spend enough time being active and moving. Sitting for too long has become a major problem. In fact, many medical professionals are now talking about `sitting disease.` Sitting for too long not only can cause us an early death, but our quality of life can suffer as well. When we sit in the same place for too long, our muscles begin to atrophy. This can lead to serious injuries if we aren`t careful. One option to curtail this sitting problem is the standing desk. A standing desk allows you to stand at your desk, with your computer and keyboard raised up to the standing position. Using a standing desk is far healthier than sitting, and will also burn up to three times as many calories.
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The topic of Hoax #7 will be feminisms and CHANGE. We are eager for feminists of all backgrounds & genders to submit!
Potential ideas for material include, but are not limited to:
- Goals: how we aim to act & who we want to become / thinking about the future of feminism / short term vs. long term planning
- Measuring Change: methods in which we attempt to gauge change (grant cycles, report cards, the DSM, etc.) / is change quantifiable? / a-ha moments in which we have observed noticeable differences in our communities / "normative" & expected changes (in terms of personal & community development, growing up, queerness as "a phase," recovery, etc.) / delusions of "progress" / changes that have not necessarily been positive/ inspirational stories
- Development: colonization & gentrification / community organizing (strategies, personal stories etc.) / feminist & queer geography / international gender issues / re-location
- Loss: grief / assimilation / death of someone close to you / dealing with trauma
- The Body: changing relationship our bodies over time (aging, weight, political beliefs, surgeries, etc.) / the "love yr body!" expectation within feminism (critiques of this expectation; positive stories) / body modification
- The Self: personal growth & ways in which feminism has (or has not) pushed & challenged us / self-care & feminism / "the personal is political" – the importance of that statement paired with the necessity of challenging it / do we have a "true self" that escapes change? / how "coming out" alters the way that we relate to others & vice versa / stuff that others have tried to change about us (through force, coercion etc.)
- Legislation: the pros & cons of legislative reform / does "radical" always mean a rejection of legislative reform? / obtaining legal aid / social factors that impact our relationship to the cops / when & if can the master's tools be used to fuck with the master's house
- Visibility / Communication / Media: how our personal changes are showcased & read / self-expression (or lack thereof) & how it relates to feminism, queerness, zine making, etc / books, movies & music which have influenced us / changing nature of information sharing as it relates to feminism/ how the media has changed our perception of time & social justice work/ personal exposure & secrecy
- Relationships: our feminism has impacted our interpersonal relationships (with family, friends, partners etc.) / relationships between who we are and what we can (& cannot) do / trying to change ourselves in order to feel accepted / how does (& doesn't) feminism accommodate people who hold different identities & come from different backgrounds
- Language: evolution of terminology & identity descriptors / nuances of identity politics in feminist & queer circles / what terms we embrace and cast aside over time / applications of the "feminist" label
- History: unearthing connections with our predecessors / relationships to feminists & queers of the past / importance of historical perseverance / traditions (when to keep & to alter) / personal reflections & retrospections
we also totally need lots of artwork (photos, collages, illustrations, drawings, paintings, comics, etc.)! particularly for background designs and things that compliment the written material.
please aim to send us yr amazing material to hoaxzine (at) gmail (dot) com by april 1st, 2012. if you are interested, feel free to e-mail us yr ideas for topics & artwork! as always, we are willing to work with you during any and every stage of the writing process. the sooner you send us yr work, the better!
it's been almost three years since we first began working on hoax. since 2009, hannah montana has been taken off the air, carrie brownstein picked up her guitar again, ugg boots are even more out of style, & those of us in the US can officially be detained indefinitely. neither of us can believe how much this project has expanded since its inception. thank you so much to every contributor, reader, & supporter of this zine! we are looking forward to seeing yr work!
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This Article From Issue
March-April 2011
Volume 99, Number 2
Page 158
THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN HEAD. Daniel E. Lieberman. xii + 756 pp. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. $39.95.
It is said that we all love a mirror, so what could be more intriguing than a new 700-page study of the human head? The author of The Evolution of the Human Head, Daniel E. Lieberman, is a prolific scholar with primary interests in the evolution of skull form in humans and their closest relatives. His highly successful research program incorporates both comparative and experimental approaches and has recently expanded to consider questions relating to human locomotion. This impressive book contains the fruits of more than 15 years of scholarly research and teaching. Lieberman's ardent supporters will likely echo the dust jacket's claim that the book "will permanently change the study of human evolution." Others may take a dimmer view and criticize the book for shining bright lights down well-worn paths; the discussion of the role of running in human evolution, for instance, recycles arguments first put forth decades ago by David Carrier and Dennis Bramble.
In any event, this hefty and well-written book offers a scholarly breadth and attention to detail that are certainly laudable. The book is quite unusual in that it includes a comprehensive review of the soft tissues associated with cranial features and discusses them within the context of evolutionary morphology and the fossil record of the human skull. I can think of no other volume that packages the anatomy of the human head in this fashion.
The organizational core of the book comprises a series of strong chapters focusing on primary regions of the head. These cover the brain and its relation to the skull; chewing structures and associated functions; pharyngeal/laryngeal structures and speech production; support and movement of the head; and finally the sensory systems and associated skeletal regions. This core is preceded by chapters discussing embryonic and fetal development and postnatal growth, and it is followed by a penultimate three-chapter overview of the evolution of the human head (really the skull, considering the realities of fossilization). The book's opening and closing chapters attempt to contextualize the bony and soft-tissue anatomy within broader developmental and evolutionary themes.
Lieberman has done a masterful job of incorporating all sorts of relevant and interesting research on the functioning soft tissues housed within the various bony cavities of the head. In fact, this may be the strongest contribution of the book, and I see myself referring back to the text and references on these topics frequently in the future. The discussions of the anatomy of language production, sensory adaptations for running, and olfactory-respiratory structures are particularly strong. But here Lieberman is mostly collating the research of others, and this points to the inevitable question of what new theoretical orientations, methodological pathways or key critical perspectives emerge in this volume. On this front, the book is somewhat less compelling and probably doesn't live up to the publisher's aforementioned hyperbole. But in all fairness, which books would match this claim, and which reviewers (certainly not this one) fill those scholarly brogans?
One of the most disappointing aspects of the book for me is that nary a case of sexy jargon popularized within the field of evolutionary biology over the past several decades escapes serious lobbying here. We read of "tinkering," "evo-devo," "emergent properties," "integration," "modules," "complexity," "constraint," "evolvability" and many other such. Lieberman trusts that we join him in wonder(ing)—"How is something as complex and vital as the head so evolvable"? It's apparently all "modules" and/or "integration," yet these concepts are not here directly grounded or translated into clearly stated testable hypotheses and specific predictions in the discussions of quantitative skull form. Moreover, it seems unlikely that comparing evolutionary change to a game of "Mr. Potato Head," or saying that the basicranium shapes the brain the way tilted bread pans shape loaves of bread, will effectively generate specific research initiatives.
What I was searching for in the book were those critical testable hypotheses and the pathways by which our scientific understanding of head form will next be markedly advanced. Instead, we find Lieberman beckoning us to join him in drowning in the wondrous complexities of the evolutionary anatomy of the head: "Hypotheses abound, and none are necessarily mutually exclusive, given the way that heads are integrated." Sounds a bit like anthropology, doesn't it? He maintains that "it is useful to think about how the head functions and develops as an ensemble instead of focusing on particular parts and functions," but I worry that such an approach may more likely yield muddleheadedness (and I also wonder why he organized the book around "parts and functions").
It is surely a strong commitment to some sort of holism and to ensemble thinking that inclines Lieberman to accept the dated claims of Donald H. Enlow and Miyuki Azuma that all mammalian skulls (and all stages of skull development!) tightly follow structural constraints expressed in a series of angular relationships that are supposedly invariant. Poorly supported to begin with, these claims have never been well corroborated and in fact do not hold for even narrow series of primates, let alone all mammals. Nevertheless Lieberman invokes them to reconstruct fossil hominid crania and account for highly specific and tightly constrained structural and developmental interactions among different regions of the skull. Enlow's framework of constraint was in fact firmly based on the notion that the size and shape of the brain somehow inflexibly constrain the placement of the senses (orbits, olfactory bulbs, auditory apparatus), which in turn (somehow or other) then rigidly limits the direction and extent of growth and size of the various other regions of the skull and head. Thus, this series of purported deep structural constraints on mammalian skull form emerges from what is an almost mystical "anthropo-cephalo-centrism." Lieberman has also argued, in a 1998 paper in Nature, that the sphenoid bone is an underappreciated "regulator" of myriad changes throughout the skull and head; interestingly, Enlow once claimed that the lacrimal bone would one day triumphantly receive its rightful place as the keystone in craniofacial development and evolution. Holism can have its drawbacks.
Lieberman also has a disturbing tendency to maintain a preferred view in spite of apparently contradictory evidence. For instance, he is committed to a model of "increased turbulence" associated with nasal anatomy in humans, despite the fact that no such effect was found in either of the recent studies he cites that directly measured such airflow patterns. And he appears to favor the view that humans exhibit increased flavor and odor perception associated with cooked food, in spite of the finding that we "probably cannot detect odors as well as chimpanzees." Also, his argument for the localized effect of bone loading on limb remodeling, which cites his own experimental studies of pigs on treadmills, is juxtaposed to the observation that the skulls of the pigs also exhibited bone thickening, supporting a more general systemic influence. In addition, after first stressing that "it is not true that bones have no intrinsic genetic regulation," he argues a few paragraphs later that "if bone morphology were highly genetic, then such a mutation would have to coevolve with other mutations" influencing neighboring bone shape. Then he assures us that the morphology of the bony cranial base directly influences the characteristic domed shape of the human brain, only to point out that Callum F. Ross and colleagues in fact found no support for this proposed association. Finally, we get repeated assurances that the dominant factor generating variation in cranial base angulation (CBA) is brain size (a favorite hypothesis in the book), only to then read an offhand reference to Lieberman's own studies of modern human variation revealing that "brain volume is independent of CBA." And if this is true of intraspecific patterning, then how do the suggested higher-level associative patterns evolve via known Darwinian mechanisms in the first place? I am also left contemplating the cloned Neanderthal with whom Lieberman fancifully envisions us all sharing a drink, "perhaps someday," who gruffly wants to know why, given his very large brain, his basicranium isn't more strongly flexed, and why he hasn't evolved a sleek "runner's head" in spite of all his dogged persistence in tracking and hunting.
Those outside the field of biological anthropology will be struck by the anthropocentrism perhaps inherent in such a detailed dissection of human head anatomy. Lieberman encourages resistant readers to appreciate that "to transform the ontogeny of a great ape's head into a modern human's may not be as difficult as one might imagine." But only if we mirror-gaze and don't get out much into the world of comparative anatomy does it require all that much imagination in the first place. Certainly equally or even more impressive are the gigantic eyes and inflated orbits of our relatives the tarsiers, the elongated and buttressed faces of some baboons, the hypertrophied laryngeal and basicranial morphology of howling monkeys, the bent and elongated skull of the walrus, the vertically oriented skull hafted to elongated tubular jaws (spanned by baleen plates) in right whales, the divergent heads of narwhals and Sirenian sea cows, the giant faces and tusks of hippopotamuses, the elaborate flanges on the face of the skull of the extinct glyptodonts, the inflated auditory bullae dominating the heads of tiny kangaroo rats and mice, the attenuated and toothless jaws and heads of anteaters, or the truly bizarre platypuslike spatulate lower face of the appropriately tagged Xenocranium (an extinct superburrowing paleanodont from the Oligocene). The list of course goes on and on, just among the mammals, and this degree of morphological diversity—using predominantly the same genes and biological processes driving our own head's evolutionary history—is a far superior database for pondering general issues relating to the "evolvability" of head structures. This impressive diversity reflects the importance of localized structures and functions, and the power of natural selection to generate such dramatic transformations of the various components of head anatomy. We would never expect a central paradigm of "integration" to overly constrain such a diverse array of functioning and evolving structures as we find in the head—this is after all a region, not a system.
On the whole, Lieberman's big book definitely moves us ahead in effectively synthesizing so much of what is currently understood about the structure, function and evolution of the human head. I just wish he had also more clearly shown us how to specifically apply our impressive brains to the task of facing down some of the mushiness, contradictions, and unproductive models and analogies that still persist as we attempt scientific contemplation of that reflection in the glass.
Brian T. Shea is a professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at Northwestern University Medical School. His research interests include primate development, morphology and evolution.


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Positron Emission Tomography Scanning and Epstein-Barr Virus DNA Levels in the Staging and Follow-up of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00188253
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : September 16, 2005
Last Update Posted : April 1, 2019
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The standard treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer involves either radiation alone or radiation plus chemotherapy. Before the start of treatment,patients require an imaging scan to assess the extent of disease. The most commonly used test is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.
The goal of the study is to examine the value of a new imaging technology that has recently become available at the University Health Network Hospitals called Positron Emission Tomography scanning (PET). PET scanning involves the injecting a small amount of a drug through a vein in the arm called 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18FDG). This drug is special in that it is radioactive and will be detected by the PET machine. Cancer cells are believed to be more active than normal cells and have a high rate of metabolism. Therefore, cancer cells are thought to take up glucose (a kind of sugar) faster than normal cells in the body. Because 18FDG is a modified type of glucose, it is also taken up by cancer cells. Special imaging cameras will be able to visualize the areas of uptake and reveal sites of cancer involvement. The main goal of this study is to evaluate whteher the scan is able to detect the presence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) both before and after treatment and to specifically compare it to findings on magnetic resonance imaging scans (MRI).
In addition to doing the PET scans, we are asking patients to have blood samples drawn throughout their treatment and follow-up, for a research test called Epstein Barr virus (EBV) DNA levels. The Epstein Barr virus is thought to have a role in the development of nasopharyngeal cancer, and many patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma are found to have high levels of EBV DNA levels in their blood. The second goal of this study is to evaluate whether changes in EBV DNA levels are associated with the treatment and the disease course in nasopharyngeal cancer, and whether they help to predict any changes in the cancer. This part of the study involves the sampling of a small amount of venous blood at a time prior to the beginning of therapy and at regular intervals following treatment.
|Condition or disease
|Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
- Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma are staged according to the 2002 American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) criteria. MRI is the imaging modality of choice for staging and follow-up of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The goal is to conduct a pilot study to compare the staging findings on MRI with those on PET scanning in both pre- and post-therapy patients. The end point is to document the degree of concordance between the two modalities with respect to the anatomic location and volume of disease at the time of initial staging and on follow up and to determine how any differences observed may alter staging and management including radiation planning. We hypothesize that PET scanning will be able to detect recurrence and residual disease within the radiated tissue earlier than MRI.
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is associated with elevated titers of Epstein Barr virus (EBV) cell free, plasma DNA. Fluctuation i.e. - elevation in EBV DNA levels following therapy may serve as a potential marker for recurrent or residual disease. We believe that a change in EBV DNA titer precedes changes on conventional MRI and possibly PET scans in patients with recurrent disease. We also predict, that due to its sensitivity, that EBV titer levels will be more sensitive in the evaluation of tumor response to therapy, as well predicting tumor recurrence. The second goal is to conduct a trial to compare the sensitivity of MRI, PET and EBV titers in the assessment of recurrent disease.
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|30 participants
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|Positron Emission Tomography Scanning and Epstein-Barr Virus DNA Levels in the Staging and Follow-up of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.
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|March 2005
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|February 2017
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|February 2028
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Inclusion Criteria:
- 1. Patients with histologically diagnosed nasopharyngeal carcinoma presenting to the University Health Network for which a course of curative radiation therapy +/- chemotherapy is planned.
2. Patient is able to provide informed consent and is willing to adhere to the study protocol.
Exclusion Criteria:
- 1. Patients with metastatic disease. 2. Lactating or pregnant females. 3. Medical or psychological conditions such as claustrophobia, etc., that in the opinion of the referring MD or study investigator, would make the patient unable to tolerate the study procedures.
4. Presence of a second malignancy or a history of another malignancy active within the last 5 years, with the exception of non-head and neck, non-melanomatous cutaneous malignancy.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00188253
|Canada, Ontario
|Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2M9
|Principal Investigator:
|Eugene Yu, MD
|University Health Network, University of Toronto
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|University Health Network, Toronto
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|September 16, 2005 Key Record Dates
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|April 1, 2019
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|March 2019
Keywords provided by University Health Network, Toronto:
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
PET scan
EBV virus
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms
Pharyngeal Neoplasms
Otorhinolaryngologic Neoplasms
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Nasopharyngeal Diseases
Pharyngeal Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > August 2007 > Wayland theatre urges "jump in" for an exciting season
Wayland theatre urges "jump in" for an exciting season
PLAINVIEW – Temperatures have been awfully warm this summer, and it doesn't look to get cool for a while. Fortunately, the theatre department at Wayland Baptist University has some cool entertainment planned for the 2007-08 season.
Director of Theatre Dr. Marti Runnels has chosen three plays sure to keep audiences on the edge of their seats in Harral Studio Theatre. Since season ticket holders save money over the year, Runnels encourages area theatre patrons to get in on the cool lineup by Sept. 20.
The season kicks off Sept. 28 with the thoughtful comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile, a play by comedic actor Steve Martin. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, the production places scientist Albert Einstein and artist Pablo Picasso in a Parisian café in 1904, where the two muse on fanciful topics.
The play is funny, as most would expect from Martin, but Runnels said there is another side to the show.
"A lot of people only know Steve Martin because of one of two things: If they're older, they know the standup comedy routines or saw him on Saturday Night Live. If they're younger, they know him from the movies," Runnels said. "People that have followed him more seriously realize these type of comics are really more complex and have a serious side. Martin is extremely bright, and this play is a comedy, but it is fairly sophisticated in its content."
Picasso plays Sept. 28 and 29 and Oct. 5 and 6 in a dinner theatre format. A dinner catered by Johnny Carino's begins at 7 p.m. on the Harral Auditorium stage, followed by the play at 8 p.m. in the Harral Studio Theatre.
Later in the fall, the dramatic Arthur Miller play All My Sons will be performed Nov. 9, 10, 15, 16 and 17 at 8 p.m. in the studio theatre. Though not Miller's first play, this production is the one Runnels said brought him serious acclaim as America's playwright.
"Death of a Salesman is often considered Miller's greatest play, but there are many similar themes in this play from that one," he said. "You can trace many of the same themes from later plays back to All My Sons."
The dramatic play studies two men who made airplane parts during the war. One man went to prison while the other went free and became wealthy. The emotional drama explores the struggles of both.
The spring homecoming play is Proof by David Auburn, to be directed by Jeff Kensmoe, assistant professor of vocal studies and director of musical theatre. The play involves a woman dealing with the death of her brilliant but unstable father and the question of inheritance of things both tangible and intangible.
"It's a detective story of sorts," Runnels said, "as audiences will be trying to figure out the truth along the way."
Proof, which earned the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award, will be performed Feb. 21, 22 and 23 during WBU Homecoming weekend, and again Feb. 29 and March 1, all at 8 p.m. Dessert and discussion will follow the play on the first weekend of performances.
The season closes out with Shorts XI, the traditional series of short plays directed by theatre students. A hands-on experience in directing for majors and minors, Shorts is typically a collection of comedic and dramatic pieces making for an eventful evening. Performances are planned for April 17, 18 and 19 at 8 p.m.
Season tickets are $40 for a single, representing a 10 percent savings over regular ticket prices. A pair of tickets is $75, and season seats include the dinner theatre and the three following shows. Deadline to purchase season tickets is Sept. 20.
Wayland will once again participate in the Sacramento Mountain Theatre Collaborative in Ruidoso, N.M., in June 2008, with a performance at the beautiful Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts in nearby Alto. Tickets for that performance will be $25 and can be purchased in advance by adding $25 to the season ticket total.
For more information or to purchase season tickets, contact the WBU Theatre Box Office at 291-1089.


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Media October-December 2005
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Commission adopts final rule requiring pre-filing process for new LNG import facilities
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today adopted a final rule requiring potential developers of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals to initiate pre-filing procedures at least six months prior to filing a formal application with the Commission.
Initiating the rulemaking was the Commission's first formal action under the recently enacted Energy Policy Act of 2005. The new law requires the Commission to issue within 60 days of the law's August 8, 2005, enactment rules mandating the Commission's previously voluntary pre-filing process for LNG facility proposals.
Commission Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher said: "Congress set a lot of ambitious targets for implementation of the Energy Policy Act. The earliest deadline for the Commission was the mandate to issue a final LNG pre-filing rule within 60 days. Today, we meet that deadline on time and on schedule. This important rule should promote early identification and resolution of issues surrounding authorization of LNG import facilities, and will facilitate community involvement."
The final rule adopts the procedures the Commission proposed in August. The rule establishes mandatory pre-filing procedures for all applicants seeking to site, construct and operate new LNG terminals and related facilities, such as pipelines, that would transport the revaporized LNG to markets across the U.S.
The final rule also establishes mandatory pre-filing procedures for applicants seeking to expand existing LNG facilities, if the Commission's Director of Energy Projects decides the process would be appropriate. The rule establishes criteria that the Director would use to make such a determination.
The final rule will require applicants to submit as much detail as is feasible for their LNG project. This would include the proposed project's conceptual design and engineering features as well as extensive information about the potential environmental, security and safety impacts. Under the rule, a formal application must be submitted at least 180 days after the date the Commission's Director of the Office of Energy Projects issues notice of the initiation of the prospective applicant's pre-filing process. The filing must also include specific information that may have been requested by FERC Staff.
As required by the Energy Policy Act, the rule encourages prospective applicants to cooperate and coordinate with State and local government officials to address safety and security considerations. The final rule will require the prospective applicants for LNG facilities to submit a list of relevant federal and state agencies, and identify the agency designated by the state's governor to consult with the Commission regarding either a proposed LNG project or proposed modification to an existing LNG project that would raise new safety concerns. In addition, the prospective applicants must demonstrate that the designated agency is aware of the applicant's intention to use the pre-filing process.
As contemplated in the notice of proposed rulemaking, the Commission does not impose the mandatory pre-filing procedures for new or expanded natural gas facilities that do not involve LNG. Applicants for non-LNG-related gas infrastructure, such as interstate pipelines, storage facilities, compression or metering stations, may continue to elect to use the pre-filing procedures.
Of the fourteen proposals pending before the Commission for new LNG terminals or facilities, three are currently in the prefiling process. They are: the Broadwater LNG Project proposed for offshore NY State (Docket No. PF05-4-000), Gulf LNG Clean Energy proposed for the Pascagoula, MS area (Docket No. PF05-5-000), and Northern Star LNG proposed for Columbia County, Oregon (Docket No. PF05-10-000).
The final rule takes effect 30 days after publication in the Federal Register (www.gpoaccess.gov).
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