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Eric Wachsman, an expert on solid oxide fuel cells, has been named the University of Maryland Energy Research Center's first director.
Wachsman spearheaded the creation of the Florida Institute on Sustainable Energy at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. He received a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to coming to the University of Florida, Wachsman rose through the ranks from post-doctorate to senior scientist at SRI International.
Wachsman has focused his career on developing advanced, efficient, energy conversion devices and technologies. His research is on ionic transport in solids and the heterogeneous electrocatalysis at their surface. This research includes the development of solid oxide fuel cells, gas separation membranes, solid-state gas sensors, the electrocatalytic conversion of CH4, and the post-combustion reduction of NOx using advanced ion conducting materials.
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text: It's nearly a year ago since my little Oscar died. He was only 2 years old. I was going away for Christmas and had organised to leave him with the pet sitter who I'd know & trusted since Oscar was 6 months old. When I arrived at the sitters house to collect Oscar and it was obvious something was wrong and I thought Oscar had run away. When the couple told me to sit down and quickly blurted out " Oscar's dead" I just couldn't comprehend what they were saying. Mr x went onto say that he'd let Oscar out of the house for his dinner at 4 pm and when he came back at 5pm he'd been mauled & killed by their 2 Rottweilers. I was in hysterics at this stage but asked how that could happen. I'd seen their area where they kept big dogs and it was completely fenced off from where the other dogs played. Mr x said that he fed the Rottweilers after he fed Oscar and "must have forgot to put the latch back on the gate". They told me not to look at the body and they'd bring it to the local vet. I was so distraught I just wanted to get out of there and I wasn't thinking straight. I rang the vet the following day and he confirmed he put down the 2 rottweilers and Oscar had been cremated. When the couple brought Oscar into the vets they left him with the nurse who didn't even ask the vet to look at Oscar. I asked the vet should I contact the RSPCA and explained what happened. He said the couple didn't indicate that they were running a boarding facility but that I should not contact the RSPCA as they wouldn't do anything. About a month later I recieved a postal order for the money I paid for Oscar as a pup. No note or anything from the couple. I thought I knew these people and my dog died in their care. Please be careful when you pick a place to leave your loved ones becuase when Oscar died I felt like I'd lost a child.


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A hospital in Crowborough has been partially evacuated this morning (Saturday, October 10) due to a fire.
East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service was called to The Horder Centre, on St John's Road, at around 9:40am this morning to reports of smoke coming from the hospital's ground floor.
Three crews from Crowborough, Uckfield and Mayfield were rapidly dispatched to the scene, where a fire was found was found to have broken out in the refrigeration plant.
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Miami No Longer Miserable, Forbes Declares
Forbes released its list of America's Most Miserable Cities this week, with appearances from the usual smattering of former manufacturing towns in the Rust Belt, bankrupt municipalities in central California, and burned-out coastal shells. Do you live in any of these cities? Are you unhappy? Would you describe your unhappiness as conditional and dependent on external forces, or so pervasive you barely notice it?
20. Youngstown, OH.
19. Gary, IN.
18. Poughkeepsie, NY.
17. Cleveland, OH.
16. Atlanta, GA.
15. Atlantic City, NJ.
14. Milwaukee, WI.
13. Camden, NJ.
12. St. Louis, MO.
11. Toledo, OH.
10. New York, NY.
9. Lake County, IL.
8. Stockton, CA.
7. Warren, MI.
6. Vallejo, CA.
5. Modesto, CA.
4. Chicago, IL.
3. Rockford, IL.
2. Flint, MI.
1. Detroit, MI.
After receiving criticism for its ranking method in recent years, Forbes tweaked its rating metric to include "violent crime, unemployment, foreclosures, taxes (income and property) and home prices...[and] quality-of-life issues like commute times and weather," while removing "pro sports team success." Cities also had to have a population over 259,000, which explains why Bell, CA didn't make the cut.
"How many hours a day the average citizen spends hunched over a computer instead of turning their faces toward the damn sun like an actual human being, Christ this is no way to live, but how else am I supposed to make a living, it's not as if I can build anything with my hands" not apparently yet part of the metric.
Miami, which came in first last year, is now no longer on the list at all. Do you think if you moved to Miami you'd be happy? Or would you still feel less real than everyone around you? Congratulations to everyone currently living in Miami for becoming happy; please share your secrets.


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Prince Harry has landed in America and no one is okay.
The Royal Ginger descended on Washington this afternoon (by commercial flight!) and reported to Capitol Hill, where throngs of staffers made no attempt to be cool whatsoever, gathering in gaggles in the hallways, unabashedly snapping cell pics from behind very necessary barriers, and, yes, actually shrieking—loudly—when the prince neared.
Even a few official-looking middle-aged women were seen gawking at Harry and giggling in his face as Sen. John McCain gave the royal bachelor a tour of an exhibit on landmines (a cause close to Princess Diana's heart and that of McCain's wife Cindy).
Not that we should talk, because we spent the better part of an hour close-watching a much-appreciated Reuters live feed. What? It's engrossing to watch a real, live royal walk among us!
The 28-year-old prince's week-long tour of the U.S. then took him to tea at the White House (!) Later today, he'll roll into the British embassy, followed by Arlington National Cemetery tomorrow and a trip to New Jersey's Hurricane Sandy-damaged coastline next week.
Note: He shan't be returning to Vegas.
Here's what the women of Washington looked like today. Lady in the white top/grey skirted dress who has zero shame—we love you.
Just in case you find yourself in his presence this week, check out 8 Ways to Woo Prince Harry.
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Diagram 02 Rancher Es Wiring Diagram For anyone who already or want to work in the field of oil and gas (oil & gas) the following knowledge is advantageous for understanding electrical brake lines in oil and gas facilities or maybe the like. Wiring diagrams are schematic paintings that describe the circulation of electricity, which generally involves a power source (power plant, UPS or battery), load or electricity users such as lamps, motors for pumps as well as compressors / blowers or other equipment which is driven by an electric field drive the electric motor. In engineering design activities, maintenance or troubleshooting, it is essential for an engineer or technician, whether it is personnel in the field of electricity or consist of domains (electronics and telecommunications) to be able to understand or master circuit layouts. A circuit diagram is an image or hint about what components are in an electrical outlet, their functions and human relationships between circuits, so it is expected that if an engineer or tech understands the circuit plan, they will be more appropriate in designing a circuit or analyzing distraction with a circuit. signal. Schematic diagram is a technical drawing that identifies a series using the electric symbol. in the schematic diagram the electric symbol is linked with a line that details the connection and the relationship of the electric component components in the circuit. By making use of schematic sketches, the workings of an electrical system can be observed from input to output. One line plan describes a series in the form of an image path. One series diagram is employed to explain a complex circuit by streamlining the image into a circuit line, so it is expected that with an one-line diagram, reading a system is easier because the one-line circulation diagram represents a more complex and detailed system. Block diagrams describe a series in the form of a string portion according to its function. By by using a block plan, it will be much easier to see the circuit because the block diagram separates the circuit based how it works so that in the troubleshooting work it will be easy to find a problematic outlet. The wiring diagram explains the relationship of the circuit in detail, from the start of the circuit symbol to the connection of the outlet to other components, in order that it will be easy for all of us to follow the genuine flow of an outlet, because it is explained in detail and in full. There are plenty of schematic blueprints used to spell out electrical equipment circuits, one of which and the most often used is a wire picture. Wire diagrams or wiring diagrams are simple work drawings / drawing sketches that illustrate a series of wiring or wiring of electronic equipment by making use of symbols in a simple form. A wire picture is like a map that shows the function of an electronic device and its particular constituent components which are interconnected as an electronic circuit. And shows the flow of current in electronic circuits. Suggestions for designing wire layouts. The flow path must be drawn in an aligned line without area. The mechanical position and interconnection of each part are not depicted in the wire diagram. A wire diagram must show the operating method and sequence of switching an electric circuit or control system plainly and accurately.
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A$AP Rocky Launches Limited-Edition T-Shirt Line 'ASAP Life'
A$AP Rocky is recognized for being one of the most stylish rappers in hip-hop. From his Jeremy Scott Adidas sneakers, snakeskin snapbacks and blinged-out accessories, the Harlem rhyme-spitter knows how to stay fresh. Now Rocky wants his fans to swag out with his T-Shirt line, ASAP Life.
The collection, in partnership with streetwear giant Karmaloop, comes in six designs for both men and women. Each tee boasts an image of Rocky or one of his catchy phrases like "Purple Swag." One T-shirt that will most likely sell out is the one where Rocky his holding the breasts of a female fan.
The T-shirts are little pricey at $30-35 a pop but if you are an A$AP fan, price is no object, it's all about your swag. If you want to cop a T-shirt, head over to karmaloop.com now before they are sold out.
Meanwhile, A$AP Rocky's debut album 'LongLiveA$AP' is now slated for a 2013 release. The rapper is still clearing samples that he used on songs for the collection. "The thing with my album is I got things on it that's so out of this world and it's taking so long to get mastered, that's the issue," he explained. "And I refuse to take anything off, it's complete. Everything is being mastered and cleared right now. It just so hard to get things cleared because you gotta find people to clear samples."
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Authorities searching for answers in the killing spree in Isla Vista, California, have been looking into a video posted on social media that contains a man's tirade against women who rebuffed him, according to police.
In the chilling YouTube video, titled "Retribution," 22-year-old Elliot Rodger rants for nearly seven minutes against women he says ignored and rejected him.
Below is a transcript of the disturbing video, prepared by CNN.
Hi. Elliot Rodger here.
Well, this is my last video, it has all had to come to this. Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you. For the last eight years of my life, ever since I hit puberty, I've been forced to endure an existence of loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desires all because girls have never been attracted to me. Girls gave their affection, and sex and love to other men but never to me.
I'm 22 years old and I'm still a virgin. I've never even kissed a girl. I've been through college for two and a half years, more than that actually, and I'm still a virgin. It has been very torturous. College is the time when everyone experiences those things such as sex and fun and pleasure. Within those years, I've had to rot in loneliness. It's not fair.
You girls have never been attracted to me. I don't know why you girls aren't attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it. It's an injustice, a crime, because... I don't know what you don't see in me. I'm the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman.
I will punish all of you for it. (laughs) On the day of retribution I'm going to enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB. And I will slaughter every spoiled, stuck-up, blond slut I see inside there. All those girls I've desired so much, they would have all rejected me and looked down upon me as an inferior man if I ever made a sexual advance towards them (scoffs) while they throw themselves at these obnoxious brutes. I'll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you.
You will finally see that I am in truth the superior one. The true alpha male. (laughs) Yes. After I've annihilated every single girl in the sorority house, I will take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there. All those popular kids who live such lives of hedonistic pleasures while I've had to rot in loneliness for all these years. They've all looked down upon me every time I tried to go out and join them, they've all treated me like a mouse.
Well now I will be a god compared to you. You will all be animals. You are animals and I will slaughter you like animals. And I will be a god. Exacting my retribution on all those who deserve it. You do deserve it. Just for the crime of living a better life than me. All you popular kids, you've never accepted me, and now you will all pay for it. And girls, all I ever wanted was to love you, and to be loved by you. I've wanted a girlfriend, I've wanted sex, I've wanted love, affection, adoration. You think I'm unworthy of it. That's a crime that can never be forgiven.
If I can't have you, girls, I will destroy you. (laughs) You denied me a happy life, and in turn, I will deny all of you life. (laughs) It's only fair.
I hate all of you. Humanity is a disgusting, wretched, depraved species. If I had it in my power, I would stop at nothing (points finger at camera) to reduce every single one of you to mountains of skulls and rivers of blood. And rightfully so.
You deserve to be annihilated and I'll give that to you. You never showed me any mercy and so I will show you none. (laughs)
You've forced me to suffer all my life and now I'll force you all suffer. I've waited a long time for this. I'll give you exactly what you deserve. All of you. All you girls who rejected me and looked down upon me and you know, treated me like scum while you gave yourselves to other men. And all of you men, for living a better life than me, all of you sexually active men, I hate you. I hate all of you. I can't wait to give you exactly what you deserve. Utter annihilation. (laughs)


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By Rosana Mirkovic, head of SME policy, ACCA
With such unprecedented focus on this topic throughout 2012, it's difficult to imagine how such a high level of interest and activity can be sustained. Will the record increase in female NED appointments continue?
A voluntary target of 25 per cent of directors to be female by 2015 has been set in the Lord Davies report and it seems that companies are heading in the right direction towards achieving it – women now account for 17.4 per cent of the FTSE 100 board directors.
And what will happen with the European Commission proposals? In November the EC published its much awaited proposal for there to be at least 40 per cent women non-executive directors on the boards of big-listed companies by 2020. There is still debate on what this means in practice and to what extent will this translate into quotas for companies. It would appear the proposals deliberately avoid the term 'quotas' and instead refer to a 40 per cent 'objective', with unspecified sanctions against companies flouting the rules.
It is clear that over the past two years the gender equality debate has by and large been dominated by the women on board debate. It certainly has some high profile ambassadors. What we must ensure now is that we use this momentum to broaden the discussions.
We know that women are under-represented at senior levels in virtually all areas of economic activity and especially those with high financial rewards. While higher numbers of female non-executive directors would go some way towards addressing this, there is scarce evidence that it would change anything else.
In fact the Norway example that is so often used for the quota argument shows that despite 35 per cent of female NEDs on Norway's publicly listed company boards, there has been no increase of female representation at the CEO level.
The UK is heading in the same direction – only 6.6 per cent of the FTSE 100 and 4.9 per cent of FTSE 250 of executive directors are women. In October 2012, two female FTSE 100 chief executives resigned (Cynthia Carroll and Dame Majorie Scardino) and once their resignations come into effect, this will cut in half the number of women holding the top spot at a blue-chip company (Alison Cooper at Imperial Tobacco and Burberry's Angela Ahrendts will be the only two FTSE 100 female chief executives standing).
And this is what we are acutely lacking – a focus on why women remain under-represented in senior management positions. Issues such as stereotypes, the cost of childcare, pay inequality are the really difficult issues that are lacking high profile supporters and that are infinitely more difficult to solve and commit to such short-term targets. Two reports released last month (see here and here) show that for all the talk of women on boards, and there has been plenty, there has been no change in the prospects of women running big businesses. And this points towards a real danger of the women on boards debate overshadowing the real issues.
ACCA's own research shows that stereotypes still remain despite the unprecedented focus of female board appointments. For this reason the language of finance is seen to help break down some persistent stereotypes about women's competence and emotional nature. Finance is also seen as the language of the board and for women with a finance background it gives them access to the conversations. Thus, the finance qualification is seen as a masculine qualification that combats some of the female stereotypes.
We need more research that helps us understand better what is hindering women in their careers and more importantly, what is helping them succeed. The women on boards agenda does very little on this front yet it is the only issue we should be looking at. Once we have more women leading our businesses, it would seem the rest would take care of itself, including the numbers of women at board level.
After all, our research shows that for every board member in the FTSE 100, there are 5,500 employees, demonstrating a real need for a more bottom-up approach.


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Pomegranate Acai Milkshake Recipe
This pomegranate acai drink is one of the many I make for breakfast after my morning workouts. I'm no nutritionist, but this drink works for me. It's filled with "superfoods". During the winter we almost always have freshly pressed pomegranate juice (here's why) in the refrigerator. To this fruit juice, I blended in some bananas, pure acai juice and mung beans for extra protein.
It's delicious, plus it keeps me energetic and full until lunch time. Check out my other protein drinks; every day I blend a few ingredients, alternating between fresh fruits and vegetables, various kinds of milk and other sources of protein such as whey or soy protein.
Yields: 6 servings2 ounces cooked mung beans
2 bananas, peeled and sliced
½ cup pure acai juice (4 ounces)
1 cup freshly pressed pomegranate juice
2 cups almond milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Combine the mung beans, bananas, almond milk, acai juice, pomegranate juice and 2 cups ice cubes in a blender. Blend all the ingredients for about 2 minutes. While the mixture is blending, add vanilla extract. The consistency of the shake should be smooth and on the thin side.
Pour into 6 small glasses.
For a vegan version, you could use soy milk or any soy product.
You'll need about 2 pomegranates to extract 1 cup juice.
I use the Vitamix blender. It's rather expensive but so worth it. It crushes ice into sno-cones almost instantly. It's perfect for smoothies; the mung beans aren't noticeable in the drink. Just make sure there is some amount of liquid before blending so that the motor doesn't burn.
If mung beans aren't appealing to you, you can replace them with 1 ounce whey or soy protein powder.
You can find pure acai juice (sold in 32-ounce bottles) in health food stores such as GNC, or many supermarkets like Whole Foods.Published By: on December 5, 2012.


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Prior to taming other species, humans selected for more docile traits among fellow Homo sapiens, a slew of recent studies suggest.
DNA studies are rewriting the how-we-met stories of domestication.
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GOP chairman revives Benghazi subpoena of Kerry
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Republican House chairman on Thursday issued a new subpoena for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify about the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, in an escalating fight with the Obama administration over its cooperation with Congress.
Rep. Darrell Issa, who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he had no choice as the State Department had failed to negotiate in good faith on an appropriate date for Kerry to testify. Earlier in the week, Issa had lifted a subpoena for a May 21 appearance amid ongoing discussions between the panel and the department.
Kerry is scheduled to travel to Mexico next week.
"Soon after I lifted the subpoena, the State Department back tracked - stating publicly that we should accept 'a more appropriate witness' and refusing to commit to making Secretary Kerry available," Issa said in a statement. "With this State Department's slippery tactics, it's no wonder our friends in the world are losing faith in us and our adversaries doubt our credibility."
The new subpoena calls for Kerry to testify on May 29. The State Department said Thursday that it has been in touch with the committee about resolving the issue of Kerry's testimony, but no new date has been set.
Issa has insisted that Kerry explain to Congress why some emails and documents related to Benghazi were not provided to the committee, which has been conducting an ongoing investigation. A watchdog group, Judicial Watch, obtained the material through a lawsuit.
The Sept. 11, 2012 attack killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. It has been the subject of multiple independent, bipartisan and GOP inquiries, and House Republicans recently created an eighth probe by a select committee.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the Oversight panel's top Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, criticized the Issa subpoena coming just days after the establishment of the new committee. Last week, House Speaker John Boehner appointed Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., to serve as the panel chairman and named six other Republicans.
"Chairman Issa's subpoena of Secretary Kerry calls into question the Republicans' stated purpose of the select committee on Benghazi," Pelosi said. "The select committee is a sign of no confidence in Issa just as Issa's action today is a sign of a lack of confidence in the select committee.
"Why are House Republicans putting the American people through this ongoing saga to nowhere?" said the California lawmaker, who is still weighing whether to appoint any Democrats to the select committee.
Cummings questioned whether Issa's action was an "attempt to reinsert himself into this investigation after the Speaker removed him," then added, "this looks more and more like the 'sideshow' and 'circus' Speaker Boehner said he would not tolerate."


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Perception Studies in Seventies Crime Shows
July 30, 2009
As I've mentioned before, I'm a former Angeleno, and I remain fascinated by Los Angeles locations in the movies and on television. The film essayist Thom Andersen made a whole film, Los Angeles Plays Itself, about the schism between Los Angeles, the actual city, and Los Angeles, the cultural artifact constructed by its ubiquitous appearances in visual media. Andersen prefers the real thing. I'm not sure I agree.
One idea that I took away from Andersen's film is that iconic locations, like the Bradbury Building or the Griffith Park Observatory, take on a slightly different meaning in the movies than the spaces only a native will find familiar. The latter initiate a sort of private, privileged communication between filmmakers and a geographical subset of their audience. Depending on how a location is depicted, it can add a layer of authenticity and familiarity for those select viewers. Or it can be a trigger that leads those viewers to step outside the narrative, to confront the text as an industrial artifact and to contemplate how reality has been manipulated during its creation.
For about a year I lived around the corner from the Sportsmen's Lodge, a small hotel and restaurant in Studio City. The Sportsmen's Lodge is now undergoing extensive remodeling, but for nearly fifty years, it never changed. For that reason it's easy to spot in any number of movies and TV shows, particularly those made at Universal Studios, which lies only a couple of miles east along Ventura Boulevard. (Columbo fumbled around the Sportsmen's Lodge more than once.) In its center courtyard the Lodge has a tiny pond, spanned by a wooden bridge, and its most infamous use as a movie location may be in the micro-budgeted fifties post-nuke opus The Day the World Ended. That film used the Lodge's little trout pond to simulate a real, outdoor body of water.
Recently I was delighted to see the Sportsmen's Lodge featured prominently in "The Italian Bird Fiasco," a 1976 episode of The Rockford Files. The Lodge doubles as the Delman Motel (allegedly in Santa Monica, on other side of town), which Rockford visits twice to meet his duplicitous client, played by St. Elsewhere's William Daniels. In the frame above, James Garner is standing underneath the carport outside the western entrance to the hotel's parking lot. The building to the right is a lobby leading, if I remember correctly, to both the lounge and the hotel. The street behind Garner is Ventura Boulevard. The structure in the background with the unusual windows is now a Ralph's Fresh Fare; in the seventies, it was a different supermarket.
Later in the same episode, Garner visits the Winslow Art Gallery to bid on an unusual art object. The Winslow Art Gallery is also the Sportsmen's Lodge. It's a different entrance at the eastern end of the hotel, perpendicular to the "Delman Motel" carport. Below is a frame in which Garner stands just outside the Winslow Art Gallery (out of frame just to the right). But in the background, minus its ersatz sign, is the "entrance" to the Delman Motel.
(At a time when many Universal shows, like Emergency! and the early episodes of Kojak, were still confined largely to a backlot that was growing ever more dated and threadbare, The Rockford Files – and Columbo as well – had enough clout to seek out practical locations nearly all the time. But Universal's prop department still had some catching up to do. In both of those series, the signage added to those locations always looked, well, like something that had just been slapped together by the prop department. Realism came fitfully to television.)
Visible on the horizon in this sequence are both the Sportsmen's Lodge's own tiki-styled sign and (to the right of it in the frame below) another yellow, diamond-shaped sign in the background. The latter is a revolving sentinel that towers over Twain's, a twenty-four hour diner on the northwest corner of Ventura and Coldwater Canyon Boulevards. Twain's is another San Fernando Valley landmark that's been there forever and is instantly recognizable to locals (and no one else).
During my Studio City year, a co-worker described how Twain's was a favorite hangout for her crowd when she was a Valley high schooler during the eighties. Were Wendy to catch a rerun of "The Italian Bird Fiasco," she would probably forget about the cat-and-mouse game being played out by James Garner and William Daniels on screen. Her thoughts might turn back to her teenage memories – a reaction different from anyone else watching the same episode, and one wholly unanticipated (and possibly undesired) by the show's creators. But I suspect Wendy would find the experience pleasurable, as I do when The Rockford Files or some other show takes me back to my old neighborhood.
I have written this partly as an exercise in nostalgia, but also to illustrate the small point that TV shows reuse and disguise their locations and even their sets in all kinds of clever ways that most of us never notice. I have a trained eye, but I'm sure I would not have observed consciously that "The Italian Bird Fiasco"'s two key locations share the same architecture had I not already been familiar with the Sportsmen's Lodge. As spectators, our suspension of disbelief extends to spatial geography just as much as it does to storytelling. We allow movies and television to pull all manner of trickery on us, just so long as the people behind the curtain aren't so manifestly incompetent that they force us to notice the strings holding everything up.
Here's another example, also taken from a crime program of the seventies, of a very specific kind of visual sleight-of-hand that I often catch. In this scene from "Betrayed," a 1973 segment of The Streets of San Francisco, Detectives Keller (Michael Douglas) and Stone (Karl Malden) study a reel of surveillance footage and detect an important clue to a bank robber's identity.
Keller, the younger detective, operates the sixteen-millimeter projector. "Move in on that," Stone tells him, when they come to a crucial moment in the footage.
Keller complies, both zooming in and freezing the frame on the bank robber's wrist.
Somehow Keller has accomplished a feat that lies beyond the technical capabilities of his equipment. He has shifted the angle to a point of view different from that established for the surveillance camera moments before.
Movies do this all the time. They depict cuts, zooms, camera moves, and other visual effects in films-within-the-film that are blatantly implausible, at least to the trained eye. Lately I've seen a few movies (George Romero's wily Diary of the Dead is one) that make extensive internal use of "found footage" and do adhere rigorously to the spatial limitations established for that footage within the story. But often filmmakers find it too difficult to convey a desired expository point within the limited perspective that fixed-camera footage would offer in the "real" world.
I always notice this kind of cheating, and it always gives me a chuckle. But I wonder if it registers with most spectators, or if it's another example – like "The Italian Bird Fiasco"'s multitude of Sportsmen's Lodges – of the generous suspension of disbelief that we grant to visual media that attempt to give us pleasure.
Another reason we might accept rather than reject this flaw is that it enlists us in a more active kind of spectatorship than television or the movies usually offer. In the scene described above, Detectives Stone and Keller assume the roles of, respectively, a director and a cinematographer/editor. Stone tells his collaborator the effect he wishes to achieve – a solution to a mystery – through the process of watching (making) a film. Keller selects the camera angle and organizes the footage in a way that will deliver that result. Unconsciously, the viewer participates in this process with them.
In any episode of The Streets of San Francisco (or The Rockford Files), the writer, the director, and their collaborators construct a story for us by making the same choices. The projector scene in "Betrayed" embeds this process (or an oversimplified version of it) within the narrative. The spectator will either play along, or else detect the shortcuts and reject them as "fake." How do we make that choice? Is it conscious or unconscious? Is one response to this scenario superior, or more "correct," than the other? Personally, few things annoy me more than watching or discussing a movie with someone whose refrain is "Well, that could never happen." My own tolerance for plot holes (and consequently my indifference to "spoilers") is quite high, because I consider plot one of the least interesting components of a film or television show. But based on which television shows have achieved popularity in recent years – Lost and 24, Grey's Anatomy and Gossip Girl – I think many spectators may hold the opposite point of view. They prize narrative complexity to the exclusion of any other kind of complexity.
Hypothetically, let's say that the director of "Betrayed," William Hale, had opted for accuracy at the possible expense of clarity. In that case, the scene might have played out with Keller and Stone stopping the film and then squinting and puzzling over the blurry image. Perhaps they would have disagreed over the meaning of the clue. Perhaps their ambivalence would have carried over into another scene; instead of knowing already that their suspect (played by Martin Sheen) was the culprit, they would have had to interrogate him, bluff him, to elicit a confession. Perhaps Sheen's character would have slipped from their grasp for lack of evidence. Perhaps Keller and Stone would never have known whether he was guilty or not. Perhaps the viewer would have been left with less confidence in the effectiveness of the police, less certainty about the likelihood of closure in general.
Each of those possibilities is less likely than the previous one, at least for a mainstream television show from the seventies. That single subliminal, impossible edit may seem like a continuity error. Instead it's a shrewd elision that tidies the narrative of "Betrayed" in a meaningful way. Did some viewers, even in 1973, congratulate themselves for catching a mistake that the filmmakers missed? Of course. But the filmmakers had the last word. They understood that sometimes a "mistake" is more satisfying than an uncertainty.
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July 30, 2009 at 7:35 pm
My name is Alina and I work for Sportsmen's Lodge Hotel. I am the Director of Sales. I have a small correction for your article. Our hotel never closed! We are open for business. Our banquet center is currently closed for renovation. The banquet center will reopen on October 2009. If you can please let your audience know we are closed will be great. Thank you very much!
Ps: Intresting history about our hotel! :)
August 8, 2009 at 12:55 am
Another excellent post. The appearance of classical "coverage" (close-ups, reverse angles, etc.) in ostensibly documentary footage is a Hollywood tradition of long standing. I was puzzling over just this sort of thing in Fritz Lang's FURY (1936) recently. In that film, too, the "mistake" is thematically apt, since the point of the footage in the first place is that, despite a town's conspiracy of silence, the perpetrators of a lynching can't escape the truth. The unlikely omnipresence of the camera reinforces this.
There's little attempt to disguise the artificiality of the footage: the shots are obviously made with normal or wide-angle lenses (not the long lenses that would have been required in the nominal circumstances), faces are modeled with three-point lighting. I don't know if the filmmakers were counting on the audience's credulity or if they just figured it didn't matter.
It seems to me that this sort of thing happens less nowadays. Maybe today's audiences are more familiar with a wide range of moving images of contrasting ontologies, and instinctively know what "looks" like documentary footage and what doesn't.
November 12, 2009 at 12:26 am
Here are a few more questions regarding the Rockford Files location shots.
In another Rockford Files episode, Rockford travels past a large office building with the name on the side of it called "Sunset Center". Any idea where that building was located?
In the Rockford Files "Feeding Frenzy" episode, Rockford makes an exchange of cash for a kidnapped girl at a ice rink… any ideal where that ice rink once stood?
April 10, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Just found your site and really enjoyed this post.
It's the same in the UK with locations. They play with them and unless you know he area you wouldn't realise. Great fun!
I totally agree about how nowadays programmes are relying on the storyline whereas in the past the characters and their relationships were far more important. Harry O is one excellent example of that. It had superior scripts too but was sadly cancelled in the rush towards more violence and car chases in American TV crime drama.
It's possible that UK TV crime drama has kept more focus on the character and their relationships. Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost and Foyle's War are testimony to this. Harry O was very popular in the UK and perhaps ahead of its time or maybe just in the wrong place.
Just wish I could see it on DVD to relive the memories instead of watching a few clips on You Tube, sad person that I am.
November 12, 2015 at 1:41 pm
I love your insights to LA in the old days. I remember watching an early Adam-12, I believe it was in the 1st season or so. Yeah, Reed still had short hair. In the plot, they chase the suspect from a named intersection ( real ) too. About a couple of miles then the purps end up in a concrete drainage ditch. Yes, they got caught, by our heroes. I later Googled the areas and it was unchanged since 1967! Wow, I love that when it happens. As I remember there was a small liquor store they passed by. I and my family lived in LA in the 60's and 70's, it brings back memories. But why don't they just name the streets? I guess it's just the budget and time. But it still is great when you see an old black and white street sign too! Thanks.


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Prairie Public Television, Fargo, North Dakota, 2010, 60 minutes, DVD.
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In 1862, for an $18 filing fee and five years of labor, the land-hungry of all nations could lay their claim to 160 acres of virgin prairie. The stories of those who succeeded and those who failed are told in this television production from Prairie Public.
"In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act and created a world of opportunity," said Kim Stenehjem, producer of the documentary. "Some failed. Some scraped by. Some succeeded and put down roots that shaped the region. Homesteading examines the diversity of the settlers' ethnic, social and economic classes and their motives for taking up the challenge of breaking virgin prairie and wresting a living from it."
Stenehjem and the Prairie Public team shot footage in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota locations, then added interviews with historians, stories told by the descendants of homesteaders, and dramatic readings from pioneer diaries and letters to create the documentary.
Stenehjem said that Homesteading also explores the roots of the conflict surrounding public domain land and the forces that shaped the opening of the frontier. "The Homestead Act signed by President Lincoln was a long time in coming because the idea of a government land giveaway was not universally supported," she said. "It was bitterly opposed by slave-holding agricultural concerns in the southern states. In fact, the only reason that the Homestead Act of 1862 was passed was because the southern opponents seceeded from the Union and weren't able to block passage of the legislation any longer."
The documentary also address the Great Land Boom that was made possible by the railroads, the Native American tribes who lived on the Great Plains, and the catalog of challenges that pioneers faced — disease, drought, illness, death, prairie fire, isolation and loneliness.
Stenehjem notes, however, that there were also successes and triumphs as many pioneers established a thriving society on the prairies. "The Homestead Act made it possible for many disenfranchised people to own land for the first time and they took up the challenge. Women homesteaded. Immigrants came from all over the world to stake a claim. Freed slaves took up land. Urban poor and small sharecroppers came west and were able to take charge of their own destiny for the first time."
The production is funded in part by the North Dakota Humanities Council, North Dakota Council on the Arts, the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the citizens of Minnesota, and the members of Prairie Public.
Interview Subjects and Family Homesteading
Robert King, Bismarck N.D. Robert King's grandmother, Alma Thompson King, won the right to file a homestead claim on a quarter section of school land north of Sanish, N.D. Mrs. King came to North Dakota from her family's homestead in Park Rapids, Minn.
Cap Renner, Richardton N.D. The grandfather of Caspar "Cap" Renner's wife came from Alsace Lorraine and Bohemia to homestead 20 miles south of Richardton. A skilled mason, Georg Schreiber walked to and from Dickinson to work in construction during the week ? using his wages to support his family while his wife and children kept the homestead going.
Kevin Carvell, Fargo N.D. Kevin Carvell's grandfather, Emil Svihovec, was one of seven brothers who immigrated from the Czech Republic to claim homesteads on adjoining quarter sections on the Hettinger county line south of Mott.
Steve Kinsella, St. Paul Minn. The ancestors of Steven Kinsella fled the Irish famine and established successful small farms in Minnesota. Unfortunately they chose to give up those farms during the last Dakota Boom to try large scale farming on homesteads in the Bowbells N.D., area only to be defeated, like so many, by drought and crop failure in the '30s.
LaRae Frieze, Jamestown N.D. LaRae Frieze's grandmother came from Hungary to an arranged marriage with a homesteader north of Mott, N.D. After coming through Ellis Island, she worked for several years in Ohio before coming to Dakota Territory, where she lived the rest of her life with the husband her sister selected for her.
Thomas H. Koehnlein, Detroit Lakes Minn. Tyra Schanke, the aristocratic Swedish grandmother of Thomas Koehnlein, chose not to return to her native land after the untimely death of her beloved physician husband. Instead she and her husband's nurse took up adjoining homesteads near Tioga and established successful ranching operations.
Carol Just, St. Louis Park Minn. Carol Just is proud to acknowledge that all her great-grandparents were homesteaders in the German-Russia triangle in south central North Dakota. Two of her great-grandmothers claimed land in their own names.
Deb Marquart, Ames Iowa. Like many immigrants, the great-grandparents of Debra Marquart had very different reactions to the challenge of homesteading the unbroken prairie. Her grandfather's excitement to have the opportunity to build something from the ground up was not reflected in her grandmother's shock and dismay at the prospect.
Mark Opp, Eureka S.D. In the 1880s, Eureka, South Dakota, was known as the "Wheat Capital of the West." Eureka was the end of the line for the busy Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad. Its trains hauled out 4,000,000 bushels of wheat a year and hauled in car after car of Germans From Russia immigrants like Mark Opp's great-grandparents.
Margit Walstad, Williston N.D. Margit's parents came from Norway in search of land to call their own. Her parents worked first on an established farm until they were able to save up enough money to claim their homestead. Margit was born in the family's first sod house.
Douglas Kindseth, Rosemount Minn. The great-grandparents of Douglas Kindseth left behind their status as tenant farmers in Decorah Iowa to take up land in northwestern Minnesota. After an arduous eight-week journey by buggy and ox cart, they found land in Norman County where members of the family still run farm operations on the original homestead.
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